35 32 1900 http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/6fd166143bb71c218fe3636303b15aea.PDF adc77480927cf03cb79f5af92e8b5113 PDF Text Text Ve»l. XXX tlo. 24 SEAFAREItS#LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO •31 • - '• -.-...v" /- • r" ••SAJV .- •• ' •,>-' '- • ' •v:f? »-i *? "? » "aRT « '> '3^ •<» » [i V; tf f' <3^ a-»« rf-'tr:-- •- �- s k^AhAilE'RV ibc Page Two November 22, 1968 Australia Voicing Concern on Soviet Maritime Push LONDON—Australia has clearly emerged as the latest country to feel the growing threat of Soviet maritime expansion. Much concern has been expressed in recent months over the inroads made by the Russian merchant fleet in Australian shipping through a rate war in which the Kremlin has been underbidding the regular shippers by as much as 30 percent. W. R. Russell, Chairman of the Australian Confer­ ence Lines, warned at a press briefing here this month that ". . . head-on clashes between the merchant navies of eastern bloc countries and those of the western world must follow if their ships pursue in other areas the policy they have adopted in the Australian trade." The Australian Conference Lines is a group comprising 19 shipping companies of eight nationalities—mainly Brit­ ish and Norwegian—which agrees on uniform rates and shipping schedules that do not conflict and whose members carry much of the wool exported from Australia. Russian denials were in reply to a statement issued by Lord Geddes, President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, in which he called attention to a growing . . ."threat to British shipping with the appearance of a large Russian fleet." u Earlier this year the Russians applied for membership in the Europe-Australia Shipping Conference—which they are now underbidding—and at the time made clear they would operate in the Australian market, membership or no membership. Ships to be used would be those homeward bound to the U.S.S.R. after discharging military cargo in North Vietnam, and which must return around the Cape o£ Good Hope rather than through the Suez Canal. This fact, plus the underbidding on cargoes, caused a political furor in Australia in which prominent Australians called for closing Australian ports to all Communist-bloc ships because Australia, too, was involved in the Vietnam War. With no action taken on their application for member­ ship, and aware of the dissatisfaction of European import­ ers with the rising price of wool, Australia's chief export, the Soviets began offering rate reductions and rebates of up to 30 percent on shipping rates. At the same time the Russians began to ship their own wool imports from Australia in Soviet bottoms instead of in the Australian-European Conference ships that had formerly carried them and cited a loophole clause in their agreement with Conference carriersTo justify the new practice. In his statement. Lord Geddes declared he had found ". . . evidence of a noncommercial activity of the Soviet merchant marine on many trade routes." His theory seems borne out by the fact that the two major British container consortia. Overseas Containers Limited and Associated Container Transportation, have considered it advisable to begin a nine-vessel service from Tilbury to the Australian continent using specially constructed cellular container ships of up to 27,000 tons. A 'Cold War Navy' Agreeing with Lord Geddes on his estimate of the Soviet merchant marine is Admiral Thomas Moorer, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, who believes that the Soviets "look upon their merchant marine as a cold-war Navy." Testifying before the Special Subcommittee on Sea Power of the House Armed Services Committee hearings last month. Admiral Moorer reached gloomy conclusions which were echoed by Representative Gubser (R-Cal.) who, from the testimony, detected "... a shifting of the balance of sea power from the United States to the Soviet Union." In his testimony. Admiral Moorer declared: "The Rus­ Ten Additional Seafarer Oldtimers Added to Roster of SfU Pensioners sians certainly recognize what the oceans have to offer, both militarily and economically, and they are going after it tooth and nail." When asked how the growing Soviet maritime fleet affects the balance of power, Moorer replied that ". . . it gives the Soviet more national power with which they can support their world-wide policies from both a commercial and military sense, and for that matter, in a political sense, too." Pointing out that the Russian merchant fleet now ranks an impressive seventh in the world, he emphasized: "1 mean they are using it not only for commercial purposes, but also to establish a presence and bring to bear certain influence in various areas of the world. In addition to that, it is undoubtedly an effective intelligence weapon in the sense they have an opportunity to observe world-wide. "In wartime, of course, it always has a military potential, not only for carrying cargo but also for carrying troops," the Admiral continued. Citing the vital importance to the nation of building new ships for a balanced Navy, revitalizing the merchant marine to a position of strength and modernity, and im­ proving shipbuilding and ship repair facilities, Moorer stated: "If we fail to do any of these, it will be tantamount to abandoning sea power as an essential element of our total national power." While expanding rapidly on both commercial and naval maritime fronts, reports continue to come in of the grow­ ing Soviet Mediterranean naval fleet. U.S. Sixth Fleet and Atlantic Alliance observers have reported seventeen additions to Russian naval strength in the Mediterranean" in recent weeks, bringing the number to 60 naval units, necessitating NATO to institute a new air watch for closer observation of Soviet naval activity. A Future Seafarer The names of ten Seafarers have been added to the SIU's continually growing pension roster. The latest men to end their seagoing careers are: Angel Valdes, Benito Gardoza, Joseph Costa, Arthur Thompson, Alex Anagnostou, Earley Joyner, Robert Kennedy, Peter Garvin, Fauntleroy Rommel and Roman Viloria. ^ Joseph Costa sailed as a deck­ Brother Kennedy's last ship was " Angel Valdes joined the Un­ hand. He was born in Spain and the Producer. He joined the ion in the Port of Philadelphia. is now a resident of Norfolk, Union in Philadelphia in 1941. A long-time member of the stew- where he lives with his wife Mary. Peter Garvin sailed as a cook Brother Costa joined the Union and baker. Joining the Union in in that port and was last employed New York, he is a resident of Baltimore. Brother Garvin was by the McAllister Brothers. born in South Carolina. His last Arthur Thompson sailed as AB. ship was the Calmar. uember of the SIU since 1938, Fauntleroy Rommel joined the Union in Elberta, Mich. A na­ tive of Clare, Mich., he lives in Frankfort. He was last employed Gardoza by the Ann Arbor Rail Road and held a fireman's rating. ard department, he was born in Roman Viloria sailed as cook Florida and now is a resident of and joined the Union in New Or­ New Orleans. leans. A Seafarer for 30 years, His last ship was the Alcoa his last vessel was the Penn Trans­ Rommel Garvin port. Brother Viloria was born in the Philippine Islands and is a he joined the Union in the Port resident of New Orleans with his of New York. He lives in Jersey wife, Ethel. City, N.J., and is a native of New Earley Joyner lives in Balti­ York City. His last vessel was more, where he joined the Union. the Chatham. A native of Wilson, North Caro^ lina. Brother Joyner sailed as bosun and his last ship was the Costa Whitehall. Master. During World War II he served in the Army. Benito Gardoza joined the SIU Viloria (^Anagnostou Kennedy iij.iHe Port of New York. He is a'ti^tiye of the Philippine Islands. A chief steward, his last vessel was the Steel Rover. Alex Anagnostou sailed as fire­ man and oiler. A native of Greece, he now makes his home in New York City. Brother Anag­ nostou last sailed on the Robin Hood. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1943. Robert Kennedy s^iM as AJ8. A native of Philadelphia, he is now a resident .of Camden, N. J. 1 ^ittiiSCTiqN ,^|TOPEC.^I Seafarer William Perrl.dge, who sails as AB, brings four-year-old son William, Jr., to N.Y. headquarters to see shipping ^oard. Brother PerricTge is from New York and joined SIU here. Son seems impressed. �November, 22, 1968 LQf Page Three Under New Administration Upgrades To AB Needs of US-Flag Menhant Marine May Receive Long A waited Boost Terrance Lassila (right) receives his AB's endorsement from port agent Jackie Hall in the Duluth hall, recently. Brother Lassila joined the SlU in Detroit and now sails for the Reiss Steamship Company. Mackerel ^Dumping' In Calif. Scored by SlUNA Affiliates TERMINAL ISLAND, Calif.—^West Coast cannery workers, fishermen and boat owners, have joined together to protest Japanese "dumping" of Pacific mackerel onto the U.S. domestic market at prices far below actual produc­ tion costs. SIUNA Vice President Steve Edney, president of the United Cannery and Industrial Workers of the Pacific, and Steve Hoinsky, secretary-business agent for the SIUNA-affiliated Seine and Line Fishermen's Union of San Pedro, have filed formal protests against the dumping with the fed­ eral government. "The dumping, if not checked, will completely destroy the domestic industry, which is already depressed and fighting to survive. The serious­ ness of this matter has caused the industry here to unite in concerted action to protect the jobs of its members," said Edney. He also added that contacts are being made nationwide to seek the support of the entire domestic fish­ ing industry in securing a halt to the mackerel dumping. Report on Survey According to the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Japan External Trade Organization has published a report on the results of its survey of the canned mack­ erel market in the U.S. The survey reveals that the principal consumer market for canned "wet fish" is in the southem United States, and that the demand for the product will con­ tinue at the present level. The report adds that the Japanese are hopeful the U.S. market will prove to be a good outlet for their canned ^mackerel. Japan Might Buy US CaaaeJ Tuna TOKYO—^The Tokyo Canned Tuna Sales Company's recent price increase on canned tuna in brine may soon force Japanese firms to buy U.S. packed tuna for resale under their own labels. Many Japanese exporters claim that the 50 cent per case price hike on 7 oz. cans packed 48 to a case, definitely makes it more ad­ vantageous to buy the U.S. packed product. Japanese exporters have usually relied totally upon their own domestic tuna fleet and fishermen for the tuna they pack for export. WASHINGTON—When Richard M. Nixon moves into the White House next January, the Ex­ ecutive reigns of our government will shift into the hands of the GOP. If policies set forth in the Republican Party platform are to be realized, and statements made by the President-elect as a can­ didate are to be carried out in ^ ance. Certainly, the Republican considerably enhanced by the de­ practice, the future could be presidential victory carried with parture of Alan S. Boyd, one of somewhat brighter for the mari­ it very little change in the Con­ the Johnson Administration's most time industry. gress, both houses of which re­ outspoken foes of maritime, as Speaking to a Seattle audience main firmly under the control of Secretary of Transportation. last September 25, Nixon took no­ the Democrats.. The extent of co­ Also open to appointment by tice of the United States-flag fleet's operation between the new Presi­ the incoming administration will numerical insufficiency and its dent and the Congress cannot yet be that of the head of the Mari­ "dramatically unbalanced" state, be accurately predicted. Neither time Adhiinistration—a post including a "glaring deficiency" in can the effect that continued which has for three and a half bulk carriers. high federal expenditures on al­ years been kept by President "We must have more control ready committed programs will Johnson under an acting chief, over the movement of our own have on other goals, including James W. Gulick. cargoes not only for competitive those of maritime. Two incumbent Republican reasons, but also because of the Congressional Changes members of the House Maritime contribution our ships can make and Fisheries Committee will The Senate Commerce Commit­ to our balance of payments," Nix­ likely have more to say in the new tee's subcommittee on merchant on declared at that time. administration, if only because marine has lost one valuable mem­ He promised a new policy aim­ their party affiliation may gain in the defeat of Senator Dan­ ber ed at achieving a "higher level of the ear of the chief executive. iel B. Brewster (D-Md.), a good co-ordination between naval and These are Representatives William friend of maritime, but remains merchant shipbuilding and > sertS. Mailliard (R-Calif.) and Thomas otherwise unchanged. In the ed that "until such time as Ameri­ Felly (R-Wash.). M. •House, the Merchant Marine and can yards can be independently The SlU and the AFL-CIO competitive, I recognize that . . . Fisheries Committee lost Repre­ subsidies are necessary ... to sentative John G. Dow (D-N.Y.), Maritime Trades Department and build ships and deliver them to but is also otherwise intact. The the overwhelming majority of operators at competitive world two chairmen. Senator Warren maritime labor and industry, is G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) and Rep­ poised for the big push on all prices." resentative Edward A. Garmatz measures to re' jild the fleet, in­ (D-Md.) can be counted as con­ cluding the key forerunner of More American Cargoes tinuing strong allies in the fight such a program—the passage of Nixon advocated raising the for a strong U.S.-flag fleet, but current 5.6-percent share of the their influence on the new admin­ an independent MARAD bill. The bill is ready, and so are the key movement of American cargoes istration will have to be seen. leeislators. It remains to be seen by U.S.-flag ships to 30 percent. whether the new administration Spearheaded by a concerted Also called for during his cam­ will live up to its campaign pro­ paign pronouncements were an drive of maritime labor and indus­ nouncements on the subject and "immediate re-evaluation" of the try and concerned legislators, the whether 1969 will be the year government's operating subsidy last Congress passed a bill to cre­ in which the American merchant program and assistance to the un- ate the Maritime Administration marine will begin its long overdue subsidized segment of the fleet, in­ as an independent agency only to comeback as the world's leading cluding the tramp-bulk carriers have it killed by a pocket veto maritime nation. when the "present administration and Great Lakes operators. Fur­ ther "modernization and develop­ apparently remained firm to its ment of our existing port facilities" stand for inclusion of MARAD was also promised by the incom­ in the Department of Transporta­ tion. ing Chief Executive. Nixon has not yet come out Statements made during a po­ litical campaign can only be eval­ for or against an independent uated through eventual perform­ MARAD, but its cause could be New SlU Tanker Launched During the period between De­ cember, 1966 and early 1967, ac­ cording to U.S. government figures, the U.S. imported a total of 645,000 cases of canned mack­ erel. These figures reflect only a small part of the total mackerel import. The focal point of the Japaneseconducted market survey was Atlanta, Georgia, but consumers in several northern cities, such as Philadelphia, were also contacted. Latest addition to fleet of SlU-contracted Bulk Transport, was 37,250-ton tanker S. T. Williamette, recently launched, at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipyards. 'Named for Oregon's Willamette River, vessel is first of two of this class constructed for Bulk Transport. The vessel has a cruising range of 12,000 miles. Big New Tankers Want Sea Depth, Not Cuts In Crew PHILADELPHIA—The bigger they come, the cheaper the cost, is the conclusion of a recent naval architectural and engineering study conducted to determine the ultimate practical limits on the size of tankers to be constructed in the future. And the crew com­ pliment would not be altered. Directed toward vessels of the 500,000 deadweight-ton class and larger, the study found that chan­ nel and ocean depth pose the only limits on how large a tanker can be. It also found that offshore cargo-handling facilities will not hold back the building of larger tankers since they can readily cope with the requirements of big vessels. The report, prepared by the University of Michigan and pre­ sented before the Philadelphia sec­ tion of the Society of Naval Ar­ chitects last month, found that, for various reasons, ship construc­ tion costs per ton dropped as the vessel became larger. Fuel and maintenance costs also were found to drop as the ship's size increased, according to the report, while crew requirements remained stable. �Page Four , • {• 1 V •«. 'u 'n v-' SEAFAnEltS LOG MARAD Stops War Risk Insurance On Oldest of Runaway-Flag Vessels IVovembcr 22, 1)68 Joining The Pension List WASHINGTON—Interim War Risk Insurance will no longer be made available to runawayflag tankers or reefers, owned or controlled by U.S. citizens and registered under Panamanian, Honduran or Liberian flags, if the vessels are over 25 years old, the Maritime Administration announced this month. can allegedly be called into serv­ 25 years of age which are other­ The only exception will be ice by this country in the event wise eligible for War Risk In­ for tankers modified or jumbo- of a national emergency. surance, the acting Maritime Ad­ ized by adding a new forebody The War Risk Insurance was ministrator claimed, constitute within the past ten years. Such ves­ originally made available to vessels only a small percentage of the sels, according to James W. Gul- in this category only until they total vessels of these types avail­ ick„ acting maritime administra­ reached twenty years of age. Since able for mobilization requirements tor, will be eligible for the 1960, however, the age require­ and would not substantially affect insurance until such time as the ment had been liberalized. In 1962 U.S. ability to meet these require­ oldest section of the ship is 30 and 1963 tankers in the T2 class, ments. years old. , or equivalents, and reefer vessels War risk insurance is provided were made eligible for the insur­ by the government in order to ance for an indefinite peeriod be­ bridge the gap between the time yond 20 years. In 1964 jumboized commercial war risk insurance T2 tankers and equivalents were ceases to provide adequate cover­ granted eligibility for an indefinite age and 30 days after the out­ period beyond 25 years. SIU Patrolman Herman Troxclair presents a pension check to Angel break of war involving the major The new restricted age limits Valdes at New Orleans hall. Brother Valdes joined the Union in powers. for the insurance eligibility were Philadelphia and sailed in the steward department. He last sailed Runaway ships registered in Li- established in view of the fact NEW YORK—A federal grand on Alcoa Master. Born in Florida, he now lives in New Orleans. 'beria, Panama or Honduras are that siiips in excess of 25 years of covered by U.S. Government In­ age may be in terminal stages of jury has charged 15 Dutch, Ger­ man, American and British firms terim War Risk Insurance because obsolescence and thus not opera­ with violating U.S. antitrust laws they are considered by the Navy tionally sound to perform reliable through an international conspir­ and the Defense Department to service in the interest of national acy to raise the prices and monop­ be under "effective" control of the defense, Gulick declared. The run­ olize sales of two widely-used United States. This means they away flag tankers and reefers over drugs. The indictments, sought this WASHINGTON—America's voters, from Maine to Hawaii, month by the Justice Department, also accused the combine of con­ smashed the hopes of the Republican Party for major gains in spiring to defraud the U.S. govern­ the House. When the 91st. Congress con­ ment on purchases from federal to control the House—and had venes in January, Democrats stockpiles. confidently expected to at least BOSTON—Through the efforts of SIUNA Vice President James The drugs are quinine and will have a 243-192 majority— come close to that figure. D. Ackert, and Acting President Michael P. Orlando of the Atlantic quinidine, both products of the only four less than their present Democrats did much better Fishermen's Union, U.S. military personnel will consume well over bark of South America's cinchona margin. than any pre-election survey had They will elect the Speaker of indicated by winning most of the a half-million more pounds of ^ their "protein food purchases and tree. Quinine is used to treat ma­ the House, fill all committee close ones—those House contests fish next year than in 1968. laria and other diseases; quinidine menus with a view toward bring­ chairmanships and name a major­ rated "toss-ups." They also held is used in treating many heart ailAlarmed by the fact that the ing them in line with the military ity of the members of each legis­ on to a few seats Republicans were ment.s. total military consumption of sea­ fish purchases of the past." lative committee. U.S. firms named in the indict­ strongly favored to pick up. food was less in 1967 than in "The American fishing industry Conservatives of both parties 1966, and that there was strong is finding itself faced with the ad­ ment are the Rexall Drug and In all, Republicans won nine indication that fish purchases were verse effects of ever-increasing Chemical Co., Mead, Johnson and will continue to outnumber lib­ House districts previously held by dropping still lower in 1968, Ack­ imports of fresh fish'filets and Co., and R. W. Greeff and Co., erals in the House. But the con-" Democrats, but lost five of their servative coalition will not be own congressional seats in return. ert wrote to Representative Wil­ portions at the same time as gov­ an importing firm. significantly stronger. The impor­ One count of the indictment liam H. Bates, (R-Mass.), pointing ernment purchases of seafoods tant House Education & Labor dealt with the sale by competitive out the seriousness of the situa­ continue to decline," the Congress­ A complete listing of the new Committee remains firmly liberal. bidding of more than 13.8 million tion and the hardships it would man wrote. House of Representatives will ounces of cinchona products from A Republican President will have bring to the American fishing in­ "While efforts continue to ob­ U.S. .stockpiles. The indictment to deal with Democratic congres­ be found on page 8. dustry. tain control over the influx of for­ Bates contacted the Master eign products, a check with the said the companies agreed not to sional leaders to get action on his The GOP would have had to Menu Board of the Armed Serv­ Defense Supply Agency discloses compete with the Netherlands firm legislative program. win at least nine seats in the East That's not the way the GOP ices and urged that they reappraise that all branches of the military of Nedchem in the bidding. After to come close to a House major­ Nedchem made its purchases, the had planned it. service bought only 26,825,000 ity. They ended up with a net Republicans went into the elec­ drugs allegedly were divided pounds of fish during the first nine among the defendant companies. tion needing a pickup of 30 seats gain of only one. months of the current fiscal year, They hoped to add a couple of SEAFARERS-I^LOG compared to 31,835,000 pounds seats in the Midwest to their al­ in the same period a year ago." ready heavy congressional major­ :Nov. 22, 1968 Vol. XXX, No. 24 Valuable Contribution ' ity from that region. Instead, Official Fubllcatidn of the Asserting that whatever increase Democrats made a net gain of Seafarers International Union might be effected in the "purchase of North America, one. AtlanUc, Gulf, Lakes ; of Americatueaught andprocessed In the West, GOP hopes of and Inland Waters ISstrict, and portions will be fish filets widespread pickups were again AFL-CIO greatly -appreipiated," Bates told thwarted, -except for the capture Executive Board WASHINGT6N — AFL-CIO President George Meany has i PAUL HALL, President each of the military services: of New Mexico's two House seats. assured President-Elect Richard M. Nixon "of the cooperation CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARO "We cannot allow this impor­ The South proved safe for in­ of organized labor," in the "great American tradition" of back­ Exec. Vice-Prea. Vice-President tant domestic producer of food to cumbents—including several lib­ ing the President. . AL KERR . LINDSEY WILLIAMS be eliminated, yet fishing vessel Sec.-Treae. eral Democrats in hard re-election Vice-President To Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Meany reaffirmed AL TANNER owners in Gloucester and New ROBERT MATTHEWS fights and four conservative Re­ the trade union movement's great regard for him, wiring "you Vice-President V ice-Presiden t Bedford, Massachusetts are so dis­ publicans facing strong opposition. staged a magnificent fight and it has been our honor to have Director of Publications couraged that they fear they may The two GOP pickups—one each been among your supporters." MIKE POLLACK have no choice but to go out of in North Carolina and Virginia— Editor In a statement accompanying the wires, the AFL-CIO presi­ HARRY WITTSCHEN business. Therefore, I believe that were in districts without an incum­ dent pointed up labor's complete involvement in the campaign, Assistant Editors your consideration of this matter congressman on theiiallot. bent declaring "we believe that our efforts contributed to the massive PETER WEISS WILL KARP could lead to a valuable contribu­ The Republicans did not pick rejection of the George Wallace campaign of hate as well as to BILL MOORE tion to the renewal of hope for up threatened Democratic seats the election of liberal candidates of both parties to both houses Staff Photographer these fishermen." in California, Connecticut, Flor­ ANTHONY ANSALDI of Congress." Following a July meeting of ida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, The job facing the nation now, Meany said, is to "move Poblished biweekly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue their Menu Board, the services ad­ Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, forward" to solve the problems of the cities, poverty, educa­ N.E., Washington, D. C. 20018 by the Seafarvised Congressman Bates that they ers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes New York, Pennsylvania and tion, health care and all the rest. "We intend to keep fighting and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 673 were unable to increase the num­ Washington. Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.V. 11232. Tel. for those goals," he said, and "we are awaiting the details of HYaclnth 9-6600. Second class postage paid ber. of seafood servings beyond Basically, the House that will the programs to solve these problems that President-Elect Nixon at Wasblngtons, D. C. 57 for the calendar year 1968, but legislate during the first two years promised during his campaign." POSTMASTER'S ATTEHTIOM: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International a total of 58 servings have been of the Nixon Administration is To the "thousands of trade union volunteers," Meany sent Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland programed for 1969. Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, very much like the House that his personal thanks, noting "they have contributed much to the nc- 8r,pqkiyn, N.y. 11232. , That one extra meal will require . served during the last two years grea'tildemocratiC'process of this country . . . and have helped about 656,250 more pounds of of President Johnson's Adminis­ make .America.'better.''f' fish. tration. Rve fhag Firms ChargedSyCovt WithPrkeFixing Republican Thrust Thwarted In Attempt to Capture House Effort Sparked By SfU fishermen Ups fl/lilitary's Purchase of Seafood Nixon Assured Cooperation 6y AFL-CIO Pres. lAeany i '4 �November 22, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five 'S. Nixon Leadership Mandate Dulled by Razor-Tbin Victory •0 i fi / 4 •! h, • ly . J i /' % 'I- ).• ; . ^ ' ifc > ) f. I'., WASHINGTON—Richard M. Nixon, the choice of the American voters to be their 37th President, emerged from the 1968 election with a leadership mandate clouded by the razorthin margin of his victory and the failure of his party to achieve con­ trol of Congress. Nixon won the election with the support of about 43 percent of the electorate, relying heavily on rural and suburban areas. He put together an Electoral College ma­ jority of 302, largely in the same southern, midwestern and western states that had formed the base of his strength in capturing the Republican nomination. But the GOP fell far short of its goals in the legislative branch as it posted a net gain of only four House seats and five Senate seats. Thus Nixon, when he takes office next Jan. 20, will be the first man in 120 years to assume the presidency while confronted with a Congress firmly in the hands of the opposition party. He will take office with the lowest percentage of the popular vote since 1912 when Woodrow Wilson received 41.9 percent in winning a three-way race. Sharp Divisions Addressing supporters following his election, Nixon acknowledged the sharp divisions within the na­ tion reflected in the results. He pledged that "the great objective" of his Administration will be "to bring the American people to­ gether." "This will be an open Adminis­ tration," Nixon said, "open to new ideas, open to men and women of both parties, open to critics as well as those who support us." He also paid tribute to the 'Val­ iant and courageous fight" of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the man who had nearly succeeded against overwhelming odds in retnining the presidency for the Democrats. Although the popular vote count showed virtually a dead heat between Humphrey and Nixon, each with about 43 per­ cent of the vote, Nixon captured the electoral votes of 32 states for his total of 302, well over the 270 needed to assure election. Humphrey was the victor in 13 states and the District of Colum­ bia for a total of 191 electoral votes and the third-party candi­ date, George C. Wallace, had taken five southern states for a. total of 45. The presidential election was one of the closest in the nation's history and Nixon'Sr majority was not established until mid-morning of the day after Election Day when the last remaining precincts in Illinois gave him the state and put him over the top in electoral votes. Illinois, in fact, told the story of the election. Most observers had conceded it well in advance as firmly in Nixon's camp just as two months ago they had given Humphrey little chance of coming close to victory. But support for the Vice Presi­ dent took a strong upward surge in the latter stages of the cam­ National unity after the nation had made its choice at the polls on November 5 was sym­ paign, and became evident as re­ bolized by the post-election meeting of the Democratic candidates, Vice President Hubert Hum­ turns were counted in such key states as Illinois, Ohio, New Jer­ phrey and Senator Edmund Muskie, of Maine, with President-Elect Richard Nixon in Florida, sey and California—all of which the Nixon forces had counted on. a new term, organized labor was bearer only to lose to John F. ship vacuum and began to build All four finally went to the Re­ the first major group in Hum­ Kennedy in an election almost as for a new presidential drive. He campaigned cooly and con­ publican by narrow margins, but phrey's corner. In the months that close as this one. Two years later, Nixon was fidently, keying his appeal to a a swing of one or two to Hum­ followed, he methodically built phrey could have produced an support among disparate elements dealt a staggering setback by the call for "new leadership" and of the Democratic Party to win voters of his home state, Califor­ promising to end the war in Viet­ Electoral Colle<Je stalemate. Humphrey's main strength was the nomination at a bitterly fought nia, when he lost in his bid to take nam and crime and turmoil in the produced in the industrial East, party convention. the governorship from Edmund cities without spelling out how he For Nixon, his election was a where he captured 122 of his elec­ G. (Pat) Brown. He vowed that proposed to do either. toral vote total, including such big personal triumph, a comeback of he was through with politics but The voters have now given him states as New York and Penn­ immense proportions. Once be­ after the 1964 Goldwater debacle the chance—and the responsibil­ sylvania. He also took Michigan fore, in 1960, after serving eight Nixon was recruited to help GOP ity—to attack these and all the and Texas among the top eight years as Vice President under President Eisenhower, Nixon had congressional candidates in 1966. other problems confronting the industrial states of the nation. been the Republican standard- He stepped into the party leader­ nation. Even in states he lost, the Vice President scored heavy majorities in the urban industrial areas where organized labor and Negro civil rights groups turned out the vote. The election also brought a new figure to the forefront of the na­ tional political scene—Maine Sen­ ator Edmund S. Muskie, the Dem­ WASHINGTON—The makeup of the Senate remained basically unchanged and liberal as a result ocratic vice presidential candidate, whose campaign style stressing of the election, despite some inroads by the Republicans. The GOP scored a net-gain of five seats to cut the Democratic margin from 63-37 to 59-41. Re­ calm reason evoked broad support among the voters and added con­ publicans needed to pick up 14 In Pennsylvania, liberal Senator decision in Indiana over Republi­ siderable strength to the Hum­ seats to win control. Joseph S. Clark was edged out by can William D. Ruckelshaus, a phrey ticket. With Democrats defending 23 Richard S. Schweiker, a four- state legislator. For the Vice President, who of the 34 seats at stake, the Repub­ term Republican congressman In Washington, Senator Warren came so close to the presidency, licans had hoped to pick up at who is rated as a moderate. G. Magnuson (D) easily won re­ the defeat marked a disappointina least 10 seats. On the other hand, election to his fifth term over state Thirty years of congressional setback in a public career dating the Democrats had hoped to lose Senator Jack Metcalf, a conserva­ service ended for Senator A. S. back nearly 25 years, includina not more than three. tive who appealed for support Mike Monroney (D-Okla.) when 16 years as a leader of the liberal The extent of the cut in the he was defeated by former Gov­ through a national right-wing net­ forces in the U.S. Senate. work. But in defeat, Humphrey if any­ liberal margin, which has run ernor Henry Bellmon. about 10 votes less than the Dem­ Democrats also handily retained thing added to his luster simply, In Maryland Representative ocratic mai^in, is more difficult to seats in two states where races through the gameness of his comeCharles McC. Mathias. a moder­ determine. drew national attention: from-behind struggle that fell just ate Republican, defeated incum­ short of succeeding. Several of the newly-elected Re­ bent Senator Daniel B. Brewster. Senator Abraham Ribicoff.(DWhen the Vice President first publicans are clear-cut conserva­ In Florida, ultra-conservative Conn.) won a second term by de­ announced his candidacy a month tives on the basis of past records. Representative Edward J. Gurney feating former Representative Ed­ after President Johnson's stunning But several others are considered (R) defeated former Democratic win H. May, Jr., a conservative declaration that he would not seek moderate-liberals. Governor LeRoy Collins, for a and Senator George C. McGovern The Republicans captured pre­ seat being vacated by Senator (D-S.D.) won' over former Gov­ ernor Archie M. Gubbrud despite viously Democratic seats in Ari­ George A. Smathers (D). a big Nixon victory. zona, Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Goldwater Wins Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsyl­ Lieutenant Governor Thomas Arizona swept conservative F. Eagleton is the new Demo­ vania. Democrats took GQP seats Barry Goldwater back into the in California and Iowa. cratic senator from Missouri, hav­ Senate. He defeated Roy Elson, ing defeated GOP Representative These were some of the devel­ administrative aide to retiring Sen­ Thomas B. Curtis. Eagletbn opments in Senate races: ator Carl Hayden (D). topped incumbent Senator Edward In California, former state con­ Ohio Attorney General William V. Long in the state's Democratic troller Alan Cranston defeated B. Saxbe, a Republican, defeated i right-wing Republican Max Raf­ former Representative John J. primary. Democrat Mike Gravel, forrner ferty, who beat Senate Minority Gilligan, who had ousted Senator Whip Thomas H. Kuchel in the Frank J. Lausche in the primary. speaker of the Alaska state legis­ lature, is another new senator. He state's primary. Cranston is rated In Idaho, Senator Frank defeated Anchorage banker Either a liberal, as was Kuchel. Church turned back a challenge Rasmuson and also overcarne! a In Iowa, three-term Democratic by GOP Representative George V. Governor Harold E. Hughes won Hansen, who had tried to win write-in campaign for Senator Er­ election in a nominally Republi­ with a direct attack on Church's nest Gruening, who had lost the primary. can state over state Senator David liberalism. In Nevada, Senator Alan Bible Stanley. Hughes takes a seat given Wisconsin, Senator Gaylord (D) won his third full term, turn­ up by Republican Bourke B, Hickr Nelson won re-election by a better ing back the bid of Republican enlooper, a conservative. than 3-to-2 margin over Republi­ Lieutenant Governor Edward Fike In Oregon, liberal Senator by a greater margin than had been Alan Cranston, Democratic Senator-elect from California, flashes vic­ Wayne Morse was defeated by can Jerris Leonard. tory sign to campaign workers after election. Max Rafferty was loser. Robert W. Packwood. Senator Birch Bayh won a close expected. Democrats Maintain Senate Control Despite GOP Gain of five Seats �Ngyeiinber;22, 1968 Page. Six Will Pi^blic Be Protected? Consumer Product Safety Agency In Hassle Over Public Disclosures Buffalo USPHS Extends Coverage for Outpatients BUFFALO, N. Y.—Seafarers in the Buffalo area are advised that the United States Public Health Service Outpatient Clinic here is extending service to merchant seamen for a period up to 180 days following their most recent sea service. The previous grace period following sea service was 90 days. The extension is provided for in a new ruling from the Public Health Service di­ vision of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and remains in effect through April 30, 1969. Conditions which must be met by applicants are: •There must be documentary evidence that the Seafarer had at least 60 days service aboard a registered vessel of the U.S. •The shipping company or the Union must furnish documen­ tary evidence that the Seafarer applied for a job within 60 days immediately following his last sea service. This should also state that no employment was available from the time he applied for treatment. •The patient's record should contain documentation to sub­ stantiate the 90 days extention of the 90-day grace period. WASHINGTON—Will homeowners be informed about the hazards of household products found to be dangerous? Or will the agency set up to protect the consumer conceal such facts because pub­ lic disclosure is liable to upset the manufacturer? This question seems to be up ^ Also, the amount of consumer consumers can protect them­ in the air. And the safety of the protection remaining — if "Chair­ selves," Pertschuck explained. people seems to be in the same The obligation of the commis­ man Elkind's clarnp on public place—at least at this moment— sion, according to Pertschuck is to disclosure is to prevail in a pro­ because of mixed emotions evi­ work with the producer of a gram of manufacturer testing— denced by a panel charged with dangerous item so as to recall or was not touched upon. a vital function. repair it. At the same time, the A study of more than 200 The trouble lies within the responsibility is there to warn the household items is under way and seven-man National Commission public about items already in the the commission has until Decem­ on Product Safety which can't possession of the consumer. ber, 1969, to complete its report. seem to agree on when the public A case which illustrated how should be told about products his guidelines would be applied It is to be hoped that by that found to be dangerous for general was defended by Elkind, who in­ time manufacturers of faulty prod­ use. dicated that the manufacturer ucts will be required to identify Set up by an act of the ninetieth himself would do most of the themselves and discuss the facts. Congress, the commission's job is testing. He offered no explanation, to identify household products however, as to how the manufac­ which endanger the American turer could be trusted to judge the consumer's health or safety. It safety of a product he had already has the authority to act to bring thought well enough of to release about correction of hazards which publicly. are uncovered as a result of its in­ At any rate, in at least one case vestigations. the manufacturer voluntarily with­ drew his product, Elkind claimed. Facts Kept Secret WASHINGTON—Flicks of three switches activated a new Coast Guard navigational system in The commission chairman, He seemed little concerned that its the Gulf of Mexico early this month which enables mariners to determine their exact location at sea Arnold B. Elkind, a New York only fault, apparently, was that its regardless of weather conditions, and without being dependent on land masses as visual references. lawyer, said there was general use resulted in the consumer ac­ In simultaneous ceremonies agreement ar^ong commission quiring a third degree burn. The at Port Isabel, Galveston in chairman also carefully declined members that information con­ cerning products found hazardous, to name either the manufacturer Texas and at Grand Isle, La., and voluntarily withdrawn from or the product involved—thereby the Coast Guard put into opera­ the market by their manufacturers, leaving its withdrawal less in the tion a $2 million LORAN (Long public interest than in the realm Range Aid to Navigation) network would riot be released. of private company protection which it claims will take much "We would misuse the tnist and with Elkind's willing cooperation. of the guesswork out of naviga­ confidence manufacturers have Under questioning by a news­ tion in the area it serves. placed in us if the information The Coast Guard's Eighth Dis­ were publicized," Elkind declared man at the meeting—as to whether trict commander. Rear Admiral to a meeting of about 200 con­ the Freedom of Information Act RosS P. Bullard, described the sumers, industry representatives didn't require the release of the system as a ". . . revolution in and members of the press at a information to the public—Elkind navigation for the Gulf of Mex­ meeting here in the auditorium hedged that the information was ico." of the Museum of History and in the form of inter-agency "Mariners who use it," he said, Technology. "We do not want memos and, as such, was exempt "will be able to pinpoint their lo­ manufacturers to look at us with from disclosure under the Act. cations without visual reference. These two rooms of electronic equipment, valued at more than No questions were asked as to an attitude of fear." Whether they are out of sight of whether this meant that any infor­ A different viewpoint was ex­ $430,000, are part of the Coast Guard LORAN transmitting station land, or if it's overcast, if the mation which the commission pressed by Mike Pertschuck, a facilities at Grand Isle, La. This installation, and two similar ones at the commission member and counsel deemed it inadvisable to release compass is broken, regardless of cities of Galveston and Port Isabel, Texas, went on the air November 1 to the Senate Commerce Commit­ could not be put on inter-agency winds and currents . . . LORAN to bring all-weather, precision navigation to the entire Gulf of Mexico. tee. He said the power to publi­ memos and thus be automatically will give them a fast and accurate position fix." cize lay with the commission and exempt from public disclosure. tude and longitude, or relative jacent pairs. Thus, in the Gulf of In obtaining this position fix, should be used immediately when Nor, for that matter, was there Mexico LORAN chain there are bearings. a "serious hazard was uncovered." any query as to why only one the navigator refers to an elec­ four pairs of stations: The concept of LORAN is not tronic grid that LORAN has "^\^^en our information indi­ case of voluntary withdrawal of Port Isabel and Galveston, Gal­ new—it has been in use since placed over the entire Gulf of cates a serious hazard exists in a product had so far resulted from veston and Grand Isle, Grand Isle World War II—but this Gulf sys­ Mexico, and finds where two lines a product already sold and in the the testing procedures which were and Cape San Bias, and Cape San tem is the first built to serve the cross on the LORAN chart. home, the commission will make supposedly to be made voluntarily needs of commerce rather than Bias and Venice. the fact known publicly so the by the manufacturers. Replaces Old Methods defense. For each pair a straight line (called the base line) can be drawn The new system incorporates Until now, navigation in the two existing stations at Cape San through the two stations. At this Gulf of Mexico has been limited to celestial fixes, dead reckoning, Bias and Venice, Fla. These .sta­ base line all the LORAN lines radar, radio beacons, and depth tions were originally built and op­ are perpendicular and from there soundings. There were numerous erated by the Air Force and date they extend out over the Gulf in drawbacks 4o these methods, and from the late 1940s. With a third long sweeping curves through va-. they all depended on the individ­ station at Biloxi, Miss., they rious arcs. Because the base line between Galveston and Port Isa­ WASHINGTON—Nearly six out of every 10 candidates en­ ual skill of the navigator. In addi­ formed a LORAN chain that pro­ vided good coverage only in the bel, as an example,, is at consid­ tion, celestial fixes required clear dorsed by the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education for the weather, and radar needed a land eastern Gulf of Mexico. By the erable angle to the base line be­ 91st Congress were victorious, an analysis of the new Congress mass within its range to be effec­ time signals from that chain tween Grand Isle and Galveston, disclosed. ^ reached the western Gulf they the LORAN lines of position from of 62 percent in the 1962 congres­ tive. Of the 353 candidates endors­ were no longer usable for position the two pairs cross hatch the Gulf The principle of the new sional elections. ed by COPE for the House and in a distorted grid pattern. The fixes. LORAN network is based on the COPE endorsements are made Senate 201, or 57 percent, won at the state and congressional dis­ length of time it takes for a radio The station at Biloxi was closed same is true of the other pairs. their contests. In the 1966 congres­ trict levels by state AFL-CIO signal to travel from transmitter down Nov. 1 when the new Grand Chief beneficiaries of the sys­ sional elections only about 53 per­ groups. The endorsements are to receiver. Signals transmitted Isle facility began transmitting. tem, according to the Coast cent of COPE-endorsed candidates based primarily on the records or simultaneously from two different The move was made to integrate Guard, will be commercial fisher­ won at the polls. the espoused programs of the can­ points will take different lengths the old chain and the new one, men in the Gulf, who can reduce Including candidates for the didates in terms of a wide number of time to travel to a third receiv­ giving better coverage throughout fuel costs because of the shorter governorships running with COPE of economic, welfare and labor ing point, and in effect act as a the entire Gulf. running time gained by pinpoint endo;-sement, the winning percent­ issues. triangulation system for the navi­ Transmitting stations operate in navigation. age came to 56, a bit higher than pairs. Each pair produces the two In the 1968 campaign COPE gator. Another advantage will be the the 55 percent victories scored in endorsed 326 House candidates When he obtains these elapsed- signals that are needed to get one shortened running time required the comparable 1960 election. of whom 186 were recorded as time readings, the navigator then line of position reading. Pairs are for the Coast Guard to carry out In 1964 in the Johnson land- winners. Fifteen of the 27 Senate compares them to LORAN charts further arranged in chains of three its rescue missions, a time factor slide,'^COPE-backed candidates set candidates won election and six which hdVe been, over-printed on or more stations..When the chain that can spell the difference be­ a record high victory margin of 67 of the 17 endorsed ^bernatorial tdfi of f<i^ar nautibal charts, and arrangement is used the interme­ tween life and death for mariners percent, topping the previous high candidates. translates these readings into lati­ diate stations operate in both ad­ in distress. New LORAN Navigational System Allows Exact Location Fix in Gulf COPE-Endorsed Candidates Victorious In Most Contests �November'22, '1968 Page- Seven- Senior Citizens the Target In Annual Drug Name Game WASHINGTON—The nation's elderly would save at least $41.5 million a year if doctors prescribed drugs by generic (scientific) names instead of by manufacturers' brand names, a new government report concludes. A 139-page report of a Task Force on Prescription Drugs also found that the health needs of those over 65, compounded by the high cost of drugs, are "a medical and economic problem of major importance." The task force, which has been studying the drug industry since May 1967, was established under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare through directive from President Johnson. The report en­ titled The Drug Users, is devoted not only to the cost of drugs used by the elderly but also to their ability to pay for them and their patterns of drug use. The task force analyzed some 175 million prescriptions written for elderly persons in 1966, the last year for which pertinent data were available. From these data it compiled a master list of 409 mostfrequently used drugs. Of the 409 drugs, the study found that 67 could have been obtained from more than one manufacturer—the rest being subject to patents or to other arrangements which in effect, fixed their prices. "If these 67 had been dispensed as low-cost generic name products," the report said, "the savings at the retail level—providing the same mark-ups were set by the pharmacists—would be about $41.5 million, or 27.7 percent." Still further savings could be achieved, the report indicated, if lists of drugs used by government and other health programs regularly included generic name products. The^study found that ten drugs accounted for 20 percent of all the prescriptions surveyed and that eight of those were still protected by patents so that no generic equivalent was available. The ten in­ cluded tolbutamide, for treatment of diabetes; chlordiazepoxide, a tranquilizer, chlorothiazide, a diuretic used in treating kidney and heart diseases; four types of pain killers and phenobarbital. a sedative. All of these medicines are used by the elderly on a day-in-day out basis causing them to have "extraordinary expenses for drugs," the report said. The problem is intensified, it added, because the needs for drugs among the elderly increases at the very time of life when their income declines. The study reported that per capita expenditure for prescription drugs in fiscal 1965 for the elderly was $41.40, almost four times greater than the $12.77 figure for those under 65. It also cited statistics which showed that among the elderly, women paid more for drugs than men and whites expended far more on drugs than non-whites—"reflecting the greater affluence" of whites. A 23-dav strike of bus drivers was not quite enough to win a set­ tlement from reluctant Baltimore Transit Co. management. It took an unfair labor practice charge, the intervention of the mayor and a transit authority hearing to get the buses back on the street after Transit Union Div. 1300 approved a new one-year contract. The sTikers voted 758-523 to accept terms formulated by management after Mayor Thomas J. D'Alesandro brought the parties together, but the company declined to put the buses back on the street unless fares were raised at once. Man­ agement changed its mind when Div. 1300 filed charges of refusal to bargain with the National Labor Relations Board. The charges then \vere withdrawn. * * * The constitutionality of New York's "full crew" law requiring a fireman helper on every diesel locomotive in freight service has been upheld by the New York Court of Appeals which reaffirmed a ruling handed down in 1965 by a Special Court of the New York Supreme Court rejecting a chal­ lenge brought by 10 railroads op­ erating in New York. They con­ tended they did not want to dis­ pense with a "second man" on the freight engine but claimed they wanted him to be a brakeman not a fireman. The appeals court found that it was legislative intent that the second man should be an engine crew man and that a brakenian's ^duties -ffequently prevent him from being in the cab. Th'' National Association for Retarded Children has named lo­ cals of tv/o AFL-CIO unions as winners of annual Merit Awards to Labor. Local 1464, State, County and Municipal Employees in Grand Junction. Colo., was chosen for its work for the Colo­ rado State Home & Training School for the Retarded. Local 24, International Brotherhood of Elec­ trical Workers, Baltimore, received the award for its efforts on behalf of the Baltimore Occupational Training Center and Sheltered Workshop. NARC and the AFLCIO Department of Community Services established the Merit Awards to Labor last year to give national recognition to union members and locals who have helped transform the mentally re­ tarded into useful citizens. « * « Peter Fbsco, secretary-treasurer of the Laborers International Union since 1950, has been elected president of the LIU succeeding Joseph V. Moreschi who has re­ tired. The union's executive board named Moreschi president-emeri­ tus and elected vice-president Terence J. O'Sullivan of San Fran­ cisco secretary-treasurer to suc­ ceed Fosco. Moreschi had served as president since 1926. Fosco joined the Laborers in 1915 in Chicago. "In 1936 he was named a regional manager of the Chicago regional office of the union and established a.record of organizing the pipeline! industry both region­ ally and nationally; The Big Fix The unconscionable exploitation of the sick and the smug disregard for the law shown consistently by giant drug companies has once again been brought partially to light for public examination. A federal grand jury has formally charged 15 firms—American, Dutch, German, and British—with violating U.S. anti-trust laws through an international conspiracy to raise prices and monopolize sales of two widelyused drugs. The indictments also accuse the combine of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government on purchases from federal stock­ piles. U.S. firms named are the Rexall Drug and Chemical Co.—that "household word" company whose outlets supposedly give us all a bargain through the once-a-year "Penny sales" at their retail outlets—Mead, John­ son and Co. and R. W. Greeff and Co., im­ porters. According to the indictment, the manu­ facturers primed one foreign drug concern to submit a low bid while themselves re­ fraining from bidding on contracts involved. The drugs purchased through the low bid were then divided up. Thereafter—having control of the market—the cooperating com­ panies proceeded to raise prices and capture still another bonanza of handsome profits. For those who might kid themselves that this is something really not close to home, or, perhaps, just clever business tactics, it is well to remember that such tactics always pull at the pockets of that good-natured sucker, the American consumer. He pays for it, not qply indirectly in governmental costs, but directly in the higher prices he is hit for when he takes a prescription to his local drug store. The drugs involved in this latest exposure of drug cheats are quinine—widely used in the,,treatn)ent 0^ ji)aiar|a and other diseases -Tqi?4 pr^^qribed^fpr varipus,. types of heart ailments.; What's to be done about it? If found guilty, the individual companies face a maximum penalty of only $50,000 in fines on each of three counts. Although the individual co-conspirators face this fine and a possible one year in jail, they have no fear of jail—none have ever been sentenced in the past. If the worst happens—imposition of collective maximum fines—the whole deal can be chalked up as just another business expense in a coup which must have netted many millions of dollars for the offending drug combines. Small wonder that drug companies have always been a favorite Wall St. investment —their profits are enormous. Also, the drug industry is high on the list of those spending millions annually to create the public image of their "reputation" and "quality"—largely tax-deductible millions geared toward main­ taining the demand for "standard brands". Washington hearings on the price of drugs have clearly brought out profiteering as a hallmark of the pharmaceutical manufac­ turers. A presidential Task Force on Prescription Drugs which has been studying the drug in­ dustry since May, 1967, found that all but 67 of the 409 most frequently used drugs, were subject to patents or to other arrange­ ments which, in effect, fixed their prices. The fundamental problem of skyrocketting costs of health care—of which prescription drugs are only one aspect—continues to re­ flect a growing need for federal control in this area in which the unscrupulous hold the sick at bay. The choice is narrowing down— either the profiteers will be permitted to con­ tinue to control their prices by processes which eliminate effective competition, Or the government must step in to protect the cap­ tive consumer with more than a slap-on-thewrist fine or, worse yet, a convenient turning..! of,, the back while the, medical community, t,ii> Cpntinues, its parasitic rape of those too sick.-n i; to defend themselves. xnvq �November 22, 1968 SEAFAkEHS LOG Pace Bii^l The New House of Representatives (Numerals denote District; AL: At Large) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ALABAMA Jack Edwards (R) William L. Dickinson (R> George W. Andrews (D) William Nichols (D) Walter W. Flowers (D)» John H. Buchanan (R) Tom Bevill (D) Robert E. Jones (D) ALASKA AL Howard W. Pollock (R) ARI^NA 1. John J. Rhodes (R) 2. Morris K. Udall (D) 3. Sam Sleiger (R)) 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. ' 38. ARKANSAS Bill Ale xander (D)* Wilbur D. Mills (D) John P. Hammerschmidt (R) David Pryor (D) CALIFORNIA Don H. Clausen (R) Harold T. Johnson (D) John E. Moss (D) ^ Robert L. Leggett (D) Phillip Burton (D) William S. Mailliard (R) Jeffery Cohelan (D) George P. Miller (D) Don Edwards (D) Charles S. Gubser (R) Paul McCloskey (R) Burt L. Talcott (R) Charles M. Teague (R) Jerome R. Waldie (D) John J. McFall (D) B. F. Sisk (D) Glenn M. Anderson (D)* Robert B. Mathias (R) Chet Holifield (D) H. Allen Smith (R) Augustus F. Hawkins (D) James C. Corman (D) Del Clawson (R) Glenard P. Lipscomb (R) Charles E. Wiggins (R) Thomas M. Rees (D) Ed Reinecke (R) Alphonzo Bell (R) George E. Brown (D) Edward R. Roybal (D) Charles H. Wilson (D) Craig Hosmer (R) Jerry L. Pettis (R) Richard T. Hanna (D) James B. Utt (R) Bob Wilson (R) Lionel Van Deerlin (D) John V. Tunney (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. COLORADO Byron G. Rogers (D) Donald G. Brotzman (R) Frank E. Evans (D) Wayne N. Aspinall (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. CONNECTICUT Emilio Q. Daddario (D) William L. St. Onge (D) Robert N. Giaimo (D) Lowell P. Weicker (R) * John S. Monagan (D) Thomas J. Meskill (R) DELAWARE AL William V. Roth (R) I, .• • f 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. FLORIDA Robert L. P. Sikes (D) Don Fuqua (D) Charles E. Bennett (D) William V. Chappell (D)* Louis Prey (R)* Sam M. Gibbons (D) James A. Haley (D) William C. Cramer (R) Paul G. Rogers (D) J. Herbert Burke (R) Claude Pepper (D) Dante B. Fascell (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. « 6. 7. GEORGIA G. Elliott Hagan (D) Maston O'Neal TD) Jack Brinkley (D) Benjamin B. Blackburn (R) Fletcher Thompson (R) J<An J. Flynt (D) John W. Davis (D) • New Representative 8. W. S. (Bill) Stuckey (D) 9. Phil M. Landrum (D) 10. Robert G. Stephens (D) HAWAII AL Spark M. Matsunaga (D) AL Patsy Mink (D) IDAHO 1. James A. McClure (R) 2. Orval H. Hansen (R)* 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. ILLINOIS William L. Dawson (D) Abner J. Mikva (D)* William T. Murphy (D) Edward J. Derwinski (R) John C. Kluczynski (D) Daniel J. Ronan (D) Frank Annunzio (D) Dan Rostenkowski (D) Sidney R. Yates (D) Harold R. Collier (R) Roman C. Pucinski (D) Robert McClory (R) Donald Rumsfeld (R) John N. Erlenborn (R) Charlotte T. Reid (R) John B. Anderson (R) Leslie C. Arends (R) Robert H. Michel (R) Thomas F. Railsback (R) Paul Findley (R) Kenneth J. Gray (D) William L. Springer (R) George E. Shipley (D) Melvin Price (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. INDIANA Ray J. Madden (D) Earl F. Landgrebe (R)* John Brademas (D) E. Ross Adair (R) Richard L. Roudebush (R) William G. Bray (R) John T. Myers (R) Roger H. Zion (R) Lee H. Hamilton (D) David W. Dennis (R)* Andrew Jacobs (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. IOWA Fred Schwengel (R) John C. Culver (D) H. R. Gross (R) John H. Kyi (R) Neal Smith (D) Wiley Mayne (R) William J. Scherle (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. KANSAS Keith G. Sebelius (R)* Chester L. Mize (R) Larry Winn (R) Garner E. Shriver (R) Joe Skubitz (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. KENTUCKY Frank A. Stubblefield (D) William H. Natcher (D) William O. Cowger (R) M. G. (Gene) Snyder (R) Tim Lee Carter (R) ^ John C. Watts (D) Carl D. Perkins (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. LOUISIANA F. Edward Hebert (D) Hale Boggs (D) Patrick T. Caffery (D)» Joe D. Waggonner Jr. (D) Otto E. Passman (D) John R. Rarick (D) Edwin W. Edwards (D) Speedy O. Long (D) MAINE 1. Peter N. Kyros (D) 2. William D. Hathaway (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. MARYLAND Rogers C. B. Morton (R) Clarence D. Long (D) Edward A. Garmatz (D) George H. Fallon (D) Lawrence J. Hogan (R)*. J. Glenn Beall (R)* Samuel N. Friedel (D) Gilbert Gude (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. MASSACHUSETTS Silvio O. Conte (R) Edward P. Boland (D) Philip J. Philbin (D) Harold D. Donohue (D) F. Bradford Morse (R)) William H. Bates (R) Torbert H. Macdonald (D) 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Thomas P. O'Neill (D) John W. McCormack (D) Margaret M. Heckler (R) James A. Burke (D) Hastings Keith (R) MICHIGAN 1. John Conyers (D) 2. Marvin L. Esch (R) 3. Garry E. Brown (R) 4. Edward Hutchinson (R) 5. Gerald R. Ford (R) 6. Charles E. Chamberlain (R) 7. Donald W. Riegle (R) 8. James 'larvey (R) 9. Guy Vander Jagt (R) 10. Elford A. Cederberg (R) 11. Philip E. Ruppe (R) 12. James G. O'Hara (D) 13. Charles C. Diggs (D) 14. Lucian N. Nedzi (D) 15.-William D. Ford (D) 16. John D. Dineell (D) 17. Martha W. Griffiths (D) 18. William S. Broomfield (R) 19. Jack H. McDonald (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. MINNESOTA Albert H. Quie (R) Ancher Nelsen (R) Clark MacGregor (R) Joseph E. Karth (D) Donald M. Eraser (D) John M. Zwach (R) Odin Langen (R) John A. Blatnik (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. MISSISSIPPI Thomas G. Abernethy (D) Jamie L. Whit'en (D) Charles H. Griffin (D) G. V. Montgomery (D) William M. Colmer (D) MISSOURI 1. William Clay (D)* 2. James W. Symington (D)» 3. Leonor K. Sullivan (D) 4. William J. Randall (D) 5. Richard Boiling (D) 6. iW. R. Hull Jr. (D) 7. Durward G. Hall (R) 8. Richard H. Ichord (D) 9. William L. Hungate (D) 10. Bill D. Burlison (D) MONTANA 1. Arnold Olsen (D) 2. James F. Battin (R) NEBRASKA 1. Robert V. Denney (R) 2. Glenn Cunningham (R) 3. Dave Martin (R) NEVADA AL Walter S. Baring (D) NEW HAMPSHIRE 1. Louis C. Wyman (R) 2. James C. Cleveland (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. NEW JERSEY John E. Hunt (R) Charles W. Sandman (R) James J. Howard (D) Frank Thompson (D) Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen (R) William T. Cahill (R) William B. Widnall (R) Charles S. Joelson (D) Henry Helstuski (D) Peter W. Rodino (D) Joseph G. Minish (D) Florence P. Dwyer (R) Cornelius E. Gallagher (D) Dominick V. Daniels (D) Edward J. Patten (D) NEW. MEXICO 1. Manuel Lujan (R)* 2. Ed Foreman (R)''^ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. NEW YORK Otis G. Pike (D) James R. Gilbver (R) Lester L. Wolff (D) John W. Wydler (R) Allard K. Lowenstein (D) * Seymour Halpem (R) Joseph P. Addabbo (D) Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D) James J. Delaney (D) Emanuel Celler (D) Frank J. Brasco (D) Shirley Chisholm (D)* Bertram L. Podell (D) 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. John J. Rooney (D) Hugh L. Carey (D) John M. Murphy (D) Edwin I. Koch (D)» Adam C. Powell (D) Leonard Farbstein (D) William F. Ryan (D) James H. Scheuer (D) Jacob H. Gilbert (D) Jonathan B. Bingham (D) Mario Biaggi (D)* Richard L. Ottinger (D) Ogden Reid (R) Martin B. McKneally (R)* Hamilton Fish (R)* Daniel E. Button (R) Carleton J. King (R) Robert C. McEwen (R) Alexander Pimie (R) Howard W. Robison (R) James M. Hanley (D) Samuel S. Stratton (D) Frank J. Horton (R) Barber B. Conable (R) James F. Hastings (R)* Richard D. McCarthy (D) Henry P. Smith (R) Thaddeus J. Dulski (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. NORTH CAROLINA Walter B. Jones (D) L. H. Fountain (D) David N. Henderson (D) Nick Galifianakis (D) Wilmer Mizell (R)* L. Richardson Preyer (D)* Alton Lennon (D) Earl B. Ruth (R)* Charles Raper Jonas (R) James T. Broyhill (R) Roy A. Taylor (D) NORTH DAKOTA 1. Mark Andrews (R) 2. Thomas S. Kleppe (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. OHIO Robert A. Taft (R) Donald D. Clancy (R) Charles W. Whalen (R) William M. McCulloch (R) Delbert L. Latta (R) William H. Harsha (R) Clarence J. Brown (R) Jackson E. Betts (R) Thomas L. Ashley (D) Clarence E. Miller (D) J. William Stanton (R) Samuel L. Devine (R) Charles A. Mosher (R) William H. Ayres (R) Chalmers P. Wylie (R) Frank T. Bow (R) John M. Ashbrook (R) . Wayne L. Hays (D) Michael J. Kirwan (D) Michael A. Feiehan (D) Louis Stokes (D)* Charles A. Vanik (D) William E. Minshall (R) Donald E. Lukens (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. OKLAHOMA Page Belcher (R) Ed Edmondson (D) Carl Albert (D) Tom Steed (D) John Jarman (D) John N. Happy Camp (R)* 1. 2. 3. 4. OREGON Wendell Wyatt (R) A1 Ullman (D) Edith Green (D) John R. Dellenback (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. PENNSYLVANIA William A. Barrett (D) Robert N. C. Nix (D) James A. Byrne (D) Joshua Eilberg (D) William J. Green (D) Gus Yatron (D)* Lawrence G. Williams (R) Edward G. Biester (R) G. Robert Watkins (R) Joseph M. McDade (R) Daniel J. Flood (D) J. Irving Whalley (R) R. Lawrence Coughlin (R)* William S. Moorhead (D) Fred B. Rooney (D) Edwin D. Eshleman (R) Herman T. Schneebeli (R) Robert J. Corbett (R) George A. Goodling (R) Joseph M. Gaydos (D)* 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. John H. Dent (D) John P. Saylor (R) Albert W. Johnson (R) Joseph P. Vigorito (D) Frank M. Clark (D) Thomas E. Morgan (D) James G. Fulton (R) RHODE ISLAND 1. Fernand J. St. Germain (D) 2. Robert O. Tieman (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. SOUTH CAROLINA L. Mendel Rivers (D) Albert W. Watson (R) W. J. Bryan Dom (D) James Mann (D)* Thomas S. Gettys (D) John L. McMillan (D) SOUTH DAKOTA 1. Ben Reifel (R) 2. E. Y. Berry (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. TENNESSEE James H. Quillen (R) John J. Duncan (R) William E. Brock (R) Joe L. Evins (D) Richard H. Fulton (D) William R. Anderson (D) Ray Blanton (D) Robert A. Everett (I^ Dan Kuykendall (R) TEXAS Wright Patman (D) John Dowdy (D) James M. Collins (R) Ray Roberts (D) Earle Cabell (D) Clin E. Teague (D) George Bush (R) Robert C. Eckhardt (D) Jack Brooks (D) J. J. Pickle (D) W. R. Poage (D) Jim Wright (D) Graham Purcell (D) John Young (D) Eligio de la Garza (D) Richard White (D) ; Omar Burleson (D) Robert D. Price (R) George H. Mahon (D) Henry B. Gonzalez (D) O. C. Fisher (D) Bob Casey (D) Abraham Kazen (D) UTAH 1. Laurence J. Burton (R) 2. Sherman P. Lloyd (R) VERMONT AL Robert T. Stafford (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. VIRGINIA Thomas N. Downing (D) G. William Whitehurst (R)* David E. Satterfield (D) Watkins M. Abbitt (D) W. C. Daniel (D)* Richard H. Poff (R) John O. Marsh (D) William L. Scott (R) William C. Wampler (R) Joel T. Broyhill (R) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. WASHINGTON Thomas M. Pelly (R) Lloyd Meeds (D) Julia Butler Hansen (D) Catherine May (R) Thomas S. Foley (D) Floyd V. Hicks (D) Brock Adams (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. WEST VIRGINIA Robert A. Mollohan (D)* Harley O. Staggers (D) John M. Slack (D) Ken Hechler (D) James Kee (D) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. WISCONSIN Henry C. Schadeberg (R) Robert W. Kastenmeier (D) Vernon W. Thomson (R) Clement J. Zablocki (D) Henry S. Reuss (D) William A. Steiger (R) Melvin R. Laird (R) John W. Byrnes (R) Glenn R. Davis (R) Alvin E. O'Konski (R) WYOMING AL John Wold (R)'* �November 22, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine IN USPHS Junk mail before medical equipment and service? Soil conservation before nurses and tech­ nicians? Perhaps the above is too starkly drawn, but there is mounting evidence that the economy drive of the 90th Congress had a tough time wrestling with priorities—^with results that portend disaster. The now adjourned Congress demanded —and got—a high price-tag for going along with President Johnson's program for a 10-percent income tax hike. This was that the administration agree to a $6 bilRon-cut in spending by government agencies and on government programs. Result? An agency like the United States Public Health Service, which is directly The USPHS hospital in Staten Island, N.Y., is clean and modern inside and out. Federal cutbacks threaten this, and other hospitals like it. Wide aisles and a clean ward make hospitalization as pleasant as possible for patients at Staten Island Hospital, one of the finest in the U.S. They're on the ball! Recreation time finds Seafarer Kenneth Beverly of Engine Department shooting pool as tv/o fellow patients in hospital look on. When seamen, and others, find that they concerned with the lives of Seafarers and others, is being slowly starved. The bulk have to wait in long lines; that clinic ap­ of the impact hasn't been felt—^yet. pointments, will be spread out over longer Faced with the Budget Bureau's overall and longer periods, they may slowly be­ directive—issued last July 1—to fill only come discouraged and look for help else­ one out of two job vacancies, the Post where or—^worse yet, put off treatment. Office Department's boss, Postmaster Gen­ This must not be allowed to happen. eral W. Marvin Watson, told Congress in There is no reason why the USPHS no uncertain terms: "Cut and people won't should not continue to be tops in medical get their mail. We must drastically curtail care, equipment and personnel. Our society services." is dealing with human lives here—not junk Afraid of repercussions from the ptiblic mail; not soil. Priorities are certainly lop­ —and, especially the big mailers—the Con­ sided when such interests take preference gress promptly passed a law freeing the and should be re-examined. What might the situation be like a year Post Office from the job freeze. Similarly, the Senate took action to ex­ from now? If there is a move on, as has empt $1 billion in farm price support pay­ been declared by some, to eventually phase ments from the $180 billion ceiling on out the USPHS, something must be done Federal spending. Also released from the quickly to preserve the traditional function budgetary and personnel cutback order of these institutions or they will inevitably was the Soil Conservation Service. At the deteriorate. Once before, in 1965, a virulent attack same time, however, the Senate cut an estimated total of $500 million from Fed­ was launched on the USPHS when the De­ eral funds to states which extend the Medic­ partment of Health, Education and Welfare aid program to persons not on the relief threatened to close down seven of its hos­ rolls. Apparently health is considered ex­ pitals and transfer patients to Veteran Ad­ pendable. And make no mistake about it— ministration facilities. The hospitals in­ volved at that time were at Boston, Nor­ the pinch will be felt. The United States Public Health Service folk, Savannah, Galveston, Memphis, Chi­ first began with the recognition of the cago and Detroit. The SI UNA testified before the Appro­ special health needs of seamen. It dates back—in one form or other—to 1789 and priations subcommittee, and the House is the oldest medical program in the United Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, States. Today, it operates a total of ten which were conducting hearings on the hos­ general, hospitals, a leprosy hospital, 28 pital closings. The Union then strongly op­ separate out-patient clinics and 124 other posed the direct curtailment of services, out-patient clinics in other hospitals. It and continues to oppose indirect curtail­ has been a pioiieer in preventive medicine ment by attrition, on the basis that VA and is outstanding in its provision of medi­ facilities are inadequate for the most basic cal facilities, offering quality care to Civil USPHS functions, let alone the more com­ Service employees, seamen. Coast Guard prehensive facilities which were planned for personnel. Army dependents and American them. Indians. All this comes under the direct sur­ veillance of the Surgeon General of the U.S., William H. Stewart The medical equipment available in the USPHS hospitals stacks up well against most hospitals in the U.S. It is also inter­ esting to note that the cost of a day's care in Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., is $85. At the USPHS hospital in Staten Island, only a stone's throw away, it is $45 per day. Services in these USPHS hospitals, and in the many clinics, are excellently staffed and maintained. But the economy squeeze prevents the updating of equipment. In an age of advances in medicine and medical research, the need for innovations, such as intensive care units for coronary cases and much costly diagnostic equipment, are still regarded as frills—because of constant low Seafarer Thomas J. Connell, budgeting. But such "frills" save lives. Deck Dept. enjoys smoke There is, besides, a chronic staff shortage in ward while recuperating. in such high-turnover categories as nurses, With the help of the Commissioned Offi­ technicians, and dietary experts. Here, the filling of vacancies is difficult enough even cers Association of the USPHS and the with adequate funding. But now, under the American Legion—both of which joined in directive of Congress, vacancies are or­ the fight—the move was beaten back at that dered to be kept unfilled. Personnel will time. A SIUNA-backed bill introduced by be cut—^from file clerks, to technicians, to Representative Jacob H. Gilbert (D.-N.Y.) was the vehicle used to win that phase of nurses and beyond. Put simply, this metms that an inadequate the continuing fight. A typical call by the American Medical situation will become increasingly more in­ Association, also in 1965, for the end to adequate. Put in terms of human impact, it means hospital and medical care for seamen in that a seaman who comes into a USPHS USPHS hospitals was also defeated by a hospital—^with a hernia, for example—^will vigorous protest of the SIUNA. In a report to President Johnson in 1967, soon have to wait three months for care the National Advisory Commission on instead of a week. While emergencies will continue to receive prompt attention, treat­ Health Manpower declared that there is ment of all elective-type conditions will a "crisis" in American health care. The gradually be eliminated. Wards, with an President, at that time declared that there increasing lack of. adequate personnel and , was a need for action to rescue the USPHS equipment,'will have to be clos^. One by before it's too late. .<• .1 .Hn The time for action is now. one. to ...i 11 �• I $]• IVoVeriiber' 22, 1968 SEMrMRSyRS. La(? > Page TeA » .'i MTD Great Lakes Conference Maps Rescue of Fleet America Ed Kraft, Vice Pres. Detroit MTD Port Coun­ cil (left) chatted with Gene Muskie, brother of Senator Edmund Muskie, and Pres. Ber­ nard Puchalski of Chicago Port Council.' Peter M. McGavin (left), MTD Exec. Secretary-Treasurer trades views with (l-r): Pres. Amos Stewart of Detroit MTD Port Council. John Schreier, AFL-CIO Regional Director, and Fred Farnen, Detroit MTD Sec.-Treas. Listening to Rep. VV'illiam Ford are (l-r): Don Bensman, Exec. Sec.-Treas., Cleveland MTD Port Council: John Yarmola, MTD Great Lakes co-or-' dinator: Ford; Rep. John Dingell, Stewart & rarnen. ; DETROIT—Measures to rescue American shipping on the Great Lakes, seen to be on a dangerous course and heading for disaster, were discussed here last month by some 200 delegates of 12 Port Councils at the Great Lakes Conference of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. Representatives of 38 international unions participated. SIU President Paul Hall, who is also pre.sident of the MTD, pointed out that most merchant marine ve.ssels plying the Great Lakes today are more than 40 years old and have just about outlived their usefulness in terms of efficiency and safety. "The American merchant marine has slippe 1 to a minor position in World shipping since World War II," Hall no,"d He called for an im­ mediate American shipbuilding program as a major contribution toward solving some of the problems which exist. The SIU president also discussed water pollution and the development of lake ports and added that "legislation and government action will be proposed on these var­ ious issues." Peter McGavin, MTD executive secretary-treasurer, traced the in­ dustry's decline since World War II, when this nation's fleet was the largest in the world. McGavin fold the 200 MTD delegates that U.S. ships carry less than seven percent of the world's cargo, even though it is the greatest trading nation in the world. "The U.S. is not even in the top ten nations in tonnage shipped and ranks 16th as a shipbuilding nation," he observed, and emphasized also that top priority must be given to construction of docking facilities in Detroit. Chicago and other Great Lakes ports as well. McGavin re­ called that the U.S. merchant fleet experienced its greatest strength and growth in the 1936 to 1950 period—a period during which the country boasted an independent Maritime Administration. Addina his own observation on the grim picture. Representative John Dingell (D-Mich.) outlined some legislative lifelines he is urging Con­ gress to throw to the maritime industry. A member of the House Mer­ chant Marine and Fisheries Committee, the Dearborn legislator has advocated tax relief and subsidies to shippers and a continuing effort to help revive American shipping on the Great Lakes. "Since 1955 our Lakes fleet has decreased by 130 vessels," Dingell observed. "Today we have fewer than 250 ships." He stressed also that the inland fleet "is even more obsolete than the American ocean­ going fleet. About 45 percent of the Lakes fleet was built before 1915." Other speakers at the day long conference included Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley and Representatives Martha Griffiths, Democrat of Detroit County and Wil­ liam Ford, Democrat of Wayne County. le^Cr; |k Inictiid yVateri^ plstrlct November 1 to November 14, 1968 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Applauding remarks of Frank Kelly, Michigan Attorney General, are: left to right: Johnny Williams, Secretary-Treasurer, Wayne County AFL-CIO; John Yarmola; Bernard Puchalski and Pete McGavin. MARAD Places Six More Vessels On North Vietnam, Cuba Blacklists WASHINGTON—Four more ships have been added to the North Vietnam blacklist and two placed on the Cuba blacklist, the Maritime Administration announced this month. At the same time two Finnish vessels were ^ flag ships Dolphin of 3,550 tons, removed from the Cuba list. and Johnny of 9,689 tons. The MARAD report for Oc­ Two Polish-flag ships—the tober brings the number of ships Mickiewic at 4,344 tons, and the blacklisted for calling at North Szymanowski of 9,023 tons—as Vietnamese ports to 58 vessels of well as British-flag Court Harwell, 398,891,tons. For Cuba the total 7,133 tons, and Somali vessel is 188^ ships of 1,344,557 tons, Yvonne of 8,997 tons, were the a drop of three vessels from the additions to the North Vietnamese blacklist. last report for that country. MARAD reported that the own­ The Maritime Administration ers of the two Finnish-flag vessels maintains shipping records of Free removed from the Cuba list—the World and Polish carriers to de­ 3,576-ton Isomeri and the 11,631termine which vessels have traded ton tanker Sword—had agreed to at Cuban and North Vietnamese keep all ships under their control ports, and those that have done away from Cuba. In all, carriers so are placed on MARAD's black­ controlling 937 ships have prom­ lists for these countries. This ised to keep all of their vessels out means that these carriers are no of Cuban ports in return for hav­ longer eligible to carry U.S. Gov­ ing 122 ships removed from the ernment-generated cargoes until blacklist by MARAD since its in­ their owners pledge to keep their ception. ships from these,two areas. C9fnpilatip^ , h. :T . The two ves^ls added,to the: the ninety-pecond, fpvision of, Cuba blacklist are the Cypriot- lists'.' ' .lii -irrij i Z-: Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk ;. Jacksonville Tampa Mobile T jw Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle All Groups Class A Class B 2 1 43 33 10 7 34 19 4 5 20 12 9 2 17 22 30 23 27 51 27 25 50 34 19 21 264 283 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 2 1 1 35 12 44 4 4 3 8 26 11 3 2 1 10 10 16 0 2 3 0 7 0 3 20 13 17 22 24 16 26 28 31 36 52 16 22 17 209 217 122 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 4 11 114 180 16 22 42 77 28 30 6 11 7 9 63 22 110 103 65 61 1 34 16 64 10 41 441 706 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston ,. New York '. Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans ..... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 3 0 33 46 6 5 16 21 6 4 13 18 6 1 21 15 19 21 20 21 18 7 63 44 19 19 213 252 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 1 1 20 34 44 6 1 3 6 18 11 0 3 1 7 6 14 2 4 2 3 0 8 20 6 10 11 17 21 20 8 24 47 54 32 19 15 7 234 143 132 SGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 6 138 110 14 15 40 46 21 17 13 10 6 6 22 39 98 70 66 60 1 17 12 50 11 16 444 462 A - STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Port 0 1 1 3 2 Boston 29 17 25 14 New York 21 2 4 7 Philadelphia 2 7 10 11 Baltimore 17 13 27 Norfolk 0 9 1 7 1 Jacksonville ..... 7 7 6 6 15 Tampa ^. 2 3 2 3 4 Mobile 10 2 3 3 22 New Orleans 16 10 23 14 2 Houston 17 22 8 17 11 Wilmington 9 22 14 13 5 59 San,Francisco ... 36 34 65 33 jp 17''''^ i 10 SedC#': 187. 4 H nr 194"•! 193 Totats-H ,143' 152 131 •1. REGISTERED on BEACH All GroupB Class A Class B 1 5 64 116, 14 18 26 70 28 18 5 8 3 8 19 51 71 97 40 59 0 19 40 29 i: 28 6 ./ 537 1 306 �rember 22, 196ft ieafarer Thanks LOG [For Recent Story I To the Editor: I feel that I must write a few lines of appreciation for the fine writeup in the September 27 issue of the LOG. I gave a copy to each of my seven grandchilI dren and they think it's great. I would like to thank the Un­ ion so much for all the things it has done for me in the past years. I would like to say I have always thought it a lucky man who's a member of the SIU. Through the years, I have given so little and received so much. When I call all of you Brothers I feel proud to be called a Brother by you. Please thank for me whoever wrote this story about me. I would especially like to thank the Union officers here in Bal­ timore for their concern and all of the help they have gladly given me while I was in the hospital and at all times. I think we have the best patrolmen and agents and welfare workers there are. I did not want to retire from the sea, but the doctors at the Marine Hospital thought it best after the third heart attack. I cannot praise the hospital here too much for they have the best doctors and nurses in the world, as far as I am concerned. In addition, I wish to thank you for giving us as fine a paper as the LOG, which I have read and received all over the world. Now that T am beached. 1 sure do appreciate having it here at home. I wish the LOG editor and personnel the best of every­ thing. Thanking you again for your wonderful writeup. Sincerely, Benjamin Gary, ' SEAFARE^RS^ laO eight months to find out that they have these ships supposedly under control? If this is the way they operate, how long would it take—let's say we were in a national emergency—to locate those ships, to marshal them under orders, to get them to carry the strategic cargoes that might be required of them? It seems to me the whole idea of "effective control" as used by the Navy brass in re­ ferring to runaway-flag ships is a lot of malarkey. Perhaps it is a smoke screen used to conveni­ ently overlook the fact that the only real control possible—just as the SIU and other opponents of this questionable system have maintained all along—is that over American-flag ships, reg­ istered in the U.S., manned by American crews, and facing up squarely to U.S. safety stand­ ards. And—what is most impor­ tant—operating at all times "di­ rectly under regulations and directives of the United States," as the LOG story put it. Let us hope the new Admin­ istration in Washington will realize the importance of a strong and effective American merchant marine and will set about the task of rebuilding the fleet and replacing the 20-yearold and older ships that make up most of our tonnage now. And v'hen we get another independent MARAD bill through this next Congress—as I am confident we will—let's also hope that the new Presi­ dent will sign it promptly as the means of creating a realistic ap­ proach to the long neglected up­ grading of our maritime indus­ try. John De Tirsis ^ V ' Praises Union ' Upgrading Aid / To the Editor: My wife and I would like to ' take this opportunity to thank the SIU and the Associated Maritime Officers Union for all their help during my schooling , period. A married man, with a fam• ily and home to maintain, finds it very difficult financially to " go full time to school. The sub, sistence provided by the unions . enabled us to carry through . during the training time. Receiving my second mate's ' license was a dream come true after sailing as bosun for 24 years. Sincerely, Henry Bilde, B 371 Seafarers Widow Thanks The SIU To the Editon I would like to express my appreciation to the SIU Wel­ fare Fund for the check I re­ ceived so promptly following the recent death of my hus­ band, Charles, and for the kindness extended to us by his Union Brothers. The money will help me see our 13-year-old son through school. His father and I always shared the wish that he get a good education. Thank you again. Sincerely, Mrs. Gladys Favrean — 4^ — Sunken Lakes Ship Recalled by Seafarer To the Editon /Hov/ Effective 'Is Late 'Control'? .To the Editon I was interested to read your item, "Navy Declares 'Effec.tive Control' Over 423 Runa­ way-flag Vessels" referring to • Liberian, Panamanian and Honduran registered ships. ' But the date of so-called "ef­ fective control" announced by ^ the Navy was March 31. 1968. ,This is November. What hap­ pened? Does it take the Navy I am writing you this short letter in memory of those who died when the Carl J. Bradley sank in the cold North Lake Michigan waters on November 18, 1958. A total of 33 lives were lost on this tragic occasion ten years ago. Two crewmembers were rescued. I am a fireman on the A.K.A., a motor vessel of the Ann Arbor Railroad Company, Frankfort, Michigan. Sincerely, Michael O'Rourke Arcadia, Michigan Page Eleven Peruvian Trip on Hospital Ship Hope Warmly Recalledby Seafarer Milton Seafarer Peter Milton, who has been sailing since 1942, recalls a 1962 voyage aboard the hospital ship Hope as one of the most unusual and satisfying experiences of his life. It was, he said from his home in Sa , Francisco, "a voyage that probably spread more good will for America than many of the projects the Government f spends a large amount of money Trujillo, with a population of tend to the medical problems of around 25,000. Milton remembers his own department in his capac­ on." The hospital ship was spon­ that it was a primitive area, and ity as steward delegate. "Crew­ sored by the People-to-People • the people were for the most men got sick from time to time part quite poor and employed and other problems would come Health Founda­ mainly by the sugar industry. Al­ up. I guess I spent more time as tion, a private, though they now have modern delegate than I did on my job." non-profit foun­ equipment, the refineries at that The Hope treated some 40,000 dation, that made time had no machinery, a major patients during its stay and by its maiden trip reason for the poverty in the area. the time the vessel left the coun­ to Indonesia in try, thousands of Peruvians were 1960. The trip Generous Crew on hand to see them off. made to Peru by The crew aboard the Hope Because the area was remote, Brother Milton consisted of 47 men in the stew­ entertainment facilities were limit­ was the ship's sec­ ard department and about 100 Milton ed, said Milton. For relaxation, ond. He sailed Seafarers overall, Milton said. In in the steward department and addition, the hospital ship's medi­ the men would go mostly to local served as department delegate on cal staff numbered 25 doctors facilities and utilize the ship's rec­ the trip. "We left from San Fran­ and 35 nurses. The crew members reational area. Brother Milton was born in cisco and spent some nine months of the Hope were always ready in Peru," he recalled. "When we and willing to lend a helping hand New York City in September of first got there, we were greeted by when needed. "At Christmas time, l9l6, but he moved to Maryland a number of 'Yankee Go Home' they donated $1,500 to buy pres­ when he was very young. His signs, but by the time we left, ents for the children," Milton re­ first trip to sea was as waiter on they were all gone," Milton, a called. "In addition to that most the Swedish passenger ship member of the SIU Pacific Dis­ of the men volunteered their serv­ Kungsholm in 1942. Following a trict, said. ices as blood donors whenever an trip to Alaska, Brother Milton caught the Robert Lucas, carrying The ship was unable to tie up emergency arose." ammunition to Guadacanal in at a dock because of heavy sea The Seafarers stood ready at September of 1943. When the swells common to the area, so night, while the Peruvian Army vessel entered the war zone it they had to drop anchor some were the primary donors of blood came under heavy fire, surviving distance out and patients from during the day. 27 waves of attacking Japanese the nearby communities were In addition to treating those fighters, mostly at night. "It took brought to the ship by ii g. Mil­ ton rec: ".^d. "The tughoais were who were ill, a major job of ten days for us to unload our on duty 24 hours a day and the Hope was the training of i a- ammo from that ship," he said. brought patients aboard about tive doctors and nurses. Mi! 3n Many Ribbons every fifteen minutes—day and said. "I was always impressed by This was the first of many am­ the dedication of the ship's doc­ night." munition runs that Milton has The nearest town was Sala- tors and nurses. I have always made, a fact of which he is justly been glad I had the opportunity verry, with a population of some proud. 2,500 people and it served as to sail on that ship." "I've hauled ammunition in Brother Milton also had to atthe port for the larger city of three wars and have five Mer­ chant Marine and three Army ribbons," he said. He is entitled to wear Merchant Marine ribbons for Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterran­ ean. Combat and Vietnam, plus Army ribbons for Korean Army Daniel Roes, 46: Heart disease Occupation, Asiatic Pacific and Albert Weems, 64: Seafarer Weems died on October 3, in claimed the life of Brother Roes, the World War II Victory ribbon. October 1, in In addition he also received a Houston. At the North Bergen, certificate for continuous service time of death, he N. J. Employed was on an SIU by the New York from the Maritime Commission pension. Born in Central Railroad, for World War II. His most recent Columbus, Geor­ gia, he made his he joined the Un­ ship, the Barnard Victory out of home in Housion in New York. San Francisco carried ammo to ton. Brother Born in New Jer­ Vietnam. Weems joined the sey, Brother Roes During the Second World War, held a deckhand's Seafarer Milton also served with Union in Savan­ nah, and sailed as an AB. His rating. During World War, he the Auxiliary Police, Military last vessel had been the Seafarer served in the Army. Surviving is Police and the California State in 1966. He had served in the his mother, Mrs. Louise Roes, Guard during a brief period Army prior to joining the SIU. of North Bergen. The funeral was ashore. He went back to sea for Burial services were held at the held in that city. good in 1947, however. In J's San Jacinto Memorial Park Ceme­ spare time, he enjoys the theatre, tery in Houston. foreign movies and the opera. Charles Bush, 68: Brother Bush died on October 28, at USPHS Juan RivaduUa, 45: Brother Hospital in San livadulla died on October 24, at Francisco. He the USPHS Hos­ was a native of pital in Baltimore. New York and Bill Gumsey He was a mem­ had lived in San ber of the deck Francisco. Broth­ Please contact your sister, Betty department and er Bush sailed in Vitelli, at 578 Woodbine Avenue, the deck depart­ Toronto, Ontario. Very urgent in sailed as an AB. His last vessel ment as AB and reference to Mother. he joined the SIU was the Charles­ ton. A native of in the Port of New York. His Spain, Brother last ship was the Carroll Victory. John G. Newman Jivadulla had made his home in At the time of death, he was on Baltimore, the same port in which an SIU pension. Surviving is his Please contact your sister, Mrs.,,i, he joined the Union. Rivadqfla widow, Mrs. Chie Biish. Burial Mary E. Harrigan, at 144-25 33rd was buried in the Sacred Hi^it services were held in Rolling Hills Avenue, Flushing, N. Y. 11354, , Cemetery in Baltimore. as soon as you possibly can. Cemetery, San Pablo, Calif. FINAL DEPARTUItES 4^ 4, �Page Twelve SEAFARERS LOG Bam Vi€tory Seafarers All Safe Following Collision in Saigon River "What appeared to be a routine cruise down the snake-like Saigon River on the Barre Victory (Delta) might well have ended in disaster for the 31 SIU men aboard," Ship's Delegate Luke Ciamboli wrote recently from Saigon. Seafarer Ciamboli, a 21-year SIU veteran who sails in the engine department, described the ship's close call when they collided with another American - flag ship, the Garden City. There were no injuries. "We had sailed from the Cat Lai ammunition anchorage, with a back load of 2,000 tons of am­ munition for Oppama, Japan," he writes. "As the vessel was making the last turn of the river, we spotted the other ship, a C-2 type vessel, coming right for our number three hatch- port side. "Our cargo of ammo was di­ vided between number three and number four hatch," Ciamboli continued. Because the SlU-contracted ship was almost clear of the river, some of the Seafarers were in the outside port passage­ way. As the Garden City ap­ proached, Jiamboli shouted for everyone to go through the house to the starboard side and hold on. A smashed lifeboat on the deck of the Barre Victory is part of the damage inflicted on the ship when she collided with another Training Pays Off American-flag vessel, during a recent trip on Saigcn River, Viet Nam. Showing their training for such situations, the men quickly and The possibility of electrical fires of railing, four feet by 30 feet of orderly ran to starboard. They was prevented by the "quick boat deck, 65 feet of bulwark, got there none too soon, for the thinking" of chief electrician Ray­ the entire connecting frame of Garden City had already started mond Regaldo, who ran below passageway from the main deck to make her turn. Instead of and cut off all switches to the port to the boat deck and the two life­ ramming out number three hatch side. All wiring had been torn off, boats and davits, which were un­ repairable. as it appeared it would, Ciamboli he said. Ciamboli said wiper Ed BalHad the Garden City not been explained, the ship's bow "cut into our bulwark at number four lance, the Chief Engineer, and filled to only one-third of her hatch and the hull slammed into hin self checked various rooms cargo capacity, her bow might ana foc'sles for damage while the have cut into number four hatch our House." The other ship had two barges second engineer went to the en­ of the SIU ship where the ammu­ across its number five hatch gine room to check the bilges nition cargo was stored, Ciam­ which extended over the side and hull. Damage was slight and boli noted. The Barre Victory has since about ten feet. These barges tore from then on, things went along arrived at her destination in Ja­ off both the Barre Victory's port smoothly. The Barre Victory arrived at pan and it is expected that the lifeboats and davits and pushed the vessel onto the river bank. Vung Tau where representatives vessel will undergo repairs at the Voices could be heard from from MSTS and Maritime Com­ Yokohama shipyard probably for the other vessel, reported Brother mission came aboard and quickly about two weeks, before return­ Ciamboli, "But we never received estimated damage at over $150,- ing to San Francisco for payoff. word from them. All hands on the 000. Ciamboli reported damage Brother Ciamboli, a native of Barre Victory pulled out fire hoses to the Delta Steamship Company West Orange, New Jersey, joined to wash away leaking gasoline. vessel was an estimated 105 feet the Union in New York City. Yvonne Marie Lyons, bom June 24, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francis G. Lyons, Brimley, Michigan. Waliis Kathline Rodrigues, born October 9, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lancelot Rodrigues, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Nancy Charlea Henley, born August 26, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Alfred Henley, An­ dalusia, Ala. Anita Amel Robinson, born July 16, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vincent D. Robinson, North East, Maryland. Sharon Ann May, born October 4, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. George E. May, Brentwood, N.Y. Stephen Warhola, born October 17, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul Warhola, Middle Village, N.Y. Andrea Weaver, born August 18, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lloyd L. Weaver, New Orleans, La. Maria Vazquez, born Septem­ ber 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Heriberto Vazquez, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. Javelyn Harrington, bom July 27, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James P. Harrington, Corona, N.Y. Timothy Hoiston, bom Septem­ ber 10, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles S. Hoiston, Louisville, ' Kentucky. Janet Ayala, born September 10, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ramon Ayala, Bronx, N. Y. Adria Gniilory, bom September 27, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jerry W. Guillory, Port Arthur, Texas. November 22, 1968 ^ 1 On the Puerto Rico Run The Sea-Land Freighter Detroit paid-off recently in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, after a trip to Puerto Rico—a frequent port of call for this and other Sea-Land vessels, A LOG photographer took in the pay-off. The Seafarers reported routine trip with no serious problems. SIU Rep. E. B. McAuley and" Charles Martinussen talk" over details of voyage. John Her'momdo, who sailed as OS, discusses trip with E. B. McAuJey and D. Goldberg. <1> <1> <t>- Beverly Lynn Lambert, bom SeptembCT 30, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles O. Lambert, Hickory, Kentucky. Alicia Butler, born September ,14, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph J. Butler, Oregon, Ohio, J. Guilles helps prepare a heisrty lunch. A chief cook, Sullies joined SIU in 1955. i \1> —— Stacy Lynn Goodwin, bom Oc­ Francis Anthony Keeley, born tober 9, 1968, to Seafarer and December 31, 1967, to Seafarer Mrs. John Cole Goodwin, Balti-- and Mrs. Fraricis W, Keeley, more, Md. ' Tujunga, California. Deanna Lyn Ancel, bom Octo­ ber 4, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy E. Ancel, Bay City, Michi­ gan. i Debra Lynn Miehike, born July 5, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Raympnd Miehike, Elberta, Mich­ ^ igan. ' A member of the steward de-; pertmenti- S.: Castro catches; up oq- lofest news, ih^ LOG. �'V'.., lovember 22, 1968 ^ V. 7 V V, •• , ^ SEAFARERS LOG 'eteran Seafarer Urges Son lO Follow 'Good Life' at Sea Thirty-odd years ago, it would probably have been unheard ' of. Why, indeed, would a merchant seaman in those hard times want to see his son follow in his own footsteps? As a matter of fact, he might have more likely put his foot down and forbidden the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. John G., who will it. Almost anything else offered be 17 in February, says he is very a better chance for a youngster anxious to attend the school and than the early drudgery of life at make a go of it. sea. Today, however, things are different. Sailing Since 1935 The senior Murphy has been sailing since 1935, when he put out to sea at the age of 15. "Those were tough times," he recalled. "I started out at $1 a week and had to bring my own 'bread and breakfast.' At that time a straw mattress was known as a 'donkey's breakfast.' "I've had a full life on the sea," the older Murphy said. "I've sailed on double topsail schooners out of Dublin and Lisbon. Once, Seafarer John F. Murphy and son, during the war, I missed a ship— John G., on visit to LOG office. the schooner Cymric. Someone up there must be looking out for John F. Murphy, AB, a 47- me, because that ship was lost year-old Seafarer, brought his 16- with all hands on that trip and year-old son, John G., into the never heard from again." LOG office recently and anJohn F. has been a member of 'nounced he wanted his boy to SlU since 1943, when he joined follow the sea as he had. He in the Port of San Francisco. He was quite proud of it. lives in Staten Island, N.Y. with "It's a good life today," the his wife, Theresa and eight chil­ father said. "1 want him to learn dren, six girls and two boys. "It was the Union which made the trade from the ground up. There is plenty of room for ad­ family life possible," he states. vancement for the boy, too. I "And it has been a good life for all of us down through the years. think he'll make it." The Murphys have put in an I know that my boy will find it a application for the youngster at good career today." DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS DEL VALLE (Delta), NovemlK'i- 3— Chairman. P. L. Bei-tiaume; Secretary, R. Mosey. No beefs and no disputed OT were reported by department delcBate.s. LONG LINES (Isthmian), November 3—Chairman, Dick Grant; Secretary, Leon T. Jekot. Some disputed OT in deck department. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the good food and service. BURBANK VICTORY (A. L. Burbank), October 30 — Chairman, K. Roberts; Secretary, A1 Hirsch. Some dis­ puted OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. No beefs were reported. BURBANK VICTORY (A. L. Burbank), October Chairman, Al Hirsch; Secretary, Paul Knox, Jr. Brother R. L. Smith was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Some disputed OT in engine department. -OBERLIN VICTORY (Steamship Serv­ ice), October 22—Chairman, A. C. May; Secretary, E. F. Borodenko. Brother A. C. May was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. There was no disputed OT and no beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. RALEIGH (Crest Overseas Shipping), Octqber 4—Chairman, R. Schaefer; Secre­ tary, M. Vigo. Motion was made to see the patrolman regarding repairs which were not done when ship was in port. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for the good food, good service and cleanliness. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian). No­ vember 7—Chairman. E Lasoya : Secre­ tary, w. Benish. $48.50 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. CONNECTICUT (Oriental Exporters), October 21—Chairman, Tom Ballard ; Sec­ retary, H. Speanis. $19.25 in ship's fund. Brother James W. Parker was elected to serve as ship's delegate. PLATTE (Platte Exporters), Novem­ ber 9—Chairman, John F. Dickerson ; Secretary, Albin Samoska. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 1 would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Pr;„f information) NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If yoo are an old subscriber and have a change of address, please give your former address below: ADDRESS aiY STATE aP Page Thirteen feU "T"" " \ \ Roy Evans, ship's delegate on the Bessemer Victory (South Atlantic Caribbean Lines, Inc.), re­ ports that Seafarers thought Captain Joseph Thannisch is "one of the very best. We all agree, he can't be beat. If you don't think so, just throw in your card sometime and make one of the best voy­ ages ever." Eugene Blanchard, ^ Meeting Secretary Gary Mc- there was $29 in the ship's fund. meeting chairman, reported that Donoiigh reports from the Steel Movies were rented for $213.75, the ship was on the Vietnam Worker (Isth­ with $200 borrowed from. the run and after a stop in Balboa, mian) that John Captain for this purpose. It will the crew will pay off at a port T. Carnes of the be repaid by the Seafarers. The which is yet to deck department remiiining $13.75 was taken from be chosen. "The was elected ship's the ship's fund, leaving it with a ship is a good delegate. Roy balance of $15.25. Department feeder, had a fine Theiss, meeting delegates elected were Brother crew and is clean chairman, wrote Crowley from the deck, John in every respect," that treasurer Kim, engine department, and Blanchard writes. Reuben Crowley Hugo Fuentes, steward depart­ Carnes Brother Evans reported that ment. No beefs were reported. and the steward Blanchard department re­ ceived a vote of thanks for the job well done. Meeting Secretary A. Rogers wrote that Steward W. E. Harper and chief cook A, W. Hutcherson have done a top-notch job. Broth­ er Harper stated that the crew made this "one of the most pleas­ One of the unique advantages the Seafarer enjoys is the fact ant voyages in 45 years of sailing his profession makes the whole world his market-place. His the seas." Several Seafarers said travels give him a wide choice of countries in which to purchase they are anxious for another voy­ items that interest him—and cameras often fall into this category. age to Vietnam for "another visit It is well, however, to know what to look for in a camera as well with V. C. Charlie in Cat Lai." as where to buy it. Those who think buying a camera overseas is cheaper than in America are correct. However, make sure you have proof from the Meeting Chairman E. Lasoya dealer that a firm in the U. S. will honor your guarantee. Unless you reported from the Steel Architect are truly an expert, stick to brands known in the United States. (Isthmian) that There are, of course, restrictions on the cameras you may bring ship's delegate into this country. We have listed 16 of the better-known names on the Frank Camara restricted list. These trademarks are registered by U. S. companies with has been asked to the Bureau of Customs and cameras or binoculars hearing them will act as treasurer. he stopped by customs. Brother Camara In order to avoid unnecessary embarrassment or difficulty with cus­ told his fellow toms, it is advisable to keep this list in mind. Among the other restricted Seafarers that the trade names registered with customs are Ansco, Asahi Pentax, Bronica, ship's treasury Canon, Fotorite, Leica, Mamiya, Minolta, Nikon, Pentax, Rexo, Rollei, contains $48.50. Soligor, Takumar, Topcon and Weston. Steward delegate Remember that you must pay customs duty on any value over $100 Javina Fernandez reported that the chief cook was injured and of all items brought hack. Be honest, it isn't worth the trouble not to he. unable to work. W. Benish, meet­ Customs will also determine the duty you pay on equipment purchased ing secretary, wrote' that crew- by mail. members were requested to be sure When you are abroad, you think of Germany and Japan as having to leave keys to the foc'sles behind the best in photographic equipment. Hong Kong comes into your mind for the new men when they leave for low cost, right? Wrong. Contrary to popular belief, cameras in the vessel. After a good trip carry­ Hong Kong are more expensive than they are in Japan, although ing lumber intercoastal, the vessel German equipfnent is frequently cheaper in Hong Kong than in Ger­ headed for Portsmouth, Rhode many. Japan also has a far greater selection of lenses and other accesso­ Island and Philadelphia. ries—plus more up-to-date equipment than can he found in Hong Kong. word of caution. If you wish to send a camera home by mail from Japan, hear in mind that no camera may he shipped out of that country, according to a Japanese Government ruling, unless repair Meeting Chairman John Dickerservice and warranty are guaranteed abroad. Most American firms rep­ son reports from the Platte (Platte resenting Japanese companies will not issue such a guarantee, so you Exporter's, Inc.), may not he able to ship the camera at all. that the Captain When buying a camera it is also wise to stay away from airport and chief engineer have been notified shops. They usually have a limited supply of accessories and the equip­ about the accident ment is frequently older than later models available almost anywhere which caused oil else. No warning should be necessary on buying equipment from side­ to leak into the walk peddlers, the out-of-the-way shops located on some hack street, fresh water sup­ or the guy who pops Up with a $100 piece of equipment he'll gladly ply. The tanks sell to you for $20 or so. Some American photographic houses will ask a service charge to Dickerson will be cleaned and fixed when honor the guarantee or warranty on foreign-bought cameras. The fee the vessel reaches Holland, Broth­ is usually less than $10, hut some U.S. firms have become alarmed er Dickerson reported. Alhin Sa­ at the number of cameras being imported in large quantities by trading moska, meeting clerk, writes that companies. So, to insure that your overseas warranty will he honored, no beefs were reported by the de­ always make certain you have a sales slip from the foreign dealer and partment delegates. The pay-off the factory warranty card. Otherwise the service charge may wind up in is scheduled for Philadelphia. Mail the $25 bracket. and LOG'S are arriving regularly In the long run, buying in person is always preferable to buying and things have been running' through the mail—which brings us hack to Germany and Japan. smoothly. Germany once had a big lead in technical excellence while Japan frequently turned out inferior merchandise. Now, however, the Japanese are at least the equals of the Germans with many technicians from Germany now working in Japan. "Made in Japan" used to mean cheap in both quality and price; now it has come to mean one of the best. One reason why a camera costs more in the U. S. than it does abroad is the high costs to the U. S. importing firm. After the cameras arrive from Japan, the importing company must individually inspect each one to make sure it is in top condition. The U. S. firm also must charge more to cover the costs of its repair and service departments, sales promotion and advertising. <1> WRITE ( 7 i �IVovcniber 22, 1968 . SEAFAKE,R\ ipG Page Fourteen AMERICAN VICTORY (Huds n Wa­ terways), October 5—Chairman. W. Darley: Secretary, L. Calderon. No beefs and no disputed OT reported. CITADEL VICTORY (Waterman), Oc­ tober 27—Chairman, C. Walker; Secre­ tary, Esco Satchfield. No beefs or dis­ puted OT reported by department. Vo'e of thanks was extended to the steward department for the good food and service. NOT BUY ALCOA MASTER (Alcoa), October 25—Chairman. C. M. Knight: Secretary, John S. Ruse. Very pleasant voyage with no beefs and no disputed OT reported. SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Seatrain), November 1—Chairman, Charles W. Jor­ dan : Secretary, John W. Parker. Ship's delegate reported that everything is run­ ning smoothly. Vote of thanks to each department for helping to clean up the ship after leaving the shipyard. YELLOWSTONE (Oriental Exporters), October 25—Chairman, Paul Arthofer; Secretary, W. H. Simmons. Ship's dele­ gate reported that it was a fine voyage with good seamen, no logs, no beefs and no disputed OT. Discussion held regarding retirement plan for eligible men. Vote of thanks was extended to the i steward department for a job well done, i Kayscr-Roth Hosiery Co. Inc. Women's Hosiery Schiapareli, Kayser, Phoenix, Mojud, Supp-hose, Sapphire, Bachelor Girl, Fascination. Men's Hosiery & Underwear Esquire Socks, Bachelors' Friends, Supp-hose, Supp-hose Undertvear, Slendo Children's Products Kayser, Fruit of the Loom Mojud. Slippers Jiflies. Mercnrr (Textile Workers Union of .\merica") \l* Stitzel-Weller Distilleries STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), October 19—Chairman, Roy S. Theiss; Secretary, Gary A. McDonough. Brother John T. Cames was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $15.25 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. "Old Fitzgerald," "Old EBt" "Cabin StUI," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), November 3 — Chairman, F. Schandl; Secretary, N. Tatar. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Discussion was held regarding pension plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. Kingsport Press "World Book," <'ChiIdcnift" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Of SIU MEETINGS SEATRAIN OHIO (Hudson Water­ ways), November 2—Chairman, J. John­ son ; Secretary, J. E. Higgins. Disputed OT regarding delayed sailing to be brought to the attention of the patrol­ man. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment .for a job well done. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Maritime Overseas), November 2—Chairman, Ivar Anderson; Secretary, Henry C. McCullough. Vote of thanks to the ship's dele­ gate, Brother Ivar Anderson, and to the entire steward department, for a job well done. Discussion held regarding pension plan. DETROIT (Sea-Land Service), October 3—Chaiman, A. Lipari; Secretary, Victor M. Perez. Discussion held regarding in­ crease in wages, particularly for nonrated men. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. BESSEMER VICTORY (South AtlanticCaribbean), November 3—Chairman, Eu­ gene Blanchard; Secretary, A. Rogers. No beefs and no disputed OT were re­ ported. Vote of thanks to the entire steward department for a job well done. Special vote of thanks to the chief cook Brother A. W. Hutcherson, and chief steward. Brother W. E. Harper. A vote of thanks to Brother Roy Evans for the fine job as ship's delegate. The entire crew was thanked for making this a pleasant voyage. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Hudson Water­ ways), October 2§—Chairman, John Eddins ; Secretary, John S. Burke. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly so far with no beefs. A vote of thanks was extended to the en­ gine department fo: repairing all heads and scuppers. ROBIN KIRK (Moore-Mc Cor mack), November 3—Chairman, Malcolm Woods ; Secretary, William Nesta. No major is­ sues or disputed OT reported. TRANSHATTERAS (Hudson Water­ ways), October 27—Chairman, Albert J. Van Dyke; Secretary, Charles Muscarella. Ship's delegate reported that the disputed OT will be clarified by patrol­ man. Discussion held regarding mail serv­ ice. Crew would like the Union to check this with Company. Vote of thanks to Brother Robert Williams, crew messman, and Brother James Milligan, baker, for a job well done. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY. October 13—Chairman, 0. Butch Wright; Secre­ tary, Charles Swain. Ship's delegate re­ ported that it was a nice trip with few minor beefs. Special vote of thanks was extended to the chief cook. Brother Paul Dowling, for the fine food he turned out this trip. Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes ... Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Hoot and Shoe Workers' Union) Baltimore Luggage Co. I.ady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) DIRECTORYofi UNION HALLS ^ & Inland Waters White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Inland Boatmen's Union SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans. Dec. 10—2:30 p.m. Mobile Dec. 11—2:30 p.m. Wilmington .. Dec. 16—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Dec. 18—2:00 p.m. Seattle Dec. 20—2:00 p.m. New York ... Dec. 2—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia . Dec. 3—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. . Dec. 4—2:30 p.m. Detroit Dec 13—2:30 p.m. Houston .... Dec. 9—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers United Industrial Workers Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanntr Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiay Wllliami Robert Matthewj SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS $75 4th Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY 9-MOO ALPENA. MIeh 127 River St. (517) EL 4-3&li BALTIMORE, Md 121$ E. Belttmore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, MBM $$3 Atlantic Avanue ($17) Rl 2-0140 'BUFFALO, N.Y ^ Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) 4/ ^J> Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) — — Giumarra Grapes ^ "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynce Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) (United Farm Workers) Brothers and SeweD Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes PRESIDENT Paul Hall Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Siisiis. \|> Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Morn Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) FINANCIAL REPORTS. The conetitation of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of vamus trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only ui»n approwl by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know jrour shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If yra feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU 1MH»contracts specify the wages end conditions under which you work and live abo^ ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SlU^troIman or other Union offleial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rii^ts prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—8BAPABERS LOG. The LOO has tradithmaUy refninfl from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individnal in the Union, ofiScer or member. It has also •_ Tained from imblishing armies daonad harmful to the Union or ita collective membership. This estabUsbsd policy has bM reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings In all ecmsa^ tional porta. The rceponaibili^ for LOG poli«7 is vetted in an-editorial hoard whteh conslata of the ESzeeutive Board of the Union. 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LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan. . Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kalgan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 New Orleans. Dec. 10—7:00 p.m. Mobile Dec. 1' -7:00 p.m. New York .. Dec. z—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Dec. 3—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ,.. Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. ^Houston ... Dec. 9—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Dec. 2—2:00 p.m. Alpena Dec. 2—7:00 p.m. Buffalo Dec. . 2—7:00 p.m. Chicago Dec. . 2—7:00 p.m. Duluth Dec. . 2—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ... Dec. . 2—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Re^on Chicago Dec. 10—7:30 p.m. t Sault St. Marie Dec. 12—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Dec. 11—7:30 p.m. Duluth Dec. 13—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ... Dec. 13—7:30 p.m. Toledo Dec. 13—7:30 p.m. Detroit Dec. 9—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . . Dec. 9—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans. Dec. 10—5:00p.m. Mobile Dec. 11—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia . . Dec. 3—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) .. Dec. 4—5:00 p.m. Norfolk .... Dec. 5—5:00 p.m. Houston .... Dec. 9—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Dec. 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Dec. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. f *Norfo!k Dec. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Dec. 9—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any oifieial capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an ^cial receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six montb in the SEhLFARESlS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any memba or officer is attempting to derive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other uctails, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union setivitiee, ineluding attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, ineluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers eannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-etanding Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union baa negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, eoior, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he ia denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquartera. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the baeic ri^ta of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and politleal objectives whieh will ecrve the best interesto of themselves, their famUies and tiieir Union. To achieve theee objMtivee, the Seafarers Politleal Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and cooatitnte the funds throuidi whieh Icgialattve and political activities are conducted ita tlie benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that aiv «f ^ above righte have been vMated. er ttat he baa been dtnlsd hta censUUUonai right of accem to Union reeerda or informatien, be shenU immadtetely natify SIU Preridcnt Paal Hall at bandqnarters by omtificd maU. retnm receipt regntrtid. I y .V �yembcr 2i2, 1968 sU^yp/RFRV VOG 'ace Fifteen Once back at Cape Cod, the Mayflower did not pro­ ceed directly to Plymouth Harbor, but sent a small shallop to seek out the safe landing place—now almost immemorialized as Plymouth Rock—which has since been moved to another location and substantially chipped down from its former size by generations of tourists and curiosity-seekers and souvenir hunters. The Pilgrims' small reconnaissance ship met with the same tribulations encountered by the Mayflower during the trans-Atlantic voyage. Beset by storms, rough seas, an Indian attack along the way, and unfamiliarity with the tides and currents, it very nearly was lost. Crewed by seven seasoned hands under John Clarke, mate of the Mayflower, and accompanied by ten Pilgrims, the frail vessel bucked cold, easterly winds in mid-winter weather in which "spray froze on their clothes and made them many times like coats of iron." Rigged with a jib and mainsail, and fitted with oars, the shallop battled rain, snow and rough seas, and re­ ported encountering a "no'easter" so violent that "the sail fell overboard in a very grown sea, so as they had like to have been cast away." First Arrivals Shipwrecked "HEN THfi SKIPPEli of the historic Mayflower ^brought the Pilgrim Fathers safely through stormtossed seas to Plymouth Harbor on November 21, ,.jl^20, he probably little imagined that in later years he ' would be maligned by their offspring as a piratical adnturw and bribe-taker who sold , out their interests r hjs own perspnal gain, jjj it, took well over two hundred years for historians jljjPj^qlear his name, and conclude that Captain Jones' 'jffirnished image resulted from mistaken identity, the '^^.cal villain being another sea captain of almost the ^^^jime name. Captain Christopher Jones, commissioned to com­ mand the Mayflower on its perilous crossing to the ^^ew. World, was accused, almost five decades later, of j(aking a bribe from the Dutch for steering the Pilgrims New .Yorkv-their original destination, be­ cause the Dutch feared-Competition to their owh lucra•; .4ve fur-trading posts located along the Hudson River. In addition, other $ources identified Jones as a free­ booter who, in the years after his alleged Mayflower sell-out, raided coastal settlements to seize furs and kidnap Indians to be sold as slaves. These accusations, made by the descendants of the •Very Pilgrims that Captain Jones had guided safely to new hope on America's shores, were put forth despite documentary eyewitness accounts which should have made the charges groundless. To begin with, just why the Dutch would,- have wanted the Pilgrims diverted from New York is not at all clear. Prior to the crossing, the New Nether­ lands Company—a Dutch-based organization with extensive'holdings on and around jthe Hudson—^had been negotiating with the Pilgrims, then living in Leyden, Holland, for a voyage of settlement to the New World. To this end, the New Netherlands Company had pe­ titioned the Prince of Orange, a member of the Dutch nobility, to "allow and encourage" these Pilgrims to emigrate to New York. British Offer Better The Pilgrims broke off negotiations with the Dutch only when Thomas Weston of London proposed a better offer—one that would allow the Pilgrims to preserve their English heritage for their children by sailing to the New World under the British flag. Secondly, actual recorded events during the May­ flower crossing make it difficult to support the idea that its skipper was intent on diverting the Pilgrims from their intended destination at New York. Indeed, had the master persisted in heading for New York, the ship and its occupants might well have been lost to history, and the course of events Very different for the eventual development of the Massachusetts colony and - the history of colonial seafaring itself. ' It was not an easy crossing for the Mayflower. Qnthc-spot accounts tell of the heavy seas and smashing gales that were encountered by the already-old vessel,A typical crisis occurred in the raid-.Ajlanfic when,yielding to the punishment of continual Storms, the fnain' bearri amidships ga.ve way, causing the upper works to leak badly, and the seams opened wide enough Ip reiease their caulking. Tf Captain Jones had really intended to divert the TOgrims fi:pjth; Ne^ York, here was his perfect qpppr- ; : idnky to^^clarOaih^ ship unsafe! reverse coursepand •?: f return to England. In fact, the Pilgrims held an emergency meeting with Jones and his officers to let it be known that they would prefer to return to England than face what appeared to be inevitable disaster. However, Captain Jone§ prevailed in his determina­ tion to continue westward, and assured the Pilgrims thatJepairs could be made. With seamanlike ingenuity, a large jack—fortunately brought along from Holland— wrs blocked under the sagging beam,'and the opened seams were caulked as best as possible under existing circumstances. The Mayflower then continued on its charted course. ; With Mayflower 11, built in I960, as backdrop, Ply­ mouth residents re-enact 1621 Thanbgiving. First Mayflower returned to England before Festival. After three days -of this, finally struggling through breakers, the first sailors and Pilgrims to actually set foot on shore where the new colony was to be located were in fact shipwrecked on the beach—^their records use the term ^'castaway"—and their trek was ended. After recovering from the arduous trip, the re­ connaissance party sounded the harbor, found it to be of satisfactory depth, and returned to the Mayflower . with the good news. Forty-nine years after this historic landing, the fiirst attacks on the reputation of Captain Jones began, and were picked up by succeeding historians who took these allegations for fact—assuming that the Mayflower's Captain Jones was the infamous Captain Jones whose criminal activities were already well-known. Other historians then embroidered on these lurid accounts, not bothering to check original sources. The first of the detractors, ironically, was Nathaniel Morton, the nephew of William Bradford, first governor of the Plymouth Colony and its best-known historian. Bradford's own journal, "Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620- „ 1647," contains' an entry that provides a clue to the mistaken identity that later sparked the attack on Captain Jones' reputation. In 1622, two years after the Majdlower's arrival, a ship called Discovery anchored in Plymouth Harbor. Bradford recorded the event as follows: "Behold now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor, one Captain Jones being chief therein. They were set out by some merchants to discover all the harbors between this and Virginia, and the shoals of Cape Cod, and to trade along the coast where they could." This ship was commanded by one Captain Thomas Jones, and the distinguished historian Samuel Eliot Morison notes with understatement that this Captain Jones "got into trouble both with his employers and with the Council for New England by taking furs forcibly and trying to kidnap Indians." It seems ridiculous to think that William Bradford would lightly refer to a man who had brought the Pilgrims safely to the New World only as "one Captain Jones" and make no further reference to him had this Captain Jones truly been the previous skipper of the Mayflower, whose name was captain Christopher Jones. However, because many documents of the time omitted first names, the reputation of an able and valiant sea captain was mistakenly blackened. The name of the Mayflower skipper has since been restored to its rightfully honored place in American history. In the last analysis, the worst oomplaint still re­ corded against him is Bradford's personal note in his own journal in which he expresses bitter resentment that hfs beer ration was cut off by Captain Jones when the Mayflower's supply ran low. Troubles, Not Over 'Their troubles far from over, the voyagers continued to meet perilous gales during which "not a stitch of can­ vas could be spread for days on end," and they were "hove to under bare poles." Now, at a further point during the^ cro^ the record is again clear that Captain Jones " the directives of the Pilgrims in landing them 'u ymouth " Harbour, rather than deliberately diverting them from , New York. When the Mayflower at last came in sight of Cape Cod, the Pilgrims held another conference and, acr cording; to accounts, "after some deliberation among themselves and the master, of the ship," decided for unexplained reasons to head southward to the Hudson River. This met no objection from Captain Jones, and he proceeded to set course for New York, Later that same day, however, when the ship was caught up in the breakers of the menacing Pollock • Rip Shoals, Whose dangers are well-known to it was the Pilgrims themselves who decided to returp to Cape Cod Harbor, It is fecprded; that in^; doihg I Ihey , J 'WWf^tl Mainsf modern New ^pr-k Cifyi skyline. ,0- . •jirr .wcxtty sifi Yo -danger^ '.AT. ,V ?!i1hei!^>i^shfp-re-enacfed original voyage hhder sail, t-..! �Vol. XXX No. ^ SEAFARERS#LOG OFFiCIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION > ATLANTiC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CI (• -r "Si. ( INCE its inception on Janua^ 6, 1959, the SIU Blood Bank has provided the means to save lives in so many emergencies that it has become one of the Seafarers' most precious benefits—a priceless one when needed. The growing realization by Seafarers of the importance of donating their blood so that the vital fluid remains in reserve for use if they—or any member of their families—^require transfusions is increasingly appar­ ent. Membership in the SIU Gallon Club—a special group of Seafarers who have given eight pints or more—is expanding and latest figures show that Seafarers have contributed an overall total of 7,542 pints of blood since 1959. The SIU's medical director. Dr. Joseph Logue, originated the idea of the Gallon Club and has set a tentative goal of at least 50 members. As a token of appreciation for their outstanding contribution to this vital cause, each Seafarer who donates eight pints of blood will receive a specially designed lapel pin which reads "Gallon Club Award—Seafarers Blood Bank." The pin is in three colors, with the SIU wheel engraved in the center. Five Seafarers have already qualified for membership in the Gallon Club. They are: Arthur Sankovidt 18.pints donated Alvin Carpenter . 17 pints donated Andrea Pesce ... 12 pints donated Torsten Lnndkvist 12 pints donated Clifford Emannd 8 pints donated Several others are also well on their way to earning this honor. Nearing the gallon mark are: S ^: Arffinr Elliott ........ Edward Going Charles Johnston ......... Phillip Erck David Manzanet ......'.... 7 pints donated (1 pint to go) 7 pints donated (1 pint to go) 7 pints donqted (1 pint to go) 6 pints donated (2 pints to go) 6 pints doimted (2 pints' to go) Seafarer Clifford Emanuel, right, receives gallon-club honor pin from Dr. Joseph Logue, SIU medical director. Brother Emanuel is the fifth Seafarer to join this distinguished group for donating eight pints of blood. Dr. Logue is considering possible additional recognition for those who exceed the Gallon Club quota as the program continues. He points out that four men are already on their second or third gallon. The vital service made possible by these, as well as all other blood donations is of great importance to Seafarers. Any Seafarer, or member of a Seafarer's family who requires blood transfusions can draw, through his local hospital, against the credits built up in the Union's blood bank. Prompt delivery of the lifesaving fluid is insured—^without any cost what­ soever. A total of nearly 7,000 pints have been provided in emergencies since the Bank's inception. A continual supply, in whatever quantity needed, can be assured only so long as Seafarers and their families continue to replenish it. Any, SIU member, or member of his family who wishes to donate blood in New York can do so by arranging with the SIU Brooklyn clinic. In other SIU ports, appointments can be arranged through the port agent. "•'r : ' '" I r � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource November 22, 1968 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AUSTRALIA VOICING CONCERN ON SOVIET MARITIME PUSH NEEDS OF US FLAG MERCHANT MARINE MAY RECEIVE LONG AWAITED BOOST MARAD STOPS WAR RISK INSURANCE ON OLDEST OF RUNAWAY FLAG VESSELS NIXON LEADERSHIP MANDATE DULLED BY RAZOR THIN VICTORY CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AGENCY IN HASSLE OVER PUBLIC DISCLOSURES NEW LORAN NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM ALLOWS EXACT LOCATION FIX IN GULF CRISIS IN USPHS PERUVIAN TRIP ON HOSPITAL SHIP HOPE WARMLY RECALLED BY SEAFARER MILTON BARRE VICTORY SEAFARERS ALL SAFE FOLLOWING COLLISION IN SAIGON RIVER Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/22/1968 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXX, No. 24 1968 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/87d33ca9fc2900639d0ca210a8b0d70e.PDF 7e854d6676faf9a2bcd30e7ca98abd97 PDF Text Text Vol. XXX No. 25 SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SlU Seniority Upgrading To Resume on January. 1 �"rifc'iii. December 6, 1968 Delta Uruguay Complef^ Aertrim tlun& The Delta Uruguay arrived at its home port of New Orleans recently, after completing a series of trial runs at sea. The vessel loaded cargo here and in Houston, Tampico and Mobile, then departed on her maiden voyage to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The Uruguay is one of the latest additions to Delta Lines. Completely New Program Urged 'Patchwork' Formula For Maritime Sbould Be Replaced, TIernan Says WASHINGTON—A member of Congress last week called for an end to "patchwork" legislative efforts to correct the nation's maritime ills. Representative Robert O. Tieman (D-R.I.) urged that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 be scrapped, and that it be replaced tion from subsidized operators for direct subsidies as tax-deferred with a "totally new" maritime the carriage of government cargo," construction reserve funds—must program. making the cargo-preference sys­ be available to all operators. "I do not believe that it is tem "less than totally effective." "I would hope that the new possible to successfully amend Tiernan put emphasis on the maritime program would also be that 32-year-old law sufficiently need for equal treatment of all flexible, in terms of government to achieve our goal of recapturing segments of the fleet, declaring: assistance, because the needs of our rightful place as a maritime "Whatever help we extend un­ the various segments vary, and a power," Tieman told labor and der our new maritime program— flexible program would encourage management representatives from whether in the form of direct sub­ innovation and would encourage the merchant marine attending a sidies, or in the form of such in­ an influx of private capital." meeting sponsored by the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment. The Democratic Congressman said that the 1936 legislation was oriented to the liner trade, and has not adapted to the changing WASHINGTON—Two AFL-CIO departments—the Building pattern of world trade, including the decline of the passenger and Construction Trades and the Metal Trades—have set up a liners, the growth of bulk cargo joint committee to co-ordinate apprenticeship activities and policies. The Joint Apprenticeship trade, and . the emergence of the ers and director of IBEW appren­ federal government as a major Committee is designed to be the ticeship training, was elected vice cargo source. unified spokesman on appren­ chairman of JAC. Tiernan was critical of the fact ticeship programs and problems Paul Hutchings, secretary of that the government has heavily for the many union affiliates of the Metal Trades Apprenticeship subsidized the construction and the two federation departments. Committee for the past 10 years, President B. A. Gritta of the was elected secretary of the new operation of the passenger lines and, in addition, has "propped Metal Trades Department told joint committee. these operations up still further officers of the affiliated unions Unity InqHNTtant by allowing these liners to carry that the new committee "would government cargoes at preferen­ be in a unique position to discuss Chairman Turner expressed labor's apprenticeship problems belief that the committee would tial rates." He added: "I have been hard pressed to and arrive at answers to assist the serve to bring better communica­ understand the logic of this. On Bureau of Apprenticeship of the tions among various segme.nts of the one hand, the government sub­ Department of Labor." the labor movement. He also President C. J. Haggerty of noted the importance of present­ sidizes certain shipping compa­ nies so that they can compete on BCTD promised that the commit­ ing a unified stand for labor to an even scale with lower-cost for­ tee "will have the full support of the new administration. eign shipping for commercial car­ all segments of the organized Turner said JAC would also be goes. On the other hand, the gov­ labor movement." concerned with the many changes The committee's purpose, said in jurisdiction in the Bureau of ernment has, in effect, taken these ships out of the ccmunercial trade, David S. Turner, its newly-ap­ Apprenticeship and Training by loading their holds with gov­ pointed chairman, "is to bring to­ (BAT) programs. ernment cargo. It makes no sense gether all trades to discuss—and BAT Director Hugh Murphy to me to make these ships eco­ hopefully solve—problems com­ said he hoped for a cooperative nomically competitive with foreign mon to our separate apprentice­ association with the committee to shipping if, at the same time, we ship programs." pursue the mutual aims of a take them out of the ccnnpetitive Turner, secretary-treasurer of strong apprenticeship program. arena." the Sheet Metal WtM-kers, has JAC initiated steps for the The Rhode Island lawmaker served as chairman of .the Metal naming of subcommittee members said that, despite subsidy aid, the Trades Apprenticeship Commit­ in the areas of legislation, voca­ lines receiving assistance "have tee which is now merged into tional education, BAT and equal not staved off the iim>ads of for­ JAC. employment owortunities. ^bMarcus Loftis, assistant to the conunittee appointments will be eign-flag carriers." At the same time, he noted, the unsubsidized president of the International made at the next quarterly meet­ lines have faced "unfair competi­ Brotherhood of Electrical Work­ ing. /Wo AFL-QO Departmettts Foiw Joint Committee on Apprentiteship SlU Seniority Upgrading To Resume on January 1 With the goal in mind of assisting B Book Seafarers to increase their earning power, acquire new skills and sharpen old ones, the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamiaship located at Piney Point, Maryland, will resume • ing School or the Harry Lunde­ the &niority Upgrading Pro­ berg School of Seamanship. gram on January 1st, 1969. • A minimum of 12 months Seafarers who qualify for the seatime accumulated aboard any Seniority Upgrading Program SlU-contracted vessels. will have the opportunity to utilize • A valid lifeboat ticket. the school's modem facilities to The Seafarers Appeals Board improve their seafaring skills and may consider additional require­ move up the ladder. ments or waive any requirement. Every registered B Book Sea­ While taking part in the up­ farer will shortly receive an appli­ grading program in the school in cation form in the mail for enroll­ Piney Point, Maryland, students ment in the Seniority Upgrading will receive $56.00 per week plus Program. Applications will also room and board. be available from any SIU port Transportation fronri the Un­ agent. ion's major ports, to the school in Seafarers are being strongly Piney Point, will be provided for urged to apply for this unique op­ any Seafarer who qualifies for the portunity to upgrade their skills program. and seniority. The standards which the Sea­ farers Appeals Board has set for enrollment in the Seniority Up­ grading Program are: • An AB, FOWT or other Coast Guard approved rating. • A certificate showing suc­ cessful completion of training at WASHINGTON — Represent­ either the Andrew Furuseth Trainative Thomas M. Pelly (R-Wash.) has strongly urged Budget Bureau Director Charles J. Zwick to re­ lease National Science Foundation funds for ship operations in order to stem this country's decline in maritime strength. "As one who is concerned about SEATTLE—The U.S. Bu­ America's continued slippage in reau of Commercial Fisheries merchant marine and oceanohere reported recently that graphlc stature," the Washington Japanese firms exporting Congressman, a member of the frozen yellowfin tuna to the House Merchant Marine and Fish­ United States are finding that Committee, said in a letter eries 20-30 percent of their ship­ to Zwick last week, "I am dis­ ments are being rejected by turbed that National Science West Coast packers because Foundation funds for Fiscal Year of improper freezing and the 1969 have been sharply curtailed development of green or dark since July 1, 1968." tuna meat. Referring to his home state, Japanese yellowfin tuna Pelly said: "Institutions all over shipments presently arriving the nation, including the Univer­ on the West Coast are made sity of Washington, have had to up mostly of fish caught by greatly reduce their oceanographic Japanese, Korean and Taiwa­ research because of this partial nese tuna fishermen in the freeze on funds. Indian Ocean during last "More specifically this action summer. has resulted in an average reduc­ The mn of yellowfin was tion of some 35 percent in ship exceptionally good, with ves­ and associated research operations sels catching as much as five in these institutions." to seven tons per day. Some reports indicate that in the In his letter Pelly stressed his haste to handle the heavy growing concern for the country's catch, improper processing maritime health, and noted that he i methods were employed didn't believe that the United i aboard the vessels. States could afford to continue on its downhill maritime course. Polly Ad(s Funds From N5FBudget For US Shippit^ 'Green' Japan Tuna Gets CoM Sfionlder From U. S. Packers Discusring organizational efforts of the Joint Apprenticeship Com­ mittee are (l-r): C. J. Haggerty, president, BCTD; B. A. Gritta, pres­ ident of Metal Trades, and Dayid S. Turner, chairman of committee. n ur i �..Decepiber 6, 1968 Receiving SlU Welfare Check Rep. Karth .grsdicts to MTD J\/ew Maritime Program Next Year Will Stress Private Investment' WASHINGTON—Bipartisan efforts in the 91st Congress, which convenes in January, will produce a new maritime program that will put more stress on "private investment" and less emphasis on gov­ ernment funds. Representative Joseph E. Karth (D-Minn.) predicted here recently. Speaking at a meeting spon­ portation. In the 90th Congress, program is going to have to be sored by the nearly seven-mil- we made clear our determination designed to serve the entire mer­ lion-member AFL-CIO Mari­ to give maritime back the inde­ chant marine," he said. "It has to time Trades Department, Karth pendence it has not enjoyed for discussed the controversy in re­ 18 years. That bill was vetoed— be built on the base of government gard to subsidized versus unsub- but the vote in no way changes assistance—but it also must be sidized vessels. He expressed the our conviction that an independent geared to encouraging private in­ conviction that "clear-cut" langu­ agency holds out the best hope vestment. Government aid is es­ age prohibiting the practice of for the revitalization of our mari­ sential, because otherwise we can't expect to compete with foreign combining federal construction time interests. . . . and operating subsidies with the ships . . . Private investment is "Once the independent agency granting of preferential rates for bill is enacted into law, we must equally essential, or else we're go­ Seafarer John Kavanagh is presented with a check by Boston port carrying government cargoes to get to work on a maritime pro­ ing to end up with a nationalized agent Ed Riley (center) as A! Bernstein, SlU welfare director, the same vessels would solve the gram—or else we'll have achieved fleet—or no fleet at all. looks on. A third cook, Kavanagh joined SlU in 1955 in New York. A problem. a hollow victory. . . . "The key words with respect to There should be no objection native of Boston, he's a patient at USPHS Hospital, Brighton, Mass. "Certainly our maritime pro­ this new program must be 'fair Brother Kavanagh was hurt v/hile sailing aboard the Penn Carrier. from the subsidized segment of the gram for the future must be some­ American-flag merchant marine to thing more than just a retread of and equitable.' If the government such clarification if, as they insist, the program that has been in effect helps to underwrite the cost of no "double subsidy" payments are for the past third of a century . . . building ships for some operators, made to begin with, the Minne­ Part of the fault lies in the fact it has to be prepared to extend the principle of construction as­ sota Congressman declared. that once the Maritime Adminis­ "For a long time," Karth re­ tration lost its independence it was sistance to all operators. . . . "The new program must con­ called, "and particularly in the last shunted aside in the bureaucratic few years. Congress has ap­ hierarchy. It was given less and tain some sort of transitional as­ proached maritime matters on a less attention and less and less sistance, so that operators who have been left out of the picture LONDON—Topping all other maritime nations of the world in bipartisan basis . . . What's more, money with which to work." for years will have a chance to non-casualty tonnage scrapped, the United States has continued to the 91st Congress will not be sig­ Discriminatory Program catch up. . . . contribute heavily to the total increase in the overall number of nificantly different from the 90th —because so few of the seats in Citing another aspect to this "Beyond these basic points," marine losses for the fourth the House and Senate changed problem, the congressman con­ Karth added, the new maritime quarter in succession, according tons) lost; and five (2,017 tons) hands in last month's election. tinued: program should be flexible. "If we to the latest report by Lloyd's were listed as missing. "More than that," he noted, "Our maritime program appears give operators several different The runaway-flag havens of "the platforms of both national to have discriminated in favor of options ... if we put more stress Register of Shipping which covers Liberia, Panama and Greece led parties contained firm pledges to a few lines which have been heav­ on private investment and, per­ the period ending March 31, 1968. all others in the number of ships work for the rebuilding of the ily subsidized so that they could haps, a little less stress on govern­ The figure for the U.S.—^which lost. Liberia's loss was 69,463 tons, American-flag merchant marine. compete with foreign carriers for ment funds—and if we accord all is based on "vessels broken up not Grwce 53,156 tons, Panama 15,- ... I see no reason to doubt that commercial cargo—^but which, in­ operators the same equal oppor­ consequent upon casualty"—was 664 tons and India 13,507 tons. both parties will work toward that stead, have concentrated largely tunity to participate—then we'll 196,728 tons. In second place was on carrying government cargo at be on our way toward achieving Greece, which scrapped 103,610 Lloyd's figures are based on a goal. "So on Capitol Hill, at least, preferential rates. We have given our goal of a strong and vibrant tons, followed by Britain with 84,- world merchant fleet totalling 44,little or no attention to the de­ merchant marine that will carry 646 tons, Panama 75,508 tons, 375 vessels of 182,099,644 tons. the outlook is bright. All major individual losses in­ "The question now is, in which velopment of the unsubsidized lin­ our commerce in peacetime and Italy 55,783 tons, Liberia 54,870 tons, Lebanon 44,638 tons, Cy­ volved tankers. The largest was direction should we be moving?" ers, the unsubsidized tramps, and serve our military needs in war­ prus 39,441 tons, Taiwan 36,862 the Liberian oiler Mandoil II, a Karth suggested some of the things the unsubsidized tankers. They time." have been the victims of competi­ tons and Norway with 28,899 25,313-ton vessel which collided he considered essential: in dense fog with the Japanese "The first order of business tion from the low-wage foreigntons. In all, 153 ships of 832,759 flag Suwaharu Maru and caught should be the creation of an in­ flag liners. The only reason why gross tons were scrapped in the fire during passage from Susu to dependent Federal Maritime Ad­ the unsubsidized segment of the first quarter of this year, com­ Tacoma while carrying light crude ministration. We have been frus­ fleet has survived at all has been pared with 701,802 tons in the oil. Built in 1958, the tanker was trated too long on this issue. In the because it has had to meet the previous three months. The U.S. towed to Vancouver Island where 89tih Congress we made clear our heavy d ;mands of the Vietnam figure, though high, was down it was condemned and sold for determination to keep maritime war." out of the Department of Trans­ "Broadly, the new maritime from the 235,804 tons in the pre­ breaking up. SAIGON — The Asian-Ameri­ vious quarter. can Free Labor Institute has initi­ The largest ship to be broken ated a program of helping estab­ up during the period covered was lish farm co-operatives in South the 17,038-ton British passenger Vietnam as a means of encourag­ liner Rhodesia Castle, which en­ ing rice production. tered service in 1951 and was for The project of AAFLI, estab­ 17 years on the South African lished by the AFL-CIO Executive run for the Umon Castle Line. Council last February, centers on In another category—that of providing tractors for use in rice merchant ships "totally lost during cultivation. It works Tike this: the quarter consequent upon cas­ Each group of 10 farmers is ualty"—the United States lost given a tractor, to be paid for three ships of 8,547 tons. One of over a period of time. them foundered and two were Payments Midtiply Flan wrecked. Three months earlier Payments go into a revolving the loss had been only one larger 8,157-ton ship foundered. account, which is used to pur­ chase more tractors as a basis for Lost worldwide due to casual­ additional co-operatives. ties were 88 vessels totalling 222,659 gross tons. The previous The project is operated by quarter's lower totals of 82 ships AAFLI representatives working of 209,327 tons—^were described closely with and through the Viet­ namese Confederation of Labor by Lloyd's at that time as "one (CVT). To date, their teams have of the highest figures ever." presented 10 tractors to farmer Of the ships lost, nearly twogroups. thirds in respect to tonnage (and AAFLI also plans to aid the co­ one-half of the total number of vessels) were wrecked—43 ships operatives in developing new types totalling 140,962 tons. Another of rice plants, fertilizers and plant­ 23 ships of 30,746 tons foundered, The Asian-American Free Labor Institute presents tractor-cultivator to farm co-operative group in South ing techniques. Meantime, it con­ and collisions claimed seven more Vietnam. The AAFLI initiated program to help establish farm co-operatives in the war-torn nation tinues to assist CVT in setting up vessels of 33,050 tons. Seven (13,- to encouarge rice production. Tractors to be paid for over a period of time, are provided through the seminars on trade union organiza­ 708 tons) were burnt; three (2,176 Vietnamese Confederation of labor. The AAFLI also aids in developing rice plants and planting techniques. tion and education. U.S. Tops In Ship Scrapping As World Losses Hit High Vietnam Farmers Receive Tractors From U. S. Labor V;- �December 6, 196ft N.Y. Teachers EifdS'WeekStrikB; City Pledges Complete Job Security NEW YORK—^The city's 50,000 school teachers were back in the classroom here under a new agreement securing their job rights and assuring them of protection from harassment and intimi­ dation. The agreement, ratified by the ^ teachers by a 6-to-l margin to 2,783, opening the way for re­ would strike unless the teachers ended a five-week strike, the sumption of classes for 1.1 mil­ were returned to their jobs. A settlement was reached with third this fall in the city's school lion pupils in the city who have been out for 36 of the first 48 the Board of Education to return system stemming from the dis­ school days of the fall term. the teachers to the jobs from missal without cause of 19 teach­ The first of the three work stop­ which they had been ousted plus ers by a local governing board pages began on September 9 and other provisions for appeals, etc. of an experimental, decentralized lasted two days. On September 13 The following day neighborhood school imit. the settlement ending the dispute residents of the largely Negro and The local group's absolute re­ fell apart and the union struck Puerto Rican area attempted to fusal-'u> reinstate the teachers and again, ending the walkout on Sep­ prevent the teachers from entering its i^istence on the nght to hire and fire teachers in the district tember 20. Two weeks later, as the the building. This led to the second walkout wa|^ direct challenge to the job settlement came unstuck again, keyed to the union's demand for security provisions of the United the union called the third strike. The basic dispute goes back to protection of teachers from har­ Federation of Teachers contract with the city Board of Education. May 1968 when the local district assment and violence. A settle­ The settlement, worked out at a governing board ousted 19 teach­ ment of this walkout was followed 27-hour negotiating session by ers and supervisors on charges by more violence as. residents Mayor John Lindsay and. UFT that they were undermining the clashed with police assigned to Pres. Albert Shanker along with decentralization plan or doing un­ protect the U^ members. members of the Board of Edu­ satisfactory work. The ousted The third walkout lasting 35 cation and the state education teachers were later cleared of the days brought a series of mediation charge by a trial examiner. commissioner provides: and settlement efforts involving At the time of school opening the city, the Board of Education • The temporary removal of three principals in the Ocean Hill- in September the governing board and the state culminating in the Brownsville Demonstration Dis­ refused to reinstate the dismissed settlement worked out on Novem­ teachers and the union warned it ber 17. trict in Brooklyn. • The appointment of Herbert P. Johnson, associate state com­ missioner of education, as trustee to oversee the local district and to assure the return to classrooms there of a group of union teachers. There will be 58 Democrats and 42 Republicans in the Senate • The establishment by the when the 91st Congress convenes in January if a recount confirms state of a special committee with extraordinary powers to protect the narrow victory of Republican Robert IV. Packwood over Wayne the rights of teachers and princi­ Morse in Oregon, The GOP scored a net gain of five Senate seats. pals throughout the city school SlU Great Lakes District Announces Eiection Results DETROIT—^Fred J. Famen was re-clected as secretary-treasurer and Roy Boudreau won another term as assistant secretary-treasurer in the SIU Great Lakes District's 1968 biennial election of officers, the district's membersWp-elect- « ««,i„atiom h»l b«n reed Credentials Committee an­ ceived. nounced recently in its official Following verification of the report. Both men were unop­ candidates' qualifications by the posed. Credentials Committee duly elect­ Also at stake in the election ed by the membership, voting com­ were the posts of agent in the ports menced on August 1 and contin­ of Buffalo, Chicago, Duluth and ued through August 31. While Frankfort. Elected and unopposed direct balloting proceeded in the in their bids for office were Frank Union halls of the various ports, "Scottie" Aubusson.in Chicago, SIU agents and patrolmen took the and Harold Rathbun in Frankfort. ballot box aboard all contracted Gordon Trainor had submitted his vessels for the convenience of credentials for Frankfort agent, working crewmembers in order to but was disqualified by the Creden­ ensure the widest possible partici­ pation in the election by the mem­ tials Committee. Donald Bensman won re-elec­ bership. Results of the voting, as sub­ tion as Duluth agent in a two-way contest with Arnold Perry, and mitted in the report of the Stanley Wares defeated Richard Credentials Committee, were sub­ Gordon for the office of agent in sequently placed before the mem­ bership at its regular meetings in Buffalo. Nominations for the election of all ports and the committee's re­ Great Lakes District officers were port for the 1968-70 election of opened on July 1, 1968, and con­ officers was unanimously con­ tinued until midnight of July 15— curred in, and accepted, by the at which time a total of eight membership. Official Senate Line-up For New 91st Congress system. Shanker, in a statement issued by the UFT, said the panel estab­ lished under the agreement "rep­ resents a strong hope that the schools and their teachers will be safe from harassment and intimi­ dation. The city, its parents, teach­ ers and children have paid a high price to achieve these important objectives. The UFT will now turn its efforts to work with par­ ents and community groups." The agreement was accepted by UFT members by a vote of 17,658 Symbols: * Re-elected Dec. 6. 1968 Vol. XXX, No. 25 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL^IO Executive Board PAUL HALL, President CAL TANNER EARL SHBPARD Exec. Viee-Pree. Vice-President AL KERR LINDSBY WILUAMS See.-Trisas. Vice-President AL TANNER ROBERT MATTHEWS Vice-President Vice-President Director of Publications MIKE POLLACK Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors PETER WEISS Wnx KARP BILL MOORE Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI Piblhhid klwsskly at 810 Rhsdt lilsnd Avinss N.E., Waihlniton, D. C. 20018 ky ths Ssafsrsn intsrnatlonal Union, Atlsntie, Gill, Lakn and Inland Waters Dlitriet, AFL-CIO, 675 Fairth Annas, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Tol. Hyacinth 9-6600. Sssond olasi postaio paid at Washlnptoni, 0. C. PeSTMASTER'8 ATTENTIOH: For* 3579 sards skoald ko Mnt to Soafarors International Union, Atlantic, Golf, Lata and Inland Watan District, AFL-CI8, 675 Foartk Annas, Brooklyn, H.V. 11232. Mark Hatfield (R) Robert W. Packwood (R)t MISSISSIPPI James O. Eastland (D) John Stennis (D) PENNSYLVANIA Richard S. Schweiker (R)t Hugh Scott (R) MISSOURI ALABAMA James B. Allen (D)t John J. Sparkman ALASKA E. L. Bartlett (D) Mike Gravel (D)t ARIZONA Paul J. Fannin (R) Barry M. Goldwater (R)t SEAFARERS^LOG New senator ARKANSAS J. William Fulbright (D)* John L. McClellan (D) IDAHO Frank Church (D)* Len B. Jordan (R) ILLINOIS Everett M. Dirksen (R)* Charles H. Percy (R) INDIANA Birch Bayh (D)* Vance Hartke (D) IOWA Harold E. Hughes (D)t Jack Miller (R) Alan Cranston (D)t George Murphy (R> KANSAS Robert Dole (R)t James B. Pearson (R) COLORADO Gordon Allott (R) Peter H. Dominick (R)* KENTUCKY Marlow W. Cook (R)t John Sherman Cooper (R) CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT Thomas J. Dodd (D) Abraham A. Ribicoff (D)* DELAWARE J. Caleb Boggs (R) John J. Williams (R) LOUISIANA Allen J. Ellender (D) Russell B. Long (D)* MAINE Edmund S. Muskie (D) Margaret Chase Smith (R) Thomas F. Eagleton (D)t Stuart Symington (D) MONTANA Mike Mansfield (D) Lee Metcalf (D) NEBRASKA Carl T. Curtis (R) Roman L. Hruska (R) NEVADA Alan Bible (D)* Howard W. Caimon (D) NEW HAMPSHIRE Thomas J. Mclntyre (D) Norris Cotton (R)* NEW JERSEY Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (D) Clifford P. Case (D) NEW MEXICO Clinton P. Anderson (D) Joseph M. Montoya (D) NEW YORK Charles E. Goodell (R) Jacob K. Javits (R)* NORTH CAROLINA Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (D)* B. Everett Jordan (D) Spessard L. Holland (D) ^ward J. Gurney (R)t MARYLAND Joseph D. Tydings (D) Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (R)t Quentin N. Burdick (D) Milton R. Young (R)* GEORGIA Richard B. Russell (D) Herman E. Talmadge (D)* MASSACHUSETTS Edward M. Kennedy (D) Edward W. Brooke (R) OHIO Stephen M. Young (D) William B. Saxbe (R)t FLORIDA HAWAH Daniel K. Inouye (D)* Hiram L. Feng (R) MICHIGAN Philip A. Hart (D) Robert P. Griffin (R) OREGON MINNESOTA Eugene J. McCarthy (D) Walter F. Mondale (D) NORTH DAKOTA OKLAHOMA Fred R. Harris (D) Henry Bellmon (R)t RHODE ISLAND John O. Pastore (D) Claiborne Pell (D) SOUTH CAROLINA Ernest F. Hollings (D)* Strom Thurmond (R) SOUTH DAKOTA George S. McGovern (D)* Karl E. Mundt (R) TENNESSEE Albert Gore (D) Howard H. Baker, Jr. (R) TEXAS Ralph W. Yarborough (D) John G. Tower (R) UTAH Frank E. Moss (D) Wallace F. Bennett (R)* VERMONT George D. Aiken (R)* Winston L. PI outy (R) VIRGINIA Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (D) William B. Spong, Jr. (D) WASHINGTON Henry M. Jackson (D) Warren G. Magnuson (D)* WEST VIRGINIA Robert C. Byrd (D) Jennings Randolph (D) WISCONSIN Gaylord A. Nelson (D)*" William Proxmire (D) WYOMING Gale W. McGee (D) Clifford P. Hansen (R) �SE,AFAREU^.LO(^ 235 More Areas Covered By Govt. Food Stamp Plan WASHINGTON—A major expansion of the federal govern­ ment's food stamp program was announced by Agriculture Sec­ retary Orville L. Freeman recently and a series of law suits has been filed in an effort to extend the program to hundreds of additional counties. Freeman said the addition of 235 areas in 31 states will add 290,(WO low-income persons to the food stamp eligibility roster— bringing the total to more than 3 million. Another 3.5 million persons are receiving surplus food under the department's Com­ modity Distribution Program. An increase in congressional appropriations for the food stamp program—the result of a legislative fight led by Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (D-Mo.)—enabled the Agriculture Depart­ ment to clean up the backlog of states and counties which had requested food stamp programs. Food stamps are sold to low-income individuals and families certified by county or state agencies at discounts based on income and family size. The poorest person can buy $12 worth of food stamps a month for 50 cents, but most families pay a higher percentage of the retail value. Suits to compel the Agriculture Department to provide either food stamps or free food distribution in an additional 500 coun­ ties have been filed by an anti-poverty legal agency—the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law at Columbia University. The suits are expected to provide a test of whether the Agri­ culture Department is correct in asserting that it cannot bring a food stamp program into a county without a request by the local government unless Congress changes the law. Direct dis­ tribution programs do not require local requests, however. The new additions will bring the food stamp program to some 1,550 counties and cities over the next few months. The food stamp program was first inaugurated as a pilot proj­ ect by President Kennedy early in 1961 and was established through legislation under President Johnson in 1964. LA. Herald-Examiner Strikers Urge Boycott of J. C. Penny 1 LOS ANGELES—As all out efforts by organized labor continue to win a strike-lockout at the Los Ahgeles Herald-Examiner which is now almost a year old, a call by the striking Unions' Joint StrikeLockout Council was issued last ^ other papers in the area. Even month for a boycott of the J. C. should these demands be granted Penney Company, whose adver­ in full, the Guild added, the re­ tising, the council says, has be­ sultant scale would still be $50 a come the major support of the week behind the New York Times scab-produced Hearst newspaper. and $40.75 a week behind the In a letter to officers of state Hearst paper in San Francisco. and local central bodies, President George Meany of the AFL-CIO^ asserted, "We believe that not even the smallest fraction of a un­ ion dollar should be spent for the support of strike-breakers, their employer or their sympathizers." J. C. Penney is one of the nation's largest mail-order catalog mer­ chandisers. It also has numerous NEW YORK —A dramatiza­ retail outlets. tion of fast-moving events follow­ The Hearst chain provoked a ing Franklin D. Roosevelt's ap­ strike of 1,100 members of the pointment of Frances Perkins as American Newspaper Guild and Secretary of Labor in depressionthe International Association of ridden 1933 will be presented on Machinists in December, 1967, the more than 100 NBC-TV stations council pointed out, after which Sunday, December 8. it locked out 900 other employees The play, entitled "The Vine represented by seven other Inter­ and the Fig Tree," gives a moving national unions, the Printers and account of Miss Perkins' unswayMailers, the Pressmen and Paper- able determination to meet the handlers, Engravers, Stereotypers, crushing plight of America's Building Service Employees, Elec­ workers head-on, and to help tricians and Teamsters. The paper ease it. is now being produced by a scab Written by Joseph Mindel, the workforce built around profes­ half-hour film was produced un­ sional strikebreakers. der the auspices of the George Since the strike-lockout began, Meany Foundation, an arm of the the management has repeatedly Herbert H. Lehman Institute. spurned mediation efforts by the The film will be incorporated into Federal Mediation Service, the the "Eternal Light" series, pre­ State of California and a media­ sented weekly by NBC and the tory committee set up by the Jewish Theological Seminary of mayor and the city council of Los America. Angeles. The unions have offered "The Vine and the Fig Tree" to submit all issues to arbitration. will be carried on the NBC-TV The Newspaper Guild points network at 12:30 p.m., EST. Lo­ out that its demands from the cal television schedules should be Herald-Examiner are the same as consulted for areas outside New it has won for its members at York City. Televism Drama Depicts Ordeais Of Early Thirties y--i • P«^e As 'Vital' to Nation's Sea Power WASHINGTON—The United States merchant marine was described last month as "one of the vital elements" of the nation's sea power by the Chief of Naval Operations, who also declared that there is an "awareness gap" on the part of the American public as to the "fantastic" sealift operation being conducted by American- ^ "It is our job to correct this— expands, and her commercial flag merchant ships which are dealings with the world expand, to make them apparent," Mcarer furnishing vital logistic support Soviet commercial and consular for this country's fighting forces penetration of the nations of the declared. "The Navy as always, will pro­ in Vietnam. world must also expand," he rea­ vide all the assistance it can to At the same time. Admiral soned. such an effort, for ours is a deep Thomas H. Moorer, USN, speak­ "The modem and growing Rus­ ing at a meeting of the Propeller sian fishing fleet also serves a and abiding interest in the wellClub here, was highly critical of strategic political function." being of the merchant marine." a twin "awareness gap"—^that of Updating Needed In U.S. the growing threat posed by the Admiral Moorer expressed the rapidly developing Soviet fleet and the strategic political function conviction that the American which it serves. merchant marine must not only "It is our responsibility to pro­ be rebuilt, but updated as well. vide approximately one ton of He pointed to some of the newer supplies—^per man, per mon*h— developments which are emerg­ for more than 500,000 U.S. and ing and advanced the thought allied troops in Vietnam," the Ad­ that "marrying the concept of DETROIT—A new three-year miral, who has recently returned containerization with nuclear pro­ contract recently signed by the from a tour in Vietnam, pointed pulsion or the gas turbine"—to SIU Great Lakes District with the out. "And my guess is that the the mutual benefit of all concerned Great Lakes Association of Ma­ average person more than likely —could unfold prospects which rine Operators is considered by the is under the impression that most "portend the brightest future in Union to be the "largest wage of the job has been done by air merchant marine history." He package ever negotiated for Great transport." added: Lakes seamen." "In the same sense, new devel­ Soviet Pro;:^m Surging The new agreement—agreed opments such as the surface effect The United States' top naval on just two days before an exten­ officer also declared that the So­ ship and the Catamaran Develop­ sion period of 30 days on the old viets—in contrast to the U.S.— ments should be kept in the public contract was to expire in Septem­ apparently have a real grasp of eye. The new hull forms and new the importance of sea power and means of propulsion—including ber—provides a general wage in­ are movihg rapidly in this direc­ gas turbines and water jet propul­ crease and improvements in fringe tion. He described the Russians sion—will have revolutionary ef­ benefit- estimated to be worth 99 as "surging forth with a maritime fects on both Naval strategy and cents an hour over the life of the program nothing short of miracu­ tactics and world shipping prac­ contract. tices and patterns. lous." Substantial Hike "The word 'excitement' attaches Scheduled to total 20 million Included within the major terms tons by 1980, the USSR's mer­ here unmistakably and if there is of the pact are direct raises of 62 Vi a better base for narrowing or chant fleet could raise that nation to a pre-eminent position on the eliminating the awareness gap, I cents an hour—spread over a three-year period—for wheelsmen, world's oceans by that date, he can't imagine what it is. oilers, conveyormen and others "Quite obviously I have used said. holding a top-rated classification. "These ships flying the red flag this most welcome opportunity to All rated men, such as watch­ do more than just transport suggest that we would do well in men, lookouts, firemen, etc., re­ cargo," the Admiral continued. revamping or renewing our ef­ ceived a total of 551/2 cents over forts to tell the whole sea power "Their's is a strategic function as the three years, and entry ratings story—to make Americans aware well. Soviet merchant ships now gained a total of 38Vi cents. of their stake in the oceans around visit 600 ports in over 90 differ­ In addition, the SIU Great ent countries—and never lose them. The merchant marine needs sight of the fact that at every port public support and only a well-in­ Lakes District's vacation fund will which a Russian merchant ship formed public can support it. As be increased, commencing with the visits, there must be some form Admiral Carney wrote, 'The fun­ 1969 sailing season. Pensions will of Russian trade organization and damental advantages and dangers also be increased following final of the sea are not so readily ap­ approval by the trustees of the Soviet consular representation. SIU Pension Plan. "As the USSR's merchant fleet parent.' 5IU Lakes Dist Okays'BestEver' 3-Year Centract New Wayne County AFL-CIO President Tom Turner, newly elected president of Wayne County AFL-CIO, of which the SIU Great Lakes District is a member, is congratulated by River Rouge Mayor John F. McEwan. Shown (l-r): Charles Younglove, director of Dist. 29 United Steelworkers of America, McEwan, Turner and Division President William Charron, Metropolitan Council 23. Turner was formerly a resident of River Rouge. r-^f:T7: �Decemlicr P«8*V^9SB^ Upton Sinclair Dead at 90| Champion of the Underdog While Anti-Union Charges Pending BOUND BROOK, NJ.—Upton Sinclair, who wrote 80 books, GENEVA, Switzeiiand—The International Labor Organization is refusing to provide technical 20 plays and a movie in a lifetime of fighting for the underdog, aid to the Greek government until it clears itself of charges of flouting trade union rights. All 48 worker, government and employer members of the United Nations specialized agency's died in a nursing home here at 90. Dragon's Teeth, a book about One award for literature from the Governing Body approved this ^ eases when exposed to it for any the 1970 ILO conference. the rise of Hitlerism, won the New York Newspaper Guild. stand at a session just concluded The workers lost by one vote, time, Moeri eloquently appealed Pulitzer Prize in 1943. Other here. He is survived by a son, David, 24-23, their demand that the prob­ for a second vote. widely read works included The physicist with the Atomic Energy It would "not be appropriate," lem of the health hazards arising Faupl Agrees Jungle, an expose of Chicago Commission in New York. the executive group said, to supply from the industrial use of benzine He was strongly supported by meat packing plants that led to the aid requested by Athens while be added to the agenda. In 1960 the AFL-CIO told the Rudolph Faupl, Machinists inter­ passage of the Pure Food and the complaints filed against it are Because workers run the risk Upton Sinclair Story in a series under investigation by the ILO. of leukemia and other blood dis- national representative, who Drug Act; the Brass Check, about of interviews by Harry W. Flanspeaks for the AFL-CIO as U.S. newspaper publishing abuses; Formal complaints were made worker delegate to the ILO. King Midas (1901); The Money nery broadcast over ABC radio according to ILO procedure by But the employer representa­ Changers (1908); King Coal stations. Called "As We See It," the worker delegates of West Ger­ tives staged a walkout rather than (1917); Jimmie Higgins (1919); the series was put on tape and still many, Canada, Denmark and permit the second vote that Oil (1927); No Pasaran (1937), on is being distributed to schools and Norway to last summer's fullcolleges by the AFL-CIO as a George L. P. Weaver, U.S. As­ the siege of Madrid. dress conference of the 117-nation sistant Secretary of Labor and Bom in Baltimore, Sinclair public service. agency. Flannery said in the first broad­ Governing Body chairman, was entered City College of New York They charged that the military cast: "Upton Sinclair was one of prepared to hold. in 1892, when he was 13, and regime that seized power in 1967 the great forces for social justice SAN FRANCISCO —The The employers asserted that began writing for Argosy maga­ had dissolved trade uniona and in America." SIUNA acquired its newest affil­ adding another item as technical zine a year later. He assisted in imprisoned their leaders in "fla­ His exposes of working con­ grant violation" of Greece's obli­ iate here last month with the char­ as that of benzine hazards would a government investigation of the gations to the ILO to guarantee tering of the Mortuary, Embalm- overload the conference. Never­ Chicago stockyards, founded the ditions in American industry led, freedom of association and trade ers and Allied Funeral Service theless, they subsequently gave as­ Helicon Home Colony at &igle- the interviews showed, to the Employee's Union. surances that they would support wood, N.J., in 1906, and in the growth of unions in meat pack­ union rights. SIUNA Vice President Frank putting the problem before the same year, launched the Intercol­ ing, coal, auto and other indus­ The Governing Body requested legiate Socialist Society and was tries. Drozak presented the charter on 1971 conference. the Greek government to reply by On the agenda of the 1970 con­ the Socialist candidate for Con­ Sinclair sent a copy of The behalf of the International to Hale January 15th to these charges in ference the Governing Body gress from New Jersey. Jungle to President Theodore Porter, business agent, and Presi­ order that it might decide at its added the questions of the rela­ Later he founded a movement Roosevelt, who appointed a com­ dent Bruce Bartram of the Emnext session in February whether tionship between trade union called End Poverty in California mission to investigate. The com­ to appoint a special committee to balmers. investigate them. The new affiliate now has only rights and civil liberties and the (EPIC); ran for the U.S. Senate missioners related their findings In related action the executive 90 members but a major organiz­ protection and facilities to be as­ and for governor in that state, to Sinclair, who dictated the story group expressed grave concern ing campaign will get underway sured trade union spokesmen in­ always as a protest candidate; to the New York Times before and helped found the California the report was made public. The over the arrest and sentencing to early next year. Once known as side plants. report went all over the world, Both items were strongly urged American Civil Liberties Union. a one-year jail term of Abdelkader the AFL-CIO Professional EmIn 1962 Sinclair won a Page Sinclair recalled on As We See It. Awab, Moroccan worker delegate balmers Union 9049, it was the by the worker delegates. to the last ILO conference, or gen­ last union on the West Coast di­ eral assembly. rectly affiliated with the federation and one of the few left in the Reprisal Action Atlantic, Gulf & Inland Waters District ! country. They had been granted The suspicion that the Moroc­ November 15 to November 28^ 1968 can government had acted against their original charter in 1901. Some time ago they decided to Awab because he had accused DKK DEPARTMENT it of "bloodthirsty repression" affiliate themselves with a larger TOTAL REGISTERED REGISTERED on BEACH TOTAL SHIPPED against trade unions in a speech union, since it was obvious that All Groups All Groups All Groups at the conference appeared "to they would need this kind of an Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C jeopardize the freedom of speech" affiliation to help them grow. Boston 8 2 9 10 2 1 2 102 81 all delegates were guaranteed, the After exploratory talks with nu­ New York 41 32 30 30 22 19 14 merous unions they found that the Philadelphia 7 8 3 5 3 Governing Body said. 42 85 15 15 15 15 11 Jean Moeri, veteran Swiss lead­ SIU could offer them the auton­ Baltimore Norfolk 31 13 7 4 11 8 12 er of the worker representatives, omous arrangement they were Jacksonville 15 21 9 9 3 13 3 11 16 6 9 bluntly termed the Moroccan gov­ looking for. While the SIU will Tampa 3 2 5 61 85 17 17 2 21 22 ernment's action a "blatant viola­ assist them in organizing, they Mobile New Orleans ..... 127 80 37 27 0 25 21 will remain an autonomous local tion of trade union rights." Houston 118 114 30 26 23 4 22 The executive unit called on the within the SIUNA. 36 0 Wilmington 25 18 20 20 19 39 12 69 27 37 60 42 Moroccan authorities to explain The Embalmers hope to grow San Francisco ... 36 4 9 9 14 8 11 the circumstances surrounding the quickly. Mortuary workers are a Seattle 449 672 Totals 240 245 213 113 251 jailing of the labor leader. relatively untouch^ group from a While worker, employer and union organizing viewpoint. There ENGINE DEPARTMENT government spokesmen were are over 4,000 potential members REGISTERED on BEACH TOTAL REGISTERED unanimous in defense of human in California alone, and the Em-* TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups _ - 9 All Groups and trade union rights, they split balmers hope to have at least 1,200 Port CitassA <:;iass6 Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C over the issue of the agenda of new members by next year. SlUNA Charters Mortuary Union On West Coast -JL.. Receiving charter as latest SIUNA affiliate from Frank Drozak, SIUNA Vice-President (left) is Hale Porter (center) business agent of west coast Embalmers Union end Union's President Bruce Bartram. Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals 6 29 6 10 6 5 2 15 20 15 7 44 19 184 3 61 5 13 14 14 6 18 28 28 16 46 13 265 6 23 4 11 9 4 7 14 10 20 9 38 15 170 2 48 7 14 12 3 7 20 29 36 16 46 9 249 7 15 2 5 5 2 0 2 3 13 21 41 17 133 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED AH Groups AH Group Class A Class B Port Class A Class B Class C 2 2 1 5 2 Boston 20 11 34 New York 53 21 1 4 5 Philadelphia 8 5 14 10 0 Baltimore 10 10 Norfolk 5 2 7 8 4 Jacksonville 4 5 2 4 7 Tampa 5 5 2 4 2 ftlobile ft 17 11 13 6 11 New Orleans ft ft ft ft ft 19 16 12 5 27 Houston 19 16 33 30 13 Wilmington ... ft ft 7 10 11 9 14 59 29 25 San Francisco ... 64 31 r» 8 19 6 8 Seattle 19(« 140 204 164 131 Totals _ 1 68 13 42 12 11 7 39 77 48 15 35 27 395 1 110 10 41 17 22 10 24 87 71 0 12 3 408 REGISTERED on BEACH AH Groups Class A Class B 4 1 46 44 18 13 47 62 20 11 6 8 6 17 44 21 104 46 73 37 19 0 29 23 20 3 460 262 H •/ �DMember 6, 1968 PageoS^vMlii^ Cohen Urges Nixon Action To Increase Social Security Drivers Seat Mich—The new Nixon Administration will have Wr!. ^ r make on social security. And the outgoing ^ and Welfare, Wilbur J. Cohen, is leaving behind some suggestions—and some policy questions to be resolved. Speaki^ at a recent University of Michigan confer ice on social security, Cohen urged a general increase of 50 percent in benefits, in­ cluding a $100-a-month minimum in social security payments. "We may not be able to do this all at once," he commented, "but the first step should be a 15-percent across-the-board benefit increase, with an increase in the minimum monthly benefit to $70 for a single retired worker or widow and to $105 for a couple." Cohen, a professor of social welfare administration at the university, has l^en on leave since 1961 to serve in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He told the 90 social security experts from government, labor, busi­ ness and education that Nixon—despite entering office while the op­ position party controls Congress—will have "a unique opportunity to continue the progress that has been made" in the past eight years. Q)hen anticipates disputes over social security improvements. "There will always be some people," he noted, "who say: 'It costs too much.' 'It adds to inflation.' 'It will bankrupt the country.' 'It will destroy thrift and private initiative.' 'It will take us down the road to socialism.' " "We should know these arguments well by now. We have heard them for the past 30 years. But I don't think they'll stand up as well in the future, because we are gradually moving toward a society which wants greater economic and social justice." Cohen suggested immediate, action in three areas: • Creation of a new mechanism to "keep the system up to date with rising wages and to make the benefits inflation-proof." • An increase in the amount of earnings counted under social secur­ ity—in stages up to $15,000—"to make the program more effective for those who earn somewhat above the average as well as for average and below-average earners." • Expanded medicare protections "against the heavy cost of pre­ scription drugs." TTie outgoing HEW secretary also listed several dozen questions on social security facing the Nixon Administration. Among them; • Should medicare protection be extended to the disabled? • Should some kind of health insurance be provided for young children of poor families? • What should be the balance between social adequacy and indi­ vidual equity in social security protection? • How far should the program go in preventing and reducing pov­ erty? On the poverty question, Cohen pointed out that social security is already keeping 10 million Americans above the poverty line and that a $100 monthly minimum would lift 4.4 million more above it. Dr. Morris Brand, 61, medical director of the Sidney Hillman Health Center of the New York Joint Board of the Clothing Work­ ers, died in a New York hospital recently following a heart attack. He was stricken while attending a medical conference dealing with community health services, held in connection with the program of the New York Consumer As­ sembly. Dr. Brand was a recog­ nized authority on union medical care programs and the author of many articles and papers in pro­ fessional journals. At one time he wrote a column for the AFL-CIO ' News. * * * The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a Virginia power tool firm to give the Steelworkers a dues checkoff in a con­ tract the union has been trying to get for five years from H. K. Por­ ter, Inc., Danville. The order, invoking powers the NLRB rarely used, directs management to bar­ gain collectively with the union, to embody any imderstanding that may be reached into a signed con­ tract, and to include a clause per­ mitting members to have their union dues deducted from their pay. Two previous NLRB orders in 1964 and 1965, enforced by two U.Sr courts of appeals in 1964 and 1966, failed to produce good- faith bargaining by management of the Danville plant. • • • The Nashua, N. H., Teachers Union has won bargaining rights from the Nashua Education Asso­ ciation in an election among 408 public school teachers. The vote was 220 for the union, 163 for the association, which had rep­ resented teachers for two years. The victory over the National Education Association affiliate was the third for the Teachers in a month. On Long Island, the Farmingdale, N.Y., Classroom Teachers Association, represent­ ing more than 600 teachers, voted to affiliate with the AFT and was chartered as Local 1889. Re­ cently a 950-teacher unit at War­ wick, R.I., voted 415-358 for union affiliation. * * * The biggest single round of im­ provements in the history of Ar­ kansas' workmen's compensation law has been certified as enacted. The secretary of state's office has tabulated the labor-sponsored ini­ tiative in the November 5 elec­ tion as carrying by a margin of 7,545 votes—252,506 for, 244,961 against. The measure, fought by employers, amends the law to provide substantial new benefits and removes some present restric­ tions on claims. It becomes effec­ tive December 18. As the last glimmer of hope disappears for the 78 miners entombed in Consoli­ dated Coal Mine No. 9 in Farmington, W. Va., and the tear-streaked faces of their wives and children turn away for the last time to mourn alone—away from the crowds and the newspaper headlines and the reporters— what now? Does it have to happen again? Only if we become complacent and don't care. Only if the owners of these subter­ ranean death-traps can get away with ex­ pressing their careful regrets for a terrible catastrophe they could have prevented if they put safety first—or were forced to do so. This is not so much a catastrophe as it is a crime. A crime, unfortunately for which nobody pays—except the men who are forced to labor in these death-traps, and their poor survivors. If mines can't be made safe or their own­ ers won't make them safe—^they should be closed. No price, no commodity, no profit is more important than human lives and this fact must finally be recognized once and for all. Something is terribly wrong when we have to wait for a major disaster to hit before we start taking measures that should have been taken long ago. In this instance, Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.), claims that enforcement of exist­ ing laws and regulations by the Bureau of Mines would have made this most recent explosion "foreseeable and preventable." He charged that the bureau's inspectors had long been whitewashing safety violations and that repeated violations at the Consolidated mine had gone unpunished and ignored. Yet "no mine closure penalties were ever in­ voked," he declared. The Bureau itself has opposed and conse­ quently delayed action on a mine safety bill supported by the Johnson administration—a bill which would have imposed civil and criminal penalties and fines of up to $1,000 a day for "continued and repeat^ mine vio­ lations." It never even got to the hearing stage. Somewhat belatedly. Secretary of the In­ terior Stewart L. Udall has called for a public "emergency conference on mine safety re­ forms." All of this comes under the heading of: "Too bad!—now let's do something." It might be salutary to see the faces of the bereaved families while this old tune is being played. The current tragedy evoked an outcry from Dr. I. E. Buff, of the West Virginia Air Pollution Central Commission: "Why should we mine coal with the me­ chanical facilities of the 20th Century and the health facilities of the 18th Century? Is there no value for human life or are we so unconcerned that we say, as some have— 'These people know it is dangerous, so they must take their own risk'." A coal miner has every ri^t to enter a coal mine without signing his own death warrant. The situation demands immediate correction—^not talk—both in passage of adequate safety regulations early in the next Congress and by whatever shake-up is neces­ sary to make it clear to the Bureau of Mines that its primary obligation is the protection for the workers—not continued profits as usual for the mining industry. �Page fefghr December 6, 19i9e rsin/ SEAFARERS tOG United Farm Workers S^re Gains In Contract With California Grower SIUNA Trinidad AfflKate Marks 30th AnniversaiY PORT-OF-SPAIN, TrinMad—The SIUNA-Affiliated Seamen STOCKTON, CaUf.—^The AFL-CIO's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, after near­ and Waterfront Workers Trade Union celebrated its 30th anni­ ly a year of tough negotiations, has signed up another employer of vineyard workers in the rich versary here last week. San Joaquin Valley. In a message of congratulations to the Union, which repre­ UFWOC's newest contract, ^ Included among the contract's Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (Dsents seamen and allied workers in Trinidad and Tobago, SIUNA miming for 20 months, brings Mass.) was honorary chairman of many other benefits are three days President Paul Hall extended "warm greetings and a continuing important wage gains and new the benefit committee. pledge of solidarity on behalf of the Seafarers International Un­ pay in case of death in the im­ benehts to field workers employed The Franzia contract provides mediate family, maintenance of ion of North America, AFL-CIO ... in commemoration of by Franzia Brothers Winery of for a full union shop and dues your organization's 30th Anniversary on November 30, 1968. Ripon, Calif. It hires about 350 checkoff, a union hiring hall, paid seniority in the case of military "Our relationship of long standing, which is based on the service, maintenance of pay for such employees at the peak of the holidays and vacations, grievance common concerns and interests shared by seamen and water­ harvest season. and arbitration procedures and jury duty and relief periods dur­ front workers all over the world, has produced a sincere trade ing working hours. The pact, signed by UFWOC many other benefits. union friendship and understanding that we are confident will Director Cesar Chavez, is the While many of the pact's pro­ Workers will be covered by a exist for many years to come. latest in a series of agreements Special Benefits Fund the union visions deal with benefits and con­ "We salute your officers and members on this special occa­ won by the union since its initial has negotiated with other employ­ ditions industrial workers have sion. You may be assured of the goodwill and continued support breakthrough at Schenley Dis­ ers. The company will pay 10 had for many years, these are of the Seafarers International Union and its affiliates in the tillers in April 1966. cents an hour for every hour achievements just now being made never-ending battle to improve the economic security and wellThe Franzia contract provides worked into the fund, which fi­ for farm workers. being of all trade union members and their families." pay ranges of $1.90 to $2.55 an nances a comprehensive health The contract has been the sub­ At the SWWTU's annual conference of delegates recently, hour, amounting to an average and welfare program. ject of negotiations that got under­ Clive R. W. Spencer, Alfred Grant and Basil J. Douglas were 40-cent increase for workers cov­ The pact specifies that all cov­ way in January. Chief negotia­ elected to the respective posts of first, second and third vice ered. In addition, each classifi­ ered employees shall join the un­ presidents. It was also announced by the Union's Secretary Gen­ tors for the union were Delores cation receives a 10-cent increase ion and remain in good standing eral George Munroe that Vernon Glenn, Ralph Charles, Lloyd Huerta and Mack Lyons, assisted in the second year of the pact. as a condition of employment Williams and Bentley Bougouneau were nominated as assistant Although the employer delayed within 30 days of contract signing by Irwin De Shelter of the AFLgrievance secretaries. its signing of the pact until only or after 10 days of work. A vol­ CIO Department of Organization. recently, the wage increases are untary checkoff is included. retroactive to Aug. 28, 1968, Must Call Union First when the union first agreed to Victory for Rail Unions The employer is bound to call terms. The agreement continues on the union first when he re­ until April 18, 1970. quires any additional employees Boycott Continnes to perform work covered by the In other farm union develop­ contract. ments, citizens groups in major The union and the company cities have stepped up activities to will establish a joint safety com­ support the boycott of California mittee to consider present rules grapes—and aid the union recog­ on safety, work out safety im­ WASHINGTON—The constitutionality of state-enacted "full crew" laws, which regulate the nition drive. provements and make recommen­ A committee of prominent dations regarding safety to local minimum size of freight train crews, has been upheld by a 7-to-l decision of the U.S. Supreme New Yorkers staged a two-day managements on Franzia's ranch­ Court. pre-Thanksgiving "demonstration es and farms. The majority opinion, written and the proceedings offered "noth­ • Upheld a $305,000 damage of concern for exploited agricul­ The pact requires the employer by Justice Hugo L. Black in a ing new" in this area. award to a Long Island Railroad tural workers who put food on to provide "suitable, cool, drink­ case involving two Arkansas As to the court's findings ithat worker who Suffered a' severely America's tables but are not paid ing water convenient to emplpy- laws, amounts to a clear defeat for enough to feed their own fam­ ees," adequate first aid supplies, railroad managements who have safety was not involved, he noted crushed right foot when a railroad that the unions and the state pre­ ilies." safety equipment and protective been trying to knock out the laws sented evidence that the six-man tie fell on him. This 7-to-2 deci­ A day of picketing stores garments necessary to safeguard through legal action. sion reversed a lower court deci­ crews were needed because of the carrying California grapes was health and prevent injury. Four other states have union- increasing size and speed of sion, which had tried to reduce followed on November 23 by a The company also is mandated backed safe crew laws—^New trains, and congested switching the amount of an award under the day designated as "a period of to furnish adequate toilet facilities York, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indi­ Federal Employers Liability Act areas. fasting and silent protest." in the field, readily accessible to ana. Unable to convince legis­ • Held, by 6 to 3, that under Exceeds Autiioiity In the nation's capital, a wom­ workers in the field and main­ latures to repeal the laws, rail­ the Federal Arbitration Act an en's "boycott support" luncheon tained in a clean and sanitary roads have turned to the courts. But his main thrust was that the arbitration award must be reversed was held to hear Delores Huerta, manner. decision on "full crew" laws The Arkansas laws, requiring if it is subsequently discovered that with a number of well-known The contract sets up a seniority six-man crews on over-the-road should be left to legislatures or Washington leaders among the rule based upon an employee's collective bargaining. The lower an arbitrator had dealings with one and switching trains, were at­ sponsors. length of service from the date of tacked by six railroads and de­ court, he said, "indulged in a leg­ of the parties involved. This, too, Other activities include a Car­ his hiring. When filling vacancies, fended by the State of Arkansas islative judgment wholly beyond was a reversal of a lower court negie Hall benefit performance in making transfers or recalling from and four unions: Firemen and En- its limited authority . . ." decision. Justice William O. Douglas, New York City on the night of layoff, the employer will give pref­ ginemen. Trainmen, Switchmen • Announced that it would dissenting, agreed that the lower December 4, with well-known en­ erence to workers with the great­ and Conductors and Brakemen. court was wrong on the constitu­ consider whether the House of tertainers donating their talents. est seniority. The railroads complained that tional issues but maintained that Representatives acted unconstitu­ the laws violated their rights un­ the arbitration award superseded tionally when it barred Adam der the "due process" and "equal state "full crew" laws. Clayton Powell from his seat in Puerto Rico Bound protection" clauses of the consti­ In other decisions, the Supreme the 90th Congress for "gross mis­ tution, as well as a clause pro­ Court: conduct." tecting commerce. The railroads also contended that a 1963 compulsory arbitra­ SlU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS tion award on train and engine crews pre-empted the Arkansas October 1-Ocfober 31, 1968 laws, and it was on this basis that Number of Amount a federal district court threw out Benefits Paid the state laws in 1964. State-Enacted 'Safe Crew' Rulings Upheld 7-1 By U.S. Supreme Court ' Joe Orsini watches dispatcher Ted Bablcowsici fill out a shipping card for him in New York hall. Brother Orsini took a job on the Mayaguez, running to Puerto Rico. A native of York, Pennsylva­ nia, he sails in the engine department and joined Union in 1967. Hospital Benefits (Welfare) ... 3,769 Unions Appealed However, the unions appealed ' Death Benefits (Welfare) 32 and the Supreme Court reversed Disability Benefits (Welfare) .. 1,230 the lower court on these grounds, Maternity Benefits (Welfare) .. 43 sending the case back for further Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . 540 hearings on the constitutional (Average: $202.94) issue. 512 The lower court then threw out Optical Benefits (Welfare) ... Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) 4,643 the laws on the constitutional grounds and also found that the SUMMARY (Welfare) 10,769 laws had "no substantial effect on Vacation Benefits 1,698 safety of operations." (Average: $403.67) In again reversing the lower court. Black noted that the Su­ Total Welfare, Vacation preme Court had in 1911, 1916 Benefits Paid This Period 19.4A7 and 1931 upheld the Arkansas law on a constitutional challenge $ 41,648.90 71,073.98 2,754.75 8,600.00 109,585.38 •V V e # / > V . h - - 7,727.14 36,986.25 278,376.40 685,437.16 i_2Sd!i2S . * / k V �, JWnlMr 6, 1968p,..„ SEAFARERS LOG Page Nintf • ,. :• . - ...f -T , Ultra-modern equipment for locating fish is shown above. Photo at left shows Cap­ tain James Aclcert, SlUNA vice president and skipper of the new vessel, at helm. %!' •' r-x "v; Seofreeze Atlantic NEW HOPE y FOR U. FISHERMEN Decked out in flags and bunting, the Seafreeze Atlantic waits to be launched. She will op­ erate out of Gloucester, Mass., fishing Grand Banks and Laborador for cod and other fish. "^1 ! I P RIMl IIVE MAN was not bora to a world of mechanization. His technological gadgetry was confined to the limbs which extended from his torso and the brain which propelled them. Equipped only with his hands and his imagination, he devised a variety of methods to entrap his prey. Finding through trial and error that his hands had limited usage in his quest for fish and game, he put his imagination to work and contrived to lure and cap­ ture this elusive prey through artificial means. By honing a piece of bone, wood or shell to a fine edge, he fashioned the first fishhook, called a gorge. Concealed from view by a suitable bait, the gorge was secured to a hand line and lowered to the depths of lake or stream. When an unwary fish swallowed the tempt­ ing morsel, the line was pulled tight, lodging the gorge crosswise in the fish's gullet. When man later solved the problem of staying afioat by constructing the first crude waterborne craft, his quest for food from the sea extended beyond the boundaries of his natural environment. To counteract the fickle tidal currents and wind patterns that played havoc with his mission, he fashioned shards of wood to serve as oars and paddles. The introduction of sails, which enveloped the winds and provided the thrust for great voyages across the sea, provided man with a suitable vehicle to plunder the vast store of marine life that lurked in the depths of die ocean. Emerging from the age of oar and sail were the leg­ endary figures whose lust for the sea and its treasures often resulted in death for bold captains and their crews. As man extended his travels in search for the riches of the sea, he encountered species of marine life that he was not prepared to cope with. Their patterns of migration, along with feeding and spawning habits, were a matter of guesswork. Months were often spent in tracking the fish and even when a productive lode was struck, many valuable species eluded the clumsy, early fishing devices. It soon became apparent to those who earned their living from the sea that great commercial rewards lay ahead for those who returned with the greatest catch. Men who had endured nature's severest tests turned to science as a new ally in their fight to overcome the savage environment that provided their livelihood. / Ocean currents and depths were charted, marine specimens were categorized and catalogued, patterns of migration and spawning were studied and methods of catch preservation were developed. With the advent of the twentieth century, fishing had come a long way from the primitive gorge. Fishing grounds were plotted with a jeweler's accuracy. Meth­ ods of capture had improved immensely and a wealth of scientific material was available to the captain of a fishing vessel. The major nations of the world became acutely aware of the need for a competitive fishing fleet. The sea was truly capable of feeding the world's billions and the emergence of a conflicting world ideology in 1917 brought fish out of the marketplace and into the international arena. And then, in the 1950's, Nikita Khrushchev told the world that the Soviet Union would bury the U.S. Not by military might he claimed, but by a steady application of Soviet economic pressure which would ultimately result in the economic annihilation of the U.S. Occasionally the Soviet Union relies on a brandish­ ing of arms to make their point, but the meticulous attention that they have given to the maintenance of a modern fishing fleet is a more efficient barometer for assessing their cold war tactics. And now, in the year 1968, we see the Soviet Union with a fishing fleet of modem factory ships capable of great range and efficiency—^vessels equipped with the most sophisticated equipment for fish-finding, preser­ vation and storage. The construction of these vessels has enabled the Soviet Union to circle the globe in its search for lucra­ tive fishing grounds. The emergence of this fleet of modern fishing trawl­ ers has put the U.S. in the poor competitive condition that was envisioned by Khrushchev. The condition of the U.S. fleet, for the most part outmoded and in­ efficient, can be compared to a situation in which the Soviets operate sleek new limousines while America still sputters along in a Model T. However, a significant first step in upgrading the U.S. fishing fleet and improving its competitive posi­ tion with vessels operating under foreign flags was taken this year with the construction of two modern factory trawlers by American Stem Trawlers Inc. The vessels, dubbed the Seafreeze Atlantic and the Seafreeze Pacific and costing $5.3 million each, were built with the aid of a 50-percent constmction differ­ ential subsidy provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Fishing Fleet Improvement Act. The 297 foot Seafreeze Atlantic will be under the command of Captain James Ackert, President of the SIUNA-affiliated Atlantic Fisherman's Union. Ackert is taking a leave of absence from the Union to become master of the vessel. The Seafreeze Atlantic will operate out of a New England port and will seek to harvest the fishing grounds off the Grand Banks and Labrador. Through the application of an advanced stabilizing system, the Seafreeze Atlantic will be able to operate in any weather short of a hurricane. Sophisticated sonar and sounding equipment located in her wheelhouse will enable the vessel to locate schools of fish and detect bottom obstmctions, thus decreasing substantially the amount of time wasted in the search of fish. Advanced instmments record and feed their infor­ mation to master control consoles in the wheelhouse which give the Captain of the vessel minute=to-minute reports on the progress of operations. An elevated control station enables the winch oper­ ator to have an unobstmcted view of the trawl, each winch drum and the entire fishing deck. The factory equipment on board will enable the crew to make maximum use of their harvest from the sea. Inedible, or trash fish and waste from the clean­ ing process will be converted to fish meal and valuable fish oils can be extracted right on board the vessel. With the use of this modem equipment the crew will also be able to clean, freeze and filet the fish in a matter of hours. The advanced stabilizing system min­ imizes any severe rolling and pitching of the vessel and thus provides greater comfort for members of the crew who work on the assembly line. Upon completion of processing, the packaged fish will be placed in refrigerated holds that will preserve the fish at a temperature of minus 20 degrees Fahr­ enheit. This combination of skilled manpower and advanced technology enables the Seafreeze Atlantic to process two million pounds of fish on a single voyage. With a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, the Atlantic Seafreeze is powered by a 3,200-horsepower diesel elef 'ric system, with a design speed of 14.4 knots. Quarters for the 56 officers and crewmembers are completely air-conditioned and consist mostly of single berth cabins. �SEAFARERS LOG December 6, 1968 HIXIM' SlSDLCR The Transwestern (Hudson Water­ ways) pald-off In Bayonne, N, J., recently following a long trip to European ports. Among countries visited were England, Germany, Holland and Belgium. During the pay-off. Seafarers reported that the Transwestern was scheduled to take a general cargo to Italy, Spain, Turkey and Morocco on Its next voyage. Hi- ^^r®^*2S*^JSRSirR?- 'I Jl" 1 -•' -. 'W if m'i 3 f ' anc off Bruce ^"'^^VV^'n^essroom. AB. Hetties. The men rep ;aai smooth Phil Pron of steward department helps himself to pie and coffee. He joined the Union in 1946, Port of New York. n^ - -iim At left, John Steeber, deck dept. |||s^ (center) and W. McAlliston, engine dept., talk with Rep. Leon Hall. ' V-"' WiM .. 't?'r V • AB Dan Welch talks with Leon Hall| as D. Nettles fills out papers (right). f Welch joined SlU in Wilmington. mmii m Ufe-;'] Louis Arena shows radio purchased i ; in Bremerhaven. Born in New Or>leans, he joined the Union in 1941. Iv :x^ V 'V'. / SlU Rep. Pete Drewes (left) mulls over a question from Dave Nettles. Dave sails as second electrician. i- ii.f.'vv 'XXi.ii-i- �8iK?J .•> i^maMQ D<«Biiilief 6f I960— ;»« > h .1 h tv H t b • -SW1^:<-R-Eir5-Xt>tr SlU Polls Committee in San Juan Page Eleven Jtemes Shipping Code To Match Needs of Crowing Fleet WASHINGTON—As the size of its fleet increases, the Soviet Union is feeling its oats and flexing its muscle in its new role as a major world maritime power. One of the most recent manifestations of this is the adoption by the Soviets of a new shipping code reflecting the importance with which they view such a role. As ex- ^ plained by Victor Bakayev, So­ ment and introduced October 1, serve as the legislative foundation viet Minister of Merchant Ma­ according to Moscow's Novosti and instrument in carrying out rine, the new government policy, Press Agency, which also reported this policy, which determines the code's particular importance for among other things, contains no the Kremlin offlcial's remarks. the U.S.S.R's entire national econ­ Among the Leaders restrictions on the shipment of omy, for Soviet foreign trade, and export or import cargoes on for­ "The new code, above all, "Ba­ for the development of the Soviet eign vessels—^provided "reciprocal kayev declared, "reflects the fact Union's world economic rela­ terms" are recognized for Russian- that the U.S.S.R. today ranks tions." flag vessels. among the first countries in the Bakayev said the code provides Taking cognizance of the tre­ world, not only in tonnage and that "shipping and tugging be­ mendous growth of the Soviet fleet number of sea vessels, but also in tween ports of the U.S.S.R. and since 1929, the new regulations the scope of shipping, fi^ and foreign ports may be carried out make fundamental changes in sea-product catch, and for the both by vessels sailing under the comparison with the former Mer­ scale and value of research in state flag of the U.S.S.R. and, Polls Committee In San Juan hall oversees brisk voting in SlU elec­ chant Shipping Code adopted at seas and oceans. on conditions of reciprocal terms, tion which began Nov. I in all A&G ports. From left Luis Rivera, that time. The revised document "The new Merchant Sea Ship­ by vessels sailing under a foreign Ramon Ayala, Felix Martinez. Balloting will continue through Dec. 31. was decreed by the Soviet Parlia­ ping Code of the U.S.S.R. is to flag." As a result of the Soviets' role as a participant in international multilateral agreements and trea­ ties on maritime law, regulations in line with such agreements are also included in the new code, he added. Responsibility Cited By Sidney Margoiius Among such rules are sections WASHINGTON—The Nation­ steep as we still had to pay $1.25 for each office Older people who have Medicare benefits are which commit ships' captains to al Safety Council has been accused visit, and proportionately more for other services," about to be hit with another increase in the portion render assistance to vessels and of helping to kill legislation de­ he reports. "When Medicare came in, we con­ of the bill they pay. Beginning in January, an older people in distress at sea, in ac­ signed to reduce on-the-job acci­ sidered dropping Ross-Loos but decided to keep it person who goes to the hospital under Medicare cordance with the 1958 Geneva dents. The charge was made this a while longer and see what would happen. will have to pay the first $44,'instead of the $40 Convention on Open Sea. The ma­ month by Esther Peterson, assist­ they pay now. "We did see. All medical services went through jor standards of the Brussels con­ ant secretary of labor. Moreover, the amounts that Medicare bene­ the ceiling, and a cash outlay of $50 a year plus ventions which cover responsibility "As a result, 55 workers will ficiaries contribute for long hospital stays will be 20 percent of all doctor bills at toe "'s prices (the for the collision of vessels and continue to lose their lives on the increased 10 percent. The $10 a day paid by bene­ Part B deductible) is a lot of money. In May my rewards for rescue at sea are also job today, as every work day; ficiaries for the 61st through 90th day will be in­ wife had to undergo surgery. The hospital charged included, Bakayfiv explained. over 8,000 will continue to be dis­ creased to $11. The $5 a day paid for the 20th $42 a day for three days, not counting incidental Other changes from the pre­ abled — some permanently — and to 100th day of a stay in a post-hospital extendedexpenses. Ross-Loos paid every penny. vious code include much stronger over 27,000 will continue to be care facility—approved nursing home—now be­ "Six weeks later I had to go to the hospital for provisions for the liability of a injured on the job." comes $5.50. ten days at $48, the new price. The anesthetist ship captain in property claims Speaking to the council's labor The new increases in Medicare come on top of alone sent me a bill for $92. Ross-Loos paid all arising under his control. section, Mrs. Peterson was directly a recent increase in the monthly fee retired people costs except $37 for a private nurse the night referring to the proposed General pay for Part B—which helps to pay for doctor after my operation. Furthermore, Ross-Loos re­ Occupational Health and Safety bills. This now is $4 a month compared to the duced our fee to $16 a month after Medicare Act of 1968. The measure, ap­ original $3. started." proved by the House Education The larger deductibles and Part B fee have been So take a tip from this forward-thinking man and Labor Committee, was never caused by the accelerated rise in health-care costs who educated two children on a skilled worker's brought up for a vote in either in general during the past two years and by greater wage, and carefully prepared for his and his wife's the House or the Senate during use of Medicare than was expected. In general, retirement needs. If you belong to such a plan, the life of the 90th Congress. health-care costs have jumped about ISVz percent stick with it. Or if you can get into one before The council was scheduled to in the past two years. This past year alone, hos­ retirement, this is the really secure way to supple­ WASHINGTON — Coastwise testify in support of the bill, Mrs. pital fees have gone up about 15 percent and ment Medicare. sea lanes have been established in Peterson stated, but had failed to medical services, about 8 percent. Unfortunately, group-care plans are not yet in Southern California from Point appear. operation in all cities. Nor are individuals always Further increases in Medicare fees can be ex­ Conception through the Santa Bar­ eligible to join. Some take only large groups. pected as medical costs continue their inevitable bara Channel to Santa Monica Some labor unions already have their own climb under the present disorganized state of Bay. The United States Coast health centers which provide supplementary cov­ health care. The law requires the Social Security Guard announced that the new erage for retired workers. And while communityAdministration to review the hospital deductible sea lanes will become effective on wide group-care plans are not available every­ and doctor-bill payments periodically, and adjust January 1, 1969. where, more are being developed all the time by them as necessary. Safe passage through areas of unions and cooperatives. Despite the increases Medicare has proved to be potential oil exploration will be Among the larger ones are the Kaiser Foun­ of enormous value to older people. The average provided by the plan, which also dation plans in California, Oregon and Hawaii; hospital stay for a Medicare beneficiary has been seeks to minimize risk of col­ Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York; the costing about $600, with Medicare paying most lisions. Similar plans are already Roman Catholic bishops of Group Health plans in Washington, D.C. and of it. in operation in New York, Dela­ the United States have issued Seattle; Community Health Association, Detroit; In fact, the program has made it possible for ware Bay and San Francisco. a call for better minimum AFL Medical Service Plan, Philadelphia; Com­ at least some older people to get hospital care, or The sea lane concept is to the wage guarantees, unemploy­ munity Health Foundation, Cleveland; Group more extended care, than otherwise would have ocean-going vessel, what the di­ ment benefits and the right to Health Center, St. Paul; Union Health Service, been possible. The number of people over 65 get­ vided highway is to the auto­ union recognition for farm Chicago; San Diego Health Association, and ting hospital care increased to about 200 of every mobile. Each channel is actually workers. others in Long Beach, New Haven, Birmingham, 1,000 in 1967 from about 180 the year before. two lanes—each one mile wide— The bishops included the Minnesota, Oklahoma and other areas. But the relentless jumps in medical costs, while with a traffic flow in opposite di­ California grape dispute in While your wife can't be covered by Medicare they hit young families too, are especially critical rections which is. separated by a their church policy statement until she too is 65, one question that often arises for retirees. Their incomes usually are fixed, and "buffer" zone two miles wide. without mentioning it specifi­ concerns a wife of 65, who does not have her they have already been subject to heavy rent in­ The overall plan calls for a cally. own social security credits and whose husband is creases in a number of cities this year. system of coastwise lanes extend­ The National Conference younger than she is. In this case, when the hus­ ing from Point Conception to San Older people who belong to a groujj-practice of Catholic Bishops said farm band reaches 62 he should register for social Diego and linking the ports of comprehensive health-care plan are finding that workers long have been bur­ security even though he plans to keep on working. Los Angeles-Long Beach, Port this kind of plan is a lifesaver for providing the dened by low wages, poor The wife then would be eligible for Medicare Hueneme and San Diego. The additional services and expenses not covered by housing, inadequate educa­ Part A (hospital) coverage even though neither basic charts of this area. Point Medicare. tion and increasing health would be getting social security payments while Dume and Purisima Point (Coast problems. The bishops called the husband continues to work. One retired worker, who has kept in touch with and Geodetic Survey Chart No. There is no problem about Part B (doctor-bill their plight tragic. us since even before retirement, tells how such a 5202) and San Diego to Santa They urged protection for coverage). A wife can sign up for it and pay the plan is helping him. He and his wife joined the Rosa Island (Chart No. 5101) are $4 a month when she becomes 65 whether or farm employees under the; Ross-Loos Medical Group in California as indi­ scheduled for reprinting by Janu­ not her husband applies for social security and National Labor Relations Act. viduals in 1950. "We received excellent care but ary, 1969. even if he is not yet 62. we thought the monthly fee of $22 was a little Death of Key Bill Laid to Inactivity Of Safety Council YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH Seafarer's Guide to Better Buying Coast Guard Sets Firm Sea Lanes For Calif. Coast Catholic Bishops Back Protection Of Farm Workers �World War II Torpedo Sinkings Reralled by Seafarer Hagh Williams k Seafarer Hugh Williams has had many memorable and interesting voyages during his 44 years at sea, including having two vessels torpedoed out from under him during World War II. The second of those incidents provided Brother Williams with a unique experience that he still finds difficult to believe—one in which a German U-boat captain was a U.S. citizen. Twenty-five years later he related his story to a LOG reporter in the New York hall shortly after his retirement recently on an SIU pension. It was in July of 1943, Wil­ liams recalled, and he was sailing in the engine department of the Mobilfuel—a vessel in the Soconia fleet "We were 344 miles Southeast of Puerto Rico, heading for Aruba. The German subma­ rine attacked us about 10 a.m. and we were sunk, but no one was killed. The whole crew escaped in four lifeboats and managed to stay close to each other in the water," he said. "During the three days and nights we were in the water," Williams explained, "the German sub that sank us would surface and we could hear the ominous sound of her diesel engine, then the sub would put her spotlight on the lifeboats. The first time the sub surfaced, her Captain told us: 'You don't have to tell me what ship you are, where is Cap­ Seafarer Hugh Williams received his first SIU pjension check at the tain Farrow?' (the Mobilfuel's New York hall recently from Welfare Director Al Bernstein as fellow skipper)." Was U. S. Citizen As it turned out, the Cantain of the German sub, a man named Mueller, was a former seaman in the American merchant marine who had sailed under Farrow on that same ship. A native of Ger­ many, Mueller had emigrated to the United States and became a citizen. He had served as chief mate on the Mobilfuel until the war broke out and he returned to Germany. "For three days, at 2 a.m., the sub would surface and the Cap­ tain would speak to us," Williams continued. "He'd give us water and even rum. He never talked about the Nazis and seemed pretty decent. He told us he was sorry he couldn't give us a tow into port. Mueller said to us: 'I missed you in Beaumont,' meaning he might have tried to sink our ship earlier." "The Mobilfuel was heavily armed and looked like the Mis­ souri," Williams said, "but the sub hit us before we had a chance to fire. The ship, which was travelling alone, went down with all her weaponry unused." Previously, Seafarer Williams had sailed on the Aurora, another Soconia vessel, which was hit by subs in the Gulf of Mexico in June of 1942. "It was about three a.m. and we were 23 miles from South Pass, Louisiana, and I was pump­ ing ballast and securing the pump room, etc," he said. "T had just sat down when the first fish struck and it's unbelievable that I am here to talk about it. After the explosion, everything was a sham­ bles. At first I thought there had been a collision but then, I smelled the powder and knew it was a torpedo. A short while later, the second torpedo hit the vessel and we had to abandon ship." Brother Williams stayed aboard •iAlinbert6i.4e6P SEAFAf(EnS Twelve seaman Frank Moran offers congratulations. Brother Williams, who sailed in engine department, first went to sea in 1918, 50 years ago. for a while with the Captain, a man named Sheldon, and the first assistant engineer, before leaving. He had a chance to catch the sub's name as it passed the Aurora's stern. "It was called the U-57 and it caused the death of our chief mate, the only fatality," he said. After finally leaving the ship. Brother Williams was picked up by a Coast Guard tugboat which towed his lifeboat to the mouth of the Mississippi. "The tug cut the wire and the towline broke, putting our life'ooat on a mudbank for three days," he recalled. "They had to leave us due to heavy sub action. The Germans played hell with all ships in the area, sinking about six ships in the three days we were on the mud bank." Was Coal Passer Williams, a native of Las Vegas, New Mexico, now lives in New York City. He first went to sea in 1918, as a coal passer on the British freighter Catalamber. "I had arrived in Baltimore from San Francisco and the water looked good," he said. "In those days, you took what you could get. Of course in that day, sail­ ing was nothing like what it is today and the seamen had no unions like the SIU to represent them," said Williams. In 1927, he v/as on a ship called Lordship Manor, when the vessel got stuck in the ice in Finland for two months. "I liked it there and I decided to stay on." Brother Williams explained. "I lived there until 1931 and enjoyed it, even though it frequently got down to 30 degrees below zero and cold­ er." He lived in Helsinki and has a high regard for the Finnish people. Brother Williams first acquired bis fondness for sailing when he took a job on the yacht Aloha, owned by a millionaire copper king, Arthur Curtis James. At the time, it was the largest- sail­ ing ship in the world. He also saw service on the Vanderbilt schoon­ er Huzar and the yacht Dolphin, owned by a member of the Dodge automobile manufacturing family. "I had just arrived by ship from Venezuela in 1932 and I was sit­ ting in Battery Park, New York," Williams recalled. "I got to talk­ ing to this fellow who asked me if I wanted a job on a yacht, so I said yes and he sent roe to Ap­ ple's. They supplied yachts with equipment and crews and were very well-known. Yachting is a millionaire's sport, and it cost James thousands of dollars a week to keep his yacht running—usu­ ally between New York and New­ port, Rhode Island." Starboard Launchman Williams sailed on the Aloha for 12 months and 14 days, sail­ ing as starboard launchman. "I enjoyed it very much. The food was much better than on mer­ chant vessels of that time and we really lived quite well. In con­ trast, when I caught the Swifteagle out of Fall River, Massa­ chusetts in 1936, the men had to supply their own plates, mat­ tresses, etc., and the food was pretty bad." While sailing on the Aloha, Williams saw many interesting people such as the U. S. Ambassa­ dor to Turkey and wealthy society friends of the James family. The yacht often sailed to Monte Carlo, and cruised the Mediterranean. "They were nice people and it was a good job," he added. Now that he's on an SIU pen­ sion, Brother Williams plans to take it easy and maybe do a little sailing of his own, mostly on Long Island Sound. FINAL DEPARTURES Larry RtHiiero, 25i Brother Romero died on October 31 at the Park Place Hos­ pital in Port Ar­ thur, Texas. A native of Port Ar­ thur, he made his home in that city. Brother Romero joined the Union in Port Arthur in 1963. A member of the deck department, he was employed by the Sabine Towing Company. Surviving is his widow. Sheila. Burial services were held in the Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Groves, Texas. i Edward Samrock, 68: A heart attack claimed the life of Seafarer Samrock on Oc­ tober 22, at his home in Carmen, Oklahoma. He was bom in Ger­ many and joined the Union in 1938 m the Port of Norfolk. Brother Samrock sailed in the engine department and his last ship was the Afoundria. He had been on an SIU pension since 1964. Surviving is his widow, Lutitia. Burial services were held in the Carmen City Cemetery. ^ James Easterling, 40: Brother Easterling died on October 16, in Memorial Hospi­ tal, Savannah, Georgia. He was a member of the engine depart­ ment, sailing as FOWT. His last vessel was the Wayne Victory. A native of Claxton, Ga., Brother Easterling lived in Savannah. He joined the SIU in Baltimore. Easterling was buried in Savannah. Mallmyr Coffee, 63: Brother Coffee died on July 1, at the USPHS Hospital in Staten Island, N. Y. He was a native of Blowing Rock, North Car­ olina and made his home in New Orleans. A mem­ ber of the deck department, he sailed as AB. Brother Coffee be­ gan his sailing career in 1946 and Joined the Union in Philadelphia. His last vessel was the Hercules. He had served in the U.S. Navy from 1923 to 1932. Burial serv­ ices were held in Blowing Rock City Cemetery. William Ray, 54; A myocar­ dial infarction claimed the life of Brother Ray <xi October 28, at St Mary's Hospital in Duluth. A member of the deck department, he sailed as bosun, and was employed by the Buckeye Steamship Com­ pany. Brother Ray was bora in Iowa and made his home in Malmo Township, Minnesota. He joined the SIU in the Port of De­ troit. Surviving is his widow, Blanche. The burial service was held in Malmo Cemetery, Aitkin County, Minn. Matteo Stucchio, 45: Seafarer Stucchio died November 14 at his home in Brook­ lyn, N.Y. Brother ^cchio was bora in that borough and joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1957. Employed by the V. J. Spellman Company as a canvas operator, he served as a shop steward for the Union. He served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946. He is survived by his widow, Rosalie. The burial was held in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. William Nonnand, 62: Brother Normand died at the USPHS Hos­ pital, Staten Is­ land, on October 4. He was a na­ tive of Port Rich­ mond, New York, and made his home in Astoria, Queens. A mem­ ber of the en­ gine department. Brother Nonnand served frequent­ ly on SIU picket lines. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1957 and his last vessel was the Gateway City. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Margaret Bums, of Astoria. The burial services were held in Oceanview Cemetery J: New York City. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 • f » • 'd • (f- • f i| I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (r,int infcrmation} y NAME STREET ADDRESS OTY STATE. TO AVOlO DUmCATION: If you m an old wiMcribar of addraaa, plaaao giva your formar addraaa Mow: OTY tZAlE ZIP. and hava a change 'r �B«Mnb(Br.«;r.l96C SE^FA1iElk& ' t&G labor's Non-Voters Chided by Seafarer SfCI's Efficiency Amazes Seafarer To the Editon To the EdIfoR Just a note to express my amazement at the speed in which our great Union works. After going to sea for 40 years, starting in September of 1928 and most of which were spent in the SIU, I was permanently put on the beach, Oct. 21, 1968. I applied for my disability pension and some car insurance at the same time. I received my first retirement check and was amazed at the speed of the job the Union did in processing my claim. As yet, I haven't even heard from the insurance company in regard to my car. I have known all along that we in the SIU had the best— the best Union without a doubt in the maritime industry, bar none. I want to take this op­ portunity to express my appre­ ciation to our officers and mem­ bers in this great Union, for their foresight in getting bene­ fits such as pensions and the welfare programs for the mem­ bership. It was truly a God­ send to know that someone was looking out for my future while I was sailing the ships on all oceans. I just wanted the officers and members to know that I would have been in one hell of a predicament if I didn't have my pension to fall back on. Suddenly being beached was a very big surprise to me since I thought the old ticker was OK all the time. Smooth sailing to all. David Sykes The 1968 election is history and one thing should be clear to every voter and non-voter. Each individual vote is impor­ tant. Only a relatively few votes decided many state, local and national contests. More likely than not, the uncast ballots would have been for the losing rather than the winning candi­ dates, and many of these can­ didates were the friends of la­ bor. It is ironic therefore, that many working people, especially merchant mariners—if the rest of them are typical of those on this ship—allowed either apathy or indifference to stop them from applying for and casting an absentee ballot, or worse still, allowed prejudice to cause them to cast their ballots for candidates that have a poor or anti-labor record. I am aware of only three crewmembers out of over 35 on here who could have voted who did or at least made the attempt. In my case, my ballot did not happen to reach me until No­ vember 4 and had to be back in the office by 5 p.m. Novem­ ber 4, to be valid. I sent it air­ mail special delivery, but have little hope that it reached its destination in time. HHH did not carry the state I was regis­ tered in but the pro-labor can­ didate for U.S. Senate, Alan Cranston, did win, defeating arch-conservative Max Rafferty. So, I am somewhat comforted by this knowledge. Already I hear some crewniembefs bemoaning the fact that they think we (the mer­ chant marine) can expect hard times now that Nixon has won. Yet they failed to register and vote. And who's to blame if they are right? How many mer­ chant seamen failed to vote? If the ratio of 80 to 90 percent (found on my own ship) holds true thoughout the industry, then we know seamen are no little responsible for Mr. Nix­ on's victory as most of them come from such crucial states as California, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Maryland, Wash­ ington, Or^on, etc. Because seamen go to sea, this is no reason for them to abdicate their responsibilities of good citizenship. This includes above all, registering and vot­ ing, contributing to party and candidates of their choice and urging friends and relatives to vote for these candidates also. If things don't suit you dur­ ing the next four years, before you start complaining ask your­ self what you did to help see that they would go any better. If you did not vote, then blame yourself and others like you who also failed to vote or put prejudice ahead of labor's wel­ fare. Sincerely, Bruce W. Nusbaum Calls Heart Patients Safe Accident Risk To the Editor: Since when is heart disease so different from other afflic­ tions than can befall a working man while carrying out the duties of his job? My family has had more than its share of heart trouble, yet it never interfered with their working in terms of accidents — insurance companies and scare groups to the contrary. I commend the AFL-CIO for pointing out the injustice of denying Workman's Com­ pensation benefits to people suffering from heart disabilities, and equally condemn thosb that would do so. In our age of stress and tension heart dis­ ease can be as much of an oc­ cupational disease as silicosis was for the miners of fifty years ago. Dowdd Giiflbi <|> Page Eight AiUitional Seafarer Veterans Join Growing SIU Pension Roster Eight additional Seafarers have been added to the SIU's ever-growing pension roster. The newest additions to the list include; Jose Fernandez, Fritz Bantz, John Speight, Francisco Bayron, Norman Longtine, Jose Reyes, Cuthbert Hinkson and Frank Sherry. Jose Fernandez sailed as ^ FWT. He joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore, where he lives with his wife, Camila. A native of Spain, his last ship was the Duke Victory. Fritz Bantz is a native of Den­ mark who makes his home in Baltimore. A Seafarer for 25 Sherry Reyes Hinkson Longtine years, he joined in New York City. Brother Bantz sailed as AB Jose Reyes was born in Puerto York. He had been sailing sinc^ and his last ship was the Chilore. Rico. He resides in Santurce, 1939 and was a member of the Puerto Rico, with his wife Maria. steward department. His last vcsr His last ship was the Puerto Rico. sel was the Bienville. Brother Reyes was qualified to Frank Sherry joined the Union sail as bosun and was an SIU man in the Port of New York and for 28 years. He joined the Union sailed as a deckhand. He was in the Port of New York. born in Jersey City, N. J., and Cuthbert Hinkson lives in lives in that city with his wife, Brooklyn with his wife, Fran- Mary. Brother Sherry was em­ cella. A native of the British West ployed by the Pennsylvania Rail Fernandez Bantz Indies, he joined the SIU in New Road. John Speight sailed as a cook and was employed by the Norfolk, Baltimore and Carolina Line. A native of North Carolina, he lives in Norfolk with his wife, Mary. He joined the SIU in Baltimore. Francisco Bayron sailed in the engine department and joined the Clara Annette Brown, bora Sep­ ton Bell, Whistler, Ala. SIU in the Port of New York. He tember 1, 1968, to Seafarer and is a native of Puerto Rico and Mrs. Ira C. Brown, Ponchatoula, La. Kimberly Ledmer, born August 14, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Tina Marie Wells, bora August William Lednier, Bayou La Batre, 10, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ala. Eugene B. Wells, Norfolk, Va. ^ 4. Speight Bayron his last ship was the Seatrain New York. Brother Bayron makes his home in Brooklyn. Norman Longtine sailed'as AB. His last ship was the Summit. An SIU man since World War II, he joined in Houston. Brother Long­ tine was born in Houghton, Mich­ igan, and now lives in Galveston, Texas. Geriy Miller, born October 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald A. Miller, Gretna, La. .l,Houston Carlton Bell, Jr., born July 22, 1966, to Seafarer and Mrs. Houston Bell, Whistler, Ala. Bridget Bishop, born August 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jimmie R. Bishop, Houston, Tex. ,1, Mona Bell, bora January 29, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hous- Shane Noeth, born October 26, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thom­ as Noeth, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. SIU Lifeboat Class No. 214 Casfs Off Laurie Ann Summers, bora Oc­ tober 17, 1968, to Se^arer and Mrs. John W. Summers, Port Ar­ thur, Texas. Dashan Karon Harris, bom Oc­ tober 17, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Otis L. Harris, New Orleans, La. ^ ; Seafarer Thanks SIU For Aid To the EdittMr: I wish to thank the SIU clinic for its quick and accurate diag­ nosis of my recent illness and also say thank you for the kind and courteous attention I re­ ceived from Union officials. In addition, I wish to express my thanks for the prompt fi­ nancial assistance I received from the SIU Welfare Depart­ ment. Also, may I thank the staff at the Marine Hospital for the fine treatment they gave me. Lany TefiR Charlene Welch, bora October 20, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Albert Welch, Port Arthur, Texas. Yvette Camacho, born Septem­ ber 20, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William Camacho, Philadelphia, Pa. WRITE These Seafarers recently passed Coast Guard examinations and received their lifeboat tickets after attending a course of study at the SIU's lifeboat school in Brooklyn. In first row (l-r) are: Thomas ShifFlett; Bob DeJuan; Norman Miller. Back row: Instruc­ tor Paul McGaharn; Jim Booker: Larry Moncrief; Andreas Bapandreou: Raphael Rivera. The class graduated on November I Ith. JXUT.W.E �nditqceinbeii j .P^etFpprfee" reiMrted ., „ (Mwre-Misc -• • •. •ty. None. No dij^Ki^«sc ^tesates. Bveryi Uiitai U natintiBg' nnpothly. • 3AHBS (OHertalExport), Novemtieif'; - »- 1LA__AJ: T rrv. t -r.. i.-.'j . A—Ghalrmon, Martin J. Tuesphmoor, Jr. t jSecretary, J. C. Randolph. Some diapu OT in enslne department. . „ „ , , , „ .. mjNIQ'I'SUl . ,r$ OVERSEAS ANNA (Maritime Overi^' was), October 27—Chairman, B. IiJ? Jairet; Secretary, J. P. Austin.' JS.'oO it#,' ship's fond. No beefs and no ^sputeA;! OT. Motion was made that the Uniori!.. consider placing an SIU Agent in thC' Canal Zone, at least for the duration aiy the Vietnam hostilities. , v)^ ^k. " ' ^ CENTERVILliE (Admiralty Marine)£ October 2—Chairman, C. Demcrs; SecretU tary, B. Van Ciise. General discuBsloitf held regarding draws, food and hospital supplies. All to be checked into. . ;. IBERVIGLE (Waterman). October IST —Chairman, A. Reasko: Secretary, D. Dell. $4.26 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Ship's ddegate advised' all hands to keep doors locked while shlpV is in port. AMERICAN PRIDE (American Sealanes), November 10—Chairman, Victor Brunell, dr.; SecreUiy, Terry J. Smith.' Ship's delegate reported that everything s. is running smoothly. Ail repairs were;) taken care of. Crew commended thej Captain for his co-operation. Vote of^ thanks was extended to the ship's dele- ! gate and the chief engineer for a job well done. A very good trip. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shapard Undi'ay WlMlami Al Tanner Robert Matthawi DEL CAMPO (Delta), November 6—i Chairman, C. Milazao; Secretary, E. ^ Bradley. Brother derry Phipps was elect,| ed to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs ^ SECRETARY-TREASURER and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks ex- I tended to the steward department for a 1 HEAD9UARTERS Al Karr675 4th Ave., Iklyn. job well done. t (212) HY f-6600 VANTAGE VENTURE (Vancor), Octo-I ber 6—Chairman, Walter E. Craikowstd. 1 Brother Richard d. Sherman was elected| to serve as ship's legate. No beefs and j no disputed OT. .I CHATHAM (Admiralty Marine), Oetbber 26.—Chairman. Pete Sheldrake; Secre­ tary, D. Fritz. Brother Nel Larson was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Discussion held regarding the food that is being served. Inventory of stores to he taken to. try to improve the food situa­ tion.. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Over­ sees), November 10—Chainnan, W. d. Barnes; Secretary, C. E. Smith, Several men had to leave ship due to illness. Patrolman will check into same. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward departweni for a Job well done. . DIGEST Of S SHIP ALPENA, Mich 127 River St. (517) EL 4-3616 lALTIMORE, Md 1216 E. ialllmora St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mats 663 Atlantic Avenue (617) Rl 2-0140 iUFFALO, N.Y m Waihington St. SIU (716) TL 3-92S9 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 CHICA60, III 93SJ Ewing Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA I-S4S0 DETROIT. Mich 10225 W. Jaffarton Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT. Mich HOUSTON, Tm JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, NJ MOilLE, Ala 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. ioi 287 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 5104 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 2iOB Paarl St. (904) EL 3-0987 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 I South Lawraaea St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, U 630 Jaekton Ava. (504) S29-7546 NORFOLK. Va •^?^HAtAULA VTCTORr:*|AlcdSf,p%li?^ ber 27—Chairman, Frank Rakas, dr.; Secretary, Bueben Bellaty. BroUier dohn F. MeCollon wa; elected to serve as ship's delegate. No disputed OT and no beefs.. Everything is running smoothly. COEUB D'ALENE VICTORY (Victor^ Carriers), November 3—Chairman, J. Craft; Secretary, H. Ulrich. Brother dobn J. Carey was elected to serve as ship's delists. No beefs and no disputed' OT was reported. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), November 9 —Chairman, Pete Dolan; Secretary, Bo Anderson. No bcefa. EverythhiK is run­ ning smoothly. SEATRAIN WASHINGTON (Hudson Waterways). November 13—Chairman, J. Tobin; Secretary, ,d. Ratiiil. Ship's) delegate reported that everything ia run­ ning smoothly with no beefs. IIS 3rd St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR. Tax 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 3S0 Fraamont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Farnandai Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEAHLE, Waih 250S First Avanua (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Dal Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif^ 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 TOKOHAMA, Japan..Iiaya BIdg., Room 101 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Ndk iku 2014971 Ext. 201 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans. Dec. 10—2:30 p.m. Mobile Dec. 11—2:30 p.m. WUmlngton . . Dec. 16—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Dec. 18—2:00 p.m. Seattle Dec. 20—2:00 p.m. New York ... Dec. 2—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia . Dec. 3—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... Dec. 4—2:30 p.m. Detroit Dec. 13—2:30 p.m. Houston Dec. 9—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans. Dec. 10—7:00 p.m. Mobile Dec. 11—7:00 p.m. New York .. Dec. 2—^7:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Dec. 3—^7:00 p.m. Baltimore ... Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. :i:Houston .. . Dec. 9—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Dec. 2—2:00 p.m. Alpena Dec. 2—^7:00 p.m. PuTalo Dec. .2—^7:00 p.m. Chicago .... Dec. . 2—7:00 p.m. Duluth Dec. . 2—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ... Dec. . 2—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago Dec. 10—7:30 p.m. t Sault St. Marie Dec. 12—^7:30 p.m. Buffalo Dec. 11—7:30 p.m. Dulutfa Dec. 13—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ... Dec. 13—7:30 p.m. Toledo Dec. 13—7:30 p.m. Detroit Dec. 9—^7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .. Dec. 9—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans. Dec. 10—5:00 p.m. Mobile Dec. 11—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Dec. 3—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) .. Dec. 4—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Dec. 5—5:00 p.m. Houston Dec. 9—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Dec. 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Dec. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. *NorfoIk Dec. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Dec. 9—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. ARtZPA (Sea-Innd), October 18—Chair­ man. John Albert!; Swretary, dohn Nash. : Discussion held regarding air-condition-i ing in crew's quarters. Also discussed: was the matter of the water in the galley; FINANCIAL RBPOBT8. The conatttution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and and pantry which is always either too > Inland Waters District makes specifle provision for safeguardins the membership's a hot or too cold. money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. Al] STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), No- J Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. vember 10-:-ChaiTOan, William Burkeen ;) TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gnlf, Lakes and Inland Secretary, E. K. DeMoss. Brother Steven- i son was elected to serve as ship's dele^ i Waters District are administered in accordance with the proviaiona of various trust gate. )Ko beefs were reported by dep«rt-| fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds ment dei^ates. shall equally consist of union and management repreaentativea and their alternates. All .expenditures and diabursementa of trust funds are made only upon approval SEATED MAINE (Hudson -Watenl by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund finaneial reeords are available at the ways), No^mber 10—Chairman, Warren headquartera of the various trust funds. Barr; Ser-ctftry, Ssni W. McDonald. No SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping righU and seniority are protected exclusively beefs .and no disputed OT. Brother Barr was re-elected to serve as ship's delegate by the contracts between the Union and the ahipownen. Get to know your shipping and Was given a vote of thanks for • job rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you well done.; Diseuseion held regarding re^ feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shlpownera, notify the Seafisreia Appeals ti«n»entaplan../,a r-'-':..; Board by certified mail, return receipt request^. The proper address for this ia: •::>E»AJPAIN'allAINB ..(Hudson Water-) Ektrl Shepard. Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board ways); - October aO^Chatonan, Wwrett 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4. N. Y. ii, Barr; Secretary, 8am W. McDonald, Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by Discussion held regarding rusty water. writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. Repairs not taken care of. Motion was CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU hidls. These made to have all tanks cleaned before new Crew aitpts On, Crdw eontplained contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contraet rights, aa well as your obligations, such as filing for OT about food ln;,itN»er«L on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman other Union offlcial, in your opinion, falls to protect your contract rights prop­ ^SEATRdd!il;''ililW)Bi^ wateri or ways),)«j|<U^t.t.8r«(^ A, erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. ASrsm"; EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained One'wwn from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any indhridilual in the w«a elected to aerve aa Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from Wair*^ articles deemed jAipw;; has been harmful to the Union or .its collective membership. This' estabi: reaffirmed med by membership action at the September. 1960, me^ngs all eonatitaiional .porta. The rssponaibility for LOO policy is vested in an editorial board which consists . _ Union. The Eseeutive Board may delegate, ts of the Executive Board of the from among Ha ranks, one individual to carry out this rasponaibiltty. iSBtiae Kayser-Rikth Hosiery Co. Inc. Women's Hosiery Schlapareli, Kayser, Phoenix, Mojud, Supp-hose, Sapphire, Bachelor Girl, Fascination. Men's Hosiery & Underwear Esquire Socks, Bachelors' Friends, Supp-hose, Supp-hose Underwear, Slendo Children's Products Kayser, Fruit of the Loom Mojud. Slippers Jiffies, Mercury (Textile Workers Union of America) ^ Stltzei-WeUcr Distfllcrics "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StiU," W. L. Wellcr Bourbon whiriceyi (Distillery Workers) Kingsport Press "Worid Book," "Chlldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Baltimore Luggage Co. Ijidy Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starllte luggage Starfiite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsnm Wallboard, American Gypsnm Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) ^I> ' R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products ^ (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) ( i ^ Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) ^ "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Hes, Boss Gloves, RIchmaa (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) ^ Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Pioneer Floor Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers| Local 110, San Antonio, Texas —4,— Glnmam Grapes (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) —4,— Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Morn Valieydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) 4, Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) ^— Brothers and SeweD Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) I Atlantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Ouett Peabody (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any ofllcial capacity .n the SIU unless an oflicisl Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he ia given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without auppljring a receipt, or if a member is required to make a pajrment and is given an offlcial receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBUGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six •"qnths in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies sK available in all Union hall^ All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiariw themselva with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or gstion by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affeeted should immediately notify headquarten. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU membera drawing disability-pension benefiia have always been encouraged to continue their union aotivities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Unfon meetings, they are en^iaged to take an active role in all rank-and-file fnnetions, in­ cluding service cm rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimera cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-etanding Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarera ore guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contraets which the Union haa negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal righta to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Psafarers ia the right to pursue legislative and politieal [••Hves which will serve the best interesto of _ themselves, their famOies and their lion. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity r>.:::.ation was oatabliahad. Donations to SFAD sro entirdy voluntary and constitute the funds through whieh legislative and politieal activities ore eonductod for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time K Smforer feds that any of the aheve ritfrts have heen vieteted. er that he haa bvan dented hte constitntte^ right ef aMMa to Unton reewde er tofenaai^ IM eteadd WU PrauldMt Pad HaU at headgwartera hy enrtiied maU. is tarn ijf' �8<laMeefhb»<' 6, l4fe8 jtRBUS LOG •Vi. Thm KOMgh fCiWft CK^Mas) and Tronocoforodo ^ffudson Watmrways) ore typkal of the many vassals In the SlU-mcmnad ftaof. Shown below are several of the Seafarers who sailed on them recently. The steward dept. on Raleigh included: in back (l-r) Edwin Vieira^ NC & B; Victor O'Briant, pantryman: Glenn Kerr, messman, and Mike Vigo, steward. Front: Gil Beloy and Peter Blanchard, cooks. Seafarers reading shipping news during break on Raleigh are (I left): P..J. McAneney, oiler, C. Rodriguez, OS, and Leon Kyster, bosun:' Seated are Clint ' Ward and Dick Schaeffer; deck dept. Steward Manuel Netto and 1 Cook Martin Iturrinb turned-out fine chow on Transcolorado dur­ ing a trip to Far East points. Sam Hooker, chief electrician on Transcolorado, displays tape recorder bought in Yokohama. Francis McGarry was bosurtrdh 1 Transcolorado. He is from Phil- j adolphia; |oinec| Union ,^ The Seafarers aboard the Doval (Suwannee Steamship Co.) "deeply regret the loss of our Cap­ tain, Otto Schlablinski, who died suddenly while we were at sea," Ship's Delegate John Malcolm wrote. Present orders call for the vessel to dock in Jacksonville. "We are looking forward to a good, clean pay-off," said MaiShip's Delegate Warren Baix operation. Deck delegate Steven colm. Meeting Chairman Wil­ Caper reports a few hours dis­ reports from the Seatrain Maine liam Morris said that "the crew puted overtime. The steward and (Hudson Water­ has three days lodging coming for chief cook were complimented for ways) that a re­ the lack of wash water at one a good job. quest was made point." While in for two days sub­ India, they had sistence for the The Overseas Rose (Maritime no launch serv­ Overseas) was temporarily shortlack of hot water. ice, reported The bosun will handed recently Brother Morris. check the possi­ due to the illness Meeting Secre­ bility of building of several Seafar­ tary John Tilley Bair shelves ers, according to states that the for the crew li­ Meeting Chair­ Duval"will prob­ man W. J. Barnes. brary, Brother Barr writes. Meet­ ably enter the Malcolm Two men in the ing Secretary Sam McDonald re­ shipyard at Jack­ steward depart­ ported that the ship went from sonville. After bunkering in An­ ment and two in Danang, to Saigon, Manila, San tigua, a repair list was made up, the deck had to Francisco, Oakland, back to In­ Stone Tilley wrote. Deck delegate Rob­ leave the vessel. chon and will pay-off again in ert Garriss reported one man had Another man in the engine de­ Oakland in mid-December. Wil­ to leave the ship in Capetown, partment had to depart in the liam Thompson, deck delegate, re­ due to illness. A few beefs were Canal Zone, because of illness ported that Aubrey Waters, AB, reported in the engine depart­ in the family, the engine depart­ left the ship due to illness in ment, delegate Joe Gallant said. ment delegate, Charles Smith, Honolulu. The engine delegate, Steward delegate James Webb writes. Ship's Delegate Lotos Lynn Baker, wrote that FWT said no beefs were pending in his Stone wrote that a vote of thanks Louis Pkkbart also left the vessel department. The repair list in­ was extended to the steward de­ there due to illness. Use of the cludes the painting of the dish partment and except for the ill­ new forms regarding accidents rack and the galley range. A sug­ ness, everything was going along and illnesses was explained to the gestion was made that shot cards in good order. No beefs or dis- men. should be returned as soon as a "uted overtime was reported and ship is cleared, since some men LOGS and mail are coming in —^ leave a vessel without them after regularly. the pay-off. "Everything continues to be fine Ktf Nathaniel Hatfield, meeting sec­ aboard the Western Hunter (Westem Agency), acThe Asburv Victory (Bulk retary on the Penn Challenger * cording to the lat­ (Penn Shipping) Transport) paid-off at the Naval est word from reports that a Supply Center in Ship's Delegate vote of thanks Oakland, Califor­ Rodger Swanson. was extended to nia after a long Some disputed three Seafarers three-month voy­ overtime was for a job well age, John Mabalcleared up after done. Ship's Dele­ ov, ship's dele­ copies of contract gate Joe Wallace, gate, reported. It agreements were third cook, John was a good trip, Yates Robinson, and sent from Head­ he said, with the Scbwandt erewmessman Leo quarters, Swanson reported. One vessel departing Mabalov from New Orle­ Scbwandt all came in for praise. point the crew was concerned ans. They called on Honolulu, Da Brother Hatfield wrote. Wallace about was whether the men were Nang, Quinon, Saigon, Manila, Su- wrote that there was some disputed entitled to first class transportation bic Bay, Guam and Oakland. The overtime to be ironed out but no when the year's articles were com­ voyage was uneventful with no other beefs. W. E. Walker, deck pleted. Meeting Chairman J. M. encounters with the Vietcong, delegate, reports the bosun paid- Yates writes that $64 was used Brother Mahalov wrote. The pay­ off in the Panama Canal. William from the ship's treasury to fix the off was a smooth one, with no se­ Bowler was engine delegate and TV set. Seafarers also agreed on rious beefs. As usual the steward Brother Robinson, steward dele­ the purchase of various items for department did a fine job, keeping gate. A motion was made that recreation such as chess and the men happy during the trip, launch service be provided in checker games, etc. The last port of call was Subic Bay. Guam. according to all reports. ^ Seafarers aboard the American Pride (American Sea Lanes) thanked Victor Brunell for his fine job as shin's delegate. Meeting Secretary Terry Smith reported. "He did every­ thing to help the new men and the veterans as well," Brunell wrote Smith. Brother Brunell "took full respon­ sibility as a Union representative for the Seafarers while aboard ship and we thank him for being a good Union man." Brunell will request a new library for the next crew. The vessel will pay-off in Norfolk. Everything is going along smooth­ ly, with repair work and painting already taken care of. Painting included the deck wash room and passageway bulkheads. A vote of thanks was extended to the Cap­ tain for doing whatever be could to provide shore leave and draws for the men in Saigon. The chief engineer was thanked for his co- Sid Sokolik Your old friend Joseph Fried is anxious to leam of your where­ abouts. He asks that you write to him at 2000 Grand Avenue, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265. R. L. Cooke A package is being held for you from the Maritime Overseas Cor­ poration. You can claim it at SIU Headquarters in New York. — — Bin Gumsey Please contact your sister, Betty Vitelli, at 578 Woodbine Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. Very urgent in reference to Mother. ^ Waymau Oemett Lizotte Your daughter, Patricia Ann Lizotte, would like to hear from you as soon as posrible. Her ad­ dress is P. O. Box 3177, Agana, Guam. ^ IJgon Randolpb Hart Please contact Newton B. Schwartz at 500 Branard at Garrott, Houston, Texas 77006, as soon as possible. Phone number is JA 8-2863. Tony Radiz Duke Duet would like you to save his safety glasses for him and asks that you contact him as soon as possible. <|> Barry Stewart Lampert Please contact your wife, Brinda, at P. O. Box 384, Jackson­ ville, Florida 32201, as soon as you possibly can. �Vol. XXX No. 25 SEAFARERSWLOC OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CIO HLSS SENIORITY UPGRADINS PROGRAM RESUMES A unique opportunity for seniority upgrading is now available to B Book Seafarers at the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland. On January 1st, 1969, the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship will resume its Seniority Upgrading Program. The program is geared toward providing Seafarers with the additional training they'll need to advance rapidly up the seniority ladder. Seafarers who qualify for the Seniority Upgrading Program will be able to utilize the modem training and instruction facilities available at the Harry Lunde­ berg School of Seamanship. While participating in the program. Seafarers will receive free room and board and $56.00 per week. Applications will soon be in the mail to all B Book Seafarers and will also be available from any SIU port agent. Deadline for submitting applications for considera­ tion is December 15th, 1968, for the upgrading class starting Januarj^ 1, 1969. Act now to upgrade your seniority! HOW TO QUAUFY Seafarers who wish to enroll in the Seniority Upgrading Program should meet the Seafarers Appeals Board's quali­ fying standards which include the following: • RATING^Each applicant must presently hold a Coast Guard endorsed rating such as AB, FOWT, etc. In the case of Steward Department personnel, each applicant must show proof of having sailed in a rated capacity. • PREVIOUS TRAINING—Presentation of a certificate showing successful completion of training at either the Andrew Furuseth Training School or the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. • SBATIMB-Seafarers must have a minimum of 12 months seatime with any SlU-contracted companies. • LIFEBOAT TICKET—Applicant must have a valid lifeboat ticket. The Seafarers Appeals Board may consider other qualifica­ tions or waive any of the above. WHILE AHENDING SCHOOL While attending the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship at Piney Point, Maryland, Seafarers who qualify for the Seniority Upgrading Program will receive $56.00 per week plus room and board. Transportation from the Union's major ports to Piney Point, Maryland will be provided for all qualified applicants. HOW TO APPLY Application forms are presently being mailed to all B Class SIU members. In addition, applications may be obtained from any SIU port agent. Completed application forms should be mailed by no later than December 15th, 1968 to: The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Saint Mary's County Piney Point, Maryland 20674 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource December 6, 1968 Description An account of the resource Headlines: PATCHWORK FORMULA FOR MARITIME SHOULD BE REPLACED \ NEW MARITIME PROGRAM NEXT YEAR WILL STRESS PRIVATE INVESTMENT NY TEACHERS END 5 WEEK STRIKE NAVAL CHIEF HAILS MERCHANT MARINE AS VITAL TO NATION’S SEA POWER ILO REFUSES AID TO GREEK REGIME WHILE ANTI-UNION CHARGES PENDING UPTON SINCLAIR DEAD AT 90; CHAMPION OF THE UNDERDOG UNITED FARM WORKERS SCORE GAINS IN CONTRACT WITH CALIFORNIA GROWER SEAFREEZE ATLANTIC – NEW HOPE FOR US FISHERMEN USSR REVISES SHIPPING CODE TO MATCH NEEDS OF GROWING FLEET HLSS SENIORITY UPGRADING PROGRAM RESUMES Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/06/1968 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXX, No. 25 1968 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/fb5836e4212fab84d4361f866faa3875.PDF f8c7d4b4e1841d38d456243855d639d5 PDF Text Text Vol. XXX No. 26 SEAFARERSA^LOG December 20/ 1968 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO I'' m 1« .ilt. '.r- �Pa«« Two SEAFARERS^LOG December 20t 496D Total US. Fishing Catth Declines Pollsters Rnd Labor Vote As WerU Figures Reach New High Mmimized Nixon's Victory WASHINGTON—World fishing set significant records in 1967, but the United States, with a catch of 2.4 million tons, remained in fifth place for the second straight year. According to a re­ port issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the U.S. catch was down 100,000 tons from the ^ Canada, ranked ninth in 1967, Peru, already the world's lead­ 2.5 million tons caught in 1966. ing fishing nation, caught 10.1 also showed a drop in her 1967 In fact, the 1966 catch was this million tons, up from 8.8 million catch of 1,289,800 tons. In 1966 country's lowest since 1962. tons the preivous year. Almost all Canada caught 1,346,000 tons. FAO's Yearbook of Fishery of the Peruvian catch consisted of Six other nations reported Statistics, "Catches and Landings, anchoveta taken for reduction into catches of more than a million 1967," estimates the total annual fish meal. tons: South Africa, 1.6 million world catch for the calendar year Japan was second with 7.8 tons; Spain, 1.43 million; India, 1967 at 60.5 million metric tons, million tons, compared with 7.1 1.4 million; Denmark, 1.07 mil­ a 5.5 percent increase over the million in 1966. The Soviet Union lion; Chile, 1.05 million; United 1966 figure of 57.3 million tons. followed with 5.8 million as Kingdom, one million. Indonesia This amount includes millions of against '5.3 million the previous did not report data for 1967, but tons of fish caught in inland wat­ year. (No 1967 information was it reported 1.2 million tons in ers, including salmon, eels and available on Mainland China, 1966. other migratory fish species. which in 1960 was estimated to Iceland, which caught 1.2 mil­ The total catch was almost have caught 5.8 million tons of lion tons in 1966, was down to twice that of 1957 (31.5 million fish; the Yearbook retains this tons), and more than three times figure as a part of the world total, 896,000 in 1967. On the other the catch of 1948 (19.6 million but does not include Mainland hand, Denmark broke the milliontons). All information in the China in its rankings.) Norway ton mark for the first time, up Yearbook is based on data fur­ ranked fourth, with 3.2 million from 850,000 tons the previous nished by governments. tons. year. Total Now Stands at 294 ii :!•, !• I I; i'? . •&. Six Additional Licensed Engineers Produced By Sill's Upgrading School Six more Seafarers have received their engineer's licenses after attending the School of Marine Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2 of the MEBA. This brings to 294 the number of men who have passed Coast Guard examinations for an engineer's license following suc­ cessful completion of the course quarters at 675 Fourth Avenue offered by the school. All of the in Brooklyn, New York 11232. men in the latest group are new The telephone number is (212) third assistant engineers. HYacinth 9-6600. Richard Goetze is a new third assistant engineer, after sailing as FOWT. He joined the SIU in the port of New York in 1967. The 32-year-old Seafarer was born in Brown Somani New York and continues to make his home in that city. He served a third assistant engineer's license in the Navy from 1954 to 1958. after sailing as FOWT. A native Valentine Gallagher is 29 years of Bear Creek, N. C., the 50old. A new third assistant, he year old seamen still makes his WASHINGTON — More for­ previously held an oiler's rating home in that town. He joined the eign-flag ships will be allowed to Union in Baltimore in 1960 fol­ participate in the carriage of car­ lowing service in the Air Force goes originating in the United from 1940 to 1948. His last pre­ States as a result of a recent ruling vious ship was the Steel Director. by Acting Maritime Administrator Earl Houghnon is another new James W. Gulick. Citing the "current non-availthird assistant engineer. The 45year-old Seafarer was born in ability" of direct U.S.-flag service South Dakota and lives in Yakima, to the Port of Mantanzas, located Wash. A former FOWT, he joined on the Orinoco River, and the Goetze Gallagher the SIU in 1968 in Seattle. His lack of transshipment service at this time, the maritime administra­ and joined the SIU in New York tor has issued an amendment to in 1966. A native of New York current regulations which will al­ City, he now lives in Brewster, low ships of Venezuelan registry N. Y. He served in the Navy to carry up to 100 percent of car­ from 1957 to 1960. goes generated under Export-Im­ Another newly-licensed third port Bank credits to that South assistant engineer, Brooks Brown, American nation. joined the SIU in the Port of New York earlier this year. A native The previous limit was 50 per­ of Georgia, he lives in Lagiina Slzemwe cent under such credits, which HoughiMHi Beach, Florida, with his wife, was in itself a waiver of Public Mable. His last ship was the Penn last ship was the Portland. Resolution 17 issued on June 9, Carrier on which he sailed as Engine department Seafarers 1966. FOWT. The 44-year-old Brown are eligible to apply for any of Also permitted under the new­ served in the Navy from 1941 to the upgrading programs if they est amendment is the participa­ 1949. are at least 19 years of age and tion by third-flag registry ships in Before receiving his new third have 18 months of Q.M.E.D. the movement of such cargoes to assistant engineer's ticket, Yas- watchstanding time in the engine meet transportation requirements want Somani sailed as pumpman, department, plus six months ex­ under the same credits. FOWT and deck engineer. He is perience as wiper or the equiv­ The credits involved, which are a resident of Philadelphia and was alent. in the amount of $10.5 million, boni on the island of Zanzibar. Those who qualify and wish to were granted by the Export-Im­ His last ship was the Citadel Vic­ enroll in the School of Marine port Bank to assist Corporacicm tory. The 33-year-ofd Seafarer Engineering can obtain additional Venezuela de Guyana to obtain joined the SIU in 1961 in the information and apply for the U.S. goods and services for the Port of New York, course at any SIU hall, or they purpose of expanding and improv­ Shelby Sizemore also received can write directly to SIU head­ ing a steel mill at Mantanzas. MARAD Allots More US Cargo To Foreign Flag A massive effort by the trade union movement brought a. dramatic switch of votes to Vice President Humphrey and wiped out most of Richard Nixon's lead in the presidential campaign, two leading pollsters agreed this month. Mervin D. Fields, head of the highly-regarded California poll, told an Industrial Relations Research Association meeting in Los Angeles that labor's effort took 5 million votes away from third party candidate George Wallace and wiped out more than 90 percent of Nixon's early-October lead, A few days later, a Gallup Poll analysis of the election declared that it was the swing of union members to Humphrey that almost put him over the top on November 5. Gallup credited the vigorous effort of union leadership for the fact that support for the Humphrey-Muskie ticket increased 15 percent among union members between early October and the election. Gallup estimated that 56 percent of union members voted for Humphrey, 29 percent for Nixon and 15 percent for Wallace. Independent estimates were that outside the South and the border states, the trade union vote ran between 65 and 70 per­ cent for Humphrey. Nixon received a smaller percentage of the union vote than he did in his 1960 presidential campaign but the Wallace inroads dropped the Democratic share of the vote to about the level of the 1956 election, when Eisenhower swept to a second term. Television networks, which analyzed the votes in key precincts, however, found that the dropoff in Democratic votes was less in city areas where labor is strong than in other sections of the country. Field said the prodigious effort by unions for the HumphreyMuskie ticket almost made up for the erosion caused by Wallace inroads in the South, defections from the left and weaknesses in local and state Democratic party organizations. The unions were the only "major apparatus" available to Humphrey to overcome "these enormous liabilities," Field re­ ported. "In the closing weeks of the campaign," the pollster said, "union leadership throughout the country made a determined drive to win it for Humphrey—and they almost did." Both Field and Gallup noted that a growing number of union members have advanced into economic brackets which normally turn in Republican majorities. Unless a candidate is blatantly anti-union. Field commented, there is less economic motivation for higher-paid workers to follow traditional voting patterns. But despite this, Humphrey made his best showing in northern industrial areas where unions are strongest. Seafarer and Friend Ernesto V, Erazo of the deck department and nine-year-old Abra­ ham Vegas, Jr., son of a fellow Deck Dept. Seafarer, dropped by SfU's New York hall for a quick visit and a tasty bite of lunch. *• > �to; 1968 AKERS^'LOa SlU Aids Public Health Hospital SIU Representative George McCartney presents a check on behalf of the Union to Mrs. Margaret King, secretary of the volunteer council at the USPHS Hospital, Staten Island. The money bought tickets for a drawing, all proceeds of which will go to the hospital. Sen. Bartlett Dies at 64; Backed Maritime To Hilt CXiEVELAND — Democratic Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, chairman of the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the Senate Commerce Committee, died here on December 11, following surgery for an arterial Alaska, and later embarking on a blockage. He was 64 years old. stint at gold mining in what was A long-time friend of the later to become the largest state maritime industry, and leading of the United States. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Secretary of Alaska in 1939. President Johnson, Vice Presi­ dent Humphrey, and Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) joined the long list of friends and associates paying tribute to Bart­ lett. Surviving are his widow. Vide Marie, and two daughters, Mrs. Doris A. Riley and Susan B. E. L. Bartlett advocate of a strong U.S. mer­ chant marine, his was a leading voice in beating back the "build foreign" proposals advanced through outgoing Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd as a solu­ tion for the dwindling American fleet. The senior Senator from Alaska was a member of a number of other committees in addition to his chairmanship of the Senate's maritime subcommittee. These included the Committee on Approriations and the Select Com­ mittee on Small Business. He de­ scribed himself as "a liberal Dem­ ocrat who is not remotely re­ moved from a center position." First elected to the House of Representatives in 1945, he be­ came known as a tireless legislator and was said to have introduced more successful bills in the 80th Congress than any other represenative. In November, 1958, he was elected to the Senate from the 49th State of Alaska which offi­ cially achieved statehood on Janu­ ary 3, 1959, where he served con­ tinuously until his death. Bartlett had an interesting and varied career, having worked as newspapiermaTf in Fairbanks, PflC«TTktei^ Congressman Urges Major Overhaul Of 50'50 Cargo Preferente Laws WASHINGTON—major overhaul of this country's cargo preference laws, plus legislation to remove tax advantages now enjoyed by American companies which register ships in foreign coun­ tries was proposed today by Representative James J. Howard (D-N.J.) in a move designed to breathe new life into the U.S. merchant TT: :—TTT" billion dollars a year in freight "When it comes to commercial marine. payments," the New Jersey law­ cargo, virtually all of it moves Speaking at a meeting spon­ maker said. aboard the ships of other nations." sored by the nearly-seven-million"If we takv' away the tax haven "There are several things which member AFL-CIO Maritime which our Internal Revenue Code we could do to help reverse this Trades Department, the New Jer­ now gives these operators, per­ alarming trend toward the use of sey congressman said there was an haps they will be more inclined foreign vessels. "alarming trend" toward the use "First of all, we're going to have of foreign-flag ships to move to put their ships back under the American flag, where they can to make a major investment in the American cargoes, to the detri­ ment of American shipowners and make positive contribution to our building of new ships—^with pri­ domestic and international econ­ vate funds, wherever possible; seafarers. omy," Howard declared. with a combination of private and Howard sharply criticized gov­ The congressman also proposed government funds, if there is no ernment agencies for "mishandl­ amendments to import quota leg­ other way. We can't expect to cap­ ing" present laws which require islation so that American ship­ ture any significant share of the that "at least 50 percent of foreign owners, as well as American oil, cargoes of the 1970s with the aid cargoes" move aboard U.S.molasses and sugar producers, will remnants of a fleet that was new flag ships. He said that certain agencies "persist in thinking of the be safeguarded against foreign in the 1940s. Certainly we're going 50 percent figure as a ceiling, not competition. Howard said his to have to raise our sights above a floor," and that "curious book­ amendment would call for "at the present level of constructing keeping practices" make it "vir­ least one-third of the imports ar­ only a dozen or less ships with gov­ tually impossible" for American riving under the quota system" to ernment subsidies each year. As a ships to get the government cargo be carried by American vessels. minimum, we must have a target This, he said, would make the of at least 30 or 40 ships built a to which they are entitled. merchant marine a "partner" with year with government aid—and we The congressman said he would other American industries covered must make certain that, in building introduce legislation in the 91st by these protective laws. these ships, we not only meet our Congress assuring that "all for­ Howard pointed out that "the contractual obligations to the sub­ eign-aid cargo moves on Ameri­ sidized lines, but that we also help can-flag ships whenever they are best, and surest, way of curing our the unsubsidized segment of the available," declaring that Ameri­ recurring balance-of-payments fleet replace its aging vessels." can vessels "haven't been getting difficulty is by rebuilding our "I don't think we should be put their rightful share, and I don't American merchant marine, and intend to see this abuse continue." by seeing to it that American- off" Howard went on, "by the Howard said he would also re­ built, American-owned and specious argument—advanced by introduce legislation similar to American-flag merchant ships some government bureaucrats in that which he sponsored earlier carry a significant share of our recent years—that American ship­ yards don't have the capacity to this year "to remove the present international commerce." build that many ships. We turned tax advantage" enjoyed by Ameri­ "As of now, our ships are carry­ out vessels by the thousands each can vessels which, he said, "are ing only about five or six percent year during World War II—and registered and crewed abroad to of our imports and exports—and a our present shipping crisis is every get around our tax laws, our significant portion of the tonnage bit as much in need of resolution labor laws and our safety laws." that American ships do carry is as our wartirhe shipping crisis was. These ships, primarily of Pana­ composed of military shipments, There's a lot of ingenuity in this manian and Liberian registry, foreign aid shipments and Foodcountry, and that includes the "have siphoned off more than a for-Peace shipments," he said. American shipyards, and if we have the dollars to spend on ships, our shipyards will be able to tool up to turn them out." Free World Transport Unions Act To Suspend Greeks, Assist Czechs LONDON—The International Transport Workers Federation, at a meeting of its Executive Board here recently, unanimously decided to suspend the Greek transport unions from membership. Also reviewed by the board was the situation in Czechoslovakia. The body unanimously reaffirmed its previous stand which called for appearance, to perform its func­ them the rights of self-determina­ condemnation of the invading tions without coercion or inter­ tion and political, social and cul­ Communist, powers. ITF will ference by any outside body— tural freedoms. The formal reso­ also closely follow developments governmental or otherwise." lution adopted by the ITF Execu­ in that nation with a view toward A proposal for the setting up of tive Board reads as follows: possible aid to the Czech people, a fund to assist Greek trade union­ "Having received a report of the the board announced. ists and their families—^who are action taken by the ITF in re­ The ITF is composed of unions under duress because of the op­ sponse to the invasion of Czech­ in the tranport trades throughout pressive actions of the present oslovakia in August by the armies the non-Communist world. military regime—will be presented of Russia, Poland, Hungary, BulConsidering the political situa­ to the International Confederation "aria and East Germany, tion in Greece, the international of Free Trade Unions for action "Endorses those actions and reit­ transport leaders decided that con­ by that body. A number of ITF erates its unqualified condemna­ ditions are such that "no union unions have already expressed tion of the invasion and of the can function in that country at their interest in seeing such a fund repressive measures subsequently this time with the degree of free­ created and are ready to make imposed on the Czech Government dom that an ITF affiliate must en­ substantial contributions to this and people by a naked show of joy if it is to qualify for member­ cause. force; ship." The Greek unions cover Anger and resentment over the "Notes that the full extent and the maritime, dock, railway, road invasion of Czechoslovakia by nature of those measures and the transport and civil aviation indus­ Russian and other Communist ability of the Czech people to re­ tries. forces last August continue to be sist or modify them have still to Suspension of membership is expressed by the ITF's affiliated be ascertained; and a step provided for in the ITF unions. Many of them have indi­ "Instructs the Secretariat to follow constitution specifically to meet cated their desire to furnish what­ developments closely and, in con­ this kind of situation. The sus­ ever help may be feasible or pos­ sultation with the Executive Board pension will not be lifted until sible, depending on circumstances, or, in an emergency, with the such time that the ITF Executive to the Czech people who, they Management Committee . initiate Board is satisfied that the Greek feel, are determined to resist the and implement whatever steps trade, union movement "is able, iptplerabli?. presspres impose(;| could be of practical) value to the i. ) as a tnatter of reality cather^tban upon tb^—PT^ures which.deny Czech people." S/U Balloting Scheduled te End On December 31 NEW YORK—Balloting in the two-month SIU election for offi­ cers ends on December 31. All SIU members are urged to exer­ cise their right to vote for the can­ didates of their choosing before the deadline rolls around. 'Voting began in A&G ports on November 1 for the 54 fully qual­ ified candidates who are running for the 45 elective Union posts. Under provisions of the SIU Constitution covering voting, the balloting is being conducted on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 noon from November 1 to De­ cember 31. No balloting is held on Sundays and legal holidays. In addition to the candidates who nominated themselves and appear on the ballot, space is pro­ vided for write-in votes. As an aid to voters, the LOG printed a spe­ cial election supplement in the October 25 issue. The supplement contains photographs and biogra­ phies submitted by alt'the candi­ dates.-.! ;!;(1 i- • 'i • '-tri �asu Four ^eAFAflERS ,LOG Congressman Tells MTD Thirty New Merchant Ships A Year Not Enough to Save U.S.-Flag Fleet P^cml>«r 20|, 196^ George Harrison, 73, Dies; Served Labor on All Levels CINCINNATI—AFL-CIO Vice President George M. Harrison, who served the labor movement and the nation all his adult life, WASHINGTON—Representative James M, Hanley (D-N. Y.) warned here last week that a pro­ died here this month after a long illness at the age of 73. He was president-emeritus of gram to build 30 new commercial ships a year for the merchant marine, proposed in legislation con­ a span of years to his fellow work­ sidered by Congress last year, would be inadequate to rescue the U.S.-flag fleet from "obsolescence the Railway and Airline Clerks, ers as did George Harrison. His which he served as a national union, the entire labor movement and disarray. The New York Congressman the Russians are building ships the result that "today we haul less officer for 43 years—35 of them and all of America have bene­ than six percent of our own im­ told maritime management and at a ratio of nearly seven-to-one ports and exports," Hanley point­ as president. fitted throu^ his leadership, un­ over the United States. Harrison, who went to work at derstanding and humanitarianism. labor officials that "it will take far "No one here will challenge the ed out. the age of 12, was a self-educated He will be sorely missed. . . ." more than a 30-ship-a-year pro­ The Congressman noted "the fact that we are losing the battle gram," adding: Harrison, one of nine children, for maritime supremacy—indeed, rather absurd concept that, al­ was brought up in St Louis and "We have ancient vessels that though we have only a relatively joined the Railway Clerks in 1917 must be replaced, we have a need in view of our national indiffer­ few ships flying the American flag, ence, it should be said that we when he was working as an evalu­ for enormous expansion of our were never really in the contest." we have some sort of magical 'ef­ fleet just to keep pace with the ation clerk with the Missouri The Russian threat is now so fective control' over Americangrowth of our international trade, Pacific Railroad. owned vessels flying foreign flags. and we have still further need for critical, Hanley declared, that "un­ America got a rude awakening A year later he was local chair­ expansion if we are to regain our less prompt and determined ac­ during the Cuban emergency when man and in 1919 was elected a rightful share of export and im­ tion is taken immediately, we are we found former U.S.-flag ships general chairman. In 1922, Har­ port carriage — the 30-percent virtually helpless in any contest rison was elected a vice president busily trading with Castro—and share, for example, which Presi­ to deliver men and materiel where who thumbed their noses at our of the BRC and in 1928 he was dent-elect Nixon set as our na­ needed and when needed any­ elected president. where in the world. Even with entreaties that they cease. tional target by the mid-1970s." Social Security Pioneer prompt action, we cannot reverse "We were jolted again in Viet­ Speaking at a meeting spon­ this terrible gap in less than a nam, when the crews of some of He helped shape the nation's sored by the nearly seven-milliondecade." first Social Security Act in 1935 these vessels refused to carry sup­ member AFL-CIO Maritime as a labor member of President "Realistically," he noted, "we plies and equipment to our forces Trades Department, Hanley noted Franklin D. Roosevelt's Citizens must face up to the need for an in Southeast Asia because the po­ that "when Russia launched Sput­ Advisory Council. accelerated vessel replacement litical views of the governments nik early in the 1960s, it gave our The year before, he had been space program its powerful thrust program—in all segments of our whose flags they flew differed with man who became an adviser to elected a vice president of the ocean-going fleet, and in our fish­ Presidents, represented his coun­ ours with respect to the Vietnam forward," adding that it might take ing fleet and Great Lakes fleet, as AFL and advanced to second vice try in the United Nations, helped war. And it happened still again "the superiority of the Soviets as a well. We hear talk of a 30-ship-apresident at the time of merger. negotiate the merger of the AFL in the Middle Eastern crisis, when maritime power to jolt our nation year building program—and after and the CIO. and filled key labor At the time of his death, Har­ our views and those of some other out of its lethargy." the long period of building a governments were at odds over assignments at home and abroad. rison was chairman of the AFLRussia 'Closing In' dozen or less ships a year, that the right of free passage in the AFL-CIO President George CIO's International Affairs and The Russians, he said, "are clos­ sounds attractive." Gulf of Aqaba—and, unfortu­ Meany said in a telegram of con­ Ethical Practices committees. For ing in on us as a maritime power, the past six conventions of the However^ since the end of nately, the views of the foreign dolence to Mrs. Harrison: and threaten to take the lead not World War II this nation has governments prevailed with re­ "Few men in the history of the AFL-CIO, he served in the major only over us but over the rest of "abandoned" the role of carrier spect to the 'effective control' American labor movement have role of chairman of the Resolu­ the free world. The Soviet Union of its manufactured goods, with ships," Hanley continued. contributed as much over as great tions Committee. has transformed itself from a maritime nonentity to a major power on the high seas." The Democratie Congressman noted that the Soviet fleet now numbers nearly 1,500 vessels total­ ing 11 million deadweight tons while the U.S.-flag fleet is com­ WASHINGTON—A journeyman auto mechanic told con­ which is usually based on a percentage of the gross business. In posed of 974 ships aggregating gressional investigators recently that automobile owners are the either case, the mechanic is paid only for the time the manufac­ 15 million deadweight tons. victims of the same price rate system on repairs that has plagued turer has allowed for the work specified on the ticket. If he takes "The Soviet vessels are new," the garage mechanic since manufacturers delivered the first horse­ time to check further he does it on his own, without pay. He may he went on: "80 percent of them even get into trouble." less carriage to the first dealer. are less than 10 years old. Our For another example: The mechanic, William W. Winpisinger, is a vice president of fleet is aging rapidly; 70 percent the Machinists. Nearly 120,000 of the lAM's 1 million members "When a mechanic works on a flat rate he has no incentive to of our ships are over 20 years of are auto repair mechanics working for auto dealers, garages, and use any imagination or ingenuity. If he does figure out a better age. Nor is this the end of it, for and faster way to perform an operation, the manufacturer when truck repair shops. Winpisinger told the Senate Antitrust subcommittee headed by he hears about it will then reduce the time allotted for the job. Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.) that: "In other industries, collective bargaining translates increased "The conditions and circumstances that frustrate the work­ productivity into higher hourly wages. In auto repair the me­ SEAFARERS^LOC force are the same conditions and circumstances that prevent the chanic simply gets less for the same result." average American car owner from receiving adequate, safe, eco­ The union officer emphasized that piecework, based on the flatDec. 20, 1968 • Vol. XXX, No. 26 nomical and competitive service. rate system, was not labor's idea. It was introduced by the auto Official Publication of the "Although we are committed to the principle of a fair day's manufacturers and the mechanics have been stuck with it. Seafarers International Union pay for a fair day's work, our 1 million members are consumers In many areas the mechanics are not well enough organized to of North America, as well as wage earners. So we are equally committed to the insist upon an adequate hourly wage rate. In these areas me­ Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, proposition that when a consumer pays for repairs and service chanics generally demand the right to supplement their incomes AFL-CIO on his car he has a right to receive proper repairs at a fair price." with piecework. Executive Board "As a democratic organization we cannot ignore their wishes," PAUL HALL, President Flat Rates Blamed Winpisinger explained, "although we know that the evils inherent CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Vice-Pree. Vice-President in piecework will eventually emerge." The union officer laid the blame for high repair costs on the AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS Winpisinger listed five steps the union takes through collective auto industry's system of flat rates established annually in manu­ Sec.-Treas. Vice-President facturers' manuals. bargaining to minimize the abuses of the flat rate system: V AL TANNER ROBERT MATTHEWS Vice-President Vice-President These flat-rate manuals establish recommended working time • Guaranteeing the mechanic an hourly or weekly minimum for which the customer is to be charged for specified repairs. Director of Publications assuring him of at least a basic wage. MIKE POLLACK Winpisinger pointed out that whether the work actually takes • Providing every mechanic with a copy of his own perform­ Editor more time or less is "immaterial." He explained that the cus­ HARRY WITTSCHBN ance and production records on which piecework earnings are tomer is charged not for the time spent repairing his car and the Assistant Editors based. WILL KARP mechanic is paid not for the number of hours he actually works, PETER WEISS • Giving the mechanics the right to sit down with manage­ BILL MOORE but according to the time set in the manufacturer's book. ment to discuss obviously unfair time allowances. Staff Photog The lAM vice president cited many built-in drawbacks of the ANTHONY ANSALDI • Insisting that identical work is paid for identical rates flat-rate system. whether it be for cars under warranty, on used cars or for the . For one example: PiMllhid kiwHkiy it 810 RhiHli Blind Avtnii N.E., Wiiklniton, D. C. 20018 by thi Stafirgeneral public. "The flat-rate system does not allow the mechanic any time in Intirnitlspsi Union, Atlintic, Gilf, Libei ind Inland Witin District, AFL-CIO, 675 to do any checking, diagnosing or trouble-shooting on the cus­ • Distributing all available piecework fairly among the quali­ Fnrth Avenii, 8rMklyn, M.V. 11232. Tel. tomer's behalf. When a car owner comes into a dealer's shop he fied mechanics. HVielnth 9-6600. Second class postatc paid at Washlnptons, D. C. is sold repairs by a so-called service salesman—who often doesn't Winpisinger pointed out that the piece rate system has ob­ POSTMASTER'S ATTENTIOH: Farai 3579 even look under the hood to find out what actually is needed. structed the normal progression of the auto mechanics hourly cards sboild b« sent to Scafaren International Union, Atlantic, Calf, Lakes and Inland At best the service salesmen only guesses at what needs to be done. wage rates. The result has been-to drive skilled mechanics into Waten District, AFL-CIOi 675 Foirth Annie, Bneklyn, H-V- 11232. "At worst, the service salesman may be a 'con artist' padding more lucrative fields. At the same time, he added, promising •SU­ the sales sheet with unnecessary repairs to improve his salary young men are unable to find apprenticeship opportunities. IT i Union Medianii Blasts Auto Repair Prising �>ecein^ 20, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Long Kayser-Roth Strike Suiiessful As Textile Workers Ink New Pact JPage.flv'4 Grape Pickers Live in Semi-Slavery, UFWOC's Delores Huerta Charges •1 ^ seven-month strike by 550 Kayser-Roth hosiery workers for their first Tex­ WASHINGTON—A mother of seven children, who is also a tile Workers Union of America contract has ended successfully with the negotiation of a one-year union official, recently charged that California grape growers hold agreement providing wage gains and other benefits for the strikers. workers in "semi-slavery." Ratification of the contract at sharing plan and a Christmas bank, which will forward it to the Vowing that workers will . . a local union meeting here De­ bonus program now in effect will A&P, Wrigley's, Chat­ union. fight "oil and on" to build their cember 1also marked the con­ be continued. Clauses on senior­ ham, Kroger's, Farmer Jack and Last May the AFL-CIO Execu­ clusion of the widely supported ity and grievance handling were tive Council called for a nation­ union, Delores Huerta, vice Great Scott—won praise from the AFL-CIO boycott of Kayser-Roth added, and a voluntary arbitration wide consumer boycott of com­ president of the AFL-CIO United Detroit Grape Boycott Committee hose and other products in the provision give employees the right pany products and all-out support Farm Workers Organizing Com­ for deciding not to sell California United States and Canada. The to strike if management fails to of the strikers "for the duration." mittee, declared: "It is not just a table grapes. question qf wages." "The decision of the store own­ boycott effort was credited as a agree to arbitration on a specific After the settlement the union "It is a question of human dig­ ers was a moral one," said Rev. major factor in the settlement. grievance. expressed "thanks to all our nity, of equality," she asserted on Joseph Melton, representing the Adolph C. Benet, hosiery divi­ friends, in the labor movement the AFL-ClO-produced network Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit Two Major Issues sion director of TWUA, said that and out, who contributed both interview. Labor News Confer­ and the committee. "It reflects the The major strike issues pro­ financial and moral support to the besides a wage increase of 10 ence, broadcast Tuesdays at 7:35 new conscience emerging in the duced modified agreement—arbi­ strikers." cents an hour, the settlement in­ p.m., EST, on Mutual Radio. conduct of business in Michigan." cludes paid vacations of one week tration and dues checkoff. The Mrs. Huerta pointed out that The company makes women's Venustiano Olguin, a spokes­ or two—based on length of serv­ union wanted arbitration of the hosiery under the brand names of "most of the field workers are man for the striking grape work­ ice — four hours' call-in pay, last step in the grievance proce­ Schiaparelli, Mojud, Kayser, Mexican-American, Filipino, Ne­ ers in California, said the decision double time for Sunday work, dure, and got a method for achiev­ Phoenix; men's hose labeled Es­ gro and Puerto Rican." The grow- • shows that Michigan industry "is three paid holidays, jury duty pay, ing it. On checkoff, it was agreed quire and Bachelor's Friend, and ers, she said, "try to get the idea concerned with poverty not only and improvement of a company- that employees may authorize Supp-Hose for both sexes. over that workers are sub-human along its own hard-core poor." paid insurance plan. management to deduct dues and Kayser-Roth workers here . .. play one race against the other The parties agreed that a profit deposit the amount in a local voted for TWUA four years ago. . . . and actually perpetrate racial Management engaged in legal prejudice." She noted specifically that farm maneuvers until challenged bal­ workers are denied the rights and lots were finally counted and the protections other workers have union was certified by the Na­ under the National Labor Rela­ tional Labor Relations Board, tions Act They are "absolutely Sept. 11, 1967. powerless . . . have no control When the company lost its legal over their conditions ... no job WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO battle it showed little desire to security," she said. President George Meany has. settle at the bargaining table from CHICAGO—Four of America's oldest labor organizations have "If a worker tries to find out called on all affiliated national and October 1967 to May 1968. Em­ who he is working for . . . or merged into a new United Transportation Union "to meet the international unions to support a demands of these times" in representing men who move the ployees voted to strike, and what his wages are going to be consumer boycott against Neuhoff walked out May 6. Despite strong for the next day, he is fired," she nation's trains, ^ Company meats. he pointed out, UTU will repre­ pressure for settling from towns­ said. Formation of the 280,000- sent brakemen, conductors, people hurting from the loss of a In a letter to all affiliates, Meany "So much violence (was) perpe­ member union, effective Janu­ switchmen, firemen and engineers. big payroll, the strike was 100 said that the Meat Cutters and trated against our strikers and our Butcher Workmen are involved in ary 1, was announced here jointly Luna said that UTU will press percent effective, the TWUA said. pickets" that the union was forced a strike with Neuhoff at three by presidents of the Railroad hard for improved wages and The AFL-CIO boycott, and to launch the nationwide boycott Trainmen, Firemen and Engine- benefits for its members, a strong plants over basic trade union is­ support of farmers, small busi­ against table grapes, as the "safest men, Switchmen's union and Con­ railroad safety law, new mass sues. nessmen and other workers in the weapon we have," she explained. ductors and Brakemen. The strike at the-Neuhoff plant transportation programs and so­ area turned the tide. But the cru­ Telling effects of the boycott on in Clarksville, Tenn., began Apr. They released figures showing cial measures to benefit all work­ cial factor was labor's determina­ the table grape market, she said, 16; at Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 21, that members of their unions ers and all Americans. tion not to let the issue go down are evident in shipments "far be­ and at Quincy, Fla., Sept. 28. voted overwhelmingly for the Railroad managements should the drain, TWUA asserted. low normal" and prices substan­ Neuhoff employees are seeking merger in a two-month referen­ welcome the merger, he noted, Labor support of the product tially lower than last year. union recognition, an end to dum—and they explained the im­ because it will make negotiations She urged union members and boycott was widespread. Stores in portance of the action. more expedient. At the same many cities were handbilled, and others who are sympathetic to the widespread unfair labor practices The Trainmen voted 86 per­ time, he served notice on the car­ shoppers were called on to avoid farm workers to provide "visible, and a contract that will correct such inequities as 50 to 100-hour cent in favor of the merger, the riers that UTU will seek "inno­ buying company products until a physical support" and financial workweeks at wages as much as Firemen and Enginemen 96 per­ vation in the industry." contributions. "Sympathy alone," $1.50 per hour lower than at setTement was reached. cent, the Switchmen 69 percent, "Railroads have followed the After the strike started, TWUA she said, "just isn't going to make competing plants in the same and the Conductors and Brakemen old ways too long," Luna de­ it." areas. 75 percent. clared. "Just because the tracks President Williain Pollock sent Meanwhile, that visible support The employees have launched a personal letters to 1,600 hosiery All of the unions, except the lie still and never move is no buyers in major cities. Their re­ continued to grow with a signifi­ consumer boycott against Neuhtrff ORC&B, are members of the reason to turn the industry into sponse was encouraging. Pollock cant victory in Detroit. products branded Valley dale. AFL-CIO and the UTU has asked stagnation." Frosty Morn and Reelfoot. That city's sbc major grocery said. for affiliation with the federation. In a joint statement, the merg­ It also expects to affiliate with the ing unions' presidents said that Canadian Labor Congress for "This shrinking industry no long­ 30,000 members in Canada. er makes it possible for the tra­ ditional individual unions to meet Luna Appointed Head the demands of the times." Under the merger agreement, Unification, they said, will end UTU's president is Charles Luna, "the battle of craft against craft" who has served since 1963 as and bring the combined strength head of BRT, the largest of the of rail operating employees to­ four merging unions. Heads of gether for constructive purposes. the three other merging unions "We have united," they contin­ will take offices as assistant pres­ ued, "to provide a way for trans­ idents at the new union's head­ portation workers to join and find quarters in Cleveland. They are common solutions to the prob­ H. E. Gilbert, BLF&E; Neil P. Speirs, Switchmen; and Clyde F. lems of the working man, the public and the industry." Lane, ORC&B. The merger of the four operat­ These officers, along with ing unions goes back to January UTU's Secretary-Treasurer John of this year when their presidents H. Shepherd, who presently holds met in Cleveland and agreed on that office in BRT, will serve until the new union's first convention the basic need for a single orga­ nization. Four top officers—one in 1971. from each union—worked out At a press conference, Luna preliminary merger procedures. stressed that while UTU will be a Once the documents were strong single body with the worked out, they were submitted strength that comes from unity, the individual crafts will keep to the governing bodies of each The SlU joined United Farm Workers in continuing boycott against stores carrying California grapes in their identity within the new union and then sent out to all New York in city-wide pre-Thanksgiving demonstration recently. UFW Vice-President Dolores Huerta rank and file members for their union. and SlU Representative Pete Drewes (center foreground) were among those on picket line in front of a As the largest union made vote during October and Novem­ Grand Union store. Labor, civic and religious leaders urged consumers to support the farm workers. ber. up entirely of railroad workers, 4 Railroad Operating Crafts Merge into One Giant Union Meany Urges Labor Boycott Of Nouhoff Moat �Mill Pace Six rPecember JO, vlM8 SEAFARERS LO.G Republican Mainstream RefiecteJ in Nixon Cabinet WASHINGTON—President- Daniel P. Moynihan to direct a Nixon, Rogers served on the U.S. Elect Richard M, Nixon has new Cabinet-level Council on Ur­ delegation to the United Nations turned to the academic world to ban Affairs. Moynihan is expected in the 1965 session and heads pick a Secretary of Labor who, to be the "idea man" on urban a prominent law firm. he said, "has demonstrated in problems. Secretary of Defense—Melvin Most of those named to the his mediation capacities that he R. Laird, at 46, is an eight-term can gain the confidence of both Cabinet have been described as congressman from Wisconsin who pragmatic, friendly to the concept labor and business." ranks high in the Republican lead­ that private business and the states His choice to "speak for labor" should play a dominant role in ership as chairman of the House in the Nixon Cabinet is George oroblem-solving, but free of the Republican Conference. As a senior member of the Ap­ P. Shultz, 48-year-old economist simplistic belief that the era of propriations Committee, Laird and dean of the Graduate School big government can be turned has been hard-working, able and of Business at the University of back. a staunch fiscal conservative. His Chicago since 1962. In his television introduction of AFL-CIO President George Shultz as Secretary of Labor, COPE voting record in the 90th Meany sent a letter of congratula­ Nixon said he was searching for Congress shows him voting against tions and a pledge of co-operation a man in the tradition of the late labor's position on every one of 13 key issues. to Shultz. James P. Mitchell. He said he found such a man in The Labor Department has al­ Secretary of Housing & Urban ways had the support of the trade Shultz, "who is a great educator, Devel(^Hnent—Michigan Gover­ union movement in carrying out but more than that he is a man nor George Romney, 61, is prob­ its mandate to promote the wel­ who will speak for labor as did ably the best known personality fare of wage earners and improve Jim Mitchell, but who also has in the Nixon Cabinet. The former demonstrated in his mediation head of the American Motors Co. working conditions, Meany said. capacities that he can gain the con­ plunged successfully into Michi­ "We in the AFL-CIO look for­ fidence of both labor and busi­ gan politics with an image of ward to working closely with you ness." being above the partisan fray. He and your associates in the achieve­ Descriptions of other Nixon shunned Barry Goldwater in 1964 ment of those objectives." Cabinet selections follow: and has shown a concern for the Shultz, an academic specialist problems of the Negro ghetto on industrial relations, automation Secretary of State—^William P. but has denounced the "power" and manpower training, has served Rogers, 55, served as attorney a public member of mediation general and earlier as deputy at­ of unions. and arbitration panels and is torney general under President Postmaster General — Winton among a group of moderates in Eisenhower. His early law career M. Blount, nicknamed "Red," is the all-Republican Cabinet Nixon was spent as an assistant district the 47-year-old president of the presented to the nation over tele­ attorney in New York City under U.S. Chamber of Commerce and vision and radio—a Cabinet made Thomas E. Dewey. In the Justice his Blount Brothers Corp., at up of businessmen, lawyers, edu­ Department, Rogers helped push Montgomery, Ala., is one of the cators and political figures repre­ through the compromise 1957 South's biggest construction firms. senting the basically conservative Civil Rights Act. He has worked with union labor mainstream of the Republican A close friend and adviser of and considers himself a businessParty. On domestic issues, the key Cabinet member is expected to be Robert H. Finch—partly be­ cause of his designated post as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare;'^uT"particularly be­ cause of his close, long-standing personal and political association with Nixon. Completing the trio of Cabinet A Victory Against Gougers members who will be dealing with By Sidney Margolhis the nation's most pressing urban The feat of Washington State labor unions in the recent elections in problems is Michigan's Governor winning a legal ceiling of 12 percent per annum on retail credit is not George Romney, named to be only a triumph for the public over the installment sellers and lenders, Secretary of Housing and Urban it is also a clear indication to working families in every state that there Development. is no need to pay high finance charges. Earlier, however, Nixon had Twelve percent per annum is enough. There are plenty of places to named a Democratic sociologist. borrow at that rate whether you need money to pay Christmas bills or for other needs. Twelve percent per annum is what you pay when a lender or dealer quotes you a finance charge of $6.50 per $100 of original balance, or a rate of 1 percent a month on your declining balance. Credit unions, for example, charge a true rate of 12 percent per annum on member loans. In fact, many give free life insurance and rebates so that the true cost often is closer to 11 percent. Many com­ mercial banks, too, charge only 12 percent or a little more on personal loans and auto credit. But while 12 percent is enough to pay for credit, it's a lot better than WASfflNGTON—The task of the 18-22 percent charged by most department store, mail-order and mapping the Trust Territory of bank-card charge account plans, or the true per-annum rates of 30-36 the Pacific Islands—a very for­ percent charged by small-loan companies, or the 20-36 percent per­ midable one because of the vast spread of the globe it encom­ mitted on installment purchases of used cars in various states. Now—for the first time in any state—no retailer, bank credit card passes—^will soon be undertaken or auto dealer in Washington can charge any more than 12 percent, by the U.S. Geological Survey. While the land area of the even on used cars. What happened in Washington is a lesson for credit-exploited work­ islands themselves is only about ing families and their organizations everywhere else. This is the first 700 square miles, they are located time in any state that the public itself has had a chance to vote on across an ocean area of almost credit laws. Last year the Washingtoii State labor unions had tried to three million square miles. De­ tailed topographic coverage will get the State Legislature to put a 12 percent ceiling on rates but the be compiled only of the major protests of retailers and lenders won out. This year, after the bank credit-card plans raised their rates from islands. Many of the smaller ones, which include minute coral islets one percent a month (12 percent a year) to IV2 percent (18 percent and atolls will not be charted un­ a year), the unions decided to go right to the public. der this program. In an all-out campaign, the State Labor Council and its allies got Administered by the United the necessary signatures for the petition to put tlje issue on the ballot States, the Trust Territory includes —as is permitted in that state. Joe Davis, Council President, and three major archipelagoes—^the Marvin L. Williams, Secretary-Treasurer, were listed as the sponsors. Mananas, the Caroling and the , Then the retailers and lenders swung their big guns into action to Ma^halls--?:ca(nprising^ a total of try to beat the proposal. They ^^ed a deceptively-named "Credit about 2,000 islands. Users Comtnittee." Revealingly, ijye'of the 23 area,,chainn<fp, of this Geological Survey To Begin Mapping U.S. Pacific Isles • i ). . 5 man, not a politician, although he had a role in the 1960 Nixon campaign. Secretary of Transportation— Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe, 60, owns a multi-million dollar construction business and has won three terms as governor in a normally Democratic but ticket-splitting state. He also serv­ ed as the nation's first highway administrator under President Eisenhower. Secretary of the Treasury— David M. Kennedy, 63, is board chairman of the Continental Illi­ nois National Bank—a vice presi­ dent of the same bank, Robert Mayo, will be director of the Bu­ reau of the Budget. Kennedy spent most of his career in the Federal Reserve System. Attorney General—^Two years ago, Nixon's law firm merged with a firm headed by John N. Mitchell—and the two men hit it off so well that Mitchell became manager of Nixon's presidential campaign. At 55, he is the same age as the President-elect and has been described as "very pragmat­ ic," not committed to any political doctrine. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare—Robert H. Finch, California's lieutenant governor, is the youngest man in the cabi­ net at 43 and the man who has known Nixon longest and has been closet to him. He served as Nix­ on's administrative assistant from 1958 to 1960 and directed his 1960 campaign. By contrast to Governor Ronald Reagan, Finch has been generally labeled a moderate and has shown a concern with job training and race relations problems. His close relationship with Nixon makes it probable that, at least initially, his will be the most influential voice on domestic issues. Secretary of the Interior—Alas­ ka's Governor Walter J. Hickel, 49, was chosen, Nixon said, be­ cause the post traditionally goes to a westerner and because "he has never been involved in any of the bitter struggles between private and public power ... or the struggles between some of the western states like Arizona and California over water." Secretary of Commerce—Mau­ rice H. Stans, 60, was a budgetcutting, conservative budget di­ rector during the Eisenhower Ad­ ministration. He has been praised as a bulwark against inflation and damned as a penny-pincher who hamstrung the nation's economic growth and weakened its defenses. Secretary of Agriculture—Clif­ ford M. Hardin, 53, is chancellor of the University of Nebraska and former dean of Michigan State University's School of Agriculture. Nixon said his job will be "to speak for the farmers to the Pres­ ident." committee were from Sears Roebuck alone. The others were from banks, department stores and car dealers. The retailers and lenders then started to pour out the advertising money to beat the 12 percent ceiling proposal. They spent a halfmillion dollars on TV, radio and newspaper ads, and plastered bill­ boards all across the state, says Ken Fleming, editor of the State Labor Council Reports. The ads threatened that if finance rates were lowered, prices would go up and people would find it hard to get credit. The retailers and lenders also had the support of virtually every newspaper in the state except for the Catholic Northwest Progress, and the nearby Lewiston, Idaho, Morning Tribune. In contrast, the labor and community groups campaigning for lower interest rates found it virtually impossible to get the local newspapers to print any of their views. The unions spent only $55,000 including the $20,000 it cost to circulate the petitions to get the question on the ballot. This was about one-tenth the amount the credit industry spent for its massive campaign run by a leading advertising agency. But you can't fool the people all the time. When the ballots were counted, the public had voted 572,000 to 509,000 for the 12 percent ceiling. The impossible had happened. A valuable added result of the campaign, Fleming says, was the education of the public in true interest rates. Many people had never realized that Wi percent a month on revolving charge accounts amounts to true annual interest of 18 percent. The petition-collectors also found a great deal of bitterness among families about the way banks were trying to get everybody to use credit cards. Now the Washington State trade unionists hope their success will encourage similar campaigns to reduce finance charges in other states. Their new law however, does not affect small-loan rates which are even higher than retail finance charges. In other states, until the public comes to realize the enormous waste of family money resulting from high finance charges, you can only protect yourself. The new Federal truth-in-lending law does not go into effect until July 1. You usually can save on finance charges by borrowing the cash from a credit union or commercial bank rather than from a small-loan company. ' Also, always remember to borrow the least you need-—not the most the lender will give you—and pay back as soon as you pan. The finance rate, the amount you boi^ow, and the length of time for ^hich you borrow it, all effect the tcjt^l^finance pharge you ^ , >1 4^ .v, ^4 ^ <t V �' IR^iOBer 20i 1^ Seven - Labor Demands Safer Limits On Mine Radiation Exposure A New Light! ••-•Or.;;,.;,, , — •K —Human life and health must have priority over the dollar cost of lowering the level of radiation exposure in uranium mines, spokesmen for organized labor stressed at a Labor Department hearing recently. Testimony came from George Taylor, an AFL-CIO economist; Henry A. Adkinson, an Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' repre­ sentative, and George W. Haycock, Steelworkers' representative. They strongly supported Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's plan to limit exposure of miners to three-tenths of a "working level" (.3 WL) of radiation a month, effective January 1. A "working level" is a measure of radiation concentration. The three witnesses recalled labor's past battle on behalf of radi­ ation standards, including its call for the .3 WL at hearings in June 1967 held by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Acting under Walsh-Healey Act authority, Wirtz "temporarily" set a 1.0 WL standard last year. Recently, he proposed the new level after statistics continued to show a death rate from lung cancer among uranium miners far exceeding that for the rest of the nation. A report published in August of this year by the Federal Radiation Council showed that, in a group of 3,414 uranium miners studied from 1950 to 1967, there were 62 deaths from lung cancer, about six times the normal rate of death from that disease. Nevertheless, several spokesmen for nine managements have testi­ fied in opposition to the new lower limit, as has the Atomic Energy Commission. Employers Balk at Cost Some of the employers have contended that the added costs of vent­ ing equipment and fans for moving fresh air would put them out of business. Taylor emphasized that the AFL-CIO backs the new level because "we assert the value of each miner as a human being—his health, his safety, the continuity of his earning capacity to fulfill his family obli­ gations, and to live his life free from the shadow of slow death." There "has been no convincing data," he pointed out, to show that the secretary's standard "would ruin the industry economically, nor substantially increase the cost of nuclear power." Even so, Taylor continued, the federation would agree to an amend­ ment to give all mines until July 1, 1969, to comply with the .3 WL standard, assuring the industry "it is not being dealth with in an arbi­ trary and capricious fashion." Adkinson also stressed that the mines could afford to make the changes needed to lower radiation exposure. "We don't have any knowledge of anyone being forced into bank­ ruptcy in the last 10 years because of bringing down the working level from 10 to 1," he said, adding, "if this can be accomplished in this period of time, why can't the .3 WL ... be met?" Haycock told the hearing that "good ventilation" is the key to re­ ducing the radiation hazard in a uranium mine because it disposes of radon daughter concentrations in the atmosphere. It is the radon daughter decay products that attach themselves to dust particles and are inhaled into the lungs and bronchial passages, he pointed out. The AFL-CIO will conduct its 1969 Arbitration Institute January 12 through 17 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, 111. Purpose of the program is to ac­ quaint full-time union representa­ tives and staff members with the skills needed to prepare and pre­ sent arbitration cases effectively. Topics will include arbitration and the law, arbitration clause in the bargaining agreement, arbitration costs, arbitrability, selecting the arbitrator, preparing and present­ ing the case, and evidence, wit­ nesses and written briefs. Partici­ pants will also gain practical ex­ perience by working in small groups on preparing actual cases. * * * Harold D. Mclver has been named southeastern coordinator for the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Dept., lUD Organizational Direc­ tor Nicholas Zonarich announced. Mclver, 37, has worked on lUD coordinated organizing programs since 1963 and is an international representative of the Steelworkers. * * * Harold J. McAvoy, president of the Post Office Mail Handlers since 1941, died here unexpect­ edly at a union meeting and was buried December 4. McAvoy was answering questions of members about the union's recent merger with the Laborers when he col­ lapsed and died. His wife and a daughter survive. * * • Three new election victories for the Teachers and one vote to af­ filiate brought to 10,332 the num­ ber of newly represented members since January 1, AFT President David Selden announced recently. The union announced it will issue a new charter to the staff of Mid­ dlesex, N. J., County College, which voted to leave an unaffili­ ated organization and join the AFT. The AFT organizing de­ partment reported recent gains for the union in Woodbridge, N. J., 1,093 teachers; Minot, N. D., 432, and Ontario, Ohio, 109. Since the first of the year, the union has chartered 52 new locals in 17 states. • • » Thirteen pogy boat fishermen, fired' five years ago when they voted for a union, will divide $32,000 in backpay under a settlement announced here by the National Labor Relations Board. The settlement ended a legal battle by the Meat Cutters for the crew of the motor vessel Gallant Man, owned by the Patterson Menhaden Corp. The crewmen fish the Atlantic and Gulf coasts for menhaden in craft they call pbgy boats. ' 'kt ••r? -• Christmas, 1968! Once again we have arrived at the season in which the age-old words "Peace on earth—good will toward men" are heard at every turn. How well that noble sentiment is to endure in the future is a matter of unprecedented chal­ lenge to all of us as Americans. Peace, now lying on a table in Paris, ap­ pears at last to be approaching a real talking stage after months of shadow-boxing. We have hope that those talks will not be so long and drawn-out that 1969 will not at last see the consummation of a durable and hon­ orable end to the war in Vietnam. Peace and good will during this holiday season will also be much in the hearts of Seafarers—so much a part of the U.S. effort in Vietnam—as they share the happy days with their families at home or with their shipmates at sea if their chosen duty keeps them away in some of the remotest nooks of the world. But when the festivities are put aside for still another year, most of the challenges of 1968—though partially met—will still be around to keep us ever on our guard against those who would oppose progress. The vital issues of poverty in a rich America, civil rights, adequate housing still exist. The creation of a climate in America where nobody is disenfranchised and in which sound hope and a firm future are available to all—not only to the majority, but to the restless minority as well—^is yet to be accomplished. In maritime affairs, 1968 brought its set­ backs, but it brought successes, too. An in­ dependent MARAD bill was passed by the Congress with a degree of unanimity which showed conclusively that the will of the leg­ islature is solidly behind a strong U.S. mer­ chant marine. Although the bill was vetoed, a new Administration is taking office in January. Congress has weathered the recent elec­ tion with very few changes in the lineup of lawmakers aware of the needs of our fleet. The chairmen of the Senate and House com­ mittees which deal with maritime affairs. Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) and Representative Edward A. Garmatz (DMd.) are still firmly in their posts. Assur­ ances have been given that a bill again call­ ing for an independent MARAD will be in­ troduced early in the new Congressional ses­ sion. It can be passed quickly—and this time become law. Certainly, the campaign pronouncements of the President-elect cairy some cheer to the industry. The incoming chief executive has promised a new look at the operating subsidy program and assistance to the unsubsidized segment of the fleet—including the tramp-bulk carriers and the Great Lakes operators. He has taken formal notice of the sad state in which our merchant fleet languishes today, including the "glaring deficiency" in bulk carriers. Also, he has indicated his un­ derstanding of the great contribution that increased carriage of cargoes under the American flag can make to the nation's un­ favorable balance of payments situation. There is no reason why 1969 cannot be the year when the American merchant fleet once again comes into its own and is recog­ nized as the vital force it has historically been in the economy and defense of the nation. �DcMAs)Mierl>S07 >l«6a •<( SEAF\ARBR» \VOG ' De<eMlert>207 1968 1 SEAV\ARER& iL'OG In the long-established SlU tradition of serv­ ing Thanksgiving dinner to Seoforers, their families and friends, SlU halls in ports across the nation were packed again this year as members and their guests turned out in record numbers for the,holiday festivities. Turkey with all the trimmings—from soup to nuts—were the order of the occasion whhh was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. Pictured on these pages are just a few of the thousands of happy par­ ticipants in this annual affair. * i'" Seafarer Joe Pagala and the entire Pagala family agreed the repast was enjoyed by all. Dinner was held at the Tampa Airport Motel, ^re C_ r~ "•'fnqs aZ ^^'1" ^ J- " ' •i V / 7^ 'Y, i" V^ "J I. 7::im -1^*'' V fygf EE^y.,.Sk^ y-M'* "' • f f' v, ••?;••.?':• • ^ ' ^ , < -v" r »" V, :• 11. J \r.-- . vr coring ^dy £ VI I V ; ' TaWnq 'f Dovw^, ® . °'®''C(0(/s ^ ^'^d lyi ."ora „7—i P^^OsIn Richard VV''", "r ever. ^^9'V/ng D;' 'M// /968. m 'V:r •!• k#-- • • '4 - " "i I -•J 5 fh. '• ^oblk\^^ ^ofcF/e HaT ^ oM«„ orar^aaJ fes^;, Porfs' iiy ^"'s c'®/®s+<V© f. L, '^ported L i®^®'"er F m 'w ,y°'y good O" af Me 'o J I'' iI#53 • ). / ?? "Hat, W« a/'l'^' Wtt —««!ri !?!' D-ivJ ©re ° i" Ik The On,-v^r +WnV ^ J •V.-: -> ^^''ees W' "/ ^orfolL - .; - '/s /,>e • ' V <L'-.Ui- 1..• V" • .as«r7- , -V Nono' J foO" ^ J Jo© 4., 1 •"v#/ ... WaW, ( ' Vtv 4!?: l-.? f. '"""y -''4r • •, . *^= fi -Mi'XX': ... I ' Hlg . .S?" - .-Ji m I I • ' -i* 4 ' *<^1 •/. . * teT .So .i; «C:S!v»SaAS !¥>-«. • . // ' *-'• ,"&S - VV'V'VV';vV-"'' A ' • •• |j|^ i^. .r ,t , is much in evidence i. by family and guests of Seafarer Yasmanti Somatii, at far ends •of the table on the right, during festivities at Norfolk Hall. Feeding daughter Edith in New York is Mrs. Grace Farrugia. They were guests of Anthony Sambina. - - -,-< , •5 At table heaped high with delicious fruiti in Por^ iof* Norfolk, Susan Ann, left^ seated next to Grandad William H. Horwell, and Seafarer and Mrs. N. ,W. Riggins enjoy first course. At right is Frank j^irey family at Seattle. ** / / k Vbrf ,1 V , 5£- ^1 V 4- ^ 4 ^ drinlc J - -Sv?9^5S| Seafarer andM1^ William Camp­ bell enjoyed Sl,U,dinner at El Matador Restauranth in Seattle; ^•<,1 ^ y <f Ir h Port of Norfplk, surnptubus turkey dinner makes for agreeable conI versation between Seafarer and Mrs. Lloyd G Turnage and tfieir fible companions, David Berger and Mrs. Elsie B. Lee, shown at right. • Joe Munoz hands pihbabpfe to Gloria, pretty daughter/of Ricardo Barcelona, at J^jV Y^ fHall. Ready for coffee and a tasty dessert after full meal at Seattle are Seafarers Henry Rudio, left, and A. Carroga right. , Shown at Seattle's festivities, are Seafarer 'and Mrs. Gus Skendelas. They relax with after ; dinner talk after enjoying a delicious meal. ... �Page Ten li D^enlBer 80; 1908 ^SEAI^ARBRS LOG expanding Seafarers Pension List Philippine Currency Rules Adds Ten Uore Veteran Oldtimers Can Bring Rough Penalties The names of ten more Seafarers have been added to the ever-expanding list of those men collecting their SIU pension. The latest Brothers who have joined the pension roster include: Gerard Manuel, Fred Pagan, Andrew Morales, Sol Bleeker, Joseph Lapham, Richard Cummings, Elias Wal­ ker, Dennis Smith, Floyd McPhee and Frederick Kerfoot. Gerard Manuel joined the Union in Port Arthur, Texas, and held a chief engineer's rating. A native of Louisiana, he lives in Lapham Fagan Orange, Texas. Brother Manuel was last employed by Slade, Inc. Fred Fagan sailed as steward. A native of Kentucky, he now makes his home in New Orleans, with his wife, Irene. He joined Morales Cummings Union in New York. A bridge operator, he was last employed by the New York Central Rail­ road. Brother Bleeker was bom in Russia and makes his home in Brooklyn. Joseph Lapham joined the SIU in 1938 in New ork. He last shipped on the Afoundria. Broth­ er Lapham was born in New Lon­ don, Connecticut, and lives in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, with his wife, Anne. He sailed as AB and bosun. Richard Cummings' sailing ca­ reer began in 1943. He joined the Union in Philadelphia and lives in that city with his wife, Clara. Bleeker the Union in Mobile. Brother Fagan last sailed on the Santore. Andrew Morales lives in Brook­ lyn and joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1939. A member of the steward department, his last ship was the Steel Apprentice. Brother Morales is a native of Puerto Rico. Sol Bleeker also joined the Kerfoot vessel was the Patomac. Elias Walker joined the SIU in 1942 in Tampa. A native of Flor­ ida, he lives in New Orleans. Brother Walker sailed as oiler and his last ship was the Del Oro. Dennis Smith also joined the Union in Tampa. A Florida na­ tive, he still lives in Tampa with his wife. Alberta. He sailed as FOWT and his last ship was the Bethflor. Frederick Kerfoot sailed as oil­ er. He joined the Union in the Port of Mobile and is a resident of that city. Born in Indiana, he last sailed aboard the Lucile Bloomfield. Floyd McPhee joined the SIU in Detroit. A native of Michigan, he now lives in Bay City, Michi­ gan. He was last employed by the American Steamship Company and held a FWT rating. Smith A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brother Cummings served in the Navy from 1925 to 1930. He was a member of the deck department and sailed as carpenter. His last Keeping in Trim McPhee WASHINGTON—Strict regulatory changes involving the use of Philippine currency and foreign exchange declarations —of major importance to Seafarers—have been issued by the Philippine Central Bank. The new regulations, effectivp November 29, were announced here earlier this month by the Office of Maritime Manpower of the Maritime Administra­ tion. The agency of MARAD warned that the new regulations re­ quire all persons arriving in the Philippines—including seamen and flight crew of aircraft—to declare all monies in their jjossession. These declarations are to be made on a form (No. 303) which will be available from Philippine Central Bank agents, who will be on 24-hour duty to issue and receive them. Customs personnel will work with the Central Bank agents and search baggage and persons, wherever it is considered necessary. The portions of the latest Philippine bank regulations which are of particular concern to Seafarers are as follows: • Every person, departing from or entering the Philippines, must declare all Philippine currency and foreign exchange in his possession. • Temporary visitors—all non-residents—shall keep their cur­ rency declarations until their departure. Temporary visitors may carry with them all the foreign exchange they have declared, but may sell such foreign exchange only to authorized agents of the Central Bank. They may not take out foreign exchange in excess of the amount brought in. • Upon departure. Seafarers not residents of the Philippines must surrender their currency declarations to agents of the Cen­ tral Bank at the Port or airport of departure. • No person entering the Philippines may bring into the coun­ try Philippine currency in excess of 100 pesos, of which coins may not exceed 50 pesos. A peso is currently worth 25.58 cents in U. S. money. • No person departing from the Philipines may take out of the country Philippine notes and coins in excess of 100 pesos— of which silver and/or nickel coins shall not exceed five pesos. Penalties for violations provide for fines up to 20,000 pesos and/or imprisonment of up to five years. November 29 to December 12, 1968 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 7 2 45 64 6 7 20 13 7 12 8 15 4 13 23 22 41 36 40 37 20 17 34 53 25 12 280 303 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B Class C 9 0 0 33 54 11 7 2 4 17 9 14 6 10 10 8 9 8 6 5 4 12 12 13 42 35 9 30 28 4 18 20 24 40 64 30 21 13 15 248 267 141 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville ..... Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 5 4 43 68 4 5 11 10 8 9 5 17 4 1 16 15 29 58 35 38 10 14 40 47 10 7 220 283 Class A Class B Class C 4 12 28 46 15 6 7 1 11 13 9 3 11 10 2 16 6 3 11 12 6 6 29 41 8 26 30 7 11 13 18 36 41 43 15 12 16 186 237 141 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Larry Albertus, AB, takes time out tor a trim in barber shop at thei NeW York hall. Pertorming the task is James Saetani. Brother Albertus hails from Cops Bay, Oregon, and joined SIU in New York. Mobile New Orleans ..... Houston ......... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 6 1 41 29 7 7 9 12 4 8 11 6 5 2 17 16 38 23 32 31 11 14 26 64 14 5 221 208 Class A Class B Class C 13 0 32 26 27 0 3 3 10 9 2 8 11 7 3 6 15 110 18 7 7 26 21 12 18 35 4 6 10 10 21 49 30 10 6 9 Ub 18^ REGISTERED on BEACH Class A 7 158 22 72 26 26 9 67 115 77 30 37 39 675 diassb 4 115 11 44 16 15 20 43 84 81 2 10 6 451 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 0 2 101 114 12 10 47 36 15 7 - 12 15 8 12 49 34 70 107 66 64 17 0 37 17 30 7 464 426 REGISTERED on BEACH —CnSTA Clissft 5 117 20 60 14 11 18 50 103 80 17 27 35 557 0 A5 9 41 19 7 5 28 53 32 1 21 3 204 s Nk' ( r 'f 1 V �DMemlNiv 20, IMS SEAFARERS LOG FINAL DEPARTURES Robert McNeil, 44: Brother Charles Tyler, 45: Brother Ty­ McNeil died on November 4, ler died on September 26, while 1968 at the a crewmember Memorial Baptist aboard the TamHospital in Hous­ ara Guilden. An ton. Death was AB, he had joined '« caused by a heart the SIU in 1948 ailment. Brother in the Port of McNeil joined the Galveston, Texas. Brother Tyler was Union in the port a native of that I of New York and state and made sailed as steward. His last vessel was the Penn Sailor. his home in Port Arthur. His last A native of Massachusetts, he had previous ship had been the Globe made his home in Texas City, Explorer. During World War II, Texas. During World War II, he he served in the Air Force. Sur­ served in the Navy. He is survived viving is his father, Charles Tyler, by his widow, Kira McNeil. The of Altair, Texas. Burial services burial services were held in Gal­ were held in Cheatham Cemetery, veston Memorial Park, Hitchcock, Sheridan, Texas. Texas. Samuel Merkerson, 71: Brother Merkerson died in the USPHS Hospital on Staten Island, N.Y., No­ Marshall Ness, 61: Brother Ness vember 30. He died on October 12, at Cook was an SIU pen­ County Hospital sioner at the time in Chicago. He of death. A native was a native of of Eaton, Geor­ Norway and had gia, he sailed as made his home in cook. Seafarer Chicago. A Sea­ Merkerson joined farer since 1961, the Union in the Port of New he joined the Un­ York and made his home in that ion in the port of city. Brother Merkerson last sailed Chicago and held on the Long Lines. He participat­ the rating of dredgeman. Brother ed in the Greater New York Har­ Ness was last employed by Merritt- bor strike in 1961. Burial was in Chapman and Scott. He is survived Sand Hill Cemetery, Eaton. by his widow, Leona. The burial services were held in Memorial Joseph Folse, 50: A cardiac ar­ Estates Cemetery, Northlake, Illi­ rest claimed the life of Seafarer nois. Folse, November 10, at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. A resi­ dent of that city, Charles Favreau, 54: A coro­ he was a native of nary thrombosis claimed the life Louisiana. Broth­ of Brother Fav­ er Folse joined reau on October the SIU in the 23, in Crystal Port of New Or­ Lake Township, leans and sailed as bosun. His last Michigan. A na­ ship was the Del Campo. Folse tive of Michigan, had" been sailing with the Union he made his home for 20 years. Surviving is his wid­ in the Port of ow, Ida. The burial was held in Frankfort. Fav­ St. Vincent DePaul Cemetery in reau joined the New Orleans. Union in the port of Elberta and held the rating of AB. He was last Andreas Kristiansen, 38: Broth­ emploved by the Ann Arbor Tow­ er Kristiansen died an accidental ing Company. Survivors include death on Septem­ his widow, Gladvs. The burial was ber 4, at Bethel, held in Rosehill Cemetery, Lee­ Alaska. A native lanau County, Mich. of Norway, he was a U. S. citi­ zen and lived in Seattle. Seafarer KrisMansen sailed Bernard Roll, 91: Pneumonia in the deck de­ claimed the life of Brother Roll partment and held on October 30, in an AB's rating. Brother Kristian­ Anacortes, Washsen joined the Union in the Port j ington. He was a native of Norway of Seattle. 4/ and had been on an SIU pension at the time of death. Seafarer Roll held an AB's rat­ ing and joined the Union in the Port, of New York in 1938. His last ship was the D. B. Johnson. Brother Roll be­ gan his sailing career in 1895. He first sailed on American ves­ sels in 1902, He took an active part in numerous SIU strikes and saw frequent convoy duty during World War II. Surviving is a son, Thorrol Roll of Anacortes. The burial was in/Grandview Ceme­ tery, AnacOrtes. Minzionle Maiioni, 70: Brother Marioni died on August 22, at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. He was a native of Texas and had been a resident of New Orleans. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans and was a member of the steward department. His last ves­ sel was the Penn Vanguard. Broth­ er Marioni was buried in the St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery, New Orleans? Surviving is his widow, Lilliart; " 7har She Blows'Sparks Memories Of Old Times for Seafarer Harvey Former Seafarer Fred Harvey, now on an SIU pension, recently took a nostalgic trip to Portland Maine, to visit the maritime Museum there, stopped off on the way home to examine the extensive collection of whaling memorabilia *n New Bedford's public library in Massachusetts, and then rem­ inisced about his early days on One sperm whale killed by Har­ whalers and clipper ships with vey's ship gave off 50 barrels of a LOG reporter in the New oil. The Andrew Hicks caught a York hall. bowhead whale at the mouth of While in New Bedford, Brother the McKenzie River in the Bering Harvey had a long talk with the Strait that gave 1,000 pounds of librarian—a man named Haggerty bone which sold for $3 a pound. —who also was a whaler in his The crew's share came to a grand younger days as were his father total of $3 per man. and grandfather before him. In spite of what one sees in the "He had all sorts of books on movies, Harvey found the South whaling, crew lists and old Log Seas somewhat less than romantic. books, etc.," Harvey said. "Many "The natives were practically old papers have been lost through naJked except for a G-string-type the years, but the library's 'records garment they used to keep flies are quite good. from biting them. When the Mis­ "Mr. Haggerty looked up an sionaries arrived, they made them old crew book from ships I had Harvey wear clothes up to the neck and sailed on such as the Andrew the natives nearly killed them," Hicks and the Alice Knowles and the whale would get so hot from he said. "Although our treatment I could see the money I made. friction that one could actually on the ships wasn't bad, the food On one trip, I made one dollar for smell it burning. He was a stroke was awful and the fresh fruit we an eleven-month voyage. On an­ oarsman and part of his job was got on the islands was a welcome other I got all of $8 and for a to throw water on the rope so it relief. Fresh fish could also be third trip, I made $5. I was on wouldn't sever from the heat. caught in abundance. The ship would hunt from De­ whalers from 1901 to 1904. The After getting his share of whal­ Alice Knowles was lost in a 1913 cember to the following Novem­ ing, Harvey sailed on clipper ber and return to 'Frisco for about hurricane, I recall." one month until their cargo of oil ships, then joined the French For­ Harvey, a native of Chicago, could be crated in barrels and eign Legion in World War 1. headed for San Francisco after he shipped East. Then, they would After the war, he began his career decided to leave home. His par­ head out again for the Pacific and on steamers. He joined the SIU ents had died when he was very Alaska. after Worid War 11. A mem­ young and he was shunted around ber of the deck department, he Telltale Spout from relative to relative. Tiring was 80 years old when he called Brother Harvey said that you it a day and went on pension in of this, he "decided to go west and fight Indians—but there weren't could recognize a whale by the 1965. any Indians to fight and I wound way it spouted. Some whales would spout straight up and oth­ up in San Francisco. SIU Halls will "Today, a seaman needs a suit­ ers to the side. Some had more be closed case full of papers," Harvey noted, than one spout and they resem­ "but in those days, such technical­ bled geysers. He recalls one whale Christmas and ities weren't needed. I just talked in Kodiak, Alaska, that kicked to this fellow I met about ships back with his tail and Lnocked off New Years Day and when he asked me how I'd the stern of the boat. The first mate was killed. like to sail, I said I'd like it fine. He told me to see the boarding master and to tell him I was over 18. At the time, I was only XAVz years old." Brother Harvey was told the ship was going to the South Sea Islands, but they ne­ glected to mention the fact that Willoughby Calvin Byrd Vmion Anderson the vessel was a whaler. Please contact Mrs. Ruby Byrd Please contact your wife, Zellie •Anderson, at 343A Quincy Street, at Route 7, Glasgow, Kentucky Thar She Blows 42147, as soon as you possibly "Whaling ships had crewmen Brooklyn, N. Y. 11216, as soon can. as possible. from all over the world, most of ^ whom were shanghaied," he re­ ^ called. "When a whale was sight­ Harold L. LoU ed the man would yell 'thar she Charles Doroba Your parents, Mr. and Mrs. blows,' just like the movies. After Your sister, Mrs. Julia Orzech, E. A. Loll, would like to hear the whale was sighted, a boat was asks that you please contact her from you in regard to an impor­ launched to track and harpoon at 1933 W. Oakdale Avenue, tant matter. Please get in touch him. There were six men in a Chicago, Illinois 60657 regarding with them at 2218 N. 18th Street, boat—a helmsman who did .the Phoenix, Arizona 85006. harpooning, a mate and four oars­ the up-coming holiday. men. "When the whale was hit, the Magnus Wdd harpooner would change places Egbert Palmer Your wife would like you to with the mate. Although it was Contact your wife, Vivian the steerer who harpooned, the Palmer, at 3110 Luxembourg write to her at 113 Union Avenue, mate did the killing. Attached to Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia 25509, Cresskill, New Jersey 07626. the harpoon was a long rod called the trigger rod. When it entered as soon as you can. the whale with the harpoon, it set off a cartridge which triggered a small cylindrical bomb that was attached to the end of the har­ poon. "Of course, the huge creature would thrash wildly about when hit and we always thought the swells would wash us out of the boat, but we rarely capsized," Harvey said. "Still, many boats have been sunk by these whales." Harvey explained that the rope httached' td the harpoon holditfjg ^ G. LIzano Please contact SIU Headquar­ ters in New York as soon as pos­ sible regarding an important mat­ ter. ^ Joseph Rudolph Please contact Paul M. Gold­ stein, Attorney at Law, 1015 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107, in regard to your claim against the Masamar. d> Charlie Bums John G. Newman Please contact William A. John­ Please contact your sister, Mrs. ston on the M. V., Floridian at Mary E. Harrigan, at 144-25 33rd 808 N. E. 2nd Ave., ^iaini, ElqrAvenue, Flushing, N.'Y. 11354. 1da 33132. ' ~ �Page Twelve DMember 20^ 1^68 SEAFARERS LOG SlU Lifeboat Class No, 215 Casts Off Ship's Delegate Chadbourne Gait reported from the Del Norte (Delta) that "we had a few minor beefs at the beginning of the voyage, but we had them squared away right off." Stanley Wright, third cook, was hospitalized in Buenos Aires, Steward Delegate Carl Treitler stated. He received $50 from the ship's fund, and a wire Meeting Chairman R. Chanroin puted overtime was reported by was sent to Headquarters in­ reported from the Maiden Victory department delegates. Arturo forming them of his hos­ ^ (Alcoa) that Har­ Aguilar, steward department dele­ pitalization. Leroy Rinker replaced old Strauss, stew­ gate, reported that one man was Brother Wright as third cook. ard, and his de­ hospitalized and then sent home Rinker, who is the ship's movie partment were from the port of Freeport. Tie director, reported complimented on steward department was given a that "we are hav­ the excellent hearty vote of thanks. ing our cinema­ Thanksgiving din­ scope lense for ner they turned Meeting Chairman Ivar Ander­ the projector re­ out. It was well son wrote fronrthe Overseas Trav­ paired in New directed, prepared eler (Maritime Orleans." Bill Strauss and served, the Overseas) that a Kaiser, ship's Seafarers all agreed. It was a con­ motion was made treasurer, said certed effort by the whole depart­ and carried that that the eight ment, Brother Charroin said. Rinker a shipboard meet­ movies for this Ship's delegate Anthony Nottumo ing should be held voyage had cost $207.80. The wrote that the vessel is headed to­ twice on this voy­ movie movie fund now is left with ward Manila and that so far there age. Brother An­ $282.50 while the ship's fund to­ have been no beefs reported. A derson said that tals $69.14. A motion was made discussion was held on the proper by Bin Ekins that the steward de­ use of equipment such as the Anderson the Seafarers agreed the ship's partment should get a vote of washing machine, ice maker, re­ delegate should be rotated between thanks for the "good cuisine" and frigerator, etc. departments. Meeting Secretary special thanks for the excellent O. Oakley reports that Brother Thanksgiving dinner. A request Anderson was chosen to ser/e as Seafarers on the Mount Vernon was made by Chad Gait that the ship's delegate and that the follow­ men on watch should get dinner Victory (Victory Carriers) were asked to donate ing denartment delegates were a few minutes before five now whatever loose chosen: Jrtck Arell?nnes, deck; and that it gets dark so early. Mike money they may R. Kwaitkowski, engine. Oakley Armando is serving as deck dele­ have to the ship's will represent the steward departgate and Frankie Labigang is the treasury, which is "^ent himself. engine delegate. down to $6.35, the ship's treas­ urer, A. D. BroMeeting Secretary William die, reported to Hand reports from the Robin the LOG. T. S. Goodf ellow Brodie Kline, ship's dele­ (Moore - McCorgate, wrote that he had a talk with mack) that two the Captain concerning draw as men from the the ship headed for Singapore and The violent storm that struck deck department Bahrain. No disputed overtime the Atlantic and East Coast in No­ had to leave the or serious beefs were reported by vember was also felt bv Seafarers vessel due to ill­ delegates, Kline wrote. on the Transwestern (Hudson Wa­ ness. Thomas terways) as the vessel, headed to­ Sheerbum departward New York ed in Cam Rhan A motion was made on the Penn after a trip to """" Bay while James Exporter (Penn Shipping Com­ Europe. Several Schneer left in the Philippine city pany) that Seafarers on the Per­ crewmembers re­ of Bataan, writes Hand. Brother sian Gulf run be lated the encoun­ Hand, who sailed as cook, was allowed to pay-off ter to a LOG re­ making the trip with his brother after six months porter durinq the James, who shipped as chief elec­ with transporta­ pay-off when the trician, according to Meeting tion home at com­ ship arrived at Chairman Stanley Jandora. A- re­ pany expense. The Bayonne, New Gluck quest was made to install a tele­ motion was made Jersev. vision set, since TV programs are by Bill Rudd and "We were about 800 miles from often the only form of entertain­ seconded by Fron­ New York when we started to ment available, Brother Jandora ds Pastrano. lose water in the D. C. heater and Markris said. An informal discussion was Meeting Secretary the boiler beqan to flood." oiler held in regard to LOGS and other Z. A. Markris wrote that Frank Alex Gluck recalled. "The boiler Union material received aboard Gutierrez was elected to serve as was cut and it took 24 hours to the ship. ship's delegate. No beefs or dis- get it fixed. Meanwhile, 140 milean-hour gusts of wind were sweep­ ing across the ship, but there was Aboard the Steel Executive no d-'maee on deck." The ship took SS-deeree rolls in the rouch seas. Brother Gluck, who will soon be going for his engineer's license, added. Raymond Anderson, FWT, re­ ported that the ship's sanitation line broke. In addition, the star­ board economizer on the boiler was disabled causing the Transwestern to go at half-speed for 12 hours. Even after they got the speed back, the power plant had to* be killed for three more days for additional repair work, Ander­ son said. E. C. Palmer, oiler, said that additional damage included the loss of the radio antenna and a broken boom. Rough as it was however, there were no injuries during the heavy When the Steel Executive left San Francisco these Seafarers were storm. The Transwestern had among the crewmembers aboard the vessel. Left to right are: Pablo gone to Belgium, Holland, Eng­ Pacheco, AB, Angelo Reyes, chief cook, Frank Charneco, bosun, and land and Germany with general Charles Johnston, third cook. The ship was heading for Vietnam. cargo. Trmswestera Hepmis Damage la Heavy Seas After attending the SlU's lifeboat school in Brooklyn, these men passed Coast Guard examinations and obtained a lifeboat ticket. They graduated on October 31. First row, I. to r.: Vansyses Lewis; George Prasinos; James Catania. Back: Instructor Paul McGaharn; Steve Kulik; William H. Ivey: Jonathan Stringer: John Williams. Lisa Domingo, born September 27, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph Domingo, Philadelphia, Pa. Rodney Johnsian, Jr., bom Sep­ tember 14, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rodney Ray Johnson, New Orleans, La. Rafael Vargas, bom October 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ramon Vargas, Playa Ponce, P.R. ^ Charles Hebert, born June 6, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Hebert, Gretna, La. Sonia LIssette Filippetti, born September 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Luis A. Filippetti, Balti­ more, Maryland. <I> Donna Jean Paxton, born Octo­ ber 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Noel Bennie Paxton, Galveston, Texas. Jose Luis Coitez, bom Novem­ ber 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Benigno Cortez, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. DICEST of SIU MEETINGS FENN VICTORY (Waterman), No­ vember 24—Chairman, Cliff Bellamy; Secretary, Roland Hebert. Vote of thanks was extended to the Bosun and the crew­ members who helped painting; the galley, pantry and crew messroom, for a job well done. One man missed ship in Honolulu and one man was hospitalized in Viet­ nam. Some disputed OT in each depart­ ment to be taken up with boarding patrolman. FAIRPORT (Waterman), November 17 —Chairman, T. Beatrous; Secretary, R. Bru. No bMfs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Brother T. Beatrous was elected to serve as ship's delegate for the second time because of the good job he performed. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), Novem­ ber 17—Chairman, Silcock ; Secretary, Fred Sullins. Brother M. W. Murphy was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. WALTER RICE /Reynolds), Novem­ ber 29—Chairman. D. A. Rundblad; Sec­ retary, Donald W. Hanna. Brother D. Rundblad was elected to serve as shin's delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for », job well done. DEL MONTE (Delta). Sentember 21— Chairman. B. G. Ladd: Secretary, J. Toone. Brother S. Heinfllne was elected to serrc as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ^ Elainne Dawn Vincent, bora September 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hubert C. Vincent, Jr., Sulphur, La. Kenna Joseph Osbey, born Oc­ tober 6, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Osbey, Houston, Texas. Matthew Williams, born Octo­ ber 29, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter H. Williams, Gretna, La. MT. VERNON VICTORY (Victory Carriers), November 16—Chairman, T. 8. Kline; Secretary, A. D. Brodie. Brother T. S. Kline was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $6.36 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. OVERSEAS PROGRESS (Maritime Overseas), November 11—Chairman, E. C. Bamhiii. No beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department delegates. Brother Henry Banta was elected to serve as ship's delegate. WESTERN PLANET (Western Agen­ cy), November 24—Chairman, J. Knudsen; Secretary, R. Mills. Some disputed OT and other items to be taken up with boarding patrolman. PRINCETON VICTORY (Columbia), November 10—Chairman, P. E. Stonebridge ; Secretary, John C. Reed. Brother Bob Gannon was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT was reported. ROBIN GOODFELLOW (Moore-McCormack), November 11—Chairman, Stan­ ley Jandora; Secretary, William M. Hand.. Various repairs were discussed. Few hours disputed OT and minor beefs in each department. CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), Novem­ ber 10—Chairman, John L. Munnerlyn ; Secretary, John L. Munnerlyn. Ship's delegate reported that there are no beefs and everything is running smoothly. MOHAWK (Mohawk Shipping), No­ vember 24—Chairman, George Callard; Secretary, Peter Jomides. Brother Peter Jomides was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Minor beefs to be taken up with boarding patrolman. STEEL WORKER (Isthmian). Novem­ ber 80—Chairman. John T. Cames; Sec­ retary, Rov S. Theiss. $15.26 in ship's fund. No beefs were renorted. Every­ thing is running smoothly. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department. Vote of thanks was extended to the radio opera­ tor for repairing movie projector. Dis­ cussion was held regarding water. �IXcceinb^. 20, 1968 Picket Duty Always Pays Off To the Editor: The SIU is organizing the unorganized here, and this is as it should be. The Union is offering the help needed to pro­ vide better wages, working con­ ditions and other benefits. Many of the younger mem­ bers, yes, and some of the old­ er ones, object to standing picket duty with the workers who are trying to organize because they are not seamen. It matters not what craft these men and women work in—they asked for and are receiving help to organize. We asked for such help many years ago. The unions that came to our aid were not seamen's unions— they were the coal miners, fish­ ermen, bag makers, butchers and many, many others. There are many members who take the many benefits we have today as a matter of course. They are wrong, for we have to stay strong to hold these benefits. In order to understand just how good we have it today, they should go back a number of years to know how things were aboard ship before we or­ ganized. Organization of the Seamen's Union began in the 1900s. The SUP, MFOW and MC & S had to ship out of fink houses until we were strong enoueh to strike. In 1934 we did strike—against the filthy conditions we had aboard sbip and the low wages. An AB received about $45, witb a hay mattress, blue sheets and blue pillow cases. But you furnished your own blanket, and if a man did not tie down his bedding, the bed buss and roaches would pull them from under him. For breakfast we had eges as the cook wanted to fix them, greasy potatoes, no dry cereals, milk or toast. For dinner we had meat, one potato, one vege­ table, soup and pudding if the cook felt POod. We had no con­ diments, jams, jellies or fresh milk. Supper was the same kind of slop and there was nothing we could do about these condi­ tions except wait for the day we eould strike. That day came in 1934. We were not ready, but we had serv­ ed notice on the ship owners that thev could expect more of the .same. We made onlv a little headway. But we found out what we had to do—that was to build a strike fund and ask the help of other unions. In 1936 we .struck again and were out for 96 days in the winter time with snow, ice, sleet and rain. We needed help and many trade unions came with money and food, as well as any other aid they could give —standing picket duty when needed. In 1936 we made the head­ way we had been working to­ wards in our negotiations. We got better working conditions, wages, overtime. We won over­ time for Saturday and Sunday and any >yiprk done after eight S^AFARgnS voo hours. We got recreation rooms, white linens, new mattresses and blankets. We got better food, with fresh milk, cereals, condiments and many other items. For dinner we received two meats, two vegetables, po­ tatoes, pudding, etc. For supper it was the same. At breakfast, we got eggs to order, bacon or sausage. The basic rules we set in our negotiations were to be used in other seafaring unions, such as SIU. We had on our strike committee, Harry Lundeberg, then patrolman for SUP in Seattle; J. L. Norkguaer, agent for MC & S; Gene Burke, sec­ retary for MC & S. Since 1936, all unions have been receiving better and better working conditions, wages, and benefits such as vacation pay, familv medical aid. I think that all of you will agree that it pays to stand picket duty once in awhile. William H. Thompson Book No. T-378 Houston, Texas , . ,'r . .- r/} Page.Thirteen. Seafarer Helps Battle VC Raiders Between Chores Aboard Chatham When Seafarer Rudy DeBossiere of the steward department sails to Vietnam, the sounds of bat­ tle are not strange to him. Brother DeBoissiere won the Silver and Bronze stars while serving with the Army in Korea. Recently, while riding a Navy Swift Boat in the vicinity of Bong To, he found himself battling the Viet Cong. ^ The Americans sunk all the other prisoner's, escaped. "I made He related the encounter to a junks and took two prisoners in a knife out of a sharp stick and LOG reporter from Houston, addition to the casualties they in­ where the New York City-bom flicted. The bosun's mate on the knifed a guard and we escaped," he recalled. "We made our way Seafarer makes his home. Swift Boat was injured and De­ along the Yalu River and event­ "The Viet Cong attack vessels Boissiere helped bring him back ually ran into a contingent of traveling along the Saigon and to his base. The Seafarer has Turkish U.N. troops who picked other rivers, by using junks simi- great respect for the Navy patrols. us up. We wouldn't have made it t lar to the Japan­ "They do a fine job," he said. back without them. I spent two ese sampan," De­ "The men are young, efficient and months with them. TTiey are Boissiere explain­ thorough. They deserve a lot of among the best fighting men in ed. "Many U.S.- credit and are seasoned fighters." the world and they are true and flag merchant ma­ Proud of the effectiveness of the honest people. The Turk's word is rine vessels hav.-; • patrols, he believes the Viet Cong always good and I found them to been attacked as are dangerous only when they be both friendly and fearless peo­ well as Navy ships have you outnumbered. ple." and the Amer­ DeBoissiere was steward on the Commando Raid icans counter by DeBoissiere using the little 'Chatham (Admiralty Marine The Silver Star came for a Corporation) at the time of his fiber glass Swift Boats to patrol Saigon River adventure and has commando raid in which he para­ the various inlets, coves and other made a number of trips to Viet­ chuted behind enemy lines at haunts Communists like to hide in. nam. He has great respect also night. The raid was made by The fast little boats are equipped for the Montagnards, South Viet­ twenty men at Inchon near the Welfare Benefits with radar and are heavily namese mountain tribesman who North Korea border. The Sea­ Praised by Seafarer armed." farer explained that the mission have been staunch supporters of was aimed at a bridge that en­ To The Editor: Because his service record is the Americans during the fighting. abled Chinese and North Koreans I would like to take this time known to some of the Navy men, Although he said he didn't think to move freely into the South— to give my many, many thinks they have invited DeBoissiere of himself as a hero, the 11-year to the SIU Welfare Plan and to , along on several of the patrols. SIU veteran has a war record avoiding a route heavily fortified by the Allies." Although the Reds Raymond Herold of your Balti­ Previously, he had also acci..m- from Korea that belies his words. were waiting for us, the bridge, more office for the prompt and panied them in the Cam Ranh He joined the Army at 17 and attacked from the North end, was efficient way my disability claim Bay area. "I'm not a hero and I served nine years, achieving the blown up," he recalled. has been handled. didn't expect to get involved in rank of sergeant. Long before the DeBoissiere and two others any fighting," the 39-year old establishment of the now-famous I was injured in an automo­ stayed behind to cover the demoli­ seaman said, "but suddenly all Green Beret's, DeBoissiere re­ tion party. The Reds were led by bile accident, August 23, 1968. hell broke loose and I'm really ceived extensive Guerrilla train­ The very next week, I started a soldier whose skill impressed lucky to be here." ing. He speaks five languages, in­ DeBoissiere. He used expert flank­ receiving my disability claim checks and have been able to About 20 Communists on four cluding Chinese and Japanese. ing strategy against the Americans rest assured of them coming in junks attacked the boat DeBois­ Heartbreak Ridge and the fighting was hand to hand. every week thereafter. It is bad siere was on and tried to board When the Korean conflict broke The Seafarer felled this man with enough not being able to work, her. The Reds opened up with out, DeBoissiere was a member a kidney punch and held- a bay­ but these checks sure made automatic small arms fire from of tbe 24th Division of the 21st onet to his throat to make sure things a lot easier for my wife Chinese Burp Guns which the Infantry. His Bronze Star came he was subdued. and me to meet our obligations Seafarer had seen before in Korea. for an action during one of the After dragging the man back and keep the wolf away from "They are effective at close range battles at Heartbreak Ridge— with them. Brother DeBossiere the door. and can really smear you up," among the most famous of the said, it was found out that he was he said. The guns fire a 45-calibre Korean War. "The Chinese like "an important Chinese bigwig. He Again, I want to thank all shell. concerned for going out of their to blow bugles during a fight and spoke English and Japanese and way to bring my checks to me were blaring away when they was very smart. I was under Killed Four Reds at my home when I was unable charged our position," he recalled. orders not to talk about him and The four-man Navy crew and "My men had to make it down to this day, I am not certain just to leave tbe house and get to their Seafarer-ally had M-16 the mountain to safety and I exactly who he was." the hall to pick them up. Thanks rifles in addition to the boat's stayed behind to cover them." a million. It is a priviledge to In 1957, DeBossiere began his own mounted weaponry. As the be a member of the SIU. In so doing, he was captured sailing career. "I have always Reds attacked from their dark- and sent to a Chinese-run prison loved the sea and have five broth­ Sincerely, colored junks, the fighting was camp in Manchuria. "They fed us ers, all of whom sailed with the William Ostendorf close and fierce. Brother DeBois­ only two bowls of rice a day," he SIU," he said. Frequently a ship's Baltimore, Md. siere fired his M-16 to kill three said, "and because they didn't delegate, DeBoissiere joined the ^ of the Communists and used a have enough food, the Reds put Union in Baltimore. He is a great hand knife to kill a fourth.. opium powder in the food to dull believer in the Union's goals and Seafarer Praises spoke highly about the way the the pangs of hunger." SIU always had jobs for return­ After a year and a half, De­ SIU Welfare Plan On Far East Run ing service men. Boissiere, in the company of five To The Editor: Just a line or two to testify that the Seafarers Welfare Plan Editor, has saved the best until the last. SEAFARERS LOG, In other words, when it's most 675 Fourth Ave., needed and appreciated Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 First, it was maternity bene­ fits for my wife when our baby I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my was born. More recently, the name on your mailing list, f^rint Mormatimn) benefits (tax-free, thank God) I received while convalescing from an illness. The SIU wel­ NAME fare plan has always been hon­ est, fair, efficient. STREET ADDRESS I hold my head high and proud in my home town due to ZIf. STATE. the fact that I had the presence OTY of mind to pick up my book TO AVOID DUFUCAT10N; If you are an old mbKiibar and hava a again after retiring it after of addraaa, plaaaa glue your fowwar addrats balow; World War II. I am also happy to say that my son Bruce is com­ Sailing as electrician during a ing home from Vietnam this recent trip of Beatrice Victory month. Sincerely, is John Griffith who also served SCAIE cmr Oarence Cousins as ship's delegate. The ship was docked at Yokohama's North Pier. Book No. C-59 r a *, • a a.a a • ij �OVERSEAS ULLA (M«ritlme Over­ seas), November 20—Chairman, H. Muncert; Secretary, A. Nash. Disputed OT in engine department to be referred to boarding patrolman. Discussion held regarding food in general, particularly the matter of additional quota of milk put aboard. • PAIB TO L AMM 150 NOT BtfX" f II i ' >1 YAKA (Waterman), November 16— Chairman, Cristoble DeJesus; Secretary, William Tavella. $12.00 in ships fund. Some disputed OT in engine and steward department. Medical chest and slop chest found to be inadequate. Crew would like both to be brought up to standard before next voyage. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn Ship­ ping), November 19—Chairman, LCT Schwandt; Secretary, Nathaniel F. Hat­ field. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Joe IVa'lace, ship's delegate and to Brothers I.eo Schwandt and John Robinson for n job well done. SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters MAURY (Crest), November 9—Chair­ man, John Boldiszar; Secretary, C. Y. Yarbourough. Discussion held regarding old repair list from last voyage. No re­ pairs were taken care of. Some disputed OT and a couple of beefs in the deck department. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. AMERIGO (Crest), November 3— Chairman, F. Mcintosh; Secretary, J. W. Trayer. Brother M. Requiso was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion was held regarding retirement plan. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. WESTERN HUNTER (Western Agen­ cy), October 19—Chairman, J. M. Yates; Secretary, George Stratidakus. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Lancaster for repairing aerial on TV. PENN RANGER (Penn), November 23 —Chairman, Steve Kolina; Secretary, Wallace G. Perry, Jr. Disputed OT in deck department. All repairs will be taken care of. • Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial V/orkers rRESIDEMT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Lindiay Wllllami Robert Matthewi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS 475 4th Ave., Iklyn. (212) HY 9-4400 ALPENA. Mieh 127 River St. (517) EL 4-3414 BALTIMORE, Md 1214 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Main 443 Atlantic Avenue (417) P.I 2-0140 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Waihington St. SlU (714) TL 3-9259 IBU (714) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, III 9343 Ewing Ave. SlU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVEUND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (214) MA 1-5450 DETROIT. Mich 10225 W. Jefferion Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich MALDEN VICTORY (Alcoa), Novem­ ber 6—Chairman, R. Charroin; Secretary, Harold D. Strauss. Brother Anthony Notturno was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported. Every­ thing is running smoothly. BrothelHarold Strauss and his department were given a vote of thanks for the excellent Thanksgiving dinner. DEL MONTE (Delta), November 9— Chairman, A. L. Midgett; Secretary, S. Heinfling. Some disputed OT in all three departments. DEL NORTE (Delta), December 1— Chairman, Chadboume "W. Gait; Secre­ tary, William P. Kaiser. Ship's delegate reported that there were a few minor beefs at the beginning of the voyage but all has been squared away. 'Hiere is $282.50 in the movie fund and $69.14 in the ship's fund. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for the fine job performed throughout the voyage, and for the excellent Thanks­ giving Dinner. HASTINGS (Waterman), October 28— Chairman, John Wells; Secretary, Ches­ ter Kittleson. Brother Amado E. Diaz was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Maritime Overseas), November 25—Chairman, Ivar Anderson; Secretary, O. Oakley. No beefs were reported by Apartment delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. PENN EXPORTER (Penn Shipping), November 23—Chairman, William S. Rudd; Secretary, Z. A. Markris. Brother Frank G. Gutierrez was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Vote of Aanks to the steward department for a job well done. ALCOA EXPLORER (Alcoa), Novem­ ber 24—Chairman, N. E. Geno; &cretary, J. R. Roberts, Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), November 17—Chairman, W. Seltzer; Secretaiy, F. Anderegg. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Chief Electrician was elected to serve as ship's delegate. EAGLE TRAVELER (Sea Transport), November 23—Uhairman, Peter P. Luketic; Secretary" H. Darrow. Brother J. D. Parrish , was elected to serVe as ship's delegate. Discussion held r^arding tank cleaning; No bie^s were ntj^orted by departn(^nt^^«^^!g^ , , Il^knbi# 20j<'1969 S^AF4RERS LOG Page Fourteen I IF P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2400 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY. N.J 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE. Ala I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS. La 430 Jackson Ave. (504) 529-7544 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) 422-1892 PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Freemont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEAHLE, Wash 2505 First Avenue (204) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Iseya 8ldg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans. Jan. 14—2:30 p.m. Mobile Jan. 15—2:30 p.m. Wilmington .. Jan. 20—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Jan. 22—2:00 p.m. Seattle Jan. 24—^2:00 p.m. New York .. . Jan. 6—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia . Jan. 7—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... Jan. 8—2:30 p.m. Detroit Jan. 10—2:30 p.m. Houston .... Jan. 13—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans. Jan. 14—7:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 15—7:00 p.m. New York .. Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Jan. 7—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ... Jan. 8—7:00 p.m. ^Houston ... Jan. 13—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Jan. 6—2:00 p.m. Alpena Jan. 6—^7:00 p.m. Buffalo Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Chicago Jan. 6—^7:00 p.m. Duluth Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ... Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago Jan. 14—7:30 p.m. t Sault St. Marie Jan. 16—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Jan, 15—7:30 p.m. Duluth Jan. 17—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ... Jan. 17—7:30 p.m. Toledo Jan. 17—7:30 p.in. Detroit Jan. 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . . Jan. 13—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans. Jan. 14—5:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 15—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia . . Jan. 7—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) .. Jan. 8—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Jan. 9—5:00 p.m. Houston .... Jan. 13—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Jan. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Jan. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. * Norfolk Jan. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Jan. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlsntic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every' three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brookljm. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AtUntic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fond financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violati<m of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified maD. return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Elsrl Shepard. Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on tihe proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other 'Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SlU i>ort agent. EDITORIAL POLIOr—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionaUy refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any Individual in the Union, officer or. nxember. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been " • " " in all constltufrom among mks, one individual to out this responsibility. ^ Seafarers and their famiiies are urged to support a consumer boy' cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) vtf Stitzei-Weiler DistiUerlcs "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StiU," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) — Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) \J> Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) ^ "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) — Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Brothers and Sewel! Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Baltimore Luggage Co. I^dy Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) — — White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) ^ Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) i R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, ^ Brandon, Cavalier and Steiem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. producto (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas <I> Glumarra Grapes ' (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Unicn) — Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Atlantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Cluett Peabody (Amalgamated Oothing Workers) PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, hut feels that he~^hould not have been required to make such payment, this should Immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SBAFAREXS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in aU Union halls. All members should obtain copies of tbis constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other deUils, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED 8EAFARER8. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, thejr are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, ineluding service on rank-and-file commit<ees. Because these oldtlmos cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic orl^n. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIYITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the beat interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Acti'vity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membenhip and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that aay of ths above rights hate been vtolatsd. or , that ha has been denisd hia eonstUatloi^ right of access to Union rscerds or iaformhtieB, he shoniS fanmsdUtely Bstl& SIU President Paal HaU at h^dqiiartars by sntiM matt, rdnm raoiipt ratnfptad. ^ jn;;'- �D«e<»nbw 20^ 1968 ' I ^HE SAME MOON that shone upon the dinosaurs in the dense forests many thousands of years ago casts its pale radiance over a lonely beach at Tortuguero, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, today. The night is filled with the ceaseless booming of the breakers which cascade onto shore and shatter amid hisses of shimmering white foam. Riding the crest of these surging seas is a creature which looks like it too, might have been more at home in the prehistoric past. It strikes the sand with a loud bump, is lifted by the next wave, only to drop and scrape the bottom. Slowly, one scaly limb reaches forward and is followed by its opposite member, dragging the heavy body. The serpentine head darts this way, then that, the moonlight glistening on its wet, scaly skin. It pokes its nose into the wet sand, nuzzles it, plods ponderously forward. The creature is a turtle—a green turtle weighing a massive 360 pounds—and it is soon joined by another, then more and more, all laden with hundreds of eggs and each with a driving need to deposit its load in a favorable location. At first, the giant amphibian is skittish, and the slightest stir is enough to send it on its tortuous way back to the sea—to try again at a later time, perhaps at another locale. Once having been satisfied that the spot is right and conditions safe, however, the turtle begins to scoop out the sand, using all four flippers. The onset of the digging process acts like a shut-off valve to all other concerns—it no longer pays any attention to its environment or to danger, but continues the nesting process until the required, funnel-like area is scooped out, the eggs deposited—about a hundred to a nest— and the hole is safely covered over with sand. Having accompli.shed its task, which takes about an hour, the heavy creature then heads again towards the tempo­ rary comfort of the sea, only to return to shore up to five times to nest again during the same brief breed­ ing season. Once deposited in the pit, the eggs are incubated in the hot sand beneath the tropic sun for a period of about 60 days. Nature has to be prolific here, as in many other places. The newly hatched young are easy prey to a wide variety of birds as well as other predatory land animals. Those that manage to reach the sea often are victims of sharks, whales and other large fish. Slow as the turtle is on land, in its natural sea habitat it is a marvelously rapid swimmer, propelling itself vigorously with its large, powerful foreflippers as fast as a man can run. Annuel Nesting Place Tortuguero has one undeniable claim to fame. Each summer, from July to September, streams of sea turtles come there to nest. They come in two main migratory streams—one from Panama and Colombia, the other from the Miskito Cays and Nicaraguan coast. Some come from the farthest reaches of the western Carib­ bean and a few from even beyond. No one ever seems to see them on their way—you would expect floating islands of them—but they just show up, almost completely unobserved along their route. As is the case with many other migratory animals, the big—and as yet unexplained mystery—is how do the turtles guide themselves to their objective? The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research has been studying the green turtles in the hope that some methods of gaining guidance from earth's landmarks, as yet unknown to man may turn up. So far, all they have been able to learn about these creatures is that they have a strong homing urge, are able to hold a true course in the open sea, and seem to know exactly where they want to go through some unknown ob­ servations or information picked up by their own senses. In colonizing the Americas, the green turtle was a not unimportant factor. It was available in large quan­ n^ SEAFARERS LOG tities and was easy to catch. Large enough to provide as much meat as a calf, the sea-going animal was an ample and popular source of food. When the Old World sent its ships to the Caribbean, the food shortages for both the seamen and the slaves aboard led to regular wholesale raiding of turtle beaches. Eggs were strung like beads and dried. Old turtles were turned on their backs and either barbe­ cued on the beach or stored in the holds of ships until needed. Available evidence indicates that there were once many nesting places for the green turtle in the Caribbean. However, only Tortuguero's Turtle Bogue and Aves Island remain today. Aves Island, a hundred miles off Monserrat in the Leewards, seems to be gradually disappearing into the sea. Its increasing in­ accessibility to predators is probably the main reason the green turtle nests there but it, too, will be aban­ doned when it becomes submerged. Some ambitious measures are being taken today to prevent the prolific species of turtle from disappearing entirely for want of spawning grounds. The Caribbean Conservation Corporation has for­ bidden the taking of eggs and of nesting turtles along the entire Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Efforts are also being made to re-establish green turtle rookeries on other beaches—particularly where it is believed that former nesting sites existed. Batches of hatchlings from Tortuguero are brought to such areas and re­ leased there in the hope that they will grow to maturity with some recollection of the smell, taste or feel of the place where they entered the sea and return there at breeding time. Success Doubtful Tfiere are strong odds against this program. Of the many thousands of hatchlings, very few survive, and those that do will not breed until they are about six years old. Some resident colonies seem to have taken hold, however. A total of five kinds of sea turtles exist, worldwide. They are green turtles, leatherbacks, loggerheads, ridleys and hawksbills. Belonging to the reptile family, they are among the oldest species on earth. JM ' J Pace -Fifteen As much as the migratory abilities of the grown mother turtles are to be admired, the ability of the newly-hatched young to find their way to the sea is little short of miraculous. Most often, the nest is located at some distance from, and out of sight of the water. Despite this, the emerging hatchlings invariably find their way around, through, or over obstacles—whether in daylight or at night—and often with the sun or moon hidden from view. Since they swim on contact with the water, the touch of wet sand may cause premature swimming efforts but their sea-finding ability is believed to be primarily related to the quality of light in which they move.. One of the major unsolved mysteries of turtle life is what happens to the young during their first year of existence. They seem to disappear—at least no sci­ entist has been able to find them at this stage, despite copious searches of shore areas. Whether they can be found or not, however, a prime reason for survival is thought to be the coloration of the green turtle—dark on the upper parts of the body and white below. The dark top tends to camouflage it from predatory birds; the light bottom from hungry fish. As for food—the reptile spends the first year of its life at sea, and therefore supposedly subsists on small animal life during this period. After that it is a strict vegetarian which feeds on a variety of grasses—turtle grass, manatee grass, Cuban shoal grass—and other available marine plants. Along the shoreline grazing is easy, food is plentiful, and the animal grows rapidly. The size of a green turtle is a poor guide to its age, re­ flecting mainly how plentiful food may be at any given time. Despite conservation efforts, poachers still kill many turtles. What they are after is calipee, the cartilage that is cut out from the bottom shell and is a great delicacy. In other areas, particularly among non-meat eating peoples, poachers seek the eggs which are much sought after as a food staple. Due to human and ani­ mal predators, conservation measures are the only hope if these unique relics of the distant past are to survive. Old print showing turtling operation on the coast of Cuba. Green turtles once nested on the Caribbean beaches of the island, but the colony there has been almost completely wiped out—probably by such intem­ perate exploitation as the print suggests. Today, poachers are interested mainly in such items as ca ipee or eggs. j.l;. �r. Vol. XXX No. 26 SEAFARERSALOC Docombor 20/ 1968 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFAlRERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Buy Oidy ProtliKts and Services Label or Seal St" *' Every dollar spent on union-mode merclioncflse or service helps to insure the {oh security of fellow trade unionists throughout the notion. 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Title A name given to the resource December 20, 1968 Description An account of the resource Headlines: TOTAL US FISHING CATCH DECLINES AS WORLD FIGURES REACH NEW HIGH CONGRESSMAN URGES MAJOR OVERHAUL OF 50-50 CARGO PREFERENCE LAWS SEN BARTLETT DIES AT 64; BACKED MARITIME TO HILT FREE WORLD TRANSPORT UNIONS ACT TO SUSPEND GREEKS, ASSIST CZECHS THIRTY NEW MERCHANT SHIPS A YEAR NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE US FLAG FLEET GEORGE HARRISON DIES AT 73; SERVED LABOR ON ALL LEVELS LONG KAYSER-ROTH STRIKE SECCESSFUL AS TEXTILE WORKERS INK NEW PACT REPUBLICAN MAINSTREAM REFLECTED IN NIXON CABINET Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/20/1968 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXX, No. 26 1968 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/9e40e763b2b438d43d6c99ed57307ba3.PDF ed2aeeb2a7c312e98563ecb3b3dc9556 PDF Text Text •• aVH.** SEAFARBRSIfeI.OG • '/ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERSaamim DISTRICT > AFL-CIO iiii—niimvw»g'.wtiTW—' T-i • ' ' •• i'' I Jzjfr I F' > ^ S-^h- ; '•i^ •r- /-J-iX •t r r. *« / '1. jk 1'^ I fii 't" �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG Ecuador Granted World Bank Loan Despite U.S. Fishing Ship Seizures WASHINGTON—^Despite the fact that Ecuador is the foremost perpetrator of the illegal seizure of American-flag fishing vessels on the high seas, the World Bank has granted a $5.3 million loan to that South American nation which will be used to modernize the Ecuadorian fishing fleet and pay for 12 freezer-equipped exploited by Ecuador from Amer­ sharply criticized the World Bank tuna purse seiners. ican fishermen through the seizure for granting the loan. "Congress has clearly stated its Tlie loaii was approved by of American fishing vessels. position by the recent passage of the World Bank—on which the August Felando, general man­ my bill providing for the deduc­ U.S. holds one fourth of the vot­ ager of the American Tunaboat tion of U.S. foreign aid in the ing power—^without any debate Association, said that his organi­ amounts of illegal fines assessed zation had, and will continue to, and in the face of much protest against our American-flag vessels oppose the loan. Felando emphafrom representatives of the Amer­ ... It seems to me that in the ican fishing industry. A good deal hized, "We cannot understand the long range view, this intolerable of the protest was directed to rationale behind the loan. No one World Bank President Robert S. can understand it. It is like the situation should be finally resolved McNamara, former Secretary of World Bank, with U.S. acquies­ by a conference between this Defense, and Livingston T. Mer­ cence, granting a loan to North country and the South American chant, U.S. member on the Bank's Korea so that it could convert the nations who now claim territorial Pueblo into a commercial fishing jurisdiction to 200 miles and be­ board of directors. yond." vessel." Important Question In a statement issued to the Felando pointed out that be­ SIUNA Vice President Carl sides the loan, U.S. fishing experts public, Magnuson added, "Per­ Marino, secretary-treasurer of the will be sent to Ecuador to assist haps our vote would not have killed the loan (there has never Cannery Workers and Fisher­ in utilizing the money. been a veto in the history of the men's Union of San Diego, in a Magnuson Protest World Bank) but my patience is letter to key members of Congress In a letter to Secretary of State wearing thin with the clear indi­ and other officials, asked why the United States is paying 40 percent Dean Rusk, Senator Warren Mag­ cation that our own interests and of the loan funds, when hundreds nuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the those of our citizens are held in of thousands of dollars have been Senate Commerce Committee, complete disregard. As Eight More Seafarers Graduate SlU engineers Upgrading Program Reaches and Exceeds 300'Mark Graduates of the School of Marine Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2 of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association exceeded the 300-mark last month as eight more Sea­ farers passed their Coast Guard examinations to earn engineer's licenses after completing the inten­ sive course of study conducted ^ Before receiving his third assist­ Verlon Davis previously sailed by the school. ant's license, John Klette held an as pumpman. A new third assist­ The latest group brings to FOWT's rating. Bom in Cincin­ ant, he has sailed with the SIU 302 the total number of Seafarers nati, he now lives in San Diego. since 1967 when he joined the who have received their second Brother Klette joined the Union in or third assistant engineer's ticket Wilmington, California in 1968 Union in the Port of New Orleans. The 22-year-old Seafarer lives in and last sailed on the Enid Vic­ tory. The 40-year-old Seafarer served in the Navy from 1945 to 1953. Harold Powers is a new second assistant engineer. Prior to re­ ceiving his license, he had sailed as oiler. A resident of Waycross, Ga., he was born in Blackshear in that state. Brother Powers joined Sexton Vinson the Union in Jacksonville in 1966 Davis Clark and his last ship was the Arizpa. through this unique training pro­ The 44-year-old Sea'farer served Boutte, La. and is a native of gram. Seattle. He served in the Navy Charles Sexton, a 23-year-old from 1963 to 1967. newly-licensed third assistant en­ Kenneth Clark is also a newlygineer, was the 300th Seafarer to licensed third assistant engineer graduate from the school. He and previously sailed as oiler. The previously sailed as FOWT and 50-year old Seafarer is a native of joined the SIU in the Port of Rocky Ford, Colorado and sailed Mobile. A native of Maplesville, with the SIU since 1967. Joining Alabama, he still makes his home in Houston, he resides in Canyon, in that community. Texas. His last ship was the Jerry Vinson is another new Woods Rankin Manhattan. third assistant engineer. He is a Engine department Seafarers in the Navy during World War are eligible to apply for any of II. Paul Woods is 31 years old and the upgrading programs if they a former FOWT. A new third are at least 19 years of age and assistant engineer, he joined the have 18 months of Q.M.E.D. SIU in 1967 in the Port of New watchstanding time iti the engine York. A native of Englewood, department, plus six months ex­ Colorado, he now makes his home perience as wiper or the equiv­ in Modesto, Calif. He served in alent. the Navy from 1955 to 1959. Those who qualify and wish to James Rankin received his enroll in the School of Marine Klette Powers second assistant engineer's license. Engineering can obtain additional 29-year-old native of Wilmington, He was born in Louisiana And information and apply for the North Carolina, and joined the lives in Oak Grove, La. Brother course at any SIU hall, ,0r they SIU in the Port of New Orleans Rankin has held all engine de­ can write directly to SIU head­ in 1968. A resident of Wilming­ partment ratings shice joining the quarters at 675 Fourth Avenue, ton, he last sailed on the Kent. SIU in 1946 in Philadelphia. He in Brooklyn, New York 11232. Brother Vinson previously sailed is 41 years old and last sailed on The telephone number is (212) as oiler. the Transhatteras. HYacinth 9-6600. January 3, 1969 SIU Eases Blood Shortage With Donation to New York •ll 1 Vi i Dr. Joseph Logue, center, SIU Medical Director and SIU Director of Social Security Al Bernstein, right, present donation from Sea­ farers Blood Bank to Dr. Carlos Ehrich of NYC Dept. of Health at the Greater New York Health Center. Total donation was 50 pints. NEW YORK—The SIU this week transferred 50 pints of blood from the Seafarers Blood Bank in Brooklyn to the city's facilities in order to help alleviate the critical shortage of blood here which has resulted from the increased ^ f,om home and aboard ships need for plasma and the sharp at sea for long periods of time. decline in contributions from The Seafarers Blood Bank is regular sources due to the current maintained by voluntary blood Hong Kong flu epidemic. donations and has been in opera­ SIU Director of Social Security tion since 1959. Al Bernstein made the original offer in behalf of the Union in a letter sent last week to Dr. Ed­ ward O'Rourke, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health. "Our membership and nation­ wide facilities are also available to assist further in this emergency, WASHINGTON —Three ad­ if necessary," the letter added. ditional vessels, one British and Actual delivery of the initial 50 two Cypriot-flag ships have been pints of blood was made on New added to the North Vietnam black­ Year's Eve to the Greater New list. the Maritime Administration York Blood Center in Manhattan announced last month. by SIU Medical Director Dr. Jo­ The latest list, the 23rd released seph Logue and Bernstein, and by MARAD since January 25, was accepted on behalf of the city 1966, shows a total of 59 ships by Dr. Carlos Ehrich, represent­ with an aggregate gross tonnage ing O'Rourke. of 402,768 now prohibited from The SIU also made it known carrying United States govern­ to other areas of the nation, simi­ ment-sponsored cargoes because larly plagued by . blood shortages they called at ports in North Viet­ during the current outbreaks of nam. influenza, that it stood ready to Blacklisted in the current report offer transfers of blood reserves were the British-flag ship Fortune if required. Glory of 5,832 gross tons, the Cypriot-flag Amfithea, 5,171 tons The Seafarers Blood Bank func­ tions through the headquarters fa­ and the Cypriot-flag Laurel, 2,297 cilities of the Seafarers Medical tons. Dropped from the listing be­ Department, 685 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, which operates a net­ cause they were broken up with work of 27 medical centers and the Cypriot-flag Amon, of 7,229 clinics serving SIU members and tons and the Lebanese vessel, Rio their families in various mainland of 7,194 tons. ports and in Puerto Rico. Among the 59 ships on the North Vietnam blacklist are ves­ Seafarers have contributed a total of 7,542 pints of blood to sels of six different nations. Polish^ the SIU Blood Bank, according flag ships are the most numerous, to recent figures. A total of nearly totalling 32; Britain is next with 7,000 pints has been provided by 18, followed by Cyprus with six the bank to meet emergencies in and Panama, Malta and Somali all areas of the country. with one each. Any Seafarer, or member of a MARAD maintains shipping Seafarer's family who requires a records of Free World and Polish blood transfusion can draw, carriers. Those vessels which have through his local hospital, against traded at Cuban and North Viet­ the credits built up in the Union namese ports are placed on the blood bank. A coast-to-coast tele­ relative blacklists for these two type system which links all SIU countries. Such ships are not offices makes such arrangements eligible to carry U. S. governmentpossible on short notice, and has generated cargoes tmtil their own­ been a vital service for members ers pledge to keep their ships from and families of seamen who are trading witvi the two countries. MARADAdds S ddore Vessels Te Bladdist -< r I I li �January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS Christmas Aboard The Sea-Land Summit Page Three LOG Transportation Institute Study Reveals US-Flag Tramp Ships Held to Halt Of Govt Cargoes Presiribed by Law Seafarers on the Summit (Sea-Land) get in, the spirit of Christmas by decorating a shipboard tree. Left to right: Hans Gottschlich and A. Guillen of the deck department, and Chen Yu, fireman. Active U.S.-Flag Fleet Total Down by Six in Two Months WASHINGTON—U.S.-flag tramp ships are receiving only about half of what federal law pre­ scribes as their "minimum" share of government shipments of surplus agricultural commodities and foreign aid cargoes, according to a research study made public this week by the Transportation Institute. The study further declared: surplus agricultural commodities Noting that the basis for allo­ and 18 percent of AID shipments; "Regardless of whose figures cating cargo to American-flag tankers carrying 51 percent and are used and regardless of whether vessels is embodied in Section 30 percent, .respectively; and lin­ annual or fiscal periods are used, 901(b) of the Merchant Marine ers carrying 65.3 percent and 67 U.S. tramps do not come close to Act of 1936 and Public Law 480, percent, respectively. being allocated at least 50 percent the study said these laws prescribe The research study said that of total tramp cargo. No manipu­ that American ships receive a subsequently there had been some minimum of 50 percent of the "confusion" over the issue because lation of 'availability' claims can cargo generated by the govern­ of conflicting statistics published hide the fact that of this cargo ment, and that this minimum re­ by the Agriculture Department only about 25 percent was car­ quirement be computed separately and the Agency for International ried on U.S.-flag vessels." for each segment of the maritime Development on the application The Transportation Institute is industry — liners, .tankers and of the program. This was particu­ a research organization concerned larly true with respect to AID primarily with the role of Ameri­ tramps. The study determined that "the figures, which claimed that tramps can-owned, American-built and only segment of the industry received 53 percent of their tjq)e American-manned merchant ship­ which consistently receives more of cargo, tankers 51 percent, and ping in the nation's international than 50 percent of government- liners 66 percent. commerce. generated cargo is the liner seg­ The Transportation Institute ment." This is the same segment pointed out that the discrepancy of the industry which is subsidized resulted from AID's contention by the federal government in both that the 50-50 cargo preference the construction and operation of requirement "applies only where its vessels. Pointing out, that the American ships are available"— other two segments have been fall­ adding that "the agency thus ing below the 50 percent floor, the 'writes off the remaining portion study added: of its liftings to foreign-flag ves­ sels before computing the U.S.Tramps Suffer Most flag percentage." LA JOLLA, Calif.—^American "While tankers have not fared tuna fishermen purse-seining for Figures Inconsistent as well as liners, it is the tjamps bluefin tend to find cooler waters which have really suffered from "To be valid," the research more productive, according to a unfair distribution of government study said, "the U.S.-flag tonnage recent study by the Department cargo." carried should be considered as of the Interior's Bureau of Com­ The Transportation Institute a percentage of the grand total, mercial Fisheries. said its study is the outgrowth of not of the sub-total." When this A staff member of the BCF recent complaints by some seg­ is done, the figures become 23.6 ments of maritime management percent for tramps, 42 percent Fishery-Oceanography Center at and labor that the cargo-prefer­ for tankers and 66 percent for La Jolla examined more than ence program has been "adminis­ liners. The slight difference be­ 2,000 records of purse seine sets tered unevenly in terms of cargo tween the Maritime Administra­ from the log books of tuna fisher­ allocation." The original protests tion and the "valid" AID figures, men, and found that only 47 per­ against the program's administra­ the Institute noted, arises out of cent of the sets made on bluefin tion were based on Maritime Ad­ the fact that MARAD data is at water temperatures of 70° to ministration figures showing compiled on a calendar-year basis 76° were successful, compared to tramps carrying 24.2 percent of while AID uses a fiscal-year base. 64 percent at 59° to 65° F. WASHINGTON—continued decline in the American-flag merchant fleet was pointed up by figures released by the Maritime Administration last month which showed six fewer active ocean­ going vessels as of November 1, owned fleet was 972, an increase compared with the totals on of two. This brought the total September 1—^just two months U. S. flag merchant fleet—in all earlier. categories—to 2,094 ships. Shown as of the later date were 1,078 ships of 1,000 gross tons and over. The listing is contained in MARAD's Merchant Marine Data Sheet, an oiilcial report issued periodically by the agency. Of NEW YORK — The membershipthe 1,078 ships listed, 905 were elected rank-and-file Union Tallying privately owned and 173 were gov­ Committee -has begun the tally of bal­ ernment owned. lots cast in the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, MARAD's release shows five Lakes and Inland Waters District elec­ less active and seven more inactive tion for Union olTicers which was con­ ships in the privately owned sector, ducted from November 1 to Decem­ compared With the number listed ber 31. in these categories on September Members of the 12-man Tallying 1. Committee were elected at tnember"Six ships were delivered from ship meetings called on December construction, three were acquired 30th. The following committee mem­ on exchange from the government, bers, and the ports in which they were three were traded in to the govern­ elected are: Cary J. Beck, William H. ment . . . one was transferred to Gradick, Mobile; Charles Hamilton, Panamanian flag, and four were Warren Cassidy, New York; F. Disold for scrapping," the report Giovanni, Thomas D. Garrity, New stated. Orleans: John Carlson, George T.itchIn addition, the active fleet of field, Baltimore; James Doris, Charles MAR AD declined by one to 173 Moss, Philadelphia; John L. Hunt, and the government's inactive fleet John A. Ziereis, Houston. declined by two to 949 in the twoUpon completion of the tally, the month period. Three ships were Committee will submit a report to be transferred from the Navy, three acted upon at the regular February were returned from the Army, membership meetings which will be three were exchanged from private designated as the "Election Report ownership and are expected to be Meetings" as provided in the Union sold, and three were exchanged Constitution. to private ownership. Removed Winning candidates in the election were one which was sold for nonwill take over their duties and func­ transportation use and six which tions as of midnight, February 13. are to be scrapped. A lota! of 54 qualified candidates A decline of three vessels brought the United States-owned ran on the ballot for the 45 elective fleet to 1,122. The privately Union posts. A Bluefin Tuna Keeps His Cool, U.S. Study Finds SlU Election Ballot Count Underway With the conclusion of balloting in the election of SIU officers, members of the rank dnd file tallyir^g committee have started to count the thousands of votes cast by Seafarers in ports all over the U.S. Nationwide balloting for the Union's 45 contested offices began on Nov. I and ended on Dec. 31. �Janaai7 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Four On Proposal of SlUNA Fishermen Two- Year Fish Reseanh Program Barked by $229,000 Govt Grant WASHINGTON—A total of $229,000 in federal funds has been granted for a two-year-long fish research program proposed and conceived by the SIUNA-affiliated Atlantic Fishermen's Union. The objective of the program is "to develop an abundant fish product that will be indefinitely stable with little or no refrigeration," species of fish, primarily whiting, the finished products in their nu­ through the use of a rapid salt have caused "glutting" of the mar­ merous food programs. curing process. ket with catch surpluses that have The federal government's Specifically, the AFU-inspired in turn driven down the price of Agency for International Devel­ study will seek to determine if fish and played havoc with the opment, which oversees most of fish species now in abundant sup­ earnings of SIUNA fishermen. this nation's aid to foreign coun­ ply, such as whiting, can be proc­ tries, has expressed hope that A solution to tl}is traditional essed by rapid salt curing into a rapid salt curing of fish may pro­ problem has been sought for many modem, efficiently marketable vide a valuable new food source years. form, that will open up new mar­ for conducting its programs that kets and thus increase the value Sixteen months ago Ackert of the catch. fight hunger in underdeveloped, asked John Holston, director of famine-ridden countries. The successful conclusion of the Bureau of Commercial Fish­ Ross D. Davis, assistant secre­ the study could have tremendous eries Technological Laboratory in beneficial affects upon the entire Gloucester, Massachusetts to as­ tary of commerce for the Eco­ nomic Development Administra­ New England fishing industry, sist in the project. tion, said in a letter to Represent­ especially in the Massachusetts Infonnation Gathered ative William Bates (D-Mass.), porta of Gloucester and ProvinceHolston compiled the necessary that the new process "will assure town. In addition, since other species of fish besides whiting may technical information, surveyed higher prices to fishermen and be used—such as herring, an­ the equipment available, and provide additional employment marshalled the resources and per­ for fishermen and shore workers." chovy, hake, and even alewivesthe results of the study are ex­ sonnel of the Gloucester lab be­ Ackert reported- that interest pected to also have an impact hind the project. from government agencies that upon fisheries in the Pacific, Gulf, Now that funds have been ap­ conduct foreign-aid programs is and Great Lakes regions. propriated by the federal govern­ most welcome, since purchases of With salt curing of fish the ment's Economic Development the finished product would help basic factor underlying the AFU Administration, Holston will this country's balance of trade by program, the two-year study will head-up the study which will be providing a new abundant export seek to arrive at the most efficient conducted at the Gloucester lab. product. Indeed, the prospect of The project is already receiv­ large"^>ufc'hhses' of the product for method of salt curing, develop handling procedures, and demon­ ing much attention across the export was one of the forces that strate that this method will allow country, and is being closely prompted him to propose the proj­ the finished product to be stored watched by a number of govern­ ect and ask for federal assistance, ,,,|pr a considerable length of time. mental agencies who may utilize he added. The basic concept of the proj­ ect originated with SIUNA Vice President Captain James Ackeft, who is currently on leave from the Atlantic Fishermen's Union to serve as master of the Seafreeze Atlantic. WASHINGTON—Look magazine has been accused by the Ackert said that seasonal fluc­ AFL-CIO of "distortions, misinformation and just plain sloppy tuations in the catch of several reporting" in an article purporting to describe discrimination by unions against Negro workers and members. The article, titled "A National Disgrace: What Unions Do to Blacks," is itself a disgrace, according to AFL-CIO SecretaryTreasurer William F. Schnitzler, who heads the federation's Civil Rights Committee. The piece was written by Jack Star, described as a Look senior editor. But, Schnitzler said, it is laden with untrue statements and ignores facts that "any cub ST. PAUL, Minn.—Harold reporter could have discovered." Koeck of Hotel and Restau­ Presidents of the Railway Clerks, Firemen and Enginemen rant Local 556 here, chair-1 and Papermakers also have written to the magazine to refute man of the legislative com- i falsehoods in the article that relate to their unions. mittee of the St. Paul AFLSchnitzler, in a letter to Look Editor William B. Arthur, took CIO, promised his wife that particular exception to false charges in the headline appearing when Vice President Hum­ over the article: "For nearly a century, most unions have forced phrey was inaugurated as Negroes into Jim Crow locals, given them dirty jobs or refused President, he'd lake her for i to admit them at all. New laws and repeated union promises are their first trip to Washington not stopping prejudice." to watch Minnesota's first I President take the oath of i Cites True Facts office. The facts, Schnitzler declared, are that "most unions never Well, the Vice President i had any Jim Crow locals; most have always admitted Negroes; didn't win the election, but it I almost none hire any workers—black or white—for any jobs, turns out the Koecks will be 1 dirty or otherwise." I going to the inauguration any-1 He hit out at "six untrue, sweeping allegations" that he said way. Look had used to back up its "ridiculous headlines," declaring Last October, Mrs. Koeck that the truth about each allegation is: stopped in the lobby of Twin • There are more than 1.5 million Negroes in AFL-CIO i City Federal, a savings and unions. loan company, and deposited • Of the 60,000 locals in the AFL-CIO, fewer than 150 are i her guess in its election sweep-1 now all-Negro and the campaign to merge them with all-white stakes. She picked Humphrey locals continues even where some black locals are reluctant to to carry Minnesota and change. missed hitting his actual total • Negroes now constitute 3.6 percent of the apprenticeship on the nose by only seven force, an increase of more than 100 percent in 10 years. Labor votes. Department figures show that Negro participation in apprentice­ The prize? A three-day, ship programs has nearly doubled in the past 18 months. all-expense trip to Washing­ '• Unions, including building trades, are engaged in programs ton for the festivities sur­ to recniit Negro journeymen as well as apprentices. rounding the inauguration of j • Unorganized workers—black and white—"are fiosking to the next President of the trade unions," because non-union craftsmen, black or vyhite, United States. earn considerably less than orgaiiized workers do. Green Carders Allowed Jobs As U.S. Workers Go Hungry SAN ANTONIO—Witnesses here recently told the U.S. Com­ mission on Civil Rights that American farm workers live in destitu­ tion while the Immigration and Naturalization service lets 44,000150,000 "commuters" cross the ^ border daily to v^ork^L^o border every day to take farm while an equal number of Laredo jobs. residents cannot get work. At the close of the six days of The Reverend Edward Kruehearings, the acting Chairman, ger, sent to the area by the Texas Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh Council bf Churches as an ob­ asked the commission staff to seek server last year, testified that he a legal opinion on whether federal was arrested and slapped after anti-peonage laws have been vio­ taking pictures of Rangers break­ ing up a farm worker picket line lated by Texas employers. The testimony tended to show. at Mission, Tex. Rangers Captain A. Y. Allee Reverend Hesburgh said, that many migrant farm workers in was booed and cheered when he the lower Rio Grande Valley are denied any brutality or strike­ living in conditions close to slav­ breaking tactics. ery. He is president of Notre Asked whether . he had con­ Dame University, and one of five ferred with the growers during commission members. the organizing effort of the United Father Hesburgh asked for a Farm Workers Organizing Com­ lawyer's opinion on peonage, not­ mittee, Allee said he had been ing that, if the workers try to or­ "in and out of Starr County for ganize, "they get thrown in jail 32 years" but denied the employ­ and have to put up $500 bond, a ers talked to him about the strike. third of their yearly income, to The commission, authorized by get out." Congress to make recommenda­ Arnulfo Guerra, an attorney tions, will report its findings when from Roma, Tex., told how Mex­ they are complete. The states un­ ican "green carders" are permit­ der study are Texas, California, ted to take farm jobs while U.S. Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico. citizens cannot find work at a liv­ The Texas committee includes ing wage. Last year, he testified, Henry Munoz, civil rights direc­ Texas Rangers and Starr County tor for the state AFL-CIO, and court officers helped employers Paul Apolonio Montemavor of break a strike of American farm the Steelworkers, Corpus Christi. workers. In its most recent report, called Manuel Ramirez of Laredo, Cycle to Nowhere, the commis­ Tex., a member of Volunteers in sion detailed living and working Service to America, testified that conditions for black citizens in 2,500 Mexican nationals cross the the Montgomery, Alabama, area. AFL-CIO Hits Race Slurs In Look Article Inauguration Trip Won the Hard Way OK Flection loss • Labor was one of the principal supporters fighting for enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and long before that unions had sought at the bargaining table, to eliminate segre­ gated seniority systems. Railway Clerks President C. L. Dennis charged that the article "completely misstates the facts" in claiming that Negro freight handlers were replaced by less senior white employees and that there are no Negro rail ticket clerks. The truth is, he said, "there is not one known instance" of a Negro freight handler being displaced by a white worker with less seniority and there are "quite a few Negro ticket clerks" at work in passenger terminals. BLFE President H. E. Gilbert said "there is not a shred of truth" in the article's contention there are no Negro firemen. There are Negro firemen in various parts of the nation "and most of them" are BLFE members, he pointed out. President Harry D. Sayre hit at allegations of discrimination in the Papermakers and Paperworkers by pointing out that the union eliminated racial wage differentials more than 15 years ago and Negro members in the South are among the region's highest paid industrial workers. Photo Also Wrong He also blasted the magazine for showing a picture of a Negro worker described as being in a segregated local when the man is a member of a local that was integrated "sometime ago." Schnitzler charged that the article also "deceives by what it omits." He noted, for example, that there is no mention of the successful program under which building trades unions are actively recruiting minority group youngsters for apprenticeships in 44 major cities. "We make no claim to perfection," Schnitzler concluded, "and would welcome a constructive critique of our progress in civil rights. For there has been progress and we intend that it con­ tinue despite attempts such as Mr. Star's to discourage young Negroes. "Labor is not and has not been the foe of the quest for 3 better life. Indeed, it has often been the only group fighting for this goal. And invariably, it has succeeded despite the hos­ tility of that segment of the press which cares neither for the truth nor the cause—and would sacrifice both for sensational headlines." �•January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOC Pace Five Congressman Tells MTP Meeting Labor Board Knocks Down Christmas Bonus Scrooges Two employers who took away a Christmas bonus from em­ ployees must give it back, the National Labor Relations Board decided in a pair of holiday season rulings. Found guilty of unlawful acts were the Beacon Journal Pub­ lishing Co. in Akron, Ohio, and Wisconsin Aluminurn Foundry Company Inc. of Manitowoc, Wis. In the Manitowoc case. Office and Professional Employees Local 9 charged that the employer dropped a payroll clerk off its yearly bonus list because of his union membership and union activities. - The company president denied the firm was biased against employee Lorin Haver. He admitted that Haver had received a bonus of up to $500 for 19 years but last Christmas he was dropped because the bonus went only to supervisors, and Haver no longer was a supervisor. Haver's boss told the NLRB. The withholding of the bonus for the reason given was, the board ruled, a "plain violation" of the labor act. It reasoned as follows: "There was no change in Haver's duties and responsibilities" from one Christmas to the next. What had changed was that in the interval. Haver had organized the clerical workers into a union and was now included in the union bargaining unit. To withhold a bonus payment solely because the employee is represented by a union "serves naturally to discourage mem­ bership in a labor organization," the board said. Two board members reversed a trial examiner's recommen­ dation that the complaint be dismissed. Member John H. Fan­ ning dissented, saying he agreed with the examiner that the bonus was negotiated into Haver's new pay rate. In 'the Beacon Journal case, the NLRB reaffirmed an order handed down 18 months ago but remanded to the board by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, for additional tes­ timony. The board said the newspaper broke the law in 1966 by unilaterally changing its formula for the payment of a Christmas bonus to its union employees without bargaining collectively with the Printing Pressmen, Paper Handlers, Mailers and five other unions. It ordered the company to bargain with the unions about the bonus, and to pay all eligible employees the difference between the bonus actually paid and what should have been paid, plus interest at six percent. 1968 Efforts Realized V Delta's Replacement Program Climaxes As Fifth Ship Sails NEW ORLEANS—The formal delivery last month of the new SlU-contracted Delta Mexico to Delta Steamship Lines here, tharked the completion of the largest ship replacement construc­ tion program in the fifty-year'®' a set of Stiilcken heavy duty gear history of Delta Line. capable of lifting single loads The Delta Mexico is the fifth weighing up to 75 tons. and final unit of a series of five Attractive air-conditioned living Delta Class identical ultra-modern quarters are also provided for all American-flag cargoliners built in crew members. 1968 for Delta by the Ingalls ship­ These new Delta Class ships are yard at Pascagoola, Miss. Princi­ designed for ready adaptability to pal characteristics of these modern containerized and unitized cargo new vessels are; an over-all length operations, in anticipation of the 522 feet, with a beam of 70 feet; possibility of a continuing trend deadweight capacity 13,350 tons; toward intermodal transportation bale cubic 646,860; refrigerated systems. cargo space 47,280 cubic feet; The Delta Mexico will join her liquid cargo 1,658 long tons. four sisterships—the Delta Argen­ Design cruising speed for the tina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uru­ vessel is 18.6 knots with 11,660 guay—and the other U.S.-flag shaft horsepower, and in excess of vessels of Delta's fleet engaged in 20 knots when utilizing total regularly scheduled cargo service power at design draft. between U.S. Gulf ports, the East Coast of South America, and also Feature Bulbous Bow The new ships have been built between U.S. Gulf ports and the with a bulbous bow for increased West Coast of Africa. Other SIUspeed and fuel economy. Advanc­ manned Delta cargo vessels are ed features include centralized also being operated through the control stations in the engine room MSTS on the Vietnam sealift. and on the bridge.. Also featured The Delta Mexico proceeded are multiple hatch cargo holds from the shipyard directly to Freewith fast operating hydraulic hatch port, Texas, as her first cargo covers, and the iatest navigation ioadiag pert. After tins she loaded equipment for ship safety and op­ additional cargo at Houston and erating efficiency. The ve^el's Tampico before embarking on her cargo handling equipment includes maiden voyage to South America. Cabinet-Level Department Could End 'Fragmented Approach' to Maritime WASHINGTON—A Connecticut Congressman last month called for establishment of a Cabinetlevel Department of Maritime Resources to end what he called the "fragmented approach" to the na­ tion's problems on the oceans, lakes, rivers and harbors. Representative Robert N. ^ would be forthcoming on the De­ Giaimo added, "and it would be a Giaimo (D-Conn.) told a meet­ partment idea, he favored going mistake, in my view, to consider ing sponsored by the nearly "full steam ahead" with reconsti­ these two problems in such a way seven-million-member AFL-CIO tuting the Maritime Administra­ as to divorce them from the other Maritime Trades Department that tion as an independent agency. elements of our total maritime "more than a score of federal re"After all," Giaimo said, "the effort. partments and agencies have an record has been made on the need "To do this would be to per­ overseer role" over shipping, ship­ for maritime independence. It was petuate the neglect that has l^en building, fishing, seafood process­ made in 1966, when we kept visited upon the other elements— ing, oceanographic research, the maritime out of the Department Great Lakes, inland waterways of Transportation at the time that the development of our oceano­ and the related problem of water new Cabinet-level office came into graphic efforts, the revitalization of our fishing fleet, the expansion pollution. being. It was made in 1967 in the of our seafood processing in­ The Congressman emphasized House and 1968 in the Senate his continuing support for creation when those respective bodies dustry, the strengthening of our of an independent Maritime Ad­ voted for an independent agency. Great Lakes shipping capability, ministration, noting that "Agri­ So the record is there, and we the enlargement of our network of culture, State, Defense, Interior, should be able to pass an in­ inland waterways to serve the Commerce, Transportation, AID, dependent agency bill quickly in heartland of America, and the development of modem port the Coast Guard—and perhaps a the next session of Congress." facilities to serve modem sea and few other federal agencies^—all land transport needs. E^ntial to Progress have a finger in the maritime pie. "But if that's the route we "The fact that so many different "We should be tackling all of agencies meddle in maritime," he take," Representative Giaimo said, these problems together—for, in went on, "and do it from the point "let us make sure that the record truth, all of them are parts of the of view of their own constituencies is clear as to our long-term in­ same problem." rather than from the point of view tentions ... of having all of the As an example, Giaimo pointed of the merchant marine, is pre­ diverse elements of this program to the fact that for several years cisely the reason why we have an eventually brought together in one the maritime industry and Con­ outdated merchant marine operat­ centralized place. This is the only gress have been battling side by ing under an outdated program." way, in my opinion, that we can side for the creation of an in­ But, Giaimo declared, although make genuine progress on all dependent Maritime Administra­ an independent maritime agency maritime fronts—exploiting our tion. "I support this cause, be­ is "vitally important . . . it's far great potential on the seas and cause I happen to agree with you under them, and the great poten­ that we're never going to get at from being the total answer." tial of our lakes and rivers, our the root of our difficulties in the 'The Right Time' ports and harbors—serving the He said 1969 might be "pre­ growing needs of a growing nation maritime field as long as the cisely the right time" to go ahead in both peacetime endeavors and agency charged with this respon­ sibility is placed in a subordinate with creation of the broader Cab­ national defense." inet-level Department, particularly Recognizing the concern of position within the Executive in view of some of the statements maritime labor over the revitali- Branch . . . and corrective action issued by the President-elect's zation of American-flag shipping, is long overdue. headquarters about the need for Giaimo declared: "I share that "An independent agency can consolidating many of the pro­ concern. I recognize the concern devise an up-to-date merchant grams of government which now of workers in American shipyards cross several Cabinet Department and workers in supporting trades marine program, and can see that lines," and in view of a maritime and industries over the need to it is carried forward with vigor statement by Nixon touching on modernize and expand our ship­ and enthusiasm—certain that its all aspects of the maritime-ocean- building capabilities . . . and I efforts are not going to be negated by some Secretary or some Underographic problem. share that concern, too." Secretary somewhere in the higher "But these are only parts of Giaimo said that if it appears "unlikely" that speedy action the total maritime question," echelons of bureaucracy." The Delta Mexico Is the fifth and final ultra-modern cargo ship built for Delta Steamship Company by Ingalls Shipyard, Pascagoula, Miss. The 522-foot vessel will make maiden voyage to South America. �Page Six On UAW Membership Bid AFL-CIO Executive Council Demands Firm Declaration of ICFTU Policy WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO Executive Council last month called on the International Con­ federation of Free Trade Unions for a specific, definite answer to the AFL-CIO's request that it reject applications for membership from hostile, secessionist unions. Until it receives such an an­ He noted that the AFL-CIO centers in the ICFTU from any swer^—specifically on the bid by had asked the ICFTU to reject at nation, is unthinkable and indefen­ the Auto Workers—the councU its November, 1968, Executive sible." said that the AFL-CIO will not Board meeting the affiliation ap­ The ICFTU should do more participate in any activities of the plication from the UAW on the than "merely refrain from taking basis of trade union principle. . action detrimental to the interests ICFTU. The question before the ICFTU of its United States affiliate," Federation President George board, Meany had written to Meany wrote, and the AFL-CIO Meany reported the action to a ICFTU Secretary-General Harm "should receive the complete press conference following a oneG. Buiter, goes beyond that posed backing and support of the day meeting of the council here. by the UAW's application. "It ICFTU in its effort to defend and Meany said that the council involves not only the integrity of preserve the integrity of the only strongly reiterated its position the AFL-CIO but that of every national trade union center in the taken at the September, 1968, other trade union center affiliated United States." meeting in New York that "the to the ICFTU." The ICFTU board postponed AFL-CIO cannot agree to the action on the UAW application, Internal Rivalry 'Unthinkable' aflSliation of the UAW to the leading to the council's demand The AFL-CIO, Meany had ICFTU in any shape, manner or for a specific answer to the trade form," in view of the withdrawal noted, "is faced with the dual ac­ union principle it raised. of the UAW from the federation tivities of a hostile, secessionist In reply to queries, the AFLand its continuing efforts "to split union in alliance with an expelled CIO president said that the trade the American trade union move­ union. Dual membership of rival union movement is in good shape ment." competing national trade union and that life will go on under the Nixon Administration. He said the AFL-CIO hopes to co-operate with the new leadership and that there is some indication that "they want that co-operation." In other actions the council: • • Approved the merger of four WASHINGTON—^The AFL-CIO and the Japanese Confedera­ rail (i^rating unions and the tion of Labor (DOMEI) have joined in supporting the desire of name change to the United Trans­ the Japanese people for the return of Okinawa to Japan "at the portation Union. Three of the unions—Firemen and Enginemen, earliest possible moment.' sire for expansion thereof in the Switchmen and Trainmen — are Representatives of the two free world, bearing in mind the federations also reached agree­ problems of individual unions AFL-CIO affiliates; the Conduc­ ment on U.S.-Japan trade, Viet­ when their workers are affected." tors were unaffiliated. • Heard officers representing nam and the need for stronger On Vietnam, "DOMEI and the the Patrolmen's Benevolent Asso­ unions in Asia at a three-day AFI-CIO reconfirm their desire ciation of New York City ask for meeting here last month. and continue their respective ef­ affiliation with ^he Federation and The meeting brought an agree-- forts for an early restoration of ment that AFL-CIO and DOMEI peace in Vietnam and achieve­ voted to name a committee to representatives will henceforth ment of a free and stable society secure more information on the meet annually to discuss matters through increasingly better condi­ request. Meany named sbc AFLCIO vice presidents, including of mutual interest. Additional tions for the people." SIU President Paul Hall, to the joint meetings may be held at the Towards this end, the statement committee which will report back request of either body. added, "we pledge full co-opera­ to the next council meeting. The AFL-CIO was represented tion with the Vietnamese Con-' • Received an interim report at the initial conference by a spe­ federation of Labor (CVI)." from A1 Barkan, national direc­ cial committee of the Executive On Asian labor, "DOMEI and tor of COPE, on the 1968 elec­ Council, headed by President the AFL-CIO have mutual inter­ tions. A full report will be made George Meany and including four ests in strengthening free trade to the council at its next meeting AFL-CIO Vice Presidents—SIU unions in Asia so that they may in February. President Paul Hall, James A. effectively promote economic de­ • Voted contributions to the Suffridge, P. L. Siemiller and velopment and prosperity for the Jewish Labor Committee, the Joseph A. Beirne. great mass of people." Joint Council on Economic Ed­ DOMEI was represented by its They pledged to press this ob­ ucation and the Inaugural Com­ president. Minora Takita, and its jective in coordination with the mittee's guaranteed fund. The lat­ general secretary, Takumi Shi- Intl. Confederation of Free Trade ter is to help underwrite inaugural geeda. Unions and the Asian Regional costs and the funds are usually re­ In a joint statement, the leaders Organization. turned from ticket sales, etc. of the two federations said that they "anticipate that the govern­ ments of Japan and the United States will reach a full and satis­ factory agreement" on the Okinawan issue. In the meantime, they declared, there must be improvement "of the working conditions and free industrial relations in Okinawa." Specifically, they called for a re­ view of labor ordinances and rales at U.S. military establishments^ with a view toward improving them. "More permanent tenure of management negotiators is impor­ tant for continuity in establishing sound labor-management rela­ tions," the joint statement said. These were the expressions of agreement in the other areas; On trade, "DOMEI and the AFL-CIO President George Meany Issues joint statement on Olcinawa, AFL-CIO continue to support free trade policy, Vietnam and Asian Labor with Minoru Takita, president, and liberal trade policy and de­ and Takumi Shigeeda (right), gen.-sec, of Japanese Labor Federation. Return of Okinawa Supported By AFL-CIO, Japanese Labor Januarjr 3, 1959 SEAFARERS LOG At Home on the Range • •X Mariano Marcelino cooks lunch for hungry Seafarers as they wait for Steel Age to pay-off after recent voyage to India among other ports. A native of the Philippines, he joined the SIU in 1951. SIU Deck Officers Program Upgrades 3 More Seafarers Three additional Seafarers have received their deck officer's licenses after completing the course of study offered at the up­ grading school sponsored by the SIU and the America Maritime Officers Union. A total of 43 under a reciprocal agreement be­ men have now earned a deck officers license after attending tween the SIU and the Associated this school and Maritime Officers Union, is the passing Coast first of its type in the industry. Applicants can begin training Guard examina­ at any time. The period of in­ tions. struction is determined by each Henry Bilde re­ ceived a second member's individual ability and mate's license. knowledge, and his preparation to The 53-year-old take the examination. Seafarer was born The training program was in­ Bilde in Denmark and stituted in line with the SIU's makes his home objective of encouraging and as­ in Bellport, Long Island, N.Y. sisting unlicensed personnel to Brother Bilde previously sailed as upgrade themselves. bosun and joined the Union in Seafarers can participate in the Philadelphia in 1943. His last ship course of instruction at no cost as bosun was the Robin Goodto themselves. They will be pro­ fellow. vided with meals, hotel lodgings A Seafarer since 1952, John Andringa joined the SIU in Sa­ vannah, Ga. Formerly sailing as AB, he received a third mate's license. He is a native of Minne­ sota and makes his home in Crookston, Minn. Brother And­ ringa served in the Air Force from 1941 to 1945 and again during the Korean War. His last vessel before earning a license was the Transpacific. Andringa Dew Paul Dew received a second mate's license after sailing previ­ and subsistence payments of $110 ously as bosun and AB. Born in per week while in training. White Oak, N. C., he has been a This in-training assistance is member of the SIU since 1952, the same as that available to when he joined in the Port of engine department Seafarers who Baltimore. The 41-year-old Sea­ are enrolled in the union training farer served in the Navy from program to prepare engine depart­ 1944 to 1949. His last ship v/as ment men for their lisensGd engi­ the Hermina. He lives in Glen neer's examination. Burnie, Maryland with his wife, SIU deck department men in­ Ethel. terested in the program should The training program, operated apply at any SIU hall. �wwrr-Mtr- January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS Tax Reform SeenJEssential In Solving NatfOfi''s Problems WASHINGTON—^Tax reform is essential to the massive public in­ vestment needed to overcome America's accumulated social and eco­ nomic problems, AFL-CIO President George Meany stresses in a recent article written for a prestigious academic joumah The article "Labor Looks at Government Finances," appears in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. It discusses the impact of the "rapid and radical changes in tech­ nology, urban growth and race relations." It notes the problems created because "millions of people have been leaving depressed rural areas of declining job opportunities to seek their future in the cities. Additional millions have been moving from cities to suburbs. Industry, too, has been leaving the city for suburbs and outlying areas." The article warns that the public investment in facilities and services —however large it may appear in dollar terms—has not been adequate to meet the backlog of needs and keep up with rapid changes. As a result, Meany points out, education and public transportation have deteriorated in large cities, air and water pollution have become major problems, housing for the lower income families has been grossly inadequate. And a significant minority of the nation has had little share of national prosperity. Can the states, cities and private industry overcome these problems? Meany thinks not. They can help, he says; they can do more than they have done. But, he adds: "The key to the national complex of social and economic problems is federal government policy, funds and planned programs over the -next 10 to 20 years—^with state and local government initiative and additional funds to carry through the nationwide efforts at the local level." Meany emphasizes labor's position that the government must be: • "The employer of last resort—to create jobs for the unemployed and seriously underemployed in providing needed public services. • The landlord of last resort—to build and rehabilitate housing that poor people can afford." But can the government, itself, afford this? Yes, Meany insists. The growth in the national economy will gen­ erate additional revenue. But, he stresses, to gain continued public support for heavy federal expenditures, the public must be convinced of the fairness of the taxation system. The fact is that we don't have an equitable tax system, even though it is superior to most state and local tax structures. Specifically, Meany proposes "elimination of those gross inequities that impose full tax rates on workers' earnings while there are various loopholes that permit wealthy people-and corpwations to escape pay­ ment of full tax rates and, in some cases, to escape from paying any federal taxes at all." He calls also for reform of state and local tax policies, consolidation of small local government jurisdictions and a federal tax credit for state income tax payments to encourage states to base taxation on ability to pay. Meany firmly rejects the conservative call for "no strings" handover of federal money to the states. "Since unconditional grants would not be tied to specific programs, there is no assurance they would not be used for less urgent or even wasteful purposes," he notes. Nor could enforcement of federal civil rights or labor standards be assured. Genuine problems resulting from uncoordinated grant programs can be overcome by less drastic remedies, Meany suggests. Basically, the article insists, "America has the manpower, skills and productive ability to achieve solutions" to the nation's problems. Bert M. Jewell, 87, president of the former AFL Railway Em­ ployees Department for nearly a quarter of a century, died in a Kansas City, Kansas, rest home recently. He retired from the position in 1946. Jewell, a long­ time leader in the Boilermakers, also headed the negotiating com­ mittee of the non-operating unions for many years, and represented rail unions at international labor meetings. • • ... » The City Council of Lakewood, Ohio, has unanimously passed an ordinance calling for full recogni­ tion of union bargaining rights. The ordinance was enacted after extensive negotiations with Local 1043 of the State, County and Municipal Employees and the lo­ cal lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police. City-recognized unions submitted their proposals for wage provisions for 1969 last mouth. Bargaining will be handled by the council's finance committee and any agreements must be approved by the council. * « « James L. Kane, 48, president of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Council since 1959, has been appointed to a Buffalo City Court judgeship and took office Jan. 1. "James L. Kane has been a very active law­ yer," Buffalo Mayor Frank A. Sedita said in announcing the ap­ pointment, "he will be a very good judge." Kane, a graduate of the University of Buffalo Law School, became president of the former Buffalo Federation of Labor in 1946 and has presided over the council since its merger. He is a member of the Postal Clerks. • • • More than 20,000 members of Utility Workers Ixx;al 1-2 returned to work after voting by a 3-1 margin to end a two-week strike against Con Edison in New York Inst month. Wage inerpases of $17 to $48 a week are included in a 27-month contract which won ap­ proval after an earlier offer was rejected Nov. 30. Page Seven LOC O' Say Can You See? In keeping with long-established custom, Christmas greetings were sent once again this year to the men and women of the American Merchant Marine by the Presi­ dent of the United States. This message was broadcast to all U.S.-flag vessels throughout the world during Christmas week. The White House message expressed its "unending debt to those who sail our mer­ chant ships over the highways of the sea" ... and those who "safeguard the nation's sup­ ply lines to our military forces on distant shores . . ." These are encouraging words, it is true; but the poor record of White House support of maritime reduces them to words—and words alone. Even though they are a token pat on the back, they can hardly raise any ju­ bilation. Seafarers in 1968 have continued to sail into often dangerous waters aboard many ships which should have been retired to the scrap-heaps years ago. Despite the formal praise issued for ptiblic consumption, the truth is, the U.S. merchant marine is carrying governrnerit cargoes with a fleet 70 percent of which consists of ships over 20 years old. Tlie truth, again is, that this nation has practically abandoned the carriage of its goods in international com­ merce. Today we are hauling less than six percent of our own imports and exports. Our 50-50 cargo laws are in disrepute because of constant circumventions of the law by gov­ ernment officials which continue unchecked under the blanket excuse that we don't have the ships with which to live up to regulations. This is no more than federal double talk sub­ stantiated by long-standing fedefal neglect. Today this nation is scrapping more ships —and replacing them more slowly than ever before in its history. The Soviets are build­ ing ships at a rate of nearly seven to every one we put on the ways. With the advent this month of a new Administration, the opportunity to reverse course is before us. The hard-earned vic­ tories for maritime which have been chalked up in the past year—despite the hostility of the Executive Branch—can be solidified into law. The maritime industry and the Con­ gress soundly defeated the attempt to bury MARAD in Transportation, where it would have become even further subordinated to every other means of moving people and goods. But MARAD must be moved out of Com­ merce, too, where it has languished since 1950, where it has had to compete with that Department's big business programs, and with the more prosperous, well-protected in­ dustries such as the railroads, airlines and trucking. Any national maritime program must start anew—from this point on. The Congress is well aware of the sad plight of the decrepit American merchant marine. In 1968, it passed maritime's declaration of independ­ ence by approving overwhelmingly a bill for an independent MARAD. The same ur­ gency, the same understanding, and the same legislators who recognized the need then are still there now—with the exception of only a few. MARAD must be made a separate agency—and now! That will pave the way to real considera­ tion of America's vital interests—economic, political and strategic — in this country's recapture of its supremacy on the high seas. Then, :..:id only then, will official holiday greetings to the men and women of our mer­ chant marine—made up of a growing, re­ vitalized fleet—sound like a sincere greeting, rather than mere commiseration. �t fi |i I Page Eight / P. StevenSr Governments Darling, Gets Hardest Rap Yet from NLRB WASHINGTON—J. P. Stevens and Co., Inc., major supplier of textile goods to the U.S. govern­ ment, deliberately reduced the flow of cotton into a company warehouse to give itself an excuse for getting rid of union supporters prior to a National Labor Relations Board election, an NLRB aide declared last month. Stevens management started its whom he held to have been un­ The ruling, by Trial Exam­ lawfully disehaiged, should be re­ union-busting tactics when it iner Owsley Vose, marked the instated—all of them with back­ learned in the fall of 1967 that sixth straight time since 1966 that pay except three who were laid its warehouse employes were in­ terested in joining the Textile unfair labor practice charges off after the election. Workers Union of America, the Challenges to ballots cast by the against the nation's second largest examiner reported. 14 should be overruled, Vose said. textile maker have been upheld. Though its Black Hawk ware­ advised the NLRB to open He Two of the NLRB rulings have house was only about half full in and count the ballots; to certify been sustained by the U.S. Su­ September of 1967, Stevens "com­ TWUA as the bargaining agent preme Court. Three company ap­ peals still wait to be ruled on by for warehouse employees if it wins menced consigning the great bulk a majority of the valid votes cast; of its shipments" from cotton other U.S. appeals courts. and if it does not get a majority states to an independently-owned Excuse for Layoffs that the election be set aside public warehouse in Greenville, Vose concluded after hearing and a new election ordered. thence to its cloth-making plants. the latest charges that Stevens Vose's report will go to the That month Stevens consigned "deliberately changed its past NLRB for review if the company 73 of the 88 carloads of cotton methods of doing business so as files exceptions, as it has in the shipped from the South to Green­ to be able to reduce the volume five preceding cases. The first two ville for warehousing at the inde­ of cotton moving" into and out of of five NLRB findings against pendent warehouse, the examiner the company's Black Hawk ware­ Stevens were refused review by related. house at Greenville, S.C. The the Supreme Court. Policy Changed purpose, he found, was "to have Workers unlawfully fired by "Earlier in 1966 and 1967, al­ an excuse for laying off a substan­ Stevens in the first two cases have most all the cars placed at the [in­ tial number of the group of em­ collected $666,895 in backpay to dependent! warehouse had orig­ ployees which ... the company date. Stevens' union-busting pol­ had heard contained the largest icies have prevented any success­ inally been consigned to Black number of union supporters, ful union organization in the past. Hawk. However, apparently real­ namely the warehouse em­ TWUA President William Pollock izing that it did not make sense to ployees." predicted that the Black Hawk consign cotton to Commodity [the The examiner recommended workers will give TWUA its first independent warehouse] when it had plenty of space available at that 17 warehouse employees. "foothold" in the Stevens chain. Black Hawk, and when its own warehouse staff was comparatively idle. Stevens had 37 of the 73 cars originally consigned to Com­ modity" switched to its own ware­ house, the examiner related. The remaining 38 cars com­ prised a "significantly larger num­ OKLAHOMA CITY—Oklahoma's voters, who turned down a ber of cars than Stevens had pre­ proposal to ban the union shop in a 1964 referendum, won't be viously had Commodity handle," faced with another vote on the issue for at least some time to come. Vose said, citing the record of Oklahomans for the Right- istered voters, names written in shipments. Next Stevens in­ creased its use of warehouses at to-Work, the state affiliate of the same handwriting. Gulfport and Clarksdale, Miss., the National Right-to-Work But it conceded defeat, declar­ instead of Black Hawk, and at the Committee, had to give up its at­ ing the Supreme Court ruling same time laid off 20 Black Hawk tempts to force the issue on the made it "impractical" to continue employees to bring the warehouse ballot on the basis of petitions the fight. workers to 28—a reduction in collected last year. The organization's executive force of unprecedented size. Oklahoma's secretary of state, vice president. Herb Johnson, said And just before the eligibility John Rogers, had ruled that the a new "right-to-work" petition period for voting in the NLRB organization hadn't turned in will be circulated "as soon as we election expired, Stevens hired three new shop employees, Vose enough valid petitions to qualify can get everything set up." He said the state legislature noted. The shop employees, who under state law. Signatures of should pass a new law to cover repair equipment, are mainly 101,589 voters were required. The "right-to-work" group the problem of "missing" signa­ white and the warehouse workers predominantly black. fought his decision in the courts tures. —and claimed that some 3,500 names they turned in hadn't been Early Morning Byeopener counted. But they couldn't make the charge stick. The state's Supreme Court ap­ pointed a referee to investigate the charge. He found no evidence that any uncounted petitions had ever been submitted. The Supreme Court then con­ firmed his findings and took note of "obvious discrepancies" in the testimony given by "right-towork" officials regarding the "missing" names. That left the number of peti­ tions on file at only a few hun­ dred over the legal minimum— despite the use of paid solicitors and a high-powered advertising and publicity campaign during the three-month period allowed for collecting initiative petitions. The "right-to-work" group could have contested the ruling that 17,000 of these signatures were invalid—^fake names, dupli­ Minor Jensen enjoys a cup of coffee at the New York hall's cafe­ cations, names of persons not reg­ teria. He last shipped on the Robin Goodfellow as a chief cook. Oklahoma Right-to-Workers Forced bv Court to Retreat January 3, 1969 SEAFARER^ LOC :Se Plan Early for Retirement By Sidney Margollus Is anyone in your family coming up for retirement in 1969? Or in the next few yeans? Even ten years ahead is not too soon for practical retirement plan­ ning. Now, more than ever before, it is important to estimate well in advance how much your living expenses will be when you finally do retire. If you expect to live on about the same scale after retirement as be­ fore, you probably will need about 70 percent of the income you had before. Thus, if pre-retirement costs for a husband and wife have been about $6,000, you would need about $4,200 to continue living in the same way after retirement. That's just about the annual amount a retired couple needs today for moderately comfortable living. The main differences in annual living costs are brought about by savings on income taxes, job expenses, some clothing, and fewer meals out. Unfortunately, most retired people do not have 70 percent of preretiremenf income. Only about one out of six already-retired people have any private pension. The others depend mostly on social security, plus occasional part-time work and help from relatives.. In the future, more retiring workers will have pensions to supple­ ment social security. However, for at least another generation, this will not be the case for most. In addition to working out a retirement budget, there are certain key financial decisions which should be made. Their timing can affect your taxes, how much extra income you will have, and even your expenses. Some of the most vital decisions involve the following: • Your House. If you sell your house before you reach 65, you may have to pay more tax on the gain in value than if you close the deal after 65. • E Bonds; Other Savings. If you expect to cash in E bonds or sell mutual-fund shares or other securities on which you have gains, you can usually save taxes here, too, by waiting until after 65. If you are buying E bonds for retirement, buy smaller denomina­ tions—for example, two $50-bonds instead of a $100-one. In this way you won't have to cash a large bond to get a relatively small amount of cash. (This suggestion can be useful to younger families too, especially since they have to pay tax on the increase in value of their bonds.) • Retirement Savings. The form in which you want to keep your savings after retirement may also be different. E bonds will be less useful than five percent savings accounts as a place to keep your sav­ ings. You will no longer need the tax-postponable feature of the E bonds, which is useful to younger families, because you probably will not have to pay much—if anything—in income taxes following your retirement. If you have some of your savings in mutual-fund shares or stocks, those paying higher immediate income are more useful now than those paying lower dividends but offering better prospects for capital growth. • Your Life Insurance. You also must decide what to do about your life insurance. If you have a whole-life or endowment policy on which you have been paying for many years, it probably has a fairly large cash-surrender value. When you are ready to retire, you prob­ ably will need income more than your heirs will need insurance pro­ tection. If this is so, you usually can convert this cash value into an annuity which will pay you an income each month. If you also arrange for survivor payments—or buy a separate annuity for your wife—this income will take the place of at least part of the insurance as protec­ tion for her if she survives you. Converting the cash value of your insurance to an annuity or other income-producing investment will also reduce your living expenses by ending further payment of premiums. If you do have an endowment policy, consult the insurance com­ pany about the tax effects of the optional ways of taking the proceeds. If you convert to an annuity before, or within 60 days after the policy matures, you may be able to escape some or all of the tax on the difference between what you put in and what you get back. • Medical Needs. Some medical care you may wish to postpone until your Medicare coverage starts—if such care is postponable with­ out harm to you. But some needs not covered by Medicare—such as dental work, eyeglasses and hearing aids—may give you a tax deduc­ tion if paid before age 65. The deductibility of such expenses may be of less use to you after 65. • If Others Will Help You. If your grown children or other close relatives will help support you in retirement, make sure you and they know all the dependency rules. Sometimes taxpayers lose a potential exemption because they slip up on some point, such as not counting all their contributions, including the value of the dependent's room in the taxpayer's house. The most important rule is that the taxpayer—or taxpayers, if more than one contributes—must provide more than half the support of the dependent. Also, the dependent must not have $600 or more of "taxable" income of his own. Remember that social security, railroad retirement, VA payments and similar income are not taxable as income. Even if the taxpayer cannot claim you as a dependent because you have $600 or more of taxable income, he still may be able to include your medical expenses in his medical deduction, if he does pay these expenses and does contribute more than half your annual support. �,n^. • January 3, 1969 ONE VOYAGING—ONE MAN sailing the high seas in a small, frail craft—has become an in­ creasingly popular sport in recent years, and despite the dangers involved it continues to exercise a fascina­ tion over these adventurous souls who feel impelled to challenge the seas and elements. Although most men who took up this challenge in the past were master mariners, their ranks have been joined by amateurs—and one of these, Cleveland copyreader Robert Manry, sailed five years ago in what was probably the smallest craft to ever successfully cross the Atlantic. In the personal account of his crossing in an 11-foot sailboat from Falmouth, Massachu.setts to Falmouth, England, Manry gives perhaps the most novel description of what constitutes a lone voyage. "A voyage made by a .solitary person is sometimes called a singlehanded voyage or solo voyage," he wrote, "but neither of these terms gives proper credit to the most important factor in any voyage, the boat." The boat is indeed important. Lone voyagers have dis­ covered—sometimes to their surprise—that small craft fare better in rough seas and storms than larger ones which are more difficult to maneuver, and are more likely to be broken up by pounding waves. "Far from being a solo," Manry continues, "a oneman voyage is a kind of maritime duet in which the boat plays the melody and its skipper plays the harmonic counterpart. The performances of the boat and the skipper are both important, undeniably, but if it comes to making a choice between the two the decision must be in favor of the boat. For there have been a few honest-to-goodness solo voyages, and these have been made by boats, not men." Manry is referring here to solo voyages made by derelict vessels—some of which drifted, unmanned, for thousands of miles without sustaining the slightest bit of damage. The past 15 years have witnessed nearly a dozen ocean crossings by lone voyagers. They have become so com, monplace that Mariner Alan Villiers, who himself sailed a replica of the Mayflower across the Atlantic ten years ago, speaks cynically of "a radio-sick populace clamouring to be told about them." In addition to Manry's trip across the Atlantic in his II-foot Tinkerbelle, Alec Rose, a grocer, has crossed the same ocean in a 36-foot yacht; William Willis—since lost at sea— crossed the Pacific twice on a sail-propelled raft; and Sir Francis Chichester has circumnavigated the world alone in his yacht Gypsy Moth. Although men were undoubtedly making lone voyages thousands of years before him, the first recorded lone ocean crossing was made 75 years ago by a master mariner in a 37-foot sloop—and five years later another master mariner sailed alone around the world in an even smaller craft—a converted Indian dugout fitted with sails. Captain Joshua Slocum, a Nova Scotian who had been "born in the breezes" and "studied the sea as per­ haps few men have studied, neglecting all else," had sailed since the age of 10 and survived a long career at sea as a sailing-ship master before he was to undertake his last great adventure. In 1890, at age 55, Slocum found himself without a ship, having lost a bark that he commanded off the coast of Brazil. After returning to Boston to work in a shipyard, he was given—as a practical joke—an anti­ quated little sloop, the Spray which had been lying idle for seven years on a New Bedford shore. Measuring a little less than 37 feet by 14 and-one-half feet, the Spray vvas completely rebuilt and outfitted by Slocum during the next two years. As work progressed, an idea began taking root in Slocum's mind. He started asking himself—at first facetiously, then seriously—why not sail the Spray singlehandedly around the world? Following trial runs to make certain that the Spray was seaworthy, and the addition of a few innovations of his own—including a lifeboat made from a dory cut in half with one end boarded up—Slocum decided the moment had arrived to embark on his solo voyage. On July I, 1895, complete with newspaper interviews and a gala sendoff by well-wishers, Slocum, who in all his years of seafaring had never learned to swim, set sail from New Bedford on a three-year journey that was to take him to every corner of the globe. His experiences on this trip included an encounter with pirates in the Mediterranean, raids on his ship by na­ L SEAFARERS LOG tives in the South Pacific, a celebrities welcome in sev­ eral of the world's seaports, the offer of a girl from the Azores to accompany him on the rest of his voyage (which he refused), and a near-collision with a whale. Slocum was the first to experience what has happened to many later lone voyagers—imagining that there is someone else on board, hallucinations so real that the lone voyagers actually carries on conversations with the imaginary passenger. At one point during his transAtlantic crossing many decades later, Manry thought he had a grey-bearded hitchhiker who wanted to be dropped off at an equally imaginary island. Slocum's imaginary hitchhiker was straight out of the history books. This was early in his voyage, shortly after he had left the Azores, the first leg of his journey. While eating island fruit and white cheese that the American Consul in the Azores had given him, Slocum was suddenly seized with such painful cramps that he could barely move—and at that very moment the wind took on gale proportions, forcing him to adjust his sails and lash the helm. Finishing this, he crawled to his cabin where he fell to the floor in a faint. The l3l/2-foot sloop Tinkerbelle in which Robert Manry, a Cleveland newspaperman, made trans-Atlantic cross­ ing to Falmouth, England, in 1965, gets final inspection from owner at suburban home. Trip took 78 days. . Page Nine ing it around the world. He, too, wrote a bodk about his voyage adventures, but the idea of lone navigating still didn't draw others to sea in small craft for some time afterward. Then, in 1921, an old carpenter, Harry Pidgeon, began a three-year voyage around the world in a 34-foot sloop, the Islander. Successfully completing this lone voyage, he continued to make solo trips for the next 20 years until the age of 70. Pidgeon was the first of these lone voyagers to use the newly-opened Panama Canal. He was soon joined by a French tennis champion, Alain Gerbault, who sailed his yacht Firecrest around the world singlehandedly. By this time the equipment on yachts had been so improved that it became possible, as Villiers puts it, for "most anyone to 'have a go.' " This equipment in­ cludes radios that keep the lone voyagers in constant communication with civilization, special lifesaving de­ vices, and other modern conveniences that have taken some of the earlier romance out of solo voyaging. Nevertheless, lone voyagers still occasionally disap­ pear—William Willis, the "Old Man of the Sea," was lost last September. A few pieces of wreckage from his 11 Vi -foot sloop, the Little One, found by the Russians in the Atlantic, were the only trace found. And Robert Manry, in his 11-foot Tinkerbelle, was twice washed overboard during his voyage, saved only by a lifeline tied around his waist. The most recent of the returning lone voyagers was Alan Eddy, a Scarsdale, New York mariner who left Catskill, N. Y., in 1965 in a 30-foot fiberglass sailboat, the Apogee, and logged 36,000 miles in the succeeding three years, going first to Marblehead, Massachusetts, then to the Virgin Islands and the Grenadines before passing through the Panama Canal and continuing on to the Fiji Islands. Returning to New York last September after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, Eddy's voyage might have gone virtually unnoticed had he not picked up a passenger on the last leg of his journey, a woman photographer who accompanied him to the West Indies. The first man to sail around the world in a fibreglass sailboat, Eddy had an experience in the Pacific Ocean which is perhaps unique among lone voyagers—his vessel was attacked by a school of whales, an attack that broke loose the cabin flooring and left Eddy with a severe case of the shakes which was not improved by a later severe tropical storm off the coast of New Zealand which sank one other vessel and left three more dis­ masted. While taking note that circumnavigating yachts are now ". . . commonplace. . . On almost any call at Pa­ peete, Tahiti, one will see at least a dozen alongside there, most of them sailing round the world," Villiers acknowledges that "a single-bander is still something of a rarity. . . After all, such mariners inevitably offer them­ selves as hostages to fortune. . ." Six months ago there was a non-stop around-the-world race by lone voyagers by way of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. Although Villiers wished them well, he emphasized that ". . . for my part, they can have it." Later regaining consciousness, he became aware of the ship's plunging and tossing in the stormy seas. Making his way to the deck, Slocum then imagined he saw a man at the helm. "I have come to do you no harm," the spectral figure said to Slocum. "I am one of Columbus' crew. In fact I am the pilot of the Pinta. Lie quiet Captain. I will guide your ship tonight." Raving, Slocum asked the appartition to remain un­ til the next day, shouting "But just give her sail!" The figure then advised Slocum: "You did wrong. Captain to mix cheese with plums. White cheese is never safe unless you know whence it comes." What are the feelings and impressions of lone voy­ agers after they have been alone at sea with absolutely no other company than their own thoughts and imagi­ nations? In the account of his voyage, Slocum mentioned an initial feeling of overpowering solitude which lasted about a week, only to disappear and never recur throughout the remainder of his travels. "During these days a feeling of awe crept over me," he wrote. "My memory worked with startling power. The ominous, the insignificant, the great, the small, the wonderful, the commonplace—rail appeared before my mental vision in magical succession. Pages of my history were recalled which had been so long forgotten that they seemed to belong to a previous existence. I heard all the voices of the past laughing, crying, telling what I had heard them tell in many corners of the earth." When Slocum returned from his three-year voyage in 1898, he wrote a book about his exploits which was quite popular at the time, but no one was eager to du­ plicate his feat—quite possibly because a few years later he tried to duplicate it himself and disappeared without a trace. However, in 1901 another master mariner. Captain I. C. Voss, found a derelict Indian dugout on a Van­ Gipsy Moth IV, famous ketch in which Sir Francis Chi­ couver beach which he christened the Tilikum. He chester, shown at her bow, made his round-the-world solo fitted it out with sails and spent the next three years sail­ voyage, setting out from the Port of Plymouth, England. �Page Ten January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOC Presidential Emergency Rail Board Public Welfare Rule Reform Bids Talks Resume on Train Crews Wins Full ATL-CIO Backing WASHINGTON—three-member presidential emergency board recently summoned the man­ agement of three railroads and the Railroad Trainmen to "immediately resume negotiations" on disputes involving train-crew sizes. In a report to President John­ son, the l^ard said that it found ment is reached and the railroads They asked for an "unfettered" cannot issue threatened new rules. right to determined crew sizes, "no reason" why the issue The disputes go hack to 1960 that is without bargaining. couldn't be settled by "conscien­ when BRT first served notices on The board termed as "unreal­ tious" bargaining "as has been railroads calling for a minimum istic" the railroads' request for a done in the greater part of this "safe" crew of not less than two freehand to set crew sizes, noting industry." trainmen in addition to the con­ that the earlier arbitration board's Upon receiving the report, ductor on all trains. findings — "that the employees Johnson also appealed to both After a two-year compulsory have a legitimate bargaining in­ sides to use "every effort to re­ arbitration award on train crews terest in this question"—are still solve their differences through the expired in 1966, the notices were valid. free process of collective bargain­ upheld in litigation that went all As for conflicting claims of ing." the way to the U.S. Supreme what is a safe and efficient crew, Court. the board said that "evaluation" Disputes Aired Since then the BRT has reached of these factors "is a matter for The hoard, appointed upon the agreement on crews—some threejoint consideration by the bargain­ recommendation of the National men and some two-men — with ers on the properties." Mediation Board, held 10 days of more than 70 railroads. But it has During the hearings, there also hearings into disputes involving been unable to reach agreement were charges by the BRT that the BRT and the Louisville and Nashville, the Belt Railway of with L&N, Belt and IC and sev­ railroads management had illegal­ ly met with individual workers, Chicago and the Illinois Central. eral other carriers. Union witnesses charged before without notice to the union, to Appointment of the hoard ended a one-day strike on the the hoard that the three carriers offer pay increases if the men L&N and a three-month walkout have "refused to bargain in good would abandon the crew-size issue. The board made it clear that on the Belt. It also covered the faith." It urged the hoard to call union's dispute on IC even though for resumed bargaining, either "negotiations on the crew issue, there was no strike on that line. with or without a suggested pat­ now present by virtue of the notices already filed, will be better Under the terms of the Railway tern for settlement. Labor Act both sides must keep The railroad managements, on served by laying aside of this the "status quo" until Jan. 13, the other hand, contended that money issue." which means the union cannot two-men crews were adequate for BRT President Charles Luna strike before then if no settle­ safety and efficient operations. said the report "reaffirms the po­ sition we have held all along. We are ready to negotiate at any time rnd always have been." Right Wing Begs Faithful: 'Eat More Scah Crapes' KANSAS CITY~The American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Right to Work Committee and the John Birch Society have called on their members to eat all the California grapes they can stuff down. ^ At the convention of the Farm The goal is to break the AFL- Bureau here, President Charles B. CIO United Farm Workers Or­ Shuman called for a counterganizing Committee, whose na­ boycott of food stores which have tional boycott of struck Califor­ boycott of food stores which nia table grapes has the solid have stopped carrying California support of the trade union move­ grapes. ment and the endorsement of "Buy and eat grapes and have leading church groups. some on your table for Christ­ mas," Shuman urged delegates. The pitch to the conservative big farmers' establishment was SEAFARERS^LOG that organization of grape work­ ers in California would spread to Jan. 3. 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. I farm workers elsewhere. Official Publication of the Posters in the convention hall Seafarers International Union of North America, warned, "Grapes today-^bread to­ Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes morrow." The head of the Cali­ and Inland Waters District, fornia Farm Bureau reported on AFL-CIO the "almost traumatic experience" Executive Board PAur, HALL, President of union organizing and passed CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD out baskets of grapes to the dele­ Exec. Viee-Pret. Vice-President gates. AL KERR LINDSEY WULIAHS Sec.-Treae. Vice-President Local chapters of the John AL TANNER ROBERT MATTHEWS Birch Society have held "counterVice-President Vice-President picketing" demonstrations to try Director of Publications to nullify protests against the sale MIKE POLLACK of California grapes. Editor HARRY WITTSCHBN And the National Right to Work ilssistant Editors WILL KARP Committee has a leaflet it is pass­ PETER WEISS ing out which terms the grape BILL MOORE boycott a weapon to bring about Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI "compulsory unionism." It says grape pickers are really Pikllihsd kIwMkly at SIO Rksds lilind Avenis H.E., Wuklniton, D. C. 20018 ky tks Stafarwell off and are covered by "more •n Intarnatlanal Union, Atlantic, Gait, Lakat protective laws than farm workers and Inland Watin Dlitrlit, AFL-CIO, £75 Faartk Avanaa, Brooklyn, H.V. 11232. Tal. in any other state." NVMlntk 9-£600. Saeand clan pactaia paM at Waihlnitani, D. C. What the "work" committee POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Fann 3579 doesn't mention is that the farm aardt akanid ka sent ts Sasfarcri Intcmatianal Bales, Atlantia, Gall, Ukaa and Inland workers aren't covered by a law WRtari DIftrlct, AFL-CIO, £75 Faartk AcanM, •naklyn, N.V. 11232. giving them the right to union or­ ganization and collective bargain­ ing. WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has given its "enthusiastic en­ dorsement" to public welfare reforms which the Department of Health, Education and Welfare predicts will bring greater efficien-.y, economy and dignity to ^ ments have been unjustly reduced progtams to help the needy. or terminated. Payments would v., deration President George continue while the claim was be­ Meaiiy wrote HEW Secretary Wil­ ing adjudicated. bur j. Cohen that the new regula­ Cohen announced the proposed tions his department has proposed changes Nov. 20, with a 30-day would make "more humane a sys­ period for comments by interested tem which has in many ways been parties. If finally approved, the gea^'ed to punishing the most dis­ new procedures would be binding advantaged in our country." on states after July 1, 1969. The The chief change would be to bulk of the money for the pro­ require states to rely on first-hand grams—to help needy children, the information obtained from appli­ aged and the disabled—comes cants in determining whether they from the federal government. are eligible for public assistance. In his announcement, Cohen There would be controls and noted that several states already checks to guard against abuse. But use the simplified declaration sys­ the intent is to end the "snooping" tem for determining eligibility and type of home investigation which spot checks have found that abuses has placed a stigma on the needy are no higher—and often lower— and helpless. than in states which rely on home "Besides offering a measure of investigations. dignity and self-respect to those Caseworkers now spend 70 to who must turn to public assist­ 95 percent of their time determin­ ance," Meany stressed, "the new ing who is eligible for assistance procedures will release many pro­ pavments, the HEW noted. The fessional people to do what they time, the announcement suggested, have been trained to do—that is, could better be spent "helping to offer rehabilitation and other so­ people solve problems and become cial services to people who badly more self-reliant and self-supportneed them." ing. Meany as in line with a policy Meany noted that the indigni­ resolution adopted by the last ties to which welfare recipients AFL-CIO convention would make are subjected too often serve to legal help available to welfare discourage people in need from recipients who believe their pay­ obtaining help. December 13 to December 26, 1968 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTJSKED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Port ' 1 Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle ;.. Totals Class A Class B 7 0 68 43 8 5 43 13 7 11 10 11 9 6 20 23 33 30 21 27 17 16 36 60 21 16 300 261 Class A Class B Class C 9 3 1 19 30 15 6 3 1 16 4 4 8 12 4 7 7 5 0 1 2 16 20 4 23 22 3 19 14 7 13 19 13 38 60 27 9 17 13 191 206 97 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 10 4 98 141 13 20 106 48 37 15 19 2^ 16 20 65 37 76 118 101 80 39 0 15 35 7 37 453 728 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 5 4 New York 55 55 Philadelphia 4 7 Baltimore 28 23 Norfolk 6 14 Jacksonville . 6 13 Tampa 3 4 Mobile 17 16 New Orleans 35 38 Houston 19 23 Wilmington 10 10 San Francisco ... 40 38 6 Seattle 19 Totals 234 264 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 1 3 16 26 13 9 0 5 11 4 5 9 12 5 3 9 7 0 1 1 12 17 5 6 15 25 13 23 13 8 8 12 31 38 36 8 16 18 123 192 120 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groui Port Boston •. York ..«•••• Philadelphia ..... BfiLltimore ..••••• Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans ..... Houstoi. Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 4 3 , 36 23 8 3 22 11 4 5 13 4 4 1 12 13 35 19 12 17 12 4 29 56 16 2 207 161 Class A Class I1 Class C 1 1 2 21 16 13 2 4 2 6 6 5 4 8 7 2 9 5 0 1 0 18 11 6 15 18 11 12 IZ 2 9 5 7 27 47 29 10 2 4 • 127 189 97 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 1 105 95 3 14 100 56 17 12 14 11 14 11 26 40 104 87 70 85 1 12 17 32 33 8 448 522 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 3 44 107 18 7 82 46 13 22 10 13 6 21 49 23 42 120 38 82 0 21 27 33 3 35 262 606 �January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS Labor Department Briefing Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, right, meets with George P. Shultz, the man who will succeed him in the incoming Nixon Administra­ tion. Wirtz referred to Shultz as "an old and cherished friend." Patrolmen Join With Clerks In Latest Rail Union Merger WASHINGTON—The Railway Patrolmen have completed a merger that brought the union into the Railway Clerks as an au­ tonomous section of BRC's Allied Services Division. Under the merger, effective Like Ryan, Dennis emphasized January 1, the Patrolmen will that "unions in the transportation be in seven locals of exclusive industry need merger. Our mem­ membership within the division. bers are calling for it all over the The union has about 2,000 mem­ United States and Canada. bers in 52 locals holding 65 con­ "The merger trend is clearly at tracts with U.S. railroads. hand in railway labor, and our The Patrolmen's convention in union expects to play a major role Portland, Ore., in October ap­ in developing a situation in which proved the merger plan and in­ there are fewer, but better unions structed its executive board to to represent the needs of the em­ work out details to effectuate the ployees," he concluded. merger. BRC President C. L. Dennis and Patrolmen's President Wil­ liam J. Ryan announced here that the board completed this process in meetings held in Chicago De­ cember 5 and 6. Details of the merger were negotiated by the board in confer­ ences with L. E. Dennis, BRC's ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The­ administrative coordinator and odore F. Stevens, a Republican, W. J. Donlon, the union's gen­ was appointed last week to fill eral counsel. the vacant United States Senate Under the merger agreement, seat created by the death of Ryan became a vice president in the BRC division. The Patrol­ Alaska's Democratic senior Sen­ men's Secretary-Treasurer L. ator, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. The appointment was made by Powell, is now a member of the Republican Governor Walter J. division's board of trustees. Hickel, who, as President-elect Increased Effectiveness Nixon's appointee choice for Sec­ In announcing the merger, retary of the Interior, is expected Ryan said: "We are very happy to take over that post this month. with the negotiated agreement, Stevens, a 45-year-old lawyer which brings our members into a who has been majority leader of large and effective union." the Alaska House of Representa­ Stressing that the need for tives, will serve until 1970, when mergers among transportation a special election must be held unions has been apparent for to fill out the term which runs to many years, he added that he was- 1972, Following the death of Bart­ "proud that the Railway Patrol­ lett on December 11, Hickel had men have taken this forward step" 30 days in which to name a suc­ with the Railway Clerks. cessor. William A. Egan, a Dem­ In welcoming the Patrolmen ocrat, who was first Governor of into the Railway Clerks, Dennis the new state and a leader in the said he was certain that the fight for statehood, has been re-_ union's members will find their garded as a leading candidate for new union "hospitable and bene­ the Senate. He was defeated by ficial." Hickel in his bid for a third term A very important point in the as Governor by a narrow margin merger plan, he explained, is "that in 1966. the existing craft and class lines Hickel selwted Stevens from a for Patrolmen will be continued, list of 10 names submitted for and there will be maintenance of his consideration by the Repub­ separate agreements." lican State Central Committee. There also will be maintenance Stevens was the unsuccessful Re­ of separate seniority, promotion publican nominee for the Senate rights, bargaining rights and re­ in 1962 when he lost to Senator sponsibilities, jurisdiction rights Ernest Gruening by more than and craft and class determinations, 10,000 votes. Gruening was edged Dennis added. out for the Democratic nomina­ He expres.sed ijope that the tion this past election by Mike merger "will demonstrate that Gravel, who went on to win the large and small unions can join seat. The 1970 campaign for the together on an equitable and Bartlett seat is expected to begin workable basis." shortly. GOP'er Named To Senate Seat Of E. L. Bartlett Page Eleven LOC Comprehensive Health Plan Systems Seen Vital For Needed Medhal Care WASHINGTON—Comprehensive health care systems—incorporating communtiy, area, state and regional facilities—are needed to meet the nation's medical needs. This is the major conclusion of the National Advisory Commission on Health Facilities as it recom­ mended in its report to the PresIt also noted the gains brought The coninilssioii defined com­ dent: prehensive health care as the sys­ through medicare and medicaid "The nation must now con­ tem that takes in: health education, and other progressive health legis­ centrate upon organizing health personal preventive services, diag­ lation in the last five years. facilities and other health resourc­ nostic and theraf>eutic services "In the next two decades, na­ es into effective, efficient and eco­ and rehabilitation of patients. tional health policy as expressed nomical community systems of Prepaid medical health plans through federal legislation and ad­ comprehensive health care for all." must be further developed in or­ ministration must foster local abili­ • America's health care systems der to provide all people with ty to deliver comprehensive health should combine private and public equal access to the improved care to all—an accepted national responsibility, the commission re­ health care, the report said. These goal," the commission stressed. port to President Johnson said. plans include private health insur­ The blue ribbon membership of ance, group prepayment, govern­ the commission includes AFL-CIO ment welfare supp>ort, in addition Vice President David Sullivan, to medicare and medicaid. president of the Service Employ­ The nation must be prepared to ees. finance comprehensive health serv­ Commission Chairman Bois- ices adequately, the commission feuillet Jones said that "existing stressed, to ensure the continued fragmented delivery systems must operation of the systems and for DULUTH—Imports of general be made whole through full co­ the development of new compo­ cargo through the Lake Superior ordination of resources and serv­ nents in tile systems. Port of Duluth-Superior reached ices at the local level." Funding is Vital 60,621 tons during the 1968 sea­ Although facilities and systems will vary according to capacities All available sources of funds son, the Port Authority of Duluth and needs, the cuinmission recom­ must be tapped to support the announced, setting a record for mended the following guidelines: health services. These include gov­ the third successive year. At the same time, exports han­ • Systems should be organized ernmental, public and private ex­ dled through the Port were 117,to assure appropriate points of penditures'. entry into and continuity of health Federal grants and direct loans 930 tons, a volume which reached services. are a necessary means of building the third highest level in the 10 • Every citizen should have new facilities and for the expan­ years of St. Lawrence Seaway ready access to quality health care. sion or modernization of existing operation. Total import-export volume • States, regions, local commu­ facilities. nities and all health institutions The report noted that federal reached a peak of 2,848,340 tons .should carry out continuous plan­ grants for' construction have at­ for the season—including the bulk ning. tracted money from local sources, and general categories. Although • There should be community often raised through fund drives higher than 1967, it was slightly responsibility, with both the users or community bond issues and below the 10-year average. and the providers of health care do not require repayment from The shipment of bulk liquids participating in decisions. patient revenues. from the port's Public Marine • All levels of health care The commission pointed to the Terminal tank farm reached only should be interdependent. gains made in the last 21 years in 30,635 tons, however — a drop Emphasis must be to the orga­ health care facilities and services from 34,785 tons last year. Scrap nization of ambulatory care for through the federal Hill-Burton iron exports rose from 45,495 the individual and his family. program, which has "vastly in­ tons to 71,545 tons. Jones pointed out, with co-ordi­ creased the availability of hospi­ In grain exports, counting di­ nated professional direction tals, nursing homes, diagnostic and rect shipments as well as those through the full spectrum of com­ treatment centers, public health handled via Canadian ports, a prehensive health services. centers, rehabilitation facilities." total of 2,550,478 tons went out. Port of Daluth Hits New Record In Cargo Imports The Wyoming Is Launched in New Orleans The SlU Pacific District-contracfed Wyoming was launched recently at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans. The ship was the fourth in a series of five cargo ships built by the yard for States Steamship Company. The vessels are the largest ever built in Louisiana and the biggest launched in the Mississippi river. Other ships in the series of S79-foot vessels were the Colorado, Montana and Idaho. �•'li Jannuy 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twelve Cargo Giveaway Seen Bad Trend The Northwestern Victory (Victory Carriers) paid-off in New York recently, ship's delegate Butch Wright reported. Crew members aboard the vessel included such SIU oldtimers as G. Doty, oiler, John Abraham, Henry Gock and Charles Swain of the deck department. Wright said that he ran into his old buddy Swain in f of this vessel should be sold to ley crew received a vote of thanks Norfolk and they decided to another ship, for the original cost, for the fine work they have turned sail together on the same ship so that fresh films may be pur­ m. for the voyage to Korea and Tai­ chased. After calling at Rio, the wan. Brother Wright reported that .ship is heading for a late January "with nine new pay-off in New Orleans. Troy Savage, steward on the men in all three departments, the Kyska (Waterman) reports that he oldtimers lost no has a top-notch time in giving Meeting Secretary Robert Spen­ galley crew as the them a helping cer reported from the Cosmos vessel departs hand in becom­ Mariner (Cosmos New York for a ing good practical long voyage to the Navigation) that seamen." Gock ship's delegate Far East. Chief reported that he Swain Cook Jay Stede W. M. White is retiring after and baker Law­ talked to the chief 25 years with the Union. A few rence Smith are engineer about inhours disputed overtime was re­ number one, stalling a water while Joseph ported in the engine department, fountain in the but there were no beefs or logs. port passageway. Riclmrd, third cook, can always be After receiving a vote of thanks Tbommen An order has been counted on to turn-out excellent for a job well done, Wright told placed for the chow. "I am sure we will have a his fellow Seafarers that he's head­ fountain which will 6e installed as fine trip," Brother Savage wrote, ing for the Northwest Mountains soon as possible. Spencer said. with these men on hand to keep and a bit of hunting and fishing Jack Thommen, meeting chair­ the men well-fed. The Kyska will prior to grabbing a ship for the man, reported that a discussion call on Massawa and Assab in Far East. He has his eye on an was held in regard to an arrival Ethiopia, Djibouti in the French 800 pound grizzly bear. pool for the purchase of movies. territories of the Afars and Issas, A total of $225 is needed to pay for the ten films needed, Thom­ Khurramshahr, Iran and Karachi, men wrote. Seafarers have been West Pakistan. A discussion was held on an asked to be particularly careful arrival pool which would boost when using the swimming pool the ship's fund of on board because accidents can Seafarers on the YeUowstone the San Juan (Sea- happen. The ship is expected to (Oriental Exporter) extended a Land) in order to pay-off in San Francisco. "vote of thanks buy extra movies, to the steward and Meeting Chaircooks for putting man Thomas out a very good Markham report­ Seafarers will liave an extra Thanksgiving din­ ed. Ship's dele­ treat with their movies aboard the ner," Meeting gate James SiniI Oakland (SeaChairman Maxi­ J Land), according Markham explain^ the mo Bugawan new disability re­ to Meeting Chair­ wrote. Ship's dele­ port forms which are to be sent M. £. Sanman DeLappe gate James W. to the welfare department when 'i chez. "Pop corn Simmons reported necessary. A repair list will be and an electric made and the Union will be con­ corn popper are that two men paid-off in Hawaii. tacted for new library books, available," Broth­ No beefs or disputed overtime. F. A. Olson, meeting secretary, er Sanchez wrote. Brother Simmons said. A discus­ reported. No beefs or disput^ Masters They should help sion was held about keeping na­ overtime were reported. The ship make tfie trip to tives from entering rooms and is heading for San Francisco and Vietnam and Japan more enjoy­ passageways during visits to In­ a pay-off after calling at Subic able. The pay-off is scheduled for dian ports. A motion was made by Bay, Yokohama and Seattle. A Oakland. An arrival pool has been W. A. DeLappe and seconded by vote of thanks was given to for­ set-up to purchase extra movies James Moran, that Headquarters mer ship's delegate T. E. Mark- according to Meeting Secretary should send copies of the new pen­ ham for the fine job he did. "Hie R. O. Masters. After spending sion and welfare plan to all SIUsteward department has turned $150 for the movies, the pool will contracted vessels. In a fine performance, the crew have $10 left. Shipboard pools agreed. have produced a $50 winner with A Good Catch $25 to the alternate winners. Mas­ ters writes. Since the minutes of the previous meeting were mis­ James Tucker, ship's delegate laid and could not be found, they on the Del Mar (Delta) wrote that were rewritten by William BOger the ship's fund and C. Bogusld, chairman dnd currently totals secretary respectively of the last $31. Most of the meeting, to complete the record. beefs taken up with the patrol­ — man have already been settled, he Meeting Chairman J. J. Connors reported. A new jeports from the Cities Service tube for the movie Baltimore (Cities Chafin projector has been Service) that the purchased and ship's fund now the crew has rented fifteen mov­ totals $11.50 and ies for the current trip. Darrell will be left in the Chafin, meeting secretary, re­ care of the chief ported that Brother Tucker re­ mate for the next ceived a vote of thanks for a job crew. John Hall, well done. Juan Cruz, oiler, was engine delegate, elected new ship's delegate. A Hall reports that there motion was made by Jean Latapie is some disputed that those Seafarers who "wish to overtime in hie department as the see the movies should donate $10 ship heads for Baytown, Texas. to the movie fund." The motion Connors is ship's delegate, E. Steward utility Jacob Weigel was passed unanimously. Another CConnell represents the deck de­ proudly displays a butterfly flsh motion passed was that nineteen partment, and William Magruder, he caught during trip to Persian movies now owned by the crew the steward department. The gal- Gulf aboard Monticello Victory. <1> To the Editor: A story in the last issue of the LOG which reported that the Acting Maritime Adminis­ trator, James W. Gulick, had issued clearance for more for­ eign-flag ships—in this case, those of Venezuela—to cany U. S. cargoes is just one more evidence of a long-disturbing trend. The excuse given is always the same—there aren't enough U. S.-flag ships to do the job. This might be understandable if we were a small nation, with no merchant fleet to speak of. Maybe that's what those in the Federal government who could correct the deplorable state of the U. S.-flag fleet would have us become. If that is so, it's a crying shame. The people in high places must realize that you can't have it both ways. If this great coun­ try of ours, which is tops in so many ways, is to be regarded by those responsible for our mari­ time posture as having a fleet which is too small to carry its full share of available U. S. cargoes, it is high time such responsibility is placed in the hands of maritime-oriented offi­ cials who can call for, and get, shipbuilding program in this country which will provide us with the fleet we need. Appointed bureaucrats bnve been sitting on their hands for far too long when it comes to the rebuilding of the American merchant marine. And all the while the government continues to lament the sad state of our trade balance deficit which sees more money going out of the country than there is coming in. This despite recognition by con­ gressmen and members of mari­ time labor and management of the fact that if there were more U. S. ships to carry cargoes to and from foreign ports the trade deficit could be virtually erased. When will the right hand and the left hand come together? What we need, it seems to me, is an Administration which gives needed priorities to build­ ing a fully competitive U. S. cargo and tanker fleet and really does something about seeing to it that the construction is accomplit-hed. Come January, maybe this will happen. It certainly makes good sound sense economically. It makes good sense politically. And it's absolutely necessary for our in­ dustry if maritime is to continue making the vital contributions all around. Sincovly, Jeny Matfeo Revision Urged On 50-50 Cargoes To the Editor: A new move to overhaul the 50-50 cargo preference law has been called for and I for one, hope it is the beginning of a new era for the merchant ma­ rine in this country. The 50-50 law is supposed to guarantee a basic minimunl of foreign aid cargoes for U. S. shipping, but the Government seems to feel all they have to do is reach the 50 percent mini­ mum and that's that. To those who persist in think­ ing that the need for a strong merchant fleet is no longer im­ portant, I'd say look how crowded the airlanes are getting. There is plenty of room on the oceans and the United States should do everything possible to maintain its fair share of trade by sea. Other nations do and are profiting handsomely as a result of their sound maritime policies. Also, it must be remembered that a healthy maritime industry provides jobs not only for Sea­ farers but for many thousands of workers in related fields as well. This is no small step toward building the strong econ­ omy with full employment which the trade union move­ ment is striving for. It was a step in the right direction when Representative James J. Howard (D-N. J.) said he would introduce legislation in the 91st Congress that would guarantee the movement of all foreign-aid cargo on U. S. ships whenever they are available. However, the building of enough new ships is a needed first step to insure that U. S.flag vessels are available wlien needed. This can only be done with the cooperation of govern­ ment. During the election cam­ paign, both parties promised to work toward rehabilitation of the merchant marine. Now that the Republicans are in office, it is their campaign promises which must be remembered and fulfilled. Sincerely, John Coleman LOG Reader Raps Growers, Stevens To the Editon In issue after issue of the LOG is the continuing story of the grape workers—still out, still struggling for decency, for elementary rights that we have won so long ago that many of us hardly ever think about it any more. Also there is the case of the giant textile company, J. P. Stevens, caught flatfooted time and time again with its hand in the anti-labor till by the NLRB. Yet—despite labor board deci­ sions and court decisions—^with lengthy appeals and what not, it takes years to settle a case and secure the rights of em­ ployees. In the meantime, those who would destroy organized labor give it to the worker in the neck again—and again. To anyone who might tell us unions are too strong, that they run the country, and so on, it's up to all of us to tell him back he's "full of the anti-labor non­ sense these constant violators of worker's rights run off their propaganda machines. And that ain't no sweet grapes! Stocerdy, Steve �January 3, 1969 FINAL DEPARTURES Carl Olson, 76: Brother Olson died July 19, in Veteran's Admin­ istration Hospital, Minneapolis. A resident of that city, he was a na­ tive of Iowa. He sailed as chief cook and joined the SIU in 1948 in the Port of New York. Sea­ farer Olson's last ship was the John C. At the time of death, he was collecting his SIU pension. Brother Olson served in the Navy from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1926 to 1942. He is sur­ vived by a sister, Mrs. Lillian Hutson, of Aparta, Wisconsin. Burial services were held in Na­ tional Cemetery, Fort Snelling, Minn. <|> Clifford Cowell, 43: Accidental drowning claimed the life of Brother Cowell on November 7, 1968, following an accident in Chesapeake Bay. A member of the deck department, he joined the Un­ ion in the Port of Norfolk. He made his home in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brother Cowell was employed by the R. K. Davis Co. During World War II he had served in the Navy. The Seafarer was a native of Mount Vernon, N. Y. He is sur­ vived by his widow, Shirley. Burial services were held in Olive Branch Ceimetery, Portsmouth. Page Thirteen SEAFARERS L6C Great Lakes. Surviving is his wid­ ow, Edna. The burial was in Greenwood Cemetery, Superior. <I> Joseph Carey, 67; Cancer caused the death of Brother Carey in Boston, No­ vember 18, 1968. '• ' He had been a Seafarer since 1944 and joined the Union in the Port of New York City. He held the rating of FOWT. Brother Carey last shipped aboard the Gray. He served in the Marine Corps from 1917 to 1921. A na­ tive of Massachusetts, Gray re­ sided in Whitman, Mass. Surviv­ ing is a daughter, Mrs. Elinor Walsh, of Roxbury, Mass. The burial was held in Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston. Ever-Expanding SIU Pension Roster Adds Eight More Seafarer Veterans The names of eight more Seafarers have been added to the list of oldtimers collecting their SIU pensions after completing their sailing careers. The new additions to the pension roster are: Thomas Garrity, Daniel Piccerelli, Michael Schalestock, Stephen Andros, David Sykes, George Bryan, Roy Poston and Robert White. ^ ratings in the deck department last vessel was the Hermina. Thomas Garrity joined the during his sailing career. Robert White is a native of Union in the Port of New Or­ A Seafarer since 1941, George Oklahoma and makes his home in leans. A resident of that city, Bryan joined the SIU in the Port New Orleans with his wife Alvina. he sailed as AB. Brother Garrity of Mobile. Born in Alabama, he He has held all ratings in the stew­ was born in New Orleans and last now lives in New Haven, Conn. ard department. Seafarer White shipped on the Del Sud. He held a steward's rating and his joined the SIU in the Port of New Daniel Piccerelli joined the SIU last ship was the Free America. Orleans. His last ship was the in the Port of New York. A na­ Steel Advocate. tive of Pennsylvania, he makes his home in Philadelphia. Brother Piccerelli sailed as cook and stew­ ard and his last vessel was the Brigham Victory. Schalestock Andros Roy Poston sailed as cook. A native of North Carolina, he makes his home in Marion, Vir­ ginia, with his wife Mandy. Brother Poston joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore and his Friends of Sheffield Nurkett Any Seafarer knowing the whereabouts of Sheffield Nurkett is requested to ask him to contact his son, Hulbert Nurkett at Apt. 610, 325 Mechanic Street, Or­ ange, N. J., in regard to an im­ portant family matter. Roy Garcia, 23: Brother Garcia died in Danang, Vietnam, on No­ Garrity Piccerelli vember 24, 1968. At the time of his A member of the engine de­ death he was a partment, Michael Schalestock is crewmember a native of New York City who aboard the Hast­ now resides in Philadelphia with Joseph Rudolph ings, sailing as a his wife, Jean. An oiler, his last Please contact Paul M. Godwiper. He was shop was the Commander. He stein, Attorney at Law, 1015 born in Fresno, joined the SIU in the Port of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. California and Philadelphia. 19107, in regard to your claim had made his Stephen Andros joined the Unagainst the Massniar. home in Sacramento, Calif. Broth­ 'itttr in the Port of New York and er Garcia joined the Union in New held a deckhand's rating. He was York City in 1967. The body was born in New Jersey and makes returned to the United States for his home in South Amboy, N. J., R. L. Cooke burial in Sacramento. with his wife, Helen. Brother An­ A package is being held for dros was last employed by the Bal­ you from the Maritime Overseas timore and Ohio Railroad. Corporation. You can claim it at Sheldon Butler, 66: Brother David Sykes joined the SIU inSIU Headquarters in New York. Butler passed away on December New Orleans. A native of Chi8, 1968, in St. cora, Mississippi, he now lives in Frank Rajkovich, 47: Brother Luke's Hospital, Mobile. His last vessel was the Rajkovich died on November 22, Robert Allen Ruffner Jacksonville, Venore. Brother Sykes held all Poston White 1968, at LockFlorida. He was Please contact your mother, wood MacDonald a native of Jack­ Mrs. Marion Locke, at RFD #2, Hospital in Petosonville and lived Box 194, Berryville, Virginia sky, Michigan. A most of his life in 22611, as soon as you can. native of Superior, that city. Seafarer Wisconsin, he Butler joined the sailed as AB. He Union in the Port joined the Union of Tanapa. At the time of death, George Mike Krieg NEW YORK—Management of Sears Roebuck & Co. has been in the port of Chi- he was collecting an SIU pension. hit with new findings of union-busting tactics by a National Labor Please write to Mrs. Stella Krieg cago and made He last shipped on the Del Aires his home in River Rouge, Mich. and sailed as a baker and cook. Relations Board examiner. at P.O. Box 273, Granite Falls, Brother Rajkovich had served in The body was cremated in the The giant retail store chain Washington 98252, at your earli­ the Army prior to joining the Southern Crematorium, Jackson­ was found guilty of firing a sup­ that after the union began orga­ est opportunity. nizing "big ticket" salesmen at SIU. He sailed mainly on the ville. porter of Retail, Wholesale and Sears' Fordham Road store in the Department Store District 65 and Bronx, Charles Sigerson, the com­ Fred Morris Safe After VC Attack threatening others to smash a pany's director of employee rela­ 1967 organizing campaign at tion, came up from his head­ three Sears stores in the Bronx, quarters in Philadelphia and con­ Stephen Bergenia Manhattan and Mt. Vernon, N.Y. ducted a series of meetings with Please contact Joseph LieberTrial Examiner Samuel Ross management personnel of the man, Counsellor at Law, 60 East ruled after hearings that manage­ Fordham Road, 31st Street and 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. ment of the three "hard goods" Mt. Vernon stores. 10017, as soon as you can. stores not only fired a union com­ mitteeman in violation of law but SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS also acted illegally in the follow­ ing ways: November 1-November 30, 1968 • Subjecting union committee­ men to "corrective" interviews Number of Amount and placing "memoranda of Benefits Paid deficiency" in their personnel files Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . . 3,750 $ 41,413.47 to discourage their union ac­ Death Benefits (Welfare) . . . . 20 42,386.67 tivities. Disability Benefits (Welfare) . 1,255 286,985.00 • Threatening employees with Maternify Benefits (Welfare) . 25 5,000.00 discharge and other reprisals to Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . 35B 72,554.75 discourage support of the union. (Average: $202.67) • Promising to correct long­ 535 7,936.80 standing grievances and to im­ Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . 27,158.70 prove earnings opportunities to Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) . 3,427 Seafarers aboard the Fred Morris arrived in Naha, Okinawa, after deter support of the union. SUMMARY (Welfare) . 9,370 483,435.39 a trip to Vietnam during which the Waterman ship came under at1,619 ® Spying on union backers and Vacation Benefits 666,207.85 fack by the Viet Cong. From left are: George Maharas, cook and maintaining an illegal "no solicita­ (Average: $411.49) baker; Don Howser, AB; Freddie Bailey, steward; Peter Feeley, bosun; tion" rule during nonworking time Total Welfare, Vacation and Warren J. Lewis, who sailed as electrician. The ship was in nonpublic store areas. 10,989 $1,149,643.24 Benefits Paid This Period not seriously damaged and no Seafarers were injured aboard ship^ Witnesses told the examiner Sears Roebuck Union Busting Scored by NLRB Examiner —4/ �Page Fourteen Janiurjr 3, 1969 SEAPAREttS LOG Del Sol, Steel Apprentice Seafarers Recall Reactions to Viet Cong Fire Seafarers on the Del Sol (Delta) and Steel Apprentice (Isthmian) have, like those on numerous other SlU-contracted ships, come under the Viet Cong gun while sailing the supply run to Viet­ nam". L. S. Johnston, ship's delegate on the Delta vessel and his counterpart on the Steel Appren­ tice, Gus Pacheco Lopez, reJohnston, a native of Indiana, sure if 1 was dreaming or not. ported to the LCXJ what it was is a long-time member of the deck .After seeing the rocket blast and like for the crews of their re­ department and sailed with the hearing the whistle of the war­ spective ships. SIU since 1938, joining in the heads in and around the water­ "On Sunday morning, Novem­ Port of New Orleans, where he front. I started running indoors ber 17 at 0115 hours, the Viet lives. looking for a safer place to The Del Sol is getting to be a weather the attack." Cong started sending a rocket barrage onto the piers of Da veteran of the Vietnam run. John­ Aim Was Fortunately Poor Nang," Johnston recalled. The ston noted that she had been hit once before while coming down "The Viet Cong, who had Del Sol was among four SIUslipped from their hiding places contracted and two other Amer­ the Long Tau from Saigon. ashore during the night, fired ican-flag vessels docked there at A Real Nightmare the time. The Delta ship and Sea122MM rockets with 40 to 50"For Seafarers on the Steel Ap­ train Texas were at dock one, prentice, it was a nightmare in pound warheads during the attack while the Cape San Diego and Saigon," Brother Lopez wrote. which began at about 2 a.m. Their Steel Worker were at dock three. "The ship arrived in Saigon on launching pad was simple and In between were the American May 25 with a full load of general light, but fortunately, not very ac­ ships Irmina Victory and U.S. De­ cargo for that port. We were curate during this particular at­ fender. docked on the starboard side for tack, for which I am very , thank­ discharging cargo and the crew ful," Lopez reported. "About ten was looking forward to a well- rockets landed on the waterfront deserved liberty ashore after the near the Steel Apprentice, while long Pacific crossing." others landed in the c'ly. On the morning of June 3, Sai­ "One shell did come a little too gon was experiencing a typical close for comfort, hitting forward hot day, for that time of year. below the anchor. Although it did Lopez was sleeping on the boat- some damage, we were fortunate deck under lifeboat one on a cot, that it didn't land amidships. which was far cooler than the The luck of the Steel Apprentice Johnston Lopez cabins. Until now, the voyage had held during the attack but when it "Shellfire lasted until 0400, with been uneventful, but suddenly was finally over, none of the crew a direct hit on deck two," John­ Lopez was awakened by "the noise felt much like going back to sleep ston said. "Shrapnel resulted in of incoming rockets and the that morning—especially those of the death of the watch mate on screaming of Vietnamese steve­ us who were sleeping on deck. the Defender. Two other shells dores searching for a place to As for me," Lopez added, "I de­ cided to start looking for a safer fell short of the Del Sol's stern hide." "It was a fearsome feeling," place to sleep. Nightmares like and another fell between us and the Irmina Victory, spraying both he said, "and at first, I wasn't that I can well live without." ships with shrapnel. Although the Defender's mate was the only cas­ ualty on the merchant marine ves­ sels, the Navy suffered quite a few losses, we learned later, and a Navy crane was also damaged during the attack. However, Navy gun boats eventually arrived on the scene and started shooting-up Terrell Jordan, bom October Michael Sullivan, born Novem­ the Vietcong," he continued. 19, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. ber 11, 1968, to Seafarer and "After they arrived, the attack Norman Roy Jordan, Prichard, Mrs. David H. Sullivan, St. Louis, didn't last long." Ala. Mo. SIU Lifeboat Class No. 216 Casts Off Franz Kraljlc, bora October 24, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. An­ thony P. Kraljic, West New York, N. J. —— Patricia Logan, born November 19, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James R. Logan, Bellmore, N. Y. Michael Charies Dickens, born May 19, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Merle C. Dickens, Taylor, Michigan. <I> Michael Leonard, born Octo­ ber 31, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alex Leonard, Chesapeake, W. Virginia. —4^— Blanca Stella Salfarez, bora No­ vember 25, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William K. Saltarez, Housi m, Texas. These Seafarers have just received their lifeboat tickets after passing Coast Guard examinations prepared for by attending the lifeboat school maintained by the SIU in Brooklyn. In the front row, left to right: Mike McAbee, Larry Albertus, Curtis Rhodes. In back row: Chief Instructor Paul McGaharn, Larry Smith, Dimitrios Katsogiannos, Harvey Barlow. The 216th class graduated on December 17th. Jozette Lane Aucoln, born May 30, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William J. Aucoin, Evangeline, La. A camera is made-up of many parts, some simple, others more technical. Explored below is some of the more common photo­ graphic terminology which might help you to master the less complicated techniques of photography. One of the first things to remember when taking pictures with all but box or instamatic cameras is to set your light meter at the right A.S.A. speed, • A.S.A. Speed: This indicates the correct exposure for the film being used. For example, set your A.S.A. on 400 if you are using Tri-X film. Your light meter will then be ready to obtain the correct exposure. This system was established by the American Standard Association. A different standard was set-down by the Deutsche Industrie Norm (German Standard Organization). This norm, known as D.I.N., applies to much of the film made in Europe. • Depth-of-Fleld Scale: When using high-speed film your depth-offield is not limited. However, when using slow-speed film, it is. In order to determine what area is in focus you must use a depth-of-field scale. Many cameras, in addition to the focusing scale, carry an indicator that shows the near and far limits of the depth-of-field of the lens at any particular aperture, or lens opening. The depth of field scale is often located behind the focusing scale. For example, if your camera is set at F.8, your depth-of-field scale will show you the correct range for which your camera is in focus. • Range Finder Focusing: There are many different types of focus­ ing attachments that can be used. One of the most common types is range finder focus. This rangefinder mea.sures the subject's distance from the camera by the convergence of two rays from the ends of a fixed base on the body of the camera and can be observed by the coincidence of two images. • Filter Factors: When using filters, there are two things that should be considered. One is the filter's color and the second is the correct exposure for the filter being used. The way to determine the correct exposure is through the filter factor. Filter factors determine the color of light allowed to pass by eliminat­ ing unwanted colors. Therefore, they call for a longer camera exposure to compensate for this light loss. In practice, the exposure time is multiplied by the filter factor. For example if the correct exposure is F-8 1/50 of a second using a dark red filter with a filter factor 4. To find the correct exposure with the filter you multiply the filter factor times the speed. Example: Four times fifty equals 2.00. Now you haVe obtained your correct ex­ posure differentiation. The correct exposure is F-4 at 1/50 of a second with filter. • Guide Numbers: When using a flash, indoors or out, the correct guide number must be chosen. The flash distance and F (or aperture) number for correct exposure are inversely proportional. For any film and flash bulb, the joint product is constant. This product is the guide number and provides the means for quick exposure calculations. Correct aperture equals guide number divided by distance. For example, if the guide number is 100 at 10 feet, the aperture should be F-11. • Focusing screens: On some cameras, these are interchangeable. Types vary from microprism to split-level focusing. The most common type generally found, however, is ground glass focusing. The screen consists of ground glass mounted in a frame and fixed within the camera in such a position that the camera lens forms a visible image on its ground surface. In the normal types of screenfocusing cameras, the screen must be slid or swung aside after focusing in order to take the desired picture. In the reflex camera, the screen is fixed at the top of the camera and the rays of light passing through the lens are reflected onto it by a hinged mirror. • Stereoscopic Camera: An interesting and quite different type of camera is the stereo. A variety of special effects can be obtained with this camera by viewing a wide area without distortion. This type of camera is normally designed to take two simultaneous photographs of the scene in focus before it. The photographs are taken from viewpoints separated by the same distance as a pair of normal human eyes. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list, (^rint information) NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY ZIP. TO AVOID DUPUCATION: If yeu are an old subtcribar and have a ehaeea of addraaa, plaaaa giva your fonnar addrau balow; —4/— Thomas Koch, born November 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frederick T. Koch, Superior, Wis­ consin. STATE. OTY �January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Fifteen SAN JUAN (Sea-Und), Tbonuw k 'Mbiihxm; Seeretary, F. A. Obbh. |!l4.0( in «hil>'s fund. BrcUter J. Slniu^ was eleetad te ssrve as ship's dslcgrsts. Vote of thanks was extended .to Uie Matire steward depsrtniettt for K i<A well done. FINANCIAL REFOBT8. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes speciflc provision for safeauardinK the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditina committee elected by the membership. Ail Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AOantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund aareements. All these aareements specify that the trustees in charae of these funds shall equally consist of union and manaaement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shippina riahts and seniority are protected exclusively by the cuutracls between the Union and the shipowners. Set to know your shippina riabts. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shippina or seniority riahts as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified null, return receipt requested. The prcH^>er address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 19«0, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writiuK directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wases and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rishts, as well as your oblisrations, such as fllingr for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This establisbed policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in aii constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editoriai board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Ehcecutive Board, may del^ate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SBAFAREUIS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in ail Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should Immediately notify htadquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the nxembership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of tbenuelves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political'activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his ceastitntional right of access to Union records or in­ formation, he should immcdiatdy notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. OVBR8BA8 JOYCE (Maritiine Over;seas), December 1—Chairman, Elvis Warren; Secretary, W. L, Everett. Few hours disputed OT in the deck departr ment One man missed ship in Guam.l ALCOA TRADER (Alcoa), November 6—Chairman, Richard D. Runklo; Sec­ tary, William Beadh. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. RALEIGH (Crest Overseas). December if—Chairman, Ttctsr! Kyser; Sscretary, Peter Blanchard. EveryOiing is running smoothly -with no beefe. Brother;: ,H. Crackoell was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land), Decem­ ber 14—Chairman, Hubert Cain; Secre­ tary, 0. J. Nail. Beef regarding delayed sailing to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks was extended 'to Brother C. Nail, chief steward, and the entire steward department. ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Transport), November 11—Chairman, 3. M. Skinner; Secretary. G. J. Trosclair. Brother 3. M. Skinner was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported and everything is running smoothly. Di-euasion was held regarding the installation of some kind of peimanent rig in thej engine room space to haul up any man who is hurt or becomes sick. ; - S' ALCOA MARINER (Alcoa), December ,14 — Chairman, C. Hall; Secretary, O. Smith. No bee& were reported by de­ partment delegates. One man was hos­ pitalized in Honolulu. Vote of thanks extended to the stvw#™ departaaeat for ,» Job well dune. | IttRECTORYof SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Al Tanner- VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiey Wllliamt Robert Matthowi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS tTS 4th Ave., Iklyn. (212) HY 9-6^ ALPENA, Mich 127 River St. (517) EL 4-36li BALTIMORE. Md 1214 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mast 643 Atlantic Avenue (617) Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Washington St. SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 9383 Ewlng Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9S70 1420 W. 25th St. CHICAGO, III CLEVELAND, Ohio (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. Box 207 4IS Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 (313) VI 3-4741 FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 2600 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ... .. 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ala I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La. . — 630 Jackson Ave. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va IIS 3rd St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. . 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex. . .... I34S Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraemont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R |3I3 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEAULE, Wash. 2S0S First Avenue (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Dal Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla. ;... 3|2 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON. Calif. 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Itlonrf. C»Hf, (613) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Isaya BIdg., Room 001 1-2 Kalgan-Dorl-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 201 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans. Jan. 14—2:30 p.m Mobile Jan. 15—2:30 p.m Wilmington .. Jan. 20—2:00 p.m San Francisco Jan. 22—2:00 p.m. Seattle Jan. 24—2:00 p.m. New York ... Jan. 6—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia . Jan. 7—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... Jan. 8—^2:30 p.m, Detroit Jan. 10—2:30 p.m, Houston .... Jan. 13—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans. Jan. 14—7:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 15—7:00 p.m. New York .. Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Jan. 7—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. . Jan. 8—7:00 p.m. •tHouston .. . Jan. 13—7:00 p.m. Great I..akes SIU Meetings Detroit Jan. 6—2:00 p.m. Alpena Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Biiifalo Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Chicago Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Duluth Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. . Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago Jan. 14—7:30 p.m. t Sault St. Marie Jan. 16—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Jan. 15-^7:30 p.m. Duluth Jan. 17—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ... Jan. 17—7:30 p.m. Toledo Jan. 17-7:30 p.m. Detroit Jan. 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .. Jan. 13—7:30 p.m. SxU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans. Jan. 14—5:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 15—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Jan. 7—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) .. Jan. 8—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ....Jan. 9—5:00p.m. Houston Jan. 13—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Jan. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Jan. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. '^Noifolk Jan. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Jan. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. 1 Mtietiiig held ut Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New-, port News. 2 Meeting held at Galveston wharves. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union Conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stftzel-Weller DIstlUcries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. Weller Bourbon vjihlskeys (Distillery Workers) KIngsport Press "World Book," "Chlldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) —— Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Moot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Hes, Boss Gloves, Richman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Brothers and SeweD Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Baltimore Luggage Co. Ijidy Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) ^ Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) ^J> R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110,' San Antonio, Texas <1> Giumarra Grapes (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Aflantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Cluett Peabody (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) •awmat' • ' STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), Decem-I her 15—Chairman, Eldward Webb; Seen tary, Robert D. Brown. Vote of thank was extended to the ship's delegate.! Brother Edward V. Webb, and Jo alii departments, for c job vfc-ii duiie. i-'atr<d-| man to be contacted regarding the mat-l tcr of getting better medical aid in Port of Calcutta, India. SEATRAIN PUERTO RICO Nov ^ her 24—Chairman, M. H. Jones; Secre-| tary, R. Anderson. Brother M. H. Jonesi was elected to serve as new ship's dele-i gate. Ship is in need of many r^atrs.! :Repair lists turned in. Discussion hejdf regarding retirement plan. B CHILORB (Venore Transportation), November 3—Chairntan, W. S. gomcry; Secretary, C. M. Lee. Brother H. E. Wright was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Some deputed OT re­ ported in deck and engine departments. DICEST of SIU MEETINCS CANTIGNY (Citios Service TankerL Deoemfaer 14—Chairman, C^arlea Hnrlburt; Secretary, Charles Hurlburt. No . beefs and no disputed OT reported by 3 department delegates. ' ^ HURRICANE (Waterman), Decemb^ f 4H--?tJnairman, Joseph Sah imiippo: Secrei tary, Roseoe L. AUbrd. Some disputed OT I in the deck department wBl be taken up I with patroimah unieBS, settied aboard '• ship-./ ^ COLUMBIA BANKER (ColumMa), (December 16—Chairman; R, Risbeck; i Secretary, R. Statham. Generel ffiscussion held regarding much needed repairs. Also diSMissed was Om retirement plan, wagcs; and fringe benefits. = YELLOWSTONE (Oriental). December fc^hairman, Maximo Bugawan; Seew tary, V. F. Placey. Two men prfd off in Hhwaii. There Were no reported by department delegates. Moyon was n»de tracted siSpa; pertinent hbd olarificaiions regaording new pension plan shd welfare plan, Vote of thanlM: was exi^ded to the stevvard department for the excellc-nt IhahksgivJng Day Dinher.-:''''-ft.;;.S'tCiTIBSRERVlcE- BAl^lMOBBJCitleh l^etvice), /October-JHl-^J^iair^^ Nonef Isccretary,; • Iliggina.;;''5Il,-80 • in, Iship's- Di«d,sThere .were .-noi,<-lieBfti, • and -hp. sdisPufed OT reported d^arianeht dele..Jgatc-9.",Vote:<>f 'thanlm ^partment for a pob well done. CITIES SESVICB Bd LTIMORE (Citita ; Service)-,':' November—CUwthah,-fc'#: -'Connars ;.-£ccrs.tsry, •B:ar.ttez,-K««y.'; $xii30 in ship's fund, Bwiythmt »»rh*- nins,- smcpthly,Vpte:jh5. vwaS{ „«x,--' ten^ to the steward department for a Job well dene. Cla®eiiim,:;--'J- 3. Wm., A. aUgtUMer. �SEAFARERSyLOG Vol. XXXI No. 1 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT « AFL-CIO O 1 fUi f f^ El'-v TeeH.Do'^ .. . •&•?'::: ;,- i-l;^ -<: • :.;: *.' nuncjry SQ^r^ • Mmm ... ^ in Brie ikitiSin after a trip to ingiand, Hoiiand and Germany. The vessel transported Governi^r:y.:."^ment .cargo and brought back general cargo. /# was an excellent trip with few problems and the pay-off went smoothly* SiU patrolman Luigi lovino handledt the pay-o0 and was accompanied bf' a pho^ ^p^ctpber ftorn the Seafarers LOG, ', : i-.' -: ;• -i;.'' \ frt- v- i|v ^ 't""? lii; - Catchl^p on the indusliy and V.s low Seafarers while waiting for pay-off is Ronald Burton of the deck department. '.A;-j"--' • ' hPl -.I P -••'•. Sc^ PPSI 1 i/ if' "v " r ^•»' ' '• T, X-A J- J \\ A • f XX* ^- '•'••I g.Tf' vV&'.y-. Sfci: P [j • -- • iiw jMi.»4A..iJj|JiiU ..uu IJJW, • _t c9'- i Ml. ill , D. W. Prindie. AB. watches for the signal x-Ax ^ ljoom operator as h cargo load•^ , fng ; operation. The ship: ' Jij:, ...j' . 11 .MI^ <??•• '• ..... ts a ne^l^ '"^chectinw fe � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource January 3, 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: ECUADOR GRANTED WORLD BANK LOAN DESPITE US FISHING SHIP SEIZURES US FLAG TRAMP SHIPS HELD TO HALF OF GOVT CARGOES PRESCRIBED BY LAW TWO YEAR FISH RESEARCH PROGRAM BACKED BY $229,000 GOVT GRANT CABINET LEVEL DEPARTMENT COULD END FRAGMENTED APPROACH TO MARITIME AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DEMANDS FIRM DECLARATION OF ICFTU POLICY JP STEVENS GETS HARDEST RAP YET FROM NLRB PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY RAIL BOARD BIDS TALKS RESUME ON TRAIN CREWS COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PLAN SYSTEMS SEEN VITAL FOR NEEDED MEDICAL CARE EVER EXPANDING SIU PENSION ROSTER ADDS EIGHT MORE SEAFARER VETERANS DEL SOL, STEEL APPRENTICE SEAFARERS RECALL REACTIONS TO VIET CONG FIRE MASTER OF THE SEAS – THE ALCOA MASTER PAID OFF Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/03/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 1 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/d795713ef4742de8ee7b0ef8861d208c.PDF 337a9a1da0986a579d053a1d0f414685 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO �Page Two January 17, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG New GOP Senator Predicts: ImomingAdministration WillSubmit Maritime Program by Early Spring WASHINGTON—A newly-elected Republican Senator forecast last week that the Nixon Admin­ istration would submit a sweeping new maritime program to Congress "early this Spring." Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland said that President-elect Richard M. Nixon was committed to "a new assertion of executive ing and uioderiiiziiig U.S. port failed to keep pace with modern leadership, a new spirit of co­ facilities to meet present and fu­ needs and modern competition. operation and creativity, and a ture needs. "Of course it is a long way from new and encouraging sense of Emphasizing the need for ac­ preliminary statements to con­ urgency—all grounded in a new tion on the maritime front, the crete authorizations and appro­ commitment to federal action to Maryland Republican said the priations—and a longer way be­ make our merchant marine once merchant fleet is "inadequate to fore those acts can be translated again worthy of a great power." respond to our day-to-day com­ into ships on the ways, jobs in Speaking at a meeting sponsored mercial needs—nor can it be relied the ports, and cargoes on the high by the nearly seven million mem­ on to meet every forseeable na­ seas. ber AFL-CIO Maritime Trades tional emergency." "I shall look forward to action Department, Mathias urged all While the United States has segments of the maritime industry been "frittering away" its mari­ by the President-elect and his to join with Administration of­ time strength, Mathias said, "other cabinet to refine an Administra­ ficials in "shaping a program nations have been moving aggres­ tion maritime program as quickly which government, labor and man­ sively to fill the sea lanes which as possible and submit definite recommendations and requests to agement can all endorse and ad­ we have abdicated." the Congress early this spring," vance." Comparing the maritime strength The Maryland Senator said the of the United States to that of the the Maryland lawmaker continued. new maritime program would be Soviet Union, the Maryland Sen­ 'Make Ideas Known' geared to the policy statement on ator declared the Russian chal­ "I would urge you and every the merchant marine made public lenge is an "especially significant by Nixon during last Fall's presi­ one which we can no longer af­ segment of the maritime industr> dential campaign. In that state­ ford to downgrade or ignore." to make your own ideas known to ment, Mathias noted, the Presi­ The Soviet fleet, he stated, has the Administration now ... On dent-elect called for: already surpassed ours in number my part, I will do everything I • A "sharp increase" in the of vessels and "is rapidly over­ can in the Senate to secure quick and sympathetic consideration of carriage of U.S. trade aboard taking us" in total tonnage. new proposals, and to obtain ap­ American-flag ships, with a goal Lowly U.S. Position proval of the authorizations and of 30 percent by the mid-70s. He also noted that the Japanese the funds required to carry them At present, the U.S.-flag fleet carries only about five percent of now carry 40 percent of their com­ out." the nation's waterbome imports merce in their own ships, and have "I would welcome membership as a goal the carriage of 60 per­ on the Senate Commerce Com­ and exports. • A building program with em­ cent of Japanese exports and 70 mittee," he said, "but if that phasis on stimulating private ship­ percent of their imports by 1975. "should not come to pass, you can building through better use of "These are striking figures," Ma­ be sure that my interest in and credit facilities and amortization thias said, "in comparison to the support of merchant marine mat­ 5.6 percent our ships presently ters will continue to grow." procedures. carry." • Exploring the use of long"If we can work together, and "The past several years," Ma­ I am confident that we can and range government cargo commit­ ments as a spur to, unsubsidized thias declared "have been discour­ will, 1969 may well turn out to private financing of construction. aging and disappointing ones for be the year in which our maritime our maritime industry. The sta­ • An immediate "reevaluation" tistics of continuing decline are industry stops sinking and begins of the entire system of operating almost too familiar to all of us. to swim. subsidies. These subsidies now go "This may well be the year in "I don't have to repeat for to only 14 of the nation's shipping your benefit the fact that, at the which we begin to meet our stra­ lines, operating only one-third of end of World War II, the United tegic and economic needs for a the U.S.-flag fleet. States enjoyed the largest, most strong fleet . . . reassert America's • Greater attention to the needs powerful merchant fleet in the commercial powers on the sea . . . of the unsubsidized sectors of the world. Since then, however—and and restore full vitality to all of the merchant fleet. particularly during the past four communities and ports which de­ • Greater emphasis on develop­ or five years—we have simply pend on a healthy and growing maritime industry for their own economic growth. "We have a tremendous job to do," Mathias concluded. It's time to get to work." 5 Vessels Added, 6 Dropped From Govt's Cuba Blacklist WASHINGTON—Five ships have been added by the Maritime Administration in the latest revision of the agency's Cuba Black­ list issued this month. Six other vessels were removed from the list which is comprised of Free World and Polish-flag vessels ators, the Gem Shipping Company ineligible to carry U.S. govern­ of Geneva, promised to keep that ment-financed cargoes because ship—as well as four others under they have called at Cuban ports. their control—out of the Cuban Added to the list were the Alda, trade as long as it remains United 7,292 gross tons, the 9,000-ton States policy to divert shipping Degedo, and the Suerte, 7,267 from Cuba. MARAD established the Cu­ tons—all Cypriot-flag ships. Also barred was the 2,449-ton Agrum, ban Blacklist on January 1, 1963. of Yugoslavian registry, and the Since then, 123 ships which had been listed have later been re­ Somali-flag Aria, 5,059 tons. Five vessels were stricken from moved after their owners — or the list as a result of being either those who controlled them — scrapped or sunk. These were the promised to keep all their vessels ^banese-flag Rio, 7,194 gross out of Cuban ports. In all, 942 tons; the Greek Nicolaos F., 7,199 vessels were kept away from Cuba tons; the Cypriot Amon, 7,227 by virtue of these pledges. MARAD's latest report runs tons; the Lebanese Vergolivada, through December 26, 1968, and 6,339 tons and the Pakistani Harincludes 187 blacklisted ships. inghata, 7,054 tons. These represent more than a dozThe sixth vessel removed from . en flags of registry and aggregate blacklist was the Somali-flag San­ doval of 14,659 tons, whose oper­ 1,325,975 gross tons of shipping. Three Additional Seafarers Earn Engineer's Licenses Three more Seafarers have received an engineer's license after attending the School of Marine Engineering sponsored by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. This brings to 305, the number of men who have passed Coast Guard ^ examinations following comple= Engineering can obtain additional information and apply for the tion of the course offered by course at any SIU hall, or they the school. All of the Seafarers in can write directly to SIU head­ the latest group are newly-licensed quarters at 675 Fourth Avenue third assistant en­ in Brooklyn, New York 11232. gineers. The telephone number is (212) Marko Petric HYacinth 9-6600. lives in Chalmette, Louisiana, with his wife, Bemis. A native of Yugoslavia, he joined the SIU in Pefric Port Arthur, Tex­ as, in 1966. The 62-year-old Seafarer previously sailed as oiler and his last vessel WASHINGTON — Certain was the Steel Surveyor. United States-flag vessels entering Clyde Hoskins formerly sailed Vietnamese ports have been as FOWT. The 37-year-old Sea­ granted exemption from port dues farer last sailed aboard the Fairand tonnage taxes levied by the port prior to earning his third as­ Government of the Republic of sistant's ticket. He joined the Vietnam, it was announced last Union in 1968 in the Port of New m.nnth. York and makes his home in San The vessels to be exempted are Francisco. Brother Hoskins is a those owned by the United States native of Texas. Herbert Gray lives in Leesburg, Government (GAA and USNS) Florida, with his wife, Agnes. A and also private merchant ships native of that state, the 54-year- chartered by the U.S. Government old Seafarer formerly sailed as in Vietnam or for aid to the Re­ FOWT, electrician and pumpman. public of Vietnam. He has also sailed briefly in the Exemption for such vessels is deck and steward departments. retroactive to October 21, 1968. Brother Gray's last vessel was the Monies presently held in escrow Sapphire Etta. He joined the SIU by the American Consul at Saigon and Danang will be refunded in piasters—as received—to Saigon agents from whom such monies were received from October 21, 1968. All ship's masters and Viet­ nam agents have been informed that any refunds received by U.S. flag agents are to be forwarded Hosldns Gray to the Commander, Military Sea in the Port of Baltimore in 1941. Transportation Service. Engine department Seafarers Port Dues and Tonnage Taxes are eligible to apply for any of the in Vietnam were instituted by the upgrading programs if they are at Vietnamese government in Janu­ least 19 years of age and have 18 ary of 1968. months of Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine department, plus six months' experience as wiper or the equivalent. SEAFABEBS^I.OC Those who qualify and wish to Jan. 17. 1969 • Vol. XXXI. No. 2 enroll in the School of Marine WASfflNGTON-r-EmpIoyees ^d employers are new paying slightly more for social security but workers an^ their fam\ilies also are getting more and better protection than ever before. The social security contribution for both employee and empioyer was increased by four-tenths of 1 percent to 4.8 percent on wages up to $7,800 a year, effective January 1. This slight increase in contributions results fr<Hn a number of improvements made in the Social Security Act in 1967, in­ cluding a 13-percent across-the-board increase in benefits. These improvements wiU also miean higher benefits and better protection in the future for workers and their families when the bread­ winner retifes, dies or becomes seriously disabled". Meanwhile, the contribution for employees and employers alike under railroad retirement also went up^ eiffective January I, from 8.90 to 9.55 percent on the first $650 of each month's earnings. ^ y The contribution inbrease under this system follows legislaition enacted in 1968 which boosted retirement benefits to levels about 10 percent hi^er than comparable beneflits under social /security,'::\y " S. Vietnam Lifts Taxes, Port Dues On U. S. Vessels Offlclal Fublication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAUI. HALL, President EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNER Vice-President'" Exec. Vice-Prea. LINDSEY WILLIAMS Ah KERR Vice-President Sec.-Treaa. ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Director of Publications MIKE POLLACK Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WILL KARP PETER WEISS BILL MOORE Staff Photoo ANTHONY ANSALDI nuiihid kiwnlily at 810 Rhodi lilind Awnu N.E., Waihlnftsn, D. C. 20018 ky thi Stafartn Intirnatlonal Union, Atlantic, Golf, Lakci and Inland Watcn Dlitrlet, AFL-CIO, 675 Foartb Accnic, Brooklyn, N.V. 11232. Tol. HVaelnth 9-6600. Second clan poitaic paid at Wathlnploni, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Forai 3579 cardi ihoold ko Mnt to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gall. Lakes and Inland Waters DIstrlet, AFL-CIO, 675 Foartb Annaa, Brooklyn, N.V. 11232. IT �January 17, 1969 An SlU Upgrading Milestone Page Three SEAFARERS LOG As New Session Convenes Renewed Congressional Drive Begins To Establish Independent MARAD Congressman Jacob H. Gilbert (D-N.Y.) presents the 300th original third assistant engineer's license earned at the SlU-MEBA District 2 Engineering School in,New York to Seafarer Jerry Vinson (center) who accepted on behalf of Charles Sexton, who was at sea. Vinson is also a new third assistant engineer. At right is Ronald Spencer, director of the engineer's training program. Also present at the recent ceremony was Representative Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.). Party Leaders Offer Program WASHINGTON—A bill calling for the creation of an independent Federal Maritime Adminis­ tration was introduced last week during the opening days of the first session of the 91st Congress by Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D., Md.), Chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Following the defeat of H.R. which would have jurisdiction The Garmatz bill, H.R. 213, over loan and mortgage insurance 159, several legislators from both which is identical to the meas­ under provisions of the Merchant sides of the aisle immediately ure which he introduced during Marine Act of 1936, would op­ promised a renewed fight for an the last (90th) Congress, was erate within the agency. It would independent MARAD when Con­ quickly followed by companion be composed of the Federal Mari­ gress reconvened for the present measures from over 40 legislators, time Administrator, as chairman, session. The prompt introduction both Democrats and Republicans. plus two additional members also of H.R. 213, and the 40-odd Entitled the Federal Maritime appointed by the President. The companion bills presented thus Act of 1969, the new bill would bill stipulates that the three mem­ far, are a clear indication that divorce MARAD from the De­ bers of the board not all be from sympathy on Capitol Hill for this partment of Commerce, where it the same political party. prime maritime objective remains has been languishing since 1950. strong. The Act would become effec­ In the view of the vast majority tive 60 days after enactment. The AFL-CIO Offers Plan of maritime industry—labor and measure will be assigned for con­ management alike—this has been sideration to the Merchant Ma­ The continuing battle had its a principal reason for the decline rine and Fisheries Committee beginning back in 1965, when the of the U.S.-flag merchant marine where it may be subject to new Sixth Constitutional Convention since that time. hearings. As is true in the case of the AFL-CIO, in the first om­ The new agency would be of all committees at the start of nibus maritime resolution in lahor headed by a Federal Maritime a new session, the group will have hsitory, called for a long list of Administrator — devoted exclu­ new members assigned to it and remedial actions to rescue the sively to the nation's maritime will have to undergo a reorgani­ U.S.-flag fleet from the doldrums. problems — appointed by the zation before it can begin to func­ Re-establishment of an inde­ President for a term of four years. tion. pendent Maritime Administration A Deputy Maritime Administra­ was a key element in that pro­ Passed Both Houses tor is also provided for. gram, adopted unanimously by The bill's predecessor, as H.R. A Federal Maritime Board, the convention.. This recommen­ 159, was passed by both houses dation was reaffirmed by the during the 90th Congress, clear­ AFL-CIO Executive Council the ing the Senate in the closing hours following year. of the session. Strongly backed In 1966, however, the situa­ by the SIU, the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department, and the tion was complicated by Adminis­ overwhelming majority of the tration efforts to pull together a maritime industry, it was piloted score or more agencies into a sin­ through the legislative channels gle new Cabinet-level Depart­ by Garmatz, Senator Warren G. ment—the Department of Trans­ Magnuson (D-Wash.), chairman portation. Although the AFL-CIO of the Senate Commerce Com­ supported the concept of a new Party has been issued by three mittee; the late Senator E. L. Department for domestic modes Muskie and Lawrence O'Brien, Bartlett (D-Alaska), then chair­ of transportation, it flatly opposed man of the Merchant Marine inclusion of maritime because of Subcommittee and former Sena­ the industry's dual roles in both from the past and a willingness tor Daniel B. Brewster (D-Md.). commerce and defense. to adapt our programs and our Reaching President Johnson's As a result of labor's efforts. institutions to meet challenging desk after the Congress had ad­ Congress in 1966 created the new conditions." journed, the bill was subsequently Department, but specifically ex­ He said that as a national po­ allowed to die at the White House cluded the Maritime Administra­ litical party, the Democrats "have through use of the so-called tion, leaving the agency within the Depaitment of Commerce. an obligation to develop and offer pocket veto. constructive alternatives to poli­ cies and programs of the new Administration." Muskie also asked that the base of the party be broadened and that it engage in a "constant process of reform in its selection of leadership and in the ways in JACKSONVILLE—A new $3.5-million marine terminal is which it involves party members in its decision-making on issues the latest addition to Jacksonville's steadily expanding ocean and operations." shipping industry. The new facility, the Blount Island Pier, located some eight He said that the reform must miles below the old city limits on the St. John's River, was dedi­ take place at all levels of the party cated recently and has been leased to the St. Regis Paper Com­ to be meaningful, that state and pany on a long-term basis. It is one of three separate waterfront local organizations must match installations now being expanded and modernized by the Jackson­ the steps taken by the national ville Port Authority. The other two are the 8th Street Terminal, party. further up the river, and the Talleyrand Docks. O'Brien expressed the view that Last year Jacksonville handled about 11 million tons of waterthe Democratic Party emerged borne cargo, about a million tons of which went through Port from the 1968 elections "stron?, Authority facilities. Construction of the new terminal was started robust and ready for victory in early in 1967. The 1,600-acre tract is only seven miles from the the 1970's." open sea. He said high priority should be St. Regis has reached an agreement with the Port authority given to voter registration and which will enable the company to handle and store some 200,000 campaign financing and asked that tons of paper products per year in the facilities. a top goal be "future election to These presently contain nearly three miles of paved highways, regain control of state houses and a vehicular bridge and a railroad bridge. The outlook for the port legislatures, particularly in the cru­ is believed considerably enhanced by a new Cross-Florida barge cial, big-vote states." canal which should be completed during the mid-1970s and will tie-in with the Intra-Coastal Canal. Jacksonville will be the O'Brien said that "the man who eastern terminus for the new inland barge route. did the most to revive the strength Also scheduled for completion in 1970 is the dredging of the apd vitality of the Democratic St. Johns River to a channel depth of 38 feet; this work is already Party is Vice President Hum­ under way. phrey. He refused to believe that defeat was inevitable." Democratic Party Must be Rebuilt Into Vigorous Nationai Organization WASHINGTON A call for the rebuilding of the Democratic of its top leaders—Vice President Humphrey, Senator Edmund S. outgoing chairniaii of the Democratic National Committee. The three, in separate articles —Z 7Z Z, , • 1 Kr states for a permanent franchise in the party's official publica­ which qualifies a voter anywhere tion, The Democrat, set forth a in the nation or overseas for every program for electoral reform, national election." broad grass-roots participation and • Assure that the party is ade­ a vigorous national organization. quately financed and staffed to Humphrey declared that the serve as a center of Democratic party "must start building and leadership. working now for victory" in the Despite its 1968 campaign def­ congressional contests in 1970 as icit, Humphrey said the national well as in the presidential election committee should "allocate a sub­ in 1972. "It is now or never for the stantial budget to support expand­ Democratic Party," he stressed, ed research, and candidate sup­ and asked that three steps be port operations as well as efforts at fund-raising to help pay off taken: • Open the party to the fullest the debt." public participation "because the The Vice President said that people are the ultimate source of "the next great test for the Dem­ political strength in our democ­ ocratic Party — the decisive test racy." —will corne in 1970" when 25 Humphrey noted that "impor­ Democratic senators will be up tant strides" in this direction were for re-election along with the en­ taken at the 1968 Democratic tire House of Representatives, National Convention which "de­ and many of the large states will spite the turmoil and tragedy be choosing a governor. which accompanied it was one of "Tiiese elections are a great the most open in history." challenge and a great opportunity He called for new steps includ­ for Democrats," Humphrey said. ing "perhaps even a party-wide "We must start building and conference prior to the 1970 elec­ working now for vitcory. We tions." must be ready to offer meaningful • Take the lead in pressing for support to all Democratic candi­ electoral reform. dates, at all levels. . . ." The Vice President urged a conIn his article in The Democrat, stiutional amendment to prevent Muskie asked for full implemen­ recurrence of a "serious danger" tation of all the party reform that the will of the majority would steps approved by the Chicago be thwarted in the election of the convention. President, either in the Electoral "The Democratic Party has al­ College or in the House of Rep­ resentatives, He would eliminate ways been the party of the fu­ obstacles to voter registration and ture," the Maine senator wrote. proposed "a system among the "That involves a capacity to leam Jacksonville Adds Modern Marine Terminal �SEAFARERS LOG Page Four January 17, 1969 Labor Gives Aid to Ghetto Renewal; South St. Seaport Buys Provides Financing and Employment Last Known Square-Rigger ST. LOUIS—Labor, management, a neighborhood group and government have joined in a ghettorebuilding program financed in part by the AFL-CIO and designed to be a pace-setter for cities across the nation. The goal is IS to rehabilitate set up the program and indicated trainees or trainees, according to 300 dilapidated houses in a 200 their close ties with the neighbor­ previous experience. square block area over a two hood were instrumental in making Qualified workers will receive year period at a cost of about $4 the project possible. the current negotiated pay rate million, with area residents doing Evans also praised the St. Louis for their particular crafts. Ad­ most of the rebuilding. Many of Building Trades Council and the vanced trainees will receive from them now are unemployed. contractors' associations for their 60 to 90 percent of journeyman Under contracts involving 14 work and cooperation in helping pay, depending upon degrees of building trades organizations and to plan the project. skill. The starting rate for train­ five contractors' associations, the ees will be $3 per hour. He reported that building residents will be trained to the Trainees will be allowed to trades unions and contractors' extent necessary and given an op­ associations in Boston have also work across jurisdictional lines as portunity to become members of signed agreements to train ghetto •helpers for six months after which the unions. residents in rebuilding slum they will be assigned to a trade as Director John E. Evans of the houses, and are expected to an advanced trainee. Union mem­ AFL-CIO Department of Urban launch specific projects here soon. bership will be made available not Affairs was among the represent­ Similar agreements are under later than the completion of the atives of government, labor and discussion in Baltimore, Chicago advanced trainee training period. management on hand to an­ and Gary, Ind., Evans said. Area Ratio nounce the project at a press con­ The principal enabling con­ The craft selection commi'tee ference here. tracts in the project involve locals He reported that the AFL-CIO of the Operafing Engineers, Plas­ will determine the ratio of non­ Mortgage Investment Trust Fund terers, Cement Masons, Carpen­ residents to residents of the area has agreed to furnish interim con­ ters, Stone Workers, Sheet Metal to be hired, except that in no case struction morteaee financing to Workers, Plumbers, Painters, will the ratio in the advanced the amount of $650,000 to Jeff- Bricklayers, International Broth­ trainee or trainee classifications Vander Lou, Inc., a neighbor­ erhood of Electrical Workers, La­ be less than one resident to three hood non-profit organization that borers and Teamsters, and district skilled journeymen. Michael L. Galli, director of initi-^ted the project. councils of the Laborers and Car­ the St. Louis Federal Housing The Department of Urban Af­ penters. Administration office, described fairs oversees the operations of Labor Grant the project as one that "we hope the fund, which was created by will be adopted in other neighbor­ The training of at least 150 the AFL-CIO in 1964 to help hoods and urban areas throughout workers is covered by a $176 500 finance the construction of neces­ sary and socially desirable hous­ erant from the Labor Department the nation." to Construction Job Opportuni­ ing. He said rehabilitated homes Jeff-Vander Lou sets its name ties, Inc., formed bv general con­ will be sold to residents of the from the fact that the area in­ tractors in the St. Louis area. area, using FHA below-marketA craft selection committee rate interest programs. Most com­ volved is bounded bv Jefferson, Vandeventer, St. Louis and Del- with equal representation from pleted homes will be of the threemT streets. Most'of the resideiits labor and management will re­ or four-bedroom size, selling at an view job applications and classify average price of $13,000, with of the area are Negroes. down payments as low as $200 Evans said his office has been workers for the project. working with Jeff-Vander Lou and Workers hired will be classified and monthly payments as low as other agencies here since June to as qualified workmen, advanced $60. Talking Over Old Times NEW YORK—The Charles Cooper, last of the American merchant square-riggers, has found a new home after 102 years as a floating warehouse in the Falkland Islands. The hull of the Cooper, only known surviving square-rigged vessel, has been acquired by the South Street Seaport, New York's maritime museum, which is engaged in a program to restore the famed "Street of Ships" to its original state in the old shipping days of the 19th century. The vessel was built in 1856 at the William Hall yard in what is now Fairfield, Connecticut, for the Layton and Hurlburt Line as an ocean liner for service in North Atlantic cross­ ings to Antwerp. She measured 165 feet with a beam of 35 and one-half feet, and was designed to carry 1,463 tons. Because steamers at that time were rapidly displacing sail vessels, the Charles Cooper was soon taken off its liner runs and put into general trading service in the Pacific. In September, 1866, when she was barely ten years old, the vessel ran into trouble off Cape Horn while carrying a cargo of coal bound for San Francisco. Springing leaks, the square-rigger limped to the nearby Falkland Islands to take shelter and has remained there ever since as a storeship. Although her masts are gone, the hull, of Connecticut oak and chestnut, is still sturdy and well-preserved. The South Street Seaport, a creation of the New York State legislature in conjunction with the City Planning Commission, is intended to recreate the days of New York maritime history when scores of square-riggers lined up along the South Street piers was a common sight. Funds to acquire the Cooper were donated by the Journal of Commerce. Still to be raised is the cost of lowing the ship to its new home. 5IUNA Rshermen's Union Achieves Seiid Cains in Three-Year Contract GLOUCESTER, Mass.—Following ten weeks of continuous negotiations with the boatowners, the SIUNA-afiiliated Atlantic Fishermen's Union hammered out a new three-year agreement last month which covers 52 fishing • negotiations that fishermen pay the vessels' operating out of this full cost of the gloves. port. "Its a good contract,"' said Or­ The new contract, which was lando, following its acceptance by overwhelmingly approved by the the membership. New Bedford AFU membership here, contains attorney Patrick Harrington, who 85 percent of what the Union was part of the AFU's negotiating originally asked for, according to team during the bargaining talks AFU Acting President Michael concurred with Orlando's com­ P. Orlando. ment. "We bargained well," he One of the most significant said. provisions of the new agreement is the doubling of the flat rate pay­ ment received by AFU members who sail as engineers, cooks, and mates—from $15 per trip to $30 per trip. This increased rate will be paid in addition to the regular full share of the catch. $25 'Broker Trip' Also each fisherman now will NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — be paid a flat fee of $25 for a Work will soon begin on a new "broker trip"—one during which four-million pound gantry crane too few fish are caught to meet which will tower 19 stories in expenses. height, and span two shipways for Another important gain is a a distance of 440 feet, at the New­ one-half percent increase in the port News Shipbuilding and Dry gross stock deduction made for Dock Company shipyards. the welfare-pension fund. The largest crane of its type Concessions from the boat ever to be built in this country, owners in the methods used to it will span the shipyard's No. 10 purchase supplies for a trip were and ^o. 11 ways and will easily also won. The new pact provides clear the island structure of that the vessel owner is to purchase broad-decked carriers, or the all supplies at the "best competi­ soaring funnels of the largest sutive price." Rags, dishes, watch­ perliners. man fees, and the cost of light Designed to lift the heaviest of bulbs will be paid by the vessel assemblies and machinery, the owner. crane will roll back and forth over Only lubricants "actually the shipways on rails that will be burned" will now be part of the extended 150 feet into the James gross stock. In the past, all lub­ River to permit the unloading of ricants, whether actually used dur­ heavy materials directly from ing a trip or not, were partially barges or vessels. These materials paid for by the fishermen. can then be transferred directly to The AFU fought for, and won, ships under construction. the right to continue the arrange­ Component parts of the crane ment whereby part of the cost of will be built at the main Ohio plant work gloves used by fishermen is of the Alliance Machine Com­ paid by the vessel owner. The boat pany, which will engineer and owners had demanded early in the build the structure. Shipyard Orders Giant New Crane 19 Stories High •k- ii ! Three additions to SiU pension roster are welcomed by Welfare Director A! Bernstein (far left) and two already retired Seafarers in New York hall. From left are: Domingo Jartin, Recardo Barcelona, Louis Almeida, Fred Harvey and Alexander L.einer. Harvey joined the pension list in 1965, Leiner in 1968. �January 17, 1969 Page Five SEAFARERS LOG In Annual New Year's Message Gas Station Card Gimmicks Give Player Fast Shuffle If you're looking for odds, don't expect any from the service station so-called giveaway methods of attracting customers—the cards you match or scrape. Your chance of getting a dollar is about 4.S in a thousand. That's .45 in a hundred, or about half of one percent. Putting your faith in something substantial, like horse betting, is smarter. ^The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Union News, official paper of the union that is closest to the industry, collected a few figures that evolved from some experiences with the cards the man gives you when you pay for your gas. An Ohio station operator had an extra-special customer to whom he gave a box of 1,000 cards. The customer—or probably his wife—matched up the cards and won $4. Another operator took 1,500 of them home to his wife. Many hours of scrubbing netted her $3 and a bad temper. A South Carolina civic club asked its members to donate all the cards they got to a charity project. Bursting with altruism, they came through with 6,000 tickets to instant wealth. The charity benefitted by a grand total of only $21. A reporter from a Cleveland newspaper was a big winner, though. On the black market—^you can buy these cards if you know how—he got 1,000 of them from each of two companies. One bundle returned $7, the other $8. But do the companies lose? Hah! They charge the station operators $15 for each 1,000, and they pay out from $3 to $8. Meany Outlines Labor's Objectives For National Progress, World Peace WASHINGTON—Organized labor faces the year ahead with "a spirit of determination to push for progress at home and honorable peace in the world." AFL-CIO President George Meany de­ clared in a New Year's statement this month. Noting that 1969 finds a neat ^,|,e homeless, ted the hungry, suc­ modernized job-safety laws and Administration and a Congress cor the sick," protect the con­ elimination of procedures that bf a different political viewpoint sumer, educate the young and pro­ deny the ballot to some citizens. being called upon to work to­ vide the aged with a life free from TTie international scene—"The gether, Meany pointed out that fear. AFL-CIO will continue its support only time will tell how well this Further, he stated, the AFL- of this nation's pursuit of peace "division of power" works out. CIO will seek legislation to "con­ with honor and its defense of free­ "But all Americans, no matter tinue the march toward full dom." what their political beliefs, owe it equality and improve the lot of In this area, Meany also said to their country to support re­ the nation's workers and their that the federation will continue sponsible efforts of the New Ad­ unions." its role of helping to strengthen ministration and the 91st Congress Meany reaffirmed labor's deter­ free unions in the developing na­ to meet the problems of our mination to support "with all our tions "secure in the belief that by times," Meany added. strength" the efforts of exploited helping build strong, free demo­ And as far as the labor move­ farm workers "to achieve the pro­ cratic institutions we are simultan­ ment is concerned, he emphasized tections and benefits that workers eously helping build democracy "we will do our utmost to help have a right to enjoy in a free so­ and freedom for all." solve the tremendous problems ciety." Meany concluded his statement which face America's people, her "The farm workers and the by expressing labor's high regard cities and her future." AFL-CIO will not rest until this for and gratitude to "a great Amer­ In Congress, Meany said, labor goal has been won," he said. ican who is about to lay down the will work for measures to "house burdens of office. President Lyn­ Summarizes Aims don B. Johnson." In summary, labor's objectives "No President," Meany de­ in Congress will call for new pro­ clared, "has ever done more for grams where necessary, broaden­ the poor, the homeless, the elder­ ing of programs that now are too ly; no President has achieved more narrow to be effective and "ad­ in the fields of education, civil equate and proper financing" of rights or health care; no President all programs, Meany stressed. has suffered so many unfair, un­ He then centered on three other justified attacks. on illegal, unethical activities the areas that will receive major at­ "The American labor movement tention from labor in the year owes President Johnson a deep program as preferable to slashing ahead: debt of gratitude and, on behalf Collective bargaining — AFL- of the AFL-CIO. 1 am honored to This commitment, he said, CIO unions will strive for new acknowledge it." "must be fulfilled. Therefore, we contracts "that guarantee to work­ urge that while every effort be ers their fair share of the fruits of made to reduce unnecessary costs, enterprise." there must be no restriction on the State legislature—Unions will right of low-income Americans to seek adequate unemployment and obtain comprehensive health workmen's compensation bene­ care." fits, consumer-protection laws. AFL'CIO Seeking Fffectlve Control Over Illegal Uedkaid Profiteering WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has called effective controls answer to high Medicaid expenses. Federation Social Security Director Bert Seidman urged such a needed health services for the ^ duplicate payments or submitting poor. He declared that certain claims for services rendered to pa­ professionals are now bilking tients who had died or been dis­ millions annually from Medicaid charged before the period covered and he said an effective cost con­ in the billing, the investigation re­ trol system could stop this. vealed. Seidman made his remarks in a It also showed that a great statement submitted to Secretary number of druggists violate reg­ of Health, Education and Wel­ ulations by charging the state fare Wilbur J. Cohen, who has higher prices than those charged been conducting hearings on the public for the same drugs. Medicaid around the nation. "These abuses clearly indicate Medicaid is the program through the need for cost control in the which the federal government helps finance state plans for pro­ form of federally regulated fees viding comprehensive health care and charges," Seidman said. He cited California only be­ for the poor and low-income or cause that state's investigation had "medically indigent" families. "It would be the height of in­ been the most detailed. "We have no doubt," he added, justice," Seidman wrote, "to pe­ nalize the poor by barring them "that similar investigations in oth­ from needed health care while er states would reveal equally continuing to line the pockets of shocking abuses which have added greedy providers who view the untold millions of dollars to the program as a get-rich scheme for cost of the program." doctors, nursing homes and phar­ Seidman said the AFL-CIO macists." considers particularly sound a number of recommendations Program Drained made by the Advisory Commis­ Seidman's statement noted that sion on Intergovernmental Rela­ there is clear evidence that the tions. These proposals for in­ present lack of cost controls has creasing the efficiency and reduc­ enabled unethical persons in those professions to drain the program ing the unduly high costs of Medicaid services deserve to be of huge amounts of money. implemented as rapidly as pos­ He recalled an investigation by sible, he suggested. the California attorney-general The AFL-CIO, he said, specifi­ which revealed that false claims, cally supports the commission's kickbacks, over-servicing and oth­ proposals for reimbursing hospi­ er abuses in that state are siphon­ tals contingent upon their operat­ ing from $6 to $8 million an­ ing under an acceptable standard nually from the California pro­ of management efficiency, pay­ gram alone. ment for physicians' services on a The probe showed that some physicians are guilty of overserv- basis other than usual and custom­ icing, submitting claims for pa­ ary charges and improved tech­ tients they did not treat or for niques of utilization review. Seidman described Medicaid as treatment not actually given, overprescribing drugs and laboratory "an epoch-making commitment examinations, and charging fees. that needed health care would be Many California nursing homes the right of all Americans regard­ abuse the program by accepting less of income." Austin P. Skinner Re-elected By SlUNA Fishermen's Union NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—Members of the SIUNA-affiliated New Bedford Fishermen's Union last month elected Austin P. Skinner to a fourth term as secretary-treasurer of the Union. Skinner, who defeated Edward ^ velopment of NBFU health, wel­ P. Patenaude by an almost twofare and pension plans. Skinner to-one margin—341 to 171— noted that an extensive investment will serve in the Union's top post program has been launched by the for another two years. NBFU to insure maximum return on monies paid into the pension fund, so that benefit payments to members may be ultimately in­ creased. Austin P. Skinner Thanking the membership for their expression of confidence in him. Skinner pledged that the Un­ ion will not rest on past perform­ ance, but will step up its efforts to gain increased benefits for its fish­ ermen, and continue to play a vital role in the fishing industry. Citing progress made in the de­ SIUNA Vice President A vice president of the SIUNA, Skinner is also secretary of the SIUNA Fish and Cannery Con­ ference. Representing thousands of SIUNA members in the domes­ tic fishing industry, the Confer­ ence serves to foster unity in pre­ senting the hopes and aspirations of the membership to government and management. With the severe problems presently confronting the U.S. fishing industry, the Con­ ference also surveys legislation— local, state and federal—and anal­ yzes the affect upon labor in the fishing industry. Skinner has been secretary of the Conference since 1962. In other election results, Jacob Ostensen was re-elected New Bed­ ford port agent and John Burt was re-elected as union delegate. Calif. Legislator introduces Bills Vital to Labor WASHINGTON—Three bills aimed at rheeting organized labor's high priority legislative goals were introduced by Congressman Phil­ lip Burton (D-Calif.) during the first week of the 91st Congress. The proposed measures would: Give farm workers the right to organize and bargain collectively under provisions and protections of the National Labor Relations Act; Repeal Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act; and Relax re­ strictions against construction site picketing in labor disputes. "Just because we have a change in administration is no reason to let up in our battle for good and necessary legislation," Burton said. "The right of working men and women to organize and enter into union shop agreements with their employers is basic, regard­ less of vocation or occupation." Burton noted that the farm workers and the situs picketing measures were passed out of the House Education and Labor Com­ mittee, of which he is a member, in the 90th Congress, but never reached the House floor. Organized labor has urged the repeal of 14B which permits in­ dividual states to pass laws out­ lawing union shop agreements. At present 19 states have such laws. The situs picketing bill is aimed at another section of the law which prohibits union picxeting at a con­ struction site if more than one employer is involved. �Page Six SEAFARERS LOC To Help Hard-Core Unemployed AFL'CIOs 'Human Resounes' Plan Gets Underway in Nine Major Cities WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO's campaign to get union members more involved in manpower programs for the hard-core unemployed is now under way • in nine cities—Atlanta, Boston, Cincin­ nati, Houston, Pittsburgh, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and St. Louis. TTiese are the first of 50 met- ^ r~ T I 7 Rothman, associate director of York, R. J. Butler in Atlanta, ropolitan areas in which orga­ AFL-CIO's new Department of Eddie Campbell in Cincinnati^ nized labor will have a full-time Urban Affairs, is president. Mrs. Minona J. Clinton in Pitts­ manpower representative operat­ The institute was set up with burgh, Paul J. Flynn in Boston ing under the direction of the new the aid of a Labor Department and George M. Garland in Los Human Resources Development grant of $1.5 million. Angeles. Institute in Washington. All HRDI staff members have a "The AFL-CIO has consistently HRDI is a non-profit corpora­ said that the road out of poverty background in the labor move­ tion set up by the AFL-CIO to is a good job at decent wages," ment, Taylor noted, plus a variety mobilize the resources of the labor Rothman pointed out. "We feel of experience in civil rights, antimovement in a nationwide pro­ that the proper role for labor un­ poverty programs, political action gram to recruit, train, employ and ions in helping to achieve this and other civic involvement. The upgrade the unemployed and the goal is to get involved in the staff will be thoroughly integrated, underemployed. Federation Pres­ actual training of the disadvan­ says Taylor, and already includes ident George Meany is chairman taged unemployed worker for a two women and six minority group of the HRDI board and Julius place in our economic system." members. HRDI recently concluded a Already on board with HRDI, Rothman reported, are a fulltime one week training session in Wash­ director and four staff representa­ ington at which top representa­ tives in the national office plus tives from the AFL-CIO, the fulltime representatives in the nine Labor Department and the Na­ tional Alliance of Businessmen pilot cities. HRDI's executive director is briefed the staff on manpower Merlin L. Taylor of New Orleans. and related problems. A second A former bricklayer and stone conference will be held in Feb­ NEW YORK —The Clothing mason, Taylor was president and ruary for new field representatives Workers have called upon Presi­ business manager of his local un­ in the next cities to be staffed. At the Washington conference, dent Johnson to seek ways of re­ ion for three years, during which straining the increasing runaway he developed and taught an ex­ Taylor emphasized the key role of U.S. companies to low-wage tension course for journeymen for that HRDI was expected to play areas just across the Mexican the State Department of Voca­ in the AFL-CIO's total effort to tional Education. He also attended help resolve what he called "the border. an AFL-CIO Community Services single most critical domestic prob­ ACWA President Jacob S. Potcourse and studied at Loyola lem facing the United States to­ ofsky, in a letter to Johnson, said that if the flight continues un­ University's Institute of Industrial day—helping the hard core to abated it will "seriously undermine Relations. Taylor, 39, comes to acquire full economic citizenship." "Unless we begin to success­ much of what this nation has so HRDI from the Labor Depart­ laboriously achieved in building ment, where he had major re­ fully recruit the disadvantaged the highest standard of living in sponsibilities in developing man­ men and women in our ghettos, power programs. train them and place them in good the world." Also in HRDI's Washington jobs at decent wages," said Tay­ Potofsky's letter was triggered by a recent report that Oxford In­ office are James D. Boyle, Olga lor, "we cannot begin to solve dustries, Incorporated, is planning Corey, C. R. Hollowell and Al­ the crisis that is plaguing our to start making boys shirts in Mex­ fred P. Love. The field staff in­ cities. Organized labor can play ico. The move, Potofsky warned, cludes Peter Babin III in New a major role in creating a realistic, could touch off a chain of run­ Orleans, Charles E. Bradford in creative climate for developing aways by other clothing manufac­ St. Louis, Donald W. Bridges in training and placement pro­ turers. Houston, John T. Bumell in New grams." ClothingWorkers Score Runaways South of Border Plans for a 50-cities drive to recruit, train and find jobs for the hard-core unemployed were de­ veloped at a conference held in Washington. The program is being carried out by the Human Re­ sources Development Institute (HRDI), the AFL-CIO and the Department of Labor. From left are: Otto Pragan, assistant director, AFL-CIO Department of Education: Orieanna Syphax of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare: Julius Rothman, associate director of the AFL-CIO Department of Ur­ ban Affairs and president of HRDI: Robert McCorinin, of the Department of Labor; Merlin Taylor, ex­ ecutive director of HRDI, and Thomas F. Royals, of the Department of Labor. This is a pilot program. Jannarr 17, 1969 Roy Fleischer Dies at 66; Verse Appeared in LOG NEW YORK — Roy Fleischer, 66, whose poetry appeared from time to time in the LOG and was familiar to Seafarers, died October 23, 1968, at his home in Tottenville, Staten Is­ land, N. Y. A native of New Britain, Connecticut, Fleischer was a licensed attorney but practiced law for only a few years before turning to journalism as a reporter on the East Hartford (Conn.) Gazette. His later career as author and poet developed from this experi­ ence. Fleischer published a book of verse in 1964, titled "New York—Port of Dreams." The book took its title from one of his numerous poems published in the LOG. Released to coincide with the opening of the New York World's Fair, the work was widely distributed to colleges and libraries. Typical of Fleischer's verse was this short poem, "Jealousy," which appeared in the September 18, 1964, issue of the LOG: I've seen them in Hong Kong, Bridgeport, Galilee—And women on waterfronts Sit. with their backs to seas. I never could understand it. Don't they want to be free? Or perhaps the answer is: They are jealous of the sea. Labor Cites Grim Alternative To Federal Safety Controls WASHINGTON—A labor safety expert offered an alternative recently to federal occupational safety and health standards iii a debate with management and state officials who saw no need if^or a federal law. The states have had years to act Alan Burch, safety director to improve job safety, Burch of the Operating Engineers, said pointed out, "and only a few have even better results in reducing on- done anything effective." the-job accidents might be obtain­ As for management, he said, it ed if the head of each company seems "caught in a bind between were required to personally notify the necessity for making a profit the family of each worker killed on the one hand, and competitive on the job. costs on the other." Burch sug­ If this were done, Burch sug­ gested that "uniform regulations gested, next year there might not would help to remove industrial be 14,200 Americans "killed by price-cost competition from the crushing, slicing, burning, stran­ safety picture." gling or smothering" as the result of work hazards. The debate took place during the 50th anniversary meeting of the USA Standards Institute, a private organization set up to en­ courage voluntary standard-setting by industries. Joining Burch in urging passage of federal legislation was David A. Swankin, director of the Labor ROANOKE, Va. — Striking Department, Bureau of Labor Meat Cutters from four states Standards. picketed the palatial home of Lorenz Neuhoff here during the Varies With States Swankin noted the sharp differ­ recent holidays to call public at­ ences in work accident statistics tention to their struggle for union among states with varying safety contract benefits at Neuhoff meat programs—or with no programs at packing plants. The strikers braved heavy rain all. "A worker in a high accident and near-freezing temperatures to state," he said, "is only about a remind Neuhoff of his refusal to third as safe as he is in a low acci­ bargain with their union. Led by Earl Grant, executive assistant to dent state." union President Thomas J. Lloyd, After reporting that state expen­ the group included local union ditures on safety range from 2 cents per worker per year to $2.11, members along with strikers from Swankin asked his audience, Neuhoff Packing Company plants "Which state would you rather in Montgomery, Ala., and Clarksville, Tenn., and employees work in?" The safety manager of E. I. du from Kinston, N. C. Pont de Nemours and Co., J. S. Parading before NeuhofTs col­ Queener, argued that "federalized" umned southern mansion, the industrial safety and health pro­ strikers carried signs relating their grams would destroy the "partner­ requests for union contracts and ship" between private industry and better conditions. The demonstra­ state regulatory agencies. tion was part of a year-long union And Commissioner Edmond M. effort to bring Neuhoff and his Boggs of the Virginia State Dept. family to the bargaining table. of Labor & Industry termed the AFL-CIO President George proposal for a federal law "a Meany recently called on all un­ power play" by the U.S. Labor ion members to support a con­ Dept. which states should resist. sumer boycott against Neuhoff Burch accused management and state opponents of "setting up Packing Company meats—includ­ straw men and knocking them ing Frosty Mom, Valleydale and down" in their arguments against Reelfoot products that labor calls a federal law. unfair. NeuhoffMansion Gets Picket Line From 4 States �r JanuaiT 17, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Drive to Curtail Filibuster Launched Anew in Senate WASHINGTON—A new rules reform drive got under way in the Senate with bipartisan sponsorship and labor support as the 91st Con­ gress convened this month. Its goal is to curtail filibusters by changing the Senate's Rule 22 to impose "realistic limitations on debate." The present rule requires a two-thirds vote to limit debate. It allows 34 of the 100 senators to talk a hill to death. That has been the fate, in recent years, of the bill to repeal the open shop Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, important civil rights legislation, and the confirma­ tion of a Chief Justice of the United States. Senators Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.) and Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), co-leaders of the rules reform drive, said in a letter to their colleagues that the mere threat of a filibuster has been used to weaken as well as defeat bills and the inability to bring legislation to a vote has subjected the Senate to "ridicule." The fight for rules reform, they said, must be made at the start of a new Congress because that is the one time that a majority of the Senate can act on a rules change without being frustrated by a minority filibuster. Senators supporting rules reform face an uphill fight to convince a majority of the Senate to use its power to act or, alternatively, to con­ vince two-thirds to use the cloture procedure of the old rules to break a filibuster and bring rule change proposals to a vote. Both courses were tried unsuccessfully in 1967, at the start of the 90th Congress. The background of the dispute goes back even further. Rules reform leaders have argued over the years that at the start of a new Congress a majority of the Senate has a constitutional right to adopt new rules and close debate by majority vote. Richard M. Nixon, when he was Vice President in the 1950s, sup­ ported this argument in advisory opinions given in his role as presiding officer of the Senate. But at that time reform advocates were unable to muster, a majority to take advantage of the opportunity. When Lyndon B. Johnson was Vice President in 1963, he held that the question of constitutional interpretation could only be decided by the &nate—but the Senate was prevented by a filibuster from decid­ ing the issue. Two years ago, Vice President Humphrey came up with a formula which would have permitted a majority to act—if it wished. A supporter of rules reform moved to close debate and Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen promptly raised a point of order. Following Johnson's precedent, Humphrey said the point of order would have to be decided by the Senate. But he indicated that a motion to table the point of order would be proper—and not subject to debate. If the point of order were tabled, Humphrey said, the effect would be to uphold the claim that a majority of senators can halt debate on a rules change proposal. But the Senate establishment—the Democratic as well as the Repub­ lican leadership—opposed this parliamentary shortcut and the tabling motion was badly beaten, 61-37. The Senate then went on to uphold Dirksen's point of order. A final effort to bring about a rules change vote through cloture won 53-46 approval, but failed because it fell short of a two-thirds margin. Theoretically, the rules change battle would block any other legisla­ tion from being considered by the Senate until the matter is disposed of. But in the clublike Senate, the debate is expected to be interrupted to take up other matters from time to time by unanimous consent. Thomas R. Donahue, assistant secretary of labor, will return to the Service Employees Union as executive secretary, a new post. Donahue had been executive asistant to the president of the SEIU before he was named to the Labor Department position by President Johnson in 1967. * « * Thomas R. Owens, former miner who helped build the Rub­ ber Workers and served as its Washington legislative representa*tive until his retirement in 1956, died recently after a lengthy ill­ ness. He was a brother of Secre­ tary-Treasurer John Owens of the Mine Workers. The union's 1956 convention said of T. R. Owens in a resolution adopted by unan­ imous vote that "his advice, guidance and counsel during the infancy of the URW was of great value because of his experiences in the struggle of the Miners Union to establish unionism." cil in memory of the late George M. Harrison, long-time member of the council. Harrison was an AFL-CIO vice president and pres­ ident emeritus of the Railway and Airline Clerks when he died last month. In a resolution of tribute, the council said Harrison "served as an outstanding member of this Executive Council" since 1955, when he "helped forge the bonds of unity" between the AFL and CIO. The Cincinnati hospital was one of his many civic and char­ itable interests. * * * Members of the Ladies' Gar­ ment Workers will be getting pre­ scription drugs by mid-1969 at a fraction of the cost they now pay. Their medicine bills will be cut by the mail order drug plan insti­ tuted by union and employer trust­ ees. Each order—limited to a 30day supply of medicine—will cost members $1. The union's new Health Services Plan will pay the * « * rest, including the cost of mailing. A donation of $2,500 to Chil­ It's estimated that the average cost dren's Hospital, recently was voted to members will be 25 percent of by the AFL-CIO Executive Coun- | normal retail drugstore prices. Page Seven "They Can't Follow This Act"! "We would misuse the trust and confidence manufacturers have placed in us if the infor­ mation were publicized ... we do not want manufacturers to look at us with an attitude of fear." This statement was recently made by the chairman the National Commission on Product Safety, a government regulatory agency set up to protect the public from household products which endanger health or safety. In the light of such comments, one might well wonder what is uppermost in the mind of such public administrators—the welfare of the citizens they were appointed to protect, or the corporate corns they might step on if they were to attack their jobs with zeal and enthusiasm? The recent disaster which snuffed out the lives of 78 miners in Farmington, W. Va.— a tragedy which Senator Gaylord Nelson (DWisc.) says could have been prevented by proper enforcement of even the present inad­ equate regulations of another government agency, the Bureau of Mines, is an even more graphic example. This Bureau has, in the past, opposed action on a mine safety bill. Is this so-called regulatory body concerned primarily with the lives of miners or are they "hung-up" on the effect that assiduous en­ forcement of safety measures would have on profits of the mine owners? There are other less dramatic, but nonethe-less irksome areas involving the public good which are administered with similar laxity. Television, for example, probably the great­ est communications medium so far devised, has been allowed to become a vehicle of mediocrity packed with inferior commercial fare dedicated to the most base impulses of the community and laced with largely taste­ less and offensive sales pitches—often three or four of them in a row—crammed down one's throat. Yet the Federal Communications Commission is charged with the responsibility of policing TV—both its program content and the number 'and quality of commercial messages to which the viewer is exposed. It can withhold a license, enforce compliance with good taste, and contribute to the eleva­ tion of program standards. Rather than offend the big advertisers, however, many departures from common decency are conveniently overlooked. In the case of the Federal Trade Commis­ sion, a group of young lawyers led by crusader Ralph Nader has made a study of that agency and come up with the declared conclusion that the "shockingly poor" performance of the FTC is attributable to enforcement tactics carefully calculated not to offend poltical or economic "friends" whose pressure they fear. Similarly, the Food and Drug Administra-. tion, charged with guarding the quality, purity and safety of the things we eat and the drugs we swallow, has failed to eliminate many long-standing consumer abuses because of poorly disguised industry pressure. The FDA seeks compliance not by stern direction but by "consent agreements" which allow vio­ lators to escape virtually untouched. Any excuse that the public doesn't have to buy shoddy, dangerous or overpriced mer­ chandise, that no one has to view TV if it doesn't meet his standards, etc., is unaccept­ able in a society so complex that specialists are required to properly analyze and evaluate the goods and services—and the claims made for them—which are thrust upon us in such profusion. The public must be adequately protected and Congress shouid take a long, hard look at regulatory agencies now, while the incom­ ing Administration is making its appointments. �A welcome guest at Detroit Hall was Charles Prather, assistant to Congressman John Dingell (D-Mich.), seated, left, behind first child, with SlU families. iow:':fhe'SIU.;qi^^ ris ooy seems to agree whole-htwrtedl^ with the menu. An empty plate means a f^H fumiriy/SeBfarer George . Rivera tells daughter Gladys. All this and the goodies i fiihat idifewed Typical of the Christmas spirit and the holiday glee is this scene of the children of Seafarers and their guests lined up at Wilmington party. A hearty laugh is enjoyed at Seattle Hall by Sea­ farers Frank Warren, Bob Cossiboin 6nd Dick Schaeffer. good a Pferf of New Yods^M At Mobile Hall, Seafarer and Mrs. F. Blankenberg and his family are pleased with the Tiospitality and the good eating. Even kiddies agreed everything was OK. Enjoying Christmas at Mobile are (l-r): Seafarer and Mrs. Raymond Ried, Jimmy Kilpatrick, Joseph Maye, _ Seafarer and Mrs. Bernard Maye and son, Bernard, Jr. !.'• • 1 Wilmington festivities were held in Hacienda Hotel in San Pedro. Seen here are, (l-r): Seafarer and Mrs. James Fitzgerald and pensioners Sam Drury and Sidney Day. U ii;-' S ill' I!I The Nicholson children, around the table from left to right, Myra, Robin and Joy show best smile of sheer good humor at Seafarer James Whitfield in Wilmington. �SEAFARERS LOC Page Ten Growing SlU Pension Roster Adds Eight Additional Veteran Seafarers The names of eight more Seafarers have been added to the SIU's pension roster. The latest addi­ tions to the ever-growing retirement list include: Recardo Barcelona, Isaac McCants, Horace Curry, Atilano Malavet, Qaude West, Charles Brinton, Henry Bramer and Frank Cannella. Recardo Barcelona sailed as ^ AB and joined the Union in the Port of New York. A Seafarer for 30 years, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Josephine. Bom in the Philippine Islands, Brother Barcelona last sailed on the Jack­ % sonville. Brinton West Malavet Curry Isaac McCants held a steward's rating. Joining the SIU in Mobile, of Baltimore and his last ship was Arbor Towing Company. He he also sailed 30 years. A native the Del Norte. joined the Union in Elberta, of Alabama, he makes his home An FOWT and deck engineer, Mich, A native of that state, he in East Orange, N.J. Brother Atilano Malavet had sailed since makes his home in Frankfort, 1939. He joined the SIU in New Mich., with his wife, Laura. York ai 1 makes his home in that Frank Cannella was a steward city. Brother Atilano was born in and last shipped aboard the Jack­ Puerto Rico and last shipped sonville. A native of Pennsylvania, aboard the Robin Goodfellow. Claude West held a steward's rating and joined the Union in Tampa. Brother West lives in Jacksonville with his wife, Mable. He is a native of Missouri and McCants Barcelona last sailed on the Keva Ideal. Charles Brinton lives in New McCants last shipped on the Jef­ Orleans. He shipped as AB and ferson City Victory. his last vessel was the Alcoa Cannella Bramer Horace Curry was a member Voyager. Brother Brinton is a na­ of the steward department. Born tive of that state, he resides in he lives in Pittston, Pa. He joined in Ohio, he now lives in Mobile Frankfort with his wife, Laura. the Union in Tampa. During with his wife, Louise. Brother Henry Bramer sailed as oiler World War II, he served in the Curry joined the SIU in the Port and was last employed by the Ann Army. m DISPATCHERS REPORT December 27, 1968, to January 9, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 5 1 66 34 10 7 18 14 16 13 12 9 5 4 21 19 39 31 30 27 14 24 70 49 31 24 337 256 Class A Class B Class C 7 2 2 16 23 3 7 2 2 5 2 1 5 10 3 6 4 4 4 5 3 9 13 1 27 20 6 JO 11 7 18 27 12 46 45 38 23 18 20 183 182 102 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 3 2 45 45 7 7 . 13 14 5 13 7 10 2 6 20 31 39 37 7 33 12 18 53 51 25 18 238 285 Class A Class B Class C 10 2 11 30 9 8 3 1 4 4 0 1 10 3 5 8 7 2 5 0 9 10 1 18 21 10 11 9 4 6 17 23 37 46 44 7 19 14 120 182 118 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 5 2 50 20 8 7 20 8 5 12 15 5 3 5 23 18 33 21 16 14 18 13 42 56 18 14 256 195 Class A Class B Class C 0 1 1 . 20 7 17 6 4 1 0 1 1 3 6 5 3 3 5 3 4 0 4 5 1 17 17 8 4 1 3 10 8 10 61 28 36 C 13 11 109 130 96 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 11 111 217 19 11 57 120 14 23 17 20 25 24 44 98 70 109 103 82 2 55 27 72 12 47 495 897 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 4 131 145 6 16 64 12 19 27 12 17 18 12 61 57 89 92 91 79 4 22 12 59 7 41 516 643 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 1 5 145 51 16 5 52 67 18 24 10 18 23 11 76 46 113 43 86 50 26 2 . 60 23 10 7 693 325 January 17, 1969 YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH Se a f a r e r * s G u i jd e t o B e 11e r B u y i n g HIGH COST OF DYING THE LIVING END By Sidney Margollus Despite all the criticisms of expensive funerals in recent years, the high cost of dying is still higher. A funeral nowadays often will take most of a typical $1000 welfare-plan death benefit and sometimes more. That's just for the funeral director's services. When you add the cost of a cemetery lot, grave opening, foundations and miscellaneous fees, the total often will be $1500 and more, depending on the cost of a marker for the grave. There was a small dip in funeral charges early in the 1960's as the result of the various published exposures on the subject at that time. But then prices started to march right back up again, report union welfare experts such as Harry Haskel, Ladies Garment Workers Union, and Donald Rubin, Pocketbook Workers Retirement Fund, who follow funeral costs closely. These high prices eat up funds the bereaved family itself urgently ^ needs at this critical time, to help rearrange its affairs and pay remaining medical bills of the last illness. While costs have not receded, there have, however, been at least some useful developments. Several court decisions and increasing legislative efforts in various states may finally help families to at least know what they are paying for. In New York, for example, a determined effort by Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz has resulted in a decision that funeral directors must, > I itemize their bills. Some funeral directors—preferring to quote a "package price"—have fought hard against itemizing, not only in the courts but through" pressure in state capitols. There they have what Lefkowitz called "highly organized" lobbies. Hidden Charges The judge who ruled that undertakers must itemize bills found that • funeral homes would quote a package price initially and then charge separately for other items which the families thought was included. In Wisconsin, the National Funeral Directors Association and its local affiliate were ordered by the courts to discontinue a ban on price advertising. The funeral directors claimed they did not consider price advertising ethical. But the state charged that the NEDA's ban against posting or' advertising prices was for the purpose of fixing and maintaining high prices. The state further asserted that a funeral home could make a' profit even if it charged as little as $200 for a funeral. The U. S. Justice Department also is seeking—through court action^ —to facilitate price advertising in all states. In California, legislation has been proposed to require funeral homes to give customers a price list of funeral and casket charges. Funeral directors would also be forced to give customers printed notice that expressed disposal wishes of the deceased must be observed, and that embalming is not legally required. Another hopeful development against rising prices is the continued expansion of memorial societies. There are now over 100 such societieswith a total of more than 300,000 members, reports Ernest Morgan, author of A Manual of Simple Burial. Memorial societies or associations try to encourage simple, dignified funerals at moderate cost. Often they make arrangements with funeralhomes to provide funerals at reasonable charges for their members. When the need arises, the society also helps with arrangements and, advice. Pre-planning Important These memorial societies also encourage "pre-planning" so that your family knows beforehand what kind of burial and service you want,^ and what to do when the time comes. The member and his family' decide among themselves in advance whether they want earth burial or cremation, and a simple memorial or more-elaborate funeral. A Manual of Simple Burial has a complete directory of memorial societies in the U. S. and Canada, and their minimum costs (usually for cremation). Most of these societies are members of The Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Societies, with headquarters at 59 East Van Buren Street, Chicago, 111. 60605. The manual also lists co-operative burial associations which are. found mostly in the Midwest and North Central states—especially Iowa and Minnesota. Also provided are lists of eye and temporal bone banks, and of medical schools, complete with instructions for those who maywish to bequeath their remains to such institutions. One of the most useful siqgle suggestions offered in the manual is. how the cost of burial can be held down through a combination of memorial society and credit union membership. Many credit unions^ have an insurance arrangement under which deposits made before age. 55 are doubled in case of death. For any deposits made after age 55, the insurance pays proportionately less. Thus, a credit union member who wants to provide for his own burial expenses can deposit, say, $250. If he dies his family will then get $500 plus accumulated dividends. This would be enough to pay for the kind of simple funeral available through a memorial society. A Manual of Simple Burial is available for $1 from Celo Press', Burnsville, N. C. 28714, ^ f �January 17, 1969 Seafarer Thanks SlU Welfare Plan To the Editor: This is a note of congratula­ tions to the best Welfare Plan in our industry. I am now collecting a dis­ ability pension and have always been well treated by the Union in everything that I have ever asked. T,ately my wife had a serious attack of illness and, once again, the SIU Welfare Plan took care of everything, as al­ ways. Wishing you and all the offi­ cials and members of the Union the best of everything in the New Year. Steven Boides Book No. 783 Widow Thanks Delta Crew for Courtesy To the Editon I would like to thank all the members of the New Orleans SIU for being so nice to me and my children' during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. They have all been extreme­ ly kind after the death of my late husband. Sincerely, Mrs. Ida May Folse New Orleans Appointments Clue New Administration To the Editor: President-elect Nixon's "new look" may or may not extend to his Administration. Even now many are wondering what the "pitch" of the new deal, square deal, diamond deal—or whatever his regime will be known as—will be. However, people will be able to draw their own conclusions to a large de­ gree from his appointments. So far, Nixon's appointees do not seem to be "great movers." Certainly, if they don't stamp the new government as being terribly slanted in favor of "business above everything" they also don't impress anybody as being in labor's corner, or in the comer of the little man. Take, for example, the nam­ ing of George P. Shultz as Sec­ retary of Labor. Shultz seems like a nice enoueh person. He has a fine academic background and is very knowledgeable in the field of industrial-labor re­ lations. There is also the appointment of Alaska's Governor Walter J. Hinkel as Secretary of the In­ terior. Everything known thus far about this man's attitude toward conservation is negative. He has come out for exploita­ tion of Alaska's resources to the hilt—and damn what comes next. On the other hand, S'ewart L. Udall, the Democrat's man in that office, has consist­ ently pointed out how the na­ tion's natural resources are be­ ing misused and has attempted to do something about it. SEAFARERS LOG We must hope that Nixon's appointments to the lesser posi­ tions—such as his choice for the consumer advisory post now capably filled by Betty Furness —will be better ones. Sincerely, Dick Mohanis \3> Blood Donors Seen as Heroes To the Editor: My hat is off to those Sea­ farers who have contributed to the SIU Blood Bank. I don't mean only the gallon club do­ nors—these are a special case, deserving of all the recognition we can give them. But even the guy who has given only one pint—he's a hero, too, as far as I'm concerned. He may have saved somebody's life. Now, at a time when every­ body and his uncle has had bouts with the flu, we read that blood supplies are running very low. That's when able-bodied people can make their most valuable contribution. It is truly cratifying to read that SIU has been able to deliver 50 oints of blood to the New York City Board of Health. Just another example of how our unions can, and do. perform valuable serv­ ice to the communities in which we live. It makes me proud to be a member of the labor move­ ment. Many of my friends have given blood from time to time as I, myself, have also done. It takes very little time, doesn't hurt a bit, and leaves no after effects whatever. I urge everyone who can do so to make it his business to give just one pint of blood. It is quite likely to be the one that changes a dreadful emergency into a life-saver. Only those who have taken the few minutes required to donate just a little of their own blood can really know what a grand and glori­ ous feeling this is. Sincerely, Pete Sandakls Much to Be Done, By Labor in 1969 To the Editor: In spite of the accomplish­ ments of the past, 1969 will be a challenge to organized labor and its friends in Congress, es­ pecially with a Republican Ad­ ministration, which in the past has always meant less sympathy for labor's needs. The elimination of existing right-to-work laws, a fair con­ tract for the farm workers, ade­ quate unemployment insurance protection, workmen's compen­ sation, consumer safeguards, job-safety and the problems fac­ ing the cities are just a few of the goals the labor movement must continue to work for. Of course, the maritime in­ dustry must also continue its hard, uphill battle to achieve its goal of a strong, modern merchant marine capable of competing wi'h the rest of the world's expanding fleets. Sincerely, Philip Bryant Page Eleven Sport of Kings Had Many Knaves, Retired Seafarer Ray Flynn Recalls Seafarers who frequent the race track are familiar with such devices as photo finish cameras and automatic starting gates, but when Seafarer Ray Flynn was active in racing prior to his sailing career, such equipment was unheard of. In fact, the so-called Sport of Kings was then dominated by men who possessed less than Kingly honesty, Flynn recalled to a LOG reporter in the New Orleans hall. Brother Flynn remembers one horse named Black Dear, a twoyear-old with bright promise, back around 1923. He was a good mudder and had real ability so his owners decided to keep him "off the boards" for a year. The trainer was a man who had the reputation of being a shady char­ acter. He finally entered the horse in a race that turned out to be fixed. Flynn was instructed to "give him an easy ride." A horse called She Devil expected to win Veteran Seafarer Phil O'Connor points to himself in an old photo­ the race. In those days, bookmakers graph held by Tom Garrity, at the New Orleans hall, recently. hung around the track and so­ The pictures belong to Ray Flynn (center) who recalled career as licited bets. The jockey on She a jockey to LOG reporter. Flynn recently retired after 30 years Devil was a chap whom Flynn re­ in Union. Garrity and O'Connor are on SIU balloting committee. members as a "cocky kid." He five to seven times a day. "I never horses. Zouave. In spite of his reminded Flynn: "you know what did get that car either," he joked. early bouts with illness, Flynn was you have to do." The trainer, and Racing was not governed by "stronger than most of the other those in the know, bet on She jockeys and I was not permitted Devil, and the trainer promised any hard strict rules at the time to ride a race less than a mile in and jockeys frequently had to the young jockey a car for his distance." part in the deal. Flynn, however, keep moving or get thrown off the At that time, he said, there was track if they made enemies, as decided against throwing the race, no such thing as an automatic Flynn had done with the trainer. he said, and in the back stretch Flynn was able to do some free­ starting gate and horses were "I gave my horse the whip and lance riding in places like Ti­ walked up to the starting line. we pulled away." juana, Mexico. The track made it Frequently, one horse would be Threw A Fit possible for a bettor who picked slightly over the line while an­ I beat She Devil by a nose and five winners in a row to win as other would be further back as the the trainer threw a fit over at the much as $60,000 or $80,000, race began. judges stand, explained Flynn. In­ making it a favorite of gamblers. One particular horse Flynn re­ stead of congratulating his jockey, calls vividly was named Mock Flynn also put in a stint at the the trainer said he double-crossed Orange. "All you had to do with him. Because there was so much Black River Jockey Club in Mon­ this horse was hold his head up money bet on She Devil—and treal, where he became one of and click your tongue. Some Black Dear won—the 'rainer was the club's leading jockeys. He horses like this one would run accused of crossing the bookmak­ remembers one hot spell where he against the bit and you just held ers. In retribution, Flynn was "set had nine winners in seven days. his head up. If you loosened the down for incompetence" and un­ He rode primarily for a man bit and let the head drop, the able to compete on many tracks. named Ross and proudly recalls horse would stop," Flynn said. At the time, he had been racing that one of his competitors was the late Earl Sande—one of the Turned To Sea all-time great jockeys. Although at one time he "In those days, owners used to weighed only 84 pounds, he even­ enter two or three horses from tually began to put on weight and the same stable in the same race. turned to rubbing down horses, A handful of jockeys, like Sande and later left the sport on a fulland Clarence Cummer, had the time basis altogether. James Stroud pick of the better horses," Flynn "I started sailing in 1928, re­ recalled. Flynn had a brother, turned to the stables on occasion Please contact your mother, Mrs. Edna Stroud, Box 200, Joe, who also became a jockey as a groom, and then left for Chloride Star Street, Kingman, and rode frequently in Cuba and good," he said. "My first ship was Arizona 86401, as soon as pos­ California. the Leviathan, a vessel the U.S. sible. took from Germany after World Few Wealthy Jockeys When Brother Flynn was ac­ War I, and I worked as a waiter. R. L. Cooke tive, there were few rich jockeys Great Britain took her sister ship, A package is being held for in the class that Eddie Arcaro and the Majestic. The Leviathan was you from the Maritime Overseas Willie Shoemaker are in today. later sold for some $70,000 and Corporation. You can claim it at "You could count the rich ones turned into scrap." "At that time, there was no SIU Headquarters in New York. one one hand," he said. "Most of them wound up working in the Union hall, so the seamen went stables as grooms, or similar down to the dock and read a J. W. Buggs board that had a list of jobs," jobs." Please contact your wife at Flynn recalled. "Sometimes, it A native of New Jersey, Flynn 2900 General Patton, Lake always loved horses and as a boy, was possible to get a job only by Charles,* Louisiana, as soon as had to be taken out of school slipping the steward $5." Brother you possibly can. when he was around 12 years old Flynn had sailed with the SIU for because of scarlet fever. He was 30 years—mostly on Delta Ships advised to live on a farm for his since 1946—prior to going on Edward Achee pension recently. He joined the Please write to your mother, health, he said. His parents ran Union in New Orleans and still Mrs. Lydia Harvey, at Rt. 2, Box a rooming house and horsemen makes his home there. 84, Covington, La. 70433, in re­ frequently stayed there. One of The 62-year-old Seafarer has them, Mike Hackett, knew the gard to a very important matter. youth liked horses and got him fond memories of the Delta ves­ sels and has an interesting collec­ interested in riding. Stephen Begeria Flynn started his jockey career tion of old photos of the crew­ Please contact Joseph Lieber- around 1921, working for the men who sailed them out of New man. Counsellor at Law, 60 East stable of J. A. Widencr, a famous Orleans for so long. Some of 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. enoueh racing name. The trainer these are of a baseball team the 10017, as soon as you can. The was Tom Walsh. Flynn rode at Del Norte had in the late 1940's telephone number is (212) MO. Bowie, in Maryland, among other which played against local teams tracks, and recalls one of his first in Rio, Santos and Buenos Aires. 1-6145. i �Seafarer Miranda Relaxes Ashore By Stalking Legal Quota of Deer Man has long engaged in the sport of pitting his skill against that of the four-legged animal— looking for tracks, stalking, trying to figure out where the animal will be and when. Seafarer Carlos Miranda is typical of those who enjoy this challenge and spends much of his spare time deer hunt. ing in New York State when 'For instance," instance. Miranda ex- putting salt on the ground. Deer he's not sailing aboard SIU)lained, "you have to show the have sometimes been known to contracted vessels. nstructor that you know how to pick up the scent of soap and "I'm a member of a hunting hold the gun so the muzzle is toothpaste if the hunter washed or club called the Plaza Rod and turned away from other people. brushed his teeth recently." Gun Club here in You must know how to keep the "When shooting," he continued, New York City," gun in front of you if you are "make sure there is no one oppo­ Miranda told a crawling along the ground while site the animal because the bullet LOG reporter last stalking. If the hunter hears a could penetrate and strike another week while wait­ sudden noise behind him, he must hunter. If a wind is blowing, the ing to ship in the be careful not to turn suddenly hunter should walk into the wind New York hall. and perhaps fire without first so the deer will not pick up his The Seafarer re­ checking carefully to see if it is scent." Because a Seafarer is pro­ called that he had another man behind him. A trig­ hibited from carrying any firearms first become fond ger-happy hunter is ten times aboard ship. Brother Miranda has Miranda of hunting in his more dangerous than any animal not done any hunting overseas. native • Puerto Rico when, as a in the forest in the opinion of Miranda is also an ardent ama­ child of nine or ten, he would go most serious sportsmen." teur fisherman, however, and car­ hunting with his father. Miranda owns three guns—two ries a fishing pole with him when­ "We have mostly small game in shotguns and a 35 calibre rifle. ever he sails. "I've caught fish Puerto Rico, such as game birds," In the four years he's been hunt­ on several ships and once hooked Miranda said. "Puerto Rico lacks ing deer, he has always managed a shark while sailing on the West­ the wide variety of big game of­ to bag his quota. The biggest deer ern Hunter," he remembered. fered by the United States." Deer he ever got, he said, weighed 175 "But it was so big we couldn't get hunting in New York state com­ pounds. "Venison is good meat him aboard the vessel." prises the majority of Miranda's and I always share it with friends Brother Miranda worked in a hunting. Belonging to a gun club and relatives," he said. "Most factory before starting his sailing offers a man certain advantages people consider it a very welcome career. He had a friend who over hunting alone. The club can delicacy." sailed and he interested Miranda keen dogs, lease land, etc. In ad­ in the merchant marine. He got Silence a Must dition to the hunt itself, the club his seaman's papers and joined "When hunting one can use the affords the members an oppor­ tunity to attend meetings where he waiting or stalking method," Mi­ the SIU in New York in 1967. can learn the experiences of other randa explained. "You have to He likes the life and says it will hunters and pick up any new tech­ move or sit very quietly. You be his career from now on. A niques that might come along, etc. cannot smoke or the deer will see member of the deck department, it. If you break a twig, he will Miranda resides in Brooklyn. He Early Start hear. Experienced hunters will most recently shipped out on the The land on which Brother sometimes try to attract a deer by Madaket. Miranda hunts has a hotel for the visiting hunter on the premises. The cost is $10 a day. "I set up about 5:30 in the morning, have breakfast and go out for the deer," he said. "Hunt­ ers must begin stalking their game no later than 7 a. m. You've got Charles Michael Trosclair, born Cheryl Crenshaw, born August to start out that early in the morn­ October 20, 1968, to Seafarer and 30, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. ing, or the deer will already be Mrs. Joseph Trosclair, Westwego, Howard C. Crenshaw, Balboa, gone by the time you get out." La. Canal Zone. The bullets "really fly," Mi­ randa pointed out, "and all hunt­ Virginia Thomas, bom October ers are urged to constantly watch Mario Henry, born December 25, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. out for other hunters. In order 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ed Jamie G. Thomas, Warrington, to qualify for his license, the D. Henry, Seaside, California. Florida. would-be hunter must prove he is ^ well experienced in the handling <|> of a rifle—not just his ability to Sindy Davis, born October 17, shoot accurately, but also that he Carmen Delia Luna, born No­ 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James is capable of watching out for vember 3, 1968, to Seafarer and Davis, Jacksonville, Florida. other men and maintaining safety Mrs. Carlos M. Luna, Kenner, standards. Louisiana. Dawn Ann McMichael, born November 24, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy McMichael, Jr., Editor, Jersey City, N. J. <1> <I> <1> SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list, (fnnt information) Christopher Hill, born Decem­ ber 7, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Russell S. Hill, Jr., San Rafael, California. vtf NAME Juan Rivera, born November 25, 1968, Jo Seafarer and Mrs. Jose A. Rivera, Houston, Texas. STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old tubtcribar and have a change of address, please give your former address below: an Januarr 17, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twelve fTAlE ZIP. ^ Francis Anthony Keeley,"born December 31, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francis W. Keeley, Tujunga, California. ^ Debra Lynn Miehike, born July 5, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Raymond Miehike, Elberta, Mich­ igan. FINAL DEPARTURES Carl Feaiy, 53: Brother Feary died at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans, No­ vember 23, 1968. A native of Knowlesville, New York, he had made his home in New Orleans. Brother Feary joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans in 1960 and sailed as an AB. His last vessel was the North­ western Victory. Seafarer Feary is survived by his widow. Iris. Bur­ ial services were held at the Riverview Cemetery, St. Paul, Minne­ sota. Henry Willoughby, 59: Brother Willoughby died November 17, 1 968, at the USPHS Hospital in Baltimore. A native of Mary­ land, he had long made his home in Baltimore. He joined the SIU in 1943 in Balti­ more. Sailing in the engine department. Seafarer Willoughby held FOWT and elec­ trician's ratings. Brother Willoughby's last vessel was the York. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Grace Jones, of Baltimore. Services were held in Moreland Memorial Park, Baltimore. 4^ John Grimes, 51: Brother Grimes died on October 17, 1968, as a result of an accident while working on a tug boat on the Mis­ sissippi Sound, near Jackson. • Seafarer Grimes joined the SIU in 1938 in the Port of Mobile. He held an AB's rating and sailed as bosun and had previously worked on the Del Norte. Brother Grimes lived in Chickasaw, Alabama, and was born in Bigbee, Ala. The bur­ ial services were held in Spring Bank Cemetery, Washington County, Ala. Surviving is a sis­ ter, Hessie Grimes, of Theodore, Ala. John Malviclnl, 68: Brother Malvicini died in Newark, New , Jersey, June 4, 1968. At the time of his death, he was collecting his SIU pension. Brother Malvicini joined the Union in the Port of New York and held the rating of mate. He was last employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. A na­ tive of Newark, he had lived most .of his life in that city. Seafarer Malvicini served in the Navy from 1917 to 1918. He is survived by a friend, Eugene Hickey of New­ ark. The burial services were held in suburban New Jersey. 4f Mwco Calgaro, 56: Brother Calgaro passed away on July 16, 1 9 6 8, at the USPHS Hospital in Baltimore. A native of Colo­ rado, he had made his home . in San Francisco. Seafarer Calgaro had sailed with ' the Union since 1955 when he joined the SIU in the Port of Seattle. A member of the steward department, his last vessel was the Baylor Victory. Brother Calgaro is survived by a brother, Peter Calgaro, of Colma, California. The burial services were held in Holy Cross Ceme­ tery, Colma. •I ^— Edward Cromwell, 62: A heart attack claimed the life of Brother Cromwell at the USPHS Hospital in Boston, December 13, 1968. He was a native of Nova Scotia, Canada, but had made his home in East Lynn, Mas­ sachusetts, for many years. He held the rating of cook and baker and last shipped aboard the Cabins. Seafarer Cromwell joined the SIU in the Port of Boston and had sailed with the Union for 30 years. Surviving is his widow, Agnes. The burial services were held in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass. 4f ^1> John Farmer, 68: Brother Farmer died on November 10, 1968, at Placid Memorial Hospi­ tal, Lake Placid, N. Y. Death was caused by a car­ diac condition. A native of Jersey City, N. J., he made his home in that city. Sea­ farer Farmer joined the Union in the Port of New York and was employed by the Pennsylvania Central Railroad as a deckhand. He ser ed in the Army from 1917 to 1919 and from 1942 to 1943. Surviving is a sister,.Mrs. Sarah Mulderrie, of South Ozone Park, N. Y. The burial was in Jersey City. Albert Bailey, 54: A coronary attack claimed the life of Seafarer Bailey, December '2 0, 1 968, at Frankfort, Michi­ gan. He lived in Crystal Lake Township, Mich., and was a native of that state. Bailey sailed in the deck depart­ ment, most frequently as wheels­ man, and was last employed by the Ann Arbor Towing Company. He joined the Union in the Port of Frankfort and had sailed 15 years. He served in the Army during World War II. Seafarer Bailey is survived by his widow, Mildred. Burial was in Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Arcadia, Mich. , • • , �*• , January 17, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Thirteen «lohn «l. Boland- \ AU TIED UP JOHN *J' The steamer John J. Boland (BolandCornelius) Is tied-up at the lay-up dock in Nicholson's Shipyard, Detroit, Patrolmen went aboard the vessel to file vacation forms and handle minor beefs before crew departed. SIU Patrolmen George Telegadas and Dom Cubic {seated center) check vacation forms for Seafarers. Left to right: Findlay Lumpkins, Chester Cochran, Herman Baiisger. Seafarers were well-fed, thanks in part to these men, (l-r) Kenny Roberts, porter, Marty Salisbury, steward, and Paoil Werynski, second cook. All agreed they did excellent job. While fireman Mohammed Malahie looks on,- patrolmen Telegadas and Cubic check his overtime sheet. Born in Arabia, Brother Malahie has sailed with SIU since 1965. Ship's delegate Frank Scoiirkeas reported from the Missouri (Meadowbrook Transport) that the only complaint the crew has is the fact that water in the showers is too hot. According to Meeting Clerk John D. Pennell, there is one hour of disputed overtime in the deck department. Louis Pickhart, engine delegate, reports ^ 'A good clean pay-off coming gates elected were J. M. Alden, that one man was hospitalized in up," Meeting Chairman Jack Craft deck; John Murrey, engine; Art Trinidad. Paul Smith, meeting reported. There Nelson, steward. chairman, said that LOGs and were no beefs and mail is arriving regularly as the there is no dis­ vessel heads for puted overtime to a Houston pay­ be brought up, he off, after calling said. Ship's dele­ on Madras, India. gate John Carey Brother Pennell informed the accepted a vote LOG that the 4of thanks for his Craft watch entire department was thanked by for the extra-fine the steward department for the ex­ job they did on Seafarers aboard the Oberlin Pennell ceptionally-clean messhall and the Christmas Victory (MSTS) recently aided the meal, Smith informed. New pantry they leave in the morning. Coast Guard in removing the ves­ chairs are needed for the mess- The steward department in turn, sel's radio operator from the ship room and an order has been was praised by the Seafarers for by lift-basket, after he became the excellent meals and service. sick en route to placed for them. Meeting Secretary H. Ulrich wrote Honolulu, John that repair lists have been turned (Saki Jack) Dolin and many of the repairs have an, chief steward, Meeting Chairman Frank Go­ already been completed. All mail reported to the mez reports from the Transpan- and LOGS are arriving on time as LOG. ama (Hudson the ship heads for Beaumont, "It was about Waterways) that Texas. 10:40 a.m., Jan­ the job of clean­ uary 9," Saki ing the washroom writes, "when has been split be­ Welsh John Bullock was tween the engine placed in a lift-basket and a Coast Meeting Chairman Arthur Nel­ and deck depart­ ments. No beefs son reports from the Tucson 'Vic­ Guard helicopter hoisted him tory (Hudson) aboard. The chopper swooped or disputed over­ that the steward over the poopdeck while Chief time were report­ Gomez and his entire Mate W. Clark, second Mate Jim ed by department department were Morgan (a former Seafarer), W. delegates, John Routson, meeting commende d by C. .Scott, bosun and dayman L. C. secretary informed the LOG. A the whole crew Suchacki placed Bullock safely in point was raised by the baker to for a job well the lift." the effect that it should be veri­ done on the fied whether or not he must "com­ Bullock fell ill on January 7. Thanksgiving din­ ply with the ship's menu in re­ ner. Ship's dele­ while the ship was in transit to Nelson gard to the preparation of coflFee gate Bob Davis Quinhon, South Vietnam, Dolan time food." A motion was made offered his congratulations to reported. "He became worse and duly recorded that the stew­ steward Kil Alvaro for his hard hourly and could not eat and be­ ard department should be given a work in seeing to it that the Sea­ gan hemorrhaging badly. Captain vote of thanks for the excellent farers had a meal "fit for a king." John O. Hooper immediately de­ menu. Gomez was elected ship Meeting Secretary Stevt Maersch cided to put into Honolulu for and engine delegate, Routson, said that department delegates medical help." steward delegate, Carl Lineberry, have no beefs to report as the While Bullock was incapaci­ delegate from the deck depart­ vessel heads for the West Coast tated, Seafarer Dan Welsh, an AB ment. after calling at Subic Bay. Dele- who is a former Air Force radio operator, stood watch at the Ober­ lin Victory's radio continuously. Greetings From The Hastings AB Frank Liotta, who formerly worked as a laboratory technician, extended invaluable emergency aid to Bullock. Brother Dolan prepared some food for the strick­ en radio operator, but he was barely able to eat anything. The ship will remain in Hono­ lulu until another radio officer can be brought aboard. Due to the ammunition cargo, the Seafarers did not expect the vessel to be allowed "anywhere near land." The vessel left Long Beach, Cali­ fornia, on January 3. The Calmar Lines ship has been running smoothly except for the illness to Bullock. OberHn Victory's Seafarers Rally For Ailing Sparks <t> WRITE in-. It was a busy day for the patrolmen as Seafarers discussed' trip. From left: C. Skowronek, asst. conveyorman, Cort-p^^ Wd .Hprbottonv;Lester Greenfeldt, bosuri.J| When the Hastings came into Yokohama recently, some of the Sea­ farers posed for a photographer on deck. From left are: Ken Bischof, AB; Robert E. Lee, OS; Joe Kearnes, third cook; A. Fulton, AB; John Deitsch, messman and Sasiano Jose, chief cook. The ship is in the Waterman fleet and the Seafarers reported a good trip. �January 17, 1969^ SEAFARER'S LOG Page Fourteen PENN SAILOR (Penn Shipping), De­ cember 1 — Chairman, Rafael Padilla; Secretary, L. A. Behm. Ship's delegate reported that everything seems to be ninning fairly good, except for some OT beefs in the engine department. OVERSEAS EVELYN (Maritime Over­ seas), December 14 — Chairman, C. R. Stack; Secretary, C. R. Stack. Every thing is running smoothly except for some disputed OT in the engine depart­ ment. CHATHAM (Waterman), December 8 —Chairman, N. Larson; Secretary, Peter D. Sheldrake. Some disputed OT in deck and steward departments. Few minor beefs regarding shortage of stores and money to be taken up with patrolman. OAKLAND (Sea-Land), December 3— Chairman, M. E. Sanchez; Secretary, R. O. Masters. Beef regarding insufficient lighting in bunks to be taken up with patrolman. Discussion held regarding limited variety of food. Discussion held regarding pension plan, and a raise in wages for Group 3 men. DEL MAR (Delta), December 8—Chair­ man, James L. Tucker; Secretary, Darrell G. Chafin. Brother Juan A. G. Cruz was elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Vote of thanks was extended to former ship's delegate. Brother James L. Tucker, for a job well done. No beefs were reported by department delegates. TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport Com­ mercial), December 31—Chairman, G. L. Kersey; Secretary, Charles W. Peien. Brother E. F. Garrett was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $11.10 in ship's fund and $326.30 in movie fund. A vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the excellent Thanksgiv­ ing Day Dinner. FREE AMERICA (A. L. Burbank), December 21—Chairman, None; Secre­ tary, W. Lovett. Brother James Jcdinson was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. No beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department delegates. HOTIPY DIRECTOKr UNION HALLS SlU A-Hantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Wafers Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiey Wllliami Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEAD9UARTERS iTS 4th Ave., Iklyn. (212) HY %UM ALPENA. Mich •ALTIMORE, Md 121$ E. iaitlmore St. (301) EA 7-4700 BOSTON, Mail $$3 Atlantic Avenue BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Waihlnqten St. SlU (71$) TL 3-7257 IBU (71$) TL 3-7257 73a Ewing Ave. SlU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5.fS?0 1420 W. 2Sth St. CHICACO, III CLEVELAND, Ohio DETROIT, Mich 312 W. 2nd St. FRANKFORT, Mich JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala NATIONAL DEFENDER (Western Tankers), December 30—Chairman, B. G. Nolan ; Secretary, B. G. Nolan. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Discussion held regarding safety pro­ cedures. Patrolman to be contacted re­ garding aft awning. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the excep­ tionally fine holiday meals. TRANSHUDSON (Hudson Waterways), December 24—Chairman, E. M. Ellis; Secretary, James R. Abrams. Some dis­ puted OT in steward department. Dis­ cussion held regarding various items that were requested but have not yet been put aboard. Slop chest is inade­ quately supplied. TUCSON VICTORY (Hudson Water­ ways), December 18—Chairman, Arthur Nelson; Secretary, Stephen Maersch. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Discussion held regarding the progress of the pension plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward department for a job well done on the Thanksgiving Day dinner. Brother Bob Davis, ship's delegate, salutes the steward. Brother Bill Alvaro, for his per­ formance in seeing to it that the men had a meal fit for a king. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), December 28—Chairman, C. J. Robuck; Secretary, None. Brother Albert R. Wills was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $12.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. MISSOURI (Meadowbrook Transporta­ tion), December 29—Chairman, Paul T.. Smith; Secretary, John Penwell. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. A vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the extras put out during the Christmas season and for the excellent Christmas dinner. (21$) MA 1-5450 ID225 W. Jefferson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. Bex 287 415 Mein St. ($1$) EL 7-2441 JACKSONVILLE. Fla COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), December 29—Chairman, J. Craft; Secretary, H. Ulrich. Everything is running fine with no disputed OT and no beefs. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the ex­ cellent meals and service during entire voyage. Discussion was held regarding the quality of stores. . ($17) Rl 2-0140 DULUTH, Minn HOUSTON, Tex SEATRAIN OHIO (Hudson Water­ ways), December 22—Chairman, T. E. Yablonski; Secretary, Sidney A. Gamer. Brother T. ei. Yablonski was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to outgoing ship's delegate. 127 Elver St. (517) EL 4-3ili NEW ORLEANS. La NORFOLK, Ve 5804 Canel St. (713) WA 8-3207 2IM Poerl St. (704) EL 3-0787 77 Montqomer; St. (201) HE 5-7424 I South Lawrenca St. (205) HE 2-1754 $30 Jackson Ava. (504) 527-754$ 115 3rd St. (703) $22-1872 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2$04 S. 4th St. (215) DE $-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Freemont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEAHLE, Wesh 250E First Avenue (20$) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 80S Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 227-2788 WILMINGTON, Catif^ 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan. .Iseya BIdq., Room Ml 1-2 Kaiqan-Dori-Nakaku 2014771 Ext. 281 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Feb. 11—2:30 p.m. Mobile Feb. 12—2:30 p.m. Wilmington .. Feb. 17—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Feb. 19—2:00 p.m. Seattle Feb. 21—2:00 p.m. New York .. . Feb. 3—2:30 p.m. Phil-rdelphia. .Feb. 4—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. .Feb. 5—2:30 p.m. Detroit Feb. 14—2:30 p.m. Houston .... Feb. 10—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans.Feb. 11—7:00 p.m. Mobile Feb. 12—7:00 p.m. New York .. .Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Feb. 4—7:00 p.m. Baltimore . . . Feb. 5—7:00 p.m. ^Houston ... Feb. 10—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Alpena Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Buffalo Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Chicago .... Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Duluth Feb. 3—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort ...Feb. 3—^7:00p.m. Great Lakes Tog and Dredge Section Chicago Feb. 11—^7:30 p.m. tSault St Marie Feb. 13—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Feb. 12—7:30 p.m. Duluth Feh. 14—7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. .Feb. 14—7:30 p.m. Toledo Feb. 14—7:30 p.m. Detroit .... .Feb. 10—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . . Feb. 10—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans.Feb. 11—5:00 p.m. Mobile Feb. 12—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia..Feb. 4—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) ..Feb. 5—5:00p.m. Norfolk ... .Feb. 6—5:00 p.m. Houston Feb. 10—5:00 p.m. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stltzcl-Weller Distinerics "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Stiff," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Klngsport Press "World Book," "Chffdcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) vt' Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes ... Sentry, Cedar Chest, Staffer Men's Shoes . . . Jarmsn, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) ^ White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) ^ Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) i R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Itelem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. prodocis (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas 1$/ ^ Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond hlouse.s, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman (Aiiiulgamaieu Clothing Workers of America) vl> Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Feh. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Feb. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk Feb. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Feb. 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Brothers and Seweff Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. » Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart FINANCIAL REPORTS. The conBtitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AUantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All exi>enditurc3 and diBburscments of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union 'and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on ^e proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any tinse, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to profit your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membenship action at the September, 1960, meetings in all ronstitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists^of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, fYom among Hs ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. Starllte luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) 4/ Glumarra Grapes (United Farm Workers) —— Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers ^ International Union) ^J> Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Morn Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) <1> Atlantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Cluett Peabody (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies arc to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member' or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafaren are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These e ights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and tn the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achisve thme objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitntional rigbt of accoss to Union records or in­ formation, he shonld immsdiately notify SIU Presidsat PanI Hall nt hcadqaartcrs by esrtiflcd mail, retnm receipt requested. �SEAFARERS LOG HE WAS THE GRANDEST of a dying breed. She Inspired a poet, and threatened a city with destruction. She was the largest clipper ship ever built: the incomparable Great Republic. Her iron-hooped hard pine mast—44 inches in di­ ameter at its base—towered 20 stories above the threeinch planking of her main deck. Fifty-six tons of copper bolts held her 325-foot hull to its white oak frame, cross-braced with iron. Rigged with rope stays over a foot in circumference, she carried 15,653 square yards of sail at full spread. The Great Republic was twice the size of any other clipper then in existence. "She's unseaworthy," the doubters had said. "Too big to handle. A storm will break her up. Her rigging won't hold under gale winds." But Donald McKay, the great shipwright whose dream she was, laid the keel in his East Boston shipyard and financed the vessel himself. McKay's grandiose project partially inspired Henrv Wadsworth Longfellow's poem_, The Building of the Ship, which ends with the lines: S "Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!" At noon on October 4, 1853, the Great Republic— christened in the spirit of Longfellow's poem—^was launched in Boston harbor to the strains of Hail Co­ lumbia! Donald McKay's brother, Lauchlan, was her captain. A shakedown cruise from Boston to New York proved the vessel's merits. The captain and his 130man crew found her easy to handle. On her arrival in New York thousands lined the East River to wel­ come her, and thousands more later came to admire the world's largest merchant vessel which was moored at the foot of Dover Street. Corn, wheat, flour, - tobacco, tea and cotton were stowed in the ship's vast holds which had a capacity of 6,000 tons. Donald McKay expected his clipper ship to set new records on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic to Liverpool—both for speed and amount of carpo carried. December 27 was set as the date of her departure. However, shortly after midnight on the bitter cold morning of the 27th, a chain of events began which was to shatter McKay's dream and endanger the city of New York. The night watch aboard the Republic, hearing shouts of "Fire!" close at hand, ran out on the bowsprit and saw smoke rising from a building— the Novelty Bakery—a block away on Front Street. •Soon flames were breaking through the roof. Facilities Primitive The fire tocsin in City Hall pealed the alarm. But fire-fighting a century ago was primitive. The city had only 50-odd pumping machines. Men, not horses, drew them to the fire, and men, not steam, worked the pumps. Worse yet, the firemen were volunteers— not regulars on duty around the clock—and much precious time was lost before they arrived. The bakery fire rapidly spread to neighboring build­ ings. Soon a dozen structures between Front and Water Streets were in flames. Borne on a brisk north­ west wind, sparks and firebrands began to drift toward the docks. The library of marine archives kept by the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company includes newspaper ac­ counts of the holocaust. "Sparks were so thick ... as to assume the appearance of a shower of fire," wrote one reporter. "The streets and docks along the East River were literally alive with burning coals." Alerted by the watch. Captain McKay called all hands to stations and sent men aloft with water buckets to protect the ship's rigging and sails. Also moored at dockside—^just south of the Great Republic—were the Liverpool packet Joseph Walker, the California clipper White Squall, and two other vessels. "The riggings and masts . . . were completely enveloped in flying sparks," the newspaper accounts continue. Three ships were towed into mid-river despite the flames in their rigging, by Fulton Street ferry boats. One ferry, and a tug tried to move the Great Republic but her cargo was so heavy that she could only be moved at high .lide. Her moorings cut, the White Squall, driven by the implacable northwest wind to­ ward the Brooklyn shore, threatened to spread the flames to still another section of the city. Toward 1:30 P.M. the Joseph Walker caught fire, and soon burned down to the water line. Shortly afterward the main top-gallant of the Great Republic began to smolder and then burst into flame. The fire chief, Alfred Carson, had three engine companies at dockside but they were helpless: no hand pump could send a stream of water high enough to reach the Great Republic's masts. Pieces of flaming rigging began to fall to the deck, setting new fires. The McKay brothers offered $1,000 to anyone who would cut the fore and mainmasts above the masthead, but no man could be found who would accept the risk. The McKays agreed that by cutting the rigging to bring down the masts—fire damage had already snapped the foremast—hull and cargo might be saved. The spanker, mizzen, and the mainmasts had also been demolished. At last the firemen—eight or nine companies by this Time—could bring their hoses to bear on the burning tangle of wood, rope, and sail on the badly damaged deck.. A driving snow fell intermittently. To quote again from accounts of the disaster: "The streets in the vicinity were crowded with spectators . . . and the night so cold that the water froze as it fell even on the side of the burning vessel. So violent was the wind that it threatened destruction to some of the buildings along the docks." Meanwhile, the drifting course of the White Squall toward Brooklyn was causing great concern, especially in the Third District, where the engine companies were busy with fires of another origin. Toward 3:30 A.M. she came broadside into a wooden pier near the latterday site of the now defunct Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she was made fast to avoid spreading the fire further. Every available firefighter worked to extin­ guish the flames but by 9 o'clock that morning nothing remained of the clipper "except her shaking and creak­ ing hull, which was being . . . levelled to the water's edge." Danger Seemed Past About 4:00 P.M., the worst seemed over for the Great Republic. Despite extensive damage to deck, masts, and rigging, the hull and cargo appeared safe. Only two companies of firemen remained, washing down the deck while the crew raked the last live em­ bers overboard. Then, amidships, a telltale curl of brown smoke appeared. Fire down below! They knew that the giant mainmast had pierced the main deck's planking when it snapped. But they had not known that the butt of the splintered mast had Pace Fifteen gone through two decks below and buried itself deep in the stocks of wheat—more than 23,000 bushels of it— in the hold. They also had not known that with the butt of the mast had gone live coals. The firemen did what could be done with their handdriven pumps. They took their hoses between decks, and summoned more engine companies, but the con­ centration of heat in the hold was too great for them. There was no way in which the cargo could be saved. Lauchlan McKay, realizing the bitter truth, felt that the mighty hull of the Great Republic might still be saved if the ship were scuttled. The fire below could possibly be drowned in the water of the East River. His brother Donald agreed. Last Ditch Attempt Three holes were then opened below the waterline. All hands went ashore. As the sun rose, the Great Republic began to settle. The fire in the cargo com­ partments hissed and went out. But even with her keel on the bottom, two of the great ship's upper decks remained above water. It took another two days to extinguish the fire which continued to smolder in the vessel's timbers. The ordeal of the Great Republic was not yet over, however. Although the fire itself did end on New Year's Day, 1854, when Donald and Lauchlan McKay undertook to raise her scuttled hull they found it warped and twisted from the swelling of the watersoaked grain in the hold. Still salvageable to the McKay brothers it was no longer their Great Republic —no longer the dream on which Donald McKay had spent a fortune to turn into reality. The battered hull of the vessel was finally sold. Raised and rebuilt—minus her top deck—she was rerigged with shorter masts. By virtue of the size of her giant hull, the reconstructed ship was still the biggest in the world. When she eventually sailed to England, she had to anchor in the Thames—no dock was big enough to accommodate her. Visitors were heard to ask her captain "whether he had left any lumber for shipbuilding in the United States, or brought it all with him." The French later chartered her as a troop ship dur­ ing the Crimean War, and the Great Republic also lived up to her name—and Longfellow's poem—by carrying Union troops in the American Civil War. Finally, off Bermuda in 1872, she began to ship water during a violent hurricane and her crew were forced to abandon ship. The Great Republic was never seen again, but a few old sailors like to believe she's still afloat—somewhere. �SEAFARERSWLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO One final opportunity remains for Sea­ to qualify for one of the five annual college scholarships being award­ Applicants should also obtain their SlU College Scholarship applica-. tion forms without delay. They must be received on or before April 1, 1969. To obtain these forms, write to: SlU Scholarships, 675 Fourth' Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232. They ore also available at any SlU ^ ed by the SiU for 1969, Hall. farers or sons and daughters of Seofcters, who hove not yet done so, Eligible for these scholarships are all Seafarers who hove com­ pleted at least three years accumulated seatime on SlU-controcted ves­ sels and the children of Seafarers who meet the seatime require­ ments. To compete, on eligible candidate must take the College Entrance Examination Board test on March 1, 1969, if they have not already taken the tests previously. This is the lost dote the CEEB test will be given for this year so don't delay. Seafarers, or the children of Seafarers who meet the eligibility re­ quirements and wish to apply siiould arrange promptly to take this final test by writing to: College Entrance Examination Board at Box 592, Princeton, N. J., or at Box 1025, Berkeley, California. I ^ Scholarship winners will be chosen by a distinguished panel of lead-^ ing university educators and administrators on the basis of their high, school records and their scores on the CEEB test. Five scholarships are awarded each year. Thb winners may pursue whatever courses they wish at any ac-^ credited college or university in the United States or its possessions. The study grants under the program are wo/th $6,000 each over a four-, year period. Winning candidates for 1969 will be selected by the Seafarers > Scholarship Award Committee on May 12, 1969. The SlU Scholarship program is considered one of the most liberal ^ of its kind in the country. Since the beginning of the grants in 1952, it has been the open door to a college education for 25 Seafarers and 53 children of Seafarers—a total of 78. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. 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Title A name given to the resource January 17, 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: INCOMING ADMINISTRATION WILL SUBMIT MARITIME PROGRAM BY EARLY SPRING RENEWED CONGRESSIONAL DRIVE BEGINS TO ESTABLISH INDEPENDENT MARAD DEMOCRATIC PARTY MUST BE REBUILT INTO VIGOROUS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION LABOR GIVES AID TO GHETTO RENEWAL; PROVIDES FINANCING AND EMPLOYMENT MEANY OUTLINES LABOR’S OBJECTIVES FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS, WORLD PEACE AFL-CIO SEEKING EFFECTIVE CONTROL OVER OLLEGAL MEDICAID PROFITEERING AFL-CIO’S HUMAN RESOURCES PLAN GETS UNDERWAY IN NINE MAJOR CITIES ROY FLEISCHER DIES AT 66; VERSE APPEARED IN LOG YULETIDE WITH THE SIU Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/17/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 2 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/dc8a7103c130a9f04883d0b7f49ca0ff.PDF 224d48f5964dcd25766def0cd74edff1 PDF Text Text SEAFARERSUOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO •'> I f •• . i I '* J \ -i 'I W *• ir%- L V ( Maritmie Contmues Neglected In Departing Budget MesKigi Pagf 13 IN THIS ISSUE: SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District Election-^ BALLOTING PROCEDURES AND UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE REPORT See Centerfold Supp/ement �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG Maritime Bills Submitted in House Ask $15 Biiiion to Upgrade Fleet Jtmnaxj 31, 1969 | ^ 1, Senate Passes Up Chance To Mociify Filibuster Rule WASHINGTON—A five-year maritime program which would provide a total of $1,5 billion for revitalization of the U.S.-flag merchant marine was laid out in proposed legislation introduced in the WASHINGTON—The Senate passed up a clearcut opportunity House recently by Representatives Dominick V. Daniels (D-N.J.) and Jerome R, Waldie (D-Calif.). this month to change its rules and make it easier to break filibus­ The identical bills (H.R. 765 period is greater. They would also ceed 20 years—^with citizens of ters—the device the conservative coalition has used to block vital and H.R. 2729) call for appro­ be eligible for operating-differen­ the U.S. for the construction or . legislation. It refused to back up former fused to back up the Vice Presi­ priations of $300 million in tial subsidy in addition to con­ acquisition of new merchant or dent's interpretation of its rights. each fiscal year from 1969 through struction subsidy. fishing vessels or the substantial Vice President Humphrey, then The ruling was overturned on a 1973 for construction subsidies, still the Senate's presiding officer, Five-year experimental con­ reconstruction of existing mer­ when he issued a ruling that it 53-45 vote. aid in building nuclear-powered chant or fishing vessels. As a result, 34 senators will merchant ships and expansion of tracts for the payment of operat­ Such vessels would have to be took only a majority vote—not still be able at any time to prevent ing subsidies for vessels in the the unsubsidized fieet. A Com­ the two-thirds required under the the Senate from voting on legis­ mission on American Shipbuilding foreign commerce of the U.S., and built or reconstructed in a U.S. Senate's Rule 22—to limit debate lation they oppose. would also be established under for dry bulk vessels built after shipyard and be of a type, size on a motion to change the Sen­ Supported by Labor the enactment of the proposed and speed determined to be suit­ ate's rules at the start of a new the plan. able for use on the high seas or Congress. legislation for operation as con­ The AFL-CIO strongly sup­ Construction-differential subsi­ Great Lakes. Any new vessels tract carriers in such foreign com­ ported this year's rules reform A 51-47 majority of the Senate dies would be provided for build­ constructed under subsidy must drive, as it had the similiar efforts had voted to limit debate on the ing, reconstruction and recondi­ merce, would'be available to qual­ remain documented under the laws made in past Congresses. rules change motion. ified operators. These subsidies tioning of ships operating in "for­ Andrew J. Biemiller, the fed­ Humphrey, following the pro­ eign or noncontiguous domestic would make up the difference in of the U.S. for 25 years from de­ commerce" and would be avail­ cost between operation under the livery and reconstructed vessels cedure he had announced in ad­ eration's legislative director, urged able to privately owned shipyards U.S. flag and operation under a would be required to remain doc­ vance, mled that the cloture mo­ all senators to support the rules or shipowners who are U.S. citi­ foreign flag "whose ships are sub­ umented under U.S. laws for the tion had carried, even though it change effort. "It is our firm belief that the lacked a two-thirds vote. zens. stantial competitors of the U.S." duration of their economic life. people of these United States ex­ If his ruling had been accepted, In order to fulfill his obligations Such subsidies would be in "fair for the first years of operation. In pect their senators to decide the each senator would have been able and reasonable" amounts neces­ subsequent years, incentives would under the contract, each contrac­ major issues of our time," Bie­ to talk for one more hour. And sary to make up the difference be applied to reduce subsidy costs, tor would maintain a capital re­ miller said. "They expect that the then the rules change proposal between construction costs in U.S. with the operator having the op­ serve fund, composed of proceeds majority will win and the minor­ would have been either passed or shipvards and costs in foreien tion of selling his ships to the gov­ from sales of vessels, insurance ity will lose." defeated. The proposal itself was shipbuilding centers. National de­ ernment. and indemnities, depreciation Humphrey braved the wrath of a compromise—to reduce the re­ fense features incorporated would charges, and interest. the Senate's Dixie contingent and quirement for closing debate from be covered in full. Shipbuilding Commission A fund of $25 million for re­ a two-thirds to a three-fifths ma­ of Republican Leader Everett McObsolete vessels would be re­ A Commission on American search and development would jority. Kinley Dirksen when he an­ placed as determined bv the Sec­ Shipbuilding, consisting of six also be appropriated for each of But Humphrey's ruling—based nounced that he would rule the retary of Commerce that it is "in members, would be established the five years of the program. Re­ on the constitutional rights of the cloture motion carried if it re­ the public interest" to do so. Such under the prepared program. Each construction of the reserve fieet Senate to act on its rules by ma­ ceived majority support. ships must be of at least 1,350 member would be appointed by would receive $30 million for the jority vote—^was appealed. Humphrey gave the Senate its gross tons and have been in the the President for a three-year first year only. A majority of the Senate re- chance. But it muffed it. possession of a U.S. citizen for term and at least one would be at least three years. from the U.S. shipbuilding indus­ Aid would also be furnished in try. The Commission's task would developing, constructing and op­ be "to conduct a study of the erating privately-owned nuclear- extent to which federal assistance powered merchant shins incorpo­ to the private shipbuilding indus­ rating new designs which '"may try in the U.S. is necessary; to lead to reduction of the cost of preserve the competitive position constructing and operating future of such industry, and to preserve WASHINGTON—^During his final week in office, President Lyndon B, Johnson paid a farewell nuclear-powered merchant ships" a national capability for the build­ and are approved by the Atomic ing and repair of U.S. merchant" visit to AFL-CIO headquarters to thank the nation's working people for their support of his Admin­ Energy Commission. Mortgages and naval ships. At the conclusion istration and to present them with "a symbol of what the last five years has been all about.' on such ships may be insured by of its three-year term the Com­ That symbol was a glass-en­ «>Johnson's legislative program The President turned the case the Commerce Secretary. mission would report to the Presi­ closed case containing 100 pens over to AFL-CIO President and labor's legislative program, Subsidized nuclear-powered dent and Congress and then dis­ used in signing into law 100 George Meany at a ceremony in Meany noted, were "all but iden­ ships would have to be docu­ band. landmark legislative measures en­ the lobby of the federation build­ tical and, working in close har­ mented under the laws of the U.S. Further, the Secretary of Com­ acted during the Administration, ing across Lafayette Park from mony with him, goals became realities and dreams were for 25 years or for as long as merce would be given authority all of them with the active sup­ the White House. they are so propelled, whichever to negotiate contracts—not to ex­ port of organized labor. It was a frankly sentimental achieved." In presenting the case of pens occasion for both Johnson and Meany—and for the Executive at the headquarters ceremony, Council members, AFL-CIO staff Johnson reminisced over his per­ and guests who filled the lobby sonal meetings with Meany at the for a final, personal tribute to the White House and the scores of President before he closed out his telephone conservations they had engaged in. Administration. "During this period of five Meany accepted the case and the pens "on behalf of the AFL- years," the President recalled, CIO, its leadership, its millions of "our general goal has been the members, and on behalf of the greatest good for the greatest num­ many, many millions more who ber. We have tried to improve will be beneficiaries of the legis­ working conditions; we have tried lation which you signed into to improve wages; we have tried to see that profits were reason­ law " able. "One of Gieatesf "We passed minimum wage He predicted that "Lyndon bills and thinp of that nature that Johnson will go down in history directly applied to labor. But the as one of our greatest chief ex­ thing that we have borne down ecutives." on is the education of our young, Meany called Johnson a "friend medical assistance for our old, of all workers everywhere; a man conservation of our resources— who devoted his life without stint human and natural. to public service, attaining the Praises Labor highest office, yet holding com­ mon bond with those he served. "I know of no living single group that I think has been more He said Johnson had "fought responsible for the advances that unceasingly" to bring the poor have been made In this field in "more jobs, better wages, a better the last five years than the AFLlife," and he cited such accom­ CIO, headed by George Meany, President Johnson presents 100 pens which he used to sign 100 landmark legislative measures during his five plishments as aid to education. and supported by millions of men years in the White House to AFL-CIO President George Meany as farewell tribute to labor's co-operation Medicare, and stronger, expanded and women throughout this coun­ in helping achieve the progressive legislative program. "Promises made must be carried through." he said. minimum wages. try." Johnson's Farewell Tribute to Labor Cites Progressive Role of AFL-CIO �January 31, 1969 SEAFARERS Joining the Pension Roster ly Alex Anagnostou (left) is presented with first SlU pension check by welfare director Al Bernstein in New York hall. A native of Greece, Seafarer Anagnostou was last a crewmember aboard the Robin Hood. He is 60 years old and sailed as fireman-oiler. Since February 1966 SlU-MEBA, Dist. 2 School Has Upgraded Total of 725 LOG Page Three Maritime Remains National Stepchild In Outgoing Administration's Budget WASHINGTON—President Johnson's final budget message to Congress contains just $15,918,000 for the construction of new mercbant ships in the United States during fiscal 1970—an amount esti­ mated as sufficient to fund only from eight to 10 ships for the period and which is the smallest con­ struction budget proposed for ^ crease of close to $80 million cal year ends next June 30. federal aid to domestic ship re­ which is further magnified by the Allowing, as it does, for eight placement in many years. inflationary increase in costs which to 10 ships for the 14 subsidized In addition, the outgoing Chief has occurred over the past 12 lines during the coming fiscal year, Executive included a renewal of months. the budget will reflect the second his appeal—made several times For operating differential subsi­ of the two lowest consecutive con­ previously and firmly rejected by dies, the request is for $224 mil­ struction years since the replace­ the Congress—for the relocation lion. Although this appears to ment program went into effect in of the Maritime Administration represent an $18 million increase the mid-1950s. Only one ship from the Department of Com­ over the fiscal 1969 amount, it is was actually put under contract merce to the Department of Trans­ geared for inclusion of an increase in 1967; however that year was portation. Last year's Congres­ in payments for last year which sandwiched between a 17-ship sional mandate for the establish­ are scheduled to become due in year in 1966 and a 12-ship year ment of an independent MARAD, the new year. No expansion is in 1968. passed by both houses, is ignored provided for in this area. Since 1962, about 12 ships a in the message. Allowed for research and de­ year have been authorized, on Also, for the third successive velopment in the new budget are average. Inasmuch as the subsi­ year, a request was made for a $7.7 million, about $1 million dized fleet consists of about 300 ships, a 30-ship-a-year average is fleet of 15 "fast deployment lo­ more than in the current year. gistics" ships (FDLs). The FDL For ships in the reserve fleet an regarded — by maritime labor, proposal has consistently been appropriation of $5,174,000 is management and Congress alike— defeated by Congress and has been recommended. It is proposed that as the minimum number needed strenuously opposed by maritime about 600 ships in reserve be to revitalize the U.S.-flag fleet be­ labor and management. maintained on a "retention" basis fore it becomes too old for eco­ while the others will be scrapped nomic operation. To bring about Smallest in Years at a rate of approximately 100 any increase in the size of the The allocation for construction American merchant fleet, a larger per year. is the smallest in many years. It According to MARAD, 14 sub­ number of vessels built annually compares with 11 ships provided in U. S. yards would be necessary. for in the 1969 fiscal year. Sen­ sidized ship operators have re­ However, few ship construction ceived 141 replacement ships in ator Warren G. Magnuson, chair­ subsidies are presently available man of the Senate Commerce the last 15 years, at a total cost of are confined to only 14 favored more than $1.6 billion. Approxi­ Committee, has previously stated carriers while the unsubsidized that no less than 30 ships a year mately fialf of this total was for segment of the fleet struggles should be built in U.S. shipyards differential construction subsidies against economic oblivion. and that figure is regarded as "a which made it possible for the Despite its failure to allocate minimum necessity" by the in­ lines to build vessels in U.S. ship­ sufficient funds for the vital job yards at foreign yard prices. dustry. Under existing replacement pro­ at hand, the new budget message As in the past, no provision does state that "the 1970 program whatever is made in the budget grams, the subsidized lines have calls for an expansion of the pre­ for the long-neglected unsubsi- on order 36 ships costing $714 vious activity level to improve the dized fleet of tramp and bulk car­ million. competitive position of the U.S. Carry-over funds, held over by merchant marine and maritime riers which has been bearing a major portion of the nation's budgetary pressures since 1967 industries." This perfectly correct needed sealift needs to the Viet­ and again last year, amount to theory must now be translated nam theatre of operations with $101,600,000. This has already into law. been taken into consideration in no subsidy at all. Mentioned as included in such The Maritime Administration's the Department of Commerce a program are advanced shipping total budget request for fiscal 1970 budgetary plans. About $37 mil­ systems, technological develop­ was for only $279.8 million, com­ lion of the 1969 budgetary allow­ ment and technology support. pared with $355.7 million author­ ance has net yet been committed However, no new policy as ized in the previous year—a de­ for new construction, but the lis- such, is mentioned—although such a program was promised by the Johnson Administration four years ago. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—^The SIU and District 2, Marine Engi­ neers Beneficial Association this month announced that a total of 725 merchant seamen have obtained licenses as engineers and deck officers in the last three years ing as unlicensed seamen are re­ after completing training courses tained after they obtain their li­ at the jointly-operated Union censes and go to work as engi­ school here. neers and mates on District 2 and This is the lareest number of AMD vessels. Members of both new and upgraded licenses pro­ unions also receive pay, medical duced at any existing maritime care and other benefits while union training programs. they're attending the schools. In a joint statement, SIU Presi­ The SIU-District 2 MEBA-Mardent Paul Hall and Ravmond T. itime Upgrading Center is housed McKay, President of MEBA, Dis­ in a complex of buildings consist­ trict 2, said: ing of classrooms, laboratories, "The school is intended to sup­ machine and welding shops and plement the merchant marine dormitories. The staff includes a academies and to provide an easily director and seven full-time in­ expandable pool of skilled man­ structors. The entire program is power for merchant shipping. By financed by American-flag ship attempting to match the needed operators under their collective skills with the available job oppor­ bargaining agreements with the tunities, we're also providing a SIU and District 2. long-needed means of upward Courses leading to an engineer's movement for professional sea­ license take three to four months, men and licensed merchant ma­ and those for a deck officer's rine officers." license a little longer. The Schools of Marine Engi­ neering and Navigation that com­ prise the District 2 MEBA, STU A & G Maritime Upgrading Cen­ ter were established to help re­ lieve the shortage of licensed offi­ cers facing the U.S.-flag Merchant Marine as a result of the Vietnam war and the normal loss of man­ WASHINGTON—The United States and the Soviet Union signed a new two-year fisheries agree­ power arising from retirement, deaths and other causes. The Cen­ ment last month which restricts the amount of scup, fluke, red hake, whiting and yellowtail flounder ter hopes to reduce ship operat­ the Russian fishing vessels may take from the waters off the Middle-Atlantic states during 1967-70. ing costs by raising even further The new pact is really an ex- ^ mile area south of Long Island, der the terms of the agreement, to the level of maintenance skills. tension and modification of an the new pact forbids Soviet fishing transfer their catch from smaller Since February 1966, Hall and expired one-year agreement that McKay said, 307 Seafarers have was originally concluded in Mos­ in a 4,000-square mile elongated to larger vessels in one specific area, about 40 miles from the U.S. part of the 54-mile zone. qualified for original licenses as cow on November 25, 1967. coast extending from Rhode Is­ The Soviets have also agreed to marine engineers, and 329 mem­ SIUNA Vice-President Austin land to Virginia. ^ keep their total annual catch with­ bers of District 2 MEBA have No fishing, either American or in the 1967 figure of 47,086 metric raised their licenses after studying P. Skinner, newly re-electec '..ecreat the school. Another 35 men, tary-treasurcr of the New Bedford Russian, will be permitted in the tons. The agreement will be po­ chiefly recent veterans of the Navy Fishermen's Union, .served as a area during the spawning season, liced by the Coast Guard. and the Coast Guard, also have member of the U.S. State Depart­ which runs from January 1 to During January 1968, when the ment delegation that negotiated April 1. earned engineers' licenses there. old agreement was less than 10 the agreement. He labeled it "A This newly defined area," days old, Russian fishing vessels Deck officers' licenses also have definite improvement over the pre­ Skinner commented "is really were found within the restricted been awarded to 54 men since late vious agreement, especially for 1967, Hall and McKay said. These New Bedford fishermen, who rely where the fish are—putting re­ fishing area on three occasions. strictions on it has definite value These violations of the agree­ men include members of the SIU heavily on Atlantic yellowtail for American fishermen." ments were first observed by fish­ and of the Associated Maritime flounder." Once again, as in the 1967 Mid- ermen from the SIUNA-affiliated Officers, an affiliate of District 2 Oif-Limits Zone Redefined Atlantic agreement, the Russians Atlantic Fishermen's Union, and MEBA that represents licensed deck officers on ocean-going and Skinner also pointed out that will be allowed to fish up to only I epwrted to Congress and the pub­ Great Lakes ships. the new treaty which extends from six miles off the U.S. coast—this lic by SIUNA Vice President To encourage the upward move­ January 1, 1969 to December 31, time, in a 54-square mile area, James Ackert. Ackert's formal ment of Seafarers and officers, ar­ 1970, redefines the restricted fish­ south of Moriches, Long Island complaints as to time and location rangements have been worked out ing area contained in the old from January to April, when fish­ of the violations were upheld by under which pension credits earn­ agreement. Instead of banning ing in other areas is r^-stricted. the House Merchant Marine and ed by Seafarers while they're sail­ fishing in the same 5,000-square They will also be permitted, un­ Fisheries Committee. United States^ Soviets Sign Pact Restricting Mid-Atiantic Fish Catch Port of Baltimore Leads Nation In 1968 Cargo BALTIMORE—A gain in for­ eign commerce of 14.6 percent moved the Port of Baltimore ahead of all other North Atlantic ports for 1968 shipping, accord­ ing to figures released this month by the Maryland Port Authority. Statistical projections by the Port Authority indicate that the Port of Baltimore handled some two million more tons of importexport cargoes in 1968 than in 1967. This compared with a Port of New York gain of nine percent and an over-all national increase of 9.1 percent. The total was helped consider­ ably by a surge in cargo handled at the Port Authority's Dundalk Marine Terminal and the new container terminal built by the Canton Company and leased to the SIU-contracted Sea-Land Services, Inc. �Page Fonr SEAFARERS LOG January 31, 1969 Wirtz Calls for $2 Minimum Wage Appliance Makers Warned In Final Annual Report to Congress On Misleading Warranties WASHINGTON—Every worker in the United States should receive a minimum wage of $2 an hour "to maintain himself and his family decently," former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz told Con­ WASHINGTON—Appliance manufacturers and repairmen gress in his final report on the operations of the Fair Labor Standards Act this month. have been left with a warning by the outgoing Johnson Adminis­ Universal minimum wage cov­ in 1967 and 1968, employment those on farms, the $2 minimum tration that they must improve the quality of appliance service erage at $2 an hour would cut lias increased in the areas affected would be effective by 1975 with and warranties within a year or face regulation by federal legis­ in half the number of persons by extensions of the coverage. He intermediate steps taken during lation. living "in poverty," presently esti­ said also that increased minimum the intervening period. The warning was contained in the report of a presidential task mated at 22 to 26 million, Wirtz wage levels have not contributed Wirtz recommended also that force on appliance warranties and service released by Betty Fursaid. to the current inflationary spiral overtime payment after eight hours ness, who was special assistant to President Johnson, for con­ Noting that in contrast to the "to an extent which permits rea­ in a day and 40 hours in a week sumer affairs. number of persons at the poverty sonable questioning of their net apply to all industries and all Her office co-ordinated the work of the task force which in­ level, unemployment is only be­ value in strengthening both the workers. He urged also federal re­ cluded former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz and Commerce tween two and three millions, the position of low-paid workers in imbursement in situations where Secretary C. R. Smith, Chairman Paul Rand Dixon of the Federal secretary concluded that more particular and the economy in the payment of subsistence wages Trade Commission, and other top government executives. than half of those living in pov­ general." is impossible economically as in Miss Furness said the gist of the report and its recommenda­ erty do so not because the head On future extension to univer­ the case of employment of the tions is that manufacturers "get some of the garbage out of their of the family is unemployed but sal coverage, the secretary pro­ handicapped workers in a "shel­ warranties, and get more guarantee into them." because he doesn't get a decent liv­ posed $2 an hour effective in 1971 tered workshop." Dixon's recommendations in the report were that FTC "intens­ ing wage for the work he does. for all jobs covered by the wageHe called finally for subsequent ify its efforts" to halt deceptive advertising of appliance guaran­ AFL-CIO President George hour act prior to 1966, with an in­ adjustment of the $2 minimum to tees and consider issuing "guidelines" for warranties. Meany hailed Wirtz's report as termediate step of $1.80 an hour keep the minimum wage level in "correct and courageous," declar­ starting in 1970. He also proposed consumer education on warranties and guar­ proper relationship to changing ing that "it deserves prompt, favor­ anties, an end to "disclaimers" of warranties by manufacturers, For all other jobs, including prevailing wage levels. able consideration." "clear and simple" language in warranties and an end to manu­ Meany said Wirtz has "pin­ facturers trying to pass on to the consumer the cost of replacing pointed a major cause of poverty defective parts. in America and his prescription Smith recommended that the appliance industry provide the for its solution is just, sensible and consumer with point-of-sale product information to aid shopping achievable." for appliances and reduce misunderstanding of guarantees. He noted that the AFL-CIO Wirtz called for a continuing study of the appliance industry's already has announced its deter­ WASHINGTON—A co-ordinated program for feeding the poor manpower aspects by the government with a view toward im­ mination to fight in the 91st Con­ proving repair service and the training and qualifications of gress for a $2 minimum wage with is needed to wipe out the hunger and malnutrition that exists in repairmen. the nation, departing Secretary Wilbur J. Cohen of the Department universal coverage. The task force, created by President Johnson in his 1968 con­ of Health, Education and Wei- ^ to appropriate sufficient funds and Of Great Value sumer message to Congress pointed to numerous examples of fare told Congress this month. "The Wirtz report and recom­ He urged a wholesale reorga­ the reluctance of more conserva­ misleading, unclear warranties and guarantees, failure to live up mendations will be of great value nization of the "fragmented" pro­ tive counties to participate in fed­ to them and costly repairs of appliances. eral food programs. in that effort," Meany said. "The grams now in operation. The task force did not specify exactly what form legislation From a meager start eight years secretary's action is a fitting cli­ should take, if its warning isn't heeded, but suggested that the Cohen testified before the Sen­ ago, food aid programs have max to his term in office. He is a ate Select Committee on Nutrition measures might be patterned after several bills introduced in compassionate man, a true hu­ and Human Needs that hunger grown to a $1 billion-a-year opera­ the 90th Congress. manitarian and his recommenda­ cannot be eliminated simply by tion. About half the money goes Generally, they were shaped to crack down on 'deceptive tions are a demonstration of these "stuffing more food down people's to school lunch programs. The guarantees, give the consumer more remedies against them and other half is for the food stamp qualities." gullet." set compulsory standards for warranties and guarantees. program so poor families can Wirtz noted in the report that He further suggested that fed­ make purchases in grocery stores under the 1966 amendments to the eral food programs for the poor with the stamps. minimum wage law, taking effect be switched from the Agriculture Department to HEW because it could do a better job. HEW, he said, "unlike Agriculture, is not subject to interference or domina­ tion by the congressional commit­ tees or outside interests or agri­ cultural producers." Hunger and malnutrition will WASHINGTON—^The Supreme Court ended a 13-year legal battle this month by refusing to dis­ continue unless the federal govern­ turb a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Deering Milliken, Inc., closed its Darlington, S.C., ment takes over all welfare pro­ WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO grams and embarks on a broad co­ plant unlawfully to "chill" union organizing in the other 45 plants of the giant textile firm. President George Meany called The high court declined to ordinated program of health edu­ this month for cessation of all acts cation, food technology, and aid act on the corporation's petition Darlington employees, "one great sion by ruling that an employer of terrorism, and retaliatory meas­ in family planning for the poor, to review a 1968 finding by the step forward has been taken. One has the right to go out of business more loophole through which at any time for all or his ures they inspire, in a cable to the Cohen declared. 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap­ anti-union employers such as operations. The Supreme Court National Council of Lebanese His ideas for curbing the "frag­ peals at Richmond, Va., that the Deering Milliken can slip has been reversed the appeals judges and Trade Unions which had sought mentation" in the federal nutrition NLRB applied the law correctly. closed." sent the case back to the NLRB the Federation's support for field, Cohen said, would be left AFL-CIO President George The Deering Milliken case goes for further hearings. United Nations action against over for then secretary-designate Meany and President William back to the middle 1950s, when An employer has the "absolute Israel. Robert H. Finch "as something to Pollock of the Textile Workers TWUA sought to organize mill right" to terminate its entire busi­ The Lebanese cable read: achieve." Union of America both hailed the workers at Darlington and other ness at any time, the high court Cohen recommended creating end of the union's long fight for company plants in the Carolinas. reiterated, but a partial closing "Perfidious attack by Israel on Beirut International Airport con­ within HEW a human nutrition justice on behalf of 510 Darling­ was held to be unlawful "if moti­ Company Threats stitutes grave assault against UN administration which would do ton workers whose jobs were During the campaign, manage­ vated by a purpose to chill union­ charter and rights of man. Peace more than "focus on health, agri­ abolished by Deering Milliken ment told Darlington workers the ism" in other company plants. dangerously compromised. We ap­ cultural production, or even the after a majority voted in 1956 plant would be closed if they After further hearings the. for the union. peal for your fraternal support to noor." NLRB concluded that Darlington voted for the union. They did, "We need," he continued, "an alert public opinion and to have Pollock said that, while the end and company directors soon ap­ and Deering Milliken constituted government support the applica­ agencv that can bring to bear re­ of the Darlington case will "finally proved an order by Roger Milli­ a single employer and that closing tion of the Security Council reso­ sources in education, marketing bring these workers re-employment ken, the head of the chain, to the Darlington mill was "at least strategy economics, public welfare opportunities and backpay" of close the plant and sell the equip­ in part the product of a desire to lution for safeguarding peace." and related nrograms." several million dollars, "there is ment piecemeal. That prevented discourage unionism at other The AFL-CIO answer read: The nutrition administration no justification for any society to any purchaser from continuing Deering Milliken mills." "Re your cable, AFL-CIO would have the resnonsibility for allow justice to drag along for operations at Darlington, the un­ The board found that Darling­ deeply deplores all acts of terror­ food distribution nrowams and an nearly 13 years." ton was one of 17 corporations ion charged. ism and the retaliatory measures "innovative" food stamp orogram. Meany congratulated the union After long hearings the NLRB owned and controlled by the Milli­ which those acts inevitably incur. Earlier. Agriculture Secretary on behalf of the AFL-CIO for ruled that Darlington and Deer­ ken family. Again it ordered the Freedom and well-being for all Orviile L. Freeman told th" Sen­ its perseverance in continuing to ing Milliken were commonly con­ company to bargain with the un­ the peoples in the Middle East ate committee that it would cost fight for the rights of the stranded trolled. It ordered the corporation ion and reinstate the workers who urgently demand total cessation an aHditional $1 billion a year to workers "and for its continuing to pay lost wages and bargain with lost their jobs. That time the such hostile acts which destroy life clo.se the nutritional gap and end effort to win gains for workers" TWUA about re-employment of 4th Circuit voted to enforce the and property and gravely jeopard­ hunger. in other southern cotton mills. He the fired workers at other D-M board's order, but the corporation ize prospects for just and lasting Freeman listed two main obsta­ added: again refused to comply and filed mills. peace between Republic of Israel cles in the war on hunger and mal­ "Though it is doubtful that full The appeals court at Richmond, its review petition with the Su­ and its Arab neighbors." nutrition—the refusal of Congress justice will ever be done" for however, upset the NLRB deci­ preme Court. Cohen Urges All New Policy For Feeding Nation's Poor AFL-CIO Rejects Lebanese Labor's Anti-Israeli Plea Supreme Court Backs Textile Union To End 13-Year Darlington Battle �January 31, 1969 SEAFARERS Time to Ship Again Page Five LOG In Final State of Union Message; Johnson Resaps His Administration, Calls tor Continaed Soriai Advances WASHINGTON—Lyndon B. Jchnson went to Congress and the American people for the last time as President this month to deliver his farewell State of the Union message, summing up the accom­ plishments of his Administration and urging the nation to follow through on the commitments they represent. grams, including a 13-percent rise have already sought to deal with The President's nationally- in social security benefits, sharp them. One or more Presidents will televised address was given to increases in funds for the model try to resolve or contain them in a joint session of the Congress in cities program and for job train­ years to come." which he had spent so much of ing, appropriations to permit con­ He stressed that the departure David Gower throws in for a job with New York dispatcher Luige his public life. struction of 500,000 housing units of an administration "does not lovino. A native of Texas, Gower joined SlU in San Francisco. He TTie members of Congress wel­ for needy families in the next mean the end of the problems it comed him as one of their own fiscal year, and creation of an ur­ has faced. The effort to meet recently paid-off the Seatrain San Juan after Puerto Rican trip. with a standing ovation of more ban development bank to provide them must go on, year after year, than three minutes and repeated capital for community improve­ if the momentum we have mount­ Cite Costly Red Tape interruptions for applause. ed together in this decade is not ments. These proposals and others were to be lost." Mixed Emotions Johnson referred to the five The President's speech, deliv­ spelled out in detail in the Presi­ dent's budget for fiscal 1970, sent years of his Administration as a ered in subdued tones, was a mix­ to Congress the following day. The "watershed," which saw comple­ ture of pride in the major social budget, which his aides described tion of "a major part of the old advances achieved during his five years in office, regret over the fail- as "very tight," is aimed at meet­ agenda." He cited Medicare, the ure to win peace in Vietnam, and ing pressing domestic and foreign Voting Rights Act, Head Start and needs and calls for continuation of federal aid to education, conserva­ WASHINGTON—^Although the total number of new merchant open sentiment recalling the strug­ the 10 percent income tax sur­ tion measures, and job training for gles and associations of a lifetime vessels delivered from U. S. shipyards during 1968 was somewhat in the nation's seryice. charge. 5 million workers. higher than that of the previous year, American yards still utilized As he took leave of Congress, "Most important," he declared, "I hope it may be said, a hun­ Johnson called upon it to give "the country is close to full em­ only an average of about 60 per- ^ dred years from now," he told development of a more favorable cent of capacity, the Shipbuild­ shipbuilding environment through Congress, "that together we helped then President-Elect Nixon its ployment—not in theory, but in fact. Tonight the unemployment ers Council of America an­ a greater reliance on 'the proven to make our country more just for "understanding." rate is down to 3.3 percent. The Big Burden nounced this month. traditions of private enterprise,' all its people—as well as to insure "He is entitled to have it," the number of jobs has grown by Also at a high level, according and has pledged support of a pro­ the blessings of liberty for our President said. "The burdens he more than 8.5 million in the last to Edwin M. Hood, the council's gram to enable carriage of more posterity. "I believe it will be said that we will bear as our President will five years—more than in all the president, was "the mass of paper­ than 30 percent (compared with be borne for all of us. Each preceding 12 years." work, details, rigid specifications, present 5.6 percent) of U.S. for­ tried." of us should try not to increase More Funding Needed But Johnson's sixth State of the indecision, administrative duplica­ eign trade and commerce aboard them for the sake of narrow per­ These accomplishments, he tion, and needless red tape asso­ American-built, American-flag Union message, for all its valedic­ tory nature, looked ahead as well sonal or partisan advantage." noted, do not complete the cycle, ciated with shipbuilding contracts, shifw 'by the mid-1970's.' The President took note of his since "much of what we have com­ "It is unlikely, however, that the as backward. The President out­ both naval and merchant, under own trials during the past five impact of these efforts will be im­ lined a number of proposals to mitted needs additional funding to governmental auspices." mediately discernible." extend and expand domestic pro- years. become a tangible reality." Year-End Report "Every President lives," he said "Yet the very existence of those "not only with what is, but with commitments—those promises to Hood, in a year-end report, what has been, and what could be. the American people—is a kind said the level of activity in Ameri­ "Most of the great events of the of reality in itself. can yards reached a "post-war presidency are part of a larger se­ high" in 1968—placing the U.S. "Breaking those promises would quence extending back through on an equal footing with Japan a tragedy for our country." in terms of dollar volume. WASHINGTON—^The Soviet bloc is preparing to intensify its several decades and administra­ Reviewing the international sit­ tions. United States shipyards deliv­ invasion of the commercial sea lanes of the world. Professor J. D. uation, the President urged prompt "Urban unrest, poverty, pres­ ered 25 merchant ships in 1968, Atkinson of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, sures on welfare, education and ratification of the nuclear Nonwith a gross tonnage of 342,800, warned here last week. Proliferation Treaty and a search He emphasized that this was a law enforcement, the continuing for "areas of agreement with the the report stated. The comparable Speaking at a meeting spon­ crisis in the Middle East, the con­ figure in 1967 was 13 ships ag­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ "minimum program," adding that flict in Vietnam, the dangers of Soviet Union where the interests "in view of the growing magnitude gregating 163,000 gross tons. time Trades Department, Atkin­ of the Soviet effort it might be nuclear war, and the difficulties of both nations, and of world "While during the year most son said there was strong evidence necessary to review this number of dealing with Communist pow­ peace, are served." attention centered on shipbuilding that Moscow intends to follow up to project a total of 250 instead ers, all have at least this much in programs sponsored by the Fed­ on its recent rate-cutting on Aus­ of 200 U.S.-built merchant ships." common: They, or the causes that gave rise to them, have existed for eral government," Hood reported, tralian cargoes by moving boldly SEAFARERSI^LOG Atkinson also noted that, in many years. Several Presidents "an encouraging volume of new in»o the international freight mar­ addition to the "maritime gap" contracts of a strictly commercial ket. caused by the decline of U.S. ship­ Jan. 31, 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. nature developed, and is expected He cited a report in TASS, the ping capability and the rise of Official Publication of the to expand over the next several official Soviet news agency, which Russia's maritime fortunes, this Seafarers International Union years. These have mostly involved reported that on January 6, 1969, country is faced with a "maritime of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes tankers, and the discovery of oil Russian and East German officials psychological gap," which, he and Inland Waters District, on the north slope of Alaska will opened a round of meetings aimed said, is "closely associated with AFL-CIO no doubt accentuate the demand at coordinating their maritime pol­ the mvth of maritime cost-effec­ Executive Board PAUL HALL, President for these types of vessels, to op­ icy on international freight car­ tiveness." EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNER erate in U.S. domestic trades, well riage. Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President Should Relate to Need into the 1970's." SAN FRANCISCO—A govern­ Coupled with this, he said, was LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR He said that the U.S. maritime ment contractor who underpaid a January 9 announcement on Vice-President See.-Treas. Major Shift Needed Moscow Radio that "ten ships of posture "should, in fact, be re­ his employees $16,786 on $50,000 ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Hood noted that there has been the Soviet merchant marine had lated to national need, not to cost worth of janitor-service contracts some movement away from the arrived in Havana, Cuba, and that effectiveness alone." Director of Publications has been ruled ineligible for fur­ MIKE POLLACK "maze of cost additive, produc­ a record number of Russian ships Not only has the U.S.-flag fleet ther federal contracts for a threeEditor HARRY WITTSCHEN tion-delaying and time-consuming would be plying the sea route to been "steadily deteriorating," At­ year period. Assistant Editors stipulations." However, he indi­ Cuba this month." The Labor Dept. said John B. kinson continued, but "the British WILL KARP cated that a major governmental PETER WEISS In the face of the growing Rus­ merchant marine—upon which Marshall, doing business as the shift "in direction, attitudes and sian buildup at sea, the George­ many of our exporters and im­ Marshall Co. and as Mande Staff Photographer policies will be necessary if a ship­ town University professor de­ porters have placed reliance — Grounds, both of Oakland, Calif., ANTHONY ANSALDI building environment such as clared, there is a need to build be­ now appears to be headed towards drew the penalty for violating fed­ exists in other countries is to be tween 200 and 250 new American- a sharp decline." He added: eral minimum wage provisions in Pibllshid biweekly at 810 Rhode liland Aeenie N.E., Washington, D. C. 20018 by the Seafar­ restored here." flag vessels over the next four "Will the Soviet Union be so the McNamara-O'Hara Service ers intcrnatlonai Union, Atlantic. Gait, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 conscientious that in the future it Contracts Act. "With the start of 1969," the years. Foarth Arenac, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. HYaclnth 9-6600. Second class postage paid The department said the Mar­ SCA head declared, "there would "In order to close the maritime will refrain from taking advan­ at Washlngtons, D. C. shall Co. was awarded two con­ appear to be grounds for some gap," Atkinson said, "a minimum tage of a maritime fact of life? POSTMASTER'S ATTENTI08: Form JS19 cards shoald be sent to Seafarers International optimism relative to national poli­ program by the U.S. to restore If this should come to pass, would tracts on its bid of $30,585 at Union, Atlantic, Gait, Lakes and Inland George Air Force Base in VicWaters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Avenae, the American voter ask whether cies that concern shipbuilding and the merchant marine balance Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. shipyards. In place of the uncer­ should be the building of 50 ships the policy had been 'cost effec­ torville, Calif., and $20,200 at tainties of the past four years, the per year for the four-yeaf period tive'? Or would he ask why was Paine Field Air Force Base in Everett, Wash. not something done?" new Administration proposes the Fiscal 1970-Fiscal 1973." U.S. Shipbuilders Utilizing Only 60 Percent Capacity Professor of Foreign Affairs Warns: Red Bloc's Sea Lane f^sh Growing Wage Chiseling Costs Calif. Rrm Federal Contracts �•iits Page Six SEAFARERS A New Look? Like a runner in a relay race who has reached the end of his assigned distance, Presi­ dent Johnson, upon leaving office, transmitted to incoming President Nixon his farewell budget message which included his prescription for maritime in the coming year. Unfortunately, it was the same old bad med­ icine composed of previously discredited or congressionally defeated positions which should hax'e been abandoned long ago in favor of a realistic approach to the nation's maritime posture. It is ironic that a man who was responsible for more civil rights legislation than any other President, who launched great advances in the domestic area toward the elimination of pov­ erty, unemployment, inadequate housing and for vastly increased aid to education, should have had such an "awareness gap" about the vital impiortance of building a strong Americanflag merchant fleet. Beginning with a pitiful proposal of funds for the construction of ships—a sum which wouldn't begin to advance the martjme indus­ try from its present position of extreme dilapida­ tion and decay—the departing budget message again called for inclusion of the Maritime Ad­ ministration in the Department of Transporta­ tion, wherein the final blow to the ailing mer­ chant fleet might well be dealt. Johnson even included another FDL program—the "fast de­ ployment logistics" ships pipedream—which Congress has already rightfully slapped down on two separate occasions. President Richard M. Nixon will, hopefully, discard the outmoded prescription for maritime left to him and bend his efforts towards resur­ recting and rebuilding our merchant marine before it is too late. Fortunately, the statements he made as a candidate indicated recognition of the sad plight of the ailing merchant fleet and hopefully a White House-backed prescrip­ tion aimed at nursing it back to health will soon be in the offing. In the House of Representatives the legis­ lative wheels have already begun to grind out a program. H.R. 211 and H.R. 213, among other bills introduced by the chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), call for rescue measures, including the estab­ lishment of an independent Maritime Admin­ istration. Legislation proposed by Representa­ tives Dominick V. Daniels (D-N.J.) and Jerome R. Waldie (D-Calif.) would set up a five-year revitalization schedule with appropri­ ate funding. Interest in the Congress seems to be running as high as ever—and this is hopeful and en­ couraging. The new Administration must discard the maritime views of its predecessors which have led to its continued neglect of our merchant fleet. In the context of today's needs, com­ mercial transportation in American-flag bot­ toms must be given high priority. Any money spent on such a program will be regained with interest and provide a valuable contribution to the nation's economy. Our experience during the entire Vietnam conflict has proven that more goods can be moved more expeditiously and at lower cost by ship than by any other means. The over­ whelming bulk of our supply to that area has been borne by our merchant fleet, as Chief of Naval Operations Thomas H. Moorer and many other experts have repeatedly pointed out. The chief competitor to our nation, the U.S.S.R., has evidenced awareness of the im­ portance of a strong, modern merchant fleet— economically, politically and strategically—and has for years been implementing a comprehen­ sive maritime program which Moorer describes as "nothing short of miraculous." The time to close the "awareness gap" as regards the American merchant fleet has come. And it must be undertaken with vigor and dispatch, before our economic and military flanks are seriously threatened by the Soviet Union. January 31, 1969 LOG Senate Labor Committee Remains In Liberal Hands WASHINGTON—The Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee will remain firmly liberal in the 91st Congress. Its new chairman is Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (D-Tex.) whose voting record by AFL-CIO COPE standards was 100 percent "Right" on 12 key issues during the 90th Congress. Its six holdover Democratic members are all northern liberals with solid records in support of labor-backed legislation. The three new Democratic members, all newly-elected, are the same breed. They are Senators Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, Alan Cran­ ston of California, and Harold E. Hughes of Iowa. Continuing as senior Republican member of the committee is a GOP liberal, Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York, with a moderate—^Ver­ mont's Senator Winston L. Prouty—as the second ranking Republican. The GOP gained a committee member as the party distribution of the committee shifted from a 10-6 to a 10-7 Democratic majority. But changes in the Republican membership replaced conservatives with moderates. Senators Paul J. Fannin (R-Ariz.) and Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.) dropped off the committee to take other assignments this year. Fannin, an extreme conservative, was sponsor last year of a bill td bar the National Labor Relations Board from granting recognition to a union on the basis of a card check. Labor Court Sponsw Griffin, who in the House was co-author of the Landrum-Griffin Act, sponsored a bill to replace the NLRB with a so-called Labor Court. The new Republican members are freshmen Senators Richard S. Schwciker of Pennsylvania, Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma and William B. Saxbe of Ohio. Schweiker and Saxbe are considered in the moderate-to-liberal wing of the GOP. Bellmon, although regarded as more conservative, as governor of Oklahoma openly opposed efforts by the National Right to Work Committee to petition an open shop law to referendum after it had once been rejected by the voters. Yarborough, who chaired the subcommittee on Labor last year, will serve as chairman of the Health subcommittee. Senator Harrison A. Williams (N.J.) will become chairman of the Labor subcommittee; Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.) will serve as chairman of the subcommittee on Fmployment, Manpower and Pov­ erty. and Senator Claiborne Pell (R.I.) will head the Education subcom­ mittee. The Veterans' Affairs subcommittee goes to Senator Gaylord Nelson (Wis.) and the Railroad Retirement suhcommitlee to Senator Walter F. Mondale (Minn.). The committee's ranking Democrat, Sen­ ator Jennings Randolph (W. Va.) is chairman of the Senate Public Works Commillee and therefore passed up a siiheommittec chairman­ ship. In other major committee changes in the Senate. Richard B. Russell, conservative Democrat from Georgia, moved up to the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee, vacating the chairmanship of the Armed Services Committee to John Stennis of Mississippi. Gale W. McGee of Wyoming advanced to the chairmanship of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee and Joseph D. Tydincs of Maryland became chairman of the District of Columbia Committee. Senator Alan Bible of Nevada, who had been District Committee chairman, pave it un to head the Sma'l Business Committee. Service Employees in 2,000 New York office buildings will get wage increases of $25 a week over three years in a new con­ tract negotiated by SEIU Local 32B. The agreement climaxes more than three months of talks between the union and employers of 20,000 workers, local President Thomas Shortman said. It pro­ vides waee hikes totaling 62.5 cents an hour and higher wage differentials for handymen, start­ ers, porter foremen and others with special skills. Health and welfare improvements include a fanaily major medical program effective July 1 and an increase in the pres­ ent $2,000 life insurance coverage to $3,000 next Jan. 1. The Labor Department recently dismissed all challenges to the June 1968 election for officers of the Retail Clerks and in effect certi­ fied the results. RCIA President James T. Housewright said the dismissal of charges brought by defeated candidates "confirmed our judgment" that the balloting was legal and democratic. Win­ ning candidates in the June elec­ tion at more than 7,000 polling places were chosen by margins of more than 40,000 votes. President Emeritus James J. Doyle of the Coopers died in Roslindale, Mass., recently at 84. He devoted his working life to the union movement and his 50-year record as head of the Coopers "stands as a monument to his memory," AFL-CIO President George Meany said in a message of sympathy to his wife Ann and their four dauehters. Doyle was president until 1965, when he re­ tired to "rest and travel." He joined the Coopers in 1901. Three more groups of classroom instructors joined the American Federation of Teachers to put the 1968 total of new members over the 18,000 mark—in Wake Island, West Haven, Conn., and Wilming­ ton, Del. • 1" An in-depth historical study of the founding and growth of the Communications Workers has been launched by the University of Iowa Center for Labor and Management. The wide-ranging project will cover the period from the early days of modern telephone unionism through the present, said Glenn W. Watts, CWA executive vice president. �BALLOTING PROCEDURES AND UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE REPORT SlU ATLANTIC GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT ELECTIOM 1969-1972 17 CltSlfJlBto 17 �sn Page Two SEAFARERS LOG In keeping with the Constitution of the Seafarers International Union of North Anierica'Atlanticf Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and with its election procedures, this supplement contains a complete re­ port on the election of officers for 1969-72, from the opening of nomi­ nation's to the final presentation of the Union's Tallying Committee Report Januarr 31, 1969 �January 31, 1969 SEAFARERS Supplement—^Page Three LOG SlU Constitution Ruies on Eiections EDITOR'S NOTE: The SIV Constitution Rules on Elections was run on pages 6 and 7 of the October 25, 1968 Seafarers LOG Election Sup­ plement. .... Article Xii Qualificaticns for Officers, Headqunrters Representatives, Port Agents, Patrolmen and Other Elective Jobs Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a can­ didate for, and hold, any office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman provided-: (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime in an un­ licensed capacity aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direction, shall count the same as sea time. Union records. Welfare Plan records and/or company records can be used to determine eligibility; and (b) He has been a full book member in continuous good standing in the Union for at least three (3) years immediately prior to his nomination; and (c) He has at least four (4) months of sea time, in an un­ licensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant -vessel or vessels, covered by contract with this Union, or four (4) months of employment with, or in any office or job of, the Union, its sub-sidiaries and its aifiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direction, or a combination of these, between January 1st and the time of nomination in the election year; and (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and (e) He is not disqualified by law. (f) He has at least one (1) year of seatime aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels in a rated unlicensed capacity other than an entry rating. Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall be full book members of the Union. Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices and jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this Constitution, shall maintain full book membership in good standing. Article Xlil Elections for Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section 1. Nomination!. Except' as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full book member may submit his name for nomination for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in per­ son, to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer at headquarters, or sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the address of headquarters. This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: (a) The name of the candidate. (b) His home address and mailing address. (c) His book number. (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a candidate, including the name of the Port in the event the position sought is that of Agent or Patrolman. (e) Proof of citizenship. <f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for candidates. (g) In the event the member is on a ship he shall notify the Credentials Committee what ship he is on. Uiis shall be done also if he ships subsequent to forwarding his credentials. grievous bodily injury, or violation of Title 11 or 111 of the Landrum-Grfffin Act, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes." Dated Signature of member Book No. Printed forms of the certificate shall be made available to nominees. Where a nominee cannot truthfully execute such a certificate, but is, in fact, legally eligible for an office or job by reason of the restoration of civil rights originally revoked by such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of Parole of the United States Department of Justice, he shall, in lieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed state­ ment of the facts of his case together with true copies of the documents supporting his statement. All documents required herein must reach headquarters no earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the election year. The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Com­ mittee upon the latter's request. Section 2. Credentials Committee. (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regu­ lar meeting in August of the election year, at the port where headquarters is located. It shall consist of six full book mem­ bers in attendance at the meeting, with two members to be elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards Depart­ ments. No Officer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or candidate for office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable to serve, the committee shall suspend until the President or Excutive Vice President, or the Secretary-Treasurer, in that order, calls a special meeting at the port whwe Headquarters is lo­ cated in order to elect a replacement, the Committe's results shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a majority vote of the membership at a special meeting called for that purpose at that Port. (b) After, its election, the Committee shall immediately go into session. It shall determine whether the person has sub­ mitted his application correctly and possesses the necessary qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a report listing each applicant and his book number under the office or job he is seeking. Each applicant shall be marked "qualified" or "dis­ qualified" according to the findings of the Committee. Where an applicant has been marked "disqualified," the reason therefor must be stated in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed by all of the Committee members, and be completed and submitted to the Ports in time for the next regular meeting after their election. At this meeting, it shall be read and incorporated in the minutes, and then posted on the bulletin board in each port. On the last' day of nominations, one member of the Commit­ tee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of creden­ tials. All credentials must be in headquarters by midnight of closing day. (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the commit­ tee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram at the ad­ dresses listed by him pursuant to Section I of this Article. He shall also be sent a letter containing the reasons for such dis­ qualification by air mail, special delivery, registered, to the mailing address designed pursuant to Section Kb) of this Arti­ cle. A disqualified applicant shall have the right to take an appeal to the membership from the decision of the committee. He shall forward copies of such appeal to each port, where the appeal shall be presented and voted upon at a regular meetingno later than the second meeting after the committee's election. It is the responsibility of the applicant to insure timely delivery of his appeal. In any event, without prejudice to his written appeal, the applicant may appear in person before the commit­ tee within two days after the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct his application or argue for his qualification. The committee's report shall he prepared early enough to allow the applicant to appear before it within the time set forth in his Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the first regular meeting after its election. (h) Annexing a certificate in the following form, signed and dated by the proposed nominee: (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case of such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disqualifibation classification by the Credentials Committee, in which event the one so previously classified shall then be deemed qualified. 'T hereby certify that I am not now, nor, for the five (5) years last past, have I been either a member of the Communist Party or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting from conviction of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the quali­ fications of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively pre­ sume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections for candidacy for any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent or Patrolman, has met all the requirements of Section 1(a) of Article XII. Section 3. Balloting Procedures. (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, without partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may contain general information and in­ structive comments not inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon alphabetically within each category. The listing of the ports shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most northerly port on the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental United States shall then be added. There shall be allotted write-in space, on each ballot, sufficient to permit each member voting to write in as many names as there are offices and jobs to be voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable portion shall also be placed a short statement indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. (b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the SecretaryTreasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the pre­ ceding paragraph and shall be numbered consecutively, com­ mencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by the SecretaryTreasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers of the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain separate rec­ ords of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and count the ballots, when received, to insure that the amount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that port. The Port Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt acknowledging the correctness of the amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall b.e corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. In any event, receipts shall be forwarded for ballots actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspection of the same at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer. (c) Balloting shall take place in person, at port offices, and shall be secret. No signatures of any voter, or other distinguish­ ing mark, shall appear on the ballot, except that any member may write in the name or names of any member or members, ' as appropriate, for any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (d) Only full book members may vote. However, immediately prior thereto they must present their books to the Polls Com­ mittee of the port in which they are voting. The voter's book number shall be placed upon- the roster sheet (which shall be kept in duplicate) in the space opj^site the proper ballot num­ ber, and the member shall sign his name. The portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed shall then be re­ moved, placed near the roster sheet, and the member shall pro­ ceed to the voting site with the ballot. An appropriate notation of the date and of the fact of voting shall be placed in the member's Union book. (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the establish­ ment of a booth or other voting site where each member may vote in privacy. (f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold the ballot so that no part of the printed or written portion is visible. He shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted ballot box, which shall be provided for that purpose by the Port Agent and kept locked and sealed except as hereinafter set forth. (g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of the election year and shall continue through December 31st, exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recog­ nized in the city in which the port affected is located. If No­ vember 1st or December 31st falls on a holiday legally recog­ nized in a port in the city in which that port is located, the hdloting period in such port shaU commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, voting in all ports shall commence at 9:00 A.M., and continue until 5:00 P.M. except that, on Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 A.M. and continue until 12 noon. Sectian 4. Palis Cemmittaas. (a) Each port shaU elect, prior to the beginning of the voting on each voting day, a Polls Committee, consisting of three fuU book members none of whom shaU be a candidate, officer or an �Supplement—Page Four elected or appointed job holder. For the purpose of holding a meeting for the election of a Polls Committee only, and not­ withstanding the provisions of Article XXIII, Section 2, or any other provision of this Constitution, five (5) members shall con­ stitute a quorum for each port, with the said meeting to he held between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. with no notice there­ of required. It shall he the obligation of each member wish­ ing to serve on a Polls Committee, or to observe the election thereof, to he present during this time period. It shall he the responsibility of the Port Agent to see that the meeting for the purpose of electing the said Polls Committee is called, and that the minutes of the said meeting are sent daily to the SecretaryTreasurer. In no case shall voting take place unless a duly elected Polls Committee is functioning. (h) The duly elected Polls Committee shall collect all un­ used ballots, the voting rosters, the numbered stubs of those ballots already used, the ballot box or boxes and the ballot records and files kept by the Port Agent. It shall then proceed to compare the serial numbers and amounts of stubs with the number of names and corresponding serial numbers on the roster, and then compare the serial number and amounts of ballots^ used with the verification list, as corrected, and ascer­ tain whether the unused ballots, both serial numbers and amount, represent the difference between what appears on the verification list, as corrected, and the ballots used. If any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon shall be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such discrepancies, which report shall be in duplicate, and signed by all the members of such Polls Committee. Each member of the Comm'ttee may make what separate comments thereon he desires, provided they are signed and dated by him. A copy of this report shall be given the Port Agent, to be presented at the next regular meet­ ing. A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the SecretaryTreasurer, who shall cause an investigation to be made forth­ with. The results of such investigation shall be reported to the membership as soon as completed, wlili recommendations by the Secretary-Treasurer. A majority vote of the membership shall determine what action, if any, shall be taken thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Con­ stitution, the Executive Board shall not make any determina­ tion in these matters. (c) The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box is locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall not be opened except in the manner hereinafter set forth. The same procedure as is set forth in the preceding paragraph with regard to dis­ crepancies shall be utilized in the event the Polls Committee has reason to believe the lock and seal have been illegally tampered with. (d) The Polls Committee shall permit full book members only to vote. Prior thereto, it shall stamp their book with the word "voted" and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure that proper registration on the roster takes place, collect stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preserve good order and decorum at the voting site and vicinity thereof. All members and others affiliated with the Union are charged with the duty of assisting the Polls Committee, when called upon, in the preservation of order and decorum. (e) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of the ballot, and to eliminate the possibility of errors or irregularities in any one day's balloting affecting all the balloting in any port, the following procedure shall be observed: At tbe end of each day's voting, the Polls Committee, in the presence of any member desiring to attend, provided he ob­ serves proper decorum, shall open the ballot box or boxes, and place all of that day's ballots therein in an envelope, as required, which shall then be sealed. The members of the Polls Commit­ tee shall thereupon sign their names across the flap of the said envelope or envelopes, with their book numbers next to their signatures. The committee shall also place the date and name of the Port on the said envelopes, and shall certify, on the enve­ lope or envelopes, that the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that day only were removed, and that all of those ballots are enclosed in the envelope or enve­ lopes dated for that day and voted in that Port. The Polls Com­ mittee shall check the rosters, and any other records they deem appropriate, to insure the foregoing. At the discretion of the Executive Board official envelopes may be prepared for the purpose of enclosing the ballots and the making of the aforesaid certification, with wording embodying the foregoing inscribed thereon, in which event these envelopes shall be used by the Polls Com.mitee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained herein shall prevent any member of a Polls Committee from adding such comments to the certificate as are appropriate, provided the comments are signed and dated by the member making them. The envelope or envelopes shall then be placed in a wrapper or envelope, which, at the discretion of the Ex­ ecutive Board, may be furnished for that purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then be securely sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or registered mail, by the said Polls Com­ mittee, to the depository named in the pre-election report adopted by the membership. The Polls Committee shall not be discharged from its duties until this mailing is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. The Polls Committee.shall also insure that the ballot box or boxes are locked and sealed before handing them back to the Port Agent, and shall place the key or keys to the boxes in an envelope, across the flap of which the members of the committee shall sign their names, book numbers, and the date, after seal­ ing the envelope securely. In addition to delivering the key and ballot box or boxes as aforesaid, the Polls Committee shall deliver to the Port Agent one copy of each of the roster sheets for the day, the unused ballots, any reports called for by this Section 4, any files that they may have received, and all the stubs collected both for the day and those turned over to it. The Port Agent shall be responsible for the proper safeguarding of all the aforesaid material, shall not release any of it until duly called for, and shall insure that no one illegally tampers with the material placed in his custody. The remaining copy of each roster sheet used for the day shall be mailed by the Polls Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer, by certified or registered mail or delivered in person. (f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without com­ pensation, except that the Port Agent shaU compensate each Polls Committee member with a reasonable sum for meals while serving or provide meals in lieu of cash. SEAFARERS LOG Section 5. Ballot Collection, Tallying Procedure, Protests, and Special Votes. (a) On the day the balloting in each port is to terminate, the Polls Committee elected for that day shall, in addition to their other duties hereinbefore set forth, deliver to headquarters, or mail to headquarters (by certified or registered mail), all the unused ballots, together with a certification, signed and dated by all members of the Committee that all ballots sent to the port and not used are enclosed therewith, subject to the right of each member of the Committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The certification shall specifically identify, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. In the same package, but bound separately, the committee shall forwprd to headquarters all stubs collected dur­ ing the period of voting, together with a certification, signed by all members of the committee, that all the stubs collected by the committee are enclosed therewith subject to the right of each member of the committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The said Polls Committee members shall not be discharged from their duties until the forwarding called for hereunder is accompli.shed and evidence of mailing or de­ livery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. (b) All forwarding to headquarters called for under this Section 5, shall be to the Union Tallying Committee, at the address of headquarters. In the event a Polls Committee cannot be elected or cannot act on the day the balloting in each Port is to terminate, the Port Agent shall have the duty to forward the material specifically set forth in Section 5(a) (unused ballots and stubs) to the Union Tallying Committee, which will then carry out the functions in regard thereto of the said Polls Committee. In such event, the Port Agent shall also forward all other material deemed necessary by the Union Tallying Com­ mittee to execute those functions. All certifications called for under this Article XIII shall be deemed made according to the best knowledge, and belief of those required to make such certification. (c) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, and Detroit. The election shall be held at the regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the Ex­ ecutive Board otherwise determines prior thereto, at a special meeting held in the aforesaid ports on the first business day of the last week of said month. No Officer, Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or candidate for office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as pro­ vided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties here­ inbefore set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with de­ tailed reference to serial numbers and amoqnts and with each total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall be permitted access to the election records and files of all ports, which they may require to be forwarded for inspection at its discretion, The report shall clearly detail all discre­ pancies discovered, and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these discrepancie s. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. The Tallying Committee is also charged with the receipt and evaluation of written protests by any member who claims an illegal denial of the right to vote. If it finds the protests in­ valid, it shall dismiss the protest and so inform the protesting member, by wire, on the day of dismissal. If it finds the protest valid, the committee shall order a special vote, to be had no later than within the period of its proceedings, on such terms as are practical, effective, and just, but which terms, in any event, shall include the provisions of Section 3(c) of this Article and the designation of the voting site of the port most convenient to the protesting member. Where a special vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5(c), these terms shall apply, not­ withstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Article. Protests may be made only in writing and must be received by the Union Tallying Committee during the period of its proceedings. The reports of this committee shall include a brief summary of each protest rc jived, the name and book number of the protesting member, and a summary of the dis­ position of the said protest. The committee shall take all rea­ sonable measures to adjust the course of its proceedings so as to enable the special vote set forth in this Section 5(c) to be completed within the time herein specified. No closing report shall be made by it unless and until the special votes referred to in this Section 5(c) shall have been duly completed and tallied. (d) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall proceed to the port in which headquarters is located, as soon as possible after their election but, in any event, shall arrive at that port prior to the first business day after December 31 of the election year. Each member of the committee not elected from the port in which headquarters is located shall be reim­ bursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expenses occa­ sioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. All members of the committee shall also be paid at the prevaUing standby rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the Port from which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Con­ stitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in attend­ ance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository immediately after the termination of balloting and to insure their safe custody during the course of the commit­ tee's proceedings. The proceedings of this committee, except for the actual preparation of the closing report and dissents there­ from, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes January 31, 1969 decorum. In no event, shall the issuance of the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the Tallying Committee be delayed beyond the January 15th immediately subsequent to the close of voting. The Union Tallying Committee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its reports as required in this Article. In the event a reeheck and recount is ordered pursuant to Section 5(g) of this Article, the com­ mittee shall be reconstituted except that if any member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port, at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (e) The report of the Committee shall be made up in suffi­ cient copies to comply with the following requirements: two i,. copies shall be sent by the committee to each Fort Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the first regular meeting sched­ uled to take place subsequent to the close of the committee's proceedings or, in the event such meeting is scheduled to take place four days or less from the close of this committee's pro­ ceedings, then at least five days prior to the next regular meet­ ing. Whichever meeting applies shall be designated, by date, in the report and shall be referred to as the "Election Report Meeting." As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner. This copy shall be kept posted for a period of two months. At the Election Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be taken up the discrepancies, if any, referred to in Section 5(c) of this Article and the recommendations of the Tallying Committee submitted therewith. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution, shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the membership, at the Election Report Meeting, may order a recheck and a recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three or more members of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this Section 5(f) the closing report shall be accepted as final. (g) A special vote ordered pursuant to Section 5(f) must take place and be completed within seven (7) days after the Election Report Meeting, at each port where the discrepancies so acted upon took place. Subject to the foregoing, and to the limits of the vote set by the membership, as aforesaid, the Port Agents in each such port shall have the functions of the Tally­ ing Committee as set forth in Section 5(cJ, insofar as that Section deals with the terms of such special vote. The Secre­ tary-Treasurer shall make a sufficient amount of the usual balloting material immediately available to Port Agents, for the purpose of such special vote. Immediately after the close thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the results and com­ municate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining to the special vote shall be forwarded to the Secretary-Treasurer, all in the same package, but bound separately, by the most rapid means prac­ ticable, but, in any case, so as to reach the Secretary-Treasurer in time to enable him to prepare his report as required by this Section 5(g). An accounting and certification, made by the Port Agent, similar to those required of Polls Committees, shall be enclosed therewith. The Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare a report containing a combined summary of the results, together with a schedule indicating in detail how they affect the Union Tallying Committee's results, as set forth in its clos­ ing report. The form of the latter's report shall be followed as closely as possible. Two (2) copies shall be sent to each port, one copy of which shall be posted. The other copy shall be presented at the next regular meeting after the Election Report Meeting. If a majority vote of the membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's report, the numerical results set forth in the pertinent segments of the Tallying Committee's closing report shall he deemed accepted and final without modi­ fication. If ordered, a reeheck and recount, and the report thereon by the Union Tallying Committee, shall be similarly disposed of and deemed accepted and final, by majority vote of the mem­ bership at the regular meeting following the Election Report Meeting. If such reeheck and recount is ordered, the Union Tallying Committee shall be required to continue its proceed­ ings correspondingly. Section 6. Installation into office and the Job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meet­ ing, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meet­ ing the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed find and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candi­ date cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume office the provisions of Article X, Section 2, as to succession shall apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. �January 31, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Supplement—Page Five SECRETARY-TREASURER'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP ADDITIONS TO VOTING PROCEDURES IN FORTHCOMING ELECTION OF OFFICERS EDITOR'S NOTE: The ''Addition to Voting Pro­ cedures in Forthcoming Election of Officers" was carried in issues of the LOG published May 24 (pg. 8) and the October 25, 1968 supplement (pg- 7). The report was presented for action by the membership at the May, July,October and No­ vember membership meetings. The membership in these membership meetings accepted and con­ curred in the report and its recommemlations. Article XIII, Section 7 of our Constitution reads as fol­ lows: "The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of ali election records, in­ cluding the ballots, as required hy law, and is directed and authmized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Uniom" Therefore, in accordance with the above-mentioned section, and after consulting with and being advised by counsel, it is found that additions to our voting pro­ cedures for the election of officers are required by law. Therefore, under the powers delegated to me by our Con­ stitution in the aforementioned section, I am setting up the following additions in our balloting procedure for officers. President's Pre-Balloting Report Article X, Section 1, "The President" Sub-section (e), provides that the President's Pre-Balloting Report shall be submitted to the membership at the regular meeting in July in every election year. It is recommended to the membership in this connection that such Pre-Balloting Re­ port be made both at the June and July meetings so as to give more than adequate notice to any prospective nomi­ nee for office. Provision for Nomination hy Others Article XIII, Section 1, "Nominations," provides for self-nomination to office. In order to square any ambiguity as to the meaning of this section, it is recommended that a member may place his name in nomination or have his name placed in nomination by any other member, and, further, that in either event, such member nominated must comply with the provisions of the Constitution, as ffiey are set forth, relating to the submission of credentials, t his change Is an amplification of the existing provisions of the Constitution and should not be construed to be an alteration of same. Absentee Ballot Article XIII, Section 3 and 4, "Balloting Procedures" and "Polls Committee," of the Constitution, provide that balloting shall be manual in nature. It is now recom­ mended that the following absentee ballot procedure be presented to the membership upon advice of counsel as an amplification of such provisions. Full book members may request an absentee ballot under the following circumstances only. While such member is employed on an American-flag merchant ves­ sel, which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to touch a port in which voting is to take place during the voting period provided in Article XIII, Section 3 (g) of our Constitution. In that event, the member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail, or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such request must contain a designation as to the address to which such member wishes his. absentee ballot returned. Such request shall be received not later than 12:00 p.m. on the fifteenth day of November of the election year and shall be directed to the Secretary-Treasurer at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232. Upon re­ ceipt of such request, the procedures as established in Article XIII, Section 3 (d) of our Constitution, shall not apply. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible for de­ termining whether such member is a member in good standing, and, further, whether such member has, in fact, voted previously. He shall send the processed ballot by Registered Mail-Return Receipt Requested to the address designated by such member in his absentee ballot request. The Secretary-Treasurer shall send to such member with his ballot instructions for returning the ballot, which in­ structions must be complied with exactly. The SecretaryTreasurer shall further maintain a record showing the name, book number of the member, his ballot number and the date on which such ballot was sent, which information shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee, when elected, in accordance with Article XIII, Section 5 (c) of the Constitution. The member, after voting, shall return his absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail, or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such absentee ballot is returned, if such be the case, to the depository named in the President's Pre-Balloting Report. These absentee ballots must be post-marked prior to midnight of December 31, 1968, and must be received by the depository named in the President's Pre-Balloting Re­ port, prior to January 10, 1969, regardless of when post­ marked for them to be counted as eligible votes. Such ballots will be maintained separately by such depository and shall then be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee, as provided in Section 5 (d) of Article XIII, of the Constitution. Committee Procedure "If during balloting at any location, a procedural er­ ror in casting a ballot occurs, e.g., a member having previously voted or ineligible to vote casts a ballot, then the ballots contained in that ballot envelope shall be set aside. If the amount of such ballots are not determinative of the election of any office, they shall not be counted. If the amount of such ballots would be determinative of the election of any office or offices, then the eligible members whose ballots were not counted shall be afford­ ed a second opportunity to vote, only for such office or offices as to which such ballots were determinative. The procedures for such second opportunity shall be in ac­ cordance with the constitutional provisions for special vote for office and in accordance with applicable law." Election Supplements, Electioneering, Etc. The policy of the Union has been and is, equal election­ eering limits and facilities for all candidates. As usual, the Seafarers Log will contain an election supplement, which includes the biographical sketches of each candi­ date and his photo, together with a sample ballot with voting instructions. The usual distribution pattern will be followed. That is, it is sent to all contracted vessels, is made available in substantial quantities, in all Union Halls, and is otherwise distributed. Candidates and mem­ bers will, therefore, have available to them those materials for electioneering, or any other purpose. In addition to that, the Secretary-Treasurer recommends the printing of this election supplement in enough copies so that there will be available to each candidate, at his request, 100 copies thereof, to be used for such purposes as the candi­ date may choose. It is felt that 100 copies for each can­ didate is reasonable. There must obviously be some limit to the Union's expenditures in this regard. To insure equal treatment for each candidate, copies of this special material shall be made available in each Union Hall. The Port Agent shall deliver the amount requested (up to 100) to each candidate, obtain a receipt therefor, keep a rec­ ord of the same, and notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr immediately. It will be the Secretary-Treasurer's duty to keep a central tally, and to replenish stocks of this material when, as and if needed. To insure good order and to further preserve the secrecy of the ballot, electioneering must not take place within 25 feet of the polling place. In any event, the Union continues to insist on good order and decorum, which must be preserved. Any member whose ballot has been solicited within the prohibited area is required to make this fact known to the Polls Committee, which shall record the complaint in its report, as well as its findings and reconunendations thereon. In addition, the member is required to notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr, at Headquarters, within 24 hours of the occurrence, by registered mail, return receipt requested, of the facts, which notification must be signed by the complainant, to­ gether with his book number. In that connection, the Secretary-Treasurer recom­ mends that the membership also adopt the rule that, in case any member has a complaint that any of the election and balloting procedures of this Union have been vio­ lated, the same procedure as above set forth shall be followed. While the members have already been notified, through the Log, as to notifications to the President in case of a claimed violation of any rights, it is recom­ mended that the rule set forth herein be adopted with reference to the balloting and election procedures in this election, since the Secretary-Treasurer, under the Consti­ tution, is charged with specific administrative duties in connection with elections and referendums. The mem­ ber's duty to report violations in this manner should be emphasized. If situations exist which call for corrective action, that action ought to be taken. It can't be taken if the responsible parties under the Constitution are not made aware of the facts. Obviously, nothing in these recommendations is to be deemed to deprive any candidate or member of hjs con­ stitutional right to observe the conduct of the election, the talying of ballots, and so on, provided he maintains prop­ er decorum. In accordance with established policy, the Union, its officers, the Log, and, indeed, the entire membership, should continue to encourage the utmost interest in the election. The Secretary-Treasurer urges the largest pos­ sible vote, and encourages the use of proper electioneer­ ing to further stimulate interest in the exercise of this important right. Challenged Ballots Under Article XIII, Section 7 of our Constitution, the Secretary-Treasurer is empowered as follows: "The Secre­ tary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election pro­ cedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union." Based on the foregoing, your Secretary-Treasurer, in a set of instructions entitled "Suggested Voting Guide for Polls Committee" has provided for challenged ballots in the following manner. If you have any doubts as to whether or not a man is eligible to vote, you should let him vote a challenged ballot. When a man votes a chal­ lenged ballot, the Committee shall have the man sign his own name to the roster, and one of the Committee should place the man's book number and ballot number on the roster and the word "challenge" alongside. One of the Committee should then tear the stub from the ballot, and thread the stub on a string provided for that purpose, give the ballot and one plain white envelope with no mark­ ings to the voter. The Committee should then instruct the voter that after he marks his ballot in the area pro­ vided for same, he should then fold his ballot, place it in the white envelope, seal it and not deposit it in the ballot box but return with the white envelope, seal it and not deposit it in the ballot box but return with it to the com­ mittee. The Committee will then give the man a brown envelope marked "Challenged Ballot" and which also has lines for the man's name, book number, port and date. The man, in the presence of the Committee, shall place the white envelope into the brown envelope and seal the same. The Committee will then fill in the man's name, book number, port and date, and on the face of the en­ velope write the reason for the challenge and the man will then deposit the brown envelope into the ballot box. The member should not be given his book back until such time as he has dropped his brown envelope into the ballot box. Before the man votes, one of the Committee should stamp the date and the word "VOTED" in the member's Union book. �SSBi Supplement—Page Six SEAFARERS LOG January 31, 1969 Text of President's Pre-Balloting Report EDITOR'S NOTE: The "Text of President's PreBalloting Report" was carried in the issue of the LOG published on May 24, 1968 (pg. 9). The re­ port was presented for action by the membership at the June and July membership meetings. The membership in these membership meetings ac­ cepted and concurred in the report and its rec­ ommendations. Under the Constitution of our Union, the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, Article X, Section I (e), the President shall submit a Pre-Balloting report at the reg­ ular meeting in July of every election year. The Consti­ tution of our Union also calls for seven (7) Constitutional Ports of the Union, which are; New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. As your President, in consultation along with mem­ bers of the Executive Board of the Union, a careful ap­ praisal has been made as to what we feel will be the needs of the Organization in all the Constitutional Ports, in­ cluding the Port of New York and Headquarters, for the coming term of office of the officers and other elected representatives of our Union. Since the Constitution provides for seven (7) Constitu­ tional Ports it was felt that it was advisable to place on the ballot the elective jobs of those Ports. Where necessary, the personnel for other than the Constitutional Ports may be assigned as needed from those Constitutional Ports, where possible. As the membership is aware, it is neces­ sary for the Union to keep abreast of the changes in the shifting of the job requirements of the companies with whom we have contracts, as well as being prepared to meet the opportunities for expansion through the means of organizing. This will enable the Union to maintain maximum services to the membership, and to meet the needs of the organization resulting from the changing character of the industry. As a result of the foregoing, it is the recommendation of your President, in this, the Pre-Balloting report, re­ quired under Article X, Section I (e) of our Constitution, that the following offices be placed on the next referen­ dum ballot of the Union for the elecMon of the officers and other elected representatives of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America-Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. Headquarters: 1 President 1 Executive Vice-President 1 Secretary-Treasurer 1 Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract' Enforcement 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters 3 Headquarters Representatives New York 1 Agent 10 Joint Patrolmen Philadelphia 1 Agent 2 Joint Patrolmen Baltimore 1 Agent 4 Joint Patrolmen Mobile 1 Agent 4 Joint Patrolmen New Orleans 1 Agent 4 Joint Patrolmen Houston 1 Agent 4 Joint Patrolmen Detroit 1 Agent Your President also recommends, pursuant to Article X, Section I (e) and Article III, Section 4 (e) of the Union's Constitution, the depository to which the Polls Committees shall deliver, or mail, by certified or regis­ tered mail, the ballots after the close of each days voting on the coming Union election, be as follows: Mr. Herbert Bacher Executive Vice-President The Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 It will be the function of the depository to receive all the envelopes delivered, or mailed in, as aforesaid, to safeguard them properly, in the Bank, and to surrender them only to the duly authorized Union Tallying Com­ mittee in accordance with Article XIII, Section 5 (d), of our Union Constitution, on or about the first business day in January 1969. Proof of authorization shall be a certification by the Secretary-Treasurer of the Union, A1 Kerr. The Union Tallying Committee shall be author­ ized to sivn a receipt for the said envelopes. The deposi­ tory shall be requested to certify that all the envelopes received by the depository have been properly safe­ guarded, have been surrendered only to the said "Tallying Committee, and that no one, other than appropriate bank personnel have had access to them. The Polls Committee is especially urged to insure that whether delivered or mailed, the envelopes are prop­ erly addressed, properly stamped if mailed, and certified as per the Constitution. It is the further recommendation of your President that, in addition to the regular Constitutional requirements, each candidate for the office be requested to furnish a regulation passport picture of recent taking as well as a statement of not more than one-hundred (100) words, giving a brief summary of his union record and activities, such picture and statement to be run in the Seafarers Log just prior to the commencement of voting. This is to be done in accordance with previous membership action to familiarize the membership with the names, faces and records of all candidates for office. As provided for in Article XIII, Section 1, nominations open on July 15th, 1968 and close August 15th, 1968. All documents required for eligibility of candidates for Union office must reach Headquarters no earlier than July 15th, 1968 and no later than August 15th, 1968. Your President wishes to point out that this Pre-Ballot­ ing report provides for one of the largest number of elective posts to be placed on the ballot since the inception of the Union. It is strongly recommended that the maxi­ mum number of qualified members, who feel they can be of assistance to the Union in an official capacity, should submit their credentials. In this connection, the mem­ bership is' reminded that the Sectary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr, is available to assist them in properly filing their cre­ dentials for nomination to Union Office, if they desire such assistance. Fratemallv submitted, Paul Hall President Credentials Committee Report :k We, the undersigned Committee on Credentials were duly elected at the regular business meeting at Headquarters on August 5th, 1968, in accordance with the Constitu­ tion. With respect to Brother Gabriel Bonefont, B-656, he was duly elected at a special meeting at Headquarters on August 8, 1968, called in accordance with the Con­ stitution, to replace Brother Neil Napolitano, N-250 who resigned from the original Committee. Your Committee has examined the credentials of the candidates for elective office or job in the Seafarers International Union of North least three (3) years immedi­ book membership in good stand­ candidates. eligible for an office or job by America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes ately prior to his nomination; ing. (End of quote from Consti­ reason of the restoration of civil (g) In the event the member and and Inland Waters District, for the tution) rights originally revoked by such is on a ship he shall notify the years of 1969-70-71-72, as per Ar­ (c) He has at least four (4) conviction or a favorable deter­ Article XIII, is known as. Elec­ Credentials Committee what ticle XI, Section 1, and submit the months of seatime, in an un­ tions for Officers, Headquarters Rep­ mination by the Board of Parole ship he is on. This shall be following report: licensed capacity, aboard an resentatives, Port Agents and Pa­ of the United States Department done also if he ships subse­ American-flag merchant ves­ trolmen. The Article reads as fol­ of Justice, he shall, in lieu of the We qualified or disqualified those quent to forwarding his cre­ sel or vessels, covered by con­ lows: foregoing certificate, furnish a men who submitted for office by dentials. tract with this Union, or four complete signed statement of the the rules of our Constitution as con­ Section 1. Nominations (h) Annexing a certificate in (4) months of employment facts of his case together with tained in Articles XII and XIII. Ar­ the following form, signed and Except as provided in Section with, or in any office or job true copies of the documents ticle XII is known as Qualifications dated by the proposed nomi­ 2(b) of this Article, any full book of, the Union, its subsidiaries supporting his statement. for Officers, Headquarters Repre­ nee: member may submit his name for and its affiliates, or in any sentatives, Port Agents, Patrolmen All documents required herein nomination for any office, or the "I hereby certify that I am not employment at the LInion's and Other Elective Jobs. The Arti­ must reach headquarters no ear­ job of Headquarters Representa­ now, nor, for the five (5) years direction, or a combination of cle reads as follows; lier than July 15th and no later tive, Port Agent or Patrolman, by last past, have I been either these, between January 1st than August 15th of the election Section 1. Any member ot the delivering or causing to be de­ a member of the Communist and the time of nomination in year. Union is eligible to be a candidate livered in person, to the office Party or convicted of, or served the election year; and The Secretary-Treasurer is for, and hold, any office or the of the Secretary-Treasurer at any part of a prison term (d) He is a citizen of the United charged with the safekeeping of job of Headquarters Representa­ Headquarters, or sending, a letter resulting from conviction of States of America; and these letters and shall turn them tive, Port Agent or Patrolman addressed to the Credentials Com­ robbery, bribery, extortion, em­ (e) He is not disqualified by over to the Credentials Commit­ provided: mittee, in care of the Secretarybezzlement, grand larceny, law. tee upon the latter's request. (End (a) He has at least three (3) Treasurer, at the address of head­ burglary, arson, violation of (f) He has at least one (1) year of quote from Constitution.) quarters. This letter shall be dated years of seatime in an unli­ narcotics laws, murder, rape, of seatime aboard an Ameri­ It is to be pointed out to the mem­ and shall contain the following: censed capacity aboard an assault with intent to kill, as­ can-flag merchant vessel or American-flag merchant ves­ sault which inflicts grievous bership that the SEAFARERS LOG (a) The name of the candidate. vessels in a rated unlicensed sel or vessels. In computing bodily injury, or violation of issue of March 15, 1968 carried the (b) His home address and mail­ capacity other than an entry time, time spent in the employ title II or III of the Landrum- Constitution of the Seafarers Inter­ ing address. rating. of the Union, its subsidiaries Griffin Act, or conspiracy to national Union of North America(c) His book number. Section 2. All candidates for, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland and its affiliates, or in any em­ commit any such crimes." (d) The title of the office or and holders of, other elective jobs Waters District, and the full notice ployment at the Union's di­ Dated: other job for which he is can­ not specified in the preceding of opening of nominations were con­ rection, shall count the same Signature of Member tain^ in the SEAFARERS LOG didate, including the name of sections shall be full book mem­ as seatime. Union records. the Port in the event the posi­ bers of the Union. Book No issue of July 19, 1968 on Pages 1 and Welfare Plan records and/or tion sought is that of Agent 3, and also in the issue of August 2, company records can be used Section 3. All candidates for Printed forms of the certifi­ or Patrolman. 1968 on Pages 1 and 3. to determine eligibility; and and holders of elective offices cate shall be made available to (e) Proof of citizenship. (b) He has been a full book and jobs, whether elected or ap­ The SEAFARERS LOG issue of nominees. Where a nominee can­ member in continuous good pointed in accordance with this May 24, 1968, on Page 1 and Pages (f) Proof of seatime and/or not truthfully execute such a cer­ Constitution, shall maintain full 7 through 10, carried the notice of standing in the Union -for at , employment as required for tificate, but is, in fact, legally (Continued on page 7) �January 31, 1969 SEAFARERS Supplement—Page Seven LOG Credentials Committee Report (Continued from page 6) and the President's Pre-Balloting Report, which report gave the de­ pository required by Article X, Sec­ tion 1(e) of the Union Constitution; in addition to which it carried the Addition to Voting Procedures of the forthcoming election of officers that the Secretary-Treasurer had given in his report to the regular member­ ship meetings at SIU Headquarters on May 6th and July 8th, 1968. The official records of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shows that the Pre-Balloting Report of the President was given in the Head-" quarters meetings of June 3rd and July 8th, 1968, in conformity with Article X, Section 1, paragraph (e) of our Union Constitution and the Secretary-Treasurer's "Additions to Voting Procedures". This same PreBalloting Report was acted on in all Constitutional ports holding regu­ lar membership meetings during the months of June and July, 1968, as was the Secretary-Treasurer's "Addi­ tions to Voting Procedures". The Pre-Balloting Report and the Sec­ retary-Treasurer's "Additions to Voting Procedures" has been re­ produced verbatim in the May 24, 1968 issue of the SEAFARERS LOG, as mentioned previously. The Committee in their delibera­ tions made initial decisions with appropriate notification to candi­ dates and subsequent further notifi­ cations as a result of their continued deliberations. In the course of their deliberations the Committee ulti­ mately came to interpretations and decisions which are later set forth. In arriving at these ultimate inter­ pretations and decisions, the Com­ mittee was most concerned with carrying out a stated principle of our Union, which is that, "every qualified member shall have the right to nominate himself for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold office in this Union." Again in carrying out our Union's principle of demo­ cratic nominations and elections we have liberally interpreted our Con­ stitution's qualification requirements, consistent with the Constitutional language, and thus have assured to our membership our Union's policy of a member's right to enjoy the widest opportunity to make a judg­ ment when voting in our elections. In connection with foregoing we have also consulted with the Secre­ tary-Treasurer, who under our Con­ stitution has the obligation to insure appropriate eleetion procedures as legally required (Article XIII, Sec­ tion 7.) Our Secretary-Treasurer has further consulted with the Union's counsel as to the law applicable in Union nominations and elections. As a consequence of all of the fore­ going, our Committee has made the following interpretations concerning the following pertinent constitutional provisions, I—Article XII, Section 1 (b) reads as follows: "He has been a full book mem­ ber in continuous good standing in the Union for at least three (3) years immediately prior to his nomination." Many members for reasons be­ yond their control, and for reasons other than those excused by our Constitution, fail to pay their mone­ tary obligations within the time re­ quired, As a result they fall out of good standing for a short period, and then shortly thereafter pay their monetary obligations and are in good standing with all rights and privi­ leges. In effect, by the Union's ac­ ceptance of the monies representing the monetary obligations, there is a fair implicit representation that a member has rectified any error, mis­ take or default and that he con­ tinues in good standing. Based upon sucli conduct of accepting the mem­ ber's payment of monetary obliga­ tions, it appears to us to be unrea­ sonable and an improper rule of in­ terpretation to thereafter conclude that such a default, although cor­ ing the clear purpose and intent of rected, disqualifies a man as not this subsection and simultaneouslv being in three years' continuous good complying with the principles and standing where the above described purposes of our Union as previously event or events occurred in the three- stated in this report. year period prior to nomination. Of It is the Committee's interpre­ equal significance are our Union's tation and decision that in comput­ declared principles and practices of ing seatime for the purpose of this the greatest membership participa­ subsection, credit shall ^ given for tion in Union affairs; and nomina­ each day of employment plus the tion and election to office is a very equal amount for each day of va­ essential part of that participation cation credits during the period be­ within the framework of reasonable tween January 1 and the time of qualifications. nomination in the election year. In view of the foregoing, the Com­ Ill—Article XII, Section 1 (f) of mittee concludes that any otherwise the Constitution reads as follows: qualified member who in the three"He has at least one (1) year of year period prior to nomination seatime aboard an American-flag failed to pay his monetary obliga­ merchant vessel or vessels in a tions within the time required, but rated, unlicensed capacity other thereafter paid and the Union ac­ than an entry rating." cepted payment and the member This subsection was added to the was in good standing with all rights Constitution by an amendment ef­ and privileges, shall be considered to fective February 3, 1967. As a re­ be in continuous good standing for sult, up to the time for nominations, the purpose of nomination and elec­ the membership has had only seven­ tion to office. teen (17) months' notice of the nec­ II—Article XII, Section 1 (c) reads essity to comply with this new re­ quirement. Because of the unique as follows: "He has at least four (4) months nature of our industry, it would be of seatime, in an unlicensed capa­ unusual for the average member to city, aboard an American-flag put in a full year's seatime in such merchant vessel or vessels, covered a short period of time. Taking into account the Union's by contract with this Union, or four (4) months of employment established policy of encouraging as with, or in any office or job of, much membership participation in the Union, its subsidiaries and its Union affairs as possible, we feel affiliates, or in any employment that to apply the requirements of at the Union's direction, or a com­ Article XII, Section 1 (f) to this elec­ bination of these, between January tion would be needlessly harsh and 1st and the time of nomination would unfairly limit the member­ ship's choice in our election of offi­ in the election year." cers. Your Committee has considered The new amendment, however, what constitutes a reasonable inter­ did not specify its first applicable pretation or definition of seatime date to nominations and elections. within the meaning of this subsec­ Accordingly, it is this Committee's tion. In arriving at its interpretation interpretation that the provisions of and decision, it has considered the Article XII, Section 1 (f) do not ap­ obvious purpose of this subsection, ply to the nominees for the 1968 which is a member's ability to work election and are meant to apply to in our trade and current and active electionsT in the future only. In that participation in our trade as unli­ way the membership will have plenty censed seamen, all within the frame­ of time to comply with the new work of regularly seeking to and qualification requirement, and the sailing as unlicensed seamen. long-standing Union policies will be In connection with a member's protected. working in our trade, he accumulates The following is a complete list­ for vacation purposes, daily credit ing of all men who submitted their for each day employed by contracted credentials to the Committee. The employers. As a consequence, a men's names and the jobs for which member is in a position to take some they submitted such credentials are time off. Bearing in mind the pur­ listed in the order which this Com­ pose of this subsection, which as mittee feels they should be placed described before is to assure that on the general ballot, that is, in alph­ candidates have the ability to work abetical order under the offices for in our trade and that they are cur­ which they run, and that the ports, rently and actively participating in following the Headquarters' offices, our trade, it appears to us that in beginning with Boston, be arranged considering such four (4) months' on the ballot geographically, as has seatime, appropriate credit be given been done in the past. Following for each daily vacation credit. As each man's name and book number such, the member will not in effect is his qualification or disqualifica­ be penalized for taking time off dur­ tion, followed by the reason for ing this period. Under such an in­ same. terpretation we will be accomplish­ VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF THE GULF COAST Lindsey J. Williams, W-1 Qualified Credentials in order. VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF LAKES AND INLAND WATERS J. A1 Tanner, T-12 Qualified Credentials in order. HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES William Hall, H-272 Qualified Credentials in order. Edward X. Mooney, M-7 Qualified Credentials in order. Frederick (Freddie) Stewart, S-8 Qualified Credentials in order. *oe DiGiorgio, D-2 NEW YORK PORT AGENT Qualified Credentials in order. NEW YORK JOINT PATROLMEN Credentials Qualified Ted Babkowski, B-1 Credentials Qualified Angus (Red) Campbell, C-317 Credentials John Fay, F-363 Qualified Credentials Rufino Garay, G-770 Qualified Credentials Luigi lovino, I-ll Qualified Credentials Qualified Pat Marinelli, M-462 Credentials Qualified E. B. McAuley, M-20 Credentials Qualified George McCartney, M-948 Credentials (^alified Frank Mongelli, M-1111 Credentials Keith Terpe, T-3 Qualified Credentials Steve (Zubovich) Troy, T-485 Qualified Frank Drozak, D-22 PHILADELPHIA AGENT Qualified in in in in in in in «n in in in order. order. order. order. order. order. order. order. order. order. order. Credentials in order. PHILADELPHIA JOINT PATROLMEN Belarmino (Benny) Gonzalez. G-4 Qualified Credentials in order. Leon Hall, H-125 Qualified Credentials in order. BALTIMORE AGENT Alfred H. Anderson, A-11 Qualified Was qualified subject to his furnishing the SecretaryTreasurer a duly executed cer­ tificate as called for in Article XIII, Section 1, paragraph (h) of our Constitution prior to the making up of the ballot. Failure to do so is to result in his being disqualified. Rexford Dickey, D-6 Qualified Credentials in order. BALTIMORE JOINT PATROLMEN W. Paul Gonsorchik, G-2 Qualified Credentials Eli Hanover, H-313 Qualified Credentials Tony Kastina, K-5 Qualified Credentials Benjamin Wilson, W-217 Qualified Credentials Louis (Blackie) Neira, N-1 MOBILE AGENT Qualified in in in in order. order. order. order. Credentials in order. MOBILE JOINT PATROLMEN Credentials Harold J. Fischer, F-1 Qualified Credentials Robert Jordan, J-1 Qualified Credentials Leo P. Marsh. M-9 Qualified Credentials Blanton McGowan, M-1351 Qualified Credentials William J. (Red) Morris, M-4 Qualified in in in in in order. order. order. order. order. NEW ORLEANS AGENT Credentials in order. C, J. (Buck) Stephens, S-4 Qualified NEW ORLEANS JOINT PATROLMEN Ernest C. de Bautte, D-208 Qualified Credentials Credentials Thomas E. Gould, G-267 Qualified Credentials Louis Guarino, G-520 Qualified Credentials Herman M. Troxclair, T-4 Qualified Credentials Paul Warren, W-3 Qualified Paul Drozak, D-180 HOUSTON AGENT Qualified in in in in in order. order. order. order. order. Credentials in order. HOUSTON JOINT PATROLMEN Qualified Credentials in order. Martin (Marty) Breithoff, B-2 Withdrew Withdrew prior to cre­ H. B. Butts, B-395 dentials being checked. Qualified Credentials in order. Peter Drewes, D-177 Withdrew Withdrew prior to cre­ Thomas Glidewell, G-467 dentials being checked. PRESIDENT Qualified Credentials in order. Roan Lightfoot, L-562 Qualified Credentials in order. Joseph McLaren, M-1209 Paul Hall, H-1 Qualified Credentials in order. (Qualified Credentials in order. R. F. (Mickey) Wilburn, W-6 Andrew Pickur, P-172 Qualified Credentials in order. Qualified Was qualified subject Sidney Rothman, R-325 DETROIT AGENT to his furnishing the SecretaryCredentials in order. Qualified Treasurer a duly executed cer­ Frank (Scottie) Aubusson, A-8 tificate as called for in Article Your Committee wishes to bring As will be noted in the foregoing XIII, Section 1, paragraph (h) of sections of the Committee's report, to the attention of the membership, our Constitution prior to the mak­ the fact that the Union Constitution, ing up of the ballot. Failure to do the provisions of the SIU Constitu­ in Article XII, Section 1 (c), re­ tion governing election procedure so is to result in his being dis­ made it mandatory that one of the quires that a nominee have certain qualified. men who had been nominated be seatime between January 1st and disqualified. The Committee feels the time of nomination. During the EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Disqualified Does not have four that the case of disqualification course of examining the various John Cole, C-8 months seatime from January 1, cited above is especially regrettable credentials of those members who because of the fact that the Union, had submitted for office, it was 1968 to time of nomination. this year as in every election year, found that some of our brothers Qualified Credentials in order. Cal Tanner, T-1 went to such lengths to set forth had failed to submit all of their SECRETARY-TREASURER the procedures to be followed by seatime in the current year. This A1 Kerr, K-7 Qualified Credentials in order. those seeking a place on the ballot. was obvious by their letters of their The Committee particularly de­ nomination, wherein they made VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF mention of the fact that they were sires to point out the provisions of CONTRACTS & CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT Domingo La Llave, L-44 Qualified Credentials in order. Article XIII, Section 2 (c) of the presently employed aboard ship and Robert A. Matthews, M-1 Qualified Credentials in order. Constitution, wherein is spelled out due to the voyage not being com­ pleted, no discharge could be avail­ in detail the right of a disqualified able covering the time. In some VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF candidate to appeal from a decision cases where they failed to mention THE ATLANTIC COAST James M. Dawson, D-82 Qualified Credentials in order. of the Credentials Committee and in their letter about being aboard Earl Shepard, S-2 Qualified Credentials in order. how he does it. ship, the Committee in checking (Continued on page 8) �Supplement—Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG January 31, 1969 Credentials Committee Report (Continued from page 7) their credentials was able to deter­ mine that they were aboard ship. In each of these instances, your Com­ mittee verified such employment MAN'S NAME A. H. Anderson, A-11 E. C. de Bautte, D-208 B.L. McGowan,M-1351 J. N. McLaren, M-1209 with the steamship company oper­ ating the particular vessel. The men and the vessels they are on, that had this type of seatime verified are as follows: SHIP SS Southwestern Victory SS Del Oro SS Steel Artisan SS Steel Maker In compliance with Article XIII, Section 2, paragraph (b) of our Con­ stitution, and in an attempt to give every nominee every consideration and to try to prevent any disquali­ fications, Luis Ramirez, R-153 or Warren Cassidy, C-724 of this Com­ mittee, the Credentials Committee, remained at the entrance of the Headquarters building of the Union until midnight of August 15, 1968 to receive any credentials that might have been delivered either by mail or by hand after the closing of busi­ ness hours by the Union. In passing upon the credentials of certain of the nominees, this Com­ mittee had to make a number of rulings, some involving application of the interpretations set forth above. The following section of our report sets forth each of such rulings and the cases in which such interpre­ tation came into play: 1. Andrew Pickur, P-172—Candi­ date for President. Union records reveal that Brother Pickur has not been credited with payment of < ^neral Fund assessment for 1968. Rec­ ords further reveal, however, that Brother Pickur made duplicate pay­ ments of his General Fund assess­ ment for the year 1967. Therefore, the r.immittee treated this nomi­ nees second General Fund payment in I'>h7 as a timely l'^6S payment. Z Sidney Rothman, R-.325—Can­ didate for President. Union records reveal with respect to three quarters in the years 1966 and 1967. Brother Rothman did not make dues pay­ ments within the time required. However, he thereafter made such dues payments, which were accepted by the Union. Under the Commit­ tee's interpretation previously set forth, Brother Rothman has been found to be in continuous good standing. The Union and other relevant records reveal that between Janu­ ary 1, 1968 and the time of nomi­ nation in this election year. Brother Rothman was employed aboard Union-contracted vessels for a period of 78 days. Under the Com­ mittee's interpretation previously set forth with respect to seatime during the above described period, the Committee finds that Brother Roth­ man has 156 days' seatime in this period. Brother Rothman failed to submit the certificate required by Article XIII, Section 1 (h). Nevertheless, the Committee finds Brother Rothman qualified, provided such certificate is delivered personally or mailed registered mail to the SecretaryTreasurer of the Union to be re­ ceived by him on or before October 1, 1968, which is the period prior to the making up of the ballot. The failure of Brother Rothman to com­ ply with this requirement concerning the certificate shall disqualify him as a candidate for office. 3. John Cole, C-8—Candidate for Executive Vice President. The Com­ mittee has examined all Union rec­ ords as well as other relevant rec­ ords and has ascertained that the last date which Brother Cole sailed on Union-contracted vessels was May 11, 1967. This Committee has further found that Brother Cole was awarded by the affiliated Seafarers Pension Plan a disability pension as of December 1, 1967 and is still receiving such disability pension. Article XII, Section 1 (c) requires that Brother Cole have at least four months of seatime during the period between January 1, 1968 and the time of nominations in this election TIME EMPLOYED 7/17/68 to present date 2/26/68 to present date 3/28/68 to 8/16/68 12/10/67 to present date year. Brother Cole has no seatime for the aforementioned period. It is clear that the above subsection of our Constitution demonstrates that a member, to be eligible for office, have the fundamental requirement of ability to work in our trade and that he demonstrate the further basic fundamental requirement of current and active participation in our trade as an unlicensed seaman. Your Committee has further ascertained that to secure a disability pension from the affiliated Seafarers Pension Plan the member must be totally and permanently unable to engage in any further employment as a seaman, as a result of bodily in­ jury, disease or mental incompe­ tency. By reason of the foregoing, we find Brother Cole not qualified for nomination to office. 4. James M. Dawson, D-82— Candidate for Vice President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast. Union records reveal that with respect to two quarters in the year 1967, Brother Dawson did not pay dues within the time required. However, he thereafter made such dues paymenls, which were accepted by the Union. Under the Committee's in­ terpretation previously set forth. Brother Dawson has been found to be in continuous id standing. In addition, brother Dawson f:iiled to date his letter of nominaon. However, since ihe envelope was postmarked August 3, 1968 in Seattle, Washington, and received August 5, 1968 by the Brooklyn Post Office, this brother's creden­ tials were deemed qualified. Further, Brother Dawson's letter of nomina­ tion did not spell out his mailing address, although his credentials en­ velope did give a return address. Your Committee, in line with its liberal interpretation policy, has deemed this return address to be Brother Dawson's home address as well as his mailing address and, therefore, qualified Brother Daw­ son's credentials in this instance as well. 5. J. Al Tanner, T-12—Candi­ date for Vice President in Charge of Lakes and Inland Waters. Union records reveal with respect to dues in three quarters in the years 1966 and 1967, and with respect to the 1967 General Fund and Annual Or­ ganizational Assessments, Brother Tanner did not pay monetary obli­ gations within the time required. However, he thereafter made such payments, which were accepted by the Union. Under the Committee's interpretation previously set forth. Brother Tanner has been found to be in continuous good standing. 6. Rufino Garay, G-770—Candi­ date for New York Joint Patrolman. Union records reveal that with re­ spect to two quarters dues for the years 1966 and 1967, and with re­ spect to the 1966 AOA assessment. Brother Garay did not pay monetary obligations within the time required. However, he thereafter made such payments, which were accepted by the Union. Under the Committee's interpretation previously set forth. Brother Garay has been found to be in continuous good standing. Union and other relevant records reveal that between January 1, 1968 and the time of nomination for this election year. Brother Garay was employed aboard Union-contracted vessels for a period of 118 days. Under the Committee's interpreta­ tion previously set forth with respect to seatime during the above de­ scribed period, the Committee finds that Brother Garay has 236 days' seatime in this period. 7. Steve (Zubovich) Troy, T-485 —Candidate for New York Joint Patrolman. This nominee was nom­ inated and qualified for the office of New York Joint Patrolman in the previous election, although he did so under the name of Steve Zubovich. Since then he has changed his name from Steve Zubovich, Z-13 to that of Steven Troy, T-485. Under Article XIII, Section 2 (e), the Committee has the right in passing upon qualifi­ cations of candidates to conclusively presume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections for candidacy for any office has met all the requirements of Article XII, Section 1 (a). Accordingly, the Com­ mittee deems this candidate qualified under the aforementioned section. 8. Belarmino (Bennie) Gonzalez, G-4 — Candidate for Philadelphia Joint Patrolman. Brother Gonzalez failed to date his letter of nomina­ tion. However, since the postmark on the outside of the envelope was stamped July 24th and the certificate he had enclosed was dated July 24, 1968, and the envelope was received by the Secretary-Treasurer's office on July 26, 1968, this Brother's credentials were qualified on this point of the qualification for office. 9. Alfred H. Anderson, A-11— Candidate for Baitimore Agent. Brother Anderson failed to submit his certificate required by Article XIII. Section 1 (h). Nevertheless, the Committee finds Brother Ander­ son qualified provided such certifi­ cate is delivered personally or mailed registered mail to the Sec­ retary-Treasurer of the Union to be received by him on or before Octo­ ber 1. 1968 which is the period prior to the making up of the ballot. The failure of Brother Anderson to com­ ply with this requirement concerning this certificate shall disqualify him as a candidate for office. 10 Blanton McGowan, M-13S1— Candidate for Mobile Joint Patrol­ man. Brother McGowan nominated himself for this office by means of a telegram to the Secretary-Treas­ urer sent from aboard the SS Steel Artisan while at sea. This telegram was received by the SecretaryTreasurer on July 31, 1968, who notified Brother McGowan that the Credentials Committee would be unable to process his self-nomination until such time as he furnished the necessary credentials and support­ ing documents to the Credentials Committee. Thereafter, on August 16, 1968, Brother McGowan ap­ peared before your Committee, which had already been processing his papers and supplied the neces­ sary missing information, namely, a signed c.ificate, photo, biogra­ phy, home address and mailing ad­ dress. With this additional material furnished on August 16, 1968, your Credentials Committee qualified Brother McGowan. 11. Ernest C. de Bautte, D-208— Candidate for New Orleans Joint Patrolman. In Brother de Bautte's case your Credentials Committee made use of the services of the Secretary-Treasurer and his staff in contacting this nominee to correct the discrepancy found in his nom­ ination as originally filed. As a re­ sult of this means. Brother de Bautte amended his original filing by sup­ plying a signed certificate, a passport photo and his biography, all as out­ lined in the President's Pre-Balloting Report.' Your Credentials Com­ mittee accordingly qualified Broth­ er de Bautte. 12. H. B. Butts, B-395—Candidate for Houston Joint Patrtdman. This Committee received a telegram of withdrawal from Brother Butts on August 12, 1968. At the time of receiving such telegram your Com­ mittee had neither qualified nor dis­ qualified Brother Butts' nomina­ tion. Accordingly, your Committee has noted Brother Butts' withdraw­ al and has given his nomination no further consideration. 13. Thomas Glldewell, G-467— Candidate for Houston Joint Patrol­ man. This Committee received a telegram of withdrawal from Brother Glidewell on August 12, 1968. At the time of receiving such telegram your Committee had nei­ ther qualified nor disqualified Brother Glidewell's nomination. Ac­ cordingly, your Committee has given his nomination no further consid­ eration. 14. Joseph N. McLaren, M-1209 —Candidate for Houston Joint Pa­ trolman. Brother McLaren nom­ inated himself for this office by means of a letter to the SecretaryTreasurer dated July 10, 1968, sent from aboard the SS Steel Maker while at Madras, India. The Sec­ retary-Treasurer on July 18, 1968 informed Brother McLaren by letter of the missing items relative to his nomination. As a result of this notification. Brother McLaren there­ after amended his original letter of nomination by supplying the neces­ sary certificate, spelling out his can­ didacy for Joint Patrolman for the Port of Houston rather than just "Patrolman" for the Port of Hous­ ton, as well as the biography called for in the President's Pre-Balloting report. By reason of this^additional information, your Credentials Com­ mittee qualified Brother McLaren's nomination. 15. Domingo La Llave, L-44— Candidate for Vice. President In Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement. Union records re­ veal with respect to seven (7) quar­ ters in the years 1965, 1966 and 1967, Brother La Llave did not make dues payments within the time required. In addition, his G.F. and A.O.A. assessments in the years 1966, 1967 and 1968, were also not made within the time required. However, Brother La Llave there­ after made these payments, which were accepted by the Union. Under the Committee's interpretation pre­ viously set forth. Brother La Llave has been found to be in continuous good standing. In addition. Union and other rel­ evant records reveal that between January 1, 1968 and the time of nomination in this election year. Brother La Llave was employed aboard Union-contracted vessels for a period of sixty-one (61) days. Un­ der the Committee's interpretation previously set fortlT with respect to seatime during the above described period, the Committee finds that Brother La Llave has one hundred and twenty-two (122) days' seatime in this period. Further La Llave did not initially comply with Article XIII, Section 1 (d) of our Consti­ tution in that he failed to designate the exact Vice President's office for which he nominated himself. The Secretary-Treasurer of our Union contacted Brother La Llave at his hofne on August 21, 1968 and notified him of this problem. As a result of that notification. Brother La Llave thereafter amended his nomination to specify that he is a candidate for the office of Vice Pres­ ident in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement. Finally, Brother La Llave initially failed to submit the certificate re­ quired by Article XIII, Section 1 (h). Again in response to the SecretaryTreasurer's notification. Brother La Llave delivered a completed certif­ icate to Your Committee on August 21, 1968. Your Committee, there­ fore, found that Brother La Llave's credentials were in order and qual­ ified his nomination. A telegram was sent to the nomi­ nee who was disqualified by the Committee, telling him of his dis­ qualification, as well as a detailed letter being sent to the man so dis­ qualified, all in compliance with our Constitution. In addition, the nom­ inee disqualified received a copy of our Constitution so that he would have available the procedure to be used in an appeal from the decision of the Credentials Committee. Fur­ ther, those candidates whose qual­ ifications were conditional upon filing certificates required by Article XIII, Section 1 (h) of our Constitution, were so notified by telegram. In ad­ dition, letter notices were sent to such individuals, together with copies of the form of certificate to be com­ pleted and filed. Your Committee wishes to point out to the membership that the cer­ tificate required by Article XIII, Section 1 (h) serves a very impor­ tant purpose. That certificate in sub­ stance, repeats part of the federal law commonly known as the Landrum-Griffin Act, which prohibits certain persons from holding union office if they have been convicted of or served sentences for listed crimes, in substance named in the certificate. By requiring each candidate to sub­ mit a statement that he is in com­ pliance with that federal law, the Constitution avoids the possibility of electing a candidate who cannot hold office. The membership can readily see from the foregoing report that your Committee has made every effort possible within the scope of our Con­ stitution to qualify every nominee. All credentials were turned over to the Committee in good order at 9:00 A.M.. Tuesday. August 6, 1968. or have been received by mail since that date. All credentials have been examined as Constitutionally re­ quired. Any defect in a credential disposed of by the Committee has been the sole responsibility of the sender and no person adversely af­ fected by such defect has denied this to the Committee. The Committee recommends that commencing with the first SEA­ FARERS LOG issue scheduled for September 1963, and until at least after the completion of all elections, the Officers' report columns in the SEAFARERS LOG be deleted. Thus, there will be no question whatsoever as to any partially or disparate treatment among candi­ dates, particularly in view of the fact that some officers are opposed in the forthcoming election. It is your Committee's final rec­ ommendation that the membership of the Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America make every possible effort to vote in this forthcoming general election, as every good Union man should. This Committee having completed its duties, hereby adjourned at 4:30 P.M. on August 21st, 1968 in the Headquarters offices of the Seafarers International Union of North Amer­ ica-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232. Date: August 21, 1968 Warren Cassidy, C-724 Chairman Charles Hamilton, H-562 Daniel Dean, D-70 Gabriel Bonefont, B-656 Luis A. Ramirez, R-153 Alvaro Vega, V-4 EDITOR'S NOTE: The entire text of the Credentials Committee Report appeared on Pages 8,9,10 in the Au­ gust 30, 1968 issue of the LOG. The report was presented for action by the membei-ship in the September membership meetings in all Consti­ tutional ports. The membership in these September membership meetlugs accepted and concurred in the report and Its recommendations with­ out any dissenting votes in any port. .i. I. �JannuiT' 31, 1969 SEAFARERS Supplement—Page Nine LOG Polls Committee Voting Guide EDITOR'S NOTE: The following information was mailed to the port agents on October 10, 1968 along with other voting material for submission to their Polls Committee. In an attempt to help the vari­ ous PoUs Committees in the con­ duct of the General Election for the years 1969-1972, the following suggestions emphasize some of the steps to be taken each voting day of the voting period. In any event, the provisions of the Constitution govern, and in the conduct of your work you are to determine your functions in accordance with the Constitution, and the "Additions" to the voting procedures that were recommended by the SecretaryTreasurer and adopted by the membership. Step No. 1 The election of a Polls Com­ mittee composed of three (3) full book members, none of whom shall be a candidate, officer, or an elected or appointed job hold­ er. Must be elected between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. of the voting day. CANNOT BE ELECTED AT ANY OTHER TIME. Five (5) full book members constitute a quorum for this meeting. Step No. 2 The Port Agent shall turn over to the elected Polls Committee the port file containing the letter from Headquarters showing the num­ bers of the ballots received from Headquarters, also containing the duplicate copies of the rosters for the previous days of voting, as well as the stubs of the used bal­ lots, the unused ballots, and any other election material of the Port. (The best place for all of this material is in the ballot box). The Polls Committee should check all of the above to make sure that all voting material is turned over to them by the Port Agent. After having ascertained that all of the election material was found to be correct and in good order, the Polls Committee shall execute, the "Agent's Receipt from Polls Committee"—^which shall be given to the Agent of the Port in which the Polls Commit­ tee was elected at the time the Committee starts work, for the Port Election files. Step No. 3 THE POLLS COMMITTEE MUST NOT LET ANY BAL­ LOTS BE CAST BEFORE 9:00 A.M. Before letting any full book member vote, the Committee shall take the man's book and make sure that he has his dues paid through the Fourth Quarter of 1968, as well as his 1968 assess­ ments BEFORE being allowed to vote. There may be some excep­ tions based upon a man shipping out, or other valid reason, for not paying dues. The Committee should then have the man sign his own name to the roster, and one of the Com­ mittee should print the man's book number and ballot number on the roster. One of the Commit­ tee should then tear the stub from the ballot, give the ballot to the man, and thread the stub on the string provided for that purpose. The member should not be given hack his hook until such time as he has dropped his hailot in the ballot box. While the man is marking his ballot, one of the Committee should stamp the date and the word "VOTED" in the member's Union book on the page in same, where he has his dues for 1968 stamped in it. If you have any doubts as to whether or not a man is eligible to vote, you should let him vote a challenged ballot in the man­ ner which is described in the last paragraph of this Step No. 3. Challenged Ballots When a man votes a challenged ballot, the Committee shall have the man sign his own name to the roster, and one of the Committee should place the man's book num­ ber and ballot number on the roster and the word "CHAL­ LENGE" alongside. One of the Committee should then tear the stub from the ballot, and thread the stub on a string provided for that purpose, give the ballot and one plain white envelope with no markings to the voter. The Com­ mittee should then instruct the voter that after he marks his bal­ lot in the area provided for same, he should then fold his ballot, place it in the white envelope, seal it and not deposit it in the ballot box but return with it to the Committee. The Committee will then give the man a brown en­ velope marked "CHALLENGED BALLOT" and which also has lines for the man's name, book number, port and date. The man, in the presence of the Committee, shall place the white envelope in­ to the brown envelope and seal the same. The Committee will then fill in the man's name, book num­ ber, port and date, and on the face of the envelope write the reason for the challenge and the man will then deposit the brown envelope into the ballot box. The member should not be given his book back untfi such time as be has drooped his b<'own envelope into the ballot box. While the man is marking his ballot, one of the Committee should stamo the date and the word "VOTED" in the member's union book on the page in same, where he has his dues for 1968 stamped in it. Step No. 4 At the end of the day's voting, the Polls Committee shall open the ballot box and count the num­ ber of ballots from the box. They should then compare the total number of ballots used for the day against the number issued on the rosters for the day, to see if all ballots issued were put in the ballot box. The day's ballots cast, should then be put in the en­ velope provided for that purpose. and all blank spaces on the enve­ lope should then be properly filled in. After all blank spaces are filled in, the envelope or envelopes, should then be placed in the en­ velope or envelopes provided, for the mailing to the bank depository. Step No. 5 The Committee should then check to see if all Polls Commit­ tee members have signed all sheets of the rosters. The duplicate ros­ ter sheets for the day should be given to the Port Agent, and the originals of the rosters should be placed in the envelope provided for that purpose. In addition, the Polls Committee should get from the Port Agent the original copy of the minutes form for the elec­ tion of their Polls Committee, with all the blank spaces on the form filled in. The Polls Commit­ tee should put the originals of the rosters, as well as the original minutes of the Special Meeting for the election of their Polls Committee, in the envelope pro­ vided for that purpose. THESE MUST BE MAILED TO HEADQUARTERS DAILY. Step No. 6 Before leaving the building to handle the mailing required by the Constitution, the Polls Com­ mittee shall lock all election ma­ terial in the ballot box. They shall place the key for the. ballot box in the envelope provided for that purpose and fill in all the spaces on the outside thereof. TTien the envelope containing the key, as well as the ballot box containing all of the election ma­ terial, shall be turned over to the Port Agent by the Polls Commit­ tee. Step No. 7 The last action of the Polls Committee each day shall be the mailing of the ballots to the bank depository, as well as mailing the rosters and minutes of the election of their Polls Committee to Head­ quarters. Step No. 8 As has been the practice in the past, all candidates may campaign for office. However, to insure good order and to further preserve the secrecy of the ballot, electioneer­ ing must not take place within 25 feet of the polling place. In any event, good order and decorum must be preserved. Any member whose ballot has been solicited within the prohibited area is re­ quired to make this fact known to the Polls Committee, which shall record the complaint in its report, as well as its findings and recommendations thereon. In connection with this, and as was adopted by membership ac­ tion, any member who has a com­ plaint that any of the election and balloting procedures of this Union have been violated, the same pro­ cedure as above shall be followed. Obviously, none of this is to be deemed to deprive any can­ didate or member of his constitu­ tional rights to observe the con­ duct of the election, the tallying of ballots, and so on, provided he maintains his proper decorum. SECRECY OF THE BALLOT MUST BE PRESERVED! Step No. 9 The attention of the Polls Com­ mittee is directed to the provisions of the Constitution, in particular. Sections 3, 4, 5 (a) and 5 (b) of Article XIII. The attention of the Polls Committee is also directed to the Secretary-Treasurer's Re­ port that was presented to all the Constitutional Ports for action at their October membership meet­ ings. The full duties of the Polls Committees are set forth in the Constitution. The present list of suggestions is, obviously, not all inclusive. Step No. 10 All Polls Committees may con­ tact Headquarters by teletype on any questions relative to the con­ duct of the election. However, here too, the final decision must be that of the Polls Committee. UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE'S REPORT (To Be Read at "Election Report Meet­ ing^' of February, 1969) New York—February 3, 1969 Philadelphia—February 4, 1969 Baltimore—February 5, 1969 Detroit—February 7, 1969 Houston—February 10, 1969 New Orleans—February 11, 1969 Mobile—February 13, 1969 W e, the undersigned Union Tallying Committee, duly elected at Special Meetings on December 30th, 1968, sub­ mit the following report and recommenda­ tions: On January 2nd, 1969, at 9:00 A.M., we met with A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer. He gave each Committee member a copy of the Union Constitution and suggested that we read those sections of our Con­ stitution dealing with the Union Tallying Committee in detail. The Committee then took over one complete room on the first deck of our Headquarters building as the place in which we would do our work while in session. In compliance with Article XIII, Sec­ tion 5(d) of our Union Constitution, we elected from among ourselves, James Doris, D-3, as Chairman of the Committee. We then received from the Headquar­ ters offices of the Union, all of the files relative to the conduct of the election. From the files, we found signed receints for ballots No. 1 through No. 7550, which had been issued to the following ports, as follows: FORT Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco San Francisco Seattle Seattle " Detroit San Juan BALLOTS ISSUED 1— 100 101—1600 1601—1900 1901—2700 2701—2900 2901—3000 3001—3100) 7301—7350) 3101—3900 3901—5200 5201—6f>00 6001—6200 6201—6600) 7351—7450) 6601—6900) 7451—7550) 6901—7000 7001—7300 A full quorum picked uo the ballots from the Royal National Bank of New York, located at 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, as per the Con­ stitution. (See corresnondence annexed, showing official documents exchanged.) The Committee checked the numbers on the stubs received from the various ports, and these numbers, when checked against the numbers on the stubs of all ballots printed and issued and ready for voting, were found to coincide, port by port, with the exception of the Port of San Francisco. California, which will be delt with later in this report. Your Committee then checked the dates of the voting rosters and compared them against the minutes of the special meetings for the election of the Polls Committees in the various ports. We found in every instance that a Polls Committee had been elected on each day in which voting was conducted in the various ports. Where no Polls Committee could be elected, no voting took place, as is re­ quired by our Constitution. We note that on the last day of voting in Boston and Detroit, no Polls Committee could be elected. In these cases, as per the Constitu­ tion., the Port Agent took over the duties of the Polls Committee. We checked the unused ballots that were on hand in Headquarters offices that had not been issued. The stubs on these un­ used ballots were numbered 7551 through 8500, a total of 950 ballots. Your Committee then checked the un­ used ballots that were returned from the various ports, including the Port of New York, which are listed as follows: UNUSED PORT BALLOTS Boston 17— 100 New York 1208—1600 Philadelphia 1757—1900 Baltimore 2254—2700 Norfolk 2826—2900 Jai;ksonville 2975—3000 Tamoa 7308—7350 Mobile 3463—3900 New Orleans 4489—5200 Houston 5675—6000 Wilmington 6171—6200 San Francisco 7394—^7450 Seattle 6884—6900) Seattle 7451—7550) Detroit 6901—7000 San Juan 7168—7300 The above unused ballots, when com­ bined with the unused ballots in Headquar­ ters and the stubs of the used ballots in all ports, compares equally in number with the amount printed by the printer for the Union. The Committee has seen a bill from the printer. Pearl Process, Inc., who printed the ballots that were used in the conduct of our Union election for the Election of 1969-1972 Officers of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District The bill states that they had printed 8,500 ballots for the Union, numbered from 1 to 8500; in addition to which, they had printed 200 blank sample ballots. The Committee has checked the election files, maintained by Headquarters offices as per Union Constitution, and has found signed receints from the following ports for the following amount of sample bal­ lots, broken down, as follows: PORT BALLOTS 5 Boston 10 New York 5 Philadelphia 10 Baltimore 8 Norfolk 5 Jacksonville 5 Tamoa 10 Mobile (Continued on page 10) �Supplement—Page Ten SEAFARERS (Continued from page 9) New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Detroit Puerto Rico 10 10 5 5 5 2 5 Total 100 We, the Committee, have checked the files of Headquarters offices and have seen signed receipts by the various Port Agents for the official ballots that had been sent to them by Headquarters offices. We have checked these signed receipts and the seri­ al numbers on them against the loose stubs PORT Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk JacksonvUle Tampa Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco San Francisco Seattle Seattle Detroit San Juan received, and against the stubs still at­ tached to the unused ballots. Seven-thou­ sand five hundred and fifty (7,550) official ballots were sent to all ports; the stubs on them bearing serial numbers one (1) through seven-thousand five hundred fifty (7550). We received back, stubs (including the ones on the unused ballots) numbered one (1) through seven-thousand five himdred fifty (7550), with the exception of stubs No. 6261 and No. 6437, which will be dealt with later in this report. The following is a breakdown of the bal­ lots that were sent to the ports by Head­ quarters, as well as a breakdown of the un­ used ballots returned to Headquarters, bal­ lots used and total ballots cast: BALLOTS RECEIVED BALLOTS FROM UNUSED HEADBALLOTS AND QUARTERS USED RETURNED 1— 100 1— 16 17— 100 101—1600 101—1207 1208—1600 1601—1900 1601—1756 1757—1900 1901—2700 1901—2253 2254—2700 2701—2900 2701—2825 2826—2900 2901—3000 2901—2974 2975—3000 3001—3100 3001—3100 7301—7350 7301—7307 7308—7350 3101—3900 3101—3462 3463—3900 3901—5200 3901—4488 4489—5200 5201—6000 5201—5674 5675—6000 6001—6200 6001—6170 6171—6200 6201—6600 6201—6600 7351—7450 7351—7393 7394—7450 6601—6900 6601—6883 6884—6900 7451—7550 7451—7550 6901—7000 —0— 6901—7000 7001—7300 7001—7167 7168—7300 TOTAL VOTE CAST IN ALL PORTS .... BALLOTS CAST 16 1,107 156 353 125 74 ^ 107 362 588 474 170 443 283 This figure includes the ballots that were voided by the Union Tallying Committee. The Committee would also like to bring to the attention of the membership the fact that some write-ins that appeared il­ legible or on defaced ballots will not be included in this report. The reason for this is that some ballots containing write-ins happened to be voided because the ballots on which they were written were illegally defaced or illegible. The following correspondence was han­ dled by the Union Tallying Committee: October 2, 1968 Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, N. Y. 10036 ATTENTION: Mr. Herbert D. Bacher, Executive Vice President Re: Balloting Procedure Gentlemen: Listed below are the 15 ports from which balloting envelopes will be mailed to your office: Boston, Massachusetts Brooklyn, New York Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Baltimore, Maryland Norfolk, Virginia Jacksonville, Florida Tampa, Florida Mobile, Alabama New Orleans, Louisiana Houston, Texas Wilmington, California San Francisco, California Seattle, Washington Detroit, Michigan Santurce, Puerto Rico (San Juan) As has been done in the past, it is re­ quested that you telephone the Union Office to make a report as to what was received each day. For this purpose, tele­ phone 499-6600 and give the information to either Mildred Piatt or William Mitch­ ell. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA— AGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer AK:mp October 2, 1968 Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, N. Y. 10036 .ATTENTION: Mr. Herbert D. Bacher, Executive Vice President Re: Depository for Ballots Gentlemen: In accordance with the recommendation contained in the President's Pre-Balloting Report, complying with Article X, Section 1(e) of the Union's Ck)nstitution, which was adopted by the membership at their reg­ ular membership meetings held in June and July in the Constitutional ports of the Union, the Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036, once again has been designated as depository for ballots in connection with a referendum to be con­ ducted with respect to the election of officers under the Union's Constitution. The referendum period will be from November 1, 1968 through December 31, 1968, both inclusive, Sundays and holidays excepted. The balloting procedure outlined in the Union's present Constitution will be fol­ lowed, and based upon your previously having acted as depository, you are familiar with this procedure. The Polls Committee will deliver or send to you by Certified or Registered mail the ballots after the close of each day's voting It will be the function of the depository to accept all envelopes delivered or mailed in, to safeguard them in the bank and to surrender them only to the duly authorized Union Tallying Committee, in accordance with Article XIII, .Section 5(d) of the Union's Constitution, which will be on or about the second" day of January, 1969. Proof of authorization shall be a certifica­ tion by the Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Al Kerr. The Union Tallying Committee shall be authorized to sign a receipt for these envelopes. The depository shall be requested to certify that all of these envelopes were properly safeguarded, were surrendered only to the Union Tallying Committee and that no one, other than the appropriate bank personnel, has had access to these envelopes. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA— AGLIWD /s/ Earl Shepard Earl Shepard Vice President ES:mp January 6, 1969 Mr. Herbert D. Bacher, Executive Vice President Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10036 Dear Mr. Bacher: As Secretary-Treasurer of Seafarers International Union of North AmericaAtlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, in charge of the Min­ utes thereof, I herewith certify that, in accordance with the Constitution of this Union, the membership has duly elected the following to constitute the Union Tally­ ing Committee for the 1968 election: Warren Cassidy William Gradick Charles Hamilton Cary J. Beck James Doris Tom Garrity Charles Moss F. DiGiovanni John Carlson John A. Ziereis George Litchfield John L. Hunt Article XIII, Section 5(d) states, in part: "The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among them­ selves and, subject to the express terms of this Constitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in attendance, which quo­ rum is hereby fixed al nine (9). TTie Union Tallying Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository immedi­ ately after the termination of balloting and to insure their safe custody during the course of the committee's pro­ ceedings." In accordance therewith, tlie Union has authorized that any nine (9) or. more of the aforementioned accept delivery of, and sign a receipt for, all of the envelopes which have been mailed to you under the course of the said election. It is hereby requested that you certify that all the envelopes received by you have been properly safeguarded in your vault; that you have surrendered them to the said Union Tallying Committee, and that no one other than appropriate bank personnel has had access to the said envelopes. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO By /s/ Al Kerr Al Kerr Secretary-Treasurer Witness: /s/ William Mitchell William Mitchell Records Supervisor January 6, 1969 Mr. Herbert D. Bacher, Executive Vice President Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10036 Dear Mr. Bacher: The undersigned members of the Union Tallying Committee, acting under and pursuant to Article XIII, Section 5(d) of the Constitution of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, acknowledge receipt of the envelopes sent to you from the various ports for the elec­ tion held during 1968, and delivered this day to us. s/ s/ s/ s/ s/ January- 31, 1969 LOG ROYAL NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10036 January 6, 1969 Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District 675 Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11232 Gentlemen: This is to certify that all the envelopes received by this institution addressed to Mr. Herbert Bacher, Executive Vice Presi­ dent, Royal National Bank of New York, in the name of the Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFLCIO, have been properly safeguarded in our vaults. We have today surrendered the abovementioned envelopes to the Union Tallying Committee. No one other than tqipropriate bank personnel has had access to the said envelopes contained in our vaults. Very truly yours, ROYAL NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK /s/ Herbert D. Bacher Herbert D. Bacher, Executive Vice President Witnessed: /s/ George A. DiLello November 1, 1968 Mr. Joseph DiGiorgio, Port Agent Seafarers International Union 675 Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, New York Dear Sir and Brother: We, the undersigned Polls Committee elected in Headquarters and New York Port to conduct the balloting on this date, November 1, 1968, for the Port, wish to report as follows: At the end of the day's voting, in check­ ing the number of ballots issued and used against the names and book numbers, listed on the roster as having signed for same, we have found that 119 ballots were issued and used; however, we only have the signa­ tures and book numbers for 118 individ­ uals. We, the Committee, discussed this among ourselves and we are unable to determine how this happened. The only reason that we can give for it is our own inexperience, and the large number of votes that were being cast on this first day of the voting. We have double-checked the number of ballots cast, the used stuhs on hand, the unused ballots on hand, and the rosters used for the day. Everything is in agree­ ment except the rosters which are short the name, book number, and ballot number of someone to whom we issued a ballot and allowed him to vote same. In compliance with the Constitution, we are making this report and forwarding a copy thereof to the Secretary-Treasurei# Fraternally submitted, POLLS COMMITTEE HEADQUARl ERS AND PORT OF NEW YORK NOVEMBER 1, 1968 /s/ Charles Hamilton H-562 /s/ Lional Barnes B-13 /s/ Warren Cassidy C-724 cc: Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer This letter will be dealt with later on in this report under the heading of "Dis­ crepancies." November 2, 1968 Mr. Joseph DiGiorgio, Port Agent Seafarers International Union 675 Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, New York Dear Sir and Brother: We, the undersigned Polls Committee duly elected this date in Headquarters and Warren Cassidy, s/ James Doris, New York Port to handle the balloting for George Litchfield, s/ Cary J. Beck, the election of officials for November 2, ^ Charles Hamilton, s/ Charles A. Moss,. 1968, wish to report as follows: When we had secured from Josejfh William Gradick, s/ John A. Ziereis, Jol •V 4 •i �January 31, 1969 (Continued from page 10) DiGiorgio, New York Port Agent, the balloting material for the Port, and com­ pared it against the Port records, we found that on the first day of voting the rosters indicate 118 ballots as having been cast, and bear only the signatures and book numbers of 118 individuals. However, there had been 119 ballots issued and we only had the ballots starting with number 220 turned over to this Committee. Further, in checking the Port election records, we found the original of a state­ ment to the Port Agent which indicated thereon the reason for the missing ballot, and a copy of the statement had been sent to our Secretary-Treasurer by the Port of New York and Headquarters Polls Com­ mittee of November 1, 1968, dealing with the aforementioned error. Based on the foregoing, this Polls Com­ mittee accepted from Joseph DiGiorgio, the New York Port Agent, all of the election materials for the Port, and we commenced our balloting for the day with ballot number 220. It is recommended to the membership that you concur in the action being taken by this Polls Committee. Fraternally submitted, POLLS COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS AND PORT OF NEW YORK NOVEMBER 2, 1968 /s/ Edward Polise P-74 /s/ Lionel Barnes B-13 /s/ Warren Cassidy C-724 cc: A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer This letter will be dealt with later on in this report under the heading of "Dis­ crepancies." November 4, 1968 Mr. Bennie Gonzales, Agent Seafarers International Union 312 Harrison St. Tampa, Fla. Dear Sir and Brother; We the undersigned. Polls Committee for November 4, 1968 in the port of Tampa, have found that a discrepancy exists on the first day of voting in the 1969-1972 Gen­ eral Election on November 1, 1968. The discrepancy is in the ballots cast from 30010 thru 30015, a total of six ballots cast. An extra zero was added in these ballots which was in error by this com­ mittee. We have sent a copy of this letter to A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer. Fraternally yours, /s/ Andres J. Menendez M-180 /s/ Adolfo Capote C-476 /s/ Paul C. Carter C-62 Polls Committee Port of Tampa cc: A1 Kerr This letter will be dealt with later on in this report under the heading of "Dis­ crepancies." SPECIAL REPORT FROM POLLS COMMITTEE We, the undersigned Polls Committee elected at a Special Meeting for the Port of Houston, Texas on the date of Novem­ ber 7, 1968,pCertify that Ballot Numbers 5738 thru 5742 were listed on the Official Voting Roster. These numbers should have read 5338 thru 5342, to continue consecu­ tive numbering for this Port. Please correct the Official Voting Roster accordingly for the date of November 7, 1968. /s/ Peter A. Serano S-302 /s/ Roman Viloria V-107 /s/ John A. Ziereis Z-12 This letter will be dealt with later on in this report under the heading of "Dis­ SEAFARERS crepancies."During the conducting of the election for officers just concluded, there were seven hundred and thirty-five (735) possible vot­ ing days. Of the seven hundred and thirtyfive (735) possible voting days, there were ballots cast on five hundred and nineteen (519) days. Of the remaining two hundred and sixteen (216) voting days, there were one hundred and ninety-eight (198) days on which it was not possible to get a quo­ rum for the election of a Polls Committee, therefore no voting could be conducted. On seventeen (17) days, there was a quo­ rum and a Polls Committee elected, how­ ever, no votes were ca^f on those seventeen (17) days. ' ' ' Needless to say, since so many of the Union's membership has served on Polls Committees, there are many days when a Polls Committee is elected that no votes are cast as all of the members on the beach in that particular port have already voted or are not eligible to vote. In addition, we also know that there are many times when it is not possible to have a quorum to elect a Polls Committee, as a result of which no votes can be cast that day at all. During the time that your Committee was carrying out its functions, candidates had observers present from time to time. "Comments and Recommendations Pursuant to Article XIII Section 5(c) of The Union Constitution" During the period of time in which the Union Tallying Committee was in opera­ tion, several discrepancies in the conduct of the election have occurred, but none of which would change the outcome of any job on the ballot. However, for the bene­ fit of the membership, we are listing them. Port by Port, as follows: NEW YORK: Your Union Tallying Committee, in handling the various pieces of correspon­ dence relative to the election of officials, reported earlier in our report on letters addressed to Joseph DiGiorgio, Port Agent, dated November 1, 1968 and November 2, 1968, from the Polls Committees for Head­ quarters and the Port of New York. As it was for our Secretary-Treasurer, it is also the same for ourselves: we are unable to determine the name and book number of the individual who was issued a ballot on November I, 1968 by the New York Polls Committee and failed to have his name and book number placed on the voting roster for that day. However, we have counted the day's total votes, includ­ ing the vote for which there was no name or book number on the roster, as valid ballots cast for the day, and recommend to the membership that you concur in our action. In addition to the foregoing discrepancy, the Polls Committee for the Port of New Y'ork on November 1, 1968 allowed David Gower, PB-35710, to vote. Your Union Tallying Committee is unable to determine why the New York Polls Committee al­ lowed Brother Gower to cast a vote. However, again it is the recommendation of your Union Tallying Committee that the day's votes be counted as valid ballots cast. On November 19, 1968, the New York Polls Committee issued ballot No. 576 to Roberto Diaz, showing his book number as D-64, when it should have been D-84. Also, under date of November 21, 1968, the New York Polls Committee issued ballot No. 634 to Rene Geiszler showing his book number as C-274, when it should have been G-274. Also, under date of November 29, 1968, the New York Polls Committee issued ballot No. 774 to R. Olsen showing his book number as O-190, when it should have been O-109. Also, under date of December 3, 1968, the New York Polls Committee issued ballot No. 852 to C. Mphat showing his book number as H-421, when it should have been M-421. Also, under date of December 5, 1968, the New York Polls Committee issued bal­ lot No. 881 to James M. Quinn, showing his book number as 0-24, when it should have been Q-24. Under date of December 6, 1968, the New York Polls Committee issued ballot No. 890 to Donald Hicks showing his book number as 0-694, when LOG it should have been H-694. Your Com­ mittee has counted these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of New York, as the errors made were only transpositions of numbers or an incorrect letter designa­ tion. On November 30, 1968, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot No. 5502 to A. Volkerts, V-166, who cast a ballot that day in the Port of Houston. On December 6, 1968, in the Port of New York, the New York Polls Committee is­ sued ballot No. 891 to Archibald R. Volkerts, V-166, and he cast that ballot in the Port of New York that day. The only reason your Union Tallying Committee can account for this happening, is that possibly the Houston Polls Committee failed to stamp the member's book indicating that he had already voted. In any event, your Union Tallying Committee has counted the votes that were cast in the Port of New York on December 6, 1968, which is the date on which the record indicates that Brother Volkerts voted a second time. Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the envelopes that were mailed from the ports to the bank, found that the Polls Committee in the Port of New York, on November 29, 1968, failed to indicate on the envelope being mailed to the bank, the date that should have been contained thereon. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of New York for the date of November 29, 1968. On the following dates, the Polls Com­ mittees for the Port of New York allowed members to vote who v/ere not in good standing: November 12th, November 22nd, November 26th and December 3rd. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of these errors by the New York Polls Com­ mittees, has counted these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for those days, with the modification which is dealt with in detail later in this report under the head­ ing "Members Not Eligible to Vote." PHILADELPHIA; Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the envelopes that were mailed from the Ports to the bank, found that the Polls Committee in the Port of Philadel­ phia, on November 14, 1968, failed to indicate on the envelope being mailed to the bank, the date that should have been contained thereon. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of Phila­ delphia for the date of November 14, 1968. On December 10, 1968, the Philadelphia Polls Committee issued ballot No. 1726 to T. Nerosa, showing his book number as M-202, when it should have been N-202. Your Committee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for this day as the error made was only an incorrect letter designation. BALTIMORE: On November 4, 1968, the Baltimore Polls Committee issued ballot No. 1941 to Guillermo Grajales showing his book num­ ber as C-714, when it should have been G714. On November 15, 1968 the Baltimore Polls Committee issued ballot No. 2054 to J. Brykczynski, showing his book number as C-860, when it should have been B-860. On November 22, 1968, the Baltimore Polls Committee issued ballot No. 2086 to B. F. Gordy, showing his book number as C-66, when it should have been G-66. On November 26, 1968, the Baltimore Polls Committee issued ballot No. 2096 to Robert McCulloch, showing his book num­ ber as H-385, when it should have been M-385. On December 14, 1968, the Balti­ more Polls Committee issued ballot No. 2166 to Woodrow W. Reid, showing his book number as K-339, when it should have been R-339. In spite of these errors by the Baltimore Polls Committees, your Committee has counted these day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for the various days, as the errors made were only incorrect book numbers. The New York Polls Committee issued ballot No. 298 to T. Novarro, N-30, on November 4, .1968 and he cast his ballot that day in the Port of New York. On December 23, 1968, in the Port of Balti­ Supplement—Page Eleven more, the Polls Committee issued to T. Novarro, N-30, ballot No. 2220 and he cast that ballot in the Port of Baltimore <MI that day. The only reason that your Union Tallying Committee can think of to account for this happening is that possibly the New York Polls Committee failed to stamp the member's book indicating that he had al­ ready voted. In any event, your Union Tallying Committee has counted the votes that were cast in the Port of Baltimore on December 23, 1968, rather than void all the ballots for that day. On the following dates, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Baltimore allowed members to vote who were not in good standing: November 1st and November 2nd, 1968. Your Union Tallying Com­ mittee, in spite of these errors by the Balti­ more Polls Committee, has counted these day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for those days, with the modification which is dealt with in detail later in this report under the heading "Members Not Eligible to Vote." Your Union Tallying Committee, in counting the ballots cast in the Port ot Baltimore on November 1, 1968, found, not an official ballot, but one of the Sample ballots that had been issued to the Port, among the ballots cast for that day. When the ballots for the day were counted, it was found that by counting the aforemen­ tioned Sample ballot as one of the valid ballots cast for the day, that the number of ballots then corresponded with the num­ ber of ballots issued by the Baltimore Polls Committee for the day on the roster. Your Committee counted this Sample ballot as a voided ballot for each and every job on the ballot. It is impossible for your Union Tallying Committee to determine how this aforementioned error could possibly have happened. We can only assume that the member who deposited the Sample ballot in the ballot box had taken a Sample ballot that was posted in the Union hall, studied it, and marked it as he wanted to mark his official ballot. Again we are assuming, but we presume that he used this Sample ballot to go by while in the voting booth, but when it came time to drop his ballot in the ballot box he dropped in the Sample ballot that he had been using as a guide, instead of his official ballot. . In any event, he was evidently eligible to vote because the Polls Committee had issued him a ballot, and your Union Tallying Committee, as men­ tioned previously, voided this particular ballot. It is the recommendation of your Union Tallying Committee that you con­ cur in the action we have taken. NORFOLK: On November 29, 1968, the Norfolk Polls Committee issued ballot No. 2774 to Donald P. Pruett, showing his book number as B-696, when it should have been P-696. Also, under date of December 2, 1968, the Norfolk Polls Committee issued ballot No. 2779 to Charlie V. Horton, showing his book number as H-735, when it should have been H-738. Your Commit­ tee has counfed these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for the variou:^ dates, as the errors made were only trans- ' positions of numbers or an incorrect letter designation. Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various rosters, found that the Norfolk Polls Committee for the date of December 11, 1968, failed to indicate on the roster the port from which it came. However, your Committee, in checking the ballot numbers listed on the roster, was able to determine that the roster was one that would have been used in the Port of Norfolk. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this omission of the Norfolk Polls Committee, has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for that day. Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various rosters received from the Ports, found that the Port of Norfolk, on December 23, 1968, had used up the supply of official voting rosters. They, therefore, had made up one of their own, in ink, which corresponded identically with the official voting roster. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the votes cast this day as valid ballots cast. (Continued on page 12) �Supplement—Page Twelve (Continued from page 11) TAMPA; Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various rosters received from the Ports, found that the Tampa Polls Committee, on November 1, 1968, num­ bered some of the ballots issued for that day incorrectly. The first ballot cast for the day was No. 3001, and through No. 3009 the ballots were numbered correctly. How­ ever, in indicating what should have been No. 3010, the Tampa Polls Committee made a mistake—evidently being misled by the fact that No. 3009 had two zeroes in it—and proceeded to show No. 30010, and carried this error on through ballot No. 3015, indicating it on the roster as No. 30015. This mistake was reported by the Tampa Polls Committee for that date in a letter previously printed in this report. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this error by the Tampa Polls Com­ mittee, has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for that date. On December 18, 1968, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Tampa, allowed a member who was not in good standing to vote. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this error by the Tamoa Polls . Committee, has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the port for that dav, with the modification which is dealt with in detail later in this report under the heading "Members Not Eligible to Vote." MOBILE: Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various envelopes that were mailed to the bank depository, found that in the Port of Mobile, on November 22, 1968, the Polls Committee for the Port had indicated on the outside of the enve­ lope that was mailed to the bank, the date of November 23, 1968. However, upon opening the envelope and checking the certification on the envelope contained therein, in which was the ballots for the Port, we found the date of November 22, 1968. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this error by the Mobile Polls Committee, has counted this day's ballots as yalid ballots cast in the Port for that day. Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various envelopes of ballots received from the Ports, found that in the Port of Mobile, on December 12, 1968, the Polls Committee for the Port had failed to indicate on the certification of the enve­ lope containing the ballots, the Port and date. However, the remainder of the cer­ tification, including the names and hook numbers of the Polls Committee, had been properlv filled in. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of these omissions of the Mobile Polls Committee, has counted this dav's ballots as valid ballots cast in the for that date. Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various rosters, found that the Mobile Polls Committee for the date of December 12, 1968, failed to ih^icate on the lower left hand comer of the ^itester, the Port and date. However, your, Com­ mittee, in checking the ballot numbers listed on the roster, was able to determine that the roster was one that would have been used in the Port of Mobile. Your Union Tallving Committee, in snite of this omission by the Mobile Polls Committee, has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for the day. NEW ORLEANS: On the following dates, the Polls Com­ mittees for the Port of New Orleans al­ lowed members to yote who were not in good standing: Noyember 4th and Novem­ ber 27, 1968. Your Union Tallying Com­ mittee, in soite of these errors by the New Orleans Polls Committees, has counted these davs' ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for those days, with the modifi­ cation which is dealt with in detail later in this report under the heading "Members Not Eligible to Vote." Your Union Tallving Committee, in checking the envelopes that were mailed from the Ports to the bank, found that the Polls Committee in the Port of New Or­ leans, on November 8, 1968, failed to indicate on the envelope being mailed to the bank, the date that should have been SEAFARERS contained thereon. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of New Orleans for the date of November 8, 1968. On November 13, 1968, the New Or­ leans Polls Committee issued ballot No. 4151 to Peter J. Morreale, showing his book number as P-1112, when it should have been M-1112. On December 13, 1968, the New Orleans Polls Committee issued ballot No. 4370 to Alexander Mar­ tin, showing his book number as M-395, when it should have been M-397. On De­ cember 26, 1968, the New Orleans Polls Committee issued ballot No. 4449 to James J. Connors, showing his book number as C-385, when it should have been C-387. On December 31, 1968, the New Orleans Polls Committee issued ballot No. 4484 to Walter J. Mouton, showing his book num­ ber as M-146, when it should have been M-140. In spite of these errors by the New Orleans Polls Committee, your Committee has counted these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for the various days, as the errors made were only incorrect book numbers. On December 26, 1968, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot No. 5632 to James W. Sumpter, S-519, who cast his ballot that day in the Port of Houston. On December 27, 1968, in the Port of New Orleans, the New Orleans Polls Committee issued James W. Sumpter ballot No. 4463, and he cast that ballot in the Port of New Orleans that day. The only reason your Union Tallying Committee can think of to account for this happening is that possibly the Houston Polls Committee failed to stamp the member's book indicating that he had voted. In any event, your Union Tallying Committee has count^ the day's votes that were cast in the Port of New Orleans on December 27, 1968. LOG On the following dates, the Polls Com­ mittees for the Port of Houston allowed members to vote who were not in good standing: November 2nd, 4th, 7th, 13th, 15th, 18th, 20th, ,25th, 27th, December 3rd and December 12th, 1968. Your Un­ ion Tallying Committee, in spite of these errors by the Houston Polls Committees, has counted these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for those days, with the modification which is dealt with in detail later in this report under the heading "Members Not Eligible to Vote." WILMINGTON: Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the envelopes that were mailed from the Ports to the bank, found that the Polls Committee in the Port of Wilming­ ton, on November 30, 1968, failed to indi­ cate on the envelope being mailed to the bank, the date that should have been con­ tained thereon. Your Union Tallying Com­ mittee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of Wilming­ ton for the date of November 30, 1968. On November 2, 1968, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Wilmington allowed a member who was not in good standing to vote. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this error by the Wilmington Polls Committee, has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for that day, with the modification which is dealt with in detail later in this report under the heading "Members Not Eligible to Vote." January 31, 1969 was lost either in the packaging by the San Francisco Polls Committee on the final day of voting, or by ourselves in the unpack­ ing of the voting materials. In either event, your Union Tallying Committee has counted the votes cast on November 4th, 1968, in the Port of San Francisco, as valid ballots cast that date. SEATTLE; Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various rosters, found that the Seattle Polls Committee for December 17, 1968 incorrectly indicated the date on the lower left-hand comer of the roster as December 16, 1968. Your Union Tally­ ing Committee, in spite of this error by the Seattle Polls Committee, has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for the day. Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the envelopes that were mailed from the Ports to the bank, found that the Seattle Polls Committees for Novem­ ber 29th, December 10th and December 21st, failed to indicate on the envelopes being mailed to the bank, the dates that .should have been contained thereon. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of these omissions, has counted ballots for these days as valid ballots cast. Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various rosters, has found that the Seattle Polls Committee for De­ cember 9, 1968, issued ballot No. 6817 to Adam E. Slowik, showing his book num­ ber as S-243, when it should have been S-423. Your Committee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for that day, as the error made was only a transposition of numbers. On December 26, 1968, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Seattle allowed a member who was not in good standing to vote. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this error by the Seattle Polls Com­ mittee, has counted this dav's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for that day, with the modification which is dealt with in detail later in this reoort under the head­ ing "Members Not Eligible to Vote." Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the rosters for the Port of Seattle, found that on the date of December 28. 1968, ballot No. 6874 and ballot No. 6875 were issued, but that the Polls Committee member writing in the ballot numbers, in writing in No. 6875 it appears .to be 6075, but when making a comparison of the fig­ ures you can readily determine that it was the manner in which the Committee mem­ ber made his 8's that created what appears to be an error. Your Union Tallying Com­ mittee has counted thisoday's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of Seattle. SAN FRANaSCO: Your Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various rosters, found that on November 7th and November 12th, 1968, the Polls Committee for the Port had failed to indicate in the lower left-hand corner of the rosters, the Port and date. How­ ever, your Committee, in checking the HOUSTON: ballot numbers listed on the rosters, was On November 4, 1968, the Houston able to determine that the rosters were ones Polls Committee issued ballot No. 5293 to that would have been used in the Port R. T. Yarborough, showing his book num­ of San Francisco. Your Union Tallying ber as Y-560, when it should have been Committee, in spite of these omissions by Y-60. On November 12, 1968, the Hous­ the San Francisco Polls Committee, has ton Polls Committee issued ballot No. 5370 counted these days' ballots as valid ballots to Charles C. Pickren, showing his book cast in the Port on those dates. number as P-7118, when it should have On November 7, 1968, the San Fran­ been P-718. Your Committee has counted cisco Polls Committee issued ballot No. these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in 6317 to Joe Vujtech, showing his book the Port for the various days, as the errors number as B-126, when it should have made were only incorrect book numbers. been V-126. Your Committee has counted Your Union Tallving Committee, in this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the checking the rosters for the Port of Hous­ Port for that day as the error made was ton, found that on November 22, 1968, only an incorrect letter designation. the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot On November 25, 1968, the San Fran­ No. 5454 to Felipe Morales Reves, Jr. and cisco Polls Committee issued ballot No. in listing his book number on the roster, 6434 to Salvador Resquites, and in listing had incorrectly taken from his book, his his book number on the roster, had incor­ file number instead of his book number. rectly taken from his book, his file number SAN JUAN: In checking the file number against the instead of his book number. In checking Your Union Tallying Committee, in records in Headquarters, we were able to the file number against the records in checking the various rosters, found that on determine the correct book number, which Headquarters, we were able to determine November 1, 1968, the San Juan. Puerto is R-507, and we have, therefore, counted the correct book number, which is R-400, Rico Polls Committee issued ballot No. this day's votes in the Port of Houston as and we have, therefore, counted this day's 7007 to A. Gonzalez, showing his book valid ballots cast. votes in the Port of San Francisco as valid number as G-18, when it should have been On November 9, 1968, the Houston ballots cast. G-118. Also, the December 27, 1968 Polls Polls Committee issued ballot No. 5355 to Earlier in this report, your Committee Committee for San Juan issued ballot No. Joseph B. Simmons, S-677, who cast his had indicated that it would deal later in 7142 to H. Mikkelborg, showing his book ballot that day in the.Port of Houston. the report with the matter of stubs of bal­ number as H-1175, when it should have On November 12, 1968, in the Port of lots from the Port of San Francisco. Your been M-1175. Your Committee has counted Houston, the Houston Polls Committee Committee, in checking the stubs of the the.se days' ballots as valid ballots cast in issued Joseph B. Simmons ballot No. 5359, ballots for thfe Port of San Francisco, had the Port for these days, as the errors made and he cast that ballot in the Port of Hous­ found that two (2) stubs: No. 6261 and were only incorrect book numbers. ton that day. The only reason your Union No. 6437 were missing. In checking the Your Union Tallving^ Committee, in Tallying Committee can think of to ac­ roster for the Port of San Francisco, we checking the envelones that were mailed count fbr this i anpening is that possibly found that ballot No. 6437 had been a from the Ports to the bank, found that the the Houston Polls Committee for Novem­ blank ballot. When checking the ballots Polls Committees for the Port of San Juan ber 9, 1968 failed to stamp the member's cast that day in San Francisco, we found on November 16th, November 30th and book indicating that he had already voted. the blank ballot, with the stub No. 6437 December 3rd, 1968, failed^© indicate on In any event, your Union Tallying Com­ still attached to same. In fact, the number the envelopes being mailed to the bank, mittee has counted the day's votes that of the ballot was the only thing that was the dates that should have been contained were cast in the Port of Houston on No­ printed on the face of the ballot. Your thereon. Your Union Tallying Commit­ vember 12, 1968. Union Tallying' Committee has counted tee, in spite of these omissions, has counted Your Union Tallying Committee, in this ballot as a void ballot for the Port of these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in checking the rosters received from the San Francisco and recommends that you the Port of San Juan for these days. Also, ports, found that in the Port of Houston, concur in the action taken by our Com­ on November 7, 1968, the Houston Polls mittee. As for stub No. 6261, it was the on November 23rd, 1968, the San Juan Polls Committee failed to indicate on the Committee had shown the ballots issued stub from the ballot that had been issued on -he roster incorrectly, as indicated by to A. J. Nelson, N-214, on November 4, envelope being mailed to the bank, the Port and date that should have been correspondence fmm the Houston Polls 1968. in San Francisco. In checking the Committee previously given in this report. ballots cast that date, we found twenty- contained thereon. In spite of this omis­ sion, your Union Tallying Committee has In spite of this error of the Houston Polls nine ballots, which comnares equally with counted this day's ballots as valid ballots Committee, your Union Tallving Commit­ the number of ballots issued that date on cast in the Port for that day, tee has counted this day's ballots as valid the roster. Based on the afofcrrieniioned ballots cast in the Port for that day. (Continued on page 13) facts, we can only assume that the stub �I January 31, 1969 SEAFARERS (Continued from page 12) Mail Ballots Under the "Additions to Voting Proce­ dures" that was set up by our SecretaryTreasurer under the authority granted to him by Article XIII, Section 7 of our Con­ stitution, and approved by the member­ ship, he made provision for voting in the General Election by mail. The "Additions to Voting Procedures" requirements for mail ballots, as on absentee ballots, were as follows: "Full book members may request an absentee ballot under the following circumstances only. While such mem­ ber is employed on an American-flag merchant vessel which vessel's sched­ ule does not provide for it to touch a port in which voting is to take place during the voting period provided in Article XIII, Section 3(g) of our Con­ stitution. In that event, the member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such re­ quest must contain a designation as to the address to which such member wishes his absentee ballot returned. Such request shall be received no later than 12:00 p.m. on the 15th day of November of the election year and shall be directed to the SecretaryTreasurer at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, New York. Upon re­ ceipt of such request, the procedures as established in Article XIII, Section 3(d) of our Constitution, shall not apply. "The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible for determining whether such member is a member in good standing and further whether such member has. in fact, voted previously. He shall send the processed ballot by Registered Mail-Return Receipt Re­ quested to the address designated bysuch member in his absentee ballot request. The Secretaiy-Treasurer .shall send to such member with his ballot, instructions for returning the ballot, which in,structions must be .complied with exactly. "The Secretary-Treasurer shall fur­ ther maintain a record showing the name, book number of the member, his ballot number and the date upon which such ballot was sent, which information shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee, when elected, in accordance with Article XIII, Section 5(c) of the Constitution. The member, after voting, shall return his absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail, or the equivalent mail­ ing device at the location from which such absentee ballot is returned, if such be the case, to the depository named in the President's Pre-Balloting Report. "These absentee ballots must be post-marked prior to midnight of De­ cember 31, 1968, and must be received by the depository named in the Pres­ ident's Pre-Balloting Report, prior to January 10, 1969, regardless of when post-marked, for them to be counted as eligible votes. Such ballots will be maintained separately by such deposi­ tory and shall then be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee, as provided in Section 5(d) of Article XIII of the Constitution." Although the membership had been made aware of the provisions for voting an absentee ballot by mail from anywhere in the world, out of all the eligible voters, only one (1) request for a mail or absentee ballot was received by our Secretary-Treas­ urer. This one request was from Brother F. P. Hartshorn, H-563, that was dated September 18th, 1968. Our SecretaryTreasurer informed Brother Hartshorn by letter, that he didn't meet the qualifications for a mail or absentee ballot because he was not on a vessel, as called for in the "Additions to Voting Procedures." In addition to which, he was sent a copy of our Secretary-Treasurer's report to the membership dealing with the "Additions to Voting Procedures." Your Union Tally­ ing Committee concurs in the action taken by our Secretary-Treasurer in the case of this request for a mail or absentee ballot and recommends that the membership con­ cur in same. Challenged Ballots Under the "Additions to Voting Proce­ dures" that was set up by our SecretaryTreasurer under the authority granted to him by Article XIII. Section 7 of our Con­ stitution, and approved by the member­ ship. he made provisions for the voting of challenged ballots, which challenge could be determined by the Union Tallying Com­ mittee. There were eleven (11) challenged ballots cast, and in view of the fact that Supplement—Page Thirteen LOG such eleven (11) ballots would not change the results of the vote for any office or job, your Committee decided not to pass upon the challenges and open them up. The eleven (II) challenged ballots are as fol­ lows: Name Adams, E White, R. H Gutieirrez, M Morris, C Leskum, J Cole, H Hicks, J Trasher, W McAvoy, W Salem, A Nelson, A Book Namber A-473 W-SOO G-737 M-1172 L-447 C-803 H-227 T-228 M-1045 S-794 N-214 Port of Challensre New Orleans New Orleans Houston Houston Houston Houston Houston Houston Houston Houston San Francisco Members Not Eligible To Vote As explained previously, there were four (4) double votes which were counted rather than void all ballots voted that day in the effected ports. In addition, your Union Tallying Committee, in drafting its report, has in several instances made the state­ ment, ". . . with the modification which is dealt with in detail later in this report under the heading "Members Not Eligible to Vote." Your Union Tallying Commit­ tee has used the foregoing as a means of not having to repeat itself time after time throughout the report, to explain the same item. In each instance where the statement aforementioned as used, it dealt with an individual, or individuals, being allowed to vote, that, for one reason or another, doesn't appear to your Union Tallying Committee to have been eligible to vote. The total of such votes is three hundred and sixty-five (365). However, there are many instances where a man might have explained to the local Port Polls Commit­ tee why he was eligible to vote, your Union Tallying Committee wouldn't be aware of the valid reason for his being eligible. After having taken into consideration the foregoing, your Union Tallying Com­ mittee. in arriving at its ultimate interpreta­ tions and decisions, was most concerned w!*h carrying out our Union's principle of democratic elections, and we have liber­ ally interpreted our Constitution's require­ ments, consistent with the constitutional language, and thus have assured to our membership our Union's policy of a mem­ ber's right to enjoy the widest opportunity to make a judgment when voting in our elections. Article XIII, Section 5(c) of our Constitution, dealing with the Union Tally­ ing Committee's Report, reads as follows: "The report, shall clearly detail all discrep­ ancies discovered, and shall contain recom­ mendations for the treatment of these dis­ crepancies." As a consequence of all of the foregoing, our Committee has deter­ mined that on those days where one or more possibly ineligible voters had been allowed to vote, that the total votes for the day should be counted. However, whatever the number of possible ineligible voters that had been allowed to vote comes to, that total figure must be less than the difference between the number of votes that the individual or individuals for a job that were designated as being elected re­ ceived, than the number of votes of the highest candidate that was deemed not to be elected. Conclusion As one of its closing actions, this Union Tallying Committee added together the total number of votes cast on the days from the various Ports, where it appeared to your Committee that an ineligible voter might have possibly voted. The total votes cast on these days, if they had all been voided, would not have changed the out­ come of any job on the ballot. Your Committee finds that the balloting took place in strict accordance with the Constitution, and that what errors were made, were all of no importance, and of no measurable effect, and could not influ­ ence the voting results, and were dealt with in accordance with the spirit of the Con­ stitution. Dated: January 15, 1969. Wai-i'en Cassidy, C-724 Elected in the Port of New York James Doris, D-3—Chairman Elected in the Port of Philadelphia John Carlson, C-490 Elected in the Port of Baltimore William Gradick, G-501 Elected in the Port of Mobile Tom Garrity, G-298 Elected in the Port of New Orleans John A. Ziereis, Z-12 Elected in the Port of Houston Charles Hamilton, H-562 Elected in the Port of New York Charles Moss, M-502 Elected in the Port of Philadelphia George Litchfield, L-170 Elected in the Port of Baltimore Cary J. Beck, B-650 Elected in the Port of Mobile F. DiGiovanni, D-459 Elected in the Port of New Orleans John L. Hunt, H-564 Elected in the Port of Houston Report By The Secretary-Treasurer On "Election Complaints During ELECTION OF 1969-1972 OFFICERS AND JOB HOLDERS OF THE SEA­ FARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA-ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT January 2, 1969 Under the terms of our Constitution and the rules proposed by your Secretary-Treas­ urer and approved by the membership, complaints concerning the conduct of the Union election and balloting procedure are to be sent to the Secretary-Treasurer, and the Secretary-Treasurer is charged with specific administrative duties in connection with such election. The office of your Secretary-Treasurer has received two what may be considered as complaints: one from Sidney Rothman, Book No. R-325, who is a candidate for President of our organization; the other from John Cole, Book No, C-8, who was a disqualified candidate for the office of Executive Vice-President of our organiza­ tion, At this time, I am reporting as to the action taken by myself in reference to these complaints, and my recommendations in connection with such complaints and the action taken thereon. The following are copies of correspond­ ence received from Sidney Rothman, R325, and sent to Brother Rothman: Letter dated October 17, 1968 from Sid­ ney Rothman to AI Kerr, received on Oc­ tober 18, 1968: "437-^6 Street Brooklyn, N. Y. 11220 Sidney Rothman—Book No. R-325 October 17, 1968 MR. AL KERR, SECRETARY-TREASURER "PROTESTS—On election for officers jobs for 1969 to 1972. Only 5 days before voting. Union is running in the seafarers log, qualified candidates, with photos, and records submitted by new candidates, which is not enough time for the member­ ship, that is at sea, and they are all over the world, to know who are the new candidates, which can stop me from being elected to office. Elected candidates that have been in office from 4 to 25 years are already well-known to the membership. "On elections in 1965 to 1968, the sea­ farers log ran new candidates for office, with photos submitted by candidates on Oct. 16, 1964, which was 17 days before election days, from Nov. 2, to Dec. 31, 1964. The seafarers log should run new candidates for office at least two months before elections, so the membership will know who the candidates are. Mr. Sidney Rothman, R-325 "(Signed) Mr. Sidney Rothman." Letter dated October 18, 1968 from your Secretary-Treasurer to Sidney Rothman: "October 18, 1968 "Mr. Sidney Rothman, R-325 437 46th Street Brooklyn, New York 11220 "Dear Sir and Brother: "I am in receipt today, October 18, of your registered letter No. 59779 dated Oc­ tober 17, 1968, which you have headed "Protests." The protest you have referred to is that, in your opinion, the election sup­ plement is not being made available to the membership far enough in advance of the commencing of the election of officials. "In answer to your written protest re­ ceived today, I repeat what I explained to you yesterday by phone—that the election supplement could not have been published earlier: "1. The Credentials Committee—in ff drafting their report to the membership that was concurred in by the Ports holding membership meetings in September—re­ quired that you as a candidate, and also another candidate in the election, be given till October 1. 1968 to comply with the fur­ nishing of the certificate required by Arti­ cle XIII. Section 1(h). "2. That under the terms of Article XIII, Section 2(c) of the Constitution, a disquali­ fied candidate has the right to appeal from a decision of the Credentials Committee, and. based on when the Committee made their report, and the Constitution, the final deadline date for action on any appeals would have been October 17, 1968. It would, therefore, have been impossible to have released any election materials prior to October 18, 1968 at the very earliest. "From the foregoing, I think that you will readily agree with me that it would have been impossible to have printed the election supplement containing the photo­ graphs and biographies of various candi­ dates in the Seafarers Log any earlier than what is being done, based on the fact that the issue of the Seafarers Log prior to Oc­ tober 17, 1968 came out on October 11, and that the next issue thereafter will be (Continued on page 14) �Supplement—Page Fourteen (Continued from page 13) released on October 25. "More importantly, however, all mem­ bers—even those at sea—will receive the election supplement before voting. Those who request mail ballots can do so until November 15, 1968, so the Seafarers Log issue containing the supplements will be mailed out and received before the ballot. Those who come ashore to vote will simi­ larly receive all back issues of the Sea­ farers Log as soon as their ship hits port. "Moreover, as I am sure you know by now, yesterday I had mailed you a letter telling you that you could secure one hun­ dred (100) copies of the supplement on the election at any timie. These can be distrib­ uted as you like. "In any event, for your information, it is my intention to present your letter as well as my answer to same to the membership for their information and advice. Fraternally, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAAGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer" Letter dated October 17, 1968 from your Secretary-Treasurer to Brother Rothman: "October 17, 1968 "Mr. Sidney Rothman, R-325 437 46th Street Brooklyn, New York 11220 Dear Sir and Brother: In line with our telephone conversation of today, wherein you requested that the issuance of the Election Supplements be moved up prior to their release in the Sea­ farers Log, this is to advise you as follows: 1. The Election Supplements are now available to all candidates in all ports. 2. You are entitled to, and can receive, up to one hundred (100) copies of the Elec­ tion Supplement at any time you person­ ally appear in my office. In the event of my absence, you are to contact William Mitchell who will see that you are supplied with up to one hundred (100) copies of the Election Supplement, upon your signing a proper receipt for same. If you have any questions relative to the above, kindly qontact the undersigned. Fraternally, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAAGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer" tetter dated October 18, 1968 from your Secretary-Treasurer to Brother Rothman: "October 18, 1968 "Mr. S. Rothman 437 46th Street Brooklyn, N. Y. Re: Election Supplements Dear Sir and Brother: "In the Secretary-Treasurer's report to the various October membership meetings it was recommended and concurred in, that at his request, each candidate on the ballot for election of officers be allowed up to 100 copies of the Election Supplement. This Election Supplement contains the pictures and biographies of all the election candi­ dates as well as other information relative to the election. "In compliance with the foregoing, the Secretary-Treasurer's office has supplied the Port Agents in the various ports with Election Supplements so that they will be available for the candidates if and when they are requested. If you want to receive any of your Election Supplements, to which you-are entitled, contact the Port Agent nearest you. Fraternally, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORiH AMERICAAGLIWD ..•rtr,. (Signed) A! Kerr AlKerr Secretary-Treasurer" SEAFARERS All of the foregoing correspondence was submitted to the membership meeting of November 4, 1968 for the membership's information and advice. In view of all of the foregoing corres­ pondence, I find that there is no basis for Brother Rothman's complaint as to the Election Supplements not being provided to the various candidates at an earlier date, and I so recommend to the membership for their action. The other complaint referred to previ­ ously in this report was that of John Cole, C-8, a disqualified candidate for the office of Executive Vice President. The following are copies of correspond­ ence received from John Cole, C-8, and sent to Brother Cole: Letter dated November 2, 1968 from John Cole to your Secretary-Treasurer, re­ ceived on November 4, 1968: 118 Hilltop Acres Yonkers 4, N.Y. November 2, 1968 Secretary-Treasurer A. Kerr, AGLIWD-SIUNA, 675 Fourth Ave., Bklyn., N.Y. 11232 Mr. Secretary-Treasurer: Since my name was not on yesterday's ballot in the office of Executive Vice Pres­ ident, for which it was duly offered and re­ jected, I protest the validity of our Dis­ trict's election. Leaving nothing to chance, I'm notifying you within the prescribed 24 hours of having cast my vote, that SIU's election process, rather than democratizing, has worsened owing to erosive violations designed to safeguard the demoralizing privileges vested in the hands of a special few. I was disqualified for not presenting a certificate of four months' seatime in the current year. In lieu of it, I offered an unfit-for-duty certificate signed by quali­ fied Public Health Service doctors. Inas­ much as such documentary proof is ac­ ceptable as legitimate seatime in pension qualification, it should also be applicable here. Whereas it raises the question of whether incapacity disqualifies a candidate, we should turn to the Union constitution (Article XXIV, Sections 1 and 2), which allows a Union official to have his func­ tions performed by another when ill 30 days or longer. He may only be replaced when a state of vacancy exists, and that is defined as failure to perform by reason of death, resignation, suspension from mem­ bership, or expulsion from the Union. En­ trenched officials are no longer required to produce evidence of seatime for obvious reasons, merely a show of office time, or commensurate cover-uo in the case of incapacity. Election rules that protect an incumbent's qualification for office when incapacitated, and refuse the same condi­ tion to an independent candidate are un­ equal and unjust. The issue is not one of opposing the perpetuation of men in office —that is for the membership to deride if they can ever get this private club off their backs—it is arriving at procedural prin­ ciples imnartialy interpreted. Personalities aside, I am as qualified by present constitu­ tional rules to throw in for the position as Cal Tanner. Involuntary retirement was no ground for my being declared ineligible to run for office. Pensioners have long been a stable source of Union committee personnel. They served as trial and appeals judges when I was fraudulently expelled, and have parti­ cipated in every other phase of the Union's business. Conversely disability should not inactivate my membership to the extent that I not be permitted to work toward an honest election, unpopular as that cause may be made to appear. It is unimportant whether or not my running produces a close contest—what counts is overhauling an electoral system unilaterally favoring the in-crowd. I am not looking for per­ sonal vindication, yet I am insisuhg on the same right as every other full-fledged SIU member in accordance with law to run for Union office. Achieving this aim, I still might be a positive force for good in cre­ ating a healthy dialogue within the Union, but it was precisely to prevent such a situa­ tion that my name was kept off the ballot, and as a consequence succeeded in censor­ ing my hundred-word statement intended for the Log's election supplement. LOG Having come this far, the average dis­ qualified candidate would still have a longshot chance left' him—the write-in vote. Not so me. When I was ousted from the Union in 1962, the Log revived meeting minutes so port by port my down-fall could be publicized. When patrolmen made ship payoffs, and were asked why, along with various maligning versions, the reason con­ cocted was treason. When the courts re­ stored my membership rights, the yellow Log refused to let me state my side of the case. I was even denied the customary col­ umn mention in the long-standing Log fix­ ture when added to the pension rolls. The Credentials Committee announced my re­ tirement in its report, but so ambiguously as to leave the impression my disability might be mental. With such a bad press, and the administration's entire work force directed to propagandize against me, what does it matter that the Union's officers sus­ pended their special Log columns the last third of the year? Through the years, they have hogged the space while permitting me not one line. Also, they are still the only ones on the ballot allowed access to all SIU vessels where their biased views can be spread. The conduct of every previous election has been to indulge pro-adminis­ tration electioneering around the voting booths. Contrary to the Constitution (Ar­ ticle XIII, Section 4(f)), certain balloting committeemen received compensation so as to supervise strategy. In 1960, I com• plained about Frenchy Ruf, chairman of the New York committee, handling the bal­ lots, after misappropriating Union funds twice as patrolman. Unhampered by regu­ latory checks. Headquarters appointed him that year's tallying committeeman from Detroit. His pay went on for some time after the election. Similarly, in 1964, Curly Barnes was rewarded with a long term on the Union payroll for serving as New York Ballotting Committee chairman. When Mike Toner complained about voting irreg­ ularities in the last election, the elite's hand-picked committees went right on tell­ ing members to "vote democratic," while at the same time distributing incumbents' literature. Violation of members' right of free choice was hardly ended here. At meetings, placards are displayed, stating that the Executive Board has precedence over the majority vote of the membership despite Article XXIII, Section 3, of the Constitution. Outspoken members are openly intimidated at meetings, but such bulldozing tactics add up to "free speech" according to SIU laywyer McEvoy as con­ veyed to me at an August 27, 1968 session. Union balloting ends at 5 PM on week­ days, noon on Saturdays, the same time post offices close around the country, so registration of the enevelopes must wait until the next business day. Accordingly, custodian of the sealed envelopes in each ca ,e is the port agent, who stands to gain b> tampering with the ballots. I protested this in the last two elections, but since the only solution seems to be an impartial balloting association, the suspect practice persists. Frequently, the old committee is still undischarged when a new group is already functioning. I also cited the failure of the depository to sign the final election report, vouching for the probity of our ballots' guardians. By the depository pass­ ing the buck to Miss Alice Goodman, Union officials remain happy over the way ballots are being handled, even if she doesn't get to sign the report. Grateful for such cooperation, the Seafarers' Pen­ sion Plan gave the Royal National Bank of New York its checking account, indicat­ ing a conflict of interest. If the election were on the level, would a paltry nine members be bucking the administration slate of 45? In 1960, 31 independents tried for 43 jobs. But, with the Union machin­ ery being used only to shelter a secure handful, reasonable opportunity to run for office will continue to be squelched. Not surprisingly, the SIU constitution is silent on what post-election remedies are available for rejected candidates. Further­ more, the burden of proof for knowing procedural rules is on the rank-and-filer (though away at sea) when the Executive Bo^. J pushes a rule which is rubberstair d by the membership. In 1964, a re jlution was adopted permitting com­ January 31, 1969 plainants on any part of the election, or balloting procedures, to notify the Secre­ tary-Treasurer within 24 hours of the oc­ curence. This was not incorporated into the constitution, nor mentioned in the Pres­ ident's pre-balloting report. Such an omis­ sion is calculatedly evasive, and makes the claim "ignorance of the law is no excuse" unreasonable. On a half-dozen occasions, I have asked New York Agent DiGiorgio for a given month's meeting minutes only to be sent on a dry run the considerable distance to your office, where I was told the minutes were actually only a few steps away from DiGiorgio in Vice President Shepard's desk. One afternoon, I was seated outside President Hall's of­ fice for hours, having been told: "The min­ utes are on their way from Kerr's build­ ing;" but somehow they never arrived. Consistent with this kind of runaround is the appeals' process for disqualified can­ didates. I mailed letters to the port agents, criticizing the double standard that kept me off the ballot. If they got beyond the bare title, then the reading was distorted by skipped lines and misread words, which is common procedure for a message the administrators don't want heard. It goes without saying the freeze on me persisted, but not one port agent thought it necessary to notify me. I'm now seeking relief on the 1964 resolution. Would you advise me as to the proper course to follow if another step fpllowing this is required? Yours for a democratic SIU, (Signed) John Cole (C-8). P.S. Wishing to leave no loose ends hang­ ing, this beef is submitted for inclusion in your post-Election Report so it can be acted on by the membership along with your disposition on the matter. (Signed) JC P.P.S. One final word: at 675 Fourth Ave­ nue. Brooklyn, yesterday, patrolman Leon Hall sent me to you at 2-75 20th Street, when I asked for a look at the September meetings minutes. Presidential candidate Sid Rothman accompanied me. It was im­ portant that I learn the form in which my credentials' appeal was presented to the members and what the port-by-port tally was. At the door of your building, the switchboard operator (who had been warned of my coming) hailed me with the news that you were not in, had not left word when you would be back, and that no one else could show me the minutes. This was the same hang-up I encountered December 31, 1964, on requesting to see the election file, only then you were home sick, with no certainty when you would be well again, so I saw no file. These records ere available at all times—but not for everybody, man! (Signed) JC Letter dated November 6, 1968 from your Secretary-Treasurer to Brother Cole: "November 6, 1968 "Mr. John Cole, C-8 118 Hilltop Acres Yonkers 4, New York Dear Sir and Brother: I am in receipt of your letter of Novem­ ber 2nd and, as requested in your letter, it will be made a part of the post-election report. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAAGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer" Brother Cole's letter apparently is a protest for his not being found qualified by the Credentials Committee. He starts his letter by saying: "Since my name was not on yesterday's ballot in the office of Executive Vice President, for which it was duly offered and rejected, I protest the validity of our District's election." The Credentials Committee in its report of August 21, 1968 found Brother Cole not qualified. The Credentials Committee's Report setting out their reason for his disqualification was printed in the August 30, 1968 edi*=on of the Seafarers Log. The Credentials Committee's Report was pre(Continued on page 15) �January 31, 1969 (Continued from page 14) sented to the membership at the September, 1968 membership meetings. At the same meetings, Brother Cole presented his ap­ peal from the Credentials Committee's Re­ port and the membership accepted the Credentials Committee's Report and re­ jected Brother Cole's appeal. In view of the above, I see no basis to Brother Cole's protest and it should be dismissed. I so recommend to the mem­ bership for their action. Brother Cole further states that in con­ nection with the 1964 election, a resolution was adopted "permitting complainants on any part of the election, or balloting proce­ dures, to notify the Secretary-Treasurer within 24 hours of the oecurrenee." He then claims this procedure was not pro­ vided for in this election. Brother Cole is apparently mistaken as to his facts. In the 1964 election, it was recommended, and the membership adopted a rule, that in case a member has a complaint that "any of the election and balloting procedures of this Union have been violated," he was required to notify the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters of the facts within 24 hours by registered mail, return receipt requested, and which notification had to be signed by the com­ plainant, together with his book number. SEAFARERS The same procedure was adopted for this election. It is contained in my report to the membership meetings in October, 1968 and adopted by the membership, and printed in the October 25, 1968 issue of the Seafarers Log. In any event, I recommend that Brother Cole's protest not be rejected on the grounds of untimeliness, as that does not apply. I do recommend that his entire protest, including his statement as to pro­ cedure by complainants, be rejected be­ cause of all of tbe above, and because it is without merit. As I have set out above, I have deter­ mined that there is no basis for the complaints of Brothers Rothman and Cole in reference to a violation, or violations, of the election procedures in accordance with the Union's constitution and rules adopted by the membership. I, therefore, so recommend to the membership for their action. Fraternally submitted, A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer EDITOR^S JSOTE: The report was presented for action by the member­ ship at the January membership meetings. The membership in these membership meetings accepted and concurred in the report and its rec­ ommendations. LOG Supplement—Paee Fifteen SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT BY THE SECRETARY-TREASURER ON "ELECTION COMPLAINTS" DURING AND AFTER ELECTION OF 1969-1972 OFFICERS AND JOBHOLDERS OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES & INLAND WATERS DISTRICT Under the terms of our Constitution and the Rules proposed by your SecretaryTreasurer which were approved by the membership, complaints concerning the conduct of the Union election and balloting procedures were to be sent to the Secre­ tary-Treasurer, and the Secretary-Treasur­ er was charged with specific administrative duties in connection with such complaints. At the January membership meetings, I as your Secretary-Treasurer, made a Re­ port on Election Complaints as of that time. This Election Complaint Report and its recommendations, made by myself in compliance with the Rules and Pro­ cedures as adopted by the membership, was accepted unanimously in all Ports. Since that Report, the final election pro­ cedures have been completed and will be presented to the February "Election Re­ port Meetings." As previously reported, at no time did we have an election complaint other than the two (2) letters that were treated as com­ plaints, given in my previous "Election Complaints" report. The Chairman of the Union Tallying Committee has informed me that at no time were any protests or complaints re­ ceived by the Union Tallying Committee, written or otherwise. The foregoing constitutes my final re­ port relative to the election and its pro­ cedures, and it is my recommendation that you accept and concur in this report, as well as the recommendations and the report of the Union Tallying Committee. Fraternally submitted, Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer Seafarers International Union of North America—AGLIWD Dated: January 21, 1969 EDITOR'S ISOTE: The preceding supplemental report by the Secre­ tary-Treasurer on Election Com­ plaints" will be acted on at the Feb­ ruary membership meetings. OFFICIAL TALLY SHEET FOR ELECTION OF 1969-1972 OFFICERS * DENOTES THAT MAN WAS ELECTED BOSTON President Paul Hall, H-1 Andrew Pickur, P-172 . Sidney Rothman, R-325 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals Executive Vice-President Cal Tanner, T-1 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals NEW YORK PHI LA. BAIT. NORFOLK JAX. TAMPA MOBILE N. O. HOUSTON WILM. S. F. SEAT. DET. SAN JUAN TOTALS 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 1,011 18 28 7 40 3 0 1,107 149 3 4 0 0 0 0 156 286 32 20 9 6 0 0 353 105 5 5 0 10 0 0 125 70 0 1 0 3 0 0 74 104 0 0 0 3 0 0 107 341 5 8 0 8 0 0 362 562 11 7 2 4 0 2 588 439 9 12 0 6 0 8 474 141 . 10 9 4 5 1 0 170 368 15 28 0 30 1 1 443 266 7 6 0 4 0 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 134 1 20 3 9 0 0 167 3,992* 116 148 25 128 5 11 4,425 16 0 0 0 0 16 996 83 22 6 0 1,107 154 2 0 0 0 156 322 25 4 2 0 353 119 3 2 1 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 103 3 1 0 0 107 323 35 4 0 0 362 525 60 1 0 2 S88 436 29 1 0 8 474 161 7 1 1 0 170 415 14 8 5 1 443 273' 9 0 1 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 16 6 1 0 167 4,061* 286 50 17 11 4,425 4 ^1 I <1 Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr, K-7 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 16 0 0 0 0 16 1,022 55 23 7 0 1,107 154 2 0 0 0 156 314 29 7 3 0 353 120 3 2 0 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 105 1 1 0 0 107 332 26 4 0 0 362 560 24 2 0 2 588 429 36 1 0 8 474 159 10 1 . 0 0 170 418 13 6 5 1 443 271 10 0 2 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 145 16 5 1 0 167 4,119* 225 52 18 11 4.425 Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement Domingo La Llave, L-44 Robert A. Matthews, M-1 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 0 15 0 1 0 0 16 106 923 38 37 3 0 1,107 4 148 . 2 2 0 0 156 36 247 55 14 1 0 353 11 106 1 -7 0 0 125 1 72 0 1 0 0 74 1 106 0 0 0 0 107 18 324 13 7 0 0 362 45 505 31 5 0 2 588 32 427 3 4 0 8 474 15 145 6 4 0 0 170 50 372 5 15 0 1 443 11 267 3 1 1 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64 87 7 9 0 0 167 394 3,744* 164 107 5 11 4,425 Vice-President in Charge of The Atlantic Coast James M. Dawson, D-82 .. Earl Shepard, S-2 No Votes .. Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 1 14 0 1 0 0 16 117 917 39 30 4 0 i;io7 12 142 1 1 0 0 156 66 259 19 8 1 0 353 17 100 0 8 0 0 125 4 69 0 1 0 0 74 3 103 0 1 0 0 107 13 335 10 4 0 0 362 42 511 28 5 0 2 588 48 413 1 4 0 8 474 25 134 4 7 0 0 170 90 336 4 12 0 1 443 25 252 3 2 1 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 84 14 8 0 0 167 524 3,669* 123 92 6 11 4,425 Vice-President in Charge of Hie Gulf Coast Lindsey J. Williams, W-1 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged 0 0 0 0 1,002 76 22 7 0 1,107 156 0 0 0 0 156 316 31 4 2 0 353 120 1 3 1 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 106 0 1 0 0 107 350 9 3 0 0 362 568 17 1 0 2 588 455 10 1 0 8 474 159 8 2 1 0 170 415 13 8 6 1 443 277 5 0 1 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 142 18 6 1 0 167 4,156* 188 51 19 11 4 425. 16 0 0 0 0 16 967 114 20 6 0 1,107 154 2 0 0 0 156 316 32 4 1 0 353 117 4 3 1 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 99 7 1 0 0 107 311 49 2 0 0 362 512 73 1 0 2 588 443 22 1 0 8 474 157 11 1 1 0 170 405 .28 6 3 1 443 275 7 0 1 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 19 3 1 0 167 3,990* 366 43 14 11 4,425 Totals Vice-President in Charge of The Lakes and Inland Waters J. Al Tanner, T-12 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals (Continued on page 16) �SEAFARERS Snpplement—Page Sixteen January 31, 1969 LOG (Continued from page 15) OFFICIAL TALLY SHEET FOR ELECTION OF 1969-1972 OFFICERS *DENOTES THAT MAN WAS ELECTED BOSTON NEW YORK PHILA. BALI. N. O. HOUSTON NORFOLK JAX. TAMPA MOBILE 106 101 101 10 3 0 0' 321 327 325 324 104 6 0 0 1,086 509 504 490 251 3 1 6 1,764 454 446 452 42 3 1 24 1,422 S. F. SEAT. DET. SAN JUAN TOTALS 154 146 116 76 9 9 0 510 408 400 361 108 24 25 3 1,329 274 273 265 31 0 6 0 849 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 135 115 75 18 14 0 501 4,053» 3,960* 3,666* 1,292 168 103 33 13,275 130 . 37 2 1 0 170 337 99 5 1 1 443 236 45 0 2 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 134 27 5 1 0 167 3,521* 835 42 16 11 4.425 WILM. Headquarters Representatives William W. Hall, H-272 . Edward X. Mooney, M-7 Freddie Stewart, S-8 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 16 16 16 0 0 0 0 48 1,007 964 819 421 72 38 0 3,321 155 156 151 6 0 0 0 468 307 308 286 134 18 6 0 1,059 118 112 98 32 12 3 0 375 74 74 72 2 0 0 0 222 New York Port Agent Joseph DiGiorgio, D-2 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 15 1 0 0 0 16 935 145 19 8 0 1,107 136 20 0 0 0 156 241 108 4 0 0 353 110 11 3 1 0 125 70 4 0 0 0 74 99 7 1 0 0 107 197 163 2 0 0 362 493 93 0 0 2 588 388 75 1 2 8 474 16 16 16 0 16 16 16 16 15 16 16 1 0 0 0 160 873 902 848 210 901 844 883 912 852 861 824 1,222 900 38 0 11,070 139 146 139 14 143 142 146 146 144 142 143 36 80 0 0 1,560 235 246 260 114 244 234 253 256 234 253 233 486 480 2 0 3,530 95 99 103 46 96 94 100 102 96 97 92 80 150 0 0 1,250 69 70 71 11 70 69 71 71 69 68 68 13 20 0 0 740 97 103 103 20 101 99 103 98 97 99 96 14 40 0 0 1,070 326 328 329 28 327 324 330 329 328 330 322 19 300 0 0 3,620 494 499 501 152 490 495 505 506 469 499 481 559 210 0 20 5,880 421 424 429 86 424 422 435 425 417 422 422 93 240 0 80 4,740 110 123 124 49 114 119 129 125 117 121 124 143 300 2 0 1,700 329 360 357 170 338 340 368 360 328 346 336 319 460 9 10 4,430 246 254 257 50 250 244 261 256 247 252 262 111 137 3 0 2,830 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 116 143 124 74 130 125 133 130 126 125 103 267 70 4 0 1.670 3,566* 3,713* 3,661* 1,024 3,644* 3,567* 3,733* 3,732* 3,539* 3,631* 3,522* 3,363 3,387 58 110 44.250 Philadelphia Agent Frank Drozak, D-22 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 16 0 0 0 0 16 968 114 17 8 0 1,107 155 1 0 0 0 156 311 35 4 3 0 353 116 7 1 1 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 105 2 0 0 0 107 315 45 2 0 0 362 523 62 1 0 2 588 445 20 1 0 8 474 156 11 1 2 0 170 410 19 6 7 1 443 257 22 2 2 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 137 25 4 1 0 167 3,988* 363 39 24 11 4,425 Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Belarmino (Bennie) Gonzalez, G-4 .... Leon Hall, Jr., H-125 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 16 16 0 0 0 0 32 923 963 283 32 13 0 2,214 137 151 24 0 0 0 312 299 293 102 11 1 0 706 114 115 21 0 0 0 250 73 73 2 0 0 0 148 106 94 14 0 0 0 214 317 320 84 3 0 0 724 496 495 179 2 0 4 1,176 438 443 49 2 0 16 948 151 154 34 0 1 0 340 385 387 94 14 4 2 886 258 266 40 0 2 0 566 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 133 130 50 19 2 0 334 3,846* 3,900* 976 83 23 22 8,850 2 12 0 2 0 0 162 815 77 51 2 0 4 147 1 4 0 0 43 276 10 23 1 0 15 95 2 13 0 0 3 69 0 2 0 0 7 96 2 2 0 0 20 320 15 7 0 0 85 456 36 9 0 2 35 415 4 12 0 8 24 125 9 12 0 0 90 314 16 22 0 1 28 240 5 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49 89 14 15 0 0 16 1,107 156 353 125 74 107 362 588 474 170 443 283 0 167 New York Joint Patrolman Ted Babkowski, B-1 Angus Campbell, C-217 John F. Fay, F-363 Rufino Garay, G-770 Luige lovino, I-11 Pasquale (Pat) Marinelli, M-462 F. B. "Mac" McAuley, M-20 ... George McCartney, M-948 Frank Mongelli, M-1111 Keith Terpe, T-3 Steve (Zubovich) Troy, T-485 .. No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals Baltimore Agent Alfred H. Anderson, A-11 Rexford Dickey, D-6 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 567 3,469* 191 183 4 n 4,425 • Baltimore Joint Patrolman W. Paul Gonsorchik, G-2 Fli Hanover, H-212 Tony Kastina, K-5 Benjamin Wilson, W-217 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 16 16 16 16 0 0 0 0 64 958 919 931 937 606 64 13 0 4,428 153 152 152 153 14 0 0 0 624 327 332 327 332 63 25 6 0 1,412 118 118 118 116 30 0 0 0 500 74 74 74 74 0 0 0 0 296 105 104 105 104 10 0 0 0 428 325 326 327 327 133 5 0 0 1,448 505 503 502 504 327 1 2 8 2,352 452 449 443 451 61 8 0 32 1,896 152 156 154 155 57 4 2 0 680 413 407 402 403 117 24 2 4 1,772 268 271 269 270 48 4 2 0 1,132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 139 134 140 134 96 24 1 0 668 4,005* 3,961* 3,960* 3,976* 1,567 159 28 44 17.700 Mobile Agent Louis Neira, N-1 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 16 0 0 0 0 16 953 131 18 5 0 1,107 152 4 0 0 0 156 297 52 3 1 0 353 117 8 0 0 0 125 73 1 0 0 0 74 102 5 0 0 0 107 344 17 1 0 0 362 540 46 0 0 2 588 453 12 1 0 8 474 145 23 1 1 0 170 398 34 7 3 1 443 271 10 0 2 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 22 4 1 0 167 4,001* 365 35 13 11 4,425 Mobile Joint Patrolman Harold J. Fischer, F-1 Robert L. Jordan, J-1 Leo Marsh, M-9 Blanton (Mack) McGowan, M-1351 William J. Morris, M-4 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals 14 14 14 0 14 0 8 0 0 64 917 906 821 218 847 408 290 21 0 4,428 147 154 146 15 146 12 4 0 0 624 269 273 246 109 237 184 85 9 0 1,412 101 107 91 35 103 31 32 0 0 500 70 72 68 6 72 0 8 0 0 296 103 103 91 15 103 9 4 0 0 428 344 346 325 45 317 6 65 0 0 1,448 531 533 483 109 495 171 20 2 8 2.352 436 441 402 91 414 27 52 1 32 1,896 136 134 114 49 137 74 36 0 0 680 372 378 321 150 339 116 89 3 4 1,772 258 254 239 56 250 34 40 1 0 1,132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 123 126 110 58 110 99 40 2 0 668 3,821* 3,841* 3,471* 956 3,584* 1,171 773 39 44 17,700 New Orleans Agent C. J. "Buck" Stephens, S-4 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals « 13 3 0 0 0 16 926 156 18 7 0 1,107 152 4 0 0 0 156 295 57 1 0 0 353 116 8 1 0 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 96 10 1 0 0 107 303 59 0 0 0 362 554 31 1 0 2 588 435 30 1 0 8 474 146 24 0 0 0 170 385 51 5 1 1 443 243 39 0 1 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 132' 29 5 1 0 167 3,870* 501 33 10 11 4,425 (Continued on page 17) �January 31, 1969 SEAFARERS Supplement—Page Seventeen LOG " i (Continued from page 16) OFFICIAL TALLY SHEET FOR ELECTION OF 1969-1972 OFFICERS *DENOTES THAT MAN WAS ELECTED BOSTON New Orleans Joint Patrolman Ernest de Bautte, D-208 .. Thomas E. Gould, G-267 .. Louis Guarino, G-520 .... Herman M. Troxciair, T-4 . Paul Warren, W-3 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals Houston Agent Paul Drozak, D-180 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals Houston Joint Patrolman Martin (Marty) Breithoff, B-2 .... "Pete" Drewes, D-177 Roan Lightfoot, L-562 Joseph N. McLaren, M-1209 Robert F. "Mickey" Wilburn, W-6 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals Detroit Agent Frank (Scottie) Aubusson, A-8 No Votes Voids Write-in's Challenged Totals NEW YORK PHILA. BALI. NORFOLK JAX. TAMPA MOBILE N. O. HOUSTON WILM. S. F. SEAT. DET. SAN JUAN TOTALS I 10 10 9 10 0 24 0 0 64 242 927 865 898 868 407 199 22 0 4,428 15 153 147 148 146 3 12 0 0 624 131 281 261 266 239 172 61 1 0 1,412 49 107 87 97 101 19 40 0 0 500 12 70 69 70 66 1 8 0 0 296 17 104 102 104 97 0 4 0 0 428 40 353 346 350 332 0 27 0 0 1,448 85 528 527 539 487 146 32 0 8 2,352 75 440 430 439 423 22 35 0 32 1,896 54 140 132 133 123 42 48 8 0 680 188 398 338 365 332 100 40 7 4 1,772 62 261 244 253 236 42 28 6 0 1,132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68 118 116 119 99 97 47 4 0 668 1,039 3,890* 3,674* 3,790* 3,559* 1,051 605 48 44 17 700 16 0 0 16 955 128 17 7 0 l,f07 150 6 0 0 0 156 310 40 1 2 0 353 116 7 1 1 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 101 5 1 0 0 107 314 48 0 0 0 362 536 49 1 0 2 588 445 20 1 0 8 474 144 25 0 1 0 170 402 28 6 6 1 443 253 27 0 3 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 142 19 5 1 0 167 3,958* 402 33 21 11 4.425 16 16 16 0 16 0 0 0 0 64 935 906 862 228 832 392 260 13 0 4,428 154 149 146 10 151 6 8 0 0 624 296 265 268 113 251 157 61 1 0 1,412 106 102 93 42 99 18 40 0 0 500 72 72 71 6 71 4 0 0 0 296 104 93 102 20 96 1 12 0 0 428 352 349 351 28 348 4 16 0 0 1,448 516 489 499 124 500 188 28 0 8 3 352 435 422 437 68 439 30 32 1 32 1,896 143 131 135 50 129 31 60 1 0 680 396 376 361 160 332 86 56 1 4 1,772 263 247 242 58 254 43 24 1 0 1,132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 126 115 119 62 107 91 48 0 0 668 3,914* 3,732* 3,702* 969 3,625* 1,051 645 18 44 17.700 16 0 0 0 0 16 973 113 17 4 0 1.107 152 4 0 0 0 156 305 46 1 1 0 353 121 2 2 0 0 125 74 0 0 0 0 74 103 4 0 0 0 107 315 47 0 0 0 362 531 55 0 0 2 588 444 21 1 0 8 474 145 23 0 2 0 170 408 31 3 0 1 443 267 15 0 1 0 283 0 0 0 0 0 0 142 21 4 0 0 167 3,996* 382 28 8 11 4.425 HEADQUARTERS TALLYING COMMITTEE'S BREAKDOWN OF WRITE-INS NAME OF CANDIDATE BOOK NUMBER Cole C-8 Mike Fritch Not given ... George Ruff Not given Fred Serrahn S-280 Van Whitney W-11 Jerry Brown Not given ... Cole C-8 John Cole C-8 Mike Fritch Not given Bill Hall H-272 C. Hamilton H-467 John Hawks H-1 V. Kuhl K-273 C. Moble Not given Pat Paulsen Not given Andrew Pickue Not given A. Rosado R-146 Leon Webb Not given Lindsey Williams Not given Walter C. Zapac ..Not given Nils Beck Not given Cassidy C-725 Cole C-8 J. Cole Not given Juan Cruz Not given W. J. Door Not given Bill Hall H-272 John Hawks H-1 Eddie Mooney .Not given Pat Paulsen Not given Andrew Pickur P-172 Fred Serrahn S-280 N. Tuken ,...T-13G Raymond U. Veatowski ....V-19 Weber ...Not given Walter C. Zapac Not given Nichols Beck B-320 Cole C-8 Bill Hall H-272 Pat Paulsen Not given Sidney Rothman Not given Stephen Carr C-70 Cole C-8 Bill Hall H-272 Pat Paulsen Not given Anybody Except Not given Walter Beyer Not given Wm. Chancey Not given Cole .C-8 John Cole C-8 T. Doty D-169 Bill Hall H-272 Eugene Hall Not given Dolph E. Holm H-659 Chas. Q. Lee Not given Pat Paulsen Not given Robert Sawyer S-1308 Fred Serrahn S-280 R. Sipari Not given Buck Stephens Not given Walter C. Zapac Not given Mike Fritch Not given •N. Beck B-320 ... JOB FOR WHICH RECEIVED WRITE-IN . .President . .President . .President . .President . .President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasmer Secretary-Treasurer V.P. in Charge of Contracts V.P. in Charge of Contracts .... V.P. in Charge of Contracts .... .V.P. in Charge of Contracts .... V.P. in Charge of Contracts .... V.P. in Charge of Atl. Coast ... V.P. in Charge of Atl. Coast ... V.P. in Charge of Atl. Coast ... V.P. in Charge of Atl. Coast ... V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Gulf Coast V.P. of Lakes BOST. N.Y. PHIL. BALT. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NORF. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 JAX. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TAMPA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MOB. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.O. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HOUST. WILM. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 S.F. SEAT. DET. SAN JUAN 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS (Continued on page 18 .A �- SEAFARERS Supplement—Page Eighteen January 31, 1969 LOG (Continued from page 17) HEADQUARTERS TALLYING COMMITTEE'S BREAKDOWN OF WRITE-INS NAME OF CANDIDATE T. Bramble Marty Breithoff Cole John Cole Mike Fritch Bill Hall Al Keer Andrew Paul Mazurek W. Messenger Pat Paulsen Robert Sawyer Walter C. Zapac Blair Allison Alfred Anderson Peter Arthur George Austin Ted Babkowski Frank Baron Marty Breithoff Angus Campbell Mario Carascio Thomas Carlin I. K. Coates Cole Joseph DeGiorgi James Dawson Charles L. Fischel Mike Fritch Vincent Genco Bill Hall Eugene Hall Leon Hall Eli Hanover Frank Harper Robert Harwell Heggenbotom Dolph Halm Charles Lee Anthony Lipari L. Lipari Pasquale Marinelli E. B. McAuley George McCartnye Richard McConnell Ken McGregor E. McAuladay Fred T. Miller Alf Olsen Pat Paulsen Angel Pedrosa Andrew Pickur Roberto Principe Jose L. Ramos Juan Jose Rinosa Sidney Rothman George Ruff Frenchy Ruf Albert Sacco George Schmidt George Stanley Bernard "Mike" Toner Van Whitney Heinz F. Ulrich Walter C. Zapac Edward Van Vynch Steve Zubovich Teddy Baboski Joe Blow : Marty Breithoff Warren Cassidy Cole Richard Comstock Jos. M. Dawson John R. Hansen Geo. R. McCartney Pat Paulsen Sidney Rothman Robert Sawyer K. B. Samat Sven Stockman Walter C. Zapac Chuck Allen Peter. Arthur J. Bales Edward Bonafont Frank Boyne Marty Breithoff Isaac Brown R. J. Bums lohn Cabral Warren Cassidy Walter Changet Cole L. Cronsomn Malcola Cross Gene Darin Lee Frazier J. Ferrand C. H. Foster Lee R. Fraser Mike Fritch Jose Garcia Tony Garza Paul Gonsorchik Bill Hall Eugene Hall R. May R. Medford R. Meloy Nefairo Daniel P. O'Connor Peter Patrick Aldo Perini Andrew Pickur Lois Rivera Sidney Rothman George Rugg Anibal Sanobula : John Simoneles BOOK NUMBER Not given B-2 C-8 C-8 Not given H-272 Not given Not given M-615 Not given S-1308 Not given A-182 A-11 Not given A-303 B-1 B-280 Not given Not given C-57 Not given C-916 C-8 Not given D-82 F-341 Not given G-79 H-272 Not given Not given H-3I3 Not given Hr257 Not given Not given Not given L-237 Not given M-162 M-20 M-948.. Not given Not given Not given Not given 0-29 Not given P-64 P-172 P-52 R-59 Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given W-11 U-17 Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given C-8 Not given Not given H-666 Not given Not given Not given S-1308 S-200 S-44 Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given Not given B-2 B-35 B-187 C-200 Not given Not given C-8 C-801 ( C-443 D-9 F-323 Not given Not given F-323 Not given Not given Not given Not given H-272 Not given M-782 Not given .M-1056 Not given 0-249 Not given P-83 P-172 R-114 Not given Not given Not given S-1273 JOB FOR WHICH RECEIVED WRITE-IN BOST. V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes i... 0 V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes •. 0 V.P. of Lakes 0V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes 0 V.P. of Lakes 0 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 0 Headquarters Rep. 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Williams Joe Ayres Marty Breithoff Cole Rexford Dickey C. H. Foster Mike Fritch Harry Gerrie Paul Gonsorchik Bill Hall Leon Hall, Jr Victor Harding Erik Jensen Thomas Liles Baby Miller Paulsen Robert Sawyer Earl Sheppard Bernard "Mike" Toner Van Whitney Wicks Walter C. Zapac Cole Antonio Cruz W. R. Davis James Doris Mike Fritch Bill Hall Edward Kresz George Ruff Fred Serrahn Victor Silva Charles Stansberry Charles Stansbury Joe Sullivan N Taska Charlie Taylor Joe Trainor ..! Walter C. Zapac Cole Dolpli Holm Frank Lambert Pat Paulsen Alfred Anderson Peter Arthur James Bollock Earl Cain Cole Red Deen Jim Foti C. H. Foster Mike Fritch Bill Hall Clifton Jackson Frank Kumega James Loury Jose Melendez J. Rasbeck William Roesch Sidney Rothman George Ruff M. Singelton Steve Troy H. Webber Walter C. Zapac Cole Red Deen Harold J. Fischer Bill Hall Pat Paulsen Joseph M. Sourez Sidney Rothman James Stickney W. R. Stone Walter C. Zapac Alfred Anderson Cole John Cole ..^ James Foster Tom Gould A. Gowder Bill Hall Hugh Higgenbothm E. H. Johnson Leon Kyser Roan Lightfoot R. J. McConnell Henry Muller Tony Palino Rudolph Pascaal Carl Pierce Sidney Rothman Danie Seda H. Sterling Berry Tippens Steve Troy Joseph M. Vega Walter C. Zapac Anibal Albe Cole ...' Peter Drees Mike Fritch Pat Paulsen W. Ponsen Fred Serrahn C. J. Stephens James J. Tucker Anibal Albe Angus Campbell Angel Caorera Cole John Cole Red Deen Roberto De La Paz Henry Donnelly Pedro Juan Ennazo C. H. Foster BOOK NUMBER Not given V-7 Not given Not given B-2 C-8 D-6 Not given Not given G-269 G-2 H-272 H-125 Not given J-14 Not given .Not given Not given S-1308 Not given Not given W-11 W-4005 Not given C-8 C-169 D-178 Not given Not given H-272 K-315 Not given S-280 Not given Not given Not given Not given T-61 Not given ..Not given Not given C-8 Not given 1-115 Not given A-11 Not given B-7 r-265 C-8 Not given Not given Not given Not given H-272 .J-235 Not given Not given Not given R-207 R-596 Not given Not given Not given T-485 W-365 Not given C-8 Not given F-J H-272 Not given S-707 Not given S-538 .S-647 Not given Not given C-8 Not given F-248 Not given G-352 H-272 Not given J-44 K-259 Not given Not given Not given Not given P-339 Not given Not given S-39 S-141 Not given Not given V-33 ..Not given A-38 C-8 D-177 ...Not given Not given Not given S-280 Not given T-22 A-38 C-217 C-485 C-8 Not given Not given D-150 D-324 E-42 Not given JOB FOR WHICH RECEIVED WRITE-IN New York Joint Patrolman New York Joint Patrolman New York Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Agent Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Baltimore Agent Baltimore Agent Baltimore Agent Baltimore Agent Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Hallimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Baltimore Joint Patrolman Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Agent Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman ^ Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman . .Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman Mobile Joint Patrolman New Orleans Agent New Orleans Agent New Orleans Agent New Orleans Agent '.... 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Matthews Not given W. J. Mitchell M-22 Jos. A. Nagy N-254 Peter Patrick Not given Pat Paulsen Not given W Ponsen Not given Sidney Rothman Not given George Rugg Not given Seafare Sam Not given Fred Serrahn Not given Earl Sheppard Not given James Tucker Not given T. J. White W-538 Walter C. Zapac ! Not given Frank Aubusson Not given Marty Breithoff B-2 Cole C-8 Bob Coieman Not given Earl Davis Not given Frank Drozak Not given Anybody Except Not given C. H. Foster Not given Mike Fritch Not given Bill Hall H-272 Bob Ingram Not given Charles Lee Not given Alfredo Ortiz 0-55 Pat Paulsen Not given Robert Sawyer S-1308 Fred Serrahn S-280 Mike Toner Not given Herman M. Troxclair T-4 Jose Toro Not given Walter C. Zapac Not given J. Bamette B-104 Bemell Butto Not given Cole C-8 Red Deen Not given Mike Fritch Not given Big Garcia (Green Eyes) ...Not given Bill Hall H-272 J. McAndrew Not given Peter Patrick Not given M. J. Phelps P-479 Eugene Ray Not given Sidney Rothman Not given George Rugg Not given Roberto Viaz V-84 Walter C. Zapac Not given C-8 Cole Not given Marty Breithoff H-272 Bill Hall H-1 Paul Hall .... H-309 Ralph Hayes Peter Patrick Not given Pat Paulsen Not given Seafaring Sam Not given jl ,I ; .< JOB FOR WHICH RECEIVED WRITE-IN New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman New Orleans Joint Patrolman , New Orleans Joint Patrolman . 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SAN JUAN TO­ TALS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 �January 31, 1969 Page Twenty Seven SEAFARERS LOG A Future Seafarer? Five-Year Report Indicates Ca/ffs in Health, education, Wellare Foundation tor Future Achiovomont WASHINGTON—A compilation of landmark achievements in health, education and welfare over the past five years, with a list of goals for the nation in these areas, was submitted to President Johnson by HEW Secretary Wilber J. Cohen this month. Cohen said the accomplish- f tains figures showing that public Listed among legislative accom­ ments—through legislative and and private social welfare expen­ administrative actions—"are un­ plishments for the 1963-68 period ditures from all sources totalled are: precedented in their significance $163 billion in 1968, 63 percent Medicare, Medicaid, three laws for human well being." more than the 1963 amount of The gains, along with the sug­ to improve elementary and sec­ $100 billion. gested goals, are set forth in a ondary education, five laws cover­ It was noted that the percent­ chart-laden, 163-page report, ing higher education, three laws age of expenditures provided by bolstering vocational education, "Health, Education and Welfare: the public sector—federal, state Accomplishments, 1963-68, Prob­ two "Partnership for Health" Acts and local governments—remained to aid state and community health lems and Challenges, and a Look constant at about 66 percent in programs. to the Future." both years. Also, the social security amend­ As great as the progress has ments of 1965 and 1967, three Nation's Objectives been, Cohen noted, "the whole laws to provide more funds for story cannot be told today. It will Among future objectives that hospitals; legislation to provide be told in years to come in im­ the report suggests the nation research into prevention and cures should seek to achieve are: provements in the health, in better education opportunity and in the of heart disease, cancer and • An increase in median fam­ stroke; four laws to improve vo­ ily income, in terms of 1968 well-being of all of our people." cational rehabilitation; and eco­ dollars, from the current $8,017 Dealing extensively with future nomic opportunity, consumer to $12,500. needs, the report sets specific protection and civil lights mea­ • Continued expansion of "goals for 1976," the 200th an­ sures. medical research and "compre­ niversary of the signing of the 'Years of Effort' hensive health insurance, private Declaration of Independence. and public, combined with avail­ Many of the laws "are the Cohen cited 102 laws enacted ability of high quality medical culmination of years of effort by between 1963 and 1968 which service for all Americans." many groups and several Ad­ involve functions of HEW. Also, ministrations," the report pointed • "More diversified and im­ he adds, there were "some dozen out, adding that their impact for proved quality of education at all or so" enactments to improve bettering lives "has already been Seafarer Rafael Mates shows his two-year-old son Rafael, III, around health, education and welfare levels," including the availability felt in many ways." the hall In New York. Young Rafael says he'd like to ship out of pre-scliool services, liigli ^eIlOol. programs administered by other vocational and college education As an example of immediate re­ with his Daddy. Matos joined the SlU in 1945 In New York. departments and agencies. to all who want tbem. sults, Cohen singled out the fact that legislation extending the Hill• Elimination of all toini^, oi Burton hospital program resulted discrimination: abolitiim nt pu\ Atlantic, Gulf & inland Watars District in nearly 1 2.3.000 new and mod­ ertv: a social securitv svstcm that ernized hospital beds between guarantees a decent living tor all January 10, 1969, to January 23, 1969 1963 and 1968. older Americans: new consumer DECK DEPARTMENT In a number of areas, the re­ safeguards; and a "satisfying and productive job for everyone able port emphasized that increased TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups federal funds have greatly stimu­ to work." All Groups All Groups 1 Class A Class B Port lated state and local governments, Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B "America must dream big along with private agencies, to dreams, set high goals and work to Boston 4 6 4 5 0 6 4 New York 23 56 226 121 9 13 21 develop and extend education, achieve them if our commitment Philadelphia 17 46 17 5 8 6 1 health and welfare programs. to human well being is to be hon­ Baltimore 72 14 13 158 7 11 1 Norfolk ored," Cohen concluded. As proof of this, the report con­ 33 8 13 15 17 7 15 Jacksonville 30 7 8 37 11 13 1 Tampa 29 29 4 2 0 3 1 Mobile 97 0 8 44 5 3 0 New Orleans 44 196 102 42 18 0 11 Houston ......... 14 110 128 32 14 13 2 Wilmington 20 30 51 12 15 15 3 San J incisco ... 56 13 85 72 42 71 37 Seattle 34 10 52 11 18 18 8 Totals 246 308 598 1113 172 206 70 DISPATCHERS REPORT Soyiet-Australian Agreement Staves off Freight Rate War ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C 2 4 14 2 22 49 31 20 13 12 7 6 4 2 18 12 10 10 3 9 8 10 13 2 14 17 8 10 ^ 2 4 2 2 4 0 0 19 5 10 0 32 45 10 20 2 10 20 8 21 2 22 26 13 20 5 47 65 54 57 43 12 19 18 13 9 204 293 176 196 86 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 4 3 157 133 . 20 18 96 66 29 23 26 20 14 22 87 56 170 127 94 119 24 8 37 8 38 11 776 514 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 4 1 2 3 1 New York 10 6 11 19 35 Philadelphia 7 2 5 8 12 Baltimore 7 3 3 10 4 Norfolk 8 8 7 9 2 Jacksonville 9 3 7 3 1 Tampa 0 0 5 3 4 Mobile 6 0 4 10 1 New Orleans 0 10 9 .29 18 Houston 12 2 5 17 14 Wilmington 9 2 7 17 12 San Francisco ... 46 16 75 43 90 Seattle 16 4 7 17 7 Totals 127 64 147 187 202 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 1 71 175 7 11 55 124 22 16 20 14 19 14 84 37 50 172 107 58 6 35 44 15 40 8 850 358 Port Boston New York .. . Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile New Orleans . Houston Wilmington . San Francisco Seattle_j^_j_^_j_j_ Totals LONDON—^The ever-growing Soviet merchant fleet scored an­ other gain this month when a preliminary accord was reached here which permits Russian-flag vessels to join an ocean steamship conference concerned with the join the conference, the Soviets Australian trade. Not yet final­ had inaugurated an ocean freight ized, the aim of the agreement rate war. Homebound Soviet-bloc is to end Soviet rate cutting. As ships returning from North Viet­ a member of ocean steamship nam had been offering low bids conferences, the U.S.S.R. would for cargoes of other nations rather then charge rates similar to those than returning to their home ports of western nations. in ballast. Last August, they of­ Negotiating the agreement are shipping companies from the So­ fered a 15 to 20-percent reduction on carriage of cargoes from Aus­ viet Union, the United Kingdom tralia to Europe. This precipitated and Europe. The Western ship­ a call by some prominent Aus­ ping lines are bound by an agree­ tralians for legislation to close ment on rates and sailing sched­ ports to Russian, Polish and Bul­ ules to avoid uneconomic over­ garian ships. lapping and competition. A joint While agreements such as the statement released this month states that "some points of detail one now nearing completion stave remain to be settled," but an­ off such economic conflicts for the nounced that "agreement has been present, the twin thrusts of sus­ tained growth of the Russian fleet reached in principle." According to the settlement, the plus pending Soviet applications U.S.S.R. will carry in its bottoms to shipping conferences all over wool purchases .from Australia, the world, pose continued pres­ and will, in turn, be allowed nine sure—both economic and politi­ southbound sailings to Australia— cal—to all Westc. n nations. The six loading at agreed Baltic and Soviets have openly expressed Continental ports, and three load­ their intention to seek world com­ merce, with or without such ing only at agreed Baltic ports. Rebuffed in earlier attempts to agreements. �Page Twenty Eight SEAFARERS if '•i January 31, 1969 LOG An Able Group Froixn ghie^Sl €3it SeJ F- '/ "We have completed our first voyage to South America, which we have enjoyed very much," Roy Lee, ship's delegate reported from the Delta Argentina (Delta). The trip has been excellent, Lee wrote and "all departments performed at their very best." The steward department had the crew raving over their tasty dishes. ^ Meeting Secretary H. Ulrich The shipboard meeting aboard "We were at sea over the holi- I reports from the Steel Woriter the American Victory (Hudson days and I must say we were Waterways) pro­ (Isthmian) that served the best dinners that I have duced nothing of everything aboard sat down to in over twenty years any pressing im­ the vessel is run­ at sea," Lee portance, accord­ ning smoothly. said enthusiasti­ ing to Meeting John Carnes, cally. In Buenos Chairman R. A. ship's treasurer, Aires, the Sea­ Lawrence. A re­ farers received an said that the ship's pair list from the "outstanding wel­ fund contains previous voyage JLi' come which was $19. No beefs or was presented at A good steward department is vital to any ship and the San Juan followed by a Lawrence disputed overtime the meeting and Sea-Land) had an excellent one during its recent voyage to Yoko. ^ shipboard party Ulrich were reported by Brother Lawrence reported that lama. L, to R: August Janepinto, second cook, Steward C. P. Thiu, attended by some the men will proceed with the local dignitaries delegates as the vessel heads for work as soon as possible. John Chief Cook Jack Sann, Pantryman Willie Nettles. Tom Markham, BR. such as the Port Captain. The lo­ a mid-February pay-off following Kackur, meeting secretary, said cal citizens were pleased with their a trip to Korea and Vietnam. H. that Brother Lawrence was elected namesake." Steward Joe Hannon R. Guymon, meeting chairman, to serve as the new ship's dele­ turned out excellent roast beef and reports that a motion was made gate. Other delegates are Earl other sandwiches and beverages and carried to collect donations McCaskey, deck department, Al­ for the occasion. The only mishap from Seafarers in order to pur­ fred Duggan, engine department, during the trip was a lost propeller chase a television set for the and Brother Kackur will represent Sixto Lopez, 64: Brother Lopez Cornelius O'Henley 35: Brother blade on December 27, which crew mess. Department delegates the steward department. There are passed away on May 7, 1968, in O'Henley was accidently drowned caused the vessel to arrive in elected were Donald Mahnik, no funds from the previous voy­ Seattle. A resi­ while sailing as New Orleans at half-speed. "We deck; A. DiFabrizio, engine and age remaining in the treasury, oiler on the Seadent of that city, are looking forward to a prosper­ Hugo Fuentes, steward. train Maryland. he was bom in Kackur wrote. ous year and another trip on the The date of death the Philippean was May 19, Islands. He joined romance run," said Brother Lee. 1968, while the the Union in the Prior to sailing to South America, ship was on a trip Port of Seattle the vessel had made three trips Thailand to and held a cook's from to West Africa. A ' "f Manila. A native rating. His last ,'l" '"I of Lincoln Park, vessel was the Fairland. Seafarer Lopez is sur­ Michigan, O'Henley made his Henry Joseph Moradilla, born vived by his wife, Bok Sim, of home in Wayne, Mich. Brother Alex Francisco, born Novem­ ber 27, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. December 16, 1968, to Seafarer Inchon, Korea. The burial serv­ O'Henley also shipped as firemanMeeting Chairman A. Fanrera Alex D. Francisco, Metairie, and Mrs. Benigno D. Moradilla, ice was held at the Holy Rood watertender and joined the Union reports that Seafarers on the Steel Louisiana. Wilmington, Calif. in Detroit in 1962. He is sur­ Cemetery in Seattle. Vendor (Tsthmivived by his mother, Mrs. Mary * an) would like Manuel Padilla, born Septem­ Veronica O'Henley of Wayne. clarification on ber 1, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. overseas travelers Denise Walker, born November checks. '^The men Rafael Padilla, Bay St. Louis, 11, 1968, to Se^arer and Mrs. are having trou­ Mississippi. Clayton O. Walker, Torrance, ble cashing these Joseph Whalen, 36: Brother Thomas McLees, 71: Brother Calif. checks in foreign Whalen died in New Orleans Wing Tak Ong, born December McLees passed away on Novem­ countries," Far- 20, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. on December 3, ber 25, 1968, at rera reported. J. Ching S. Ong, San Francisco, 1968, from in­ the USPHS Hos­ Pepper MacDonald has Calif. juries suffered in pital in New Or­ Michael L. Scott, Jr., born Janu­ been elected to serve as new an automobile ac­ leans. A native ary 11,1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. The Sea­ cident. ship's delegate. L. Pepper, meet­ of Westminster, Brian Kerwin, born October 24, Michael L. Scott, Lennox, Calif. farer joined the ing secretary, said that the ship's South Carolina, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Nor­ SIU in the Fort fund is down to $2. A motion he made his home man L. Kerwin, Mawnee, Ohio. of New York was made by Brother Pepper and in New Orleans. City. A member He shipped in the W. L. McBride that a new washer Susan Norris, bom December 1, of the steward steward depart­ and dryer be placed on board as Orlando Rivera, born December 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. John department, he was a waiter and ment and joined the Union in soon as possible. A discussion was 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. H. Norris, Akron, New York. messman and had last sailed on Tampa. Brother McLees had held on the history of how the Pablo Rivera, Santa Elvira, Cathe Del Sud. Born in New Orleans, sailed for 22 years, his last vessel SIU was founded and the tremen­ guas, P.R. he lived in Harahan, La. Seafarer was the Del Sol. The Seafarer is dous gains won by the Union. The survived by his widow, Minnie, Whalen is survived by a sister, ship has been on the Vietnam run. Maricel Rodrigues, born De­ Bernard Hudgins, born October a daughter, four sons and 22 Mrs. Patricia Calecas, of New cember 1, 1968, to Seafarer and 5, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. grandchildren. The burial serv­ Orleans. Burial services were held Mrs. Carmen Rodrigues, New Ernie L. Hudgins, Mathews, Vir­ ices were held in St. Bernard Me­ in that city at Saint Patrick Cem­ etery. York, N.Y. morial Gardens, New Orleans. ginia. FINAL DEPARTURES SIUABmVi ^1. 4, -—vl> —<i>— Money Being Held Adrienne Sorrell, born Decem­ Unclaimed wages for for­ ber 9, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. mer crewmembers of The Alton O. Sorrell, Rome, New Cabins are being held for the York. following Seafarers by Texas City Refining as of January 16, 1969: Sarihah Mohamed, born De­ J. R. Alsobrook; W. R. cember 29, 1968, to Seafarer and Coriy; Roman Feraci; H. W. Mrs. Ramli Bin Mohamed. Kennedy; D. E. Mackey; R. R. Miiey; and A. T. Prescott. Claims should be submitted Sandra Douglas, born Novem­ to L. W. Westfall, Marine ber 28, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Accounting Supervisor, Texas| Alton E. Douglas, Jr., New Or­ City Refining, Inc., Marine || leans, La. Division, P. O, Box 1271, p Texas City, Texas 77590. Sea- ^ Douglas Engleman, born De­ farers are urged to act ^ cember 9, 1968, to Seafarer and promptly as these claims may ^ Mrs. John R. Engleman, Detroit, be subject to the Texas Es­ Michigan. cheat laws. Each claim must include the "Z" number. So­ Kathleen Newsom, born De­ cial Security number and the cember 15, 1968, to Seafarer and actual signature of the claim­ Mrs. William H. Newsom, Gretna, ant. La. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list., (frinf information) NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old tubicribar and have a change of addreai, plaaae give your former eddrets below: ADORCSS omr STA1E OP. Francis Fletschinger, 63: Brother Fletschinger died on De­ cember 12, 1968, at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. Death was caused by a cardiac condition. A native of Lou­ isiana, Fletsching­ er made his home in New Orleans. He sailed in the steward depart­ ment and his last vessel was the Del Norte. Brother Fletschinger served in the Navy during World War II and had been sailing with the SIU since 1947 when he joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Mary Vale of New Orleans and the burial was held in that city at the Greenwood Cemetery. �lanaary 31, 1969 Members Grateful For Color TV I To the Editon The following would partic­ ularly like to thank the trus­ tees of the Seafarers Welfare Plan for the color TV set given recently to the patients in fifth floor, west, USPHS Hospital, New Orleans: Seafarers James L. De Marco, John C. Mitchell, Benedito Lima and Edward Armstrong, SUP; Edward Car­ los, tug boat pilot and former SIU member; Chuck Keese, Peter Blanchard; Joseph Fran­ cois; W. P. Aldridge; Thomas King and De Mart Weldy. Thanks also from Dr. Chris­ topher Urner, Dr. Davis Spruill and Nurse Eloise Coughlan. Sincerely Patients and Staff Fifth Floor, West USPHS Hospital New Orleans, La. Merchant Marine Plays Heroic Part To the Editon Everybody will be glad when the peace negotiators in Paris stop fiddling around with table shapes and start shaping a dur­ able peace. While we have been carrying on in the combat zone, I won­ der how many people stop to realize that the tremendous bur­ den of supplying our troops over there has been carried by this country's merchant marine. It is our Seafarers who sail into Danang, Saigon and other ports through dangerous waters. Many of them encounter fire from the Viet Cong. And there have been casualties among them, too, as well as among the men on the front lines. In every war, the merchant marine has consistently carried this burden of supply—largely unheralded and unsung. This vital contribution is a factor which ought to be called more often to the attention of the American people. Sincerely John C. Williams An SIU Family Expresses Thanks To the Edltw: I have for a long time wanted to thank SIU for all the help we have received all through the years. Especially the last three, since our youngest son, Steven, was bom. Both he and I were very sick and we learned later that he had cerebral palsy. He was in and out of the hospital so many times. But, with all the worry over his sickness and opera­ tions, and with Daddy away as a baker on the ships all the time, it was a great comfort to know that SIU took care of the bills. So on behalf of my husband and myself I thank you very much. Slncerdiy Ebe Smensen (Mra. Ejvind Sorensen) SEAFARERS LOG Pension Checks Always on Time To the Editor: Like many another old-timer, I received my pension check this morning, and almost a week ahead of schedule. I just thought I would take this opportunity to thank those who are in charge of the SIU Pension Plan for being so thoughtful and considerate. A very prosperous and happy New Year to one and all. Sincerely, Aubrey S. Parsons Dorchester, Mass. SIU Welfare Fund Thanked by Widow Tojtlie Editon I would like to express my appreciation to the SIU Wel­ fare Fund for the check I re­ ceived so promptly, following the recent death of my husband, Thomas H. McLees. Thank you so much for the kindness extended to me by his Union Brothers. SincM-ely Mrs. Ttmmas H. McLees New Orleans, La. ^ SIU Donates Color TV To N.Orleans USPHS To the Editor: Your organization was most generous in donating a color television to the tuberculosis ward of this hospital. Needless to say, this gift will contribute greatly to the patients' entertain­ ment and enjoyment during their stay here. Please accept my thanks and sincere appreciation for your gift and your interest in our patients. Sincerely, WilUam A. Chenry, M.D. Medical Director,USPHS New Orleans, La. ^ 14 Building Unions Build Ghetto Ties To the Editm-: With all the~ unjust criticism that has often been leveled against the building trades un­ ions it's about time somebody recognized what a fine job they are doing on the ghetto rebuild­ ing program in St. Louis. The St. Louis project in­ volves 14 unions in the building trades. In perfectly logical co­ operation with a neighborhood group called Jeff-Vander Lou, they are directly involving resi­ dents of the area in a $4 mil­ lion rebuilding task. These local people are mainly Negroes who will be "taught the trade" by the unions and will be wel­ comed as members. The fi­ nancing will, to "a large extent, be through the AFL-CIO De­ partment of Urban Affairs. What a wonderful way to ex­ tend a long-needed hand to people from deprived neighbor­ hoods and, at the same time, create desirable housing for those who so urgently need it! Sincerely Andy Oievelle Page Twenty Nine Seafarer Niclntosh Is Stand-in Dad To Orphaned, Unwanted Youngsters Some people just talk about brotherhood and concern for their fellow man while others, like Frizel Mcintosh of the steward department, actually do something about it. Brother Mcintosh has devoted much of his time to caring for homeless, unwanted children and he and his wife, Nettie Mae, have five such chil-®^ Mcintosh, who later had to buy to go on disability pension, finish­ dren living with them in their a larger home to accommodate his ing his sailing career which began San Francisco home. children, said that in order to in 1948. He does hope to keep "I was born in Iowa and had a adopt a child, you must gain legal active and has applied for a job rough life, living with a step­ custody, prove you have a steady as motorman on the San Francisco father," he told job, a good home and a bank ac­ Muni-Railway, a rapid transit sys­ the LOG. "My count, and can supply the affec­ tem the city will soon introduce. wife had worked tion the youngsters need so much. "It might be difficult because of with unwed moth­ "We have a large lawn at our my disability, but I've also studied ers and incorrigi­ home with swings in the back radio announcing and passed an ble children and yard. Right now, we are plan­ examination recently. I hope I I, too, became in­ ning ahead for the children's edu­ might be able to get a position as terested in them cation and planning bank ac­ a disc jockey or sports announcer." and talked with counts for them." Studies Flowers Mcintosh once brought the Mcintosh social workers to Mcintosh is very interested in learn what I problem of orphaned and unwant­ could about them. Both my wife ed children up at a Union meet­ horticulture and used to read all and I were raised the same way ing. "There are Union-backed he could about flowers and plants. and we knew what it was like for programs to help convicts get a "I read about a fellow who ex­ these kids." fresh start in life and I hope sim­ perimented grafting flowers in or­ Brother Mcintosh visited the in­ ilar programs will get underway der to create a black rose. I have stitutions at which the children for these children," he said. "They experimented with this but have lived and put in as much time as need help and literally beg for failed to create one so far, he he could with the youngsters. people to come and adopt them. said. If I do, it should be a real These kids are often locked up It is not really expensive to take prize winner. The original notes "like little animals," he said, add­ a child in," he pointed out. "All of the man who did do it were lost and he could never duplicate ing that "most people take the you need is patience, dedication his feat." comforts of home for granted. So and affection for these children. "I have never seen a perfect we bought a home so that we Otherwise, they will just get on could eventually take at least some your nerves, and, of course, you Black Rose," he said about the rare flower, "but I have a lot of children from the institutions into will fail to really help them." Mcintosh, whose first wife plants in the back of my home." our own care. Many of these kids passed, away, has two children of He has studied pain-killer plants have never been in a private home; his own, a 26-year-old son, Mal­ and once took some tropical flow­ some have never seen a Christmas colm, who lives in Milwaukee, ers from Hawaii back to Iowa to tree." One child Mcintosh has and a daughter, Mrs. Martha see how they would adapt to the was found as in infant in a shoebox at the corner of Webster and Lewis, wife of a soldier stationed change of weather. "They turned Clay Streets. "We named him in Vietnam. Mrs. Lewis has an out well," he said. Although he faces the end of John Webster Clay," Mcintosh adopted daughter, Anita—a 15year-old French girl now in High his sailing career, Brother Mcin­ stated. School. "We promised her a trip tosh lives a full, active life, one Five Children home to visit her relatives when that is dedicated not just to she finishes school," Mcintosh "Brotherhood of the Sea," but to The child, nicknamed "Fritz" all men, or more appropriately, is now in school. In addition to said. Unfortunately, Mcintosh had to children who will become men. Fritz, the Mcintosh's have Vicky, Betty, Calvin and Mandarin. It makes no difference to the 47year-old Seafarer what the chil­ dren's race or backeround mieht be—"a homeless child needs the affection he just can't get in an institution, regardless of how well it's run or how adequate the treat­ ment received." Thomas Lewis McBrayer Barry Stewart Lampert "I have two Negro, one white Please contact Mrs. Thomas L. child and two Mexican children," Please contact your wife, Brinhe said. "One of the kids. Man­ McBrayer, Wildwood Circle, da, at P. O. Box 384, Jackson­ darin, is nick-named Bunky the Gainesville, Georgia 30501, as ville, Florida 32201, as soon as Beaver because he bites when he soon as you possibly can. you possibly can. gets mad." Mcintosh has also ^ worked with such youth programs as Little League baseball. Little Stephen Bergania League football and the Boy Frank G. Flint, Sr. Please contact Joseph LiberScouts. Your son Frank, Jr., is getting man, Counsellor at Law, 60 East "It is the mixed and Negro chil­ 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. married on February 15 to Miss dren who have the hardest time of 10017, as soon as you can. Esther Manning. TTie wedding it," said Brother Mcintosh. "It is will be held at 3:30 p.m.. Holy frequently most difficult to find Trinity Church of Glen Bumie, Maryland. He is hopeful that you homes for them. Mrs. Mcintosh Jimmy Davis will be able to arrange to attend has also devoted much time to Please contact Mrs. Norma the ceremony. these youngsters. In addition she Stout at P.O. Box 36021, Hous­ has worked with so-called prob­ ton, Texas 77036, as soon as pos­ lem children. sible. "She had one boy who was con­ William Carls sidered an incorrigible—even the Please contact Mrs. Naomi institutions failed with him—^but R. L. Cooke Carls, Rt. 4, Box 42, Theodore, she straightened him out," Mcin­ A package is being held for you Alabama 36582 as soon as possi­ tosh said proudly. from the Maritime Overseas Cor­ ble about an important matter. Mrs. Mcintosh has helped a poration. You can claim, it at SIU ^ number of these youths, taking Headquarters in New York. teen-age boys and girls and steer­ Sid Sokolik ing them on the road to good jobs and education. 'These children Tony Radiz Your old friend Joseph Fried come back and visit us. If you Duke Duet would like you to is anxious to learn of your where­ devote time to the youngsters, they save his safety glasses for him and abouts. He asks that you write will express their feelings toward asks that you contact him as soon to him at 2000 Grand Avenue, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265. as possible. you," the Seafarer pointed out. �M Page Thirty SEAFARERS OAKLAND (Sea-Land), January 1— Chairman, M. Sanchez; Secretary, None. Repairs taken care of. $170.00 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck department. Discussion held regarding food situation. Steward department short of certain items. TRANSPANAMA (Hudson Water­ ways), December 21—Chairman, Frank Gomez; Secretary, Routson. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. ALCOA MARKETER (Alcoa), Decem­ ber 2B—Chairman, A. J. Tiermer, Jr.; Secretary, R. A. Sanchez. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), Decem­ ber 21—Chairman, H. R. Guymon : Sec­ retary, H. Ulrich. No beefs. Everything is running smoothly. Brother John 't. Games was re-elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion held regarding pen­ sion plan. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian). Decem­ ber 8—Chairman, A. Farrera ; Secretary, L. Pepper, Brother J. MacDonald was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $2.00 in ship's fund. Discussion held about use of travelers checks. AMERICAN VICTORY—(Hudson Waterways), January 1—Chairman, R. A. Lawrence; Secretary, John Kackur. Brother R. A. Lawrence was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department dele­ gates. FAIRISLE (Pan Oceanic Tankers), December 28—Chairman, Joseph A. Ste­ vens ; Secretary, Lucien Drew. Everything is running smoothly. Few minor beefs to be taken up with patrolman. Brother Vernon Hopkins was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the excellent Christmas dinner. MANHATTAN (Hudson Waterways), January 12—Chairman, James Chianese; Secretary, James J. McLinden. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department to be squared away. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), January 5—Chairman, S. Segnee; Secretary, L. J. Connolly. Brother Connolly was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $9.00 in ship's fund. There were no beefs reported by department delegates. UNFAIR fO LABOR DO NOT BUY DIRECTORYof UNION HAUiS SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Llndiey Wllliami Al Tanner Robert Matthewa SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS *75 4th Ave., Rklyn, (212) HY 9-4400 ALPENA, Mich 127 River St. (517) EL 4-3414 BALTIMORE, Md 1214 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Ma 443 Atlantic Avenue (417) Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Waihington St, Sill (714) TL 3=9759 IBU (714) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, III 93B3 Ewing Ave. SlU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (214) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jeffenon Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT. Mich P.O. Box 2B7 415 Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON. Tex 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 240B Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ale I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La 430 Jackion Ave. (504) 529-7544 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) 422-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR. Tax 1341 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraamont St. (415) DO 2-4401 INGER (Reynolds Metals), January 1 —Chairman, Percival L. Shauger; Secre­ tary, Howard K. Pierce. Brother T. Sanford was asked to continue to serve as ship's delegate, and the crew extended a vote of thanks to Brother Sanford for a jo'o well done. Vote of thanks was also extended to the steward department, and to Brother Gene Taylor, patrolman, for doing a fine job at payoff. TRANSSENECA (Hudson Waterways), January 5—Chairman, Timothy Sullivan ; Secretary, Luther Gadson. ,Ship'8 dele­ gate reported that everything is running as well as could be expected except for a few minor beefs. Discussion held re­ garding launch service in Chittagong where cargo was discharged. Brother DeWitt Hollowell was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. OVERSEAS JASON (Maritime Over­ seas), January 3—Chairman, Charles P. Moore; Secretary, M. C. Barton. Brother Cecil B. Thomas was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. No disputed OT. ->• January 31, 1969 LOG SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Waih 2505 First Avenue (204) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMiNGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA. Japan. Iseya BIdq., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. TBI SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Feb. 11—2:30 p.m. Mobile Feb. 12^—2:30 p.m. Wilmington . .Feb. 17—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Feb. 19—2:00 p.m. Seattle Feb. 21—2:00 p.m. New York ... Feb. 3^—2:30 p.m. PhiFdelphia. .Feb. 4—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... Feb. 5—2:30 p.m. Detroit Feb. 14—2:30 p.m. Houston Feb. 10—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans. Feb. 11—7:00 p.m. Mobile Feb. 12—7:00 p.m. New York ... Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia. - Feb. 4—^7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. . Feb. 5—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. .Feb. 10—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Alpena Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Buffalo Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Chicago ... .Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Duluth Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. .Feb. 3—7:00 p.m. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions In­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stitzel-Wellcr DistlUcrics "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StiU," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Kingsport Press "World Book," "ChUdcmft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Root and Shoe Workers' Union) Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago Feb. 11—7:30 p.m. tSault St Marie Feb. 13—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Feb. 12—7:30 p.m. Duluth Feb. 14—7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. .Feb. 14—7:30 p.m. Toledo Feb. 14—7:30 p.m. Detroit Feb. 10—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . . Feb. 10—7:30 p.m. Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans.Feb. 11—5:00 p.m. Mobile Feb. 12—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia. .Feb. 4—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) ..Feb. 5—5:00p.m. Norfolk .... Feb. 6—5:00 p.m. Houston Feb. 10—5:00 p.m. "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa lies. Boss Gloves, Richman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Feb. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Feb. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Norfolk Feb. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Feb. 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Brothers and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. . t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. Baltimore Luggage Co. I-ady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) —\i>— White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) ^4 Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) RJ> Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas Giumarra Grapes (United Farm Workers) —— Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) <|> Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) <I> Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) — 4^ — Atlantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Cluett Peabody (Amalgamated Qothing Workers) FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be imid to anyone in any official Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are avoilable at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland such imyment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Overseas), Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six January B—Chairman, Anthony Powers ; fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, Secretary, D. O. Coker. No beefs were shali equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this reported by department delegates. Every­ All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any thing is running smoothly. by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ headquarters of the various trust funds. gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters, HALAULA VICTORY (Alcoa), January by the contracts between the Union and the'shipowners. Get to know your shipping RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ 12—Chairman, Frank Rakas, Jr.; Sec­ rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ retary, Reuben Belletty. Brother John F. feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ McCollon was elected to serve as ship's the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ delegate. Some disputed OT in deck de­ Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take partment to be taken up -with patrol­ shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board man. icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Maritime Over­ as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution seas), November 24—Chairman, J. D. Har­ and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avaflable in all SIU halls. These mon ; Secretary, William Autry. Brother contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard quently, no Seafarer noay be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, Preston A. Blanc was elected to serve as ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights ship's delegate. There were no beefs and on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. no disputed OT reported by department or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIYITY DONATIONS. One of the basic ri^ts of delegates. erly, contact the nearest SlU port agent. Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. "To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Folitlcal Activity Donation was established. Donations to STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), December from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and 29—Chairman, Create Vola; Secretary, Union, ofiScer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. F. S. Omega. No beefs and no disputed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been OT reported by department delegates. reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings In all constitu­ If at any time a Seafarer feds tiwt any of the above rights have been violated, tional ports. The responsibility for LOG poli^ is vested in an editorial boaid which Vote of thanka tvas extended to the that he has been denied his constltntlenal right of sccees to Union rocerds or in­ entire steward department, particularly consists of the Elzecutive Board of the Union. The Ebcecutive Board may delegate, ^or formation. he should immediaUiy notify SIU President Pan! Hall at headqoarters by the chief steward, for the well-prepared from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. eertlSod awU. retnm recdpt regneeted. menu during the holidays. �SEAFARERS Page Thirty One LOG Bght Additional Seafarer Veterans Join Expanding SlU Pension Ranks Wham The De Pauw Vlctoiy fled up at the dock In Naha, Okinawa, during a recent voy­ age, the ship Is In the South Atlantic and Caribbean lines fleet. While the vessel was In port, the Seafarers had lots of work to keep them busy. 1' The names of eight additional Seafarers have been added to the growing list of 'men collecting an SIU pension from the SIU after completing their sailing careers. The latest brothers to join the pension ranks are Raymond Flynn, Ray Deshong, Damaso Cruz, Isaac Craft, Henry Day, Olav Kjonbog, John Szczepan- ^ He makes his home in that city ski and Viktor Makko. and is a native of the sunshine Raymond Flynn sailed in the state. Brother Craft sailed in the steward department. He was a engine department and his last Seafarer for 30 years, joining in ship was the Battle Creek. He the Port of New Orleans. A long­ served in the Navy from 1923 to time resident of that city with his 1927. wife, Margaret, he was bom in A native of Perry, Florida, Cruz Flynn Deshong New Jersey. Brother Flynn's last ship was the Del Norte. Ray Deshong joined the Union in Miami in 1939. A native of Earl McCaskey. bosun, hoists a bucket of paint up to acting AB George Ham51+rtn u/hn !« r^/iJn+Inn tne ehin'« ' s+nr.lf. Dover, Florida, he now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Min­ nie. He sailed as FOWT and his last ship was the Del Santos, Damaso Cruz, a Seafarer 27 years, joined the SIU in the Port of New York. A native of Puerto Rico, he lives in Tmjillo Alto, P. R., with his wife, Ana. A cook, he last sailed aboard the Claiborne. A Seafarer since 1940, Isaac Craft joined the Union in Tampa. fire the rockets. "The land on either side of the Saigon River is flat and there is no place to hide," he pointed out. Bosun Earl McCaskey (left) and electrician Walter Fitzgerald discuss work to be done while the vessel is in port. The Seafarers are holding light bu|bs, which they will install. Kjonbog Henry Day also joined the SIU in Tampa and continues to live in that city. He was a member of the engine department and last work­ ed for the Cayle Lines. Seafarers on Overseas Rose Have Close Brush With YC Seafarers aboard the Overseas Rose, chartered by MSTS from the Maritime Overseas Corporation, came under rocket attack by the Vietcong, January 5, as it sailed through the Long Tau ship­ ping channel south of Saigon. Eric Joseph of the steward de­ trol boat set off a secondary ex­ partment described details of the plosion when it fired on a sus­ encounter in a letter to the LOG. pected rocket site 12 miles south­ east of the Capital. "The attack was launched at "Following the attack," he said, about 3 p.m.," Brother Joseph "a lot of Army brass came aboard writes. "Although a newspaper account gave the number of rock­ the ship, examined her and ques­ ets fired as two, all the Seafarers tioned the Captain." on here agree the number was A Seafarer since 1947, Brother three. The explosions were so Joseph joined the Union in the close to the ship that the crew- Port of Baltimore and has shipped members thought the ship was hit in the steward department ever for sure." since. He has been the subject of several stories in the Seafarers Joseph, who was in the galley Log, the most recent in the Au­ talking to the third cook, James gust 30, 1968, issue which re­ Barnes and the saloon messman, called his experiences in Czecho­ wrote that he wondered how the Vietcong were able to sneak in slovakia, prior to the Russian the heavy equipment needed to invasion. [i; Day Szczepanski Makko Olav Kjonbog held a steward's rating. Born in Norway, he lives in Materie, Louisiana, with his wife, Rosi. He last shipped on the Rebecca and joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans. John Szczepanski sailed as cook and his last ship was the Albany. He is a native of Pennsylvania and joined the Union in the Port of New York. Brother Szczepan­ ski lives in Jersey City, N. J., with his wife, Maria. Viktor Makko sailed in the deck department as AB and bosun. A n^ive of Estonia, he now makes his home in Pasadena, Maryland, with his wife, Bernadine. His last ship was the Western Comet. He had sailed since 1943 when he joined the Union in the Port of New York. Visiting A Boneyard "Navy patrol boats are con­ stantly scanning the river and hel­ icopters fly over the river banks regularly, along with air force planes," he continued. "Yet die Vietcong with all this managed to sneak their equipment in and attack the ships in the river de­ spite all of this surveillance." In addition to the Overseas Rose, two other ships were fired on, but Navy officials reported the other vessels were not hit either. The SlU-contracted ship was 16 miles from Saigon when the Reds opened fire. American gunboats and heli­ copters fired on suspected enemy positions and soldiers were put ashore to search out the VC, but they met no resistance and there were no casualties on either side, Joseph wrote. A Navy river pa­ Bosun J. Tubman surveys some of the Liberty ships that have out­ lived their usefulness and are now at the scrapyard in Taiwan. The Amicus is very much alive and mid-way through Far East run. �SEAFARERS* LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO t f i^ri' .f I I I •') ; 'if ONFINED TO SHIP for many long days at sea in the pursuit of his trade, the Seafarer turns frequently to books for relaxation, for pleasure—or to increase his knowledge in any one of a wide variety of subjects. Life aboard^hip has been made as comfort­ able as possible due to Union gains. However, each vessel is, at best, a limited, temporary home. Seafarers are alert, intelligent and in­ tensely interested in the world around them. Reading, therefore, has become a favorite pas­ time of many. The Seafarers LOG Library program, inau­ gurated in 1953, aims to fill this need. Each SlU-manned vessel receives a fresh assortment of paperback volumes every three months. These new titles are taken aboard by the Un­ ion's patrolmen or representatives when they meet the ships for payoffs. This practice keeps the latest of reading material and fresh ideas readily available for Seafarers at all times. In addition to stocking the ships themselves, SlU packages of books are also delivered on a regular basis to all U.S. Public Health Service hospitals and all SlU halls maintain well stocked libraries. The SlU Library program aims at variety and, in keeping with this goal, no fewer than 200 new titles covering a wide-range of topics are delivered to each ship every year. To date, a total of close to three million paperbacks hove found their way to Seafarers through the ef­ forts of the Union. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. 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Title A name given to the resource January 31, 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: MARITIME BILLS SUBMITTED IN HOUSE ASK $1.5 BILLION TO UPGRADE FLEET JOHNSON’S FAREWELL TRIBUTE TO LABOR CITES PROGRESSIVE ROLE OF AFL-CIO MARITIME REMAINS NATIONAL STEPCHILD IN OUTGOING ADMINISTRATION’S BUDGET WIRTZ CALLS FOR $2 MINIMUM WAGE IN FINAL ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS SUPREME COURT BACKS TEXTILE UNION TO END 13 YEAR DARLINGTON BATTLE JOHNSON RECAPS HIS ADMINISTRATION, CALLS FOR CONTINUED SOCIAL ADVANCES BALLOTING PROCEDURES AND UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE REPORT ELECTION – 1969-1972 GAINS IN HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE ACHEIVEMENT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/31/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 3 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/196b52034a007f66bf513b774e0fa8ba.PDF ce330dd68909960923f5b1e7e5d7eaef PDF Text Text SEAFARERSAI.OG Febniaiy 14, 1969 —. I OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION » ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO •111 III fi'F . �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG Seatrain Leases Brooklyn Navy Yard For Expanded Shipbuilding Program Febmarjr 14, 19691 Seafarers Play Santa WASHINGTON—^The SlU-contracted Seatrain Lines announced recently that it expects to take over the naval shipbuilding facilities of the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the construction of large mer­ chant vessels. Arrangements are being made fr under a co-operative plan in ital. Howard M. Pack, the com­ the future. Shipbuilding space is pany's president, reported the line at a premium and we will have which Seatrain Lines, tiie City will begin a development and created an opportunity to become of New York and the federal gov­ building program that could total the only major U.S. company ernment are working out the pur­ $41 million during the first 18 capable of building as well as op­ chase of the old yard and its months and employ up to 3,000 erating its own fleet." subsequent lease to the shipping people during the first year and New York's Mayor Lindsay company. The City of New York a half of operations. Within five stated that the agreement called will pay the federal government years, expansion is expected to for the employment of people about $23.5 million for the navy give jobs to as many as 9,000. from the neighborhood ?!nd would yard, which has been abandoned "We're in the large ship busi­ include many now chronically for some three years. Thereafter, ness," Pack explained. "We can jobless who will be trained as a public corporation called build up to 200,000-ton tankers steelworkers, riveters, welders, CLICK — the Commerce Labor at the navy yard." He noted that electricians, carpenters, pipe-mak­ Industry Corporation of Kings the company planned to build ers and boiler makers. County (Brooklyn)—would lease two large vessels at the yard the CLICK has released the result the yard and sub-lease 45 percent first year. of a survey which indicates that of it to the shipping operator. Seatrain, one of the largest un- more than twice as much money Seafarers brightened Christmas tor children in Maumee, Ohio. Ronald Seatrain's part of the yard, subsidized ship companies, now, as will be spent directly in the McGinn, ship's delegate, presents check from crew of the SlU-conwhich it expects to take over by operates more than 50 container new venture will be generated in tracted Charles C. West (Reiss Steamship Company) to Dorothy B. April 15, will include the two ships, oil and grain tankers and supplying auxiliary goods and McCrory, Administrative Assistant for the Miami Children's Center. largest shops, four drydocks and multi-purpose military cargo ves­ services to workers at the ship­ Donation was made at Christmas time and was much appreciated. several piers. The company plans sels. The 115,000-ton tanker yard. to invest $15 million, of which Manhattan, the largest commer­ Seatrain will receive a federal $9 million will be for facilities cial American-flag ship, is owned loan of $5.8 million for the proj­ and $6 million for working cap- by the line. ect, which is tied to job-training Joseph Kahn, Seatrain's chair­ programs for poverty areas. The man, said, "The creation of a new Administration has stated it shipbuilding facility by the com­ will introduce legislation that will MOSCOW—^Wide expansion in the Mediterranean of the bur­ pany also would provide much of enable the federal government to the production and conversion sell former military installations geoning Soviet merchant fleet was reported here recently by Tass, capability Seatrain itself needs for to cities at less than market value. the official news agency of the U.S.S.R. While Italy remains the ma­ jor nation in the area with whom Levels Charge at MTP Meeting the Soviets are trading, Tass pointed out that "this situation WASHINGTON—Eight huge may soon change." The volume containerships, with designed cap­ of cargo borne in Russian bot­ ability of a 33-knot service speed, toms to the developing nations of are off the drawing-boards and ex­ the Mediterranean "has almost pected to be in operation in about doubled" within two years, the two years for the SIU contracted agency declared. Sea-Land Service, Inc., the com­ Part of this enlarged trade is pany confirmed here late last due to the transportation of ma­ month. WASHINGTON—Representative Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (D-Mass.) charged here last week chinery and equipment from Italy The fast new Sea-Land vessels will be able to complete a round that the nation's neglect of its once-dominant merchant marine and the recent decay and disinte­ to the Soviet Union, where a large automobile plant is being erected, trip across the Atlantic to Europe gration of that fleet have been "not just incredible but criminal." Tass said. It added that "at le^t in 10 days. This is at least four TheMasachusetts DemoOTt ^ shipyards during World War II. pendent agency bill on the fact 60 voyages of large motor ships days faster than any containership who has just started his ninth making them 25 years old and that although the 91st Congress are needed to carry the heavy and now in operation or under con­ terra in the House, told a meet­ older. And while this obsolescence has been in session only a month unwieldy equipment from Genoa struction. ing of the nearly seven-million- continues, the American ship­ there are already nearly 140 Con­ and Venice to Zhdanov and Estimated to cost about $25 member AFL-CIO Maritime building industry has dropped to gressional sponsors for the inde­ million each, the giant ships will Trades Department here that not 14th in rank among the world's pendent agency legislation—con­ Kerch" for the emerging auto­ mobile complex. The Soviets will be about 940 feet in length—more just recent Administrations have maritime nations. siderably more than the number build Fiat cars under Italian li­ than 200 feet longer than the larg­ been responsible for the rapid de­ To his audience, comprising of sponsors at this time last year. censes. The U.S.S.R. is under in­ est containership now in service. cline, but "both Democratic and representatives of government, in­ The Congressman said he also Twin propellers driven by 120,000 Republican administrations over dustry and labor, O'Neill contin­ drew a large degree of optimism tense internal pressure to expand its automobile production, Tass horsepower engines will furnish the past half-century," ued: from two other sources: the vig­ added. the power for the 33-knot speed. O'Neill described as "a tragic "In terms of trade and jobs and orous planks in both the Demo­ Private Financing story" the fact that "from the prosperity, our neglect is unfor­ cratic and Republican platforms The ships will all fly the Ameri­ greatest seafaring nation the world givable. In terms of the indispens- calling for a larger and stronger can flag and construction costs has ever known, the United States ability of the merchant marine to merchant marine, and President will be financed entirely by private has now sunk—and very likely national defense and security, our Nixon's position paper on mari­ time problems issued during the means, a company spokesman that's the best way to describe it neglect has been disgraceful." said. &a-Land will not seek ship —sunk—to the point where our The Congressman deplored the campaign. The Nixon policy statement, mortgage insurance from the gov­ merchant fleet t^ay is less than pocket veto last year of legislation 20 percent—^less than one-fifth its —overwhelmingly approved by O'Neill recalled, proposed a fleet ernment. Their unprecedented speed size—only 20 years ago." More the Senate and House—to create "able to lift at least 30 percent of WASHINGTON—Foreign ft*g would make it possible for each appalling, the Congressman added, an independent federal maritime our country's imports and ex­ ships deriving their revenues from of the vessels employed in the is that today nearly 95 percent agency. The re-establishment of ports." A merchant fleet with such U.S. commerce would no longer North Atlantic trade to make of all U.S. foreign commerce— such an autonomous maritime a capability, the Congressman get blanket tax exemptions under imports and exports—is carried body could have provided the first pointed out, "especially in view about 36 voyages each year. a bill proposed by Representative Direct containership service to by ships flying foreign flags. step toward reversal of the decay of the five percent carried by U.S.- James J. Howard (I>-N.J.). Vietnam was initiated by Sea"At the same time," he stressed, which has victimized our merchant flag ships today, is an excellent The bill calls for amending Land in 1967 with the sailing of "the Russian merchant fleet has fleet, he said. first step toward the eventual real­ existing tax laws to provide that been increasing enormously: from However, O'Neill said he was the Bienville from Oakland, Cali­ ization of an American merchant 21st among the fleets of the world "decidedly optimistic about the fleet carrying more than 50 per­ earnings of ships which are under fornia. substantial control or ownership Sea-Land provides sailings ev­ in 1950 to the fifth largest today." prospects, for effective maritime cent of our cargoes." of U.S. citizens and which regu­ O'Neill made a strong appeal ery 15 days from Oakland to Da But the flourishing size of the legislation in the new Congress." larly serve U.S. ports should be Nang and provides a similar 15 Russian fleet is not the most criti­ "I am optimistic about the re- for new maritime legislation that subject to present tax laws, even day service from Seattle and Oak­ cal threat faced by American passage of the independent agen- will give a better break to unsubthough those vessels are operated land to Camh Ranh Bay. trade today. Representative cv bill—and Presidential approval sidized shipping companies. The under the flag of another nation. he stated, The company has a two-year O'Neill declared. "More impor­ this time—and I am optimistic unsubsidized firms, The bill, which is now in the contract with the Military Sea tant ie the horrifying obsolescence about the enactment of legislation should be given first chance on House Ways and Means Commit­ government cargoes and should Transportation Service, soon to of the fragmentary fleet we have to modernize: our merchant ma­ tee, would make it lessj>rofitable have the opportunity to negotiate left. Four out of five American rine program." expire, which calls for another The Bay state lawmaker based long-term charters for the carriage for American shipowners to oper­ containership shuttle between Cam merchant ships, vessels flying ate under foreign registry. Ranh Bay, &igon and Qui Nhon. American flags, came out of our his optimism concerning the inde- of government trade. Sea-Lam!toBuild Eight Fast Ships la Next 2 Yams Expansion of Sovfot Morcbant Fleet in Mediterranean Reported by Tass Sovt Neglect of Merchant Marine Termed Xrlminar by Congressman Runaway Sblps To Get Tax Bite In New Proposal �February 14, 1969 SEAFARERS Welcome to SlU Gallon Club LOG Page Three Optimism Voiced at MTP Seminar Nixon s Cooperation on Strong Fleet Seen Likeiy by Magnuson, Carmatz I 1^ « .^ Sedfarer Donald Wagner, who sails with SlU as a bosun, is the proud recipient of a Gallon Club pin from Dr. Joseph Logue, left, SlU medical director as Nurse Mary Larsen, RN, looks on. Wagner be­ comes the seventh Seafarer to achieve this unique distinction. He has formed the habit of donating a pint of blood when he reports for his annual physical examination at the SlU clinic. Dr. Logue has set a goal of 50 members for the Gallon Club, which was orignated last year. Several Seafarers are already on their second gallon. U.S. Continues Slack Pace Japan Top World Shipbuilder As 1968 Orders Hit Record WASHINGTON—Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee said last month he was "optimistic" that the Democratic Congress and the new Repub­ lican Administration could work together on revitalizing the U.S. merchant marine. In remarks prepared for delivery at a day-long seminar and well-balanced maritime pro­ ing pattern of our foreign com­ merce." sponsored by the AFL-CIO gram." Magnuson took the same tack • Edwin M. Hood, president Maritime Trades Department, in assessing the prospects of work­ of the Shipbuilders Council of Magnuson said he based his fore­ ing with the Nixon Administra­ America, who said that the John­ cast on the belief that Congress tion, declaring: son Administration held the mari­ could not have "any substantially "I am hopeful that the new Ad­ time industry at "arm's length," lesser degree of co-operation" ministration sincerely wants to and who added that the merchant from the Nixon Administraticm serve the needs of the United marine "now looks to the Nixon on maritime matters "than we re­ States, and if those needs are to Administration for leadership" in ceived from the previous Admin­ be served there must be a re­ developing "mutually responsive istration." building of our fleet. And if the co-ordination between govern­ His counterpart from the campaign promises of the Presi­ ment, management and labor" in House, Representative Edward A. dent prove to be an accurate guide the interests of maritime revival. Garmatz (D-MdJ, chairman of to his future actions in the area • Archibald E. King, chairman the House Merchant Marine and of the merchant marine then we of Isthmian Lines, Inc., who urged Fisheries Committee, echoed Mag- should receive from the new Ad­ Congress and the Administration nuson's "disappointment" over ministration a meaningful pro­ to give "primary consideration" to the failure of the Johnson Admin­ gram to revitalize the fleet." the unsubsidized segment of the istration to move forward in the Optimism seemed to be the fleet by giving them "first prefer­ merchant marine field. watchword at the seminar, which ence in the allocation of U.S. Garmatz was critical of the fact drew several hundred representa­ government-controlled or spon­ that a bill to reconstitute the Mar­ tives of maritime management, sored cargo," and by allowing itime Administration as an inde­ labor and government. Among them the same privilege, now en­ pendent agency, passed over­ the other speakers were: joyed by subsidized operators, to whelmingly by the 90th Congress, • James R. Wilson, Jr., direc­ establish "reserve funds with tax was pocket vetoed last Fall. At tor of the National Security Divi­ deferment to replace their ves­ the same time, he accused the sion of the American Legion, who sels." Johnson Administration of having applauded a statement made by In keynoting the conference, O. "backed ofT' from agreements Nixon last September, in which William Moody, Jr., administrator reached with Congress on a mar­ he called for "a sharp increase in of the nearly-seven-million-memitime program and, instead, of the transport of U.S. trade aboard having come up with "totally un­ American-flag ships," setting a ber MTD urged participants to acceptable" legislative proposals. goal by the mid-1970's of 30 per­ look "not to the past, but to the future." He said that the outlook The House Merchant Marine cent carriage on U.S. vessels, as for 1969 was bright because of the opposed to the present 5-percent Committee chairman added: Nixon Administration's pledges "Perhaps the new Administra­ level. and because the 91st Congress • Page Groton, director of the "contains, for the most part, old tion will have a better understand­ ing of the vital requirements of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders and valued friends of the mer­ American seapower. In any event, Marine Council, who noted that chant marine." I am more determined than ever Nixon's campaign pledge was that we continue with renewed backed up by the platform adopt­ vigor our efforts to create an inde­ ed at the Republican National pendent federal Maritime Admin­ Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., istration, and provide the legisla­ pledging "a realistic ship replace­ tive framework for a substantial ment program to meet the chang- LONDON—With world-wide merchant shipbuilding hitting an all-time high last year the United States continued to lag behind. Japan continues to be the overwhelming leader, according to the final quarterly report for 1968 ,„d the largest increase during just issued by Lloyd s Register any one quarter. of Shipping. Japan's orderAs 1968 closed, 716 ships of books at the close of the last 4,923,770 tons were under con­ quarter of 1968 showed an in­ struction—compared with 5,224,crease of 801,944 tons as com­ 122 tons the previous quarter. pared with an increase in U.S. Launched for the period were orders of only 216,953 tons—a 796 vessels of 4,692,704 tons, up ratio of almost four to one. from 3,876,167 tons. Completed The largest single year-end rise were 830 vessels of 4,891,822 in vessels on order was Sweden's tons, up from 3,715,942 tons. 922,906 tons, which brought that Scandinavian nation's total orders up to third place for the year. Japan again led in total volume by having 18,085,024 tons on order at the end of the year. "Japan's record output in terms of tonnage launched during 1968 is more than four times that of Engineer's licenses have been issued to four more Seafarers after they successfully completed 1962, while West Germany has training at the School of Marine Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. regained second place ahead of A total of 309 men have now passed Coast Guard examinations after taking the course offered by Sweden and Britain," Lloyd's re­ the school. Three of the Sea-^^ ported. Under construction in the farers in the latest group of Baytown, Texas, and now makes upgrading programs if they are world shipyards at the end of graduates are newly-licensed his home in Houston. The 28- at least 19 years old and have 1968 were 1,811 vessels aggregat­ third assistant engineers and the year-old Seafarer last sailed a minimum of 18 months of ing a total of 15,769,023 gross other has been upgraded to secmid aboard the Achilles as oiler before Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in earning his third assistant's license. the engine department, in addition tons, Lloyd's said. These figures assistant engineer. Bone has been sailing since 1966 do not include shipbuilding within after three years service with the the U.S.S.R. and mainland China. Navy in Vietnam. He joined the United States tonnage on or­ SIU in Houston in 1968. der at the end of the year aggre­ William Versloot, 42, was born gated 11,602,369; Sweden had in New Jersey and now lives in 4,742,915 tons on order; West Passaic with his wife, Phyllis. He Germany, 3,901,988 tons; United has been going to sea since 1951, Kingdom, 3,816,164 tons; France, and joined the SIU in 1961 in the 3,014,776 tons; Norway, 2,030,Port of New York. Brother Ver­ 284 tons; Denmark, 1,944,231 Akxander Verdoot Slney Bone sloot last shipped on a 92-day tons; Spain, 1,912,055 tons, and Italy, 1,768,036 tons. Poland, James Siney makes his home in voyage aboard the James. to six month's experience as wiper James Alexander Jr. makes his or the equivalent. the Netherlands and Yugoslavia Baltimore when he is not at sea. also topped the one million mark Brother Siney, who has been sail­ home in Atlanta, Georgia, where Seafarers who qualify and wish in orders. ing since 1953, joined the SIU he was born 35 years ago. He has to enroll in the School of Marine The total order book at the end in the Port of Baltimore in 1958. been sailing since 1963, and joined Engineering can obtain additional of 1968—^vessels under construc­ His last ship was the Kenyon the SIU the same year. He last information and make application tion as well as orders on which Victory on which he sailed as shipped as oiler for a 100-day trip for the course at any SIU hall, work had not yet been begun— third assistant. Siney is an 11-year on the Robin Locksley. Alexander, or they may write directly to SIU was 3,414 vessels totalling 48,- veteran of the U.S. Army and was who is unmarried, is a four-year headquarters at 675 Fourth Ave­ 911,257 gross tons. This Lloyd's wounded in action during World veteran of the Navy. nue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, states as a record figure—4,390,War II. Engine department Seafarers or telephone the school at (212) 091 tons above the previous quarWilliam Bone is a native of are eligible to apply for any of the 499-6600. Four More Seafarers Win Licenses; Total Upgraded engineers Now 309 Active U.S. Fleet Continues to Drop MARAD Reports WASHINGTON — The num­ ber of vessels in the active ocean­ going U.S. merchant fleet contin­ ued to drop during 1968, accord­ ing to a recently-released report from the U.S. Maritime Adminis­ tration. According to the report, there were 1,033 ships of 1,(^ gross tons and over in the active fleet as this year began, 30 less than on January 1, 1968. The report also revealed that the total privately-owned fleet decreased to 967 ships, which was seven less than on January 1, 1968. The total U.S. flag mer­ chant fleet decreased by 180 ships since a year ago to a present total of 2,071. Six ships in the privately-owned fleet were transferred to foreign flags in 1968, and five were sold for scrap. The number of large oceangoing ships under contract for conversion or construction on the first of this year was 78, com­ pared to 72 a year ago. Four new ships were delivered from construction during Novem­ ber and December. They are the tanker Overseas Audrey to Over­ seas Bulktank Corp.; the Delta Mexico to Delta Steamship Line; the American Lynx to U.S. Lines, and the Indian Mai! to American Mail Line. �Page Four SEAFARERS LOG Bases View on Campaign Promises Febniarr 14, 1969 Receives Community Service Award New Hope tor US-Flag Fleet Seen By President of ShipbulUers Council SAN FRANCISCO—The new Nixon Administration was recently seen here as bringing with it a resurgence of growth in the nation's merchant fleet. Edwin M. Hood, president of the Shipbuild­ ers Council of America, expressed this view here late last month to the annual meeting of the Westem Shipbuilding Association, ^ achieve the goals I have just sum­ pared to our 58 . . . For the past and based his optimism on state­ marized, he will have succeeded several years new ship deliveries ments made by President Nixon in an area where his immediate to the Russian merchant fleet have while campaigning for office. predecessors have been eminently outpaced U.S. deliveries by a ratio unsuccessful," Hood stated. of nearly 8 to 1 . . . about 80 per­ "Few Presidents of the United States have entered the White "Though there is much optimism cent of the Soviet shipping fleet House with a detailed exposition favoring full achievement, even today is less than 10 years of age, of their thinking with regard to partial accomplishment will result while approximately 80 percent shipbuilding already contained on in a greater magnitude of naval of the American merchant marine the public record," Hood declared. and merchant shipbuilding than is 20 years of age or older . . . has been the case during the past "But President Nixon has!" "In the past 20 years, more than eight years." 1,000 ships have been added to The SCA president pointed out Hood pointed to the "galloping the Russian merchant marine, that, as a candidate, Nixon had advocated "the prompt restora­ obsolescence" which has been while in the same period our ship­ tion of the United States as a overtaking the U.S. oceangoing ping fleet has contracted by about first-rate maritime power" and merchant fleet—as well as the na­ 1,000 vessels . . .," he continued. called for better co-ordination be­ tion's fishing and Great Lakes "While the Russians have been tween merchant and naval ship­ fleets—and declared that "further putting together a formidable building in order to attract invest­ procrastination in the reconstruc­ merchant marine and naval force, ment capital and retain stable tion of U.S. sea power resources which in the words of the Chief labor forces; make better use of could endanger the national se­ of Naval Operations, Admiral credit facilities; and bring about curity." Thomas H. Moorer, represents a realistic amortization procedures Cites Russian Growth 'threat to the United Sftates' su­ and long-term government cargo "In the last decade," Hood premacy at sea', those responsible commitments. pointed out, "the Russians have for our iiiaritime policy haVe Nixon also promised support advanced to a position of sea seemingly been oblivious to all for a domestic shipbuilding pro­ power strength from which the that has been taking place." gram to produce a fleet of Amer­ interests of the United States and Raps Past Policies ican-flag merchant ships capable the entire Free World can now Hood indicated that "the gross of carrying 30 percent of the na­ very definitely be challenged. As tion's trade and commerce instead Russia has moved ahead, the U.S. deficiencies that have marked the of the present five percent. Beyond has dropped from first to ninth Johnson Administration's per­ this. Hood stated, Nixon had ad­ position, and the Soviet Navy is formance" as regards maritime vocated tax incentives and cargo presently second only to that of can now be reversed and the Nix­ assistance for domestic shipping the U.S. on Administration presents an op­ operations and the application of "The Russians have been build­ portunity to do so. research and development pro­ ing many more merchant ships "By any scale of measurement," grams to the maritime fleet. than we have. At mid-1968, they he added, "the prospective wcric "If our new President can were constructing 448 ships com- volume from governmental as well as commercial sources could well place U.S. shipbuilding on the brink of unprecedented growth. Fortunately, every major shipyard in the U.S. is 'gearing up' for this prospect. Through management skills, capital improvements, new teghniques and cost reductions, a significant renaissance in U.S. SAN FRANCISCO—Members ried almost unanimously. shipbuilding is taking place. It of the SIUNA-afiiliated Military Officers for the new term were holds great promise for the future Sea Transport Union last month installed by SIUNA Vice Presi­ in terms of work stability, em­ elected Joseph J. Leal to a second dent Frank Drozak, who spoke ployment for craftsmen and shipterm as secretary-treasurer of the on the problems facing the mari­ year profits and—more dramat­ Union. Leal, who was unop­ time industry over the next three ically—as an expression of de­ posed, will serve in the Union's years. He advised the elected offi­ clared national intention that the top post for another three years. cers to keep well informed and aspirations of free men and wom­ Also elected with Leal were in close contact with the Interna­ en everywhere will not be sub­ Raleigh G. Minix, Darrol Van tional so as to be able to most jugated de facto through Soviet Auker and George T. Grier as effectively protect the job rights expansionism on the seas." business agents. They will also of the MSTU membership. serve for a second term. The ballot also included nomi­ nees for four SIU convention delegates. Successful candidates for these posts were SecretaryTreasurer Joseph J. Leal, Busi­ ness Agents Raleigh Minix and Darrol Van Auker and Charles J. Rehill. Two propositions dealing with constitutional amendments were also voted upon. The first names the order of succession in the event of the incapacity of the sec­ retary-treasurer as the business agent who received the highest number of votes in the last elec­ tion, followed by the business aeent who received the second highest number of votes. The second proposition pro­ vides for non-payment of dues by a member who is on leave with­ out pay due to his being a patient SIUNA Vice Pres. Frank Drozak swears in the newly elected officers in a USPHS or other accredited of SlU-Military Sea Transport Union in San Francisco. Left to right: hospital. Both propositions car­ George Grier, Darrol Van Auker, Joseph J. Leal and Raleigh Minix. MSTU Re-elects Joseph Leal To Secretary-Treasurer Post SIU Vice President Lindsey J. Williams, right, accepts the Com­ munity Service Award of the year, given by the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO at Port's SIU hall. Presenting the award is A. P. Stoddard, left, president of the local AFL-CIO. SIU Port Agent in New Orleans, C. J. (Buck) Stevens also participated in the ceremony with Williams. Two Million Workers Benefit By Minimum Wage Law Hike WASHINGTON—More than two million of America's lowestpaid workers got a pay raise to $1.30 an hour this month when the third step of the 1966 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act took effect on February 1. —.. . ,— 1 < -..-ii:.. lishments which do at least $250,On the saine date, 1.5 niillion ^ , gross persons who had not previously year. Last year, only places doing been covered by the law moved more than $500,000 bu«ness were under its protection. More than covered. half of them are employees of Except for farm workers, all smaller retail stores; most of the those covered by the $1.30 step remainder work in restaurants, this year will have their wage hotels and motels. guarantee lifted to $1.45 next Feb­ There is no change in the wage- ruary 1, and to the standard $1.60 hour protection for most of the level on February 1, 1971. Before 44 million workers covered by that date arrives, of course, Con­ federal law. Their minimum pay gress may Have boosted the mini­ guarantee went up to $1.60 a year mum wage—a major legislative ago and, with a few exceptions, goal of the AFL-CIO. their maximum straight-time Under present law, the mini­ hours have been pegged at 40 for mum pay for covered farm work­ many years. ers—only those on large farms The ones who will benefit by are covered — doesn't go any the February 1 change come from higher than the new $1.30 level. the group brought under the wage- The cutoff was part of the com­ hour law for the first time by the promise necessary in 1966 to 1966 amendments. achieve the breakthrough of bring­ ing farm workers under the Fair Some Still Exempt This group includes nearly 9 Labor Standards Act for the first million persons who were brought time. under the law at a $1 minimum two years ago, raised to $1.15 last year and to $1.30 this year. Some SEAFAREBS^tOG occupations are exempt from hours coverage, but for most in Feb. 14, 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. 4 this group the straight-time limit OfficlKl Publication of tlie drops this year to 40 hours a week Seafarers International Union of North America, after having been pegged at 44 Atiantic, Gulf, Lakes hours the first year, 42 hours last and Inland Waters District, year. AFL-CIO The 1.5 million newly-covered gxeeutive Board PAUL HALL, President workers move in at the same $1.30 EARL SHBPABD GAL TANNEB level as if they had come under Exee. Viee-Pret. Vice-President the law two years ago. LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KEBR Vice-President About half of the new group Sec.-Treaa. ROBERT MATTHEWS and about 1.3 million of the group AL TANNEB Vice-President Vice-President moving up from the $1.15 wage Director of Publieatione guarantee now earn less than $1.30 MIKE POLLACK an hour and will benefit immed­ Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN iately from the higher rate, the Assistant Editors Labor Department estimated. WILL KARP Their wage increases will add CHARLES SVENSON up—again an estimate—to $505 Stolf Photographer million a year, all going to work­ ANTHONY ANSALDI ers earning poverty-level incomes. Pskllihid kiwMkly at 810 Rhots lilint Annis Restaurant, hotel, motel and N.E., Wsihlniton, D. C. 20018 ky th( Sisfarfarm employees remain exempt •n inttrnitional Union, Atlsntle, 6slf. IrtM and inland Wstoro District, AFL-CIO, 675 from the maximum hours provi­ Fsarth Avcnst, Brssklyn, R.Y. 11232. Tel. HVaclnth 9-6600. tscond iliii psitsfs paid sion of the law and where work­ at Waihlnptoni, D. C. ers receive more than $20 a month POSTEASTER'S ATTERTIOR: Fonn 3579 sards sheald ko sent to Seafarers International in tips, employers can credit tips Union, Atlantic, Cslf, Lakes and Inland toward up to half the amount of Waters Olstrist, AFL-CIO, 675 Foartk Awnno, Rrooklyn, N.V. 11232. the minimum wage. The workers newly covered this year are those working in estab- �> February 14, 1969 SEAFARERS U.S. Supreme Court Upholds NLRB Fringe Benefit Ruling I ) I ri i Page Five Birth of a Modern Freighter WASHINGTON—^The Supreme Court, reversing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, ruled last month that the National Labor Relations Board has the power to enforce a contract against an employer f who refused to abide by its Co. The board directed Strong to terms, including fringe benefits. sign a contract with Roofers Local The court, with Justice William 36, Los Angeles, stop refusing to O. Douglas dissenting, upheld a bargain with the union, and pay 1965 labor board order against his share of the pension and wel­ Joseph T. Strong, doing business fare funds agreed upon by the as Strong Roofing and Insulating union and the Roofing Contrac­ tors Association of Southern Cal­ ifornia. New no. Canal To Prowide Gait, I Atlantic Linkap !li| * LOG TALLAHASSEE, Fte. —Con­ siderable progress has been made over the past year on the Cross Florida Barge Canal project which is to link the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of that state, L. C. Ringhaver, chairman of the Canal Au­ thority announced this month in an interim refK>rt on the project, Completion of the work, how­ ever will probably be delayed be­ cause of the curtailment of fed­ eral funds. Ringhaver called for a four-year funding program to insure a through waterway by mid-1973 which will be usable though not completely finished. The report noted the comple­ tion of two of the five locks for the canal during 1968. These are the Inglis Lock near the western end, and the St. Johns Lock near the Rodman Dam, which is also newly operative. In all, the project is termed approximately one-third finished. When completed, the Florida barge canal will provide 185 miles of toll-free, protected waterway which will link the inter-coastal route near Jacksonville with the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. The Canal Authority, which is the local sponsoring agency, is a public corporation. The project itself is federally financed, fed­ erally constructed and federally operated. Ringhaver emphasized that transportation of bulk commodi­ ties is cheaper by barge transpor­ tation than by overland means. For example, he pointed out, it costs about four mills to move a ton one mile by barge, about 13 mills by rail, and about four cents by truck. Justice Byron R. Whi^e, who wrote the majority opinion, said Strong souoht to withdraw from the employers' association a few days after it completed negotiat­ ing a four-year aereement with Local 36 in 1963, and "refused repeated demands from the union that he sign the contract." In 1965 the NLRB ordered Strong to abide by the contract. The 9th Circuit appeals court en­ forced the NLRB order except for the pavment of fringe bene­ fits. which it said was "bevond the powers of the board." The NLRB appealed. The SlU Pacific District-contracted Matson lines Is building two 34,000-ton ships for Its Intermodal freight services In the Pacific. Above Is the skeleton of one of the new freighters as It begins to take shape at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard at Sparrows Point, Md. Vessel Is due for a spring launching. Iniiulrles Valid "The hoard is not trespassinc on forhid'ten territorv." the high court ruled, "when it inauires whether nevotiations have pro­ duced a bargain which the emPlover has refused to sien and honor, particularly when the em­ ployer has refused to recognize the very existence of the contract providing for the arbitration on which he now insists." To this extent, the court said, the "contract is the board's affair, and an effective remedy for re­ fusal to sign is its proper business." It added; "Arbitrators and courts are still the principal sources of contract interpretation" but the board may prohibit conduct which is an unfair labor practice "even though it is also a breach of con­ tract remediable" by arbitration and in the courts. Justice Hugo Black concurred in the reversal but would direct that the case be remanded to the NLRB for a decision on arbitra­ tion. Justice Black wrote in his dissent that "arbitration is not a process which the board is either equipped or qualified to follow." "This Won't Hurt a Bit" ji' * Iliiitic, Gulf & Inland Wafers January 24, 1969 to February 6, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 3 0 37 44 7 14 27 11 7 12 3 11 5 3 20 13 47 32 31 19 18 31 84 45 8 13 273 272 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 1 0 1 16 24 14 7 9 2 18 8 14 4 0 4 0 0 2 3 0 1 1 3 4 23 26 1 7 10 0 29 11 9 32 48 56 10 9 15 153 190 79 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 9 308 326 18 39 62 164 38 15 38 44 35 25 107 55 113 206 141 127 63 12 72 12 7 61 827 1273 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A 0 33 3 13 12 9 1 13 25 25 7 38 14 193 TOTAL SHIPPED All Class A Class B Class C 2 0 1 13 38 20 6 10 6 7 5 9 7 3 3 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 4 2 20 1 14 13 0 12 8 13 15 71 46 42 15 11 14 108 203 127 2 68 5 8 6 9 6 18 53 31 23 89 12 328 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 5 5 249 207 18 5 65 104 20 33 27 32 24 15 74 77 157 103 132 102 12 25 9 50 7 39 786 810 STEWARD DEPARTMENT • Seafarer Herman C. Mora gets a blood test in the SlU's medical center at the San Francisco hall. Administering the test Is Lab Technician Sharon Marino. A chief coolc, Mora Is IS-year SlU vet. TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Class A Class B Port 0 2 Boston 25 14 New York 3 6 Philadelphia Baltimore 12 5 8 Norfolk 2 Jacksonville 11 5 Tampa 1 5 Mobile 21 12 New Orleans 35 31 Houston 13 19 Wilmington 12 14 San Francisco ... 32 54 Seattle 11 5 173 Totals 185 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 0 0 1 16 15 15 3 2 4 6 3 15 6 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 2 6 0 0 16 7 2 3 10 5 10 3 9 36 34 51 6 6 6 76 128 102 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 1 5 86 230 17 12 51 120 29 18 19 31 14 25 42 96 66 173 60 122 3 39 13 41 9 44 402 961 �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG Birchers'Attack on Grape Boycott Hiding Behind Hoasewives'Skirts NEW YORK—If there are any housewives in an organization called Housewives United to Protect Food Supply, you'll probably find them at a local cell meeting of the John Birch Society. It's all part of a desperate attempt to counter the effectiveness of the labor-church boycott of struck California grapes. The editorial was, appropriately Openly identified with the Birchers and the Right-to-Work advocates, five major food store enough, from the Los Angeles "buy grapes" campaign are the chains—A&P,Big Apple, Colonial, Herald Examiner—the struck National Right-to-Work Com­ Kroger and Winn-Dixie—discon­ Hearst newspaper which has mittee and the Farm Bureau Fed­ tinued sale of California grapes at waged a union-busting campaign eration—^long time allies in union- the urging of local clergymen and against its workers for more than busting campaigns. a representative citizen's commit­ a year. The Birch Society, however, is tee who support the boycott of the "The boycott has cut the pick­ apparently hiding behind the front United Farm Workers Organizing ers' workweek from a normal six name of "Housewives United" to Committee. days at the season's peak to four do its part to discredit the boycott. Similar large chains in Chicago davs," the editorial complained. Identical leaflets in several cities, and Detroit had earlier announced The boycott, of course, is the signed by the mysterious "house­ that they would no longer carry result of a refusal by California wives" group charge that the grape California grapes and the Mayors grape growers to recognize the boycott is inspired and financed by of Chicago and Philadelphia right of their workers to union the Communists and claim that joined with the chief executives of representation—and the fact that food prices will "skyrocket" if it other cities in banning the pur­ farm workers don't have the pro­ is successful. chase of California grapes by city tection of the National Labor Re­ Leaflets distributed in the New institutions. lations Act. York area bear only a Post Office A hint of the reason for the But the "work" committee box number in Larchmont, N.Y. stepped-up right-wing attack on quotes a "loyal" grape worker it But the same leaflet signed by the the grape boycott came in an edi­ sent on a nationwide tour to coun­ same Housewives United group, torial reprinted in the national ter the boycott as telling his au­ passed out in front of Atlanta su­ newsletter of the Right-to-Work diences, "the root of our problem permarkets, carried a local ad­ Committee. is lack of a right-to-work law." dress for the organization—3081 Maple Eh-ive, NE. AFL-CIO Economist Warns Oliver Singleton, Atlanta-based AFL-CIO regional director, drove to the address and found there an American Opinion Book Store— one of the many such John Birch Society bookstores located throughout the nation. It carried the usual assortment of right-wing extremist literature which included WASHINGTON—^The danger of an economic recession has large stacks of leaflets attacking emerged with the record-high prime interest rates instituted by the grape boycott. Meanwhile, in defiance of the the nation's big banks and the resulting credit squeeze, labor "buy grapes" campaign by the economist Nathaniel Goldfinger ^ 8.4 percent, Goldfinger pointed warned here recently. out. The new seven percent prime "I don't think it takes much interest rate—the amount banks imagination to see what kind of charge to their biggest and best interest rates medium-sized busi­ credit risks—^was viewed by Goldnesses and small businesses, farm­ finger as too severe for the na­ tional economy, which has been ers, home buyers and consumers running briskly for the last three will pay," Goldfinger added. Noting that mortgage rates were years. CLEVELAND — American"Slapping on the brakes all of running at 7.25 and 7.5 percent flag bulk carriers on the Great a sudden is very dangerous be­ at the end of 1968, he predicted Lakes moved about as much ton­ cause there is a possibility of go­ the rates will go up toward eight nage in 1968 as in the previous ing through the economic wind­ percent for the country as a year. Vice Admiral James A. shield," the director of the AFL- whole. Hirshfield, president of the Lakes CIO Department of Research Meanwhile, the interest rates Carriers Association reported declared. for smaller business will move here. It is much wiser to slow down even higher than the eight to 10 Consisting mainly of iron ore, the economy, Goldfinger declared. percent rates of recent months, coal, grain and limestone, the "If the monetary managers of "And interest rates on install­ actual 1968 tonnage recorded the Federal Reserve System ment loans to consumers, which was 191,947,440, as compared wanted to act in the monetary have been running around 12 with 1967 figures some 450,000 area, they could increase the re­ and 18 percent, will move a lot tons higher—a difference of only serve requirements on banks," he higher," he added. .23 percent—making 1968 the said, which would have a more Inflationaiy ninth highest season on record, gradual slowing effect. the report stated. "The sad part," the federation's He said that the board's action Unusually favorable water raising its discount rate was un­ top economist said on Labor News levels in the connecting channels necessary because the temporary Conference, is that these interest of the Great Lakes enabled the income tax surcharge, along with rates "get built into the price utilization of maximum carrying the "very strong lid on the increase structure so they increase the price capacity by large fleet units. Ship­ of government expenditures" and of everything you buy . . . they ments from all of the lake ports other economy-dampeners were are an inflationary factor." benefited, registering moderate already slowing the rapid rise in Goldfinger said that many econ­ gains over 1967, from the for- sales, production and employment. omists feel the surtax, which si­ wardings of tonnage moved from The higher prime rates will not phons about $11 billion in addi­ Eastern Canada. These set an­ only be felt by the richest and tional revenues from consumers other high for the seventh con­ biggest borrowers, but throughout and businesses, would gradually secutive year, reaching 15,764,- the nation, Goldfinger noted. slow down the economy a bit and 225 gross tons. A seven percent rate for the slow down the rate of price in­ Cargoes of iron ore totalled big corporations like General Mo­ creases. 83,631,049 gross tons—a 3.75 tors or General Electric is really He noted that the surtax is percent gain over 1967. Bitumi­ an understatement, he said, "be­ bringing the federal budget toward nous coal shipments were 48,- cause on big loans, the banks also a surplus. 657,184 net tons, 7.64 percent require that 20 percent of the "Because of that factor, many less than in the past year. This loan remain in the bank • as an economists believe that gradually, decrease reflected a diversion of interest-free deposit." economic expansion would begin tonnage from Chicago and the This 20 percent deposit added to slow down on an orderly basis" removal of one Lake Ontario port to the seven percent interest rate and price pressures would ease from operating status. adds up to an effective rate of over a period of time, he added. Record-High Interest Rates Could Bring About Recession 1968 Ship Cargo On Great Lakes At Stable Level Febraai7 14, 1969 Coffee Time Down South Seafarers Ronnie Bradford (left) and Clayton Thomas enjoy a good cup of coffee in the cafeteria at the New Orleans hall. Brother Bradford sails in the deck department and was recently on Columbia Baron. He lives in Mobile. Thomas joined SlU in New Orleans. Loyola Study Finds Job Training Programs Essential To Upgrading of Poor Rural Areas NEW ORLEANS—An intensive study of the problems of job­ lessness in rural areas of Louisiana shows that new industry alone will not help local people find employment. They need training too. Unless the local workeis have ,he spaee and petroehemieal a good education or skills, the industries. introduction of new industry Despite intensive efforts at often "does nothing for the local placement by the project, only people, but rather imports a new 244 of the 933 enrollees had jobs work force." at the time of the final tabulation. The recently completed study, Another 191 were in school, the made by Loyola University's In­ armed services or a training pro­ stitute of Human Relations funded gram. The rest were unemployed. by the U.S. Department of Labor, Perhaps the most important concludes that "a concentrated conclusion to be drawn from program of employment and skill Project Reach is "that the peo­ training in rapidly industrializing ple served need additional, or in rural areas" is needed if the job­ many cases their first, skill train­ less or underemployed men and ing," the r^ort notes. "These women "are to be fully integrated individuals stand with one foot in into the industrial society." the traditional agrarian culture of the South, and with the other in Rural Project the space age." The 15-month project involved ^ The report also made these ob­ 933 men, women and youths in servations: the rural Louisiana parishes of St. • Special arrangements for James, St, John the Baptist, St. transportation must be made in Charles and St. Tammany. rural areas in any scheme to place More than one-half of all those the hard-core unemployed in per­ recruited listed no skills, and few manent jobs or in training. • Payment of a living allow­ of the others had the skills re­ quired by employers in the area. ance during training cuts the drop­ Almost one-third had never been out rate significantly. • The poor are much more apt employed in a regular job. to finish a training program if Nearly all had had trouble find­ ing suitable work despite the there's a job waiting at the end. dramatic economic expansion of Job development is the key ele­ the region, spurred by the growth ment in any such program. SlU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS December 1-December 31, 1968 Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . .. Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) .. Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . (Average: $202.78) Optical Benefits (Welfare) . .. Out-Patlent Benefits (Welfare) SUMMARY (Welfare) Vacation Benefits (Mverage: $405.54) Total Welfare, Vacation Benefits Paid This Period ... Number of Amount Benefits Paid 973 29 1,258 20 3,544 $ 10,733.76 79,410.32 285,537.00 4,000.00 71,865.67 692 3,690 1,038.60 29,253.50 10,206 1,891 481,838.85 766,880.11 12.097 $L248^718^ �February 14, 1969 / I. i; VI i Enlarged House Labor Unit Maintains Liberal Majority SEAFARERS Page Seven LOG Reflection W^HINGTON—The House Education and Labor Committee, like its Senate counterpart, will have a strong liberal majority in the 91st Congress. The committee was slightly enlarged by changing the ratio of 19 Democrats and 14 Republicans in the 90th Congress to 20 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Democrats had four vacancies to fill and assigned Negro congress­ men to three of the spots. Adam Clayton Powell of New York, the former chairman of the committee, returned from exile to take the low-seniority spot at the bottom. Louis Stokes, brother of the mayor of Cleveland, won a committee assignment as did William Clay of St. Louis. Clay knows labor prob­ lems first hand as apprenticeship training director for a local of the Plumbers and Pipefitters and earlier as an organizer for the St. Louis local of the State, County and Municipal Employees. Also moving onto the committee is Joseph M. Gaydos, from a Pittsburgh area district with a heavy concentration of Steelworkers. Incumbent Democrats who moved off the committee are Sam M. Gibbons, a Florida liberal who won a coveted seat on the Ways and Means Committee, and House Majority Leader Carl Albert of Okla­ homa. Republicans filled three vacancies with two conservatives and moderate. The moderate is Orval E. Hansen of Idaho, whose record in the state legislature includes a vote against a so-called "right-to-work" law. More conservative is Earl B. Ruth of Salisbury, N.C., who was dean of students at Catawba College and won an upset victory in a new district last year after having switched his registration from Dem­ ocratic to Republican. An Outspoken Foe Most conservative of the GOP newcomers is Earl P. Landgrebe, who won the seat of retired Charles A. Halleck, longtime GOP stalwart. As a state senator, Landgrebe voted against virtually all social legisla­ tion and he said durina the campaien that he opposed government spending programs because most government planners "are bums who couldn't make a living as doctors or truck drivers." Representative Carl D. Perkins (D-K;'.) remains as chairman of the committee, with Edith Green (D-Ore.) and Frank Thompson, Jr. (DN.J.) next on the seniority list. Committee appointments were later than usual this year because the initial Democratic caucus insisted on enforcing a neglected rule— that appointments made by the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee, who choose members of other committees, must be acted on by the full Democratic caucus. This rule resulted in an unprecedented and successful revolt by Mrs. Shirley Chisholm, who represents a black ghetto district of Brooklyn, N.Y. She had been assigned to the Agriculture Committee. And she told the caucus that she didn't think she could do any good on the Agri­ culture Committee. The somewhat startled caucus passed her amendment to delete her name from the Agriculture Committee list and Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.) promised to try to find a spot for her on another committee. There were changes but not significant shifts of liberal-conservative strength on other committees. The one spot on the powerful Appropriations Committee went to a Colorado liberal serving his third term, Frank E. Evans. President Hunter P. Wharton Sam H. Scott, 67, president of the Stone Workers from 1944 to of the Operating Engineers was 1968, died recently after a brief elected to a three-year term on the illness. At his death he was dis­ board of the United Community trict director of his union and a Funds and Councils of America vice president of the North Caro­ at the organization's annual meet­ lina AFL-CIO. Scott stepped ing at NYC last month. He suc­ down as Stone Workers' presi­ ceeds Jacob dayman, administra­ dent last September 1 but re­ tive director of the AFL-CIO mained active in his other posts. Industrial Union Department who Formerly he was president of a retired from the board. * * * Tobacco Workers' local union and a staff representative of that C. J. Haggerty, president of the international. AFL-CIO Building and Construc­ * * * tion Trades Department, has been President William H. McClen- reappointed to the President's nan of the Fire Fighters and Committee on Employment of the Thomas R. Donahue, executive Handicapped for another threesecretary of the Service Em­ year term. The President's Com­ ployees, were elected to the board mittee is composed of representa­ of the Muscular Dystrophy Asso­ tives of labor, industry, the pro­ ciations of America at its meeting fessions and national civic, veter­ in New York last month. Mc- ans and handicapped organiza­ Clennan succeeds William D. tions. Founded in 1947, it has Buck, retired president of the fostered a more enlightened atti­ Fire Fighters, on the board. Don­ tude toward the employment of ahue, former assistant secretary the handicapped, who number one of labor, moves up from a vice in every 10 persons in the United presidency in MDAA. States. The Nixon Administration and its Urban Af­ fairs Council has been reviewing and evaluating some of its predecessor's programs, including those designed to eliminate poverty. Who are the poor in America? Where are they found? Most of us never com-; into direct contact with them. They are recently being "discov­ ered" anew by teams of researchers sent to study their plight in the rural counties of the deep South and in the economically by-passed scarred hills of Appalachia. In these areas there are not just isolated pockets of misery but entire communities of deprivation beyond despair. Statistics only illuminate the depths of the poverty in the U.S. It is well to realize, however, that while 71 percent of the total number of poor families are white, percentage-wise, nonwhites fall below the subsistence level in much greater proportion, enveloping one household in three. These are the human beings who live in drafty shacks with inadequate toilet facilities or no toilets at all. Pure drinking water is rare. An adequate, well-balanced diet is a rarity. It is no wonder that the Negro infant mor­ tality rate is unbelievably high — and getting worse while the nation's as a whole is improving. Tufts University in Boston, which has set up a health center in the Mississippi Delta, discovered that the death rate for Negro infants in the re­ gion rose by 25 percent between 1960 and 1964 alone. It is obvious that local authorities had done absolutely nothing for their poor—^they had merely looked away from the misery. "The pre-school child from the time of wean­ ing until approximately six years of age is the most vulnerable to problems of nutrition," Dr. Arnold E. Schaefer, chief of the National Nutri­ tion Survey being conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare told a Sen­ ate committee recently. He added that "hidden hunger"—caused by "low-nutrient tissue levels from a continued inadequate diet" reduces "physiological functional performance" among its other effects. In simpler terms, people be­ come incapable of sustained work. No wonder the armed forces reject such a high proportion of inductees from such areas. It becomes clear that job training programs— desirable as they are—can only work in con­ junction with an over-all program of decent nutrition and vastly improving the health of the poor. Some of the nation's poor flee to urban areas mainly in the North. Upon arrival, most of them discover that they have traded one misery for another. They do not fit into their adopted en­ vironment. They have neither the skills nor the health for the jobs available. They often end up as "refugees" on relief. A picture emerges of two Americans—one relatively advancing in health and security, the other left to deteriorate and to die. They are separate and very unequal. And they hardly know each other. An Administration which has posed for itself the task of unifying the country, must also draw together the two Americans. It is.not only un­ fair to build walls around poverty. It is a tragic waste of our most precious resource, which is people. This country must marshal its vast resources to eliminate the scourge cf poverty which has caused such deep anger and disaffection within the nation—that deep disaffection which leads to anger and to violence. �Page Eight SEAFARERS Febrnarr 14, 1969 LOG A Happy Moment As Medical Costs Soar AR-aO Calk For All Out Drive To laact National Health Man WASHINGTON—A national health insurance program is essential if all Americans are to have "the vyonders of modem medicine" at a price they can afford, writes AFL-CIO Social Security Di­ rector Bert Seidman in the current issue of the AFL-CIO magazine, The Federationist. Interest in the program, Seidman points out, has mounted rapidly in recent years as people find it "increasingly difficult to pay their health bills" and secure ade­ quate health care. states, should cover not only work­ ers and their families but also the unemployed, students and those on public assistance. would insist on controls and in­ centives for moderating hospital charges." Because NHI would cover those on public assistance and the un­ employed. the article calls for a proeram financed on a tripartite basis under social security with the government, employer and em­ ployee each paying one-third of the cost. Seidman estimates that the pro­ gram the AFL-CIO envisions could provide more comprehen­ sive and hivher quality health services to Americans "for no more and perhaps less than we are now spending for personal health services." He notes that total U.S. health expenditures are now running at more than $50 billion annually and amount to 6.3 percent of the gross national product, the nation's total ou'put of goods and services. By comparison, he points out, all other nations spend less in this area both in total dollars and as a proportion of the total economy— vet most of ffiem have national health programs covering substan­ tially all of their citizens. Its benefits should provide for hospital costs; physicians' services The time has come, he de­ in the office, home and hospital; clared, for labor and other pro­ nursing care; home health serv­ gressive groups to unite in a de­ ices; psychiatric services; eye ex­ termined drive in Congress to aminations and prescription drugs. secure passage of a "medically By national health insurance, advanced and economically the AFL-CIO is not advocating a sound" national health insurance government-operated health sys­ Retiring after 25 years as a Seafarer, Joseph A. Vosilla accepts first law. tem such as that of Great Britain, pension check from SlU Headquarters Rep. Ray Kelly as his wife', The article traces the history Seidman stresses, adding: Jennie, smiles approval. Vosilla of Astoria, N.Y., sailed as a deckhand. of proposals for NHI and explains "Rather, it would be a financial the AFL-CIO's position as to mechanism to pay for the costs what it should do and how it of medical care for all people should be constructed and fi­ much like the present Medicare nanced. program for the elderly. It would not interfere with the clinical prac­ Interest Still Alive tice of medicine." A universal, compulsory system Patients would have both a of medical care insurance was free choice of physicians and first advocated in the United States prior to World War I, Seidman health delivery systems. The gov­ PASCAGOULA, Miss.—A unique new fishing method devel­ recalls, and in the years since in­ ernment would not "freeze-in" oped by Department of the Interior personnel has Gulf shrimp terest has waxed and waned but either the fee-for-service system or a capitation system, that is, literally leaping out of the mud and into the net. has never died. periodic payments based on an Tests by the Bureau of ComNow, he adds, the combination individual or family covered by by brown shrimp) resulted in mercial Fisheries gear research of spiraling medical costs, the pas­ health care. catches ranging from 96 to 109 station here indicate that an percent of the catch taken with sage of Medicare and proposals But no one should get the idea electrified trawl system may open single-rigged standard systems at Expect Hard Fight for extending that program have convinced a growing number of that the AFL-CIO favors "a com­ Labor does not expect the sup­ up daylight fishing hours for the night. pletely laissez faire system under A sand-and-shell bottom is pre­ people that the nation needs uni­ national health insurance," Seid­ port of organized medicine in a brown shrimp fleet. Since pink and brown shrimp ferred by the pink shrimp, and versal health insurance. man says. "We would not tolerate campaign for national health in­ normally spend the day bur­ here the electrified system proved Such a program, the article sky's-the-limit doctor fees and we surance, Seidman concedes. How­ rowed into the bottom and come somewhat less effective, yielding ever, he observes, "The American" Medical Association was opposed out to forage at night, trawling only a 50-percent catch rate. to Medicare and it is now law." for these species is ordinarily re­ Goal of Former Administration stricted to the night hours. This, Seidman cites a Harris poll in effect, reduces the fleet's ac­ taken in 1967 showing that union tivity at sea by almost 50 percent. members "are not the. only ones Electric Shock who want" NHL The poll found The new system involves the that a majority of the public wants use of electrodes that deliver a "Medicare for all," which is what the program would provide. Fifty- very low voltage current to the one percent answered "yes," 39 area where the shrimp are hid­ HOUSTON—The Port of ing; the shock causes the shrimp WASHINGTON—Revision of safety and health standards to percent "no" and 10 percent were Houston has, for the first time, to jump involuntarily out of the provide greater protection for 46 million workers under the Walsh- "undecided." topped the 15-million-ton freight "It is time to bring the wonders mud or sand, and they are then Healey Act was announced by the Labor Department last month. mark at its Buffalo Bayou termi­ of modern medicine to all the scooped into the trawling net. The law sets basic labor nals to register an impressive rise If a firm is unable to meet this Daylight experiments with a standards for work done under level immediately, an interim level American people. It is time for of 10 percent in cargo handled federal contracts over $10,000 of 92 decibels is acceptable, pro­ national health insurance," Seid­ single-rigged electrified trawl on during the year. Port Director a mud bottom (the type favored in value. The revision, updating vided an effective hearing conser­ man concludes. J. P. Turner reported last month. standards in effect since Decem­ vation program is drawn up to When the last figures were ber 1960, was announced by out­ protect employees and reduce the compiled, at the end of Novemgoing Labor Secretary Willard noise level to 85 decibels by Jan­ bef, tonnage at Houston had Wirtz. uary 1, 1971. While the noise climbed well over the entire 1968 Changes in the standards aim level exceeds 85 decibels, annual period. Additional gains are ex­ at reducing injuries from fire and audio-metric exams will be given pected to develop when figures accidents, and "the alarming num­ to exposed workers. for December are available. ber of cases" of impaired hearing The revision also spells out A considerable boost in foreign and pneumoconiosis (a lung di­ stricter standards to control air WASHINGTON—A last chance to sign up for Medicare's trade general cargo was responsi­ sease) caused by excessive noise contaminants and adopts the supplementary medical insurance covering doctor bills is being ble for a major portion of the and air contaminants. offered persons born before October 2, 1901, and for those who Threshold Limit Values set forth growth in freight, which over­ In one area, the revision pro­ by the American Conference of were enrolled in the plan earlier, but dropped out before January shadowed a slight decline in do­ vides for the adoption of nation­ Governmental Industrial Hygien2, 1967. mestic barge traffic and the coast­ ally recognized consensus stand­ ists with certain exceptions. Both the Social Security Administration and the Railroad Re­ wise tanker trades. ards, such as the National Fire tirement Board have sent out reminders that people in either The exceptions include the cur­ Protection Association code and rent standards issued by the USA The Port handled 16,249,661 of these categories have only until April 1 to sign up for the safety measures set up by the Standards Institute in the field of tons of foreign cargo—consisting insurance, known as Medicare "Part B." USA Standards Institute. of 4,733,060 tons of general Others eligible to sign up at this time are employees and their air contaminants and the new Also adopted are regulations standard of the U.S. Public Health freight and 11,516,601 tons of wives who have recently attained 65 or will reach that age before established by federal agencies, Service for coal dust. bulk cargoes—for the 11-month ' April 1, other persons 65 and over who did not previously enroll, including ordinance standards of period ending November 30. This and other dropouts from the plan who wish to re-enroll. The coal dust standard, Wirtz, the Defense D^artment and haz­ said, "is designed to prevent coal compares with the entire 1967 Social security beneficiaries and civil service annuitants should ardous materials standards of the miners' pneumoconiosis, which enroll at their nearest social security office. Persons under rail­ total of 14,720,883 tons—a rec­ Transportation Dept. road retirement may sign up at a Railroad Retirement Board ord at that time. has resulted in serious illness office, or through cards being sent out by the board. The revision brings into the Act among miners and an alarming An additional 52,288,275 tons The monthlv premuim for the doctor bill insurance is $4 but an occupational noise standard to number of deaths." was added by domestic barge previous dropouts from the plan and some who passed up an reduce the danger of loss of hear­ The revision, published in the traffic and tankers in the coast­ earlier enrollment opportunity may have to pay a slightly higher ing from jc^ noise. The standard Federal Register for January 17, wise trades. The previous year's premium. sets a maximum acceptable sound- becomes effective 30 days there­ total in these categories was 52,after. measure level of 85 decibels 539,785 tons. Electrified Fishing Process Corrals Eager Gulf Shrimp Port of Houston Gains W Percent In Year's Cargo Job Safety Standards Upped To Help 46 Million Workers April 1 Marks Final Chance To Take Medicare 'Part B' �February 14, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG The Cold War Gets Hot on the High Seas The continuing decline of the U.S.-fiag merchant ma­ rine has become a growing source of concern, not only to members of Congress and leading spokesmen for maritime labor and industry, but to many other Americans who consider the national se­ curity and economic prosper­ ity of the nation threatened by further neglect of our maritime position among other countries of the world. Reprinted below is a recent address by Charles F. Duchein, President of the Charles F. Duchein States, in which he details the problems facing our mer­ chant marine and offers his suggestions on how to cor­ rect them. Isn't it high .time we stopped talking about the mess in the merchant marine and started giving a positive American touch to our crucial situation at sea? What needs to be done is to build up our maritime posture to a pre-eminent world position. The Soviet Union's new oceanic vision dictates a vastly accelerated build-up of our merchant fleet. Instead, we tamper with the long term prosperity of this nation through our neglect of what I am convinced can be the chief stimulator of the national economy—the foundation for future prosperity. Our fast moving 20th Century industry depends in­ creasingly on strategic materials carried from overseas in ships. The burgeoning trade along the sea lanes of the world affords the most inviting possibility for eco­ nomic growth in our history. But you and I know we now carry only a fraction of even our own trade. The tragedy is we are not capitalizing on the exploding lucrative world markets—we continue to talk when positive action is called for. While we talk about the mess in the merchant marine, we ignore the positive action our" government must take to get back up on the maritime step. My message today is not to decry this "mess in the merchant marine" nor to try to fix the blame. Instead, I choose to highlight the tremendous oceanic .opportunity unfolding. As part of the educational process, as a first step we need to know more about the economic situa­ tion of the sea. We must delve deeply into the com­ plexity of the U.S. waterborne transnortation industry. There are high stakes involved in building up our overall oceanic strength and we need to know the facts. I say, let's get on with it, let's start building a merchant fleet that will be the pride of every American—that's my answer to the mess in the merchant marine. U.S. Fleet Continues to Slip In simple terms, during the period of my presidency of the Navy League, the American merchant marine slioped down the totem pole of our own trade carrying from 7.3 percent to a mere 5 percent. As this slippage was taking place, the American merchant marine declined from 1900 ships in 1950 to 1100 ships in 1968. During this same period, the Soviet fleet mushroomed from 1.9 million tons to 1400 ships of 10.4 million tons. Deplorable as this comparative record seems, the im­ plications are tremendous. Frankly, based on hard eco­ nomic facts, as a businessman I see a long-term bullish trend in the maritime market. For example, an authorita­ tive Harbridge House study concluded that while car­ rying a fraction over 7 percent of our trade, the United States saved a billion dollars yearly in gold flow from the revenue of this trade. It doesn't take a mathematics major to see what this would mean toward gold flow reversal if we carried 50 percent of our trade. Economically, this is an index of what carrying trade can mean if we go after the market. This tantalizing fact has not escaped Mr. Nixon. This is precisely why he has made the fevitalization of the merchant marine "a highest priority economic task." But while the President-elect knows this economic fact of life, few Americans do. And their lack of interest, understanding and concern, to my mind, is the chief reason why we are in such serious trouble. The problem boiled down to basics is an educational one. Yes, education—and the aggressive merchandising of the American maritime product. We might well take a page out of the bold aerospace industry's promotional book to regain a number one world maritime position. Speaking of modem methods of merchandising. Jack Gilbride, President of Todd, and a good friend of mine, and I must say one of the most progressive American shipbuilders, is telling the nation through a fine program of educational communications—"you can't walk on % of the earth's surface." How strange that the American people and their government, at this late hour, need such elementary oceanic education; but, un­ fortunately, they do. No, you can't walk on the water. But there is gold in the oceans of the world—and strength —and security. Actually, Americans are just beginning to grasp the fact that the modern gold rush of today is toward the new, the challenging last world frontier—the oceans. Talk to your stock broker if you are not con­ vinced that what I am saying is accurate—your fabulous Caiifornian gold rush of '49 is now exploding to the entire world of water . Whether it was slothful thinking, sporadic strikes, the indifference of the decision makers in our government, the failure to comprehend the vital importance of the merchant fleet brought about the present plight. What­ ever it was, and it was many things, bold imaginative plans are needed now. In terms of the American touch, the almost flawless flight to within 60 miles of the moon by the Apollo 8 shows there is still plenty of vitality in the American people—when they are pressed. I watched the launch at Cape Kennedy; what a marvelous experience! While catching my breath as I stared at the rocket soaring into space, to myself I humbly thanked Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Mikoyan. Who launched Apollo 8? I would say, "unquestionably Sputnik." The Soviets touched a sensitive American nerve—we can't stand a second place position, and that is good. The psychological shock of Sputnik's first spin in space awakened this na­ tion. And Apollo 8, if it did nothing else, showed the tremendous American potential to produce, to create, to think—it showed the strength of our will and our deter­ mination and it came at a time when the world was be­ ginning to wonder. What we need now is some sort of shock treatment; Americans will then demand that we build our merchant marine to the strong, modern, competitive position world conditions dictate. Actually, the Russian revolution at sea provides the same competitive challenge. Though hardly as dramatic, the exploding Soviet maritime strength has far more ominous political, economic and military implications. Focusing on the Red revolution at sea, the central significance of the competitive merchant marine stands out. How do we stack up? Four out of five of our merchant ships are of World War II vintage. But not Soviet ships—four out of five of their ships are less than 10 years old. While the Soviet Union builds better than 1,000,000 tons of merchant ships each year, 448 ships this year, for example, we build 48. In point of relative priorities in 1965 the Soviet government spent more than $600 million on merchant ship construction. In the same year we spent a mere $150 million. Her vigorous ship construction program already has given her 10.4 million tons of merchant shipping and 1400 ships, with a projec­ tion of 27 million tons by 1980. Having already passed us by the end of this year, unless the trend is reversed, the Soviets in ship count will knock us out of our fifth place position as a merchant power. What does this - maritime morbidity report mean in terms of military readiness? For many months public in­ terest has been sharply focused on Vietnam. Our mer­ chant marine has done a marvelous job in meeting the shipping requirements for Southeast Asia. Over 98 per­ cent of the beans, bullets and jet fuel is carried to our' military forces there and the merchant marine deserves great credit. But atiother "hot spot" somewhere else would stretch our ship elastic limit beyond the breaking point. For this reason, watching the Middle East tinder box starting to flare up again is not only a nightmare for our strategic planners, it is a warning to remind us of our global responsibilities and requirements. The Soviet merchant marine serves as the spearhead of her foreign policy, and even more than her navy, reveals her global ambitions. Her patterns of commerce and trade objectives conveys intentions that extend world wide. To protect her planned world trade she will need a global surface fleet—a navy that can project its powers overseas and compete for control of the seas. How do we shape up in our merchant fleet planning to meet this mounting menace? Current thinking on the U.S. merchant marine is pegged almost exclusively to two points. First the defense needs and second the U.S. import and export trade. The policy position for the lat­ ter is "to support and expand U.S. commerce and carry a fair share of U.S. cargo." That's hardly good enough to reap the great rewards of the exploding market. Perhaps instead of thinking of the U.S. merchant marine, we should think of the "U.S. Maritime Trans­ portation Industry." The goal should be to compete ag­ gressively for world markets for U.S.-built ships and for a proportion of the total world ocean shipping—but to do so will take a progressive national maritime policy. Look for a moment at the U.S. airlines industry. It did not achieve its present position nor is it maintaining and advancing it without government assistance. But the assistance was deliberately aimed at achieving U.S. dominance in air transport world wide. A framework of sound military planning accentuates the importance of a build-up in shipping. While the Vietnam experience reinforces the vital statistics for logistical war support, Mr. (Robert S.) McNamara, as Secretary of Defense, failed to establish even the rock bottom ship requirements. This specious money saving tactic accelerated the decline of our ocean transport. We've paid the price in Vietnam. We've seen what it means to be dependent—even to a small degree—upon foreign ships in time of war. With valid defense require­ ments met, however, the merchant marine will gain a marked impetus toward the posture that is mandatory. The defense interest demands the revitalization of our trade-carrying shipping, as the new administration pro­ poses to do. The requirement must be met by ships built in the United States by United States citizens and ships which bolster the American economy with the revenue reaped from carrying the great volume of American overseas trade. Congressional leaders like your Representative Bill Maillard (R-Calif.), who comprehend the significance of the sea, are alert to the issues. They already have moved to put the U.S. maritime transportation industry on a solid footing. Their leadership toward establishing a separate maritime department is gratifying as a first step in building an enlightened, vigorous maritime voice in our government, as Defense Department organizational trends will confirm. This positive action is indeed timely, for the Soviet ship construction geared to population growth reveals its strategic goals of carrying a major portion of world trade. Observing Soviet merchant shipping carrying nearly 95 percent of the war supplies to North Vietnam gives us an insight into their tactics. After unloading at Haiphong Harbor these ships slip down to Australia and pick up cargo for their return trip to Europe. And they don't have much difficulty getting this cargo, for they under-cut the freight rates of other nations on the order of 15 to 25 percent. This is their economic package approach to cornering the ocean trade market for Communist ship­ ping. Part of Power Structure The Soviet merchant marine is centrally controlled and part and parcel of their government power structure. A single signal from the Kremlin, as we observed in Cuba, turns all of their merchant ships around in a disciplined way that impresses seafarers on all of the seven seas. Now, what does this mean in terms of competitive tactics as an instrument of political and economic (Continued on Page 10) �Page Ten SEAFARERS Februarjr 14, 1969 LOG CoU War Grows Hot on the High Seas (Continued from Page 9) penetration? It means that the individual elements of our merchant marine are competing with the total eco­ nomic power of the Soviet Union. And their tactics are rough and tough. If our shipowners and shipbuilders do not receive the help—competitive incentives—from our government, quite evidently they will be driven oflf the seas. And this is exactly what is happening. Subsidies in the shipping business have come in for considerable dis­ cussion in our press and in our Congress. For the most part these are open subsidies and are modest compared to the less visible subsidies of other segments of the economy. We deplore spending money on subsidies and obviously indulging in an over-simplification, we tend to beat labor across the knuckles for forcing this kind of support. Subsidies somehow don't have a good American ring. Semantically, they are poison. Similarly, Americans don't like to put their money on a "sick horse" and what they are constantly hearing is that our merchant marine, rusty and poorly painted, is going down the drain and dying. You don't buy much stock with that kind of commercial. Not that this is necessarily a Madison Avenue problem, but our selfimage at sea requires repair. Nor do Americans, as a rule, like to look too deeply into complex problems. In other words, our plight on the oceans is largely a problem of understanding. Growing up with ideas of competitive trade and transportation, every child in England and Japan knows what the merchant marine means to his nation. They see a lot of ships. They learn early in life what these ships mean to their economy. It's in their blood. This is the reason why I say WE have got to start with some grass roots education if this island coun­ try is going to capitalize on the economics of the oceans. Americans simply don't understand how much they are affected by world trade, and what it means to their own pocket books in dollars and cents to compete suc­ cessfully in trade carrying and ship construction. The pragmatic economist and most of our scholars and scientists, just as Mr. John Q. Citizen for that mat­ ter, land-bound in their thinking and their interests, too, must be lured to look inquisitively at the oceans with ob­ jective intellectual interest. Now, what I propose is that we bring the oceans of the world to the American people in a way that invites their attention to what the waters of the world mean in concrete economic terms. For the past 18 months, I have toured the greater part of this nation and have talked largely about my reaction to the way we have conducted the Vietnam War in con­ text of global strategy. And I might add that I have been somewhat critical. Had the maritime concept been un­ derstood and accepted, Haiphong Harbor many months ago would have been blocked to the Communist ships that have carried the preponderance of arms used against our men in combat. As a consequence, the war would have long since been won or at least we would have talked on our terms, rather than from a pusillanimous position at the peace table confrontation. What has impressed me most has not been the handling of the war by our political leadership, but the spirit of our American fighting men—the youth of our nation— in the fox holes of this distant battlefield. From the youthful American viewpoint of our forces at sea—there is room for much optimism in the prospect for the oceanic future. Make no mistake, America's destiny is oceanic. To you, friends, and the maritime leadership of this distinguished group in this delightful world port of San Francisco, I propose for your consideration the fol­ lowing five point program to give our merchant fleet a pre-eminent world position. First, and foremost, the formulation of national mari­ time policy providing positive incentive to gain a com­ petitive maritime position on the oceans of the world. The failure of our government to formulate basic policy is the most critical element in cleaning up "the mess of the past in our merchant marine." The new Administra­ tion, with a minimum of delay, must provide national policy, undergirded by an oceanic doctrine, to guide our government in the military and merchant marine and oceanic programs of a scientific, technological and educa­ tional nature, A platform plank provides for such. Second is strategy. Our nation must orient its national strategy to the oceans of the world, just as the Kremlin has done in recent years. In so doing, our planners must recognize the valid need, both military and economically, Nader Team Launches Report Blasting Federal Trade Body of a modem, competitive merchant marine that con­ fidently sails the seas and carries a preponderant portion of the burgeoning world commerce. To do so will require the constmction of many more naval and merchant ships than we are producing at present. My third point is, therefore, ship construction. Ameri­ ca must go after the merchant marine market by building a minimum of 100 ships a year for at least the next decade. Fourth, Oceanic Education must be fostered in our school systems to give our youth as good a subject grounding in the seas as they now receive on the land environment. The Sea Grant College program on the col­ lege and university level must be pursued with the utmost vigor to mobilize the best minds of this nation; the scientists, the scholars, the student in the pursuit of oceanic solutions to the pressing problems of state. I know I don't have to remind you that in recent history when great powers lost control of the seas, they lost their greatness. Consider Spain after the defeat of the Armada, France after Trafalgar, Japan after Midway, England after the exhaustion of two wars. My fifth point is a proposal I have previously made for the establishment of a Maritime Manhattan Project that gives the magnitude impetus to the maritime research programs largely neglected of late. My concept follows along the same lines as the Manhattan Project that pro­ duced the atomic bomb. Its purpose would be to give a sea based profile to the revolutionary technological ad­ vances this nation is capable of achieving—in our 20th Century. Obviously, I am thinking in terms of the swift­ est, most modem, streamlined merchant and naval ships, the kind that can compete and maintain a strategic mas­ tery of the environment of the oceans. A single sentence sums up my proposal, "The security and prosperity of the United States and its allies depend increasingly on the military, economic and political ex­ ploitation of the world oceans," If we pursue this pro­ gram that I propose with vigor, vision and determination, I am confident that our flag will fly with pride world­ wide in recognition of American supremacy of the high seas and our mastery of the World ocean. But above all, America will be made more prosperous and secure. Newest Soviet Fisblng-Tralning Ship Highlights Growth of Russian Fleet WASHINGTON—The man who has been most active in ex­ posing the shortcomings of big business has turned his attention A spanking new vessel which doubles as both a fishing motorship and a school for seamen has to a government target—this time the Federal Trade Commission. Ralph Nader—critic, publicist, joined the U.S.S.R.'s rapidly expanding merchant fleet. The Kompas, a 2,520-deadweight ton vessel built in Copenhagen, was recently delivered to the lawyer and author—has assem­ big business and Congress—re­ sulting in selective enforcement. bled a volunteer army of seven Targets are chosen with an eye Soviets. She is the 15th in a ^ young legal brains, working with­ to avoiding offense to persons in projected series of 21 refrig­ shipbuilding industry is under­ 12 million tons of up-to-date ves­ out pay, who have conducted an either area who enjoy positions erated fish carriers and is cap­ going rapid expansion and work­ sels, the majority of which are less than 10 years old. Today the ing at full capacity. in-depth probe of just how the of influence. able of hauling in her own nets Soviet fleet is in sixth place among No small part of this expansion federal regulatory agency has The "raiders" have tabulated of fish as well as receiving and has been directed toward growth maritime powers, according to been carrying on its assigned the FTC's case load and com­ storing the catches of smaller function of protecting the con­ plaints of recent years and drawn Russian fishing boats. The differ­ of the Russian fishing industry, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, and which today boasts a modern, is expected to overtake the United sumer. the conclusion that the agency ence is that the Kompas is out­ "Nader's Raiders," the unoffi­ has cracked down only in those fitted as a seagoing school, with fully automated fleet of various States ageing merchant fleet— types of vessels—well equipped which totals 12.9 million tons— cial name given to the team work­ areas which are fortunate enough accommodations for 110 appren­ to store and process large catches by the end of this year. ing under his direction, has drawn to have Congressional representa­ tices, as well as classrooms in The contrast in relative move­ up a sizzling critique of "the little tives who are known to be actively which they will be trained in nav­ without having to put in to port for long periods of time. old lady of Pennsylvania Avenue" concerned. ment is all the more startling igation, radio communications The Jtoviets have also been when it is realized that, unless a —as the FTC is known in some Some of the more interesting and general seamanship. converting passenger ship-freight­ Washington circles. Covered in reading in the report is a listing Although the Kompas—as is ers to factory ships. An example comprehensive shipbuilding pro­ the document—which is guaran­ of high FTC officials together true of many vessels in the flour­ gram is quickly started in the teed to raise more than eyebrows with their Congressional "spon­ ishing Soviet fleet—was built in is the Konstantin Sukhanov, a U.S., the American-flag fleet willl 12,675-ton vessel with a length in the Capital's bureaucracy—is sors." a foreign shipyard, the Soviet of 532 feet. Fourteen of these dwindle to 620 ships, from its the agency's officials, its methods Zakharov class factory ships are present 900, by 1970. At the and its philosophy of operation. now operating in the king crab, present growth rate, the same What is more, the young icono­ shrimp and herring fishing grounds year will see a Soviet fleet ex­ clasts have suggested they may off Alaska in the North Pacific. ceeding 15 million tons while the embark on "similar studies of Equipped with complete canning U.S. fleet will have dwindled to other governmental agencies." and processing facilities, they about seven million tons. The study's sharpest barbs have carry a complement of 640 and been directed at FTC Chairman New ship deliveries to the are accompanied by upward of Paul R. Dixon, who is charged U.S.S.R. have been running eight20 large trawlers. with investing the regulatory agen­ to-one over United States deliv­ The Soviet merchant fleet as a cy with a genial "Tennessee-Mafia eries. They have 12 vessels under whole has been growing at the atmosphere" which contributes to construction for every one on rate of a million tons a year. This "party polities and congressional order here. phenomenal increase has imposed ties." TTiese, the probers say, have According to Admiral Thomas a strain on the trained manpower perverted "to a great extent the available to crew the ships— H. Moorer, U.S. Chief of Naval work FTC should be doing." which is perhaps one reason why Operations, the Russians - are They call for the resignation of the Kampos has been outfitted for "surging forth with a maritime Dixon, and are highly critical of training crews. program nothing short of miracu­ other personnel in the agency, Starting in 1950, when the lous." He points out that "the which they dub a dumping ground for political hacks. Russian merchant fleet consisted modern and growing Russian FTC's performance is labeled of 432 ships aggregating some­ fishing fleet also serves a strategic as "shockingly poor" and attrib­ The Konstantin Sulcharov, factory ship fitted for canning and what less than two million tons, political function" as well as an uted to a love-hate complex with processing, joins an updated and growing Soviet fishing fleet. it now consists of approximately economic one. i- �T Febniary 14, 1969 On the Mend in Yokohama I i t: y SEAFARERS Reiollections of WW // Experientes Are Still Vivid for Seafarer Herinrk To Seafarer Peter Heiinck, who retired on an SIU disability pension at the age of 65 last Decem­ ber, life aboard ship was not always a bed of roses. In a recent telephone conversation with a LOG reporter, Herinck recalled some of his experiences during World War II which, he said, make him 'jump today even thinking of ^ captured and turned out to be a them.". very friendly and helpful fellow." Brother Herinck spent about His arm still in a sling. Seafarer a year and a half in the South Pa­ Herinck was repatriated on the cific—mainly in the New Guinea SS Jason Lee. He could make the area— during World War 11. He side of the ship only with extreme recalled being a gunner and loader difficulty because of the arm, how­ on the Liberty Ship SS Johnson, ever and fell over the side twice during which time he vividly re­ before successfully boarding the membered the invasions of Bloody vessel. He was fished out of the Beach and Finchhaven, in New sea with grappling hooks each Guinea. Two SlU men on the road to recovery are seen here in the new wing time. "We were under attack sev­ of Bluff Hospital in Yokohama, Japan. The two Seafarers are R. C. eral times during this period," Her­ Hawaii was the first stop on the way home. That first night on Blair, second pumpman off the Connecticut, at left, and Alvern Vielso, inck reminisced. "As a result, I shore, Herinck recalled, he was oiler off the Choctaw. Both men praised the modern and up-to-date received a citation from Washing­ playing cards, one-handed, with facilities of this marine hospital and said they were made comfortable. ton. So did the ship. It received fellow Seafarers when bedlam many wings, which are custom­ seemed to break loose. Alarms arily attached to the ship's stack to Herinck went off, whistles blasted. The show service under fire. officers were shouting, "War's "We were rivht in the thick of "It's a good thing I didn't break over." Yes, hostilities had finally things during the attempted inva­ my head," Herinck reminisced. sion of Mauritia, in the Celebes "But I did break my arm—and come to an end, and there was the Islands, eight miles southwest of badly. I was in intense pain, with biggest celebration ever, in which the big Japanese fortifications what turned out to be multiple all of Honolulu went wild. there. We never did take the is­ On the way back to the States After more than 50 years at sea. Seafarer Frank Hernandez land — though we darned sure fractures. The fire was so heavy they made San Francisco, where upon the lifeboats and the sur­ is retiring on an SIU pension to his native Puerto Rico—"to take tried. And all concerned gave and rounding water that we couldn't Brother Herinck was sent to the received a lot of hell in the at­ make shore. We had to turn Marine Hospital to recuperate it easy and just putter around." tempt." Frank, who was bom 66 on troop ships in tlie Pacific dur­ around and come back to the ship, while his arm healed. Herinck was also a participant which was still under heavy fire. years ago in San Juan, began ing World War II. His last ship Later, with the war over, it was in the big Luzon invasion in the his long career in 1915 shipping was the Overseas Anna. back to work. Herinck made sev­ "I guess I must have been Interviewed at New York Head­ Philippines, when the island was eral trips to France, after that, on before the * mast on schooners aboard ship about 18 hours with sailing out of Tampa, Jackson­ quarters where he received his taken back from the Japanese. broken bones sticking out through the army transport SS Ernie Pyle, ville and other first pension check, Hernandez This was the biggest convoy in the punctured skin on my arm. named for the famous correspond­ Gulf area ports. expressed his gratitude to the the Far East. It consisted of a You can well imagine the suffer­ ent killed by Japanese machine He recalls those SIU "for all it has done for me total of 857 ships, all of which ing I went through. Later on the gun fire on le Shima—just off the met in Orlandia, Dutch New days with fond­ throughout the years." firing died down and we made west coast of Okinawa—in 1945. "I never dreamed, years ago, Guinea (now Irania). ness. shore where I was able to get the Their mission was to pick up GI's "I guess the that I would live to see the day in France and to bring them home. Wounded at Okinawa attention of the medics. more time passes, when an old-time sailor would In this work, Herinck's knowledge "About two and a half months "I must have spent about two of German and French was much the more I re­ have a pension and welfare pro­ member them as gram that not only takes care of before the end of the war," Her­ months in that naval tent in the in demand, and his services were the good old him, but his family as well," he inck recalled, "I was wounded war zone. There were plenty of often utilized as an interpreter on HemBndez days," he says. said. "We have our Union to during the invasion of Okinawa. casualties all around—men moan­ the transport. They also were en­ There was a big air raid which ing with pain day and night. Dur­ gaged in taking German prisoners "But, the truth is we've come a thank for this." Sharing Brother Hernandez' re­ brought such intense fire upon the ing this period." Herinck re­ of war from internment camps in long way since then. In those days I used to think the $32 a tirement years with him in the ship that we received the order to called, "we had a Japanese mas­ Texas to England, where they month wages was pretty good "Land of the Sun," as Frank re­ 'go over the side.' The lifeboats cot. Imagine a Japanese mascot were put to work in coal mines members it, will be his wife, were lowered and the crew pro­ in that war! He was a 13-year-old for a while, Herinck remembers. money." Rafaela. "It won't be all loafing," ceeded to get to lliem as quickly boy whom we called 'Mike' be­ Brother Hernandez is one of Jack-of-All-Trades he says. "I'll keep busy around and as best they could. We had cause we couldn't remember his the real old-timers of the Union. Previous to his war experience. He joined the SIU in 1939 while the house, keep up with my hobby just about enough time to put our Japanese name. Even at his tender Brother Herinck had a varied ca­ sailing in the steward department of building model sailing ships, life jackets on. In the excitement age he had been trained as a reer which ranged from a period and the rush to go over, I jumped kamikaze pilot to make a suicide aboard the Barbara. For the next visiting friends. as a flight instructor—^he had his head first into the nearest life­ aerial dive-bomb attack on allied 20 years he shipped as messman "And I'll probably spend a good own plane—to a time when he boat." ships. However, he was somehow aboard vessels of the old Bull deal of time down at the harbor," tried going into business for him­ Line—except for two years' duty he added with a nostalgic smile. self with a bar and restaurant for two years, 1936 and 1937. Dur­ ing this period he developed an in­ tense interest in the bitter mari­ time strike then in progress and wrote a story about it which ap­ peared in Time magazine. He Certified checks, representing wages due for service on the Oceanic Tide (Resolute Marine Associates), are being held at says that among the notices he re­ Teddy Ivey, bom September 18, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. ceived about his story was one New York Headquarters for the following Seafarers: 29, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur C. Notton, Superior, Wis­ from the Polish trade unions— Gerald Fuglsano Fred Gentry Jacob Ivey, LaPollette, Tenn. consin. they wanted to make him an hon­ Charalambos Dertuso Harubide Maeyama ^ orary member. Tatsuma Nagayama Yukio Roman Brett Ballard, born December Mark McCauley, born Decem­ Paul Lopez R. Senaga Born in Belgium in 1903, Her­ 1, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. ber 15, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jorge Velasco James Hart James F. Ballard, East Flat Rock, Martin E. McCaulcy, Silsbee, inck first went to sea in 1943. He Ronald Carraway Leopoldo Conejero North Carolina. has sailed as a room steward and Texas. Angel Belmonte Ismael Anlceto also as a second cook and baker. <|> S. Sakiyama Felipe L. Escaner Grace Bell, bom January 16, Samantha Gail XhompstHi, born He joined the SIU in 1943 in the Percival Wicks Eddie Stevanous 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arch­ October 17, 1968, to Seafarer and port of San Francisco. He also Joe Vustech Philip Livingston ibald Bell, Bellflower Calif. Mrs. James Clayton Thompson, recalls a stint as assistant cook Edward Troughton Moses Crosby Jacksonville, Florida. on the Liberty Ship SS Robert D. Rosarose Sisenando Alberto Valencia Darlene Hunt, bom January 8, — — Walker. His last ship was the SS Fediilo Inacac Jesse Washington 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Mich­ Kimberly Barthole, bom Jan­ Mariposa (Matson Lines) where he Richard Monterusso Akiro Takao ael Hunt, Philadelphia, Pa. uary 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Steve Smith sailed as BR. Sylvester Zygarowskl Mrs. Albert V. Barthole, Jr., Shigeni Miyagi Dan Ticer Brother Herinck makes his Cella Rose Chavez, born De­ Chester, Pa. home in San Mateo, California, Because these checks are certified, they cannot be mailed to cember 14, 1968, to &afarer and individual home addresses. They can, however, be mailed to Mrs. Vincent Chavez, Seattle, Beveriy Ramos, born Decem- where he has a room full of tape Port Agents, if requested, or members can claim them from Washington. h - 25, 1968, to Seafarer and recorders. Taping all types of Ray Kelly at Headquarters. Mrs. Joaquin O. Ramos, Balti­ music is a hobby he finds con­ tinually enjoyable and rewarding. Sarah Notton, bom November more, M^yland. SlU Veteran is *Golng Home' After Over 50 Years at Sea mm IVaffes Bei^ Held i- Page Eleven LOG 4/ <I> — 4> — f �Page Twelve SEAFARERS February 14, 1969 LOG FINAL DEPARTURES Thomas Logan, 69: Brother "We have just about completed a good run to the Far East with a fine crew and no major beefs," reports John H. Rossow, meeting secretary aboard the DeSoto (Waterman). The ship, which sailed Logan, a bridgeman for the ErieLackawanna Rail­ from Bangor, Washington, and touched ports at Da Nang, Saigon and Guam, was scheduled to tie road for 45 years, up for pay-off in New York this ashore. Meeting Secretary Luther to ask the chief engineer to stop died at Unity week. He reported that two men Gadson recorded the election of Hospital in catching rain water for the ship's were hospitalized at Da Nang Dewitt Hollowell as ship's dele­ supply of drinking water. A Brooklyn, De­ and another at Guam. J. F. Cas- gate for the remainder of the motion was also adopted to find cember 12, 1968. tronover, meeting chairman, said voyage. Born in Brook­ out if the crew is eligible for the crew adopted lyn, he was a life­ attack bonus pay. The port of a resolution call­ long resident of The oldest SIU book member, Da Nang was bombarded by ing for action on and the oldest man aboard the enemy rocket fire while the ship that borough of all ship's meet­ ship, is ship's lay tied up at the dock there. The New York City. Brother Logan ings at the quar­ delegate on the entire crew joined in praising had been active in the Boy Scout terly meetings at Cortez (Cortez Chief Steward Herbert L. Skyles movement since its founding in Union headquar­ S.S. Co.), reports and his department for the fine 1910. Following his retirement ters. A commit­ Robert Martinez, chow at Christmas time and for on an SIU pension in 1964, he tee was elected to meeting chair­ the good menus throughout the devoted all of his time to the Rossow make recommen­ Scouts, and was given the organi­ man. He is Bert trip. dations in the zation's highest award for his vol­ Dawson, "one of crew's interest to a headquarters unteer work. Seafarer Logan is ^ the real SIU oldrepresentative when the ship ar­ survived by his wife, Helen. Bur­ Martinez timers." Meeting James J. Gordon was elected ial was at Evergreen Cemetery, rives at the port of New York A Secretary L. D. discussion was also held on the Pierson noted that the crew ship's delegate on the Monticello Brooklyn. Victory (Montipension plan. Deck Delegate Ed­ adopted a motion praising the cello Tanker Co.) win Morris reported that the crew steward department for a very at the ship's reg­ requested a new supply of books pood holiday meal and for ex­ Frank Brooks, 72: Brother ular meeting, it Brooks died of a heart attack De­ for the library. There was a un­ cellent menus throughout the trip. was reported by animous vote of thanks to the There were no beefs and no dis­ cember 14, 1968, D. .J. F e g a n, ship's delegates for their efforts puted overtime reported by de­ at Paul Oliver meeting chair­ on behalf of the crew. The partment delegates as the vessel Memorial Hos­ man. A motion DeSoto's delegates are T, L, Sloan proceeded on its return run from pital in Frank­ was made and (ship's delegate), E. Morris (deck), Saigon. fort, Mich., after Fegan passed to have M. A. Miller (engine) and L. A. a lengthy ill­ each crew memPower (steward department). ness. A native of "Everything is fine on the ship, b°r donate $2 to the steward Frankfort, he and the old man says that this for having the ship's television made his home Earl C. Wallace, meeting chair­ crew is the best S't reoaired, and for making a there throughout man on the Seatrain New Jersey one he has sailed call from Singapore to Union his life. Seafarer Brooks sailed (Seatrain Lines), with in a long headquarters in the States con­ aboard the carferrys on Lake was elected ship's time," reports cerning "very poor mail serv­ Michigan for 40 years, and had delegate, reports Meeting Chair­ ice furnished by the comoany." served as fireman on the Arthur Meeting Secre­ man M. Olson, The crew also adopted a motion K. Atkinson from 1930 until his tary Donald H. aboard the Mo- that a request be made that ship­ retirement in 1964. He joined the Jones. The crew bilian (Water­ ping articles be limited to a maxi­ SIU in 1955. Brother Brooks was adopted a motion man). WilBamV. mum of seven months, and that buried at Rosehill Cemetery in to consult with Skyles Matthews, ship's crew members on vessels touching Frankfort. He is survived by a the boarding pa­ delegate, reports Hawaii be permitted to pay off by niece. Wallace trolman and that the crew passed a motion mutual consent with the company. headquarters concerning the steward's storage William Donahue, 39: A sud­ space and the quality of night den heart attack claimed the lunch meats. "This ship is not life of Brother fully equipped for Far East runs," Donahue Decem­ Wallace reported. The crew also ber 1, 1968. The asked that kickout panels be in­ attack came early stalled in doors and bulkheads. in the morning Richard S. Asmont Leonard Lelonek near the ferry Seafarers on the Fairisle (PanPlease get in touch with your As soon as possible please con­ crossing at Luloceanic Tankers) enjoyed an out­ brother John Asmont in New Or­ tact M. Spering, 721 Harvel Lane, ing, Louisiana, as standing Christ- leans as soon as possible in regard Atlantic Beach, Florida, c/o Hall's he was on his way mas dinner, to a very important matter. Trailer Court, concerning your to the tug Sham­ thanks to the ef­ little girl. rock where he served as a pump­ forts of the stew­ man. Seafarer Donahue had ard and his topworked on a number of tugs of Harold B. Stever notch depart­ the Crescent Towing & Salvage Miguri Me^na Your wife Margaret would like ment, reports Co. for many years. He joined the to hear from you as soon as possiPlease get in touch with your Meeting Chair­ SIU in the Port of New Orleans )le. The address is 2314 River daughter, Justina Medina, 520 man Joseph Stev­ in 1961. He was born in New Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Main St., Orange, New Jersey, Drew ens. According Orleans and made his home there 19128, a.", soon as possible. to Lucien Drew, with his wife. Norma, a son, Wil­ meeting secretary, Vernon Hop­ ^ liam Jr., and a daughter. Cheryl. \|> kins was elected new ship's dele­ Burial was at Westlawn Ceme­ Rudolph R. Cefaratti John Crocker gate. Brother Hopkins reported tery. that things are running smoothly Please contact the Harrisburg Contact Rolande R. Goodwin, with only a few minor beefs to be Bank, P.O. Box 5278, Houston, P.O. Box 1455, Norfolk, Virginia taken up later. A suggestion was Texas, or visit the bank person­ 23501, as soon as possible. Manuel Lopez, 58: Brother 'made that the messman should ally as soon as possible. It is nec­ Lopez succumbed to pneumonia ^ make sure the canned fruit is al­ essary for them to verify infor­ in San Francisco mation regarding your account. ways chilled before serving. January 2 fol­ Herbert A. Miles lowing a long ill­ ^ It is important that you contact "Everything is running as well ness. He sailed as your nephew, John Young, Jr., as chief electrician as can be expected," reports meet­ Ltgon Randolph Hart soon as possible at 4166 No. War­ for 20 years un­ ing Chairman Please contact Newton B. ren St., Fresno, California 93705. til an accident at Timothy Sullivan, Schwartz at 500 Branard at Garsea forced his re­ aboard the Trans- rott, Houston, Texas 77006, as tirement in 1966. seneca (Hudson soon as possible. The telephone Brother Lopez Waterways) "with number is (713) JA 8-2863. was born in Hawaii and made his only few minor home in San Francisco. He joined beefs." He re­ the SIU there in 1960. His ported that there Tony Radiz last ship was the Steel Seafarer. was no lunch Brother Logan's remains were Dick Duet would like you to service in ChittaSullivan cremated and buried at sea. He save his safety glasses for him and gong, where car­ is survived by his widow Vineta asks that you contact him as soon go was discharged, and that some and a sister, Elizabeth Kessler. crewmerabers used sampans to go as possible. vl> <I> Daniel Hogan, 54: Brother Hogan died at the USPHS Hospital I in New Orleans of emphysema on January 2. A na­ tive of Wagner, Louisiana, Seafar­ er Hogan made his home with his wife, Flavia, in New Orleans, -r He joined the SIU in 1962 in the Port of New Or­ leans, and had sailed as wiper. Brother Hogan's last ship was the Del Mundo. Besides his widow, he is survived by four children. Burial services were held at St. Rock Cemetery in New Orleans. Edward W. Taylor Jr., 47: Brother Taylor died July 24, 1968, in San Francisco follow­ ing a brief illness. He had sailed as cook and baker for 11 years. His last two ships were the Achilles and the Seatrain Carolina on which he served as chief cook. A native of Fowler, California, Brother Taylor made his home in San Jose. He joined the SIU in the Port of Houston in 1964. Sea­ farer Taylor had served five years with the U.S. Army during World War II. He is survived by his widow, Jean, and his mother, Mrs. Melba Taylor. Burial serv­ ices were held at Olivet Cemetery in Colma, California. Hany H. Green, Jr., 60: Broth­ er Green died at the USPHS Hospital in New , Orleans Decem; her 26, 1968, fol'. lowing a lengthy illness. He had been retired on an SIU pension since 1962. A na­ tive of Savannah, Georgia, he lived with his wife, Dorothy, in New Orleans. Brother Green had sailed for more than 25 years as fire­ man, water tender and oiler. He joined the SIU at the port of New Orleans in 1939. His last ship was the Del Mar, in 1962. Broth­ er Green was buried at Green­ wood Cemetery in New Orleans. Always Remember M & C Receipts Seafarers are reminded that all periods of Mainte­ nance and Cure for which re­ ceipts are issued by a signa­ tory employer are counted toward their pension require­ ment. In order to insure proper pension credit, it is suggested that all receipts for M & C I be reported to the SIU Pen­ sion Plan while the records are still available. For this purpose, a copy of the em­ ployer's receipt or a letter from the signatory employer —giving dates for which M i & C was paid—^will suffice. �February 14, 1969 SEAFARERS Seatrain's Action Seen Good Omen Seafarer's Wife Lauds Welfare Plan To the Editor: To the Editor: I would like to express my sincere thanks to the SIU Wel­ fare Plan for the very prompt attention which was given to me after my recent very serious illness. On submitting bills and other information, the check to cover expenses was sent almost im­ mediately. I am very proud that my husband belongs to such a fine union. I wish all of the mem­ bers well in the coming year. Sincerely, Mrs. Frances Kenny Yonkere, N.Y. Shipbuilding, and the ship­ ping industry in general, has been going down hill in the United States for so long that it was certainly good news to learn that Seatrain is taking over part of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard for the construction of new bottoms to add tonnage to our American-flag fleet. This is a hopeful sign that ship owners have continued confidence in the future of the U.S. maritime industry, and it is especially encouraging when an independent, non-subsidized line, like Seatrain, undertakes this kind of venture. Expansion of the Seatrain fleet not only means more jobs for Seafarers and shipyard workers, but it al­ so means a move in the right direction toward regaining U.S. prestige on the seas. President Nixon, during the campaign, said that he would assert leadership "to make our merchant marine once again worthy of a great sea power." We can only hope that the Pres­ ident will act quickly by present­ ing some concrete proposals to Congress this Spring, and that those proposals will include greater attention to the needs of the long overlooked unsubsidized sector of this country's merchant fleet. Sincerely, Robert Peterson 'Bust-Out' Exit Too Wide A Door To the Editor: While attending the Febru­ ary 3rd membership meeting in New York the old familiar strain and arguments came up as far as pensions and contracts are concerned. As for the contract, I am not going to write anything but I will note some things about the 20-year "bust-out." For the record let us say that 20 to 30 percent of the people we are training stay in the busi­ ness. Now most of these people are in their late teens and early twenties so let us say that they put in the time and at the age of 50-55 years they take ad­ vantage of the 20-year "bustout." Anyone with logic and common sense can see that there is not and could not be enough money to pay off and perpetuate any fund. As to a retirement age, when the government studied the age and earning period in a person's life they had the best actuaries and insurance people draw up plans of every type before they put them into effect. Sure, all plans of this range need modi­ fication. This the government does, and the Seafarers pension plan is being revised to meet the needs—but at the same time making sure the Plan is not go­ ing to be depleted or to create a welfare state of our members. So to the hawks who clamor for change—I say let them stop having diarrhea of the mouth until they can present a sound, stable, continuing Plan of their own to talk about. Fraternally, E. A. (An^) Anderson A-203 4, Tax Reform Unkept Promise Pension Roster Grows Teif Additional Seafarer Oldtimers Added to Roster of SIU Pensioners Ten additional Seafarers have been added to the SIU's ever expanding pension list following com­ pletion of their long sailing careers. The latest Brothers to become eligible to collect an SIU pen­ sion are Clovis Compan, Claude Andrus, Frank Roull, James Leary, Frank Kraft, James Green, Ramon Vila, Dewey Gillikin, ^ John Fancutt and Harry Galphin. Clovis Compan has sailed since 1944 and joined the Union in the Port of San Francisco. A member of the steward department, he now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Dorothy. Seafarer Compan's last ship was the Del Norte. Claude Andrus resides in Sulpher, Louisiana. Joining the Union in Port Arthur, Andrus was last employed as a tugboat captain To the Editon Promises, promises, promises . . . the little fellow who works for a living has his hopes raised for a long-due break—^by can­ didates who run for office—^and then sees them dashed on the rocks when the candidate be­ comes elected and faces the pressures which are so strong from the monied class. We thought we were in for some lowering of taxes. Didn't Nixon promise to do away with the 10 percent surcharge on our already high tax? Now we find out that it just ain't so. It was a big mistake. We need more money than ever. And where does it come from? From the salaried work­ er, of course, where else? This might not hurt quite so much if we could see some comparable sacrifice—or, any sacrifice at all—on the part of the coupon-clippers and those who don't have to labor with their hands for a living. Instead, we are told that 18 millionaires get away with it altogether. They don't pay one red cent in taxes! Whether it's done by setting LETTERS up tax-exempt foundations, or oil-depletion allowances or by investing in tax-exempt bonds, or with mirrors, the situation is a crying shame and calls for prompt reform. What are our chances for tax reform this session? If the past is any guide to the future, they're darned slim. And they're even harder when the filibuster exists as a weapon in the Sen­ ate. I guess what we need up there is a people's lobby to make the voice of the over­ burdened wage-earner heard real loud. In this effort, the organized labor movement, as represented in the AFL-CIO, has its job cut out for it. We, as individuals, can increase that effort by writ­ ing to our own congressmen and letting them know that we are tired of tax-reform that re­ mains in the talking stage. Sincerely, Adolph Jaworskl Page Thirteen LOG Roull in Dickenson, Texas, with his wife, Regina. He joined the Un­ ion in the Port of New York. James Leary was a tankerman and was last employed by Inter­ state Oil Transport Company. A native of North Carolina, he lives now in Philadelphia with his wife. Hazel. He joined the Union in that Pennsylvania port. Compan Andrus by Slade, Inc. Brother Andrus was born in Hayes, La. Frank Roull is a native of Michigan who sailed as electrician. His last vessel was the Del Aires. Seafarer Roull makes his home Marine Harold Weldi, Former SIU Stholar Homo from Vietnam NEW ORLEANS—Harold E. Welsh, a former SIU scholarship winner, and the son of Seafarer Harold R. Welsh, is home on leave from the Marine Corps after a 13-month tour of duty in Viet­ nam. Young Welsh won his schol­ arship in 1961. A Corporal, Welsh is a member of HNS Company Office, First Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, now stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He enlisted in the Marines after attending Loyola University in New Orleans. His father sails in the engine depart­ ment and is currently on the Chatham (Waterman). Corporal Welsh was an honor society senior at Jesuit High School in New Orleans at the time he was selected as an SIU Schol­ arship winner. He received a B. M. degree in Music from Loyola and later taught school in Linden, Louisiana, at a combina­ tion grammer and high school. He also worked with the school band. The 25-year-old Marine plays the violin and specializes in classical music. Following his discharge in 21 months, he plans to pursue his music teaching career. The senior Welsh has sailed with the SIU since 1943, when he joined the Union in New Orleans. He lives in New Orleans and is a native of Louisiana, The 49-yearold Seafarer sails as FOWT and served in the Navy from 1937 to 1940. Green Kraft Leary formerly had sailed as fireman. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and also last shipped aboard the Jacksonville. Brother Vila is a native of Puerto Rico who now makes his home in the Bronx, N.Y. John Fancutt sailed as AB. His last ship was the Cabins. A native Frank Kraft sailed as bridgeman and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Born in Jersey City, he now makes his home in Avon by the Sea, New Jersey, with his wife, Helen. Brother Kraft joined the Union in the Port of New York. James Green held a cook's rat­ ing. The North Carolina native was last employed by the Norfolk, Baltimore and Carolina lines. He makes his home in Norfolk with Galphin Fancutt his wife, Lillian. Seafarer Green joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore. Dewey Gillikin sailed as bosun. Born in Beaufort, North Carolina, he still calls that city home. His last ship was the Jacksonville. Brother Gillikin joined the Union in the Port of Norfolk in 1943. Ramon Vila was a cook who Glltildn of Massachusetts, he now resides in Newark, N.J. Brother Fancutt joined the SIU in 1942 in the Port of New York. During the early part of his career, he was in the Coast Guard from 1924 to 1927. Harry Galphin has sailed with the SIU since 1938, when he join­ ed the Union in Savannah. Bom in Florida, he makes his home in Jacksonville with his wife, Eu­ nice. Seafarer Galphin last shipped aboard the Gateway City and held the ratings of AB and bosun. He served in the Navy prior to join­ ing the SIU. 4TTEND, MCETIN6S Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old subscriber and have a change of address, please give your former address below: ADDRESS OTY STA1E ZIP. �Page Fourteen February 14, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG SEATRAIN TEXAS (Hudson Water­ ways), January 17—Cbairman, F. E. Par­ sons ; Secretary, S. E. Hawkins. Few minor beefs to be taken up with patrol­ man. It was discussed that headquarters furnish information to the membership conceminK proaress on retirement pen­ sion plan. DO NOT BUY COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), January 19—Chairman, W. Till­ man ; Secretary, J. Craft. Brother W. Tillman was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT. ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Transport), January 19—Chairman, J. Waith; Secre­ tary, G. Trosclair. $10.00 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT to be taken up with boarding patrolman. WESTERN CLIPPER (Western Tankers), December 29—Chairman, James Meares : Secretary, Lee Cummins. Discussion held regarding food. Ship's fund contributed to Brother Carl Vogal on the death of his father. No disputed OT and no beefs. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), January 19—Chairman, Earl C. Wallace; Secretary, .Donald H. Jones. Brother Wal­ lace was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Patrolman to be contacted regard­ ing shortage of space for storage in stew­ ard department. Patrolman also to check on quality of meat aboard ship. Discussion held regarding the matter of adding reefer box to all Seatrain ships. CORTEZ (Cortex), January 19—Chair­ man, Robert Martinez; Secretary, L. D. Pierson. Some disputed OT in each de­ partment. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the ex­ cellent feeding throughout the whole voy­ age. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), No date— Chairman, Peter E. Dolan; Secretary, Ramon Odom. Ship's delegate report^ that trip was good with a good crew on board. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Discussion held regard­ ing pension plan. • PANAMA (Sea-Land), January 19— Chairman, John Ohannasian; Secretary, Bill Stark. Brother F. Vito resigned as ship's delegate and Brother A. Packert was elected to serve in his place. Delayed sailing disputed. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the excellent food. SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Halt EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Gal Tanntr Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS dtay Robsrf Matfhawi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Karr HEADQUARTERS *75 4th Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY f-i«00 ALPENA, Mich. .. 127 RIvar St. (517) EL 4-3*1* BALTIMORE, Md. 121* E. Ballimora St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass *«3 Atlantic Avenua BUFFALO, N.Y. 73S Washlnqton St. SlU 714) TL 3-9259 IBU 71*) TL 3-9259 93B3 Ewing Ava. SlU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 1420 W. 25th St. CHICAGO, III CLEVELAND, Ohio (*I7) Rl 2-0140 (214) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich. ... I022S W. Jaftarson Ava. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minr,. ... ... 312 W. 2nd St. FRANKFORT, Mich. HOUSTON, Tax. JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala BRADFORD ISLAND (Stewart Tank­ ers Co.), Decemlrer 29—Chairman, D. E. McCarvey; Secretary, C. L. Shirah. Brother Royce D. Bozeman was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. OVERSEAS EDGAR (Maritime Over­ seas), January 19—Chairman, Arthur Roy; Secretary, L. Santa Ana. Ship's delegate reported that everything is run­ ning smoothly with no beefs. NEW ORLEANS, La OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Over.seas), January 5—Chairman, A. D. Nash; Secretary, C. L. Anderson. Brother John Frazier resigned as ship's delegate and Brother A. D. Nash was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman. VOLUSIA (Suwannee), January 20— Chairman, Bob Porter; Secretary, H. C. Bumsed. Request made that galley ex­ haust fan be replaced. Discussion held regarding reefer boxes. New burners for galley range are needed. Some disputed OT in deck department. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Monticello Tanker), January 16—Chairman. D. Fegan; Secretary, George A. O'Berry. Brother James J. Gorman was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Motion was made that shipping articles be lim­ ited to a maximum of seven months. Also, crewmembers on vessels touching the State of Hawaii be allowed to pay­ off under mutual consent. Some disputed OT in deck department to be settled by patrolman at pay-oil. TRANSMALAYA (Hudson Water­ ways), January 6—Chairman, W. R. Thompson; Secretary, Francis Hennessey. Discussion was held regarding retire­ ment plan. Disputed OT regarding de­ layed sailing to be taken up with board­ ing patrolman. MOBILIAN (Waterman), January 26 —Chairman, M. Olson; Secretary, H. L. Skyles. Ship's delegate reported that everything is fine on the ship, and the Captain reports that this crew is the best one he has sailed with in a long time. Steward department put out a real fine meal for Christmas and New Year's Day, and throughout the entire trip. Vote of Hianks was extended to the entire steward department. 415 Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 ... 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 2406 Paarl St. (904) EL 3-0787 99 Montqomary St. (201) HE 5-9424 I South Lawranca St. (205) HE 2-1754 *30 Jackson Ava. (504) 529-7544 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) 422-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1348 Savanfh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraamont St. (415) DO 2-440! SANTURCE, P.R SEAHLE, Wash BELOIT VICTORY (Admanthos Ship­ ping), January 12—Chairman, Tad Chilinski; Secretary, Thomas Harrell. Some disputed OT reported regarding launch service. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Crewmembers extended a vote of thanks to ship's delegate. Brother Roy L. Powette, for a job well done. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. Box 2r ST. LOUIS, Mo TAMPA, Fla 1313 Fernandai Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 2505 First Avanua (204) MA 3-4334 805 Del Mar . (314) CE 1-1434 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Isaya BIdq., Room BOI 1-2 Kaiqan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Mar. 11—2:30 p.m. Mobile Mar. 12—^2:30 p.m. Wilmington . Mar. 17—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Mar. 19—2:00 p.m. Seattle Mar. 21—2:00 p.m. New York .. Mar. 3—^2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 4—^2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. Mar. 5—2:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 14—2:30 p.m. Houston ... Mar. 10—^2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans Mar. 11—^7:00 p.m. Mobile Mar. 12—7:00 p.m. New York .. Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 4—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. Mar. 5—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. Mar. 10—7:00 p.m. mi Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) RIF SHtzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StiU," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Great Lakes SIU Meetings Kingsport Press Detroit Mar. 3—2:00 p.m. "World Book," "ChUdcraft" Alpena Mar. 3—^7:00 p.m. (Printing Pressmen) Buffalo .... Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. (Typographers, Bookbinders) Chicago .... Mar. 3—^7:00 p.m. (Machinists, Stereotypers) Duluth Mar. 3—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. ^ Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Chicago .... Mar. 11—^7:30 p.m. Statler tSault St. Marie Men's Shoes . . . Mar. 13—7:30 p.m. Jarman. Johnson & Buffalo .... Mar. 12—7:30 p.m. Murphy, Crestworth, Diiliith .... Mar. 14—7:30 p=m. (Root and Shoe Workers' Union) Cleveland .. Mar. 14—^7:30 p.m. Toledo Mar. 14—7:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 10—7:30 p.m. Boren Clay Products Co. Milwaukee . Mar. 10—7:30 p.m. (United Brick and Clay Workers) SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Mar. 11-—5:00 p.m. "HIS" hrand men's clothes Mobile .... Mar. 12—5:00 p.m. Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond Philadelphia Mar. 4—5:00 p.m. blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Baltimore (licensed and un­ Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman licensed) . Mar. 5—5:00 p.m. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Norfolk .... Mar. 6—5:00 p.m. of America) Houston . . Mar. 10—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Jamestown Sterling Corp. Philadelphia (United Furniture Workers) Mar. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Mar. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, •Norfolk Wing Shirts Mar. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Jersey City of America) Mar. 10—^10 a.ni. & 8 p.m. vl> ^l> t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. FINANCIAL BEFOBT8. The conBtftutlon of the SIU AtUntte, GuU, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the memberships money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TBUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. A'l these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. AU expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approiml by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING BIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exchuively the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your chipping ..ghts. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls, tt jsm % feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority M contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seamrers Appeals Board by certified maU, return receipt requested. The proper address for thta U: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Bo^ 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeate Board. CONmACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. Th« contra^ specify the wages and conditlcms nnder wWch you work and live aboara ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing IOT OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU i^trc:,man or other Union offlcUl, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITOBIAL POLICY—SBAFABEBS LOG. The LOG has traditionally rrfrain^ from publishing any article serving the political purposes individual in tte Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles denned harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has bw reaffirmed by membnship action at the September, I860, meetings in ^1 institu­ tional ports. The responsibUity for LOG policy is vested in an ^itorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Btard may delegate, Irmn among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. Baltimore Luggage Co. I.ady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite lugioge Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) 'iy White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) 4^ Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) ^ R. J. Reynolds Tohacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) ^ Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas — <!> — All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) (t/ Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) ^ Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Morn Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Atlantic Products Sports Goods Owned hy Cluett Peabody (Amalgamated Oothing Workers) PAYMENT OP MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL BIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFABEBS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or «11gation by any methods such as d^ing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. BBTIBED SEAFABEBS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-prasion ben^ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at memtership meetings. And like aU other SIU members at taese Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, ineluding serviee on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimm c^not take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL BIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer mav be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic ongln. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notUy headquarters. SEAFABEBS FOLIT!^.Ak. ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which wiP serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirs'y voluntary and eonstitote the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feeb that any of the above righte have been vieiated, er that he has been denied his censtitntlenal right ef access te Union records or infermatlen, he shenid immediately netUy SIU President Pani HaB at headqnarters by eertiled maii, return receipt reqnested. i �SEAFARERS Page Fifteen LOG The Rune of Minnesota A LTHOUGH THE PARTISANS of Christopher Co­ lumbus will never be convinced otherwise, it is now generally acknowledged that the early Viking Seafarers were exploring and colonizing the North American con­ tinent some four hundred years before the Santa Maria ever dropped anchor at San Salvador, What is probably less known is that they penetrated the very heartland of the United States, in the vicinity of the Minnesota farm country. An ancient inscribed stone tablet offers mute testimony to this otherwise almost unbelievable fact. There is ample evidence of early Norse exploration along the eastern seaboard of the United States—a stone tower at Newport, Rhode Island, rocks with Scandina­ vian markings at Taunton, Massachusetts. Three years ago Yale University made public a map dating back to 1440—52 years before Columbus set foot in the Ba­ hamas—that shows with remarkable accuracy the out­ lines of the land masses of Greenland and the North American continent, then known as Vinland. As historians have reconstructed events from existing documents and often told tales down through the ages, this Vinland—so named for the grapes found growing there—wj^s not actually discovered by Lief Ericson, as < is popularly assumed, but was first sighted by Bjami Herjulfson, a young countryman of his, who spotted the coast of Labrador around the year 1000. This happened during a sea voyage from Iceland to Greenland, in which his vessel had been blown off course because of fog and snowstorms. When his ship finally returned to Greenland, Her­ julfson told Ericson of this unknown, uncharted coast, and Ericson became so intrigued that he recruited 35 seamen and set sail to explore this strange new land him­ self. Ericson and his exploring party sailing in one of the long, graceful square-rigged vessels of the time, followed the coastline of the North American continent probably down to what is now Cape Cod. Once back in Green­ land, their tales of this lush new paradise inspired yet another Viking, Thorfinn Karlsefni, to assemble a group of 160 colonists to establish a settlement in this newly-dis­ covered land. The area was not as forbidding then as it is now because its climate was milder at that time. After two years as what was probably the first colony in the New World, this Karlsefni settlement found that the Indians they encountered were more than they could handle—unfortunately a few of the colonists had pro­ voked these Indians—and they were forced to abandon the colony, returning to their more familiar shores of Greenland. Although the idea of colonization was given up, these Vikings continued to sail to the Vinland shores, mainly for the ample supply of lumber which was lacking in their home country. And other groups apparently es­ tablished settlements on other parts of the east coast. Indications that these Vikings went further inland came with the discovery of a large slab of sandstone measuring 31 inches high 16 inches wide and 6 inches thick, and inscribed with the ancient runic letters of the Scandinavian alphabet. The stone was found in central Minnesota, and it created a controversy that led a Nor­ wegian historian to devote his lifetime to tracing its origin. The slab, a "Rosetta Stone" of the midwest, was un­ earthed in 1898 by Olaf Ohman, a Swedish farmer, while clearing a field for pasturage on his Minnesota home­ stead. Imbedded in the roots of a gnarled aspen tree, this Kensington Runestone, as it came to be known, was at first ignored and tossed aside. Later used as a doorstep for one of farmer Ohman's sheds, the inscribed side was fortunately placed down. Somehow Norwegian scholar and historian Hjalmar R. Holand got wind of the old doorstep and obtained possession of it from Ohman. Holand had the runestone shipped to his honie, and during the succeeding seven years managed to translate the ancient inscription. Then, for the next 50 years, Holand was to devote his life to defending the authentic­ ity of this Kensington Runestone and to developing his theories regarding the Scandinavian exploration in the middle west. lecturing widely throughout the United States, Holand also found time to write seven books on the subject of the Runestone, and went to Europe to search through thousands of ancient manuscripts in order to document his convictions concerning the slab. During this time he also meticulously traced the probable Viking exploration route, starting from Norway to Iceland and Greenland, then down th6 North Ameri­ mi can eastern seaboard to Manhattan and back up the seaboard to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, north to Hudson Bay, down the Nelson River to Lake Winnipeg, and then finally down the Red River to the Alexandria, Minnesota, region where the stone was found. Although Holand's theory of Viking exploration in the midwest has its many detractors and would-be debunkers, one of his main points of evidence was the age of the tree under which the stone had been found. Crosssections of this tree indicated that it was at least 72 years old at the time of the discovery of the Runestone—and the roots of the tree had enveloped the stone entirely, thus making is impossible for someone to have "planted" it there—a familiar argument of those who cried "Hoax!" Secondly, genuine Norse implements were found in the neighboring Minnesota fields, and these implements were declared authentic by both Swedish and Norwegian medieval experts who also conducted tests to determine their age. These artifacts—^which included three axes, two sp)ears, a firesteel and two ceremonial halbers—were found to be over 600 years old—and in addition, they were found along the only possible route an exploring party could have taken by boat to reach the Runestone site. Another of Holand's discoveries—made while he was wading through countless medieval manuscripts—was a book of the Islandic annals of 1342. In this volume, there was included the testimony of Nicholas of Lynn, who spoke of the Viking discovery of the magnetic North Pole, giving added weight to Holand's theory that the early Norse explorers had reached the North American midwest by sailing the northern route through Hudson's Bay. In his investigation, Holand found a well-defined route, evidenced by the discovery of mooring stones along midwestern lake shores of the type commonly used in Norway for anchoring heavy boats. Holand went so fas as to predict that just such a stone would be found in a special area near Lake Cormorant. Later, one of these mooring stones actually was found there to bear out his prediction. The central point of Holand's theory was his trans­ lation of the ancient runic letters found on the Rune­ stone. They read: "We are 8 Swedes and 22 Norwegians on an explor­ ing journey from Vinland through the west. We had a camp by a lake with rocky islands one day's trip north from this stone. We were out and fished one day. After we came home we found 10 of our men red with blood and dead. Ave Maria. Save us from evil." On the side of the Runestone was another inscription which referred to "this island." This puzzled Holand because the stone was found on a hillside which was certainly not an island. Checking further, Holand chanced upon a govern­ ment survey map of the region dating back to 1866, drawn up before white settlers had ever come to that part of Minnesota. Indeed, the map showed that the hillside where the stone was found had at one time been surrounded by a swamp—and geologists have since speculated that 500 years ago a lake had covered the entire region. Had this been the case, the hillside could very well have been the "island" referred to in the inscription. Also chemical tests of the Kensington Runestone in­ dicated that it had been exposed for a considerable period of time to the corrosive action of acids found in the rainwater of the region. Holand's final piece of evidence is in the letters and numbers themselves that were inscribed on the runestone. Through his studies he proved that they were of definite Norse medieval orgin—the early Middle Ages period— and anyone wishing to forge or fake such letters and numbers would have had to know more than the schol­ ars who deciphered them. The accumulated evidence appears to offer convincing proof that the early Scandinavian explorers actually made it to the American midwest. Today a replica of the historic Runestone may be seen near the town of Kensington, Minnesota, where it was orginally dis­ covered. Holand's translation of the inscription, in English, is engraved on the pedestal of this monument, which now stands as a fitting tribute to the hardy Viking ex­ plorers who roamed the North American continent over six centuries ago. iiSswffieais. • Replica of Kensington Runertone at Alexandria, Minnesota. Actual runestone is in mu­ seum there along with Viking artifacts and copies of King Magnus documents. Despite impressive archeological research, scholarly controversy about Viking discovery goes on. �SEAFARERSIII1.0G OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO /I Home from fheWlctlHp Returning from run to Vietnam and the Far East via the West Coast, the SiU-contracted Jefferson City Victory dropped anchor for pay-off at Bayonne, N. J, Although the vessel carried military cargo, the crew reports no trouble in Vietnam and no beefs during the long trip. There were some sign-ons on the West Coast, --A.' •-»> ' c/one. 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Title A name given to the resource February 14, 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SEATRAIN LEASES BROOKLYN NAVY YARD FOR EXPANDING SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM GOVT NEGLECT OF MERCHANT MARINE TERMED CRIMINAL BY CONGRESS NIXON’S COOPERATION ON STRONG FLEET SEEN LIKELY BY MAGNUSON, GARMATZ NEW HOPE FOR US FLAG FLEET SEEN BY PRESIDENT OF SHIPBUILDERS COUNCIL BIRCHERS’ ATTACK ON GRAPE BOYCOTT HIDING BEHIND HOUSEWIVES SKIRTS AFL-CIO CALLS FOR ALL OUT DRIVE TO ENACT NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN NEWEST SOVIET FISHING TRAINING SHIP HIGHLIGHTS GROWTH OF RUSSIAN FLEET THE RUNE OF MINNESOTA HOME FROM THE VIET TRIP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/14/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 4 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/6fc4ea2da287edb9027950fa6b076040.PDF e1faf24e12fffe4c2fd8b1c535693356 PDF Text Text • SEAFARERS«LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG March 1, 1969 Pres. Meany Tells Exec. Council AFL-CIO to Co-operate With Nixon Provided Corrert Programs Are Set BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—The AFL-CIO foresees a "reasonable" relationship with President Nixon and his Administration, federation President George Meany declared last month, but a good deal depends on the specific programs still to come and the future attitudes of the White House. Meany's statement came at a ^ • Urged a single co-ordinating committee to raise the rest of the press conference held in con­ $220,000. unit for day care centers at the junction with mid-winter ses­ Three new vice presidents and federal level to meet the increas­ sions of the AFL-CIO Executive council members named to suc­ ing need for such progr^ams as Council here. ceed John J. Grogan and George well as changes in existing federal The federation president said he M. Harrison, who are deceased, law to permit employer contribu­ was "delighted," for example, that and Ralph Halstein, who resigned tions to trust funds established the President had ordered a study were President C. L. Dennis of by collective bargaining to pro­ on coverage of farm workers un­ the Railway Clerks; Matthew vide for such programs. der the National Labor Relations Guinan, president of the Trans­ • Called for updating the HillAct. The outlook on this matter port Workers Union and A. F. Burton Act to provide grants-in- O. Wijiiam Moody, Jr., secretary-treasurer of the Conference of Trans­ and others requiring legislation, Grospiron, president of the Oil, aid for the development of com­ portation Trades, delivers a report to the CTT executive board, meet­ ing in Bal Harbour, Florida. Listening carefully are, from left, C. L. he said, will depend on the atti­ Chemical and Atomic Workers. plete health services and not just tude of the Administration and A subcommittee was established health facilities, along with com­ Dennis, CTT chairman and president of the Railway Clerks: Bruce Pike, CTT executive director, and SlU President Paul Hall, who also heads the leadership from the White House. to study the possible restructuring prehensive health .systems. He noted, however, that any and makeup of the council with AFL-CIO MaritimeTrades Department; Air piracy wasoneof thetopics. • Called on Congress to restore Administration plan to offset in­ action expected by the time of budget cuts and provide all nec­ flation by allowing unemployment the next convention, scheduled to essary funds to make the 1968 to rise is "fundamentally wrong." open Oct. 2 in Atlantic City. vocational education law opera­ CTT Board Declares: Queried on a statement by Paul tive, expressing its grave concern In other actions, the council: McCracken, chairman of the „• • Called for direct, good-faith at the cutbacks. Council of Economic Advisers, Rallied all unionists to sup­ that in order to check inflation negotiations between the Arab port the 80th birthday celebration there may l)e some rise in jobless­ nations and Israel as the key to of A. Philip Randolph in New lasting peace in the Middle East" ness, Meany said; and condemned the rejection of York May 6 and to contribute "I don't buy the idea that we such talks by Egypt's Nasser and to the fund to be establi.shed in BAL HARBOUR, FLA.—A free world trade union effort to have to make that sort of sacrifice Randolph's name to finance voter his allies as "tantamount to a . . . set up an international code covering air piracy is an important to get a stable economy." There determination to tvagc a war of education and registration proj­ step toward curbing an "increasingly acute" problem, a group of is no sense in a policy of counter­ extermination against the Israeli ects in Neero communities. ing inflation, he asserted, "by put- people." 7^ "7""; 7" • Voted support for the Oil AFL-CIO unions declared here ^ International Civil Aviation Ortine more people out of work." Workers strike against companies last month. • Authorized the chartering of ganization—and while signed by The council adopted compre­ that have still not signed the agree­ Thc executive board of Con­ hensive statements on the national a national union of policemen as ment reached with other compa­ ference of Transportation Trades 23 nations, only eight, four short economv and ^he question of in­ soon as certain structural prereq­ nies and called for all possible as­ called specifically on the U.S. of the required number, have rat­ uisites are met and assurances re­ flation during the sessions. sistance from affiliates and state Senate to ratify the Tokyo con­ ified it. ceived on jurisdictional limits. and local central bodies. Nteany briefly reviewed the The CTT board acted after re­ vention adopted in 1963 but now • Voted to withdraw the AFL• Urged affiliates to lend what­ in effect because it lacks the re­ viewing a report by the Federal 1968 election at the meeting of the COPE Administrative Com­ CIO from the Intl. Confederation ever support they can to the Up­ quired number of ratifications. Aviation Administration docu­ mittee, praising COPE for an out­ of Free Trade Unions following a holsterers union in its dispute with The board urged strengthening the menting the history of air piracy standing job, especially in turning recommendation to do so from Economy Furniture of Austin, pact along the lines of legislation since 1961 and a report by a back the bid by George Wallace. the federation's international af­ Texas. introduced in the Senate. House subcommittee on Inter• Reaffirmed its support of the The committee approved an an­ fairs committee. It urged also that sister trans­ American Affairs setting out the • Strongly reaffirmed support U.S. Savings Bonds payroll sav­ nual register-and-vote drive to re­ portation unions in the Interna­ nature of the problem and the place the biennial campaigns. The for the farm workers' strike and ings plan but urged that the in­ tional Transport Federation "press urgent need for corrective action. boycott of California table grapes, terest rates on the bonds be in­ council will act on this later. their governments" to ratify the declaring "we are determined that creased to the average interest Tokyo convention which calls for Total of 46 Attempts Key Positions Set they succeed and we intend to rate on U.S. notes issued during the safe return of the passengers,, Since 1961 there has been a The opening sessions set out a help them every inch of the way." the previous year. crew, cargo and plane to the total of 46 attempts to hijack number of policy positions high­ It added that labor awaits with It discussed with Senator Birch country of origin. commercial aircraft,jnost of them lighted by the creation of a pio­ "great interest" the Administra­ Bayh (D-Ind.) the question of di­ • The convention was drawn' up successful. neering AFL-CIO Labor Studies tion report on coverage of farm rect election of the President. In 1968 there were 18 Amer­ Center to develop trade union workers under the national labor Bayh is sponsoring legislation, by a United Nations body—the ican airliners hijacked, all of them leadership through varied educa­ law. along with a number of other senflown to Communist Cuba._ tional training programs. • • Called for rejection of the - ators,- to-abolish the Electoral Col­ The board pointed out that The council gave preference as proposed Uniform Consumer lege and provide for direct elec­ SEAEiARERS-^LOG there is "no international law cov­ an early order of business to the Credit' Code by the individual tions. The council later reaffirmed the ering freedom of the air," in con­ fine imposed on the New York states on an "as is" basis and March I, 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. 5 trast to world treaties on piracy local of the Teachers, voting to urged amendments to get rid of AFI.-CIO position that the Presi­ Official Publication of the on the seas. contribute $100,000 toward pay­ the worst features of the code dent should be elected by popular Seafarers International Union ment of the fine imposed by the designed as a "model" law on vote rather than under the exist­ The resolution warned that pro­ of North America. ing electoral College system. court and naming a two-man consumer credit. posals for paying a reward for Atlantic. Guif, Lakes and Inland Waters District, those who aid in the conviction AFL-CIO and apprehension of hijackers is Executive Board risky and that "bounty-hunting PAUL HALL. President citizens might endanger them­ CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President selves, other passengers and the LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR crew by rash acts of heroism." Vice-President Sec.-Treas. The board also urged support ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President. for the proposal of the Interna­ tional Air Transport Association to deny air service to any coun­ Editor try which continues to provide HARRY WITTSCHEN a haven for hijackers of commer­ Assistant Editors WILL KARP cial aircraft. CHARLES SVENSON The 28 unions affiliated with Staff Photographer the conference also adopted a ANTHONY ANSALDI legislative report voicing strong opposition to forcing compulsory Publislied biweekly at 81.0 Rhode Island Avenae N.E., Washington. D. C. 20018 by the Seafar­ arbitration on unions in contract ers International Union. Atlantic. Golf. Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO. 673 disputes in the transportation Fourth Avenae. Brooklyn. N.Y. 11232. Tel. HYaelnth 9-6600. Second class postage paid field, assailing proposals to ex­ at Washlngtons. D. C. tend injunction procedures against POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Forin 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International unions, attacking the "labor court" Union. Atlanlle. Gulf, Lakes and Inland scheme and proposals to deprive Waters District. AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue. Outlining his proposal for direct, popular election of the President, Birch Bayh (D-lnd.), chairman .Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. workers of their democratic of the Senate's Constitutional Arnendments subcommittee, addresses the AFL-CIO Executive Council. rights to cast secret written bal­ Federation President George Meany is at Bayh's right and Vice President David Dubinsky at left. lots on contract proposals. International Code Required To Discourage Air Hijackers �SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG Page Three i Happy Retirement! MTDs Exec, Board Sees New Hope For Stronger U. S. Merehant Fleet BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—Encouraged by a message from President Nixon which declared that "a strong and viable merchant marine is essential" to the economic strength and purpose of the na­ tion, the Executive Board of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO held a two-day meeting here last month f segment of the fleet, the building depletion allowances was pro­ in a spirit of renewed optimism of American-flag ships exclusively posed. about the prospects of moving in American shipyards and taxTurning its attention to other ahead, in the area of maritime deferred construction reserve matters, the board adopted policies reform. funds for the investment of more which included opposition to The telegram, addressed to SIU. private capital in ship construc­ changes in the labor laws, such President Paul Hall, who is also tion by the unsubsidized operators. as anti-strike legislation, compul­ president of the seven-millionIt also called for an end to sory arbitration or other attempts member MTD, expressed the "double subsidies" for the sub­ aimed at weakening collective Chief Executive's "deep interest sidized operators—the 14 com­ bargaining procedures. in seeing our merchant marine panies which now receive 55 per­ Continued support was voted play a more important role in cent of the cost of constructing for the grape workers, the Los world commerce" and said that their vessels from the government Angeles Herald Examiner news­ Retiring after a full life at sea, Seafarer Lawrence E. Taylor receives the President looked forward "to in addition to being granted oper­ paper strikers, protection of Fire his first pension check from Al Bernstein, right, SlU Welfare Director, working with your department ating subsidies. Fighters against harassment, and at New York headquarters. Brother Taylor, who makes his home in and all of organized labor in Also stressed was the need for aid to the Meat Cutters boycott of Chicago, last sailed aboard the Seatrain San Juan as AB in deck dept. achieving this goal and in building legislation protecting the nation's Neuhoff products. a stronger, more united nation." fishing industry, which has suf­ The need to wipe out hunger While pointing out that there fered illegal seizure of trawlers as and malnutrition in the United would be difficulties. Hall told the well as the imposition of unwar­ States also received the body's meeting that, having survived the ranted fines and fees by Latin- attention. past few years, the new "atmos­ American countries. Seventy four Receiving an economic report phere" in Congress and the White such seizures were cited in the which reviewed the nation's fi­ House promised to make the mari­ past eight years—imperilling the nancial health in 1968, and the time picture "a great deal better." lives and livelihood of the crews. role of profits in triggering infla­ WASHINGTON—Federal war-risk insurance coverage on A legislative report to the board, Penalties Urged tion—rather than wage-increases American-flag ships currently in effect has been extended for six which consists of leaders of the The board urged the Depart­ which were blamed by segments months, the Maritime Administration announced last month. 39 unions which comprise the ment of State to press vigorously '^f business for higher prices—the Due to expire on March 7, Honduras—^the runaway-flag ships MTD. noted "a marked change its claim against Ecuador for re­ b-'ard insisted on "setting straight in attitude about maritime affairs payment of losses resulting from the record." the extension moves the final —because they were considered in official Washington circles." the illegal seizure of the fishing date to September 7. This ap­ by the Navy and the Defense De­ Tax Reform Needed Contributing to this more posi­ vessel Day Island. Also urged plies to all war-risk binders cov­ partment to be under "effective It also strongly urged that the ering hull insurance protection control" of the United States. tive attitude, the report said, were was the denial of further military and indemnity as well as second Theoretically, the DOD has con­ the maritime planks adopted in sales to any Latin-American na­ tax structure be reformed to pro­ seamen's war-risk insurance. tinued to maintain, these ships the platforms of both major parties tion seizing an American vessel vide equity of the tax burden and prior to last year's election cam­ outside its 12-mile limit; steps to an end to "legal evasion" of taxes War-risk insurance is provided could be called into service in the paigns, the cheering statements confine loan agreements of U.S. by the wealthy. by the government in order to event of a national emergency. concerning the nation's fleet made naval vessels to hemisphere de­ A special report to the board on Originally, runaway ships in bridge the gap between the time bv Nixon while campaigning and fense; and renewal of an amend­ the problems of civil service commercial war-risk insurance this category were eligible for the ' irtually unchanged make up ment to the Vessel Loan Act (Continued on Page 4) ceases to provide adequate cover­ war-risk coverage by the govern­ of the 91st Congres and its leader­ providing cancellation of such age and 30 days after the out­ ment only until they were 20 years ship. The 90th Congress, the re­ loans if any loaned vessel is uti­ break of war involving the major old. In 1960, 1962, 1963, and port pointed out, had passed good lized for non-defense purposes. 1964 successive liberalization of powers. maritime legislation which in­ Other resolutions sought laws Such coverage was also made age limits was permitted. cluded independence for the Mari­ to benefit the Great Lakes fleet, Late last year, however, available to some vessels owned inland waterways and oceanog­ time Administration — although or controlled by U.S. citizens and MARAD withdrew availability for this was pocket vetoed by Presi­ raphy. registered in Liberia, Panama or such insurance from runaway-flag dent Johnson after Congress ad­ Vigorous enforcement and re­ tankers and reefers owned by organization of the 50-50 cargo journed. United States citizens and regis­ "Progress is in sight—and it's preference laws were called for tered under Panamanian, Honso that foreign aid and Food-forduran or Liberian flags if they achievable," the report declared. BAL HARBOUR, Fla.— Peace cargoes are carried to a were over 25 years old. The age As the Executive Board of greater degree by unsubsidized Independent MARAD the Key limit restriction was imposed be­ the seven - million - member American vessels, and, if possible, cause MARAD felt such ships AFL-CIO Maritime Trades . In adopting its resolutions on that 100 percent of such cargoes may be in terminal stages of ob­ maritime, the board placed great­ move in American vessels on the Department opened its two- || solescence and thus not operation­ est emphasis on an independent basis of long-term charters. day winter meeting here this || month, President Richard M. || WASHINGTON—Addition of ally sound to perform reliable MARAD and a program of fleet Oil companies were condemned Nixon sent the following tele- || service in the interest of national the Lucky Dragon, a 4,225-grossdevelopment which would provide for building their tankers in for­ gram to SlU and MTD Pres- i| defense. ton Singapore-flag freighter to the new ships for the unsubsidized eign shipyards and an end of oilident Paul Hall; || North Vietnam blacklist this "The AFL-CIO Martime month marked the first appear­ || Trades Department's Execuance of a Singapore vessel on the || live Board meeting takes place list, the Maritime Administration at an important hour in the reported. The ship will henceforth history of our nation. To­ be barred from carrying U.S.gether we are seeking new government-generated cargoes be­ ways to create a more healthy cause it traded with North Viet­ economic climate in America nam. —one in which workers and At the same time, two other employers alike derive maxi­ vessels were removed from the mum benefits. list. One—the 5,388-ton British"A stronger and viable flag Yungfutary—^was wrecked, merchant marine is essential and the Maltese-flag Amalia of in this quest for economic vi- ^ 7,304 tons was scrapped, MA­ tality. I want each of you and RAD announced. the seven million men and This leaves a total of 58 ships women you represent to know| aggregating 399,467 gross tons on of my deep interest in seeing the list as of January 24. The our merchant marine play a North Vietnam blacklist was in­ more important role in world augurated by MARAD on Janu­ commerce. ary 25, 1966. Ships so listed will "I look forward to working no longer be permitted to carry 5^ with you and your department U.S. - government - generated car­ ^ and all of organized labor in goes again unless their owners ^ achieving this goal and in pledge that the vessels—as well as II building a stronger more any others they own—^will not be Actress Penny Singleton, the first woman to take part in such a meeting, addresses one of the sesi united nation." used again in the North Vietnam sionc of the two-day meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department's executive board, MTD Presi- War Risk insurance Extended For Six Months by MARAD Pres. Nixon's Pledge on Fleet To MTD Board *New' Flag Added To No. Vietnam MARAD Blacklist »rade. dent Paul Hall is at podium, left. Penny attended in her capacity of vice president of Variety Artists, �. • 1 f.' f I Page Four SEAFARERS LOG MARAD Asks US-Hag Operators For 5-Yoar Ship Coastructioa Plans WASHINGTON—Details of future ship construction plans have again been asked of U.S.-flag operators—both subsidized and unsubsidized—by the Maritime Administration. The request, MARAD says, is for the purpose of assisting the agency in policy and planning and apparently is intended to be useful in budgetting ship con- ^ tion, as had its predecessors, re­ matz (D-Md.), chairman of the struction and replacement funds. fused to take the problem of a House Merchant Marine and Fish Programs to be submitted by "grave-yard" fleet seriously. De­ cries Committee. the shipping companies are to be spite numerous promises of a com­ Both legislators based their op­ long-range, covering the five years prehensive revitalization program timism on statements made by through the middle of 1974. for the merchant marine, the President Nixon while he was run­ Similar requests have been made Johnson Administration never did ning for office. twice before—in 1965 and again make good on them. If this optimism is to bear any in 1968. The only noticeable re­ fruit, shipbuilding wo'dd have to Even the final budget submit­ sult has been a continuation of ted by the outgoing Administra­ be upped considerably. A leve! subsidies to the 14 favored liner tion showed continued lack of of 30 new ships a year has been companies which already enjoyed concern by including ship subsidy described by Senator Magnuson them, and a continuation of gov­ funds—and those only for the al­ as the minimum needed for a proernment policy which leaves all ready subsidized segment of the cram geared to upgrade the fleet. the other operators out in the cold, fleet — which would permit the Coincidentally, recent figures sub­ despite the desperate need to re­ building of only from eight to 10 mitted by MARAD show that build the aging and largely obso­ ships during fiscal 1970. 1969 began with a total of 1,033 lete U.S. merchant fleet. ships of 1,000 gross tons and over The same budget also included MARAD wants preliminary some $101,600,000 in "carry­ in the nation's active ocean-going data on construction plans by over" funds, held over since 1967. fleet—^just 30 under the figure March 15, with a final follow-up Despite the presence of these year ago. by April 15, so that it can "place funds, however, proposed govern­ The current request by MARAD major reliance on the responses" ment policy remained consistent for ship construction plans in­ in its program planning for the in denying any use of funds to the cludes the following information, five years ahead. in addition to the number of ships unsubsidized operators. Last year, MARAD reported However, the statement which to be built and the number and that 35 companies submitted their accompanies MARAD's latest re­ type to be replaced: a detailed de­ plans, indicating the proposed con­ quest for data says: "This infor­ scription of routes to be served, struction of 220 ships during a mation is requested with the un­ the type of transportation offered, similar period ending in mid-1973. derstanding that if new construc­ expected traffic and income, manThese consi.sted of 35 to 40 bulk tion requires some form of gov­ nine scales, wage costs, financing carriers and 25 tankers, with the ernment assistance, the Adminis­ costs with estimates of construc­ remainder being advanced-design tration will require . . . formal ap­ tion subsidies required and amount liner types. plication in accordance with per­ of mortgage insurance needed. In addition, the operators are tinent regulations, and approval 1968 a Fizzle will depend on future considera­ asked to furnish the size, speed, At the time of the 1968 poll. tion of national needs and the deadweight and cubic capacities Acting Maritime Administrator availability of funds." and other pertinent general char­ James W. Gulick announced that acteristics of the prc^Dsed vessels. New Hope Expressed he hoped 1968 would be the year "which determines the course of Hope has been expressed that future development of the U.S. the Nixon Administration will re­ Merchant Marine." It never hap­ verse the previous trend and usher pened. a new dav" for maritime. Instead, the nation's commer­ Such a view has been presented cial fleet continued to decline— by both Senator Warren G. Magas it has since 1950—^while a gov­ nuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the (Continued from Page 3) ernment-backed major shipbuild­ Senate Commerce Committee and ing program failed to materialize his counterpart in the House, workers was made by a committee and the incumbent Administra­ Representative Edward A. Gar- chaired by Jerry Wurf, president of the State, County and Munici­ pal Workers. Wurf scored the lack of signifi­ cant progress during the past year "toward righting the wrong that has been perpetrated against the public employee." "It has been a year of justice delayed, and there­ fore of justice denied," the report Anyone who has ever waded through the incomprehensible stated. language which saturates official reports—and anything-butReviewed were developments official junk mail—will appreciate the following method for stemming from Executive Order creating such nonsensical jargon. It was devised by Philip 10988, issued by President Ken­ Broughton, a 63-year-old official of the U.S. Public Health nedy. After seven years of the Service. order, the report said, it becomes Broughton calls it the Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector and clear that what is needed is "a claims it is a sure-fire way to make even the simplest communi­ law, not a directive," to safeguard cation maddeningly confusing. The system employs a battery of the rights of federal employees. 30 carefully chosen "buzzwords": Urged in the state and local Column 1 Column 2 sector was concentration on four Column 3 0. integrated 0. management areas: a clear-cut statement on the 0. options 1- total 1. organizational right to organize, the right of pub­ 1. flexibility 2. systematized lic employees to be represented by 2. monitored 2. capability 3. parallel a union of their choice, to bargain 3. reciprocal 3. mobility 4. functional collectively, and negotiated con­ 4. digital 4. programing 5. responsive tracts setting forth in detail wages 5. logistical 5. concept 6. optional and working conditions. 6. transitional 6. time-phase 7. synchronized The committee, set up by the 7. incremental 7. projection MTD a year ago, will continue its 8. compatible 8. third-generation 8. hardware study for presentation to the next 9. balanced 9. policy 9. contingency MTD convention, Wurf said. Two The procedure is simple, First, think of any three-digit numareas to be examined more fully her. Then select the corresponding buzzword from each column. arc: the scope of collective bar­ For instance, number 257 produces "systematized logistical pro| gaining, including all aspects of jection," a phrase that can be dropped into virtually any report II relationships involving the legis­ with that ring of decisive, knowledgeable authority. ^ lature and the civil service system "No one will have the remotest idea of what you're talking || and whether effective collective about," says Broughton, "but the important thing is that they're i bargaining is possible for public not about to admit it." employees in the absence of the right to strike. MTD£xee. Board Sees New Hope For Strong Neet New System Shows How To Confuse the Confusers March 1, 1969 Aid Striking Oil Workers Officers of the SlU-affiliated International Union of Petroleum Work­ ers, Local 22, present a check for $526 to leaders of the striking Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, Local 1-561. The money was raised for strike relief fund through voluntary contributions from lUPW mem­ bers in Richmond, Calif. Left to right: Don Regelb, president and Frank Postmus, vice-president, lUPW Local'22; Bob Entwistle, presi­ dent, and Jake Jacobs, secretary-treasurer, OCAW Local 1-561. Three More Seafarers Qualify As Engineers, Total Now 312 Three more Seafarers have earned their engineer's licenses after successfully completing upgrading training at the School of Marine Engineering jointly sponsored by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. This brings to 312 the number | of men who have passed Coast gineering if they are at least 19 Guard examinations after taking years old and have a minimum of the comprehensive course of study 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watchoflFered by the school. standing time in the engine de­ The latest trio partment, in addition to six of graduates in­ month's experience as wiper or cludes Howard the equivalent. Saucier, upgraded Seafarers who qualify and wishto second assist­ to enroll in the school may obtain ant engineer; and additional information and make John R. Hemp­ application for the course at any hill Jr. and Leon SIU hall. They may also write J. Canfield, both directly to SIU headquarters at of whom are now 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, Saucier third assistant en­ New York 11232, or telephone the gineers. school at (212) 499-6600. Howard Saucier is a native of Mississippi who now makes his home in Houston, Texas. Brother Saucier has been going to sea since 1947, the same year he joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He served a four-year hitch with the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. John R. Hemphill Jr. was born OAKLAND—Sea-Land Serv­ in Marion, North Carolina, and ice, Inc. is expanding its container terminal here. A revised agree­ ment between the City of Oakland and the SlU-contracted, unsubsi­ dized ship operator calls for the addition of nine acres to facilities already leased by Sea-Land. Also provided in the revised agreement, which has been filed with the Federal Maritihie Com­ Hemphill Canfield mission, are plans for improve­ continues to live there with his ments to the facilities, including mother, Mrs. Mattie Hemphill, regrading, draining and fencing. when he is not at sea. Brother Rental payments will be adjusted Hemphill has been sailing for 16 to include the additional property years, and joined the Union at the and improvements. Port of New York. His last ship The current expansion in the was the Fort Hoskins. Port of Oakland follows an $8.5 l.eon J. Canfield was born in million capital improvements pro­ VIobile, and still calls that city gram for fiscal 1968-69. A key home when he is not at sea. Sea- item of that program was the pur­ arer Canfield has been sailing for chase of 52 acres of Oakland 3 years, and joined the SIU in Dock and Warehouse Property on the Port of Mobile. He last sailed the Oakland estuary for develop­ as FOWT aboard the Transhat- ment as a marine terminal. teras. Sea-Land also participated in All engine department Seafar­ that expansion, in which large ers are eligible for any of the up­ modern container facilities were grading programs at the Union- huilt for the company. Sea-Lam! Adds Nine More Acres To Oakland Base �March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Senate Commerce Committee Warns: International ice Patrol Resumes Atlantic Vigil The International Ice Patrol will begin its 55th year of operation early this month, it was announced by the U.S. Coast Guard. The patrol will concentrate in the vicinity of the Grand Banks, off Newfoundland, where icebergs pose a particular threat to trans-Atlantic shipping. It was nearly 57 years ago, just before midnight on April 14, 1912, when the White Star liner Titanic, steaming at 22 knots 95 miles south of Grand Banks on her maiden voyage, brushed a giant berg which ripped a 300-foot gash in her hull below the waterline. Two and one-half hours later, the largest and most luxurious passenger liner of her day plunged to the bottom with a loss of 1,513 lives—the worst disaster in maritime history. The Titanic had been considered unsinkable by her builders. She was double-bottomed with 16 watertight compartments and was designed to maintain bouyancy even with four compart­ ments completely flooded. However, the rip in her hull flooded five compartments forward, and the ship was dopmed. The disaster spawned the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea which met in London in 1913. Out of that con­ vention came the Ice Patrol and two other safety measures which would have drastically reduced the death toll on the Titanic if they had been in effect a year earlier. At the time of the collision the California was less than ten miles away. But, the distress calls from the Titanic went unheard because the California's radio operators were off duty and asleep. The 1913 convention adopted a resolution requiring all ships to maintain a 24-hour radio watch. The other vital regulation coming out of that meeting requires that all ships have lifeboat space for all persons on board. The Titanic was equipped with lifeboats enough to accommodate only 1,178 of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard. Since the Ice Patrol was inaugurated in February, 1914, not a single life has been lost due to collisions with icebergs in the North Atlantic sea lanes. US Fleet Needs Massive Rebuilding if Menhant Marine is to Survive WASHINGTON—A "massive rebuilding" of the nation's fleet is an absolute necessity "if we are to have a U.S. merchant marine" the Senate Committee on Commerce declared in a report issued here last month. Also stressed by the Commit­ have made possible a limited continued, "for further delay could tee was the fact that it must "ex­ replacement program. But the well spell the end for U.S. mer­ amine and determine the appro­ slowness and inadequacy of the chant shipping. Thus an exten­ priate administrative location and replacement program for the sub­ sive effort will be made by the function of the Maritime Admin­ sidized operators is well evidenced committee in the coming session istration." by the fact that by the end of to re-evaluate the urgent needs of The report accompanied a res­ fiscal 1970 we will be 65 vessels the merchant marine and develop olution to authorize appropriations behind in the subsidized opera­ a comprehensive new legal basis of $550,000 for the Senate unit's tors' contractual replacement pro­ for operation of the fleet." Dealing with the status of the work during the current fiscal gram with the government." Maritime Administration, the re­ year. The section of the statement Fleet's Life Ebbing port goes on to say that, "In addi­ dealing with maritime matters cen­ tered around the "crucial task" of Of the unsubsidized sector of tion to the great effort that will rebuilding the United States mer­ the merchant marine, the state­ be undertaken to develop.and en­ chant marine. ment noted: "The tramp fleet is act into law a long-range revitali­ "That a rebuilding of our mer­ comprised almost exclusively of zation program for the merchant chant fleet is required is not sub­ World War II vessels. As such, marine, the committee must as ject to dispute," the report states. their operating life has already well fulfill its requirement of an­ "The U.S. merchant fleet which been extended beyond that which nual authorization of funds for once evidenced our nation upon efficiency and expectation could the programs of the Maritime Ad­ the seas as the foremost seafaring reasonably be forecast. . . . The ministration. This will entail the nation of the world has been al­ 5.6 percent of our foreign-borne comprehensive review of existing lowed to deteriorate to an alarm­ commerce now carried in U.S.-* and projected programs of the ing degree. While our fleet does flag bottoms is symptomatic of the Maritime Administration." employ some of the most modern degree to which our fleet has been Location of M-4RAD and efficient liner vessels in the allowed to deteriorate and the de­ "Additionally," the report con­ world, the tramp fleet is approach­ gree to which there is the neces­ cludes, "the committee must ex­ ing block obsolescence and only sity for a greatly expanded mer­ amine and determine the appro­ a portion of the liner fleet has chant shipping effort. priate administrative location and "In the 90th Congress this com­ enjoyed the benefit of construction function of the Maritime Admin­ mittee held extensive hearings on and operating subsidies which the status of the U.S. merchant istration. When the Department marine in an effort to isolate and of Transportation was formed Will Become Effective July 1— analyze the various issues respon­ some two years ago, the Maritime Administration remained within sible for the decline of our fleet and holding the key to meaningful thfe Department of Commerce. revitalization. Following some five Last year this committee reported months of hearings several mem­ favorably and Congress passed bers of the committee sponsored legislation which would have es­ an omnibus maritime revitalization tablished the Maritime.Adminis­ program (S. 2650), upon which tration as an independent agency. hearings were begun late in the That measure was vetoed by the WASHINGTON—Merchants and money-lenders were told by the government last month exactly second session of the 90th Con­ President on the basis that the what information must be disclosed to credit customers and borrowers after July 1, when the fed­ gress. The brief hearings on S. Maritime Administration should 2650 were sufficient to disclose be located within the Department eral truth-in-lending law takes effect. the serious difference of opinion of Transportation. Thus the ap­ The law, strongly supported the amount repaid in 12 monthly between the administration and propriate administrative location by the AFL-CIO during an the buyer of an automobile to judge whether he would pay the installments comes to $1,060 the Committee as to the appropri­ of the Maritime Administration eight-year-campaign for passage, lowest finance charge by financing would have to use the correct ate path to follow toward revitali­ is unsettled and this committee allowed more than a year of prep­ his car through the dealer, a bank, annual rate of 11 percent. This zation of the merchant marine." must again examine the appropri­ aration to reform the nation's con­ a loan company or a credit union. is because the full $1,000 would "The Committee must reach an ate location for that agency in an sumer credit structure. The regulations include tables be available to the customer only accord with the new administra­ effort to constitute it in a manner It assigned to the board of gov­ for determining the true annual for the first month of the loan. tion as to appropriate and effective most conducive to a revitalization ernors of the Federal Reserve rate according to the type of With each payment, he repays remedies for our fleet," the report of the merchant marine." System the task of translating the credit—whether open end credit, part of the principal and has less legislative language into specific such as department store revolv­ money at'his disposal. Honored for Safety-at-Sea regulations on credit and interest ing charge accounts or credit • If a bank discounts the inter­ charge disclosure. cards, or single transactions such est charge in advance—actually The board has completed its as a bank loan or a major pur­ giving the borrower only $940, regulations which will apply to chase. The tables are geared to it would have to list its annual "banks, savings and loan associ­ show iiic true interest rate to the rate at 11.5 percent. For the first six months of the ations, department stores, credit nearest one-quarter of one per­ law—until January 1, 1970—the card issuers, credit unions, auto­ cent. The buyer or borrower doesn't annual percentage rate can be ex­ mobile dealers, consumer finance companies, residential mortgage have to worry about the tables; pressed as dollars per $100 in­ brokers, craftsmen such as plumb­ they are for the use of the seller. stead of as a percentage. Thus, ers and electricians, doctors, den­ But if the seller or lender deliber­ instead of 18 percent' a finance tists, hospitals and any other ately violates the law, he can be charge could be described as $18 per year per $100 of unpaid bal­ individuals or groups which ex­ jailed for one year and fined tend or arrange for consumer $5,000, and the customer can sue ance. for double civil penalties. credit." The new regulations also spell out the wording of a notice which Examples Cited Sets No Ceilings must be given to every person As examples of how credit and who signs an agreement putting Neither the law nor the regu­ lations set any ceiling on interest interest charges must be expressed up his home as security to a loan. by July 1, the Federal Reserve The notice tells the borrower that rates or finance charges. governors cited these cases: he can cancel the agreement within The intent is to disclose to cus­ • A department store which three business days without pen­ tomers or borrowers before a deal is closed or a sale made exactly now charges revolving credit cus­ alty. what the credit or interest charge tomers 1.5 percent of the unpaid Actual enforcement of the reg­ The Seattle wins award for being the safest ship in Sea-Land fleet. may be in terms of true annual balance each month would have ulations will be spread among At ceremonies in Seattle were (Seated, l.-r.): J. R. Nystrom, vessel s interest rates. This would enable to notify its customers that the nine federal agencies with regu­ master; Joe Schoell, ship's delegate: Steve Troy, SlU Port Agent. consumers to "shop for credit" by annual rate comes to 18 percent latory authority over various in­ Standing from left: R. F. Whitmire, Division Marine Manager, Seacomparing the credit costs of one a year. dustries and bank systems. How­ store, bank, or loan company with • A bank which makes a ever most retail credit transactions Land; P. K. Leatham, West Coast Marine Safety Representative; that of another. $1,000 loan for one year and now will be policed by the Federal Captain D. M. Alger, Chief, Merchant Marine Safety Division, U.S. Coast Guard, Thirteenth District, which includes the City of Seattle. calls it a 6 percent loan because Trade Commission. It would, for example, enable Gov't Truth-indending Regulations issuedto Merchants, Money Lenders �f'fl^ Page Six SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG On Campaign by Big Business Board Member Srores Publkations For Slanted Anti-NLRB Propaganda TUCSON, Ariz.—Slanted and biased reports of National Labor Relations Board decisions can have only a harmful effect on the nation's collective bargaining system, NLRB member Gerald A. Brown told the University of Arizona's fifth annual conference on collective bargaining and labor law here last month. ^ lacious reasoning, and name call­ ers thought. The regulation was "Distorted accounts of the ing." adopted without benefit of the board's activities have appeared He cited as "distorted accounts" sort of formal rule-making pro­ recently in the Readers Digest those in the Readers Digest and cedure where companies and un­ and other publications," Brown other publications which "care­ ions could argue for or against it. said. fully select a few cases, gloss over The summary nature of this ac­ He noted a report last year or misrepresent the facts, accuse tion led an appeals court to de­ that the nation's major corpora­ the NLRB of bias and prejudice, clare the (Excelsior) rule invalid." tions had joined with the Cham­ and conclude with emotional Briefs Submitted ber of Commerce, the National words predicting dire consequenc­ The fact is, said Brown, that Association of Manufacturers and es for our system of free enter­ the board not only heard oral other employer groups in a $1 prise, consumers and the civil arguments by unions and manage­ million campaign to help change rights of all citizens." ment but invited, and received, public opinion about the labor Such accounts. Brown noted, written j^riefs from the CofC and laws. "do not mention that almost all the NAM more than eight months "The labor board welcomes the cases cited have been approved before the Excelsior rule was honest and informed criticism," by the courts" after judicial re­ adoptevl. Brown said. "But I have a differ­ view. The "quoted authorities usu­ Another fact, he said, is that ent reaction to an organized cam­ ally represented the losing side in the rule has been approved by paign-which represents a disserv­ the cases discussed, but this fact more than a dozen other courts ice to employers, employees and is nowhere mentioned." besides the one cited by the busi­ the general public." "If a case is to be reargued be­ ness paper. The Supreme Court The board does not seek im­ fore the public, both sides should recently agreed to hear arguments munity from fair comment but be heard. It is true that the board on the one adverse ruling. is concerned "about the harmful has sometimes been reversed by Brown produced copies of three effects of the existing well-fi­ the courts, but our critics ignore newspaper editorials in the Ma­ nanced propaganda campaign" the fact that the reversals have comb (Mich.) Daily, the Rich­ against the present labor law, he been at the expense of unions as mond (Calif.) Independent and the well as employers, and blame the Northern Virginia Sun of Arling­ told the conference. board whatever the results." ton, Va. Each editorial "appeared Facts Twisted Brown quoted a Wall Street to represent the independent view Since Big Business launched its Journal editorial of December 2, of the paper" in which it appeared propaganda campaign, Brown 1968, asserting that in requiring but two were identical, the board said, he has noted these propagan­ employers to furnish unions with member noted. All three repeated da -techniques in critical news employee name-and-address lists, employer charges that the board stories and editorials—"the use the board was forcing employers has "disregarded fraud and gross of slanted or biased news, ridicule to help unions organize their em­ misrepresentations" by unions and and belittlement, color words, ployees. The editorial said in part: "rewarded strikers for flagrant fear technique, guilt by associa­ "In this instance the board misconduct by forcing employers tion, false conclusions from fal­ didn't even find out what employ­ to reinstate them with back pay." New SlU Tanker Wabash Launched at Sparrows Point BALTIMORE—A new SlU-contracted tanker, the 37,250deadweight-ton S. T. Wabash was launched here last month at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point shipyard. The vessel is the second of molded depth is 48 feet 9 inches. m tnis two in this Class class to oe be con­ The draft will be about 36 feet structed here for affiliated com­ 8 inches at 37,250 deadweight panies of Ogden Marine, Inc., tons. formerly Oriental Exporters, Inc. The house-aft vessel has been All ships of the companies are constructed to be as maintenance named for rivers in the United free as possible. The top side, unStates and this newest addition to derbody and all tanks are coated the fleet takes its name from the with epoxy type paints. The crew's Wabash River in Indiana. quarters are of the most modern When formally delivered to its design, fully air-conditioned and owners next spring, the Wabash with permanent pre-finished plastic will be assigned to the carriage coated bulkheads which will re­ of petroleum or .grain products, quire a minimum of maintenance. or both. Unlike most tankers recently built in the United States, the Wabash as does her sistership, the Willamette, has an expended cruis­ ing range of about 12,000 miles. Her storerooms—both dry and refrigerated—^have a capacity large enough to hold a six-month supply of stores. The vessel has a capacity of TAMPA—The Port of Tampa 333,000 barrels in its 15 tanks,' set a new record in cargo tonnage and may be readily converted to handled during 1968, eclipsing a the grain trade with a grain carry­ good 1967 total by eight percent, ing capacity of approximately 1,- Port Director Jack P. Fitzgerald 500,000 bushels. Her cargo han­ announced last month. dling pumps will be capable of A total of 28,002,237 tons were discharging a full liquid cargo in moved through the port during the only 14 hours. year, placing Tampa 10th in rank The Wabash is expected to op­ for waterbourne commerce in the erate at a normal sea speed of 16 nation and continuing its status knots. It has a 15,000 shaft horse­ as the most active port in Florida. power turbine driving a single During December, 1968—^the screw. The design includes a largest tonnage month ever re­ curved rake stem, a cruiser stern corded in the history of the port— and a spade rudder. a total of 2,625,005 tons of cargo Over-all length of the ship is were handled to register a 22660 feet 2 inches, with length be­ percent increase over the 2,147,tween perpendiculars of 630 feet. 063 tons handled in the previous Its molded breadth is 90 feet and December. '68 Cargo Totals Hit Record High la Port of Tampa Blue Cross Study Finds Health Problems of U. S. Poor Are National Disaster CHICAGO—A new publication has entered the health field with a bang, pointing out in its first issue that the health problems of the United States poor are a national disaster. The periodical. Sources is put out by the Blue Cross Association—the world's largest voluntary, nonprofit health prepayment organization. According to Walter J. McNerney, president of the association, the new periodi­ cal will "identify and give definition to vital health issues of today." The magazine will be distributed free to leading private citizens, public officials and other decision makers and will be published at a frequency yet to be determined. "We hope that by sharing our knowledge with others, inside and outside the health field, we will contribute to a decision-making process that will result in better solu­ tions that are an effective response to the problems," McNemey explained. In dedicating the first issue to the health problems of the poor. Sources quotes from several authorities who make salient points on the subject. "The health of the poor in the United States is a national disaster," says Dr. H. Jack Geiger, professor of preventive medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. "The poor are likelier to be sick, the sick are likelier to be poor." "More money is spent conserving migratory birds than the health of migratory workers," Dr. Stanley Skillicorn, director of the migrant clinic in Santa Clara, California, points out. "Now in the affluent 60's ... it can truthfully be said that over one third of this nation feels ill-cared for in its medical needs," declares public opinion analyst Louis Harris. And, from the Office of Economic Opportunity come these obsci vaiions from Dr. Joseph T. English, assistant director for health affairs: "There is no point in training a boy to work when employers view him as disfigured because all his teeth have been extracted." Commenting on the selection of this theme on the launching of the new publication, McNerney stated, "We in Blue Cross have discovered that we know too little about the health problems of the poor." He explained that the association is now working with several agencies both in government and in the private sector "to explore methods of making the health care system more efficient and improving its availability to every American, whether affluent or poor." The Social Security Administration designates 45 mil­ lion Americans as poor or near-poor, defined as members of four-person families with incomes of $85 weekly or less. Mollie Orshansky of that agency has suggested that, in order to combat poverty, new public income-support programs, or, at least, the sharp stepping-up of imple­ mentation of existing programs and their extension are needed. The result of poverty is directly translated into physical ailments, official government figures show. Families with incomes under $2,000 have three times the incidence of disabling heart disease, five times as much mental illness, and nine times as much visual impairments as occurs in the over-$7,000 income families. The leading pollster, Louis Harris, cites a study which finds that worsening health is what the poor—both white and black—worry about most. Most of the poor are convinced that not enough medical care is available to them. They resent the kind of care dispensed at hospital clinics—particularly the long waits and the impersonality of medical personnel. Also, the Harris study reveals, about 40 percent express the view that "each part of the health care has to be found somewhere else." A case in point is reported by Dr. George James, dean of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, who describes "a man who lived near a major medical center, but wouldn't go to it, even though he had 12 major pathologic diagnoses. The hospital called him 'an unco­ operative patient.' He had been told to attend no fewer than 10 specialty clinics. He was too sick to do it, so he just said the hell with all of them." Medical reporter Jay Nelson Tuck, in an article, "Gov­ ernment on the Poverty Line," reports the above case. The article details the new neighborhood health centers of the Office of Economic Opportunity as well as other aspects of the new $5.1 billion annual program to bring health care to the poor. American Indians fare even worse than the other ele­ ments of the population. Senator Fred R. Harris, Demo­ crat of Oklahoma and Mrs. Harris, in an article on Indian health, point out that diseases which the white community now regard as having become relatively rare continue to afflict these people "with disturbing frequency." Tuberculosis is six times more likely to strike an Indian than a white American; dysentery 40 times mor^ likely. Indian life expectancy is now 63.5 years, compared to 71 years for white Americans. The Harrises attribute the poor health conditions of these people to "poverty, family and social disorganization, and the hapless dependency of Indians on the federal government." "Poverty in living standards accompanied by poverty in medical care seems unjustified by the amount of money Americans are investing in health care—$47.3 billion, which constitutes more than six percent of the Gross National Product, the highest percentage spent on medical care of any nation, except the USSR," Richard M. Ralston, editor of Sources stresses. Tuck points out, on the basis of a recent study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, that $9.7 billion of this amount was spent in 1968 by the federal and state governments on the health care of the 45 million poor and near-poor—somewhat more than $200 per person. The study concludes: "Given the current estimates that about $200 per year per person would purchase 'good' health care, if resources were applied for maximum benefit, current government expenditures would cover the major costs of health service for the poor. While this degree of efficiency is rarely found in any system, it seems clear that much room for improvement exists." �March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS President Contmues OEO; Two Key Programs Shifted WASHINGTON—President Nixon announced a reshuffle of key anti-poverty programs last month but told Congress he wants to con­ tinue the Office of Economic Opportunity as an "incubator" for new programs to help the poor. As a first step, the President said, he is using his executive authority to delegate operation of a number of OEO programs to the Depart­ ment of Health, Education and Welfare and to the Labor Department effective July 1. Nixon assigned the operation of the Job Corps to the Labor De­ partment to be co-ordinated with other manpower programs admin­ istered by the department. He delegated to Health, Education and Welfare the OEO's Head Start program for pre-school children, its Comprehensive Health Centers for poverty neighborhoods and its Foster Grandparents pro­ gram under which retired volunteers receive modest payment for providing individual "grandfafherly" care to fatherless small children. Several other OEO-initiated programs are already delegated to other agencies, including the operation of the Neighborhood Youth Corps by the Labor Department and the school-age Head Start FollowThrough program by HEW. At least initially, supervision of Community Action programs will remain under OEO. Although the announcement was the first formal message Nixon has sent to Congress since taking office, it was strictly informational and did not request any immediate legislative action. The President said he will later ask Congress to extend" authorization for appropriations for the OEO for another year. And before June 30, Nixon said, he will submit "a comprehensive proposal for the future of the poverty program." Nixon had both praise and criticism of the Office of Economic Opportunity in his message. He said the anti-poverty agency "has been a valuable fount of ideas and enthusiasm." Its "greatest value," Nixon said, "is as an initiating agency—devising new programs to help the poor, and serving as an 'incubator' for these programs during their initial, experimental phases." This, he said, is the area on which OEO should concentrate. He was critical of the management and loose financial supervision of some OEO programs. "Even those most thoroughly committed to the goals of the antipoverty, he suggested, much more attention must be given to those worked," the President said. "The men and women who will be valued most in this Administra­ tion," Nixon added, "will be those who understand that not every experiment succeeds, who do not cover up failures but rather lay open problems, frankly and constructively, so that next time we will know how to do better." In new areas, Nixon hinted at steps to overcome disadvantages which blight many children during the first four years of their lives— before Head Start comes into the picture. "If we are to make genuine, long-ranee progress" in overcoming poverty, he suggested, much more attention must be given to those earliest years "which determine how far, throughout his later life, the child can reach." Spin-off of OEO programs to other agencies has been a hotly con­ troversial issue in past Congresses, with most Republicans and conserv­ ative Democrats favoring it and most liberals supporting the role of the Office of Economic Opportunity as the keystone of the antipoverty effort. Leon Duplantier, former presi­ dent of Communications Workers Local 3410, will posthumously re­ ceive the annual Merit Award to Labor given by the A.ssociation for Retarded Children, Inc., of Greater New Orleans. Duplantier, who died in February 1968, was active in United Fund drives in a number of caoacities, including a role as special assistant of com­ munity services representing the president of the Louisiana AFLCIO. * » * Carl J. Megel, legislative direc­ tor of the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers and form­ er AFT president, has been reap­ pointed to the President's Com­ mittee on Employment of the Handicapped for another threeyear term. Megel previously served six years on the committee after 12 years as union president. He is currently a vice president of the International Federation of Teacher Unions, and a trustee of the United Nations Association of the USA. The Post Office Mail Handlers' executive board has announced the election of Vice President Lonnie L. Johnson, 36, as presi­ dent and called for the implemen­ tation of the merger with the La­ borers voted by the union's 1968 convention. Johnson, of Chicavo, succeeds the late Harold McAvoy. He said most members of the un­ ion and the board support the merger because "our best hope as a small union rests with LIUNA." The University of Illinois hon­ ored State AFL-CIO President Reuben G. Soderstrom at a pub­ lic ceremony here for his decades of service to labor education and the university. Soderstrom, state federation head for 38 years, was given a certificate of appreciation by UI President David Dodds Henry and Director Melvin Rothbaum of the university's Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations to highlight the 20th annual Cen­ tral Labor Union conference. • * • LOG Page Seven Carrying the Load An estimated 28 percent of^f the total i7o1iiP> value of all goods and services produced in this country goes to the federal, state and local governments in the form of taxes. This makes government a major partner in the worker's pay-check—a partner whose share is collected first, before the family gets its food money. But who pays that 28 percent? How is the burden shared? During 1967, there were 21 individuals in the United States who made over one million dollars for the year but paid not one cent in taxes. When the wage-earner looks at his depleted pay-check and realizes that he is carrying the exempted money maker on his back, and paying his taxes besides—that's the time when tax reform becomes a top priority item and when the American worker's traditional belief in al­ ways paying his share begins to become some­ what shaken. Some loopholes are so obvious one might well wonder why the public outcry hasn't been louder before now. Nearly $2 billion of income is tax-free to those who can afford to buy state and local bonds. Another $2.5 billion escapes through the in­ vestment tax credit loophole which gives cor­ porations a seven percent credit for every dollar invested in new machinery. Also, the Treasury Department estimates that revenue lost throu^ manipulation and abuse of charitable deductions totals some $2.5 billion annually. Oil companies enjoy a 27.5-percent tax ex­ emption on the price of crude oil they sell—to others or themselves—the "oil depletion allow­ ance." In iS67, for example, • Standard Oil of New Jersey—with a net income of over $2 bil­ lion—paid only 7.9 percent of it in U.S. Taxes. The capital gains tax permits people who are in the top personal income tax brackets—where they would otherwise pay-up to 70 percent—to pay only 25 no*-/ percent, because stock income is taxed less than earned wage income. What happens is that the tax-brackets—which range from 14 to 70 percent on taxable income —become most meaningful at the bottom; least meaningful at the top. Those in the lower brack­ ets, who can least afford it, are the ones who are forced to pay the full amount of tax indi­ cated in the tax charts. The most shameful aspect of this process— that which perhaps shows it most clearly—is that families below the poverty level pay taxes. Vitally needed tax-reform, in the areas of abuse indicated, could bring in $10 billion, ac­ cording to estimates of AFL-CIO economists— without even touching the tax brackets them­ selves. This is enough to grant substantial relief where it is most needed—at the bread-and-butter level. Both the national AFL-CIO and the Mari­ time Trades Department have long advocated tax reform, soberly and realistically. They advocate a raise in the minimum stand­ ard deduction for individuals and families; treat­ ing capital gains the same as any other income, and setting a minimum tax for each tax bracket —above an "adequate living" income level and regardless of how the income is earned. Also, they argue, sound limitations must be set for charitable deductions and state and local bonds should not be allowed to continue entirely scot-free of taxation. Such loopholes as invest­ ment tax credit and oil depletion allowances have no place in an inflating economy where business hardly needs incentives, considering their booming profit statements. The possibility of a tax revolt by the "middle class" was voiced by former Treasury Secretary Joseph W. Barr in his departing appearance be­ fore the joint Congressional Economic Commit­ tee—unless tax reform becomes a fact. Finally fed up with a business-oriented tax structure, wage earners can be expected to call more and more for tax relief where it is most needed—at the bottom. not/ nnit/ �•ili Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG Runaway Firms Hopping to Mexico As U. S. Cities Tout 30'Cent Wage V !r ;i J 5• ISi 'u TUCSON, ARIZ.—Mexico's "inexhaustible inexpensive labor market" is being touted as a 30cents-an-hour gold mine for U.S. businessmen willing to invest in plants on both sides of the border. "You don't have to go to Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea or Japan for low cost easily trainable foreign labor," says the official ^ jg The walkout was not an official a day. publication of DATE—Devel­ strike, sanctioned by the ruling Defense Contract opment Authority for Tucson's powers, but it forced Transitron to The U.S. plant has started work Expansion—which describes itself ship some of the quartz crystals as a "nonprofit corporation repre­ on a $1.7 million contract to make used in its production processes to senting a broad cross-section of telephone cables for the Defense another company subsidiary in Department. The contract is for the Tucson community." a one-year period, but the Army Kansas City. The workers finally "It's available right here . went back when the governor of along the Mexico-Arizona border Electronic Command awarded Tamaulipas state stepped in and Transitron an additional contract for as low as 30 cents an hour in the State Labor Board agreed to virtually inexhaustible numbers," on its bid of $1.1 million, and the hear the dispute—over wages DATE proclaims in glowing Economic Development Adminis­ promised but not paid for lunch tration procured a grant of $28,Chamber of Commerce prose. 000 in U.S. funds to "train 15 or "breaks." "Mexican labor is competitive Last year an AFL-CIO Execu­ with foreign labor—easily recruit­ 20 persons in the electronics field" tive Council subcommittee urged ed, quickly trained and equally as at the Transitron plant in Laredo. joint action by American and A subsidiary, Phalo Corp., got the productive." Mexican labor movements and contracts and the grant. Tucson businessmen headed by The hands-across-the-border governments to change the immi­ J. Karl Meyer, DATE's executive concept got a jolt, however, when gration and tariff laws. It cited director, point to the "advantages" the Mexican workers cast off the unfair competition by low-wage of "co-operative U.S.-Mexican "proud, cheerful attitude toward border-jumping plants and "green border operations such as low ab­ work" extolled by the tubthump- card" tourists who cross the bor­ senteeism and a proud, cheerful ing U.S. businessmen and stopped der freely to take jobs in agricul­ attitude toward work . . . under work for three weeks at the Nu­ ture, often at the expense of union the Twin Plant concept." farm workers. evo Laredo plant. That concept is described in these words: "Components are manufactured Accord Reached With L&N in Tucson, assembled in Nogales, Mexico, and returned to Tucson for final inspection, packaging and shipping. . . . Duty is imposed only on the added value of the assembly." Tucson is only one of the WASHINGTON—The recent settlement of a dispute over trainSouthwest's border towns promot­ ing the "cheap foreign labor" con­ crew sizes on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has been cept. Among the first to tap the cited by the United Transportation Union as "proof that good new lode was Laredo, Texas, faith bargaining" can resolve which induced the Transitron labor-management differences in self-help after 30 days. This means the management could arbitrarily Electronics Corporation of Wake­ the industry. set sizes on unresolved crews or field, Mass., to move its non-union The settlement, reached in long the union could strike over the operations into a new plant with negotiating sessions in Louisville, issue. a small work force. provides that L&N will employ The agreement on the l-and-2 Across the border at Nuevo La­ a conductor and two trainmen on makeup covers 250 crews, many redo, Mexico, within walking dis­ half of its freight train crews, of which previously operated with tance of Laredo, is a Transitron while the other half remain sub­ only a single trainman. plant with 1,400 workers, all Mex­ ject to negotiation. The procedure is similar to that ican nationals. Under the twin If no agreement can be reached set in accords reached previously plant formula, Transitron may on the makeup of the remaining use its small U.S. work force to 50 percent of the crews in six on the crew-size issue between manufacture products and its months, the matter will be re­ UTU and 52 other railroads. It large Mexican force to assemble ferred to UTU President Charles has led to complete agreements without walkouts. them. Luna and L&N President W. U. "Particularly Important" Wage rates in the U.S. are Kendall for disposition. $1.60 an hour and up. In Nuevo If they can't reach an agree­ However, UTU has stressed Laredo the rate is a reported ment, the parties may revert to that the L&N settlement is "par­ ticularly important" because the dispute there and similar disputes Fueling Up on the Illinois Central and the Belt Railway of Chicago were han­ dled by a presidential emergency board in December. The brunt of the union's case before the board was that the three carriers had "refused to bargain realistically" ever since 1966 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of no­ tices served by the Railroad Trainmen, now part of UTU. Recalling the history of the dis­ pute, LJTU noted that its memIjers were forced to strike L&N before the board was appointed, and again briefly in January when negotiations again reached a stale­ mate. The second strike was halted by a court injunction, but the walkout also produced a new round of negotiations which led to the settlement. "In the final analysis," Luna said, "an agreement can be It's chow time and Seafarer James Kalogrlds is ready to eat. George reached if both sides will sit down Spizou is serving up lunch Kalogrids has selected in cafeteria at the across the table from each other N,Y. Hall. Kalogrids sails in the deck department as deck engineer. and iron out their differences." Dispute on Train Crew Sizes Resolved by Union Bargaining -ft' III. March 1, 1969 Additional Legal Aid Urged As Vital to Nation's Poor WASHINGTON—Federal legal aid for the needy granted under the nation's anti-poverty drive should be greatly expanded, the National Council of Senior Citizens told Congress recently. David H. Marlin, associate director of NCSC's program of legal research and services for the elderly, made the appeal be­ fore a Senate Special Committee on Aging. The council is currently conducting legal aid projects under a $510,793 grant made last year by the Office of Economic Op­ portunity, and it was on the basis of this experience that Marlin testified. "I can detail both from my own experience and from known facts on legal aid in this country the very urgent need faced by millions of the poor for legal assistance," Marlin declared. He described two projects in which the NCSC is trying to expand legal services for poor, elderly Mexican-Americans in gj the San Antonio, Texas, and Albuquerque, N.M. areas. Afraid to Apply In the San Antonio area, Marlin said, about 5,000 MexicanAmericans receive old age assistance but many more receive none because they entered the United States illegally and are afraid to apply to the government for help. Estimating that there are more than 60,000 Mexican-American farm workers 65 and over who are "poverty stricken" in the Southwest, he added, "No group stands in greater need of legal aid than the Spanish-speaking Americans." Marlin also described legal research and legal aid demonstra­ tion projects being carried out by NCSC throughout the United States. They include a counseling program in Boston, legal aid in the area of housing at Venice and Culver City, Calif., and legal research projects being conducted in cooperation with law schools at Columbia and Duke universities. But his conclusion was that all of the NCSC plans and other legal aid now being provided for the poor falls far short of the actual need. Fla. Fun Center to Rise Non-Stop In Building Trudes-Disney Compmt BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—A labor-management agreement assurmg orderly and uninterrupted construction" at the largest private project ever put together in the United States was signed here by 18 building and construction f trade unions and Walt Disney 43-sq'jare mile site 15 miles south­ Productions and its contractors. west of Orlando, Fla. The agreement came during a The project agreement covers meeting of the BCTD executive Walt Disney World, a Florida vacation-recreation complex ex­ council here which discussed a pected to open in 1971 that will number of problems in the con­ be five times larger than Califor­ struction industry and the trade union movement. nia's famed Disneyland. The agreement was signed by C. J. Haggerty, president of the Building and Construction Trades Department, the presidents of the 18 unions making up the depart­ ment, and Harry Hall, president of Allen Contracting Co., Disney's general contractor. The joint statement issued at the signing termed the working BALTIMORE—Jurisdiction of arrangements "fair, strong and anchorages in the Port of Balti­ satisfying the needs of the em­ more, formerly the responsibility ployees, the unions, the contrac­ of the Maryland Port Authority, tors and Walt Disney World." has been assumed by the United The agreement, the statement States Coast Guard, effective from added, "makes possible the or­ January 11, it was announced last derly and uninterrupted construc­ month. tion" of the project and puts into The Port's anchorages include practice "effective and binding those for deep and shallow draft methods for the settlement of all vessels, a quarantine anchorage misunderstandings and disputes." and one for small craft of under lOO-feet—nine anchorages in all, Negotiated 12 Months including one reserved for dead Bonar Dyer, vice president for ships, awaiting scrapping or re­ industrial relations for Disney, pair. Anchorage areas are used by praised the "spirit of co-operation and good faith" of the unions dur­ ships awaiting berths or cargoes. Administration of the anchor­ ing the nearly 12 months of nego­ tiations on the agreement. ages, including requirements for The first phase of the project permits is now under the Captain will include an amusement park, of the Port, U.S. Coast Guard. several resort hotels, a large recre­ Some of the physical limits of the ation complex and a transportation areas have been altered. A new system. Later phases will feature chart, showing the changes, is ex­ a jet airport, industrial parks and pected to be available later this a prototype 'community of tomor­ month from the U.S. Coast and row." The project is located on a Geodetic Survey. CG To Oversee Nine Anchorages In Baltimore �mamBsmmsi March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine Income Tax Guide April 15, 1969, is the deadline for filing Federal income tax re­ turns. As is customary at this time of the year, the SIU Accounting Department has prepared the fol­ lowing detailed tax guide to assist SIU men in fiiing their returns on income earned in 1968. Generally, with very few excep­ tions, seamen are treated no dif­ ferently under the income tax laws than any other citizen or resident of the U. S. (The non-resident alien seamen must also file a re­ turn, but the rules are not the same for him.) WHO MUST FILE. Every Sea­ farer who is a citizen or resident of the United States—whether an adult or minor—who had $600 or more income in 1968 must file; i 65 or over, $1,200 or more. A Seafarer with income of less than these amounts should file a return to get a refund if tax was withheld. A married Seafarer with income less than his own persona exemption should file a joint re­ turn with his wife to get the smaller tax or larger refund for the couple. WHEN TO FILE. Tax returns have to be filed by April 15, 1969. However, the April 15 deadline is waived in cases where a seaman is at sea. In such ins'tances, the sea­ man must file his return at the first opportunity, along with an affi­ davit stating the reason for delay. HOW TO FILE. The Seafarer has two return forms to choose from. Form 1040 and card form. Form 1040A. Form 1040 is lim­ ited to a single sheet. Supporting schedules may be attached accord­ ing to the individual needs of each taxpayer. Generally, if your income was entirely from salary, wages, inter­ est, dividends, and sources other than those for which schedules (B, C, D, and F) are required, you will need only Form 1040. You can use it whether you take the standard deduction or itemize de­ ductions. If you have income from sources listed below, complete and attach one or more of the follow­ ing forms: Schedule B for income from pensions, annuities, rents, royalties, partnerships, es­ tates, trusts, etc.; Schedule C for income from a personally owned business; Schedule D for income from the sale or exchange of prop­ erty: and Schedule F for income from farming. WAGE EARNERS WITH LESS THAN $10,000 INCOME. You can use a simpler return (Form 1040A), printed on a punch card, if: 1. Your income was less than $10,000, AND 2. It consisted of wages re ported on withholding statements (Forms W-2) and not more than $200 total of other wages, inter­ est, and dividends, AND 3. Instead of itemizing deduc­ tions, you wish to use the tax table or to take the standard deduction which is generally the higher of: (a) the 10 percent standard deduction—about 10 per­ cent of your income, or (b) the minimum standard de­ duction—an amount equa to $200 ($100 if marriec and filing separate return) plus $100 for each exemp­ tion claimed on item 15 on the back of your Form 1040A. If your income is less than $5,000, you can choose to have the Internal Revenue Service figure your tax for you. A husband and wife may file a joint return Form 1040A if their combined incomes do not exceed these limits. DON'T USE FORM 1040A IF— (1) You wish to take any de­ ductions for specific items, such as unreimbursed employee ex­ penses. (2) You wish to claim a re­ tirement income credit. (3) You wish to compute your tax under the head-of-household rates of to claim "surviving spouse" benefits. (4) You wish to claim any ex­ clusion for wages or salary you received for a period while you were sick and this amount is shown on your Form W-2. (5) You wish to claim credit for payments of estimated tax for the taxable year or for an over­ payment from 1967. (6) Your wife (or husband) is filing a separate return on Form 1040 and itemizes her (or his) deductions. (7) You have a nonresident alien status. TAX SURCHARGE. The tax surcharge is in addition to the regular income tax and is 10 percent figured on an annual basis for the period April 1, 1968 through June 30, 1969. Since the surcharge was effective for only nine months of 1968, the rate for the calendar year 1968 is 7.5 percent. If the regular tax is less than $734, the tax surcharge is to be found in accordance with the tax surcharge tables in the tax in­ struction booklet. If the regular tax is $734 or more, the tax sur­ charge is 7.5 percent of this amount. HOW TO PAY The balance of tax shown to be due on your return must be paid in full with your return if it amounts to $1 or more. Make checks or money order, payable to "Internal Revenue Service." ROUNDING OFF TO WHOLE DOLLARS The money items on your re­ turn and schedules may be shown in whole dollars. This means that you eliminate any amount less than 50 cents, and increase any amount from 50 cents through 99 cents to the next higher dollar. ADVANTAGES OF A JOINT RETURN. Generally it is advan­ tageous for a married couple to file a joint return. There are bene­ fits in figuring the tax on a joint return which often result in a lower tax than would result from separate returns. In cases where a man's wife tirement income such as rents, lives in a foreign country, he can dividends and earnings at odd still claim the $600 exemption jobs. However, an adjustment for her. must be made in this credit for In addition, a taxpayer can Social Security benefits. HOW TO REPORT YOUR claim $600 for each child, parent, grandparent, brother, brother-in- INCOME. All income in what­ law, sister, sister-in-law, and each ever form received which is not uncle, aunt, nephew or niece de­ specifically exempt must be in­ pendent on him, if he provides cluded in your income tax return, more than one-half of their sup­ even though it may be offset by port during the calendar year. The deductions. Examples are given dependent must have less than below: $600 income and live in the U. S., Example of Income Which Must Be Reported: Wages, salaries, Canada, Mexico, Panama or the bonuses, commissions, fees, Canal Zone. tips, and gratuities. A child under 19, or a student over 19 can earn over $600 and Dividends. CHANGES IN MARITAL still count as a dependent if the Interest on bank deposits, bonds, STATUS. If you are married at taxpayer provides more than onenotes. the end of 1968, you are consid­ half of his support. Interest on U. S. Savings bonds. ered married for the entire year. The law also enables a seaman Profits from business or profes­ If you are divorced or legally sep­ who is contributing (with other sion. arated on or before the end of relatives) more than ten percent Your share of partnership profits. 1968, you are considered single of the support of a dependent to Profits from sales or exchanges for the entire year. If your wife or claim an exemption for that in­ of real estate, securities, or husband died during 1968, you dividual, provided the other con­ other property. are considered married for the en­ tributors file a declaration that Industrial, civil service and other tire year. Generally in such a they will not claim the dependent pensions, annuities, endow­ case, a joint return may be filed that year. ments. CREDIT FOR EXCESS SO­ Rents and royalties from property, for the year. You may also be patents, copyrights. entitled to the benefits of a joint CIAL SECURITY (FICA) TAX return for the two years follow­ PAID. If a total of more than Your share of estate or trust in­ ing the death of your husband or $343.20 of Social Security (FICA) come. tax was withheld from the wages Employer supplemental unem­ wife. EXEMPTIONS. Each taxpayer of either you or your wife be­ ployment benefits. is entitled to a personal exemp­ cause one or both of you worked Alimony, separate maintenance or tion of $600 for himself, $600 for for more than one employer, support payments received from his wife, an additional $600 if you may claim the excess over (and deductible by) your hus­ he is over 65 and another $600 $343.20 as a credit against your band (or wife). if he is blind. The exemptions for income tax. Prizes and awards (such as items TAX CREDIT FOR RETIRE­ age and blindness apply also to a received from radio and TV taxpayer's wife, and can also be MENT INCOME. A tax credit is shows, contests, raffles, etc.) claimed by both of them. allowed for individuals against re- Examples of Income Which Should Not Be Reported: Disability retirement payments and other benefits paid by the Veterans Administration. A major tax beef by seamen is that normally taxes are not Dividends on veterans' insurance. Life insurance proceeds upon withheld on earnings in the year they earned Ae money, but death. in the year the payoff took place. Workmen's compensation, insur­ For example, a seaman who signed on for a five month ance, damages, etc., for injury trip in September, 1967, paying off in January, 1968, would or sickness. have all the five months' earnings appear on his 1968 W-2 Interest on State and municipal slip and all the taxes withheld in 1967. This practice could bonds. increase his taxes in 1968 even though his actual 1968 earn­ Federal Social Security benefits. ings might be less than those in 1967. Railroad Retirement Act benefits. Gifts, inheritance, bequests. There are ways to minimize the impact of this .situation. For example, while on the ship in 1967, the Seafarer un­ doubtedly took draws and may have sent allotments home. These can be reported as 1967 income. Unfortunately, this raises another complication. The sea­ man who reports.these earnings in 1967 will not have a W-2 (witholding statement) covering them. He will have to list all allotments, draws and slops on the tax return and explain why he doesn't have a W-2 for them. Furthermore, since no tax will have been withheld on these earnings in 1967, he DIVIDEND INCOME. If a will have to pay the full tax on them with his return, at 14 seaman has dividend income from percent or upwards, depending on his tax bracket. stocks he can exclude the first The earnings will show up on his 1968 W-2. The seaman $100 from his gross income. then, on his 1968 return would have to explain that he had If a joint return Is filed and reported some of the earnings in 1967 and paid taxes on them. both husband wife have dividend He would get a tax refund accordingly. income, each one may exclude In essence, the seaman would pay taxes twice on the same $100 of dividends from their income and get a refund a year later. While this will save gross income. the seaman some tax money in the long run, it means he WELFARE, PENSION AND VACATION BENEFIiS. Bene­ is out-of-pocket on some of his earnings for a full year until fits received from the SIU Wel­ he gets refunded. fare Plan do not have to be re­ This procedure would also undoubtedly cause Internal ported as income. Revenue to examine his returns, since the incmne reported Payments received from the would not jibe with the totals on his W-2 forms. SIU Pension Plan are includible That raises the question, is this procedure justified? It is as income on the tax return of justified only If a seaman hijid very little income In one year those pensioners who retire with and very considerable income the next Otherwise the tax a normal pension. There is a spe­ saving is minor and probably not worth the headache. cial retirement income tax credit (Continued on Page 10) LONG-TRIP TAX PROBtmS �Page Ten Mills Reap DOD Contracts Despite Evidence of Bias \ ft If"|: I '• WASHINGTON—The Defense Department has decided not to cancel multi-million dollar contracts with three big southern textile firms despite findings by a government agency that the companies had discriminated against Negroes and refused to take "affirmative action" to remedy the discrimination. South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, the former Dixiecrat turned Republican, had strongly protested the proposed cancellations in a telegram to President Nixon. Thurmond was a key supporter of Nixon at the GOP national convention and during the presidential campaign. One of the firms involved was J. P. Stevens and Company, notorious for its union-busting policy involving wholesale firings of union supporters and repeated violations of federal labor law. Also involved were South Carolina plants operated by Burling­ ton Industries and Dan River Mills. The Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Com­ pliance, which is charged with enforcing the executive order barring companies which discriminate from receiving govern­ ment contracts, had found the textile firms in violation of the federal policy. Accepted 'Personal Assurances' Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard, however, said he has reviewed the case and obtained "personal assurances" from the heads of the companies that they would take steps to provide equal opportunity for Negro workers. The Labor Department contract compliance office said it wasn't consulted about Packard's decision and would like to know just how specific the "assurances" were and what they covered. The agency's acting director. Ward McCreedy, said: "Those must have been rather spectacular agreements for them to award the contracts based on what I know of the case." He said he will ask the Defense Department for "a full report." In a related area. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz has before him a report from the contract compliance office that the AllenBradley Company, a Milwaukee electronics manufacturer, has refused to take steps to remedy discriminatory employment policies. The decision on whether to disqualify the firm from govern­ ment contracts was left by former Labor Secretary Wirtz to his successor. Income Tax Guide (Continued from Page 9) ment and applied against your income tax. to be calculated on Schedule B INCOME AVERAGING. A which is to be attached to the Seafarer who has an unusually return. Pensioners undet 65 who re­ large amount of taxable income ceive a disability pension do not for 1968 may be able to reduce the total amount of his tax by have to include such payments on their tax returns. However, all using the income averaging meth­ disability pension payments re­ od. This method permits a part ceived after age 65 are taxable of the unusually large amount of in the same manner as a normal taxable income to be taxed in lower brackets, resulting in a re­ pension. Vacation pay received from the duction of the over-all amount of Seafarers Vacation Plan is taxable tax due. income in the same manner as wages. DEATH BENEFIT EXCLU­ SION. If you receive pension pay­ ments as a beneficiary of a de­ ceased employee, and the em­ ployee had received no retirement pension payment, you may be en­ titled to a death benefit exclusion of up to $5,000. GAMBLING GAINS. All net gains from gambling must be re­ ported as income. However, if The following Items can be more was lost than gained during used as deductions against Income the year, the losses are not de­ (IF YOU DO NOT TAKE THE ductible, but simply cancel out STANDARD DEDUCTIONS): CONTRIBUTIONS. A tax­ the gains. INVESTMENT CREDIT. payer can deduct up to 20 per­ Form 3468 is to be used by a cent of gross income for contribu­ Seafarer claiming the investment tions to charitable institutions, and credit. The credit is allowed for an additional ten percent in con­ investment in tangible depreciable tributions to churches, hospitals personal property used in busi­ and educational institutions. INTEREST. Interest paid to ness. The credit is an amount c ;ual to 7 percent of such invest­ banks and individuals on loans. SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG iruery Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals X'tm to February lit DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B 1 4 31 49 9 11 • 20 13 13 11 17 3 6 6 20 21 67 49 27 14 26 11 75 33 26 15 283 295 Class A Class B Class C 3 0 1 89 68 14 4 3 5 16 11 4 13 10 2 7 14 20 3 0 3 0 8 4 10 0 12 3 9 4 24 14 19 63 18 32 10 6 14 79 229 232 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 9 4 237 117 37 12 146 55 35 17 42 33 36 37 115 54 102 131 139 151 51 13 13 78 51 8 616 1107 E^IGIINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 0 2 2 0 3 New York 74 74 14 21 57 Philadelphia 9 1 5 1 14 Baltimore ....... 6 13 4 20 24 Norfolk 6 6 3 12 13 Jacksonville 19 10 13 3 15 Tampa 0 9 1 2 5 Mobile 9 1 17 20 5 New Orleans 9 54 47 3 2 Houston 18 3 4 15 4 Wilmington 19 17 12 24 5 San Francisco ... 42 38 41 35 54 Seattle 13 24 11 7 15 103 Totals 202 227 317 180 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 4 5 129 172 6 17 59 105 36 20 25 25 37 19 79 63 163 158 140 108 26 11 13 61 14 30 685 840 . STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Port Class A Class B Class C 0 1 2 Boston 2 0 66 18 32 New York 17 11 0 4 1 Philadelphia 6 2 7 7 Baltimore 5 18 11 8 4 Norfolk 4 11 11 Jacksonville 9 13 13 8 5 Tampa 0 2 0 0 3 Mobile 9 5 2 13 18 New Orleans 13 0 12 38 45 Houston 9 3 1 15 15 8 Wilmington 11 11 9 21 29 37 25 San Francisco ... 30 48 3 5 5 9 \ V 15 Seattle 144 130 105 194 187 Totals REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 5 1 89 174 13 11 109 42 19 30 8 25 18 25 33 105 84 186 62 131 26 11 54 18 39 11 911 418 ductible is $150.00. The other mortgages, etc., is deductible. TAXES. In general, you can one-half, plus any excess over the deduct: personal property taxes, $150.00 limit is deductible subject real estate taxes, state or local re­ to the normal three percent rule. The one and three percent lim­ tail sales taxes, state gasoline taxes and state income. taxes actually itations apply in all cases, regard­ paid within the year. You cannot less of your age, or the age of deduct: Federal excise taxes. Fed­ your wife or other dependents. eral Social Security taxes, hunting and dog licenses, auto inspection fees, tags, drivers licenses, alco­ holic beverages, cigarette and to­ bacco taxes, water taxes and taxes paid by you for another person. MEDICAL AND DENTAL EXPENSES. All expenses over three percent of adjusted gross income for doctor and dental bills, hospital bills, medical and CARE OF CHILDREN AND hospital insurance, nurse care OTHER DEPENDENTS. If de­ and similar costs can be deducted. ductions are itemized, a woman Other such costs include such or a widower, including men who items as eyeglasses, ambulance are divorced or legally separated service, transportation to doctors' under a decree and who have not offices, rental of wheelchairs and remarried or a husband whose similar equipment, hearing aids, wife is incapacitated or is institu­ artificial limbs and corrective de­ tionalized for at least 90 consecu­ vices. tive days or a shorter period if However, if the Seafarer is re­ she dies, may deduct expenses imbursed by the Seafarers Welfare paid, not to exceed a total of Plan for any of these costs, such $600, for one dependent, or not as family, hospital and surgical to exceed a total of $900 for two expenses, he cannot deduct the or more dependents for the care whole bill, only that part in excess of: of the benefits paid by the Plan. (a) dependent children under All expenses over one percent 13 years of age or of adjusted gross income for (b) dependent persons (exclud­ drugs and medicine can be de­ ing husband or wife) physi­ ducted. The deductible portion is cally or mentally incapable then combined, with other medi­ of caring for themselves; cal and dental expenses which are if such care is to enable the tax­ subject to the normal three per­ payer to be gainfully employed or cent rule. to actively seek gainful employ­ In figuring your deduction, you ment. can deduct an amount equal to ALIMONY. Periodic payment one-half of the insurance premi­ of alimony to a wife in accord ums paid for medical care for with a written agreement between yourself, your wife, and depend­ them can be deducted. ents. The maximum amount de­ CASUALTY LOSSES. The reasonable value of all clothing and gear lost at sea due to storm, vessel damage, etc., for which the taxpayer Is not otherwise compen­ sated, can be deducted as an expense. The same applies to fire loss or losses in auto accidents which are not compensated by in­ surance. These losses are limited to the amount in excess of $100 for each loss. WORK CLOTHES, TOOLS. The cost and cleaning of uniforms and work clothes which ordinarily cannot be used as dress wear can be deducted. This includes pro­ tective work shoes, gloves, caps, foul weather gear, clothing ruined by grease or paint, plus tools bought for use on the job, or books and periodicals used in di­ rect connection with work. UNION DUES. Dues and ini­ tiation fees paid to labor organi­ zations and most union assess­ ments can be deducted. PURCHASE OF U.S. SAV­ INGS BONDS. If you are entitled to a refund, you may apply it to the purchase of Series E. U.S. Savings Bonds. If you check the appropriate box you will be is­ sued as many bonds as your re­ fund will buy in multiples of $18.75 for each $25 face value bond. DECLARATION OF ESTIMATED TAX. The purpose of this declaration is to provide fjr current payment of taxes not col­ lected through withholding, where a taxpayer may have a consider­ able amount of outside income. In such cases, a Seafarer should check the instruction on his tax return carefully, as the "Declara­ tion of Estimated Tax" also must be filed on or before April 15, 1969. - p i -I • :i �March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS Looking the Other Way Page Eleven LOG Govt. Trustees Report Proves; Increased Social Security Benefits Would Not Increase Payroll Taxes Young Seafarer William Pentz, who sailj in engine department, stopped by for blood test in the clinic at New Orleans hall. Conducting test is technician Ann Will. Pentz hails from Iowa. War Fails to Stop Union Organizing Among Fishermen of South Vietnam SAIGON—When the Viet Cong pose as fishermen in the Gulf of Siam to spy for the Communists, Do Minh Toan, a South Viet­ namese fisherman who heads his union's local, fegularly reports their activities to his country's ion's recovery from its mid-1965 military officials. slump to a program it undertook Toan refuses to be intimi­ for the U.S. Agency for Interna­ dated by the Communists and tional Development later that year. he makes no bones about it, At a time when the Viet Cong even though he, his wife and their had cut a number of rail lines and three children face the threat of highways, the union's members Viet Cong reprisals. made an agreement with AID to Toan sees nothing particularly use their fishing junks to haul heroic in his attitude. He says, rice, medicines and diesel oil into "All Fishermen's union officials •South Vietnam ports. do the same thing throughout the Bottleneck Broken country." In the obstacles it faces and the The successful operation broke hardships and dangers its mem­ the Viet Cong bottleneck and bers encounter daily, the Fisher­ helped increase membership in the men's union is typical of most union. But there was a side bene­ labor organizations in South Viet­ fit that helped to bring new dignity nam. to the lives of the Fishermen. Yet the union has grown to be­ Under terms of the agreement come the second largest in the with AID, the union took 10 per­ country despite Communist oppo­ cent of gross income earned in sition, the job-destroying warfare carrying the cargoes and started that has engulfed the land, and a union welfare fund. This pro­ vestiges of feudal-era distrust vided the seed capital for a na­ among the people. tional Fishermen's credit union. The Fishermen, with 65,000 Until that point, fishermen of members, is affiliated with the the country traditionally had been Vietnamese Confederation of La­ lifetime debtors. A credit union bor (CVT), which is incontestably to them was the means of freeing anti-Communist and the best or­ themselves and their families from ganized group for progress in the the village money-lender who had nation. long dominated their economic, social and even political lives. Has Suffered Losses The union conducts training Despite the bravery of Toan programs in all parts of South and thousands of his fellow mem­ Vietnam for its members, officials bers, the union has suffered losses and organizers. One of the most in membership that coincide with successful seminars was recently Viet Cong successes and South held in Rach Gia, where Toan Vietnam instability. heads the local. Organized in 1963, it grew rap­ Attending the 25-days of train­ idly to 40,000 members in one ing sessions <vere many women year but plummeted to 10,000 by members of the union who work mid-1965 during the period of aboard the fishing boats along stepped-up military attacks by the with their men. Viet Cong and a chaotic political Plans are also underway for the situation. Fishermen's union to operate its The union suffered another drop own factory for the processing of in mid-1968 following the Conii- "nuoc mam," a popular fish munist attacks and terrorism that sauce, in Phan Thiet where it has broke the Tet (New Year's) truce, its beadauar*ers. but membership has once more The union's oroanizing and bar­ begun to climb. gaining efforts have greatly im­ As with all unions in South proved fishermen's wa<»es and ben­ Vietnam, there has been a direct efits and have enabled it to oper­ correlation between membership ate three social welfare centers. and security conditions. When Thus, despite the warfare rag­ warfare or Communist oppression ing around them, South Vetnam's eliminates jobs, membership drops. fishermen see a future of hope The Fishermen credit the un- I through their union. WASHINGTON—recent report by the trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds shows the funds to be in sound, healthy condition and "clearly proves" that social security benefits can be in­ creased without any boost in payroll taxes, AFL-CIO Social Security Director Bert Seidman has pointed out. In the report on the cash bene­ increased proportionately with in­ The report singled out by fits trust funds, the trustees cited creases in the general earnings Seidmah covers the two trust two factors accounting for the in­ level, there will be an actuarial funds from which cash benefits crease in the actuarial balance: balance in the fund—about 0.07 are paid—one for old-age and sur­ One, 1968 earnings levels were percent of taxable payroll. vivors insurance and one for dis­ higher than the 1966 levels which Total income to the hospital ability insurance. insurance trust fund in fiscal 1968 were used as a base for estimating The trustees stated that new contributions in determining the was reported at $3.9 billion, about cost estimates show a favorable previous estimated balance. $100 million in excess of outgo. actuarial balance of 0.53 percent Two, use of an assumed 4.25 The fund's total assets were $1.4 of taxable payroll compared with percent interest rate on trust fund billion, an increase of $87 million a previous estimated actuarial bal­ investments instead of a 3.75 per­ over fiscal 1967. ance of 0.01 percent. cent interest rate on which previ­ Steady Increases Expected "This new balance," Seidman ous estimates have been based. Estimates for the fiscal threesaid, "means that Congress could The trustees said that combined year period of 1969-71 looked to grant 5 to 6 percent of a badly- income into the old-age and sur­ needed increase in benefits without vivors and disability trust funds in steady increases in both income any increase in the social security fiscal 1968 exceeded outgo by $2.6 and disbursements. Income to the supplementary tax, shared equally by employer billion. Assets of the two funds medical insurance trust fund in and employee." totalled $28.1 billion at the end of fiscal 1968 was $1.4 billion, while The trustees also submitted to the fiscal year. outgo was $1.5 billion, the trustees Congress reports for fiscal 1968 In the five years ahead, the reported. But this high outgo, it covering Medicare hospital insur­ trustees forsaw income to the ance and supplementary medical funds exceeding expenditures by was pointed out, was due to a big backlog of claims for services ren­ insurance (doctors bills) under so­ about $45 billion. dered in the early period of the cial security. Based on the present tax sched­ program's operation. Trustees for the funds in the ule and taxable earnings level, While total assets of the fund fiscal year were Social Security they predicted that the funds will decreased from $486 million to Commissioner Robert M. Ball and have sufficient income from con­ $307 million between June 30, three members of the Johnson tributions to meet the cost.of bene­ 1967, and June 30, 1968, the re­ Cabinet: Treasury Secretary Jo­ fits and administrative expenses port noted that assets were back seph W. Barr, Labor Secretary "for the next 15 to 20 years and up to an estimated $446 million Willard Wirtz and Health, Educa­ for the distant future." by December 31, 1968, as the tion & Welfare Secretary Wilbur In the report on the hospital in­ result of an increased premium J. Cohen. surance trust fund, the trustees rate and payment of some govern­ said there would be an unfavor­ ment contributions for past years. able actuarial balance—0.29 per­ The trustees indicated that the cent of taxable payroll—based on financial future of the supplemen­ an assumption that the present tary medical insurance program taxable earnings base, $7,800 a depends upon rates of utilization year, remains unchanged. of doctors services and costs, par­ , However, the trustees empha­ ticularly how much doctors' fees sized that if the earnings base is continue to increase in the future. MARAD Insures Loan of Funds For Two Junkers WASHINGTON —The Mari­ time Administration has approved ship construction loan and mort­ gage guarantees for two 61,000deadweight ton American-flag tankers. Both will be built at the Beth­ lehem Sparrows Point Shipyard in Maryland for the SlU-contracted Maritime Overseas Corportation. One is scheduled for an August, 1970, delivery and the other is to be delivered in November of the same year. According to MARAD, the guarantees amounted to about $12 million for construction and $14 million for mortgages for each of the two vessels. The ships, capable of 16 knots, will be 733 feet long and will be placed in the worldwide and domestic trade. There will be a $14 million public bond issue for each vessel. This brings to 14 the number of tankers for which MARAD has approved federal ship mort­ gage insurance in the past two years. The latest loans were made possible by the passage, in June, 1968, of a bill which removed the six percent interest ceiling on loans and mortgages insured un­ der Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. The Secre­ tary of Commerce, under the amendment, was given the au­ thority to approve such higher interest rates as he determines to be reasonable, taking into consid­ eration the rates of interest pre­ vailing in the private market for similar loans. Lack of Signed Contract Bars Widow from Pension NEW YORK—^A widow's claim for a pension was ruled illegal here recently because tbe contribution made by her hus­ band's employer was not covered by a written agreement as required under the Taft-Hartley Act. The decision came from the 2nd U. S. Circuit Court of Ap­ peals in a case involving Kathleen Moglia, the widow of John J. Moglia; his employer, Elmhurst Contracting Company, Inc., and the pension fund of Teamsters Local 282. The local's fund was set up in 1955 to cover various employers with collective bargaining agreements, with a clear provision that only union employees covered by contracts could participate in it, the court said. Despite this, according to the court, Elmhurst, a non-union employer, made payments into the fund on behalf of Moglia and other employees over a period of 11 years, without objections from the fund trustees. Pension Refused When Moglia retired in 1965, he filed an application for a pension with the fund, which the trustees refused, on advice of counsel, due to the lack of a bargaining agreement with the employer. In 1966, after he died, his widow was likewise refused a pen­ sion and she brought suit to compel the trustees to make pay­ ment of the pension. Mrs. Moglia's claim was denied by the U. S. Southern District Court of New York and the contributions made by Elmhurst on behalf of Moglia and others were returned to the employer. In upholding the lower court, the Appeals Court said the law's Section 302 clearly requires a written agreement specifying the basis of payments in order for an employer to contribute to a union fund. "As compelling and as appealing as the claimant's case was," the court concluded, "the structure of the law and intent of Congress preclude any inroads . . . into its specific requirements." �Page Twelve SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG taking A Breather On Oceanic Tide A problem of shifting sailing board time is the only beef reported so far aboard the Del Mar (Delta Line), according to Darrell G. Chafin, meeting secretary. The crew adopted a motion that the mate be responsible for changing the sailing board time instead of the deck hand on watch. They also called for an improved Orlando Hoppe, became ill and restricted to the ship while in Wu launch service schedule on future had to be hospitalized in Saigon. Chi Chang, Taiwan, because the voyages to Santos, Brazil. The The entire crew gave a vote of company failed to send a clear­ well-attended meeting—31 mem­ thanks to the steward's depart­ ance request to the Taiwan gov­ bers took part— also heard ship's ment for a well-prepared holiday ernment. Finally, a letter from delegate Juan menu and generally fine menus. headquarters was read by Meet­ Cruz report that ing Secretary George O'Berry con­ the captain was cerning action taken by the Un­ well-satisfied with ion on the mail situation. the crew on this Jimmy Nayior, meeting secre­ voyage. Ship's tary aboard the Cuban Victory movie director, (Alcoa), got a Mail service to the Robin James Tucker, special treat while Sberwood (Moore-McCormack) got a unanimous his ship was has been poor vote of thanks berthed in Da Chafin throughout the from the crew af­ Nang. His son, entire voyage, re­ ter he reported there was $185.60 who is stationed ports William Mcin the movie fund. Seven arrival there with the Connell, meeting pools accounted for $85 of the U.S. Army, vis­ chairman and fund. A discussion was also held ited his dad on ship's delegate. on the retirement plan. Brother board the ship He also said that Crowley Cruz relayed a message from the and they spent the ship's library captain to the Seafarers that the several memorable days together. is in need of some ship was scheduled to go to the The crew made up a nice collec­ McConnell new books. Meetshipyard in New Orleans after the tion for him, reports M. Darcy, voyage and then lay-up. A vote meeting chairman. Joe Crowley, ing secretary Harry Schultz re­ of thanks was given to the entire ship's delegate, reported that there ported to the members attending steward department "for a fine were no beefs on the trip, and the meeting that he had been in­ Christmas dinner, and for good that the captain was very co-oper­ formed by Seafarers who were food throughout the entire voy­ ative about draws \and in gener­ aboard on the last trip that a number of repairs that were or­ age." ally looking out for the crew's dered were not taken care of while welfare. A unanimous vote of the vessel was in the shipyard in thanks was given to the steward Meeting Chairman Oreste Vola department "for a job well done." December. He said that these in­ cluded spare parts and fans, re­ reported that the captain of the pair of sanitary lines^ overhaul of Steel Scientist the meat box to maintain proper (Isthmian Lines) has agreed that Jen7 Gorman, ship's delegate temperature, adequate galley vents draws will be put on the Monticcllo Victory (Mon- and replacement ofixJeck plates in out if there ii no ticello Tanker the engine room.:! The drew also pay-off within 24 Co.), reported noted that the- ship l was not hours. The ship's that the captain equipoed with kick-out panels, and delegate, Eugene has agreed to pay vot-'d to make a full report to the Hayden, said that off any crew boardinq oatrolman when the ship there were no member under ties up in Savannah this month. Vola beefs or disputed mutual consent, overtime, and reported that a sug­ providing the crew member gestion was made by Seafarer Di I upays the transporWilliam Harrell that crewmemBlakenship tation of the relief bers bring up any beefs they have at pay-off after the crew has set­ man to join the ship there. How­ tled other business with the patrol­ ever, there was general discussion Joseph Moore, born December man. Meeting Secretary F. S. regarding such mutual consent 23, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. payoffs, reliefs and transportation, Omega reported that one Seafarer, and it was agreed that the ship's Joseph W. Moore, Roseland, La. . delegate would call SIU headquar­ ters for clarification on these mat­ Dana Theriot, born October 4, ters. Meeting chairman William 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Blakenship brought out that oc­ Murphy J. Theriot, Breaux casionally, when payoffs were Bridge, La. made outside the continental lim­ its of the U.S., crew members have Edward Stoudemire, born No­ been forced to accept second-class vember 27, 1968, to Seafarer and transportation to the States instead Mrs. Dallas E. Stoudemire, Wil­ of first-class jet fare. The crew mington, N.C. also discussed the matter of being 5; <I> iI vl> Marjorie Traux, born Decem­ ber 4, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William G. Traux, Toledo, Ohio. SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS January 1-January 31, 1969 J f Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . .. Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) . . Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . (Average: $571.99) Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) SUMMARY (Welfare) Vacation Benefits (Average: $424.80) Total Welfare, Vacation Benefits Paid This Period . . . Number of Amount Benefits Paid 2,446 26 974 4 1,458 211 4,563 9,682 1,703 11,385 $ 27,018.12 73,264.95 222,525.00 600.00 83,395.64 2,029.80 36,194.00 445,027.51 723,434.24 $1,168,461.75 James Degeberg, born Novem­ ber 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James W. Degeberg, Duluth, Minn. <1> Kathleen Ferguson, born No­ vember 4, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arnold J. Ferguson, Hub­ bard Lake, Alpena, Michigan. Toni Costango, born February 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank Costango, Eatontown, N.J. Scott Eshelman, born Decem­ ber 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vernon D. Eshelman, Duluth, Minn. Seafarers on the Oceanic Tide take a breather during their recent trip to Okinawa. From the left are: Edward Troughton, Jim Hart, Ron Carraway, all ABs, and second electrician Richard Monterusso. ffrst Trip Aboard Tucson Victory Seafarer Martina's Fulfilled Dream Ever since he can remember, Seafarer Anthony Martina has had a strong yearning for the sea. Bom in New Orleans, he used to watch the ships moving down the Mississippi and in the harbor as they headed out to sea for ^ far away ports of call and he the necessary qualifications, was dreamed that one day he would given a ticket to join the crew of the Tucson Victory which was be aboard one of those vessels. After leaving high school last loading at San Francisco for a Far June, Tony got a East run. He signed on the ship job at a looal in November as ordinary seaman. amusement park. The Tucson Victory left San Fran­ bound for Seattle to pick But he was rest­ cisco up additional cargo, and then less, And then headed tor Subic Bay. when his two The first two weeks out of Seat­ closest friends shipped out he tle were not quite what Tony had decided that it expected. "We had heavy weather was time for him for those two ,weeks, and I wa? Martina to realize his seasick the whole time," he re­ calls. dream. He went to the SIU Dall in He soon got over his sicj^ness New Orleans and, after meeting however, and the rest of the trip was a good one. "We had an ex­ cellent crew, and the food was good, especially Christmas and New Year's dinners," he said. "I worked hard, but I was doing what I wanted to do and in some Angela D'Amico, born January ways the trip seemed almost like 7, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs"! a vacation. It was my first time Charles D'Amico, Jr., .Houston, away from home, on my own, Texas. and I learned a lot. It was very interesting to visit those far away Stacy Lynn Ainsworth, born places that I had only read about January 15, 1969, to Seafarer and before." In Honolulu, he walked the Mrs. Woody L. Ainsworth, Gal­ veston, Texas. sands of Waikiki Beach, and spent an afternoon with the ship's stew­ ard, William Alvaro, at the home Trazell Johnson, born October of the steward's sister. He also 6, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. had time for sightseeing at Da Ralph E. Johnson, New Orleans, Nang. Subic Bay and Panama. La. After his ship paid off in Brook­ lyn, Tony said he planned on a Carmen and Carmella Morrow, few days sightseeing in New York born January 15, 1969, to Sea­ before heading home, where he farer and Mrs. John A. Morrow, lives with his mother, Mrs. AurNorfolk, Va. dean Boulden. After a couple of Weeks at home, Tony says he plans to go Bonnie Vieira, born January back to the SIU's Harry Lunde8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. berg School of Seamanship in New Edwin Vieira, Metairie, La. Orleans for further upgrading studies before shipping out again. <1> -i/ Guy Meyer, born December 16, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Bern­ ard C. Meyer, Addison, Illinois. Billy Joe Schultz, born October 7, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald J. Schultz, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. ATTEND, MEETIN6S �Maich 1, 1969 SEAFARERS FINAL DEPARTURES Francis R. Harvey, 55; Brother Harvey died at home September 5, 1968, after a brief illness. He was a native of New Orleans and continued to make his home there. Brother Harvey served as deckhand and ^ mate aboard tugs of the Inland Tug Co., and joined the SIU at the Port of New Or­ leans in 1964. Seafarer Harvey is survived by his wife. Aline, his mother, Catherine, and a brother. Merlin. Services were held at Mothe Funeral Homes, in New Orleans. Burial took place at McDonogh Cemetery in Gretna, Louisiana. Donald Forrest, 65: Heart dis­ ease claimed the life of veteran Seafarer Forrest at the USPHS Hospital in Se­ 'im attle on January J 17. Brother For' rest held all rat­ ings in the steward department. ^ His last ship was the Anchorage. Born in Mansfield, Ohio, he main­ tained his residence in Seattle unCONVECTICirr (Oriental Exporters). February 9—Chairman, Tom Ballard; Secretary, Joe Ballard. $87.60 in shin's fund. Few hours disputed OT in engine department. Beef regarding replacements to be taken up with patrolman. VANTAGE HORIZON (Vancor), Jan­ uary 26—Chairman, M. D. Green; Secre­ tary, O. Farrara. No beefs were reported by department delegates. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), February 1—Chairman, A. H. Reasko; Secretary, G. Connor. Some disputed dT in engine and steward departments. Ship needs new wafer foun­ tain on main deck and new washing ma­ chine for the crew's use. Boarding Pa­ trolman to check on same. YELLOWSTONE (Oriental Exporters), January 26—Chairman, J. W. Simmons; Secretary, Maximo Bugawan. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman at payoff. All crew members have heen re­ quested to leave their quarters clean for the next crew. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. ROBIN HOOD (Moore-McCormack), February 4—Chairman, L. Decker; Sec­ retary, Aussie Shrimpton. Brother Rob­ ert Bradus was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to Brother P. Flanagan, former ship's delegate, for a job well done. $124.00 in ship's fund to be spent to pur­ chase a TV set for the crew raesshall. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Discussion held on full retire­ ment plan. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), Septem­ ber 29—Chairman, M. P. Cox; Secretary, J. Sutherland. Brother Frank V. Fromm was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $123.66 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), January 81—Chairman, J. Sutherland; Secretary, M. P. Cox. $116.66 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. Beef concerning chief mate to be taken up with patrolman. Vote of thanks to Ihe ship's delegate for a job well done. til the time of his death. Brother Forrest joined the SIU in the Port of Seattle in 1948. Services were held at the Booth Ashmore Funeral Home, in Seattle. Brother Forrest is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elsie May Selby. LOG Page Thirteen Seafarer-Hero Wins Highest Award For Gailant Rescue of Four at Sea The highest honor for heroism that can be awarded to a merchant seaman was presented to Seafarer Charles S. Darter in San Francisco recently. Brother Darter received the Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medal for assisting in saving the lives of four men at great risk to hjmself. The heroic act took fplace aboard the tug E. Whit­ ney Olson, Jr. in 1966, The citation, which tells of Darter's heroic action, reads: "On November 15, 1966 the WilUam G. McMahon, 55: tugboat E. Whitney Olson, Jr. was Brother McMahon succumbed to standing by the Jalisco, 387-foot pneumonia at the USPHS Hospital non-propelled cement freight ves­ in Staten Island, sel, which had grounded during New York, on heavy weather on Cortes Bank, January 20 fol­ off the coast of California. The lowing a brief ill­ Jalisco, with 40 to 50-foot swells ness. A native of breaking over her structure, was Hoboken, New in dangerously shoal water and in Jersey, he main­ immediate danger of sinking with tained his home four men aboard. The Master there with his wife, Katherine. maneuvered his tug into the lee Brother McMahon sailed for 39 of the Jalisco's bow, and holding years with the Erie Lackawanna this position, yelled for the men R.R. as deckhand on the tug to jump onto his bow. One of the A hero is honored. Seafarer Charles I. Darter is presented the Mer­ Hornelle. He joined the Union at men jumped, slipped and fell into the Port of New York in 1963. the turbulent waters. Suddenly, chant Marine Meritorious Service Medal by Captain S. W. Galstan, Burial services were held at Holy huge seas swept the other three District Ship Operations Officer, MARAD, Pacific Coast District, left, and Thomas J. Patterson Jr., Assistant Director for Operations, Name Cemetery in Jersey City. men into the sea. MARAD, holding citation. Presentation was in San Francisco. "With complete disregard for Besides his widow. Seafarer Mc­ Mahon is survived by a daughter, his own safety. Darter hung pre­ cariously from the side, amidst Mrs. Virginia Lutz. heavy seas breaking over his ves­ most recent trip on an SIU vessel can be awarded only with the sel, and helped pull the four men was aboard the Cosmos Trader approval of the Secretary of Com­ safely aboard. The outstanding which took him to Camranh Bay merce. It may be awarded to any John C. Chatinski, 57: Great courage and determination dis­ in Vietnam. While there, the person serving in the United Chkes Seafarep Chatinski died played by Darter in successfully Cosmos Trader came under at­ States Merchant Marine for a meritorious act, conduct or serv­ suddenly Septem­ effecting the rescue of four hu­ tack by the Viet Cong. ber 2, 1968, at his man lives under extremely haz­ In an interview with a LOG ice in line of duty when that act ,, home in . Cleve- ardous contitions merit great reporter. Darter described the is one of "heroism, bravery, de­ land, Ohio. At praise, and are in keeping with the operation for which he received votion to duty involving extreme the time of his highest traditions of the United the Meritorious Service Medal in danger (actual or in mind)." death he was States Merchant Marine." his own words. The medal may also be pre­ serving as line­ The citation was signed by J. "The seas on Cortes Bank were sented under the following cir­ man aboard Dun­ W. Gulick, Acting Maritime Ad­ some of the roughest I have ever cumstances: to a master of a bar & Sullivan ministrator. seen," he recalled. "The rescue U.S. merchant ship when his ves­ tugs out of Cleve­ Following the presentation. operation took a full day because sel is granted the Gallant Ship land. A native of Cleveland, Brother Darter remarked: "I was the height of the swells made it Award; to a person who per­ Brother Chatinski joined the SIU only acting in the line of duty. nearly impossible to maneuver forms an act of life-saving while there in 1961. His wife, Marie, In a situation of this kind one the tug near the Jalisco. Clifford aboard ship at sea and not in a died in 1964. He is survived by does not stop to think about per­ Miller, the captain of the tug, did harbor, at the dock, or other­ a daughter, Helen, and a son, sonal danger." the most beautiful job of seaman­ wise idle. However, the act of John Jr. Brother Chatinski served No stranger to courage in pre­ ship I have ever seen. In all my heroism may be either at sea or nearly four years in the U.S. Air carious situations. Darter earned years at sea I have never seen in port if it involves an effort di­ Force during World War II, re­ a Silver Star for action at Okina­ such beautiful work." rected toward saving the ship or ceiving an honorable discharge wa while serving with the Navy Darter himself was in the water cargo. Also, any such act should in 1946. Burial was at Holy Cross during World War II. He has twice that day. "I was scared," be one not directly entitling the Cemetery, Cleveland. been sailing since 1938 and his he confided, "but no matter how individual to other medals—such scared we were, every man did as the Carnegie Medal, the Coast Guard Medal for life-saving, etc. his job." Presenting the medal and cita­ Darter's heroic act was ac­ tion were Thomas J. Patterson, knowledged as more than meeting Jr., Assistant Director for Opera­ in full the requirements of the tions of the Maritime Adminis­ award. The Seafarer makes his tration and Captain S. W. Gal­ home in Newport Beach, Califor­ stan, MARAD'S Pacific Coast nia, where he lives with his family, Charles E. Pippins Harold J. Bliss District Ship Operations Officer. including three sons between the Please contact your mother at Your wife is anxious to hear The Meritorious Service Medal ages of five and eight years. Route 2, Box 211, Pascagoula, from you as soon as possible. Mississippi, as soon as possible. Please contact her at 4213 Stickney St., Cleveland, Ohio 44109. <1> Fred MacMurray Contact your wife at 838 Bank Avenue, New Iberia, Louisiana, as soon as possible. Jerry L. Broaddus It is important that you con­ tact your mother as quickly as possible'. Write to Lock Springs, Missouri 64654. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Prtnf information) NAME Dexter Worrell Please get in touch with Warren R. Gammons in New Orleans as soon as possible. Richard D. Tapman Your wife, Margaret, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible at .2000 Ramblewood Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21214. James Alan Burch Please get in touch with your mother at 136 North Street, Jer­ sey City, New Jersey 07307, as soon as possible. Herbert A. Miles it is important that you contact your nephew, John Young, Jr., as soon as possible at 4166 No. War­ ren St., Fresno, California 93705. STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old lubocriber and have a change of addreat, pleaie give your fanner addreit below: ADDRESS OTY STATE ZIP. .i �Page Fonrteen SEAFARERS Growing Seafarers Pension Roster Adds Ten More Veteran Oidtimers The SIU Pension roster continues to grow as ten more Seafarers close out their long sailing careers. The latest list of SIU members who have become eligible to collect SIU pensions includes: John McCarthy, Hughes Townes, Harry Roslund, Julius Smythe, Albert Jensen. Matthew Eurisa, Vance Reid, Francisco Carabba-' and was also qualified as ship's Carabbacan sailed as 2nd cook, can, Charles Uribe and Ralph carpenter. His last vessel was the and his last ship was the Overseas Guito, Rambam. Dinny. He joined the Union in John McCarthy was bom and 1947 in the Port of New York. Albert Jensen, 67, is a native still makes his home in Jersey City, N.J. A mate, he was em­ ployed by the Pennsylvania Rail­ road at the time of his retirement. Brother McCarthy joined the Un­ ion in the Port of New York. Hughes Townes will spend his retirement at his home in New Orleans. Bom in Georgia, he joined the SIU in Savannah. Brother Townes, who served in Eurisa Rosfaind Smythe the Army from 1928 to 1934, had Charles Uribe, 67, is a native sailed as AB. His last ship was the of Norway and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his of Chile, who now makes his home Walter Rice. Harry Roslund joined the Un­ wife, Charlotte. Brother Jensen in New York City. A member ion in 1940 in the Port of Mobile. join^ the SIU in the Port of New of the engine dqiartment. Brother He sailed as AB and bosun. A na­ York in 1944, and had sailed as Uribe held an electrician's rating. tive of Sweden, Brother Roslund FOWT. His last ship was the Steel His last ship was the Jacksonville. Ralph Guito is retiring after Scientist. Matthew Eurisa is retiring to more than 30 years at sea. Bom New Orleans, the city of his birth. in Key West, Florida, Brother Brother Eurisa, rated bosun and carpenter, last sailed aboard the Dd Rio. He is a Navy veteran, having served three years during World War U. Vance Reid, who was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, McCarthy Townes looks forward to taking it easy now lives in Mobile. He last with his wife, Ruth, at their home shipp^ on the Del Santos. in Norfolk, Virginia. Brother Reid Carabbacan Julius Smythe is retiring to his Reid's last ship was the Portmar native New Orleans with his wife, and he sailed as FOWT. He joined Guito now makes his home in Pauline, after a long career at the Union in Norfolk in 1948. Tampa with his wife, Mary. He sea. Brother Smythe joined the Francisco Carabbacan, a native sailed as steward, and was the Union at the Port of New Orleans of the Philippines, now makes his recipient of a safety award in 1960 in 1942. He held a bosun's rating home in San Francisco. Seafarer NAM Gloomy Over Chances To Gut National Labor Act The National Association of Manufacturers recently reported : to its big business affiliates that industry's "high priority" goal of gutting the National Labor Relations Act is "unlikely" to be achieved in the next two years. However, the NAM's government relations staff didn't use the blunt word "gutting" in its evaluation of the legislative outlook. In more roundabout language, it referred to its proposals for "re­ vision" of the law "to redress the present imbalance in favor of labor unions." il But the conservative employer group saw no likelihood of ac­ complishing this "unless public opinion changes sharply as a result of major strikes or other developments." It noted that neither the House nor the Senate Labor Commit­ tees, both controlled by liberal Democrats, could be expected to ^iprofve the changes the NAM wants. And it added the opinion that "the Administration, which is expected to seek ways to ac­ commodate at least some labor demands, is not likely to send Ctmgress measures which would diminish the power of unions." The report also expressed the NA.M's concern that Congress will move ahead on its own with job safety and health bills, con­ sideration of federal workmen's compensation legislation, strcn^hening the enforcement powers of the Equal Employment Oppofnuuties Commission, stronger pollution control and new consumer laws without awaiting the views of the new Republican Adniinali alionIt wanted its membsts, too, that new proposals for raising the mammum wages are likely to be made in this Congress and "could he dse doams&at Industrial relations issue of the second session." The NAM staff expressed relief that "the near hysteria that iwMnrfriM passage tite Wholesome Meat Act and other health has waned." Bex. it. found cause for concern that the leading proponents of smsRg cotmuaa protection laws in the House and Senate "all wnw m ffte bat Novembers elections and "can be expected to Kcfc tite Iradiglit again." M ai tesdt, the NAM report noted sadly, "the outhwk for conSagawd meaesmes to "prottxt the consumer is Imllidi.'' m Uribe March 1, 1969 LOG GoHo while sailing aboard the Alcoa Ranger. His last ship was the Steel Executive. FTC Seeks Rules Curbing Deception In Game Gimmicks WASHINGTON—The Fed­ eral Trade Commission has pro­ posed new rules to halt "unfair and deceptive practices" by the food retailing and gasoline indus­ tries in promoting games of chance. The agency said that, based in part on a staff study of the games, it has reason to believe such prac­ tices "are widespread in the in­ dustries involved." One proposed rule, applicable to both supermarket and gasoline station games, would make it an unfair and deceptive practice for industry members, promoters and manufacturers to "manipulate or rig a game so that prizes are dis(tersed on a pre-determined basis." Further, it would require clear disclosure of such material facts as the exact auoiLer of priz» in each category or cash denomina­ tion to be awarded in a sp&afkd area during a ^tecified period of time. Seafarers* Gift Receives Thanks Seafarer Sees Continuing Strength To the Editor: On behalf of the Lucas County Child Welfare Board and the Miami Children's Cen­ ter, we would like to thank Ronald McGinn, ship's dele­ gate and the crew of the Steam­ er Charles C. West for their donation of $65. You can be sure that this generous donation certainly helped to brighten Christmas for the children. Thanks again, it was very thoughtful and generous of all of you. Sincerely, Charies H. Kllppstehi Executive Director Mianri Children's Center Maumee, Ohio. To the Editon Being a writer I often times find myself looking at things, simple things that have • been taken for granted by the ma­ jority, and sometimes I'll admit, even very unimportant things, and Til make an attempt to dissect them in search of their major components, their vital organs let's say, so that they can be more thoroughly investi­ gated as to their real meaning for us. There are two psychological functions of our human anat­ omy that have both accused and broken men and sometimes even caused wars — these are pride and respect. Any man that has ever fought back at — 4,— Filibuster Still Haunts Senate To the Edttor: Apparently the Senate will continue to be in a position where a minority which makes common cause against some legislation can prevent—not its passage—but even its consider­ ation. Despite two attempts to change the rules so that fili­ busters can be stopped short without requiring a two-thirds vote, the senatorial talkathon remains a weajxin whereby the minority can stymie business in the most august body of the Congress. This is a sad commentary on the legislative process in the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes the Senate every bit as ineffectual as the French Chambre of Deputies ever was, and holds us up to ridicule everywhere. And so the filibuster remains a tool on which the reaction­ aries of both parties can com­ bine to haunt and hamper the majority. Even the threat of a filibuster is enough to weaken such measures as those which protect the consumer. For this, we should hold the Republican leadership responsible. They had it in their hands to go along with rules reform; they chose to continue the archaic and hampering status quo. Sincerely, James O. HoOowefl —4,— Widow Grateful For SIU Benefits To the EdRon I wish to sincerely thank the SIU for both of the checks I received in the mail yesterday —ray husband Jim's disability and death benefit payments. As we had no other insurance at all, it certainly was a Godsent blessing. My husband was always a good Union man. He was for­ ever telUng me the good things the Union has done. I thank you, again. Siuccrcty, Bin. JauKs Babecker any other man or any circum­ stance for any just cause has witnessed the sensation of pride and more than likely suffici­ ently understands it as it per­ tains to him; hut respect is a more mysterious and hidden factor of our makeup and de^ serves at least a smsdl amount of our attention. As Seafarers we have a tradi­ tion of strong bodies, hard sweat, and a stern existence, but a large portion of this tradition has lacked the respect of those ashore as well as a percentage of our employers. Well men, things have changed. The men of this union have labored long and fought hard for the condi­ tions that we have now and the promise of even better things to come. You have chosen your leaders from among your group, you have organized your de­ mands, and you have placed a higher standard on your labors. Through this organizing and through your actions you have made great progress. Men who have been to sea for twenty and thirty years are noticing the change more now than ever before. Jobs that used to be done by hand they are now finding machines to help them. The hours that we work are being rewarded in kind and the food and living conditions improve constantly. A Seafarer finds that he now has extra money (hat can be saved and many are taking advantage ^f this. The oldtimers are helping the new men at every turn—there is no more worry of the younger taking his job away because of the new job security and seniority programs. There are new schools for faster advancement if one shows the initiative and talk of retirement and further pay raises in the future. We are demanding respect and we are getting it. . . . Sure we find men that still stick to the old ways and some employ­ ers who refuse to completely accept our new position but these are small men and will find themselves looking up to us in spite of themselves or left behind. "A worthy game gains the respect of the most persis­ tant of hunters." Rick Bartraa SMp^s Ddevate SS. �cb 1, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fifteen ii DE SOTO (WBterman), Pcbruary 2— Chairman, J. F. Castronover; Secretary, I. H. Rossow. Discussion held regarding Duality and quantity of slopchest. Also fliscussed was the matter of salt in drink­ ing water. Discussion held on pension plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's delegate, Brother T. L. Sloan; •deck delegate. Brother E. Morris; engine Idelegate, Brother M. A. Miller, and ste, |iif^)gward delegate. Brother L. B. Power. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service). I January 26—Chairman, Charles Scott; 'Secretary, Tommy Moore. Ship's delegate t; reported that it was a very good trip 5 with the exception of a few repairs which rhave not been completed. The matter will I be brought to the attention of the patrolrman at payoff. Vote of thanks was ex( tended to Brother Albert R. Wills, ship's |. delegate and to the entire steward defpartment for a job well done. $12.00 in I ship's fund. _ LYNN VICTORY (Victory Carriers), I January 26—Chairman, ,T, Altatatt; Sec! retary, M. Townsend. Very good crew , on board with a minimum of beefs. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward. Brother W. Herrin, and his entire de­ partment for the good food, the service and the general cleanliness of the messhall, pantry and galley. BEAVER VICTORY (Bulk Transport), January 26 — Chairman, Lawrence A. Banks; Secretary, John J. Kane. There were no beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department delegates. CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), Janu­ ary 80—Chairman, V. J. Ardowski; Sec­ retary, John L. Munnerlyn. No' beefs and no disputed OT reported by depart­ ment delegates. .i •M •II DIGEST Of SIU SHIP PRINCETON VICTORY (Columbia), January 12—Chairman, John C. Reed; SeciKtary, F. C. Gonzalez. Brother Gon­ zalez was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. MAURY (Crest Overseas), January 26 —Chairman, F. R. Kaziukewicz; Secre­ tary, H. R. Crabtree. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. CANTON VICTORY (Columbia), Feb­ ruary 2—Chairman, Charles T. Chandler ; Secretary, William F. O'Brien. Brother James Loe was elected to seiye as ship's delegate. $27.00 in ship's fund. Discussion held regarding pension plan. No. beefs were teported. PENN VANGUARD (Penn), February 9—Chairman, John Benitez; Secretary, Paul Arthofer. Crewmembers would like the patrolman to check the stores for next voyage. No beefs were, reported by depart­ ment delegates. CUBA VICTORY (Alcoa), February 2 —Chairman, M. Darcy; Secretary, Jim Naylor. Discussion held regarding retire­ ment benefits. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Monticello Tanker), February 9—Chairman William B: Blankenship; Secretary, George A. O'Berry. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. General discussion held regarding shortage of men, mutual consent payoffs, reliefs and transporta­ tion. Ship's delegate will contact head­ quarters in regards to the above topics. J DEL NORTE (Delta), December 22— Chairman, Robert Callahan: Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Brother Robert Callahan was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $69.14 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for the fine food throughout the entire voyage. i TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Water­ ways), December 16—Chairman, S. Hacker; Secretary, J. H. Dietsch. $15.00 in ship's fund. Minor beef regarding the menus and the ordering of stores. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), January 18—Chairman, Paul Franco; Secretary, D. Missimei. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Brother Mike Curry was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. ij; l E iHK TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Waterways), February 10—Chairman, Arthur G. An­ derson : Secretary, Joseph A. Morrison, Brother Larry Scott was elected to serve J? ship's delegate. $20.00 in ship's fund. beefs were reported by department delegates. DEL MAR (Delta), February 5—Chair­ man, Juan A. G. Cruz; Secretary, Darrell G._ Chafin. $30.00 in ship's fund Cap­ tain pleased with the conduct of this crow. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's delegate. Several minor beefs to be taken up with the boarding patrol­ man. Vote of thanks was extended to three department delegated and to the entire steward department for the good food throughout the voyage and par­ ticularly the fine Christmas dinner. , SIU Aflanfic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Lindtay Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TRE>VSIJRER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS........47!! 4fh Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY ?-t400 ALPENA, Mich. 127 River St. (517) EL 4-3614 BALTIMORE, Md 1214 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4?00 BOSTON. Mass 443 Alllantic Avenue (617) Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO. N.Y. 735 V/ashlngton St. SIU (716 TL 3-9259 IBU (716 TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, lli; 93(13 Ewlng Ave. SIU (-112) SA 1-0733 IBU (:II2) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jeffsrson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. 1713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 2408 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ... . 99 Montgomery St. (2i)l) HE 5-9424 M08ILE, Ala I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La. .. 430 .lackson Ava. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1348 Sevanth St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 35(i Fraamont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, f.R. .... 1313 Farnundez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 4105 First Avenua (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan. .Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Mar. 11—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... Mar. 12—2:30 p.m. Wilmington . Mar. 17—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Mar. 19—2:00 p.m. Seattle Mar. 21—2:00 p.m. New York .. Mar. 3—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 4—2:30 p.m. Baltimore . . Mar. 5—2:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 14—2:30 p.m. Houston .. . Mar. 10—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans Mar. 11—7:00 p.m. Mobile Mar. 12—7:00 p.m. New York . . Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 4—7:00 p.m. Baltimore . . Mar. 5—7*ftO n.m. ^Houston .. Mar. 10—7:00 p.m. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stitzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) — Great Lakes SIU Meetings Kingsport Press Detroit .... Mar. 3—2:00 p.m. "World Book," "Childcraft" Alpena .... Mar. 3—^7:00 p.m. (Printing Pressmen) Buffalo .... Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. (Typographers, Bookbinders) Chicago .... Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. (Machinists, Stereotypers) Duluth Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Dredge Section Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Chicago .... Mar. 11—7:30 p.m. Slatler tSault St, Marie Men's Shoes . . . Mar. 13—7:30 p.m. .farman, Johnson & Buffalo .... Mar. 12—7:30 p.m. Murphy, Crestworth, Duluth .... Mar. 14—7:30 p.m. (Hoot and Shoe Workers' Union) Cleveland .. Mar. 14—7:30 p.m., Toledo .... Mar. 14—7:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 10—7:30 p.m. Boren Clay Products Co. Milwaukee . Mar. 10—7:30 p.m. (United Brick and Clay Workers) SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Mar. 11—5:00 p.m. "HIS" brand men's clothes Mobile .... Mar. 12—5:00 p.m. Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond Philadelphia Mar. 4—5:00 p.m. blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Baltimore (licensed and un­ Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman licensed) . Mar. 5—5:00 p.m. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Norfolk .... Mar. 6—5:00 p.m. of America) Houston . . Mar. 10—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Jamestown Sterling Corp. Philadelphia (United Furniture Workers) Mar. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore —— Mar. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, •Norfolk Wing Shirts Mar. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Jersey City of America) Mar. 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. \1> <I> t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU AtUntie, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific ptovision for safeguardinK the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU heatiquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AUantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accc>rdance with the provisiona of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and mansgement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl .Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite' 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract righte, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract righte prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article swving the political purposes of any individual in the Union officer or member. It baa also refrained from publishing artiues deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This esteblished policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all institu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy te vested in an ^itorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. <1> Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) <|> R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) —— Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) ^ Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) <1> Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) ^ Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Atlantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Ouett Peahody (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU" unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such imyment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as deiJing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the nxembership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing ^em to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal righte in employment and as members of the SIU. These righte are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal righte to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic righte of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, tneir faodlies and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer fe^ that any of the above righte have been violated, or that he has been dsnlod his constUntlonal right of access to Union records or in­ formation, he should immediately nettfy SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. �SEAFARERS»LOG March 1, 1969 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT » AFL-CIO M>fne I ,• Phm _ J. Cf^ m EM ''I' Around table at payoff (l-r); Nick Kratsas, AB; Ray Perez, steward; Jim Garner, AS; Bob Davison, ship's delegate: Chas. Howell, AB; Salvatore Brunetti. AB and New York Patrolmen Ted Babkowski and Pete Drewes. One reason why the crew cheered the excellent job done by the steward department is shown in the group above, left to right: Miguel La Fon­ taine, chief cook; Fernando Zavallo, messman and Wm. Elvaro, steward. V_/' 1 El I #• vaC, Another section of the steward department, left to right: H. D. Laiche, cook; Emile Bourdeois, 3rd cook; E. D. Strait, baker and William Elvaro, steward. Laiche is checking evening meal before going ashore. Again the steward department, this time the younger set. Left to right, in rear, are: Mike Langford, messman; Russ Allen, saloon pantry, and Floyd Furr, pantry. Messman Jose Gonzalez is smiling Seafarer in front. m II i: k i A I- ta^ety •'l/ena ve-.e. aboard ezs ^ays ' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource March 1, 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL-CIO TO CO-OPERATE WITH NIXON PROVIDED CORRECT PROGRAMS ARE SET MTD’S EXEC. BOARD SEES NEW HOPE FOR STRONGER US MERCHANT FLEET MARAD ASKS US FLAG OPERATORS FOR 5 YEAR SHIP CONSTRUCTION PLANS US FLEET NEEDS MASSIVE REBUILDING IF MERCHANT MARINE IS TO SURVIVE GOVT TRUTH-IN-LENDING REGUKATIONS ISSUED TO MERCHANTS, MONEY LENDERS BOARD MEMBER SCORES PUBLICATIONS FOR SLANTED ANTI-NLRB PROPAGANDA HEALTH PROBLEMS OF US POOR ARE NATIONAL DISASTER RUNAWAY FIRMS HOPPING TO MEXICO AS US CITIES TOUT 30 CENT WAGE INCREASED SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS WOULD NOT INCREASE PAYROLL TAXES SEAFARER HERO WINS HIGHEST AWARD FOR GALLANT RESCUE OF FOUR AT SEA HOME AGAIN FROM VIETNAM Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 03/1/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 5 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/da4039dd9589ba46cd45be2ce7c48c94.PDF ec7c4294100d7d28e9988e9431a1aae4 PDF Text Text ?SG»ieWeiR»y.ffi«55T-/B SEAFARB»SA«)C OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO v. - • ' ^in VETERAN TRADE UNIONIST HONORED. Charles S. Zim­ merman, ILGWU Vice President, and SlU Harry Lundeberg School's new ship named after him in tribute to his efforts as trade unionist and humanitarian. Story Page 7 �Page Two 'RunawayShips'Called Tax Dodgers; MTD Demands Limit to Exemption WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment has asked Congress to plug a major tax loophole exploited by "runaway" shipowners to de­ prive the United States of large amounts of tax revenues and at the same time injure the U.S. merchant ma^e. O. William Moody Jr., Ad­ ministrator of the Department which represents nearly seven million union members in the maritime and related fields, made the request in testimony presented to the House Ways and Means Committee, Moody assailed the tax ex­ emption allowed to runaway ship operators, U.S. corpora­ tions which organize foreign subsidiaries—chiefly in Liberia and Panama—to engage in in­ ternational trade involving the United States. The practice has become a matter of "great con­ cern" to the AFL-CIO maritime group. Moody said, "because of the detrimental impact it has had upon the national economy, the maritime industry and the workers who must depend upon it for a livelihood. "The operation of foreign flag ships to carry cargoes from a foreign subsidiary of a U.S. corporation to the U.S. parent company has become a maior tax avoidance problem," Moody told the House Committee. He cited the following advantages enjoyed by runaway flag vessels and their owners: • "The earnings of the run­ away flag ships are wholly ex­ empt from taxation in the U.S. and, in fact, are excluded in computing the gross income of the foreign corporation. • "The runaway avoids pay­ ment of wages to American sea­ men at the high U.S. scale and dodges U.S. safety and other maritime regulations, along with taxes. • "The runaway is enabled to use the money he has made at the expense of the American taxpayer and American wage earner to build ships abroad where wages are substandard. Then he operates more ships un­ der foreign flags while we watch our own merchant fleet evapo­ rate," Moody asked the Committee members to take note that at the present time major U.S. oil companies alone operate 314 tankers under foreign flags and 63 other runaway ships cur­ rently operate in the bulk ore trade with the U.S. steel, alumi­ num and gypsum industries owning most of them. "These runaways," Moody testified, "not only represent a net tax loss to the U.S.; they then turn around and act as modem-day 'commerce raiders' by undercutting the Americanflag fleet in the carriage of U.S. export-import trade. "At the end of 1968," the union maritime official empha­ sized, "foreign-flag vessels were carrying some 93 percent of our exports and imports. Many of the foreigners were Americanowned runaway vessels." MFOW's Ymcent J. Malone Dies In San Francisco at 62 SAN FHANaSCO — Vin­ cent J. Malone, past president of the SIUNA-aflWiated Marine Firemen's Union—from 1938 through 1956—died February Vincent J. Malone 26 at his home in San Francisco of an apparent heart attack. He was 62. Malone joined the MFOW in 1934 while he was shipping in the engine department. Prior to his election as president, he had served the union as secre­ tary. Malone was president of the Marine Firemen's Union at April, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG the time MFOW became aflfiliated with SIUNA in 1953. At the time of his death, Malone was representative of the SIUNA and SlU-Pacific District. Malone played an active role in helping to organize the Mili­ tary Sea Transport Union. He also conducted upgrading classes at the MSTU haU, helping many wipers to qualify as fireman, oiler and watertender. Funeral services were held at the Apostleship of the Sea. In­ terment was at Holy Cross Cemetery. Pallbearers were MFOW President Harry Jorgensen; Wil­ liam W. Jordan, past president; H. Disley, C. A. Peterson, Jack Hutton and Duke Wellington. Honorary pallbearers were SIU Representative John Hawk; Morris Weisberger, SUP; Ed Turner, MC&S; Joe Leal, MSTU; George Issel, IWU; and J'^hn Lewis an MFOW pen­ sioner. Malone is suivived by a son. Merle, and a daughter, Con­ stance Starr, of Redondo Beach, California. For practical reasons Moody did not propose outright repeal of the exemption. However, he told the Congressmen: "There is no reason why the exemption could not be limited so as not to exempt the earn­ ings of ships or aircraft under foreign registry which are di­ rectly or indirectly owned by U.S. citizens or U.S. corpora­ tions. This would eliminate the runaway flag and limit the ex­ emption strictly to foxeignowned ships and aircraft." The Union hos boon Invoivod in a foch> finding study on pension pions. During the regular monthly membership meetings to be held in ail ports In May, a full and contprehensive presentation will be made on the sub|M of propoiOd AGLiWD pension plans. In order to foster a complete under­ standing of the merit of each of the pro­ posed plans, forthcoming issues of the Seafarers LOG will contain full details of each plan. This is to be done as a prelude to the membership voting on the matter. Six More Seafarers Earn Licenses; Upgraded Engineers Now Total 318 Six more Seafarers have qual­ nette's last ship was the Portified for their engineer's licenses mar. James Smith was born in after successfully completing Michigan and resides there in training at the School of Marine Lincoln Park with his mother. Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2, In addition to serving in the MEBA. The latest graduates engine department, he has also bring to 318 the total number sailed on deck as AB. Brother of men who have passed Coast Smith joined the Union in 1961 Guard licensing examinations in Miami. His last ship was the after taking the comprehensive Geneva. John Shaffer has been sailing course of study offered by the school. The new graduates in­ as a member of the engine de­ clude Steven West, upgraded to partment since 1942, the same chief engineer; Thomas Stin- year he joined the SIU in the nette, second engineer; James V. Port of New York. Bom in Philadelphia, he now lives with his wife, Qarice, in Beverly, New Jersey. Brother Shaffer, newly-licensed as temporary 3rd assistant engineer, last sailed on the Potomac. Harry Payne has been sailing for eight years, and joined the SIU at the Port of Baltimore in West 1960. Following completion of the course and passing the Coast Smith, upgraded to third assist­ Guard exam, he is now rated ant; Harry Payne, third assist­ temporary 3rd assistant engiant; Bland Lewis, temporary third, and John Shaffer, tem­ porary third. Steven West is a native of Poland who now lives with his wife, Masae, in Osaka, Japan. After more than 20 years of sea time aboard Polish-registry ships, he joined the SIU in the Lewis Port of New York in 1964. His last ship before entering the en­ gineering school was the San neer. A native of Baltimore, he lives there with his mother, Georgia. Mrs. Wilhelmina Payne. Brother Thomas Stinnette was bom in Payne's last ship was the Penn Carrier. Bland Lewis holds a license as temporary 3rd assistant engi­ neer. Bom in Jacksonville, Flor­ ida, he now resides there with his wife, Wilma. Brother Lewis has served as a member of the Marine Corps Reserve. He joined the Union in Jacksonville Smidi Shaffer in 1967. Brother Lewis' last Virginia and now makes his vessel was the Newark. home with his wife, Grace, in All engineer department Sea­ Baltimore. He began his sailing farers are eligible for any of the career in 1948 and joined the upgrading programs at the Un­ SIU in the Port'of New York ion-sponsored School of Marine that same year. Brother Stin- Engineering providing they are at least 19 years of age and have a minimum of 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine department, in addi­ tion to six months experience as wiper or the equivalent. Any Seafarer who qualifies and wishes to enroll in the school may obtain additional in­ formation and make application for enrollment at any SIU hall. Information can also be ob­ tained by writing to SIU head­ quarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or by telephoning the school at (212) 499-6600. Ptm! at Trime Cdls for Re^ Of Taft-ffartfey NEW ORLEANS—Abolish­ ment of the Taft-Hartley law and more realistic contract bar­ gaining between management and labor were cited as neces­ sary for the future health of the U.S. maritime industry here last month at the 20th annual Insdtute (m Foreign Transportation and Port Operations at Tulane University. SIU President Paul Hall par­ ticipated in a panel discussion on "Our Maritime Status—^To­ day and Tomorrow" during the final day of the five-day institute sessions. The Taft-Hartley act was scored as having caused more strikes in the maritime in­ dustry than it prevented because it had been used as a crutch to lean on rather than as an incen­ tive toward realistic bargaining. Joining Hall on the panel— which was moderated by Exec­ utive Director Ray Murdock of the Washington-based Trans­ portation Institute—were An­ thony Scotto, vice president of the International Longshoremans' Association, and the mar­ itime editor of the Baltimore Sun, Mrs. Helen Delich Bentley. ' ' l|L �April. 1969 SEAFARERS Page Three LOG M7D Seminar Speakers Agree: All-Out Maritime Program Needed to Meet Soviet Threat L' WASHINGTON—^Members of Congress, the Maritime industry and labor joined forces in a call here last month for an intensified merchant marine program to meet the growing Soviet menace on the commercial sealanes of the world. Speaking at a day-long seminar sponsored by thp nearly-seven-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department were Senator Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.), newly assigned to the Senate Commerce Committee which oversees maritime affairs and Rep­ resentative Robert L. Leggett (D-Calif.), a member of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com­ mittee. The group also heard Judson L. Smith, president of the Fifth Region of the Navy League of the U.S., as well as Captain Richard W. Stone, director of agency relations for the Washington-based Trans­ portation Institute and Jay Lovestone, director of the International Affairs Department of the national AFL-CIO. Goodell warned of "the dangers of Russia out­ stripping us in the maritime field," adding that "what is at stake is the free enterprise system in the mari­ time industry." The New York senator called for "a comprehen­ sive long-range program to restore our merchant ma­ rine, its trade routes and its markets," and said the "first step" must be to reconstitute the Maritime Administration as "an independent and autonomous federal agency." Similar legislation was overwhelm­ ingly approved by both houses of Congress last year, he noted, but was pocket vetoed by former President Johnson. Goodell noted that it is difficult to obtain "reli­ able" estimates on the Soviet fleet because the USSR does not submit fleet data to Lloyd's Register of Ships, as do the countries of the free world. "But," he said, "experts have estimated that the USSR is now in sixth place in the world and its mer­ chant marine will this year replace the U.S. in fifth place. Launchings and deliveries of new ships to the Soviet Union run more than 8-to-l- ahead of the U.S. For every ship the U.S. has on order, Russia has 12." "It is essential that we revive our merchant ma­ rine, create thousands of jobs in our shipbuilding and shipping industry and preserve the maritime pros­ perity of the U.S. and its allies," the Senator added. Leggett echoed the call for action, declaring that while the Soviets are aware of the "multi-purpose role of a merchant marine"—^to serve economic, military and political goals—^the American attitude has been to think of its merchant marine solely as "private enterprise." Where, in fact, the U.S. fleet is vital to "the whole mUitary-industrial complex." The California congressman pointed out that U.S. military and industrial might depends on 77 stra­ tegic materials, 66 of which must be imported. "At this moment," he went on, "more than 96 percent of the tonnage involved in the importation of these strategic materials is brought to our shores by the ships of other nations." Could Blodc Stqpply line If the Soviets gain control of the world sealanes, he said, they could "effectively deny these strategic materials to United States industry." • "We all know what would happen then. We'd have to bank the fires of our industrial empire. We'd be able to produce neither weapons of defense nor consumer goods. We would quickly be reduced to an agrarian economy, the Russians would have made good their boast to 'bury' us economically, and we would be under the thumb of the Soviet Union with­ out a missile having been fired," he added. Stone, a former skipper of American-flag mer­ chant vessels, urged a broad action program to meet the threat of "all foreign ships—^not just the Russians but all of them." If the U.S. loses out in the race for maritime supremacy, he said, "it really doesn't matter whether it's the Russians who win, or the Liberians, or the Greeks, or the Japanese, or some­ one else." Today's maritime problems. Stone declared, stem from the fact that the nation still is operating under "a merchant marine law that's just as outdated as the ships we're sending to sea." He noted that the present law provides benefits for only one-third of the fleet, and added: "With the Russians and every­ one else developing 100-percent maritime programs. Seafarer Hilton Woolsey Killed by YC Booby Trap On October 30, 1967, Sea­ farer Hilton Woolsey signed off the Rosewell Victory to report to the U.S. Army induction cen­ ter in Mobile, Alabama. One year later, while on patrol a few miles north of Saigon, he was killed when a booby trap ex­ ploded. Brother ' Woolsey, who was 25 at the time of his death, was born in Mobile and lived there with his wife, Nancy. He began his sail­ ing career in 1961 and joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile the same year. He completed the course for messman at the Andrew Furuseth Training School in Mobile in November, 1961 and his instructor noted on his certificate: "This man has been a very good student." Following his basic training at Ft. Benning, Georgia, Sea­ farer Woolsey went on to infan­ try -training at Ft. Polk, Lou­ isiana. He arrived in Vietnam in May, 1968, and was assigned to a rifle company. "Hilton wrote often—every day when he had time," his wife said. "He was very concemed about the way the Vietnamese people had to live, and often expressed the hope that the war would soon be over. Hilton was very proud of the way our fight­ ing men conducted themselves over there, and was proud to be one of them. He was very well liked." Brother Woolsey was award­ ed the Bronze Star, the National Defense Service Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal. He also wore the Infantryman Badge, the Expert Badge with machine gun bar, and the Marksman Badge with rifle and automatic rifle bar. Seafarer Woolsey was buried with full military honors Novem­ ber 5, 1968, in Pine Crest Cem­ etery in Mobile. Besides his wife, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Rosie Woolsey. we can't hope to compete" at 33 percent. Stone called for legislation that would give unsubsidized ship operators "first crack" at government AID, surplus food and military shipments, declaring that subsidized operators, who have been receiving construction and operating assistance so that they could compete with foreign-flag ships for commer­ cial cargoes, have moved into the carriage of gov­ ernment cargoes at preferential rates, thus reaping a "double subsidy." The Transportation Institute official also called for the extension of ship construction subsidies to the entire fleet, declaring that "the only way that con­ struction subsidies make sense at all is if they are available to the entire maritime industry." At pres­ ent, he said, only 14 companies receive such assist­ ance. Stone also urged that tax-deferred construction reserve fund privileges, now available to the same 14 companies, be extended to all American ship operators. "If it's right for the subsidized operator to get this kind of incentive," he said, "it has to be right to give the same incentive to the unsubsidized operator. "After all, the unsubsidized operator has to put away 100 cents on the dollar to build new ships; the subsidized operator gets them at a discount, because the government pays 55 percent of the cost." Speaking for the Navy League, Smith said that Kremlin leaders launched "the most massive ship­ building effort the world has ever observed" only after learning that "this investment was sound eco­ nomically." He added that the "competitive global ambitions" of the Soviets "are conveyed by their sleek, streamlined merchant ships; their modem mer­ chant marine carries the message." He called for a massive educational program to make the American people aware of the value of a modern merchant fleet. "We should know," he said, "that each of the 50 states gain economically every time we build a ship in U.S. yards. But far too few citizens relate shipbuilding to their own hide and pocketbook. But they must leam this." Proposed Coast Guard Regulations Threaten Domestic Fishing Industry NEW YORK—If the mount­ ing jumble of new regulations proposed by the U.S. Coast Guard are put into effect, the American fishing industry may find itself regulated to death and the victim of a military-like take over of its operations, ac­ cording to SIUNA-Safety Di­ rector Joe Algina. The number of new rules and regulations proposed by the Coast Guard has steadily grown since the first announcement late last year that the Coast Guard would soon require that the captain, mate, engineer and radio operator aboard all com­ mercial fishing vessels be li­ censed and certified by it. Another proposed regulation would require all fishing vessels to secure official Coast Guard clearance before leaving port. Also under consideration are innumerable fishing vessel mod­ ifications which would have to be made on existing boats, and legislation which would put the Coast Guard in the business of overseeing the planning and construction stages of boat­ building. The pressure being exerted by the Coast Guard for more and more control over commercial fishing vessel operations stems from that agency's belief that in the name o( safety, all activ­ ities on water come under its jurisdiction. Commenting on the Coast Guard's actions, Algina pointed out that commercial fishermen have great respect for Coast Guard activities in many areas, such as search and rescue oper­ ations, but he emphasized that the proposed regulations and restrictions cannot be justified simply as a matter of safety. "These proposed rules, re­ quirements and inspection pro­ cedures are so extensive and far-reaching that they will put the American fishing industry and fisherman in the hip pocket of the Coast Guard, and the cost may very well put our in­ dustry out of business." Algina also pointed out that fishing vessels and their opera­ tions are in a class by them­ selves and that the Coast Guard's attempts to lump them together with merchant vessels are unwarranted and unwork­ able. "Rules and procedures that are now applied by the Coast Guard to merchant vessels should not be applied to fishing vessels—they just don't fit," said Algina. "The problems faced by the domestic fishing industry are like those faced by no other industry, and the Coast Guard should recognize this." Seatrain Converts Two T-2 Tankers NEWPORT NEWS, Va.— Seatrain Lines, an SlU-contracted operator, is presently converting two T-2 tankers into containerships at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company's yards here. The vessels, to be named the Transoneida and the Transchamplain, will each have a maximum capacity of 303 forty-foot containers or 435 twenty - seven - foot containers. They are scheduled to enter Seatrain's new West CoastHawaii container service. �SEAFARERS Pace Few April, 1969 LOG Formal Bill Proposed in Senate Magnuson Launches Separate MARAD Fight WASHINGTON—The battle has been oflBcially renewed in the Senate for an independent Federal Maritime Administra­ tion with the formal introduction of a bill before the first session of the 91st Congress by Senator Warren G. Magnuson (DWash.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Independence for MARAD is regarded by the SIU, the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment, and a majority of those in the maritime industry and Congress as a key objective in any program geared to re­ building the rapidly declining American merchant fleet. Although Magnuson's bill (S. 1400) is the first of its kind on the ^nate side this year, the House had earlier started the ball rolling with some two dozen similar measures already on rec­ ord. These include H.R. 336 by Representative John J Rooney (D-N.Y.), introduced on the first day of the session, and H.R. 213, by the chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, Represent­ ative Edward A. Garmatz (DMd.). Provisioiis of B3I Provided for in Magnuson's bill—which would be cited the "Federal Maritime Act of 1969" —are the following elements: • It would establish an in­ dependent Federal Maritime Administration headed by a Federal Maritime Administrator who would be appointed by the President for a four-year term. • A Maritime Board, com­ posed of three members, would be set up within MARAD. It would be chaired by the Federal Maritime Administrator, with the other two members to be presidential appointees. Not more than two members could be from the same political party. • All functions, powers and duties of the Secretary of Com­ merce, delegated to him by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, would be transferred to the Mar­ itime Administrator and the Maritime Board. A Deputy Ad­ ministrator, who would be em­ powered to serve as Acting Ad­ ministrator during the absence or disability of the Administra­ tor, would not, however, sit at any time as a member of the Maritime Board. • No member, officer, or em­ ployee of either the Administra­ tion or the board could have any business relationship which may have an interest in, or bear­ ing on, his maritime functions. • The provisions of the bill would take effect on the 60th day following enactment. With­ in one year after enactment, the Maritime Board would be re­ quired to submit to the President and to the Congress a report on the current condition of the American merchant marine, evaluating the effectiveness of existing law, and making appro­ priate recommendations. Magnuson's Stateiiient In submitting the bill. Senator Magnuson made the following remarks to the Senate: "This bill is identical to a measure enacted by Congress last year but vetoed by Presi­ dent Johnson. The previous Ad­ ministration maintained that the proper administrative location of the Maritime Administration was within the Department of Transportation. However, in the previous Congress the Senate Commerce Committee held hearings over a period of some five months on the issue of an independent maritime agency and other issues concerning the present state and future of the U.S. merchant marine. We found that the U.S. merchant fleet was in critical condition, its future in doubt, and remedial action of a major nature essential if the United States were to re­ main a leading seafaring nation. Late in the second session of the previous Congress the Senate Commerce Committee favorably reported without dissent legis­ lation to create an independent Maritime Administration. In large measure our action stemmed from the conviction that the Department of Trans­ portation could not provide the 20-Year SIU Goal Realized OA/o Unemployment Laws Amended To Include Great Lakes Seafarers TOLEDO- -Seafarers on the Great Lakes who make their homes in Ohio are, for the first time, eligible for unemployment benefits during the winter months. . This brings to a successful climax a campaign for such pay­ ments waged by the SIU for almost 20 years. With the formation of the Toledo Port Council of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment some 10 years ago, this became a joint battle which finally succeeded in passage by the last session of the Ohio State Le^slature an amendment to Ohio law which had previously barred such payments to sea­ men. A recent interpretation of the amendment by the Ohio Unemployment Bureau clearly makes the benefits valid. Two Ohio state legislators, who worked diligently along with the SIU and the MTD Port Council in this long-neglected matter were Senator Marigene Valiquette and Representative Barney Quilter. In part, the amendment states that "an individual whose base period employment consists both of seasonal employment. .. and non-seasonal employment . . . credit towards next year. The and who in such combined em­ most recent nonseasonal period ployment has a total of 20 or ran from December 29, 1968 more credit weeks" may be cred­ through March 22, 1969. ited with benefit rights during Seafarers should file claims the off-season months. for unemployment compensa­ Great Lakes piorts are nor­ tion for this winter if they re­ mally closed beginning with the ceived company vacation bene­ last Sunday in December and fits last year or if they worked continuing until the fourth Sun­ on any job between the fourth day in March. Sunday of December, 1967, and the fourth Sunday of March, Vacation Pay Counts 1968. Credit for non-seasonal em­ During its campaign for the ployment is established for the amendment, the Toledo MTD Ohio Seafarer when he receives Port Council charged that the company vacation pay during discrimination which the Ohio the winter period which is nor­ laws permitted in the matter of mally 12 weeks. Such a Sea­ unemployment compensation farer working during the winter for seamen on the Great Lakes lay-off is also eligible for non- was "one of the greatest injus­ seasonal employment credits— tices" in the state. Ohio seamen whether he is employed as a were previously eligible to apply seaman on the lakes, rivers or for unemployment compensa­ offshore—or at some other job. tion only during the 40 weeks For each week of accrued following the fourth Sunday in company vacation time, or each March. However, other mari­ week of work during the last time workers—and all other winter's off season, a Seafarer Ohio workers—were not so re­ is entitled to credit towards un­ stricted. employment insurance benefits Also pointed out, strongly for the past winter. In the same and convincingly, was the fact manner, if he collected company that no other state excludes sea­ vacation pay or worked during men from unemployment bene­ the past winter, he has earned fits during the winter months. necessary leadership in devel­ oping the revitalization program that our fleet so desperately re­ quired. "There is no question that the merchant marine requires spe­ cial attention. It cannot at this juncture be viewed merely as another mode of transportation subject to the general problems we face in the field of transpor­ tation, but rather it must be viewed as an essential industry in serious trouble requiring spe­ cial remedial action. It is my present belief that the necessary attention is more apt to be re­ ceived if an independent Mari­ time Administration is created." Should the bill become law, it would remove MARAD from the Department of Commerce where it has languished since 1950—the year which marked the gradual decline for the United States-flag merchant fleet. Sen. Long Named Merchant Marine Committee Head WASHINGTON — Sen­ ator Russell B. Long (DLa.) has been named chair­ man of the Senate Subcom­ mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. The late Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett (D-Alaska), who died on December 11, 1968, was previously at the helm of this important sub­ committee. The Merchant Marine and Fisheries Subcommittee now includes the following senators: John O. Pastore (D-R.I.); Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.); Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii); Joseph D. Tydings (D-Md.); William Spong, Jr. (D-Va.); Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.); Hugh Scott (R-Pa.); Winston L. Prouty (R-Vt.) and Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.). MTD Names Feinstein to Co-ordinate Intensive 1969 Legislative Program WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment is intensifying its 1969 legislative activities under the direction of a newly-appointed committee headed by Charles Feinstein, a vice president of the International Leather Goods, Plastic & Novelty Workers Union, AFL-CIO. Feinstein was named chair­ man of the Legislative Com­ mittee for the 39-union Depart­ ment at the MTD's recent Ex­ ecutive Board meeting. Serv­ ing with him are Bernard Puchalski, president of the Greater Chicago Port Council of the MTD, and Louis Vignola, pres­ ident of the Delaware Valley and Vicinity Port Maritime Council in Philadelphia. Feinstein and his Comminee associates are co-ordinating the legislative efforts of the various Port Councils with that of the national MTD. Putting stress on person-to-person contact, Feinstein has been visiting key members of the House of Rep­ resentatives and the U.S. Sen­ ate to acquaint them with the legislative objectives and prob­ lems of the Department and its various affiliates. The Committee is calling at­ tention not only to problems of a direct maritime nature but to those of interest to the trade union movement generally and specifically of MTD affiliates. Feinstein will submit a report to the Department on the com­ mittee's activities at the next meeting of the MTD Executive Board. '/rd: Charles Feinstein (left), recently elected chairman of the Legislative Committe of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, explains to Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D.-Mo.) details of the MTD's 1969 legis­ lative program. Feinstein, a Vice-President of the Internatinal Leather Goods, Plastic and Novelty Workers Union AFL-CIO, will coordinate the legislative program sought in this session of the Congress by the seven-million-member Department of 39 unions during 1969. �April, 1969 SEAFARERS Output of Workers Highest In Transportation Industry WASHINGTON—Productivity of workers in the transporta­ tion industry continues to run well ahead of the national average, the nation's leading industrial engineers were told here. Bertram Gottlieb, director of research for the Transportation Institute, a Washington-based research organization, said that be­ tween 1957 and 1967, the average output per manhour for all transportation workers was 4.5 percent, as compared to the na­ tional average of 3.4 percent. Speaking at the Second National Conference of the Transporta­ tion Division of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Gottlieb said the productivity rise was even more pronounced in the railroad industry, where the average output per manhour was 6.5 percent. In the maritime field, he went on, productivity increased "440 percent between 1945 and 1968, while wages increased only about one-third. "This is ironic," Gottlieb declared, "in view of the industry's continued general decline." The American merchant marine has skidded from first among the nations of the world to sixth in the past two decades. Gottlieb offered the productivity figures to refute the concept that unions frustrate efficiency by insisting on wage gains in ex­ cess of productivity and by opposing technological progress. Development of an improved network of transportation facili­ ties, the Transportation Institute official went on, can be achieved more easily in the future through development of a "partnership" between labor and management. "Sharing the common interest which their industry gives them," Gottlieb said, "is one of the surest ways that exist for reducing the tensions that inevitably build up between the worker on the one side and the employer on the other." He pointed out that 32 of the nation's transportation unions recently joined forces in a new alliance which has, as its goal, achieving a "partnership with management in the development of an improved transportation system that would better serve the needs of an America on the move." Gottlieb told the AIIE session that the move by the unions in this direction poses for management a "challenge to co-operate" in developing effective transportation for the nation. Hood Sees Renewed Interest In Massive U.S. Shipbuilding WASHINGTON —A view that "reawakened" national in­ terest in the "sufficiency" of United States seapower could lead to the largest peacetime shipbuilding effort the nation has ever undertaken was ex­ pressed last month by Edwin M. Hood, president of the Ship­ builders Council of America. Hood, who was re-elected to head the council for the coming year, expressed confidence that the industry could well be "on the brink of unprecedented growth" in his report to the 48th annual meeting of the national trade association here. President Nixon can be ex­ pected to adopt "a more for­ ward stance" with respect to sea power, maritime and shipbuild­ ing matters "than has taken place during the last eight years," Hood declared, particu­ larly in view of the "expanding presence of the Soviet Union on the oceans." Hood noted that the Presi­ dent had—^prior to his election — pledged the efforts of his Administration to maintain a United States Navy "second to none" and to the prompt res­ toration of the nation as a "first rate" maritime power. The SCA president expressed his conviction that a great deal of optimism and support were drawn around the seapower goals defined by President Nix­ on. Moreover, he stated, if the expressed goals met with even partial success, the results would be "a greater magnitude of naval and merchant shipbuilding" than has been evident for many years. Page Five LOG Seafarers Aboard Overseas Alice Pluck Downed Flier from High Seas WILMINGTON — Seafarers aboard the SlU-contracted tank­ er Overseas Alice distinguished themselves recently in the dar­ ing rescue of a downed aircraft pilot in storm-tossed seas 85 miles off the California coast. The De Havilland Dove which pilot Warren Bullock had been ferrying from Hawaii to southern California suddenly developed fuel pump trouble and had to be ditched in the sea. Fortunately, the Overseas Alice —which had sailed from Long Beach two days previously to clean out her tanks prior to re­ turning for repairs at a San Pedro shipyard—was close at hand. "It is not often that one is rushed out of the bunk with the general alarm at 3:15 A.M.; knowing something is wrong, rushing about putting on gear, life jackets, etc.," Captain J. P. Osnes, master of the tanker, writes. Volunteers Man Boat Ascertaining that the small plane had ditched alongside, the master asked for volunteers to man the starboard lifeboat. Re­ action to the call was so spon­ taneous, the Captain said later, that some of the Seafarers had to be taken out in case it was necessary to launch the port boat, too. "The seas were rough and it was raining," Osnes stated. "In my opinion, this SIU crew knew they were endangering their own safety by manning the lifeboat. From the time the alarm sound­ ed until the boat was in the water, only five minutes had elapsed. I have been sailing for 25 years and this was the fastest time on getting a lifeboat over the side I have ever witnessed. The efficiency of the entire op­ eration was a show in skilled seamanship." To Pilot Bullock, the rescue was near-miraculous. "I was in the water for close to two hours while six men in a small boat from the ship tried to get to me," he relates. "They really did a terrific job. I'm sur­ prised they could even launch the boat in those seas. The only thing I could do was to turn on a flashlight every time I hit the top of a wave." Bullock had just time to put on a life jacket after the plane submerged and bobbed back to the surface. Standing on a wing, he attempted to inflate a life raft, but the high winds blew it out of his hands and knocked him into the seas. Lifeboat Engine Goes He said he was foundering at one point, blinded by the spray and gagging on the salt water, when his hand struck a life jacket thrown by the men in the lifeboat—^fortunately with good aim. With this additional jacket, he managed to keep his head above water most of the time, until pulled aboard the small boat, which had burned out its engine during the search. Final­ ly, he was hauled aboard the Overseas Alice, from which he was picked up at daylight by a Coast Guard helicopter dis­ patched from Long Beach. Taken to Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, Bul­ lock was treated for exposure and minor injuries. It was there he vowed he would "stick to flying over land" after his ex­ perience in battling 15-foot swells and a 40-knot gale in the dark. Bullock, 47, is a veteran pilot who has logged four years ferrying light planes to Vietnam. Captain Osnes put it this way: "I would like to take this oppor­ tunity to say that I have never sailed with a better unlicensed crew. This rescue operation was smooth and team work so evi­ dent that truly I saw the broth­ erhood of the sea and commend the SIU and its members." Andrew E. Gibson Sworn In As MARAD Chief WASHINGTON — Andrew E. Gibson has been sworn in to head the Maritime Administra­ tion, still within the U.S. Depart­ ment of Commerce. The oath was administered by Commerce Sec­ retary Maurice H. Stans, who said that Gibson was taking on "probably the toughest job of Gibson all" in the de­ partment. Stans declared that Gibson was offered the post after an extensive screening process indicated that he had the "approval of all segments of the maritime industry, subsi­ dized, unsubsidized, shipbuild­ ers, labor and management." Before coming to his present post, the 47-year-old Gibson had been a vice-president with the management consulting firm of Diebold in New York. He previously has been vice presi­ dent of the New York Shipping Association, a member of the advisory board of the U.S. Mer­ chant. Marine Academy, a gov­ ernor of the Propeller Club of New York, and a director of the National Cargo Bureau. Gibson's nomination as Mari­ time Administrator by President Nixon was confirmed by the Senate last month on March 13. ••: . -i .'-IJV The Overseas Alice (Maritime Overseas) which picked up downed pilot Warren Bullock after he was forced to ditch plane in storm. �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG April, 1969 'Hypocriticar Tax Laws Responsible For 'Runaway Ships/ Legislators Say WASHINGTON—^Two con­ gressmen who spoke at recent meetings at the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department both highlighted the necessity of countering the growing menace of "runaway-flag" shipping by closing present tax loopholes which encourage foreign regis­ try of American-owned vessels. Representative Frank Thomp­ son, Jr. (D-N.J.) told the union leaders representing nearly sev­ en million members that "as a minimum we ought to set a high price on 'runaway' shipping; as a maximum we ought to work to have these vessels restored to American registry." Thompson said this goal could be at least partially ac­ complished by closing present tax loopholes which allow American companies which reg­ ister their ships abroad to escape paying U.S. income taxes. "Perhaps in this way—^by raising the ante on these 'run­ away' operators, we can take some of the 'convenience' out of this scheme of building, regis­ tering and crewing their ships abroad. "At least we will force them to pay some of the cost of run­ ning the government—and the tax revenue which results could all be ear-marked for the re­ building of the American fleet which they have helped to destroy." Thompson called for a stepup in American ship construc­ tion, declaring: "If we can find the endless billions of dollars that are needed for other programs like space exploration, then we can find the dollars that are neces­ sary to save our fleet from total destruction." He urged that prompt atten­ tion be given to a new maritime program that would concentrate on development of vessels "built in this country, registered in this country, and crewed by Sea­ farers from this country," and stressed that it be "fair and equitable to all segments of this industry," instead of serv­ ing just "a few selected com­ panies." U.S. Slipping Badly At a similar meeting, Repre­ sentative Jacob Gilbert (DN.Y.) pointed out that the United States, once the world's leading maritime power, is now slipping badly in the maritime race due to a continuous decline in shipbuilding and to an in'crease in the registration of American-owned vessels in such countries as Liberia and Leb­ anon. Last year the U.S. ranked 10th in shipbuilding, Gilbert said, with the Japanese launch­ ing 17 million tons of shipping compared with a total of 441,000 for the U.S. At present the U.S. ranks fifth in size of its merchant fleet but it is expected to drop to sixth place behind the Soviet Union this year. The problem of the runaway ships has become so acute, he said, that for the first time American-owned and Ameri­ can-operated ships flying foreign flags now have a greater car­ rying capacity than our do­ mestic fleet. "A total of 434 Americanowned ships now sail the seas under 17 foreign flags," Gilbert noted, "and their cargo capacity exceeds the total capacity of the 976 merchant vessels remaining in our domestic fleet." Last June the U.S.-owned foreign flag fleet had a capacity of 16.5 million tons while the U.S. domestic fleet had a capac­ ity of 15.3 million tons. This represented an increase in the U.S. foreign-flag tonnage of Upholsterers Morale Still Mgh After five-Months on Strike AUSTIN, Tex. —- A strike against the Economy Furniture Company by Local 456 of the Upholsterers' International Un­ ion, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, is now in its fifth month. Despite a certified victory in an NLRB-conducted election by the Upholsterers in May, 1968, by a vote of 252 to 83, the union reports continued refusal on the part of Milton T. Smith, the company's president, to comply with an NLRB order to bargain in good faith. Management here has ob­ structed all efforts to organize the workers, more than 85 per­ cent of whom are MexicanAmericans. Two previous at­ tempts to unionize the shop were unsuccessful, until the break­ through last year, which the un­ ion has been unable to consum­ mate in terms of a contract. Despite this, however, and the added fact that management has resorted to bias towards its employees in the form of ethnic name-calling, the union reports that morale among the workers "has never been higher." Two recent resolutions adopt­ ed by MTD and its affiliates pledged the full support of la­ bor in opposing and publicizing the company's "unfair, unjust and biased" attitude. Contribu­ tions may be sent to the Texas AFL-CIO in Austin, Texas, ear­ marked for the UIU Local 456 Strike Fund. The Economy Furniture Company makes products mar­ keted under the Bilt-Rite, West­ ern Provincial and Smithtown Maple names. 800,000 tons, said Gilbert, add­ ing, "There is every indication that this trend will continue— foreign flag capacities increasing at the expense of our domestic fleet." U.S. vessels sailing under foreign flags are called "run­ away ships," Congressman Gil­ bert explained, "because their owners deliberately run away from American registry in order to escape American taxes, American seafarers' pay scales, and American safety standards. "There is not, in my opinion, any excuse for the moral and ethical perversity that impels a shipping company to register its vessels in another country, thus depriving American sea­ farers of jobs and paychecks that should belong to them, and of course depriving the U.S. Treasury of needed revenue." Tax Laws Hypocritiad However, he continued, U.S. tax iaws "hypocritically encour­ age this tax swindle and jobstealing practice by permitting the runaways to enjoy huge tax exemptions." He said that U.S. shipping firms will probably continue to register their vessels in Liberia and Lebanon as long as the U.S. government makes it profitable for them through large tax windfalls. Gilbert recalled that the fed­ eral Maritime Administration had also advocated repeal of the tax exemptions bestowed on foreign-flag ships "but that agency's advice — like labor's has b^n ignored by Congress." "Abolishing the tax exemp­ tions would end for once and for all the runaway ship prac­ tice and return to our country thousands of jobs for American Seafarers and millions of dol­ lars in American tax revenues." SEAFARERS^LOG April 1969 • Vol. XXXI. No. 6 Offlelkl Publication of the Seafarer* International Union of North America. Atlantic, Gulf, X,akcs and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAin, HALL, Preeident CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Vice-Free. Vice-President AL KERR LINDSET WlLUAlfS See.-Treae. Viee-President AL TANNER ROBERT HATTHEWE Viee-Preeident Vice-President Editor HARRY WRTSCHEN Aesietant Editors WILL KABP . CHARI.ES SVENSON staff Photographer ANTHONY ANBALDI PikllilMt •SRthly at no MMIS lilani AMRH I.E., WsiktRitSR, 0. C. 2001t ky tki Suftren iRtirRStlsaal URISR, Attaslh, tilf, Lakn ssi IslsRt Watsn ObtrM, AFL-CIO, 675 Fswtk ASNM, irssUya, R.T. 11232. Tel. NYMlatk 9-6600. OsssaO SISM ysitaia KM at Watklaitsai, D. C. NOTHAOTEO'O ATTERTIill: Far* 3579 •anh ikaaM ks nat ts Isatartn latsraatlsaai OalM, Atlsaiit, 6811, Uka sat laiaat Watsn Bbtrtst, AFL-CIO, 675 Fsartk AnaM, OrsMlya, R.T. 11232. Las Vegas showgirls gleefully dump their picket signs as news ar­ rives of a 50 percent increase in wages and benefits negotiated by the Guild of Variety Artists AFL-CIO just prior to strike deadline. Solidarity on the Chorus Line Wins Top Pact at Las Vegas LAS VEGAS, Nev.,—^High-kicking chorus girls here have a new production number all their own—entitled "How to Succeed in Bargaining Without Even Striking". Here in this desert oasis, where highly-sophisticated entertain­ ment and high-stakes gambling go hand in hand, 600 members of the American Guild of Variety Artists "broke the bank" at the casinos when they negotiated wage and fringe benefits amounting to a 50-percent hike over the three-year life of the agreement. Even more significant than the money package was the fact that the entertainers won their first six-day week in a business which runs around the clock and around the calendar. For years the singers, dancers and specialty entertainers had trod the boards seven nights a week, providing the lure to bring millions of visitors annually to the gambling tables. The sweeping victory was hammered out in a marathon, 18-hour bargaining session under the threat of a total blackout of the multibillion-dollar Strip hotels, with the three-year pact being ratified unanimously at a pre-dawn meeting which drew more than 450 tired but elated entertainers. Arrayed against them had been the money and muscle of the Nevada Resort Association, which represented such billionaire owners as Howard Hughes and Del Webb. But standing shoulderto-shoulder in support of AGVA was the entire Las Vegas labor movement. The Southern Nevada Trades and Labor Council and others had served warning on management that all of their mem­ bers would honor AGVA's picket lines—meaning that culinary workers, bartenders, musicians, stagehands, stationary engineers and other hotel employees would be unavailable for work in the event of an entertainers' strike. Faced with the impossible task of trying to operate their hotels without the 18,000 unionized employees, the hotel owners finally capitulated. For the showgirls and boys, the new contract provides a firstyear basic minimum of $228 a week for up to 13 shows in six days, as contrasted to the previous minimum of $193 for 15 shows in seven days. On top of this 36 percent first-year hike, AGVA members won four percent wage increases in each of the next two years, boosting the second-year minimum to $237 and the thirdye^ base to $246. The agreement set a six-hour day for five days and an eight-hour day on the sixth day. Entertainers will be paid an additional $17.54 per show for all shows over the basic 13-show-a-week con­ cept provided the extra shows fall within the regular work week; they will be compensated at time-and-one-half for all time beyond the regular six or eight-hour daily limit; and they will receive a double premium of $36.48 per show for all shows on the seventh day. These per-show rates will rise correspondingly in the second and third years of the contract. In addition to the wage package, the contract contains the first vacation and sick pay provisions for AGVA members here. In the second year of the contract, an amount equal to one percent of wages will be set aside for each of these funds, with the contribu­ tion increasing to two percent each for vacations and sick benefits in the third year. The union bargaining team, composed of rank-and-file members from both the big production extravaganzas and the more intimate lounge shows at each of the hotels, was headed by second Vice President Penny Singleton (the former "Blondie" of motion pic­ tures) and Howard Schulman, AGVA's general counsel. it-' �April, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Seven LOG Sm Sihoolship, Xharles S. Zimmerman,' is Christened Mrs. Rose Zimmerman christens ship with traditional bottle of champaigne. Looking on are Pres. William Pollock of Textile Workers: ILGWU First Vice Pres. Howard Molisani; Robert Matthews, President of Harry Lundeberg School and Rear Adm. H. L. Miller, commander of Naval Air Station, Patuxent, Md. Guest of honor Charles S. Zimmerman (at dais left) addresses assembled crowd attending cere­ monies. Seated on speakers' platform are (l-r): Matthews; Father Joseph O'Shey of St. Michael s Church, Ridge, Md.: ILGWU Honorary President David Dubinsky: SlU President Paul Hall: Linda Fearns, an em­ ployee of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship: and Kenneth Conklin, Director of the school. Representative Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.j, left, and Representa­ tive Jacob H. Gilbert (D-N.Y.) were among guests attending. Highly qualified instructors at the Lundeberg School train future Seafarers in all phases of seamanship. Indoor lessons are conducted in classrooms such as this aboard the ship. MARAD Adds Two Cyprus Ships To Cuba Blacklist WASHINGTON—Added to the Cuban blacklist by the Mari­ time Administration last month were two Cypriot-flag ships, the 2,867-gross-ton Coolady and the 7,237-ton Glee. These vessels will henceforth be barred from carrying U.S. government-generated cargoes because they called at Cuba, MARAD announced. Reinoved from the list were two vessels — the 7,256-ton Cypriot-flag Aiolos II which was scrapped, and the Tania, a for­ mer Lebanese-flag ship which was sold outright to Cuba by its owners. As of March 20, the Cuban blacklist totalled 177 ships ag­ gregating 1,264,886 gross tons. These vessels will not again be permitted to carry U.S.-generated cargoes until such time as their owners pledge that they— as well as any other ships Aey ovm or control—^will not engage further in the Cuban Trade. PINEY POINT, Md.—The Charles S. Zimmer­ man, a modem floating schoolship named in honor of the vice president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, was christened at the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship here last month. Attending the ceremonies—at which Zimmer­ man's wife. Rose, wielded the bottle to oflBcially christen the vessel—were many labor leaders, members of congress, civic and church leaders and ranking representatives of the military. In introducing Zimmerman to the assembled well-wishers, SIU President Paul Hall described the veteran trade unionist as a longstanding friend of the SIU—"one of the very few" who came to its assistance in the days when it was small and weak. "Because of the efforts of a Zimmerman," Hall declared, "the lives of many people, including our Seafarers, are much better today." Zimmerman replied that he was both "proud and humble" to be the recipient of such a tribute. He praised the efforts of the SIU in helping young men learn a meaningful trade and hailed the readi­ ness of Seafarers to assist other unions, regardless of size, that needed help—especially in organizing campaigns, where the "appearance of whitecapped Seafarers symbolized effective labor soli­ darity." The SIU named the vessel after Zimmerman in a salute to him as "the personification of man's concern for his fellow man" and as a "longtime fighter for human and civil rights and economic justice." The Charles S. Zimmerman is 230 feet long with four decks, fully equipped classrooms, a the­ atre and lecture hall which seats 300, and spa­ cious lounges. Future Seafarers attending the Harry Lundeberg School will also have full access to the ship's library which is devoted to maritime and labor history, political science and govern­ ment. Formerly the excursion ship Mt. Vernon, the vessel has carried thousands of tourists up and down the Potomac from Washington to the na­ tional shrine at Mt. Vernon. Other speakers at the christening ceremonies in­ cluded Representatives Jacob H. Gilbert and Hugh L. Carey, both New York Democrats; E. Howard Molisani, first vice president of the ILGWU; and the ILGWU's honorary president, David Dubinsky. Construction Unions Urge Passage Of New Job Safety Bill in Senate WASHINGTON — More workers were killed in the con­ struction industry last year than in any other industry in the United States, the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department has pointed out in urging Congress to enact a proposed construction safety bill. Since 1959, there has been no year in which fewer than 2,300 construction workers were killed on the job, nor less than 209,000 such workers dis­ abled, Department President C. J. Haggerty told the Senate Labor subcommittee in a state­ ment presented by Department Legislative Director Walter J. Mason. Noting that 2,800 additional workers have died since Hagerty testified last year before the House Labor Committee, his statement asked "how many construction workers must be killed ... to see safety legisla­ tion enacted?" Haggerty cited a Bureau of Labor Statistics report that 42 million man-days of work were lost in 1967 because of work stoppages. But construction workers alone had almost as many days lost—33.5 million— because of disabling injuries, he observed. A bill introduced by Subcom­ mittee Chairman Harrison Wil­ liams (D-N. J.) provides that on federal construction work no laborer or mechanic would be required to work in surround­ ings "or under working condi­ tions which are unsanitary, haz­ ardous, or dangerous" to health or safety. Williams opened hearings on the bill with a declaration that "the men who risk their lives erecting the buildings that house the government, who build our roads and bridges, our state uni­ versities and hospitals, do not have the benefits of protective legislation. There are no re­ quirements that safe and health­ ful working conditions prevail for them." He said the bill "breaks no new ground" but does provide remedies for years of oversight for workers who are "subjected to very high work injury and death rates." Introduced at the hearing were National Safety Council reports of an accident frequency rate of 12.24 per million manhours worked by the building trades in 1966-^ rate almost twice the all-industry rate of 6.91. Also presented were Labor Department reports showing rates of 20.7 per million manhours in electrical work, 24 in heavy construction, 28.8 in gen­ eral building and 43.9 in roofing and sheet metal work. Safety Director Alan F. Burch of the Operating Engi­ neers testified for the B&CTD Standing Committee on Safety. He said safety is a greater prob­ lem in construction than in in­ dustry generally because in a plant, safety me^asures can be economically justified more of­ ten than under the "ever-chang­ ing conditions" of a construc­ tion site. Japan Shipyards Set 1968 Record; U.S. Ranks Tenth World shipbuilding figures for 1968 found the United States bringing up the rear in a list of 10 nations, while Japan lead the parade with an all-time glo­ bal record. Japan launched 8,592,970 gross tons during the past year, topping all other nations by a vast margin. West Germany ranked second with just 1,351,828 tons. Only 441,125 tons of new shipping was produced by the United States—a poor showing eclipsed only by the poorer one registered in 1967, when the U.S. ranked 14th. Tankers and bulk carriers headed the list of new ships built during 1968. Tankers account­ ed for 39 percent of the new launchings while bulk carriers contributed some 33 percent. An outstanding increase was shown in the category of gen­ eral cargo vessels—3,146,238 tons in 1968 as compared with the previous year's total of 378,117 tons. �Page Eight SEAFARERS April, 1969 LOG RooneySeesMerchant Fleet Revival Cape San Diego Seafarers Urged to Protect Claims Prime Cure for Payments Defiiit WASHINGTON — Repre­ sentative Fred B, Rooney CDPa.) believes that immediate re­ vival of the disintegrating Amer­ ican merchant marine could be the nation's most effective weap­ on in lighting the economic threat posed by a balance-ofpayments deficit. The Pennsylvania Democrat, a member of the House Inter­ state and Foreign Commerce Committee, told a meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department here that "Every American cargo—either an ex­ port or import cargo—shipped in a foreign-flag vessel contrib­ utes toward a balance-of-payments deficit." "In 1966, for example, the Department of Commerce found that freight payments for im­ ports in foreign-flag vessels amounted to $1.3 billion," he said. "Our freight payments for exports carried in foreign-flag vessels cost another $2.4 bil­ lion. Here was a total of $3.7 billion paid in one year to trans­ port U.S. imports and exports in ships flying foreign flags, compared with the 1967 balance-of-payments deficit of $3.5 billion." Rooney declared that if American-flag merchant ships were carrying the same percent­ age of the nation's importexport trade in the 1960s that they were carrying in the 1930s —between 30 percent and 40 percent—the U.S. would have an assured balance-of-payments surplus. The congressman pointed out that in every year since 1893 the United States has sold more goods abroad than it has bought from foreign nations. In many of the years since World War H, however, our trade surplus has been wiped out by the huge American foreign aid programs and overseas military spending. "The result," he said, "has been substantial balance-of-payments deficits—with a total deficit of $23 billion for the 10-year pe­ riod of 1957 through 1966. We can no longer, unfortunately, depend on our export surplus to dissolve a large part of our pay­ ments deficit. Our export sur­ plus dropped from $3.5 billion in 1967 to $500 million last year, the lowest point in 18 years." Rooney proposed revival of the American merchant marine as a solution after citing other proposed remedies "some of them realistic and some of them illusory." He continued: "Some of the panaceas could be extremely risky. For exam­ ple, several schemes would, in varying degrees, reverse our rerciprocal trade policies which have been continued and im­ proved by Republican and Dem­ ocratic administrations alike Publicity Specialists Enlisted By Desperate Grape Growers SAN FRANCISCO — Cali­ fornia grape growers have been forced to hire the public rela­ tions firm of Whitaker and Bax­ ter in an attempt to counter the worldwide boycott of table grapes. The selection of the highpowered PR firm for an undis­ closed fee indicates the growers feel the time has come to make a massive counter-move to the growingly effective boycott led by the AFL-CIO Farm Work­ ers Organizing Committee. Whitaker and Baxter first at­ tracted national attention wh^ the firm received a reported $1 million back in 1948 to block former President Truman's push for national health insurance. That nationwide campaign was so successful that it wasn't until 1965 that Congress finally got around to passing Medicare. More recently and less suc­ cessfully, W and B was hired to mastermind the nationwide lob­ by campaign for a constitutional convention to circumvent the Supreme Court's one-man, onevote ruling. W and B was accused by sev­ eral senators of deceptive and misleading practices and of fail­ since World War II. A rever­ sion to protectionism could alienate many of our most valued allies in Europe and Asia. Worse than that, it could force those allies into the com­ mercial embrace of the Soviet Union and other Iron Curtain countries. At the very least, quotas or higher tariffs would inevitably provoke retaliatory quotas and tariffs against Amer­ ican products." Rooney outlined a second method of using a resuscitated American merchant marine to increase the U.S. balance-ofpayments surplus. "Each year we ship to needy nations around the globe nearly 16 million tons of foreign aid and Food-For-Peace cargoes," he pointed out. "More than 60 percent of these shipments are carried iii foreign bottoms. The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 specifies that at least 50 percent of such cargoes must be carried in U.S. ships. In fact, it was understood when the law was approved by Congress and signed by President Roosevelt that almost all government car­ go should be moved in U.S.-flag ships when they are available." "Maladaministration of the Cargo Preference provisions of the law," Rooney declared, "has actually injured our merchant fleet, because when the U.S. has to pay foreign shipowners and foreign crews to transport our cargoes we are literally shipping our dollars overseas. Food-ForPeace shipments should be car­ ried in American merchant ves­ sels not only to relieve hunger and starvation around the world but also to protect America's balance-of-payments. We must keep in mind, and so must our friends in Europe and Asia, that it is only a healthy American economy that enables us to af­ ford the enormous foreign aid program and the Food-ForPeace cargoes." The six Seafarers, mentioned below, who were crewmembers aboard the Cape San Diego (Penn Shipping) during the towing of the British tanker Lucellum in October of 1967, are urgently requested to get in touch with J. M. Fenton, Insurance Manager, Penn Shipping Company, Inc., 405 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, or SIU Headquarters 675 Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y., immediately. Failure to do so may result in the loss of a possible share due in the salvage of the Lucellum. In order to be represent­ ed in the salvage negotiations, each crew member must sign letters—available as indicated above— before October of this year or any claim they may have will be time barred, and therefore relinquished, according to law. The majority of the crewmembers aboard the Cape San Diego at the time of the salvage operation have already signed forms assuring their representation in the case. Urged to protect their interests in this matter promptly are: James Wailer Carl P. Gantz Josq»h Galardi Harry A. Smilfa Kennth Kinanger Joachim F. CScirello Any efforts by fellow Seafarers acquainted with the abovenamed men—^and aware of their present whereabouts—^will be appreciated in bringing this important matter to their at­ tention. Michigan Joins States Lines' Fleet of Modern Cargoliners NEW ORLEANS—Another new advanced-design cargoliner, the Michigan, has been launched at the Avondale Shipyard here for the SIU Pacific District-con­ tracted States Steamship Com­ pany. Last of a five-ship building program begun in 1967, the Michigan will join her sisterships, the Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in service for the San Francisco based line in the trans-Pacific trade. The 23-knot, 579-foot vessel has seven hatches with a cubic bale capacity of 855,000 feet. The ship's new design will per­ mit handling of break-bulk, con­ tainerized or unitized cargoes with equal eflSciency. Modem design facilities will enable her to be self-sustaining in the handling of both dry and reefer cargo containers up to 20 feet in length and 20 tons in wei^t. A 60-ton Stulken type heavy lift boom will serve two hatches. All decks are equipped with modem hydraulically controlled hatch covers, and weather deck integrity is assured by a patent­ ed sealing device developed by States Lines. Also included is equipment to control temperature and humid­ ity in all cargo compartments and stainless steel deep tanks. Both built-in compartments and portable reefer vans are refrig­ erated. The Michigan operates with a crew of 45 and can carry, in addition, 12 passengers in eight luxurious staterooms and an ele­ gant lounge. The new class vessels are the only cargoliners in Pacific serv­ ice equipped with gyro-controlled flume stabilizers to minimize the rolling of the ship at sea. The free water tank stabilizers will dampen the roll up to 75 percent in regular seas, provid­ ing a smooth voyage. ing to comply with federal lob­ bying laws. The charges were denied by Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen (R111.) who was pushing the cam­ paign in the Senate to get around the Supreme Court ruling. The first public effort of W and B on behalf of the grape growers was to publicize a chal­ lenge to the integrity of Look magazine's recent interview with Cesar Chavez, head of UFWOC. E. L. "Ted" Barr, Jr., presi­ liti'" dent of the California Grape and Tree Fruit League, was quoted by the PR firm in news releases sent around the country as say­ ing: "It is a frightening and shock­ ing thing when in face of the record a responsible national magazine such as Look gives the credibility it does to the false 'non-violent' preachments of Ce­ sar Chavez [who] has been hack­ ing away with his phony cam­ paign for so long now that thousands of people have come to believe him. . .." The AFL-CIO union official had called for continuation of non-violence as a vital part of Riding the waters of the Mississippi after launching at New Orleans, the Michigan is last of a fleet of the union effort to organize farm five freighters built for the SIU Pacific District-cgntracted States Steamship Company. Freighter and sisworkers. terships—^the Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming—feature unique gyro-controlled flume stabilizers. • ._ —'I "• . i'-' 1 ••••-a i �AprU, 1969 SEAFARERS Fresh from the Oven LOG Page Nine 50% Increase Prime Goal: AFL-CIO Seeks Major Revamping To Upgrade Social Security Benefits Steward Ralph Mills (left) admires fresh batch of Danish prepared by John Knudsen, baker on the Western Planet. Seafarers enjoyed the coffee break as the vessel headed for Subic Bay, Philippines. Major changes in the Social program as the only means of The statement advocated that Security Act to make it "a fully guaranteeing all Americans— additional benefits be financed adequate law, realistically tai­ rich and poor alike—"their from general revenue, employ­ lored to meet the needs of all right to health." er-employee contributions and the beneficiaries" have been And until that goal is an updating of the earnings base called for by the AFL-CIO reached, the statement stressed, on which contributions and Executive Council. the AFL-CIO will press for im­ benefits are based. It urged that The council's statement em­ provements and expansion of the improvements be followed phasized the need for increases Medicare—a program that labor by periodic adjustments linked in social security benefits "to helped bring to birth. to increases in active workers' make the goal of a 50 percent earnings so that retired citizens Gaps Need Filling increase a reality as soon as can participate in rising living The AFL-CIO "cannot be standards. possible." It reaffirmed labor's call for content with the pace of prog­ Drugs Coverage Urged a National Health Insurance ress in any of these areas," the On Medicare, the council council said, because "too many overwhelming gaps remain. urged Congress to eliminate "a These gaps must be filled by im­ major shortcoming" in the pro­ gram by including prescription mediate legislative action." The council noted that the drugs in its coverage. Eighty percent of persons 1967 AFL-CIO convention called for a 50 percent increase over 65 suffer from at least one in benefits in several steps and or more chronic ailments and Congress enacted a 13 percent "they purchase drugs nearly ship of congressional commit­ three times more often than do boost that same year. tees and subcommittees is deter­ persons under 65," the council "We joined with the aged in mined by seniority—and some of the most senior House Demo­ hailing that increase as a down noted. It also endorsed the recom­ crats come from "safe" southern payment toward our goal," the council said. "We also shared mendation of the Advisory districts. The eight full committee their disappointment as the in­ Council on Health Insurance for chairmen with more votes crease was quickly eroded by the Disabled that Medicare be extended to the disabled and against than for their party's price increases." The statement cited harsh thatThe hospitalization and sup­ position were listed as: William M. Colmer (Miss.), Rules Com­ statistics underscoring the need plementary medical insurance programs be combined into one mittee; John L. McMillan (S.C.), for improved benefits: system. Eight million social security District of Columbia Commit­ Pointing out that the average tee; L. Mendel Rivers (S.C.), beneficiaries remain below the monthly social security benefit level of poverty. Without their Armed Services; Richard H. for the disabled now is $112, Ichord (Mo.), Un-American social security checks, only 5 the council said it is impossible Activities; W. R. Poage (Tex.), percent would be above the Agriculture; Wilbur D. Mills $3,900 annual income the La­ for them "to meet their high medical costs from such meager (Ark.), Ways & Means; Olin E. bor Department says is needed payments." to maintain "even a moderate Teague (Tex.), Veterans' Affairs, "The disabled, like the aged," standard of living for an elderly and George H Mahon (Tex.), couple." The average social it observed, "are a high cost, Appropriations. security check for a retired high risk group who frequently Of this group, all but Mahon worker is $98 a month, about need extensive health services at and Teague had worse voting $166 for aged couples. Mil­ a time they can least afford records than the Republican lions receive less including near­ them." Further, the council called average. Colmer, in fact, voted ly 3 million who get the $55 a for enactment of a greatly ex­ against his party's position on month minimum. panded child health program as The ultimate answer to ero­ every one of the 30 issues. an extension of Medicare "to The study showed that the sion of benefits by increased liv­ assure readily accessible com­ ing costs "will continue to be a 145 members of the DSG voted serious problem until an auto­ prehensive health services for for the Democratic position on matic adjustment of benefits is all mothers and their children, 91 percent of the key issues, included in the system," the including pre- and post-natal while the 102 non-DSG Demo­ council said. care." crats supported their party only 31 percent of the time, only Between Sailings slightly better than the 24 per­ cent support from Republicans on the key issues. The DSG study also cited an analysis by Congressional Quar­ terly, an authoritative non-parti­ san publication, which showed that the number of Democrats voting more in opposition than in support of Democratic posi­ tions has been steadily increas­ ing over the past 16 years. The 90th Congress had a record high of 53 Democratic House members who voted with Republicans more frequently than with the majority of their Democratic colleagues on 171 roll call votes. Of this group, Seafarers enjoying a game of dominoes in the New York hall while 30 were committee or subcom­ waiting to ship out are (left to right): Isidoro Valles, reeferman; Guill Castro, AS; Camilo Rojas, wiper, with pensioner John Hernandez. mittee chairmen. Voting Records of Committee Heads Show Many Opposed Party in House Washing^ —^Some of the most inffuential Democrats in Congress — the chairmen of House Committees and subcom­ mittees — might as well have been Republicans, a recent vot­ ing study shows. ^ Eight of the 21 chairmen of full committees and 34 of 93 subcommittee chairmen voted against their party's national position more than they voted with their party. In fact six conunittee chair­ men and 34 subcommittee chair­ men were more opposed to Democratic programs than the average Republican. As a group, they opposed their party's posi­ tion 92 percent of the time on key votes, while Republicans averaged only 76 percent op­ position. The documented charge was made by the Democratic Study Group, an organization of liberal House Democrats. The DSG measured the record of 247 House Democrats on 30 key votes during the 90th Congress. The votes included such issues as housing, educational appro­ priations, civil rights and con­ sumer protection. The study found that 75 Democrats voted against their party more than they supported it—and that this group included a disproportionate number of committee chairmen. Chairman- Labor Mobilizes to Preserve One Man-One Vote in States American labor has mobilized for a state-by-state drive to pre­ serve one man, one vote appor­ tionment of state legislatures. The campaign was launched by the AP^-CIO Executive Council and the front line troops will be the federation's state central bodies. The goal is to block the move to call a constitutional conven­ tion to initiate an amendment which would nullify the Supreme Court rulings which ended mi­ nority, rural domination of most of the state legislatures. Under a never-used provision of the Constitution, legislatures of two-thirds of the states can cause such a convention to be held. There is considerable con­ troversy over the number of states which have passed valid resolutions to convene a con­ vention but the Executive Coun­ cil termed the threat "critical." Must FigM ReactkHiaries "We intend to fight to uphold the landmark Supreme Court decision now under attack by reactionary forces," the AFLCIO statement said. Warning that both represent­ ative government and effective state action to meet the urban crisis are endangered by the move to amend the Constitu­ tion, the council declared: "We call on all AFL-QG state central bodies to fight in their respective legislatures against those who would con­ vene a constitutional conven­ tion. "We urge state central bodies to work to rescind resolutions calling for such a convention in those states where such regres­ sive action has been taken. "In those critical states where no action has been taken, state central bodies should fight the attempts by reactionary forces to adopt such resolutions." Tlie AFL-CIO warned that "this state-to-state battle will de­ termine whether the nation re­ tains or discards democracy's most basic precept." �Page Ten SEAFARERS April, 1969 LOG SlU Lifeboat Class No. 221 Plugging Imome Tax Loopholes Cited As Vital to Renew Pablit ConRdente BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—The incomes are now preferentially double standard in the nation's taxed or totally tax exempt. income tax system that allows • Removal of the impov­ the wealthiest to escape all taxes erished from the federal income while forcing those in poverty tax rolls. to pay must be corrected, the • Reduction, in the relative AFL-CIO declared. tax burden for low and moder­ To allow the situation to go ate income families. unchecked will further sap pub­ lic confidence in the tax system • Rqection of proposals for as it places an unfairly great new tax loopholes which would part of the burden of running create even more inequities in the federal government on the the federal tax structure. shoulders of America's middle • Dismissal of all proposals income families, the Executive for a federal retail sales tax Council said. whether called "value-added" Top Priority Asked taxes or offered clearly as a tax on consumers. The need for tax reform is overriding and Congress and the • Repeal of the provision for Administration "must assign top double depreciation on all new legislative priority" to substan­ construction, except low and tial and thoroughgoing reform, moderate-rental housing, and the council added, noting its the 7 percent tax credit for busi­ approval of the tax reform in­ ness investment in machines and vestigation being conducted by equipment. the House Ways and Means The dimensions of the tax in­ Committee. equities were sketched in by the To achieve a standard of tax council which pointed out that fairness the council called for: in 1967 there were 21 indi­ • Elimination of the loop­ viduals who reported incomes holes of special tax privileges above $1 million and 155 who for wealthy families and corpo­ reported incomes of $200,000 or over who "paid not a dollar rations. of federal income tax." • A minimum tax on all in­ In contrast, some 2.5 million come over a total which would persons whose incomes fell be­ provide protection for legitimate small investors but which would low the government's "poverty require at least some tax pay­ line" paid $100 million in fed­ ment from those whose huge eral income taxes. The council statement stressed that three major loopholes— capital gains, exemption of state and local bond interest and tax windfalls on oil, gas and other mineral operations cost the Treasury about $7 billion in 1968. The 7 percent tax credit on investment in machinery and equipment produced over $2 billion for corporations. Imbalance Scored It pointed out that there, are now tax forgiveness proposals to provide incentives to industry for on-the-job training and in­ ner-city industrial development, proposals that "would further reward those who already more than adequately share in AMerica's affluence, and use as their excuse the plight of those who are today in trouble because they do not have their fair share." Neither will "no strings" fed­ eral aid plans that are not sub­ ject to congressional scrutiny of specific programs be in the na­ tional interest, the council de­ clared. It singled out specifically "talk of adding new tax gim­ micks for real estate operators, many of whom are now more accurately considered in the business of constructing tax shelters rather than shelters for people." Graduates of the March 12 SlU Lifeboat Class are (seated l-r) Jeorge Depetris, Ralph Trotman, Francis Munoz and Arthur Tobias. Standing are, (I. to r.): Robert Staplin, John Davis, Bob Kirk and Tom Pettway. This latest lifeboat group included 19 more graduates. Seated (l-r) are Scot Timothy, David Epier, Richard Benton, Joe Pazos and Richard Daisley. Standing (l-r) are James Davis, John Russell, John Gaskins, Robert Bousson, Daniel Maitland and Sam Luko. The lifeboat classes are led by SlU Instructor Paul McGarin. A Step Backward New Taylor Law Amendments Hit Public Employees Hard rl. ALBANY, N. Y. — Governor Nelson Rockefeller has signed into law harsh new penalties voted by the Republican-controlled New York Legislature against public workers and their unions. The Republican governor and the legislature acted despite sharp warnings from many quarters that the move would be self-defeating. Under the amendments to the Taylor law govern­ ing public employee labor relations, effective April 1, for any day of absence during a strike a worker will lose two days' pay and must serve a year's probation with loss of job tenure. Fines against unions, formerly a maximum of $10,000 a day, were made possibly co­ extensive with the union's treasury and assets. Dues checkoff rights now may be suspended without limit instead of an 18-month maximum period under the original Taylor law. The 1967 law had in it no prohibitions against un­ fair employer practices. The new amendments pro­ hibit some new practices, effective September 1, but fail to list others and provide no penalties for em­ ployer violations. Law Favors Employers State AFL-CIO President Raymond R. Corbett had opposed the new law, noting that penalties in the law as enacted in 1967 had tipped the balance in bargain­ ing power in favor of government employers and that the changes would mean a further imbalance with still greater inducement for some agency heads to take ad­ vantage of public workers in contract bargaining. In a statement issued following passage, Corbett as­ serted that the action "deals a devastating new blow to fair and full worker-employer relations in govern­ ment." He added that "this punishment binge on which the legislature's leadership and the state admin­ istration has embarked, is not only illogical and unrea­ sonable, but will in the final analysis prove selfdefeating." "Mort Recessive Ever" "This is the most repressive labor legislation ever passed in the free world," President Jerry Wurf of the State, County and Municipal Employees asserted. "And like all repressive laws, it will create chaos in labor-management relations." President David Selden of the Teachers labeled it "out and out class legislation" that will force "teachers and other public employees ... to enter in politics on a much more extensive and far wider scale than in the past." Theodere W. Kheel, who has mediated numerous public employee disputes, said that the revisions "will do more harm than good." He added that they were rushed through the legislature "without an opportunity -for deliberation, debate or public comment." Twice in the week the bill was slated for action, the New York Times sharply criticized the measure, warn­ ing that the Taylor law's predecessor, the CondonWadlin law, had been a failure for the 20 years of its existence because penalties oh individuals were so se­ vere they were unenforceable. To reinstate such pen­ alties, it said, "may give legislators an outlet for their frustrations but it will never bring civil service peace." It called the measure "a legislative monstrosity" and the penalties "so punitive that they may prove selfdefeating." The New York Post tagged the bill "ill conceived" and a "mindless regression" deserving a "blunt guber­ natorial veto." Idle Hope That was an idle hope, however, since the terms of the bill had been hammered out during weeks of con­ ferences that included Rockefeller, members of his staff and Republican legislative leaders. However, calling up the bill March 7 was delayed more than five hours as the leadership worked franti­ cally to round up the required 76 Republican votes necessary for passage in the Assembly. In the final 76 to 71 tally, two GOP members voted with the Demo­ crats in the negative. With a comfortable party ma­ jority, no problem was met with passage in the Senate, though one Republican joined the Democrats in the 32-to-25 vote. Debate on the bUl took more than three hours in each house, with proponents belatedly revealing that to meet specific inconsistencies readily seen in the bill, additional bills were to be introduced, passed and sent to the governor. Normally a bill requiring amendment is changed in committee or from the floor. This requires, however, a delay of several days before a vote. But the em­ phasis was so much on speedy passage that it was an­ nounced that "chapter amendments"—bills to correct the basic bill—would be scheduled for action shortly. 'Threat' VanSsiies The speed had initially been invoked because of a threat of a strike by an unaffiliated organization of state employees set for March 13. The strike had been called off days before the bill was to be acted on, however. Since the Taylor law enactment, there had been two strikes by New York City union teachers and one by sanitation workers. Last November the first work stop­ page by state employees, involving non-professional personnel in mental hospitals, occurred as the workers insisted on the right—until then not given them—to choose their own union to bargain for them rather than an organization designated by the governor. �April, 1969 SEAFARERS Good Check Seafarer Fred Schlffelbine, left, shown receiving check from Jackie R. Hall, Duluth port agent, for overtime on the John P. Reiss. Transit Union Leader Urges Look at Free Transportation PITTSBURGH^Total elim­ ination of fares on transit sys­ tems may be an ultimate need in helping cities solve "intense social problems," President John M. Elliott of the Amalgamated Transit Union declared here re­ cently. "Certainly the free transpor­ tation concept is worthy of a fair try," Elliott told an inter­ national conference on urban transportation attended by trans­ portation, government, educa­ tion, labor, and management officials. Elliott called attention to a conclusion of the National Ad­ visory Commission on Civil Dis­ orders that urban disturbances have in part resulted from the frustration of ghetto dwellers who are unable to reach places where jobs are. Free transportation, he said, would make public transporta­ tion "an instrument for eco­ nomic and social equality" available to the poor, the elder­ ly, the handicapped and "other members of our non-motorized population." The loss of fare boxes, he suggested, could be made up for in taxes levied on a per capita basis among the residents of a metropolitan area served by a transit system. Noting that the tax in most cases would not exceed $2 to $4 a month, he said that "in terms of the true benefits that such free transportation might provide, this additional tax burden might well be worth the price." In his address, Elliott also said that his union takes "par­ ticular pride" in pioneering the "exact fare collection system" to relieve bus drivers and other transit operators from carrying change. The system was first sought by the union in Washington, fol­ lowing the fatal shooting of a bus driver in a robbery. The idea has since been adopted in Oakland, Calif., Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and other cities. Requiring passengers to have the exact fare and not seek change, has reduced holdups of transit systems and provided the public with safer and faster serv­ ice, Elliott said. He noted that the program, first greeted by management in Washington as a "harebrained scheme," has since won nearly unanimous approval in the cities where it has been tried. Page Eleven LOG flO Commission Will Investigate Greeks'Repression of Union Rights GENEVA—^The Internation­ al Labor Organization's Gov­ erning Body has appointed a three-man commission to inves­ tigate charges that the Greek government has been repressing trade union rights. The 48 worker, government and employer delegates to the Governing Body, the ILO's executive board, set up the commission during a three-day meeting here over the objections of the military dictatorship now in power in Athens. In a note to the ILO, the Greek government attempted to sidestep the charges made by western worker delegates at the last ILO conference that it had dissolved trade unions and jailed their leaders in defiance of its ILO obligations. "We are not aware of the ar­ rest of any trade unionists," Greek authorities asserted. "In any case," the note continued, "anyone arrested and held in detention has been carrying on Communist and not trade union activities." Objections Rejected But Jean Moeri, chairman of the worker delegates, brushed aside on behalf of the workers' group the Greek objections to the appointment of the commis­ sion. He said that Athens "shouldiiave no fear of any im­ partial investigation if it has a clear conscience." The proposal to hold the in­ vestigation was adopted without a vote after Moeri had reminded the board that "human rights are worth defending." The com­ mission is to be headed by Lord Devlin, a long-time British jur­ ist. Worker delegates again led the defense of human rights when they challenged the inclu­ sion of Morocco among the countries invited to send worker, government and labor represent­ atives to an ILO meeting in Oc­ tober on the leather and foot­ wear industry. »Rudolph Faupl of the Ma­ chinists, the U.S. worker dele­ gate, speaking for all the work­ ers, denounced the sending of an invitation to a country "where free trade unions do not exist." This was an allusion to the sentencing to a year's imprison­ ment of the Moroccan worker delegate to last year's ILO con­ ference because of a speech criticizing the government. Announcing that the workers would not vote for the invitation to Morocco, Moeri told the board that it was "inadmissible" that a worker delegate should be arrested for a speech made at an ILO conference. The Governing Body ap­ proved for submission to the June assembly a budget of $60,999,200 for the years 1970 and 1971. New Cigarette Study Finds; Nicotine Content Up in Some Brands WASHINGTON — If you're smoking more and enjoying it less these days, it could be due to the fact that you're getting more nicotine out of that puff than you used to get. An updated report by the Federal Trade Commission indicates that 78 brands of ciga­ rettes showed a higher nicotine content than in the agency's previous testing. The FTC's data stems from smoking machine results which scientifically measure such factors as tar and nicotine in the cigarette smoke. Latest tests, conducted in February, com­ pare the nicotine content of the various brands with similar testing last October. It was the first time the Commission had issued individual comparative data on successive test results. The FTC's announcement has already drawn both smoke and fire from Capitol Hill, where Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah), a leading critic of the cigarette industry in Congress, saw the implications in the findings as "at best dis­ couraging and, at worst, sinister." Moss expressed the hope that the reasons for the FTC's disturbing findings could be found either in variations of testing methods or in the tobacco crop itself because of inconstant weath­ er conditions during the growing period. "If not," the Utah lawmaker declared, "it would be hard to escape the conclusion that the companies that produce these brands are deliberately stepping up the nicotine yield." Bid for More Addidion? "To what purpose?" the Senator asked. "We know that nicotine is closely related to the ad­ dictive or habituating quality of cigarette smok­ ing. If the change proves to be deliberate, we can only assume that it reflects a conscious tactic to stem the trend toward giving up smok­ ing which is now making significant inroads on cigarette sales." Moss, newly named chairman of the con­ sumer subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, declared that he intends to pursue his crusade against smoking. He believes that data developed by various groups both within and outside of government show a clear corre­ lation between smoking and such diseases as lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease. Rallying to the defense of the cigarette manu­ facturers, the Tobacco Institute, the industry's propaganda arm, brushed the whole issue off as "absurd." Rather, it assailed the govern­ ment agency for "recognized deficiencies in FTC testing and reporting." The institute insists there is no proven relationship between health and the amount of tar and nicotine in cigarettes. Spokesmen for the FTC point out that the increase in nicotine content revealed by its testing did hot result from any changes in test­ ing methods. "We are using a uniform pro­ cedure," they noted. Involved in the changes in nicotine content disclosed by the FTC are some of the leading sellers on the cigarette market. For example, king-sized Winston filters contained 1.4 milli­ grams of nicotine per cigarette in February, up from 1.3 milligrams in October. Similarly, kingsized Chesterfield filters increased from 1.3 milligrams to 1.5 milligrams. It is the first time that the ILO has budgeted for a twoyear period. The new practice was adopted to enable better planning of the ILO efforts to promote higher living and work­ ing standards the world over. The new budget represents an annual increase over that for the current year of 7.1 percent. Worker members of the Gov­ erning Body also launched a drive to have their chairman elected president of the ILO's 50th anniversary conference in June. The election of Moeri, the Swiss head of the ILO's work­ ers group since 1961, would be just recognition of the contri­ bution of trade unionists to the first 50 years of ILO activities, the group said. Scientists Find Plastic Seaweed Can Fool Nature BRIGHTON, England—Just as the planting of trees stops land erosion so, scientists have discovered, does seaweed re­ duce coastal erosion. Now they have decided to play "one-upmanship" with na­ ture. Since seaweed doesn't al­ ways occur naturally in the places and in the quantity where it is most needed, English and Danish scientists here have de­ veloped polypropylene tufts which float upright when they are anchored at one end. Such plastic seaweed tufts have already been successfully tested off the English cOast and have proved their worth, the scientists claim. A similar experimental use of artificial seaweed has been tak­ ing place in this country at the Wallops Island, Virginia, station of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA has been attaching orange-colored plastic fronds to frames "planted" on the sea floor. Its scientists claim that the frames will create an under­ water drag that will cause sand particles suspended in shallow water to fall to the bottom and remain there. The buildup of sand offshore is supposed to buf­ fer the shoreline and help to minimize erosion. An extra "bonus" noted in the NASA experiment was the attraction of fish and other ma­ rine life to the area. Beach erosion has received a great deal of attention over the years but various attempts to halt it—^by the use of such items as auto wrecks, old Christmas trees, etc.—have not met with any noticeable success. �SEAFARERS Page Twelve Two States Hit on Violations Of Voting Rights Procedures WASHINGTON —The Su­ preme Court handed down a broad interpretation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, declaring that two southern states had violated the law by changing lo­ cal election procedures without getting the consent of the Jus­ tice Department or the federal courts. But the court refused never­ theless, to order new elections sought by Negro petitioners in Mississippi and Virginia. Whether the challenged local laws must be given a federal review before the next elections is, in effect, up to Congress. The Voting Rights Act will ex­ pire in 1970 unless Congress extends it. Two of the Mississippi laws point up the issues which were before the court. One authorized two counties to elect members of the Board of Supervisors at-large instead of by election districts as in the past. The effect was tliat all Negro candidates were defeated, while several might have been elected under the district sys­ tem. Elective Post Abolished Another law abolished elec­ tion of school superintendent in 11 counties with large Negro populations and made the job appointive. The majority decision, by Chief Justice Earl Warren, held that the Voting Rights Act ap­ plied because it "was aimed at the subtle, as well as the ob­ vious, state regulations which have the effect of denying citi­ zens their right to vote because of race." The Voting Rights Act im­ posed special restrictions on those states where the low per­ centage of the Negro voting age population participating in the 1964 presidential election was considered a presumption of racial discrimination. In those areas, literacy tests were voided and new restric­ tions on the right to vote were banned unless either the Justice Department or a three-judge federal court in the District of Columbia ruled they were not discriminatory. The Supreme Court's ruling was based on failure to follow this procedure. Justice Hugo L. Black dissented from the deci­ sion. Justice John Marshall Harlan dissented in one case, involving the at-large election. And three justices William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall and Harlan—argued that hav­ ing found that the states had violated the law, the Supreme Court should have ordered new elections. Harlan complained that "the decision pays lip service to the Voting Rights Act but gives it no effect." •M \ < 'J About 360 hardcore jobless workers will be trained for building and construction jobs under a contract signed between the U.S. Department of Labor and the Builders' Association of Kansas City. Nearly $1.5 mil­ lion in federal funds has been allotted for the two-year train­ ing project under the Job Op­ portunities in the Business Sec­ tor (JOBS) program, being car­ ried out in cities across the U.S. by the National Alliance of Busi­ nessmen. Cooperating in the program are six AFL-CIO building trades unions—Carpen­ ters, Painters, Bricklayers, Lath­ ers, Plasterers and Cement Ma­ sons and Laborers. * « * James H. Rademacher, presi­ dent of the Letter Carriers, has been elected chairman of the AFL-CIO Government Employ­ ees Council, whose 34 affiliates bargain for federal workers in nearly every branch of govern­ ment. Rademacher, who had been council vice chairman, will fill out the 1969 term of the late E. C. Hallbeck, who had headed the GEC since 1961. Hallbeck's successor as president of the Postal Clerks, Francis S. Filbey, was elected vice president of the GEC. President Frank W. King of the Ohio AFL-CIO was saluted by the Ohio Senate for "effec­ tive service" on behalf of Ohio workers when he resigned re­ cently to devote full attention to his state central body duties. He had served 16 years in the Sen­ ate after two years in the Ohio House. Miss Marigene Valiquette (D-Toledo) was named to take King's Senate seat after serving in the House from the 79th district for eight years with a perfect Ohio COPE voting record. * • • The number of union mem­ bers in California rose to a rec­ ord 2.03 million in 1968, the state's Department of Industrial Relations reported. A 39,000 increase continued a steady rise since 1962. The state survey showed the biggest growth in the public employee field. Members of the Meat Cutters employed in the New York City fur industry have approved a new three-year agreement pro­ viding a wage and benefit pack­ age valued at $1.47 an hour. The agreement was negotiated by the union's Furrier's Joint Council. April, 1969 LOG The First Step? f: .'.>p J If one should get the impression—after studying the recently released typical budgets for a family of four figured out by the Department of La­ bor's Bureau of Labor Statistics—that workers don't smoke, borrow money, buy things on the installment plan or educate their children, it's only because the agency just didn't see fit to make any allowances for such items. Another thing they didn't allow for is savings—^but maybe here theyjre right. The cost of living these days certainly doesn't leave much of a cushion. Calculated for living costs as they were in the spring of 1967, the budg­ ets are laid out in three levels. The lowest level bears a price tag of $5,915 a year, a "moderate" budget takes $9,076 to achieve and the "above moder­ ate" one requires $13,050 a year. A table of costs provided—city by city— shows that living levels in most of the major cities require more than these figures allow. In addition to this, most expenses—including those for food, housing, transportation, clothing, personal care and medical care—^have increased con­ siderably since the spring of 1967. This alone knocks the figures somewhat out of whack. Even so, how do they stack up to what U.S. workers earn? Half of U.S. industrial workers today earn less than $6,000 a year— most of them less than the ELS minimum budget for living at the lowest level. The millions now receiving the legal minimum wage—$1.60 an hour— earn a magnificent $3,828 a year, if they work all year without any layoff. The government says $3,200 a year is the "poverty level." The picture is clear —millions of American workers live at the poverty level or close to it, few achieve a "moderate" living level, and only a comparative handful get beyond that. No wonder so many wives are forced to work and so many husbands must moonlight to make ends meet. As a result, their children are often brought up with less than desirable care and guidance. And compare the workers' dilemma with the constant upward spiral in corporation profits. Land of plenty? For whom? It begins to look like the ELS is trying to kid the public. Maybe that ex­ plains why its latest cost of living figures are two years behind and arranged —for the first time—in three budget levels. For the millions who find it im­ possible to live at a "moderate" level, let alone the one above the "moderate," there is always the race to rise above the government's definition of poverty. "1 :j • �April, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Thirteen Labor Department figures—for Spring of 1967—Show: City Family Needed $9,076 a Year for ^Moderate' Living Three Budget Standards For Metropolitan Areas The annual cost of living in 39 cities for a four-person family on three economic levels in the spring of 1967: Lower Moderate Higher Budget Budget Budget Honolulu $7,246 $10,902 $16,076 New York 6,021 9,977 14,868 Boston 6,251 9,973 14,568 Hartford •••••••••••••••••••««•» 6,422 9,833 13,814 San Francisco-Oakland 6,571 9,774 14,079 Buffalo 9,624 13,679 6,083 Milwaukee 6,104 9,544 13,636 Seattle 6,520 9,550 13,486 Minneapolis-St. Paul 9,399 13,348 6,058 Cedar Rapids, Iowa 9,358 13,307 6,223 Chicago ........................ 9,334 13,325 6,104 Los Angeles 9,326 13,645 6,305 Champaign-Urbana, HI 9,257 13,199 6,257 Cleveland 5,915 9,262 12,997 Indianapolis 6,124 9,232 13,111 Washington 9,273 13,419 6,133 9,195 12,660 Portland, Me 5,951 St. Louis 9,140 12,813 6,002 San Diego 6,002 9,209 13,461 5,905 Denver , 9,080 13,011 Philadelphia 9,079 13,131 5,898 8,981 12,911 Detroit 5,873 Green Bay, Wis 8,955 12,944 5,714 8,965 12,732 Kansas City, Mo. 5,957 8,960 12,610 Lancaster, Pa 5,833 Wichita, Kan 5,978 8,907 12,595 Bakersfield, Calif 5,779 8,882 12,765 Cincinnati 5,702 8,826 12,283 Pittsburgh 5,841 8,764 12.551 Baltimore . >•••••< 5,820 8.685 12,728 5,570 8,688 12.431 Durham, N. C. 8.636 12.392 5,796 Davton, Ohio 5,597 8,328 11,846 Atlanta 8,348 12,375 5,402 Baton Rouge 8,345 12.157 5.607 Dallas 8.388 12.055 5.677 Nashville 5,542 Houston ..... 8,301 11.897 5.419 Orlando, Fla. . 8.227 12,024 7,952 11,299 5,237 Austin, Tex. . The Labor Department has reported that an annual income of $9,076 was needed by a fourmember city worker's family to maintain a "moderate" standard of living in the spring of 1967. To maintain an "austere" standard at that time such a family required income of $5,915 annually. For a fuller, more expansive life, income of $13,050 was needed. These income requirements, representing national urban av­ erages, and breakdowns of what they will buy in this era of ris­ ing living costs, were developed in a study just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Three Standards of Living for an Urban Family of Four, Spring, 1967." It covered 39 metropolitan areas, plus nonmetropolitan areas representa­ tive of the country as a whole. First 3-Levd Study Since 1946, BLS has periodi­ cally issued a "City Worker's Family Budget" to show costs of a moderate living standard, but this marks the first time that costs of goods and services have been developed at three levels. The common size family used to measure living needs and pat­ terns is made up of a 38-yearold full-time worker, a wife not employed outside the household, a tray of 13, and an eight-year old girl. Arnold Chase, assistant BLS commissioner, emphasized at a press briefing that the family chosen as a yardstick was "not typical" but "meaningful." Since the budgets were estab­ lished, BLS noted, there have been increases in what the fam­ ily must pay for food, housing, transportation, clothing and per­ sonal care, medical care and other consumer items. In addition, taxes have since increased as a result of the fed­ eral income tax surcharge, high­ er state and local income taxes. Government officials qould not say how much more .the budgets would be raised if up­ dated to take into account these increases, but Labor Depart­ ment records show that consum­ er prices have risen by about 7.5 percent since spring 1967. Even without precise com­ parisons, other BLS studies show that earnings of the aver­ age worker fall considerably short of the moderate budget's income requirements, and in many cases even below the low budget's needs. In March 1967—a month corresponding to the study pe­ riod—average earnings for rank and file workers on private nonfarm payrolls were $99.41 a week. On an annual basis, this amounted to $5,169, or $3,907 short of the moderate budget and $746 short of the low budget. Area Costs Vary The Labor Deparbnent em­ phasized that costs in each of the budgets vary widely depend­ ing on geographic location and size of the city. BLS supplied a breakdown of costs and sep­ arate budgets for each of the areas surveyed. Chase defined the low budget as an "austere" one, but did not characterize the others. In the past, BLS has described a mod­ erate budget 9S providing "a modest but adequate standard of living." All three budgets assume "that maintenance of health and social well-being, the nurture of children, and participation in community activities are desir­ able and necessary goals." In keeping with the govern­ ment's position that cigarette smoking is "hazardous" to health, the budgets did not al­ low expenditures for cigarettes. There are allowances, however, for pipe tobacco, cigars and al­ cohol. The department said that its studies show that "the lower the budget the larger the proportion of costs devoted to the necessi­ ties of life." Basic Needs Listed Consumption expenditures — food, housing, transportation, clothing, medical care, gifts, education and recreation — ac­ count for 82 percent of the low budget, 79 percent of the mod­ erate budget and 76 percent of the higher budget. When food and medical care costs are combined, they make up 35.9 percent of the low budget, 28.5 percent of the mod­ erate budget and 23.6 percent of the higher budget. The low budget provides less variety in food, more potatoes and dried beans, less fruit, less expensive cuts of meat, and few­ er and cheaper restaurant meals than allowed in the moderate URBAN FAMILY LIVING STANDARDS Spring 1967 and higher budgets. All three budgets provide for group hospital and surgical in­ surance, but only the high budg­ et specified major medical in­ surance, which supplements bas­ ic hospital-surgical coverage. Food costs, averaged $1,644 in the low and $2,105 and $2,586 in the moderate and higher budgets. Medical care costs were set at $474, $477 and $497 respectively. The budgets differ in other major categories as follows: Housing—Housing costs were $1,303 in the lower budget, which allowed for rental only without air conditioning, $2,230 in the moderate budget and $3,340 in the higher budget. Home ownership was assumed for a majority of families in the mod­ erate and higher budgets. Transportation—Costs aver­ aged $446 in the low budget, $872 in the moderate budget and $1,127 in the higher budget. The differences resulted lju-gely from the proportion of automo­ bile ownership specified for each budget, the age of cars and how often they are replaced. In addition, the low budget permits no out-of-town travel on planes, trains or other pub­ lic vehicles, and no comprehen­ sive insurance. Clothing—Costs were $538 in the lower budget, and $767 and $1,139 in the moderate and higher budgets respectively. Clothing allowances varied slightly in quantity but consider­ ably in quality. Social security, taxes—Social security payments averaged $265 in the low budget and $303 in both of the other budg­ ets. Taxes were $474 in the lower budget, $1,062 and $1,969 in the moderate and higher budgets. The most expensive of the 39 areas covered in the study was Honolulu, priced at $7,246, $10,902 and $16,076 for the three budgets. The most eco­ nomical was Austin, Tex. with budgets of $5,237, $7,952 and $11,299. For a moderate budget, the most expensive ^eas, following Honolulu, were Boston; New York-Northeastern New Jersey; Hartford, Conn.; San FranciscoOakland and Buffalo. If Fair­ banks, Alaska, had been in­ cluded in the survey it "undoubt­ edly" would have topped Hono­ lulu, Chase said. WHERE THE DOLLAR GOES Urban United States 27.9c FOOD 23.2e 19.8c > 22.0c HOUSING 24.6c c icr: 25.6c I 7.5c 9.6c TRANSPORTATION a.6c M11.8c 10.8c 11.1c CLOTHING AND PERSONAL CARE I 8.0c •" 5.3c 3.8c MEDICAL CARE 5.0C — e.oe OTHER FAMILY CONSUMPTION 7.4c GIFTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS PERSONAL LIFE INSURANCE OCCUPATIONAL EXPENSES SOCIAL SECURITY & DISABILITY PAYMENTS 2.5e ' 2.8C !•••••••• 3t8c 2.0c "" 1.8C l.8e i0.8C 0.9c 0.7c I4.9e 3.3c Lower Standard! LEGEND Moderate StandardHigher Standards mtmam 2.Sc >8.0C PERSONAL TAXES It.TC -$5,915 •$9,076 .$13,050 �I SEAFARERS Page Fourteen April, 1969 LOG Attempt to Sneak 'Right-to-Work' Through Civil Rights Tie-in Defeated SANTE FE—A backdoor at­ ence professor at St. John's Col­ House turned down the consti­ tempt to put over a "right-to- lege here, said, "I think it is a tutional amendment, its Appro­ work" law in New Mexico by proposal to keep the lousy low priations and Finance Commit­ tee reported out a human rights attaching it to a civil ri^ts bill wages we have in this state." has been soundly beaten in the Roland Kool, an Albuquer­ bill with a recommendation for state House of Representatives. que attorney, said the law's chief passage. By a 9-6 vote the com­ Earlier, by an identical 41-29 aim "is to weaken organized la­ mittee adopted an amendment to make the union shop illegal vote, the House rejected a move bor." When the measure came to under the law. to bring the union shop ban be­ fore the electorate in either a the floor, debate followed sim­ When the legislation reached general or special election as a ilar lines. Proponents claimed the floor, the amendment was it would prevent unions from the immediate center of attack constitutional amendment. Although "right-to-work" getting too strong and bring in­ in debate, and it was stripped may still come up in the Senate, dustry to the state. Opponents from the rights bill before the the twin House actions seemed said it was plainly designed to House went on to approve the to spell doom for it in this ses­ hold down wages and weaken balance of the measure. union organizing drives. The bill as it went to the Sen­ sion of the legislature. Meanwhile, just before the ate prohibits discrimination in A "right-to-work" proposal employment because of sex, to outlaw union shop agree­ race, religion, color or national ments in the state previously ap­ origin. It also bars discrimina­ peared on the state ballot as a tion in housing and public ac­ constitutional amendment in The booming-voiced Sen­ commodations. A five-member 1948 and was defeated by a sub­ ator Everett Dirksen (R-Hl.), commission would administer it. stantial margin. in a mighty burst of praise The New Mexico legislature The measure has been pushed for the new Republican ad­ is under Democratic control and unsuccessfully in the legislature ministration, recently orated of the votes that defeated most in nine of the last 10 sessions on the confidence he felt be­ "right-to-work" in both in­ by New Mexicans for Right to cause of President Nixon's stances came from Democrats. Work with assistance from the "firm hand on the rudder." In Pennsylvania, a "right-toNational Right to Work Com­ He didn't get away with it. work" bill has been introduced mittee and the Farm Bureau. A letter writer in the Wash­ but has not moved. In Idaho The proposed constitutional ington Post, Karl G. Sorg, and California open shop forces amendment on "right-to-work" observed wryly: have organized drives, but no came to the House floor this "When I am on the high bills have been introduced. year with a 7-3 "do not pass" seas, I would like my skip­ recommendation from the Labor In Kansas, "right-to-work" per to keep a firm hand on Committee. The committee act­ was adopted by a constitutional the tiller, and to leave that ed after holding a three-hour amendment in 1958 but the rudder alone. Any skipper hearing attended by more than state has never passed necessary with a firm hand on the rud­ 50 persons. enabling legislation. This year der is likely to be in water ftoponents at the hearing labor is fighting against an en­ way over his head." were led by President W. A. abling bill in the legislature. Langanegger of the New Mexico Farm Bureau and representa­ tives of oil drilling campanies. Langanegger said he feared un­ ions in agriculture. The oil drill­ ers attacked organizing efforts of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. By SMbey Margtriius A key opponent. Brother The case of the millions of General Motors cars now being re­ Raymond Ogden, political scicalled for repair of possible carburetor and exhaust-system defects is another in a growing list of car and household-product hazards coming increasingly into public view. Not that these problems are all new. Auto-safety defects have been criticized by various auto clubs, consumer organizations and legislators for some 20 years now. But the problem has become further complicated by modern design which sometimes sacrifices ORANGEBURG, S. C. safety for appearance. —The importance of "one Also adding to safety problems is the obviously inadequate test­ little vote" was underscored ing of both cars and household products even as they are becoming as the Communications more complicated. Another problem is that products today are de­ Workers won a union repre- 1 signed for easy assembling on an assembly line, but sometimes with sentatlon election at the inadequate attention to potential safety problems. Smith-Corona March ant One such example is a steam iron with a plastic switch on two plant here. The final tally: pivots. The switch is easy to insert on the assembly line but it can CWA 531, no union 530. come out in use, leaving the user holding a hot iron, and forced The narrow victory came | to go to the outlet to pull the plug. after the National Labor The car manufacturers especially have long acted as a law unto Relations Board ruled that themselves, with even the auto-insurance industry afraid to tangle four challenged votes with them and inclined to keep quiet about safety defects. The car should be counted. makers never learn. They added some safety features by Govern­ Of the challenged votes, ment regulation. But, at the same time, more 1969 models have three went to no union, but | fast-back design—making it difficult to see who you're backing the fourth, for CWA, was into—blind comers which hide part of your view when engaged in enough for the union—^just 1 a tricky passing maneuver, and bumpers that are more ornamental enough. than protective. In the campaign that pre­ The biggest recent callback involved General Motors cars with ceded the election, CWA the Quadra-Jet carburetor, and 1965-68 Biscayne, Bel Air, Impala leaders and local union of-1 and Caprice Chevrolets and some 1969 Chevys with 350-cubic fleers fought against a bar-1 inch engines, which may have a potential exhaust-system defect. rage of company-inspired This partcular carburetor problem is that a small plastic arm anti-union propaganda di-i called a cam has broken on a few cars, causing the throttle to re­ rected at employees. main partly open. The exhaust-system defect was caused by the use of rubber plugs to seal openings in a rear panel of the car. But SlU Lifeboat Class No. 220 Kneeling (l-r) are ick. Seated are Jack Milano and Joseph Fedornak, John Adams, George Lindquist and Les BroderRamond Gorsu, Ronnie Henderson, Terry Prater, Pat Phillips. Standing are graduates Lloyd Ayres, Randolph Lumley, George Silfast and Gene Brewer. A Stern Rebuke SlU Instructor Paul McGarin (top left) and Coast Guard Examiner BM No. I N. L. Harvell pose with this group of graduates. Kneeling (l-r) are Otiliano Morales, Ake Ryden and Russell Carruthers, Seated are Louis Machicote, Michael Chewning, James Camp, Vasco Worrell and K. Svoboda. Standing are John Tilli, Robert Hefter, Thomas Walker and Art Braud. The class had 25 new graduates. YOUR DOLI^'S WORTH Seafarer's Guide tp jBetter Buying \Proofls Clean 1 Vote Counts! the rubber plugs could deteriorate and allow carbon monoxide to enter the car if the exhaust pipe becomes damaged. Similar problems could occur with other cars, and have. A car­ buretor can become stuck if a small part breaks, or the gas pedal linkage can become stuck or damaged. Either way you could find that when you take your foot off the gas pedal the engine keeps racing. What would you yourself do if that happened to you? According to John Eck, emergency service manager of the AAA, the recom­ mended action is to put the gear selector into neutral right away, or on clutch cars, to drop the gear lever into neutral. This is preferable to turning off the ignition altogether because you have quicker access to power if you need to get out of the way of other traffic after you have slowed down. Carbon monoxide is always a danger in cold months especially when car windows are closed. Exhaust systems can become rusted, or damaged or misaligned by a bump, and can leak monoxide into the car through the floor. Eck says he never drives without a window open, and that the AAA always urges that car owners have their exhaust system in= spected for possible damage every time a car is up on a servicestation lift for lubrication or a tire change. Or if the car bottom has hit a bump, as can happen even coming out of some driveways, see if the tailpipe has been knocked out of alignment or otherwise damaged. The irony of some of these safety problems is that they are caused by the saving of dimes on household products that may cost hundreds of dollars, and cars that cost thousands. The plastic part that broke on some carburetors cost about 50 cents, and was used on expensive Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, etc. Now General Motors is making this part of heavier plastic reinforced by a ring. Manufacturers of various products often plead that improving their safety would add to costs. As in the instances mentioned above, the extra cost really would be minor. But at the same time the manufacturers cry cost, they often add other very expensive but not as cs .ential features for convenience or just sales appeal. •gBBW �April. 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fifteen v'M ^HE SHIP HAD JUST RETURNED from Da more clearly and acting more precisely than he usu­ * Nang and was tied up at a shipyard in New ally is. A seaman who "is high" on marijuana—and York. After payoff, a crewmember started down the the effects can last for many hours—is a potential gangway heading for home. Waiting for him on the threat to the safety of every man aboard his ship. pier were two agents of the United States Justice De­ The increasing use of marijuana apparently stems partment. They asked him to open his suitcases. In­ from the belief that it is not addictive, and therefore side one of them, concealed in a rolled up sweater,, not as harmful, as heroin, cocain or opium. But even they found 200 marijuana cigarettes. this belief is false as thousands of medical case his­ This young merchant seaman was not a dope ad­ tories have proven. Dr. Donald B. Louria, chairman dict, nor was he smuggling the stuff in to sell it. Be­ of the New York State Council on Drug Addiction, cause it was his first narcotics offense he got off in cites several examples of the effects of smoking pot: "One subject smoked one cigarette and became the courts with a suspended sentence following con­ viction. But, he will never again be able to sail on a restless, agitated, dizzy, fearful of his surroundings and afraid of death. He had three short periods of U.S.-flag merchant vessel. Is this hypothetical case an isolated one? Unfor­ unconsciousness. Another, a 19-year-old man, be­ tunately, no. The files of the Marine Inspection Of­ came depressed, used marijuana and- experienced fice include many such cases of seamen whose cer­ 'black despair.' He then got some tranquilizers from a tificates have been permanently revoked by the Coast friend and took them in an attempt at suicide." Dr. Louria's long study of the use of marijuana Guard for violation of narcotics laws. Coast Guard leads him to the firm conviction that, in spite of all officials are understandably reluctant to reveal their methods of detecting these violations, but the in­ the talk about the so-called happy feelings that result creasing number of revocations recorded each year from smoking pot, the effects are not always pleas­ clearly shows that violators sooner or later will be ant. Too often, he says, depression becomes despera­ tion, and anxiety turns to panic. caught. TTien there is the question of addiction. While it Marijuana is the most commonly used—and may be true that pot is not physically addicting like abused—drug among young people. The use of marijuana on college campuses and among service­ hard narcotics such as heroin, it can still produce an men is spreading at an alarming rate. And, because emotional dependency in many users. Whether we of its ready availability in foreign ports, many young call it an addiction or a dependency, the result is the P ieamen have given in to the temptation to try a same—one can become hooked and will try to stay "high" as long and as often as possible. The real dan­ pil'reefer" just for kicks, i Despite the statements of some so-called authori­ ger is that the "pothead"—the person who becomes ties that marijuana is just an iimocuous weed which is dependent on marijuana—^very often becomes the no more harmful than alcohol, the fact is that it is tragic victim of hard narcotics. A recent survey by the New York State Narcotic ; dangerous as well as illegal. In addition to the physical dhngers, the young sea­ Addiction Control Commission resulted in a shock­ man just starting his career—or the seagoing veteran ing prediction: About 40 percent of the young peo­ nearing retirement—share an added danger; one nar- ple using marijuana today will move on to heroin i; i cotics violation, even if it is nothing more than pos- within a few years. These findings, together with the i session of a single marijuana cigarette, means the end results of similar studies in other major cities, con­ |of sailing for the rest of his life. This can mean a firm the opinion of medical experts that there can be ij career never really begun for the youngster or a ca­ a progression from marijuana to the hard drugs. It reer of many years lost, wasted for the seasoned old- is practically impossible for the young person taking his first marijuana smoke to predict whether he will I timer. A severe penalty? Yes, but for very good reasons. be an occasional user or will become a pothead and The use of marijuana can produce severe mental move on to the hard stuff. confusion, including loss of judgment and memory. In addition to permanent loss of his seaman's doc­ Heavy use can result in visual distortions, hallucina­ uments for the slightest infraction of narcotics laws, tion and impaired judgment of space and time. A there is something else that the young seaman who minute may seem like an hour. Something nearby might be tempted to try marijuana ought to know |may seem far away. Any task or decision requiring about the deceptive nature of the drug itself. While fegood reflexes, co-ordination and clear thinking is it is toie that the variety of marijuana usually avail­ shaded by the drug. The danger is intensified by a able in the United States does not appear to cause false feeling in the user that he is actually thinking any lasting physical or mental damage, reefers made from weeds found in the Middle East, Africa and the Far East are far more powerful, far more dangerous —and far more readily available to the sailor. Hashish, bhang and khat, all closely related to marijuana, can easily be purchased in many jjorts regularly visited by American-flag merchant ships. These varieties of marijuana are cheap and they are potent. In one area in Southern Arabia, the entire male population is in an almost constant state of intoxication because of the regular chewing of khat leaves. Studies made by the World Health Organiza­ tion in several areas in the Middle and Far East over a number of years have shown that serious and permanent physical and emotional disturbances do result from continued use of these drugs. The habit­ ual use of hashish, for example, has definitely been associated with criminal behavior, violence and in­ sanity. The seaman who stops in at any cigarette stand on Tu Do Street in Saigon or in any bar in Cam Rahn Bay can pick up a bag of ten ready-rolled reefers for anywhere from $1 to $2.50.,In one area of Saigon a carton of marijuana cigarettes—neatly packed in what used to be regular American cigarette wrappers —sells for $20. One soldier stationed there observed: "There's so much marijuana stored in that section of Saigon that if it ever caught fire the whole city would get stoned." That may seem funny, but the sad fact is that any serviceman or seaman who buys the stuff can never be sure if it is marijuana, which is dangerous enough, or some more potent compound processed from hashish. The true seriousness of the marijuana problem is clearly evidenced by the fact that it is the subject of a worldwide prohibition as expressed in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. On the advice of a special committee or the World Health Organi­ zation, marijuana was placed in a special category with heroin as being a drug "particularly liable to abuse and to produce ill effects." The United States has controlled the possession, sale and use of marijuana since 1937 under the Mari­ juana Tax Act. The criminal penalties for violations of that act are severe. A person found guilty of pos­ session of the drug can be sentenced to a probation­ ary term of not less than two years or to a prison term of up to ten years. The illegal sale or transfer of marijuana can bring a sentence of from five to 20 years in a federal prison—for the first offense. And, of course, for the merchant seaman who is caught using or even possessing marijuana or any other nar­ cotic—^whether he goes to jail or not—it means the end of his sailing career! �SEAFARERS Page Sixteen Opposes Ruling for Networks AFL'CIO Urges High Court Barking For Robuttal to Broadrast Attarks WASHINGTON—Hie AFU CIO has asked the Supreme Court to uphold a Federal Com­ munications Commission rule requiring radio and television stations which broadcast per­ sonal attacks on individuals to give the victims a chance to reply. Two broadcasting networks and an association of radio and television news directors chal­ lenged the rule, claiming it in­ terfered with their freedom of speech and would be burden­ some. A federal appellate court in Chicago agreed with them and held the rule unconstitu­ tional. On the contrary, the AFLCIO argued in its brief to the Supreme Court, meaningful freedom of speech requires that the public have access to the publicly-owned airwaves. Un­ like other forms of communica­ tion, the number of channels available for broadcasting are limited. In licensing a station, the AFL-CIO said, the govern­ ment has both the right and duty to insist that basic rules of fair play be followed. While the AFL-CIO is not directly involved in the liti­ gation, the federation filed a friend-of-the-court brief in sup­ port of the FCC. Labor has a stake in the broad issue involved, the fed­ eration smd in explaining its in­ terest in the case. It cited ex­ amples of unions being denied air time to present their views during organizing drives, strikes and legislative campaigns. Necessary Protection If anything, the AFL-CIO said, the government has been "overly cautious" in acting to assure public access to the air­ waves. The specific rule that is being challenged is not only reasonable but also a necessary protection of the public's rights, the federation said. The rule in question assures the right of reply "when, during the presentation of views on a controversial issue of public im­ portance, an attack is made upon the honesty, character, in­ tegrity or like personal qualities of an identified person or group." It exempts a broad range of programs, including newscasts and news commentary. The FCC brief warned that a Supreme Court decision invali­ dating its personal attack rule would also act to undermine the long-standing "fairness doc­ trine" which requires that more than one side of controversial issues be presented by broad­ casting stations. Its brief dealt also with a companion case before the Su­ preme Court, involving the re­ fusal of Station WGCB in Red Lion, Pa., to provide free time to author Fred J. Cook after he was viciously attacked on the right-wing Christian Crusade First SlU Pension Check I End of sailing career and beginning of retirement is heralded by Chris S, Cipriano, right, receiving first pension check from New York Patrolman Liiige lovino. Cipriano, who makes his home in the Philippines, sailed as FWT. His last ihip was the Steel Voyager. April, 1969 LOG program of Reverend Billy James Hargis. Specific Example In effect, this case is a specific example of the personal attack rule even though the FCC order to the Red Lion station preced­ ed the rule. Actually the general rule was an outgrowth of the controversy over the Red Lion case. In the Red Lion case, a dif­ ferent federal appellate court upheld the authority of the FCC to insist on the right of reply to a personal attack. Thus the Su­ preme Court has two conflicting appellate court decisions involv­ ing the same basic principle. In arguing for the right of reply, the AFL-CIO brief stress­ ed that "radio and television stations are not the private pre­ serve of the licensees.... The airwaves cannot, consistent with the Constitution, be made the exclusive domain of those in the business of broadcasting." Justice Dept. Time Study' Chasing Lawyers Clockwise Management sometimes works in wondrous ways, as nearly 1,200 Justice Department attorneys in Washington are dis­ covering. The government lawyers have been ordered to keep a run­ ning record of how they spend each H^ninute segment of the day. Then, before wash-up time, they are supposed to con­ sult a code book and summarize their day's work in com­ puter language on another sheet. A 10-page memo from the new deputy attorney general, Richard G. Kleindienst, broke the news to the lawyers. They were then called in groups to a 90-minute "no-questionsallowed" briefing session for further explanation of the com­ plexities of the new program. The reason for it all, as given at one of the briefing sessions, "is to develop a body of data to prove to Congress that the department is understaffed." This, of course, gave rise to speculation that the thousands of man-hours involved in devising, explaining, record-keeping, tabulating and computerizing might suggest just the opposite to congressional budget-watchers. Representative Charles S. Joelson (D-N.J.), who is a mem­ ber of the House Appropriations subcommittee that handles the Justice Department money bill, seemed to be of this opinion. He described the time study program as "nonsense." The department's lawyers aren't organized, but a federal workers' union spoke up for them anyway. President John F. Griner of the American Federation of Government Employees denounced the time sheet program as "an undignified nuisance imposed upon a group of hard­ working federal employees." ffrapo Croivors Sot up Bogus Union In EHort to Confuse Farm Workers Two top officers of an orga­ nization set up to undermine the AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee have admitted that their outfit was formed and financed by grape growers who have op­ posed union rights for their workers. Facts on the founding and activities of the Agriculture Workers Freedom to Work As­ sociation came to light in a re­ port filed with the Labor Department to comply with re­ porting requirements of the Landrum-Griffin Act. The document—^filed by AWFWA President Gilbert Rubio and Secretary-Treasurer Shirley Fetalvero — revealed that the organization was con­ ceived at a meeting attended by Ru'oio, Jose Mendoza and a group of about ten grape grow­ ers. Mendoza, general secretary of AWFWA, recently made a national tour to denounce UFWOC and its president, Cesar Chavez—a tour he said was financed by the National Right to Work Committee, Glnmanras Present Rubio and Miss Fetalvero said that among those attending AWFWA's founding meeting in a Bakersfield, Calif., restaurant last May were John Giumarra, Sr., and John Giumarra, Jr., treasurer and general counsel respectively of Giumarra Vine­ yards, which has led grower op­ position to farm workers' un­ ionization. Others attending the meeting, according to the statement, in­ cluded Jack Pandol, another grower, and representatives of the Di Giorgio Corp., which had previously signed a contract with UFWOC. The document made it clear that AWFWA was founded by growers, not workers, to coun­ teract efforts to organize farm workers and the UFWOC boy­ cott of grape growers who re­ fused to hold union representa­ tion elections. "We were to tell workers not to be afraid of Chavez, to be united, and we would support and protect workers and oppose efforts to organize and boycott," Rubio and Miss Fetalvero said. The document brought out that Rubio and Mendoza were offered $120 a week. That money, along with other sums, it added, was paid to AWFWA through another organization called Mexican-American Dem­ ocrats for Republican Action (MADRA). The AWFWA officers listed dozens of checks ranging up to $500 which were allegedly used by AWFWA after they came through MADRA. Records of AWFWA's activ­ ities, according to the state­ ment, were kept by Donald Gazzaniga, head of Public Research Institute, part of a firm known as California Edi­ tors Publishing Company. Authored R-T-W Tract Gazzaniga has published a booklet, "California's Number One Industry Under Attack," a denunciation of unionizing of grape workers. It has been dis­ tributed by the National Right to Work Committee. Gazzaniga gave money to Ru­ bio and Mendoza "under the cover that they were research­ ers" for the publication, Rubio said. He charged that Mendoza is now trying to dissolve AWFWA, presumably because it is no longer useful. John Giumarra, Jr., denied the charges "that we gave money to Mendoza" and said "we will fight them in court." He contended that Rubio had once supported UFWOC, then joined AWFWA to fight the union, "and now he seems to have switched again." Cambodia In ILO As 119th Member Geneva—Cambodia has be­ come a member of the Interna­ tional Labor Organization, bringing the membership of the United Nations agency to 119 countries, DLO Director-Gen. David A. Morse announced. The new membership be­ came effective when Cambodia accepted obligations of the ILO constitution. �April, 1969 UHF Radio Used For Port 'Paging' In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO—Ultra high frequency radio contact is being used for the first time by the Marine Exchange here to facilitate harbor communica­ tions. Put into operation on April 1, the new system utilizes pock­ et sized, self-contained receivers which are carried by staff mem­ bers of steamship companies, port service and other personnel on the move in and around San Francisco and San Pablo bays. The communications service can be extended, whenever required, to include Suisun Bay and the inland Delta navigation system. Permission was first granted by the Federal Communications Commission in January for the Marine Exchange to use 462.85 megacycles for this mobile pag­ ing service. A 24-hour San Francisco waterfront communi­ cations center receives messages by telephone. The center then relays these messages by UHF voice radio. Each receiver, or combination of receivers, can be selectively paged so that messages will be received only by those for whom they are intended. Although originally engineer­ ed at the request of members of the maritime industry to meet the problems of immediately contacting their staff members in the field, the system is soon ex­ pected to be used not only by vessel owners and agents but also by pilots, government per­ sonnel and suppliers of services and provisions for ships. The Golden Gate maritime service and developmental agen­ cy is reported to be the first li­ censee by the FCC for the new­ ly-designated UHF frequency. SEAFARERS LOG Page Seventeen No ^Pgfch-Work' Changes Dircit Presidential election by the People Urged WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has urged Congress to in­ itiate a constitutional amendment providing for election of the President by popular vote rather than seek a mere "patchwork" change in the present Electoral College system. Federation President George Meany presented labor's views to the House Judiciary Committee which is considering a smor­ gasbord of proposals for electoral reform. Meany took issue with President Nixon who suggested a "proportional" system of dividing a state's electoral votes be­ cause he didn't think a direct election amendment would be ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. On the contrary, Meany insisted, direct election is the one proposal that has broad public approval—demonstrated by big majorities in public opinion polls and in endorsements by a wide range of organizations, including the American Bar Asso­ ciation and Chamber of Commerce. "None of the other proposals has any comparably broad sup­ port," Meany noted. And all suffer from a common weakness— they could result in the election of a President who received fewer votes than an opponent. Meany told the committee that the AFL-CIO supports a con­ stitutional amendment which would: • Provide for the election of the President and Vice Presi­ dent by direct, nationwide popular vote. • Require a runoff between the two top candidates if no candidate receives at least 40 percent of the popular vote. • Establish a single constitutional standard guaranteeing that all persons 18 or above have the right to vote in presidential elections. « Authorize Congress to pass legislation governing the con­ duct of presidential elections and the requirements for being listed on the ballot. Meany rejected the argument that direct election of the Pres­ ident would be a departure from the federal system of govern­ ment. He pointed out that the Electoral College system, as initially conceived in the Constitution, quickly proved unworkable and remains an "anachronism" in the American political process. Three times, he noted, it has resulted in election of a Presi­ dent who trailed in the voting. Worst of all, Meany stressed, is the procedure for throwing the election into the House of Representatives if no candidate has a majority in the Electoral College—under a procedure giving each state one vote. Some of the proposals for electoral reform would correct some of the potential dangers in the present system, Meany noted. Thus a proposal to abolish the Electoral College and cast all of a state's votes for the winning candidate would eliminate the problem of "faithless" electors who disregard the voters' choice to cast their ballots for a different candidate. And a proposal to have a joint session of Congress choose the President if no candidate wins an electoral majority would be on Workers Urge Boycott of Shell To Counter Firm's Stalling Tactics DENVER—President A. F. Lima; Continental Oil Co. at "We are asking them not to Grospiron of the Oil, Chemical Wrenshall, Minn., and smaller buy Shell products. We are re­ & Atomic Workers announced firms employing about 1,000 questing them to return their that the OCAW executive board workers. Shell credit cards to the com­ has voted unanimously for , a Shell is owned by the Royal pany." worldwide consumer boycott of Dutch Petroleum Co. of the Grospiron said world assist­ Shell Oil and Shell Chemical Netherlands and Shell Trans­ ance would be sought through Company products. port and Trading Company of the International Federation of Grospiron said "we have tried Great Britain. Grospiron cited Petroleum and Chemical Work­ for months to negotiate a Shell these Shell tactics: ers, a federation of more than contract equivalent to those "The company seeks to pe­ 100 unions with two million granted by virtually all other oil nalize our members for striking. members in more than 70 coun­ It seeks to fire 10 of them and tries. companies." to suspend 15 others. It wants While agreement was reached In this hemisphere, the "don't at some locations. Shell "refuses to deny 1969 vacations to more buy" drive will be co-ordinated to be fair and reasonable in con­ than 200 of them because of with the AFL-CIO and the tracts covering more than 2,000 their strike action." Canadian Labour Congress and Shell employees who were their affiliated unions. workers" in California facilities still on strike voted March 15 of Shell, he declared. In February the AFL-CIO Shell employees went on to return to work unconditional­ Executive Council voted at its strike January 4 with about 56,- ly, without a contract, pending Florida meeting to call on all 000 other oil workers in the further negotiations. Of this ac­ affiliated international unions, United States. Strike ietilements tion Grospiron said: "We removed picket lines and and state and local central were reached beginning January 11 with all firms except Shell the men began returning to their bodies, to "render every possi­ on the West Coast; Standard Oil jobs. Now we are turning to our ble assistance to those oil work­ Co. of Ohio at Toledo and friends and the public for help. ers who remain on strike." Chairman Emanuel Cellar (D-N.Y.), right, welcomes AFL-CIO Pres­ ident George Meany prior to his testimony at committee hearings. preferable to the present system, since each congressman and senator would cast a vote. But despite some improvements, Meany declared, the AFLCIO cannot endorse such an amendment "since it still would permit the popular will as demonstrated by the votes of the people to be disregarded. At the present time, and under pres­ ent-day political, economic and social conditions, we do not be­ lieve this is any longer tolerable." The same objection applies to proposals for selection of elec­ tors from each congressional district instead of a "winner take all" statewide contest or to the proportional division of a state's electoral votes, Meany said. Under the most-touted "district" system, Meany told the com­ mittee, Nixon would have been elected President in 1960 with 278 electoral votes to 245 for John F. Kennedy—even though Kennedy polled more popular votes. Meany noted that Nixon said his "personal preference" would be for direct popular election. There would be a better chance for its ratification, Meany suggested, if the President would give "unequivocal support" to popular election. "If the proposal for direct popular election cannot be adopt­ ed," Meany said, "there is little reason to believe that any other plan can." In response to questions Meany reiterated that the common weakness of all alternatives to direct popular election is that they don't assure majority rule, "the essence of democracy." He was asked whether a requirement for a runoff election if no candidate received 40 percent of the popular vote would in­ vite a "deal" by which the candidate who was eliminated would throw his support to one of the runoff candidates. To this, Meany replied that the present system involving the Electoral College and the House of Representatives invites un­ dercover deals. Any "deal" under a popular vote runoff, Meany noted, "would have to be made on the front pages of the news­ papers, not behind a kitchen sink." And most important, he added, the final decision would be with the voters. SlU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS February 1-February 28, 1969 Number of Benefits Hospital Benefits (Welfare) ... Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) . . Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . (Average: $393.36) Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) SUMMARY (Welfare) Vacation Benefits (Average: $427.19) Total Welfare, Vocation Benefits Paid This Period . . . 1,437 30 1,014 23 1,689 $ Amount Paid 19,645.56 74,943.08 231,925.00 4,653.25 66,437.87 272 4,051 8,516 1,361 2,094.32 32,522.80 432,221.88 581,400.56 9,877 $1,013,622.44 �SEAFARERS Page Eighteen April, 1969 LOG Hailed as Significant Life-Saver Labor Praises New Govt Radiation Standards WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO and affiliated unions repre­ senting the nation's uranium miners have told Congress that the federal government's new radiation safety standards will save the lives of a significant number of miners. George Taylor, secretary of the AFL-CIO Staff Committee on Atomic Energy and National Resources, said industry' has the technological ability to make uranium mines safe for workers. The cost of complying with the new regulations would not be prohibitive, he said. And in any event, he stressed, the over­ riding factor in deciding the level of radiation concentration al­ lowed in mines must be the health and lives of the miners. Taylor testified before the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy on behalf of the AFL-CIO, the Oil, Chemi­ cal & Atomic Workers, the Steelworkers and the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department. The committee does not have any legislation before it. But it is looking into the diversity of government standards applying to uranium mine safety and in­ dustry claims that the added costs of new ventilating equip­ ment would be burdensome and unnecessary. Three Agencies Involved Three federal agencies have a role in setting standards. The Labor Department has statutory authority under the Walsh-Healey Act because all uranium mines sell their entire production to the Atomic En­ ergy Commission — and under federal law must continue to do so until 1971. All government departments with any interest at all in radia­ tion or atomic energy are repre­ sented on the inter-ag..ncy Fed­ eral Radiation Council. The council recommends safety standards to protect both work­ ers and the public. In addition, the Interior De­ partment issues its own stand­ ards under the Metal and NonMetalic Mine Safety Act. When the government ceases to be the sole buyer of uranium concen­ trates, the Interior Department regulations would apply to mines selling to private industry. After several years of contro­ versy over what the standards should be, all three federal bod­ ies acted in January, shortly be­ fore the change of administra­ tion. The Labor Department adopted the standard which had been strongly urged by the AFL-CIO. The technical term describing it is 4 Working Level Months (WLM). That is a means of measuring both the concentra­ tion of radiation and the period of exposure, based on a 40-hour week for a one-year period. The previous standard was 12 WLM, allowing mines to be exposed to three times as much radiation. Defending the new standard, Taylor told the committee that a study of some 25,000 persons with an average of eight years employment at this concentra­ tion of radiation exposure showed no more cases of cancer than could be expected among the population at large. By contrast, he said, miners working at higher concentra­ tions have been found to have a much higher percentage of lung cancer than would be expected from the general population. The Federal Radiation Coun­ cil and the Interior Department also adopted a 4 WLM stand­ ard. Allows Delay However, their standards would allow mines until January 1, 1971, to reach that level. Until then, they could continue at the higher 12 WLM rate. The Labor Department Walsh-Healey standards are im­ mediately effective. However, a mine may be given an exemp­ tion until 1971 if it comes up with a plan to bring the expo­ sure down to the 4 WLM stand­ ard by that date. Taylor noted that the differ­ ences among the standards "are more apparent than real" and the adoption of the 4 WLM standard has been "long over­ due." The industry, he suggested, should have no difficulty in meeting the new standard well before the 1971 deadline. Taylor recalled that other in­ dustries have been required to go to some expense to meet fed­ eral, state and local regulations governing pollution. Thus the uranium mining industry, he suggested, has no cause to feel "unjustly singled out" because it is required to spend money to protect the lives and health of its workers. Job Downgrading Of Civil Servants Charged in South NEW ORLEANS — The American Federation of Gov­ ernment Employees has charged that the federal government is shortchanging many of its em­ ployees in the South. AFGE President John F. Griner said this is being done by assigning southern workers to lower salary grades than em­ ployees doing the same work in other areas of the country. He charged that this is a di­ rect defiance of civil service classification rules which are supposed to ensure "equal pay for equal work." Griner told a news conference that a number of federal agen­ cies are apparently following "the law of supply and demand" rather than the civil service law. "In the large metropolitan areas, where there is competi­ tion for the skills of the employ­ ees, the government is willing to pay the price," Griner said. But when it can get people to work for less, as in parts of the South, he added, it hires them at lower civil service grades than their jobs should carry. The union's executive coun­ cil, meeting here, protested the practice. 300,000-Member Union Formed March 1, 1969 fo March 31, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals Class A Class B 9 9 93 149 18 24 73 37 36 45 36 49 20 19 51 45 89 127 71 77 47 47 91 115 62 36 696 779 Class A Class B Class C 6 5 3 74 84 24 16 14 7 80 40 17 30 29 13 24 32 30 12 14 3 35 35 2 110 66 0 71 83 20 46 39 24 70 107 38 49 28 22 203 623 576 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C 7 8 0 6 3 68 143 63 109 35 20 23 9 16 12 43 55 52 47 14 12 36 28 25 10 15 49 9 30 27 14 11 9 7 1 29 56 26 30 2 63 147 76 64 0 30 84 48 74 21 21 44 19 31 25 79 121 96 73 42 43 33 30 34 28 i 441 810 457 567 218 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmin^on San Francisco ,. .. Seattle Totals TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B 3 2 8 56 6 8 43 26 13 23 18 23 7 5 29 26 91 61 43 75 15 25 63 118 26 18 365 466 Class A Class B Class C 3 0 6 50 43 51 10 12 9 35 20 18 12 18 25 10 25 44 2 7 0 26 14 1 76 49 .1 46 65 9 20 16 19 62 103 30 30 15 14 382 387 227 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 8 7 216 237 24 24 99 60 29 31 30 26 19 19 74 48 165 123 150 143 41 8 63 11 54 11 972 748 Railway Clerks Union Merges With Communication Workers WASHINGTON—A longplanned merger that brings the Transportation -Communication Employees into the Railway and Airline Qerks as an autono­ mous division has taken place. Details of the merger were announced jointly by BRAG President C. L. Dennis and TCU President A. R. Lowry, with both acclaiming its advantages. Under the merger, TCU will REGISTERED on BEACH become the TransportationAll Groups Communications Division of the Class A Class B BRAC, with about 40,000 6 3 members. Since BRAC's previ­ 162 236 18 13 ous membership was 270,000, 69 66 the merger puts the union over 18 27 14 23 the 300,000 mark. 14 14 Lowry will serve as president 45 73 of the new division. In addi­ 115 183 97 127 tion, he becomes a member of 20 5 BRAC's executive council. Oth­ 48 17 er officers of the TCU continue 19 7 794 in similar posts in the new divi­ 645 sion. Merger negotiations between REGISTERED on BEACH officers of the TCU and BRAC All Groups Class A Class B opened early in 1967 and con­ tinued into 1968. 3 2 96 149 Last July, delegates to the 11 12 TCU convention, by more than 49 91 24 21 a two-thirds margin, authorized 13 3 the union's grand lodge and gen­ 20 18 eral officers to consider the 69 43 93 182 TCU-BRAC plar? along with 55 116 any other merger possibilities. 11 21 The convention decided fur­ .39 18 38 2 ther that any plan approved by 776 420 a majority of the officers would then be submitted to the mem­ bership which would ratify it by a majority vote. After determining that no merger jjossibilities with other unions could be worked out, TCU officers further discussed and debated the TCU-BRAC plan, approved it and submitted it to the members. The plan was ratified by a substantial margin of the union's members in the United States and Canada in a mail referen­ dum held during October 1968. In their joint statetment, Den­ nis and Lowry said the merger means "that the members of our two organizations will be able to enjoy the many benefits of belonging to one stronger un­ ion." "Both the BRAC and the TCU have played important roles in winning higher pay and improved benefits for transpor­ tation employes in the United States and Canada," they said. "Now, under one union roof, we anticipate continued prog­ ress through the use of modem collective bargaining." In another development, BRAC announced that it is in negotiations on a merger with the Railway, Transport and General Workers of Canada, an independent union representing some 35,000 workers. ' 1 �April, 1969 iM to Preserve SEAFARERS LOG Page Nineteen To Avoid Collapse of School System: mmHe Barked AFL-CIO Urges Expanded Govt Aid to Education By Fur Wmdrers WASHINGTON —A union representing fur workers joined with conservation groups in support of legislation, proposed by Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), to protect species of animals threatened with extinction. The Meat Cutters and Butch­ er Workmen testified before a House subcommittee on a bill to prevent rare animals from being slaughtered for fur or skin and to ban importation of pro­ hibited products. The designa­ tion of species threatened with extinction would be made by the Secretary of the Interior. At the same time, the union urged a House Merchant Ma­ rine and Fisheries subcommit­ tee to amend the bill to instruct the government to seek an in­ ternational treaty dealing with threatened wildlife. "Obviously," the union said, "the goal of conserving species will not be met if the United States bans the importation, but others do not. Also, we greatly fear that unless other nations provide a similar ban, U.S. fur and leather jobs may be ex­ ported." The Meat Cutters took the initiative in working with con­ servation groups on a legislative approach which would protect threatened wildlife without the risk of job losses seen in legis­ lation introduced, but not acted on, in the last Congress. Representative John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) is chairman of the subcommittee considering the bill, which was introduced by Garmatz, chairman of the full committee. The legislation was endorsed by both the John­ son and Nixon Administrations. WASHINGTON — Federal aid to education has saved America's school system from total collapse and must be con­ tinued and expanded, the AFLCIO has told Congress. Walter G. Davis, the federa­ tion's education director, warned that city school systems "face disaster" if Congress abandons the federal grant pro­ gram which has helped elemen­ tary and secondary schools meet the educational needs of chil­ dren from the poorest families. The landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act was launched four years ago by the 89th Congress and Davis urged the House Education and Labor Committee to extend it another five years. It hasn't solved all of the na­ tion's educational problems and "no one ever supposed that it would do so," Davis noted. But, he stressed, without this massive federal aid "many of the major school systems in America would have collapsed alto­ gether." Joining Davis in presenting the AFL-CIO position were Legislative Representative Ken­ neth Young and Jack Sessions of the federation's education staff. They supported the five-year extension bill which has been introduced by Committee Chair­ man Carl D. Perkins (D-Ky.). Davis warned that "the en­ tire structure of federal support for education" could be de­ stroyed if the existing program were scrapped and Congress substituted "block grants" that states could spend for any edu- Textile Contract Awards Hit As Whitewashing Racial Bias WASHINGTON—The Lead­ ership Conference on Civil Rights has urged the Defense Department to hold up any new contracts to three textile firms with past records of race dis­ crimination—^until it has actual evidence that the job discrimina­ tion has been corrected. The firms involved are J. P. Stevens and Co., whose name has become synonymous with union-busting, Burlington Mills and Dan River Mills. Despite findings that the firms had failed to take "affirmative action" to remedy job discrimi­ nation, Deputy Defense Secre­ tary David Packard authorized multi-million dollar supply con- FTC Offers Prescription For Drug Advertising Ills WASHINGTON—^Those who have grown tired of drug commercials which tout a product as being the ideal cure for everything from chilblains to sleeplessness may take some comfort from a set of proposed guides newly issued by the Federal Trade Commission. Geared to regulate the advertising of over-the-counter drugs—defined by the agency as all those that can be bought without a doctor's prescription—the guides state that the companies shouldn't misrepresent their benefits, effectiveness or safety. They provide that ads must be consistent with labeling and that advertisers are not to represent their products as being superior to their competitors—unless this happens to be true. Not only are the manufacturers enjoined from care­ less handling of the truth in their claims, but advertising agencies as well are held responsible for any excesses they dream up. The rules go into such matters as the use of corporate names and trademarks in advertising, of drug guarantees and warranties, and of representations concerning the extent of product testing. Written comments on the proposals may be submitted until May 19, at which time the commission expects to adopt final guides. These will be merely advisory and are intended to encourage voluntary compliance. The Federal Trade Com­ mission Act bars deceptive advertising as well as unfair methods of competition. cation programs they wished. Blocked Many Years He reminded the committee of the many years that federal aid legislation was blocked in Congress until a way was finally found to maintain separation of church and state and at the same time "meet the under­ standable concern of parents of children in non-public schools that their children share in the benefits of federal aid." The solution, Davis noted, was to allocate the bulk of fed­ eral funds "on the basis of child needs rather than school needs." The allocation is based on the number of school-age children from poverty-level families in a school district, whether or not they are attending public schools. Another drawback of block grants, Davis said, is that "polit­ ical pressures" on state boards of education might result in shortchanging the city schools where the needs are greatest. Several congressmen have suggested adding a general aid to education program to the existing legislation and Davis told the committee there is some merit in the concept. not actually provide money for the program; that requires sep­ arate legislation, handled by the Appropriations Committee. Davis stressed that the AFLCIO has repeatedly "testified strongly for full appropria­ tions." It has also, he noted, criti­ cized the Johnson Administra­ tion for not seeking as much money as Congress authorized for aid to education. Adequate funding of the basic program, Davis said, "is a national—not a partisan—issue." He said the AFL-CIO be­ lieves "that the present em­ phasis should be on obtaining the full appropriations which are presently authorized and upon increasing the authoriza­ tions to more realistic levels, rather than upon developing still new programs." Extension of the present law, Davis, said, should be accom­ panied by "forward funding" of the program—advance appro­ priations commitments which make it possible for school dis­ tricts to know what federal funds are available when they draw up their budgets and plan their programs. Improved Performance In separate testimony, spokesmen for the American Federation of Teachers en­ dorsed extension and expansion of the federal aid program. Carl J. Megel, the union's legislative representative, said improvement in student per­ formance has resulted from special programs financed by the federal grants. A panel of AFT leaders from big city locals testified to the urgency of the need and en­ dorsed the legislation. The dele­ gation included the presidents of AFT locals in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston and Minneapolis. tracts in February after receiving "personal assurances" from the heads of the firms that discrimi­ nation would be corrected. More recently. Labor Secre­ tary George P. Shultz, whose Starved for Funds department is charged with en­ But he said it wouldn't make forcement of a presidential order any sense to try to add on new against discrimination in firms dealing with the government, aid programs when the basic announced that the government program is still starved for will follow through to see that funds. Congress last year appropri­ the companies live up to their ated less than $1.5 billion of promises. He said the Labor Depart­ the $3.25 billion authorized ment and Defense Department under the Elementary and Sec­ are working on a questionnaire ondary Education Act. that the firms will have to fill "As a result," Davis said, out quarterly. "the available funds have been It will require, he said, "de­ spread too thin to accomplish tailed information in writing re­ their purpose." It has been, he garding actions taken and results suggested, "a case of too little achieved in recruitment, hiring, money and too many poor chil­ placement, upgrading and treat­ dren." ment of employees, including the The pending legislation does use of company facilities." The Defense Department Receiving First 5IU Pension Check went ahead with the contracts, with the concurrence of Shultz, after Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) had sharply protested the threatened disqualification of the firms. Officials of the civil rights leadership group wrote Packard their concern that the leniency shown the three textile firms may weaken enforcement of the government's policy. Other fed­ eral departments, the letter said, might follow the Defense De­ partment example. There should be no contracts, the civil rights group said, un­ til both the Defense Department and the Labor Department determine that the requirements of the executive order are being fully met. The letter was signed by Clarence M. Mitchell, legisla­ tive chairman, and James Hamilton, compliance and en­ Rolland Skinner (right), who sailed in the deck department, reforcement chairman of the lead­ ceives his first SlU pension check from Frankfort Port Agent Harold Rathbun at the hall, recently. Skinner was born in Kansas. ership conference. �SEAFARERS Page Twenty April, 1969 LOG Free Worid Backing Mounb I AR^IOU^aUA.-llliexitattCumk For Calif. Grape Boycott | To CurtOll Exploitotion of wwOtkotS Free world labor is responding to an appeal for help from U.S. farm workers by refusing to handle struck California grapes. First to join the international boycott was the Swedish Landworkers' Union, one of the largest European importers of California table grapes for its consumer, cooperatives, fol­ lowed by transport unions in the other Scandinavian coun­ tries. The International Transport Workers' Federation, trade secretariat for 315 unions representing seven million trans­ port workers in 84 countries of the free, world called on all affiliates to support the boycott of the AFL-CIO Farm Work­ ers Organizing Committee by refusing to buy, sell or unload grapes picked by non-union employes of struck growers. Similar action was taken a few days later by unions affil­ iated with the International Federation of Plantation, Agri­ cultural and Allied Workers. ITF reported to its affiliates that the UFWOC's "Don't Buy California Grapes" campaign had been "tremendously successful" since UFWOC members struck in 1967 for rec­ ognition of their union and the right to bargain for better working conditions. The appeal to buyers has been so successful, ITF related, that "the growers are now trying desperately to export to other countries grapes which they are unable to sell on the home market." For that reason UFWOC has enlisted the "sympathetic support of unions and the public in Europe, Latin America and Asia," and has sent a special representative to Europe to enlist such aid, according to ITF. Back-door Methods Its letter warned that the grape growers may try to hold down their losses "by increasing exports to other countries or by using back-door methods to get grape consignments into countries where transport unions have pledged not to handle" such cargoes. "This may be done by switching cargoes to ports in other countries and then attempting to transport them by road, rail or air to their original destination," it said. Such switching was tried in Sweden when the Landwork­ ers refused to handle grape shipments from the U.S., ITF stressed. The Don't Buy movement was launched in the U.S. to draw public attention to the refusal of California grape grow­ ers to recognize the field hands' union or to allow a repre­ sentation election. Farm workers are not covered.by the labor act as industrial workers are. The AFL-CIO has appealed for "immediate" government actions to curb "greedy busi­ nessmen" who are increasingly running away to Mexico to ex­ ploit low wages for greater profits. The so-called Mexico border development program, sup­ posed to improve U.S.-Mexican relations and cut joblessness in a high unemployment area, "is a complete failure on both counts," the federation's Execu­ tive Council declared in a statement. These failures, the statement said, are compounded by "an­ other and interrelated problem" —the widespread hiring of "green carders" by U.S. em­ ployers. The "green carders"— so designated for the color of the alien permits issued to them —are admitted under immigra­ tion laws that allow them per­ manent resident status. The "green card" holders and other border crossers "are used as pawns in strikebreaking and other anti-labor activities by ruthless employers in the border areas," tlie council said. System Affects Thousands It charged that the combina­ tion of the mounting runaway pattern and the "green card" abuses has resulted in "a sys­ tem of exploitation on both sides of the border affecting tens of thousands" of already poor Mexican and U.S. workers. The runaway lure is based on a "twin plant" scheme under which a firm makes parts in a U.S. plant, ships them to a Mexican plant for assembly, and re-imports the finished product. The U.S. tariff is based not on the cost of the product, but on the "value added" in the Mexico plant—essentially the low wages of Mexican border workers. The council charged that the term "border program" is mis­ leading because its abuses now "extend far north and south of the United States-Mexican bor­ der." The program, it said, has provided an ever-increasing number of big U.S. corpora­ tions "with soaring income and the opportunity to evade both Mexican and U.S. laws." In the process, the statement continued, it has "victimized" thousands of unskilled Mexican job-seekers who have moved northward into an already glutted job market and has thrown thousands of U.S. work­ ers out of jobs. It has also led to industrial strife in Mexico, including at least one strike by 1,400 Mexican workers, the council noted. Although the runaways are hiring Mexican workers for wages as low as 29 cents an hour, the council observed, neither workers nor consumers in the two countries "share in the vast savings to the border companies" because prices of products are not lowered. Since the program began in 1965, the council reported, ap­ parel imports from Mexico have jumped from $174,000 to $9 million a year and imports of electrical equipment have soared from $350,000 to nearly $34 million annually. Court Upholds Union Rights to Self-Government PHILADELPHIA—A stem warning against courts invading the area of union self-govern­ ment to set themselves up as types of "super internationals" was issued by the 3rd U.S. Cir­ cuit Court of Appeals here. Such action, the appeals court emphasized in reversing the Philadelphia District Court, threatens the whole concept of "union self-determination" which Congress recognized in establishing labor policy. A three-judge appeals panel upheld the State, County & Mu­ nicipal Employees' expulsion from membership of Frederick E. Lewis, a former business manager and president of Local 403, representing Philadelphia street employees. Caused Stoppages The union acted in June 1967, under its disciplinary machinery, after the city charged Lewis with violating the local's no-strike contract by causing two work stoppages at the city's street department yard, and further threatening to "shut down" the department. The union pointed out that Lewis violated the contract which made SCME vulnerable to damage suits from the city and threatened the loss of jobs for members of the local. After participating in the union's hearing that led to his expulsion, Lewis challenged the decision in court, claiming his rights.were violated under the Landrum-Griffin Act. In April 1968, the District Court ruled in his favor, holding that the expulsion was not justi­ fied because there wasn't suf­ ficient evidence against him. It also exonerated him of causing the work stoppages. In its appe^, the union said that Lewis did not specify the manner in which his rights were violated, as the law requires, and the court "totally usurped" the international's trial function under its constitution. "The courts have consistently held that the requirement of a fair hearing" under the law's section protecting rights "does not authorize" the court to weigh the evidence at a union trial or judge its merits, a union brief said. The brief submitted for the SCME pointed out that Lewis received 15 days advance notice of the union's trial, the hearing ran for 16 hours, Lewis "ex­ tensively" cross-examined all parties who testified against him and was given the right to testi­ fy and present witnesses. Facts Undisputed The findings that Lewis had not caused the walkout "ran contrary to undisputed and ir­ refutable facts," the union de­ clared. It noted that Lewis' lawyer hadn't even argued that point before the lower court. The appeals court panel agreed that there was "sufficient evidence" for the union's find­ ing that Lewis played a "signifi­ cant" role in calling and direct­ ing work stoppages on May 4 and May 18, 1967. Although the panel decided the evidence before the union's trial was sufficient to expel Lewis, the decision voiced greater concern over the lower court substituting "its own judg­ ment for that of the union's tribunal." Once the court determines that the findings were "not without any foundation of evi­ dence," that the proof related to the charges and due process was observed, "the action of the union tribunal must be upheld," it added. "The court has no authority to enter into any evidenceweighing process and it may not substitute its judgment for that of the union tribunal," the rul­ ing emphasized. Such a limitation, it con­ cluded, is vital "if we are to prevent the federal courts from becoming a super-international trial board appeals tribunal" in direct conflict to "the concept of union determination as re­ flected in the spirit of our na­ tional labor poliey." To end "this festering source of inter-governmental anxiety" and terminate "widespread abuses at both countries' ex­ pense," the council called for: • Repeal of the section of the U.S. Tariff Code that al­ lows firms to duck adequate tariffs on imported products. • Laws requiring adequate labeling of the country in which products are partially made or assembled by foreign workers but sold under U.S. brand names. • An end to cooperation by government ageneies with firms that "increase the nation's un­ employment by crossing the border into Mexico" and a re­ quest by the U.S. government to the Mexican government to keep U.S. firms from locating in Mexico "under these circum­ stances." • Broadening of an import plan governing cotton textiles to include wool and man-made fibers and enforcement of the cotton import agreement with Mexico to prevent abuses of its provisions. • Action by the U.S. govek Lament to halt importation of strikebreakers from Mexieo which undermines nonfarm workers' standards and adds "to the troubles of such exploited groups as the California grape workers." • Administrative action by the Defense and Labor Depts. to plug loopholes in the use of government funds to export jobs and undercut minimum wage and other laws. "These concerted actions," the council concluded, "can eliminate both the 'green card' myth and a program which greedy men have degraded into a cruel hoax on the very people it was designed to help." if ,f -V, 'i-i Vietnam Visitor '^0 When the Topa Topa touched at Vung Tau, Vietnam, recently Sea­ farer Martin Pyke had a special visitor come aboard. It was his son, Martin Jr., who is stationed there as a Marine. Dad took this photo of his son on the tantail. �April, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Twenty-One LOG 16 Additional Seafarers Are Added To Growing List of SIU Pensioners Francis BrumagjUn Please get in touch with your wife, Celia, at 542 North High St., Mt. Vernon, New York, as soon as possible. Eric Benjamin Hayes Please contact your wife as soon as possible. You can get in touch with her at home or by writing in care of Murray Rosof, 10 East 40th St., New York, New York. Leslie Neville It is important that you con­ tact the Japan Air Lines Station Office as soon as possible. Write to Japan Airlines, Station Office, P.O. Box F, J.F.K. Internation­ al Airport, Jamaica, New York 11430. Ralph Moore Jose Perez Please contact Burke & Par­ sons, 52 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, as soon as possible concerning your W-2 Income Tax Forms from the Galicia Defender. i Guy Plahn Please write to your wife at your new home address, 920 Independence Street, New Or­ leans, Louisiana 70117. Your new phone number is 943-3501. Thomas Markham Please write to your mother, Mrs. Etta Gay, as soon as pos­ sible. She is anxious to hear from you. Her address is 3317 Montana Avenue, Norfolk, Vir­ ginia 23513. Dflvfd B. Miller Your wife, Margaret, has been ill and asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible by calling her at (301) 276-2325, or writing to 1407 East Balti­ more Street, Baltimore, Mary­ land 21231. Rob Stewart Please contact Ronnie Searcy, in care of S. S. Robin Locksley, M.S.T.S. address; or through Ellen Ouhl, 3320 Buchanan Street, Mt. Ranier, Maryland 20822. Rudolph R. Cefaratti Your mother requests that you contact the Harrisburg Bank, P.O. Box 5278, Houston, Tex­ as, or see them personally re­ garding your bank account num­ ber and Social Security number. They want to verify that their in­ formation on your account is correct. Wages are being held for you by Texas City Refining, Inc. You may claim these wages by writing to Texas City Refining, Marine Division, P. O. Box 1271, Texas City, Tex. 77590. Be sure to include your signa­ ture, social security number, "Z" number and instructions for mailing. Walter Ammann Please contact SIU Headquar­ ters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, New York 11232, regard­ ing an important letter which is being held for you. — <I>—Carl F. Beard Please contact the law offices of Ronald K. Lipstone as soon as possible. The address is 6404 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Ange­ les, California 90048. Benjamin Ferreira It is important that you con­ tact your wife at 25 Sulucan Street, Julong Duhat, Malabon Rizal, Philippines, as soon as you possibly can. -— Clarence Gordon Please contact your mother as soon as possible at 618 El­ ton Street, Brooklyn, New York 11208. ^ William H. Johnson Please get in touch with your wife, Jeanette, at 349 West Olney Road, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, as soon as possible. William R. Corry Donald E. Mackey RufllnoGaray It is important that you con­ tact the Wyckoff Welfare Cen­ ter, 213 Duffield Street, Brook­ lyn, New York 11201, as soon as possible. Lloyd McCuen It is important that you con­ tact the North Long Beach-Carmelitos Neighborhood Center as soon as possible. The address is 5148 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, California 90805. ^ John Elgin Wells As soon as possible, please contact Mrs. Grace M. Wells, 209 West Jean Street, Tampa, Florida 33604. The names of 16 additional Seafarers have been added to the ever-expanding roster of men collecting their SIU pen­ sion after completing their sail­ ing careers. Seafarer Geronimo Gapac, bom 70 years ago in the Philip­ pines, is closing out a sailing career that span 46 years. A long-time SIU member. Brother Gapac joined the Union in the Port of Norfolk, in 1943. He now makes his home in Savan­ nah, Georgia, with his wife. Infanta. Brother Gapac sailed as steward. His last ship was the R/V Conrad. Gapac McKenzie Regis McKenzie was bom in the British West Indies and now makes his home with his wife, Cara, in Brooklyn, New York. Brother McKcnzic joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore. He sailed as chief steward and his last ship was the Steel Fab­ ricator. Marcdy Winiford Dennis Marcoly was bom in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, and now lives there with his sister, Mrs. Angeline Thens. Brother Marcoly, who has spent more than 25 years at sea, joined the SIU in New Orleans in 1942. His last vessel was the Vantage Progress on which he sailed as FWT. James Williford is a veteran with 27 years at sea. Bom in Alabama, he continues to make his home in that state in the city of Andalusia. Brother Williford joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore in 1941. Sailing as FOWT, his last ship was the Kenmar. <t> Ei^ene Plahn It is necessary that you con­ tact your attorney, Harry Lore, regarding your injury claim. Write to: Dorfman, Pechner, Sacks & Dorfman, The Welling­ ton, Suite 400, 19th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsyl­ vania 19103. James Fraiddin Boyd Please get in touch with your family as soon as possible. Your mother is ill. ArmlNmster Chalmers Thomas Armbruster was bom 65 years ago in Philadelphia, and continues to reside there with his wife, Lula. Brother Arm­ bruster has worked for the Tay­ lor and Anderson Towing Com­ pany since 1931. A member of the engine department, he held an oiler's rating. Lloyd Chalmers was bom in the Bronx, New York, and now makes his home in Floral Park, Long Island with his wife, Edith. Brother Chalmers has worked as a deck hand on the tugs of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad for 33 years. J > Pritcliett Da Costa years at sea. He joined the SIU in Baltimore in 1939. Brother Da Costa is a native of Portugal who now makes his home with his wife, Vincenta, on Long Is­ land, New York. He sailed as deck engineer and FOWT. Da Costa's last vessel was the Yorkman. Roy Pritchett joined the SIU Rosa Bryan at the Port of New York. A na­ Evaristo Rosa lives with his tive of Chickasaw, Alabama, he wife Francisca in St. Just, Puer-. continues to make his home there to Rico, the town of his birth. with his wife Jessie. Brother Brother Rosa, whose sailing ca­ Pritchett spent 11 years in the reer spans more than 25 years, U.S. Navy, serving from 1935 joined the SIU in the Port of through 1946. Rated chief elec­ trician, his last ship was the Alcoa Marker. Alfredo Morell has been go­ ing to sea for more than 50 years. He was bom in Puerto Rico in 1903 and is retiring to that island with his wife, Maria. Cipriano Lubiejewsid Mobile in 1943. He was the recipient of a safety award while sailing on the Y^a in 1962. Rated FOWT, his last vessel was the Mayaguez. Augustus Bryan is a native of Georgia and makes his home there with his wife in the town of Eastman. Brother Bryan join­ ed the SIU in Savannah, Geor­ gia. A member of the steward department, he sailed as third cook. His last ship was the De­ troit. Chris Cipriano is a native of the Philippines who now resides with his wife, Amanda, in New York City. The veteran Seafarer joined the Union in the Port of Philadelphia. Brother Cipriano sailed in the engine department as fireman and wiper. His last ship was the Steel Voyager. Marian Lubiejewski, who has been going to sea for 40 years, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1943. A native of Poland, he now makes his home in New York City, but hopes to make a visit soon to his daugh­ ter, Sophie, who lives in Jdynia, Poland. Brother Lubiejewski sailed as AB. His last ship was the Selma Victory. Jose Da Costa, 69, is a vete­ ran old timer with more than 44 Dovak MweU Brother Morell sailed as FWT and his last ship was the Qaibome. He joined the SIU in 1946 in the Port of New York. John Dovak is a native of Pennsylvania who now makes his home in New Orleans. A member of the engine depart­ ment, Brother Dovak last sailed aboard the Alcoa Commander as FWT. Seafarer Dovak joined the Union in the Port of New York. Louis O'Leary was bora in Louisiana and lives in that state with his wife, Cecile, in Westwego. A veteran member of the SIU, he joined the Union in 1938 in the Port of New Or- (FLeary leans. Brother O'Leary has 31 years' sea time and was sailing as bosun at the time of his re­ tirement. Joao De Madeiros is retiring after more than 30 years at sea. Bora in Portugal, he now lives with his wife, Maria, in Brook­ lyn. Brother De Madeiros joined the SIU in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1944. Sailing as oiler, his last vessel was the Alcoa Voyager. �SEAFARERS Page Twenty-Two April, 1969 LOG COB VICTORY (Victory Carriers) December 16—Chairman, J. Tanner; Bocretary, J, Mims. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Brother Joe Touart was elected to serve as ship's delegate. The crew of the Yukmi (Sea Transport) voted unanimously to take up a collection and send $300 to Mrs. Grace Ospring, mother of Seafarer James Osprii^, who was lost at sea while working on deck the evening of February 13 on the return run from the Far East. Each Sea­ farer is donating $12 which is be­ ing collected by Charles Cox, ship's delegate. R. Lawrence, bosun and meet­ Lawrence ing chairman, said that Brother Ospring was "a fine young able seaman who per­ formed his duties in a consci­ entious and capable manner." His father, George R. Ospring, who was aboard the Steel Ad­ vocate when he learned of his son's tragic death, left the ship in Balboa, Panama, to return to his home in Westminister, Cali­ fornia, to be with his wife. BurIln Pinion, ship's delegate on the Steel Advocate, reports that the officers and crew took up a col­ lection to provide for Brother Oberlin's transportation home. Walter Minett, the Yukon's meeting secretary, reported that the crew gave a vote of thanks to the ship's steward and the en­ tire steward department for the fine gourmet dinners and unparalled service. He noted that the crew passed a resolution stating: "The Yukon is the best feeding vessel in the entire SIU fleet."' Brother Minett also re­ ported that the ship was re­ ceiving mail and the Log regu­ larly during the voyage. —— The Transnorthem (Hudson Waterways) reports smooth sail­ ing with a good crew and no beefs, according to Bernard Don­ nelly, meeting chairman. The ship left Phila­ delphia in Janu­ ary for BremAUen erhaven and Antwerp, and was scheduled to continue its round-the-world voyage with stops at the Ports of Capetown, Bangkok, Saigon, Manila and then pay-off on tlie West Coast. Howard H. Allen was elected ship's delegate, Wflliam Rogers was named deck delegate, Widter Pearson is en­ gine delegate, and Donnelly was elected steward delegate. The crew gave a unanimous vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for excellent meals and service. .1. J. A. Rusheed, ship's delegate on the Obeifln Victory (Steam­ ship Service), re­ ports a good trip with no major beefs, and ex­ pects a smooth pay-off when the ship ties up in San Francisco. Danny Welch, Welch who once served as a radio operator with the U.S. Air Force, took over the radio watch after the Oberlin's radio operator took sick and was put ashore in Honolulu. Welch is also the ship's deck delegate. Meeting Chairman Jack Dolan reported that the Seafarers passed a resolution calling for overtime pay for standing gangway watch be­ tween 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. while cargo is being worked. A special vote of thanks went to the stew­ ard department for outstanding meals and service during the voyage. In addition to Welch, the ship's delegates include E. W. Bartol, engine department, and Coy Hendricks, steward de­ partment. J. A. Shorten, ship's delegate aboard the San Juan (Sea-Land), reports that the vessel left Oak­ land "in a mess" with the recrea­ tion room, messroom and pass­ ageways torn up because converShortell repairs rema.aed unfin= ished. The crew instructed Brother Shortell to inform the SIU Headquarters of this failure to complete necessary repairs before sailing as promised. The Seafarers Meet At Marine Corps Trainii^ Camp Proudfoot h I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (f,mt information) NAME STREET ADDRESS STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old lubtcriber and have a ehanga of addraat, please give your former address below: AODRCS CITY ^ Two young Seafarers presently serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, met each other there and found they had some­ thing in common—^both sailed Bob Callahan, ship's delegate aboard SlU-contracted vessels be­ on the Del Norte (Delta), re­ fore joining the Marines. ports a good trip The two are Privates Jan C. with some dis­ Hitchcock and Emmett Proudputed overtime foot, who are undergoing ad­ in the engine and vanced infantry training at the steward depart­ camp. Both received their basic ments. Deck Del­ training at Parris Island, and ex­ egate Steve Szan- pect to begin a 13-month tour of fo, Jr. says that duty in Vietnam in May after a two-week leave. there is no dis­ Szanto puted overtime in his department and no beefs. "This has been a smooth voy­ age with a fine bunch of ship- Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 CITY mates," he reported. Carl Treitler, steward delegate, said that the disputed overtime in his department resulted from hav­ ing to serve the ship's officers in the passenger dining room . The only other beef, according to Brother Callahan, is for launch fare pay for eight days outside Santos," Brazil, on the last trip. The ship's officers were paid overtime for not being able to go ashore there, and the crew feels that the Seafarers should be entitled to the launch fare. CTATE Hitchcock crew also gave a vote of thanks to Brother Shortell "for a job well done." E. Graham, meet­ ing secretary, reported the com­ plaints of the crew that the LOG is not being forwarded re^larly. "The last time the ship ar­ rived in Oakland," he reports, "four separate issues of the Log were taped together and sent to the Oakland office as crew mail." The San Juan was due in San Francisco for pay-off on April 1 after a trip to Okinawa, Subic Bay and Yokohama. G. Baker is deck delegate, F. Ui> teago is engine delegate and W. Netters is steward department delegate. DEL MUNDO (Delta), February 9 —Chairman, Mike Murr; SecreUry, Woodrow W. Perkins. Brother Murr was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. No beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. Various resolu­ tions and motions were submitted to headquarters. , FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tankers), I March 9—Ghaiman, Fred A. Olson; I Secretary, W. T. Langford. Dis•Jputed OT in engine department. J Discussion held regarding pension I plan. A special vote of thanks was I extended to the steward department for a job well done. I BEL SOL (Delta), March S — ^Chairman, R. E. Stough, Jr.; Secra» ?tary, W. J. Holland. Brother Francis Howard was elected to serve as ship's Steward dapartniant extended a%ote of thanks to the en­ tire crew for helping to keep lounge and pantry clean. i HURRICANE (Waterman), March 52—Chairman, Alford Koscoe; Secre­ tary, Floyd Hungate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. SABINE (Ship Operators), Januf ary 26—Chairman B. Fimovicz: Sec, retary, F. J. Johnson. Few hours t disputed OT in engine department. I Motion was made to have negotiati ing committee contact the Company regarding the matter of having airconditioning in all crew's qiiarters. Discussion held regarding neglected repairs, shortage of medicine and certain vegetables. STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), Chairman, John T. Carnec; Secre­ tary, H. Ulrich. Ship's delegate ?; reported that there were no beefs 5 and everything is running smoothly. 5 Brother Carnes was re-elected to I serve as ship's delegate. Discussion |held on pension pl-a, t LOS ANGELiiTsea-Land), March g 19—Chairman, A. Caldeira; Secrel- tary, R. Barker. Brother B. J. Shulta I was elected to serve as ship's delei gate. $150.00 in movie fund. Every­ thing is running smoothly with no beefs. a MERRIMAC (Merrimac Transpor­ tation), March 23—Chairman, E. Wagner; Secretary, E. Kresz. Few hours disputed OT in engine depart­ ment. Vote of thanks was extended to tho steward department, Biacusmon held on pension plan. WINGLESS VICTORY (Consoli­ dated Marine), March 9—Chairman, Edward L. Atkin; Secretary, Rich­ ard G. Dixon. Disputed OT in each department to be' taken up with boarding patrolman. MONTICELLOYICTORY (MontiHitchcock joined the SIU in cello Tanker), March 16—Chairman, New York in 1966. He shipped Jacobus Huiaman; Secretary, George A. O'Berry. $19.00 in ship's as messman and 3rd cook, and fund. Disputed OT in engine de­ is a graduate of the Harry Lunde- partment, Vote of thanks was ex­ to Brother C. V/ahl for the berg School of Seamanship. tended pxcellent meals he prepared while Brother Hitchcock has also served on board this vessel. Brother Wahl had to leave ship due to his father's as steward department delegate illness. He will surely be missed by aboard ship. His last vessel was all. Vote of thanks was also extend­ the Summit. Hitchcock expects to ed to the entire steward department he assigned as a helicopter ma­ for a job well done. CITY OF ALMA (Watorman), chine gunner when he . reaches March 18—Chairman, Victor ArdowVietnam. ski; Secretary, Wallace G. Perry. No Proudfoot comes from Truss- beefs were reported by departmept Brother Wallace G, Perry ville, Alabama, and had been a delegates. wfl« elected to sorva aa ahipl.i deleSeafarer for two years before gate. • signing up for his hitch in the ^RirciCEYE 'ATLAN'riC (Bucket), Marine Corps. Brother Proudfoot •, -March iS— Chairman, Peter Sernyk; sailed in the engine department Secretary, R. T. Westgate. Brother Tom King was elected to serve as as wiper. His last vessel was the ahip'a dele^toi^Nb beefs wore *eKent. V LA SALLE (Waterman), March 11 —Chairman, R. Moser; Secretary, A. Leah. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with I boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks I was extended to the steward depgrt'ment for a job well done. BUCKEYE PACIFIC (Buckeye), February 26 — Chairman, Thomas iCummings; Secretary, John Steeber. I Brother Thomas Cummings was re1 elected to serve as ship's delegate. I $3.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were I reported by department delegates. ALCOA COMMANDER (Alcoa), March 15—Chairman, John C. SkogF. lund; Secretary, John E.Adams. No f beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was ext tended to the steward department for a job well done. PANAMA (Sea-Land), March 2— Chairman, Felix Vlto; Secretary Bill Stark. Brother R. 0. Masters was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Vote of thanks to the entire steward department lor a job well done. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), March 9—Chairman, Jack Nelson, Jr.; Secretary, P. S. Omega. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. $20.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to ship's delegate. Brother E. Hayden, for a job well dqhe. Of SIU MEETINGS STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), February 19—Chairman, E, L. Thompson; Secretary, Donald F. Steward. $26.44 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Brother Burlin Pinion was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. DAGAMA (Crest), February 2—1 Chairman, N. R. Pettersen; Secre­ tary, W H. Todd. Brother F. Carruthers was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Some disputed OT in deck department. No beefs were reported by department dele^tes. ALCOA COMMANDER (Alcoa), February 2—Chairman, M. Kramer; Secretary, John E. Adams. No^beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. SOUTHWESTERN VICTORY (Delta), February 13—Chairman, Alfred Hirsch; Secretary, J. H. Smith. Brother A. Anderson resigned as ship's delegate and Brother R. F. Mackert was elected to serve in his place. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. DUKE VICTORY (Victory Cartiers), January 26—Chairman, C. I. Copper; Secretary, D, Knight. Brother C. Bellamy was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. PAIRLAND (Sea-Land), Februarj 16—Chairman, Victory Harding; Secretary, Craig Gorman. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks was extended to Brothers Pat Manelli and Mac„ McGregor for squaring away al beefs. TRANSNORTHERN (Hudson Waterways), January 27—Chairman Bernard Donnelly; Secretary, Jack E. Long. $86.26 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. Everything is running smoothly. Brother Howard H, Allen was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to the steward departm.i.t for a jol • well, done.^ STEEL WORKER (Isthmian) iPebruary 28—Chairman, John,; T Carnes; Secretary, H. Ulrich. $189.0( in ship's fund. No beefs were re ported by department delegates DiscHeaibn held TeKarriing penRion }::;plan.' , . PRINCETON VICTQRY (Cslum bia), March 4—ChaiifTrian, W. Hsa nock; Secretary, John Reed. Pew hours disputed OT in steward de. partment. Discussion held regardin) '(retirement plan.-(/:("- /;^•'•• �April, 1969 SEAFARERS MONEY DUE Checks are being held at SIU Headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. for the Seafarers listed below for money due them on the vessels shown and not claimed as of March 27, 1969. Those, whose names appear on the list should get in touch with Union headquarters as soon as possible. Name Sldp H. Beamer Penn Carrier Edward Jensen Hercules Victory Robert Sndfli Hercules Victory Thomas E. Hanson Valiant Hope Donald Kershaw Valiant Hope Warren Weiss Niagara James Gleasmi Seatrain New York Fred Patterson Seatrain New York Joseph L. Chapean Kent Cyril Gaudiier Kent Robert Miller Del Mar Calvin R. Smldi Transwestem Daniel J. McLaren Transwestem J. Walsh Midlake D. Shattucfc Midlake Bobby V, Carter Alcoa Master David J. Flynn Alcoa Master Rambam J. Rose Rambam C. Cummings Rambam A. Samawi Rambam J. Saunders Seatrain San Juan Roy L. Frank Emfl H. Kjono Albion Victory Jose R. Rodriguez Marore R. South Isthmian Lines Haralambos C. Menkou Wilmar D. Mai^[ual Afoundria E. Santana Afoundria Genmisa Espada Petrochem Aurello Asuncion Oceanic Wave R. O. Barnes Oceanic Wave C. A. Cocbenour Oceanic Wave A. Korsak Oceanic Wave J. Mathesmi Oceanic Wave W. J. Mathews Oceanic Wave D. C. Qnoy Quop Oceanic Wave Paul L<^z Oceanic Tide Philip Livingston Oceanic Tide William W. Conley Please get in touch with Mrs. Nancy Conley, Box 24 NAVSTA, FPO San Francisco, California 96610. <I> Audly Carevich Foster Your wife is ill and requests that you contact her as soon as possible. Please write to her in care of Mrs. Rita Bossin, 42935 Fairmount Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey. George Mahnas The dry cleaning you left in Manila while you were on the Fred Morris can be picked up at the Seaman's Club in Yoko­ hama. Van Syses George Lewis Please contact your wife, Zeneta, as soon as possible at 2064 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10035. -,1> George Mclvwy Please get in touch with Harry Matthews, Sfacth Postal Credit Union, Post Office An­ Claim Disputed overtime Disputed overtime Disputed overtime Transportation Transportation Lodging Disputed lodging Disputed lodging Lodging Lodging Refund Disputed overtime Disputed overtime Standby wages Standby wages Transportation Transportation Retroactive wages Retroactive wages Retroactive wages Retroactive wages Unclaimed wages One day's wages Disputed overtime Refund Lodging Wages Wages Disputed overtime Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages Unclaimed wages nex, Florence, South Carolina 29501, as soon as possible. <|> Salvatore John Shrig^o Please contact your former wife, Rita, at 11330 Hayvenhurst Avenue, Grenada Hills, California 91344, as soon as possible. ^ Rafael Hernandez Ygur daughter, Mrs. Fedelia Strickland, is anxious to have you get in touch with her. Her address is 5-79th Ord. Co., APO New York 09035. John Feisick It is important that you get in touch with Herbert Ginzburg, attorney, at 36 Richmond Ter­ race, Staten Island, New York 10301, as soon as possible. ^ WHiiam Nordland Please contact Edwin J. Nordland, 2904 Magee Ave­ nue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19149. LOC Page Twenty-Three Veteran Seafarers Russo and Matt Reunited In Hospital after 22 Years Seafarer Anthony Russo is recovering at the USPHS Hos­ pital on Staten Island, New York, from the latest in a series of operations, but he looked mighty cheerful when SIU Rep­ resentative George McCartney paid a visit to present him with his first SIU pension check. The occasion was a doubly happy one for Brother Russo because he also held a reunion with Carlos Matt, a shipmate with whom he sailed some 22 years ago. Brother Russo, who has been going to sea for nearly 25 years, has been a Seafarer right from the beginning. He shows his first book as a member of the SIU, proudly points out that it was signed by Harry Lundeberg, and says: "1 have always been proud to be a member of our Union. It has been like a moth­ er and father to me." He remembers his first ship well. "It was the Polich Vic­ tory," he recalls, "and it was a fash ship. I remember that we were carrying ammunition to Europe dming World War 11. That was in 1944, and it was good to have a fast vessel under you in those days." Togedier in 1946 Brother Russo sailed with Carlos Matt aboard the Steel Scientist back in 1946. He says: "You know, when a sailor says to a shipmate at the end of a voyage, 'I'll see you later,' he means that he will probably see him next year or 10 years later." So, when Brother Matt showed up at the hospital in the bed next to his, they both just looked at each other for awhile, and then got talking about the ships they had sailed on. Broth­ er Russo recalls: "At first we didn't recognize each other, but there was some­ thing mighty familiar about Car­ los. Then, when we were talking and he said* he was sailing as AB on the Steel Scientist, well. Always Remember M & C Receipts Seafarers are reminded that all periods of Mainte­ nance and Cure for which re­ ceipts are issued by a signa­ tory employer are counted toward their pension require­ ment. In order to insure proper pension credit, it is suggested that all receipts for M & C i be reported to the SIU PenI sion Plan while the records are still available. For this purpose, a copy of the em­ ployer's receipt or a letter from the signatory employer —giving dates for which M i & C was paid—^will suffice. we both remembered each other I'll always visit the SRJ hall right away. It's been great talk­ there." ing about those old days to­ Brother Russo, whose last gether." ship was the Puerto Rico, says Brother Russo is a native that sailing offers a great deal New Yorker. His wife, Jennie, to the young seaman today. died several years ago, so he "The new men should real­ sometimes stays with his daugh­ ize that the good pay, working ter, Mrs. Theresa DePompeis, conditions and the s^ety meas­ and his two grandchildren when ures that they enjoy are things he is in New York. that the SIU had to fight to get. Some things, like pen­ WOl Keep in Touch sions, insurance, vacations and Asked about his plans when medical plans are things we he leaves the hospital. Brother Russo says: "I'll probably go to never even dreamed of years Puerto Rico or Florida—some ago," he said. "And," he concludes, "we got place where it is warm and sunny—and keep on with my these things by being like the hobbies of oil painting and ship Three Musketeers—one for all, building. But, wherever 1 go. and all for one." Seafarer Anthony Russo (left) is all smiles as he collects his first Union pension check from SIU Representative George McCartney and gets handshake from an old shipmate, Brother Carlos Matt. Farm Workers'Legal Rights Under Study by Nixon Team WASHINGTON — President Nixon has asked two members of his Cabinet to get together and come up with a recom­ mendation on whether farm workers should be covered by the National Labor Relations Act. He handed the joint assign­ ment to Labor Secretary George P. Shultz and Agriculture Sec­ retary Qifford M. Hardin. It was the latest in a series of policy questions the President has assigned to his department heads for study and recom­ mendations. Extension of collective bar­ gaining rights to farm workers has been a high priority legis­ lative goal of the AFL-CIO and its United Farm Workers Or­ ganizing Committee. It also had strong support from former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and a farm worker bill was approved by the House Education and Labor Commit­ tee last year. Further action was blocked by strong conservative opposition, however. The Farm Bureau, represent­ ing most of the biggest agricul­ tural employers, strongly op­ posed bargaining rights for farm workers, and the House Agri­ culture Committee took the un­ precedented step of passing a resolutions urging the Labor Committee not to approve a bill. Lack of machinery for union representation elections and in­ ability to require farm employ­ ers to bargain with a union led to the development of the con­ sumer boycott tactics to bring economic pressure on California grape growers. Presidential Counselor Arthur F. Bums has the job of coordi­ nating the recommendatimis of the Cabinet members at the White House level. Burns has been quoted as saying that the solicitation of recommendations on various issues doesn't "neces­ sarily" mean that legislation will be drafted or policies adopted by the Administration. �Page TwentT'Fonr SEAFARERS April, 1969 LOG U. Noles. -.M ion was el< Its. No ling: sinoiithtiv: cfijIL Gilbert PiersaD, 54: A heart attack claimed the life of Broth­ er Piersall at his home in Mamou, Louisiana, Janu­ ary 20. He had sailed for 17 years in the steward depart­ ment before an illness forced his - retirement in 1967. Brother Piersall's last ship was the Bangor, where he served as chief steward. He joined the Union in 1959 in New Orleans. Brother Piersall is survived by his wife, Ethel. Burial services were held at St. Ann's cemetery in Mamou. ^ j: 'J Odis DaveiqpN»rt, 50: Brother Davenport died January 26 in Mobile, Ala­ bama. He had sailed for more than 25 years in the engine de­ partment, and joined the SIU in J New Orleans in i/ 1943. He last ' shipped as oiler on the Yaka. Brother Daven­ port was bom in Mississippi and made his home in Prichard, Ala­ bama. He is survived by a sis­ ter, Mrs. Aline Glass, and a daughter, Barbara. Burial serv­ ices were held at Shadowland Cemetery in Prichard. <1, Richard A. Bnrch, 42: Broth­ Benedict Broderlck, 46: er Burch passed away in the Brother Broderick passed away U.S. Medical in Long Beach, Dispensary in California, De­ Saigon June 6, cember 14, 1968, while 1968. Bom in serving aboard Monroe, Louisi­ the Whitehall. ana, he made his Bom in Missis­ home in Galves­ sippi, he made ton, Texas. His his home in 22-year sailing Opelousas, Lou­ career was inter- isiana, with his wife, Helen. mpted by a three-year hitch in Brother Burch joined the Union the Navy during World War II. at New Orleans in 1960, and Brother Broderick joined the sailed as AB. He served two SIU in New Orleans in 1949. years in the U.S. Air Force dur­ Sailing as AB, his last ship was ing World War II. In addition the Transoneida. Burial was at to his widow, he is survived by Rosemound Cemetery in Waco, a daughter. Penny. Funeral serv­ Texas. ices and burial were in Opel­ ousas. Milbum Hatley, 55: Brother Hatley died at the USPHS Hos­ pital in Galves­ ton, Texas, Jan­ uary 26, after a brief illness. He had sailed as 3rd cook on his last ship, the Coundl Grove. Brother Hatley served in the Navy for three years during World War II. Bom in Oklahoma, he had made his home in Port Arthur, Texas, with his wife, Vera. Bur­ ial was at Greenlawn Ctemetery in Port Arthur. Robert Montcalm, 58: A heart attack claimed the life of Brother Mont­ calm January 21 at his home in Alameda, Cali­ fornia, following a long illness, p'. i He was a veteran with more than 45 years at sea, sailing as cook and baker. Brother Montcalm joined the SIU in the Port (rf San Francisco in 1952. His last vessel was the Norberto Capay. He is survived by his wife, Lil­ lian. Two SIU Veterans Retire James Oq;Hing, 22: Brother Ospring was washed overboard February 13 while working the night watch on deck aboard the Yukon on the retum run from the Far East. A gradu­ ate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, where he placed second in his class. Brother Ospring sailed as AB. Bom in East St. Louis, Illinois, he was residing in Westminster, Califomia, at the time of his death. He joined the SIU in Wilmington, Califomia. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Grace Ospring, and his father George, who was sailing aboard the Steel Advocate at the time of his son's death. Brother Ospring had previously shipped on the Tuscon Victory. I il Carl Ernest, left, and Joseph De Madeiros, right, are congratulated by SIU Representative Joe Algina after they received their first Union pension checks. Both Seafarers joined SIU in 1943, and retired in 1969. <I> Sam Staidey, 61: Brother Stan­ ley died following a long ill­ ness on Decem­ James Maigellos, 19: Brother ber 6, 1968, at Margellos succuml^ to pneu= the USPHS Hos­ monia while in New Or­ pital aboard the Jef­ leans. He had ferson City Vic­ been on an SIU tory on Decem­ disability pension ber 13,1968. He since 1965. He joined the Union joined the Union in Seattle, and in the Port of sailed as wiper. He had previ­ Houston in 1960. Brother Stan­ ously shipped on ley was bom in Alabama and the Transorleans. Brother Mar­ lived in the town of Sarland at gellos was born in Portland, the time of his death. He is sur­ Oregon, and had lived there with vived by a son, Samuel, and a his mother, Mrs. Chrissa Mar­ daughter, Mrs.. Ester Rowers. gellos. Funeral services and in­ Burial was at Freewill Cemetery in Canoe, Alabama. terment were in Portland. Lanry Jones, 69: A heart ail­ ment claimed the life of retired Seafarer Jones on February 6 at the Maryland General Hospi­ tal in Baltimore. Brother Jones was bom in Den­ mark, and had been going to sea for more than 50 years. He joined the Union in 1941 in New Orleans. Sailing as AB, his last ship was the Alcoa'Trader in 1966. He had made his home in Baltimore. Burial services were held at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Baltimore. ,1,— y David B. Hard, 50: Heart fail­ ure claimed the life of Brother Hurd on Febraary 26 at the Park Place Hos­ pital in Port Ar­ thur, Texas. He was bom in Pensacola, Florida, and had made his home with his wife, Elenor, in Groves, Texas. Brother Hurd had served as mate and relief captain on tugs of the D.M. Picton Co. He joined the SIU in Port Arthur in 1961. He was a veteran of World War II with three years in the Navy. Besides his wife, he is survived by two children, Cynthia and David, and his father, David. Burial services were held at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Port Arthur. Ralph Didkens, 73: Brother Dickens passed away at Queens General Hospi­ tal in New York City on October 14, 1968, fol­ lowing a brief illness. He was bom in Louisiana and had made his home in New York. A 45-year veteran of the sea. Brother Dickens had sailed as a member of the steward de­ partment. He joined the SIU in New York in 1939. He is sur­ vived by a daughter, Mrs. Sadie Shepard. Burial took place at Evergreens Cfemetery in Brook­ lyn. Clarence Wyatt, 47: Brother Wyatt was accidentally lost over­ board from the . Tug Sophia and drowned off the Virginia coast on January 31. Bom in Waynesville, North Carolina, he made his home in Balti­ more, Maryland, with his wife, Bertha. He had been serving as cook aboard tugs of the Harbor Towing Corpo­ ration since 1957, and joined the SIU in Baltimore in 1958. Money Due The following Seafarers j who sailed on the last voy­ age of the Oceanic Wave have wages due them: AardKo Asnncioii, R. O.I Barnes, G. A. Cochenonr, A. Korsak, J. Madieson,! W. J. Matkws and D. C. i Qsoy QIM^. The money can be claimed in person at SIU| headquarters, or by writing j to 675 Fourth Avenue, i Brooklyn, New Yorki 11232. Be sure to include social security number, "Z" i number, signature and in-j stmctions for mailing. aan, Robert CPlSl isBill Kaiserv Jaiptrtrt OT ii ;dei»artmeHt int. Ship's 4eieffate repor^ |-%!» hes'been a trip the beefs in steward and en^ne rtmeitts, S2$6.00 in movie fund 110144 in ship's fond; .OTSItSSAS tita'lilnrJtime ^ Ovsrs^},,. Fsfereary. Fred BniUns j Seweteiy, LFim K. FalUs, No beefs reported hjr departmsRt delefpefes. rYote of^ to the' stewero :depett8ieht,-'paTtiiEar , iarly. .the:,eiswiu^ ,:<4l extras, .. BORBANK VicrORT (Bwhsak), February 24—C&sirtnan, .Paschol; Secretaryj T. Parretfc Some disputed OT in steward dej^artment. Writton resoldtions sdbifhitted to headquarters reg'ardinp gangway wotehes.' SSHGhairman, j. thorp; Beeretary, J. Bi Neirton. No beefs were reported bs: denartment deleMtes,; Moti wa8-;-,medi»'. to eonfeot -be^qnarters abont dpiming aydental elisie for ijnion metnbera as It is diiBedlt to get an appointment at dental ieliaies St the trePHS hospitals. ways),;' .JKareh- .I---Chftirman> -' 3.. .- J. Aipddu; Sedtetary, C. T. Hell. Brother Wesley LeohBrd was elected to seiwe as shin's deiegste. No beefs were reported, '* - ^ DIGEST of SIU MEETIf4GS ' ' M' J.'-;';* BlEATRAlN-PlJEitTO^RICbon Waterways), February P—Chairnan, M. H, donoa; Seeretary, Louis i. Croon. Brother Wilhain L Beeelle ywas oleeted. to As:ship's"; leleg^te. viscusmohi heid regardm -etireinent plan. BTEM. ''KINe:;; ••<^tbmia^ udry iO~-Chairnian, Silas Green; iecretary. Ken Hayes. Brother Do-; Josta was elected to serve as ah^'s lelegatfii $6.65 in ship's fund; ayed sailing beef in engine departnent, otherwise Overytmng la OJE; IBPL^SiriN OHIO^CHudsoh WattirYebruaiy'.l5-4Chairai8% ffblpnshp;:.:;.Secretary,. A. G.arBer. raridns motiohs were submitted rp'ardihg 'new . eontraet'^/ negatlatidhf. Jdine disputed OT in deck dn^ rlne; departments. Vote of thanhsito he steward department, especially d Brother john Lucas, crew messlah, for a job well dofte--covermg wp;Jobs a ^idbBioNlv:vicr^^ ort), Fewruaity tra^^ rCiialrMiaii, B. loririsi'/Jr.; 'Soeretary, '^Gilbert-;;d, 'roBclsir. Brother Jeff Skiassr esignid;: .-jS8^^,lsh^p'8..|;•deJei^ate^^ and IrotherijKf^rtSnier; T.;;iBforris. ^waa lected to e fVe as new ship's deleate. No boefs wero reported ; by epsrtmeat aefeffctea. ,J?rHI5 (Motorship of Deln,,y)^:Febtu'sry '14^.Chairmah, Bert ,dnb:orne^ ^8.e,e.^ejtafS^^ A, ;B.el.l. Jrbther Winborti# Wmi fleeted % erve as ship's deiegate. lifhor beeia Jft deck department: to be taken up ptb". 'ooardi.nf:. patrolman,-•'pisens,jion •beld -• icgardingvi we«»¥e; .a^ Ipehsion-plan:."""''"--'1 AMERIGO (Creal Overseas), Peb!|maity';';l-r-Cbairman^;.^F^ i4ntosh;- :Baeretaryj.;'Ki ;-W. Elliott. Brother Robert L. Sullivan whs Nlected to serve as ship's delegateKTwd - engine, .^'department failed to join ship at sailing time. No beefs were reported. M ^ AMERICAN Vimom (Hudson -li^terwaysl):, =iisnj',H,"Wong;';.Srtnfet8ty;::'Ri:: Hoht, :BF«tbd:r:Mdrria.Birkovrtta vrtii 'dice ted -to>!*arve;aev8bip's:;delegate. V' �April, 1969 SEAFARERS Richest Counfry Has TWQ Worlds To the Editon Those of us who work on a regular basis usually come in contact with people like our­ selves—regular wage-earners who are struggling with rising prices. We find it hard to re­ place an old TV set or to meet the dentist's bills or to pay for the kid's school. Recently, I had the oppor­ tunity of taking an auto trip through parts of West Vir­ ginia. I was shocked. What I saw was a world I didn't know existed. People were living—^not in the kind of houses we know —^but in shacks made of rot­ ting, unpainted boards and parts of barrels and contain­ ers. Walls were covered with newspapers and magazine covers. Windows were mostly little more than cardboard from discarded boxes. We saw children running around in torn rags, practical­ ly naked. The look of pover­ ty, the smell of poverty hung around everywhere and it wasn't pretty. Faces of people we saw, even the youngest of them, were drawn and hope­ less. They didn't think about TV sets — not even medical bills. sMy wife said to me, pointing to an "old woman" who was probably in her thirties—"I wonder what it would mean to her to get a new dress?" Now, when I pick up my newsp^er and read about mergers and dividends and the budget and the cost of re­ lief, I wonder—^How many worlds are there in this great country of ours? The one I am familiar with and the very different one I saw in poverty row in Appalachia are very unlike each other. Yet they do exist, side by side, in the wealthiest country in the world—a country in which our productive capacity is so vast that we haven't even be­ gun to use it all. Something' surely can— and must—^be done about the abject poverty areas to bring ^1 Americans back to the decent standard of living enjoyed by most of us. Sincerely, Hunter Hopkins — Seafarer Praises SiU Pension Plan To the EditoR I would like to take time out as an old timer to thank God that we have a pension plan like we have and to thank the ofiScers from top to bottom. May the SIU pension and welfare plan be blessed at all times. Sinoerdly, Howard F. Snydo", Sr. Page Twenty-Five LOG A Eulogy for The Coe Victory To the EditoR Pages in maritime history, written so gloriously by the Cde Victory, will soon be closed forever. In a few days this vessel will be relegated to a scrap pile in Formosa. It would be fitting—and I am confident it will come to pass—^that a replica of the "Coe," as she was affection­ ately referred to, will stand in the Smithsonian beside other ships that have made their mark in the annals of mari­ time history. Yes, standing alongside the Maine, Merrimac. Monitor and all the rest as a living arid permanent memorial to this grand old lady of the sea. And so, dear shipmates, I ask you not to think of the Coe Victory as nothing more than a rusty hulk of tired iron menacing shipping on the high seas. Rather, I would like you to think of her as a ship that has given much of herself, a ship that has not only filled your coffers with greenbacks, but contributed to some of the finest days and memories anyone ever had. As the days fade, and they inevitably will, the memories will grow ever sweeter. And who knows, maybe someday when you are out shopping for a present for your dear little loved one you might buy a toy, and that very toy might be made from a tiny piece of the "Coe." Sayonarra! Jack Fifzpatrick, 2nd Mate, Coe Victory (Editor's Note: This letter was forwarded to the LOG by Jim Tanner, bosun on the Coe Vic­ tory.) Lanra Lee Clinton, bom Feb­ ruary 1, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert J. Clinton, Jr., Freehold, New Jersey. Alisa Ballard, bom Febraary 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Warren U. Bullard, Philadel­ phia, Pa. Chnstofdier Conklin, bom April 29, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. George P. Conklin, Bayonne. New Jersey. Belita Ellis, bom August 19, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francis M. Ellis, Pascagoula, Miss. i ^ Richard Rnssdl Symanski, , Virgina Tyner, bom March born December 10, 1968, to 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Seafarer and Mrs. Richard J. Thomas A. Tyner, New Orleans, Symanski, Park Forest, Illinois. La. i Leo Harrington, bom Janu­ ary 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur C. Harrington, Charlestown, Mass. ^ ~ Pamela Williams, born Jan­ uary 22, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Earl B. Williams, Jackson­ ville, Florida. To the Editor: I am writing to thank the Union for answering my let­ ter so promptly and for the money paid to the hospital and to my wife's doctor fol­ lowing the , recent birth of our baby. We got letters from the hos­ pital and doctor stating that all the bills were paid by the SIU insurance. Thanks again from all of us. John Geguziz Shenandoah, Pa. ^ Ann Hadden, bom Febmary 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Norman B. Hadden, .Colmosneil, Texas. ^ William Skinner, bom March 1, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William Earl Skinner, Mobile, Alabama. Kennetti Phillips, bom De­ cember 20, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles D. Phillips, Loxley, Alabama. Alvin Willard, bom January 10, 1969 to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph Willard, Toledo, Ohio. —4/— <I> Kristen Nagy, born January 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Nicholas A. Nagy, Torrance, California. Jeffrey Scott, bom Febuary 3, 1969, to Seafarer • and Mrs. David C. Lupton, Norfolk, Va. Tracey Reyna, bom Febmary 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ruben M. Reyna, Galves­ ton, Texas. Johnny Young, bom Febm­ ary 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Johnny Young, Mobile, Ala. Christine Jaco, born January 12, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Stanley W. Jaco, Granite City, Illinois. Elsie Lofton, bom January 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jack Lofton, Chickasaw, Ala. Kimheriy Mallory, bom Feb­ ruary 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edwin J. Mallory, St. Al­ bans, West Virginia. ^ Thanks SiU For Maternity Benefits vtf Dionne McGee, born January 31, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Earl McGee, Newark, New Jer­ sey. -— Carla Denise Tillett, bom Febmary 20, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Kirby Tillett, Chesa­ peake, Va. ^ Sherry Boothe, bom Decem­ ber 16, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy L. Boothe, Baltimore, Md. ^ Charies Arnold, bom Febraary 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles R. Arnold, New Orleans, La. Lisa Johnson, bom February 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Abraham Johnson, New Or­ leans, La. Time For A Trim Alma Ines Marcial, bom Jan­ uary 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pedro Marcial, Bayamon, P. R. Johnny McDuffie, bom Sep­ tember 24, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Teddy R. McEhiffie, Houston, Texas. Geoige Danie Reyes, bom April 23, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Cosme Ballesteros Reyes, New Orleans, La. ^ Laura Vanderbeck, born Jan­ uary 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William P. Vanderbeck, Bricktown, N.J. ^ Charles Collins, bom Janu­ ary 26, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Henry R. Collins, Orange, Texas. Matthew Thomas, bom Feb­ ruary 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul Thomas, Jr. Mobile, Ala. Tammy Temple, bom Janu­ ary 3, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Temple, Baltimore, Md. ^ John Anderson, bom No­ vember 23, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leonard Anderson, St. Louis, Mo. ^ Wallace Hanke, bom No­ vember 25, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. David E. Hanke, Russellville, Ala. Kristina Guarino, bom De­ cember 11, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Bennie J. Guarino, New Orleans, La. ^ Lawrence Rhew, bom Febm­ ary 9, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lawrence W. Rhew, Gal­ veston, Texas. —— Daniel Pronti, born Febmary 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs, Daniel G. Pronti, Jersey City, N.J. <!> — Donnie Alan West, bom De­ cember 28, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donnie West, Flat Rock, Ala. ^ Warren Lietz, bom Febmary 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Warren C. Lietz, Daphne, Ala. ^ Samuel Tolley, bom January 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Samuel Lee Tolley, Camargo, Seafarer, Wife Praise SIU Welfare To the Editmr: Both of us wish to send our thanks and appreciation to the SIU Welfare Department for the goodwill, kindness and courtesy shown to us during our stay in the hospital. Pedro & Anita Losado BaMmote, Md. m. Michael Natoli, bom Decem­ ber 1, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. John J. Natoli, Brooklyn, N.Y. ^ Seafarer John Maytum of the deck department gets a haircut from James Saetani in the New York hall. Brother Maytum, a native of Rhode Island, joined the SIU in Port of New York in 1957. David Martin, bom January 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. David L. Martin, Mobile, Ala. �SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty-Six April, 1969 ^ Marine), February 28—Chairman, H. PirkerSecretary, C. R. Darameyer. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Brother C. Martin was elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Vote of thanks was extended to retiring ship's delegate. Brother C. Dammeyer. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved. and will be amended from time to time.) ^ Stitzel-Wellcr DistiUeriw "Old FIticenild,'' "Old "Cabin Sffli,'' W. L. Weiier Bourbon whMieya (Distillery Workers) KIngiport Press "World Book," "Chfldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson ft Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) ^ Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) ^ "HIS" hrand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ti«i, Boss Gloves, Rlchnm (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) ^1> Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) 4> Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) i White Fumitur*. Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) ^ Gypsum WaBboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) vtf R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Floiir, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) i Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas ^ An California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) — Magic Chef Pan PaciSc Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) —— Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) -if Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) ^ Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Atlimtic Products Sports Goods Owned by Ouett Peabody (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) <I> FINANCIAL BEFOBT8. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, aulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District makes siieciflc provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the monbership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brorricljm. TBUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in c^rge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING BIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracta are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of yonr shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Biwrd by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Ektrl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls, lliese contracts sperify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know yonr contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the pnqner sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union oflicial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract ririits prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. BDITORIAL POUCY—SBAFABEBS LOG. The LOG has tradithmaUy refrained from pabUshing any article serving the poUtieel purposes of any individual in the UafosL oiBcer or aasmbo'. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemediMiand to the Union or its collective membership. This estoblbhed policy has been by aeabMBhip action at the Septsnaber, 1960, meetinps In all constitd" mgoaMUtr tor LOG MUcy b vested in an editorial board which cathre Board of the Union. The Bxecutivo Board may delegate. Ma raaks, OM fasdividnal to carry oat this responsMlitg. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orieans May 13—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... May 14—2:30 p.m. WOmington. May 19—2:00 p.m. San Frmicisco May 21—2:00 p.m. Seattle ... May 23—2:00 p.m. New York .. May 5—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia May 6—2:30 p.m. BaltinMn-e .. May 7—2:30 p.m. Detroit May 16—2:30 p.m. Houston ... May 12—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Worirers New Orleans May 13—^7:00 p.m. MobUe ,... May 14—7:00 p.m. New Yoih .. May 5—^7:00 p.m. Philadelphia May 6—7:00 p.m. Beldmore .. May 7—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. May 12—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit .... May 5—2:00 p.m. Alpena May 5—7:00 p.m. Buffalo May 5—^7:00 p.m. Chicago ... May 5—^7:30 p.m. Duluth .... May 5—7:00 p.m. Frankfmi .. May 5—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago May 13—7:30 p.m. tSauh St. Marie May 15—7:30 p.m. Buffalo .... May 14—7:30 p.m. Duluth May 16—^7:30 p.m. Oeveland .. May 16—7:30 p.m. Ttdedo May 16—^7:30 p.m. Detroit May 12—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . May 12—7:30 p.m. SIU luland Boatmen's Union New Orleans May 13—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... May 14—5:00 p.m. Philadelpbia May 6—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and unUcensed) May 7—5:00 p.m. Norfolk May 8—5:00 p.m. Houston ... May 12—5:00 p.m. RaOway Marine Region Philadelpliia May 13—10 a.m. ft 8 p.m. Baltimore May 14—10 a.m. ft 8 p.m. •Norfolk May 15—10 a.m. ft 8 p.m. Jersey Oty May 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port, News. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. IBECTdlYof ION HALLS SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS LIndity Wllllamr. Robert Matthewi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADPUARTERS ALPENA. Mich BALTIMORE. Md BOSTON. Mail 475 4th Ave., Rlilyn. (212) HY T-4400 SABINE (Ogden Operators), March 2—Chairman, B. Pimovicz; Secretary, F. J. Johnson. Disputed OT in each department to be squared away by patrolman. Vote of thanks to Brother Robert Aumill, chief cook, and Brother Ed Heniken, baker, for doing a very good job. ' - " • * COMMANDER (Marine Carriers), March 2—Chairman, Edmund Abualy; Secretary, George Thompson. Sojne disputed OT in engine and steward departments. Brother Gene Woturski was elected to serve as ship's delegate. MOBILIAN (Waterman), February 23—Chairman, M. Olson; Secretary, M. E. Greenwald. No beefs and no 'disputed OT. Ml 'H WESTERN COMET (Western ;Agency), January 26—Chairman, |R. J. Callahanf Socretarj% C. Loper, l^r. Few hours disputed OT in deck '^nd engine departments to be taken ;up with boarding patrolman. 5 lyERVILLE (Waterman), Pebiyuary 16—Chairman, John Cisiecki; Secretary, M. L. Leaehe. Brother G. ^onzales was elected to serve as ^ship's delegate. 127 River SI. (517) EL 4-3414 1214 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 443 Atlantic Avenue (417) 482-4714 73S Waihlnqton St. SIU (714) TL 3-92S9 IBU (714) TL 3-9259 CHICA60. Ill 9343 Ewtnq Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND. Ohio I42B W. 2Sth St. (214) MA 1-5450 DETROIT. Mich IBUi W. Jettenon Ave. !• DEL ALBA (Delta), March 2— (^Chairman, William A. Aycock; SecSretary, Sanford Kemp. No becfS Vere reported by department dele- Sfeates. BUFFALO. N.Y (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH. Minn FRANKFORT. Mich P.O. Box 2B7 415 Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 5BB4 Canal St. (713) WA B-3207 JACKSONVILLE. Fla 2448 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-09B7 JERSEY CITY. N.J 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE. Ale. ........ I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NORFOLK. Va 430 Jackion Ave. (504) 529-7544 115 3rd St. (703) 422-IB92 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR. Tex I34B Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Freemont St. (415) DO 2-4401 MEETINGS SEAHLE. Waih ST. LOUIS, Mo 1313 Fernandei Juncoi Stop 20 724-2848 2505 Firit Avenue (204) MA 3-4334 '. . 805 Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrlion St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA. Japan . Iseya BIdg.. Room BOI 1-2 Kalgan-Dorl-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 28! PAYHENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be imid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, hut feels that he should not have been required to nmke such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every sU months in the 8E1AFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available Jn all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarteia. BBTIBED SBAFABEBS. Old-time SIU members drawing disabUity-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol.icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of f^ieir dues. EQUAL BIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the c«mtraets which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may he discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic oririn. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SBAFABEBS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their famOies and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers PoliUeal Activity Donation was cstabinhed. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds throurt which legisiative and ptditical activities are conducted tor ^ benefit of the membership and the Union. If at aiV time a Seafarer fesis that any of tba above tights have been violatsd, er that ha has >«an daiOad Ua tinatilaUiaal right of accaas to Unian leeetda ar taifenaatiaa, ha aaanld iaaiadiataiy aetify SIU PrmMant Paul Hal at hsadgnartsra by !( LONG BEACH (Sea-Land),-Feb­ ruary 18—Chairman, John Der; SeCr iretary, J. Fuller. No beefs wore re,j)orted by department delegates. Big .improvement in menus this trip. 'The steward was requested to order fresh stores that will pep up the inenus. Discussion held regarding jrusty hot and cold wash water. PHILADELPHIA, Pa SANTURCE. P.R •t j 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 HOUSTON. Tex NEW ORLEANS. La DIGEST of SIU PEARY (Marine Traders), March 2—Chairman, Harold J. Romero;; Secretary, James A. Hollen. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done; FRED MORRIS (Waterman), Feb­ ruary 26—Chairman, Wm. Duncan; ; Secretary, Wm, Duncan. No beefrf' were reported by department dele-; gates. Discussion held regarding food. Crew would like an improve­ ment in menus and quality of food served. SAN JUAN (Sea-Land), March 2 —Chairman, J. A. Shortell; Secre­ tary, E. Graham. $53.19 in ship's fund and $80.00 in movie fund. Some ^ disputed OT in deck department.; Vote of thanks was extendea to Brother James Shortell, ship's dele­ gate, for a job well, done. Beef re­ garding company not forwardintj^ the SEAFARERS L0(3 to the ships. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Moore^ McCormack), March 20—Chairman^ William McConnell; Secretary, Jim­ my L. Dunagan. Some disputed OT in engine and deck departments.] Beefs regarding various items sent to headquarters. SANTORE (Venore Transporta­ tion), February 23—Chaiman, T. AJ Jackson; Secretary, C. R. Arnold.] No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Brother Jack-f son, chief steward, went all out top; make this a pleasant voyage for everyone. DEtTA BRAZIE (Delta), March 9 —Chairman, Mike Dunn; Secretary,.. C. A. Hancock. $76.00 in ship's fund.;; No beefs were reported by depart-;ment delegates. |j STEEL NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), . March O'—Chairman, E. S. Harris; ! Secretary, H. L. Bennett $78.65 in ship's fund. Very good trip wf.th no beefs. Some disputad QT in engine department to be taken up with '-il 9» J*-) »; vl 'i 'i k �ome Seafarer John P. Morris, at left, points out matter he wishes to dis­ cuss at pay-off to SlU Representative Ken McGregor who is listening intently at table. Morris reported that voyage was mostly smooth sailing. r ^ muter 6TJiay trip io Ua Nany and! Manita, ihe Yaka (Wai^rmanJ arrives haracteristic ispse is struck by Paul Brady, who comes from Montgomery, ^Alabama, Seafarer Brady, a graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Searnanship, provided music during trip, teaming up with Peter Dufours. A messman. Seafarer Clowe Torry enjoys catching up on the LOG during leisure moments. The re­ cent trip on the Yaka was Brother lorry's first. Father and son team, John P. Morris, right, and son John H. Morris make their home at Savannah, Ga. Father, a Seafarer for 40 years, has five sons, all of whom sail with the SlU. Son John, 28, sails as an oiler. _ ijrJ'•'w: A new Seafarer is Larry Lafleur, 16, who sails as ordinary. A Lundeberg graduate, the youngster just completed second trip. The crpw voted the steward department the best they had ever sailed with. Chief Steward Cristobal De Jesus, shown fixing a savory dish in the galley, has served as chief steward for most of 30 years at sea. Seafarer Jim Reynolds, ordinary seaman, goes through his papers at pay-off time, Facial adornment sprouted during voyage. p |> I �Vol. ill £PG 1'^ V ' . '^<,^ffi"''-'-»v ^•• i ¥: !• ^ Mcii- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource April 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: RUNAWAY SHIPS CALLED TAX DODGERS MFOW’S VINCENT J. MALONE DIES IN SAN FRANCISCO AT 62 ALL OUT MARITIME PROGRAM NEEDED TO MEET SOVIET THREAT PROPOSED COAST GUARD REGULATIONSBTHREATEN DOMESTIC FISHING INDUSTRY SEAFARER HILTON WOOLSEY KILLED BY VC BOOBY TRAP MAGNUSON LAUNCHES SEPARATE MARAD FIGHT OHIO UNEMPLOYMENT LAWS AMENDED TO INCLUDE GREAT LAKES SEAFARERS SEAFARERS ABOARD OVERSEAS ALICE PLUCK DOWNED FLIER FROM HIGH SEAS HYPOCRITICAL TAX LAWS RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNAWAY SHIPS SIU SCHOOLSHIP, ‘CHARLES S. ZIMMERMAN’, IS CHRISTENED CONSTRUCTION UNIONS URGE PASSAGE OF NEW JOB SAFETY BILL IN SENATE ROONEY SEES MERCHANT FLEET REVIVAL PRIME CURE FOR PAYMENT DEFICIT AFL-CIO SEEKS MAJOR REVAMPING TO UPGRADE SOCIAL SECURITY VOTING RECORDS OF COMMITTEE HEADS SHOW MANY OPPOSED PARTY IN HOUSE PLUGGING INCOME TAX LOOPHOLES CITED AS VITAL TO RENEW PUBLIC CONFIDENCE NEW TAYLOR LAW AMENDMENTS HIT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HARD ILO COMMISSION WILL INVESTIGATE GREEK’S REPRESSION OF UNION RIGHTS ATTEMPT TO SNEAK RIGHT-TO-WORK THROUGH CIVIL RIGHTS TIE-IN DEFEATED AFL-CIO URGES HIGH COURT BACKING FOR REBUTTAL TO BROADCAST ATTACKS GRAPE GROWERS SET UP BOGUS UNION IN EFFORT TO CONFUSE FARM WORKERS OIL WORKERS URGE BOYCOTT OF SHELL TO COUNTER FIRM’S STALLING TACTICS LABOR PRAISES NEW GOVT RADIATON STANDARDS AFL-CIO URGES EXPANDED GOVT AID TO EDUCATION AFL-CIO URGES US-MEXICAN CONTROLS TO CURTAIL EXPLOITATION OF WORKERS VETERAN SEAFARERS RUSSO AND MATT REUNITED IN HOSPITAL AFTER 22 YEARS YAKA COMES HOME SANTA MARIA SEEKS COLUMBUS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 04/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 6 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/40aaf394e342c7e5804322a51fc877fe.PDF 0a9bbf342ed71ef054c2e6e2022e0ff4 PDF Text Text OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO IMPROVING THE PENSION PLAN The Seafarers International Union, in forthcoming contract negotiations, will move for improvements in the pension plan. The Union, as part of the preparation for these talks, has been surveying the features of various pension plans. Our purpose has been to consider every possible approach to the problem of assuring our members that they are properly protected in their retirement years. A pension program must be a living document—capable of changing to meet the chang­ ing needs of the membership it safeguards. The Union's responsibility, therefore, is to know the members' attitudes on a variety of benefits—for a pension program is a complex thing. There are many questions that must be answered: • Do the members want a program geared solely to the monthly pension payment? • Or do they also want adequate protection against the heavy cost of long illnesses? • Do they want a pension that provides benefits only for themselves? • Or do they also want assurances that their dependents, too, will be protected? • Do they want to gamble on staying fit for duty until they reach retiremjent age? • Or do they also want a program that provides adequate retirement pensions in case of disability? To these questions, the Union must add one of its own: How do we develop a plan with the broadest possible coverage—and at the same time that is financially sound—that protects the member, gbod times or bad? ;s;i . .1 In arriving at the answers to these questions, and many others, the membership will be deeply involved. Whatever proposals are made to management will come only after thorough discussion and action by the membership. For that reason, this issue of the LOG puts at the disposal of the members factors that will aid them in their discussion and decision-making. We have set down the features of the existing SlU plan—because every member should understand precisely what he has now, the benefits he derives from the present plan, and how it operates. rS:'KW;-| The Union thinks it would also be useful to the membership, in considering possible changes, that it review the features of a plan in the same industry, dealing with problems which ore the same insofar as the individual is concerned. Therefore the brochure mokes comparisons between the SlU plan and that of the National Maritime Union. This is not to say that one is better than another—it is done only to make possible an objective study by the membership. Each member is urged to study this document carefully, and to use it as the basis for continuing discussions aboard ship and in the union halls—because it is from these discus­ sions that the ultimate contract proposal will come. KC While these discussions are being held, the Union will continue its study—calling on the best-trained experts in the pension field for advice. To assist with this part of the preparation for the forthcoming contract negotiations, this issue of the LOG carries on the back page a Pension Data Questionnaire and a place for any comments which a member wishes to make. Each member should fill this out and forward it to Union Headquarters. In addition to assisting the Union, this form will enable each member to know pre­ cisely where he stands in respect to his own pension credits. *:• •• -M �BENEFIT SIU-AGLIW DISTRICT PENSION CREDITS Pension credits are given for each day worked under covered employment. Pension credits are also given for inpatient and outpatient hospital time and for sickness and accident time, not to exceed 1,825 days of the total pension credit requirements of 5,475 days. For purposes of the disability pension credit requirements 1,460 of the 4,380 days may be inpatient and outpatient hospital time and sickness and accident time. (Applies to All Pensions) BREAK IN SERVICE RULE (Applies to All Pensions) NORMAL AND/OR SERVICE PENSION Pension credits earned before October 1, 1967, cannot be lost by a break in service prior thereto. After October 1, 1967, a seaman must have 90 days of covered employment in any one of 3 consecutive calendar years to avoid a break in service and loss of prior pension credits. $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: 15 years (5,475 days) of pension credits with no time limita­ tion, is age 65 or over, has 90 days of covered employment during the calendar year preceding his date of application, and has one day of employment during the 6-month period immediately preceding such application. Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. REDUCED AND EARLY RETIREMENT PENSIONS < SEE NORMAL PENSION ABOVE I' ' ' • i, I • !. DISABILITY PENSION $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: Permanent disability at any age, provided the employee has pen­ sion credits for 12 years (4,380 days) of qualifying time, and has accimiulated at least lica90 days of covered employment during the calendar year preceding his date of appli tion, and at least one day of employment during the 6-month period immediately prep ceding his date of application. Amount of Disability Years of Pension Regardless of Age Pension Credit 12 or Over $250.00 Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. DEATH BENEFIT $4,000.00 if the desi^ated beneficiary is a pensioner's wife, child, step-child, mother, father, brother, sister, grandchild, grandparent, step or half-brother and sister, step­ mother or stepfather. $1,000.00 payable to any other class of beneficiaries not listed above. PENSIONERS' WELFARE BENEFIT Pensioners: Payment for life without limitation of all medical costs including surgery, hospitalization, drugs, nursing homes, dental care, artificial limbs, wheel ch^, hear­ ing aids, glasses, crutches, etc. Pensioner's Dependents: Eligible for schedule of dependent's benefits under Seafarers Welfare Plan which includes hospital room and board, hospital extras, blood transfu­ sions, doctor's visits at hospitals, surgical, diagnostic, medical extras, optical, etc. These benefits shall continue during the pensioner's life and for six months thereafter. (NOTE: Tlie fongoliiK to >n analyBto and lynopito of .the Mlient and pertinent provtoioni of the trust sirree- �NMU Pension credits are given as follows: Periods commencing January 1, 1951: 200 days or more in covered employment, including certain disability time, counts as a year's credit (4 quarters). If less than 200 days are accumulated in any year, quarteryear unit credits are as follows: Days of covered Employment Quarters to in Calendar Year be Credited Less than 50 0 50 to 99 1 100 to 149 2 150 to 199 3 Periods before January 1, 1951; To receive pension credit for any employment before January 1, 1951, must have at least 200 days of covered employment, including certain disability time, in the three year period between January 1, 1951 and December 31, 1953 and have ten years of pension credits earned after January 1, 1951. If a seaman does not work in covered employment for at least 200 days in any period of three consecutive calendar years after January 1, 1953, and for at least 300 days in any period of three consecutive calendar years after January 1, 1969, it shall constitute a break in employment and his previous pension credits shall be cancelled. $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: 20 years (80 quarters) of pension credit within 30 consecutive years, at any age, for those employees who must work past January 1, 1969 to earn the 20 years (80 quarters). The 30-year rule does not apply if 20 years (80 quarters) are earned before January 1, 1969. Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. REDUCED PENSION $187.50 to $250.00 for seamen who are not entitled to a Normal Pension or a Service Pension. Eligibility requirements: This pension available only to those seamen who were 65 years old before January 1, 1969 and who had at least 15 years (60 quarters) of pension credits at that time in accordance with the following table of benefits: Number of Years of Amount of Qualifying Time Pension 15 $187.50 16 200.00 17 212.50 18 225.00 19 ' 237.50 20 250.00 EARLY RETIREMENT PENSION $131.25 to $235.00 as a Percentage of Normal or Reduced Pension. Eligibility requirements: This pension available only to the seamen who were 60 years old before January 1, 1969 and who had at least 15 years (60 quarters) of pension credits at that time. Amount of pension is a percentage of the Normal or Reduced Pen­ sion he would have been entitled to if he were 65 years of age at the time when his Early Retirement Pension first becomes payable. The following table of benefits indicates the amount of benefit payable: Seatime-Years Age 15 60 61 62 63 64 $131.25 142.50 153.75 165.00 176.25 16 $140.00 152.00 164.00 176.00 188.00 17 18 Benefit Amount $157.50 $148.75 171.00 161.50 184.50 174.25 198.00 187.00 211.50 199.75 20 19 $166.25 180.50 194.75 219.00 223.25 $175.00 190.00 205.00 220.00 235.00 $50.00 to $250.00 for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: Permanent disability for those under age 65 provided they have credit for a least 15 years (60 quarters) of service. Those over 65 must have actually been employed in covered employment for at least 200 days after December 31, 1960 and must have credit for at least 10 years of service (40 quarters). The years of service on which a claim is based must be earned within a number of consecutive calendar years determined by adding 10 years to the actual years of service at time of filing. Amount of Disability Pension Years of Pension Credit 10 to 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Over 65 $ 50.00 187.50 200.00 212.50 225.00 237.50 250.00 Under 65 —0— 187.50 200.00 212.50 225.00 237.50 250.00 ' Eligibilty extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. $3,500.00, less any Pension payments received, but not less than $1,500.00 payable to pensioner's wife, child, mother, father, brother or sister. Pensioner and Pensioner's Dependents: The total amount of benefits payable to the pen­ sioner and his dependents collectively shall not exceed a lifetime maximum of $750.00. (in addition, a pensioner is entitled to a hearing aid benefit up to a maximum $325.00 I once every four years. (NOTE: The foresoing is an analysis and synopsis of the salient and pertinent provisions of the trust agree­ ments and their rules and regulations. As to each speeifle provision, reference should he made to the text thereof.) >1 Cff/Je to the Pension Data In comparing the features of pension plans, it is important not only to consider the amount of the pension payment, or the period of time required for eligibility, but the provisions which govern how you become eligible, and how you maintain your eligibility. Both tlje SIU and NMU full pensions provide for payment of $250 monthly. However, each carries with it certain fringe benefits which differ as to the amounts payable, type of coverage and eligibility requirements. Regular Pension In both pension plans, the key is "pension credits," not necessarily years of service. Under the SIU plan, there is a simple formula—giving the seaman the broadest latitude in accumulating credits toward his pension. The NMU plan contains a more complex formula than the SIU plan with respect to past service in the industry, and a sliding scale with respect to future service. As the comparison of the various features of the two plans in the adjoining columns shows, eligibility for the SIU normal pension is attained at age 65 with 15 years of pension credits. There is no limitation on time for attaining eligibility, which means that an SIU seaman's pension credits began with the time he first began sailing. The NMU requires 20 years of pension credits within 30 consecutive years for retirement at any age. Obviously this is a very attractive feature; however, to achieve retirement at any age, the NMU plan, as of January 1, 1969, closed off pension credits earned prior to 1939 in computing future pensions. Furthermore, in order to maintain the 20-year pension, the NMU found it necessary to tighten up the break-in-service rule by adding 100 days to the previous time required to be worked in any three-year period to maintain eligibility, bringing the new level to 300 days. Prior to that it was 200 days for the same period. Under the SIU plan, a seaman must have 90 days of covered employment in any one of three consecutive calendar years to avoid a break in service. Disability Pension The SIU's disability pension provides a monthly benefit of $250 for a man disabled at any age, if he has had 12 years of service credits, one-third of which may be for in-patient and out-patient hospital time and sickness and accident time. The NMU's disability pension provides a scale of benefits from $50 to $250 a month, depending on the sailor's age and years of service, and provides credits for hospital time. No disability pensions are payable to a man with less than 15 years of pension credits, unless he is over 65 at the time of dis­ ability. And the $250-a-month maximum is available only to men with 20 years of pension credits—at which point they would be eligible, in any event, for full pension irrespective of disability. Death Benefits With respect to death benefits, the SIU's are paid to any beneficiary selected by the retiree, and remain constant throughout the years. The NMU death benefit is limited to fewer beneficiaries, is smaller to begin with, and is subject to being discounted by more than 50 percent as the years go by. Medical Benefits Medical benefits are an important element in a retirement plan because two factors come into play for the retiree: (1) As he advances in age, his medical costs go up; and (2) These higher costs are incurred at a time when his income is reduced. Under the NMU plan, a $750 ceiling is placed on all of the medical expenses ever incurred by the retiree and his dependents. This is an absolute maximum—no matter how long the pensioner lives, and no matter how many hospital bills he and his dependents, collectively, incur. The pensioner in the SIU has unlimited medical coverage for himself. His dependents, meanwhile, are eligible for the same schedule of Seafarers Welfare Plan benefits that have been available to them during his days as an active seaman—plus the fact that these benefits continue for the pensioner's depend­ ents for six months after his death. Conclusion Obviously, any pension plan review can carry only the highlights of the respective documents. These are lengthy, they have been amended several times, and they deal in great detail with each feature. Therefore, complete copies of both the SIU and NMU pension plans are being made available in all SIU ports so that members wishing to do so can examine them in detail. The foregoing comments are offered to help the members evaluate the relative merits of the various elements that make up a complete pension program. This evaluation will make it easier for the members to express their views on the direction in which the SIU should now proceed with respect to the future. (Now proceed to the back page and complete the Pension Data Questionnaire.) �Pa^e Four SEAFARERS SlU Issues Strong Protest Against Closing of Detroit USPHS Facility WASHINGTON—The SIU has filed a strong protest against the closing of in-patient facil­ ities at the Public Health Serv­ ice Hospital in Detroit, Michi­ gan, as set forth in an April 2 directive of the Department of Health, Education and V/elfare. SIU President Paul Hall New Record Set For Ship Traffic In Panama Canal Panama Canal traflBc broke all previous records set during the canal's history during fiscal year 1968, according to the Panama Canal Company-Canal Zxvne Government's annual re­ port issued recently. There were 14,807 oceango­ ing transits—^producing $93,113,877 in total tolls—during the year, compared with 13,385 oceangoing transits and $82,253,172 in tolls during 1967. In terms of cargo carried, 1968 totals were 105,529,869 long tons, an increase of 12,546,098 long tons over the previous 12month period. The record-breaking number of vessel transits was attributed to two factors, the conflict in Vietnam and the closing of the Suez Canal and the sixday Arab-Israeli war in June of 1967. The 1968 total in­ cluded 13,199 commercial tran­ sits and 1,504 U.S. government transits. warned that the proposed ac­ tion, scheduled to take place July 1, would "deprive mer­ chant seamen and others in the community of critically needed health and medical services which the federal government has historically provided." Section 322 of the Public Health Service Act provides that U.S. merchant seamen shall be entitled to medical, surgical and dental care at Public Health Service Hospitals. The federal order to close the in-patient section of the 147bed facility claims that its de­ clining caseload and limited size makes it impractical to operate during the coming fiscal year. The Union's protest was con­ tained in a letter to HEW Secre­ tary Robert H. Finch. Hall expressed the SIU's sup­ port of a proposal by three members of the Michigan Con­ gressional delegation—Senator Philip Hart (D), Senator Rob­ ert Grifiin (R) and Representa­ tive John Dingell (D)—that Congress hold hearings on the proposed closing, and urged Finch to hold any action in abeyance until after the public airing of all of the factors in­ volved are completed. The SIU pointed out that the Detroit hospital is "the only Public Health Service institu­ tion remaining in the Great Lakes area—an area in which maritime activities provide an essential economic base, and in which the federal government Missing Ship In Durban Means Week In WASHINGTON—Immigration procedures in South Africa have been changed drastically insofar as they affect Seafarers who have missed their ship, the Coast Guard warns in trans­ mitting information received last month from the U.S. State Department. Under the new rules, a week in prison can be expected. Prior to March 1, 1969, any seaman who missed his ship in South Africa was placed in relatively comfortable detention quarters where he was permitted to telephone the Consulate General and allowed to receive visits by company doctors, ship's agents, and consular officials. A bed was provided and rooms were partitioned to give considerable privacy. The de­ tention quarters, though restrictive, gave little reason for the" seaman to complain of treatment received. However, effective March 1, 1969, the detention quarters were closed by the Department of Interior, and seamen are now detained within the local prisons. This move was made because of the increased ship traffic in South African ports as a result of the closing of the Suez Canal. The number of sea­ men missing their ships had risen and >^as taxing the facili­ ties of the detention quarters. The conditions in the local prisons are completely different. Seamen now are confined in cells with prisoners awaiting trial for a wide variety of crimes; only a prison doetor attends to them; there are no beds provided, and there is no privacy. The U.S. Consulate General in Durban has commented that he does not believe seamen will appreciate being detained in Durban. This is an understatement, the Coast Guard notes in warning that it now appears seamen who miss their ves­ sels in South African ports will have to expect to be jailed for at least a week under the best of circumtsances. May, 1969 LOG has invested millions of dollars to encourage maritime growth." In his letter. Hall said it would be "false economy" to close the hospital, in view of a nationwide shortage of hospital facilities and the considerable investment that already has been made in the physical plant and equipment. At today's prices it would cost the government "many times the original invest­ ment" to duplicate the facilities, he pointed out. Hall said that closing the hos­ pital "in no way eliminates the need for the medical services which it now provides—it does nothing more than transfer the task of providing these services to other facilities in the area." "This country is short of hos­ pitals, and virtually every com­ munity is in the same fix," the SIU President told Finch. "The people of this country already have a considerable investment in the physical plant and equip­ ment in the Detroit Public Health Service Hospital." "If economic necessity must be served," he added, "then we suggest that whatever 'excess' facilities may exist be put at the disposal of the community to ease the burden there." Engineers Upgrading School Alters Entrance Procedure Beginning on May 19, 1969, the School of Marine Engineer­ ing and Navigation, sponsored jointly by the SIU and MEBA District 2, will institute a change in the engineering applicant's admittance procedure. Engineering applicants who are accepted shall report to the School in Brooklyn on a bi-monthly schedule on every other Friday. After completing a physical examination and the School ap­ plication the student will report to the SIU's training facilities at Piney Point, Maryland, on the following Monday. A training program utilizing the finest refrigeration facilities, diesel engines, pumps and visual aids has been instituted at the Piney Point School. Both original and upgrading engineers are required to spend two weeks in this training program before completing their training at the School in Brooklyn. SCHEDULE OF BI-MONTHLY REPORTING DATES Piney Point, Md. Brooklyn, N.Y« Friday, May 16 Monday, June 2* Friday, June 13 Friday, June 27 Friday, July 11 Friday, July 25 Friday, Aug. 8 Friday, Aug. 22 Friday, Sept. 5 Monday, May 19 Tuesday, June 3** Monday, June 16 Monday, June 30 Monday, July 14 Monday, July 28 Monday, Aug. 11 Monday, Aug. 25 Monday, Sept. 8 * Report to Brooklyn on Monday, June 2, since the preceding Friday is a Holiday. ** Report to Piney Point on Tuesday, June 3, because of Holiday schedule. Bills Weald Give Unsabsidized Ships Cargo Priorities and Tax Advantages WASHINGTON — Growing concern with the plight of unsubsidized American ship oper­ ators was evidenced last month by the introduction of several measures calculated to give cargo preference and tax advan­ tages to these lines. Identical bills by Representa­ tives Joseph P. Addabbo' and Jacob H. Gilbert, both New York Democrats and James J. Howard (D-N.J.)—on which a total of 39 additional co-spon­ sors are listed—would give ab­ solute preference in the carriage of all government-generated car­ goes to U.S.-flag unsubsidized ships to the maximum extent. Going even beyond this, they would provide that government shipments be scheduled, insofar as possible, with the availability of unsubsidized American-flag shipping in mind. Cargo preference powers would be vested in the Mariti^pe Administration—with the admonition that the agency, as well as all other agencies con­ cerned, "shall give effect to the interest of the United States in sustaining and encouraging the growth of a privately owned diversified and efficient unsub­ sidized merchant marine, and shall prefer shipment on such vessels to shipment on any other vessels of either United States or foreign registry." •J : In addition, priorities are clearly set forth as follows: "To the maximum extent pos­ sible, shipment of all cargoes generated by the United States government shall be aboard pri­ vately owned unsubsidized ves­ sels of U.S. registry built and operated without benefit of con­ struction and operating subsi­ dies. . . . "To the extent that privately owned unsubsidized vessels are unavailable for such carriage, government-generated cargoes shall then be allocated to pri­ vately owned subsidized vessels of American registry. . . . "To the extent that no pri­ vately owned American-flag vessels are available, shipment will then be preferred on United States government-owned ships then available and operating "Only to the extent that neither unsubsidized vessels of American registry are available, carriage shall be permitted on ships registered under the flags of the recipient nations." Not only are prioiiiles thus laid down, but the intent is also spelled out: "The intent . . . shall be to secure 100 per cen­ tum carriage of government-gen­ erated cargoes aboard privately owned American-flag vessels, to the extent that they are avail­ able for such carriage." Government agencies re­ sponsible for such shipments are instructed to make "every reasonable effort to assure that shipments of such cargoes are scheduled to coincide with the availability of privately owned American-flag vessels to maxi­ mize U.S.-flag participation in this program." In regard to rates on such vessels, they "shall be deemed fair and reasonable when, after reflecting American capital and operating costs, they provide a reasonable profit on investment on an annual or longer basis and such funds as may be nec­ essary" for their replacement. The same three congressmen and 39 co-sponsors, also sub­ mitted bills providing certain tax considerations to unsubsidized ships which are presently en­ joyed only by the subsidized lines. Earnings and interest receipts deposited would, except as to withdrawals, be treated for tax purposes in the same fashion as applied to subsidized lines if deposited within specified time periods. Consideration would thus be given in the tax structure to pro­ visions for "orderly replacement of such vessel within such pe­ riod and under such terms and conditions" as the Secretary of Commerce would prescribe. 1A �May, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Retirees Charge Mismanagement at Sailors'Snug Harbor BROOKLYN — Charges of serious mismanagement and im­ proper conditions at Sailors' Snug Harbor, a home for re­ tired mariners on Staten Island, N. Y., were levied at a confer­ ence called by New York State Senator William J. Ferrall at SIU Headquarters here on May 2. The meeting was attended by numerous residents of the home who were determined to get their views heard. Among the com­ plaints made was that the ceme­ tery on the grounds had been desecrated, headstones having been removed and used to make a public side walk, and that the food served the elderly residents was "slop." Also objected to was a sys­ tem of monthly payments for room and board which the trustees have been seeking to impose and which the retirees claim is unwarranted and un­ fair. The SIU, which initiated the original litigation opposing the proposed charge plan, has pledged its 100 percent support to the men at Snug Harbor. The conference also heard New York City Councilmen Robert G. Lindsey and Edward Curry of Staten Island express their concern and the interest of the city legislature in the matter. SIU Vice President Earl Shepard and Welfare Director A1 Bernstein also spoke out. Shepard stated that the SIU "would stand squarely with the men on their grievances," Fa­ ther Dominic A. Sclafani of St. John the Evangelist Rectory de­ livered the invocation. Pictures Show Desecration Senator Ferrall showed pic­ tures he had received of the gravestones which had been turned face down to form a walking path and stated this and the monthly room-and-board charges being pushed by the Board of Trustees had prompted his introduction of Senate Reso­ lution 108 in the N. Y. State legislature calling for a thor­ ough investigation of conditions at Snug Harbor, as well as the administ ation of the home. The State Attorney General's office has Hied suit against the trustees of Snug Harbor on charges of mismanagement and waste of funds. Appearing at the conference were Assistauc Attorneys General Allan S. Meyers and Gustave J. Soderberg, who told of being thwarted by the trustees in thei- previous attempts to investigate condi­ tions and find facts. A disclaimer of mismanage­ ment was made by Francis Bensell, attorney representing the Snug Harbor Board of Trustees. Under prodding by Senator I Mrall, however, he did an abo..L face and agreed to persuade the trustees to cooperate with the investigators. Will Dirawn in 1801 Sailors' Snug Harbor v/as set up in a will drawn up in 1801 by Captain Robert Randall, a retired sea captain and mer­ chant. Alexander Hamilton is credited with drawing up the will which bequeathed the in­ come of the captain's estate ff"the establishment and support of a perpetual "Snug Harbor" for enfeebled or aged sailors, free of charge. Some 250 mariners with dis­ tinguished records of service during World Wars I and II and the Korean conflict are residents at Snug Harbor. It is estimated that more than 10,000 seamen have benefited iiom Captain Randall's forethought. The trustees have claimed that the income is not sufficient to carry the operation of Snug Harbor and to maintain it ade­ quately. Attorneys for the SIU —^which led the fight to pre­ serve the home for aged sea­ men—have charged that there would be adequate funds, if waste and mismanagement were eliminated. Trouble erupted once before, in 1967, when monthly charges to the residents were first insti­ tuted. The SIU at that time won a court stay prohibiting the eviction of mariners for nonpavment of fees. That case is still pending. This solemn walkway was Snug Harbor's Cemetery. The walk has been built with the headstones from the graves of departed mari­ ners. The markers were torn from the graves by officials of the Harbor and implanted face down. Potter's Field has more dignity. New York State Senator William J. Ferrall, flanked by SIU Vice President Earl Shepard, right, and Wel­ fare Director Al Bernstein, discusses charges of mismanagement and inadequate conditions at Sailors' Snug Harbor with the large group of retired mariners attending a conference held at SIU headquarters. Independent MARAD Tops Maritime Goals Voted by Louisiana AFL-CIO NEW ORLEANS—Orga­ nized labor in Louisiana has of­ ficially endorsed a bill submitted before the 91st Congress calling for the establishment of an inde­ pendent Federal Maritime Ad­ ministration. Meeting in its 14th annual convention here March 31 to April 3, the Louisiana AFLCIO adopted a resolution lend­ ing its "full support to the pas-* sage of H.R. 213." This the bill introduced by Representa­ tive Edward A. Garmatz (DMd.), chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, which would set up an independent MARAD. The state body also urged all mem­ bers of Congress from Louisiana to give their active support to this legislation. H.R. 213 and similar bills already have been sponsored by some 160 mem­ bers of the House during the current session. Introduced by the Maritime Council of Greater New Orleans and Vicinity, the resolution for an independent MARAD was one of five submitted by the Council to the 1969 Louisiana convention. All received the en­ dorsement of the state AFLCIO body. The convention call for a sep­ arate maritime agency pointed out the fact that the Merchant Marine Act of, 1936 had cre­ ated the agency as autonomous and independent and that suc­ cessive executive reorganiza­ tions in 1950 and 1961 had "whittled away" this independ­ Continued support was also ence, "burying" the agency in voted for the striking grape the Department of Commerce. "Lacking independent author­ workers and their boycott of ity," it said, "Maritime is forced California table grapes. The to eompete with other programs Louisiana AFL-CIO called for administered by Commerce, the its affiliates to "continue the American Merchant Marine is generous and aggressive aid they obligated to subsist on insuffi­ are giving to the United Farm cient funds from the Commerce Workers Committee AFL-CIO" budget, and as a result it has and urged that this be continued gone into a decline from which "until victory has been won in this crucial fight for the rights it has never recovered." Other maritime resolutions of farm workers everywhere." included one urging affiliates to press for the "Build American" concept, so that American-flag SEAFARERSI^LOG ships would be built in this country, thus supporting and Vol. XXXI, No. 7 May 1969 protecting American jobs and Official Publication of the the nation's economy. Support Seafarers International Union of North America, was similarly Voted for legisla­ Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes tion to prohibit off-shore oil and Inland Waters District. drilling rigs, which are to be AFL-CIO used in the United States terri­ Executive Board PAUL HALL. President torial waters, from being con­ GAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD tracted for or built outside the Exee. Vice-Pres. Vice-President LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR United States. Vice-President Sec.-Treas. Another resolution adopted ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President by the body was in opposition to the foreign trade subzone con­ Editor cept. The recent setting up of HARRY WITTSCHEN such a zone in New Orleans by Assistant Editors WILL KARP the Foreign Trade Zone Board CHARLES SVENSON late last year enabled a domestic Staff Photographer shipyard to build marine equip­ ANTHONY ANSALDI ment including barges and ves­ sels with imported materials on Pibllshed monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avtnse H.E.. Waihlniton. 0. C. 20018 hy the Seafar­ a duty-free basis. This gives the ers International Union. Atlantic. Golf. Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO. 675 yard the ability to undercut com­ Foirth Asenif. Brooklyn. N.V. 11232. Tel. HYaelnth 9-6600. Second elau postaie paid petitors who use U.S. steel and at Washlnptons, D. C. other components. It was point­ POSTHASTER'S ATTENTIOM: Form 3579 cards shoald he sent to Seafarers International ed out that severe damage re­ Unlen. Atlantic, Galf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO. 675 Foartfa Arenae. sulted to the American economy Brooklyn. N.Y. 11232. in the form of "millions of dol­ lars in lost taxes and wages." �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG May, .1969 Proposal to Tax Union Plans Called Destructive by Labor The old Genevieve Lykes appears anxious to resurface as she slowly noses out of Mississippi. At right is the Transtexas from which the two-year salvage operations are being conducted. Beneath the Genevieve Lykes is the Frederick Lykes, next to be lifted. Both ships were sunk by Hurricane Betsy in 1965. Hurricane Betsy Victim Emerging As Salvage Efforts Slowly Progress NEW ORLEANS—A victim of Hurricane Betsy—^the devas­ tating tropical destroyer of 1965 —the former Genevieve Lykes is being slowly raised from the Mississippi in stages here by the SlU-contracted Hudson Water­ ways Company. The first stage has been completed. Work on raising the sunken freighter has been underway for two years. Huron Waterways, a Hudson subsidiary, is using the old tanker Transtexas, as a floating pontoon from which chains and cables are hooked to the Genevieve Lykes. With the cables attached, the Trans­ texas is flooded, and lines drawn taut. Then she is pumped out, raising her and—at the same time—^the sunken vessel. In the process, the submerged ship is pushed closer to shore, keeping her at the height raised and allowing the Transtexas to slack off, whereupon the proc­ ess is repeated over and over again. Movement is very slow, chains and cable often snapping under the strain. Some 2,000 long tons are needed to accom­ plish lift. Warren Pack, Hudson's chief engineer, states that his com­ pany has spent nearly two years straightening up the sunken ves­ sel before trying to raise her. Baby Seal Hunt Provokes Outcry; Seals Coat Doom MILAN, Italy — Italian fur­ riers announced that they , were discontinuing making sealskin coats because of the public reaction here to the slaying of baby seals. The annual seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has been getting a great deal of bad pub­ licity in Italian magazines and on the national TV network. In France also there has been a recent outcry against the "cruel­ ty" of the seal hunters. The pace of the work often de­ ing built at Avondale Shipyards and was three-quarters finished pends upon the river level. when Hurricane Betsy struck on Listed 70 Degrees September 9, 1965. She was "She listed about 70 degrees torn from her moorings and bat­ after she was sunk by stray tered by barges. barges in the river during the Also sunk by Betsy was the hurricane," Pack explained. Frederick Lykes, a sistership "Now she is listing only about which was also under construc­ 20 degrees. We could not try to tion at the time. The Frederick raise her at the 70-degree angle, Lykes lies beneath the Gene­ because she would capsize." vieve Lykes on the river bottom. He notes the theory being Hudson Waterways, which used in the work is that once the vessel rises sufficiently, workmen bought both ships from the in­ will be able to pump water out surance underwriters, will next attempt to raise the Frederick of her. With the rising of the Lykes if the present salvaging river level, it is hoped she can operation is successful. be refloated. Failure to raise Both vessels have since been her in that way will necessitate replaced by the original owners filling the ship with foam—"a very costly process." with new ships bearing the same The Genevieve Lykes was be­ names. WASHINGTON—The AFL- qualifying for exemption as an CIO has urged the Internal Rev­ organization whose employees enue Service to withdraw and "are members of a common revise proposed new regulations working unit." The phrase "common work­ that "unfairly and extremely re­ strict" union-negotiated health ing unit" should be deleted, Seidman said, and the regula­ and welfare plans. The proposals, AFL-CIO So­ tion revised to make it clear that cial Security Director Bert Seid- a fund formed by several unions man told an IRS hearing, could for a variety of workers has tax destroy some health and welfare exempt status. Seidman further called for re­ funds, eliminate benefits under others and disrupt the collective visions of regulations that ap­ pear to narrow the definitions of bargaining process. The regulations, as published an "employee" and "income," in the Federal Register, would endanger tax exemptions for alter the section of the Internal funds that cover apprentices, Revenue Code that established and restrict funds in several tax exemption for health and other ways.. welfare benefits and employees' beneficiary associations. Seidman hit at one proposal which would limit exemption to Tana Goes Fishing life, sick, accident, or other ben­ efits that are "intended to safe­ With Anglers Rod guard or improve" health or CAPE TOWN, South protect against the possibility Africa—Some lucky fisher­ of reduced earning power. man may hook a large tuna Such a limitation, Seidman near here and reap a hand­ pointed out, is "contrary to the some bonus besides— an i approach taken by Congress" in elegant rod and several hun-1 tax legislation as well as IRS of fine fishing line. dred feet regulations over many years. The tuna made off with The rule, he said, might "trig­ it very unexpectedly. Louis ger the loss" of many benefits Boshoff, 64, a retired rail­ negotiated by unions, such as way artisan, fishing from scholarships, automobile insur­ shore near here, had hooked ance, day care centers for chil­ the prize catch and was dren and jobless benefits.. carefully playing it when I Seidman also attacked pro­ the large fish made an ab­ posals that would threaten the rupt change of course, tax exempt status of benefits knocking him off his ledge paid for injuries sustained from and landing him on a reef | fire or automobile accidents and projecting above low tide. for deaths covered by insurance He not only lost his rod, other than term insurance. and reel but injured his leg j He sharply criticized another in the rough yank. suggested regulation to define an "association of employees" One Man-One Vote Principle Strengthened by High Court WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ordered two states to realign their congressional districts to approach as closely as pos­ sible exact equality of population in accordance with one-man, one-vote principles. The 6-3 ruling affected New York and Missouri directly. But by implication it also paved the way for a new round of redistrict­ ing challenges affecting congressional boundary lines in other states and districts which elect state legislators and city councils. In effect, the court majority refused to countenance any varia­ tion from mathematical equality unless somehow a state can dem­ onstrate that a small population variance is "unavoidable." In Missouri, the largest district exceeded the mathematical ideal by slightly more than three percent—but this amounted to a popu­ lation spread of about six percent between the state's smallest and largest districts. New York's congressional district boundaries, drawn by a politi­ cally divided legislature interested in preserving the seats of as many incumbents as possible, had a wider spread. There was more than a 14 percent difference between the largest and smallest dis­ tricts. The challenge to the New York districting had been brought by David I. Wells, education director of the Ladies' Garment Workers. Wells had won an earlier suit challenging a more extreme malapportionment which had been enacted by a Republican legis­ lature. He contended that the new apportionment should be in­ validated both on population grounds and because of political gerrymandering. A lower federal court rejected his contention. The Supreme Court upheld him on the population issue, and therefore was not faced with the necessity of ruling on the gerrymander issue—^which Wells considered a key point. l^epublicans now control both houses of the New York legis- lature as well as the governorship, and one GOP official told the New York Times that the legislature would be able to carve up districts of mathematical equality which would enable the GOP to pick up additional seats. "Now it's just a question of slicing the salami," he was quoted, "and the salami happens to be in our hands." The Democratic leader of the state Assembly termed the state­ ment a "shocking and blatant announcement of intent to gerry­ mander" and called on Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to appoint a non­ partisan or bipartisan commission to recommend new boundaries. Wells served notice that he will "move right back into court" on the gerrymandering issue if the legislature carves up the districts for political advantage. The Supreme Court was sharply divided on the issue of exact mathematical equality. Justices John Marshall Harlan, Potter Stewart and Byron R. White vigorously dissented, charging that the ruling imposed impossible "slide rule" standards on the politi­ cal process. Justice Abe Fortas, while joining in holding that the Missouri and New York test cases exceeded one-man, one-vote standards, said the majority decision laid down impractical standards for the states. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., writing for the majority, said that to allow a population variance, however small, without sound justification would be an invitation to legislators to seek the maxi­ mum allowable variation rather than strive for exact equality. As a practical matter, the time involved in court suits makes it unlikely that there will be a national wave of redistricting before the 1970 elections. After the 1970 census, all states will almost certainly be required to redistrict in accordance with new popula­ tion figures and distribution. . .4 �jggnwg Mar, 1969 Communist Ships Win Coffee Haul From the British SEAFARERS Page Seren LOG SlU and MTD Urge Congress; Be Certain Maritime Money Biil is Fair to AH Warnings that the commu­ WASHINGTON — Congress nists would use their maritime has been urged by the SIU and growth to undermine free world the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades economy were given new valid­ Department to reword a pend­ ity last month in reports from ing merchant marine authoriza­ London. tion bill to eliminate the loop­ Three importers in the coffee hole in maritime laws which trade have signed contracts with permit 14 favored shipping com­ East German and Polish steam­ panies to reap a double subsidy, ship companies for the next and also to insure that the fi­ three years to carry coffee from nancial assistance provided by the East African areas to Eu­ the legislation would be ex­ rope. tended to the unsubsidized seg­ The three coffee importers ment of the nation's fleet which are Lyons, Maxwell House and is desperately in need of such Nestle. The firms explained help for its very survival. their dropping British shipping St(^ ''Double Subsidies** companies by reason that the In a statement filed with the communist companies offered them a 15 percent lower rate House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee which held than the British ships. hearings on maritime authori­ However, the undercutting zations for fiscal 1970 last actually amounted to 25 percent according to London shipping month, the SIU urged that the sources. A 10 percent increase language of the authorizations in rates was scheduled to go into measure be amended to "make effect shortly on the British it clear that the practice of pay­ ships. With the 15 percent lower ing 'double subsidies' will no rate offered, the net effect was longer be tolerated." to undercut by 25 percent. "Any reasonable interpreta­ Communist maritime sources tion of the statutes indicates that have made it plain in recent operating and construction sub­ months that they have every in­ sidies were granted solely to tention of using their huge mer­ make at least some Americanchant fleets to undercut the es­ flag ships competitive with for­ tablished rates of the free world eign-flag ships in the carriage nations. of commercial cargo," the Un­ ion declared. Those who now contend that these subsidies were granted to insure regular movement of ships over selected trade routes—irrespective of whether or not these ships car­ ried any cargo at all—are guilty of attempting to rewrite history. "The Act spoke of utilizing the subsidy system to insure car­ riage of a 'substantial' share of our waterbome imports and ex­ ports. Obviously, the subsidies were designed to give American operators a crack at commercial cargo. These operators should no longer be allowed to pervert the law, as they have been doing, by using the subsidies as a means of underbidding unsubsidized American-flag vessels for the carriage of government-gener­ ated cargo." At the same time, the SIU urged that the section of the bill authorizing ship construction subsidy funds be broadened to make this federal assistance "available to build Americanflag ships in this country for the entire industry—not just for the 14 liner companies which, alone, have reaped the benefits of this program." The union's statement stressed the need for action on drafting a new maritime program that would be "equitable" in terms done." Describing the authorization of the entire fleet, pointing out measure as little more than a that the authorization bill deals only with "the smallest of all "status quo" bill. Moody said: "Nowhere does it reflect the the segments of our merchant marine—the one-third of the need for an accelerated program industry that is directly subsi­ of shipbuilding. Nowhere does dized." The statement said that it reflect the need for a balanced the funds proposed "do not fleet. Nowhere does it reflect meet the test of resolving the the need for going beyond the maritime difficulties in which favored 14 berthline operators to make operating and/or con­ this nation finds itself." struction differential assistance Similar testimony was given available to all operators. No­ before the Committee, by O. where does it reflect any con­ William Moody, Jr., adminis­ cern for the two-thirds of the trator of the 7.5 million-mem­ industry which is on the brink ber AFL-CIO Maritime Trades of obsolescence." Department. "And speaking of the status Moody expressed disappoint­ quo," he pointed out, "it falls ment that the authorization measure which was being con­ short even then of adequately sidered before Congress had an serving the needs of the oneopportunity to act on legislation third of the industry which that would broaden the scope of would be the beneficiaries. It calls, for example, for the con­ the merchant marine program. struction of 10 new ships for Priorities Inverted the 14 subsidized operators—in "We believe the order of other words, five-sevenths of a priorities has been inverted," ship per company! Obviously, Moody declared. "We think we if it is not serving the favored should be here today discussing one-third adequately, it cannot the ways to correct the deficien­ possibly give hope to the twocies of our 33-year-old maritime thirds of the fleet which has program—and that only then systematically been excluded should we get down to discuss­ from the benefits of this pro­ ing the dollars that need to be gram since its adoption in appropriated to get the job 1936." MTD Holds Seminar on Dangers of Runaway-Flag Fleet WASHINGTON—A long-standing Defense De­ partment theory that American-owned ships, regis­ tered under the flags of other countries, are under the "effective control" of the United States in time of crisis was sharply attacked last month by Senator Hugh Scott (R-Pa.O. "The only ships that are effectively controlled by the United States," Scott said, "are United States-flag vessels." He urged the Nixon Administration to base its decisions on maritime needs solely on "ships which fly the American flag and are manned by American citizens." Scott was the principal speaker at a day-long sem­ inar sponsored here by the AFL-C30 Maritime Trades Department. The seminar was devoted to the problem of the "runaway-flag" fleet, which is now larger, in terms of tonnage, than American-owned vessels regisiered and ciewed in this country. Sharing the platform with the Pennsylvania Sen­ ator were: • Representative John Dent (D-Pa.), who criti­ cized American companies which had moved their vessels to foreign registry where they "reap fantastic profits because they get off scot-free as far as Ameri­ can taxes are concerned and because they find it ever so much more profitable to pay substandard foreign wage rates." • SIU Safety Director Joseph Algina, who said the "runaway" ships have cost American sailors their jobs," have cost the U.S. Treasury "millions of dol­ lars in taxes" and have "encouraged a general lower­ ing of safety standards on the high seas." Really a "Give-Away** • Bertram Gottlieb, director of research for the Washington-based Transportation Institute, who charged that the "runaway" situation really should be called a "give-away" because under it "we give away our registry rights; we give away our cargo . . . we give away the earnings of these ships and the taxes that should be paid on the earnings; and ... we give away our shipbuilding." Scott said that the "effective control" theory con­ cerning the "runaways" was founded on what he said were "four rather questionable bases." These include so-called "conditions of approval incorporated in pa­ pers transferring former Ainerican-flag vessels to for­ eign registry; the fact that the laws of Panama, Li­ beria and Honduras "permit U.S. owners to commit their vessels to the United States for use in emergen­ cies;" the fact that the U.S. government extends war risk insurance only to owners signing unconditional contracts of commitment; and the fact that voluntary "letters of intent" are filed with the Maritime Admin­ istration. The Pennsylvania Republican said the "conditions of approval" are difficult to enforce once a vessel is safely transferred, and in any case most of the trans­ fers took place a quarter of a century ago and these ships have since been replaced by vessels built abroad by U.S. companies. With respect to the war risk insurance, Scott said there is "nothing which requires that they bother with such coverage," adding that only 54 of the 422 ships in the "runaway" fleet carry such insurance. On the two other points, Scott said that the laws in Panama, Liberia and Honduras "guaranteeing availability can be repealed just as easily as they were enacted," and that the voluntary agreements "are de­ pendent upon the good will of the owners of the ships concerned—^they are not binding." Scott warned that reliance on these vessels in com­ puting the nation's emergency sealift requirements would be to base "many of our maritime decisions on some false premises," adding that "the concept is neither 'effective' nor does it insure 'control.'" "Kiliii^ the Economy** Congressman Dent said that the "runaway ship" was in the same category with the "runaway shop"— both of which, he said, are "killing the American economy." He said that American business interests have taken both manufacturing operations and ship­ ping operations to foreign countries "where labor is cheap," and added that, as a result, they are "flooding the market" with "cheap foreign imports" carried to this country "at cheap rates by foreign-flag ships." Dent noted that last year the United States paid $3.6 billion to foreign-flag operators for carrying nearly 95 percent of this country's exports and im­ ports. He added: "And the 'runaway-flag operators were up near the front of the line to receive their share of the busi­ ness. Tiny Liberia—that great haven for 'runaways' carried nearly 30 percent of this country's waterbome commerce. That's almost six times as great as the American-flag share. So you can see how we're being taken—and how we're paying for the privilege." Gottlieb pointed out that the reliance on "runawayflag" shipping was having a continuing impact on the nation's balance of payments. He declared: "In the 10-year period prior to 1967 we had a $23 billion deficit. During this same period we were only carrying from five to seven percent of our imports and exports in American bottoms. "There is no question that increasing the share of our foreign commerce carried by U.S. flags could significantly improve our payments balance. In fact, if during this period the U.S. merchant marine had carried the same percentage of our trade as it did in the 1930's, we would have had a $5-billion surplus rather than a deficit in our balance of payments." Algina told the MTD seminar that "the poorest safety-at-sea records were those of the countries that serve as a haven for the 'runaway fleet.' " Last year, he said, Panama lost 1.6 percent of its gross tonnage in sea accidents and Liberia lost close to one percent, while the U.S. loss ratio was only two-tenths of one percent. "The difference is in safety standards," the SIUNA official said. "Liberia and Panama have no stand­ ards. They let the industry decide for itself what, if any, requirements will be established concerning safety in construction and safety in operation. "Since even minimum safety features cost money, you find them lacking on Liberian and Panamanian ships—and you find the ship operators apparently preferring to pay the cost of substandard safety in human lives instead of dollars." �Page Eight SEAFARERS Mar, 1969 LOG Legislators, Mar'rtlme Leaders Weigh Growing Woes of Great Lakes Fleet CHICAGO—Three members of Congress and national lead­ ers of maritime unions marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway on April 25 by calling for substantial expansion of the American-owned merchant fleet carrying trade between Great Lakes cities and foreign ports, a large increase in the U.S. Great Lakes fleet engaged in trans-lakes commerce, and a strong, concerted fight against recent moves to raise St. Law­ rence Seaway tolls. These and other proposals designed to strengthen the St. Lawrence Seaway maritime in­ dustry and the economy of the Great Lakes states were ad­ vanced at an all-day AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department Great Lakes Conference. The speakers were: U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (DInd.); Congressmen Frank Annunzio and Dan Rostenkowski, both Illinois Democrats; O. Wil­ liam Moody, Jr., Administrator of the AFL-CTO Maritime Trades Department; and Peter McGavin, Executive SecretaryTreasurer of the MTD. Chair­ man of the Conference was SIUNA Vice President John Yarmola. Bayh, a member of the in­ fluential Great Lakes Confer­ ence of Senators, told the dele­ gates—representing 32 mari­ time unions with 275,000 mem­ The long and the short of it. Ronald N. Foster, right, who weighs in at bers in the Chicago area—that 70 pounds and stands 51 inches tall is the smallest trainee ever to enter the American merchant fleet on the SlU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Md. the Great Lakes faces two major Matching oars here with 6 foot, 5 inch-tall Bosun Joe Clowes, Foster threats. says he intends to prove that a little man can become a good Seafarer. "The deep-sea American merchant fleet faces massive competition from foreign car­ riers," he said. "These compa­ nies build their vessels with lowcost labor in foreign shipyards PINEY POINT, Md.—A the SIU's Harry Lundeberg and they crew their vessels with young man appeared at the School of Seamanship here at low-wage seamen drawn from a SIlTs Harry Lundeberg School Piney Point. He immediately ap­ variety of nations. The result is of Seamanship here recently, plied for the training, which that they can carry goods at rates and applied for entrance. This will qualify him to sail as an that are not profitable for Amer­ happens every day and there Ordinary Seaman. ican vessels." Foster said that he'd like to would be nothing unusual about A second threat, Bayh pointed it—except for one thing. This train to be a Wiper and hopes out, lies in the fact that the U.S. particular young man was just to get a berth on one of the has a program to provide assist­ 51 inches tall snd weighed 70 many SlU-manned ships sailing ance in the construction of ves­ to Vietnam so that he can see sels for the American-flag fleet pounds. Ronald N. Foster, who hails for himself what is going on to enable U.S. shipowners to from Redondo Beach, Califor­ over there. "All of my buddies buy American-built ships at the nia, has wanted to join one of have to stick their necks out world market rate, but extends the military services, particu­ over there; and I don't want to this assistance to only 14 of larly the Marine Corps, ever be any different," he declared. hundreds of American shipping since he was 16 years old. Foster said he is very happy lines. After being rejected by all at the Lundeberg School and is "This year, for example," he of the services because of his looking forward to many years continued, "the budget pre­ size, he wrote to former Vice- as a Seafarer and a member of sented to Congress calls for con­ President Hubert Humphrey in the SIU. He hopes to be able structing only 10 new ships to hopes that the Vice-President to ship to many different ports be divided among these 14 com­ might be able to intervene for throughout the world and see the panies, at a time when we should him. However, he received an many places that—up to now be building many times that answer from the office of the —he has only read about. number in the face of the seri­ Vice-President which explained "This is the answer to a life­ ous obsolescence of our fleet. that Humphrey regretfully could long dream," Foster said. "When "The U.S. also has a pro­ not change the rules, as much you are as small as I am, a lot gram," the Senator pointed out, as he admired the young men— of doors are dosed to you. I am "to help defray the operating unable to qualify—^for wanting grateful to the Seafarers Inter­ costs of American vessels so to do their share. national Union and the Harry they can carry imports and ex­ Foster had just about given Lundeberg School for giving me ports at precisely the same rate up hope when he heard about this wonderful opportunity." as foreign-flag vessels. Yet Loiy Sailing Career as Seafarer DetemiaeJ Goal of 'Mighty Mite' again, this assistance is limited the provisions of the 1936 Act. "Yet these are the ships which to only 14 companies which, should be given assistance be­ together, operate only one-third cause of their potential for of the ships in our fleet. "These defects in our mari­ carrying a major share of our time program," Bayh empha­ cargo, because we are engaged, sized, "affect all of our merchant as you well know here on the marine, but they have a partic­ Lakes, in bulk cargo traffic— ularly devastating effect on the not in liner traffic." Moody proposed an end to development of our maritime "further discrimination against strength on the Great Lakes." Annunzio strongly deplored any segment of our fleet with the decline of U.S. shipping in respect to shipbuilding. The gov­ ernment should make ship con­ Great Lakes trade. "In the period between 1955 struction subsidies available to and 1966," he said, "the U.S.- all American ships—subsidized owned Great Lakes fleet de­ and unsubsidized. Great Lakes clined by more than 500,000 and deep sea, cargo vessels and gross tons, while the Canadian- fishing vessels—so that all seg­ owned fleet on the Lakes in­ ments of this industry can build creased by exactly that amount." ships in American shipyards..." He also called for no further "American operators would like to bring about a revival of discrimination in the expendi­ their fleet with private capital ture of operating subsidies, a rather than with tax dollars," halt to double subsidies and an Annunzio continued. "But if the end to the practice of govern­ job cannot be done totally with ment agencies favoring foreignprivate capital, I would support flag ships for the carriage of legislation that would extend government cargo in preference some measure of construction to American ships. McGavin, discussing the subsidy assistance to the Amer­ 2500-mile inland waterway ican Great Lakes fleet." Rostenkowski referred to "in­ system, warned against a pro­ creasing pressures to raise the posal in Congress "to impose a tolls on the Seaway—a move user-tax on the fuel used by which, in my judgment, could towboats on our inland water­ price this waterway out of the ways." A tax on fuel would market. Water carriers are al­ raise the cost of water transpor­ ready facing stiff competition tation and cripple the inland from other modes of transpor­ barge industry, he said. A second threat McGavin tation—including the unitized train—and any tampering with stated, comes from the Inter­ the Seaway rates could lead to state Commerce Commission a disastrous slowdown in traffic which "wants to enforce a law and could place the whole fu­ passed 30 years ago that would ture of the &away in jeopardy." limit the number of different Moody, stressed to the dele­ commodities that could be car­ gates that the U.S. merchant ried in the same unit of barges." He noted that Congress is now marine program has concerned itself with only one segment of considering a bill to eliminate the merchant marine since 1936. this discrimination by making "The goal was fine," Moody it clear that each barge is a ves­ declared, "but the benefits of sel and that 40 different barges the program were limited exclu­ in a tow could, if desired, carry sively to the liner segment of 40 different commodities. the industry. The bulk cargo "The MTD is going to fight segment of the fleet—the so- for this legislation," McGavin called 'tramp' fleet, the Great pledged, "Just as we are going Lakes fleet, the fishing fleet— to fight against the user-tax on all of these were excluded from the inland waterways." Father & Son in Vietnam When the Oakland put In at Cam Ranh Bay on a recent Far East run to Vietnam, Seafarer Delmar Craig had the happy opportunity to spend some time with his son, Army Specialist E-5 James Craig. �May, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG Total Reaches 324 Japanese %ru' Mystery Is Solved at Last—or Is It? If it's a Japanese ship, its name ends with "mam." Every Seafarer, as well as most landlubbers, are aware of this. But it seems nobody—including the Japanese—knows exactly why this is. It took a tourist to uncover the fact. When the Oshima Mam tied up at the Port of Toledo not long ago, a tourist asked a port guide what the "mam" meant. The guide fumbled, then sought a higher authority. Before long, the question had them all fumbling. The Port Authority contacted its Japanese representative in Tokyo in an attempt to solve the mystery. They got an answer from the Japanese—in fact they got three answers. Apparently, no one there is quite sure, either. According to the Port of Toledo News, the possible origins are as follows: "The first and most common explanation is that, in feudal days, Japanese people developed a custom of giving the end­ ing 'mam' to the names of things that they were particularly fond of. Boys were called Takemam, Kiyomam and so on by their parents. . . . "A second interpretation is that ships were regarded as floating castles, and thus were named as castles were. The various defense stmctures in these old castles were called honmam, ninomam and sanomam. "A third explanation is that it came from 'toimam' by which big Japanese wholesale merchants were called during the Kamamam period. At that time, the trade names of all big merchants bore the ending 'mam.'" As the old saying goes—You pays your money . . . Six More Seafarers Earn licenses At SlUEngineers Upgrading School Bunyard Adams The total number of Seafarers who have passed Coast Guard examinations and earned their engineering licenses after suc­ cessfully completing training at the School of Marine Engineer­ ing sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2, MEBA, has reached 324. The latest group of graduates who took advantage of the com­ prehensive course of study of­ fered by the school include George Adams, James Bunyard, Bart Power, Jimmy Farris, Ben­ jamin Howard and Charles Hoff­ man. Farris George Adams, newly-licen­ sed third assistant, was born in Dallas, Texas, and now lives in San Francisco. Brother Adams began sailing in 1966 and joined the SIU the same year in San Francisco. He last shipped as FOWT-electrician aboard the Columbia. He also served three years with the U.S. Navy, re­ ceiving an honorable discharge in 1966. James Bunyard, a six-year Navy veteran, is now licensed as a third assistant. Born in Trin­ ity, Texas, he makes his home in Houston with his mother. Because of Undereount: U.S. Census Clouds True Employment Statistics Government experts know . that there are more people in the labor force—^both employed and looking for work—than the government's own statistics show. They even know with reason­ able accuracy the age, sex and race of these missing Ameri­ cans. But the statistics the gov­ ernment issues every month— used by both public and private planners—don't reflect this knowledge. An article in the March issue of the Monthly Labor Review, publication of the Labor De­ partment's Bureau of Labor Statistics, discusses some of the data—and the implications— that previously appeared only in litUe-read technical journals. The article is titled, "Effect of the Census Undereount on Labor Force Estimates." Its authors are Denis F. Johnston, a sociologist, and James R. Wetzel, an economist. Root of the problem is the difficulty of counting every per­ son in the United States every 10 years. In the very first U.S. census, George Washington recognized the problem, including suspicion of government by citizens and what Washington termed "the negligence of some of the offi­ cers taking the census." The Census Bureau's own statisticians have come up with generally accepted figures on the "undereount" in the last census, in 1960. Nearly 5.7 million people weren't counted in the 1960 census—about 3.1 percent of the total population. But while the 3.55 million whites in this group represented only 2.2 per­ cent of the white population, the 2.14 million nonwhites made up 9.5 percent of the nonwhite population (a group that is 92 percent Negro). Even more significantly, the undereount rises to 19 percent —nearly one out of five— among nonwhite men in the 2035 age bracket. How does the Census Bureau know this? The key is a bit of elementary deduction. In simplified terms, it in­ volves following a specified age group—^say 10 to 14—over sev­ eral census tallies, making al­ lowances for mortaJity rates and persons serving overseas in the armed forces. When the num­ bers and sex ratio in a census differs significantly from the projection, the undereount is obvious and can be pinpointed. The monthly employment and unemployment figures are based on samplings of an up­ dated census tdly. But the up­ dating refers only to such data as mortality, birth and death figures, and the people entering and leaving the United States. Errors Become Official Thus, the authors of the article point out, "any errors in the basic decennial population count are transmitted directly to the official employment and unemployment figures analyzed and reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics." And, the article continues, "since the population was undercounted in 1960, each month's estimates of popula­ tion, labor force, employment and unemployment are lower SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS March 1-March 31, 1969 Number of Benefits Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . .. Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) .. Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . (Average: $325.04) Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) SUMMARY (Welfare) Vacation Benefits (Average: $402.07) Total Welfare, Vacation Benefits Paid This Period . . 694 36 1,025 37 2,384 Amount Paid $ 16,838.54 111,082.31 232,350.00 7,400.00 77,490.26 586 4,475 9,237 2,688 2,433.10 32,752.00 480,346.21 678,697.40 11,925 $1,159,043.61 then a fully accmate census would reveal.'-' It allocates the missing peo­ ple of working age to the em­ ployment-unemployment figures for a sample month by two al­ ternative methods. One would assume that the uncounted per­ sons fall into the same pattern as others of their age, sex and race. The other would assume that most of them are in pov­ erty neighborhoods. Under either of these assump­ tions, there would be no signifi­ cant change in the overall unem­ ployment rate—as a percentage of the labor force—although there would, of course, be an increase in the number of per­ sons unemployed. The authors note that other theories would assign a consid­ erably higher proportion of the uncounted to the jobless cate­ gory—large enough to affect the national unemployment rate. Bui the authors said they could not find "convincing evidence" to justify such an assumption. They did say, however, that "a large portion of the omitted are probably employed in less desirable, low-paying occupa­ tions and industries. Thus, esti­ mates of underutilized persons based on the official figures are probably low." The statistical errors in the census and the employment figure do mean, however, that programs designed to attack such problems as unemploy­ ment, poverty and housing un­ derestimate the magnitude of the task unless the planners have taken into account the errors in numbers stemming from the cen­ sus undereount. Howard Hoffman Mrs. Ethel Ross, when he is not at sea. Brother Bunyard began sailing. following his hitch in the Navy, and joined the SIU in the Port of Houston. He last shipped as FOWT on the Kenyon Victory. Bart Power, newly-licensed second assistant, is a native of Buffalo, New York. He has been sailing since 1953 when he joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He last shipped as FOWT on the Yellowstone be­ fore enrolling in the training school. Jimmy Farris was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and now lives in Gulfport, Mississippi, with his mother, Mrs. Louise Farris. Licensed as third assist­ ant after completing the training course. Brother Farris has been sailing since 1966 when he signed up with the SIU in the Port of New York. He last shipped as FOWT on the Alcoa Voyager. Benjamin Howard, another newly-licensed third assistant, is a native Alabaman who lives in the town of Foley with his wife, Dorothy. Brother Howard joined the SIU in Mobile and has been sailing for the past seven years. His last vessel was the Fairport, where he shipped as FOWT. Charles J. Hoffman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and now makes his home in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, Mary. Brother Hoffman, who holds a new license as third assistant, has sailed as oiler and joined the SIU in the Port of Tampa. His last ship was the Keva Ideal. Brother Hoffman is a two-year veteran of the U.S. Army. All engineer department Sea­ farers are eligible for any of the upgrading programs at the Un­ ion-sponsored School of Marine Engineering provided they are at least 19 years of age and have a minimum of 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine department,^ in addition to at least six months experience as wiper or the equiv­ alent. Any Seafarer who qualifies and wishes to enroll in the school may obtain additional in­ formation and make application for enrollment at any SIU hall. Information can also be ob­ tained by writing to SIU Head­ quarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or by telephoning the school at (212)499-6600. �Page Ten SEAFARERS Substantia!SocialSecurity Increases Urged toMeet Income Cap ofClderly WASHINGTON—A special Senate report emphasizes that the nation must take actions "going far beyond those taken in recent years" to resolve a worsening retirement income crisis. Most needed, the report said are substantial increases in so­ cial security benefits which "have failed to keep up with the rising income needs of the aged." The report was prepared for the Senate Committee on Aging by a task force of four promi­ nent social scientists. Task force members were Juanita M. Kreps, Duke Univer­ sity; James H. Shulz, University of New Hampshire; Agnes W. Brewster, an economics consult­ ant; and Harold L. Sheppard of the Upjohn Institute for Em­ ployment Research. ITieir study found that three out of 10 people 65 and older lived below the government's defined poverty-level income in 1966, and another one of the 10 "was on the poverty border­ line." Of older people living alone or with nonrelatives in 1967, half had incomes below $1,480, and one-fourth had incomes of $1,000 or less, the report said. Moreover, the task force ob­ served that "Americans living in retirement are suffering from an income gap that is widening in relation" to the income of younger persons. Median income of families headed by a person over 65 was 51 percent of that for younger families ip 1961, but only 46 percent in 1967. Widows and other aged wom­ en living alone were found by the task force to be "particularly disadvantaged economically," with six of every 10 having in­ come below the poverty line. One chart illustrating the task force's findings, based on analy­ sis of Social Security Adminis­ tration statistics, showed that the level of living set by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "moderate" budget for a retired couple is "well beyond the reach of most older people, especially those who retired years ago." The average monthly social security benefit of a couple re­ tiring in 1950 met half the BLS budget cost of $149. Although both the benefit and budget have been adjusted in the years since, that same couple's benefit in 1968 met less than one-third the updated budget's cost of $370. SfU Lifeboat Class No. 223 Graduates of SlU Lifeboat Class No. 223 pose with instructor Paul McSarin and Chief Bowen, Coast Guard examiner. Standing (l-r) are William Croly, John Collins, Peter Hove, Joe Crumpler and John L. Maynard. Kneeling are Ernest Hoitt, Mathiondis Aristidis, Norman MacDonald and Zdziszaw Kukulski. Graduation took place on April 14. Standing (l-r) are Constantinos Florous, Fabian Cruz, Randolph Hum­ phrey, Cornell Sarossy and Ruben Bautista. Graduates in front row are Ramon (Puiles, Joe Villaha, Michael Rogers, Angelos Vartholomeos. May, 1969 LOG Among the aged in poverty, it stressed, are many who "did not become poor until they be­ came old." The report pointed to a num­ ber of other problems which are becoming increasingly acute for the aged—problems associated with owning homes or renting, paying taxes and meeting rising medical costs. The task force concluded that government programs, particu­ larly social security, are the only real "assurance" that "the rela­ tive economic status of the aged" can be improved. It also recommended that the government explore and support "various methods of promoting and encouraging private group pensions and personal savings as supplementary sources of private income." Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-N.J.), committee chairman, said the report "states a funda­ mental truth as no other docu­ ment has yet done." That is, he explained, that "economic problems of old age are not only unsolved for today's elderly but also unsolved for the future el­ derly." Old Shipmates Are Reunited Seafarers Anthony Russo, left, and Carlos Matt, right, who were ship­ mates 22 years, were reunited at the USPHS Hospital on Staten Island. Even after so many years, both Seafarers recognized each other almost at once. The occasion for all the smiles was the presentation of Brother Russo's first pension check by SlU Representative George McCartney. In 1963 Case Railway Clerks Win Millions For Merger's Effect on Jobs The Railway Clerks have negotiated a multi-million dol­ lar payment to compensate some 2,000 workers who lost their jobs or seniority rights when the Southern Railway took over the Central of Georgia Railroad in 1963. Workers who were adversely affected by the takeover will have their full seniority re­ stored, with retroactive pay­ ments and other cash benefits of BALTIMORE — A solution up to a year's pay. to oil slicks, the great pollutant The total package of "redress of waters and beaches and payments" is estimated at be­ large-scale scourge of fish and tween $8 million and $12 mil­ marine vegetation, appears to be lion. A special arbitration panel on hand in a compound devel­ will resolve any disputes over oped by a Baltimore chemical application of the agreement. company. C. L. Dennis, the union's Three years were required to president, termed the settlement develop the product which is rel­ a "historic step toward protect­ atively inexpensive—about $3 a ing railway employees from gallon. Biodegradable—which economic and social hardship means it breaks down into harm­ less substances—the dispersant when companies merge opera­ causes oil slicks on water to tions." He said it "rights a six-year precipitate to the bottom as a wrong" committed by the for­ fine silt-like substance. It is also non-flammable and non-corro­ mer management of the Southsive and can eliminate a quan­ em Railway. Dennis praised the tity of oil five to 10 times its railroad's new officers for their own volume under normal con­ "willingness to correct a past wrong." ditions. While the clerks were hit According to Dr. Alfred Sohn- hardest by the takeover, other ius, the scientist who developed Central of Georgia workers the unique formula, and who were also affected and the Rail­ will market the product through his own Mankana Chemical way Labor Executives' Associa­ tion has reached a basic agree­ Company, the chemical breaks ment on restoration of job the cohesion of the oil and rights. Negotiations are contin­ changes its physical properties, uing on implementing agree­ causing the slick to "settle out ments affecting members of on the bottom of the ocean and disperse." It is "completely safe" other rail unions. Went to Supreme Court and requires no protective equipment, he claims. The rail union had to go to If the new product is as ef­ the Supreme Court in order to fective as the maker claims it is, get the Interstate Commerce it will go a long way towards Commission to rule on whether neutralizing dangers such as the basic Washington Job Pro­ those posed by the Torrey Can­ tection Agreement protecting yon disaster off the coast of workers involved in rail mergers England in 1967. applied to the "acquisition of Ocean Oil Slicks Are Neutralized By New Foranila control" of the Central of Geor­ gia. Finally, in late 1967, the ICC ruled that protective features of the Washington Agreement—a nationally-negotiated compact —Were binding in the case. Then came the difficult nego­ tiations to try to remedy the in­ justices and restore lost job rights. The Railway Clerks began di­ rect negotiations with the new management of the Southern Railway last July and the union said the resulting agreement "testifies once again to the value of free collective bargaining in the American spirit between la­ bor and management." The 20-page agreement which emerged sets up a senior­ ity date and rank for all clerical employees affected by the merg­ er—and gives each person on the list the right to claim any job on the roster to which his senior­ ity entitles him. Other provisions cover reim­ bursement of those who have al­ ready taken higher paying jobs, payment of necessary moving expenses, payment for lost in­ surance benefits and reimburse­ ment for workers no longer on the payroll because of retire­ ment, resignation or other such reasons. And He Doesn't Mean 'Perhaps' LONDON, England—^A pro­ posal to increase the paychecks of Navy girls by three cents a day for "good conduct" was denounced by Rear Admiral M. Morgan Giles here recently. Addressing the House of Com­ mons, Giles declared, "That's a ridiculous sum to give a girl for saying 'Yes, Sir' all day and 'No, Sir' all night!" �MraBWrwWMnnieser^'^'?''^^-'' May, 1969 SEAFARERS Job Safety Committee Named By Labor Secretary Sbultz WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary George P. Shultz has established a National Safety Advisory Committee comp>osed equally of labor, management and public representatives to ad­ vise him on the increasing prob­ lem of on-the-job safety. In announcing the committee, headed by National Safety Council President Howard Pyle, Schultz observed that there cur­ rently is "more interest in safety legislation than there has been in the past 20 years." He listed these 1967 statistics as among the major reasons for the high level of interest: • More than 14,000 deaths and two million disabling in­ juries on the job. • Costs for occupational ac­ cidents of $7.3 billion, with $1.5 billion lost in wages. • The loss of some 245 mil­ lion man-days of production be­ cause of such accidents—"many times greater than the loss re­ sulting from strikes." Schultz also said that occupa­ tional disease "seems to be a growing problem and we must increase our efforts to control new diseases brought on by new technology." "Unfortunately," he added, "the nation hasn't been experi­ encing improvement in this area," with occupational injury rates on an "upward trend" over the past 10 years. The committee held its first meeting with Schultz on April 10 to make recommendations on new health and safety stand­ ards proposed by former Presi­ dent Johnson but still under re­ view in the Nixon Administra­ tion. The standards, which Schultz delayed putting into effect until May 17, deal with new fire reg­ ulations, noise levels, and air contaminants. They will apply to firms covered by the WdshHealey Public Contracts Act. Later this year, Shultz said, the Labor Department will probably consider a "compre­ hensive" occupational safety and health bill and committee mem­ bers will be called upon for their views. Labor members named to the 15-member tripartite committee are: George Taylor of the AFLCIO Department of Research; Alan Burch, safety director. Operating Engineers; Steelworkers Secretary - Treasurer Walter J. Burke; Brewery Workers Secretary-Treasurer Arthur P. Gildea; Vice Presi­ dent Elwood Swisher of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. ' Page Eleven LOG Rep. Halpern Calk for Strapping Repladag 1936 Maritime Law WASHINGTON — Repre­ but was pocket-vetoed by for­ sentative Seymour Halpern (R- mer President Johnson. Halpern said that the "only N.Y.) has called for scrapping the nation's third-of-a-century- argument that could persuade old maritime law and replacing me to leave maritime in the De­ it with new legislation "geared partment of Commerce would to the realities of today's mari­ be a sweeping new program that is fair and equitable to all seg­ time problems." The Congressman warned ments of the industry, accom­ that attempts to "patch over" panied by a positive attitude on the Merchant Marine Act of maritime development for both 1936, instead of writing new the short run and the long run." legislation, would leave the na­ Four Elemeiits Stressed tion with a maritime program The Congressman stressed geared to a scheduled ocean four elements that are required liner service in an era in which to meet his test of an "equitable" "our reliance is chiefly on the maritime program: unscheduled bulk cargo trade." • The privilege now accord­ Speaking at a meeting spon­ ed to some operators to set aside sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ money in tax-deferred construc­ time Trades Department, Hal­ tion reserve funds should be ex­ pern indicated there was a dis­ tended to all operators. Such a agreement between Congress move, he said, would "attract and the Nixon Administration over the location of the Mari­ private capital," and would time Administration. The New make possible the building of York Republican is one of more urgently-needed ships "with the than 160 House sponsors of leg­ minimum investment of public islation to create an independent funds." • The two-thirds of the mer­ Maritime Administration while the White House has indicated chant fleet which is unsubsidized it wants to keep maritime where should get "first crack" at the it is, in the Department of Com­ carriage of military, foreign aid merce. Similar legislation to set and agricultural surplus ship­ up an independent Maritime Administration passed the House and Senate by lopsided margins in the 90th Congress, & Inland ©1 ments sponsored by the govern­ ment. Unable to compete with low-cost foreign-flag vessels or subsidized American ships for commercial cargo, Halpern said, the unsubsidized segment of the fleet "either carries government cargo or it perishes." • The government should give long-term charters to un­ subsidized operators to carry government-generated cargo so that they can plan for the or­ derly replacement of their ships, paid for "entirely with private capital." • The present limiting of construction and operating sub­ sidies "to just 14 companies" engaged in the liner trade should be abandoned. Subsidies should be made available to all oper­ ators, but they would have to choose between this direct as­ sistance and the indirect aid available through the carriage of government cargo. Such a program, Halpern said, woud be "equitable and flexible," and would lead to a maritime program "that will be capable of reaching into the fu­ ture instead of being throttled by the dead hand of the past." New Pensioner Frank Miller Will Continue SlU Activities April 1, 1969 to April 30, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmingrton San Francisco ... Seattle Totals TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B 7 5 95 104 23 24 32 50 36 19 31 32 29 26 37 23 105 80 114 125 47 44 86 159 44 26 687 816 Class A Class B Class C 1 4 2 89 101 16 9 18 14 18 14 31 17 10 12 10 21 21 18 27 2 23 21 2 89 47 8 140 40 125 50 23 42 73 141 56 30 28 23 582 629 215 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 3 5 2 5 5 New York 68 110 31 187 140 Philadelphia 13 9 9 11 5 Baltimore 26 26 10 41 34 Norfolk 20 30 19 11 12 Jacksonville 49 15 10 22 15 Tampa 8 8 4 10 25 Mobile 32 29 20 29 1 New Orleans 53 84 61 3 56 Houston 75 79 47 152 112 Wilmington 20 49 20 40 16 90 San Francisco ... 131 91 129 65 32 35 Seattle 24 32 23 Totals 471 762 432 623 240 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 6 11 188 191 23 18 109 62 38 49 26 37 30 8 29 73 92 134 116 140 2 44 54 1 9 55 660 885 EGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 5 137 216 13 14 60 56 30 24 33 11 56 11 47 42 132 83 109 92 17 2 0 29 6 18 630 584 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Class A Class B 2 2 73 48 9 19 23 25 18 19 13 18 8 8 27 25 62 47 57 127 26 29 67 149 30 26 436 531 Class A Class B Class C 0 3 0 59 47 51 3 7 • 14 20 24 5 14 11 10 9 9 28 13 21 4 14 1 24 33 1 57 86 17 71 16 17 11 43 126 62 28 22 11 196 380 416 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A dass^ 1 5 143 79 8 17 43 84 37 24 7 14 8 11 36 59 162 73 53 117 25 8 31 0 15 13 704 369 Frank J. Miller is ending a 36-year sailing career—but not his Union activities.—as he accepts his first SlU pension check from SlU Welfare Director Al Bernstein. Brother Miller had sailed as AB. Frank J. Miller is winding up a sailing career that has spanned 36 years. However, his retire­ ment doesn't mean the end of his activities in the Union. As he accepted his first SIU pension check at the New York Hall from Welfare Director Al Bernstein, Brother Miller said: "The Union has been good to me for these many years, and now I am going to do whatever I can to help other members. What I'd like to do is help out on projects which will benefit other SIU oldtimers." Miller, who was bom in Ger­ many, went to sea when he was 14, and, except for a three-year hitch with the U.S. Army dur­ ing World War II, he has been sailing every year since. Rated AB, his last voyage was on the Ponce. Brother Miller lives just a few blocks from SIU Headquarters in Brooklyn. "I like to live close by the hall so I can stop in every day and see all my old friends. The Union and my old shipmates are all the family I have," he said. Miller joined the SIU when the Union had its headquarters on Beaver Street, in lower Man­ hattan. He says he hopes that the younger men coming in will understand what the Union has done ror the Seafarer in making sailing a better way of life. "The safety measures we have today aboard ship, and the se­ curity we have for ourselves and our families when we are sick or when we retire, are all due to the Union," he said. "And I hope the young fellows just start­ ing out will never forget this." �Bi m SEAFARERS Page Twelve Nama Amount Adamt, J. J. 3.U Adams, James Jr. 14.12 Adams, L. N. 3.73 Adams, L. N. 3.73 Aikens, Nowelt T. 117.12 Akin, h. L. 40.04 Akin, H. L. 7.83 Allison, Blair 4.04 Anderege, F. T. 4.77 Anderege F. T. 4.03 Arcenaux. tH. J. 8.57 Ardoin, i. J. 8.07 Arreboia, S. 12.43 Baham, Vincent hi. 8.17 Bailey, El.-ner E. Ill 3.03 Bailey, Ronald S. 4.27 Baldwin, B. W. 18.08 Ballard. James F. 4.04 Barringer, Joseph E. Jr. 8.17 Belanger, H. F. 37.32 Bell, James E. 18.84 Benedict Anthony 8.21 Benedict, John 7.14 Bennett, C. B. 15.80 Bennett, H. Arihur 11.43 Berlier, Id. Id. 2.85 Bernard, Wayne J. 7.58 Bice, J. 2.85 Biehl, James 2.87 Birch, Sary S. 8.78 BlancheHe, A. H. 13.27 Bodden, Fulbert A. 3.02 Bohma, R. 4.73 Boles. Richard J. 4.72 Boiling, J. R. 10.24 Bonner, Thomas H. Jr. 3.02 Bonoir, Cleophas Jr. 1.84 Bonti, A. 2.51 Boteler, L. J. 7.23 Botelho, Arthur 17.87 Boyce, E. F. Jr. I.OS Boyette, Timothy 4.27 Bradford, Richard O. 27.40 Bradley. James R. 2.70 Brady, Robert L. 24.85 Briant, L. P. Jr. 8.50 Briant, Louis P. 3.73 Broussard, W. J. 37.32 Browning, J. F. 2.15 Bryant, G. J. 3.73 Bumatay, Leoncio O. 8.51 Burnett, L. 2.51 Bums. J. T. 4.27 Butler, Owen 8.52 Butler, Robert 1.83 Cancela, R. 11.87 Canty. C. S. 7.78 Canhy, Carl 5. 2.85 Capps, Ernest E. 2.15 Carter. Don A. 11.37 Carter, Don A. 33.77 Catalanotto, J. 3.07 Cayton, G. S. 13.75 Chandler, B. 11-21 Chandler, Wade D. 7.84 Cheshire, James M. 11.10 Christophe, Antoine 10.07 Cieslak, Stanley J. 44.81 clement, E. J. 12.43 Coats, Laverne 8.22 Cobb, Arnie C. 52.73 Cobb, C. W. 1.18 Cobb, C. W. 8.21 Cole, H. D. 3.02 Coleman. James E. 12.05 Collins, David 12.08 Colon. Carlos M. 8.37 Conley, Walter 3.88 Conners, Eugene E. 1-77 Cook, Philip G. 5.20 Cooper, Idarshall C. 87.83 Corlis, James T. 13.71 Coto, J. F. 8.70 Coto, J. F. 13.00 Courteaux, Henry J. 5.52 Covert, E. P. 7.35 Crain. Michael O. 2.85 Crawford, E. B. 3.85 Crawford, S. V. 4.73 Croteau, Jack D. 11.43 Cuenca, Benito R. 8.51 Curry, Horace 8.21 Daniluk, Alexander 7.58 Danne, A. L. 7.B3 Davidson, L. H. 4.2? Davidson, Leonard 2.B5 Davidson, Leonard H. B.3I Davidson, Leonard H. 8.17 Davis, Kenneth 11.23 Davis, M. B. 18.74 De Las. Santos N. 1.24 Deale, V. C. 2.51 Deale, Thomas C. 5.77 Debautte, E. C. 1.83 Dnfnra, J, J. 12.57 Name Demoss, Edmund K. Di Gratia, J. Dickerson, J. E. Dickey, Wm. P. Difuico, L. H. Dubuisson, Lloyd F. Dugas, A. J. Duncan, G. F. Dunkins, L. Dunn, Johnny B. Durapau, W. A. Jr. Durden, R. B, Durning, Ivan Durning, Ivan A. Easter, T. Eddleman, B. G. Edwards, Otis N. Eiland, L. E. Eliser, C. P. Elliott, John C. Enqie, F. P. Jr, Everett, Edward L. Jr. Farley, Hubert M. Jr. Fillingim, W, H. E. Fisher, B. E. Flanagan, Eugene F. Forrest, W. Forrest, Wm. L. Foto, G- J. F-'ahse, Owsn W. Jr. Frayle, Marcel Fraxier, Lee Roy Fredericks, R. A. Frederiksen, Verner M. Frey, C. J. Frindt, F. Fruge, Clifton Fuglsang, 6. G. Furlcw, Rollins O. Gagliano, J. Galuska, Louis T. Garcia, J. L. Garcia, Natanael Garrity, Gerald L. Garrity, Gerald L. Garta, A. Gassard, C. H. George, J. J. Ghoodhooth, Ictech Giarratano, D. L. Gibson, Ciyde J. Giercxic, G. C. Gilliken, N. D. Gilliken, Norman D. Glennon, G. G. Gonxales, Juan I. Gonxales, Juan I. Gonxales, R. P. Gonxales, Ralph Goonan, Lawrence Gordon, I. Gorgas, Irvin J. Green, J. L. Green, Jessee Grifflth, J. C. Griggers, Ira W. Grofts, R. G. Gronberq, Nils E. Grove, Elmer T. Guidry, A. R. Guillory, R. R. Halem, Frank hialem, F. Hall George M. Hall George M. Hatlock, James L. Hals, John A, Halvorsen, S. Halvorsen, S. Hamby, E. F. Hammett, F. L. Hammock, George Hancock, Robert M. Harman, De Loss C. Harman, E. Harris, William F. Harrison, Daniel G. Haslett, Paul Hassell, D. Hebert, C. W. Hebert, C. W. Hebert, Ronald Heidelberg, James H. Hernandex. Isabel Hibbs, Maiden D. Hill James Blair Hillion, Henri Hlnes, Robert C. Jr. Hoffman, George C. Hoffman, L. C. Hoffman, Lester C. Hoffman, Lester C. Holder, M. J. Hnnd. Harvey H, Amount 21.71 13.47 7.15 201.02 2.85 8.57 7.47 12.43 2.85 2.85 1.38 1.43 5.57 1.55 3.73 11.07 8J4 2.51 21.73 18.71 7.15 15.72 52.33 7.23 13.72 53.70 10.32 174.88 8.21 835 4.23 8.72 7.75 8.17 34.11 80.27 12.84 1.84 21.73 1.00 8.07 37.32 1.95 18.37 18.37 7.88 2.86 15.71 8.35 7.34 27.40 7.58 3.02 1.07 14.05 8.17 8.21 18.84 4.04 7.35 13.44 18.15 5.34 18.26 7.83 I.81 17.50 8.17 12.11 7.31 8.50 4.27 Name Hood, Tommy H. Hoolahan. M. J, Hoover, 6. E. Jr. Hope, Wayne R. Howington, M. L. Hubbs, Robert Huddleston, M. J. Hudson, W. M. Hudson, W. M. Hughes, O. L. Hunt, 6. Hunter, W. Hurst, Marion Huseby, P. 5. Ivy, J. L. Jack, U. Jack, U. Jack, U. Jackson, A. C. Jackson, August C. Jackson, Bernard Jackson, Eddie L. Jackson, Robert W. Jane, A. E. Jane, A. E. Johnson, C. P. Johnson, H. A. Johnston, Lloyd Jones, Henry E. Jordan, C E= Karns, R. L. Amount 17.82 15.87 100.00 12.38 7.83 .01 8.57 .84 7.73 .40 20.B7 18.76 50.51 12.84 33.44 21.14 .20 18.80 22.73 8.14 7.33 17.73 103.08 4.73 3.82 18.37 ^ 12.75 5.M 1.12 8.1? 14.45 ,47 2.87 40.14 722.21 .20 8.30 24.K ^.£5 4.32 11.81 Name Cousins, W.M. Craig, D. E. Crew, R. Cumingham, W. N. pabao, L. Dabao, L. J. Davis, M. C. Davis, M. J. Davis, Wilson J. De Arce, R. Delacrux, A. T. Denehy, Thomas J. Desiiva, H. Dipietro, James J. Dipietro, James J. Dobak, John Dorsett, Dwain Dowd, O. Ellis, Francis M. Falgoust, M. J. Falgoust, M. J. Felix, H. M. Fernandex, F. A. Figueroa, A. B. Firlie, L. FItton, Lewis Forest, Jackson Frender, G. E Fulmar, William W. Galloway, N. Galvin, F. Garrecht, Ronald Garrecht, Ronald J. Gleason, J. H. Goutierrex, H. J., Jr. Greene, Brandon F. Gregory, Howard Hachay, L. W. Hair, Geo. Hanson, Karl Hans Harada, S. Karada, S. Amount 2.85 27.75 15-31 47.08 2.85 7.08 3.27 13.74 15.75 2.86 15.51 10.24 8.23 12.77 8.54 285 2.85 44.82 28.71 1-43 8.06 5.07 8.03 8.44 7,87 13.75 2.85 1.83 35.44 11.00 3.68 Mar, 1969 LOG Name Lea, Albert 5. Lea Albert 5. Lebianc, J. W. Lee, William HLesueur, Roy H. Lewis, J. F. Lewis, J. F. Lewis, J. F. Lewis, William H. Libby, Melvin F. Libby, Melvin F. Liies, Royall T. Ml Littleton, Ronald JLoeber, Glen R. Lofiin, E. J. Loflin, Edward J. Lofton, Clarence J. Lofton, R. L. Lopex, J. L. Lopex, Pablo Lucas, Charles 5. MacGregor, William A. Machado, Arthur Maddox, R. C. Maire, 1^. C. Maloney, G. J. Manca, L. Manca, L. Mannette, J. 5. Martello, Joseph Martin, Joe V. Amount 5.M 8-17 8.85 7.07 29M 3.88 7.31 2.74 8.17 27.40 5.01 18.50 12.43 3.88 18.84 32.30 4.04 10.80 8.38 3-00 4.35 12.77 2.84 2.14 2.85 2.87 I8.M 8.00 1.83 22.50 21.57 DELTA LINE MONEY DUE The Delta Steamship Lines has notified the SIU that it is holding checks for unclaimed wages due crewmembers as of March 31, 1969. Seafarers whose names appear on either of the lists on this page may collect their checks by writing to Mr. L. M. English, Jr., Port Purser, Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., Galvez Street Wharf Operations Office, Section 100, New Orleans, La. 70130. 12.43 3.55 27.40 4.72 14.04 6.41 3.66 12.43 6.05 7.27 55 83 36.84 3.88 14.05 12.77 18.45 2 85 2.87 5.14 1.15 4.72 3.86 4.04 8.78 3.21 304.44 II.37 2.87 7.88 14.21 18.54 18.15 Keith, H. O. Keith, Harold O. Kelly, Floyd Kelly, Robert L. Kendrick, Frank J. Kennedy, P. W. Kennedy, Robert V. Kerr, Glenn M. King, F. H. Jr. King, William E. Kirton, Robert W. Jr. Klauber, Perry M. Krolowitx, Terrance W. Kulakowski, Julian Kushmer, Charles D. Lacy, Timothy M. Lafleur, George Laguaite, R. F. Lambert, Arnold D. Lamer, C. H. Lammon, Kenneth A. Land, Dorsy D. Laquere, J. Laulrrson, C. L. Lavaughn, May Lawrence, G. I. Lawton, fe. W. — National Name Adams, J. N. Addington, Homer Amoren, Peter Anderson, Clarence E. Arnot, Elden R. Asunsion, A. AAyler, Eugene Badgett, William A. Banta, Henery Baroni, Tony A. Beadles, W. H. S. Beckman, Donald W. Bernard, Edison D. Berry, Glenn Bingenheimer, J. P. Boatnar, R. Boles, Jimmie L. Brabham. Wm. L. Brackbelf, R. R. Brewer, William, Jr. Brian, R. E. Brown, Clifford F. Brown, J. P. Brown, J. P. Brown,Paul W. Brunker, C. C. Brunnell, Victor Bunn, Eugene J. Byers, J. Byers, J. Carbonel. E Carroll, Earl 0. Carter, F. Caswgn^ Robert E Cauley, Clyde B. Claypbol, barrel W. Cline, J. E Colby, Edmund Cole, Edward Connenty, Wm. CooDAf C. Cotham. Ciiarles W. BBBB B Amount 5.14 18.03 10.00 3.52 1.21 18.87 .48 .44 8.21 1.78 20.11 84.17 36.70 2.80 2.17 7.83 1.82 .75 10.11 4.44 13.87 5.38 87.51 1.44 3.78 24.77 11.07 .58 75.87 8.34 10.07 23.07 8.00 22.48 13.57 2.87 7.83 13.83 5.13 4.04 .75 IIJ5 38.2i 2.08 22.73 14.00 2.02 11.26 1.46 8.53 12.43 4.04 21.74 1.34 26.00 4.27 7.74 7.27 8.35 2.51 1.07 12.43 24.75 23.35 14.82 32.30 7.83 10.24 10.72 Martin, Joe V, Martin, Kelly Maruilo, Theodore J. Masden, R. Masden, Rafael Mattair, G. W. Mayes, Terrei S. Maywald, Joe T. Mc Leilan, Clifton G. McAndrew, J. J. McAvoy, K. R. McAvoy, K. R. McCormick, S. L. McKenna, J. J. McKenna, John J. McKenna, John L. McKinney, Henry C. McLoughlln, R. F. McMaster, E. McMaster, Edward McSpadden, J. C. Meehan, W. J. Menendex, G. Jr. Millard, H. A. Miller, Sherman E. Mims, William Y. t.tcntgsinery, B. J. Shipping Name Harp, Uichard A. Hashagen, G. Hayes, F. B. Hirabi, S. N. Holland, R. A. Holland, W. J. Holsebus, Merlen Holt, P. S. Huckeba, J. J. Huckeba, J. J. Jr. Hulsebus, Merlen M. Hunt, J. llmer, W. Matpacka Israel, J. A. Itoman, Y. Jackson, G. R. Jackson, Tyrone Jahafi, Hammond N. Jardine, W. SJensen, 5. Johns, William D. Johnson, A. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Wm. Jordan, A. W. Judd, k. Kelly, Clarance Kerr, George C. King, R. G. King, R. O. King, Ralph O. Knight, Lawrence, Jr. Knight, R. C. Kopfler, W. B. Kopfier, Wallace Labua, Thomas V. Laird, C. W. Lavigne, T. Leaveil, W. L. Lee, H. A. Lee, Hubbert A. Ue, William H. Amount 4.27 2.32 2.86 .47 2.67 7.81 27.70 13.57 13.63 12.38 20.55 1.43 5.57 10.00 84.35 2.17 12.43 28-88 4.22 17.78 12.33 .47 1.08 2.40 57.37 17.83 2.27 24.00 12.43 23.12 1.00 , 24.77 7.18 .75 8.42 18.74 2.47 12.83 .01 14.84 28.88 18.74 5-00 177.15 2.75 18.84 32.30 i.87 2.15 17.05 4.72 2.87 5.72 2.85 2.74 12.43 14.37 11.25 4.84 il.45 12.43 32.30 18.50 4.84 2.00 2.51 31.74 7.88 2.31 Nama Mooney, «. Moran, G. Moreno. P. Morrison, J«m«i L. Moseiey, Gary L. Mouton, Joseph N. Moye, 6. M. , Mueller, Herbert E. Mulkey, Wayne R. Murr, M. G. Murrell. Wm. fjapier, Wayne Nette, J. P. Newsom, W. H. Newton, Charles Nicholas, Louis C. Nichols, W. W. O'Hern, J. J. Jr. Odom, Henry E. Orien, W. Oroxco, Gregarlo Ortix, Vincente Pannell, Gary W. Parker, Clyde D. V. Parker, J. W. Parker, W. Paron, Robert AParris, J. L. Parris, J. L. Parsons, Frank E. Palin, Luthsr J, Patingo, Udie A. Patingo, Eddie A. Patingo, Eddie A. PaMerson, Harris H. Pedraia, F. M. Peli, George R, Perdi, Espar Peredne, Francis Pierce, C. Pierce, Grafton J. PiMs, H. G. Polkington, J. T. Pollanen, Veikko Polley, James R. Ponson, John Pontiff, J. F. Post, Jack W. PotorskI, R. Potorski, R, Prater, J. H. Prater, James E. Prater, T. W. Praytor, James F. Prudhomme, J. H. Puras, Ernest E. Purvis, Robert W. Quasada, R. N. Raynal, R. Raynol, R. Raynor, O. M. Reed, P. Reinecke, Richard W. Revette, J. DRevili, J. C. Reyes, Aurelis Rhea, H. P. Rhew, L. W. Rhew, Lawrence Richie. Thomas Ricord, F. M. Jr. Ringler, David R. Rivill, J. C. Robb, Wesley P. Robertson, I. Robertson, L. D. Robinson, John T. Robinson, P. L. Robinson, Prather L. Roche, William T. Rosario, Efrain Rossi. Robert Rourke, R. O. Ruix, Genaro Saenx, J. Saanx, Jesse Sahuque, E P. Saik, Joachin D. Sanchex, J. N. Sanchex, Jay Sanders, U. H. Jr. Sanders, U., Jr. Saucier, H. L. Saunders, R. L. Schaefer, Wm. C. T. Scheidel, J. W. Scheidei, Julius W. Schug, Wilbur H. Schutx, Frank ScoH, Mason R. Scruggs, Thomas G. Sepulvado, Larry B. Serio, S. Seymour, A. Agemy Name Amount Lekiviti, Alfred 4.84 Leon, A. 4.18 Lewkkei, L. 20.71 Lines, T. O. .50 Lockerman, W. .52 Loncxynski, Herbert 13.70 Long, Horace C., Jr. 6.21 Longo, Perry W. 81.34 Lyons, A. 2.25 Maccoline, H. W. 40.18 MacDonaid, Samuel M. 8.44 Markin, P. J., Jr. 7.15 Mathews, T. J. 27.87 Maxwell, K. J. 1.07 McGlove, F. S. 3.01 McCay, Wm. 5.47 McClintic, William R. 10.87 McDougall, L. 13.75 McHale, Martin 5.71 McLain, J. 2.32 McLemore, John 7.30 Mendoxa, Ernest 18.53 Messerail, Bobby L. 4.04 Miller, C. E. IB8.32 Montgomery, D. R. 18.03 Moreland, Dennis 18.85 Morse, William E. 15.07 Morse, William E. 17.17 Murrell, W. 21.77 Myers, Jake 22.37 Heathery, Emmett E. 24.07 Heathery, Emmett E. 12.38 Nelson, Arthur J. 2.87 Nelson, W. A. 33.44 Nelson, Wayne O. 7.75 Neris, Johnson 5.30 New, David E 30.20 Nolan, U. E 7.31 Norton, Alexander R. 12.38 Ckuhara, Sosel 48.33 Ortix, William O. 34-33 O'Sulllvon, R. P. ' 2.17 Amount J-'S •.» 'J.J* 4.21 4.27 ••21 .87 I.tt 27.11 2.87 15.88 3.38 8.00 8.22 7.07 10.25 14 24.28 12.84 4.04 7.84 7.08 7-20 1.87 4,« 1.00 1.58 10.88 7.21 4.04 8.51 2.18 8.17 8.08 7.72 38.35 3.35 4.06 8.21 1.55 5.01 18.40 27.40 7.44 28.27 1.84 10.32 345.48 12.43 12.47 7.15 1.75 1-00 14.13 2.85 2.85 4.73 3.83 2.08 1.28 22.88 7.83 8.50 8.51 2.14 18.64 8-05 14.84 17.44 5.72 7.83 7.70 14.85 14 00 18.06 2.15 8.88 2.02 8.17 7.35 10.30 4.72 3.10 7.25 3.27 4.27 77.53 4.71 8.22 3.73 2.51 7.14 1.43 1.83 8 07 8.07 i.74 45.15 4.01 4.71 3 73 7.05 — Amount Name Oswinkle, Wm. A. 2.25 Overton, R. R. .75 Owen, John A. 8.40 Owens, R. J. .44 Owens, Robert J. 5.50 Owens, Wm. 2.40 Pakras, B. 3.01 Parker, Anthony C. .87 Paschalson, G. J. 2.88 Pastrana, F. A. 20.68 Patino, J. 3.77 Pekarak, Frederick R. 12.12 Pereira, R. M. 7.14 Phillips, Harold L. 417.00 Phillips, Harold L. 500 00 Phillips, Harold L. 500.00 Piecxykoln, Frank 1.22 Pierce, Normond 7.31 Pimentel, R. F. 40.71 Pope, William 21.52 Potarsky, R. 2.78 Pritchett, R. C. 12.43 Ramon, Alvarex 21.17 5.47 Ray, Robert F. 18.03 Reynolds, F. L. Rios, J. 17.83 3.88 Robertson, Philip 21.27 Rodriguex, Galo Roney, J. S. 13.83 Russo, G. F. .44 Saberon, B. 3.78 Sablln, J. R. 15.33 Sampson, James L. 2.27 Sanders, E. B. 23.51 Sanders, Eugene B. 23.00 Saunders, O. H. 1.84 Saxen, J. 1.15 Saxen, J. • 5.83 Sconion, Charles T. 55.87 Scovel, Joseph 5.57 Selby, J. C. .75 Sen, 9. Name Amount Shafer, James R. 7.50 Shartxer, Corrie L. 81.73 Shell, B. R. 2,15 Siiva, M. 11.43 Skottene, Hans 8.21 Slay, J. A. 8.00 Smith, C. R. 2.85 Smith, Edward G. 3.55 Smith, Eugene 12.43 Smith, O. D. 2.85 Smith, P. R. 18.84 Smith, Robert D., Jr. 8.07 Snodgrass, Lee W. 8.07 Snodgrass, L. W. 4.04 Solano, Jose R. IIJ7 Sosa, J. C. 11.43 Sosa, Julio C. 8.57 Spencer R. O. 7-58 Spires, h. 2.51 Sporich, Michael 1.34 Stafford, Stephen A., Jr. 48.48 Stalnaker, Bernard 8.05 Stalsworth, B. R. 2.51 Steadman, H. O. 18.21 Steele, M. C. 2.85 Steller, Mitchell E 3.18 Stockman W. 3.74 Stockman W. W. 3.03 Stockman, W. W. 8.50 Sveum, L. O. 8.23 Syms, J. 24,70 Syms, Jack M. 8.17 Syms, Jack M. 15.83 Talbert, N. R. 2.85 Talley, C. A. 8.50 Tarrant, William J. 28.28 Tarrant, William J. 12.05 Thomas, Clay 4.04 Thomas, J. H. 3.88 Thomas, 5. R. 4.77 Thomas, W. Pye 1.43 Thomas, Wm. 14. 9.72 Thomason, John E., Jr, 8.21 Thompson, August F. 7.33 Thompson, Emmett 27.40 Thornton, Dodson 10,81 Timm, O1.43 Tobey, V. V., Jr. 2.14 Todd, B. G. 4.27 Todd, Billy G. 2.85 Todd, Raymond J. 10.81 Tolentino, A. M. 12.34 Torres, Stanley S. 27.14 Touro, Eddie A. 8.07 Travis, A. J. 4.27 Travis, Alexander J. 5.82 Travis, W. R. 7,23 Troncoso, Carlos 5.80 Troxclair, C. J. 2.85 Tucker, fhomas E, 27.40 Tulp, J., Jr. 1.73 Tulp, J., Jr. 3.73 Turner, M. A. 10.07 Vasquex, T. 2.74 Vasquex, Telesfaro 22.83 Veneiia. F. S„ Jr. 7.07 Vlaira, k. 3.73 Vigo, Jose J. A. 8.52 ViManueva, A. 8.73 Vincent, F. J. 4.03 Vlsser, Dirk 18.07 Walker, Prentiss 14.77 Walker, Prentiss 4.27 Walker, W.D. 12.43 Walker^ William J. 141.73 Weir, kari 8.38 Weir, William J. 27.40 Wails, Glenn M. 2.02 Wells, Walton E. 2-02 Wast, Henry A., Jr. 18.14 Whatiey, Herbert E. 7.58 Wheeler, O. 3.73 Wheller, Orien 15.13 While, K. C. 5.01 White, S. 17.53 Whitad, John B. 5.01 Wickiina, Paul V. 27.40 Wiemers, William F. 8.03 Will. Harold C. 3.28 Williams, D. R. 2.87 Williams. Kenneth D. 4.72 Wilson, D. M. 4.73 Wilson, James L. 45ii5 Wilson, Orie 3.03 Witska, Ronald 5.05 Wolverton, Frank D. 4.27 Wolverton, Frank D. 2J5 Workman, H. 0. 1.78 Wright, David A. 4.72 Young, John W. 11-87 Zapata, Carlos R. 14.05 Zetch, A. 8.57 Zimmar, John 35.81 $14,882.03 .75 Name Amount Shea, W. R. 4.28 Shimada, S. 11.55 Singleton, W. C. 3.82 Sinush, Edward P. 2.87 Smith, Edward R. 4J8 Smith, R. C. 22.45 Sommers, E. 21.14 Sterling, Claude E 1.00 Stierheim, M. P. 27.37 Suchocki, L. C. 3.32 Sunagawa, S. 13.77 Swindel, W., Jr. 5.42 Sxanto, Steve 4.71 Takamtne, C. 58.50 Takamine, Chosel 7.25 Takamine, Chosel . 47.33 Tate, W. 8.34 Throp, F. R. 1.18 Toler, Richard L. 37J1 Torres, Felipe 10.52 Triguero, G. 3.00 Trinidad, A. P. .01 Underwood, Donald C. 7.88 Underwood, Clifford 11.50 Usher, Stephen E. 7.82 Vailadares, John 14.40 Varona, R. B. 2.21 Vedrine, H. R. 2.02 Viliacruxes, L. E 28.71 Vossbrinck, Jonathan .57 Vossbrinck, J. H. 75.57 Wade, L. G. 1.81 Waggoner, James C. 12.42 Weed, M. F. 18.03 Wheatley, J. E, Jr. 1.13 Williams. D. S. 4.72 Windsheimer, M. 135.32 Wolf, L. .44 Wong, H. M. Woodell, Standish Young, J. R. 12.58 4.04 1.34 15,782.54 w �May, 1969 SEAFARERS Med Students Defy AMA; Ask Prepaid Health Care CHICAGO—Tradition was defied and precedents shat­ tered when the Student American Medical Association re­ solved in convention here that present health care systems are "inadequate to meet the needs of society." The medical students, long dominated by the American Medical Association, took a number of actions that ran coun­ ter to AMA policies. The student doctors, by a vote of 48-7, endorsed prepaid group practice—a growing form of service that the hierarchy of the AMA and some state medical societies have fought. The association, which met for four days of seminars, symposiums, luncheons and business sessions, had Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democratic candidate for Vice President last year as keynote speaker. Other speakers were former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Wilbur J. Cohen, Senator Fred Harris (D-Okla.); Adam Yarmolinsky of Harvard Law School, and columnist Max Lemer. The resolution on prepaid group practice noted that, whereas several examples of successful group practice exist in the United States, the student doctors should "support the concept ... as a model to increase the quality and quantity of health care delivery to all people." A resolution on fee for service was amended to provide, by a 32-21 vote, that SAMA "go on record as recognizing" that the fee-for-service concept is "not the only utilizable foundation for a system that is to provide the highest quality and availability of medical care possible." Another resolution was critical of the advertising practices of the drug industry, and acknowledged the right of students to refuse free gifts of doctors' bags and stethoscopes. LOG Five Additional Seafarers Upgraded Througli SlU Deck Officers School Gigantelli Deck officer's licenses have been awarded to five more Sea­ farers who have completed the course of study offered at the upgrading school sponsored by the SIU and the Associated Maritime Officers Union. These latest graduates bring to 50 the total of men who have earned a deck officer's license after at­ tending the school and passing their Coast Guard examina­ tions. The new graduates are Casimer Gigantelli, William Prip, Frank Janusz, Narch Krzyda and Roland St. Marie. Gigantelli was bom in Port Morris, New Jersey, and now makes his home in Dover, N.J. Brother Gigantelli now holds second mate's papers. He has been going to sea since 1944 except for a two-year hitch in Legislation Proposing Vser Tax' For Tugs and Towboats is Opposed WASHINGTON — Repre­ sentative James M. Hanley (DN.Y.) recently expressed strong opposition to proposed legisla­ tion which would levy a "user tax" on tugs and towboats oper­ ating on the nation's inland wa­ terways. The tax—in the form of a two-cent-a-gallon levy on the fuel used by most tugs and towboats — was proposed by the Nixon Administration in a special message to Congress in March. The Administration said that the tax—which would rise by steps to 10 cents a gallon in 1973—would produce $7 mil­ lion in federal revenue the first year. The Administration said the proposed levy was part of its effort to fight inflation. Speaking to a meeting spon­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department here, Hanley sharply disagreed, de­ claring that "far from fighting inflation," the user charges "ac­ tually would create new infla­ tionary pressures." The New York Congressman contended that the tax levy would raise the cost of moving petroleum and petroleum prod­ ucts, which constitute 82 per­ cent of the commerce moving on the inland waterways, and that the levy would boost up the transportation cost of coal "by two-thirds." Since most of the coal moving on the waterways is used to generate electricity, Hanley said, this would raise electric prices to consumers. Hanley said that the plan to tax movement of goods on the nation's lakes, rivers and canals —which form an interconnect­ ed, 25,000-mile transportation network — would mean a de­ parture from the country's "twocenturies-old policy of free nav­ igation of our inland water­ ways." This principle, he said, was laid down in the Northwest Ordinance in 1787, and has sur­ vived to the present time. Opposition Non-Paitisan He stressed' that his opposi­ tion was not a "partisan issue," noting that he had opposed sim­ ilar proposals sent to Congress by the Johnson Administration. "My quarrel is not over who proposed to levy taxes on the users of our inland waterways," he declared, "my quarrel is over the proposal, itself." The New York Congressman also registered opposition to a move by the Interstate Com­ merce Commission to limit the number of commodities that can be carried on a single tow of barges. A law enacted in 1939 sets a limit on these commodi­ ties in terms of the number of different goods that can be car­ ried on one vessel. The defici­ ency in the 30-year-old legisla­ tion, Hanley said, is that "in­ stead of classifying each barge as an individual vessel, the law lumped the whole fleet of barges in a single tow under the single heading of a 'vessel.'" Tlie law had no great impact at the time, he went on, because Page Thirteen Jannsi the U.S. Army during the Ko­ rean War. He joined the SIU in 1944 in the Port of New York. Prip is a native of Denmark who now lives with his wife, Shigeko, in Sasebo, Japan. Brother Prip had sailed as AB on Danish-flag vessels before coming to the United States and joining the SIU in the Port of Seattle in 1958. He is also a newly-licensed second mate. Brother Prip's last ship was the Overseas Horace. Brother Janusz was bom in Ohio and now makes his home in Mexico with his wife, Hilda. The newly-licensed third mate has been going to sea for the past 13 years. His last ship was The Cabins. Janusz, who joined the SIU in the Port of New York, has a son, Richard. Krzywda, another newlylicensed third mate, was bora in Ohio, and lives in Cleveland. He has been sailing for more than 20 years, and joined the SIU in Tampa in 1949. He last shipped as AB aboard the Beauregard. Seafarer Krzywda served with the U.S. Army for three years during World War II. St. Marie is a native of Con­ necticut who now lives there in North Grosvenordale. He has been going to sea for the past 17 years. St. Marie served three years with the U.S. Navy during in 1939 the average tow was made up of no more than six or eight barges. Since that time, technological adv^ances in terms of greater tug propulsion has made possible "a string of 40 or more barges in the same tow." As a result, Hanley said, appli­ cation of the law today would "cripple" the industry and "turn the clock back to 1939." He said that the ICC has agreed to suspend enforcement of the rule until July 1 to give Congress an opportunity to NAIROBI, Kenya—Students "clear up the language in that 1939 legislation." Hanley said who come form all parts of East he strongly supported corrective Africa to attend Kenya Poly­ legislation. technic School will soon be able to learn lithography, thanks to the African-American Labor Center. It has agreed to develop, equip and operate a new litho­ graphic training section at the CHARLOTTE, N. €.—The school's printing department at Fire Fighters moved swiftly after a cost of more than $60,000. a successful court battle and re­ Later, the section will be turned instated its Charlotte local in a over to Kenya's government, ceremony conducted by lAFF which is pledged to continue to President William H. McClen- equip and operate it. nan. The section will fill a void McClennan installed acting since there are no other litho­ officers of the local less than a week after a panel of federal graphic training facilities in judges overturned a 10-year-old East Africa. Students wanting North Carolina statute barring to learn the craft have to travel police add fire fighters from un­ to Europe or the United States. ion membership. The local be­ Two labor organizations here, gan operations after a whirlwind the Federation of Master Print­ organizing campaign that gave ers and the Printing and Kindred it a membership that includes Trades Union, will be consulted more than 80 percent of Char­ on development of the project lotte's fire fighters. to give their members the fullest St. Marie World War II. He joined the SIU in New York. The newlylicensed second mate last sailed aboard the Seatrain Delaware. The training program, oper­ ated under a reciprocal agree­ ment between the SIU and the Associated Maritime Officers Union, is the first of its type in the industry. Applicants can begin training at any time. The period of in^struction is geared to each stu­ dent's individual ability and knowledge, and his preparation for taking the examination. The training program—like the engineer's upgrading pro­ gram—was instituted in line with the SIU's objective of en­ couraging and assisting unli­ censed personnel to upgrade themselves. Seafarers can participate in the course of instruction at no cost to themselves. They will be provided with meals, lodging and subsistence payments of $110 a week while they are in training.. Deck department Seafarers who are interested in taking advantage of this training pro­ gram may apply at any SIU hall, write directly to SIU headquar­ ters at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or telephone the school at (212) 499-6600. Afro-American Labor Center Takes Lithography to Kenya Rre Fighters Regan Rights opportunity to take courses. Initial classes in lithography will be offered to students from the Nairobi area, with further expansion planned to accommo­ date students from rural areas. Night classes also are envisioned for workers now employed in printing. An agreement to provide the section was signed by Carl Schlesinger for AALC and Ken­ ya's Minister of Labor E. Mwendwa and Minister of Education J. G. Kiano, for the government. Schlesinger, of Typographical Union Local 6 in New York, is AALC's technical adviser for printing education. He will de­ velop the project here in cooper­ ation with Polytechnic's princi­ pal, A. N. Getao. Mwendwa and Kiano thanked the AALC for its financial aid to the project arid for helping Kenya's workers develop skills that will boost their standard of living and in turn strengthen the nation's economy. �Page FourteeB SEAFARERS May, 1969 LOG While Expansion Continues: SlU Sponsors Student Tour Of State Capitol in Albany , '.At .fi' r'rt-'-'-'J/V "< BROOKLYN "tklBANV Port of Jacksonville Tonnage Doubles In Ffve-Year Period JACKSONVILLE — A $35 eight miles from the open sea, million rebuilding program, now making it ideal for the container three-quarters completed here, business. The SlU-contracted is contributing to the rapid Sea-Land Service—a major con­ emergence of this port as one tainer shipper—operates at the of the leading ones of the South facility. Atlantic. The Authority's thinking is Following the takeover of the based on being a jump ahead of old municipal docks by the developments. This requires an­ Jacksonville Fort Authoiity in ticipating needs. "Our burgeon­ 1964, a complete revamping ing business demands that spe­ and modernization has brought cial arrangements be made for up-to-date equipment and a new the facilities before they are look to the entire area. As a re­ even finished," Rawls explained. sult, cargo tonnage has doubled When the new 160,000in less than five years. And this square-foot transit shed-ware­ is with containerization handling house was completed here re­ facilities just beginning to take cently, cargo began rolling into shape. the terminal for loading aboard Students at St. John the Evangelist school in Brooklyn are pictured as they prepared to depart on a tour a waiting ship even before the of the New York State Capitol sponsored by the SlU. With the group are SlU Welfare Director Al Bern­ Sees Foreign Trade Future stein, Sisters Margaret Donnell and Mary St. Alfred, and Mother Ann Stephanie of St. John's School. paint was dry. The Authority's managing di­ The Talleyrand Docks, which BROOKLYN—The SIU and were met in Albany by Sen­ the Assembly, as well as other rector, Dave Rawls, believes sponsored a tour of the New ator Ferrall and other legislative legislative offices. include a massive auto marshal­ York State Capitol in Albany representatives. The one-day "The democratic process can Jacksonville has a great future ling yard, will include a mile last month for 80 eighth-grade tour schedule included a visit to only perpetuate itself if the in the nation's foreign trade. of marginal wharf area ready students from the St. John the the chambers of the Senate and younger generation understands Convinced that the port would to handle all types of cargo by Evangelist School in Brooklyn. and becomes more involved in become the Southern terminus 1971. This tour, part of the SIU its operation," Senator Ferrall of the U.S. container movement Community Services Program, stated. "I believe that when a to Europe, the Caribbean islands 1968 Set Record is expected to be extended in youngster is actually taken to and South America, he set out During 1968—a banner year the future to other schools and where 'the action is,' his interest to design and finance a severalfor Jacksonville—over one mil­ communities. will definitely be enhanced. million-dollar container terminal lion tons of cargo passed through The program of SlU-spon"The Seafarers International on Blount Island—adjacent to sored visits to Albany is for the Union is to be commended for the existing terminal—while the the Talleyrand facilities. Over purpose of informing young peo­ undertaking this worthwhile ed­ the same period the port's stand­ ple how our laws are made, the ucational project for children in idea of containerization was still ing as the Southeast's center for union said, so that "they will our community," Ferrall added. largely a topic of conversation. imported automobiles was en­ be better prepared to act as vot­ When completed, the facility hanced by the handling of more In addition to furnishing all ers and as citizens. The SIU be­ necessary transportation, the will house stuffing and shipping than 60,000 units to be shipped lieves that children learn through SIU also provided box lunches sheds and have 11 acres of participation." for the students. Several teachers paved open storage, as well as inland. Last month's tour of the State and church representatives ac­ railway facilities. A high ca­ Overall, 1968 showed a 28 Legislature was developed with companied the youngsters on the pacity crane will be included to percent increase in import cargo, the cooperation of State Senator New York State Senator William tour. handle boxed freight. Almost a 16 percent rise in exports and William J. Ferrall, who repre­ J. Ferrall chats with the students Arrangements for the tour a gain of five percent in bulk sents Brooklyn's 22nd Senator­ on the steps of State Capitol. were made by the Seafarers with nine miles' of deepwater berths cargo. ial District, in which SIU Head­ At back are (l-r) James Rumolo, Father Dominic A. Sclafani, and 1,600 acres of marine asso­ Coffee remained the number quarters is located. Mike Kelleher and Vincent Aver- Pastor of St. John the Evange­ ciated industrial sites will also one import, reaching a high of Special buses provided by the sano. Jcimes Alaimo is behind Jo­ list Church at 250 21st Street, be added. Union left Brooklyn at 6:00 a.m. seph Datolo at Ferrall's right. Brooklyn. Blount Island is less than 132,000 tons. Courage, Love for ChilJren Shown In Seafarer Shaia's Career The recent retirement of Sea­ Army Terminal, Saigon, Viet­ ored by the army in a separate willingness to give of himself farer Fred Shaia brought to an nam, and to successfully repel citation. "above and beyond" what was end a sailing career in which enemy attacks on the port com­ Brother Shaia has shown normally expected. Brother Shaia distinguished him­ plex. Even though you were courage and humanity and the He led the crew of the Steel self in many ways and helped working under adverse and haz­ bring official commendable at­ ardous conditions you provided tention to the fine crews with the logistical requirements criti­ which he served on SlU-con- cally needed at that time. You tracted vessels. displayed an aura of compas­ A special letter of commen­ sion, humility and sincerity that dation was issued last January is unequalled, and will be re­ by the Department of the Army, membered and appreciated by Headquarters, 125th Transpor­ the military members serving in tation Command, to Shaia, who this Command during TET the was Chief Steward aboard the remainder of their lives. Steel Vendor (Isthmian Lines) "Your unselfishness, profes­ during the Tet offensive of 1968. sional competence, patriotism, The letter reads: and responsiveness to a very dif­ "By taking the initiative and ficult situation were in keeping volunteering to provide hot food with the highest traditions of the and other standard necessities commercial shipping industry of life to the military members ' and reflect great credit upon of the 125th Transportation yourself, your company, and the Command, they were able to ef­ United States of America." fectively discharge vital military The other Seafarers, Captain Spreading happiness to kids, Fred Shaia is shown at a Christmas party cargo from all commercial ves­ Jack Misner and the officers of he arranged aboard the Steel Surveyor for orphans in Korea. At right sels berthed at United States the Steel Vendor were also hon­ is an appreciative attendant from the BiduUgi orphanage at Pusan. Vendor in charitable activities over a period of years, including many on-board parties for or­ phans at Korean and Vietna­ mese ports. Early in 1968, Shaia and his fellow Seafarers entertained 35 children from a Saigon orphan­ age at a dockside Christmas party. The SIU crew donated money enough to buy toys, candy and gifts for about 60 children—sending extra goodies back to the orphanage. Some years ago, while sailing on the Steel Surveyor, Shaia arranged a Christmas party for 50 youngsters from the Bidulgi orphanage in Pusan, Korea. Another such institution, the Kwang Myung Orphanage and School for the Blind in Inchon, Korea, presented Shaia with a plaque in honor of his work which took special note of his "kindness and love of the blind children." *• * it ' �i. May, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG / . pc'' •> ' ' * ; <> - • : -V At left are first three trainee Lifeboat Classes at Piney Point. Front, frdm left: Tom Brooks, instr., Paul Cannon, Dick O'Brien, Chas. Pearce, John Boozer, Steve Schaefer, Donald Yeagley, Roger Dent. Second row: Chas. Wodack, " Doyle Frost, Thos. Weymouth, Edgar Ruark, Jr., Wm. Olison, Jim White, Art Shayewitz, Eric Fasske. Back: Chas. Tilton, Chas. Burripers, Clinton Duke, Ronald Moored p [ijv. .. i:v: • ii;>^h-.I''.-•|'^ ;. i .:--i, "I; / m'ii PINEY POINT, Md. — T^e Founded in 1953, the Harry SILTs Harry Lundeberg School . Lundeberg School of Seaman­ of Seamanship here has initiated ship has made it possible for full-scale lifeboat training for many thousands of young men all trainees. Six complete classes to start carers that combine have thus far successfully quali­ excellent pay with travel, ad­ fied for the U.S. Coast Guard venture and advancement. Lifeboat Certificate. The school offers a compre­ Before a lifeboatman's certifi­ hensive eight-week course m the cate may be granted, the appli­ basic elements of seamanship to cant must prove to the satisfac­ young men between the ages of tion of the Coast Guard—^by 16 and 21. Graduates are eligi­ oral or written examination and ble for jobs in the deck, engine by actual demonstration—that: and steward departments of he has been trained in all the ships under contract to the SIU. operations connected with the Following graduation, the train­ launching of lifeboats and life- ee is eligible—after a prescribed rafts and the use of oars and period at sea—to return to the sails; he is acquainted with the school for short, intensive up­ practical handling of boats them­ grading courses which qualify selves; and, he is capable of him for jobs with greater respon­ taking command of a boat's sibility and better pay. crew. Located near the mouth of the Under Coast Guard regula­ Potomac River in southern tions the oral or written exami­ Maryland, the SIU's Lundeberg nations are conducted only in School is a modem, completely the English language and consist of questions regarding: lifeboats equipped training facility for and liferafts, the names of their young men interested in jobs at essential parts, anj^ a description sea. Trainees live in modem, air of the required equipment; the clearing away, swinging out, and conditioned cottages and eat in lowering of lifeboats and life- an attractive, spacious dining rafts, the handing of lifeboats room; In addition to the basic under oars and sails—including training received, they have ex­ questions relative to the proper cellent recreation facilities. The handling of a boat in a heavy physical education program, un­ sea; and finally, the operation der the direction of former U.S. and functions of commonly used Olympic Boxing Coach, Robert "Pappy" Gault, has been praised types of davits. The practical examination as a model one. consists of a demonstration of Young men, interested in this the applicant's ability to carry unique career opportunity, out the orders incident to should write to the Harry launching lifeboats, and the use Lundeberg School of Seaman­ of the boat's sail, and to row. ship, Piney Point, Md. 20674. l^oberf - L ::m I "®oc/gg Q.. ' cdward Ck xr / '7/ ^lobro. /? I TL.. '""o. R kr L °''c''-eau)f c - brooks C ^ . . . :,, ^ ^carboroug/;.^ .y • .• -vv,-; ]. ' VvJ �Page Sixteen SEAFARERS May, 1969 LOG A Special Message #o Seafarers and Their Families an i i liii' 1 # COST OF DRUGS For years the SIU has been helping Seafarers and their families to meet the mounting problem of med­ ical and hospital costs through the benefits provided by the Seafarers' Welfare Plan. One area, however, continues to pose problems for everyone, including Seafarers. This area is that of prescription drugs, on which Americans spend bil­ lions of dollars each year. Much of this cost is un­ necessary. The problem is this: When a patient goes to a doctor and his condition requires medicine, he is given a prescription to be filled at his local drugstore. When the doctor writes up the prescription, he has two choices, and this is where the problem of high costs lies. The doctor can either prescribe the necessary med­ icine by its chemical name—sometimes known as its "generic" name—or he can prescribe the same med­ icine by the brand name placed on it by the drug manufacturer. The only difference between the drug by its chem­ ical name and the same drug by its brand name is in the cost to the patient. The brand name medicine can run from ten to several hundred percent higher. What happens is that the drug company makes the patient pay for all of the company's advertising, pro­ motion, and higher rates of profit. !i •; : i:' t Once the doctor prescribes medicine by its brand name, the druggist can't substitute the same medicine under its less expensive chemical name. This is be­ cause most states prohibit such substitutions by law. How can we overcome this problem? We can do so by asking the doctor to prescribe medicines for us by their chemical (or "generic") names. Or we can ask the doctor to authorize the druggist to fill the prescription with the lovrest cost suitable chemical equivalent. Thus we must educate the physician in order to help ourselves. This will mean a direct saving to you and your family. To help in this education process, the SIU's Welfare Department has prepared the fol­ lowing list of some of the more commonly used med­ icines prescribed by physicians. As you can see, there are considerable differences in the prices be­ tween the brand names and their chemical equiva­ lents. If Seafarers or their families are using any pre­ scription drugs not included in this list—and if the attending doctor does not know the name of the equivalent drug—write to the SIU Welfare Depart^ ment, at SIU Headquarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232, and the information will be obtained for you. "T' Chemical or Generic Name Quanti+y Brand Name Price Chemical Name Price Brand Name Achromycin 250 mg. Tetracycline Hydro­ chloride 16 $ 3.00 $ 1.50 Nocteo—71/2 gr. Achromycin V 250 mg. Tetracycline Hydro chloride 16 3.00 1.50 Butisol Sodium I/2 gr. Butabarbital Sodium 100 3.45 1.50 Chloromycetin 250 mg. Chloramphenicol 16 4.80 1.50 Chlor-Trimeton 4 mg. Chlorpheniramine Maleate 100 4.05 1.25 Cort-Dome Cream Hydrocortisone ! oz. 3.75 1.50 Crystodigin .1 mg. Digitoxin 100 1.30 .75 Peritrate 20 mg. Decadron .75 mg. Dexamethasone 100 24.20 10.40 Polycillin 250 mg. Delta Dome Prednisone 100 8.35 2.40 Dexamyl Spansules #2 Dextroamphetamine Sulphate/Amobarbital 50 7.20 1.80 Dexedrine Spansules #2 Destroa m pheta mine Sulphate 50 6.85 1.55 Digifortis Digitalis 100 2.15 .75 Dilantin i'/2 gr. Diphenylhydantoin 100 2.05 1.20 Elixophytlin Theophylline 16 oz. 4.00 2.20 Isopto-Carpine 2% Pilocarpine 15 cc 1.90 1.40 Lanoxin .25 mg. Digoxin 100 2.00 1.25 Luminal '74 gr. Phenobarbital 200 I.IO .75 Mandelamine 500 mg. Methenamine Mandelate 100 5.85 2.00 Trasentine Adiphenine Equanil—400 mg. Meprobamate 50 5.75 2.95 Vioform HydroCortisone—3% Hydrocortisone, lodochlorhydroxyquin Brand Name Cuantity Brand Name Price Chemical Name Price Chloral Hydrate 100 $ 7.00 Mebaral 1/2 gr. Mephobarbital 100 1.65 $ 3.00 1.10 Metandren 10 mg. Methyltestosterone 100 14.25 1.20 Nembutal 11/2 gr. Sodium Pentobarbital 100 3.60 1.80 Chemical or Generic Name • l/2%-l 02. Pentids 400 Penicillin S. Potassium Pentritoi 30 m. Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate Potassium Phenoxymethyl Penicillin Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate Ampicillin Pen-Vee-K 250 mg. 20 1.80 1.00 100 11.00 3.10 36 6.40 4.35 100 6.25 1.00 24 9.20 7.40 f •> ^ f • tP Premarin 1.25 mg. Conjugated Estrogens Equine 100 10.00 4.75 Purodigin .1 mg. Digitoxin 100 1.50 .75 Pyribenzamine 50 mg. 100 4.65 1.90 Raudixin 100 mg. Tripelennamine Hydro­ chloride Rauwolfia Serpentina 100 8.55 1.50 Seconal Sodium II/2 gr. Secobarbital 100 3.60 1.80 Serpasil .25 mg. Reserpine 100 7.50 .75 Teldrin 12 mg. Chlorpheniramine Maleate Tetracycline Hydro­ chloride 50 4.60 2.00 16 1.80 1.50 100 5.40 20 gm 5.25 1.95 Tetracyn 250 mg. 1.90 �M«y, 1969 SEAFARERS ^QOK^y/eMs A FIGHTING EDITOR by William T. Evjue (875 pages— $5.95) For over fifty years, through the pages of the Madison, Wiscon­ sin Capital Times, William Evjue has taken on the forces of eco­ nomic stagnation and the concentration of wealth. He has fought the evils of mass hysteria. The success of his efforts may well be measured by the long list of uncomplimentary names tagged on him. Evjue has been called everything from a "Communist" to a "watch fob editor." Attacks have ranged from a group of house­ wives decked out in Red Cross uniforms to Senator Joe McCarthy, who parlayed American mass hysteria into a successful political formula. The author follows a loose chronological order through the 800-plus pages, with frequent tangents of sudden recollection. The reader not interested in local Wisconsin politics can quickly pass to the meatier portions. One is treated to personal recollections of such men as "Fight­ ing Bob ' LaFollette, the bathtub Kohlers—^o well known in labor relations—architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Senator Gaylord Nelson, and others. During the mass hysteria of the McCarthy era, Evjue and Capital Times stood for reason and fair play. There was another time and another era of hysteria when Capital Times almost fell victim to an advertiser's boycott. Evjue withstood the pressure and has this to say about adver­ tising: "One of the most distressing problems faced by the news­ paper publisher and editor is the pressure of advertising and the threats made by advertisers to withdraw their advertising because they disagree with the editorial content or the news stories con­ cerning their products carried in a newspaper." For over a half century, William Evjue has withstood the pressures from advertisers. He has been guided by the slogan: "Let the people have the truth, and the freedom to discuss it, and all will go well." At 85, Evjue is still "A Fighting Editor." The book may be ordered directly from the author at The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin. * * * CLASS, RACE, AND LABOR by John C. Leggett (Oxford— 250 pages, $7.50) In this book Professor Leggett sounds a warning to the big industrial unions: To go beyond the central bargaining table where only the big issues such as wages are hammered out. Unions must do more than give lip service to such problems as rent prices, living conditions, rat control, streets and the countless other neighborhood problems. Leggett draws his conclusions from a series of interviews with workers in Detroit. The research for this book was made some eight years ago and it is interesting to note one can read signs of crisis over the horizon from the statements of workers. The author predicts the more militant forms of class con­ sciousness will be the strongest where "marginal members of the labor force have forged plant and/or neighborhood organizations" in those communities where there is a history of class struggle. An example is United Farm Workers attempting to organize unions in the fields of California and Texas. It will do well to study the structure of these unions and the services they seek to perform. : LABOR ROU'ND-UP Vice President Howard D. cal. The State Federation has an Samuel of the Clothing Workers anti-trust action pending agziinst has been appointed by Secretary rating bureau companies in of Labor George P. Shultz as a Ohio. They think their study member of the National Man­ will show that the union could power Advisory Committee. offer insurance for as much as The ten-member committee— 30 percent less than rates composed of representatives of charged by private companies. • • • labor, management, agriculture, The Clothing Workers paid education, training and the pub­ final tribute to Milton Fried, lic—was set up in 1962 under ACWA research director for 15 the Manpower Development years, at memorial services in and Training Act and advises New York. His services, in help­ the Secretary of Labor on his ing build an "enormously use­ administration of that law. ful" research department, and * <K * his other qualities were cited by The Ohio AFL-CIO is exam­ ACWA President Jacob Potofining a plan to sell collision and sky in a funeral eulogy. Fried, liability auto coverage to its 53, died of a heart ailment members. An actuarial study at the Bethesda, Md., hospital will be made to see if an insur­ of the National Institutes of ance operation would be practi­ Health. LOG Page Seventeen Lock-Out! NEAREST USPHS IN-PATIENT FACIUTIES In the name of economy, the Washington bureaucrats are again striking out at the United States Public Health Service—^this time at the in-patient services at the USPHS hospital in Detroit. The April 2 directive to close down these facilities so vital to Seafarers, as of July 1, is spawned from a long line of unconscionable directives sup­ posedly aimed at saving money—regardless of the effect on human need or social resources. The SIU and shocked members of Congress share a firm determination that this blow, so destructive to Seafarers and others in the Great Lakes area, must be averted. And for good reason. Merchant seamen have special health problems. They are—by virtue of their work—transients. Their stay in any port is limited. Ship schedules are flexible and uncertain. They may be at sea for long periods. They must meet rigid physical requirements of fitness for duty before being allowed to ship out. For all these reasons they require efficient and adequate hospital care that is immediately accessible in reasonably convenient ports. These unique needs common to seamen, recognized generations ago, were a prime reason for the establishm.ent of the USPHS in the first place. From their inception, the hospitals maintained by this service have offered quality care and have earned the enthusiastic appreciation of the men they served. None of this has changed. The need for these strategically located facil­ ities is greater than ever, particularly in view of the fact that the closing of similar facilities at Chicago and Memphis four years ago left Detroit's the only inland USPHS hospital left in existence and the sole remaining source of in-patient services in the Great Lakes area. The reasons given for the closing order—that the in-patient facilities in Detroit are not fully utilized on the one hand and the hospital is too small on the other—are difficult to comprehend. Any claim by the government that savings will result is unreal in view of the fact that seamen are guaranteed hospital services by law and that USPHS costs per day are about half of the costs in other hospitals. What makes the situation all the more serious, however, is the fact that there just isn't any other place in the Lakes area for seamen to turn. The available VA hospitals and public hospitals are unequal to the task. The only alternatives are the USPHS facilities located in distant Staten Island, N.Y., or Baltimore. There is only one answer to this latest crisis faced by the USPHS. The De­ troit facilities must be maintained. Nothing else makes sense. �Page EightM SEAFARERS May, 1969 LOG VOYASER SAILS AGAIN If was sign-on time aboar^ the Alcoa Voyager at the Army termi­ nal In Bayonne, New Jersey, as the C-2 vessel was being loaded for a run to U.S, military si/pply ports In northern Europe* Commis- Bob Stev/arb Louis Uben! Democrat Wins Laird's Seat Threap Upset Victory in Wisconsin WAUSAU, Wis. —A 30- and a scattering of industrial year-old Democratic liberal has enclaves. won an upset victory in a special He captured the seat long Wisconsin congressional elec­ held by Melvin R. Laird, who tion which his Republican op­ resigned to become Secretary of ponent had labeled a referen­ Defense. Laird had been re­ dum on the Nixon Adminis- elected by a nearly 2-to-l mar­ ^. tration. gin last November. Obey de­ David R. Obey, backed by a feated Republican Walter J. coalition of labor and family ChUsen, 62,901 to 59,292. farmers, is the first Democrat Former Vice President Hu­ ever sent to Congress from the bert H. Humphrey campaigned 15-county 7th District—an area for Obey, making his first ma­ of dairy farming, paper mills jor political appearance since the presidential campaign. Sen­ ator Edward M.,Kennedy (DCouple Gets Drift— Mass.) made film clips for tele­ vision use in Obey's campaign. lO-Year-Old Mall Chilsen used television com­ WESTPORT, Wash.—It took 10 years for a letter "mailed" mercials showing himself with by a Norweigian seaman off Nixon and strong endorsements Japan to reach the U.S. West from Laird. He told the voters that election of Obey "would be Coast. It came via a bottle found by an insult to President Nixon and George Palmer and his wife a slap in the face to Mel Laird." while beachcombing near here On the national level. Obey, at Grays Harbor. hit hard at tax loopholes includ­ I Heavily encrusted with bar- ing the low taxation of capital K, nacles, the bottle was originally gains and the oil depletion al­ a container for Japanese liquor lowance. He also sharply at­ "Distilled by Otobukiy Limited, tacked the Republican gover­ Osaka," and was cast into the nor's proposal to increase in­ sea some 300 miles off the coast come taxes only on the first of Japan by Olaf Braaten of $14,000 of earnings, with no Oslo. The enclosed note bore hike in the higher brackets and the date "August 5, 1959." The no raise in corporate taxes. Palmers have answered BraaObey's support of private ten's message. dairy farmers and opposition to large corporate farms also won him substantially more support than a Democrat normally gets. 'Labor-Famiei* Support A "labor-farmer" rally for Obey at Wisconsin Springs two days before the election brought together the area's trade union movement, the Farmers Union and the National Farmers Orga­ nization. State AFL-CIO President John W. Schmitt was chairman of the rally. Speakers included national AFLA^IO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller, who is a former Wisconsin con­ gressman; A1 J. Hayes, retired president of the Machinists and a Wisconsin native, and Bronson LaFollette, who ran strong in the district as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate last No­ vember; It was 3 o'clock in the morn­ ing after Election Day before Obey's victory was confirmed. The newly-elected congress­ man could have celebrated or gone to bed. Instead he and his wife drove out to the Brokow paper mill and stood at the plant gate as the workers—^members of the Pulp-Sulphite union— came for the morning shift. The word from the new congress­ man: "Thanks for your sup­ port." there's going to be a lot of painting on this trip, according to AB Rafael Spiteri and O.S. Richard O'Brien, who are hard at work stocking the Voyagers paint locker with gallon after gallon as ship prepared for the Atlantic rtin. Challenger Wins Broad Support COPE Backs Bradley Over Yorty in Los Angeles Mayoralty Runoff LOS ANGELES — COPE delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed City Councilman Thomas Bradley's bid to be­ come the first Negro mayor in this, the nation's third largest city. COPE action assured Bradley broad-based labor support for the May 27 runoff against Sam Yorty, the incumbent. It also reflected widespread labor dissatisfaction with eight years of Yorty administration, including ineffective handling of the 18-month strike-lockout at the Hearst-owned Herald-Ex­ aminer. In an April 1 primary elec­ tion, when COPE made no en­ dorsement, Bradley pulled 42 percent of 718,678 ballots cast. Yorty got 26.5 percent, second highest in a field of seven. Sigmund Arywitz, county AFL-CIO executive secretary, called on union members to pour contributions and man­ power into the effort to elect Bradley. "Our feeling is that he is the best suited to meet the needs of this major metropolis," Arywitz said. He said the 51-year-old Bradley, first Negro elected to the City Council here, had the peacemaking potential to solve critical urban problems. All major independent labor bodies also have endorsed the Bradley candidacy. Arywitz said COPE would "take the facts" of the campaign tu union members. He told a news conference that racism, an issue raised by Yorty on pri­ mary election night, was "wholly spurious." "Los Angeles is tired of per­ sonalities and smears," Arywitz said. Yorty had accused Bradley of emphasizing race in his primary campaign to get votes. About 20 percent of the city's regis­ tered voters are Negro. A vote analysis published in the Los Angeles Times, how­ ever, indicated that predomi­ nantly white San Fernando Val­ ley, for example, a traditional Yorty stronghold, deserted him in the primary election. Bradley greeted the COPE endorsement with "delight" and said it "clearly shows that this will be a people's campaign." Theoretically, the mayoralty race is non-partisan. Both Brad­ ley and Yorty are registered Democrats, but Yorty supported Republican Richard Nixon for President in 1960 and was pretty much in Republican Ron­ ald Reagan's corner when he was elected governor in 1966. V s �-.-»x-.--> ^ •- vzamilm May, 1969 SEAFARERS .h Page Nineteen LOG Continued Support of UN Vital Goldberg Tells Union Leaders Labor must maintain a "deeprooted interest" in supporting and strengthening the United Nations as the best available instrument for securing peace, Arthur J. Goldberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, de­ clared in Washington. Helping to make the agency succeed, he told representatives of unions, he is in accord with labor's involvement in interna­ tional affairs going back to Sam Gompers, who led in founding the International Labor Organi­ zation. Goldberg spoke to about 50 union leaders who attended a luncheon meeting sponsored by CentralAmerkan East-West Canal Seen S-Year Job LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Even with the use of nuclear ex­ plosives, it could still take up to five years to construct a pro­ posed new sea-level canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across Central America. Such a canal could not be produced in one blast, but would require a series of detonations planted in leapfrog design, Mar­ vin Williamson, an Atomic En­ ergy Commission engineer in the division of peaceful nuclear ex­ plosives, told a symposium here. "Since the total excavation might require 300 or more ex­ plosives with a combined yield of 200 to 300 megatons," Wil­ liamson explained, "one would not propose to excavate the en­ tire length in one blast because logistics, safety and other con­ siderations could become un­ manageable.'' More than 200 delegates, in­ cluding three from Soviet bloc countries, attended the sym­ posium which was called to ex­ plore public health aspects in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. the United Nations Association of the USA, a non-partisan, privately supported organization to further peace and justice through the UN. Goldberg, chairman of the board of the association, and James B. Carey, its director of labor participation, appealed to unions to continue and increase their backing of the association. President I. W. Abel of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union De­ partment urged labor leaders to stimulate greater interest in the UN among union members. "We haven't taken as seriously as we should the work of the UN," he declared. His 'Strongest Resource' Goldberg who also served as Secretary of Labor and Supreme Court Justice, recalled his long prior career in the labor move­ ment. That experience, particu­ larly participation in collective bargaining conferences, "be­ came the strongest resource I had in serving in the United Nations," Goldberg said. There is too much a tendency for our government to use busi­ ness leaders as international ne­ gotiators when union partici­ pants in collective bargaining have an "ideal background" in this area, he added. Goldberg noted that AFLCIO President George Meany, Abel, President Louis Stulberg of the Ladies' Garment Workers and the late President George Harrison of the Railway Clerks have "all served with distinc­ tion" on U.S. delegations to the UN. He expressed the hope that the Nixon administration and future administrations will con­ tinue the policy of including la­ bor leaders on these delegations. The UN, he continued, is not a perfect instrument. But with all of its imperfections, Gold­ berg said, there is "no better choice" as a means of trying to bring peace and justice based on international law. Unclaimed Wages Held Open wages unclaimed during the period August 1, 1968, through January 31, 1969, are being held for the Seafarers listed below by the Robin Line Division of Moore-McCormack Lines. Those whose names appear are requested to contact Mr. F. L. Haggerty, Manager, Accounting Services, at the company's offices at 2 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10004. Adams, Thomas Anagnoston, A. Brockton, R. H. Brown, Albat Browning, Stevie J. Buie, Richard Butterworth, P. M. Byran, Haze Ervin Campfield, J. HI Carr, Melvln J. CaCmi, Daniel Chameco, Sixto Dtdiy, Lmry E. Edwwds, Harold J. Espinal, Ramon L. Fennel!, Arthur T. Gerganious, James Hubert, Joseph R. Kermarec, Leon H. Lamourieux, H. D. Mays, Richard F. Morrow, Jolm A. Nemo, Rob^ W. Pardue, Robert W. Savoie, Patrick J. Smith, James H. Steiiimetz, A. L. Thompson, Vernon Wilson^ Lmmle S. The decision is unanimous. Enthusiastic women in the United Fishermen's Wives Organization anx­ ious to boost the use of seafood products, all agree to proposal to "stress that all American fish­ ery products should be used in much greater amounts in schools, institutions and the armed services. New Bedford Women Map Attack On Problems of Fishing Industry NEW BEDFORD, Mass.— The old adage, "never underes­ timate the power of a woman," nicely sums up the philosophy of the newly-formed United Fishermen's Wives Organization in this East Coast fishing port. A majority of the women in the UFWO are married to fisher­ men who belong to the SIUNAaffiliated New Bedford Fisher­ men's Union, and the ladies are determined to help their hus­ bands by boosting the declining New Bedford fishing industry. The problems facing fisher­ men in New Bedford reflect the nation-wide crisis that has hit the domestic fishing industry, a crisis caused in part by overage vessels and gear, ever-increasing imports of foreign fish, and a drop in prices paid for domestic fish. Scallop Stocks Down The important scallop fishing industry in New Bedford is also being threatened by decreased stocks in Atlantic waters and, all along the Massachusetts coast, fishermen have experienced a marked decline in the supply of other species—such as haddock. The tremendous influx of im­ ported fish has created a situa­ tion whereby domestic fish is be­ ing pushed off the shelves in lo­ cal stores and supermarkets in New Bedford. This is also be­ coming a commonplace situation across the entire nation. In an effort to combat this crisis, fishermen and boat own­ ers recently formed the Commit­ tee to Preserve the New Bed­ ford Fishing Industry. Its chair­ man is SIUNA Vice President Austin Skinner, secretary-treas­ urer of the New Bedford Fisher­ men's Union. The wives of several fisher­ men also decided to join the fight and, near the end of Janu­ ary, the structure of their own organization began to take shape. Mrs. Janet Connors, whose husband, Eugene, skippers sev­ eral draggers out of New Bed­ ford, went to the piers, got the home numbers of the fishermen and began calling their wives about starting a group that would help the fishing industry. The women met during Feb­ ruary and early March, but the group really got off the drawing boards on March 21st when by­ laws were officially adopted and officers elected, making UFWO probably the first group of its kind on the East Coast. Dues-paying members already number nearly 100. During the formative meet­ ings held in the NBFU union hall—a historic building on North Water Street—the ques­ tion of eligibility for member­ ship in the new organization was settled by clarifying that fishermen's widows and the wives of retired fishermen were also eligible to join. The constitution, read by Mrs. Ann Mackay, established the name of the group as the United Fishermen's Wives Or­ ganization—a group whose purpose shall be "to improve, promote and encourage the pur­ chase of fish, scallops and sea­ food products harvested by the New Bedford fishing fleet." 10-Point Program Later included in the organi­ zation's by-laws were sugges­ tions made by Skinner, patterned after the program of National Fishermen and Wives, Inc., a West Coast group. In line with these suggestions, UFWO has gone on record in support of "limitations on fish imports, correct labelling of for­ eign fish products; ciutailment of foreign fleets off our shores; continued work with State and Federal pollution control groups," and "strict enforce­ ment of the 12-mile fishery limit." Also, UFWO will seek to "promote public relations; edu­ cate the American housewife to use more domestic fishery prod­ ucts; stress that American fish­ ery products be used in greater amounts in schools, institutions and the armed services; continue to work to upgrade the Ameri­ can fisherman and to protect his rights," and "urge the en­ actment of legislation beneficial to all fishermen." Relaxing With TV Joe Cook watches television, while waiting for the morning shipping call in New York hall. He , sails in the steward department. �Page Twenty SEAFARERS May, 1969 LOG At Graduation Exercises for 25th Class: AlFLD's Contribution to Social Progress Praised by Nixon WASHINGTON — The American Institute for Free Labor Development has made a valuable contribution to Latin America's social progress and economic improvement. Presi­ dent Nixon said in extending "warm congratulations" to grad­ uates of AlFLD's 25th training program, "We have a special interest," Nixon said in a message read to the graduates by AFL-CIO President George Meany, "in the welfare of the people who share this hemisphere with us and are currently seeking new initiatives to make our com­ bined efforts more effective." AIFLD, through its self-help projects in such fields as co­ operatives and housing, and through its educational work in support of the development of free democratic trade unions, has "played an important role by involving rank-and-file work­ ers in its activities," the message emphasized. Meany gave certificates of graduation to 28 union leaders from 15 Latin-American coun­ tries who spent six weeks study­ ing advanced collective bargain- AIFID Graduate Named Guyana Labor Minister GEORGETOWN, Guyana— Winslow Carrington, Guyana's recently appointed Minister of Labor and Social Security, is a graduate of an American Insti­ tute for Free Labor Develop­ ment training course. Carrington, who is president of Guyana's Transport Workers Union, was the valedictorian among English speaking mem­ bers who graduated from AlFLD's first course for Latin American union leaders in Washington in 1962. Midpoint Remains 2Z7\ r r "Americans have stopped getting younger," the Cen­ sus Bureau said in report­ ing that the median age of 27.7 years was unchanged between fiscal 1967 and 1968 for the first time in 15 years. The median age, mid­ point at which the popula­ tion divides equally, half younger and half older, reached a peak of 30.3 years in 1952 after steadily rising from 16.7 in 1920. The report said that 1.5 million Americans reached age 65 during fiscal 1968, up slightly from the previ­ ous year, and 3.8 million people became 21, up1 mil­ lion from the number reacliing that age in 1967. ing and related subjects at AlFLD's Front Royal, Virginia, Institute, and taking field study trips in Cueraavaca, Mexico; St. Louis, and New York. Responding to critics who be­ lieve Latin leaders should be trained on a govemmc^it-to-government and business-to-busi­ ness basis, Meany said "we don't buy that. It might be more comfortable that way, but there is no guarantee that the ensuing economic improvement would work its way down to the lowest rungs of the economic ladder." He added: '*A Lasting Impact" "I personally feel that, no matter what else happens in the Alliance for Progress, the pro­ gram of education offered by AIFLD will have a lasting im­ pact on the future of Latin America. We are going to con­ tinue this work." No nation can build prosper­ ity on low wages and inferior working conditions, Meany de­ clared. A country's wealth should be measured not by roads or great edifices but on the basis of social and economic conditions experienced by the great mass of its people, he told the class. The exercises were held in the AFL-CIO assembly room. Besides Meany, others partici­ pating were President Joseph A. Beime of the Communications Workers, AIFLD secretarytreasurer; and General Secre­ tary Arturo Jauregui of GRIT the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers. Orlando E. Bustos, organiz­ ing secretary for the Textile Workers' Union of Argentina, spoke for the graduates in ex­ pressing appreciation of the in­ stitute's work. Need is Worldwide Workers of the United States have "crossed national bound­ aries" in creating the institute, and "with generosity and altru­ ism have offered to those with­ out the same advantages the means of attaining effective edu­ cation and international expe­ rience," Bustos said. Work of this kind, he said, is needed in all parts of the world." Even in this hemi­ sphere, "innocent people are being struck down; overriding violence and repression still throttle those who clamor for social justice; humble people are still being punished for aspiring to live in a better world," he declared. Class members, Bustos said, have committed themselves for­ mally to "the fight to achieve the common good, and eradicate forever the phantoms which, in various forms, stalk America." Jauregui told the graduation dinner audience that while dic­ tatorships have spread in some Latin-American lands, they soon lose popular support be­ cause of their denial of freedom and democracy. The Latin labor movement has grown from a few to the point where free, democratic inter-American labor represents 28.5 million workers, "working together toward the same goal," he said. Class students were picked to take the course by fellow union­ ists in Argentina, Chile, Colom­ bia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uru­ guay and Venezuela. In seven years the AIFLD has trained more than 700 labor m' leaders in Front Royal; selected labor economists in advanced training at Loyola and George­ town universities, and more than 100,000 unionists at resident Orlando E. Bustos, left, of the Argentina Textile Workers Union, centers and regional seminars in receives certificate at exercises climaxing 25th AIFLD program from AFL-CIO President George Meany, who is also AIFLD president. Central and South America. mm Private Watchdog Group Charges; Job Blacklisting Service Operated By [xtremist Right Xhurch League' The right-wing Church League of America has been charged with operating a "black­ listing business" that gives em­ ployers a secret check into the background of job applicants. The charge was made by the Institute for American Democ­ racy (IAD), a non-profit orga­ nization which exposes extrem­ ists on both the left and right. Its board includes leaders in la­ bor, religion, business and gov­ ernment. Details of the blacklisting service were explained by Charles R. Baker, IAD's execu­ tive secretary, in an article in the March issue of the organiza­ tion's newsletter, Homefront. This is how the setup works, based on letters and a flyer being sent to businessmen in the Chi­ cago, Philadelphia and New York areas. Baker said: For as little as $5 a head, prospective employers can get a check into what the Church League terms the "philosophy of life" of job-seekers. Ai^Iicant Defenseless The individual job applicant has no way of knowing about the check and there is no defense against wrong identification. Employers are told that for a $1,000 "donation," they can get checks on 50 names, with addi­ tional checks at $5 each. Even if they don't use the service, em­ ployers can write off the "dona­ tion" as a tax deductible contri­ bution, CLA says. Name checks are made against the Church League's ANVTIME-ANYMHIRE ^ MEANS NO MORE SHIPS files, which the organization claims "are the most reliable, comprehensive and complete, and second only to those of the FBI." According to Baker, the Church League has boasted that it has file cards of nearly three million persons, groups and pub­ lications "which serve the Com­ munist cause," and has claimed to have a working relationship with law enforcement groups. Prospective clients are sent a promotional letter warning that "our working forces include more than a few radicals, social­ ists, revolutionaries. Commu­ nists and troublemakers of all sorts." "Colleges and schools are ed­ ucating thousands more who will soon be seeking employment," the letter adds. The Church League points out that while employers can easily check the "educational and professional background" of job seekers, little is being done to learn their "philosophy of life," which is "of paramount importance." Baker identified the Church League of America as a rightwing group that provides a "li­ brary function" for a variety of other right-wing outfits. It lists Major Edgar Bundy as its exec­ utive secretary. The Church League's catalog. Baker nftted, features materials f^rom the John Birch Society and the Carl Mclntyre complex. Last winter, Bundy was a guest on Birch member Dean Manion's Radio and TV Forum. �[iiv.S- May, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty-One Wayne County AFL-CIO Adopts SIU Resolution DETROIT—The following Resolution, submitted by the SIU, Great Lakes District, was adopted by the Wayne County AFL-CIO Delegate Body at its recent meeting here. Resolutions Opposing Foreign Flag Passenger Operations on the Great Lakes WHEREAS, the Seafarers' International Union, Great Lakes District, AFL-CIO, has for many years represented, in collective bargaining, the unlicensed crewmembers em­ ployed by the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Lines on its Great Lakes vessels and still maintained the bargaining rights until the close of the navigation season in 1967 when the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Lines permanently curtailed operations due to Coast Guard restrictions, and WHEREAS, many of these said crewmembers no longer are able to continue their employment on the Great Lakes due to this curtailment of operations, and WHEREAS, the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Lines have now been purchased by the Arison Shipping Company of Miami, who operate vessels of the Norwegian-Caribbean Line between Miami and the West Indies under foreign flag operations, and WHEREAS, under such foreign flag operations this com­ pany operates under said foreign flag with foreign crews at substandard wages and substandard conditions, and without any legitimate collective bargaining agreement, and WHEREAS, said company operates its ships at substan­ dard levels not acceptable to the United States Coast Guard, and WHEREAS, many American citizens will use these ships at great danger to their personal safety due to the substan­ dard safety standards, and WHEREAS, said company operates without payment of any taxes to the American Government, and WHEREAS, said company now intends to extend its oper­ ations to the Great Lakes in 1970 by placing one of its vessels, namely the SS SUNWARD, under the same con­ ditions as its Coast operations with foreign crews and foreign flag conditions, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the Detroit and Wayne County AFLCIO take positive action to protest this foreign flag operation on the Great Lakes, and publicize this underhanded "fraud" to the entire American public and its public officials. U.S.-Freiich Labor Combme To Help African Unions Grow PARIS—American labor is proud to be allied with free French labor in helping the de­ veloping nations of Africa, an AFL-CIO representative told the tenth congress of Force Ouvriere (FO) here. Irving Brown, executive di­ rector of the African-American Labor Center, added, "It is common concern like this that unites Us as forces for freedom throughout the world." Brown spoke as the repre­ sentative of AFL-CIO President George Meany to delegates rep­ resenting LI million FO mem= hers. A democratic labor fed­ eration, FO was founded in 1948 with U.S. labor's help af­ ter Communist elements seized control of the General Confed­ eration of Workers (CGT). In the earliest years. Brown recalled, the federation pitched in with American unions and labor movements of other na­ tions to aid the reconstruction of Western Europe. Now, he pointed out, FO is contributing greatly in labor's efforts "to build the trade union movement in new nations, par­ ticularly in French - speaking Africa." "We have never wavered in our support of FO since its founding," Brown said. "For the history of your movement is the history of France, Western Eu­ rope and the entire free world ever since World War II." He said the cooperation of labor movements in industrial nations also is vital if free na­ tions are to resist communism and all forms of totalitarian ag­ gression. In this connection, he warned that efforts by the Communistcontrolled World Federation of Trade Unions to make inroads in industrialized and developing nations is "part of the Soviet government's offensive to stran­ gle the existing and emerging trade unions of the world." "Their objective," Brown said, "is not to improve but to exploit the low economic and social standards of workers in order to advance the power drive of the totalitarian powers." Brown expressed "fervent hope" that negotiations in Paris will lead to a peace in which the free trade union forces of South Vietnam "will not only survive but become the standard bearer of freedom for all Vietnam." The burning Formosan freighter Union Faith lights up the New Orleans skyline following a collision with oil-laden barges in the Mississippi River. Twenty-six men perished in the blazing waters. SlU-contracted tugs were credited with helping to avert a major disaster along the entire waterfront near Canal Street. Seafarer Gives On-Spof Account: Formosan Vessel, Oil Barges Collide Under New Orleans Bridge; 25 Dead On April 6, the Formosan freighter Union Faith and three fuel-laden barges collided in the Mississippi River under the Greater New Orleans Bridge, five blocks from famed Canal Street. In the explosion and fire that followed, 24 of the seamen on the freighter and a Missis­ sippi river pilot were lost. A major disaster along the en­ tire waterfront was narrowly averted by the prompt action of the city's fire department, SIUcontracted tugs of the Crescent Towing Co. and the Whiteman Towing Co., and the Seafarers aboard the Alcoa Master. AB Jacob Levin was a crewmember aboard the Alcoa Mas­ ter and, shortly after the colli­ sion, took part in getting the vessel safely away from the danger area. Here is Seafarer Levin's first-person account of what happened: It was a very quiet Sunday, and I was sitting in the French Market having a cup of coffee before returning to my ship to stand the midnight to 8 a.m. gangway watch. Suddenly there was a large explosion, and I guessed that a collision had taken place in the river. My first thought was to get back to the ship. When I got down there the whole river seemed to be a mass of flames. A Chinese freighter, the Union Faith, and a tow of three barges loaded with fuel oil had collided right under the Greater New Orleans Bridge. Mr. Nolan, the chie;f mate, -broke out everyone who was on board, including the cooks, a couple of firemen, an oiler and the chief electrician. Even a couple of Greek seamen who were nearby came aboard and volunteered their services. At first we thought we might have to abandon ship but the chief engineer had kept vacuum on the engine. A river pilot promptly came on board and we were able to quickly cast off all lines and get under way. We got away from the dock not a minute too soon, because one half of a burning barge drifted down to where we were tied up just after we had pulled away. Had we not gotten under way when we did, the Alcoa Master and the Bienville Street wharf would have burned. Our vessel was the only one in port to get away from the dock under her own power. The pilot swore it was a beautiful undocking, and said that he had never seen a bunch of men per­ form their duties so efficienfly. We passed the burning Union Faith. She was listing heavily and was a mass of flames from stem to stern. The pilot, cap­ tain and 24 of the Formosan ship's crew perished. And two of the 26 crewmembers who were rescued are still in the hospital. It was a very lucky thing that only one of the barges exploded in the collisioii. It is felt by some in the port that if all three barges had exploded, the entire port of New Orleans might have been a total loss. John Galbrmth Please contact Wynn Walker, attorney-at-law, 1780 Broad­ way, New York, New York 10019, as soon as possible. Baltimore, Maryland, as early as possible. <1> Wayman Lizotte Please write to your daugh­ ter, Patricia Ann Lizotte, in care of Rebecca Aquino, Little Tommy's Barber Shop, Agana, Guam. ^ Charlie Bums Please get in touch with W. A. Johnston, Box 93, Brundidge, Alabama 36010, as soon as possible. Nkk Mufin Please get in touch with George D. Edwards, Profession­ al Building, 6903 Dunmanway, Leroy William Bird You are requested to contact Krout & Schneider, Inc., 150 Mezzanine, 350 Sansome Street, San Francisco, California 94104, at your earliest con­ venience. 4/ Michael Bordelon Please contact your mother at her new address, 330 De Soto Avenue, Pineville, Louisiana 71360, as soon as possible. —— Ralph D. Shuman Your father is anxious to hear from you. Please contact him as soon as possible at 1564 Trona Way, San Jose, Cali­ fornia. L �SEAFARERS Page Twenty-Two TwO'Gallon Blood Donor Seafarer Arthur Sankovidt, center, has donated 19 pints of blood to the SlU Blood Bank. Congratulating him on achieving two-gallon mark in SlU's "Gallon Club" is Dr. Joseph Logue, SlU medical direc­ tor, and Nurse Sheryl Edel, RN. Brother Sankovidt, who sails as messman, says he likes to give blood "because it's a good way to help other Seafarers." Sankovidt's last ship was the Gateway City. • A' Want to know what is pushing prices up and holding back progress? The National Associa­ tion of Manufacturers would have Americans believe that it knows. It's a conspiracy between organized labor and the National Labor Rela­ tions Board, that's what. And the NAM thinks it knows what to do about this dreadful state of affairs. Change the labor laws—again. From the SIU hall in Norfolk comes word that the NAM is currently sending out a new broadside of anti-union propaganda to compa­ nies in that area. Included in the package is a handsomely designed booklet—loaded with the usual misstatements of fact and specious rea­ soning—and glumly predicting disaster unless labor laws are reformed "to restore the balance in labor-management relations." The companies are being urged to distribute the booklets to all of their employees so that "the man in the street" can know how organized labor and the NLRB are ganging up on him. The NAM has never been accused of champion­ ing the man in the street, so their new-found concern for him is not likely to be viewed with­ out suspicion. The thrust of NAM's argument is that the NLRB "has left a bewildering trail of decisions which frustrate the original intent of the law." Translated, this means that the NLRB has been too conscientious in protecting the rights and security of workers. Remember that both major amendments to the original Wagner Act—the Taft-Hartley Act and the Landrum-Griffin Act —were heartily endorsed by the NAM. The clear intent of those two amendments was to cripple the effectiveness of organized labor so, naturally, any frustration of that intent was bound to make the NAM mad. "The NLRB has been going too far," they complain in their booklet, and then they tick off some of their pet peeves. For instance, the NLRB told one company it couldn't try to in­ timidate its employees during an organizing drive by suggesting that a number of companies had to close down because they couldn't afford to provide union wages or working conditions. Why shouldn't a company have the right to scare its employees? Then, with their usual half-truth technique, they charge that the NLRB is keeping prices up because they won't let a company introduce May, 1969 LOG Kansas' RighMo-Workers'Stymied In Move to Assess Harsh Penalties TOPEKA, Kansas—A bill which threatened unions with harsh penalties under Kansas' 10-year-old "right-to-work" law has been killed by the veto of Governor Robert B. Docking (D). After Docking refused to sign the measure, vigorously opposed by labor, a move to override his veto failed in the state House of Representatives and the legisla­ ture adjourned shortly there­ after. The union shop ban was adopted as a constitutional amendment in 1958 but the state has never before acted on enabling legislation. Last year. Laborers Local 605 won a union shop contract at the Sunflower Ordnance Plant of Hercules, Inc. near De Soto, and Kansans for Right to Work focused on the pact in pressing for enabling legislation. They ignored the fact that the plant's management and the cost-reducing methods without first negotiating with their workers' union. What they aren't telling "the man in the street" is that the costreducing method they are talking about consists of throwing some of their workers out into the street and replacing them with machines. The NLRB ruled that the union has a right to protect the security of those workers and their families—but the NAM says "this is going too far." Then they go on to cite another horror story about how the NLRB made a firm bargain with the union because it shut down a factory that they said was losing money. "The resulting penalties make other companies reluctant to close in similar situations," groans the NAM. What they are really talking about here is the attempt of some companies to avoid pay­ ing decent wages by closing down an orga­ nized plant, and moving it to a "right-to-work" state or some other low-wage area. The "pen­ alties" they complain of include offering the workers jobs at the new plant at their present wages, and the cost of moving their families to the new factory site. "This is going too far," says the NAM. So, despite the fancy new packaging of this latest NAM attack on organized labor, inside are the same old tired arguments. They piously assert that all they want is to restore the bal­ ance in labor-management relations, but their actions clearly indicate a nostalgia for the good old days when management could do as it damned well pleased without regard for the hardship it caused to its workers and their families. One footnote to illustrate the double-talk that is typical of the NAM as well as other antilabor organizations. The NLRB recently ruled that the notorious I. P. Stevens Company had to provide the Textile Workers Union with the names and addresses of its employees so that the union could inform the workers of the issues involved in the organizing drive at Stev­ en's plants. "This is going too far," says the NAM. But then you read the letter the NAM is sending to company owners along with their brand-new pamphlets. It says: "Why not dis­ tribute a copy of this booklet to each of your employees by direct, mail to their homes. . . ." Who do they think they're kidding? local agreed to the contract on the basis that the plant was on federal property and was thus under federal, not state, juris­ diction. Another factor in the "rightto-work" push was that the 1968 election gave conservative Republicans strong control of the legislature even though Docking was re-elected. ibility, but also in defined legal purpose." He noted the discrepancy be­ tween the proponents' conten­ tion that the bill would apply to Sunflower—a federal installa­ tion—and the attorney general's opinion that it would not. Since the entire case for the legislation was based on the Sun­ flower situation and there has never been another contention Penahies Outlined of violation of the constitutional The bill introduced in the leg­ amendment. Docking said, the islature would have spelled out bill was "unnecessary." the union shop ban and imposed Further, he cited the penal­ fines of $500 or six-month jail ties, uniform for employers and sentences against violators. unions, as being "discrimina­ The "right-to-work" forces tory" since they would fall most claimed that the measure would heavily upon unions and work­ force "an open shop agreement" ers. "For these reasons," he de­ at the Sunflower plant even though an opinion from state clared, "I find this bill—if it Attorney General Kent Frizzell were to become law—would be (R) said it would not apply to lacking in legal purpose, highly discriminatory, and disruptive of Sunflower. good labor-management rela­ The measure was swept through the House, 76 to 40, tions." To sign it, he added, would and the Senate, 27 to 10, with be to place "an albatross around the votes cast mainly along party the neck of management and lines—Republicans for and labor and industrial develop­ Democrats against. ment in Kansas for many Newspapers throughout the years." state drummed out a steady flow "The bill is negative, not con­ of editorials in support of the structive, and therefore, not in bill. Some suggested that Dock­ the public interest," he con­ ing wouldn't dare veto the cluded. measure. When the vote on overriding In a forthright message, how­ Docking was taken in the House ever, the governor pointed out the next day, the final tally was that "this is a proposal lacking 78-46—five votes short of the not only in philosophical cred­ margin needed to override. RTW Law Alienates Youth, Says N. Dakota's Governor BISMARCK, N.D.- -North Dakota is one of the few nonSouthern states which has a so-called "right to work" law and the governor of the state takes a dim view of it. In a message to the 41st Legislative Assembly, Governor William L. Guy, a Democrat, has called for repeal of "that law which now denies the majority of working people in the industry to contract with their employers for certain contract bargaining provisions." "Our State Right to Work law," he added, "has protected no one but is driving our youth from this state to states where they can have such protection." "We need to be concerned about wage levels and working conditions," the Governor said, "because our own youth are judging us in comparison to what is available to them outside our state." "North Dakota labor law has not adequately recognized the desirability of working people gathering together to take action to improve their lot. The industrial states have recog­ nized the rights of their working citizens." Guy declared that one of the "myths" that still prevails in some quarters in our state is that industry will seek to locate where substandard wages are paid and where working people are discouraged from organizing. "Nothing could be further from the truth. We have tried that philosophy for nearly 80 years of North Dakota's exist­ ence yet we still find ourselves the least industrialized state in the union. If low wages and weak labor laws protecting the rights of workers could attract industry, then we should be one of the most industrial of all states." It was on the basis of this that the governor recommended that "we start to rectify this oversight by repealing" the socalled "right to work" law\ He also urged the assembly to take action on the "unrealis­ tic" minimum wage laws. I �m May, 1969 SEAFARERS Trad Lorrane Neathery, bom September 6, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs, Emmett E. Neathery, Portsmouth, Va. Lisa Mathews, born Febru­ ary 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Qiarles R. Mathews, Nor­ folk, Virginia. <|> Donald King, bom Febmary 11, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald M. King, Seattle, Wash­ ington. La Dan Bonefont, bom Sep­ tember 16, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gabriel Bonefont, Jr., New York, N.Y. —— Mallsa Pitts, bom January 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Houston G. Pitts, New Orleans, La. Lori Ann Fell, born March 19, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William K. Feil, Jersey City, N.J. Joey Rodgers, bom Decem­ ber 13, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Riley C. Rodgers, Hombeck. La. Sandra Grove, born January 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leonard C. Grove, Shamokin, Pa. Clarence Ussin, bom Decem­ ber 29, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Ussin, Sr., Grosse Tete, La. Scot Wade Latour, bom Au­ gust 27, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles B. Latour, New Orleans, La. Kevin Cole, bom February 19, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ricky L. Cole, Gallipolis Ferry, W. Va. Richard Karl Stevens, born January 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Garry Lee Stevens, Erie, Pennsylvania. ^ \1> <1> Pension Roster Continues to Grow As 12 Additional Seafarers Retire The lengthening SIU pension roster has added the names of 12 more Seafarers who have retired after wrapping up long sailing careers. Roy Johnston is closing out a sailing career that spans 43 years. Brother Johnston was born 61 years ago in Canada, and now makes his home in Bal­ timore. He joined the SIU in Boston in 1938. His last ship was the Yorkmar, on which he sailed as FWT. Arnie Cobb is retiring to his native Andalusia, Alabama, with his wife, Maudie, after complet­ ing his long career at sea. Broth­ er Cobb joined the SIU in the Port of Galveston. Shipping as FOWT, his last vessel was the Del Norte. Stacy Lynn Goodwin, bom October 9, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Cole Goodwin, Baltimore, Md. i[ I 'I Martin their home in Galveston, Texas. He joined the SIU in Galveston in 1947. Brother Martin's last ship was the Steel Fabricator. Jack Chattin, who was bom in Alabama in 1904, has been going to sea for 44 years as a member of the engine depart­ ment. He plans to spend his re­ tirement in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Brother Chattin joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1949. Rated FOWT 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Miguel A. Nieves. Brooklyn, N.Y. Andrew DeFatta, born March 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul A. DeFatta. Jascm Scott Newman, bom Febmary 26, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Waymer E. Newman, Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Scott Wayne McKeehan, born November 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wayne McKeehan, Madisonville, Tennessee. Lawrence Dugas, born Janu­ ary 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lawrence J. Dugas, Houma, Louisiana. Rohrat Miller, bom Decem­ ber 7, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Louis Miller, Tampa, Florida. no BIS- G BAY (Moore-McCormack), April 6—Chairman, Ralph pug; Secretary, David Velandra, Gacn man asked to coniribuie 11.60 to build up ship's fund. Dis-^ juasion held regarding repairs which iiave not been taken care of; Chief Engineer to be contacted regarding same. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory Carriers), March 23—^ Chairman, A; H. Reasko; Sserctsry; rk.^ AX. Awcboxkv* xev wcir ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well 'done.. Chattin Johnston Cobb Frank Gavin, who held both AB and FOWT ratings, is re­ tiring after 31 years at sea. The long-time Seafarer joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He was born in Califomia in 1911. Brother Galvin's last ves­ sel was the Potomac. Joseph Martin, 66, has spent more than 26 years at sea as a member of the steward depart­ ment. Born in Louisiana, Broth­ er Martin will spend his retire­ ment with his wife, Louella, at CORTEZ (Cortez Steamsbip Co.),A^ril 13—Chairman, John Lyons;! u^rc reported by department deie-yj ates. Some disputed OT in steward/ epartment. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well /•done., f DEL SUD (Delta), March 30— PETER REI8S (Reias), April 10— Chairman, Ed Uelaney; Secretary; :./Chairffian,, Secre-/;; liana Spiegel. Brother Spiegel was tary, GeorgeGeorge;:,Sbislds,;: Bbdkih; Elected; Jackie! elected to serve as ship's delegate. Mashriih, deck George^ No beefs were reported by departr Shields, engine delegate; delegate; Albert;/ •menr delegates;: Bain, steward delegate. Men would /like to be paidj on / ship at the end; of each pay period. ®COLinMBrA TIGER {Columbia), March 13—-Chairman, T. J. Heg» rarty; Secretary, Rafael Hernandezi DEL MAR (Delta), April 16— Srother M. W, Murphy was elected Chairman, James L. Tucker; SeotO'c to serve as ship's delegate. It wns taryi G. Chafin. Brother Ramon R./ suggested that the patrolman check ROque was elected to serve as ship'sft the stores as ship is short a few delegate. Vote of thanks to Brother/; terns; No beefs and ho disputed Juan A. G. Cruz, former ship^ dele-y OT. gate, for a job well done. $31.51 in movie fund and ^0.00 in ship's fund.! PECOS {Oriental Exporters), Vote of thanks to Brother James L;# arch 30—Chairman; John Thompts Tuck, movie director, for a job well ton; Secretary,:,: G.:.'':-®.:, 'Turheiv' done. Jrpther D. H. Ifcart was elected td GRETIIE (Motorship of DelapcrVe as ship's delegate. No beefs ware), April 6—Chairman, Bell ttd no disputed OT was reported Ailen; Secretary, D. Pase. No beefs : ERNA ^ ELIZABETH:// (Albatross), January 26—Chairman, Bill Brewer; y!; department delegate. $27.00 in were reported by department deler Secretary, Denis Brobeur. Discussion hip's fund. gates. Discussion held regarding held regarding leave iny pension plan. Vote of thanks to the Panama. No beefs shore were reported by I CONNECTICUT {Ogden), April 18 steward department for a job well department delegates. I^Ghairman, John W Altstatt; Sec- ,„done./ totary, T. D. Ballard. Some disputed pT in deck department, otherwise STEEi; WORKER (States Ma-^ STEEL SEAPABER (Isthmian), there were no beefs reported by rine), April 15—Chairman; John T; March 16—Chairman, Lee Prasier; uepartment delegates. Discussion Cri-^ds; Secretary, R B. Barnes. Secretary, Ira Broan. Brother Leei field regarding draws on OT. Over $100.00 in .shiph fund. No beefs Prasier was elected to serve as new, Were reported by department dele"- ship's delegate. Trip has been a good t HUDSON (Ogden Marine), April gates. Discussion held regarding re- one. Good cooperation from all crew-1 j||[8%Chairman, lohh Kuohta; Secre- tireraent'plan,./^ • members. Ship has been kept clean / jiiary,.:David'E. /Edwards. -No beefs and the food has been very good. ifwere/'Teported by , department :delsr y: .SEATRAlN OHIO (Hudson Water- /Pine gangy«lJ:theTayC8t'0Und. , // /.:i ways), April 13—-Chaiman, T; YabJonsky; Secretary, W. Messenger, No TRANSPORTER yr:"{Peni|.; beefs were reported by ^department •y'^"/,RPNYdN;/VICTORY^''(GolumbiB);| Msicli Chairman, R." delegates. : Various iesoluUons, ino- •Februuiy, 26—-Chairman, George :W;| s, MtoS, Sr.; Secretary; R. Casanova; tions and suggestions were sub­ Bowden; Secretary, George Chillum.| Brother W. G. Bigby was elected to mitted to headquarters regarding/ Brother Glenn Reynolds was elected 1 yifEyiiu.as,ship'sidelegatc, .:No heefs.; eotttract. Vote;;bf thanks to the stewd,:: to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs ^•plbpartmeht' tot 'doing 'an/ekcON' were reported by department dele­ gates, •' ' ' '"'•""Tob. COLUMBIA BARON {Columbia); March 30—Chairman, A. Booth; Ssor retary, C. Breau^. Brother H. Harris was elected to serve as ship's deiergate. No beefs were reported hy department delegates. DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS J il •^1 4/ Giwieta Vain, bom Febmary 13, 1969, to Se^arer and Mrs. Joseph E. Vain, Baltimore, Md. i Miguel Nieves, bom October Page TVenly-Three LOG Clooney and Pumpman, his last vessel was the Steel Advocate. Harold Clooney has been sailing for the Sabine Towing and Transportation Company for the last 16 years as tug cap­ tain. A native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, he still lives there with his Wife, Lillian. Brother Clooney joined the SIU at Port Arthur, Texas. Miller Chiorra Frank Miller was born in Germany in 1908, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Brother Miller, who sailed as AB, has been going to sea for 35 years and joined the Union in the Port of New York. He served for nearly three years with the U.S. Army during World War 11. Brother Miller's last ship was the Ponce. John Chiorra, who shipped as a member of the steward depart­ ment, is ending a 25-year sail­ ing career. He also served with the U.S. Army during World Norton Soto I War 11. Brother Chiorra was born in West Virginia, and now makes his home in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944. He last shipped as cook aboard the Commander. Paul Norton, one of the real old-timers in the SIU, is retiring to the beach after 34 years at sea. Brother Norton joined the Union in 1938 in the Port of New York. Born in Maine 63 years ago, he now lives in Bos­ ton. Brother Norton, who also served a hitch with the Coast Guard in the 1920s, sailed as AB. His last vessel was the Miami. Juan Soto was bom in Puerto Rico, and now makes his home in Brooklyn. Brother Soto, who has been sailing for 26 years, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and was active in supporting many SIU beefs on the picket line. He last sailed as bosun on the Ocean Ulla. John Liston is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and still resides there with his mother, Bridget. Brother Liston joined Liston Staikopoulos the Union in the Port of New York. He has more than 25 years at sea, and he last shipped as AB aboard the Ocean Tide. Athanasios Staikopoulos, 61, is ending a 33-year sailing ca­ reer. A native of Greece, he has been living in Hoboken, New Jersey, but now plans to join his wife, Maptha, in Bremerhaven, Germany. Brother Staikopou­ los, who sailed as oiler, joined the Union in New York in 1945. His last ship was the Charleston. flshiag Reik Fmds New Berth NEW YORK —A relic of by Captain Mel McCIaine, of America's great fishing past has Rockport, Mass., who, along found a new berth. The Caviare, with others, revolutionized the the oldest surviving Gloucester- New England fishing fleet by man, a type of fishing vessel designing a fast, yacht-like which sailed the North At­ schooner with a clipper bow. lantic from the 1890's to the This new design, called the 1940's, is now on exhibit at the South Street Seaport Museum Gloucesterman, completely re­ in New York City's Fulton Fish placed the slower, clumsier "Georgie," which had carried Market. The ship was built in 1892 many fishermen to their deaths. 1 �Page Twenty-Ffmr Ralph Masters was elected ship's delegate at a meeting of crew members aboard the Pan­ ama (Sea Land), it was reported by Felk Vito, meeting chair­ man. The crew also adopted a resolution to VHo send a letter to the company concerning the number of inoculations re­ quired. According to Bill StaA, meeting secretary, the crews of ships operated by Sea-Land are required to take shots before each trip, while crews of other vessels get them every six months. The Panama was due to tie up for pay-off in Oakland after a voyage to Cam Rahn Bay and Yokohama. The crew gave a unwimous vote of thanks to the entire steward de­ partment for a fine menu and good service throughout the en­ tire trip. •<1> t. 'J' Benjanffn Freeman, ship's delegate aboard the La SaDe (Waterman), re­ ports an eventful trip on a recent run to Vietnam. He said that the ship sustained a great deal of damage during a storm in the Mosher North Pacific. The storm also caused a serious injury to the La Salle's bosun, who was put ashore at Adak, Alaska, to be hospitalized. Shortly after arriving at Da Nang, the ship underwent a rocket attack as the North Viet­ namese opened their spring of­ fensive against the" port city. Fortunately the La Salle was not hit and none of her crew were injured. R. Mosher, meet­ ing chairman, reported that there were some beefs, includ­ ing refusal of the chief engineer to let the black gang paint their quarters. The crew gave a vote of thanks to the entire steward department for outstanding menus during the entire trip. Ralph Fit;q>atrkk, ship's del­ egate aboard the Falride (Panoceanic Tank­ ers), was elected ship's treasurer at a meeting held aboard the ves­ sel. Brother Fitzpatritk really wears three hats Fitzpafridk steward depart­ ment delegate. FVed Olson, meeting chairman, reported that no serious beefs have come up, but that there are munefous overtime disputes to be brought up when the ship comes in for payoff. W. T. Lax^ord, meeting SEAFARERS secretary, reports that there was discussion on the retirement plan after a motion was made by Jolm W.Wood Jr. ^ New department delegates were elected during a meeting aboard the PeteReiss (Reiss Steamship Com­ pany). lliey are Jackie Mashrah, deck delegate; George Shields, engine depart­ ment, and Albert Madnah Bain, steward department. Ge<»ge Bodkin, meeting secretary, reports that a resolution was adopted calling for payoffs on the ship at the end of each day period. He also said that future meeting times would be set up in the afternoon so that it would be more con­ venient for the crew to attend. May. 1969 LOG John Gardner was unani­ mously elected ship's delegate on the Overseas Ulla (Maritime Overseas). He replaces A. D. Nash who was given a vote of thanks by his shipmates "for a job well done." Di Sei Meeting Chair­ man Domenic Di Sei reported that three crew members, Fred­ erick J. Brown, Charles C. Oemens and Francis R. Con­ nors, were paid off in Aruba for medical reasons. Brother Di Sei also reported that there were some minor beefs concerning the variety of meats available aboard the ship, among other things. A letter has been sent to Headquarters on these mat­ ters. process them through the proper channels. Brother Arnold took over from Deck Delegate Peter Di Capua, who had been acting ship's delegate. Chairman La­ roda explained to the new crewmembers that the ship's treasury was to be used for TV repairs, telegrams for sick brothers and other emergencies. The steward department delegate, James A. Wright, said that the two fo'csles which had been flooded were re­ ported to the captain. There were no other beefs or disputed overtime in any departments. .1. Lee Frasier was elected ship's delegate on the Sted Seafarer (Isthmanian) by acclamation, and immediately asked for the full cooperation of the crew in pursuit of his duties. He dis­ cussed the things he expected to do as the delegate representing the good and welfare of the crew. Brother Frasier's elec­ tion came following the resigna­ tion of James Armstrong, who had served as delegate for a long time. Meeting Secretary Ira Brown reported that the Steel Seafarer had sailed from Pacific porthwest ports with a load of grain and other cargo for Viet- Meeting C!hairman Edward A. Laroda reported that George Arnold was Ramon Roqne was elected to elected ship's del­ serve as ship's delegate during egate at a meet­ the current voy­ ing held aboard age of the Dd the Seafarer Mar (Delta (Marine Car­ Lines). Brother riers). Brother Roque is a mem­ Arnold asked for ber of the stew­ the cooperation ard department. Laroda of department He replaces Juan delegates in checking with him Cruz as ship's Cmz first on all beefs so that he can delegate. Brother Cruz, who reported that every­ thing was running smoothly : pVEitSiAS TRAVELER (MarigSr^Ctialimatt, Ed Miaa-- l tinie Overseas). February 25—Chair-, with no beefs and no disputed Januai^ Kianr SeciNBtai^, ^ Mlcliael Fiiiley, man, Charles Lord; Secretary, Wilovertime, received unanimous fl2,0NS in ship's fund* Brotfaer War- > Bam 'F.: Barlh. Ship's delegate LaPrelle elected to sewe reported that everything^ is running vote of thanks for a job well iren as shfp's delag8te» ybte or thanks smoothly. Vote of thanks was ex­ done during the past voyage. was extended to the steward depart^ tended to the steward department for a job well done. A special vote of appreciation nieht for a joh well done. » BAFHAEt SEMMES (Sea-I4nd)i was given to the Del Mar's MOBILIAN April . . , (Waterman), , - . -r ..... 6 . March 15-r-Chairttian, Edward: movie director, James Tucker, Morales; Secretajty, Michael Cant- —Chaiiuiaii, L. p. Bryaiitj Secretary, well. Ship's delegate reported that L. B. Barime^.E!yprything .is:• running' for arranging to' have 15 films es-erything is O.E* with th no heefai smoothly. Very good trip. Captain aboard and for setting up two :Motion;; was; sahhtltttd :regatdihg:;ri^ pleased with crew. No beefs and no disputed OT. . , screenings each night so that tirement plan. the deck and engine crews, all ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Tran«March i{»---Ghalrjnah, M. MOr-i; of whom are working overtiiue, port), ris; Secretary, G. Troxclair. Some will be able to see the movies. idispated OT in dngxne, departmeafc; ; Crew dohated -of Brother The crew of the Robin Hood (Moore McCormack) gave a unanimous vote of thanks to the entire steward department for excellent chow throughout the entire trip, and a special vote of appreciation Edstrom went to Chief Cook Lauri Edstrom for his ex­ tra effort in filling in for the baker who was hospitalized in Guam on the out^und run. Ship's Delegate Robert Broadus reported a very smooth trip with no logs, and very little disputed overtime. Meeting Secretary Aussie Shrimpton reported that the crew presented a box of cigars to the ship's radio opera­ tor for putting out a daily news sheet. The crew also chipped in $174 for two G.I. passengers 'ffor their work and cooperation with the crew" on the trip to Vietnam. to the faihilyl Who' pasSsdS SEAFARE-R- (Marine^Carri»w#| March :15~0hairrnaii,-. Edward A.' Laroda; Secreta^, Fete L. TriantM fillos. Brother George Arnold was elected to serre as new ship'B deleV gate. No disputed OT and no beefs DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS were reported by department delegates. Brother " • • George Gf Arnold *• • '• was" elected to servo a.s new ship's dele­ gate. • TRANSNORTHEKN (Hudson Waterways), April 6 — Chairman, Jack E. Long; Secretary, Bernard i OAKLAND • fSea--Land), March - 8^ Donnelly. ?86.25 in ship's fund. Pew Chairman, M, K. Sanchez; Secretary; 'hours disputed OT ia deck depart­ dy Dbylc. Brother S.; B, Czcealowakl; ment. No beefs on last leg of trip :ship's qeie-,: around the world, :with ah exceipeate. No beefs have been reported. tionally good crow. Patrolman to Most of the repairs whie taken care cheek to see that sufficient fans are of, the remaining repairs will be on board ship before next trip. Vote finished as soon aS possible. of thanks to the steward department I: for a job well dona. OVERSEAS EVELYN (Maritime Overseas), February 10i-Chalrmah, ^ 'MALCYfJM^TIEER, (Halcyon), Lawrence Dueitt: Secretary, Nor­ April S—Chairmanj Vincent Tarallo; man Mclntyre. , No' ''beefs -/were re- Secretary, Donald Pruett. No beefs nbrted , by department delegates. no disputed OT. Brother Pruett :Yote of thanks was extended to the and was elected to serve as ship's dele­ Steward department for a job; well gate. Vote of thanks was extended done. to the; d' ck gang for keeping the messj^mpi end pantry clean after DEL MLNDO (Delta), March 23— each watch. Chairman,, Samuel Case, Jr.: SecrC''.: tary. Woody Ferklns. Some disputed AM'ERl GOf r e s t- G ve rs b a s), OT in deck department to be taken Robert Sull "• 30—Chairman, • " IP up with patroImanrKepair list was March turned in and some repairs have van; Secretary, R, R, Pooyey. Sew been taken care of, the othcra: will eral hours disputed OT jn engine be done ashore. Vote of thanks was departmehL;;;:Mote • ;.o#' ;:th»nks was /^tended fn t-hr. stssvcrd Ber-artfrMt; for « L'/D well dene. V.-.t= ixf • th-nVw TVW.XX' -Myyatgfr ywv' "V-# "to Brothcr» Mik« Bfttry and VelkkdO" FollRoen for work done on amendments for new nam ports. "The trip so far has proven to be a good one with full cooperation by all hands to make it an enjoyable one," he said. "The ship has been cleaned up a lot, the food has been good •and we have a good gang all the way around.' ^1, "We are now on the last leg of a trip around the world," reported Ship's Delegate How­ ard H. Allen from the Transnorthern (Hud­ son Waterways). "We have a very good crew, and we have been to ADen some very inter­ esting ports—Bremerhaven, Antwerp, Saigon, Manila and Balboa. Many crewmembers will be leaving the ship when we reach Sunny Point, North Caro­ lina, scattering to the four winds perhaps never to assemble on the same ship again." Aside from a few cases of disputed overtime reported by Deck Delegate William Rogers, the voyage has been a smooth one with no beefs, said Meeting Chairman Jack Long. Meeting Secretary Bernard Donnelly re­ ported Logs and mail were re­ ceived regularly during the trip. WRITE XOJIM.E COLUMBIA BANKER (Columbia), January 11—Chairmanj^D. W. Prounfelter; Secretary, J. P. Davis. No beefs were reported by department delegatss. Repairs neeessary to the galley are to be taken up with the Captain and completed aa soon as possible. ' BELGIUM VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Aprs! 6—Chairman, G. C. Gartland; Secretary, C. N. Johnson. Ail repairs submitted at end of last voyage; have not been completed. Disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrol­ man. SLTT in ship's fund. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), May 7—Chairmaa, T. Lynch; Secretary. Hector Torres. Brathji' Lyiidi waa.eiected to.serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Motion was made to have regularly scheduled busea^ pick up fcfewmeiiibefa at Suiuiy Folut and transport them from ship to town. OVERSEAS JASON (Maritime Overseas), March 30—Chairman, Charles P. Moore; Secretary, George Clarke, $11J26 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. ALBANY (Ogden), March 20— Chairman, Drew Gay; Secretary, Larry S Moose. Brother J. Busalack was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Discussion held regarding food preparation, stores, and steward de­ partment in general. , CHOCTAW ( Waterman), March 30 —Chairman, Enos E. Allen; Secre­ tary, James T. Myers. Beef regard­ ing steward department to be taken irdin patrolmah. up with boardmg OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), March 28—Chairman,: D. D. Dei; Secretary, H. P. DuCloux. Br-other John Gardner was elected to , serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to' Brother A. D, Nash, resigning ship's delegate, for a Job well done. Discussion held regarding variety of meat aboard ship. Numerous hours of disputed OT in deck and ehgine departmentsi �Kf- May, 1969 I •«! SEAFARERS Happy Send'Off IPSii lifills jlf' SIU representative, Pete Drewes, presents first pension check to Sea­ farer Jose Da Costa (right) at SIU headquarters in New York, as he wishes him a long and healthy life retirement ashore. Brother Da Costa held a steward's rating and last sailed aboard the Yorkmar (Calmar). Oil Workers Call for Action Against 'Runaway -Flag' Ships .WMI Page Twenty-Five LOG Textile Giant Loses Again Appeals Court Orders /• P. Stevens To Give NIRB Workers'Addresses RICHMOND, Va J. P. Ste­ vens and Co. lost its fifth legal battle when the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered it to give the National Labor Rela­ tions Board a name-and-address list of employees eligible to vote in an NLRB election at Shelby, N. C. . Failure to supply the names would "impede union campaign efforts while leaving the com­ pany free to communicate its point of view to all its em­ ployees," the appeals judge agreed in an opinion written by Judge Simon E. Sobeloff. The court rejected a claim by Stevens management, and 219 of the 600 Shelby plant em­ ployees, that giving the Textile Workers Union of America an employee list would violate their right of privacy. Stevens, a major supplier of textile goods under government contract, has fought every union and NLRB effort to protect the rights of its employees to join TWUA. Found guilty of nu­ merous violations in many of its plants, Stevens has lost three ap­ peals to appellate courts and two in the U.S. Supreme Court. A year ago TWUA filed an election at the firm's Qeveland Cloth Mill in Shelby. The com­ pany refused to comply with an NLRB director's order to fur­ nish a name-and-address list. It also spurned a subsequent board subpoena. The appeals judges upheld a lower court decision enforcing the NLRB order. As they had in a similar case involving the Hanes Corporation, they ruled that the board's request was an appropriate exercise of its au­ thority over representation elec­ tions. "AflEording the union an op­ portunity to communicate" with employees. Judge Sobeloff wrote, does not encroach on the employees' right to remain neu­ tral. "They are not required to read literature which the union may mail them, or to speak to union representatives" at home, he observed. The court added: "An em­ ployee exercises his . . , rights most effectively by voting. . . ." TWUA President William Pollock said that even as the latest decision was being writ­ ten, a "new set of illegal dis­ charges has been taking place in a Stevens hosiery plant" at Hickory, N. C. The govern­ ment, he said, can "demonstrate that Stevens is not bigger than the law" by citing its officers for contempt of court and withhold­ ing all federal contracts "until it complies with the law." AFL-CIO Issues Call for Repeal Of Provisions for Wiretapping BAL HARBOUR, Fla.- -Repeal of the wiretapping and bugging provisions of the 1968 anti-crime law has been "strong­ ly urged" by the AFL-CIO to preserve individual rights and privacy. Pending such repeal, the federation's Executive Council called on the Administration to "reconsider its decision to resort to wiretapping measures that hold such awesome potential of reducing the nation to a police state morality." In addition to repeal, the council statement called for adding a title to the Crime Con­ trol and Safe Streets Act pro­ viding stiff penalties for the use of vdretapping and eavesdrop­ ping, except in those instances involving national security cases, "and even then this one exemp­ tion must be closely guarded." The council noted the de­ clared intentions of the Admin­ istration to make extensive use of wiretapping and electronic devices as an aid in the fight against crime, citing the state- DENVER- -A resolution wrecked off the coast of England calling for a review of "run­ and did millions of dollars away flag" shipping—so preva­ worth of damages to public lent in the oil industry—^was beaches and private properties, adopted at a recent Executive it was near impossible to prove Board meeting here of the Oil, responsibility. The ship was Chemical and Atomic Workers owned by an American compa­ ny, leased to a Bermudan com­ Union AFL-CIO. The board also pledged its co­ pany, manned by an Italian operation with the AFL-CIO crew and sailed under the flag Maritime Trades Department in of Liberia." the campaign to correct the sit­ Stating that larger and larger supertankers are being put into uation. Pointed out in the resolution service under runaway flags, is that the American merchant that some of them have a ca­ fleet is so "shrunken in size that pacity of nearly half a million only seven percent of our im­ barrels and that they pose grave port-export cargo is carried by dangers of fire and pollution, the American flag ships." board called upon the U.S. gov­ This problem would be seri­ ernment and oil companies to ous enough if the other 93 per­ review the situation. cent merely was being moved by the ships of competitive mari­ A Dim View of Nude Look time nations, the OCAW board stated. U.S. Cmporations Responsible "But, in fact, much of the foreign flag shipping is carried on by American corporations operating under the flags of nonmaritime foreign nations which do nothing except issue the li­ censes for the ships." This is particularly prevalent in oil shipping by tanker, the board continued, and most of the tankers owned and operated by U.S. oil companies sail under runaway flags of such tiny na­ tions as Liberia and Panama. The resolution stated: "Under runaway flags, the ships escape American taxes, American safety regulations, American labor conditions, American legal responsibility and even the obligation to sup­ port American armed forces overseas. "There is no way to enforce responsibility on the owners of Nude look in hosiery popularized by their employer, Hanes Corp., is spoofed by girl pickets in Toronto, these runaway flag ships. When Ont., to demonstrate the bare facts about Hanes' "no-raise-in-five-years" policy. The girls, who are the tanker Torrey Canyon members of the AFL-CIO Textile Workers Union of America, went out on strike for their first contract. ments of Attorney General John Mitchell and Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to congressional committees as to how they would apply the 1968 law. That legislation permits wide­ spread wiretapping and bugging in the investigation of a broad variety of crimes after obtaining a warrant or court order and permits taps or bugs to be used for 48 hours without a warrant or court order in instances where a prosecutor "reasonably" determines that an "emergency" situation exists. Clark Refused Tapping Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark refused to use the authority to wiretap contained in the legislation on the basis that it transgressed traditional American freedoms,, the coimcil noted. "The AFL-CIO abhors the crimes committed and the vio­ lence that runs rampant in our land," the council said. "But it does not believe that the 'new road' that holds such frighten­ ing potential for wholesale en­ croachment on the privacy of the individual can combat crime and still protect our cherished her­ itage of freedom." Federal aid to state and local communities in developing more qualified law enforcement offi­ cers and the practical utilization of new technology in the detec­ tion and prevention of crime would seem the more sane and rational approach, the council said, along with a massive attack on the root causes of crime— poverty, ignorance and disease. The council pointed out that "the assumption that in practice the use of wiretapping and eavesdropping affects only crim­ inals is fallacious and totally unwarranted. In our free society, the ends of law enforcement do not justify any and all means. Even if crime could to a degree be prevented, we should not choose the use of those ends that assuredly portend flagrant violation of the 'right to priv­ acy.' " �Page TweDtTiSix SEAFARERS LOG Bhr. 1969 Govt. Release of Pay Plan Hit as Evading Union Role WASHINGTON—^AFL-CIO unions representing more than one million federal workers joined in a sharp protest against "premature" announcement by the government of pro­ posed salary adjustments to take effect July 1. The proposal would give the biggest percentage raises to persons in the top government grades and no increase at all to those in the lowest pay grade. The AFL-CIO Government Employees Council, repre­ senting 35 unions with members working for the federal gov­ ernment, said the effect of the announcement has been to undercut a requirement in the salary comparability law that unions be consulted in the preparation of pay recommenda­ tions. The new pay scales, supposedly based on comparability with similar jobs in private industry, were drawn up by the Civil Service Commission and the Budget Bureau for submis­ sion to the President. Technically, the pay tables released to the press by the two agencies are still tentative. The unions were given copies of the proposed salaries at the same time as the newspapers and will have an opportunity to argue for improvements. But the Government Employees Council charged in a state­ ment that the publication "seriously hampers" the chances that the agencies will agree to significant changes. And the GEC says there are a lot of improvements needed.' Earlier, a joint statement by the American Federation of Government Employees, Letter Carriers and Postal Clerks had termed the publication of the tentative pay propoals "a gesture of bad faith." The three unions charged that the action "reflects the longout-dated management concept that unions are mere windowdressing." Under a 1967 law, this year's round of pay increases doesn't require congressional action. They can ^ put into effect automatically by the President. A year after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 15,000 SOME members from all over the coun­ try, led by President Jerry Wurf, pay tribute to him by joining in a memorial march in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis is where Dr. King helped win a long strike for recognition of SOME sanitationmen in 1968. Thousands Join Good Friday March In Memphis Memorial to Dr. King versary date of his assassination particular—^to make Dr. King's here where he had come to help dream a reality. the union's striking sanitation "In Memphis it is no different workers. today than it was a year ago," "We're in Memphis not to re­ he said. "We want you to know member the death of Dr. King; we are marching today because we are here in Memphis to re­ we are dissatisfied with rat-in­ member the life of Dr. King," fested housing and children go­ SCME President Jerry Wurf told ing to bed hungry." a gathering of more than 200 The Southern Christian Lead­ march leaders on the eve of the ership Conference was repre­ event. sented by Dr. King's successor, Nearly 15,000 participated in the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, the peaceful demonstration, pro­ who told tlt,e throng that "white viding a sea of faces on the mall and black people can perish sep­ population is functionally illiter­ and the streets surrounding arately as fools or live together in sanity." ate; average grade level is 8.6 Memphis City Hall. Responding to an invitation years of schooling. from Wurf to participate, SMCE Housing, sanitation and members and leaders came from transportation are generally in­ Michigan, Ohio, New York, adequate for the migrant and his Washington, Illinois, the District family. In addition, migrants are still excluded from most con­ of Columbia, Maryland, Minne­ ventional labor legislation sota, Georgia, Mississippi, Lou­ isiana, Florida, Alabama, the passed in recent years." Carolinas and other states. They In summing up, Williams NEW YORK —These days came by bus, by car, by plane. said: "As long as migrant mo­ you can never tell where charges But most of the marchers of discrimination will rear their bility persist—and as long as migrant workers and their fam­ came by foot—^thousands of head, according to union rail­ ilies go untouched by federal SCME Local 1733 members roadmen here. anti-poverty and rehabilitation from all sections of Memphis. They made their comment programs—special effort will 'Dignified Partnership' after George Bossert, of Mashave to be made to keep the Reflecting on the struggle for sapequa, complained that the migrant alive and well as he recognition and dignity by Long Island Railroad discrimi­ travels to harvest our crops." SCME's sanitation workers, nated against him and all otlier The report includes a special section written by Dr. Robert Wurf observed that "we were not men by instituting Ladies Day. Coles, Harvard University psy­ alone. We in our strike brought The railroad offers female pas­ chiatrist and commentator on about a partnership between the sengers reduced fares on Ladies sociology who has spent many black community and the white Days provided they take trains years studying the social and community, the black worker that arrive in Manhattan after cultural lives of migrant farm and the white worker. We un­ 10:00 A.M. But, protested, Bossert, a derstood that our strength was workers. the strength of standing up in N. Y. State Labor Department Coles noted that migrants nonviolent fashion for a sense interviewer — probably with form a "subculture" in Ameri­ of dignity. If there were to be tongue, in cheek—"I am being can life in which they live deviolence, we knew it had to denied passage at the same price mjeaned and impoverished lives come from the other side." as a female only because of my —cut off from other groups of sex." SCME was joined in spon­ American citizens largely be­ On Ladies Day, he con­ cause they lack a place of resi- soring the march by the Com­ munity on the Move for Equal­ tended, he is "denied equal r^ence. "We go everywhere and we ity. Its leader. Dr. H. Ralph treatment, conditions and privi­ don't belong nowhere," he Jackson, also pointed to the fail­ leges in a place of public ac­ ure of society—and Memphis in commodation." quoted one migrant as saying. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Thou­ sands of members of the State, County and Municipal Employ.ees from all sections of the coun­ try marched in memory of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., on Good Friday, the anni- Senate Report Pleads for Extension Of NLRA to Migratory Workers WASHINGTON—WhenSen- agricultural workers and em­ ator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., ployers. (D-N.J.) uses the term "crime in • Extension for five years of the field" he is not using it as the Migrant Health Act and Ex­ a parallel to the expression pansion of programs and serv­ "crime in the streets." ices to reach the total impover­ He is using it rather to paint ished rural society. • Revamping or extending a ^aphic picture of the tragic living conditions, the unfair la­ Federal food-assistance pro­ bor policies and protections, the grams to combat hunger and substandard wages that year malnutrition; the migrants' no­ after year are inflicted on Amer­ madic life makes most existing Food Stamp and food assist­ ican migrant farm workers. ance programs unreachable. In an unusually moving re­ • Stepping up housing code port on the migratory farm la­ enforcement to apply to all hous­ bor problem made by the Senate ing in migrant camps. Subcommittee on Migratory La­ bor, Williams pleads for federal Details Haunting Poverty action to raise the economic and The report details "the per­ social level of the nation's one sistent poverty which haunts million migrant rural poor— the migrant camps and fields" wandering farm workers and throughout the nation: their families who have no fixed "The migrant in 1967 worked homes and who are cut off from an average of only 85 days for the mainstream of American an average annual wage of life. $922. If he also worked at a The report concludes that in non-farm job, his annual aver­ the long run "there probably age earnings came to about will be no escape for the mi­ $2,100—far below the poverty grants until their migrancy is level. ended" and they attain steady "Medical care for migrants work—^but meanwhile it calls came to $12 per person from for at least four steps to make federally-assisted programs as the lot of such workers less compared with $200 individual tragic than it is now. average for the total population. Specifically the report recom­ "Education for the migrant mends: family was clearly sub-standard • Extension of the National compared to a national norm. Labor Relations Act to-include Some 17 percent of the migrant Discriminatitm Tracked Datum By Coamnter �May, 1969 Wages Beisg Hdd Certified checks, rep-| resenting wages due for | service on the Oceanic i Tide, are being held at New! York Headquarters for thej following Seafarers: Philip Livingston Paul Lopez Richard Monterusso Dan Ticer The checks may be] claimed at Headquarters or mailed to Port Agents upon request. SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenly-Seven. Grape Workers Seek to Expose Pesticide Peril DELANO, Calif.—The thing that tempted Snow White to take a bite of the poison apple was that it looked so good—per­ fectly shaped, unblemished and shiny red. An effort by the AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organiz­ ing Committee to uncover records of the use of pesticides in California's fruit fields may lead consumers to wonder how much danger lurks beneath the perfect surface of the fruit we buy. The Farm Workers have be­ the problem and union General "The people in our crew come involved in a legal contro­ Counsel Jerome Cohen asked smelled unusual odors in the versy in the last few months the Kern County Agricultural field and then many of us got trying to protect the health of Commissioner to show his rec­ sick. farm workers injured by the ords on pesticide use in the "We threw up and we were sprays. county. sick and had dizziness. At the UFWOC leader Cesar Chavez same place with us were Jesus 'Trade Secrets' Claimed says that once the union set up Cantu and Ernesto Rodriguez Commissioner C. Seldon its health clinic at Delano, doc­ who were also farm workers tors there began to treat farm Morely refused, saying the rec­ with me and they were sent to workers affected by sprays and ords were not public because of the hospital for a couple of pesticides used in the fields they certain "trade secrets" they con­ weeks because of the pesticides tained. The case is now pending in the field." work. The doctors decided to set before Superior Court Judge 'Sick Every Summer' up a specieil clinic dealing with George A. Brown and a number "The first time I was injured of pesticide companies have re­ quested a permanent injunction by pesticides was about three to prevent the release of the years ago in the summer and every summer when I am in­ information. Growers say the union en­ volved in the harvest I get sick tered the fray to publicize their due to the pesticides," Francisco national boycott against Cali­ Mendoza testified. "I get pains in the stomach; fornia table grapes. But a series of articles on pesticides in the I throw up and I get headaches. Los Angeles County AFL-CIO Sometimes I get chills and have publication, The Citizen, points itching sensations over my en­ tire body." out another set of facts. Another farmworker noted: The articles report that the UFWOC has been willing to set "I got the spray on me because aside all other labor relations it was still in the air when I had problems in order to resolve the to move back into the vines and also from touching the vines. pesticide poisoning issue. The union was willing to Last year my eyes became red meet with the growers and and swollen and were running crop dusters without fanfare— from the spray and my whole "Knowing full well their motives face was swollen." would be twisted." They also The pesticides are not only Farm workers—like other workers—need union rights and collective bargaining, Dolores Huerta, Vice attempted to work out health the concern of the people who President of United Farm Workers Organizing Committee AFL-CIO tells Senate Labor subcommittee and safety guidelines with local work in the fields or those who chaired by Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (D-N. J.), at left, who has sponsored a bill granting such rights. health officials and growers. eat the fruit they pick. The use Despite this—and the grow­ of pesticides is feared to be £ifing number of reported deaths fecting the entire balance of and injuries in the state laid to nature. pesticides—the growers persist Representative John Dingell in denying the problem. (D-Mich.) has introduced an One Los Angeles Citizen ar­ article by conservationist David ticle points out that the pesticide H. Jenkins into the Congres­ WASHINGTON — Farm have workers been abl? to killed—by highly toxic pesti­ Parathion has been responsible sional Record, which discusses cides. And when the UFWOC for six sizable outbreaks of the pesticide pollution of Lake workers asked Congress for leg­ achieve dignity and decency. tried to examine county records poisoning among farm workers. Michigan. islation to protect their right to Passed By in '30s of pesticide application in the Experts term this poison "ex­ build unions strong enough to The Lake is a great recre­ Farm workers were passed by Delano, Calif., area, a state tremely hazardous" and say it ational center and a principal match the enormous power of during the "social revolution of court injunction blocked the dis­ can be almost as fatal when ab­ source of drinking water—1.5 the big agricultural corporations the New Deal" in the 1930s, closure, sorbed through the skin as when billion gallons a day. Yet it has and achieve social justice and Mrs. Huerta said, because they received orally. decent living standards for field In addition to a team of had several tons of DDT were excluded from the orig­ During the hearings to obtain dumped into its waters, from the workers. UFWOC officials from Califor­ inal National Labor Relations Dolores Huerta, vice presi­ nia, a panel of unorganized farm release of the information sev­ fruit-growing area along its Act—the Wagner Act. eral workers submitted affidavits shore line, which has found its dent of the AFL-CIO United She urged that they now be workers from other areas of the in evidence. Farm Workers Organizing Com­ way into Lake Michigan's sal­ nation joined in urging federal mittee spoke for the ailing given the same protection which collective bargaining legislation mon as well. Hilario Garcio declared: enabled industrial unions to UFWOC Director Cesar Chavez for agriculture. take root and grow strong dur­ at Senate Labor subcommittee The congressional testimony ing that period. hearings. was part of an all-day program A bill merely giving farm She told the subcommittee sponsored by the National Cam­ workers bargaining rights in that the UFWOC has had to pin paign for Agricultural Democ­ name only, she suggested, would its hopes on the worldwide Cal­ not solve the farm workers' racy, an alliance of labor, ifornia grape boycott and its problems. Growers, she said, church, farm and consumer or­ support by union members and could "litigate us to death" and ganizations including the AFLconsumers because the big grape CIO. growers had an inexhaustible "bargain around the calendar The program included a re­ . . . unless we are allowed to supply of low-wage strikebreak­ apply sufficient economic power ception for Senator Harrison A. One of the nation's kookiest right-wing organizations is er labor streaming across the to make it worth their while to Williams, Jr., who chaired the counting on a comic book to achieve its key goal—a consti­ Mexican border. sign." Senate hearings, the 20 senators tutional amendment that would prevent the federal govern­ Mrs. Huerta said the power The goal is not just recogni­ who co-sponsored his bill to ex­ ment from levying any income, gift or estate tax. of California's "agribusiness" tion but "signed contracts . . . tend labor law coverage to farm The Liberty Amendnient Committee, based in Los An­ was so great that repeated vio­ good wages ... a strong union." workers, and 56 congressmen geles, has put out a first printing of 250,000 copies of its lations of what health, sanita­ For this, Mrs. Huerta said, cov­ who joined with Representative cartoon strip Tax Report and hopes its supporters wiU brder tion and safety laws are on the erage under the National Labor James O'Hara (D-Mich.) in in­ 10 milliou i-»ore to be passed out "wherever people gatlier." books are winked at or pun­ Relations Act should be coupled troducing similar legislation in Its simplistic theme is that the government should sell, all ished by token fines—infinitesi­ with amendments geared to the the House. federal lands and property, use the money to reduce the mal compared to the huge sub­ special problems of farm worker AFL-CIO Organizing Direc­ national debt, and then stop taxing people's incomes. With­ sidies some of the agricultural organization. tor William L. Kircher, Senator out taxes to pay, workers wouldn't have to strike for more corporations get from the fed­ Ralph W. Yarborough (D-Tex.) Health Endangered money and there would once more be "respect and affection eral government. for government in our country." Only in the few places where Without a union, the crowded and Senator Walter F. Mondale The treasurer of the organization is one of the nation's the UFWOC has been able to Senate hearing room was told, (D-Minn.) spoke at a conclud­ wealthiest right-wing extremists, Walter Knott. get signed contracts, Mrs. farm workers and their children ing dinner honoring Williams, Huerta told the subcommittee. are being sickened—sometimes held at a Washington church. Farm Workers toSenate Committee: Give Us Laws to Guard Oar Rights' m t '.i �!L';t^f:efU£aaMnI Page Twenty Eight Roy F. Garcia, 23: Brother Garcia died suddenly November 24, 1968, while on shore leave in Da Nang, Viet­ nam. At the time of his death he was serving as wiper aboard the Hastings. Broth­ er Garcia was bom in Fresno, California, and maintained his home in Sacramento. He at­ tended the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in New York, and planned to continue his studies there after complet­ ing the Far East run. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Mary, and a daughter, Anna. Services were held at Sacramento with burial in St, Mary's Cemetery. Edward Searcey, 59: Brother Searcey died of a heart attack March 10 at the USPHS Hospital in Savannah, Georgia. He last shipped aboard the Fanwood as deck engineer. Brother Searcey had been going to sea for 32 years and joined the SIU in 1942 in the Port of Baltimore. A native of South Carolina, he had been living in Savannah with his wife. Alma, at the time of his death. Funeral services were held at Bonaventure Cem­ etery in Savannah. SEAFARERS Clarence A. Williams, 40: Brother Williams passed away on February 28. Born in Jeffer­ son, Pennsyl­ vania, he was living in Kissimmee, Florida, at the time of his death. Brother Williams had \ ^ sailed as FOWT; his last vessel was the Del Sol. Funeral services were held at the Grissom Funeral Home, in Kissimmee. Brother Williams is survived by his wife, Jeanette, and two children, Janet and David. Samuel C. Lawrence, 51: Brother Lawrence died Febru­ ary 2 at the USPHS Hospital in San Francisco. Bom in Pensacola, Florida, he had made his home in Tampa. Brother Law­ rence served with the U.S. Army throughout World War II, re­ ceiving an honorable discharge in 1945. His last vessel was the Eliza Port, on which he sailed as wiper. He is survived by a brother, John. Burial took place at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Tampa. —— Paul Liotta, 54: A heart at­ tack claimed the life of Brother ^^ on Janu­ ary 31 in San Francisco. Born in New York, he had maintained his home in Brooklyn. Broth­ er Liotta joined the SIU in New York and had shipped as AB. His last vessel was the San Francisco. Burial services were held at Ocean View Cemetery on Staten Is­ land. Brother Liotta is survived by his wife, Mrs. Amelia Liotta, and his son, Joseph. John T. Smith, 71: Heart dis­ ease claimed the life of veteran ^ Seafarer Smith Thomas Sullivan, 38: Brother at his home in Sullivan passed away February Erie, Pennsyl­ 3 at his resi­ vania, February dence in San 12. Brother Francisco. He Smith, who had was bora in Bos­ been sailing as ton, Massachu­ AB for more setts, and was than 30 years buried there at before an illness Mount Benedict forced his retirement in 1965, Cemetery. Broth­ joined the Union in Buffalo in er Sullivan's last 1938. Burial services were held voyage was aboard the Los An­ at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in geles, on which he sailed as Fairview Township, Pennsyl­ wiper. He had signed on the vania. Brother Smith is sur­ Iberville just prior to his death. vived by his wife, Florence. Sullivan joined the SIU in the ^ Port of New York. Brother Sul­ livan is survived by his mother, Frank S. Farmer, 58: A heart Mrs. Frieda Sullivan, and a attack claimed the life of Brothbrother and sister. • er Farmer at Southmore Hos­ Thomas J. Gray, 41: Brother pital in Houston, Gray died at his home in New l Texas on Febru­ York City on ary 17. Bora in March 8, follow­ Highlands, Tex­ ing a brief ill­ as, he had been ness. He joined living in Hous­ the SIU in the ton for a number i Port of New of years. Broth­ ^ York in 1951, er Farmer had been chief engi­ and had sailed neer with the G«&H Towing in the steward Company since 1956. Before department as that, he worked for the I.T.T. messman. Seafarer Gray's last Towing Company for 11 years. vessel was the Barre Victory. Seafarer Farmer joined the SIU Burial services were held at Cal­ in Houston. He is survived by vary Cemetery in Queens, New his wife, Josephine, and a York. Brother Gray is survived daughter, Bevelye. Burial was by his mother, Mrs. Eleanor at Garden of Gethsemene in Gray, and a brother, Frederick. Houston. May, 1969 LOG Ralph Subat, 65: Brother Subat passed away at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans on March 6. He had been on SIU pension since 1964. Brother Subat, who was bom in Missis­ sippi, had made his home in New Orleans. He had' sailed for nearly 30 years as a member of the steward department. His last ship was the New Jersey. Burial services were held at Lake Lawn Park Cemetery in New Orleans. He is survived by his widow, Irene. Martin J. Kelly, 64: Brother Kelly passed away Ft --uary 10 at the USPHS Hospital New Orleans er a brief ill", ess. Bom in T? bode Island, he had been livinp it the Catholic Mari­ time Club in New Orleap" at the time of his death. During his sailing career. Brother Kelly had sailed as both wiper and AB. His last ship was the Del Mar. He had also served two years with the U.S. Army dur­ ing World War II. Seafarer Kelly is survived by a sister, Margaret Thierfolder. Burial was at Hills Grove Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island. Evert Rosenqvist, 57: Broth­ er Rosenqvist died February 14 at his home in San Francisco. Born in Halsingborg, Sweden, he had lived in San Francisco for the past 10 years. A veteran of more than 25 years at sea, he sailed as AB and joined the SIU in the Port of New York. Burial serv­ ices were held at Olivet Memo­ rial Park Cemetery in San Fran­ cisco. Brother Rosenqvist is survived by a brother, Sven, who lives in Sweden. C. L. Tarver, 51: Brother Amo Peura, 53: Brother Tarver was stricken with a fatal Peura died March 1 at the heart attack USPHS Hospital aboard the tug in Staten Island, Dixie Vanguard New York, after on February 9 in a brief illness. the Mississippi Born in PeaRiver. He had body, Massa­ been employed chusetts, he had as tankerman for been living on ^ Dixie Carriers Staten Island for since l.J", when the past 20 years. he joined the SIU in the Port Rated AB, he had been sailing of New Orleans. Brother Tarver for 22 years, and joined the was a life-long resident of Lou­ SIU in the Port of New York. isiana. He had served with the Seafarer Peura last shipped on U.S. Army from 1941 through the Beaver Victory. He is sur­ 1945. He is survived by his vived by two brothers, Donald wife, Helen, and a daughter, and Warren! Burial was at Cedar Linda. Burial services were con­ Grove Cemetery in Peabody. ducted at Unity Community Cemetery. Jack Scurlock, 47: Brother Scurlock was lost overboard —— from the Penn William A. Jordan, 72: Ranger on Jan­ Brother Jordan passed away uary 25. Bom in from a stroke Tennessee, he 4 February 9 at had been mak­ the Plantation ing his home in f General Hospital the town of Mad­ in Fort Lauder­ ison with his dale, Florida. He /m^ father, Clyde, at had been ill for IHL W': the time of his a number of years, and re­ death. Brother Scurlock had tired on disabil­ been going to sea for 14 years ity pension in 1962. Brother as a member of the engine de­ Jordan, who joined the SIU in partment, and joined the SIU New Orleans in 1946, had been in Baltimore in 1957. He was going to sea for more than 20 sailing as oiler on the Penn years. He last shipped as AB Ranger when he was lost. Be­ aboard the Santore in 1962. sides his father, he is survived There are no survivors. Burial by a son, Ralph. services were held at Lauder­ dale Memorial Park Cemetery. Larry Jones, 69: Brother Jones passed away February 6 at Maryland Alfred Wright, 60: A sudden General Hos­ heart attack took the life of pital in Balti­ Brother Wright more. A native on February 18 of Denmark, he in Mobile Gen­ made his home eral Hospital. A in Baltimore for native of Louisi­ a number of ana, he had been years. Seafarer living in Mobile Jones, who held for the last 28 an AB's rating, had been sailing years. He had for more than 50 years. One of sailed as AB for the SIU oldtimers, he joined the the Mobile Towing Company, Union in the Port of Baltimore and joined the SIU in Mobile in 1938 and retired on an SIU in 1956. Wright had been sail­ pension in 1964. Brother Jones ing for nearly 40 years. He is last shipped aboard the Alcoa survived by his wife, Frances. Trader. Burial services were Burial services were held at Pine held at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Crest Cemetery in Mobile. Baltimore. He is survived by a brother, Poul Bjarni, who lives in Denmark. John W. Rankin, 36: Brother Rankin died January 1 at the Thomas Trollinger, 46: Ochsner Foun­ dation Hospital Brother Trollinger died of pneumonia at in Jefferson the USPHS Hos­ County, Louisi­ pital in San ana, of injuries Fransico on No­ sustained while vember 6, 1967. working aboard Bora in Seattle, a barge. Born in Washington, he Franklin, North had been living Carolina, he had for a number of been living there with his wife, years in San Lytha, at the time of his death. Brother Rankin sailed as OS, Francisco. Brother Trollinger and joined the SIU in Detroit. sailed as messman, and joined He had been employed by the the SIU in San Francisco. His Roen Towing Company. Burial last vessel was the Hastings. He services were held at Woodlawn is survived by his aunt, Mrs. Cemetery in Franklin. Hattie Adair. i O <I> �May, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty Nine SlU Family .ifails Union Welfare Plan Wife Thanks Union For Death Benefit To the Editor: My wife and I are well pleased with the Union Weltore Plan. We have gotten good service and always have been well treated at the hos­ pitals as well as at the SIU hall here in Houston. Both of us wish we had checked into this when I first went on boats years ago. Hope to be with the SIU for many years to come. R. G. Bordelon Houston, Texas To the Editon My husband, Frank J, Walter passed away on Jan­ uary 8. I would like to ex­ press my appreciation to the SIU Welfare Fund for the check 1 received so promptly after my husband's death. Thank you so much for the kindness afforded me and my family by my husband's Un­ ion brothers. , Sincerely, Mrs. Frank J. Walter Baltimore, Maryland ^ Safarer Anthony Notturno points to a welded patch just above the waterllne of the Lafayette which was put on. after ship was hit by VC artillery fire in ^the Saigon River. Fortunately, none of the crew was hurt. Photo was taken by Chief Electrician Rudy Djong. Seafarers All Safe •f- Enemy Salvo Hits Lafayette in Estuary of Saigon River On her second voyage under the Waterman Steamship Com­ pany banner, the SlU-contracted Lafayette underwent her bap­ tism of fire with no injuries to the Seafarers aboard. Steaming into Saigon from Vung Tau early on the morning of March x8, the Lafayette— formerly the American Mail Lines' California — was sud­ denly the target of a heavy salvo of artillery fire just as the ship entered the mouth of the Saigon River. Several shells ripped into the Lafayette amidships—about 15 feet below the main deck, and just above the waterline. For­ tunately, most of the damage was confined to the fuel oil settlers. Despite the fact that the at­ tack came suddenly and with­ out warning, and many of the crewmembers were working on the open decks at the time, no one was hurt. The attack ended as suddenly as it began, and the vessel con- W-2 Forms Held For Five Seafarers Income Tax W-2 forms | are being held by the Mid- I i land Grace Trust Company I for the following crewmem-1 I hers of the Galteia De-1 I fender: Gerald GaUagan Charlie Jones Eustaquil Santos Homero Gnerra Ellzar Martell The W-2 forms can bei i obtained by writing to i : Joseph P. Flamming, Burke i & Parsons, Counselors at | I Law, 52 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005. tinued on up the river. Then, again without warning, the ves­ sel came under another artillery barrage. The enemy shells raised geysers of water just off the Lafayette's bow, but this time there was no damage at all except to the crew's alreadyfrayed nerves. Shell Holes Patched Following this second en­ counter, the ship continued on to its berth in Saigon without further incident. The cargo was discharged while patches were being welded to cover the shell holes in the vessel's side. Anthony Notturno, an able seaman, was aboard the Lafa­ yette during the attacks. He summed up the feelings of the crew: "I used to read about things like this in the newspa­ pers, and I would think that they only happen to other ships. I don't feel that way anymore." Soviets Teaching fishing Methods To 18 Countries MOSCOW—The Soviet Un­ ion is at present helping 18 foreign countries to develop their marine resources and train fish­ ermen, according to the official news agency of the U.S.S.R., Tass. Among the countries receiv­ ing Russian aid are Burma, Iran, Uganda, Guinea, Somalia, Ken­ ya, the Cameroons, Cuba, and the United Arab Republic. Students from these countries and others are studying fishery subjects in Russian universities and technical institutes. As part of their training, foreign student fishermen sometimes work alongside veteran Russian fish­ ermen aboard Soviet fishing ves­ sels like those operating off the coasts of the United States. Seafarer's Parents Express Gratitude To the Editor: We wish to sincerely thank everyone aboard the S.S. Yukon at the time of our beloved son's death for their generous help. We also want to thank all aboard the S.S. Steel Advocate for helping James' father to return home at this tragic time. We want all to know it is deeply ap­ preciated. Our thanks also to Jerry and Shirley at the Terminal Island SIU Hall for their very kind help. Mr. & Mrs. George Ospring Westminster, California. — Thanks Offered For Lucky 2 years To the Editor: I want to take the oppor­ tunity to thank the SIU Social Security and Welfare office for what has been the luckiest two years of my life. Number 1: I just got mar­ ried and am going to live in Opa-Locka, Forida, with my wife, Regina. We have a nice little place near the water. Number 2: I have been on pension since last August, and I want to tell you it feels great to take it easy and not have to get up and answer any bells. Number 3; Not too long ago, I was in the Marine Hos­ pital for a serious ailment. They gave me only a 50-50 chance to live, but I pulled through and feel better now than I have for the past 50 years. Although I am in the RMR, I found out that what­ ever district you are in when you need help, you always get it. All in all, I have a lot to be thankful for. I particularly want to thank the SIU and the Social Secu­ rity and Welfare people for the great help they have been to me over the years. I think one of the luckiest things we fellows in the RMR ever did was to affiliate with the SIU, because we have had a lot of good luck since. I have worked for Penn Railroad for 25 years so I know this to be true. Aneus W. Olson Opa-Locka, Florida Welfare Plan Pays Wife's Medical Bills To the Editor: I must state my many thanks to our Welfare Plan for the many times during which my wife, Freda, has been in the hospital and our SIU Welfare Plan has come to my rescue when the bills came. It sure is something to have such a plan that can be relied on when one is in need. Then again, when I had to have a hearing aid, the big­ gest part of the bill was paid. So, again I say thanks, and hope that all our SIU mem­ bers know how much the Wel­ fare Plan can do for all in the time of need. Glen H. Whitehead Toledo, Ohio .1. SIU Pension Check Called A Godsend To the Editor: I received my first disabili­ ty pension check, and I don't know how to express my thanks to our fine Union, its officers and trustees. The check was a Godsend. We have come a long way since I first joined the SIU in 1944. I consider myself a very fortunate man to have been a part of such a fine and progressive Union. Once again, thanks to the SIU from the bottom of my heart. John C. Chiorra Allentown, Pa. Wife Thanks SIU for Check To the Editor: I wish to send my sincere thanks to the SIU Welfare Plan for the check I received covering hospital expenses after my recent operation. I want to thank my hus­ band's wonderful Union and to say that I am very proud that he is a member of the SIU. Mrs. John Dnist l^lkes-Bonre, Pa. Seafarer's Sister Sends A Prayer To the Editon This is a difficult letter for me to write. My brother, Charlie Goldstein, was on an SIU pension and he recently passed away. He always had a great deal of respect for the Union, and many times spoke about the SIU's accomplish­ ments in making a better life for the seaman. He would be the one to know, because he came a long way. He was only 18 years old when he began to sail, and his feeling for the sea was deep in him. He was away from the sea for only a short time, and when the Second World War began he was back again and he stayed with it, for it truly was his way of life. It was not just like working for work's sake. He had a compassion for the men he worked with, and truly want­ ed to be a friend. I know that at various times when he was sick and money was needed he had no troubles, for all of his bills were taken care of by the Union. He had dignity. I personally came down to the Union Hall and spoke with some of the representa­ tives there. Their kindness and understanding, and their telling me how much they thought of my brother gave me great comfort. I did want to meet my brother's friends and to talk with them about him. As I said, shipping was truly his whole life, and in my heart I feel that he has just taken another trip. A very special thanks to all my brother's friends in the Un­ ion, and a little prayer that God may bless each of them every day. Sincerely, Helen Coe Seafarer Writes From Vietnam To the Editon I am a member of the SIU, just as my father is, and I am now stationed in Vietnam serving with the U.S. Army. I always enjoyed receiving the LOG while I was in the States and I will appreci­ ate having it sent to me at my new address. I am stationed at Camp Evans, and things are all right so far. We just arrived here, and there are a lot of things to be done around camp. There has not been any action yet and everyone hopes it will stay that way. I am trying very hard to see if I can get stationed down near the waterfront. One reason is that I will have a better chance to see my father when he ships over here. It will also give me a chance to see some friends who sail out this way. I would also like to say hello to all my old shipmates. Pedro A. Castro .'5 I .i\ �Page Thirty 'I' Labor ViewedAs 'Strong, Vibrant' Force for Uplift BOISE, Idaho—Labor's com­ mitment "to help in the uplift of all workers remains strong and vibrant" even though unions have achieved many of their earlier goals for their members, AFL-CIO Education Director Walter G. Davis declared here. In an address to a Pacific Northwest Labor History Con­ ference sponsored by Gonzaga University, Davis refuted those who contend that labor is no longer a dynamic force. Enemies Active For one thing, he noted, la­ bor's enemies are as busy as ever trying to weaken unions and their programs, "so if labor was as weak as some say, most of the economic and social gains of the past would be wiped out." He noted that organized labor has been the "dominant voice" in securing higher minimum wages, strengthened civil rights laws, more aid to education, and other measures that benefit everyone, not just union mem­ bers. Labor has "moved into a larger dimension" of helping all Americans and its militancy and influence in improving society "will continue to grow," Davis concluded. Land Sale Fraud Curbed by HUD's New Regulations Cs t? WASHINGTON — Regula­ tions to curb some of the worst abuses in mail order sale of home lots took effect April 28. Developers of subdivisions of 50 or more lots, offered for sale in interstate commerce, now are required to furnish "property reports" to the prospective buy­ ers. The reports must include such data as distance to nearby communities over paved or unpaved roads, present and pro­ posed utility services and charges, number of homes cur­ rently occupied, soil and other foundation problems in con­ struction. The AFI.-CIO had strongly urged federal legislation to guard against land sale fraud in congressional testimony. The legislation was enacted last year as part of the Housing and Urban Development Act. HUD Secretary George Romney's announcement of the final regulations indicated some weakening in a tentative draft issued January 25. It enables developers with disclosure state­ ments on file under state laws in Florida, California, Hawaii and New York to use those statements without having them checked by HUD for complete­ ness and accuracy. SEAFARERS May, 1969 LOG UN]PAIR "TO, LABC>R •• aisJ Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stitzel'Weller Dislillerics "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Kfngsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Cenesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. United Brick and Clay Workers) <1> "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman vl> Atlantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) —— Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Baltimore Luggage Co. I^dy Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) —— White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) i R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) -if Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) i Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas — <!> — All Califonua Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) i Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) ^ Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Economy Furniture Co. Smitbtown Maple Western Provincial BUt-Rite (Upholsterers) FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution reguires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are adnainistered in accordance with the provislona of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt request^. The proper address for this is: Ekirl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals' Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which yon work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper nuinner. If, at any time, any STO imtrolman or other Union ofllcial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has tradithmaUy KMn^ from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the publlsmng articles aeemeu Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from, publishing deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. ThisI established policy has been 0, meetings In all constltureafllrmed by membership action at the September, 1960, tional jwrts. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested (n an ^ editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, fTom among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. .4-. \ SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans June 10—2s30 p.m. Mobile .... June 11—2:30 p.m. Wilmington. June 16—2:00 p.m. San Francisco June 18—2:00 p.m. Seattle June 20—2:00 p.m. New York . June 2^—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia June 3—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. June 4—2:30 p.m. Detroit .... June IS—2:30 p.m. Houston ... June 9—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans June 10—7:00 p.m. Mobile .... June 11—7:00 p.m. New York . June 2—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia June 3—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. June 4—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. June 9—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings June 2—2:00 p.m. Detroit . . June 2—7:00 p.m. Alpena .. June 2—7:00 p.m. Buffalo .. June 2—^7:30 p.m. Chicago . June 2—^7:00 p.m. Duluth .. June 2—7:00 p.m. Frankfort Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... June 10—^7:30 p.m. tSault June 12—7:30 p.m. St Marie . Buffalo .... June 11—^7:30 p.m. Duluth .... June 13—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. June 13—^7:30 p.m. Toledo .... June 13—7:30 p.m. Detroit .... June 9—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . June 9—^7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans June 10—5:00 p.m. Mobile June 11—5:00 p.ni. Philadelphia June 3—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) June 4—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... June 5—5:00 p.m. Houston ... June 9—5:00 p.m. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiay Wllliamt Robert Matthewi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS *75 4fh Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY ?-*400 ALPENA. Mich 127 RIvar St. (517) EL 4-361* BALTIMORE, Md 121* E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON. Mast **3 Atlantic Avenue (il7) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.Y. 735 Waihlngton St. SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, III 93B3 Ewing Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jaffanon Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tex JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS, La NORFOLK, Va 2014 W. 3rd St. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. Box 2B7 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 2*0t Pearl-St. (904) EL 3-0987 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 *30 Jackion Ave. (504) 529-7546 115 3rd St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa Railway Marine Region Philadriphia June 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore June 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.ni. •Norfolk June 12—10 a,m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City June 9—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. } Meeting held at Galveston wharves. 2*04 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 134* Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Freemont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandez Juncoi Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wath ST. LOUIS, Mo TAMPA, Fla 2505 Firjt Avenue (206) MA 3-4334 SOS Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 312 Harriion St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif^ 450 Seajide Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan. . Iieva BIdg., Room BOI 1-2 Kaigan^ori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to nuke a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union balls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any mmber or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify hradquarters. - RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing diubility-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, th^ are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on raA-and-flle committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of thonselves, .^'r families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and eonstitnte the funds through which legislative and jtolitical activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any tlms a Seafarer fseb that any of the above rights have been vMatad. or that ha has been denied his consUtntlenal right of acesss to Union records or 1^ formation, ho shenld fanmsdlately nstb^ SIU Prmident Panl HaU at headquarters by eertifisd suUL return receipt requested. �R^i:-cK3^.<lPrt5V»K«WW?.-«raj'*Wftvrj-rf«7^'atr»^>tS:wnrTWJW.Sl«WV^ ^\ , ., \ ^ AB Thomas Moose was the ship's delegate during the voyage, and everyone agreed he did a very fine job representing the Rafael Semmes crew. Henry Lovelace sails as AB and has been going to sea for over 20 years. He has often served as department or ship's delegate during career. Harold Loll, left, who sailed as OS and Bob Scarborough, baker, take it easy and talk over their plans as they await their turn at pay-off. Deck Delegate James scans the LOG as Ship's Thomas Moose loob on. Grinnell is a 19-year SIU ••V Grinnell Delegate Seafarer member. iiiilL Seafaesr Robert L. Harnell is- dressed and ready to hit the beach as soon as he'gets paid off. Harnell, member of engine department, shipped as FWT. ii'N'i AW. ^d^Viec aoe ^ �II' "'f 'I iiiliM SEAFARERfrttlXM} OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO I?: t PENSION DATA - QUESTIONNAIRE In order to effect improvements in the current pension program, it is necessary that Seafarers submit the answers to the below listed questions, and fill in all seatime information in the place provided. Do not mail this questionnaire in until you have filled in all data. (Please print all answers.) Send to SlU Pension Study Committee, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232. i I I I. Name 2. Residence address Street Apartment No. State City Zip Code 3. Social Security No. (Area Code) 4. Book No. 6. Date of Birth Telephone No. 5. Z No. 7. Age last birthday 8. Height Weight Mo. Day Year 9. Date of Joining SlUNA-AGLIWD 10. Type of book now held: "C" "B" When issued "A" Year Month 11. Age when you first sailed deep-sea 12. Married Single Widowed Divorced Relationship Living in your home? Separated 13. Number of Dependents Name i ; ( - Date of Birth Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SSi ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) No No No No No No No Receiving Social Security? ( ) Yes ( ( ) Yes ( ( ) Yes ( ( ) Yes ( ( ) Yes ( ( ) Yes ( ( ) Yes ( No ) No ) No ) No ) ) . No No ) No ) ( ( ( ( ( ( * ( V. ;• If yes, indicate as follows: 14. Are you presently on pension? Type: Other _ Normal Disability Other Social Security From whom: Seafarers Pension Plan Name of Entity 15. Are you eligible for supplemental Medicare? 16. Fill in numbers of days of seatime for each of the years listed below: Number of Days For Pension Plan Office Use Only Number of Days 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 I960 1950 For Pension Plan Office Use Only 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 Number of Days Number of Days Number of Days 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 I hereby authorize the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ trict, its officers, employees or representatives, to obtain, on my behalf, any and all information as to my seatime from the United States Coast Guard. ^rt.-' :>•: Date Sign your name here t Social Security Number Comments; I 1. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource May 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: IMPROVING THE PENSION PLAN SIU ISSUES STRONG PROTEST AGAINST CLOSING TO DETROIT USPHS FACILITY BILLS WOULD GIVE UNSUBSIDIZED SHIPS CARGO PRIORITIES AND TAX ADVANTAGES RETIREES CHARGE MISMANAGEMENT AT SAILORS’ SNUG HARBOR INDEPENDENT MARAD TOPS MARITIME GOALS VOTED BY LOUISIANA AFL-CIO HURRICANE BETSY VICTIM EMERGING AS SALVAGE EFFORTS SLOWLY PROGRESS LEGISLATORS, MARITIME LEADERS WEIGH GROWING WOES OF GREAT LAKES FLEET SUBSTANTIAL SOCIAL SECURITY INCREASES URGED TO MEET INCOME GAP OF ELDERLY REP HALPHREN CALLS FOR SCRAPPING, REPLACING 1936 MARITIME LAW LEGISLATION PROPOSING USER TAX FOR TUGS AND TOWBOATS IS OPPOSED LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WINS LAIRD’S SEAT THROUGH UPSET VICTORY IN WISCONSIN AIFLD’S CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIAL PROGRESS PRAISED BY NIXON JOB BLACKLISTING SERVICE OPERATED BY EXTREMIST RIGHT CHURCH LEAGUE FORMOSAN VESSEL, OIL BARGES COLLIDE UNDER NEW ORLEANS BRIDGE; 25 DEAD KANSAS RIGHT-TO-WORKERS STYMIED IN MOVE TO ASSESS HARSH PENALTIES APPEALS COURT ORDERS JP STEVENS TO GIVE NLRB WORKERS’ ADDRESSES THOUSANDS JOIN GOOD FRIDAY MARCH IN MEMPHIS MEMORIAL TO DR. KING SENATE REPORT PLEADS FOR EXTENSION OF NLRB TO MIGRATORY WORKERS GRAPE WORKERS SEEK TO EXPOSE PESTICIDE PERIL RAPHAEL SEMMES TOUCHES HOME BASE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 05/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 7 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/9dcd590543c85a9f0f9784a167dda730.PDF a5d34a59fac8638e4976041610f00cf5 PDF Text Text mmmi In This Issue; SPK/AL PENSION SUPPLEMm Vol. XXXi No. 8 —See Centerfold 1 SEAFARERS mM AAARIA VAUENTE ARTURO VAUENTE LV-'iTfi;-:' • • • ••;• .. • AAARY E. BERNARD JOHN E. BERNAIW ;RS of the Kith annual SIU Cfdiege Sdmiaish^ were annonnced last month after an advisory committee id outstanding educators met in New York to maitA the awards. The chiUbren of five Seafarers were selected for fom'-year, $6,000 gnuds to study at the coOege of fiieir choke in any field desired. Since the SIU Sdbidarship program began u 1953, a to^ of 83 gran&. have been awarded. Of these, 25 have gone to Seafarers and 58 to the chilAren of Sejdarar& (ShMy ma Phge 3^ SCHOLARSHIP •w •-Siii i I I n . �SB Page. Two SEAFARERS Ship Management Unity Key to Progress, Hall Says SAN FRANCISCO—The United States must have a new maritime program quickly, or "we will have no maritime in­ dustry at all," SIU President Paul Hall warned leaders of maritime management and labor in a Maritime Day speech here. Pointing to the rapid buildup of Russia's merchant fleet. Hall told the audience of nearly 1,000 at the annual luncheon of the Propeller Club that the So­ viet Union was using its mer­ chant shipping as an "unarmed" extension of its political power and influence. By contrast, he said, the American merchant marine has been plagued by "deterioration" —its share of this nation's waterbome exports and imports droj^ing from 26 percent a third of a century ago to a mere seven percent today. "This obviously means that something has gone wrong," HaU said. Development of a strong mar­ itime program, he said, depends on unity within the industry— and specifically on unity among the managemrat groups which are guilty of "not caring what happens to their neighbor." Hall made it clear that he was talking about more than just the deep-sea segment of the U.S.flag fleet "To have a good maritime in- dustry," he said, "and to build the kind of fleet and the seapower that we need, we must build from the bottom up—^not only on the rivers, not only in the lakes, not only in the off­ shore, but in the shipbuilding facilities as well. Together, these components make up the maritime industry." With respect to legislation now pending in Congress, Hall pointed to two basic bills which he said are "fundamental" to the development of a balanced U.S.flag fleet: • Redrafting of the legisla­ tion governing the cargo prefer­ ence program to assure maxi­ mum U.S.-flag carriage of mil­ itary, foreign aid and Food-forPeace cargoes, and to protect unsubsidized operators against unfair competition from subsi­ dized lines. • Extending the unsubsidized operators the same right to es­ tablish tax-deferred construction reserve funds now enjoyed ex­ clusively by the subsidized op­ erators. Making it possible for imsubsidized operators to accu­ mulate ship replacement funds, he said, would lead to a surge in shipbuilding activity in Amer­ ican yards. The SIUNA president noted that more than 75 members of Congress already have sponsor­ ed such legislation. SB! Five Additional Seafarers Lkensed; Engineer Upgraders Now Total 329 Hants Mdton Five additional Seafarers have qualified for engineers licenses after completing the intensive course of training at the School of Marine Engineer­ ing sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. This latest list of successful candidates brings to 329 the total number of men who have passed Coast Guard licensing examinations after taking the comprehensive course of study offered by the school. The new graduates include Bobby Harris, and Jesse Melton upgraded to 2nd assistant engi­ neer; James McCranie, 3rd as­ sistant; and Kenneth Carlson and Charles Heinen, temporary 3rd assistants. Harris is a natiye of North Carolina, and has been going to sea for the past 18 years with the exception of a three-year hitch in the U.S. Army. He last shipped Ml the Joplin Victory. Harris joined the SIU in t^ Port of Norfolk, the city he now SIU Urges Congress to Prevent Strangling' of TugSarge Indastry WASHINGTON —The SIU has strongly urged Congress to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to prevent "strangulation" of the tug and barge industry on the nation's inland waterways. Four officials of the Union— Vice President Earl Shepard; Paul Drozak of Houston, Gor­ don Spencer of Norfolk and Merle Adlum of Seattle—^voiced the SlUNA's support of three identical bills in testimony be­ fore the Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics of the House Interstate Com­ merce Committee. The bills (H.R. 8298, H.R. 8376 and H.R. 8509) would get rid of "unrealistic language" now in • the law, the Union said. . The legislation. Spencer told the House group, would amend Section 303(b) of the Act in two ways. It would eliminate lan­ guage which defines an entire string of barges as a single "ves­ sel," and it would remove a definition of "bulk cargo" which would tie the industry to cargo practices in existence . 30 years ago, instead pf those now in existence. . This Section of the law was enacted in 1939, Spencer said, but the Interstate Commerce Commission "iS only now pro­ posing"^ ^at it be implemented. He noted that the ICC has twice delayed putting the require­ ments into effect to permit Con­ gress to consider legislative rem­ edies. Present plans call for im­ plementing the requirement on June 30. Spencer said that lumping a flotilla of as many as 40 sep­ arate bargbs under the single heading of a "vessel" would prevent an inland boat operator from carrying more than three different bulk commodities in the same string of barges if he is to maintain his exemption from certain types of regulation. The other objectionable lan­ guage in Section 303(b), the SIU official said, defining "bulk" cargo in terms of packaging practices in effect in 1939, would, if implemented, "be forcing the industry to go back to the 'custom of the trade' 30 years ago." Drozak told the Subcommit­ tee that the inland tug and barge industry has experienced a ma­ jor technological breakthrough in recent years. "Today," he said, "a single tug or towboat moves an aver­ age of 40 barges at a clip— carrying 50,000 tons of cargo at a time. . . . That 50,000-ton payload is greater than that car­ ried by many of the nation's ocean-going freighters. It's the' equivalent of the total cargo June, 1969 LOG that it takes 2,000 trailer trucks to move over our highways. It's equal to the carrying capacity of a dozen freight trains averag­ ing 70 cars each." The increased productivity, has been translated into "the lowest costs of any of our forms of domestic transportation," Drozak declared, adding that "average rail costs are 15 mills per ton-mile; truck costs are 65 mills per ton-mile; but barge costs average only three mills per ton-mile." The barge costs, he pointed out, "are lower than they were 20 years ago." ITie Union's statement said that unless the amendments are enacted into law, "barge opera­ tors are going to be forced to split tows according to the num­ ber or type of commodity car­ ried." This, it warned would mean lower utilization of equip­ ment, increased rates for ship­ pers, and ultimately higher costs for consumers. Summing up the SIU's posi­ tion, Shepard said: "If the inland boat industry prospers—as it has every right to prosper—^then there will be jobs and a, livelihood for our members. If this industry de­ clines—as it is in danger of do­ ing—then their jobs will be eliminated and their livelihood will be imperiled." McOranie calls home when he is not sail­ ing. Seafarer Melton was bom in Philadelphia and now makes his home in Brooklyn with his wife, Betty Jo. A long-time member of the SIU, Melton joined the Union in 1944 in Philadelphia. He has been sailing for more than 30 years as a member of the engine department. Melton last shipped on the San Fran­ cisco. Brother McCranie was born in Georgia, and now lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife, Margie. He served two years with the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict before joining the SIU in the Port of San Francisco and beginning his ca­ reer at sea. McCranie last shipped aboard the Seatrain Puerto Rico as FOWT. Seafarer Carlson was bom in Illinois, and now stays in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, when he is not sailing. He joined the SIU in Tampa. Carlson served three years with the U.S. Marine Carison Heinen Corps during World War II. Heinen comes from Port Ar­ thur, Texas, and now lives in Bandera, Texas, with his father, Harry. The newly-licensed tem­ porary 3rd assistant last sailed on the Alcoa Commander. All engineering department Seafarers are eligible for any of the upgrading programs at the Union-sponsored School of Ma­ rine Engineering, providing they are at least 19 years of age and have a minimum of 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine department in addition to at least six months experience as wiper or the equivalent. Any Seafarer who qualifies and wishes to enroll in the school may obtain additional information and make applica­ tion for enrollment at any SIU hall. Information can also be obtained by writing to SIU headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave­ nue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or by telephoning the school at (212) 499-6600. Shipmates Reunited After 24 Years I It was just 24 years ago vyhen S. M. "Catfish" McGowan (left) and Billy Brewer posed for the photo above in Santos, Brazil. Both were sailing as messmen on the old Hog Island. The two re­ cently found thennselves reunited when they both shipped on the Erna Elizabeth, so they had this photo snapped in Panama to rej-;— cord the event. Brewer (letft)' was sailing as chief pumpman, and McGowan, deck maintenance. Catfish also sails as bosun. Both • • joined the Seafarers in. 1945. ' �June, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Three LOG Youngsters of Five Seafarers Selected as: Winners of $6,000 SlU 1969 Scholarships Announced NEW YORK—Five children of Seafarers have been named recipients of $6,000 SIU college scholarships for the year 1969. The winners will be free to choose four-year courses of study in whatever field they de­ cide to pursue at any college or university in the United States or its possessions. This year's scholarship win­ ners are: Mary E. Bernard, daughter of Seafarer John E. Bernard, Sault Ste Marie, Mich.; Dennis E. Foreman, nephew and legal dependent of Seafarer Jewell E. Randolph, Metairie, La.; Jose L. Ramos, son of Seafarer Jose Ramos, Bayamon, Puerto Rico; Roy A. Schwarmann, son of Seafarer Arthur J. Schwarmann, Leonia, N. J., and Maria Valiente, daughter of Seafarer Arturo Valiente, New Orleans, La. This is the 16th year of awards under the SIU Scholar­ ship Awards program, which has opened the door to a college ed­ ucation for a total of 83 recip­ ients to date. Of these, 25 have been Seafarers and 58 have been the children or legal dependents of Seafarers. Selections are made by an im­ partial committee of six educa­ tors from top institutions of learning. Candidates are re­ quired to take tests given by the College Entrance Examination Board or the American College Testing Program. The results of the tests, together with evidence of the candidate's past scholastic attainments, character and qual­ ities of leadership, form the basis of the selections. Fine Caliber Demonstrated As in previous years, the chil­ dren selected all show a high re­ gard for service to the nation and the community and have distinguished themselves in serv­ ice-related fields, as well as in their consistently high scholar­ ship ratings and participation in 1 extra-curricular school activities. Typical of this spirit is that expressed by Jose Ramos— "More than anything, I would like to help the people of Latin America as a doctor. I know the language and the people, and the necessity is real." Mary E. Bernard, 17, daugh­ ter of l^afarer John E. Bernard, was graduated last month from the Loretto Catholic Central High School in Sault Ste Marie, Mich., where she was editor of the school yearbook. A member of the National Honor Society, she has participated in basket­ ball, the school chorus and is interested in music. Among oth­ er activities, she has served as a "candy-striper" at the War Me­ morial Hospital in Sault Ste Marie. Mary has already been accepted for admission by the University of Michigan, where she intends to major in history and political science. After col­ lege she hopes to work for the federal government, probably in the field of domestic issues, be­ cause she "wants to do some­ thing positive for our country." Dennis E. Foreman, 17, a nephew and legal dependent of Seafarer Jewell C. Randolph, is Student Council president at Ridgewood Preparatory School in Metairie, La., from which he will be graduated this month. A member of the National Beta Club, an honor society, he has been on the football squad, was captain of the school band and co-editor of the school news­ paper. He was named the "Out­ standing Teenage American" by the school faculty. With all this, he has worked after school. Dennis will enter Reed College in Portland, Ore., where his field will be experimental psychology, with emphasis on experimental educational methods. He in­ tends to go on to master and doctorate degrees after that. Jose L. Ramos, 17-year-old Seafarer's Daughter Awarded AFL-CIO Merit Scholarship WASHINGTON — Ronda Covington, daughter of Seafar­ er Eugene Covington, is the winner of one of six scholarship awards given by the AFL-CIO for 1969. A senior at Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon, Ronda has maintained a high grade average while participat­ ing in numerous school activi­ ties and working after school as a waitress. Ronda is a member of the National Honor Society and has held several class ofiSces. She plans to enter Mills College at Oakland, California, majoring •either in French or English for a career in education. The AFL-CIO Merit Scholar­ ship program provides up to $6,000 in financial aid during a four-year college course. Started 11 years ago, the annual awards Ronda Covington have furnished 66 scholarships to able, deserving youngsters in every part of the nation. Seafarers Scholarship Advisory Committee which named winners of 1969 SIU awards relax after making their choices. From left: Charles D. O'Conneii, University of Chicago; Dr. Elwood C. Kastner, Dean of Registration, New York"" University: Dr. Bernard P. Ireland, College Entrance Examination Board; Price C. Spivey, Administrator, SIU Welfare Plans (Not a committee member); Richard M. Keefe, St. Louis University; Edna M. Newby, Douglass College, and Dr. Charles A. Lyons, Jr., Howard University. son of Seafarer Jose Ramos, has maintained a straight "A" aver­ age at University High, an ex­ perimental school attached to the University of Puerto Rico, at Rio Piedras, P. R. He has also excelled at swimming and soccer and won the second prize for chemistry at the Scientific Fair held at the University. He hopes to enter the University of Mich­ igan in the Fall for a course in pre-medicine or possibly engi­ neering. Roy A. Schwarmann, 17, son of Seafarer Arthur J. Schwar­ mann, is president of the Senior Class at Leonia High School in Leonia, N. J., where he became intrigued by the future of spac.e exploration. A winner of the National Merit Letter of Com­ mendation, he has gone out for such sports as football, basket­ ball and baseball. He has al­ ready been accepted by Cornell University's school of engineer­ ing anid will major in aeronau­ tical engineering. Maria Valiente, the 17-yearold daughter of Seafarer Arturo Valiente, plans a career in the field of science—^preferably bi­ ology or chemistry. She will be graduated from Dominican High School in New Orleans, where she enjoys dancing and the pi­ ano. Her extra-curricular activi­ ties have ranged widely through mathematics, dramatics and journalism, and she has received commendation for volunteer work in Tulane's Lighthouse Eye Disease Detection Qinic. It was there she developed her desire to enter a research field. Maria plans to enter Tulane University, and wants to do post­ graduate work aimed at the eventual goal of teaching ^t the college level. High as the qualifications and interests of the scholarship win­ ners are, the Seafarers Award Committee expressed the unani­ mous opinion that their task was most difBcult this year because the records of all applicants were "the best ever." The committee met here last month to study the scholastic records of the 1969 candidates and reconunend their ultimate selections to the trus­ tees for aetion. Members of this panel of out­ standing educators were: Dr. Bernard P. Ireland, member of the College Entrance Examina­ tion Board; Dr. Elwood C. Kast­ ner, Dean of Registration, New York University; Robert M. Keefe, Admissions Director of St. Louis University; Dr. Charles A, Lyons, Jr., Dean of Ad­ missions, Howard University; Charles D. O'Conneii, Director of Admissions, University of Chicago; and Edna M. Newby, Assistant Dean, Douglass Col­ lege for Women at Rutgers Uni­ versity. MTP Administrator Tells Navy League Labor on US Flag Ships Chalked Up 25-Year, 440% Prodartivity Cain WASHINGTON — Seagoing unions aboard U.S.-flag mer­ chant ships have chalked up a record-breaking 440-percent productivity increase in less than, a quarter century, an ofiicial of maritime labor declared here last month. O. William Moody, Jr., ad­ ministrator of the 7.5-millionmember AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, told the 67th annual convention of the Navy League of the United States, that this productivity in­ crease refuted the "myth" that high labor costs have contri­ buted to the decline of U.S.flag shipping. "Back in 1945," Moody de­ clared, "the United States was building C-3 cargo ships of 9,600 deadweight tons. The complement of these ships was 48 to 50 men. Last year, we built the first of the 'Lancer' class containerships — 32,000 deadweight tons; with a smaller complement—ranging between 35 and 40 men. "Deadweight tonnage in­ creased 313 percent while the average crew size decreased 22 percent. Thus, productivity in­ creased from 196 tons per man to 845 tons per man—a 440percent increase. You would be hard pressed to find another American industry with a pro­ ductivity increase of this mag­ nitude. "Whatever else may be the cause of the decline of the mer­ chant marine, it certainly hasn't been the cost of labor." Tackling another of the "an­ cient myths and amazing mis­ conceptions that cling like bar­ nacles to the U.S. merchant marine," Moody declared that while it does cost more to build ships in U.S. yards and to operate them at U.S. wage levels, it does not follow that "high U.S. costs are driving the American merchant marine from the oceans of the world." He noted that all American industries have wage, material and capital costs that are higher than their counterparts. The dif­ ference, he says, lies in the "ex­ posed position" of the merchant fleet. "Other industries are insu­ lated from foreign competition," he said, "either because they control and dominate our vast domestic market or because of tariffs and quota arrangements. But this is not true with the merchant marine. It is in direct competition with foreign-flag ships—built at bargain-base­ ment prices overseas, and crewed by low-wage seamen." Moody called for an end to the "uneven treatment" of the merchant marine, with one-third of the industry being subsidized and two-thirds of the industry forced to go it alone without government assistance. He urged a "drastic overhaul" of maritime legislation to achieve "an equitable program leading to the development of a bal­ anced fleet." �mm i? r: Page Four SEAFARERS June, 1969 LOG To Succeed Sehnitzler Lane Klrkland is Elected New AFL-CiO Sec.-Treas. Congressional leaders and Union officials paid tribute to the late Senator E. L. Bartlett (D-Alaska) at the dedication of the E. L. Bartlett Auditorium in the headquarters of the Transportation Institution in Washington. Shown here during the unveiling of a bust of the Senator are (l-r) Congressman Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska): Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska): Mrs. E. L. Bartlett the Senator's widow; Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and Senator Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.). Senator Bartlett died last Dec. I I. In Transportation Institute Ceremony Late Senator £ L. Bartlett Honored As Memorial Auditorium Deditated WASHINGTON—The late Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett was honored with the dedication of an auditorium in his memory by the Transportation Institute here last month. With members of the Senate and House, government agen­ cies, and maritime management and labor in attendance, the In-, stitute formally named the 200seat auditorium in tribute to the Alaska Democrat who had served as chairman of the Sen­ ate Commerce Subcommittee on maritime affairs. The Transportation Institute is a Washington-based research organization concerned with the maritime industry and allied forms of transportation. It is the successor to the 10-yearold Andrew Furuseth Founda­ tion for Maritime Research. The ceremonies also included the unveiling of a bust of Sena­ tor Bartlett, sculpted by Bernar­ do Sembrano, a 27-year-old Washington sculptor and a painter. A plaque at the base of the sculpture carries this inscrip­ tion: E. L. BARTLETT 1904-1968 Klondike gold miner newspaperman architect of Alaskan statehood first U.S. Senator from Alaska champion of the U.S. , Merchant Marine statesman—^friend Participating in the dedica­ tion were Mrs. B. L. Bartlett, widow of the Senator; Senator Warren G. Magnuson CDWash.); chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee; Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska); Rep­ resentative Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska); Archibald E. King, Chairman of the board of Isth­ mian Lines and chairman of the Transportation Institute's Board of Trustees; Ray R. Murdock, executive director of the Trans­ portation Institute; Herbert Brand, Transportation Institute administrator and O. William Moody, Jr., administrator of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. Plaque Presented A memorial plaque was pre­ sented to Mrs. Bartlett by Moody on behalf of SIU and MTD President Paul Hall and 7.5 million union members rep­ resented by the Maritime Trades Department. "In every sense of the word," the plaque said, "Senator Bart­ lett was a vigorous champion of the U.S. merchant marine ... As the chairman of the Sub­ committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the Senate Commerce Committee, Senator Bartlett led the fight for mari­ time independence and for a fair and equitable maritime pro­ gram." At the conclusion of the cere­ monies, Mrs. Bartlett expressed her appreciation to all those who had come to honor her late husband. She said that a united, strong American mer­ chant marine was a dream that Senator Bartlett had worked for and urged that this work be continued. WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO Executive Council has elected Lane Kirkland secre­ tary-treasurer of the federation as of July 1,1969, to fill out the term of William F. Sehnitzler who will retire at the end of June. The council accepted "with deepest regret" Schnitzler's de­ cision to retire and said it looked forward lo "his contin­ uing advice and counsel as sec­ retary-treasurer emeritus." AFL-CIO President George Meany, in announcing the elec­ tion of Kirkland to a press con­ ference, said there were no other nmninees for the post. Kirkland has served as execu­ tive assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO since 1960. The council resolution on Sehnitzler hailed him as "friend and colleague, trade union lead­ er and distinguished American," and reviewed his long service to the AFL-CIO and the trade un­ ion movement. Sehnitzler has been AFL-CIO secretary-treas­ urer since the founding of the organization in December 1955. The retiring secretary-treas­ urer spoke briefly at the press conference saying he was look­ ing forward to retirement at 65, a decision that was entirely his own, and of his pride in years of serving with Meany as one of the executive officers of the fed­ eration. Kirkland, 47, a native of Camden, S.C., served as a mari­ time officer after graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1942. He joined the AFL research staff in 1948 after completing his B.S. degree work at Georgetown University. From 1953 to 1958 he served as assistant director of the AFL and AFL-CIO Department of Social Security. In 1958 he ber came director of research and education of the Operating En­ gineers, returning to the AFLCIO in 1960 to become execu­ tive assistant to Meany. He is president of the In­ stitute of Collective Bargaining and Group Relations, a director of the American Foimdation on Automation and Employment, a board member of Community Health, Inc., and a member of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Advisory Board. He serves also as a fellow of the American Public Health Associ­ ation and of the American As­ sociation for the Advancement of Science. June 1969 Vol. XXXi, No. 8 Official Publication of' the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Iniand Waters District. AFL-CIO Kxeeutive Board PAUL HALL, President CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exee. Viee-Pret. Vice-President LINOSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR Sec.-Treat. Vice-President ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WiLh KARP CHARLES SVENSON Staff Photographer AJRHONY .ANSALDI Pstliihid Msnthfy at SIO Rfestt lilaat Amis H.E., Waililiitan, 0. C. 2001S ky tfcs •w'fsn InMnatlsaal Ualsn, Atiaatls, Gilf, Laksi ant Inland Watsn Olitrlrt, AFL-CIO, «75 Foirib Annas, Brasklyn, II.Y. 112)2. Tel. HVaalnth 9-6600. Sstsnd ilau psttafs saM at Waihlnitsnt, 0. 0. POSTMASTER'S ATTERTIOR: Fsrai 3579 cardi ibsald bs nnt ts Ssafarsn latsrnatisaal Unisa, Aiisnili, 8iil, Lata Siid Isissd Watin DlitrIrt, AFL-CIO, 675 Feirth Annas. Omklyn, H.V. 112)2. High Court Upholds Unions' Right to Set Work Quotas WASHINGTON — The Su­ preme Court has ruled that un­ ions may set limits on the amount of work their members may do for their regular daily pay, and levy reasonable fines on those who repeatedly violate the rule. The court voted 7 to 1 to affirm a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision enforcing a National Labor Relations Board ruling in a 1961 case. The NLRB ruled that an Auto Workers local did not violate the Taft-Hartley Law when it fined four employees of Wiscon­ sin Motor Corp., Milwaukee, and suspended them from mem­ bership for a year, for demand­ ing immediate pay for produc­ tion over the daily quota or ceil­ ing. The rule, voted by a member­ ship meeting, is that members may produce as much as they wish per day but must "bank" the difference above the quota for payment in periods when work is slack. All but two justices joined Justice Byron White in ^ding that the union rule on produc­ tion quotas is valid and that its enforcement by reasonable fines does not constitute the restraint Of coercion forbidden by the law. Justice Hugo Black dis­ Lane Kirkland, at right, who was elected by the AFL-CIO Execu­ sented, and Justice Thurgood tive Council to succeed'William F. Sehnitzler upon his retirement on June 30, is congratulated by Sehnitzler and President George Meany. Marshall did not participate. I �Jane, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Fire LOG In Last Three Years SlU-MEBA, Dist 2 Schools Upgraded 1,000 to Licenses BROOKLYN, N.Y.—More than 1,000 members of the SIU, MEBA, District 2 and the Associated Maritime OfiBcers have obtained original or up­ graded licenses as engineers and deck oflScers in the last three years after completing courses at the Union training schools in Brooklyn, Toledo, and Duluth. Another 1,200 Seafarers have been trained at the Brooklyn school for shipboard jobs as firemen, oilers, electricians, pumpmen, etc. The Brooklyn school is part of the Maritime Upgrading Center operated jointly by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. The AMO is an affiliate of District 2 which rep­ resents licensed deck officers on ocean-going and Great Lakes ships. Since February 1966, the deepsea school has trained 803 men for licenses as engineers and deck officers. It has also prepared over 1,200 men for more than 2,560 Coast Guard endorsements as firemen, oilers, pumpmen, electricians, etc. On the Great Lakes, 209 men have obtained licenses as en­ gineers, 1st Gass Pilots and Masters, and another 58 stew­ ards have been trained in bak­ ing and meal planning. MARAD Adds 1 To Cuba Bbcklist; 3 Ships Dropped „ WASHINGTON—One ship -the 7,385-ton British-flag Sea Captain—added to the Cuba Blacklist, accm-ding to the latest report from the Maritime Ad­ ministration, which runs throu^ April 28. The list now includes the names of 175 ships, aggre­ gating a total of 1,254,111 gross tons. Three ships were removed from the blacklist at the same time. They are the Antonia II, a Cypriot-flag vessel of 7,281 tons; the Athelmere, a Britishflag ship of 7,524 tons and Chung Thai, Panamanian-flag and 3,352 tons. These were de­ leted because they had been scrapped or lost recently. The Cuba Blacklist was estab­ lished by MARAD on January 1,1963. The agency periodically places any Free World or Po­ lish-flag ships which have traded with Cuba on this list which henceforth makes them ineligi­ ble to carry U.S. governmentgenerated or financed cargoes. Vessels may be removed from the blacklist when their owners or operators pledge to keep them—as well as any others they control—away from the Cuban ports so long as it re­ mains United States policy to divert shipping from that coun­ try. A similar blacklist is main­ tained for North Vietnam. More than 750 men obtain licenses or ratings each year after studying at the School of Marine Engineering and Navi­ gation in Brooklyn. Approxi­ mately 250 become Engineers, Mates and Masters; the other 500 are trained as firemen, oil­ ers, electricians, pumpmen, etc. A number of men have al­ ready obtained more than one license at the school. The rec­ ords show that about 50 men come back to the school each year for their second license. In addition to preparing SIU, District 2 and AMO members for licenses, the Brooklyn school provides license training for ex-Navy, Coast Guard and Army transportation personnel, and others. To date, the deep-sea school has trained 753 men for en^neering licenses and 50 for licenses as deck officers, or a total of 803 licenses. It has also pfepared over 1,200 entry-rated personnel for more than 2,560 QMED endorsements. Of those who have obtained engineering licenses, 330 re­ ceived original licenses, and 373 raised their grade. Fifty inde­ pendents also obtained licenses. About 70 men also obtain li­ censes each year at the Great Lakes schools and another 20 receive training as stewards. To date 209 Lakesmen have ob­ tained licenses as engineers, 1st class. Pilots and Masters, and another 58 have been trained in baking and meal planning at the Union's Great Lakes schools. The SIU-MEBA District 2 School of Marine Engineering and Navigation in Brooklyn was established to help relieve the shortage of licensed officers resulting from the Vietnam sealift and from the normal loss of manpower arising from retire­ ments, deaths and other causes. The Toledo and Duluth schools —^for engineers, mates and stewards — were designed to sui>ply new officers for the Great Lakes shipping industry. Both programs were con­ ceived and planned by the Un­ ions and are financed by the ship operators, at no cost to the taxpayer. Under the SIU-MEBA, Dis­ trict 2 program professional seamen can add to their knowl­ edge, improve their skills and move up to better-paying ship­ board jobs. In the deepsea pro­ gram, a man can start as an ordinary seaman or wiper with the SIU, train with the SIU and District 2 or AMO, and work his way up to Master or Giief Engineer in as little as seven years. On the Great Lakes an unlicensed man can enroll, at the School of Marine Engineering and Navigation and prepare for an original license. Licensed officers can also raise their licenses at the Union schools. Dressed In crisp new tropical uniforms, 28 merchant marine staff officers received certificates as phar­ macist mates in ceremonies held at the USPHS hospital on Staten Island. Among the graduates was Henrietta Levenson, the second woman to complete the course sponsored by the SlUNA-affiliated Staff Officers Association. The school was set up to provide medical care aboard U.S. merchant ships. 28NewPharmaTistMates Graduate from SlUNASOA Training School NEW YORK—The third class of the Pharmacist Mate Training School, sponsored by the SIUNA-afiiliated Staff Of­ ficers Association, was gradu­ ated last month in ceremonies held at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital on Staten Is­ land. The new graduates—Tl men and one woman—^had success­ fully completed an intensive nine-month course under the in­ struction of Public Health Serv­ ice doctors and niu^es. They Seafarer Dilbeck Killed In Action By Viet Cong Seafarer Lonnie Dilbeck was killed in action January 1 while serving on active duty with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He was 20 years old. He was in­ ducted in May, 1968, and began his tour of duty in Vietnam on December 7 af­ ter completing Dilbeck his training in Montgomery, Alabama. Brother Dilbeck shipped as wiper on the Tucson Victory in July, 1967, after completing QMED training at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship in San Francisco. He also attended the upgrading school in New Orleans. His last vessel was the Albion Victory. Bom in Reingold, Georgia, Dilbeck.had been living in Fairhope, Alabama, prior to his in­ duction. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Minnie Killingsworth. each were presented with Coast Guard endorsements as PurserPharmacist Mates to serve on vessels in the U.S.-flag merchant fleet. Graduates also received diplomas from the Department of Health, Education and Wel­ fare, and the Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, for radio pratique. Addressing the graduates were Representative Hugh L. Carey (D-NY); Dr. Alexander Hutchison, World Health Orga­ nization consultant of Great Britain, and Burt E. Lanpher, SOA secretary-treasurer. Dr. Nicholas Galluzzi, director of the Marine hospit^, officiated at the exercises. Present at the ceremonies from SIU headquarters in Brooklyn were Representative Pete Drewes and Patrolman George McCartney. The training school was es­ tablished in 1967 after a fouryear campaign by the SIU and SOA to provide expert medical care for seamen aboard all U.S. merchant ships—a much-need­ ed service that had been lack­ ing on the vast majority of U.S.flag vessels. A number of significant ben­ efits have derived from the Pharmacist Mate program in the past two and one-half years. Chief among these is that it has provided medical care to crewmembers and passengers on American cargo ships who had not previously had this protec­ tion. When the program began, some 75 percent of all U.S. merchant vessels lacked medi­ cally trained personnel. The training program is also helping to trim the high cost of hospitalization and repatriation of American seamen—a cost of some $80 million last year alone which was borne by the shipping industry and the American tax­ payer. Students at the Pharmacist Mate Training School put in more than 1,000 hours during the nine-month course which consists of both academic in­ struction and clinical experience. Students spend long hours in emergency rooms and laborator­ ies, and observe operating room procedures under the expert guidance of staff doctors and nurses. Their classroom studies in­ clude the causes, symptoms and treatment of all major ailments, and qualifies the graduates to administer emergency treatment and after-care for all types of injuries they are likely to come in contact with aboard ship. Since the first class graduated on June 28, 1967, the work of the Pharmacist Mates has pro­ duced grateful testimonials from Seafarers, officers and doctors. Initial reports show that reliable diagnosis and prompt medical treatment by the Pharmacist Mates have saved lives at sea and prevented the compounding of less serious illnesses and acci­ dents. It has been demonstrated that seamen who sustain minor injuries aboard ship, and do not receive prompt and competent medical assistance, often require major treatment in a hospital by the time their vessel reaches port. All of the students accepted by the school are pursers who are members of SOA. They are selected by an impartial review board composed of eminent per­ sons in the maritime industry. The school is also evaluated pe­ riodically by leading medical authorities. �sm Page Six SEAFARERS LOG \ Jnne, 1969 MTD Meetings Hear: Congressmen Critical of 'Shortsighted' Policy Toward U.S. Merchant Marine WASHINGTON—Three Democrats and one Republican —^speaking at recent meetings sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department— criticized the "shortsighted pol­ icies" of the federal government toward the American merchant marine, and gave strong en­ dorsement to two pending bills to "help right some of the wrongs" that have plagued the nation's maritime efforts. Representative Joseph P. Addabbo (D-N,Y.) called for an "order of priorities" in the car­ riage of military, foreign aid and agricultural surplus cargoes for the government—^with the first priority going to the nation's unsubsidized fleet. Addabbo, one of more than 60 Congressmen who are spon­ soring bills to this effect in the current session of Congress, said the priority system was neces­ sary to protect unsubsidized ' American-flag vessels from "the competitive practices of the subsidized operator," and to safeguard both against the low^ cost competition of foreignflag operators. Addabbo was particularly critical of federal agencies for "contravention of the law" which provides that when pur­ chase of American goods is fi­ nanced by the government, the cargo is to be carried by Amer­ ican-flag ships. In spite of the-^ law, he said, "repeated bureau­ cratic decisions have placed a large percentage of this cargo aboard foreign vessels." Congressman Addabbo also noted that 14 subsidized ship­ ping lines are using subsidies— which are intended to make them competitive with foreignflag vessels—to underbid the un­ subsidized operator, "usually by as little as petmies a ton." Representative William D. Hathaway (D-Me.) also ex­ pressed criticism of the "short­ sighted policies" of the federal government which have reduced the American merchant marine to a point where it is carrying "less than six percent of our waterbome foreign commerce." To correct this situation, Hathaway urged that present maritime laws be "reviewed, ad­ justed and funded" to achieve a "greatly augmented, much more balanced fleet of all types of vessels in all segments of the industry." He noted that federal government aid to the merchant marine is essential because the industry "is in the most direct confrontation of any American industry with its foreign com­ petition." Representative Lloyd Meeds (D-Wash.) declared that special tax assistance is needed for a major share of the American maritime industry to "encourage a new flow of private capital into shipbuilding." He said that the right to establish tax-deferred construc­ tion reserve funds should apply to all segments of the merchant marine—unsubsidized deep-sea shipping, the Great Lakes fleet and the fishing fleet. At present. Meeds said, the tax-deferred privilege is enjoyed by only 14 American shipping lines which receive in addition construction and operating sub­ sidies from the federal govern­ ment. Meeds and 70 other members of Congress have al­ ready joined in cosponsoring legislation to finally achieve equity for the unsubsidized fleet. Stating that some industries should not be subject to federal actions that would curtail their ability to develop their poten­ tial, he said: "We cannot afford to have any more roadblocks thrown in the way of economic recovery for the unsubsidized American merchant marine." Representative Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska) indicated his backing for a measure that would give American-flag ves­ sels "absolute priority over foreign-flag vessels" in the car­ riage of foreign aid and surplus agricultural cargoes—and that would give unsubsidized U.S. ships priority over the subsi­ dized fleet. He also said that he is sup­ porting the bill that would ex­ tend to the entire American merchant marine the opportu­ nity to set up tax-deferred con­ struction reserve funds. Both Congressmen Pollock and Addabbo once again called for reconstituting the Maritime Administration as a totally in­ dependent agency. A similar bill was passed overwhelmingly in the last session of Congress, but was pocket-vetoed by President Johnson. Trustees Stayed by Judge In Snug Harbor Fees Case NEW YORK^A show cause order has been issued by the Appelate Court which prevents the board of trustees of Sailors Snug Harbor in Staten Island from demanding back payments for room and board from resi­ dents or threatening them with eviction until a decision has been reached on an appeal by the state attorney general's of­ fice. Issued by Judge Harold A. Stevens, presiding justice of the Appelate Division's First De­ partment in Manhattan, the order stops the trustees from taking any action with regard to payments until the attorney gen­ eral's motion is heard before a five-judge Appelate Division panel. Subpoena action had been taken by the trustees in Rich­ mond County Civil Court which sought to sue mariners in the Harbor for back payments due. This was countered by the at­ torney general's motion. Last fall the board of trustees won the approval of the Bronx Supreme Court to charge Har­ bor residents with social secur­ ity or pension incomes pay­ ments for room and board. That decision has been appealed by the state attorney general, and is expected to be argued in Sep­ tember. The present temporary restraining order stays action by the trustees until the appeal is heard. Assistant State Attorney Charles A. LaTorella Jr. is rep­ resenting the retired residents. Their cause has received the full backing of the SIU as well as of State Senator William J. Ferrall, who has charged the trus­ tees with mismanagement of the Harbor and has called for an investigation by the state legis­ lature. •J • t a * Would Clarify Congressional Intent; Sen. Gravel Asks 50-50 Cargo Law Stiffening WASHINGTON — Strong support for buttressing the SO percent cargo preference law was voiced here by Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) in a speech on the Senate floor in which he urged passage of leg­ islation—S. 2144—^which would clarify and strengthen the SOSO provisions. "Government agencies have acted in such a way as to make the SO percent participation a maximum and not a minimum mandate," the Senator charged. Gravel pointed to the "plain intention" of the Congress in passing the original law—^which was to ensure a minimtim of SO percent participation of Ameri­ can-flag ships in the carriage of foreign aid, food for peace, and other government-generated cargo "which we have provided in such vast quantities for the less fortunate nations." Only 25 Perc^ Carried Despite this intent, the Sena­ tor stated, only 25 percent of the nation's tramp cargo is carried on U.S.-flag vessels, ac­ cording to a recent study made by the Transportation Institute, which he placed into the record. "The concept of providing some minimal safeguards for the American merchant marine is an historic one," Gravel pointed out. "Since its founding, this nation has been dependent up­ on merchant shipping for the adequate development of our peacetime commerce and for the carriage of our national de­ fense requirements. Repeated­ ly, our ability to develop mer­ chant shipping under the Amer­ ican flag has been placed in jeopardy by the highly com­ petitive nature of international shipping." Gravel said that the hi^er U.S. standard of living is re­ flected in higher wages fOT sea­ men, higher capital costs for "the American shipowner who builds and registers his vessels in this country," better working conditions and the "highest achievable safety standards" for our vessels. "All of this costs money," he pointed out, "and they place the American-flag operator at a disadvantage when he is forced into face-to-face competition with the foreign-flag operator who benefits from lower wages, substandard working conditions, and smaller capital costs re­ sulting from lower safety and operating standards. "Yet, competitive pricing aside, America's need for a merchant fleet of its own has The result, he said, is that it never been challenged. And it has been only rarely—and only is out of this need that the sys­ for brief periods—that U.S.tem of insulating American op­ flag ships have carried as much erators against predatory com­ as SO percent of such cargo, "while foreign-flag lines have petition develop^." Grnvel pointed to the statutes feasted on our bounty to the that had been passed previously detriment of our cmnmercial —^Public Resolution No. 17 of fleet." "Recently, the Transporta­ the 73rd Congress; section 901 Washington, (b) of the Merchant Marine tion Institute D.C., which concerns itself with Act of 1936—^which provides that at least SO percent of the all phases of transportation but gross tonnage of government- whose primary concern is for generated cargo shall be carried maritime matters, made an anal­ In privately owned U.S.-flag ysis of the practices of the commercial vessels, to tlie ex­ Federal agencies involved," tent they are available at fair Gravel stated. "I ask unanimous consent, Mr. President, to in­ and reasonable rates. clude in my remarks at this Intent Law Negated point the statistics on fiscal year "This law remains in effect, 1967 compiled by the Trans­ but it has not been subject to portation Institute on this sub­ strict enforcement and the in­ ject." tent of the law has been ne­ Referring to S. 2144, the gated," the Senator asserted. Senator explained, "The clear intent of this bill is to assure that privately owned Americanflag vessels receive priority over REMINDER government-owned ships; and that all American-flag vessels, TO ALL privately owned and govern­ SEAFARERS ment-owned, receive priority over the ships of recipient na­ When you register, you must have your-^ tions." • SIU Membership Book (Seniority Rating) "In accordance with the in­ • U.S. Merchant Mariners Document (Z-Card) tent of the original law," Gravel asserted, "the bill vests respon­ • Valid SIU Clinic Card sibility for the administration • Last Discharge Certificate of cargo preference with re­ When you throw in for a fob, you must have spect to foreign aid and agri­ your— cultural surplus shipments in • SIU Membership Book (Seniority Rating) the Federal Maritime Admini­ • U.S. Merchant Mariners Document (Z-Card) stration and leaves within the • Valid SIU Clinic Card Department of Defense respon­ sibility for administration of • Last Discharge CertificatB cargo preference with respect to • Valid SIU Registration Card military shipments." . I .1' 1 '1 'ij �June, 1969 SEAFARERS Aboard the Steel Executive LOG Page Seven For Mqritime Administration Budget; Nouse Passes 1970Authorizations; Ups Funds for Construrtion Subsidy All departments were represented as these crewmembers took time out to pose for this photo on the deck of the Steel Executive. Left to right are Peter Gonzalez, oiler, Angelo Reyes, chief cook; Mike Bordelon, FWT; Willie Wolfson, A.B., and Fidel De Dios, A.B. Picture was snapped a few days before the ship hit the Port of Pusan, Korea. Textile Workers Campaigning Against Health Perils in Mills - ' r- ! h PHILADELPHIA — The Textile Workers Union of America urged employers, Con­ gress and the Nixon Administra­ tion to help protect workers in the industry against crippling lung diseases and loss of hearing caused by on-the-job noise. The 22-member TWUA council, meeting here in observ­ ance of the union's founding 30 years ago, launched a campaign against byssinosis, a lung ail­ ment caused by inhaling cotton dust in carding and spinning mills; asbestosis, a rare type of cancer resulting from asl^stos dust; and significant hearing loss because of the constant expos­ ure of workers to high noise levels. The union called on textile employers to "take effective and immediate measures" to reduce dust and noise to an absolute minimum for textile workers. It also invited employers to "join with us in sponsoring an industrial hygiene program" in which the resources of medical science and industrial engineer­ ing may be enlisted to find the "most effective means of elim­ inating all on-the-job health hazards." The council called on Labor Secretary George P. Schultz to enforce Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act regulations setting maximum noise standards. It asked the U.S. Public Health Service to study the incidence of byssinosis among cotton tex­ tile workers, and the prevalence of disabling respiratory diseases ong retired cotton textile rkers. iln addition, the council urged gress to enact the Occupaal Safety and Health bill, called on President Nixon pport the establishment of al standards in those areas, council resolution said the 1th and welfare of textile ;ers are being threatened by failure of management to take adequate measures to pro­ tect employees from occupation­ al hazards." TWUA President William Pollock and Secretary-Treasur­ er Sol Stetin headed the council delegation which noted the un­ ion's founding in Philadelphia in May 1939. WASHINGTON — Legislation authorizing a sizable in­ crease in appropriations for commercial ship construction subsidies for fiscal 1970 was passed by the House last month without dissent. In passing the bill, H.R. 4152, the House voted $145 million for construction sub­ sidies as recommended by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, upping consider­ ably the $15 million requested by the previous Administration and $29 million over that sought by President Nixon in a supple­ mental budget request to the Congress. Should the authorization be followed with the requested ap­ propriations, this would be added to $101 million in funds previously appropriated but not used, providing a revised total of $246 million available for construction subsidies — more than double the total $117.5 million originally submitted by the Administration. Also provided in the bill are $212 million for operating sub­ sidies, some $17 million more than was asked, and $15 million in research and development 67-Natimi Committee Mailing Plan Fw Intenatiottd Ship Rescue Code NEW YORK—International comply with the guide. At present there is no inter­ standards for assisting merchant vessels in distress are being pre­ nationally accepted code for pared at Governor's Island here search and rescue ship opera­ by an ad hoc committee of the tions at sea, although such a sys­ Intergovernmental Maritime tem does exist for the rescue of downed fliers. This was pro­ Consultative Organization. These standards, in the form vided by the International Civil .of a guide, are intended to pro­ Aviation Organization. The new guide would—at vide instructions to vessels in need of assistance as well as to long last—provide similar cov­ other commercial vessels which erage for shipping. It will in­ may be in a position to furnish clude instructions on emer­ such aid. If accepted by the or­ gency communications, rescue ganization as a whole, all mer­ and care of survivors, and plans chant ships flying the flags of and co-ordination of large scale the 67 member nations of IMCO searches. It will also outline may be required to carry and what specific actions a distressed vessel should take, as well as the manner and methods by which an assisting vessel should respond. Assisting in preparation of the code are representatives of LOREDO, Tex.—The Rub­ IMCO, ICAO, the International ber Workers have won a first Chamber of Shipping and seven contract at the Uniroyal Inc. maritime nations. These nations, test track here after a long strug­ in addition to the United States, gle to get management to the are the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, West Germany, France bargaining table. The struggle ended after a and Norway. The site selected for the in­ National Labor Relations Board settlement in which the com­ ternational conference was the pany agreed to pay $6,900 to National Search and Rescue two workers who were unjustly School at Governors Island, fired, and to reinstate several which provides a center for the others, URW Local 758 said. study of such operations. In ad­ The local concluded negotia­ dition, Governors Island also tions on an 18-month contract houses the Coast Guard's East­ with wage increases of 30 ern Area Rescue Coordination cents an hour, plus fringe bene­ Center, which directs search and fits valued at an additional 51 rescue operations in the North Atlantic. cents. Rubber Workers Win in Stretcb funds, twice the amount re­ program, which, he said, he was quested. "assured would be forthcoming The Congressional authoriz­ this summer." ing procedure, whereby funds Mailliard also said the are approved for various Mari­ prompt action by the House time Administration programs could avoid special appropria­ prior to actual appropriation of tions, such as were necessitated monies, is relatively new, dating in the 90th Congress. back to 1967. Last year the In the Senate, the Merchant money bill was called up be­ Marine Subcommittee has com­ fore the authorization was pleted hearings on its version of signed into law. Failing author­ the bill and is expected to clear ization, the maritime sections it promptly in order to expedite were eliminated, making neces­ passage before the money bill is sary a subsequent appropriation brought up. later. House members concerned Representative Edward A. with maritime also noted that Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of the presence of $101 million the House Merchant Marine of previously appropriated con­ and Fisheries Committee, the struction subsidy funds indi­ bill's floor manager, called it cated a holding back of pro­ "very modest", despite the boost grams which had already re­ over what the Administration ceived Congressional backing. asked for. Garmatz claimed it "It is considered deplorable," was absolutely necessary to lay the Committee report said, "that a foundation for the Adminis­ in many cases subsidy applica­ tration's promised revitalization tions have been pending for any­ program for the merchant fleet. where from four to 12 or more Representative William S. years." The Committee stated Mailliard (R-Calif.), ranking that subsidies should either be minority member on the House approved or rejected "on their committee, noted that the $145 merits with all reasonable dis­ million voted for construction patch." subsidies reflected the "very The $246 million now avail­ high priority" the Committee able is estimated to be enough had set on maritime. He, too, to build possibly 18 to 22 new stressed the measure would fit ships of various types, including into the Administration's new bulk carriers. AFL-CIO Details Position On ICFTU Relationship WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO is ready to discuss with any responsible authority of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions "the restoration of free world labor unity," but such discussions must be conducted in terms of the reasons that led to the AFL-CIO's withdrawal. This was the position laid out by the federation's Executive Council in a statement on the relationships between the AFLCIO and the ICFTU. The statement details on a step-by-step basis the actions of the ICFTU and its general secretary. Harm G. Buiter, that led to the withdrawal. The statement documents the activities of Buiter in seeking to gain admission for the Auto Workers—who disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO—into the ICFTU. The council strongly reaffirmed its earlier position, declar­ ing that it is "impermissible and self-defeating for the ICFTU as a world organization to seek or accept the affiliation of any breakaway organization that is trying to split any one of its affiliated national trade union centers." The AFI.-CIO was a founding member of the ICFTU, the council pointed out, and was deeply involved in its activities for 19 years. The decision to leave "was not taken lightly or without careful consideration," it added. The council said it wished the ICFTU well despite the AFL-CIO leaving the organization and pledged to continue to work for "those ideals and aims which brought together the free trade unionists of the world to found the ICFTU." The ICFTU, the council warned, must never become an "international haven for splitters of its affiliated national trade union centers," and the assistance given by some top officers of the ICFTU to the UAW to become an affiliate of the world organization "is a grave violation of this principle." The statement cited numerous instances in which Buiter violated the ICFTU constitution and the general regulations governing its procedures, especially on admission of affiliates. �Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG 30,000 Solo Nonstop Miles Around the Globe! Mr- l!V. FALMOUTH, EnglandThe first nonstop voyage around the world by a lone seafarer came to a successful completion when Robin Knox-Johnston brought his 32-foot ketch Suhaili safely into port here on April 22. Grinning at the blast of boat whistles and the cheers of crowds ranged at dockside, the 30-year-old British merchant marine officer waggishly told reporters, "You are attaching a lot of importance to what I con­ sider was a very nice holiday." Knox-Johnston, who under­ standably looked a bit the worse for his experiences, his clothes in tatters and his face bearded,' had spent nearly 11 months alone at sea on a voyage that logged some 29,500 miles. It was the longest recorded sailing trip of its kind ever and KnoxJohnston experienced long stretches of bad weather. The Suhaili also looked battered as it limped into port covered with barnacles, weeds and rust. Last Days Trying The last few days, with port almost in view, were "the most trying of the whole voyage," the lone skipper said. When in the English channel, only two miles from home, the stiff northerly breeze forced a change of course and drove him six miles further away from harbor. "I suppose the combination of wanting to get home, have a good steak and a pint of beer kept me going," he explained. It was in the South Pacific that the worst weather was en­ countered—especially off Aus­ tralia—and twice, Knox-John­ ston admitted, he nearly gave up.. A tense moment came when a shark circled him while he was in the water, making re­ pairs to the ketch. He got by that one by grabbing his rifle and shooting the would-be at­ tacker. The lonely mariner's arrival in Falmouth, from whence he set sail on June 14, makes him the winner of the Golden Globe Trophy donated by the Sunday Times of London for the non­ stop globe-circling race. Nine starters had entered the compe­ tition; two are yet to be heard from. Another prize of $12,000 for the fastest time on the voyage will probably also be claimed by Knox-Johnston. Two other solo trips around the world were successfully con­ cluded in recent times, although not on a nonstop basis. Sir Alec Rose made port in July 1968, after a two-stop,' 354-day trip. Sir Francis Chichester com­ pleted his one-stop voyage of 274 days in May of the same year, making his single stop in Australia. Chichester has characterized a solo, nonstop global circum­ June, 1969 'iS? •••"'"•• navigation as "the Everest of the Sea." sailing from England in the days of the windjammer; south to Tristan de Cunha, around the F<rflowed Traditioiial Route Cape of Good Hope, east The route followed by Knox- past Cape Leeuwin, Australia, Johnston was the traditional one around Cape Horn and then of the wool and grain clippers north to home. "I am a little overwhelmed by the reception," Knox-John­ ston remarked as an ancient harbor cannon boomed a salute to the Suhaili and its skipper, who made the final half-mile to moorings under tow. Thousands watched the homecoming at the site, and the world had been alerted by tele­ vision, radio and the press. Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent their greetings. The Suhaili was escorted into harbor by a fleet of naval ves­ sels, press boats, private craft and helicopters. There, KnoxJohnston was accorded an offi­ cial reception by the mayor and civic officials of Falmouth. Sir Francis Chichester was also on hand to greet him. A less formal reception was given by his parents, Mr. and First man to sail alone round the Mrs. David Kaox-Johnston, and world nonstop, Robin Knox-John­ his three brothers, Chris, Mi­ .Crossing the finish line, the 32-'foot ketch Suhaili, with Knox-Johnston ston, steps ashore at end of trip. chael and Richard. at the helm, is seen from Royal Navy helicopter off the Cornish coast. •( . r - For from Curbing Inflation: ^4 Rising Interest Rates Seen Burden to Ecoiiomy Twenty years of increasing slowed, buying will fall off and worse problems for the econ­ interest rates shows that they the economy will cool off, the omy." do not halt inflation but instead article notes. What actually happens when add "a growing burden to the Then, so the theory goes, in­ interest rates are raised, the arti­ nation's economy," according to terest rates will fall and the cle continues, is that business­ an article in the May Issue of economy can move forward on men continue to borrow to build the Federationist, the AFL- an even keel. new factories, stores borrow to However, Mrs. Jager notes, buy stock and the higher costs CIO's magazine. Those who are "hurt first, this approach hasn't worked: for money are passed on to con­ worst and for a long time" by Ever since the early 1950s, sumers. the tight money cycle are work­ interest rates have been raised If the money squeeze be­ ers, home buyers and consum­ to increase the cost of borrow­ comes too tight, housing is ers, Elizabeth Jager, an AFL- ing. There have been recessions CIO economist points out. in 1954, 1958, 1960-61 and a hurt, some builders are forced Those who cause the infla­ slowdown in 1967. The long- out of business, smaller busi­ tion—banks and well-to-do cor­ term price of money continues nesses find they cannot afford porations, she emphasizes, are upward. Prices have not come the high price of money and shut down, and jobs are lost. "hurt last, least and often only down. temporarily." "In brief," she states, "the When unemployment in­ TTie money managers boost policy of raising interest rates creases, Mrs. Jager warns, the interest rates on the theory that represents a short-run, mis­ jobs that are lost first are those they "will make it too expensive placed effort which produces of "the poor, the unskilled, the to borrow," expansion will be long run distortions . , . and non-white and those least likely to be employed." Turning to the present policy of increasing interest rates, the article stresses that it has been SAN FRANCISCO—Superi­ set forth" in the preliminary in­ unsuccessful in slowing down or Court Judge William A. O'­ junction won by state labor Nov. corporate investment for several Brien made permanent a previ­ 14, 1967. reasons: ous temporary order barring the Secretary Treasurer Thomas • Rich firms can get loans use of convict labor to harvest L. Pitts of the state federation California farm crops. said the injunction closes "one at the lowest interest rate—^the The injunction puts some more door" to the use of cheap, prime rate—while others "get teeth into a provision of the captive farm labor by Califor­ the leavings, if any, at higher state constitution which the Cal­ nia's farm corporations. Prison­ cost." ifornia AFL-CIO accused Gov­ ers, he said, were used to har­ • Tax policies make credit ernor Ronald Reagan (R) of vest crops of non-union growers cheaper for corporations than ignoring. who "hadn't even attempted to consumers because the corpora­ Judge O'Brien entered a per­ meet the federal government's tions deduct interest costs as an manent restraining order against minimum wage and work cri­ expense of doing business. Reagan and the state govern­ teria" on importing farm work­ • The seven percent invest­ ment "for all the reasons fully ers. Mge Bars Use Of Convkt Labor ment tax credit allowed to busi­ nesses and double depreciation for new construction spur in­ vestment and inflation, while re­ ducing the cost of borrowing. • Businessmen can pass on higher interest charges in the form of higher prices, and they do just that. Profits after taxes zoomed 91 percent between 1960 and 1968. \ • When they have to bor­ row, the corporations' profit-tax depreciation structure allows them to pay back more rapidly, thus making the impact tempo­ rary. In addition to being sharply critical of the Federal Reserve Board's policy of raising inte­ rest rates on its loans to com­ mercial banks, the article at­ tacks the lending policies of the big banks themselves. They have steadily raised the prime rate—interest charged to leading customers, the largest corporations—until it is now' 7.5 percent, more than three times what it was in the early 1950s, Mrs. Jager points out. As the banks continuously jack up the prime rate—de­ scribed as "their own minimum wage" set without government involvement—they reap higTfiier and higher profits and drive up other intwest rates, she con­ cludes. h I �Jane, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG 18 More Seafarers Added to Crowing SlU Pension Roster The SIU pension list has con­ tinued to lengthen as the names of 18 additional Seafarers were added to the roster after com­ pleting long sailing careers. Gabriel Bonefont, a native of Puerto Rico, is ending his sailing career after more than 20 years at sea. Brother Gabriel shipped as carpenter and bosun. His last vessel was the Seatrain Delaware. Brother Bonefont joined the SIU in Boston, and now resides there with his wife, Virgilia. Bonefont De Hoq^idales Clement De Hospidales was bom in Trinidad and now lives with his wife, Margaret, in Lakewood, New Jersey. Seafarer De Hospidales, who has been sail­ ing for more than 20 years, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1945. Edward Robinson is closing out a sailing career that has spanned nearly 40 years. Bom in New York City, he now makes his home in New Orleans. Brother Robinson, who shif^d as FOWT, joined the SILF in the Port of New York in 1944. He last shipped aboard the Del Mundo. Robinson Culpher Edward Culpher had been employed as pumpman for the Graham Transport Company since 1951 before his recent re­ tirement. A native of North Car­ olina, he lives in Moorehead City with his wife, Annie. Broth­ er Culpher served with the U.S. Army during World War II. He joined the SIU in the Port of Philadelphia. Jens Ronning, one of the earliest SIU oldtimers, is retir­ ing after 31 years of sailing on the Great Lakes. He joined the SIU in Detroit in 1938. Born in Norway, Brother Ronning now makes his home in Detroit with his wife, Catherine. He served three years with the U.S. Army during World War 11 and attained the rank of ser­ geant. Brother Ronning last shipped as AB on the Erie Sand. Lansdale Madere is a native of Louisiana and still makes his home there with his wife, Grace, in the town of Gretna. Brother Madere has sailed for many years as tugboat engineer, and last sailed for Dixie Carriers. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans. Joseph Stuntebeck is ending a sailing career of more than 20 years. A long-time Seafarer, Brother Stuntebeck joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1947. Rated FOWT, he last shipped aboard the Marymar. Brother Stuntebeck was bom in Baltimore and plans to live there during his retirement years. Albert Stout was bom in Ten­ nessee and now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Hilda. Holding all engine ratings. Brother Stout last sailed on the Del Norte. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans. Ronnbig Madere 'i Antoine Landry is closing out a sailing career that spans 22 years in the steward department. Bom in Mobile, he now lives with his wife, Daisey, in New Orleans. Brother Landry joined the SIU in Mobile in 1946. He last shipped on the Selma Vic­ tory as messman. Edward Nelson has spent nearly 30 years sailing tugs out of Mobile as AB and pilot. Stuntebeck Stout Born in Alabama, he still makes his home there in Fairhope. Brother Nelson joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile and last sailed for the Mobile Towing Company. John Diercks is retiring after 41 years as tug mate with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Born in Jersey City, N.J., he now makes his home in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, with his wife, Frances. Brother Diercks joined the SIU in the Port of New York. Paul McPartland has been sailing as deckhand for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad since 1946 after serving three years with the U.S. Navy during World War II. Also bom in Jersey City, he still lives there with his wife, Elizabeth. Sea­ farer McPartland joined the SIU in New York. May I, 1969 to May oi, 1969 Landry DKK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED "" dSss-A CikssS Port Boston 12 3 99 New York 116 Philadelphia 9 14 Baltimore 64 47 Norfolk 23 21 Jacksonville 32 37 Tampa 6 13 Mobile 62 38 New Orleans 86 62 Houston 78 66 Wilmington 33 48 San Francisco ... 91 104 Seattle 70 27 Totals 648 692 TOTAL SHIPPED AU Groni Class A Class B Class C 0 3 1 67 66 24 9 4 1 43 31 24 14 9 16 6 27 27 9 4 2 18 28 1 6 47 26 66 48 16 62 68 24 90 74 46 40 22 16 473 414 173 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A 17 167 19 71 32 24 7 77 132 127 26 61 66 796 CIMSB 7 120 20 63 47 26 23 38 89 130 1 0 18 671 Nelson Cameron Wooten is ending a 33 year career at sea. One of the early SIU old-timers. Sea­ farer Wooten joined the Union in 1939 in New York. He served six years with the U.S. Navy from 1927 to 1933. Bom in Georgia, Brother Wooten now lives in Elmhurst, Illinois. He last shipped as AB on the Afoundria. ENIGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 2 2 New York 89 128 Philadelphia 3 19 Baltimore 8 6 Norfolk 19 29 Jacksonville ..... 13 49 Tampa 7 6 Mobile 31 43 New Orleans 42 99 Houston 42 67 Wilmington 26 61 San Francisco ... 88 130 Seattle 23 32 •totals 392 641 TOTAL SHIPPED AU Groups Class A Class B Class C 0 0 1 49 80 33 6 14 2 10 2 6 16 17 4 38 11 14 6 3 1 24 22 0 30 36 3 29 64 27 24 40 32 62 109 69 17 28 14 283 342 236 REGISTERED on BEACH AU Groups Class A Class B 3 6 146 126 24 12 22 12 33 19 7 31 9 11 39 64 126 72 89 106 13 3 36 1 30 2 668 471 Diercks McPartland Harold Thilhorn has been sailing as cook on the Great Lakes for more than a quarter of a century. A native of Che­ boygan, Michigan, he plans to spend his retirement there. Brother Thilhorn joined the SIU STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston .......... New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk JacksonviUe Tampa .......... Mobue New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Franeiseo ... SwtUe Totals Class A 3 67 8 71 13 16 2 26 64 32 18 72 37 418 0 66 4 17 26 19 6 24 38 42 7 107 26 372 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groni Class A Class B Class C 2 0 2 64 39 44 10 2 6 31 26 8 16 16 9 14 24 28 3 3 6 18 20 0 33 19 2 32 40 14 9 10 22 64 92 47 23 17 14 298 308 200 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A 6 121 12 49 19 11 7 61 139 104 24 36 42 620 dIssB 1 68 12 18 36 4 8 24 64 44 2 1 9 280 Wooten Thilhorn in Detroit and last sailed on the Mackinac. Stanley Brown was born in New Orleans and makes his home there with his wife, Corrine. Rated FOWT, Brother Brown sailed for Crescent Tow­ ing Company out of New Or­ leans, where he joined the SIU. Albert Richards, who joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile in 1938, is retiring to the beach after more than 30 years at sea. He last shipped as A.B. aboard the Council Grove. Bom in Mobile, he still makes his home there with his wife, Carol. Brother Richards served with the U.S. Army for two years during World War II. Brown Rkiiards Paul Carter is closing out a sailing career of more than 25 years. He had shipped in both the steward and deck depart­ ments, and last sailed as AB Carter Ernest aboard the Bradford Island. Brother Carter makes his home in his native Tampa, Florida, with his wife, Bemice. He took an active part in the MooreMcCormack beef in 1962. Carl Ernest is a native of Ger­ many who now makes his home in Germantown, New York. He has been sailing as a member of the steward department for 26 years. He last sailed as cook and baker on the Colonel Bar­ ker. Brother Ernest joined the Union in 1956 in the Port of New York. Committee Urges Food Stamp Plan For All the Peer A committee of the National Planning Association has pro­ posed extending the food stamp program to every city and coun­ ty in the nation. The NPA's Agriculture Com­ mittee also suggested liberaliz­ ing existing rules for the food stamp program, taking the pro­ gram out of the Agriculture De­ partment, and providing free food stamps for the poorest fam­ ilies—those with incomes less than one-fourth the poverty level. For other low-income fami­ lies, the conunittee proposed what it termed a "variable" food stamp plan which would allow families to buy as few stamps as they wish instead of compel­ ling them to purchase a quan­ tity predetermined to be their full food budget for the month. The NPA conunittee said a uniform, federal food stamp program should replace the di­ rect distribution of surplus food by the Agriculture Department. �t I•it Si^ I -ti Page Ten SEAFARERS June, 1969 LOG Another Containership Launched Sea-Land's New Philadelphia Converted from a Troopship i' I }' si jS fi I II I I & y A former troopship, the Philadelphia, now a 20,295-ton containership converted for the SlU-contracted Sea-Land Service, heads for a trial run. Conversion included gutting the mid-ship hull section, remov­ ing the mid-ship house, and modifying and enlarging the aft house to provide new living quarters for • the crew. The superstructure deck was removed and eight A-frame buttresses installed for containers. BALTIMORE—The SIUcontracted Sea-Land Service took delivery of the Philadel­ phia last month after its conver­ sion from a C-4-^Al type troopship to a containership at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Key Highway yard here. Originally known as the Gen. A. W, Brewster, the vessel was towed from the West Coast last October to the ship­ yard. Now a C-4-X3 type ves­ sel, the Philadelphia is able to carry 360, 35-foot containers, 217 of them below deck. The ship is 522 feet IOV2 inches long with a molded breadth of 71 feet six inches and scantling draft of 30 feet 6 inches. It has a displacement of 20,295 long tons. The complete mid-ship hull section was gutted and decks Insfqnf Credit Poses Lengthy Problems FTC Weighs Ban on UnsohVteJ Credit Cards WASHINGTON — Those who have been annoyed by re­ ceiving credit cards in the mail sent by over-zealous department stores or gasoline companies will be heartened by a recent action initiated by -the Federal Trade Commission. Prodded by agitated consum­ ers—as well as by several legislators who have pursued their cause for them—^the FTC has announced that hearings will take place September 10 on a series of proposed regula­ tions which would stop the mail­ ing of credit cards without prior written consent of the persons in whose names they are made out. Banks, common carriers and air carriers—^many of which have gotten involved in the new sales promotional gimmick— will not be affected by the pro­ posed regulations because they do not come under the jurisdic­ tion of the FTC. Nevertheless retail department stores, mar­ keters and retail dealers of gasoline, as well as travel and Unionist Honored For Saving Child CHICAGO — Hamdey J. Alley, a member of Local E965, of the United Transporta­ tion Union, here, recently re­ ceived a medal from the Carne­ gie Hero Fund Commission for the rescue of a four-year-old boy who was playing on the Grand Trunk Western Tracks. Alley was awarded the medal —plu.s $750—^for risking his life to save the youngster when he leaped from an engine haul­ ing a 22-car train, dashed out in front, and scooped the boy to safety. Chalk up one more labor hero. entertainment purveyors, would be bound by the rules. In moving into this area, the agency labelled the use of un­ solicited credit cards an "un­ fair method of competition." "A credit card holder is more likely to purchase at a retail outlet honoring his credit card," the FTC pointed out. What is more, a spokesman indicated, unsolicited cards are at times lost in the mails. When this happens, the intended re­ cipient is completely unaware that a card has been issued in his name and an account opened for him. Thus he can not take measures to protect himself. "Such credit cards are often misappropriated and fraudulent­ ly used by unknown parties and the intended recipient is often put to the often considerable burden of demonstrating to the billing company that the goods or services were not ordered or purchased," the FTC declares. As a result of the fraudulent use of such cards, or billing er­ rors, many consumers are put through much unwarranted worry about possible jeopardy to their credit ratings. Also, should a recipient of an unsolicited card decide he doesn't want it, he is faced with the additional — and likewise unsolicited—^burden of return­ ing the card safely to the sender and explaining that he prefers that the account be closed. Congressional Action Begun Recent large-scale mailings of unsolicited cards and public concern over the matter have prompted the introduction of remedial bills in both Houses of the Congress. A far-reaching measure by Senator William Proxmire (DWisc.) would give the Federal Reserve Board the right to re­ quire that issuers of credit cards determine credit worthiness prior to sending out cards to un­ knowing customers. Most im­ portant, liability for lost or stolen cards would be shifted to the issuer—rather than the con­ sumer—if the amount involved is over $50. An aide to Senator Proxmire explained that the only reason the bill does not flatly prohibit the mailing of unsolicited cards is that a number of large banks have already made such mail­ ings. A ban at this point would put the smaller banks—^which are first exploring this form of merchandising—at a competi­ tive disadvantage. Other measures in both Houses would prevent federally insured banks from making credit commitments unless they are requested to do so. were removed to convert the space to container storage holds. The mid-ship house was re­ moved and the aft house was modified and enlarged to pro­ vide new living quarters for the Seafarers. An additional deck was also added for the wheelhouse. The bow section was modified for container storage and ship's stowage. The superstructure deck was removed and eight Aframe buttresses were installed along the center line to provide deck stowage of containers. Con­ tainers will be stowed on deck, three high, above the hatch cov­ ers. New navigation equipment including radar, was installed and the ship was provided with an oil lubricated stern bearing. Piping and electrical work in the gutted midship section was re­ newed. The completely refurbished crew's quarters are air-condi­ tioned and equipped with new furniture. Existing machinery was overhauled and the electri­ cal system upgraded with the addition of a 600-kilowatt AC generator. New tanks for fuel oil ballast and fresh water were also installed. This is the sixth such troop­ ship that has been converted here into specialized cargo ves­ sels. The first five were con­ verted for the SlU-contracted Calmar Lines. Socially-Handicapped Need Job Aid WASHINGTON —The na­ tion has passed the halfway mark in its program of finding jobs for the handicapped and should now concentrate on overcoming the job disabilities caused by substandard social conditions. AFL-CIO Secre­ tary-Treasurer William F. Schnitzler stressed this theme as he addressed the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped at its annual conference here. Labor is "pleased because much progress has been made" in training and finding jobs for the handicapped, and is ready to help in seeing that much more is done, Schnitzler reported. He said it is no longer possi­ ble to "escape the conclusion that sub-standard social condi­ tions have a great bearing on disabilities. For if disabilities can be prevented, fewer handi­ capped persons will need help" in finding employment. . Schnitzler said "I am referring to the handicaps of poverty, poor environment and lack of adequate medical ajnd psycho­ logical care." A recent health survey com­ missioned by Blue Cross show­ ed, he said, that the incidence of heart disease in poor areas was four times as great as in average areas, six times greater for nervous and mental disor­ ders, eight times higher for vis­ ual defects, three times higher for orthopedic defects. Labor participation in the two-day conference included an AFL-CIO co-sponsored lunch­ eon for state winners of the 1969 "Ability Counts" essay contest for high school writers, a tour of the city for the students sponsored by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work­ ers; a luncheon at the Capitol sponsored by the federation's Building and Construction Trades Department, and a re­ ception at which IBEW mem­ bers and their ladies were hosts. Kathy Saxton, 17, of Bonne­ ville High School in Ogden, Utah, won the $1,000 first place award of the Disabled American Veterans in the "Ability Counts" contest. Other top winners were Janey Looney of Lake Charles, La., $600; John Muessel of Madison, Ind., $400; Christina Fredet, Springville, Me., $300, and Lucy Sikes, Murfreesboro, Tenn., $200. The prizes were presented by Schnitzler and Gordon M. Free­ man, IBEW president-emeritus. Expenses of first place winners in 47 states, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia were contributed by AFI^-CIO state federations. Other conference speakers were Labor Secretary George P. Shultz; Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz, new Women's Bureau director; Senator Robert J. Dole (RKan.), and Mrs. Rene Carpenter of the NBC-TV "Today" show. Shultz asked the conference to seek answers to questions like these: Why must people be com­ pelled to work eight hours a day? Why can't jobs be rede­ signed for handicapped persons? Why can't jobs be matched to the personality of the worker? The conference gave its Dis­ tinguished Service award to Wil­ liam Passmore, double hip am­ putee and antipoverty worker in East Chicago, Ind.; Represent­ ative Charles E. Bennett (DFla.), and Stevie Wonder, blind singer from Detroit. A special award of apprecia­ tion was voted by the committee to former Vice President and Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey for their joint efforts on behalf of the handicapped. Irving Geist of New York City was cited for his years of support for rehabili­ tation work. �Jnne, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG i1 There's plenty of work to do on board the Great Lakes vessels during winter layup— checking mooring lines, sounding ballast tanks, painting and getting things ready for spring fit-out. Maintaining and repairing engine room machinery is just one of the many jobs that keep shipkeeper Deragon busy during the long, cold and lonely winter. Seafarer Deragon is seen as he helps a shipyard worker install a main shaft bearing on the Reiss. Seafarer Deragon mans a snowplow to clear the dock of the Reiss Brothers while the ship is moored for the winter in windswept Howard pocket at Superior, Wisconsin. '^HROUGHOUT the long winter months in ports along the Great Lakes from Buffalo to Gary to Su­ perior, hundreds of ore, grain and limestone carriers lie silent in ice-locked slips. The only sound in the crisp, cold ni^t is the hissing of the wind and the groaning of shifting ice. Standing idnley vigil on each of these 600-foot bulk freighter is the shipkeeper. Moored last winter in Superior's Howard pocket— in the middle of a line of ships that stretched for blocks —^was the SIU-Great Lakes District-contracted Reiss Brothers, flagship of the Reiss Steamship Company. The wind swept over the open deck whipping the light falling snow. A thermometer outside the galley in the ship's afterhouse hung at 14 degrees below zero. Inside the galley, the stove was well-heated and a small light reflected over the expanse of stainless steel fixtures. In the officers dining room, another stove burned brightly. The dining table was gone. In its place was a bed, a few chairs and a portable TV set. A carpet had been spread on the deck for further warmth and comfort. Seated in the dining room of the Reiss Brothers were the vessel's winter tenants. Seafarer and Mrs. John Deragon. Brother Deragon was the shipkeeper, and his job was to look after the vessel until her crew be­ gan to come on board for the spring fit-out. Brother Deragon, an oiler on the Reiss during the sailing season, tries to keep busy during the winter layup. Leadline soundings of ballast tanks have to be made daily. And mooring cables must be checked. He works with shipyard machinists on installing and re­ pairing engine room machinery. And, there is always painting to be done in the crew's quarters. Mrs. Deragon is in charge of cooking, washing, sew­ ing and most other duties of any housewife. Also aboard is their son, Michael, who helps out with the shipkeeping duties and sails on another Reiss vessel during the season. The Deragons are one of the few shipkeeping fam­ ilies left on the Great Lakes. Shipkeeping can be a cold and lonely job, but it does have some plus points, mainly an extra three months' pay. Mrs, Deragon feels that they are living pretty much like any other family. "We play cards and watch TV. Our car is parked at the foot of the gangway, and it's only a short drive downtown or to the homes of relatives. We even have a snowblower to clear paths around the cabins and hatches." The lot of the shipkeeper has vastly improved over the years. During the Depression of the '30s, the ship- keeper's job was a coveteted prize despite the low pay and hard work. It meant free rent in warm and livable quarters and enough money to feed the family. Wherever the ships spent the winter, so did the shipkeeper and his family. There was nothing unusual about a family from Duluth living aboard a ship in Toledo, or another from Port Huron keeping ship in Milwaukee. During one winter in the mid-1930s, about 70 freighters were laid up at Buffalo. Most of them were anchored in Lake Erie outside the breakwater. "The fleet was like a city outside a city," recalls Seafarer Leif Alme, who was keeping ship with his wife. Their vessel was beyond the breakwater and they were—for all practical purposes—cut off from Buffalo. "Going ashore meant crossing the ice, using a small boat to cross the open water where tugs had opened fire lanes, and then climbing more ice," Mrs. Alme re­ membered. "It was hardly worth the effort unless you absolutely had to do it." Sometimes they had to. Fresh water and food had to be brought in from Buffalo. Once the supplies had been hauled out to the ships by sleds and skiffs, they were hauled aboard by rope. If the ships were moored near others, the women could gossip over the rail as easily as over a backyard fence. Mrs. Alme recalls that her husband once rigged a pulley line between two ships so that she and the Time out for a hot cup of coffee in the galley of the Reiss Brothers. It's little comforts like this that help make the lives of Great Lakes shipkeepers bearable during the long, bleak vigil of winter layup season. "women next door" could pass notes back and forth in buckets. Prolonged loneliness can play strange tricks on you, so it's understandable that one former shipkeeper had a little trouble trying to explain to its owners that the 440-foot C.W. Richardson had just climbed out of the water and was perched high and dry on a dock. Captain Henry Wiersch, long-time master and fleet captain for Columbia Steamship Company, was serv­ ing as shipkeeper on two Columbia boats tied up to­ gether in the 1920s. He was walking along the deck of the C. Russell Hubbard (now the W.W. Holloway), which was moored across the slip from the Richardson. As he neared the Hubbard's afterhouse, he noticed the Richardson's mooring lines go slack and then he watched in amazement as the ship slowly rose and then settled down gently on the wooden pier. After staring at the Richardson several minutes and assuring himself that he did see what he thought he saw, he called the Columbia office in Cleveland. "I don't know how to tell you this," he told the company official, "but one of your boats just climbed up onto a dock." As he fumbled for some explanation, the old wooden dock collapsed under the weight of the 5,000ton Richardson, and sent the ship sliding back into the water. "Hold everything," Wiersch told the thoroughly be­ wildered official, "your ship just launched herself again." Friends of the captain said that about three years passed before he was finally able to live the in­ cident down. What had happened was that Buffalo was being hit by a freshwater phenomenon known as a seiche, which results in a rise or fall of water levels up to 20 feet or more within a remarkably short time. On this oc­ casion, the water level at Buffalo increased as if some giant had picked up the west end of Lake Erie. The loneliness of keeping ship is something one gets used to, according to most of those who have wintered aboard the idle lake carriers, but it's not a job for people who cannot spend many hours by themselves. Still, it is easier nowadays. Most of today's shipkeepers live in the city where their vessel is berthed. They spend their days aboard the ship, but are in the comfort and warmth of their own homes at nightfall. "This is a much better ar­ rangement," said one shipkeeper in Duluth. "I don't mind having thin oak paneling separating me from a steel bulkhead in summertime, but I prefer plaster and wallpaper in the winter." �BBB SEAFARERS Page Twelve LOG Jnne, 1969 Plan Would Hinge on FacNFinding Agreements Shultz Proposes Special Farm Labor Board Outside NLRB WASHINGTON — The Nixon Administration has told Congress that farm workers should have collective bargain­ ing rights—^but not by bringing them under the National Labor Relations Act. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz told the Senate Labor subcommittee that a special Farm Labor Relations Board should be established because of the "unique characteristics" of agriculture. It would be made up of "members acquainted with the farm industry" and not be bound by NLRB precedents. He said farmers need protec­ tion against strikes during the harvest season. At the same time, Shultz acknowledged, "the right to strike is basic to collec­ tive bargaining" and "an out­ right ban on strikes in agricul­ ture ... should not be imposed." To resolve this apparent con­ tradiction, Shultz advanced a novel Administration proposal which would permit farm em­ ployers to avoid a harvest sea­ son strike if they agree in ad­ vance to accept the recommen­ dations of a fact-hnder chosen from a panel appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Besides naming the fact-find­ ers, the Agriculture Department would presumably suggest to the President the members of the Farm Labor Relations Board, Shultz indicated. President Nixon early this year asked Shultz and Agricul­ ture Secretary Clifford M. Har­ din to come up with a joint recommendation "on the ad­ visability of placing farm work­ ers under the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act." The proposal Shultz pre­ sented-to the Senate subcommit­ tee, headed by Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (D-N.J.), emerged from the interdepart­ mental negotiations. Here is how Shultz explained it to the subcommittee; First, he said, "I am here to support the right of farm work­ ers" to union representation and use the mechanism of the gestion and as a means of open­ ing up discussion of the issue." NLRB. The law, he said, could re­ He opposed any type of prehire union representation agree­ quire a 10-Klay notice of intent ment, such as that used in the to strike or lock out workers. construction industry, giving this He added: "At this point, the party argument: "Construction work­ ers as distinguished from agri­ threatened with a strike or lock­ cultural workers are largely out could prevent a disruption organized and the craft repre­ of work if that party is willing sentation lines are widely rec­ to accept the binding recom­ ognized. Agricultural workers, mendations of a neutral." on the other hand, are largely Alternative to Strike unorganized and therefore em­ If a grower, for example, ployers should not be permitted were served with a strike notice to enter into collective bargain­ in July and the season when a ing agreements unless an elec­ strike would hurt him the most tion first indicates majority re­ were in September, this is what presentation by the contracting he could do: union." By declaring his willingness Without spelling out the legis­ to accept the recommendations lative details, Shultz said laborof a fact-finder, he could pick management relations on large the month of September or any farms should be "associated" other 30-day period of his with the National Labor Rela­ choosing for the fact-finding and tions Act, but with special pro­ mediation to take place. visions and machinery. During that period, the union <<Too DissimUar" The proposed Farm Labor could not strike. If it struck be­ Shultz said agriculture is too Relations Board would have dissimilar to other industries to three members, its own general fore then, its members would be obligated to return to work counsel and a full staff of trial for the 30 days. examiners and regional direc­ By the 25th day of the fact­ tors comparable to that of the finding period, the recommenda­ NLRB. But, Shultz stressed, its tion for settlement would be members and staff would be submitted to both parties. If the drawn from people familiar with union accepted the proposal, the the farm industry and would growers would be obligated to not be "bound by 34 years of do likewise. But if the union tee, was among the conference industrial precedent established turned it down, neither party speakers who stressed the theme under the NLRB." would be under any obligations of unity that emerged in the To an extent, the separate and the union could strike. By resolution. body parallels the recommenda­ then, of course, the harvest "We must think internation­ tions of the anti-union Farm would presumably be completed ally just as the company does," Bureau. The Farm Bureau, how­ and the strike would have little Jennings said. "We must rec­ ever, has asked also for a flat impact. ognize that each problem we en­ ban on strikes. "The fact-finder should be counter has its counterpart in Jurisdiction of the Farm La­ chosen by the parties from a list some other country, and we bor Relations Board, Shultz of five names selected by the must find solutions that improve said, would be confined to the Secretary of Agriculture," not only our own situation, but large farms presently covered Shultz said. the situations of others." In reply to questions, Shultz by the minimum wage provision said he had no idea how much it He cited as an example of of the Fair Labor Standards growing unity among world GE Act—about two percent of the would cost to set up a farm unions, the assistance from the nation's farms employing 45 labor board structure such as United States, Canada and other percent of the nation's farm the Administration was suggest­ ing. But he said "we can make countries to the Irish Transport workers. estimates" if congressional com­ To deal with the harvest and General Workers Union in strike problem, Shultz advanced mittees find the concept merito­ its 1968 strike against GE. "the following steps as a sug­ rious. This assistance, he pointed out, helped the Irish workers Eastern Lay-up win union recognition and showed the company that an attack by it on one union is going to be answered by other GE unions, regardless of the country they are located in. Jennings voiced a "feeling of shame" on the part of U.S. unions that a U.S. corporation— GE—exploits workers around the globe and pays them "mis­ erably low wages." The work of the conference included an exchange of re­ ports on GE's financial struc­ ture, profits and policies, and the labor relations experiences unions have had with it. Delegates took a break from sessions to walk a picket line as a display of "solidarity" for a If you're going to be ill a long way from home, at least pleasant Colombian union on strike surroundirrgs are some compensation. Seafarers W. M. Stack (left) and against Olivetti Corp., a multi­ W. D. Hermsen are shown in new wing of Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, national company with close with nurse Y. Yonahure Stack was qpgine de'egate on the Transhartties to GE. ford, and Hermsen served, as deck delegate aboard Robin Locksley. collective bargaining. But "a boycott directed against an employer's merchan­ dise, designed to force that em­ ployer to sign a union contract ... is not a satisfactory way to settle labor conflicts, especially those involving issues of repre­ sentation." The boycott reference was an obvious comment on the Cali­ fornia table grape boycott, initi­ ated by the AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Com­ mittee and strongly supported by the labor movement. If boycotts are to be pre­ vented or prohibited, Shultz went on, there must be "an alternative" which provides both "an orderly answer" to the problem of union representation in the fields and "a satisfactory method for dealing with the pos­ sibility of strikes during the har­ vest season." International Labor Co-operation Set To Confront Mufti-Nation Ql Plants BOGOTA, Columbia—Un­ ions from nine nations have pledged mutual assistance to­ ward improving wages and working conditions for 400,000 employees of General Electric Company around the globe. They also appealed to GE to cease its efforts to "subjugate" workers and adopt policies that "recognize and respect funda­ mental trade union rights." The pledge and the appeal came in a resolution adopted at the first world meeting of GE unions here. The two-day con­ ference was sponsored by the International Metalworkers' Federation's committee on multi national electrical and elec­ tronic companies. Unions represented were from Argentina, Brazil, Colom­ bia, France, Ireland, Italy, Venezuela, Mexico and the United States. AFL-CIO affili­ ates participating were Elec- Key Lesson for Litton Typed by Federal Body '•4.; % WASHINGTON—The Fed­ eral Trade Commission is grow­ ing concerned about Litton In­ dustries' appetite for typewrit­ ers. The FTC has- issued a com­ plaint against the conglomerate, seeking divestiture by Litton of the stock it acqiiired in Janu­ ary, 1969 in the triumph-Adler Typewriter Company. The Ger­ man firm is a leading forei^ corporation which did $52 mil­ lion worth of business in the U.S. in 1967. Hearings on the FTC conmlaint are scheduled. trical. Radio and Machine Workers, International Brother­ hood of Electrical Workers, Machinists, Steelworkers and Allied Industrial Workers. The resolution called upon unions at GE plants around the world to cooperate through the IMF by collecting and distribut­ ing information on wages, work­ ing conditions, pensions, vaca­ tions, grievance procedures and health and safety programs. Standing Groups Formed It welcomed an earlier IMF decision to set up permanent working groups in various world companies and urged the federation's executive commit­ tee to extend its programs of organizational and educational cooperation to cover all GE workers. "We believe," it added, "that this should include the coordi­ nation of moral and material support to unions engaged in strikes or conflicts or subject to employer reprisals or per­ secution." The resolution expressed sup­ port for "the valiant efforts of GE workers, particularly in the developing countries of the world to win and assure their right to organize and bargain collectively." Attention was called to "the frequent violation of these trade union rights by multina­ tional companies such as GE" in a number of countries, in­ cluding Ireland, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. lUE President Paul Jennings, chairman of the IMFs commit­ �lone, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Thirteen State Labor Bodies Enlisted in Safety Drive on Highways WASfflNGTON—AFL-CIO presidents where legislatures President George Meany has meet in 1969, Meany empha­ called on the federation's state sized that increasing highway central bodies to work with the "carnage" greatly concerns all National Safety Council in se­ union members and their fam­ curing passage of minimum- ilies. standards highway safety pro­ He enclosed a copy of a letter grams by state legislatures. from Howard Pyle, president of In a letter to state AFL-CIO NSC, appealing for labor's aid in getting states to adopt recom­ mendations from the National Highway Safety Bureau pursu­ ant to the Federal Traffic Safety Act of 1966. The bureau has proposed that each state enact or update safety WASfflNGTON — Neither programs to include 16 mini­ wage-price controls nor wage- mum standards that relate to the price guidelines are being con­ driver, the vehicle, the highway sidered as steps to combat in­ and enforcement of traffic codes flation—and history shows they and ordinances. Among other things, the "haven't worked well" in the past, according to Labor Secre­ standards provide for periodic inspection of cars and trucks, tary George P. Shultz. Appearing on television's up-to-date vehicle registration, Meet the Press, Shultz said driver education, uniform driver wage-price controls weren't suc­ licensing and standard chemical cessful during the Korean War. tests to determine misuse of al­ As for guidelines, he pointed cohol by drivers. out, they have been tried not Govt. Help Granted only in this country but also in Federal financial help is given other countries and "they didn't to states to advance their safety work either" in controlling in­ programs by including the stand­ flation. ards. Although some states have "I don't think there is any adopted certain standards, no point in embarking on things state is yet completely in line that have a very poor track rec­ with the bureau's proposals. ord," Shultz said. "I think we should be real­ Pyle explained that the coun­ istic about our approach to cil has established a program problems like inflation . . . and known as STATES (Safety when something has been tried Through Action to Enlist Sup­ and found wanting, not to con­ port) which will coordinate the tinue to act as though it is a activity of many organizatimis solution to the problem," he in securing passage of the stand­ declared. ards. Sec. Shulb Bars Wage-MceCurbs As 'Unworkable' Shell Pours on the Oil As Credit Cards Roll In Shell Oil Company has been writing a lot of letters lately. Many, if not all, individuals who have returned their Shell credit cards to the company as a result of the consumer boy­ cott declared against the company by Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers are getting individually typed letters from Shell officials sort of explaining the company position. Although the letters are individually typed, the wdrds ap­ parently are exactly the same in each. ^me come from Shell's big customer accounts center in Tulsa. Soine come from San Francisco. Perhaps some cmne from other places—but the words are always the same. "We appreciate your taking the time to explain why you no longer purchase Shell products," the letter begins. "Our cus­ tomers are important to us, and their views on matters affect­ ing our business are important." The Shell company even sent one of these "personal" form letters to President A. F. Grospiron of OCAW—the same one that goes to individual customers. It was signed by John R. Wright, Public Relations. Strange. It would seem that a public relations man would be inventive enough to write a different letter to the president of the union that is causing that trouble. And it wasn't a matter of not recognizing the name; the letter was addressed to him as president the union at the union's headquarters. The OCAW urges all trade unionists and friends of labor to get their own personal letter from Shell by returning their Shell credit cards—along with a letter saying why—to P. O. Box 80, Tulsa, Okla., 74102. Think of the employment this will provide for deserving stenographers! Also, it will help the oil workers get a fair deal from Shell. Lazaro B. Ellorin, who last sailed aboard the Eldorado, gets his first pension check from SlU Safety Director Joe Algina as John Fay, Philadelphia Port agent, and Baltimore Port agent Rex Dickey look on. Ai Fout'Day Conference: 3,000 Building Trades Delegates Launch Major Legislative Program WASHINGTON—Nearly 3,000 national, state and local un­ ion leaders launched a major legislative drive by the AFLCIO Building and Construction Trades Department here last month. Their goal: action by Con­ gress on a program covering both bread-and-butter trade un­ ion issues and broad-ranging measures to meet the nation's overall needs. Three Cabinet members and top congressional leaders of both parties came to the open­ ing and closing sessions of the four-day conference. And for two days, the BCTD delegates visited on Capitol Hill with the congressmen and sena­ tors from their home states— presenting, explaining and urg­ ing labor's legislative goals. Before they returned home, delegates turned in "report cards" on their congressional visits. The attitudes shown by congressmen and senators to the labor-supported bills will be a guide to union legislative repre­ sentatives in mapping strategy and priorities. Delegates talked to their leg­ islators about the on-site picket­ ing bill, about job safety legis­ lation, about extension of the Davis-Bacon Act to ensure pre­ vailing wages on buildings built to be leased to the Post Office Department and other federal agencies. They also talked about tax justice and social security im­ provements, about the^ne^ for a higher minimum wage and for strengthened equal employment opportunity. They cdled for congressional action on housing funds, consumer protection and education, among others. A "very goodly portion" of the BCTD's legislative program will be "enthusiastically" sup­ ported by the House Democrat­ ic leadership. Majority Leader Carl Albert (D-Okla.) told the conference. He said he finds it "just im­ possible" to understand opposi­ tion to the labor-backed job safety bills. On the site picket­ ing bill, Albert reiterated hjs strong personal support, but said threats of a Senate filibuster such as that which killed repeal of Taft-Hartley Sec. 14(b) have made House members reluctant to stick their necks out unless they are sure it will pass the Senate. If it is taken up first in the Senate, he said, it will be active­ ly supported by House Demo­ cratic leaders for final passage. House Minority Leader Ger­ ald R. Ford (R-Mich.) told the delegates that if they were will­ ing to "compromise" then "I think we can achieve some of these goals that are on your leg­ islative program." He said he personally sup­ ports the "sound principles" of the position taken by the Secre­ tary of Labor who coupled eas­ ing the secondary boycott re­ strictions on construction site picketing with toughening of other restrictive provisions. Both the Democratic and Re­ publican assistant leaders in the Senate gave strong personal en­ dorsements to site picketing leg­ islation. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared: "I will fight to get the con­ struction safety bill passed this year, and I am with you 100 percent on the issue of site pick­ eting," he said. As for labor's overall program, Kennedy said he intends to keep his COPE record of all "right" votes in­ tact. His Republican counterpart. Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsyl­ vania, termed the labor-backed site picketing legislation a "good" bill and said he opposes "restrictive" amendments. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz and Transportation Sec­ retary John A. Volpe received the friendly attention of^ the delegates as they addressed the conference on its opening day. Housing & Urban Develop­ ment Secretary George W. Romney was welcomed with similar warm applause when he was introduced. But before he concluded, there were boos from the audience and applause where he didn't want it. Just a few minutes earlier, Romney had left another meet­ ing with the farewell: "I'm going now to a conference of the building trades and really lay it on the line to them." He told the delegates that building trades pay raises are feeding inflation, that appren­ ticeship standards are too high, that the Davis-Bacon Act re­ quiring prevailing wages on fed­ erally-assisted housing is too costly. He warned "that there are people already talking about compulsory arbitration in the building trades." "Construction wage rates are rising faster than any other," Romney chided. And the dele­ gates applauded. "There is every indication that future settlements may be higher," he complained. More applause. Earlier, Shultz said the Ad­ ministration is supporting "fully and unambiguously" the con­ struction safety bill. He said he hopes that "before long" there will be a presidential message dealing with "a comprehensive health and safety bill." Shultz noted the steady in­ crease in minority group em­ ployment in the building crafts and urged that the progress be continued. Volpe told the delegates he was impressed with the special training programs run by the Operating Engineers and the work done by other unions in opening up job opportunities to minority groups. Programs such as these, he said, are tapping "a tremendous reservoir of unused ability." �SEAFARERS Page Fourteen LOG June, 1969 Time for a Close Look levi f u {/ i 1' * V• ji II i: 1!. • i: ? '.'f <; THIRTEEN DAYS by Robert F. Kennedy G^orton—224 pages) "In April 1962 after President Kennedy forced Big Steel to roll back prices, someone remarked to me that anyone who could handle Steel could handle the Russians. Little did I realize that only a few months later I would be recalling those words during the Cuban Missile Crisis." The late Senator Robert Kennedy's exciting accoimt of those fateful thirteen days is not so valuable in what it reveals, as in the blueprint it provides for future crises. Kennedy emphasizes the importance of debate to bring about the best possible solution in such times. Critics of President Kennedy like to point to the Bay of Pigs as an example of Kennedy strategy. Robert Kennedy points out that there was unanimity of opinion during the Bay of Pigs. It seemed every­ one was in favor of going ahead because they thought that was what the President wanted. The missile crisis was another story. There were many opinions at first. Long periods of discussion converged them into two possible courses of action—attack and blockade. It was then up to the President to decide. One has a renewed sense of loss as he reads this book. At the same time there is thankfulness that such a man was around to keep cool at a time when the world stood still. President Kennedy was not so much concerned with the first step as what steps would follow and what would the final step lead to. For those who believe in simple solutions to our complex problems, this book emphasizes the complexities we face. It does more. It points up the importance of not letting the exasperation over Vietnam lead us once again into the shell of isolation. During the missile crisis, behind our vast array of military might on standby, there was the respect and support of most of the world which tipped the scales our way. The untimeliness of his death stopped Robert Kennedy's pen. He planned to write more about the crisis. He did write enough to emphasize the seriousness of the event. We can only hope if die world is ever perched on the brink again ws will have the same kind of men around as in 1962. If not there might not be anyone around to write about the next thirteen days of crisis. f * * A CENTURY OF LABOR-MANAGENffiNT RELATIONS by R. Ozanne (Wisconsin—$7.50) Robert Ozanne's book is an inside report of labor relations at McCormick and International Harvester. If ever the reader was treated to a look behind the poker faces of management, this is it. Ozanne charts one hundred years of stormy company-union relations. Every anti-union tactic in the book was tried during these years. Blacklists, company unions, lockouts, strike­ breakers, wage sweeteners, and all the rest, were tried to keep legitimate unions out. An example of Ozanne's reporting is found in this excerpt from a secret 1904 report to the McCormick Board of Direc­ tors: "'. . . We . . . think it entirely probable that we may have a strike of certain of the skilled trades. To successfully fight this strike it may be necessary to import non-union men and strikebreakers; it may be necessary to board and lodge these men inside our works; it may be necessary to practically put our works in a stage of seige. "'. . . We must assume that our plants will be picketed; that we shall have to have police protection . . . that there may be violence, slugging, rioting, even loss of life ... we believe by taking a firm stand ... we shall end up by having our men in better control.'" Such were the days of labor-management relations when brute force ruled, with most of the strength behind the boss. The value of government protection of the workers' right to organize is emphasized in this observation by Ozanne: "Despite the persistent desire of McCormick Works em­ ployees for unions, after 1886 they were unable to establish any lasting form of unionism against the implacable opposition of the company until the national government put its force and sustained support behind the right of workers to organize." One cannot do justice to this book in a brief review. It is an important history of labor relations told like it was. It is a valuable lesson to the worker of today lulled into complacency by the afiSluence of our times. Conditions at Sailors Snug Harbor, a home for retired seamen in Staten Island, N.Y., have given rise to so many complaints, both from its inhabitants and Uielr dependents, that a full investigation by the state legislature into alleged mismanagement by the trustees of the home has been requested by State Senator William J. Ferrall. And small wonder. At a recent press conference called by Ferrall, photos were exhibited of a walkway on the grounds built of gravestones taken from the cemetery. A letter from the widow of a man buried there complains that his grave could not be found—"there is no marker or any indication as to where he is buried," she said. Shortly after the press conference, the gravestones mysteriously disap­ peared. They were later found stacked in the chapel on the grounds*. It isn't only the dead who are callously deprived of their last vestige of dignity and respect. Room-and-board fees have been levied against the re­ tired seamen living there, many being asked to hand over their meager so­ cial security or retirement checks to the management in return for their continued residence at the Harbor. The men charge that the food they are served is "slop"; that leaky roofs and plugged-up drains go unrepaired. The lawn, they say, is being ruined by neglect, and religious services have become short and perfunctory. No one, declares one of the residents, seems to be in charge. He claims there is no discipline, proper surveillance, or apparent concern about the well-being of the men, and any complaints are ignored. As to the financial "deficit" used as an excuse by the trustees to claim fees from elderly residents—^the old seamen say this is a planned and manip­ ulated financial picture fostered and intentionally created by the present management. Extravagance, ordered neglect, padded payrolls, and overstaffed depart­ ments which fail to efficiently perform their assigned duties combine to pro­ duce this supposedly poor financial picture, they point out. Sailors Snug Harbor was established under the will of Captain Robert Richard Randall in 1801, to be run as a home for "aged, decrepit and worn out sailors." Randall left valuable property in lower Manhattan, the income from which was to be used to maintain the home on a non-profit basis. By terms of the will, some of the city's top dignitaries were named as trustees. If the trustees are personally unaware of what is going on, then it's about time they found out. Until conditions are corrected, the SIU will continue to stand solidly behind the old seamen and back all efforts to see to it that Sailors Snug Harbor is once again run the way Captain Randall undoubtedly meant for it to be run. -1 1 �Special Pension Suppiement SEAFARERS »1.0G . I OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO IMPROVING THE PENSION PLAN The Seafarers International Union, in forthcoming contract negotiations, will move for improvements in the pension plan. The Union, as part of the preparation for these talks, has been surveying the features of various pension plans. Our purpose has been to consider every possible approach to the problem of assuring our members that they are properly protected in their retirement years. A pension program must be a living document—capable of changing to meet the chang­ ing needs of the membership it safeguards. The Union's responsibility, therefore, is to know the members' attitudes on a variety of benefits—for a pension program is a complex thing. There are many questions that must be answered: • Do the members want a program geared solely to the monthly pension payment? • Or do they also want adequate protection against the heavy cost of long illnesses? • Do they wont a pension that provides benefits only for themselves? 4 • • Or do they also wont assurances that their dependents, too, will be protected? » - - • Do they want to gamble on staying fit for duty until they reach retirement age? V • 1". I• • Or do they also wont a program that provides adequate retirement pensions in cose of disability? - -lit UL. IS ^ i' i"' . To these questions, the Union must odd one of its own: How do we develop a plan with the broadest possible coverage—and at the same time that is financially sound—that protects the member, good times or bod? In arriving at the answers to these questions, and many others, the membership will be deeply involved. Whatever proposals are made to management will come only after thorough discussion and action by the membership. For that reason, this brochure puts at the disposal of the members factors that will aid them in their discussion and decision-making. We have set down the features of the existing SlU plan—because every member should understand precisely what he has now, the benefits he derives from the present plan, and how it operates. The Union thinks it would also be useful to the membership, in considering possible changes, that it review the features of a plan in the same industry, dealing with problems which are the same insofar as the individual is concerned. Therefore the brochure mokes comparisons between the SlU plan and that of the Notional Maritime Union. •I' •> r m• 1 This is not to say that one is better than another—it is done only to moke possible an objective study by the membership. Each member is urged to study this document carefully, and to use it as the basis for continuing discussions aboard ship and in the union halls—because it is from these discus­ sions that the ultimate contract proposal will come. While these discussions are being held, the Union will continue its study—calling on the best-trained experts in the pension field for advice. To assist with this part of the preparation for the forthcoming contract negotiations, this brochure carries on the bock page a Pension Data Questionnaire and a place for any comments which a member wishes to make. Each member should fill this out and forward it to Union Headquarters. In addition to assisting the Union, this form will enable each member to know pre­ cisely where he stands in respect to his own pension credits. �•) • I mjm - i ; ' ' '' v" ' *' BENEFIT SIU-AGLIW DISTRICT PENSION CREDITS Pension credits are given for each day worked under covered employment. Pension credits are also given for inpatient and outpatient hospital time and for sickness and accident time, not to exceed 1,825 days of the total pension credit requireinents of 5,475 days. For purposes of the disability pension credit req^uirements 1,460 of the 4,380 days may be inpatient and outpatient hospital time and sickness and accident time. iKf I I • ll' 'i ' m-.,' (Applies to All Pensions) ! i I :S ! Pension credits earned before October 1, 1967, cannot be lost by a break in service prior thereto. After October 1,1967, a seaman must have 90 days of covered employment in any one of y consecutive calendar years to avoid a break in service and loss of prior pension credits. BREAK IN SERVICE RULE (Applies to All Pensions) .. r f lit $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: 15 years (5,475 days) of pension credits with no time limita­ tion, is age 65 or over, has 90 days of covered employment during the calendar year preceding his date of application, and has one day of employment during the 6-month period immediately preceding such application. Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. NORMAL AND/OR SERVICE PENSION I' ' REDUCED AND EARLY RETIREMENT PENSIONS SEE NORMAL PENSION ABOVE ' ' 'f If'A I; ; in .1,' -.s;, :,,v. DISABILITY PENSION $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: Permanent disability at any age, provided the employee has pen­ sion credits for 12 years (4,380 days) of qualifying time, and has accumulated at least 90 days of covered employment during the calendar year preceding his date of applica­ tion, and at least one day of employment during the 6-month period immediately pre­ ceding his date of application. Years of Amount of Disability Pension Credit Pension Regardless of Age 12 or Over $250.00 Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. DEATH BENEFIT $4,000.00 if the designated beneficiary is a pensioner's wife, child, step-child, mother, father, brother, sister, grandchild, grandparent, step or half-brother and sister, step­ mother or stepfatlier. $1,000.00 payable to any other blass of beneficiaries not listed above. PENSIONERS' WELFARE BENEFIT Pensioners: Payment fw life without limitation of all medical costs including surgery, hospitalization, drugs, nursing homes, dental care, artificial limbs, wheel chairs, hear­ ing aids, glasses, crutches, etc. Pensioner's Dependents: Eligible for schedule of dependent's benefits under Seafa^rers Welfare Plan which includes hospital room and board, hospital extras, blood transfasions, doctor's visits at hospitals, surgical, diagnostic, medical extras, opticd, etc. These benefits shall continue during the pensioner's life and for six months thereafter. (NOTE: The foraoing; is an analysis and synopsis of the salient and pertinent provisions of the trust agrreements and their rules and regrulations. As to each specific provUion, reference should be made to the text thereof.) �' Pension credits are given as follows: Periods commencing January I, 1951: • 200 days or more in covered employment, including certain disability time, counts as a . year's credit (4 quarters). If less than 200 days are accumulated in any year quarteryear unit credits are as follows: Days of covered Employment Quarters to in Calendar Year be Credited Less than 50 0 50 to 99 1 lOO to 149 2 150 to 199 3 Periods before January 1, 1951: To receive pension credit for any employment before January 1, 1951, must have at * least 200 days of covered employment, including certain disability time, in the three ' year period between January 1, 1951 and December 31, 1953 and have ten years of . pension credits earned after January 1, 1951. If a seaman does not work in covered employment for at least 200 days in any period of three consecutive calendar years after January 1, 1953, and for at least 300 days in any period of three consecutive calendar years after January 1, 1969, it shall constitute a break in employment and his previous pension credits shall cancelled. $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: 20 years (80 quarters) of pension credit within 30 consecutive years, at any age, for those employees who must work past January 1, 1969 to earn the 20 years (80 quarters). The 30-year rule does not apply if 20 years (80 quarters) are earned before January 1, 1969. Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. REDUCED PENSION $187.50 to $250.00 for seamen who are not entitled to a Normal Pension or a Service Pension. Eligibility requirements: This pension available only to those seamen who were 65 years old before January 1, 1969 and who had at least 15 years (60 quarters) of pension credits at that time in accordance with the following table of benefits: Number of Years of Amount of Qualifying Time Pension 15 16 17 18 19 20 $187.50 200.00 212.50 225.00 237.50 250.00 15 16 60 61 62 63 64 $131.25 142.50 153.75 165.00 176.25 $140.00 152.00 164.00 176.00 188.00 18 17 Benefit Amount $157.50 $148.75 171.00 161.50 184.50 174.25 198.00 187.00 211.50 199.75 19 $166.25 180.50 194.75 219.00 223.25 In comparing the features of pension plans, it is important not only to consider the amount of the pension payment, or the period of time required for eligibility, but the provisions which govern how you become eligible, and how you maintain your eligibility. Both the SIU and NMU full pensions provide for payment of $250 monthly. However, each carries with it certain fringe benefits which differ as to the amounts payable, type of coverage and eligibility requirements. Regular Pension In both pension plans, the key is "pension credits," not necessarily years of service. Under the SlU plan, there is a simple formula—^giving the seaman the broadest latitude in accumulating credits toward his pension. The NMU plan contains a more complex formula than the SIU plan with respect to past service in the industry, and a sliding scale with respect to future service. As the comparison of the various features of the two plans in the adjoining columns shows, eligibility for the SIU normal pension is attained at age 65 with 15 years of pension credits. There is no limitation on time for attaining eligibility, which means that an SIU seaman's pension credits began with the time he first began sailing. The NMU requires 20 years of pension credits within 30 consecutive years for retirement at any age. Obviously this is a very attractive feature; however, to achieve retirement at any age, the NMU plan, as of January 1, 1969, closed off pension credits earned prior to 1939 in computing future pensions. Furthermore, in order to maintain the 20-year pension, the NMU found it necessary to tighten up the break-in-service rule by adding 100 days to the previous time required to be worked in any three-year period to maintain eligibility, bringing the new level to 300 days. Prior to that it was 200 days for the same peri^. Under the SIU plan, a seaman must have 90 days of covered employment in any one of three consecutive calendar years to avoid a break in service. Disability Pension EARLY RETIREMENT PENSION $131.25 to $235.00 as a Percentage of Normal or Reduced Pension. Eligibility requirements: This pension available only to the seamen who were 60 years old before January 1, 1969 and who had at least 15 years (60 quarters) of pension credits at that time. Amount of pension is a percentage of the Normal or Reduced Pen­ sion he would have been entitled to if he were 65 years of age at the time when his Early Retirement Pension first becomes payable. The following table of benefits indicates the amount of benefit payable: Age Seatime-Years I A Guide to the Pension Data 20 $175.00 190.00 205.00 220.00 235.00 $50.00 to $250.00 for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: Permanent disability for those under age 65 provided they have credit for a least 15 years (60 quarters) of service. Those over 65 must have actually been employed in covered employment for at least 200 days after December-'31, 1960 and must have credit for at least 10 years of service (40 quarters). The years of service on which a claim is based must be earned within a number of consecutive calendar years determined by adding 10 years to the actual years of service at time of filing. Amount of Disability Pension . Over 65 Under 65 Years of Pension Credit $ 50.00 10 to 14 187.50 187.50 15 200.00 200.00 16 212.50 212.50 17 225.00 225.00 18 237.50 237.50 19 250.00 250.00 20 Eligibilty extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime^ $3,500.00, less any Pension payments received, but not less than $1,500.00 payable to pensioner's wife, child, mother, father, brother or sister. Pensioner and Pensioner's Dependents: The total amount of benefits payable to the pen­ sioner and his dependents collectively shall not exceed a lifetime maximum of $750.00. In addition, a pensioner is entitled to a hearing aid benefit up to a maximum $325.00 once every four years. (NOTE: The forenoinit is an analysis and synopeis of the salient and pertinent provisions of the trust agree­ ments and their rules and regulations. As to each specific provision, reference should be made to the text thereof.) The SHTs disability pension provides a monthly benefit of $250 for a man disabled at any age, if he has had 12 years of service credits, one-third of which may be for in-patient and out-patient hospital time and sickness and accident time. The NMU's disability pension provides a scale of benefits from $50 to $250 a month, depending on the sailor's age and years of service, and provides credits for hospital time. No disability pensions are-payable to a man with less than 15 years of pension credits, unless he is over 65 at the time of dis­ ability. And the $250-a-month maximum is available only to men with 20 years of pension credits—at which point they would be eligible, in any event, for full pension irrespective of disability. Death Benefits With respect to death benefits, the SIU's are paid to any beneficiary selected by the retiree, and remain constant throughout the years. The NMU death benefit is limited to fewer beneficiaries, is smaller to begin with, and is subject to being discounted by more than 50 percent as the years go by. Medical Benefits Medical benefits are an important element in a retirement plan because two factors come into play for the retiree: (1) As he advances in age, his medical costs go up; and (2) These higher costs are incurred at a time when his income is reduced. Under the I^U plan, a $750 ceiling is placed on all of the medical expenses ever incurred by the retiree and his dependents. This is an absolute maximum—no matter how long the pensioner lives, and no matter how many hospital bills he and his dependents, collectively, incur. The pensioner in the SIU has unlimited medical coverage for himself. His dependents, meanwhile, are eligible for the same schedule of Seafarers Welfare Plan benefits that have been available to them during his days as an active seaman—^plus the fact that these benefits continue for the pensioner's depend­ ents for six months after his death. Conclusion Obviously, any pension plan review can carry only the highlights of the respective documents. These are lengthy, they have been amended several times, and they deal in great detail with each feature. Therefore, complete copies of both the SIU and NMU pension plans are being made available in all SIU ports so that members wishing to do so can examine them in detail. The foregoing comments are offered to help the members evaluate the relative merits of the various elements that make up a complete pension program. This evaluation will make it easier for the members to express their views on the direction in which the SIU should now proceed with respect to the future. (Now proceed to the next page and complete the Pension Data Questionnaire.) �I f-7 Special Pension Supplement SEAFAKERSAIOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC. GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO PENSION DATA - QUESTIONNAIRE i / :7 In order to effect improvements in the current pension program, it is necessary that Seafarers submit the answers to the below listed questions, and fill in all seatime information in the place provided. Do not mail this questionnaire in until you have filled in all data. (Please print all answers.) Send to SlU Pension Study Committee, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232. J I" ^ it I. Name 2. Residence address Street ' City Apartment No. State Zip Code 3. Social Security No. (Area Code) 4. Book No. 6. Date of Birth Telephone No. 5. Z No. 7. Age last birthday 8. Height Weight Mo. Day Year 9. Date of Joining SlUNA-AGLIWD _ 10. Type of book now held: "C" When issued •B" Month \l 11. Age when you first sailed deep-sea i'' 12. Married Single Widowed Divorced Relationship Living in your home? Name Date of Birth mkm Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes I i • 14. Are you presently on pension? m't'" I Separated 13. Number of Dependents I'h I*'- Wi Year Type: ( I ( ( ( ( I ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No No No No No No No ( ( ( 1 ( ( ( Receiving Social Security? ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No No No No No No No 1 ( ( ( { ( .'-7^ 1 If yes, indicate as follows: Disability Normal From whom: Seafarers Pension Plan Other _ Other Social Security Name of Entity IS. Are you eligible for supplemental Medicare? 16. Fill in numbers of days of seatime for each of the years listed below: fc I 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 I960 Number of Days For Pension Plan Cffiee Use Qnlilr. Number of Days 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 For Pension Plan i Office Us^ Only i Number of Days Number of Days 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 Number of Days 1931 1930 i » 1929 1928 I I 1927 1926 1925 1 1 j I hereby authorize the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ trict, its officers, employees or representatives, to obtain, on my behalf, any and all information as to my seatime from the United States Coast Guard. 44 Date f II Sign your name here Social Security Number Comments: �June, 1969' SEAFARERS Page Nineteen LOG In Tribute on 80th Birthday; Randolphs Goals Reaffirmed by Labor-Clvll Rights Coalition NEW YORK The laborcivil rights coalition gave A. Philip Randolph an 80th birth­ day present—a rededication to his goal of "total liberation" of the American Negro. The leaders of the coalition turned out 1,500 strong in a vivid demonstration of unity and voiced their determination to carry on the work that Randolph had dedicated his life to. The entire scope of the labor movement was represented, along with the religious faiths, Negro organizations, govern­ ment leaders and many others. They crowded the grand ball­ room of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to pay tribute to Ran­ dolph and add to the coffers of the A. Philip Randolph Educa­ tional Fund to finance voter education and registration pro­ jects in black communities to strengthen the labor, liberal, egro alliance. And at the conclusion they heard Randolph eloquently lay lown the principles by which he coalition must continue to guided: 'We must reject confrontaionism, and together reaffirm he necessity for democratic eans of political protest. "We must reject violence and ^together reaffirm the power and the wisdom of non-violence. "And we must reject racial separatism and together, with I the conviction that one day our nation can cease to be divided within itself, reaffirm our abid­ ing faith in integration." AFL-dO President George Meany, reviewing Randolph's accomplishments and the gains in the trade union movement in the battle against discrimination. declared there is "no room for complacency." Randolph, he pointed out, in founding the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the face of all-out opposition of the Pull­ man Co., laid down the basic principle that black workers must be organized and become part of organized labor. Ran­ dolph's advice to Negro workers to get into the labor movement and win support for the fight against discrimination was criti­ cal to strengthening both the Negro and white worker, Meany said. The American labor move­ ment has responded to Ran­ dolph's leadership, sometimes too slowly, Meany added, but it has come a long way and is determined to wipe out the last vestiges of discrimination with renewed emphasis on job up­ grading and training. No Longer Alone Randolph is no longer alone in the struggle as he was in the early years, Meany said, and the AFL-CIO and all its affili­ ates are working to reach all workers at the local level to carry the message of equal rights. Roy Wilkins, executive direc­ tor of the NAACP, following the AFL-CIO president, noted that Meany has worked closely with Randolph and has worked effectively in the civil rights movement md that the AFLCIO has been the bulwark of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., told the dinner that she had come from Charleston, S.C., where she has been aiding the striking hospital workers and that Charleston has now be­ come a national test of con­ science, that the labor civil rights coalition is a reality here and the battle must be won. Randolph, she said, had al­ ways been a great inspiration to her late husband and a source of encouragement. Randoph gave him advice and coun­ sel, she said, adding, "thank you for myself and Martin Luther King." Bayard Rustin, executive di­ rector of the A. Philip Ran­ dolph Institute, served as toast-* master and introduced New York Governor Nelson H. Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and C. L. Dellums, president of the Sleep­ ing Car Porters succeeding Ran­ dolph who retired from the post last year. Paying tribute also to Randoph were Msgr. Gregory Mooney, for Terence Cardinal Cooke; Dr. John C. Bennett, present. Union Theological Sem­ inary, and Isaiah Minkoff, ex­ ecutive vice chairman. National Community Relations Advisory Council. The tributes were touching and emotional in spots as speak­ ers recalled earlier days and dif­ ficult battles, stressing Randoph's "prophetic vision," his quiet determination, his courage, his inspiration and his lack of personal animosity. It was all underscored when George Shirley of the Metro­ politan Opera sang some of the lyrics of Negro poet Langston Hughes and when "Oh, Free­ dom" rolled out over the great hall. In his response, Randolph ex­ pressed his gratification at the "fine representation" at the din­ ner from all areas of American life, cited Rustin's genius for or­ ganizing protest marches and spoke of his admiration and af­ fection for Meany as a man who "when he commits himself to a program will work at it and carry it through. He doesn't pre­ tend to be for something when he isn't." In dedicating himself to the liberation of the Negro, Randoph said, his major endeavor was to establish an alliance be­ tween the Negro and the Ameri­ can trade union movement be­ cause the Negroes are a work­ ing people and the labor move­ ment is the home of the work­ ing man and the only haven for the dispossessed. The struggle of the Negro masses for social and economic equality has "become irrepres­ sible," he observed. But in the continuing struggle "we must have faith that the society, di­ vided by race and class, and subject to profound social pres­ sures, can one day become a nation of equals." 'Lick and Promise' Seapower Effort Will Not Meet Soviet Fleet Threat CLEAR LAKE, Calif.— vention of the Pacific Coast Americans cannot effectively Metal Trades District Council meet the threat of the Russian meeting here. By 1970 the Soviet merchant fleet by the "lick and promise" that has characterized this na­ fleet is expected to total some­ tion's attention to strength on what over 14 million tons, a the seas over the past many seven-fold increase over its ton­ years, Edwin M. Hood, presi­ nage just 20 years ago. Hood dent of the Shipbuilders Coun­ pointed out. During this same period, the U.S. merchant fleet cil of America, cautioned. In fact, long after the war in has been on a steady decline. Last November, he noted, the Vietnam is ended, the challenge of Soviet Russia's burgeoning Russians had 458 merchant sea power will confront the ships under construction. Dur­ U.S., Hood told the annual con- ing the same month, the U.S. had 62 on order. The U.S.S.R. has for years been taking deliv­ ery of new merchant ships at a Trinidad UnionSsfs Visit SlU Headquarters rate six times greater than this nation's. As a result. Hood said, the Soviet merchant marine will "shortly be larger than the American maritime fleet in terms of both numbers and ton­ nage." Where in 1950 the U.S. fleet comprised 1,900 ships totalling 22 million tons, by the begin­ ning of 1969 it consisted of only 1,033 active ships and a 28 percent drop in tonnage. "Further contractions in the U.S. shipping fleet can. be ex­ pected during the next 18 months," Hood stated. In terms of age, the SCA president noted that "about 80 percent of the Soviet shipping fleet today is less than 10 years of age." In contrast, some "80 percent of the American mer­ chant marine is 20 years of age or older." "The Russians remember all Members bf the Seamen & Waterfront Union of Trinidad were recent visitors at SlU headquarters as to well that which we are often part of a program sponsored by the Organization of American States. During their stay they met with quick to forget," Hood de­ SlU Vice President Earl Shepard, visited the upgrading school and. toured other headquarters facilities. clared, "the importance of con­ SlU representatives Frank Pecquex and Bernie Lishinsky (left) and Frank Martino (far right), showed visitors trol of the oceans. In the (center, l-r): Edwin Stone, Alfred Grant, Errol Niles and Vernon Glean around the SlU Research Library. vacuum created by apparent American lethargy and the re­ treat of the British Navy on all fronts, the Kremlin obviously intends to use the oceans for exploitation of Soviet political, psychological and economic ob­ jectives. "That the Soviet Union has embarked on a carefully con­ ceived plan pointed toward mas­ tery of the seas there can be little question. The political and economic advantages are easily recognizable. Less obvious is the propaganda potential," he continued. "As these modem ships flying the ensign of the hammer and sickle, spread each day more expansively over the oceans, they suggest a posture and strength of frightening pro­ portions to uncommitted or lesser developed countries. The severity of this symbolism is easily portrayed by the arith­ metic of our own sea power in­ ventory. "In sum, Soviet Russia is mounting at sea a new challenge that . . . extends across the full spectrum of sea power. If the U.S. is to continue as a pre-emi­ nent world power, this challenge must be faced squarely. But, it will not be effectively met with old ships of questionable reli­ ability. . . . "What is needed is a fixed national determination such as the Russians have seen fit to adopt and pursue in their own national interest," Hood went on. "What is needed is a force­ ful acknowledgement by the stewards of national policy that strengthening our nation's sea power resources, in all respects, will require a high priority in the orchestration of essential national goals." �Page IVentr StAPARERS Jnne, 1969 LOG At SOfh Anniversary Celebration; no Saluted for Advanmg Workers' Welfare PHILADELPfflA—The In­ ternational Labor Organization's "positive accomplishments have far outweighed its failings" in advancing the welfare and free­ dom of workers, AFL-CIO President George Meany de­ clared here. At the same time, Meany warned that there must be "no tampering" with the tripartite structure of the United Nations specialized agency if it is to con­ tinue to be successful. Meany spoke at a three-day conference convened by Temple University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ILO and the 25th anniversary of an his­ toric ILO conference held here. Out of that 1944 meeting, also on Temple's campus, came the Declaration of Philadelphia, a document that reaffirmed ILO's goals and became its pol­ icy guide in the pursuit of hum­ an rights and social progress after World War II. Past and Future Viewed At the commemorative con­ ference, nearly ICQ leaders in labor, management, education and government from many parts of the world examined ILO's past and the challenges in its future. Major speakers agreed that the ILO has significantly im­ proved workers' conditions and living standards. Two of them —^Labor Secretary George P. Shultz and Edwin P. Neilan, U.S. employer delegate to the ILO—echoed Meany's warning against interfering with the agency's govemment-labor-employer structure. This solid stand of U.S. gov­ ernment, labor and management reflected concern over reports that Soviet-bloc nations might try at the ILO conference in June to convert the organization into one made up solely of gov­ ernment representatives. WMkeis Know Needis The tripartite structure of ILO, Me^y said, is its "funda­ mental strength." In free na­ tions, he noted, worker repre­ sentatives "know the needs of workers" and they co-operate with employers and govern­ ments in advancing these needs. "It was the genius of the founding fathers of ILO," Meany added, "to recognize that only by securing the participa­ tion of the representatives of workers, employers and govern­ ments that the welfare of work­ ers couid be effectively im­ proved." Meany said it was difficult to understand why the U.S. has ratified "only a handful" of ILO-adopted conventions when "our standards are equal to or better" than most of those in­ volved. He urged President Nix­ on and Congress to secure rati­ fication of these conventions. On the other hand, Meany emphasized that Commum'st na­ tions ratify conventions and then "brazenly" deny the rights and working conditions that are called for. He urged ILO to live up to its responsibilities to police its conventions. On balance, Meany found that ILO's achievements have more than offset its shortcom­ ings and "if Sam Gompers could see the ILO today he would be proud of what he helped to create." Gompers was chairman of a commission at the 1919 Paris Peace Confer­ ence out of which came the ILO. Labor's R<rfe Praised Shultz praised American la­ bor's "steadfast" interest and participation in the "world's leading tripartite organization." It is "highly important," he said, that the organization be main­ tained in its present form. "For half a century the ILO has sought to contribute to in­ ternational peace," Shultz de­ clared, and ^'it has pointed the family of nations toward the highest possible goal—^human justice." In line with ILO's appeals to nations to develop manpower programs and reduce unemploy­ ment, Shultz discussed current efforts in the United States to provide job-training for workers and reduce inflation without in­ creasing unemployment. The need to prevent any rise in uneiilployment in the United States "is especially critical," Shultz stated, because the in­ crease would come in poverty Rudolph Faupl of the Machinists, left, is congratulated by AFL-GIO President George Meany on his reappointment by President Nixon as the United States worker delegate to the International Labor Organ­ ization. Faupl has held the post since 1958, under many Presidents. areas where the jobless rate is He stressed the need of a na­ tional health insurance system even more "alarmingly high." Other major conference as advocated by the AFL-CIO. speakers included, C. Wilfred Robert M. McGlotten, pres­ Jenks, principal deputy director- ently serving as labor director general of the ILO, who helped of the National Alliance of shape the Philadelphia Declara­ Businessmen on assignment tion, and Assistant Secretary <rf from the AFL-CIO, spoke on Labor George L-P Weaver, manpower activities in the Unit­ chairman of ILO's governing ed States as part of a panel on body. employment programs. Pearl S. Buck, Nobel prize AFL-CIO Social Security Di­ rector Bert Seidman observed winner in literature, was the during a panel discussion on so­ main speaker at a conference cial security that the United banquet. She related her more States lags behind other devel­ than 40 years of life in Asia to oped ILO nations in providing the problems of the continent security for older persons and and its need for a strong labor health facilities for all citizens. movement. For Day Care, Scholarship Programs: ACWA Seeks Taft-Hartley Changes To Allow Use of Joint Trust Funds WASHINGTON — The Clothing Workers are asking Congress to amend the TaftHartley Act to allow employer contributions to joint labormanagement trust funds which would finance day care centers and student scholarships. Bills have been introduced in both houses of Congress calling for the amendment. Significantly, the Clothing Manufacturers Association al­ ready has agreed to pay onehalf of one percent of its pay­ rolls into the trust funds that would benefit the children of the 130,000 ACWA members. President Jacob S. Potofsky told the Senate Labor subcom­ mittee that favorable action by Congress on the legislation could encourage the private sector of the economy to help achieve the nation's social goals. The ACWA statement was delivered by union Vice Presi­ dent Howard D. Samuel during the subcommittee's hearings on the Senate version of the pro­ posed amendment to the Labor Management Relations Act. The joint trust funds would provide scholarships to young­ sters seeking post-secondary education and provide funds for day care centers serving children of working mothers. Employers or unions may fi­ nance such activities now, but may not collaborate in those operations because the law al­ lows only limited purposes for jointly administered trust funds. "Just as the government is now helping and seeks even further to help our citizens to achieve their education goals," the Potofsky statement stressed, "so too, the Amalgamated be­ lieves strongly that the private sector of the economy should be encouraged to help our citizens achieve their full potential." He said that the trade union movement — througji the pro­ cess of collective bargaining—^is particularly suited to help im­ plement the nation's educational goals by making education available to thousands of citi­ zens, "who might otherwise contribute less than their full potential to our nation's produc­ tivity." He emphasized the need for day care centers so that women who head families can support their children. "Among all families headed by women, three out of five in­ clude children under 18 years of age," Potofsky said, and nearly one of five includes children under six years old. The union now operates a day care center in Baltimore but it is nominally a health care center under the health and wel­ fare fund to avoid violating the law. The need for day care cen­ ters is expected to increase as the number of working mothers grows. A fact sheet from the Labor Department's Women's Bureau showed that about 10.6 million women with children under 18 years old were work­ ing in March 1967. Ibe legislation in Congress would make bargaining on the trust funds voluntary. A similar measure passed in the House last year, but there was no ac­ tion in the Senate. Farmers Union Backs Boycott Of Calif. Grapes HOT SPRINGS, Ark.— The National Farmers Un­ ion convention unanimous­ ly adopted a resolution sup­ porting the boycott of Cali­ fornia grapes until the grow­ ers grant bargaining rights to workers. NFU President Tony Dechant said in comment: "We do not believe the pub­ lic interest is served when large corporate farms such as these can run rough-shod over the rights of their em­ ployees." The convention also adopted a resolution calling for extension of the Na­ tional Labor Relations Act to agriculture so that its workers will have legal bar­ gaining and organizing rights. Aati-Union Daily Ord^ed by Cotal ToHeedNLRB NEW ORLEANS—Another newspaper in the chain of U.S. dailies owned by Lord Roy Thomson has been adjudged guilty of thumbing its nose at the National Labor Relations Act. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Lafayette, La., Daily Advertiser to obey a National Labor Relations Board order to stop the unfair prac­ tices that triggered a 1964 strike. The ruling also directed the paper to bargain with Typo­ graphical Local 832 and to re­ instate all strikers with lost pay from the day they applied for re­ instatement. Other newspaper unions have run up against the hostile prac­ tices of the British and Cana­ dian press lord, owner of more than 50 U.S. and Canadian dai­ lies and some in the British Isles. The Newspaper Guild has jeen on strike at Thomson's' Peterborough, Ont,, Examiner since December. The Guild also has been trying for more than six months of negotiations to get a first contract with the same chain's Canton, Ohio, Reposi­ tory. On February 26, the board ordered Thomson's Dothan, Ala., Eagle, to stop trying to destroy the Printing Pressmen by refusing to bargain in good faith. Negotiations at Dothan were conducted by Thomson's national personnel manager. On the Lafayette paper, the labor board found management guilty of causing composing room and pressroom employees to strike on December 2, 1964, and prolonging the strike by threats and promises of im­ provements if the men would abandon the union. J * 9 �Jane, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Twenty One LOG Continuity of Contracts in Mergers Stressed in Labor's Plea to NLRB AIFLD Aide Testifies: WASHINGTON — An em­ ployer who takes over the busi­ ness of another employer should be bound by the entire labor contract of his predecessor, the AFL-CIO argued in a brief filed with the National Labor Rela­ tions Board. So should the incumbent un­ ion be bound by the existing contract for its full duration, the federation's legal counsel said in urging the board to follow the Supreme Court's ruling in a 1964 successorship case— Wiley and Sons v. Livingston, involving the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The full five-member board heard oral arguments and re­ ceived briefs in four unfair la­ bor practice cases. In each case, unions filed charges, and the NLRB general counsel is­ sued complaints that employers violated the labor law when told the subcommittee. they refused to honor contracts The goals of the Alliance for in effect at the time of merger Progress, he quoted, include "fair wages and satisfactory or takeover. The board will rule later in working conditions for all" and "effective systems of labor man­ the four cases—Sheet Metal Workers Local 496 and Kota agement relations." Division of Dura Corp., a sub­ These goals can be accom­ sidiary of Walter Kidde and plished and unions can function Co., Inc.; Hotel and Restaurant effectively, Doherty stressed, only in a society "free of auto­ Locals 402 and 500 against cratic control either by despotic Mission Valley Travelodge; political parties who pervert the Chemical Workers Local 773 trade union movement ... by and Hackney Iron and Steel military juntas ... or by small, Co.; William J. Bums Interna­ tional Detective Agency, Inc., self-appointed cliques." and Local 162 of the United Doherty told the subcommit­ Plant Guard Workers and Lo­ tee, headed by Representative Dante B. Fascell (D-Fla.) that cal 1, American Federation the AFL-CIO Impact Projects Fund of more than $450,0(X) has developed several hundred conununity projects, clinics and co-ops. In Peru, he said, "the first savings and loan associa­ tion in Latin America run by WASHINGTON—Before an workers for the benefit of work­ ers" has made more than $4.5 advertiser promises "free" mer­ million in loans and now has chandise to consumers or offers 11,500 depositors. a "2-for-l" sale, he'd better take Training programs and social a look at the Federal Trade projects to improve the condi­ Commission's proposed guide tion of Latin America's farm on the use of the word "free" workers — the campesinos — in advertising. have been held in nearly every Because most shoppers think country. of free merchandise as the "ulti­ AIFLD union leadership mate" bargain, the FTC has training has reached more than warned advertisers to be particu­ 105,000 workers in 21 countries larly careful to avoid mislead­ over a seven-year period, Do­ ing or deceptive offers of give­ herty said. In addition, 725 aways. It listed such phrases as Latin American worker leaders "Buy 1, Get 1 Free", "50 per­ have received eight-to-12 weeks cent off with purchase of 2", and of specialized training at the "Half-price Sale" and "10 Sale" AIFLD center in the United as among the gimmicks. At the States and a nine-month univer­ same time an unnamed private sity-level program has helped association plagued by "certain meet the need for trained labor unfair and deceptive practices" asked the FTC to approve its economists. The work must continue, advertising and selling standards Doherty urged, because "the for its own publication. The FTC said it had approved best hope for the future of a Code of Ethics for the publica­ democracy and progress in Latin America lies with the tion which invites industry to people and their ability to de­ voluntarily agree to avoid "bait velop their own trade unions, advertising, false disparagement political parties, co-operatives, of competitors, deceptive pric­ credit institutions, business en­ ing, deceptive advertising of terprises and other human in­ guarantees and misleading use of the term 'free'." stitutions . . Labor Institute Is Vital Force For Latin American Progress WASHINGTON The American Institute for Free La­ bor Development has been a major force in support of the Latin American social reform programs envisioned in the Al­ liance for Progress, AIFLD Ex­ ecutive Director William C. Doherty, Jr., told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee recently. AIFLD, he testified, as "a unique tripartite venture" of U.S. labor and business with fi­ nancial backing of the Agency for International Development, has helped bring about partici­ pation by Latin American work­ ers in the development of their nations through democratic trade unions. It has provided leadership training, seed money for com­ munity development programs, financing for workers' housing and practical assistance in estab­ lishing credit unions, co-ops and health clinics, Doherty noted. The AIFLD is committed to strengthening the free trade union movement, its director Nagging Scab Gets Bagged LOS ANGELES — The struck Hearst Herald-Examiner has created a new breed of sports specialist — the instant handicapper. Press box regu­ lars at Santa Anita track re­ ported that a young man asked numerous questions on the art of handicapping and shortly afterward they recognized his name as the new "race expert" for the scab-staffed newspaper. Unfortunately, the new "ex­ pert" got off to a bad start by listing a horse named Toyman .as scratched. He forgot to tell the horse about it. Toyman went on to win—spaying $25.20 —and was Oie second half of the winning daily double. The moral of this sad tale: Don't let a scab tout you on or off any­ thing. FTC Sets Guide Gevernii^ Offers Of 'Free'Coeds of mergers in American history of Guards. The issue in each case was is now rolling through the whether the employer commits economy." It cited Federation President an unfair practice under the labor act when he fails to keep George Meany's testimony be­ existing contract terms in ef­ fore the House Ways and fect on completion of a merger. Means Committee in April that The NLRB counsel, and the "not only are the bigs taking unions, opposed employer ar­ over the smalls, but minnows guments that the Wiley deci­ are swallowing whales, and the sion applies only to arbitration bigs are merging with other agreements and not to entire bigs." The concern, Meany testified, is "not with large con­ contracts. glomerate corporations merely The high court ruled in the because they are large" but be­ Wiley case that "the disappear­ cause of the effects—^plant ance by merger of a corporate closedowns and impacts on col­ employer who holds a contract lective bargaining and the local with a union "does not auto­ matically terminate all rights" community. The federation brief an­ of the covered employees. swered six questions on which In "appropriate circumstan­ the board asked labor, manage­ ces, present here," the court ment and government to com­ continued, "the successor em­ ment. It asked the NLRB to ployer may be required to rule in the pending cases that a arbitrate with the union under successor employer is bound by the agreement." the entire labor contract of his It would be illogical, coun­ predecessor, and so is the in­ sel for the NLRB told the cumbent union; changed cir­ board, "to hold that the ar­ cumstances will call for flexible bitration clause continues and interpretation of the contract the other clauses of the contract language; there is no rational do not. ... A successor stands reason to change the duration of in the shoes of the predecessor the contract. The business com­ and is bound by the contract." munity, it said, has found the The AFL-CIO reminded the Wiley decision's effects "quite board that "the greatest wave manageable." Benjamin Ferrdra Your wife Asuncion, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 25 Julong Duhat, Sulukan Street, Malabon, Rizal, Philippines. GUbert Parker Mrs. Guinlee at the Famous Door in New Orleans requests that you contact her. 4/ Wayne Alvin Lott Please contact your mother as soon as possible at 6531 El Cortez, Apt. B, Bell Gardens, California 90201. Fred Bomatay Please get in touch with Jo­ seph Niziolek, 106 South Dur­ ham Street, Baltimore, Mary­ land 21231, as soon as possible. Donald Ault Please contact Jack M. Schock, P.O. Box 772, Clear­ field, Pennsylvania 16830, as soon as possible. i James Fuller Please get in touch with Nick Halpin, Jack's son, at RFD #3, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301, as soon as possible, or call Mrs. Halpin at (802) 254-9181. — Mike Piskin Please get in tou^h with your old sparring partner Georgie Gano (G. Ripcord Pulignano) at 6514 Keystone St., Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania 19135. He has misplaced your address and is anxious to hear from you. ^ Tim Landers Please contact Kathy Han­ sen, 86-16 60th Ave., Apt. 5-D, Rego Park, New York 11373, as soon as possible. Potenclano Paculba Please contact your wife, Elma, at Bakhaw Norte, Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines, as soon as possible. Robert J. Miller Please get in touch with your brother, William R. Miller, on an important matter. ^ Walter Yeike Your old friend Jim McCarten would like to hear from you. Write to him at 603 South Ben­ nett St., Seattle, Washington 98108. Elliott Gorum Fred Shaia would like to hear from you. You can contact him at 3114 Bee Road, Savannah, Geor^a 31404. �\ Page Twenty Two Three Millionth Survivor 11' Social Security Commissioner Robert M. Ball, at left, presents Mrs. Andrew S. Kuttner, of Beltsville, Md., and her children, Mi­ chelle, 5, and Charles, 7, their first survivors' benefit check. Mrs. Kuttner's husband died in a recent automobile accident. There are now three million widows and children on the rolls. Children are covered until they are grown and through school. Under Sec­ retary of Health, Education and Welfare John G. Veneman is at right. B:. By Sidney Maigollns Viet Nam veterans are getting the worst insurance deal of any recent servicemen. After they leave service they no longer can continue their service policies on the same low-cost term insurance basis that earlier vets could choose. Their only choices—if they want to convert—are the more expensive ordinary life, limitedpayment or endowment policies. Unlike term insurance, which is pure insurance, these policies combine insurance with a savings feature. The new crop of veterans doesn't even have the privilege of continuing their insurance at low net through the government. If they want to convert they have to buy individual policies from a list of private companies. Moreover, the VA won't even tell the new vets the true cost of this private insurance; that is, the price of the actual insurance protection in these insurance-plus-savings policies. An Indiana University insurance professor—^Dr. Joseph M. Belth—uncovered the story of the VA's reluctance to help young ex-servicemen make the best choice even from the limited types of policies available to them. Belth, one of the nation's leading insurance experts, has for some time been urging that insurance companies should give the general public—not just the vets—more information about the real cost of the insurance part of policies which combine savings and insurance. He points out that the companies will tell you the premium you have to pay. But, Belth says, this is not a reliable in­ dicator of the price of the insurance itself. Even the so-called "net cost" method of computing the price of the insurance, which many companies use, can be misleading. In this method, agents often are able to "demonstrate" that the insur­ ance costs you nothing at all after a certain number of years. Belth points out that they can reach this "absurd conclusion" because they ignore the interest earned by the savings portion of your policy. Thus, they can show you that, at the end of 20 years for example, the cash value of your policy is more than the total of the premiums you paid in. Because of the lack of genuine price disclosure, Belth says, "Many policyholders are paying more than necessary for their in­ surance protection, in the sense thai some companies are charg­ ing much higher prices than others for essentially the same cover­ age." While all families who buy such insurance-plus-savings policies suffer from this price concealment, the lack of information is especially unfair to the returning veterans. Presently, when a young man is drafted he automatically is covered by $10,000 of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance. He pays $2 a month, or can pay $1 for $5,000 of insurance or cancel it altogether. The insurance is provided on a cooperative basis with the insurance industry. So far, the price is cheap because this is pure term insurance with no cash value, it is a group policy, and the government pays that part of the cost attributable to service hazards. SEAFARERS LOG June, 1969 NLRB Rules Strikers Retain Rights To Vote in Unit Bertion For I Year WASHINGTON —The Na­ tional Labor Relations Board has ruled that strikers whose jobs have been filled remain part of the bargaining unit and have the right to vote in unit elections within a year after the start of the strike. The board noted that the rul­ ing revised its "approach to this matter" to conform with the in­ tent of Congress in the Landrum-GrifiSn Act. It ordered C. H. Guenther and Son, Inc., doing business in San Antonio, Texas, as Pioneer Flour Mills, to negotiate new contract terms with Brewery Workers Local 110 and to re­ turn union strikers to the jobs filled between May 3 and Au­ gust 4, 1967, by "new untrained employees." During 1966 negotiations on a new contract the union went on strike. Of 96 employees in the bargaining unit, 79 actively supported the strike, 16 contin­ ued to work and the company hired 46 replacements for the strikers. The strike ended February 6, 1967, and most union members offered unconditionally to re­ turn. Management recalled 21 strikers that month, employed two strikers as new employees five months later, but refused to reinstate any others even when job, vacancies occurred. Late Doubts The union filed charges and at an NLRB hearing later that year management "for the first time raised the issue of its good faith doubt of the union's ma­ jority as the reason for its fail­ ure to deal with the union," the board noted in upholding an examiner's findings. The company based its de- But when the youngster leaves service he can convert only to a policy with one of the participating companies. Unlike World War I, II and Korean vets—^who were able to continue their poli­ cies at low government rates—the Viet vet now pays an individual private-company rate and can buy only a more expensive type of insurance. Nor does he get any guidance from the VA as to which of the policies may be the best value. All he gets is an alphabetical list of several hundred companies. When Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.) learned about Belth's criticism of the lack of price disclosure for returning vets, he wrote to VA Administrator William J. Driver, suggesting that the VA get for the vets the needed comparative-price information. Hart pointed out that investigations have shown that "there are enor­ mous differences among commercial companies in prices charged for insurance protection in essentially comparable policies." You know the kind of answer Hart got back? Among other rea­ sons for not providing price facts. Driver argued that "Communica­ tion of comprehensive information on insurance through printed matter is difficult"; "When considering the purchase of life insur­ ance there are many factors to be considered . . . presenting such a mass of data would probably be confusing to most veterans." Disappointed by this negative response. Hart pointed out that the confusion Driver cited is the very reason why it was necessary for the VA to do this job. Obviously if the VA finds comparing policies tough, how is a kid coming out of the armed forces sup­ posed to know how to choose from among hundreds of companies? Then Driver came back with the argument—among others— that comparing prices could result in "considerable injustice" to many of the companies, because of "assumptions" that would have to be made about their varying interest, mortality and lapse rates. To Belth, "the inescapable conclusion is that Driver and the VA, at least in this instance, have acted in such a way as to protect what they regard as the interests of the insurance companies rather than to give top priority to the interests of the Viet Nam veterans." Belth and Hart both deserve credit for seeking to correct this situation. If Hart can pursue the need for price disclosure, he may be able to add "truth in insurance" to the "truth in packaging" ef­ forts that have been of great benefit to consuiners. The VA always has been a funny outfit about insurance, with its efforts to convince earlier vets to switch to higher-cost "perma­ nent" policies by showing how much term insurance would cost at age 95, no less. As for the Viet Nam vets, there is no special advantage at present to converting after leaving service unless the vet developed a dis­ ability for which a private insurer ordinarily would charge a hi^er premium. A participating company cannot charge more or reduce the amount of insurance because of disability. In any case, the returning vet has 120 days to see if he can pass a medical exam for a lower-cost policy—such as ordinary term with some of the lower-cost insurers—^before deciding whether to convert his service policy. fense on the claim that on Feb­ ruary 6, 1967, the appropriate bargaining unit consisted of 46 employees, hired as permanent replacements for strikers, and 16 non-strikers. Therefore, the employer argued, it had reason­ able grounds for believing the union no longer represented a majority of employees and thus it was justified in refusing to bargain with it. The board rejected this rea­ soning. Management's reliance on the number of replacements as the basis for questioning the union's majority was "mis­ placed;" it said, because the 79 strikers who offered to return to work "maintained their status as economic strikers and would have been permitted to vote in an election" conducted under the law. The NLRB said that in counting the economic strikers as part of the bargaining unit, "we realize . . . that we are departing from the standard used in Stoner Rubber Co., Inc.," a 1959 case in which re­ placed economic strikers were excluded from the unit. The law was amended by Congress in the Landrum-Griffin Act later that year, however, and now reads: "Employees en­ gaged in an economic strike who are not entitled to reinstatement shall be eligible to vote ... in V. any election conducted within 12 months after the commence­ ment of the strike." In addition, the NLRB said, the legislative history of the 1959 Act "strongly suggests" that it was the intent of Con­ gress that strikers in an eco­ nomic walkout of 12 months duration or less be considered members of the bargaining unit for the purpose of determining the union's bargaining status. AMine Pilots Offer Bounty On 'Sfcyjotfrm' WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO Airline Pilots are backing a new move to counter the 'skyjack­ ing' mania. Charles H. Ruby has announced his union's offer of a $25,000 reward for in­ formation leading to arrest and conviction of those violating federal 'skyjacking' statutes. "The air line pilots who are in the air with their passengers," says Ruby, "personally share all the risks of skyjacking. For several years we have been ex­ ploring many avenues of pre­ vention and deterrence and con­ cluded at this time that a reward offered the most promising solu­ tion without increasing the risks." The purpose of the reward, Ruby said, is to lessen the sense of immimity skyjackers have from being prosecuted. �June, 1969 SEAFARERS klin^ton Workers Waited 13 Years Back Pay DARLINGTON, S.C. — What is it worth to a man to wait 13 years for justice? That was the question that cried for an answer as 400 fired workers at Roger Milliken's big old textile mill here brought their meager records to the Grand Jury room in the new County Court House. Lawyers for the National La­ bor Relations Board asked them questions about where they had looked for work, and how much money they had made by pick­ ing cotton and babysitting for neighbors or commuting to other mills in the Pee Dee River valley, and beyond. Not too many of the older workers got other jobs after directors of the Darlington mill, part of the Deering Milliken textile empire, voted to dis­ mantle the mill and sell all its equipment to the highest bidder —^because its workers voted for the Textile Workers Union of America in an NLRB election in 1956. But whatever they earned, it will be deducted from whatever amount the corporation is ob­ ligated to pay them under a Labor Board order enforced by the courts. May Hit $7 MUlkm The total could come to $7 million, by TWUA reckoning. Or it could be considerably less as the years drag on and the older workers drop off one by one. But the workers all have a common wish to know "when will we get some money?" Rayford Carnes, who headed tne mill union when it first was organized, is 72 now. He asks bluntly: "To let something like this run for 13 years, would you call that justice?" Cames went to work at the Darlington mill in 1936 as a loom fixer. His wife Clara was a mill spinner, and got another job when the mill closed while her husband stayed home to look after their two children. He never did get another job, though he went everywhere to look. There was a blacklist, and he was on it, like many others who were turned away the min­ ute they mentioned the Darling­ ton mill. The mill—one of about 45 in the Deering Milliken empire —was the main source of work in Darlington ' when the em­ ployees rebelled against the speedup and the stretchout of work, and got in touch with the TWUA. Plant Closed Mill managers passed the word around that Milliken would shut down the plant if the union got in. TWUA won the election regardless, 256-248, and Milliken called his directors to town within a week to decide on suitable punishment. The vote was unanimously for economic death for all the workers, "innocent" and "guilty" alike. The mill shut down October 13, when every­ one but a few top managers was cut off the payroll. New equipment had been or­ dered, and crates of unopened looms were on the mill floor when the workers voted. On December 13, 1956, every bit of remaining equipment was auctioned off. Ever since, the case has been before the NLRB or the courts. The Supreme Court ended the first round of legal battling in Page Twenty Three LOG Thrown on the economic scrap-heap by Deering Milliken management, Cathrine Stocker, a 60-year old widow, is one of hundreds of workers barred from their |obs at the Darlington, S.C. mill when a majority voted for a union in 1956. Mrs. Stocker, unable to get other work now baby-sits to meet her expenses. January when it refused to re­ view a Court of Appeals ruling upholding an NLRB order. A copy of the NLRB order was received by former em­ ployees on lettens from Atlanta, Ga., marked "registered mail, return receipt requested." Each letter had the legend: 10 cents postage due. The order, signed by a Deering Milliken vice presi­ dent, said: "We will not discourage mem­ bership" in TWUA by "plant closings and discharging our employees. ... "We will not threaten to close down a plant or operation, or blacklist our employees if they select a union.... "We will make whole all the employees who were on our payroll on October 13, 1956, for any loss of pay suffered as a result of our discrimination against them. "We will, in the event we resume operations at Darling­ ton, S.C., offer reinstatement to all employees who were on our payroll" on the date the plant was closed. Delays Expected The final payoff may be stalled for months, perhaps years in some cases, while the lawyers haggle over the amount due. The textile chain followed up its capitulation to the courts by offering jobs in its other plants to some of the aggrieved work­ ers. Two husband-and-wife teams got offers of jobs in widely separated plants, but management told area news­ papers this was a "mistake." The couples, it said, would be offered work in the same plant, on the same shift. One worker voiced skepti­ cism about the final payoff. "I won't believe a bit of it until I see the money in my hand," said H. O'Neal Capps, who had been a tying machine operator 23 years when the mill closed. Many of those put out of work "are already in the grave," said Capps. "A lot of them had worked there 40 or 45 years when they closed it down, and didn't know how to do anything else." Union Representative James Blackwell helped the NLRB round up the names of workers fired 13 years ago, and saw that many of them got to the Court House on time. The mill, he remembers, "was the town; pretty much. When it closed, most of the workers were over 40 and couldn't get jobs." Savii^s Sparse Wages were low—from 90 cents to $1.50 an hour—and savings sparse. The union set up a relief kitchen, helped raise money for the destitute, and financed the legal fight against Deering Milliken—first to re­ verse a state finding that the laid-off workers were not en­ titled to unemployment compen­ sation, then to make Milliken pay for destroying the jobs of its employees. Some of the workers are bit­ ter against Milliken. One said, in a soft Carolina accent: "My mother went to work at the mill when she was nine years old. She had to stand on a box to reach the machine." Then she added: "We love Darlington, but we don't love Mr. Milliken. He done us a damn shameful deed." Mrs. Thelma Swann was 15 when she started in the mill. She was 56 when the layoff came, and traveled for miles to find work, with no success. But she has no bitterness in her heart, she said. When her back pay comes, if it does, she will give 10 percent of it to her church, as she always has, because "God has been good to us." Her son Ray sold his chicken and quail brooders, then his hunting guns, finally his fishing equipment. He despaired of finding another job but even­ tually, when hope was lowest, got work as an insurance sales­ man. So did William Johnson, a weaver who was secretary of the stillborn unban. Catherine Jackson Stocker, a widow, babysits for neighbors to help pay for necessities and to feel needed. Carnes, the former union president, sums up for his fel­ lows: "We do appreciate the great work the union and the NLRB are doing for Darlington. As for organized labor, this country needs it. I would like to see every plant in the United States organized." He helped bring the union to Darlington- -and he doesn't regret it. Dozier Tunstall, 73, is one of those whco lost their jobs when Deering Milliken shut down mill 13 years ago. Surviving workers are due for back pay by court order. Some of the workers will get jobs. �Page Twenty Four SEAFARERS Oldest of Social Socurity Rodpionts Provide Living Links With History Much can be learned about history through the eyes of Social Security recipients. There is Catherine Ward, for example, who publicly admits to being "100 years plus." She was bom in Sligo, Ire­ land, and is now living in New York City. She was fired from her first job as a boxmaker in New Haven, Conn., in January 1889, because she joined the Knights of Labor and her em­ ployer believed she was one of the ringleaders. The oldest living Social Secu­ rity beneficiary is Charlie Smith of Bartow, Fla. He celebrated his 126th birthday last July. Smith was brought to America from Liberia at the age of 12 and sold as a slave in New Or­ leans. Both Miss Ward and Smith belong to one of the most ex­ clusive clubs—the 3,200 cen­ tenarians on Social Security benefit rolls. Interviews with some 65 persons who reached 100 in 1967 are recorded in Volume VIII of "America's Centenarians" — witness ac­ counts of the past 100 years— compiled by the Social ^curity Administration. Last January John Newhard, managet and treasurer of a cemetery in Allentown, Pa., de­ cided to retire: "My age, after 102 years of active life, has now convinced me that the time has come for some relaxation." Like many members of "America's Centenarians," Newhard is getting Social Secu­ rity benefits based on his own work record, althou^ he was over 70 when the ISocial Secu­ rity program began operation in 1937. Newhard has been able to collect all his Social Security benefits since the time of his first entitlement in July 1950. The Social Security Admin­ istration first began identifying and collecting the stories of its centenarians in 1956. In 1963, four volumes of centenarian stories were issued, and the first annual supplement came out in 1964. Among the centenarians fea­ tured in the latest volume is Mrs. Anna Burgess of Camp Springs, Maryland. Mrs. Bur­ gess attributes her longevity to the fact that "I've never worried about a thing, especially about getting old." A widow since 1942, she had 11 children, four of whom are still living. In addition to her peace of mind, she credits her good health to the fact that "I've never had any bad habits. Oh, like all women I've always lied about my age, and I do let a little joke slip out now and then, but other than that, no bad habits. I guess once people read this story in the newspapers I won't be able to lie about my age anymore." Robert Grigsby of Kansas City, Kansas, was bom in Han­ nibal, Missouri, the home of Mark Twain and the immortal characters, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Grigsby recalls childhood play with Mark Twain and visiting the bluflfs and caves near Hannibal which mark the adventures of Tom Sawyer. Eugene Hodge of Dallas cred­ its himself with a great deal more hindsight than foresight. He recalls that Social Security started when he was working for a home for the aged. He figured it was a big fake and that the government had just figured out a way to take money from the working man. He admits that the money taken from his pay "sure is important to me now," since his Social Security checks are the main part of his income today. Charles Steurer of Tarrytown, New York, finds no cause for alarm in the younger generation's contempt for au­ thority, nor in hippies, pot, flower children and the old lament of alienation. "No generation is perfect," he Charting Their Course Kehh Hickman, born March 12, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John H. Hickman, N. Wildwood, New Jersey. Shantel Bonefont, bom Oc­ tober 20, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Juan Bonefont, New York, N.Y. Patricia Emerson, bom April 1, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Eugene L. Emerson, Norfolk, Virginia. Kiik Teschke, bom Decem­ ber 31, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Klause E. Teschke, Ormond Beach, Florida. Michael Harsche, bom April 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter J. Harsche, Willingboro, N.J. —lif— Edie Adams, bom March 26, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Earl Adams, Mobile, Ala. KeUy Willis, bom April 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald P. Willis, Jacksonville, Florida. Nelson CtNnellas, bom Febmary 7, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph N. Comellas, Tampa, Florida. Scott Scrogglns, bom March 20, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Euelle D. Scroggins, Houston, Texas. ^ David Palmer, bom Febraary 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leslie D. Palmer, Houston, Texas. Michael Funk, bom January 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John E. Funk, Staten Island, New York. vl> Barbara Reams, bom Febmary 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William J. Heams, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio. — 'if— ^ Mike Williams, left, and Paul Merkelson relax in the cafeteria at SlU headquarters and talk oyer plans for shipping out. Both are recent graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Seafarer Joins Gallon Club said. "They are no worse than my generation and a lot smarter and better looking. The socalled bad ones get more pub­ licity, that's all." Steurer concedes, however, that there was a considerable difference between the leisurely pace of living in his youth and the frenetic pace of today and perhaps a greater appreciation for simpler thipp. He recall's the thrill of getting his first ready-made clothes at the age of 12—an overcoat bought Newest member of the "Gallon Club" is Seafarer Charles Johnston with money saved from the who has donated eight pints of blood to the SlU Blood Bank. Dr. $3.00 a week he earned in a Joseph Logue, SlU medical director, presents Brother Johnston with guitar factory. "You see," he a "Gallon Club" pin as Nurse Sheryl Edel looks on. Johnston, who said, "we had guitars even sails in the steward department, joined the SlU in 1949. He had then." just returned from a long voyage to Vietnam on the Steel Executive. Andrew Veid, bom Febraary 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Andrew T. Veal, Virginia Beach, Virginia. •«, June, 1969 LOG Jarrod Miller, bom January 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael A. Miller, Dallas, Oregon. — -if— Christopher Loftin, born April 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Samuel L. Loftin, Mobile, Alabama. —lif— Stephanie Domec, bom April 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. David A. Domec, Pasadena, Texas. <t> Lisa IVexler, bom March 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard L. Trexler, Cumber­ land, Md. —-if— Barbara Shirah, bom Janu­ ary 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert C. Shirah, Elestin, Florida. if Wendy bom January 22, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Nathan E. Jones, Royalton, Vermont. . — •if— Mary McDonald, bom March 11, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles D. McDonald, Detroit, Michigan. >if — Conme Ward, bom March 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy J. Ward, Prichard, Ala. —if— Kimberiy Carroll, bom Feb­ raary 24, i969, to &afarer and Mrs. John G. Carroll, Philadel­ phia, Pa. ^ ^1> if Jeffrey Amendolia, born April 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Anthony Amendolia, Brooklyn, N.Y. vtf Sabiina Carol Beatty, bom March 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James E. Beatty, Orange, Texas. —<if— Sara Canard, bom March 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James W. Canard, Hatiiesburg, Miss. —'if— Alida McCoy, bom March 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy N. McCoy, Tomball, Texas. if Linda Rkkard, bom May 9, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward J. Rickard, Houston, Texas. Bany Anderson, bom April 1, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Amold R. Anderson, Alpena, Michigan. 'if — Vincent Fidnion, bom April 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vincent F. Fahrion, Bayonne, N.J.—'if— Eric Hughes, bom April 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ralph V. Hughes, Delair, New Jersey. Sofia Morales, bom April 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose C. Morales, Ponce, Puerto Rico. lif Randall Ambrose, born March 19, 1969, to &afarer and Mrs. Johnnie L. Ambrose, Kountze, Texas. —'if— —lif— James Dohany, bom Febru­ Lisa Moody, born April 7, ary 28, 1969, to Seafarer and 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Mrs. Ronald D. Dohany, Ber- Samuel M. Moody, Sabine genfield, N.J. Pass, Texas. �I June, 1969 SEAFARERS Expanding His Horizons h . LOG Page Twenty Five House Labor Body Hears Arguments On Need tor On-Site Pitketing Law WASHINGTON—The need for passage of on-site picketing legislation is "far greater" this year than ever before in its long history before Congress, Presi­ dent C. J. Haggerty of the AFLCIO Building and Construction Trades Department declared re­ cently. In testimony before a House Labor subcommittee, he opened labor's drive for a bill to ^ve a union the right to picket a multi­ employer construction site if it has a dispute with one of the contractors there. Louis Sher­ man, BCTD general counsel, presented Haggerty's statement. The on-site picketing bill has been before Congress ever since 1954 and through the years has drawn an impressive array of bipartisan endorsements, includ­ ing those of Presidents Eisen­ Seafarer Cesar Izquierdo, who sails as AB, takes time out to read hower, Kennedy and Johnson. the SlU International as he waits for a ship at the New York hall. The AFL-CIO has said the measure is "vitally needed" to give building and construction workers "a right they are en­ titled to." Committees of Con­ gress have agreed. But widely varying procedural devices have been us^ to block it from ever CHICAGO — State Farm sions that the courts have previ­ coming to a vote on either the Mutual Automobile Insurance ously approved." Senate or House floor. Company lost a two-year battle Intent of the legislation is to IWIU President William A. to stay away from the bargain­ Gillen said the decision reaf­ nullify a 1949 National Labor ing table when the 7th U.S. firms previous rulings by the Relations Board ruling, known Circuit Court of Appeals or­ Supreme Court and lower courts as the Denver Building Trades dered it to negotiate with the in the insurance industry's long Case, which found picketing of Insurance Workers. legal fight over the size of bar­ a subcontractor at a common Six of the eight appeals gaining units. construction site to be in violajudges, sitting eti banc, over­ turned a contrary 1968 decision by a panel of three 7th Circuit judges. By a 6-2 margin the full court ruled that the National Labor Relations Board did not abuse its discretion when it cer­ RICHMOND — More than noted, but it also refused to re­ tified the union as the winner of one million Virginia motorists quire the companies to furnish a 1967 election and ordered the may be in line for auto insur­ information on their actual op­ Bloomington, 111., company to ance rebates because the State erating costs in the state. In­ bargain with it. AFL-CIO carried a case to Vir­ stead it accepted a nationwide The point at issue was wheth­ ginia's highest court—and won. average as a basis for determin­ er or not the NLRB was justi­ The landmark decision by the ing expenses. fied in ordering the election Virginia Supreme Court of Ap­ During the commission hear­ among agents in two claims dis­ peals upheld the state labor fed­ ings, AFL-CIO Attorney George tricts in New York state. eration and a group of liberal W. Shadoan, State Senator Hen­ The union had asked for a members of the legislature who ry E. Howell and others oppos­ smaller unit and management fought a 1967 increase in auto­ ing the rate increase were repeat­ for a larger one—either all of mobile liability insurance. edly rebuffed in their efforts to New York state, or the com­ Virginia's regulatory agency, challenge the need for higher pany's entire Northeast region. the State Corporation Commis­ rates. The court enforced the NLRB's sion, approved an 8.2 percent They made their points before order. rate hike based on claims by the state Supreme Court, how­ "None of the grounds urged insurance companies that they ever, and the judges ordered the by the company for setting aside were losing money at existing regulatory commission to hold the board's order is valid," the rates. It followed the same new hearings which would take court majority said. It spelled guidelines in determining profit- into account all of the insurance out its reasoning: and-loss that it had over the companies' income and its ac­ tual operating expenses in the "The board has a wide discre- - years. The State AFL-CIO argued in state. tion in designating appropriate The State AFL-CIO has units. It is not required ... to vain before the commission that choose the most appropriate earnings from investment of loss urged the commission to order unit, but only to choose an ap­ reserve funds should be included the insurance companies to re­ propriate unit within the range in determining whether the com­ bate 8.2 percent of all premiums of several appropriate units in panies were entitled to a higher collected since the 1967 rate ruling. a given factu^ situation/' premium. Julian F. Carper, president of This is the money the insur­ Under the circumstances, the the state labor body, said prompt judges concluded, "the reason­ ance firms set aside to meet ableness of the board's deter­ claims. By investing it, the ccun- refund of the increase and a re­ mination is clear." They cited panies earn additional income. turn to the pre-1967 rates is "the Not only didn't the state com­ least we should expect." The among other reasons the fact that the NLRB decision is "con­ mission consider this investment regulatory agency has not indi­ sistent with other board deci­ revenue, the State AFL-CIO cated M hat its next step will be. Holdout Insurance Company Ordered to Bargaining Table Virginia Labor Wins Its Case On Car Insurance Rate Hike tion of the Taft-Hartley Act's ban on secondary boycotts. New Measure Offered This year a measure to ac­ complish that intent, supported by the building trades, has been introduced by Representative Frank Thompson, Jr. (D-N.J.), chairman of the Labor subcom­ mittee. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz testified before the sub­ committee in general support of situs picketing legislation but called for certain "safeguards" in it. He said the legislation should not permit picketing for an il­ legal objective, should not con­ flict with certain state laws, must protect industrial and independ­ ent unions, permit contract-en­ forcing injunctions, and have a seven-day waiting period for si­ tus picketing and a 15-day time limit on it. Haggerty said there is a "far greater need" for legislation than ever before because "the effects of the Denver Building Trades rules have become even more inequitable" in recent years than they were in the 1950s. ITiis is so, he pointed out, be­ cause employers have seized up­ on new devices to transform hitherto legal primary picketing at a construction site into illegal picketing under the NLRB's in­ terpretation of the Denver case. One device singled out is a "reserved gate" which restricts building trades pickets to a gate designated by an employer at a construction site. A second de­ vice is limiting picketing only to designated "regular" work hours. Details Promised Shultz, the subcommittee's lead-off witness, did not furnish specific details on his version of needed "safeguards" but promised to - do so at a later date. In his testimony, Haggerty said labor welcomes "the addi­ tion of the Nixon Administra­ tion to the list of the prior ad­ ministrations which have sup­ ported the situs picketing prin­ ciple." On the subject of safeguards, he pointed out that the Thomp­ son bill "includes all the safe­ guards or limitations which the Eisenhower Administration had thought necessary," plus a few additional limitations developed in the years since. In fact, it was noted that Thompson's bill is drawn from one introduced in 1959 on be­ half of President Eisenhower by Senators Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-IIl.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) among others. The department believes that "the essential safeguards and limitations" to protect the pub­ lic interest are already in the bill, Haggerty said, "and we trust that this committee . . . after its study of the matter will be of the same opinion." Haggerty said the building trades share the desire express­ ed by Shultz in his testimony "to put this inflammatory issue be­ hind us." Shultz was questioned by Thompson, Representative James G. O'Hara (D-Mich.) and Representative Louis Stokes (DOhio) all of whom asked for more specific details on the "safeguards" he wanted in the bill. Thompson expressed opposi­ tion to revising the Taft-Hartley Act to permit enforcement of contracts by injunctions. He warned this could pave -the way to the old system of "govern­ ment by injunction" in labor disputes. However, all of the lawmak­ ers withheld full judgment on Shultz' ideas until they are pre­ sented in specific terms. Another witness before the subcommittee was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which "respectfully" stood by its pref­ erence for the status quo. It has opposed the legislation every time it has been up in Congress. SlU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS April 1-April 30, 1969 Number of Benefits Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . .. Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) .. Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . (Average: $513.72) Optical Benefits (Welfare) . .. Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) SUMMARY (Welfare) Vacation Benefits (Average: $422.83) Total Welfare, Vacation Benefits Paid This Period . . . 420 24 1,014 20 1,999 Amount Paid $ 17,112.73 77,750.00 230,537.00 4,000.00 102,692.10 300 4,729 8,506 1,613 2,082.48 37,830.65 472,004,96 682,020.83 10.119 $1,154,025.79 �Page Twenty Six SEAFARERS Federal Reserve Board Acts To Check U.S. Money Supply WASHINGTON—The Fed­ eral Reserve Board, in what it termed a "further move against inflation," has increased its dis­ count rate and the reserves requir-xi of the nation's banks. The two-pronged action will be felt most directly by consum­ ers in the fonn of harder-to-get credit and higher interest rates. The "Fed" increased the dis­ count rate—^the interest charged on its loans to banks—^from 5.5 to six percent. The rate, which had been raised one-quarter of one percent in December, is now at its highest level in 40 years. The board raised by one-half of one percent the requirement on reserves that member banks must hold in ratio to demand deposits. The new requirements are the highest since 1960. By raising reserve require­ ments, the board expects to freeze an estimated $650 mil­ lion in deposits. Since reserve computations would be that much less and banks lend about four times their reserves, the theory is that money available for lendingx would be reduced about $2.6 billion. In practice, however, this is unlikely to happen. The board usually eases the effect of stiffer reserve requirements by offset­ ting operations in its daily openmarket buying and selling of government securities. The purpose of the board's latest moves is to further ti^ten the money supply and credit so as to slow down economic ex­ pansion and reduce inflation. The AFL-CIO has pointed out, however, that tight money policies tend only to increase the cost of money "all along the line"—to medium-sized and small businesses, to home-buy­ ers, consumers, farmers and the government. The high costs of money, the AFL-CIO's Executive Coimcil warned at its meeting in Feb­ ruary, "are being built into the price structure, from manufac­ turer to retailer and consumer, to the profit of the banks and other lenders." It called on Congress to re­ view monetary policy with the aim of developing "a policy that is in the best interest of the na­ tion and the American people, rather than merely the banks and other lenders." Meanwhile, in reaction to the board's steps: The Washington Star quoted an unidentified "high-ranking Nixon Administration official" as saying the Fed will have to ease monetary policy by mid­ year or the tight-money course will lead to unemployment. The Wall Street Journal re­ ported that some bankers be­ lieve the boards' moves will trigger another increase in the banks' prime interest rate—the rate charged to their best cus­ tomers. The prime rate is now at 7.5 percent after four suc­ cessive boosts in less than four months. Creation of fecial Counsel Sought To Speak Oat for Utility Consumers New England's labor move­ ment gave strong endorsement to a bill in Congress setting up an independent agency to rep­ resent consumers and the public interest before federal and state utility regulatory agencies. Thomas F. Policastro, presi­ dent of the six-state New Eng­ land AFL-CIO Council, urged a Senate Government Opera­ tions subcommittee to approve legislation sponsored by ^nator Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.) and 10 other senators. The legislation would estab­ lish a utility consumers' counsel with a staff competent to deal ' with the complexities of utility rates and services. Policastro, who is also presi­ dent of the Rhode Island AFLCIO, said the legislation is of particular importance to the New England states, where elec­ tric power rates are the highest in the nation. "When we refer to the con­ sumers," Policastro said, "I am not restricting my concern sole­ ly to the residential union n^embers paying rates 34 percent higher than the national aver­ age. We include the commer­ cial customer who pays 50 per­ cent above national average, and the industrial consumers who pay a whopping 62 percent over the national average." He quoted the president of a Rhode Island manufacturing company who said his firm is moving from New England be­ cause it found "power costs in Rhode Island are running about 66 percent more than compara­ ble investor-owned power charges elsewhere." Policastro charged that "al­ most without exception, our state utility regulatory commis­ sions are and have been ineffec­ tive. They are simply over­ whelmed by the political strength and propaganda of utilities they are supposed to regulate." Hawaiian Enterprise Is Launched The Hawaiian Enterprise, a new 34,000-ton containership, was launched recently at the Sparrows Point shipyard. The SlU Pacific District-contracted vessel, which has a capacity of more than 1,000 24-foot containers, will be delivered to Matson Navigation Company in December. The 719-foot vessel will cruise at a normal sea speed of 23 knots, and is the first of two ships being built for Matson's Pacific service. Expanded Merchant Fleet Seen Aid To U.S. Economy, Payments Deficit WASHINGTON—Congress­ struction activity will be fol­ man Charles H. Wilson (D-Cal.) lowed by an increase of at least said recently that expansion of six percent in 1969 with orderthe American-flag merchant ma­ books showing both military rine can eliminate the hazard of and civilian contracts for ship a balance-of-payments deficit deliveries into 1970, 1971 and and contribute greatly toward a even into 1972. stronger American economy. "I have yet another reason The fourth-term Los Angeles for optimism," said Wilson, Democrat also pointed out that '.'one that hasn't yet been if U.S. shipbuilding, which led widely publicized. Shipyards in the world in 1946, was enlarged my state of California and else­ to the level of Japanese ship where have undertaken the most construction in 1967 employ­ extensive modernization pro­ ment in U.S. shipyards "could grams in history, programs de­ very well jump by 400 to 500 signed to bring our yards up to percent." date and equal—in terms of This would mean. Congress­ productivity and efficiency—to man Wilson told a meeting of the most modem shipyards in the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades the world. These vastly un­ Department, that the number of proved construction facilities U.S. shipyard jobs for produc­ will, we hope, make the Ameri­ tion workers alone could soar can yards competitive with any from the current 118,000 to other country's shipbuilding in­ anywhere from 472,000 to 590,- dustry." 000 jobs. On expansion of the mer­ chant marine as a solution to Optimism Expressed the balance-of-payments prob­ Rep. Wilson found several lem, Wilson declared: grounds for optimism about the "Since the end of World War immediate future of the ship­ II the United States has had a building industry. These, he healthy surplus in our balance said, included a Commerce De­ of trade. Consistently we have partment forecast that last year's exported more goods than we 16-percent gain in overall con- have imported. Time and again, however, our surpluses have been wiped out by our overseas military expenditures and our apprentices, 2,077 more have foreign aid programs. Our balpassed apprenticeship examina­ ance-of-payment. deficit gradu­ tions in the 18 building and con­ ally climbed until it totaled $23 struction trades and are wait­ billion over the 10-year period ing for referral to apprentice­ 1957 through 1966. ship committees. Another 516 "During that same 10-year have been referred to the ap­ period," the Congressman con­ tinued, "the U.S.-flag fleet con­ prenticeship committee. The '10 sponsors of the Ap­ tributed $5.7 billion in asset prenticeship Outreach program, dollars, and this figure would including the local building and have been even higher if it had construction trades councils of not included foreign-flag ships the AFL-CIO, have a combined under U.S. charter. Without goal of placing 3,360 youths foreign charters, the U.S.-flag fleet would have brought $7.3 in apprenticeship. Outreach Plan Is 83% Complete WASHINGTON — Appren­ ticeship Outreach programs— with still about five months to run—have attained 83 percent of the intended goal in placing minority group youngsters in the skilled trades. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz reported that a total of 2,758 minority apprentices have been aided by Apprenticeship Outreach since the Labor De­ partment began funding the pro­ gram 27 months ago. Besides the 2,758 indentured Jnne, 1969 LOG billion to our balance-of-pay­ ments over the 10-year period. And this would have occurred at a time when our merchant ma­ rine was shrinking, when it was carrying no more than 7 per­ cent of U.S. exports and im­ ports. Maritime Erases Deficit "The fact is," Wilson pointed out, "that if the U.S. Merchant Marine during the 1960s carried the same percentage of our export-import trade that it did in the 1930s—which is to say 30 to 40 percent—our inter­ national balance of payments in the 1960s would have been transformed from a deficit into a surplus. "Consequently if seven per­ cent of our export-import trade carried jn U.S. bottoms con­ tributed $5.7 billion positive dollars to the balance-of-pay­ ments, then 35 percent of our commerce would have resulted in a $5 billion surplus instead of a $23 billion deficit in the 19571966 balance-of-payments. "The conclusion is obvious," the Congressman said, "that if we can expand our American merchant marine to the point, envisioned by President Nixon, where 35 percent or more of the nation's export-import trade is carried in American-flag ships, then we will eliminate the risk of a balance-of-payments defi­ cit." To accomplish a revival of the merchant marine, the Californian said he favored a legis­ lative program that would in­ clude a plan to provide new ships for the unsubsidized seg­ ment of the fleet as well as the subsidized segment, and a re­ quirement that "American-flag ships should be built exclusively in American shipyards." �June, 1969 /Resident Names Lady Adviser on Consumer Affairs WASHINGTON—President Nixon has named Pennsylvania Republican, Mrs. Virginia Knauer, as his full-time con­ sumer affairs adviser. Mrs. Knauer, long active in GOP affairs, has headed the Pennsylvania Consumer Bureau for more than a year. The White House said she will also serve as chairman of the Presi­ dent's Committee on Consumer Interests and executive secretary of the Consumer Advisory Council. Mrs. Knauer told reporters that she believed consumers need help from the government to avoid "pitfalls in the market­ place." She praised her prede­ cessor, Betty Fumess, for hav­ ing done "a fantastic job" as White House consumer adviser. Earlier Nixon had named the head of Good Housekeeping In­ stitute, an advertising promotion enterprise, as part-time con­ sumer assistant. But she quit after four days under heavy criticism for conflict of interest. !•; * ll'f • V f" i EconomyFurniture Placed on Labor's *Do Not Buy' List The strike-bound Economy Furniture Cb. of Austin, Texas, has been placed on the "Do Not Patronize" list of the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department. The department took action at the request of the Upholster­ ers, whose Local 4S6 has been on strike since last November 27. The AFL-CIO Executive Council had earlier called for full labor support. Noting that the company re­ fused to bargain in go^ faith, even after employees designated the Upholsterers as their legal bargaining agent, the council charged that management showed additional bias by "en­ gaging in name-calling with par­ ticular'emphasis on the Mexi­ can-American ethnic back­ ground" of a majority of its employees. Economy makes three lines of wooden and upholstered fur­ niture labeled Smithtowne Maple, Western Provincial and Built-lUte. Until the strike started, nearly 40 percent of Economy's production was bought by Montgomery Ward & Co., the union reported. Economy also makes products for the White Discount Stores, located mainly in the South. Economy Furniture is still operating with the help of strike­ breakers, the union said. "Latest reports are that 125 strikebreak­ ers are working. Outside the plant, 385 union members are picketing in shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week." SEAFARERS Page Twenty Seven LOG Mike Dunn was re-elected the ports of Rio De Janiero, ship's delegate on the Delta Santos and Buenos Aires. Brasil (Delta Steamship Com­ William Rudd, meeting chair­ pany), and was man on the Penn Exporter given a vote of (Penn Shipping thanks by the Company), re­ crew for a job ports that five well done. crewmembers Deck Depart­ were taken off ment Delegate Dunn the ship because A. W. Saxon re­ of illness, and ports that disputed overtime in­ were either hosvolving shifting the ship will be pitalized or Rudd taken up at the payoff. There flown home. were no beefs or disputed over­ Frank Gutierrez, ship's delegate, time in the other departments. reported that the voyage was a Meeting Secretary Willie Braggs smooth one with no beefs or reported that there was $296 in disputed overtime from any de­ the ship's movie fund. The Delta partment. A resolution was Brasil expects to pay off in New adopted calling for agreement Orleans June 28 after calling at that the crew be permitted to sign off after six months when OVERSEAS AUDREY (Maritime the vessel is on the Persian Gulf BUCKEYE VICTORY (Buckeye), f ? CONNECTICUT (Ogdeh), Marcli Overseas), April 20—Chairman, Lee run, with the company paying f t—Chairman, J. W. Altstatt; Secre- April 28—Chairman, James Thomas; Itary, T D. Ballard. No beefs were Secretary, Jack E. Long. Brother J. Harvey; Secretary, Stanley F. air transportation home. The I reported by department delegrates. Frank Flynn was elected to serve as Schuyler. Brother Lee J. Harvey was i Mftil service to this ship has been ship's delegate. $86.25 in ship's re-elected to serve as ship's dele­ crew gave a vote of thanks to I very poor. Crewmembers want fund. No beefs were reported by de- gate. Everjrthing is running along the steward department, and I UoadqUurtcrs- ' to . ooittnct-; coiapaiiy pariment delsgates. YVUJ of thanks ESioothly. Captain is well satisfied was extended to the steward depart­ with crew. There were no beefs and especially Steward Z. A. Markis, s regarding no disputed OT. Discussion held re­ ment for a job well done. garding proposals for new SIU con­ for good food and service dur­ tract. Vote of thanks to the steward ing the voyage. f WINGLESS VICTORY (ConsoliSBATRAIN WASHINGTON (Hud­ department for a job well done. I dated), May 14 — Chairman, Joe Ship's delegate Louis Hagmanii reports that there are no beefs or disput­ ed overtime on the Bradford Island (Steuart Tankers), which is on a run in the Indian Ocean and Persian Hagmann Gulf. The cap­ tain was asked to attend a meeting to brief the crew on the ship's itinerary, and where the ship is scheduled to discharge. Seafarer Hagmann also reported that the crew has not received any mail since the Bradford Island left the States on Februray 7. The crew held discussions on the SIU contract and also discussed the pension plan. •0^ .,v ^Bremer; Secretary, D. Robinson. I Brother C. W. Thompson was elected I to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs i were reported by department dcleI gates., .. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Maritime Overseis) i dkprll Y—Chaiinhan, J. B. MdClehton; Secretary,. M. Maldoiiade. Brother RhiUip f. Rayiie was elected to" serve as STO»?B d^ ,Nn.beefs were..rsportedib3r depa^, ment'delegates. «-)bds-.XisG®LBs: 4--£^hai)Ema.n,-^ A;? • :-€«(Weltay.? 'Seere^ • -S.' fnnd. Dispnted OT itt.declt dephrtihent. Motion was ntadd td hav phtrdlmah board the Bhip iti Yoltohams' to', square; away.'beef^ r OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Over- Fred Lee, ship's delegate on the Antinous (Waterman), re­ ports that he is going to talk with the captain about getting ex­ tra compensation for the crew for the time when the washing ma­ chine was not Lee working. Aside from some disputed overtime in the engine department, every­ thing is running smoothly. Meet­ ing Chairman Allen Myrex re­ ports- that the crew gave a vote of thanks to the entire steward department for good meals and service during the voyage. The Antinous was expected to pay off in San Francisco on May 10 after a run to the Far East. son Waterways)^ April 20 — Chair­ man, Peter E. Dolan; Secretary, Ed­ ward G. Mitchell. Brother Dolan was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. WACOSTA (Sea-Land), May 4— Chairman, Jose Cortes; Secretary, Frank NaMiCki' Long discdsslon rCr garding aij^cdhditioner which is not werking prd|wrly. Metidn made for ? matter to be taken hp with patrolmsn. -Vote;.;bfbhahka •; was extended to the two messmen for their good service on the last fire and boat drill. iOHw B.-WATERMAN (Water-^ rnati),;April ST^^Uhaityman, Joseph Dv rBlani^afedv Secretary,, Frederick R. RulUvan, No beefs were reported by department delegates. Brother doseph: Blanchaid waa elected bo serve as shipM delegate. .beefsdispatoAvUTtwaB.^rid'i ported. Everything is running • smoothly. b 'TKAnaCOLORAi>0 (Hudson vvaIterwaya).. May -.lO^dhawman, Roy'.' I Pierdef Secretary, Orlando FrezBa. I$18.00 ih ship's fund. Vote of thnnkft I was extended to the steward departimpnt for a job well done. .The chief Icook thanked all crewmembers fdr I their fine co-operation. Some disIputed OT in deck departnient. DAGAMA (Crest Overseas), April ;2n---Chftirirbo, F. P Gsirut-hor; Sec­ retary, Shernian;;Wright. No beefs , BAYLOR VICTORY (Vicf^^^ were reported by department dele-Iriers), April 19—Chairman, L.. G. gates- Crew would like thje patro!|Glarki Secretary, P. G. WiHougfcby. man in the Oakland arda to visit iSoime disputed OT ; in enigirte de- •ship aud .;stra?ghteh';oui;;yarfd^^ |parlment. .•matter,:' COLUMBIA BEAVER (Columbia), April 6—Ghainnan,. Albert Oramanuer; Secretary, Thomas Liles, Jr. Brother Michael F. Curry was elected to serve as ship's delegate, Discussion held regarding draws in Vietnam,:-;...,; .. .'V?-: / -';VANTAGE';-:HORI«ON: - (VancPiO;^ ;• Apri1;20-=^hairman, R Pepper; Sec••i^taiy., .,'D.,:'Farrmra,-; -.No beefs" were ;;rCpdided;ibyfd«Turibie,nt;. deleya Brother Bill L. Sideroff was elected to sorve as ship's delegate. EAGLE VOYAGER (Sea Trans::past)i'i.. April;-24- -r-i;-Chairman.-.'JaM«s:... Chiancse; Secretary^ dhlid D. Delgado,; No beefs and no disp uted OT. .Mail ';sttuatidn ;;veiry-.;bBd.;; Motion • dihde that matter be token up With Company. TRANSYORK (Hudson WateV^ bWjrs)i February 26—Chairman,; A," Pennine; Secretary, A. Rudnicki. $7,50 in ship's fund. .No beCfs ahd;; no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was ;ei;tcbdad';tc;;.thp for a job well done. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), •March 2----Chairman, Arvcll Bearden ;J. Secretary, J. P. Baliday. Ship's dele4; gdte reported that everything is running smoothly with no beefs. $37.60 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. Crew •..paiitryman; ,.-and ./- crew messmen e*-;;; tended a vote of thanks to each and everyone, especially men on watch, ;fd'r-.keeping;..the pantry, and-, igeashall-; clean and orderly. ALCOA VOYAGER {AIeoii),^fH ;^-^Ghairmatt, .B.-vFTimovjcz;. .'S.ecre-"., Tl ES' SEBVICE 1^0 RFOLR :;;^bAlRISLE':i(Panebeanic;.Tanker^ii;: tary,; :Cox. - ;:.$72.76 • - in ship's iCGlties , -Service),- :Aprii -...{iT-^bair*. Mdrchit.9--^Ghairhian, Fred'Av'.Olsb fund. ;Nb beefs wore reported by deNone; Secretaryj V. Chaney. :Secretar^iWv;'.T.'Langford,.; Discus-- .: jartment;: delegates.; Brother B. M. lUiBputed OT in deck and bttgln^ de- sion belwl'^^rding retirement plan, RoTOanbF was elected to seiwe aq Disputed QT; In engine department. ' ;sHip'3-delegate.. Hareiheifits. ; A speciab'WPte of thanks to the steward departmeht for ; a job well r r'OYERSEAS' •.EVEL^ R^MAIOEN- CREER^GsehKLahd>, done. Overseas), April 20 —^ Chairinan, April 1—Chairman, Hubert Cain; Ervin D. Moyd; Secretary, W. E. Seeretary,;'Nohev&J^h;..:beef^^ .re­ SEATBAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), ..Oliyeri '-Brother- .Clan' E.; -ViEsoa- - was.; ported by departwent delegates. April ,20^-Chairiaah,: Wiu,iaijt'?;Sim»; :-eiect«d;td.'serve,.- as' ship's -dele^Wfo -:mbnsr I^Seferetary,' ;stanley:; 'HpWkipa» •DiSeussloh:' heM;;;'risga>dittg>. retire­ . Sotne;vdiSpatod; OT; in^decfcsdepajfe ment nlan. No beefs were renorlcd cRTEKL VSNDOR ment. Discussion held regarding re­ by department t Newhall. Brother T. pair list. Chief engineer will take 1 • elected to serve as care :df;bli;.rbpairs'ibat;;are: possible RICE VICTORY (Vietpry Car-. before arrival. Air-conditioning iidiewCifiApril; 20r--ChnirMatt)';.Sichhtd| -beafsi idjire iiles;- aboard ship was also discussed, F. FadderR;..'-.Secrelary^'jqhn -Fb> RatS sdeft •Ndhapfs ware;'rbpbib^.:> Evdg^ STEELFLfER (Isthmian), April 6 thing is running smoothly. J '--Chairmaui?;WrMi Wallace; Secre­ tary, R. Smith. Brother W. M. Wal­ COTTONWOOD CREEK (Bulk ; -TAMAEA GUILDEN (Transport lace was ;;ttlected-, to 3erve ;;a8'''-i?h{p's. Transport), 20 — Chairmanji vCommercial), April 4—Chairman, dfelegpteii; Np; beefs and no disputed George Luke:April Secretary. S. A, SoloiKenneth Gabagahi; Secretary, OT. man, Sr. DlBcussibn held regardln^j les W. p6jen. Brethcr William traRsportstioh from the Port of eSyl ..dnt'-wasi ,clected;::;td;;fferve.-'- as', the Port of dischary PFJSTN CARRIER (Penn Shipping), gagement &a^egate.:v$284b0';:d^^ April 6 — Chairman, J. J. Cpnin ship's fund. MAIDEN;-' CRESS; • f8»a.r..nni.. -•>nocS; Secretary. C. Roblee- Rmrber Biackle Connors was elected to Apri.l;S—Chairman,- H. C." C8«n;:;Mefl| WrAlBRN CREEK (Sea-Land), serve as ship's delegate. .Discussion retary. C. J. Nail. No beefs ,wq*«i Match 1—Chairman, H. C. Cain; Sec­ held regarding pension plan ;and dis­ reported by department delegatesretary, None. Discussion held re­ ability requirements. Vote if thanks Discussion held regarding wajsdsjl,,, was extendod to the stewarii depart- OT. and';;ppnsion..';-Crew':,would-,. Irfcei garding; various propodalBYoF information regarding new contradf# bjenbfoirar^^ Samuel J. Davis, chief stew­ ard on the Ames Victory (Vic­ tory Carriers), gets an "A-Plus" rating from the crew, according to R. P. Nelson, J ship's delegate. "ITie Ames Vic­ tory is a clean ship and a good Davis feeding ship," he reported. 'This is my sec­ ond voyage on the Ames with Brother Davis," and he is one of the very best. Not only has he served excellent food throughout the eiitke voyage, but he has also taken the time to teach the new men how to be good seafaring messmen." (If John Furr was elected ship's delegate on the Seafarer (Ma­ rine Carriers) and promised to do the best he can to represent the crew, ac­ cording to Karl Hellman, meet­ ing chairman. Deck Delegate Furr Pete DeCaupa reports a lot of disputed over­ time in the deck department, hut says that otherwise every­ thing is running smoothly. The crew held discussions on the pension plan and on provisions for the upcoming contract nego­ tiations. WRITE 'XO-T.H.E i �Page Twenty Ei^t SEAFARERS Jane, 1969 LOG •' I James Lynn, 27: Brother Lynn died June 2, 1968, in Prichard, Ala­ bama. Born in Mobile, he had been living in Prichard with his father, Chester, at the time of his death. Seafarer Lynn joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile, and attended the Union's training school there. He last shipped as wiper on the Overseas Rose. Lynn was a veteran of four years service with the U.S. Marine Corps. Burial services were held at Pine Crest Cemetery in Mo­ bile. Cecil Futch, 43: Brother Futch was accidentally drowned January 12 at Southwest Pass off Grand Isle; in the Gulf of Mexico. An AB, his last ship was the Alcoa Trader. Brother Futch had been sailing for more than 20 years, and joined the SIU in Savann^ in 1944. Bom in Cross City, Florida, Seafarer Futch had been living in Kenner, Louisi­ ana, with his wife, Ann. He is also survived by his father, John. Buriai services were held at Cross City Cemetery. James Allen, 48: Brother Al­ len died of a heart attack aboard the Albion Vic­ tory in Saigon on February 24. The veteran Sea­ farer had been sailing as cook and baker since 1942 when he joined the SIU in New Orleans. Born in Mobile, Alabama, he had been living in New Orleans with his wife, Delia. Burial services for Broth­ er Allen were held in New Orleans. ^ Robert Land, 42: Brother Land died March 17 in Mobile, Alabama. Bom in Atlanta, Geor­ gia, he made his home with his wife, Carolyn, in New Orleans. Brother Land had been sailing since 1946 ex­ cept for one year with the U.S. Army during the Korean con­ flict. He joined the SIU in the Port of Houston in 1946, and last shipped as cook on the Alcoa Explorer. Besides his wife, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mae Land. Burial was at Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile. _—^ <I> John Jellette, 66: Brother Jellette died February 26 in Bellevue Hospi­ tal in New York City following an illness of sev­ eral years. He was a veteran Seafarer who sailed 37 years as steward, cook and baker before his retirement on an SIU pen­ sion in 1964. Brother Jellette poined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1942. He last sailed as chief steward aboard the Petrochem. Brother Jellette was bom in England, and had been living in New York for a number of years. A widower, he is survived by a nephew, Herman Stapf. Burial was at the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. Elon Brace, 78: Brother Brace passed away at his home in New Orleans on March 29. He had been on dis­ ability pension since 1963. Brother Brace was bom in Ja­ maica, and had made his home for many years in New Orleans. Seafarer Brace had been sailing for more than 20 years as cook and baker, and joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1947. Brother Bruce is survived by his wife, Sarah. Burial took place at Homestead Cemetery in New Orleans. Hubert Cantwell, 67: Brother Cantwell died March 23 at the USPHS Hospital on Staten Island, New York. He had shipped as messman for 21 years before going on disabil­ ity pension in 1963. His last vessel was the Robin Hood. Brother Cantwell was a native of New Jersey and lived in Tren­ ton with his sister, Mrs. Marion Basco. Burial services were held at St. Mary's Cemetery in Tren­ ton following a requiem high mass at St. Anthony's Church. ^ James RHlly, 58: A heart at­ tack claimed the life of Brother Reilly on Octo­ ber 28, 1968, in Galveston, Tex­ as. A tugboat captain, he had been employed by the Ellis Towing Com­ pany since 1947. Brother Reilly was bom in In­ land, Alabama, and had been living in Galveston for many years. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Brown and Mrs. Mary Chappell, and a brother, Andrew. Burial services were held at Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama. John Leys, 62: Brother Leys was stricken by a fatal heart at­ tack on January 13 on board the Del Sol in the harbor at Charleston. He was one of the SIU old-timers, having joined the Union in the Port of Mobile in 1938. Rated FOWT, Seafarer I,eys had been sailing for nearly 40 years. He was bom in Mobile, and had resided there with his wife, Lucille. Besides his wife, he is also survived by a daughter, Jacqueline. Funeral services and burial took place in Mobile. vt^ Theodore Hardamon, 43: Seafarer Hardamon died Janu­ ary 9 in the U.S. Army Tripler Hospital in Hon­ olulu. Holding FOWT endorse­ ments, he last sailed on the Meridian Vic­ tory. Brother Hardamon was bom in Ala­ bama, and had been living in New Orleans with his wife, Florence. Besides his wife, he is survived by his father, G. W. Hardamon. ^rvices and burial were held in Mobile. ^ Ellis Samla, 61: Brother Samia died of a heart attack in Oakland, Califomia, on Octo­ ber 21, 1968, af­ ter completing a voyage on the Canton Victory. Rated FWTElectrician, he had been sailing for 27 years. Brother Samia joined the SIU in" Boston in 1941. He was born in Massa­ chusetts, and had made his home in New Bern, North Carolina, with his brother, John. Funeral services and burial took place in New Bem. John McCaslin, 65: Brother McCaslin passed away February 3 at St. Martin Infirmary in St. Martinville, Lou­ isiana, after a long illness. He had been on SIU disabilitypension since 196 2. Brother McCas­ lin had sailed for 20 years as cook and baker, and joined the SIU in 1944 in Norfolk. His last ship was the Westchester in 1962. Bora in Tennessee, he had made his home in St. Mar­ tinville with his wife, Alice, for many years. Burial took place at St. Martinville. Herman Lewis, 44: Brother Lewis died April 21 at his home in Balti­ more. Bora in North Carolina, he had been liv­ ing in Baltimore for the past ten years. Brother Lewis, who sail­ ed as wiper, joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore. His last ship was the Baltimore. Brother Lewis served two years with the U.S. Army during World War n. He is survived by his wife, Mary, his mother, Mrs. Annie Lewis, a brother, Henry, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Cox. Burial was at the Lewis Family Cemetery in Blunts, North Carolina. ^ Omar Ames, 71: Brother Ames passed away March 20 at his home in ^ Bellport, Long Benho Lema, 69: Brother Island, New Lema passed away at St. Clare's York. He had Hospital in New sailed as cook York on Aprfl and baker for 14. He had been more than 20 on an SIU dis­ years before he ability pension went on an SIU since 196 4. disability pension in 1966. Brother Lema Brother Ames was bom in Mis­ had been going souri. Widowed, he is survived to sea for more by his son, Omar, who had lived with him in Bellport. Services than 40 years, sailing as cook were held at Washington Mem­ and messman, and joined the orial Park Crematory in Coram, Union in Miami in 1940. Hi' last vessel was the Beauregard New York. in 1964. Brother Lema, a na­ —-\t> tive of Spain, had lived for many Melvin L. Wheeler, 70: years in Miami. He is survived Brother Wheeler passed away by his wife, Concepcion. Burial January 4, 1968, services were held at St. Ray­ following a long mond's Cemetery in New York. illness. The vet­ eran Seafarer had been on dis­ William Mason, 71: Brother ability pension Mason died April 20 at the since 1964. A USPHS Hospital native of Sher­ in Baltimore. man, Michigan, Born in Boston, Wheeler had he had been liv­ been living with his wife, Grace, ing in Baltimore in Mackinaw City at the time since retiring on of his death. He had more than SIU pension in 30 years sea time as oiler and 1966. Brother deck engineer prior to his re­ Mason had been tirement and joined the SIU in sailing for 45 years as a mem­ the Port of New York in 1943. ber of the engine department, He served two years with the and last shipped aboard the U.S. Army during"World War I. Norina in 1966. He joined the Besides his widow. Brother SIU in Philadelphia in 1945. Wheeler is survived by a son, Burial services for Brother Ma­ Robert. Burial was in Petoskey, son were held at Lorraine Park Michigan. Cemetery in Baltimore. Isaac Miller, 71: Brother Mil­ ler died March 13 at St. ViiH' cent's Hospital in New York. Bora in Russia, he had lived in Brooklyn with his wife, Helen, for many years. Brother Miller had been going to sea for more than 50 years, and last shipped as chief steward on the Grethe in 1968. Active in Union affairs. Brother Miller joined the SIU in New York, and took part in the New York Harbor strike in 1961, and the Moore-McCormack strike in 1962. Burial services were held at New Montefiore Cemetery mi Long Island. \I>—- George Hazen, 66; Brother Hazen passed away at Baltimore City Hospital on December 27. He had been sailing as cook and steward for more than 25 years before his retirement on SIU pension in 1968. His last vessel was the Fred Morris. A native of Mary­ land, Brother Hazen had been living in Baltimore at the time of his death. He joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1939. Burial services were held at Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Colmar Manor, Maryland. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Lavinia Morrison. George Stortz, 49: Brother Stortz died April 11 at St. Mary's Hospital in buluth, Minn­ esota. A lifelong resident of Duluth, he lived there with his wife. Mavis. At the time of his death, he had been employed as deckhand for the Zenith Dredge Company. Brother Stortz served five years with the Air Force during World War II. Burial services were held in Bethany Cementery inDuluth. 9' ' ly �Jane, 1969 Chief Lauds Crew, SlU Training In Engine Emergency «' J) r To the Editon On a recent departure from Cam Rahn Bay during supper hour, with the oiler up for his meal and only the engineer and fireman on watch below, trouble devel­ oped with the main feed pump making it necessary for the engineer to sound the emergency alarm. All the en­ gineers answered this alarm. However, it was particularly gratifying to note that all un­ licensed members of the en­ gine department also an­ swered the alarm. We had just left port, and there was a real danger that we might run aground. Each man took to his du­ ties as if they were an inborn instinct, which proves the value of the SIU training and education program. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the SIU for providing this' training, and my thanks to the follow­ ing members of the engine department for putting this training and knowledge to work in an emergency: Chief Electrician Shlomo Shahoa; Second Electrician Robert Stewart; Wipers William Ivey and Freddy Nunez; FWT's Royce Bufkin, Gennaro Esposito and Charles Myzwinski, and Oilers Arthur RathJens, Gilberto Salazar and Edward Mitchell. Sincerely, Raymond Dodl, Chief Engineer S.S. Buckeye Atlantic — ^1, Retired Seafarer Seeks Pen Pais To the Editon After 13 years in the SIU, I gave up sailing in 1958 and moved to Florida. My last foreign trip was on the S.S. Irenestar as bos'n. I really missed sailing for a couple of years, but now after ten years I have finally calmed down and accepted shore duty. I am working down here, and my wife. Rose, is also work­ ing at the local hospital. Maybe I will return to sail­ ing one of these days. My father is still in the SIU, and sails as FOWT. He is now in Vietnam, and hopes to come to Florida when he returns for a little rest and some fish­ ingI frequently run into a Sea­ farer down here, and- it's good to talk about places and ships. I get a card from Cap­ tain Fred Fredricksen once in a while. He is retired from the SIU and is now' living in New Orleans. I would like to hear from some of my old shipmates. Clyde (WUtey) Horton, 410 aark Drive, Holmes Beach, Florida SEAFARERS Sen. Ferrali Thanks SiU for Kids' Outing SiU Man Fosters Home for Homeless To tte Edihm Now that the trip to A1-' bany and the tour at the State Capitol by eighty eighth graders from St. John the Evangelist School in Brooklyn.is history, I believe that you will be interested in knowing of the fine im­ pressions made by them on those with whom they came in contact in Albany. From the Sergeant of the State Po­ lice in charge of the Gover­ nor's Red Room, to the leg­ islative stall in the Capitol, the Capitol tour guides and several others there was nothing but the highest praise for the fine deportment of the youngsters during the entire day. One person remarked "they were the best behaved youngsters that he has seen since the session started in January, and he has seen thousands." For myself, I was very proud of the youngsters and was very happy to be in their com­ pany. Of course, all this would To the Editor: Do you ever wonder what the good people are doing? So'bften the bad in people "make news" and the good is taken for granted. We want to share with you the goodness of one of your own SIU members-^ retired Seafarer James Rus­ sell (among his shipmates he was known as "King George"). We now claim him too! You see, Jimmie, as we call him, has made it possi­ ble for us to shelter babies, girls, boys, and women who would not have any plaee to go, or at least not the home Jimmie has provided. A year ago Jimmie gave us the down-payment for Mag­ nificat House, the name of Our shelter. We purchased an old two-story house, cleaned, repaired and painted it—all with voluntary help. We furnished it with furni­ ture people gave us, and we opened up our doors and our hearts to whomever needed us. There is no red tape to enter our house—only a need for shelter. There are no forms to fill out—^there are no fixed rules. We believe people, like nations, should love and respect one an­ other, and out of this love and respect peace can come. Our goal is voluntary cooper­ ation and a spirit of willing­ ness to work together out of need and love. Jimmie is our "house father"—many of the girls go to him with their little and big problems—he stocks the pantry for us, looks after the property—he gives of his time in whatever capac­ ity he is needed. The house is only about four or five blocks from the Houston Hall on the comer of Sherman and Altic, and we would welcome any of Jimmie's friends who would like to drop by for a cup of coffee. R(^ Mary Badami, Founder, Magnificat House Housttm, Texas not have been possible with­ out the whole-hearted sup­ port-Sponsorship of the trip and tour by the SIU and the splendid cooperation of the Union's Representatives. I believe that these youngs­ ters will always remember this splendid experience which brought into focus the state government in action. One of the greatest contri­ butions that adults can make to the youth of our country is to involve themselves in those matters which make for better citizenship among those who will be the citizens of the future. I want to thank the SIU and everyone involved for this great contribution they have all made. May God bless you and all those affili­ ated with Seafarers Interna­ tional Union for your wholeheartedness. With every good wish, Sincerely, Wflliam J. Ferrali (N.Y. State Senator) Back to Land of Calypso Seafarer Regis R. McKenzie, at left, receives his first pension check and best wishes from SIU Welfare Director Al Bernstein at New York hall. Brother McKenzie, a steward who last sailed aboard the Ameri­ can Victory, joined the Union in 1944. Regis comes from Trinidad. Nixon Asks $1 Billion Step-Up In Program to Fight Hunger PresidentWASHINGTON Nixon, under pressure for a stronger drive to eliminate hun­ ger in America has called for an expansion of the government's food programs for the poor. In a message to (ingress, Nixon estimated that his pro­ posed expansion would cost $2.5 billion a year when in full operation in 1971, up from the $1.5 billion he requested for fiscal 1970 food programs. To get the program started "sometime after the beginning of the calendar year 1970," the President said $274 million would be trinuned from other fiscal 1970 budget requests and added to food assistance pro­ grams. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as­ sistant to the President for ur­ ban affairs, was unable to say where the money would come from but promised it would not be taken from any "poverty-re­ lated program." Nixon recommended major revisions in the food stamp pro­ gram, the key element in fed­ eral anti-hunger efforts, as well as some changes in direct food distribution programs. Under the food stamp pro­ gram poor families who qualify Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 ——<I> Member's Wife Thanks Union To the Editon I want to express my deep­ est and sincere thanks to SIU Representative Benny Wil­ son, of the Baltimore hall, for his kindness, interest and courtesy during my recent hospitalization, and for see­ ing that my claim was proc­ essed promptly. It is indeed refreshing to find union rep­ resentatives who are the epitomy of true gentlemen. Mrs. Jos^h Wolanski Baltimore, Maryland Page Twenty Nine LOG I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list, r^nf infermafiaf*) NAME STREET ADDRESS OTY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old subseribaf and hava a chans* ef address, ptaasa ghra yewr fermar address below: OTT a miE are now entitled to buy stamps that are worth more than their cost in buying groceries. The price discount is based on fam­ ily size and income. The President proposed that each family taking part in the program should get enough stamps to provide what the De­ partment of Agriculture consid­ ers a nutritionally complete diet. This is not now the case. For example, at present a family of four with an income of $20 a month or less can pur­ chase for $2 stamps redeemable for $60. The department says a complete diet for this family would cost $100. A second proposal would offer stamps free to those in "the very low inccxne brackets." These were later described as persons who received less than $30 a month. Other Nixon proposals called for blending the stamp program with a revised welfare system he expects to propose later and permitting boffi stamps and di­ rect food distribution in the same counties. At present, the jurisdiction must choose either the stamps or the direct distribution of food packages, not both. Nixon also announced the es­ tablishment of a "pilot pro­ gram" through which needy women would be issued "vouch­ ers" redeemable for infant foods and special foods to prevent malnutrition in pregnancy. In other areas of his message, the President said he would shortly announce a White House conference on food and nutri­ tion and he directed the Urban Affairs Council to consider set­ ting up a new Food and Nutri­ tion Service to administer food programs. He also asked the Secretary of Health, Education and Wel­ fare and the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity "to take a number of steps" to enlarge research into malnutri­ tion and expand their activities in combating it. �Seaport Museum Seeks to Restore Titanic Lighthouse DO NOT BUY NEW YORK — Although Seafarers and their families are slated for oblivion because of new construction, the famed Ti­ urged to support a consumer boytanic Memorial Lighthouse has cott by trade unionists against been rescued by The Friends of various companies whose products South Street Seaport here, a are produced under non-union group that is presently seeking conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the funds to remount the lighthouse name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ on a new pedestal, complete volved, and will be amended from with the time ball. time to time.) Towering for 55 years above —-vtf the Old Seamen's Church Insti­ Stftzel-WeUer DisfiDtrlM tute overlooking New York Har­ "Old FHzgeraM," "CM EDt" bor, the lighthouse served as a "Cabin Stili,'* W. L. WeHcr monument to those who went Bourbon whlskcya down with the vessel Titanic in (Distillery Workers) 1912, and provided countless lower Manhattan commuters the Kingsport Prcsu means for checking their "World Book," "CUidcrafI" watches. (Printing Pressmen) Turned green from the years (Typographers, Bookbinders) of weather, the lighthouse was (Machinists, Stereotypers) removed from its former perch when the old Seamen's Church —^ Institute on Coenties Slip was Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. razed to make way for a taller, Work Shoes . . . new structure on State Street at Sentry, Cedar Chest, Battery Park. Statier Although no provision was Men's Shoes . . . made for the lighthouse, the Jarman, Johnson & Friends of South Street Seaport Murphy, Crestworth, retrieved the relic as a gift from (Root and Shoe Workers' Union) the Kaiser-Nelson Steel and Sal­ ^ vage Company and removed it Boren Clay Products Co. to Pier 16, a short distance from (United Brick and Clay Workers) the South Street Seaport Mu­ seum. \1> Its time-keeping mechanism "HIS" brand men's clothes still intact, the time-ball of the Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond lighthouse, operated by a hand blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa windlass, is expected to continue Ties, Boss Gloves RIciunan to work. In operation, the time—4,— ball was raised to the top of a Adantk Products metal pole shortly before noon Sports Goods each day, then dropped at the (Amalgamated Clothing Workers stroke of noon. TTiis enabled of America) seamen as far as ten miles at sea to check their chronometers Jamestown Sterling Corp. at a time when good navigation (United Furniture Workers) depended on accurate time­ keeping. Rlcbman Bros, and SeweO SuHs, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) —i— Atlantic Ocean Warming Up Year by Year GLOUCESTER, Mass. —^Data gathered by the De­ partment of the Interior's Bureau of Commercial Fish­ eries indicate that the At­ lantic Ocean, in the area of the New England fishing banks, may be warming up. A downward trend in sea water temperatures in this region started in 1953; analysis of conditions in 1968 showed marked in­ creases over the 1967 tem­ peratures—^as much as one degree centigrade for the annual average of inshore surface temperatures. The BCF studies indicate further that the tempera­ ture trends are more than just a surface phenomenon —^they relate to the move­ ment of warm slope water onto the Continental Shelf. i Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starllte luggage Starfllte luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) i White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) —-if— Gypsum Wallboi^ American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) i Comet Rice MOIs Co. prodncts (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) — Pioneer Flour MID (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas <t> AD Callfonila Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Tennessee Packers ReeDoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) ^ Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) ^ Economy Furniture Co. Smifihtown Maple Western Provincial eat-Rhe (Upholsterers) PINANCIAL BBP0RT8. Tha constitution of the 8IU Atlantie. Golf, Lalus and Inland Waters Diatrict makes speeille provision for aafegnwding the membership's moner and Unhm finaneea. The eonatitntion reqaires a detaUad CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TBUST rUNDS. AU trust funds of the SIU AtUntic, Gulf. Lakes and InUnd Waters District are admlntatered in accordance with the provtaiona of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their altemates. All expenditurea and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund flnancial records ars available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the enntrscta between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the SeaEsrers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The pr«q>er address for this is: Karl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contrscts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU 'contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proi)er sheets and In the proper manner. If, at any time, any SlU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SBAFA^BS LOG. The LOG has tradltionaUy refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deeroed hsnnfnl to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the SeptembCT. 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial hoard which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Elxecutive Board may delegate, ftrom among its ranks, one individual to carry out this rcsponsibilitlr. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans July 15—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... July 16—2:30 p.m. Wilmington July 21—^2:00 p.m. San Francisco July 23—2:00 p.m. SeatDe July 25—^2:00 p.m. New York .. July 7—^2:30 p.m. PhDadelphla July 8—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. July 9—^2:30 p.m. Detroit July 11—2:30 p.m. Houston ... July 14—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Woricens New Orleans July 15—^7:00 p.m. Mobfle July 16—^7:00 p.m. New York July 7—^7:00 p.m. PhDadelphla July 8—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. July 9—^7:00 p.m. tHoustmi .. July 14—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit July 7—2:00 p.m. Alpena July 7—^7:00 p.ni. Buffalo July 7—^7:00 p.m. Chicago ... July 7—^7:30 p.m. Duluth July 7—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. July 7—^7:00 p.m. Great Lak» Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... July 15—^7:30 p.m. tSantt Ste. Marie July 17—^7:30 p.m. Buffalo July 16—^7:30 p.m. Duluth July 18—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. July 18—^7:30 p.m. Toledo .... July 18—^7:30 p.m. Detroit .... July 14—^7:30 p.m. MDwaukee July 14—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Uidon New Orleans July 15—5:00 p.m. MohDe July 16—5:00 p.m. PhDadelphia July 8—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (Ucensed and unUcensed) July 9—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... July 10—5:00 p.m. Houston ... July 14—5:00 p.m. RaDway Marine Region Philadelphia July 15—10a.ni.&8p.m. Baltimore Jidy 16—10 a.ni. & 8 p.m. *NorfoDc July 17—10a.m.&8p.m. Jersey City Jufy 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers rHESIDENT PaulHalt EXECUTIVE VICE PRUIDENT Cal Tannar Earl Shapard A1 Tannar VICE PRBIDENTS LMiay Wllltaim Robart Malfhawt •-'r SECRETARY-TREASURER A! Karr HEADQUARTERS tit 4lli Ava., IUM. (212) HY T-MW ALPENA, Mich •ALTIMORE, Md BOSTON, Malt. BUFFALO, N.Y IIP RIvar Sf. (517) EL 4-UU I2I< E. ialtlmara St. (301) EA 7-4f00 Ml Atlantic AvanM («I7) 412-4710 TM WathlMtM St. CHICA60, III VlBl Ewlne Ava. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES S-«S70 CLEVELAND, Ohio I4M W. 2Sth St. (2U) MA I-S4S0 DETROIT, Mich 11121 W. Jaffarton Ava. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, T« JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY. NJ MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS, La NORFOLK, Va PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2014 W. 3rd St. (210) RA 2-4110 P.O. Boa M7 4IS Main St. (tit) EL 7-2441 1004 Canal St. (713) WA B-3207 2tBB Paarl St. (f04) EL 3-0fS7 TV Montgomanr St. (201) HEB-f424 I South Lawranca St. (205) HE 2-1754 430 Jackton Ava. (504) 52t-754t 115 3rd St. (703) t22-ll»2 2404 S. 4lh St. Si (215) DE 4-3010 PORT ARTHUR, Tax I34B Savanth St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., IW Fraamant St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE. P.R 1313 Famandai Juncat Stop 20 724-2043 SEAHLE, Wash 2505 First Avanna (204) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Ms iOS Dal Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrltan St. (013) 227-2780 WILMINGTON, Califa 450 Saailda Ava. Tarmlnal Island, Calif. (213) 032-7205 YOKOHAMA, Japan..lima Bld^, Rsam 001 ' 1-2 Kal«an%sri-Nakafai 2014771 Ext. 201 PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies ars to be paid to anyone Sn any official capacity in the SIU nnlem an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make n payment and is given an official receipt but feds that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBUGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of Its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Unhm halls. All members should obtain coplae of this constitution so as to fkmillariM themsdvea with its contents. Any time you fed any member or officer is attempting to deprive yon of any constUutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately iiotify beadquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing dbabUity-penaion bene­ fits have always been encoursged to continue thdr union aethritics. including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SlU.mmnbers at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimm cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing thrauih the waiving of thdr dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employnmnt and as members of the SIU. These rights are dearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union baa negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic orQdn. If any member feds that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled he should notify headquarters. SBAPARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rfadits of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their famOies and thdr Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was estsbllshed. Donations to 8PAD ere entiedy vuluut&ry cud eoneUtiite the funds through which legislative emd political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that any of the shove rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constHntieeal right of access to Union records or inforsution, he shonld immediately notify SIU President Paai HaU at headqaarters by certified maU, rstnm reedpt reqasstsd. A �Page Thirty One SEAF ARERS LOG y June, 1969 J. Ms •'«:i wilfeii'/V •' .^ ' "M-' ••i ii i .1 * .n 'S 'tuc • , -;:C'tV;y y i: I a:| • '•. V ••S.^:::fA«SirW}5y^^^ After two months anil one week on the high seas, the SlU'Contracted StOel King (Isthmian) makes port for I pay-off in Stockton, Calif. Having sailed with a cargo of rice from Sacramento, the vessel called at Ipchon and Mop on voyage. i4^iW If • Seafarer Ho Joeng, a messman, catches up on latest news of the industry and the doings of his buddies aboard other ships while awaiting pay-off. I' " Iplftt: SirSSS r/ v. \ ^ ¥ J P --ii |#yv.Sy You've got to know your ropes In the deck department. Seafarers Tom Mackernacher (at left) and Michael Flynn will both testify to that. \ s"- •' k -• Seafarer Mike McAbee, an AB, sporting a nineweek growth, finds a comfortable spot to read up on latest developments in the LOG after long trip. Two Harry Lundeberg School graduates are Messmen Alien young and John Stroderd. Steward Ken Hayes says they're good men. I if I: I grS-y-k- -i.y 1 S5 i I si' ' " ''it' i .i y^L..; -^Vv'* J -r. :•. _,• - -y»~. "• '• .. 'ty :.;:f .,\l 3fi9 iWiti I t V Y a^: D^ j«. 0. c^.-.AB.wHh 191 W www. • *-. '-r. I W.W.....W f „ •:: Y the voyaqe concerned the water cooling system.!; ' r r cnarnp of Cuba on ' ' •i I m*. �mem SB SEAFARERSALOC OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO All Seafarers are urgently reminded of the necessity to keep up to date enrollment-beneficiary cards on file at the SlU Welfare Plan office in order to facilitate prompt processing and payment 6f their welfare benefits. 'r.H', > Preteefl' Seafarers who have never filled out an enrollment-beneficiary card should do so immediately. A reproduction of both sides of the card ap­ pears below for convenient clipping and mailing. Remember, it Is Im­ portant that both sides be filled out carefully and legibly and that no informafioti be left ©of. Should any change have occurred since a card was last filed—a new dependent, a.change in beneficiary, a new address, etc.—a new card miist be filled out without delay. Benefits The beneficiary's name and address should be entered clearly. The sig­ nature of the Seafarer fhust be witiiessecb but no notary Is required. ThO correct date of signing Is also Important, since the latest card on file Is the one that counts In the event of d claim. Additional cards are available on all SlU-controcted ships and In all SlU halls. They require no postage if mailed from any part of the Conti­ nental United States. Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans 275—20th Street, Brooklyii, N.Y. 11215 ENROUMENT-UNEFICIARY CARD Name. PRINT: LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Address PRINT: NUMBER AND STREET CITT ZONE No. Social Security No. COUNTT STATE Z No. Dote of Birth I revoke all previous beneficiary nominalions and moke the following nomination wifli respect to all beneflls provided now or at any lime in the future under the Seafarers Welfare Plan, still reserving to myself the privilegei of other and further changes. '' Nome of Beneficiory. Relotionship .to You PRINT: Address of Beneficiory. PRINT: NUMBER ANct STREET CITY ZIP CODE COUNTY STATE ^Employee's Signoture Dote Witness _ SIGNATURE Address _ NUMBER AND STREET PRINT: CITY ZIP CODE COUNTY STATE lAirORTAMT—Dependents niuit be listed on Reverie SItle LIST tELOW NAMES OP YOUR WIPE AND UNMARRIED LIST NAMES IN ORDER OF AGE—ELDEST FIRST CHIIDREN UNDER CHECK ( •) RELATIONSHIP Wife Husbond Son Daughter 19 YEARS OP AOS DATE OF BIRTH MONTH DAY YEAR I • liii IMPORTANT: As seen as possible, moll phetestotlc copies of your riege certfflcote end the birth certiflcatos of all unmarried children on this card to the Seafarers Welfare Plan, 37S — 20lh Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215. Pallure to do so could delinr the payment of welfare benefits. 30 SWP aOO 4-07 IWr � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource June 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU URGES CONGRESS TO PREVENT STRANGLING OF TUG-BARGE INDUSTRY LABOR ON US FLAG SHIPS CHALKED UP 25 YEAR, 440% PRODUCTIVITY GAIN LATE SENATOR EL BARTLETT HONORED AS MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM DEDICATED 28 NEW PHARMACIST MATES GRADUATE FROM SIUNA-SOA TRAINING SCHOOL CONGRESSMEN CRITICAL OF SHORTSIGHTED POLICY TOWARD US MERCHANT MARINE HOUSE PASSES 1970 AUTHORIZATIONS RISING INTEREST RATES SEEN BURDEN TO ECONOMY FTC WEIGHS BAN ON UNSOLICITED CREDIT CARDS SHULTZ PROPOSES SPECIAL FARM LABOR BOARD OUTSIDE NLRB INTERNATIONAL LABOR CO-OPERATION SET TO CONFRONT MULTI NATION GE PLANTS 3,000 BUILDING TRADE DELEGATES LAUNCH MAJOR LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM RANDOLPH’S GOALS REAFFIRMED BY LABOR-CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION ILO SALUTED FOR ADVANCING WORKERS’ WELFARE ACWA SEEKS TAFT-HARTLEY CHANGES TO ALLOW USE OF JOINT TRUST FUNDS CONTINUITY OF CONTRACTS IN MERGERS STRESSED IN LABOR’S PLEA TO NLRB NLRB RULES STRIKERS RETAIN RIGHTS TO VOTE IN UNIT ELECTION FOR 1 YEAR DARLINGTON WORKERS WAITED 13 YEARS IN BACK PAY VICTORY OLDEST OF SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS PROVIDE LIVING LINKS WITH HISTORY HOUSE LABOR BODY HEARS ARGUMENTS ON NEED FOR ON SITE PICKETING LAW EXPANDED MERCHANT FLEET SEEN AID TO US ECONOMY FROM WEST TO EAST – AND HOME AGAIN Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 8 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/213983a845c2d93e7048cb36c5ef0f04.PDF 32dffa9e0ed8c30b94fca5f22f9cbb5f PDF Text Text SlUNA 14th BIENNIAL CONVENTION ISSUE SEAFARERSWLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO I^ ^^SIU Produces Youngest Merchant Marine Officer Page 3 Union Solidarity Stressed ]^rongh Ship Committees M * —f . A n �Page Two SEAFARERS 1969 LOG No—You're Not Seeing Double S/ff Seeks Expanded US-Flag Role In Shipping To Soviet-Bioi Coantries WASHINGTON — SIUNA President Paul Hall has urged Congress to expand the role of American-flag shipping in com­ merce with Soviet-bloc nations. Testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Commit­ tee during hearings on the Ex­ port Expansion and Regulation Act of 1969, HaU called for language that would "clearly set forth that at least 50 percent of ail this cargo—and more, if pos­ sible — should move aboard American-built, American-own­ ed and American-manned mer­ chant vessels." Hall was sharply critical of language inserted in the bill by the Subcommittee on Interna­ tional Finance, which would have denied to the President the right to stipulate the use of American-flag merchant ships for the carriage of cargo to the Soviet Union and its satellites. The full Committee voted to reopen the record for the hear­ ings after receiving protests from maritime management and labor that the proposed language would, as Hall put it, "abandon certain minimal participation by the American merchant marine in still another phase of our na­ tion's waterbome commerce." Reflations providing for the participation of American-own­ ed shipping in the movement of cargoes to the Soviet Union and her satellites were issued during the Administration of the late President Kennedy and are still in force, although they have been watered down so that they now require 50 percent Amer­ ican vessel participation only in the movement of wheat and flour destined for the Red-bloc nations. Hall attacked the Subcommit­ tee proposal on five major grounds. He told the Committee: • "The proposed language . . . would run counter to the historic concept of providing preference for American-flag vessels in the carriage of our country's trade. • "The proposed language would serve as the opening wedge in a new assault on the entire cargo preference pro­ gram. • "The proposed new restric­ tions would work to the detri­ ment of our balance of pay­ ments—in which we have exper­ ienced a chronic deficit. • "The proposed language would have an adverse, and per­ haps fatal, impact on our al­ ready dwindling merchant marine fortunes. • "Finally, the proposal would give new impetus to the Soviet drive for world maritime supremacy." In calling for inclusion of language to give the merchant marine a share in the trade that is being developed, the SIUNA president noted that the legisla­ tion "is supposed to strengthen America's trading position in the world community." He urged the Committee to develop such a program "in terms of Amer- OH Reserves ef Alaska Seen Potential Been to US Tankers WASHINGTON —The dis­ cover}' of huge oil resems on Alaska's North Slope can lead to a multi-billioq-dollar shot in the arm for the American ship­ building and shipping industry, a prominent Washington attor­ ney asserted here last month. However, Marvin J. Coles, counsel for the Committee of American Tanker Operators, warned, this infusion of new life into the maritime industry will hinge on beating back any attacks on the 40-year-old Jones Act, which reserves domestic waterbome cargo for Americanbuilt, American-owned and American-manned vessels. Speaking at a meeting spon­ sored by the 7.5-million-member AFL-OO Maritime Trades De­ partment, Coles said that past attacks on the Jones Act con­ cept "have been defeated with minor exception. But the huge new stakes in the tanker pro­ gram for moving Alaskan oil may bring out fiercer attacks than ever. They must be re­ pulsed." Coles told the gathering of government, industry and labor officials that it would require more than 30 new tankers of 250,000 deadweight tons each to move the oil from Alaska to ports in the continental United States. He said this would provide "about $1.5 billion of construc­ tion work for American ship­ yards, wages for American ship­ building personnel, and then em­ ployment opportunities fpr the next 20 years for American sea­ men." He emphasized that the demand for tankers to move the Alaskan oil could ccmie "on top of our need to replace over 50 percent of our current tanker fleet in the next 10 years." The representative of the tanker operators put particular stress on the fact that the tankerbuilding program would result in vessels that would be "built and operated without requiring one penny of government sub­ sidy for construction or opera­ tion. There is no need for ap­ propriations or for new legis­ lation. These vessels will be built because of the economic needs of the American oil in­ dustry; and they will be built in American yards and operated by American seamen so long as the provisions of the Jones Act are maintained." ica's total resources," and asked that Congress "not discriminate against an American industry that, in the last analysis, is vitd to the development of our full trading potential." Inclusion of language guar­ anteeing a share of the ship­ ments for American vessels. Hall said, "would mean more jobs for American seamen, more jobs for American shipyard workers, more jobs in scores of related trades and services." He pointed out that this would mean "more jobs for thousands of American citizens who, after all, were customers of the Amer­ ican farmer long before the Soviet Union and her satellites, and will be customers long after­ ward." y-— •i, '7! 1 • "TKRV i yj 411 THE LOG photographer did a double-take when he spotted identical twins Kelly and Kim Murray strolling around SlU headquarters and looking very pretty. He found daddy, Dan Murray, who sails as FWT, and snapped this photo. That's Kelly, left, and Kim, right. Following SIUNA Protests: ICC Extends Barge Tow Mixing Rule; Gives Congress Six Months to Act WASHINGTON —The rule which permits barges to haul mixed tons of regulated nonbulk commodities in the same tow with bulk exempt commodi­ ties without subjecting all to reg­ ulation has been extended by the Interstate Commerce Commis­ sion for the duration of the cur­ rent calendar year. An extension had been re­ quested by Chairman Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) of the Senate Commerce Committee as well as by Chairman Harley O. Staggers (D-W.Va.) of the House Foreign and Interstate Com­ merce Committee. Senator Mag­ nuson had asked for an indefi­ nite extension; Representative Staggers had requested six months. Both actions took place after four SIUNA officers — Vice President Earl Shepard; Paul Drozak of Houston; Gordon Spencer of Norfolk and Merle Adlum of Seattle — strongly urged support of legislation which would prevent "strangula­ tion" of the tug and barge in­ dustry on inland waterways. The SIUNA representatives had appeared before the Sub­ committee on Transportation and Aeronautics of the House Interstate Commerce Committee in support of three bills—^H.R. 8298, H.R. 8376 and H.R. 8509 — which would eliminate "unrealistic language" now in the Interstate Commerce Act. The wording of the Act de­ fines an entire string of barges as a single "vessel" and also de­ fines "bulk cargo" in a manner which, the Union pointed out, would tie the industry to prac­ tices prevalent 30 years ago, and now out-moded and impractical in view of the much longer barge tows of today, which move 50,000 tons of cargo at a time. Nevertheless, the IOC had recentiy proposed to implement these provisions, althou^ it had twice before delayed putting the requirements into effect in order to permit congressional action to change the law. Subsequently, the House Sub­ committee on Transportation and Aeronautics approved a compromise barge mixing rule which would require water car­ riers hauling dry bulk commod­ ities to file rates with the ICC on both regulated and non-regu­ lated commodities. This is regarded by Union and industry spokesmen as dele­ terious because it would, in ef­ fect, place all commodities un­ der regulation. Beyond this, the subcommittee bill would not change the out-of-date cargo definitions which state which dry bulk commodities may be carried exempt from regulation. Most important, the subcom­ mittee version would not lift the limitation which -prohibits the carriage of more than three dry bulk commodities in a tow of barges without subjecting the en­ tire tow to regulation. The SIU has pointed out that, unless this section is amended, "barge operators are going to be forced to split tows according to the number or type of commod­ ity carried." This, the Union warned, would mean lower util­ ization of equipment, causing increased rates for shippers which would be passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices for commodities. - II * il /4tk SIUNA Biemial Convention CMveaesin Washington My 28 WASHINGTON — Prepara­ tions are largely completed for the convening of the Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America which will get underway at the Statler-Hilton Hotel here on Monday, July 28 and continue through Friday, August 1. The SIUNA Executive Board will meet on Thursday, July 24 at Piney Point, Maryland. Delegates representingSIUNA affiliates from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean ydll attend what is expected to be the largest SIUNA convention ever held. The delegates, representing the more than 85,000 members of SIUNA district and local un­ ions, will deal with matters oi concern to the International, the U.S. labor movement, the mari­ time industry and the crafts and industries represented by SIUNA affiliates. T^ey will also map future International policies and programs and hear reports of the affiliated unions. Represented at the conven­ tion will be deep sea Seafarers, tug and other inland water boat­ men, railroad marine tugmen and dredgemen, fishermen, can­ nery workers as well as workers employed in the transportation services and other allied crafts. During its daily sessions the week of July 28 through August 1, the convention will hear from a number of speakers represent­ ing the maritime industry, the organized labor movement, and numerous governmental agen­ cies. * y �July, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Three LOG THE SEAMRBR AND EDUCOION m/Ot/- ^OeATtOMAL' ACAPeMIC Seafarer Bob McKay Licensed at 19 NEW YORK — Robert Mc­ Kay—a graduate of the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship — is the youngest li­ censed oflBcer in the U.S. mer­ chant marine. McKay, who be­ gan his sailing career at the age of 16 when he entered the Un­ ion's training school in Brook­ lyn, received his ""2# assistant engineer's license on his 19th birth­ day, the mini­ mum age for MeKav l^o^ing a license under Coast Guard regulations. Young McKay received his li­ cense June 20 in a brief cere­ mony at the 3rd Coast Guard District Headquarters on Gov­ ernor's Island here. The presen­ tation was made by Admiral Mark A. Whalen, Commander of the USCG Eastern District The story of Bob McKay's remarkable achievement is more than a story of setting a mari­ time record that can never be beaten. It is the story of an ele­ mentary school dropout heading for trouble, and the Seafarer's training program that helped him chart a new course. McKay was 15 when he dropped out of school. He had been in a few minor scrapes and, as he says, "I was starting out on the wrong track, and I could have been heading for big trouble if I didn't do something about it." He was lucky. Just after his 16th birthday, McKay enrolled in the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Brook­ lyn. It was at the school that he learned some of the basics of seamanship but — equally im­ portant—also began to un­ derstand the meaning of disci­ pline, cooperation and responsi­ bility. When he completed training in August, 1966, he went to sea for the first time, sailing as wiper aboard the Northwestern Victory on an ammunition run to Vietnam. He later shipped on the Forteleza and, in August 1967, enrolled in the SIU's up­ grading school. He successfully completed the comprehensive study course and received a Q.M.E.D. endorse­ ment as fireman, oiler, and water tender. He then returned to sea, sailing as oiler on the Monticello Victory, and later on Success in Varied fields Achieved Through Aimuul SlU Scholarships NEW YORK—During the last 16 years, the SIU has helped 83 men and women fulfill their vocational ambitions in life through the aid of individual college scholarships in the amount of $6,000 each. Awarded annually since 1953, the scholarships have gone to 25 Seafarers and 58 children or legal dependents of Seafarers. The SIU was the first mari­ time union to award college scholarships and this program has not only helped Union mem­ bers but has also served the com­ munity at large as well. All of the recipients of these scholarships not only had excel­ lent scholastic averages. They also expressed an intense inter­ est in the world around them. It is not surprising, therefore, that many SIU scholars are now following careers which directly aid their fellow men and the areas in which they live. For instance, two scholarship winners, Seymour Wallace and Alma Jimenez Colls are both medical doctors today, while a third recipient, Lembhard G. Howell, served as Assistant At­ torney General in the state of Washington for two years before opening his own law office. Dr. Colls was one of the first four students to receive SIU : ... Seafarers Scholarship Advisory Committee consists of (l-r): Dr. Eiwood C. Kastner, N.Y.U.: Charles D. O'Connell, University of Chicago; Edna M. Newby, Rutgers University: Richard M. Keefe, St. Louis University; Dr. Charles A. Lyons, Jr., Howard Uni­ versity; and Dr. Bernard B. Ireland, College Entrance Exam Board. the Houston and the Transeastem. In February, 1969, McKay was accepted for admission to the Engineering School, which is jointly sponsored by the SIU and the Marine Engineers Bene­ ficial Association, Efistrict 2. After an intensive four-month course of instruction, he was graduated with an 84 percent average, and sat for his license on June 9. On June 17, he was notified by the Coast Guard that he had passed the exami­ nation, but that he would have to wait three days—until his 19th birthday—^before he could receive his license. [More than 330 Seafarers have earned engineers licenses —^from third assistant through chief engineer—after complet­ ing training at the- SIU-MEBA District 2 school, and a total of 2,205 unrated Seafarers have received Q.M.E.D. endorse­ ments through the Harry Lunde­ berg School of Seamanship.] Although he is only 19, Bob McKay realizes that the train­ ing he has been given has opened the door to a new and more productive way of life for him. "The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship gave me an opportunity that I never thought would be open to me," McKay said. "It has offered me, and a lot of other young guys I've known at school and at sea, a chance to make it." Commenting on McKay's achievement, SIUNA president Paul Hall said: "Bob McKay has been a credit to the SIU, and I'm certain he will be a credit to the MEBA, District 2. We are fortunate to have him, and other youngsters like him, as members of our Union. These young men are becoming the skilled professional Seafar­ ers of today, and they represent the future of this Union." Anyone can do it if he really wants to and is willing to work hard, youngest U.S. merchant marine offi­ cer Robert McKay tells eager trainee group at HLSS in Piney Point as he proudly displays new license. scholarships when the program was originated in 1953. She had placed 17th in a high school class of 396 and even then planned to become a doctor. In 1958 she graduated with the title of doctor from the Col­ lege of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico. Her father. Seafarer Pedro Jimenez of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, sailed in the engine de­ partment. Dr. Wallace, who was the first Seafarer to receive his M.D. un­ der the scholarship program, graduated in 1959 from Colum­ bia University's College of Phy­ sicians and Surgeons. When awarded his scholar­ ship in 1954, Wallace was a premedical student at Long Island University. While studying at Columbia, Dr. Wallace continued to sail with the SIU during his first two summers. He had been a Sea­ farer since 1948 when he was 18 years old. An AB, he usually sailed on Bull Line or Missis­ sippi ships. A 1964 graduate of New York University Law School, Lembhard G. Howell received his SIU scholarship in 1955 after graduating from New York's Charles Evans Hughes High School where he won the institution's highest award for character and scholastic achieve­ ment. He had been president of the school's General Organization and wrote for the school news­ paper as well as the Mathematics Seymour Wallace, AB to M.D. and Science Department publi­ cations. Attending Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., Howell covered the normal four-year course in three years and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He served as an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve before at­ tending NYU's Law School. Howell later went to the state of Washington on a Ford Foun­ dation grant from the National Center for Education in Politics and eventually was appointed Assistant Attorney General in 1966. Two years later he went into private practice and in March of this year established the law firm of Miller and Howell in Seattle. In 1966-67 Howell was elected State President of the Young Democrats and for the past two years he has been a member of the Seattle-King County Municipal League. His father. Seafarer Cleveland Alexander Howell, retired on an SIU pension in 1965. These three men and women are typical examples of the many SIU scholarship winners who are leading varied and worth­ while careers today. And following in their path to higher scholastic achievement each year are new award recipi­ ents, each chosen by an impar­ tial committee of six prominent educators from institutions of learning around the country. Their annual selection of win­ ning recipients is based upon the candidates' performance on the / Lembhard G. Howell College Entrance Examination Board tests or the American College Testing Program, to­ gether with the candidates' gen­ eral scholastic background and qualities of leadership. �SEAFARERS P&ge Four July, 1969 LOG ' i • William Foley, A.B. on the Amer­ ican Victory, graduated from Piney Point in 1967 and earned his AB's ticket there in 1968. PINEY POINT, Md. — The Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship—the largest training facility for merchant seamen in the nation—^is nearing the end of its second year of opera­ tion here. The product of joint SIUindustry cooperation, the school has developed extensive training and upgrading programs which have served the dual purpose of providing careers to many dis­ advantaged youngsters and fur­ nishing a flow of superbly-train­ ed manpower for the ships cf America's merchant marine. Beyond this, it has enabled hundreds of Seafarers to up­ grade to higher ratings up tp and including licensed officer status. The opening of operations here in August, 1967 marked the beginning of a program to consolidate all of the SIU's training facilities which had been operating at a number of ports since 1953. The Union's training activities had their beginnings in the peri­ od immediately following the Korean War. The program grew out of the Union's belief that the training of unlicensed sea­ men is labor's—^not govern­ ment's concern—and that it is the Union's task to provide qualifled manpower when and where needed aboard its contracted veissels. Over the years,, the training program focused on three key areas: • Trmning for entry ratings. • Tcaining for l^giading. bandy Seabrook, Installs a burner on the Boston. Seabrook is a Piney Point graduate who got his FWT ticket at the SlU school. Robert Brown, left, and Vincent Bermudez, both sailing as ordinary seaman, secure lines as the Asbury Victory prepares to sail for the Far East. Brown graduated from Piney Point in September. Bermudez, who completed training at the school in February was on his first trip, Richard McDonald, oiler on the American Victory, attended the HLSS school in February, 1968. and got his FOWT in October. vides the opportunity for the eventual development of a selfsustaining operation. It is hoped that eventudly housing can be developed on this adjacent land to offer accomodations for both active and pensioned Seafarers. There are several levels of recruiting and training in the school. At the entry rating level, recmits are taken from the ages of 16 to 21 years—^up to the age of 23 for military service return­ ees. Present facilities permit a normal complement of 120 enrollees for a 60-day course. Recruits get free transportation to the school, besides room and board and $20 a week spending money. Upon graduation, they are immediately assigned to an SlU-contracted vessel and trans­ ported to the ship to embark on their new careers. Entry rating trainees are given not only education in safety and shipboard duties, but also lifeboat training as well. They are given lifeboat examinations on the Piney Point base by the U.S. Coast Guard before ship­ ping on their first vessel. Hav­ ing passed this examination and completed 90 days of seatime, they can then apply for their liefboat endorsement without further testing. As a result of this training, young men going to sea for the first time are better equipped for the job at hand than has ever been t^ case in the past A measure of the effectiveness of the SIU program is the fact that the Lundeberg School has grad­ uated over 2,000 merchant sea­ men with fewer than 100 drop­ outs. The school also facilitates the upgrading of Union members to the ratings of Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders, ABs, Electricians and all qualified men for every department In addition to its contribu­ tions to entry upgrading the HLSS has also established, in conjunction with the MEBA, District 2, Marine Engineers and Deck Officers schools for the purposo of licensing qualified men from the Engine and Deck departments. Since its inception in February, 1966, this branch of the Lundeberg School has graduated hundreds of original Third Engineers and original Second Engineers. Many other seagoing affiliates of the SIUNA have similar pro­ grams for the training of person­ nel in their own organizations. The SlUNA-affiliated Staff Officers Association recently graduated its third class of Pur­ ser-Pharmacist Mates. The Ma­ rine Firemen's Union has a training program for upgrading in the engine department. The Sailors Union of the Pacific operates the Andrew Furuseth training school and some years ago instituted the first life­ boat training school in the in­ dustry. The Marine Cooks and Stewards maintain a steward de­ partment training program and the SIU Great L^es District has a School of Marine En^neering and Navigation to help Seafarers prepare for licensing. rM sf' • Preparing for licenses as land, where the Potomac meets deck and engine oflScers. Chesapeake Bay. Here there are As the program expanded it shops for instruction in welding, was desirable to acquire suitable electricity, machinery, rigging, facilities to centralize the train­ splicing and seamanship, as well ing activities. That's where Piney as a maritime museum and Point entered the picture. A library of maritime and trade former naval torpedo training union history. base it was ideally suited to car­ The school boasts modem ry out the objectives of the Un­ classroom facilities for lectures, ion's training program. discussions and instruction; a The school is named after variety of vessels aboard which Harry Lundeberg, the founder seamen can get practical on-theand first president of the SIU, job training; and a fully equip­ and operates imder the Lunde­ ped boat basin to teach them berg philosophy that the recruit­ the basics of vessel maintenance. ing and manning of vessels falls The Lundeberg School facili­ within the area of Uni<m re- ties include comfortable bunga­ sponsibili^, rather than that of low-dormitories for the students, government agencies. a gymnasium, auditorium, swim­ ft is located on S3 acres ming pool, laundry, cafeteria bordering St Geoige's Qeek <m and commissary. the soudiemmost tip of Mary­ Adjoining farm acreage pro­ - This group of young Seafarers bave completed all requirements of the U.S. Coast Guard for their lifeboat tickets. In the first rbvV (l-r) are Charles Cothran, Michael Pait, James Fleming, Gary Davis, Richard Welch, Tom Reed, DaVid Blevin, Sam Beck, Gar Doubleday, and Harold McDavid. Second row, Instructor Tom Brooks, Lindse^''Hood, Stephen Williams, Johnnie Ferguson, John LOtz, Mike Cashion, Johnny Roundtree, Ellis Crum ihd Armando Salazar. Trainees at Piney Point get fulhlifeboat. instruction. Graduates of Piney Point lifeboat class No. 8 were (front row l-r) Ronald Hoitala, James Pedaris, Thomas Abbadessa, Coy Dillow and Carl Smith Jr. Second row: Edward Bean, Robert Giordano, William Anglemyer, David Schlosnagle, Steven Williams and Albert Trinka. Trfllflpes receive hours of instructionijai\d jfpipenience in. the.iboats. f �July, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Five LOG Opportunity Unlimited Upgrading Ladder to licensed Status Climbed by Seafarers—Young and Old Through the unique Marine Engineers and Deck Officers Up­ grading Programs, jointly spon­ sored by the SIU, the MEBA District 2, and the Associated Maritime Officers, Seafarers in the deck and engine depart­ ments—from the youngest to the oldest—have available to them an ever-present oppor-. tunity to climb the seniority ladder to rewarding licensed po­ sitions in the U.S. merchant marine. Opportunity, according to the old ad^e, rarely knocks twice during a lifetime. How­ ever, a close look at these two upgrading programs, which were conceived and instituted by the Union to further the careers of members, disproves this. Hundreds of SIU members, ranging in age from 19 to 60 and over, from every possible background, have earned li­ censes as marine engineers or deck officers through these two Union - sponsored upgrading programs. Ronald R. Spencer, director of the School of Marine Engi­ neering and Navigation, through which the engineer and deck officer upgrading programs are administered, remarked on Sea­ farers and their approach to the schools in this way: "Behind each union member who has graduated from the upgrading program to a license, there is a separate success story to tell. For each of them, it is a story of applying themselves through hard work to overcome many obstacles to achieve a goal." A close look at just a few of the Seafarers from the deck and engine departments who have earned their licenses through the school offers a panorama of individual stories, created by the men themselves, in their quest for greater knowledge and recognition in their chosen careers. Sigwart G. Nielsen, 63, is an example of a Seafarer who de­ cided late in his sailing career to apply for an engineer's li­ cense. With almost 20 years of sailing time with the SIU behind him, and the rating of Chief Electrician, this New Jersey na­ tive entered the upgrading school in March, 1966. After completing the course of in­ struction at the school in De­ cember, 1966, he passed the Coast Guard's licensing exam­ ination and was certified as a Third Assistant Engineer. Niel­ sen distinguished himself and did credit to his union by prov­ ing the basic SIU principle that a Seafarer can upgrade at any time. Norbert Patrick, 31, bom on the island of St. Vincent in the Windward Islands, is a graduate Second Engineer's License when of the SIU's Harry Lundeberg accepted by the SIU-MEBA School of Seamanship. A bos'n School of Marine Engineering while at the school, he had and Navigation in February, sailed as FOWT before apply­ 1966. Along with a perfect rec­ ing for the engineers upgrading ord of attendance in the course. program in September, 1967. Brother Singleton racked up After passing the Coast Guard grades which were well above examination, following studies average. He was certified as a at the SIU-MEBA, Dist. 2- Second Assistant in May of sponsored school, he received 1966 and is now sailing as First his license as a Third Assistant Assistant Engineer. Engineer in March, 1968. Pat­ Michael R. McKay, 22, born rick plans to upgrade to Second in New York City and a grad­ Assistant shortly. uate of the SIU's Harry Lunde­ Herbert E. Valdson, 57, was berg. School of Seamanship, is born in Tartu, Estonia. A nat­ one of the new generation of uralized U.S. citizen, he joined Seafarers which the Lundeberg the SIU in Philadelphia in 1963 School has launched on seafar­ because he wanted to serve in ing careers to man U.S. mer­ the U.S. merchant marine. He chant vessels for many years was sailing as an FOWT when to come. McKay had sailed as accepted to the engineers up­ an FOWT before entering the grading program in 1966. While engineers upgrading program in attending the school, he was November of 1967. At 20, he nicknamed the "Estonian Law- was the youngest student in the Moustakakis demonstrated a keen ability to quickly master the subjects in the course lead­ ing to a mate's license. He con­ sistently achieved high grades during attendance at the school and when he took the Coast Guard's Third Mate licensing exam in February of 1968, he scored one of the highest marks ever received on the exam by an applicant in the Port of New York. Moustakakis is now sail­ ing as a Second Mate and plans to return to the school for fur­ ther upgrading as soon as his duties permit. To say that Rudolph J. Loizzi merely picked himself up by his bootstraps—and he did—to earn a Third Mate's license would be a gross under­ statement of how he achieved his goal. He entered the mate's upgrading program in March, 1967. Until that time, the 32- license from the Coast Guard. Desire Le Berre, 49, was bom in France. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1953 and before entering the mate's upgrading program in Septem­ ber of 1966, sailed as AB and bqs'n. Because of his seatime, Le Berre was able to work to­ wards a Second Mate's license at the SIU-MEBA, Dist. 2, School of Marine Engineering and Navigation. Brother Le Berre had to overcome the ad­ ded burden of a language bar­ rier in pursuing his studies at the school. He diligently worked not only on mastering the sub­ jects required for his license, but sought each day to improve his ability in English. Le Berre achieved fine grades in the up­ grading program and upon pass­ ing his Coast Guard exam, was certified as a Second Mate in May, 1967. As a token of his appreciation for the opportunity and help given him, he donated a sextant to the school for use in training his fellow SIU members. George T. McManus, 50, was bom in New York City. Brother McManus sailed as an AB be­ fore applying for the mate's up­ grading program in September, 1967. A college graduate with Nielsen Valdson Loizzi McManus a Bachelor of Science degree in education and social science, he also attended both the Univer­ sity of Miami in Florida and Fordham University in New York. With all of this, how­ ever, McManus joined the SIU in New York in 1963 because he "wanted to begin a seafaring career." While a student at the Patrick Singleton Moustakakis LeBerre Keelan deck officer's school, McManus attended classes on crutches be­ cause of an injury, but scored yer" by his fellow Seafarers. program. Upon graduation from year-old New Yorker's formal well in all of his subjects. Upon They had learned that he was the school in 1968, he held the education amounted to only passing the Coast Guard exam, a graduate of the University of unique distinction of being the three grades of grammar school he received a Third Mate's li­ Estonia Law School. Valdson youngest man in the U.S. mer­ and he had never learned math­ was certified as a Third Assist­ chant marine to receive an orig­ ematics. He had, however, a cense in December of 1967. Joseph F. Keelan, 57, was ant Engineer by the Coast inal Third Assistant Engineer's determination to overcome his Guard in July of 1966. His license after passing his Coast educational handicap and to bom in Pennsylvania and joined earn his license. Brother Loizzi the SIU in the Port of Mobile in wish to pursue a career in the Guard exam. American merchant marine was Just last month, however, studied nightly until at least 1949. He served on many SIUmade possible by the SIU and Mike proudly relinquished his midnight and for entire week­ contracted vessels as AB and was expanded even further by youthful position to his brother, ends. This was in addition to bos'n before applying for the his successful participation in Bobby. Also an HLSS graduate meeting family obligations by mate's upgrading program in the engineers upgrading pro­ and graduate of the engineer's holding down a parttime job. August, 1966. gram through which the SIU upgrading program. Bob Mc­ Because of his obvious will Although he decided to up­ encourages its unlicensed mem­ Kay is, at 19, the youngest li­ to learn. Spencer and Senior bers to seek the highest possible censed officer in the merchant Deck Instructor Nick Gullo grade somewhat later in his rank they can achieve. marine. (See story page 3.) worked a bit harder with Loizzi. career than some of the other Harry R. Singleton, a 53Impressive though the ac­ Within a little over six months, Seafarers taking part in the year-old New Yorker, is an old- complishments of engine de­ they had helped Brother Loizzi program. Brother Keelan was timer with the SIU who first partment Seafarers may have to raise his educational level by none the less determined to eam joined the Union during one of been, their brothers above decks seven grades. Spencer wrote in a deck officer's license. Through the first organizing campaigns have distinguished themselves Loizzi's school file, "Rarely his ability to call upon valuable in the Port of Baltimore in Jan­ equally as well—as the following have I seen a man with so lim­ experience gained during many uary of 1939. He had logged a brief histories will show. ited an advantage demonstrate good deal of seatime as an Alexios M. Moustakakis was such a desire to succeed." In years at sea. Brother Keelan FOWT before receiving his en­ born in Greece 26 years ago. September, 1968, Brother scored excellent grades at the gineer's license. Due to his ex­ From the moment he entered Loizzi did honor to himself and school and received his Second tensive seatime. Singleton was the SIU-MEBA, Dist. 2 School to the entire upgrading program Mate's license in November, able to study for an ori^al in October, 1967, Brother by receiving his Third Mate's 1968. \- I �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG Jnlr» 1969 APPLY NOW FOR SENIORITY UPGRADING The seniority upgraders above are seen as they took the oath of obligation as full-book members of the SlU. Left to right are John Doran, FOWT, and AB's Erick Sorensen, Robert Hester and Arthur Wills. The group is pictured at left during a class session led by SlU Representative Bill Hall. All upgraders are graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, have more than 12 months seatime, hold a rating in either the deck, engine or steward department and have a lifeboat endorsement. Joseph Simonetti, FWT on the Detroit, installs a burner as the vessel malces ready to sail. Simonetti completed training at Piney Point in June 1968, and got his upgrading at the Un­ ion's Q.M.E.D. engineering school in New York. All B Book Seafarers have the opportunity to upgrade their seniority at the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland. The Seniority Upgrading Program was estab­ lished to provide Seafarers with additional training required for steady advancement up the seniority ladder. The latest in modern training and teaching facilities are provided at the school for qualified Seafarers. Free room and board plus an allowance of $56 per week are given to each qualified man partici­ pating in the program. Transportation from all major SIU ports is also provided. Applications have already been mailed to all B Book Seafarers, and are also available from any SIU port agent. HOW TO QUALIFY Seafarers who wish to enroll in the Seniority Upgrading Program should meet the Seafarers Appeals Board's qualify­ ing standards which include the following: • RATING—Each applicant must presently hold a Coast Guard endorsed rating such as AB, FOWT, etc. • PREVIOUS TRAINING—Presentation of a certificate showing successful completion of training at either the An­ drew Furuseth Training School or the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. • SEATIME—Seafarers must have a minimum of 12 months seatime with any SlU-contracted companies. Lyie Sawyer, sailing as OS after graduating from Piney Point in May, works on a lifeboat on the Seatrain Delaware with veteran Sea­ farer Calixto Gonzalez, ship's bos'n. Sawyer plans to get his 12 month's of seatime as quickly as possible and then upgrade to A.B. William King, wiper on the Asbury Victory, com­ pleted training at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point in February, 1968, and plans to enter the SlU's engine upgrading school after this trip to obtain his FOWT endorsement. • LIFEBOAT TICKET—Applicant must have a valid lifeboat ticket. The Seafarers Appeals Board may consider other qualifica­ tions or waive any of the above. Completed application forms should be mailed as soon as possible to: The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamans^ Seniority Upgrading Program Smnt Mary's County Piney Point, Maiyland 20674""'^ ^ �Julr, 1969 George Gibbons, cook-balcer and steward delegate on the Boston, makes a point at contract discussion. SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven SlU Representative Bill Hall holds a meeting with crewmembers of the Seatrain New York on the ship's fantail to discuss the new agreement. Thomas Anderson, A.B. and deck delegate on the Summit, expresses his views on the new SlU contract. I N keeping with your Union's unbroken tradition of securing for its members the best possible agreement obtainable with the shipping companies contracted to the SIU-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, we, the undersigned committee, sub­ mit and recommend to our fellow Seafarers the Freightship and Tanker contracts printed on the following two pages. The basic wage gains reflected in these agreements represent gains for crewmembers in all shipboard departments—deck, en­ gine and steward—which are unprecedented in U. S. maritime history. In addition to this, we consider of particular significance the major breakthrough achieved in the Freightship agreement relat­ ing to overtime. The principle of overtime for all hours worked in port between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. on Monday through Friday has been firmly established for the first time. The membership will note that these agreements deal primarily with wages. Negotiations are continuing with the shipowners regarding welfare, pension and vacation improvements. It will also be noted that under Additional Comments and Rec­ ommendations, your Headquarters Negotiating Committee has suggested a restructuring of membership representation aboard SlU-contracted vessels and recommends weekly Sunday meetings while at sea. SIU Representative Leon Hall outlines provisions of the new agreement at a meeting on the Transontario. After considerable discussion and consideration, it is felt that SIU crews can be most efficiently represented aboard ship by ac­ tive Ship's Committees made up of one elected delegate each from the Deck, Engine and Steward departments, the Bos'n as perma­ nent Ship's Chairman, and the Chief Steward as permanent Ship's Reporter and Secretary. The aim of the Ship's Committees should be the development and maintenance of stronger communi­ cations between Seafarers afloat and Union headquarters. In this way it will be better possible to implement SIU policies and programs and create a Union structure aboard ship which will allow greater participation by the entire membership in the Un­ ion's affairs. Fraternally submitted. i4<juL, ILss-, SPA Crewmembers of the Seattle study the special LOG supplement detailing the new one-year contract. Following discussion they voted 100% "Yes." I �Page Eight SEAFARERS Jalr, 1969 LOG FREIGHTSHIP AGREEMENT Your Headquarters' officers have reported to the membership over the past several monthly meetings regarding discussions with the shipowners relative to negotiations for a new Freightship Contract. These discussions and negotiations have in the main centered on monetary matters as well as welfare, pension and vacation matters. We have, subject to action by the membership, now reached agreement with the companies on wages, overtime and other monetary matters. Other issues which have not been finalized but which are now being negotiated are on welfare, pension and vacation matters. Printed below is a copy of the agreement reached as outlined above be­ tween your Union and the shipowners. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN Section 1. WAGES. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Steward Department, when the respective ratings are carried, shall be as follows: AMOUNT OF NEW RATING INCREASE MONTHLY RATE Chief Steward $52.74 $618.01 Steward/Cook 35.92 631.19 Chief Cook 45.76 549.22 Cook and Baker 44.35 535.30 Second Cook 24.18 470.33 * Third Cook 37.19 464.80 Messman 62.02 364.58 , 62.02 Utilityman i64.58 MARINER TYPE VESSEL * When passengers are carried, the Third Cook will be re-rated as Second Cook and will be paid wages in accordance with the agreement. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFUCIO and ^ WHEREAS, the collective bargaining agreement between the Union and various companies expires on June 15, 1969, and WHEREAS, the Union and the companies have been negotiating terms of a new contraa, NOW THEREFORE it is understood and agreed, as follows: FREIGHTSHIP AGREEMENT 1. Article II, Section 21 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 21. OVERTIME RATE, (a) The overtime rate of pay for members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $464.78 or below shall be $2.73 per hour. (b) The overtime rate of pay for all members of the LInlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $464.79 or above, but not in excess of $535. 29 shall be $3.44 per hour. (c) The overtime rate of pay for all members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $535.30 or above shall be $4.48 per hour. 2. Article III, Section 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 1. Wages. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Deck Department, when the respective ratings are carried, shall be as follows: NEW AMOUNT OF MONTHLY RATE RATING INCREASE $618.01 Boatswain $52.74 * Carpenter 45.72 566.53 525.33 43.34 A. B. Maintenance 470.33 Quartermaster 37.75 Able Seaman 470.33 37.75 367.18 Ordinary Seaman 62.28 O.S. Maintenance 397.97 39.44 MARINER TYPE VESSEL Boatswain * Carpenter $59.88 58.79 $682.97 593.24 * When the Carpenter is required in writing by the Company to furnish his own tools, he shall bepaidtwentydollars($20.00)per month in addition to his base wage. 5. The overtime rates set forth in Item one herein shall be paid for all work performed on Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays and for any work in excess of eight (8) hours in any one day. The overtime rates set forth in Item one shall also apply to work performed in port between the hours of 5 P.M. and 8 A.M., Monday through Friday and for penalty work performed on watch and other penalty time payments provided for in the Agreement. 6. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE Meal allowance shall be $10.50 per day; room allowance shall be $10.50 per day. 7. In order to partially defray the costs and expenses of the operation and mainten­ ance of the hiring halls, as provided for in the collective bargaining agreement, the company agrees to the establishment of a fund, and the company further agrees to contribute to such fund the sum of fifteen (15) cents per man per day of covered employment. 8. PENSIONS, WELFARE AND VACATIONS The parties hereto agree to continue negotiations with respect to improved pension, welfare and vacation. It is further understood and agreed that in the event agreement is not reached on improved pension, welfare and vacations, the Union shall have the right to take economic action upon seven (7) days notice. 9. SUBSIDIARY PROVISIONS It is agreed that any agreements that are presently in effect covering War Risk Insur­ ance and Area Bonuses be continued as is with no change. In addition, any and all addendums and/or supplementary agreements, the contents of which have not been incorporated into the collective bargaining contract shall be continued in effect. Except for the changes provided for in this Memorandum of Understanding all other terms and conditions of the collective bargaining contracts now in effect shall remain in effect. The changes provided in this Memorandum of Understanding shall be in­ corporated into and made a part of the full collective bargaining contract. 10. EFFECTIVE DATE All changes provided for herein shall become effective at 12:01 A.M. on June 16, 1969. 11. The Collective Bargaining agreement between the parties hereto shall terminate on June 15, 1970 unless extended by the parties. Dated June 12, 1969 For the Union 3. Article IV, Sertion 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 1. Wages. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the En­ gine Departrnent, when the respective ratings are carried, shall be as follows: AMOUNT OF NEW RATING INCREASE MONTHLY RATE Chief Electrician $63.83 $727.20 Second Electrician 59.02 679.74 Unlicensed Jr Engineer (Day) 50.37 594.60 Unlicensed Jr Engineer (Watch) 44.35 535.31 Plumber/Machinist 53.00 622.93 Deck Engineer 48.54 576.59 Engine Utility 541.88 44.00 Evaporator Maintenance 497.99 40.56 Oiler 470.33 37.75 Oiler-Diesel 506.19 41.39 Watertender 37.75 470.33 \ Fireman/Watertender 470.33 37.75 Fireman 470.33 37.75 Wiper 436.82 69.35 Refrigerating Engineer (When (1) is carried) 59.02 679.74 Refrigerating Engineer (When (3) are carried) Chief 41.99 713.19 First Assistant 59.57 621.87 Second Assistant 572.73 47.20 Ship's Welder/Maintenance 50.37 594.60 44.29 Oiler/Maintenance Utility 535.25 AtARINER TYPE VESSEL $66.48 Chief Electrician ] $753.37 4. Article V, Section 1 shall be changed to read as follows: I GI /h dlZarK For the Companies • lUdiS. COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS COMMENTS: Your committee feels that these contracts as presented to the membership represent not only a substantial gain on wages, overtime, etc., but also establishes a basis for finalizing in the near future new contract terms and benefits in the other areas such as welfare, pensions and vacations. it is to be noted that the $10.00 differential between the entry ratings and the middle ratings negotiated in the last contract have now been eliminated. The original intent of creating that differential was to encourage unrated men to go up for endorsements. This has now been accomplished and the dif­ ferential will now cease. A major achievement has been accomplished in the Freightship Agreement with the establishment of the principle of overtime in port for all hours worked between 5:00 P.M. and 8:00 A.M. Monday through Friday. This applies to all crew members who work during these hours. Recommendation: Your Committee recommends the ratification of the Freightship contract as presented herein. - !l �SEAFARERS LOG Jnly, 1969 Pmge Nine TANKER AGREEMENT Your Headquarters' officers have reported to'the membership over the past several monthly meetings regarding discussions with the shipowners relative to negotiations for a new Tanker Contract. These discussions and negotiations have centered on monetary matters as well as on welfare, pension and vacation matters. We have, subject to action by the member­ ship, now reached agreement with the companies on wages, overtime and other monetary matters. Other issues which have not been finalized but which are now being negotiated on are welfare, pensions and vacations. Printed below is a copy of the agreement reached as outlined above be­ tween your Union and the shipowners. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO and WHEREAS, the collective bargaining agreement between the Union and various companies expires on June 15, 1969, and WHEREAS, the Union and the companies have been negotiating terms of a new contraa, NOW THEREFORE it is understood and agreed, as follows: TANKER AGREEMENT 1. Article II, Section 21 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 21. OVERTIME RATE, (a) The overtime rate of pay for members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $436.84 or below shall be $2.73 per hour. (b) The overtime rate of pay for all members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $436.85 or above, but not in excess of $5 39.26, shall be $3.44 per hour. (c) The overtime rate of pay for all members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $539.27 or above shall be $4.48 per hour. 2. Article III, Section 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 2. WAGES. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Deck Department, when the respective ratings are carried, shall be as follows: NEW AMOUNT OF MONTHLY RATE INCREASE RATING Boatswain (Tankers 25,500 D.W.T. or over) $654.93 $52.74 Boatswain (Tankers under 25,500 632.70 D.W.T.) 52.74 A.B. Deck Maintenance 5 39.26 43.34 O.S. Deck Maintenance (when carried) 406.93 39.44 475.29 Able Seaman 37.75 62.28 376.14 Ordinary Seaman 3. Article IV, Seaioh 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Seaion 1. WAGES. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Engine Department, when the respeaive ratings are carried, shall be as follows: NEW AMOUNT OF MONTHLY RATE RATING INCREASE $666.64 Chief Pumpman $59.02 666.64 Second Pumpman/Engine Maintenance 59.02 540.18 Engine Utility 44.00 475.29 Oiler 37.75 Oiler/Maintenance Utility 44.29 535.25 475.29 Fireman/Watertender 37.75 436.84 Wiper 69.35 4. Article V, Section 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Seaion 1. WAGES. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Steward Department, when the respeaive ratings are carried, shall be as follows: AMOUNT OF NEW INCREASE MONTHLY RATE RATING Chief Steward (Tankers 25,500 D.W.T. $657.29 $52.74 or over) Chief Steward (Tankers under 25,500 52.74 635.06 D.W.T.) Chief Cook 45.76 569.43 Cook and Baker 44.35 553.82 Third Cook 37.19 491.97 Galleyman (when carried) 62.02 373.50 Messman 62.02 364.57 Utilityman 62.02 364.57 5. The overtime rates set forth in itfem one herein shall be paid for all work per­ formed on Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays and for any work in excess of eight (8) hours in any one day. The Parties hereto shall continue to negotiate with respect to the rate of overtime to be paid for work performed in port between the hours of 5 P.M. and 8 A.M., Mon­ day through Friday and for penalty work performed on watch and other penalty time payments provided for in the Agreement. Where Agreement presently provides for payment of overtime for work in port, after 5 P.M. and before 8 A.M. weekdays, those rates shall continue to be paid, subjert to further negotiations. 6. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE Meal allowance shall be $10.50 per day; room allowance shall be $10.50 per day. 7. In order to partially defray the costs and expenses of the operation and mainten­ ance of the hiring halls, as provided for in the colleaive bargaining agreement, the company agrees to the establishment of a fund, and the company further agrees to contribute to such fund the sum of fifteen (15) cents per man per day of covered employment. 8. PENSIONS, WELFARE AND VACATIONS The parties hereto agree to continue negotiations with respect to improved pen­ sion, welfare and vacation. It is further understood and agreed that in the event agree­ ment is not reached on improved pension, welfare and vacations, the Union shall have the right to take economic action upon seven (7) days notice. 9. SUBSIDIARY PROVISIONS It is agreed that any agreements that are presently in effect covering War Risk Insurance and A; ea Bonuses be continued as is with no change. In addition, any and all addendums and/or supplementary agreements, the contents of which have not been incorporated into the collertive bargaining contract shall be continued in effea. Except for the changes provided for in this Memorandum of Understanding all other terms and conditions of the collective bargaining contracts now in effea shall remain in effea. The changes provided in this Memorandum of Understanding shall be incorporated into and made a part of the full colleaive bargaining contraa. 10. EFFECTIVE DATE All changes provided for herein shall become effeaive at 1 2:01 A.M. on June 16, 1969. 11. The Collective Bargaining agreement between the parties hereto shall terminate on June 15, 1970 unless extended by the parties. Dated JUNE 12, 1969 For the Union For the Companies COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Comments: Your cominittee feels that these contracts as presented to the membership represent not only a substantial gain on wages, overtime, etc., but also establishes a basis for finalizing in the near future new contract terms and benefits in the other areas such as welfare, pensions and vacations. Recommendation: Your committee recommends the ratification of the Tanker contract as presented herein. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Comments: Our immediate task now is to continue to work in the direction of improving our welfare plan, pensions and vacation. To do this, it is nec­ essary to have full participation of all our membership in the discussions of and recommendations on these matters so that the maximum number of members' feeling will be expressed. To do this, it is necessary that we have full participation in all shipboard meetings by all SlU crews. We are confronted with a situation whereby on a number of SlU ships there has not been complete union activity on the part of the crews. This is best illustrated by thefact that numerous ships have' not elected a complete number of Ship Board Delegates. This, unless corrected, could hamper us in our desire forfull expressions on the issues as contained in this report. Your committee has had considerable discussions on this matter and feels that positive action is required. This positive action should be aimed specifically in the direction of: a. Guaranteeing regular shipboard meetings. b. The communication of those meetings and their recommendations and comments to the Headquarters of the Union for consideration by the membership in the deliberation in coming negotiations. Recommendations: 1. It is recommended: That the Bos'n shall act as permanent Ship's Chairman on board all SlU vessels. 2. That the members of the three departments on board all SlU ships elect from the members of their departments, the appropriate member to serve as Deck Department Delegate, Engine Department Delegate and Steward Department Delegate. 3. That the Chief Steward aboard all SlU ships act as a permanent Ship's Reporter and Secretary to all SlU meetings aboard ship. 4. That regular shipboard meetings be held each Sunday when the vessel is at sea. 5. It is further recommended that the Ship's Chairman, the three Departmental Delegates and the Ship's Reporter-Secretary shall consti­ tute the SlU Ship's Committee on the vessels on which they serve. 6. It is finally recommended that the SlU Ship's Committee on board all SlU contracted vessels be responsible for the implementation of union policies and programs in addition to representing the members of the crew aboard ship. CONCLUSION The contracts, as presented above represent significant monetary gains for all of our membership. It also represents a recognition of the necessity and desire to complete negotiations in the areas of certain working rules as desired by our membership, welfare, pensions and vacations. Of equal importance to the matters contained in the above report, is taking a step in the direction of creating a shipboard union structure which will allow for greater participation in the affairs of the union of all its members aboard all vessels. This program continues the policy of election by crew members of departmental delegates. In addition, the recommendations allow for the participation of SlU mem­ bers sailing in the capacity of Bos'n to act as Chairman and thus guaranteeing a regular weekly meeting as recommended in this program. The participation of the Chief Steward, who as a rule is the most experienced SlU member aboard a vessel in the matter of records and communications, will guarantee that the appropriate records of shipboard meetings and functions will be kept and that communication will be developed and maintained between the crew and union headquarters. Your Headquarters Negotiating Committee recommends that you adopt this report and all recommendations contained herein. A RECORD HIGH FOR MARITIME DOLLAR GAINS—NEXT—PENSION, WELFARE & VACATION. �Page Ten SEAFARERS LOG Jolr. 1969 VOTING TALiy ON NEW CONTRAlCT The proposed new contract presented in this section is now in process of being submitted to the membership for its approval or disapproval. As the LOG went to press, the following shipboard and membership meeting votes had been recorded. Additional voting results will be pub lished in the LOG as they are received. Vessel AFOUNDRIA ALCOA COMMANDER ALCOA MARKETER ALCOA TRADER ALCOA VOYAGER AMERICAN PRIDE AMERICAN VICT. AMERIGO ARIZPA ASBURY VICT. ACHILLES BALTIMORE BEATRICE VICT. BELGIUM VICT. BESSEMER VICT. BETHFLOR BETHTEX BIENVILLE BOSTON BRIGHAM VICT. BUCKEYE ATLANTIC BURBANK VICT. C/S MIAMI CALMAR CAPE CATOCHE CHARLESTON CITRUS PACKER CITADEL VICT. CLAIRBORNE COLUMBIA BROOKLYN COLUMBIA-I COLUMBIA BANKER COLUMBIA EAGLE COLUMBIA TIGER COLUMBIA TRADER COMMANDER COSMOS TRADER DEL ALBA DEL MAR DEL ORO DELTA URUGUAY DETROIT EAGLE VOYAGER ELIZABBIHPORT ERICKSON FAIRLAND FAIRVIEW FLORIDIAN FORT HOSKINS GALVESTON GATEWAY CITY GENEVA HALAULA VICT. HASTINGS IBERVILLE JACKSONVILLE JEFFERSON CITY VICT. JEFF DAVIS LAFAYEITE LONG BEACH LOS ANGELES LYNN VICT. MANKATO VICT. MARYMAR MAURY MAYAGUEZ MINOT VICT. MOBTTF, MOBIL.TAN MO'' MC iNG LIGHT MT. WASHINGTON NEWARK NEW ORLEANS NEW YORKER Port For Against San Fran. N. O. N. O. Tampa N. O. N. Carolina N. Y. San Fran. N.Y. N.Y. San Fran. Puerto Rico N. Y. Japan Norfolk Bait. Bait. N.Y. N.Y. San. Fran. Phila. Mobile N. O. Bait. Japan Bait. San Fran. Seattle Mobile Phila. N. Y. Bait. Japan San Fran. San Fran. Seattle Phila. San Fran. Japan N. O. N. O. Mobile Puerto Rico Boston San Fran. San Fran. San Fran. San Fran. Puerto Rico Boston N.Y. N.Y. Bait. Jax. Japan San. Fran. N.Y. 18 26 28 26 23 24 28 23 28 28 29 29 30 21 24 19 21 27 29 23 20 21 19 21 22 28 18 22 25 26 29 24 28 29 24 25 24 23 25 23 32 21 22 24 29 27 20 22 15 22 27 25 18 29 24 20 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. San Fran. Wilm. San Fran. Japan Jax. N. O. N.Y. San Fran. N.Y. Japan N.Y. Japan Charleston Seattle Singapore N.Y, Seattle N. O. 30 31 21 26 23 31 26 21 20 24 24 28 25 24 25 31 26 27 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vessel OAKLAND OVERSEAS DINNY OVERSEAS EVA OVERSEAS EVELYN OVERSEAS SUZANNE OVERSEAS NATALIE OVERSEAS REBECCA OVERSEAS TRAVELER PANAMA PHILADELPHIA PONCE -PORTLAND PORTMAR PRINCETON VICT. RALEIGH RAMBAM RICE VIGl. RICHWOOD ROBIN HOOD ROBIN TRENT SACAL BORINCANO SAN JUAN SEAMAR S.T. DELAWARE S.T. GEORGIA S.T. LOUISIANA S.T. MARYLAND S.T. NEW YORK S.T. PUERTO RICO S.T. SAN JUAN S.T. WASHINGTON SEAllLE SPITFIRE STEEL DESIGNER Port Japan San Fran. Mobile Japan San Fran. Wilm. Wilm. N.Y. Japan Seattle Puerto Rico N.Y. Bait. San Fran. Japan N. O. Norfolk Japan N. 0. Mobile Jax. N.Y. San Fran. Puerto Rico San Fran. San Fran. San Fran. N. Y. San Fran. N.Y. San Fran. N. Y. N. O. Seattle Vessel Port For Against For Against 23 0 STEEL ENGINEER Wilm. 25 0 23 0 Houston 23 0 STEEL FLYER 0 24 STEEL KING San Fran. 29 0 0 21 STEEL SCIENTIST N. O. 20 0 0 12 STEEL SEAFARER Bait. 19 0 26 0 STEEL VOYAGER 30 0 Bait. 30 1 SUMMIT N. Y. 29 0 28 0 TRANSCOLORADO Phila. 26 0 0 22 TRANSONTARIO 0 N.Y. 28 0 21 TRANSSENECA 28 0 Seattle 0 27 TRENTON 0 San Fran. 24 26 1 0 VANTAGE PROGRESS 27 Wilm. 18 0 26 0 WACOSTA N.Y. 0 22 0 29 WARRIOR N.Y. 23 0 0 WESTERN COMET Norfolk 29 19 0 0 WINGLESS VICT. Japan 23 0 24 0 YORKMAR Bait. 19 25 0 8 0 Wilm. YUKON 0 28 3.134 A Totals 27 0 0 12 VOTE TAKEN AT REGULAR 29 0 26 0 MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS 0 29 For Against^ Constitutional Port 27 0 0 144 BALTIMORE 0 24 37 0 PHILADELPHIA 29 0 285 0 NEW ORLEANS 29 0 160 0 SAN FRANCISCO 24 0 35 0 WILMINGTON 28 0 0 44 SEATTLE 409 1 NEW YORK r 28 0 83 0 HOUSTON 28 0 152 0 MOBILE 21 0 1,349 Totals 28 0 r The Score to Dote For Against On the Ships 3,134 4 In the Halls 1,349 1 Totals 4,483 �Jnlr, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Ekven Additioa of 18 Seafarers Boosts Pension Roster Growth The ever-growing SIU pen­ he sailed as third cook. He oiler. Brother Andrews now lives York. His last vessel was the full 366 days at sea. Brother sion list has added to the roster makes his home in Brooklyn in Daphne, Alabama, with his John B. Waterman. Dario's last ship was the Steel the names of 18 additional Sea­ with his wife, Mae. wife, Sara. Tonis Tonisson is calling it Artisan. farers who have completed thenRoy McCannon is closing out a career after 45 years at sea. Earl Cain is retiring on SIU long sailing careers. a sailing career that spans more pension after completing ki»Torolf J. Kismul, a native of than 25 years as a member of long career at sea. An active Norway, is ending his sailing the steward department. A long member of the Union since he days after more than 20 years time member of the SIU, he first signed up in the Port of at sea. Brother Kismul joined joined the Union in 1941. Broth­ New York, Cain took part in the the SIU in the Port of New er McCannon was bom in Okla­ Robin Line beef in 1962. Broth­ York. His last ship was the John homa, and will spend his retire­ er Cain sailed as cook and baker B. Waterman. Seafarer Kismul MacGregor Bennett and his last vessel was the Herment at his home in Philadel­ sailed as an AB in the deck de­ mina. He now makes his home phia. He last sailed on the PetroTotdsstm Dario partment. He now makes his in Boaz, Alabama. Arliss C. Johnson, who is a Chem. home in Seattle with his wife, native of Michigan, joined the Joseph Holsenbeck, who Ramon Irizarry, who has Sailing as FWT, his last ship Lilly. Union in Aim Arbor, Michigan. been going to sea for more than was the Steel Seafarer in 1967. holds ratings in all three departHe last worked for the Ann Ar­ Brother Tonisson was bom in bor Railroad Company in the 30 years and sailed as chief Estonia 65 years ago, and now steward department as a cabin makes his home in Hoboken, watch. Se^arer Johnson lives New Jersey. He joined the Un­ with his father, Louis, in Frank­ ion in the Port of New York. fort, Mich. Pio Dario, an active SIU Leon S. Bekier, a veteran of member since joining the Union the U.S. Navy during World in the Port of Philadelphia, is Kismul Burgesser War II, was bom in Providence, Cain HoiseiriMck closing out a long sailing career R.I. He joined the SIU in the in the steward department. Bom McCannon Idzairy Herbert F. Burgesser is stow­ Port of Detroit. Brother Bekier in Catbalogau, Philippine Is­ ments aboard ship, is closing ing away his sea gear after al­ lands, in 1901, he plans to re­ out a sailing career of 25 years. steward for the past 18 years, most 30 years at sea. Bom in tire to his home in Quezon City. He has shipped as AB, FWT is also retiring on SIU pension. Seafarer Smithsburg, Maryland, he joined Dario was a profession­ and third cook. Brother Holsen­ the Union in 1940 in the Port Bom in Puerto Rico, he now al Seafarer who shipped year- beck joined the SIU in the Port of Philadelphia. His last vessel makes his home in Chalmette, round during nearly all of his of Savannah. His last vessel was was the Southwestern Victory Louisiana, with his wife. Car­ sailing career. During the last the Summit He was bom in on which he was chief steward. men. Seafarer Irizarry joined four leap-years—1956, 1960, Milledgeville, Georgia, where he Brother Burgesser lives with his the SIU in the Port of New 1964 and 1968—^he put in the continues to make his home. brother, Carroll, in New York aty. Lawson Evans, who was bom last sailed for the American in Washington, D.C., wound up Steamship Company in the en­ 25 years at sea with a final gine department as fireman. He trip on the Seatrain Georgia as June 1, 1969 to June 30, 1969 row. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944. DECK DEPARTMENT Brother Evans lives with his TOTAL REGISTERED REGISTERED on BEACH TOTAL SHIPPED half-brother, Jerry Thomas, in All Groups All Grooi Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C John A. Witchen, Jr., who Boston 6 6 9 2 3 15 1 New York 127 96 68 69 189 162 22 was bom in Alabama, joined the Philadelphia 24 27 1 2 5 2 1 SIU in the Port of New Orleans. Baltimore 53 36 96 65 Bekier Wells 23 23 7 His last trip was on the Delta Norfolk 24 49 26 29 21 13 5 Jacksonville 31 30 30 24 23 7 18 Mexico as cook and baker. Sea- makes his home in Johnston, Tampa 9 23 6 14 17 4 8 51 19 30 32 19 0 84 R.I., where he lives with his Mobile New Orleans 60 53 141 63 45 43 2 wife, Lena. Houston 96 100 84 65 35 118 57 42 36 29 3 51 41 12 John E. Wells who is 67 years Wilmington 98 San Francisco ... 84 49 61 3 71 85 old, was bom in Warren, Rhode Seattle 43 33 26 34 25 16 55 Island. Brother Wells joined the Totals 860 550 638 537 484 163 413 Union in the Port of Baltimore and last sailed as chief steward ENGINE DEPARTMENT on the Hastings. His home is in REGISTERED on BEACH TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Evans Witchen All Groups Catonsville, Maryland, where he All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class A Class B Port Class A Class B Class C lives with his wife, Rena. farer Witchen makes his home 4 5 2 Boston 3 4 6 3 Leo Q. Strange, a native of New 200 122 62 38 York 119 82 in Mesa, Arizona, with his wife, 83 Massachusetts, joined the SIU Philadelphia 3 3 24 14 17 24 23 Ora Josephine. 43 53 19 26 7 Baltimore 32 36 in the Port of Baltimore. He last 19 42 James MacGregor was bom 6 18 9 12 30 Norfolk sailed on the Gateway City as 13 21 9 23 9 37 5 Jacksonville in Massachusetts and joined the 3 8 6 2 12 6 12 Tampa Steward. Brother Strange makes Union in the Port of Baltimore. 38 43 21 25 0 35 21 Mobile 86 74 26 56 1 45 72 Brother MacGregor's last ship his home now in Ridgewood, New Orleans 91 39 74 41 25 79 51 Houston N.J., where he lives with his was the Portmar on which he 21 3 19 13 41 23 45 Wilmington 57 12 64 116 53 95 144 San Francisco ... sailed in the engine department wife, Margaret. 37 7 32 14 22 33 47 Seattle as FOWT. Seafarer MacGregor 407 512 312 181 487 598 400 Totals makes his home in Baltimore. STEWARD DEPARTMENT Marvin P. Bennett, a native REGISTERED on BEACH of Georgia, joined the SIU in TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups All Groups Lake Charles, Louisiana. He dassA dEsB Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Port last sailed on the Tamara Guil5 0 2 3 0 2 1 Boston den in the deck department as 56 34 40 95 128 44 73 New York ..., 3 20 6 20 4 36 11 Philadelphia .. AB. Seafarer Bennett now lives Strange Andrews 20 43 11 10 20 29 62 .... Baltimore with his brother in Houston, 6 2• 30 24 11 35 20 Norfolk ...... 11 8 24 13 17 19 11 Texas. Carl B. Andrews, who was Jacksonville .. 2 9 7 3 5 1 8 Pedro C f --an, who is 62, bom in Alabama, joined the Tampa 24 Mobile ....... 36 18 55 19 18 0 36 42 67 65 17 122 1 is a native of the Philippine Union in the Port of Mobile. New Orleans .. 44 26 65 39 33 50 100 Islands. He joined the SIU in He has been sailing in the en­ Houston 26 22 20 17 7 24 15 Wilmin^on .. 48 125 52 104 11 the Port of Galveston. Brother gine department, in all ratings San Francisco 55 71 24 46 14 17 12 20 43 Esteban made his last voyage and his last ship was the Qai- Seattle 631 375 Totals 289 218 458 402 311 on the Steel Worker, on which bome, on which he sailed as �PmgK Twehre SEAFARERS' LOG Julr, 1969 -• • -L" '/• Meet Your Ships' Cemmittees BIENVILLE—(l-r) Felipe Aponte, ship's delegate; Joseph Leyal, chairman; Frank Fadino, engine delegate; E. D. Strait, steward delegate; Ben Ladd, steward and ship secretary; and Tim Holt, deck delegate. / OVERSEAS TRAVELER—(l-r) Ivar Anderson, ship's delegate; James McLiden, deck delegate; Calvin Sheridan, engine delegate; Antonio Lipari, the ship chairman. ARIZPA—(l-r in photo below at left) Juan Guaris, engine delegate; Abraham Aragones, ship secretary; Luis Rivera, deck delegate; L. A. Vila, steward del­ egate; William Doiley, ship's delegate, SiU Vice President Earl Shepard; and Alfonso Rivera, bos'n, who will act as ship chairman and conduct all meetings. DETROIT-—^l-r in photo below) George Burke, chairman; Alvero Vego, engine delegate: Pete Siems, steward delegate; Julio Colon, retiring ship's delegate, and John McLaughlin, deck delegate. Victor Perez, ship secretary w^s absent. ^-1 �Jnlr* 1969 The crews of SlU-contracted ships at sea have always been encouraged to take an active part in the affairs of the Union. The fullest possible expression of ideas and opinions on issues affect­ ing them as Seafarers is vital to the continued growth of the SIU as a viable, democratic trade union. With a new contract providing the best wage gains in U.S. mari­ time history already negotiated, the Union is now moving ahead to improve the welfare plan, pensions and vacations. To do this, it is necessary to have the broadest participation of the entire member­ ship—at sea as well as ashore—in discussions and recommenda­ tions, so that the feelings of a maximum number of members are expressed. Regular shipboard meetings, and the communication of the conunents and recommendations of these meetings to Union head­ quarters, is the key to this kind of democratic participation. Out of 23 ships visited recently in ports along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 16 of the vessels did not have an elected ship's dele­ gate—and only four of those 16 ships had held regular meetings at sea. In an effort to improve this situation and to secure more active participation throu^ shipboard meetings, the membership has concurred in a headquarters recommendation to establish a Ship's Committee on every SlU-contracted vessel and to hold weeldy meetings while at sea. The five-man committee will consist of the bos'n acting as chair­ man, the chief steward serving as secretary, and delegates elected from the deck, engine and steward departments. The Ship's Committee is the vital link between SIU members at sea and the Union headquarters ashore. It is also the link be­ tween the crews of all other SlU-contracted ships throughout the world. By establishing the bos'n as permanent ship's chairman and the steward as secretary, and charging them with the responsibility of conducting weekly shipboard meetings at sea, there will be an assurance of maximum participation and exchange of ideas on matters affecting the Union, its policies and its programs. The bos'n will bring to the job of ship's chairman his experience as an SIU member, a seaman and a leader. The steward, with his long experience with the responsibilities of keeping records, will be best able to record shipboard meetings and maintain effective communication with Union headquarters. The department delegates, whose function is vital in the enforce­ ment of Ae contract, will play an important role in assuring the success of the program for shipboard Union activity. The Seafarer at sea—like his brother on the beach—wants to know more about the Union and its policies. He has a right to know what these policies are, and he has both a right and an obli­ gation to take part in formulating and carrying out those policies. The establishment of the Ship's Committee, and the requirement of regular weekly meetings, provides the opportunity and the forum to give every SIU member a voice in the affairs of his Union. SEAFARERS Page ndrteen LOG AMERICAN VICTORY—(l-r) Walter Czajkowsici, bos'n and ship chairman; Claude Hollings, steward del­ egate: Sven Larson, deck delegate; Gerard Bellenoit (standing), engine; William Underwood, secretary. MAYAGUEZ—(l-r) George McAlpine, retiring ship's delegate: Lucian Moore, sec­ retary; Jack Rhodes, bos'n, chairman; Fred Boyne, deck; Louis Hernandez, engine. "I\ '/ ASBURY VICTORY—(l-r in photo above) Rex O'Connor, secretary; Charles Carr, steward delegate: Harold Stevens, deck delegate; Edward Wallace, chairman; SIU Vice President Earl Shepard; Juan Reyes, engine delegate. The ship's committee represents the Union at sea. l| SEATRAIN NEW YORK—(clockwise in photo at right) A. Pedrosa, secretary; E. Pantosa, re­ tiring ship's delegate;.. Richard Williams, steward delegate; Pedro. Garcia, deck delegate; Joseph Palmer, engine department delegate, and A. T. Ruiz, bos'n who will be ship chairman. On Page One: SEATRAIN SAN JUAN—(standing l-r) Juan Vega, chairman; Julio Fieu^roa, steward delegate; (seated) Mike Salcedo, engine; Jose Pratt sacretary; Joseph Ebbole, deck. BBS? �Page Fonrteea SEAFARERS July, 1969 LOG See You Later! THE THUNDERING VOICE OF JOHN L. LEWIS, by David F. Selvin. (Lothrop, Lee & Shephard. 224 pages. $4.95.) John L. Lewis, who marked his 89th birthday on February 12, died quietly, on June 11, as he had lived in recent years, while time and events passed him by—this same man who so much dominated time and events for almost one-half a century. John L. Lewis, a huge, dramatic beetle-browed man, was a central figure in the labor movement and in the industry-labor revolution for some three decades. It was more than 70 years ago that he first joined the United Mine Workers. He guided the nation's coal miners for more than 40 years. During this period he led the dramatic split in orga­ nized labor in forming the CIO and becoming its first president. John L. Lewis had his devoted supporters and admirers and he had enemies both in and out of the labor movement. And even while he sat in his house in Arlington controversy raged about him. Lewis carved a niche for himself in the history books. He slugged it out with Presidents of the United States, toe to toe. His powerful roar and penetrating speech captured the imagina­ tion. The Mine Workers' leader's life is inseparable from labor history itself. To understand Lewis is to come closer to a better understanding of the modem American labor movement. The story of this unusual man is the subject of another in a series of labor biographies by David F. Selvin. It is designed for young people and it helps to create for today's youth some of the deeper meaning of labor's fight. Many of Lewis' words carry a meaningful bite today. Take the issue of occupational health and safety. In 1946 coal mining was at its peak. Miners, though, were increasing their eamings only by working longer hours. To achieve that peak production, Lewis declared "we killed in the coal mines outri^t an average of one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-one men a year. We crushed or injured in a year an average of sixty-six thousand, nine hundred and eigjityeight." "By the record," he charged the operators, "through misman­ agement, cupidity, stupidity and wanton neglect, made dead twenty-eight thousand mine workers . . . violently mangled, crushed and shattered the bodies of one million, four hundred thousand mine workers. . . ." "We demand abatement of this slaughter...." It was after this that the miners negotiated their historic health and welfare fund based upon royalty payments for coal. Lewis as a man, Lewis as a union leader, Lewis as a crusader makes fascinating reading. You may not agree with everything he stood for but he rarely made the error of being dull, and author Selvin captures all this. * * * BREADLESS BiAFRA by John R. Sullivan (Pflaum Press— $1.50) Tucked into a small part of Nigeria in the middle of a large continent, Biafra occasionally comes to our attention via the newspaper and television. We read of thousands starving and then all to often erase the thought from our minds with our morning ration of bacon and eggs. John R. Sullivan warns that we cannot afford "to stare too long into the vacant eyes of starving children unless we intend to feed them." He sees "a public lynching of the nations in­ volved" when "the scope of this international disaster" is known. Sullivan went to Biafra late in 1968 to obtain an impartial view of this lingering war. He found "the fruits of cold observa­ tion" to be not enough because Biafra has "a smell, a taste, a spirit all its own." Thousands have died of starvation and thousands more are expected to die—even if the war should end suddenly. The war promises to drag along, due in part to the pledge of the fierce Biafran Ibo tribe to continue fighting even if Biafra surrenders. Experienced relief workers estimate that when the impending staple food shortage "fully grips the country, the monthly death toll will equal the population of St. Louis, Missouri." Sullivan sees this as a form of genocide reminiscent of World War II. The effect of the war upon the rest of the world ranges from indifference to embarrassment to opportunity. Russia sees the opportunity to attempt to influence Black Africa. France sees a chance to gain control of rich Biafran oil fields and embarrass Britain at the same time. Whether Sullivan is sounding a vital warning or crying "Wolf" only time will tell. It doesn't take much time to read this little book of one hundred pages. Memories of the forty pages of photographs may linger a little longer and if Sullivan is right, the aftermath of the war coMd be with us for a long time to cmne. c I !, • i. •f f: y- I There is mounting evidence that Medicare and Medicaid, the two vital pro­ grams conceived to bring improved health care within the reach of all Americans, have become enveloped in increasingly widespread abuses which are milking the public funds more for the benefit of the medical profession than for the public. Instead of extending their life-saving art to the poor and the aged, too many doctors have treated the programs as a shameless means of getting rich quick in which outright fraud has become a way of life. Small wonder the cost of the programs now, runs $5 billion a year over previous estimates—^with no end in sight. Not only the physicians are guilty, either. Other providers of medical goods and services have also taken their turn at raping the program. Big-name drug companies have been indicted for price-fixing so as to maintain a higher profit level. Skyrocketing hospital charges have come about mainly through cost-plus contracts with Blue Cross, as well as through mismanagement. Apparently, the greedy thirst for wealth has become an unquenchable sub­ stitute for medical profession's traditional devotion to healing the sick. The Senate Finance Committee has uncovered some shocking examples of abuse. One general practitioner, for instance, billed Medicare $58,000 in 1968 for house calls to 49 patients. This works out to a visit every third day to each patient—^plus one every other Sunday. "Who says you can't get a doctor to make a house call anymore?" the committee chairman remarked in disgust. In a move that would push costs still higher for millions, the doctor-domi­ nated Blue Cross recently applied for a whopping 49.5 percent premium in­ crease in New York State. Opposing this, the state AFL-CIO demanded in­ stead "far-reaching changes in policies and operating methods aimed at bringing health care costs under control." Similar rate hikes sought by Blue Cross in other states have also been opposed by organized labor. It becomes increasingly clear that the administration of medical programs must be divorced from the deeply entrenched medical profession which has been caught with its hands in the till. Stringent controls must be developed to curb outlandish fees and charges. Equally necessary is the extension of group medical practice and an end to the artificially maintained doctor shortage by the establishment of more training facilities which are not controlled by the medica^urea^^ r| -'vl ^i ' 'i �; M I SEAFARERS^OG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO U r. U' -tj POLITICS ir : i» •*. PORKCHOPS! Labor in politics? That's hardly news. For years, the American trade union movement has exercised its right to participate in the political process of this country. It makes sense, too. For generations, organized labor has known that the gains you make at the bargaining table can he taken away in State legislatures or in the Congress. And so the labor movement has been active in politics ... hacking candi­ dates who would vote for hills that would help working people . . . fighting candidates who were against the working man. **Reward your friends and punish your enemies." That's labor's view on politics. Samuel Gompers said it—63 years ago—^and it still holds true. Seafarers in politics? That's hardly news, either. If we hadn't gotten into politics—hack around the turn of the century— there would have been no Soman's Act, and sailors might still he the '^slaves" that they were for half a century after Lincoln had freed the black man. It was maritime labor that fought to win passage of the Cargo Preference program—so that American ships would get at least some of the government cargo and so that American sailors would still have employment. It was maritime labor that fought so hard for a share of the wheat that this country was shipping to Russia that the White House finally agreed to set up the Maritime Advisory Committee—a hlue-rihhon body which recom­ mended major improvements in the government's maritime program. It's maritime labor that is fighting today to preserve the right of Ameri­ can ships to share in the carriage of government cargo .. . that is fighting for a maritime program that will mean more Jobs for American seamen . . . that is fighting against the efforts of the runaway-flag operators and the fore^flag operators—the ones who would like to drive the U.S. flag from the high seas. When you get into a scrap like this, you're hound to make enemies. They're the ones who would like to sink the merchant marine. But you make friends, too. Those are the people who want to see a strong merchant marine—a fleet with more ships flying the U.S. flag ... a fleet employing more U.S. seafarers. If you go into politics, you want to win. And you don't win elections by accident. It takes hard work . . . orga­ nization ... manpower ... and, most of all, money. That's where the Seafarers' Political Activities Donations (SPAD) comes into the picture. Voluntary contributions from SIU members are put to work for fliose candidates dedicated to a strong merchant marine. And they're put to work against those candidates who would short-change America's economy and defense by short-changing the merchant marine. Like all labor political operations, SPAD operates on the basis of com­ plete public disclosure of every dime and dollar collected and spent. SPAD reports regularly to the U.S. Department of Labor, and to the cleric of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Corporations, wealthy individuals and management front groups can use dozens of dodges to hide their political spending ... the SIU and SPAD operate in full view of the members and the public. And that's as it should he. Seafarers in politics? You bet we are—and proud of it, too. As far as we're concerned, politics is porkchops! -i �Page Sixteen SEAFARERS LOG July, 1969 j Who Does The Wall Street * ,\ The Waii Street Journal for the past two /ears has been engaged in a continuing attack on the SlU for its political activity. The two articles reprinted below illustrate the tone and tactics of the Joumal^s attempti to distort the Union's role in the political arena. These articles attempt to convince the reader that the Wall Street Journal is the champion of the American seaman—and that the Journals only concern is to protect the seaman from his Union. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 29, 1967 ful Eubgovemments," Paul Hall at least packs Maritime Muscle sufficient punch to hold the line for now against unwelcome maritime-policy shifts, such as a cut in the present multimillion-dollar subsidies. Seafarers Union Builds Tickets to Dinners In pursuit of Its legislative goals, the union Fund Aimed at Winning donates heavily to national political commit­ tees in Washington; prints campaign literature for friendly politicians in a union-owned shop; Friends in Congress buys tickets to testimonial dinners for various purposes. "If we were touchy about our spend­ ing, we wouldn't report it all," he says. Indeed, the SIU seems eager to display its political muscle by reporting even those contributions not required by the Federal Corrupt Practices Act—to local- candidates, for example. (The rival National Maritime Union doesn't trouble to file the required Federal reports under the corrupt practices law, nor has the Justice De­ partment taken stieps.to make the NMU identi­ fy recipients of $40,850 that the union itself office-holders, and finances an annual Congres sional sightseeing junket to New York City says it spent for political purposes in the year (this year's trip cost $4,201.70). Recently the ended June 30, 1967.) Despite the SIU's care in conforming vdth union hired a public relations firm at $2,000 a the Federal disclosure law, its reports seem month. But the SIU advances it aims, most of all, somewhat puzzling. For one example, the by heavy campaign contributions to the rela­ union swears it contributed $1,000 last year to tively 'few national lawmakers who take an in­ the campaign of Republican Rep. John Bymss terest in maritime matters—particularly those of Wisconsin. Yet none of three Byrnes cam­ who disagree with Transportation Secretary paign committees reporting gifts to Wisconsin Alan Boyd's belief that "you don't revitalize an authorities oa required by state law lists re­ industry by flooding it with Federal dollars and ceipts from the SIU; a Byrnes spokesman says the Congressman didn't handle the campaign imprisoning it within a wall of protection." By JERRY LANDAUEB funds himself and so can't account for any Largely to thwart that notion, the Seafarers SinW Jttpnrler of THE WALL STIIKET JOOBNAL discrepancy. Mr. Hall promises to find out NEW YORK-Big, florid Paul Hall, who spent $375,000 in the 1966 elecUms. At least what happened to the money. $17,000 helped chairman Edward Garmatz of works in a black polo shirt at his Seafarers In temational Union headquarters in Brooklyn, is the House Merchant Marine Committee scrape Disclaimer From Mir. Ford The union also reported contributing $4,000 busily building one of the fastest-growing po through a difficult Democratic primary In Bal­ litical war chests in the land. From it he is dol­ timore; no other lawmaker got that much from to reelect House GOP Leader Gerald Ford of ing out goodies to politicians in a way that any single source, according to records filed Michigan, saying it gave $2,000 to the Kent makes him a major power in shaping the na­ with Congress. House Democratic Wl^p Hale County, Mich., Republican Committee and $2,Boggs of Louisiana received $7,000 from the 000 to the Ford for Congress Committee. The tion's maritime legislation. Seafarers. Democrat E. L. Bartlett of Alaska, Kent Coimty group agrees that it got $2,000, but Mr. Hall is president of the SIU, a relatively chairman of the Senate merchant marine sub­ small union claiming just 80,000 members, committee, got $4,000. And Democratic Sen. no donation from the SIU appears on the report mostly common- seamen. Yet these men are Warren Magnuson of Washington, chairman of filed in Lansing by Mr. Ford, who acted as his campaign treasurer. "If the Seafarers say contributing more to their luiion for political the parent Commerce Committee, can surely own they gave $2,000 to the Ford for Congress purposes than the 1.4 million members give to count on as much help as Rep. Garmatz got if Committee, their report must be in error," Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers, biggest he'.s pressed for reelection in 1968. Rep. Ford asserts. "They did iK)t make a union in the AFLrdO. The SIU insists that all Demonstrating Union Power contribution directly to me." The imion also contributions are entirely voluntary, as Fedferis rechecking its records to try to find out Mr. Garmatz' victory (early polls suggested al law requires. But union dissidents say the what went wrong. occasional presence of what they term "goon he might lose) was a particularly vivid display In his office here, Mr. Hall scoffs at charges squads" at collection time emphasizes Mr. of union dollar power. In addition to the SIU's Hall's desire to build up the union's political generous gifts, Garmatz campaign committees by John Cole, a union rebel, that SIU agents collected $14,500 from a maritime reception extract political funds from union members funds. heavily attended by labor and industry repre­ through "high-pressure shakedowns by muscu­ However it's obtained, the money docs roll sentatives; $2,500 from the Marine Engineers lar squads of collectors." In any case, Mr. Hall in. As of Sept. 1, the combined bank balance of Beneficial Association; $2,450 from the Na- says, the importance of money in politics is the Seafarers Political Activity Donation icnal Maritime Union; $2,000 from the Interna­ exaggerated; manpower is more impor­ Committee and the Seafarers Committee on tional Otganization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, vastly tant, he suggests. Political Education totaled $432,249. Monthly and lesser sums from three other unions. A "If there were 100 guys down there," he recollections are averaging •JtS.OOO. At this rate, special Maritime Committee for Garmatz, to mtu-ks, pointing to the union hiring hall, "I'd labor leader Hall may control close to $1 mil­ which the SIU alone contributed $5,000, also bet 50 would volimteer to punch doorbells or lion for disbursement to cooperative office-hold worked in the Congressman's behalf. drive sound-trucks for our friends." ers and office-seekers in election-year 1968. "1 Indeed, the SIU sends campaign contribu­ don't know if we'll get that much, but we'll tions to candidates who haven't troubled to But the union leader agrees that cash can try," Mr, Hall says. ask. Republican Jack Edwards of Alabama, a count. Probably more than any other union, the Seeldng a New Subsidy member 6f the House Merchant Marine Com­ SIU supplements Cmigressional salaries by pay­ Whether he achieves that informal goal mittee, promptly returned a $4,000 SIU check ing honorarium.s to lawmakers for attending doesn't much matter: the SIU's kitty already last year. "I was astonished," Mr. Edwards legislative breakfasts, seminars and pep-rallies represents a formidable political force. Work­ says. "1 wouldn't take that much from any­ sponsored in Washington by the union or by the ing with allied unions, shipbuilders and certain body." Rep. Thomas Downing of Virginia, who AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department (MTD), shipowners, Mr. Hall will deploy it next year to also serves on the House Merchant Marine of which Mr. Hall is president. Fees for an help grease the ways on Capitol Hill for a big Ck)mmlttee, received $1,00 even though he hour's work, which may include a short talk new maritime subsidy package; the plan could wasn't ODDOsed either in the DemonratiA J«l- telling the assembled unionists what they like require spending $2 billion over the next five mary or the general election; six other legisla­ to hear, range from $250 to $500. The SIU gladly pays such fees (nearly 40 years tq rebuild the moribund U.S.-flag mer­ tors who weren't opposed for reelection got this year) from Its political fund because, as chant fleet. This push will get under way when $250 or $500 each. Mr. Hall bluntly puts It, "there's nothing like Congress reconvenes next month. On occasion, the SIU actually seeks out an honorarium to make a guy show up." For . For Mr. Hall, whose union post pays $40,000 (k>i]grft.^men who need money. Democrat their part, the honorarium-collectors become a year, more U.S. merchant ships would mean FraaktThompson of New Jersey, a member of acquainted with Mr. Hall's views. "The hard­ more SIU members, each paying annual dues the Hhuse Labor Committee, was fretting est salesmen for an American merchant ma­ of $120. New recruits also pay initiation fees of about an unpaid $2,200 campaign printing bill rine on Capitol Ifill. . . have been those people $300. And strange though it may seem, the SIU when he bumped into a Seafarers lobbyist not educated the MTD-SIU-Hall way," says one requires new men to pay all special asses-s- long ago. "As near as I can recall, I was talk­ specialist in maritime matters. ments levied for various nonpolitical union pur­ ing to Paul Hall or one of Ms men who asked poses since 1940—before some of the members whether I needed assistance," Mr. Thompson Mr. Boyd Backs Down As if to underscore the point, lawmakers were bom. relates, f/tflkng how the bill came to be paid. who often accept SIU honorariums scuttled two The accumulation of close to 40 such assess­ The Sdnucrs have never asked me to do any­ key planks In Secretary Boyd's merchant ma­ ments brings the price of SIU membership to thing I ONVt think was right," he adds. "I'm rine rebuilding program (plain-spoken Paul almost $800. "It's like joining a country club," glad they're my friends." Hall says the original Boyd ideas "stink") dur­ one young seaman remarks. Another member All told, the Seafarers ladled money into 150 ing hard behind-the-scenes bargaining this displays a long white sheet showing the "total Congressional races last year, either to "re­ year. One would have permitted U.S. shipown­ of all mcmies due" to his union. He still owes ward friends or punish our enemies," In Mr. ers to build some vessels in lower-cost foreign .i729, not Including donations to Ifo. Hall's polit­ Hall's phrase. SIU money also flowed into a yards, a proposition once considered "unnegotiical funds. dozen states to help elect governors, mayors, able" by Mr. Boyd. Now the Secretary Considering the Federal Government's budg­ state legislators, judges or prosecutors; in New reluctantly accepts the subsidy package being et squeeze, prospects for bigger shipbuilding York State alone, the union spent $45,000 in pushed by the maritime lobby even tiiough it subsidies seem dim right now. But as a key op- 1966 and 1967 to help elect friendly local can­ would prohibit building abroad. erStor in the maritime lobby, which former didates. The maritime-minded legislators also forced U.S. Maritime Administrator Nicholas Johnson Mr. Hall tells a visitor that his union care­ Mr. Boyd to drop an effort to transfer the subsi­ describes as "one of Washington's most power- fully records every penny spent for political dy-dispensing Maritime Administration from Bigger Shipbuilding Subsidies Sought; One Congressman Got $17,000 for 1966 Race $800 for an SIU Membership THE WALL SIWT JODMAL January 3, 1969 Feeding the Kitty Union s Political Fund Is Swelled by Donations From Far East Seamen Seafarers Use Money to Aid Democrats^ but the Donors Don't Know Who Gets It Some Give $500 at a Crack By JERRY LANDAUER R/nIT Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOVRNAL WASHINGTON—The most ardent opponents of Richard Nixon's incoming Administration » apparently are some Japanese and Filipino V merciiant seamen who have never even voted in an American election. That, at any rate, is the case if dollar dona­ tions to election campaigns are a reliable guide to political convictions. For, month after month, these sailors have been contributing as much as a third of their wages to American po­ litical candidates, mostly Democrats. The sail­ ors, hundreds and perhaps thousands of them, have given as much as $500 each after a sing[le sea voyage. . ^ But the contributions—many ot which vio­ late Federal law by going unreported—aren't simple, direct gifts to candidates tlut the for­ eign seamen happen to admjre. *1710 sailors don'T v.hnm they are contributing, and the recipients don't know the source of their windfalls. O.stensibly, the money comes in the form of voluntary donations, as the law requires, from members of the Seafarers International Union, the Commerce Department to his own Trans­ portation Department. A blizzard of SIU tele­ grams, which cost the union $3,419.14, smoth­ ered the plan In House-floor voting: "The Seafarers beat the bill damn near single-hand­ ed," says Ralph E. Casey, pre.sident of the American Merchant Marine Institute, an indus­ try group. Chairman Garmatz and his col­ leagues then pushed through the House a bill conferring independent status on the Maritime Administration; the Senate has not yet acted. Mr. Hsdl's brand of political activism is win­ ning praise in certain circles as the very model of labor statesmanship. "Paul Hall has used his Influence wisely and skillfully on behalf of the overall good of the maritime industry," says admiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Brewster of Maryland. Mr, Hall's prestige within the AFL-CIO seems to be climbing at the expense of arch-foe Joseph Curran, NMU president. And there's continuing speculation that the Seafarers' chief may some day succeed AFLCIO president George Meany. Maritime men find part of the explanatior for the SIU's lavish spending in this presumed ambition to succeed Mr. Meany. Mr. Hall "dis claims the ambition but agrees that his union spends substantial sums promoting the po litical Interests of other unions. "Often a contribution reflects requests from othei unions," he say^r "Where we can we like to do that," he adds, explaining that it's the duty of powerful unions to protect the weak. �Julr. 1969 • X/ A SEAFARERS LOG Page Seventeen Journal Really Bleed Fer? When you read the Wall Street Journal's editorials, you discover where that newspaper's sympathies really lie. The editorials below show quite clearly that the Journal: • Supports runaway-flag shipping. • Opposes the free exercise of unions' rights. The Wall Street Journal, in short, supports those positions which the SlU, through its political activities, has been fighting against. No wonder the Journal is upset by the SiU's vigorous political efforts. Generally, the foreign sailors who contrib­ an American maritime union affiliated with the AlXrCIO. In reality, though much of the union's ute .so generously come aboard the American • contributions represent payments accept­ ships as replacements for American union ed—or exacted—from alien seamen who work members at Subic Bay in the Piiilippincs. n. on higli-paying U.S.-flag ships bound for Viet­ stopping-off point for Vietnam-bound ships, and nam. Most of these seamen are not even mem­ at Yokohama in Japan, terminus of a shuttle bers of the union, which distributes the collect- service to Vietnam. The foreign seamen are needed because ' ed cash to favored political candidates. many of the original American crewmen get The Secret, Circular Route All told, several hundred thousand dollars sick, yearn for home or jump ship for pleasure spots after months of strenuous, high-paying have traveled this secret, circular route: duty sailing in the Far East. From the U.S. Treasury to operators of The unions, which handle hiring, have no •hips owned by the Government or chartered difficulty signing up the foreigners. Wages are by the Pentagon's Military Sea Trani^rtation • Service; from the operators to foreign seamen high, with seamen on Vietnam-bound ships get­ in the form of premium wages; from the sea­ ting $700 a month against $500 fca- other duty. men to the union, and from the union to elected With overtime and other extra pay, a foreign officeholders—some of whom try to tap the .sailor can draw as much as $1,000 a month Treasury for more dollars in the form of marl- working on a U.S. ship. "You can't imagine time subsidies that tend to strengthen the how eager those fellows are to sign on," .say.s one Naval officer. union. F'requently, however, the foreign .sailors Officials of the union won't comment on al. legations that the union takes political contri­ don't get to keep all they earn. Often, they butions from the foreign seamen. "We file all must pay so-called service fce.s to union agents the necessary information in Washington, and who control hiring, and if the agent is a Seafar­ that's all the information we give out," says a er, he remits all or part of these fec.s to Brook­ • spoke.sman at the union's Brooklyn headquar­ lyn, where the money goe.s into a special fund ters. But records the union files with the clerk for political actl ity. The fund is maintained by of the House of Representatives do not name one district of the Seafarers, the Atlantic, Gulf, individual contributors of over $100, as re- Lakes and Inl.and Wiitcr.s Distiict. Tlie fund is by far the lushe.st electioneering • quired by law. kitty nsrintained by any American union. Not In the most recent election, the union backed some winners and some losers. It put all the money in the fund comes from forcignup at least $185,000 for President Johnson, who cr.s. of course, but it is the alicn.s' payments "withdrew, and Vice President Humphrey, who that help explain how one union district, with lost. It contributed $20,000 to a voter-registra- just 12,800 men at sea, manages to raise more , ' tion drive to help Daniel Brewster, Democratic money for Federal candidates than the giant Senator from Maryland, and it gave another Steelworkcrs, Auto Workers or Teamsters unions. ' $7,000 to his campaign, but the Senator lost. If the American members were the only ' Backing Some Winners contributors to the district's fund, the average However, it contributed $15,000 to Washing­ gift from the 12,800 men would have to top $35 ton state's Warren Magnuson, chairman of the to yield Uie $in7..3,38 collected through Nov, 10 .Senate Commerce Committee; it had offered this year. In contrast, the average Stcelworkeihim even more. It gave $10,000 to Brooklyn's or Auto Worker gives $1 a year, at moot, lor Emmanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judi- union political activity. But the Seafarers ' ciary Committee. It gave $7,800 in cash and Union scc.s nothing extraordinary in its mem­ - kind (the union prints campaign literature for bers' munificence. . some politicians at its own plant) to New York "For years our members have voluntarily Congressman Jacob Gilbert who was recently l onti ihutcd to our politxal activity funds and ' assigned to the House Merchant Marine Com­ have thus expressed their right to participate mittee. And it contributed at least $9,000 to Ed­ in Ihe American pnlit'cai process." say.s a ward Garmatz of Maryland, chairman of that statement is.sued from the union's headquar­ House committee. These men, all Democrats, ters in Brooklyn. all won. "Our poi't:cal contributions to various eanWith friends sprinkled through Congress, didaie.s for pubbc office are made openly. They the union seems well protected on Capitol Hill, are made legally. They arc reported publicly. , no matter who rules in the White House. In­ •Any .suggestion that the e.xercise of this right is deed, observers say that the Seafarers, togeth- linked to any other situation or circumstance is - er with other maritime unions and associations completely without justification." of ship owners and shipbuilders, probably are rerhaps, as the union sugge.sts, .iailora arc strong enough to strangle any Nixon Adminis­ more interested in politics than land-based tration attempts to make the U.S. merchant wage earners are. But it seems significant that marine less dependent on subsidies. only the Seafarers district headed by Interna­ These observers say there is no reason to tional Union President Paul Hall operates a po­ believe the shipping interests will fare worse in litical .action arm of any size. None of the par­ ' the 91st Congress than they have in the past. ent union's 32 other affiliates has reported any . The 90th Congress, which was known for being political activity to Federal authorities. economy-minded, didn't tamper with the John­ At any rate, the union's statement that its son Administration's suggested appropriations contributions arc legal is at least partly right. , of $119.8 million for ship-construction subsidies In fact, in at least one respect the Seafarers and .$206 million for ship operating subsidies in exceed legal requirements to disclose political the fi.s(:ai year that started last July 1. income and disbursements. The loosely en­ ' In fact, the maritime bloc nearly succeeded forced Federal Corrupt Practices Act requires ^ in persuading Congress to boost construction public accounting of donations to candidates ' .sub.sidies. And it helped persuade Congre.ss to for oj'ly these posts: President, Senator and reject Johnson Administration pi-oposals to Representative. But the union, going beyond stop subsidizing the operations of passenger the law. this year reported $20,000 in spcakmg ' liners and to build some subsidized ships in fees paid to Congressmen and $313,000 in cam­ cheaper, foreign yards. paign contributions to candidates for state and local offices. . Helping ISO Congressmen At the same time, however, the union fails One major element in the maritime lobby's extraordinary strength is the secret payments to comply with another—and more significant • from - the alien seamen. Lacking these pay­ —legal requirement. It neglects to identify by ments, the Seafarers Union couldn't keep dol- name and address every individual whose con­ ing out sizable campaign gifts to as many as tribution to the political fund exceeds $100. Tills is a requirement the union could meet 150 Congressmen, from ship-conscious Maine to landlocked Utah. Nor could the union so easily only at tlie risk of exposing the undercover , have raised the $100,000 given to the Demo­ payments flowing in from Asia. If the donors' crats last summer, a contribution that, perhaps names were listed, of course, all would be le­ coincidcntaily, followed the State Department's gal. But a listing of hundreds of Asian contriburefusal to honor Canada's request for extradi­ !:ors to American political campaigns might tion of former Canadian ^eafar^-g^.boss Hal prompt investigAtiflOB.into whether the contri­ butions were voluntary. . Banks on a charge of perjury. THE WALL STBEET JOURNAL. December 24, 1968 Tilio t'lirox iiFJci llio IMseaw MIK II. of the rlanpror of the longlunning balance-of-paymcnts deficit .stems from the "solutions" it invites, such as Government controls on for­ eign investments and imports. The curbs on U.S. business invest­ ment abroad already are impairing the competitiveness of American firms. Import quotas, besides being costly to U.S. consumers, encourage foreign re­ taliation and consequoni. damage to American exports. Another "cure" that could be quite damaging is now b<^ing urged by mari­ time interests and their supporters. Their contention is that the payment.'^' deficit can be cut, if nol eliminated, by a new program of Federal aid to the nation's ailing merchant marine. In a speech the other day, for exam­ ple, Rep. James J. Howard said he will introduce a bill in Congress next year to require that all foreign-aid cargoes travel in U.S.-flag vessels, which usu­ ally charge higher rates than foreign ship.s, whenever American vessels are available. At present the requirement is that IJOCC of the aid cargoes must be shipped in U.S. ships. One trouble with the New Jer.«!ny Den-ocr;it's proposal—it .amounf.s to an increased Fcdei'al subsidy— is that Government officials say they cannot now find enough U.S. ships even to meet the present rule. Another dif­ ficulty is that Mr. Howard's proposal, along with other anti-foreign ship changes he suggests, would almost surely spur other countries to new dis­ crimination against U.S. shipping. The major problem of American shiIdling is not inadequate Federal aid but its own excessive costs. These costs arc inflated in part by the wage deinani!s, and frequent strikes, of power!ul. Government-encouraged labor iinioi!.'. Th'> unions, moreover, insist on ret.-jntiou of outdated work practices and inanni-'g standards that largely thwart any efforts to increase the merchant marine's efficiency. Letting more car­ goes go to American ships would at best only make it possible for U.S. shipping to continue somewhat longer along the same dismal course. It's true that additional cargoes for U.S. ships might bring some shortterm gains in the balance of payments. But if those gains must be purchased .ut the price of perpetuating an ineffi­ cient, noncompetitive merchant mar­ ine. it seems to us that sort of "cure" is no improvement over the disease. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL May 23, 1969 Stealing Jobs In a recent issue of Maritime, pub­ lished by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Rep. Jacob Gil­ bert was raising again the issue of "runaway" ships. "There is," said the New York Democrat, "no excuse for the moral and ethical perversity 'that impels a shipping company to reedster its vessels in another cotmtry, thus de­ priving American seafarers of jobs and paychecks that should belong to them." Well, we don't know enough ship­ ping magnates to testify as to their morals or ethics, but we do know some compelling reasons that lead many of them to register ships in coimtries such as Panama and Liberia. Promi­ nent among them are the U.S. unions' high and constantly rising wage rates, their make-work practices and reastance to innovation, their incessant strikes. Rep. Gilbert implies that if the "runaways" •were somehow forced back into U.S. registry there would be thousands more jobs for American sea­ men. The answer to that assumption is •that a number of ^pping companies are indeed operating under U.S. re^pstry, and, even •with Federal subsidies, are finding the going exceedingly hard. If the so-called runaways could not operate abroad, in other words, some of them probably would not operate at all. And that surely raises the question of just who, exactly, is stealing Ameri­ can seamen's jobs. The Wall Street Journal's attacks on American seamen make it clear that we're up against some powerful opposition. After all, the Journal is more than just a newspaper—it's the voice of big business interests who want to break unions, take away seamen's rights, and destroy seamen's jobs. There's only one way to deal with this kind of on enemy of American seament By continuing to make those contributions to the Seafarers' Political Activities Donations ... so that SPAD can continue to fight the seamen's battles wherever they have to be fought! �Page Eighteen July, 196^ SEAFARERS LOG \ You Be The Judge! Poblication of ^ kind of letter printed bdow Is not a normal procedure fmr the Seafarers Log. liVhile the Log welcomes expressions of opinion from the mem­ bers) it does not cuttomarily reprint letters ttiat deal in personalities. The Seafarers Log is making an excep­ tion in diis case because of the feet that Broths- Lipari*s letter has been widely circufeted throughout fee Union, and is the subject of a letter submitted to the Log by anottier Brottier. That being ttie case, it is appropriate ttiat the full tmrt be r^rodnced h«re jnst as Brother Lipari has presented it As a Seafarers' International Union member, I ask a few sim­ ple questions. After reading various papers and magazines, I am wondering what it takes to wake up Con­ gress, the Senate, Labor Dept. and Justice Dept. The SIU with about 8500 members declare donating $1,000,000 for political purposes. How did they get the money? The SIU, about 8500 members and 6,000 jobs as a massive training program, equal only by the U.S. Maritime Commis­ sion during World War II at a time that the U.S. Maritime Commission was building one ship a day, there is not much training going on except for carrying picket, driving sound car and marching in demonstra­ tion. What it costs to go through that course, the man after mak­ ing a trip or two may be able to tell the article in the Wall Street Journal January 3rd, 1969, "Feeding the Kitty," ex­ plain to some extent. What justified the difference in pay between a man that must sail the ship for $89.00 a week of 56 hours and one that relieves him while the ship is in port at $160 a week for the same job at 40 hours. Yet he' goes home at night to the wife and kids. The men that hold these jobs are chosen by the big shot of the union. To keep these jobs, they must attend all the union meetings, irritate any rank and file member that takes the floor and steam roll the big shot pol­ icy. John Bucci is relieving gang boss, watch dog and muscle man for the big shot. At all un­ ion meetings he is the cheer leader and gives the cue to his boy to start irritating or steam roll the policy of the big shot, He is there to see that his boys pay for their jobs or else they would find themselves back at the ship at sea. At most union meetings, these men outnumber the professional seamen and most of them have not been to sea for years. Calucci, what is his standing, where did he get his union book? How much sea time does he have as an unlicensed personnel on an SIU ship? What's his job now? What gives him the priv­ ilege to hold the floor for 25 minutes at a union meeting when a member with 25 years senior­ ity was denied the floor? Why does a man on physical or old age retirement receive $40 a month more in the form of a meal book when he lives in the vicinity of an SIU union hall, than the one who does not live there? These men are encouraged to be around the union hall in case of a special meeting to help the big shot of the union steam roll the policy; in return they re­ ceived small favors on special committee. Phillip Carlip bagman for Paul Hdl at $20,000 salary and $20,000 expense. It is ridiculous to think that this man has a bigger salary and expense than the president of the union. This man is not a union member. He does not appear on ballot. He knows nothing about sHip or the condition. He has never been to sea and don't give a damn about the seaman. There is a rumor that the generosity without dis­ crimination of the SIU in Brook­ lyn put them a class with angels. Anyone knows that angels do no wrong. At a time when elections are held by honest ballot committee under Federal supervision, the SIU print their own ballots, have their election run by men on their payroll for years. For each day a member is em­ ployed, there is a contribution by the employer of $11.04 that goes into various funds, of that we receive $2.73 and a fraction. Where is the rest going? There is big talk going around that Paul Hall put the SIU on the blocks to achieve his goal that of being called Mr. Labor. How big is our payroll and how much personnel do we need to run a union with about 8500 members and 6,000 jobs? Every­ thing that the member learns about SIU action and policy, he gets by reading the news­ paper and magazines. When we ask questions we are ridiculed or given a stall. S.I.U. members pay $52.00 a year more dues and assessments than the National Maritime Un­ ion. At a union meeting as a member with more than 25 years seniority, I ask that we go into negotiations to get priority with the NMU parity pay and pension This simple demand irritated union officials to the extent that I was threatened bodily harm •at, union officials who have beerliving off our backs for 25 years and never appear on the ballot. Fifty percent of officials 20 years in office and 20% not on bal­ lot, 75% had not spent time on ships for the last 15 years or more. There is a rumor going around the union hall and vicin­ ity that the word was out for a dumping. I am wondering if the condition tliat appears at the trial of Harold C. Bank in Can­ ada exists here in Brooklyn. I am wondering if by making these simple demands I have put my livelihood and the bread and butter of my wife and five small children in danger. Finally, I ask who runs the S.I.U., a Hitler, Castro, Musso­ lini or what? How long before he must render account? Again I demand an investiga­ tion of all aspects, of this union. I am ready, willing, and able to appear before any tribunal to ANTONIO LIPARI Hie circalar letter, and some of the cifcmiislanoes dis­ cussed in it, has prompted the following re^y from an­ other SIUNA member—^William Funk—which Is abo being r^roduced in its original form in the interests of feir playj anri to assist members ot die Union in making np their own minds <m the matters nndn discussion. To the Editor: Recently, on the floor of the hiring hall in New York, I was given copies of literature by Anthony Lipari, who was in the company of Sid Rothman, who was on our last union ballot run­ ning for president. What both of these men had to say I think should be told to the entire membership for very important reasons. First of all, they downgraded the union, its policies and a great number of its members in every possible way. They rapped individual SIU members by name who are oldtime SIU guys and who are good union men. On top of all this, these guys passed out the business cards of a lawyer, who they suggested the men visit for discussions on union mattere. They said they had advising them a lawyer with whom they were very close who had been advising them for more than a year and that his name is Ben­ jamin B. Sterling. Sterling is known as a seamen's personal injury lawyer, who is always looking for business. Sterling's game is always to make a connection so he can lock up the business he's in­ terested in. If he can't, as was the case when the SIU told him to get lost, he makes fixes with various types of prostitutes— members and non-members—^to destroy the union and the union members and representatives who stand in his way. I am enclosing a number of clippings from the daily news­ papers which pretty well de­ scribe Sterling. The newspaper articles repeat, in his own words, how Sterling works, how he handles tens of thousands of dollars which finally are used to pay off these prostitutes to as­ sassinate characters and confuse the members. I was shipping out of New York during the period these articles refer to. I can remember it like it was yesterday, when a- Reprinted briow Is one of the newspaper cll^ pings submitted by Brotbor Funk. This one is from the New York Daily Mirror of October 17,1956. couple of other people were talking along the same lines and passing out the same kind of phony literature then as Lipari and Rothman are now. It seems to me that the Union should do something about this because many of our members today do not know the charac­ ter of these two guys' advisor, Benjamin B. Sterling. It is the same old game that Sterling played before. Sterling and the people he worked with back in those days were out to break the SIU and harm its membership. That is exactly what he is continuing to do to­ day. I think the brothers should understand what it's all about. I hope you will print this letter and the clippings which I have enclosed on the activities of Ben Sterling and the group he worked with at that time. Some of the things Lipari and Rothman were saying and pass­ ing out in the handbills about union representatives and mem­ bers who had fought hard for this union were pretty raw. Lipari and Rothman told me and others that Sterling had ad­ vised them they could say what­ ever they wanted to and that if any trouble started it could be a good thing for them. These two men also brag they are meeting with people from other groups who have for years been trying to destroy the SIU. They said these people have some good connections. I am enclosing a copy of one piece of literature that Lipari had been putting out, I don't know whether Sterling has ad­ vised them to send it to the SEAFARERS LOG or not, but due to the fact that they are so busy talking these things up to our membership I think that it should be run in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG and the whole matter be replied to so our members who are being contacted should know the full score in this case. FUNK Dehvered 27G To Defeat Hall, Says Attorney By CLAIRE CURRAN and WILFRED ALEXANDER Labor attorney Benjamin Sterling testified Tuesday that he acted as "errand boy" and delivered a $27,000 campaign fund to Ray White, a Seafarers' International Union official, to defeat the union's secretary, Paul Hall, but he denied knowl­ edge of any scheme to murder Hall. He was driven to the rendez­ vous, Sterling said, by Capt. William V. Bradley, head of the racket-ridden International Longshoremen's Assn., who is scheduled to testify today (Wednesday). STERLING, counsel to sev­ eral seamen's and waterfront un­ ions, was a prosecution witness at White's trial in Hackensack, N.J., on charges of plotting the ambushing of Hall at latter's home in Montvale, N.J., on Dec. 23, 1954. The slaying was foiled when police were tipped off. Sterling said the $27,000 was put up by Ihe Marine En­ gineers Beneficial A^., for whom he was attorney, and that he delivered it to White, who at the time was port agent In Tampa, Fla., hut was running bis campaign frmn a New York hotel. Sterling denied knowing whether any of the $27,000 went to James E. Cobb, 35, con­ fessed murder-for-hire convict who is serving time in New Jer­ sey State Prison for his role in the alortive plot on Hall's life, m * * COBB, WHO testified just be­ fore Sterling, described how he ran into "carloads" of police when he drove up to Hall's home in Montvale, N.J., to am­ bush him. He said he had been promised $15,000 for the mur­ der by White, and had received a $4,000 advance payment from the defendant. Charles Fromhurst, former Bergen County Investigator who was In the party which seized Cobb, said he later searched the home of Edward (One Eye) Taffe, 66, of West Milford, NJ., and found $2,000 that Cobb told him was a "payment" to Taffe for providing Cobb with a hide­ out. Taffe, called to the stand, ad­ mitted he knew Cobb and that Cobb had come to his home Dec. 14, nine days before the attempted assassination, but he insisted he ordered Cobb out when he saw him carry a shot­ gun in from his car. Taffe was still testifying when court ad­ journed for the day. �Jnlr, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Nineteen LOG Five More Seafarers Win Licenses; Engineer Upgraders Now Total334 Five more Seafarers have passed Coast Guard examina­ tions and were awarded their engineers licenses after complet­ ing a comprehensive training course at die School of Marine Engineering, sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. This latest listing of success­ ful candidates brings to 334 the total number of men who have passed their license examina­ tions after completing the course of study offered by the school. Included in this listing is Robert McKay who became the youngest man in the history of the U.S. merchant marine to hold a license when he received his third assistant engineer's li­ cense June 20 on his 19th birth­ day. (See story on page three.) Douglas Gregory, who last shipped as oiler on the Seatrain Puerto Rico, entered the School of Marine Engineering in Jan­ uary and received his third as­ sistant engineer license in June. Gregory, who was born and raised in Washington, D. C., first went to sea in 1965 as a wiper on the Fairport after completing training at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in San Francisco. In 1966, he attended the HLSS upgrading school and received a O.M.E.D. endorse­ ment as fireman, oiler, and watertender. He last sailed as oiler on the Beauregard before enter­ ing engineer training in New York. Jim Dixon, a native of Eng­ land and former member of the British Seaman's Union, was awarded a second assistant en­ gineer's license after completing training at the SIU-MEBA Dis­ trict 2 engineering school. Dixon presently lives in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with his wife, Joan. He last shipped as third engineer on the Rice Victory. Frank Foster also received his second assistant engineer's li­ cense last month after complet­ ing training at the School. Bom in Michigan, he now lives in Hesperia, California. Foster has been shipping out for more than 15 years, and joined the SIU in the Port of San Francisco. Thomas Killion entered the engineering school in Febmary, and received his third assistant engineer's license last month. Killion, who was bom in Mas­ sachusetts, now lives there in the city of Dorchester. He joined the SIU in Boston. Killion last sailed as oiler on the Cabins. Rodney Danid Ellis, bom March 19, 1969, to Steafarer and Mrs. Fines A. Ellis, Pascagoula. Miss. Nellie Van Den Dnngen, bom April 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John C. Van Den Dungen, Oakland, Calif. Denise Pavtdini, bom Febm­ ary 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Davey J. Pavolini, Long Beach, Miss. Douglas Gregory 25, at right, accepts congratulations from SlU Vice President Earl Shepard on receiving his third assistant engineer's license. Brother Gregory attended the Harry Lundeberg School, the Sll' seniority upgrading school, and the Union's school of engineering. Sea-Land expansion Continues $40 Million Conversion Job To Make 6 Ships Out of 3 A $40 million conversion contract has been let out by tlie SlU-contracted Sea-Land Service, Inc., to Todd Shipyards Corporation for work which will increase the operator's fleet carrying capacity by 20 percent and make six ships out of three. The big contract calls for construction of three neiw S33> foot-long forebodies which will then be joined to the upgraded stem sections of three of the present Sea-Land vessels, the shipbuilding company said. In turn, the existing forebod­ ies of the three ships will be joined to the stems of three oil tankers bought by Sea-Land from the government. The pres­ ently operating ships which will be sharply increased in size are the Baltimore, the Seattle and the Anchorage—all C-4-type containerships. Sea-Land had spent some $6 million in conver­ sion costs on the Baltimore just two years ago at the Maryland HI- \u 11 . SEAFABEBS^l^W July. 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. 9 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America. Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO Shipbuilding and Drydock Com­ pany. The Mission Delores, a for­ mer reserve fleet tanker, will also be converted to a containership at Todd under terms of the contract. Scheduled for completion by the end of 1969, so as to keep "out of service" time to a mini­ mum, the entire program will add four ships to Sea-Land's present fleet of 35 vessels.. The total gain in the company's con­ tainer capacity will be 2,350 of its 35-foot boxes. Todd had previously con­ tracted to rebuild two vessels for Sea-Land with similar jumboized forebodies, the company noted. The first of these— launched only 184 days after coming off the planning boards —will be joined to the stern of the former troopship General G. H. Muir and is scheduled to enter service on August 4. Construction work under the new contract will be done in Todd's Los Angeles yard, with its Galveston, Houston, San Francisco and Seattle yards fur­ nishing assistance in the tasks of severing, joining and upgrad­ ing. Dixon —4^— Jeaimie Potto-, bora April 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John N. Potter, Belhaven, North Carolina. — Maria Elena Sanchez, bom May 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Sanchez, Tampa, Fla. —4^— Helene Dixmi, bom May 22, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert J. Dixon, Philadelphia, Pa. Ronald Jones, bora April 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John E. Jones, Marquand, Mo. Executive Board PAUL HALL. President EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNER Exec. Viee-Pres. Vice-President LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR Vice-President Sec.-Treas. ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President cardi ihoald be icnt to Ssafarin International Union. Atlantic, Gelt, Laket and Inland Wateri Dlitrlet, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Aeenae, Brooklyn, H.Y. 11232. —4f— Thomas Smkh, bom April 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Raymond J. Smith, Lakewood, Ohio. —4/— Teny McCari, bom March 31, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert E. McCarl, Lansing, 111. — 4/— Sonya Giddens, born April 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Reginald L. Giddens, Mobile, Ala. —4f— Ana Melissa Guerra, bom April 18 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Cesar A. Guerra, New Or­ leans, La. —4^— —4A— Diana Duracher, bum March 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Louis B. Duracher, Metairie, La. Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI POSmASTER'S ATTEHTIOR: Form 3579 —4^— Helen Dixim, bom April 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. George B. Dixon, Philadelphia, Pa. Robert White, bom April 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Melvin L. White, Jr., Mathews, Va. Editor HARRY WITTSCUBN Assistant Editors WILL KARP CHARLER SVBNSON Psbliihtd monthly at SIO Rhode liland Avenao N.E., Washiniton. D. C. 20018 by ths Soalaron Inlstnatlonal Union, Atlantic. Golf, Lakic and Inland Watin Dlitrlet. AFL-CIO. 675 Foirth Acenat, Brooklyn, H.Y. 11232. Til. HYaelnth 9-6600. Ssoond clan Rostan Raid at Waihlnitont, D. C. Foster 4^ 4^ Erin Colleen Kennedy, bom August 9, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald C. Kennedy, Jr., Fairfax, Calif. 4/ — Thomas James O'Connor, bom August 5, 1968, to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Gerald J. O' Connor, Cleveland, Ohio. <I> Angelique Limiette, born Febmary 22, 1969, to ^afarer and Mrs. Wayne Linnette, Nor­ folk, Va. Rhonda Tuberville, bom March 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ira L. Tuberville, Perdido, Ala. —4/— Richard Austin Wilkerson, bom May 1, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Ray Wilker­ son, Orange, Texas. ANVTIME-ANYVfHCRE ^ IMEANS Arthin- Elliott, Jr., bom May 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur Elliott, Queens, N.Y. NO MORE SHIPS —4f— Nebral Arnold, bom April 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward E. Arnold, Mobile, Ala. Chester Rayrikond Wescott, bom October 23, 1967, to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Raymond Wes­ cott, Jr., Mantee, N.C. Melvin Hsu, born May 20, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sung M. Hsu, New York, N. Y. —4^— <1> �Page TWenty SEAFARERS July, 1969 LOG agDgogpcopgiaogooytaMMfliuuuw Control of Worlds Seas Soviet Aim, Threat to U.S. Jobs Soon International Experts Analysis Finds In Cheap Foreign Imports BRUSSELS—The Soviet Un­ ion already surpasses the Unit^ States in certain important cate­ gories of sea power and is gain­ ing in others, according to an analysis recently issued by panel of American and Euro­ pean experts. This is all part of a develop­ ing picture of a maritime strat­ egy by the U.S.S.R. of challeng­ ing the United States, and other non-Communist sea powers for control of key waters around the Eurasian land mass, the findings of the study indicate. A report on the study's con­ clusions was issued here by 14 analysts assembled by the Cen­ ter for Strategic and Interna­ tional Studies of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In furtherance of this Soviet policy, the group noted, a con­ tinuing expansion of the navy and merchant marine is taking place on an unprecedented scale, far beyond that of any other na­ tion. The study said it was clear that the Soviet Union will "at­ tempt to control the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, and ultimately the Mediterranean." "The policy also envisions Soviet predominance in the Sea of Japan to the east, the Greenland-Iceland-Faeroe Islands gap to the west, and the Indian Ocean to the south," it con­ tinued. A probable objective cited was control of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, providing pas­ sage for the Soviet fleet to the Mediterranean. "Beyond these goals the So­ viets want to gain dominant influenee at several major junc­ tions of the world's seaways," the panel noted. These were Ro€ket-Bonie SOS Seen BOOH to Ships LONDON—An auto­ matic "Weeper" invented by a British scientist may go a long way towards facilitat­ ing the transmittal of dis­ tress signals from a ship on the high seas. Code named ROBERT— for "rocket-borne emer­ gency transmitter"—^the mechanism is designed to fit in the nose of a distress rocket and would replace the usual flares. It is ca­ pable of beaming signals over a 200-mile radius as it parachutes downward from its highest point. Tapes which would broadcast the distressed ves­ sel's position could be fitted within the transmitter. Its designer is Harry Wolf, head of the biomed­ ical engineering division at the National Institute of Medical Research Labora­ tories here. identified as the Suez Canal, the Bab el Mandeb—leading from the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden —the Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Sumatra, and the Strait of Gibraltar. In pursuit if this policy, the U.S.S.R. will exert increasing pressure on non-Communist naval operations in areas which they consider of strategic im­ portance, the report predicts. Already the Russians have many more conventionally pow­ ered submarines than does the United States, it noted, as well as "unparalleled" long-range surface-to-surface cruise-missile systems on surface ships and submarines and a considerablysized missile-equipped fleet of patrol boats. Soviet submarines are pres­ ently capable of firing a total of some 200 ballistic missiles. While this is overshadowed by the Polaris broadside of 16 longer-range missiles from each of 41 submarines possessed by the United States, the U.S.S.R. has begun production of a sub­ marine similar to the first Po­ laris vessels and may already have up to seven of these armed with 16 Serb missiles. The Serb missiles have an estimated range of 1,500 miles. Submarine Surveillance Reported The Soviet navy is reported to maintain one to three ballis­ tic missile submarines between 800 and 1,000 miles off the United States coast for periods of from six to eight weeks. This number is expected to increase substantially as the new 16missile vessels become opera­ tional. In addition, the Soviet sur­ face fleet includes two helicop­ ter carriers, 20 to 24 cruisers. CHICAGO—"We're not against free trade; we are against Americans losing their jobs , because of cheap foreign-made goods imported into this country," Representative John H. Dent (D-Pa.) told 400 delegates to the 87th convention of the Flint Glass Workers. Dent praised the union for its fight agaiast cheap imports, noting that the glass industry was the first hit and still the most vulnerable in the "competition" against low-wage stand­ ards in other countries. In the closing days of the two-week convention, delegates were preparing to debate and vote on a union policy on the import question. The convention also focused on craft prob­ lems and setting of contract goals for the next two years. Dent said the American public has begun to awaken to the dangers of cheap-made foreign imports. "Anything you can name—boots, shoes, clothing, food, steel and machinery—is brought into this country. . . . We no longer have the exclu­ sive knowledge and ability to produce goods; any finger— white, black, Asian or European—can push a button and turn out products." The Pennsylvania congressman called on the nation's lead­ ers to count job balances, not dollar balances, when making trade agreements. He said the economics of foreign trade should be taken away from the Tariff Commission and given to the Labor Department. When imports threaten American jobs, the flow of the goods into the country should be limited. Dent also called for efforts to raise employment standards around the world so that workers are given the means to con­ sume the goods produced in their own countries. 110 to 120 destroyers and frig­ ates, 92 ocean-going escorts, about 150 missile-armed patrol boats, 400 other patrol craft, 270 coastal escorts, 250 or more landing ships and craft plus a large number of mine­ sweepers, support and auxiliary vessels. Although still lagging in heli­ copter carriers, the Soviets are rapidly closing the gap, the re­ port points out. The Soviet Un­ ion's modem fleet and landbased power in the Mediter­ ranean is considered a "major political threat" to the United States Sixth Fleet. At a recent meeting, the North Atlantic Alliance took measures to meet this threat when the Defense Planning Committee agreed to organize a Mediterranean emergency na­ val force. However, the six des­ troyers to be so assigned are considered to be no match for the Soviet forces already there. Bill Would Grant Unemployment Pay To Ohio Seafarers on Great Lakes TOLEDO—^A bill introduced m the Ohio State Legislature would make Great Lakes sea­ men who make their homes in that state eligible to collect un­ employment benefits during the winter months. At present, Ohio seamen are eligible for unemployment com­ pensation only during the 40 weeks following the fourth Sun­ day in March, while other mari­ time workers—and all other Ohio workers—are not so re­ stricted. Co-spdnsored by Ohio State Senators Marigene Valiquette (D-Toledo) and David S. Holcomb (R-Dayton), the measure would correct a situation which singles out seafarers for discrim­ inatory treatment by amending Section 4141.33 of the Revised Code by striking from it the provisions specifically applicable to seamen. It is known as Sen­ ate Bill 394. Passage of the measure would permit the accrual of credits for unemployment purposes during the off-season months. Great Lakes ports are normally closed Tradition of Service Lives On The USS Samuel Gompers services warships in western Pacific. Named after founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, the 20,000-ton destroyer tender has just returned to its home base in Sen Diego after six-and-a-half-mqnth tour of. duty, five of which were spent in Subic Bay, P.I. beginning with the last Sunday in December and continuing un­ til the fourth Sunday in March. Donald Bensman, SIU Port Agent in Toledo and Melvin H. Pelfrey, Vice President of MEBA-District 2, made the in­ itial requests for enactment of the bill and are continuing their efforts, with the backing of their Unions, to help its passage through the Legislature. The bill was assigned to the Election, Commerce and Labor Commit­ tee, of which Senator Holcomb is a member. Similar legislation was intro­ duced two years ago but failed to pass by a slender margin. Bensman and Pelfrey have stated that prospects are brighter for passage of the bill in this session of the Assembly. Point­ ing out that Ohio is the only state in the nation which ex­ cludes seamen from unemploy­ ment compensation in the win­ ter, they contend this discrimi­ nates against those Ohioans who work in the maritime industry. Seamen, and their friends, who make their homes in Ohio are requested to write to their state senators urging their sup­ port for this legislation. Among senators who should be contacted are: Douglas Applegate, D—Steubenville; Stan­ ley J. Aronoff, R—Cincinnati; Howard C. Cook, R—Toledo; Paul E. Gillmor, R-^TiflBn; David S. Holcomb, R—^Dayton; James K. Leedy, R—Wooster', Ronald M. Mottl, D—^Parma; William B. Nye, D—Akron; Oliver Ocasek,D—Akron; Wal^ ter E. Powell, R—^Fairfield; and Marigene Valiquette, D—^To­ ledo. �Special Pension Supplement SEAFARERSWLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO IMPROVING THE PENSION PLAN The Seafarers International Union, in forthcoming contract negotiations, will move for improvements in the pension plan. The Union, as part of the preparation for these talks, has been surveying the features of various pension plans. Our purpose has been to consider every possible approach to the problem of assuring our members that they are properly protected in their retirement years. A pension program must be a living document—capable of changing to meet the chang­ ing needs of the membership it safeguards. The Union's responsibility, therefore, is to know the members' attitudes on a variety of benefits—for a pension program is a complex thing. There are many questions that must be answered: • Do the members wont a program geared solely to the monthly pension payment? • Or do they also want adequate protection against the heavy cost of long illnesses? • Do they wont a pension that provides benefits only for themselves? • Or do they also wont assurances that their dependents, too, will be protected? • Do they wont to gamble on staying fit for duty until they reach retirement age? • Or do they also wont a program that provides adequate retirement pensions in case of disability? To these questions, the Union must add one of its own: How do we develop a plan with the broadest possible coverage—and at the same time that is financially sound—that protects the member, goqd times or bad? In arriving at the answers to these questions, and many others, the membership will be deeply involved. Whatever proposals are made to management will come only after thorough discussion and action by the membership. For that reason, this brochure puts at the disposal of the members factors that will aid them in their discussion and decision-making. We have set down the features of the existing SIU plan—because every member should understand precisely what he has now, the benefits he derives from the present plan, and how it operates. The Union thinks it would also be useful to the membership, in considering possible changes, that it review the features of a plan in the same industry, dealing with problems which are the same insofar as the individual is concerned. Therefore the brochure makes comparisons between the SIU plan and that of the National AAaritime Union. This is not to say that one is better than another—it is done only to make possible an objective study by the membership. Each member is urged to study this document carefully, and to use it as the basis for continuing discussions aboard ship aiid in the union halls—because it is from these discus­ sions that the ultimate contract proposal will come. While these discussions ore being held, the Union will continue its study—calling on the best-traified expeifi in the pmsion field for advice. To assist with this part of the preparation for the fonhoofning contract negotiations, this brochure carries on the back page a Pension Data Questionnaire and a place for any comments whidi a member widies to make. Each member diould fill this out and forward it to Union Headquarters. In addition to asdding the Union, this form will enaUe each member to know pre­ cisely where he stands in reqpect to his own pension credits. �BENEFIT SIU-AGLIW DISTRICT PENSION CREDITS Pension credits are given for each day worked under covered employment. Pension credits are also given for inpatient and outpatient hospital time and for sickness and accident time, not to exceed 1,825 days of the total pension credit requirements of 5,475 days. For pulses of the disability pension credit re(|uirements 1,460 of the 4,380 days may be inpatient and outpatient hospital time and sickness and accident time. (Applies to All Pensions) Pension credits earned before October 1, 1967, cannot be lost by a break in service prior thereto. After October 1,1967, a seaman must have 90 days of covered employment in any one of 3 consecutive calendar years to avoid a break in service and loss of prior pension credits. BREAK IN SERVICE RULE (Applies to All Pensions) $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: 15 years (5,475 days) of pension credits with no time limita­ tion, is age 65 or over, has 90 days of covered employment during the calendar year preceding his date of application, and has one day of employment during the 6-month period immediately preceding such application. Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. NORMAL AND/OR SERVICE PENSION REDUCED AND EARLY RETIREMENT PENSIONS SEE NORMAL PENSION ABOVE •v.,, •v. • DISABILITY PENSION $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: Permanent disability at any age, provided the employee has pen­ sion credits for 12 years (4,380 days) of qualifying time, and has accumulated at least 90 days of covered employment during the calendar year preceding his date of applica­ tion, and at least one day of employment during the 6-month period immediately pre­ ceding his date of application. Amount of Disability Years of Pension Regardless of Age Pension Credit $250.00 12 or Over Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. DEATH BENEFIT $4,000.00 if the designated beneficiary is a pensioner's wife, child, step-child, mother, father, brother, sister, grandchild, grandparent, step or half-brother and sister, step­ mother or stepfather. $1,000.00 payable to any other class of beneficiaries not listed above. PENSIONERS' WELFARE BENEFIT Pensioners: Payment for life without limitation of all medical costs including surgery, hospitalization, drugs, nursing homes, dent^ care, artificial limbs, wheel chairs, hear­ ing aids, glassesi crutches, etc. - it Pensioner's Dependents: Eligible for schedule of dependent's benefits under Seafarers Welfare Plan which includes hospital room and board, hospital extras, blood transfu­ sions, doctor's visits at hospitals, surgical, diagnostic, medical extras, optical, etc. These benefits shall continue during the pensioner's life and for six months thereafter. (NOTE: The foresoiiw is sn analysis and synopsis of the salient and perUnent provisions of the trust SKieenSBntS and their'rules and regtiiations.' As td each specific provision, reference shouid be made to the text thereof.) �NMU % Pension credits are given as follows: . Periods commencing January 1, 1951: 200 days or more in covered emplovment, including certain disability time, counts as a year's credit (4 quarters). If less tnan 200 days are accumulated in any year, quarter' year unit credits are as follows: Days of covered Employment Quarters to in Calendar Year be Credited Less than 50 0 50 to 99 1 100 to 149 2 150 to 199 3 Periods before January 1, 1951: . To receive pension credit for any employment before January 1, 1951, must have at least 200 days of covered employment, including certain disability time, in the three year period between January 1, 1951 and December 31, 1953 and have ten years of - pension credits earned after January 1, 1951. . If a seaman does not work in covered employment for at least 200 days in any period of three consecutive calendar years after January 1, 1953, and for at least 300 days in - any period of three consecutive calendar years after January 1, 1969, it shall constitute a break in employment and his previous pension credits shall be cancelled. $250.00 per month for deep-sea sailors. - Eligibility requirements: 20 years (80 quarters) of pension credit within 30 consecutive ' years, at any age, for those employees who must work past January 1, 1969 to earn the > 20 years (80 quarters). The 30-year rule does not apply if 20 years (80 quarters) are earned before January 1, 1969. Eligibility extended for military service, disability and certain non-seatime. REDUCED PENSION $187.50 to $250.00 for seamen who are not entitled to a Normal Pension or a Service * Pension. Eligibility requirements: This pensidn available only to those seamen who were 65 years • old before January 1, 1969 and who had at least 15 years (60 quarters) of pension credits at that time in accordance with the following table of benefits: Number of Years of Amount of Qualifying Time Pension 15 $187.50 16 200.00 17 212.50 18 225.00 19 237.50 20 250.00 EARLY RETIREMENT PENSION - $131.25 to $235.00 as a Percentage of Normal or Reduced Pension. Eligibility requirements: This pension available only to the seamen who were 60 years " old before January 1, 1969 and who had at least 15 years (60 quarters) of pension credits at that time. Amount of pension is a percentage of the Normal or Reduced Pen­ sion he would have been entitled to if he were 65 years of age at the time when his Early • Retirement Pension first becomes payable. The following table of benefits indicates the amount of benefit payable: Age Seatime-Years 20 19 15 16 17 18 Benefit Amount $166.25 $175.00 $148.75 $157.50 60 $131.25 $140.00 190.00 142.50 161.50 171.00 180.50 61 152.00 205.00 194.75 62 153.75 164.00 174.25 184.50 220.00 63 165.00 187.00 198.00 219.00 176.00 235.00 64 223.25 176.25 188.00 199.75 211.50 . $50.00 to $250.00 for deep-sea sailors. Eligibility requirements: Permanent disability for those under age 65 provided they have credit for a least 15 years (60 quarters) of service. Those over 65 must have actually been employed in covered employment for at least 200 days after December 31, 1960 and must have credit for at least 10 years of service ' (40 quarters). The years of service on which a claim is based must be earned within a number of consecutive calendar years determined by adding 10 years to the actual years of service - at time of filing. Amount of Disability Pension Over 65 Under 65 Years of Pension Credit 10 to 14 $ 50.00 15 187.50 187.50 16 200.00 200.00 212.50 17 212.50 225.00 18 225.00 237.50 19 237.50 250.00 20 250.00 , Eligibilty extended for .military service, disability and certain non-seatime. $3,500.00, less any Pension payments received, but not less than $1,500.00 payable to . pensioner's wife, child, mother, father, brother or sister. Pensioner and Pensioner's Dependents: The total amount of benefits payable to the pen' sioner and his dependents collectively shall not exceed a lifetime maximum of $750.00. , In addition, a pensioner is entitled to a hearing aid benefit up to a maximum $325.00 once every four years. ' (NOTE: The forecoing i« an eiielyeia and lynopais of the salient and pertinent provisions of the trust agree­ ments and their rules and reguIaUonft, As to each speeifle provision, reference should be made to the text thereof.) f. •*ri!o ,-# A Guide to the Pension Data In comparing the features of pension plans, it is important not only to consider the amount of the pension payment, or the period of time required for eligibility, but the provisions which govern how you become eligible, and how you maintain your eligibility. Both the SIU and NMU full pensions provide for payment of $250 monthly. However, each carries with it certain fringe benefits which differ as- to the amounts payable, type of coverage and eligibility requirements. Regular Pension In both pension plans, the key is "pension credits," not necessarily years of service. Under the SIU plan, there is a simple formula—giving the seaman the broadest latitude in accumulating credits toward his pension. The NMU plan contains a more complex formula than the SIU plan with respect to past service in the industry, and a sliding scale with respect to future service. As the comparison of the various features of the two plans in the adjoining columns shows, eligibility for the SIU normal pension is attained at age 65 with 15 years of pension credits. There is no limitation on time for attaining eligibility, which means that an SIU seaman's pension credits began with the time he first began sailing. The NMU requires 20 years of pension credits within 30 consecutive years for retirement at any age. Obviously this is a very attractive feature; however, to achieve retirement at any age, the NMU plan, as of January 1, 1969, closed off pension credits earned prior to 1939 in computing future pensions. Furthermore, in order to maintain the 20-year pension, the NMU found it necessary to tighten up the break-in-service rule by adding 100 days to the previous time required to be worked in any three-year period to maintain eligibility, bringing the new level to 300 days. Prior to that it was 200 days for the same peri^. Under the SIU plan, a seaman must have 90 days of covered employment in any one of three consecutive calendar years to avoid a break in service. Disability Pension The SIU's disability pension provides a monthly benefit of $250 for a man disabled at any age, if he has had 12 years of service credits, one-third of which may be for in-patient and out-patient hospital time and sickness and accident time. The NMU's disability pension provides a scale of benefits from $50 to $250 a month, depending on the sailor's age and years of service, and provides credits for hospital time. No disability pensions are payable to a man with less than 15 years of pension credits, unless he is over 65 at the time of dis­ ability. And the $250-a-month maximum is available only to men with 20 years of pension credits—at which point they would be eligible, in any event, for full pension irrespective of disability. Death Benefits With respect to death benefits, the SIU's are paid to any beneficiary selected by the retiree, and remain constant throughout the years. The NMU death benefit is limited to fewer beneficiaries, is smaller to begin with, and is subject to being discounted by more than 50 percent as the years go by. Medical Benefits Medical benefits are an important element in a retirement plan because two factors come into play for the retiree: (1) As he advances in age, his medical costs go up; and (2) These higher costs are incurred at a time when his income is reduced. Under the l^U plan, a $750 ceiling is placed on all of the medical expenses ever incurred by the retiree and his dependents. This is an absolute maximum—no matter how long the pensioner lives, and no matter how many hospital bills he and his dependents, collectively, incur. The pensioner in the SIU has unlimited medical coverage for himself. His dependents, meanwhile, are eligible for the same schedule of Seafarers Welfare Plan benefits that have been available to them during his days as an active seaman—^plus the fact that these benefits continue for the pensioner's depend­ ents for six months after his death. Conclusion Obviously, any pension plan review can carry only the highlights of the respective documents. These are lengthy, they have been amended several tim^, and they deal in great detail with edch feature. Therefore, complete copies of both the SIU and NMU pension plans are being made available in all SIU ports so that members wishing to do so can examine them in detail. The foregoing comments are offered to help the members evaluate the relative merits of the various elements that make up a complete pension program. This evaluation will make it easier for the members to express their views on the direction in which the SIU should now proceed with respect to the future. (Now proceed to the next page and complete the Pension Data Questionnaire.) �Special Pension Supplement SEAFARERS *XOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO ? <" '••I I i " PENSION DATA - QUESTIONNAIRE In order to effect improvements in the current pension program, it is necessary that Seafarers submit the answers to the below listed questions, and fill in all seatime information in the place provided. Do not mail this questionnaire in until you have filled in all data. (Please print all answers.) Send to SlU Pension Study Committee, 675 Fourth Ave Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. 1-^ I. Name : •. 2. Residence address Street I* Apartment No. I City State Zip Code 3. Social Security No. (Area Code) 4. Book No. 6. Date of Birth r Telephone No. 5. Z No. 7. Age last birthday 8. Height I j ^ Year 11. Age when you first sailed deep-sea Single j. Widowed Divorced Relationship Living in your home? Separated II • --1 va 13. Number of Dependents Name Date of Birth Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 14. Are you presently on pension? Type: "" :I ',• ' H" .-4 When issued Month 12. Married ^ ^ I • I • Weight Mo. Day Year 9. Date of Joining SlUNA-AGLIWD" 10. Type of book now held: "C" ^^ - t"-' ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No No No No No No No I Receiving Social Security? ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (' ) ( ) ( ) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) No No No No ( T-... • ( ( I No ( No ( No ( If yes, indicate as follows: Disability Normal From whom: Seafarers Pension Plan Other _ Social Security Other Name of Entity 15. Are you eligible for supplemental Medicare? 16. Fill in numbers of days of seatime for each of the years listed below: I Number of Days itW? 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 I960 For Pension Plan , Office Use Only / Number of Days 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 I For POnfioB Plao Number of Days : Offiba U«e Only 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 Number of Days 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 Number of Days 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 I -- I' I > - J "5^-'- , >/'' ! I I I ' . . a J I I hereby authorize the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ trict, its officers, employees or representatives, to obtain, on my behalf, any and all information as to my seatime from the United States Coast Guard. Date Sign your name here Social Security Number Comments: "'i! '''''' I I. I r I• USSSlft ' •' ' ' / �SEAFARERS July, 1969 Page Twenty Five LOG p SABINE (SWp Operatdrs)v May f •^Chairman, Howard Wheelns; Sec­ retary, Raymond Perry. Pew hours ' disputed OT in engine and steward department. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ^SAGAMORE HILL (Victory Car­ riers), April 2S—Chairman, J. M. Davis; Secretary, C. Dillman. Brother Myers Thomas, Jr. was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No major beefs were reported. No disputed OT, A special ship's meeting was called by Bosun Jack Nelson, ship's delegate on the Steel Sci­ entist (Isthmian), to discuss the failure of some crewmembers to show up on time for the sched­ uled sailing of Nelson the vessel from Durban. He reported that most of the deck gang, including him­ Owens McConnell self, were required to standby for seven hours waiting for six board the Trenton (Sea-Land). crewmembers to come aboard. A motion was made by Richard William Harrell, chief electri­ McConnell, meeting chairman, cian, suggested that the minutes and John Owens, meeting secre­ of this meeting be recorded and tary, and was adopted unani­ given to the boarding patrolman mously, to have the SIU nego­ when the ship arrives in Hous­ tiating committee look into these ton. problems. Among the recom­ — mendations included in the res­ At the meeting aboard the olution, which was sent to Un­ ion headquarters, were: increas­ Yaka (Waterman) the new con­ tract was read, ing pension contributions, in­ as well as the creasing overtime rales for work opinions and rec­ performed in port between 1700 ommendations of and 0800 hours, providing long­ the negotiating er vacations on containerships committee, re­ because of fast turnarounds, and ports C. Dc Je­ securing reefer engineering jobs sus, meeting sec­ for the unlicensed personnel. retary. An open The resolution also called for drawing up a new tanker agree­ De Jesus and frank dis­ ment covering ships on the west cussion was re­ coast to Alaska run which would ported between the new captain provide for premium pay for and Ship's Delegate Walt Sibley, working tankers during the win­ and, based on that discussion, ter months. Sibley briefed the crew on the A full discussion on the spe­ cial problems of containerships, including fast turnarounds, K HOUSTON (Sea-Land),.May 18-r Chairman, L. Cevette; Secretary, V. cargo lashing and reefer mainte­ Silva. Brother Cevette was elected nance, was held at a meeting on to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT. S SACRAMENTO (Ogden)L May 18 -i^Chairman, W. P. Link; Secretary, D. B. Sacher. Brother W. MacDonald was elected to serve as new ship's delegate Some disputed OT ip each department. fc^lRICAN: ^ VTCrOSV •(Htideon Wa^rwaya), May 18—Chairman, Nels Laron; Secretary, John P. Pifer, No beefs were reported by depsi(ment delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire stevlrard department for a job well done. • I DELTA B7.ASIL (Delta), April 21 •^-Chairman, Michael J. Dunn; SeciSitary, Willie Braggs. Ship's dele­ gate reported that everything is in ood shape. $222.00 in movie fund, ote of thanks was extended to the steward department JTor a job well done. I BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart Tankers), May 5—Chairman, Louis P. Hagmann; Secretary, Charles L. Shirah. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. f DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS I'.' -« i: ANTINOUS (Waterman), May 4-T Chairman, Allen Myrex; Secretary, Paul B. Adams, Jr. Some disputed OT in engine department, otherwise everything is running smoothly. I SEATRAIN OHIO (Hudson WV terways). May il—Chairman, T. E. Yablonsky; Secretary,,W. P. Messeur ger; Beefs and disputed OT to be turned over to boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks to the entire steward department for a job well done. Special thanks to Brother W. P. Messenger, chief steward, for his efforts to please one and all. ENID VICTORY (Columbia), May I9-rChairman, Primo Preing; Secre­ tary, Lloyd Hull. Brother C. M. King was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. No beefs and no disputed OT. CALMAR (Calmar), May 11— Chairman, Richard H. Hufford; Sec­ retary, M. Kaminski. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward de­ partment for a job well done. s OVERSEAS NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), May 4 — Chairman, R. Knowles; Set'rstary.P. Hall. Brother P. Stonehridge was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT. S^EEL NAVIGATOR (Isthjuian)^ May 11—Chairman, Artemio Vaz­ quez; Secretary, Earl E. Gruber. $57,00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Everything is running smoothly. f BABINE (Ship Operators), Aptrll 9—Chairinan, Howard Wheelus; Sec­ retary, Raymond Ferry. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by dejpartment delegates, EL IZ A BE T H PO RT (Sea-Land), April 25—Chairman, J; A. Busheed; Secretary, Juan L. Pagan, Brother Rusheed was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $44.00 in ship's fund. This has been a good trip with no beefs. Little disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with patrolman at payoff. Vote of thanks to Ihe steward department for a job weH done. DAGAMA (Crest Overseas), May 2l-i-Chairman, P. D- Carrnthers; Secretary, Shbrman Wright. Brother Jerry L, Wolfe was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Crew's •quarters, messrooms, heads and showers, pantry and galley should^ be - painted^ MatterJ^evrsfpriftd.; to headquarters. EENA ELIZABETH (ArDairosa). April 27—Chairman, Billy Brewer; Secretary, Dennis Brodean. Discus­ sion held regarding poor mail serv­ ice. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. LINPIELD VICTORY (Alcoa), May 11—Chairman, L. D. Richard­ son; Secretary, ft, Perehee. Pew hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Crew urged to co-operate in keeping pantry clean and neat. LAFAYETTE (Waterman Steam­ ship Corp.), May 11—Chairman, P. J. Johnson; Secretary, ft. Dupre. Brother Tony Notturno was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. No beefs and no disputed OT. PENN EXPORTER (Penn), Janu­ ary 21—Chairman, William S. Rudd; Secretary, Z. A. Markris. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly, with no disputed OT or beefs. Patrolman will be con­ tacted regarding restriction to ves­ sel while in port. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. Special vote of thanks to Brother Z, A. Markris, steward.. OVERSEAS FR0GRE3S (Mdritime Overseas), April 18—Chairman, James Sumpter; Secretary, Charles Scott. Pew hours disputed OT in deck department. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward •' department for a job well done. The Steward, in return, thanked the crew for their fine co-operation. DELTA BRAsfL (Delta), May 11 —Chairman, Mike Dunn; Secretary, Willie Braggs. $269.00 in ship's fund. Brother Dunn was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion held on pension plan. BAYLOR VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), May 30—Chairman,- C. Walk­ er; Secretary, E, C. Martin. Brother C. Walker was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT. COMMANDER (Marine Carriers), May 31—-Chairman, J. Hoggie; Sec­ retary, K. Hatgimisibs. Motion was made to have wages paid on day for day basis, regardless of type of voy­ age. Long discussion held regarding pension plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. captain's likely methods of run­ ning the ship. The crew was advised that ship's meetings will be held each Sunday at sea and that all crew members are ex­ pected to participate. The chief steward requested that all crew members bring back all soiled linen. — fire. The galley gang's four rated crewmembers are all over 60 years old—and their combined ages total 255 years! The "old- — Ship's Secretary Timothy Gal­ lagher reports no beefs so far from the crew of the M i d 1 a k e (American Bulk). At a meeting held aboard ship on the run to India, a motion was made by Broth­ Gallagher er Victor Bonura, and adopted unanimously, that crew quarters be air condi­ tioned on all vessels going to the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean and other tropical waters. Ship's Chairman Albert Wills reports that the steward department has been doing an outstanding job during the voyage. The Midlake is due to pay off in Houston on August 10. Steward Phil Reyes, ship's secretary-reporter on the Spit­ fire (General Cargo), is sending out a challenge to all SlU-contracted ships to beat a record being set this trip on the SpitOVERSEAS DAPHNE (Maritime Overseas), May 11 — Chairman, L. Santa Ana: Secretary, V. DiGiacomo. Brother William Brown resided as ship's delegate and Brother Pat Colonna was elected to serve in his place. Vote of thanks Was extended to Brother Brown for a job well done. There were no beefs reported by department delegates. SEATRAIN PUERTO RICO (Hud­ son Waterways), May 11—Chairman, John J. Carey; Secretai-y, Louis D. Groom, Jr. $4.19 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward department for a job well done. No disputed OT. \ • DEL VALLE (Delta), May 25 — Chairman, A. Bourgot; Secretary, R. N. Rohr- No LOGS and no mail from headquarters was received this voyage. Some disputed OT in en­ gine-department. STEEL ENGINEER (Isthmian), May 13—Chairman, J. J. Beve, Jr.; Secretary, Angel Seda. Brother Daniel P. Toman was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Everything is running smoothly. POTOMAC (Ogden Marine), May^ RICE VICTORY (Victory; Car­ 18-r-Chairman, C. Bedell; Secretary, J. Brooke. No beefs and no disputed riers). June 1—Chairman, John H. OT, Two men missed ship in Phila­ Ratliff; Secretary, John H. Ratliff. No beefs and no disputed OT. Dis­ delphia. cussion held regarding pension ALDION VICTORY (Bulk), May 17—uhairman, Ed Norris: Secre­ LA SALLE (Waterman), May 21— plan. tary, Gilbert J. Trosclair. Disputed Chairman, George Dakis; Secretary, OT in deck and engine departments •Thorn Shelton. No beefs andrlo dis­ CHOCTAW (Waterman), June 1-— to be taken up with patrolman. puted OT reported by departmeTib Chairman, Enos Allen; Secretary, A. Beck. Everything is running delegates. smoothly. Vote of thanks was ex­ DEL SOL (Delta), May 4—Chair­ tended to the steward department OVERSEAS AIIDREY CM^ man, ft. E. Stough, Jr.; Secretary, Overseas). for a job well done, Ship laying up. May 31—Chairman, Lee W. J. Holland. Ship's delegate ex­ Secretary, Stanley Schuy­ tended a vote of thanks to the entire Harvey: TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Water­ ler. Ship's delegate reported that crew for their co-operation. Vote everything is running smoothly with ways), May 24 — Chairman, B, of thanks was also extended to the no beefs and no disputed OT. Dis­ Schwartz; Secretary, T. Conway. steward department for a job well held regarding safety equip-: $20.00 in ship's fund. Couple of done. $10.50 in ship's fund. Some cussion ment on deck. Matter to be taken hours disputed OT in steward de­ disputed OT in deck ahd engine de­ up with the Captain. ^ : partment. No beefs reported by partments to be taken up with department delegates. boarding patrolman. MOBILIAN (Waterman), May 12 JAMES (James River Transport), --Chairman, J. J. DeCulty; Seci!%SEAFARER (Marine Carriers), tary. L. B. Kelly. Brother James P. May 18—Chairman, H. Mobley: See«1 April 4—Chairman. K. A. Heliman; Balderston, baker, was elected to jretary A. W. Morales. No beefs: Secretary, E. A. Laftoda. Disputed serve as shin's delegate. Discussion were reported and everything is OT in each department. Vote of held regarding ice machine. Some running smoothly. Vote of thanks ? thanks was extended to the steward disputed OT in deck and steward was extended to the electricians and department for a Job well donev departihentlii othprwise there were engineers for repair work done on i clothes dryer and air-condltipneh; !;:ii ho beefs. Yaribus matters under discussion.- Gbsscock Caldara timer" of the group is Floyd Hillier, 69, who sailed as baker. Steward Reyes is 63, Chief Cook Amie Glasscock is 62, and Third Cook William Caldara is 61. The Spitfire is on a threemonth run to India, and not one of these veteran Seafarers has been sick a day "except for their usual lumbagos, and, rheuma­ tism," according to Seafarer Reyes, who first shipped as stew­ ard in 1929, The Spitfire is due to pay off in the Houston area this month. An "unexpected delay" oc­ curred in the Port of New York when the Steel Seafarer (Isthmi­ an) collided with a Greek ship in the C and D Canal, Ira C. Brown, meeting secretary reports. The Steel Sea­ farer ran aground Brown for about three hours. Some damage was sus­ tained by both ships, but no one was injured. As a result, the Steel Seafarer was diverted back to the States after sailing foreign. Additional cargo was loaded in the Port of Baltimore, and the ship is now headed for a Far East voyage of about four months. Copies of the new con­ tracts were received and passed out to every member. One was also posted on the messroom bulletin board. A motion was made by Meeting Chairman Roy Guild and seconded by Brother Brown to concur in the new con­ tract and to thank headquarters for the good coverage as well as copies of the new increase. The motion was passed unanimously by the meeting which was at­ tended by all the members. Sug­ gestion was made that every member fill out the question­ naire in the LOG concerning the Pension Plan and mail it from Panama. There was much dis­ cussion about the mail problem. Seafarer Brown reports that all repairs were taken care of ex­ cept a fire hydrant leak near the stewards' room. The ship's fund contains no money now, but the crew will soon build it up. With good cooks and a good crew, a good trip is expected. �Page Twentr Six 'Maru' May Mean Great Mariner To the Edifon The story in the May issue of the Seafarers LOG about <4^ the origin of the name "Maru" was interesting. I think I have about three suitcases full of reference material, and some­ place I have material on the Japanese language. I'm sure that "Maru" probably relates to the sea. "Mare" means "sea" in Latin, and was used in Caesar's time. As for the names of Japa­ nese boys ending in "maru," it could be that the parents intended it to be coincident with the sea. Japan is a sea nation. They have a fondness for the sea, and are often ro­ mantic about it. I recall that the Japanese language was adapted from many languages. Many words were corrupted, particularly the names of people and things. After many years, these corrupted terms were integrated into the Japanese language. You might know that the idioms of seaport people in Asia, including India, got into their language over the years because of the bumboat peddlers and other traders who got a smattering of every language spoken around the docks. (Many Japanese girls can speak Greek, French and Spanish fluently, but can only speak broken English. This is especially true around Yawata.) I have an idea—and this is only an opinion—^that "Ma­ ru" means "Great Mariner." This definition may not be found in dictionaries, but I do know an old lady in Yoko­ hama who certainly could give the answer, if you could get in touch wiA her. She is a teacher of classical music. Your article sure was inter­ esting, and I wanted to write to you about it. In closing, I want to say that the LOG and the International are looking good, and provide much in­ terest and information. T^liain Calefoto Seattle, Wash. .t. Graduate Thanks SlU For Scholarship Aid TotheEdSttm^ I wish to express my sin­ cere gratitude to the Seafar­ ers International Union for the scholarship funds alloted to me over the past four years. I graduated June 1 with a Bachelor of Science degree « in mathematics from the Y University of Notre Dame. It would not have been possible fOT me to pursue my course of studies at Notre Dame if not for the Seafarers International Union Scholar­ ship. Thank you. A. E. Cemosek SEAFARERS Pensioner Proud ^ Of SiU Membership To the Editor: Promptness — yes, this is always one excellent thing with our Union. The Union is always on the ball ready to give you a hand when help is needed. This is not only true when it comes to a member applying for retirement, vaca­ tion money, sick benefit, etc., but even in other matters where he is attended to promptly with no red tape at all. You are told what to do, where to go, and the oflBce personnel will even go out of their way just to serve you. I am really very fortunate as well as proud to be with the SIU from the beginning of my going to sea until I re­ tired. I believe this should be the case with every member of our Union. I would also give this as a hint (if they are wise) to those just beginning or starting to go to sea as SIU mem^rs. Stick with a Union like ours, for I assure you, you will never regret belonging to the SIU. Let me thank the people of our Welfare plans, our Union officers, as well all those others who have made it possible to have a good Un­ ion like our SIU. Snic»ely, P. C. Esteban E-178 Seafarer's Wife Grateful for Aid To the Edi^: My husband is at sea and I had to enter the hospital, but was uncertain as to how to go about filing a benefit claim. After contacting the SIU Hall in New Orleans, I was put in touch with the Welfare Plan and Jeanie LeBlanc. Because of the wonder­ ful understanding and help I received I was able to enter the hospital with my mind at ease. After all the informaation and bills were sent in, the checks were soon on their way. Many thanks to everyone. Sincerely, IVfrs. Jolui Homen SUdefl, La. Seafarer Thanks Shipmates for Help To the EdhtHR I would like to thank all the members of the crew of the SS Henry La Libertie who assisted me at the time of my accident aboard this vessel on May 2, 1969. Sincerefy, Chester B. Kaiser K.13117 July, 1969 LOG Seafarer Praises SIU Pension Plan To the EdittMR Mrs. Hill and myself want (o thank the SIU for the won­ derful service we received when I filed for my pension in March of this year. The Seafarers Welfare Plan is one of the best that I know, and I am glad that I was able to be a part of it. I received my fimt check shortly after I filed my ap­ plication, and again I want to thank you for the won­ derful service. Nicfcolai Hin Brule, Wisconsin 1965 SIU Scholar Expresses 'Thanks' To the Editon I received today a check for the $187.50 which rep­ resents the May and final in­ stallment of my 1965 Sea­ farers Scholarship Award and felt a need to write and ex­ press my thanks through you to the entire Union for mak­ ing this award available to me. Your generosity over the past four years has enabled me to pursue my undergraduate studies and to concentrate on them without undue concern for financing them. For this I am extremely grateful. You might be interested in knowing that my future plans include obtaining an M.A. degree in Philosophy next year and then the possibility of studying Theology in Eu­ rope, leading to ordination to the Catholic priesthood. I hope eventually to teach on the university level. Whatever the future may hold, you may be assured that your Scholarship Award has played an important part in my life—a part that I will never forget. Thanking you again and asking you to convey my thanks to all the members of your organization, I am Very truly yours, Peter J. Bakarich Welfare Plan Aids Seafarer and Wife To the E£tor: Just a note to try and show my gratitude and apprecia­ tion for the help the SIU Welfare Plan has given us. Without it, our present situation would be impossible to take care of. I have recent­ ly been plagued, or jinxed, by poor health. Here's hoping I will soon be back to my normal health which had been very good. So as not to feel sorry for myself, things could be worse. God and the SIU have been good to us. Mrs. P. H. Key Hpuslon, Texas IMBguel Luis Medina Please get in touch with your sister, Marina Reyes, Mrs. Justina M^ero, 288 Tenth Ave., Apt. 5-E, New York, N. Y. 10001, as soon as possible. The telephone number is (212) 5643242. Fhmk Wendali Cbllins Please contact your daughter, Mrs. Pamela A. Blackwell, at Holiday Mobile Home Park, 433 Frances St., Jacksonville, North Carolina, as soon as pos­ sible. Ad(^h P. DeMarco Daidel J. DeMarco Please write to your brother, Pasquale DeMarco, who is a pa­ tient at Central Islip State Hos­ pital, Central Islip, New York 11722. Robert Allen Ruilner Please contact your mother, Mrs. Marion Locke, 371 Kern St., Winchester, Virginia 22601, concerning your tax papers. Charles W. Tbompswi Please contact Ross Bennett, Waldman & Smallwood, Attorneys-at-Law, 320 College, Beaumont, Texas, as soon as possible. Emory Hughes Fred Greathouse will be on the beach for the next three months. It is important that you contact him at the Sampan in New Orleans. Jtdm Bertie Sr. Please contact your sister, Lfilian Spence, 149-11 117th Street, Ozone Park, New York; or JoW W, Helfrich, Attorney, 1527 Franklin Avenue, Mineola, L. I., regarding your de­ ceased father's estate. vl> Oscar D. Jidmson Please contact your wife at 1705 Ursulines Ave., New Or­ leans, Louisiana 70116, as soon as possible. Jerry L. Wolfe Please contact Joseph P. Stahl, attorney. He is represent­ ing Brother August LeBlanc and needs your testimony. His address is 804 Baronne Bldg., 305 Baronne Street, New Or­ leans, Louisiana 70112 — or phone him at (504) 523-2910. Richard D. Tapman Please get in touch with your wife at 2000 Ramblewood Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21214, as soon as possible. Abdulrab Saleh Ahdulrehman Please contact A1 George & Associates, 227 Cleveland Ave­ nue No., Canton, Ohio 44702, as soon as possible. — Merlin Frank May Please contact Door County Department of Social Services, Court House, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235. —4>— Arthur Hiers Ann Miller asks that you please call or write to her in New York. James W. McFarlln Please get in touch with your sister at 7220 Branch Street, Hollywood, Florida, as soon as possible. The telephone num­ ber is 961-5214. i Bohhy Gene McMidiad Please get in touch with your sister, Mrs. June Deneen, 216 B., E. Mt. Street, No. 45, Worcester, Massachusetts 01606, as soon as possible. ^ Bin Clegg It is urgent that you contact Mr. and Mrs. William L. Rob­ inson, 114 West Garfield, Se­ attle, Washington, as soon as possible. The phone number is AT 3-1038. ^ Hugh V. Miles Your family requests that you contact your home address im­ mediately on a very urgent mat­ ter. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (rriM infermattm,) NAME STREET ADDRESS OTY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPUCATIONi if you art an eU aubacribar and hava a dMnga ef acMratt, plana giva yewr fannar addraaa balow; cnr �Julf, 1969 SEAFARERS Retiring to the Beach ^Effective Control' Vessels Declined Slightly Last Year » J. • 11. T. f I* _ ,I II .. WASHINGTON —A slight decline in the number of ships, registered under foreign flags but considered under "effective U.S. control" for emergency use by the Defense Department, was reported by the Maritime Administration for the flnal quarter of 1968. Shown in the latest report were 401 such vessels, with an aggregate total of 15,493,000 deadweight tons. As of Septem­ ber 30, 1968 there were 412 suph ships and the end-of-l967 total was 422. Liberian-flag registry showed the greatest decrease, from 288 as of September 30,1968 to 274 as of December 31. At the end of 1967, the number of vessels was 309. Panama on Increase In contrast, Panamanian-flag registry has been increasing, from 104 at the end of 1967 to 115 on September 30, 1968 and 118 at the end of 1968. The number of so-called "ef­ fectively controlled" vessels under Ae flag of Honduras has been holding at nine for some time. At the end of 1968 the num­ ber of companies with "effective control" ships registered under the flags of these three coun­ tries was reported as 172— down from 191 the year before. In types of ships, the num­ ber of tankers so registered was 270 at the close of 1968, up from 263 at the end <rf 1967. Bulk carriers were 87, down from 97 and freighters declined to 36 from 53 a year earlier. The "effective control" theory has been much disputed by many members of Congress, as well as by the SIU. Congressman James M. Hanley (D-N.Y.), for example, has noted "the rather absurd concept. . . that we have some sort of magical 'effective con­ trol' over American-owned ves­ sels flying foreign flags." He pointed to the Cuban and the Vietnam emergencies and the Middle Eastern crisis, when U.S.-flag ships were "busily trading" with enemies of this country or other undesirable na­ tions and "thumbed their noses at our entreaties that they cease." Seafarers Angel Burga, at left, an oiler, and Pio Dario, at right, a utilityman, are about to be presented with their first pension checks from SIU Welfare Director Al Bernstein, at New York headquar­ ters. Both men spent many years aboard SIU ships and are looking forward to their well-earned leisure. Congressman, Shipping Co. Cxerutive Call for Cnd of 'Doable SabsUles' Ford emphatically pointed WASHINGTON—An end to out that "this 'double subsidy' the unfair use of the federal government's maritime subsidy practice must be eliminated—by program for 14 American ship­ the federal agencies through ping lines, which are actually their administrative practices, if reaping "double subsidies," was they are willing to do it; by the demanded recently by a mem­ Congress, through legislative ac­ ber of Congress and a shipping tion, if there is no other way." He said, "We simply cannot company executive. afford to pour the taxpayers' Speaking before separate dollars down a rat hole." meetings of the AFI^CIO Mari­ Speaking about the inequities time Trades Department, Rep­ of the subsidy program, Terres resentative William D. Ford (Dstated that "instead of building Michigan) and Edward A. Terres, vice president of the States up our fleet, the subsidy destroys Marine-Isthmian Agency, Inc., a part of our fleet." warned that the subsidies are Terres explained that the orig­ wasting taxpayer's dollars as inal purpose of the government well as threatening to destroy subsidy program was to help a large part of the American American ships compete with fleet. foreign-flag carriers on a com­ mercial level. This practice has been mis-^ used, according to Ford, who For Seafarers 65 or Over: noted that "these lines are not carrying as much commercial cargo as they could handle." Subsidies Permit Underbidding What is actually happening, he said, is that the lines are han­ dling government shipments "at Seafarers who have reached, or are about to reach the age preferential rates, using their of 65, are cautioned to protect their benefits under the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan—as well as benefits for their qualified subsidies to underbid the unsubdependents—^by making sure to enroll under Medicare sidized lines." (hospital) and Supplemental Medicare (medical). This ap­ This means that when federal plies to active members as well as pensioners. agencies accept the lowest bid Such enrollment is mandatory for continued benefits after on a cargo shipment, they are the age of 65—and no cost to the Seafarer is involved. in fact spending more money Medicare enrollment is free. Supplemental Medicare, because another area of the gov­ which provides medical coverage, costs $4 per month for ernment has given the shipping each enrollee. However, this cost will be reimbursed by the line a subsidy. Plan, on a quarterly basis, upon receipt of a photocopy of the Ford had explained this by enrollment card for Supplemental Medicare for the &afarer and each eligible dependent. asking if a bid is really "low" if Failure to obtain such coverage will render the Seafarer it is achieved through a subsidy and his dependent ineligible for any benefits from the Plan that comes from another fed­ which would have been furnished by Medicare and supple­ eral agency? "Of course not— mental protection. yet the practice persists," he de­ Medicare normally affords greater benefits than does the clared. "As long as the individ­ Welfare Plan. However, medical expenses in excess of Medi­ ual federal agency can show that care coverage will be covered by the Plan to subscribers, up it is operating on an 'econom­ to its schedule. ical' basis, apparently no one Following any medical expense, the subscriber should sub­ seems to care that, in the end, mit the bill to Medicare for payment up to the extent allow­ this practice is costing the gov­ able. Any remaining balance should then be forwarded to the ernment more money." Plan for allowable reimbursement in accordance with the schedule. At an earlier MTD gathering. Congressman Mario Biaggi (D- 'Medicare Enrollment Vital For Welfare Plan Benefits i Page Twenty Seven LOG N.Y.) declared anew the need for an autonomous Maritime Administration, separate from the Department of Commerce. Pointing to the worsening plight of the maritime and ship­ building industries, Biaggi stated: "Frankly, I think we're kidding ourselves if we think we're ever going to get a mean­ ingful maritime program — out of any Administration — until we have an agency of govern­ ment capable of drawing up such a program." Two-Part Program Biaggi outlined a two-point program for implementing the separate department, "first, that we move with all possible speed to give maritime back its inde­ pendence," and "second, that we follow this up with orderly, thoughtful consideration of the desirability of taking all of our ocean programs . . . and putting them into a single department whose sole responsibility would be the full development of the potential of the seas around us —and of our inland lakes and waterways, too." Sea-Land Opens Modern Terminal In Puerto Rico MAYAGUEZ, P. R. — SeaLand's new port terminal, an ultra-modem facility geared to receive and handle a larger amount of the company's grow­ ing ocean cargo trade, was dedi­ cated here recently by Mayaguez Mayor Benjamin Cole. Part of the SlU-contracted company's $2.2 million invest­ ment on the island which is scheduled for completion this year, the 41,000-square-foot structure is 410 feet long by ICQ feet wide, with 45 loadingunloading doors, erected on a six-acre lot at an approximate cost of $1.1 million. Sea-Land plans to double the Port of Mayaguez warehouse's capacity in the future. A loading crane with a 55,000 pound capacity, giving the port complete containerized cargo fa­ cilities, is expected to be in op­ eration by the end of this year, according to the company's Pu­ erto Rico manager David Tolan. In inaugurating the new ter­ minal, Mayor Cole noted that Sea-Land's development of the Mayaguez area had begun in 1958 with a small warehouse and trailer parking area and had shown continuous growth. SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS May l-Moy 30, 1969 Number of Benefits Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . .. Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) . . Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . (Average: $513.73) Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) SUMMARY (Welfare) Vacation Benefits (Average: $429.19) Total Welfare, Vacation Benefits Paid This Period . . . 731 31 1,023 32 1,518 779 5,220 9,334 1,292 10,626 Amount Paid $ 15,349.73 95,775.77 232,993.00 6,400.00 77,984.26 9,065.73 41,220.00 478,788.49 554,507.53 $1,033,296.02 �Page Twentjr Eight SEAFARERS Jnlr, 1969 LOG Throwing In For a Berth MARAD Study Shows: U.S. National Cargo Carriage Surpassed by Most Countries WASHINGTON—Few coun­ vored segments of the U.S.-flag tries have permitted their na­ merchant fleet. Turkey, which the report tional merchant fleets to carry as little as 5.6 percent of their describes as having a fleet which import and export cargoes— is in "relatively poor condition," the amount carried by Ameri­ carries some 25 to 30 percent can-flag ships in 1967— a re- of its trade, despite a "pressing cent report released by the Fed­ need" for modem freighters. Japan carries 46 percent of eral Maritime Administration its trade in its own bottoms. shows. And those countries which Uruguay carries 18 percent, In­ do have so poor a record are all dia 13 percent and the Philip­ taking steps to improve the situ­ pines "only 17 percent," the re­ ation, MARAD's study shows. port shows. In comparing the various na­ Based recently on data for tional efforts of maritime na­ the years 1966 and 1967, the tions studied, MARAD discov­ study involves the nature of the ered that the U.S. merchant subsidies—^both direct and in­ direct—^that 49 non-Communist marine now plays about as im­ portant a role in the foreign AB John Bradford, second from left, throws in for a berth on the Robin Sherwood which was sailing from maritime nations with fleets of commerce of this nation as the Norfolk for a run to the Far East. Waiting to talk with Dispatcher Ted Babkowski in the New York hall are at least 50,000 gross tons use in 16 ships in the Moroccan com­ Henry Bursey, cook; Thomas Pastrano, cook; Louis Benmont, FWT; and Pedro Sanchez, an able seaman. support of their maritime in­ mercial fleet play in that coun­ dustries. try's trade. Of the countries included only The chief difference, the Measure Clears Congress; two receive no govermnent as­ agency points out, is that the sistance. African nation is pursuing a "This study clearly indicates," more aggressive policy to build Andrew E. Gibson, maritime ad­ up its merchant fleet. It is, for ministrator, pointed out, "the example, giving a construction types of competition with which bonus of 15 percent of the con­ the United States merchant ma­ struction cost to shipbuilders. rine must deal, and emphasizes WASHINGTON —A one- H.R. 265, had previously been of maritime legislation, teamed the importance which maritime year extension of the existing 55 approved by the House. The up with Senator John J. Wil­ nations accord to the mainte­ percent ceiling on construction measure—^which also includes a liams (R-Del.), an economy ad­ nance of their merchant fleets." subsidies for new ships has been 60 percent subsidy ceiling for re­ vocate, to force through an In furthering their merchant passed by the Senate. The bill, construction or reconditioning amendment cutting the House- fleet effort, the countries ex­ of passenger vessels—-is now on approved period in half. amined employ a variety of con­ the desk of the President await­ Rather than risk the possibil­ struction subsidies, import and ing action. ity of defeat by an anti-maritime export controls, and tax advan­ WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO Originally introduced in the minority which existed in the tages. The result is that the President George Meany has an­ House by Representative Wil­ Senate at that time. Represent­ fleets of most maritime nations nounced the appointment of liam S. Mailliard (R-Calif.), ative Edward A. Garmatz (D- carry considerably more of their James C. Gildea as his execu­ ranking minority member of the Md.), chairman of the House foreign commerce than does the tive assistant. House Merchant Marine and Merchant Marine and Fisheries United States, despite the direct Gildea, whose career in the Fisheries Committee, as a two- Committee, accepted the trim- and indirect subsidies applied labor movement spans nearly WASHINGTON The year extension, it was passed in med-down Senate version. in various ways to certain fa- three decades of service both at Yugoslav ship Cetinje of 8,299 the one-year form after word the national and state levels, gross tons has been added to the was received that this was the succeeds Lane Kirkland, who Cuba Blacklist, according to lat­ Administration's preference. became secretary-treasurer of est information from the Mari­ A new maritime program is the AFL-CIO on July 1. time- Administration. expected to be sent to Capitol Born in Hazleton, Pa., in Four other vessels were re­ Hill by the White House shortly 1922, Gildea started in the la­ moved from the blacklist at the and such a program could con­ bor movement as a member of same time because they had ei­ tain other provisions affecting VANCOUVER, B. C. — A ible figure for a great nation!" the Textile Workers Union. He ther been lost or were scrapped ship construction subsidies. "study syndrome" which has On the other hand, he noted, joined the staff of the CIO on recently. They are three CypIn its report accompanying been substituted for both na­ Canada has added 72 new ves­ July 23, 1941. riot-flag ships — the Acme of After serving with the armed tional policy and action in both sels to its Great Lakes fleet over 7,173 tons. El Toro, 5,949 tons the bill, the House committee the past 12 years—compared to forces from 1943 to 1946, Gil­ countries was blamed recently and the 7,257-ton Atticos—and pointed out that failure to pass only eight added by the United dea studied labor economics and by Edwin M. Hood, president also the 4,939-ton Panamanian- the extension would cause the States. other labor subjects at George of the Shipbuilders Council of subsidy ceiling to revert to 50 flag Yu Lee. Washington University and America, for the striking simi­ However, Hood concluded on Established by MARAD on percent, depriving ship operators larity in government neglect of American University here. January 1,1963, the Cuba black­ "of the cost parity contem­ the respective merchant fleets a note of optimism. In November 1958, after "The Nixon Administration," serving as assistant to the sec­ list now contains the names of plated" in the Merchant Marine in both the United States and he declared, "is presently en­ retary-treasurer of the AFL172 foreign-flag ships totalling Act of 1936. The construction subsidy ceil­ Canada. 1,237,025 tons. Vessels are so gaged in the formulation of a Speaking before the Canadian new approach to my country's CIO Industrial Union Depart­ listed because they have traded ing was raised from 50 percent ment, he became special assist­ with Cuba, and, as a result are to 55 percent in 1960 because Shipbuilding and Ship Repair­ pressing need for ships." While ant to the president of the AFLhenceforth forbidden to haul of the widening gap between ing Association here. Hood no details are yet publicly avail­ CIO, and in 1962 became assist­ U.S. government-generated or United States and foreign ship­ noted that, while the studies able, he noted, "Two things are ant to the president. financed cargoes. The agency re­ building costs. The Increase was have been going on "in a vacu­ Gildea is a former vice-presi­ designed as a short-term meas­ um", the U.S. fleet "has dimin­ particularly noticeable: For the vises this list periodically. dent of the Maryland State and first time in recent memory, the Vessels may be removed from ure but has been extended by ished by smne 1,000 vessels in D. C. AFL-CIO and a former the blacklist whenever their own­ successive sessions of Cbngress the past two decades and more attitudes of government have vice president of the Washing­ ers or operators pledge to keep as each new expiration date ap­ than three quarters of the ships changed; there is a new spirit ton Central Labor Council, presently registered, under the of co-operation and an entirely them^as well as any other ships proached. AFL-CIO. He has led a number under their control—away from Last year, the House passed American flag are 20 years of new outlook. Siecondly, there is of organizing campaigns for the agreement on the part of the International Union Cuban ports so long as it re­ the extension for a two-year age or older." Electri­ mains IJnIted States policy to period. However, when the He pointed also to the dwin­ architects of national policy cal, Radio and Machine Work­ divert shilling from that coun­ measure reached the Senate, for­ dling of the Canadian-flag deep that chronic proUems will never ers and, on occasion, has worked try. A similar blacklist is main­ mer Senator Frank J. Lausche sea fleet from 170 ships to four be solved unless the needed ships in organizational efforts for the (D-Ohio), a consistent opponent —which he called an "incred­ are built." tained for North Vietnam. Textile Workers Union. Nixon to Ait on One-Year Extension Of 55% Ship Construition Subsidies CiUeaAppiunted executive Ass't ToGeorgeMeany Yugoslav Ship Put On Cuba Blacklist; 4 Others Dropped 'StudySyttdrome'Blamedfar Decline Of Fleets in Both U.S. and Canada �Jalr, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Twen^ Nine LOG Maritime Authorization Bill Cleared Admiral Praises Seafarers For Quick Pescue of Flier By Senate Committee for Final Vote (Reprinted below is a letter of commendation from Rear Ad­ miral Charles Tighe, U.S. Coast Guard Commander of the Elev­ enth District, praising the alert action and high degree of training displayed by Seafarers of the Overseas Alice in the rescue of a downed aviator earlier this year. Addressed to the master of the vessel, the letter recalls highlights of the dramatic rescue originally reported in the April issue of the Seafarers LOG.) lj¥ Captain James P. Osnes SS OVERSEAS ALICE c/o Maritime Overseas Corporation ITew York, N.Y. Dear Captain Osnes; The District Commander notes with pleasure your rescue of the pilot of the ditched twin-engine De Haviland Dove on the early morning of 23 February 1969. The pilot of the De Haviland Dove, Mr. Warren Bullock, running low on fuel, with the right engine feathered, saw lights through intermittent breaks in the clouds. Mistaking these lights for the island of San Oemente, he descended to about 300 feet. By the time he realized that the lights were from your vessel, he was unable to regain altitude and ditched alongside the SS OVERSEAS ALICE at approximately 0315 (PST) in position 33-45.5 N; 122-04 W. The aircraft sank at 0326. eleven minutes after ditching. Due to the alertness of your crew, the No. 1 lifeboat was lowered and the pilot was recovered from the water at 0340 (PST), twenty-five minutes after the aircraft ditched. This rescue was made during adverse weather and sea conditions, and necessitated a co-ordinated effort between the vessel and the lifeboat by use of walkie-talkies to direct your rescue crew to the area of the downed pilot. Accordingly, in behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard, I commend you and your crew for the alertness, excellent seamanship and high degree of readiness that was displayed in upholding the finest traditions of the sea in performing your rescue mission. Sincerely, CHARLES TIGHE, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Conmander, Eleventh Coast Guard District St Onge Charges lax Enforcement Of 50-50 Role I, r- -• I * i* WASHINGTON — Repre­ sentative William St Onge (DConn.) has charged federal agen­ cies with failing to "rigidly en­ force" the 50-50 cargo reqiurement St Onge told a meting of the Maritime Trades Depart­ ment cff the AFL-OO that time was "hanfcy-pani^ In the car­ riage surplus agricultural products under the Food-forPeace fnogram. The Department of Agricul­ ture was Uamed for "juggling of shipping dat^ to coincide with the time when the least number of American ships are available," as well as "statistical juggling about what does or what does not constitute 50 percent carriage aboard American ves­ sels." St. Onge called for changing the cargo preference provisions of the Export-Import Act to en­ courage 100 percent carriage of govenunent-generated shipments abroad American ships—^just so long as they are available. ^ ..lOH'~ m>iTOW i>UIX3j WASHINGTON — Decks were cleared for action on the bill authorizing funds to be ap­ propriated for Maritime Admin­ istration programs for the fiscal year 1970 last month when the Senate Commerce Committee reported the House-passed H.R. 4152 to the full Senate with two minor amendments. Senator Russell B. Long (DLa.), chairman of the Subcom­ mittee on Merchant Marine, filed the report which retains the major part of the House version. Recommended by the com­ mittee was a reduction in the funds allocated for research and development from $15 to $12 million. Funds for aid to state marine schools were pegged at $2,270,000 — an increase of $230,000 over the House pro­ visions. As reported to the Senate, the over-all amount of funds au­ thorized for maritime is $384,608,000, an increase of $121,612,000 over the amount re­ quested by the Nixon Adminis­ tration. The amount for oper­ ating subsidies is $212 million and $145 million is recommend­ ed for construction subsidies. The report states that MARAD's research and development request for $7.7 million is "to­ tally inadequate in view of the .. . needs in the maritime field." Nevertheless, it lowered the House's sights in this regard be­ cause the Senate Committee concluded that "present staff and programming limitations" would prevent MARAD from fully utilizing the larger sum. Included in the financial as­ sistance authorized to state ma­ rine schools are funds for the inauguration of a Great" Lakes maritime academy at Northwestem Michigan College in Trav­ erse City, Michigan. The Mich­ igan State Legislature must first act on this. In allocating an authorization of $145 million in new funds for ship construction subsidies, to be used in conjunction with $101,600,000 in carryover funds—an aggregate of $246,600,000—^the committee stated this would be "a lean but feas­ ible amount to set into motion in fiscal year 1970 a merchant marine revitalization program." Such a fund would permit subsidizing the construction of 18 to 22 new ships plus 17 104 U. X Sh^s Stifled in '6B Eqwds Otte-Fourth of WwU Total WASHINGTON ~ Nearly one-fourth of all ships scrapped during 1968 because of age were U.S.-flag vessels — this country once again leading all other nations in the continuing depletion of its merchant fleet. According to the Maritime Administration, 104 of the 463 ocean-going ships scrapped last year were American. This clear­ ly indicates the progressive deterioration of the U.S. mer­ chant marine, a process which is widely deplored, but about which, up to now, almost noth­ ing has been done by the gov- Ship Meeting on the Brooklyn Ship's Delegate Frank Gaspar, right, who sails as AB pn the Brooklyn (Sea-Land), talks with Oiler Frank Harris, left, and Bosun John Cabral after a meeting on board ship. Brother Gaspar reported a lot of rough weather on the recent coast-wise run to Puerto Rico. He claims you'll see more rough seas on this run than you would encounter in the Pacific in a year, but it gives the green OS's a chance to g6t their sea legs. "" "• iJfj - - — major conversions. Operating differential subsidy money included in the bill—a total of $212 million—encom­ passes $17 million to be avail­ able "in the event that it is pos­ sible for the Maritime Admin­ istration to initiate additional contracts during the coming fis­ cal year." This would envision enlarging the scope of such sub­ sidization beyond the 14 oper­ ators who are presently included. However, this is a policy ques­ tion which must await the pres­ entation of the new maritime program promised by the Ad­ ministration later this summer. Completion of congressimial action on the authorization bill is a necessary prerequisite to the actual appropriation of funds, which must be done under sepa­ rate legislation. n emment. The 97 freighters scrapped by this nation averaged 25 years in age. Also scrapped from the U.S. fleet were three combination ships with an average age of 21 years and four tankers, averaging 27 years old. A 20-year age mark is regarded as the limit for the economical operation of any ship. Most of the vessels scrapped by the U.S. were built during the World War II period and had long outlived their useful­ ness, even in the federal reserve fleet. Two-thirds of the 1,000 ships which remain in the U.S. merchant fleet will be over 25 years old by 1972—^if they last until then. This total includes all vessels now in reserve status. Forty-one countries-=including Communist-bloc nations— were covered by MARAD's re­ port, which was limited to mer­ chant ships of 1,000 tons or more. Although no other nation ap­ proached the U-S. figure, Liberia scrapped 79 ships and Panama's figure was 52. Many of the vessels regirteied under those flags, however, were binlt in tiie U.S. during World War n and later sold. Greece had a total of 47 ships scrapped, while the United Kingdom was next with 26. World-t^lde scrai^ings last year includ^ 409 freighters, 39 tankers 1^ ecanbination ships. Tt^^veraged 24 years of age. Oldest dCShe vessels disposed of was theTvido, an Italian-flag freighter built in 1889. Among the U.S. ships scrapped, the bulk carrier Edward Y. Townsend, built in 1906, was the niost ancient. ^ In 1967 the number of ships scrapped was 532, with an ag­ gregate total of 3,558,056 gross tbns. �SEAFARERS Page llirtjr Robert Swords, 48; Brother Swords was lost overboard is the East China 'Sea on February 25 while sailing as A B on the American Pride. A native of Flor­ ida, he had been living with his wife, Anne, in Norfolk, Virgin­ ia. Borther Swords was a 19year veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving from 1941 to 1960. He joined the SIU in the Port of Houston. <t>Clarence Gates, 50: An auto­ mobile accident claimed the life of Brother Gates on April 27 in Lorain, Ohio. He had been working as tug fireman for Great Lakes Towing Com­ pany since 1956, and joined the SIU in Lorain in 1961. Brother Gates is a native of Michigan, but had been residing in Lorain for a number of years. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Margaret. Burial services took place at Ridge Hill Memorial Park Cem­ etery in Lorain. Evit Ardoin, 59: Brother Ardoin died January 4 at the Vet­ erans Hospital in Houston after suffering a heart attack on board the Penn Sailor. Sailing as FWT, he had been shipping out for more than 20 years. Seafarer Ardoin joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1948. He was a lifelong resident of Ville Platte, Louisiana. Brother Ar­ doin is survived by a son, Lion­ el, and a sister, Mrs. Lillian Mullins. Burial took place at Tee Mamou Cemetery in Ville Platte. Randy Adams, 17: Brother Adams died March 24 in his home town of Westwego, Lou­ isiana. He had graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship in New Orleans in June, 1 9 6 8, and shipped as crew pantryman on the Overseas Dinny. His last vessel was the Steel Vendor. Brother Adams is survived by his father, Robert J. Adams, and his mother, Alice. Burial services were held at Westwego Cemetery. Harold Borup, 62: Brother Borup died at Memorial Hospi­ tal Southeast in Houston on Manuel Meza, 40: Brother April 14 follow­ Meza died December 31, 1968, ing a heart at­ in San Francisco. tack. Bom in He had been Rockport, Tex­ sailing since as, he had been 1954, after serv­ living for many ing three years years in Hous­ with the U.S. ton with his wife, Army. Rated Margaret, and a son, Harold, Jr. FOWT, his last Seafarer Borup had been work­ vessel was the ing as tug captain for G«S:H Depauw Victory. Towing Company since 1957 Brother Meza joined the SIU in and had previously worked for the Port of Seattle. Born in San Intercoastal Towing. He joined Jose, he continued to make his the SIU in Houston in 1957. home there throughout his life. Burial services were held at For­ est Park Cemetery in Houston. Brother Meza is survived by a sister, Mrs. Jovita Flores. Burial was at Calvary Cemetery in San Jose. Clarence Oliver, 58: Brother Oliver passed away August 18, _ 1968, at the Lee Biggs, 41: Brother Biggs USPHS Hospi­ succumbed to heart disease in tal in San Fran­ an Army Field cisco. A long­ Hospital in Sai­ time member of gon after being the SIU, Brother stricken aboard Oliver joined the the Del Alba. He Union in Savan­ had sailed as nah in 1939. He cook-baker, and had been going joined the SIU to sea for more than 35 years in the Port of and last shipped as steward on New Orleans. the Northwest in 1968. Brother Brother Biggs, a native of Ten­ Oliver was bom in Savannah nessee, had been making his but maintained his home in home in New Orleans at the Newark, New Jersey, when he time of his death. He is survived was not sailing. He is survived by his wife, Helen, and a daugh­ by his wife, Dorothy. Burial ter, Theresa. Burial services was in Savannah. were held in New Orleans. <I> July, 1969 LOG Donovan Turner, 37: Brother ' "Turner passed away at the USPHS Hospi­ tal in New Or­ leans on March 30 after a brief illness. Bom in Brooklyn, New York, he had been living in New Orleans at the time of his death. Brother Tumer was a graduate of the Harry Lunde­ berg School of Seamanship. Af­ ter completing his training in 1967, he shipped as AB on the Topa Topa. His last vessel was the Loma Victory. Brother Tumer is survived by his wife, Sylvia. Burial was at Rockfish Cemetery in Wallace, North Carolina. John Kerschnar, 49: Heart disease claimed the life of Brother Kerschner on Decem­ ber 17, 1968, in Wilmington, California. Bom in Iowa, he had lived most of his life in Long Beach. Seafarer Kerschner had been sailing for 23 years, and joined the SIU in the Port of Houston. He last sailed as oiler aboard the Afoundria. He served four years with the U.S. Army during World War II. Brother Kerschner is survived by his mother, Mrs. Delia Kerschner. Burial was at Inglewood Park Cemetery. Elizar Martell, 59; Brother Martell was lost at sea Novem­ ber 25, 1968, while sailing as cook aboard the Sagamore Hill. Bom in Con­ cord, Connecti­ cut, he had been making his home in Port Henry, New York. Sea­ farer Martell had been sailing for more than 23 years and joined the SIU in the Port of Boston in 1945. Hs is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Durkin. Earl Rivers, 65: A heart at­ tack claimed the life of Brother Rivers on May 10 at the USPHS Hospital in San Francisco. Bom in Grinnell, Iowa, he had been making his home in Long Beach, Califor­ nia, since retiring on an SIU disability pension in 1966. He had sailed as a member of the engine department for more than 17 years, and joined the Union Michael Ray, 43: Brother Ray died October 7 while sail­ ing aboard the Afoundria. Bom in Brooklyn, he had maintained his residence in Kent, England, for a number of years. Seafarer Ray sailed as Paul Strickland, 63: Seafarer wiper, and had been going to Strickland died May 16 at the sea for 21 years. He joined the USPHS Hospi­ SIU in the Port of New York tal in Baltimore in 1951. Brother Ray had after a brief ill­ served with the U.S. Army dur­ ness. He was a ing World War II. He is sur­ veteran of 39 vived by three brothers and two years at sea as sisters, all living in England. a member of the Burial was at Long Island Na­ steward depart­ tional Cemetery, New York. ment when he retired on SIU pension in 1964. ——He last sailed as cook on Domingo Molina, 51: Brother the Losmar. Brother Strickland Molina was lost when the tug joined the Union in 1945 in Theresa F., Red Philadelphia. Bom in North Circle Trans­ Carolina, he had made his home port, capsized in in Baltimore for many years. the Gulf of Mex­ He is survived by his wife, on January ico Eleanor, and a son, William. 9. Bom in Texas, Burial services took place at St. he had been liv­ Stanislaus Cemetery in Balti­ ing in New Or­ more. leans with his wife, Consuelo. Seafarer Molina was rated AB and had been sail­ HwoldRosenaraiis, 61: Heart ing for more than 30 years. His failure claimed the life of Broth­ last ship was the Beloit Victory er Rosencrans in 1968. A long-time member Febmary 26 at of the SIU, Molina joined the the USPHS Hos­ Union in the Port of New Or­ pital in Savan­ leans in 1940. nah, Georgia. He <|> had been sailing since 1943, the Francisco Rodriquez: 39: same year he Brother Rodriquez passed away joined the SIU April 13 at St. in the Port of New York. He Mary's Hospital was rated bosun, and last in Hoboken, shipped on the Steel Seafarer New Jersey. A in 1968. Bom in New York, native of Puerto he had been living in Riviera Rico, he had Beach, Florida, at the time of made his home his death. Seafarer Rosencrans in Hoboken. is survived by his stepmother, Brother Rodri­ Mrs. Rhoda Rosencrans, and a quez had sailed as messman, brother. Nelson. Burial was at and joined the SIU in the Port Harts Mortuary, Macon, Geor­ of San Francisco and his last gia. ship was the Fanwood. Seafarer Rodriquez is survived by his mother, Maria, who lives in Puerto Rico. Burial took place Robert Statham, 61: Brother at Puerto Real Cemetery in Statham died of a heart attack Cabo Roji. , on board the <|> Seattle March 17 while the vessel Melvfai Grant, 61: Brother was tied up at Grant died May 22 at the Vet­ Long Beach, erans Hospital California. in Chicago, fol­ Rated AB, he lowing a brief had been going illness. Bom in ^' to sea for more Dundee, Illinois, ..N he had been liv­ than 25 years. Brother Statham ing in Elgin at was one of the SIU old-timers, / the time of his joining the Union in 1943 in death. Brother the Port of New York. He had last sailed on the Columbia Grant had sailed as steward, chief cook and baker. His last Banker. Born in New York, he vessel was the Midlake. Brother had been making his home in Grant's wife, Marilyn, passed Seattle. Seafarer Statham is away several years ago. He is survived by a brother, Arthur. survived by a daughter, Mrs. Burial services were held at Bernice Bradley. Burial services Oakdale Memorial Park Cem­ were held at Bluff City Ceme­ etery. tery in Elgin. .,. , . in Wilmington. He last shipped as electrician on the Ames Vic­ tory. Brother Rivers is survived by his wife, Theresia. Burial was at Westminster Memorial Park Cemetery in Westminster, Califomia. 4^ n �Jnlr, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Thirty One I VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pioneer), play 4—Chairman, Jimmie Bartlett; ^Secretary, Kenneth Roberts. Brother G. A. Allen resigned as ship's dele­ gate and Brother W. R. Mask^was elected to serve in his place. There were no beefs and everything is running smoothly. ^20.00 in ship's fund. PENN CARRIER (Penn Shipping), April 6—Chairman, J, J. Connors; Secretary, C. Roblee. No beefs and no disputed OT. Long discussion held regarding improvement in pen(fiion plan. Vote of thanks W&B exftended to the steward department for a job well done. i OVERSEAS REBECCA (Maritime *,Overseas), May 24 — Chairman, R. iByrd; Secretary, A. Arellano; Ship's l)elegate, John R. Nelson. No beefs ere reported by department dele^ stes. Motion made that twenty years, dues paying members with twelve years S.I.U. sea time be eligit)le for retirement pension, regard;Iess of age or physical condition. V^ote of thanks was extended to the fiteward department for a job well done. SiATRAIN GEORGIA (Hudson , May 4—Chairman, Wiljliam Douglas; Secretamr, John Mursphy; Ship's Delegate. rV;ank Smith; }eck Delegate, „ . Rodi„ r Swanson; Engine Delegate, A. B. Stevenson; Stewards' Delegate, John Murphy. No beefs were reported by depart- Jnent delegates. i STEEL APPRENTIC^Isthmian), April 18—Chairman, William W, Stevens; Secretary, Paul P. Lopez; Ship's Delegate, Pat Bucei; Deck Delegate, Thomas S. Kline; Engine Delegate, Marcelo Eimar; Stewards' Delegate, Macario Caairpuee. Motion was held to hold a safety meeting. Mo beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. PENN EXPORTER (Penn Ship­ ping), June 1 — Chairman, Phillip Wagner; Secretary, Z. A. Markris; Ship's Delegate, Blackie Wagner; Dec^ Delegate, Claude S. Dick; £nine Delegate, Miguel Luis Medina; tewards' Delegate, John R. Epper­ fson. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Repair list was turned in and repairs have been started. il. I< i- DIQEST of SIU I, /- MEETINGS i JOHN B. WATERMAN (Water­ man), May 18—ChairmM, Jqegph D. Blanchard; Secretary, b-reddlck R. Sullivan; Ship's Delegate, Jol^h D. Blanchard; Deck Delegate, Josenh D= Blanchard; Engsne Delegate, Stan­ ley Ganzor; Stewards' Delegate, Les­ lie Sigler. No beefs were reported. Ship's delegate extended a vote of thanks to the entire crew for their fine co-operation. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Sdtzel-Weller DistiUeries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old EOc" "Cabin Stin," W. L. Weller Bourbon whldieys (Distillery Workers) ! i L^ .r*' t Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) ^ R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) <I> Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Root and Shoe Workers' Union) ^l> Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) ^ "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ues, Boss Gloves, RIchman ^ Atlantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) RIchman Bros, and Sewefl Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) i : White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) ^ Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Morn Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Economy Furniture Co. Smithtown Maple Western Provincial BUt-Rite (Upholsterers) DEL SDD (Delta), June 2—Chair­ man, Ewing A. Rihn; Secretary, H'cs Spisgsl; Ship's Delegate, Hans Spiegel; Deck Delegate, John H. Dehring; Engine Delegate, Alfred S. DeAgro; Stewards' Delegate, Paul S. Huseby. Everything Is running smoothhr with no beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to all delegates. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dlatrict makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. Ail Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. OV£I»EAS SUZANNE (Maritime ' Overseas^ May 11—Chairman, J. A. TRUST FUNDS. Ail trust funds of the SIU Atiantie, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Stevens; Secretary, J. Ollveri; Ship's Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. Ail these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds Delegate,. Herbert Archer; Deck shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only uimn appros^ by a majority of the trustem. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. of thanks was extended to Brother.;^ Archer for a job well done as ship's ® SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively delegate. Some disputed OT in en-, by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are nosted and available in all Union hails. If you gins, .depsrtssent.' . . there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in .^fed the eontraets betvreen the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified maU, return receipt requested. The proper addrcM for thU is: BUCKEYE ATLANTIC Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place. Suite 1980, New Yoric 4, N. Y. , Pull eopies of eontraets as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. Moore; En^ne Delegate, Bill Iveyj • CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in ail SIU haiia. l%ese Stewards' Delegate, J. Bucala, Dis­ contracte specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live abo^ cussion held regarding preparation ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing tor OT of food. on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU imtrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract righto prop­ erly. eontaet the nearest SIU port agent. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Victory Carriers), June 8 — Chairman, L. Relnchucfc; Secretary. A. Rudhicki; Ship's Delegate, James J. Garner; Deck Delegate, V. Giima; Enrfne Delega^^Wiluam L. Sutton; Ste-1 wards' D. Loche, I21.p0 ita^eWp'e fond. Few hours disputed OT in — ' * • EDITORIAL POLICY-dBAPARERS LOG. The LOG has teadltlonally rained from pnblishing any article serving the political purposes ^ My Individual In the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publWng artides deoued harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This establisbed policy has been reaffirmed by memberahip action at the September, 1960 meetings In dl tonititutional porta. The responsibility for LOG poli^ is vested In mn editorial boaid whl^ eonsiats^ the Esaeutive Board of the Union. 'Hie Ezecntive may ddegate, firom fm««g ito ranks, one individual to carry out this rssponslbility. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Aug. 12—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... Aug. 13—2:30 p.m. Wilmington Aug. 18—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Aug. 20—2:00 p.m. Seattle .... Aug. 25—2:00 p.m. New York .. Aug. 4—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Aug. 5—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. Aug. 6—2:30 p.m. Detroit Aiig. 8—2:30 p.m. Houston . . . Aug. 11—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans Aug. 12—7:00 p.m. Mobile Aug. 13—7:00 p.m. New York .. Aug. 4—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Aug. 5—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. Aug. 6—7:00 p.m. IHonston .. Aug. 11—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit .... Alpena .... Buffalo Chicago ... Dnlnth Frankfort .. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. 18—2:00 p.m. 18—7:00 p.m. 18—7:00 p.m. 18—7:30 p.m. 18—7:00 p.m. 18—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago .,. Aug. tSanlt Ste. Marie Aug. Buffalo Aug. Dnlnth ... Aug. Cleveland . Aug. Toledo ... Aug. Detroit ... Aug. Milwaukee Aug. 12—^7:30 p.m. 14—^7:30 p.m. 13—7:30 p.m. 15—7:30 p.m. 15—7:30 p.m. 15—7:30 p.m. 11—7:30 p.m. 11—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Aug. 12—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... Aug. 13—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Aug. 5—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) Aug. 6—5:00 p.m. Norftdk ... Aug. 7—-5:00 p.m. Houston . .. Aug. 11—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region PUIadelpbia Aug. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Aug. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk Aug. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Aug. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at I.abor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. . f Meeting held at Galveston wharves. IBHlCWSiHAiiii SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Halt EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cat Tannar Earl Shapard A1 Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Lladiay Wllliaini Robart MaHhawi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Karr HEAD9UARTERS «7S 4th Ava., Rklyn. (212) HY f-UOO ALPENA. MICH 800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3ili •ALTIMORE, Md 1214 E. •allimora St. (30!) EA 7-4900 BOSTON. Mais U3 Atlantic Avanua (417) 482-4716 BUFFALO. N.Y 735 WaiHaoton St. SIU (714) TL 3-92S9 IBU (714) TL 3-9259 CHICACO. Ill 9141 Ewinq .Ava. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND. Ohio 1420 W. 2Sth St. (214) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich I022S W. Jattanen Ava. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT. Mich HOUSTON, Ta« JACKSONVILLE. Fla JERSEY CITY. N.J MOBILE. Ala NEW ORLEANS. La NORFOLK. Va PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2014 W. 3rd St. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. lex 207 415 Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 2401 Paarl St. (904) EL 3-0987 99 Montflomary St. (201) HE 5-9424 I South Uwranea St. (205) HE 2-1754 430 Jackson Ava. (504) 529-7544 115 3rd St. (703) 422-1892 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR. Tax 1348 Savanth St. SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., 350 Fraamont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE. P.R 1313 Famandat Juncoa Stop 20 724-2840 SEAHLE, Wash 2505 First Avanua (204) MA 3-4334 "• TOLEDO. Ohio 935 Sumfnit St. (419) 248-3491 WILMINSTCN, Calif.. 450 Seasida Ava Tarminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA. Japan..Isaya BIdg.. Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 201 PAYMENT OP MONIES. No monies are to be paid tc anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumetances should any member pay any money for any reason unless be is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such pajrment he made without supplying a recdpt, or if a member is required to make a paymmit and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such iiayment. this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every sU months in the SBAFARBBS LOG a verbatim copy of ito constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiariie themselves with ito contents. Any time you feel any membn or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dnling with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED 8EAPARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an aetive role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard onployment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal righto in emidoyment and as members of the SIU. Theee riiritto are elearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contraeto which the Union has negotiated with the employera. ConsequenUy, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feds that he is denied the equal righto to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAPABERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic righto of Seafarers is the rQtht to pursue legislative and political objectives whieh will serve the best intensto of themselves, their famOles and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was establbhed. DpMtions to SPAI) are entlrdy voluntary and constitute the funds through whieh legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membenhip and the Union. If at any tima a Seafarer feds that any af tha above righto have been rioUted. •r that ha has bswx danied hia coutltMlMMl right af accaas to Unlan ramids or ^ toMMttoB, ha sharid immadUtdy natlfy BIU Prasldent Parf HaO at hcadgaartara by eartifiad maU. ratam racalpt raqMstad. *, �SEAFARERS^OG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC. GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO ,+ |Steel Vendor (Istiimian) crewed-up and took on cargo : at £He Basin in New York recently as she pt^ared fcNr a four-month Toyage to India. The ship was scheduled to stop at other east coast ports to take on more cargo before begin­ ning the long run around the Cape of Good Hope and up into the Indian Ocean. SlU representatives held a meeting aboard ship with the crew, and elected a ship's committee who will conduct weekly Union meetings at sea and represent Seafarers in aU departments. Ift -s. •m ' t/K ..p''.v. Jmi :'a&' • • 4 vV-, m m Frank Bakun, who sails as FWT, ehaeb fha readings af the boiler| combustion control board as the Steel Vendor takes on cargo in Erie Basin. The vessel, a 04, was preparing for a long voyage to India. ;el1#' rvH '-m Jack Mayo Mundine, baker, checks the day's menu for the crew signf ing on the vessel for the long haul to India. Mundine is a veteran in the steward department so this ship should be a good feeder. ^ ® ^«rles Michael 2ncl assistant engineer, at right, and Dale Chambers, oiler, make fa final check on the boiler drum safety valve drain line before sailing. Michaels got his 3rd assistant's license in 1966 after training at the SlU-MESA, Distfivt 2 EnigioeOfing Schooli and received his 2nd assistant's license through the sehoeljn 1968, Hi' r^r «.r I J7 \ if' y \\ I i P.. Parker Holt, chief steward, gets squared away with SlU Representa-.. tive Bill Hall, after Hall ard other Union representatives held a ship­ board meeting to discuss the pension plan and other Union matters^ „ 4«. JJ F/'f-'fJiiifle m kT < J • i Z-' - i AB Richard ^bbons keeps a strain on the bow-line under the watchful eyes of veteran Seafarer Ivan Tarkov. Gib­ bons was making his third trip since graduating from SlU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship last Oct. Tarkov, who sails as carpenter, joined the SlU in the Port of New York 1939. 4 KSSSF I ,> • ^ ^' i Thomas Shamblee writes a letter to mail home before the Steel Veh3 dor gets under way. Shamblee graduated front the Harry Lundeberg^'^ School of Seamanship In 1967. Sailing as OS, this is his first trip. "j � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource July 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU SEEKS EXPANDED US FLAG ROLE IN SHIPPING TO SOVIET-BLOC COUNTRIES ICC EXTENDS BARGE TOW MIXING RULE; GIVES CONGRESS SIX MONTHS TO ACT THE SIU’S HARRY LUNDENBURG SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP UPGRADING LADDER TO LICENSED STATUS CLIMBED BY SEAFARERS – YOUND AND OLD WHO DOES THE WALLSTREET JOURNAL REALLY BLEED FOR? CONTROL OF WORLD’S SEAS SOVIET AIM, INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS ANALYSIS FINDS BILL WOULD GRANT UNEMPLOYMENT PAY TO OHIO SEAFARERS ON GREAT LAKES CONGRESSMAN, SHIPPING CO. EXECUTIVE CALL FOR END OF DOUBLE SUBSIDIES NIXON TO ACT ON ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF 55% SHIP CONSTRUCTION SUBSIDIES MARITIME AUTHORIZATION BILL CLEARED BY SENATE COMMITTEE FOR FINAL VOTE CREW UP ON STEEL VENDOR Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 07/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 9 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/8a5ebd905fef780d891adf594c76a1df.PDF c31b6f7ca04d32d2e1ee8dfe15b2e7a9 PDF Text Text Vol. XXXi No. 10 SEAFARERS#I.OG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO �Page Two SEAFARERS 1 August, 1969 LOG After Strong Protest by SlU Move to Dilute 50-50 Cargo Rule Defeated In Senate WASHINGTON — A major victory was won by the SIU and the maritime industry last month when the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, in a closed session, voted to eliminate an amendment to the Export Con­ trol Act posing a threat to the 50-50 cargo preference require­ ment in United States trade with Eastern Europe. The defeated amendment, which was also opposed by the Nixon Administration, would have denied the President the right to stipulate the use of American-flag merchant ships in the carriage of cargoes of grains to the Soviet Union and other Communist nations. Strong objection to the pro­ posed change had been raised by SIU President Paul Hall in testi­ mony before the committee at hearings held prior to the vote. Hall told the groups that "the proposed language would run counter to the historic concept of providing preference for American-flag vessels in the car= riage of our country's trade." He also emphasized that it would "serve as an opening wedge in a new assault on the entire cargo preference pro­ gram," work "to the detriment of our balance of payments," have "an adverse, and perhaps fatal, impact on our already dwindling merchant marine for­ tunes" and would "give new impetus to the Soviet drive for world maritime supremacy." The SIU president also ad­ vocated the strengthening of the 50-50 provisions. He said this would mean "more jobs for American seamen, more jobs for American shipyard workers, more jobs in scores of related trades and services." Similar positions were taken before the committee hearings on the Export Expansion and Regulation Act of 1969 by other maritime industry and adminis­ tration spokesmen, who also voiced their concern over the effect the amendment on East European trade could have in weakening the already deteri­ orating U.S. merchant marine, thereby helping the Soviet Union toward its goal of dominance in international commerce. Hall also noted that the lower­ ing of U.S.-flag carriage of such commodities would provide ad­ ditional encouragement to "ruhaway-flag shipping" as well as to the big U.S. oil companies who operate huge fleets of foreign- flag vessels. Cargo Preference History The SIU president briefly traced the history of the cargo preference system, pointing out that Public Resolution No. 17, enacted in 1934, provided that when the purchase and shipment of American goods is financed by federal lending agencies the cargo must be carried by Amer­ ican-flag ships. This has not been enforced vigorously, he declared, and foreign vessels—particularly those of recipient nations—have been allocated a large percentage of such shipments. The Cargo Preference Act, later incorporated into the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1936, he noted, provides that at least 50 percent of the gross tonnage of government-generated cargo— particularly foreign aid ship­ ments and agricultural surplus shipments—should be carried in privately-owned U.S.-flag com­ mercial vessels. This has been applied, he said, to make the 50-percent participation a maxi­ mum, instead of a minimum, leading to further erosion of the laws which were enacted to fur­ ther development of the Amer­ ican merchant fleet. In Sfofe Dept. Meeting: SlUNA Warns Against 'BlackmaiT As Govts. Debate Tunaboat Seizures WASHINGTON — The SIUNA has cautioned the State Department not to submit to "blackmail" in negotiations with Latin American countries over the illegal seizures of American tuna vessels. Vice Presidents Frank Drozak and Steve Edney reported to the SIUNA's 14th Biennial Convention here that the Un­ ion's position was spelled out last month at a State Depart­ ment meeting with Donald L. McKeman, Special Assistant for Fisheries and Wildlife to the Secretary of State. McKeman is head of a U.S. delegation that is currently meeting in Buenos Aires, Ar­ gentina, with representatives of Ecuador, Peru and Chile— countries which, over the last eight years alone, have seized more than 80 U.S. fishing ves­ sels and levied fines of more than $900,000 for alleged vio­ lation of the fishing zones off the South American coast. These countries claim a 200mile fishing zone, in sharp con­ trast to the accepted practice of limiting a nation's exclusive fishing rights to 12 miles off its coast. In some of the sei­ zures, Latin American gun­ boats have fired on the un­ armed American tunaboats. Delegates from the SIU's Cannery Workers & Fisher­ men's Union also told the con­ vention that a total of 128 West Coast tuna vessels have been il­ legally seized by Latin nations at sea since 1951. "The seizure of American vessels," they said, "has be­ come a most profitable business for these countries. Fines, fish­ ing license fees and other il­ legally imposed tariffs amount­ ing to $1.6 million have been paid by American fishermen and the U.S. government to Latin countries to secure the re­ lease of our fishermen and their vessels." A former U.S. tugboat, on loan to the Peruvian govern­ ment by the United States, shot and wounded a U.S. captain and first mate, the delegates reported. Peruvian Air Force planes, many of them jets given to Peru under the foreign aid program, are used to locate American boats in internation­ al waters they said. Following the State Depart­ ment meeting, the SIU officials issued the following statement: "We take the position that the conference at Buenos Aires should limit itself to resolving the issue of the illegal seizures of American fishing vessels— seizures which have jeopardized the lives and the livelihoods of the American fishermen whom we represent. "We are opposed to the in­ clusion in the Buenos Aires conference of any discussion on Latin American requests to re­ duce American tariffs on the tuna fish shipments by the Latin American countries or any changes on bonita as it is pres­ ently packed and marked to­ day. "The reason for the confer­ ence is simple: It has been called in order to resolve a seri­ ous threat to peace and stabili­ ty to this hemisphere caused by these repeated illegal sei­ zures. For the government to enter into any negotiations with these countries on the subject of tariffs or imports would be to submit to blackmail. "The American delegation to Buenos Aires should be con­ cerned solely with resolving the problems caused by the denial to American fishermen of their rights on the high seas." In addition to being vice presidents of th^ SIUNA, Drozak is the Union's West, Coast representative; Edney is presi­ dent of the United Cannery and Industrial Workers of the Pa­ cific, Los Angeles District, an SIUNA affiliate, and is chair­ man of the SIUNA's Fish and Cannery Conference, composed of all of the Seafarers' fishing and canning affiliates on all coasts. Within the spirit of these laws. President Kennedy, in 1963, an­ nounced approval of grain sales to the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain countries and said that these surpluses would be "car­ ried in available American ships, Mass. Legislature Hits 'Buy Abroad' Posture by DOT BOSTON—Firm disagree­ ment with a recent statement by the Department of Transporta­ tion, which advocated the pur­ chase of ships built in foreign countries to break ice for the Alaskan oil fields, was ex­ pressed here in a resolution in­ troduced in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and formally adopted by the state legislature. Specifically pointed out in the resolution was the fact that the DOT has the responsibility of enhancing shipbuilding in the United States, as well as its trade and labor forces, and that the purchase of foreign ships would "create a definite hard­ ship on U.S. shipbuilding, man­ ufacturing and jobs." The Bay State's resolution called upon the Department of Transportation to purchase only ships built in the United States for such traffic. Copies of the resolution were sent to Presi­ dent Nixon, Secretary of Trans­ portation John A. Volpe, Vice President Agnew—as president of the Senate — and House Speaker John W. McCormack. Additional copies went to the Massachusetts congressional delegation. supplemented by ships of other countries as required." "But gradually this position was watered down," Hall point­ ed out. "This all-out participa­ tion by American vessels be­ came 50-percent participation. Then it became 50-percent par­ ticipation only in selected items —particularly wheat and wheat flour." "Our cargo preference laws are interrelated," Hall went on to explain. "Destroy any aspect of cargo preference, and you will weaken the entire structure of safeguards for American-flag shipping. If you forbid the Presi­ dent to issue even the limited directives which now exist with respect to the participation of American shipping in the car­ riage of goods to the Communist nations, then you will have es­ tablished a precedent—and you will have made it easier for the opponents of cargo preference to knock down this program every place else where it exists." Appearing for the Nbcon Ad­ ministration, which stood solid­ ly behind the SIU on this ques­ tion, were Philip H. Trezise, As­ sistant Secretary-Designate for Enonomic Affairs of the State Department,- and Kenneth N. Davis, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic and International Business. Ranged on the other side of the question—and defeated by the Senate Committee's action— were the major grain growers, interested in unloading surplus wheat, and a group of legisla­ tors who are seeking a more flexible trade policy, allegedly as a move to ease East-West tensions. 1 I •i Protecting Fishing Industry I r SIUNA Representative Joe Algina (left) and former SIUNA Vice Pres­ ident James Ackert were the key witnesses at a recent Treasury De­ partment hearing on the crisis facing SIUNA -fishermen because of increasing imports of cheap fishery products from countries such as Canada. SIUNA is urging that a quota be placed on such imports. > c �August, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Excerpts from Speeches To SlUNA Convention WASHINGTON—The largest number of speakers ever recalled addressed the Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America during its five days of sessions held here July 28 through August 1. More than 75 Congressmen and Senators plus key leaders from labor, management and the federal government, re­ peatedly stressed their support for a revitalized U.S.-flag merchant ^ marine and new hope that such a revitalization will soon get underway. Brief excerpts from some of these speeches follow: * * * Representative John W. McCormack (D-Mass.)—^The Speaker of the House called for an independent Maritime Administration and the revitalization of American shipping through a "real merchant marine program." He particularly pointed to the inadequate number of ships in the nation's maritime fleet. • * * Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.)—^The chair­ man of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee promised that when the Administration presents "its mari­ time plans sometime" in the late summer or early fall," the committee "will act on it immediately, just as we have in the past on all other crucial maritime matters." • * * George Meany, President, AFL-CIO—Talking about the current inflation period in the United States, he said the cause is not high wages but profits that are far too high. He also spoke about the housing crisis stating that "high interest rates and high mortgage rates" are the source of the problem and not high salaries. * * * Representative Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.)—The House Minority Leader, hinting at what the Administration's mari­ time program will be like, said, "I can assure you of this— the Maritime Administration has no intention of proposing that American merchant ships be built in foreign yards." He added that the new program may include consideration of "building ships in series of 10 or 15, instead of building ships one at a time." » * * Representative Carl Albert (D-Okla.)—The House Ma­ jority Leader, comparing U.S. shipping with the space pro­ gram, said America "needs to be in the maritime forefront more than it needs to be in the forefront of the space race— and I believe we can be both." To insure the United States' "security and prosperity a strong merchant marine is abso­ lutely indispensable." * * * Representative William S. Mailliard (R-Calif.)—Predict­ ing that the Maritime Administration's new program will be a vigorous one, he stated "we now have in the federal agencies and in the White House men who really understand the maritime problem ... 1969 will be a real year of decision." Mailliard also noted that the merchant marine is the "most over-studied and the most under-appreciated industry in the country." m * * Representative Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska)—Mari­ time is "a sick industry and it needs help." He told the con­ vention delegates not to "assume that all your friends are on the Democratic side of the aisle." The Republican Party is "dedicated to the proposition that we must revitalize the American merchant marine for the sake of national security and national prosperity." 1|C )|l « Representative Thomas M. Felly (R-Wash.)—^Foreseeing America as "once again the foremost nation on the seas," he based his sentiments on President Nixon's statements pledg­ ing a revival of the merchant marine and was critical of "those in high office who have tried to scuttle the merchant marine." * * * Representative Jacob H. Gilbert (D-N.Y.)—Suggested that a tax on runaway flag ships be included in the tax reform bill now before Congress and expressed continued support for an independent maritime agency. * * * Representative Joseph P. Addabbo (D-N.Y.)—Agreed wholeheartedly with the SIU Jin demanding U.S. legislation to protect American fishing boats from seizure and attack by Latin American countries. (Continued on page 7) AFL-CIO President George Meany addresses 14th Biennial Convention of SlUNA as lead-off speaker on opening day. With Meany on dais is SlUNA President Paul Hall (center) and Vice President John Yarmola. 14th Biennial SlUNA Convention Takes Attion on Pressing Issues WASHINGTON—An air of guarded optimism was gen­ erated among delegates to the Fourteenth Biennial Conven­ tion of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America here as they listened to guest speakers from labor, manage­ ment, government and industry predict new national policies and legislation which will at last revitalize the U.S. mer­ chant marine and enable the United States to regain its once dominant role as a leading mari­ time power. More than 300 delegates representing the 38 affiliated unions within the SlUNA—at­ tended the busy sessions held from July 28 through August 1. The Convention focused at­ tention upon the major prob­ lems of the maritime industry and allied fields through speci­ fic resolutions and committee reports by affiliates. Delegates representing the more than 85,000 members of the SlUNA also took action on the broad spectrum of persistent problems faced by the entire American labor movement and the nation as a whole. SlUNA President Paul Hall presided as chairman and Vice President Morris Weisberger served as convention secretary. Many key members of Con­ gress, along with ranking of­ ficials of the Nixon administra­ tion, addressed assembled dele­ gates representing workers on deep-sea vessels, inland water­ ways, tug boats, the commercial fishing fleet and transport workers on all coasts, and in Canada, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. Rocco Siciliano, Undersecre­ tary of Commerce, and a prom­ inent spokesman for the Nixon Administration on maritime af­ fairs, promised that within 60 days President Nixon will sub­ mit to Congress "comprehen­ sive, long - range, long - term" legislation to revive the badly deteriorated American mari­ time industry. The Undersecretary said that while American-flag shipping, once world dominant, has de­ clined to the point where only seven percent of U.S. commerce is now carried in Americanowned and American-registered and manned vessels, the Nixon Administration's new program is aimed at restoring our mer­ chant fleet during the 1970s to a level that will enable it to carry at least 30 percent of all U.S. imports and exports. He declared that while the new maritime legislation is still being hammered out and argued over within various federal departments and execu­ tive agencies, the Nixon pro­ gram will not suffer the fate of other plans considered and abandoned by previous admin­ istrations. Siciliano emphasized that "we are preparing a maritime program that will be much more than hope," and "in the Depart­ ment of Commerce, we think that the merchant marine has to go up; it has almost nowhere else to go." In his lead-off convention ad­ dress, AFL-CIO President George Meany decried the pre(Continued on page 5) Summary of Resolutions Adopted by Delegates WASHINGTON—Delegates to the 14th Biennial Convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America adopted many resolutions which dealt not only with maritime and the fishing industry but also with the general fields of social legislation and labor issues. reserved for American vessels. Among the issues acted upon Called for opposition to any at­ by the delegates were the fol­ tempt to change sabotage laws lowing: which protect American ship­ Comprehensive Maritime ping in the domestic trades. Program — Expressed concern Political Action—Stressed the over the continued decline of essentiality of political action to the American merchant marine, the trade union movement and to the detriment of the national called for voluntary contribu­ defense posture, the balance of tions to labor's political action payments and the domestic funds coupled with registration economy. Called for a compre­ and voting as a means to protect hensive maritime program that American workers and their would be fair and equitable and families. that would lead to the develop­ Shipbuilding — Called atten­ ment of a balanced fleet. tion to the need for a full-scale Alaska Oil—^Viewed the dis­ program of ship construction in covery of oil on the North Slope American yards as a prere­ of Alaska as one of the impor­ quisite for regaining America's tant developments of our na­ competitive position on the high tional resources, and saw in it seas, and urged the federal gov­ a new opportunity for Ameri­ ernment to undertake a longcan-flag shipping since the term program to achieve this movement of the oil to conti­ goal. (Continued on page 7) nental United States would be �Page Four SEAFARERS LOG August, 1969 Total Reaches 343 as: Nine Additional Seafarers licensed At SlU Engineers Upgrading School Nine more engine department farer moving up to a fine career Seafarers have earned their engi­ in the U.S. merchant marine. neers' licenses after completing He was bom in Nashua, New training at the SIU-MEBA Dis­ Hampshire and first shipped out trict 2 sponsored School of Ma­ with the SIU in 1963 as a wiper rine Engineering. aboard the Overseas Rose (Mar­ This latest group of newlyitime Overseas Co.). He entered licensed marine engineers raises the Union-sponsored School of to 343 the total number of men Duke! Marine Engineering in Febm- Proudly showing his temporary 3rd assistant engineers license who have passed Coast Guard ary and eamed his Third Assis­ is Richard McCarty,. 23. At left is his brother, Kip, 18, who licensing examinations after Guard and a skilled machinist, completing the comprehensive is a new Temporary Third As­ tant Engirieer's License in July. will soon enroll in the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. course of study given by the sistant Engineer. school. Walter Seales, 43, has been On 'Point of Order' sailing for more than 12 years and joined the SIU in the Port of Seattle. He was bom in Miss­ issippi but now lives in Pensacola, Florida, with his wife Betty. He sailed as an FOWT before being accepted to the engineering school in March. amount finally agreed upon for WASHINGTON—A point of funds. Brother Seales passed the Coast construction subsidy funds at order raised by Representative The $200 million, added to Gonzalez Daniels Guard licensing exam last month H. R. Gross (R-Iowa) resulted $100 million in previously un­ that time was $100 million, and is now sailing as a Tempo­ last month in the entire amount used carryover funds, would down from the $237,400,000 Cayetano Gonzalez, 50, a na­ rary Third Assistant Engineer. of $200 million authorized by have permitted MARAD to originally provided for in the tive of Texas, joined the SIU in Paul Dukel Jr., 30, is a native the House for ship construction contract for the construction of measure as it left the House the Port of Houston in 1966. He of Philadelphia who joined the shipped out as an FOWT before SIU in that port in 1967. He subsidy funds being stricken some 30-33 new ships instead committee. enrolling in the School of Ma­ sailed as an FOWT before en­ from the bill carrying appropri­ of the 8-11 the administration rine Engineering in January. rolling in the SIU-MEBA Dis­ ations for the State, Commerce had originally called for. As a result of the House pas­ After completing the course of trict 2 School of Engineering and Justice Departments for fis­ cal year 1970. sage of the appropriations meas­ study at the school and passing in March. After participating in The House then went on to ure without the ship construc­ his Coast Guard licensing exam, the comprehensive training he received his Temporary Third course offered to members of the pass the $2.5 billion bill by a tion funds, appropriations for Assistant Engineer's License in engine department by the school, vote of 366-31—minus the vital this purpose now will have to be maritime funds for ship con­ restored in the Senate, with final June. WASHINGTON—Extension he passed the Coast Guard engi­ struction. approval to be ironed out in a of the existing 55-percent ceil­ Jacquith Daniels, 23, entered neers exam and won his Third This action was made neces­ joint Senate-House conference. ing on federal ship construction , the school in March. Bom in Assistant Engineer's License in sary because of the procedure— The administration has al­ subsidies has been signed into Nags Head, North Carolina, he July. first initiated in 1967—whereby ready appeared before the Sen­ is a skilled carpenter and a vet­ law by President Nixon. The funds for Maritime Adminis­ ate Appropriations Committee eran of the U.S. Army. Brother measure—now designated Pub- • tration programs allotted to the to request such funds—but only Daniels joined the SIU in the lie Law 91-40—also extends to . Department of Commerce must in the amount of $15.9 million, Port of Norfolk in 1964, and June 30, 1970, the 60-percent first be authorized by Congress the figure originally in the budg­ shipped out as a wiper. He re­ government subsidy allowed on • before the actual money bill et. This was the same amount ceived his Temporary Third reconstruction or reconditioning carrying the appropriations can as that alloacted in the Johnson Assistant Engineer's License of passenger vessels. legally be enacted. administration's budget for last month. Daniels lives in Representative William S. ' 1970, and, with carryover funds, Mailliard (R-Calif.), ranking ; Authorizations for maritime Apalachicola, Florida. programs had already been ap­ would have provided about minority member of the House Daniel Casavan, 31, was bom proved by the House, but not $120 million for 1970 ship con­ Merchant Marine and Fisheries in Crookston, Minn., and is a by the Senate, which was in­ struction. veteran of the U.S. Navy. He Committee, introduced the or­ Amos Jaramillo, 43, was bom volved in extensive debate on It is customary for an incom­ iginal bill, H.R. 265, as a twojoined the SIU in the Port of San Francisco and shipped out in Colorado, but now lives in the ABM system at the time the ing administration to endorse year extension. However, the as an FOWT before ^ing ac­ Seattle with his wife, Vir^nia, appropriations Ml came up in the previous budget prior to de­ full Committee voted to go cepted to the SIU-MEBA Dis­ and their children. He sailed the House. veloping its own programs. A along with a White House rec­ trict 2 School of Marine En­ as an electrician before entering Gross objected only to that Nixon maritime program is ommendation that the period be gineering in February, 1969. the School of Marine Engineer­ section of the bill which dealt promised later this year. kept to one year pending the After successfully completing ing in January. Brother Jaramil­ with ship construction subsi­ Final action in ship construc­ Administration's promised new the training course at the lo earned his Third Assistant dies. As a result only this sec­ tion subsidies is not expected maritime program which is ex­ school, he passed the licensing Engineer's License last month tion was stricken, and the meas­ before Congress returns from its pected to touch on subsidies as exam and received his Third after training at the school and ure was passed with other funds Labor Day recess. The Senate well as other matters vital to the Assistant Engineer's License passing his Coast Guard exami­ intact—including, $194.4 mil­ Appropriations Committee has U.S. merchant fleet. last month. lion for operating subsidies, $11 so far held hearings only on ap­ Ship construction subsidies nation. million for research and devel­ propriations for the Commerce were originally provided for in Nicholas Papager)rgiou, 41, opment and some $30 million Department. Monies for the the Merchant Marine Act of was bom in Cario, Egypt. Broth­ for salaries and expenses, mari­ State and Justice Departments 1936 as a means of enabling er Papageorgiou joined the SIU time training and the support are included in the same bill. domestic shipbuilders to com- ' in the Port of New York and for the state maritime schools. This is the second consecu­ pete with foreign yards, where graduated from the Harry Lun- Also included is $3,715,000 for tive year in which the money costs are much lower. The cost deberg School of Seamanship in the Federal Maritime Commis­ bill carrying maritime appropri­ gap continued to widen, how­ 1961. He sailed as an FOWT sion. ations was passed before Con­ ever, and in 1960 the ship con­ before being accepted by the The House-passed authoriza­ gress had completed action on struction subsidy ceiling was Casavan Cartledge School of Marine Engineering tion bill allocated $145 million authorizations. In 1968 a sim­ raised from 50 to 55 percent in an amendment to section 502 in December, 1968. Now sail­ James Cartledge, 30, joined ing as a Temporary Third for ship construction subsidies. ilar situation resulted in the of the 1036 Act. This was upped to $200 million maritime sections being stricken the SIU in the Port of New York Since I960,, succeeding ses­ Assistant Engineer, Brother in the House Appropriations from the appropriations meas­ in 1967. A native of Augusta, sions of Congress have extend- • Georgia, he sailed as an oiler Papageorgiou lives in Yonkers, Committee by Congressman ure altogether. The situation ed the increased ceiling as an ^ John J. Rooney (D-N.Y.), was then rectified by the subse­ interim measure—generally for before entering the engineering New York. Richard Mc Carty, 23, is a chairman of the subcommittee quent passage of a separate a one-year period—as the ex- ' school in March. Brother Cart­ ledge a veteran of the U.S. Coast prime example of a young Sea­ which handled the maritime maritime appropriation bill. The piration date drew near. Ship Construction Funds Stricken From House Appropriations Measure President Signs 1- Year Extension Of Ship Subsidies �August, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Five LOG t4th Biennial SlU Convention Closes on Optimistic Note (Continued from page 3) sent state of the American mer. ' chant marine and called for positive action aimed at revital­ izing the maritime industry. Meany also told the dele­ gates that the current inflation­ ary wave is not being caused by high wages but rather by enor­ mous and exorbitant profits. Similarly, he said, the present housing crisis has not been provoked by high wage scales enjoyed by construction union­ ists but by "high interest rates and high mortgage rates." The AFL-CIO president warned that Conservatives are using the "law and order" slo­ gan as a smokescreen to defeat . liberal candidates and capture control of Congress next year. He emphasized that so far as labor is concerned, the 1970 congressional election is "when the chips are really down." Many of the 33 Senate seats to be filled are held by labor-sup­ ported senators with good records who will face "tremen­ dous opposition" in the election and need all the help that labor can give them. A unique legis- U. S.-Flag Ships . Seek Carriage of More AID Cargo • '. . • . WASHINGTON—A recent claim advanced by the Agency for International Development that U.S. ship owners "chose" to haul only 40 percent of for­ eign aid shipments because of heavy Vietnam commitments was punctured by a spokesman for unsubsidized U.S.-flag shipping lines. Speaking before the House Select Committee on Small Business, Alfred Maskin, direc­ tor of research and legislation for the American Maritime Association which represents companies operating some 250 U.S.-flagships without benefit of federal subsidies, pointed out that, to the contrary, "some ships were squeezed out by administrative fiat." Maskin asked that Congress require AID to channel much more of its shipments to American-flag vessels. Although the cargo prefer­ ence law requires that "at least" 50 percent of such governmentgenerated cargoes must move in U.S.-flag bottoms, he asserted, these ships did, in fact, haul only 2.7 million tons out of a total of 6.6 million tons of such shipments. Maskin told the committee during hearings on AID's small business procurement policies that every percentage point of cargo and the use of "every American ship" was vital. The 50 percent rule should be a "floor", not a ceilingi he stated, adding that AID is "at liberty" to ship 100 percent of its car­ goes in U.S.-flag ships. lative solution to the problem of America's decaying merchant fleet was proposed by Senator Russell Long (D-La.), chair­ man of the Merchant Marine Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee. Long told the SIUNA dele­ gates that he is preparing a bill which would levy a one-percent tax on all imports—producing $330,000,000 in revenues an­ nually. This money, the influen­ tial Louisiana Senator said, would then be placed in a revolving fund to which would be added any shipbuilding or operating subsidies later ap­ proved by Congress. "About 90 percent of the $330,000,000 import tax — maybe more — would fall on foreign ships entering Ameri­ can ports," Long said, adding that the one percent rate could be increased by Congress if more is necessary to stem the decline of the American mer­ chant marine. House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.) gave the convention a strong indica­ tion of what the Nixon Adminis­ tration's new maritime program will be like when it is sent to Congress. At the outset of his remarks. Representative Ford made a flat statement on one of the most controversial questions facing the U.S. maritime labor and management for a long time: "I can assure of this—the Mari­ time Administration has no in­ tention of proposing that Ameri­ can merchant ships be built in foreign yards." "I think it also would be a giant step forward," he con­ tinued, "if the government considered building ships in series of 10 for 15, instead of building ships one at a time. You may see this in the new maritime program." The virtue of this. Ford added, would be that "once U.S. shipyards know they will have an assured volume of future business, they will act to mod­ ernize their yards and thus re­ duce future costs." On the issue of subsidized versus unsubsidized lines, the Republican leader said: "I believe the benefits of the Merchant Marine Act in terms of subsidy and certain tax advantages should be made available to the non-subsidized lines, the bulk carriers and pos­ sibly even the tanker com­ panies. This also may be a rec­ ommendation of the new mari­ time program. At the present time, the basic beneficiaries of the federal maritime program are the subsidized carriers. They get an operating subsidy and a shipbuilding subsidy. Everyone else is on the outside looking in." . Ford also struck a respon­ sive chord among the delegates when he told them, "It is con­ ceivable today that we can put some of our ships on a parity with foreign vessels if the gov­ ernment would simply build the ships and then turn them, over to the lines to operate on their own. This again, is a concept which may wind up in the new maritime program." Key officials of SlU-contracted companies also ad­ dressed the delegates. Joseph Kahn, chairman of the board of Seatrain Lines, pre­ dicted that in view of a commit­ ment from the President to seek a vital and viable merchant marine, "a rebirth of the Ameri­ can merchant," is at hand. "I will go further," he said, "and say that at the next SIU convention you undoubtedly will be discussing some of the tangible results of that rebirth." Kahn based his prediction in part upon what he labelled as "new economic opportunities now available to American shipping that have not been open to it in many years ... the discovery of oil in Alaska, and the worldwide container revolu­ tion." He pointed out that this oil must be brought to market by American seamen in American ships and this will be a boon to the maritime industry, which of­ fers the only truly economical way to move this product. The Seatrain official ear­ marked the new technology of containerization as the second prime factor working toward a rebirth of the merchant fleet. He added that American shipping companies, through the use of a system for contain­ erizing cargo, have developed a method that will eventually de­ prive foreign-flag operators of the "crushing advantage" they have had over American break bulk shipping. Ran Hettena, senior vice president of Maritime Overseas Corporation, urged that a capi­ tal reserve fund be instituted in order to encourage investment in new tonnage by the unsub­ sidized sector of the U.S. mer­ chant marine. "My assessment of the future of the U.S. merchant marine," Hettena stated, "is not as pes­ simistic as those you may usual­ ly hear. In fact, even within the limits of national shipping policy, I believe that the U.S. shipping industry holds great promise." Hettena added, however, that "We must of course continue every effort to bring about the more fundamental and more en­ during long-term improvements in the American merchant ma­ rine; but at the same time we must not lose sight of the very significant benefits we can achieve over the short-term." Representative Edward Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of the' House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Contmittee as­ sured delegates to the conven­ tion that iris committee will take swift action on the Administra­ tion's forthcoming maritime program as soon as it is received from the White House. The Maryland Congressman also promised that the new maritime legislation "will be considered wholly on its own merits and without partisanship or political bias." In his report to the conven­ tion, SIUNA President Paul Hall described the International as being "in a sound and healthy condition" and noted that affiliates "have continued to maintain a close relationship with headquarters" in pursuit of greater strength and effective­ ness for all through "mutual co­ operation." Noting the leading part the SIUNA has taken in all activi­ ties of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Hall said, "our affiliates in the port cities have been instrumental in mak­ ing the MTD Port Councils among the most effective voices in their communities." In reviewing the progress made by the International since the last convention, the SIUNA president continued, "our or­ ganization has remained active both inside and outside our own structure. We have endeavored to be of assistance to our af­ filiates wherever possible, v,hiie at the same time not losing sight of the fact that uui own fortunes are closely tied in with those of the rest of the labor movement. As a result, we are T" • .^r known in the labor m. uit today than ever before." SIUNA Officers Elected To New Two-Year Terms President Paul Hdll and Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr were unanimously re-elected at the final session of the recentlyconcluded biennial convention of the SIUNA. Vice Presidents elected to two-year terms, their base ^ affiliates, and the city in which they are located are: Ed Allensworth, Transportation & Allied Workers of Cali­ fornia, San Diego. Everett Clark, Democratic Union Organizing Committee Local 777, Chicago. Frank Drozak, SIU-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters District, San Francisco. Steve Edney, United Cannery & Industrial Workers of the Pacific, Los Angeles. Fred Famen, SIU-Great Lakes District, Detroit. Gilbert Gauthier, Canadian Marine Officers Union, Mon­ treal. Milfred M. Gomez, Jr., Sugar Workers Union of Crocket California, Crocket, California. Steve Hoinsky, Seine and Line Fishermen's Union of San Pedro, San Pedro, Calif. Harry Jorgensen, Marine Firemen's Union, San Fran­ cisco. Burt E. Lanpher, Staff Officers Association of America, New York City. Joseph Leal, Military Sea Transport Union, San Francisco. Carl C. Marino, Cannery Workers and Fishermen's Union of San Diego; San Diego. Leonard J. McLaughlin, Seafarers International Union of Canada, Montreal. Earl Shepard, SlU-Inland Boatmen's Union, Brooklyn, N.Y. Austin P. Skinner, New Bedford Fishermen's Union, New| Bedford, Mass. Keith Terpe, Seafarers International Union of Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R. Ed Turner, Marine Cooks & Stewards Union, San Fran­ cisco. Raoul A. VlcUlone, Inland Boatmen's, Union of the Pa­ cific, Seattle. Morris Welshei^er, Sailors Union of the Pacific, San Francisco. Llndsey Williams, SlU-United Industrial Workers of North America, New Orleans, La. J. S. Winter, International Union of Petroleum Workers, Bakersfield, Calif. John Yarmola, United Industrial Workers of North Amer­ ica-Midwest, Chicago. Appointed to a term on the Executive Board was Merle Adlum, in charge of Inland Boatmen's Organization and Affairs. �Page Six SEAFARERS Living Costs Show Sharp June Rise; Purchasing Power of Wages Lower WASHINGTON—The cos of living shot up sharply in June and workers' pay checks con­ tinued to buy less than they did last year, the Labor Department reported. A six-tenths of one percent jump in living costs sent the Consumer Price Index to 127.6. That means it cost $12.76 to buy goods and services that cost $10 in the 1957-59 base period. Arnold Chase, assistant com­ missioner of the Bureau of La­ bor Statistics, said that the index increased 3.2 percent in the first half of 1969, compared with a 2.3 percent rise in the first six months of 1968. The index is up 5.5 percent from last June. Gross average weekly earn­ ings of production and nonsupervisory workers rose by $1.58 in June to a new high of $115.06, attributable primarily to a four-tenths of an hour in­ crease in the workweek and a 1-cent gain in hourly earnings. For the worker with three de­ pendents, weekly take-home pay rose by $1.21 to $100.34. For the worker with no depend­ ents the increase was $1.13 to RepuUit of China Sets 4-Year IVan To Rebuild fleet TAIPEI, Taiwan—^The Re­ public of China is the latest na­ tion to recognize the growing impoitance of its merchant fleet —and to do something about it. A vast rebuilding and mod­ ernization program—to cost the equivalent of $62.5 million over the next four years—has been announced here by the island government's minister of com­ munications, Y. S. Sun. New construction will be giv­ en priority. In each of the four years, over 100,000 tons of new shipping will be built in Formosan yards, for a total of 410,000 tons. Another 420,000 tons will be contracted to for­ eign shipbuilders over the pe­ riod. To gear up for the program, the government is recommend­ ing to its domestic shipyards that they order new shipbuild­ ing machinery and technical equipment. At the same time, the Taiwan government is expediting plans for the construction of steel pro­ ducing plants and will also pro­ mote light and heavy industries which will supply components needed for the shipbuilding pro­ gram. In order to keep costs of do­ mestic shipbuilding production down, stress will be placed on avoiding unnecessary imports. This will require additional Tai­ wan steel and other domestic manufacturing plants. $91.29. Both figures were new highs. When expressed in 1957-59 dollars, to take account of price changes, the take-home pay of the worker with three depend­ ents in June was $78.64 and $71.54 with no dependents. Both of these figures averaged about 46 cents higher than in May. However, these real spend­ able earnings were down over the year by 39 cents for the worker with three dependents and 16 cents for the worker with one dependent. The figure for three dependents was down 1.2 percent from its September high. The sharp rise in the cost of living in June stemmed largely from big increases in prices for meat, poultry and fish, BLS said. The increase for meats was the largest since June 1965. Charges for all types of con­ sumer services were higher in June and accounted for about one-fourth of the index rise. Costs of mortgage interest and home maintenance and repair services continued to climb. Higher physicians' fees con­ tributed mainly to a five-tenths of 1 percent increase in medical care costs, and boosts in public transportation fares pushed the cost of transportation services up. Prices of commodities other than food rose by four-tenths of 1 percent during the month. Consumers paid more for cloth­ ing, gasoline, cigarettes and used cars. In looking over the index, BLS reported commodities were up 4.7 percent over the year and services were up seven percent. Food prices were up 3.2 per­ cent seasonally adjusted over the first six months of this year. That compared with 1.8 percent increases in food nrices in both the first and second halves of 1968. The cost of housing rose 3.3 percent in the first six months of 1969 compared with a 2.2 per­ cent increase in the first half of last year and a three-percent in­ crease in the last half of 1968. Chase translated the price trend into some readily under­ standable market-basket prices: 20 Cents a Pound More Round steak in June cost $1.33 a pound, 20 cents higher than a year ago; celery at over 20 cents a pound was up more than three cents; tomatoes cost 48 cents a pound, up more than 10 cents; a six-ounce can of orange juice, at 24 cents plus, was up three cents. Chase shrugged off questions about the effectiveness of Presi­ dent Nixon's anti-inflation pro­ gram, but he saw "some hope in the slowing down in the rise in apparel prices and possibly medical care services." Approximately 77,000 work­ ers will receive cost-of-living pay boosts based on the June CPI. For 40,000 employees, mostly in aerospace, the in­ crease will be 8 cents an hour; 22,000 workers, mainly in pub­ lic transit, will receive four to six-cent-an-hour hikes; and 6,000 California metal workers will get a seven-cent-an-hour in­ crease. About 6,300 workers in varied industries will receive raises ranging from one to five cents per hour. Wage-Price Coatrei Firmiy Rejected ByPresidentia 'ForeseeabieFuture' WASHINGTON — The Nix­ on Administration has firmly re­ jected wage and price controls as a way of dealing with infla­ tion, clearing up confusion over its position created by state­ ments of some of its spokesmen. The question of controls was revived after Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy told a news conference that he would "close no doors on any kind of possijilities." At a White House news brief­ ing, Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler was asked if this meant the Administration might con­ sider wage and price controls as an anti-inflationary move. Ziegler returned with an an­ swer at his afternoon briefing. He said that after talking to the President, Kennedy, Chairman Paul W. McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Dr. Arthur F. Bums, coun­ sellor to the President, he was authorized to say; August, 1969 LOG "The President is not for wage and price controls. He has consistently taken that position. This Administration is consist­ ently pursuing a course of action to cool the economy. "The strategy does not in­ clude wage and price controls. The Administration has ruled out wage and price controls as a way of dealing with inflation under conditions that are now foreseeable. • "Looking into the future with the knowledge and experience that this Administration has and projecting various alternatives that could be used in the foresee­ able future, wage and price con­ trols would not be considered." The White House, in off-therecord comments to newsmen, had indicated Nixon's displeas­ ure with previous references by Kennedy to controls. This time the squelch was firmly on the record. Shipping Out in Yokohama Seafarer Robert S. Cossiboin checks in with Miss Keiko Nakategawa at the SiU hall in Yokohama as he makes ready to ship out as FWT. Labor Economist Shows: Tax Load Burden to Poor While Wealthy Ride Easy ATLANTA—The truth about taxes today is not just that they are too high, but that they "are too high for some and too low for others," AFL-CIO Economist Arnold Cantor declared here. "In other words," he asserted, "our basic tax structures are unjust and therefore the costs of government are not being shared fairly." Cantor analyzed local, state and federal tax systems in an address before a seminar jointly sponsored by the Atlanta and Georgia AFL-CIOs. , Such an analysis shows. Cantor said, that taxes are "much too harsh" on the poor who have no taxpaying ability and "much too easy" on those who have considerable wealth and ability-to-pay. And, he added, the moderate- and middle-income groups "who can pay taxes and should pay taxes are paying more than their fair share" to make up for what corporations and the wealthy do not pay. The major flaw in the federal tax system. Cantor said, is that it "falls far short of its goals of taxing income and, in the main, those who have privileged types of income," He cited the examples of a married worker who receives $8,000 a year in wages, an individual who receives that gain from selling stock and a third person who garners $8,000 from interest on municipal bonds. The worker, he noted, would pay $1,000 on a full $8,000 of taxable income; the stock seller would take a capital gain and pay $354 on $4,000 in taxable income; the beneficiary of the bonds could report zero income and pay no taxes. Because of such inequities and others. Cantor told the seminar, the AFL-CIO has proposed reforms that would elim­ inate the poor from tax rolls, close major loopholes benefiting the rich and provide "a measure of tax relief for workers." At the state and local level. Cantor said, "the best thing that could happen would be complete elimination of property and sales taxes and substitution of progressive income taxes." Granting that it is "unrealistic" to believe this will happen, he said, states and localities should at least be moving toward increasing reliance upon income taxes and easing the impact of sales and property taxes on low, moderate and middle in­ comes. In terms of sales taxes "the most important thing to do is eliminate from the tax those items that take a high proportion of the income of lower-income groups—particularly food," Cantor stated. "Pennsylvania's 6 percent sales tax is really fairer than Georgia's 3 percent because food, most clothing, and prescrip­ tion drugs are not taxed in Pennsylvania," he said, i The property tax can be made more equitable. Cantor sug­ gested, by removing "inequities" in assessment practices and following the example of Minnesota and Wisconsin,, which give elderly home-owners and "renters with low incomes a special rebate. f- \ �August, 1969 SEAFARERS Excerpts from Speeches To SlUNA Convention (Continued from page 3) Vice Admii^ Lawson P. Rama^, Commander of MSTS— "The conflict in Vietnam is lessening in intensity. Hopefully, we are nearing a peace in Vietnam. This will allow us to lay up Reserve Fleet ships moving ammunition to Vietnam." "Hard work, imagination and co-operation" within the mari­ time industry is greatly needed if the merchant marine is to be helped. • » » Representative John J. Rooney (D-N.Y.)—Calling for a renewal in the maritime industry, Rooney said that 30 new ships should be built in 1970 instead of the 10 proposed by the Maritime Administration. * * * Representative Patsy Mink (D-Hawan)—There is a need for an independent Department of Maritime Affairs "com­ pletely free of intrusion by any other department or agency of the government." • * » Representative Hale Bo^s (D-La.)--"A real national policy on the merchant marine" is essential. "Russia's out­ building us every day and if it keeps on there's not going to be any [American] merchant marine." The state of the U.S.-flag fleet is "a disgrace." * a * Senator Joseph D. Tydings (D-Md.)—^Pledged his full support for a comprehensive maritime program and con­ tended that if Congress is to practice economy it should scrutinize the currently huge military expenditures—which take 65 cents out of every $1—with the same insistance on economy that is applied to "the few pennies" now devoted to domestic programs. » U ' (I V '' » » • Senator Joseph M. Montoya (D-New Mexico)—Statistics show "just how unfair our tax structure is," One tax in­ equity which injures the maritime industry and the national economy is the exemption granted American-owned ships registered in foreign countries. "Runaway vessels enjoy sev­ eral lucrative benefits at the expense of the American econ­ omy." Runaway ship owners "are wholly exempt from paying U.S. taxes and therefore they can use the extra money— normally needed to pay U.S. taxes—to build more ships to operate under this same foreign-flag tax shelter; and all this at the expense of the American taxpayers!" * * * Representative John M. Murphy (D-N.Y.)—"I sincerely believe that we are on the threshold of better things for the entire maritime industry . . . there is hardly anywhere to go but up" and the industry's plight "has now become known to a sufficient number of people so that resistance is changing to support." * * a Representative Ray Blanton (D-Tenn.)—Pledged full sup­ port for the enactment of a "healthy" maritime program and predicted an upward turn for the maritime industry, because of increasing public awareness for the need of a more vital merchant marine. • * * Lane Kh-kland, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO—Assured the delegates that they could count on the full support of the AFL-CIO in the fight for a greatly expanded U.S. ship­ ping and shipbuilding program. « * * Andrew E. Gibson, Federal Maritime Administrator—In­ stead of conducting more studies, the Nixon Administration plans to build ships fast. "Very positive action will soon be taken." * * * Ralph Casey, Executive Vice President, American Insti­ tute of Merchant Shipping—Noting some past differences, emphasized "we have agreed more than we've disagreed." He called it "unfortunate that we've wasted so much time" in regards to maritime legislation. * * » Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.)—"You have my unqualified support for a new maritime program." « K * Michad R. McEvoy, President, Sea-Land Services, Inc.— Informed ddegates that "containerization is an American product and the future of the Nation's economy depends on it." Page Seven LOG Summary of Resolutions Arted Upon By Delegutes to SlUNA Convention (Continued from page 3) Runaway Operations—^Took account of the adverse impact of runaway-flag operations on Arherican employment, taxes and the economy and endorsed legislation introduced by Rep­ resentative James Howard (DN.J.) which would amend Inter­ nal Revenue Code by eliminat­ ing tax loopholes for runaway operations. Conference of Transportation Trades—Noted the creation of the Conference of Transporta­ tion Trades comprising AFLCIO unions involved in all phases of transportation as a means of co-ordinating activ­ ities and exchanging informa­ tion on mutual problems, and pledged SlUNA support of these efforts. War in Vietnam—^Paid trib­ ute to the continuing efforts of American servicemen to pre­ serve democracy in Southeast Asia, and expressed SIUNA's hope that the diplomatic efforts to effect a lasting peace, with­ out sacrifice of our national principles, will prove fruitful. Union Training Programs— Recalled the long involvement of SlUNA and its affiliated un­ ions in job training programs and urged their continuance and extension. The Role of Water Transpor­ tation—Reviewed the dimen­ sions of the transportation crisis facing the United States, both internationally and domestical­ ly, and pointed to the valuable contribution which water trans­ portation can make to the res­ olution of the problem. Called for a comprehensive program that would utilize deep sea. Great Lakes, intercoastal and inland water transportation to this end. Ohio Unemployment Insur­ ance Restrictions-—Condemned restrictions applicable to sea­ men in Ohio that limit eligibility to apply for unemployment compensation to only during 40 weeks following the fourth Sun­ day in March and urged con­ tinuation of the fight for legis­ lation to give seamen full and complete coverage. Opposing Foreign Flag Pas­ senger Ships Operating on the Great Lakes—Cited the SIU Great Lakes District's long-time representation of unlicensed seamen on the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Lines Great Lakes vessels, whose operations were discontinued at the close of the navigation season in 1967 due to Coast Guard restrictions, thus creating unemployment of the crew members. The com­ pany has been purchased by a foreign-flag company, operating at sub-standard levels, posing danger to passengers and avoid­ ing payment of taxes to the United States. The resolution cited the company's intention to extend operations to the Great Lakes in 1970, flying a foreign flag and employing foreign crews and urged action to halt foreign flag operations in the Great Lakes and promote a program to alert the American public to the facts, nature and dangers of such operations. Situs Picketing—Cited the discriminatory character of the restriction on the picketing rights of building trades work­ ers and called for the enactment of legislation to permit situs picketing. State and Chy Central Bodies —^Noted the usefulness and ef­ fectiveness of the AFL-CIO State and City Central bodies as instruments for co-ordinating trade union activity and urged all SlUNA local and district union affiliates to maintain af­ filiation with, and participate in their respective state and city bodies. Section 14(h), Taft-Hartley— Pointed up the fact that Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law permits abrogation of national policy by any state by allowing it to enact so-called "right-towork laws," which hold down wages and discourage union or­ ganizing. The resolution pledged full and active support to AFLCIO efforts toward repeal of Section 14(b). Consume Protection—Cited the exploitation and harassment to which the American con­ sumer is exposed by unscrupu­ lous sales promotions, lending institutions and collection agen­ cies and the consequent need for federal protection and then urged federal legislation assum­ ing full consumer protection and congressional investigation of discriminatory price practices and advertising excesses. Industrial Safety—^Noted the strides made in on-the-job safe­ ty for American workers but recognized the fact that large numbers of workers still are exposed to unnecessary hazards in their employment, and sup­ ported AFL-CIO position for federal legislation aimed at achieving industrial safety. National Health Care—^De­ cried the fact that economic deprivation still keeps millions of Americans from adequate medical care, noting that the situation would be more acute were it not for organiiied labor's efforts in the establishment of health and welfare plans. De­ scribed health care as a right of every American and reaffirmed support for a comprehensive national health program to bring the best medical treatment to all citizens. Community Services — Stressed labor's citizenship re­ sponsibility in working with community network of volun­ tary health, edacation and wel­ fare services, commended the AFL-CIO Community Services program for involving trade unionists in these activities, and pledged continued SlUNA sup­ port for these essential pro­ grams. Hunger in ii^erica—^Pointed to the fact that 22 million Americans are still victims of poverty, hunger and malnutri­ tion, cited need for a compre­ hensive social welfare program as a basic requirement for al­ leviating these conditions. Called for an increase in the federal minimum wage, enlargement of the food stamp program, and a continued and concerted cam­ paign by all government agen­ cies to wipe out hunger and mal­ nutrition in America with all possible speed. Public Health Servke Hos­ pitals—Condemned the reversal by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of its position on the providing of care and treatment of merchant sea­ men and other workers eligible for Public Health Service Hos­ pitals, and in particular the most recent closings of hospitals in Detroit, Mich., and Savannah, Ga. Commended members of Congress who have attempted to prevent these closings and called for full-scale hearings to demon­ strate the need for maintenance of these vital facilities. Compulsory Arbitration — Called free collective bargaining an indispensible element of de­ mocracy and warned against efforts of those who would im­ pose third-party compulsion for the give-and-take of free collec­ tive bargaining. Reaffirmed un­ alterable opposition to all forms of compulsory arbitration in labor relations. Tax Reform—Called atten­ tion to the inequities of present tax structure and recommended closing of loopholes which allow special interest groups to escape their fair share of taxes thus putting major burden on shoul­ ders of low and middle-income families. Urged Congress to adopt a meaningful program of tax reform. Social Security — Expressed concern over the plight of the aged, dependent on Social Secu­ rity in periods of rising costs, and declared that the Social Security System is not attuned to the realities of the times. Pledged to work for liberaliza­ tion of Social Security laws, in­ cluding increased benefits to lift the economic burden from the shoulders of retirees. Farm Labor — Resolved to give continued support to AFLCIO Farm Workers, called for ban against use of imported strikebreakers, and urged exten­ sion of National Labor Relations Act to agricultural workers. �SEAFARERS Page Eight Drug Firms Assessed $100 Million In Prire-Fixing Refund to Consumers Consumers who bought cer­ tain antibiotics between 1954 and 1966 will be able to share in a $100 million refund if they search their memories and take action. The money represents a set­ tlement reached in a damage suit against five drug manufacturers. The suit involved charges that the manufacturers illegally agreed to fix prices and over­ charge buyers over the 12-year period. Many states, cities and other groups joined in the legal action. Consumers in 43 states could benefit from refunds for over­ charges. Also, drug wholesalers and retail pharmacists are eli­ gible. Companies Involved The five companies, which have denied any liability while making the settlement, are American Cyanamid Company, Chas. Pfizer and Company, Bristol-Myers Company, Up­ john Company, and Squibb Bosses Withhold Taxes from Pay; Hang Onto Cash WASHINGTON — Employ­ ers during 1968 illegally with­ held $339,428,000 from the paychecks of their workers that they did not return to the U.S. Treasury. This was reported by Senator John Williams (R-Del.) in mak­ ing what he called his "15th an­ nual report on the inventory of delinquent taxpayer accounts." Williams said that the il­ legally kept withholding taxes in 1968 represent an increase of 32 percent over 1967. "These monies should be treated as trust funds and the government should not condone these continuous delinquencies, ofttlmes by the same com­ panies," Williams said. Beech-Nut, Inc. The drugs involved include Aureomycin, Terramycin, and Tetracycline, sold under the brand names: Achromycin, Mysteclin, Panalba, Panmycin; Polycycline, Steclin, Tetracyn and Tetrex. The drugs are used in treating respiratory infections such as tonsillitis, sinusitis and bronchi­ tis; certain urinary tract and skin infections; and viral infections, the most important of which are pneumonia. . How to File Instructions on how to file claims and where to send them have appeared in many local newspapers as part of a nation­ wide advertising campaign an­ nouncing the settlement. To collect a refund, a con­ sumer must check his records and memory to determine ap­ proximately how much he paid for the drugs during the years involved. The next step is to total the amounts for each -year and write out a statement explaining the figures. The statement must be taken to a notary public and signed in his presence. This will certify that the claim is true to the best of the claimant's knowledge. A druggist may also certify tl^t the drugs were purchased in the amount stated. The notarized statement, in­ cluding totals for each year sep­ arately, must be sent to Post Office Box 752, The Bronx, New York 10451. Claimants are not to send along records of purchases unless asked to do so. The deadline for filing claims is August 16. In another development, the Justice Department announced that it has filed an additional suit against Pfizer and American Cyanamid seeking $25 million in damages and cancellation of the patent for Tetracycline. In this latest suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washing- Oil Workers End Boycott As Shell Conies to Terms DENVER—^The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers an­ nounced the end of a nationwide consumer boycott against the products of Shell Oil Company after reaching "satisfac­ tory agreements" with the company at its California installa­ tions. The Shell boycott, supported by the AFL-CIO, was launched March 17,1969 after 2,000 striking union members returned to work in Shell California plants without a con­ tract. The OCAW had earlier won new gains with all major oil companies with which it has contracts. OCAW President A. F. Grospiron said "we have had splendid support from organized labor and from our friends outside labor in this effort, r We have won our dispute. We now urge our friends who find it convenient to do so to resume buying Shell products in the United States." The union has a separate dispute with Shell in Canada where workers at the refinery in Vancouver are on strike. August, 1969 LOG ton, D. C., the government charged the two companies with failing to disclose that Tetracy­ cline had been produced during the manufacture of Aureomy­ cin, an identical antibiotic, and therefore wqs not eligible for a patent. Pfizer was accused of making false and misleading statements to the U.S. Patent Office, while Cyanamid was charged with aid­ ing Pfizer in getting the patent by sending the office similar mis­ leading statements. The government, a big pur­ chaser of antibiotics, estimated its damages at $25 million be­ cause of having to pay higher prices on Tetracycline based on the fact that it was supposed to be non-competitive. SlU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Benefits Paid Report Period: June 1—June 30, 1969 SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medicare Examination Program Dependent Benefits ......... (Average) $437.44 Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits ........ SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' VACATION PLANBENEFITS PAID (Average $455.11) TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD Ban Lifted by MARAD Dominican Ships Reinstated As U. S. Aid Cargo Haulers WASHINGTON—The Mar­ itime Administration has rein­ stated waivers which permit ves­ sels under the flag of the Do­ minican Republic to carry U.S. government-financed cargoes to that country following more than 18 months' suspension be­ cause of discriminatory Domin­ ican practices against American flag shjps. The action means that up to 50 percent of American car­ goes shipped to the Dominican Republic under Export-Import Bank credits, worth $20.9 milion can once again be trans­ ported in Dominican ships. In January of 1968, the Do­ minican Republic was denied the necessary waivers to partici­ pate in the movement of such cargoes because MARAD con­ tended that American flag ships were "discriminated against" in that country. At the time James W. Gulick, then Acting Maritime Adminis­ trator, said MARAD did not ike the way U.S. flag vessels were treated—"specifically with respect to port dues assessed against vessels of the United States but not against vessels of he Dominican Republic." Prior to last month's action, all cargoes under the ExportImport Bank credits were re­ quired by law to be carried ex­ clusively by U.S. ships. Up to half of the following our categories of credit cargoes may now be carried by ships of the Dominican Republic: • U.S. machinery and equip­ ment to expand the power gen­ erating capacity of Corporacion )ominica de Electricidad. The amount of this credit is $8.9 million and a waiver to carry the shipment was originally au­ Amount Number of Benefits thorized in February -of 1967. • Machinery, equipment, and spare parts for a two-year high­ way maintenance program uhder a $4 million credit. Waiver was granted in October, T964. • Equipment, machinery, spare parts, and supplies for the expansion of power generation, transmission, and distribution systems at CDE. This credit is for $8 million and waiver was given in December, 1964. ® Equipment for use in ex­ panding production of electric power for CDE in the amount of $7 million. Waiver was just granted. 3 2,150 34 19 22 Paid $ 697.35 52,999.05 88,224.23 728.00 4,400.00 f 2,861 2,121 28,619.46 92,781.76 526 1,155 4,612 6,981.47 11,550.00 41,185.00 . 13,503 328,166.32 . 1,367 313,950.00 1,545 703,148.43 16,415 $1,345,264.75 • Spanish Galleon Found Lying off Florida Coast VERO BEACH, Fla.—An ancient Spanish galleon has been discovered here lying practical­ ly intact in 15 feet of water off the Florida coast. The ship was believed to be the Capitana, the flagship of the Galeones fleet, which sank in the Atlantic on the way from Bogota, Columbia to Spain in 1715. Because the 135-foot galleon is in such good shape, a marine biologist, Carl Clausen, hailed it as one of the most valuable archeological discoveries in Florida's history. Clausen said the Capitana was loaded with tobacco, hides, dyes and some gold and silver when it sank. The vessel was discovered by a diver working for Treasure Salvors, Inc. A New Lady on SlU Pension Seafarer Ellen Gaines ends her sailing career of many year's with the Ann Asbor car ferries as she receives her first SlU pension check from Frankfort, Michigan, Port Agent Harold Rathbun. Sister;Gaines was sailing as cabin maid. Her last vessel was the M/V Viking. �August, 1969 SEAFARERS States Urged to Grant Union Rights And Bargaining to Publk Empioyoos •y 1V '[J. 1- WASHINGTON—State laws should firmly establish the right of public employees to union representation and meaningful collective bargaining, the AFLCIO told the Advisory Commis­ sion on Intergovernmental Rela­ tions. The commission, made up of federal, state, city and county officials and private citizens, is considering a staff report which poses an assortment of alterna­ tive approaches to state legisla­ tion. • The alternatives range from a mandatory commitment to col­ lective bargaining in the public sector to a toothless grant of "permission" for local govern­ ments "to meet and confer with employee organizations." AFL-CIO Legislative Repre­ sentatives Clinton Fair and Ken­ neth A. Meiklejohn said the bar­ gaining procedures should be flexible enough to permit unions and public employers to work out solutions to complex prob­ lems. It should offer a variety of approaches to avoid strikes —but affirm the right to strike when all procedures have been exhausted. Similar views were expressed in testimony before the commis­ sion by Thomas R. Donahue, executive secretary of the Serv­ ice Employees, and in a state­ ment from President Jerry Wurf of the State, County and Mu^ nicipal Employees. Recognition Key Issue Some of the most bitter strug­ gles in public employment have been fought to establish the right of public workers to union rec­ ognition and collective bargain­ ing, Wurf noted. "Disputes over recognition are responsible for more strikes in public employ­ ment than any other single is­ sue," he said. Donahue urged the commis­ sion members not to "take the path of least resistance" and recommend that public employ­ ees be barred from striking. "The right to strike is what brings reality to negotiations," he said. "It is that right which turns conversations into discus­ sions, and discussions into bar­ gaining, and bargaining into agreements with which • parties can live in harmony for a num­ ber of years at a time." The basic AFL-CIO testi­ mony stressed that labor does not object to requiring a series of steps to seek a settlement be­ fore a strike can take place, in­ cluding mediation, fact-finding and the offer of voluntary bind­ ing arbitration. But only in the case of law en­ forcement officers, the AFL-CIO said, should there be a flat ban on striking as a last resort. The AFL-CIO suggested that a state law establish a single labor-relation agency for public employees, comparable to the National Labor Relations Board and separate from mediation and fact-finding activities. Dues Checkoff Urged Public employers and unions should be permitted to negotiate Page Nine LOG union security provisions as well as a dues checkoff, the federa­ tion said. And where a union has exclusive bargaining rights because it represents a majority of employees in the unit, "that organization alone should have the exclusive right of dues checkoff." The labor witnesses stressed that it is appropriate and desir­ able to have state and federal minimum standards dealing with wages and working conditions in public employment, with the parties free to improve on those minimums through negotiations, just as unions and employers do in the private sector of the econ­ omy. Fair, who presented the AFLCIO testimony, cited the hospi­ tal workers' strike in Charles­ ton, S.C., and the highway workers' dispute in West Vir­ ginia as evidence of the bitter antagonism to union organiza­ tion by many public employers. Neither of these strikes would have been necessary, he noted, if there had been effective union recognition and collective bar­ gaining legislation in those states. Underwater Crew Rescue Aim of New Submarine A new deep submergence submarine, designed to rendez­ vous with submarines in distress for the purpose of making underwater crew rescues, will soon make its debut in a test dive off California. The craft is the first of a new class of Navy submarines called Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles. It is 50 feet long and eight feet wide and features a bell-shaped mating device designed to make a water-tight seal with a sub­ marine hatch in a rescue operation under water. Inside are three eight-foot spheres enclosed in a typical submarine-shaped outer hull. The forward sphere is the control station for a crew of two or . three. The center and aft spheres are passenger compartments for survivors of the rescued submarine with a capacity of about 24. A bell-shaped skirt is mounted on the underside of the center sphere. The skirt is slightly larger than the largest hatch of a submarine and is designed to link up with the corresponding hatch of any stranded sub in a covering manner. Once the connection is made, water is pumped out into a storage tank- within the rescue craft. A passage is thus formed between the two submarines through which crew members can then move. A computerized guidance and control system was designed for the craft and unveiled recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It should parallel the results achieved in the rendezvous operations conducted in outer space and is supposed to be just as precise under water. This would enable the rescue craft to locate and link up with a distressed submarine in water as much as 5,000 feet deep, provided the disabled vessel is still intact. At distances much below that—the exact depth is classified —the water pressure is so intense that it will cave in a submarine's hull. Role of Unions Threatened as: Argentina Proposes Rigid Shipowner Controis If Captain Bligh, the infa­ mous master of the Bounty, were alive today he would nod with approval at the new mari­ time legislation which the gov­ ernment of Argentina is pre­ paring to slap on the seamen of that South American country. Introduced in the Argentine legislature, the government's bill has aroused strong protests from the nation's maritime un­ ions. The unions, affiliated with the International Transport Ending Long Career Seafarer Albert Jensen, right, receives his first pension check together with best wishes from SlU Representative Pete Loleas at New York hall. Jensen, who comes from Bergen, Norway, sailed as FOWT. He joined the Union in 1943, has spent 26 years at sea. Workers Federation, label the proposals as "not a step forward, but a step back" and as a "piece­ meal and incoherent collection of regulations" which in many respects appears "to go back to the days of sail." If the new laws are placed into effect substantially as they are now worded the master of a ship would be given virtually unlimited powers over the men under him, with little check or redress possible, even under ex­ isting collective agreements with the unions. For one thing, the proposed regulations say that the master may assign a member of the crew to any task whatever, sole­ ly at his own descretion. Not only that, he may also set the hours of work for every service and, if deemed necessary, for each crew member. One might readily imagine what could hap­ pen to a seaman who happened to somehow incur the disfavor of the master. Mildly enough, the seamen's unions merely point out that the loose wording gives the master "excessively wide powers under normal conditions." They do not quarrel with such absolu­ tism when the ship is in danger. But they do point out that hours of work should properly be set by agreement between the parties concerned. Another section of the law gives into the master's hands the right to break up the work- I ing day of any crew member, if he sees fit to do so, just so long as a rest period of at least two hours is observed. With such extensive powers, it is not difficult to imagine what could happen. Let's say a cap­ tain takes exception to a certain crewmember and decides to "teach him who's boss." He could order him to work one hour, swing two, work for an­ other hour, and so on, so that the seaman would be on duty on a practically permanent basis. A protective device is inserted —the law says that a minimum rest period of eight hours is al­ lowed for sleep. However, the unions feel that the protection is not good enough, and "arbi­ trary and excessive power" is thus placed into the hands of the shipowners, through the master. Harsh Penalties Set In addition, the section of the proposed regulations which deals with penalties and disci­ plinary measures is termed by the unions "unnecessarily harsh." They go on to charge, "It is clear that these provisions are designed to ensure the sub­ mission of seafarers, and even of passengers, to strict discipline on board Argentine-flag ships." Apparently the authors of the proposed legislation were anxi­ ous to place seamen into a status paralleling a branch of the armed forces, utilizing a military type of discipline and unques­ tioned obedience. Such para-military measures b5q)ass the unions just as if they did not exist. To make matters worse, the determination of the size of the crew for an Argen­ tine-registered vessel is left to a government body. The provi­ sions even state that "any clause in a collective agreement alter­ ing the crew complement set by the government shall have no validity." The unions consider this pro­ vision in violation of the Ar­ gentine constitution. Hiring Assigned to Police The bill also provides that the engagement of seamen shall be in the hands of a body under the authority of the Labor Police. Convention Number 9 of the International Labor Organiza­ tion sets forth several alterna­ tives for hiring seamen, the first of which stipulates a system maintained by representative as­ sociations of shipowners and seamen jointly, under the con­ trol of a central authority. This bill ignores it completely. The combined effect of the proposals is to give the shipown­ ers total and absolute control, assigning the ship's master as an agent with unquestioned author­ ity even greater than that en­ joyed by the kings and tyrants of long ago. It looks as if the Argentine seamen's unions have quite a task on their hands. 7 *• ' . . -I*. �Page Ten SEAFARERS .BOOK^^weios liSV August, 1969 LOG The Breath of Death ,, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF THE HLIVMARKET MAR­ TYRS (Humanities Press—$6.00) In the 1880s the industrial revolution was rapidly turning men into slaves to the machine. The American worker was forced to labor ten, twelve—and often more—^hours a day, to feed, clothe and house his family. Women and children worked long hours alongside the men. When, in desperation, the workers sought to alleviate their con­ dition, they were met with the full force of company and police' resistance. On May 4, 1886, a crowd gathered in Haymarket Square, Chicago, to protest police brutality at the nearby McCormick Works. It was a small, peaceful gathering until the police moved in to disperse the crowd. Then someone threw a bomb. History has recorded how a wave of hysteria swept over Chi­ cago and how eight men were tried and convicted. We have read how John Peter Altgeld, as governor of Illinois, placed his political life on the chopping block to free the remaining Haymarket martyrs and to declare a tragic miscarriage of American justice. Now, we are given the opportunity to read the autobiographies of the men involved—^Albert Parsons, August Spies, Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg and Oscar Neebe. Written while they awaited the hang­ man's noose—only Oscar Neebe escaped a death sentence—^the autobiographies vary in style. Some were written with eloquence, others were turgid and pendantic. All are filled with bitterness of men who saw injustice in a system where men, women and children worked long hours to produce clothing and shoes while they were denied decent clothing and shoes for themselves. Caught up in the social ferment of the times, these men were tried for their beliefs and not their implications in the Haymarket bomb throwing. All realized the odds they faced in changing the people. As August Spies wrote: "I soon became convinced that the bulk of humanity were automatons, incapa­ ble of thinking and reasoning . . . simply tools of custom." * * * YESTERDAY'S PEOPLE hy Jack E. Weller (Kentucky— $1.75) Written in 1965 and now available in inexpensive paperback, this book is the result Of 13 years of study. Jack Weller was a missionary to churches in the Southern Appalachians during Those years. While the plight of the Appalachian mountaineer is gener­ ally better known today than it was a decade ago, Weller's book offers a unique insight into the habits, traits and culture of the mountain people. It should give the reader a better understand­ ing of these people who have remained locked behind mountain walls for generations. The 1960 presidential primary first brought the plight of these people to our attention. Since then television cameras, concerned labor and civic leaders and gifted writers have helped sweep back the mountain walls. Progress has been made but the closed-in society of the mountaineer remains a hard nut to crack. Weller's book tells why. It is good reading for anyone com­ ing in contact with these people, either in their mountain homes or in the surrounding industrial centers to which some have migrated. THE BEST MEN by John G. Sproat (Oxford—$7.50) In the period following the Civil War, America experienced the so-called Gilded Age, an era of unchecked expansion. It was a time" when the almighty dollar ruled. A man was judged by his wealth and not his moral fiber or compassion for others. During this period, a group of self-styled liberals worked to raise the tone of American politics. The extent of their influence and success is the subject of this study. The author strips away the cloak of propaganda and selfjustification to reveal men who were person^ly burdened with prejudices against the Negro, the immigrant and the worker. These prejudices helped to determine the collective action of these liberals and to prevent a closer alliance with these im­ portant segments of American society. These men—^Henry Adams, Mark Twain, Carl Schurz, Wendell P. Garrison, E. L. Godkin and others—were not selfish, self-serving opportunists. Sincere and dedicated, their ideas were too far advanced for a nation concerned with money and not morality. This is the story of men who sought to change the course of a nation hell-bent on a collision course that led to such infamous events as Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman and Cripple Creek. ' l| A recent unexpected promise by the tobacco industry to discontinue all radio and TV advertising by September of 1970 has unfortunately created an effective smokescreen which is likely to seriously hamper efforts by members of Congress and government regulatory agencies to enact new laws and restrictions aimed at curbing glamorously misleading promo­ tion of the tobacco industry of its products—particularly cigarettes. In recognition of a growing public awareness and alarm over increas­ ingly convincing evidence that cigarette smoking is harmful to the health, the Federal Communications Commission had been considering issuing regulations of its own against blatant and misleading cigarette advertising. The voluntary offer by the cigarette manufacturers to halt their pro­ motions in the broadcasting medium alone appears to have stymied this plan, however. Quite conveniently, this pledge from the industry came at a time when Congress was considering a House-apijroved bill to renew prohibition against any mandatory health warning in cigarette advertising. ' Meanwhile, the broadcasting industry is up in arms over the not entire­ ly public-spirited gesture by cigarette makers. Testifying on the inequity of such a move, the National Association of Broadcasters testified that it derives more than ten percent of its revenues from cigarette advertising and urged—at the very least—a gradual taper­ ing off of this income to put off elimination until September of 1973. The perhaps unfair economic discrimination against the broadcasters while the printed media remains untouched, notwithstanding, it seems that in view of the proven ill effects of cigarettes on the health of millions of Americans all the fuss about how much is spent on advertising them—and who gets it—^is somewhat barbaric. Bit by bit scholarly studies, reports, statistics and medical records all combine to paint a starkly realistic picture: tobacco, particularly in cigar­ ettes, is sending more Americans to an early grave than are killed on the battlefield. The tobacco industry isn't really kidding anyone with their so-called contribution to the public welfare. An NAB official was quite correct when he charged that it "was no great sacrifice on their part," to quit broadcast commercials. To the contrary, he said each year "they will save $200 million with full knowledge that consumption of cigarettes will not decrease." If this is so, it should be recognized as such by our lawmakers and regulators and stern measures taken—not in four years or even one year— but with the utmost promptness. Regard for the public health should super­ sede regard for the profits of any business. After all, we keep other poisons under strict control and out of the reach of people who shouldn't have them—particularly our children. V^y should cigarettes be different? �August, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven Twenty Seafarers Join Growing SiU Pension Ranks The ever-growing roster of Seafarers collecting their SIU pensions after completing their long sailing careers added the names of twenty more members during the last month. Julian Dedicatoria, a chief steward who last sailed aboard the Columbia, joined the SIU 31 years ago in the Port of Phil­ adelphia. He was born in the Philippine Islands and is now 70 years old. Brother Dedica­ toria lives in Philadelphia with Dedicatoria Cash his wife, Ada. He served four hitches in the U.S. Navy—from 1918 to 1934. Joseph Cash, a native of Pu­ laski, Virginia, has been sailing for 43 years. Presently living in South Mills, North Carolina, with his wife, Olgaritte, Brother Cash last sailed on the Tucson Victory as an AB in the deck department. He joined the Un­ ion in the Port of Baltimore. Leon Harper, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife, Estelle, joined the SIU in 1939 in the Port of Tampa. He was an FOWT in the engine de­ partment and last sailed aboard the Globe Producer. A native Harper Guiliano of Alabama, Brother Harper is 65 years old. Anthony Guiliano, a native of Newark, now lives in Eliza­ beth, New Jersey, with his wife, Lena. An OS in the deck de­ partment, Seafarer Guiliano last sailed with Sea-Land Service in November of 1968. Brother Guiliano is an Army veteran of World War II. He joined the Union in the Port of New York. Julian Hensen of Manhattan joined the SIU in 1941 in the Port of New York. He is a na- Hensen Richardson tive of the Philippine Islands who sailed as an AB in the deck department. He last shippedout on the Trenton in Novem­ ber of 1968. Brother Hensen is, 65 years old. A native of Norway, Hans Richardson has been sailing the seven seas for 46 years. He joined the Union in the Port of New York and shipped as an Sierra Cogswell AB in the deck department. His last vessel was the Steel Voy­ ager. Brother Richardson, who is 72 years old, now lives in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Ramon Sierra, a messman in the steward department, last shipped-out on the Seatrain Delaware in 1968. Bom in Puerto Rico, Seafarer Sierra now makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife, Fran- tury, He is 69 years old. He now lives in Manhattan v/ith his wife, Florence. During World War II, Seafarer Schultz served in the Navy. An FOWT in the engine department, Schultz last sailed aboard the Robin Sher­ wood in 1968. Schultz joined the Union in the Port of San Francisco. Walter Jones of Simms, Texas, joined the SIU in the Port of Galveston. A native of Game Fancher Ketchum, Oklahoma, Brother Jones shipped in the deck de­ partment as an AB. He last sailed aboard the Del Oro in 1967. Seafarer Jones will share his retirement years with his wife, Martha Ellen. Eddie Game lives in Bryson City, North Carolina. He joined the Union in the Port of Balti­ more and sailed as steward. His last vessel was the Long Beach. Calliorina McLeod Brother Game, a native of John­ son County, North Carolina, cesca. He is 62 years old and lives with his wife, Gertmde. joined the Union in the port of Earl A. Fancher, a native of New York in 1944. Brother Illinois, now makes his home in Sierra was issued an SIU picket Teaneck, New Jersey, with his duty card in 1963. daughter, Mary. He joined the William F. Cogswell of Mo­ SIU in the Port of Boston and bile, Alabama, last sailed on the was sailing as_ steward at the De Paragay in 1968. He was in time of his retirement. Brother the Navy from 1916 to 1918 and had been sailing for 40 years before his retirement. Sea­ farer Cogswell joined the SIU in Mobile where he now lives with his wife, Delia Flora. He sailed as a junior engineer in the engine department. WASHINGTON—A realis­ James McLeod, who lives in tic call for action to close a Chester, Pennsylvania, joined "double subsidy loophole" in maritime law, under which "hundreds of millions of dollars" are paid out "needlessly" each year to 14 American shipping companies, was issued here re­ cently by a Montana Congress­ man. Representative Arnold Olsen said the double subsidy comes Jones Schultz about because—in addition to the Union in the Port of New receiving 55 percent of the cost York in 1944. A messman in of building their ships and more the steward department, he last than $2,000 per ship per day sailed on the Highland Park. toward their operation—these He is 65 years old and was a companies also "carry govem21-year veteran of the Navy at ment cargo at preferential rates." the time he joined the SIU. Speaking at a meeting spon­ Brother McLeod was bom in sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ Alabama. time Trades Department, Olsen Benny R. Calliorina, a native derided the "propaganda" of the of the Philippine Islands, now subsidized operators who '.'claim makes his home in Brooklyn. that they are paid subsidies to He joined the SIU in 1944 in maintain a 'service,'" and who the Port of New York and deny "receiving any preferen­ sailed as a chief cook in the tial treatment, because they sub­ steward department. Brother mit 'competitive bids' for the Calliorina is 63 years old and carriage of government cargo." had been sailing for 31 years The Montana Democrat call­ before he retired. ed these arguments "nonsense." "If we are paying these lavish Harry Schultz was bom in Brooklyn at the turn of the cen­ subsidies just to have American Fancher last shipped aboard the Robin Hood earlier this year. In both 1961 and 1969, Sea­ farer Fancher received safety awards. During World War I he served a hitch in the Marine Corps. Frederick Blankenberg, a na­ tive of Germany, sailed in the deck department as AB and bos'n. His last vessel was the Robin Kirk. He joined the Un­ ion in the Port of Mobile where he now makes his home with his wife, Mattie. Brother Blank­ enberg is 63 years old. Williard Blumen joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He was an OS in the deck de­ partment and last sailed on the Bienville in 1968. A native New Yorker, Brother Blumen con­ tinues to live in Brooklyn with his wife, Francis. Lawrence McCullough, who is 62 years old, is also a native of New York. He sailed in the deck department and last ship­ ped aboard the Del Campo in 1968. A Seafarer since 1942, Brother McCullough joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans w t. Blankenberg Blumen where he now makes his home. Seafarer McCullough served in the Army from 1924 until 1927. Arthur Langley, a native of "4 McCullough Chicago, now lives in Holmestrand, Norway. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1943 and worked as AB and bos'n in the deck department. Sailing since 1928, Brother Langley's last vessel was the Charleston. Everett Pridgeon was bom in Georgia and now lives in Jack- Pridgeon WUliams sonville, Florida, with his wife. Vera. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans and work­ ed as a FWT in the engine de­ partment. His last ship was the Ponce. Brother Pridgeon is 63 years old.^ John A. Williams, a messman in steward department, joineti the Union in the Port of New V. rleans. He last sailed on the Yellowstone. A native of Algiers, Loui'-iaiia, Seafarer Williams is iinw living in Gret­ na, Louisiana, with his wife, Kitty. Terminate 'Double Subsidy Loophole' InMaritime Low, Congressman Urges ships moving back and forth across the oceans, whether or not they carry any cargo," he declared, "then we are cheating ourselves because we have a lot of commercial cargo to be carried—so much commercial cargo, in fact, that 95 percent of it is moving on foreign ships." As for the "competitive bid" claims, Olsen said "they just don't hold water." "If I had 55 percent of my construction cost paid for by the government, and if I received more than $2,000 per ship per day to operate my vessels, you bet I could underbid the other fellow who gets no such assist­ ance," he declared. "But to be really meaningful, my bid should reflect the sub­ sidies I received. If it didn't, the government would be paying me a double subsidy—and no double-talk could change that fact." The Congressman was partic­ ularly critical of government bureaucrats, who, he said, know that the Subsidized operators "could carry the (government) cargo at the same rate that for­ eign ships carry it," but who "don't seem to care." "We have divided responsi­ bility," Olsen said. "The agen­ cies that give out the govern­ ment cargo don't have to ad­ minister the maritime subsidy program, and everyone in gov­ ernment seems bent on making the best showing for his agency, even if the showing is only on paper, and the 'savings' to the government are phony ones." Tanker Evades Bottle In Self'Laancb Spree BIRKENHEAD, Ei^Iand— A tanker with a way of its own evaded launching ceremonies here as the bottle of champagne was poised to be formally smashed across her bow. Officials and guests were left speechless on the dock when retaining bolts gave way unex­ pectedly and the 10,000-ton vessel slipped silently down the ways in an unscheduled selflaunch. Another ceremony will be scheduled later, the builders said, after the maverick tanker had been corraled. �Page Twelve SEAFARERS LOG August, 1969 Trainees study hard and long for their lifeboat endorsement. All ap­ prentice seamen and upgrading seamen, such as this group seen in class aboard the S.S. Claude "Sonny" Simmons, get Khoursclasswork. AT SEA is stressed in all of the training programs at SAFETY the Harry Lundeberg School of'Seamanship at Piney Point, •' "• •' iir —u..,.^!r;.....yj/r. -^r: jr r '-'rn--"r"'ii"ir ' "• n lin-n timin •••"••iiiaTiiiipiaia^^ HLSS trainees stroke together under the watchful eyes of Instructor Tom Brooks, left, and U.S. Coast Guard examiners during their demonstration test. Trainees must also pass a written lifeboat exam. Kneeling: Donald Harless, David Crouch. First row: James Palmer, James Parrish, Paul Craig, Mark Miller, Pedro Tirado, Xavier Clausse, Richard Hamilton, Richard Kalish, James O'Keefe. Second row: Tom Brooks, Instr,, Wm. Capwell, M. Dacher, Frank Randazzo, Clarence Malpass, W.'Hightower. Back row: S. Prewitt, J. Donovan, J. Nettleton, Joe Bizier, R. Smith, G. Klauder, Wm. Stone, Thos, Michaels, M. Malue, First row: Frederico Varela, Walter Ward, Raymond Lankford, Jr., Barry O'Toole, James Jones, Joseph GrifFin, Richard Muckle, Steve Hope, Clarence McCutcheon, Ronald Seabreeze. Second row: Martin McAndrew, Ernest Page, Charles Bowen, John McLean, Russell Sherman, Robert Reich, Ronald Stubbs, Joseph Metz, Theodore Padolsky, Thomas Haddox. All had 30 hours training in the lifeboats, Md., and heavy emphasis is placed on the school's lifeboat qual­ ification program. Every trainee—whether he is an apprentice seaman who has never been aboard a ship, or an upgrader seeking an AB, FOWT or Cook's endorsement—is required to pass a Coast Guard exam­ ination and secure a lifeboat ticket before he completes his training. The course is long and thorough. Both apprentice seamen and upgraders begin their lifeboat training as soon as they come to the school, and by the second day they are actually in the lifeboats beginning to execute the coxwain's commands and learning the importance of teamwork. Every trainee and every upgrader who does not have a lifeboat endorsement when he comes to the school is required to spend a minimum of 30 hours in the boats and 14 hours in classroom in­ struction before he takes his Coast Guard qualifying examination. Under the-guidance of experienced Seafarer instructors, trainees are thoroughly drilled in all operations connected with the launch­ ing of lifeboats and liferafts, the practical handling of boats, and taking command of a boat's crew. Boats are swung out from davits on the S.S. Claude "Sonny" Simmons, lowered away, and the crews then take them out for several hours of practice each day. Classroom instruction includes lectures and films on the parts of the lifeboat, description and use of required equipment aboard the boats, proper handling of boats in heavy seas, and the operation of all commonly used davits. The trainees are also given instruc­ tion in the practical use of all firefighting equipment aboard ship. Upgraders seeking lifeboat endorsements are also exposed to the practical handling of the school's small sailboats to qualify them to handle the sail rigs used in lifeboats. This sailboat training has First row: Matthew Miller, Steven Wilkinson,- John Heller. Second row: J. Barber, Geo. Cox, F. Dutch, Jos. Bolletino, M. Welch, A. Ruiz. �August, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Thirteen LOG m Every trainee, and all upgraders who do not have a lifeboat ticket. must spend spend et leest 30 hours in . lifeboat before he can take his test. Trainees learn all aspects of launching and handling boats. j.™ iiiii» rnitrnnirtYi^ ii »ii« ">"• J"'® E Riberdy, John F. Sampson Terry M. Holley, Dav.d M. Ketchbaw, Guillermo Quinones, William W. Asch; second row: Richard E. Eiser, Jr., Thomas Kegney, Bobby L. Corbin, John T. Bloodworth, John P. Robbins, Gary O'Neal Miller, John. A. MacLay, Aaron Mangle, James A. Delay, Willie Singleton, Jr., Ralph W. Price, Jr., Tom Brooks, instructor: third row: Dewey L. Bolen, Stanley C. Barnhart, George J. Corr, Richard Pedlico, John J. Kofron, Dale Bradley, Gregory Sheridan, Wm. Dexter, Donald Coulter, Wm. Lasater, H. Alexander, Dimas Rodriguez, D. Rich. HLSS Lifeboat Class 16 is seen here as they took their written test. Examinations are held weekly at Piney Point by the Coast Guard, and in the past four months alone, more than 400 trainees have passed. been found to be valuable in giving the trainee a better knowledge of the effects of wind, weather and tide on a small boat, and to instill greater confidence in boat handling. The effectiveness of the school's lifeboat training program is reflected in the success the trainees have had in demonstrating their qualifications before the Coast Guard examiners. In the past four months alone, more than 400 trainees and upgraders at Piney Point have taken the written and demonstration exams given by the Coast Guard—and every one has passed. The tests are given weekly at the school with an average of 22 trainees and upgraders sitting for the examination. The success of the training program is due both to the desire of the trainees to secure their endorsement and to the school's aim to provide the most complete training possible. In addition to the regularly scheduled daytime classes, special night sessions are held throughout the week on a voluntary basis. Voluntary classes for trainees are also held to teach basic knots and splices. There is almost always a 100 percent attendance at these classes. The lifeboat training provided by the school—as with the up­ grading programs—is geared not merely to produce an endorse­ ment, but to achieve a real proficiency in the rating. It is training that is superior to anything offered before, and provides a solution to the old complaint of having young men come aboard a ship without any knowledge of what is expected of them. The apprentice seaman who goes up the gangway after com­ pleting his 60-day training period at HLSS, and demonstrating his proficiency in the handling of lifeboats, has shown that he can work as a member of a team and that he has achieved a sense of responsibility to his shipmates. And both the apprentice seaman and the upgrader who successfully complete the lifeboat course will contribute to the goal of greater safety at sea. Left to right, first row: Elliot A. Rhodes, Donald R. Alexander, Milton Johns, Ronnie C. Mack, Jr., Charles W. Comer, George N. Reed, Ferdinand R. Quiles, Victor DeJesus, Jr., Mark Thomas, Edward F. Ledwak, Jr., Joel E. Madden: second row: George P. Redman, Eugene Kyzar, Jaime S. Rios, Louis A. Perez, Ronald H. Enos, Roosevelt Blizzard, Jr., Jose L. Valle, Ray D. Strickland, Walter L. Petty, Jr., Atley J. Harrell, Jr., Jack C. Carlton, Roy Delay, Daniel J. Hastings, Gary R. Williams, Tom Brooks, instructor: back row: William T. Mackey, Jr., John H. Wilson, Jr., Larry White, Frank H. Playter, Henry S. Fuller III, Rickey E. Taylor, Steven G. Conner, Charles E. Soechting, Galen W. Underwood, John E. Moscoffian, James VV. Baglama, Dennis L. Parker, Roger D. Hurt, and Leo D. Glover. T - M ^ >• ,r.;. HARRY WNDEBERG SCWOOL OF SEAMANSHIP ¥ 1 •• • •fc. 1 PINEY POINT, MD. Lire BOAT CLASS No. ^ Left to right, first row: Donald T. McGowan, William E. Ashman, Peter G. Smith, Gerado Velez, Ameil P. DiGiovanni, John P. Delisi, Jr., Alfredo F. Ortiz, Harry N. Moore, Jr., David Bonefont, Robert H. Creech, Jr., Herman G. Martin: second row: Philip L. Goodwin, Robert L. French, Cletus D. Woodard, Charles J. Decker, Jerald Reese, Louis H. Ludeman, Jr., Russell C. Gonzalez, William M. Scanlon, Albert P. Murray, Ronald 'H. Harris, Brian L. Miller, Arnold D. Kimble, Jr., Tom Brooks, instructor: third row: G. McKenna, Edward J. Paul, Dennis S. McGovern, John M. Hampel, David Downs, Charles A. Mullen, Charles Engstrom, Donald McGregor, Thos. Keenan, Jr., Leroy Bowles, Jr., Trawn Gooch, John Wheeler. HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP pmy POINT. MP. Lin BOAT CLASS No. TET Left to right, first row: Wallace Bibbs, Michael L. McFall, Jerry Gainey, James G. Worrell, Jr.,. Keith Jackson, Ralph M.-Keely, Melvin Duerson, Steven C. Burch,.Phillip A. Dalton, Tom Brooks,- instructor. In the second row are HLSS trainees: A.^Smits, R. Meridith, Horace L. Taylor, Scott.L. Mintzer, Robert Y. Wallace, Marvin E. Roberts, Frederick R. Kidd, Herman G. Martin, James H. Pritchett. First row: Thomas Fadden, Jerome Dunham, John Lumbley, Jay Thomas, Thomas Walsh. Second row: Charles Miller, Ray Morrell, Edmond Segzdinis, Thomas Brooks, Instr. In the third row are: Carnett Gardner, Robert Schmidt, Claude Ellis, Fred Sheely, Michael Miner. �Page Fourteen SEAFARERS August, 1969 LOG Farm Workers Call Increased Purchases ^Outrage* Defense Dept. Strittfy 'Neutral' on Crape Growers' Side WASHINGTON — A De­ fense Department official in­ sisted recently that the Pentagon is remaining neutral in the Cali­ fornia grape strike and boycott even as he admitted that the de­ partment had sharply stepped up its purchase of the struck table grapes. Deputy Executive Director Dale R. Babione of the De­ fense Supply Agency, in testi­ mony before the Senate Migra­ tory Labor subcommittee, also acknowledged that the agency had notified all supply officers they could order table grapes as a substitute for oranges and other fruit. Subcommittee Chairman Walter F. Mondale (D-Minn.) asked Babione: "When you in­ crease grape purchases 40 per­ cent in one year, and shipments to Vietnam nearly 400 percent, what's the limit ^fore you be­ come non-neutral?" Mrs. Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, called the increased grape pur­ chases by an arm of the U.S. government "a national out­ rage." "How can the department ex­ plain its intervention in this strike?" she asked. Mrs. Huerta, Babione and AFL-CIO Organization Direc­ tor William L. Kircher were the first witnesses as the subcommit­ tee opened its third set of hear­ ings into the problems of farm workers in dealing with orga­ nized growers. Change Asked After Babione testified. Sen­ ator Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) of the subcommittee urged De­ fense Secretary Melvin R. Laird to advise the Pentagon to show "true neutrality" by holding its grape purchases to their prestrike level. Despite all the supply agen­ cy's good intentions, the "end result" of its policies is "not to be neutral," Cranston informed Babione at the hearing. Babione agreed to supply ad­ ditional information, including data on whether the agency is violating its neutrality policy, and whether it is observing Laird's directive to department personnel to consider the do­ mestic impact of their decisions. The UI^OC, which has been organizing grape workers since 1965 and boycotting growers who refuse to bargain, was asked to supply evidence sup­ porting its charges of bias by some growers in refusing to hire Negroes. The subcommittee also agreed to seek an investigation by the Justice Department into what the union called company-in­ spired incidents of violence against the strikers. Kircher and Mrs, Huerta also testified on a related problem-^ alien "green-card" workers from across the Mexican border— before a House Labor subcom­ mittee. They backed passage of "green-card" holders for use as strike breakers in a labor dis­ pute. Before the Senate hearings opened, the subcommittee had asked the Defense Department to answer 77 questions on the purchase of table grapes and other fruit for the armed forces. Babione supplied a fact sheet showing that the Defense Supply Agency, which buys food for military dining halls and com­ missaries, increased its table grape procurements from 7.5 million pounds costing $1.04 million in fiscal 1966 to a pro­ jected 11 million pounds and $1.98 million in fiscal 1969. Shipments of grapes to Viet­ nam totaled 468,000 pounds in fiscal 1967; 555,000 pounds in 1968 and an estimated 2.5 mil­ lion pounds in the fiscal year ended last June 30. The policy of the Defense De­ partment, Babione told the sub­ committee, is "to refrain from taking a position on the merits of any labor dispute." He cited rulings by the Gen­ eral Accounting Office and the Comptroller General that an agency may consider the labor practices of a contractor only to the extent that they interfere with contract performance and has "no authority to reject bids" where an employer does not hire union labor. Mondale asked the witness if he had read a June 30 directive by Laird calling on Defense establishments to exhibit "social consciousness." When Babione said he had not, Mondale asked if he thought an increase of nearly 400 percent in grape shipments to Vietnam could be called a "neutral response" to the grape boycott. "Yes, I do," Babione replied. Mrs. Huerta noted that "many farm workers are mem­ bers of minority groups—^Fili­ pinos and Mexican-Americans and black Americans" and de- Support of HEW and Unions Sought For Setting Up Croup Health Plans NEW YORK—The federal government has been urged by Group Health Association of America to take steps to "vigor­ ously promote" the development of group practice prepayment health plans. The GHAA, at its 10th an­ nual meeting here, also called on labor unions as "the largest of the groups of organized con­ sumers" to intensify their efforts on behalf of such plans. In another action, representa­ tives of the eight-million mem­ ber association endorsed the principles of a National Health Insurance system, with incen­ tives to expedite improvements in medical care. A resolution urged the gov­ ernment, through the Health, Education and Welfare Depart­ ment, to make available techni­ cal consultant services and grants for seed money to start new group practice programs, I It also urged grants for pro­ "recognized to be a human right" which is not sufficiently grams in early development. Further, the meeting asked available to U.S. citizens. It noted that 60 nations al­ HEW to make available tech­ ready have some form of nation­ nical assistance to support ef­ al health insurance or national forts to remove restrictions on group practice in state and local health service and the United laws, and aid in framing cor­ States lags "substantially be­ hind" many of these nations "by rective legislation. The GHAA pointed out that the major indices which measure "almost half of the states have a nation's health." The NHI resolution also em­ laws on their books which re­ strict or prevent the organiza­ phasized that the nation's pres­ tion of consumer-sponsored ent system of voluntary health insurance does not cover the medical care plans." needy and rarely offers compre­ Call to Unions hensive care. The resolution asked unions At the same time, it observed, to seek provisions in health-and- "the costs of medical care* in welfare bargaining which will this country continue to escalate give their members the choice at a rate more than twice as ra­ between traditional indemnity pidly as increases in the cost of insurance and prepaid group living." practice in communities where The resolution concluded by it is available. pledging the association's sup­ In endorsing National Health port of the efforts being made Insurance, the meeting observed to obtain NHI by the AFL-CIO that adequate health care is and other organizations. dared that "these same farm workers are on the front lines of battle in Vietnam." She said "it is a cruel and ironic slap in the face to these men who have left the fields to fulfill their military obligation to find increasing amounts of non­ union grapes in their mess kits, picked by strikebreakers who took the places of their rela­ tives" in California vineyards. UFWOC's only weapon is the boycott, she stressed, adding: "Just when our boycott is suc­ cessful, the U.S. military dou­ bles its purchases of table grapes, thus creating a major obstacle to farm worker orga­ nizing and union recognition." The department is "obviously acting as a buyer of last resort for scab grapes and is, in effect, providing another form of fed­ eral subsidy for anti-union grow­ ers who would destroy the ef­ forts of the poor to build a union," she said. Cites Terrorism Mrs. Huerta charged that after 10 California employers announced they would bargain with the union, one lost 35,000 boxes of grapes in a fire, an­ other was attacked so viciously that he almost lost his sight, and others have received telephoned death threats. "The growers have all the economic power, and the help of government agencies, state and federal," she said. "Our union offices in Delano have been bombed, armed gunmen took our files, our auto insur­ ance is being canceled and our pickets are beaten and arrested. Yet the growers say we are violent." Kircher said he was "amazed and shocked" at the Defense Department's purchasing poli­ cies, and at the persistent law violations by employers like J. P. Stevens and Co., which continue to violate the law and continue to win Defense De­ partment contracts. Farm workers are not pro­ tected by the labor laws, Kirch­ er noted. But he cited the "terrible impact of employer intimidation on impoverished workers even where there is a law." At the House Labor subcom­ mittee hearings Chairman Frank Thompson (D-N.J.) cited evi­ dence that some employers are using alien "green-card" work­ ers from Mexico to depress wages and working conditions. Kircher said the AFL-CIO strongly supports bills under which aliens admitted for per­ manent residence under green card permits or "wetbacks" who enter illegally "could no longer be used by employers to under­ cut wages and working condi­ tions, Of restrict employment opportunities, or act as strike­ breakers in labor disputes on the American side" of the U.S. Mexico border. The AFL-CIO is not opposed to the green card in principle but only as it has been used in practice, Kircher said, as "a commuter ticket to cheap jobs, strikebreaking, sub-standard wages" and other practices that erode U.S. standards. Kircher called attention also to the so-called Mexican border development program, started • in 1965 by the Government of . Mexico. The program operates to "lure U.S. firms to avoid Fair ' Labor Standards Act and Na­ tional Labor Relations Act pro­ visions" by importing exploited ] people south of the border. Two New SlU Pensioners •^1.1 SlU Representative Leon (Hall, left, gives their first pension checks to Seafarers John Listoh and Juan M. Soto, right, now on the beach after full careers at sea. Liston, an AB, last sailed on the Oceanic Tide and makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. Soto, a bosumwhose last ship was Robin Locksley, hopes .to stay active working with youth. �Aucnst, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG DeUgatat regittar bafora convantlon gats undarway. VIca Adm. L. P. RAMAGE Cotnmandar, MSTS Rap. JOHN McCORMACK Massachusatts Rap. HALE B066S Louisiana Page Fifteen Rap. EDWARD 6ARMATZ Maryland AL BARKAN, Dir., AFL-CIO COPE, Addrassas assamblad convantlon delegates. LANE KIRKLAND Sac.-Treasurar, AFL-CIO STEVE EDNEY Cannary Workars of Pacific ANDREW BIEMILLER AFL-CIO Legislative Dir. Photo Story Sen. JOSEPH D. TYDINGS (r.) chats with BILL MOODY, MID. San. VANCE HARTKE Indiana Biennial Convention DON SLAIMAN Dir., AFL-CIO Civil Rights THE Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the Seafarers interna­ tional Union of North America, AFL-CIO, was held in Wash­ ington, D.C., the week of July 28 to chart a course for the next two years. Delegates representing more than 85,000 members and 38 affiliated district and local unions acted on a brood range of issues affecting the SlUNA membership, the labor movement and the community. They adopted a program aimed at revitalizing the U.S. Merchant Marine. Rep. GERALD R. FORD Michigan Rep. JAMES HOWARD New Jersey Photos and details of convention highlights are contained on these and other pages in this issue of the SEAFARERS LOG. KEITH TERPE (right) chats with CARLOS ROMERO-BARCELO, Mayor of San Juan. LEO PERLIS Dir. AFL-CIO Com. Service S. FRANK RAFTERY Pres., Painters Prat. HALL welcomes Rap. EMANUEL CELLER, New York. Rap. JOHN MURPHY New York Sen. RALPH YARBOROUGH of Texas, left, with PAUL DROZAK, AGLIWD. �SEAFARERS Page Sixteen Delegates'to IBU Convenfion maet at Statler-Hllton Hotel In Washington. Rep. JACOB GILBERT New York PETER A. McGAVIN Maritime Trades Dept. ROBERT A. MATTHEWS SiU-AGLlW Dist. SAM KOVENETSKY RWDSU Rep. CHARLES WILSON California Rap. BROCK ADAMS Washington The SiU Civil Rights Committee, under the chairmanship of ED TURNER of MCS, discussed many vital issues. ANDREW A. GIBSON Maritime Administrator JAMES REYNOLDS Pres., AIMS The Great Lakes Organizational and Grievance Committee was chaired by RED McLAUGHLIN, SIU of Canada. ANTHONY SCOTTO Vice President, ILA August, 1969 LOG GEORGE HEARNE Federal Maritime Commission Rep. JOHN ROONEY New York JOHN YARMOLA. Pres., UIW-Midwast C. J. HAGGERTY Pres., Building Trades ALBERT ALBERTONI Sac., Fire Fighters Rap. SPARK MATSUNAGA Hawaii J. S. WINTER SlUNA Sugar Workers ANDYIMUTAN Rap. of UFWOC EARL SHEPARD SiU-AGLIW DIst. The Inland Boatmen's Organizational and Grievance Committee was chaired by MERLE ADLUM, IBU-PAC. Rap. THOMAS PELLY Washington PAUL JENNINGS Pres., lUE * , vs WALTER DAVIS Dir., AFL-CIO Education Dept. STEVE EDNEY, UCiW-PAC, chaired the Fisherman's and Fish Cannery Workers' Organization and Grievance Committee. IINDSEY WILLIAMS SIU-AGLIW Dist. ED CARLOUGH Sheetmetal Workers �Augnst, 1969 SEAFARERS Many commlttH mnaltngt, such as this ona of the Resolutions Connmittee ware conducted throughout the convention. Chairing group was 30E GOREN of the MCS. W. J. USERY, JR. Asst. Sec. of Labor JOSEPH TONELLI Pres.. Paper Sulfite Workers Page Sevenleen LOG Rep. SAM GIBBONS Florida BURT E. LANPHER Staff Officers RAN HATTENA Maritime Overseas Rep. JOSEPH KARTH Minnesota PENNY SINGLETON Variety Artists t".: Pres. PAUL HALL GreeH Rep. THOMAS DOWNING, Virginia DAVE SULLIVAN Pres., Service Employees STEVE LESLIE Marine Division, lUOE RICHARD LIVINGSTON Sec., Carpenters JAMES M. DOOLEY SUP HARRY JORGENSEN MFOW WILLIAM KIRCHER AFL.CIO Dir. of Organizing Among convention delegates ware, from left. WILDER SMITH. MCS; AUSTIN SKINNER. NBFU; LINDSEY WILLIAMS. SlU-AGLIW DIst.; KEITH TERPE, SlU of Puerto Rico and JERRY POSNER. MCS. Rep. JOSEPH ADDABBO New York JOE LEWIS Dir. AFL-CiO Un. Label Dept. iX- The SlU of Puerto Rico provided an Interesting display In the lobby. JOSEPH KAHN Seatrain Lines ED TURNER Sec. Treas.. MCS Sen. DANIEL INOUYE Hawaii BERT SEIDMAN Dir. AFL-CIO Soc. Sec. .1 LEONARD J. MCLAUGHLIN SlU of Canada NAT GOLDFINGER AFL-CIO Dir. of Research SlU Vice President LINDSEY WILLIAMS talks with Senator RUS­ SELL B. LONG of Louisiana. Rep. CARL ALBERT Oklahoma JOSEPH D. KEENAN Sec.-Treas.. IBEW AL KERR SlUNA Sec.-Treasurer �Page Eighteen SEAFARERS Rap. WILLIAM MAILLIARD California Tha more; than 300 dalagalas at tha Convantion raprasantad mora than 85,000 workari on dsapsaa Vassals, Inland watarways, tug boats, tha commarcial fishing flaat and transport workars. A Rap. PATSY T. MINK Hawaii Rap. FRANK BRASCO Naw York August, 1969 LOG A A I & I JAY LOVESTONE Dir., AFL-CIO Int'l Affairs BRANDON TYNAN Marine Staff Officers AS A W t AAA gl A.A A A A A A A A A A AA K.«A.A1-AAA Rap. MARIO BIA66I Naw York RED RAMSEY MFOW Rap. FRANK THOMPSON. JR. Naw Jersey ROCCO C. SICILIANO Under Secretary of Commerce. Rap. CLAUDE PEPPER Florida JOSEPH AMES Sac., AFSCME MORRIS WEISBERGER SUP. Rap. ROBERT LEGGETT California GEORGE STEINBRENNER Kinsman Marftima Transport 5EAFARERS INTER ^^M'^HENNIAlrCO ANDREA G0M5, International Vice President Emeritus, administers tha oat h of office to tha offlcars elected by delegates at the concluding session of t he convention.' ERIC; AUG. i Rep. JAMES BURKE Massachusetts Rep. WILLIAM MOORHEAD Pennsylvania Rap. JOSHUA EILBERG Pennsylvania Rap. PHILLIP BURTON California Rap. JONATHAN BINGHAM Naw York ''0 Senator JOSEPH MONTOYA Naw Mexico. «4TI0 •ENl Rap. PETER RODINO New Jersey Rap. JAMES BYRNE Pennsylvania MERLE ADLUM Inland Boatman of Pacific CHICK MORAN Boilermakers JOE GOREN Marina Cooks Rap. FLOYD HICKS Washington �August, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nineteen MSTS Chief Warns MTD: U.S. Sinking Rapidiy as a First Class World Sea Power WASHINGTON The United States is in immediate danger of losing all grip on the dominant position it long en­ joyed as the number one sea power of the world, Vice Ad­ miral L. P. Ramage, Command­ er of the Military Sea Transpor­ tation Service, warned at a meet­ ing of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, here this month. "It is equally true and alarm­ ing," Ramage told the audience of government officials, union leaders and industry executives, "that the American public is not fully aware of the threat to our security and prosperity inherent in our decline as a sea power." Both the U.S. Navy and the merchant marine are becoming antiquated and decrepit while the Russian combat navy and merchant fleet have been en­ larged and constantly modern­ ized at the swiftest rate in the world today, he emphasized. "Today, about 80 percent of the Soviet merchant fleet is less than 10 years old," the Admiral said, "while 80 percent of the U.S. fleet is more than 20 years old. In the past 20 years the Russians have added about 1,000 ships to their merchant marine; the U.S. fleet has de­ creased by about 1,000 ships. In November 1968 the Soviet Union was constructing 458 new ships; the U.S. was building 62. The USSR spent $600 mil­ lion in building merchant ships Hula Girls Swing Into Leafy Fringe i i HONOLULU—Hula danc­ ers at major Hawaiian hotels and night clubs have just won a two-year union contract with a literal "fringe benefit," The hip-swingers, members of the American Guild of Variety Artists, will now get a special allowance to purchase tipalm leaves for making their skirts. And that aint hay! WeN-Barned fi- y Seafarer Nickolai Hill holds his first pension check. Hill retired after sailing for over 30 years with the SlU on the Great Lakes. in 1968; the U.S. spent $150 million." He added that the most shocking figure of all—in terms of President Nixon's statement that a maritime power must be able to project its economic strength into the oceans of the world—is the less than five per­ cent of America's trade with the world which moves in U.S.-flag ships. "Relate that figure," Ramage continued "to such realities of national security as the fact that 66 of the 77 strategic and criti­ cal commodities needed in the United States must be imported, and that 99 percent of these must be moved by sealift be­ cause of their bulk. It adds up to a conclusion that our supplies of critical and strategic raw materials depend upon the abil­ ity and willingness of other na­ tions to transport them. We are a nautical dependent in an era when we should be commercial­ ly and militarily standing on our own feet." On this score, the Admiral recalled that during the Viet­ nam buildup—because of the inadequacies of the American merchant fleet—the MSTS had to charter foreign-flag tankers and approached the owners of 400 U.S.-owned ships operating under foreign flags. Theoretical­ ly, he pointed out, these are un­ der "effective U.S. control" but all these ships were manned by foreign crews and some of the crews refused to go to Vietnam. Yet the statistics on the sealift to Vietnam are distinctly im­ New Packaging Law Makes Shopper Work By Sidney Margolius You may already have noticed in the stores some of the changes resulting from the new Truth-in-Packaging law. All food pack­ ages and cans now show the net contents on the front face in fairly large type. In a few product lines the previous jungle of many different sizes has been thinned down a little. Also, where manufacturers say how many servings the package provides, they now also say how big the servings are. For example, in dehydrated mashed potatoes the packages now specify "eight half-cup servings," or for rice, "12 two-thirds cup servings." This is a help in two ways. The manufacturers now admit how small their concept of a serving may be, such as a halfcup of mashed potatoes (about four ounces). Some in fact no longer specify the number of servings. Also, the relative number of same-size servings provided by different brands can give you another way to compare values. Obviously, a 21-serving box of French's dehydrated mashed potatoes for 65 cents costs less than an eight-serving box of Hungry Jack mashed for 33 cents—without attempting to com­ pare taste—since both are half-cup servings. That, however, is most of the benefit so far from the Truthin-Packaging law. In shopping for most food and toiletry prod­ ucts, you still have to go through a process of dividing the cost per ounce into a large number of package sizes, brands and related varieties. For example, just one supermarket offers four different brands of tuna fish, each of which comes in three or four types and four or five sizes. This adds up to 45 different choices. You have to figure out the best buy among 3Vi ounces of tuna for 27 cents; 6V2 ounces for 37 cents; 7 ounces for 45, and 9VA for 57. In canned sardines you have to compare among such sizes as V/z ounces, VA, 3%, 4, and 4%. Have fun. We found nine different sizes of dehydrated mashed potatoes in just one store, including 5, 5VA, SVi, 6, 8, 13%, 16 and 16Vi ounces. It still is virtually impossible to compare relative values in baby foods. Among meat products for infants and toddlers, there were three different major brands offering approximately 90 different varieties in four or five different sizes such as AVA ounces, 6V2 ounces, 7 ounces and so on. Here the consumer has a terrifying amount of "free choice," with a potential of over 300 different mathematical computations. No wonder the birth rate is beginning to decline. Among frozen vegetables, we found six different sizes of pack­ ages ranging from eight to 24 ounces, and with the face of some of the eight- and nine-ounce packages as large as the 10-ounce. An unwary or hurried consumer can be fooled if he doesn't stop to look at the weights. I pressive, Ramage said. Last year 1,100,000 tons of dry cargo went to Vietnam each month, which amounted to 38,000 tons a day. Shipment of petroleum products averaged 18 million barrels a month with much of this used by the Air Force for return flights to the U. S. Between 96 and 98 percent of all supplies going to Vietnam have been sealifted, the Admi­ ral pointed out. But despite this success, prospects for the im­ mediate future are not happy, he declared. The U.S. is now the fifth-ranking maritime pow­ er; the USSR sixth. But by the end of 1969, he predicted, the U.S. will be sixth and the USSR fifth. The Admiral gave this pic­ ture of the National Defense Reserve fleet and the present condition of the nation's mer­ chant marine: "All 1,000 Defense Reserve Fleet ships were built prior to 1946. Four hundred are desig­ nated for scrapping. Does that mean 600 are left? No! Three hundred are naval auxiliaries, repair ships and net tenders. Does this leave 300 usable ships? No! Approximately 225 are uneconomical or unsuitable dry cargo ships. We don't have 75 usable ships. The sad fact is that we have only 37 victory hulls left in reserve." "Simply stated," Ramage con­ cluded, "the U.S. is a fast-fading merchant marine power. If we can't carry peacetime trade, how can we expect to handle wartime military needs?" Even in fresh produce, you can be fooled by the practice of selling some produce by the piece instead of the pound. We weighed four heads of Boston lettuce, all marked 17 cents, and found they ranged from nine to 15 ounces. One buyer gets 40 percent less than another for the same price—depending entirely on chance. The same lottery exists in citrus fruits and other pro­ duce sold by the piece. In shopping for soaps and detergents, you still have a multiplicity of weights. Bar soaps now have to show their weights for the first time. But you have to work to compare their values. Just among the newly popular deodorant soaps we found soaps in 31/2, 3%, 4.65, 4%, 5 and 5.7 ounce sizes. If you look closely you do get some information. You see, for example, that Dove, which looks like the biggest bar, actually is only 4.65 ounces, and Phase III, only 5, even though both look bigger than Zest which is 5.7 ounces. Dove and Phase III have a cardboard inner wrapper which makes them look bigger than they are. Since Congress failed to require standard sizes, as the original Senate Truth-in-Packaging bill called for, the only immediate help in sight is if local governments accomplish this goal tluough unit pricing. This would require stores to mark the price per ounce, pound, pint or other standard measure on the package as well as the price of the package itself. Thus, they would have to label the tuna fish "6V2 ounces, 37 cents; 91 cents a lb." In most areas stores do this for meats, poul­ try, fish and some produce, and there is no reason why they can't for packaged foods. Some co-ops voluntarily post prices per ounce of various items; for example, one of the Berkeley, Calif., co-ops, and Hyde Park in Chicago. New York City now is considering a regulation that would require all stores there to show the unit prices. If this responsibility is put on the stores, it is reasonable to expect that they in turn will press canners and packers to use more uniform and standard sizes. Certainly both stores and con­ sumers would benefit. Bess Myerson Grant, the former Miss America who is doing a remarkable job as New York City Consumer Commissioner, reports that a survey by her department found that even expe­ rienced shoppers fail to select the best buys as much as 40 percent of the time. This failure, Mrs. Grant warns, may cost you up to 11 cents of every shopping dollar. A real battle is shaping up over the new drive to get cities and towns to require unit pricing, warns Ralph Renter, of the Ladies Garment Workers Union, who is also active in consumer organi­ zations. The grocery industry is bitterly opposing unit pricing. Renter reports. Consumers are especially warned to watch bread weights these days. Some brands now are "balloon" type 22-ounce loaves which look as big as 1V2 or two-pound loaves. Another potential fooler is 12-ounce "balloon" loaves (puffed up with air) that look as big as one-pound standard loaves. �August, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty Part IV—Section A Statement of Assets and Liabilities Seafarers Pension Plan For Year Beginning December 1, 1967 and Ending November 30, 1968 File No. WP-158707 ASSETS1 ' End of End of Prior Reporting Item Year Year 1. Cash $ 339,687.55 $ 1,615,843.86 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer 288,889.50 200,397.72 (2) Other (Specify) b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associations b. Stocks: (1) Preferred 1,153,396.83 1,449,099.56 (2) Common 7,002,408.76 9,460,509.06 c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: (a) Federal 1,243,135.24 1,381,887.29 (b) State and municipal ' (2) Foreign government obligations (3) Nongovernment obligations 10,189,473.11 17,336,294.70 d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) AFL-CIO Mortgage Investment Fund ; 1,000,000.00 999,732.43 (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions) (Identify and indicate percentage of ownership by this Plan in the subsidiary) (1) %.... (2) %.... 4. Real estate loans and mortgages 255,556.08 244,802.93 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured b. Unsecured 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income ".... 4,489.60 43,396.06 b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) 8. Total Assets $21,477,036.67 $32,731,963.61 ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended November 30, 1968 SEAFARERS PENSION FUND 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance De­ partment, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $13,319,382.36 (b) Employee i (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions $13,319,382.36 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest (b) Dividends (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments 766,507.68 343,372.30 1,109,879.98 4. Profit on disposal of Investments 357,622.27 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Additions 7. Total Additions $14,786,884.61 DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Car­ riers and to Service Organizations (Including. Pre­ paid Medical Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by Trust or Separately Maintained Fund 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plaa for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants (Attach latest operating statement of the Organiza­ tion showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) 3,177,985.23 ^ The assets ments held in aggregate cost with the U.S. 41,738.05 7,259.91 1,984.62 51,774.25 3,576.10 265.86 1,632.34 2,337.60 15,199.90 21,474,699.07 32,716,763.71 $21,477,036.67 $32,731,963.61 listed in this statement must be valued on the basis regularly used in valuing invest­ the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Department, or shall be valued at their or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not so required to be filed Treasury Department. 176,321.79 190,512.95 ANNUAL RIPO«T OP THI STAnop jJmj^'a£hL SIArAAERS PCMION FUND OOWRVOP vTT 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Deductions 16. Total Deductions $ 3,544,819.97 "7'^. /lu Hasiai. RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Beniefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities) ... $ 68,090.66 13. Loss on disposal of investments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Beginning of Year) 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) $ Attachment to the Superintendent of Insurance Year Ended November 30, 1968 Other Administrative Expenses Stationery and printing Postage Telephone and telegraph Tabulating service Microfilming Equipment rental Employee benefits Miscellaneous Miscellaneous trustees meetings expense ..." Repairs and maintenance Dues and subscriptions '. Outside office help 12. Administrative Expenses: Salaries (Schedule 2) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) Taxes Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) Rent Insurance Premiums Fidelity Bond Premiums Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) Schedule Attached (i) Total Administrative Expenses LIABILITIES Insurance and annuity premiums payable Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) Accounts payable Accrued expense Other liabilities (Specify) Reserve for future benefits Total Liabilities and Reserves SEAFARERS PENSION PLAN 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Bene­ fits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 21,474,699.07 T"M 14,786,884.61 3,544,819.97 11,242,064.64 , $32,716,763.71 Part IV Part IV teta for tmit or other Mparatejy m.intainrd fund are to be completed for a plan InToWIng a • tmet or other separately maintained fund. It also is to be completed for a plan which- <1) Has in<-nrrad expenses other than: (a) Payments for unfunded benefits or (b) Insurance or annuity premiums or • • subscription chatves paid to an insurance carrier or service or other organization- or (2) Has assete ^ • other than: (a) Insurance or annuity contracts or (b) Contributions in the process of payment or ^ collection. , . r '/y' Dii--- • .V--.y: r ^ 'r' ' • $ 6,618.60 101.48 1,088.10 49,889.05 823.96 2,802.07 2,248.85 3,348.88 94.09 735.94 315.39 24.25 $68,090.66 �JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY—Pictured wth SlU Vice President Earl Shepard are William Datzke, W. L. Rackley, ship secretary; T. Catharle, deck delegate: A. Boney, ship chairman: T. Lynch, ship delegate: Lester Borges, engine delegate: AB Odell Powell. T HE SHIP'S COMMITTEE is the vital link between the SIU at sea and the SIU ashore. This committee, with the bosun serving as the chairman,- the steward acting as secretary, and a delegate from each department, is charged with the responsibility of holding weekly meetings at sea so that all Seafarers can continue to participate in the affairs of their Union. Close communication between the members aboard ship and Union headquarters ashore is vital to maintaining the proud reputation of the SIU as a demo­ cratic Union. PONCE—Left to right are William StrTckland, steward delegate; Peter Patrick, secretary; Clarence Hemby, engine delegate; Zenon Rivera, bosun and ship chairman; and Sam Nickerson, deck delegate. 'I- PORTLAND—Left to right are H. G. Bentz, chairman; George Malinowski, engine delegate; Ferdi­ nand Prieto, steward department delegate; Paul Halloway, deck delegate, and Juan Roderiguez, sec. W'\ MARYMAR—Pictured left to right are Stanley Wojcik, steward de­ partment delegate; Paul Sabe, deck delegate; Willis Addison, en­ gine delegate; Fetas DeLeon, steward delegate; Irwin Moen, chairman. BROOKLYN—Left to right: Harry Chromiak, engine delegate; James Barclay, steward delegate; John Cabral. ship's chairman; William Reid, steward and ship's secretary, and Norman Tukey, deck delegate. HOUSTON—Left to right: Roman Aguior, secretary; Victor Silva, retiring steward delegate; Thomas Magres, deck delegate; Esturdo Cuenca, engine; D. Lallabe, chairman; Franco Comez, steward delegate. �Page Twenty Two SEAFARERS August, 1969 LOG National Safety Council Course: Steady As She Goes Defensive Driving Enrolfees Increase; Training Sharply Reduces Accidents The National Safety Council's nationwide Defensive Driv­ ing Course, designed to curb the traffic death and injury toll, is currently at its highest levels. By the end of 1967, drivers who had been through the course totalled 600,000. Drivers have since graduated at a rate equiva­ lent to a million per year. The training course in defen­ sive driving is a capsulized ver­ sion of the professional driver training programs the council's Motor Transportation Depart­ ment has developed for motor fleet operators. Drivers in fleets that are coun­ cil members last year had an average accident rate that was approximately half that of all drivers in the country. The Defensive Driving Course usually consists of four two-hour sessions. They are taught by instructors trained and qualified by the NSC. The course is designed for the average motorist who wishes to improve his driving. The only prerequisite is a driver's license. The sessions concentrate on the six situations that can cause a two-car crash. In 1966, twocar crashes accounted for 42 percent of all traffic fatalities, 68 percent of all disabling in­ juries, and 78 percent of all property damage accidents. This type of accident also accoxmted for 72 percent of total motor vehicle accident costs and in­ volved 87 percent of the drivers who were in accidents. Over the years, the council's Motor Transportation members have made sharp reductions in two-vehicle crashes. It is esti­ mated that, if their rates could be achieved by all drivers, the two-car crash would decline by 40 percent. The motor fleet operators' chief method of attacking this problem has been built around the question of whether the ac­ cident could have been prevent­ ed by the company's own driver. If he could have prevented it and didn't, he is held acountable even though he may have been legally "in the right." Drivers are trained to reach their destinations safely despite mistakes of other drivers or ad­ verse road, weather, light, traf­ fic or driver conditions. This concept, called defensive driv­ ing, is the heart of the council course. The sessions are being pre­ sented across the country in small groups under the spon­ sorship of church organizations, labor unions, service clubs, em­ ployers and military installa- Port of New York Sets Foreign Trade High In '68 tions. Volunteer instructors—^train­ ed by the council—^present the course, utilizing films, visual aids, and training techniques provided by the council. Under­ standing of defensive driving principles is built up as students analyze actual accidents. Admiral Labels U. S.-nag Fleet Antiqae Buckets The U.S. Navy and merchant marine are unbelievably ancient and inadequate. Vice Admiral Bernard F. Boeder, commander of the Navy's First Fleet, told a press group on board his flag­ ship, the USS Providence, on a visit in Portland, Oregon, during last month's Rose Festi­ val. Admiral Boeder noted that his flagship was 24 years old, had been updated several times and was filled with so many things that nothing more can be added. It has 300 tons of lead ballast to keep it stable. "We've got hundreds of ships we can't put anything more on unless we take off something vital or they will become topheavy," he said. "On the old ships, living con­ ditions are unbelievably crude and living spaces are horrible. The heads are not the sort of thing the young man of today counts on. This has a tremen­ dous impact on retention rates (re-enlistments)." Boeder said 58 percent of the Navy's 900 vessels are over 20 years of age. He compared the U.S. Navy with Russia's younger navy and merchant ma­ rine. "Our merchant marine is in-' adequate, much of it nothing more than antique buckets that are a disgrace to the flag. They're worn out and'rusty." NEW YORK—The Port of tons, a six percent improvement New York moved 57,136,756 over the 38,355,098 tons in the long tons of foreign trade goods previous year. in 1968 to set a record high. General cargoes are defined Of this total 56,891,307 tons as high-value commodities, entered or left by sea, the re­ mainly packaged goods, which maining 245,449 tons going by produce the greatest revenue for air, the Port of New York Au­ the port. thority announced. Custom collections of $1,The gain in volume of water- 136,986,464 also set a record. borne goods over 1967 was 6.3 Of this, sea-borne trade duties percent. Last year 53,539,097 accounted for $994,125,086 tons of foreign trade goods were and air-bome duties were $192,carried by sea and 186,824 tons 861,378. by air—^the air-bome trade showing a 31.4 percent increase. It's Your Move The over-all increase in general cargoes above 1967 tonnage was 7.8 percent. Over-all value of the foreigntrade goods moved by ships and aircraft through the port during 1968 totalled $19.1 billion, also a new high. This compares with $12.8 billion handled in 1967, a gain of close to 50 percent. A major factor in the port's improved performance included a substantial increase in the movement of high-value general cargo. It is estimated that up­ wards of 20 percent of the port's total volume of general cargoes —aggregating 16,368,775 tons —were containerized. Bulk cargo—^mainly oil, grain Deep concentration is evidenced by Seafarer Istvan Szeibert (left), and ore—^handled by the port who seils as baker, as Brother Vanvi Tibor, chief cook, settles down to in 1968 totalled 40,522,532 planning next move on the chess-board. Action took place at N.Y. These two youngsters, Alan Bowles, left, and Winfred Countiss, seem to be charting a course for a career at sea as they steady the helm of the "Manitou," once the favorite yawl of President Kennedy and now used as a training ship for apprentice and upgrading seamen at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland. The two young "sailors" were a part of a group of 70 local HeadStart children who visited the school's varied training facilities. Tramp Shipping Mmphasmed: West German Merchant Fleet Undergoing Modern Expansion HAMBURG — West Ger­ many, apparently fully aware of the importance of a strong mer­ chant marine, is investing heav­ ily in the expansion and mod­ ernization of its commercial fleet, with particular emphasis on tramp shipping. Latest figures published by the Ship Owners Association showed 123 vessels either on or­ der or under construction, with an aggregate of nearly two mil­ lion deadweight tons (1.22 mil­ lion gross registered tons) at the end of March. This is nearly twice the con­ struction of a year ago, when 66 vessels totalling one million deadweight tons (680,000 gross registered tons) were on order or in the process of being built. Bulk cargo shippers are the major contractors, with 11 ships of 780,000 deadweight tons on order, accounting for 39,5 per­ cent of the total. More than half of this new tonnage is accounted for by three giant bulk carriers of 140,000 deadweight tons each—among the biggest dry cargo ships currently being built anywhere. Tanker operators have only one 140,000 deadweight ton tanker on order with German shipyards. More than half of the ships on order are being built for tramp shipping, a total of 64 vessels of 620,000 deadweight tons. Of these, 25 units are in the 14,000 to 16,000 dead­ weight ton class and 22 vessels are in the 7,200 ton class. Among the new cargo liners are five container vessels, of 1,000 to 1,300 containers capa­ city each. All but six of the 29 new cargo liners, with an aggre­ gate 415,000 deadweight tons, will be built in West German shipyards for delivery late this year or early in 1970. At the end of March, the Ger­ man merchant marine fleet com­ prised 4,105 units with a com­ bined tonnage of 7,434,087 gross registered tons, according to statistics furnished by the ma­ rine division of Bonn's Ministry for Traffic and Transport. This was 70,040 gross tons, over the figure at the end of 1968. Of 2,693 ships with a total tonnage of 7,134,694 gross reg­ istered tons, 2,317 were dry cargo vessels with an aggregate gross tonnage of 5.22 million. Refrigerated cargo ships are a part of the fleet which is ex­ panding very vigorously, with some 80 units of 305,669 gross registered tons and a 352,517 deadweight ton capacity in serv­ ice at the end of March. Even with this impressive ef­ fort, however, the West German tanker fleet is growing at a slow­ er pace than the world's average. With 111 vessels of 1.47 million gross registered tons (2.5, mil­ lion deadweight tons capacity), it accounts for only two percent of the world's tanker capacity. Of these, only 46 units are sea­ going tankers, but they account for 96.4 percent of the total West German tonnage. German-flag tankers average 52,486 deadweight tons capac­ ity. The nation has one 192,000 ton vessel and five 100,000 ton vessels in service. �August, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty Three AFL'CIO Tells Senate Group: Doctors Making Fortunes Through Medicare Abuses WASHINGTON—Although organized medicine once bit­ terly fought Medicare, a number of doctors are now using the program for the aged to become rich overnight. And they are finding that the Medicaid program is even more lush. The Senate Finance Committee is planning open hearings on the two programs in the near future, but conunittee in­ vestigators are coming up with some sensational cases in the meantime. The most precise records are on Medicare. They show that 47 physicians were getting $50,000 or more a year from the Medicare program. Senate Finance Committee investigators believe that far more doctors are receiving in excess of $50,000 annually under Medicaid but records are loosely kept. The biggest bonanza under Medicare was received by a Miami osteopath who raked in $285,000 over a year-and-ahalf. Reports also show that a New Jersey osteopath received $199,992 over a year-and-a-half period and his brother picked tip $475,560 over the same period. The combined payments to the two New Jersey brothers helped pay for a medical staff of six, serving three nursing homes, liie total did not include the daily charges for room and board. Medicaid checks are running far larger than Medicare payments. However, Senate Finance Committee staff mem­ bers are finding it far tougher to run down the full extent of the payments. In California, it has been reported that 35 doctors and 11 dentists averaged nearly $100,000 a year under the Medicaid program in that state, called Medi-cal. A total of 11 doctors exceeded $50,000 under the Medi­ caid program in Kentucky. One doctor was paid more than $100,000 under Medicaid in poverty-stricken Appalachia. Senate probers seem convinced that while most doctors are staying within the law they are using loopholes to make them­ selves personally wealthy and the elderly are not being pro­ tected to the extent they should. Remedies for Medicare Gaps, Abuses Possible Under National Health Plan WASHINGTON — Medicare has contributed "very signifi­ cantly" to meeting the health needs of the elderly but the pro­ gram has "glaring gaps" that must be corrected, AFL-CIO Social Security Director Bertrand Seidman told Congress. He testified on Medicare—its accomplishments and changes needed—as a member of an ad­ visory committee to a Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D-Me.). A key recommendation in the advisory committee's report to the subcommittee was a call for a national health insurance pro­ gram, which has become an im­ portant goal of the AFL-CIO. Seidman said that Medicare has made it possible for millions of the elderly "to obtain neces­ sary health care that they could not have obtained otherwise." But, he added, the program must be improved to "fulfill its orig­ inal purpose of assuring medical care of hi^ quality to all elderly Americans." "Moreover, if we make Med­ icare the success it can be," he pointed out, "we will also be demonstrating that through a universal system of comprehen­ sive national health insmance we can assure high quality health Growing Transport Industry Trend; Dangers of Big Conglomerates Cited By Transportation Trades Chairman WASHINGTON—The trend toward creation of conglomer­ ates in the transportation indus= try "may have its economic ad­ vantages, but it also has some built-in dangers," a leader of transportation labor warned here recently. C. L. Dennis, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Qerks and chairman of the recently formed Conference of Transportation Trades, said that the rise of the conglomer­ ates, "with their control usually vested in the financial commu­ nity I .Aer than the transporta­ tion industry, places the ulti­ mate decisions in the hands of those with no real background or interest" in transportation. Under such circumstances, Dennis said, there is a "real danger" that the transportation segment of the con^omerate "could be put out of business, not for reasons growing out of the nation's transportation needs but purely for economic advan­ tage." Dennis spoke at the semi­ annual meeting of the Confer­ ence—a grouping of 28 AFLCIO unions representing 4.5 million workers involved in land, sea and air transport. Representative Harley Stag­ gers (D-W.Va.), chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, criti­ cized the nation's "hodge­ podge" transportation system. The railroads, he told the conference, "have been allowed to let their rolling stock and rights-of-way fall into shocking disrepair," and while the gov­ ernment has "heavily subsidized the air industry" to develop passenger service, the rail indus­ try has been permitted to "com­ pletely degenerate" its passenger service. "We build highways for trucks and cars and we maintain airports for air carriers," the Congressman continued. "We have seen great strides forward in air transportation while the merchant marine fleet has fallen into rusting decay." The Conference heard reports from leaders in a number of its sections, representing workers in particular modes of transporta­ tion. Among these were: • Frank Heisler (Interna­ tional Association of Machin­ ists), Air Section: Unions in the air industry support a proposal that the Federal Aviation Agen­ cy develop one standard of air­ worthiness for all commercial air carrier operations. Proposals now before the FAA call for five different standards of airworthi­ ness, with substantially lower standards, for instance, on smaller air taxi planes. • Andrew A. Pettis (Marine & Shipbuilding Workers), Ma­ rine Section: "There is no great shipbuilding program in the off­ ing •• . The U.S. merchant ma­ rine is a prime tool in the arsenal of defense. Every segment of the U.S. merchant marine needs and must get federal help." • Charles Luna (United Transportation Union), Operat­ ing Rail Section: An amendment to modernize the 1907 Hoursof-Service Act would make it unlawful to keep an employee on duty more than 12 hours in a 24-hour period, a limitation "essential to maintain safety on the railroads." Cases before the Department of Transportation show some men working as long as 32 hours continuously. Other reports were made by Jerry Wurf of the State, County and Municipal Employees, on behalf of the General Section, and by John Elliott of the Amal­ gamated Transit Union, for the Highway Transit Section. care to all the American peo­ ple." To assure that the elderly will no longer be denied adequate health care due to any lack of money, Seidman proposed the following changes in Medicare: • Coverage of all medical services, mainly doctors' fees, under the social insurance fea­ ture of the program. As it now stands, retired persons must pay a share of medical services. • Elimination of the coin­ surance and deductible features. • Extension of the program to cover the cost of prescription drugs, dental care and eye­ glasses. • A requirement that half of the program's total cost be met out of general revenue to meet the additional costs involved in the recommendations. The advisory committee's re­ port said "physicians' fees can­ not remain subject to the whims of individual providers of serv­ ice" if Medicare and the federalstate Medicaid program for the poor are to be fiscally respon­ sible and "gross abuses stop­ ped." "The same is true of hospital costs," the conunittee added. In calling for a comprehen­ sive, compulsory health insur­ ance program "for all age groups," the committee said the program should have built-in cost controls, standards for health care, incentives for pre­ paid group practice and "other badly needed reforms." Such a program, it concluded, "offers the best hope this nation has for living up to the oft-ex­ pressed declaration that good health care is the right of every man, woman and child who lives in the land." Advisory panel members, in addition to Seidman, were Mrs. Agnes W. Brewster, a medical economics consultant; Dr. S. J. Axelrod, director of public health economics at the Univer­ sity of Michigan; and Melvin A. Glasser, Auto Workers' social security director. The Senate subcommittee al­ so heard from Dr. John H. Knowles, who had been slated for the Nixon Administration's top health services post. His nomination was withdrawn after it came under heavy fire from the American Medical Associa­ tion. Knowles, director of the Mas­ sachusetts General Hospital, said that "it's inevitable in this country that there will be a comprehensive medical care program for all Americans, whether it takes two years or 20." Nelson H. Cruikshank, presi­ dent of the National Council of Senior Citizens, testified along with four senior aides who de­ scribed a community service program being carried out by the council in ten U.S. cities. Cruikshank explained the council's program of striving to "build a better America and winning a better life for all older Americans," including protec­ tion from illness. "Because adequate health care is so essential," he said, "the idea of limiting it to those who can afford it is no longer acceptable to a nation which can put a man on the moon." Seafarer Ends 40 Year Sailing Career Marian Lubiejewski, who went to sea at the age of 16, is ending a sailing career of 40 years, as he makes out his SlU pension applica­ tion while Welfare Director Al Bernstein looks on. Brother Lubiejew­ ski had three ships torpedoed and sunk under him during World War II. A bosun, he last sailed aboard the S.S. Selma Victory. �Page Twentjr Four SEAFARERS LOG August, 1969 'Equality of Opportunity'In Shipping Pushed hy Unsuhsidiied Operators WASHINGTON — Enact­ ment of a new maritime pro­ gram that would guarantee "equality of opportunity" for all segments of the merchant marine—^the unsubsidized as well as the subsidized—^was re­ cently demanded by a leading spokesman for the unsubsidized shipping industry. Alfred Maskin, director of re­ search legislation for the American Maritime Association, charged that few laws "have been more discriminatory, or have brought about greater in­ equality of treatment" than the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, which is the basis for the pres- Island of Mauritius Is Newest ILO Member GENEVA—Mauritius, an is­ land nation off the East coast of Africa, has become a member of the International Labor Orga­ nization, it was announced here. The affiliation brings ILO nienibership to a total of 121 countries, Director-General David A. Morse said. ent federal maritime program. Speaking to more than 100 industry, labor and government representatives attending a meet­ ing sponsored by the 7.5 millionmember AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Maskin de­ clared: "When only 14 companies, operating one-third of the ships in the merchant marine, are given direct construction sub­ sidies to build new ships, and all of the other companies are not given such construction subsi­ dies, that is not equality. "When these same 14 com­ panies are given direct operating subsidies, and all of the other companies are not . . . that is not equality. "When again the same 14 companies are permitted to de­ posit monies in tax-deferred construction reserve funds, and the same privilege is denied to the rest of the industry, that is not equality. "And when these 14 subsi­ dized companies are permitted to carry goverrmient cargoes at premium rates, on top of their subsidy, while the unsubsidized companies must survive on the rates alone, this also is not equality." Maskin — whose association represents 82 operators of 242 unsubsidized American-flag ves­ sels, including virtually all of the leading tramp and indepen­ dent tanker ojperators—said that the remedy is not to provide subsidy to everybody. "That's impractical," he said. However, Maskin added, "if subsidy cartnot be provided to everybody, then steps should be taken to equate the treatment given to those who do not receive sub­ sidy with that given to those who do." One of the ways to achieve this goal, the AMA spokesman said, would be to "insist that operators receiving direct sub­ sidy use that subsidy only for the purpose for which it was in­ tended—to compete with for­ eign-flag lines for commercial cargoes—and not use the sub­ sidy to compete with unsubsi­ dized operators" for govern­ ment cargoes. July 1 to July 31, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All GrouDs Port Class A Class B Boston 6 1 New York 144 125 Philadelphia 31 25 Baltimore 50 37 Norfolk 37 40 Jacksonville 36 42 Tampa 16 12 Mobile 48 42 New Orleans 103 95 Houston ..... 104 123 Wilmington 37 66 San Francisco ... 105 74 Seattle 50 33 Totals 767 715 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A dasrb (lilass C 5 86 12 39 24 19 5 40 76 58 33 72 26 495 4 82 9 16 30 24 •6 40 73 66 61 76 24 511 1 29 1 11 7 7 1 6 11 27 28 61 21 211 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groni Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 7 0 4 4 3 New York 83 148 68 145 49 Philadelphia 18 24 7 13 2 Baltimore 52 51 28 35 8 Norfolk . 24 39 18 31 8 Jacksonville 11 56 15 40 5 Tampa 4 10 2 4 2 Mobile 29 51 27 54 16 New Orleans .... 79 92 60 86 10 Houston .... 67 94 34 64 25 Wilmingfton 30 34 24 23 25 San Francisco ... 93 103 76 86 67 Seattle 40 34 21 24 18 Totals 537 736 384 609 238 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups AIL Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 2 0 1 1 0 New York 92 146 45 37 37 Philadelphia 7 6 6 3 1 Baltimore 29 17 19 17 10 Norfolk 23 25 14 28 15 Jacksonville 13 24 12 18 15 Tampa 8 3 3 3 0 Mobile 31 23 26 31 11 89 60 New Orleans .... 75 40 2 68 56 Houston .... 36 52 25 16 19 Wilmington 13 16 12 87 102 San Francisco ... 72 78 54 35 30 Seattle 24 25 7 Totals 500 511 356 347 189 Sliding down the ways at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point yard, the Penn Champion, 37,250-deadweight-ton tanker built tor the SIUcontracted Penn Tanker Co., has a cruising range of k2.000 miles. SlU Tanker, Penn Champion, Launched for Delivery in Fall BALTIMORE — The Penn keel to rail and the weather deck Champion, a 37,250-dead­ are all protected by epoxy coat­ weight-ton tanker, was launched ings. here recently at the Sparrows The house-aft vessel features Point shipyards of Bethlehem' the latest in navigation and Steel Corporation for the SIU- safety-at-sea equipment in full contracted Penn Tanker Com­ compliance with latest U.S. pany. Coast Guard regulations. The vessel will have an ex­ tended cruising range of about 12,000 miles. Storerooms, both REGISTERED on BEACH dry and refrigerated, are large enough to hold a six-months All Groups Class A Class B supply of stores. 9 10 Scheduled for fall delivery, 193 143 she will be assigned to the pe­ 30 26 91 50 troleum products trade, pri­ 39 35 marily in the U.S. domestic serv­ NEW YORK—Seventy-nine 35 12 ice. The tanker will meet stand­ vessels called at the Port of New 19 18 66 25 ards of the Military Sea Trans­ York on maiden voyages during 132 73 portation Service and is fitted the first half of 1969, William 118 110 with fueling-at-sea facilities. 29 2 F. Giesen, the Port's general 52 13 Her 15 tanks have a edacity manager and counsel has an­ 24 60 of 334,800 barrels and her car­ nounced. 870 624 go handling pumps wUl be cap­ The newcomers were of vari­ able of discharging a full liquid ous sizes and included. 73 dry cargo in 14 hours. She is cap­ REGISTERED on BEACH cargo ships, two passenger ves­ able of being converted to tte grain trade, with a carrying ca­ sels and four tankers. They ag­ - Class'A d^ssB pacity of approximately 1,500,- gregated 891,288 gross tons— 7 3 the dry cargo ships and the two 122 95 000 bushels. passenger vessels accounting for 14 21 With a 15,000 shaft horse­ 50 54 845,118 gross tons while the power turbine driving a single 19 24 four tankers registered a total 7 12 screw, the ship is expected to 3 10 of 46,170 gross tons. operate at a normal sea speed of 34 37 First to call during the year 83 74 16 knots. The design includes 91 119 was the Belocean, a 11,344 a curved rake stem, a cruiser 21 4 gross ton motor vessel (rf Nor­ stem and a spade rudder. 50 20 wegian registry. The two liners, 46 15 Overall length is 660 feet, 547 488 two inches, with length between accorded "the usual noisy wel­ perpendiculars of 630 feet. come," were the British Queen Molded breadth is 90 feet and Elizabeth 2 of the Cunard molded depth 48 feet 9 inches. Steamship Company, 65,863 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups The draft at loading capacity gross tons, and the 23,000-ton Class A Class B will be about 36 feet, eight German Hamburg, agented by 0 3 inches. The vessel, built under Holland American Line, the 141 58 the latest American Bureau of Maritime Association of the 9 15 Shipping rules, will be inspected Port of New York reported. 43 22 19 25 and classified by the bureau. Of the tanker arrivals, the 4 19 Crew quarters consist of largest was the SlU-contracted 9 5 49 modem-designed single rooms, American flagship 16 Overseas 123 71 fully air-conditioned and with Vivian of 20,879 gross tons. 87 54 permanent prefinished plasticAmong the other large tankers 16 5 41 36 coated bulkheads which will re­ repoted was the British flagship 56 17 quire a minimum of mainte­ Athelduchess, 11,102 gross 609 334 nance. The exterior hull from tons. 79 New Vessels Made New Ywk (h Maiden Trips �August, 1969 SEAFARERS Two-Year Study Discloses New Carbon Monoxide Evils Even non-fatal doses of carbon monoxide may bring seri­ ous disorders to the vital human organs, according to a twoyear study sponsored by the Fire Fighters. Repeated inhalation of carbon monoxide has cumulative effects and could caOse severe damage to the heart, brain and other organs, the study found. Through the John R. Redmond Memorial Fund, the lAFF commissioned Dr. Gerald S. Gordon of Denver to study the effects of non-fatal doses of carbon monoxide. The research was conducted with the cooperation of the Denver Fire Dept. and Fire Fighters Local 858. The fire fighter is subject to a significant exposure to car­ bon monoxide during the routine course of his occupation. Dr. Gordon observed. And the hazard to all Americans is in­ creasing because of the constantly growing air pollution problem. Dr. Gordon found that fire fighters need better protection against the poisonous gas and said there is an urgent need for research to improve breathing apparatus. "Carbon monoxide has become increasingly important to us all," he observed. "It is a hazard in our collective and per­ sonal public health. It produces half of the deaths due to poisoning each year in this country. It is a leading and grow­ ing pollutant in the air we breathe. . . ." As a public service, the lAFF has published a summary of Dr. Gordon's findings. The pamphlet is available from the Fire Fighters, 905 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. Runaway-Flag Fleet Growing; Now Tops U.S.-Flag Tonnage • f.." . Ai- _ I" w. 'fy I WASHINGTON—A Jieet of 434 ships owned and operated by American companies under 17 foreign flags now has a larger carrying capacity than the pri­ vately owned United States flag fleet of 976 vessels, according to statistics released by the Fed­ eral Maritime Administration. A report on the United States-owned foreign-fleet re­ leased recently by the agency showed that at the end of last June, its capacity was 16.5 mil­ lion deadweight tons. The do­ mestic fleet had a capacity of 15.3 million tons. Thirty-two corporations, ac­ cording to the report, were op­ erating ships with an aggregate tonnage that was exceeded by only four nations—Liberia, Britain, Norway and Japan. The report also showed that although a munber of American companies had ceased foreignflag operations, others had en­ tered the field to result in an 800,000-ton increase in the fleet since December, 1967. Although the list was domi­ nated by oil companies, opera­ tors of bulk and ore carriers and freighters also appeared to find foreign registration of their vessels attractive. , The fleet, which has long been under attack by maritime unions as being composed of "runaways," is described by owners as a "flags-of-necessity" operation. The owners contend they could not remain competi­ tive with their international rivals if they had to face the wage costs and work rules ap­ plicable to United States flag ships. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey continued to maintain its first-place ranking, with 120 ships aggregating 4.8 million deadweight tons. Daniel K. Ludwig's Universe Tankships with 31 vessels ag­ gregating 1.8 million tons dropped into third place as Standard Oil Company of Cali­ fornia rose to second place with 61 tankers of 1.9 million tons. Liberia continued as the fa­ vorite flag of registration with 157 ships of 7.2 million tons. Panama ranked second with 3.1 million tons, and the United Kingdom was third with 2.9 million tons. The smallest reg­ istration was in Finland—a total of three ships of 8,721 tons. Great Lakes Seafarer LOG Page Twenty Five Use of Pesticides, Impasse on Wages Snag Crape Growers-UFWOC Talks DELANO, Calif.—An em­ union agrees that it will not em­ ployer ultimatum on the use of bark on any program which will hazardous pesticides in the vine­ in any way harm the industry yards, coupled with a wage dis­ to which the employer is a mem­ agreement, has snarled peace ber." "That clause would prevent talks between a group of table grape growers and the AFL-CIO us from lobbying in Sacramento United Farm Workers Organiz­ or Washington for better laws ing Committee. on the regulation of pesticides, jor even safety and sanitation High hopes had been held for a historic model contract after laws," said Chavez. He added that the union, the group of 10 prominent table which has filed suit in Bakersgrape growers, admitting for the field and Riverside to force first time that the worldwide boycott was hurting them, sued agricultural commissioners to for peace with the union and disclose pesticide formulas in called for unprecedented inter­ order for farm workers to be vention by the Federal Media­ adequately treated for illnesses caused by the economic poisons, tion Service late last month. But the hopes were dashed will continue to publicize the last week when the growers facts. "We're concerned about harm abandoned the bargaining table and called on President Nixon done to people, much more than to appoint a fact-finding com­ harm done to an industry," he mittee to investigate the dispute. said. Meanwhile, a bill to ban all UFWOC Director Cesar Cha­ vez immediately blasted the use of the controversial pesti­ grower proposal as "attempted cide DDT in California within blackmail, an attempt to muzzle three years was approved unani­ us on the dangers of pesticides." mously Tuesday in the state Chavez said the growers had Senate. In the contract talks, the proposed a clause in the con­ tract which would read: "The union had proposed a clause which would have banned the use of DDT and certain other poisons. The clause would'have specified procedures for apply­ ing and using other chemicals, MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Coun­ and would have provided pro­ ty Supervisor Richard Nowal- tection to workers coming in kowski has found a unique way direct contact with the poisons, to show his solidarity with the and consumers endangered by widely-supported boycott of residues on the fruit. Chavez pointed out that "over California table grapes by the 1,000 people, mostly farm AFL-CIO United Farm Work­ workers, are injured and poi­ ers Organizing Committee. He soned every year in California has asked the Milwaukee Coun­ alone from misuse of the pesti­ ty Zoo not to feed Samson the cides." gorilla grapes while the boycott On another front in the long is on. drawn out battle, unprecedented "Even the monkeys should legal action has been started to make a sacrifice to support the punish growers who use Mexi­ migrant workers of California," can aliens as farm workers. he said. The California Court of Ap­ peals ruled July 22 in Sac­ ramento that attorneys for Cali­ Joins Pension Roster fornia Rural Legal Assistance, an anti-poverty agency, may take statements from illegal No Moukey Business Vnth &vpe Boysott aliens to show whether growers knowingly hired them. The court also said the un­ usual legal procedure invoked by CRLA is "at least an open question" which could end up in forcing growers who use the aliens to pay damages and fines. Currently, when growers are found using illegal aliens, the aliens are deported but there is no further action. The CRLA is proceeding against the growers in such cases by invoking California's civil code which prohibits "unfair competition" by businessmen. The legal group contends it is "unfair competition" for U.S. farm workers to have to com­ pete with illegal "wetbacks" employed at cheap wages. The grape strike in the Coachella Valley, near the Mexican border, wound up last month with the union hailing it as a victory. Over a half-million lugs of grapes were estimated to have been left to rot on the vines as the boycott cut off markets and forced the bottom to fall out on the price of table grapes. Organizers for the union im­ mediately moved their opera­ tions to the Arvin-Lamont area, south of Bakersfield, where a strike is set as soon as picking begins. Growers who have been in­ sisting that the boycott isn't hurting at all, have filed a $75 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Fresno to recover losses they now say they have suffered. Attorneys for the farm work­ ers union, against which the suit was filed, labeled it a hoax— "their annual attempt to scare chain stores." The suit, brought by 81 vineyardists, claimed triple damages for $25 million losses they say they suffered. It accuses the union of con­ spiring with retailers to prevent sale of table grapes in violation of antitrust laws. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Breoklfn, N. Y. 11232 I would IHce to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list, (eunt inhrmaHon) NAME STREET AODR^ CITY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: if you are an old subacribar and have a ehane* of addrais, pla«M giva your fonmar addraas balow: Frankfort Port Agent Harold Rathbun presents the first SlU pen­ sion check to Henry Bramer who sailed in the engine department. A native of Frankfort, Bramer joined Union in Elberta, Michigan. He lives in Frankfort and last worked for Ann Arbor Towing Co. OTT HATE �SEAFARERS Pago Twenty Six Former Seafarer Recalls Sailing Days To the Editor: I have just finished reading the LOG for June 1969. I Very much enjoyed the back page article on the Steel King. I was a crew member (oiler) on board the Steel King on a round-the-world trip in 1952. If it would be possible, I would very much appreciate a picture of the vessel. I joined the SIU in Nor­ folk, Va., in 1943 and sailed until 1946. I returned to the sea for 13 months in 1952. At the present time I own and operate my own auto body repair shop and I'm do­ ing very well. Thanks a lot for more happy days at sea than can ever be told. Keep up the good work. Yours truly, Paul Jacks, MarltHi, Ind. Member's Widow Thanks Union To the Edlton I wish to express my sin­ cere gratitude and apprecia­ tion for the prompt manner in which the SIU sent the Seafarers Welfare Fund check to me following the untimely death of my husband, Robert L. Swords. I know that he was proud to know that he belonged to an organization that takes care of its people so well in time of theii bereavement. Sincerely, Anne R. Swords, Norfolk, Virginia Seafarer's Mother Sends Her Thanks To the Editor: I would like to express my appreciation to the SIU for the check I received after the death of my son, Thomas Sullivan. I also want to thank all of you in the Sea­ farers Union for your kind­ ness and sympathy. Mrs. Freida Sullivan Marshfield, Mass. <1> Seafarer Thanks Crew for Kindness To the Editor: I want to thank the crew of the SS Robin Hood for their kindness to me on Trip No. 57 to Zeebrugge, Rot­ terdam and Bremerhaven. You know my ankle was broken while I was painting the off-shore bow on the raft. My leg will never be the same. Toi^ Ferrara F-131 Crew of Producer Sends Regards To die Editor: Just a few lines from the crew and delegates aboard the SS Producer on our way home from India. We hope all the brothers in the hall had a happy Fourth of July weekend. We are hop­ ing for better luck next year so we can celebrate at home. So far the trip has been a good one. We have a ship's crew from Norfolk, Baltimore and New York and everyone is doing fine. I will close for now with best regards from crew and delegates. William E. Richardson, Book No. 30257 Seafarer's Sister Expresses Gratitude To the Editon Thank you for your letter of July 2, 1969, enclosing a Seafarers Welfare Fund check for $4,000 payable to me as beneficiary of my late brother, James N. Kennedy, Thank you also for your offer of assistance in complet­ ing the personal affairs of my late brother. I appreciate the assistance you have already extended to me, and for your kind expression of sympathy. Sincerely, Mrs. Gladys K. Pa^ieri, Wyckoff, NJ. ^ Whafs Panlibhonco? That's Foreign Flag To the E^on "The Cold War Gets Hot on the High Seas," the article which appeared in the LOG recently, prompts this note ... Panlibhoncn (U.S. ships reg­ istered in Panama, Liberia and Honduras) is the greatest men­ ace to our country and its mer­ chant marine. It is in general practice by those Americans who pay only 33 percent in taxes to our federal govern­ ment. The American worker pays a huge 67 percent of all federal taxes, and there are those who demand that tax money be made available to further Panlibhonco. How-un-American can you get? Let us make the practice of Panlibhonco treason, in­ stead of putting school kids in jail for telling it like it is. Then and only then will our American flag fly aft on most of the largest seagoing vessels. If the price of gold can be set by our government in agreement with others, then the price of everything con­ nected with a merchant fleet can come about. Captain Frank Hudak FhOadelplua, Fa. August, 1969 LOG at^rf jrOHN B. WATERMAN^ ?man), June IB—Chairman, Joseph D., CBlanchard; Secretary, Frederick R. SuJUvan; Ship's Delegate, Joseph p. Blanchard; Deck Delegate, T. Rob;inson; Engine Delegate, Stanley P. 'Granzon; Stewards' Delegate, Milton J. Thehdeau. TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson), June 1&—Chairman, John C. Hunt; Secre­ tary, R. T. Jackson; Ship's Delegate, Tadeusz Chilinski; Deck Delegate, Calvin N. Smith; Engine Delegate, V. Ceufisk; Stewards' Delegate, C. M. Carson. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the stewards' department lor a job well done. • , ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Trans­ port), June 15 —Chairmai^ L.^ A. Behm; Secretary, M. H. Beasley; ;Ship'3 Delegate, Gibson H. Lakes; Deck Delegate, Gibson H. Lal^s; Engine Delegate, Milton H. Beasley, Jr.; Stewards' Delegate, Harry D. Hammond. Everything is running smoothly. FANWOOD (Waterman), June 1— Chairman, Joseph N. Rioux; Secre­ tary, Anthony J. Kuberski; Ship's Delegate, Michael P, Curry; Deck Delegate, Salvatore Shanglia; En•gine Delegate, Alfred R. Fry; Stew­ ards' Delegate, C. B. Pedregose. All repairs are taken care Of. No beefs. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. TRANSONTARIO (Hudson Water­ ways), June 22—Chairman, J.' C. Keel; Secretary, Clyde J. Gibson; Ship's Delegate, Milton Poole; Stew­ ards' Delegate, Mike Kaminski. No beefs and no disputed OT. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), June.10— Chairman,. Robert' R. Mortensen; Secretary, R. W. Hodge.s; Ship's Del­ egate, Roberl R. Mortensen; Engine Delegate, Steven J. Beckley. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), June 8—Chairman William Harrell; Secretary, F. S. Omega; Deck Dele­ gate, James W. Edson; Engine Delegate, Lloyd A. Taylor; Stewards' Delegate, F. S. Omega. $20.00 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck de­ partment. .No beefs. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), March 16—Chairman, E. Hayden; Secretary, F. S. Omega. Discussion held regarding the crew-members who did not show up on time as scheduled for sailing. TRENTON (Sea-Land), June IBChairman, R. J. McConnell; Secre­ tary, J. A. Ownes; Ship's Delegate, Albert N. Ringuette; Deck Delegate, James Fuller: Engine Delegate, Thomas A. Delaney; Stewards' Dele­ gate, George Elliott. Discussion held regarding new containership agree­ ment with Sea-Land. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments. MERIDIAN VICTORY (Water­ man), June 19—Chairman, Sal Rallo; Secretary, R. P. Marion; Ship's Delegate Sal Rallo; Deck Delegate, Robert F. DTerrafeit; Engine Dele­ gate, Walter Goldfinger; Stewards' Delegate, Henry L. Kornsby. Vote of thanks was extended to the stewards •department for a job well done. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. DIOBST Of SIU ERNA ELIZABETH (Albatross), May 26—Chairman, Billy Brewer; Secretary, Denis Broduer; Ship's Delegate, Billy Brewer; Deck Dele­ gate, C. W. Gabriel; Engine Dele­ gate, Michael Fritch; Stewards' Del­ egate. Wnlte'- Cutter, Dieputed OT in engine and steward department. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land). June 3—Chairman, J. A. Rusheed; Secretary, W. Thompson; Ship's Del­ egate, J. A. Rusheed; Deck Delegate, R. C. Hanson; Stewards' Delegate, A. L. LaMorthep. $19.00 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in engine depart­ ment. Crew complaining about non­ delivery of mail by Sea-Land. HALAULA VICTORY (Alcoa>, March 2—Chairman, Pat Ryan; Sec­ retary, William S. Sfearp; Ship's Del• egate, Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; Deck Delegate, Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; En­ gine Delegate, Steve E. Cruz; Stew­ ard Delegate, Frank Rakas, Jr. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ' OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Over-., seas), June 16—Chairman, None; Secretary, Fred Sullins; Ship's Dele­ gate, R. Carbone; Deck Delegate, Sterling B. Anderson; Engine Deler gate, Robert S. Casslow, Stewards' Delegate, Frank Hills. $35.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by" department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire crew. MIDLAKE (American Bulk), May 4—Chairman, Albert R. Wills; Sec­ retary, Timothy Gallagher; Ship's Delegate, Albert R. Wills; Deck Del­ egate, O. C. Harris; Engine Dele­ gate, P. A. Lee; Stewards'Delegate, Victory T. Bonura. No beefs wete reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward. department for a job well done. MEETINGS DEL MUNDO (Delta), May 29— Chairman, Woodrow W. Perkins; Secretary, Vincent J. Fitzgerald; Ship's Delegate, Willie G. Barron; Deck Delegate, Benny Brunson; En­ gine Delegate, A. S. Dry; Stewards' Delegate, Freddie Batista. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. DEL MUNDO (Delta), May 1— Chairman, James N. Bales; Secre­ tary, Vincent J. Fitzgerald; Deck Delegate, B. Brunson; Engine Deleate, A, .S, Dry; Stewards' Delegate, reddie Batista. No beefs and no disputed OT, f FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), Juno IfrC.hairman, Robert R. Mortensen; Secretary, R. W. Hodges; Ships Delegate, Robert R. Mortensen; En­ gine Delegate, Steven J. Beckley. No beefs were reported by department delegates. BROOKLYN' (Sea-Land), May 18 —Chairman; F. Gaspajr; Secretary, Bill Campbell; Ship\ Delegate, F. Caspar; Deck Delegate, Jose D. Bonefont: Engine Delegate, H. C. Momack; Stewards' Delegate, Jose N. Castro. No beefs were reported by department delegrates. Motion was made that the next contract be brought under a modified version, of the tank agreement especially as to wages, since these ships, in many cases, have less time in port than some tankers. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Marlthne Overseas), March 27-^Chajrrnan, Ivan Anderson; Secrotery, *. Corcoran; Deck Delegate, J. Waller; Engine Delegate; F. Clap ban; Stew­ ards Delegate, . C. Campbell, Jr. SPITFIRE (General Cargo), June 8—Chairman, Marlon Beaching; Sec­ retary, Phil Reyes; Ship's Delegate, John D. Moore; Deck Delegate, Hen­ ry O. Jette; Engine' Delegate, Jack B. Davis; Stewards' Delegate, Amie R. Glasscock. Crewmembers were urged to fill out pension question­ naire. "The steward thanked the crew for their co-operation, and for be­ ing a good bunch of SIU men. De­ partment delegates reported that everything is running smoothly. TAMARA GUTLDEN (Transport Commercial), June 29—Chairman, Kenneth Gahagan; Secretary, Charles W. Pelen; Ship's Delegate, Edward J. Rogg; Deck Delegate, Al­ bert S. Coles; Stewards Delegate, Edward Dale. Vote of thanks was voted to Brother William K. Kerwin, former ship's delegate, for a job well done. Thanks also extend­ ed to the steward department for a job well done. Ship's fund, $6.10. Movie fund, $626.00. No beefs were reported by department delegates. MISSOURI (Ogden Marine), April 26—Chairman, Paul Smith; Secre­ tary, W. S. Rudd; Ship's Delegate, W. S. Rudd; Deck Delegate, Ernest Kolenowsky; Engine Delegate, Sid­ ney Sokoiie; Stewards Delegate, Charles A. Darrough. No beefs were reported. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. MOBILIAN (Waterman), June 29 —Chairman, John J. DeCulty; Sec­ retary, Richard Buie. Motion was made that all companies shall be required to have clothes driers on all ships. Discussion held regard­ ing shortage of ship's stores. Some disputed OT in steward department to be taken up -vith boarding patrol­ man. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), June 8—Chairman, Wm. Harrell; Secretary, P. S. Omega; Deck Dele­ gate, James W. Edson; Engine Dele­ gate, Lloyd A. Taylor; Stewards Delegate, F. S. Omega. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. $20.00 in ship's fund. DE SOTO (Waterman), May 23—, Chairman, Leo Bruce; Secretary, J. F. Castronover. No beefs and no,, disputed OT. Everything is O.K^ Brother Leo Bruce was asked, and agreed, to remain as ship's delegate.-: DE SOTO (Water.man), June 26— Chairman, Wm. Valazquez; Secre­ tary, J. P. Castronover; Ships Deki gate, William Valazquez; Deck Delegate, H. L. Meacham; Engine Delegate, Stewards Delegate, John Wright. Discussion held regarding pension plan. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Victory Carriers), June 19—Chair­ man, "T. Lynch; Secretary, Hector M. Torres; Ship's Delegate, T.. Lynch; Deck Delegate, Tim Cath­ erine; Engine Delegate, I-ester A. • Borques; Steward Delegate, Wil­ liam' Datsho. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Gen­ eral discussion held regarding re­ pairs. DEL MAE (Delta) , June 22—^ Jucker; Secre­ Chairman, -James L. T tary, Darrell G. Chafln; Ship's Dele­ gate, Ramon R. Roque; Deck Deleiate James L. Tucker; Stewards Delegate, R. R. Roque. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Roque for a job well done. NOTICE TO ALL PECOS (Ogden Marine), June 1— Chairman, R. Principe; Secretary, T. Cara; Ship's Delegate, David H. Ikirt; Deck Delegate, Donald E. Smith; Engine Delegate, George Horpes. $27.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. SHIP CHAIRMEN SHIP SECRETARIES DEPARTMENT DELEGATES •ice), April 21—Chairman, Jan^ L. ; •Danzey; Secretary, C. Demer; Ship s ; ^Delegate, James L. Danzey. No beefs ? 'teported by department delegates. . Very smooth trip, enjoyed by all. Seafarers on SIU ships around the world would like to have your crew share their experiences with them. You can do this by sending in any newsworthy, in­ teresting or humorous experience of members of the crew which can be published in the Seafarers LOG. Pictures are also wanted. Have your shipboard pho­ tographer snap some photos of the crew at work or relaxing ashore and send them to the LOG. (Be sure the photos ore sharp and clear, and that everyone is identified by name and rating.) r COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Sery-^ CANTON VICTORY (Columbia), j llune 21—Chairman, R. Mills; Secre- | •tary, J. Savold; Ship's Delegate, ^ ^David J. Barry; Deck Delegate, M. | F. Kramer; Stewards' Delegate, John I Savold. No heefs and no disputed 5 OT. . OAKLAND (Sea-Land Service), May 28—Chairman, Charles J. Mehl; •Secretary, J. J. Doyle; Ship's Dele­ gate, Charles J. Mehl; Stewards' .'Delegate, B. P. Burke. Discussion Iheld regarding retirement plan. ; Complaints about cooling and heatflng system to be brought to the atftention of the patrolman. $145.00 in -.movie fund,- �V August, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty Seven Hi J r 1 f , « Anthony Notturno, AB, was by department delegates. A dis­ elected ship's delegate on the cussion was also held on the Lafayette (Wa­ pension plan. A request was terman). At a made that the crewmembers meeting held keep the messhall and recreation abroad the La­ room clean at night. fayette while the ship was on the run to Saigon, Aboard the Iberville (Water­ Meeting Chair­ man) a full discussion was held man F. J. Jtrimon the new Jolmson son cautioned all wages and OT crewmembers to be especially provisions nego­ careful on the trip up the Saigon tiated by the Un­ River. He reminded the crew ion and the en­ that the vessel had been hit by tire crew was enemy shore batteries on its last very proud of trip, and that it was only by luck the increases. Kilgore that no Seafarer had been hurt. Meeting Secre­ Meeting Secretary Rkhud Du- tary W. L. Kilgore reports. At pre reported that there has been the meeting, which was chaired great improvement in the stew­ by John Cisiecki, Floyd Hunard department, and that the gate was elected new ship's crew gave the galley crew a vote delegate. It was decided to set of thanks for doing an excellent up an arrival pool to help the job. ship's fund. The men were asked to remove their clothing from the laundry as soon as The crew aboard the Robin possible after they were dry be­ Trent (Moore McCormack) has cause of space limitations. The held an election ship is headed for Yokohama for delegates, re­ and will pay off in San Francis­ ports C. J. Hall, co. meeting secre­ tary. Those elec­ ted were Frank Meeting Secretary Ben Shore Parsons, deck reports from the Ericson (Crest delegate; Claude Overseas) that D. Berry, engine the crew has set delegate, Alva up a committee Rubish R. B^ey, stew­ which met with ard delegate and Philip Rubish, the captain, ship's delegate. Daniel Carey together with was re-elected ship's treasurer Ship's Delegate and promptly reported $8.70 Ronald A. Law­ Greaux in the ship's fund. There was a rence, to discuss discussion on the new agree­ the crew's beefs prior to sailing. ment. A motion was made Seven items were brought up and seconded to have the ice­ and all were resolved. This cube machine moved into the points to the necessity of bring­ butchershop and that refrigera­ ing beefs to the ship's delegate. tors be furnish all mess halls. The ship sailed from Oakland It was also moved that the mess- bound for Hawaii next. There halls be air-conditioned and that is still some doubt as to whether the more comfortable passenger it will then make for Seattle or quarters be used for the crew. go on to the Far East. The LOG All members were present at supplement on the wage in­ the meeting, which was chaired crease was read and discussed. by Fcrlton J. Mears. A motion was made by Louis F. Greaux and seconded by Al­ fredo G. Lopez to acquire an ice-making machine and a water Meeting Secretary M. L. cooler for the engine room and Lcacbe aboard the Jeff Davis topside. New mattresses have (Waterman) re­ been received. There was a dis­ ports that the cussion on the TV set which ship is headed for was bought during the last trip. Midway Island It was decided to sell it and put with two mem­ the money into the ship's fund. bers of the crew needing medical a 11 e n t i o n— a wiper who was Eddie Bonefont was meet­ injured in the ing chairman aboard the New­ Leacbe engine room and ark (Sea-Land) one messman who has an un­ as the ship known illness. Lack of mail headed for the service by the company has Port of Balti­ been the subject of complaints more on the way to the Union. The men dis­ to San Juan. cussed the new raise in pay and Deck Delegate overtime. Ship's delegate Louis C. W. Maynard Maynard W. Cartwrighf, who chaired the reported that the meeting, reported everything crew's washing machine is out was OK. No beefs were reported of order and that he had re- ported to the chief engineer but was told no parts are available for repair. They will try to straighten the matter out in Baltimore. Meeting Secretary Ralph Hernandez reports a dis­ cussion on transportation in San Juan. The crew feels something must be done, since the trans­ portation situation at Puerto Nuevo is getting worse. The steward will try to get a hot plate installed in the crew mess to save the messman so many trips to the galley. No beefs were reported from the depart­ ment delegates. <|> Ship's Delegate Jesse S. Lewis reports from the Columbia Eagle (Columbia) that the captain has agreed to recog­ nize aU sections of the new SIU contract. The men were in­ formed of the McCloskey new meeting procedures and a meeting will be held each Sun­ day. A motion was made by W. Holland and seconded by Vin­ cent McCloskey to ask the Un­ ion to supply sports equipment for the crew's exercise needs. A discussion was held on the im­ portance of safety and Mc­ Closkey was elected safety dele­ gate with instructions to check and report on all safety hazards and have them corrected. A vote of thanks was given McCloskey for a fine job as ship's delegate on previous voyages. There is $20 in the ship's fund. No beefs were, reported from the depart­ ment delegates. —— R. J. Barker, meeting secre­ tary, reports that the captain of the Los Angeles (Sea-Land) had passed the word that it had been a very pleasant trip thanks to a very good crew. Ship's Delegate Waymon R. Lee Lee advised the men that all beefs should be brought to him to take up with the boarding patrolman. He also ad­ vised all hands to be present for the payoff. John Chermeslno, meeting chairman, was elected ship's treasurer. The ship's fund now totals $6. Outside of some disputed OT in the engine de­ partment, everything is running smoothly. A discussion was held on motions for earlier retirement and also on duties of electricians aboard containerships. A motion was made to have the company install automatic washers and dryers. The steward department received a vote of thanks for a job well done. Ship's Delegate Lee was thanked for the efficient handling of his job. The Seafarers aboard the After a discussion on the new contract provisions the crew Delta Brasil (Delta) voted to ac­ aboard the Yel­ cept the new lowstone (Ogden contract as it Marine) voted was presented to 100 percent in them, with one favor of the pro­ exception. Meet­ posals at meeting ing Secretary attended by all Willie Braggs hands. Meeting reports. The dis­ agreement was Rendueles Chairman Manu­ Braggs el A. Rendueles, on officers for who also acted as meeting sec­ ship's meetings. A motion was retary, reports that the contract made by A1 Saxon and sec­ supplement was posted for all to read. A motion was made favor­ onded by V. W. Bryant that ing a Straight pension based on these be elected by the crew. 25 years paying dues with 15 Ship's Delegate Mike Dunn, years sea time regardless of age who presided at the meeting, or disability. It was decided to conveys the appreciation of see the captain about changing all to H. Fisher for sending a supper time to 4 p.m.-5 p.m. copy of the new contract to the while in port so that the men can ship. Mike says the captain told have time ashore before curfew him that this was one of the best trips he has ever made. One begins at 11 P.M. man was left in Fortaleza. Out­ —— side of a few hours of disputed Aboard the Lafayette (Water­ OT in the deck department, no man), Ship's Reporter Larkin C. beefs were reported. The meet­ jr Smith reports an ing, which was attended by all f exceptionally the members, voted to have an good crew. Bos'n awning put up aft of the ship. Don Hartman is The patrolman will be asked to missed but was check the food supply and replaced by vet­ working gear. A vote of thanks eran Joe E. Lu- was given the steward depart­ jan. Warren E. ment with special commenda­ Barr, dayman, tion to the crew messman. Rushing plans to do some fishing in Canada after this trip. ^1. John Houiigan, the smiling Crew quarters came in for Irishman from New York, is back aboard this trip and Red extensive discussion by Seafar­ ers aboard the Evans and E. Sam Muse are Trenton (Seanewcomers in the engine depart­ Land), John ment. The new ship's delegate, Owen, meeting Billy Kubecka, is doing a top secretary says. class SIU job. New Chief Cook A written reso­ E. J. "Joe" Rushing, former lution made by chef at the Roosevelt Hotel in Owen and sec­ Seattle, is running the galley and onded by C. F. J. "Whitey" Johnson is stew­ Owen Czeslowskl was ard. Everybody is happy with the chow. As the engineers, adopted suggesting that the SIU mates, even Sparks and the gang form a panel to check new and conversion ship plans of con­ say, "She's a feeder." tracted companies to make sure <|> that individual rooms are pro­ Illness has been dogging the vided for each crew member. Overseas Ulla (Maritime Over­ Ship's Delegate Tom Delaney seas), Meeting says he will investigate the nonSecretary Harold receipt of LOGS and headquar­ P. Du Cloux re­ ters communications while in ports. One man Cam Ranh Bay. A dollar draw who was sick beef will be taken up with the paid off in Hono­ new captain at payoff, which is lulu. An injured expected to be in San Francisco. ^ wiper was paid The radio officer is trying to get off in Beaumont an instruction sheet for the crew and a replace­ recreation room radio. A lodg­ ment was hired in Panama. A ing claim for the previous voy­ third man is also ill, but still age was invalidated because the aboard. Deck Delegate Stephen condition was not reported to H. Fulford reports 40 hours dis­ the captain or chief engineer puted OT. TTiere is also some for correction at the time of disputed OT in the engine de­ occurrence and a memo on this partment, Delegate Raymond has been posted in the recrea­ Gorju reports. Provision has tion room for the benefit of the been made for men to switch Seafarers. Faatagl Palega will watches. The relieving man must act as ship's treasurer. He will sign a paper with the chief mate. collect one dollar donations An insufficient slop chest was from the crew, keeping a record also noted. The Overseas Ulla and issuing receipts. The meet­ has called at Subic Bay and ing, over which Dan Butts pre­ Yokohama and is due at Balboa, sided, was held en route from Cam Ranh Bay to Kobe. Canal Zone by mid-August. �Page Twenty Eight Tom Rowe Pat Ramsey asks that you get in touch with her c/o Therea Gritfin, College View, St. Mary's Road, Cork City, Ireland, fore August 14. After that date, she will be at 14212 S.E. Fair Oaks Avenue, Milwaukie, Ore­ gon. ^ John W. Cade Please contact your wife, Mrs. Sharon Ann Cade, 309 Georgia Ave., Apt. 5, Mobile, Alabama 36605, as soon as possible. Albert Robert Packert Please get in touch with your mother, Mrs. Jennie Packert, 3332 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11229, as soon'as possible. SEAFARERS Guy F. Plabn Please contact your wife as soon as possible at 5903 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. Robert Bruce Foote Please contact Miss Diana Neilson, 14423 58th Avenue South, Tukwila, Washington 98067, regarding your son. ki Jack £. Gervals Please contact your mother as soon as possible. Her address is P.O. Box 25, Hubert, North Carolina 28539. WiUiam J. Bowles Please contact your sister, Mrs. Sam H. Ray as soon as possible. Her address is 147 Howie, San Antonio, Texas 78223. <I> Walter Ammann Please contact Thomas M. Geisness, Vance, Davies, Rob­ erts & Bettis, Attorneys, 1411 Fourth Avenue Building, Seat­ tle, Washington 98101, as soon as possible. ^ Wayne M. Napier Please get in touch with your mother, Mrs. Grace M. Napier, 1013 Fair Park Boulevard, Little Rock, Arkansas, as soon as possible. Francis D. Wall Please contact your sister, Mrs. Margaret F. Koster, 310 Hibiscus Drive, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441, as soon as pos­ sible. SEAFABEBS^I.OG August 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. 10 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAUL HALL, President CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Viee-Pret. Vice-President AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS Sec.-Treos. Vice-President AL TANNER ROBERT MATTHEWS Vice-President Vice-President Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WILL KARP CHARLES SVENSON FRANK MARGIOTTA AL COHEN MARIETTA CRISCI Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI Psbllihsd monthly at 810 Rhsdt Island Annas M.E., Washlncton, D. C. 20O18 by the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Golf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dlitrlct, AFL-CIO, C75 Faarth Annao, Brooklyn, H.Y, 11232. Tol. HVulntb 9-6600. Second elasi postals paid at Waihlnptone, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 aarde ehoali ko tent to Seafareri Intematlaaal Union, Atlantla, Galf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dlitrlet, AFL-CIO, 675 Foartb Annao, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Kenneth Callalian Please call Louise or Corrie as soon as possible in regard to an urgent family matter. Call Collect. Peter Buscarons Please contact your grand­ daughter, Judy McMann, at 1753 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana. Phone: 5230794 as soon as possible regard­ ing an urgent matter. Kenyon Parks Mr. Robert Ellis Gardiner, 1218 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 would like you to contact him. i James F. Gladm Your wife, Rita, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible. The address is 423 Glenmore, Baton Rouge, Loui­ siana 70806. Ralph M. Bartlett, Jr. Please contact your parents at 2705 Seymour Avenue, Cleve­ land, Ohio 44113, as soon as you possibly can. August, 1969 LOG ROBIN TRENT (Moore - McCor"mack), June 23—Chairman, F. J. Mears; Secretary, C. J. Nail; Ship's Delegate, Philip Ruhish; Deck Dele­ gate, Frank Parsons; Engine Dele­ gate, Claude D. Berry; Stewards Delegate, Alva R. Baley. $8.70 in ship's treasury. No beefs reported by department delegates. SUMMIT (Sea-Land), June 22— Chairman, Walter Gustavson; Sec­ retary, William Seltzer; Engine Delegate, Rafael Matos; Stewards Delegate, Wm. A. Hamlin, Jr. Dis­ cussion held regarding repair of washing machine. Few hours dis­ puted OT in deck department. STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), June 22—Chairman, Roy Guild; Sec­ retary, Ira C. Brown; Ship's Dele­ gate, E. F. Morales; Deck Delegate, Howard Faulkiner; Engine Dele­ gate, Alva B. Burton; Stewards Delegate, Armando B. Vidal. Dis­ cussion held regarding new con­ tract. Crew concur unanimously. No beefs. Everything running smoothly. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Serv­ ice), June 21—Chairman, J. L. Danzey; Secretary, C. Demers. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Discussion held regarding repairs that wore not completed. YAKA (Waterman), June 22— Chairman, Walter Sibley; Secretary, C. DeJesus. New contract was read and discussed. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. JEFF DAVIS (Waterman), June 22—Chairman, L. W. Cartwright; Secretary, M. L. Leache; Ship's Delegate, L. W. Cartwright; Deck Delegate, Calvin D. Morris; Engine Delegate, H. H. Johnson; Stewards Delegate, George Putan. Discussion held regarding pension plan, and new raise in pay and OT. No beefs reported by department delegates. DIGEST of SItJ SHIP MEETTNTGS OVERSEAS SUZANNE (Maritime Overseas), June 23—Chairman, Jo­ seph A. Stevens; Ship's Delegate, Herbert Archer; Deck Delegate, Thomas Reiss; Engine Delegate, T. A. Stubbs, Jr.; Stewards Delegate, Joseph A. Stevens. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. LINFIELD VICTORY (Alcoa), June 22—Chairman, Walter F. Wal­ lace; Secretary, Ernest M. Bryant. Last trip's repair list turned over to Earl J. DeAngelo, new ship's delegate. Everything running smoothly, no beefs. \ TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Water­ ways), July 4—Chairman, A. Ander­ sen; Secretary, T. Conway. F. Van Dusen elected ship's delegate. New port hole screens and scoops to be ordered. Next port, Danang. TRANSMALAYA (Hudson Water­ ways), July 7—Chairman, Charles Wyatt; Secretary, Charles Boyle. Chief cook reports that lock was found sawed off dry storeroom in Pusan. Steward department stores will be picked up in Singapore. Vote of thanks to new steward and chief cook for putting department on even keel. FAIRPORT (Waterman) July 6— Chairman, George H. Bryant; Sec­ retary, E. H. Jackson. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Vote of thanks to galley force and steward on menu and fine cooking. ERICSON (Crest Overseas), July 6—Chairman, Bill Butts; Secretary, Ben Shore. Committee settled crew's beefs with captain prior to sailing. LOG Supplement on new wage in­ crease read to Seafarers. New icemaking machine and water cooler to be acquired. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 6—Chairman, John W. Alstatt; Secretary, Johnny W. Givens. Ben D. Buck elected new ship's delegate. No disputed OT. New range top needed for oil stove. Bos'n suggests that chief steward be present at chow times to check that everything goes well. SIU ARRIVAL Quetsy Fllippetd, bom April 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alberto Filippetti, Baltimore, Md. <I> Vanessa Tousset, bom May 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerineldo Tousset, Philadel­ phia, Pa. —- Dana Frazier, bom March 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas E, Frazier, Elkton, Va, <I> Karen Cheng, bom June 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ed­ die Cheng, San Francisco, Calif. d/ Joy Rennee Kelley, bom Jan­ uary 13, 1966, to Seafarer and )4rs. Bob Kelley, Port Neches, Texas. Thomas Ellis, born May 21, 969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas G. Ellis, Vidor, Texas. Steven Denais, bom March 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. ledley J. Denais, Maurice, La. Christopher McClellan, born March 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Byron M. McClellan, Frankfort, Mich. kj> James McCaD, Jr., bom to Seafarer and Mrs. James R. McCall, West New York, N.J. df Christopher Smith, born April 20, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James W. Smith, Picayune, Miss. kt Joel Courville, born May 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jo­ seph H. Courville, Groves, Texas. — d^ — Jaynine Coleman, bom May 22, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward L. Coleman, Theodore, Ala. Cassle Carter, born May 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Cassle B. Carter, Elizabeth, N.J. —^3/— Doris M. Salem, bom May 30, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfred Salem, Houston, Texas. Monica Devine, born June 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul A. Devine, Jr., Galveston, Texas. ^ — d/ — d/ Gary Zubovich, bom March 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael Zobovich, Houston, Texas. —d/— Christopher Smith, born No­ vember 1, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. R. E. Smith, Boaz, Ala. James Worth, bom June 11, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gor­ don V. Worth, Jr., Lachine, Mich. Sarah Hawkes, born April 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Douglas E. Hawkes, Brighton, Mass. d^ Jude Ann Auerswald, born June 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank H. Auerswald, Deptford, N.J. Lauren Pedersen, bom May 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Otto Pedersen, Pass Christian, Miss. d/ Angelique Williams, born Febmary 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Willie Williams, Jr., Mobile, Ala. df Carmen Schwall, born May 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael H. Schwall, San An­ tonio, Texas. —^d^ Ar^l Manuel Salcedo, bom May 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Manuel Salcedo, Santa Juapita, Bayamonj iP. R. df i William Perez, bom June 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose D. Perez, New York, N.Y. DarreU Roberson, born Oc­ tober 12, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. J. C. Roberson, New Or­ leans, La. Keith Southard, bom May 30, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William P. Southard, Philadel­ phia, Pa. -—df Amy Rowland, born June 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jack Rowland, Houston, Texas. Ronald Packer, Jr., bom Feb­ ruary 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald Packer, Mobile, Ala. Lisa Johnson, bom April 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hazel Johnson, Wilmington, Delaware. �SEAFARERS Augu8t, 1969 John Capps, 68: Brother Arthur Mattson, 53: Seafarer Mattson died of a heart attack Capps last served on the Transhuron. He joined ' April 22 at his the SIU in Gal­ home in Seattle. veston, Texas, in Born in Ash­ 1947. AnFOW land, Wisconsin, in the engine de­ he had lived for partment, Seamany years in farer Capps was Seattle, Brother ^ born in KenMattson had • V tucky and made been sailing for his home in Galveston with his nearly 20 years as FOWT and wife, Stella. Brother Capps died deck engineer and joined the on May 13 in St. George's Hos­ SIU in Seattle. His last vessel pital, Hamilton, Bermuda, was the La Salle. Brother Matt­ where he had been taken after son is survived by a sister, Mrs. becoming ill while aboard ship. Florence PearcCi Burial services During World War II, he served were held at Mt. Pleasant Cem­ in the Navy from 1943 until etery in Seattle. 1945. ^ h ^ '•8 ;^ Odis Davenport, 50: Brother Davenport passed away Janu­ ary 26 at Mo­ bile General Hospital in Mo­ bile, Alabama. A native of Mis­ sissippi, he had lived in Prichard, Alabama, while he was on the beach. Brother Davenport began sailing in 1943, and joined the SIU the same year in the Port of Mobile. Rated FOWT, his last vessel was the Madaket. Brother Davenport is survived by a sister, Mrs. Aline Glass. Burial was at Shadowland Cemetery in Prichard. Norman De Lapouyade, Sr., 60: Brother De Lapouyade, who sailed in the deck depart­ ment as AB, died May 9 at the USPHS Hos­ pital in New Or­ leans. Joining , the SIU in the Port of New Or­ leans in 1962, he last served aboard the Delta Argentina. He was a native of New Orleans where he continued to make his home with his wife, Frances. Brother De Lapouyade was buried in the Crescent City at Greenwood Cemetery. I' ^ '4 r Iv Billie Koontz, 43: An AB in the deck department. Brother Koontz had been a member of the Union since 1951 when he joined in the port of Baltimore. He died suddenly on May 30 in Hous­ ton, Texas. His last ship was the Lafayette. Bom in Winston-Salem, North Caro­ lina, Seafarer Koontz made his home in Seattle, Washington. From 1943 until 1948 he served in the Navy. Survivors include his mother, Helen Elizabeth Tesh. Burial was in Rosewood Memorial Park, Houston. ^ L' !• I.; A •! I*! ^ I- I. Sixto Escobar, 65: Brother Escobar died suddenly on Jan­ uary 17 in his San Francisco home after re­ turning from a 16-day trip aboard the R. Semmes. An SIU member for 30 years, Escobar joined the Union in the port of Baltimore. A native of Curagao, West Indies, Brother Escobar lived in San Francisco with his wife and two children. He sailed as a chief steward. Burial was in Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Cal­ ifornia. Ronald Wylie, 19: Brother Wylie last shipped out on the Overseas Rose in October of 1968. He died on June 22 in Harlem Hospi­ tal, Manhattan. Wylie lived in Manhattan with his mother. Fay. Brother Wylie was a native of Brooklyn. A B.R. utilityman in the steward department. Sea­ farer Wylie joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1968. Burial was in Evergreen Ceme­ tery, Brooklyn. Nicholas Peters, 51: A pen­ sioner since 1968, Brother Pe­ ters last sailed on the Rice Vic­ tory. He sailed in the engine de­ partment as wip­ er and joined the SIU in the Port of New York. A native of West Virginia Peters lived there with his mother, Stella. Seafarer Pe­ ters died on February 12 in Fairmont, West Virginia. He served in the Navy during World War II. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Fairmont. Charles Catterson, 46: Broth­ er Catterson died in Martinez, California, from coronary throm­ bosis on Decem­ ber 19, 1968. An OS, he sailed in the deck de^ partment and ,. last shipped \ / aboard the Bay­ lor Victory. Seafarer Catterson was a native of Nebraska and made his home in Laton, Cali­ fornia, where he was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Laton. From 1943 until 1946 he had served in both the Army and the Navy. ^ MiUer Little, 38: A member of the Union since 1955 when he joined in the Port of New York, Brother Little was lost at sea on July 29, 1968, while serv­ ing aboard the Overseas Rose two days out of Honolulu. A search of the area by the vessel and the Coast Guard was unsuccessful in lo­ cating him. An OS in the deck department. Little was a native and lifelong resident of Ken­ tucky. He is survived by a sis­ ter. Frank McIIwam, 27: Brother PhOip Rogers, 50: A member Mcllwain died suddenly in San Francisco on of the engine department who last sailed aboard December 13, the ChUore as a 1968. A member wiper. Brother of the engine deRogers suc­ 'i partment, he last cumbed to pneu­ sailed aboard the monia at Charity Robin Gray as oiler in the sum­ Hospital in New mer of 1968. J Orleans on April Mcllwain, a native of Mobile, 20. He was a na­ Alabama, joined the SIU in the tive of Wilmington, California, Port of San Francisco in 1967. but had been making his home He served in the Navy from in New Orleans. Seafarer Ro­ 1959 until 1963. Seafarer Mc­ gers is survived by a daughter, llwain is survived by his wife, Mrs. Phyllis Anderson, and a Jonnie May, with whom he had sister Mrs. Oma Henry. He was been living in San Francisco. buried at Green Hill Memorial •\I/Burial services were at Santa Park in San Pedro, California. Rosa Memorial Park, Califor­ Edward Prltchard, 67: Sea­ nia. farer Pritchard died May 28 in Las Cruces, New Jose Rivero, 78: Brother Mexico, of heart Rivero passed away at the De Charles Little, 50: An AB in disease. He was Poo Hospital in the deck department. Brother a bos'n in the Little last sailed Key West, Flor­ deck department aboard the Antiida, on May 12. and last sailed nous. He died He had been go­ on the Overseas on April 11 in Alice in August ing to sea as a New Orleans. A of 1968. Brother member of the native of West Pritchard joined the- SIU in the steward departVirginia, Little ~ ment for 46 years Port of Tampa in 1943. At the lived in New Ortime of his death, he was m.akbefore his retire­ leans. From ment on SIU pension. His last ing his home in Baldwin Park, California, with his wife, Mary. 1936 until 1941 he served in vessel was the Florida, in 1952. Pritchard was a native of Geor­ the Navy and in 1944 he joined Bom in Spain, Seafarer Rivero gia and served in the Army the SIU in South Carolina. In had been spending his retire­ from 1942 to 1943. Burial was the greater New York harbor ment years in Key West. Broth­ in Baldwin Park Cemetery, strike of 1961, Brother Little er Rivero is survived by his wife, stood the 12 to 8 watch. Burial Antistia. Burial services were Baldwin, California. was in Grandview Cemetery, held at Key West City Ceme­ Bluefield, Virginia. tery. ^1. ^ } ' Page Twenty Nine LOG Thomas Puree!!, 57: A Sea­ farer since 1947 when he joined the Union in the PortofNew York, Brother Purcell died on February 1 in Seattle, Wash­ ington, from heart disease. Purcell was an active Union man who served the SIU on the picket line in various beefs.^ He sailed as elec­ trician in the engine department. Born in Connecticut, he was liv­ ing in Seattle at the time of death. Seafarer Purcell is sur­ vived by three sisters, two broth­ ers, and a half-brother. ^ Hemy Deacon, 68: Brother Deacon passed away on June 30 at the USPHS Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Bom in Texas, Deacon made his home in Philadelphia with his wife, Thelma. He had sailed as a cook in the steward department for many years be­ fore he retired in 1965 on an SIU pension. Seafarer Deacon joined the Union in the Port of New York and his last vessel was the Alcoa Runner. He was buried in White Chapel Garden Cemetery in Pennsylvania. <t> WaddeU Piatt, 19: Brother Piatt was lost at sea on April 1 Virgi! Schrage, 47: Brother while sailing aboard the Over­ Schrage died of a heart attack on April 5 whUe seas Anna off the serving aboard coast of For­ the Yaka as it mosa. He joined was sailing off the SIU in the the coast of PortofNew Washington York in June of state. An AB, 1968 and gradu­ Schrage made ated from the Harry Lundeberg his home in Cov­ School of Seamanship before shipping out for the first time ington, Louisiana. He was bom from San Francisco. A native in Springfield, Illinois, and of Norfolk, Virginia, Brother served in the Coast Guard dur­ Piatt continued to reside there ing World War II. A member of with his mother, Claudia. He the deck department. Seafarer was serving as an OS in the deck Schrage joined the SIU in the department of the Overseas Port of New Orleans. He is sur­ Anna at the time of his death. vived by his wife, Mary. Charles Williamson, 33: Brother Williamson was lost at sea on March 19 in the Mallaccas Straits of Indo­ nesia while sail­ ing aboard the National De­ fender. He had joined the Union in the Port of Norfolk in 1964 and had been working as an FWT in the en­ gine department. Brother Wil­ liamson was a native of East Liverpool, Ohio, and continued to make his home there with his mother. He served two hitches in the Navy from 1954 to 1962. �Page lliirty HAL AULA VICTORY (Alcoa), May 11—Chairman, F. J. Munz; Sec­ retary, W. Rust; Ship's Delegate, Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; Deck Dele­ gate, Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; Engine Delegate, P. Drevas; Stewards' Dele­ gate, W. Rust. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. All departments running smoothly. WARRIOR (Sea-Land), May 3— Chairman, Otto Niessner; Secretary, Walter Lescovich; Ship's Delegate, Otto Niessner; Deck Delegate, Otto Niessner. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the ship's delegate and to the steward department for a job well done. Air-conditioning is not working. I ELDORADO (Clairship), June 2— I Chairman, Bill Hamilton; Secretary, iJohn Sanders; Ship's Delegate, C. IL. Hickenbotam; Deck Delegate, iJohn Sanders; Engine Delegate, Ed|die Jordan; Stewards' Delegate, ^Joseph Simpson. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. ALCOA MARINER (Alcoa), June 6—Chairman, T. Forsberg; Secreretary, R. Taylor; Ship's Delegate, P. L. Forsberg; Deck Delegate, G. C. Glennon; Engine Delegate, R. Tay­ lor, Jr.; Stewards' Delegate, Michael Darwick. Written motions and res^]olutions submitted to headquarters ^fregarding retirement after 20 years = service and increase in wages and OT. TRENTON (Sea-Land), May 18— Chairman, Barney McNally; Secretary, Dan Butts; Ship's Delegate, ^Albert N. Ringerette; Deck Delegate, -James Fuller; Engine Delejrote, Thomas Delaney; Stewards* Dele­ gate, George Elliott. No beefs were reported by department delegates. THETIS (Rye Marine), April 18— Chairman, Stefan Kadziolo; Secre­ tary, Russell L. Caruthers; Ship's Delegate, S. Eadiola; Deck Dele­ gate, William R. Baker; Stewards' Delegate, Pablo Laverre.-No beefs were reported by departineuL dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for a job well done. SEAFARERS HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), June 1—Chairman, Harold Moody; Secretary, Roland Hebert; Ship's Delegate, Harold Moody; Deck Dele­ gate, William D. Bushing; Engine Delegate, Albert Holmes; Stewards' Delegate, G. A. Vergara. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Moody for a job well done. Dis­ puted' OT in deck and steward de­ partments. PANAMA (Sea-Land), June 8— Chairman, R. O. Masters; Secretary, Bill Stark; Ship's Delegate, W. Tellez; Deck Delegate, John Brady; Engine Delegate, John Nauser; Ste­ wards' Delegate Ralph Q. Masters. Vote of thanks was extended to the ipartme good food and variety of menus. ROBIN EOOD (Moore-McCor. mack). May 11—Chairman, Thomas Faulkner; Secretary, Aussie Shrimp;tion; Ship's Del^ate, Thomas F.: j Faulkner; Deck Delegate, Thomas S M. Doherty; Engine Delegate, Garry ;M, Hoffman; Stewards' Delegate, 1 Mack Rice. No major beefs. Every­ thing is cunning smoothly. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Robin Line), May 26—ChairmaK, Ray Theiss; Secv retary, W. C. Sink; Ship's Delegate, Ray Theiss; Deck Delegate, Bell L. I Olson; Engine Delegate, David J. iBurke; Stewards' Delegate, Paul |Crozi. Disputed OT in engine de­ partment. |2.50 in ship's fund. Gen­ eral discussion held regarding the new agreement. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. COLUMBIA BARON (Columbia), Tunc 21—Chairman, A. R. Booth; ISecretary, J. P. Davis; Ship's Delegate, Walter H. Harris; Deck Dele|gate, Louis Galuska; Engine Dele' gate, David E. Davis; Stewards'; Delegate, C. Busx. Discussion held regarding new agreement. No beefs and no disputed OT. August, 1969 UNB!AIR TO LABOM DO NOT BUY J: if-'i Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) ^ Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) Sdtzd-WeUer DbdDuiM "Old Fitzgerald," EDc" "Cabin Stm," W. L. Weller Bourbon whMceys (Distillery Worken) Kingsport Press "World Book," "Chfldcnifl" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) ^ Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes , , , Sentry, Cedar Chest, Staffer Men's Shoes . . . Jarnian, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Root and Shoe Workers' Union) \1> HOUSTON (Sea-Land), June 4— Chairman, H. W. Ehmsen; Secretary, J. J. McHale; Ship's Delegate, L. Cevette; Deck Delegate, H. W. Ehm­ sen; Engine Delegate, S. Rodriguez; Stewards' Delegate, Victor Silva. No beefs were reported by department delegates. LOG White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit .... Sept 15—^2:00 p.m. Alpena .... Sept 15—7:00 p.m. Buffalo .... Sept 15—^7:00 p.m. Chicago ... Sept 15—7:30 p.m. Duluth .... Sept 15—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort . . Sept 15—^7:00 p.m. Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Worken) Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago .. . Sept 16—7:30 p.m. tSauIt Ste. Marie Sept 18—7:30 p.m. Buffalo .... Sept 17—7:30 p.m. Duluth .... Sept 19—7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. Sept 19—^7:30 p.m. Toledo .... Sept 19—7:30 p.m. Detroit Sept 15—^7:30 p.m. Milwaukee Sept. 15—7:30 p.m. <|>-— Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas ^ Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) ^ ^1, Atlantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) United Industrial Workers New Orleans Sept. 16—^7:00 p.m. Mobile .... Sept 17—7:00 p.m. New York Sept 8—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Sept 9—7:00 p.m. Baltimore . . Sept 10—^7:00 p.m. ^Houston . . Sept. 15—7:00 p.m. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Rauda Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Sept 16—2t30 p.m. Mobile .... Sept. 17—2:30 p.m. Wilmington Sept. 22—2:00 p.m. San Fran. .. Sept 24—2:00 p.m. Seattle .... Sept 26—2:00 p.m. New York Sept 8—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Sept 9—^2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. Sept 10—^2:30 p.m. Detroit Sept 19—2:30 p.m. Houston ... Sept 15—2:30 p.m. Magic Chef Fan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Economy Furniture Co. Snuthtown Maple Western Provincial Biit-Rite (Upholsterers) nNANCIAL REPORTS. The eonstitation of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The oonstitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing ccminittee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atiantle, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the .tnutees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the tnutees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If 7<m feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Unhm and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union ofllcial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual In the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constiti^ tlonal ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Elxecutive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Sept 16—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... Sept 17—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Sept 9—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) Sept 10—5:00 p.m. Norfolk .. . Sept 11—5:00 p.m. Houston . . . Sept 15—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Sept 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Sept. 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk Sept 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Sept 15—10 a.ni. & 8 p.m. t Meeting: held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple. New­ port News, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hsil EXECUTIVE VICE PRUIDENT Cat Tannar Earl Shapard At Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Llsdiay Wllllami Robarf MaHhawi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Karr HEADQUARTERS 471 4lh Ava. lUm. (212) MY »-4iOO ALPENA. MICH 400 N. Saeond Ava. (517) EL 4-1414 lALTIMORE, Md III4 E. lalllmora St. (101) EA 7-4fOO BOSTON, Mail 441 Atlantic Avanua (417) 482.4714 iUFFALO, N.Y 711 WaihlRalep St. SIU (714) TL S-t2St IBU (714) TL l-t2St CHICAeO, III TM Ewla« Ava. SIU (112) SA 1-0711 IBU (112) ES 5.tS70 CLEVELAND. Ohio 1420 W. 2Etb St. (214) MA I-S4S0 DETROIT, Mich 10211 W. Jaffanan Ava. (Ill) VI 1-4741 DULUTH. Minn 2014 W. Ird St. (210) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT. Mich P.O. lai 207 4IS Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON. Tan 0004 Canal St. (713) WA 0-3207 JACKSONVILLE. Fla 2100 Paarl St. (t04) EL 3-0n7 JERSEY CITY. N.J W Montqomery St. (201) HE 5-V424 MOBILE. 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In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publbhes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union balls. All members should obtain copiea of this constitution so as to familiarice themselves with its contents. Any time y:m feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional rtebt or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all cAher details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing diMbility-pmsion be­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at ^ese Union mmtings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions. In­ cluding service m rank-and-file committeee. Because the^ oldtimm cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in mployment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU eonstitation and in the contracts which the Union baa neg^iat^ with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of ra«», creed, »lor, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which be b entiUed, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the bsalc rights of Seafarers b the right to pursue leglsbtlve and political objectives which will serve the best interrats of themselvra, their famUies and thdr Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was establbhed. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legblative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If St any tine a Sesfarer feds that any of the above rights have been vldated, or that he has bran denied hb constttntlonal right of access to Union records or inroraatton, he shonld iaaodiately notify SIU Preeident Pan! Hall at hcadqnartara by eertiflcd mall, return receipt requested. * ^I ""•J �August, 1969 I A T lb DOUBTFUL whether there are many Sea­ farers still alive today who can recall the old ^ sailing vessels, or know the difference between a schooner, a brig or a bark from first hand experience. . And there are probably fewer still who can recollect the uses of raffee top-sails, square rigs or flying jibs. They belong in another era. Glamorous as it may seem to some of us today, work aboard a beautiful, sail-loaded windjammer was . full of hardships and danger. The handling of sail aloft was always a perilous task, especially in heavy seas. The hardy men who sailed those glorious hulls into the sun were continually pitted against the quirks of the weather at the risk of their lives. And many lives were lost, as many ships went down—^more than half of those that left the ways. But they did have their day in the sun, however, and what a glorious day it was! For a period of almost 70 years, the West Coast carried the bulk of its commerce under sail. It was the time of the American pioneer, the opening of the West, and the sea lanes were the only lifeline in an age before the first railroads chugged their way across the continent. Along about the middle of the 19th Century, the discovery of gold in California acted as a magnet to thousands of speculators and others from the East who were eager for a new chance at life in the great West, and veiling to brave many dangers encountered en route. Many of them travelled aboard the clipper ships—which had reached a high stage of development in the East—on the long voyage around Cape Horn to the promising shores of the Pacific. Wherever there is a need, men rise to fill it. And so it was that master shipbuilders from New England soon gravitated to the West Coast to establish small shipyards alongside the lumber mills which appeared almost overnight along the shores where the tall tim­ ber stood. Applying their knowledge and skill with the most meager collection of tools, these artisans managed to turn out some of the finest coastal and offshore wind­ jammers ever seen anywhere. Timbers were shaped almost where they were felled. Experience led these early builders to develop barks, •» barkentines, brigs, brigantines and full-rigged ships. The two-masted brig led to the finest examples of the West Coast shipbuilders' art—the four-masted and J five-masted schooner. The schooner was not only a beauty to behold, it was a practical development which combined the ut­ most in marine engineering of the time with fine design. She carried sail which could take the fullest advantage • of prevalent inshore and offshore winds and was able > to maneuver in tight spots or fast-ehanging weather with a small crew. Lumber was the prime cargo for which these ships were built—lumber for the homes and buildings of the West Coast cities which sprang up rapidly and grew like magic. The gold prospectors brought with them the school teachers, the millwrights, the pants makers, the sailors and—eventually—the ranchers and farmers. All needed homes and mills and factories where goods could be made as well as shops, saloons and drug stores. San Francisco, with its natural harbor, quite natural­ ly became the big port. The brig and the schooner brought lumber from the Pacific Northwest to Frisco and returned north with general stores and supplies. As trade demands grew, the ships expanded their routes, sailing to Hawaii for sugar, to the South Sea islands for copra. They even carried lumber to the Antipodes. SEAFARERS LOG The early coast-wise tradelanes were well travelled from British Columbia and Puget Sound—even from as far north as Alaska—to San Francisco. Salmon and cod were loaded in Alaska, and coal came from Canada and Sie Puget Sound. The hardy mariners who plied these routes relied entirely on the wind, a simple compass, a sextant and the stars. Even the charts were sketchy, often filled in through the day-to-day experiences of the venture­ some masters of these vessels who charted the best course as they went. Basil Knauth, former editor of the San Francisco Maritime Museum Sea Letter, graphically described what it was like for the men who sailed the windjam­ mers of the time: "Now—about crossing the bar, those fearsome shoals that built up and choked the entrance to the rivers and lumber ports along the coast—^Humboldt Bay, Umpqua, Coos Bay, Noyo, Coquille, Willapa, Grays Harbor and the Columbia. "Remember you are on^ lee shore in command of a three-masted schooner that has been at sea for a couple of weeks. You have been unable to get a good sight for the last few days. You have no power except your sails. The coast is likely rock-bound. There is a buoy —somewhere, and a lighthouse—somewhere. Your vessel, which was designed to carry cargo, is light and unwieldy because you have not much to bring from San Diego (West Coast schooners scorned ballast); maybe a piano and supplies for the mill town and log­ ging camps. Flower Girl chewing tobacco, Russian Salve, Snowflake Lard, Kennedy's Medical Discovery, hoarhounds for the children, Noyo axes, blanket-lined canvas coats, etc. "So you stand off and outside the bar waiting for proper conditions to set in. What are these conditions? "The last reported soundings at low water on the bar were nine feet. You draw 12, and every storm changes the location of the best channel and its depth. The most favorable situation is, of course, a fairly smooth sea, an onshore breeze, the last of the flood tide which will help you in at high water, and being within a mile of the bar when these circumstances prevail. At best these conditions exist for a couple of hours a day. They also exist at night but you don't have a searchlight. Still, you might have a desperate fling at it." Page Thirty-One It is small wonder that the coast was lined with the weather-beaten wrecks of those sailing ships— lying across a sand-spit, bar or reef or in shallow waters hard on to the jagged rocks which make the Pacific Coast so picturesque. Many were lost in the deep waters, victims of heavy seas or of chance en­ counters with treacherous icebergs. Manning the ships and securing full crews was not always easy. The formal historians don't often record very much about this aspect of sailing but many stories have come down through the decades of masters— short of crew—who sent strong-arm parties to invade the waterfront saloons and other haunts to shanghai men aboard their ships. Once aboard, the recourse was limited—work and eat or be put in irons below. Among the shipbuilders who helped to shape West Coast history were the Hall brothers—Henry K., Winslow G. and Isaac. Natives of Cohasset, Massachusetts, they went to the West Coast during the Civil War. Having learned their trade as master ships' carpenters in the East, they set up shop at San Francisco, building such vessels as the Sarah Louise, the California and the Stranger. Isaac later established a yard at Port Ludlow in Puget Sound, close to the tall timber. His first ship from this site—the 107-ton, two-masted schooner Z. B. Heywood—was widely-known in the lumber trade until her loss at the mouth of the Navarro River in California 15 years later. The Hall brothers became highly respected with building the schooner Annie Gee and their first threemasted schooner, the Emma Utter. These were fol­ lowed by a number of other three-masters, including the Republic. Other well-known ships constructed by the Halls were the Quickstep, a barkentine famous for its speed, the barkentine Catherine Sudden, and the schooner Luka. Perhaps their finest vessel was the 470-ton bar­ kentine Wrestler, but the Hesper, a two-skysail yard bark, is better remembered because of a mutiny and attempted act of piracy aboard which ended in failure. The three-masted schooner Fred E. Sander, also a Hall vessel, set a record by sailing from San Fran­ cisco to Seattle in 72 hours, without the aid of tugs. She was 157 feet long with a 37-foot beam and weighed 463 gross tons. Another famous West Coast shipbuilder was Cap­ tain Matthew Turner, a native of Ohio who first went to California for gold. After a period devoted to placermining, he went to sea as master of his own sailing vessels. Later, he designed vessels, successfully utilizing the general principle—new at the time—of a long forebody and a short after body. Turner opened his first yard in San Francisco, then moved to Benicia. In all, he turned out a total of 228 sailing vessels, believed to be a record for any individual shipbuilder in the sailing era. Turner also introduced the Bermudan sail, a large triangular fore and aft sail without gaff. Among the more famous Turner ships were the barkentines Benicia and Amaranth; the schooners Solano, Papeete, Emma Claudina and Anna; the brig­ antines Galilee, William G. Irwin, John D. Spreckels (for the sugar tycoon), Geneva and W. H. Dimond as well as the brig Nautilus. Hans Bendixsen, a Dane by birth, constructed one of the largest three-masted schooners ever to be built in North' America, the Wawona. She was a vessel of 468 gross tons and measured 165 feet in overall length, exclusive of her 30-foot bowsprit. The era of the windjammer, which played a nevertp-be-forgotten role in the growth of the West, has become history along with the other key elements of the past which helped make the present possible. .. �SEAFARERS#LOG Vol. XXXi No. 10 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION * ATLAiN-TiC, (JULF, LAKCS^AJ^ INL^^ WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO jkik 1, y • >(, F" ««« ua ' S.W*"i I,,---. suptofe^'^®''^af/ve c Hp/amenf on 'v^ J ; :'.A' -'',v'^;-;-^>sii Hv^u/ov • iU the Sealrm San Aim -7:-';^: vip K .-^1 ••"iemii -•"'t • /•' ».'• •f Alfred Sanger, laff. officials mef. Third Gook Abraham Carmoega. left and Chief ^ z : ^U ^ P^red to^«t Off^rom P6rth Amboy for Puerto R.co. I •<- ^ , ' ^V-TJ ,* * ? *•. ; •-.' V-'*'- r- \c, , - '^ms' ^ - - ^' - 'V f -" '•"T"- V•'''"• -•'' ijiTr's '?' mmmmmmmi ^ * iiipitiM 'r...,~';'i^>}-'h ".V r< %• "• • ^a-te:.a,v4d'v'av:v';:;te^':ite,:-? 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Title A name given to the resource August 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: MOVE TO DILUTE 50-50 CARGO RULE DEFEATED IN SENATE SIUNA WARNS AGAINST BLACKMAIL AS GOVTS DEBATE TUNABOAT SEIZURES 14TH BIENNIAL SIUNA CONVENTION TAKES ACTION ON PRESSING ISSUES SHIP CONSTRUCTION FUNDS STRICKEN FROM HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS MEASURE LIVING COSTS SHOW SHARP JUNE RISE DRUG FIRMS ASSESSED $100 MILLION IN PRICE FIXING REFUND TO CONSUMERS STATES URGED TO GRANT UNION RIGHTS AND BARGAINING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ARGENTINA PROPOSES RIGID SHIPOWNER CONTROLS TERMINATE DOUBLE SUBSIDY LOOPHOLE IN MARITIME LAW, CONGRESSMAN URGES DEFENSE DEPT STRICTLY NEUTRAL ON GRAPE GROWERS SIDE SUPPORT OF HEW AND UNIONS SOUGHT FOR SETTING UP GROUP HEALTH PLANS US SINKING RAPIDLY AS A FIRST CLASS WORLD SEA POWER DEFENSIVE DRIVING ENROLLEES INCREASE; TRAINING SHARPLY REDUCES ACCIDENTS REMEDIES FOR MEDICAL GAPS, ABUSES POSSIBLE UNDER NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN DANGERS OF BIG CONGLOMERATES CITED BY TRANSPORTATION TRADES CHAIRMAN EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN SHIPPING PUSHED BY UNSUBSIDIZED OPERATORS USE OF PESTICIDES IMPASSE ON WAGES SNAG GRAPE GROWERS-UFWOC TALKS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 10 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/96357852d886fe150b24bf52487855cd.PDF e515dfb1dc41c76ce06d4deed15a07ae PDF Text Text Vol. XXXI No. 11 SEAFARERSvLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO V;:. 6REAT lAKES TUG AND DREDGE PENSIOH FUND Annual Report Rled WRh NoY. State insurancd DepartnMnt 21 iERs mmvuM Annual Repert Fileil WR| II.Y. State insurance Dnpar^nt p!'-- - • :7-. • 'A-.?.! �Page Two SEAFARERS September, 1969 LOG Six More Seafarers Get Licenses; Engineer Upgraders Now Total 349 The School of Marine Engi­ neering, sponsored jointly by the SIU and MEBA District 2, has graduated six more Seafarers from the engine department. All have earned engineer's licenses following successful completion of the comprehensive training program offered by the school. These new graduates bring to 349 the total number of Seafar­ ers who have completed the School's course and have gone on to pass their Coast Guard licensing examinations. Edmund Richard Rivers, 22, was born in Brooklyn and makes his home there now with his Rivers Laboda wife and child. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1965 at which time he was a graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Rivers sailed as FOWT before entering the school of engineer­ ing last March. In August he received his Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's License. Thaddeus Laboda, 56, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1953. Born in Philadelphia, Brother Laboda logged a good deal of seatime as an oiler be­ fore being accepted to the en­ gineering school in October, 1968. With his seatime experi­ ence and successful completion of comprehensive training and instruction at the school, he passed the Coast Guard licens­ ing exam last month and is now sailing as a Third Assistant En­ gineer. David Bryon Dawson, 27, joined the SIU in the Port of San Francisco and shipped out as FOWT before he entered the school of engineering in April. He received a Third Assistant Engineer's License on July 31. Born in Taft, California, Broth­ er Dawson now lives in Cam­ bria, California. A new temporary third as­ Water Pollution Bill Reported To Senate Alms at OH Spills WASHINGTON — Legisla­ tion aimed at protecting the na­ tion's water resources as well as its beaches from oil and other pollutants has been re­ ported favorably by the Senate Committee on Public Works after hearings which extended over a period of six months. That part of the proposed legislation—^the Water Quality Improvement Act of 1969— which drew the greatest con­ troversy was its "absolute liabil­ ity" clause. This states that polluters of U.S. waters will be liable to the government up to $14 million or $125 per gross registered ton in the case of vessels. This would not apply in cases involving Acts of God or war, damages caused by third parties or U.S. government neg­ ligence. However, the burden of proof is on the party respon­ sible for the immediate effects. Shipowners had taken excep­ tion to the "absolute liability" concept during the hearings, pointing out besides that the $450 per gross registered ton figure originally proposed was "simply not insurable" in the world insurance market. The version agreed upon in the Sen­ ate committee reduced the $450 to $125. Oil Spills Damaging "Frequent oil spills from ves­ sels and from on-and off-shore facilities have ruined beaches and lowered the quality of our rivers and shore waters and have jeopardized animal and vege­ table life," the committee report states. "The spills from the Torrey Canyon and the Ocean Eagle have been spectacular examples of this danger, but the damage from repeated but unpublicized lesser incidents and intentional dumping is steadily increasing. This can no longer be tolerated. "Too often, the government has been unable to respond quickly enough to control the situation, or has not been in­ formed of the incident. Fre­ quently, the offenders have made no attempt to cleanup the spill and have gone unpunished. This bill attempts to correct these deficiencies." The Act deals with oil pollu­ tion, whether caused by dis­ charge from vessels or onshore or offshore facilities, sewage dis­ charge from vessels, and the dis­ charge of hazardous substances into bodies of water. Liabilities are assessed and penalties imposed on owners or operators of vessels for the costs of removal of oil spills by the government in cases where the owner or operator refuses to clean up the discharge or does not do so promptly and ade­ quately. The legislation, S. 7, which takes over from a similar bill on which action had not been concluded during the past Con­ gress, is now due for action on the full Senate floor. Its author is Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D-Me.), who presided over the hearings. Amendment Proposed To SIU Constitution sistant engineer. Warren Bullard, was sailing as a wiper be­ fore entering the school of Engineering in February, 1969. Brother Bullard, 29, joined the Union in the Port of Philadel­ phia in 1962. He is a native of Lakeland, Florida and now lives A resolution to amend the SIU Constitution was submitted by Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr, in behalf of the Executive Board, to the September membership meeting at SIU Headquarters in New York. The text of the resolution is as follows: WHEREAS, under our Constitution in voting for the election of officers and amending our Constitution, the Constitution pro­ vides that they be conducted in a manner which requires Polls Committees at certain times and places with a member having to be present and personally voting at that time; and WHEREAS, this procedure has at times created an unnecessary burden in carrying out a vote and may under the present conditions unnecessarily expose the results of such voting to unwarranted attack, which would require the spending of the Union's monies to oppose such attack and at the same time, would prevent the outcome of the membership's vote from being put into effect; and WHEREAS, it is recommended to change the method of such voting to some type of system of mail balloting, at the same time, holding on to for the membership and Union, their participation Dawson Bullard in such procedures; and WHEREAS, under our Constitution, proposed constitutional in Philadelphia with his wife, amendments and action to be taken upon such amendments, must Lenora. first be authorized by the membership, after which a Constitutional Stephen Joseph May, 34, is Committee is elected with the duty and authority to act on the a native of Mount Vernon, amendments and make changes, corrections, substitutions, and/or New York. He now makes his , • XT 1 XT T I make recommendations. The recommendations made, may inome m ewar , ew elude other proposed constitutional changes and after which the Brother May joined the SIU in | Committees' action is submitted to the membership for acceptance, the Port of New York in 1967. modification or rejection. If accepted by the membership, a refer­ He sailed as FOWT prior to endum vote is then conducted on same. enrolling in the engineering THEREFORE, it is school last March. He received RESOLVED, that our Constitution be amended to provide that his Third Assistant Engineer's in conducting votes for officers and for constitutional amendments License in August. Seafarer and with regard to constitutional amendments, unless otherwise May served a hitch in the Navy required by a majority vote of the membership, the voting shall be by mail ballot, and further from 1954 to 1958. RESOLVED, that the procedure or details of such mail ballot­ Robert Holley, 30, sailed as ing be contained in the recommendations of a Constitutional Com­ FOWT before being accepted mittee to be elected in the event this proposed resolution is ac­ by the School of Engineering in cepted by the membership as constitutionally required. That such May, 1969. He graduated with Constitutional Committee make such other recommendation on his Third Engineer's License in mail balloting procedure, along with recommendations for any August. A native of Rocky proposed constitutional amendments as the Committee may feel Mount, North Carolina, Brother needed or appropriate, such as, included but not limited to, mem­ Holley now lives in Norfolk, bership requirements, including financial requirements, length of Virginia. He joined the SIU in service; election procedures, constitutional definitions and any the Port of Norfolk in 1967. other constitutional subject. RESOLVED, as constitutionally provided, the resolution be Seafarer Holley served in the voted upon by the membership at the constitutional ports of New Army from 1956 until 1959. York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans All engine department Sea­ and Mobile, and, if concurred in, the Constitutional Committee of farers are eligible for any of six (6) book members be elected at the Port of New York, Head­ the upgrading programs at the quarters, at a special meeting to be held thereat, at 2:00 P.M. on Union-sponsored School of Ma­ September 22, 1969, and finally, RESOLVED, in the event that such Constitutional Committee's rine Engineering, providing they are at least 19 years of age and | report and recommendations are thereafter accepted by the mem­ bership for voting as constitutionally required, such referendum vote be over a thirty (30) day period by secret ballot. That the voting shall commence no earlier than thirty (30) days, but no later than ninety (90) days after the membership approves the report and recommendations for a membership referendum vote. Fraternally submitted by A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer In behalf of Executive-Board Holley have a minimum of 18 months of O.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine department in addition to at least six months experience as wiper or the equiv­ alent. Any Seafarer who qualifies and wishes to enroll in the school may obtain additional information and make applica­ tion for enrollment at any SIU hall. Information can also be obtained by writing to SIU headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave­ nue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or by telephoning the school at (212) 499-6600. Home on the Range '1 f :) (, •if •h \ * II y A few words of advice and a warm sendoff accompany SIU Welfare Director Al Bernstein's delivery of first pension check to Seafarer John Szczepanski, shown at left. Szczepanski last sailed on the Albany as third cook, and will now practice his skill at his home in Jersey City, New Jersey. Photograph was taken at New York SIU hall. �September, 1969 SEAFARERS Prompt Replies Requested To Pension Questionnaires (The following letter, along with a pension supplement and questionnaire, has been mailed to all members of the Union. It is of the utmost importance that these question­ naires be filled out and returned to the Union as soon as possible. The committee elected by the membership to review and recommend ways and means to improve the Pension Plan will depend on your ideas and suggestions.) September 15, 1969 Dear Fellow Seafarer: Your Union has run a pension supplement containing a questionnaire in the last several issues of the Seafarers LOG with the request that all members fill it out and send it in. In our recently concluded negotiations it was announced to our Membership, after obtaining new wage scales, that only two items remained open—the Pension Plan and the Vacation Plan. We have just concluded negotiations for our Vacation Plan, and the payments are now: Entry Ratings, $1,000; Middle Ratings, $1,200; Key Ratings, $1,400. This now leaves us with the immediate task of improving our Pension Plan. Accordingly, you are strongly urged to fill out the enclosed questionnaire and send it in at once in the self-addressed, postage-paid envelope provided. This is important due to the fact that at the October meeting of the constitutional branches of the SIU, our Mem­ bership will vote whether or not to establish a Pension Re­ view Committee. If carried in the October meetings, then on November 17, 1969, we shall elect such a committee in these Constitutional Ports at a special meeting for the purpose of reviewing and recommending ways and means to improve our Pension Plan. We should make available to that Committee all information possible as to the attitude and opinion of our Membership. Therefore, if you have not previously doif^so, please fill out the enclosed questionnaire and mail it back to us imme­ diately. Your co-operation will be greatly appreciated. Fraternally, Paul Hall, President Rep. Rosenthal Tells MTD: S/U Wins Major Vataiion Intreases For Rated Meu iu All Departments This latest major improve­ Continued bargaining negoti­ ations on the new SIU freight- ment in the SIU Vacation Plan ship and tanker agreements has marks the 12th time the benefits resulted in a major improvement have been increased through ne­ in vacation benefits. Under the gotiations since the program was terms of a newly-negotiated va­ first established in 1951. The cation clause, unlicensed Sea­ original SIU Vacation Plan—a farers in all middle and key landmark in the maritime indus­ ratings will receive increases in try—provided annual vacations annual vacation pay ranging of $115 for all unlicensed sea­ from $200 to $400. Annual men. By 1956, vacation benefits vacation for entry ratings will were up to $260, and continued remain at $1,000. up still further in 1960 to $400 Following is the breakdown a year. of the new vacation schedule, Then, in 1962, the Union which is retroactive to June 16, again secured increased vaca­ 1969: tion benefits—^this time doubling Deck Department: boatswain the rate to $800—and also did and carpenter—$1,400 per year; away with the requirement that A.B. maintenance, quartermas­ a Seafarer had to work aboard ter, able seaman—$1,200 per one vessel for a full year or more to be elegible for vacation pay. year. Engine Department: chief In 1966, the vacation benefit in­ electrician, second electrician, creased again to $1,000. unlicensed junior engineer (day), Since it was first established, unlicensed junior engineer thousands of Seafarers have re­ (watch), pi umber/machinist, ceived a total of more than $67 deck engineer, engine utility, million in benefits under the chief pumpman (tankers), sec­ ond pumpman/engine mainte­ nance (tankers)—$1,400 per year. Evaporator maintenance, oiler, oiler-diesel, watertender, fireman/watertender, fireman— WASHINGTON—An order $1,200 per year. ensuring the maximum use of Steward Department: chief steward, steward/cook, chief commercial U.S.-flag ships in cook, cook and baker—$1,400; transporting government car­ second cook, third cook—$1,- goes to or from the United States has been issued by Robert L. 200. Kunzig, General Services Ad­ ministrator. GSA procurement regulations will now spell out the required use of American-flag vessels whenever possible to move gov­ ernment-owned equipment, ma­ terials or commodities. When U.S.-flag commercial vessels are not available, the contractor years. Today, with one-twentieth must obtain GSA approval to of our cargoes traveling in use foreign-flag vessels. "The order not only requires American ships, we are sixth in world shipping and about tenth the use of U.S.-flag ships when­ ever possible, but prohibits the in shipbuilding. " The congressman, a member use of foreign-flag vessels that of the Government Operations have been engaged in trade with Committee, expressed his be­ Cuba or North Vietnam," Kun­ lief that the problems with the zig pointed out. This includes foreign-flag maritime industry come not from the Commerce Depart­ vessels which have been listed ment, but from "inefficient gov­ in the Federal Register by the Maritime Administration as ernment." In regards to shipbuilding, he having called at a Cuban port said, requests made by MARAD on or after January 1, 1963, or for funds have been "slashed to at a North Vifetnamese port on ribbons by the various layers or after January 25, 1966—un­ less GSA approval is first ob­ of bureaucracy." tained. "We must re-establish an in­ Beyond providing emphasis dependent Maritime Admini­ and stricter enforcement to pro­ stration—we must give it what­ cedures outlined in the Cargo ever legislative tools it needs— Preference Act of 1936, the and we must give it the money amendment also serves to draw that is required to get the job the attention of other govern­ done. ment agencies to cargo prefer­ "In that way, we can again ence regulations, Kunzig noted. get on with the job of doing The SIU—as well as Ameri­ what we set out to do in 1936— can-flag shipowners—has main­ to promote a strong merchant tained that, despite the Cargo marine that vyill serve our com­ Preference Act, which requires mercial shipping needs—and that American-flag ships receive that can act successfully as an a minimum of 50 percent of auxiliary to our armed forces." government-originating cargoes. Independent MARAD Only Remedy Fer U.S. Fleet's 'Diastrous' Plight WASHINGTON—One of the 170 congressmen who have sponsored legislation to restore the Maritime Administration to independent status. Representa­ tive Benjamin S. Rosenthal (DN.Y.) explained here why he believed this approach was nec­ essary in order to remedy what he termed "today's disastrous maritime situation." "You can't argue with facts," the New York congressman told a meeting sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. "And the facts are that when our merchant marine program was being run as an in­ dependent entity, the merchant marine prospered—since its jurisdiction was transferred to the Department of Commerce, our merchant marine has de­ cayed. "I think it's time to return to the winning combination—a strong program, and an inde­ pendent agency to carry it out." Rosenthal said that, with the creation of the Maritime Com­ mission in 1936 as an inde­ pendent agency of government, the United States moved up to first rank in world shipping and also became the biggest ship­ building power in the world. "In 1936," he pointed out, "American ships were carrying 26.5 percent of our waterborne imports and exports. By 1950, the percentage rose to 42.5. To­ day, it is about five percent." The U.S. fleet now numbers about 800 vessels, he said, com­ pared to 2,000 at the end of World War II. Of these, 80 percent are more than 20 years old—over-aged and inefficient ships. "What went wrong? "By an innocent-appearing re­ organization, the nation's mer­ chant marine ceased to have the representation in government which it needed to prosper, or perhaps, even to survive." Rosenthal referred to the transfer of maritime activities to the Department of Com­ merce. "Within four years after the maritime community lost its in­ dependent voice, the percentage of American cargo shipped aboard American vessels was cut in half. Then it was cut in half again in another eight Page Hiree LOG SIU Vacation Plan. In the latest reported month alone, vacation benefits amounted to $785,449.89. This latest improvement in the SIU Standard Agreement was achieved under a provision of the new contract calling for "continued negotiations with re­ spect to improved pension, wel­ fare and vacation." In the "Comments and Recommenda­ tions" included in the agreement which was presented to the membership for ratification, the SIU negotiating committee stated: "Your committee feels that these contracts as presented to the membership represent not only a substantial gain on wages, overtime, etc., but also estab­ lishes a basis for finalizing in the near future new contract terms and benefits in the other areas such as welfare, pensions and vacations." 50% Cargo Preference Rules Tightened by New Amendment the government has been using foreign ships because their rates are lower. Congressman Otis Pike (DN.Y.), speaking, to an AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment meeting last month, ac­ cused government agencies of using the 50 percent regulations as "maximums" instead of "minimums." The amendment just issued is seen as a response to these charges. Idea of fixed Chairman of ICC Backed by Labor WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO has expressed its support of President Nixon's proposal of a permanent chairman for the Interstate Commerce Commis­ sion instead of the present sys­ tem of rotating one-year terms among members of the commis­ sion. In a letter to Representative John A. Blatnik (D-Minn.), chairman of the House Govern­ ment Operations Committee, AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller pledged the federation's support. The proposal, part of Reor­ ganization Plan No. 1 of 1969, would also give the ICC chair­ man authority over such admin­ istrative functions as appoint­ ment and supervision of person­ nel. However, personnel em­ ployed in the immediate offices of other members of the com­ mission would not be affected. At present, Virginia Mae Brown is ICC chairman. �Page Four SEAFARERS LOG September, 1969 Fulbright's 'Pay-off Slur on AIFLD Hit by Meany as 'Gratuitous insult' WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany went before the Senate Foreign Re­ lations Committee last month and answered "a gratuitous in­ sult" to labor from the com­ mittee's chairman Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) The insult, Meany made clear, was a Fulbright suggestion that the government has provided grants to the American Insti­ tute for Free Labor Develop­ ment as "the price we pay" for labor's support of Vietnam pol­ icy. The quote from Fulbright ap­ peared in a United Press Inter­ national account of a committee hearing, July 14. At the time, Fulbright also belittled AIFLD's program to strengthen free un­ ions in Latin America. Meany said Fulbright's charge was untrue—"completely ridic­ ulous." He -expressed labor's "pride" in its participation in AIFLD and he traced its ac­ complishments. He listed m.ore than 70 businesses that have joined with the AFL-CIO in lielping support it. ously intended to be quite com­ was a "close relationship" be­ plimentary of AIFLD." tween labor and the previous Thousands of workers in Administration by which AIFLD Latin America have benefited was given money "to do as you from AIFLD's educational pro­ please with." grams, Meany pointed out. Un­ "To do as we please?," ion leaders and technicians Meany retorted. "That's not so. trained by the Institute in the We are checked every step of U.S. have been able to take the way [on expenditures]." their acquired skills back home Fulbright read parts of news­ with them and, in turn teach paper articles critical of AIFLD, others. which he said he was "putting The second phase of AIFLD's into the record." When he came work—its sponsorship of social to one that charged the program projects in Latin America—has was promoting "revolutions," helped unions there "play a Meany said, "That's the Commie more vital and positive role in line." the economic and social devel­ Same Arguments opment of their countries," He explained that he did not Meany said. mean that the author or the He noted that AIFLD is "the newspaper was influenced by the largest U.S. sponsor of workers' Communists but that the argu­ low cost housing in Latin Amer­ ments they used to discredit ica" with housing programs in AIFLD were the same argu­ 12 different countries. ments used by the Communists. He described a workers' At one point, Fulbright at­ housing bank established by tacked AIFLD because some AIFLD in Lima, Peru; wide- labor leaders who took its ranging "campesino" programs courses later became involved in Latin America which provide in politics in their countries. educational and vocational Meany answered, "We have no training, and legal assistance; way of controlling people. But help to unions in starting credit we are not involved in Latin Senators Disagree American politics." unions and cooperatives. During the hearing, which This exchange caused McGee Meany submitted with his ran for more than three hours, statement a resolution adopted to ask if perhaps the committee none of the committee members by the AFL-CIO Executive shouldn't get a "list" of Ful­ associated himself with Ful­ Council in May 1954 which bright scholars to determine "if bright's remarks. Two senators spelled out labor's policy in they became activists" upon re­ in fact, took sharp issue with Indo-China (of which Vietnam turning home. . them: was then a part). It called for In his testimony, Meany free elections and United Na­ brought out another point. He Senator Gale W. McGee (Dcalled Fulbright after the July Wyo.) after listening to ex­ tions action in the area. "We had a policy then as 14 hearing to see if he could changes between Meany and Fulbright, said, "There's noth­ now on Vietnam," Meany de­ talk to the senator alone about ing here to suggest any payoff. clared. "Who paid us off then?" his remarks. "No one else on It lessens the dignity of this he asked, adding, "You are the committee suggested a pay­ really stretching your imagina­ off," Meany said. body to make such charges." Continuing, Meany .^pointed Senator Clifford P. Case (R- tion." out that it was Fulbright who "It is a gratuitous insult to N.J.) said AIFLD's education courses for Latin American un­ the American labor movement insisted that it was a "commit­ ionists are similar to the Ful­ to accuse us of receiving a pay­ tee matter." He added that he bright Scholarship program in off for supporting the foreign came before the committee "be­ which students from other na­ policy of any administration," cause you wanted me here." "I'm not here pleading for the tions study in the United States Meany declared. program. I'm here to set you Fulbright said he would with help from the U.S. gov­ straight that this is not a politi­ "withdraw" the payoff charge, ernment. Fulbright seemed less cal payoff," Meany declared. but he then added that there than pleased by the comparison. Meany's statement to the committee also attacked a Ful­ bright assertion that U.S. audi-, tors could find "no specific conclusion" as to the relative success of AIFLD. It was based on a May 1968 letter written Union members and their families give labor's leadership by Comptroller General Elmer a strong vote of confidence, a professional polling firm re­ B. Staats. ported recently. Meany noted that Fulbright A survey taken by Sindlinger and Company found that "union members overwhelmin^y believe the leaders of labor had quoted only the first sen­ organizations are concerned with the interests of the rank and tence of a paragraph that went file." on to praise AIFLD as "a real­ The nationwide sampling of union members found 73.9 istic and imaginative approach" percent agreeing and only 3.9 percent disagreeing that imion to Western Hemisphere prob­ leaders are concerned with the interests of union members. lems, helping workers in Latin The remaining 22.2 percent either declined to answer or America to "become more ac­ qualified their replies. tive in the economic and social The attitude was almost as favorable among adults living progress" of their countries. in households where there is a union member, even though "It is most incomprehensi­ they were not members themselves. In those households, 64.1 percent said union leaders rep­ ble," Meany said, that Fulbright resent the interests of the average member. would lift a sentence out of con­ text from a paragraph ^'obvi­ Poll of Members Confirms Confidence In Union Heads AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany termed a "gratuitous insult" to labor, a remark by Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) that government funds American Insititute for Free Labor Development receives may be pay-off for labor's support of Vietnam policy. Meany is flanked at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing by CWA President Jo­ seph A. Bierne, left, chairman of the AFL-CIO International Affairs* Committee and Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller, at right. 'i\ Record [nroUment Attained By Apprenticeship Outreach WASHINGTON—Craft un­ ions and community action agencies helped enroll a record 1,537 minority youths in the Apprenticeship Outreach pro­ gram during the first six months of 1969, the Labor Department reported. The number of minority youths placed as apprentices in programs registered with the La­ bor Department rose from 2,325 to 3,862 from January 1 through June 30. This is an average of 255 a month during the sixmonth period, the department noted. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz termed the achievement "one example of what can be done in attacking the manpower problem" through cooperation. He praised the craft unions and the community agencies for their "afiirmative action." The Apprenticeship Outreach program is sponsored by the AFL-CIO local building and construction trade councils in 14 cities, the Urban League in 21 cities, the Workers' Defense League in 10 cities and seven other groups in six cities. Of the total 3,862 minority apprentices, the Urban League placed 1,400, the Workers' De­ fense League 1,273, the craft union councils 870 and the others 319. The young apprentices are learning one of 18 skilled trades in the building and construction field, including carpentry, iron work, machinery operation and others. Apprenticeship Outreach uses the "tutor and cram" method to assist the youths—mainly Negro, Puerto Rican, MexicanAmerican and Indian—in pre­ paring for a specific apprentice­ ship examination. Secretary Shultz also reported that the activities of the 35 Apprenticeship Information Centers across the nation 12-month span, 8,902 apprenreached peak operations in the year ended June 30. During the tice applicants were referred , and indentured as apprentices in ^ programs registered with the Labor Department. ' Center for Labor Studies Programs To Start Soon NEW YORK — TTie AFLCIO's Labor Studies Center will become "oflScially operative" in Washington on Labor Day when Professor Fred Hoehler takes over his full-time duties as di­ rector. Walter Davis, AFL-CIO ed­ ucation director, reported to the federation's council meeting here that the center's first pro­ gram will begin in December. Initial activities will concentrate on seventeen one-week special institutes on a variety of sub­ ject areas. Such institutes will be one to four weeks in length. The student body will include national officers, union staff, and other persons with key re­ sponsibilities in the labor move­ ment. The center also will provide core institutes where staff devel­ opment programs will be three weeks in length and will be held five times from January through June 1970. Among the courses for these institutes will be "the American System of Unionism," "Eco­ nomics," "American Society and Civilization." There will also be courses in civil rights, labor law, state government and collective bargaining. The center's budget, pro­ gram, curriculum, personnel and location in Washington were approved by the board of trustees. f- f �September, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Five LOG 'Total Nqtional Commitment* Theme of Labor Day Messages Fight for Need Against Greed Drawn-by Meany, Others AFL-CIO President George Meany lashed out at "profiteer­ ing and greed" in a Labor Day message calling for a "total na­ tional commitment" to jobs, housing, education—and broth­ erhood. He said the nation's festering urban problems have been studied and diagramed, but then "relegated to low priority status by the nation's policy makers and leaders." Meanwhile, Meany warned, swollen corporate profits and ex­ orbitant interest rates have sent living costs up and purchasing power down to the point where "the American worker is already entering a recession." The AFL-CIO president and other leaders of the trade union movement used labor's holiday as an occasion to emphasize their confidence in America's ability to overcome its problems —if approached with the same determination that led to the moon landing. "This nation did commit it­ self to putting men on the moon and it did the job," Meany de­ clared. "It can commit itself to enriching and ennobling the lives of its people here on earth, and it must," he said. "Behind the commitment," Meany stressed, "there must be 1 j I ' : i j ! i AFL-CIO Secretary-Treas­ a willingness to back it up with deeds, money and resources." ury Lane Kirkland stressed in Meany spoke bluntly of the his Labor Day message the consequences of disordered pri­ trade union movement's long­ orities: standing commitment to "par­ With basic housing at a vir­ ticipatory democracy"—^long tual standstill because of high before the phrase was adopted interest rates and speculative as a political slogan. land costs, "high-rise luxury To the labor movement, this apartments and towering new means "working within the dem­ office buildings cast long shad­ ocratic framework to strengthen ows over old, dilapidated and it and make it function effec­ squalid housing in the ghettos tively to meet the needs of all citizens." below." Labor is "not uncritical" of Lack of money bars thou­ the nation's institutions, Kirk­ sands of young people from a land noted. But it considers the college education—or even American democratic structure quality elementary and high "fundamentally sound and cap­ school education. able of increasing responsive­ "Congress has been ready with words," but "reticent with ness to the demands of a nation undergoing wrenching change." money." The involvement of America's "And too many American corporations run away from unions in the "total life" of the American wage scales to .build community is "broad and ex­ plants and manufacture prod­ panding," Kirkland declared. He cited labor's support of ucts in other countries, taking advantage of poverty-stricken United Fund drives, its contri­ workers who will labor for as butions of money and manpower to aid disaster victims, its par­ little as 30 cents an hour." There is no conflict in Amer- ticipation in civil rights and ica's major goals, Meany de- anti-poverty activities. And "no single group devotes dared. The nation's resources more time or effort to engage "can provide for the nation's citizens in the democratic proc­ defense, conduct a reasonable ess than the trade union move­ space program and secure the ment," Kirkland stressed. general welfare for all the peopie." It helps register voters and AFL-CIO Council Condemns Attempt To Assassinate WV Strike Leaders NEW YORK —The AFL- just as all such acts have failed CIO Executive Council strong­ in the past." ly condemned an assassination Council members urged "re­ attempt on two leaders of strik­ sponsible authorities to use ing West Virginia State Roads every available means" to bring Commission employees and re­ the parties involved to justice. affirmed its full support of the Narrow Miss strikers and their struggle for Tuminello was reaching for union recognition. the door on the passenger's side, A bullet, fired August 5 by and Roehl was approaching the an unidentified assailant, tore car on the other side when the through the windshield of an auto parked outside Laborers shot was fired—apparently from Hall in Charleston, W. Va., by bushes alongside the highway. staff representatives William E. It missed Tuminello by about Roehl of the AFL-CIO Depart­ four inches. The two men told Charleston ment of Organization and James detectives they have no clue to Tuminello of the Laborers. the identity of the assailant. Later the union reported other The shooting was the first incidents in what it called an note of violence since 3,500 apparent pattern of organized highway workers walked out harassment. March 3 for recognition of their The council said "we are union, the Laborers. They were shocked and greatly concerned then dismissed by Republican at the apparent attempt to take Governor Arch A. Moore, who the lives of two AFL-CIO lead­ has since balked at all attempts ers' who are coordinating the to settle the dispute except on strike of 1,700 road employees. his own terms—complete sur­ The shot can "only be inter­ render, the union has charged. Roehl was recently named by preted as an attempt to substi­ the AFL-CIO to coordinate tute force and fear for reason strike activities with Tuminello. and logic" to settle the issues in dispute. The statement added: The shooting followed a step-up "If it was the intention of the in picketing activities and inten­ would-be assassins to discour­ sified demands for a settlement. A federal coun hearing is age support this atrocious \ act will fail to achieve that end, | slated later tnis month or a suit charging Moore with violating the constitutional right of state roads employees to join a union. The suit was filed by the Laborers District Council and employees from each of the road commission's 10 districts when the Moore Administration re­ fused a mediation plan offered by the union. The suit charges the firing of of highway workers was a "drastic, illegal action" in re­ prisal for their union activity. It accuses the state adminis­ tration also of "trying to break the strike by hiring strikebeakers" to replace the workers for political purposes. The strike remains effective and the strikers' morale is high, the union said. As many as 500 strikers have reported for picket duty m a number of the 45 counties involved. After the shooting, other re­ ports poured into union headquaners. A caller had threat­ ened the life of President Charles Lazelle of LIU's union of nonprofessional employees at West Virginia University. Brakes were disconnected on the park­ ed auto owned by Alex and Peggy Boyd, strike leaders. The Rev. Gene Fountaine, a striker, received several threats over the telephone. brings them to the polls. It seeks to educate its members on the issues and the records of public officials "on the theory that pub­ lic servants ought to be judged on what they do, not what they promise." To the labor movement "par­ ticipatory democracy" is "not just a slogan or a fad, but a way of living and working in a free country where all are equal." President Nixon's Labor Day message expressed confidence that, "with the cooperation of all Americans, we can prevent another wage-price spiral and restore stability to our econ­ omy." He affirmed that "the process of collective bargaining must be strong and effective and exer­ cised with self-restraint on all sides. But the process cannot work unless the participants are free t» reach their own deci­ sions. This administration will always respect that freedom," the President pledged. I. W. Abel, president of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union De­ partment stressed in his Labor Day message that labor's pro­ gram must be fought for on an issue-by-issue basis, winning support through "fact and rea­ son." For better or worse, Abel said, "there is no dominating political leadership in view. The labor movement cannot look to a president or a senator to personify the cause of prog­ ress." It may be harder to bring about change through thought rather than emotion, Abel noted, but "many of this coun­ try's toughest problems were solved that way." To C. J. Haggerty, president of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Depart­ ment, this Labor Day is a time to emphasize both the goal of "a just and decent society" and the importance of taking the right path to achieve it. Unions, he said, "have preached freedom under law, rather than freedom from law." And while "dissent is dra­ matic and quite often neces­ sary," Haggerty cautioned that "there is no justice under an­ archy." Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz cited the progress "since the first Labor Day in 1894 when workers labored 60 hours a week and were paid 20 cents an hour." But he stressed that "prog­ ress is still needed" in safety standards, unemployment in­ surance, farm worker bargaining rights and job training and equal opportunities. "The nation," Shultz said, "owes it to her workers to honor them all year by making work­ ing life as satisfying and as se­ cure as possible." Wallace Drops Pose; Embraces Right-Wing TULSA, Okla. —Former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace has dropped his coyness about being associ­ ated with extreme right-wing organizations. Wallace spoke at the an­ nual convention of the Chris­ tian Crusade here and told the delegates "it's a pleasure to be associated" with their leader, Billy James Hargis. The Crusade is one of the largest and wealthiest of all far-right groups. During last year's presi­ dential campaign, Wallace's closest approach to far-right functions was some hand­ shaking on their fringes. Un­ til now, he had never public­ ly embraced their programs. Pointing to bullet hole made by would-be assassin who failed is LIU Representative James Tuminello, left. W. E. Roehl of AFL-CIO orga­ nizing staff is on other side. Their car was parked outside Laborers Hall in Charleston during strike of W. Va. Road Commission employees. �SEAFARERS Page Six Seafarers OK Contract By Overwhelmmg Margin LOG September, 1969 Congressman Lists Four Provisions New Maritime Program Should Have WASHINGTON —A mem­ • Give-government assistance I that it can design and carry out ber of Congress forecast recent­ for modernization of American a fleet revitalization program. ly that President Nixon's forth­ shipyards "in the same way in Daniels added that il the Ad­ coming maritime program would which we poured over a billion be more than "a mere extension U. S. dollars into the rebuilding ministration program does not of the present status quo" and of shipyards in Asia and Europe include these features, then Con­ gress should amend the plan be­ that it would "move in the di­ after World War II." rection of fair and equitable • Create an independent fore Its passage to assure full treatment for all segments" of Maritime Administration "freed development *of an Americanthe merchant marine. from association with the past built, American-owned and Against For Representative Dominick V. errors and past practices," so American-manned fleet Daniels (D-N.J.) said he based his prediction on "hints and sig­ nals from the Atlministration," whose spokesmen have indicated that a new program could be ex­ pected on Capitol Hill within the next 60 days. He told a meeting sponsored Helen Delich Bentley, man- slated to succeed Admiral John by the AFL-CIO Maritime time editor of the Baltimore Harllee, whose retirement be­ Trades Department that the Ad­ Sun, has been nominated by came effective September 1. ministration would "gain noth­ President Nixon as chairman of Commissioner James F. Fanseen ing if it merely added more the Federal Maritime Commis­ is serving as acting FMC chair­ money to the merchant marine man until she takes over. sion. pot, without giving the entire Mrs. Bentley, who has worked If confirmed by the Senate Last year the U. S. buflt 21 merchant marine the opportu­ for the Sun since 1945, received ships that remained under U. S. nity to partake from that pot." for the $40,000-a-year post, her Bachelor of Journalism de­ Daniels told his audience of Mrs. Bentley, 45, will be one of registry while, during the same gree from the University of period, the Soviet Union built labor, management and govern­ the two highest ranking women Missouri in 1944. and kept as part of its merchant ment officials that the Adminis­ in government—the other being Widely recognized as a dis­ fleet a total of 89 vessels. The tration program must begin to Interstate Commerce Commis­ tinguished journalist, her record USSR thus outbuilt the U. S. correct the "inequities in our sion Chairman Virginia Mae has been called by President in merchant ships by more than present maritime law," pointing Brown. The Sun journalist is Nixon one of "professional ex­ out that the basic provisions of four to one. cellence unsurpassed by any subsidizing the construction and maritime expert in the country." operation of vessels "have been \Uttte Jhiags ia Lite Among many honors be­ limited unfairly to only 14 stowed on Mrs. Bentley during American companies," with the Not Always so &eat\ her long career was an award for result that "all the rest of the LIVERPOOL The service to the na­ meritorious industry has been discriminated 77th annual convention of tion's maritime industry from against." the Maritime Port Council of Britain's National Union of | He urged that the new pro­ the Port of Greater New York Seamen, held here recently, gram should: of the Maritime Trades Depart­ concentrated heavily on the WASHINGTON — The late • Give preference to unsubment, AFL-CIO. goal of time-and-a-half for Senator Everett McKinley Dirk­ sidized companies in the car­ overtime for all seafarers. sen and labor often differed on riage of military, foreign aid and Upon learning of the nomina­ Delegate Joe Rourke de- I major issues "but we always agricultural cargoes shipped by tion, Senator Warren G. Magnulighted the delegates and knew him as an opponent of the government. son (D-Wash.), chairman of the newsmen when he told the great legislative skill," AFLSenate Commerce Committee, • Stimulate new ship con­ convention that one of the CIO President George Meany struction "with private dollars, hailed it as "an indication that reasons he supported the declared here. the Administration is concerned not taxpayers' dollars" by allow­ time-and-a-half proposal about the role of merchant ship­ ing unsubsidized lines the same Meany extended the AFLwas that his wife had com­ ping. .. . Mjs. Bentley is a wellprivilege enjoyed by subsidized CIO's "sincere sympathies" to plained: "You eat like a educated and articulate mari­ the family of Dirksen after the companies of setting up tax-de­ man, drink like a man, time expert. . . . The submission Republican leader died from a ferred construction-reserve ac­ make love like a man—but by the President to the Congress cardiac arrest September 7, five counts, and by giving the un­ you bring home a boy's of a strong maritime revitaliza­ days after a malignant tumor subsidized operators long-term wages." tion program should be the next charters to carry government was removed from his lung. step." cargo. Meany said labor would re­ member Dirksen best "as a col­ Jim Gibbs Knows Them Well league in the desperate and successful efforts to pass the landmark civil rights bill" of 1964. "It was his personal sup­ port," Meany recalled, "that made this legislation possible, with his tactical ability on this occasion used on behalf of a great liberal cause.' Dirksen, 73, who served in Congress for 25 years and was the GOP Senate leader for the ,past 10 years, was eulogized by President Nixon as a leader who "put his nation before himself, and his party." After the body lay in state in the Capitol for two days and For the benefit of those not quite able to identify the vessels pictured with "Sails m the Pacific Sun ' funeral services were held in in the August issue of the LOS, we reprint the photos here. At left is the Amazon, a 1.167-ton barkenWashington, Dirksen was flown tine built in 1902. The schooner Mary E. Foster (right) began her lifelong career as a lumber carrier in 1898. to Pekin, 111., his birthplace, Both pictures are from the-collection of Jim Gibbs,'.whose book, "West Coast Windjammers, was a for burial. I major source of our feature. Gibbs' latest volume, "Pacific Square-Riggers," will be published next month. Seafarers at membership meetings both on shipboard and in the membership halls have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new contract submitted to the membership by the Union Negotiating Committee in June for its approval or disapproval. The Final Seore On the Ships In the Halls Totals 5,844 1,349 7,193 18 1 19 Helen Bentley Named to Head Federal Maritime Commission Shipbuilding Industry Awaits U. S. Construction Challenge WASHINGTON — Accord­ ing to the chief spokesman for the nation's shipbuilders, if the Federal Government gives the green light to a strong and com= prehensive ship construction program, the shijibuilding in­ dustry will be ready to respond to the challenge immediately. President Edwin M. Hood, of the Shipbuilders Cbuncil of America, told a recent meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department that, "Once the Federal Government - says unequivocally that it intends to restore the United States as a first-rate sea power, in the full­ est sense — and translates that goal into a sensible, coordinated stable shipbuilding program— U. S. shipyards will be able to respond effectively and build the ships this nation so urgently needs." Addressing an audience of maritime labor leaders, whose organizations represent 7.5 mil­ lion unionists in the maritime and allied industries. Hood said that a revival of the nation's de­ crepit and disintegrating mer­ chant fleet requires "a clear, simple declaration of national purpose." Hood's challenge came as he introduced a new documentary film, "Shipbuilding For the Sev­ enties," produced by the Ship­ builders Council. The film dram­ atizes the decline of the Ameri­ can merchant marine to the point where today foreign-flag vessels "monopolize" U. S. im­ port and export trade and only 5 percent of the nation's for­ eign commerce moves in Amer­ ican shipis. Hood pointed out that many nations have made it a legal requirement that at least half their trade must move in their own vessels. The U. S. has fallen from first to fifth place in the size of its merchant marine and is in dan­ ger of being ousted from that ranking by the Soviet Union during 1969, Hood stated. In shipbuilding the U. S. has skid­ ded from first to 1 ith place. Late Sen. Dirksen Cited by Meany On Rights Act Aid 1 I j| 'i 1 �September, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven Viet Cong Attack a Failure Quick Action by Seafarers Averts Possible Disaster on Buckeye Victory Fire fighters James Thomas, left and Tom Danzy, ABs aboard the Buckeye Victory, inspect hole in the number 2 hatch. Vessel came under Viet Cong rocket attack while delivering ammunition. I" Once again the quick and heroic action taken by Seafarers in an emergency situation has been credited with saving not only their own lives and the lives of their shipmates, but the vessel on which they sailed as well when the SlU-contracted Buckeye Victory come under Viet Cong attack recently. The Buckeye Victory had sailed from Sunny Point, North Carolina, with a full cargo of live ammunition bound for South Vietnam. The voyage over was unevent­ ful as the vessel made stops at the Panama Canal and at Subic Bay in the Philippines. After a few days layover in Subic Bay, the ship proceeded on to Vaung Tau, South Vietnam, where it spent the night. On the following day she pro­ ceeded on up the Saigon River bound for her final destination. Cat Lai. About an hour and a half out, the Buckeye Victory had arrived at checkpoint 2 when it was attacked by Viet ji Atlanflc/^Guif & infanc||il^ters August 1 to August 31, 1969 • Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston ..... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals 4 • • 0 r w DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Class A Class B 7 7 101 128 18 26 78 49 22 ,30 29 41 7 25 41 45 189 90 71 72 50 64 ' 103 112 55 34 771 723 All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 6 7 78 21 62 3 19 25 10 49 22 19 77 23 15 36 33 9 0 9 21 5 13 46 6 61 12 31 40 23 50 60 49 87 68 16 28 40 240 458 484 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 6 6 127 84 16 19 74 136 38 30 16 28 35 14 29 83 75 155 121 167 12 38 18 69 31 60 .598 889 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B 1 6 8 Boston 8 6 32 95 New York 05 93 125 29 2 Philadelphia ..... 17 10 28 3 32 Baltimore 45 61 50 16 15 Norfolk 7 39 . 18 39 18 9 Jacksonville 16 48 10 2 8 Tampa 12 7 4 9 34 Mobile 35 61 13 66 66 New Orleans .... 96 115 17 56 38 Houston ........ 79 64 19 29 24 Wilmingrton 14 40 79 117 61 San Francisco ... 84 124 11 30 30 Seattle 28 37 217 558 387 558 740 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 6 0 79 28 12 8 64 48 48 23 9 8 10 4 52 62 91 72 126 107 6 16 54 18 QO 16 485 512 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 3 3 0 1 1 New York 80 65 35 64 37 Philadelphia 8 12 9 31 0 Baltimore 49 24 16 11 35 Norfolk 46 14 24 21 12" 26 26 Jacksonville 21 21 12 9 7 1 Tampa 12 3 Mobile 20 11 4 24 11 30 62 3 New Orleans .... 157 42 27 42 18 48 Houston .... 21 24 19 15 13 11 Wilmington 92 97 71 43 45 San Francisco ... 35 16 32 6 11 Seattle 319 175 297 Totals 653 445 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 3 23 68 8 8 30 65 36 34 9 9 10 16 23 54 60 124 87 65 9 18 70 36 53 16 326 611 Cong rocket and machine gun fire. During this first brush with the enemy the vessel managed to maneuver out of harm's way, re­ ceived no hits, and continued on its course. Less then an hour later, how­ ever, as the Buckeye Victory approached checkpoint 4, she came under another barrage of machine gun and rocket fire. This time the enemy's aim was better. Between 30 and 40 ma­ chine gun bullets ripped into the superstructure of the vessel and two rocket shells found their target. One hit on the port side near the bow. The other went through the number 2 hatch starting a fire in the hold where 105 howitzer shells and other munitions were stored. Chief Mate Nick Papazoglou called for volunteers to help him remove the hatch cover and get a fire hose working to prevent the flames from spreading and caus­ ing an explosion that could sink the vessel. ABs James Thomas and Tom Danzy were immediately joined by Bos'n Lewis Arena and the three Seafarers, with complete disregard for their own safety, succe'ssfully extinguished the fire before it could spread. The fact that the entire crew escaped injury can be attributed to the typical SIU speed and Seatrain Expands ContainerService To Paerto Rico SAN JUAN—Seatrain Lines, Inc., an SlU-contracted com­ pany, plans to add two newlyconverted containerships to its trade between the Ports of New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Addition of the new ves­ sels is scheduled for November or December and will increase the number of Seatrain vessels operating in the trade to five. The new containerships will have larger, cargo capacity than those presently serving the route and their addition will result in doubling Seatrain's carrying ca­ pacity. Howard M. Pack, president of Seatrain Lines, revealed the company's expansion plans fol­ lowing a conference with Puerto Rican Governor Luis A. Ferre here. The company will also double the size of its terminal at Isla Grande in San Juan and a new container handling crane will be added to the facility's equipment. Work on the terminal will be undertaken following approval of the United States Navy, which owns the land and leases the property to the government of Puerto Rico. efficiency displayed by these three Seafarers. Bos'n Arena, who joined the SIU in 1941, is no stranger to dangerous situations. On August 13, 1942, while sailing as an OS aboard the Del Mongo, Arena was among the Seafarers in­ volved when the ship was tor­ pedoed on a run between Haiti and Cuba. Arena also saw military action in seven major battles during World War II. He served as an artillery observer with the 41st field artillery in Europe. In a telephone interview with the LOG, Arena gave great enthusiastic credit to the skill of the Saigon River pilot who was at the helm of the Buckeye Vic­ tory during periods of attack. "He never stopped for a mo­ ment," Arena said. "He also kept advising the crew as to which was the safest part of the vessel to be in at any particular moment." Following the attack the Buckeye Victory sailed into Nah Be, where the damage to the vessel was checked out by the U.S. Army. After the damage was assessed, permission was granted for the ship to complete her run and the vital cargo of supplies were delivered to Cat Lai. Many of the crewmembers aboard the Buckeye were re­ ported looking forward to a quiet vacation for the rest of the summer after arriving back in the States. They deserve it. SEAFARER&^LOG September 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. I I Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAUL HALL, President EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNER Vice-President Exec. Vice-Pret. LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR Vice-President Sec.-Treas. ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WILL KABP CHARLES SVENSON FRANK MARGIOTTA AL COHEN MARIETTA CRISCI Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI ""hl'shsH Kionthiy at 810 Rhode Island Annas N.E.. Washington. D. C. 20018 by the Seafar­ ers International Union. Atlantic. Guif. Lakei and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Ayenae, Brsoklyn. N.Y. 11232. Tel. HYaelnth 9-6600. Second tiau pastaga paid at Washlnptoni, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Fora 9579 cards shoald be cent ts Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Galf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Annas, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. 'iiM �Page Eigkt SEAFARERS LOG September, 1969 Pike Charges Cargo Rule Distortion SlUNA Wins Bus Service Discriminates Against Tramp Ships To Frisco USPHS Hospital WASHINGTON —A mem­ ber of Congress today accused government officials of having "distorted" the nation's shipping laws so that they "discriminate in favor of foreign-flag shipping, to the detriment of Americanflag shipping." At the same time, Rep. Otis G. Pike (D-N.Y.) said that fed­ eral agencies have misused these same laws "to discriminate in favor of the subsidized segment of the American merchant ma­ rine, to the detriment of the unsubsidized segment." The Congressman said the laws which have been abused are the ones which are su|>posed to guarantee Americanflag ships a stated share of for­ eign aid and agricultural surplus commodities shipped by the fed­ eral government. Speaking at a meeting spon­ sored by the 7.5-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Pike said the laws clearly state "that Americanflag shipping should receive a minimum of 50 percent of these cargoes—but the agencies have translated that to make it read a maximum of 50 percent." The legislation also requires, the Congressman said, that the 50 percent minimum "be com­ puted separately for each seg­ ment of the maritime industry— for the liners, the tankers and the tramps. Yet the agencies have been able to get a legal opinion that it's not necessary to compute the cargoes that way at all. carried nearly 64 percent of Agriculture Department exports of surplus farm commodities, and that in fiscal 1967, the last year for which figures were available, foreign vessels carried 52 percent of the shipments fi­ nanced by the Agency for Inter­ national Development. Computing the figures sepa­ rately for each segment of the industry, the Congressman said, showed that liners received sub­ stantially above their 50 percent level, while tramp ships received far below the "minimum speci­ fied in the law. He noted that the liner seg­ Floor Toms into Ceiling ment of the industry already is "Shades of 1984—when a "heavily subsidized" in the form 'floor' becomes a 'ceiling,' and when 'separately' becomes 'to­ of federal aid in the building and operating of its vessels. The gether.' " The New York Democrat purpose of the subsidies, he cited figures showing that in said, is to put these operators fiscal 1968, foreign-flag ships "on a parity with lower-cost foreign operators" so that they can "compete in the world mar­ ket for commercial ships." But, Pike went on, "the sub­ sidized liner companies are grabbing off the government cargo, instead of concentrating out plausible explanation at a on commercial cargo, and the time critical to the union's cam­ unsubsidized ships are more paign" shortly before the elec­ and more being left high and tion. Then it laid off 17 em­ dry." ployees, blaming a reduced The Congressman urged ac­ volume of business, the NLRB tion on legislation introduced by found. more than 80 House and Senate Stevens, a major government members which would establish cloth contractor, previously had been cited seven times for vio­ priorities for the carriage of this lating the rights of its employees cargo, with unsubsidized oper­ to organize. It has lost six ators getting first crack, and appeals, one in the Supreme with foreign vessels used only Court. as "a last resort." Another Try by J. P. Stevens Keeps NLRB and Union Busy WASHINGTON — Another unlawful effort by J. P. Stevens and Company, Inc., to prevent its employees from organizing has been checked by the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board. The board took a new look at a 1967 election because of company unfair practices and ordered a count of 17 chal­ lenged ballots at the firm's Black Hawk warehouse in Greenville, S.C. If the TextUe Workers Union of America wins a majority it will be certified as bargaining agent. If not, a new election will be ordered, the board decided. The union had challenged the ballots of three Stevens em­ ployees who were not on the payroll before the eligibility date, and the NLRB regional director overruled the chal­ lenges. The director did, however, sustain the union's charge that Stevens had failed to furnish an employee address list, as the board requires. Also at issue was a board agent's challenge to the ballots of 14 former em­ ployees who the union charged were laid off because of their union sympathies. The board sustained a trial examiner's ruling that 17 ware­ house employees were laid off just before the election to weak­ en the union's support. Tlie warehouse was the main source of union strength, the examiner found. The union got 22 votes of the 46 counted ballots, and filed objections to the election. The board found that Stevens previously had shipped all its cotton through the warehouse but changed its practice "with­ SAN FRANCISCO—As a result of an extended fight for such service by the SIU and its affiliates, busses are finally going to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital here for the first time. The Public Utilities Commission of the City and County of San Francisco agreed on August 12 to extend the route of the No. 10 Bus line to the hospital entrance at 15th Avenue and Lake Street. The SIU and its affiliates had long been aware that it was a great hardship for older members and the many other out-patients who use the hospital to walk nearly a mile uphill from the end of the old bus route. The extended service— expected to be used by some 1,500 persons daily—is essen­ tial because there is really no other way to get to the hospital. The area has become so congested that it is practically im­ possible to park a car within walking distance of the hospital. There has been, over the years, considerable opposition to the extension of the bus route from the residents of 14th Avenue. However, following a plea from the SIUNA which pointed out the unnecessary hardship imposed on many of our members by the old route, the Commission agreed to try the extended route on a 60 day trial basis. The extension adds .87 miles to the route which now runs up 14th Avenue and down 15th, stopping at the main hospital entrance. Upholsterers' 9-Month Fight Aided by Strike Relief Fund WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO has set up a strike relief fund for Upholsterers who have been on strike for nine months against the Economy Furniture Company in Austin, Texas, and urged all affiliates to contribute generously. The federation contributed $10,000 to start the national fund-raising effort to aid the strikers and their families. AFL-CIO President George Meany said in a letter to all affil­ iates that Economy workers are fighting for the most basic union cause—recognition. Kenya Unionists Visit Port of Toledo Kenya labor leaders visit SIU hall in Toledo. Having toured dock facilities in Toledo, New York, Washing­ ton and Buffalo they went on to visit Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Philadelphia. From left are Cleo Sylph, President, Local I3I7-A, ILA; Nassaro Nwanmchindu Bakari, Dockworkers'Union of Kenya; Donald Bensman, SIU Toledo port agent, and Juma Boy, Kenya Dockworkers' Union general secretary and asst. secretary-general of Kenya's Trade Unions. The African-American Labor Center sponsored the tour. The Upholsterers won repre­ sentation rights in a National Labor Relations Board election in May, 1968. Thirteen months later the NLRB found the com­ pany guilty of unfair labor prac­ tices for refusing to bargain, and •Economy appealed the ruling. "It is probable there will be a long delay before there is a deci­ sion," Meany wrote unions and labor central bodies. The Upholsterers reported fear tactics, police coercion and the use of strikebreakers in the company's drive to smash the union and break the spirit of the workers. The union also charged that open discrimination has been demonstrated. The workers, most of them Americans of Mexican descent, have been assailed with slurs on their raeial origin and their reli­ gious belief, the union said. Contributions may be sent to the Economy Furniture Strike Fund at AFL-CIO headquarters. Economy makes wooden and upholstered furniture for Mont­ gomery Ward and Co., White Discount Stores and other out­ lets. It uses the labels Smithtowne Maple, Western Provin­ cial and Built-Rite. All company products are on the "Don't Buy" list of the AFL-CIO Union La­ bel and Service Trades Depart­ ment. The NLRB in its June ruling ordered Economy to end its de­ fiance of the law, bargain with the Upholsterers and offer all strikers immediate and full re­ instatement, dismissing if neces­ sary any persons hired after the strike started November 27, 1968. Company tactics forced the employees into an unfair prac­ tice strike, the board ruled in upholding a trial examiner's findings. �September, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine Mystery Vessel Brought to Surface Navy Studying Encounters After 100 Years In Lake Michigan Between Porpoises, Sharks To Protect Aquanauts: The possibility of training porpoises to act as "buddies" to human aquanauts and pro­ tecting them from sharks is be­ ing investigated by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center at Coronado, California. However, despite growing evi­ dence of the porpoise's relative­ ly high level of intelligence and "Tuffy," an Atlantic bottlenose porpoise, cheeks eut at 7 feet, 6 inches and weighs 280 pounds. his demonstrated ability to be trained, it cannot be assumed that a porpoise will provide re­ liable protection for itself or for a human diver when a large shark comes around, according to Forrest G. Wood Jr., head of the Marine Bioscience Facility at Point Magu, California. "This is not to say that a por­ poise could not be trained to ex­ hibit greater aggressiveness and provide some degree of protec­ tion to a diver when potentially dangerous sharks are present," Wood said. "But, if porpoises are to be used by man to assist him in underwater exploration and possibly protect him from threatening sharks, we need to know a great deal more than we do about the relationship be­ tween these two animals." Porpoises—especially the At­ lantic bottlenoses—^have been found to be so amenable to training that they can be used to work untethered in the open sea with great reliability. In the Navy's Sealab program, they were used to carry small pack­ ages from the surface to aqua­ nauts working at a depth of more than 200 feet, and to car­ ry a guideline to a "lost" diver. But, what happens when a porpoise and a shark come face to face? The available evidence, according to Wood, indicates that the sharks will sometimes attack the porpoise, sometimes the porpoise will assault the shark—and at other times they will ignore each other. "The conditions or circum­ stances governing the response of either animal in an encounter is not known," Wood said, "nor is the outcome of a conflict pre­ dictable on the basis of present knowledge." Probe of 1967 Disaster Finds: MARINETTE, Wise.—A two-masted schooner buried for more than a century under 19 fathoms of Green Bay water off Chambers Island was brought to the surface here recently after being towed 16 miles from her grave on the bottom of Lake Michigan. "Most beautiful thing I've ever seen," exclaimed Mrs. Ellie Hoffman, wife of diving crew chief Frank Hoffman, a scuba diver of Egg Harbor,^Wisconsin. Hoffman and Harold Derusha, president of the Marinette Marine Corporation, were the first to step aboard the resur­ rected vessel. They performed a victory dance on top of the cabin and deck house as some 3,500 excited spectators ap­ plauded. The marine corpora­ tion provided most of the financ­ ing and equipment for the proj­ ect, which has taken two years to complete. The vessel is still to be defi­ nitely identified. Hoffman has some line on her age, however, giving rise to speculation that she may be the Alvin Clark, a lumber ship which sank in the Green Bay area in 1864. "Her construction indicates she was built in the 1830s," he This two-masted mystery schooner floats again after more than a claims. "She is of square-bow century at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Still unidentified, she is construction. That was like a believed to be the Alvin Clark, a lumber ship which sank in 1864. whaler, very unusual for Great prepare her for raising, all that Lakes ships." Despite the scores of artifacts is presently known for sure is Hoffman's divers have brought that the ship is a lake freighter to the surface during the two and that she went down in deep years they had been working to water—110 feet—with little ap­ parent damage. Hoffman believes she must have been overpowered by one A recorder has been devel­ of the violent storms which fre­ quently sweep across the bay oped which will measure roll or pitch angles of ships with greater from Lake Michigan. Last winter, a team spent a accuracy than ever before and great deal of research time at put on tape angles as large as the University of Wisconsin, the 100 degrees double amplitude. The device will function Wisconsin historical archives through a rate gyroscope which and the Dawson Great Lakes produces an a-c output signal this voyage," as evidenced by Museum at Detroit, comparing with an amplitude proportional problems encountered in a boil­ notes with the ship's artifacts to the ship's roll rate and phas­ er, the main condenser, and the and other clues. lubrication pressure system dur­ "Some of the things we ing indicative of roll direction. Electronic off-the-shelf mod­ ing her first days at sea. brought up—for instance, her ules will process this signal to Causal factors listed by the sextant—were the kind used in actuate a galvanometer move­ board included "failure of the the late 1850s and early 1860s," ment proportional to the magni­ Master to recognize the critical Hoffman explained. "But we tude and polarity of the ship's condition of his vessel, and re­ didn't find anything that came roll motion. The galvanometer quest assistance earlier." The into use after the Civil War. So then transmits this movement to first distress call "intended to we figured she must have sunk a moving tape which is pressurealert vessels in his vicinity as sometime during that war or sensitive. to his vessel's condition" was around that time." Designed for use under rigor­ The mystery ship was towed ous sea conditions, it is shockmade at 0618. But his SOS, giving a position some 15 miles from her resting place, still sub­ mounted within a high-impact in error, was sent at 0958, the merged, to the Marine corpora­ case of fiberglass and aluminum tion yards, about a mile off the and requires no compensation board noted. Of seven vessels Marinette harbor. Cranes then for linear acceleration nor spe­ 53 to 165 miles away, the far­ lifted the 100-foot sailing vessel cial mounting arrangements. thest ship was first to reach to the surface. The case has storage space for the scene—after dark and more The ship's wheel, the railing power cords, plug adaptors and than 12 hours after the sinking. and a winch with an anchor spare tapes. The board also noted that a chain still wrapped around it, The new roll recorder, devel­ lifeboat drill had not included were clearly visible before the oped by John J. McMullen As­ the required engine start and pumping began. sociates, Inc., and Flume Stabil­ lowering of the boat to the rail. The vessel appears to be solid ization Systems, Inc., is de­ During the drill there had been and the hull intact. An inspec­ scribed as the end-result of ex­ no instructions given on han­ tion of the hold was planned to tensive experience in the design dling the vessel's 25-person in­ determine whether there are any and installation of stabilization systems for ocean-going vessels. leaks. flatable life raft. Sinking of Panoceanic Faith Caused By Failure to Secure Loose Hatch u. WASHINGTON—The Na­ tional Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the tragic 1967 sinking of the SIUcontracted Panoceanic Faith, and the loss of 36 of its 41 crewmembers, has revealed that the probable cause of the sink­ ing was ". . . failure of the Mas­ ter to have the tarpaulins se­ cured on the No. 1 hatch when they were observed to be loose" two days before the sinking. "Neglecting to effect prompt re­ pairs ultimately resulted in this hold being open to boarding seas and complete flooding," the report said. The vessel sank some 500 miles south of the Aleutian Is­ lands on October 9, 1967, after nine days of heavy seas and progressive flooding. Only five Seafarers survived. Rescued from the stormy wa­ ters following the disaster were: Seafarers Gordon L. Campbell, oiler, of Oakland, Calif., and a bridegroom of a month at the time; OS Lewis E. Gary of Houston; Oiler John O. L. Kirk , of Modesto, Calif.; OS Oscar C. Wiley of Oakland, Calif., and AB Edwin D. Johnson of Ma­ rine City, Mich. The National Safety Board found it "possible that the Mas­ ter's concern about the fuel sup­ ply, and slow speed made good, may have influenced his actions" in not heaving to for repairs. "He obviously underestimated the seriousness of these condi­ tions," the board's report said. The Panoceanic Faith, loaded with fertilizer, had sailed from Oakland, California, for Yoko­ hama on September 29 with 4,162 barrels of oil as its fuel supply. The Marine Board of Investigation heard testimony that the minimum required fuel for such a voyage was between 4,500 and 5,000 barrels. It also revealed that at departure, the vessel "was overloaded" and "was not in all respects fit for Newly Perfetted Recorder Tapes Ships Roll, Pitch �tiSS Page Ten SEAFARERS LOG High Court Finds Garnishment Illegal Unless Employee Gets Court Hearing WASHINGTON—The Su­ preme Court has ruled unconstitutionar state laws permitting creditors to garnishee a work­ er's wages without first giving him a court hearing. In a 7-to-l decision, the high court struck down the Wiscon­ sin wage garnishment law. About 40 states have some sort of prejudgment garnishment statutes and 17 of these states plus the District of Columbia have laws similar to Wiscon­ sin's. The ruling found that the gar­ nishment law violates the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Justice William O. Douglas noted in writing the court's ma­ jority opinion that under Wis­ consin law, all that it takes to require an employer to hold back about half of a worker's earnings is the issuance of a summons at the request of a creditor's lawyer. The worker might get money later if the creditor's claim did not stand up in court. Douglas observed, but in the meantime, he could be deprived of his earn­ ings "without any opportunity to be heard and to tender any defense he may have, whether it be fraud or otherwise." Douglas went on to criticize the ancient rights of creditors that "would pass muster under a feudal 'regime' but that today have the capacity to drive a wage-earning family to the wall." The case in question involved Mrs. Christine Sniadach, a $65a-week assembly line worker at Miller Harris Instrument Co. in Milwaukee. Family Finance Corporation of Bay View, Wis., claimed she owed $420 on a promissory note. It obtained a garnishment order in Wisconsin courts and served it on her and her em­ ployer. The employer then withheld $31.59 from her weekly wages, half of her net earnings. She appealed but lost her case in Wisconsin County Court. Mil­ waukee Circuit Court and the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Her case was brought before the Supreme Court by lawyers of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. They initiated a broad constitutional attack on the garnishment pro­ cedure, declaring that it per­ mitted finance companies to put pressure on poor people to pay dubious debts by freezing up to half of a worker's pay without first proving that a valid debt really existed. The AFL-CIO also has long been campaigning for the abo­ lition of wage garnishment and other harsh collection methods. At its 1967 convention, the fed­ eration noted in a resolution that hundreds of thousands of workers lose their jobs because of garnishment which also causes many cases of personal bank­ ruptcy. Observing that only three states have anti-garnishment laws, the convention urged en­ actment of a federal law to pro­ tect workers' wages from "this vicious and too-long sanctioned evil." Among the states with gar­ nishment statutes similar to Wis­ consin's are Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Idaho, Min­ nesota, Montana, New Hamp­ shire, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming. In striking down the Wiscon­ sin law, the court held in the majority opinion by Douglas that "where the taking of one's property is so obvious, it needs no extended afgunient to con­ clude that absent notice and a prior hearing . . . this prejudg­ ment garnishment procedure violates the fundamental prin­ ciples of due process." Suit Against Farm Workers Set Aside By Circuit Court FRESNO, Calif.—U.S. Dis­ trict Court Judge M. D. Crocker dismissed a $75 million damage suit by growers against the United Farm Workers Organiz­ ing Committee, but gave the growers 30 days to produce ac­ ceptable evidence to substan­ tiate their charges. A group of 81 growers sued the union for triple damages under the antitrust laws. Claim­ ing the union's nationwide Cali­ fornia table grape boycott is illegal, the group alleged a "conspiracy in organizing un­ willing farm workers, coercion to boycott the sale of grapes, and conspiracy with retail out­ lets to prevent the sale of grapes." Tlie judge said the growers had not presented sufficient evi­ dence to justify a hearing but granted their lawyers' request for additional time to amend their petition. UFWOC has had to file law­ suits of its own to counter ac­ tions by other grower groups. Counsel Jerome Cohen noted at union headquarters in Delano, Calif. In one such suit, the un­ ion sued growers in Kern Coun­ ty for forming a "company un­ ion" of grape pickers. There the courts ordered the union to amend its petition to state a more persuasive cause ctf action. The decision reinforces the recently enacted federal truthin-lending law which makes it illegal for an employer to dis­ miss a worker because his wages are attached. Some employers have avoided the bookkeeping involved in making periodic garnishment deductions by hav­ ing it known that any worker who had his wages attached and who did not discharge the debt would lose his job. Justice Hugo L. Black dis­ sented from the majority opin­ ion, asserting that the decision is "a plain, judicial usurpation of state legislative power to de­ cide what the state's laws shall be." September, 1969 Seafarers of India President Visits SlU Dr. Shanti Patel (right), president of the National Seafarers Union of India, points to Bombay as SlU Representative John Yarmola looks on. Patel paid a call at SlU headquarters during a visit to New York. Labor Hits HaynsworthAppointment As Justice of U.S. Supreme Court WASmNGTON—The AFLCIO has asked the Senate to re­ ject President Nixon's nomina­ tion of Judge Qement F. Hayns­ worth, Jr., to the Supreme Court, on the basis of a judicial record marred by "decisions hostile to workers and Negroes." Federation President George Meany expressed labor's "grave concern" over the nomination of the conservative South Caro­ lina judge, whose decisions in a number of key trade union and civil rights cases have been re­ versed by the Supreme Court. Before the appointment was made, Meany had informed President Nixon of labor's ob­ jections to Haynsworth. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the major coalition of Negro, labor, religious and civic groups, also vigorously chal­ lenged Haynsworth's qualifica­ tions. Meany urged the Senate to consider Haynsworth's "total record, including the caliber of the judge's decisions, and his lack of understanding of the as­ pirations of workers and minor­ ities." He added, "We believe that it is a record which does not merit reward and which does not qualify Judge Haynsworth for the nation's highest court." The President's nomination of Haynsworth was announced by White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler more than a week after the late Senate Re­ publican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen had revealed the choice. It was promptly applauded by Senator James O. Eastland, the Mississippi Democrat who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee and by Senator Strom Thurmond(R-S.C.), the former Dixiecrat presidential candidate who has ^come a key political ad­ viser to President Nixon. Haynsworth, 56, was a wealthy corporation attorney who served as a director of major companies when he was named to the Court of Appeals by President Eisenhower 12 years ago. Although a titular Democrat, he had supported Eisenhower in his presidential campaigns. Just last June, the Supreme Court unanimously overruled Haynsworth and other judges of the 4th Circuit Court of Ap­ peals in a series of decisions in­ volving the right of the National Labor Relations Board to order an employer to bargain with a union on the basis of a cardcheck after the company had used unfair labor practices to destroy the union majority. If decisions written by or con­ curred in by Haynsworth had been permitted to stand, the NLRB would have been unable to deny an employer the fruits of his illegal union-busting pol­ icies. One 1967 decision written by Haynsworth contended flatly that the NLRB does not havd the right under ^y conditions to order an employer to bargain with a union on the basis of signed authorization cards, even though it flnds that it would be impossible to hold a fair elec­ tion. Perhaps the best known labor case in which Haynsworth was overruled by the Supreme Court —again in a unanimous opin­ ion—stemmed from the closing of the Darlington, S. C., textile mill after its workers had voted for union representation. Haynsworth cast the deciding vote in a 3-2 decision by the 4th Circuit Court which rejected the NLRB's effort to compel the parent Deering Milliken textile chain to provide jobs and com­ pensation for the hundreds of fired workers. The court said in effect that an employer has an absolute right to close any plant for any reason. In reversing the decision the Supreme Court made one im­ portant qualification. It said an employer could not close a sin­ gle plant" in a chain so as to "chill" unionism in the other plants. In a follow-up case involving an NLRB order to Deering Milliken to provide jobs and back up pay of up to 12 years for the 500 fired workers, Haynsworth joined in upholding the labor board. But his separate concur­ ring opinion argued strongly for reducing the corporation's back pay obligations to the fired workers. Haynsworth in an earlier case held that the Rubber Workers could no longer picket the O'Sullivan Rubber Company after they had lost representa­ tion rights when strikebreakers hired to replace the workers were allowed to vote but the strikers were not. Until a series of Supreme Court decisions clearly pointed the path, Haynsworth took the position that southern school districts weren't obligated to in­ tegrate schools as long as they did not impose compulsory seg­ regation. In one prominent case, over­ ruled by the Supreme Court, Haynsworth had upheld a socalled "freedom of choice" plan, a device used by some southern school districts to avoid more than token integration. In re­ versing him, the Supreme Court said such plans are unconstitu­ tional unless they succeed in eliminating dual school systems. The vacancy on the Supreme Court was left by the resigna­ tion of Justice Abe Fortas last May. President Nbton earlier named Warren E. Burger to suc­ ceed Earl Warren as Chief Jus­ tice and thus has his second op­ portunity to alter the complex­ ion of the nation's highest court. �^:^SrS»5terwi' September, 1969 SEAFARERS ' Vmge Eleven LOii Expanding SlU Pension Roster Adds 22 More Seafarers TU'eTity-two more Seafarers ended their long careers at sea last month and joined the ever­ growing ranks of the pensioners. Steele McDonald Jay Steele, who makes his home in New Orleans, Louisi­ ana, joined the Union in the Port of Tampa, Florida. A na­ tive of Florida, he is 61 years old. Brother Steele has sailed as a chief cook, baker, wiper and ordinary seaman in the steward department. He last sailed in 1969 aboard the Kyska. Jesse McDonald, a native of Jackson, Alabama, now makes his home in Orange, Texas with his wife Willie Kate. Brother McDonald is 65 years old and Stickney Santos joined the SIU in Port Arthur, Texas. Having sailed for over 33 years. Seafarer McDonald had been working for Slade, Inc. as a chief engineer in the engine department. James Stickney, who joined the Union in the Port of New York, now lives with his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, in Mont­ gomery, New York. An engi­ neer in the engine department. Seafarer Stickney last sailed aboard the Trenton in 1968. r Flannery Lowman He is 61 years old and a native of Otego, New York. From 1926 to 1930 he served in the Navy, Raul Delos Santos, who has been sailing for 30 years, last shipped aboard the Petro Chem as an FWT in the engine depart­ ment. A native of Texas, he now lives in Galveston with his wife, Trine. He joined the Union in 1944 in the Port of New Orleans. John Flannery of Union City, New Jersey last sailed with Seatrain Lines in 1968 as an AB in the deck department. He is 65 years old and a native of New Jersey. Brother Flannery joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1943. In 1961 he was issued a Union picket duty card. Seafarer Flannery has been sailing for 31 years. Kane MaUnowski Henry Lowman makes his home in Pulaski, Vir^nia with his wife, Lillian Effie. A native of Pulaski, Brother Lowman is 67 years old. He last sailed aboard the Halaula in 1969 as an electrician in the engine de­ partment. Seafarer Lowman joined the Union in the Port of Norfolk. Leon Kane, a bosun and car­ penter in the deck department, joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore. A native of New York, he now lives in Manhat­ tan with his brother, David Bernard. His last vessel was the Alcoa Master in 1968. Walter Malinowski of Balti­ more, Maryland worked as a bargeman for the B and O Rail­ road. A native of Baltimore, Brother Malinowski is 65 years old. He joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore. Lester Lapham joined the SIU in the Port of Boston. Bom * Lapham • w • « Herldnheins in New London, Connecticut, he is 65 years old. He was a wiper in the steward department and will now be spending his retirement in Long Beach, Cali­ fornia. Brother Lapham served in the army from 1922 to 1923. He began his sailing career in 1937. Henry Herkinheins, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1943. He had been Mina Werner sailing since 1937 and last worked in the deck department aboard the Raleigh as an AB. Brother Herkinheins now lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife, Lucille Helena. John R. Mina joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He is 64 years old and was born in Manila, Philippine Islands. Brother Mina now makes his home in New Orleans with his son, John. Sailing since 1925, he last worked as a chief cook aooard the Del Norte in 1969. John W. Werner, Jr., 67, was bom in Philadelphia where he still lives with his wife, Anna Mae. A deckhand. Brother Werner last worked for the Taylor Towing Company in 1969. He joined the Union in the Port of. Philadelphia. In 1918, Seafarer Werner served a hitch in the Army. Alfonso Lopez, a native of Puerto Rico, now makes his home in the Bronx with his wife. Lopez Atizado Antonia. He is 60 years old and joined the SIU in the Port of New York. Seafarer Lopez shipped as AB in the deck de­ partment and last sailed aboard Seatrain New York. Roy Atizado was a member of the steward department and lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Rizalina. He was born in the Philippine Islands and joined the Union in the Port of New York. Sixty-six years old. Seafarer Atizado shipped as an assistant cook and last sailed aboard the Anchorage in 1968. Bartolome Del Valle was born in Puerto Rico and con­ tinues to make his home there with his wife, Luisa. He joined the SIU in 1944 in Puerto Rico and sailed as an oiler in the engine department. His last ves­ sel was the Seatrain New York in 1968. Alex Francisco joined the his home in Brooklyn with his wife, Isarel. He joined the SIU in New York and sailed as an AB in the deck department. Boswell Izquierdo Seafarer Izquierdo's last vessel was the Summit in 1968. Broth­ er Izquierdo had been sailing since 1935. Clarence Alfonso Collins was a steward who last sailed on the Newark in 1968. Sailing since 1926, Brother Collins is one of the real SIU oldtimers who joined the Union in 1938 in Mobile. He is a native of New Orleans and now lives in Man­ hattan with his wife, Aurelia Myrtle. Guy Nealis of Baltimore, Maryland worked as an OS in the deck department. His last vessel was the Portmar. A na­ tive of Maryland, Brother Nealis joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore. He is 66 years old. James Derrickson joined the Union in the Port of Philadel- phia. He was an oiler who last sailed for P. F. Martin, Inc. in 1969. A native of Delaware, Brother Derrickson is 66 years Collins Nealis old and now makes his home in Philadelphia with his father, Lemuel. Elijah C. Piatt of New Or­ leans worked as an AB in the deck department. He last sailed Derrickson Piatt on the Alcoa Voyager in 1968. Sailing since 1940, Brother Piatt joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans. A native of Georgia, Seafarer Piatt now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Carol Mary. MSTS Officer Shoots Holes In ^Effective Control' Theory WASHINGTON—A top offi­ cer of the Navy has shed strong doubts on the dependability of the "effective control" concept. This is the idea that ships reg­ istered under foreign flags and manned by non-American sea­ men are available for use in time of national emergency be­ cause they are obligated under contracts with the Maritime Administration. "At best, this is a matter where reasonable doubt may be said to exist," Captain M. Godek, Comptroller of the Mili­ tary Sea Transportation Service declared in a statement to the House Committee on Appropri­ ations. The committee is con­ Del Valle Francisco sidering the proposed Depart­ SIU in 1944 in the Port of New ment of Defense budget for fis­ York. A native of the Philip­ cal year 1970. pine Islands, he now lives in Experiences during World Metairie, Louisiana with his War II, Captain Godek noted, wife, Gladys. Seafarer Fran­ were quite good, as they were cisco was a cook, baker and during the Korean conflict. In butcher and last sailed aboard both these national crises, he the Selma Victory in 1968. He said, there were no incidents of has been going to sea since seamen refusing to sail ships to 1941. the combat zone. This was so Raymond Francis Boswell of because non^Americans sym­ Gretna, Louisiana was born in pathized with the cause for Vermont 65 years ago. He which the United States was joined the Union in the Port of fighting. New York and last sailed on the "The Vietnam operation has Transpanama in 1968. Brother been carried on in a different Boswell was a bos'n in the deck climate," Godek pointed out, department and had been sail­ "and several well-publicized in­ ing since 1932. He now lives stances have taken place where in Gretna with his wife, Nora. non-American seamen have re­ Cesar Izquierdo, 69, is a na­ fused to sail their ships to the tive of Ecuador who now makes combat zone." Godek revealed that at least one Swedish tanker owner had requested that his ship not be sent to Vietnam because of the sentiment in Sweden against U.S. involvement there. The vessel was used in the Pacific, but outside the war zone. Sees Future Problems "Based on experience during the Vietnam operation," Godek summed up, "it may be con­ cluded that in similar circum­ stances in the future there will be some difficulty in finding foreign crews to sail ships under effective U.S. control into the war zone. . . . Support of the combat forces will have to be maintained by ships of Ameri­ can registry manned by U.S. nationals." The statement put the num­ ber 'of privately owned ships registered under the flags of Panama, Liberia and Honduras as 400 on March 31, 1969. These are considered as being "under effective U.S. control." Such ships have been called "runaway vessels" by SIU and the tramp fleet owners in that they have been registered under so-called "flags of necessity" to avoid payment of taxes to the U.S. government, the higher wages paid to U.S. seamen and U.S. safety regulations. The SIU, as well as numerous con­ gressmen, have often disputed the "effective control" theory. �Page Twelve SEAFARERS 3Q0K^6emujs LOG September, 1969 Blind Man's Bluff? lisv THE TODD DOSSIER by Collier Young (Delacorte—$4.95) This is one of the first novels dealing with what probably will be a long line of stories about heart transplants. What at­ tracts the reader to this one is the method of presentation. The intriguing story is told by excerpts from the transcript of a hearing into the events surrounding a heart transplant. In the end the bad guys are caught but the reader remains in an uneasy state. Will fiction one day turn into fact? Will a new class society come into being—the takers and the taken? As one character in the book—Walter Geiger, M.D.—testi­ fies: "... I had thought a great deal, ever since we first dreamed of transplanting the human heart, about the rapacious ones, the takers. There are always people who take what they want, no matter the cost to others. They take in order to extend their own territory, their own power. Now we had given them the opportunity to take in order to extend life itself." Disquieting words, even if they are fiction. POLAND: EAGLE IN THE EAST by William Woods (HiU & Wang—$6.50) Polish blood, like that of the Irish, runs deep in the Ameri­ can worker. For this and other reasons, this book makes inter­ esting reading. The author traces the economic and social his­ tory of Poland back to before World War I. He shows how Poland, caught between the influences of two great western nations, turned east and to communism. From the ashes of cities, destroyed by Hitler's armies, the Poles have built new cities. They have erased evidence of extermination camps and plowed the fields where giant ovens were used to cremate thousands. But memories remain and there lingers bitterness against the Germans. And twenty-five years after the ovens cooled, one can still find flecks of human bone in the soil. Woods compares writing about Poland to walking on eggs. Nothing is entirely true or untrue. He has performed a good job in turning out an interesting book without breaking too many shells. * * • BEYOND RACISM by Whitney M. Young, Jr. (McGraw-Hill —$6.95) "Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life." Thus writes Whitney M. Young, Jr., National Director of the Urban League. "But," he continues, "white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks—and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monop­ oly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin." In a nutshell. Young has given us the ideal, the problem and the solution to many of our racial ills. The black man must provide the initiative to force open the doors to a closed so­ ciety—^not with the fire bomb—but with willingness and de­ termination. By the same token, the white man must provide the key because it is he who controls the society. And the opportunity for doing this lies, to a great extent, in the labor movement. No stranger to lalx)r. Young offers both praise and criticism of the movement. Crediting labor with correcting many of the social ills of an earlier day and with lending valuable support to the earlyday civil rights movement; Young writes that many a black man has found the key to a better life via the union job. At the same time others have found the door closed because of their color. Young writes: • "The fact that labor led the way in bringing about the social reforms of the past probably accounts for the great dissilliisionment with many unions today. "... Labor today, to many, presents an image of a protective association, filled with middle-class people who have advanced rather quickly and are preoccupied with maintaining the status quo and are increasingly hostile to efforts of minority groups to join them in their newfound prosperity." Young believes that the individual can do much to change this. His individual actions in his union, his church and his community, can help change the course of our collective actions. Racial harmony may seem a long way off in view of many of today's headlines; but we must start someplace. Perhaps the place to start is the thoughtful reading of books such as this one. President Nixon's nomination of South Carolina's U.S. Appeals Court Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., to the United States Supreme Court can only be viewed as potentially disastrous to the labor movement, the civil rights movement, and to the future welfare of the nation as a whole. Should the Senate be unwise enough to confirm the appointment of this 3roponent of arch conservatism to the highest tribunal in the land, there can )e little doubt that the forces of reaction in the nation will gain a powerful ally in their unending battle to impede social progress and thwart the trade union movement's efforts to bring about economic and educational equality for all Americans. Aside from the fact that Haynsworth's career on the bench has consist­ ently been marked by anti-labor and anti-civil rights decisions, he has also been charged by the AFL-CIO and civil rights leaders with serious conflicts of interest. Outstanding among these charges is the fact that Haynsworth held a one-seventh interest in a vending machine company which did an annual business of $100,000 with the Deering Milliken textile chain at the time he cast the deciding vote in a 1963 Appeals Court decision which upheld Deer­ ing Milliken's right to close down its Darlington, S.C., mill to punish work­ ers for voting for union representation. Haynsworth did resign as a director of the vending firm before the Darlington decision was handed down, but not before the case was argued. Even then his resignation could hardly be called voluntary. By his own ad­ mission, he acted only in compliance with a resolution of the Judicial Con­ ference of the United States which barred federal judges from serving as officers or directors of profit-making corporations. And the record shows that Haynsworth is no stranger to profit-making organizations. He has substantial stock holdings in no fewer than 46 com­ panies—among them the notoriously anti-labor textile giant, J. P. Stevens. Although most of Haynsworth's more damaging blows against labor and minority groups—including the Deering Milliken decision—^have been nullified by the Supreme Court, his record is not a pretty one. In addition to his prejudice against labor, he also ruled in favor of Prince Edward County, Va., when it attempted to junk its public school system rather than integrate, and has backed discrimination against Negroes in federally as­ sisted hospitals. Small wonder that AFL-CIO President George Meany has branded Haynsworth "not fit" to sit on the Supreme Court and Civil rights leader Roy Wilkins has said his confirmation by the Senate would "shake the con­ fidence of millions of Americans in . . . the belief that the judicial process will produce justice." We couldn't agree more. �September, 1969 [I- SEAFARERS MEET YOUR fiHIP'fi COMMITTEE LOG Page niineen F ULL PARXiaPAXION by all Seafarers in the affairs of their Union is the primary aim of the Ship's Committee—the vital contact between SlU-contracted vessels at sea and SIU activities in the ports. These five-man committees—consisting of a ship's chairman, secretary, and a delegate from each of the three departments—conduct weekly shipboard meetings to dis­ cuss issues and beefs which are important to the welfare of the membership. SEATTLE—(Seated l-r) Erasmo Arroya, deck delegate: Sadak Wola, engine; E. Morales, ship chairman: and Edward Kaznowski, secretary. *. ^Standing is Eugenic Gatmaitan, steward delegate. The Seattle's com-v mittee reports that weekly shipboard meetings have been successful. : COLUMBIA—Keeping their shipmates up to date on SIU programs are (l-r) Joe Werselowich, steward department delegate: Nick Natgimisios, ship secretary: Steve Homka, chairman; Johannes Roos, engine delegate: Joseph Catherman, deck. The committee reports a smooth trip. ROBIN GRAY—Representing the SIU aboard their ship are (l-r) Lloyd Zimmerman, steward delegate; Bill Osborne, chairman: Ralph Seckinger, deck delegate: Carlton Grimes, secretary: and Earl Clark, engine. The pension plan was discussed at ship meetings. SUMMIT—(Clockwise) William Hamlin, steward delegate: Walter Gustavson, ship chairman: James Allen, retiring ship's delegate: William Seltzer, secretary: Rafael Matos, engine delegate: Calvin DeSilva, deck. Committee reports all beefs settled by delegates. LONGVIEW VICTORY—Frank Radzvida. the retiring ship's delegate, left, reported a good voyage as he posed with the ship's committee (l-r) Sid Berger, secreta'y: Walter Marsh, chairman: Mike Meguissgluu, steward delegate: and J. W. Canard, deck. �Page Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG September, 1969 Federal Job Safety-Health Board Steelworkers Get Bask Plan Jtnd Standards'Urged by President Offering Earnings Protection WASfflNGTON — President Nixon has called on Congress to create a five-member board to set occupational health and safe­ ty standards for industries and businesses so as to reduce "need­ less illness, needless injury and needless death." President Johnson called for federal standards last year in a proposed Occupational Safety and Health Act but the legisla­ tion died after employer groups mounted a nationwide drive against it. Senator Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.) and other lawmakers have introduced similar legisla­ tion in this Congress. Under Nixon's plan, the board's five members would be appointed by the President, with Senate consent, to five-year terms, staggered so that one member would change each year. At least three board mem­ bers would be exp>erts on health and safety. Under the bill being prepared by the Labor Department, the board would begin enforcing the standards on July 1, 1972. The board would be directed to adopt "national consensus standards" already established by industry, labor and other or­ ganizations. It would initiate standards in areas where none exists. If the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary of Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare object to any such "national consensus stand­ ards" they may bring that ob­ jection before the board for a full public hearing. The Secretary of Labor would have the initial role in enforcing standards that the board estab­ lishes. He would bring com­ plaints of violations before the board. If the board determined a violation exists it could issue orders the Secretary could seek to enforce in court. In some sit­ uations, the Secretary would be allowed to go directly to the \Reinibliran Highway Leads Bark to LBI SACRAMENTO, Calif. —stretch of new highway in the Los Angeles area was named the Richard M. Nixon Freeway in a resoluI tion passed by the California j State Assembly—^but far­ mer President Lyndon B. Johnson had the last laugh. During ceremonies nam­ ing the freeway, near Nixon's home town of Whittier, Republican Assembly­ man John V, Briggs point^ out that the Democrats had not been forgotten. "It takes you directly to the Lyndon B. Johnson off-ramp," he noted. courts. Violation of the standards would be subject to a fine of up to $10,000, and the board would be authorized to ban employer violators from government for the next three years. The legislation would encour­ age the states to adopt their own health and safety regulations if they were as strict as the federal standards. The federal stand­ ards would continue to apply in states not producing board , ap­ proved plans. The standards set by the board would apply to all em­ ployers except for federal, state and local governments and ag­ riculture employers who do not use more than 500 man-days of hired labor a year. A National Advisory Com­ mittee on Occupational Safety and Health would be set up to advise the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health, Ed­ ucation and Welfare in adminis­ tering the law. Nixon, in his message, ob­ served that "few people realize the extent of needless illness, needless injury and needless death which results from unsafe or unhealthy working condi­ tions. "Every year in this country some 14,000 deaths can be at­ tributed to work-related injuries or illnesses. . . . "It is interesting to note that in the last five years, the num­ ber of man-days lost because of work-related injuries has been 10 times the number lost be­ cause of strikes." The President emphasized that the "most important conse­ quence" of losses due to sick­ ness or accidents on the job is the "human tragedy" that oc­ curs through the suffering of the worker who is struck down and his family. "In addition," he said, "the economy loses millions of dol­ lars in unrealized production and millions more must he used to pay workmen's compensation benefits and medical expenses." Federal Safety Law Signed; Covers Construction Workers WASHINGTON — The first and Dominick V. Daniels (Dfederal job safety law covering N.J.). nearly four million building They stated that 2,800 con­ trades workers was signed by struction workers were killed President Nixon last month. on the job in 1968—reflecting "This legislation is the first "the hi^est death rate for in­ major labor bill to be approved dustry in the United States." by the 91st Congress, and the Implementation costs, Hagfirst of your Administration," gerty declared, will be "mini­ President C. J. Haggerty of the AFL-CIO Building and Con­ mal when compared to the lives struction Trades Department that will be saved and the need­ noted in a message to the Pres­ less disabling injuries which will ident. be prevented." The law provides that no con­ tractor or subcontractor on fed­ eral or federally-assisted proj­ ects may require any laborer or mechanic to work under condi­ tions that are "unsanitary, haz­ ardous, or dangerous to his health or safety." Standards are to be set by the Secretary of La­ bor after public hearings. Previously, federal construc­ tion workers were covered only by the Davis-Bacon Act, requir­ ing payment of the prevailing wage. Other groups of govern­ ment contractors—suppliers and service contractors—are re­ quired by law to provide safe and healthful working condi­ tions. Haggerty pointed out that this is the first federal safety law aimed at protecting construction workers and suggested that it would "set a pattern for future federal safety legislation." PITTSBURGH — The Steelworkers have reached agree­ ment with 11 basic steel compa­ nies on an "earnings protection" plan for 400,000 workers in the industry who may be hit by pay losses due to automation, tech­ nological changes, or other eco­ nomic factors. The plan, agreed to in prin­ ciple in last year's contract settlement between the union and the employers, became ef­ fective for benefit payments Au­ gust 1, USWA President I. W. Abel said. It is financed by a fund into which the companies have been contributing 2 cents for each man hour worked in the mills by union members since last January 1. Abel said the financing plan will provide quarterly income benefits equal to the difference between the average hourly earnings of an employee in any quarter-year and 85 percent of his average hourly earnings in the previous four quarters of the year. A worker whose income has been reduced will continue to receive quarterly payments as long as his average quarterly earnings are less than 85 per­ cent of his average earnings in the preceding four calendar quarters, the plan specifies. Other features include a pro­ vision that payments will be included in computing base pe­ riod earnings, thus enhancing the benefits. General wage in­ creases will be "neutralized" under the plan to make benefits payable in' addition to any gen­ eral wage boost. The benefits also will be counted in calculating vacation and pension income. Benefit payments will be made auto­ matically, without the need for filing an application. Abel said the union has ne­ gotiated several other income maintenance programs for mem­ bers but the basic steel plan introduces "some totally new concepts." "This new program repre­ sents a genuine breakthrough toward the achievement of our long-desired goal of safeguard­ ing the earnings of union mem­ bers who may suffer economi­ cally because of constantly changing operating conditions in the industry," he said. The new plan provides the "most massive coverage" ever devised by unions and manage­ ment to soften the impact of pay cuts on employees hurt by job changes, according to Abel. The parties to the plan tried to ac= count for "all possible contin­ gencies" to protect earnings and meet the needs of steelworkers, he said. Negotiating committees were headed by Paul J. Passer, Jr., for the union and Vice Presi­ dent C. T. Spivey of the United States Steel Corp. for the com­ panies. USWA District Direc­ tor William Moran and Joseph Senturia, union consultant, also participated. The companies besides U.S. Steel are Bethle­ hem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Armco, Jones and Laughlin, Colorado Fuel and Iron, National (Great Lakes) Steel, Inland Steel, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and Allegheny Ludlum. Sponsors of the legislation in­ cluded Senators Harrison Williams (D-N.J.); Jacob Javits (RN.Y.); Ralph W. Yarborough (D-Tex.) as well as Representafives Carl D. Perkins (D-Ky.) federal law covering job safety fqr nearly four million building trades workers is signed by President Nixon. Among those at the ceremony were, from left, President Edward J. Leonard of the Plasterers and Cement Masons and President C. J. Haggerty of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz is second from right. Haggerty proclaimed it the first labor bill of importance to be passed by the 91st Congress as well as the Nixon Adrninistration. �September, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Fifteen LOG il jfIS • T fe''-. : I'&" - HE UPGRADING PROGRAMS at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship were established to fulfill two important needs: to satisfy the Union's contractual obligation to provide qualified crewmembers to man the ships; and to provide the necessary training to give Seafarers the opportunity to move up to higher-paying ratings. The program has been successful on both counts—The Union has maintained its proud record of never having an SlU-contracted ship unable to sail because of a lack of rated personnel, and many hun­ dreds of Seafarers have advanced to better jobs on deck and in the engine room. The upgrading programs for both AB and Q.M.E.D. candidates is thorough. They are designed to produce not merely endorsements, but a real proficiency in the ratings. The AB training program (a picture story of both AB and Q.M.E.D. training will appear in the next issue of the LOG) includes both class­ room and practical instruction under qualified Seafarer instructors. All AB upgraders have at least six months seatime and hold a yalid lifeboat ticket before they begin their training, which includes knottying, splicing, wheel commands, rigging, safety at sea, and all other aspects of seamanship. Pictured above on the-stern of the Claude "Sonny" Simmons is the AB upgrading class which graduated August 18. Standing (l-r) are Fred Legg, Paul Giordano, Dennis Rowland, James Hotsko, and Rob­ ert Meredith. In the front row are Andrew Stortroen, Johnnie McClinton and Joseph DeJessa. The AB upgrading graduating class of September 4 are seen above with Instructor Chuck James. In the top row (l-r) are James, J. Dermody, T. Burke, E, Tsatomiros, L. Green, and A. Derosier. Front row (l-r) are W. Casey, J. Warren, B. Schultz, A. Marcum, and J. Glover (lifeboat endorsement only). George Jordanides, Mark Hansen and Askold Smits take their oral examina.tion for able seaman with Chief Jennings Elbon, from the US Coast Guard headquarters in Baltimore. The exam took place aboard the HLSS training ship Claude "Sonny" Simmons, which is berthed at Piney Point. Rafael Lugo James Barce Ruben Maranje Howard Levine William Plasky Ferdinand DeLeon �Page Sixteen SEAFARERS LOG September, 1969 Advance Seamanship Pn^ram Offers Full Book Seniorit/^ A TOTAL OF 63 Seafarers have achieved seniority up­ grading to full book membership in the SIU since the upgrading program was resumed in January, 1969. The Advanced Seamanship program provides all qualified B" book members an opportunity to upgrade their seniority and their professional skills through a training program set up at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland. The courses of study during the month-long schedule include advanced training for rated personnel in the deck, engine and steward deparlments under the guidance of highly qualified and experienced Seafarer instructors. Advanced Seamen also receive a thorough education in all aspects of their Union. Included in the course is a detailed examination of the SIU constitution; the contract; a history of the SIU and the American labor movement; the SIU pension, welfare and vacation programs; and the function of Union meetings. To qualify for the Advanced Seamanship program, appli­ cants must be graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship; have a valid lifeboat ticket; hold a Coast Guardendorsed rating, and have a minimum of 12 months seatime aboard any SlU-contracted vessels. •liiii §is| •••ti S,! CLASS OF FEBRUARY '69—Daniel Butts, Jr., John Coates. Pedro Gonzalez. Klaus Ahmels, Jonathan White, Salvatore Brunnetti, Jimmie Garner, Bjorn Gislason, Charles Howell, Nick'Kratsas, Thomas Leavey, Maurice Lipitz, William Lowry, Harmut Schultz, Edward Sekella, William Showers, Herbert' Thrower, and Robert Vinson. 1 V" • '..'.i i.. -. CLASS OF APRIL '69—William Slayton, William Jefferson, Leonard Pelettiere, Joseph Johnson, James Goggins, Mi­ chael Chiglo, Jessie Greer, Rudolph Odom, J. Thomas, G. Smith, E. Gibbs, Billy Taylor. > 'I ......... �September, 1969 SEAFARERS CLASS OF JULY '69—^Taking the oath of allegiance as full book members of the SlU are (l-r) John Doran, Erick Sbrensen, Robert Hester, Arthur Wills. CLASS OF JUNE '69—Eddie J. Williams, Jay San chez, Anthony Orzo, Ernest Haitt, and Leonard Hild ing. The new full book members were installed dur­ ing the regular June meeting at the New York hall CLASS OF AUGUST '69—(Back l-r) Harry Alex­ ander, George Williams, Alan Kagey, Dick For­ rest, Warren Sketoe. (Front) Fred Columbus, Tom Reno, James Williams, Sandy Seabrook, Henry Batch. ^ . 'VC, ' LOG Page Seventeen CLASS OF SEPTEMBER '69—Newly-installed full book members of the SlU, Fred Grudzinski, John Erickson, and Robert Leight, listen as SlU Presi­ dent Paul Hall tells them of the importance of taking an active .part in the affairs of their Union. Installation took place at the New York hall. �Page EiglileeB Lifeboat training at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point includes instruction in basic knot-tying. Instructor Tom Brooks takes his class aboard the yawl Manitou to demonstrate the proper way to bend the five basic knots and hitches on a ship. 570Endorsed For LUeboat AtHLSS SEAFARERS LOG September, 1969 CLASS jj^l?—(Front row, l-r): Wayne Flanker, James McEnerey, Donald Willie, Joe Townsend, Ray Ward, Philip Brady, Joseph Darden, Gary Bennett. (Top row); Bruce Williams, Leonard Jones, Jorge Rivera, Wallace Hoyt, Earl Wilson, John Wright, Reginald Johnson, John McClenton, Ernest Taylor, Henry Odon, Barney Spears, Melvin Lipscomb, Alfred Cordes, J. Murray. In background is Claude "Sonny" Simmons. M ORE THAN 570 trainees and upgrading Seafarers have been awarded lifeboat endorsements during the past five months after completing an intensive period of classroom and practical instruction at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland. In the last five graduating classes—covering the period of August 6 to September 3—a total of 145 trainees and upgraders have qualified for their Coast Guard endorsement. Examinations— both written and demonstration—are given by the Coast Guard every week, with an average of more than 25 candidates taking the tests each week. Preparation for the examinations are thorough. Under the expert supervision of experienced SIU instructors, every -candidate will spend at least 30 hours of supervised training in a lifeboat, both at the oars and as acting coxswain. In addition, each candidate will be required to participate in a minimum of 14 hours of classroom experience before he will be permitted to take his examination. Qass lectures include detailed descriptions of lifeboats, liferafts, and launching gear, as well as the description, location and use of all equipment required on lifeboats and liferafts. Lectures and demonstrations are also provided to familiarize the student with the types and use of various fire fighting equipment. To provide additional help to students who are having difficulty with the material, the instructors schedule special two-hour review sessions in the evening. The HLSS lifeboat training program has proven to be highly successful. To date, every trainee and upgrader who has completed the course has passed the Coast Guard examination and received his endorsement. The program is also contributing to the success of the Union's goal of continuing to provide qualified personnel to man all SlU-contracted vessels throughout the world. CLASS #18—(Front row): Steven Tobias, Kenneth Nessel, Ronald Archibald, Francis Ginorio, Tim Venable, Jerrol Lafleur, Aron Fore, Melvin Smith, Lawrence Paxton. (Second row): Luther Bailey, Thomas Kilbride, David Vaughn, Steven Venus, David Williams, Roger Anselmi, Ronald Beck, Paul Domes, Samuel Knight, Jr., Richard Ciuzio. (Third row): Paul McGaharn, instructor, Stephen Hamilton, John Boytos, Salvatore Cavalcante, George Murray, Daniel Lucas, Curtis Dentin, Thomas Carlise, Louie C. Arnett and Robbie White. CLASS #19—(Front row, l-r): John Cranmer, Bobby D. Sturgill, Jose Torres, Joseph Cutrer, Albert Timmons, Thomas Brewer, Carl Sandifer. D. Relendes, Bob Lackey, Robert Carver. (Back row): Instructor Paul McGaharn, Richard Speicher, Nathaniel Tune, Rodney Caron, Terry Meadows, John Kelley, James S. Shaver, Irving Sepulvado, Christopher Horneman, Thomas McGuire, Frederick Hawkins, Ralph Bess, John R. McNeill, Charles Burthardt, Peter Skulski, Bill Ware, John S. Boone. The class graduated August 20. CLASS #20—(Front row, l-r): T. Boothe, L. Utterback, J. MIcucci, B. Weitzel, T. Young, T, Packer, G. Morran, L. Fluker, J. Steilberg, M. OToole. (Second row): B. Greer, L. Johns, L. Ewing, J. Steinberg, A. Jordan, M. Smutek, E. Townsend, D. Sisk, P. Doval, G. Redfleld. (Top): Paul McGaharn, G. Smith, P. Butler, D. Morris, G. Showers, J. Meld-, inger, R. Young, R. McGowan, R. Brennan, C. Brinkley, H. Dillingham, E. Schwimmer. CLASS #21—(Front, l-r): W. Spiers, W. Arbogast, J. Collier, K. Hardman, W. Adams, J. Cerva, W. Palmer, P. Stewart. (Second row): P. Joseph, A. Burroughs, E. Rokicki, R. Hano, D. Mornin, E. Stacey, W. Rece, M. Boyd. (Third row): G. Deavers, B. Buffalo, H, Meehan, G. Curry, J. Buck, G. Gentner. (Fourth row); S. French, L. Kreisler, P. Keohane, C. Whatley, W. Cox, J. Bourg, M. Baily, J. Williams. (Fifth row): M. Goessel, C. Cun­ ningham, J. Klugh, P. Falls, T. Heruska, R. Alexander, D. Snipes, and E. Kuntze. �September, 1969 SEAFARERS Relaxing Time on the Choctaw I. Talcing it easy during a recent voyage of the Choctaw is this group of engine department Seafarers. Relaxing in the fo'csle while they wait for evening chow are. left to right, John Appleby, oiler; Chris Jaquez and Lewis Hertzog, wipers, and Jackie Salo, FWT. SlU Deck Officers School Upgrades 4 More Seafarers The names of four more deck department Seafarers have been added to the growing roster of men who have earned deck officer's licenses after complet­ ing the course of study offered at the upgrading school jointly sponsored by the SIU and the Associated Maritime Officers Union. These latest graduates raise to 54 the total number of men who have received their deck officer's license after attending the school and passing their Coast Guard examinations. The new deck officers are Ami Bjornsson, Edward Hecox, Joseph Renault, and Frank Throp. Ami Bjomsson, 42, was bora in Reykjavik, Iceland and joined Bjomsson Throp the SIU in the Port of New York in 1947. Brother Bjornsson is well known by many Seafarers because of his long service as an instructor at the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship from 1962-67. He has had a hand in helping to launch many a young Seafarer on a career in the merchant marine while at the school. Bjornsson now holds second mate's papers. Frank Throp, 44, was bom in Canada but now lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife Margaret. Brother Throp joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1949 and sailed as a bosun before being accepted to the mate's training school in Sep­ tember, 1968. After completing the comprehensive course of in­ struction offered at the school, he successfully passed the Coast Guard mate's examination in May and is now sailing as a second mate. Joseph Renault, 49, has been sailing with the SIU since 1952. A native of Montreal, Canada, he now makes his home in Willingboro. New Jersey, with his wife, Claire. Brother' Renault entered the SIU-AMO-sponsored mate's training school in November, 1968. Re had sailed as a bosun before embarking on the course of instmction. After passing the Coast Guard mate's examination in July, he is now sailing as a second mate. Renault Hecox Edward Recox, 49, was bom in Cleveland, Ohio, and has been sailing with the SIU since 1956. Re lives in Seattle, Wash­ ington, and sailed as an AB be­ fore being accepted to the mate's upgrading program in Decem­ ber, 1968. Brother Recox passed the Coast Guard's li­ censing examination last month and is now sailing as a second mate. The training program, oper­ ated under a reciprocal agree­ ment between the SIU and the Associated Maritime Officers Union, is the first of its type in the industry. Applicants can begin training at any time. The period of in­ struction is geared to each stu­ dent's individual ability and knowledge, and his preparation for taking the examination. The training program—like the engineer's upgrading pro­ gram—was instituted in line with the SIU's objective of en­ couraging and assisting unli­ censed personnel to upgrade themselves. Seafarers can participate in the course of instruction at no cost to themselves. They will fie provided with meals, lodging and subsistence payments of $110 a week while they are in training. Deck department Seafarers who are interested in taking ad­ vantage of this training program may apply at any SIU hall, write directly to SIU headquar­ ters at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York IT 232, or telephone the school at (212) 768-0561. LOG Page IVineteen Prime Need for Pharmadst Mates Seen In SIUNA-SOA Barked Study NEW YORK—By providing prompt and adequate shipboard medical treatment for ailing or injured seafarers through the in­ creased use of qualified purser pharmacist mates, much of the needless medical hardship pres­ ently endured by seamen could be eliminated and millions of dollars in medical costs could be saved annually, according to a report prepared by a maritime research firm. The study, commissioned by the SIUNA-affiliated Staff Offi­ cers Association and conducted by the Diebold Group Inc., over an eight-month period, states that at least one-fifth of the $80 million in medical claims filed yearly by American seamen could be entirely eliminated by the medical care purser-pharma­ cist mates can provide. At present, only a small num­ ber of the approximately 950 American-flag vessels engaged in foreign trade have qualified purser-pharmacist mates aboard. According to the report, the vast majority of American-flag vessels provide only a "modi­ cum" of shipboard medical care for seamen through the services of deck officers whose medical training is limited toc first aid courses. Modest estimates reveal, the report continues, that shipown­ ers can effect direct savings of $16 million per year by supply­ ing on-board medical care through qualified purser-phar­ macists mates. The report—conducted in co­ operation with the U.S. Public Health Service—also asserts that the govemment could save as much as $1 million annually at the USPRS hospitals which care for sick and injured seamen if shipboard medical care services are made more widely available in the merchant fleet. Additional savings through a reduced need for subsidy pay­ ments on medical claims and other indirect payments could alsa be realized, the study indi­ cates. Presently, the only source of shipboard medical care for the entire merchant fleet is provided by some 150 pharmacist mates. The appraisal of the state of medical care in the fleet resulted from an evaluation and cost analysis of the Staff Officers' As­ sociation Pharmacist Mate Training Program which is con­ ducted at the U.S. Public Health Service hospital, Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y. The SOA, the union repre­ senting ships' pursers, provides candidates for the pharmacist mate school. Purser candidates Foreign Flag Ships Described As 'Beating Our Brains Out' WASHINGTON — Foreign shipping lines are "beating our brains out" not only for com­ mercial cargo but foi govern­ ment-sponsored shipments that, by law, are supposed to be "re­ served primarily for Americanflag ships," Representative Charles S. Joelson (D-N.J.) de­ clared here recently. The New Jersey lawmaker said that although Cargo Prefer­ ence laws provide "that a min­ imum of 50 percent of our for­ eign aid shipments and our agricultural surplus shipments must travel on American ves­ sels," the U. S.-flag fleet actu­ ally is carrying "substantially less" than that amount. Joelson told a meeting spon­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department that government agencies are inter­ preting the cargo laws to make the 50 percent minimum a "ceil­ ing," and thus are "undoing the Congressional mandate" ex­ pressed in the original legisla­ tion. As a result, "American vessels are being forced into layup because they don't have cargo to carry." The Congressman said he had joined with 80 other members of the House and 5)enate in sponsoring legislation that would rewrite the existing laws so that "they achieve what the name implies — preference for American-built, Americanowned and American-manned ships—and not preference for ships flying the flags of other nations." The pending legislation, Joel­ son said, would put foreign-flag ships "at the bottom of the list." Re added: "Under any sensible interpre­ tation of Cargo Preference laws, that's where they belong. They should carry government car­ goes only when all other alter­ natives have been exhausted. "Today, the maintenance of our position as a major trading nation rests on the revitalization of our American-flag fleet—our balance of payments is affected, for good or evil, on whether our goods move in American ships or the ships of other nations— and our national defense still is linked irretrievably to our mer­ chant marine, which serves as our fourth arm of defense." "The American merchant marine has loyally served this country all these years — from 1789 to now," Joelson declared, and added that now "it is time the country served the merchant marine." for the school are selected by a panel of doctors and receive nine months of intensive medi­ cal training from Public Health Service doctors and nurses. The purser-pharmacist mate training program was establish­ ed largely through the efforts of SIUNA Vice President Burt E. Lanpher, secretary-treasurer of the SOA. It is financed by the SOA's Welfare Plan, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Department of Labor. The third class of SOA Phar­ macist Mate Training School graduates—consisting of 27 men and one woman—has already been graduated. The school, opened in 1967, provides each pharmacist mate candidate with over 1,(X)0 hours of both aca­ demic instmction and clinical experience. An independent study of worldwide maritime medical care conducted earlier this year by the SOA disclosed that the American merchant marine is seriously lagging behind all of the fleets of Westem European countries, Russia and Japan, in providing competent shipboard medical care. Among the several areas in which the study found that direct savings through the use of phar­ macist mates could occur were: Reduced Shipboard medical ex­ penses, reduced time lost due to hospitalization, decreased medi­ cal insurance costs and savings in claims for personal injuries. These areas, among others, would amount to an estimated total saving of $16,000 per ship per year. Uruguay'Vigia' Always on Top Of Ships at Sea MONTEVIDE O-^ A lonely man in a tower from dawn to dusk—that's Orlando Simonetti, the offi­ cial watchman of Uruguay's capital. From high up in his small office atop the 19th floor of the historic Palacio Sal­ vo, Simonetti faithfully scans the mouth of the River Plate, spread out below on all sides. When a ship ap­ pears, the "vigia," as he is called, informs authorities of its impending arrival. Every few minutes one of his two telephones rings. People are forever calling to find out whether a ship on which a friend or relative may be traveling has yet appeared on the distant hor­ izon. �SEAFARERS Page Twenty September, 1969 LOG To Avoid Disastrous Recession: Rollback of Soaring Interest Rates Pressed WASHINGTON—More than 200 leaders from widely varying areas of American life have ap­ pealed for swift government ac­ tion to reverse the high interest spiral "if disaster is to be avoid­ ed." They unanimously joined in a statement asking the Adminis­ tration and Congress to take steps "before the grim toll of economic ressession is again ex­ acted from the American peo­ ple." The statement came out of an "Emergency Meeting on the High Interest Crisis" in Wash­ ington attended by representa­ tives of labor, farmers, consum­ ers, retired persons, coopera­ tives, housing and civil rights groups, and local governments. Several members of Congress pledged their fullest effort in line with the meeting's proposals. which were delivered to the White House through President Nixon's counselor. Dr. Arthur F. Bums. During a half-day meeting, speakers representing the partic­ ipating organizations testified to the "bitter hardships" being heaped upon citizens by the highest interest rates in 100 Speaking for labor was AFLCIO Vice President Joseph D. Keenan, chairman of the federa­ tion's Housing Committee. He also is secretary of the Interna­ tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The statement adopted by the meeting urged Nixon to voice his opposition to high interest policies and "use his great influ­ ence and power to bring a roll­ back in interest rates." Nixon also was called on to withdraw tax and loan accounts. on which no interest is paid to the govenunent, from banks that "refuse to cooperate and con­ tinue to raise interest rates." Further, the Administration was asked to investigate through the Justice Department the re­ cent action of big banks in rais­ ing the prime interest rate they charge their biggest and best customers to an "astounding" 8.5 percent. "The virtual unanimity of banks in adopting the higher rates strongly suggests the pos­ sibility of a conspiracy," the statement said. Congress, for its part, was called upon to pass legislation that will curb interest rates, and years. direct the Federal Reserve Board to sharply reduce the "ex­ orbitant" cost of credit. "Hight interest rates >are not Congress Warned of Housing Crisis Unless Money, Land Costs Go Down WASHINGTON ~ In the strongest possible language, the AFL-CIO has warned Congress that the nation is facing a des­ perate housing crisis because soaring money and land costs have priced most Americans out of the housing market. "As a nation we are not only falling short of the goals set forth in the 1968 Housing Act, but we are actually losing ground," AFI^CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller testified. Biemiller called for new pro­ grams of direct government financing of essential housing. And he urged that rehabilitation of run-down housing be under­ taken through large-scale opera­ tions involving thousands of units instead of costly small projects. He told a House Banking subcommittee that the labor movement wants "as much qual­ ity housing as possible, built at 'the lowest possible price, to serve the most people." The subcommittee is currently re­ viewing the functioning of the 1968 housing law which set a target of a steadily increasing volume of home and apartment construction and rehabilitation. Instead of rising, the rate of home construction is plunging, Biemiller said. In the past year, "the cost of money has moved from being a serious problem to that of a national disaster." For many Americans, the 36 percent jump in interest rates just since last December "represents the slamming of the bank door in their face, the end of their last hope for funds for adequate shelter." The AFL-CIO warned of the danger of rising interest rates in its testimony last year, Biemiller noted, and "painfully" labor's warnings have been proved valid. He urged that "if housing is to be the victim of our monetary policies, it must be given special consideration and shelter." Instead of competing for housing money at the bank, home financing should have "ac­ cess to the nation's credit," Bie­ miller said. He suggested a $3 billion di­ rect loan program to. help gov­ ernment and non-profit groups finance low and moderate in­ come housing. New Fund Source Some $5 billion in National Service Life Insurance Funds could be made available for veterans'* mortgages at a belowmarket six percent rate that would still provide a higher re­ turn to the fund than it now realizes. In addition, Biemiller urged, the Federal Reserve Board could be directed to purchase up to $5 billion in governmentguaranteed mortgages, thus freeing substantial additional funds for housing loans. He suggested new programs for land acquisition to curb the "strong upward price pressures" and greater emphasis on public transportation to open up lowcost land for government-as­ sisted housing. Public l\pusing still "does the best overall job of answering the needs of low income fam­ ilies" and should be expanded, Biemiller said. Above all, he stressed, hous­ ing needs can be' met only by volume production. He assured the subcommittee that "the AFL-CIO and the building trades unions have readily ac­ cepted and adapted" to ma­ terials changes and methods "aimed at faster, more econom­ ical building." Biemiller asked: "When do we really get started on meet­ ing the unpostponable housing needs of America?" ordained by nature," the state­ ment said. "They are man-made —made by bankers seeking greater profits and government unwillingness to take positive action in favor of the borrower and the public generally." "The tools to reverse the up­ ward trend of interest rates ex­ ist; we call for their use," it concluded. Keenan said the "grave con­ cern" of trade unionists about high interest rates is not diffi­ cult to understand. "Simply put," he stated, "excessive in­ terest rates are cutting our buy­ ing power and putting us out of work." He pointed out that interest rates are in the price of every­ thing the worker buys—^from food to the TV set, from the automobile to the price of hous­ ing or rent for an apartment. "So a rise in interest rates is a rise in prices." he said. "The bankers cut the buying power of our money." To show how serious this pay cut can be, Keenan cited a June 17 article in the Wall Street Journal which assembled gov­ ernment figures on the decline m a paycheck's buying power over recent months. The article noted that debate is growing over whether the economy "can survive today's record smashing interest rates without sinking into a reces­ sion." But, it added, many Americans already are in a re­ cession. Bankers must be told "in loud and clear terms: Enough," Keenan concluded. "The Ameri­ can people want no more of this bankers' game of Russian rou­ lette with the fate of our jobs and our paychecks." Other speakers included: • President Tony T. Dechant of the National Farmers Union, who said the farmer has watched Catching Up On The News WASHINGTON—High interest rates and rising medical bills are hurting the government's budget too. President Nixon dis­ closed. He ordered federal agen­ cies to slash spending by $3.5 billion this fiscal year to compensate for unpredicted expenses. Two of the biggest single items of "uncontrollable" added expense were the higher interest rates that the government has to pay on the national debt and the rise in Medicare costs. The Treasury recently had to pay an interest rate of close to 7.5 percent—^the highest in its history—^to borrow money on a sixmonth bill. "the storm of higher and higher interest rates grow until it now threatens the economic life of family agriculture." He added, "There seems to be no limit to the greed of bankers." • Erma Angevine, executive director, Consumer Federation of America, who said that debt is an ever-increasing burden to consumers "with interest pay­ ments on mortgages and install­ ment loans now exceeding 22 percent of the average consum­ er's after-tax income." • Clarence Mitchell of the National Association for the Ad­ vancement of Colored People, who charged that banking poli­ cies are creating "catastrophe in the area of housing"—nullifying government programs to help the poor obtain decent shelter. • John J. Gunther, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, who said high inter­ est rates are causing cities to put off the building of sewers, health centers, schools and hos­ pitals "because they can't afford to finance them." Appearing to voice support for the emergency meeting's pro­ gram were Senators Fred R. Harris (D-Okla.), William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Alan Crans­ ton (D-Calif.), and Chairman Wright Patman (D-Tex.) of the House Banking and Currency Committee. TaH fellows Toft In labor law Refmn Rep. Daniel Ronan, 55 Dies of Heart Attack CHICAGO — Representative Daniel J. Ronan (D-Ill.) died here of an apparent heart at­ tack at the age of 55, He was serving his third term in Con­ gress from a district including Chicago's West Side and an ad­ joining section of COok County. Ronan, who had a liberal voting record during his service in Congress, was a former mem­ ber of Local 7 of the Firemen and Oilers. Hixon Cats Budget By $3.5 Billion Relaxing at the New Orleans hall with the morning newspaper is Lauren Santa Ana of the steward department. A native of the Phil­ ippine Islands, Santa Ana joined Union in New Orleans in 1947. WASHINGTOPJ—The ghost of the late Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio)—co-author of the Taft-Hartley Act—stalks Capitol Hill once again. Representative Robert A. Taft, Jr. (R-Ohio) is chairman of the House Republican Con­ ference Research Committee which has set up a special task force looking into labor law re­ form. He named as the task force chairman Representative Sherman P. Lloyd (R-Utah) who has two "right" and 21 "wrong" votes on the COPE voting record. �September, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG ANNUAL REPORT STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES ASSETS For the fiscal year ended March 31, 1969 GREAT LAKES TUG AND DREDGE PENSION PLAN 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 u to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance De­ partment, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $ 136,082.89 (b) Employee 93,345.35 (c) Other (Specify) $ 229,428.24 (d) Total Contributions Dividends and Experience Sating Refunds from Insurance Companies Investment Income: (a) Interest 36,360.80 (b) Dividends 22,940.77 (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) 59,301.57 (e) Total Income from Investments 15,092.65 Profit on disposal of investments Increase by adjustment in asset values of investments Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Additions $ 303,822.46 7. Total Additions 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Carriers and to Service Organizations (Including Prepaid Medical Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Separately Maintained Fund 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants (Attach latest operating statement of the Organization showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Benefits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) .. 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc (Schedule 2) (c) Taxes (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) .. (e) Rent (f) Insurance Premiums (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) Schedule attached (i) Total Administrative Expenses 13. Loss on disposal of investments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of investments 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Deductions Item 1. Cash 2. Receivables: (a) Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) (b) Dividends or experience rating refunds (c) Other (Specify) Accrued interest paid on bonds purchased 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) (a) Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associa­ tions. (b) Stocks: (1) Preferr« (2) Common (c) Bonds and debv-ntures: (1) Government obligations: (a) Federal (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations .. (3) Nongovernment obligations (d) Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) (e) Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions) (Identify and indicate percentage of owner­ ship by this Plan in the subsidiary) (1) % (2) % .' 4. Real estate loans and mortgages '5. .Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) (a) Secured (b) Unsecured Q. Real Estate: (a) Operated (b) Other real estate 7. Other Assets: (a) Accrued income ................. (b) Prepaid expenses (c) Other (Specify) 8. Total Assets LIABILITIES Insurance and annuity premiums payable Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) Accounts payable Accrued expenses Other liabilities (Specify) Reserve for future benefits 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Total Liabilities and Reserves DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE •1 - End of End of Prior Reporting Year Year 19,633.60 $ 26,754.53 967.72 112.67 52,290.71 494,616.20 83,517.18 562,136.42 67,222.64 95,115.54 592,646.12 674,989.29 $1,227,376.99 $1,442,625.63 1,227,376.99 1,442,625.63 $1,227,376.99 $1,442,625.63 GREAT LAKES TUG AND DREDGE PENSION FUND ATTACHMENT TO THE ANNUAL REPORT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK $ $ Year ended March 31, 1969 38,076.49 Deductions from Fund Balance Item 12(h)—Other Administrative Expenses Stationery, supplies and printing Postage, express and freight Telephone and telegraph Equipment rental Employee benefits Miscellaneous Repairs and maintenance Tabulating service Microfilming Dues and subscriptions Miscellaneous Trustees' meetings expense Fees and permits 13,395.12 1,160.64 655.23 8,952.79 1,154.02 134.81 30.00 $ 2,908.44 37.82 342.52 903.99 776.64 860.88 198.96 13,457.01 242.86 80.85 185.55 15.33 $20,010.85 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Great Lakes Tutr & Dredge Pension Fund New York STATE OF COUNTY OF 20,010.85 45,493.46 5,003.87 Kings T$ 88,573.82 Employee RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE $1,227,376.99 303,822.46 88,573.82 215,248.64 $1,442,625.63 L gB f "• J ; • and , Triistees of the F^nd and j V '' V ' aflirm, under the penalities of perjury that the contents of this Annual Report are true and hereby subscribe thereto. Employer tx^^eex 16. Total Deductions 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Beginning of Year) 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities) Page Twenty One �<"••1 SEAFARERS Page Twenly Two ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended November 30, 1968 SEAFARERS WELFARE FUND 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbrevi­ ated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $4,132,602.15 (b) Employee (c) Otber (Specify) (d) Total Contributions 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest ? 168,643.63 (b) Dividends 69,652.31 (c) Rents 1,715.12 (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments ' 4. Profit on disposal of investments . 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of investments ^ 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) See attachment • 96,401.03 (b) Clinic services rendered to participating groups 241,053.33 (c) Total Other Additions 7. Total Additions $4,132,602.15 240,011.06 168,139.53 337,454.36 4,878,207.10 DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Car­ riers and to Service Organizations (Including Pre­ paid Medical Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Sepa­ rately Maintained Fund 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Par­ ticipants (Attach latest operating statement of the Organization showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) 11. Pasonents or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Bene­ fits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) $ 358",446.46 (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) . 21,611.43 (c) Taxes 18,179.25 (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) .... 78,805.12 (e) Rent 29,797.10 (f) Insurance Premiums 3,292.82 (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums 1,632.33 (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) See attachment 249,898.25 (i) Total Administrative Expenses 13. Loss on disposal of investments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of investments 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) Acquisition of fixed assets 39,922.13 (b) (c) Total Other Deductions 16. Total Deductions 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Be­ ginning of Year) 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) $4,878,207.10 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 5,104,965.55 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabil­ ities) •. (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) See attachment 49,817.99 30,833.70 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associations .. 796,072.71 1,448,090.17 b. Stocks: (1) Preferred 4,605.71 5,808.71 (2) Common 1,156,121.05 949,123.30 c. Bonds and debentures; (1) Government obligations: (a) Federal (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations .... (3) Nongovernment obligations 2,115,200.00 1,931,731.25 d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identity) (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions) 102,700.00 102,700.00 (Identify and indicate percentage of own­ ership by this Plan in the subsidiary) (1) See attachment % 100% (2) % 4. Real estate loans and mortgages 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured 1,500,000.00 1,300,000.00 b. Unsecured 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) See attachment 123,032.89 334,980.33 8. Total Assets $7,107,051.91 $6,806,586.01 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. - LIABILITIES Insurance and annuity premiums payable Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance Accounts payable (See attachment) Accrued expenses Other liabilities (Specify) See attachment Reserve for future benefits Total Liabilities and Reserves $ 320,414.67 246,001.51 8,453.57 9,159.28 6,778,183.67 6,551.425.22 $7,107,051.91 $6,806,586.01 ^ The assets listed in this statement must be valued on the basis regularly used in valuing investments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Department, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whicheiVer is lower, if such a statement is not so required to be filed with the U.S. Treasury Department. $3,151,658.28 STATE OP COUNTY OP NEW YORK ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SEAFARERS WELFARE FUND NEW YORK Tnuteet of th* Fond ud . 834,446.24 »fai«..«Bd« the peaalltira of prnjury that tkacoatanlaof this Anoual Report on tne enf hereby aabacrlbcthereto. 317,276.14 J( EaploTK rwlfuitM: f" i < SEAFARERS WELFARE FUND 761,662.76 39,922.13 $5,104,965.55 RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE ii September, 1969 LOG $6,778,183.67 226,758.45 $6,551,425.22 Part IV Part ly data for trust or other separately maintained fund are to be completed for a plan involving a trust or other separately maintained fund. It also is to be com­ pleted for a plan which: (1) Has incurred expenses other than: (a) Payments for unfunded benefits or (b) Insurance or annuity premiums or subscription charges paid to an insurance carrier or service or other organization; or (2) Has assets other than: (a) Insurance or annuity contracts or (b) Contributions in the process of payment or collection. Part IV—Section A Statement of Assets and Liabilities Seafarers Welfare Plan As of November 30, 1968 File No. WP-59298 ASSETS' « End of End of Prior Reporting Item Year Year I- Cash $1,259,501.56 $ 703,318.55 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) Attachment to 1968 New York State Insurance Department Annual Statement Year Ended November 30, 1968 Page 6—^Item 6—Other Additions Equipment rentals $ 29,273.44 Proceeds from sale of fixed assets , 3,563.78 Return of donated capital from wholly-owned corp 63,000.00 Miscellaneous income 563.81 $ 96,401.03 Item 12h—Other Administrative Expenses Tabulating service Stationery Postage Equipment rental Electricity Linen service Miscellaneous Telephone and telegraph Repairs and maintenance Cleaning Dues and subscriptions Employees benefits Port shipping activity report service Microfilming Licenses and permits Miscellaneous collection expense Trustees' meetings expense—miscellaneous Information booklets ". Temporary office help Maintenance of real estate Donation—Bluff Hospital Expansion Fund Drive, Tokyo, Japan 1 ' $ 79,784.90 43,713.54 1,418.91 22,179.49 568.40 198.43 25,368.80 12,233.72 6,660.74 819.26 :. 2,283.54 19,888.57 18,200.00 5,851.46 112.78 368.00 93.51 367.83 1,969.49 2,816.88 5,000.00 $249,898.25 Item 17 and 21—^Fund Balance Beginning of Year Reserve for welfare benefits for pensioners and their dependents Fund balance Reserve for future benefits End of Year $ 3,076,571.00 $3,821,306.00 3,701,612.67 2,730,119.22 $6,778,183.67 $6,551,426.22 (Continued on page 2S) v-ti �September, 1969 SEAFARERS Diggers Unearth Mystery Vessel At Building Site FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —A heavy plate on a capstan is the only solid clue to the identity of an old ship recently unearthed by bulldozers in this Florida re­ sort city, but maritime historians are hopeful they can solve the mystery of the vessel's origin and why it was beached. Diggers, beginning the con­ struction of an apartment house on a site about 1,000 feet inland from the Atlantic Ocean, turned up the rotting remains, includ­ ing planks held together by handhewn pegs, and the cap­ stan. The plate has the year 1899 inscribed on it and also the words "American Ship Windlass Co.," and "Providence, R.I." Researchers said there was no indication whether the numerals were a clue to the age of the vessel or only to some of the equipment aboard it. A check­ up established that there is no firm bearing the name "Ameri­ can Ship Windlass Co." still in existence in Providence, the cap­ ital of Rhode Island. However, historians from Mystic Seaport, a maritime mu­ seum in Mystic, Conn., have pointed out that the crest on the capstan is a duplicate of the crest of the State of Rhode Is­ land, which bears the slogan, "Hope." Meanwhile, longtime resi­ dents who were surprised by the old ship's discovery said they could not recall any stories of missing ships that might pro­ vide some solution to the beach­ ing of the mystery vessel. AM A Tells Government: Subsidized Lines Have Confessed Their Failure WASHINGTON — Subsi­ dized steamship lines have been charged with making "a confes­ sion of failure"—^by admitting Tfiat they cannot succeed against the foreign-flag competition they were created to meet— de­ spite government subsidies to balance their construction and operating costs with those of their foreign competitors. Even the granting of anti­ trust immunity, permitting them to carry cargoes at conference rates which are at virtually the same level as those of unsubsidized American-flag ships, has not produced the desired effects, the American Maritime Associ­ ation pointed out. The charge and the analysis were filed with Maritime Ad­ ministrator Andrew E. Gibson by the AMA, which represents operators of 240 unsubsidized American-flag ships. They were developed from an attempt by the 14 subsidized lines to an­ swer a previous AMA charge that they are reaping a "double subsidy" from the government —thus enabling them to com­ pete unfairly with unsubsidized operators and resulting in huge and unwarranted costs to the U.S. government. Subsidy Ruling Requested AMA had asked Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans to rule on the payment of direct subsidies to the subsidized lines for carrying government car­ goes, pointing out that this prac­ tice violated the Merchant Ma­ rine Act of 1936. The Secre­ tary has referred the matter to the Maritime Administrator. The "double subsidy" issue was previously raised by the AMA in testifying before the House Merchant Marine Com­ mittee on a new maritime pro­ cost of operation for unsub­ "The subsidized lines' ad­ gram last year. At that time it sidized ships as 60 to 62 per­ mission that they cannot com­ asserted that the subsidized lines cent higher than that for the pete successfully in the world receive not only direct subsi­ subsidized. market without continuing to dies from the government to Further, AMA declared, rely on large movements of equalize their costs with those figures quoted by the subsidized government cargo," the AMA of their foreign competitors but lines to show that unsubsidized statement concluded, "raises are also given preferential rates carriers earn higher profits were serious questions concerning —above the foreign-flag rates— not only faulty but "again draws the efficacy of the subsidy sys­ for carrying government car­ goes which are protected from attention to the whole ques­ tem and has grave implications tion of the efficacy of the sub­ for the continuance of tradition­ foreign competition. sidy laws." al policy." In the current reply, the AMA refuted three points in the subsidized lines' presenta­ tion to Secretary Stans. These were that the unsubsidized car­ riers receive more government aid than the subsidized lines, that the unsubsidized ships en­ joy lower costs because their operational patterns are less re­ Seafarer Hugh Gallagher, G-149, is now retired on an SIU stricted, and that they are indi­ disability and confined to a wheelchair with multiple sclerosis rectly subsidized, reaping higher —after going to sea since 1943. profits than the subsidized car­ An army veteran of the Korean conflict from 1951 to 1952, riers. Brother Gallagher needs letters from former shipmates to A study of the carriage of help him establish his claim to a veteran's pension on the government cargoes prepared grounds that his condition is service connected. He requests by MARAD in 1965 for the that all Seafarers who sailed with him in the deck department Congressional Joint Economic on the following ships during the periods specified contact Committee, AMA said, indi­ him. His address is 2610-40th Ave. W., Bradenton, Florida cated that the subsidized lines 33505. were paid more than half a bil­ The ships and the dates are: lion dollars in direct subsidies 2/24/53- 3/24/53 Simmons Victory and government shipping rev­ ii 4/28/53-- 6/23/53 Trinity enues. This was 43 percent "9/27/53 7/30/53-Alcoa Pegasus more than that received by all 1/11/54 11/ 4/53 Magnolia Mariner segments of the unsubsidized 2/ 7/54- 7/ 6/54 Morning Light fleet. 9/30/54- 10/22/54 Alcoa Pioneer 300% More Aid 10/26/54—11/ 5/54 Del Reo The study further noted that 11/29/54- 12/11/54 Del Aires when refinements made by the 4/15/55 1/13/55 Del Viento subsidized lines in their com­ 6/17/55 4/30/55-Seatrain Louisiana putations are accounted for, the 6/28/55-- 7/ 6/55 Steel Maker result brings the return in gov­ 7/21/55--11/ 6/55 Seanan ernment aid to 300 percent 12/22/55-- 3/13/56 Afoundria above that given to the unsub­ 6/28/56- 11/25/56 Orion Planet sidized companies. 4/13/58 12/27/57-Hastings AMA also cited statistics 11/ 8/58 7/21/58 John B. Waterman from MARAD's annual report 3/31/59 1/12/59 Jean LaFitte for 1968—also cited by the sub­ sidized lines—which show the SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN Attachment to Annual Report Form D-2 November 30, 1968 Part IV—Section A—Item 2 Other Receivables » Prior Reporting Year Year Great Lakes Seamen's Appeals Board $ 1,205.98 $ 701.12 Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Appeals Board .. 602.99 350.58 Seafarers Puerto Rico Division Welfare Fund 41,360.00 29,782.00 Seafarers Pension Fund . 6,513.60 —o— Seafarers Vacation Fund, Great Lakes District 135.42 —o— $ 49,817.99 $ 30,833.70 Part IV—Section A—^Item 11 Accounts Payable Due to Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship $ 1,455.05 $ —o— Due to Seafarers Vacation Fund 133.18 46,513.47 Due to Seafarers Pension Fund 293,065.50 199,488.04 Due to Welfare New York Building Corp 25,760.94 —o— $320,414.67 $246,001.51 Part IV—Section A—^Item 13 Other Liabilities Unapplied contributions Payroll deductions withheld New York City sales tax payable Seafarer Sends Out SOS To His Former Shipmates Welfare New Orleans Building Corp. Welfare Mobile Building Corp. (Continued from page 22) I. Page Twenty Three LOG $ 2,300.00 $ 449.96 6,153.57 8,697.42 —o— 11.90 $ 8,453.57 $ 9,159.28 Part IV—Section A—Item 3e—Subsidiary Organizations Capital Donated (Less Prior Reporting Name Stock Capital Reserve*) Year Year Welfare New York Building Corp. $ 2,000.00 $ 758,293.70 $ 753,293.70 $ 7,000.00 $ 7,000.00 Welfare Philadelphia Building Corp. 2,000.00 339,191.44 323,191.44 18,000.00 18,000.00 Welfare Baltimore Building Corp. 2,000.00 1,221,063.40 1,178,963.40 44,100.00 44,l0O.OO •It is the policy of the Plan to reflect its fund balance on a ;7,sh basis, therefore a resei-ve is set up representing fixed asets acquired by the Fund and donated to its corporations. The difference between donated capipil and respective reserve represents cash contributed for opeiating purposes. 2,000.00 1,035,730.16 1,017,930.16 19,800.00 19,800.00 2,000.00 200,409.41 188,609.41 13,800.00 13,800.00 $10,000.00 $3,554,688.11 $3,461,988.11 $102,700.00 $102,700.00 Individual filings of Part IV, Sections A, B and C for the foregoing subsidiary corporations will be made under separate cover. Part IV—Section A—Item 7c—Other Assets Advances to corporations— Welfare Mobile Building Corp $ 8,973.16 $ 26,973.16 Welfare Philadelphia Building Corp 17,784.09 30,284.09 Welfare Baltimore Building Corp 50,000.53 75,148.53 Welfare New Orleans Building Corp 45,216.11 79,664.07 Welfare New York Building Corp —0— 20,000.00 Travel' advances 800.00 —0— Security deposits 259.00 309.00 Fixed Assets (see attachment for reconciliation) Furniture and fixtures—Plan office 287,723.24 309,590.55 Furniture and fixtures—Detroit 10,733.48 10,733.48 Training facilities—Bayou Le Batre, Ala. ** 31,185.47 31,185.47 Medical and Safety Program facilities— Brooklyn, N. Y 95,927.20 97,273.47 Puerto Rico 67,493.02 68,050.39 Chicago, Illinois 316,.5.38.-32 321,450.47 New Orleans, Louisiana 46,926.34 46,715.09 Baltimore, Maryland 47,075.78 47,210.82 Furniture and fixtures—Blood Bank Program .. 558.78 780.36 Equipment—butports 3,190.40 5,597.40 Cemetery plots 833.30 833.30 Less reserve for fixed assets (908,185.33) (939,420.80) Advances to Seafarers Welfare Plan Clinic— Chicago, * 111 —0— 100,500.00 Insurance claim receivable —0— 1,304.76 Due from participating groups re Medical Clinic Services —0— 796.72 Total other assets $123,032.89 $334,980.33 ••Title to this property is in the name of the Welfare Mobile Building Corp., a wholly owned corpo­ ration ( ) Indicatw negative figure �SEAFARERS Page Twenty Four September, 1969 LOG Labor Expert Writes; SlU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Benefits Paid Report Period: July 1—July 31/ 1969 Number of Benefits SSAEARERS' WELFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medicare Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $484.35) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' VACATION PLANBENEFITS PAID (Average $430.38) TOTAL WELFARE/ PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD — 2/365 18 18 25 Amount Paid $ 58/299.56 43/722.74 465.00 5/000.00 364 1/830 10/915.00 88/746.49 529 839 4,647 7/946.02 8/390.00 36/266.00 10/635 259/750.81 1/395 319/947.00 1/825 785,449.89 13/855 $1/365/147.70 Workmen's Compensation Outdated; Strong Fedora! Standards Required WASHINGTON — Strong federal standards are needed to shore up the nation's antiquated workmen's compensation sys­ tem, an AFL-CIO staff expert emphasized recently in an in­ surance trade publication. A piyriad of state laws have "glaring deficiencies," some of which go all the way back to when the system was set up more than 50 years ago, writes James R. O'Brien, an assistant director of the AFLrCIO De­ partment of Social Security. O'Brien expresses labor's view in one of three articles on workmen's compensation and its outlook for the future in the weekly magazine. Business In­ surance. The other writers are M. Roscoe Lowery, president of the Use of Political Muscle by Retirees Can Help Secure Better Benefits LOS ANGELES —Political activity by retired persons is es­ sential to winning major im­ provements in social security benefits, AFL-CIO Social Secu­ rity Director Bertram Seidman emphasized. If the elderly will work to get out the vote and elect friends to Congress "they will have a strong ally in the labor move­ ment," Seidman told a confer­ ence of retired union members here. The conference on the prob­ lems and potential of retirees * was sponsored by the Los An­ geles AFL-CIO's senior citizen committee. More than 150 par» ticipants heard major addresses and engaged in workshops aimed at organizing retirees. Winston Churchill once said "you can measure the civiliza­ tion of a people by the way they treat their older folks," Seidman recalled. "By this standard," he added, "our nation flunks the test." "This judgment may seem a little harsh," he continued, "but not overly so if we see the statis­ tics not as impersonal digits but remember they represent human beings—in this case, victims of low income, poor health care, bad housing, inadequate recrea­ tion and inferior food and cloth­ ing." ; For millions of the elderly, the situation is one of "misery and loneliness—living out their lives in quiet desperation in a nation where youth is wor­ shipped," Seidman said. The biggest problem for the elderly is income and the largest income program for the elderly is social security, he noted. "Un­ fortunately," he said, "the im­ portance of its benefit is in stark contrast to its adequacy." He outlined the chief points of the AFL-CIO's recommended changes in Social Security in­ cluding an increase of payments by 50 percent in the next few years, and a minimum benefit of $100 a month for a single per­ son and $150 for a couple. The federation's program, he added, which would include ex­ pansion of Medicare for pre­ scription drugs and eye-glasses, "would virtually wipe out pov­ erty among social security ben­ eficiaries." While labor is doing its best to get the program through Con­ gress, Seidman said, "these ef­ forts will never be fully success­ ful unless we are backed up by a growing and politically active senior citizens movement." He expressed hope that there would be further expansion of political activity by the aged and cited the National Council of Senior Citizens as an example of the "expanding influence" of those over 65. Nelson H. Cruikshank, NCSC oresident, described his organi­ zation's drive for improved so­ cial security benefits and the role it played in helping achieve Medicare. Also on the list of the coun­ cil's achievements, he said, are programs established for insur­ ance, prescription drugs, legal aid and a number of government services for the aged. Cruikshank stressed that the council has supported programs that go beyond the elderly to benefit persons of all ages, such as minimum wage legislation, job training and consumer pro­ tection. "We are not a separatist group but a part of the main- stream of life sharing the same goals with many segments of so­ ciety," he declared. Other speakers included Dr. James Birren, director of the Center of Gerontology, Univer­ sity of Southern California; and Representative James C. Corman (D-Calif.). James Carbray, chairman of the Los Angeles federation's senior citizens committee, was chairman of the conference. International Association of In­ dustrial Accident Boards and Commissions, and Paul S. Wise, president, American Mutual In­ surance Alliance. Workmen's compensation was society's first major legislative response to the human and so­ cial needs of industrial and technological change, O'Brien points out. However, he adds: "After 50 years the results are disappointing. Technologi­ cal and industrial progress has proceeded at breakneck speed but state workmen's compensa­ tion laws have not kept pace." He cites examples of defi­ ciencies in such terms as these: • Depending upon your source, estimates of workers covered by laws "range from a low of 60 percent to a high of 80 percent." • A number of laws that al­ low employers to accept or re­ ject them and provide wide exemptions "are indefensible anachronisms in the system." • Strict limitations on med­ ical benefits contained in 18 state laws "are inexcusable" and limits on occupational dis­ ease coverage "in a like num­ ber of state laws is tragic." • Death benefits in too many states "utterly fail to provide adequate protection for a sur­ viving widow and children." • Disability benefits "are even worse" under the system with a majority of states pro­ viding payments so low that the family of the injured worker "is forced to live below the poverty level." Herald-Examiner Strike-Lockout Continues HffiRlDjXRMlMR ON STRIKE 600 DAYS "nmamm r" Cl' . In other areas, O'Brien points to a lack of permanent total dis­ ability benefits under many laws and harsh limitations on the duration of benefits that violate "the original intention of our workmen's compensation sys­ tem." He sets forth the AFL-CIO's program of minimum standards for state laws to include: Coverage of all workers and all occupational injuries and diseases, full medical benefits, rehabilitation benefits, benefits for the totally disabled for the period of disability, death ben­ efits for a widow until death or remarriage, choice of physician by a worker, double benefits for illegally employed minors who are injured on the job and max­ imum temporary total disability of not less than two-thirds of the injured worker's average weekly wage. The article describes some improvements made in the Fed­ eral Employees' Compensation Act by Congress in 1966 and pending bills to establish na­ tional standards and protect workers in certain industries, such as coal and uranium min­ ing. "All of these proposals," O'Brien declares, "stem from the conviction of responsible people that state legislatures cannot be relied upon to mod­ ernize the workmen's compen­ sation system." ' A greater federal voice in the system is needed, and it is "be­ ing demanded by injured work­ ers and their families," he con­ cludes. Lowery and Wise, while op­ posing federal standards ac- . knowledged deficiences in state workmen's compensation laws. Lowery said that the states must meet their responsibilities at "a more rapid pace." States that lag, he said, "must be made aware that the alternative to their inaction is strong federal legislation." Wise conceded that inade­ quacies in state laws require "quickly accelerated progress" toward improvement or there will be "burgeoning federal in­ tervention." ADOUA Anti-Uriott Employer i/tw: HiV'V''- Updated strike calendar at Los Angeles Newspaper Guild strike head­ quarters shows how long the strike and lockout continues at the Hearst Herald-Examiner. Daily chore is performed by Guild members. Fmed $250 Daily CINCINNATI—Bet you thought it would never happen. An employer here is being fined $250 a day for every day he refused to recognize the union of his employees. A higher court, however, has ordered a stay of the execution of the fine pending appeal. The employer is the Metro­ politan Housing Authority. The union is District 51, State, County and Municipal employ­ ees, representing maintenance men at 12 apartment complexes. �September, 1969 Five Seafarers were recently hospitalized from the crew of the Monticello Victory (Monticello Tankers), Meeting Secre­ tary Arthur Rudnickl writes. Ac­ cording to Ship's Delegate J. Gor„ - . ,. man, they are Rudmcki ^ j Schidtze at Bombay; E. Mastriannl and D. Payne at Yokosuka and J. Richards at Sasebo. The ship's treasury holds $20 Amer­ ican plus three Singapore dol­ lars. Brother Enos Ott was elected new ship's delegate upon Gorman's resignation. The meet­ ing was attended by 26 mem­ bers and chaired by Brother A. R. Haskins. AI> Raymond W. Hodges, ship's delegate aboard the Fairland (Sealand), re­ ports that the ship ran into a "little gale" whose winds reached some 120 miles per hour about two days before Hodges reaching Japan. Both vessel and crew weathered the storm fairly well, except for Chief Cook Robert R. Mortenp sen, whose left hand was badly cut during the ordeal. Brother Mortensen had to be hospital­ ized when the Fairland reached Japan, and unfortunately had to remain behind when the ves­ sel began her return trip home to Oakland, California. Some light damage sustained by the vessel during the storm was repaired while the vessel was docked in Japan. SEAFARERS Frank Smith, meeting chair­ man aboard the Seatrain Gemrgia (Hudson Waterways), re­ ports that some of the "oldtimers" aboard took time out during the ship's meet­ ing to acquaint several new members with some points of Smith shipboard proce­ dure and explain the various SIU welfare benefits. Brother Duane Mylar was elected to serve as ship's treasurer and im­ mediately began working on set­ ting up a ship's fund. The crew went on record with a vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for doing a really fine job on this voyage. Also noted was the full co-operation of the cap­ tain, mate and chief engineer in helping to keep things running smoothly on this trip. <I> John J. Doyle, meeting secretary, made a motion at a meeting aboard the Oakland (S e a-L and) which was sec­ onded by M. E". Sanchez, that the vacation plan be amended to give special con­ White sideration to service aboard containerships. The Seafarers suggested that containership companies pay a bonus of seven days per month, to be given at the completion of each voyage. There are no beefs and the ship's movie fund has $121. The men also felt that all hands should attend meetings and that the crew should con­ tinue to elect ship's delegates. T. J. White, ship's delegate, chaired the meeting at which 20 members were present. The crew of the Seafarer Meeting chairman Joe Col­ (Marine Shipping) was restricted at Res Shirkein, lins reports everything running Egypt, Meeting smoothly aboard Secretary Cliff the Del Mar o Mallory reports, (Delta Line te s.-is that he Inc.). Brother w M . jg sending a let­ Juan A. G. Cruz ter signed by the had to leave the customs officer. ship in Salvador, Also reported Brazil, and fly Hawcroft was that launch home to be with Collins his wife who was service in Bombay was held taken ill. A radiogram sent to down to one a day and that mail the crew by Brother Cruz was service from the agent was bad. received several days later Some overtime is pending. There thanking them for making it were 23 members present at the possible for him to make the meeting, which was chaired by flight home. All hands are happy Steward Delegate Elmer R. to learn that Mrs. Cruz is now Hawcroft. The crew is still in improving. A vote of thanks need of a new washing machine was extended to Brother Julius which was to be installed in Scbeidel, ship's delegate aboard Seattle prior to departure. Nor the Del Mar, for a job well done was the ship fumigated in Seat­ tle. in representing the crew. Page Twenty Five LOG William Rakestraw, second electrician. was elected ship's secretary-report­ er aboard the Steel Apprentice (Isthmian), Meeting Secre­ tary Paul Lopez _ writes. Rake'^hraw promises Lopez maybe pictures in the near future. Ship's Dele­ gate Anthony Torsado chaired the meeting at which 26 mem­ bers were present. After a dis­ cussion on the pension plan, the majority felt that a reduced pen­ sion should be available after 15 years or 60 quarters seatime and a full pension after 20 years or 80 quarters. T. Klinse is deck delegate; M. Eimar, engine dele­ gate and M. Caampued, stew­ ards' delegate. A vote of thanks for a job well done was given the steward department. Com­ plaint was made about the nonreceipt of LOGs and communi­ cations. A breakdown in the air con­ ditioning which lasted for 18 days was report­ ed from the Transcolumbia (Hudson Water­ ways) by R. Kalisli, meeting sec­ retary. Arthur Beck, ship's del­ egate, announced Beck the matter would be brought to the attention of the boarding patrolman. Beck chaired the meeting at which the 24 members present dis­ cussed the new wages. All hands were happy with the new scale, and are anxious to hear about new vacation and pension bene­ fits. James Fultz is deck dele­ gate; William H. Reynolds, en­ gine delegate, and Larry Trosclair, stewards' delegate. A mo­ tion was made by Reynolds to take up with the boarding patrolman the matter of the first assistant not returning the OT sheets to the engine department, leaving the men with no record of disputed OT. It was suggested that the stewards should not send the laundry ashore in Viet­ nam as it comes back just as dirty as when it leaves the ship. ^ Some crew members are working hard to put some of the old time salty traditions back into the trade— such as the gold ring in the ear— Meeting Secre­ tary William H. Rhone reports from the Pro­ Rhone ducer (Marine Carriers). "Jerry R. Evans has some left ear pierce jobs to his credit and more of his wonders have been promised after Bom- bay," Rhone writes. The ship is due to call at Durban next. All 24 members present at the meet­ ing, chaired by Brother Alfonso Armada, agreed that the quality of both the chow and the cooks was A-OK. Two menus for each table were asked for and granted. No beefs were reported. Ship's Delegate William E. Richardson announced that one crewmember, J. Thomas, left the ship in Freeport, the Ba­ hamas, because of personal rea­ sons. Seafarer Rhone says this is his first trip under the new wage scale and he sends con­ gratulations to the negotiating committee for a good job well done. "Now, let's do something about inflation, so I can keep some of it," he says. <I> The SIU Ship's Committee aboard the Overseas Explorer (Maritime Over­ seas) has com­ municated in a note to the mas­ ter its apprecia­ tion for his ac­ tions in diverting the ship to BerMorreale i"uda. Ship's e Delegate Gerald L. McCray announced. McCray was the meeting chairman, ac­ cording to Pete Morreale, who served as secretary, and he re­ ported, in response to a previ­ ous motion by Charles Ryan, Jr., that the chief mate is aware of all items on the repair list and has scheduled work on them by priority. The deck delegate reported some disputed OT to be taken up with the patrolman. One man was sick at Bermuda and put off there for medical attention, the engine delegate stated. The letter from head­ quarters to all "B" Book mem­ bers regarding seniority upgrad­ ing was read and posted. A mo­ tion was made that all of the Seafarers fill in and mail the pension questionnaire. The ship has called at Haifa and is due to pay off on the Gulf Coast. .1. The crew aboard the Taniara Guilden (Transport Commer­ cial) has donated $135 to the wid­ ow of departed Brother William K. Kenvin, ac­ cording to Meet­ ing Secretary J. G. Juvenal. Ship's Treasurer Rogg Eddie Rogg said there was $6.70 in the ship's fund and $626 in the movie fund. Serafin Milla, who was elected new ship's delegate, will check the uncompleted repairs as well as what's being done about the rusty and salty drink­ ing water. Henry O. Nuttig is deck delegate; F. A. Torres, en­ gine delegate, and Antonio H- noco, steward delegate. Kenneth Gahagan chaired the meeting. Captain Carl Ingman died at sea, John C. Hunt, meeting sec. • retary aboard ^ ^ the Transpacffic 1 (Hudson Water^ JLI i ways) writes. A motion was made at the meeting, at which 25 mem­ bers were pres­ Chillnski ent, that condo­ lences be sent to his family from the crew. William G. Cofone was meeting chairman. Ship's Delegate Theodore Chilinski re­ ported that two men were flown back to the States from Da Nang, South Vietnam. A beef about the mess hall air condi­ tioner was settled with the cap­ tain. A motion was made and carried that a bigger AC genera­ tor be installed to accommodate private air conditioners and re­ frigerators while this ship is on the tropic run. The master ruled that the crew could have their own, since some officers already enjoy this privilege. A motion was made that the whole ship be air conditioned; also that the watchstander in the engine room filling in for a missing man should get the missing man's wages plus overtime. The wage and overtime increase was re­ ceived in Da Nang. Everybody is extremely satisfied and a vote of thanks was sent to the Union negotiators. With 28 members at a meet­ ing aboard the Columbia Baron (Columbia SS) chaired by Jose Ortiguerra, a motion was made by Brother Walter Harris to elect a new ship's delegate and the Seafarers Ortiguerra then voted Brother Rafael V. Saldana to the post. Meeting Secretary Alton R. Booth moved, and Harris seconded, to extend a vote of appreciation to the Un­ ion officers for the new raises. It was also decided to exclude longshoremen from the crew mess room, which will be kept locked. M. C. Foster is deck delegate; Joe Kordicb, engine delegate and C. R. Breaux, stewards' delegate. No beefs were reported. WRITE XOJLW.E �Page Twenty Six SEAFARERS LOG Seafarer Praises Upgrading School Member Finds 'Personals' Helpful SIU Negotiators Praised for Efforts To the Editon I would like to thank the SIU for the opportunity of at­ tending the upgrading school at Piney Point, Maryland. I went there to get my AB Ticket and was very im­ pressed with the school. It has to be the best in the mari­ time industry. I would like to thank AB Instructor Bob Garn for all the help he gave me. The day after I graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, I shipped out on the SS Berkeley Victory as an AB. I would again like to thank the SIU and a hell of a good teacher. Sincerely, George Jordanides San Francisco, Calif. To the Editon I want to thank the Sea­ farers LOG for running a personals column. It enabled me to contact my attorney in New Orleans promptly ^ter he placed a personal notice under my name in the Log. The personals column is a valuable service to the mem­ bership. Sincerely, Jerry L. Wolfe Oakland, California To the Editor: The advent of new wage gains in the three depart­ ments— namely, deck, en­ gine, and steward — in the new contract which became effective on June 16, 1969, is indeed good tidings for the SIU membership. In addi­ tion to the new wages, in­ creases in OT rates were gained by each department. Surely the membership is aware that all these things meant hard work and a lot of time and effort on the part of our negotiating committee and the officers of the Union. On top of all this, the membership did not have to strike to gain all the substan­ tial benefits in wages, OT, etc. In fact our negotiating committee does not stop after they have done their ^st to produce results good for the entire membership, but are still working to bring more beneficial results in the area of welfare, pensions and va­ cations. It therefore behooves the membership not to forget to say "Thank you very kindly," to our Union—and to the Negotiating Committee in particular—for an achieve­ ment well done. Let us hope they can bring us another good package in connection with matters still under ne­ gotiation. Sincerely, P. C. Esfel>an>—El—— 178 (ReHred) 4^ Promotes Maritime With Help of LOG To the Editw: I have had the privilege of receiving the LOG for some time. I retired from the sea in 1967 and I'm now working as a stationary engineer in New Jersey. I am a mem­ ber of various organizations —^Veterans of Foreign Wars, National Association of Pow­ er Engineers, Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union, and the International Union of Operating Engineers. I mention this because at every opportunity at the meetings of these organiza­ tions I try to promote our sadly depleted American-flag merchant marine. My being able to read the LOG is a great assistance in this activity. I hope I shall continue to receive it for a long time to come. Thank you, Allan M. Perry Jr. 4^ Seafarer Thanks Del Mar Shipmates To the Editon I would like to thank all of my shipmates and Union brothers on the SS Del Mar for their help rendered to me when I needed it so badly in Bahia, Brazil. It made it possible for me to be home with my wife when she was ill. There are no words that can express my gratitude for their help. Their thoughtfulness will dways be remem­ bered and appreciated. Once again, I thanlc every­ one for their help. Sincerely, Joan A. G. Cruz New Orieans, La» Th6 Editor Old Times Recalled^ With No Regrets To tlM Editor: Recently I retired on my SIU Pension and I could not rest until I could write of the contrast in the life of a mer­ chant seaman now with the time before there were un­ ions. Back in the '20s and the '30s you never knew whether you would get a job in a day or in a year. There were no union halls and when a ship came in you stood on a frozen dock while the mate picked his friends. If he thought you were a pro-union man you simply did not get hired. The food was terrible. After wrangling some of the slop from the galley you car­ ried it aft in tin cans. The biggest bully got the best food. You ate it where you could, and if the roll of the ship made you drop it you were out of luck unless you could fight for some more slop and get it. It was not unusual to work around the clock and who­ ever heard of being paid overtime? On those old steam tubs you could be put to work shoveling coal for six hours on and six hours off. In the winter time in the North Atlantic you spent more for warm clothes than you got in wages. The SIU changed all that. Today we have modem Union halls where a Seafarer can relax while waiting his turn to ship out. A fellow can read or trade stories with old shipmates. Not like the old dingy wooden stairways where the crimps charged you to get a job. Five years ago when I was almost totally deaf, the SIU paid for a blessed operation which restored my hearing. Now, in my old age I can live with dignity on an SIU pension. For all this I am grateml. Fraternally yours, Lawrence McCullough, M->338 <I> SIU Welfare Plan Boon to Member To the Editon I wish to thank the SIU Welfare Department for all the recent financial assistance they gave me. I don't know what I could have done with­ out the help of the SIU Wel­ fare Plan. It was extremely helpful when my wife passed away on August 1st in the John Sealy Hospital in Gal­ veston, Texas. Again, I want to say thank you for all of your help. Yours truly, Phillip F. Payne Woodville, Texas 4^ Another Boost For Welfare Plan To the Editon A note of gratitude and thanks to all for the wonder­ ful way that the SIU Wel­ fare Plan took care of my wife's doctor and hospital bills last August, 1968. It was truly a blessing not to have to worry about the extra expense. Sincerdy, Raymond E. Waterfield Norfolk, Va. September, 1969 Another Old-Timer Retires Christos Haulis, left, receives his first SIU pension check after closing out a long sailing career. Presenting the check is SIU Director of Welfare Al Bernstein. Brother Haulis last sailed as AB on the Sabine carrying a grain cargo on the long run to India. House Hikes Education Funds But Maims Anti-Bias Effort WASHINGTON — After three days of debate, the House nailed down a more than $1 bil­ lion boost in the Nixon Admin­ istration's education budget. But it also delivered a blow to school desegregation efforts. The Nixon budget called for $5 billion less for education programs this fiscal year than the school aid law authorized. The House Appropriations Committee increased Nixon's education requests by $123 mil­ lion. The House, in approving a $17.5 billion budget for the de­ partments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare, pro­ vided $894.5 million more than the committee recommended. The final vote, 393-16, upheld an earlier vote which put in the extra money. That key vote was 242-106. U sustained by the Senate, the school funds of $4.2 billion will be the largest provided in a sin­ gle year. Most of the additional money will go to aiding schools in federally impacted areas, schools in poverty areas, voca­ tional education and student loans. On the negative side, the House put into the bill an amendment sponsored by Rep­ resentative Jamie L. Whitten (DMiss.) which would prevent cut­ off of federal aid to school dis­ tricts that* refuse to comply with desegregation orders. House liberals fought a battle to knock out the amendment, which passed the House last year but was stopped in the Senate. They lost in a 157-153 teller vote. The Nixon Administration took no position on the amend­ ment even thou^ it was urged to oppose the restriction by a number of representatives, in­ cluding Representative Silvio O. Conte (R-Mass.). There still has been no comment ort the amend­ ment by the Administration. The House also approved an amendment calling upon col­ leges and universities to cut off funds to students who take part in campus disorders. Etewever, the clu-b would be left up to the educational institutions, with no federal enforcement included. The House also passed, by a voice vote, a bill to increase vet­ erans' educational training al­ lowances by an average of 27 percent. ITie measure, which aU so would boost the subsistence allowance for disabled veterans in educational training, would affect nearly 750,000 persons. Money Due Robin Line has advised New York headquarters that they are holding unclaimed wages for the following Sea­ farers; WiUiam R. MiDer, $36.40; E. W. Bartd, Jr., $27.99; Jeny W. DeOiiiger, $38; Alva R. Bafley, $104; Robert C. Antoni, $14,76; Wilbcm G. Haggu^ $23; Julian E. Smfth, . $96; Andrew Gireen, $509.71; Jo» J. Sosa, $101; Aicttls A. Smith, $1.35; R. C. Jones, $1; J<din P. White, $15.65. Seafarers listed should con­ tact the company as soon as possible at the following address: . . J-;:Mr. F. L;Haggerty, Man­ ager, Accouciting Services, Inc., 2 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10004. �SEAFARERS September, 1969 SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Hudson Waterwaysi, July 27 Chairman, Charles Reed; Secretary, James Car­ ter; Engine Delegate, W. Thompson; Stewards Delegate. W. McRae. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Ship needs to be fumi­ gated very badly HATTIESBURC VICTORY (Al­ coa), July 28 -Chairman, L. Englund; Secretary, E. Caudill; Ship's Delegate; Alan R. Smith; Deck Dele-gate, W. R. McClinton; Engine Delegate, P. Brooks; Stewards Dele­ gate, H. C. Mcf^urdy. Discussion held regarding poor mail service. Disputed OT in engine and steward departments. SS MISSOURI (Oriental), July 6— Chairman, William G. Rudd; Sec­ retary, S.'Sokolie; Ships's Delegate, William G. Rudd; Deck Delegate, Ernest Kolenorsky; Engine Dele­ gate, S. Sokolie; Stewards Delegate, Charles A. Donnough. Ship's delegate to contact patrolman about various beefs. Some disputed OT in engine department. Motion made that when a ship is on Persian run, the crew be allowed to pay off after 6 months, at company's expense, and his replace­ ment flown from the States. - . O^ BUCKEYE ATLANTIC (Buckeye), July 26—Chairman, John Bashan; Secrelafy, James Temple; Ship's Delegate, Charles Terry; Deck Dele­ gate, Lester W. Hall, Jr.; Engine Delegate, G. L. Saylor. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department to be squared away at payoff. MIDLAKE (American Bulk Car­ riers), July 20—Chairman, Albert R.. Wills; Secretary, Timothy Gallag­ her; Ship's Delegate, Albert R. Wills; Deck Delegate, W. Thomas; Engine Delegate, F. A. Lee; Stew­ ards Delegate, Victor T. Bonura. Matter of repairs to be taken up with patrolman. Vote of thanks to the 4-8 deck watch for cleaning mess hall in the mornings, and making good coffee. Vote of thanks to the entire steward department for a job well done. Some disputed OT in engine department. COLUMBIA TIGER (Columbia), July 13—Chairman, Edward A. Laroda; Secretary, Richard Smith; Ship's Delegate, Edward LaRoda; Deck Delegate, Bernard Lando; En­ gine Delegate, Joseph H. Lemento; Stewards "Delegate, Richard G. Smith. No beefs were reported by department delegates. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), June 22—Chairman, J. Lewis; Sec­ retary, E. Brown; Ship's Delegate, Jesse S. Lewis; Deck Delegate, Wil­ liam Guernsey; Engine Delegate, James Marsh; Stewards Delegate, Emanuel Gamil. Brother V. McCloskey was elected to serve as safety delegate and was given a vote of thanks for a job well done on previous voyages. Captain agrees to recognize all points of SIU con­ tract with crew. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. I'OTOMAC (Ogden), July 19 Chairman, A Horde; Secretary, W. J. McNeely; Deck Delegate, H. A Smith; Engine Delegate, H. A. Smith; Stewards Delegate, R. McKnight. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Page Twenty Seven LOG V A; MADAKET (Waterman), May 6 Chairman, Y Somani; Secretary, Leon J. Webb; Ship's Delegate, W. M. Stanley. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Michael Quillen, ix>rn July 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Virgil Quillen, Philadelphia, Pa. Eric Francis Gordon, born August 11, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard A. Gordon, Kew Gardens, Long Island. JOHN B. WATERMAN (Water­ man), July 26-Chairman, Joseph D. Blanchard; Secretary, F. R. Sul­ livan; Ship's Delegate, Donald E. Poole; Deck Delegate, John Robin­ son; Stewards Delegate, T. G. Beatraus. Motion made that vacation pay be paid according to a man's base pay. No beefs and no disputed OT. Leisa Gordon, Born July 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald J. Gordon, Cleveland, Ohio. Dennis Wong, born Novem­ ber 27, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs Eight Moon Wong, Provi­ dence, Rhode Island MADAKET (Waterman), August 3 —Chairman, Leon J. Webb; Secre­ tary, Edward Brinn; Ship's Delegate, W. M. Stanley; Deck Delegate, M. E. Leader; Stewards Delegate, William H. Little. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), July 6—Chairman, J. Lewis; Sec­ retary, E. Brown; Ship's Delegate, Jesse Lewis; Deck Delegate, Wil­ liam Guernsey; Stewards Delegate, Emanuel Lane. $20.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), June 29—Chairman, Stanley Jan Dora; Secretary, John Coyle; Ship's Delegate, Stanley Jan Dora; Deck Delegate, Romolo DeVirgileo; En­ gine Delegate, Daniel Butts, Jr.; Stewards Delegate, Russell G, King, $7.50 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. All members aboard ship ratify and urge the ratification of the new con­ tract. A unanimous vote of thanks to the negotiating committee, for a job well (lone. STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), July 13—Chairman, Harry Kaufman; Secretary, W. H. Simmons; Ships Delegate, George R. Wilkey; Deck Delegate, Edward J. Boadin; Engine Delegate, Albert G. Loo; Stewards Delegate, Donald Reiss. Ship _ is badly in need of repairs. No major beefs and everything is running pretty good. Ship's delegate thanked the crew for their cooperation in making this a fine voyage, vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. DEL ALBA (Mississippi), July 20 —Chairman, William A. Aycock; Secretary, Peter Gebbia, Jr.; Ship's Delegate William A. Aycock; Deck Delegate, Thomas L. Harrell; En­ gine Delegate, Norman Lightell; Stewards Delegate, John A. Schultz. Vote of thanks was extended to the negotiations committee for the new contract. $20.00 in ship's fund. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Hudson Waterways), July 13^—Chairman, Frank Smith; Secretary, James Thomas; Deck Delegate, Ronald W. Jones; Engine Delegate, A. L. Boone; Stewards Delegate, John W. Murphy. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. Ship's delegate reported that the Captain, Mate and Chief Engineer are giving their full cooperation to the crew. <1> Mark Fisher, bom April 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wiljiam S. Fisher, Corrigan, Texas; •—vl> SHIP CHAIRMEN SHIP SECRETARIES DEPARTMENT DELEGATES Seafarers on SIU ships around the world would like to have your crew share their experiences with them. You can do this by sending in any newsworthy, in­ teresting or humorous experience of members of the crew which con be published in the Seafarers LOG. Pictures are also wanted. Have your shipboard pho­ tographer snap some photos of the crew at work or relaxing ashore and send them to the LOG. (Be sure the photos are sharp and clear, and that everyone is identified by name and rating.) Shirley Lewis, born July 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James D. Lewis, Port Arthur, Texas. <1> Billy Boyd, born May 7, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Billy L, Boyd,_ Barnhart, Mis­ souri. Eileen and Marlene Albaugh, born July 11, 1969, to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Kenneth R. Al­ baugh, Ashland, New Jersey. ^ <1> Gail Follmar, born July 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Don­ ald A. Follmar, Houston, Texas. Jose Castell, born July 10 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose M. Castell, Playa Ponce, Puer­ to Rico. Tammy Broadus, bom March 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward L. Broadus, Mobile, Alabama. ^ Wiihert Freeman, bom July 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wilbert Freeman, New Orleans, La. — Robert Wiggins, bom June 12, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs, Cecil B. Wiggins, Theodore, Ala. -<I> Joseph Huszar, bom June 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph B. Huszar, Pasadena, Texas. Elizabeth Camarena, bora March 12, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Camilo C. Camarena, Houston, Texas. —— Tara Bird, bom June 12, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert B. Bird, Chicago, Illi­ nois. ^ Carmen White, born May 1, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James A. White, Jr., Salisbury, Md. <I> Terrie Lynn Dash, bom Feb­ ruary 2, I969f to Seafarer and Mrs. Freddie W. Dash, Talishuk. La. <l> NOTICE TD ALL 4/ James Brooks, born June 12, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Don­ ald S. Brooks, Jr., New Orleans, Louisiana. Virgil Meekins, born May 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James M. Meekins, Chesa­ peake, Va. ^ Jennifer Marie St. John, born May 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John St. John, Brooklyn, N.Y. ^l> Peter Middleton, bom Au­ gust 9, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Kenneth V. Middleton, Tampa, Florida. <1> Peggy Byrd, born August 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John T. Byrd, Winnfield, Louis­ iana. John Peter Wade Please contact William H. Young of Confidential Person­ nel Service at 1335 Emory Street, San Jose, California. — Ted M. Bojanowski Miss Bapatan Hack asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible at 3312 Sumter Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. Albert H. Rkhardl; Albert F. Knauff Please get in touch with Co­ lumbia Steamship Company as soon as possible in regard to your personal injury claims. Write to Mr. W. H. McDaniel, Claim Agent; Columbia Steam­ ship Co., Inc., 2300 S.W. First Ave., Portland, Oregon 97201. If more convenient, telephone collect: (503) 222-1681. — Richard Donald Tapman Your wife, Margaret, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 2000 Ramblewood Road, Apartment B, Baltimore, Maryland 21214. Jim Dryden Newton B. Schwartz, attor­ ney, asks that you get in touch with him as soon as you possibly can. The address is 500 Branard at Garrott, Houston, Texas 77006. <1> Robert C. Alexander Walker Please get in touch with your wife, Beatrice, as soon as pos­ sible. The address is 2032 N. 32nd Street, Philadelphia, Penn­ sylvania 19121. Ernest M. Jackman Please contact your mother, Mrs. Ella May Jackman, 416 Third Street, Portsmouth, Vir­ ginia 23704 as soon as possible. Perry Konis Please contact Leon B. Lipkin, Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York, New York as soon as possible. ^ Robert James Morgan Please contact your mother, Mrs. Beatrice Sutard, 10841 61st Avenue North, Seminole, Florida 33540 as soon as pos­ sible. • Frank Prendergast Please contact Bill Parker, 1531 Kimball Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11234 in regards to a sum of money due you. ^ Ben Martin Please send your mailing ad­ dress to Leo Kuladowski, P.O. Box 91, Trimble, Ohio 45782. — John A. Maples, Jr. Please contact Velma Jack­ son, 2411-45th Street, Galves­ ton, Texas 77550 immediately in regards to important papers that require your signature. <I> Dennis A. Kendrick Mrs. Thomas A. Lawrimore asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 1130 Shef­ field Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77015. Checks Being Held j Income tax refund checks i are being held for the Seai farers listed below by Jack 1 Lynch in Room 201, 450 I Harrison Street, San Frani Cisco, California 94105: Morris Berlowitz (Two Checks) ' Jesus Granados Charles R. Hummel Jr. iPao C. Lee (Two Checks) Robert MacMillan Bobbie E. McMichael �SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty Eight MOBILE (Sea-Land), July 13— Chairman, E. Hogge; Secretary, F. T. DiCarlo; Deck Delegate, K. D. Kenny; Engine Delegate, S. Harri­ son; Stewards' Delegate, Peter Vicare. Discussion held on retirement plan. Crew feels that 20-year bustout is the best. Vacation Plan also discussed. Vacation should be so many days pay a month according to rating held on ship. The days per T.ionth to be worked^^;iJt,by the Union. No beefs reported "by de­ partment delegates. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Hudson Waterways), July 20—Chairman, Jack Kennedy; Secretary, D. M. Woods. No beefs and no disputed OT. TRENTON (Sea-Land), July 21— Chairman, Dan Butts; Secretary, John Owen; Ship's Delegate, Thomas F. Delaney; Deck Delegate, Juan Reinosa; Engine Delegate, Jack C. Taylor; Steward Delegate, George Elliott. Motion made that the crew members on this vessel suggest that the Union form a panel of officials to check on any new (or conversions) ship plans that SlU-contracted companies come up with in reference to crew quarters. It is our belief that in this modern ' day and age. Seafarers are entitled to individual rooms on future ves­ sels. The company will benefit in many ways by having single foc'sles for all hands. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT. CHOCTAW (Waterman), July 13 —Chairman, Jack Yates; Secretary, A. L. Doud, Ship's Delegate, Frank Timmons; Deck Delegate, James Fisher; Engine Delegate, Louis Scheuing; Stewards' Delegate, John Indorf. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. ALCOA EXPLORER (Alcoa), July 13—Chairman, John C. Mc­ Donald; Secretary, John R. Roberts; Ship's Delegate, D. Coleman; Deck Delegate, Beit Keenan; Engine Delegate, Samuel L. Gibson; Stew­ ards' Delegate, Raymond J. Shonor, Jr. Motion made to have ship's dele­ gate write to Headquarters asking for clarification on the different rates of OT and pay. Some disputed OT in each department. DELTA BRASIL (Delta), July 6 —Chairman, Mike Dunn; Secretary, Willie Braggs; Ship's Delegate, Mike Dunn; Deck Delegate, Albert W. Saxon; Engine Delegate, Paul Thomas, Jr.; Stewards' Delegate, Leonardo Manca. Motion was made to accept contract as stated with the exception of the meeting offi­ cers. They should be elected accord­ ingly. Patrolman to check food sup­ ply and working gear. Vote of thanks to the steward department, especially crew messmen. Vote of thanks to the captain. Few hours disputed OT in deck department to be taken up at payoff. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Monticello Tankers), July 13—Chairman, A. R. Haskins; Secretary, A. Rudnicki; Ship's Delegate, J. (Jorman; Deck Delegate, V. Grima; Engine Delegate, Henri Bak; Stewards' Delegate, Emilio Barrito. Brother Enos Ott was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. ¥.20.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), June 29—Chairman, None; Secre­ tary, R. A. Van Cise. No beefs were reported by department delegates. $40.50 in ship's fund and $83.55 in movie fund. TRANSERIE (Hudson Water­ ways), July 20—Chairman, R. W. Elliott; Secretary, W. B. Yarbrough; Ship's Delegate, V. Hakkarain; Deck Delegate, George Forrest; Stewards' Delegate, R. W. Elliott. $40.00 in ship's fund. Motion was made that the crew refuse to sign on for one year articles unless they have the proper stores on board. Beef in engine department regarding chief mate doing pumpman's work. There have been no safety meetings on this ship. DEL MUNDO (Delta), July 20— Chairman, James H. Bales; Secre­ tary, Vincent J. Fitzgerald; Ship's Delegate, Willie G. Barron; Deck, Delegate, Benny Brinson; Engine Delegate, Augnstin Diaz; Stewards' Delegate, Freddie Baptista. Motion was made that normal retirement plan be worked out for members with 15 years sea time, regardless of age. Few hours disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isth­ mian), July 6—Chairman, William W. Stevens; Secretary, Paul P. Lo­ pez; Ship's Delegate, James Barnes: Deck Delegate, T. S. Kline; Engine Delegate, Marcelo Eimar; Stewards' Delegate, M. Caampued. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments to be squared away by boarding patrolman. CONNECTICUT (Connecticut Transport), June 28—Chairman, F. Foster; Secretary, E. Sylvester; Ship's Delegate, Louis W. Moore; Stewards' Delegate, Tobe Dansley. One oiler missed ship at Mobile. No beefs were reported by department delegates. AZALEA CITY (Sea-Land), June 22—Chairman, L. J. Pate; Secretary, V. E. Monte; Ship's Delegate, Roy Privette. No beefs and no disputed OT. NEWARK (Sea-Land), June 29— Chairman, Eddie Bonefonte; Secre­ tary, R. Hernandez; Ship's Delegate, Eddie Bonefonte; Deck Delegate, C. W. Maynard; Engine Delegate, G. Morales. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no dis­ puted OT. POTOMAC (Ogden Marine), June 14—Chairman, Charles Bedell; Sec­ retary, Henry C. McCullough; Ship's Delegate, Charles Bedell; Deck Delegate, H. A. Smith; Engine Dele­ gate, A. Shaw; Stewards' Delegate, C. Bedell. Discussion held regard­ ing wages and pension plan. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. AMERICAN PRIDE (American Sealanes), May 18—Chairman, Wil­ liam J. Meehan; Secretary, John L. Hodges; Ship's Delegate, C. E. Cor­ nelius; Deck Delegate, Vincent Sherwood; Engine Delegate, H. B. Jake; Stewards' Delegate, P. G. Vaughan. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. ANDREW JACKSON (Water­ man), June 29—Chairman, Frank Arana; Secretary, John Mims; Ship's Delegate, Warren M. LaPrelle; Deck Delegate, Chester C. Wheeler, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Frank A. Arana; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Abe Handleman. All is well in all departments. Motion was made to have negotiating committee put more emphasis on the early retirement plan, more so than va­ cation and welfare. Also, to have pension fund completely separate from welfare fund. ARIZPA (Sea-Land Service), June 22—Chairman, A. Rivera; Secretary, A. Aragones; Ship's Delegate, Alfonse Rima; Deck Delegate, Luis Rivera; Engine Delegate, L. A. Vila; Stewards' Delegate, Juan Guaris. Motion made to have a relief gang in Puerto Rico. Motion made that telephones be installed on board ship in all ports. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. ARIZPA (Sea-Land Service), July 6—Chairman, Alfonso Riva; Secret tary, Abraham Aragones; Ship's Delegate, Alfonso Rima; Deck Dele­ gate, Luis Rivera; Engine Depart­ ment, Juan Guaris; Stewards' Dele­ gate, L. A. Vila. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. No beefs. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), June 22—Chairman, James Ellwell; Secretary, Richard Nelson. $19 in ship's fund. No beefs, no disputed OT. Most repairs taken care of; deck department needs new wringer. September, 1969 NEWARK (Sea-Land), July 13— Chairman, Eddie Bonefont; Secre tary, Ralph Hernandez. Crew wash ing machine out of order. Discus sion concerning lack of transporta' tion in Puerto Rico. No beefs. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), June 29—Chairman, Stanley Jan Dora; Secretary, John Coyle. $7.50 in ship's fund. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT. Motion made and sec­ onded for ratification of the new freightship contract with a unani­ mous vote of thanks to the negoti­ ating committee for a job well done. Bos'n requested that needed repairs be reported to him at once. Vote of thanks to the steward department for fine work. Discussion held on pension plan. ALBANY (Ogden Marine), June 8 —Chairman, D. C. Gay; Secretary, P. C. White. $53.73 in ship's fund. No beefs from the three depart­ ments. Leo J. McGravie elected new ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to cooks for good meals. JEFF DAVIS (Waterman), June 29 — Chairman, Louis W. Cartwright; Secretary, M. L. Leache. Everything running good, all s-ick men returned to duty. Motion made that meetings be held only first and last Sunday of each trip unless spe­ cial need arises. DEL CAMPO (Delta), July 6— Chairman, R. Lambert; Secretary, James Darouse. Several men logged this trip; patrolman to be consulted concerning this. No beefs; no dis­ puted OT. Motion made that ship's delegate see chief engineer about cleaning fresh water tanks. Vote of thanks to chief cook and third cook for a tremendous job this trip. TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Wa­ terways), July 1—Chairman, T. O'Connor; Secretary, 0. Frezza; Ship's Delegate. Robert H. Bullock; Deck Delegate, John Hamot; En­ gine Delegate, William Guenther; Stewards' Delegate, Martin Thurrino. $13.00 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments. Unanimous vote of confidence to the committee on the new contract, for a job well done. YELLOWSTONE (Ogden Marine), July 6—Chairman, Jack A. Olsen; Secretary, Manuel A. Rendueles; Ship's Delegate, Manuel A. Ren­ dueles; Engine Delegate, James A. Shaay; Stewards' Delegate, Fernan00 Urios. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), July 18—Chairman, A. Hanstvedt; Secretary, P. S. Holt; Ship's Dele­ gate, Clinton H. Ward; Deck Dele­ gate, Russell M. Granthaw, Stew­ ards' Delegate, Joe Brown. Ship's committee agreed to send radio­ gram to headquarters regarding the captain putting out draws in rupees, in Pakistan and India. Dis­ puted OT in deck and engine de­ partment. Crew received wire noti­ fying them of raise. Vote of thanks was extended to the officials for a job well done. PRINCETON VICTORY (Colum­ bia) July 13—Chairman, James Tanner; Secretary, John H. Ratliff; Ship's Delegate, F. C. Gon­ zalez; Deck Delegate, Walter Hantuck; Engine Delegate, F. C. Gon­ zalez; Stewards' Delegate, James Johnson. No beefs. Everything run­ ning smoothly. OVERSEAS DINNY (Maritime Overseas), July 13 — Chairman, James M. Foster; Secretary, Louis J. Cayton; Ship's Delegate, James M. Foster, Deck Delegate, Martin V. Fay; Engine Delegate, Charles Martinssen; Stewards' Delegate, Louis J. Cayton. No beefs and no disputed OT. Ship MeetiitQs OVERSEAS AUDREY—(Maritime Overseas), June 5—Chairman, Lee J. Harvey; Secretary, Stanley F. Schuyler; Ship's Delegate, Lee J. Harvey; Deck Delegate, John Ziereis; Engine Delegate, Thomas C. Hopkins; Stewards' Delegate, Peter V. Hammel. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Few mat­ ters to be discussed with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. GENVEA (U.S. Steel), July 6— Chairman, Fred BischOfF; Secretary, Frank Allen; Ship's Delegate, G. F. Bischoff. $3.00 in ship's fund. One man missed ship in Morrisville. No beefs were reported by department delegates. COSMOS MARINER (Cosmos Steamship), May 18 — Chairman, John M. Guff; Secretary, Edward Heniken; Ship's Delegate, J. H. .Shearer; Deck Delegate, John M. Guff; Engine Delegate, Richard Rogers; Stewards' Delegate, Edward Heniken. $60.00 in movie fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. No beefs reported by department delegates. TRANSHURON (Hudson Water­ ways), June 23—Chairman, G. A. Logan; Secret/ary, J. R. Prestwood; Ship's Delegate, Albert H. Schwartz; Deck Delegate, Daniel A. Stewart; Engine Delegate, James H. Babson; Stewards Delegate, G. R. Gonzales. New agreement and welfare to be discussed in full at next meeting. No beefs and no disputed OT. TRANSHURON (Hudson Water­ ways), July 3—Chairman, G. A. Logan; Secretary, J. Prestwood; Ship's Delegate, A. H. Schwartz; Deck Delegate, Daniel A. Stewart; Engine Delegate, James H. Barron; Stewards' Delegate, G. R. Gonzales. Motion made to accept monthly wage and OT increase as is. To shoot for 15 year seatime, plus 20 years good Union time, regardless of age. WESTERN HUNTER (Colonial Tankers), June 6—Chairman, R. K. Beeden; Secretary, D. G. Haun; Deck Delegate, Joseph J. McAndrews; Engine Delegate, Jesse King; Steward Delegate, John Glover. Some disputed OT in deck and nteward departments. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), June 30—Chairman, James Ellwell; Secretary, Richard Nelson. $19 in ship's fund. No beefs or disputed OT. Motion made to repair faulty reduction valve. SPITFIRE (General Cargo), June 29—Chairman John Moore; Secre­ tary, Phil Reyes. All in good order, no beefs. Steward reported he or­ dered a new water fountain and the engineers agreed to install it where needed. He also thanked the crew for a fine show of good broth­ erhood and co-operation during the voyage. Vote of thanks to steward department for excellent perform­ ance. Old-timers in galley gang enjoying excellent health. EAGLE TRAVELER (Sea Trans­ port), July 14—Chairman, J. Bourg­ eois; Secretary, F. Otto. Crew voted to accept negotiating committee's report and recommendations — 30 for, none against. A . TOPA TOPA (Waterman), July 14—Chairman, M. Kerngood; Secre­ tary, C. Wright. Crew voted to ac­ cept and concur in negotiating com­ mittee's report and recommenda­ tions—31 for, none against. CHILORE (Venore), July 14— Chairman, F. De Beaumont; Secre­ tary, C. De La Couy. Pension plan and training program discussed. Motion madj by I. B. Browne and seconded by F. De Beaumont to ac­ cept and concuc in the new freighter and tanker agreement. Crew voted 26 for and none against. Ship is now laid up. IBERVILLE (Waterman), June 29 —Chairman John Cisiecki; Secre­ tary W. L. Kilgore. No beefs, every­ thing going OK. Floyd Hungate elected new ship delegate. Discus­ sion on new wage and OT agree­ ment. Everyone seems to be proud of the increase. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), July 6—Chairman, Ste­ phen Fulford; Secretary, Harold P. Du Cloux. One man paid off in Honolulu because of illness. A few beefs to be taken up with patrol­ man. Chief Mate set up procedure for switching watches. Ship's dele­ gate requested crew's full co-opera­ tion in good housekeeping. Slop chest low. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Maritime Overseas), June 29—Chairman, Wil­ liam Baker; Secretary, Peter Batayias. Disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments. One man missed ship in Durban. One man sent home on medical from Madras, India. One man signed off in Trini­ dad. Air conditioner and ice ma­ chine in need of repair. TV re­ quested for recreation room. YAKA (Waterman), July 6— Chairman, Walt Sibley; Secretary, Chris De Jesus. No beefs reported to chairman. Captain thanked the crew for their co-operation in con­ serving water and improved sani­ tary conditions. Ship's chairman asked better policing of refuse by men. P. G. Fox elected ship's dele­ gate. Discussion held concerning new rules on ship's meetings. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), July 6—Chairman, J. Chermesino; Secre­ tary, R. Barker. Captain passed the word on to the Seafarers that it has been a pleasant trip and a very good crew. Ship's delegate asked that heefs be taken to him and that all should be present for the pay­ off. $6 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department, otherwise everything running smoothly. Dis­ cussions held regarding pension plan and on duties of electricians on containerships. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done and to the ship's dele­ gate for his efficient representation •of the crew. YELLOWSTONE (Ogden Marine), July 14 — Chairman, Manuel A. Rendueles; Secretary, Manuel A. Rendueles. SPAD Supplement and Special contract edition received and posted so they can be read by all members. After discussion, 100 percent of crew members recorded in favor of new provisions. No beefs from delegates. Discussion held on pension plan. Motion made to see captain about change in meal hours. AMES VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), June 15—Chairman, Bayard Heimer; Secretary, S. J. Davis. James Campfleld elected ship's dele­ gate. Everything running smoothly no beefs, no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done during the past voyage. ALCOA MARKETER (Alcoa), July 1—Chairman, H. Groble; Sec­ retary, R. Sanchez. No beefs. Every­ thing is running smoothly. DEL SOL (Delta), July 19—Chair­ man, Robert Spinnochio; Secretary, Hubert L. Lanier; ship's Delegate. Sam Pappas; Deck Delegate. A. E. Lewis; Engine Delegate, Robert Spinnochio; Stewards' Delegate, G. Salamon. Motion was made to have negotiating committee ratify the new agreement. KYSKA (Waterman), July 13— Chairman, Francis J. Lebda; Secre­ tary, James Coggins; Ship's Dele­ gate, Francis J. Lebda; Engine Dele­ gate, H. W. Maccoline; Stewards' Delegate, William A. Fasseter. DEL MAR (Delta), July 12— Chairman, Joseph Collins; Secre­ tary, Dorrell G. Chafin; Ship's Dele­ gate, Julius W. Scheidel; Deck Delegate, Bobby B. Spears; Stew­ ards' Delegate, R. R. Roque. $30.00 in ship's fund. $481.51 in movie fund. No beefs. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), July 13—Chairman, Henry W. Mil­ ler; Secretary, Joseph A. Long; Ship's Delegate, Henry W. Miller; Deck Delegate, Paul J. Ossafer; Engine Delegate, Franklin V. Fyock; Stewards' Delegate, Joseph A. Long. Vote of thanks to the ship's dele­ gate for a job well done. He in turn thanked the crew for their co-operation. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. $30.00 in • ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. SEAMAR (Calmar), July 6— Chairman, A. Pulles; Secretary, N. Kondylas; Ship's Delegate, Robert Cook; Deck Delegate, J. Tuturler; Engine Delegate, Billy Henderson; Stewards' Delegate, Robert A. Cook, Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. No beefs. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. STEEL KING (Isthmian), June 26—Chairman, R. Pinkham; Sec­ retary, W. T. Langford; Ship's Delegate, R. Pinkham; Deck Dele­ gate, Paul Arthofer; Engine Delartment, John- Sanest; Stewards' 3elegate, R. E. Taylor. Patrolman to be contacted about having com­ pany put new ice machine aboard ship. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. AMERIGO (Crest), June 22— Chairman, Clyde Miller; Secretary, H. C. Bell; Ship's Delegate, Joseph Scaramutz; Deck Delegate, M. V. Fay. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. �September, 1969 Luciano Toribio, 73: Seafarer Toribio passed away on June 6 in New Orleans from heart dis­ ease. He was an SIU pensioner who made his home in New Orleans. Bom in the Philippine Is­ lands, Brother Toribio began his sailing career in 1917. He joined the Union in the Port of Boston in 1941 and had worked &s an AB, DM and bos'n. Burial was in St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, New Orleans. Lawrence Seesholtz, 67: Brother Seesholtz died in Gal­ veston, Texas, on June 26 from a heart ailment. He was an SIU pensioner who had shipped in the deck depart­ ment for the Bay Towing Com­ pany during his sailing days. Bom in Beach Haven, Pennsyl­ vania, Seafarer Seesholtz made his home in Galveston with his wife, Lillian. He was buried in Galveston Mernorial Park, Hitchcock, Texas. —,1,— SEAFARERS Harry Kenvyn, 62: Brother Kenvyn died of heart trouble on May 21 in Pas­ adena Bayshore Hospital, Pasa­ dena, Texas. An J gjy pensioner. Seafarer Kenvyn had worked as V an engineer for / G and H Tow­ ing Company in Texas. At the time of his death he was making his home in Channelview, Texas with his wife, Gertrude Ellen. He joined the Union in the Port of Galveston. Brother Kenvyn was a native of South Wales, England. Burial was in Bluewater Cemetery, Livingston, Texas. •^ • Santiago Pascual, 81: Brother Pascual was a pensioner who passed away on July 29 in Epis­ copal Hospital, Philadelphia. He had been sailing for 39 years be­ fore his retire­ ment in 1960. Seafarer Pascual had worked as a chief cook and his last vessel was the Sherwood. At the time of his death, he was living in Philadelphia, the port where he had joined the Union. Seafarer Pascual was bom in the Philippine Islands. Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery, Philadelphia. William Kerwin, 57: Seafarer Kerwin died of a stomach dis­ ease on July 20 in Italian Hos­ Clement De Hospedales, 49: pital, Haifa, Is- Brother Dc Hospedales died in ^ rael. A native St. Vincent's ^ of Cincinnati, Hospital, Man­ .f Ohio, Brother hattan on July Kerwin was 19. He had been making his home living in Lakein Houston, Tex­ wood, New Jer­ as at the time of his death. He sey with his wife, was an AB in the deck depart­ X . Margaret. A nament and last sailed on the f J') tive of Trinidad, Penn Sailor. His sailing career Seafarer De Hospedales joined lasted over 36 years. He is sur­ the Union in the Port of New vived by his wife, Lillian Agnes. York. He had been a steward and his last vessel was the Pennmar. Burial was in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn. Howard Giisson, 60: Brother <I> Glisson, a pensioner, died on July 11 at the Memorial Medi­ cal Center in Savannah, Geor­ gia from a cir­ culatory ailment. He had been an oiler in the en­ gine department and last sailed aboard the Transhatteras in 1968. A na­ tive of Georgia, he lived in Savannah with his wife, Gussie Evelyn. Seafarer Glisson re­ ceived a safety award for help­ ing to make the Seatrain Louisi­ ana an accident-free ship from 1960 to 1961. He had been sailing for 32 years before his retirement in 1969. Brother Glisson joined the SIU in the Port of New York. Burial was in Lower Black Creek Ceme­ tery, Lanier, Georgia. Andres Menendez, 72: Broth­ er Menendez was an SIU pen­ sioner. He died ^ " \ in Centro Asturiano Hospital, Tampa,. Florida on June 9 from heart trouble. He had been an FOWT in the engine depart­ ment and last sailed aboard the Niagra in 1962. In 1960 while sailing on the Antinous, Sea­ farer Menendez received the safety award. A native of Ma­ drid, Spain, Brother Menendez was making his home in Tampa at the time of his death. He had joined the SIU in the Port of Tampa. Before retiring in 1963, Seafarer Menendez had been sailing 42 years. Burial was in Vlyrtle Hill Cemetery, Tampa. Page Twentjr Nine LOG Henry St. Germain, 63: Sea­ William Normand, 62: Sea­ farer Normand died October farer St. Germain died of acute .coronary throm­ 4, 1968 at the bosis on Febru­ USPHS Hospital ary 24 in Southin Staten Island. port, North Car­ A member of the olina. A native SIU since 1957, of Wisconsin, Brother Nor­ Brother St. Germand sailed as a main had been wiper in the en­ making his home gine department. His last vessel was the Gateway in Tampa, Florida. He was an City. He was a native of Port OS in the steward department Richmond, New York and was and last sailed aboard the Over­ living in Astoria, Long Island seas Explorer in 1968. He at the time of his death. In 1961, joined the Union in the Port of Seafarer Normand was issued New York in 1955. a picket duty card for service in the New York harbor strike. William Simpson, 45: Sea­ He is survived by his sister, Mrs. farer Simpson died July 26 in Margaret Burns. Burial was in USPHS Hospital Ocean View Cemetery, Staten in New Orleans. Island. He had been an AB in the deck Curtis McCullum, 25: Broth­ department and er McCullum passed away sud­ last sailed denly on August aboard the Del 10 in the USPHS Valle. Brother Hospital in Bal­ Simpson joined timore, Mary­ the SIU in the Port of Mobile land. A messman in 1946. A native of Tennessee, in the steward he was still a resident of that department, Sea­ state with his mother, Iva, when farer McCullum he died. He served in the Army had joined the from 1950 to 1952. Burial was SIU in 1963 in the Port of Bal­ in Maplewood Cemetery, Pulas­ timore. He was a native of Mary­ ki, Tennessee. land and was living in Baltimore with his mother, Margaret, at the time of his death. Burial was Victor Bejarano, 70: Brother in Baltimore. Bejarano died in Greenpoint Hospital, BrookJohn Gates, 65: Seafarer lyn, on August Gates passed away on March • 9. An SIU pen24 aboard -the ^ sioner. Seafarer ship Geneva ' ^ Bejarano had where he was j been sailing for working in the ^46 years before engine depart­ 1^ % his retirement in ment. He died " " 1 9 66. An of a heart attack. FOWT in the engine depart­ Born in Chester, ment, he last sailed aboard the Pennsylvania, he Sapphire Etta. In 1960 he re­ had been living in Westerly, ceived a personal safety award Rhode Island. Seafarer Gates for his part in keeping the Eliza­ joined the Union in the Port of beth an accident free ship. He New Orleans in 1945. He had also served on the SIU picket been sailing for 40 years at the line in 1961. A native of Argen­ time of his death. tina, Brother Bejarano was liv­ ing in Brooklyn when he died. Albert Jensen, 67: Brother He joined the Union in 1938 Jensen was a pensioner who in Puerto Rico. Burial was in died of a heart Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn. attack on July 31 — — at his home in Joseph Booker, 63: Brother Brooklyn. He had been an Booker succumbed to heart dis­ ease on July 5 FOWT in the en­ in Charity Hos­ gine department pital, New Or­ and had last leans. A pensailed aboard the sioner who Steel Scientist in 1967. A native joined the Un­ of Norway, Brother Jensen joined the Union in the Port ion in the Port of New York in 1944. He had of Baltimore in been sailing the seas for over 1939, Seafarer 32 years when he retired on his Booker had worked as a deck SIU pension. Seafarer Jensen engineer and an FOWT. He was was active on the picket line in a native of Georgia and was liv­ 1961 when he served the mid­ ing in New Orleans at the time night to 8 a.m. shift during the of his death. His last vessel was Greater New York harbor strike. the Keva Ideal which he sailed He is survived by his wife, aboard in 1966. Burial was in Charlotte. Burial was in Green­ Evergreen Cemetery, Fitzgerald, wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Georgia. —4/— Clarence Cornelius, 44: Sea­ farer Cornelius died suddenly _ on July 28 when ^||||||||L the car in which |r he was a passenI Aj ger collided with a truck in Ches­ apeake, Virginia. V An AB in the deck department. Brother Cornelius had joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1947. He was born in Virginia and had been making his home there when he died. Seafarer CornelL us is survived by his wife, Shirley. Burial was in Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin, Vir­ ginia. Cornelius was an Air Corps veteran of World War II. <|> Douglas Cox, 35: Brother Cox died of natural causes in Bellevue Hospi­ tal, Manhattan, on August 6. A graduate of the Andrew Furuseth Training School, Brother Cox sailed as an FOWT in the en­ gine department. He was up­ graded to class A seniority rat­ ing in 1964. A native of Cam­ bridge, Massachusetts, Seafarer Cox lived in Manhattan. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1962, and his last vessel was the Boston. In 1965 Brother Cox helped man the picket lines in New York. He is survived by his wife, Joan. Burial was in Brewer Cemetery, Brewer, Maine. 4/ Richard Lusk, 47: Seafarer Lusk passed away following a heart attack on June 29 in Chi­ cago. A native of Illinois, he was living in Chicago when he died. Brother Lusk was an FOWT in the engine de­ partment and last worked for American Steamship Company. He joined the SIU in the Port of Detroit in 1968. From 1939 until 1959 he served in the Navy. Brother Lusk is survived by his mother. Burial was in Woodland Cemetery, Quincy, Illinois. 4^ Charles Sabo, 58: Brother Sabo passed away in Bayonne, New Jersey, on July 6 from heart trouble. He had been an AB in the deck de­ partment. A na­ tive of Lorain, Ohio, Seafarer Sabo had been making his home in Manhattan at the time of his death. His last vessel was the Beatrice Vic­ tory. Brother Sabo is survived by five brothers and a sister. �Page Hiirty SEAFARERS LOG September, 1969 CHARLESTON (Sea-Land), July! 22—Chairman, John 0. Albert; Sec-| retary, Guy Walter; Ship's Deles gate, John C, Albert; Deck Deleate, A. Kotsis; Engine Delegate, . O'Brien; Stewards' Delegate, Jack Goldman. Discussion held rejprarding pension plan. Everything IS running smoothly with no beefs. f , Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stitzel-Weller DistiUerlcs "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StIU," W. L. Weller Bourbon vrhi^ejs (Distillery Workers) —\3>— Kingsptn-t Press "World Book," "Chlldcrafl" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) <I> Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Clyest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) <I> "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman <1> Atlantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) <|> White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas \I> All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) ^ Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Economy Furniture Co. Smithtown Maple Western Provincial Bilt-Rite (Upholsterers) FINANCIAL REPORTS. The conatitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specifle provision for 8«.feguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge 'of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected excliuively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N. Y. Full et^ies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU latrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or membw. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the SeptemW, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among iU ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Oct. 14—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... Oct. 15—2:30 p.m. Wilmington Oct. 20—2:00 p.m. San Fran. .. Oct. 22—2:00 p.m. Seattle .... Oct. 24—2:00 p.m. New York . Oct. 6—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Oct. 7—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. Oct. 8—2:30 p.m. Detroit .... Oct. 10—2:30 p.m. Houston ... Oct. 13—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans Oct. 14—7:00 p.m. Mobile .... Oct. 15—7:00 p.m. New York . Oct. 6—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Oct. 7—7:00 p.m. Baltimore . . Oct. 8—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. Oct. 13—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings. Detroit .. Oct. 13—2:00 p.m. Alpena .. Oct. 13-^7:00 p.m. Buffalo .. Oct. 13—7:00 p.m. Chicago . Oct 13—7:30 p.m. Duluth .. Oct. 13—7:00 p.m. Frankfort Oct. 13—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... Oct 14—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Oct 16—7:30 p.m. Buffalo .... Oct. 15—7:30 p.m. Duluth Oct 17—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. Oct. 17—^7:30 p.m. Toledo Oct 17—^7:30 p.m. Detroit .... Oct 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . Oct. 13—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Oct 14—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... Oct. IS—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Oct 7—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) . Oct 8—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... Oct 9—5:00 p.m. Houston ... Oct 13—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Oct. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Oct 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk Oct. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Oct. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, Newpci-t News. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shtpard LIndisy Wllllami Al Tanner Robtrl Matthawi SECRET/<RY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEAOpUAI fU' *75 4Hi Ave., Iklyn. (212) HY 9-MOO ALPENA, MICH. . ...800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3*1* BALTIMORE, Md 121* E. Baltlmora St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON. Mast **3 Atlantic Avenue (*I7) 482-471* BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Waihlngton St. SIU (71*1 TL 3-9259 IBU (71*) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, III 9311 Ewing Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND. Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (21*) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jaftaraen Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 2014 W. 3rd St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 207 415 Main St. (*l*) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tax Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2*M Paarl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J 99 Montgomary St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ala I South Lawranea St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW.ORLEANS, La *30 Jackton Ave. (504) 529-754* NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) *22-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2*04 S. 4th St. (215) DE *-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1340 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraamont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Farnandax Juncoi Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE. Wath 2505 Firxt Avenue (20*) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravels Blvd. (314) 752-&500 TAMPA. Fla. 312 Harriion St. (813) 229-2788 TOLEDO. Ohio 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3*91 WILMINGTON, Callf^ 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan .Iieya BIdg., Room 001 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-l4akaku 2014971 Ext. 201 PAYMENT OP MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headqturters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquartera. RTSTIRED 8EAFARER8. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-prasion bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaiUrmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good sUindiriB through tlie waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, tneir families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer fccb that any of the above rights have been vi:dated, or that he has been denied his constitntional right of access to Union records or In­ formation, he should immediately notify SIU President PanI Hall at headquarters by certified mall, return receipt regusstad. CHATHAM (Waterman), July 28 —Chairman, W Moore; Secretary, Alfred D. Allain, Jr.; Ship's Dele­ gate, John Aversa; Deck Delegate, Charles Borns; Engine Delegate, Howard Menz;- Stewards Delegate, D, Jones. Disputed OT in each de­ partment. glO.OO in ship's fund. ; ALCOA TRADER (Alcoa), Jul:? 26—Chairman, Donald Cheistnut; Secretary, John S. Burke{s, Ship's Delegate, John D, Cantreil, Jr.; Dse-k Delegate, Omar W. Elliott; Engine Delegate, Carlos E. Vega; Stewards Delegate, A, A. Rankin. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding ,;patrolman. Motion was made that ^20 years in the Union and 16 years [^eatime on discharge, regardless of f^ge limits, a member should he Jtjualified and eligible for retirement, hands in favor of this motion, A ' SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Hudsoi) IWaterwaya), July 20—Chairman, Filknk Smith; Secretary, James / Thomas; Ship's Delegate, Prank Smith; Deck Delegate, Ronald W. Jones; Engine Delegate, A. Ls Boone; Stewards Delegate, John W; Murphy, Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. J I I i : : SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), July 27—Chairman, Prank Smith; Secretary, James W. Thomas; Ship's Delegate, Frank Smith; Deck Dele­ gate, Ronald W. Jones; Engine Dele­ gate, A. L. Boone; Stewards Dele­ gate, John W. Murphy. $16.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ' WESTERN COMET (Western Agency), July 29—Chairman, W. E.|j Morris; Secretary, C; Loper, Jr.;| Ship's Delegate, Juan Reyes; Decki Delegate Etigehe B. Beverley; En-i gine Delegate, Alfredo B. Calam;| Stewards Delegate, Nathaniel Aya.| $24.65 in ship's fund. No beefs andf ; ho disputed OT, •"> WESTERN COMET,(Westernl Agency), June 22^—Chairman, C. J Loper, Jr.; Secretary, G. James, f Ship sailed short twelve men. $18.56 'iin ship's fund. Vote of thanks ex­ it tended to the steward department sfor a job well done. Crew comJ mended for doing a yery, good job in spite of being Shorthanded, - y w » 'I OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mdriii time Overseas), July 13—Chairman, | 3. C. Mullis. Disputed OT in deck! department, ship ran short of 1 stores.,, OGDEN WILLAMETTE (Ogden), S July 25-^Chairman, A. Michelet; Secretary, M. Bugawan; Ship's Dele­ gate, Charles G. Ries,;Jr.; Deck Del­ egate, Y. Tallherg; Engine Delegate, Ralph Newcomb; Stewards Delegate, Stonewall Jackson. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. Some disputed OT in deck department. , STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian); April 20—Chairman, Harry K. Kauf­ man; Secretary, W. H. Simmons; Ship's Delegate. Charles F, Mann; Deck Delegate, Tom North; Engine Delegate, Albert Lee. Everything is fuiming smoothly. No beefs and np disputed OT. « ' FAIRLAND (Sea-Land)) July SO— J Chairman, R. W. Hodges; Secretary, J. H. Nayior; Ship's Delegate, Ray- | mond W. Hodges; Deck Delegate, ; Stanley Kuzyski, No beefs were re- j ported by department delegates.; Vote of thanks was extended to the § steward department for a job well i dene. • . • • • :r 1 DEL MAR (Delta), August 8—| Chairman, Joe Collins; Secretary,. J Darrell G. Chafin; Ship's Delegate, • Julius W. Scheidel; Deck Delegate, ; B. Spears; Stewards Delegate, Ra- ; mon Roque. Vote, of thanks was ; extended to the ship's delegate for a^ job well done. Everything is run- s ning smoothly with no beefs ahd | no disputed OT, �SEAFARERS LOG September, 1969 Page Thirty One SEATRAIN DELAWARE A S THE Seatrain Delaware put in at Edgewater, N.J., to imload cargo from the Puerto Rico run and to take on new cargo for the return trip, Seafarers held a ship's meeting to discuss the Union's contract and the pension program with SIU officials who visited the vessel. beenwit^fhTsiu'c-^'''^^^^ Headquarters Representative 77'" coward Castro, I r- Chief Cook Carlos Diaz f'afs aboard I 1 SEAFARERS too Manuel Medina OS mMM perfc- Ut ,,o«mc IHE Pt.510"/^".. , I • A Seafarer since I947Z^T7~~L1^ cus (Dutch) Vel/inoA ' ^^-theSIU-MEB;6;s;tV2lToot 'K-. •• - I - wiim: . �Vol. XXXI No. 11 SEAFAREItSikI.OG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT « A^CIO I T'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN. The five annual SIU Scholarships for 1970 will be awarded next May for the seventeenth straight year and all eligible Seafarers or children of Seafarers are urged to get their applications in early. In order to qualify for these scholarship grants, a Seafarer must have at least three years accumu­ lated seatime on SlU-contracted vessels. Children of Seafarers who meet the necessary seatime require­ ments are also entitled to apply. Each year a distinguished panel of leading univer­ sity educators and administrators selects five SIU Scholarship winners on the basis of their high school records together with scores attained on tests given throughout the country by the College Entrance Examination Board. This year, the first of these CEEB tests will be given on November 1. Later tests will be given De­ cember 6, 1969 and_ January 10, 1970, with a final opportunity scheduled for March 7, 1970. It is al­ ways best; however, to arrange for the test as early as you can, so do it as promptly as possible. Arrangements for taking the CEEB test can be made by eligible Seafarers or their children by writ­ ing to: College Entrance Examination Board, Box 592, Princeton, New Jersey, or at Box 1025, Berke­ ley, California. In addition to arranging for the CEEB test, ap­ plicants are also requested to obtain the necessary SIU College Scholarship application form as early as possible. These forms, which must be returned no later than April 1, 1970, are available at any SIU hall or may be obtained by writing directly to: SIU Scholarships, Administrator, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Widely recognized as one of the most liberal, nostrings-attached programs of its kind in the nation, the SIU Scholarship Plan has helped 83 young men and women toward fulfilling their career goals. Twenty-five of these were Seafarers and 58 were the children of Seafarers. 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Title A name given to the resource September 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU WINS MAJOR VACATION INCREASES FOR RATED MEN IN ALL DEPARTMENTS INDEPENDENT MARAD ONLY REMEDY FOR US FLEET’S DISATROUS PLIGHT FULBRIGHT’S PAY OFF SLUR ON AIFLD HIT BY MEANY AS GRATUITOUS INSULT FIGHT FOR NEED AGAINST GREED DRAWN BY MEANY, OTHERS AFL-CIO COUNCIL CONDEMNS ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE WV STRIKE LEADERS CONGRESSMAN LISTS FOUR PROVISIONS NEW MARITIME PROGRAM SHOULD HAVE QUICK ACTION BY SEAFARERS AVERTS POSIBLE DISASTER ON BUCKEYE VICTORY PIKE CHARGES CARGO RULE DISTORTION DISCRIMINATED AGAINST TRAMP SHIPS MYSTERY VESSEL BROUGHT TO SURFACE AFTER 100 YEARS IN LAKE MICHIGAN SINKING OD PANOCEANIC FAITH CAUSED BY FAILURE TO SECURE LOOSE HATCH HIGH COURT FINDS GARNISHMENT ILLEGAL UNLESS EMPLOYEE GETS COURT HEARING LABOR HITS HAYNSWORTH APPOINTMENT AS JUSTICE OF US SUPREME COURT FEDERAL JOB SAFETY HEALTH BOARD AND STANDARDS URGED BY PRESIDENT HLSS PROVIDES UPGRADING TO HIGHER PAYING RATINGS ADVANCE SEMENSHIP PROGRAM OFFERS FULL BOOK SENIORITY 570 ENDORSED FOR LIFEBOAT AT HLSS PRIME NEED FOR PHARMACIST MATES SEEN IN SIUNA-SOA BACKED STUDY CONGRESS WARNED OF HOUSING CRISIS UNLESS MONEY, LAND COSTS GO DOWN ROLLBACK OF SOARING INTEREST RATES PRESSED WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION OUTDATED USE OF POLITICAL MUSCLE BY RETIREES CAN HELP SECURE BETTER BENEFITS FAST TURNAROUND FOR SEATRAIN DELAWARE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 11  1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/31cd554302572138f12aeae0b5d4b4bd.PDF c1c59fc9703e70214ffaedac15e89f42 PDF Text Text Vol. XXXI No, 12 SEAFARERS^#LOC : i OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC. GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Ff- m . s IP^ ^ •> S '•'*4 • . =5, •• / iV i '' -» /ju\-'/ »"*»/. - I f!«'>;4 I V».v.. •-»'»» v«y . ^ T^rs;-- '.--r-r. »- rn" " I V.l '1%^' .., -4 | .2», V . <,V /«.\rj^*V-^X v>^-, as^iiiT • IBI, i; vi'v- i .>41 >• 5-i!' I i-^'' \'i I ;®ppM �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 Total Reaches 354 Five More Seafarers Earn Licenses At SlU Engineers Upgrading School Five more Seafarers from the engine department have been graduated from the School of Marine Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and MEBA District 2. All have earned their engineer's licenses following suc­ cessful completion of the com­ prehensive training program Dick Russo Kennedy offered by the school. There are now 354 Seafar­ ers who have completed the the seniority up-grading pro­ Anthony Joseph Russo, 44, School's course and have gone gram. A native of Puerto Rico, served in the engine department on to pass their Coast Guard make his home there with his Seafarer Bonafont continues to licensing examinations. wife, Evelyn. He joined the Un­ as an oiler before entering the James Richard Logan, 35, is ion in the Port of New York School of Engineering in June. a native New Yorker who now in 1961 and sailed in the engine He is a native of Jamestown, department as an FOWT prior New York, and now makes his to his enrollment in the School home in Chicago. Brother Russo of Engineering in June. Bona­ joined the Union in the Port font graduated with a Tempo­ of San Francisco in 1960. From rary Third Assistant Engineer's 1950 until 1957, he served in the Army. Seafarer Russo grad­ License on September 18. Aubrey Kennedy, Jr., 43, is uated from the School of Engi­ a native of Alabama who now neering on October 2 with a lives in Jay, Florida, with his Second Assistant Engineer's Li­ Bonafont Logan mother, Mattie. He joined the cense. All engine department Sea­ lives on Long Island with his SIU in the Port of Mobile in farers are eligible for any of the 1958 and sailed in the engine wife, Carol. He joined the SIU upgrading programs at the Un­ department as an FOWT before in the Port of New York in 1952 ion-sponsored School of Marine enrolling in the School of En­ and sailed in the engine depart­ Engineering, provided they are gineering in June. He graduated ment as an oiler before entering at least 19 years of age and have on September 23 with a Third the Engineering School in June. a minimum of 18 months of Assistant Engineer's License. On September 9 he received his Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in Second Assistant Engineer's Li­ From 1944 until 1946, he served the engine department in addi­ in the Navy. cense. Carmelo Bonafont, 31, grad­ John Russell Dick, 42, en­ tion to at least six months ex­ uated from the Harry Lundeberg tered the School of Engineering perience as wiper or the equiva­ School of Seamanship in 1961 in June and graduated on Sep­ lent and in 1965 was graduated from tember 11 with a Temporary Any Seafarer who qualifies and wishes to enroll in the Third Assistant Engineer's Li­ school may obtain additional cense. He joined the SIU in the information and make applica­ Port of New York in 1969 and tion for enrollment at any SIU sailed in the engine department hall. Information can also be as an FOWT. A native of New obtained by writing to SIU York, he now lives in Brook­ headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave­ lyn with his wife, Mary. Sea­ nue, Brooklyn, New York farer Dick served in the Army 11232, or by telephoning the WASHINGTON—Helen De- from 1951 until 1953. school at (212) 499-6600. lich Bentley, long-time maritime editor of the Baltimore Sun, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate this month as a member of the Federal Maritime Com­ mission. As reported in the September tee has been meeting daily since With this action completed, issue of the Seafarers LOG, its election on the second deck her appointment to the chair­ Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr, in of the Headquarters building in manship of the commission by behalf of the Executive Board, Brooklyn. On numerous occa­ President Nixon was assured. presented to the September sions, officials and members of Mrs. Bentley, who fills the membership meetings of the the Union have met with the vacancy created by the recent constitutional ports a resolution committee to offer suggestions retirement of Admiral John to amend the SIU's Constitu­ as to what changes they thought Harllee, will serve the balance tion. The resolution as sub­ should be made in our Consti­ of his term, which runs through mitted, upon its concurrence, tution. June 30, 1970. The chairman­ called for a Constitutional Com­ Secretary-Treasurer Kerr, in ship had been filled on an in­ mittee consisting of six (6) book his October report to the mem­ terim basis by Commissioner members—two from each de­ bership, requested that those James F. Fanseen. partment—^to be elected in the members having suggestions as As FMC chairman, Mrs. Port of New York, Headquar­ to changes in the Constitution— Bentley will be one of the high­ ters, at a special meeting to be particularly those dealing with est ranking women appointed to held at 2:00 P.M. on September election procedure- or the fi­ a government post by the Nixon 22, 1969. The resolution was nances of the Union—present Administration. carried in the September meet­ them to the committee in the The official reappointment of ings of the constitutional ports. conference room on the second James V. Day to another five- Thereafter, at the special meet­ deck of the Headquarters build­ year term on the FMC was also ing held at Headquarters on ing. announced by the White House. September 22, the following six Secretary-Treasurer Kerr His previous term had expired (6) book members were elected: further recommended to the June 30 but he has continued to Deck Department: Daniel Dean, membership that the Constitu­ . serve on the commission, briefly b-70; Charles Boyle, B-958.En- tional Committee's report be gine Department: John Pasko, presented to the membership at as its acting chairman. Day, IK'ho is a Maine Repub­ P-666; John Dolan, D-124. special meetings to be held in lican, was one of the first ap­ Steward Department: Fazel All, the constitutional ports on Octo­ pointees to the FMC when it A-475; John Graddick, G-313. ber 22. (For the benefit of the was set up in 1962. The Constitutional Conunit- membership, you are requested Senate Confirms Helen D. Bentley As FMCMember Resolutions of MTD Back W]'de«R,^nge of Reforms ATLANTIC CITY—Delegates to the eighth Constitutional Con­ vention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, represent­ ing 42 AFL-CIO unions with a combined membership of 7.5 million workers, adopted a wide-range of resolutions aimed at the resurgence of the foundering U.S. maritime industry and urging progressive legislation to benefit the entire nation as a whole. The convention, chaired by MTD and SIUNA President Paul Hall, unanimously approved an omnibus resolution calling for long-overdue action to revitalize all elements of the nation's mari­ time program-Mleep-sea, Great Lakes and inland waterways shipping, shipbuilding, fishing, and oceanography. The MIT) warned against any piecemeal approach to the various problems of the merchant marine, declaring that it is essential to "move for­ ward on a'broad front in developing a total maritime industry." Re-establishment of the Maritime Administration as an independ­ ent federal agency was strongly urged. In order to combat the runaway-flag shipping problem the MTD called on the federal government to renounce the policy of "effec­ tive control," and revoke the de facto subsidy granted oppor­ tunistic shipowners and their foreign-flag ships. The delegates strongly supported the imposition of taxes, either on the American companies which put their ships under foreign-flags, or on the cargoes these vessels carry, to take the profit out of runaway-flag operations. Congress was called on to rescue the Great Lakes fleet from extinction by providing adequate funds for construction, conver­ sion, reconditioning and/or modernization of that fleet and to grant operating subsidies similar to those accorded shipping lines in overseas trade routes. In recognition of the fact that the Russian merchant fleet is steadily increasing as the United States fleet decreases, the dele­ gates called for an active program of shipbuilding and ship develop­ ment to combat the Soviet menace on the high seas which threatens our commerce and national defense. The convention condemned tax-dodging attempts to build American ships with foreign steel and foreign components, there­ by costing U.S. workmen countless thousands of man hours of legitimate work. Vigorous support was registered for the SIUNA Affiliated Staff Officers' Association of America's continuingly vital program to train Purser Pharmacist Mates to provide shipboard medical care for merchant seamen. Appropriate Senate and House committees were called ufwn to hold public hearings into the closing of Public Health Service hospitals with a view toward enactment of legislation preventing arbitrary and capricious decisions by the Executive Branch of government to deny to American seamen their elemental right to high quality medical care. To combat the problems of the United States fishing and fishcanning industries, the MTD reaffirmed its determination to arouse the support of the public so that the long-overdue revitaliza(Continued on Page Ei^) ' »*• -J -.1 . 11 '•I SIU Constitutional Committee Preparing Report to check the bulletin board in exact dates of the membership the constitutional port you are referendum will be a part of the in for the exact time of the Octo­ Constitutional Committee's re­ ber 22 special meeting in that port that is acted on at the spe­ cial October 22 meetings re­ port.) If at the special meetings to ferred to above. The membership of the Un­ be held on October 22, the membership concurs in the Con­ ion is again encouraged to sub­ stitutional Committee's report mit to the Constitutional Com­ and recomtpendations, it will mittee any suggestions you may thereafter \ i submitted to a have as to changes in our Con­ membership referendum. The stitution. it '1 . i. -• - • • • I;. r An SIU Constitutional Committee, consisting of two book members from each department, was elected at a special meeting in the Port of New York Sept. 22. Elected were (L-R): Deck: D. Dean, C. Boyle; Engine: J. Dolan, J. Pasko; Steward: F. ~Ali, J. Graddick. 1i �October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Theme Keyed to Nation's Needs AFl'CIO Convention Sets Course For Challenges of '70s ATLANTIC CITY—The AFL-CIO headed into the 1970s prepared to meet the challenges of a new decade with a program key«<! to the needs of the country and a strong and expanding trade union move­ ment. The federation's eighth con­ vention took a look at the 1960s and reviewed the great and tragic events. But its concern was with the Seventies and was perhaps best voiced by AFLCIO President George Meany when he restated his keynote theme after his re-election to his eighth term: "We have come a long way but we still have a long way to go." In his speech to the opening session of the convention, Meany charged that the Admin­ istration's economic and legisla­ tive policies are threatening to bring on serious unemployment and are critically reducing im­ portant economic and social programs. Meany reviewed the events of the past two years, the develaiew66-in Washington in the past nine months and declared: "We intend to stay in busi­ ness, we do not propose to ac­ cept the proposition that the working people of this country no longer merit full and fair consideration in the resolution of all issues affecting them, and that includes all the pressing issues of the day—tax reform, interest rate, inflation, urban problems, education, civil rights, the whole works." He. told the approximately 900 delegates in the Traymore Hotel convention hall that "no organization in America" other than the AFL-CIO "encom­ passes such a broad range of commitments and no other or­ ganization pursues these com­ mitments with a greater respon­ sibility and consideration for the welfare of the nation as a whole." The AFL-CIO is heading into the Seventies wlff?' ii hew secre­ tary-treasurer, Lane Kirkland, unanimously elected for his first full term, and an expanded Ex­ ecutive Council of 35 members. The convention added six new vice presidencies in a constitu­ tional change and three mem­ bers of the council stepped down, bringing a total of nine new vice presidents to the feder­ ation's top governing body be­ tween conventibns. To assure the integrity of the federation and its aflKliates from dual, rival, raiding organiza­ tions the delegates voted by a 50 to 1 margin on a rollcall vote to expel the Chemical Workers, declaring that the union's affilia­ tion with the Alliance for Labor Action did violence to AFL- CIO objectives and principles. Elections Pose Early Test One of the first challenges of the Seventies—^the 1970 congfes'sional elections—received major attention from the nearly 900 delegates who heard Meany pledge no retreat in the struggle for social gains and voted a series of resolutions carefully s[>elling out differences with the Administration on an issue-byissue basis. They voted support of the President on his efforts to end the Viet Nam war through ne­ gotiations for an honorable peace and heard Defense Sec­ retary Melvin Laird spell out that policy. They heard also from Labor Secretary George P. Schultz on the Administra­ tion's economic policies and from Federal Mediation Direc­ tor J. Curtis Counts on trends in labor-management disputes. In the critical area of ending discrimination across the board, the delegates cheered Bayard Rustin as he assailed Adminis­ tration ^cNH^to slow down in­ tegration in some areas while espousing policies to divide black and white workers and di­ verting them from the necessity of securing jobs, housing, edu­ cation for every American. The delegates and hundreds of guests came to their feet cheering for Israeli Prime Min­ ister Golda Meir who spelled out Israel's case for survival in simple, trade union terms and recalled the close, historic ties of the AFL-CIO and Histadrut, the Israeli Federation of Labor. The 1970 elections were put into perspective also by former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey who spelled out a point-by-point indictment of the (Contiimed on Page Six) Af Eighth Convention MTD Optimistic on Administration's Maritime Pledge ATLANTIC CITY — Orga­ nized labor has set its sights on enactment of a sweeping over­ haul of the nation's maritime laws. This theme emerged from the 8th Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, held here on the eve of White House announce­ ment of a merchant marine pro­ gram geared to the challenge of the 70's. The 45-member Executive Board of the Department, head­ ed by SIU and MTD President Paul Hall, voiced optimism in its report to the 225 assembled delegates that long-overdue re­ forms in the nation's maritime laws would soon be enacted. This optimism, the MTD Board said, was based on a "specific and" definite" promise by the Nixon Administration. It noted, however, that the Administra­ tion program still has not been announced and pledged that the MTD would work "to make certain" that any program which finally becomes law will be "based on fair play for all seg­ ments of this industry—not just a favored few." Convention delegates—^repre­ senting 7.5 million American workers in 42 national and in­ ternational unions concerned with shipping, shipbuilding and allied industries—^took resolved action on all existing maritime problems, from the need for a positive program at home to the growing threat of Soviet seapower and the continued eco­ nomic drain on the U.S. econ­ omy caused runaway-flag shipping. The convention also dealt with a wide range of domestic issues, including the need fm* overhaul of the nation's tax structure to provide economic justice to low- and middleincome wage earners, the grow­ ing propaganda barrage aimed at organized labor by right-wing forces, the need for economic actions to make civil rights meaningful in the United States, and the urgency for action in such areas as housing, educa­ tion, poverty and hunger in America. Typical of the more immedi­ ate domestic issues facing the trade union movement in Amer­ ica today is the nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Although narrowly approved by the Senate Judiciary Com­ mittee since the MTD conven­ tion adjourned, Haynsworth still faces increasin^y strong opposition on the Senate floor which may yet prevent his con­ firmation to the high coiut.) Speaking to the MTD dele­ gates on the opening day of the convention, AFL-CIO President George Meany said Haynsworth was "completely out of line in his philosophy" on labor and civil rights issues, and added that the South Carolina jurist "has not displayed the ethical standards that the American people have the right to expect from a person sitting on the Su­ preme Court." Meany's attack on the nom­ inee came on the heels of con­ vention action in which dele­ gates unanimously approved a resolution asking that Hayns­ worth either step aside volun­ tarily or that President Nixon withdraw his name from ctmsideration, to "safeguard our ju­ dicial system." Copies of the resolution were dispatched to all Senators who were asked to reject the nom­ ination if neither Haynsworth nor Nixon acts voluntarily on this issue. In his speech, Meany cited MTD and SIU President Paul Hall introduces Representative Edward A. Sarmatz (D-Md.), right, who was prominent speaker at Convention. Garmatz told delegates that "Congress would not wait much longer" for Administration's maritime program. Exec. Secretary-Treasurer Peter M. McGavin of MTD is in center. statements made last year by Senators Paul J. Fannin (RAriz.), Jack Miller (R-Ia.), Rob­ ert GrifSn (R-Mich.) and Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) all of whom had opposed the nomination of Justice Abe Fortas as chief jus­ tice. All four had said, in es­ sence, that the appearance of impropriety in a court appointee was as damaging as impropriety, itself. Said Meany: "I think we can rest our case against Judge Haynsworth on the remarks of these very dis­ tinguished members of the U.S. Senate. I don't know whether they still hold those positions. They may have changed their mind in a year or so, but they did at least have this position... in the case of Justice Fortas. We will, of course, be watching with great interest their actions." Concerning problems more directly affecting the merchant marine, the Nixon Administra­ tion came under strong fire from Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-N.J.) for its failure to cmne forward with the maritime pro­ gram promised a year ago. "The country waits and waits for action to back up the prom­ ise," Williams said, warning that, if necessary, legislative ac­ tion would take the place of "executive apathy." The Senator called for action that would balance the nation's maritime program more equitably'between the one-third of the industry that is subsidized and tne two-thirds that is unsubsidized, and the boosting of the tonnage carried on U.S.-flag vessels. At present, American ships carry only five percent of the nation's import-export cargo. Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, also expressed con­ cern about the Administration's failure to make public maritime recommendations promised dur­ ing the 1968 campaign. "We still are getting word from Administration leaders that such a program is coming, but the target date keeps get­ ting pushed back, and back, and back," he said. "I hope the Ad­ ministration does produce a pro­ gram. If it does, and if it is a good program, it will have my committee's support." Garmatz served notice on the Administration that "Congress will not wait much longer" for a program from the White House, and would produce its own legislation if that becomes necessary. "This is no empty promise," the Congressman de­ clared. "The objectives are clear: More American cargoes in more American ships. The will of Congress to act is clear ... the honeymoon for the Ad­ ministration is over." Senator Qrarles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) told the convention delegates that the reconstitution of the Maritime Administration as an independent federal agency was essential to the "re(Coatimwd on Page Six) �Pag« Four SEAFARERS Oetober, 1969 LOG AFL-CIO Legal Study Shows: Justiie Dept. Used Double Standard in Whitewash Letter on Haynsworth WASHINGTON — A Su­ preme Court decision last year set a conflict of interest standard that bears directly on the dis­ pute over the judicial ethics of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. An AFL-CIO legal analysis cited the decision in response to a Justice Department letter ab­ solving Haynsworth of impro­ priety in an important labor case involving the Deering Milliken textile chain. The Justice Department said there was no reason for Hayns­ worth to disqualify himself be­ cause a company he served as an officer and director did a $100,000-a-year business with Deering Milliken textile plants. The Justice Department letter did not comment on the fact that Haynsworth did not dis­ close his business connection when the case was before his court. Two Supreme Court decisions were quoted by the AFL-CIO in its refutation of the Justice Department position. One stressed that even if there is no actual bias on the part of a judge, "justice must satisfy the appearance of jus­ tice." In the other decision, cited as a close parallel to the Hayns­ worth case, the Supreme Court overturned an arbitration award because the arbitrator had oc­ casional business dealings with one of the parties to the case. These amounted to only $12,000 in engineering consultant fees over a period of four or five years—a considerably smaller amount than the dollar involve­ ment of Haynsworth's Carolina Vend-A-Matic Corp. with Deer­ ing Milliken plants. But the Supreme Court—^to ' which Haynsworth has been nomiijj^gjj;—set aside the award because the arbitrator had not followed "the simple require­ ment that arbitrators disclose to the parties any dealings that might create an impression of possible bias." By ignoring this pertinent de­ cision, the AFL-CIO charged the Justice Department letter is exposed not as "an even-handed statement of the law" but as a defense of Haynsworth "pro­ ceeding from the assumption that it is sufficient for a judge's actions to meet the rou^ and ready standard of the market­ place" even if it falls short of the higher standards of judicial ethics. And as for the purported ignorance of Deering Milliken officials of Haynsworth's con­ nections with the vending ma­ chine firm and of the judge's claimed uninvolvenient in the deaths of the business, the AFLCIO commented: "In light of the facts that the general manager of Carolina Vend-A-Matic was a former official of Judson Mill, a Deer­ ing Milliken operation which utilized the services of Judge Haynsworth's law firm; that Judge Haynsworth's wife was the secretary of the company; and that the judge was listed as its first vice president and a director, these statements strain belief." Elliot Bredhoff, general coun­ sel for the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, also cited the 1968 Supreme Court deci­ sion as directly applicable to the Haynsworth case. In testimony prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee, he noted that Haynsworth's law firm at the time he was still the senior partner, had represented a major Deering Milliken mill. "Solely on the basis of this," Bredhoff suggested, "Judge Haynsworth should have dis­ qualified himself." By contrast, Bredhoff noted that his own former senior law partner, Arthur J. Goldberg, dis­ qualified himself from the very same case when it reached the Supreme Court. The reason that Goldberg— then a Supreme Court Justice —did not take part in the case, Bredhoff said, is that "many years before, his former law firm had handled unrelated liti­ gation for the Textile Workers Union," one of the parties to the case. SlU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Banefits Paid Report Period: August 1—August 31, 1969 Number off Benoflls SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Schoiarship Hospitai Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medicai Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $474.43) Optical Benefits Meai Book Benefits Gut-Potients Benefits SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID SEAFARBtS' VACATION PLANBENffiTS PAID (Average $415.04) TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD — 2,513 26 484 22 Amount Paid $ — 59,364.81 72,523.00 1,934.00 4,400.00 496 14,953.95 2,069 813 91 4,769 98,159.48 10,616.76 911.00 37,544.00 11,283 300,407.00 1,405 324,600.00 1,636 678,999.06 14,324 $1,304,006.06 «"• Carey Sees Threat to U.S. Serarity In Crowing Soviet Merrhant Fleet WASHINGTON—The So­ viet Union is not only outpro­ ducing the United States in mer­ chant ships by more than 2,200 percent; the Russians are also invading and capturing interna­ tional trade to a degree that en­ dangers American commerce and national security. This wdming was issued re­ cently by Representative Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.) to a meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, which rep­ resents 42 unions with 7.5 mil­ lion members in shipping, ship­ building and related trades. The Russian threat, the New York Congressman declared, means that the Soviet Union is Cause for Celebration Before handing six SlU veterans their first pension checks at the October membership meeting at headquarters, SlU Vice President Earl (Bull) Shepard (right) had a special announcement to make. Uldarico Merjudio, whose shoulder Shepard is clasping, will become a proud father in May, at the age of 72. Brother Merjudio, who sailed as a steward, met his wife two years ago at a party given by his cousin. Seafarer Merjudio joined the SlU in the Port of New York in 1943. Pensioners are (from left): Joe Parcolla, Anargyros Dokeris, Conrado Navarra, Frank Moran, Merjudio and Hezekiah Donovan. "seeking to dominate the oceans of the world and will be satis­ fied by nothing less than driv­ ing the U.S. and other coun­ tries from the high seas." As the Soviet fleet continues to grow, he said, it will become an in­ creasing menace not only to the U.S. maritime industry but to the American economy itself. Carey offered the following contrasting figures on the Rus­ sian and American merchant fleets: "• Of the major maritime na­ tions of the world, the U.S. was the only country to show a de­ cline in its merchant marine in 1968, while the Soviet fleet was rapidly enlarging. .• The Russian fleet now stands at 12 million tons and the Soviet's program to have 20 mil­ lion tons at sea next year is running ahead of schedule. The U.S. privately-owned fleet, by comparison, is 15 million tons and declining. • Last year 21 merchant ships were built in the U.S. but during that year 17 ships were transferred to foreign flags, leaving a net gain of four. The Soviet Union produced a total of 89 merchant vessels. Only two ships were transferred away from the hanuner-and-sickle flag, both to North Korea. Thus for 1968 the U.S. had a net gain of four merchant ships, the Russians gained 87. • Early in 1969 the Soviet Union had 465 merchant ves­ sels under construction or on order; the U.S. total was 63. Carey called for "a crash pro­ gram to meet today's needs— needs which are assuming emer­ gency proportions in the light of the Soviet drive for world sea supremacy. We need a longrange, comprehensive program, something that spells our com­ mitment to building a new fleet and keeping it strong." i In this way, the Congress­ man said, "we will be able to wkhstand today's Soviet threat on the seas, and we will be bet­ ter equipped to meet whatever other CQmpetition may surface in the future." Bethlehem Steel Plans Giant Basin At Sparrows Point SPARROWS POINT, Md.— A $15-million "super basin for supertankers" will soon be built for the Bethlehem Steel Corpo­ ration's shipyard here. Planned for completion by the end of 1970, the new facility will be capable of handling tankers larger"" than 200,000 deadweight tons. The basin will be more than 1,000 feet long and have a width greater than that of any vessel ever built to date. It will be one of the larg­ est of its kind in the world. According to Edmund F. Martin, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, the company envisions tankers of up to 500,000 dead­ weight tons in the future. The huge graving dock will enable the company "to participate in the market we foresee for the next 10 years." The new graving basin will not be equipped with ways. In­ stead, it will be flooded—drydock style—^whenever construc­ tion of a vessel is completed. Five major launching ways, ca­ pable of handling vessels up to 830 feet in length, are currently in use at Sparrows Point. The Sparrows Point yard is also undergoing other expansion —including two multimilliondollar building in-ograms. A 90 by 750-foot-long panel shop is being buUt to handle new meth­ ods of ship constniction. •J �October, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Five LOG 5/C0K4, MTD Demand End to PHS Hospital Shutdowns WASHINGTON — The SIUNA and the AFL-aO Maritime Trades Department, stepping up the tempo of their continuing battle to sa^guard the health of the nation s mer­ chant seamen, have called on Congress to put an end to the government's systematic shut­ down of the network of Public Health hospitals. ' The fight was carried to the powerful Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee by O, William Moody, Jr., admin­ istrator of the 7.5-million-member MTD, and Fred J. Famen, secretary-treasurer of the SIUNA's Great Ei^'-es District. At issue was the recent clos­ ing of the PHS hospitals in De­ troit, Mich., and Savannah, Ga. —the two latest hospitals to be closed down in a continuing undercutting of the mariners' hospital system, which has been reduced from 23 installations in 1949 to only eight hospitals today. "The Department of Health, Education and Welfare and its Public Health Service," Moody told the Senate committee at public hearings, "have been con­ sciously sabotaging the mandate of the Congress to provide med­ ical and surgical care to our merchant seamen, commercial fishermen and active-duty Coast Guardsmen." Yarborough adds Support The SIUNA charge won a quick response from Senator Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.), committee chairman, who in­ structed the committee staff to prepare telegrams to HEW and the Bureau of the Budget, de­ manding the "immediate reopen­ ing" of the Detroit and Savan­ nah facilities. Giving the SIUNA-MTD testimony his enthusiastic en­ dorsement, Yarborough went on to urge Moody to follow up the appearance with a letter to Pres­ ident Nixon. He suggested that the letter to the White House include the call, in the labor testimony, for "a clear and un­ mistakable long-range commit­ ment by the Administration to the concept and the practice of making Public Health Service hospitals the models for all fu­ ture hospital facilities." The Union's testimony fo­ cused on the urgent need for adequate health facilities to care for seafarers, pointing out that for nearly two centuries the gov­ ernment has recognized its re­ sponsibility to provide such fa­ cilities. "Merchant seamen," he em­ phasized, "must work, for the most part without the availabili­ ty of medical care and treatment while on the job at sea. Their work is transient. They cannot telephone their family doctor who, because of close and long relationship, can make a tele­ phone diagnosis and prescribe medication for many run-of-themill ills. There is no corner drugstore to fill the prescription . . . Except in the most extreme emergencies, illness and inju­ ries await the arrival in port of the patient." Upon arrival at the hospital. Moody told the Senators, the seafarer needs immediate care. If he must wait days or weeks to be admitted for non-emer­ gency, but essential, treatment at an already overcrowded pub­ lic or private community facil­ ity, he is lost to the industry during that period. "Unlike other workers," Moody said, "he cannot stay on the job while awaiting admittance. He cannot ship out without a 'fitfor-duty' slip obtained from an authorized Public Health Serv­ ice physician." Other Detroit area hospitals, to which seafarers are now taken, are reported to have an occupancy of 80 per cent. "But any Detroiter can tell you," the MTD official testified, "that this average means that many times there is over ICQ percent occu­ pancy—and the seafarer can­ not pick and choose his time. He cannot instruct the captain of his vessel to arrive in port only when occupancy is below average. After protracted per­ iods at sea, these men need immediate, available and^ acces­ sible medical and hospital care." Moody contended "it has been budget pressure, rather than effective medical care pres­ sure, that is responsible for the closing of two out of every three PHS hospitals that were in use 20 years ago." Yarborough agreed with Moody that the closings were unjustified ,and commented: "There seems to be a deliberate pattern of attempts to deny mer­ chant seamen their rights under the law to Public Health Serv­ ice care. They closed the De­ troit hospital before Congress could hold hearings, even before Congress could find out about the closing." The Senator added: "Any proposal to send merchant seamen to Veterans Hospitals is a major mistake; the Veterans Hospitals are overcrowded." Moody foreeast that the Seat­ tle Public Health Service Hos­ pital would be the next to be arbitrarily closed. The pattern, said Moody, will follow that established with Detroit and Savannah. "The steps can be predicted," he testified. "First, a budgetary freeze; second, loss of technical and medical personnel; third, patients turned away because of lack of facilities; fourth, a de­ cline in the quality of care; and finally, the Public Health Serv­ ice determines that because these events took place, it will be 'no longer possible to offer at the Seattle Hospital the full scope and quality of services to which the Public Health Serv­ ice beneficiaries are entitled.'" PHS Hospitals Excellent Praising the quality of medi­ cal care and treatment in PHS hospitals as "excellent," the SIUNA-MTD spokesmen de­ plored "the utter incongruity of liquidating established federal medical hospitals universally respected for their high quality, comprehensive medical care and treatment, research and clinical facilities at a time when our country has such a tremendous need for expanded medical care, increased hospital and clinical facilities." Several Senators commented that this point of Moody's was supported by repeated an­ nouncements that the Adminis­ tration plans to propose a leg­ islative program designed to greatly enlarge the American merchant marine. "It is almost imcomprehensible," Moody continued, "that at a time when the health and hospital needs of this country are so apparent—that an arm of the federal government would be taking out of service these essential facilities. We are not insisting that Seafarers have ex­ clusive use of PHS facilities. In fact, while maintaining the pri­ ority given to our members by Congress, we are recommend­ ing that PHS hospitals be given a new and enlarged role in the world of medicine and medical care. These hospitals should be the pioneers in new and vision­ ary techniques. They should be the innovators, the breakers of tradition." Again Senator Yarborough agreed. "This question," he said, "has broadened out beyond the merchant seamen to a concern of the whole nation and the na­ tional cause of better health care. This should be a time of expanding and improving public health facilities, not curtailing them. This Administration seems to be afraid the Ameri­ can people might enjoy better health." Measure Goes to White House 1970 Maritime Authorization Bill Passes House With Senate ttaages WASHINGTON—House passage of a slightly revised Sen­ ate version of the maritime au­ thorization bill for 1970 last month sent the measure to the White House for Presidential action. Termed a "stop-gap measure" by Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, the bill, H.R. 4152, authorizes a $384.6 New Full Book Members—October 1969 SIU Vice President Ear! Shepard swears in the October class of Advanced Seamen at the regu­ lar monthly meeting in New York. Proudly displaying their newly-issued full books are (l-r front) W. Statzer, T. Reim, J. Schlein, T. Peterson, C. Clemens and M. Carroll. In back: H. Bar­ low, L Hall, L. Christmas, J. Jackson, T. Kelley and H. Levine. million program for the Mari­ time Administration for the coming fiscal year. Submission of a comprehensive revitalization program for the merchant marine by President Nixon was still expected at any time. Included in the passed bill is authorization of $145 million for ship construction subsidies —an increase of some $129.1 million over the $15.9 million alloted for this purpose in the Nixon budget. This, when added to $101 million in carryover funds unspent from last year's maritime appropriations, is esti­ mated to be sufficient to help build up to 22 new cargo ships. During the House hearings in May, Chairman Garmatz called the $145 million figure "the bare minimum" needed if the nation is to undertake a return to its former status ar a leading world maritime power. In the current discussion on the floor of the House, Garmatz pointed out that, not only are Nixon's revitalization proposals yet to be seen, but even were they presented to the Congress at this time and passed promptly, it would take two to three years before the first dollar could be spent. "We must begin an adequate building program this year to bridge the gap until the longrange program is produced," Garmatz declared. The authorization measure earmarks the sum of $212 mil­ lion for operating differential subsidies. Among the revisions made by the Senate in the orig­ inal House bill were a decrease in authorization for research and development funds from $15 million to $12 million, ac­ companied by an increase of $2.27 million in the amount al­ lotted for state maritime schools. Garmatz explained that the state schools funding would permit the establishment and operation of a merchant marine school on the Great Lakes. Appropriations are the next step. A measure incorporating the authorized funds in the form of actual appropriations will have to be passed by both houses of Congress before the 1970 program can be imple­ mented by the Maritime Admin­ istration. Nevertheless, several recent developments have raised hopes in maritime circles that the de­ cline of the merchant marine may finally be reversed. Among these was the recent voting of a $940 million increase in Navy shipbuilding funds—raising the total to $3.5 billion—by the House Armed Services Commit­ tee. This was seen as one of several indications that the Nixon Administration is pre­ pared to relax its tight budget policy, at least in selected areas. �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 MTD Convention Optimistic on Administration Action on Maritime (Continued from page 3) construction and recovery" of the merchant marine. He noted that the bill was "overwhelm­ ingly approved last year by both Houses of Congress, but was killed by a pocket veto." Senator Joseph M. Montoya (D-N.M.) and Representative James M. Howard (D-N.J.) both hit out sharply at the loopholes through which Americap corpo­ rations are escaping ta.xation by registering and crewing their ships abroad. Archibald E. King, chairman of the SlU-contracted Isthmian Lines, Inc., sharply criticized the attitude of the government toward the one-third of the in­ dustry which receives operating and construction subsidies, and the two-thirds of the industry which operates exclusively on private capital. "Whether intentional or not," King said, "various government agencies encourage subsidized lilies to direct their competition against American-flag non-sub­ sidized lines. They obtain some­ what lower rates made possible by subsidy support and they pro­ claim a saving in transportation costs for their department. What they have really done is en­ gaged in a scandalous waste of U.S. government money . .. and they have flouted Congress while doing it" Directing his remarks specifi- commodities carried by a string caliy to the unconscionable cur­ of barges" and pose the danger tailment of services by U.S. Pub­ of "a retardation in this indus­ lic Health Service hospitals, Sen­ try. . . ." The convention also strongly ator Ralph W. Yarborougji (DTex.) reminded the delegates protested the denial to the 2.7 that the federal government has, million American citizens in since 1798, "had a statutory ob­ Puerto Rico of the right to vote ligation to the American seaman in presidential elections. Unani­ to make available to him a pro­ mous convention action came gram of medical care and treat­ after delegates heard pleas for ment made necessary by the pe­ fair play and justice from three culiar nature of his employ­ representatives of the Puerto SI UNA Vice President Steve Edney, who heads United Cannery and Rican government — Governor Industrial Workers of the Pacific, discusses dying fish industry .with ment." Senator John O. Pastore (D- Luis A. Ferre, Resident Com­ Neil Gilbride, left, of the Associated Press and Damon Stetson of R.I.), noting that the "two na­ missioner Jorge L. Cordova the New York Times. Program, sponsored by the AFL-CIO, is broad­ tions we defeated in World War Diaz, and San Juan Mayor Car­ cast on Tuesdays, at 7:35 p.m. on the Mutual Broadcasting System; 11" — Japan and Germany — los Romero Barcelo. The res­ have since outdistanced the olution said that the voting right Edney Calls for Federal Aid: United States in shipbuilding should be extended "in recogni­ capability and production, said tion of the contribution made to this nation must "start thinking" our nation by our fellow citi­ about its own overall maritime zens from Puerto Rico." Other distinguished guests position. Although we must who addressed the MTD's threestart "doing things for our­ selves," the Rhode Island law­ day convention included: Sena­ maker declared, "federal assist­ tor Frank E. Moss (D-Utah), He called for better conserva­ ATLANTIC CITY—SIUNA ance" remains a necessity where Senator Gale W. McGee (D- Vice-President Steve Edney has tion agreements among nations. Wyo.), AFL-CIO Secretaryshipbuilding is concerned. Treasurer Lane Kirkland, Gov­ charged that "indifference and He said that foreign fishing Delegates' recognition of— neglect" by both government fleets, not as closely restricted and concern about— the threat ernor Richard J. Hughes of New and private interests have trig­ on gear and methods as U.S. to the barge industry that would Jersey, Mayor James Tate of gered the rapid decline of the fishermen, "sweep the bottom be posed by the Administra­ Philadelphia, Navy League of clean," catching many immature U.S. fishing industry. tion's projected user tax was the United States President Stressing that U.S. fish con­ and unwanted fish. He said that shared by Senator Albert Gore James M. Hannan, Federal sumption rose 23 percent last such unrestricted fishing can (D-Tenn.). He declared that Maritime Commissioner George year, but more than 76 percent "lead to the further decline" of such a tax—as proposed by the Hearn, Director J. Curtis Counts of the products consumed were this most important natural re­ Interstate Commerce Commis­ of the Federal Mediation and imported, Edney, President of source. sion—would amount to "artifi­ Conciliation Service, and Dr. the SIUNA Cannery and Indus­ The union official said that cial restraints on the number of Robert A. Kilmarx of the Cen­ trial Workers in Los Angeles, few young people are interested ter for Strategic and Internacalled for federal assistance for in entering the fishing industry tion^ Studies at Georgetown the sagging fishing industry. today. "When you have hard University. "What would the avera^ times in any industry," he noted, Membership growth in the MTD over the past two years American think if we had to "people think twice before they was 25 percent, according to import 70 percent of our agri­ invest their lives in it." the Department's officers' report cultural products?" he asked. But, he added, federal assist­ "We would say this is a sad state ance to fishing, as is done for The breakthroughs and the presented to the convention. In summing up the compre­ of affairs . . . Yet, this is true difficulties in the latter areas agriculture, could "revitalize the in the fishing industry." were documented in a dramatic hensive report presented to as­ Edney said that Russian, Jap­ industry so that people can appearance before the conven- sembled delegates. President anese and Polish fishermen, "ap­ make a living," and "many peo­ vention of Mary Moultrie, presi­ Hall said that the period since parently having fished out their ple will come back into it." dent of the Charleston, S.C., the 1967 biennial convention of own banks, are now moving in Government subsidy would also hospital workers' local of the the MTD "has been one of great on ours," while U.S. fishing and productivity." activity help attract badly needed private Retail, Wholesale and Dept. boats are "rotting at the dock" capital into fishing, he added. "It has;" Hall said, "set the Store Union, who was jailed for and many fishermen have been Questioning Edney on Labor defying an injunction limiting stage for the continued growth without work for months. and development of this Con­ News Conference, recorded at picketing. She recounted the Edney appeared on the net­ battle to establish the union and stitutional Department of the Atlantic City during the AFLnational labor federation . . . work radio interview Labor how a united labor movement CIO convention, were Damon which will make it possible for News Conference, broadcast threw its full strength behind Tuesdays, at 7:35 p.m., EDT, Stetson of the New York Times the hospital workers to secure the MTD to face the exciting and challenging times which lie on the Mutual Broadcasting and Neil Gilbride of the Associ­ victory. ated Press. ahead." System. The convention took note also of the creation of two new AFL-CIO organizations since the last sessions in 1967—the GENOA, Italy—SIU Vice provide seamen and their fam­ while in foreign ports, as well Human Resources Development Institute to coordinate the activ­ President Earl (Bull) Shepard ilies with the security necessary as steps to improve "moral pro­ ities of unions in manpower was a representative here last in this era of modem transporta­ tection" for young seafarers in port. training programs and pioneer month of the American mer­ tion. new approaches, and the AFL- chant marine and of AFL-CIO Specific areas earmarked by For the overall better protec­ CIO Labor Studies Center President George Meany at an the conferees for further study tion of seamen in a day and age where special institutes in staff international maritime confer­ included: minimum wages, sea­ of technological change which training and other educational ence. men's welfare, technological de­ calls for review of skills, safety activities will get under way in velopment aboard ship, voca­ regulations, training and welfare The conference, sponsored by December. the International Labor Orga­ tional training, accident preven= programs, etc., the conference There was also the immedi­ nization (ILO), brou^t together tion and crew accommodations suggested that a new convention acy of blocking the nomination union and management officials both at sea and in port. to establish manpower plans for of Judge Clement F. Hayns- front 32 seafaring nations for The conference recommended the merchant shipping industry worth, Jr., to the U.S. Supreme the purpose of suggesting ways that the b^ic international mini- be created. Court, the need to secure mean­ and means to improve the mjuni wage for seamen be raised All projected proposals and ingful tax reform in the Senate, working conditions for seamen from $70 a month to $91 recommendations of the confer­ the Farm Workers' grape boy­ throughout the world. monthly and that greater guar­ cott campaign and efforts to One of the chief concerns of antees for job security be sought. ence will be presented to the an­ prevent the Administration from the conference was the develop­ Other recommendations nual convention of the ILO for ducking out on prosecution of ment of uniform standards that called for improved recreational consideration when it convenes auto manufacturers in an air would both attract new people facilities and other cultural op­ in Geneva, Switzerland in Octo­ pollution conspiracy case. into the maritime industry and portunities for merchant seamen ber of 1970. fi' Decline of Fishing Industry Laid to Indifference, Neglect AFL-CIO Delegates Get Set To Combat Challenging 70s (Continued from page 3) Administration as he called for a renewed drive for liberal, pro­ gressive programs. And indicative of the phys­ ical challenge of the new dec­ ade was the greeting given Col. • Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., the first union man to walk on the moon, who thanked the nation's work­ ers for their skills and tax dol­ lars and brought the miracle of space exploration a bit closer to understanding. The AFL-CIO program for the 1970s was spelled out in more than 100 resolutions adopted by the delegates out of a mass of 274 presented to the Resolutions and other commit­ tees. They covered every aspect of American life with a heavy emphasis on programs and poli­ cies, on the crisis in the cities, the danger of recession and growing unemployment, bring­ ing the poor and minority groups into the mainstream of American life, the need to im­ prove the quality of life and the environment in which it is lived. There was a growing con­ cern also with international trade policies, the trend toward economic concentration and mergers and the continuing, never-ending work of the trade union movement—organizing the unorganized and stepping up and expandihg collective bar­ gaining. Shepard Attends ILO Maritime Conference ti �October, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Seven LOG Jennie Rizzute, Lady SlU Pensioner, Visit to Headquarters w t'VJ BROOKLYN—The pleasant working in a U.S. Army officers' faced, bespectacled woman mess. stood in the center of a group Soon thereafter, Jennie joined of Seafarers fielding their ques­ the SIU in the port of New tions with the aplomb of a Orleans and began the period Willie Mays. she refers to "as the happiest The scene was-at SIU head­ days of my life." Jennie loved quarters here immediately after meeting new and interesting the September membership people and visiting such coun­ meeting and the object of all tries as Puerto Rico, Brazil and this attention was Jennie Riz­ Argentina. She still corresponds zuto, a former stewardess who with many of the friends she has been on an SIU pension for has made over the years in Latin America. the last two years. The last 14 years of her sea "They're all my boys," said the 77-year-y6ung former Sea­ time were spent on the SIUfarer. "They were always nice contracted Del Mar. Upon her to me and called me 'mom,'" retirement, the captain of the Jennie recalled, as her eyes Del Mar presented Jennie with twinkled with the memories of a gold charm as a token of the Delta Line's appreciation of her her many years at sea. long and valuable "service. Jen­ Jennie, who makes her home nie is very proud of the gift and in New 'Orleans, began her career at sea in 1940 when she accepted a job as stewardess with the Delta Line. Her pre­ vious experience as a waitress and hostess was put to good use as she sailed on the Del Brazil for a year-and-a-half. Millidns of dollars of shorefront damages are faced by The start of World War II New York Port Agent, Joe De George is flanked by SIU pensioner Jennie Rizzuto, whose sailing career spanned 28 years, and John Erick- forced Jennie onto the beach states bordering the Great Lakes son, AB, who received full membership book at September meeting. where she spent the war years as a result of high water levels. The problem has become in­ creasingly acute because of suc­ cessive cycles of high and low levels in recent years. A federal study of the situa­ tion has become bogged down by insufficient budget appropria­ tions. Another study by the U.S.-Canadian International WASHINGTON—An Ad­ activity, loaded with strategic ently available to meet future Joint Commission, begun in ministration budget request for supplies and waiting to be used emergency availability condi­ 1964, is also behind schedule funds to build the first three in an emergency. Proponents of tions in defense situations, because of a lack of funds. The of a projected fleet of 30 Fast the FDLs have never stopped friends of the merchant marine U.S. section, scheduled to be Deployment Logistics ships was pushing for their implementa­ point-out that an equivalent ex­ completed in October, 1973, turned down flatly last month tion, hoping to build 30 to 40 penditure of funds could well will require $902,000 to finish. by the House Armed Services of the ships on an "experimen­ be used to beef up the nation's Work on the problem has also Committee. In so doing, the tal" basis. merchant marine, which has the been done by the U.S. Army committee repeated its action of The House report on the bill flexibility of utilization in both Engineers, which issued a re­ last year when it was consider­ authorizing appropriations for military logistics and commer­ port with no recommendations ing the 1969 budget. the military program for fiscal after spending from 1952 to Similar action was taken in year 1970, in the section con­ cial service. 1964 in the field. In addition, the vital flow of the Senate Armed Services cerning the FDL program, Senator Robert E. Stockdale materiel in the current Vietnam of Ohio, board chairman of the Committee, which again deleted states: the program, as it had the year "The President's budget re­ conflict has been 96 to 98 per­ Great Lakes Commission, a before, on the recommendation quest includes $186.7 million cent seaborne—and this with a group comprised of the eight of Senator Richard B. Russell for the first three fast deploy- | merchant marine which is at a states with Lakes borders, has (D-Ga.), chairman of the com­ ment logistics ships of a total low ebb both in numbers of charged undue delay in a mes­ mittee. purchase of some 30. The Sen­ ships and in the advanced age sage to congressmen and sen­ ators from the region and also This marks the third succes­ ate removed this sum from of 80 percent of the fleet. sive year that the controversial the shipbuilding and conversion FDL program—which has been portions of the bill. The com­ strongly opposed by the SIU and mittee concurs in this action, other representatives of mari­ just as it refused to approve time labor and industry—has these funds last year. The com­ Unclaimed wages for former crewmembers of The Cabins been thrown out by the Con­ mittee has not been convinced are being held for the following Seafarers by Texas City gress. that these ships will not be used Refining as of September 11, 1969: in competition with our private The fiscal 1970 budget re­ Anding, Benny Lewis, P. B. quest for FDLs was in the merchant marine. It is essential Baker, Curtis Mackey, Donald amount of $186.7 million. It is that the merchant marine be re­ Brown, Woodrow Marsh, Ben B. estimated that the vessels would juvenated and not further eroded CoiTj', Wm. R. Pritchctt, W. cost some $60 million each; the by Department of Defense ac­ Deal, Wilson Sayles, Bruce D. full program of 30 ships would tions." Fisher, Frank Silva, Alfonso run in the neighborhood of $2 The report was filed by Com­ Furedi, C. Smart, Roy K. billion. mittee Chairman L. Mendel Glover, Alfred Snook, Glenn G. Jackson, Robert Somers, John Originally the brain child of Rivers (D-S.C.). Jordan, Inimie former Defense Secretary Rob­ Opposition to the FDLs in the ert S. McNamara, the FDL idea Senate, led by Senator Russell, Claims should be submitted to L, W. Westfall, Chief was sold to the Military Sea made the additional point that Marine Accountant, Texas City Refining, Inc., Marine Transportation Service and the the program placed the United Division, P.O. Box 1271, Texas City, Texas 77590. U.S. Navy as a floating military States in too interventionist a Seafarets are urged to act promptly as these claims may supply depot arrangement. The posture. be subject to the Texas Escheat laws. Each claim miist giant, mobile warehouses were include the "Z" number, Social Security number and the While proponents of the idea designed to be anchored in con­ claim that an insufficient num­ actual signature of the claimant. venient areas of global military ber of merchant ships are pres­ still wears it on her bracelet. in the cafeteria at the hall enjoying a cup of coffee, Jennie's quick and agile mind was able to reczill ex-shipmates she has not seen in as long as 22 years. "I may not remember all the names but I never forget a face," Jennie said as she greeted yet another visitor to the table. Jennie, who was bom in Manhattan on Febru^ 15, 1892, is here visiting relatives and plans to stay through the end of October. When she gets back to New Orleans, she will spend her leisure time tending to her flower garden and writing her friends in Latin America about her vacation trip to New York City. Mounting Shorefront Damage Faced by Great Lakes States Congress Strikes FDL Ship Funds From Budnet for Third Year in Row Uttclaimed Wages Being HeU to the United States Depart­ ment of State. Stockdale points out that the Great Lakes have gone through successive high and low water levels since 1952. In Lake Erie —as of July of this year—the level has reached a new high water mark, a quarter of an inch above the previous record reached in 1952. Duluth-Superior Import-Export Cargo Declines DULUTH — A decrease in export-import cargo at the Duluth-Superior Docks for the month of August lowered the cumulative total for the first eight months of the year to a level below 1968 figures for the comparable period, the Port Au­ thority here reported. On a 12-month basis, ending August 31, the two ports han­ dled 1.6 million tons of importexport freight, 300,000 tons be­ low the comparable interval a year previous. In the month of August, 348,589 tons of such cargoes were handled; in Au­ gust, 1968, the total figure was 470,766 tons. Contributing to the decline were a drop in exports of grain from 1,418,924 to 1,360,564 tons, a fall in general cargo from 71,750 to 53,100 tons, and a drop in bulk liquids from 18,533 to 16,231 tons. Imports of general cargo were down to 33,473 tons in the first eight months of 1969 from 37,190 tons in the comparable 1968 period. A rise was recorded in scrap iron exports, however, which were up to 58,540 tons from 34,275 a year ago. Also up were grain by-products, 83,251 tons of which were shipped compared with 58,292 tons. �Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG AFL'CIO Ixpels Chemiial Workeis By 50-1Margin for ALA Affiliation ATLANTIC CITY — By an overwhelming 50-to-l margin on a rollcall vote the eighth con­ vention expelled the Chemical Workers from the AFL-CIO, declaring that the union's affilia­ tion with the Alliance for Labor Action, does "violence to the objectives and principles of the federation." The vote on expulsion came on a report from the Commit­ tee on Resolutions. It recom­ mended approval of the supple­ mental report of the AFL-CIO Executive Council calling for revocation of the certificate of affiliation. The vote was 12,482,388 to expel, 244,815 against expul­ sion and 235,024 not voting. The votes against expulsion came from the Chemical Work­ ers, Technical Engineers, Typo­ graphical Union, two of the four Glass Workers' delegates and a minority of the Teachers Union delegation. Two central labor body delegates also voted against expulsion. The resolutions committee's report to the convention said that ICWU President Thomas E. Boyle appeared before the committee and confirmed that his organization had affiliated with the ALA—set up by the Teamsters and the Auto Work­ ers. The former was expelled by the AFL-CIO in 1957 (m charges of domination by cor­ rupt elements and the latter dis­ affiliated earlier this year. Boyle claimed, the committee noted, that "giving aid and com­ fort to the ALA and, in turn receiving aid and comfort from the ALA does not constitute sufficient ground to sever the relationship of the Chemical Workers with the AFL-CIO." The committee stressed "we do not agree," declaring that the ALA is a "dual organization rival to the AFL-CIO and that with complete knowledge of the true nature of the. ALA, the Chemical Workers freely and m Wide Range of Reforms Backed by MTD Delegates! (Continued from Page Two) tion of the U.S. fishing fieet, and the re-employment of displaced fishermen and cannery workers can be accomplished. The conven­ tion called upon the federal government to take whatever actions are necessa^—including economic sanctions against Latin Ameri­ can countries attacking U.S. fishing vessels on the high seas— to assure that these acts of piracy be brought to a halt. In other convention action, the delegates approved resolutions: • Calling for action on improving the quality of housing, health care, education and employment for America's non-white popula­ tion as the surest way to achieve equal opportunity for all citizens. • Condemning proposals to force compulsory arbitration on labor and management—particularly in the transportation field— and warning that such "tampering" would undercut the free collec­ tive bargaining process. • Emphatically opposing the nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. A resolution of particular importance to all citizens adopted by the convention dealt with the safeguarding of the basic right to privacy. The MTD warned that a mounting wave of "prying and spying" against the American people, and particularly against American workers, constitutes a "clear and unmistakable danger to our democratic society." It was wholeheartedly resolved that a special committee be appointed to conduct a sweeping study into the full extent of the invasion of the privacy and freedom of the .^erican people, and that this committee present periodic interim reports to the MTD Executive Board prior to a final report which will be presented to the Ninth Constitutional Convention of the MTD in 1971. Additional areas of vital concern to all trade unionists were considered as convention delegates adopted resolutions: • Reaffirming support of the "politics of participation" that has been successfully carried out by the AFL-CIO Cbmmittee>on Po­ litical Education, and by the political education arms of the MTD's respective affiliates. • Calling on Congress to repeal Section 14(b) of the TaftHartley Act which allows states to enact compulsory open-shOp laws. • Pledging continued support of the construction trades unions in their fight for on-site picketing rights. • Directing that all international unions affiliated with the MTD notify their local unions that, wherever MTD Port Councils are establi ed, die local unions should affiliate and become active in Port activities. • Condemning the practice of American companies contracting and purchasing foreign-made, off-shore drilling rigs. • Pledging anew its Unstinting support of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee in its boycott activities against California table grape growers. voluntarily embraced it and aligned itself with it." • SIU President Paul Hall who is also president of the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment, told the delegates that the "basic issue is quite simple: Do you do you not support the. trade union movement as rep­ resented by the AFL-CIO?" The fact that the Chemical Workers are among the smaller unions has nothing to do with the issue of expulsion. Hall said. He noted that the AFL-CIO had not hesitated to expel a much larger union, the Teamsters, on the basis of principle. The Executive Council's re­ port to the convention traced the development of the ALA as "a dual organization, rival to the AFL-CIO." It cited statements of objectives clearly indicating "the aggressive and disruptive designs of the ALA" towards AFL-CIO unions. And it re­ peated the warning issued by the council nearly a year before the Chemical Workers chose to join the ALA that affiliation consti­ tutes grounds for expulsion from the AFL-CIO. Steelworkers President I. W. Abel, chairman of the conven­ tion resolutions committee, moved the adoption of the com­ mittee resolution to expel the Chemical Workers—an action requiring a two-thirds vote. AFL-CIO President George Meany told the convention that the expulsion action is not to "punish" the Chemical Workers but to resolve "an organizational impossibility." The AFL-CIO constitution requires affiliates to respect the organizing jurisdiction of other affiliates. The ALA "right now" is raiding AFL-CIO unions, Meany noted. October, 1969 Sailing Days Over Pedro C. Esteban, left, a new SIU pensioner, receives his first pension check from SIU representative Paul McGaharn, at New York hall. Esteban, who sailed in the steward department as a cook, has been with the Union for 22 years. His last ship was the Steel Worker (Isthmian). Brother Esteban is a native of the Philippine Islands. Organization Key to Survival, Metal Trades Unions Warned ATLANTIC OTY—A vig­ orous campaign to organize every worker in the jurisdiction of the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department and its 22 affiliated unions was voted by delegates to the department's 54th con­ vention. "Organization is absolutely necessary, not only to our growth but also to our survival," President Maywood Boggs said in his first convention report as presiding officer. He took office three months ago as successor to B. A. Gritta, who resigned and was named president-emer­ itus. During a two-day period the convention welcomed into mem­ bership the Elevator Construc­ tors, a new department affiliate; voted full cooperation in a Na­ val shipyard campaign by the Cooperative Committee on Or­ ganizing Federal Employees and the AFL-CIO Department of Organization; mandated a sim­ ilar drive in private industry and called for unifonn rules of pro­ cedure and responsibility for all affiliated Metal Trades councils. ATLANTIC CITY—Con­ Boggs reported a major prob­ sumer boycotts launched by the lem in a "vicious raiding cam­ Meat Cutters against two mid­ paign by an unaffiliated organi­ west companies were endorsed zation at the Norfolk, Va., Na­ by the AFL-CIO in convention val Shipyard, where the depart­ resolutions. ment represents 7,600 workers. Union members are on strike The department will, he said, at three plants of Poultry Pack­ continue to press for a federal ers, Inc., and the convention shipbuilding program in the urged union families not to buy Navy and Merchant Marine. the company's Blue Star label SIU President Paul Hall, who products. The company sells is also president of the AFLabout 70 percent of its products CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ to the armed services. Another resolution backed ment, urged the assembled the boycott against Iowa Beef metal trades delegates to "keep Packers, Inc., which has been pressing" for an independent struck since Augpst 24. The maritime agency and a massive company has been known as a program to build more ships in foe of organized labor and uses U.S. yards—ships flying the non-union firms for its construc­ American flag, manned by U.S. crews and carrying more Amer­ tion work. AFL-CIO President George ican cargoes. AFL'GIO President George Meany wired the company of Meany told the convention that the convention's action and urged them to come to the bar­ "if inflation continues, the drive gaining table and negotiate a for higher wages is going to continue because we expect to cx)ntract. Meat Cutters Win AFL-CIO Backing In Two Boycotts move forward and not stand still." Boggs announced that the Metal Trades Department and the new AFL-CIO Labor Stud­ ies Center are planning a semi­ nar on collective bargaining for unions which represent federal employees. The convention adopted re­ ports: • Approving continued co­ operation with the AFL-CIO on radiation standards adopted by the Labor Department to pro­ tect uranium miners. • Expressing strong opposi­ tion to any interference by gov­ ernment agencies in the admin­ istration of joint apprenticeship training programs, and any ef­ forts to "discriminate because of race, creed or nationality." 1 Scott and Griffin Are New Leaders Of Senate GOP WASHINGTON — Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan are the new leaders of the Republicans in the Senate. Scott WM chosen as minority leader to succeed the late Sen­ ator Everett McKinley Dirksen, Scott defeated Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Tennessee, 2419, at a party caucus. Scott's election marked the first time that the Senate GOP, traditionally dominated by the conservative wing, has elected a moderate as their leader. Baker, Dirksen's son-in-law, became the candidate of the conservatives when Senator Ro­ man L. Hruska of Nebraska withdrew from the leadership contest in favor of the Tennessean. Following Scott's election, the caucus chose Griffin to replace Scott as assistant leader or whip. Baker again was the loser. This time the final vote against him was 23-20. A •f �October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine 23 Seafarers Added to Growing List of SlU Pensioners The swelling ranks of SIU pensioners has been increased by 23 additional Seafarers who last month ended their long ca­ reers as professional men of the sea, Conrado Navarra is ending a 40-year career at sea. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Navarra makes his Navarra Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed as an AB in the deck department. His last vessel was the Eagle Traveler, Brother Wyman is a native of Massachusetts, Nils S. Larsson, 63, is a na­ tive of Sweden who now makes his home in San Francisco, He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the deck department as a bosun. His last vessel was the San Juan, Brother Larsson has been sailing since 1928, George Harold Helmond, 63, joined the Union in the Port of Houston, A native of Galves­ ton, Texas, Brother Helmond continues to make his home there with his wife, Agnes, He sailed in the engine department and last worked for G and H Towing Company, Samuel Emil Ratz of Rahway, • home in New York City, His last vessel was the Steel Age, Seafarer Navarra sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. He joined the Union in the Port of New York, Crisanto Garfin is also a na­ tive of the Philippine Islands and now makes his home in New Orleans, He sailed as a cook and his last vessel was the Del Rio, His sailing career began 44 years ago. Seafarer Garfin joined the SIU in the Port of Larsson Helmond New Orleans, Anargyros Dokeris joined the SIU in the Port of New York, New Jersey, joined the SlU in He is a native of Greece who the Port of New York, He is a now makes his home in the native of Jersey City, New Jer­ Bronx, New York, with his sey, and now lives in Rahway wife, Triantafilio, Brother Dok­ with his wife, Geraldine, He eris is a veteran of 48 years at worked as a bridge motorman sea. His last vessel was the for the Pennsylvania Railroad, From 1942 until 1945 he served Marymar, in the Army, John T, Daly, 58, is a native of New York who now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with his wife, Evelyn, He joined the Union in the Port of New York and worked as a bridgeman for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, Mariano Arroyo joined the SIU in 1940 in the Port ^ of Dokeiis Moore New York and last sailed in the Charles Pate Moore of Pearl River, Louisiana, joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore, He is a native of German Town, Tennessee, and now lives in Pearl River with his wife, Idahlia. He sailed as a bosun in the deck department and last shipped aboard the Del Mundo, Brother Moore served in the Ratz Daly Navy from 1938 until 1945, Jesse Andrew Shonts, 63, is a native of Aurora, Illinois who deck department as a bosun. His last vessel was the Balti­ now lives in New London, Con­ more, A native of Puerto Rico, necticut with his wife, Max he still makes his home there with his wife, Tomasa, William Herman Thompson, 67, is a native of Saxton, Penn­ sylvania who now lives in New Orleans. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the steward de­ partment, His last vessel was the Chatham, Shonts Wyman Edward Granderson is clos­ Ellen, Seafarer Shonts was a ing out a sailing career that has bosun in the deck department spanned more than 25 years. and last sailed aboard the Jack­ Bom in Louisiana, he still sonville, For 13 years—^from makes his home there. Brother 1925 until 1938—^he served in Granderson, v/ho shipped as a the Coast Guard, Brother messman, joined the SIU in the Shonts has been sailing for 44 Port of New Orleans in 1945, years, , His last vessel was the Robert Trent, Lester Wyman, 71, lives in oined the George Edward Palm joined fif Arroyo Thompson the SIU in the Port of Frank­ fort, Michigan, in 1953, He sailed in the deck department as an AB, His last vessel was the Ann Arbor. Born in Michi­ gan, Brother Palm now lives in Wisconsin with his wife, Ruth, Oswald Seppet of Baltimore, Maryland, sailed as an AB in the deck department. He is 62 years old and was born in Estonia, now a republic of Rus­ sia, Brother Seppet joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1942 and last sailed on the Seamar, He had been sailing the seas for 44 years. Hillard Lee Trahan, 60, is an oldtime member of the Un­ ion who joined the SIU in the Port of Galveston in 1938. He was bom in Texas and still makes his home in the Port of Galveston, An oiler in the en­ gine department. Seafarer Trahan last sailed aboard the Walter Rice. He served in the Manesis Moran Parcolla judio joined the SIU in the Port sailed aboard the American Vic­ of New York in 1944. He has tory. been sailing since 1942, Sea­ Dominick Di Giovanni, 65, farer Merjudio served in the is a native of Texas who now Navy from 1919 until 1924, lives in Westwego, Louisiana, Oliver T, Cullen of Philadel- with his wife, Katie. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans and sailed as chief cook in the steward department. Brother Di Giovanni last worked for Amicus Carriers, Jan Piorkowski is a native of Poland who sailed as a mess­ man, wiper and ordinary sea­ man, Brother Piorkowski, who has completed 45 years of sail­ Merjudio Cullen ing, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1946, He last phia is 62 years old and a native of Delaware. He was an oiler in the engine > department and last, worked for P. F. Martin, Inc. Seafarer Cullen joined the Union in the Port of Philadel­ phia. Joe Parcolla, 64, joined the SIU in the Port of New York soon after the end of World DiGiovanni Piorkowski War II, He is a native of Manila, Philippine ' Islands, and now sailed aboard the Brooklyn, Sea­ makes his home in Brooklyn, farer Piorkowski and his wife, A messman in the steward de­ Helen, make their home in partment, Brother Parcolla last Farmingdale, New Jersey, Rep. St, Germain Warns: Granderson Palm Army from 1928 until 1936, Antonios E, Manesis of San Francisco, joined the SIU in the Port of New York, He is a native of Greece and sailed, as FWT in the engine department. Brother Manesis last worked for Sea-Land Service in 1968. Frank Moran, 64, was bom in Maryland and now lives in Edgewater, New Jersey. He joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed as an AB in the deck department. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card for active participa­ tion in the New York harbor Seppet Trahan beef. Brother Moran's last ves­ sel was the Seatrain New York, He had been sailing since 1927, Uldarico R, Merjudio has sailed as chief steward and cook and last shipped out aboard the Overseas Anna in 1968, He was born in the Philippine Islands and now makes his home in New York City, Brother Mer- Fleet Faces Covt. Takeover Unless Congress Acts Now WASHINGTON — A mem­ ber of Congress has wamed that the U.S. merchant marine faces a "government takeover," unless Congress acts to encour­ age new private, investment in cargo and passenger vessels. Speaking at a luncheon spon­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department, Rep­ resentative Fernand J. St. Ger­ main (D-R.I.) favored passage of pending legislation which would allow all ship operators to put earnings aside in tax-de­ ferred construction reserve funds. This privilege is now enjoyed by the 14 subsidized Americanflag shipping companies. It is not available, however, to the two-thirds of the industry which is unsubsidized. St. Germain noted that both the subsidized and unsubsidized segments of the merchant marine favor ex­ tension of this tax deferment to all ships in the U.S. fleet. "Unless we are prepared to nationalize the merchant marine (and) to have the government take over the building and oper­ ating of our cargo and passenger ships," the Rhode Island Con­ gressman declared, "then we must devise a program that will stimulate the investment of pri­ vate capital in building new ships to replace the over-age, obsolete ships now in our com­ mercial fleet." St. Germain recommended action on the tax-deferred con­ struction reserve legislation, cosponsored by more than 80 members of the House and Sen­ ate in the 91st Congress, with­ out waiting for Administration maritime proposals and without "wrapping our maritime pro­ gram up in a single omnibus bill," The weakness of the omnibus approach, St, Germain said, is that "we've done nothing at all to help alleviate the problems of our merchant marine." The Congressman said he "vigorously" opposed nationali­ zation of the fleet, adding that solutions could be found that would "continue to stress a civilian - built, civilian - owned and civilian-manned merchant marine. The tax-deferred construction reserve legislation meets this test, he said, because it empha­ sizes private investment, thus easing "some of the pressures on the tax-paying public for more federal investment," �Page Ten SEAFARERS OcioHer, 1969 LOG . n Trapped! PAY NOW, DIE LATER by James Gollin (Penguin—$1.25) When Gollin, a former insurance agent, first wrote this book a couple of years ago he caused no little amount of commotion in the life insur?.fifiitf2dKStry, Viewing life insurance and the industry supplying it as "in­ tegral parts of the American Dream," Gollin sees the industry as "perhaps the best entrenched, most privileged and most pow­ erful" of our private enterprises. Gollin presents a history of the life insurance industry as well as a description of its organizational structure. He offers advice to the prospective buyer which includes a warning to keep the agent away from the kitchen table. Once he gets you there he is well on the road to breaking your resistance down. The author fimds the industry filled with "bureaucratic misfunctionings, malodorous marketing practices and unresponsive­ ness to the public welfare." He believes much of the trouble lies in the basic belief of Americans in business leadership. We are "almost too willing to entrust great power to top management—whether in profitmaking corporations like General Motors or in our huge life insurance companies." Through their power and their public service image, life in­ surance companies are able to write their own ticket regarding legislative control, Gollin declares. More than 120 million Americans own life insurance. The total assets of the industry is over $150 billion. Gollin believes individual citizens do not express enough concern over how those billions are handled or invested. There is too great a tend­ ency to pass the buck to the companies, who in turn pass it right bade to us, he maintains. This book—now in paperback—offers valuable advice for anyone who owns life insurance or is thinking of buying some. • The wording of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is explicit. It reads, in part: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio­ lated " This is as it should be. Every American should feel secure in his indi­ vidual privacy—or, as Justice Louis Brandeis once termed it, his "right to be left alone"—as not only a matter of law but as his basic natural right. However, in the United States of 1969, it is no longer possible for our citizens to enjoy this fundamental guarantee which is the cornerstone of all the other freedoms embodied in the Bill of Rights of which it is a part. The privacy of Americans today, particularly working-class Americans, is being steadily whittled away by insidious electronic gadgetry and so-called psychological techniques which are deliberately designed to pry into our in­ nermost lives. Hidden microphones, peepholes, camera, bugs and wiretaps—used not only by law enforcement authorities and government agencies but by private corporations and unauthorized individuals as well—are at work recording our thoughts and movements no matter where we turn. ^ready wmmonplace in factory and office, this unconstitutional affront to human dignity has also found its way into the'home and even invaded the bedrooms and bathrooms of a helpless and largely unsuspecting America. Clandestine surveillance has become a booming industry against which there is at present no real defense. Secret dossiers on millions of citizens everytime they make a purchase, apply for a job—often unsuccessfully because of "credit agency" files on them—or fill out an application for anything from a loan to a club membership. Children in school are pumped about intimate family matters through probing questionnaires disguised as "guidance" tools. Although the growing encroachment on, freedom of privacy has been the subject of spasmodic Congressional investigation and occasional articles in the printed media, nobody has yet dug into this spreading epidemic of un­ checked snooping deeply enough to get anything done about it. Recognizing that if the American people lose their privacy they are in dan­ ger of losing their freedom as well, the recent convention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department unanimously approved the creation of a spe-^ cial committee within the department to conduct a sweeping study of the invasion of privacy and explore possible means of effectively fighting this clear and unmistakable threat to our democratic society. Positive action such as that taken by the delegates was long overdue. We wish them Godspeed in their efforts. • * * THE LABOUR MARKET ($1.95) This Penguin paperback is a rather technical study of a tech­ nical subject—^labor econornics. Part of the Penguin Modem Economic Series, the book is a collection of sixteen articles covering such subjects as labor supply and demand, unions, collective bargaining, unemployment and inflation. While writ­ ten for the British economy, the book has some good points for the colonies. Almost 400 pages long, the book is edited by B. J. McCormick and E. Owen Smith. iki * i » COMMITMENT TO WELFARE by Richard M. Titmuss (Pantheon—$6.95) Richard M. Titmuss is recognized as an authority of the wel­ fare state. An expert on British welfare, his scholarly essays carry timely and informative messages for us as well. This is not the kind of book to hold the attention of the casual reader, but for those interested in all the aspects of welfare, it is worthwhile reading. At one point, Titmuss writes: "In the ultimate analysis society may have to choose between 'the sense of community' on the one hand, with which is equated small-scale and often ineffectively preventive poor-quality serv­ ices, and larger social groupings offering better quality services and more freedom of choice for consumers, but with the recog­ nized dangers of larger bureaucracies and professional power units." Here we have the crux of the matter. As with other phases of our society, we are faced in welfare with the choice between local ^jontrol and commitment—^the county home and churchsponsored soup kitchen—and the more adequate, but less per­ sonal, state and national welfare programs. The definition of "welfare" extends far beyond the charitable implications which too many attach to it. The welfare «f an individual is his well being. Taken in this light, one could even classify the oil depletion allowance as a form of welfare benefit for the already wealthy oilman. ; It is the collective welfare of the citizenry that determines the welfare of the community, state or nation. In most; cases the needs are far greater than what society is willing to commit; to­ ward meeting them. This leads the author to label hll welfare programs a fofm of rationing. • Titmuss calls social security "one of the great social inven­ tions of the twentieth century." By encouraging individual participation, social security programs remove the stigma of shame attached to charity. * r] * EQUAL APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITIES ($1.25) The labor movement is making wide distribution of this pub­ lication. Published by the Institute of Labor and Industrial Re­ lations, P.O. Box 1567 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, the book­ let deals with apprenticeship programs and the Negro. An anal­ ysis of one successful program and suggestions for attracting more Negroes are made. •i �/Growing • Number of Consumer Luws October, 1969 SEAFARERS UNO Huve Burely Srrukhed the Surfure mUUWAIT "Easy terms" sign doesn't indicate for whom they are "easy". Nor does it figure what the total tab will be when the high interest rates and compulsory insurance are added on. And if you miss a payment, you may lose your purchase and have to pay for it besides. The highest interest rates greatest recent improvements since the Civil War and other have been made. "But credit problems still confront the U.S. practices are still so wasteful consumer despite a "decade of and deceptive," he says, "that accelerated activity" in his be­ it also is the area of most urgent half, Sidney Margoiius writes in need for further reform." the September issue of the Truth-in-lending, requiring American Federationist. disclosure of true annual inter­ Margoiius, author of several est rates, is the major achieve­ books and a widely-read weekly ment, Margoiius says, but un­ newspaper column on consumer fortunately it does not reduce affairs, cites consumer credit, interest rates. And at present food prices, auto insurance and high interest rates are biting into utility rates as prime targets for such vital U.S. programs as improvement. loans for college students, Mar­ Consumer credit, Margoiius goiius notes. says, is the area in which the Sp>ecific abuses which Margo­ iius says should be removed in­ clude the "holder-in-due-course" doctrine which enables finance companies to escape responsi­ bility for lack of performance by the seller, the seller's right to repossess and also get a de­ contribution base (earnings on ficiency judgment; subsequent which social security taxes are garnishment to collect the defi­ paid) from $7,800 to $15,000 ciency judgment and high-priced in three steps between 1970 and life and health insurance re­ 1974. There is a provision for quired for the duration of the automatic adjustments begin­ loan. ning in 1976. These accompanying insur­ An important feature of the ance policies are providing 35 bill would bring the government percent of the total profit for the in on helping to finance social nation's 37 top finance compa­ security. The present employeremployee paid program would nies and banks, Margoiius points become tripartite with the fed­ out. Food prices have soared 5.5 eral contribution increasing un­ til it paid for one-third of the percent in the past year, the au­ thor says. Most of the cost has total cost in 1980. Gilbert stressed that actuaries been added by processing and have studied his bill and found distribution which are now get­ it to be "financially sound." He ting 60 cents of each consumer pointed out that increased costs dollar while the farmer is get­ would be more than offset by a ting 38 to 40 cents. strengthened economy and sav­ One result of the "hard-sell" ings on relief programs for the on food products is the irrational elderly. method of packaging, in which AFL-CIO Social Security Di­ Margoiius cites such sizes as rector Bert Seidman described 5.25 ounces and the "classic" Gilbert's bill as being "com­ 71 different sizes of potato pletely in line with the recom­ chips. mendations on social security Truth-in-packaging did cut adopted by the AFL-CIO con­ tho^e potato chip sizes from 71 vention in 1967." to 48, but White House con­ The measure's "strong im­ sumer adviser Virginia Knauer provements" in social security noted recently that there are still benefits aind Medicare, he said, "would have the effect of all no regulations to control slack but wiping out poverty among fill, cents-off labeling, size stand­ elderly citizens and assure them ards and labeling of ingredients. of decent health care." "The bill contains goals the AFL-CIO has long sought and Jimith Appointed to Fill we intend to work with the el­ derly and other groups in se­ DIrksenSenute Vurunry curing its passage," Seidman de­ WASHINGTON — The Re­ clared. publican speaker of the Illinois President Nelson H. Crtiik- House, Ralph T. Smith, has shank of the National Council been appointed to the U.S. Sen­ of Senior Citizens termed the ate seat vacated by the recent bill's provisions "bold, imagina­ death of Everett M. Dirksen. tive and even daring—^worthy Governor Richard Ogilvie (R) of an America that is accus­ named Smith after State Attor­ tomed to thinking big." ney General WilliiuMi J. Scott Pointing out that the legisla­ said he didn't want the job. The tion is along the lines of a pro­ appointment runs only through gram advocated by the council 1970. In the 1970 general elec­ convention earlier this year, he tion, Illinois voters will choose said, "I know that I can pledge a senator to serve out the four you the full support of our or­ years that will then ronain of ganization." Dirksen's term. Gilbert Bill Revamps Social Security; Would WipeOutPoverty Among Aged r 111" I'*'* |i * K ri WASHINGTON — Legisla­ tion designed to virtually wipe out poverty among the nation's elderly by raising total social security benefits at least 50 per­ cent by 1974 has been intro­ duced in Congress. The measure, initially spon­ sored by Representative Jacob H. Gilbert (D-N.Y.) of the House Ways and Means Com­ mittee, drew inunediate support from the AFL-CIO and the Na­ tional Council of Senior Citi­ zens. In explaining his bill at a press conference and on the House floor, Gilbert termed it "the most comprehensive social security bill ever submitted to Congress." He pointed particularly to its increase in minimum benefits that "will place nearly all bene­ ficiaries above the poverty level," general increases in ben­ efits and "sufistantial" improve­ ments in Medicare. Meanwhile President Nixon announced that he will send a request for a 10 percent increase in social security benefits to Congress next week. That is 3 percent more than he had pre­ viously proposed. Nixon made the announce­ ment in signing a bill extending a federal support program for local projects that employ older Americans. He did not elabo­ rate on his announcement ex­ cept to say he would ask that benefit increases be effective AprU 1, 1970. The need for "substantially" raising the general level of so­ cial security benefits, Gilbert said, "becomes very clear to everyone who looks at the low level of present benefits and considers the fact that most ben­ eficiaries have very little other income." "T^e bill recognizes for the first time," he added, "that the elderly have a ri^t to live their deplining years in dignity and in reasonable comfort." Under the bill the minimum social security benefit would be Page Eleven Sidney Margoiius Writes: E-Z TERMS I' LOG increased by 87 percent, going from its present level of $55 a month to $80 in January 1970, to $90 in January 1972, and to $103 in January 1974. Other benefits would be raised by 10 percent, 12 per­ cent and 14 percent over the same three steps. Benefits for dependents and survivors would be increased proportionately. For the first time there would be cost-of-living protection un­ der social security, with benefits automatically adjusted annually for each 1 percent increase in the cost of living beginning in 1975. The medical insurance part of Medicare, now paid for part­ ly by the retiree, would be fi­ nanced through contributions paid during the beneficiary's working years, in the same way hospital insurance is now fi­ nanced. The present insurance cover­ age under Medicare would be expanded to include the cost of prescription drugs, and the en­ tire program would be extended to include persons under 65 who are receiving disability ben­ efits under social security. These provisions would take effect in January 1972. Gilbert cited these other pro­ visions: • The maximum lump-sum death payment would be raised from $255 to $500, effective in January 1970. • The amount of earnings a person can have in a year and still get a full social security benefit would be increased from the present $1,680 to $1,800, effective in January 1970. • Improvements in widows' benefits; higher benefits for those who retire under the Social Se­ curity Act before age 65; per­ mitting a retiree's benefits to be based upon his highest 10 years' earnings out of any 15 consecu­ tive years after 1950; reduction of the disability benefit waiting period from six months to three. The bill would increase the The author calls for a solution through "unit pricing," which requires the seller to spell out the price per pound, ounce, pint or other standard measure. In this area, Margoiius says the most progress has been made in New York City where "a sur­ prisingly knowledgeable Con­ sumer Commissioner, former Miss America Bess Myerson Grant, is moving toward a pio­ neering requirement of unit pricing of some packaged goods." Auto insurance has received intense attention, the article points out, with concentration on arbitrary cancellations of policies and premium increases which often sail through state regulatory agencies without be­ ing questioned. In several states, labor and credit unions are ex­ ploiting group buying as a way to reduce auto insurance costs. Senator Lee Metcalf (DMont.) is trying to get Congress to establish a utility consumers' counsel, Margoiius says. At present, utility companies "are represented by phalanxes of ex­ perts, completely out-manning state commission staffs" on rate increases. Margoiius sees some hopeful signs in consumer affairs, in­ cluding the appointment of Mrs. Knauer and her stand on fat content in frankfurters and other issues. Some innovative state legis­ lation is also encouraging, Mar­ goiius says. These include the licensing of home improvement salesmen in Michigan, the 12 percent retail credit ceiling in Washington and court injunc­ tions barring deceptive practices on auto repair and furnace in­ stallations in Rhode Island. SEAFAItEBS^^i:.00 October 1969 • Vol XXXI. No. 12 Offlclsl Publication of the Seafarera International Union of North America. Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes arid Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Sxeeutive Board PAUI. HALL. President EARL SHEPARD GAL TANNER VicerPrssident Exoe. Viee-Pree. LINDSBT WILLIAMS AL KERR Vice-President Ste.-Troat. RORERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Viee-President Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WILL KARP CHARLES SVENSON FRANK BlARuiGTTA AL COHEN MARIETTA CRISCI Staff Photograpkor ANTHONY ANBALOI nUbM BNtlihr at no Ibsds Islaad AIMM •.E.. 0. C. 20018 kfttsSMljr. wt litoriMtlMal Uslsa. AUaatlt. OM, Ukts sad laiaad Walm DMrlst. AFL-M. m Fswtk Amis, irsaUifa. i.V. U292. TM. HVailatli ».«600L Ssaaad slaM pMiaia laM at Watklailsas. D. C. PMTMSTErO ATTE8TI08: sards sksald Is scat ta Isafarart latmatkaal Ualsa, Atlaatls. Oalf. Lakst ^ laM Watrn DMrlst. AFL-CIO. €75 FsMtb Assaas. OrsstUa. I.T. 11298. �Page Twelve SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 Congress Askedto Haltexploitation, Labor Dept Figures Show AntHabor Abase of Green-Carders Union Workers Far Ahead What is a union contract worth to the average worker? parel plants, he told the subcom­ In 1966, according to the Labor Department it was worth mittee,-they make up as much $1.14 an hour or about $2,371 a year. as 50 percent of the total force. That was the difference in the average hourly compensation For the most part, Sanchez of non-office workers in establishments with union contracts said, green-card holders are not and those without union contracts. union members, so when a The dollar difference is almost certainly greater now, but strike situation arises or a strike the 1966 data was the latest available when the Bureau of occurs "they take the em­ Labor Statistics published its report "Employee Compen­ ployer's side and continue to sation in the Private Nonfarm Economy." work" for fear of losing their jobs. Part of the difference was in the basic straight-time wage rates. The Mexican alien knows he The average union worker made $2.62 an hour at the time might be fired by his employer of the survey, as compared to $1.88 an hour in non-union for "union activities" and "he 40,000 Commnters employment. might not be able to find other Sanchez estimated that more work in the U.S. or even in But the union worker also got substantially more vacation than 40,000 green-card holders Mexico, where unemployment time, holidays, pension benefits, health insurance and other . work for U.S. firms along the is widespread," Sanchez pointed fringe benefits. border during the day, then re­ out. That brought his total hourly compensation—^the amount turn to homes in nearby Mexi­ The ACWA official noted the employer pays out on his behalf—^to $3.37 an hour. For can communities at night. that most green-card workers in the worker without a union contract, the comparable figure In many El Paso men's ap- the U.S. are hired at the "mere was only $2.23 an hour. $1.60 an hour minimum wage" Since the union worker puts in fewer hours on the job be­ but this makes him relatively cause of his longer vacations and added holidays the differ­ ence is even gre.ater when measured in terms of total com­ well-off if he lives in Mexico. pensation per hour actually worked. The Labor Department Living costs in Mexico are figures for that category boost the union differential to $1.29 much lower than in the U.S. an hour more than the non-union worker. and Mexicans with green cards are actually earning fotu- or five times as much as a worker Labor backed the project LAREDO, Tex. — Project in Mexico. HOPE, which has brought med­ when it was first getting started How about organizing the ical care and training to de­ and over the years AFL-CIO green-card workers? veloping nations around the affiliates and members have world for 10 years, has initiated helped provide funds. "I have tried to explain to its first domestic health educa­ In recalling the hospital ship's them the various benefits of un­ tion program. accomplishments, Walsh said: ion representation," Sanche/ FirrSBURGH—The federal Standard Corp., New York; the The program announced by said. "They do not argue or government has won a price-fix­ Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis.; two "We now feel that HOPE Dr. William B. Walsh, HOPE'S should turn some of its talent disagree with my reasoning. ing conviction here that could American Standard executives— founder and president, will use and experience inward and But always it is the same story. bring civil suits seeking billions Joseph P. Decker and Daniel J. teaching techniques learned work among our own minority They need a little more time to of dollars in damages against the Quinn and Norman R. Held, a abroad to better enable the groups to give them the hope thinic it over." nation's largest manufacturers Kohler executive. community to deliver health and confidence to survive and They were found guilty of fix­ of plumbing fixtures. "We have been told by a services. progress in our society. We ing the prices on such fixtures as "This case," a Justice Depart­ number of sources," he con­ Laredo was chosen with the know this can be done by edu­ ment attorney commented, bathtubs, toilets and sinks during aim of improving health care for cation, particularly in the health tinued, "that this reluctance to "makes all the other price-fixing a four-year period between Sep­ Mexican-Americans and other support fields. We have trained join the union is due to intimi­ cases seem pale by comparison." tember 1962 and the date of the members of minority groups. If hundreds considered untrain- dation by their employers who Convicted by a U.S. District government's indictments, Oc­ the program proves successful, able and have successfully have warned them that if they Court jury after five hours of de­ tober 6, 1966. HOPE expects to duplicate it bridged the cultural gap with join the union they will lose liberation were Borg-Wamer U.S. District Judge Louis Ro­ elsewhere. our approach." their jobs." Corp., Chicago; American senberg ordered an investigation before sentencing the defend­ Local people will be trained ants. He could hand out maxiin nursing, laboratory tech­ Seafarers All mun fines of $50,000 to each niques, community health and defendant and maximum prison other fields. In addition, HOPE sentences of one year to each will offer high school equivalen­ individual. cy training and establish a Mex­ The defendants, who an­ ican-American cultural studies nounced they would appeal the program. conviction, were the last of 15 Cooperating with the pro­ corporations and eight execu­ gram are the University of Tex­ tives indicted. as; Laredo hospitals, medical When the 12' other corpora­ groups and schools; the Laredo tions and five of. their executives Vocational Rehabilitation OflSce entered no contest pleas last and the Texas state government. year. Judge Rosenberg levied The program is planned for fines totaling $370,000 and im­ a three-to-five-year period at an posed jail sentences on four of estimated cost of $1^ million. the executives. Local and state agencies will The government said that the assume administration of the price-fixing involved about $1 program at the end of the billion in sales—or about 98 period. percent of the enameled cast iron plumbing fixtures and 80 Project HOPE is the prin­ percent of the vitreous plumbing cipal activity of The People-tofixtures sold in the United States People Health Foundation, Inc., during the four-year period. of Washington, D.C., which has sponsored the hospital ship In describing the scope of the S.S. HOPE since 1959. case, a government official esti­ mate that more than 300 pri­ Supported by contributions, vate triple-damage anti-trust the ship has conducted medical suits have been filed against the teaching and treatment pro­ Noboru Furuta, right, president, Muroran District, All Japan Seamen's Union, addresses AFL-CIO Mari­ plumbing manufacturers as a grams In eight nations i)n four time Trades Department. Listening are, from left, Peter McSavin, MID executive secretary, O. William continents. It has trained more Moody, MTD administrator (standing], and Akira Iwata, director. Planning Department, All Japan Sea­ result of the government's case. The suits ^ve been filed by than 5,100 physicians, sur­ men's Union. Top leaders of the 180,000-member All Japan Seamen's Union were honored guests at a re­ almost every state, many cities geons, dentists, nurses and tech­ cent MTD meeting in a move toward exploring ways and means of building closer ties of international and numerous private builders. friendship and fraternalism between the Japanese and American maritime unions and their membership. nologists. WASHINGTON — A Mexi­ can-American ofiBcial of the Clothing Workers has given Congress a vivid look at the way U.S. employers exploit alien green-card workers from Mexico. The witness before a Senate Labor subcommittee was An­ tonio M. Sanchez, a Mexicanbom, 17-year resident of the United States who is an ACWA business representative in El Paso, Tex. Sanchez and ACWA Vice President Howard D. Samuel supported bills before the sub­ committee to prohibit employers from using workers under greencard permits to undercut wages and working conditions or act as strikebreakers. Holders of green cards tech­ nically are supposed to be resi­ dent aliens in the U.S., but widespread evidence indicates many of them are "commuters," working in the U.S. and living in Mexico. The measures to crack down on employer abuses of the "green-carders" were previously endorsed by the AFL-CIO in testimony from Organizing Di­ rector William L. Kircher. -fj Project HOPE Begins Work On Domestic Health Program Plumbing Companies Convicted Of Widespread Price-Fixing -ri < \ )! I �SEAFARERS October, 1969 Page Thirteen LOG #ET YOOR 5HIPS COMMjnii HE SIU Ship's Committee serves as the allimportant pipeline of communication between TSlU-contracted vessels at sea and the Union's vital activities ashore, The committees, made up of a ship's chairman, secretary and one delegate each from the deck, engine and steward departments, holds weekly shipboard meet­ ings to keep crewmembers fully up to date on all matters concerning die membership. Erazo. left, Secretary Anqel RoT^" Delegate Nick Damln+ ^ cx T^? P«e on dect afte, discnsd?,"'^ &. r 1 y-' 1- 111 V der/a;%='>/rrf' "• report a PENNMAR-^this committee keeps the crew up to date on what the SlU is doing. From left are L Garabedlan, ship's secretary, L Contlcello, deck delegate, I. V. Rooms, oteward delegate and Clarence Brockett, ship's chairman after condvipting a successful ship's meeting. FANWO-OD—Beefs aboard this Waterman vessel are In good hands with an alert ship's committee. From left are Engine Delegate R. L. Karns, Deck Delegate H. S. Lee, Ship's Chairman E. J. Brannan, and Steward Delegate T. E. Markham after one of their meetings at which reports from all the departments were heard. BALTIMORE—Weekly meetings are conducted by this ship's committee: Francisco Cornier, deck delegate, Ernesto Rublo, engine delegate, Billy Burke, ship's chairman, Joseph Powers, ship's secretary and Pete Vlahos, steward delegate. They reported smooth trip. �Page Fourteen i SEAFARERS October, 1969 LOG Census Bureau Estimates for 1968 Many Whites hscape from Poverty Expanded Federal Controls Over Unsafe Toys Urged But 33% of Negroes Are Stiff Poor WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has called for legislation to expand the Food and Drug Administration's authority to remove hazardous toys from the marketplace. The FDA now has the power to ban toys, and other articles intended for children, that are found to be toxic, corrosive, irritating, sensitizing, flammable, pressurized or radiational. An interim report of the National Commission on Product Safety, submitted in February, called for legislation that would extend the agency's power and permit it to remove toys that contain electrical, mechanical or thermal hazards. The commission cited testimony by consumer experts calling attention to "grave inadequacies in the protection of children against death and injury from hazardous toys." It described toy stoves that heated up to 800 degrees Fah­ renheit, electronic science kits with "dangerously live termi­ nals," unsafe chemistry sets and a blow gun in which the dart might be inhaled by a child. In a letter to a House Commerce subcommittee consider­ ing the commission's proposals, AFL-CIO Legislative Direc­ tor Andrew J. Biemiller said: "the sooner Congress moves as the commission has recommended the better." The law, he emphasized, "must be expanded ... to protect unwary and irmocent children against additional hazards which unfortunately are present in toys and other items on the market." Biemiller's letter also included AFL-CIO endorsement for another bill before the subcommittee that would extend the life of the commission until June 30, 1970. It was created by Congress in 1967 and without extension will expire in No­ vember. •"'^•^^MVASmNGTON—The Cen­ 1968, compared with $3,412 in • Sizable gains have been sus Bureau estimated that 25.4 1967 and $2,974 in 1959. made in recent years in the pro­ million people were living in Of the total 25.4 million poor portion of persons—male and poverty in 1968—a decline of people, 17.4 million were white female, white and Negro—hav­ 2.3 million from the year be­ and 8 million were from Negro ing at least a high school educa­ fore. tion. In 1966, for example, the and other minority groups. percentage of Negro males 25 The total represented 13 per­ While the percentage of poor to 29 years old who had com­ cent of the nation with incomes people has been declining over­ pleted high school was 49 per­ below the government-defined all, it has increased for persons poverty level at the end of the over 65 in the past decade. The cent. The figure is now 60 per­ year. But among Negroes, 33 report revealed that the poverty cent. • One-fifth of the population percent were in the ranks of rolls for the aged rose from 15 percent in 1959 to 18 percent in —about 36 million persons— the poor. 1968. moved during the 12-month pe­ The report showed marked Children accounted for about riod ended March 30. About gains in the economic status of 20 percent of all poor persons two of the three movers re­ poorer families in the past dec­ in both 1959 and 1968. About mained in the same county. ade. For the nation as a whole, 41 percent of all poor children • The average size of house­ 22 percent were classed as poor were members of races other holds in the country continued in 1959, including 56 percent than white in 1968, the Census to decline. Since 1964 the aver­ Bureau noted. of the Negro population. age size per family dropped , The bureau also pointed out from 3.33 persons to 3.19 per­ In the past year, about 1.6 that as a result of changes in the sons in 1969. million white persons and 800,method of establishing the pov­ 000 Negroes and persons of • Ratios of own children other races moved above the erty level, the number of poor under five years old between persons in 1967 was some 1.6 1960-69 per 1,000 women de­ poverty level, the bureau re­ million higher than originally clined about one-fourth for ported. figured. The number of families whites and about one-third for The report, based on a sam­ included in the category was Negroes, the bureau reported. ple survey taken in March, boosted by about 360,000. came—^by coincidence—on the Originally, the poverty index fifth anniversary of President was based on the Agriculture Johnson's signing of the Eco­ Department's definition of a nomic Opportunity Act that "nutritionally adequate" -food launched the "war on poverty." plan. The Census Bureau now bases the poverty threshold on It showed that nearly 11 mil­ the Consumer Price Index as a lion persons have climbed above whole, rather than on these items T]|e top executives of Ameri­ dend units" which were valued the poverty level since 1964,' alone. ca's''biggest corporations may at $68,000. That's $13,000 including 3 million Negroes. The Census report further deplore what they call "infla­ more than the previous year. But most experts agree that disclosed that the median fam­ tionary" wage demands by un­ The top man in International the reason for the gains is more ily income rose 8.3 percent last Telephone and Telegraph picked ions. , a result of the boom in the econ­ year to an all-time high of up a $50,000 pay hike and an But a survey by Business omy, rather than the govern­ $8,600. But after adjustment additional $25,000 in bonus for Week magazine found that most ment's anti-poverty programs. for the rise in prices, the gain of them were able to keep a big a total compensation of $559,Coupled with the economic in purchasing power for the step ahead of the rise in living 820. But the chairman of Amerexpansion, said Director Nat average family was only 3.9 costs last year through fatter Goldfinger of the AFL-CIO percent over 1967. pay checks, bigger bonuses and Department of Research, are Median earnings of white a growing assortment of other the greater number of jobs, re­ families in 1968 amoimted to forms of compensation. duction of unemployment and $8,937 and $5,360 for Negro The nation's biggest corpora­ higher wages. All these were families, or about 60 percent tion, General Motors, did well factors in lifting the millions of of that for whites. The bureau by its board chairman. His pay persons out of poverty, he em­ noted, however, that Negroes OAKLAND, Calif. —Con­ went up nearly $42,000 to phasized. cerned psychiatrists, psycholo­ have been gaining in income $225,000. In appreciation of gists and psychiatric social work­ Taking increases in the cost steadily for the past several his services, his annual bonus ers employed by Alameda of living into account, the gov­ years toward parity with white was raised $33,750 to $42,750. County have joined the Service ernment now sets the poverty workers. And on top of that, there level income for a non-farm The Census Bureau also re­ were various stock credits that Employees in hopes that higher salaries will help them maintain family of four at $3,553 in ported: brought his total compensation their professional standards. to $795,000. Two other GM The 40 professionals are with officials also topped the $700,the psychiatric clinic at Ala­ 000 mark. meda County's Highland Hospi­ Textile workers may be to­ tal. Psychiatrists hold M.D. de­ wards the bottom of industrial grees; psychologists have Ph.D. pay scales. But the chairman of degrees and social workers have Burlington Industries earned a masters' degrees. Leaders of state legislatures favor direct, popular election pay hike of $65,000 to bring of the President of the United States, according to a poll Their salaries in Alameda his base salary up to $225,000 taken by Nation's Business magazine. County average 7.5 percent be­ —plus an extra $12,467 in a The Chamber of Commerce publication surveyed delegates low other California metropoli­ profit-sharing plan. Four other to the National Conference of State Legislative Leaders and found that: Burlington executives were over tan areas for like professional the $100,000 mark in salary categories, SEIU Social Work­ • By a 6-1 margin, they favored changes in the present ers Local 535 reported. alone. Electoral College method of electing the President. Because of sub-standard sal­ • Two-thirds of those favoring a change support direct Uiere was no wage freeze at election of the President—far more than the number support­ the E. I. du Pont headquarters. aries, the count}' has been un­ ing any other plan. / J> Not only did its president get a able to fill many psychiatric • Of those favoring a direct vote, 75 percent were of the $62,000 pay raise to $193,300 posts, the union noted, and the (pinion that the houses of the legislature in which they serve and a $32,000 increase in his situation is expected to worsen would ratify a constitutional amendment to that effect. bonus to $117,000, but he also this summer when mental health received something called "divi­ care services will be expanded. Salury Hikes, Bonuses, Stoik Deuls Keep Top Exoiutives Aiive und Well Psychiatrists Join Service Workers In Salary Quest State Leaders in Support Of Direct Presidential Vote ican Telephone and Telegraph had to settle for a $50,000 sal­ ary increase, to $295,833. And Republic Steel's Chairman prac­ tically was in a rut with only a $7,500 salary increase to $322,500. Things were better in the dime store business, though, with the F. W. Woolworth chair­ man earning a $31,000 raise to $333,000. And in the soap field. Proctor and Gamble's president stayed ahead of rising living costs with a $100,000 pay raise to $425,000. The company also set aside $60,000 for him in something called a profit-sharing trust. That's more than $12,000 above what they put in the pre­ vious year. Business Week reports that companies are coming up with new varieties of stock option plans, including something called "phantom stock." This is intended to save an executive from paying for stock out of his own pocket to take advantage of a stock option. The company just "makes believe" he bought the stock and five of 10 years later pays him his "profits" in cash. At a General Motors stock­ holders' meeting, some killjoys proposed limiting bonuses to ex­ ecutives to 100 percent of base pay. GM's bonus and salary committee indignantly retorted that setting such a limit on com­ pensation would discoura^ ex­ ecutives from making a maxi­ mum effort �Oetober, 1969 SEAFARERS HLSS Lifeboat Class No. 25 studied hard during this evening review session the day before they took the test. Their hard work paid off as every man in the class passed with flying colors—most with 90% plus. LOG Trainee James Adkins, from Bakersfield, Calif., goes over his answer sheet with HLSS Instructor Tom Brooks as Chief Jack Slaughter, CoastGuard examiner, checks the.scores. More than half passed with scores of 100. ^^TRIUNEES WIN URBOH TICKEIS MORE TRAINEE CLASSES have earned their endorsements as qualified lifer FIVE boatmen after successfully completing a thorough program of classroom and prac­ Page Fifteen CLASS #24—(Front row, l-r): Roger Fleming, Alvin Martin, Jimmy Truitt, Edward Patfon, John Jordan, Manuel Johnson. (Second rpw): Charles Bailey, Richard Scott, James Higgins, James Shields. Michael Jez. (Third row): Willis Laimbert, John Weil, "Phillip Davis, Theodore Reim, Gary Saccucci. (Fourth row): Stanley Reed, Terry Shortridge, Pheo Smith, George Wilson, Robert Sickles. (Fifth row): Jay Bell, Caleb Leonard, B. Murphy, Tom Lovejoy, Wm. Hardage, C. A. Smith. tical instruction at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point. This latest group brings to welhoVer 1,000 thfe total number of trainees who have passed the Coast Guard examination and demonstrated their proficiency in lifeboats. ITie HLSS lifeboat course includes 14 hours of classroom instruction and 30 hours of practical experience in the boats. , UBsa CLASS #23—(Front row l-r): Jarry Barnes, Richard Knox, James Pearston. Richard Rucki, Guy Register, Horace Scott, Joe Szekely, Robert Davis. (Second row): Tony Bryant, Jeffrey Morgensen, Craig Day, Dennest Hamm, N. Parsons, Stan Cherry, Sid­ ney Vaiton. (Third row): Spencer Miller, Warwick Lambe, Charles Metzler, Phillip Barry, Bryan Dunlap, Vincent Riley. (Fourth row): Jose Vivas, Julio Evans, Johnny Trehern, Timothy Pearson. Most graduates had scores of more than 90 percent. CLASS #22—Donald Allison, Wallace Beckett, Julius Bounds, George Booker, Rob­ ert Boykin, Peter Cirillo, Larry Cole, Paul Crum, Leroy Fitchett, Gerald Garnto. Andrew Gore, Bruce Gray, James Gray, Patrick Grooms, Craig Huntley, Cecil Leasure, Theodore Lee, Michael Levan, Ercell Manuel, Wayne Moore, Gregory A. Nagel, Robert Patrick, William Pitt, Anthony Purdin, Glenn Roberts, Ray Roberts, James Sejda, Reginald Smith, Russell Standley, James O. Stanley Jr., and Garrett Wilson. CLASS #26—(Front row, l-r): Instructor Tom Brooks,- Dennis Edwards, Keith Dealer, Donald Layne, Samuel Bates. (Second row); Herbert Spencer, Michael Day, Kent McKenna, William Washington, Joray Dale. (Third row): Alan Hall, John Connelly, Marshall Cumberlidg^i Charles Blakley, Ronald Roper. (Top row): Mike Griffin, Joseph Sciacchitano, Donald Hall, Joseph Harris, Joseph Carter. Class #26 graduated 100%. CLASS #25—(Front row, l-r): Lloyd Vallery, Steven Foster, Rodney Couto, Ware Newby, Richard Sawart, Wendell Gettridge, Patrick Poinsotte. (Second row): Paul H. Juzang, Roger Williams, George Peteusky, Felipe Martinez, Daniel Herrick, Raymond Backer. (Third row): James McGovern, Robert Kisacky, Phillip Melfi, Kevin Flanagan, James Adkins, John Viarengo. (Fourth row): Kenneth E. Lloyd, Doyle W. Ellette, Ronald L. Forth, Daniel Monillas, Harold G. Cumbee. More than 1,000 young men have received lifeboat endorsements at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. f) �Pace Sixteen October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG T he 225 delegates who attended the re­ cent convention of the AfL-CIO Maritime Trades Department heard many speakers voice optimism that iong overdue reforms in the nation's maritime policies would soon be established. The delegates represented 7.5 million American workers in 42 national and international unions. On this page are photo highlights of the MTD Convention, ^ This was the scene at opening of the Eighth Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, The 225 delegates pledged to carry on the fight for a maritime program based on fair play to all segments of the maritime industry. The convention also dealt with a wide range of domestic isSues. Alvin Heaps, secretary-treasurer of RWDSU, chats with SlU Presi­ dent Paul Hall, MTD Becutive Secretary-Treasurer Peter McGavin, and SlUNA Vice President John Yarmola at convention recess. Robert Powell, Vice President Laborers International Union SlU President Paul Hall welcomes the convention lead-off speaker, AFL-CIO President George Meany, Meany strongly denounced the nomination of Judge Clement Haynsworth to the U.S. Supreme Court charging that he was "completely out of line with labor's philosophy on labor and civil rights," In the photo at left. President Hall greets Gov, Luis A, Ferre, of Puerto Rico, as Keith Terpe, president of the SlU of Puerto Rico, looks on. Gov, Ferre won support in his efforts to secure the right to vote in presidential elec­ tions for the 2,7 rhillion American citizens in Puerto Rico, Gov, Richard Hughes New Jersey SlUNA Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr greets Senator Har­ rison Williams (D-N,J,), Senator Williams was among the^many congressional leaders who spoke to delegates. Senators Gale W, McGee (D-Wyo,), left, and Frank E, Moss (D-Utah), center, chat with Dave Turner, secretary-treasiirer of Sheet Metal Workers, during a convention break. MTD Administrator O, William Moody, left, holds a discussion with Senator Joseph Montoya (D-N,M,). Senator Montoya was a speaker at the convention. Morris Weisberger, SlUNA vice president, gets together with Page Groton, of the Boilermakers Union, for a chat as another session of the MTD Convention prepares to open. Sen, Charles E, Goodell (R-N,Y,) Sen, Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) Archibald King, Chairman Isthmian Lines Rep, Edward A, Garmatz (D-Md.) Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Texas) Mayor James Tate Philadelphia, Pa. Sen, John O. Pastore (D.R.I,) Rep. James J. Howard (D-N.J.) Sharing table during convention session were Don Rotan of Marine Cooks (left), SlU Sec.-Treas, Al Kerr and Ed Turner, of the MCS. Seated at Kerr's �October, 1969 SEATARERS LOG Pag© President George Meany keyed the opening of the Eighth Convention of the AFL-CIO to meet the chal­ lenges of the 1970s. Meany reviewed the events of the 1960s and told the delegates: "We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go." T he Eighth Convention of the AFLCIO, recently concluded In Atlan­ tic City, put the American labor movement in high gear to meet the challenges of the 1970s with a pro­ gram designed to meet the needs of the nation and encourage an expanding trade union movement. Pictured on this page are some of the scenes of the convention. Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey spelled out a pointby-poiht indictment of the present Administration, and urged a new drive for liberal, progressive programs for the nation. SlU President Paul Hall greets Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Aldrin narrated a film of the historic moon landing for the delegates, and told them the skills and tax dollars of American workers made a large contribution to the success of the program. h r AFL-CIO President Meany and Vice President A. Philip Randolph get together for a discussion during a brief convention break. SlU President Paul Hall addresses Convention delegates, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland is at right. Mrs. Golda Meir Prime Minister of Israel Getting together for an informal chat with San Francisco tvtayor Joseph Alioto, right, are SlUNA Vice Presidents Ed Turner and John Yarmola, and SlUNA Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr, There was time for levity, too, as Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey shares a joke with Secretary-Treasurer Robert Diefenbach, left, and President Ed S. Miller, center, of HRE&BIU. Melvin Laird U.S. Secretary of Defense Bayard Rustin, Director A. Philip Randolph Institute Newly-elected AFL-CIO Council members pose with top officers. From left: Vice Presidents Thomas W. Gleason, Peter Fosco, John F. Griner, Charles Luna, Jerry Wurf, Sec.-Treas. Lane Kirkland, Pres. George Meany, and Vice Presidents Frederick O'Neal, Louis Stulberq, Peter Bommarito, Floyd Smith. George P. Shultz U.S. Secretary of Labor �Page Eighteen SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 ENGINE DEPARTMENT ^"11™™.,,,^ ' ®fv- 3* last year alone, an _ engine department • 1 fiSj if!' the training that enables e g ' BSiillf Ti/ " i5' .3 sonnel to man ^ program, like t^ose . „.. ^, T:heengiin«upgrato^ V > ,uneensiii«"i'&—° and^ steward: stewarQ.l ^ ... j— -maat^ned to^provt^^^^^a„,e^ to^provr^^ ., , Nmaint^ned ^^ , ^ : i:iLSs }r.Wng ' aepartmeptr . profi- S^EIBB^EH; pT.;°s «»~;,:E,ssss: • •':• • SrSia riaiOT -tmer^yei^^^ Coast Guard Examiner D ^ completed tra.n.ng for. an eie •- Crovetto, and R. Wiiiiamb 1„ brth ett»^ !SSrin.tmt»r. SiSliS'Sit 5- «"»tions. .^.M.E.D. Glass September In the back row (l-r) are Fred Tlerney. ;:^| ' Cox. Chester and William Ohler. ::; /e .. :J ard Donovan. Tin^thy ® Lawrence r • : v;«v:row: Coast Guard Warren Lander. ^ ;> r j son. Michael Dawson, . .| Harold Downs, and E. Polk and T. Vincent. front are Artie Banes. H. Salazar, t. . _ , • . • .'• • ••••-• b:M.E.D:g«s i s :. Ne«. '•' gel . !' i.i'v-' • , ..••,• • . -.,'•' Ml ^MlXS* Instriictbr Ed ,Ellison, SS.jKsSSSH?SB. ;rP..o.hy Speld-r. Beckley. . Sant Arthur, Ennis Charles. Charles. Steven oi thpmas Duke, and ^ary , ,, <:? Corde,. ,^"9- P . , , ^^ , • ^ . - ..: ,. •,. . , ... ",r �SEAFARERS October, 1969 Air/iae Pilots Score Sofsty Hazards, Propose Own Solutions to Industry ATLANTA—The aviation As chairman of ALPA's air industry "is very late" in facing traffic control committee, he up to mounting safety problems stated that controller and cock­ and it cannot expect continued pit workloads are "intolerable." progress imtil it solves them, The control system, Muirheid President Charles H. Ruby of said, is converting pilots into the Air Line Pilots warned here parrots, "which are birds that recently. talk a lot but don't fly well." Captain Earl R. Waggoner, ALPA insists that these prob­ chairman of the union's objects lems be solved and it will con­ tinue to propose solutions at detection committee, said a re­ safety meetings and before con­ duction of airplane hijacking gressional hearings, Ruby told calls for defensive equipment the union's annual Air Safety on aircraft and a means of re­ turning hijackers for criminal Forum. prosecution. The four-day forum, which He expressed an opinion that Ruby keynoted, dealt with such , frequency of violence on planes critical problems as air traffic is directly related to the public­ control, congestion, certification ity it gets and urged news media of airports and airport man­ to "realize the disservice they agers, collision avoidance and do" by playing up hijacking. cabin safety. The forum was attended by more than 400 pilots and repre­ sentatives of aircraft manufac­ turers, airlines and government. The union's Steward and Stew­ ardess Division also held its an­ nual forum here at the same time. Until the industry develops WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO collision prevention techniques. Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirk­ Ruby pointed out, the collision land has been named by De­ h^ard must be minimized by fense Secretary Melvin R. Laird enlarging old airports and build­ to a 16-member panel that will ing new ones. make a year-long study of the The airport danger, he noted, Pentagon's management, re­ is demonstrated by the fact that search, procurement and deci­ jet aircraft are regularly being sion-making machinery. squeezed into 4,500 and 5,000The panel, headed by Gilbert foot runways when ALPA's W. Fitzhugh, chairman of the analysis, based on pilot experi­ board of Metropolitan Life In­ ence, dictates 6,500 feet as a surance Company, will then safe minimum. make recommendations for re­ The forum received a num­ forms. Educators, attorneys and ber of reports from ALPA's business executives make up the various committees which func­ bulk of the panel. tion throughout the year in as­ Its formation comes at a time sembling material on safety and when the Defense Department seeking ways to improve it. has been imder criticism from Traffic Control Needs Congress for underestimating Captain Clyde Muirheid, Jr., costs of major programs. In announcing the panel's reported that congested voice makeup. Laird said he was con­ frequencies, inefficient use of airspace and an intermix of fident that its work "will enable planes with widely varying per­ the department to perform its formance capabilities are parts nation^ security mission better, ^ of the air traffic control problem and save the taxpayer money by ' "in most urgent need of correc­ eliminating wasteful practices of the past." tion." Kirkland Assigned To Study Panel On Defense Costs ./! r Tl • , , ANYTIME-ANYIVHifti ^ MEAliS NOMORESHfPS Captain Vic Hewes, chair­ man of the rescue and fire com­ mittee, announced that the National Fire Protecticm Asso­ ciation has for the first time set requirements for fire and rescue equipment at airports that meet ALPA standards. Equ^ment Nfl He said a committee survey revealed that 22 airports han­ dling twin-engine jet service and nine handling three-engine jets had no fire and rescue equip­ ment as of March 1969. Ruby, on the recommenda­ tion of the union's board, has notified the managers of the 31 airports, that ALPA members will make every effort to discon­ tinue operations at these air­ ports by May 1970 unless firecrash equipment is installed by them. The Stewards . and Steward­ esses Division forum heard Rob­ ert J. Serling, an aviation author and air safety consultant, urge airlines to strengthen the safety messages delivered by cabin attendants to passengers. Pleading for safety conscious­ ness, he said, "If you tolerate carelessness, indifference, lack of responsibility, you have no right to criticize any one else in aviation for compromising safety.'' •' r- Page Ninet LOG 12,000 Carolinians March In Demand for Union Jobs RALEIGH, N.C. — About 12,000 union members marched 25 abreast down Raleigh's main street here in an unprecedented demonstration of trade union solidarity in support of unionwon wages, standards and work­ ing conditions. Building tradesmen marched shoulder to shoulder with shop and office workers from Me­ morial Auditorium to the capitol and back again. Unionists of white, black and Indian origin —about 20 percent were Ne­ groes—took part in the march and in meetings with state offi­ cials and private employers. The North Carolina AFLCIO and the state Building and Construction Trades Council sponsored the march to protest the importation of non-union labor to construct more than $681 million in new facilities for the Carolina Power and Light Company, the state's big­ gest public utility. From all over the state, work­ ers converged on Fayetteville St. for the demonstration. Many of them bore signs demanding, "Jobs—We Want Jobs — We Want Union Jobs." Men and women, some carry­ ing children and pushing baby carriages, lined-up for nearly a mile behind the march leaders. Pausing before the power com­ pany's headquarters, the demon­ strators pushed on to fill the four-block parklike setting of the capitol. Thousands of spectators lined the streets and waved from win­ dows. Some returned the V-forvictory sign, many applauded the signs and posters carried by the marchers. One union committee met with power company spokes­ men, another presented a reso­ lution to an aide of Governor Robert W. Scott (D) calling on Scott to use the state's influence to prevent destruction of ^ionwon standards. Carolina P and L recently awarded construction contracts in Asheville, Wilmington, Roxboro, Lumberton and Bruns­ wick county to Brown and Root Construction Co., Texas build­ ers accused of discrimination against unions. A company spokesman told newsmen it will employ workers "without re­ gard to whether they are mem­ bers of any union." ^ Baek Pay Awm-d For K4 Cmphyee Totals $35,000 BUFFALO—^A member of the Service Employees who was fired after he had a heated argu­ ment with his immediate boss at a Veterans Administration Hospital was ordered reinstated with full backpay and benefits estimated at $35,000. Thfr victory for Frank A. Palumbo of 'SEIU Local 227 in Buffalo culminated a four-year fight by the union. The final decision was handed down by the U.S. Civil Service Commis­ sion Board of Appeals and Re­ view. Pdumbo had been discharged in January 1965 after he was charged with making "certain disrespectful remarks" to his supervisor. The appeals board foimd that Palumbo was in a work situation "inappropriate to his condition" and that the relationship be­ tween him and his supervisor was "unacceptably poor." It further noted that "these things constituted substantial provoca­ tion." The backpay awarded to Pal­ umbo amounted to nearly $29,000 and accumulated sick leave and annual leave brougjit the total to more than $35,000, Lo­ cal 227 President James E. Lindsay reported. 12,000 members of North Carolina unions joined to march in historic demonstration for union conditions and to protest the award by Carolina Power and Light Company of a multi-million dollar construc­ tion contract to a non-union employer, the Brown and Root Company. �Page Twenty Union-Busting by J. P. Stevens Hit In Seventh Adveise Ruling by NLHB WASHINGTON—J. P. Stev­ ens and Co. has, for the seventh time, been found guilty of vio­ lating the legal rights of employ­ ees to join or form a union of their own choosing. The latest finding against the big textile firm—a. major gov­ ernment contractor—^was by Robert E. Mullin, trial examin­ er for the National Labor Rela­ tions Board. Mullin found after five days of hearings that offi­ cials "at every level" of Stevens' Gulistan plant at Statesboro, Ga., joined in a campaign of threats and firings to defeat the Textile Workers Union of America. He recommended that Stev­ ens be ordered to bargain with the union on the basis of cards signed by a majority of employ­ ees, and also because manage­ ment illegally smashed the on­ ions majority and caused it to lose an election. The examiner ruled, subject to NLRB review, that Stevens must reinstate three fired union supporters with full backpay to the date of their discharge; em­ ploy a woman whose job appli­ cation it rejected because her brother and brother-in-law were union members, and pay her for all lost time. The company also would be directed to: • Mail a copy of the NLRB order to every plant employee. • Post copies in conspicuous places for 60 consecutive days. • Read the order to all em­ ployees during working time, by departments and shifts, or let a board agent do so. OclDber, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Feeders on the Robin Gray • Give the union and its rep­ majority but rather by a desire resentatives reasonable access to "to gain time within which to bulletin boards for a one-year destroy the union's majority." The NLRB's right to issue a period. bargaining order in such circum­ TWUA President William Pollock said that Stevens has un­ stances has been upheld by the successfully fou^t every ex­ Supreme Court in four other aminer's decision in the seven cases. In April, the NLRB asked litigated cases, every NLRB or­ that Stevens be cited for con­ der and every decision that has tempt oi court for refusing to reached the courts. It has been compelled in addition to pay comply with two previous or­ nearly $1 million to date to ders of a federal appeals court Members of the efficient steward department aboard the SlU-conworkers it has fired in violation to stop interfering with employ­ tracted Robin Gray relax on deck as the vessel nears the Panama Ca­ ee rights at other plants. A deci­ nal. From left are Carlton Grimes, steward; Albert Kennedy, messman; of the law. sion has not been announced. Angelo Reyes, chief cook, and Barney Johnson, who sailed as baker. The latest findings against Stevens stem from charges of anti-union actions during a TWUA organizing campaign at Statesboro 17 months ago. The imion applied for recog­ nition on the basis of signed cards in February 1968 and was turned down. It applied again WASHINGTON—The U.S. tended to build grassroots busi­ sions that have required com­ in March, after more employ­ Chamber of Commerce has ness support" for the national panies to negotitate with unions ees had been signed, and again asked businessmen to use their organization's program, the before introducing "cost-reduc­ its request for recognition was "influence" with the Nixon Ad­ Chamber's labor relations man­ ing methods" and before clos­ refused. Stevens insisted on an ministration to "reform" the Na­ ager said. ing "a factory that was losing election, whose result was later tional Labor Relations Board The "NLRB Reform" pam­ money" and asserts that "free­ set aside by the NLRB re­ so as "to protect the right of phlet boasts that the Chamber's dom is limited" when the NLRB gional director because the management to manage . . . "massive promotional cam­ tells a company it can't warn company refused to provide an without undue interference from paign" has "inspired" numerous its employees during an election employee name-and-address list, union bosses." campaign that "excessive union articles in the press. as it was legally required to do. The Chamber's top priority And for those who don't want demands" can force a company Said the examiner in his rul­ legislative goal for what it calls to bother reading the three pages to close down or lay off people. ing: "... from the outset of the "labor law reform" is to strip of solid type in the pamphlet, "And on top of all this," a organizational campaign until the NLRB of all jurisdiction the Cham^r has a cartoon cartoon page emphasizes, "there after the election, every level of over unfair labor practices. It booklet, entitled "What Is Push­ is the burden of more and inore the [company's] supervisory also wants to rewrite the basic ing Up Prices and Holding Back strikes and slowdowns" causing hierarchy was involved in num­ federal labor law to eliminate Progress?" "inconvenience and hardship" erous . . . acts of interference, all language "encouraging" col­ It complains of NLRB deci- to businessmen. lective bargaining. And it is all "because the restraint and coercion." Unfortunately—from the NLRB has been going too far." The company's insistence on The belief that collective bar­ a board election, the examiner Chamber's viewpoint—the pres­ ent Congress shows no signs of gaining contributes to industrial ruled, was motivated "not by a enacting union-busting legisla­ peace, the Chamber suggests, is good faith doubt" of the union's tion. So the Chamber is starting one of those "naively Utopian" to beat the drums for the elec­ .concepts of the early 1930s. The tion of "reform-minded" con­ experience, it concludes, has gressmen and senators in the been "quite the contrary." 1970 elections. Nevertheless, the Chamber NEW YORK — Back pay But the business federation won by the Textile Workers adds, "collective bargaining is a isn't putting all its union-busting Union of America for em­ useful institution" even though eggs in a single legislative bas­ ployees of J. P. Stevens and Congress shouldn't "encourage" ket. Company, who were discrimi­ it. HAMILTON, Bemrada—^An insurance company here is It suggests in a new "NLRB Some of the Chamber's other nated against by that firm for soliciting building contractors throughout the United States announced goals for changing Reform" pamphlet that "the union activity in violation of the to sign up for a strike insurance program endorsed by the least disruptive and most grad­ federal labor law include: law, is now nearing the $1 mil­ Associated General Contractors of America. ual approach" would be for the lion mark. President William • A ban on union recogni­ The program was approved by the AGC at its March President to appoint people to tion by card check. Pollock announced. convention and designed to inden^y contractors for losses the labor board who would • Outlawing of information­ Pollock said a second round from work stoppages due to any type of labor dispute. bring about the changes that the al picketing. of claims against Stevens has Five-year individual policies are being offered by Arch of Commerce favors. Chamber been settled, with 18 workers • Allowing employers to sue Insurance Company Ltd. of Hamilton, Bermuda. Policy "The businessman has great sharing a gross payment of a union for damages. Applications accepted by October 31, 1969 will become ef­ influence" with Congress, the $187,798.71 in lost wages. fective Jan. 1, 1970 if there are enough applications to • Removing all restriction on pamphlet notes. It then adds Combined with an earlier settle­ what an employer can teh his constitute a "sufficient spread of risk." However, no claims pointedly, "He sometimes may ment involving 71 workers, the workers before a union repre­ will be payable before July 1, 1970. even have the confidence of key total paid out by J. P. Steveps sentation election. Contractors can select policies that will give them insur­ figures in the Administration, in line with National Labor ance indemnities of from $300 to $120,000 a day, with • Prohibiting unions from which today may afford the most Relations Board directives now premiums ranging from $900 for the minimum coverage to fining members who work dur­ immediate reform of the stands at $854,784.27. $360,000 for the maximum, plus a minimum premium re­ ing a strike. NLRB." tained by Arch Insurance Company. The $1 million mark is cer­ • Limiting penalties that can To further its twin goals of tain to be passed when the J. N. Matich of Colton, Calif., who headed an 18-month be imposed by the NLRB. putting pressure on the Nixon NLRB's order in a third Stevens study by an AGC committee, is chairman of the Policyholders' • Compelling unions to take Administration to pack the case, involving 17 more work­ Advisory Committee. He said that the insurance plan should a secret ballot strike vote when NLRB and trying to arouse ers, is complied with. Pollock expedite settlement of labor disputes and bring about "less requested by management. public opinion for anti-labor leg­ said. exorbitant increases in construction labor costs." • Returning "management islation, the Chamber has step­ The policy defines a labor dispute as including any union Two of the workers benefiting ped up its propaganda efforts. from the most recent payments rights" to employers. organizing, union recognition drives, various forms of boy­ cotts and picketing, strikes during the term of an agreement • Changing rules for deter­ As it did last year, it will take by Stevens collected checks in or during negotiation of a contract and lockouts of a multi­ a Raveling roadshow of anti- excess of $20,000 before taxes'. mining units to take into ac­ employer group. labor speakers to put on "labor Juanita Faulkenberry of Great count management as well as In promoting its policies in the United States the insurance law reform workshops" in cities Falls, S. C., received $20,444 union desires. company stresses the advantage of a non-U.S. company as throughout the natiop. while the award to John R. These and other changes, the "beyond the reach of American labor unions or political The workshops, co-sponsored Fulbrig^t of the Dunean Plant Chaniber said, are needed "to pressures." by state and local chambers of in Greenville, S. C., was $20,- restore balance to labor-man­ commerce, "are primarily in­ 369.70, Pollock said. agement relations." Strike Insurance Plugged Building Contractors Chamber of Commerce Mounts Drive To Make NLRB Management's Tool Nearly $1 Million Won in Back Pay At J. P. Stevens -f �October, 1969 SEAFARERS Farm Wages Still On Lowest Level Says Labor Dept WASHINGTON — Farm 4- workers still are among the na­ tion's lowest paid wage eamI' I ers, the Labor Department noted. The national average farm wage for 1968 was $1,43 an hour, without room or board, up 10 cents from 1967, the depart­ f ment reported. It compared this with the production workers' average of $3.01 an hour in manufacturing, an increase of 18 cents over the 1967 wage. Production workers hired in off-the-farm plants to process farm products were better paid, but still were not up to the aver­ age pay for manufacturing, the report showed. Workers in froz­ en fruits and vegetables aver­ aged $2.23 an hour, up 13 cents in a year's time. Workers in the canned, cured and frozen fruits industry averaged $2.36, an in­ crease of 15 cents an hour. Both hourly and piece rates increased for most of the 172 farm labor categories reported I c. on by state employment security agencies. Passage of Fair Labor Stand­ ards Act amendments in 1966 extended minimum wage cover­ age to a limited number of farm workers. The first $1 minimum moved to $1.15 in 1968 and to $1.30 by February 1, 1969. The act covers about 400,000 farm workers—about a third of the armual average number of hired farmhands. A 1968 Labor Department study showed that the federal minimum wage for farm work had a significant impact on wage rates. Despite this trend, more than half the areas still have some workers employed below the minimum, the department said. I 1^ i- LOG Page Twrenljr One Would Throw Enforcement into Courts Mew Job-Bias Plan Called Bights Sarrender WASHINGTON —An Ad­ ministration proposal to send job discrimination cases into the federal courts has been termed "another civil rights surrender by members of the Senate Labor Committee. The Nixon proposal would authorize the Equal Employ­ ment Opportunity Commission to go to court to enforce anti­ discrimination laws when con­ ciliation fails. It would not, however, give the EEOC the power to issue cease-and-desist orders on its own, as would a labor-backed bill sponsored by Senators Har­ rison Williams (D-N.J.). and Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.). Various EEOC officials have sought the power to issue ceaseand-desist orders since the com­ mission was created under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. However, William H. Brown III, the present EEOC chair­ man, testified in favor of the Administration bill, everi though he had termed cease-and-desist orders "absolutely essential" during his confirmation testi­ mony after he was appointed last April. Brown testified on the Williams-Javits bill just three days after the Administration pro­ posal was presented to the Sen­ ate by Senator Winston L. Prouty (R-Vt.). Javits recalled Brown's testi­ mony of last April on the im­ portance of the EEOC's having cease-and-desist orders and Sen­ ator Walter F. Mondale (DMinn.) referred to a speech Brown had made the previous week in which he reaffirmed the necessity. "It appears to me you've had some kind of death- Getting Trimmed |tr SlU Pensioner T. E. Muller takes time out for a trim and a chat with barber Jimmy Gaeteni during one of his regular visits to SlU Head­ quarters. Brother Muller sailed for many years as chief steward be­ fore his retirement to the beach. He last shipped aboard the Kent. bed conversion," Mondale told Brown. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.) cited Administration actions in regard to southern textile mills, voting rights and school desegregation and told Brown the Administration pro­ posal on the EEOC "is just an­ other surrender, purely and sim­ ply. It's another backdown by the Administration in the civil rights field and you're an un­ witting handmaiden," Eagleton said. "You must have a trou­ bled conscience." "I assure you, Senator, I sleep well at night," Brown countered in admitting his previous stand. Brown said he considered the Administration plan "a more effective and quicker approach." Brown first announced his preference for the Administra­ tion plan after meeting with two Justice Department aides. That meeting came a few days after Brown issued the call for cea^eand-desist orders in the speech quoted by Mondale. Later in his testimony, Brown said he had been for the court method all along and said he had fought for it through the highest ranks of the Adminis­ tration. One of the Justice Depart­ ment officials with whom Brown had met. Deputy Attorney Gen­ eral Richard D. Kleindienst, testified that 15 years of prac­ ticing before the National Labor Relations Board convinced him that cases would move faster through the federal courts. "A lawyer can assure his client of three to four years delay in an NLRB case," Klein­ dienst said. "In the federal dis­ trict courts, however, a decision can be obtained in nine months to a year and more importance is attached to it than to a ceaseand-desist order from an admin­ istrative agency." Two of Brown's fellow mem­ bers of the EEOC disagreed sharply with this position. "Any legislation that grants less than cease-and-desist au­ thority to our commission would be the perpetration of a cruel hoax on women and minorities in this country," said Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. Alexander is a former chairman of the EEOC who resigned last spring after Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.) accused him of "harassing" business. Another EEOC member, Vmcente T. Ximenes, called the Williams-Javits bill "the most comprehensive and meaningful job discrimination legislation ever proposed." Hearings on the WilliamsJavits bill will continue after the congressional recess, with the AFL-CIO scheduled to testify then. Besides authoriang the cease- and-desist orders, the WilliamsJavits bill would also give the EEOC authority to investigate discrimination charges brought by employees of state and local governments. It would also transfer federal discrimination cases from the Civil Service Commission to the EEOC. Discrimination against public employees in both the local and federal governments was brought up by two studies re­ leased during the hearings on the Williams-Javits bill. President Nixon issued an executive order urging all fed­ eral departments and agencies to tak? the initiative in "con­ tinuing affirmative programs" to prohibit discrimination. Nixon also proposed recruitment and special training to help the dis­ advantaged. Nixon's executive order was accompanied by a Civil Service Commission report which said that while members of minority groups are broadly employed by the federal government, most of them hold menial jobs. The report, signed by Robert Hampton, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, said a re­ cent study showed that almost 20 percent of 500,000 federal employees were minority group members. Non-white employ­ ment in the federal government is almost 50 percent higher than in the nation's work force over­ all, the report said. In a similar study, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights re­ ported that serious job discrimi­ nation exists among employees of local and state governments. The report concluded that such employees should be brought under the protection of the EEOC. The survey, which covered 243,000 employees, said minor­ ity-group members are denied access to responsible govern­ ment jobs and in many localities "are totally excluded from em­ ployment except in the most menial capacity." The report said discrimina­ tion was highest in police and fire departments of the 600 local and state governments surveyed. "Some 27 percent of all central city jobs surveyed were in these two (police and fire) depart­ ments," the report said, "but only 7 percent of all Negro em­ ployees were either policemen or firemen, and very few of these held officer rank." Jerry Wurf, president of the State, County and Municipal Employees, said his union joined the Civil Rights Com­ mission in calling on Congress to extend federal anti-discrimi­ nation laws to employees of state and local governments. "We sincerely hope that the commission's concern will result in a concerted campaign to bring to these 8 million forgot­ ten working Americans the same protection against job dis­ crimination that is available to workers in private industry," Wurf said. AFL-CIO Charges: Runaway Shops Supported By Use of Federal Grants WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO has charged that federal funds are being used to encour­ age "runaway companies" along the Mexican border and the "erosion of U. S. jobs and wages." Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller strongly protested a $60,000 grant from the Depart­ ment of Housing and Urban De­ velopment to help establish a bi-national planning commission for El Paso, Tex., and Juarez, Mexico. He asked Representative Wil­ liam A. Barrett (D-Pa.) chair­ man of the housing subcommit­ tee of the House Banking Com­ mittee, to investigate the award which "is the second such grant" made by HUD along the Mexi­ can border. ExplMting Mexicans The planning conunissions are ostensibly set up to deal with common problems of wa­ ter, sewer, housing and other facilities. But, Biemiller stres­ sed, "the end result is that the U.S. government is helping to subsidize a growing abandon­ ment of U. S. plants and work­ ers and, in turn, to exploit Mex­ ican workers for the sole bene­ fit of U. S. corporate profits." Biemiller noted that in Juarez, RCA is building a $7 million plant "which will employ 3,000 Mexican workers who will as­ semble electronic components for sale in the American mar­ ket." He charged that "the sole purpose of the plant being in Juarez is to take advantage of its sanctuary from American standards." Other major firms are doing likewise. "Despite the growing threat posed by this mass loss of jobs," Biemiller said, "HUD sees fit to financially assist areas whose problems are aggravated be­ cause workers are recruited throughout Mexico and brou^t to these border communities to work in plants at jobs that were recently held by Americans." Biemiller asked the subcom­ mittee to urge HUD to halt any further border community grants and suggested that the Housing Act be amended "to make clear the intent of Congress was not to encourage the loss of U.S. jobs or to undercut American stand­ ards in wnges and working con­ ditions." �•I ^ SEAFARERS Page Twenty Two LOG Jobs and Training for 4,000Blatks Set by Chiiago Building Trades Plan CHICAGO—The Chicago Building and Construction Trades Council is moving ahead vwth a four-point program to provide job and training oppor­ tunities for 4,000 more black workers in the city's construction industry. The council announced it would open an office in Chica­ go's largely Negro South Side to proceed with the recruiting program despite rejection of the plan by the Coalition for United Community Action, made up of a number of black organizations in the city. The plan was spelled out by construction unions and man­ agement in a series of negotia­ tions with the coalition follow­ ing demonstrations that closed projects here involving nearly $100 million. The proposal, issued jointly by the Building and Construc­ tion Trades Council and the Building Construction Employ­ ers Association, offered to; • "Endeavor to obtain em­ ployment at once" for 1,000 qualified black journeymen and asked the coalition to help re­ cruit them. • Find probationary employ­ ment for another 1,000 blacks with at least two years experi­ ence in a particular craft and assign them after 30 days to the equivalent of the apprenticeship rate applicable to their experi­ ence. • Recruit 1,000 blacks with no previous training or experi­ ence for a one-month prepara­ tory training period along the lines of the Outreach program to help them enter the existing apprenticeship programs of all crafts. • Launch an on-the-job training program for 1,000 more Negroes who choose not to en­ ter pre-apprenticeship training or who fail to pass the tests in­ volved. In full-page advertisements in Chicago newspapers, the em­ ployers and unions outlined their program and recited continuing efforts to attract black workers into the construction industry. Checks Being Held Income tax refund checks are being held for the SIU members listed below by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP Building, 450 Harrison Street, San Francisco, Cali­ fornia, 94105. Waiter Andiony Angutiis M. Browning (Two Chedts) Wilitem T. Cooper (Two Checks) Pder E. Ddan (Two ClMcks) Davis W. Dwyer Chflrics R. HnmiiMd, Ir. Pao C. Lee (Two Checks) Colin A. McPhem Joseph Pftette (Two Checks) This is achieved through the Apprenticeship Informatitm Center set up by the federal government aad in cooperation with the Urban League under the Apprenticeship Outreach program, which has placed 459 apprentices over a 3(Kmonth pe­ riod. "We have organized bus trips for hi^ school students to job sites," the union-industry state­ ment said. "Want ads for skilled tradesmen are run daily. We have worked through social agencies in the black commu­ nity and through the Ulinois State Employment Service. We have done our best to alleviate the labor shortage in every way we know. Yet all these efforts have resulted in pitifully few black applicants—^far fewer than the number we have been ready to accept into our ranks." The Coalition for United Community Action, whose orig­ inal demands were for employ­ ment of blacks eventually in 30 percent of all construction jobs, rejected the union-industry pro­ posals as "unrealistic" and "totally unacceptable." A spokesman for the coali­ tion, the Rev. C. T. Vivian, in­ dicated a central issue in the dispute was the control of hiring and training. "We would not be in control of our own program, and we must reject it," Vivian was quoted by the Associated Press. The union and industry nego­ tiators advised the coalition that they would welcome its partici­ pation in dealing with recruit­ ing, counseling and motivational problems but would not accede to demands that would put re­ sponsibility for hiring, training and construction "in inexperi­ enced hands." Thomas Murray, president of the Building Trades Council, and Arthur O'Neil, president of WASHINGTON — Appren­ ticeship programs in 1968 en­ rolled a record 103,000 en­ trants, almost 6,000 more than a year earlier, Labor Secretary George P. Shultz reported. Yet, the number of skUled workers being graduated by the programs is still not meeting the needs of the nation's growing economy, Shultz said. He noted that the appren­ ticeship training system certified 33,700 completions last year— a 9 percent decline "at a time when skilled workers were in great demand." The record number of re^ trants in apprenticeship pro­ grams will have no immediate effect on the need for skilled workers, he added, since most apprentices work four-year terms to gain necessary skills. "Thus, the bulk of comple­ Newest Gallon Club Member the employers' association, both expressed disappointment that the coalition leaders had "sum­ marily dismissed" the proposals. O'Neil called the plan a "break­ through" that could add 25,000 skilled black craftsmen to the construction program in the city over the next five years. In developments elsewhere: • The Black Construction Coalition in Pittsburgh withheld further job-site demonstrations as negotiations continued with construction employers and un­ ions over a job and training 'Mt didn't hurt a bit," says AB Alfred M. Peiton at SIU clinic, as program. The Pittsburgh plan Nurse Mary Larsen displays pint of blood which made Seafarer Peiton differs in detail from the Chi­ the 10th member of SIU Gallon Club. Peiton, who sails in the deck cago proposals, but contains department, says more Seafarers should visit the SIU clinic and donate similar provisions for recruiting blood to protect themselves, their families and other Seafarets and admitting black journey­ who might require the precious fluid in a medical emergency. men, for pre-apprenticeship pro­ grams and for on-the-job train­ ing. ' • In Philadelphia, Business Manager James L. Loughlin of the local Building and Construc­ "Organized labor had no WASHINGTON — Twenty tion Trades Council took sharp Latin American trade unionists skilled, trained people to under­ exception to frequently-quoted •graduates of the American stand, the broad economic prob­ estimates showing a dispropor­ Institute for Free Labor Devel­ lems of their own countries." tionately low rate of minority opment's third training program "You are the third group to employment in the various for labor economists — were go through this long, extensive trades. Loughlin appeared be­ urged by AFL-CIO leaders to AIFLD course . . . hopefully to fore a Labor Department panel be the "voice of the people" answer the argument of Cara­ on the Philadelphia pilot plan when they return to their own cas," said Beime, who is secre­ tary-treasurer of the AIFLD. announced by the department nations. The course for the group was "You are the trained, skilled which would in effect set quotas conducted by the AIFLD in for employment of minorities cooperation with Georgetown people with the overall view of economics and the politics of under government construction University. this hemisphere: contract. He put total member­ In addressing the graduates. "Maybe there will be just one ship of unions in the council Communications Workers Presi­ of you who will go back and say at about 36,000 and said a re­ dent Joseph A. Beime accused T want to get into the power view of the individual crafts re­ certain Latin American labor vealed that more than 11,000— ministers of "hypocrisy" in stmcture <rf my nation,' who will recognize that people are over 30 percent—are blacks. promises to seek labor participa­ more important than profits— Without considering the Labor­ tion in making policy affecting human rights much more im­ ers' Union, which has a sub­ the people. When the question was raised portant than property rights." stantial proportion of Negro at the last conference of the Role of Unions members, the remaining craft labor ministers in Caracas as to AFL-CIO Research Director jurisdiction in the city includes •how effectively these promises Nat Goldfinger told the audi­ about 12 percent black workers, were being carried out, Beime ence that "trade unions serve to he said. said the "official" answer finally humanize the economic system came: —^to represent the needs and aspirations of workers on the job and also before the agencies Advertisers Shut Off of government and the legisla­ Scab LA Newspaper ture." To do this properly he said, tions this year represent mostly Sea­ "unions must be armed with the LOS ANGELES those who began four years needed facts and figures . . . gram and Calvert distillers ago," Shultz said, "and we with the needed concepts and announced plans to shut off only had 68,500 new starts in analysis to advance the interest the Hearst Herald-Examiner 1965." —^to the cheers of 2,000 strik­ of the workers and the popula­ -He expressed optimism oyer tion in general." ing and locked-out newspaper current figures that indicate a unionists. Qass representative Aviz do cancellation rate of 38 percent, A. Valcnte of Brazil urged the The two distillers said they "a heartening note when you will discontinue advertising in AIFLD to organize and finance consider that it is usually almut the Hearst paper when scat­ similar training courses in Latin 50 percent most of the time." American countries, saying, tered ads still pending under The 238,000 apprentices reg­ "Our unions need hundreds of contracts have run, reported istered with the Labor Depart­ technicians in all fields and at William J. Farson, executive ment and state apprenticeship vice president of the News­ all levels of knowledge, especial­ agencies as of January 1 also ly in economics. But we can­ paper Guild. was the highest since records on not wait for long. We need them the programs were kept, begin­ Farson said negotiations ning in 1941. continue with five other ad­ in short order." CJraduates of the program vertisers to pull put of the Minorities accounted for 7 Herald-Examiner, which has cmne from Argentina, Brazil, percent of the total nun^r of been publishing with the aid Chile, Costa Rica, Dcaninican registered aj^rentices and slight­ of professional strikebreakers Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador* ly more than half of these were Htmduras, Mexico, Nicarogiun^ for 18 months. Negroes, the Labor Department Panama, Peru and said. Apprentice Program Increases But Need Outruns Graduates / October, 1969 AiFLD Graduates' Role Set: Become 'Yoke of the People' [l �October, 1969 Umpire Calls Break Legal In Beef On World Series J J •\ SEAFARERS i PALliMDES PARK, Calif.—Sargent Industries violated the ground rules of a contract when it threw out a practice of giving workers an extra half-hour lunch break with pay to watch the World Series, labor-management umpire Melvin Lennard said. The company had provided television sets and had given the additional lunch period to employees for the past 15 or 20 years. The practice was maintained even in 1966 and 1967 after the company changed hands. When the practice was dropped in 1968, Machinists Local 1571 filed a grievance. It contended that watching the b^eball championship playoff on company time "was a pre-exist­ ing condition and that the employees are entitled to watch the . . . World Series pursuant to such condition." Arbitrator Lennard agreed but said the company did not have to provide the TV sets any more. Rising Car Insurance Prices Target of Texas AFL-CIO AUSTIN, Tex The Texas AFL-CIO has opened a drive against the rising cost of auto in­ surance in the state by attacking the accounting methods used by the insurance companies and so far accepted by the State In­ surance Board. The auto insurance industry in Texas has asked for an 11 percent increase in rates while the Texas AFL-CIO has called for a 10 percent reduction based on factual accounting. The "so-called 'statutory' method of accounting used by the insurance companies gives a false appearance of their finan­ cial situation," State AFL-CIO President H. S. Hank Brown charged at a board hearing. If the board will look through "this acounting smoke screen," he added, it will find that the in­ dustry is in excellent financial health, that its bid for a rate in­ crease is not justified and that car insurance costs can, in fact, be lowered. Brown described the statutory accounting method as one in which a company reports as "in­ come" only that portion of the premium actually earned by the passage of time while ignoring income that has actually been received. At the same time, he said, the method permits a firm to re­ port as "losses and expenses" the entire anticipated amount (from a premium) "even though any loss will not occur, if at all, until some time in the future." "This method is completely contrary to the normally accept­ able accounting methods used by business," Brown declared. He urged the board to ex­ amine the "real financial situ­ ation" of the industry and par­ ticularly to include investment income in calculating insurance company profits and losses be­ fore setting rates. In 1967, Bro.wn noted, the auto insurance industry reported a $273 million national loss as far as premiums and claims were concerned "but actually realized a $1.7 billion investment profit." "It is ridiculous to claim a loss, and a rate increase, when the industry profited by almost $2 billion," he pointed out. Brown cited the example of a Texas company. Gulf Insur­ ance Company, which reported a loss of more than $4.8 million in 1968 but then paid out over $4.5 million in dividends the same year. "The company has increased its dividend by 500 percent since 1963 while showing a loss," he stated. If the board grants a rate in­ crease in view of the industry's genuine profit picture. Brown said, "it will not be fulfilling its duty to the people." "Instead," he concluded, "it will be continuing to give thevinsurance industry the preferen­ tial and discriminatory positionthat it has enjoyed in Texas for years." Page Twenty Three LOG Solution to Teen-Age Unemployment Not lower Wages, Analysis Shows High teenage unemployment can't be blamed on the federal wage'flt't»i" iaw, regardless of what some opponents of a high­ er minimum wage say. An AFL-CIO analysis of the Fair Labor Standards Act pin­ points the cause as a combina­ tion of factors, including a sharp rise in the number of 16- to 19year-olds in the labor force and a decline in the number of parttime jobs traditionally filled by teenagers. The analysis, by Francis X. Burkhardt of the AFL-CIO leg­ islative staff, appears in the July issue of the American Federationist. "Many employers would be more happy to hire teenagers at a lower wage than adult work­ ers," Burkhardt noted. This is because low-wage employers are the ones who are affected most by the minimum wage. However, millions of adult workers would lose their jobs under a two-step minimum wage that allowed a lower rate for teenagers. The advocates of a lower minimum wage for teenagers contend that the younger worker is less productive than the adult. But this would bring four clear social disadvantages, Burkhardt points out. They are: • Displacement of working family heads. • Discrimination against young workers. • A loss of dignity in the work performed by teenagers. • Higher profits for employ­ ers who hire teenagers in lieu of adults to give them an unfair advantage over other employers. The roots of the teenage un­ employment problem of the 1960s can be found in the sharp rise of the birthrate after the end of World War II, the author ob­ serves. And although the total employment of teenagers has in­ creased in the '60s, it has not been enough to match this in­ flux. Between 1948 and 1958 the number of teenagers in the labor force actually declined—reflect­ ing the low birthrate of the de­ pression years of the 1930s. "But in the 10 years—195868—the number of 16- to 19year-olds in the labor force sky­ rocketed 50 percent, from 4.3 million to 6.6 million," Burk­ hardt writes. Another factor is that many part-time jobs, once held by teenagers, have disappeared. Farm mechanization abolished many teenage farm jobs. The decline of small neighborhood stores also dried up many job opfKjrtunities for the younger workers. "In addition, there has been the increasing participation in the labor force of married wom­ en—35 years of age and over— which results in some degree of job competition with teenagers," Burkhardt says. Non-white teenagers have suffered even more from unem­ ployment, which in recent months has been running almost three times higher than the rate for the white younger workers. The two major factors affect­ ing the higher joblessness among young Negroes are racial dis­ crimination in education and hiring and the high rate of migration of Negroes from the rural South to the cities, Burk­ hardt reports. Burkhardt recommends a fed­ eral program of public service employment—^for both adults and teenagers—^for. long-term unemployed and seriously un­ deremployed to meet the needs of services in parks, recreation centers, hospitals; schools and other public and private non­ profit facilities. Expanded efforts in the Neighborhood Youth Corps and the Job (Torps are recommended earning Their Way Two boys from Kentucky who earned one week in camp by spending three Saturday afternoons cleaning up city parks and playgrounds receive their reward from, left to right, Boy Scout leaders Durwood Bishop and Bob Combs, and Ray Hayden, president of the Owensboro Council of Labor. Owensboro AFL-CIO members selected 23 boys from GEO lists. They expect to expand program to 100 next year. as a means of cutting the unem­ ployment problem. base of increasing teenage employment of the 1960s and the start of federal aid for education, manpower training and youth employment programs should be continued and improved," he urges. "Such continued progress and the expected leveling off of the rise of teenagers in the labor force in the coming years could begin to solve the teenage unem­ ployment problem. But what should not be done is to estab­ lish a special, lower minimum wage for teenagers," Burkhardt warns. New Pact Allows HospitalWorkers Chance to Learn BOSTON—At least 335 lowpaid workers in three hospitals here will be trained and up­ graded under agreements signed by the State, County and Mu­ nicipal Employees and city and hospital officials. The pacts are part of SCME's over all training program to bring new job opportunities and higher pay to 1,000 workers in Boston, Cleveland and Milwau­ kee hospitals with a grant of $1.2 million from the Depart­ ments of Labor and Health Edu­ cation and Welfare. Mrs. Betty Miller, assistant to SCME President Jerry Wurf and national director for the program, described the project as significant for two reasons: "This is probably the first time that public institutions in the country have agreed to pay their lower level employees while they train. It also opens dead-end hospital jobs to ca­ reer employment." The hospitals involved here are Boston City, Mattapan and Long Island. They will provide classroom space and all equip­ ment needed for training. Hos­ pital personnel will serve as in­ structors. Trainees here, picked by joint union-hospital committees, will spend half of their 40-hour work-weeks in training. Midway through his course, a trainee will receive 50 percent of the difference between his present wage and the higher-paid job for which he is being trained. He will get the full higher rate once training is finished. MONEY DUE Wages due former crewmembers of the Galacia Navigator, which was sold | I at auction in Japan, are now | available. Seafarers may obtain checks for the money due I them by writing to Bill Mitchell at headquarters in Brooklyn. . �Page Twenty Four SEAFARERS October, 1969 LOG Pay-off in Jacksonville Violations Termed 'Unconscionable' Crackdown on Wage-Hour Cheaters Called for by AFL-CIO Pres. Meany WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany has called for more wage-hour investigators to ferret out cheat­ ing employers and told the Labor Department that its pri­ orities were mixed up if it de­ pended on an education and information program to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act. At the same time, Meany an­ nounced a step-up in the AFLCIO's own campaign to protect workers, "organized or unorga­ nized," from employers who vi­ olate the wage-hour and equal pay laws. Meany wrote Labor Secretary George P. Shultz that the $89 million in imderpayments to more than 477,000 workers last year couldn't be ascribed to em­ ployer "ignorance" of the wagehour law. "These violations are uncon­ scionable," Meany stressed. "America has had a Fair Labor Standards Act for 31 years and no responsible employer can be ignorant of the law's intent and his duty under it." Meany said he "emphatically" disagrees with a statement by Wage-Hour Administrator Rob­ ert D. Moran that finding viola­ tions is not his division's goal. Moran said he is "more con­ cerned with improving the level of compliance through informing employers and employees of their rights and obligations." Information programs are commendable, Meany said. But he insisted that "finding viola­ tions must be the goal of the di­ vision if the intent of the law is to be observed and the mini­ mum wage, overtime pay and equal pay for equal work provi­ sions are to have any real mean­ ing." Meany noted that the grow­ ing number of wage-hour viola­ tions makes even more urgent the AFL-CIO's recommenda­ tion earlier this year that the number of investigators be in­ creased by one-third. "The facts make it abundant­ ly clear that the most effective way to get full compliance is through full enforcement by an adequate investigating and en­ forcement staff," he told Shultz. In a letter to AFL-CIO state and local central bodies, Meany urged that labor's own enforce­ ment program initiated in 1967 be continued and expanded. "Fair labor standards are be­ ing flouted, ignored or under­ mined by employers," Meany told the central bodies. "In fact, only about half the violators are caught each year. The Wage and Hour Division of the Depart­ ment of Labor does not have enough investigators to achieve full compliance." Because of this, Meany urged, each AFL-CIO central body should: • Set up or reinvigorate a wage-hour enforcement commit­ tee to receive and help process complaints. • Publicize the work of the committee and stress its avail­ ability to all workers, including the unorganized. • Help workers bring their Chamber Adopts New Tack To Fight Job Safety Law WASHINGTON—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has come up with a new line in its fight against federal job safety legislation. The Chamber, in its Wash­ ington Report on Labor, now contends that if federal safety laws are passed "unions may try in the name of on-the-job s^ety to force the closing of a plant being operated during a strike." Its apparent position is that plants should be permitted to operate during strikes with strikebreakers whether they are safe or not. The recent nationwide strike of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers against the oil indus­ try, the Chamber said, illustrates its point. The business group com­ plained that the OCAW issued public statements saying that operation of struck facilities by management personnel was ex­ tremely hazardous to those in the plants as well as nearby res­ idents. State and local officials were urged to move to curtail the plant operations. "Adoption of proposed fed­ eral occupational safety legisla­ tion would be an open invita­ tion for unions to use this same tactic as a stranglehold on an employer at the bargaining table," it claimed. The Chamber is also upset that since federal job safety rules were recently set for govern­ ment supply contractors some unions have announced that they are planning to use their own equipment to measure noise, dust and chemical levels in plants. Unionists, on the other hand, note that the Chamber has pointed with pride at the U.S. industrial safety record which shows 14,000 on-the-job deaths last year and some two million injuries. complaints to wage-hour investi­ gators and press for prompt ac­ tion by the government. • Keep a record of the dis­ position and outcome of all cases. "The AFL-CIO has an obli­ gation it will fulfill—^to assure the effective enforcement of the minimum wage laws," Meany concluded. Moran's report shows that the number of establishments checked by inspectors dropped from 75,022 in fiscal 1968 to 72,520 in 1969. Department inspectors rarely visit more than a small percentage of business places in any one year and must rely largely on complaints. The $89 million in underpay­ ments breaks down as follows: $27.5 million in minimum wages, $55 million in overtime, nearly $2 million due employees of federal suppliers under the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contracts Act, and $4.6 million under the equal pay law for work performed by women at lower rates than comparable work by men. The figures for the previous fiscal year were $20.4 million, $55 million, $2.6 million and $2.4 million, respectively, for a total of $80 million. The report showed nearly half the underpaid workers— 207,234—did not get the mini­ mum wages they should have been paid. The fiscal 1968 total was 169,000 workers. Overtime pay violations af­ fected 208,000 workers in 1969 as against 296,000 the year be­ fore. There were 14,000 Service Contract Act violations com­ pared with 12,000 in 1968 and 16,100 in equal pay violations versus 7,000 in 1968. Moran praised more than 1,000 compliance officers for working "tirelessly and under all types of conditions" to ferret out law violations. However, he noted, "finding violations is not our goal. We are more con­ cerned with improving the level of compliance" through infor­ mational programs. At the conclusion of a successful voyage, Seafarers aboard the Loma Victory (Delta Lines) took time when the ship paid off in Savannah to have their picture taken. From (l-r) are A. Ruiz and R. Whaley of the Steward Department: A. Aronica, Jacksonville Pa­ trolman; Butch Walker, Chief Cook; and L. Richardson and R. Welch. Rail Accidents Hit New High; Need for Tougher Laws Seen A rail union safety expert Chesser warned that under called for broader, tighter fed­ present conditions, the shipment eral safety laws to roll back the of phosgene gas that is currently mounting toll of train accidents stirring hot public debate, "is that last year reached an all-time absolutely unsafe." high. "We think that if this gas "Ninety-five percent of all rail must be shipped, it is much accidents are caused by factors safer to ship it on the railroads not subject to federal control," than it is by air, or by truck on said A1 H. Chesser, national the highway, if the right pre­ legislative director for the cautions are taken," he added. United Transportation Union. Chesser, chairman of the committee on safety of the Rail­ way Labor Executives' Associa­ In 21 Years tion, is a member of the Task Force on Railroad Safety named by Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe. Derailments, Chesser said, figured in most of the more than 8,000 reported train accidents last year that killed and injured nearly 27,000 employees and passengers. WASHINGTON — The gov­ Questioned by reporters on ernment invoked the Taft-Hart­ Labor News Conference, Ches­ ser blamed the sagging railroad ley Act's national emergency safety record on "too much de­ disputes procedures 29 times ferred maintenance of track and between 1947 and 1968, the roadbed ... far too little inspec­ Bureau of Labor Statistics re­ tion of equipment" and the use ported. of "a great deal of old" and im­ These are the procedures properly maintained equipment which permit the enjoining of that "just will not stand 70 mile- industry-wide strikes for an 80per-hour speeds." day "cooling off" period. Five of the disputes were re­ solved without a work stoppage Editor, and 13 were settled during the SEAFARERS LOG, "cooling off" period. In three 675 Eourth Ave., other cases, an agreement was Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 reached without a strike after I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my the 80-day period had expired. name on your mailing list, (frtnt intormMmn) In seven cases, sbi involving longshoremen on the Atlantic or Gulf Coasts, workers struck aft­ NAME er the 80-day injunction had , expired before winning an ac­ STREET ADDRESS ceptable settlement. STATE. ZIP. The Taft-Hartley Act re­ CITY quires that the employer's "last TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are ae oM Kjbscribar and have a change offer" be submitted to the work­ of eddreaa, pleaae give your fonnar addreca below; ers for a. vote if no settlement is reached during the-80-day period. In every one of the 12 ballots that were held and tal­ lied, the employer offer was cnv Taft-Hartley Act's Injuctlon Used On 29 Occasions . ! �SEAFARERS Ocloljer, 1969 J / . 1 A radiogram was sent to Union headquarters upon mo• tion of the full crew of the Bradford Island (Stuart Tankers) asking that a Union represent­ ative meet the I ship at Danang, Hagmann Charles L. Shlrab, meeting secretary reports. The crew says the vessel is becoming unseaworthy. The matter was also discussed with the American consul in Singapore, who re­ ceived statements from various crewmembers testifying to the ship's condition, and that dip­ lomatic member was to wire the Coast Guard in Saigon to have the ship inspected in Da­ nang. The meeting was chaired by Robert N. Fulk. L. P. Hag­ mann, Jr. is ship's delegate, Paul Ward, deck delegate, Rob­ ert E. Pickett, engine delegate and Hany D. Silverstein stew­ ard delegate. per 60 numbers, with a grand prize of $200 and two $50 con­ solation prizes. Ship's fund at about $16 and contributions were requested to beef it up. <t> Aboard the Andrew Jackson (Waterman) the crewmembers discussed pre­ cautions to be taken in port, writes Meeting Secretary John W. Mims. Ship's Delegate Juan W. Fernandez warned Seafar­ Self ers to keep all screen doors closed in port and use only the door to the gang­ way. No natives will be allowed inside of the midship house or quarters aft. Nor are they to work for members of the stew­ ard department—not even to take garbage aft for the galley or pantryman. A water line will be run to the deck for native use. The meeting chairman was Thomas L. Sdf. Juan Fernan­ dez is deck delegate; Lucius A. Arano, engine delegate, and Richard Ramsperger, steward Three crewmembers of the delegate. Steel Vendor (Isthmian), which is on the long <|> run to India, H. Mobley chaired the meet­ were hospital­ ized in Calcutta, ing aboard the James (Ogden Marine) and Clinton H. made a motion Ward, ship's which was sec­ delegate an­ onded by the en­ nounced at the crew to go tire Holt meeting. They on record for a are J. J. Lookabetter Retire­ bill, AB; D. Fletcher, AB and ment Plan and R. Lang, wiper. The crew voted also more main­ unanimously not to accept plas­ Garner tenance and care tic pitchers for sanitary reasons; pay when sick. This has been they want aluminum or stain­ $8.50 per day for as long as less steel which is easier to any can remember. Also, Meet­ clean. The fresh fruit will be ing Secretary C. Garner writes put out so long as it lasts. Meet­ ing Secretary P. S. Holt reports. Brother Mobely said a Seafarer A. Hansvedt was meeting chair­ should be able to go tp any hos­ man; R. M. Grantham is deck pital for needed care without delegate and Joe Brown steward having to wait until all Coast delegate. Some disputed OT Guard and Navy men are taken was reported in the engine de­ care of. David Ramirez moved for a pension of $350 per month partment. after 20 years in the Union with 15 years seatime. "As of now," he noted, "You see a Seafarer retire one month and he is a A stop was made at Midway Final Departure the next." A in order to provide medical at­ discussion was held on crew­ tention for three members talking about Union [crewmembers, meetings topside. Everyone John H. McEl- thinks such discussions should 1 roy, meeting sec­ be kept within the crew. R. N. retary, reports Kelly is ship's delegate; David B. Ramirez, deck delegate; John J from the Ralelg^i S.Higgins, engine delegate, and UCrest). Accord- Otis Pasc^, steward delegate. 1 ing to Ship's Delegate Dan Ticer M. Ticer, Sr., At the meeting aboard the there was one case of pleurisy, National Defender (Beaufort one minor burn case, and an OS, Agency) a sug­ E. Junold, was left behind with gestion was an eye injury. Junold may re­ made that all join the shjp in Vietnam. The Seafarers fill out chief engineer asks the Seafarers the Pension to use water sparingly, as there Questionnaire is no cool water and letting it and send in their run will not help. Otherwise, ideas. Meeting Secretary Jose rationing of water may become Pierce M. Nava writes. necessary, he said. The Anchor Fool will be organized at live Ernest W. Pierce, ship's dele- Page Twenty Five LOG seatime was reached. Also for an increase of in-out patient hospital benefits from $8 per day to $12 per day. Repair lists were issued to all department delegates so that necessary re­ pairs would be taken care of at the beginning of the voyage. A very co-operative steward de­ partment, with no beefs, was noted. One day room allowance was granted all hands due to lack of hot water for over 20 4/ hours. Department delegates The SIU Vacation Plan was aboard are: Howard R. Harvey, discussed aboard the Halcyon deck; Peter Drivas, engine, and Tiger (Halycon) Jadr Brian, steward. at a meeting chaired by <1> Ship's Delegate An appeal for crewmembers Anthony B. on all SIU ships to contribute Barnes, Meeting to the Hurricane Secretary Mi­ Camille victims chael Toth rewas sent out by ports. Toth Barnes Seafarers aboard Stressed the ne­ the Iberville cessity of filling out the Pension (W aterman). questionnaire. He also explained Meeting Secrethe 20-year "bust-out." No one Itary W. L. KMwas in favor of the 20-year gore says the "bust-out" and all agreed that Cisiecki Iberville Sea­ the present SIU plan remain farers agreed to make up such basically as is.^Sentiment was a fund at a meeting at which expressed for lowering the 65John Cisiecki presided. Floyd year age requirement to 58 years, provided the required Hungate, ship's treasurer, re­ gate, was meeting chairman. A motion was made by C. S. Quinnt, seconded by Raymond Potorski for reiigepient after 20 years seatime. Nick Vidoijak is deck delegate, Hulan Ware, Jr., engine delegate and Ray Potorski, steward delegate. Del­ egate Pierce reported the cap­ tain will not pay an extra day for crossing the date line to those who signed on in Japan. SANTORE ( Venore), August 30— Chairman, J. J. Connors; Secretary, T. A. Jaekson; Ship's Delegate, J. J. Connors; Deck Delegate, A. Ali; En­ gine Delegate, W. Walker; Steward Delegate, S. Cabildo. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of,thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. Vote of thanks to the Union for the best raise of all times." CALMAR (Calmar), August 30— Chairman, Jack Geller; Secretary, J, A: Johnson; Deck Delegate, Charles C. Longerbeam; Engine Delegate, Thomas E. Fiazier; Stew'ard Delegate, H. C. Benne. Brother, ;J. Johnson, steward, extended a vote of thanks to the deck and''engine departments for keeping pantry and -messhall clean. Motion was made 'that headquarters keep the mem­ bers informed on progress of the welfare and pension plans. BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart Tankers), August 26—Chairman, v; Robert Faulk; Secretary, Charles L. iiShirah; Ship's Delegate, L. Hag:mann; Deck Delegate, Paul Ward; Engine Delegate, B. E. Pickett; Steward Delegate, Daniel C. Pette. ^No beefs and no disputed OT. . DE SOTO (Waterman). August 524—Chairman, J. Tanner; Secrejtary, J. Castronover. $6.66 in ship's |fund. No beefs were reported by 'department delegates. TRANSCOLUMBIA (Hudson Waterways), August 10—Chairman, Arthur Beck; Secretairy, R. Kali ah; Ship's Delegate, Arthur Beck; Deck Delegate, James Fultz; Engine Del­ egate, William H. Reynolds; Stew-" ard Delegate, Larry Trosclair. Dis­ puted. OT and other beefs to he taken up with boarding patrolman. COLUMBIA BARON (Columbia), August 3—Chairman, Joe Ortiguerra; Secretary, Alton B. Booth; Ship's Delegate, Rafael V. Saldana; Deck Delegate. M. C. Foster; Engine Delegater Joe Kordick; Steward Del­ egate, O. R. Breanx. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), August 24—Chairman, Anthony Torsado; Secretary, Paul P. Lopez; Ship's Delegate, Anthony Torsado; Deck Delegate, T. Klinne; Engine Delegate, M. Eimar; Steward Del­ egate, M. Caampued. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. $80.00 in ship's fund. TAMARA GUILDEN, (Transport Commercial), August 3—Chairman, K. Gahagan; Secretary. Raymond Palacios; Ship's Delegate, G. Milia; Engine Delegate, F, A. Torres; Stew­ ard Delegate, Antonio Linaco. $6.70 in ship's fond. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Maritime Overseas), August 24—Chsdrman, G. 2Brady; Secretary, T. D. Ballard; ; Ship's Delegate, Gal- S. Thompson; ;; Steward Delegate, Robert Black; *$10.00 in ship's fund. Repair list . to be turned in to Captain. IBERVILLE (Waterman), August :24—Chairman, John Cisiecki; Secfretary, W. L. Kilgore; Deck Deleuetrantes. iiiverycmng is going fine iwith no beefs. $10.00 in ship's fund. COTTONWOOD CREEK (Ogden Bulk Transport), A-ugust 10—Chair­ man, M. D. Bisendle; Secretary, F. :Quintayo; Ship's Delegate, Frank P. Scouricea's; Engine Delegate, G. B. Enzey; Steward Delegate, W. Matsiickes. Discussion held regard­ ing pension plan. No beefs were reported by deportment delegates. CONNECTICUT (Connecticut ^Transport), August 9—Chairman, J. i Urzan; Secretary, L. W. Moore; J Ship's Delegate, L. W. Moore; ^ck [Delegate, G. R. Scott; Steward Del:?egatej'T. Dansley, Jr. No beefs were , J ,— lenartment delegates.!^- TBANSSUPBRIOR (Hudson Waterways), August 10—Chainnan, William Field; Secretary. Aloiizo Battis; Ship's Delegate, John W. Mullis; Deck Delegate, Tony Rebago; Engine Delegate, D. K. MacKenzie; Stewards' Delegate, R. Alston. Some disputed OT in deck and steward department. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 20—Chairman, John Alstatt; Secretary, Wayne G. Larson; Ship's Delegate. Ben O. Buck; Deck Delegate, R. L. Copenhaver; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. Some dis­ puted OT in deck and engine delartments. ported $10 in the ship's fund. No beefs were reported from delegates. Robert G. May, deck department. Van Whitney, engine department, and Stavros Petrantes, stewards. <I> A warning to stewards buy­ ing stores in Aruba to beware of Ship Chandler Joy was sounded by Robert Black, steward delegate aboard the Overseas Carrier (Maritime Over­ seas). Brother Black says Joy Brady will make his de­ livery 30 minutes before sail­ ing time with what Black calls "junk" — including mislabeled meat boxes. Meeting Secretary Thomas Ballard reports 25 members at the meeting at which George Brady was chair­ man. Complaint was made that the rooms, mess hall and galley haven't been painted in over two years and are in bad shape. Carl Thompson, ship's delegate, cautioned the crew to be care­ ful with American money in India. DAGAMA (Crest), September 6— Chairman, Floyd E. Selix; Secretary, Sherman Wright; Ship's Delegate, Jimmie A. Beem; Deck Delegate, Eldon Wenslow; Engine Delegate, Clay Webb. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Anist 16—Chairman, A. Hanstvedt; .jcretary, P. S. Holt; Ship's Delerate, C. H. Ward; Deck Delegate, JL. M. Grantham; Steward Delegate, Joe , Brower. $6.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine depart­ ment, otherwise everything is run­ ning smoothly. 1^ I" BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart), September 1—Chairman. R. N. Faulk; • Secretary, C. L. Shirab; Ship's Delegate, F. Hagmann; Deck Delegate, Paul Ward; Engine Dele­ gate, R. E. Pickett; Steward Dele­ gate, Harry D. Silverstein. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. CHOCTAW (Waterman), August 31^—Chairman, Jack Yates; Secre­ tary, Alvin L. Doud; Ship's Delegate, Frank Timmons; Deck Delegate, James Fisher; Engine Delegate, Louis Schewing; Stewards' Delegate, John Indorf, No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of^ thanks to- the steward departmsnt| for a job well done. Also, vote of| thanks to AB (Moon) Mullins for| the use of his TV., K BUCKEYE ATLMJTIS (Buckeyes Steamship), August 31—-Chairman,| John Bashan; Secretary, Jamesi Temple; Ship's Delegate, Charles^; Terry; Deck Delegate. Lester W.| Hall, Jr.; Engine Delegate, G. L.| Taylor; Steward Delegate, Barryr Lee Deemer. OT beef in engrine and| steward department. Vote of thanks^ was extended to the steward depart-| ment for a job well done. * NATIONAL DEFENDER (Beatf-p fort), August 31—Chairman. Ernesto Pierce; Secretary, Jose Nava; Ship's^ Delegate, Ernest W. Pierce; Engine| Delegate, H. Ware, Jr.; _ Stew^ Delegate, Roy Potorski. $21.00 _i!ii ship's fund. No beefs and no dis-s puted OT. , TRANSERIE (Hudson Water­ ways), August m—Chairman. J. Ringo; Secretary, W. B. Yarbrough;Ship's Delegate, V. Hakka^ines; Deck Delegate, George Forrest; Steward Delegate, R. W. Elliott. IBERVILLE (Waterman), August 31—Chairman John Cisiecki; ^Sec­ retary. W. L. Kilgore. $10.00 in ship's fund. $141.00 collected for; hurricane fund to be turned in tos the Port of New Orleans. Motion| was made to cut down on meetmgs| aboard ship. Once-a-week meeting felt not necessary, i , -JI �Page Twenty Six SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 A Baker Gets His Dough Louis V. Santiago Please contact your wife, Guadalupe, as soon as possible. The address is 31, St. B-33-2, SienfT Bayamon, P.R. 00619 <I> Benigno Guzman Your wife, Elvia, asks that you contact her as soon as pos­ sible at 387 South 5th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211. <l> Irvin Ranew Please contact Bill Von Salzen at the Life Insurance Com­ pany of Virginia, 4219 South Claiborne Avenue, New Or­ leans, Louisiana, at your earli­ est convenience. ^ Herbert M. Parsons Your wife requests that you contact her as soon as possible at 4638 Laurel Street, New Or­ leans, Louisiana 70115. possible at 20 Iris Lane, Balti­ more, Maryland 21220. <1>—- \1> William Zangler Please contact your attorney, Mr. Davis, as soon as possible. John M. Yates Please get in touch with your wife, Margarita, at Box 616, Aurora, Illinois, in regard to a very urgent matter. Antonio Escoto Please contact Treasury De­ partment, Bureau of Customs, Baltimore, Maryland. Your coins have been released by the Joe Meyercheck Department and can be picked Andy H. Reasko asks that up in Baltimore or will be mailed you contact him in care of the to you if you notify them of S.S. Beauregard, Sealand, your proper address. A.P.O. 96312, San Francisco, —— California. WlUie White Billy W. Keller Please contact H.' Monroe Please contact your mother at Houtz, attorney at law, at 35 N. 2002 Cranford Drive, Garland, Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, Texas 75040. Pennsylvania 18701, as soon as possible. ^ ^ Dexter Worrell Dorothy Worrell of 200 Michigan Avenue, Mobile, Ala­ bama, would like you to get in touch with her as soon as pos­ sible about an important matter. Her phone number is 432-7864. ^ Frank G. Strickland Your daughter, Helena R. Graves, requests that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at Rt. 3, Box 165, Ml. Pleasant, Texas 75455. —— Joseph E. Bailey Please contact your wife, Irene, as soon as possible, in care of: General Delivery, Lebanon, Virginia 24266. Earl McGee Bernard Rolnick asks that you contact him as soon as pos­ sible at Rolnick Ezratty and Huttner, 299 Broadway, New York, New York 10007. .1^ — Maynard L. Farsbetter Please contact your daughter. Amber Farsbetter, as soon as possible at 1428 Orizaba Ave­ nue, Long Beach, California 90804. —— Frederick Mitchell Your sister, Mrs. Golda Baker, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possi­ ble at 1109 Pacific, Salinas, California 93901. <|> Bernard Silkowitz Please contact your mother at 400 Marshall Drive, Hoboken, New Jersey, as soon as possible. ^ John Anthony Duiuie Please contact your wife at 1921 E. 32 Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407, as soon as possible. The telephone number is 722-3866. Charles E. Raulings Please contact your brother, Howard C. Raulings, at the Apostleship of the Sea at 399 Fremont St., San Francisco, Calif. Telephone GA 1-7845 or write. Urgent. William (Bill) H. Perdue Please contact your brother, Lamar, at 427 Pine Street, Marysville, California 95901, as soon as possible, Overdale Street, Orlando, Flor­ ida 32809. «.jyaber E. Tuckhom Robert B. Rowen asks that you get in touch with him as soon as possible at Box 337, Springville, Iowa 52336. Donald Thomas Watson Please contact your father, Marvin, as soon as possible,. The address is: 2419 Meadow Lane, La Marque, Texas 77568. Ricardo E. Vasquez Your wife, Maria, asks that you contact her. as soon as poissible at 221 E. 111th Street, New York, New York 10029. Waber J. Zale^ Mrs. Gertrude Zaleski asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible at 740 North 10th Street, #4, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101. Robert Ducote Your father, Neal, requests that you contact him as soon as possible at 225 Gordon Ave­ nue, Harahan, Louisiana 70123. John Chiorra, left, seems happy to be initiated into the ranks of the pensioners as he receives his first check from Al Bernstein SIU Welfare Director at the New York Union Hall. A baker. Chiorra last shipped on the Commander. He makes his home in Allentown, Pa. DISPATCHERS REPORT September 1, 1969 to September 30, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York . .4.... Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile ,, New Orleans Houston ..... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 8 4 122 110 17 24 66 43 30 26 41 43 8 13 50 36 116 93 62 77 30 49 116 122 40 40 706 680 All Groups Class A Class B Class C 7 4 8 72 61 9 - 15 17 0 40 6 34 16 16 4 24 32 13 2 0 4 22 2 21 69 0 44 50 57 7 33 61 7 90 82 15 6 41 31 77 472 473 . Ray MorrdI, Jr. Y^our mother asks that you *ret in touch with her as soon as James (Jimmy) Simmons Your brother. Chick, asks that you contact him as soon as possible at Route 3, Box 181, Clinton, North Carolina 28328. — .1, Deimis Maupin Please contact your sister, Mrs. Betty Meier, as soon as possible. The address is: 1606 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 7 171 217 30 23 75 157 35 30 24 32 24 15 24 74 110 142 128 112 41 2 22 84 43 25 657 993 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 7 5 New York 148 113 Philadelphia 27 12 Baltimore 60 58 Norfolk 10 26 Jacksonville 19 48 Tampa 9 5 Mobile 30 50 New Orleans .... 99 91 Houston ....... 62 86 Wilmington 47 35 San Francisco ..'. 96 , 103 Seattle 29 26 721 580 TOTAL SHIPPED All GroupIS Class A Class B Class C 2 4 5 13 87 60 3 21 1 31 2 40 4 21 15 11 25 11 0 6 7 4 35 18 7 56 50 13 69 52 29 13 30 35 88 57 23 21 lei 123 494 368 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 6 148 136 22 11 84 61 57 12 26 13 8 8 43 65 89 81 74 82 11 18 12 68 13 29 589 579 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Donald E. Leight Important mail is being held for you at SIU Headquarters in Brooklyn. Please get in con­ tact with Amie Braitman at Headquarters as soon as pos­ sible., Atlantic, Gulf & inland Waters District Port Boston New York. ..... Philadelphia Baltimore ....... Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston .... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 3 5 95 62 14 8 27 58 11 18 20 33 0 7 36 15 53 95 53 52 19 15 79 64 34 11 383 504 TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B Class C 3 5 5 23 47 48 3 6 11 18 27 21 12 22 15 19 14 12 0 1 7 12 1 22 41 55 1 35 16 35 9 10 15 66 71 37 10 9 21 304 299 327 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 3 3 61 157 8 10 31 84 26 33 21 15 9 12 24 53 120 52 36 80 6 21 72 26 14 52 317 712 \ �October, 1969 Question of 'Maru' Comes up Zero If . . . . , To the Editor: Over the years, I have taken note of people grap­ pling for the meaning of the Japanese word "Maru." I hope the following will help to clarify it for readers of the Seafarers LOG. In the Publication, "Procff^dings," the Merchant Marine Council, U.S.C.G., dat^d July 1956, "Maru" is defmed thusly: "It's a term which accompanies the name of all Japanese vessels and carries the hope or assump­ tion of perfection c(i' completeness. Its original mean­ ing was a circle or sphere," My Japanese dictionary defines it, "circle, ring, zero, fuUy." Anyone familiar with the Japanese language will agree that they don't waste words and as much is implied as is actually said. Thus, "Mam" means the hope that the ves­ sel has a long, safe and successful life. Anyone's variation on the - same theme in words would be correct. The Japanese . language is like that and this is why, when asked or V pressed for an exact defini­ tion, a Japanese will look off ^" into the wild blue yonder. My Japanese wife, Fumiko, assures me of the correctness of all this, but again, there she is looking off into ,' the wild blue, etc., etc. Maxwell Wadlington (W-407) , St. Petersburg, Fla. ^ * Widow Thanks SlU For Death Benefit To the Editor: I wish to thank the SIU for " the check I received so ' promptly following the death i of my husband on May 28. I would also appreciate continuing to receive the " LOG, please. Mary Pritchord Baldwin Paric, Calif. . ^j> ' Seafarer Appreciates Tribute to Mother ' To the Editor: I want to take this oppor­ tunity to thank the Union for the wreath that they sent to my mother's funeral. I had wanted to thank the Union by attending the meet­ ing on September 8, but I had to make the plane at . 4:10 P.M. that afternoon. However, I did get a chance to talk lo Brothers Earl Shepard and E. B. McAuley and explained that I had to be on my way. So, I want to take this op­ portunity to thank the SIU . on behalf of my brothers and all the members of my ' family. I retired from the sea one ~ year ago this month, and I have been receiving my Pen­ SEAFARERS sion Checks every month promptly. Also, I want to say this to all members—those checks really come in handy. I wish you and all members of your staff the best of luck, and I say "Keep up the good work." Thank you again. Fraternally Yours, Shaia, (S-604) ^ Reports on 'Camille' By Ham Operators Boon to SIU Crew Sheldon Isadore, bom August 19, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. ilfred Isadore, Jr., New Or­ leans, La. — Antoinette Bunn, bom De­ cember 17, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Eugene J. Bunn, New Orleans, La. ^ To the Editor: Julie Melton, bom July 26, Here is something we on 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ board the Delta Brazil think liam F. Melton, Mobile, Ala. is a note of interest to the LOG, and we hope that you Yvette Lewis, bom July 19, publish it in the LOG. 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ham radio operators John W. Lewis, Eight Mile, Ala. around the world, but espe­ cially those in the United —J,— Rachel Hmgis, bom August States and aboard this ship 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. deserve a great deal of credit. Charles J. Hargis, Lake Charles, Some of our people really La. don't realize the great work that these fellows actually do. ^ During this last hurricane Erica Hughes, bom July 6, season, as you well know, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. "Hurricane Camille" devas­ John W. Hughes, Baltimore, tated the Gulf Coast of the Md. U.S. Well it so happened that many of our brother Sea­ Elliott Huirtley, born August farers come from that part of 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. the country—around Mobile, Everett D. Huntley, Bronx, N.Y. New Orleans, and the real sore spots—Gulfport and Patrick Rogers, bom August Pass Oiristian, Miss. 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Well we have two ham op­ James S. Rogers, Baltimore, erators on board. One, in the Md. person of Mr. Joe Pinot the regular ship's radio operator, Joseph Soresi, born Septem­ and bur own Union Sanders, ber 8, 1969, to Seafarer and chief electrician. These boys Mrs. Thomas J. Soresi, Staten deserve a vote of thanks as Island, N.Y. well as the many operators . —— listed on the bottom of this Venus Douglas, born Septem­ letter who really did this ber 3, 1969, to Seafarer and ship's crew and officers and Mrs. David Douglas, San Fran­ many others, as I can under­ cisco, Calif. stand, a very great favor, with all kinds of information about the storm, their families and Melissa Cavazos, bom Au­ generally what was happen­ gust 26, 1969, to ^afarer and ing at home. Mrs. George A. Cavazos, Hous­ ton, Texas. I would also like to add my own personal thanks although I live in New Orleans, and John Taylor, born July 17, didn't suffer any damages, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. I would like to say, "Thank Robert G. Taylor, Mathews, God there are ham opera­ Virginia. tors," and may they always —— have the right to obtain li­ Debra Fuller, born August censes to 4)ractice their hob­ 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. by, because at this particular Roy S. Fuller, Sr., Baytown, time, it was a very worth­ Texas. while hobby which performed ^ a humanitarian service. Wesley Kenum, bom July We give special thanks to 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. our friend "Jay" with call Bobby E. Kenum, Mill Valley, letters K.5.K.L.N, at New Calif. Orleans, where most of the information came from. Also, Michdle Alvarez, bom Au­ in order of their place of ori­ gust 24, 1969, to Seafarer and gin and their call letters, we Mrs. Pedro F. Alvarez, Seattle, give many thanks to: Washington. Baton Rouge, La., "Pope" K.5.Z.O.Z. Renee Bambeart, bom July California (for relay work) 23, 1969 to Seafarer and Mrs. "Cicel" W.6.E.R.C. Elmer C. Bamheart, Jr., RanMobile, Ala., "Jim" W.4. dallstown, Md. F.B.Z. Bay Minette, Ala., "Dan" Shelia Renea McHale, bom K.4.K.D.Z. April 25, 1969, to Seafarer and and of course our own Mrs. WUliam F. McHale, Jack­ Joe Pinot W.5.P.Z. sonville, Fla. Union Sanders K.4.T.E.Z. With the best of everything ^ to the staff of the Seafarers Mark Alan Rivers, bom LOG, I remain fraternally, March 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Midiael J. Dunn Mrs. Edmund R. Rivers, Brook­ Sl^'s Chainnan lyn, N.Y. <I> Page Twenty Seven LOG Nasser Hamad, bom April 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Mahmoud I. Hamad, Washing­ ton, N.C. Je Taun Hemy, bom May 20, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Henry, Jr., New Orleans, La. ^ Tammi Kim Thonq>s<Mi, bom August 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Emmett A. Thompson, Portland, Oregon. Jeffrey Pena, bom June 10, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Al­ fredo Pena, New Orleans, La. —— Following Manhattan Breakthrough: Year-Round Opening of Lakes And Other Waterways Urged WASHINGTON — Programs nificant stride in overcoming the to keep all of the nation's water­ elements to build a worldwide ways open to navigation on a transportation network." "In particular," he said, "this year-round basis have been achievement is welcome news called for by Senator William for those who live in the Mid­ Proxmire (D-Wisc.). The De­ west. Up until now, this region partments of Interior and Trans­ has been sealed off from mari­ portation and the Army Corps time traffic for the winter season of Engineers were requested to due to the freezing over of the institute the work involved. Great Lakes and the St. Law­ "If 800 miles of frozen sea rence Seaway. Each year, on or on the Northwest Passage can be about December 15, all traffic transited," the senator noted in on these waterways has halted a letter to Secretary of Trans­ not to resume until April 1 of portation John A Volpe, "it the following year. Needless to should be child's play to open say, this has imposed a terrific up the Great Lakes and the St. economic burden upon people Lawrence Seaway on a year- living in this part of the coun­ round basis." try." Proxmire was referring to the Proxmire saw the Manhattan recently-concluded successful breakthrough as an opportunity voyage of the Manhattan, which to "usher in a new era of com­ cleared the ice-locked Arctic merce for the Great Lakes." route to the north slope of His message to Volpe stressed Alaska. A member of the Sen­ the role of the Department of ate Appropriations Committee, Transportation in applying the the Wisconsin legislator said he new knowledge gained and in would bend his efforts to make instituting programs to imple­ the necessary funds available ment this knowledge. He also for the program he envisaged. asked to be notified of any added appropriations "required In his letter to Volpe, Prox­ mire emphasized the importance to get such a program under­ of the Manhattan's achievement way" prior to the Transporta­ in "forging through ice that had tion Department's appropria­ previously been regarded as im­ tions bill reaching the Senate penetrable" and called it a "sig­ floor. 50 Years of Happy Sailing <I> <1> Seafarer Tony Sosa and his wife Bertha, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Tampa, Florida. Brother Sosa joined the SIU in Tampa and soiled 25 years as Chief Steward before retiring. �AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), July 13—Chairman, Hans J. Jacobsen; Secretary, W. H. Underwood. $9.70 in ship's fund. Dis­ cussion held on draws. No beefs reported by department delegates. AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), July 20<^Chairman, Hans Jj^acobsen; Secretary, W. H. Under^BR; Ship's Delegate, John Boldiszar; Deck Delegate, Gerard E. Bellenoit; Engine Delegate, Clarence B. Troy; Stewards' Delegate, Claude Hollings. $49.70 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Au­ gust 10—Chairman, Manual Loudron; Secretary, H. L. Bennett; Ship's Delegate, William Wallace; Stew­ ards' Delegate, M. P. Nolacco. No beefs. AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), August 20—Chairman, Hans F. Jacobsen; Secretary, W. H. Underwood; Ship's Delegate, John Boldiszar; Deck Delegate, Gerard E. Bellenoit; Engine Delegate, Clarence B. Troy; Stewards' Delegate, Claude Hollings. Discussion held regarding pension plan. $9.70 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. PEARY (Marine Traders), August 17—Chairman, Eligio Lasoya; Sec­ retary, Virgil Swanson; Ship's Dele­ gate, Eligio Lasoya. Discussion held regarding poor ventilation in crew's quarters. OVERSEAS DINNY (Maritime Overseas), August 24—Chairman, James M. Foster; Secretary, Louis J. Gayton; Ship's Delegate, James M. Foster; Deck Delegate, C. F. Bartler; Engine Delegate, Charles Martinsen; stewards' delegate, John H. Dietsch. No beefs or disputed OT. BEATRICE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), July 20—Chairman, C. Webb; Secretary, W. Lovett; Deck Delegate, Mario Garcia Lopez; En­ gine Delegate, Anthony J. Pramo; Stewards' Delegate, N. Williams. No beefs were reported. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twentr Ei^t RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 20—Chairman, John Alstatt; Secretary, Wayne Larson; Ship's Delegate, B. D. Bush; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. One man missing in engine department. Beef to be taken up with boarding patrol­ man. INGER (Reynolds Metals), August 10—Chairman, Santos Garcia; Sec­ retary, P. Shauger; ^Ship's Delegate, Santos Garcia; Deck Delegate, Tom­ my R. Sanford; Engine Delegate, Santos Garcia; Stewards' Delegate, G. Martinez.. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Some re­ pairs have been taken care of. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 13—Chairman, John Al­ statt; Secretary, John Givens: Ship's Delegate, Ben D. Buuh; Engio^KWlBgate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Paul L. Hunt. No beefs and no disputed OT. PECOS (Ogden Marine), August 10—Chairman, J. Boland; Secretary, R. Ceiling; Engine Delegate, Donald E. Smith. $27.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. No major beefs were reported. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Moore-McCormack), August 16—Chairman, R. Theiss; Secretary, E. Sims; Ship s Delegate, R. Theiss; Deck Delepte, R. Theiss; Engine Delegate, J. T. Gaskins; Stewards' Delegate Ernest Sims. Discussion held regarding safety program. Discussion was held regarding cleaning fresh water tanks. Some disputed OT in each department. OVERSEAS PROGRESS (Mari­ time Overseas), August 10—Chair­ man, B. McGowan; Secretary, J. Sumpter; Ship's Delegate, B. Mc­ Gowan; Engine Delegate, J. G^lagher; Stewards' Delegate, Jack B. Maulden. $14.50 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks extended to the entire steward department for excellent preparation and serving of meals. The steward thanked the crew for their co-operation in keeping the pantry and messhall clean between meals. Entire crew is extremely pleased with the increase in pay and fringe benefits. GENEVA (U.S. Steel), August 3— Chairman, Fred Bischoff; SecreUry, Frank Allen; Ship's Delegate, Fred Bischoff; Deck Delegate, Bruce E. Ruggie; Engine Delegate, Paul E. Huggins. $18.40 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. BUCKEYE PACIFIC (Buckeye), August 17—Chairman, Leon M. Kyser; Secretary, Wilmer E. Harper; Ship's Delegate, Bill Cullen. No beefs and no disputed OT. COLUMBIA (Ogden Marine), Au­ gust 10—Chairman, B. J. Woturski; Secretary, M. S. Sospina; Ships Delegate, Thomas L. Farrell; Deck Delegate, Richard Heffley; Engine Delegate, Joseph E. Brooke. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to the en­ tire steward department for a job well done. Discussion held regard­ ing pension plan. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), July 27—Chairman, Arne Larsen; Secretary, Henry A. Galicki; Ship s Delegate, Michael LaCross; Deck Delegate, Charles Johnson; Stew­ ards' Delegate, Joseph A. Long. $30.00 in Movie Fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Brother Mike F. Curry was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. RICHWOOD (Richwood), July 27 —Chairman, Edward Adams; Sec­ retary, William Karpiak. Vote of thanks extended to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. Vote of thanks also extended to patrolmen Frank Boyne and Ed Morris for a job well done. No beefs reported by department delegates. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Au­ gust 24—Chairman, Manuel Laudran; Secretary, Harris L. Bennett. $10.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department for a job well done. WINGLESS VICTORY (Consoli­ dated Marine), August 24—Chair­ man, C. Mize; Secretary, John Cal­ houn. Everything is running smooth^ly with no beefs and no disputed OT. OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Over­ seas), July 27—Chairman, I^y.Boi­ ling; Secretary, Bertrand Wright; Ship's Delegate, Ray Boiling;. Deck Delegate, L. C. Wilson; Stewards Delegate, Bertrand A. Wright. Few hours disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Motion was made that all • ships goin^ into hot climate should be air conditioned. WINGLESS VICTORY (Consoli­ dated Marine), August 17—Chair­ man, C. Mize; Secretary, John Cal­ houn. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson Water­ ways), August 10—Chairman, W. Kuchta; Secretary, J. Hunt. Brother L. B. Kelly elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs or disputed OT. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), August 24—Chairman, Alfonso A. Armada; Secretary, William H. Rhone; Ship's Delegate, William E. Richardson. No beefs reported by department delegates. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), August 9—Chairman, Ray Hodges; . Secretary, Floyd Mi^hell, Jr. No beefs and no disputed OT reported ;by department delegates. WARRIOR (Sea-Land), July 27— Chairman, L. Ramirez; Secretary, W. Lescovich; Ships Delefi^ate, Walter Lescovich; Deck Delegate, O. Ortiz; Engine Delegate, Luis A. Ramirez. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. AMERIGO (Crest), July 13— Chairman, B. Anderson; Secretary, C. Hall. Department delegates re­ ported that everything is running smoothly. Brother B. Anderson was elected to serve as ship's delegate. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), July 20—Chairman V. W. CMary; Sec­ retary, M. P. Cox; Ship's Delegate, Edward L. B'lanton. $122.75 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. MIDLAKE (American Bulk), Aug­ ust 10—Chairman, Charles Allen; Secretary, Frank Kustura; Ship's Delegate, Charles Hueburt; Deck Delegate, Charles H, Allen, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Thomas C. Hopkins; Stewards Delegate, Robert F. Grant. Some disputed OT in deck depart­ ment, otherwise no beefs. LYNN VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 20—Chairman, W. Mat­ thews; Secretary, Howard Flynn; Ship's Delegate, W. Matthews; En­ gine Delegate, Oliver N. Meyers; Steward Delegate, G. A. Brown. Dis­ puted OT in deck and engine de­ partments. ••'J - BEATRICE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), August 3—Chairman, C. Webb; Secretary, W. Lovett; Deck Delegate, Mario Garcia Lopez; En­ gine Delegate, Anthony Pramo; Stewards' Delegate, N. Williams. No beefs. Everything running smoothly in all departments. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 27—Chairman, John Al­ statt; Secretary, Wayne Larson; Ship's Delegate, B. D. Bush; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. No major beefs were reported by department delegates. OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mari­ time Overseas), August 10—Chair­ man, Gerald McCray; Secretary, Peter Morreae; Ship's Delegate, Gerald McCray. Some disputed OT in deck department to be taken up with patrolman. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), August 26—Chair­ man, Allen Manuel; Secretary, War­ ren Manuel; Ship's Delerate, War­ ren Manuel; Deck Delegate, M. Welch; Engine Delegate, L. V. Springer; Stewards' Delegate, Allen Manuel. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land), July 27—Chairman, George E. Annis; Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon; Ship's Delegate, George E. Annis; Engine Delegate, D. Saxon; Stewards' Dele­ gate, F. R. Stickel. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), July 13—Chairman, Lonnie Cole; Secretary, Frank L. Schackelford; Ship's Delegate, D. A. Norris; En­ gine Delegate, F. L. David. No beefs and no disputed OT. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 6—Chairman, John W. Alstatt; Secretary, John W. Givens; Ship's Delegate, B. 0. Bush; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. No beefs and no disputed OT. BESSEMER VICTORY (South Atlantic & Caribbean), July 20— Chairman, Carlton Moore; Secre­ tary, A. W. Hutcherson; Ship's Delegate, Charles G. Ashcom; Deck Delegate, E. Luzler; Engine Dele­ gate, Robert Davis; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Frank Kumiega. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Au­ gust 17—Chairman, Manuel Laudran; Secretary, Harris L. Bennett. $10.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land), Au­ gust 10—Chairman, George E. An­ nis; Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon. Few hours disputed OT in deck de­ partment, otherwise everything run­ ning smoothly. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for job well done. PUERTO RICO (Hudson Water­ ways), July 20—Chairman, Harry Baum; Secretarj^ D. Archia; Deck Delegate, Ralph J. Denayer. $4.25 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), Au­ gust 3—Chairman, A Barnes; Sec­ retary, Michael Toth; Ship's Dele- ' gate, Anthony B. Barnes; Deck ^ <1 Delegate, Howard R. Harvey; EnU gine Delegate, Jack H. Brian. Discussion held regarding Vacation and Welfare Plans. ROBIN TRENT (Moore-McCor- mack), July 20-Chairman, F. J. Mears; Secretary, C. J. Nail; Ship s Delegate, P. Rubish; Deck Delegate, ' F. E. Parsons; Engine Delegate, Claude D. Berry; Stewards' Dele­ gate, A. R. Bailey. $34.70 in shipj"fund. Some disputed OT in steward department otherwise everything is O.K. Discussion held regarding re- » tirement plan. Vote of thanks to the steward and his galley gang for a job well done. NOONDAY (Waterman), August 31—Chairman, T. Martineau^; Secre­ tary, J. Morton; Ship's Delegate, Tom A. Martineau; Deck De egate, Fred Serrahn; Engine Delegate, Henry B. Pedersen; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Rafael A. Rios. Motion was made that the Union have a dental clinic. Some disputed OT in department. $2.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a gob well done. ' ^ - ANDREW JACKSON (Water-4 man), August 31—Chairman, Thorn- as L. Self; Secretary, John W. , Mims; Ship's Delegate, Juan V. ^ Fernandez; Deck Dele^te, Juan V. Fernandez; Engine Delegate, L. Aranco; Stewards' Delegate, Rich- ard Ramsperger. $22.00 ®' fund. No beefs were reported by ^ department delegates. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), August 3—Chairman, J. Ken­ nedy; Secretary, D. M. Woods; Ship's Delegate, J. C. Northcut; Deck Delegate, R. A. Cory; Engine Delegate, E. Boyce; Stewards' Del­ egate, G. H. Burns. Vote of thanks to steward department. POTOMAC (Ogden), August 24— Chairman, Arnie Horde; Secretary, William J. McNeely; Ship's Dele­ gate, H. A. Smith; Deck Delegate, H. A. Smith; Engine Delegate, R. McKnight; Stewards' Delegate, Henry McCullough. Crew would like the patrolman to check the old fans in foc'sls. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Met­ als), September 1—Chairm^ W. W. Lawton; Secretary, L. J. Bwle; Ship's Delegate, Paolo Pnngi; Dock Delegate, John Talbot; Engine Dele- ' gate. Jay C. Cohen; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Charles Lampman. Everything is O.K. with no beefs and no dis- ^ puted OT. ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Trans­ port), July 13—Chairman, L. A. Bchm; Secretary, G. H. Coker; Ship's Delegate, G. H. Coker; Deck Delegate, G. H. Coker; Engine Dele­ gate, M. Beasley, Jr.; Stewards' Delegate, Harry D. Hommond. No beefs or disputed OT reported. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), August 10—Chairman, Thom E. Kelsey; Secretary, Herb Knowles; Ship's Delegate, Tom E. Kelsey; Deck Delegate, C. B. Testes; Engine Delegate, A. M. Lindsey; Stewards' Delegate K. Miller. Discussion held on division of OT for the oilers and firemen under the new contract. No beefs reported by the department delegates. DEL ALBA (Mississippi), August 10—Chairman, William Aycock; Secretary, Peter Gebbia, Jr.; Ships Delegate, Thomas L. Harrell; Stew­ ards' Delegate, John A. Schultz. $8.50 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Everything is running smoothly. WINGLESS VICTORY (Consoli­ dated Marine), August 10—Chair­ man, C. Mize; Secretary, J. Calhoun. Some disputed OT in deck d^artment One man missed ship in Hono­ lulu. TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson Water­ ways), July 13—Chairman, William G. Cofone; Secretary, John C. Hunt. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. Motion niade to have air-conditioners instalmd in messhall and that a larger AC gen­ erator be installed to allow for pri­ vate air-conditioners and refrigera­ tors while this ship is on the tropic run. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for job well done. VANTAGE HORIZON (Venore), July 27—Chairman, Richard Schaeffer; Secretary, Louis W. Pepper; Ship's Delegate, W. Smirmoff. Some disputed OT in deck and engine de­ partments. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), April 29—Chairman, J. Levine; Secretary, C. G. McLellan. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. OAKDALE (Oakdale Shipping), August 3—Chairman, N. H. Eldridge; Secretary, Robert H. Pitcher; Ship's Delegate, Chester C. Sey­ mour; Deck Delegate, Chester J. Seymour; Engine Delegate, Edward P. Arard; Stewards Delegate, Vin­ cent Pezzelolo. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), July 27—Chairman, None; Secre­ tary, S. Segree. $9.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Brother K. Price was elected to serve as ship's delegate. SS STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), August 3—Chairman, None; Secre­ tary, S. Segree; Deck, Delegate, James Christie; Engine Delegate, Ishmaul Ramos; Stewards Delegate, Stanley Faunthrop. $9.00 in ships fund. Everything is in order with no beefs and no disputed OT. ERICKSON (Crest), August 3-Chairman, Bill Butts; Secretary Al­ bert H. Richards; Ship's Delegate, Bill Butts; Deck Delegate, Paul Chattley; Engine Delegate, Louis Greaux; Stewards Delegate, Donald Thompson. Crew extend a vote of thanks to all SIU . represe^atiyes for the raise in pay and OT. Written motions and resolutions sent to headquarters. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. JAMES (Ogden Marine), August . 31—Chairman, H. OMey; Secretary, C. Garner; Ship's Delegate, R. N. Kelly; Deck Delegate, David B. Ramby; Engine Delegate, John S. > Higgins; Stewards' Delegate, O. Paschal. Discussion held regarding retirement plan and new contract. No beefs were repp^ed by depart- • ment delegates. $37.36 in ship s fund. ALCOA TRADER (Alcoa), August 10 — Chairman, Donald Chestnut, Secretary, Delegate J. D. Cantrell, Jr.; Deck Delegate, O. W. Elliott; Engine Del­ egate, Carlos Vega; Steward, A. Ronlin. No beefs were reported by department delegates. . * , ^ RALEIGH (Crest), August 31— Chairman, Dan hL Ticer, Sr., Secre­ tary, John H. McElroy; Ship's Dele­ gate Dan M. Ticer, Sr.; Engine Delegate, Donald J. Henson; Stew­ ards-Delegate, E. E. Davidson. $16.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. JAMES (Ogden),'August 24 — Chairman, H. Mobley; Secretly, C. Garner; Ship's Delegate, R.. N. Kelly; Deck Delegate, David B. Ramby; Engine Delegate, John S. Higgins; Stewards' Delegate, Otis Paschal. $28.80 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. Discussion held regarding retire­ ment plan. NOONDAY (Waterman), Septem- , her 7 —Chairman, T. Martineau; Secretary J. Morton; Ship s Delegate, T. Martineau; Deck Delegate, ' Fred Serrahn; Engine Delegate, . Henry B. Pedersen; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Rafael A. Rios; $37.00 in ship'sifund. Some disputed OT in engine department. No beefs. �lOetober, 1969 SEAFARERS Waiiam Flllin^in, 41: Sea­ farer Fillingim died on August 7 as the result of an auto acci­ dent on Friendsw o od Link Road, Texas. He was a native of Alabama and made his home there in Chicka­ saw. An AB in the deck de­ partment, his last vessel had '' been the Albion Victorv. He joined the Union in the Port of •> Mobile in 1941. Brother Fil­ lingim is survived by his father, " Emanuel. Burial was in Wolf Ridge Cemetery, Whistler, Ala. bama. u r Joseph John Vuitech, 62: Seafarer Vujtech passed away as a result of ar­ teriosclerosis on July 20 in Har­ bor Emergency Hospital, San Francisco. He was a native of Michigan and was living in San Francisco when he died. Broth­ er Vujtech joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1946. He was a chief cook and last sailed aboard the Raphael Semmes. Seafarer Vujtech, who began his sailing career in 1923, is sur­ vived by a daughter, Sonya Lee Van Deventer. Robert Hill Trail III, 19: Brother Trail died in action on February 25 during a battle 'in Quang Tri Province, Viet­ nam. He had temporarily left the SIU to join the Mari ne Corps in 1968. A native of Baltimore, Mary­ land, Seafarer Trail joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1967. He sailed as a wiper in the engine department and last shipped aboard the Alcoa Market. Brother Trail is survived by his mother and father. . \1> Homer Lee Addingtmi, 63: Brother Addington died of a heart attack on August 13 at the Sunny Point Army Terminal, North Carolina. He was a native of Nickelsville, Virginia, and was making his home in Gate City, Virginia at the time of his death. He sailed in the deck department and last shipped aboard the Grethe in January of this year. Sea­ farer Addington joined the Union in 1957 in the Port of Baltimore. He is survived by his father, Sam. Demetrio Gomaza Zemido, 72: Brother Zerrudo, an SIU pensioner, died of heart diseasf on August 10 in the USPHS Hos­ pital at New Or­ leans. Born in the Philippine Islands, Brother Zerrudo had made his home in New Orleans. He had been sailing nearly 31 vears when he retired in 1961. Brother Zerrudo sailed as stew­ ard and his last vessel was the Del Alba. He joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans. Burial was in Garden of Mem­ ories Cemetery, Jefferson, Louisiana. Seafarer Zerrudo is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Rosita Penton. ,1, Robert Sallier, 57: Seafarer Sallier died on August 3 in Park Place Hos­ pital, Port Ar­ thur, Texas. A chief engineer for Slade, Inc., Brother Sallier made" his home in Orange, Tex­ as, with his wife. Dorothy. He joined the SIU in Port Arthur in 1964. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange. Besides his wife. Sea­ farer Sallier is survived by two sons. Robert and Jerry. Broth­ er Sallier waS a native of Louisiana. Page Twenty Nine LOG gia and joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1955. Burial was at Garden of MemCemetery, New Orleans. ^ Paul Chase Norton, 63: Brother Norton was - an SIU pensioner who passed away on September 10. Seafarer Norton had sailed as an AB in the deck department for many years. He last sailed aboard the Duke Victory. A native of Maine, he was making his home in Boston at the time of his death. Brother Norton joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1938. Cremation took place at Forest Hills Cre­ matory, Boston. Lloyd James Thomas, 58: Brother Thomas, an SIU pen­ sioner, died in Charity Hospi­ tal, New Orleans, on August 17 from a lung di­ sease. A real oldtimer in the SIU, he joined the Union in 1938 in the Port of Norfolk. A native of West Virginia, Sea­ farer Thomas had sailed as an AB in the deck department. His last vessel was the Trans India. Brother Thomas was living in New Orleans at the time of his death. He is survived by a sis­ ter, Gladys Caldwell. Burial was in Tampa, Florida. Brother Thomas first went to sea in 1929. <I> James Walker, 58: Seafarer Walker died in USPHS Hospi­ tal, Staten Island, on August 31. Leroy Samuel Jackson, 55: He joined the Seafarer Jackson died on Sep­ SIU in the Port tember 13 in of New York in New Orleans. 1947 and worked Death was in the steward caused by department. His drowning. A last vessel was member of the the Jacksonville. A native of SIU since 1939, South Carolina, Brother Walker Brother Jackson was living in Bronx, New York, sailed as a chief with his wife, Beatrice, when he steward. His last vessel was died. In 1961 he served the mid­ the Calmar. He was a native of South Carolina and still made night to 8 a.m. watch in the his home there with his wife, greater New York harbor strike. Gwendolyne, at the time of his In 1962 he was issued a picket death. Brother Jackson joined duty card. Burial was in Woodthe SIU in the Port of Savannah. lawn Cemetery, Bronx. Walter Beck Orr, 60: Broth­ Edward Anthony Lukowski, er Orr died suddenly on August 67: Brother Lukowski was an Samuel Chamberlain Law­ 25, 1968 in San SIU pensioner Francisco. He rence, 51: Brother Lawrence who died on died in San had been a cook September 20 in Francisco on in the steward USPHS Hospi­ February 2 of department and tal, Staten Is­ pneumonia. Sea­ last sailed land. A native farer Lawrence aboard the of Brooklyn, he sailed as a wiper Mount Vernon was living there in the engine de­ in 1968. Sea­ with his wife, partment. His farer Orr, a native of Arkansas, Anna, when he died. Brother last vessel was was making his home in Wil­ Lukowski had joined the Union son, Oklahoma at the time of the Eliza Port. He was bom in in the Port of New York and his death. He joined the SIU in Pensacola, Florida, and made the Port of Baltimore in 1952. his home in Oakland, Califor­ sailed as a bosun in the deck A man with a B.A. degree. nia. Brother Lawrence joined department. His last vessel was Brother Orr was once an ele­ the Union in the Port of New the Seatrain Louisiana. In mentary school teacher. He is York in 1961. Burial was at 1961 he participated in the suiwived by his father, Olin, Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Tampa, greater New York harbor strike. From 1919 until 1921 he served Florida. and a cousin, Christine. in the Navy. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery, New York. Hughes Patterson Townes, 56: Seafarer Townes succumbed r to heart disease on August 22 at the USPHS Hos­ pital in New Or­ leans. He was an SIU pensioner who made his home with his wife, Rosella, in New Orleans. Brother Townes sailed as an AB in the deck de­ partment and the last vessel he sailed on was the Walter Rice in 1968. He was born in Geor­ Thomas Lewis Thompson, 57: Brother Thompson died Au­ Jack Theo Waldtop, 17: gust 11 in the Brother Waldrop died of pneu­ USPHS Hospi­ monia in USPHS tal in San Fran­ Hospital, New cisco. A mem­ Orleans, on July ber of the SIU 31. Young Wal­ since 1951, he drop had grad­ joined the Union uated from the in the Port of Harry LundeNew York. Sea­ berg School of farer Thompson sailed as a 2nd Seamanship in cook. Bom in New York City, 1968 and was sailing as a wiper Brother Thompson was living in in the engine department. His San Francisco at the time of his last vessel was the Alcoa Cbmdeath. Burial was in Ocean mander. A native of BrookView Cemetery, Staten Island. haven, Mississippi, Seafarer Waldrop was still making his home there when he passed away. Survivors include his mother, Dorothy. Burial was in Antioch Cemetery, Brookhaven. Hamilton Dailey, 47: Brother Dailey died on November 23, 1968, at Gradu­ ate Hospital in Philadelphia from acute bron­ chial asthma. He was born in Vir­ ginia and joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1941. He sailed as a messman in the steward department and last worked aboard the Pro­ ducer. At the time of his death. Seafarer Dailey was living in Philadelphia with his mother, Minnie Young. He served in the Army from 1943 until 1946. Jacobus Nuvelstyn, 70: Sea­ farer Nuvelstyn died from a hemorrhage at Jersey City Med­ ical Center on August 27. He was a native of Holland and was making his home in Jersey City, New Jersey, widi his wife, Susan, when he passed away. Brother Nuvelstyn joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1963 and worked as a deckhand for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Thomas Stephen Johnson, 50: Brother Johnson died sud­ denly on Au­ gust 30 aboard the Burbank f ^ Victory on which he was sailing as a steward. Death was caused by a heart attack. Bom in New Jersey, he had been living in Philadelphia. Seafarer John­ son was single and joined the Union in the Port of Tampa, Florida in 1949. Burial serv­ ices were held in Philadelphia. Prue G. Vaughn, 51: Brother Vaughn died of heart disease on September 12 in Norfolk Gen­ eral Hospital, Norfolk, Virgin­ ia. Seafarer Vaughn was born in Belton, South Carolina, and made his home with his wife, Delia, in Chesapeake, Virginia. He shipped as a third cook in the steward department and last sailed aboard the Ames Victory. Brother Vaughn joined the Un­ ion in the Port of Norfolk in 1955. Burial was at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk. �Page Thirty SEAFARERS FINANCIAL REPORTS. Hie constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Guff, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes sjiecific provision for safeauardina the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditina committee elected by the membership. Ail Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund aareements. All these aareements specify that the trustees in charae of these funds shall equally consist of union and manaaeraent representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shippina riahts and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shippina riabts. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shippina or seniority riahts as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The pnmer address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New Yorit 4, N. Y. ^ ^ Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafaros Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avaUable in aU SIU balb. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboara ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionaUy refrain^ from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Unions officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deoned harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has heea reaffirmed by membenhip action at the Septembers 1960s meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an ^torial board which consists of the Executive B^d of the Union. The Executive Board may delegates from among its rankSs (me individual to carry out this responsibility. IDdNOT Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stftzel-WeUer DistfUcriM "Old FitzKerald," "Old Efk" ."Cabin StUl," W. L. WcUcr Bourbon whldtcys . (Distillery Workers) — KIngsport Press "World Book,** "Chfldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) B: d> Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) Ik Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillerv Workers) A1> Pioneer Flour MID (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas d> An California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) "mS" bthnd men's clothes _ Kaynec Boyswear, Jndy Bond Uonws, Bancs Knitwear, Randa He*, BOM Giovei^ Rklunaa Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) 4> 4, ABantic Prodncts Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Jamestown Stofing Cocpu (United Furniture Woiters) PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU nnlesa an official Union receipt is given for ume. Under no circumetancea chould any mraiber pay any money for any reaaon unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publbhea every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functicms, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file conunittees. Because these oldtimen cannot take shipboard anpl<vment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union p<dicy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These riirfats are clearly set forth in the SlU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic ori^n. If any member feds that be is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic riadits of Seafarers is the rteht to pursue legislative and political objectives which wiU serve the best interests of themselves, their famaies and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was establisbed. Donations to SPAD are entirdy voluntary and constitute the funds throuidt which legislative smd political activities are conducted tor the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feab that any of the above rights have boon vMstod. or that ho has been denied bM constttntioaal right of accoso to Union records or infomution, ho ahonid imniediataly notify SIU President Panl BaU at bcadgnarters by eertified nwU. retam recdpt rcgi —^ Econmny Famitnre Co. AniOdownMa^ Weston Provindai Bflt-Rite (Upholsterers) : Waterways), AuKust 10—Chairman^ Jaclc Kennedy; Secretary, D. M,; Woods; Ship's Delegate, James Ci* Northcut; De.clc Delegate, It. Corey; Engine Delegate, E. Boyce; • jjStewards' Delegate, G. H. Burns. No beefs reported by department dtele-^ gates. Everything running smoothly, BEATRICE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), August 10—Chairman, Cw ' Webb; Secretary, W. Lovett; Ship's> Delegrate, Mario Garcis gine Delegate, Anthony J. rramo; Stewards* Delegate, N. Williams." Everything running smoothly in alii * departments. Vote of thanks to*! steward department for Job well' done. ~ i " . KENYON VICTORY (Columbia), . August 3—Chairman, J. Kuchta;| Secretary, Leo M. Morsette; Ship's Uelesate, John Kuchta; Deck Dele-f> ate, Thomas J. McGinn; Engine delegate,']^bert Brooks; Stewards' pslegate, Harry C. Downing. No beefs were reported by department» delegates. S STEEL ENGINEER (Isthralan), June 23^—Chairman, Jan Bayes, Jr.; ' . Secrfitary, Angel Seda; Ship's Dele- , gate, Jan Bayes, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Maunce Rosenthal $7.00 Im , ship's fund. No beefs. Some disputed OT in deck and engine d«partm< to be taken up vrith patrolman. COLUMBIA (U. S. Steel), Aug 17—Chairman, B. J. Waturski; r«tary|_^M. S. Sospina; Ship's Dele gate, Thomas Darrell; Deck Dele gate, Richard Heffly; Engine Dele gate, Joseph E. JBrooke; Stewards! Delegate, T. Sayer. No beefs. Eve thing running smoothly in all d partments. ' SIU-AGUWD Meetings RIchman Bros, and Sewell Suits, New Orleans Nov. 11—2:30 p.in. Wing SUrts Mobile Nov. 12—2:30 p.in. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Wilmington Nov. 17—^2:00 p.in. of America) San Fran. .. Nov. 19—2:00 p.m. Seattle Nov. 21—^2:00 p.m. <|> New York Nov. 3—^2:30 p.ni. Philadelphia Nov. 4—2:30 p.in. White Furniture Co. Baltimore .. Nov. 5—2:30 p.m. (United Furniture Workers of Detroit .... Nov. 14—^2:30 p.m. America) Houston ... Nov. 10—2:30 p.m. ^ —- October, 1969. "I Comet Rice Miiis Co. products Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) LOG United Industrie Workers New Orleans Nov. 11—7:00 p.m. Mobiie .... Nov. 12—7:00 p.m. New York Nov. 3—^7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Nov. 4—^7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. Nov. 5—^7:00 p.m. tHousttm .. Nov. 10—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detrcdt .. Nov. 3—2:00 p.m. Alpena .. Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Buffalo .. Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Chicago . Nov. 3—7:30 p.m. Duluth .. Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Frankfort Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... Nov. 11—^7:30 p.m. tSauH Ste. Marie Nov.. 13—^7:30 p.m. Buffalo Nov. 12—^7:30 p.m. Duluth Nov. 14—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland , Nov. 14—^7:30 p.m. Toledo ... Nov. 14—^7:30 p.m. Detridt • • - Nov. 10—^7:30 p.m. MOwaukee Nov. 10—^7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Nov. 11—5:00 p.m. Mobfie .... Nov. 12—5:00 p.m. Philaddphia Nov. 4—5:00 p.m. Bdtfanore (Bcensed and un­ licensed) . Nov. 5—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... Nov. ti—5:00 p.m. Honstmi ... Nov. 10—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region PhOadelpiiia Nov. 11—^10 am. & 8 p.m. BaUimoK Nov. 12-7-^10 a.m. ft 8 p.fn. •Noifblfc Nov. 13—10 aju. ft 8 p.m. Jeney CHy Nov. 10—10 a.m. ft 8 pjn. t Hooting held at Labor Temple, Snnit Ste. Mario, Mich. * Meotiag held nt Labor Temple. Nowport Mews. IMootiag hdd at Gahreefam whmrrm. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian)! J* luly 13—Chairman, J. Nelson, Jr.tl^ Secretary, O. Vola; Ship's Delegate! ^ Sugene Hayden; Deck Delegate^ * Thomas I. Walker; Engine Delegate^ forge E. Griffith; Stewards' Delei' "" rate, F. S. Omega. $20.00 in ship's!. fund. No beefs or disputed OT. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRfiSIDENT Psul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tenner Esrl Shopard Al Tannsr VICE PRESIDENTS Llndioy Wlll|smi Robart MaHhawi SECRHARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS 47S 4tli Ave., ikim. (212) HY t-4M0 800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3414 •ALTIMORE, Md 1214 E. Raltlmoro St. (301) E«, 7-4f00 BOSTON. Mail MI Atlantic Avenue (417) 482-4714 BUFFALO, N.Y 7IS.WaihtMton St. SIU (714) TL 3-T2ST IBU (714) TL 3-f25t CHICAOO, III T3BI Ewlne Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-TS70 CLEYELAND, Ohio 1410 W. 2Stli St. (214) MA I-S4S0 DETROIT, Mich IBIH W. Jefterion Ave. (313) VI 3-4741. DULUTH, Minn .... 2014 W. 3rd St. (2IB) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich. P.O. Box 107 4IS Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex M04 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Ha. 2408 Pearl St. (t04) EL 3-0117 JERSEY CITY, N-l. ... It Monteomory St. (201) HEB-t424 MOBILE, Ala I South Uwronco St. (205) HE 2-1754 410 Jackion Avo. NEW ORLEANS, U. (504) S21-7544 NORFOLK, Va MB Ird St. (703) 422-l8t2 .. 1404 S. 41b St. PHILADELPHIA, Pa (lis) DE 4-3SIB r;?BTEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian)! liAugnst 3—Chairman, George L,fjHayes; Secretary, Johnny P. Bali< Hnv: Ship's Sbiti'H Delegate, Delesrate. George ueorire L. A day; Hayes; Deck Delegate, James F. Shi-: rah; Engine Delegate, David !. Gow-^ er; Stewards' Delegate, Philip Swing. $51.66 in ship's fund. Trip: has Just begun and everything istu i| running smoothly. i I A STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian)^ ' July 20-r-Ch8irman, J. Nelson, Jr.; • „ i Secretary, O. Vola; Ship's Delegate, i Eugene Hayden; Deck Delegate, ; Thomas J. Walker; Engine Delegate, i Jorge Griffith; Stewards' Delegate, ! F. Omega. $20.00 in ship's fund. No ! beefs or disputed OT. ALPENA, MICH PORT ARTHUR, Tex IMS Sovonlb St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 1531 Mluton St. (415) 424-47t3 SANTURCE, P.R ISIl Fomandox Jonco* Step 10 724-2848 WSA'S® -""SSTMSi STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), „ August 10—Chairman, George L. Hayes; Secretary, .Tohnnv p. BaVi^day; Shm's Delegate, George LV 'Hayes; Deck Delegate, James F. sShirah; Engine Delegate, David •Gower; Stewards' Delegate, Philip Swing. Discussion held on new con­ tract. Vote of thanks to our efficient Union raprescntatives, $51=66 m ship'ia fond. Everything running;; smoothly with no bpefs. STBIBL; SCIKNTIBT (Isthmian, „July 27—Ghairman> J. Nelson, Jr.! ISecfotary, 0. Vola; Ship's Delegab Sugehe Hayden; Deck Delega IThomas Walker; Engine Delega Idrge Griffith; Stewards' Delegate " Omega, $20.00 in ship's fund uerything is running smoothly. e«reta$y?^L'P. sXday afo, odprgB L. Hayes. ,Ste, J^ss Shiraht : David Gower; sfesw' jfatu;';VhiIlp.. Bvring..-.Mdmade that Bfeiphdard a month shdul4r ha Jn.khip'S'afondAl; r4.irtsiiSi WILMINOTON, CalHj, 4W .$«««• Aye. Terminal liland, Calif. (213) B32-73K YOKOHAMA, Japan. .Itwa Bld^. Room 801 1-2 Kalaan-Dorl-Nakafcu 1»l<4t7l fat. 281 •Delegate, yh^»:;.repprted 3 �SEAFARERS October, 1969 if.- > Page Thirty One LOG "'•'i t'r " • • W'f-" iM ARRY SCHULTZ, 70, went on s Pension in June after a long sniliAg H career. Ehiring his Jast two years at Ma he bad heard about the Hany Lundebe g School of Seamanship at Piney Point, ar d he had met some of the trainees and u])graders who came aboard ship. Last month he decided to come down to tlie Point and see the school for himself. .After a two-day tour, during which time J he had an opportunity to inspect all of • the training facilities, and the farm arei, he said; "I am greatly impressed. It's a wonderful thing. I only wish that we hzd this kind of training program when I was a young fellow, and I hope that the your g men down here realize what a wonderf ul opportunity they have. All of us have eveiy right to be proud of what the SIU building here to secure the future of the new young men coming into- our Union, our active members who are still sailing, and the oldtimers like me." ' yr,. '••Ai ^ -iTi Pensioner Harry Scliul+2 and HLSS Lifeboat • instructor Tom Brooks watch an able crew of trainees as they come into the dock - ' after a long and hard afternoon of practice.' ; -. . : • y:.y. < iy m'. ' 'Hv. ,;fT1 s - t;, SchwIta-'pOifits'to the chart to show.what a M firlman's wage's were when he was tailing in Ri:-the engine room m 1945—$14? a month! To­ ll^/: day a fireman's wages are $470,33. Looking on are (1-r) Richard Scott, James Shields, Charles ^Bailey. The. trainees were very in listening- to his- experiences. Plih Hall shows Pensioner ScHdifz mw^fplb^^ I'iiiormitory ; home which will be available for pertsiom^ / Pfrs;" Schultz exprsMed a - great deal of interest in )\e plans fpr a thbd^n and complete pensioner villagie.; Schultz samples a freshly picked watermelon presented t6 him by SIU RepreMntative, Frank M Schultz spent an afterrwon look-ysg ing around the school's farm which supplies^; much of the school's fruits and vegetables. :y �r'Vol. XXXI No, 12 SEAFARERS^jfeLOC Octobor 1969 < I OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO> { [ II CnrSERVKEMRFOlK smugMr I hrtofPineyPoiirt r -- - T HE 35,000-TON cities Service Norfolk stopped at Steuart Petroleum at the Port of Piney Point to discharge a part of her cargo of gasoline. The SlU'contracted supertanker had just completed a 65-day voyage that began at Norfolk and included ports in Venenzuela, Arruba, Pan­ ama, Guam, and Houston, Texas. SIU Represent­ ative Bill Hall, HLSS Instructor Tom Brooks, and a LCXJ photographer spent an afternoon visit­ ing the ship and talking with members of the crew. Two crewmembers, Larry Scott and Willis Single­ ton, both recent graduates of the HLSS school at Piney Point, stopped by to talk with some of the trainees, and tell them of their experiences. I ^ ISIU Representative Bill Hall holds an informal meet• ing with some of the crewmembers. Standing left to IFather and son sailed together on deck on the Nor- Iright are Macon Welch, deck delegate: Warren Man-. |foik. Mike Anding, sailing as O.S., and his father,.Iuel, ship's delegate: Mario Cepeda, AS: and Hoyt IB. J. Anding, take time out to look over the latest |Hackney, engine delegate. The crew was pleased with Iissue of the LOS. This was the first trip for Mike. |the surprise visit, and happy to receive the new LOS. The steward department was on hand for the LOS pho­ tographer. Left to right are Seorge Mates, chief stew-1 ard: Allen Manuel, steward delegate: Rodolfo Pinoin, | pantry: Berley Willis, third cook: and Jimmie Higham, i chief cook. The crew had high praise for the steward department of the Cities Service Norfolk. I I Two crewmembers of the Norfolk, both HLSS gradI uates, took time to pay ^ visit to the School at 1 Piney Point and talk to a class of trainees. Larty ICrewmember Mario Cepeda takes a supply of welfare 5 Scott, making his second trip as wiper, attended the I forms for the crew brought to the ship by SIUI school in February. Willis Singleton, seated, was ! Representative Bill Hall. Looking on is Tom Bropks,^| making his first trip as messman. He graduated in ^ . two chief pumpmen on the Norfolk took time out • lifeboat instructor at the Harry Lundeberg School • July. Looking on are HLSS instructors Bill Hall, and Ion deck to pose for this photo. Billy J. Brewer, |of Seamanship at Piney Point. The crew reported. Paul McGaharn, Scott, and Singleton both, had high i J left, and William Beatty reported a smooth trip.|a smooth voyage all the way with no problems.." praise for the HLSS training and education program. I I V* � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. 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Title A name given to the resource October 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE PREPARING REPORT AFL-CIO CONVENTION SETS COURSE FOR CHALLENGES OF ‘70S MTD OPTOMISTIC ON ADMINISTRATION’S MARITIME PLEDGE JUSTICE DEPT USED DOUBLE STANDARD IN WHITEWASH LETTER ON HAYNSWORTH CAREY SEES THREAT TO US SECURITY IN GROWING SOVIET MERCHANT FLEET JUSTICE DEPT USED DOUBLE STANDARD IN WHITEWASH LETTER ON HAYNSWORTH CAREY SEES THREAT TO US SECURITY IN GROWING SOVIET MERCHANT FLEET SIUNA, MTD DEMAND END TO PHS HOSPITAL SHUTDOWNS 1970 MARITIME AUTHORIZATION BILL PASSES HOUSE WITH SENATE CHANGES JENNIE RIZZUTO, LADY SIU PENSIONER, PAYS HAPPY VISIT TO HEADQUARTERS CONGRESS STRIKES FDL SHIP FUNDS FROM BUDGET FOR THIRD YEAR IN A ROW AFL-CIO EXPELS CHEMICAL WORKERS BY 50-1 MARGIN FOR ALA AFFILIATION GROWING NUMBER OF CONSUMER LAWS HAVE BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE GILBERT BILL REVAMOS SOCIAL SECURITY; WOULD WIPE OUT POVERTY AMONG AGED CONGRESS ASKED TO HALT EXPLOITATION, ANTI LABOR ABUSE OF GREEN CARDRES SALARY HIKES, BONUSES, STOCK DEALS KEEP TOP EXECUTIVES ALIVE AND WELL 125 MORE TRAINEES WIN LIFEBOAT TICKETS AIRLINE PILOTS SCORE SAFETY HAZARDS, PROPOSE OWN SOLUTIONS TO INDUSTRY UNION BUSTING BY JP STEVENS HIT IN SEVENTH ADVERSE RULING BY NLRB CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MOUNTS DRIVE TO MAKE NLRB MANAGEMENT’S TOOL NEW JOB BIAS PLAN CALLED RIGHTS SURRENDER SOLUTION TO TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT NOT LOWER WAGES CRACKDOWN ON WAGE-HOUR CHEATERS CALLED FOR BY AFL-CIO PRES. MEANY CITY SERVICE NORFOLK STOPS AT PORT OF PINEY POINT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 12 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/042b82618a2d7223a3edf79e149d5fee.PDF e32b1db22054361c3bd46e7bdb23a0f7 PDF Text Text Vol. XXXI No. 13 SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Membership OK's Constitution Committee's Report: w V, •» I AMENDED SlU CONSTITUTION PLACED ON UNION OALLOT Story Page 3 Nixon Announces Maritime Program To Upgrade Fieet Story Page 3 *r V' • •' It 8 More Seafarers Earn Their Licenses Stories Pages 2 and 4 IN THIS ISSUE: . 4 '' i' Constitution Committee Report See Page 5 *> I-' n •4 '< Comparison of Present Constitution^ Proposed Amendments See Supplement (Centerfold) �Upgraded Engineers Total Hits 359 As 5 More Seafarers Are Licensed • T; Rowland Smith Lawrence The School of Marine Engi­ sailed in the engine department neering, sponsored jointly by as a wiper before entering the the SIU and MBBA-District 2, school in June. He graduated has graduated five more Seafar­ on October 30 with a Tempo­ ers from the engine department. rary Third Assistant Engineer's The men have earned their en­ License. Brother Smith now gineer's licenses following suc­ makes his home in Hyattsville, cessful completion of the com­ Maryland, with his wife, Agnes. prehensive training program of­ From 1946 until 1959 he served fered by the school. in the Army. This latest group brings to Herbert Duke Lawrence, Jr., 359 the total number of Seafar­ 41, received his Third Assistant ers v/ho have completed the Engineer's License on October School's course and gone on to 22. A native of Norfolk, Vir­ pass their Coast Guard licensing ginia, he joined the SIU there examinations. in 1956. Seafarers Lawrence sailed as a wiper before entering the School. He continues to make his home in Norfolk with his wife, Betty Lois. Carl Howell, Jr., 45, en­ tered the SIU-MEBA, District 2 School in -June and graduated •with a Second Assistant Engi­ neer's License on October 31. He is a native of Suffolk, Vir­ ginia and,still makes his home George Henry Rowland, 43, there. Brother Howell joined the joined the SIU in the Port of SIU in the Port of Norfolk in New York in 1961 and shipped 1965 and shipped out in the out in the engine department engine department as an FOWT. as a wiper before entering the Clarence Edwards, 60, is a school in June. He graduated native of Alberta, Canada, who on October 14 with a Tempo­ joined the SIU in the Port of rary Third Assistant Engineer's New York in 1962. He sailed in License. A native of Elberton, the engine department in all Georgia, Brother Rowland now ratings before entering the lives in Atlanta with his sister, school in June. Brother Ed­ Lucy R. Cobb. wards received his Second As­ Douglas Lee Smith, 40, is a sistant Engineer's License Sep­ native of Dickerson, Maryland, tember 19. He now makes his who joined the Union in 1967 home in Vancouver, British Co­ in the Port of Baltimore. He lumbia. Any of the upgrading pro­ grams at the School of Marine Engineering are open to all en­ gine department Seafarers as long as they meet the following requirements. They must be at least 19 years old and have a minimum of 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine department in ad­ dition to at least six months experience as wiper or the equivalent. Additional information and applications for enrollment for eligible Seafarers may be ob­ tained at any SIU hall. Further information can also be gotten by writing to SIU headquarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or by tele­ phoning the school at (212) 499-6600. HISS Graduates at SEA Two graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship are seen_ here during a shipboard meeting on the Merrimac. Dennis Campbell, right, completed his trainee course in 1968, and sailed as ordinary seaman.'He graduated from the HLSS Upgrading School in August, and now sails as AB. Richard Forrest went through trainee program in 1967, completed AB upgrading course in 1968 at Piney Point, earned his full book through Advanced Seamanship Training in August. Increased Cargo for US Bottoms Seen Vital to Lasting Fleet Revival WASHINGTON—President Nixon's program for rebuilding America's aging merchant ma­ rine will bring about "no lasting advances" in the nation's mari­ time strength unless it also pro­ vides for increased cargo for American vessels, a member of Congress warned this month. "Are we going to have a pro­ gram geared to putting ships 'into the-water," Representative Frank M. Clark (D-Pa.), asked, "or are we going to have a pro­ gram geared to putting cargo into these ships, so that they'll stay in the water and not have to be put into mothballs?" Speaking at a meeting spon­ sored by the 7.5-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Clark emphasized Discussing Nixon's Maritime Program that he had "no quarrel" with the goals enunciated in Nixon's maritime message to Congress last week. But, he added, the program is "largely silent" on the subject of providing cargo for the new ships proposed by the Administration. "We are the largest trading nation in the world," the Con­ gressman said, "and yet 95 per­ cent of our imports and exports . move across the waters in the holds of foreign vessels." To achieve an increase in American-flag carriage, Clark proposed: • Telling the 14 subsidized companies that continued fed­ eral aid "will rest on their get­ ting into the commercial market and competing for commercial cargo." • Maximizing U.S.-flag par­ ticipation in the movement of such government cargoes as agricultural surplus, foreign aid Mrs. Helen Ltelich Bentley, newly sworn-in federal Maritinne Commis­ aiid military shipments, setting sion chairman, and O. William Moody, Jr., administrator of the AFL- a goal of 100-percent carriage CIO Maritime Trades Department, which represents 42 unions with of these cargoes by American, 7,500,000 members, discuss the administration's recently released instead of foreign, vessels. fleet revitalization program at recent meeting sponsored by MTD. • Taking the administration of the government cargo pro­ • eral budget." gram out of the hands of the Qark noted that a year ago, State, Agriculture and Defense in a speech in Seattle, President Departments and turning it over Nixon set as a national goal the to the Maritime Administration carriage of 30 percent of our "whose job it is to promote the cargo in American ships by the American merchant marine." mid-1970's. •-Making maritime decisions "That's a six-fold increase on the basis of "restoring vital­ over what we're carrying now," ity to the merchant marine, Clark said, adding it can be shoring up our domestic econ­ omy and reducing the pressures achieved only if legislative pro­ on our balance of payments," posals to back up the White instead of on "the narrow dol- House policy statement are lars-and-cents basis of the fed- "cargo-oriented proposals." f I Congressman Predicts: Xlose Harmon/ on Maritime Between Nixon, Capitol Hill WASHINGTON — "Close Executive Branch that would harmony" between the Nixon put our shipping and shipbuild­ Administration and the Demo­ ing industries back on their feet cratic-controlled 91st Congress again." Foley said that the Nixon on maritime matters has been forecast today by Representa­ maritime message "signals a tive Thomas S. Foley CD- long-awaited change in the sit­ uation," and demonstrates for Wash.). Foley told a meeting of mari­ the first time an inclination in time industry and labor repre­ the Executive Branch to work sentatives and government of­ with Congress "to legislate ficials that the President's mari­ meaningful reforms." Pointing out that the maritime proposals unveiled last tim^^message enunciated princi­ month would be acted on "in the same bi-partisan spirit" that ples"that must be fleshed out in has characterized the Congres­ the legislation the Administra­ sional approach to merchant tion intends^ to send to Capitol Hill, the Democratic Congress­ marine legislation. "Our nation's urgent mari­ man expressed the hope that the time needs demand nothing less White Hquse would make clear from all of us," Foley said at its determination to extend the the gathering sponsored by the provisions of the new program 7.5-million member AFL-CIO to the two-thirdS( of the mer­ chant marine which has not Maritime Trades Department. The west coast lawmaker been subsidized under the mari­ noted that Congressional efforts time program in effect since to rebuild American maritime 1936. Only 14 companies, fortunes over the past years had Foley noted, "have, up to now, been blunted by "either indif­ been the sole beneficiaries of ference or open hostility in the our maritime program." �November 14, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Three LOG Constitution Committee Report Approved; Voting on Amended Constitution To Begin Nov. 22 in AH Ports SIUNA Vice President Steve Edney (center) addresses a recent emer­ gency meeting of SIUNA fishermen and cannery workers, and boat owners, in San Diego to seek a more realistic.tuna quota for the U.S. SIUNA Fish Conference Seeks Higher Tuna Quota SAN OnEGO—^An emergency meeting of SIUNA fishermen, cannery workers, boat owners and other interested parties was held earlier this month to draft a unified program to meet the growing problems facing the West Coast tuna industry. The meeting was called to draw up proposals to present to the Inter-Tropical Tuna Com­ mission which is scheduled to meet shortly to hear appeals and set fishing quotas for the United States and a number of South American countries. Steve Edney, SIUNA vice president, and chairman of the SIUNA Fish and Cannery Con­ ference, told the meeting that the quotas under which the United States operated in 1969 were unrealistic, "and we don't want to see it happen again in 1970." The U.S. tuna quota for 1969 was set at 120,000 tons. The conference is seeking an increase to a minimum of 200,000 tons for 1970, Edney said. He pointed out that until 'T959, there was no quota restriction on tuna fishing, but that after restrictions were enacted "the pendulum has swung so far the other way that the entire indus­ try is now in danger." He charged that the low quotas have put many fishermen and fish processing workers out of work. Seafarer^^il? begin voting in all ports on November 22 in a secret-ballot referendum on a proposed amended constitution for the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. The decision to place the pro­ posed amended constitution on the ballot was made at member­ ship meetings in all ports on October 22-23, after the Con­ stitution Committee submitted its report and recommendations, and the text of the proposed document was read in its en­ tirety and discussed. In addition, as vessels came into port, similar meetings and discussions were held. The ballot will contain three propositions on which Seafarers will vote: • The proposed new consti­ tution. • A change in initiation fees. • A change in the method for paying dues, and a termina­ tion of assessments. The financial changes on which the membership will bal­ lot are designed to spread dues payments evenly throughout the year, instead of Seafarers hav­ ing to make one large payment in the first quarter. The change in the method of paying dues will make no overall change in the amount of dues paid annu­ ally by the membership. The Constitution Coqjmittee recommended adoption of the new constitution. (The full text of the commit­ tee's report appears on Pages 5 to 7. The text of the proposed amended constitution, followed by the text of the present consti­ tution, appears in the Constitu­ tion Supplement in the center­ fold of this issue.) In recommending the consti­ tution changes, the Constitution Committee in its report cited three reasons for its proposals: 1. "The fact that no major or large changes have been made in our constitution for almost 10 years," during which "there have been many changes in the industry and interpretations of laws put on the books . . ."; 2. "The necessary housekeep­ ing changes which have to be made from time to time"; and 3. "The arbitrary position which has been taken by the Department of Labor in connec­ tion with our recent officers' election." Voting on the new constitu­ tion will be held in all ports from November 22 through De­ cember 22, on Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 9 a.m. to noon on Sat­ urdays. Voting will not be con­ ducted on holidays. Would End Decline of American Shipping: Nixon Unveils Maritime Program to Encourage Construction, Give U.S.-Fiag Ships More Cargo WASHINGTON—The Nixon Administration has unveiled its long-promised maritime pro­ gram—a plan for revitalization of the U.S.-flag fleet geared to building new ships, encouraging increased private investment, and guaranteeing more govern­ ment cargo for the unsubsidized, as well as the subsidized, seg­ ment of the shipping industry. The proposals, promised by President Nixon a year ago dur­ ing the 1968 presidential cam­ paign, called for positive gov­ ernment and industry action to "replace the drift and neglect of recent years and restore this country to a proud position in the shipping lanes of the world." In a lengthy message to Con­ gress, the President called, in effect, for modernization of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, declaring bluntly that "the old ways"—under a program which granted aid exclusively to 14 subsidized berth-line operators —"have not worked." The Nixon message was hailed by SIUNA President Paul Hall as a "Inndmark" on the road to long-overdue revival of the U.S.-flag merchant fleet. (See text of Halts statement at right.) The Admmistration proposals drew bipartisan support from Capitol Hill, where the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and the Senate Com­ merce Committee promptly slated hearings on a maritime program even in advance of Nixon's formal legislative pack­ age. The Administration's mar­ itime bill is expected to be sub­ mitted to Congress early in De­ cember. Here are highlights of the Nixon proposal: |> • Tripling of ship construc­ tion in American yards—from the present 10-a-year level to 3U ships annually. • Extension, for the first time, of construction differential subsidies to bulk carriers in the ore, grain and oil trades. • Long-range commitment of funds for shipbuilding, allowing Operators to plan vessel replace­ ment and permitting shipyards to achieve economies in cost. • Extension to unsubsidized operators of the same right granted the 14 subsidized lines to establish tax-deferred con­ struction reserve funds—an im­ portant move in terms of at­ tracting needed private capital for expansion and moderniza­ tion of the fleet. Among the areas in which changes in the constitution have been recommended are those dealing with qualification for membership in the Union, and those covering dues, initiations and assessments. In its report to the membership, the commit­ tee emphasized that "none of the changes proposed have any­ thing to do with your job rights. Your job rights are preserved within the shipping rules as part of the contract between our Un­ ion and the shipowners. The constitutional changes recom­ mended deal only with union rights." Another change calls for re­ vision of the balloting proce­ dures, including the use of mail ballots in future flections. The Constitution Committee recommended changes in nomi­ nating procedures, and a simpli­ fication in the qualifications for elected office in the Union. Under the proposed new con­ stitution, the next general elec­ tion would be held in 1971 instead of 1972, thus shortening, by one year, the terms of exist­ ing officers. In its report to the member­ ship, the Constitution Committee urged Seafarers to "carefully read the proposed revised con­ stitution in conjunction with our existing constitution so as to be fully informed as to any and all recommended changes and in that way be in a position to vote with full knowledge of the facts upon the proposed revised constitution." Serving on the elected Con­ stitution Committee were Dan­ iel Dean, Book No. D-70; John Pasko, Book No. P-666; Fazil AH, Book No. A-475; Charles Boyle, Book No. B-958; John Dolan, Book No. D-124; and John Graddick, Book No. G313. • Raising the ceiling on the clared, "approximately threegovernment's mortgage insur­ fourths of American trading ves­ ance program from its present sels are at least that antiquated. $l-billion level to $3 billion, In the next four years, much of will be as a further spur to private cap­ our merchant fleet scrapped. Yet we are now proital to get into the business. (Continued on Page 25) • A new "direct subsidy sys­ tem" for American-flag ships carrying government-sponsored cargo to replace the present in­ direct subsidy, thus reducing the President, Nixon's maritime message drew this comment hostility of such agencies as from SIUNA President Paul Hall: Agriculture and AID to the use "The maritime program submitted to Congress by Presi­ of American ships.and Ameri­ dent Nixon marks the first time in a third of a century that can crews. (Details of the new proposals have been made by the government to overhaul cargo preference program were the out-of-date Merchant Marine Act of 1936. not spelled out in the Nixon "The proposed legislation is a landmark in still another message.) direction: It is the first proposal that has been made that Many of the key points in the takes into consideration the needs of the entire merchant Administration's program close­ marine—not only the one-third of this industry which has ly paralleled recommendations been the beneficiary of federal assistance since 1936, but made repeatedly over the past also the two-thirds of this industry which has operated inde­ several years by the SIUNA and pendently of government subsidy during this period. the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades "President Nixon's proposals form the most substantial Department, which have been basis to date for a revitalization of the American merchant active in efforts to reverse the marine. It may be that Congress will feel that some amend­ decline in the nation's maritime ments are necessary in order to rajike this program achieve fortune. its maximum effectiveness in terms of our balance of pay­ In sending his maritime mes­ ments, the growth of our shipping and shipbuilding capabil­ sage to Congress, the President ities, the realization of our potential for sealift in time of painted a bleak picture of the emergency, and the enhancement of our prestige around tlie present state of the merchant world. marine. "What is most important, however, is the fact that the "While only one-fourth of the President has enunciated a policy that, for the first time, should world's merchant ships are more lead to the full development of our merchant marine." than 20 years old," Nixon de­ Hall Sees Program as Lamlmark' �Page Four SEAFARERS LOG November 14, 1969 . f SlU Pension Roster Adds 14 More Seafarer Veterans Fourteen more Seafarers joined the ever-expanding list of members drawing their SIU pensions last month following completion of long careers at sea. Walter James Jarrett, 63, of St. Louis, Missouri, joined the SIU in the Port of Boston in 1944. He sailed as a cook and baker in the steward department and last shipped aboard the Transpacific. Brother Jarrett is a native of Illinois who now lives m St. Louis with his wife, Dorothy May. Pennine Wall James P. Fitzgerald, 65, is a native of Galway, New York, who now makes his home in Elsinore, California. He joined the Union in the Port of Tampa and sailed in the deck depart-, ment as an AB. His last vessel was the Iberville. Seafarer Fitz­ gerald served in the Navy for 26 years, from 1921 until 1947. Barbour McCann Simplicio G. Mansan, bom in the Philippine Islands, joined J' Jarrett Fitzgerald Mansan Krinke the Union in the Port of New an accident free ship for the pe­ York. He shipped as a cook and riods covering the last half of last sailed aboard the Geneva 1960 and the first half of 1961. earlier this year. A seaman since Jesus Maria Landron, 49, 1925, Brother Mansan now joined the SIU in the Port of makes his home in Philadelphia. New York in 1942. He is a na­ Henry R. Krinke, 65, joined tive of Puerto Rico and now the SIU in the Port of New makes his home in Brooklyn York. He sailed as a deckhand with his wife, Monica. Seafarer and last worked for the Penn­ Landron worked as an AB and sylvania Railroad. A native of last sailed aboard the TransEast Norwalk, Connecticut, he westem. Gorham M. Bowdre, 64, now lives in Harrington Park, New Jersey, with his wife, makes his home in Glyndon, Maryland. He is a native of Helen. Washington, D.C., and joined the Union in the Port of Balti­ more. Brother Bowdre sailed as a chief electrician and last shipped aboard the Kyska. Cedric U. Francis, 75, is a native Texan who continues to live in the Lone Star state at Clute with his daughter, Cath­ . •f' }•C •) • erine Mae Palmer. He joined the SIU in the Port of Galveston Lum Redmond and sailed as a steward, cook Eugenio T. Marte, 65, is a and baker. Seafarer Francis had native of the Philippine Islands been sailing since 1921 and his and now lives in Brooklyn. Sea­ last vessel was the Chatham. farer Marte joined the Union in John Pennino, 57, is a native the Port of New York in 1944. of Louisiana who joined the He sailed in the engine depart­ SIU in the Port of New Orleans ment as a wiper and last worked in 1942. He sailed as a steward aboard the Steel Surveyor. and his last vessel was the Brother Marte has been sailing Del Mar. Brother Pennino now the seas for 34 years. In 1961 makes his.home in New Orleans he was presented with two per­ with his mother, Mrs. Mary sonal safety awards for his part in keeping the Steel Surveyor Meany Tells AIFLD Graduates: Aid to Free Trade Unions Curbs 'Slave Labor' Threat FRONT ROYAL, Va.—^American labor aids in building free unions around the globe because it knows that "slave labor threatens free labor everywhere," AFL-CIO President George Meany told graduates of the American Institute for Free Labor Development. Also addressing the graduation ceremonies was Robert B. Black, director of social development for the Agency for International Development. Graduates of the latest AIFLD class-—36 union leaders from Brazil and Caribbean nations—^bring to nearly 800 the number from Latin America who have completed the course here. They, in turn, become instructors in their own countries. Meany stressed that the course is designed to help those who take it understand U.S. unions, benefit from their experi­ ence, adopt them where possible, but "not necessarily emu­ late us." The important thing, Meany said, is that the graduates help build "free labor structures" that will advance the wages and working standards of union members, and thereby strengthen the economies of their countries. , Black said the U.S. government sees the labor movement in Latin America as "perhaps the best system of private organizations who assemble, speak their views and represent their interests in the open societies of their countries." Labor unions, he added, are "one of the fundamental building blocks in the creation of an effective modem society, along with cooperatives, credit unions, community organi­ zations, and women's and student's groups." He urged the graduates to equip themselves with the eco­ nomic facts about their countries and make their voices heard in helping to determine economic policies. Race Quotas Plan On Minority Jobs Rapped as lllogal WASHINGTON —The Ad­ ministration's racial quota sys­ tem for hiring minority group members in the Philadelphia building industry is illegal, un­ workable, and in conflict with the intent of Congress and the language of a presidential ex­ ecutive order, the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department has charged. The department "supports the objectives ofmon-discrimination and affirmative action in the Equal Employment Opportunity program" in deeds as well as words, BCTD President C. J. Haggerty said in a statement presented to the Senate Subcom­ mittee on the Separation of Powers by Louis Sherman, the department's legal counsel. The statement paralleled a policy declaration of delegates to the department's 55th con­ vention, held in September. That convention agreed unanimously that "we are unalterably op­ posed to the quota system." The AFL-CIO convention which followed said the Phila­ delphia plan "sets up unsound procedures used in no other in­ dustry, segment of the labor market or in government itself." Marte Landron Pennino. Qpie C. Wall, 66, joined the Union in the Port of Norfolk. He is a native of North Carolina and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his daughter, Betty. Seafarer Wall sailed in the engine department as an FOWT and last shipped aboard the Yorkmar. From 1923 until 1927 he served in the Navy. He began his sailing career in 1935. John O. McCann, 56, of Houston, Texas, joined the SIU in the Port of Galveston and shipped as an FOWT. His last vessel was the Cottonwood Creek. A native of Indiana, Brother McCann served in the Navy during World War II from 1943 until 1945. Norwood A. Barbour is a na­ tive of North Carolina who joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk. He sailed in the engine Bowdre Francis department as an engineer and FOWT. Seafarer Barbour now makes his home in Washington, North Carolina, with his wife, Dorothy Faye. From 1950 until 1952, Brother Barbour served in the Army. George L. Lum, 62, of Du, mont, New Jersey, is a native of New York City. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1960 and sailed as a deckhand. His last^ employer was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Brother Lum now makes his home in Dumont with his wife, Catherine. Daren L. Redmond is a na­ tive of North Carolina who joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He sailed in the deck department as an AB and last worked aboard the Transeric. Brother Redmond now lives in Federal Way, Washington. 3 More Seafarers Upgraded By SIU Deck Officers School Three additional deck de­ partment Seafarers have earned their officer's licenses after successfully completing the course of study offered at the upgrading school jointly spon­ sored by the SIU and the As­ sociated Mari­ time Officers Union. There are now 57 Seafarers who have received ^, mate's licenses Culpepper tailing the course and passing their Coast Guard examinations. William Earl Culpepper, 53, received his third mate's license after graduating from the school. He is a native of Virginia and now lives in Norfolk with his wife, Wilby. Brother Culpepper joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1947 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. He ^rved in the Marines from 1942 until 1946. Ronald Dale Stough, 40, is a native of Ohio who now makes his home in Washington with his wife, Mina. He has been sailing with the SIU since 1948 when he joined the Union in the Port of New York. Brother Stough shipped out as a bos'n before entering the school in June. He graduated on October 8 and received his second mate's license. Michael Theodore Chiglo, 26, of Philadelphia, graduated and received his third mate's license upon graduation from the SIUAMO school. He is a native of Philadelphia and joined the Un­ ion there in 1965. In the same year he gradu­ ated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Brother Chiglo sailed as an AB before entering the upgrading school in June. He served in the Marines from 1960 until 1964. The deck officers upgrading school is the first of its type in the industry. It is run under a reciprocal agreement between the SIU and the Associated Maritime Officers Union. Seafarers wishing to partici­ pate in the program can begin training at any time. There is no set length for the course, rather it is geared to the ntan's ability and knowledge, and the degree of his preparation for the examination. Stough Chiglo Like the engineer's upgrading school, the deck officer's train­ ing program was begun in line with the SIU's objective of en­ couraging and assisting unli­ censed Seafarers to upgrade themselves tp better paying jobs. There is no expense involved for Seafarers. TTiey are pro­ vided with meals, lodging and subsistence payments of $110 a week while in the program. Deck department Seafarers who are interested in taking ad­ vantage of this training program may appy at any SIU hall, write directly to SIU headquarters at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or telephone the school at (212) .768-0561. �November 14, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Report of the CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE E, THE UNDERSIGNED Consti­ tutional Committee, were elected at a special meeting at Headquar­ ters—Port of New York, on September 22, 1969 in accordance with Article XXV, Section 2 of our Union Constitution. We have studied the amendment resolution submitted by A1 Kerr, Secretary-Trea­ surer, in behalf of our Executive Board, and which resolution was printed in full in the Seafarers Log, September 1969 issue. As the resolution provided, it was pro­ posed that our Constitution be amended to provide for mail balloting for the election of officers and for constitutional amendments, unless with respect to such amendments the membership should otherwise determine. Our Committee was charged with making recommendations as to the exact procedures or details for such mail balloting. We were also authorized and directed to make recommendations on any other proposed constitutional amendments as our Committee felt were needed or ap­ propriate, including such items as mem­ bership requirements, financial require­ ments, election procedures, definitions, and any other constitutional subjects. Since our election your Committee has been meeting regularly on the second deck of the Headquarters building. We have met daily with members and dis­ cussed many of the items to be continued or changed in our Constitution. In fact, Secretary-Treasurer Kerr at the October 6th Headquarters—^Port of New York meeting announced to the members that any of them who had any suggestions as to changes in our Constitution should discuss them with our Committee in the Conference Room on the second deck of the Headquarters building and, as we have stated before, many of the members have had such discussions with us. In addition, we have had regular discussion with our officers as to operational and~ other problems which have a direct effect upon the terms of our Constitution. We have met with Secretary-Treasurer Kerr on numerous occasions and he has given us material for our study, as well as numerous reports concerning the Depart-' ment of Labor's action on two members' complaints hied with the Department re­ garding our last officers' election. In rela­ tion to this last item, we will deal with it in more detail later on in this report. As a result of our studies, meetings, discussions with members and officers as well as going over various materials, we have come to the decision that a large number of changes must be made in our Constitution and as a result we are rec­ ommending numerous changes that we feel are needed. These changes and rec­ ommendations are contained in the pa­ pers attached which are headed, "TEXT OF PROPOSED SIU CONSTITUTION." Where we have made changes or dele­ tions from our old Constitution we have attempted to identify them by an aster­ isk (*) alongside of each section. How­ ever, to make sure that all members are aware of all changes or deletions, we suggest that each member compare tbe old Constitution with the proposed new Constitution, section by section, item by item. The reasons for the suggested changes as recommended by your Committee falls within three groups: the first is the fact that no major or large changes have been made in our Constitution for almost ten years and, as we all know, during that period of time there have been many changes in the industry and interpreta­ tions of laws put on the books within the past ten years or so. The second reason is the necessary housekeeping changes which have to be made from time to * time. The third and most important rea­ son is because of the arbitrary position which has been taken by the Department of Labor in connection with our recent officers' election. As to this last> item, we have examined numerous materials, pa­ pers, and documents and have received detailed reports from our SecretaryTreasurer. Your Committee believes it is very important that the full story on this 5. Members in good standing may subject be given to the membership so have been denied a reasonable op­ that a complete understanding can be had as to why your Committee has recom­ portunity to cast one vote in that out of a possible 735 voting days mended some large and basic changes in at all port polling places, there our Constitution. The facts are as fol­ were 198 days on which the polls lows: were closed due to the questionable On our 1968 election of officers there election procedures employed (Sec­ were two complaints filed with the De­ tion 401(e); and partment of Labor relative to our elec­ tion of officials. Based on these com­ 6. At least one officer position was filled by appointment rather than plaints the Department of Labor com­ election by secret ballot (Sections menced an investigation in late March 1969. Starting from that time, the De­ 3(n) and 401(d). partment of Labor's investigators met In order to conclude this investigation with representatives of our Union, par­ as expeditiously as possible, it would be ticularly our Secretary-Treasurer and appreciated if you communicate with me our Counsel, and were furnished with on or before August 6, 1969, concerning all information requested over a period any additional evidence bearing on the of many months. They also interviewed violations or any remedial action con­ many of our members who participated templated by your office. in conducting the vote and our officials, .In the event that additional time is de­ in each and every port in which the Union sired to consider these matters, it is sug­ maintains an office, throughout the gested that an additional time waiver United States as well as Puerto Rico. be submitted. 'As you know, under the Under the law, the Department of La­ current waiver statutory filing deadline bor wns required to finish their investiga­ extends only to August 7,1969. tion in sixty (60) days. However, they Sincerely yours, repeatedly requested extensions of time, s/ Henry A. Queen which were granted to them on six sep­ Chief, Branch of Elections arate occasions. and Trusteeships As the membership knows, the Sea­ cc: Mr. Howard Schulman farers International Union was holding Schulman, Abarbanel and Kroner its Convention in Washington, D.C. dur­ Attorneys at Law ing the week of July 28th through Au­ 50 Broadway gust 1st. On July 30th,' during a Con­ New York, New York 10004" vention session—^without any prior no­ tice, telephone call or common courtesy The arrogance of the Department of —the Department of Labor caused to be Labor as demonstrated by the manner in served on our President and our Counsel, which they served this letter was ex­ at the Convention Hall, the following ceeded only by the very contents of the letter: „ letter itself. ^ On August 1st, our Union's Secretary"Office of Labor Management & Treasurer, A1 Kerr, accompanied by our Welfare Pension Reports Counsel, met in Silver Spring, Maryland Washington, D.C. 20210 with the writer of the letter and the Di­ rector of this division of the Department Official Business of Labor, his assistants and associates, July 30,1969 including a representative from the of­ fice of the Solicitor of Labor, to discuss "Mr. Paul Hall the contents of the aforementioned letter President, Seafarers' International and the reason for same. The following Union of North America, Atlantic, "fantastic" explanation was given by the Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District Department's representatives. 675 4th Avenue In answer to item one where it was Brooklyn, New York 11232 claimed that 7,000 to 9,000 members in Dear Mr. Hall: good standing were denied the right to Pursuant to the authority of Section 601 vote, the Department's explanation was of the Labor-Management Reporting and as follows. They estimated that approxi­ Disclosure Act of 1959, as Amended, and mately 15,000 to 17,000 people had sailed receipt of a complaint, this Office has aboard Union-contracted vessels and that initiated an investigation into an election approximately 8,000 full book members for the principal headquarters and port were given the right to vote. They fur­ offices conducted by the Seafarers' In­ ther estimated that about 7,000 to 9,000 ternational Union of North America, of those persons who worked as unli­ Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters censed seamen aboard these vessels dur­ District (SIU-AGL & IWD), during No­ ing that period were, therefore, denied vember and December 1968. Section 402 the right to vote, claiming that all such (b) of the Act states, in part, ". . . if he approximately 15,000 to 17,000 persons (the Secretary of Labor) finds probable were entitled to vote in our election for cause to believe that a violation of this our officers. It was pointed out to the title (Title IV) has occurred and has not Department of Labor that, in spite of been remedied, he shall, within sixty any other considerations, many of these days after the filing: of such complaint, men who the Department of Labor bring a civil action against the labor claimed should have been entitled to vote, organization. . .." were men who had sailed in some in­ stances less than thirty days, less than The investigation thus far conducted sixty days, less than ninety days, and establishes probable cause to believe that the election conducted by SIU-AGL & some as little as ten days, many of whom IWD violated Title IV in the following were college students seeking summer employment, otherg who sought tempo­ particulars: rary part-time employment, and others 1. Approximately 7,000 to 9,000 mem­ who just desired to make a trip or two, bers in good standing were denied etc. In addition, it was pointed out to the the right to one vote (Section 401 Labor Department that by previous court (e); decisions which pointed out the ups and 2. Reasonable opportunity for the downs of our industry and under rules nomination of candidates was not which the Labor Department itself has given in that officer candidate eligi­ used to supervise elections of officers in bility requirements were waived maritime unions, that no such position after nominations-were closed (Sec­ had ever been taken by the Department tion 401(e); of Labor before. To the contrary, a most 3. The election procedures at various substantial employment requirement was port polling places resulted in the used by the Department in determining denial of a secret ballot (Sections the right of the seaman to vote. In spite of this explanation, these undisputed 3(k) and 401(d); 4. Adequate safeguards for a fair facts, the Department of Labor never­ election were not provided in the theless has continued to maintain its position as they had set forth in item one custody and control of voted bal­ of the letter that "approximately 7,000 lots; and denial of the right of a to 9,000 members in good standing were candidate to have an observer at the counting of the ballots (Section denied the right to one vote." One of the must surprising things in 401(c); regard to this item of 7,000 to 9,000 members being denied the right to vote, is the fact that no complaint was filed with the Department of Labor making this a reason for any protest. In fact, the direct opposite occurred because of our two (2) members who filed a protest, one complained that the Union's constitution­ al provision with respect to the right to vote was too liberal! It certainly is strange to find the De­ partment of Labor creating its own com­ plaints and we can only determine that from their actions it is the intent of the Department of Labor to arbitrarily de­ termine what should or should not be the constitutional provisions of our Union. The Labor Department, it a.ppears, is prepared to substitute the judgment of some of its bureaucratic personnel for that of the membership of our Union. For, after all, the constitution under which we operate is the document which was prepared, voted upon and approved by our membership to determine the manner in which we should live and the rules under which cur organization should operate. Furthermore, we are the men who sail the ships, who understand our problems, needs and desires as dis­ tinguished from the desk jockey in 'Wash­ ington who in all probability does not know one end of a ship from another; whereas we as active seamen do and many of us being transient individuals are dependent upon our organization and the relationship with our fellow seafarers as our way of life and the maintaining of same. We have been advised that one of the main purposes of the law which regulates union elections is to give the Union and its members the opportunity to act upon any protest by its members before the Department of Labor may assume con­ trol of the member's beef. Here, neither of our two protesting members ever raised this issue and we therefore ask how could our Union have acted upon such a complaint? In •view of this, we find it impossible to understand the De­ partment of Labor's position in this matter. Item 2 of the Department's letter reads as follows: "2. Reasonable opportunity for the nomination of candidates was not given in that officer candi­ date eligibility requirements were waived after nominations were closed (Section 401(e)" For our recent election of officers our membership Credentials Committee liber­ ally interpreted the qualifications for of­ fice and our membership overwhelmingly affirmed the Committee's action. The re­ sults of such liberal interpretation was to make more of our members eligible to run for office. In fact, one of those found eligible by this liberal interpretation was Brother Rothman, who was one of the members who protested the election. For the past several years, we have been reading and hearing about state­ ments from Government officials who are charged with the administration of laws regulating Union affairs, that Unions should take steps to afford the greatest number of members the opportunity to run for office. Yet, in our election of of­ ficials where our Credentials Committee and membership liberally interpreted our own Constitution to make more of our members eligible to run for office, the Department of Labor, under a blank­ et of technicalities, challenges this ac­ tion. We should also point out to the membership that none of our members who had not filed their credentials in this election, have made any protest, as to the manner in which the Credentials Committee and the membership inter­ preted and applied this portion of our Constitution. Item 3 of the Department of Labor's letter reads as follows: "The election procedures at various port polling places resulted in the denial of a secret ballot (Sections 3(k) and 401(d)" �Page Six The Department's explanation to our representatives, as to this item, was that certain voted ballots had been kept over­ night at one (1) of the ports. Our Union representatives demanded proof of this charge as well as the name of the port involved which the Department's repre­ sentatives were unable to furnish at that time. We were subsequently advised that the sole basis for their charge was the postmark contained on two envelopes addressed to the depository bank from the port of Norfolk and which postmark was the postmark for the day immediate­ ly after the day on which those ballots had been cast. It was pointed out to the Department that the record showed that the envelope was mailed the same day as the votes were cast and that it had been posted in a post box and apparently not picked up and stamped by the postal au­ thorities until early the following day. The Department thereafter admitted that it had no evidence to support its charge, other than the mere postmark upon the two envelopes. It is upon such flimsy facts that the Department of Labor makes such serious charges of a "denial of a secret ballot." The Labor Depart­ ment is apparently good at making ac­ cusations, but quite short in supplying the evidence in support of them. As to Item 4 of the Department of Labor's letter, it reads as follows: "Adequate safeguards for a fair election were not provided in the custody and control of voted bal­ lots; and denial of the right of a candidate to have an observer at the counting of the ballots (Sec­ tion 401(c)" The Labor Department's peculiar evi­ dence as to the failure to have adequate safeguards concerning the custody and control of voted ballots is based upon the procedure used by our Polls Committee, as called for in our Constitution, where­ by at the end of the voting day the bal­ lots in the ballot box, completely folded, were then placed by the Polls Committee into a mailing envelope and mailed to the depository. In effect, the Labor De­ partment is indicting each and everyone of the members of our Polls Committee who as rank-and-file members partici­ pated as good Union members should in the operation and affairs of our Union without compensation. It is more amaz­ ing when this is the sole "evidence" that the Department of Labor has. In fact, they admitted to our representatives that there was no evidence that any single committeeman ever invaded the secrecy of any man's ballot by this procedime. In spite of these cold facts, the Department of Labor has the nerve to accuse our Union and its members of being derelict in failing to provide adequate safeguards for a fair election. As to the second part of this Item 4, which refers to the denial of the right of a candidate to have an observer at the counting of the ballots, the Labor De­ partment is referring to the protest of Brother Rothman. This item we all find impossible to believe, for as members, many of us have observed the counting of the ballots. In fact, in this election it was done in an open room, right off the main floor of our Headquarters' building, in full view of all members, many of whom for long periods of time personally observed the count. Such a charge, Ijo our knowledge, is unbelievable. Of great­ er importance however, is the Labor De­ partment's confused position. On the one hand, under Item 2 of their letter, they say that we were wrong in liberalizing the rules for nomination. Yet, strictly be­ cause of such liberalization. Brother Rothman was found qualified. The De­ partment under their Item 2 would find him non-qualified. But on the other hand, under their Item 4 they say this "non.qualified candidate" was denied the right to have an observer. We wonder how ridiculous some people can get. With respect to Item 5 the Depart­ ment's charge is as follows: "Members in good standing may • have been denied a reasonable op­ portunity to cast one vote in that out of a possible 735 voting days at all port polling places, there were 198 days on which the polls were closed due to the question­ able election procedures employed (Section 401(e)" The meaning of this charge is that on some days, at some ports, there was not a quorum available to elect a Polls Com­ mittee and, therefore, no voting took place on such days. Included in this SEAFARERS LOG charge is the port of Detroit, ..here be­ cause of the change in shipping traffic, and weather conditions, few if any of our vessels entered such port during the vot­ ing period. Furthermore, none of our membership is at that port, as witness the fact that because no members are present, there are no quorums for meet­ ings. Most important, however, is the fact that the Department of Labor ad­ mits that no member at anytime claimed that he was unable to vote, nor has the Department of Labor shown any evidence that any member was unable to vote be­ cause of the above circumstances. We can only once again express our amazement and concern at the Department's charge, in the light of these undisputed facta, and can furthermore, only conclude that the Department of Labor is clearly intent on making a "case" in spite of the lack of evidence and the overwhelming facts to the contrary. With respect to their last Item 6, the charge is as follows: "At least one officer position was filled by appointment rather than election by secret ballot (Sections 3(n) and 401(d)." However, the facts concerning this issue are as follows: After the close of nominations and the printing of the ballot, but shortly before the beginning of the election period," Brother Leo Marsh, a candidate for Mo­ bile Joint Patrolman, died. Nevertheless, the membership elected him to office. As provided by our Constitution, after the election was over, the membership, adopting the recommendations of the President, appointed Stanley Zeagler to fill the position. The Department of La­ bor took the position that the person who should have been deemed elected to office or appointed to the office to which Broth­ er Marsh; was elected, should have been the candidate who received the next high­ est vote. Such member, who the Depart­ ment of Labor says should have been appointed, received 2,500 less votes than our deceased member. Brother Marsh. Our representatives pointed out to the Department of Labor that in political elections, where a similar situation oc­ curs, under no circumstances does a de­ feated candidate get appointed to the spot of a deceased successfully elected caiididate. The reason for this is obvious. The defeated candidate was rejected by the voters and under no stretch of any reasonable person's imagination should a candidate be imposed upon the voters, particularly when he has been rejected by them. This is the sort of nonsense which is being engaged in by the Depart­ ment of Labor in connection with our election. After the August 1st meeting between representatives of our Union and the De­ partment of Labor, on the letter that has been dealt with above, additional meet­ ings were had between our officers and counsel and representatives of the De­ partment of Labor. Included in these meetings was one attended by our Sec­ retary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr and Vice-Pres­ ident, Robert Matthews and our counsel with the Solicitor of the Department of Labor, the members of his staff as well as other representatives of the Depart­ ment of Labor. In addition, our President, Paul Hall, met with the Assistant Secre­ tary of Labor, William Ussery, on this subject. As our Union representatives have advised members of our Committee, it became quite clear that the Department was intent in moving against our Union and its membership regardless of the evidence or facts submitted. On October 15, 1969 there was served upon our Union a complaint filed by George P. Shultz, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff against Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The main content of their complaint is con­ tained in paragraph X which reads as follows: "a) Defendant violated section 401(c) of the Act (29 U.S.C. 481(c)) by failing to provide adequate safe­ guards to insure a fair election, b) Defendant violated section 401(e) of the Act (29 U.S.C. 481(e)) by i) denying members in good standing a reasonable oppor­ tunity to nominate, vote for or otherwise support the can­ didates of their choice; ii) denying members in good standing the right toJ>e can­ didates and to hold office by the imposition of unreason­ able candidacy qualifications; and iii) denying members in good standing the right to vote." In effect, the Department of Labor is seeking to set aside our recent election for officers and to run a new election under the Department of Labor's super­ vision. The Department also seeks the costs of their lawsuit against the Union. The membership of this Union is aware of the past activities of the De­ partment of Labor as applied to our Union and it appears to us based upon these facts which have been laid out above, that this is more of the same.Although not strictly within our author­ ity, we feel compelled to recommend that our membership go on record to oppose this action of the Department of LaW to the fullest extent possible. The con­ duct of the Department of Labor, in the light of the facts concerning this issue compels us as trade unionists not only to vigorously fight their unwarranted conduct, but to accept their challenge and come to grips with them in a Court of law. To do less is to give up our respon­ sibilities to our membership, our Union, and to the concepts of free trade union­ ism. The action of the Department of Labor can result in serious damage to our mem­ bership and as set forth above should be most vigorously opposed. In the mean­ time, we should take the necessary steps to">rcducc any damage which may be done to our membership and our Union, and it is for that reason that we recommend many of the items for change which are contained in our proposed Constitution. We further recognize that because of the Department of Labor's action many of these constitutional changes will impose financial costs to those who as of now are not full book members of our Union. This is regrettable. However, this is all a result of the Department of Labor's activities. For it is fundamental that with complete and full rights conies equal responsibility. The Department of La­ bor's activities compels this application and with it the same financial obligations upon practically all persons who sail aboard our contracted vessels irrespec­ tive of the unequal economic opportu­ nities among such group. In connection with this proposed con­ stitutional change, involving the above subject, it ^hould be pointed out that the constitutional provisions with respect to membership, the payment of financial ob­ ligations and matters related thereto, is recommended to be changed. It should further be pointed out that none of the changes proposed have anything to do with your Job Rights. Your job rights are preserved within the shipping rules as part of the contract between our Union and the shipowners. The constitu­ tional, changes recommended deal only with the Union's rights. Your Committee points out that by virtue of some of the charges made by the Department of Labor we are pro­ posing a substantial revision in our bal­ loting procedure. It is regrettable that the actions of the Department of Labor results in less membership participation than existed before the appearance of the Department of Labor upon this scene. For the Labor Department, in its "nit­ picking," criticizes and charges the Union for what may, at the most, appear to be harmless errors of members who participated in carrying out election pro­ cedures. The consequences of the De­ partment's action is that our Union as an aware Union must of necessity limit its exposure to lawsuits by the Depart­ ment of Labor. In limiting such ex­ posure, of necessity it limits membership participation in the elective processes and procedures of the Union. As will be noted, the recommended balloting proce­ dures practically eliminates membership participation in election procedures. This, we must repeat,,' is most unfortunate. The blame, however, must be laid at the doorstep of the Department of Labor and perhaps some day our legislative bodies will recognize this and take the neces­ sary steps to remedy this. Your Committee also wishes to point out that because of the changes in the provisions of our Constitution dealing with membership, and so as to afford all full book members a reasonable early opportunity to exercise their democratic November 14, 1969 elective rights, your Committee recom­ mends that the present term of office for officers which expires at the end of 1972 be changed to end at the end of 1971, and that tlm election of officers for a four-year tern be held in the year 1971 in the manner set forth in our recom­ mendations on this subject. It should be further noted that quali­ fications for nomination to office are being partly liberalized. This recommendation picks up part of the sentiments ex^4|^ed by our membership during the last election qualification period. Because of the action of the Secretary of Labor against our Union, this liberalization has been limited to the extent recommended. Also, contained within our recommen­ dations are certain housekeeping and technical matters updating our Constitu­ tion in the light of the changing circum­ stances and interpretations of laws con­ trolling unions. Some examples of this are contained in granting the member­ ship the right to determine the status of pensioners; in the type of evidence of membership; in revising some of the duties and functions of our officers; in making provisions with respect to unop­ posed candidates; incorporating many of the provisions concerning elections not heretofor set forth in our Constitution but contained in our Officers' Reports and Recommendations as additions to voting procedures, such as provisions for absentee ballots, nomination of another member; revisions with respect to the procedures on protests concerning elec­ tion of officers; provisions with respect to the maintenance of our assets; provi­ sions with respect to amendment pro­ cedures, as well as other changes. Again, we recommend to the membership that you carefully read the proposed revised Constitution in conjunction with our ex­ isting Constitution so as to be fully informed as to any and all recommended changes and in that way be in a position to vote with full knowledge of the facts upon the proposed revised Constitution. At this point your Committee further points out that in connection with its recommended change in the qualifications for full book membership, the same should not result to the detriment of those members who within the next two years, under the existing rules, would have enough time to become full book members. With respect to this particular group who may be so affected, it is rec­ ommended that if the new Constitution is adopted by the membership, the member­ ship provisions of the new Constitution be so interpreted so as to preserve to that particular group mentioned above their present rights. Specifically, refer­ ence is made to those members who would have been - entitled to full book membership if they had sailed at least 90 days in 1970 and 1971 under the present rules for qualification for full book mem­ bership, and it is this group which is referred to above as the special group. As your Committee has stated before, we have also dealt with finances. It should be noted that it is recommended that the initiation fee for all new full book members shall be $500.00 and pro­ vision is made for installment payments of the initiation fee during the period of time that the person is working up to his full book membership. As a result, the following resolution is proposed for mem­ bership vote: "RESOLVED: Effective January 1, 1970 the initiation fee for all new full book members shall be $500.00." Your Committee wishes to repeat that the new initiation fee would only be applicable to new full book members for obviously a present full book member need not pay any initiation fee, having paid it previously. In connection with the initiation fee to be paid by new full book members, it should be pointed out that under the proposed revised Constitution, monies paid by any non-full book member prior to the effective date of the amended Constitution, on- account of initiation fee and assessments, not exceeding $250.00, shall be credited to such persons payment of the new initiation fee amount. ^ Again in connection with the matter of finances, your Committee recommends that the membership vote on the follow­ ing resolution: "RESOLVED: Effective January 1, 1970 the calendar quarterly dues for. all members shall be $43.00, and that all present assessments shall termi­ nate on December 31,1969." �November 14, 1969 Page Seven SEAFARERS LOG Under the above proposition, all as­ sessments presently in effect would end upon the adoption of this new quarterly dues amount. It should be pointed out that those who Jjave not paid their re­ quired assessments and are in default would have to clear up such default. However, once the arrears is paid, there would be no obligation for any past assessment. Your Committee recommends that in connection with the ballot to be used by the membership in the vote on your Com­ mittee's recommendations, there be three separate propositions to be voted yes or no, reading.as follows: 1. SHALL THIS UNION ADOPT THE PROPOSED AMENDED CONSTITUTION EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1970. YES • ^ NO • 2. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1970, ' THE INITIATION FEE FOR ALL NEW FULL BOOK MEMBERS SHALL BE $500.00. YES • NO • 3. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1970, THE CALENDAR QUARTERLY DUES FOR ALL MEMBERS SHALL BE $43.00, AND THAT ALL PRESENT ASSESSMENTS SHALL TERMINATE ON DE­ CEMBER 31, 1969. YES • NO • If this Constitutional Committee's re­ port and recommendations is concurred in by the membership at the special meetings called for October 22, 1969 to act on same, it is recommended that the ballot on the above three propositions be held by referendum vote over a 30day period, by secret ballot, and that the voting shall commence at all ports on November 22, 1969 and end on December 22, 1969; between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 12 Noon, excepting there­ from legal holidays; and that Polls Com­ mittees be elected to conduct such vote in the manner specified in Article XIII, Section 4(a) of the present Constitution; that the Union Tallying Committee, as provided in Article XXV, Section 2 of the present Constitution, be elected on De­ cember 23rd at a special meeting at Headquarters called for that purpose, and that such Union Tallying Committee make its report and notify the President as to the results of the referendum as soon as possible thereafter. We remind all members that copies of the proposed afnended Constitution to­ gether with the present Constitution will be available for you to read at all Union halls prior to and during the referendum, and we again urge that you read those copies so that you may be able to vote intelligently. The Constitutional Committee wishes to thank the officers and members of the Union for their cooperation during our deliberations and to assure all members that we believe the proposed amended Constitution will serve the Union and the membership well. We recommend that the proposed amended Constitution annexed hereto and made a part of this report to be effective January 1, 1970 together with the resolu­ tions as to the change of initiation fees, dues and termination of assessments be approved by the membership and sub­ mitted to a referendum vote in the man­ ner recommended by your Committee. Fraternally submitted, Daniel Dean, D-70 John Pasko, P-666 Fazil Ali, A-475 Charles Boyle, B-958 John Dolan, D-124 John Graddick, G-313 Dated: October 20,1969 Slallat SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, ATIANTIC, GULF, LAKES and INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO Voting Period from November 22nd, 1969 to December 22nd, 1969, both inclusive ©ffmal laUnt SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES and INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO Voting Period from November 22nd, 1969 to December 22nd, 1969, both inclusive THIS IS A SECRET REFERENDUM VOTE, TAKEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF THIS UNION, TO DECIDE WHETHER THIS UNION SHALL ADOPT THJ^bPOSED AMENDED CON­ STITUTION AS RECOMMENDED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL COmil^t^ REPORT OF WHICH WAS ADOPTED ON OCTOBER 22ND, 1969 BY THE MEMBERSHIP AFEM^te^TIM READING OF THE PROPOSED AMENDED CONSTITUTION. IN ADDITION, THEREI^AVE BEEN POSTED ON THE BULLETIN BOARDS OF THE PORTS AND HAVE jd^^Alj^y^BLE IN ALL PORTS. IT IS ON THE ADOPTION OF THIS PROPOSED AMENDE^hwITuSw ^ND THE MONEY ITEMS CONTAINED THEREIN THAT YOU ARE VOTING. Instru 1. VOTE ONLY YES OR V.:® �Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG November 14, 1969 SEAFARERS DISCUSS AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION Aio po»a: na» _..X . - -7- -stt u • -'= -* - A t membership meetings in all ports Oct. 2223, Seafarers approved the Constitution Committee report to vote on a proposed amended constitution in a secret ballot referendum. Similar meetings and action took place aboard SlU-contracted vessels as they came into port. On this page are photos taken at various SIU halls during the reading of the committee report and the pro­ posed constitution, and the discussion that fol­ lowed. fa - ^ *1^ , . P 4 A- "si '11 w_ </• v-A.: .11*. tela-i'; X'^ii M •• ' am Ma ' H a w;isS!f LA �CONSTITUTION SUPPIEMENT This supplement contains: I. Text of Proposed Amended Constitution « To be Voted on Nov. 22 thru Dec. 22 Supplement Pages 2 to 8 2. Text of Present Constitution Supplement Pages 9 to 16 *NOTE: The Constitution Committee report notes that Articles and Sections of the proposed amended Constitution which contain changes, deletions or revisions are indicated by an asterisk (*). To allow for easier reading and clarity, any Article or Section in the proposed amended Constitution which have been changed from the present Constitution are printed on a white background. Those Sections in the proposed amended Constitution which remain the same as the language in the present Constitution are printed on a dark background. The present Constitution is also printed on a dork background. This will enable Seafarers to more easily note the areas of proposed changes. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO �November 14, 1969 1, • -J TEXT OF PROPOSED CONSTITUTION ' THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA^ ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT Affiliated with American Federation of Labor — Congress of industrial Organizations Voting Period from November 22nd, 1969 to December 22nd, 1969, both inclusive. (Effective January I, 1970 Upon /acceptance) ..... PREAMBLE As maritime and allied workers and realizing the value and necessity of a thorou^ organization, we are dedicated to the forming of one Union for our people, the Seafarers International Union of^ North America—^Atlantic, •-iJulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, based upon the following principles; All members shall he entitled to all the rights, priv^ges and guarantees as set forth in this Constitution, and such rights, pnTilegcs and guarantees shall he preserved in accordance with its terms. We declare that American seamen are entitled to receive their employment without interference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the (Government. We afBrm that every worker has the right to receive fair and just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation. We proclaim the right of all seamen to receive healthful and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to rest. We defend the right of all seamen to be treated in a decent and respectful manner by those in command, and. We hold that the above rights belong to all workers alike, irrespective of nationality or creed. Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we are conscious of corresponding duties to those in command our employers, our craft and our country. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote harmcmious rebtions with those in command by exercising dnc care and diligence in the performance of tl^ duties of our profusion, and by ^ving all possible assistance to our employ' ers in caring for their gear and property. Bued upon these principles, it is among our Ejects; To use our infiuence individually and collectively for the purpose of maintaining and developing skill in seamanship and effecting a change in the maritime law of the United States, so as to render it more equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development of a merchant marine and a body of American seamen. To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of mandme workers and through its columns seek' to maintain their knowledge of, and interest in, maritime affairs. To assist the seamen of other countries in the wtwk of organ* li^ion and federationf to the end of estsffilishing the Brouer* j hood of the Sea. |K / To form and to assist -by legal means other bona fide labor ^organizations whenever possible in the attainment of their just Idemands. ~ r;:To regulate our conduct as a Union and as Individuals so as :to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and use­ ful calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that our work takes us away in different directions from any place where the majority might otherwise meet to act, that can be attended by only a fraction of the membership, that absent members, who cannot be present, must have tteir inter­ ests guarded from what might he the results of excitement and passions aroused by persohs^or conditions, and ffiat those who are present may act for and in the interest of all, we liOTe adopted this Constitution. 'Stat9Rieat ef PrlRclples and Declarafinn of Rights Ip order to form a more perfect Union, we workers in the maritime and allied industries, realizing the value and necessity of uniting in pursuit of our improved economic and social vrel* fare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, GuM, Lakes and Inlwd Waters District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the following principles: In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall ever be mindful, not only of our rights, but also of our duties and obligations as members of the community, our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace of. communism and any other enemies of freedom and the democratic principles to which we seafaring men dedicate ourselves in this Union. _ We shall affiliate and work with other free labor organizalions; we shall support a journal to give additional voice to our , views; we shall assist our brothers of the sea'and other workers of all countries in these obligations to^the fullest extent con­ sistent with our duties, obligations, and law. We shall seek to exert our individual and collective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor and other legislation and policies which look to the attainment of a free and happy society, without distinc­ tion based on race, creed or color. To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing in mind that ;• most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them ; all over the world, that their rights must and shall be protected, we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be inalienable. I |: ; No member shall be deprived of any of the rights or privileges I guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. 11 ^ Every qualified tnember shall have the ri^t to nominate hnnT^i |elf for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold office in this Union, \ II.' I-1 *:• No member shall he deprived of his membership without due gprocess of the law of this Union. No member dtall be com- 't'r' 'J pelled to he a witness against himself in the trial of any jsoceeding in which he may be charged •with failure to observe the law of t^his Union. Every official and job holder shall be bound lu uphold aiid protect the righto of every member in accordance with the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. IV Every member shall have the right to be confronted by his accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law of this Union. In all such cases, the accused shall be guaranteed a fair and speedy trial by an impartial comnaittee of his brother Union tnembers. ' V •; No member shall be denied the right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in coinmittee. VI A militant mmbership being necessary to the security of.• free union, tfe members shall at all times stand ready to d^ fend this Union and the principles set forth in the Constitu­ tion of the Union. VII The powers not delegated to the officers, job holders, and ' Executive Board by the Constitution of the Union shall be reserved to the members. cONSTiTuncm , Nanuff and G«n(H>ol ifris Union shall be known as ^e Seafarers Intematitmal Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and executive, and shall include the formation oL and/or Issuance ' of charters to, subcfrdinate bodies divisioiu. otherwise, the formation of funds and participation ui lunus, the establishment of enterprises for ffie benefit of the thiion, wd similar ventures. This Union shall exercise all of its poweni;i> in aid of subordinate bodies and divisions created or chartered; by it. convenience of administration and in furtherance off its policies of aid and assistance, the Union may make its prop­ erty, facilities ^d personnel available for the use and on behalf of,such subordinate bodies and divisions. A majority vote of the membership shall be authorization for any Union action, otherwise specified in the Constitution or by law. This Unlen shall at all times protect and maintain its jurisdiction. . - be inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All candidates with 360 days or more seatiipe in a consecutive 24 calendar month'period commencing from January I, 19M, in an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels, covered by contract with this Union, shall ^ eligible for full membership. All persons with less than the foregoing seatime but at least thirty (30) days of such seatime, shall be eligible for probationary membership. Only full book uieiubers shall be entitled to vote and to hold any office or elective job, except as otherwise specified herein. All probations^ members shall have a voice in Union proceedings and shall be entitled to vote on Union contracts. Section 2. No candidate shall be granted membership who is a member of any dual organization hostile to the aims, prin­ ciples, and policies of this Union. The membership, by majority vote, shall at all times have the right to determine the membership status of pensioners. « 9" memBcrsinore man one quarter in arrears in dues Ishdl be automatically suspended, and shali forfeit all benefits land all other rights and privileges in the Union. They shall be jautomaticaliy dismissed if they are more than fwo quarters in —rcMs in dues. An arrearage in dues shall be computed from e first day of the applicable quarter, but this time Aalt not run: (a) While a member is actually participating in a «H<VI» or lockout. (b) While a member is an in-patieni in a USFHS or other accredited hospital. ^ ' (c) While a member is under an incapacity due to aetivitv in behalf of the Union. (d) While a member is in the armed services of the United States, provided the tnember was in good standing at the tini« of entry into the armed forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after dischuge from the armed forees. (e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues, because of employment aboard an American flag merchant vessel. Soction -6. A majority vote of the membership shall be suf­ ficient to desi^ate additional circumstances during which the time specified in Section 3 shall not run. It shi^ be the rie*** of any member to present, in writing, to any Port at any regu­ lar meeting, any question with regard to the application of Section 3, in accordance with procedures established by a majority vote of the membership. A majority vote of the mem­ bership shall be necessary to decide such questions. " Soction 5. The membership shall be empowered to establish, from time to time, by majority vote, rules under which dues and assessments may be excused where a member has been unable to pay dues and assessments for the reasons provided in Sections 3 and 4. SocHon 6. To preserve imity, and to promote the commoiii' welfare of the membership, ^ members of the Union shells Uphold and defend this ConsiUnuon and ahiill be goTerned the provisions of this Constitution and idl policies, rulir Orders and decisions duly mode. Soction 7. Any member who gives aid to the principles .policies of any hostile or dual organizatimi sl^ be de further membership in this Union to the full etfent by latr. A majority vote of the membership itlbj^l.. Soction 8. Evidence of membership or other affilisHnn with the Union shall be in such form or forms as determin^ by the Executive Board, and shall at all times remain the property of the Union. Maimers may be required to show their evidence of membeiship- in order to be admitted to Union meetings, or into, or on Union property. 'Mefiibers distnis^d from the U&ioh accordance with such rules imd under such condhloiis as an adopted, from time to time; by a majority vote of the member- .'^Articia Arflid* II •Aimtation . :-C: V•9ua*-andVlnHI^^ ,v ' f •' Soction 1. This Union shall be affiliated vnth the Seafarers International Union of North America and the American Fed­ eration of l^bor—Congr^s of Industrial Organizations. All other affiliations by the Union or its subordinate bodies or divisions shall be made or •withdra'wfa as' determined by a majiwity vote of the Executive Board.Soction 2. In addition to such other provisions as are con­ tained herein, all subordinate bodies and divisions seeking a cbuter from and/or ^liation with this Union, shall be re­ quired to adopt, within a time period set by the Executive Board, a eoiisiituiioii containing provisions as set forth in Exhibit A, annexed to this Constitution and made a part hereof. AJ1_ other provisions adopted by such subordinate bodies and divisions as part of their constitutions shall not be inconsistent therewith. No such constitution or amendments thereto shall be deemed to be effective without the approval of the Executive BoMd or this Union, which shall be executed in writing, on its behalf, by the President or, in his absence, by any other officer designated by it. Such approval shall be deemed to be recog­ nition of Compliance herewith by such subordinate body or' division. Where a subordinate body or division violates any of the foregoing, and, in particular, seeks to effectuate any constitu­ tional provision not so authorized and approved, or commits acts in violation of its approved constitution, or fails to act in ,, accordance therewith, this Union, through its Executive Board, may withdraw its charter and/or sever its affiliation forthwith, or on such terms as it may impose not inconsistent with law, in addition to exercising any and all rights it may have pur­ suant to any applicable agreements or understandings. Svction 3. This Union shall also have the power,' acting through its Executive Board, and after a fair hearing, to impose a trusteeship upon an/ subordinate body or divisions chartered by and affiliated with it, for the reasons and to the extent provided by law. Artlde Section 1. There shall be two classes of membership, to wit full book members and probationary members. Candidates for membership shall be admitted to membership in accordance with such rules as may be adopted from time to time, 1^ a majority vote of the membership and which rules shall not , SOCHOR 1, members shall pay dues quarterly, on a calen­ dar year basis, no later than &e first business day of eadi quarter, except as herein otherwise provided. The dues doll be those payable as of the date of adoption of this Constitution as mnesded and may be changed only by CoRgritatitwsal amssdment.. Section 2. No candidate for full book membership shall be admitted into such membership without having paid an initia­ tion fee of Five Hundred ($500.00^ Dollars, except as other­ wise provided in this Constitution. In addition, the candidate shall pay a Ten ($10.00) Dollar "service fee" for the issuance of his full book. Each candidaitq for probationary membership and each pro­ bationary member shall, with the payment of each of his firrt four quarterly dues, as required by Section 1, pay at each such time the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five ($125.00) DoUus as partial initiation fee. The total of such initiation monies so paid shall be credited to his above required initiation fee for a full book member upon completion of the required seatime as provided for in Article 111, Section 1. Monies paid to the Union by any non-full book member prior to the effective date of -this amended Constitution, on account of initiation fee and assessments, not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty ($250.00) Dollars, shall be credited to such mem­ ber's payment of his initiation fee as required by this section. : ^eellort 3. Payment of dues and initiation fees may be waived for organizational purposes in accordance with siich rules u are adopte<l by a majority vote of jthie Execptiye^B^fr^^ Section 4. All members shall be and remain in good standing. 'Articl*:Vi: . RetirDnient from MeinlMirslilp Section 1. Members may"retire from membership by sur­ rendering their Union books other evidence of affiliation and paying all unpaid dues for the quarter in which they retire, assessments, fines and other monies due and owing the Union. AiThp the member soirenders his book or other eridence o£ affiliatioii in connection with his application tor retirement he aboil he given a receipt therefor. An official retfrement card shall be issued by Headquarters, upon request, dated as of the day that such member accomplished fihese payments, and shall be ^ven to the member upon his presenting the aforesaid•receipt.' �VSecHen S. All the Hghts, privileges, duties and nhligations of linembership shall be suspended during the period of retirement, except that a retired member shall not be disloyal to the Union nor join or remain in any dual or hostile organization, upon penidty of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement iod of two Socrion 4. Any person uuarters or more shall he restorgiLJn memberi ip, except as ierein 'indicated, by paying duesmr the current quarter, as $11 as all assessments accruing and newly levied during the iriod of retirement. If the period of retirement is Jess quarters, the required payments shall consi^ «il <-• i^g during the said period of retirement, including those for the current quarter, and all assessments accrued and newly teried during that period. Upon such parent, the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, and his member­ ship book, gppcopriately stamped, shall be returned to him. loattea A member in retirement may be restored to membenlrip after a two-year period of retirement consist^ of eight fj^ Quarters only by majority vote of the membersmjp. 8. The period of retirement shall be conaputed from the first diy of the quarter; fpllowing the one in whidi ute cetir^ent-eaid, was'iasaed.:;::^^-;';' Syitmntui o* Organization SMfion 1. Union, and all officers, headqasrtCT's repre­ sentatives, pi>ri agents, patrolmen, and members shall be gov­ erned in this order by: (a) The Constitntion. (b) The Executive Board. (c) fwajijrity vote of dss mcmbsrshi?. - Section 91. The headquarters of the Union shall be located in few York and the headquarters officers shall consist of a lident, and Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in large of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a Secretaryiieasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Copt, one Vice-President in Chiirge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of tiie Lakes and Inland Waters. Sactiott 3. The staff of each port shall consist of such per.onnel as is provided for herein, and the port shall bear the same of the city in which the Union's port offices are located. Section 4. Every membeir of the Union shall be registered in ^e of three departments; namely, deck, engine and stewarp Idepartment. The definition of these departments shall be in laccordance with custom and usage. This definition may be sc^fied by a majority vote of the membership. No member say transfer from one department to another except by apoval as evidenced by a majority vote of the ntembership. Articlo VIII IOfficers/ Haadqudrtors Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section 1. The officers of the Union shall be elected as otherise provided in this Constitution. These officms shall be \he r'resident, an Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryFreaaurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Copt, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one Viceesident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. SecHen 2. Port Agents, Headquarters Representatives, and Patrolmen shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in '' i Constitution. Vt' Supplement—^Page Three SEAFARERS LOG November 14^ 1969 Arflcla IX, Othor lloctiva Jk»bs Section 1. In addition to the elective jobs provided for in Article VIII, the following jobs in the Union shall he voted upon in the manner prescribed by this Constitution: Committee members of: (1) Trial Committees (2) Quarterly Financial Committees (3) Appeals Committees (4) Strike Committees (5) Credentials Committees (6) Union Tallying Committees (7) Constitutional Committees ^Ki^n 9t. Additional committee^m^^'^S^^^wwdi^ a majority vote of the membership. Committers inay alro appointed as permitted by tlus Constitulioiu ' "Articla"x 1-^ Duties of Officers/ Headquarters |Re||»reienftatives, jPort Agents, Other Elected I Job Holders and AUscellaneous Personnel I Sectinn 1. Thn Pmsidnnh i (a) The President shall be the executive officer of the Union land shall represent, and act for and in behaU of, the Union in IBU matters except as otherwise specifically provided for in the iConstitution. I (b) He shall be a member ex-officio of all conunittees, except IM otherwise herein expressly provided. I (c) The President shall be in charge of, and responsible for, Ikll Union property, and shall be in charge of headquarters and i jjort offices. Wherever there are time restrictions or other con.aiderationo affecting Union action, the President shall take Appropriate action to insure observance thereof, t (d) In order that he may properly execute his responsibil­ ities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ ray liielp he deems necessary, be it legal, aeeounting or otherwise. |V(e) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the member"ship, the President snail designate the ntunber and location of ports, the jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may close or open such ports, and may re-assign Vice-Presidents and Ae Secretary-Treasurer, without reduction in wcges. He may • s, and ako re-assign Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, aRCs. T Patrolmen, to other duties, without reduction in wages. The Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Or:.leaao, H&usteE and Dclrsit Ki&y not he clo-Md except by Con­ stitutional amendment. I Where poits are opened between elections, the President Ahall designate the Union personnel thereof. ^ The President shall designate, in the event of the incapacity ibf any Headquarters Representaitive, Port Agent or Patrolman, ray officor oth« than the Presidient, a repkcemeirt as such during ihe period of incapacity, provided such replace­ ment is qualified under Article Xll of me Constitution to fill such job. " At the regular meeting in May of every election year, the President shall submit to the membership a pre-balloting report. In his report he shall recommend the number and loca­ tion of ports, the number of Headquarters Representatives, Port Ag«..its a* J Patrolmen which are to be eleq^rid- He shall also recommend a bank, a bonded warehouse, a regular officer thereof, or any similar depository, to which the ballots are jgilVlMikacled, except that the President nuiy, in his discretion, postpone the recommendation as to the depository until no later than the first regular meeting in October. This recommendation may also specify, wfeltier man and/or Headquarters Representative, shall be designated as departmental or otherwise. The report shall be subject to approval or modification by a majority vote of the membership. (f) The President shall he chairman of the Executive Boord and may cast one vole in that body. (g) :He shall be responsible, within the limits of Im powf^ for the enforcement of this Constitution, the policies <!>f we Union, and all rules and rulings duly adopted by the &«tmitiye Board,'and those duly adepted by a majority vote of the mem­ bership. .Within these limiu, he shall strive to enhiBitiJe the strength, position, and . prestige of the Union. (h) The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those othif duties lawfully imposed upon him. (i) The responsibility of the President may not be delegst^ but the P^sident may delegate lo a person or persons the execution of such of his duties as he may in his di^eUim decide, subject to liie limitations set forth in this Constitution. fied for ilic officu oi* joh under ArtJcls Xfl of this Ccnstitsitum, except in .those cases where the filUng of such vacancy is other­ wise provided for by this Constitution. (k) The President is directed to take ray and aH measures and employ such means which he deems necessary or advisable, to protect the interests, and further the welfare of the Union and its memfiers, in all matters involring national slate or local legislation issuie, and public affairs. (1) TOie President shall have authority to require any officer ot Union representative to attend ray. regular or special meet­ ing if, in his opinion, it is deemed necessary. Section 2. Exocutivo Vica-Prosidont. The Executive Vice-President shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him" by the President. The Executive Vice-President shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Soction 3. Vico-Prosidont in Chnigo of Contracts and Contract Enforcomoht. is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or fessional assistance he deems necessary, subject to apprqya of the Executive Board. Soctien 7. Vico-Prosidont in Charge of the Lakns nnid inland Wntors. The Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Wa sh4»ll be a qiember of the Exceutive Board jnd shall^;^^ to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the poru, and the personnel thereof on the Lakes and Inland Waters, including their mganizing activities. Ijp order that he may properly execute his respotwibilities is empowered and authori^ to retain any technical or proj fessional assistance he deems necessary, nibjcct to, approva' of the Executive Board. , iS * Section 8. Headquarters Representatives. The Headquarters RepresenUtives shall perform any^andrall duties assigned them or delegated to them by the Pr^ident or the Executive Board. , .S:-' • J:. -'Am Section 9. Port Agents. The Port Agent shaff'^lSriffiSS^cSlp'ol 3^ istration of Union affairs in the port of his jurisdictjon subject to the direction of the area Vice-President. « (b) He sfaaM, within the jurisdiction of his peart, ^be respoh Sible for the enforcement and execntion of the Ae policies of the Union, and the rules adopted by the Executive mard, and by a majority vote of the membersliiiK Wherever there are .time restrictions or other considerations affecting port action, the P<n-t Agent sbedl take appropriate aCtira to insure obseryance thereof. „ n n <c) He shall be prepared to account, fiiundally or OUMSwise, for the activities of his port, whenever demraded by tlw President, the Vice-Presiden! oi the area in which p«rt located, or by the Secretary-Treasurer. ^ (d) In ray event, he, shdl prepare and forward to^the Seteretary-Treasurer, a weekly financial report showing, in detsdl, weekly income and expenses, and compljdng with all other accounting directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent may assign each port Patrolman to sm duties as fall within the jorisdiction of the port, regardless ol the departmental designation, if ray, under which the Pad man was elected. , A: ?® (f) The Port Agent shall designate which members at TOa|! port may serve as representatives to other orgaiiizafions,; lion wito which has been properly authorized. , Section 10. Patrolmen. Patrolmen shall perform aUy duties _ Agent of the Port to which they are assign Soction II. Exocutivo Board. led iffiem by Ht# ^ The Executive Board shall consist of the President, the Execurive Vice-President, the Vice-President in Charge of CtmThe Vice-President in Charge of Contra^ and Contract En­ tracts and Contract Enforcement, the Secretary-Treroure^ the forcement shall perform any and all duties assigned him or Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Area, the Vice-Presi­ delegated to him by the President. In addition, he shall be dent in Charge of the Gulf Area, the Vice-President in t .harge; responsible for all contract negotiations, the formulation of of the T.i.lfAa and Inland Waters, rad the National Bireeicr (ojf bargaining demands, and the submission of proposed collective chief- executive officer) of each subordinate body or dh^ioii bargaining agreements to the membership for ratification. He created or chartered fay the Union whenever such subordinate shall also be responsible, except, as otherwise provided in body or division has attained a membership of 3,200 memaera Article X, Section 13(d) (1), for strike authorization, signing and has maintained that membership for not less than threes of new contracts, and contract enforcement. He shall dso, act (3) months. Such National Director (or chief executive offi^) for headquarters in executing the administrative functions as­ shall be a member of the respective subordinate body or divi­ signed to headquarters by thb Constitution with respect to sion and must be qualified to hold office imder tlm terms of trials and appeak except if he is a vdtness or party thereto, in the Constitution of such division or subordinate body. ' which event the Secretary-Treasurer shall act in his pla^ In The Executive Board shall meet no less than twice each order that he may propCTly execute these responsibilities he year and at such times as the President and/or a majority of is hereby instructed and authorized to employ such help as he the Executive Board may direct. The President shall be chmrdeems necessary, be it legal, or otherwise, siibject to approval man of all Executive Board meetings unless absent, in i^ich of the Executive Board. case the Executive Board shall designate the chairman. Each The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract member of the Executive Board shall be entitled to cast one Enforcement shall be a membw of the Executive Board and vote in that body. Its decision shall be determined by majority ; may cast one vote in that body. vote of those voting, providing a quorum of three is present. It shall be the duty of the Executive Board to develop policies, I Sortian A. Saeratary-Tswaswrnr. strategies and rules which will advance and protect the interests I: , The Secretary-Treasurer shall perform my and all duties and welfare of the Union and the Members. It shall be the I ^signed him or delegated to him by the President He shall duty of the Secretary-Treasurer, or in his absence, an appointee Ihe responsible for the organization end maintenance of the of the Executive Board, to keep accurate minutes of all Execu­ I cmrespondence, files, and records of the Umon; setting np, tive Board meetings. The Executive Board shall determine per " and maintenance of, round accounting and bookkeeping sys­ capita tax to be levied and other terms and conditions of tems; the setting up, ^d maintenance of, proper office rad affiliation for any group of workers desiring affiliation. The other administrative Union procedures; the proper collection, Executive Board may direct the administration of all Union and expenditure of all Union funds, port or affairs, properties, policies and personnel in any rad all areas 1 Otherwise. He shall submit to the membei^ip, for each qura not otherwise specifically provided for in this Constitution. terly period, a detailed report of the entire Union's ^racial Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive Board may act ^operations and shall submit simultaneously therewith, the ' without holding a formal meeting provided all members of Quarterly Financial Committee report for the same ptpod. the Board are sent notice of the proposed action or actions and The Secretary-Treasurer's report shall be prepared by an inde­ the decision thereon is reduced to writing and signed by a pendent Certified Public Accountant. He shra also work with majority of the Executive Board. all duly elected finance committees. The Secretary-Treasurer ^ In the event that death, resignation or removal from ofBce shall be responsible for the timely filing of ray and all reports for any reason should occur to the President, the Executive on the operations of the Union, financial or otherwise, that may Board by majority vote shall name a successor from its own be required by any Federal or state laws. In order that he may membership w!io shall fill that vacancy until the next general properly execute his responsibilities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help he deems necessary, be it election. In the event the President is incapacitated for a period of legal, accounting, or otlwrwise, subject to approval of the more than thirty (30) days, and the Executive Board by Executive majority vote thereafter determines that such incapacity pre­ The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member of the Executive vents the President from carrying out his duties, the Executive Board and may .cast one vote in that body. Board by majority vote, may appoint from among its own The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member ex-officio of the . membership the officer to fill the office of President. This Credentials and Ballot Tallying Committees. In addition he appointment shall terminate upon the President's recovery shall make himself and the records of hb office available to from such incapacity or upon the expiration of the President's the Quarterly Financial Committee. term of office whichever occurs first. The Executive Board by majority vote may grant requests for Section S. ' Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast. leaves of absences with or without pay to officers. In the event The Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Co^st shall bo that a leave is granted to the President, the Executive Board a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast by a majority vote, shall designate from among its own one vote in that body. membership who shall exercise the duties of the President He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all during such period of leave. the ports, and the perronnd thereof on the Ariantic Coast; Section 12. Deiegntas. including their organizing activities. The Atlantic Coast area is deemed to mean that area from and inclnding Georgia (a) The term "delegates" shall mean those membeia of the through Maine and ahal! also include the Islands in the Carib­ Union and its subordinate bodies or divisions who are elected bean. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities in accordance with the provi&io.us of this Constitution, to attend he is empowered and authorized to re'.ain any technical or the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North professional asslbtance he deems necessary, subject to approval America. The following officers upon their election to office shall, during the term of their office, be delegates to all Con­ of the Executive Board. ventions of the Seafarers International Union of North America Soction 6. VIco-Prosidenr In Chmgio of tho Gulf Coast. in the following order of priority: President; Executive ViceThe Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast shall be a President; Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one Enforcement; Secretary-Treasurer; Vice-President in Charge vote in that body. of the Atlantic Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of oH Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes rad Inland the Ports, and the personnel thereof on the Gulf Coast including Waters; Headquarters Representatives, with priority to those their organizing activities. The Gulf Coast area' -is deemed^ to most senior in full book Union membership; POTI Agents, with mean the State of Florida, all. through the Gulf, including priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; and Pauolmen, with priority to those most senior in full book Texas. - , In ordiw that he may prup^ly execute his lespohaiidlitiea he Union membership. �I (b) Each delegate shall, hj his vote and otherwise, support Articia XII '''HQ I those policies agreed upon hy the majority of the delegates to the Convention. (Qualiflcatlons for Officers, HoMquariters P (c) The President shall assign to each subordinate body or division that number of delegates to which this Union would 'Jtopresentafives/ Port Agents, Patrolmen and Other Eloctivo Jobs have been entitled, if its membership had been increased by the number of members of the subordinate body or division, in Section Any ineniLer'^'fu^^irion is eligible to be a can­ accordance W'.th the formula set forth in Constitutiun of the Seafarers International Union of North America, except didate for, and hold, any office or the job of Headquarters that this provision shall not be applied so as to reduce the Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman provided: number of delegates to which this Union would otherwise have (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime in an un­ been entitled. licensed capacity aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the Section 13. Committees. Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment (a) Trial.Committee. at the Union's direction, shall count the same as seatime. The Trial Committee'shall conduct the trials of a perscm Union records, \Pelfare Plan records and/or company records charged, and shall submit findings and recommendations as can be used to determine eligibility; and prescribed in this Constitution. It shall be the special obliga­ (b) He has been a full book member in continuous good tion of the Trial Committee to observe all the requirements standing in tbe Union for at least three (3) years immediately of this Constitution with regard to charges and trials, and their prior to his nomination; and findings and recommendations must specifically state whether (c) He has at least one hundred (100) days of seatime, in or not, in the opinion of the Trial Committee, the rights of any an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant accused, under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. vessel or vessels covered by contract with this Union, Or one hundred (100) days of employment with, or in any office or (b) Appeals Committee. job of, the Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial employment the Union's direction, or a combination of judginents, in accordance with such procedures as are set forth these, betweenat January 1st and the time of nomination in the in this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a election year; and majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and 2. The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than one (e) He is not disqualified by law. He is not receiving a week after the close of the said hearing, make and submit findings and recommendations in accordance with the provisions pension from this Union's Pension Fund, if any, or from a of this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a Union-Management Fund to which Fund this Union is a party or from a company under contract with this Union, majority vote Of the membership not inconsistent therewith. (c) Quarterly Financial Committee. 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make an exami­ nation for each quarterly period of the finances of the Union and shall report fully on their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, sepa­ rate recommendations and separate findings. 2. The findings and recommendations of thfs committee shall be completed within a reasonable time after the election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted to the SecretaryTreasurer who shall cause the same to be read in all ports, as set forth herein. 3. All ofiScers, Union personnel and members are responsible for complying with all demands made for records, bills, vouchers, receipts, etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Com­ mittee. The committee sh^l also have available to it, the serv­ ices of the independent certified public accountants retained by the Union. 4. Any action on the said report shall be as determined by, a majority vote of the membersMp. 5. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall consist of seven (7) full book members in good standing to be elected at Head­ quarters—Port of New York. No officer. Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent, or Patrolman, shall be eligible for elec­ tion to this Committee. Committee members shall be elected at the regular Headquarters—Port of New York meeting desig­ nated by the Secretary-Treasurer. In the event such regular meeting cannot be held for lack of a quorum, the New York Port Agent shall call a special meeting-as early as possible for the electing of Committee members to serve on the Quarterly Financial Committee. On the day following their election, and continuing until the Committee has completed its report, each Committee member shall be paid for hours worked at the standby rate of pay, but in no event shall they be paid for less than eight (8) hours per day. They shall be furnished room and board during the period they are performing their duties. In the event a committee member ceases to act, no replace­ ment need be elected, unless there are less than three (3) committee members, in which event they shall suspend their work until a special election for committee members shall be • held as provided above, for such number of committee members as shall be necessary to constitute a committee of not less than three (3) members in good standing. : Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall be full book members of the Union. Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices and jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this Constitution, shall maintain full book membership in good standing. Article Xlll Elections for Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section I. Nominations. Except as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full book member may submit his name for nomination for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in per­ son, to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer at headquarters, or sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the address of headquarters. This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: (a) The name of the candidate. (b) His home address and mailing address. (c) His book ntunber. (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a candidate, including the name of the Port in the event the position sought is that of Agent or Patrolman. (e) Proof of citizenship. (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for candidates. (g) In the event the member is on a ship he shall notify the Credentials Committee what ship he is on. This shdl be done also if he ships subsequent to forwarding his credentials. (h) Annexing a certificate in the following form, signed and dated by the proposed nominee: "I hereby certify that I am not now, nor, for the five (5) years Strike Commhtae; " last past, have 1 been either a member of the Communist Party 1. In no event shall a general strike take place ludm AP';- or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting from conviction of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, proved by a majority vote of the membership. 2. In die event a general strike has been approved by the grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, inembership the Port Agents in all affected ports shall call a murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or violation of Title 11 or 111 of the timely special meeting for the purpose of electing a strike com­ mittee. This committee shall be composed of three full book Landrum-Griffin Act, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes." members and their duties shall consist of assisting the Port Agent to effectuate all strike policies and strategies. Dated ... Signature of member ArliclQ XI Book No. Wagss and! Tenns of Office of CWRcers ond^ Printed forms of the certificate shall be made available to nominees. Where a nominee cannot truthfully execute such a Other Elective Job Holders, Union certificate, but is, in fact, legaUy eligible for an office or job ^ Employees, and Othe«; Section 1. The following elected offices and jobs shall be held for a term of four years: President Vice-Presidents Secretary-Treasurer Headquarters Representatives Port Agents Patrolmen The term of four years set forth here is expressly subject to the provisions for assumption of office as contained in Article Xlll, Section 6(b) of this Constitution. The first nomination and election of officers and jobs under this amended Constitution as provided for in this Article XI, and Articles Xll and Xlll, shall be held in the year 197l', notwithstanding the unexpired term of any office as a result of a prior election or appointment. I ' I f I |/ rggction 2. The term of any elective jobs other than those inSection 1 of this Article shall continue for so long as is necessary to complete the functions thereof, unless sooner terminated by a majority vote of the membership or segment of the Union, whichever applies, whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or ones serving. November 14, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Supplement—^Pafe Four by reason of the restoration of civil rights originaUy revoked by such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of Parole of the United States Department of Justice, he shall, in lieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed state­ ment of the facts of his case together with true copies of the documents supporting his statement. Any full book member may nominate any other full book member in which event such fuU book member so nominated shall comply with the provisions of this Article as they are set forth herein, relating to the submission of credentials. By reason of the above self nomination provision the responsisibility if any, for notifying a itominee of his nomination to office, shall ^ that of the nominator. All docuinents required herein must reach headquarters no earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the election year. The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Com­ mittee upon the letter's request. Secfion 2. Cradanlials Committae. (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regular meeting in August of the election year, at the p<#t where Head­ quarters is located. It shall consist of six (6) full book mem­ bers in attendance at the meeting, with two (2) members to i v: ' Section 3. The compensation to be peid the holder of any be elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards De­ ' office or other elective job shall be determined from timo to . partments. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent time by the Executive Board subject to approval of the mem­ or Patrolman, or candidate for offici» or rhe job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for bership. election to this Ciommittee, except as provided for in Article Section 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not X, Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable apply to any corporation, business, or other venture in which to serve, the Committee shall suspend until the President or this Union participates; or which it organizes or creates, Executive Vice-President, or the Secretary-Treasurer, in that order, calls a special meeting at the port where Headquarters k such situations, instructions conveyed by the Executive Bomi . be followed. is located in order to elect a replacement. The Committee's results shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a majority vote of the membership at a speciid meeting called for that purpose at that Port. (b) After its election, the Committee shall immediately go into session. It shaU .determine whether the person has mitted his application correctly and possesses the necessary qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a report listing each applicant and his book number under the office or job he is seeking. Each applicant shall be marked "qualified" or "disquaU^J^cco^ing to the findings of the Committee. Where an aj^^PffiMPBben marked "disqualified," the reason therefor must be stated in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a special meeting of the membership, that fact shaU also be noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed by all of the Committee members, and be completed and submitted to the Ports in time for the next regular meeting after their election. At this meeting, it shall be read and incorporated in the minutes, and then posted on the buUetin board in each port. On the last day of nominations, one member of the Commit­ tee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of creden­ tials. All credentials must be in headquarters by midnight of closing day. (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the commit­ tee, he shaU be notified immediately by telegram at- the ad­ dresses listed by him pursuant to Section 1 of this Article. He shall also be sent a letter containing the reasons for such dis­ qualification by air mail, special delivery, registered or ^certified, to the mailing address designated pursuant to Section 1(b) of this Article. A disqualified applicant shall have the right to take an appeal to the membership from the decision of the Committee. He shall forward copies of such appeal to each port, where the appeal shall be presented and voted upon at a regular meeting no later than the second meeting after the Committee's election. It is the responsibility of the appli­ cant to insure timely delive^ of his appeal. In any event, without prejudice to his written appeal, the applicant may appear in person before the Committee within two days after the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct his application or argue for his qualification. The committee's report shall be prepared early enough to allow the applicant to appear before it within the time set forth in his Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the firrt regular meeting after its election. (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case of such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disqualification by the Credentials Committee, in which event the one so previously classified shall then be deemed Qualified. (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the quali­ fications of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively pre­ sume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections for candidacy for any office, or the job of Headquarters Rejpresentative. Port Agent or Patrolman, has met aU the requirements of Section 1(a) of Article Xll. Section 3. Balloting Procedures. (a) Balloting in the manner hereafter provided, shall com­ mence on November 1st of the election year and shaU contin.ue through December 31st, exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recognized in the City of which the port affected is located. If November 1st or De­ cember 31st falls on a holiday legally recognized in a Port in the City ih which that port is located, the balloting period in such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, for the purpose of full book members securing tbeir ballots, the ports shall be open from 9:00 A.M. to 12 Noon, Monday through Saturdays, excluding holidays. (b) Balloting shall be by mail. The Secretary-Treasurer 'Shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, with­ out partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may con­ tain general information and instructive comments not in­ consistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon alphabeticaUy within each category with book number and job seniority classification status. The listing of the ports shall first set forth Headquarters and then shall foUow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most northerly part of the Atlantic Coast, following the Atlantic Coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental United States shall then be added. There shaU be no write in voting and no provisions for the same shall appear on the ballot. Each ballot shaU be so prepared as to have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shaU be so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable portion shall also be placed a short statement indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. (c) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the SecretaryTreasurer shaU be the only official ballots. No others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the pre­ ceding paragraph and shall be numbered consecutively, com­ mencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto, shall be main­ tained by the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers of the ballots sent. The Secretary-Treasurer shaU also send to each Port Agent a sufficient amount of blank opaque envelopes containing the word, "Ballot" on the face of the envelope, as weU as a sufficient amount of opaque mail­ ing envelopes, first class postage prepaid and printed on the face thereon as the addressee shall be the name and address of the depository for the receipt of such baUots as designated by the President in the manner provided by Article X, Section 1, of this Constitution. In the upper left-hand comer of such mailing envelope, there shall be printed thereon, as a top line, provision for the voter's signature and on another line im­ mediately thereunder, provision for the printing of the voter's name and book number. In addition, the Secretary-Treasurer shall also send a sufficient amount of mailing envelopes identi­ cal with the mailing envelopes mentioned above, except that they shall be of different color, and shall contain on the face of such envelope in bold letters, the word, "Challenge". The Secretary-Treasurer shall further furnish a sufficient amoimt of "Roster Sheets" which shall have printed thereon, at the top thereof, the year of the election, and immediately thereunder, five (5) vertical columns designated, date, b^ot number, signature full book member's name, book number and com­ ments, and such roster sheets shall contain horizontal lines immediately under the captions of each of the atmve fote columns. 'The Secretary-Treasurer shall also send a sufficient amount of envelopes with the printed name and address of the depository on the face thereof, and in the upper left-hand comer, the name of the port and address, and on the face of such envelope, should be printed the words, "Roster Sheets and Ballot Stubs". Each Port Agent shall maintain separate �JVovember 14, 1969 records of the ballots sent him and shall inspect end count the ballots when received, to insure that the amount sent, as well as the aiimbers thereon, conform to the amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that Port. The Port Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt, acknowledging the correctness of the amount and the numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. In any event, receipts shall be forwarded _ i^L the aforementioned election material actually received, 'he Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspection of the same at the office of the SecretaryTreasurer and shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee. (d) Balloting shall be secret. Only full book members in good standing may vote. Each full book member may secure his ballot at Port offices, from the Port Agent or his duly designated representative at such port. Each Port Agent shall designate an area at the Port office over which should be posted the legend "Voting Ballots Secured Here." When a full book member appears to vote he shall present his book to the Port Agent or his aforementioned duly designated representa­ tive. The Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall insert on the roster sheet under the appropriate column, the date, the number of the ballot given to such member and his full book number, and the member shall then sign his name on such roster sheet under the appropriate column. Such member shall have his book stamped with the word, "Voted" and the date, and shall be given a ballot, and simultaneously the perforation on the top of the ballot shall be removed. At the same time the member shall be given the envelope marked "Ballot" together with the pre-paid postage mailing envelope addressed to the depository. The member shall take such ballot and envelopes and in secret thereafter^ mark his ballot, fold the same, insert it in the blank envelope marked "Ballot", seal the same, then insert such "Ballot" envelope into the mail­ ing envelope, seal such mailing envelope, sign his name on the upper left-hand comer on the first line of such mailing envelope and on the second line in the upper left-hand corner print his name and book number, after which he shall mail or cause the same to be mailed. In the event a full book member appears io vote. and is not in good standing, or does not have his membership book with him or it appears for other valid reasons he is not eligible to vote, the same procedure as provided above shall apply to him, except that on the roster sheet under the column "Comments", notation should be made that the member voted a challenged ballot and the reason for his challenge. Such member's membership book shall be stamped "voted challenge", and the date, and such member instead of the above-mentioned mailing envelope, shall be given the mailing envelope of a different color marked on the face thereof with the word, "Challenge". At the end of each day, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall enclose in the envelope addressed to the depository and marked "Roster Sheets and Ballot Stubs", the roster sheet or sheets executed by the members that day, together with the numbered per­ forated slips removed from the ballots which had been given to the members, and then mail the same to such depository. To insure that an adequate supply of all balloting material is maintained in all ports at all times, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative, simultaneously with mailing of the roster sheets and ballot stubs to the depository at the end of each day, shall also make a copy of the roster sheet for that day and mail the same to the Secretary-Treasurer at Head­ quarters. The Port Agent shall be responsible for the proper safeguarding of all election material and shall not release any of it until duly called for and shall, insure that no one tampers with the material placed in his custody. (e) Full book members may request and vote an absentee ballot under the following circumstances; while such member is employed on a Union contracted vessel and which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to be at a port in which a ballot can be secur^ during the time and period provided for in Section 4(a) of this Article or is in a USPHS Hospital any­ time during the first ten (10) days of the month of November of the Election Year. The member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by registered or certified mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such request shall con­ tain a designation as to the address to which such member wishes his absentee ballot returned. The request shall be post­ marked no later than 12:00 P.M. on the 15th day of November of the election year, shall be directed to the SecretaryTreasurer at Headquarters and must be delivered no later than the 25th of such November. The Secretary-Treasurer shall determine whether such member is eligible to vote such absentee ballot. The Secretary-Treasurer, if he determines that such member is so eligible, he shall by the 30th of such November,, send by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the address so designated by such member, a "Ballot", aher removing the perforated numbered stub, together with the hereinbefore mentioned "Ballot" envelope, and mailing en­ velope addressed to the depository, except that printed on the face of such mailing envelope, shall be the "words "Absentee Ballot" and appropriate voting instructions shall accompany such mailing to the member. If the Secretary-Treasurer de­ termines that such member is ineligible to receive such absentee ballet,, he shall nevertheless send such member the afore­ mentioned ballot with accompanying material except that the mailing envelope addressed to the depository shall have printed on the face thereof the words "Challenged Absentee Ballot." The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep records of all of the fore­ going, including the reasons for determining such member's ineligibility, which records shall be open for inspection by full book members and upon the convening of the Union Tallying Committee, presented to them. The SecretaryTreasurer shall send to all Ports, the names and book numbers of the members to whom absentee ballots were sent. (f) All ballots to be counted, must be received by the depository no later than the January 5th immediately sub­ sequent to the election year and must be postmarked no later than 12 midnight December 31st of the election year. Saction 4. (a) At the close of the last day of the period for securing ballots, the Port Agent in each port, in addition to his duties set forth above, shall deliver or mail to Head­ quarters by registered or certified mail, attention Union Tally­ ing Committee, all unused ballots and shall specifically set forth, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. (b) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. The election shall be held at the regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the Executive Board otherwise determines prior thereto, at a SEAFARERS LOG special meeting held in the aforesaid ports, on the first business day of the last week of said month. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or candidate for office, or the job or Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties herein set forth, the Union Tallying Committu».°hall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots anir the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall have access to all election records and files for their inspection, examination and verification. The report shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these discrepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. In connection with the tally of ballots there shall be no counting of ballots until all mailing envelopes containing valid ballots have first been openeR, the ballot envelopes removed intact and then all of such ballot envelopes mixed together, after which such ballot envelopes shall be opened and counted in such multiples as the Committee may deem expedient and manageable. The Committee shall resolve all issues on chal­ lenged ballots and then tally those found valid, utilizing the same procedure as provided in the preceding sentence either jointly or separately. * Snpplement—Pmge Five ordering of a special vote, unless reported discrepancies or protested procedure or conduct found to have occurred and to be violative of the Constitution, affected the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted to such office, offices and/or job or jobs, as the case may be. A majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings may order a recheck and recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three (3) or more members of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this Section 4(f), the closing report shall be final. There shall be no further protest appeaTrfffl^^ne action of the majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings. (g) Any special vote ordered pursuant to Section 4(f) shall be commenced within ninety (90) days after the first day of the month immediately subsequent to the Election Report Meetings mentioned above. The depository shall be the same as designated for the election from which the special vote is ordered. And the procedures shall be the same as provided for in this Section 4, except where specific dates are provided for, the days shall be the dates applicable, which provide for the identical time and days originally provided for in this Section 4. The Election Report Meeting for the aforesaid snecial "oie sha.i "e that meeting immediately subsequent to the report of the Union Tallying Committee separated by one calendar month. Section 5. Elected Officers and Job Holders: (a) A candidate unopposed for any office or job shall be deemed elected to such office or job notwithstanding that his name may appear on the ballot. The Union Tallying Committee shall not be required to tally completely the results of the voting for such unopposed candidate but shaU certify in their report, that such unopposed candidate has been elected to such office or job. The Election Report Meeting shall accept the above certification of the Union Tallying Committee without change. (c) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall, after their election, proceed to the port in which Headquarters is located, to arrive at that port no later than January 5th of the year immediately after the election year. Each member of the Committee not elected from the port in which Head­ quarters is located shall be reimbursed for transportation, Section 6. Installation into Office and the Job of Head­ meals, and lodging expenses occasioned by their traveling to quarters Representative, Fort Agent or Patrolman: and returning from that Port. Committee members elected (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest from the port in which Headquarters is located, shall be number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. similarly, reimbursed, except for transportation. All members Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular of the Committee shall also be paid at the prevailing standby office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. day they return, in normal course, to the port from which they These determinations shall be made only from the results were elected. deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shaU The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take Constitution, adopt its own procedures. All decisions of such over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties Committee and the contents of their report shall be valid if thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meet­ made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in at­ ing, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meet­ tendance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The ing the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed final Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their the sole right and duty to obtain" all mailed ballots and the predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, other mailed election material from the depository and to notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article insure their safe custody during the course of the Committee's XI,' Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candi­ proceedings. The proceedings of the Committee except for date cannot assume his office because he is at sea. their organizational meeting and their actual preparation of In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant the closing report and dissents therefrom, if any, shall be open additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the to any member, provided he observes decorum. Any candidate event of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume may act as an observer and/or designate another member to office the provisions of Article X, Section 11 shall apply until act as his observer at the counting of the ballots. In no event the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume shall issuance of the above referred to closing report of the office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the Committee be delayed beyond January 31st immediately subse­ membership. quent to the close of the election year. In the discharge of its Soction 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged duties, the Committee may call upon and utilize the services with the preservation and retention of att election records, of clerical employees of the Union. The Committee shall be including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the of its report as required in this Article. In the event a recheck election procedures as are required by law, which directives and recount is ordered pursuant to this Article, the Committee shall be reconstituted, except that if any member thereof is not shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. Article XiV (d) The report of the (Committee shall be made up in suffi­ Other Elections cient copies to comply with the foUowing requirements: two copies shall be mailed by the Committee to each Port Agent Section 1. Trial Committee. and the Secretary-Treasurer no later than January 31st im­ A Trial Committee shaU be elected at a special meeting held mediately subsequent to the close of the election year. As at 10:00 A.M., the next business day following the regular soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take place. It shall consist of five full book members, of which three shaU consti­ manner, and notify the Secretary-Treasurer, in writing, as to tute a quorum. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port the date of such posting. This copy shall be kept posted until Agent, Port Patrolman, or other Union personnel may be after the Election Report Meeting, which shall be the March elected to serve on a Trial Conunittee. No member who intends regular membership meeting immediately following the close to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any of the election year. At the Election Report Meeting, the member who cannot for any reason, render an honest decision. other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. It shall be the duty of every member to decline nomination if (e) Any full book member claiming a violation of the he knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing dis­ election and balloting procedure or the conduct of the same, qualifications apply to him. The members of this committee shall within 72 hours of the occurrence of the claimed violation, shall be elected under such generally applicable rules as are notify the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters, in writing, by adopted by a majority vote of the membership. certified mail, of the same, setting forth his name, book Section 2. Appeals Committee. number and the details so that appropriate corrective action if warranted may be taken. The Secretap'-Treasurer shall ex­ The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven fuU book peditiously investigate the facts concerning the claimed viola­ members, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at tion, take such action as may be necessary if any, and make a the port where headquarters is located. TTie same disquali­ report and recommendation, if necessary, a copy of which shall fications and duties of members shall apply with regard to be sent to the member and the original shall be filed for the this committee as apply to the Trial Committee. In addition, Union Tallying Committee for their appropriate action, report no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearing and recommendation, if any. The foregoing shall not be of an appeal from a Trial (Zommittee decision, if the said applicable to matters involving the Credentials Committee's member was a member of the Trial Committee. action or report, the provisions of Article XIII, Sections 1 and 2 being the pertinent provisions applicable to such matters. All protests as to any and all aspects of the election and Article XV balloting procedures or the conduct of the same, not passed Trials and Appeals upon by the Union Tallying Committee in its report, excluding therefrom matters involving the Credentials Committee's action Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any other or report as provided in the last sentence of the immediately member for the conunission of an offense as set forth in this preceding paragraph, but including the procedure and report Constitution. These charges shall be in writing and signed by of the Union Tallying Committee, shall be filed in writing by the accuser, who shaU also include his book number. The certified mail with the Secretary-'Treasurer at Headquarters, to accuser shall deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the be received no later than the February 25th immediately sub­ sequent to the close of the election year. It shall be the re­ ^ port neai;rat the place of the offense, or the port of pay-off, if the off^se took place aboard ship. He shall also request Ae sponsibility of the member to insure that his written protest is Port Agent to present these charges at the next regular meeting received by the Secretary-Treasurer no later than such Febru­ The accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting takes ary 25th. The Secretary-Treasurer shall forward copies of place. such written protest to ^1 ports in sufficient time to be read at the Election Report Meeting. The written protest shall Section 2. After presentation of the charges and the request contain the full book member's name, book number, and all to the Port Agent, the Port Agent shall cause those charges details constituting the protest. to be read at uie said meeting. If the charges are rejected by a maiority vote of the port, (f) At the Election Report Meeting the report and recom­ no further action may be taken thereon, unless ruled othenvise mendation of the Union Tallying Committee, including but by a majority vote of the membership of the Union within SH) not liinited to discrepancies, protests passed upon by them, as days thereafter. H the charges are accepted, and the accus^ well as protests filed with the Secretary-Treasurer as provided is present, he shall be automatically on notice that he wiR be for in Section (e) immediately above, shall be acted upon by tried the ifollowing morning. At his request, the trial shaD be the meeting. A majority vote of the membership shall decide postponed until the morning foUowing the next regular meeti^. what action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution shall at whi|^ .time tW Trial Committee wiU then be be taken thereon,'which action, however, shall not include the �Supplement—^Page Six ^^ aho be handed a writtcu copy of Uie should have ^en disquriified, or (b) that the adiaisea-was-nor adei^ately informed of the detaUs of the diarged offense, which or (c) U that J®®lulted m his not having —o been given a a fair Aou trial, maj. or for any other reason^ the accused was not given a fair triid. (d) If there is not si^stantial evidence, to support a ffnding of guilt the Appeals Committee shall recommend 'i— M which the finding was based be dismissed. " (e) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser punish­ ment. • J ~~^®'j4l''°f^^an prMf of the commission of anv of t^ tMH the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall immedi. ately cause to be sent to h^ by registered inaU addressed to his last Iteown mailing address on file with the Union a copy " wiltfiil fdlute to be preKpt to togntou or -L f numbers of the accusers, and a notificabon, that he must appear with his witnesses, rwdy for tnal the inonung after the next regular meetinm at ".Sra ^ nit rhich meetmg the Trial Committee will be elected. (c) Diaorderiy conduct at pay-off or 8i0i.oB; In the event a majority of the membership of the Union shall ^te to accept chijmggiafter Aeir rejefction by a port, the trial (d) Refusal to cooperate with Urmu £-;tpref.eMAMr«<^ Sa^en 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its decision ^ phall take place mTB^ort where Headquarters is located. Due and dissent if wy, to headquarters, which ^aQ cause sufficient charging Aeir duties; lotice thereof shall be given to the accus"ei*Vhr'Adl"be copies to be publish^ and shall have them sent to each port in (e) Disorderly conduct in the Union h'afl; I •^formed of the name ot nis accusers, and vdio shall receive a of his tune to reach there before the next regular scheduled meeting, (f) GambUhg m Ae Union hall; J ^tten statement of the charges. At the request of the'accnsed, xleadquarten shall also send a copy to each accused and (g) Negligent failure to jom ship. ^ trms^rtabon and subsistence shall be provided the accused accuser at their last known address, or notify them in person. and his witnesses. member who has committed tm offense ^ A J-*?'® L meeting indicated in Section 14 of this Socrion 3. ne Trial Committee shall hear all penineni Article, the membership, by a majority vote, shall accept the ized by no mow th^ a fine of $50.00 may elect to wriw^ ' sabjcct to Ae previsioBs of ' evidence Md shall not be bound by the rules of evidence decision of Ae Appeals Comimttee, or Ae Assent Aerein. U A^de^V'Vr® Artmle XV, Section 19 and to pay the maximum fine of ISOdX) ' reqmred by coum of law but may receive all relevant testi­ stMd the decision of the Appeals Committee to the duly authorized representative of Ae Union. mony. The Tnal Comimttee may grant adjournments, at the If a new trial is orfered, Aat trial shall be hdd in Ae port request of the accused, to enable him to make a proper defense. SocMon 6. This Union, and its members, Aoll not be deemtt.! ¥ event the Trial Committee falls beneath a quoruim it to waive anj^laim, pf personal or property rights to which it P^^ded for in ? shril adjourn until a quorum does exist. Section 2 of this Article. Any decision so providing for a new or its members are entitled, by bringing the member to trial orV trial shall coniam such directions as will insure a fair hearing enfbrcmg a penalty as provided m Ais Constitution. S " !, Sacrion 4. No trial shall be conducted unless all the accusers to Ae accused. I me present Tne Trial Committee shall conduct the trial except SacHon 14. Headquarters shall notify Ae accused and each I that the accused shall have the ri^t to cross-examine the accuser, eiAer m person or m writing addressed to their last I accuser, or acrasers, and the witnesses, as weD as to conduct his k°iiMu tJt® results of Ae appeal. A further apMal sown defense. The accused may select any member to assist him ' m bs defense at the trial, provided, (a) the said member is shall be aUowed as set forth in Section 17 of Ais Article. available at Ae time of the trial and (b) the said member SMHOR HT. Each member is charmd wiA khowkdge of Ae Artid* XVil agr^ to mnder such assistance. If the accused challenges the provisions of the ConstituUon of v, Ae puo Seafarers miemauonaj International qualificabons of the members of the Trial Committee, or states Union of North ^enca, and Ae rights o^ and procedure as PiiSHcafibm that the charges do not adequately inform him 6f what wrong to, lunner appeal as provided for Aerein. Decisions reached t his Union may puhhsh such psmpUets. journals he aUege^y committed, or the time and place of such commit thereunder be bmdmg on all members of Ae Union. ^^8, magazines, periodicals and general literature, in snA Bion, such matters shall be ruled upon and disposed of, prior Se^en Ifc It shall ^ Ae duty of all members of Ae Union to proceedmg on the merits of the defense. The guilt of an <® by the to take all steps w^m their constitutional power to carry out Stive'B^S?d. jBccused shall be found only if jn-oven by the weight of the tne terms of any effective decisions. evidence, Md the burden of such proof shall be upon the Artlcfo XVIH accuser. E«ry finding shall be based on the quality of the « SoetioR !P. Every accused shall receive a written copy ef the evidence and not solely on the number of witnesses produced. charges preferred against him and Aall be given a wwnable Bond. " . tune to prepare his defense, but he may Aereafter plead guilty Officers and job holders, wheAcr elected or appok^ as Section 5. The Trial Committee shall make findings as to and waive My or all of the oAer rights and privUeges granted gmlt or innoMnce, and recommendations as to punishment to him by this Article. If an accused has fcien properly notified Iwi ^ employees handling monies of Ae Union shall be bonded as required by law. rad/or other Unira action deemed desirable in the light of of his tnal and fails to attend wiAout properly requesting a • •• i the proceedmgs. "Hiese findings and recommendaUons shall ^stponement, the Trial Committee may hold its trial wiAout be those of a majonty of the committee, and diall be in writing, ' Article^ as shaU be any disi^ Ibe committee shall forward its findmgs and rerommendations, along with any dissent to the Port Ix(>«iidit«i^s ; ArHcIo 3tVI whem the trial took place, while a copy S^on I. In Ae event ho contrary policies or in.imtotttons thereof shall be forw^ded to the accused and the accusers are in existence, the President may an^rize, mAe, or incmL OifeitMs ond PanaMm addressed to their last known L'®® expenses as are normally encompass^ add^ses. The findmgs shall^ mclude a statement that the Section 1. Upon pmf of Ae commission of Ae foUowing Sn^t^on " conferred upon him by Article X of thiJ Constitution, were properly offenses, Ae member shall be expelled from memberdiip: safe^ardt^. The fcdings also must contain the charges made, (a) Proof of m^hership in any organization advocating Ae the date of the tnal, the name and address of the accused, the S^on 2. The provisions of Section I shaB similarly apply to! the routine accounting and administrative procedures of the! document ^ised overthrow of Ae Government of the United States by force; Union except those primarily concerned with trials, appeals.! (bj Acting as an informer against the interest of Ae Union t ^ A .1 ® summary of the proceedings, negotiations, strikes, and elections. , and shall state the findings as to guilt or innocence. If possible, or tbe membership m any organizational campaign; aU documents used at the trial shaU be kept All findings and (c) Acting as an informer for. or agent of, Ae company Sactlen 3. The provisions of Ais Article shall sui ^recommendations shaU be made a part of the regular files. against the mterests of Ae membership or the Union; OmstitmbinProvisions of Article A ^JTrial shall, upon a..'.™,"", DS^°° "" ^•» wceipt of the fin^gs and recommendations of Ae Trial Comand recommendations to be presented, ArHcl* XX Section 2. Upon proof of Ae commission of any of the foljand entered mto Ae minutes, at Ae next regular iLting. lowng offenses, Ae member Aall be penalized up to and Port-Agent shall send Ae record of Ae entire including a penalty of expulsion from the Union. In Ae event S^«n 1. Ihe income of Ais Union Aall include dues, the penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recommeded, the fhS f^r headqumers, which AaU cause sufficient copies A^f to be mde and sent to each Port in time for Ae next penalty shall not exceed suspension from Ae rights and privi- mitistion fees, fines, Msessments, contributions, lotuis, inter^ regularly scheduled meeting. mvidends, as well as income derived from any otherliegitimate L ®^"P f®"" 'w® <2) yearr, or a fine business operation or other legitimate source. 01 Sou.OO or both: ¥® latter meeting, Ae proceedings shall be die(a) Willfully misappropriating or misusing Union property , Sactien 2. An official Union receipt, propefly filled out, .hsll ct^ed. ^e meetmg Aall Aen vote. A majority vote of Ae of the value in excess of |50.00. , membership of the Union shall: be given to anyone paying money to the Union or to any (b) Unautho^d use of Union property, records, stamps, person auAonzed by the Union to receive money. It shall be ; , (a) Acwpt Ae findings and recommendations, or Ae huty of every person affiliated wiA Ae Union who m-vseals, etc., for Ae purpose of personal gain; ^ ! (b) Reject Ae findings and recommendations, or such payments to demand such receipt » i^suse of any office or job, elective or not, within : (c) /^t Ae findings, but moAly Ae recommendations, or Ae Umon for the pur^se of personal gain, financial or oAerSestien S. ?»u assessincais shall be levied except after a bsESp i Lk after finding Aat substantial justice wise, or the willful refusal or failure to execute Ae duties or inducted under such general rules as may be decided up^ funcuons of the said office or job, or gross neglect or abuse in by a m^ority vote of Ae membership, provided Aat* ''^4^ .1 J take place at Ae port where headquarters is executing such duties or functions or oAer serious misconduct taj The ballot must be secret ;'K i theS^litaM."'"^ i!^S the accusers, and or breach of. trust. The President may, during the pendency vj^^iv® ""ssment must be approved by a majority of Ae I MM furnished transportation and subsist- o^sciphn^ pr®ceedmg8 under this subsection, suspend the valid baflota cast oHw^or jobholderTrom exercising Ae functions of Ae office _ Saction 4. Except as otherwise provided by law, aU payments and designate his temporary w- by members or other affiliates of Ais Union shall be applied ™ Section 8, any puniah- placemen " IK ®®"'®'^ upon shaU become effective. Headquariew succeMlvely to Ac monetary obligations owed Ae Union com(d)fitiThr Unauthorized votmg, or unauAorized handling ot of ballotr rn^ w uuttumonzea^nanoiiiig Pal- mencing inencmg with witn the tue oldest in point of time, as measured from te-'iar '» a.b'sssr.js totrjfrrii s^to°^5i piTarrto.!' I HI f iytoiifc! ts. stubs. rOStAm. VArSfi^ali#vn l;.*- a®®"®ed who has been found guilty, or who is ®PP®"11° »fte manner: P ^®''*®'' ® ®1 appeal to Headquarters '^® °®*'®® of ftte *''® regular meetmg of Ae port whwe receipt of the notice of appeal the notice shall be presented and shall then become part of the .... ^uuaniee snau then be elected The 5 contracts is charged wiA Ae duty , before-mentioned proceedings and all available documents uwd as evidence at Ae trial to the AnS J or argument subnutted by Ae accused. The accused may argue his hnneal in E'Xuart^s on ^® elected. ItUnion neaaquarters on thTntehT^l Ae night Ae^ committee is Aall to insure that his written ?r'eseSon. ™ headquarters m timaVrTuch evidence and arguments before it. It may grant adjournments I and may request Ae accused or accusers to ores-» I Whenever necessary for such fair conAfrStffa.^oxuculs, Seetlon 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall by majony vote, Md shall be in the form Tffimgs and dissente sh^ b® in writmg Md signed by those participatinsT to such decision or dissent. In makmg its findings and recomi^^mendations, the committee shall he governed by the following* ^srijsiLf i t wSfofiStoS! •" """ "• - •»' (b) In no event shaU increased punishment he recommended, ^(c) A new rtal shaU be recommended if the Appeals Committee finds-^faU^at-anvjaMober of, Ae Trial ^mmittw t ..r .1 hies, or election material of any sort; (e) Preferring charges wiA knowledge Aat duch charges Arc f&lsCy • (f) Makmg or transmitting, with intent to deceive," false bMbiCTs*'' wiAin the scope of Union shaD be calct Sertion 5. To the extent deemed appropriate by Ae major­ ity of the Executive Board, funds and assets of Ae Union may be kept in an account or accounts without separation 88j^^®^ Punmse and expended for all Union purposes and Deliberate failure or refusal to join one's ship, or misMnduct or ne^ect of duty aboard ship, to Ae detriment of Article XXi "greements; Other Types of Union Affliioti^ and unauthorized interference, or deliberate viUification, wiA regard to the execution of Ae To the extent permitted by law, this Union, by majority ®^ office or job; y®te of the membership, may provide for affiliation wiA it by U) PaviW for, W or receiving money for, employment , (i) Paying aboard individuals in a lesser capacity than membership, or in a a vessel, exclusive of proper earnings and Union payments; capMity other than membership. By majority vote of Ae mem­ bership, Ae Union may provide for the rights and obligations W WiUfiil refusal to submit evidence of affiliation for the incident to such capacities or affiliations. These rights and purjmse of avoiding or delaying money payments to the Urtion, obligations may include, but arc not limited to (a) the applicor imauAonzedly transferring or receiving evidence of Union ability or non-applicability of all or any part of the ConstiatliJiation, with intent to deceive; _ . tutioh; (b) the terms of such affiliation; (c) the right of Ae (k) Willful faffure or refusal to cany out Ae order of Aose Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation and, (d) duly authorized to make such orders during time of strike, the fees required for such affiliation. In no event may onyoncjil U) Failure or refusal to pay a fine or assessment within Ae ®®' a roemher receive evidence of affiliation equivalent to^i time limit set therefor eiAer by the Constitution or by action Aat of membe^ receive priority or rights over members, oif taken in accordance with the Constituiion. be termed a, f^jj^fber. •& Section 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of Ae fol­ lowing offenses, members shaU be penalized up to and incliduiK ArticI* XXIi I a sus^nsion from the rights and privileges of memberAip for two(2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both: Quorums ' .1 (a) Willfully misappropriating or misusmg Union property Section 1. Unless elsewhere herein oAerwise specifically pro-^ of the value under $50.00; t* i* / yii®filT S"®'"""®^'®'" 8 8pecial meeting of a port shall be six| lo) full book members. ^ | ,®®®® ®' J®ft' wheAer elective or not wiA Knowledge of Ae lack of possession of Ae qualAcations re­ quired therefor; (c) Misconduct dmlng any meeting or oAe^fficial Union Section 3. Unless otherwise specifically set forth hprwin • Ae proceeding, or bringing the Union into disrepute by . conduct f®"®;,®f'J®P?«8, recommendations, or not provided for elsewhere in Ajs Article; (d) Refusal or negUgent failure to Carrv out orders of 3 K! • ®5 roquiring a quorum to act offipiaUy, Aose duly authorized to make such orders at anv tihia. ' • ' or effectiro unless MICM th"®* ^® tne quorum requuremen^-s are mot,, •'•n! �SEAFARERS LOG November 14, 1969 Snpplement—^Page Seven Lakes and Inland Waters District, ana this Cbn^tc f-i. Unles# otherwise indicated herein, where the re- i officials and other elected job-holders are required to asume sI Gulf, and any amendments thereto, shall not take effect unless andj for a quoniin are not specifically set fortl^ a quorum | office. ^ until approved as set forth in Ae Constitution of Aat Union. " 1^ deemed to be a majority of . those xpmp<»ing^ A Section 8. The terms, "this Constitution", and "this fended -• ' ' '.'5 ^cahle segment of the. Ijmon.' . ConstitHlJon," shall be deemed to have, the same meanjig and , • iv shall refer to the Constitution as amended which takes the " An object of this Union is, within its reasonable capacity, place of the one adopted by the Union in 1939, as amended Article RM to promote the welfare of, and assist, the Seafarers Interna­ up through August, 1968. tional Union of North America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and InM«afings' •' ":''?->^i£|ffgn'%r'Tbe tennV^ shaB mean "'fifciffiistrict. Section I* llogular memJISffip meetings shall be held a^^^ber whflBS monetary obligations to the Union are not monthly only in the following major ports at the following in arrears for thirty days or more, or who is not under suspen­ sion or expulsion effective in accordance with this Constitution. times: The charter (and/or affiliation) relationship between this During the week following the first Sunday of every month Unl^s otherwise expressly indicated, the term, "member," Union and the Seafarers International Union of North America a meeting shall be held on Monday—at New York; on Tuesday shadl mean a member in good standing. —Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall not —at Philadelphia; on Wednesday—at Baltimore; and on Section 10. Unless plainly otherwise required by the context Friday—at Detroit. During the next week, meetings shall be of their use, the terms "Union book," "membership bool^" and be dissolved so long as at least ten members of this Union, and the Seafarers International Union of North America— held on Monday—at Houston; on Tuesday—at New Orleans; "book," shall mean official evidence of Union membership. Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District acting Arongh and on Wednesday—at Mobile. All regular membership meet­ its Executive Board wish to contmue such relationship. Section 11. The term "full book" or "full Union book" shall ings shall commence at 2:30 P.M. local time. Where a meeting day falls on a Holiday officially designated as -such by the mean only an official certificate issued as evidence of_ Union authorities of the state or municipality in which a port is J membership which carries with it complete rights and privileges VI located, the port meeting shall take place on the fouojmg I of membership except as may be specifically constitutionally No amendment to this Constitution shall be effective unless business day. Saturday and Sunday shml not be deemed busi­ otherwise provided. and until approved by at least a two-thirds vote of the member­ ness days. • Section 12, The terin, "full book member", shall mean a ship in a secret referendum conducted for Aat purpose. In The Area Vice Presidents shall be the_ chairmen of a|l member to whom a full book has been duly issued and who any event, the adoption of this Constitution and any amend­ regular meetings in porta in their respective areas. In the is entitled ro retain it in accordance with the provisions of ments thereto, will not be effective unless and until compliance event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a regular with Article II of the Constitution of the Seafarers- Interna­ this Constitution. meeting of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or tional Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and other elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. Inland Waters Drstrict is first made. Articie^XXV In the event a quorum is not present at 2:30 P.M. the chairman of the meeting at the pertinent port shall postpoM Amendments Vii the opening of the meeting but in no event later than 3:0P. This Constitution shall be amended in the following manner: The Seafarers International of North Americar—At­ Section 2. A special meeting at a port may be called only at M Section 1. Any full book member may submit at any regi^ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Union Waters District shall have Ae the direction of the Port Agent or Area Vice President. No '^meeting of any Port proposed amendments to this Constitu- ri^t to check, inspect and make copies of all Ae books and special meeting may be held, except between the hours of .i tion in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership records of this Union upon demand. 9:00 .la.xv*. A.M. and P.M. Notice of : .Qi iof ine the Port «ss»« 5:00 v.vw — such meeting w sh^ be run approves appiuvca it, ss, the mo proposed amendment shall be forposted at least two hours in advance, on the port buUetm board. afl Ports for further action. VIII The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chataen section 2. When a proposed ainendment is accepted by a maThis Union shall not take any action which will have Ae ' effect of reducing its net asseta, calculated through roMgnized, ing of a port, tney snait instruct ine rori Agenis, or accounting procedures, below Ae amount of its indebtedness elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. to Ae Seafarers International Union of North America—^Atlan­ two from each department and shall be elected in accordance tic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, unless approved the i^ntrary, all reg- with such rules as are established by a majority vote of that meetings shall be governed by the following: Port. The Committee will act on all proposed amendments by Aat Union through its- Ekecutive Board. Pl. The Union Constitution. • . referred to it. The Committee may receive whatever adwce and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall IX |2. Majority vote of the members assembled. prepare a report on the amendment together wiA any proposed So long as there exists any indebtedness by tWs Union to changes or substitutions or recommendations and Ae reasons Ae Seafarers, International Union of North America—^Atlantic, for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted AiticI* XXIV to the membership. If a majority vote of the membersMp Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, that Union shall have Initiom and Miscellaneous Provisions approves the amendment as recommended, it shall then be Ae right to appoint a representative or representatives to tms voted upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership of the Union Union who shall have the power to attend all meetings of this Relating Thereto by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure directed by Union, or its sub-divisions, or governing boards, if any; Md pHSoctibn 1. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt a majority vote of the membership at the time it gives the who shall have access to idl books and records of this Union Jwith herein, the term "incapacity," shall mean any illness or approval necessary to put the referendum to a vote. The on demand. This representative, or these representatives, shall i'jiituation preventing the affected person from carrying out his Union Tallying Committee shall consist of six (6) full book be charged with the duty of assisting this Union and its mem­ iTduties for more than 30 days, provided that this doM not members, two from each of the three (3) departments of the bership, and acting as a liaison between the Seafarers InterSresult in a vacancy. However, nothing contained in this Article Union, elected from Headquarters Port. The amendment shall natiouM Union of NorA America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and !®hall be deemed to prohibit the execution of the functions of either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall be Inland Waters District and this Union. ttore than one job and/or office in which event no incapacity referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be mail be deemed to exist with regard to the regular job or posted on the bulletin boards of all ports and made available office of the one taking over the duties jmd functions of the at the voting site in all porta. So long as any unpaid per capita tax, or any other indebted­ one incapacitated. TTie period of incapacity shall be the time Section 3. If approved by a majority of the valid ballots ness of any sort is owed by this Union to the Seafarers Inter­ during which the circumstances exist. cast, the amendment shall become effective immediately upon national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and ,S»et{en 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein,| notification by the aforesaid Union Tallying Committee to the Inland Waters District, such indebtedness shall constitute a ,Jio term "vacancy" shall include failure »o perform Ae func- j Secretary-Treasurer that the amendment has been so approved, first lien on the asseta of this Union, which lien Aall not be lions of any office or job by reason of death, or resignation; \ 1 unless otherwise specified in the amendment. The Secretary- impaired wiAout Ae written approval of Ae Seafarers Inter­ or suspension from membership or expulsion from Ae Union s i Treasurer shall immediately notify all ports of the results of national Union ol North America—^Atlantic, Gulf Lakes and with no further ri^l to appeal in accordance virith Ae pro- j the vote on the amendment. Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board. visions of Artide ^ of this Constitution. I Section 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole Ae terns, iXHIMT A iority vote of the memberAip," shall mean the majority XI Ae valid votes cast by full book members at an officim Minimal' requirements to be contained in - The per capita tax payable by Ais Union to the Seafarers meeting of those ports holding a meeting. This definition sh^ Constitution of subordinate bodies ond divisions International Union of NorA America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes prisvail notwithstanding that one or more ports cannot hold chortered by or qffliioted with die Seoforers and Inland Waters District Aall be Aat which is fixed in ac­ meetings because of no quorum. For the purpose of this :ion, the term "meeting" shall refer to those meetings to be iRternotionoi Union of North Americo •— At- cordance with Ae terms of the Conrtitution of Aat Union. iicld during the time period within which a vote must be tdcen lontic, Guif, Lokes ond Iniond Woters District. in accordance wiA Ae Constitution and Ae custom and usage Xii >f Ae Union in the indicated priority. This Constitution and actions by this Union pursuant Aereto Useetion 4, When applicable solely to port action md not conAll members shall have equal rights and privileges, subject are subject to Aose provisions of Ae Constitution of Ae Sea­ c^ed with, or related to, the Union as a whole, and not to reasonalile rules and regulations, contained in this Consti­ farers International Union of North America—^Atlantic, GuU, iorming part of a Union-wide vote, the tenn_ "majority wA tution, including secret election, freedom of speech, Ae right Lakes and Inland Waters District pertaining to affiliation, dis­ of Ae membership," shall refer to the majority of Ae valid to hold office and the right of secret votes on assessment and affiliation, ~ trusteeships, and Ae granting aud removal of, votes cast by the full book members at any meeting of Ae dues increases, all in accordance wiA Ae-law. charters. ^ Port, regular or special. XHI ii . Section 5. The tdrm, "membership action*V or reference Aerelo, shall mean Ae same as Ae term "majority vote of No member may be automaticaly 'suspended from member­ This Union shall be affiliated wiA Ae Seafarers International the membership." ship except for non-payment of dues, and all members Aall Union of North America Arough Ae Seafarers International be afforded a fair hearing upon written charges, wiA a reas­ Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Section 6. Where Ae title of any office or job, or the holder thereof, is set forth in this Constitution, all references Aereto onable time to prepare defense, when accused of an offense Waters District. It Aall Aare in, and participate as part of, ' the delegation of Aat District to Ae Convention of Ae Sea­ and Ae provisions concerned Aerewith shall be deemed to be under the Jlonstitution. farers International Union of NorA America in accordance equally applicable to whomever is duly acting in such office wiA Ae provisions of the Constitution of Ae Seafarers Inter- ^ Ill' •• national Union of North Americ^Atlantic, GulL Lahcs f Union is Section 7.'TI« term^'Election Year" shal^^ tegBTUs Aat calendarr year prior to Ae calendar year in which elected jiSeafMera International Union of North America—Atlantic, .; Inland Waters District. . . . . .1 lf_l_ _ 1 1 / ..-i : J.-'.'TV ^ i' — �Supplement—^Page Eight ' SEAFARERS LOG —, ^ . J ..' A .V,- ^ -- EVERY SEAFARER IS GUARANTEED ' ' I ' ^ *f% nC . , ^ *-" , 4. '•>, ' ^ November 14, 1969 • '•^'' CS. r, ^ ' ^ ' ^ • Protection of the rights and privileges guaranteed 1^1 ^J ^ ^/ yHf ^•, .• F 7 V' him under the Constitution of the Union. The right to vote. The right to nominate himself for, and to hold, any office in the Union. ^ That every official of the Union shall be bound rto uphold and protect the rights of every member and that in no case shall any member be deprived his rights and privileges as a member without due process of the law of the Union. The right to be confronted by his accuser and to be given a fair trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members if he should be charged with conduct detrimental to the welfare of Seafarers banded together in this Union. i The right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. ^ The assurance that his brother Seafarers will stand him in defense of the democratic principles forth in' the, Constitution of • the Union. ' S.;. ;!: '- 1V* **'f' ^ .••• ^ ^ •• • • '-• ' •4-''. »» .f . >v^ . r: ' ^ . " ; •ft'-' /' - b-.-i-r. h-'P'.L-"••*•'.-Vf •* k!A0ip:- •:»<A'!y^:. 'a®X'SS•;:i»; • iT-:" i" ^ -• • •-••:- liilliiilt.,, . " f ^ a, , -.•'J >- ./c, -y. WM ':3;a : •• • -X • ^ • r-5; V • .:'.V'>'-'• ' '-"'^i'"?' >' e5f "if ^ 4^ ^ i • " -sssiisfese."'' 4j ftiiiKfiiaiiaiif • -r^i. wmesmmimi i; •ySii^ kifs \1i : ^ c; % "V 1^ ' . 1 ^ *' ''/ : 17 - ' . m S*iiiSiil^ ^'' '' ,•••!. r-•:. I "'••''' •, ' ' i ^#1/f' ' • wm -u .-...'vy:.. , • > V v. • yf-7 'ft c , ' 1 • si �SEAFARERS November 14, 1969 Supplement—^Page Nine LOG saiiKii - -'V'V . B:.P >«.- ,93^!;|||f -H^-j^.'-:i-5.\ -....; rSfe '1 .C .>£•' T ""-n.:er ' - , ' ' . • •'';-fy.iX^SXXXIXX'vXiXX.-^l?= • -s:'^'XXXrt€JXS?XXf?fi^ * ,'';-, it'' . -s?> .r : * T . if., •'U*' i." ''.r: ; . • ' • "-" " V-ff' r iw^Vyl^tv-.'.'" :• • AKr-:.j'.;.r-. ' • , J •••'••. . • .,•••.• . . • • • " . 1 • • •' „• .- —' ^ •- •• .• . j*y y-y., \;y':y''^:'.^^y:-:-~yy.-'••:'-i/h^'''-'"y •'. ••'7Xv•-^^••X xx-XX;'••••.•••-••-x-x-; AX'XX?^- •.••' -'X'- •• ' •••'.•-...•^ •.••••.•••-•-.••',•••••'•••••-•• -•--' • • ? X-'--':• • -' - ' •.'• • X - --. ' ' '-X-v^ WorSIUAtkmtiCf Gulft^ftkey^na Inland liters District ^'•. '.•••:*• .y^' •_X^; '. •• , • ,• ' . • , >X 'X>:>:y:>''-^'XX;v., '• •. — •• ' ••:' , \ : •' -, .y,-• ••••''•••'• r o\. \- •.-••,• •• •;.:. '', . ,'. •' \ ' ••'./'• /X •• • •v--;.XX'"-'..X,.. ;.'.:X. i; •,;,; .'•..;( ^.^'•••':, .••vk'X-V'fXXiS^^X-^r/A-y, •". •;'.."'.XX"'''V'''''' -.xXf:' ,'• , •'> XX:,;;. '.•X.X"'..,.. •' . • • . , •, X"- •' '••"."-..'•x'" '•.• • ' X; ' • -(j' XX : '• • " '• ' ''-i'-"-- . ' . .X-' !'"••• . >.; X' . • X'X " X - ^^x"' :r •:'.•X-£®XX:Xl^.^$Sfc^XXXX•Xi^2^S'!Xte^XX^XX:XXX-••^!^S^^Xi^XX^^;.^^M^•..Vl•XX.XXsS^ssfe:-X£';XX:^?^3 ', v..^:X'5iXi::=n:, -X-«-,. ' ' • • .•:•-• • '•'•'•X'- • . . .'X •• "" ••• •:•-•'"xi '" • ^Xv/V.^X.-.X ^ �November 14,^ 1969 SEAtARERS. LOG Supplement—Page Ten m to exendOng iay Htd •& tigjblii lt ncy ^siiittt tp ^y appUcablfl agreements, or uadentaA^fs. SMtliHi a. This Union shall jdso have tko powo-, acting - thnnjifi ito Executive Board, and after a fair heanng, to impoae a truste^iiip upon any subordinate body or divisions chartered by and effinated with it. for the reasons and to toe eOna provided by Uw. V. Artlcia III Miwliii»r»hi|i THi SIAFAMtS INTfRNAllOilAl UNION OF NQRIH ANIRKA—ATLANTIC/GUU/ LAKiS AND INLAND WATI^ DISTRitT *iV-t -.- AlHiioted with Americm W4uw«lfm of Ubor- CooiifoM of ioAistrlol Orvooinrtloi ••iivr'--:-: - ... «'< ^ te-i.®*!: ^ (As AIMMM Pell. *, 19«r) II PREAMBLE As maritime and allied workers and realiidng the value and necessity of a thorough organization, we are dedicated to the fooning of one Union fw our people, the Seafarera^lntemationM Union of North America—AtlanUc, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, based upon the following principles: All menibeis shall be entitled to all the ri^ts, privileges and guarantees as set forth in this Constitution, and such right^ privileges and guarantees shall be preserved in accordance with iu terms. ... We-declare that American seamen are ratitled to receive ttem employment without interference of crfan^ shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the (^vemment. We affirm that every worker has the right to receive fair and just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation. We proclaim the right of all seamen to receive healthful and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to r«t We defend the right of all seamen to be treated in a decent and respectful manner by those in command, and. We hold that the above rights belong to all woHcers alike, irrespective of nationality or creed. R»yngni»ing the foregoing as our inalienable rifdits, we are conscious of corresponding duties to those in command, our employers, our craft and our country. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote har­ monious relations with those in command by exercising due care and diligence in the performance of the duties of our profession, and by giving all possible assistance to our employ­ ers in caring for their gear and property. _ Based upon these principles, it is among our objects; To use our influence individually and collectively for the purpoM of miuntaining and developing skiU in seamanship and effecting a change in the maritime law of the United States, so as to render it more equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development of a merchant marine and a body of Amer­ ican seamen. To support a journal which shall voice 'the sentimeiits of maritime workers and through its columns seek to maintain their knowledge of, and interest in, maritime affairs. To assist the seamen of other countries in the work oj[ ization and federation, to the end of establishing the " hood of the Sea. . To form and to assist by legal means other boiu fide^ labor organizations whenever iKMsible in the attainment of their jiut demands. To regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals so as to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and useful calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that our work takes us away in different directions from any place where the majority mi^t otherwise meet to act, that meetinn can be attended by only a fraction of the membmhip, Aat the absent members, who cannot be present, must have dieir inter­ ests guarded hrom what might be the results of excitement and passions aroused by persons or conditions, and. that those who are present may act for and in the interest of all, we have adopted this Constitution. Every qualified member shall have the right to nomiute It­ self for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold tffice in this Union. Ill No mCiuber shall be deprived of his membetship wiihoiii due process of the law of this Union. No member shall b:* com­ pelled to be a witness against himself in the toial of any pro­ ceeding in which he may be charged with failure to observe the law of this Union. Every official and job holder shall be bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member in accordance with the principles set forth in the (](«stitation of the Union. IV Every member shall have the ri^t to be confrohited1 by bis of this accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law „ __ Union. In aU such cases, the accused shall be guaranteed a ^ and speedy trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members. V No member shall be denied the right to expr<M himself fredy on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. (b) While a member is an in-patient fa a USPHS or other accredited hospital. , (c) WhUe a member u under an incapacity due to activity •i.i in behalf of the Union. ^ i.. . (d) Wliile a member is in toe armed services of the Uimed States, provided the member was in good stand^ at the ti^ of entry into the armed forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after disdiarge feom the armed forces. (e) mUe a'member has no opportunity to w dues, l^use of employment aboard an American flag inerchant vesseL Sactlon 4. A majority vote of toe membership shall be srfficient to designate additional oiroumstancre dunng w^h toe time specified in Section 3 shall not run. It wall be the right of any member to present, in writing, to any Port at any regu­ lar meting, any question with regard to the apdication o. Section 3, in accordance with procedure establish^ by a A militant mmbership being necessary to the security of'a majority vote of the membersip. A majwrity vote of the mesnfree union, the members shall at times stand ready to defoid bership shall be necessary to decide such questions. Section S. The membership shall be empowered to this Union and the principles set forth in the (kmstitution of from time to time, by majority vote, rules under wfach dues the Union. and assessments may be execused where a member has bm VII unable to pay dues and asseatanents for the reasons provided The powers not delegated to the dfficera, job holders, and in Swtions 3 and 4. Executive Board by the Cwistitution of the. Ihiion dtidl be Secrion 6. To preserve unity, and to promote toe common reserved to the members. welfare of the membership, all members of the Union shW uidiold and defend this Cktosdtution and shall Iw govern^ by the • provisions of this Constitution and all polieios, ruMnga, CONStlTUridN orders and decisions duly made. , SMHnn 7. Any memlw vtoo gives aid to Artid* I poUcies of any hoslUe or dual argium^ rfmll be dwfad further membership in this Union Nqm* and GMMral Powers by law. A majority vote of the mentoertoip naU deckle wiucii ^ This Union shall be known as the Seafarers International organizations are dual or hostile. Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and_ Duand SMtioR 3. Evidence of membership oar other alHhUiro iro Waters District. Its powers shall be legislative, judical, and the Union shaU at aU times remain the of m Unm executive, and shall include the formation of, and/or issuance Members may be required to show their evidence of memMn^ of charters to, subordinate , bodies and divisions, corporate OT ship in order to be admitted to Union meetfai®, or lnto, OT cm • otherwise, the formation of funds and participation in fmds, Union property. the establishment of enttwprises for the benefit of the Unum, \ './Mrllcia IV and similar ventures. This Union shall exercise all of its powen in aid of subordinate bodies and divisions created or chartered ' • |lalW3aWlam9Wt by it. For convenience of administration and in furthwance of its policies of aid and assistance, the Union may make i** ProP; Members dismisiwd from the Ul^ may erty, facilities and personnel available for the use and behw of accordance with such rules and such subordinate bodies and divisions. A majority vote of the adopted, from time to time, by a majon^ vote of toe membwmembership shall be authorization for any Union action, unless . ship. otherwise specified in the Constitution or by law. This Unitm , : Artleto V, shall at all times protect and maintain iU jurisdiction. Statemsnt of Prlnciplos end Dociqration of Rights In order to form a more perfect Union, we workers in t^ maritime and allied industries, realizing the value and necewity of uniting in pursuit of our improved economic and social wet, fare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seafarers International Union of North America—^Atlantic, GuU, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and hereby dedicate oursdves to / die following principles: ; - In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall ever ;be mindful, not only of our rights, but also of our duties and . obligations as members of the community, our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace of communism and any other enemies of freedom and the democratic principlea to which we seafaring men dedicate ourselves in this Union, We shall affiliate and work with other free labor mrganiza; tions; we shall support a journal to give additional voice to our views; we shaB assbt our brothers of the sea and other woriters of all countries in these obligations to the fullest extent con­ sistent with our duties, obligations, and law. We shaU seek to exert our individual and collective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor and other legislation and policies which look to the attainment of a free and happy society, without distinc­ tion based on race, creed or color. To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing in mind that most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them aii over the wtwld, that their rights must and shall he protected,' we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be inalienable. ... or priviliegcs No member »l»vll be.deprivol td any 6f the.. guaranteed him tiiodm' the Omstilittion of die fukm. Soctiod 1. Candidates for membership shall be a^itted to -membertoip in accmdance with such rules as are adopted from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership. Member­ ship claMifications shall correspond to and depend upon senior­ ity classifications established in accordance with tbe-Oi^nni coUective bargaining agreement of this Union. In addition to meeting the other requirements duly promulgated pursuant hereto, no persons shall become a fnll book member unless and until he has attained the highest seniority rating set out in toe said collective bargaining agreement. Only fnll book members shall be entitled to vote and to hold any office or dectire job, except as otherwise spMified herein. AU members sbau have a voice in Union proceedings and shaU be entitled to vote on Union contracts. SMtion a. No candidate shaU be granted membwslup wlw U a member of any dual organization hostUe to the aims, prin­ ciples, and policies of this Union. ~ Secttou 3. Memberr more than one quarter in arrears in dues shall be automatically suspended, and shall forfeit dl benefits and all other ri^u and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically dismissed if they are more than two quartew fa arrears in dues. An arrearage in dues shaU be ctmputed fcoi5^ the first day of the applicable quarter, but tliis time abaU not run: — (a) WhUe a member is actually participating fa a strike Arfkla U AIRIioffleti aMtlbn 1. This Union shall be ^liated with the Seafaren International Union of North Aiheiica and the American Fed­ eration of Labor—Congresa of Industrial Organizations. All other affiliations by the Union or its swhordihate bodies or divisions ShaU be made or withdrawn as determined by a majmlty vote of the Elxecutive Board. SocHon 2. In addition to snch other provisions as are con­ tained herein, all subordinate bodies and divisions seeking a charter from and/or affiliation with this. .Union, sh^ be re­ quired to adopt, within a time period set by the Mec^ye Board, a constitution containing provisions as set forth m Exhibit A, annexed to thb Ckmslitution and made a part hereot All other provisions adopted by such subordinate bodies and divisions as part of their constitutions shall not be incondsteto therewith. No such constitution or amoidments thereto shw be deemed to be effective without the spproval of the Exccutm Board or this Union, whicti shall be executed in writing, <« tts: behalf, by the President or, in his absence, by any other officer designated by it. Such approval shall be deemed to be recog­ nition of compliance herewith by such subordinate body or division. Where a subordinate body or ^ division violat« any of the foregoing, and, in particular, seeks to effectuate any constitu­ tional provision not so authorized and approved, or commrts acts in violation, of its approved constitution, or fails to^ in accordance therewith this Union, through its Executive Boarm may •withdraw ita charier and/or sever its affiliation fortovnth, or on such terms as it may impoim not inconsistent •with law. r-.',•• • • iiiiiSliS HUM^ InMcrtlon PM | Secrien I. AU members^ pay dues dar year basis, no later tM toS quarter, except as herein otlwrvnse provided. ^ The d^ to^ be those payable as of the date of adoption of to Coi^tutkm SSXnAmay be changed only by ConstituUonal mmmdment. ^ . j flMttoM 2. No candidate for mentosWp sh^ into memberaiiip witoout having paid w hundred (|3OOJ0O) doHari except as othsrwire provided in thq Constitution. .. . SRcrion 3. Payment of diies and initiation fw for organizational purpcto m ai^rdanre wito ^ rulee aa. are adopted by a vote of ibo JMWCUMTO RaHirmnant fm laeitoR I. Memben may retire fawu' mwil^^p hy rendering tbefr Union books OT o»her evidence^rfrii^au^ paying M unpaid dues for the quarter assents, fines and other moBl® due and When the member surrenders fas book or affiliation in cbiinection wkh hfr applicayn frf shall be given a receipt therefor. An dficuti shaU be Issued by Headquarter upon request d^ day that such member .accOmplishre th^^ggy^ be given to toe member upon his peeaenlmi 2. AU toe righr d and | ^ At �Sapplement—Page Eleven membeirship shall be suspended during the period of rettrement, ewept that a retired member shall not be disbyal to the Union nor join or remain in any dual or hostile organization, npon penalty of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement Section 3. Any person in retirement for a perod of two iinarters or more shall be restored to membership, except as herein indicated, by 'eying dues for the current quarter, as well as all assessments accruing and newly levied during the period of retirement. If the period of retirement is less than two quarters, the required payments shall consist of all dues accruing during the said period of retirement including those for the current quarter, and all assessments accrued and newly levied during that period. Upon such payment the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, and his member­ ship book, appropriately stamped, shall be returned to him. SoctisMi 4. A member in retirement may be restored to mem­ bership after a two-year period of retirement consisting of eight full quarters only by majority vote of the membership. Soction S. The period of retirement shall be computed from the first day of the quarter following the one in which the retirement card was issued. Artiel«~ifll Systium of Orsaiilxotion Soction 1. This Union, and all officers, headqiiarter's repre­ sentatives, port agents, patrolmen, and members shall be gov­ erned in this order by: (a) The Constitution. _ (b) The Executive Board. vL (e) Majority vote of the membership. Soction 2. The headquarters of the Union shall be located in ^iNew York and the headqc.arters officers shall conisiat of « President, and Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryTreasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, "one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. SocHen. 3. The staff of each port shall consist of such per­ sonnel as is provided for herein, and the port shall bear the ,iname of the city in which,the Union's port offices are located. ••etion 4. Every member of the Union shall be registered in >:one of three departments; namely, deck, engine and stewards department. The definition of these departments shall be in faccordance with custom and usage. This definition may be modified by a majority vote of the membership. No member may transfer from one department to another except by approval as evidenced by a majority vote of the membership. ArticI* VIII pfllc*n, Haadquartors RapraMntativM, Port^ : Agants and Patrolman SocHen 1. The officers of the Union shall be elected as other­ wise provided in this Constitution. These officers shall be the President, an Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and . Contract Enforcement, a Secretary'Treasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coas^ one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lak^ and Inland Waters. 2. Port Agents, Headquarters Representatives, and Fairolnicn shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in . .this Constitutiim. ^ Articio IX Othar Noctivo Jobs Sectian 1. In addition to the elective jobs provided for in Article VIII, the following jobs in the Union shall be voted upon in the manner prescribed by this Constitution: A. Delegates to the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North Atnerica. / B. Committee members of: (1) Trial Committees (2) Quarterly Financial Committees (3) Appeals Committees (4) Strike Committees : " (5) Credentials Committees ^ (6) Polls Committees , ' (7) Union Tallying Committees <8) Constitutional Committees 2. Additional committees may be formed as provided by a majority vote of the membership. Committees may alsn be appointed as permitted by this Constitution. leans, Houston and Detroit may not he closed except by Con­ stitutional amendment. Where ports are o|^ed between elections, the President shall designate the Union personnel thereof. ' , The President shall designate, in the event of the incapacity of any. Hadquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrdman, or any officer' other than the President, a repkcement to act OS such during the period of incapacity, provided such replace­ ment Is qualified under Article XII of Uie Constitution to fill such job. At the regular meeting in July of every election year, die President shall submit to the membership a pre-balloting report. In his report he shall recommend the number and loca­ tion of ports, the number of Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen which are to be elected. He shall also recommend a bank, a bonded warehouse, a regular officer thereof, or any other similar depository, to vdiieh the ballots are to be mailed or delivered at the close of each day's voting, except that the President may, in his discretion, postpone the recommendation as to the depository untili no larer than the first regular meeting in October. This recommendation miv dso specify, whether any Patrol­ man and/or Headquarters ReprMentative, shall be designated as departmental or otherwise. The report shall be subject to approval or modification by a majority vote of the memlmrsbip. (f) The President shall be chairman of the Executive Board' and may cast one vote^in that body. (g) He shall be resimnsible, within this limits of his powen, fmr the enforcement of this Constitution, the policies of the Union, and all rules and rulings duly adopted by the Executive Board, and those duly adopted by a majority vote of the mem­ bership. Within these limits, he shall strive to enhance-the strength,, position, and prestige of the Union. <h) The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those (Hther duties lawfully imposeil upon him. (i) The responsibility of the President maynot oe delegated but the President may delegate to a person or .perrons thi execution of such of his duties as he may in his discretion decide, subject to the limitations set forth in this Constitution. (j) Any vacancy in any office or the job of Headouarters Representative, Pert Agent, or Patrolman shall be filled by the President by temporary appointment of a member qi^* fied for the office or job under Article XII of-this Cimstitution, except in those cases where the filling of such vacancy is other­ wise provided for by this Constitution. (k) The President is dirrated to take any and all measures and employ such means which he deems necessary or advisable, to protect the interests, and further the welfare of the Union and its members, in aJl matters involving national, state or v local legblation issuee, and public affairs. (1) The President shall have authority'to require any officer or Union representative to attend any regular or specid meet­ ing if, in his opinion, it is deemed necessary. $«crieir2. IxMUtlvu VIco-PiwsMont. The Executive Vice-President shall perform any and aB duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. ]b the event the President shall be upable to cany out any of his duties by reason of incapacity or unavailabili^, the Executive Vice-President shall take over such duties during the period of such incapacity or unavailability. Upon the death, resignation, or removal from office for any reason of ^he President, the Executive Vice-President shall immediately assume the office, duties and responsibilities of the President until the next general election. The Executive Vice-President shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Sectlen 3. yice^rMldMit in Chnrgn of Contracts and AswnWwCT •IIIVIIiVniwflTo The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract En­ forcement shall perform, any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. In addition, he shall be responsible for all contract negotiations, the ftmnulation of bargaining demands, and the submission of proposed collective bargaining agreements to the membership for ratification. He shall also be responsible, except as otherwiro provided in Article X, Section 14(d)(1), for strike aathurization, signing of new contracts, and contract enforcement He shall also act for headquarters in executing the administrative functions assipied to headquarters by ^is Constitutitm with respect to trials and appeals except if he is a witness or party thereto, in which eyent the Secretary-Treasurer shall act in his place. In order that he may properly execute these responsibilities he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ such help as he deems necess^, be it legal, or otherwise, s^ject to approval of the Executive Board. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts'and Contract Enforcement shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. » Seerica S. Vica-Prarldaaf la gfegyge ef tire Mfmrtls Ceeafc The Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast shaQ be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to caat one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the i^sonnel thereof tm the Atlantic Coast, including their organizing Activities. The Atlantic Coast area is deemed to mean that area from a::d incladiBg Georgiii through Maine and shall also include die Islands in the Carib­ bean. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities . he » empowered and authori^ to retain any technical or professional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Soctlen 4. Vlc«-PrMld«iit In Citavga of th* Oaif Conat. The Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast shall he a member of the Executive Board and shall be entided to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the ac^vities of alt the Ports, and the personnel thereof on the Gulf Corot inclnding .their mganizing activities. The Gulf Coast area is deei^ to mean the State of Florida, all through the Gulf, Jnclndrng Texas. In order that he may properly execute his respmiaibllities he is empowered and authori^ to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approfval of the Executive Board. Soctle«7. Ylce-PresMent in IMISHMI Wafers. of tfe* UdMS and The Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waten shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entithMi to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the oersonnel thereof oi. the Lakes and Inland Waters, including their organking activities. In order that he may properly execute his responsibOities he is empowered and authorn^ to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance he deems necessary, .subject to approval $ of the Executive Board. Sectiant. Blraeter of Orgaalrins and PaMlcatians. The Director of Organizing and Publications shall be ap-, pointed and may be removed at will by the Executive Board of the Union. He shall be responsible for and snpervise all pub­ lications and public relations of the Union and shall serve air co-ordinator of all organizational activities of the Union. In addition, he shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the Executive Board. Snellen 9. |lnadq«arterfl UnpreMntatlvea. The Headquarters Representative shall perform any and aU duties assigned them or delegated to them by the President, Executive Vice-President or the Executive Board. Snellen 10. Pert Agents. (a) The Port Agent shall be in direct charge of the admin­ istration of Union affairs in the port of his jurisdiction subject to the direction of the area Vice-President. fb) He shall, within the jurisdiction of his port, be respwisible for the enforcement and execution of the Constitution, the policies of the Union, and the rules adopted by the Executive Board, and by a majority vote of the membership. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations affecting port acton, the Port Agent shall take appropriate action to'^ insure observance thereof. S (c) He shall be prepared to account, financially or other--: wise, for the activities of his port, whenever demanded by the President, the Vice-President of the area' in which his ia located, or by the Secretary-Treasurer. (d) In any event, he shall prepare and forward to the See-retary-Treasurer, a weekly .financial report ahowinK in detail, weekly income and expenses, and complying with all other accounting directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent may assign each port Patrolman to audi, duties as fall within the jurisdiction of the poiU regardlen of : the departmental designation, if any, under which the PatroI•^ man was elected. (f) The Port Agent shall designate which members at that port may serve as representatives to other organizations, affilia­ tion with which has been properly authorized. Soctlod II. PatrotoMn. It Patrolmen shall perform any duties assigned thien) by tlw Agent of the Port to which they are assigned. Soctloa 12. Ixocotlva ioarO. The Executive Board shall consist of the President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-Piresident in Charge of Cimtracts and Contract Enforcement, the Secretary-Treasurer, die Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Area, the Vice-Presi­ dent in Charge of the Gulf Axon, the Vice-President in Charge ArticU X of the Lakes and Inland Waters, and the National Director (or Soction 4. tecratary-Troasvrar. chief executive officer) of each .subordinate body or division The Secretary-Treasurer shall perform any and all duties created or chartered by the Union whenever such aubordinate Ouftas of Officers, HocKlquartani assigned him or delegated to him by the President. He shall body or division has attained a membership of 3,200 members Roprasentativas, P^rt Agants, Othar Iloctad be responsible for the organization and maintenance of the and has maintained that membership 'for not less than three Job Holders and Miscellaneous Personnel correspondence, files, and records of the Union; setting up, (3) months. Such National Director (or chief executive officer) and maintenance of, sound accounting and bookkeeping sys­ shall be a member of the respective submrdinate body or divi- . taction 1. Tiia Prasldnn*. tems; the setting up, and maintenance of, proper office and (a) The President shall be the executive officer of the Union other administrative Union procediOes; the proper collection, sion and must be qualified to hold office under the terms of and shall represent, and act for and in behalf of, the Union in safeguarding, and expenditure of all Union fun'ds, port or the Constitution of such division or subordinate body. The Executive Board shall meet in headquarters no less than all matters except as otherwise specifically provided for in the otherwise. He shall submit to the membership, for each quar­ once each quarter and at such other times as the President or, Constitution. terly period, a detailed report of the entire Union's financial in his absence, the Executive Vice-President may direct. Ihe (b) He shall be a member ex-officio of all committees, except operations and shall submit simultaneously therewith, the President shall be the chairman of all Executive Board meetinga as otherwise herein expressly provided. Quarterly Financial Committee report for the same period. unless absent,.in which case the Executive Vice-President shiJl (c) The President shall be in charge of, and responsible for, The Secretary-Treasurer's report shall, he prepared by an inde­ assume the chairman's duties. Each member of the Executive all Union property, and shall be in charge of headquarters and pendent Certified Public Accountant. He^^jidl also work with Board shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. Its port offices. Wherever there are time restrictions or other con­ all duly elected finance committees. The Secretary-Treasurer decision shall be determined by majority vote of those voting, siderations affecting Union action, the President shall take shall be responsible for the timely filing of any and all reports providing a quorum of three is present. It shall be the duty of appropriate action to insure observance thereof. on the operations of the Union, financial or otherwise, that may the Executive Board to develop, policies, strategies and rides _ (d) In order that he may properly execute his responsibil­ be required by any Federal or state laws. In order that he may which will advance and protect the interests and welfare of ities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to. employ any properly execute his responsibilities, he is hereby instructed the Union and the Members. It shall be the duty of the Sec­ help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting or otherwise. and authorized to employ any help he deems necessary, be it retary-Treasurer, or in his absence, an appointee of the Execu­ (e) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the member­ legal, accounting, or otherwise, subject to approval of the tive Board, to keep accurate minutes of all Executive Board ship, the President shall designate the number and location of Executive Board. meetings. The Executive Board shall appoint one perron _wfao ports, the jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member of the Executive shall be designated Director of Organizing and Publicationa. close or open such ports, and may re-assign Vice-Presidents and Bodrd and may cast one vote in that body. The Executive Board shall determine per capita tax to be the Secretary-Treasurer, without reduction in wages. He may The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member ex-officio of the levied and other terms and conditions of affiliation for any also re-assign Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, , and Credentials and Ballot Tallying Committees. In addition ho group of workers desiring affiliation. The Executive Board Patrolmen, to other duties, iHthout iteduction in wamm. The shall make himself aUd the records of his office available to direct the administration of all Union affairs, properties, ptdieies Porta of New York, Philadelphii^ Boltimjore. Mobile, New Or- . the Qvi^iMrterly Financial Committee. and personnel in any and aU areas not oUterwiro specifically �Supplement—Page Twelve November 14, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG HP l^bertificate, but Is;' in fact, legally eligible for an' office or job ? provided for in this Constitution. Notwithstanding Ae forc^'^l*^ Article XI by reason of the restoration of civil ri^ts originally revoked by I going, the Executive Board may act without holding a formal such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of meeting provided all members of the Board are sent notice of anil Teitri* of Offico of Parole of the United States Departm.mt of Justice, he shall, iii the propb^d action OT actions and the decision thereon is Other Eiertive Job Holders, Union lieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed state­ reduced to writing and signed by a majority of the Executive Employees, and Others ment of the facts of his case together with true copies of the Board. supporting his statement. In the event that death, vesication or removal from_ oflBce for Sactien 1. The following elected offices and jobs shall be held documents AH documents required herein must reach headquarters no any reason should occur simultaneously to the President and for a term of four years: earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the Executive Vice-President, the Executive Board by majority President election year. vote shall name successors from its. own membership who shall Vice-Presidents The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of fill those vacancies until the next general election. Secretary-Treasurer these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Com­ If the Executive Vice-Preddent duly assumes the office of Headquarters Representatives mittee upon the letter's request. the President and dies, resigns, is removed from office, or is Port Agents incapacitated for more than. 30 days during the remainder of Patrolmen Sactlon 2. Crodaatlals Committoo. the term, the Executive Board shall elect a successor for the The term of four years set forth here is expressly subject to (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regu­ balance of ^e term from its own membership. the provisions for assumption of office as contained in Article lar meeting in August of the election year, at the port where ^HI, Section 6(b) of this Gcnstitution. Soction 13. Doiogatos. headquarters is located. It shall consist of six full book mem­ Soctlen a. The term of any elective jobs other than those in­ bers in' attendance at the meeting, with two members to be (a) The term "delegates" shall mean those members of the Union and its subordinate bodies- or divisions who are elected dicated in Section 1 of this Article shall continue for so long elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards Depart­ ments. No Qfficer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, to attend as is necessary to complete the functions thereof, unless sooner the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North terminated by a majority vote of the membership or segment or Patrolman, or candidate for office or the job of Headquarters • America. The following officers upon their election to office of the U>i>o»> whichever applies, whose vote was originally Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, ; shall, during the term of their office, be delegates to all Con­ necessary to elect the one or ones serving. Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable to ' ventions of the Seafarers International Union of North America Soction 3. The compensation to be paid the holder of any serve, the committee shall suspend until the President or Excuin the following order of priority: President; Executive Vice- office or other elective job shaU be determined from time to President; Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract time by the Executive l^ard subject to approval of the mem­ tive Vice President, or the Secretary-Treasurer, in that order, calls a special meeting at the port where Headquarters ie lo­ Enforcement; Secretary-Treasurer; Vice-President in Charge bership. cated in order to elect a replacement. The Committe's results^ of the Atlantic Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Soction 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters; Headquarters Representatives, with priority to those apply to any coriwration, business, or other venture in which majority-vote of the membership at a special meeting ctdled ' most senior in full book Union membership; Port Agents, with this Union participates; or which it organizes or creates. In for that purpose at that Port. (b) After, its election, the Committee shall immediately go / priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; such situations, instructions conveyed by the Executive Board into session. It shall determine whether the person has si^ . and Patrolmen, with priwiiy to those most senior in full book sha!! be followed. mitted his application correctly and possesses the necessary Union membership. qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a report listing (b) Each delegate shall attend the convention for which Article XII each applicant and his book number under the office or job he elected and fully participate therein. is seeking. Each applicant shall be marked "qualified" or "dis­ (c) Each delegate shall, by his vote and otherwise, support Quallllcotlons for Officers, Heodqiiorters those policies agreed upon by the majority of the delegates to Representatives, Port Agents, Potrolmen ond qualified" according to the findings of the Committee. Where an applicant has been marked "disqualified," the reason therefor the Convention. Other Elective Jobs must be stated in the report. Where, a tie vote has been resolved (d) The President shall assign to each subordinate body or by a special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be division that number of delegates to which this Union would Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a can­ have been entitled, if its membership had been incrpawd by the didate for, and hold, any office or the job of Headquarters noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed by all of the Committee members, and be completed and submitted number of members of the subordinate body or division, in Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman provided: to the Ports in time for the next regular meeting after their accordance with the formula set forth in the Constitution of (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime in an un­ the Seafarers International Union of North America, except licensed capacity aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or election. At this meeting, it shaU be read and incorporated in that this provision shall not be applied so as to reduce the vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the the minutes, and then posted on the bulletin board in each port. On the last day of nominations, one member of the Commitnumber of delegates to which this Union would otherwise have Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment , tee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of creden­ been entitled. at the Union's direction, shall count the same as sea time. tials. All, credentials must be in headquarters by midni^t of Union records. Welfare Han records and/or company records closing day. Soction 14. Committoos. can be used to determine eligibility; and fa) Trial Committoo. (c) When an applicant has been disqualifiqj by the commit­ (b) He has been a full book member in continuous good tee, he shaU be notified immediately by telegram at the ad­ The Trial Committee shall conduct the trials of a person dresses listed by him pursuant to Section 1 of this Article. He charged, and shall submit findings and recommendations as standing in the Union for at least three (3) years immediately shall also be sent a letter containing the reasons for such dis­ prescribed in this Constitution. It shall be the special obliga­ prior to his nomination; and (c) He has at least four (4) months of sea time, in an un­ qualification by air mail, special deHveiy, registered, to the tion of the Trial Committee to observe all the requirements of this Constitution with regard to charges and trials, and their licensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or mailing address designed pursuant to Section 1(b) of this Arti­ findings and recommendations must specifically state whether vessels, covered by contract with this Union, or four (4) months cle. A disqualified applicant shall have the right to take an appeal to the membership from the decision of the ccnunittee. or not, in the opinion of the Trial Committee, the rights of any of employment with, or in any office or job of, the Union, its sub­ sidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's He shaU forward copies of such appeal to each port, where the accused, under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. direction, or a combination of these, between January 1st and appeal riiall be presented and voted upon at a regular meeting (b) Appoais-CommittM. the time of nomination in the election year; and - no later than the second meeting after the committee's election. (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and It is the responsibility of the applicant to insure timely delivery 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial (e) He is not disqualified by law. judgments, in accordance with such procedures as are set forth of his appeal. In any event, without prejudice to ,his written (f) He has at least one (1) year of seatime aboard an appeal, me applicant may appear in person before the commit­ in this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a American-flag merchant vessel or vessels in a rated unlicensed tee within two days after the day on which the telegram is sent, majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. 2. The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than one capacity other than an entry rating. to correct his application or argue for his qualification. week after the close of the said hearing, make and submit The committee's report riiall be prepared early enough to > Soctlen 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective findings, and recommendations in accordance with the provisions jobs not specified in the precetUng sections shall be full book aUow the applicant to appear before it within the time set forth of this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a members of the Union. in his Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the fiirst ;/i; majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices regular meeting after its election. (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case oi'^ and jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this (c) Qoarferly Pinaneial CammittM. Constitution, shall maintain full book membership in good such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disimalification ^ 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make an exami­ standing. classification by the Credentials (Committee, in which event die ,' nation for each quarterly period of the finances of the Union one so previously classified shall then be deemed qualified. and shall report fully on their findings and recommendations. (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the quali- :^ /^Members of this committee may make dissenting repmrts, sepa• ArHeio'Xiil • ficatioss of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively ftif ;-rate recommendations and separate findings. stune that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections : Elections for Officers, Hoadquarlera V '2. The findings and recommendations of this committee shall for candidacy {or any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre-; be completed within a reasonable time after the election of the Representatives, Port Affents and Pafrc^en sentative. Port Agent or Patrolman, has met all the requirementa. members thereof, apd shall be submitted to the Secretaryof Section 1(a) of Article XH. : Treasurer who shall cause the same to be read in all ports, as Section I. Nemlnotiens. Sactlon 3. lallatlng Procodwroa. set forth herein. Except as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full 3. All officers. Union personnel and members are responsible book member may submit his name for nomination for any (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insUre the proper and for complying vyith all demands made for records, bills, office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent timely preparation of baUots, without partiality as to candidates vouchers, rweipts, etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Com­ or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in per­ or ports. The baUots may contain general information and in­ mittee. The committee shdl also have available to it, the serv­ son, to the office of the Secreta^-Treasurer at headquarters, or structive comments not inconsistent with the provisions of this ices of the independent certified public accountants retained sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon by the Union. care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the address of headquarters. alphabetically within each category. The listing of the ports 4. Any action on the said report shall be as determined by a This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most majority vote of,the membership. northerly port on the Atlantic Coast, following the Atlantic (a) The name of the candidate. 5. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall consist of seven coast, following the Atlantic coast down to the most southerly (b) His home address and mailing address. (7) members in good standing to be elected as follows: One port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and (c) His book number. _ member from each of the following ports: New York, Philadel-. (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a so on, untU the list of porte is exhausted. Any port outside the phia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. candidate, including the name of the Port in the event Ck>ntinental United States shall then be added. There shall be No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrol­ allotted write-in space, on each ballot, sufficient to permit -each the position sought i^ that of Agent or Patrolman. man, shall be eligible for election to this Committee. Committee member voting to write in as many names as there are offices (e) Proof of citizenship. members shall be elected at the regular meeting designated by (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for and jobs to be voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as the Secretary-Treasurer. In the event a regular meeting can­ to. have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall candidates. not be held in any port for lack of a quorum, the Agent'shall (g) In the event the member is on a ship he shall notify the be so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said call a special meeting as early as possible for the purpose of Credentials Committee what ship he is on. This sh^ be number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the baUot. On electing a member to serve on the Quarterly Financial Com­ done also if he ships subsequent to forwarding his this removable portion shall also be placed a short statement mittee. Such committee members shall be furnished trans­ indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereot credentials. portation to New York and back to their respective ports and (b) The ballots so prepared at the" direction of the Secretary(h) Annexing a certificate in the following form, signed and they shall be furnished room and board during the period they Treasurer shall be the only official ballots. No othms may be dated by the proposed nominee: are performing their duties in New York. Commencing on the "I hereby certify tharl am not now, nor, for the five (5) years used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated In the pre­ day following their election and continuing until they have last past, have I been either a member of the Communist Party ceding paramaph and shall be numbered consecutively, com­ been returned to their respective ports each committee mem­ or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting mencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shaU be printed ber shaU be paid for hours worked at the standby rate of pay from of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlemsit, and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, foth by but in no event shall they be paid for less than eif^t (8) hours grand conviction larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narceHcS' laws, serial numbers and amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by per day. murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts the SecretaryTieasurer, who shall alro send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amouUt and serial numbers of (ti) Sirika CoomiiNaa. grievous bodily injury, or violaticm of Title 11 or HI of tiie the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain separate rec­ Landrum-Griffin or conspiracy to conuiiit any such criOM" T. In no event shall a general strike take place unless ap­ ords of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and count the proved by a majority vote of the membership. ballots, wheh received, to insure that the amount sent, as vrell as 2. lit the event a general strike has been approved by the Dated the numbers thereon, conform to the amount and nunibers listed Signature of member membership the Port Agents in all affected ports thall call a ^ the Secretary-'Treasurer as having been sent to diat port. timely special meeting for the purpose of electing a strike com­ The Port Agent sh^ immediately execute and return to the Book mittee. This committee tiiall be composed of three full book Secretary-Treasurer a receipt acknowledging the correctness of membezB and their duties shall consist of assisting the Port Printed fontis of the certificate shaU be made available to tire amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify die Agent to <^ectuate all strike policies and strategies. nominees. Where a nominee caimot truthfully execute such a Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies sh^ be J-.----. - �November 14, 1969 ilible ptl6r to the TOtinig period/In event, receipts shaB he forwarded for ballots actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspection of the same at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer. (c) Balloting shall take place in person, at port offices, and shall be secret. No signatures of any voter, or other distinguish­ ing mark, shall appeat on the ballot, except that any member may write in the name or names of any member or m: mbers, as appropriate, for any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (d) Only full book members may vote. However, immediately prior thereto they must present their books to the Polls Com­ mittee of the ^rt in which they are voting. The voter's book number shall Be placed upon the roster sheet (which shall be kept in duplicate) in the space op^site the proper ballot,num­ ber, and the member shall sign his name. The portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed shril then be re­ moved, placed near the roster sheet, and the member shall pro­ ceed to the voting site with the ballot. An appropriate notation of the date and of the fact of voting shall be placed in the member's Union book. (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the establish­ ment of a booth or other voting site where each member may vote in privacy. (f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold the ballot so that no part of the printed or written portion is visible. He shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted ballot box, which shall be provided for that purpose by the Port Agent and kept locked and sealed except as hereinafter set forth. (g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of the election year and shall continue through December Slst, exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recognl^d in the city in which the port affected is located. If No­ vember 1st or December Slst falls on a holiday legally recog­ nized in a port in the city in which that port is located, the bal­ loting period in such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, voting in all ports shall commence at 9:00 A.M., and continue until 5:00 P.M. except that, on Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 A.M. and continue until 12 noon. Suction 4. Pells Committees. (a) Each port shall elect, prior to the beginning of the voting on each voting day, a Polls Committee, consisting of three full book members none of whom shall be a candidate, officer or an elected or appointed job holder. For the purpose of holding a meeting for the election of a Polls Committee only, and not­ withstanding the provisions of Article XXIII, Section 2, or any other provision of this Constitution, five (5) members shall con­ stitute a quorum for each port, with the said meeting to be held between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. with no notice there­ of required. It shall be the obligation of each member wish­ ing to serve on a Polls Committee, or to observe the election thereof, to be present during this time period. It shall be the responsibility of the Port Agent to see that the meeting for the purpose of electing the said Polls Committee is called, and that the minutes of die said meeting are sent daily to the SecretsTreasurer. In no case shall voting take place unless a duly elected Polls Committee is functioning. (bl'The duly elected Polls Committee shall collect all unUB^ ballota, the voting rosters, the numbered stubs of those ballots already used, the ballot box or boxes and the ballot records and files kept by the Port Agent. It shall then proceed to compare the serial numbers and amounts of stubs with the number of names and corresponding serial numbers on the roster, and then compare the serial ntunber and amounts of ballots used with the verification list, as corrected, and ascer­ tain whether the unused ballots, both serial numbers and amount, represent the difference between what appears on the verification list, as corrected, and the ballots u^. If any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon shall be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such discrepancies, vriiich report shall be in duplicate, and simed by all the members of such Polls Committee. Each member of the Comm'ttee may make what separate comments thereon he desires, provided they are signed and dated by him. A copy of this report shaU fie given the Port Agent, to be presented at the next regular meet­ ing. A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the SecretaryTreasurer, who shall cause an investigation to'be made forth­ with. The results of such investigation shall be reported to the membership as soon as completed, with recommendations by the Secretary-Treasurer. A majwity vote of the membership shall determine what action, if any, shall be taken thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Con­ stitution, the Executive ^ard shall not make any determinadon in these matters. (c) The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box u locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall not be opened except in the manner hereinafter set forth. The same procedure as is set forth in the preceding paragraph with regm to dis. crepancies shall be utilized in the event the Polls Committee has reason to believe the lock and seal have been illegally tampered 'with. . (d) .The Polls Committee shall permit full book members only to vote. Prior thereto, it shall stamp their book with the word "voted" and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure that proper registration on the roster takes place, collect stubs, and : keep them in numerical order. It shall preserve good cHrder and /decorum at the voting site mid vicinity thereof. All members : and others affiliated with the Union are charged with the duty of iisisting the Polls Committee, when called upon, in the /preservation of order and decorum. <e) In order to maintain the secret and accuracy of the ballot, and to eliminate the possibility ot errors or irregulsritiss la any one day's balloting affecting oU the balloting in any port, the fnUowiiw procedure shall be obseryed: •At the enid of earii day's votings the Polb Committee, in the : presence of any member desiring to attend, provided he <d>• serves proper decorum, shall open the ballot box ot boxes, and place all of that day's ballots therein in an envelope, as required, which shall then be sealed. The members of the Pqlls Commit?4<ee shall thereupon sign their names across the flap of the said envelope w envelopes, with iheir book numbers %eit to their / sh^iUes. The committee shall also place the date and name i Or the Port on the said envelopes, and shall certify„on the enve­ lope mr envelopes, that the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that day only were r^oved, and that all of those ballots are enclosed in the env^pe or enve­ lopes dated lor that day and voted in that Fort The Polls Coin- SEAFARERS LOG Supplement—Page Thirteen accordance with this Section 5(c), these terms shaO apply, JWappropriate, to insure the foregoing. At the discretion of the withstanding any .provision to the contrary contained in this Executive ^ard official envelopes may be prepared for the Article. Protests may be made only in writing and must be purpose of enclosing the ballots and the making of the aforesaid received by the Union Tallying Coinmittee during the peri^ certification, with wording embodying^ the foregoing inscribed ' of its proceedings. The reports of this committee shall include thereon, in which event these envelodes shall be used by the a brief summary of each protest received, the name and book Polls (^ommitee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained number of the protesting member, and a summary of the dis­ herein shall prevent any member of S Polls Committee from position of the said protest. The committee shall take all rea­ adding such comments to the certifif;ate as are appropriate, sonable measures to adjust the course of its proceedings so as provided the comments are signed arid dated by the member to enable the special vote set forth in this Swtion 5(c) to be making them. The envelope or envelojpes shall then be placed completed within the time herein specified. No closing report in a wrapper or envelope, which, at (he discretion of the Ex­ shal he made by it unless and until the special votes referred to in this Section 5(c) shall have been duly completed and ecutive Board, may be furnished for that purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then be securely sealed and either delivered, tallied. (d) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall or sent by certified or registered mail[ by the said Polls Com­ mittee, to the depository named in the pre-electioti report proceed to the port in which headquarters is located, -as s<»n as adopted by the membership. The Polls Committee shall not be possible after their election hut, in any- event, shall arrive at discharged from its duties until thisjmailing is accomplished that port prior to the first business day after December 31 of and evidence of mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, the election year. Each member of the committee not elected which evidence shall be noted and. kept in the Port Agent's from the port in which headquarters is located shall he reim­ bursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expenses occa­ election records or files. The Polls Committee shall also insdre that the ballot box or sioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. All boxes are locked and sealed before handing them back to the members of the committee shall also he paid at the prevafling Port Agent, and shall place the key ot keys to the boxes in an standby rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election envelope, across the flap of-which the rjierabers of the committee to the day they return, in normal course, to the Port from which shall sign their names, book numbers, and the date, after seal­ they were elected. ing the envelope securely. In addition to delivering the key and The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from ballot box or boxes as aforesaid, the Polls Committee shall among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Con­ deliver to the Port Agent one Copy of each of the roster sheets stitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, for the day, the unused ballots, any reports called for by this protests, and the contents of the final report shall he valid if Section 4, any files that they may have received, and all the made by a majority vole, provided there he a quorum in attend­ stubs collected both for the day and those turned over to it. ance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union The Port Agent shall be responsible fo|r the proper safeguarding Tallying (Zommittee, hut not less than a quorum thereof, shall of all the aforesaid material, shall not release any of it until have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the duly called for, and shall insure that no one illegally tampers depository immediately after the termination of balloting and with the material placed in his custody, ihe remaining copy to insure their safe custody during the course of the commit­ of each roster sheet used for the daji shall be mailed by the tee's proceedings. The proceedings of this committee, except for Polls Committee to the Secretary-Tifeasurer, by certified or the actual preparation of the closing report and dissents there­ from, if any, shall he open to Wy member, provided he observes registered mail or delivered in person. • (f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without com­ decorum. In no event, shall the issuance of the hereinbefore pensation, except that the Port Agent shall compensate each referred to closing report of the Tallying Committee he delayed PoUs (Zommittee member with a reasonable sum for meals while beyond the January, 15th immediately subsequent to the close of voting. The Union Tallying Committee shall he discharged serving or provide meals in lieu of bash. upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its reports Section 5. Ballot Collection, Tallying Procedure, Protesta, as required in this Article. In the event a recheck and recount is ordered pursuant to Section 5(g) of this Artime, the com­ and Special Votes. mittee shall he reconstituted except that if any member thereof (a) On the day the balloting in each port is to terminate, the is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from Polls Committee elected for that day shall, in addition to their the appropriate port, at a special meeting held for that purpose other duties hereinbefore set forth, deliver to headquarters, or as soon as possible. mail to headquarters (by certified or registered mail), all the (e) The report of the Committee shall he made up in suffi­ unused ballots, together with a certification, signed and dated copies to comply with the following requirements: two by all members of the (Zommittee that all ballots sent to the cient shall he sent by the committee to each Port Agent and port and not used are enclosed therewith, subject to the right copies the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the first regular meeting whedof each member of the Committee to make separate comments uled to take place subsequent to the close of the committee's under his signature and dale. The cerfification shall specifically proceedings or, in the event such meeting is scheduled to take identify, by serial number atfd amouht, the unused mallots so place four days or less from the close of this committee's pro­ forwarded. In the same package, but bound separately, the then at least five days prior to the next regular meet­ committee shall forward to headquarters all stubs collected dur­ ceedings, ing. WhiiAever meeting applies shall he designated, by date, ing the period of voting, together with a certification, signed by in the report and shall he referred to as the "Election Report all members of ihe committee, that ail stubs collected by the Meeting." As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent committee are enclosed therewith sufajject to the right of each shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin hoard, in a member of thb' committee to make sepWate comments under his manner. This copy shall he kept posted for a signature and date. The said Polls (^mmittee members shall conspicuous period of two months. At the Election Report Meeting, the not be discharged from their duties until the forwarding called other copy of the report shall he read verbatim. for hereunder is accomplished and evidence of mailing or de­ (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shaU he taken up livery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted the discrepancies, if any, referred to in Section 5(c) of this and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. Article and the recommendations of the Tallying Committee (b) All forwarding to headquarter called for under this Section 5, shall be to the Union Tallying Committee, at the submitted therewith. A majority vote of the membership shaH address of headquarters. In the event a Polls Committee cannot decide what action, if any, in acctwdance with the (Zonstitntion, be elected or cannot act on the day the^balloting in each Port shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include is to terminate, the Port Agent shall have the duty to forward the ordering of a special vote unless the reported discrepancies this material specifically set forth iii Section 5(a) (unus^ affect the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, ballots and stubs) to the Union Tallyijig Conunittee, which will the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the then carry out the functions in regard thereto of the said PoUs membership, at the Election Report Meeting, may order a reCommittee. In such event, the Port Amnt shall also forward all check and a recount vdien a dissent to the cl<»ing report has other material deemed necessary by the Union Tallying Com­ been issued by three or more members of the Union Trilyii^ Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this mittee to execute those functions. Spetion 5(f) the closing report shtdl be accepted as finaL All certifications called for under tiis Article Xlll shaU be (g) A special vote tiered pursuant to Section 5(f) must deemed made according to the best luiowledge, and belief of take place and be completed within seven (7) days after the those required to make such certific4tion. Election Report Meeting, at each port where the discrepancira (c) The Union Tallying Committed shall consist of 14 full book members./Two ^all be electedi from each of the seven so acted upon took place. Subject to the foregoing, and to the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New limits of the vote set by the membership, as aforesaid, the Port Orleans, Houston, and Detroit The election shall be held at the Agents in each such port shall have the functions of the Tally­ regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the &- ing Committee as set forth in Section 5(c), insofar as that ecutive Board otherwise determines prior thereto, at a special Section deals with the terms of such special vote. The Secre­ meeting held in the aforesaid ports on the first business day of tary-Treasurer shall make a sufficient amount of the usual the last week of said month. No Offii:er, Headquarters Repre­ balloting material immediately available to Port Agents, for the purpose of such special vote. Immediately after the close sentative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or cmdidate for office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Foil Agent or Patrolman, thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the results and com­ shall be eligible for election to this C ommittee, except as pro­ municate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, vided for in Article X, Section 4. In aidition to its duties here­ roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining to the special vote inbefore set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be riiall be forwarded to the Secretary-Treasurer, all in the same charged with the tallying of all the bsjllots and the preparation package, but bound separatdy, by the most rapid means prac-• of a closing report setting forth, in ccmplete deuil, the results ticable, hut, in any case, so as to reach the Secretary-Treasurw of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots in time to enable him to prepare his report as required by this and stubs, and reconciliation of the same -with the ^ters, Action 5(g). An accounting and certificatiim, made by the verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents, all vrith de­ Port Agent, similar to those requiircd of Polls Comminees, shatt tailed reference to serial numbers am amounts and with rach be enclosed therewith'. The Secretary-Treasurer shall then total iKoken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee prepare a report containing a combined suniunary of the results;' shall be permitted access to the electim records and ffies of all together with a schedule indicating in detail how they affect: ports, which they may require to be forwarded for insp^tion the Union Tallying Committee's reailts, as set fwth in its clos-/ at Its discretion. The report shall clearly detail all discre­ ing report. The form of the leer's report shall be followed an pancies discovered, and shall contain recommendations for the closely as possible. Two (2) copies shall be sent to each mit;' troetroent of these discrepancies. All n embers of the Committee one copy of which shall be posted. The other copy shaU be shaB sign the report, without prejudire, however, to the right presented at the next regular meeting after ffie Eiection Report of any member thereof to submit a di^nting report as to the Meeting. If a majority vote of the membeiship decides to accuracy of the count and the valid ity of the ballots, with accept the Secreta^-Treasureris report, the n^erical ruults set forth in the pertinent .segments of the TaUying Committee's pertinent details. * Ihe Tallying Committee is also chaiged with ffie receipt and closing report shall be deemed accepted and final without modi­ evaluation of written protests by any member who claims an fication. If ordered, a recheck and recount, and the report thereon by illegal denial of the right to vote. Ill it finds,the protesta in­ valid, it shall dismiss £e protest and so inform the protesting the Union TaUying Committee, shall be similarly disposed o| / member, by wire, on the day of dismistal. If it finds the protest and deemed accepted and final, by majority vote of ffie mem-../ valid, the committee shaU order a spscial vote, to be had no bership at the te^ar meeting fwowing the Election Report| later than within the period of its prooiedings, on such terms as Meeting. If such recheck and recount is ordered, the Union'' are practical, effective, and just, but which terms, in any event, TaUying Committee ahali be required to continue iU i^oceedshall include the provisions of SectioUiSCo) of this Article and ings correspondingly. Socfion 6. InstaUation into oSSce atnl the Job of fleadqusrten the designation of the voting^site of ffie pwt most convenient to the: protesting member, where a sheclal vote ia ordered in Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. ^mittee shall check the rosters, and any other records they dera �Supplement—Page Fourteen ^ Ca) Hie person elected shall be that penon baviag the largest hnmber of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving Ae. successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. \ These determinations shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It ^all "1 b« the duty of the President to notify each indiWdual elected, (b) Hie duly elected oScos and other job holders shall take r over their respective offices and jobs, and auume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election R^rt Meet^in{^ or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meetJ ing the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed fiinal %^and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their 3irI»^ece8sor8 shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, ^^inotwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article iXI, Section I. Hiis shall not apply vrhere^ the successful candi|date cannot assume his office Iweause he Is at sea. Mi In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant pdditional time Jor the assumption of the office or job. In the fevent of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume ^^office the provisions of . Article Section 2, as to succeuion ;|!^3tihtdl apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shaD be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. SEAFARERS LOG notice thereof shall be given to the accused, who shaH be informed of the name of his accusers, and who shall receive a written statement of the charges. At the request of the accused, transportation and subsistence shaR be provided the accused and his witnesses. Tiavember 14, 1969 of guUt, the Appeals Committee shaR charge on which the finding was based be dismissed. (p) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser punldi- ' feu 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its decision Section 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinmii dissent, if any, to headqiiarters, which shaR cause sufficient evidence and shaR not be bound by the rules of evidence wpies to be publiaJied tSSS^ell have them sent to each pott In required by courts of law but may receive aR relevant tesU- time to reach there beforis the next regular scheduled meeting. mony. The Trial Committee may grant adjournments, at the Headquarters shaR also send a copy to each accus^ and request of the accused, to enable him to make a proper defense. accuser at their last known address, or notify them iot^peraon. In the event the TrisJ Committee falls beneath a quorum, it S<MMV IS. At the meeting indicated in Section 14 of this disR adjourn untO a quorum does exist. Article the memberdiip, by a majority vote, shall accept, the Soctfon 4. No trial shaR be conducted unless aR the accusers deciiion of the Appeals Committee, or the dissent therein. If are presenL The Trial Committee shaR conduct the trial except there is no dissent, the decision of the Appeals (^mmittee shaR that the accused shaR have the right to cross-examine the accuser, or accusprs, and the witnesses, as weR as to conduct his r ^H a new trial is oideteid, that trial shaR be held In the port 1 own defense. The accused may select any member to assist him whe e headquarters is located, hi the miuuier provided for in If in defense at the trial, provided, (a) the said member is Section 2 of this Article. Any decision so providing for a new Vavailable at the time of the trial and (bj ihe said member trial riiaW coiitala such directions as wEQ insure aTair hearhig agre» to render such assistance. If the accused chaReng(» the to Re accused. quaRfications of the members of the Trial (temmittee, or states Ssctien 14. Headqiiarters sbaR notifj' the accost and each that the charges do not adequately inform him of what wrong he aRegedly committed, or the time and place of such commis­ accuier, either in person or in writing addreiB^ to thdr tea of the results results of the appeal. A fu^er further aaneid app«d SI » sion, such matters shall be ruled upon and disposed of, prior kno^ address, allowed as set forth in Section 17 of this A^cle. to proceeding on the merits of the defense, lae guilt of an Sectien 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specific!^ charg^ 17. Each memlrer is ohari^d with ktiowtedge of with the preservation and retention of all election recoras. accused shaR be found only if proven by the weight of the and the bnrden of such proof shaR be upon the ons of the Constitution of the Seaforen tnternational Including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and evidence, Jnioa of North America, and .the rights of, and iwcceduie as .. authorized to issue sudi other and further directives as to the accuser. Evay findii^ shaR be based on the quality of the election procedures as are required by law, which directives evidence and not "solely on the number of witnesses produced. to, fiirRier appeal as provided for therein. Decirions ieachej be part of the election procedum of this IJiimn. 8. The Trial Committee shaR make findings as to thereunder shaR be binding,on all members of the Union. life guRt or innocence, and recommendations as to punishment S«:rion 14- It shall be the duty of aR members of the Unimf and/or other UnioB action deemed desirahle in the I|^t of to ta ce aR steps within their conatitntiiaiia! power lo eaiTv osf sail the proceedings. Hiese findings and recommendations*^Asdl the t ;rms of any effective decisions. be those of a majority of the committee, and shaR be In writing, Soctfon 19. Every accused shaR receive a writtcai ciq?y of tfie as shaR be any dissent. The immmittee shaR forward its find­ charges prefened against him and shaR be given a leaaonaUe -'tactimi 1. TiMte ings and recommendation^ along with any dissent to the Port Agent of the port where the trial took place, whUe a copy time to prepare his defense, but he may thereafter plead guRty A Trial Committee shall be elected at a specialmeeting held it 10:00 AJlf., the next business day following the regular thereof riiaR he forwarded to the accused and the accusers, and waive any or aR of the other rights ttud priyileges granted astifis# . I meeting sf the Port where the Trial is tc- take place. It shall either m psrscn or by msi! addiesscd to their last known to. hill by this Article, If an accused has been prop^ly to attendf« without 1 consist of five full book members, of which three shall consti- addresses. The findings shaR include a statement that the of hii I trial and faRs .*? «he Tnal Committee may hold ito trial without I tute a quorum. No officer. Headquarter? Representative, Port rights of the accused under this ConsliluUon, were properly I : Agent, Port Patrolman, or other Union personnel may be safeguarded. The findings also must contain the charges made, "'s P^sence. A-SI I wire MiTieia. Awl I ' elected to serve on a Trial Committee. No member who intends thfe date of the trial, the name and address of the accused, the I to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any accuser, and eodi witness; shall describe each document used Offansat and Penaltias ^ member who cannot for any reason, render an honest decision. at the trial; shaR contain a fair summary of the proceedings, SMrtan 1. Upon proof .the commission of the foRowing It shall be the duty of every member to decline nomination if and shaR state the findings as to guRt or innocence. If possible, he knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing dis­ aR documento used at the trial diaR be kept AR findings and offenses, the member shall he expeRed ftwm membership: (a) Proof of membership in any organization advocating the: qualifications apply to him. The members of this committee recommendations shaR be made a part of the regular files. overRrow of the Government of the United States by force; y shaU be elected under such generally applicable rules as are Sactfen 6. The P«rt Agent of the Port of Trial shall, upon (b) Acting as an informer against the interest of the Union adopted by a majority vote of the membership. receipt of die findings and recommendations of the Trial Com­ or thi! membership in any organizational campaign; mittee, cause the findings and recommendations to be presented, Sactlen 2. Appaols CeminlNM). (c) Acting as an informer for, or agent of, the company and entered into the minutes, at the next regular meeting. against the interests of the memberehip ta the Union; The ^peals Committee shall consist of seven full book (d) The commission of any act as part of a considracy to SacHoiigr. The Port Agent shall send the record of the entire members, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at the port where headquarters is located, "fte' same disquali­ proceedings to headquarters, which shaR cause sufficient copies destro^ the Union. fications and duties of merobem shall apply with regard to thereof to be made and sent to each Port in time for the next SecHen S. Upon proof of the commission of any of the folibis comrniiiee as apply to the Trial Committee. In addition, - reguiariy scheduled meeting. lowini^ offenses, the member shall be penalized up to and no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearin, Saction 4. A( the latter meeting, the proceedings shaR be dis­ includqig a penalty of expulsion from the Uiuon. In the event of an appeal from a Trial Committee decision, if the sai^ cussed. The meeting shoR then vote. A majority vote of the the penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recommeded, the member was a member of the Trial Committee. enaltV sh^ not exceed suspension from the rights and privi­ membersbip of the Union shall: P«' " lege le® of membership for more than two (2) years, or a fine (a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or SocHonS. Magotos. ._llOO or both: of |5(l|.00 y (b) Reject the findings and recommendations, or (a) As ^n as the President is advised as to the date and duly WRlfuRy misappropriating or misusing Union property (c) Accept the findings, but modify the recommendations, or authorized nuinber of delegates to the convention of the Sea(d) Order a new trial after finding that substantial justice of the value in excess of 150.00. (b) Unsuthcrired use of Union property, rcco^s, straps, farers InteraalioQal Union of North America, he commu- has not been done with: regard to the charges. In this event, nicate such facts to the Port Agent of each Port, together with a new trial shaR take place at the porT where headquarters is seals, i;tc^ for the purpose of personal gain; (c) WiRful misuse of any office or job, elective or not, within r^mmendations as to generally applicable rules for the elec- located and upon apiuication, the accused, the accusers, and tion of delegates for those delegates that may be required in their witnesses shaR be furnished transportaUon and subsist­ the Uiion for the purpose of pemn^ gain, financial or other­ I ;^dition to those provided for in Article X, Section 13, These ence. wise, <r the wiRfuI refusal or faUure to execute thei duRes or ylacts and recommendations shall be announced and read at the functicns of the said office or job, or gross nejdect or abuse in Sfwtion 9. After the vote set forth in Section 8, any punish­ executing such duRes or funcRona or other serioiumlBcondaet first regular meeting thereafter. Unless changed by a majority of the membership during that meeting, the election rules ment so decided upon shaR beciune effective. Headquarters or breitch of trust. The Presid«lt may, during the poidency r/miall apply. Hiese rules shall not prohibit any fiill book mem- shaR cause notice of the resiilto thereof to be sent to each of disciplinary proceedings under this snbsecRon, suapend the " 13^ from nominating himself. The results of the election shall accused and accuser. officer or jobholder from exercising the functions of tlw officw W communicated to each Port Agent, posted on the buUetin, Sortloii 10. An accused who has been found guilty, or who is or job, with or without pay, and designate his temporary n-. bwd, and animun^ at the next regular meeting of the Port, under effective punishment may appeal in the foUowtng manner: placement. lollies of election hereunder may include provisions for autd^ (d) Unauthorized votings or unauthorized Kaiidlifig of bal­ He may send or deUver a noRce of appeal to Headquarters election of aU qualified nominees, in dm event the aum- within 30 days after receipt of the notice of the decision of the lots, stubs, rosters, verification lists, baRot boxes, or electhm ber of such nominees does not exceed the number of deleeatea -membeiship. files, o]- election material of any sort; |o be elected. (e) Preferring charges with knowledge that such chatges Saetlew 11^ At the next regular meeting of Qie pwt where are falie; Headqi^ers is located, after receipt of the notice of appeal, (f> iifaking or transmitRug, with intrat to deceive, false i Artid* XV the notice sbaR be presented and shaR then become part 01 the reports or communications whidi faR within the scope of Union minutes. An Appeals Committee shoR then be elected. Hie buriness; , > Trials and Appgdki Vice-President in charge of contracts is charged with the duw (g) Deliberate faOure or refusal to join one's dhim or mis" rownber may bring charges against any other of presenting the before-mentioned proceedings and dl avaU- conduc: or ne^ect of duty aboatd ship, to the detnment of member for tte commission of an offense as set forth in this able documents used as evidence at the trial to the Appeals the UuMin or its agreements; . Constitution. These charges shaU be in writing and signed by Committee, as weR as a^ written statement or argument sub­ Deliberate and unauthorized interference, or deliberate the accuMrj^ who shall also include his book nuinber. Hie mitted by Rie accused. The accused may argue his appeal in liclous vRUfication, with regard to the execution of the accuser shaU deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the person, if he so desires. The appeal shtul be heard at Union if any office or job; ^rt nearest the place of the offense, or the port of pay-off, if Headquarters on the night the committee is elected. It shaR 'aying for, or receiving money for, employment aboatd tte offense took place aboard ship. He shaU also request the be the responsibOity of Rie accused to insure that his written a vessel, exclusive of proper earnings and Union payments; nit Agent to present these charges at the next regular meeting statement or argument arrives at headquarters in liww for such (j) ^ViRful refusal to submit veidence of affiliation for tliq;..^^.,; H^ccuser may withdraw his charges before die meeting, takes presentaRon. purpose >f avoiding or delaying money ^yments to the UniouiyMjg Sacfieii IS. The Appeals CcKumittee shal! decide the appexl or unat thorizedly transferring or receiving evidence of Unioii:|f' {Soctlon 3. After presentation of the charges and the request as soon as possible, consistent with fair consideraRon of the affiliatu n, with intent to deceive; (k) ^Fillful faRure or refusal to carry out the order of tho to Ae Port Agent, the Port Agent shaR. cause those charges evidence and arguments before it. It may grant adjournments to be read at the said meeting. and may request the accused or accusers to present arguments, duly auRiorli^ to make such orders during Rme of strike. . . . (1) laRure or refusal to pay a fine or assessment within thi^| ^ reject^ by a majority vote of the port, whenever necessary for such fair consideraRon. time limit set therefor either by the Constitution or Iqr actioi^^l no further MUOU may be taken thereon, unless mled otherwise Saction 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall be takmi ill accordance with the ConstituRon. ^ a iMjonty vole of the memhefship of the Union within 90 days thereafter. If the charges are accepted, and the accused by majority vote, and-sbaR be in the form of findings.and SacHiin 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of die fol­ IB, preMut, shaU be automaticaUy on notice that he wiH be recommendations. Dissents wiR be aRowed. Decisions and lowing (ffenses, members she!! be penalized dp to and including.^,,, disrents shaH be in writing and signed by those participating tried thi foHowing moniing. At his request, the trial shall he a susneiision from the rif^ts and privReg^ m membership postMned Mtil Ae wining following the next regular meetiBg, in such decision or dissent In mal^g its findings and recom­ two(2) years, or a fine of 150.00 or both: -' mendations, the commiitee shaU be governed by the following: at which time the Trial Committee wiR then be elected. He (a) ^WRlfuRy miBappropHaRng or misuung Unicm propor^:^^" (a) No finding of guilt shoR'be reversed if there is irab"«> be handed a written copy of the charges matte against the V alue under |w.OO; stotial evidence to support such a finding and, in such case, of (h) Assuming any office jHT job, whether elective or not with ' me Af^ieals Committee shall not make its own findings as to If the accus^ is not mesent, the Port Agent shaR immediknow! lack of poMesaion of the quaRfications ni-i the tvei^t of evidence. a^y ca^ to be sent to him, by registered maU addressed to quired his tot known n^ing address on file with the Union a copy (b) In no eveai riiaR increased punishment be recommended. (c) iiiisGonduct during on; mccRsg or other official UiifaHiL%,| of the charges, the names and book numbers of the accuserfc into dinepnte by condact^f (c) A new trial shaU he recommended if the Appeals Cosa- {Hoceeding, or bringing the and. a notificauon, that he must appear with his witnesses imttee finds—(a) that any member of the TritJ Committee not proiided for elsewhere in this Article; for trial dm wm^g after the nest regular meeting, at should have been disqualified, or (b) that the acctised was not <d) Tefusal or negligent faUure to carry, out orders of meetmg the Trial Committee will be elected, adequately infonned of the details of the charged offense, which those duly authorized to make such orders at any time. fii the event B^iaajorUy of the membership of the Union «haR resulted In his not having been given a fair trial, or (c) that SoctfsM 4. Upon proof of the commission of any the fdkp{? reto to accept charges irfter Rieir rejectlon'by a ^rtTtbe trbd for any other reason, the accused was not given a fair trial. lowing offenses, membem shall be penalized up to and including I ptece in the Port where Headquarters is located. Duf (d) If there is not substanRal evidence to support a finding a fine of $50.00; �November 14, 1! Supplement—^Page Fifteen si{;n-oni^;iev;^Jf ehall be deemed to be a majority of those oompoejnf die ap-:c have first acquired the highest seniority rating set forth in. ' - ' J plicable segment of the Union, standard collective bargaining agreement • (b) WiQluI failure to submit Unioti book to Union repre­ SRCHOR 12. The term, "full book member", shall mean a sentatives at pay-off; Artida XXIII memher.to whom a full book, has been duly issued and who (c) Disorderly conduct at pay-off or sign-on; is entitled to retain it in accordance with the provisions of (d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives in dis. j MMtingft . thi^ (Constitution. «(^arging their duties; SRCflam 1. Regular i membership meeting shall be held (e) Disorderly conduct in the Union hall; • . Artido XXV monthly only in the flowing majo^ po^ts at the following ,(f) Gambling in the Union hall; times: pi (g) Negligent failure to join ship, Amondmoiiti During the week following the first Sunday of every month tecfton S. Any member who has committed an offense penal- a meeting shall be held on Monday—at New York; on Tuesday This (Constitution shall be anfended in the following manner: , ized by no more than a fine of ISO.OO may elect to waive his ->-at Philadelphia; oq Wednesday—at Baltimore; and on SRCHRR 1. Any full book member may submit at any regi^ rights under thi^ Constitution subject to the provisions of Friday—at Detroit. During the next week, meetings shall be meeting of any Port proposed amendments to this (Constitu­ Article XV, Section 19, and to pay the maximum fine of fSO.OO held on Monday—at Houston; on Tuesday—at New Orleans; tion in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership to the duly authorized representative of the Union. and on Wednesday—at Mobile. All regular membership mMt- of the Port approves it, the proposed amendment shall be for­ ings shall commence at 2:30 P.M. local time. Where a meeting warded to all Ports for further action. Soetion 4. This Union, and its members, shall not be deemed to waive any claim, of pers. ..al or property rights to which it day falls on a Holiday officially designated as such by the SRCHRR 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by a ma­ authorities of the stat« or municipality in which a port is jority vote of the membership, it shall be referred to a (Con­ or its members are entitled, by bringing the member to tri^ or located, the port meeting shall take place on the following stitutional Committee in the Port where Headquarters is located. enforcing a penalty as provided in this Constitution. business day. Saturday and Sunday shall not be deemed busi­ This Committee shall be composed of six full book members, SnctioR 7. Any member under suspension for an offense under ness days. ~ two from each department and shall be elected in accordance this Article shall continue to pay all dues and assessments and The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen aH with such rules as are established by a majority vote that must observe his duties to the Union, members, officials, and regular meetings in p^s in their respective areah In the Port. The Committee will act on ^ proposed amendments jobholders. event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a regular referred to it. The Committee may receive vHhatever admce meeting of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. .It;.jdiall other elected job holdeis, to act as chairmen of the meetings. prepare a report on the amendment together with any proposed Article XVil In the event a quorum is not present at 2:30 P.M. the changes or substitutions or recommendations and the reasons chairman of the meeting at the pertinent port shall postpone for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted Publications the opening of the meeting but in no event later than 3:00 P.M. to the membership by the President. If a majority vote of the S This Union may publish such pamphlets, journals, news­ SRCtlen 2. A spec.'al jneeting at a port may be called only at membership approves the amendment as recommended, it sh^ papers, magazines, periodicals and general literature, in such then be voted upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership . manner as may be determined, from time to time, by the the direction of the Port Agent or Area Vice President, No of the Union by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure special meeting may be held, except between the hours of Executive Board. 9:00 A.M. and -5:00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be outlined in Article XHI, Section 3(b) throng Section 5, ex­ posted at least two hours in advance, on the port buUetin board. cept that, unless otherwise required by a majority vote of the Article XVlli at the time it gives the approval necessary to The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all membership eferendum to a vote, the Union Tallying Committee Bonds special meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event shall consist of six (6) full book members, two from each of Officers and job holders, whether elected or appointed as the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a special meet­ the three (3) departments of the Union, elected from Head' well as all other employees handling monies of the Union ing of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other quarters Port. The amendment shall either be printed on the elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. shall bo bonded as required by law. baUot, or if too lengthy, shall be referred to on the ballot. Hie contents of this {Section 2 are subject to the provisions (Copies of the amendment shall be posted on the bulletin of Article XIII, Sectioi^ .4(a). Article XIX boards of all ports and made available at the voting site in all ports. SRCtioR 3. Notwithstadding anything to the contrary, all reg­ Ixpenditures . ular meetings shall be governed by the following: SRCHOR 3. If approved by a majority of the valid ballots cas^ SMHOR 1. In the event no contrary policies or instructions 1. The Union Constitution. the amendment shall become effective immediately upon noti­ are in existence, the President may authorize, make, or incur 2. Majority vote of tjnle members assembled. fication by the Hearquarters Tallying Committee to the Presi­ such expenditures and expenses as are normdly encompassed dent that the amendmedt has been so approved, unless other­ within the authority conferred upon him by Article X of this wise specified in the amendmenL The Pi^ident shall immedi­ Article XXIV Constitution. , ately notify ^ ports of the results of the vote on the amendment. Definitions and Miscelloneous Provisions Sttction 3. The provisions of Section 1 shaH similarly apply to '• the routine accounting and administrative procedures of the Reloting Thereto EXHIBIT A [ Union except those primarily concerned with trials, appeals, SRctien 1. Incapacity, Unless otherwise set forth or deak ' ^negotiations, strikes, and elections. Miiiimol roquiroments to bo contoinod In with herein, the term "incapacity," shall mean any illness or Constitution of subordincrte bodies ond divisions : SoctloR 3. The provisions of this Article shall su| to situation preventing the' affected person from carrying put his the extent applicable, the provisions of Artide this duties for more than ^ days, provided that this does not chortered by or offiliotad with the Seolorers Constitution. result in a vacancy. However, nothing contained in this Article Intemcdionol Union of North Americo — Atshall be deemed to prohibit tlie execution of the functions of more than one job and/or office in which event no incapacity lontic. Gulf, Lokes ond Inlond Woters District. Article XX shall be deemed to exijst with regard to the regidar job or I • Income: • office of the one taking over the duties and functions of the All members shall have equal rights and privfleges, subject IhscHen 1> The income of this Union shall include dues, one incapacitated. The period of incapacity shall be the time to reasonable rules and regmations, contained in this Consti­ - i^ fees, fines, assassments, contributions, loans, intermt,- during which the circufiistances exist. ^dividends, as well as income derived from any other legitimate SectioA 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein, tution, including secret electicm, frradom of speech, the right business operatimi or other legitimate source. the torn "vacancy" shall include failure to wrform die func­ to hold office and the rif^l of secret votes on assessment and tions of any office or job by res^n of death, or resignation, dues increases, all in accordance with the law. [ 2. An official Union receipt, properly filled out, shall or suspension from meinbership or expulsion from the Union be given to wyone paying money to the Union or to any II right to apped ita accordance with the properson authorized by the Union to receive money. It shall be with no further rig No member may be automaticaly suspended from member­ ' ' the duty'of every person affiliated with the Union who makes visions of Article XV of this Constitution. ship except for non-payment of dues, and all members shall such payments to demand such receipt SRctiRR 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole the term, be affm-ded a fair hearing upon written charges, with a reas­ SRctioR 3. No assessmente shall be levied except after a ballot "majwity vbte of the membership," shall mean the majority time to prepare defense, when accused of an offense conducted under such general rules as may be decided upon of all the valid votes cast .by full book members-at an officiail onable under the Constitution. meeting of those ports holding a meeting. This definition shall by a majority vote of the membership, provided that: . (a) The ballot must be secret. prevaU notwithstanding that one or more pwts cannot hold III [ (b) The assessment must be approved by a majority of the meetings because of no iqutmim. For the purpose of this Sec­ This Union is chartered by (and/or affiliated with), the valid ballots cast. tion, the term "meetingf* shall refer to those meetings to be held during the time period within vdiich a vote must be taken Seafarers International Union of North America—^Adantic, ; ^ Seetinn 4, Except as otherwise provided by law, all payments in with the Constitution and the custom and usage Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and this Constitudon by members or other, affiliates of this Union sh^ be applied of accordance and any amendments thereto, shall not take effect unless and the Union in the indicated priority. suGcepively to the monetary obligations owed the Union comuntil approved as set forth in the Consdtudon of that Union. SRCHOR 4. When applicable 'solely to port action and not con­ I mencing with the oldest in point of time, as measured from the date of accrual of such obligation. The pmod of arrears cerned with, or related I to, the Union as a whole, and not IV tbail be calculated accordingly. ; forming part of a Union-wide vote, the term "majority vote An object of this Union is, within its reasonable capacity, of the membership," shall refer to the majmity of the valid votes cast by the full book members at any meeting of the to promote the welfare of, and assist, the Seafarers IntemaI Artida XXI donal Union of North America—^Adantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ Port, regular or special. land Waters District. |; dthar Typas of Union AfRlinUon SRCHOR S. The term, "membership action", or reference .To the extent permitted by law, this Union, by majority thereto, shall mean the same as the term "majority vote of vote of the membership, may provide for affiliation with it by the membership." The charter (and/or affiliation) relationship' between this .. individuals in a lesser capacity than membership, or in a Union and the Seafarers International Union of North America SocHCin 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the holder 'r capacity other than membership. By majority vote of the mem­ bership, the Union may provide for the rights and obligations thereof, is set forth in tfiis Constitution, all references thereto —Atlandc, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall not incident to such capacities or affiliations. These rights and and the provisions concerned therewith shall be deemed to be be dissolved so long as at least ten members of this Union, obligations may include, but are not limited to fa) the applic­ equally applicable to whomever is duly acting in such office and the Seafarers International Union of North America— Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Weters District acting throu^ ability or non-applicability of all or any part of the Consti­ or job. its Executive Board wish to. continue 'such reladonship. tution; (b) the terms of such affiliation; (c) the right of the SoctioR 7. The term "Election Year" shall be deemed to mean Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation and, (d) that calendar year prior to the calendar year in which elected VI the fees required for such affiliation. In no event may anyone officials and other elected jpb-holders are required to asume not a member receive evidence of affiliation equivalent to office. The first election year hereunder shall be deemed to be No amendment to this .Constitudon shall be effective unless that of members, receive priority or rights over members, or I960. and untn approved by at least a tworthirds vote of the member­ be termed a member. ship in a secret referendum conducted for that purpose. In SRCHOR 3. The terms, "this Constitution", and "this amended any event, the adoption of this Constitution and any amend­ Constitution," shall be deemed to have the same meaning and ments thereto, will not be effecdve unless and until compliance Arfflcio XXII shall refer to the Constitution which takes the place of the with Article II of the (^{onstitution of the Seafarers Interna­ one adopted by the Union in 1939, as amended up throu^ tional Union of North Americar^Atlandc, Gulf, Lakes and Quorums August, 1956. Inland Waters District is first made. ticHoR 1. Unless elsewhere herein otherwise specifically proSRCHRR 9. The term, "member in good standing", shaH mean vided, the quorum for a special meeting of a port shall be six a member whose monetary obligations to the Union are not VII ij full book members. I.; in arrears for thirty dap or more, or who is not imder suspen­ The Seafarers International Union of North America—^At­ SoctieR 2. The quorum for a regular meeting of a Port shall sion 6r expulsion effective in accordance with this (Constitution. lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall have the ? be fifty (50) members. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, the term, "member," right to ch^k, inspiect and make copiiss of all the books and Sc^OR 3. Unless otherwise specificalfy set forth hereio, the shall mean a member in good standing. records of this Union upon demand. decisions, reports, recommendations, or other functions of any SRCHRR 10. Unless plainly otherwise required by the context segment of the Union requiring a quorum to act officially, of their use, the terms "Union book," "membership book," and VHI sh®!! be.e majority of those voting, and shall not be official "book," shall meian official evidence of Union membership. This Union shall not take any acdon which will have the or effective unless the quorum requirements are nlet. SRCHRR 11. The term "fuU book" or "full Union book" shaH effect of reducing its net assets, calculated through recognized Socrim 4. Unless otherwiise indicated herein, where the re- mean only an official certificate tissued as .evidence of Union aocoundng procedures, below the amount of its indebtedness quiiements for a quorum are not specificalljr set forth, a quorum membership which can b^ attained only by those members who to the Seafarers International Union of North America—^Atlan- �SEAFARERS LOG Supplement—Page Sixteen tic. Gulf, Lakes {Qid Inland Water District, unless approved b* that Union through its Executive Board. IX So long as there exists any indebtedness by this Union to tlie Seafarers, International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, that Union shall have the right to appoint a representative or representatives to this Union who shall have the power to attend all meetings of this Union, or its suh-divisions, or governing boards, if any; and who shall have access to all books and records pf this Union on demand. This representative, or these representatives, shall be charged with the duty of assisting this Union and its mem­ bership, and acting as a liaison between the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District and this Union. * So long as any unpaid per capita tax, or any other indcfcle^ness of any sort is owed by this Union to the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, such indebtedness shall constitute a first lien on the assets of this Union, which lien shall not be impaired without the written approval of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North Ai.ierica-—Atlantic, Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board. Xi The per capita tax payable hy this Union to the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall be that which is' fixed in ac­ cordance with the terms of the G>nBiitution of that Union. This ^bhsl^tutioh iih'^ actions by tliiis Union pursuant hereto are subject to those provisions of the Constitution of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District pertaining to affiliatwQ, disafliliation, trusteeships, and the granting and removal of charters. xiii "^is Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America through the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. It shall share in, and participate as part of, the delegation of that District to the Convention of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers InternationalJUnion of North America—Atlantic, GulL L^es and Inland waters District. EVERY SEAFARER IS GUARANTEED evi-v.. . X • •T •/- • ',1.' \ " . ' ^ tf -'""r ^ T ' ~ '' ^ 1- *5 Protection of the rights and privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. The right to vote. The right to nominate himself fory and to holdt any office in the Union. That every official of the Union shall be bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member and that in no case shall any member be deprived of his rights and privileges as a member without due process of the law of the Union. The right to be confronted by his accuser and to be given a fair trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members if he should be charged with conduct detrimental to the welfare of Seafarers banded together in this Union. The right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. The assurancelhat his brother Seafarers will stanef with him in defense of the democratic principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. ' . . - r. ^ -vi, • J V' •> C A AA'; f ' ' 1/ .i c • :V.i' r - " • w- .--V •;• /•' X • 5¥f ' '-5.V , mxsi:, ;as?sA£w:. -3 ' ' J ' 1: 5.•.^ •V'V- ' V'l \" V '''*, -i ^ - ^ . " .< r.<., -W - V-'-x\ • .-il - t • . - , yi'" %y-'~ _ , J. 1 �November 14, 1969 SEAFARERS Rep. Tiernan Tells MTD; Separate MARAD Best So/utien To Dilution of Maritime Authority WASHINGTON—A strong plea for the creation of a sepa­ rate and independent Maritime Administration, with full re­ sponsibility and authority for all matters relating to the na­ tion's merchant fleet, was made here last month by Representative,,^Robert O. Tiernan (DR.I.). Speaking before a meeting sponsored by the 7.5-miUionmember AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, the con­ gressman described the serious fragmentation of authority that has taken place in the field of maritime which has, in his view, contributed to the current sorry plight of the U.S.-flag merchant marine. He broke it down this way: "The Department of Agricul­ ture makes maritime decisions in the area of the shipment of agricultural surplus products to the needy nations of the world. The Agency for International Development makes maritime decisions that deal with our shipments of foreign aid. The Department of Defense makes maritime decisions in terms of our military sealift. The Depart­ ment of State makes maritime decisions in terms of our rela­ tionships—good or poor—with other nations. The Department of the Interior makes maritime decisions with respect to oil im­ ports. The Budget Bureau makes maritime decisions in cold, and often unrealistic, dollars-andcents terms." "Our most urgent need," Tier­ nan declared, "is for a Mari­ time Administration that is in­ dependently managed—^that has all of the responsibility for de­ veloping our maritime resources —and that has the authority to go along with that responsibil­ ity." Taking note of some optimis­ tic developments—the congress­ man cited the recent submission of the administration's maritime program to the Congress, as well as the spirit of optimism ex­ pressed by the MTD convention in Atlantic City—^Tiernan said: ". . . we, in Congress, are not only optimistic, we're deter­ mined that something will be done by this Congress to get us moving on the high seas once again." The Rhode Island lawmaker cited the fact that the nation ranks fifth in world shipping and eleventh in world shipbuild­ ing. He attributed the decline, which he described as starting four years after the end of World War II, to the loss of in­ dependence by the Maritime Administration when it was rel­ egated to a subordinate status in the Department of Com­ merce. "Four years after the war's end," he said, "American-flag ships were carrying more than 40 percent of our commercial imports and exports—^the high­ est level achieved by our civil­ ian-owned and civilian-manned fleet in this decade. Today, we're down around the five percent level—ships of other nations are carrying 95 percent of our commercial cargo." "Maritime independence con­ tinues to be a top priority item as far as I'm concerned," Tier­ nan concluded. "With an inde­ pendent agency, we can go a long way toward correcting the mistakes of the past. Without an independent agency, no mar­ itime program—no matter how promising it looks on paper— is going to be fully effective." CTT Cites Transportation ProblemsIncluding Conglomerates, Automation WASHINGTON—The Con­ ference of Transportation Trades has announced it will launch a continuing study to de­ velop ways of protecting work­ ers and the public against the harsh effects of corporate merg­ ers. The decision was made dur­ ing a one-day meeting in Wash­ ington of the general board of the conference, which is com­ posed of 27 AFL-CIO unions,, including the SIU, with 4.5 mil­ lion workers in all modes of transportation. The conference is headed by AFL-CIO Vice President C. L. Dennis, who Panel Advocates Wage Floor Hike For Puerto Rico SAN JUAN — A committee composed of representatives of labor, management, and the general public have unanimous­ ly recommended that the mini­ mum wage paid in six Puerto Rican industries be increased. The reports of Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Industries Committees No. 87-A, and 87B, called for increasing from $1.35 to $1.60, the hourly mini­ mum wage for workers in com­ mercial establishments included under the coverage of the 1961 Fair Labor Standards Act. Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz appointed the commit­ tees that included two officials of the SIU. Headquarters Rep­ resentative Edward X. Mooney and Friedrich Thursch, assist­ ant to Keith Terpe, president, of the SIU of Puerto Rico, served on the panels that held public hearings before offering their recommendations. SIU Adds 10 New Full Book Men I Page Twenty Five LOG also is president of the Railway and Airline Clerks. SIU Presi­ dent Paul Hall is chairman of the Conference's maritime sec­ tion. In another action, the board adopted a far-ranging report dealing with major problems facing transportation ihdustries and expressing the conference's views on solving them. The resolution calling for the study of corporate mergers not­ ed that the rising tide of busi­ ness mergers has reached the stage where some 200 corpora­ tions, out Of about 200,000 in the United States, "control near­ ly 60 percent of the country's manufacturing wealth." This has happened, the reso­ lution pointed out, because of the growth of "conglomerate" mergers—those that cut across industry lines with emphasis "on monopoly control of the Amer­ ican economic system." The resolution noted that the conglomerates pose a particular danger to labor because "the more diverse a company's busi­ ness interests, the less pressure unions are able to bring in the collective bargaining process." Noting that in the past trans­ portation managements have not always responded to transpor­ tation needs, the resolution warned: "When conglomerates invade the transportation' field, and when corporate decisions are handed over to financiers whose concerns are solely economic, the American people will find management even less respon­ sive to the transportation needs of the nation. "It would be possible, under such circumstances, to close down the transportation segment of the conglomerate solely for tax advantage or similar eco­ nomic gain—and the American • people will be the losers." TTie report on problems fac­ ing the transportation industries covered a wide range of topics dealing with economics, labor relations and the future outlook of all domestic and international modes of transportation. The report, "Transportation: A Time to Move Ahead," noted i Jllrxoa Announces Fleet Program (Continued from Page 3) ducing only a few new ships a year for use in our foreign trade." Nixon said that "both govern­ ment and industry share respon­ sibility for the recent decline in American shipping and ship­ building." The President expressed the hope that his program would "introduce a new era in the maritime history of America, an era in which our shipbuilding the latest group of Seafarers to take advantage of the SIU Seniority Upgrading* Program pose happily and ship operating industries after receiving their full books at the November membership meeting at Headquarters. In the. front take their place once again row are, from left: Darrell Fisher, Philip Pardovich, John Bertolino an James Jodd. Back row, left among the vigorous, competitive to right: David Bass, Torry Kidda, Jr., Larry Kincer, Edward Dale, Kelly Graham and James Phillip:s. industries of this nation." that although problems "vary greatly between various modes" there are some "common threads" that run through the entire industry. These are highlights in sev­ eral areas of common concern as expressed in the report: Safety—Occupational injuries and deaths are on the rise be­ cause managements have not voluntarily taken steps "to make the workplace safe and heal­ thy." The conference backed legislation sought by the AFLCIO to require federal health and safety standards. Automation—The conference seeks to work with employers to develop "intelligent approaches" to introducing automation so that workers can retain their dignity and their purchasing power, "which is as vital to the entire economy as to the indi­ vidual worker." Pollution—It was noted that "man cannot live without air and water, yet in America to­ day, we seem bent on squander­ ing both."" The conference pledged its continued support of the efforts of the labor movement and oth­ ers to halt the destruction of nat­ ural resources "before the spoil­ ers destroy our environment, and in the process destroy us all." Senator Vance Hartke (DInd.), speaking at a luncheon held by the board, took a firm stand against compulsory arbi­ tration in labor management re­ lations — particularly in the transportation industry. •Whenever the government steps in to bar strikes in an in­ dustry, Hartke declared, it be­ comes the "invisible partner" of management which knows it is protected "against the economic consequences of its own in­ transigence at the bargaining table." SEAFARERS^JiOC Nov. 14, 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. 13 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAUL HALL, President EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNER Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR Vice-President Sec.-Treas. ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WILL KARP CHARLES SVENSON FRANK MARGIOTTA MARIETTA CRISCI Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI Pibllihed monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avanao N.E., Washington, D. C. 20018 hy the Seafar­ ers International Union, Atlantic, Golf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foorth Avenie, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. HYaclnth 9-6600. Second class postaie paid at Washlngtons, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards shonid he sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Golf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Annae, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. �Page Twenty Six SEAFARERS November 14, 1969 LOG A Tricky Shot Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to iLO For SO'Year Role in Social Justice OSLO, Norway—^The Inter­ national Labor Organization has been awarded the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize for 50 years of helping to safeguard peace through the promotion of social justice. AFL-CIO President George Meany praised the selection as a "tribute to the foresight and vision" of Samuel Gompers, who was chairman of a com­ mission at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference out of which came the ILO. Meany, ILO Director-General David A. Morse and Rudolph Faupl, U.S. worker delegate to the oragnization, also viewed the award as a tribute to workers themselves. The Nobel Prize Committee, announcing its decision in Olso, Norway, after considering 45 candidates, described the ILO as an organization that has worked continuously to improve workers' social conditions, "thus contributing to safeguarding world peace." Mrs. Aase Lionaess, chair­ man of the committee, said that the prize — $75,000 plus an insignia, a diploma and a gold medal-—will be awarded to an ILO representative at Oslo Uni­ versity on December 10. That day is the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor. The Nobel awards were set up at his bequest. Although the prize was orig­ inally designated to go to in­ dividuals "who shall have done the most or the best work for peace," a number of organiza­ tions have received the award in recent years. Past recipients include the International Red Cross and UNICEF—the Uni­ ted Nation's Children's Fund. Mrs. Lionaess said that the committee's choice of the ILO "stresses the close relations be­ tween work, social progress and peace." She cited the organization's activities in "reducing social barriers between people in an effort to make nations work to­ gether in peace" and its efforts to reduce unemployment and improve working conditions. Meany pointed out that Gom­ pers—"the father of the ILO" Labor Critical of HEW Rules To Upgrade Nursing Homes WASHINGTON — Federal regulations recently announced by the Health, Education and Welfare Department to improve nursing home standards under Medicaid "completely fail to meet that'objective," the AFLCIO has emphasized. Without changes, it warned, the regulations will "perpetuate inadequate health care for the most disadvantaged Americans, the needy and medically needy." Criticism of the regulations • and proposed changes was ex­ pressed by AFL-CIO Social Se­ curity Director Bertrand Seidman in a letter to Administrator Mary Switzer of HEW's Social and Rehabilitation Service. Amendments to the Social Security Act adopted in 1967 called for regulations to upgrade nursing home standards under Medicaid. Draft regulations were released in February and specific proposals were recently published in the Federal Regis­ ter. The basic defect in the regu­ lations, Seidman wrote, "is that they establish significantly lower standards for skilled nursing homes" under the Medicaid pro­ gram for the poor than are re­ quired under the law for Medi­ care. "Yet," he continued, "there is no evidence that Medicaid patients in skilled nursing homes require less intensive care than Medicare patients in extended care facilities." The "grossly inadequate" standards would add to already high Medicaid costs, Seidman charged, by requiring reimbursments to substanderd nursing homes and "unecessary" hospi­ talizations of patients unable to get skilled nursing care. Moreover, he said, failure to require appropriate standards will remove any incentive for substandard nursing homes to raise skill levels as was intended by the 1967 amendments. To raise nursing home quali­ fications to the necessary level, Seidman and the AFL-CIO urged the following changes in the proposed regulations: • An immediate requirement that either a professional regis­ tered nurse or a licensed prac­ tical nurse be on duty at nursing homes at all times. The regula­ tions would postpone this re­ quirement until at least July 1, 1970. • If there is to be a provision permitting waiver of educational requirements for licensed prac­ tical nurses, the regulations should authorize "only the state agency responsible for licensing of nurses" and not simply any "appropriate state licensing authority" to grant the waiver. • Similarly, the authority to waive other requirements for nursing homes should be given only to the State agency respon­ sible for licensing nursing homes. • Provision should be made for minimum ratios of nursing and auxiliary personnel to the number of patients, with sepa­ rate ratios for nurses and other personnel—a requirement clear­ ly intended by the 1967 amend­ ments. —believed that "improving the conditions of workers every­ where could make an important contribution to peace and jus­ tice." Noting that the organization was founded 50 years ago this month" in Washington "with Gompers in the chair," he added: "It is an award, there­ fore, that has special signifi­ cance to workers throughout the world." Morse called the award to the ILO "a tribute to the common man throughout the world." The award, he added, "will give the ILO immense encour­ agement to build further on the solid foundation laid by un­ remitting efforts to which the governments, employers and workers throughout the world have contributed in full meas­ ure." Faupl, a Machinists' repre­ sentative who hias.served as the U.S. worker delegate since 1958 said: "There can be no peace with­ out social justice—this has been the overriding conviction of the ILO since its beginning and this is the basis for its future." Difficult shot is attempted on the billiard table in Port O'Call at New York hall by Brother Troy Lancaster, who sails as a wiper, while Larry Drummer, an O.S., looks on with a doubtful expression. Many Sea­ farers enjoy the recreational facilities at SID halls between voyages. DISPATCHERS REPORT Atlantic, Gulf & inland Waters District October 1, 1969 to October 31, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Boston New York ..., Philadelphia .. Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville .. Tampa Mobile New Orleans-.. Houston ...... Wilmington .., San Francisco Seattle Totals Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore ....... Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston .... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 9 4 109 123 33 16 47 20 23 26 31 33 11 9 50 27 60 58 61 51 34 50 110 101 53 ' 44 631 562 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 5 2 1 83 48 0 23 16 4 28 10 1 15 18 7 23 18 7 ,3 11 0 31 23 3 90 43 0 37 48 6 44 45 13 78 92 24 25 34 12 485 408 78 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class^ Class A Class B 3 83 19 39 16 24 5 40 42 29 15 79 17 411 4 54 19 25 10 11 1 20 56 32 25 67 14 338 7 178 19 34 39 41 16 34 69 64 45 121 37 704 5 89 22 21 17 28 8 33 76 43 34 85 33 494 1 •5 4 1 2 5 0 0 3 9 14 21 16 81 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 8 182 214 38 31 45 161 38 41 29 41 24 16 17 81 87 110 112 133 9 40 23 . 76 31 59 638 1011 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 146 13 77 25 22 9 61 88 79 15 51 29 767 2 195 25 58 51 34 11 44 72 79 17 29 11 628 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Boston ...... New York ... Philadelphia . Baltimore ..., Norfolk Jacksonville ., Tampa Mobile New Orleans . Houston ...., Wilmington ... San Francisco Seattle_^j^l^^^ Totals Class A Class B 3 4 87 74 16 14 16 43 20 13 13 15 6 8 23 25 46 68 38 27 37 33 76 65 28 28 430 396 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B ClassC" 3 29 19 25 10 9 10 20 67 33 26 59 21 331 3 2 -4 45 3 15 4 9 10. 22 10 13 0 3 4 16 2 48 34 . 16 13 17 28 58 7 17 104 299 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 2 70 152 15 16 32 103 22 23 25 17 10 8 30 50 46 104 39 88 15 15 26 58 22 50 355 686 �14, 11969 SEAFARERS Page Twenty Seven LOG SlU WEIFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Benefits Paid Report Period: September 1-September 30, 1969 Number of Benefits SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits C Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $464.53) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Gut-Potients Benefits SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' VACATION PLANBENEFITS PAID (Average $395.93) TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD 8 2,154 16 95 27 Amount Paid $ 1,749.00 52,296.86 41,569.76 382.00 5,400.00 1,057 1,966 31,718.35 91,325.66 626 61 4,841 8,556.74 614.83 37,756.00 10,851 1,421 ^ 1,878* 14,150 Steve A. Stafford, Jr. Please contact Union Head­ quarters in Brooklyn immedi­ ately concerning your draft status. — Paul C. Stubblelield Your mother, Mrs. Emma A. Campbell, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 922 Ludlow Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220. <I> Earl McGee Please contact Bernard Rol328,501.81 nick at 299 Broadway, Room 905, New York, New York. The 743,564.82 telephone number is (212) == WO-2-3905. 271,369.20 $1,343,435.83 George Bruno Please contact Mr. J. M. Fenton at Penn Shipping Company, Inc., at 405 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, as soon as possible in connection with a salvage claim award due you. <I> Walter Lungren Please contact Anargyros Dokeris at 1936 Benedict Avenue, Bronx, New York 10462. Tele­ phone: TA-8-2211. William C. Besselievre Your son, William, asks that you please contact him at the following address: c/o Stafford, 433 Prospect Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10301. He is very anxious to hear from you. ^ Andrew Oreo Your wife, Minerva, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible on an urgent matter. Her address is 61-63 Varet Street, Apt. 15, Brook­ lyn, N. Y. 11206. The tele­ phone number is (212) 7820359. <I> John O. Glenn Your mother, Mrs. Carolina O. Glenn, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at Hotel Inter-Continental, H. K. Dept. Makati, Rizal, Philippines. Joe Meyercheck Andy H. Reasko would like to hear from you, what ship you are sailing on and where you are. Reasko can be reached aboard the S.S. Beauregard, c/o Sea-Land Service, A.P.O. 96312, San Francisco, Calif. <1> William Brack Please contact SIU headquar­ ters at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 11232 as soon as pos­ sible. The telephone number is (212) 499-6600. <j> Joseph Rioux Please get in touch with James Eichenberg at 337 No. 41 Street, Camden, New Jersey, about an income tax check he is holding for you. His telephone number is 964-2571. —— Richard D. Tapman Your wife asks that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at 2000 Ramblewood Road, Balti­ more, Maryland 21214. B. James Ricketts Please contact your brother, G. H. Ricketts, at 1150 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11233. Craig Mock, bom September Mrs. Sam M. Hardin, Brooklyn, Mrs. Reginald D. Nolan, Mo­ 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. N.Y. desto, Calif. Theodore J. Mock, Brooklyn, — N. Y. Melanie Thompson, bora Michad Lyie, bora Septem­ August 27, 1969, to Seafarer ber 21, 1969, to Seafarer and — <1> William A. Villagran Charles Pryor, born Septem­ and Mrs. Carl E. Thompson, Mrs. Edward E. Lyle, Gaines­ Louis E. Raymond Please contact the Depart­ ber 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mobile, Ala. ville, Fla. Mrs. Charles T. Pryor, Dauphin Please contact your wife, ment of the Army, Office of the —— — ^3>— Island, Ala. Scott Kelly, born August 5, Yvonne, as soon as possible at Adjutant General, U.S. Army Raymond LeBlanc, bora July ^ 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Law­ 2673 Radnor Avenue, Long Administration Center, St. Lou­ is, Missouri. Beach, California 90815. Wesley Keenum, born July Richard J. LeBlanc, Superior, rence B. Kelly, Stanton, Califi 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wisconsin. Bobby E. Keenum, Mill Valley, ness with Deering Milliken, withdraw the nomination. It Haynsworth Name 4/ doesn't do his reputation any Calif. he was sitting as the "impar­ Alfredo Diazdelvalle, bora Should Be Withdrawn tial" judge on a case between good to stand by a man like August 22, 1969, to Seafarer To the Editor: that. a union and Deering Milliken. Kosbayne Lial, born October and Mrs. Alfredo Diazdelvalle, In the October issue of the How could he possibly ren­ Edgar R. Hodias 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. New Orleans, La. LOG I read the article on der a fair decision? Isn't the Candido C. Lial, Houston, ^ Judge Clement F. Hayns­ going rough enough for union Texas. SIU Welfare Plan Nicholas Kratsas, bora Sep­ worth Jr. and where the Jus­ people without having judges tember 17, 1969, to Seafarer . ^ Promptness Praised tice Department said he who are involved with the Karen Sue Preston, born Oc­ and Mrs. Nick G. Kratsas, Bal­ wasn't guilty of anything. other side determining what To the Editor: tober 6, 1969, to Seafarer and timore, Md. "justice" is? It's a good thing4he AFLI wish to thank the SIU Mrs. Terry W. Preston, Norfolk, In the hearings before the CIO has its own lawyers and Welfare Plan for its quick Va. Sonnia Moreno, bora August Senate Judiciary Committee, they really gave it to the Jus­ efficiency. My claim, submit­ 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. <|> Haynsworth played dumb tice Department. These peo­ ted September 5, 1969 for Cecil Mclntyre, born August Louis A. Moreno, Houston, ple in the Justice Department medicine purchased August 9, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Texas. have double standards for 23, 1969 and August 25, Cecil A. Mclntyre, Jr., Chula some things and they can 1968 was most promptly Vista, Calif. Susan Buterakos, bora July really stand the truth on its paid. In fact this was the 22, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. head and make it cry "uncle" speediest payment I have ever Melinda Bauman, born Au­ Thomas G. Buterakos, Win­ when they want to. received. gust 11, 1969, to Seafarer and chester, Va. It seems clear that Hayns­ while all his connections with Thank you very much for Mrs. William K. Bauman, New worth has not acted as the companies which were in­ your courtesy and considera­ Orleans, La. Alcuin and Patricia Smith, American people have a right volved in legal matters that tion. In this day and age kind born August 26, 1969, to Sea­ came before him were brought to expect from a jurist sit­ concern is very much appreci­ Angela Talley, born October farer and Mrs. Alcuin A. Smith, ting on the bench of one of ' out by various senators. Just ated. 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Baltimore, Md. our high courts. like he has played dumb Isaac Sieger Floyd L. Talley, Norfolk, Va. — He was not only a stock­ about his connections while <1> Christine Amora, born Sep­ — holder, but an officer and a on the Circuit Court bench. Widow Appreciates Tannia Dongen, born July 24, tember 11, 1969, to Seafarer director of the Carolina Besides this, how could a 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Isi­ and Mrs. Felix P. Amora, San Welfare Fund Check Vend-A-Matic Corp., which man who has consistently dore C. Dongen, Brooklyn, N.Y. Francisco, Calif. To the Editor: had a whole lot of money at made anti-labor decisions sit \1> stake with Deering Milliken. on the highest court of the I wish to express my sin­ AUie Armstead, born Septem­ William Daniels, bora Sep­ At the same time his wife was U.S., the court which, in cere gratitude and apprecia­ ber 5, 1969, to Seafarer and tember 22, 1969, to Seafarer the secretary of a company many of its opinions, has tion for the prompt way in Mrs. William Armstead, Jr., and Mrs. Jammie M. Daniels, of which Haynsworth was a found him wrong in labor which the Union handled my Marrero, La. Jr., Bayville, N.J. first vice president and a di­ cases? This is, after all, the late husband's affairs. Thank court of last resort for Na­ rector—a company which you for his Welfare Fund — Neyra Castro, bora May 22, Wanda Garcia, bora Septem­ was connected with Deering tional Labor Relations Board check payable to me as bene­ 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Se­ ber 24, 1969, to Seafarer and decisions. Milliken and used Haynsficiary. bastian B. Castro, New Orleans, Mrs. Natanael R. Garcia, Har­ This is a bad nomination. worth's law firm. I know that he was proud La. vey, La, It could lead to eventually And while he was so in­ to belong to his Union and packing the Supreme Court volved with the financial af­ had great faith in it. We have with anti-labor judges. lost a wonderful man. fairs of the vending com­ Re^nald Nolan, bora Sep­ Tracy Hardm, bora Septem­ President Nixon should Dorothy Christie pany which was doing busi­ ber 9, 1969, to Seafarer and tember 2, 1969, to Seafarer and <I> <I> <I> <1> �SEAFARERS Page Twenty Eight INGER (Reynolds Metals), Sep­ tember 14—Chairman, S. Garcia; Secretary, P. L. Shauger; Ship's Del­ egate, S. P. Garcia; Engine Delegate, E. Lanier; Steward Delegate, G. Martinez. Some disputed OT in deck department. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. ANTINOUS (Waterman), Septem­ ber 9—Chairman, Melvin Moore; Secretary, James R. McPhaul; Deck Delegate, Sheppard Morris; Engine Delegate, Arthur G. Milne; Steward Delegate, Giavanni Aquinos. $1.10 in the ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. WALTER RICE (Reynolds), Sep­ tember 14—Chairman, W. Lawton; Secretary, L. J. Beale; Ship's Del­ egate, Paolo Pringel; Deck Delegate, Jay C. Cohen; Stewards' Delegate, Charles G. Lampman. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Some disputed OT in deck department. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), Sep­ tember 14—Chairman, R. Whitney; Secretary, A. H. Reasko; Ship's Del­ egate, R. Whitney; Deck Delegate, B. Hager; Engine Delegate, Alfred R. Fry; Steward Delegate, J. Kearns. $30.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Outstanding minor beefs were taken care of by SIU Far East representa­ tive Frank Boyne. Everything is AO.K. in steward department. OVERSEAS SUZANNE (Maritime Overseas), September 7—Chairman, M. A. Poole; Secretary, Jose L. Ra­ mos; Deck Delegate, James Newton, Engine Delegate, Jack D. Smith; Steward Delegate, Hazel Johnson. No beefs reported by department delegates. DEL MUNDO (Delta), August 31 —Chairman, Edgar Freimanis; Sec­ retary, W. Purdy; Ship's Delegate, Charles M. Marion; Deck Delegate, Justin T. Wolff; Engine Delegate, C. W. Smith; Steward Delegate, Alberto Angel Yado. No beefs and DEL NORTE (Delta), August 10— I no disputed OT. Chairman, Weldon Smith; Secre­ tary, R. E. Stough, Jr.; Ship's Dele­ MAIDEN CREEK (Gulf Puerto gate, John R. Johnson; Stewards' Rico), September 11—Chairman, Delegate, John T. Kelly, Jr. Ship's George Annis; Secretary, Joseph E. delegate had nothing to report as Hannon; Ship's Delegate, George ship just came out of lay-up. Annis; Deck Delegate, D. Savoy; Steward Delegate, F. R. Stecklan. BURBANK VICTORY (Burbank), Discussion held on retirement and August -31—Chairman, Joe Crawley; welfare plan. Some disputed OT in Secretary, Joe Crawley; Ship's Del­ deck department. Vote of thanks egate, Joe Crawley: Deck Delegate, was extended to the steward depart­ A. Foster; Engine Delegate, M. Clivment for a job well done. ens; Steward Delegate, Jules H. Mones. Some disputed OT in engine department. LOG PECOS (Pecos Transport), Sep­ tember 28—Chairman, James Boland; Secretary, Harold D. Strauss; Ship's Delegate, James Boland; Deck Delegate, Donald E. Smith; Steward Delegate, Alfred Flatts. $27.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Every­ thing is running smoothly. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Septem­ ber 14—Chairman, John Cis ecki; Secretary, W. L. Kilgore. $10,00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), September 21 — Chairman, Alfonso A. Armada; Secretary, William H. Rhone; Ship's Delegate, William E. Richardson; Deck Delegate, Biagio DiMento; Engine Delegate, Lyle H. Haddox; Steward Delegate, Joseph Naurocki. Some minor beefs in deck and engine department, otherwise everything in general is O.K. YORKMAR (Calmar), September 21—Chairman, John C. Green; Sec­ retary, Daniel W. Lippy; Ship's Delegate, Melvin Knickman; Deck Delegate, Leiston Lanerin; Engine Delegate, John O'Toole. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. COLUMBIA (U.S. Steel), Septem­ ber 28—Chairman, B. J. Waturski; Secretary, M. S. Sospina; Deck Dele­ gate, Richard Heffley; Engine Dele­ gate, R. C. Blair; Steward Delegate, A. G. Ygama. Ship's delegate re­ ported that everything is going along fine with no beefs. November 14, 1969 OAKLAND (Sea-Land), September 20—Chairman, T. White; Secretary, J. Doyle; Ship's Delegate, H. J. White; Deck Delegate, H. Miller; Engine Delegate, J. Rogers; Steward Delegate, B. Burke. $60.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), July 20—Chairman, John Eddins; Secretary, Robert D. Brown. Every­ thing is running smoothly in all departments. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian) July 27-^Chairman, John Eddins; Secretary, Robert D. Brown. Every­ thing is running smoothly in all departments. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. CHATHAM (Waterman), August 25—Chairman, W. S. Sharp; Secre­ tary, Alfred Hirsch; Ship's Dele­ gate, William S. Sharp; Deck Dele­ gate, Vernon Hopkins; Engine Dele­ gate, Wade H. McC!all; Steward Delegate, Joe Miller. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), September 21—Chairman, John Ed­ dins; Secretary, Robert D. Brown. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. RACHEL V (Vantage), October 5 —Chairman, E. Morris; Secretary, A. Q. Nail; Deck Delegate, G. H. Cohn; Engine Delegate, W. E. Nordland. No beefs were reported by department delegates. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), August 24—Chairman, V. C. Smith; Secretary, H. P. DuCloux; Ship's Delegate, V. C. Smith; Deck Delegate, S. H. Fulford; Engine Del­ egate, Raymond Gorja; Steward Delegate, L. Betts, Jr. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), Sep­ tember 7—Chairman, V. W. O'Mary; Secretary, M. P. Cox; Ship's Dele­ gate, V. W. O'Mary; Deck Delegate, F. A. Badden; Engine Delegate, E. Lane. Ship's delegate reported that iverything is running smoothly. ANTINOUS (Waterman), Septem­ ber 21—Chairman, Melvin Moore; Secretary, J. R. McPhaul; Deck Del­ egate, Sheppard Morris; Engine Del­ egate, Arthur G. Milne; Steward Delegate, Giavanni Aquinos. Every­ thing is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. TRENTON (Sea-Land), September 15—Chairman, Dan Butts; Secre­ tary, Archie Davis; Ship's Delegate, Dan Butts; Deck Delegate, John A. Owen; Engine Delegate, Thomas F. Delaney; Steward Delegate, Ken­ neth Bowman. Some disputed OT in deck department, otherwise there are no beefs. YELLOWSTONE (Ogden Marine), September 14—Chairman, Willie A. Slater; Secretary, Willie A. Slater, Jr.; Ship's Delegate^-Jack A. Olsen; Deck Delegate, Augustus Z. Markris. Top notch crew on board. Every­ thing is running smoothly. OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mari­ time Overseas), August 3—Chair­ man, Gerald McCray; Secretary, P. Morreale; Ship's Delegate, Gerald McCray. No beefs were reported by department delegates. SEATRAIN OHIO (Seatrain), Auust 24—Chairman, R. L. Anderson; ecretary, W. E. Messenger. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. f BUCKEYE PACIFIC (Buckeye), September 21—Chairman, Leon M. Kyser; Secretary Wilmer E. Har­ per; Ship's Delegate, William Cullen; Engine Delegate, M. R. Hollis; Steward Delegate, A. C. Bell, Jr. No disputed OT. Discussion held on safety of ship. HALCYON PANTHER (Halcyon), September 7—Chairman, J. Lowrey; Secretary, Alipio Trujillo; Ship's Delegate, J. Lowrey; Deck Delegate, Ralph O. King; Engine Delegate, James C. Brazzell. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. STEEL ENGINEER (Isthmian), September 28—Chairman, J. Beyes; Secretary, A. Seda; Ship's Delegate, J. Beyes; Deck Delegate, P. McCaskey; Steward Delegate, A. G. Soto. $10.50 in ship's fund. Every­ thing is running smoothly. Some disputed OT in steward department. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for a job well done. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn), September 14—Chairman, H. C. Hunt; Secretary, H. M. Karlsen; Ship's Delegate, F. A. Kirshbaum; Deck Delegate, Sidney D. Turner; Engine Delegate, R. Gonzalez; Stew­ ard Delegate, M. Agarcia. Discussion held regarding vacation plan. Dis­ cussion on welfare, in general. FANWOOD (Waterman), Septem­ ber 21—Chairman, Earl J. Brannan; Secretary, Anthony J. Kuberski; Ship's Delegate, Earl J. Brannan; Deck Delegate, Hans S. Lee; Engine Delegate, Frederick Moore. Some disputed OT in deck department. No major beefs were reported. ROBIN HOOD (Moore-McCormack), October 8—Chairman, (31enn Miller; Secretary, Aussie Shrimpton. $87.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the second engineer for his donation of $56.00 to the ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. CANTON VICTORY (Columbia), October 5—Chairman, C. P. Just; Secretary, M. L. Leache; Ship's Delegate, Chester F. Just; Deck Delegate, M. P. Kramer; Engine Delegate, Irving Futtermoff. Every­ thing is running smoothly with no beefs. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), July 22—Chairman, James A. Thompson; Secretary, Har­ old P. DuCloux; Ship's Delegate, V. C. Smith; Deck Delegate, S. H. Fulford; Engine Delegate, Raymond Gorja; Steward Delegate, L. Betts, Jr. Some disputed OT in each de­ partment to be squared away by patrolman. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), August 11—Chairman, Vertis C. Smith; Secretary, Harold P. DuCloux; Ship's Delegate, Vertis C. Smith; Deck Delegate, Stephen H. Fulford; Engine Delegate, Ray­ mond Gorja; Steward Delegate, L. Betts, Jr. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the former ship's chair­ man, Brother Robert Broadus, for a job well done. Disputed OT in each department. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), Oc­ tober 5—Chairman, R. Whitney; Secretary, A. H. Reasko; Deck Dele­ gate, B. Hager; Engine Delegate, A. R. Fry; Steward Delegate, J. Keanes. $26.00 in ship's fund. No beefs. Everything is running smooth­ ly. Vote of thaiiks was extended to. the steward department for a job well done. OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mari­ time Overseas), August 10—Chair­ man, Gerald McCray; Secretary, Peter Morreale; Ship's Delegate, Gerald McCray. Some disputed OT in deck department. STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), September 21 — Chairman, Eugene Nicholson; Secretary, Wilkuam Hand; Ship's Delegate, William D. Morris. $130.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. KENYON VICTORY (Columbia), September 14 — Chairman, R. H. Nicholson; Secretary, L. M. Morsette; Ship's Delegate, J. Kuchta; Deck Delegate, Thomas J. McGuire; Engine Delegate, Robert Brooks; Steward Delegate, Harry C. Downey. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Vote of thanks to the chief electrician for music in messroom from loudspeakers he per­ sonally bought and hooked up to his tape recorder from his own tapes. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), September 22—Chairman, Kenneth Roberts; Secretary, Thomas Ulisse; Ship's Delegate, Kenneth Roberts; Deck Delegate, Ken Kristensen; Steward delegate, Ernest S. Ncwhall. $6.45 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the excellent food and service. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), Sep­ tember 22—Chairman, R. Whitney; Secretary, A. H. Reasko; Deck Dele­ gate, B. Hayer; Steward Delegate, J. Kearns. $26.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Every­ thing is running smoothly. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), September 21— Chairman, A. Manuel; Ship's Dele­ gate, Warren Manuel; Deck Dele­ gate, N. Welch; Engine Delegate, L. V. Springer; Steward Delegate, A. Manuel. Vote of thanks to the ship's delegate for a job well done. CONNECTICUT (Connecticut Transport), September 21 — Chair­ man, J. Urzan; Secretary, L. W. Moore; Ship's Delegate, L. W. Moore; Deck Delegate, G. R. Scott; Engine Delegate, Harold Kent; Steward Delegate, Tobe Dansley. Few hours disputed OT in engine department. PEARY (Marine Traders), Sep­ tember 2(1—Chairman, Eligio Lasoya; Secretary, V. L. Swanson; Ship's Delegate, E. LaSoya; Engine Delegate, M. W. Greco. Discussion held regarding many repairs the ship is badly in need of. Would like headquarters to look into the condi­ tion of this ship. Disputed OT in engine and steward department. $5.00 in ship's fund. CHATHAM (Waterman), Septem­ ber 21—Chairman, W. S. Sharp; Sec­ retary, Alfred Hirsch; Ship's Dele­ gate, William S. Sharp; Deck Dele­ gate, Vernon Hopkins; Engine Dele­ gate, Wade McCall; Steward Dele­ gate, Joseph Millet. Discussion held regarding rusty water. Vote of thanks to the Union officials who have fought hard to have the vaca­ tion benefits raised to present levels. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), Sep­ tember 29—Chairman, R. Whitney; Secretary, A. H. Reasko. $26.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Few hours disputed OT in engine and deck department^ OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), September 7—Chairman, V. C. Smith; Secretary, H. P. Du­ Cloux; Ship's Delegate, V. C. Smith; Deck Delegate, S. H. Fulford; En­ gine Delegate, R. Gorja; Steward Delegate, L. Betts, Jr. $10.60 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Wa­ terways), August 2—Chairman, J. Donovan; Secretary, O. Frezza. $13.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian Lines), September 14 — Chairman, John Eddins; Secretary, Robert D. Brown. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no dis­ puted OT TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Wa­ terways), August 10—Chairman, J. Donovan; Secretary, O. Frezza. Discussion held regarding new con­ tract. Everybody is pleased with the new rate of increase. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), October 5—Chairman, William D. Bushong; Secretary, L. Ceperiano; Deck Delegate, Dillon Dow; Engine Delegate, T. J. Meehan; Steward Delegate, Howard Schneider. $70.00 in ship's fund. Everything is run­ ning smoothly in all departments. Motion was made that chocolate milk be s ipplied on all SIU ships in addition to fresh milk and butter­ milk. AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), September 28—Chair­ man, Hans J. Jacobson; Secretary, W. H. Underwood; Ship's Delegate, John Boldiszar; Deck Delegate, Clarence Troy; Engine Delegate, Gerard Bellenoit; Steward Delegate, Claude Hollings III. $5.85 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments. MADAKET (Waterman), Septem­ ber 14 — Chairman, Joel V. P. Bremer; Secretary Leon J. Webb; Ship's Delegate, Edward Leasgang; Deck Delegate, Harry G. Jones; Engine Delegate, M. J. Pyke. Some disputed OT in engine department. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), September 28—Chairman, John Ed­ dins; Secretary, Robert D. Brown. Some disputed OT in engine depart­ ment. Everything is running smooth­ ly. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Octo­ ber 5—Chairman, John Cisiechi; Secretary, W. L. Kilgore; Deck Dele­ gate, Bob Mosey; Engine Delegate, Van Whitney; Steward Delegate, Stavios Petrisentes. Discussion held regarding poor mail service to ship. $10.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. STEEL ENGINEER (Isthmian), October 12—Chairman, J. Beyes, Jr.; Secretary, Angel Seda; Ship's Delegate, J. Beyes, Jr.; Deck Dele­ gate, Earl P. McCaskey; Steward Delegate, A. G. Seda. Department delegates reported that everything is running smoothly. $11.50 in ship's fund. BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart Tankers), September 28—Chairman, Robert N. Fulk; Secretary, C. L. Shirah; Ship's Delegate, F. Hagerson; Deck Delegate, Paul Ward; Engine Delegate, R. E. Pickett; Steward Delegate, D. C. Palite. Few hours disputed OT in engine and steward departments. Vote of thanks was extended to the SIU Negotiat­ ing Committee for a job well done. IBERVILLE (Waterman), October 12—Chairman, John Cisiecki; Secre­ tary, W. L. Kilgore. $10.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), October 12—Chairman, William D. Bushong; Secretary, L. Ceperiano; Ship's Delegate, Dillon Dow; Enpne Delegate, Thomas J. Meehan; Steward Delegate, Howard Schneider. $70.00 in ship's fund. Everything is running"^ smoothly. GENEVA (U.S. Steel), October 19 —Chairman, Fred Bischoll^ Secre­ tary, Frank Allen; Ship's Delegate, Fred Bischoff. $18.40 in ship's fund. Small amount of disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for the excellent food and service. CANTON VICTORY (Columbia), September 21—Chairman, C. F. Just; Secretary, M. L. Leache; Ship's Dele­ gate, Chester P. Just; Deck Delegate, M. P. Kramer; Engine. Delegate, Irving Futterman; Steward Dele­ gate, Herbert Knackles. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), October 19—Chairman, W. Bushong; Secretary, L. Ceperiano; Deck Dele­ gate, Dillon Dow; Engine Delegate, Thomas J. Meehan; Steward Dele­ gate, Howard Schneider. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. SEATRAIN OHIO (Seatrain), Au­ gust 10—Chairman, Robert L. An­ derson; Secretary, W. E. Messenger; Engine Delegate, Clinton Cleveland; Steward Delegate, Richard A. Mor­ gan. Some disputed OT in deck de­ partments, otherwise,there were no beefs reported by department dele­ gates. TRENTON (Sea-Land), October 12—Chairman, Dan Butts; Secre­ tary, Cristobal Dyesus; Ship's Dele­ gate, Dan Butts; Engine Delegate, Thomas P. Delaney; Steward Dele­ gate, Kenneth Bowman. $8.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. �November 14, 1969 Aside from some disputed present. One man, a wiper, was overtime aboard the Steel Voy­ taken off the vessel at Subic ager (Isthmian) Bay on orders of the Coast in the deck and Guard. Deck Delegate was G. engine depart­ R. Scott; Engine Delegate, Har­ ments, John Ed- old Keith, and Steward Dele­ dins, the meet­ gate, John Dansley. ing chairman, reports an other­ wise smooth The Columbia Eagle (Colum­ trip. Meeting Brown bia) was in idle status for about Secretary Robert three weeks beD. Brown writes that a radio­ fore crewing up gram was received concerning f ^ • in San Francisthe vacation pay raise and the CO, Thomas crew voted to accept. A recom­ \ ^ Ulisse, meeting mendation was made favoring jlSi-k ;/ secretary, reupgrading schools for cooks, electricians and supervisors. All / _ ^ first trippers are members not on watch attended Lone the meeting. Department dele­ Ship's Delegate gates are: Anthony Debelict, Kenneth L. Roberts read a deck; Michael Lesko, engine clarification of overtime division and Oliver Lewis, steward. in the engine department. Men standing watch before 0800 and after 1700 in port will share equally. A motion made by Ship's Delegate William 'S. Horace C. Long, Jr. and sec­ Sharp spoke to the crew of the onded by Ernest A. Anderson Chafliam (Wa­ proposed retirement for men terman) about with 15 years SIU seatime at the ship's break­ any age. It was also moved that down, indicating at least 1,000 pounds of bagged that the captain ice be put aboard all SIU ships will order pay on hot climate runs; the ice for missing a hot machines were said to be insuf­ I meal and any ficient to cope with the crew's cleaning done by needs. Dispute on old gunners' Hirsch the steward de­ mess which the meii want as a partment. The meeting took recreation room and the com­ place in the Indian Ocean on pany says is only a spare room. the way to Massawa, Alfred Ken Kristensen is deck delegate; Hirsch, meeting secretary re­ Ernest S. Newhall, steward dele­ ports, with 28 members present. gate, and George Spiiooty, en­ Chief Cook Duke Gardner re­ gine delegate. minded the younger Seafarers to keep their doors locked and not to trust any stranger near the Crewmembers aboard the living quarters. The crew sends their thanks to those union bro­ Producer (Marine Carriers) thers who have fought so hard were provided to have the vacation benefits with a rare treat raised to the present level. A —opportunity of complaint was received con­ visiting the se­ cerning the hard, rusty water rene, unsophis­ coming from scuttlebutts and ticated and un­ showers. "Our new underwear, spoiled Island of clothes and tummies are all St. Helena, rusty," Sharp reports. Vemon Meeting Secre­ Armada L. Hopkins is deck delegate; tary William H. Wade H. McCall, engine dele­ Rhone reports. An island at gate, and Joseph Miller, stew­ which very few ships call, "it is ard delegate. Napoleon Bonaparte's prison is­ land," Rhone writes. "We had an opportunity to visit his final home. It is still in beautiful re­ pair and well kept. This island The food situation was the is one of the few places left in subject of complaint aboard the world where a shopkeeper ' ^ the Connecticut will chase you down to give you (Connecti- change left in his store. TTie 1 cut Transport), people are beautiful—an Eng­ Meeting Sec­ lish speaking mixture of French, retary L. W. Portuguese, English, African, I Moore reports. Indian and others. A wonderful The steward was place to retire." The meeting requested to heard Ship's Delegate William check the supply E. Richardson explain why over­ Urzan order, including time was stopped in the deck fresh milk. The crew voted that, department. According to top­ if another foreign trip is made, side, he reported, OT will be there should be at least two resumed if all goes well. Money months' stores aboard. If any will be advanced on OT in item is short, the steward will India. Alfonso A. Armada notify Ship's Delegate Moore. chaired the meeting. Depart­ John Urzan chaired the meet­ ment delegates are: Biagio Di ing at which 24 members were Mento, deck; L. H. Haddox, SEAFARERS LOG engine; Joseph Naurochi, stew­ ard. A. H. Reasko, chief steward aboard the Beauregard (SeaLand), advises stewards on all SIU ships that a milk dairy is available in the Port of Cam Ranh Bay. He reports that very good, fresh milk is available and very easy to get. Reasko, who served as meeting secretary, re­ ports R. Whitney, ship's chair­ man, had spoken to the captain and the captain had agreed to change money for scrip—up to $25 per man—and to go to the PX with Seafarers who wish to make purchases. The men will be permitted to come and go as they please in Qui Nhon, with no restrictions. American money will be locked up in the safe by the captain, due to Vietnam regulations. A motion was made that SIU vacations should be the same as all other unions that sail on containerships. A^ lack of hot water and al when all port holes were cli| during cargo loading. A gram was received on the v| tion raises and a vote of th{ to the SIU Negotiating Com| tee recorded for a job done. The motion was madJ Hagmann and seconded bj Shaltens. Robert N. Fulk meeting chairman as the headed for Capetown, with| Congo as the next call. Ward was deck delegate; Pickitt, engine delegate anc C. Palite, steward delegate. A^ A dramatic transfer at sea curred from the Transerie (I son Waterwjl reports Se| tary W. B. brough. At All, stewl utility, stricken withi pendicitis transferre< Rucki the O r s where he underwent an er gency operation. Seafarer will hopefully rejoin the before the end of this trip, co-operation and fast ac| of the crew in effectua the transfer made his succ ful treatment possible. Her J. Rucki, newly elected sl| delegate, announced that All crewmembers aboard the Canton Victory (Columbia) were ordered by the captain to stay off deck and away from port holes as the ship moved up the Saigon River. Snipers have been shooting at Kramer almost all ships LONDON—Worldwide on the river. Ship's Delegate Chester F. Just told the meeting. up for the next two years Meeting Secretary M. L. Leache United Nations-chartered Ir reports that all members present. Organization (IMCO) here, A motion was made to request (Bull) Shepard who attende(| the company to return the salon from the United States. Shepard pointed out that I pantryman to all victory-type ships, as one man doing the discussions will be held on work of two works a hardship one of the most relevant fcf "We're particularly intereij on the whole department. It was tainerization to be held in also moved that the ship's interested in all phases o^ chairman check with the cap­ tain on why the crew can not maritime." The containerization confj have access to the ice machine and also to check on the Cali­ wide international scope ar fornia Holiday, when all other with the United Nations. If not held with the UnitJ ships in the Bay area were paid the 14-day conference "State OT. M; F. Kramer is deck dele­ its specialized agencies an| gate; Irving Futterman, engine Agency, together with obse delegate and Herbert T. Macand International Non-Gov| kles, steward delegate. mally present at conferences release issued by the organiz IMCO's membership niii Kong which is an associate A bonus has been requested Among the other matter for the crew of the Bradford Is­ safety of fishing vessels, mar land (Steuart In the last category, IM( Tankers) by stowing bulk grain in cargo Ship's Delegate According to a release isl L. F. Hagmann, as the ship was Inc., this procedure provide^ under attack at ships. The method has been del Da Nang. Secre­ tary Charles L. "conducted by the U. S. Far Shirah writes the National Cargo Bureau.' Ward that requests The Bureau release furtl were also made for lodging on the Coast Guard will shortj two occasions—once due to the apply" the procedure. Global Meetl Slated by �Page Twenty Nine jgam Dsed teleacanks mitwell ; by D. was pship the iiPauI w D- replacements were flown in from New York for ailing Sea­ farers George Forrest, David May, Ronald Beaton, Ralph Wilson and A. R. SIngletary, who got off for treatment. T. E. Anderson Ts deck delegate and R. D. Elliott steward delegate. The meeting was chaired by Brother V. V. Hakkarainen. T. Conway, meeting secre­ tary, reports a chow problem aboard the Transglobe (Hudson Water­ ways). Because there has been no improvement in the food com­ ing from the galley, a motion Andersen was made by Arthur A. Andersen, engine del­ egate, and seconded by Theodore H. Katros, steward delegate, that only experienced cooks be hired, and, if none are avail­ able, that cooks be ordered through the Yokohama hall. F. Van Dusen amended the mo­ tion to require that all key rat­ ings be shipped out of Yoko­ hama or the States. Seafarer Katros was elected ship's dele­ gate at the meeting which was chaired by Richard Sohl. An­ tonio M. Sison is deck delegate. The ship is on the Far East run and is expected to pay off at the Port of Naha, Okinawa. Jngs on Maritime |MCO Delegates leetings on maritime issues were set I at last month's sixth meeting of the jter-governmental Maritime Consulting [according to SIU Vice President Earl the sessions in London as a delegate at over the next two years, international many important maritime subjects— Dqr the SIU being containerization. th^ted in the special conference on conF1<1971," Shepard said, "but we're also the IMCO's work since it deals with FC M^rence scheduled for 1971 will be of a Cod may possibly be conducted jointly clu Sefed Nations, then IMCO will invite to :s Members of the United Nations and d the International Atomic Energy irvers from such Inter-Governmental .ernmental Organizations as are norCo convened by IMCO," according to a lation. nbers 69 countries, including Hong Imember. discussed at the meeting were the [ine pollution and bulk cargoes, fo approved of a new procedure for jships. sued by the National Cargo Bureau, a "safer" way of loading bulk grain her ^f^vised after five years of experiments J°^el on Bulk Cargoes—spearheaded by Fra' J'^®er stated that "it is anticipated that °, ly issue new instructions on how to Alb 'age Thirty SEAFARERS LOG November 14, 1969 Francis Joseph Smith, 71: Burial was in Montmorenc' an SIU pensioner who had last James C. Thompson, 42: Erie Lackawanna Railroad. He Irother Smith was a pensioner Township Cemetery, Montmor­ worked for the B and O Rail­ Brother Thompson died on served in the Navy during World who succumbed ency County, Michigan. road in New York in 1964. He September 5 in War II. to heart disease was a deckhand. Burial was in USPHS Hospi­ on September St. Mary's Cemetery, Staten tal, r New Or­ 14. H e h a d Island. leans, from lung sailed as an OS Jobe Mullen, 46: Brother disease. He Conrad M. Barlar, 19: Sea­ in the deck de­ farer Barlar passed away on Mullen died of a respiratory joined the Un­ partment. Sea­ ailment on June ion in Louisiana October 1 from John Austin Hals, 57: Sea­ farer Smith, who 2 in Pensacola, in 1951 and injuries r^eivec farer Hals passed away follow­ was born in Florida. Seafar­ sailed as an AB. in a car accident ing an accident His last vessel was the Robin Losedale, New York, joined the er Mullen 'was in Mobile, Ala­ aboard the Eliz­ Kirk. A native of Littleton, New hion in the Port of New York an OS in the bama. He hac abeth on Sep­ Hampshire, Seafarer Thompson 1 1960. Brother Smith and his deck department shipped in the tember 16. He was living in Jacksonville, Flor­ ife, Anna, made their home in and last sailed deck departmen was a native of ida, with his wife, Betty Jane, srsey City, New Jersey. aboard the Del as an OS and Estonia and was when he passed away. From Para in 1969. He last sailed aboarc making his home 1944 until 1951 he served in joined the Union in the Port of Hudson. Brother Barlar in New Orleans the Navy. Burial was in Ever­ Mobile in 1944. Brother Mul­ joined the Union in the Port of at the time of green Cemetery, Jacksonville. len had been sailing since 1942. Marvin Reginald Yoiug, Jr., New Orleans in 1968. A native his death. Brother Hals joined A native of Pensacola, he con­ 0: Brother Young died as the of Alabama, he was living there the Union in the Port of New tinued to make his home there. result of injuries at the time of his death. Brother York in 1944 and sailed as a Burial was in Union Hill Ceme­ received in an Barlar graduated last January steward. tery, Escambia County, Florida.. automobile acci­ 10 from the Harry Lundeberg Edward Hei^ Schmidt, 66: dent in Tuske- School of Seamanship. Survi­ — Seafarer Schmidt died as a re­ gee, Alabama on vors include his mother, Laxie Alton Everett Douglas, 68: sult of injuries July 27. He Mae. Burial was in Catholic Seafarer Douglas died from an Charles A. Doirough, 58: received in an made his home Cemetery, Bayou La Batre, Brother Dorrough died at his intestinal dis­ auto accident in in Jacksonville, Alabama. home in Colum­ order on June 28 Chicago on No­ Florida, with his bus, Georgia, on in USPHS Hos­ vember 5, 1968. andmother, Mrs. Willie Pearl July 25 following pital in New Or­ He was a native iker. Seafarer Young had a heart attack. Chester H. Green, 64: Broth­ leans. He joined of Chicago and the SIU in 1969 in the er Green died in Seattle, Wash­ He was a native the Union in the still lived there •rt of Jacksonville and sailed of Georgia and ington, on Sep­ Port of New Or­ at the time of his a messman in the steward lived there with tember 15 from leans in 1955 death. Brother Schmidt joined :partment. His last vessel was his mother, Lu­ heart disease. He and sailed in the the Union in Chicago in 1956 Transcolumbia. Brother cille. Seafarer was a native of deck department as an OS. He and worked in the engine de­ lung was a native of Florida Ohio and had last sailed with Dixie Carriers partment as a fireman. Survivors Dorrough joined the SIU in the was buried in Evergreen joined the SIU Company. A native of New include his brother, Fred, of Port of Mobile in 1945 and ;metery, Jacksonville. in the Port of Orleans, he was living there Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. sailed in the steward department Baltimore in with his daughter, Janice Fort- Cremation was at Oak Wood as a cook. His last vessel was 1947. He shipped ner, when he passed away. the Transhuron. Burial was in Crematory, Chicago. in the deck department as a Riverdale Cemetery, Columbus. ^ Earl Jackson SilUn, 64: Sea- bosun and last sailed aboard the r Sillin passed away on Sep­ Overseas Evelyn. He was living Henry Martin Motley, 60: tember 23 in in Baltimore at the time of his Brother Motley died on Septem­ Tampa General death. Seafarer Green is sur­ ber 20 in USPHS William D. Gee, 57: Brother Hospital, Tam­ vived by a brother, Walter. Hospital, Gal­ Gee,' an SIU pensioner, died on pa, Florida from veston, Texas, October 9 at lung trouble. He from heart dis­ Doctor's Hos­ was a native of GENEVA —George L-P ease. He was a pital, Jefferson Rufino Lara, 54: Brother Arkansas who Weaver, former Assistant Secre­ native of North County, Texas, was living in Lara died from a heart disease Carolina and was frpm uremia. He tary of Labor -for International on September 24 Hudson, Florida living in Orange, joined the SIU Affairs, has begun a new assign­ in Brooklyn. He the time of his death. Broth• Texas, with his in Port Arthur ment as special assistant to Di­ was a native of Sillin was an SIU pensioner wife, Edith, when he died. Seaand sailed in the rector General David A. Morse Fort Mills, Phil­ 10 had last sailed aboard the arer Motley joined the Union steward depart­ of the International Labor Orga­ ippine Islands, J Monte in 1965. He joined in Port Arthur, Texas in 1964. ment as a cook. He last worked nization. and made his ; Union in Jacksonville, Te served in the steward depart­ for Sabine Towing Company in home in Brook­ The ILO said Weaver will be )rida in 1941 and sailed in ment as a cook and last worked 1967. Seafarer Gee was a na­ lyn with his wife, engine department as an based in Washington, D.C. Amparo. Sea­ or Slade, Inc. He was an Army tive of New Orleans and was where he will handle its relations )WT. Burial was in Sunset - f| veteran of World War II. Bur­ living in Port Arthur with his 5mory Garden, Hillsborough farer Lara joined the Union in ial was in Forest Lawn Cemewith U.S. government agencies. wife, Vema Mae, when he unty, Rorida. Survivors in- the Port of New York in 1958. ;ery. Orange. passed away. Burial was in He also will function as Morse's de his son, Lawrence of He sailed in the steward depart­ Memory Gardens, Nederland, roving representative. ment as a utility man and messfner, Florida. Texas. Weaver was appointed an As­ man. His last vessel was the Robert Matthew Godwin, 62: sistant Secretary of Labor by Maiden Victory. Brother Lara served in the armed forces from Seafarer Godwin passed away President Kennedy in 1961 and <1> from heart dis­ 1934 until 1947. Burial was in served in that post during the Alice Azile Cook, 49: Sister ease on Septem­ Long Island National Cemetery, Johnson Administration. He re­ ok died on September 11 Farmingdale, Long Island. ber 14 at his Paul McPartland, 62: Broth­ in Paul Oliver home in Norfolk, er McPartland passed away in mained in the Labor Depart­ Memorial Hos­ . USPHS Hospi­ ment under the Nixon Admin­ Virginia. He pital, Frankfort, tal in Staten Is­ istration long enough to head joined the SIU Michigan, from John Raymond Lotz, 63: Sea­ land, New York, the U.S. government delegation in the Port of heart disease. farer Lotz passed away on Sep­ on June 26. A to the ILO conference in June. Norfolk in 1963 She worked in tember 14 at St. native of Jersey and sailed in the Weaver was executive secre­ the steward de­ City, New Jer­ tary of the AFL-CIO Civil Vincent's Medi­ deck department as an AB. A partment as a sey, he had been , Rights Committee following the cal Center, Rich­ native of North Carolina, he was cabin maid and mond, New York iving in Norfolk with his daugh­ making his home merger and later an assistant to last employer was the Ann from a heart ter, Francis G. Dameran, when in Parsippany, )or Railroad. Sister Cook disease. He was le died. Brother Godwin's last Vew Jersey, with his wife, Eliz­ the president of the Electrical, ed the SIU in the Port of a native New vessel was the Alcoa Explorer. abeth. Seaman McPartland, Radio and Machine Workers. nkfort in 1968. She is a naYorker who was rom 1929 until 1931 he served who was retired on an SIU pen­ He was worker adviser to 1957 of Michigan and continued living in Staten in the Coast Guard. Burial was sion, joined the Union in the and 1958 ILO conferences, and ive there with her husband, Island with his wife, Catherine, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Nor­ Port of New York and last in 1968 was elected chairman ert, until she passed away. when he died. Brother Lotz was folk. worked as a deckhand for the of the ILO's governing body. Weaver Named To New ILO Job �Public Employees' Right to Strike Upheld hy Court Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from ' time to time.) — >iy — Stltzel-Welier DistUlerici "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StlU," W. L. WeUer Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) •^ Kingsport Press "World Book," "ChUdcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Riebman Bros, and Seweli Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) ^ Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) ^1> Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas ^ Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) <|> All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) \|> "HIS" hrand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richi Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Atlantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) ^ Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Economy Furniture Co. Smithtown Maple Western Provincial Biit-Rite (Upholsterers) SAN DIEGO—A California state judge ruled that public employees have a constitutional right to strike in the absence of any law specifically prohibiting it. The decision, if uphefd by higher courts, breaks new legal ground in affirming the basic riglits of city, state and county workers. Superior Court Judge Hugo Fisher dissolved a temporary restraining order that prohibited a strike called by a State, Coun­ ty and Municipal Employees lo­ cal representing nearly 1,000 San Diego city workers. The city had asked for a per­ manent injunction, contending that all strikes by public em­ ployees were illegal. Row, Row Your Boat No Cure for Smoking GREAT YARMOUTH, England—Two young men here will be depending on plain old fashioned will power to give up smoking from now on. Planning to kick the smoking habit, David Lindo, 20, and 19-year-old Peter Madgett set out to row across the North Sea, con­ fidently leaving their ciga­ rettes ashore. A week later, they would reach the Neth­ erlands as healthy, happy non-smokers. Or so they thought. After eight hours, how­ ever, they had changed their minds. "David was terribly sea­ sick. We regret starting," Peter confided. Distress flares drew the attention of a passing ves­ sel and a tow back to shore in the nick of time. David had to be taken to a hospital to recuperate. Schedule of Idembership Meetings SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orlezns Dec. 16—2:30 p.m. Mobile Dec. 17—2:30 p .m. Wilmington Dec. 22—2:00 p.m. San Fran. . . Dec. 24—2:00 pm. Seattle Dec. 26—2:00 p.m. New York . Dec. 8—2:30 p,m. Philadelphia Dec. 9—2:30 p,,m. Baltimore .. Dec. 10—2:30 p •m. Dec. 12—2:30 p .m. Detroit Houston ... Dec. 15—2:30 p,.m. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers United Industrial Workers New Orleans Dec. 16—7:00 p.m. Mobile .... Dec. 17—7:00 p.m. New York . Dec. 8—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Dec. 9—7:00 p.m. Baltimore . . Dec. 10—7:00 p.m. ^Houston . . Dec. IS—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit . . .. Dec. 1—2:00 p.m. Alpena .. .. Dec. 1—7:00 p.m. Buffalo .. . . Dec. 1—7:00 p.m. Chicago . .. Dec. 1—7:30 p.m. Duluth .. .. Dec. 1—7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. Dec. 1—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... Dec. 16—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Dec. 18—7:30 p.m. Buffalo .... Dec. 17—7:30 p.m. Duluth .... Dec. 19—7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. Dec. 19—7:30 p.m. Toledo Dec. 19—7:30 p.m. .Detroit .... Dec. 15—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . Dec. 15—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Dec. 16—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... Dec. 17—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Dec. 9—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed . Dec. 10—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... Dec. 11—5:00p.m. Houston .. . Dec. 15—5:00 p.m. RaUway Marine Region Philadelphia Dec. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Dec. 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Norfolk Dec. 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Dec. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meetingf held at Galveston wharves, t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shtpard Lindiay Wllliamt Al Tanner Robert Mafthawt SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Ksrr HEADQUARTERS *75 4th Ave., (212) HY ALPENA, MICH .800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, Md. ... 1216 E. Baltimoro St. (301) EA 7-4700 BOSTON, Mass 663 Atlantic Avenue (617) 482-4716 .. 735 Washington St. SIU (716 TL 3-9259 IBU (716 TL 3-9259 9313 Ewing Ave. CHICAGO, III. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 BUFFALO, N.Y DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT, Mich. HOUSTON, Tex JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2014 W. 3rd St. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. Box 207 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 5B04 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 2608 Paarl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. . . 99 Montgomary St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawranca SI. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La. ... 630 Jackson Ava. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1340 Savanth St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 1531 Mission St. (415) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. .. 1313 Farnandai Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEAHLE, Wash 2505 First Avanua (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravois Blvd. TAMPA, Fla TOLEDO, Ohio (314) 752-6500 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 Minnesota Labor Wants HHH Back In Senate Seat MIIVNEAPOLIS — It's! no secret that the Minne-I seta State AFL-CIO wants former Vice President Hu-! bert Humphrey to run for i the Senate seat which is be­ ing vacated by Senator Eu- i gene McCarthy. The State AFL-CIO is, distributing buttons calling! for "Humphrey in '70.' Last month the State j AFL-CIO convention unan-1 imously voted to urge Hum­ phrey to run for the Senate. McCarthy has announced on several occasions that he will not seek re-election. The question will come to a head next February when precinct caucuses are held throughout the state. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU AtUntic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brookljm. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atiantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. ., Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracte are available in all SIU halls. Tbeae contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing tor OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU imtrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The IX)G haa traditionally refrain^ from publishing any article serving the poliUcal purposes of «iy individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This esUblished policy has bwn reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1800, meetings in all imnsUtutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy U vested in an ^itorial board which consisU of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive B<»rd may delegate, frm among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt b given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members, should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has realfirmed the lung-stsnding Union pylicy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarets Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirdy voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitntional right of access to Uniim records or informatton, he shoold immediately notify SIU President PanI Hail at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. �Vol. XXXI No. 13 SEAFARERSWLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO / "> Ship's Committee holds a meeting as the Steel Designer makes ready for another Vietnam run. Left to right are Yasser Szymanski, secretary; Verner Poulsen, chairman; Donald King, steward department delegate; Fro Using Thng, deck delegate, and Robert Goldy, engine, larrie Proffitt, second electrician, takes time out to catch up on the news as he waits for departure on another run to Saigon. Brother Proffitt, a long-time member of the SlU, began sailing in 1927 when he was 16 years old. •vV • ^ ^ ^ -w ^HE Steel Designer teas •A home in Erie Basing at the Port of New York briefly last month after a military setdift run to Saigon, with a stop on the West Coast. The Sfl/-coittracted C-4 immediately began taking on a cargo of military supplies for another voyage to Vietnam. , pWare Newby, rtqht, crew pantry, will have la chance to learn a lot from VVilliam EckJeri pantryman. Newby is I7"years old and Kfeiking his first trip. Brother Ecker is 80. The crew is always ready for good chow, even in port, so Third Cook Donald King, left, and Chief CoOk William Brown, "fiake great pains to prepare another hearty meal, ^ Leonard S. Bugajewski, AS, has been sail^ ing with the SlU for more than 27 years and is still going strong. He reported a smooth voyage with very few problems.s;;H;,;;;il?:i^ " ' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. 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Title A name given to the resource November 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: INCREASED CARGO FOR US BOTTOMS SEEN VITAL TO LASTING FLEET REVIVAL VOTING ON AMENDED CONSTITUTION TO BEGIN NOV 22 IN ALL PORTS NIXON UNVEILS MARITIME PROGRAM TO ENCOURAGE CONSTRUCTION, GIVE IS FLAG SHIPS MORE CARGO SEAFARERS DISCUSS AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION TEXT OF PRESENT SIU CONSTITUTION CTT CITES TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS – INCLUDING CONGLOMERATES, AUTOMATION NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AWARDED TO ILO FOR 50 YEAR ROLE IN SOCIAL JUSTICE STEEL DESIGNER – VIETNAM BOUND Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/14/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 13 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/8604a5e1a6b17b12d77be0ffaf91b864.PDF 4d3495e9bc6197bad12b198fd08652b7 PDF Text Text Vol. XXXi No. 14 SEAFARERS •£(>€ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Polls Close Dec. 22 h Union Balloting On New Constitution Story Page 3 SlU Scores Victory In Five-Year Beef; $625,000 Awarded Story Page 3 iMS-; } • �SEAFARERS LOG Page Two I',! ; • •'•••" • *• ~ • - • " ••• • THE -r ^ :.vv^\V>\ .-••sVX '; V, » • «.« I • December, 1969 \- i •,. IN THE GE STRIKE •-f] ji t' the lUE was unlawful. "Such conduct," the court said, "amounts to a dec­ laration on the part of the company that not only the union, but the process of collective bargaining, itself, may be dispensed with." (It took nine years for the case to wind its way through the legal maze, and it may yet be appealed by GE to the nation's highest court, occasioning still further delay. Meanwhile, GE continues to employ the technique in open defiance of the labor laws.) Typical of thousands of informational picket lines calling for consumer boycott of GE products in front of retail stores throughout the nation was the one shown here in which Seafarers supported GE strikers outside Macy's and Korvette stores in N. Y. 66'T^HIS IS NOT just another big strike; it is a fight for the future of effective unionism. It is a strike we will not lose." With these words, AFL-CIO President George Meany has drawn the battle lines in labor's massive struggle with the General Electric Company, mobilizing the full resources of the trade union movement on behalf of the beleaguered strikers. To achieve ultimate victory, Meany has brought into play labor's most potent weapon: The economic boycott. The federation has urged its mem­ bers, their families and their friends to put all GE products—from light bulbs to major appliances—on the "don't-buy" list until the strike is settled. On the bricks since October 27 have been 150,000 workers, members of 13 international unions. Of these, 10 unions are affiliates of the AFL-CIO —the International Union of Electrical Workers, Machinists, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Technical Engineers, Sheet Metal Workers, Allied Industrial Workers, Plumbers, Steelworkers, Flint Glass Workers and Carpenters. The other three unions are the unaffiliated United Electrical Workers, Auto Workers and Teamsters. Ranged behind them are the rest of the trade union movement—13.5 million strong—who are engaged in a one-two economic campaign to secure victory on the picket lines. One of the economic pincers is the boycott, aimed directly at the most sensitive nerve of all, GE's "pocketbook nerve." The other is a trade-union-wide'fund-raising drive, aimed at providing the eco­ nomic base which the strikers need to hold out for a fair and equitable settle­ ment at the bargaining table. Arrayed against them is the General Electric Company, world's largest and most profitable electrical manufacturer and one of the top money-makers in all of American industry. This is the company which advertises that "pro­ gress is our most important product"—^but which clings stubbornly to a 19th century hatred of trade unionism. (This is also the company that.was the king-pin in the price-rigging conspiracy which ended up in a half dozen electrical industry executives drawing prison terms earlier in this decade— leading some to suggest that GE's slogan should be changed to read "profits are our most important product.") 'T'HIS YEAR, General Electric added another dimension to its arrogant "take-it-or-leave-it" attitude—^painting itself as a front-line fighter in President Nixon's war on infiation. The unions, according to the company, were making demands which would fan the fires of inflation; GE, it insisted, was only doing its "patriotic duty" by making an obviously inadequate offer of an economic settlement. For the 150,000 striking GE employees, the issue in this strike is simple: The future of their 13 unions is at stake. If the company can crush the strike and impose its "non-negotiable" terms, then, as the court said, "not only the union, but the process of collective bargaining itself may be dispensed with." For the rest of the trade union movement, the issue is equally simple: A victory by General Electric would stiffen the spines of countless other anti­ union employers across the country. They could be expected to follow in GE's footsteps, adopting a hard-nosed attitude at contract time, refusing to negotiate, dictating unilateral terms, and thus threatening the entire institu­ tion of collective bargaining which has come to be accepted in this country over the past third of a century. It is because the stakes are so high that the picket lines are holding firm at GE plants and facilities in 40 states. And this is why the informational pickets are manning the lines in front of thousands of retail stores across the country to carry the boycott message to the general public; why workers and unions are digging down into their pockets to raise a strike relief fund that is equal to the need; and why labor is organizing voluntary and public health and welfare agencies at the community level to provide auxiliary assistance to strikers and their families. It's all summed up in what George Meany said: "This is not just another big strike; it is a fight for the future of effective unionism. It is a strike we will not lose." %9 in the General Electric strike is more than just a contract; what ATisISSUE at stake is the entire concept of free collective bargaining. General Electric does not believe in collective bargaining. It believes, instead, in a concept known as "Boulwarism," named for the man who de­ vised this strategy—Lemuel Boulware, former \^e president in charge of labor relations for the giant electrical manufacturer. "Boulwarism" is the essence of non-bargaining. It involves a strategy of meeting continuously with the union, listening to the union's demands— but not negotiating. Instead, the company keeps up a barrage of mail—^firing it over the negotiating committee's head directly into the homes of the workers. It is as if the union did not exist. Then, at what management considers tg be the "psychological moment," usually just before the contract is due to expire, GE tells its employees, what the company has decided to give. The "package" is non-negotiable—it is presented to the workers on a "take-it-or-leave-it" basis. (The day after the present strike started, the Second U.S. Court of Ap­ peals ruled that GE's practice of "Boulwarism" in 1960 negotiations with AFL-CIO President George Meany (left) and SlU Vice President Earl Shepard discuss key issues at stake in nationwide strike of 150,000 General Electric workers at a rally of the New York City Central Labor Council urging all-out support for strikers. •, �December, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Three $625,000-Settlement Won: SlUs Five-Year Battle Ends In Galveston Victory GALVESTON—The SIU United Industrial Workers have won an unprecedented $625,000 settlement here in an agree­ ment which ended a five-year dispute between the Galveston Wharves and the Union. The money is to compensate 34 employees who were laid off at the Galveston Wharves Ele­ vator "B" in 1964 for back wages and severance pay and also to make up for unpaid SIU Pension and Welfare Plan con­ tributions, payments of railroad retirement taxes, past employee contributions to the Union and certain of the Union costs. The agreement is the culmi­ nation of a beef which started when the company notified the Union in July, 1964 that it had leased the grain elevator to an­ other company and therefore would no longer bargain with the Union on matters affecting the elevator workers. A strike was called by the Union and, after six months of picketing in Galveston, Texas, the Union was hit by a court injunction obtained by the Wiiarves. An appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1965 brought ailing against the company, and it was ordered to reinstate the employees with back pay, and to bargain with the Union. An appeal for reversal by the company resulted in a reaffirma­ tion of the original decision. The company then took the mattfer to the Supreme Court, which upheld the Circuit Court and or­ dered the Wharves to negotiate a settlement with the Union. This occurred in 1969. After several weeks of nego­ tiations, the Union and the Gal­ veston Wharves reached the agreement which provides: • Six months severance pay for each employee or his widow. o Back pay for the period February 1, 1965 to Septem­ ber 12, 1969, each employee— or his widow—^to receive the difference between actual earn­ ings and what he would nor­ mally have earned at the grain elevator. • Contributions by the com­ pany for the period involved to the SIU Pension Plan to cover the employees' retirement and to the SIU Welfare Plan to cov­ er employees and their families for welfare benefits. • Railroad retirement pay­ ments for employees who choose to retain such benefits. • Reimbursement to the Un­ ion for legal and other expenses incurred during the five-year beef. • Recognition of the Union as bargaining agent in the event this elevator is ever again op­ erated by the company or the city of Galveston. Of the 34 employees who went on strike in 1964, some had died or retired in the in­ terim. There are 26 remaining., Paul Drozak, Assistant Re­ gional Director of the SIUNAUIW and SIU port agent at Galveston, summed up the agreement this way: "This is a tremendous victory for the employees and our Un­ ion—a settlement that is un­ precedented in the entire labor movement. The employees and their families have received the greatest Christmas present of their lives." Registering to vote at SIU Headquarters is Seafarer Waller Grosvenor, Chief Steward, at right. From left are Gus Malensky, AB and Edward Polise, oiler, members of the New York balloting committee. The Union membership began voting on the amended SIU constitution in all Ports on November 22. Secrecy of the ballot was guaranteed by voting booths with drawn curtains. Seafarer Erasmo Flecha, FOWT, above, has just finished voting in N>Y. Seafarer Robert Hester, AB, having cast his vote, deposits ballot in official box at SIU Headquarters. Procedure was familiar daily sight in all ports. • '1 .1 I V SIU Port Agent Paul Drozak, flanked by Union counsel Paul Barker, right, and Newton Schwartz, left, announces SlU's unprecedented Galveston Wharves victory to a meeting of the members concerned. MTD Charges Defense Dept. Yktimizes Private U.S. Fleet WASHINGTON—The oper­ ation of government-owned ships by the Department of Defense constitutes "unfair, un­ wise and unwarranted competi­ tion" with the privately-owned merchant marine. That is the position taken by the 7.5-million-member AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment in calling for the deactiva­ tion of all ships which had been taken out of the reserve fleet to back up merchant vessels on the Vietnam sealift. The views of the MTD, which is headed by SIUNA President Paul Hall, were con­ tained in a statement filed with the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. The MTD expressed its sup­ port for H.R. 14257, introduced by Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), committee chairman, which would require the use of privately-owned American-flag vessels, in pref­ erence to government-owned vessels, for the carriage of govenrment-sponsored cargo. "The Vietnamese shipping crisis is now over," the Maritime Trades Department declared. "The winding down of the war has reduced the demand for emergency shipping. In fact, the demand has been so reduced that privately-owned merchant ships are going into lay-up— and their crews are being put on the beach—because of a lack of cargo." "And yet many of the ships from the reserve fleet remain in service today, carrying govern­ ment cargo that by rights should be moving on privately-owned ships. ..." The MTD insisted there was "no justification" for keeping these ships in service, adding that there is no "comfort to be taken from the numbers game indulged in" by the Defense De­ partment, which has concen­ trated on reporting on the ships which have been deactivated, rather than on the considerable numbers still in operation. (Continued on Page 10) Balloting on AmenJed Constitution Scheduled to Conclude on Dec. 22 Voting on the proposed amended constitution for the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District has been conducted in all ports since No­ vember 22 and will be concluded at 5 p.m. on December 22. The secret ballot on which Seafarers are casting their votes contains three propositions—the proposed new constitution itself; a change in the method of pay­ ing dues, plus the termination of assessments; and a change in initiation fees. It was decided by Seafarers to place the proposed amended constitution on the ballot at spe­ cial membership meetings held in all ports on October 22-23. During these meetings, the re­ port and recommendations of the Constitution Committee, made up of six duly elected book members, was submitted to, and overwhelmingly accepted by, the membership. In addi­ tion, the complete text of the proposed new constitution was read and fully discussed at each of the meetings. (The full text of the Constitution Committee's report and texts of both the ex­ isting and proposed constitu­ tions were carried in the No­ vember 14 issue of the LOG.) In its recommendation that the new constitution be adopted, the committee pointed out that certain "housekeeping changes" must be made from time to time and noted that no major changes had been made in the Union's constitution for some 10 years while "there have been many changes in the industry and interpretations of laws" af­ fecting it. Changes in the method of paying dues, the committee pointed out, will have no effect (Continued on Page 10) �Page Fonr SEAFARERS December^ 1969 LOG Rep. Wilson Tells MTD: Rep. Kyros Calls for Consistency: Banning of 'Multiple Subsidies' Vital To WorthwhileMaritime Legislation Conflict Within Govt. Blamed For ^Deadly Erosion' of Fleet WASHINGTON —A mem­ ber of Congress warned last month that he would seek to amend the Nixon Administra­ tion's forthcoming maritime leg­ islative proposals unless they contain provisions banning the payment of "multiple subsi­ dies" to a select group of Ameri­ can shipping lines. Representative Charles H. Wilson (D-Calif.) said that it was "imperative" that new mari­ time legislation put an end to the practice whereby the 14 sub­ sidized shipping lines use fed­ eral aid "to compete with unsubsidized operators for govern­ ment cargo, instead of using them the way the law intended —^to compete with foreign-flag operators for commercial cargoJ» California congressman a meeting sponsored by the .5-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department that he would also work for in­ clusion of language that would give unsubsidized operators "first-call" on government-gen­ erated cargoes, and for a system which would give these opera­ tors long-range charters to carrygovernment cargo so that they would be assured "fair and eq­ uitable treatment." Wilson expressed general sat­ isfaction with the maritime mes­ sage sent to Congress by the White House in October. He noted that on three key issues, the Administration proposals paralleled ones which the Dem­ ocratic congressman had advo­ cated in the spring of 1969. These provisions, he said, would: • Provide new ships for the unsubsidized segment of the merchant marine as well as for the subsidized segment. • Assure that all Americanflag ships are built exclusively in U.S. shipyards. • Grant unsubsidized opera­ tors the. same right now enjoyed Representative Charles H. Wilson (D-Calif.), left, assures SI UNA Vice President Earl Shepard of his strong backing of MTD proposals to provide new ships for the unsubsidized segment of the merchant marine as well as his wholeheartd support of measures to insure that American-flag ships are built exclusively in U.S. shipyards. by subsidized operators to put contribute to economic growth. money aside in tax-deferred "More than half the cost of construction reserve funds in an American-built vessel is spent order to encourage increased outside the shipyard—we know private investment in new ves­ this, and the i'^erican people sels. and American industry must be The West Coast lawmaker made aware of this fact . . ." urged maritime labor and man­ he declared. "American-built ships need agement to join in a broad cam­ paign of public education,' so Ame ican-made steel produced that the American people would fron- American-mined ore . . , be aware of the need for an they need American-built en­ overhaul of present maritime gines control equipment, valves, policy and a commitment of pipe nd fittings of all kinds . . . added public funds to the task. they need American-made "Unless the public under­ wood\ ork, cooking and foodstands what this is about," Wil­ storage equipment, glass, paint, son declared, "we may have a beddin, !, tableware and the like job on our hands in trying to get ... aid all of these must be the tools with which to do the transpoited to the shipyards in American trains and trucks." job." Summing up, Wilson called Impact on U.S. Economy attention to the fact that a con­ Wilson emphasized the nec­ siderably enlarged American essity of explaining to the Amer­ maritime program can contrib­ ican people the basic fact that ute in large measure to bolster­ a strong shipbuilding program ing the American economy and would provide many jobs and helping enormously toward con­ version s£ this nation's balanceof-payments deficit into a sur­ plus. Seatrain Ohio Galley Crew Lauded by Ship's Officers The steward department aboard the SlU-contracted Seatrain Ohio last month received a spontaneous citation from the ship's officers for its "co-operative effort to please" during a recently completed voyage of the vessel. "It is seldom that an entire department is as conscientious and hard working as you men have been," the letter states, "In the face of such obstacles as long stays in port, not once did the officers and crew lack a first rate meal." Praised for a "job well done" were Chief Steward Warren Messenger, Chief Cook Jose Torrefiel, 2nd Cook and Baker Richard Morgan and 3rd Cook Percy Brown—as well as "the rest of the department for the courtesy extended us." Signed by N. C. Ghiz, the master; Lewis H. Rodriguez, chief officer; William C. Pollard, 2nd officer; Finer Brandt and Thomas Gunter, 3rd officers; Floyd J. Bird, electronic officer; Roger Whitsell, chief engineer; Francis Brousseau, 1st engineer; Johnny R. Flynn, 2nd asst. engineer; Ralph E. Greene and Charles B. Pearson, 3rd asst. engineers, the infor­ mal—^but no less enthusiastic—commendation concludes: "It is a pleasure to sail with men such as you, who take pride in your trade." WASHINGTON —A mem­ ber of Congress has urged the Nixon Administration to resolve "conflicting positions" within the Executive Branch which have led to the "deadly erosion of our maritime strength." Representative Peter N. Kyros (D-Me.) singled out the Department of Defense, in par­ ticular, for what he said were "conflicts of ideologies" that threatened the potential of the merchant marine program sent to Congress by the White House in October. Speaking at a meeting spon­ sored by the 7.5-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Representative Kyros said that the Defense De­ partment has "undercut" the merchant marine in a variety of ways, among them being: • Lobbying for "a multibillion-dollar scheme to build its own fleet of cargo ships," the so-called Fast Deployment Logistics Ships. The Congress­ man called the project "ques­ tionable under any circum­ stances," and "unthinkable" at a time when the Administration is seeking to "breathe new life into our merchant shipping." • Operating ships from the reserve fleet in competition with the privately owned fleet, leading to the "enforced idling" of commercial vessels. • Drafting the nation's mili­ tary sealift program based on the "discredited" theory that, in an emergency, the government can rely on ships owned by Americans but registered and crewed abroad, thus aiding "the cause of those who contend we do not need a merchant marine buildup." Congressman Kyros also criti­ cized the Secretary of Trans­ portation "and some highly placed officials" in the Defense Department who, he said, advo­ cate building American mer­ chant and naval vessels abroad at a time when the White House "officially calls for the rejuve­ nation of American shipyards." He noted that, while the Ad­ ministration program talks of "putting more government cargo on American vessels," officials in the Department of Agricul­ ture and the Agency for Inter­ national Development have "consistently thwarted the spirit and the letter of the law by favoring foreign-flag carriers over American-flag vessels." Kyros called for development of a program "that will make it impossible for anyone in gov­ ernment, whatever his motives, to undercut the American mer­ chant marine." Port of Norfolk Posts Lone Gain fn Foreign Cargo NORFOLK—The Port of Norfolk was the only one of the East Coast's four busiest ports to record an increase in foreign commerce handled for the first eight months of this year. Showing increases across the board, Norfolk achieved a gain of 3.2 percent in export ship­ ments, 18.9 percent in imports and 5.1 percent in total foreign commerce. Tonnage through the ports of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore fell during the period, the decline being mainly in im­ ports. The sharpest decrease was registered in the Port of New York, which dropped 7.9 per­ cent. The Port of Philadelphia was next, with a loss of 4.3 per­ cent and the Port of Baltimore decline was 2.7 percent. However, New York re­ mained the top port in total cargo, with 34,286,532 tons while Norfolk was second, with 19,619,514 tons. The race for third was neck and neck with Philadelphia registering 15,397,915 tons to Baltimore's 14,721,090. For the United States as a whole, total foreign commerce was 286,820,498 tons, a 1,626,887-ton drop from the 1968 total of 288,447,358 tons for the comparable period. Ten Additional Full Book Seafarers Ten additional men received their full books at the December membership meeting at SlU headquar­ ters. Latest batch of graduates of the Seniority Upgrading Program, some displaying their books are, in front, from left: Lang M. Kelly; William Schneider; George Yeackel; William Parrish and Donald J. Grain. Back row: Christopher Ratcliffe; John E. Coleman; Alfred Bodie; Byron Blackwell; Richard Velez. V y �December, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Five LOG Goal Reached by 365 Seafarers as: John F. Henning Apiiointed Union-Sponsored Upgrading Program To Key CdH. AFL-CIO Job Produces 6 New Licensed Engineers SACRAMENTO—^John F. Henning, former United States Ambassador to New Zealand, has been appointed director of research to the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. He will also hold the post of administrative assistant to SecretaryTreasurer Thomas L. Pitts of the California labor body. Henning served as United States Ambassador to New Zealand from 1967 to 1969, a period during which he won widespread popularity in that country, particularly in the ranks of labor. The Seafarers LOG, in the issue of September 27, 1968, reprinted an article entitled "U.S. Ambassador Clicks" from the New Zealand Clarion, official magazine of the New Zealand Laborer's Union, which reflected the high regard he enjoyed among New Zealanders. In it, the magazine re­ called a speech Henning made in 1965 when he was U.S. Under-Secretary of Labor in which he attacked the "right to work" laws and Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act. Prior to serving as Under-Secretary of Labor in the Ken­ nedy-Johnson Administrations from 1962 to 1967, Henning had been State Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, a post to which California's Governor Edmund G. Brown appointed him in 1959. He is also a past presi­ dent of the San Francisco Board of Permit Appeals and a past member of the San Francisco Public Welfare Commis­ sion and of the San Francisco Equal Employment Oppor­ tunities Commission. From 1949 to 1959 he held the office of research director for the California Federation of Labor which he now resumes as part of his new duties. In making the announcement of Henning's current ap­ pointment, Secretary-Treasurer Pitts of the California AFLCIO said: "The Federation is delighted to have a man of Jack Henning's stature rejoin the State AFL-CIO. "As most California trade unionists know, Mr. Henning brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the job and has always been an outspoken champion of workers' rights." Wist. Labor Saves 1-Man, 1-Vote y MADISON, Wis.—The head of Wisconsin's One-Man, OneVote Committee has credited the State AFL-CIO with a key role in persuading the legisla­ ture to reject a resolution call­ ing for a constitutional conven-^ tion to overturn the Supreme Courts's ruling that legislative districts must be equal in popu­ lation. The state Assembly voted down the so-called Dirksen Amendment resolution by a 6236 vote. Mrs. John Toussaint, chair­ man of the statewide coalition against the Amendment and president of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters, said in a statement: "While a number of organiza­ tions and individuals joined with us in opposing the Dirksen Amendment the influence, or­ ganizational ability and legis­ lative knowledge of the state AFL-CIO was undoubtedly a key factor in the success of our campaign." At one time or another, 33 legislatures passed constitutional amendment resolutions but the validity of several has been chal­ lenged. Thirty-four states must act in order to summon a convention —a method of initiating a con­ stitutional amendment which has never been used in the na­ tion's history. The late Senator Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.) led the drive to force a constitutional conven­ tion after the Senate repeatedly refused to act on his proposed amendment. Six more Seafarers have been graduated from the School of Marine Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and MEBADistrict 2. Following successful completion of the comprehen­ sive training program offered by the school, the six men are all newly licensed engineers who have passed their coast guard examinations. The total number of Seafar­ ers who have been graduated from the Union-sponsored Estrada McLaughlin as an oiler before entering the School in September. He grad­ uated with a Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's License on November 13. A native of Derry, New Mexico, Brother Luchini now makes his home in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, with his mother, Mon­ ica Luchini. Raul Estrada, 46, is a na­ tive of Tela, Honduras, and now lives in New Orleans with his Luchini Martin wife, Barbara. He joined the school and passed their Coast SIU in the Port of Baltimore Guard licensing examinations and graduated in 1959 from the Andrew Furuseth Training now stands at 365. School. He sailed as an FOWT Charles Martin, 49, is a na­ before graduating from the tive of Pennsylvania who now School of Marine Engineering lives in Moorestown, New Jer­ sey with his son, Kenneth C. on December 3 with a Third Martin. He joined the SIU in Assistant Engineer's License. the Port of New York in 1949 Lionel A. McLaughlin, 50, and sailed as an FOWT and joined the Union in 1942 in Mi­ pumpman before entering the ami and shipped as an FOWT School in September. Brother before graduating from the Martin graduated on December School on December 3 with a 3 with a Temporary Third As­ Third Assistant Engineer's Li­ sistant Engineer's License. Dur­ cense. He is a native of Cuba ing World War II Seafarer Mar­ who now makes his home in tin served in the Army. Brooklyn with his wife, MorRoland Luchini, 34, joined aima. the Union in the Port of San Vincent Edward Welch, 50, Francisco in 1968 and sailed of Great Barrington, Massachu- At Detroit Port Council Dinner Welch Moran setts, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1968 and sailed as an FOWT and electrician be­ fore entering the School in Sep­ tember. He graduated on No­ vember 17 with a Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's Li­ cense. A native of Great Bar­ rington, Seafarer Welch lives there now with his brother, James Welch. During World War II he served in the Navy. James Joseph Moran, 24, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1968 and sailed as an electrician before entering the School in July. He gradu­ ated on November 7 with a Tem­ porary Third Assistant Engi­ neer's License. A native of Brooklyn, Brother Moran now lives in Kings Park, Long Island, N.Y., with his father, Francis J. Moran. From 1963 until 1967, Seafarer Moran served in the Coast Guard. Any engine department Sea­ farer who meets the following requirements is eligible to enter' the upgrading programs at the School of Marine Engineering. He must be at least 19 years old and have a minimum of 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine de­ partment in addition to at least six months experience as a wiper or equivalent. Additional information and applications for enrollment for eligible Seafarers may be ob­ tained at any SIU hall. Govt. Can Ban Dangerous Toys Detroit and Wayne County Port Council annual dinner last month was a huge success, with some 600 in attendance. From left, above, are SlUNA Vice President John Yarmola; Ed Craft, business agent of De­ troit Firemen and Oilers: Mayor John McEwan of River Rouge and SlUNA Vice President Fred Farnen, who ifealso secretary-treasurer of Detroit and Wayne County MTD Port Courcil. Among other prominent people also in attendance were Representative Martha Griffith and Detroit Mayor-elect Roman Gibbs. WASHINGTON — Congress has responded to evidence that many toys are unsafe by com­ pleting action on a bill that per­ mits the government to ban the sale of dangerous toys. The measure now goes to President Nixon for his signature. Under previous regulations, the Food and Drug Administra­ tion was empowered to stop the sale of toys or articles for use by children only if they were proven to be flammable, toxic or otherwise organically harmful. The new law would extend the FDA's authority to poten­ tially dangerous mechanical or electrical toys—such as over­ heating play stoves, unsafe science kits and chemistry sets —and other items deemed haz­ ardous to children. �Page Six SEAFARERS Cilbert Predicts a 'Major Assault' By Oil Interests Against Jones Act # WASHINGTON — Powerful American oil interests are mounting a major assault on the Jones Act, a federal law which bars foreign-flag ships from en­ gaging in this nation's domestic waterbome cmnmerce, Repre­ sentative Jacob H. Gilbert (DN.Y.) warned here this month. He said the oil industry wants the domestic shipping law "re­ pealed, or, at a minimum, seri­ ously crippled" as part of the exploitation of the vast oil re­ serves discovered along the North Slope of Alaska. The Congressman told a meeting sponsored by the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment that the laws requiring the exclusive use of American-flag vessels in the domestic trade apply to the carriage of this oil from Alaska to the continental United States. But the oil interests, he pointed out, are among the lead­ ing operators of "runaway-flag" shipping—vessels owned by American firms but registered in foreign nations and crewed with foreign seafarers—and they want to use these vessels in the Alaska oil trade. "They want to be able to un­ dercut the American tanker in­ dustry which pays American taxes and fair American wage scales, and which is subject to reasonable American safety standards," Gilbert said. The Congressman, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, cau­ tioned the maritime industry "not to underestimate the power of the oil interests in Washing­ ton." He cited the Senate's vote to reduce the oil depletion al­ lowance from 27 Vz percent to 23 percent, as contrasted with a 20 percent level voted by the House, as evidence of "the po\yer which could be concen­ trated in an attack on the Jones Act." Gilbert charged that the wealthy oil companies "aren't content with what they have al­ ready—^they want more." The attack on the domestic shipping market, he declared, comes at a time when the Ad­ ministration and the Congress are "on the brink" of develop­ ing a new merchant marine pro­ gram that would restore vigor to America's lagging shipping and shipbuilding industries. "It would be the height of folly," the New York Congress­ man said, "to try to develop the merchant marine on the one hand, and to undercut it on the other. What would we gain, in the long run, if the regaining of WASHINGTON —In terms of votes, it was one of the closest elections in the nation's history. But measured by money spent for television and radio time, the 1968 presidential election was a runaway victory for the . Republicans. Statistics compiled by the Federal Commimications Com­ mission show that the NixonAgnew ticket spent nearly $12.6 million for television and radio time during the presidential campaign. That is more than twice the $6.1 million spent for air time on behalf of the HumphreyMuskie slate. A further breakdown of the figures by Congressional Quar­ terly magazine shows the GOP presidential slate spent $4.2 mil­ lion for network television, com­ pared to $2.5 million for the Democratic ticket, and outspent the Democratic candi­ dates $4.8 million to $2 mil­ lion for local television time. The total radio time bought amounted to $3.6 million for Nixon-Agnew, compared with $1.7 million for HumphreyMuskie. For candidates for all oflices during the 1968 general election campaign. Republicans spent $22.5 million for air time against $15.4 million for the Democrats and $2.5 million for minor party candidates. While Republicans generally out-spend the Democrats in buy­ our position as an international shipping power were to be pur­ chased at the price of our do­ mestic shipping industry? "The answer, of course, is that we would be no better off—and we might be worse off, because we would have opened the flood­ gates to all manner of cut­ throat foreign competition that could undermine our economy." Mississippi River Continues Growth In Cargo Handling NEW ORLEANS^—A climb of 95 percent in waterbome freight on the Mississippi River below Minneapolis over a single decade was recorded by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Waterbome commerce rose 2.8 percent in 1968 over the previous year, amounting to 219,162,231 short tons. The busiest stretch of the river was that between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which alone han­ dled 110,328,530 tons. This does not include the Port of New Orleans itself, which han­ dled 113,511,052 tons last year, leading all other ports on the river. Baton Rouge, which han­ dled 37,872,394 tons in 1968, was the second busiest port. The fastest growing part of the waterway was that between the Ohio River and Baton Rouge, according to the report. ing television and radio time, Here 74,490 tons were moved, the gap last year was by far the representing an increase of 134 greatest. In 1964, Republican percent over 1958. candidates out-spent the Demo­ A 10-year increase of 77 per­ crats only $13 million to ^1 cent in exports carried on the million; in 1960, the gap was river system was also reported. $7.6 million to $6.2 million, and These rose from 14,635,265 in the 1956 election $5.4 to tons in 1958 to 25,633,969 tons $4.1 million. last year. GOP Outspent the Democrats In '68 Presidential Campaign December, 1969 LOG Statement of Omership STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION (Act of October tS, IBSt; Section iSSe. Title St, United States Code) 1. DATE OF FILING 2. TITLE OF PUBLICATION October 81, 1969 Seafarers Log 8. FREQUENCY OF ISSUE Monthly 4. LOCATION OF KNOWN OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 876 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11282 6. LOCATION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OR GENERAL OFFICES OF THE PUBLISHERS 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11282 6. NAMES AND ADDRESS OF PUBLISHER, EDITOR, AND MANAGING EDITOR PUBLISHER Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, 676 Fourth Avenue, Brookljm, New York 11282 EDITOR Harry Wittschen, 676 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232 MANAGING EDITOR None 7. 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TOTAL (Sum of E & F—should equal vet press run shown in A) 60,000 60,000 I certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete. Harry Wittschen, Editor Company Persuaders' Ruled Liable for Total Accounting NEW ORLEANS—Com­ pany lawyers and labor consul­ tants who perform "persuader" services for an employer must file annual reports listing all in­ come and expenditures for all labor relations clients, not only those who paid for "persuad­ ing," the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals mled in a 7-5 decision. The court settled a conflict in opinions by other courts on what Congress intended when it passed the Landrum-GriflSn Act in 1959. It reversed a 1966 mling by a three-judge appeals panel, and followed the lead of another appeals court—the 4th Circuit at Richmond, Va.— whose 1965 mling in another SlU Pension Review Committee Completing Study Since its election at special November 17 membership meetings in Constitutional Ports, the SlU Pension Review Committee shown hard at work above has been meeting daily at Union headquarters in Brooklyn for the purpose of reviewing and recommending ways and means *to improve the SlU Pension Plan. Guiding the committee in its deliberations are the opinions of Seafarers as expressed in the special Pension Questionnaires contained in several issues of the LOG and also mailed to all members of the Union in September. Members of the Committee are (l-r): Irwin Sherman, New Orleans: Terry McNee, Baltimore; Albert Saxon, Mobile: Phil Reyes, Houston; Jim Solder, New York; • Frank Pasaluk, Philadelphia. The men expect to have a full report on their study ready In January. case was refused review by the Supreme Court. The Landmm-Griffin amend­ ments to the labor law require company "persuaders" to file 30-day and annual reports of income and expenses with the Secretary of La^r, One lawyer —R. D. Douglas, Jr., of Greens­ boro, N.C.—refused to file a full financial statement, but lost his fight in the Supreme Court. The current case involves three labor relations lawyers who sued former Labor Secre­ tary W. Willard Wirtz. They lost in the Dallas, Tex., district court, but won a tentative vic­ tory from an appeals court panel here. The full court has now ruled against the lawyers. A "persuader," under the L-G law, is any person hired by an employer to persuade em­ ployees as to their ri^t to or­ ganize and bargain collectively, • or hired by the employer to sup­ ply information about the con­ certed activities of employees or unions. Chief Judge John R. Brown, writing for the' majority in the latest case, said "It boils down to this. As long as the attorney limits himself to [non-persuader] . . . activities he need not re­ port. No report is set in motion by reason of his doing these things. What sets the report in motion is performing persuader activities." The dissenting judges said the ruling flashes the spotlight of publicity on the "private and confidentid, if not privileged, affairs of . . . innocent persons who chanced to receive advice or information in the area of 'labor relations,' whatever that is . . . from an attorney who happened ... to engage, in •persuader activities,' whatever they are." J'l r' �December, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Seven LOG 25 More Seafarer OUtimers Join SlU Pension Ranks I Joining the growing number His last ship was the Cortez. A of SIU pensioners last month native of Massachusetts he now were 17 additional Seafarers lives in Elizabeth, New Jersey. who retired to the beach after Seafarer Logan sailed the seas many years of sailing the world's for 46 years before he retired. seaways. Frederick Edwards, 68, is a Accurso Bonti, 65, joined the native of New Orleans and now SIU in the Port of Boston and makes his home in Algiers, Lou­ sailed in the engine department isiana. He joined the SIU in the as an FWT. His last vessel was Port of New Orleans and sailed the Del Oro. A native of Mas­ as a steward. His last vessel was sachusetts, Brother Bonti lives the Penn Challenger. in New Orleans. He had been George L. Baugh, Sr., 72, of sailing since 1927. Houston, Texas is a native of Dawson Perry, 63, is a native Illinois. He joined the Union in of Alabama who continues to the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department as a chief electrician. His last ship was the Keva Ideal. He now makes his home in Houston with his wife, Marguerite. Brother Baugh served in the Navy from 1917 until 1919. John E. Smith, 65, joined the Ferry Bonti SIU in the Port of Philadelphia live in that state in the Port of and sailed as a tug captain for Mobile. He joined the Union in Interstate Oil Transport Com­ Mobile and sailed in the stew­ pany. He is a native of North ard department as a messman. Seafarer Perry's last ship was the Steel Voyager. John D. Psathas, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of Houston and sailed in the deck depart­ ment as an AB. His last vessel was the Overseas Anna. A na­ Logan Edwards tive of Greece, Brother Psathas now makes his home in Houston Carolina and now lives in Phil­ adelphia. From 1922 until 1928, with his wife, Eleni. Qyde S. Lowe, 65, is a na­ Brother Smith served in the Coast Guard. tive of Live Oak, Florida, and Walter Johnson, 63, is a na­ now makes his home in Mobile, tive of Daphane, Alabama, who Alabama, with his mother. now lives in Mobile with his wife, Amelia. He joined the Un­ ion in Mobile and sailed in the steward department as a cook. He last worked for Mobile Tow­ ing Company. From 1927 until 1933, Brother Johnson served in the Coast Guard. Seafarer Johnson had been sailing the seas for 36 years when he re­ Psathas Lowe tired. Daisy Laura Lowe. He joined Harry Jay Farnsworth, 65, the SIU in the port of Mobile joined the SIU in Port Arthur, and sailed as an engineer for Texas and sailed as an engineer Pilots Service Corporation. with Slade Inc. He is a native of Ivar J. Kalroth, 67, of Brook­ Ohio and now makes his home lyn, New York joined the Union in New Caney, Texas. in the Port of New York and served in the deck department as an AB. His last vessel was the Houston. Brother Kalroth is a native of Finland. Deloss Harman, 47, is a na­ tive of Philadelphia who now makes his home in New Orleans with his wife, Dorothy. He Baugh Smifli joined the SIU in the Port of Harvey Vernon Long, 65, of Mobile and sailed in the engine department as an FOWT. His Benzonia, Michigan, joined the last vessel was the Delta Brazil. Union in the Port of Frankfort and sailed in the engine depart­ ment as an oiler. He is a native of Michigan and had been sail­ ing for 46 years when he de­ cided to call it a career and re­ tire. His last vessel was the Viking. Brother Long now makes his home in Benzonia with his wife, Mina Mary. Herman Kalroth Francis D. Gonsoulin, 63, William Edward Logan, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans in 1942 and sailed New York in 1942 and sailed in in the deck department as a the deck department as an AB. bos'n. He is a native of Lou- Jtrihnson Farmworth isiana and now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Emelda. Sven G. Regner, 65, is a na­ tive of Sweden and now lives in Freeport, Long Island. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the steward department as a sec­ ond cook. His last vessel was the Steel Fabricator. Witold Wieromiej, 56, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck depart­ ment as an AB and a bos'n. His last vessel was the Jacksonville. A native of Poland, Brother Wieromiej now lives in Flemington, New Jersey with his wife, Antonett. He was issued a picket duty card in 1962. Teddy A. Ronda, 51, is a native of New York and now lives in the Bronx with his wife, Margaret. He joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed as a mate with the Penn­ sylvania Railroad. Brother Ron­ da is an Army veteran of World War II. Long Gonsoulin Juan Luis Pagan, 68, is a na­ tive of Puerto Rico and now makes his home in Miami, Flor­ ida, with his wife, Ermitana. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the steward department. His last vessel was the Elizabethport. Brother Pagan served in the army from 1920 until 1923. In 1962 he was issued an SIU picket duty card. Charles M. Morgan, 66, joined the Union in the Port of Houston and sailed in the steward department as a cook. His last vessel was the Halcyon Panther. Brother Morgan is a native of North Carolina and is now living in Highlands, Texas, with his wife, Evelyn May. Regner Wiermniej Mat R. Abraham, 63, joined the Union in the Port of New Ronda York and served in the engine department as a wiper. He is a native of Mexico and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Ana Rita. His last vessel was the Detroit. In 1961 Brother Abraham was issued an SIU picket duty card. He had been sailing for 30 years when he decided to retire to the beach, John P. O'Connor, 67, joined Morgan Carlos C. Morales, 66, of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, is a real oldtimer who joined the SIU Co<^[»a' Abraham O'Connor the SIU in Chicago and worked as a cook for Hannah Towing Company. He is a native of Chi­ cago and continues to make his home there with his daughter, Jacqueline Noccio. Clarence R. Cooper, 59, served as a mate for the Curtis Bay Towing Company. He joined the SIU in Philadelphia and now lives in Aldan, Penn­ sylvania, with his wife, Erma. Qarence E. Neece, Sr., 62, is a native of Mississippi who now lives in Coden, Alabama, with his wife, Martha. He joined the Union in the Port of Mobile and worked in the deck depart­ ment. He was. last employed by Pilot Service Corporation. Neece in the Port of New York back in 1939. He sailed in the deck department as a bosun and his last vessel was the Portland. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Morales had been sailing 44 years when he retired. Joseph J. Penner, 66, is a native of Maryland who will be spending his retirement years in Morales Penner Seattle, Washington. He is an old-timer in the Union, joining in 1939 in the Port of Phila­ delphia. Serving in the deck department as an AB, Brother Penner last sailed aboard the Vantage Horizon. Seafarer Pen­ ner had been serving a sailing career of 44 years when he re­ tired. Singapore Set to Expand Role In World Shipping SINGAPORE—Singapore, which enjoys the distinction of being an island, a city and a republic at the same time, has embarked on an expansion of its activities in world shipping. Already the fourth largest port in the world—^the largest in Southeast Asia—this cosmopolitan city of about two mil­ lion Chinese, Malays, Indians, Pakistanis, Ceylonese, Etirasians and others, is fast becoming the shipping center of the Far East. Starting about five years ago, shipyards were set up here aimed at attracting vessels which would otherwise call at Mediterranean ports for repairs. Singapore's Finance Minis­ ter Goh Keng Swee points out that few ports in the Far East have the facilities to repair large ocean-going vessels. The shipbuilding effort was spurred by two circumstances —the pullout by Great Britain of its military establishment here—a process which is to be completed by 1971—and the closing of the Suez Canal. Singapore has set itself the twin tasks of making up the loss of income caused by the first and of taking commercial advantage of the second. The three shipyards here have been earning about $34 million a year. By the mid 1970s, the largest shipyard will be capable of building vessels of up to 70,000 tons. Facilities are already available to repair vessels from the Persian Gulf and Japan. In addition, Singapore plans construction of its own naval patrol boats and ocean-going freighters and has already launched its own national shipping company—the Neptune Orient Line—^which is engaged in the Far East-to-Europe cargo service. �Page Eight SEAFARERS 'Negligence'on Soviet Fishing Boats Degiored by Russian Administrator MOSCOW—A high-ranking Russian fisheries administrator recently expressed deep concern over what he called the "care­ less, negligent and scornful at­ titude" of many officers and engineers sailing aboard Soviet fishing vessels—a state of affairs which frequently results in ac­ cidents and damage to the fleet. Crewmembers, both young and old alike, often feel that they have no need to keep up with the navigational rules of the sea, and do not try to main­ tain the traditions dear to pro­ fessional seamen, the fishery official complained, in a recent issue of the Soviet magazine Vodniyi Transport. He laid the blame for this attitude squarely upon the So­ viet school of navigation and seamanship which train officers and marine specialists for the huge Russian fishing fleet. According to the adminis­ trator, not further identified in the article, Russian maritime schools do not offer their stu­ dents courses which would in­ still in them the traditions of the sea, or teach them proper discipline at sea. Instead, he notes, students readily take to bad habits—first among them often being "smart­ ness and drinking while getting one's feet wet." After graduation from these schools, young Soviet seafarers often find also that the example set for them by their superiors and older shipmates is not al­ ways inspiring to better sea­ manship. Skippers "appearing on the bridge in a cloud of alcohol fumes" are bound to have a de­ pressing and demoralizing effect on their crews, the Russian ad­ ministrator commented. To support his criticism of some Soviet seamanship, the Soviet official reported the case of the fish processing factoryship Sovetskii Sakhalin which ran aground in Terpeniye Bay, off Cape Obshimyi, in the Sea of Okhotsk during September 1968. Visibility was excellent at the time and the vessel was equipped with the latest electronic navi­ gational instruments. An official inquiry later revealed that the vessel's first mate had twic* changed the ship's position with­ out informing the captain. None of the watch officers had both­ ered to check the vessel's posi­ tion during their watch stands and the third mate determined , the silo's co-ordinates ear" and entered them in the log without advising the captain. The inquiry board ruled that the accident resulted from "criminal negligence on the part of the navigation officers" and of "a deplorable performance of the officers' duties." In another incident last year, the Russian tanker Ursul, en route from Korsakov to Nevel'sk on the Soviet island of Sakha­ lin, ran aground. When the accident occurred, the second mate was drunk and had left the bridge without advising the captain. While the vessel was crossing this most dangerous area, the captain himself was not on the bridge. The Soviet official stoically concluded that the maritime schools in his country will have to try harder if their students are to live up to the noble tra­ ditions of the sea and seaman­ ship. DISPATCHERS REPORT Atlantic, Gulf & Inland Waters District November 1, 1969 to November 30, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston ......... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals ...... All Groups Class A Class B 4 5 86 106 17 15 32 24 13 22 24 29 16 16 46 34 104 103 50 42 26 40 104 77 47 27 569 540 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 6 5 4 73 80 11 18 16 4 57 21 11 17 12 5 29 9 32 1 7 1 29 21 5 59 54 18 26 34 7 26 35 9 97 62 26 43 35 16 470 423 128 All Groups Class A Class B 6 3 189 177 26 30 113 56 34 41 27 22 20 25 95 27 139 73 139 115 38 . 3 80 16 ' 56 16 962 604 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston .... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B 3 4 83 88 16 23 30 27 9 20 20 40 7 10 28 43 99 98 20 44 17 38 62 95 64 26 458 556 Class A Class B Class C 4 2 2 59 83 18 16 15 1 31 39 6 11 17 3 18 36 13 18 1 20 25 0 51 72 19 19 50 9 12 28 11 61 82 24 64 29 29 367 486 136 STEW STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 4 6 3 5 2 New York 71 48 51 36 23 Philadelphia 6 11 10 7 2 Baltimore 28 8 41 9 11 Norfolk 15 25 7 19 10 Jacksonville 19 21 19 17 18 Tampa 6 4 13 1 16 Mobile 10 13 19 2 89 50 New Orleans .... 54 44 12 19 22 Houston 21 9 16 19 17 Wilmington 12 23 15 67 50 San Francisco ... 54 51 26 41 21 Seattle 31 20 4 290 403 Totals 317 262 142 December, 1969 LOG REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 4 2 130 173 11 25 57 43 19 47 16 35 11 15 64 47 113 81 89 93 22 10 56 28 32 4 624 603 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 2 152 115 10 15 89 29 33 25 11 21 9 7 50 22 130 49 93 62 16 7 63 13 47 16 706 383 In Saigon Home-made music sweetens the Far East breezes at dusk as Seafar­ ers Lester Hall, Jr., B. Gregory, Steve Peabody and William McCall (I. to r.) relax towards evening on the Buckeye Victory in Saigon. Rep. Mollohan Hits POD Another Legislator Punctures Theory of ^Effective Control' WASHINGTON — Defense Department claims that Ameri­ can-owned ships, registered in foreign countries, are available to the U.S. in times of emer­ gency, were sharply challenged last month by a member of the House Armed Services Com­ mittee. Representative Robert O. Mollohan (D-W.Va.) challenged the "effective control" theory as a "myth," declarinp that "the only ships that are effectively controlled by the United States are ones that are built in Ameri­ can shipyards, that fly the American flag, and that are crewed by American citizens." The congressman told a meet­ ing sponsored by the 7.5-million-member AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department that "relying on the patriotism" of the owners of these vessels is "a pretty weak reed" on which to lean. "Where does the owner dem­ onstrate his patriotism by regis­ tering his ship under a foreign flag? Certainly he's not being patriotic in terms of taxes, be­ cause he doesn't pay them to this country on the ships regis­ tered abroad. Certainly he's not being patriotic in terms of the American economy, because he isn't supporting the economy when he hires foreign, instead of American, seamen." Mollohan said that in the 1967 Middle East crisis, "the political views of the country of registry" proved to be "infinitely more persuasive than the political views of the country of owner­ ship." He referred to the fact that American-owned, Liberian-registered vessels refused to enter the Gulf of Aqaba, despite U.S. insistence on the right of free passage, because Liberia instructed owners of ships fly­ ing its flag not to become in­ volved in that issue. Mollohan urged President Nixon, in the maritime legisla­ tion scheduled to go to Capitol Hill, to come up with a bill that increases "reliance on Ameri­ can-flag ships, and that rejects the "theoretical, but impracti­ cal, claims that we can rely on ships of other nations, no mat­ ter who owns them." J Mim-SkffbHit As AuthUmon SANTA, ANA, CaUf.— A mini-skirted cutie is an unfair labor practice when the boss supplies her cos­ tume to defeat the union. This new fashion note in labor relations was sounded by the National Labor Re­ lations Board in a ruling against the Conolon Corpo­ ration here. Campaign literature dis­ tributed by the Marine and Shipbuilding Workers charged that the company paid "mini-wages." To con­ vince the workers that mini" was good for them, the boss' private secretary and the company vice pres­ ident recruited four or five of the office clerical work­ ers' not involved in the election, to distribute anti­ union literature. The girls wore mini-skirts and company-supplied high boots and they wore signs reading, "Yes on mini, no on union." The NLRB found the company-dressed leafleteers constituted an unfair labor practice. \ 11 41 "r t H L tf > ii �Puxtt Twenty One December, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine f-A STEEL KING —Anthony Hanna, chairman; L, 0.: w: Pierson, steward delegate;, ^ M, Del Prado, engine ^ delegate and'H. P. Lopez, ;deck delegate, constitute the ship's committee here. ^ i •• • f • s"«^c- ' '•©ALVESTON-^ThU " ,, ' ' *• ' •• ••-• •' •-^"--'••rV''••^'•V i|^^|^^n^r|^9H^^^H|HBW'l^''^^TfTchip^ecretary •'"•'..represents the SeaW., ... .^,, - official commurMCotio^ Q,ropolo: £"9'"® " °^°yeocVei. steward dele- MOBILE—Sitting around the table to discuss the welfare of the crew are, from left, F. T. DiCarlo, ship's secretary; J. Violante, deck delegate; P. Vicare, stew­ ard delegate: E. Hogge, meeting chairman, and P. Teets, engine delegate. Among the committee's usual tasks is full discussion of all SlU objectives. CHARLESTON—^The LOG photographer was able to catch only three mem­ bers of this committee. From left are Alvin Carpenter, steward delegate; Ted York, ship's secretary, and John Alberte, ship's chairman. The general alertness^of all SlU Ships' Committees determines to a large extent the smooth­ ness in handling beefs which come up at sea and insures a smooth trip for all. TRANSCHAMPLAINship's committee here functions smoothly and enjoys the confidence of the entire crew. Seated, from left: Steward Delegate Rob­ ert Matea; Deck Delegate Thomas Magras; Ship's Secretary Jack Long. Standing: Engine Delegate Sam Brattie, left, and Ship's Chairman Clarence Homchins. STEEL AGE—A clean ship is one of prime goals of this committee, as with those on all SlU-contracted ships. Left to rght around the table are: Drayson E. Warren, deck delegate: Frank R. Cottongin, Ship's Chairman; Glenn Dickens, engine delegate; Albert Sheffield, ship s delegate, and Pete Gonzalez, ship's secretary. �Page Ten SEAFARERS December, 1969 LOG Tough Polidng of t2Mile Fish Zone Coal of New Garmati Bill in House WASHINGTON — Legisla­ tion designed to beef up surveil­ lance of America's exclusive 12mile fishery zone and strengthen enforcement of regulations cov­ ering the area has been intro­ duced in the House of Repre­ sentatives by Congressman Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), Chairman of the House Com­ mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Citing the immedate need for his legislation, which was cosponsored by more than 20 other committee members, the Maryland Congressman singled out "increased and wanton vio­ lations of our 12-mile fishery zone by foreign-flag vessels" as a severe threat to this nation's valuable fishery resources. Among other things, Garmatz's bill proposes that more aircraft and ships be assigned to patrol duty in the area and that far more severe fines be levied, along with confiscation of all fish and fishing equipment possessed by foreign fishing ves­ sels found guilty of illegal fish­ ing within the 12-mile offshore zone. Under the existing law, the maximum fine for illegal fishing in the 12-mile zone is only $10,000. The. new legislation would increase the maximum fine to $50,000 and—^for the first time—^provide for a min­ imum penalty of $25,000. "We must increase both our surveillance forces and our pen­ alties," Garmatz emphasized. "Both are so weak at the present time that foreign fisher­ men feel it is a worthwhile gam­ ble to violate our 12-mile fish­ ery zone. Their chances of be­ ing caught are negligible—and even if they are caught, the pen­ alty is not stiff enough to really hurt or discourage the violator," the congressman noted. Make Illegal Fishing Risky "My committee wants to make it too dangerous and too expensive for foreigners to risk illegal fishing in our waters." In recent months, foreign fishing activity off the coasts of the U.S. has caused increased Congressional and public con­ cern and has severely affected SIUNA fishing aflSliates on both East and West Coasts. As an example of this in­ crease in activity, Garmatz noted that—in August of this year—a total of 325 foreign fishing vessels were sighted fish­ ing off the New England coast. This massive fleet included ships MTD Charges Defense Dept. Vktimizes Private U.S. Fleet (Contimied from page 3) "The issue is not whether some of the ships have been re­ turned to mothballs," the state­ ment said. "What is at issue is the fact that not all of them have been deactivated—and the ones that remain in service are being used in direct competition with our privately-owned American-flag fleet. We submit that even one governmentowned ship in competition with our privately-owned fleet is one too many." AMA'Also Scores DOD In a related development, the American Maritime Association charged that the Military Sea Transportation Service—an arm of the Defense Department— has been chartering ships built with federal construction sub­ sidy funds for extended periods of time. Such chartering is illegal, the AMA—an association repre­ senting unsubsidized ship­ owners maintained in a formal memorandum submitted to Maritime Administrator Andrew E. Gibson, who must approve these time charters. Ships built with federal subsidies are re­ quired by law to compete with foreign vessels whose lower costs of construction and operation are the justification for the U.S. government subsidy in the first place. Therefore, the association points out, they should serve the same essential commercial trade routes the competing for­ eign ships serve. Instead the AMA document charged, 43 ships—about 15 percent of the subsidized fleet —were under time charter to the MSTS for periods of two to three years as of October 1. All military cargoes are re­ quired by law to be shipped on American-flag vessels. In the case of the unsubsidized U.S.flag operators, however, the car­ riage of military and other gov­ ernment-generated cargoes is absolutely necessary if their largely over-age ships are to continue in operation, AMA said. The acknowledgement by Gibson that ships built with con­ struction subsidies, are ineligible for charter to MSTS, the asso­ ciation contended, would pro­ vide the necessary incentive for unsubsidized operators to in­ vest the large sums of money re­ quired to rebuild their aging fleets. belonging to the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Ro­ mania, Bulgaria, Israel, Ice­ land, Spain and Norway. In the Pacific Northwest, the Coast Guard admitted during recent Congressional hearings that only about 10 percent—or perhaps less—of foreign vessels that fish illegally in Alaskan waters are apprehended. The majority of these viola­ tions of U.S. Pacific waters are accomplished by Russian and Japanese fishing vessels. Garmatz pointed out that Alaska alone has thousands of miles of coastline, and that far more aircraft and ships are needed to effectively patrol and protect all of this nation's coastal areas. "We know that many vessels sneak into our 12-mile zone, es­ pecially at night, to fish ille­ gally," Garmatz said, "and we must act to protect our 12-mile zone because that is oiir most valuable source of fish." Approximately 80 percent of all fish and shellfish caught by the American fishing industry is taken within this 12-mile zone. "The purpose of this legisla­ tion is to put teeth in our dec­ laration of sovereignty over these waters," the committee chairman noted. If the Garmatz bill becomes law, all fish found aboard any vessel illegally fishing within the zone would be presumed to have been caught in violation of the Act and would be automatically forfeited. Such confiscation can constitute a far greater mone­ tary loss than any fine imposed, and such action is considered by the fishing industry to be an extremely effective deterrent. * ''• HOUSTON—Paul Drozak, SIU Port Agent in Houston and an executive board mem­ ber of the Harris County AFLCIO Central Labor Council, has been named a vice presi­ dent of the Texas State AFL- ao. Drozak was elected to the post last month by the Harris ^1 for exceptional service and un­ selfish dedicated efforts on be­ half of the labor movement in Texas." Among the many distin­ guished guests and speakers at the dinner dance were U.S. Representative Bob Eckhardt (D-Tex.); Texas State Senators Barbara Jordan, Babe Schwartz and Chet Brooks; Hank Brown, president of the Texas AFLCIO; and Houston City Coun­ cilman Frank Mancuso. i 'fj CousHtutibn Voto Concludes Dec 22 J (CtHitinued from page 3) on the total amount of annual dues paid by the membership but will spread payments evenly over the entire year rather than require Seafarers to make a large payment in the first quar­ Paul Drozak ter. County Council to fill a va­ A simplification in the quali­ cancy on the state body and his fications for elected office in the appointment was officially con­ Union is also included in the firmed December 11 by the full proposed amended version of executive board of the Texas the constitution as well as a AFL-CIO meeting in Austin. revision in balloting procedures This marks the first time a which would call for the use of member of the SIU has ever mail ballots in all future elec­ held such a high position in the tions. Texas State labor body. The committee also particu­ Drozak was also honored re­ larly emphasized in its report cently by the West Gulf Ports that the job rights of Seafarers Council of the Maritime Trades would in no way be changed by Department of the AFL-CIO at any of the proposed changes in its fifth annual dinner dance at the constitution. Job rights, the Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel they made clear, are preserved within the shipping rules as part here. In the presence of the more of the contract between the SIU than 700 persons who attended and the shipowners. Full results of the voting will the gala affair, he was presented with a plaque which was in­ appear in the LOG as soon as scribed as follows: all ballots have been received "Presented to Paul Drozak and tallied. * i. Safest Sea-Land Ship • il jfl •% I The SlU-contracted New Yorker receives a plaque for winning the "Safest Ship" award during 1968 for the Sea-Land fleet. From left are James Prendergast, chief engineer; Fred Boer, chief mate; SIU Pa­ trolman Tom Gould: Bob Snow, Sea-Land safety engineer; Adam Torres, the ship's master; Seafarers Ramon Benitez, BR and Isadora Henry, messman. Award was presented November 3 in New Orleans. T �December, 1969 SEAFARERS According to Lloyd's: U.S. Fleet Grows Smaller; Liberia Leads, Japan 2nd LONDON—The U.S.-flag merchant marine was one of only two major fleets in the world to show a decline for the year, as of September 30, according to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, which published its latest report here last month. Liberia remained the nominal owner of the world's largest merchant fleet, but Japan has nosed out Britain for second place. Liberia—^long a favorite haven for runaway U.S. ship­ pers—currently has 29,215,000 registered tons, doubling her figure of five years ago. An increase in gross tonnage of seven million tons in two years was posted by Japan, which now boasts a fleet of 23,987,000 gross tons. Britain's tonnage is 23,844,000, and the world total is now 211,661,000 tons. In fourth place is Norway—19,679,000 tons—and -the United States' 19,550,000-ton fleet relegates her to fifth in world tonnage. The U.S.S.R., with 13,705,000 tons, is sixth but moving up fast. Much of the increase in tonnage listed for many countries is attributed by Lloyd's to the larger vessels now being con­ structed. World Shipbuilding Sets High Currently under construction throughout the world, Lloyd's says, are a total of 17,807,928 gross tons of merchant ship­ ping—more than 1,800 separate vessels. This is the Highest total tonnage ever recorded during a single quarter. The sta­ tistics run through the end of September. Japan led all nations in shipbuilding with better than 22 percent of the world's total under construction, The 408 ships being built there account for 5,325,728 gross tons. The United States, with only 66 ships of 765,791 gross tons, ranked a poor ninth in tonnage under construction. In the totals for vessels on order, the U.S. was even lower, ranking 12th with just 1,643,833 gross tons. Japan also registered the largest individual gain in ships on order, with 18,517,319 gross tons on the books. Most coun­ tries showed small increases in total orders. The over-all world total of 1,833 vessels of 38,119,550 gross tons of ship­ ping on order, but not yet under construction, also set a new quarterly record. Page Eleven LOG Party Operates Red China's Unioas As Transaussion Belt for Woricers LONDON—rare insight into what "trade unionism" in Communist China is was re­ cently provided \n The China Quarterly, published here. Paul Harper, author of the article entitled "The Party and Unions in Communist China," explains in some detail just why Chinese unions cannot be char­ acterized as free trade unions. In fact, the preamble of the constitution of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) states; "The trade un­ ions of China are the mass or­ ganizations of the working class led by the Party and are the transmission belt between the Party and the masses." Harper sums this up as mean­ ing: "The unions lead the work­ ers on behalf of the Party." He describes the contradic­ tions in the labor-management relationship in China as follows: "Both management and un­ ions are under the ultimate rule of the Party, so improvements in the tangible material welfare of the workers are determined in practice by the same body that controls management—^the Party. If unions really are to represent the interest of the workers they must at times op­ pose the Party. Therein comes the rub." This "rub" has led to some historic conflicts involving some union leaders, even though members of the Party. They challenged the Party because they felt that they were elected to represent the interest of the workers. Trade unions under the Com­ munist rule began to develop in the 1940's and by 1950 the 6th Trade Union Congress was held. The structure of the ACFTU was that there were no real na­ tional unions of railroad work­ ers, seamen, machinists, etc. Instead, local craft unions affil­ iated directly with the ACFTU through municipal and provin­ cial councils which were domi­ nated by Party members. In 1950, the head of the ACFTU, Li Li-san—who had returned to China four years earlier after 15 years in Moscow —tried to lead the unions away from the Party. He started at least ten national industrial un­ ions. In addition, he named a new editor of the ACFTU news­ paper who followed Li's policy of trying to represent the work­ ers, to fight for their demands. Party leaders hit this as "economism" and "revisionism". The battle continued until late 1952 when Li Li-san was ousted as head of the ACFTU, replaced by a traditional Com­ munist Party bureaucrat, Lai Jo-yu. Li's top aides, including the editor, were bounced too. "There is not the slightest hint of any trade union work in Lai's career prior to his ap­ pointment as ACFTU Secre­ tary-General," writes Harper. He said that the Chinese Communist Party "chose to in­ terpret the unions' efforts to represent the interest of the workers as a threat to Party controls; the result was a return Vietnam's Unions Gaining Greater Responsibility WASHINGTON—The Viet­ namese Confederation of Labor (CVT) — 20 years old this month — is growing, thriving and "entering a new phase of responsibility," its leader told newsmen here. "Just as 20 years is consid­ ered a mark of maturity in a man, so is it a mark of maturity in our labor movement," CVT President Tran Quoc Buu de­ clared. Buu, who came to the United States to confer with AFL-CIO President George Meany and other federation leaders, was the guest of Meany and a number of members of the Executive Council at a Washington lunch­ eon. At a later press conference, Buu described the function of the strongly anti-Communist CVT, explained its future goals and reaffirmed its close cooper­ ation with the AFL-CIO. The CVT leader was accom­ panied by Nguyen Van Thang, assistant to Buu and director of the confederation's department of international affairs. AFL-CIO Director of Inter­ national Affairs Jay Lovestone int^ duced Buu and Thang as "two' trade union fighters for peace and freedom who have often paid a heavy price for their roles." Buu spoke of his five years in jail for resistance to French rule of Vietnam, his later flight from North Vietnam to avoid a Com­ munist purge, his role in found­ ing the CVT in November 1949 and its early years of tribulation. Looking ahead, he said the CVT is "entering a new phase of responsibility involving not just workers but the future of all of our people." As an example of this "new responsibility," he reported that the confederation — "not satis­ fied with any of the existing po­ litical parties in South Vietnam" —is laying the groundwork for a new political party. Although preparation for the party is being made by a com­ mittee set up by CVT in 1967, Buu envisions it as a party that will embrace not only workers, but firm anti-Communist groups of farmers and Buddhist orga­ nizations. Buu also reported that CVT has requested the International Labor Organization to under­ take a survey to determine the extent to which "freedom of as­ sociation" exists in North Viet­ nam and report on its findings. He indicated his own certainty of what such a survey would re­ veal. He said that with the par­ tition of Vietnam in 1954, the Communist rulers confiscated all CVT offices in North Viet­ nam. In the years since, he added, all CVT leaders there have either been jailed or as­ sassinated. In answering questions about CVT's position in South Viet­ nam, Buu said that labor lead­ ers have been jailed in the past "but all have since been freed. There are no longer any CVT leaders in prison in South Viet­ nam." He drew a contrast between the labor situations in North and South Vietnam, pointing out: "In South Vietnam we have the right to strike, we can ne­ gotiate on an equal basis and we have meaningful collective bargaining contracts." As an example of CVT's in­ fluence in South Vietnam, Buu noted that the government there had proposed legislation for land reform—long one of the major issues advanced by the labor movement. In answer to another ques­ tion, Buu said he supports the U.S. policy of withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam as long as the with­ drawal is "conditioned to the increasing capability of South Vietnam's army" to take over the fighting. Under this condition, he em­ phasized, the policy can have a beneficial effect in "awakening the masses" of South Vietnam's citizens to their role in halting communism and building a strong, free government based on social progress. to absolute dominance by the Party, subservience by the un­ ions." The next major crisis in Party-union relations took place in 1957 after Mao Tse-tung per­ mitted some criticism of the Party. Even bureaucratic Lai started to deviate a bit, saying: "That unions must submit to the leadership of the Party, a problem that has been solved in the past, is quite correct. How­ ever, not enough attention has been given to the fact that as an organization of the masses, a trade union, apart from submit­ ting to the Party in policy and thought, must u^old its own in­ dependent activities." In a free society this assertion would be completely rejected. Lai's views were considered heresy in Party circles. The Party element of the ACFTU held an enlarged meeting and declared that "the result of trade union activities wece inseparable from Party leadership." So Lai went down in defeat but he took it as a good Com­ munist soldier. When the 8th Trade Union Congress was held in December of 1957, Harper writes, "Lai Jo-yu himself led the series of speeches proclaim­ ing the submission of the unions to Party control." The Congress even revised the ACFTU constitution to provide for dual rule in the trade union apparatus with actual control in the hands of the local party committee. This didn't save Lai but in 1958 he was replaced by Liu Ning-yi, a devoted follower of Mao rather than a supporter of either the Party or the union apparatus. In the complex Chinese pic­ ture, Harper believes that Liu is at cautious odds both with the Party and the union leadership but keeps his power due to Mao's backing. The union leaders at most levels, however, are still striving for "economism". Harper says, and the fight between Mao and the Party is permitting more of this now than ever before. But all this is a far cry from free trade unionism. South Vietnam's free labor unions have become a strong force for anti-communist progress in that nation, Tran Quoc Buu, president of Vietnamese Confederation of Labor, right, told AFL-CIO Pres. Meany. �Page Twelve SEAFARERS LOG December, 1969 Up the Hard Way PANIC ON WALL STREET by Robert Sobel (Macmillaii— $8.95) In 1929, as the §tock market climbed higher and higher, one Wall Street figure kept warning his friends against the high prices of stocks. They suggested he see a psychiatrist and, not being sure of his reasoning, he did. After giving the psychia­ trist his arguments, the two of them went to their brokers and sold out before the crash, Robert Sobel has included many such bits of human interest in his history of financial disasters. The result is a lively nar­ rative of hard times on Wall Street. Sobel begins with the first panic of 1792 and follows with eleven others, ending with the Kennedy slide of 1962. Until 1929, Wall Street was largely uncontrolled. Speculators cor­ nered markets and battled it out for control of big corpora­ tions and get-rich-quick artists bought stock beyond their ability to pay. All this was to the detriment of the market and to the nation. While there is "no law of panics." Sobel notes that most "occur as 'moments of truth' after periods of self-deception." Since what happens on Wall Street affects all of us, what about the future? Sobel is cautious. He lists the causes that could lead to another panic and con­ cludes with this somber observation: Since our economy is much more complex today than in 1929, a new panic would be that much more disastrous. Sobel's book shows how easy panic can hit Wall Street and the subsequent effect upon all America. * IMiat A Union Means For five years, the SIU has been fighting to win economic justice for a small group of ite members fired from their jobs on the Galveston wharves. On Page 3 of this issue is a report of the Union's victory—a $625,000 set­ tlement for the workers involved. This is an important victory in terms of the size of the settlement and the length of time the Union has been fighting. But it's important for an­ other reason: It emphasizes just what a trade union is all about. Day after day, the Union fights for the rights of its members. Some­ times problems are solved through the grievance procedure, sometimes through arbitration, and sometimes (as in the case at Galveston) through the courts. Not all the settlements are this spectacular—but neither the size of the settlement nor the size of the beef is important. Ask any worker who's rights have been denied, and he'll tell you that any case involving him is mighty important. And he'll be right. None of these victories—large or small—can be won by individual work­ ers, because individuals don't have any clout. But when they join together— when workers mobilize their collective strength through the Union—^then a lot can be accomplished. ^ That's what happened at Galveston: The entire Union went to bat for this handful of fellow workers. As we said, that's what a trade union is all about. Season's Greetings to AH Once again, Americans are in the midst W the joyous holiday season— celebrating Christmas with traditional festivities and looking forward with hopeful anticipation to all the good things that the New Year may bring. It IS at this particular time of the year that we are reminded most acutely of the fact that a Seafarer, because of the unique nature of his chosen career, very often does not enjoy the opportunity to share the holi­ day observances surrounded by his loved ones and friends—as does the aver­ age Ampican worker who earns his living ashore. This y^r, as in scores of years during the past, a majority of Seafarers will spend the holidays on the high seas or in some remote corner of the world uiousands of miles from their families back home. But as always, the spirit of Christmas will be in their hearts and they will share the common hope with their fellow Union members that perhaps they will be home next year. In the meantime, our brothers aboard SlU-contracted ships—^whereever they are ^will be able to enjoy the good fellowship of each other with special holiday menus and improvised colorful decorations of the season to make these special days a little brighter. To all Seafarers, whether at sea or ashore—and to their families who share their periodic loneliness—^we wish to extend our warmest greetings of the season and best wishes for the coming year. * C * THE LABOR ARRITRATION PROCESS by R. W. Fleming (lUinois—$2.45) There are few union members who have not heard of arbi­ tration. Many others understand the basic principles of arbitra­ tion. For those seeking a greater understanding of the history and workings of arbitration, this paperback volume will be helpful. R. W. Fleming, a noted arbitrator himself, discusses the his­ tory, problems and future of arbitration. Arbitration is a private system of jurisprudence, given legal sanction by the courts. It is not a perfect system but it is the best, devised so far. Problems of cost, time lag and individual rights still plague labor and management with respeet to arbitration. Fleming sees a need for "a mechanism which will enable labor, manage­ ment, and professional arbitrators to examine existing practices jointly and make proposals for improvement." ROOSEVELT & WORLD WAR H by Robert A. Divine (Johns Hopkins—$5.95) Of all of Ameriea's presidents, two have generated enough interest or controversy to cause writers to turn out a wide assort­ ment of books about them. President Lincoln's claim to fame was the Civil War and his own tragic ending. Franklin D. Roosevelt's intriguing personality, and his con­ troversial policies to bring the nation out of a depression, places him alongside Lincoln as one of our two most written—about presidents. Of all the books written about Roosevelt, however, few deal with his role in foreign policy. In this book, Robert Divine analyzes Roosevelt's personal contribution—as distinct from the official United States role— to foreign policy before and during World War II. He shows that basically Roosevelt was an isolationist, but as the years rolled by and the armies of a German dictator smashed the boundaries of European nations, he was drawn into the confliet. In 1936, Roosevelt said: "I have seen war ... I have seen children starving ... I hate war." This was Roosevelt, the isolationist. As the years went by, and Hitler's objectives be­ came clear, Roosevelt was to assume other roles. j Divine discusses these roles—the interventionist, the realist, the pragmatist—and finds that Roosevelt's diplomacy served the nation well. His conduct of foreign policy is downgraded only when compared with his role in domestic affairs. On four occasions in American history. Democratic presi­ dents have been elected on platforms of domestic reform. Each time these men—Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman ^d Johnsonhave had wars bring a halt to their domestic programs and to a certain extent, tarnish their reputations as leaders. American labor owes a lot to the Roosevelt Years. The work­ ing man gained the right to organize, the foundations for much of today's social legislation were laid, and confidence in democ­ racy was restored. This book seeks to provide a better under­ standing of the other side of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. «t, « �December, 1969 •I SEAFARERS Page Thirteen LOG Ohio Senator Cites Funding Need: A Proud Family Water Resource Plan Urged Without ^User Charge' Levy •-» I^ LV ^ WASHINGTON — Warning that "the continued neglect of water resources will strain the fabric of society in directions not now discernible," Senator Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio) has come out for a long-range water resource development program and sufficient funds to carry it through. At the same time, Young condemned pro­ posals to levy "user charges" on waterbome commerce. "A massive and challenging task in developing its water resources confronts the nation," the Ohio legislator pointed out in his paper, "A Water Devel­ opment Program for America's Future" which has been pub­ lished by the National Water­ ways Conference, Inc., a trade association here. "With vision and determina­ tion we can do the job, but it is imperative that the public understand its urgency and the true values at stake," Young said. A belief that the American people are "on the threshhold of a fundamental change in atti­ tude and practice with regard to water" was voiced by the Ohio Democrat, who is chair­ man of the Subcommittee on Flood Control—^Rivers and Harbors of the Senate Public Works Committee. Young defines the needs in the areas of water supply, pollu­ tion control, flood control, navi­ gation, recreation and upstream reservoirs. He advocates a wellfunded program of "compre­ hensive husbanding of our water supply," and notes that present expenditures for water resources are insufficient to produce needed results. "For every $100 of our gross national product, the American people—through all federal SEAFARER! LOG December 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. 14 I Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes an^ Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Sxecutive Boari PAUL HALL, President EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNER Exec. Vice-Free. Vice-President LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR Vice-President Sec.-Treae. ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WILL KARP CHARLES SVENSON FRANK MAROIOTTA MARIETTA CRISCI U' Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI Pahllihed monthly at 810 Rhodt Island Annas N.E., Washington, D. C. 20018 by the Seafar­ ers International Union. Atlantle, Golf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Annas, Brooklyn, N.V. 11232. Tol. HVaelnth 9-6600. Second class goitago paid at Washlngtons, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTFNTION: Forss 3579 cards shoald he tent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantle, Galf, Lakes and inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Annas, Brooklyn, N.V. 11232. agencies combined — are ex­ pending only 35 cents on the water resource base which makes that product possible," he declared. The senator was particularly critical of waterway tolls as well as "user charges" proposed on waterbome commerce. The ef­ fects of such charges, he indi­ cated, would be to disrupt deep­ ly-rooted "patterns of com­ merce" affecting the movement of basic industrial materials and fuels. User charges could dis­ rupt river traffic and result not only in economic harm to the vast investments which have been made in river waterfront facilities, but also pose a threat of dismption or dislocation of the nation's inland water indus­ try, Young stated. Seafarer Henry Donnelly, who saris in the steward department, is understandably proud of son, William, who is a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. At recent family reunion during Parents' Open House are: Cheryl, Dad Henry, William, Michael, Mrs. Paula Donnelly and Patrick. Father has been a member of the SlU since 1947. The Donnellys make their home in Lacombe, Louisiana. 's Guide to Better Buying Year-End Tax Planning More Vital This Year By Sidney MargoUus "Year-end tax planning" is more important this year than ever. This is a tax-saving device often used by well-to-do taxpayers. They arrange to pay various deductible expenses before the end of the year if they want to reduce their taxes for the current year. Or if they expect their taxes may be higher next year, they post­ pone certain tax-deductible payments until the beginning of the new year. Large taxpayers and self-employed people also often advance or delay receipt of some of their income. Wage-earners usually are not able to juggle income but often can advance or postpone payment of deductible items. All this is legal. When you pay a tax-deductible expense like a medical bill or charitable contribution determines when you take the deduction, not when you incurred the expense. Such tax planning is especially important this year because Con­ gress is considering tax cuts for 1970. Thus, deductions probably will be worth more to you in 1969 than in 1970. To see year-end tax planning most effectively you need to first estimate whether you are likely to itemize your deductions or take a standard deduction. If you do not have enough deductible ex­ penses to itemize deductions this year, then it would be better to postpone until the beginning of next year the payment of whatever deductible expenses can be postponed. That way you may be able to take a standard deduction this year and have enough to itemize next year. Itemizing saves taxes if your deductions total more than 10 percent of your income or more than the minimum standard deduction ($200 plus $100 for each exemption claimed on your return). Even if you usually itemize deductions, pay special attention to your medical deduction. You can deduct only that portion of your medical bills over three percent of your income. If your medi­ cal expenses already are approaching that level, you may want to pay any outstanding bills before January 1, to include them in this year's deduction. Sometimes it even is worth borrowing to pay a medical bill before the end of the year. For example, suppose you owe a $200 medical or dental bill, and are in a 25 percent tax bracket (including federal and state tax). The tax saving could be as much as $50. In contrast, the interest paid to a credit union for an eight-month loan of $200 would amount to only about $8. (Even that interest would be deductible the year you pay it.) On the other hand, if you see that youn health-care expenses this year will not reach three percent of income, it would save taxes to postpone whatever payments you can until after January 1 to build up a medical deduction for next year. It even might be worth incurring various deductible expenses before the end of the year if you plan to itemize this year. For example, you may be planning on expensive dental work like dentures or orthodontia for a youngster, or a medical checkup. In addition to charitable contributions of both cash and goods, and medical and health insurance expenses, other deductible pay­ ments which can be advanced (or postponed if more desirable) include: Deductible work expenses such as purchase and repair of tools, equipment, safety shoes and protective equipment, distinctive uni­ forms (not ordinary work clothes) and technical books and maga­ zines. Property taxes. Interest prepaid on loans, mortgages and installment purchases (within the unfair limits arbitrarily dictated by the Internal Revenue Service). Up to 12 months prepaid interest usually can qualify for a tax deduction. Employee education expenses, including costs of tuition, books, etc., if the course is in relation to your present work, but not to learn a new trade. An auto mechanic could deduct for a course in automatic transmissions or other skills needed in his trade. A steno could deduct for a course in improving her shorthand. But the steno could not deduct for a course in auto mechanics. Nor could the mechanic deduct for a course in steno. While wealthy taxpayers are busily juggling their stock market transactions to minimize taxes, small taxpayers also may have a little advancing or postponing to do. It may be better to postpone cashing any E bonds until after the New Year to avoid paying current higher rates on the increase in value. If you do have any gains or losses on small purchases of stocks or mutual-fund shares, you may want to weigh the tax effects of taking gains or losses now as against later. Dependency Exemptions If you support a qualified relative but cannot claim him as a dependent because he has taxable income of $690 or more, you still can include medical expenses paid on his behalf. For example, your mother may have income of $800 a year from social security (nontaxable income) and $600 from a house she rents out (taxable income). Her total living expenses for the year are $2900. You contribute $1500, either in cash or in the form of room and board, medical expenses, etc. Even though you meet the rule for providing over 50 percent of the support, you still can't claim her as an exemption because of the $600 of taxable income. (You could if her gross taxable income was just $599.) But you can deduct the medical expenses paid on her behalf. Thus, you save taxes if you pay the medical bills of a dependent rather than give the equivalent in cash. It's well to prepare yourself before year's end to prove your claims for dependents such as an elderly relative or a child at college. In estimating whether you provide over 50 percent of support, you need to calculate the dependent's total living expenses and how much he himself provides. Among usual expenses that can be counted are meals; lodging; clothing; medical and health insur­ ance; education; charitable contributions; entertainment; trans­ portation, and personal care—barber, etc. When two or more persons provide over half of the support, but none over 50 percent, one can claim the exemption. Any others who contribute over 10 percent must sign a "Multiple Support Agreement" form. �7 Page Fourteen SEAFARERS Consumers Always Come Up Losers InDrugMakers Rigged 'Name Game' Drug WASHINGTON manufacturers continue to play a "name game" that reaps them exhorbitant profits at the pub­ lic's expense, declares Richard Shoemaker, assistant director of the AFL-CIO Department of Social Security. The game is one through which manufacturers market and promote their drugs under individual brand names even though many of these brands share a common generic name— the name that applies to all drugs of the same chemical com­ position. This and recent price-fixing convictions in the industry dem­ onstrate its "callous indifference to human life," Shoemaker writes in a recent issue of the American Federationist. He points out that most phy­ sicians prescribe by brand names and the consumer pays the brand name price which is "any­ where from two to ten times as much as another chemically identical drug available by the generic njime." If doctors had prescribed drugs by generic names, he em­ phasizes, the $3.2 billion that the public spent on prescription drugs in 1967 "would have been hundreds of millions of dollars less." A Task Force on Prescrip­ tion Drugs, set up by former Labor Tells FTC: Product Labeling Of Foreign Parts Consumers' Right WASHINGTON—The Fed­ eral Trade Commission has been urged by the AFL-CIO to re­ consider a number of recent de­ cisions which fail to live up to standards on labeling of foreign products and components. Consumers and the American workers "have a right to know if components or assembly of a product for sale in the United States are of foreign origin" and frequently made under lowwage, sweatshop conditions, the federation said in a letter to FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon. "Our view on the marking of foreign origin is that adequate labeling of foreign products is necessary," noted AFL-CIO Re­ search Director Nat Goldfinger. He charged that recent advi­ sory opinions of the FTC are in conflict with a statement issued by the commission on April 4, 1968, which declared that all relevant facts on foreign produc­ tion, including components, are of benefit to the American con­ sumer. "These recent views seem to make the percentage of foreign origin of a product an important aspect of whether a label is re­ quired," Goldfinger said. President Johnson, estimated in its 1969 report that potential savings to the consumer if ge­ neric drugs were prescribed would amount to 5 to 8 percent. But this estimate is based only on dru^ most frequently prescribed, the article notes. A combination of more rational as well as generic prescribing on all drugs would increase the sav­ ings to about 20 percent, it adds. This "exploitation of the pub­ lic" is mainly the fault of the drug makers, not the doctors, Shoemaker suggests, since the doctors generally have no choice except to prescribe by the highly promoted brand names. Although the importance of generic prescribing is usually re­ lated to reducing drug costs, "a case can also be made for ge­ neric prescribing as a method of improving the quality of care and of reducing drug-induced illness," Shoemaker states. Pharmacologists (physicians who spend all their time in the study of drugs) "admit they can't keep up with the outpouring of brand products" — now num­ bered at 20,000—so "obviously the practicing physicians can­ not." And, he continues, similari­ ties in the spelling and sound of brand names leads to confusion in hastily telephoned or scrib­ bled prescriptions. "As a result, nurses and pharmacists make many mistakes in administering drugs, sometimes with tragic re­ sults." Shoemaker also asserts that the system by which a manufac­ turer subjects doctors to heavy sales pitches and publicity build­ December, 1969 LOG ups without mentioning price "makes price-rigging a little easier." He recalls a federal court con­ viction last December of Charles Pfizer and Company, American Cynamid Company and BristolMyers Company on charges of patent fraud and criminal con­ spiracy to monopolize the anti­ biotic market in the United States. Two other firms, Up­ john Company and Squibb Beech-Nut were named as co­ conspirators. As a result, the federal gov­ ernment, states, cities and pri­ vate groups filed liability claims against the companies. The suits were settled under an agreement in which the firms pledged $100 million to satisfy claims. Shoemaker proposes imple­ mentation of the recommenda­ tions of the Task Force on Pre­ scription Drugs and an amend­ ment to the Food and Drug Act to permit the Food and Drug Administration to evaluate the relative effectiveness of drugs used to treat the same disease. The task force called for a number of actions to expand in­ formation on drugs, including one that would blunt the brand name promotions: The Social Security Administration would undertake "continuing responsi­ bility" to survey drug prices and publish information on them generically. Noting that the AFL-CIO Ex­ ecutive Council last year char­ acterized the drug industry as "socially irresponsible." Shoe­ maker concludes, "There is no new evidence to change that verdict." $50 Billion Market Seen For Shipbuilding in 70s NEW YORK, N.Y.—^A prediction of a $50-billion ship­ building market in the 197()s was made this month by Edwin M. Hood, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America. Speaking at an investment seminar here, the shipbuilders' spokesman forecast an unprecedented flow of contracts to American shipyards—as well as to marine component manu­ facturers—in Ae decade ahead. "These prospects include the full spectrum of shipyard activities," Hood noted. "With better than 50 percent of the U.S. Navy composed of ships 20 years of age and older ... with nearly 75 percent of the American merchant marine composed of ships 20 years of age and older, a shipbuilding program in both categories is inevitable. And, until new ships are on the line, or in operation, the opportunities for repairs and conversions to older ships cannot be discontinued. "In addition, the discovery of oil on the North Slope of Alaska holds the promise of an entirely new market for shipping and ships." President Nixon's new maritime program calls for the sub­ sidized construction of 30 merchant ships annually over a decade. Hood pointed out. This is triple the annual rate of recent years and would aggregate some $6 billion over the 10-year period, he added. The Alaskan oil discovery could generate contracts for as many as 40 or more tankers ranging in size up to 250,000 deadweight tons. Hood declared. This could easily mean $2.4 billion in tanker construction contracts alone. In addition to the $6 billion expended for merchant ships other than tankers over the next decade and $2.4 billion for tankers. Hood foresees $35 billion for naval ships. Beyond this he anticipates expenditures of $6 billion for ship repairs and other shipyard auxiliary activities. •J ll FTC Warns Advertisers On Lending Law Evasion 7 ' i' WASHINGTON-=Businesses which try to attract con­ sumers with promises of "easy credit" must accept the con­ sequences of such lures, says the Federal Trade Commission. They must treat all their customers equally and fairly, even those with poor credit histories. The Federal Trade Commission has issued this warning to retailers who attempt to evade Truth in Lending law require­ ments by advertising "easy credit," "liberal terms," and "easy credit terms" rather than stating the exact information re­ quired by the law. These general advertising terms are appearing so often, said the FTC, that the Commission must regulate their use. Accordingly, the Commission warned that businesses which promise "easy credit" may not check on the ability of the consumer to fulfill his credit contract. The ad must mean that consumers with poor credit histories can get credit. • The advertisers must not charge more for goods sold to people on "easy credit" than to his other customers nor may he charge more than what other stores in the area charge. The FTC agreed that retailers run special risks granting credit to "high-risk" consumers but when the advertiser promises "easy pay plans" or other terms he must realize he is aiming at just those consumers. In another ruling the Commission condemned as "repre­ hensible" lending agencies that are leading consumers to be­ lieve that the Truth in Lending law forces them to change past credit practices in a way that will injure the consumers. The FTC said creditors are imposing finance charges where none were imposed previously; discontinuing discounts for prompt payment and making other changes not required by the Truth in Lending Act. They urged consumers to report such changes to the Division of Consumer Credit. ^ ll I -.1 Retirees Need $4,171-lncome To Live at Moderate Level WASHINGTON—A retired urban couple needed annual in­ come of .at least $4,171 last spring to maintain a moderate standard of living, the Labor Department has reported re­ cently. For a lower standard at that time, the retired couple required income of at least $2,892. A third, fuller, more expansive budget was priced at $6,507. The income requirements are found in a revision of a 1967 Bureau of Labor Statistics study, "Measuring Retired Couples' Living Costs in Urban Areas," It appears in the November Monthly Labor Review, a BLS publication. According to BLS, the lower budget differs from the moder­ ate and higher budgets by Treflecting a smaller proportion of home ownership, excluding air conditioning, more reliance on public transportation, less use of services and greater use of recreation facilities. By contrast, the higher budget assumes the largest proportion of home ownership, provides some new cars, permits more household appliances and more paid services than the moderate budget. A majority of the items com­ mon to the three budgets are in greater quantity and better qual­ ity at each higher level of living. These are some characteris­ tics of the budgets for the spring of 1969: Consumption items — food, housing, transportation, cloth­ ing, personal care, medical care and other items—cost $2,777 in the lower budget; $3,940 in the moderate budget and $5,883 in the higher budget. Compared with the two high­ er budgets, the lower food al­ lowance in the lower budget calls for buying more potatoes, beans, flour and cereal, and less meat, poultry and fish. The low budget allows the retired couple to enjoy a restau­ rant meal once a month. The moderate budget permits eating out twice a month. All three budgets assume that a majority of the retired couples live in small mortgage-free homes. Costs for these couples include taxes, fuel, utilities and repair and maintenance, based on 1967 charges. Medical care costs were al­ most the same in each budget. But they accounted for 12 per­ cent of the retired couple's total consumption expenditures in the low budget compared with only 6 percent of those costs in the high budget. Cai^Aell Soigi Told To Pitk MttiUes CAMDEN, N. J.—Campbell Soup and their advertising agen­ cy, Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne, Inc., have been told to stop deceiving consumers in their ads. The Federal Trade Commission signed a consent order with the two firms after charging that ads showed bowls of Campbell's soup loaded with solid ingredients. The truth, says the FTC, is that the respondents placed clear glass marbles in the bowl to prevent the solid ingre­ dients from sinking to the bot­ tom. • 111 •^}lr'• 4 11 �December, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Fifteen LOG r TlRMMIKfi Afll> BcPfR/ENCE FdR SRFETMT SEA L IFEBOAT TRAINING at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point continues to move at full speed as some 100 additional trainees successfully completed the program during the past month and received Coast Guard endorsements as qualified lifeboatmen. Every young man coming through the school receives a thorough training through practical experience and classroom instruction in every aspect of lifeboat handling—including launching, han­ dling the oars, and commanding the boats. .,1^- CLAUDE 'SONNI' SIMMONS - 7 HARRY LUNDEBERG "'li >(;! C- -r-'lVAt. "i-.f-- PINEY POINT, MP. HLSS Trainees Jorge Rivera and Barney Spears fill out applications tor "Z" cards after successfully completing the 30 hour lifeboat training prograni^ and passing the examination. UP OARS—A group of trainees comes into the dock after a long afternoon of practice in lifeboat commands. Every train­ ee gets experience as coxwain during his 30 hours in the boats. Lire BOAT CLASS No. ^ CLASS #31—(Left to Right) SlU Instructor Paul McGaharn, Lewis Rothqeb, Jose Llanos, James Thornton, Apolinar Novas, Vincent Colaiacova, Adrian Cirilo, Steve Sarbarino, Robert Cassidy, Glenn Koenigsburg, who is training for Third Cook. E'-j. I Class #27—(Front row l-r): Christopher Brady, Joe Worley, John McCone, John Daley, Steve Lederman, Frederick A. Defaico, David Stanbul, Michael Conway. (Second row): Gregg Schroeder, Randolph Scott, Tom Breitnfield, Dennis Chabot, Gary Sheets, Baron Hairston, James McElligott. (Top row): Ralph Berlin, Dee Jacobs, Rudy Gaddis,. David Smith, Gary Sloan, Patrick Mikler, M. Artall, James Thomas. CLASS #28—(Front row l-r): David Colley, Edward Matos, Paul Terrell, Dan Marasak, Robert Hollie, Louis Fiorella, Thomas_J_ohnson, Paul Warren. (Second row): James Randolph, Jack Reed, Hugh Duncan, Glenn Jordan, James Sharpless, Glenn Duncan, Joe Curly. (Back row): Joseph Carney, Bill Thompson, Joseph Dixon, Robert Geddings Jr., Albert Kemp, Bruce Thomas, John Burns, Gerald Malone. CLAUDE SONNY SIMMONS r I?- ..; V^ t- . V 'CLASS #29—(Front TOW l-r): Talbert Dupre, Charlie Ratcliff, Vernon Arnold, Joseph McLaughlin, Mtslreel DeJean. (Second row): Michael Stroud, Donald Gaskill, Bruce Bockholt, David R. Akins, Robert Thompson, George Patton, Donald Straight, Ted Koosel. (Back row): Mitchell Johnson, Vincent Vantress, Charles Permenter, J. Bejarno. H. Simmons, Charles Booker, Gregory Cavin. Instructor is Tom Brooks. \ v \ X \ ;x- CLASS #30—(Front row l-r): Louis Brazier, Jesse Hurst, John Parrish, Robert Beardsley, Billy Hilliard, Thomas DeMarco, Daniel Wynn, James Hendrix. (Back row): Jackie Robinson, James White, William Nutter, Jack Godsey, Gary Smith, Raymond Kaminski, Robert Cooper, Ashby LaSalle. SlU Instructor is Tom Brooks. �Page Sixteen SEAFARERS December, 1969 LOG I ! Two bosuns give thanks for the bounty at Seattie doings. At left is Seafarer John BdWmah with--^an old shipmate, Seafarer John Yates. . From Seattle to Tampa, from San Fj CISCO to Mobile, Tlumksgiving DinneA festive occasion celebrated at rdl SIU P\ with real, good old-fashioned chotff plenty of it, which is served to alt J farers, their families and gu^ts who, forward tp the camufd gpi^gelfter, A ways the ocoasi^^ these photo from some of the « —•fcll , |i| It was certainly family day in a big way at Port of Norfolk's Thanksgiving goihigs 6n. Seafarer Joe Pagola sits at head of5|J Shown above is Seafarer William Wynn, with Mrs. Wynn and the little Wynns, none ily table in Tampa Airport Motel; v|i of whom seem to be taking it too badly, what with plentiful helpings 6f good food. the food and the service were the'j w ^jSeafarer Joseph Schoell, AB. celebrates with wife J aand son at famous El Matador Restaurant in .i?isSeattle^ ^ ^w^ Thanksgiving dinner was held." ^ • y ' ' ' ' 'J 4*- At SlU hall in San Franciscof Seafarer Richard Feddern and Mrs. Stephanie Fed- Seafarer Robert Batson with JMrs. Batson dern sit with Richard, Jr. as daughters Iris and Donna (facing front) take very daughter and young son pose for desserj good care of themselves. Donna finds both cameras and turkey irresistible, a fine dinner at the SlU hall in Norfb �SEAFARERS December,. 1969 LOG Page Seventeen I .. A little angigahtlc helping of Ice Cr^atii makia an •uhbeatabl&^'c^ i^t Baltimore haill. A fulure SJU stevyard, staining W training kind of early? f .the wif^:Son:en^u^)--^ jn-law of Seafarer Rayitlbncl l-avOlne orepare to capture the eats at Baltihall. Raymond sails as a bosun. Seafarer George McRay and family prepare to do their best by the scrumptious repast served up at the Airport Motel in Tampa where the SlU celebrated this year. The Phillips clan, young and old, had a good time at Norfolk. From left to right are William, William, Jr., Betty, Jessie and Timothy. I At New Orleans, SIU Peni sioner "Blackie" Bankston. iJeft, Leonard Gunzberg, Mrs. Arthur Beck, Mrs. Bankston, Arthur Beck, Claire Gunzberg, daughter,. Clifton Jackson and I,- i , at the Port of Baltim of ^ ^°"nd "9^ .s youngest ^lU hall. Littl.! •sea.v �Page Eighteen SEAFARERS LOG December, 1969 SIu UFEBO/miai P ictured on this page are Seafarers who have earned their Coast Guard endorsements as qualified lifehoatmen in New York over the past three months. Each class underwent an intensive program of classroom study as well as practical instruction in the handling of lifeboats at the SIlPs Lifeboat School at Mill Basin in Brooklyn before successfully passing the comprehensive Coast Guard examination. • 'I Class of Nov. 5, 1969. Front row, from left: S. Goff, E. Ramirez, R. Flores and J. Asselin. Back row, also from left: C. Ratcliffe, D. Rodriguez and H. Scott. - • -I -fi' «• V >4 / .ifUbJ'-y. Ik. I LI ' ' ' •,-^v 'x-*: •sis.. .-•fti. ; . tr ^ Class of Oct, 15, 1968. Front row, from left: L. Kincer, J. Smith, J. Phillips, A. Jackson. Back row, also from left: Bob (Pussycat) Lord, lifeboat class instructor: J. White, H. Warren and C. Bailey. Class of Oct. 8, 1969. Front row, from left: T. Arcliv ibald, John Strickling, M. Fleming, D. Landry, R. Spadoni. Back row, from left: Instructor Chuck James, T. Kidd, J. Worby, R. Reine, F. Crovetto. pa • 'i'. rfis itif r1 'tii V' IK'S' I Class of Nov. 19, 1969. Front row, from left: W. Kalman, T. Gailas, A. Vidal, A. Bodie and C. Fuentes. Bacfc row, also from left: Bob Lord, lifeboat instructor, E.Terrazzi, S. Bracken, V. Everly, S. Rogers. iiSlii Class of Nov. 26, 1969. Front row, from left: S. Zemel, B. Rhodes, D. Reiley, W. Parrish and L. Tarrats. Back row, from left: Instructor Bob Lord, R. Mack, Jr., R. Saucier, R. McDonald and T. Herlston. �Twjintv One December, 1969 SEAFARERS ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended April 30, 1969 UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA PENSION FUND 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 - • < ->JK < to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general infornia< tion as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is neces­ sarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the oflBce of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE I{ ^ Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1)$47,479.06 (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest (b) Dividends (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify).. (e) Total Income from Investments.. 4. Profit on disposal of investments 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of investments ... 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) ^ (c) Total Other Additions : 7. Total Additions $47,479.06 Page Nineteen LOG b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loafi asso­ ciations b. Stocks: (1) Preferred (2) Common c. Bond? and dehenturss<| (1) Government obligations: (a) Federal (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations (3) Nongovernment obligations d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instruc­ tions (Identify and indicate percentage of ownership by this Plan in the subsidiary) (1) % (2) % 4. Real estate loans and mortgages 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured b. Unsecured 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) 8. Total Assets $ 1,530.73 $17,789.33 $ $ 41.00 17,748.33 $17,789.33 LIABILITIES $47,479.06 9. Insurance and annuity premiums payable .. 10. Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) 11. Accounts payable 12. Accrued expenses 13. Other liabilities (Specify) Exchanges 14. Reserve for future benefits 15. Total Liabilities and Reserves 290.99 1,239.74 $ 1,530.73 DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE Ev \r 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insur­ ance Carriers and to Service Orga­ nizations (Including Prepaid Medi­ cal Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Separately Maintained Fund 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Pro­ viding Benefits to Participants (At­ tach latest operating statement of the Organization showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Inde­ pendent Organizations or Individ­ uals Providing Plan Benefits (Clin­ ics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Sched­ ule 2) (c) Taxes — (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) (e) Rent (f) Insurance Premiums (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) Schedule attached (i) Total Administrative Expenses 13. Loss on disposal of investments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of investments 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Deductions —.— 16. Total Deductions — —o— —o— 6,164.48 1,005.53 286.74 8,389.92 773.10 134.42 38.00 For the year ended April 30, 1969 Deductions from Fund Balance Item 12h—Other Administrative Expenses Stationery, supplies and printing Postage, express and freight — Telephone and telegraph Equipment rental Employee benefits ^ Miscellaneous Repairs and maintenance .— Dues and subscriptions Tabulating service Microfilm Outside temporary office help Miscellaneous Trustees meeting expenses Field audit expenses ASSETS Item 1. Cash 2. Receivables: ' a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA PENSION FUND 11,591.78 28,383.97 —o— state of County of New York Kings — and -o-o— Trustees of the Fund and —o— $30,970.47 , — subscribe thereto. ^ F/j /fa 47,479.06 30,970.47 16,508.59 $17,748.33 End of End of Prior Year Reporting Year $17,789.33 - - affirm, under the penalties of perjury that the contents of this Annual Report are true and hereby Employer yertrustee:. trusts: $ 1,239.74 —o— —o— A1 Kerr Frederik B. Paulsen —o— $ 1,530.73 $ 2,621.70 22.94 147.80 443.66 292.89 451.81 104.03 54.48 7,244.82 97.06 4.86 50.36 55.37 $11,591.78 . STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES , I" $ 2,586.50 RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Beginning of Year) 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Bene­ fits) at End of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities)— •'J • —0— UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA PENSION FUND ATTACHMENT TO THE ANNUAL STATEMENT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK others (Indicate titles): �SEAFARERS For the fiscal year ended April 30, 1969 UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA WELFARE FUND 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK (a) Federal "^e data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general informa­ tion as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is neces­ sarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) $791,406.70 21,328.43 6.25 $812,741.38 DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insur­ ance Carriers and to Service Orga­ nizations (Including Prepaid Medi­ cal Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Separately Maintained Fund 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Pro­ viding Benefits to Participants (At­ tach latest operating statement of the Organization showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Inde­ pendent Organizations or Individ­ uals Providing Plan Benefits (Clin­ ics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Sched­ ule 2) (c) Taxes '. (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3).... (e) Rent ... (f) Insurance Premiums (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) See Attachment..... (i) Total Administrative Expenses . 13. Loss on disposal of investments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of investments 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Deductions 16. Total Deductions $503,316.85 36,609.08 $ 72,708.37 3,496.21 3,577.50 11,558.53 6,331.24 129.66 214.00 62,533.19 160,548.70 107.51 $700,582.14 250.00 430,750.00 500,000.00 50,433.47 56,055.02 Id • ;r- , $536,087.84 $648,247.08 $536,087.84 $536,087.84 $648,247.08 $648,247.08 LIABILITIES 9. Insurance and annuity premiums payable 10. Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) 11. Accounts payable 12. Accrued expenses 13. Other liabilities (Specify) 14. Reserve for future benefits 15. Total Liabilities and Reserves UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA WELFARE FUND ATTACHMENT TO THE ANNUAL STATEMENT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK FOR THE YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 1969 Deductions from Fund Balance Item 12h—Other Administrative Expenses $ 129.58 Postage, express and freight 1,405.50 Telephone and telegraph ... 4.220.09 Equipment rental 4,073.16 Miscellaneous 1.119.10 Repairs and maintenance 395.07 Dues and subscriptions — 9,845.47 Stationery, printing and supplies 3,774.87 Employee benefits :— 34,435.70 Tabulating service 1,215.37 Microfilm 53.01 Outside temporary office help 50.36 Miscellaneous Trustees meeting expense 228.31 Field audit expense 1,587.60 New Jersey and New York Disability Insurance expense $62,533.19 UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA WELFARE FUND ATTACHMENT TO U.S. DEPT. OF LABOR FORM D<2 YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 1969 End of Reporting End of Year Prior Year Part IV—Section A—Item 2c $290.99 Due from other Fund 250.00 288.72 Travel advance Accrued interest receivable on bonds pur­ 24.81 chased :— $250.00 $604.52 New York state of County of ;} Kings Frederik B. Paulsen $536,087.14 $812,741.38 700,582.14 112,159.24 $648,247.08 STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND ASSETS Item 1. Cash . J 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations (3) Nongovernment obligations d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instruc­ tions (Identify and indicate percentage of ownership by this Plan in the sub­ sidiary) (1) % (2) % 4. Real estate loans and mortgages 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured b. Unsecured .... 6. Real Estate: a. Operated — b. Other real estate 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) 8. Total Assets 604.52 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA PENSION FUND RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Bene­ fits at Beginning of Year 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Bene­ fits) at End of Year (Item 14, State­ ment of Assets and Liabilities) December, 1969 b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) .: 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan asso­ ciations b. Stocks: (1) Preferred (2) Common c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: ANNUAL REPORT ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $791,406.70 (b) Employee —0— (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest 21,328.43 (b) Dividends : (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments 4. Profit on disposal of investments 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of investments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) ^ (c) Total Other Additions 7. Total Additions LOG End of End of Prior Year Reporting Year $ 54,299.85 $ 91,942.06 and A1 Kerr Trustees of the Fund and , affirm, under the penalties of perjury that the contents of this Annual Report are true and hereby subscribe thereto. / c {i �December, 1969 • s- •\ fL r- SEAFARERS Grape Boycott Catches On With Friend and Foe Alike Director Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Or­ ganizing Committee offered several examples of the extent to which farm workers' organizing efforts and labor's boycott of California grapes has caught on. For one thing, he told the recent AFL-CIO convention, "Right-to-Workers" in California have placed the boycott at the top of their "fear" list, replacing sex education. Then there was the case of a little girl in a Washington D.C., store who tugged at her mother's hand as they passed the grape di^^.y and asked "if she could have some boy­ cotts." Chavez said farm workers emphasize to the growers that "we are going to fight to get a union for as long as it takes." AFL-CIO President George Meany assured Chavez that the federation will back the effort until it succeeds. "We are quite familiar with long strikes and long struggles," Meany declared, "and we don't give up just because it takes a little time." New Taft-Hartley Law Amendment Lifts Ban On Joint Fund Programs WASHINGTON — It's now legal for employers to con­ tribute to union-management day care centers and college scholarship programs for work­ ers' children. President Nixon has signed into law a labor-backed amend­ ment to the Taft-Hartley Act that won near-unanimous ap­ proval from both the House and Senate. The legislation had been sought particularly by the Qothing Workers and the Ladies' Garment Workers, which had found themselves stymied in negotiations by a rigid interpret- High Profits/ Executive Pay Cited; Chamber M Commerce 'Hypocriticar For BemoPning Wages, Meany Says I :•< - iV i- -V WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany has accused the Chamber of Com­ merce of "blatant hypocrisy" in blaming wages for inflation and urging employers to "risk" strikes to save the nation. The hypocrisy of a Chamber statement, Meany said, was ex­ posed by an article appearing in the Wall Street Journal "on the very day" the statement was issued. Noting that the Chamber made no mention of holding down profits and business ex­ ecutives' pay to fight inflation, Meany said "the reason is ob­ vious" in that past Journal stor­ ies have shown profits are caus­ ing inflation and the latest arti­ cle focuses on executives' sal­ aries. The Chamber statement charged that labor costs are the "chief ingredient" in inflation and warned against "union power" being used to get fur­ ther wage boosts, for workers. Wage increases become a "tax on all consumers" because they result in higher prices, the Chamber said. However, it also expressed concern about con­ sumer resistance that is making it difficult to "pass on" wage costs. The Chamber concluded that "the business community may have to risk substantial work stoppages in order to save the currency." The Wall Street Journal re­ ported on a survey of 530 com­ panies that found "the average chief executive's compensation jumped 9.8 percent in 1968," the largest yearly gain in 15 years. The survey considered com-^ pensation to include salaries, bonuses and stock paid or cred­ ited to executives, but excluded pension and stock option ben­ efit plans. liie total pay of one in every six executives was up more than 25 percent, according to the survey, and almost half of this group was up more than 40 percent. The largest gain, 18.8 per­ cent, was made by top brass in the motor vehicles and equip­ ment industries. Three industry groups—^paper and allied prod­ ucts, petroleum and rubber and plastic products—showed in­ creases for executives averag­ ing 15 percent or more. Corporate officials who "have grumbled" in past years that their pay raises weren't keeping pace with inflation "have ^en making up lost ground in giant strides," the newspaper said. The reason for the huge pay raises for executives, it decided, was that "1968 was a year of fat profit" and bonus plans tied to profits "paid out handsome­ ly." In his statement, Meany said, "It is those 'fat profits'—not wage increases—that have caused inflation." He cited Labor Secretary George P. Shultz's recent report that the median wage increase in, new collective bargaining contracts negotiated this year is "a little under 2 percent for Page Twenty One LOG 1969," after accounting for price rises. "Moreover," Meany contin­ ued, "the buying power of the average non-supervisory work­ er's weekly take-home pay, in recent months, has not been much greater than a year ago— or in 1965." The gain in compensation of an individual big business ex­ ecutive in 1968 "is more than the average worker earned in the entire year," Meany pointed out. He also stressed that workers "are hit hardest by the govern­ ment's severely restrictive eco­ nomic policies, including the highest interest rates in 100 years, that are increasing unem­ ployment and boosting prices still further." Under these conditions, Meany said, workers and their unions are bargaining for wage gains to offset price increases and "achieve a fair share of the gains of economic progress. That is their only recourse." As for the Chamber, he con­ cluded, before issuing "any more free advice on how to halt in­ flation, it ought to examine its own closet for skeletons." Gauging His Work Seafarer Danny DeCosfa, FWT, does his job well as he carefully attends to the bank of instruments in the engine room of the Ponce, ation of a Taft-Hartley provi­ sion limiting the uses of em­ ployer contributions to jointlyadministered welfare funds. The law change had the AFLCIO's active support during a two-year effort to win congres­ sional approval. A Housepassed bill died in the Senate with the close of the 90th Con­ gress and the legislative effort had to start anew this year. The new legislation does not require an employer to bar­ gain on child care or scholarship contributions, and it would not be an unfair labor practice for him to refuse to do so. But if these benefits are nego­ tiated, company funds may be used to finance the progranfs. One immediate effect is to free funds intended for a schol­ arship program for children of 130,000 members of the Cloth­ ing Workers. The ACWA last year negotiated an agreement with the Qothing Manufac­ turers Association for the pay­ ment of one-half of 1 percent of payroll into a trust fund. As an example of the type of programs the law change would encourage, the Qothing Work­ ers told the Senate Labor Com­ mittee earlier this year that the union is operating a day care center in Baltimore—^but to avoid violating the letter of the Taft-Hartley Act, it has had to set it up as a health care center. And in Chicago, they noted, the union has an "experimental" program which provides $600a-year tuition at colleges or technical schools for children of longtime members. The Ladies' Garment Work­ ers told the Senate committee that lack of day cf^eC^nters in the women's appaiel industry, where about 80 percent of the workers are women, has re­ sulted in a high employment turnover rate. The union said many women are forced to quit their jobs and stay home to take care of young children because there are no adequate child care facilities. The AFL-CIO told Confess that the "severely restrictive" language of the Taft-Hartley Act is preventing the private sector of the economy from car­ rying out programs to benefit the country "without cost to the taxpayer." Business Profit Grab Nailed As Inflationary Trend Culprit The rise in living costs can be slowed by changes in the price and profit policies of American business, the AFL-CIO told President Nixon. Replying to a letter from the President on the question of in­ flation, AFL-CIO President George Meany voiced labor's concern with rising prices and noted that they are "washing out all or most of the buying power of workers' collective bargaining gains in the past several years." The major cause of the rising price level, he told tte President "are to be found in business pric­ ing and profits." Changes in these policies are needed, he stressed, to slow down the rise of living costs. The AFL-CIO president pointed out that Labor Secretary George Shultz told the AFLCIO convention recently that the median wage increase, after accounting for the rise in con­ sumer prices, has been only a little under 2 percent in the first year of the agreements negoti­ ated in the past year. The buying power of the aver­ age non-supervisory workers' weekly take-home pay after fed­ eral tax deduction in 1969, Meany said, "has been hardly any greater than last year or in 1965, four years ago." Demands for wage increases are "obviously based," Meany continued on prior increases in the cost-of-living. Unions seek in bargaining to offset the rise in living costs and "to gain some advance in the standard of liv­ ing." If such objectives are not reached a continuing rise in liv­ ing costs puts real earnings fur­ ther behind. President Nixon had written the nation's business and labor leaders on the threat of inflation, calling specifically on labor lead­ ers to "base their wage demands on the new prospect of a return toward price stability." He keyed this to his radio talk to the nation in which he said government programs to cool off the economy and slow price in­ creases are taking hold and now need the help of business and labor. Alfred R. Rota Dies; Was Upholsterers VP CHICAGO—Alfred R. Rota, 73, a vice president of the Up­ holsterers since 1937, died in hospital here last month. He had been in poor health for some time. Bom in Italy, Rota came to this country when he was 10, living first in Kansas and later moving to Chicago. In addition to serving- as a vice president, he had been recording secretary and business representative of Upholsterers Local 18 for many years. His post as vice president will be filled by the union's peneral board for the interim period preceding the next con­ vention in 1970. �SEAFARERS LOG Fraudulent Correspondence Schools Rob Drop'Outs, Low Wage Earners Lured by promises of highpaying jobs, thousands of peo­ ple — including many young­ sters—are victimized each year by mail order courses offered by "institutes" with fancy names which fraudulently claim to provide job-counseling and placement. All too often, the jobs aren't there—nor the counseling, either. Many of the schools last just long enough to rob appli­ cants—^frequently high school drop-outs or graduates unable to go to college—of high fees which they can ill afford. Then the gyp artists disappear from the scene. ' Post Office inspectors esti­ mate that some $10 million has been taken from hopeful home studiers in 15 recent mail fraud cases alone. The correspondence school operators prey on a growing need. Many fields, particularly some of the newer ones, offer job opportunities to those with the requisite skills. No wonder so many unskilled men and women, with low-paying jobs or none at all, are captivated by Consumer Aetion Wins Buttle for Leuner Wieners WASHINGTON — The con­ sumer appears to have won his demand for less fatty hot dogs and other sausage products. The Department of Agriculture de­ cided in favor of a 30-percent limit in the fat content of hot dogs in response to overwhelm­ ing public reaction in favor of the leaner wieners. The original USDA proposal, issued last May, proposed a 33percent limitation. Meat proces­ sors had reportedly been manu­ facturing hot dogs that were more than 50 percent fat. More than 600 individuals and organizations responded to the proposal, the majority in fa­ vor of setting a limit on the amount of fat, said the USDA. Consumers cited low-fat diets and low-nutritional content of fatty dogs as their major rea­ sons. During public hearings, Mrs. Virginia Knauer, the President's Consumer Advisor, spoke in fa­ vor of the less-fatty hot dog and said that President Nixon sup­ ported her position. He too, she said, was on a restricted diet. "This is a real victory for the consumer," Mrs. Knauer said. She praised the President's sup­ port and added, "I am person­ ally delighted." Erma Angevine, executive di­ rector of the Consumer Federa­ tion of America said: "Hope­ fully this will mark the beginning of a greater concern for the con- • sumer on the part of the Agri­ culture Department as it sets other standards for meat." advertising blurbs like: "Leam general material. Job counsel­ at Home", "Jobs Guaranteed", ing was non-existent, as were "Free Placement Service", the promised jobs themselves. "Double Your Earnings". But the unsuspecting students In San Francisco, for ex­ were bilked out of more than ample, the Jet Institute adver­ two million dollars before the tised openings in jet construc­ school's owners were appre­ tion and maintenance to their hended. graduates. The openings didn't And so it goes. A Practical exist and the course was worth­ Nursing School in Dallas, Tex­ less but the "institute" made as, siphoned some $300,000 a away with an estimated $1.5 year from the pockets of lowmillion from mail order stu­ income, unskilled women. High dents. school students were taken for Operating out of West Palm $153,000 by a La Crosse, Wis­ Beach, Florida, one school of­ consin, outfit—the National fered airline careers to appli­ Preparatory Service—which cants from all over the country. held out the hope of Civil Serv­ They paid up to $660 each for ice careers. a course which was a rehash of Aptitude testing and career Local trade associations are counseling are ripe fields for a good source in recommend­ unscrupulous operators. After ing reputable correspondence "testing", the enrollees are schools in their field. made to feel they must "quali­ fy" to take a particular course. They pay out for phony exams and interviews. Ctae such Wis­ consin operator, in business under the name of North American Training Course, Albuquerque—The New| made away with $153,000 be­ Mexico Constitutional Con- j fore being stopped. vention voted 49-18 to re-l The Rogers brothers of Fort ject a "right-to-work" pro- i Worth, Texas, sentenced in vision in a proposed new! 1965, had operated a whole state constitution. Voters | series of correspondence schools will go to the polls in De-| —including Universal Motel cember to accept or reject! Training—before being indicted the final draft of the con-j and convicted. But not before stitution. taking an estimated $35,000 The margin of defeat was j from 141 prospective motel the largest ever recorded on I managers. Among the courses the inti-union measure in! they offered were some in busi­ tfts state. Foes of union i ness administration, law en­ shop agreements have tried! forcement, jet design. They even repeatedly to get the meas- i claimed endorsements from ure through the legislature, i such public figures as the late New Mexico AFL-CIOi General Dwight Eisenhower. Sec.-Treas. Neal Gonzalez i To avoid being taken, all reported. He said 17 of the i prospective home-study appli­ 18 convention delegates! cants should first check" with from the Albuquerque area j their local postal inspection di­ voted against the compul- j vision, which keeps a file of sory openshop proposal. complaints. The Better Busi­ ness Bureau does the same. \New Mexico Spurnx Right-to-Workers Above Board Seafarer James Parrish, at right, a wiper, plays cards with his cousin, William Rittenhouse in New York hall while watching the board and waiting to ship out. Parrish, a recent graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, last sailed on the Buckeye Victory. Cousin Bill just stopped by to visit. December, 1969 love. Honor umi Obey' Vows Cots Union Wife into Trouble Dramatic proof that marriage vows are still taken seriously —at least in some quarters—was furnished in a case recently decided by the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. Dolores Easton of South Plainfield, N.J. said her husband, ordered her not to cross a picket line. Mindful that she had vowed to "love, honor and obey" her husband, she followed his order and was fired. The picketing took place last October by production and maintenance workers at Nuodex Division of Tenneco Chemi­ cals, Inc. at Piscataway, N.J. Her husband, William, is a repairman for New Jersey Bell Telephone. Mrs. Easton was an office employee at Nuodex. NLRB Trial Examiner Sydney S. Asher, Jr. treated it as a special case. "I am not convinced," he ruled, "that the (company's) unfair labor practices were motivated by opposition to the union, or to unionism in general. Rather, I view them as the result of the (company's) pique against Mrs. Easton be­ cause it believed correctly or mistakenly that she placed obedience to her husband's wishes above loyalty to her em­ ployer." Asher ordered her reinstatement, effective to the date of the end of the six-week strike, with back pay to that point. Unions Out-Perform Business In Minority Job Placement WASHINGTON—Organized labor, notably the building trades unions, is doing a better job in opening its ranks to mi­ nority groups than business is doing in its own program of jobs and training according to a sur­ vey published by the Associated Press recently. The news agency, in separate dispatches on the job role of la­ bor and business respectively, found that the JOBS program of businessmen to hire and train the hard-core unemployed is lag­ ging, while "job openings for Negroes in occupations con­ trolled by labor unions are widening." While the Associated Press said that black militants are not satisfied with the union showing, figures compiled from Labor Department records "indicate the much-criticized AFL-CIO building trades are among those making the swiftest progress to­ ward integration on the job." "The figures are absolutely accurate and actually under­ played the job that has been done by the buildng trades union," said Donald Slaiman, Director of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department. "The build­ ing trades figures are better than in other industries such as metal manufacturing and public utili­ ties." "Not only has there been a significant advance in minority placement in the construction in­ dustries," Slaiman said "but con­ tinuing progress is being made through the unions' Outreach Program. The number of mi­ nority apprenticeship placements through July surpassed 4,200. Almost 2,000 of these have been placed since the first of the year." While businessmen insist that their own jobs targets have been met, the Associated Press sur­ vey said that the JOBS program "has produced only about onefourth of the jobs hoped for." A Labor Department analysis found that "the failure of many corporations to meet the hiring training targets of their Federal reimbursement" has become a serious problem. In addition there has been a serious turn­ over rate of about 45 percent among JOBS trainees in the 18month-old drive of business leaders to find jobs for ghetto dwellers. Labor Department reports show that the construction unions have a membership of 7.2 percent minority grouping of which about four percent are Negroes. Total minority mem­ bership is 9,500. Federal figures show that this is a better ratio than apprenticeship openings in the metal, manufacturing, pub­ lic utilities, and mining indus­ tries as well as trade and serv­ ice. The statistics do not include the Laborers Union which has a minority membership of nearly 50 percent—about 25 percent are Negroes., The figures include only those programs which are registered under State or Federal auspices. They do not include many job training programs which are par­ ticularly or entirely carried on by unions on their own. Man's Best Friend Puts Bite on British Mailman LONDON, England—U.S. mailmen carry repellent sprays issued by the U.S. Post Office to ward off angry dogs. But British Post Office workers were denied similar protection be­ cause the postal service feared too many lawsuits by angry dog owners. Now the 97,000 member Un­ ion of Post Office Workers here says it will go into court to win permission to carry the sprays. "It's either the spray or padded pants," say the postmen, 3,193 of whom were Wtten last year. •y'l J \ \ �December, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Twenty Three LOG • •'"y- .y-y f/ Raise in Medkare Payments Forced By Soaring Bills tor M.D. Services !' ' Doctor Who Quit Drug Firm Found Job Too Compromising '»i • WASHINGTON — Working as the medical director of a ma­ jor drug firm forced Dr. A. Dale Console to compromise with his principles so much, he told a Senate investigating committee, "I reached a point where I could no longer live with myself." Console submitted a 25-page document as written testimony to the Senate Monopoly Sub­ committee headed by Senator Gaylord Nelson. The Committee later released the text of ques­ tions from the testimony. He had served as medical di­ rector of the E. R. Squibb Co. for 6V2 years. Console said, but resigned his post on July 1, 1957, and is now in private practice. He told the subcommittee that the drug company doctor "must learn the many ways to deceive the FDA (Food and Drug Ad­ ministration) and, failing in this, how to seduce, manipulate or threaten the physician assigned to the New Drug Application (license for marketing) into ap­ proving it even if it is incom­ plete." The doctor also wrote that "anything that helps to sell a drug is valid . . . while anything that decreases sales must be suppresssed, distorted and re­ jected. . . ." "He will find himself squeezed between businessmen who will sell anything to justify it on the basis that doctors ask for it and doctors who demand products they have been taught to want through the advertising and pro­ motion schemes contrived by businessmen." Console reported that many physicians are heavy prescribers, writing over 100 prescriptions a week. "I find it difficult to be­ lieve," he wrote, "that anyone can write that number of pre­ scriptions and still take time to discriminate." The document also detailed the inadequate and inaccurate means used to test drugs and notes that the average patient has about a 50-percent chance of getting "the right drug, in the right amount, at the right time." "The Overseas Division (of Squibb) held not only the no­ tion that the safety and efficacy of a drug varied with the pa­ tient's nationality," added the Doctor, "but also that the adver­ tising and promotion of drugs depended on the nationality of the physician." Drug advertisements for countries soutji of the U.S. border were rriade simpler be­ cause the drug companies thought these physicians were "less sophisticated." " The detailman—a salesman who promotes the drug among physicians—came in for a major share of the criticism. Dr. Console recalled that the companies ran contests offering prizes ranging from cutting boards to sets of monogrammed glasses to detailmen who reach or exceed a preset quota of sales. WASHINGTON — The Ad­ ministration revealed that it plans to raise the $4 monthly charge levied for coverage of doctors' services under Medi­ care by more than 25 percent because of soaring doctors' bills. Social Security Administrator Robert M. Ball told the House Ways and Means Committee that a final decision on the amount of the increase still has to be made but that the boost will put the charge "somewhat over $5." Ball told the committee, hold­ ing hearings on pending social security legislation, that the higher charge. will be effective July 1. Under the law, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare must decide on the raise by January 1. This would be the second boost in the fee paid by the aged under the medical insur­ ance part of Medicare, which is also partly financed by the government. When the program was first set up in 1966 the fee was $3. It was raised to $4 in 1968. Ball also announced that the Administration is still reviewing a task force study recommend­ ing that drug costs be included under Medicare. "If we move in," he said, "it will be gradual­ ly." Ball's announcements came under questioning from Repre­ sentative Jacob H. Gilbert (DN.y.), who has charged that the Administration's proposed 10-percent increase in social security benefits is "grossly in­ adequate." Gilbert has introduced a bill, backed by the AFL-CIO, the National Council of Senior Citi­ zens and a number of other or­ ganizations, which would pro­ vide for two 20-percent acrossthe-board increases in benefits between 1970 and 1972. The measure also would fi­ nance the medical insurance program through contributions paid during the beneficiary's working years and expand Medi­ care to cover prescription drugs. In another development, the Department of Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare published two new proposed regulations for Medicare in the Federal Regis­ ter, Oct. 17. One would prohibit hospitals and extended care facilities from requiring a deposit from Medicare beneficiaries as a con­ dition for adniission. The other would bar a doctor with finan­ cial interest in a hospital from sitting on its review committee which determines when Medi­ care patients are to be dis­ charged. The first regulation, particu­ larly of benefit to the aged poor, spells out in detail a policy an­ nounced by HEW in May, 1967, but not previously defined. The regulation states that health facilities may not deny admission or evict a Medicare beneficiary because he is un­ able to pay a deductible amount (the first $44 of the hospital bill, for example) or certain perday amounts required after ex­ tended stays—60 days in the case of a hospital, 20 days in an extended care facility. . Advance payments for serv­ ices not covered by Medicare may be required, but only if such services are requested by the patient or his family. Full $1 Billion Voted by Senate For Clean Water WASHINGTON — The Sen­ ate has broken through the Ad­ ministration's budget barriers and voted nearly five times the amount the President had re­ quested to combat water pollu­ tion. It insisted on the full $1 bil­ lion Congress had authorized to be spent this year when it passed the Clean Water Act in 1966. That law authorized steadilyincreased federal grants to help states and communities build sewage treatment plants. But the Administration budget asked that only $214 million be spent this year. The House raised the figure to $600 million, and the Senate boosted it an additional $400 million. It defeated—by an overwhel­ ming 82-5 margin—a motion to cut the appropriation back to the amount of the budget re­ quest. Then it approved the $1 billion figure as part of a $5 bil­ lion public works appropria­ tions package by an 86-2 vote. Stress Dedication to Patients' Needs: Young Medics Kick Over Did AMA Line WASmr'GTON—The new breed of medical student is a far cry from the old-line fogies who dominate the American Medical Association and seem to devote their basic concerns to protection of the "doctor business." The medical students, have a dedicated group that founded the Student Health Organization (SHO) in 1965. Active on more than a dozen medical campuses, SHO has some 1,500 members among the 50,000 medical stu­ dents in the country. SHO has initiated summer and, in some cases, year-round health care projects in the innercity directed at giving special help to minority groups. They are a dedicated lot. What has probably shocked the old-line AMA, though, has not been these types of activist groups— although they are pretty new on the national scene—but what has happened to one of its own creations, the Student American Medical Association (SAMA). The SAMA was founded in 1952 largely as a pawn of the AMA. Today the SAMA is no longer a docile junior AMA but, with its 23,000 dues-paying members on 89 college cam­ puses, has become an activist organization, itself. SAMA is demanding new ap­ proaches to health care of the poor, is setting up pilot projects to help the disadvantaged in Appalachia and Kansas City and is demanding modernization of medical education in all the schools. SAMA's 1968-1969 presi­ dent, C. Clement Lucas, Jr., became Dr. Lucas last June. He jolted the AMA House of Delegates meeting in San Fran­ cisco that same month when he declared: "Health care is a basic right. And unless the medical profes­ sion can accept the challenge of positive action a:nd relevant progressive reform, other orga­ nizations will supplant it and its primacy in the medical care sys­ tem." The SAMA's journal. The New Physician, urges medical students to "work toward the curing of our society's massive ills" when they graduate. And touching on a point con­ sidered wholly sacred by the AMA, The New Physician pointed out that "the concept of fee for service is not the only utilizable foundation to provide the highest quality and availabil­ ity of medical care." Lucas and his publication speak for almost one-half of to­ day's medicd students. Many of these students may change once they graduate and start practice and fall back into the old, tired AMA mold but, judg­ ing by recent graduates, it is not too likely. One indication of the serious­ ness with which the medical stu­ dents treat the health care prob­ lem was a summer conference here in Washington set up by the Institute for the Study of Health and Society through SAMA. Students from some 30 col­ lege campuses gathered in Washington and spent almost two months studying the basic social and political realities and economics of health care, some­ thing of which they get precious little in medical schools. Part of the time was spent working with government agen­ cies. The students also met face to face with spokesmen for vari­ ous interest groups: unions, the poor, the affluent, minority groups, etc. The students were constantly probing, questioning practices which the AMA accepts. They leave little doubt that for most of them their primary concern is playing a role in making high quality health care available to all the people. Not all agree on the proper approach but most have long since concluded that the present system is not the answer. �Page Twenty Four SEAFARERS LOG Decemlier, 1969 LaborRolls up 75% Victory Record In 2 Years Before Supreme Court ATLANTIC CITY — Labor won 75 percent of its cases be­ fore the Supreme Court during the last two years for a "highly successful" legal record, the AFL-CIO Executive Council said. The council report dealt with 22 labor cases which reached the Supreme Court since the last convention—a period covering the final two court terms under Chief Justic Earl Warren. In 16 of these cases, labor's arguments prevailed. Many of the cases dealt with constitutional issues and the council report discussed five of them, including three that it termed "major." • In Food Employees Local 590 V. Logan Valley Plaza, Pennsylvania courts ruled that peaceful picketing on shopping center sidewalks could be barred as an illegal trespass cn private property, and the union ap­ pealed. The Supreme Court re­ versed the decision in a 6-3 vote. Justice Marshall wrote an opinion concluding that state laws on the places at which pick­ eting may be carried on are sub­ ject to the same constitutional freedom of speech standards historically applied to handbilling cases. Five other justices agreed, in a decision which the council said was "plainly of the greatest practical importance" for unions faced with the usual "formidable difficulties" in carrying on organizing cam­ paigns. In United Mine Workers v. Illinois Bar Association, the or­ ganized bar complained that the UMW engaged in the unauthor­ ized practice of law by hiring a licensed attorney, on a salaried basis, to represent any member who wanted his advice in work­ men's compensation claims! The Illinois courts rejected the un­ ion's claim that the plan was protected by the 1st Amend­ ment. The Supreme Court re­ versed, with Justice Harlan dis­ senting. The council said: "The court made it absolutely plain that unions have the right to set up and finance group legal service plans ... as to any workrelated matter, as long as the •—: ^^ : : -J plan is administered in such a way as to insure that the indi­ vidual member retains control of the case" involving him. A landmark ruling was put on the lawbooks when Maryland and 27 other states brought a suit, called Maryland v. Wirtz, alleging that it was beyond the power of Congress to regulate the minimum wages and maxi­ mum hours of employees in state-operated hospitals and schools. The states' argument was "completely rejected" by a seven-man majority of the court, the council noted. The opinion, written by Jus­ tice Harlan, upheld the power of Congress to regulate public enterprises affecting commerce. The report said "There can be little doubt that this case rep­ resents a major interpretation of the commerce clause which will have reverberations far into the future if Congress moves to meet the serious labor relations problems which are surfacing on the state and local levels of gov­ ernment." The council cited two cases of "lesser magnitude": In Nash v. Florida Industrial Commission, the commission had refused to pay unemploy­ ment insurance to a union mem­ ber because she had authorized her union to file unfair labor practice charges against her em­ ployer on her behalf. This re­ fusal was upheld by the Florida courts but unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court. The court, for the fourth time in 55 years, rejected the claim of a railroad—this time the Chi­ cago, Rock Island and Pacific— that Arkansas's state "full crew" laws violate the Constitution or the 14th Amendment. The court ruled that the evidence strongly supported the claim of the Lo­ comotive Firemen and Enginemen, now part of the United Transportation Union, that the laws play an important safety function. National Labor Relations Board cases did not "occupy center stage" during the last two Warren terms, the council re­ ported, but nevertheless did fig' • : Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 • '• / I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list, (prinf information) NAAAE . .. . .. . STREET AODRESS CITY' ...... •...... . ... ... .a. .a. ... ... • • •. v.... . .'y,!...... .STATE. . .... .. a. »-. ......... . .• ZIP. . .....-.. TO AVOID DUPUCAT10N:'if yow «• an old. iubicribar and have a change of addrees, pleaae give yemr femier address below; ure in decisions of importance. In NLRB V. Gissel Packing Co., a- unanimous court ruled that an employer's duty to bar­ gain with a union can be estab­ lished without a representation election. It said that authorization cards obtained by the union from a majority of employees, without misrepresentation or co­ ercion, are reliable enough gen­ erally to prove a valid alternate route to majority status. It found that an order to bargain is jus­ tified when an employer "rejects a card majority while . . . com­ mitting unfair labor practices that tend to undermine the un­ ion's majority and make a fair election an unlikely possibility." AFL-CIO President George Meany confers with Secretary-General Galo Plaza of the Organization of American States, left, and Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz, center, at Inter-American Conference of Labor Ministers where Meany appealed for support of free unions. Free Unions Called Main Foandatlon Of Struggle to Oppose Dictatorships WASHINGTON — AFLCIO President George Meany called on Western Hemisphere governments to give their fullest support to "those of us who make the case for freedom and justice" for workers and their kmilies. He also strongly re-emphasized U.S. labor's opposition to dictatorships "from either the right or the left" in an address to the Third Inter-American Conference of Labor Ministers in Washington. The week-long conference, sponsored by the Organization of American States, was at­ tended by ministers of labor from 23 countries in the hemis­ phere. Most delegations also in­ cluded union leaders. Two previous labor ministers' conferences were held, in 1963 in Colombia and 1966 in Ven­ ezuela. The purpose of the con­ ferences is to develop effective participation by labor and labor ministries in social and eco­ nomic development. Reports on the status of proj­ ects agreed to at previous con­ ferences and working papers prepared by OAS formed the basis for the work of the confer­ ence's plenary sessions and working committees. In a message to the confer­ ence, President Nixon empha­ sized that "the development of all our resources is imperative if we are to attain our goals for a better life. But first among these is the human resource." Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz headed the American delegation. Major conference speakers in addition to Meany and Shultz, included OAS Sec­ retary-General Galo Plaza and David A. Morse, director-gen­ eral of the International Labor Organization. Meany told the conference that the AFL-CtO "has devoted considerable effort to raise the standard of life in other parts of the world," especially in Latin America. Much of the effort, he pointed out has been made in co-operation with business and government through the Amer­ ican Institute for Free Labor Development established in 1962 "to provide educational and development assistance ob­ viously needed and directly sought by free trade unions in Latin America and the Carib­ bean." "The AFL-CIO, through AIFLD," Meany said, "has of­ fered trade union courses to thousands of your trade union­ ists both in Latin America and in the United States." In addition, he said, "we have assisted in the construction of worker housing, worker credit institutions, worker co-opera­ tives, clinics and even schools for children in many of your countries." Meany also cited U.S. labor's work with national trade union centers and the Inter-American Regional Organization of Work­ ers (GRIT) as part of a "proud record of association" with free trade unions in the hemisphere. The AFL-CIO engages in in­ ternational programs for two reasons, Meany said: To help free workers achieve economic and social advancement and prevent "dictatorships of the left or right, communist or fascist." Labor knows, he went on, that dictatorship anywhere is "accompanied by destruction of free unions" and "represents a threat to freedom everywhere in the world." Meany leveled sharp crit­ icisms at union movements that turn to military governments on their promises of quick improve­ ments in working conditions. Such situations, he said, only add to workers' discontent and suffering and "help to perpetu­ ate conditions of misery, pov­ erty and social unrest." Shultz challenged the labor ministers to play a vital role in the "effort for economic growth and development" and shoulder major responsibility "in seek­ ing social justice." He said: "We should lead in develop­ ing the best means for incorpo­ rating manpower policy in the overall strategy of economic de­ velopment. "We should work to provide a fuller understanding of the anatomy and meaning of unemployment and poverty, espe­ cially to those most directly af­ fected." The urgency of resolving in­ creasing unemployment in West­ ern Hemisphere nations was emphasized by Plaza. "At least 25 percent of the Latin American labor force was unemployed in 1960," the OAS leader stated, "and the figure today is believed to be even higher. The vast majority of Latin Americans live close to the margin of subsistence, with little opportunity to improve their lot." Plaza deplored the "extremely low rate" of participation of Latin American women in the labor force, pointing out that those who do work often are compelled to choose between domestic and other low-produc­ tivity positions or no job at all. Morse told the conference that policies to bring about the "most significant and most rapid possible increase in employ­ ment" should be the comerstone of future development of the Americas. He implored the ministers to develop plans for a distribution of income that will allow more of their rapidly growing popu­ lations to participate and bene­ fit from economic growth "with­ in the next few years, not in some distant future." Morse also unveiled a plaque at the Pan American Union in Washington commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first ses­ sion of the ILO. The cere­ monies were attended by the ministers and members of their delegations. ^ • �SEAFARERS December, 1969 A motion was made aboard the Bethflwr (Bethlehem) that wherever a com­ pany has an es­ tablished state­ side shore gang, that gang should be required to shift or haul ves­ sels between 5 P.M. and 8 P.M. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Also dis­ cussed were port watch duties after 5 P.M. and before 8 A.M. The meeting, at which Joseph Michael was chairman, agreed that the practice of turning men to for securing before sailing time should be stopped unless a call back is posted for the deck depanment. Secretary Vernon Douglas reported. A motion was made that representatives on the Union Negotiating Committee include at least one man for each department who has been to sea recently. A request was also made that each department aboard ship post the minutes of all safety meetings so that the Seafarers will be kept fully in­ formed. Jeny W. Elan was deck delegate; Hector L. Duarte, en­ gine delegate and Lrnrenzo Rinaldl, Stewart delegate. if SIU contract enforcement com­ mittee to make a strong effort to have single foc'sles, one for each man, on all new and con­ verted ships. A vote of con­ fidence was given the steward department for a job well done. Butts reported no beefs and all repairs taken care of. Brother Homer L. Miller, FWT, was put ashore at Midway Island very sick; he will receive needed care at the U.S. base hospital there. John A. Owen is deck delegate, Thomas F. Delaney, engine delegate, and Kenneth Bowman is steward delegate. Ship's Chairman Jake Levine aboard the Transpacific (Hud­ son Waterways) insists the vessel is the best feeder in the SIU. Le­ vine gives the major share of the credit to Chief Steward John C. , Hunt. Hunt "Without excep­ tion," Levine wrote to the LOG, "Hunt is the best feeding stew­ ard that I have ever come across. The entire crew of the Transpacific are full of praise <1>-^ and have nothing but compli­ Upon receipt of a radiogram ments for the chief steward." from headquarters conceriing Both Hunt and the entire stew­ the raises in va­ ard department received a cation benefits, "whole-hearted vote of thanks the crew aboard from the entire crew" for the the Trenton well-prepared food, the menus (Sea-Land) voted "fit for a king" and the clean to accept, writes Secretary Cristo­ service. The praise was echoed bal DeJesus. by SIU boarding patrolman W. Ship's Delegate Paul Gonsorchik, who heard Dan Butts was first hand of the crew's enthusi­ chairman. A motion was made asm about Hunt and his depart­ by Joe Atchison and seconded ment when he met the ship in by Join Dunfee to request the Baltimore. Page Twenty Five LOG After sailing from Baltimore carrying MSTS cargo for Viet­ nam, the Seatrain Georgia' (Seatrain) devel­ oped rudder trouble. Ship's Secretary James W. Thomas re­ ports and had to return to dryVan Epps dock in Mary­ land for repairs. The ship sailed eight 'days later with the crew eager to go. Ship's delegate Frank J. Smith was the meeting chairman and a discussion took place concerning the holding of meetings every Sunday whUe the ship is at sea. Some mem­ bers felt this was unnecessaty, as there is rarely enough to dis­ cuss. M. H. Jones is deck dele­ gate and Clyde L. Van Epps en­ gine delegate. No beefs were reported. Treasurer Jones re­ ported $36 in the ship's fund. vl> Serious chow problems are reported aboard the Del Alba. Ship's Delegate Frank Rodri­ guez, Jr. says the captain counter­ mands the stew­ ard's orders to buy fresh vege­ tables and other Rodriguez stores as needed. As a result, the ship almost went on rations due to a shortage of eggs, coffee and other items. L. D. Croom, Jr., the meeting secretary, writes that a special meeting will be requested with the boarding pa­ trolman when the ship gets back to the States. A telegram was received describing the new SIU vacation plan rates and a vote of thanks for a job well done was sent to headquarters upon motion of Rodriguez, seconded by Croom. William Escbuk, Jr. was meeting chairman. J. B. Cowan is deck delegate; J. H. Heifer, engine delegate and C. M. Dials, steward delegate. <1> The Seafarers aboard the Ogden Willamette (Ogden Marine) are all very proud of thennew ship and its many conveni­ ences, writes Secretary Cleve­ land R. Wolfe. Each man has his own room, M^ generally with both bath and shower. Ship's Delegate Walter D. Makin re­ ported no beefs. It was decided at the meeting, chaired by Ed­ win C. Craddfl^, that a safety committee should be set up. Among the items requiring at­ tention is the installation of a railing on the lower deck, which is very dangerous when wet. W. T. Gardner is deck delegate; B. C. Bums, engine delegate and Makin, steward delegate. The steward department was given a unanimous vote of thanks for the fine chow. \I> By an, unusual coincidence, 13 crewmembers aboard the Overseas Carrier (Maritime Over­ seas) all celebrated their birthdays during the month of No­ vember, writes Ship's Secretary A. Sigler. WURudd liam S. Rudd, ship's delegate, reported to the assembled Seafarers that the steward vacancies were filled at Freeport, and, as a result, this vessel's crew feels it can boast the best steward department in the SIU. A vote of thanks sent to the galley. The meeting, chaired by Walter B. Chipman, heard that there were no beefs. The captain is very co-operative in every way, Rudd said, and w^nts all beefs squared away promptly. Department dele­ gates are: Deck, Miguel Luis Medina; Engine, William E. McCay; Steward, Sa^e Duplecbin. A motion was made by Rudd and seconded by Raymond Al­ len, to allow any crewmember to pay off after six months on the Persian Gulf run, with needed replacements to be flown out to the ship. SlUNA-UIW Adds Newly-Contracted Firm SIU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Benefits Paid Report Period: October 1 - October 31, 1969 I? SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $474.35) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Gut-Potients Benefits SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' VACATION PLANBENEFITS PAID (Average $491.67) TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD Number of Amount Benefits Paid 10 2,080 31 207 24 $ 4,181.50 50,269.05 91,000.00 828.00 4,600.00 506 1,832 15,235.90 86,916.05 676 278 4,281 9,319.73 2,776.85 33,992.00 9,925 299,119.08 1,433 332,784.00 1,557 765,523.52 12,915 $1,397,426.60 Men of the newly contracted Hussmann Container Division in San Francisco proudly display the first product they manufactured under a novel container-making process. These 16 men are members of the SlUNA-afRliated United Industrial Workers of North Arrterica and are shown here at the Bethlehem Shipyard in San Francisco where they gathered for this photograph near and on top the container. �Page Twenty Six SEAFARERS I 'nrijii" Widow Finds SlU A Welcome Friend To the Editor: I want to express my heart­ felt thanks to the Seafarers International Union for all their help to me. My husband, Guy F. Plahn, had been missing since last February, after paying off the Raphael Semmes in January. He was finally located through finger prints and help of the authorities to be deceased in San Francisco, Calif. I had no insurance, nor any money whatsoever to bury him, but thanks to the SIU, they buried him for me, and saw to all the necessary ar­ rangements. I would have had no one at all to help me had it not been for this wonderful Un­ ion. I want to especially thank the New Orleans SIU hall and Miss Spencer for handling all details for me. I don't know what I would have done without these fine people. I am proud my husband was a member of such a won­ derful Union as the SIU. I take this means of thank­ ing each and every one of you through the Seafarers Log. God bless you all. Please see that I get the Log sent to me. I enjoy it so much. Thanks. Sincerely, (Mrs.) Anna Plahn New Orleans, La. —^ Seafarer Praised By Chief Officer across his back to the gang­ way and onto the tugboat. It was a beautiful job. Mr. Phillips is also a very good Electrician and was very helpful in getting this vessel underway after we broke down two days out of Hono­ lulu and floated around for 18 hours without any plant or power. We were dead in the water. It is men like Mr. Phillips, who are hard to find these days, that makes life just a little easier and pleasant un­ der various trying conditions on these old rusty ships. The ship's delegate, Wil­ liam Cullen and myself, and of course everyone else I've talked to about It, all thought it a very good idea to have this incident sent to the LOG. Sincerely yours, H. Bilde Chief Officer Seafarer Thankful For Union's Help To the Editor: I recently returned to Sea after 18 years on the Beach. I sailed as night cook and baker on the S.S. Halcyon Panther on a trip to India. I was flown back to Tam­ pa, Florida, following an in­ jury. I checked in at the Tampa .Hall and the agent there told me of the benefits I was entitled to, such as maintenance and cure, wages, and vacation pay as I had been injured on the Island of Monitius in the Indian ocean. They helped me to fill out forms and made phone calls to get me paid off. Although To the Editon I I know.you will be proud to learn of the great assistance one of your Union members, Leslie E. Phillips, Chief Elec­ trician, was to me under very trying conditions. One of the crew members in the engine department. Wiper Melvin N. Duerson, fell and injured his back aboard the Buckeye Pacific and was being transferred from the ship to a tugboat outside the port of Honolulu, Hawaii, for removal to a hospital. The .water was rough and the tugboat pitched quite a bit, thereby making it difficult to carry the man on. a stretcher. Phillips of­ fered his assistance, by carry­ ing the man by himself to the tugboat. He explained to me he had learned this particular feat in the Navy. I was a bit ap­ prehensive at first concerning the safety of both men in doing this, as there was quite a gap and step between the deck of the pitching tugboat and the gangway. With an injured man weighing approx­ imately 200 pounds on his back, it certainly wasn't going to be easy, but Phillips as­ sured me he could easily do it. I accepted his help, so he slowly and gently raised the injured man and carried him I am a C card it made no difference to the SIU at Tampa. I was treated the same as the old timers. I am looking forward to earning a B book and then going on to be a full book member. I wish to take this oppor­ tunity to thank the Tampa Hall for looking after my in­ terests and the entire SIU for their wonderful care and in­ terest in my welfare. It should be of interest to all new­ comers in the SIU that re­ gardless of yoiir seniority in the SIU, you are being well cared for. The progress the SIU has made in the past 18 years is unbelievable. It makes me feel proud and honored to be­ long to the SIU. Sincerely yours, John M. Hester Nixon Fleet Plan Pleases Pensioner To the Editor: I was glad to hear that President Nixon will re­ December, 1969 LOG build the U.S. merchant fleet at last. Up to now, the only times we have built up our mer­ chant fleet was a hurry-up affair in time of war. The next war we may not have time. Bridgette McCaD, bom Sep­ I wish every Senator and tember 25, 1969, to Seafarer Congressman would read and and Mrs. James R. McCall, West study Admiral Mahan's "Ef­ New York, N.J. fects of Sea Power in World History." It was merchant Kim Ahom, bora July 26, fleets under Vasco da Gama 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. that found the sea route to the James P. Ahem, Hyde Park, riches of India. Columbus Mass. discovered the New World and the English and Dutch — became famous and powerful LaToyna Broadus, bora Au­ by sea trade. I hope we have gust 25, 1969, to Seafarer and enough men in Washington Mrs. Raymond F. Broadus, Pasto speak for us. cagoula. Miss. I notice that most accidents ^ at sea are on ships under Robert Trainer, Jr., bora Oc­ monkey (foreign) flags, tober 17, 1969, to Seafarer and where human lives are not of Mrs. Robert Trainor, Deptford, much value. N.J. Thanks for sending me the LOG. It was great to see and hear from old shipmates and Laura Walker, bora October keep up with the Seafarers 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. news. Clayton Walker, Brooklyn, N.Y. I believe we who are on ^ SIU pension should have Jose Colls, born October 3, some sort of unity and keep 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose in touch in case of a strike or R. Colls, Laris, Puerto Rico. other Union emergency, so we ,1. can help out. Samantba Feagin, bora Sep­ I hope when the U.S. tember 21, 1969, to Seafarer builds new ships that the Sea­ and Mrs. Sam O. Feagin, Jr., farers will have plenty of Seattle, Washington. trained men ready. It will be a great help in getting new <1> ships for our Union. Michael Cannon, bora Au­ gust 16, 1969, to l^afarer and Soon I will visit the Hall Mrs. Peter J. Cannon, Duluth, here in New Orleans to meet Minnesota. friends and help out at Un­ ion meetings. Meanwhile I —,!>— give my best regards to the Patricia Lewis, bora Septem­ staff of the LOG. ber 30, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jesse S. Lewis, Norwalk, Fraternally yours, Calif. Lawrence McCullough New Orleans Mei-Ling Salcedo, born Oc­ tober 7, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose A. Salcedo, Carolina, Welfare Plan Puerto Rico. A "Lifesaver" «- To the Editor: I wish to thank everybody, including all union members, for taking care of my recent hospital bill in Traverse City, Michigan—it saved my life. Yours truly, Clarence A. Vinson Elberta, Mich. Enka Harris, bora August 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wal­ ter Harris, Wilmington, Dela­ ware. Sebrina Toliver, bora Octo­ ber 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William Toliver, Jr., New Orleans, La. Tammy Hovatta-, bora Sep­ tember 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald W. Hovatter, Leakesville, Miss. <|> Andrew Kruse, born May 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edwin L. Kruse, Alpena, Mich­ igan. ^ Brian Piedto, bora October 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald R. Piesko, Chicago, Illinois. Alex R^as, bora October 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfred Ragas, New Orleans, La. ^ Frances Field, bora Septem­ ber 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William H. Field, Texas City, Texas. Dawn Jockinn, bora October 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Daniel F. Jockum, Secaucus, N.J. ^ I Jeffery Manuel, bora Octo­ ber 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leroy J. Manuel, Kinder, La. ^— Derrick Smitb, born October 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hanable Smith, Jr., Mobile, Ala. ^ Merle Duckworth, bora July 26, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Merle S. Duckworth, Jackson­ ville, Fla. ^ Alberto Osman, bora No­ vember 2,1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Malip B. Osman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Melito Maldmiado, Jr., bora October 17, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Melito Maldonado, Houston, Texas. ^ James Broxson, bora August 1, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lowell T. Broxson, Vidor, Texas. —— An^ Louise ^(^^is, bora No­ vember 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Adrian D. Willis III, Virginia Beach, Va. ^ SHIP CHAIRMEN SHIP SECRETARIES PEPARTMENT liEIEeATES Seafarers on SIU ships around the world would like to have your crew share their experiences with thein. You can do this by sending in any newsworthy, in­ teresting or humorous experience of members of the crew which can be published in the Seafarers LC>G. Pictures are also wanted. Have your shipboard phptographer snap some photos of the crew at Wof^ reifying ddi^e an the 100. the phot^ dre sharp clear, and that tweryone is identified by naine and rating.) Shea Seale, bom August 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Kenneth R. Seale, Mobile, Ala. — Karen Rmh, born October 19, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Calvin J. Rush, New Orleans, La. Stefan Strawinski, born March 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Adolf Strawinski, Farmingdalc, N. J. ^ Derrick Hills, bora May 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jimmie Hills, New Orleans, La. ^ 4 �December, 1969 SEAFARERS International Agreement Necessary To Curb Mexican Border Plants A multi-natiGn agreement has been urged by an official of the Qothing Workers to curb the " export of jobs and import of products that adversely affect • both U.S. workers and indus, tries. Soft goods, ceramics, plate » glass and steel are among the industries hard hit by U.S.owned plants along the Mexi­ can border and "in other lowwage countries, particularly in the Far East," said Howard D. Samuel, vice president of the ACWA. Samuel appeared on Labor News Conference, an , AFL-CIO-produced public af­ fairs interview broadcast Tues­ day at 7:35 p.m., EST, on the ' Mutual Broadcasting System. He said that some 200 such plants have been built just south of the Mexican border in the last few years, where wages range as low as 30 cents an hour for the 20,000 workers they em­ ploy. He said that in addition to substandard wages, tax breaks granted by the Mexican govern­ ment and U.S. "tariff benefits" encourage manufacturers to set up foreign assembly plants. "Now 'assembly' is a fairly broad word," Samuel stressed, pointing out that it includes "putting together all the com­ ponents of a television set or a radio ... or most of the opera­ tions in making a shirt, or suit, or a ladies garment." But, he noted, Mexican con-sumers get no "benefit out of the manufacturing operations that are being set up there," for "even when things are made within its borders (by U.S. com­ panies), they have to be shipped out." f . Samuel said that U.S. textile and apparel imports are "grow­ ing 70 percent a year" in gen­ eral, and as much as 400 per­ cent to 500 percent on some I'l < items, but that American con­ sumers gain no advantage in either quality or price. He pointed out that "garments com­ ing from European countries, where the wage levels are con­ siderably lower than wage levels in the United States, are sold for the same or hi^er prices than American made garments of the same quality." "The beneficiary is not the consumer, it is the retailer," he declared, and the retailer "is doing very well, indeed." Imports have taken a heavy toll in jobs. Samuel said that "in the last four to five years we have lost probably 200,000 jobs" in the textiles and apparel industries—"largely due to the import factor." Runaway companies add to the plight of the worker by clos­ ing a plant in the United States and opening it across the border or overseas, Samuel said. "I consider this a very crude form of export of jobs," he stressed. The apparel and textile in­ dustries in the country employ about 2.5 million people—many are. wqmen and many are mem­ bers of minority groups. Samuel r. li said that any decline of employ­ ment in the industries will affect people who don't have access to other industries and who exist on the fringe of poverty. He said the nation has spent a great deal of money on poverty programs and manpower train­ ing "to make sure that these people—women and members of Page Twenty Seven LOG minority groups—become a part of the labor market." But he warned that "if we continue to allow major imports in these areas it is going to have just the o'pposite effect." Samuel was questioned by Lloyd Schwartz of Fairchild Publications and Neil Gilbride of the Associated Press. XhcMiias Howell Please contact Barbara Eooth as soon as possible at 568 Pros­ pect, Seattle, Washington 98109. Rudy P. DeBoissiere Please contact the Welfare Plan office at Union Headquar­ ters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, New. York at your earliest convenience. <1> Defender of Viet Freedom Yokes Prayer for Peace Vergil A. de los Santos Marine Corps Sergeant Vergil A. de los Santos, 18-year-old son of Carlos de los Santos, business agent of the SIUNA-affiliated Alaska Fish Cannery and Crab Workers' Union of the Pacific, left Camp Pendleton, California, last month—enroute to Viet­ nam with his Unit. Prior to his departure for the war zone. Sergeant de los Santos sent to the Seafarers LOG a poem he had written for his Unit which movingly illustrates the sense of duty to coun­ try, combined with prayers for peace, which he shares with his fellow marines in Unit 4420. 'We are all proud to be a Marine,' Vergil—^whose brother. Carlito, spent 19 months of his own marine service in Viet­ nam—told the LOG. He added, however, that "maybe, just maybe, by publishing this part of us" for the people back home and for readers around the world, there might be other prayers "added, with ours, for peace." The poem is printed below. A Marine's Prayer I'm fighting for something, others will too. I'm praying for something—how about you? Is it too hard to beg for peace When we can have it without a lease? . You sit at home and take life at ease. But do you think of us? That's all we need! You have the time for parties, and time for fun. But think of the Marine, because he has none. A lot of us will die in this lasting war... Others will sit back and some will ignore This feeling in all of our hearts— The end of fighting and peace in our thoughts. His loved ones back home are praying always ... Their son is fighting in Vietnam, but nothing to say Because of his training. Above all is important— Their son is coming home; first class postage is sent. But should something happen to someone far away. Did their prayer count? And then how to pray For a loved one who died for something This country gave to him, and to all the same. I'll pass by and show my colors, Someone will brush it, and so will others. To think how freedom was a price to pay . . . Is it worth it, to let our flag lay? They prove themselves men by burning a card! Some will think twice; some will be hard. To pass by this country's tradition of fame; They only give us thoughts of ending pain. Jerome Chajdcewitz Mr. M. Whitfield asks that you contact him at the Depart­ ment of Social Services, 847 Concourse Village East, Bronx, New York 10451. Henry Karpowicz Please contact your cousin, Mrs. Rose Burns, at 4820 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, Penn­ sylvania 19141. Harold Edward Arlinghaus Your wife. Carmen, asks that you contact her as soon as pos­ sible at 169 22 Street, Brooldyn, New York. —>i/— Hans Skottene Please contact SIU headquar­ ters in Brooklyn, N.Y. in refer­ ence to your membership book and seamen's papers. David E. Hanke Please contact your parents as soon as possible at 556 South Craft Highway, Mobile, Ala­ bama 36617 or call them col­ lect at area code 205, telephone number 452-9683. They are very anxious to hear from you. ^ George L. Bruno, Jr. Robert M. Holley It is important that you con­ Your wife, Marilyn, would tact Mr. J. M. Fenton, Insur­ like you to contact her as soon ance Manager, at Penn Ship­ as possible at 1010 West 49th, ping Company, Inc., 405 Park Norfolk, Virginia 23508. She is Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 ' home from the hospital and feel­ as soon as possible. He is hold­ ing fine. ing a check for you in connec­ tion with your salvage claim. Jack Gervais The telephone number is (212) Please contact your mother 751-4800. as soon as possible at the fol­ lowing address: c/o C. C. An­ Thomas E. Tucker drews, Route 1, Box 252, Alexander Gluck Boomer, North Carolina. Anthony Amoriello <1> Please contact the Welfare Counter at SIU Headquarters Robert Newbold Newton in Brooklyn as soon as possible. Marvin G. Byerly asks that A check is being held there you contact him as soon as pos­ for you. sible at 828 Americana Build­ ing, Houston, Texas 77002. —— Michael Toth Robert E. Carroll, Jr., asks Charles WUey that you contact him as soon as W. Dean (Deano) Couey possible. The address is 500 St. would like you to contact him Charles Street, New Orleans, as soon as possible concerning Louisiana. your belongings. His address is 4/ — 309 Scott Street, Apartment 3, San Francisco, California John O. Glenn Please contact your mother, 94117. Mrs. Carolina O. Glenn, at Hotel Inter-Continental, House­ Jesus Fernandez Roman keeping Department, Makati Please contact your daughter, Rizal, Philippines, as soon as Margarita Fernandez Garcia, as possible. soon as possible at Calle Esqui\I> lin 1954, Santurce, Puerto Rico. John V. Dolan Thomas J. Tourges asks that Jimmy Davis you contact him as soon as pos­ Norma asks that you contact sible at Pembroke Station, Dan- her as soon as you can at P.O. bury, Connecticut 06810. Box 36021, Houston, Texas 77036. She tried repeatedly to reach you on Thanksgiving and Ralph M. Bartlett, Jr. Please contact your parents the day after and is sorry she as soon as possible at 2705 wasn't able to contact you. Seymour Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113. Clyde T.Clark <1> Matthew W. Nevin Your mother, Mrs. Margaret L. Hurst, asks that you contact her S)^ soon as possible at Argyle Head, R.R. 1, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. — There are many ways to pray. Some do it with nothing to say . . . As long as your heart speaks for you, I'll pray for peace and, above all for you, too. matter. The address is 2800 Bailey Avenue, Bronx, New York 10463. — Frank Snm^en Tom Snowden Please contact your brother, Bruce N. Snowden, as soon as possible regarding an important Please get in touch with your landlord, William A. Lang, im­ mediately on a very urgent mat­ ter. His address is 3326 Spauldine Avenue, Baltimore, Mary­ land 21215. James Sidny McRae Your son, Harry Steven Mc­ Rae, asks that you contact him as soon as possible at P.O. Box 3089, Heltys Station, Lufkin, Texas 75901. �SEAFARERS Page Twenty Eight DEL VALLE (Delta), October 6—. Chairman, Frank Wranik; Secre­ tary, W. C. Sink; Ship's Delegate, Frank Corven; Engine Delegate, Earyl E. Masters; Ship's Delegate, Adolph L. LaMorthe, Jr. No dis­ puted OT and no beefs. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), October 5—Chairman, Kenneth Rob­ erts; Secretary, Thomas Ulisse; Ship's Delegate, Kenneth Roberts; Deck Delegate, Kenneth Kristensen. Disputed OT in deck department. Wire sent to patrolman in Yoko­ hama asking him to meet ship for discussion. TRANSONTARIO (Hudson Wa­ terways), October 12 — Chairman, C. L. Gonzales; Secretary, F. J. Vanlooy; Ship's Delegate, C.- L. Gon­ zales; Engine Delegate, Emile J. Olive; Steward Delegate, A. Romero. No beefs were reported. TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Water­ ways), October 5 — Chairman, R. Sohl; Secretary, T. Conway; Ship's Delegate, F. H. Katros; Deck Dele­ gate, A. Sison; Steward Delegate, Arthur G. Andersen. No beefs were reported. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), October 16—Chairman, Verner Poulson; Secretary, Vasser Szymanski; Ship's Delegate, Donald M. King. No beefs and no disputed OT. COLUMBIA ROSE (Columbia), October 19^—Chairman, Lee J. Har­ vey: Secretary, Clyde H. LanierDeck Delegate, Charles Frev: Eneine Delegate, Elkin Kent; Steward De'agate, James E. Naaran. General discussion held regarding the good and welfare of the ship. Everything is running smoothly as a whole with no serious beefs. Some disputed OT in engine department. HATTIESBURG VICTORY (Al­ coa), September 14—Chairman, S. P. Morris; Secretary, E. C. Caudill. Ship's Delegate reported that every­ thing is running smoothly. HATTIESBURG VICTORY (Al­ coa), September 28--Chairman, S. P. Morris; Secretary, E. C. Caudill; Deck Delegate, Albert J. Costello; Engine Delegate, Walter Fitzgerald. No beefs. Everything is running smoothly. HATTIESBURG VICTORY (Al­ coa), October 19—Chairman, S. P. Morris: Secretary, E. C. Caudill; Ship's Delegate, S. P. Morris; Stew­ ard Delegate, Raymond Walters. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Maritime Overseas), November 9—Chairman, Walter B. Chipman; Secretary, A. Siegler; Ship's Delegate, William S. Rudd; Deck Delegate, M. L. Me­ dina; Steward Delegate, S. Duplechin. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward department for a job well done. Best steward department in SIU. No beefs. Ev­ erything is running smoothly. Good Captain and good crew. DEL NORTE (Delta), November 9—Chairman, Jack Procell; Secre­ tary, R. E. Stought, Jr.; Ship's Dele­ gate, John R. Johnson: Deck Dele­ gate, G. Malazzo; Engine Delegate, Joseph G. Arch: .Steward Delegate, John T. Kelly. Jr. $153.47 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with pa­ trolman. Very smooth voyage. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. PONCE (Sea-Land), November 2— Chairman. H. W. Soillane: Secre­ tary. J. Kackur: Ship's Delegate, H. W. Spillane: Deck Delegate, H. W. Spillane; Engine Delegate. Ed­ ward L Haynes. Discussion held re­ garding oyerpriced items in the slon chest. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Spillane for settling a few beefs. LOG December, 1969 BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), Octo­ ber 30—Chairman, R Whitney; Sec­ retary, P Gonzalez; Deck Delegate, C. Dickens; Engine Delegate, Nick G. Lambros; Steward Delegate, Jo­ seph Kearnes. Discussion held re­ garding poor mail service to the ship. Some disputed OT in deck department. DELTA PARAGUAY (Delta), No­ vember 2 — Chairman, Albert E. Bourgot; Secretary, Charles J. Mitchell; Deck Delegate, John W. McNeelage; Engine Delegate, Frank W. Chavers; Steward Delegate, Rob­ ert V. Kennedy. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. STEEL VENDOR (States MarineIsthmian), November 8—Chairman, Alfred Hanstvedt: Secretary, Mi­ chael J. Dunn. No beefs and no disputed OT. Everything running smoothly so far. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. October 18—Chairman, Oscar Ste­ vens; Secretary, Roscoe L. Alford: Ship's Delegate, M. D., Green; Deck Delegate, A. Wetherington; Engine Delegate, H. T. Nash; Steward Del­ egate, L. T. Smith. No beefs and no disputed OT. Everying is in order. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), ' November 16—Chairman, O. Her- ' nandez; Secretary, Iluminado R. Llenos; Ship's Delegate, Mike J. Berry. $13.05 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. JAMES (Ogden Marine), Novem­ ber 11—Chairman, F. Finch: Secre­ tary, John R. Roberts: Deck Dele­ gate, A. Ezell: Engine Delegate, John S. Higgins. $30.25 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ROBIN TRENT (Moore-McCormack), September 6—Chairman, F. J. Mears; Secretary, C. J. Nail; Ship's Delegate, P. Rubish; Engine Delegate, Claude D. Berry; Steward Delegate, O. R. Bailey. $34.70 in ship's fund. ,No beefs. Everything is running smoothly. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. ANTINOUS (Waterman), October , 26—Chairman, Melvin Moore; Sec­ retary, J. McPhaul; Ship's Delegate, Melvin Moore; Deck Delegate, Shep- « pard Maris; Engine Delegate A. G. Milne; Steward Delegate, G. T. Auguino. Discussion held regarding vacation plan. $12.25 in ship's fund. » No disputed OT and no beefs. BETHFLOR (Bethlehem Steel), November 11—Chairman, Joseph Mi­ chael; Secretary, Vernon Douglas; Deck Delegate, Jerry H. Blan; En­ gine Delegate, Hector L. Duarte; Steward Delegate, Lorenzo Ranaldi. Disputed OT in deck department. • The crew would like to have a new TV set put aboard. AMERICAN PRIDE (American Sealanes), October 26—Chairman, J. Sampson: Secretary, W. L. Everett; Ship's Delegate. C. A. Roberts; Deck Delegate, W. A. Barlesta: Engine Delegate, W. E. Wilkinson: Steward Delegate, Ernest C. Brown. Few hours disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. VANTAGE HORIZON (Vancor), ROBIN TRENT (Moore-McCormack) October 3—Chairman, Wil­ liam Hale; Secretary, Grant March. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. FANWOOD (Waterman), October 19—Chairman, Anthony J. Kuberski: Secretary, Joseph N. Rioux; Deck Delegate, Wiley Maetkey; Engine Delegate, William Tauk; Steward Delegate, Thomas E. Markham. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. SEATRAIN FLORIDA (Hudson TRENTON (Sea-Land), November Waterways), October 26—Chairman, 1—Chairman, Dan Butts: Secretary, E. B. Hardcastel; Secretary, M. E. C Dyesues; Ship's Delegate, Dan ' Greenwald; Ship's Delegate, E. B. Butts; Deck Delegate. John A. Hardcastel; Deck Delegate, J. Wil­ Owen; Engine Delegate, "rhomas F. son, Jr.; Engine Delegate, R. L. Bell; Delaney; Steward Delegate. Kenneth Steward Delegate, Gregorio Cortez. Bowman. $8.00 in Ship's fund. No No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote beefs were reported by department of thanks to the steward department delegates. for a job well done. JOPLIN VICTORY (Marine Car­ riers), September 14 — Chairman John N. Crews; Secretary, Carlos Diaz. Ship's delegate reported that eyerything is running smoothly with no beefs. JOPLIN VICTORY (Marine Car­ riers). October 12—Chairman. John N. Crews; Secretary, Carlos Diaz. No beefs were reported by department delegates. JOPLIN VICTORY (Marine Car­ riers), October 19—Chairman, .John N. Crews: Secretary, Carlos Diaz. Discussion held regarding welfare and retirement plan. No beefs were reported by department delegates. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Victory Carriers), October 25—Chairman A. Rudnicki: Secretary. E. Eyerett; Ship's Delegate. Enos E. Ott; Deck Delegate, L. Reinchuck; En­ gine Delegate. W. B. Blankenshin: Steward Delegate, Emilio Bnrreto. $19.00 in shin's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrainl, October 26—Chairman, Frank J. Smith: Secretary. James W. Thomas: Ship's Delegate. Frank J. Smith; Deck Delegate. M. Jones: Engine Delegate. Clyde L. Van Eons. Members all in fayor of not adopt­ ing the procedure of holding meet­ ing every Sunday while shin is at sea, as there is seldom anything to discuss. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), -• November 9—Chairman, Alfonso A. Armada; Secretary, William H. • Rhone; Ship's Delegate, William E. Richardson;, Deck Delegate, Wallace G. Renz, Jrf; Engine Delegate, Lyle H. Haddol; Steward Delegate, Jo­ seph Naurocki. Some disputed OT , in deck and engine' departments. Among many subjects, ventilation in crew's quarters was discussed. Vote of thanks to the steward de- ^ partment for a job well done. Beefs in steward department to be taken ' up with boarding patrolman. BUCKEYE PACIFIC (Buckeye), November 18—Chairman, Leon M. Kyser; Secretary, W. Harper; En­ gine Delegate, George E. Connell, Jr.; Steward Delegate, Americus C. Bell. Brother Leon M. Kyser was elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Disputed OT to be taken up with boarding patrolman. SEATRAIN MAINE (Hudson Wa­ terways). October 19—Chairman, George King; Secretary, Sam W. McDonald; Ship's Delegate, George King, Deck Delegate, Robert Myers: Engine Delegate. Jaroslav Sommers: Steward Delegate, William Lennox. $29.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to tha steward department for a job well done. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Landl. October 12—Chairman and Shin's Delegate, Tom E. Kelsey: Secretary. Herb Knowles; Deck Delegate. R. Guerin: Engine Delegate, R. Snanraft; Steward Delegate, J. Silva. Discussion held regarding drinking water and water used for washing. Matter to be taken up with Union officials. COLUMBIA MARINER (Colum- ' bia), November 9—Chairman, Joseph , Savoca; Secretary, Woodrow W. Perkins; Deck Delegate, H. Willing- ham; Engine Delegate, S. V. Marano; Steward Delegate, Paul Capo. No beefs and no disputed OT, Vote of thanks was extended to Brothers Woody Perkins and Red McDonald for getting permission to set up old ice-making machine for cooling off * soft drinks. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Novem­ ber 16—Chairman, Benny Brinson; Secretary, Larry Kilgore; Ship's Delegate, Benny Brinson. Brother Ray Casonova was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Disputed OT in deck department. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), Oc­ tober 21—Chairman, John Brady: Secretary, Michael Tot.h; Shin's Delegate, John Brady; Deck Dele­ gate, John Brady, Engine Delegate, William D. Cooper; Steward Dele­ gate, Bert M. Winfield. Very cooperntiye crew on board. Vote of thanks to the entire steward depart­ ment for the fine food, pastries, etc. TR\NSERTE (Hudson Water­ ways), October 12—Chairman, V. V. Hakkarainen; Secretary, W. B. Yarbrough: Ship's Delegate. H. RuclfiDeck Delegate. T. E. Anderson- En­ gine Delegate, I. W. Flavio- Steward Delegate, R. W. Elliott. $40.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT. HATTIESBURG VICTORY (Al­ coa), November 23—Chairman. S. P. • Morris: Secretary, E C. Candell; Deck Delegate, Albert J. Costello; Engine Delegate, Walter E. Fitz- . gerald; Steward Delegate, Raymond T. Walters. COLUMBIA TIGER (Columbia), November 15 — Chairman, Mickel Casanuieva; Secretary, George M. "Williams; Ship's Delegate, Nicholas W. Funken; Deck Delegate, Nicho-, las W. Funken; Engine Delegate, Leo Crawford; Steward Delegate, John D. Scott. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. DEL ALBA, (Delta), November 5 —Chairman, W. Eschuck, Jr.: Sec­ retary, L. D. Croom, Jr.; Ship's Del­ egate, Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; Deck Delegate, J. B. Cowan; Engine Del­ egate, J. H. Heifer; Steward Dele­ gate, C. M. Dials. $15.00 in ship's fund. A few items to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. DEL ALBA (Delta), September 16 —Chairman, William Eschuk, Jr.; Secretary, Louis D. Croom, Jr.; Ship's Delegate, Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; Deck Delegate, Lee E. Gillian; Engine Delegate, J. H. Heifer; Stew­ ard Delegate, C. M. Dials. Crewmembelrs request that a Union food plan man come aboard ship at the first U.S. port. Motion made to ask ' Union to get together with Com­ pany regarding transportation back and forth to ships at Sunny Point. $10.00 in ship's fund. No disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. PONCE (Sea-Land), October 7— Chairman, H. W. Spillane; Secre­ tary. J. Kackur; Ship's Delegate, H. W. Spillane; Engine Delegate, Edward flaynie. Steward Delegate. W. Wallace. No beefs were reported by department delegates. HATTIESBURG VICTORY (Vic­ tory), November 2—Chairman, W. P. Morris; Secretary, E. C. Caudell; Deck Delegate, A. J. Costello; En­ gine Delegate, Walter E. Fitzgerald: Steward Delegate, Raymond Wal­ ters. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a iob well done. Everything is running smoothly. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Sea-Land), November 1—Chairman. J. Lewis; Secretary, Harvey M. Lee; Ship's Delegate, Jesse Lewis; Deck Dele­ gate, R. O'Dowd; Engine Delegate, Earl H. Fain; Steward Delegate, A. S. Sze. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. Disputed OT in deck department. DAGAMA (Crest Overseas), Octo­ ber 19—Chairman, G. Selix; Secre­ tary, J. E. Higgins; Ship's Delegate, John Sullivan; Deck Delegate, John Sullivan; Engine Delegate, R. Wil­ son; Steward Delegate, R. Potorski. Some disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. OVERSEAS NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), October 15—Chairman, John A. Dunne; Secretary, Juan Mojica: Ship's Delegate, P. L. Waters. $27.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. OGDEN WILLAMETTE (Ogden Marine), November 2 — Chairman, Edwin C. Craddock: Secretary, Cleveland R. Wolfe: Ship's Delegate, Walter D. Makin; Deck Delegate, W. T. Gardner; Engine Delegate, B. D. Burns; Steward Delegate, Walter D. Makin. The crewmembers of this ship are very proud of their new ship and all the conveniences. No. beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job >vell done. COLUMBIA (U.S. Steel), Novem­ ber 2—Chairman. B. J. Waturski: Secretary, M. S. Sospina: Deck Del­ egate Richard Heffiey; Engine Del­ egate Walter Cressman. No beefs everything is running smoothly. Very good crew aboard ship. CLAIBORNE (Sea-Land), Novem­ ber 2—Chairman, James Dixon; Sec­ retary. James Pursell; Ship's Dele­ gate. Walter Dunn; Deck Delegate, William Koche; Engine Delegate, Allan G. Tigha; Steward Delegate, Leo J. Gomes. Small amount of dis­ puted OT in deck department. ROBIN GRAY (Moore-McCormack), November 9—Chairman, C. Jorden: Secretary, H. Donnelly: Ship's Delegate, "T. Fosberg: Deck Delegate, Ed Delaney; Engine Del­ egate, Roy Nugent: Steward Dele­ gate, Herman L. Evans. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. KYSKA (Waterman), October. 8— Chairman, J. M. Elwell; Secretary, G. C. Turner; Ship's Delegate, J. M. Elwell. No beefs were reported by department delegates. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), October 12—Chairman, R. Hodges; Secre­ tary, K. Lynch: Deck Delegate, Wil­ liam Doran; Engine Delegate, Rob­ ert H. Caldwell. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), November 11—Chairman, R. Hodges; Secre­ tary, K. Lynch; Deck Delegate, Wil­ liam Doran; Engine Delegate, Rob­ ert H. Caldwell. Repair list made up. No beefs. Some disputed OT in engine department. SEATRAIN OHIO (Seatrain), No­ vember 2—Chairman, R. L. Ander­ son; Secretary, W. E. Messenger; Ship's Delegate, Robert L Ander­ son; Deck Delegate, M. Armenteros; Engine Delegate, Bobby Spencer; Steward Delegate, Richard A. Mor­ gan. Five men paid off during voy­ age. Three men were replaced. A number of beefs to be taken up with boarding patrolman. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn Shipping), October 2—Chairman, A. N. Boney; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Ship's Delegate, Anthony J. Oro; Deck Delegate, Walter L. Stewart; Engine Delegate, Roy L. Cuthrell; Steward Delegate, Clarence Willey. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department, especially to Brother Samuel J. Davis, chief stew­ ard, who put out some of the best menus ever. No disputed OT and no beefs. Everything running smoothly and everybody is happy. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Sep­ tember 7—Chairman, Manuel Landran; Secretary, Harris L. Bennett; Ship's Delegate. Herbert Leake. $10.00 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), November 16 — Chairman, M. B. Woods; Secretary, H. A. Galicki; Ship's Delegate, Malcolm R. Woods; Deck Delegate, Michael Gurry; Steward Delegate, Morris Berlowitz. Discussion held regarding increase in vacation plan for Sea-Land ships. $30.00 in movie fund. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Mari­ time Overseas), November 16— Chairman, John Gallagher; Secre­ tary, Jorge Morrero; Deck Delegate, Steve Mosakowski; Engine Delegate, Ray Shaynick; Steward Delegate. Pedro Arteaga. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. COLUMBIA TRADER (Columbia). November 17 — Chairman, W. G. Kelly; Secretary, John Hauser; Ship's Delegate, James P. Balderston; Deck Delegate, William A. DeLappe; Engine Delegate, J. A. Sulli­ van; Steward Delegate, A. L. Yarborough. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the ship's delegate, stew­ ard, cooks and baker for a job well done. No mail received from head­ quarters during entire three-month trip. No disputed OT. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian) Au­ gust 31—Chairman, Manuel Landran; Secretary, Harris L. Bennett; Ship's Delegdte, Herbert Leake. $10.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. PERRY (Marine Traders),Novem­ ber 26—Chairman, Marion E. Seech­ ing; Secretary, Virgil L. Swanson; Deck Delegi.te, E. Duxbury; Engine Delegate, H. H. Farr; Steward Dele­ gate, E. A. Kirchan. $5.00 ii\ ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. �December, 1969 u • " ^ ' ' . Jose Rivera, 65; Seafarer RU Victor, when he died. Burial was vera died on March 27, 1968, in St. Raymond Cemetery, in Arec ibo, Bronx, New York. Brother Soto Puerto Rico had been sailing the seas since from arterioscle­ 1917. rosis. He was a —\3>— native of BarceTheodore F. Burgess, 60: loneta, Puerto Brother Burgess died in Su­ Rico and was livperior, Wiscon­ ^ ' ing in Arecibo at sin, on October ' \ the time of his 22 from heart death. Brother Rivera was an disease. He was SIU pensioner who retired in a native of 1967. He joined the Union in Rhode Island the port of New York in 1943 and was making and sailed in the steward de­ his home in Su­ partment as a cook. His last perior with his vessel was the Detroit. Seafarer wife, Ernestein, when he died. Rivera received a personal safe­ ty award for his part in making Seafarer Burgess joined the SIU the Elizabeth an accident free in Duluth in 1960 and sailed in ship during the first half of 1960. the engine department as a fire­ Brother Rivera had been sail­ man. Burial was in Calvary ing since 1927. Survivors in­ Cemetery, Superior. clude his son, Victor Jose <1> Rivera. Samuel Spenco* Lyie, 58: Brother Lyle died on Septem­ ber 17 aboard John Frank Yodice, 22: the National De­ Brother Yodice died on October 9 while working fender from nat­ ural causes. He on board the was a member of Mobile between the engine de­ the ports of Rot­ partment and terdam, The joined the SIU Netherlands, and Bremen, Ger­ in the Port of many. Seafarer New Orleans in 1947. Seafarer Yodice joined Lyle was a native of Alabama the SIU in the Port of New and was making his home in York in 1965 and sailed in the Crosby, Texas, when he died. deck department as an AB. In Among his survivors are a 1965 he graduated from the brother, Ross Franklin Lyle. Harry Lundeberg School of Sea^ manship. A native of New York. Brother Yodice was living Onni Nikolai Peltomaa, 52: in Brooklyn with his father, Mi­ Seafarer Peltomaa died on chael, when he passed away. September 5 fol­ lowing an acci­ .1. dent suffered while sailing Marion Sharpe, 64: Seafarer aboard the Steel Sharpe died on October 18 in Admiral. He was Dover Town­ a native of Fin­ ship, New Jersey. land and was He was a native making his of South Caro­ home in Flushing, New York, lina and was making his home with his wife, Edith, at the time in Toms River, of his death. Brother Peltomaa New Jersey with joined the Union in the Port of his wife, Gladys, New York in 1944 and sailed at the time of his death. Broth­ in the engine department as an er Sharpe joined the SIU in the oiler. His career at sea began in Port of New York in 1940 and 1936. retired on SIU Pension in 1965. He had served in the deck de­ George Alvin Logan, 36: partment as an AB and his last Brother Logan died on October vessel was the Steel Apprentice. 21 following a Brother Sharpe began his sailing heart attack on career in 1932. board the Transhuron. Seafarer Logan graduated Juan Soto, 68: Seafarer Soto from the SIU's passed away on October 12 in Andrew FuruMount Sinai seth Training Hospital, New School in 1960 York. He worked and four years later success­ in the deck de­ fully completed the Union's up­ partment as a grading program. He served in bos'n and had the deck department as bos'n. last sailed A native of Alabama, Seafarer aboard, the Logan joined the Union in Mo­ ^ i Ponce. A mem­ bile in 1960. He was making ber of the Union since 1952 his home in Qayton, Alabama, when he joined in the Port of when he passed away. Among New York, Brother Soto was a Brother Logan's survivors are native of Puerto Rico and was his wife, Kathryn and a brother, living in Manhattan with his son. John W. Logan. SEAFARERS Page Twenty Nine LOG Guy F, Plahn, 59: Brother Plahn passed away on Septem­ ber 2, 1969 in San Francisco General Hospital from meningitis. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in , . 1947 and sailed ^ in the engine de­ partment as an electrician. His last vessel was the Raphael Semmes. A native of Iowa, Seafarer Plahn had been making his home in New Orleans with his wife, Anna, up until the time of his death. ^ Florencio H. Medina, 71: Brother Medina died of bron' chopneumonia on August 28 at Professional Building Hos­ pital, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Seafarer Medina was a native of Puerto Rico and was living there when he died. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and retired from the sea on SIU pension in 1956. He had sailed in the steward department as a chief cook and his last vessel was the Alcoa Planter. Brother Medina was sailing for 31 years when he re­ tired. Among his survivors are a daughter, Esther Maria Me­ dina, Burial was in Villa Palmeras Cemetery, Santurce, Puerto Rico. -— Wa'ter Emerson Murray, 73: Seafarer Murray was an SIU pensioner who died on October 20 in Presbyte­ rian Hospital, Philadelphia from heart dis­ ease. He joined the Union in the Port of Phila­ delphia and sailed as the captain of a tugboat for Taylor and Anderson Towing and Lighter­ age Company. Brother Murray retired from the sea in 1962 and was living in Philadelphia with his sister, Mrs. William M. Henry. Seafarer Murray was a native of Philadelphia. Burial services were in Fernwood Cem­ etery, Fernwood, Pennsylvania. Beriin Bernard Saunders, 74: Brother Saunders died on Octo­ ber 10 in USPHS Hospital, Staten Island. He was a native of Flor^ f ida and was making his home there with his wife, Jennie, when he passed away. Seafarer Saunders was a pensioner and old-time member of the SIU. He joined the Union in 1939 in Florida and sailed in the steward department. His last vessel was the Del Monte. Brother Saunders, an Army vet­ eran of World War II, had been sailing for 27 years when he re­ tired. Burial was in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Miami, Florida. You Hong Kim, 60: Seafarer Kim died from heart disease on October 19 in Yokohama, Ja­ pan. Brother Kim was a native of Hawaii and was making his home in San Francisco with his wife, Unsook, when he passed away. He joined the Union in San Francisco in 1952 and sailed in the engine department as chief electrician. His last vessel was the Steel Worker. Eizdmie Fisher,' 56: Seafarer Fisher passed away on Novem­ ber 13 at USPHS Hospital, New Orleans from a massive hemor­ rhage. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans in 1945 and sailed in the steward department as a messman. Seafarer Fisher was a na­ tive of Louisiana and was mak­ ing his home in New Orleans with his wife, Catherine, when he died. His last vessel was the Citadel Victory. Burial was in New Orleans. Robert Oliver Bradford, 19: Seafarer Bradford died aboard the Hattiesburg Victory on July 25 as the result of an accident. He joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans in 1968 and graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship on August 28 of that year. Brother Brad­ ford sailed in the engine depart­ ment as a wiper. A native of New Orleans, young Bradford was making his home in Metairie, Louisiana, with his mother, Alice, when he passed away. ^1, Timothy Pat Sullivan, 49: Brother Sullivan died on Octo­ ber 4 from res­ piratory failure at USPHS Hos­ pital, Baltimore. Seafarer Sulli­ van joined the SIU in Balti­ more in 1943 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. His last vessel was the Portmar. A native of North Carolina, Brother Sullivan was making his home in Baltimore when he died. Survivors include his brother, Roger W. Sullivan. Burial was in Gardens of Faith Cemetery, Baltimore. Superdome for New Orleans Backed by MTD Port Council NEW ORLEANS—A new 80,000-capacity domed sta­ dium, to be called the Louisiana Superdome and incorporating many unique features has been projected for completion here by 1973. The structure has received the enthusiastic endorsement of the Maritime Council of Greater New Orleans and Vicinity of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. A resolution supporting the project was imanimously approved at a meet­ ing at the SIU hall here last month, and signed by SIUNA Vice President Lindsey J; Williams, President of the local MTD Council; and C. J. (Buck) Stephens, Council SecretaryTreasurer and SIU Port Agent. "The Louisiana Superdome is many things," the resolution declared. "It is a midweek downtown parking complex, it is a Madison Square Garden arena, it is a great convention and trade show center, it is a giant screen television theatre, it is the first of the king-sized auditoriums, and it is the world's finest football-baseball stadium." Among the features to be incorporated are parking facilities for 5,000 cars, a 20,000-seat arena with up-close seating on all four sides, and a synthetic grass baseball-football playing field which rolls back to expose an all-piupose floor suitable for giant conventions, trade shows and a variety of mass audience entertainment. Advanced theatrical lighting will be used. Eight giant color television screens, each 50 feet by 37.5 feet, will be readily viewable from every seat. Besides per­ mitting "instant replay" during stadium events, they will also be available for closed-circuit showings of Broadway plays. Las Vegas shows, prize fights and college football. The Superdome is to be located in New Orleans central business district and Vieux Carre. The Maritime Council urged the stadium commission to take all necessary steps to speed actual construction as "absolutely essential to the future economic growth of the New Orleans area." �Page Thirty SEAFARERS LOG Letter Carriers Ask FTC to Curb Bogus Competitor SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Mobile .... WilmingtiNi San Fran. .. Seattle .... New York . Pbilade^a Baltiniore .. Detroit .... Houston ... Jan^ Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jmi. Jan. Jan. Jan. 13—2:30 p.ni. 14—^2:30 p.ni. 19—2:00 p.ni. 21—^2:00 p.m. 24—2:00 p.ni. 5—2:30 p.m. 6—2:30 p.m. 7—^2:30 p.m. 9—2:30 p.m. 12—^2:30 p.m. iffllBCTORYof lUNlONHALLS SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers United Industrifri Woricers New Orleans Mobtie New York . Pbtiadelpliia Baltimore .. tHoustmi .. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 13—^7:00^p.m. 14—^7:00 p.m. 5—^7:00 p.m. 6—7:00 p.m. 7—^7:00 p.m. 12—^7:00 p.ni. PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shapard Llndiay Williams Al Tanner Robart Matthaws SECRiTARV-TREASURER Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detrttit .. Alpena .. Buffalo .. Chicago . Dulnth .. Frankfort Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 5—2:00 p.m. 5—7:00 p.m. 5—7:00 p.ni. 5—7:30 p.m. 5—^7:00 p.m. 5—7:00 p.m. Great Lidces Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... tSault St Marie Buffalo .... Duluth Clevdiand .. Toledo Detroit .... Milwaukee . Jan. 13—7:30 p.m. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 15—7:30 p.m. 14—^7:30 p.m. 16—^7:30 p.m. 16—7:30 p.ni. 16—^7:30 p.m. 12—7:30 p.m. 12—^7:30 p.m. SIU Biland Boatmen's Unkm New Orlemis Jan. 13—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... Jan. 14—5:00 p.m. Philadelidua Jmi. 6—5:00 p.m. Bdtimore (licensed and unliceiNed '. Jan. 7—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... Jan. 8—5:00 p.m. Houston ... Jan. 12—^5:00 p.m. R^way Marine Region Phaadeiphia Jan. 13—10 BaMknore Jan.' 14—10 ^Norfolk Jan. 15—10 Jersey City Jan. 12—10 ""lifrTir'.llft RALTIMORE, Md lilt E. laltlmera St. (301) EA 7-4«0 BOSTON. Mass U3 Atlantic Avanua (il7) 4S2-47I& BUFFALO. N.y 7K Washington St. SIU (714) TL 3-92S? IBU (714) TL 3-f25f CHICAeO, III wa Ewing Ava. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES S-t570 1420 W. 2Sth St. (214) MA I-54S0 CLEVELAND. Ohio DETROIT, Mich 10125 W. Jaffarson Ava. DULUTH. Minn 2014 W. 3rd St. (218) RA 2-4110 (313) VI 3-4741 FRANKFORT. MIeh P.O. Box 207 4IS Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tax 5004 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE. Fla. ...T.... 2400 Paarl St. (704) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY. N.J 99 Montgomary St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ala I South Lawranca St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS. La NORFOLK, Va .9r 430 Jackson Ava. (504) 529-7544 'i 115 3rd St. (703) 422-1892 PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR. Tax 1340 Savanth St. SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., 1531 Mission St. (415) 424-4793 SANTURCE, P.R. .. . III3 Farnandai Juneos Stop 20 724-2848 am. & 8 p.m. SEAHLE, Wash 2505 First Avanua (204) MA 3-4334 am. & 8 p.m. ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravols Blvd. am. & 8 p.m. TAMPA. Fla (314) 752-4500 TOLEDO, Ohio a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves, t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3491 WILMINGTON, Callf^ 450 Saaslda Ava. Tarmlnal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Iseya BIdg.. Room 801 1-2 Kalgan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 WASHINGTON—The "un­ fair and deceptive" practices of a company that represents itself as a "postal system" have been brought to the attention of the government by President James H. Rademacher of the Letter Carriers. He called upon the Federal Trade Commission to stop the Independent Postal System of America, Oklahoma (3ty, from violating the iederal law giving the government the exclusive right to operate a postal system and handle mail. Rademacher charged the firm, which operttes in cities through­ out the United States, is illegally using terms such as "postal" and "mail" in its advertising. He also asked FTC to halt another "deceptive" practice of the company — that of putting their employees "in ui^orms similar to those of government mailmen to deliver their circu­ lars." AFL-CIO Unions Win Majority of Elections Unions won bargaining rights for 202,000 workers in elections during fiscal 1969, the National Labor Relations Board reported. The victory margin for unions was 55.5 percent of the 7,699 elections conducted from July 1968 through June 1969, the NLRB said. From January through June 1969, another report broke the 3,815 elections down as to union victories— 50.5 percent for AFL-CIO affiliates, 50.2 percent for the Teamsters and 55.9 percent for other unaffiliated unions. During the 6-month pe­ riod, these valid votes were cast in board elections; 49,937 in elections won by AFL-CIO unions; 38,(X)0 for imaffiliated unions and 22,0(X) for no union. Decemlier, 1969 AVi:-- UNF TO LABOji 1 Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) v|> Genend EJectric Company and Hotpcint Products (CcM>rdinated Bargaining (Committee for 150,000 GE Workers) Atlantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) vl> Jamestown Sterling Corp. ^United Furniture Workers) —d,— White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Walihoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) —— —^ Stitzel-Wellcr DistiUerics "Old Fitzgerald," "Old EDc" "Cabin StiU," W. L. Weller Bourbon whldceys (Distillery Workers) R1> Klngsport Press "World Book," "Cblldcrafl" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestwortb, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) —^ "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) -RJ> Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) v|> Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas) ^ All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unlesa an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unlesa he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every sU months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All nxembers should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, inciuding attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active roie in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If s'ly member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic righto of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of tbemseives, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that say of ths above righto have boon vMatsd, or that ho has broa doalod his constltatloBal right of access to Union records or in­ formation, ho shodd immsdiatoly nottfy SIU Prosldsnt Pnal HaU at hcadqnartors by eortilod nmil, rotnm receipt roqnsstsd. ^ Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) v|> Economy Furniture Co. Smithtown Maple Western Provincial Bilt-Rite (Upholsterers) Upset in Wissonsin Beats Right Winger FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguardinB the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. Ali these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. Ali trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in ail Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Ekirl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracto are avaUable in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union oflScial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established jmlicy has been reaffirmed by membersbip action at the September, 1960, meetings iu all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate,' from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. " JEFFERSON, Wis. — A liberal Democrat upset a I prominent right-wing ReI publican in a special elecItion for a Wisconsin state i Senate seat that had been considered safely Republiican. Democrat Dale McKenna [defeated David Keene, na­ tional president of the coni servative Young Americans 1 for Freedom. Keene ran on i a "cut-the-budget" platform, i attacking funds for welfare I programs and urban aid. The Madison, Wis., Capii tal Times termed the Demoi cratic victory in a normally I conservative district "a mai jor political upset." �December, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Thirty One SlrLttfes Bo^ RAINING AT the Harry Lundeberg School Seaman­ ship to prepare a young man for his first trip to sea includes more than classroom indoctrination. In ad­ dition to providing the training to qualify every entry rating for his lifeboat endorsement, the program also introduces the trainee to shipboard life by actually put­ ting him aboard a steam-driven vessel. Before they leave the school for their first trip, every trainee goes aboard the HLSS training ship Dauntless to live and work. During his stay aboard, the trainee gets practical on-the-job experience in the kind of work he will be doing as a crewmember of the deck, engine and steward department on SlU-contracted freightships and tankers. The trainees bunk in the crew's foc'sle, stand gangway watches, and perform all of the cleaning and mainte­ nance work they will later be required to do when they ship out. While on board, they are supervised by experi­ enced SIU Seafarers, and by the mates and engineers. The HLSS program is providing the young man who is preparing to go to sea with the best training program and facilities available anywhere- in the United States. T Lifeboat Instructor Paul McSaharn v/atches as the Dauntless' trainee crew secures the No. 2 boat. Lifeboat drills are held regularly on the ship. HLSS Instructor Paul McGaharn discusses day's work assignments in the engine room of the Dauntless with trainee bosun Herbert Spencer. Standing watch in the engine room this trainee polishes the bright work. Trainees work'with the engineer to maintain the engine room in top shape. Trainees work in all three departments on the Dauntless. Here, steward trainees serve lunch to the ship's deck and engine crewmen. In addition to learning their duties as wipers, trainees also get experience learning the duties of fireman, oiler and watertender to better equip them for their first trip. Deck trainees sand down seams on the newlyflberglassed decks. All deck and engine work is supervised by experienced rated Seafarers. Trainee installs a burner in the ship's fire room. Trainees become thoroughly familiar with wiper's duties during their assignment aboard the Dauntless. �Vol. XXXI No. 14 SEAFARERS^LOG December 1969 Pr.'/ fSiiii| N. ji< • y •:9 4. . n i5r'c£'::yx' ^•,,;- r': I P. J. *1 . ' ufc' V 'U."> 4\ 1 j;"".' ,. ,^1 5^1 fvV^ •^5 1 IjfeJ- -I ofT"e LOG which ' -'|P' • ' ^ ^ rk'",'-"' " ^ ' ' • - ' IfS PENN CHAMPION is a good feeder, says crew, and here's fhe reason. (L-R): Z. A. Markris, steward; M. W, Yohan, messman; George Chang, baker; G. Russell, mess; W. R. Smith, chief cook and delegate. Russell Henry, bosun and ship's chairman, chats with SlU Representative Paul McGaharn during lunch break. 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Title A name given to the resource December 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: THE STAKES ARE HIGH IN THE GE STRIKE SIU’S FIVE YEAR BATTLE ENDS IN GALVESTON VICTORY BANNING OF MULTIPLE SUBSIDIES VITAL TO WORTHWHILE MARITIME LEGISLATION GILBERT PREDICTS A MAJOR ASSAULT BY OIL INTERESTS AGAINST JONES ACT NEGLIGENCE ON SOVIET FISHING BOATS DEPLORED BY RUSSIAN ADMINISTRATOR TOUGH POLICING OF 12 MILE FISH ZONE GOAL OF NEW GARMATZ BILL IN HOUSE PARTY OPERATES RED CHINA’S UNIONS AS TRANSMISSION BELT FOR WORKERS CONSUMERS ALWAYS COME UP LOSERS IN DRUG MAKERS’ RIGGED NAME GAME TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE FOR SAFETY AT SEA NEW TAFT-HARTLEY LAW AMENDMENT LIFTS BAN ON JOINT FUND PROGRAMS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HYPORCRITICAL FOR BEMOANING WAGES FRAUDEULENT CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS ROB DROP-OUTS, LOW WAGE EARNERS RAISE IN MEDICARE PAYMENTS FORCED BY SOARING BILLS FOR MD SERVICES LABOR ROLLS UP 75% VICTORY RECORD IN 2 YEARS BEFORE SUPREME COURT FREE UNIONS CALLED MAIN FOUNDATION OF STRUGGLE TO OPPOSE DICTATORSHIPS INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT NECESSARY TO CURB MEXICAN BORDER PLANTS SY DAUNTLESS PROVIDES ON THE JOB TRAINING Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXI, No. 14 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/35765ecdbdfcd3b791245eac1daa27bf.PDF ca75e708be34f28e12bccbb8baac9715 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS*LOG ^Te«Ercar=ar.-.u:oiea5y4 January 1970 OFFICIAt ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES ANO INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO T \ AMENDED SlU CONSTITUTIDN I APPROVED BY WIDE MARGIN ,'> Story Page 3 Committee Report Pages 15-18 �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG January, 1970 Nixon Sends New Morltime Program to Congress Aims to Revitalize U.S. Fleet; Mood on Capitol Hill Is Hopeful President Richard M. Nixon has sent to Capitol Hill his long-awaited leg­ islative proposals for the overhaul of the U.S.-flag merchant marine—setting the stage for Congressional action in 19 /0 to restore vitality to the lagging American shipping and shipbuilding industries. With this action, Mr. Nixon became the first American President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to come forward with a positive program for development of the nation's maritime potential. It was during FDR's tenure that the present merchant marine legislation was placed on the statute books. The Administration's detailed plan for revising and updating the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1936 followed, by two months, a special message to the Congress in which the President had called for "a new era in the mari­ time history of America, an era in which our shipbuilding and ship operating industries take their place once again among the vigorous, competitive in­ dustries of this nation." The major thrust of the Nixon proposal would be to broaden the nation's maritime program beyond the liner trade making its benefits available to the bulk trades, as well. Since 1936, the sole beneficiaries of direct federal as­ sistance have been 14 selected berth-line operators—despite the fact that, today, bulk trade accounts for 85 percent of America's exports and imports. President Nixon studies pn^sed maritime program at his desk in the White House. Includes Construction, Operating Subsidies Under the Nixon program, subsidies would be extended for construction and operation of bulk carriers, as well as for liners—a breakthrough long sought by the SIUNA in its fight to preserve and enlarge job opportunities for Seafaf'ers. At the same time, the President called for extension to the bulk-cargo segment of the industry the same right to put money aside in tax-deferred construction reserve funds enjoyed for decades by the 14 subsidized liner companies. This, too, has been at the heart of the SIUNA drive for mari­ time revival, since it would provide a channel for long-sought private invest­ ment to modernize and expand the American fleet. The Nixon measure also calls for direct subsidization of the shipbuilding industry, instead of funneling construction differential subsidies through the shipping line. This procedure, the Administration declared, would make possible the block-building of cargo vessels, leading ultimately to reductions in shipbuilding costs—making American shipyards more competitive with their foreign counterparts. The President's proposals were greeted with general enthusiasm on Cap­ itol Hill, where for years attempts to rewrite the nation's maritime laws have been frustrated by lack of White House support for meaningful reform. One measure of the attitude of the Congress, and the bipartisan approach which has been the hallmark of maritime legislation, was the fact that the Republican Administration's bill was introduced formally by two Democrats —Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren G. Magnuson (Wash.) and House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee Chairman Edward A. Garmatz (Md.) With the introduction of the legislation, the focus now shifts to the 91st Congress, where other measures dealing with maritime affairs have been held in abeyance for more than a year, pending White House recommendations. Some Reservations Expressed But while the response in Congress was generally favorable, there were some reservations being expressed as to the scope of the program it envisions. Just prior to introduction of the Administration bill, for example. Con­ gressman Garmatz announced the scheduling of a series of separate hearings Rep. Edward A. Garmatz Rep. Joseph E. Karth Rep. Howard W. Pollock on all phases of maritime in order to "build a sharper record" on the question of maritime legislation. Declared Garmatz: "I think we run the risk of doing half a job—^when a whole job is needed to sustain and strengthen our maritime industry—if we consider only the proposals suggested to us by the President. Whether or not we enact leg­ islation in all these areas will depend on need, resources and judgment on the alternatives presented. "But we must, in my opinion, consider such problems as passenger ship operations; the need of domestic operators, as in the Great Lakes, for taxdeferred benefits for ship construction; and strengthening of our cargo pref­ erence programs as an alternative to extension of operating subsidy for dry bulk cargo carriers. Legislation in these areas has already been introduced in this Congress and referred to this Committee for action." A similar view was expressed by Rep. Joseph E. Karth (D-Minn.), at an AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department luncheon. His concern, he said, was over the fact that the Administration bill was "silent" on a number of "cru­ cial" points. Among them: • How to achieve Nixon's goal, enunciated in the 1968 campaign, to increase U.S.-flag carriage of imports and exports from the present 5 percent level to 30 percent by the mid-1970's. • How to improve U.S.-flag carriage of government-sponsored cargoes, and how to overcome the present situation under which "the American share goes unequally to the subsidized lines." • How to solve the present plight of American-flag shipping on the Great Lakes, which is just as much under the gun of foreign competition as is the deep-sea fleet. Karth put particular stress on the cargo issue, declaring: "Without cargoes, we'll wind up building ships that go directly from the shipyards to the bone yards." Expressions of concern came, as well, from President Nixon's own politi­ cal party. Rep. Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska), also speaking to an MTD luncheon, expressed concern that the fishing industry had been ignored in the legislation. '^Definitive National Program'* Needed "The decline of the U.S. fishing fleet has been just as severe as the decline of our deep-sea cargo fleet," the Alaska Republican said. "Our neglect of the fisheries and the living resources of the sea has been just as wrong as our neglect of our shipping and shipbuilding capabilities." Pollock's proposed solution: A "definitive national program" covering "the entire area involved with the seas around us," coupled with a "national budget" for the full and coordinated development of the total maritime po­ tential—shipping, shipbuilding, fishing and oceanography. But despite the reservations about the Nixon bill, and despite the fact that other legislation already introduced conflicts with the Administration pro­ posals in several areas, the mood on Capitol Hill at this point appears to be generally hopeful. Congress and the Administration may disagree on meth­ ods and approach but, for the first time in decades, both appear dedicated to the same goal: The revitalization of America's merchant marine. �! ! 4 I Jmnnary, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Union Tallying Committee Reports i ¥ Members Vote Approval of Amended SlU Constitution By a Wide Margin Members of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District have voted over­ whelmingly in a secret referendum to adopt the proposed amendments to the constitution, marking the first time in almost 10 years that significant changes have been made in the Union's constitution. Results of the balloting mittee report covers all of the of paying dues make no overf. were announced in the report details of the conduct of the all change in the amount of dues paid annually by the of the elected six-member balloting procedures. Among areas in which' the membership, rank and file Union Tallying (Headquarters calls to the Committee. The Committee members voted to amend reported membership accept­ AGLIWD constitution were attention of the membership Gil Borge, who came all the way up through the shaft alley—thanks ance of the proposed constitu­ those dealing with qualifica- that dues or assessments that to the SlU-MEBA District 2 upgrading programs—proudly displays tional changes by a wide mar­ tion for membership in the had already been paid for the his new Chief Engineer's license as he receives the congratulations Union, and those covering year 1970, or thereafter, will gin. of SIU Vice President Earl Shepard. It was a proud moment for both. dues, initiations and assess­ be credited to coincide with In its report, the Committee pointed out that under the ments. None of the changes the terms of the amended Seafarer Climbs to the Top terms of the constitution, the have any bearing on job rights constitution.) The Union Tallying Com­ proposed amendments to the of Seafarers. constitution became effective These job rights are pre- mittee's report indicated that served within the rules as part the financial propositions, as Jan. 1, 1970, as called for in the constitutional amendment. of the contract between the well as the amended constitu(The full text of the Union Union and the shipowners, tion, itself, carried oyerNearly 400 Seafarers have a licensed rating. Sigwart Niel­ Tallying Committee report is The constitutional changes whelmingly in the balloting, t Serving on the Committee upgraded themselves as licensed sen was 63 and had more than published on pages 15 through deal only with Union rights. t members of the engine depart­ 20 years of sailing time with 18 of this issue of the Sea­ In voting for the constituEdward Polise, chairment through the training pro­ the SIU behind him, when he farers' Log.) man, Book No. P-74; Gustave tional changes, the membergrams jointly sponsored by the won his Third Assistant En­ Three propositions were on ship also approved revision of Malens^, BookNO;M-1329: SIU-MEBA District 2 Marine gineer's license. And Borge is Engineers and Deck Officers not the youngest. Bobby Mc­ the ballot submitted to Sea­ the' balloting procedures, in- Charles Hamilton, Book No. Upgrading School. Kay, who entered the Union's farers for consideration, and eluding the use of mail ballots H-562; Manuel De Barros, This month, Gil Borge—a training program at the age of the Union Tallying Commit­ in future elections; changes in Book No. D-199; and Sadak long-time member of the SIU— 16, became the youngest mer­ tee reported the following re­ nominating procedures; and a - made it all the way and became chant seaman to ever achieve a sults: simplification in the qualifica­ Wala, BookNo. W-688. the first to achieve a Chief En­ license when he was awarded • On the proposed new tions for elected office in the gineer's license through the up­ his Third Assistant's license on Union. grading program. his 19th birthday—the mini­ constitution, itself, the Com­ The amended constitution Borge's success story is the mum age under Coast Guard mittee reported 2,991 "yes" establishes the date for the votes and.313 "no" votes. story of many Seafarers who regulations. Borge, who now makes his have made it "up the hawse• On changes in initia­ next general election as 1971 ii \ pipe" or "up the shaft alley" home in Ardsley, Pennsylvania, tion fees, the Committee re­ instead of 1972, thus shorten­ through determination, and plans to spend a few weeks with ported 3,079 "yes" votes and ing, by one year, the present with the assistance'of the Un­ his family before returning to 233 "no" votes. terms of existing officers. SAN PEDRO—The SIUion's upgrading programs. sea. Has he finished his train­ In addition to amending the contracted Connecticut, loaded • On a change in the Like many Seafarers, Borge ing? Not at all, he says. He constitution, itself, the mem­ had to interrupt his education plans to continue studying to get method for paying dues, and bership' favored financial with 20 million gallons of jet airplane fuel, is reported out of to go to work. He first went to a certificate for motor ships, a termination of the assess­ changes designed to spread ments, the Committee re­ danger and heading back to Los sea as a wiper after finishing and when he is ready to prepare dues payments evenly through­ ported 3,032 "yes" votes and Angeles under tow after devel­ only eight grades of schooling. for the examination, the SIUout the year. But he was determined to get MEBA, 2, school will be ready 281 "no" votes. oping a major leak in her stem The Union Tallying Com­ ahead in his chosen profession, to assist him. The changes in the method gland. and he was soon sailing as The 679-foot tanker was two FOWT. He continued to up­ days out of San Pedro heading grade himself, qualifying as Community Aid Running $5 Million a Week for Vietnam when the sudden electrician, deck engineer, and leak flooded her automated en­ junior third assistant. gine room with seven feet of He anplied for admission to water, shutting down the plant, the SIU-MEBA, 2, Engineers School in 1966, just five months and causing the vessel to drift WASHINGTON, D.C.—Organized labor is tions are responding to that need." after the school was opened, in heavy seas. rallying the resources of voluntary and pubThe Community Services official pointed out and qualified for an original A number of ships responded Second Engineer's license. In lie social agencies in 33 states in unprece- that the full burden of assisting strikers and March, 1968, Borge secured his dented support of 130,000 striking General their families has not fallen on community to the Connecticut's distress call first Engineer's license after at­ Electric employees and their families. agencies because of the strike assistance being and stood by as Coast Guard tending the school. At present, according to Leo Perlis, director rendered by the unions involved, augmented rescue planes dropped emer­ Last September, he got off a of Community Service Activities for the 13.5- by the multi-million-dollar fund-raising effort gency pumps to the ship. The Connecticut's crew stayed aboard ship and came back to the million-member AFL-CIO, that community of the AFL-CIO. school and, after only three help is running at the rate of some $5 million Despite the massive support from the trade and managed to repair the leak, months of study, he climbed all union movement, itself, Perlis said, community and pump out the flooded en­ the way to the top and received a week. This support, said the AFL-CIO official, is benefits average $50 per striker per week, gine room. his Coast Guard license as Among the ships that were being mobilized "on the basis of need, without bringing the weekly outla5rs by the voluntary Chief Engineer. and public agencies well above the $5-million standing by the stricken Con­ A total of 37,3 original licenses regard to the cause of tliat need." necticut was the SlU-contracted Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the mark. have been awarded since the Buckeye Victory, which was re­ SIU-MEBA. 2, Marine En­ AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Perlis The AFL-CIO official reported isolated ingineers and Deck Officers said that, in terms of its economic impact on stances in whieh striking unionists encountered turning from a trip to the Far I <' school was established in Feb­ workers and their families, the General Elec- temporary problems in obtaining food stamps East. I ruary, 1966. Since that time, trie strike "is as much a disaster as a hurri- and surplus commodities. These instances oci At last report, the Connecti­ the school has offered upgrad­ cane or a flood." He added: curred, he said, in Tyler, Tex., Louisville, Ky., cut was out of danger, and all I' ing opportunities to the young­ 4 "It doesn't make any difference, from the Jackson. Miss., and Hickory, N.C. However, 41 members of her crew safe. ster as well as to the older Sea­ point of view of' community responsibility, the AFL-CIO carried the case to the U.S. De- She was being towed at a speed " / farers who want to climb the whether a disaster is caused by an act of God, partment of Agriculture, which took action to of five knots by a Coast Guard seniority ladder. an act of nature, an act of management, or ah "make certain that local officials implemented cutter. The vessel is expected Borge, who was bom in i'' Norway, is 48. He is not the act of the union—^what matters is that there are the law" making these commodities available to head for the shipyard when oldest Seafarer to climb up to people in need, and the community organiza- to GE strikers. she returns to Los Angeles. Borge Makes Chief Engineer Through SlU-MCBA School SlU-Contractell Connecticut Safe After Flooding '(• Public Agencies Rally Support to GE Strikers rI 1 �Page Fonr SEAFARERS January, 1970 LOG Total Reaches 369 as: Four Additional Seafarers Graduate From SIU'MFBA Engineers School The School of Marine Engi­ neering, sponsored jointly by the SIU and MEBA-District 2, has graduated four more Seafarers. The men earned their engineer's licenses following successful completion of the compresensive training program offered by the school. Sakellarides Sayo This latest group brings to 369 the total number of Sea­ Florentino C. Sayo, 48, is ^a farers who completed the native of the Philippine Islands School's course and passed their who now lives in Brooklyn. He Coast Guard licensing examina­ joined the SIU in the Port of tions. New York in 1968 and sailed as a chief electrician before enter­ ing the School. Brother Sayo graduated on December 22, 1969 with a Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's License. Nicholas George Sakellarides, 24, graduated in 1963 from the Andrew Furuseth Training Arsenauh Forest School and went on to work as Neil Frederick Arsenault, 46, a wiper until enrolling in the graduated from the School on Engineering School. He gradu­ January 5 with a Third Assistant ated on December 9, 1969 with Engineer's License. He is a na­ a Third Assistant Engineer's Li­ tive of Boston, Massachusetts and joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1969. He sailed as an oiler before entering the School. Brother Arsenault, a Navy veteran of World War II, now lives in Brockton, Massa­ chusetts with his wife. WASHINGTON—A member Jackson Forest, Jr., 41 joined the Union in the Port of Hous­ of Congress has labelled the ton in 1963 and sailed as an U.S. merchant marine a "de­ FOWT before enrolling in the pressed area," and called for a School. He graduated on De­ federal investment in its recember 24, 1969 with a Second vitalization equal to that which Assistant Engineer's License. He has gone to rebuild the eco­ served in the Army from 1950 nomically disadvantaged areas until 1953. A native of Bosco, of America over the past dec­ Louisiana, Brother Forest now ade. makes his home in Houston, "The merchant marine is Texas with his wife. every bit as depressed an area cense. Brother Sakellarides joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1963. He is a na­ tive of Washington, D.C. and now lives in Silver Spring, Mary­ land with his mother. The upgrading programs at the SIU-MEBA School of Ma­ rine Engineering are open to all engine department Seafarers as long as they meet the following requirements. They must be at least 19 years old and have a minimum of 18 months O.M.E.D. watchstanding time in the engine department in addi­ tion to at least six months expe­ rience as a wiper or the equiva­ lent. Additional information and applications for enrollment for eligible Seafarers may be ob­ tained at any SIU hall. Further information can also'be gotten by writing to SIU headquarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232, or by tele­ phoning the School at (212) 499-6600. SIU Deck Officers School Upgrades Three More Seafarers Stanley McLendon Savoie Three Seafarers from the as an AB before entering the deck department have earned School. Brother Stanley served their officer's licenses after suc­ in the Army fro^ 1946 until cessfully finishing the course of 1950. He now makes his home study offered at the upgrading in Harrington, Maine with his school jointly sponsored by the wife. SIU and the Associated Mari­ Ben Hill McLendon, 45, time Officers Union. joined the Union in 1952 in These men now bring to 60 Georgia. He sailed as an AB the total number of Seafarers and bos'n before entering the who have received mate's li­ School and graduating on De­ censes after taking the course cember 22, 1969 with a Second and passing the Coast Guard Mate's License. He is a native examinations. of Georgia and makes his home George Richard Stanley, 41, there with his wife. received his Second Mate's Li­ Francoie A. Savoie, 42, is a cense on December 23, 1969. native of Hartford, Connecticut He is a native of Maine and who joined the SIU in the Port joined the SIU in the Port of of New York in 1949. He sailed New York in 1953. He sailed as a bos'n before enrolling in the School. On December 15, 1969 Brother Savoie graduated with a Second Mate's License. He now lives in Cromwell, Con­ necticut with his mother. The deck officers upgrading school is the first of its type in the industry. It is run under mitted "substantive legislative a reciprocal agreement between proposals" to augment the Oc­ the SIU and the Associated tober maritime message, Rooney Maritime Officers Union. said, the basic plan outlined by Seafarers wishing to partici­ the President represents "a posi­ pate in the program can begin tive approach." training at any time. There is The Congressman expressed no set length for the course; it doubt, however, that Congress is geared to the man's ability would be able to achieve the and knowledge, and the degree goal of a revitalized fieet by of his preparation for the ex­ amending the Merchant Marine amination. Act of 1936, as suggested by the Like the engineer's upgrad­ Administration. "I believe you ing school, the deck officer's can patch a leaky boat only so training program was begun in many times," Rooney said, de­ line with the SIU's objective of scribing the plan to further encouraging and assisting un­ amend the 33-year-old law as a licensed Seafarers to upgrade case of putting "patches on themselves to better paying jobs. patches." There is no expense involved for Seafarers. They are provided with meals, lodging and subsist­ Port of Philadelphia ence payments of $110 a week Registers Hew Record while in the program. Deck department Seafarers who are interested in taking ad­ Vdith 1969 Commerce vantage of this training program PHILADELPHIA—The year may apply at any SIU hall, 1969 was one of the best on write directly to SIU headquar­ record for the Port of Philadel­ ters at 675 Fourth Avenue, phia, the Delaware River Port Brooklyn, New York 11232, or Authority reported. telephone the School at (212) A record was set in interna­ 768-0561. tional waterbome commerce for the year, which eclipsed the pre­ vious high scored in 1966. The total for 1969 was 56.8 million tons, a rise of 5.5 percent over The Seafarers named 1968. The 1966 figure was 55.7 I below should contact the million tons. welfare counter at SIU A gain in imports—which Headquarters in Brookamounted to 53.9 million tons, I lyn as soon as possible for an increase of six percent—^was checks being held there the prime factor in the better i for them. showing, the Authority said. Joseph Domingo The import gain more than made David Bronstein up for a decline of six percent Alexander Glnck in exports, which totalled 2.9 Anthony Amoriello million tons. Rep. Rooney Likens Merchant Marine To Nation's Urban 'Depressed Areas' Faye M. Brand as Appalachia, or the cut-over timber areas of the Pacific Northwest, or the mined-out areas of the Upper Great Lakes, or the bleak and desolate Indian reservations of the Southwest, or the farmed-out areas of the South," Representative Fred B. Rooney (D-Pa.) told a meeting sponsored by the 7.5-millionmember AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. At the same time, Rooney called on Congress and the Ad­ ministration to put "as many tax dollars into our own ship­ building industry as we invest­ ed in the rehabilitation of the bom on April 30, 1952—the bombed-out shipyards of Japan year and the month in which and Western Europe." After maternity benefits were first in­ World War II, the Marshall augurated as part of the Union's Plan and other U.S. foreign aid programs pumped more than $1 Welfare Plan. Miss Brand, 17, is an honor billion into the rebuilding of student in her high school class these shipyards which now com­ at Ribault and specializes m pete with American yards for ship construction. cosmetology. The Pennsylvania Congress­ man emphasized that the federal California Strikers dollars should be considered as "seed money," and urged legis­ Get Free Haircuts lation that would attract new ONTARIO, Calif.—Un­ private capital to shipping and ion barbers are doing their shipbuilding. "In the end," he bit for GE strikers by giving said, "the initiative, the invest­ free haircuts to union mem­ ment, the planning must come bers picketing two General from the private sector of our Electric plants here. economy if we are to avoid the Members of Barbers' Lo­ eventual nationalization of our cal 253, San Bernardino, fieet." man the clippers in a fiveThe Democratic lawmaker chair barber shop every praised the Nixon Administra­ Monday. The shop, open tion for submitting to Congress since December 8, will stay "a merchant marine program open for the duration. Bar­ that seems to be geared to the bers' Regional Director Alrevitalization of the American vin E. Holt said. Other lo­ merchant fleet." Although the cals may give like service, he said. White House has not yet sub­ Early 'SIU Baby' Honor Graduate One of the first "SIU Babies" —^Faye Marie Brand, the daugh­ ter of Seafarer and Mrs. Tom Brand—will graduate from Ribault High School in Jackson­ ville, Florida, this year, the LOG was informed. The term "SIU Baby" is ap­ plied to Faye because she was Faye Marie Brand {Money Due �January, 1970 SEAFARERS Port Expansion in Mobile Forced by Traffic Growth f' ^ • t St\ » If 4 .t ; r* ' a \ fel- <• f MOBILE—Alabama's prime port is facing growing pains which are taxing existing facil­ ities to the utmost and forcing an extensive search for expan­ sion room. Foreign and domestic traffic through the Port of Mobile set a record for the calendar year 1969 as well as a record fiscal year, ending September 30, 1969—both in volume and in revenue. "If the Port of Mobile is to grow and meet the upcoming challenge of serving the growing industrialization of Alabama," Houston H. Feaster, director of the Alabama State Docks, said in his annual report to Governor Albert P. Brewer, "we must either acquire or develop addi­ tional space for expanding fa­ cilities." Because of the increase in water-oriented industry, the port is making a concentrated drive to become the warehousing cen­ ter on the Gulf and in the deep South. A growing number of exporters and shippers are using the port as warehousing and dis­ tribution points for their prod­ ucts—making the need for stor­ age facilities more and more acute. Just last year, for example, Star-Kist Foods selected Mobile as its distribution center for 15 southeastern and midwestern states. Other companies are also eyeing the port, having in mind the large number of shipping services in and out of the facil­ ities. Plans have been set in motion for a new shipside berth and warehouse for which a $4 mil­ lion bond issue will be floated. Of this, $500,000 will be the state's share in the dredging of a 40-foot channel to the Theo­ dore Industrial Complex—cen­ ter for Alabama's metal indus­ try. Mobile's facilities are comple­ mented by satellite inland ports, north of the city, which have shown a continued growth over the past 11 years and have helped commerce by lowering the cost of moving bulk com­ modities. A bulk handling berth, for which funds are already avail­ able, will be built at Theodore. It will be twice the size of the one at Mobile. The growing importance of the ore movement into the Theodore areas was highlighted by the 110,000 tons or so that were moved by barge from the bulk handling plant at the State Docks. Containerization has not been forgotten either, Feaster added, and more facilities are planned for the future. Presently, an ever-increasing number of con­ tainers are being moved in break-bulk vessels. Page Five LOG Labor Set to Meet Challenges MeanyLookstoSeventiesasDeiaJe Of Opportunity for Amerkan Labor The problems that face America are not insurmount­ able, AFL-CIO President George Meany said in a New Year's statement in which he called 1970 "the threshold year" to a "decade of opportunity." "The American labor move­ ment moves into the Seventies fully aware of the complex problems that face America, fully determined to do every­ thing in our power to help solve them," Meany said. While listing a just and hon­ orable peace in Vietnam as first among the priorities for the new decade, Meany said the domes­ tic problems confronting the na­ tion are well-known: hunger, poor schools, deteriorating April I Deadline cities, de facto segregation, dirty believe in progress will back air and dirty water, medical and their beliefs with their ballots." health care that is denied to too In listing the problems of the many, an unbelievable housing 1970s, Meany cautioned against gap and slums that grow instead dismissing the past decade as of dwindle. ^ one in which nothing was ac­ "Not one of these is beyond complished. solution," Meany said. "In the "Substantial progress was Sixties, Americans aimed for the made in the Sixties," he said. moon and walked there. In the "Great strides were taken to Seventies, we know that the eliminate poverty and hunger; earthbound problems can be to provide medical and health conquered." care for the elderly and the in­ The coming year will afford digent; to demolish barriers to an early opportunity to test education and to provide full America's willingness to tackle and equal rights to minority its problems, Meany said, be­ group Americans in fact and in cause the 1970 elections will set law. "The union label is nowhere the nation's course for the entire • more deeply imprinted than on decade. "They will determine the progressive legislation of whether men and women who the last decade, which will bene­ fit generations for years to come," Meany said. "But being pleased with those victories is not to say that we are satisfied. There is too much to be done for any trade unionist to enjoy the luxury of satisfaction." The way to solve the prob­ lems ahead is through adequate­ too many." ly financed programs at all At the peak of the cargo de­ levels of government, the AFLmands in the Southeast Asia CIO president declared, "and area, there were 170 cargo-car­ this in turn depends upon a na­ rying GAA vessels in operation tional economy geared to full under control of the Navy's sea- employment, increased real in­ lift command. The deactiva­ comes for wage and salary earn­ tion of the current 35 GAAs ers and a tax system that dis­ should terminate this phase of tributes in a fair and just man­ operations. ner the cost of making America In making the announcement truly great." Meany said the 1960 AFLconcerning the GAAs, Admiral Ramage added that almost 90 CIO convention set forth the percent of the shipments to U.S. goals for which organized labor troops overseas is now carried will strive: a just and honorable peace in Vietnam, the total abo- ' on commercial vessels. lition of poverty, national health MSTS has recently confirmed the timecharter hiring of at insurance, renovation of Ameri­ least seven freighters for periods can cities, unlimited free public ranging from six to 18 months education through the college starting with the end of 1969 level for any young person who and running through most of has the ability and the desire, February. Included among the and technical and vocational chartered ships are C-2 and AP- education for those young peo­ ple who will be entering a work­ 2 vessels. ing world increasingly domi­ MSTS also operates ships in nated by technology. such operations as seaborne "We are convinced the demo­ tracking and communications cratic process of America will support for Apollo-manned lun­ endure," Meany said, "and ar missions, as well as Arctic through it full and equal oppor­ and Antarctic supply and re­ tunity for all will become a mat­ search in hydrography, oceano­ ter of fact as well as a matter of law." graphy and astronomy. Withdrawal of 35 GAAs by MSTS Said to End Reserve Fleet Threat WASHINGTON—Thiryt-five General Agency Agreement (GAA). vessels will be with­ drawn from service at the end of their present voyages, the Mil­ itary Sea Transportation Service Commander, Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage, has an­ nounced. Ramage said that the 35 ves­ sels are the last of the govern­ ment-owned dry cargo ships pre­ viously withdrawn from the Na­ tional Defense Reserve Fleet and operated by civilian ship­ ping firms under MSTS con­ tract. By April 1, 1970, the en­ tire reserve operation will have been phased out, he declared. Operation of the reserve fleet ships in competition with pri­ vate commercial freight carriers has come under considerable criticism from the unsubsidized fleet owners. They charged that the policy of hiring and using GAA ships and others had resulted in a freight rate squeeze which had contributed to the lay-up of some commercial vessels. The problem had become more acute with the decrease in Vietnam sealift needs and the threat of bankruptcies confronting several of the shipping operators was cited—particularly since these tramp ships depended upon haulage of government-spon­ sored cargoes for their very sur­ vival. A recent major lull in gov­ ernment grain shipments—an area of haulage not controlled by any legal requirements as to U.S.-flag carriage—had made the situation even more crucial. Plans announced previously by MSTS for phasing out the use of reserve ships had been greeted by the comment that this was good, but not good enough. The AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department de­ clared last month, "We submit that even one governmentowned ship in competition with our privately-owned fleet is one Nine More Graduate From New York Lifeboat School Shell Oil Warned Against Captive Audience Exploit 11/ |f' ;* . y ! \ Here are the latest graduates of the SlU Lifeboat School after they passed Coast Guard examinations at Mill Basin in Brooklyn, December 10. In the front row, left to right, are Joe Normand, Thomas DeSantis, Jim Sunter, and Nathaniel Smiley. In back are Instructor Bob Lord, Lou Marcedes, F. D. Hennessey, Don­ ald Hood, Barry Yonge, and Leon Fountain. Each class undergoes classroom study and practical instruction. PASADENA, Tex.—The next time Shell Oil management wants to compel its employees to attend a meeting aimed at influencing legislation before Congress, it will have to first negotiate with the union, a National Labor Relations Board regional director declared. Local 4-367 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers protested to the NLRB after the company ordered all workers to attend a lecture on company time urging support for the oil depletion allowance tax loophole. The NLRB's acting regional director, Arthur Safos, in­ formed the union that its objection was valid and the compulsory attendance order "was a mandatory subject of bargaining." �Page Six SEAFARERS January, 1970> LOG Pension Highlights Pact SlUNA Tuna Fishermen Win Big Gains in 3-Year Pact iliP? lillr K:VS\' • .-X- •?. • i SlUNA Vice President Carl Marino (seated, right), secretary-treasurer of the Cannery Workers and Fishermen's Union of San Diego, and Les Sehres (left), general manager of National Marine Termi­ nals, a major West Coast tuna processor, sign a new three-year contract providing substantial gains for more than 150 fishermen aboard II Union-manned tunaboats in San Diego. Looking on (standing, l-r) are James Bozzo, CWFU business representative: Tom Meyer, SlUNA representative; Jack Tarantino, CWFU vice president; Albert Ornelas, negotiating committee member and Art Correa. A Move to improve Maritime Safety House-Passed Bridge-to-Bridge Bill Requires Rudiotelephones tor Ships WASHINGTON — Radio communication between all ma­ jor water traflfic in most of the nation's navigable waters would be required by a measure (H.R. 6971) recently passed by the House. Described as the "bridge-tobridge" bill, the legislation would require a radiotelephone —as well as the maintenance of a listening watch—on the fol­ lowing vessels while navigating in specific waters of the United States: • Power-driven vessels of 300 gross tons and above. • Vessels of 100 gross tons and above which carry one or more paying passengers. • Towing vessels 26 feet or more in length at the waterline. • Dredges and floating plants engaged in or near a channel or fairway in operations likely to restrict or affect the naviga­ tion of other ships. Under existing law, only whistle signals are required to be sounded by vessels approach­ ing each other. The bill would require a short-wave radio—op­ erating on a single frequency (VHF)—and maintained for the exclusive use of the master or person in charge of the vessel for the interchange of naviga­ tional information between ves­ sels. Representative Edward A. Potable Refreshment Hitting the bottle with happy gusto is Tracy, whose mom, Marion, is the wife of Seafarer Samuel Hardin. Photo was taken in N.Y. hall as dad, who sails in the engine department, was checking the board. Garmatz (D-Md.) chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee which held hearings on the bill, said it was "a significant and essential step toward improving maritime safe­ ty and reducing marine trag­ edies." "Extensive hearings, studies and investigations by my com­ mittee," Garmatz pointed out, "have confirmed the belief that the old whistle signals are no longer sufficient to provide ade­ quate communication between vessels." Garmatz described a number of marine collisions involving high fatalities and stressed that they might have been avoided if voice communication had been used. He included the 1956 sinking of the Italian-flag passenger liner Andrea Doria, with 50 lives lost; the 1966 collision of two tankers—^the Texaco Massa­ chusetts and the Alva Cape— in New York Harbor, and the collision in the lower Mississiippi between an ocean-going freighter, the African Star, and the barge Union Faith, which resulted in huge petroleum fires. Since certain harbor areas— such as New York, San Fran­ cisco and Baltimore—already have installed voice communi­ cations systems, the Secretary of Transportation would be given discretion to waive the re­ quirements of the legislation where duplicaticm or unneces­ sary hardship would result. The House-passed bill would not affect foreign'^ vessels oper­ ating in international waters be­ yond the three-mile territorial zone of the U.S. However, a similar communications system is under discussion among lead­ ing maritime nations represented in the Inter-governmental Mar­ itime Consultative Organization (IMCO). SAN DIEGO—The SIUNAaffiliated Cannery Workers and Fishermen's Union of San Diego has won substantial contract im­ provements in a new three-year agreement signed with National Marine Terminals, a leadiffg West Coast tuna processor. Carl Marino, secretary-treas­ urer of the union, singled out the pension clause as a highlight of the new contract. Pension payments, which are computed for fishermen on the basis of tons of fish caueht and were formerly a straight $1.50 per ton, now will be $2 per ton for fish caught the first year, $2.50 the second year and $3 per ton during the third year of the .contract. Marino added that the new pact, which covers 11 San Diego-based tunaboats. contains a three-year provision for re­ opening negotiations instead of the one-year reopener included in the previous contract. • Another significant gain for fishermen provides that the com­ pany will pay for fishermen's lunches while the crew is work­ ing in port on repair and main­ tenance of the vessel. Tools needed on the job will also be paid for by the company. The union's contract with North Pacific Might Harhor rSea Monsters' VANCOUVER, B.C. — A "serious study" into reports that sea monsters are swimming playfully in the blue waters off the Pacific Coast has been launched by two University of British Columbia scientists. As part of their research. Dr. Paul Leblond of the university's institute of oceanography and Dr. John Sibert, a zoologist, are asking ship captains, fishermen and lighthouse keepers to re­ port any sightings of "strange animals" swimming about. The two scientists claim there are good grounds for their be­ lief that there is something un­ known to science lurking be­ neath the waves of the North Pacific. Tracing through records dat­ ing back to the turn of the cen­ tury, Leblond says that there have been several well docu­ mented sightings of strange aquatic creatures in the Pacific since 1912. Most of the reports, he adds, agree in the descriptions they give of the creatures. The researchers emphasize that while the mysterious ani­ mals they are seeking may not be storybook, green dragontypes, they surely are extraordi­ nary creatures—^possibly large mammals—^which only occa­ sionally cross the path of ships because they exist at great depths. National Marine Terminals tra­ ditionally sets the pattern for contracts with other vessel own­ ers in the West Coast tuna fleet. Wages earned by tuna fisher­ men depend on a share system and the price paid for the catch when sold to processors. They are not part of contract negoti­ ations. Mystic Museum Seeks Mstork Ufe-Suving Geur MYSTIC, Conn.—^A search for life-saving gear and equip­ ment is being undertaken by the Mystic Seaport maritime mu­ seum, which is operated by the Marine Historical Association here. Last fall, two original lifesaving stations on Block Island, R.I., were acquired, followed shortly thereafter by a half-way house from South Wellfleet, Mass., on Cape Cod. An exhibit of apparatus used by the U.S. Life Saving Service in the sta­ tion, highlighting its historical development, has been planned for some time. Such an exhibit would be built around items used from about 1871 to 1900—including a two-wheeled beach cart, a four-wheeled boat wagon, corkfilled life preservers and other items. Financing of the exhibit is to be arranged by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. However, Curator Edmund E. Lynch said he hoped to find interested do­ nors of appropriate items. According to Lynch, the mu­ seum has not yet succeeded in locating the major part of the material sought despite aid from government sources. "We are now forced to make an urgent public plea to private citizens to help us locate these articles which are vital to the presentation of U.S. Life Saving history." Grape Boycott Backed By Hebrew Assembly DELANO, Calif —The Union of American Hebrew Congregations is the latest organization to pledge its full support for the boycott of Cdifornia table grapes. Vice President Gilbert Padilla of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee an­ nounced. A resolution passed by UAHC at its 50th general as­ sembly noted that grape pick­ ers, "among the poorest working people in our land of plenty," are locked in a "desperate struggle" to secure collective bargaining agree­ ments. �Jannaiy, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven 23 Additional Seafarers Join Growing SlU Pension Roster Twenty-three veteran Sea­ farers last month joined the growing number of SIU pen­ sioners retiring to the beach after many years of sailing aboard SlU-contracted vessels. Oliver Samuel Flynn, 66, is a native of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He joined the SIU in Savannah, Georgia, and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a steward and chief cook. His last vessel was the Grethe. In 1960 Brother Flynn received a personal safety award for his part in making the Al­ coa Roamer an accident free ship. Seafarer Flynn now makes his home in Baton Rouge with his wife, Maude. Fernando D. Dacanay, 72, joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as a second cook. His last vessel was the Steel Admiral. From 1919 until 1925, Brother Dacanay served in the Navy. He now lives in West Islip, Long Island with his wife, Rae. Brother Dacanay is a native of the Philippine Is­ lands. J I ' 1) * , 1 Roberson ^liamson Leroy Manning Roberson joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department as an AB. His last vessel was the Transmalaya. A native of New Mexico, Seafarer Roberson now makes his home in New Orleans with his wife, Leona Marie. In 1962, Brother Roberson re­ ceived a personal safety award for his part in keeping the Del Valle an accident free ship, Lyle W. Williamson is a native of Illinois who now lives in Torrance. California, with his wife, Helen. He joined the SIU in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the eneine depart­ ment as an FOWT. His last vessel was the Overseas Rebec­ ca. Brother Williamson is a Navy veteran of World War II. Lacson I 1 ' Teofilo F. Lacson, 58, of San Francisco, is a native of the Philippine Islands. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a messman. His last vessel was the Overseas Evelyn. Frank Lis, 65, is a native of Poland who now makes his home in Brooklyn with his wife, Jeannette. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the deck de­ partment as an AB. His last vessel was the Philadelphia. Brother Lis had been sailing Flynn Dacanay the seas for 37 years when he retired. Jose Toro, 56, joined the SIU in Puerto Rico in 1944 and saUed in the steward department as a chief cook. He last worked aboard the Warrior. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Toro now makes his home in Bronx, New York, with his wife, Gloria. Kothe Karstens August Frank Kothe, 64, is a native of Louisiana who now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Miskel Lucy. He joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans and sailed in the stew­ ard department as a cook and steward. He last sailed aboard the Grethe. Karl Karstens, 68, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck depart­ ment as an AB. His last ship was the Free America. A native of Germany, Brother Karstens now lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. Before his retirement, he had been sailing for 43 years. Andrews Ballu Carroll Henry Andrews, 49, is a native of Virginia who now makes his home in Seattle, Washington. He joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore in 1941 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. His last vessel was the Seattle. From 1937 until 1941, Brother An­ drews served in Ae Army. Arthur C. Ballu, 65, joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1943 and was active in the SIU's beefs and strikes. In 1961 he participated in the greater New York harbor strike and in 1965 he was issued a picket duty card. Brother Ballu sailed in the deck department as an AB and his last vessel was the Seatrain New York. A na­ tive of Belgium, Seafarer Ballu now lives in Brooklyn. He Gbrard Bengert Toro Rosso sailed for 42 years before re­ tiring. Herman Walter Girard, 66, is a native of New Hampshire and now lives in New Orleans. He joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as a cook, baker and steward. His last ship was the Del Mar. Brother Girard is an Army veteran of World War II. Benjamin Charles Bengert, 57, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department as a wiper. His last vessel was the Alcoa Mariner. A native of Algiers, Louisiana, Brother Bengert now makes his home in New Orleans with his son, Benjamin Charles, Jr. Chalmers Darrell Anderson, 48, is a native of South Carolina who now lives in Stockton, California. He joined the Union in Tampa in 1942 and sailed in the deck department as a bosun. Brother Anderson last sailed aboard the Fairland. Brightwell Sabin William Irven Brightwell, 44, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and shipped in the steward department as a cook and baker. He last worked aboard the Ogden Willamette. A native of Maryland, Brother Brightwell is spending his re­ tirement in Woodbine, Mary­ land. In 1960 he was given a personal safety award for his part in making the Alcoa Pa­ triot an accident free ship. Nicholas Sabin, 67, is a native of Spain who is spending his retirement years in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, Veria. He joined the SIU in Tampa and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a cook. Brother Sabin last sailed aboard the Warrior. He is an Army veteran of World War II. Lopez Layton Leonard Beecham Layton, 61, one of the original members of the Union, joined the SIU in 1938 in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck depart­ ment as an AB. His last ship was the Del Valle. A native of Maryland, Brother Layton lives there now with his wife. Sea­ Anderson farer Layton had been sailing for 37 years when he retired. Mario Garcia Lopez, 64, is a native of Puerto Rico who now lives in Manhattan with his wife. He is one of the earlier members of the Union, having joined in 1938 in Puerto Rico. Brother Lopez worked in the deck department as an AB and bosun and his last ship was the Seatrain Delaware. In 1961, Brother Lopez was issued a picket duty card. John James Cox, 78, another real old timer, joined the SIU in the Port of Boston in 1938 and sailed in the engine department as an FOWT. He is a native of Great Britain who now makes his home in Waltham, Massa­ chusetts, with his wife, Margaret Ethel. Brother Cox last sailed aboard the Alcoa Master. William B. Rutkowski, 65, is a native of Poland, who will spend his retirement years in Walnut Creek, California, with his wife, Maria. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the deck Ureta Thomas department. His last vessel was the Trenton. In both 1961 and 1962, he was issued SIU picket duty cards for active participa­ tion in Union beefs. Brother Rutkowski retires after sailing the seas since 1924. Simeon F. Ureta, 66, is an­ other old-timer in the SIU who also joined in 1938 in the Port of New York. He sailed in the steward department and last saUed aboard the Seatrain Car­ olina. A native of the Philip­ pine Islands, Brother Ureta now lives in Gretna, Louisiana, with his wife, Frances. In 1960 he received a personal safety award for his part in making the Del Oro an accident free ship. Seafarer Ureta is a Naval veteran of World War H. Louis Bumie Thomas, 66, is a native of Jemison, Alabama who now makes his home in Wilmington, California, with his daughter. Frances Louise Simpson. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a steward, cook and baker. His last ship was the Transerie. Vincenzo Russo, 71, joined the Union in 1941 in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. He last worked on board the Manhattan. A native of New York, Seafarer Russo now lives in the Bronx. 'Rummy' Old British Navy Goes on the Water Wagon LONDON—"Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum" has gone down the drain. Yes, the British fleet will now sail exclusively on water. After 400 years the Queen's "Navee" has been rendered practically spiritless. No more rum, no more grog—at least for the lowly tar. According to Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, First Sea Lord, the British Admiralty has decided to abolish the daily rum issue as "not appropriate to a modern, instant-response navy." Up to now, each member of the crew of Her (or His) Majesty's naval ships has been entitled to his tot—^the equiv­ alent of a stiff double. It was done with traditional British ceremony, the men queuing up to the welcome piping of "Up Spirits." The consistency of the stuff varied—by rank. Senior non­ commissioned officers were entitled to straight rum. Ordi­ nary sailors were doled out a diluted concoction which has come down in history as "grog", ever since the days of an Admiral Vernon who first cut the rations, According to the story, the Admiral wore a grogram (gros-grain) coat and became—somewhat unaffectionatcly—known as "Old Grog" —a term later applied to the weakened mixture of water, lime juice and rum he handed out. A spokesman for the Defense Ministry defended the reasons for the new order. "Having been the captain of a ship I know what trouble it can cause Now we can get a full afternoon's work from every man, which we haven't been able to do for a long time." The missing tot will be compensated for by a sum—the equivalent of $6.5 million—which will be put into a new fund for the benefit of sailors and marines. �Page Eii^t SEAFARERS LOG January, 1970 ' ! Seated at the head of the table, in the traditional place of honor, Seafarer A. Kircomnel presides as his wife and children enjoy their dinner with all the festive trimmings at the SlU hall in the Port of New Orleans. hama, Japan In^the Porf of Frankfort, a group of Seafarers relax after having enjoyed the holiday treats that were especially prepared for them. A pause to reflect upon past holidays seems in order. Charles Barone (center) and his family, found Christmas dinner in the Port of New Orleans a most relaxing way to spend the holiday. New Orleans had a large turnout for Christmas dinner during the all day affair. .. —^mil In the Port of Duluth, as in all of. the SlU ports on Christmas Day, the children were well represented, This group beautified the occasiofi with bright faces. •t .c.aji., . . fmKKTWKtKUU Mr. and Mrs. Earl Longleton celebrated their holiday at the SlU dinner in the Port of Norfolk. All ports reported visits by guests of all age groups. �Janaarjr* 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine T Oft month, as if has done for nearly Utree decades, the SlU co¥Umue^ the animal tra­ dition of opening up union halls in all of Us ports across the country to provide Christmas dinners for Seafarers, their families and guests. Dining rooms were festively decorated and a complete holiday feast with all the trimmings was thoroughly enjoyed by all. i i The Inland Boatmen's Union was well represented in the Port of Duluth by the Donald Rutherfords. Nothing Brightens up a holiday more than a child's happy face. Parents are MK and Mrs. R. McCoy. Plenty of bright expressions graced the table of the William Wynn family. Tasty food was plentiful. The wife and family of Seafarer George W. Trippe, Jr., make a pretty picture from the Port of New Orleans. A pretty attractive gathering of cute young ladies. • i Many generations are represent­ ed at the festive table of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCulloch (center). Seafarer and Mrs. Juan Gonzalez and family pose for a group photo in the Port of New Orleans, before taking part in the festive activities planned for the day. i , ' I'. Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Martinez and their daughter found that the pleasures of Christmas were many in the Port of New Orleans. As the young lady in the center will attest to, Christmas is a fun time. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Davis are a couple of people who found that in the Port of Nor­ folk, they know how to celebrate Christmas. Paul Stepan of the Inland Boatmen's Union in the Port of Duluth, looks on as this group of happy people digs into the chow. �SEAFARERS Page Ten LOG January, 1970 THE WAY UP! THE NEW GUIDE TO HAPPY RETIREMENT by George W. Ware (Crown—$6.50) Between 1920 and 1967, our total population increased almost 90 percent. During the same period, the number of Americans over 65 increased approximately 110 percent. How these people and those who follow them can glean the most from the harvest years is the theme of this book. Union negotiated pension plans and improved social security are making dreams of retirement come true. With careful planning a greater enjoyment can be obtained. The worker making plans to retire can get all this information from other sources, most of it without cost. But the author has gathered the material into one convenient volume of how, where and when to retire. The author claims to be qualified to write about retirement by virtue of his retirement. But he has other qualifications. For over forty years he has been involved in human and natural resource programs at local, state, national and international levels. He places emphasis on planning and believes that if a man is secure economic^ly and physically, he can attain satisfaction of the soul. Retirement location, income, services, health, special problems, free time and a host of other subjects are discussed. There is no set of rules that apply to all individual cases, but Ware offers ad­ vice that makes decision-making easier. He warns against keeping the nose to the grindstone too long and offers as advice this bit of anonymous verse: "If your nose is close to that, grindstone rough And you keep down there long enough. In time you'll say there's no such thing As brooks that babble and birds that sing. These three your whole world will compose— You, the stone, and your silly flat nose." Opportunity Knorks Many Times The recent awarding of a Chief Engi­ neer's license to Brother Gil Borge (see story page 3), a Seafarer who steadfastly worked his way to the top of the upgrading ladder by enrolling in one of the many SIU spon­ sored maritime training programs, is not only a prideful occasion deservedly shared by both this Seafarer and the entire union— it is in a broader sense, another basic dem­ onstration of what it means to be a member of a labor union. As he climbed each rung of the ladder. Brother Borge had at his side the encourage­ ment derived from knowing that he had his union's fullest possible support. Through the facilities of its upgrading program, the SIU was 100% behind this individual member—as it has always been in the past and will continue to be in the future—fully behind every SIU member who wishes to upgrade himself. According to the old saying, opportunity only knocks once—but we challenge this old adage. Through the vigorous efforts of your union and the accomplishments of the many training programs it has to offer— opportunity calls out many times, to the younger and older Seafarer alike, and you need only answer the call once, as Brother Borge did, to begin your own journey to the top of the ladder. Community Agencies und the Gl Strike On Page 3 of this issue is a report con­ cerning labor's successful efforts in mobiliz­ ing the resources of voluntary and public community agencies in support of unionists and their famihes involved in the nation­ wide strike against the General Electric Company. For years, the labor press has emphasized organized labor's input into these commu­ nity agencies—^the funds that workers con­ tribute, the voluntary hours that workers invest, the leadership roles which workers fill in support of the work of social, welfare and recreational agencies. But rarely does the opportunity arise— as it does in the General Electric strike— to make the case that labor's relationship with this network of community agencies is a two-way street, and that there is a tangi­ ble return on labor's investment. The whole purpose of the voluntary and public agencies is to help people in need. To be successful in such an effort, these agencies must first of all be able to draw on all of the resources in the community— on the money and manpower of working people, as well as on the money and man­ power of business and industry. And, to be successful, these agencies must be repre­ sentative of the total community—if they hope to be responsive to the total commu­ nity's needs. Being responsive to people's needs means helping families sustain the economic shock of a strike or lockout just as much as help­ ing families in financial difficulties as the result of hurricane, flood or some other natural disaster. The fact that these agen­ cies are meeting the needs of working people and their families in the GE strike proves that labor's efforts in this field, over the years, have not gone unnoticed. Organized labor would support these so­ cial agencies whether or not its members had to turn to them for assistance in time of trouble. Still, it's nice to know that, when the chips are down, some of the millions of dollars that unionists have invested are coming back to their fellow workers at a time when the need is so great. PRESIDENTIAL LOTTERY by James A. Michener (Ran­ dom House—$5.95) In this book about our Electoral College system, noted author James Michener writes: "On Election Day, 1968, the United States once again played a foolhardy game with its destiny. We conducted one more Presidential election in ac­ cordance with rules that are outmoded and inane. This time we were lucky." Millions voted on Election Day, 1968, but 538 men and women elected the President of the United States. Michener was one of the 538, picked by the simple act of a phone call. Very few of these electors were bound by law to vote the way their state voted. Michener recounts the history of the Electoral College sys­ tem and points out the dangers attached to it. He shows how easy it would be for "deals" to be made to capture the White House. He tends to support the "automatic plan" of changing the system. Under the plan each state keeps its electoral votes and casts them according to the majority vote. But regardless of the plan desired, Michener urges Americans to get behind Elec­ toral College reform. Failure to do so may bring anguish which we will only deserve. STRUMPET CITY by James Plunkett (Delacoite—^$6.95) One of the characters, Patrick Bannister, was speaking, his tongue loosened by liquid spirits: "It's a bitch of a city, Lily," he said to his girl friend. "It's no great shakes," Lily agreed. "More babies die in Dublin than anywhere else in Europe— did you know that, Lily?" "All babies die," Lily said, "when they reach the right age." Thus, James Plunkett captures all the heartaches and despair of poverty. This book is about the poor of Ireland at the turn of the cen­ tury and their struggle for union protection. The message that Plunkett conveys is as important today as it was in the days of Jim Larkin, the legendary Irish labor leader. The author brings to life all the characters of Ireland's poor and rich. Mulhall, a factory hand who is willing to go to jail for the union cause; Mary and Fitz, a young married couple caught up in the struggle; Rashers, who could find survival in the trash cans of Dublin; Jim Larkin, who provides all the sparks of hope amid the despair. Of course there are the bad guys, too. There was Bradshaw, who had no misgivings about sending an aged servant to the poorhouse when she was no longer able to work. And there was Doggett, who wanted to teach his men a lesson but knew their strength. The coming of the union divided Dublin. It divided the workers, the Church and the townspeople. Anyone who has been involved in the struggle for better conditions at the worker level will quickly recognize the various characters. Although fiction, this book is labor history. For those who shy away from raw history, this novel should prove enjoyable. �Jannaiy, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG Senate Crushes Fannin Amendment To Impose Pollticai Gag on Unions I'll ^ ' 1 1^ 1 WASHINGTON—The Sen­ ate rejected by a crushing 59-27 majority an anti-union amend­ ment to the tax bill sponsored by Senator Paul J. Fannin (RAriz.) and blessed by the open shop National Right to Work Committee in full-page news­ paper advertisements. If the amendment had passed, unions and other non-profit or­ ganizations which "directly or indirectly" supported or opposed candidates for public office would have been penalized by Industrial Practices Found Behind Times Its Not Only Weather That Causes Layoffs in the Constrastion Trades WASHINGTON — Every winter the construction industry goes into semi-hibemation, put­ ting thousands of men out of work. Despite major advances in re­ cent years that allow construc­ tion operations to continue through sub-freezing weather conditions, the seasonality of the industry still persists. An article in the December issue of the Labor Department magazine. Monthly Labor Re­ view, says the problem must be blamed on traditional manage­ ment practices and customs as much as on the. thermometer. The article is based on the findings of a Bureau of Labor Statistics study on construction industry seasonality and man­ power problems that will be published early next year. Higher Jobless Rate It notes that the construction labor force suffers much more unemployment than workers in other industries. "From 1960 to 1968," the article points out, "the unem­ ployment rate for private wage and salary workers in construe- SEAFAKEHS^IX)G January, 1970 • Vol. XXXII, No. I Offlelal Publication of the Seafarer* International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lake* and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Bateutiv Board PAUL HALL, President EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNCR Exee. Vice-Pree. Vi«s-Pr«eidsnf LINDSRY WllXIAHS ALKHW Vice-President See.-Preoe. ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNB* Viee-President Viee-President Pillliliid MiRtkly at >10 Rksd* lilant Ansi* N.E., WiiklnitsR, 0. C. 20018 ky tki Siaftr. tn Intsnstlsnal URISS. AtlsRtls, Gilt, Likn U< iRliRt Wstm Dlitrlit, AFL-Ci8, 675 Pewtk AWHH, iTHklyR, N.V. 11232. Til. NYMlatk 9-<M0. iMsnd tlin fuUi* **)< •t WaUlRitSRi, D. C. PNTHAITEri ATTEHTIM: Pem 3579 MUdi skNlt k» Mst te Itafartn iRUfRStlMtl 8ilM, Atlutli, Gilt, Ukss Mi l*!«ii W*tm Dlrtrlst, AFL-Cil, C73 Peirtk Anasc, intkly*, N.V, 11232. tion averaged 11.1 percent, in comparison with a rate of 5.2 percent for all private wage and salary workers." Paradoxically, each summer complaints arise of labor short­ ages from contractors," NLR says, "and the volume of com­ plaints increases as the pace ag­ gregate activity quickens." The authors of the article, Joe L. Russell and Michael J. Pilot, report that seasonality ac­ counts for much of the underutilization of the construction la­ bor force. Geography is often a factor in the manpower problems of the industry. A surplus of con­ struction manpower may exist in one locality while a shortage is apparent in another, the article says. "Unlike a manufacturing concern that can locate in an area with available manpower, a contractor must either bring his workers to the building site, or find new workers in the area. "Shortages of construction labor are often found in geo­ graphic areas where there have been relatively few opportu­ nities for these workers in the recent past. When construction activity decreases in a locality, many construction workers take jobs in other local indus­ tries." The unemployment rate for construction workers is usually the highest of any major indus­ try division, and this is a reason for the higher hourly wages for the trades, the authors note. Even when the industry is operating at peak capacity, the unemployment rate in construc­ tion is signfficantly higher than in Other industries. "In 1968, the unemployment rate in construction averaged 6.9 percent nearly double the 3.d percent rate for nonagricultural industries as a whole," Russell and Pilot reported. They note, too, that even during the tight labor market of 1953^ when the average job­ less rate for all industries was 2.8 percent, the unemployment level in construction was 6.2 percent. Employment in construction peaks generally in August and the peak month for unemploy­ ment in the industry is Febru­ ary. The employment rates be­ tween these two months have fluctuated as much as 30 per­ cent within the last six years, the article reports. Even though the fluctuation was only 19.9 percent in 1968, the article says there has been no great change in seasonality since 1947. "Seasonal employment move­ ments in construction are the result of inclement weather and the traditional management practice,s ind customs," Russell and Pilvtt observe. "The exact amount of work that could be performed in winter with precautions against bad weather is unknown, but indications are that it is more than is currently performed." As far back as 1924, a gov­ ernment study found that "for most types of construction it is now possible to build the yearround in all parts of the United States." The Secretary of Com­ merce at that time, Herbert Hoover, wrote, "Bad weather is not the principal cause of seasonal idleness. Customs which became fixed when build­ ers had not yet learned how to cope with adverse weather con­ ditions have not yet been changed...." Technigues Avail^le During the past decade, the Canadians have poured con­ crete at 40 degrees below zero, the article notes, and American contractors have ac­ complished similar feats. "Materials and techniques for performing construction during harsh weather have been available for some time, and have steadily improved. Care­ ful scheduling and protection of materials and workers can per­ mit work to proceed in periods of bad weather," the authors suggest. loss of their tax-exempt status. The penalty would have been imposed even for carrying on a nonpartisan voter registration campaign—a provision which would have struck at such or­ ganizations as the League of Women Voters. The original version of Fan­ nin's amendment was restricted entirely to unions and the Ari­ zona senator and his supporters made it clear in the debate that the labor movement was still the prime target. With Senator Walter F. Mondale (D-Minn.) leading the fight against it, 42 Democrats and 17 Republicans voted to reject the Fannin amendment. Voting for it were 18 Republicans and nine Democrats. Earlier, Senator Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.) sought to substitute a more limited restric­ tion, contending that the sweep­ ing Fannin amendment could "stifle" the freedom of a num­ ber of "worthy" organizations. His substitute proposal was beaten, 63-25. Two days later, at the tail end of a late night session, Sen­ ator Bob Dole (R-Kan.) intro­ duced an even more sweeping amendment, directed solely at unions and not applicable to any other organizations. Tax-exempt status would be allowed only if unions "do not participate in, or intervene in— including the publication or dis­ tribution of statements — any political campaign on behalf of any candidate." Even some of the most con­ servative senators gagged at this proposal and the Dole amend­ ment was defeated, 71-10. Despite the one-sided defeat, Fannin and the National Right to Work Committee indicated they would continue their efforts to drive unions out of the politi­ cal arena. Mondale told the Senate that the Right to Work Committee, which has the same type of tax- exempt status as unions and business organizations such as the National Association of Manufacturers, "completely dis­ torted" the facts in its news­ paper advertisements. He pointed out that federal law already bars financial con­ tributions to candidates or par­ ties from union and corporate treasuries. But, he stressed, the voluntary contributions to COPE, which are not tax de­ ductible, are "perfectly lawful" and the same voluntary contri­ bution technique is used by business organizations as well. "Fundamental fairness," Mondale stressed, "supports the opportunity of millions of work­ ing men and women to counter the effectiveness of the small group of wealthy citizens who can afford highly visible and memorable large contributions." By going beyond existing le­ gal restrictions on use of union funds, Mondale charged, the amendment's "total intent is to drive from the field of political action all those whose strength is provided by joining into as­ sociations for the pursuit of a common goal other than busi­ ness profits." Although the legal effect of loss of tax exempt status is "not clear," Mondale said, it could result in a "devastating" tax levy on union strike funds and other reserves. Fannin, whose voting record in the 90th Congress showed him on the wrong side of every key vote on COPE's scorecard, told the Senate that "it is simply not true" that he introduced his proposal out of "antilabor bias." He thinks very highly of America's workers, Fannin in­ sisted, and his only quarrel is with some "greedy" union lead­ ers "who are bent on removing incentive" and who "no longer regard a good day's work for a good day's pay as a proper goal." Keeping Them Well-Shined Tom Maynes, who shipped in the steward department, gets a shine from Tommy DiLeo in the New York hall. Brother Maynes sailed as steward. He's now taking life easy while collecting SlU pension. �SEAFARERS Page Twelve January, 1970 LOG Setdenent at Johns Hopkins 4Fl.CtO Prods AAttim'stntiOB On Protection of Freedom In Mideost non-professional employees at Johns Hopkins Hospital will re­ ceive a 40-percent increase in wages and benefits in a threeyear contract negotiated by the Local 1199E of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Union members were expect­ ed to ratify the pact as RWDSU officials noted they were "elated" over the wage and benefits package. The contract is expected to set the pattern for negotiations in Baltimore's four other major hospitals where 1199E repre­ sents about 6,000 non-profes­ sional service and maintenance workers. Accord was reached in the Johns Hopkins settlement with the assistance of federal medi­ ators little more than 24 hours before the deadline of a threat­ ened walkout. The agreement provides for raising the minimum wage im­ mediately from $1.80 to $2.10 an hour. Another increment will raise the wage to $2.3$, after six months and to $2.50 an hour next December 1. The wage scale will go to $2.70 on De­ cember 1, 1971. Other provisions call for wel­ fare benefits and life insurance to be paid fully by the hospital. will be made solely by the em­ ployer. An extra floating holiday was granted, which most workers are expected to exercise on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth­ day, January 15. For work on holidays the wage rate was increased to 2.5 times the normal daily rate and the night shift differental was set at 15 cents an hour. A modified form of union shop is included in the pact. It requires all new employes to join the union after a 60-day probationary period while pres­ ent members must retain their membership. Elliott GodofI, national di­ rector of the RWDSU's Na­ tional Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees, at­ tributed the success of the nego­ tiations to the support of Balti­ more area unions and the Ne­ gro community. He further cited the assistance of AFL-CIO rep­ resentatives in the talks as a fac­ tor toward an improved settle­ ment. One day after the Hopkins agreement was reached. Local 1199E won the right to repre­ sent non-professional workers at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center by a vote of 272-164. DISPATCHERS REPORT WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO called on the U.S. govern­ ment to "cease bartering away the freedom of Israel and trying to appease Soviet and Arab dic­ tators." Federation President George Meany urged the Administra­ tion to insist on direct negotia­ tions between Israel and Arab nations "as the only mechanism which can achieve lasting peace in the Middle East." The United States must fur­ ther "redress" the present im­ balance of arms in the Middle East by assuring that Israel has the weapons needed to protect herself, Meany said. "The cur­ rent imbalance, created when the Russians rearmed Nasser, is not conducive to peace" he warned. The AFL-CIO statement was issued in the light of reports that the United States has submitted a set of specific guidelines to a four-power conference trying to resolve the Israeli-Arab dispute. The proposals, ^as reported, would include withdrawal of Israeli troops from certain areas occupied in the June 1967 war, procedures for repatriating ref­ ugees and conditions for a uni­ fied Jerusalem. At a news conference follow­ ing release of the statement. Atlantic, Gulf & inland Waters District December 1, 1969 to December 31, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston ..... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B 11 5 143 152 32 16 79 33 32 26 44 50 20 16 51 33 87 77 80 91 46 65 146 118 50 37 821 719 Class A Class B Class C 7 5 4 93 121 44 16 9 4 41 12 22 13 24 8 21 9 28 11 10 2 28 20 15 80 75 29 48 48 25 58 72 34 103 198 68 46 38 33 565 560 297 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 7 3 6 3 7 New York 100 161 56 119 57 Philadelphia 23 23 8 8 4 Baltimore , 57 39 39 9 24 Norfolk 9 20 12 15 6 Jacksonville 19 58 13 33 9 Tampa 11 14 3 11 0 Mobile 38 55 29 27 5 New Orleans .... 69 90 77 91 18 Houston ..,, 82 87 27 63 20 Wilmington 27 52 29 27 5 San Francisco ... 88 110 11 43 23 Seattle 33 53 25 49 39 Totals 563 765 335 513 202 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 6 4 7 4 8 New York 115 85 61 54 49 Philadelphia 16 6 6 5 2 Baltimore ....... 47 34 34 18 8 Norfolk 15 25 19 11 9 Jacksonville 19 22 8 13 31 Tampa 13 5 3 3 0 Mobile 38 31 14 12 5 New Orleans .... 75 64 74 49 21 Houston .... 65 50 35 33 30 Wilmington 17 31 14 12 5 San Francisco ... 86 93 12 24 21 Seattle 31 17 31 22 22 Totals 543 467 310 268 211 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 8 2 195 160 34 32 117 69 40 23 34 32 26 13 99 37 130 59 195 139 53 0 94 14 45 8 1070 588 Meany voiced concern over pre.ss reports that "bankers rep­ resenting oil interests" have con­ sulted with the government about the need for improved re­ lations with Arab nations. Although Middle East oil may be important to corpora­ tions and even to the U.S. econ­ omy, Meany observed, U.S. for­ eign policy should not be based on "preserving their (the oil companies) profit pictures." He strongly criticized the "in­ consistency" of U.S. participa­ tion in four-power settlement efforts coupled with statements by Administration leaders such as Secretary of State William P. Rogers, that peace in the Middle East cannot be imposed by out­ siders. As for the reports of the latest U.S. proposals, he charged, they indicate that the Administration is further changing direction, even "moving down the road of appeasement." The contention by some that Soviet influence in the Middle East will lessen and American influence will grow if the gov­ ernment pressures Israel into giving up occupied territory "is sheer self-deception," Meany said. "Such appeasement," he said, "would only give credit to the Soviets and Egypt for achieving through diplomatic blackmail and political maneuvering all they failed to win on the battle­ field. "It is an argument unworthy of America." Further, Meany continued, any lessening of U.S. support for Israel will not improve America's image in the eyes of the Arab peoples as some advo­ cates of a changed policy con­ tend. Proponents of such "imagebuilding," Meany said, should think back to the years follow­ ing the 1956 war in the Middle East when the United States joined with the Soviet Union in forcing Israel to give up terri­ tory. "The 1967 war inevitably followed this appeasement pol­ icy which then also posed as statesmanship," Meany stressed. Furthermore, he noted, the joint U.S. action with Russia did not make Moscow any more peaceful or friendly to democ­ racy. Instead, it took advantage of our "image-building" to rush armies into Hungary to crush a democratic revolution. "The repetition of errors," Meany added, "is a reversion to folly and not a recourse to peace." Citing the preservation of world peace and the promotion of freedom as the overriding in­ terest of the American people, Meany said: "In this interest, the Admin­ istration should spare no effort to have the combatants in the Middle East enter into negotia­ tions for a just and lasting peace." He made it plain that the AFL-CIO looks upon the crisis "through the eyes of long friend­ ship for the people of Israel and admiration for their devotion to democracy and their courage in the defense of freedom." He pointed to the "deeply rooted" bonds of friendship be­ tween American labor and Histadrut, Israel's labor federation; their early joint warnings and later joint efforts against Nazi tyranny. "Together," Meany said, "we have participated in the inter­ national labor community with a firm and unyielding commit­ ment to democracy, peace and freedom everywhere. "These are principles which tie American trade unionists to Israel. If we have to choose sides, we choose the side of free­ dom and democracy. Israel rep­ resents both freedom and de­ mocracy in an area of the world that has in the past known little of either." McAllister Loses Good Man All Groups Class A Class B 0 4 161 147 29 21 63 58 39 11 41 13 20 22 51 53 83 97 113 115 8 28 62 17 31 8 630 665 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 3 91 171 13 21 61 86 26 14 25 ' 20 5 6 35 71 50 124 109 51 27 5 10 59 8 38 749 382 • I? ijlii:. I i: 1^1,1, ' W Seafarer Phillip Brush, right, ends his sailing career and receives his first pension check at the Port of Norfolk frorh SlU Patrolman Marvin Hauf. Brush was employed by the SlU-contracted Mc­ Allister Brothers and was a member of SlU Inland Boatmen's Union. �. SEAFARERS January, 1970 Page Thirteen LOG l.W':•' • - npr ---A-•..---'•.•-Jyy;4y . ,' , -5-1 i f 'W if TRANSINDIANA—^The Ship's Committee aboard the Transindiana made certain that everything ran smooth. Relaxing at the end of the trip are Joe Busalacki, bosun; Gervais Bozez, engine delegate; Jose Martinez, deck; and Nick Kondylas, steward. VERSEAS the group that made for a M steward; John Kritcher. bosun; ii. STEEL DESIGNER—Seated around the table, looking over the latest issue of the LOG, are (l-r) A. Maldonado, steward; E. Rushing, bosun; J. Price, deck delegate; J. Giordano, steward delegate; L. Springer, engine delegate. Like all SIU Ship Committees, this one made sure that everything ran smooth, and all beefs settled. ik F^' BUCKEYE VICTORY—^The Ship's Committee aboard the Buckeye Victory took time out after a. long Far East trip, to hold a meeting, look over the latest issue of the LOG—and pose for the photographer. (L-r) Walter Compton, bosun; Larry McDaries, deck delegate; Patrick Callahan, engine delegate; Quentin Brown, stew­ ard delegate: Thomas Smith, steward. It was a good trip with only a few beefs. �Pajre Fonrlecn SEAFARERS Jannarr, 1970 LOG In Line With Supreme Court Decision A Final Farewell NIRB Orders Cardchsik Bargaining ByTwoFirms Who Fought Unions WASHINGTON —The Na­ "consistently accepted" by the companies' unfair labor prac­ tional Labor Relations Board, courts that authorization cards tices were "of such pervasive in line with a landmark decision are an acceptable means of character" as to have actually made the cardcheck a more re­ of the Supreme Court, has re­ establishing bargaining rights. liable measure of representation affirmed previous orders requir­ The cases were remanded to than a representation election ing two firms to bargain with the board by the Supreme Court unions on the basis of repre­ for further consideration in the would be. sentation determined by author­ light of certain guidelines set The order to Gissel was re­ ization cards. forth in the opinion. affirmed by all five board mem­ The orders direct the Gissel In reaffirming its previous bers: Chairman Frank W. Mc Packing Company plant at bargaining orders to the firms, Culloch, John H. Fanning, Huntington, W. Va., to bargain the board summarized the Gerald A. Brown, Howard Jen­ with Meat Cutters Local 347, court's ruling and decided that kins, Jr., and Sam Zagoria. The A solemn service aboard the Steel Age marked the recent burial at sea of Brother Harold Murphy. Brother Murphy, an oiler, sailed and General Steel Products, orders to bargain were justified General Steel order was reaf­ for over twenty years before passing away in Bandar Shahpur, Inc., to bargain with the Up­ by the guidelines. firmed by a Fanning-Brown-Za- Iran. Two shipmates, A. B. Griffith and Tom Watel, submitted photo. holsterers at High Point, N. C. It further found that both goria panel. In cases involving these em­ ployers, the Supreme Court in June unanimouslv upheld the right of the NLRB to order an employer to bargain on the basis On the pension fund bill, the health, welfare or pension plan his own property." WASHINGTON Federal of a cardcheck where he has un­ AFL-CIO strongly endorsed should have a priority claim The testimony spelled out a legislation is needed to protect lawfully destroyed a union's ma­ against the assets of the em­ creation of a Pension Benefit number of sections where the the pension rights of workers jority. ployer, immediately following AFL-CIO believes amendments and improve safeguards for Insurance Corporation, which The ruling struck down find­ are necessary, including provi­ ings by the 4th Circuit Court of health and welfare funds, the would be financed by an annual wages." On the separate welfare and sions dealing with the investiga­ premium of two-tenths of 1 per­ Appeals which had held that AFL-CIO testified. pension plan legislation, the tive authority of the Secretary Legislative Director Andrew cent of the amount insured. earlier NLRB orders to bargain AFL-CIO urged that new fed­ of Labor. And the bills bar of The insurance would be com­ were invalid because there was J. Biemiller, joined by Social eral legislation specifically pre­ persons convicted of crimes no certification election. Security Director Bert Seidman, pulsory and would guarantee empt state laws in the same from serving as trustees should During proceedings before expressed labor's support for the that workers receive the benefits be clarified to apply to crimes the Supreme Court, the AFL- goals of two bills introduced by due them. The AFL-CIO urged field. A number of such plans cover involving "a fiduciary relation­ CIO filed a brief supporting the Representative John H. Dent that the insurance be required NLRB and urging the court to (D-Pa.). Dent is chairman of to cover all unfunded liabilities workers in more than one state ship," the federation suggested. While urging specific changes decide in its favor. the House Labor subcommittee of a pension plan, not just the and some union welfare plans in the bill, Biemiller stressed the are national in scope, he noted. vested liabilities. The Supreme Court decision dealing with the legislation. AFL-CIOs strong support for The same standards applica­ was described by AFL-CIO Or­ One of the bills would set up Three Directors the fullest protection of health, ble to trustees of union-man­ ganization Director William L. a government insurance program Under the bill, three directors agement welfare and pension welfare and pension funds. Kircher as vindicating labor's for pension funds and establish of the corporation would be ap­ "Welfare and pension bene­ position that authorization cards standards for funding and vest­ pointed by the President. The plans should be required of fits are a part of the collective "third parties" that administer are a "substantive part of the ing; the other would amend the AFL-CIO proposed that one of bargaining package," Biemiller programs, the AFL-CIO said. organizing process." \Velfare and Pension Plan DlS- the directors be a reoresentative • 1 J* • • observed. The funds set aside nWnr. Ant to c«.ii .1,. ^1,. ^ mcludmg msurancc companies The high court in each case closure Act to spell out the ob­ of labor and another be chosen and banks. for them, he emphasized, "are found that the employer had ligations of trustees to guard to represent management. The federation endorsed the in fact part of the employees' smashed the union's majority against misuse of funds. On pension funding and vest­ "prudent man" doctrine spelled remuneration, accepted in lieu based on a show of authoriza­ Both bills are needed, Biemil­ ing requirements, the federation out in the proposed legislation. of wages. ITie funds set aside tion cards by threats of shut­ ler said. But he urged amend­ strongly urged that a sharp dis­ It would require persons with for these plans belong to the downs and firings and by prom­ ments to strengthen portions of tinction be made between pen­ control over funds to carry out workers covered by them" and ises of future favors. the legislation and in other sec­ sion funds covering a single em­ their responsibilities "with the must be safeguarded to assure The decision, written by for­ tions eliminate several unnces- ployer and multi-employer same degree of care and skill as that the workers and their fami­ mer Chief Justice Earl Warren, sary and burdensome restric­ funds in which a worker carries a man of ordinary prudence lies "receive the benefits to also emphasized that it has been tions. his pension credits with him would exercise in dealing with which they are entitled." when he changes jobs within the industry. For this reason, Bie­ miller said, there is no need to require vesting in multi-employ­ er funds. Single-employer funds, be­ cause of the danger of an em­ ployer going out of business, LOUISVILLE, Ky.—He's not denying it and he's not should meet the highest actuarial Building trades unions are committed to helping lowbragging about it either—but the truth is that GE striker D. standards of funding with a re­ income families obtain adequate housing and also to advanc­ Hardin Radcliffe is a cousin of Lemuel R. Boulware, the quirement for vesting after 10 ing modern home building techniques, an article in the 1969 retired vice president of General Electric after whom the years of service, the federation Housing Yearbook points out. corporation's "take-it-or-leave-it" bargaining tactic is named. said. The writer, Boris Shishkin, is secretary of the AFL-CIO Radcliffe has been a member of Local 761 of the Elec­ housing committee and a director of the National Housing But the AFL-CIO stressed trical, Radio and Machine Workers since he began working that the present Internal Rev­ Conference, publisher of the yearbook. at Appliance Park in the 1950s. The record, Shishkin declares, shows that the building enue Service regulations, which In fact, Lemuel Boulware helped him get his job, savs trades were a "prime mover" in helping secure low-rent all pension plans must meet on Radcliffe. public housing 35 years ago and have since backed "every funding, is fully adequate for Down in Kentucky—^where tracing geneology is a state policy and plan to enhance the housing opportunities for the multi-employer plans which are pastime—they say Lem Boulware is Radcliffe's first cousin not endangered if one of the em­ less fortunate." once-removed. Boulware is the son of Radcliffe's grand­ Noting that AFL-CIO affiliates were sponsoring some 230 ployers goes out of business. father's sister, Mattie Ricketts Boulware. Lemuel Boulware housing projects for low-income families by mid-1969, Shish­ Biemiller also urged other was born in Springfield, Ky. and Radcliffe was bom in Emi­ kin adds, "National and international unions in the building changes in the proposed legisla­ nence, Ky. trades and local building trades councils have played a i tion. He said the Secretary of The two met on only one occasion, says Radcliffe, "back prominent part in sponsoring such projects." Labor should have the prower to in 1940-something, when his uncle — my grandfather's Regarding new construction techniques, Shishkin cites investigate a fund only when he brother—died. I met him at the funeral home." numerous examples of building trades unions and councils has "reasonable cause" to be­ After that, said Radcliffe, he contacted his cousin about a entering into agreements covering prefabricated housing. lieve the law is being violated job when Appliance Park opened and received a letter of He also cites a 1967 survey of prefabrication made by and not as an unsubstantiated recommendation from him. Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, O., which was fi­ "fishing expedition." Now that his fellow strikers know about his famous rela­ nanced by the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades And he urged, as an addi­ tive, Radcliffe gets a. lot of kidding on the picket line but he Department to help unions develop "informed and reason­ tional safeguard for workers, still says, "I'm backing the union 100 percent." able approaches to problems raised by this new technology." that the federal bankruptcy law he amended "to provide that a Logai Safeguards Urged Over Welfare Funds Boulware's Cousin Proves Blood Thinner Than Truth Techniques in Housing Spurred by Building Unions �Jannary, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG voim ON ammrnnuu. AMmmm UNION TALLYING COMNUnEE'S REI>ORT ft. if!II i. •\ I h UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE REPORT Voting on Constitutional Amendment November 22, 1969 throu^ December 22, 1969: We, the undersigned Union Tallying Committee, duly elected at a Special Meeting called to order in Headquarters Port on December 23rd, 1969 at 10:00 A.M. as per the Constitutional Committee's Report dated October 20th, 1969, submit the follow­ ing report and recommendations. On December 23rd, 1969, at 10:45 A.M., we met with Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr who gave each Committee member a copy of the Union's present Constitution and suggested that we read in detail those sections of our Constitution dealing with the Union Tallying Committee. The Committee then took over a room on the second deck of the Seafarers' Welfare Plan Building as the place in which we would do our work while in session. In compliance with Article XIII, Section 5(d) of our Constitution, we elected from among ourselves Edward Polise, Book No. P-74, as Chairman of the Committee. We then received from Headquarters' offices of the Union all of the files relative to the conduct of the voting on the "1969 Constitutional Amendment." From the files we found signed receipts for ballots numbered 1 through 6200, which had been issued to the ports as follows: PORT BALLOTS ISSUED Boston 1 - 100 New York 101 - 1000 Philadelphia 1001 - 1200 Baltimore 1201 - 1700 Norfolk 1701 -2000 Jacksonville 2001 - 2200 Tampa 2201 - 2400 Mobile 2401 - 3000 New Orleans 3001 - 4000 Houston 4001 - 4800 Wilmington 4801 - 5000 San Francisco 5001 - 5500 Seattle 5501 - 5900 Detroit 5901 - 6000 San Juan 6001 - 6200 Your Committee then checked the dates of the voting rosters and compared them against the min­ utes of the special meetings for the election of the Polls Committees in the various ports. We found in every instance that the Polls Committees had been elected on each day in which voting was con­ ducted in the various ports. Where no Polls Committee could be elected no voting took place, as is required by our Constitu­ tion, We note that on the last day of voting in Boston and IDetroit no Polls Committee could be elected. In these cases, as per the Constitution, the Port Agent took over the duties of the Polls Com­ mittee. We checked the unused ballots that were on hand in Headquarters' offices which had not been issued. The stubs on these unused ballots were numbered 6201 through 7500, a total of thirteen hundred (1,300) ballots. Your CcMnmittee then checked the numbers on the stubs received from the various ports, and these numbers when checked against the numbers on the stubs of all ballots printed and issued and ready for voting, were found to coincide, port by port. Your Committee then checked the unused ballots that were returned from the various ports, including the Port of New York, which are listed as follows: UNUSED BALLOTS PORT 25- 100 Boston 862 - 1000 New York 1132- 1200 Philadelphia 1539-1700 Baltimore 1815-2000 Norfolk 2086 - 2200 Jacksonville 2293 - 2400 Tampa 2632 - 3000 Mobile 3440-4000 New Orleans 4257 - 4800 Houston 4955 - 5000 Wilmington 5393-5500 San Francisco 5713-5900 Seattle 5901 - 6000 Detroit 6130-6200 San Juan The above unused ballots, when combined with the unused ballots in Headquarters and the stubs of the used ballots in all ports, compares equally in number with the amount printed by the printer for the Union. The Committee has seen a bill from the printer. Pearl Process, Inc., who printed the ballots that were used in conducting the voting on the 1969 Constitutional Amendment. The bill states that they had printed seventy-five hundred ballots numbered from one (1) to seventy-five hundred (7500). In addition, they had printed one hundred fifty (150) blank sample ballots. The Committee has checked the election files maintained by Headquarters' offices as per the Con­ stitution, and has found signed receipts from the following ports for the following amount of sample ballots, broken down as follows: BALLOTS PORT 5 Boston 10 New York 5 Philadelphia 10 Baltimore 5 Norfolk 5 Jacksonville 5 Tampa 10 Mobile 10 New Orleans 10 Houston 5 Wilmington 10 San Francisco 5 Seattle 5 Detroit 5 San Juan 105 Total: A full quorum of the Committee picked up the ballots from the Royal National Bank of New York, located at 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York, as per the Constitution. (See cor­ Page Fifteen respondence made an official part of this report, showing official documents that were exchanged.) Attached hereto and made a part of this report is a breakdown ot the ballots that were sent to the ports by Headquarters, as well as a breakdown of the unused ballots returned to Headquarters, ballots used and total ballots cast. THE FOLLOWING CORRESPONDENCE WAS HANDLED BY THE UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE; SUGGESTED VOTING GUIDE FOR POLLS COMMTFTEE In an attempt to help the various Polls Commit­ tees in the conduct of the balloting on the Constitu­ tional Amendment of 1969, the following sugges­ tions emphasize some of the steps to be taken each voting day of the voting period. In any event, the provisions of the Constitution govern, and in the conduct of your work you are to determine your functions in accordance with the Constitution and the recommendations of the Constitutional Amend­ ment Committee. STEP NO. 1 The election of a Polls Committee composed of three (3) full book members, none of whmn shall be a candidate, officer, or an elected or a^Jointed job holder. Must be elected between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. of the voting day. CANNOT BE ELECTED AT ANY OTHER TIME. Five (5) full book members constitute a quorum for this meet­ ing. STEP NO. 2 The Port Agent shall turn over to the elected Polls Committee the port file containing the letter from Headquarters showing the numbers of the bal­ lots received from Headquarters, also containing the duplicate copies of the rosters for the previous days of voting, as well as the stubs of the used ballots, the unused ballots, and any other election material of the Port. (The best place for all of this material is in the ballot box.) The Polls Committee should check all of the above to make sure that all voting material is turned over to them by the Port Agent. After having ascertained that all of the election material was found to be correct and in good order, the Polls Committee shall execute the "Agent's Re­ ceipt from Polls Committee"—which shall be given to the Agent of the Port in which the Polls Commit­ tee was elected at the time the Committee starts work, for the Port election files. STEP NO. 3 THE POLLS COMMITTEE MUST NOT LET ANY BALLOTS BE CAST BEFORE 9:00 A.M. Before letting any full book member vote, the Com­ mittee shall take the man's book and make sure that he has his dues paid through the Fourth Quarter of 1969, as well as his 1969 assessments BEFORE being allowed to vote. There may be some excep­ tions based upon a man shipping out, or other valid reason, for not paying dues. The Committee should then have the man sign his own name to the roster, and one of the Commit­ tee should print the man's book number and ballot number on the roster. One of the Committee should then tear the stub from the ballot, give the ballot to the man, and thread the stub on the string pro­ vided for that purpose. The member should not he given back his book until such time as he has dropped his ballot in the ballot box. While the man is marking his ballot, one of the Committee should stamp the date and "Voted Constitutional Amendment 1969" in the member's Union book on the page in same where he has his dues for 1969 stamped in it. If you have any doubts as to whether or not a man is eligible to vote, you should let him vote a challenged ballot in the manner which is described in the last paragraph of this Step No. 3. Challenged Ballots. When a man votes a chal­ lenged ballot, the Committee shall have the man sign his own name to the roster, and one of the Committee should place the man's book number and ballot number on the roster and the word "CHAL­ LENGE" alongside. One of the Committee should then tear the stub from the ballot and thread the stub on the string provided for that purpose, give the ballot and one white "ballot" envelope to the voter. The Committee should then instruct the voter that after he marks his ballot in the area provided for same, he should then fold his ballot, place it in the white "ballot" envelope, seal it and not deposit it in the ballot box but return with it to the Com­ mittee. The Committee will then give the man a �Page Sixteen SEAFARERS Jannarr, 1970 LOG VOTE ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT brown envelope marked "CHALLENGED BAL­ LOT" and which also has lines for the man's name, book number, port and date. The man, in the pres­ ence of the Committee, shall place the white "bal­ lot" envelope into the brown envelope and seal the same. The Committee shall then fill in the man's name, book number, port and date, and on the face of the envelope write the reason for the challenge and the man will then deposit the brown envelope into the ballot box. The member shouM not be given bis book back until such time as be has dropped ^ brown envelope into the ballot box. While the man is marking his ballot, one of the Committee should stamp the date and "Voted Constitutional Amendment 1969" in the member's Union book on the page in same where he has his dues for 1969 stamped in it. STEP NO. 4 At the end of the day's voting, the Polls Commit­ tee shall open the ballot box and count the number of ballots from the box. They should then compare the total number of ballots used for the day against the number issued on the rosters for the day, to see if all ballots issued were put in the ballot box. The day's ballots cast should then be put in the envelope provided for that purpose, and all blank spaces on the envelope should then be properly filled in. After all blank spaces are filled in, the envelope, or enve­ lopes, should then be placed in the envelope or en­ velopes provided, for the mailing to the bank deposi­ tory. STEP NO. 5 The Committee should then check to see if all Polls Committee members have signed all sheets of the rosters. The duplicate roster sheets for the day should be given to the Port Agent, and the originals of the rosters should be placed in the envelope pro­ vided for that purpose. In addition, the Polls Com­ mittee should get from the Port Agent the original copy of the minutes form for the election of their Polk Committee, with all the blank spaces on the form filled in. The Polls Committee should put the originals of the rosters, as well as the original minutes of the Special Meeting for the election of their Polls Committee, in the envelope provided for that pur­ pose. THESE MUST BE MAILED TO HEAD­ QUARTERS DAILY. STEP NO. 6 Before leaving the building to handle the mailing required by the Constitution, the Polls Committee sh^ lock all election material in the ballot box. They shall place the key for the ballot box in the envelope provided for that purpose and fill in all the spaces on the outside thereof. Then the envelope containing the key, as well as the ballot box con­ taining all of the election material, shall be turned over to the Port Agent by the Polls Committee. STEP NO. 7 The last action of the Polls Committee each day shall be the mailing of the ballots to the bank deposi­ tory, as well as mailing the rosters and minutes of the election of their Polls Committee to Head­ quarters. STEP NO. 8 The attentkm erf the Polls Committee is directed to the provisiiMis of the Constitution, in particular. Sections 3, 4, 5(a) and (b) of Article XIH. The full duties of the Polk Committees are set forth in the Constitution. The list of suggestions is, obviously, not all inclusive. STEP NO. 9 All Polls Cmnmittees may contact Headquarters by teletype on any questions relative to the conduct of the eIecti(Hi. However, here too, the final decision must be that of the Polk Committee. Obviousty, none of this is to be deemed to deprive any niKmb^ of hk constitutional rights to observe the conduct of the election, the tallying of ballots, and so <HI, provided he maintains his proper de­ corum. SECRECY OF THE BALLOT MUST BE PRESERVED! • • » • * Letter to Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Ameriias, New York, N. Y. 10036, Mr. Herbert D. Backer, Executive Vice-President, dated Noverhber 7, 1969: Gentlemen: At Special Meetings held in the Ports of the Union on October 22, 1969 there was presented by a duly elected Constitutional Committee a report with rec­ ommendations calling for a 30-day referendum on proposed Constitutional amendments, which report was unanimously adopted and concurred in by the membership. Once again, the Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036, has been designated as deposi­ tory for ballots cast in this referendum. The ballot­ ing procedure outlined in the Union's present Con­ stitution will be followed and, having previously acted as depository, you are familiar with this pro­ cedure. The referendum period will be from November 22, 1969 through December 22, 1969 (both inclu­ sive), Sundays and holidays excepted. The Polk Committee will deliver or send the ballots to you after the close of each day's voting, by Registered or Certified mail. It will be the func­ tion of the Royal National Bank of New York to accept all envelopes delivered or mailed in, to safe­ guard them in the bank, and to surrender them only to the duly authorized Union Tallying Committee, in accordance with Article XXV, Section 2, which will be on or about the 23rd day of December, 1969. Proof of authorization shall be a certification by A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer. The Union Tallying Com­ mittee shall be authorized to sign a receipt for these envelopes. The Royal National Bank of New York shall be requested to certify, in writing, that all of these enve­ lopes were properly safeguarded, were surrendered only to the Union Tallying Committee, and that no one other than appropriate bank personnel has had access to these envelopes. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAAGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer » • • • • Letter to Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N. Y. 10036, Mr. Herbert D. Backer, Executive Vice-President, dated November 7, 1969: Gentlemen: Listed below are the fifteen ports from which balloting envelopes will be mailed to your office: Boston, Mass. New Orleans, Louisiana Brooklyn, New York Houston, Texas Philadelphia, Pa. Wilmington, California Baltimore, Maryland San Francisco, California Norfolk, Virginia Seattle, Washington Jacksonville, Florida Detroit, Michigan Tampa, Florida Santurce, Puerto Rico Mobile, Alabama (San Juan) As has been done in the past, it is requested that you telephone the Union office to make a report as to what was received each day. For this purpose, telephone 499-6600 and give the information to either Mildred Piatt or William Mitchell. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAAGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer * * « * * Letter to Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N. Y. 10036, Mr. Herbert D. Backer, Executive Vice-President, dated December 24, 1969: Dear Mr. Bacher: As Secretary-Treasurer of Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, in charge erf the minutes thereof, I hereby certify that in accordance with the Constitution of this Union, the plembership has duly elected the following to constitute the Union Tallying Committee for the 30-day referendum on the proposed constitutional amendments as referred to in our letter of November 7, 1969: Edward Polise, P-74 Charles Hamilton, H-562 Manuel De Barros, D-199 Gustave Malensky, M-1329 James Terry, T-26 Sadak Wala, W-688 The following is an excerpt from Article XXV, Section 2 of our Constitution: "The Union Tally­ ing Committee shall consist of six (6) full book members, two (2) from each of the three (3) de­ partments of the Union elected from Headquarters port." In accordance therewith, a majority of four or more of the aforementioned may accept delivery of, and sign a receipt for, all of the envelopes which have been mailed to you in the course of said elec­ tion. It is hereby requested that yoii certify that all of the envelopes received by you have been properly safeguarded in your vault; that you have surrendered them to the said Union Tallying Ccunmittee, and that no one other than appropriate bank personnel has had access to the said envelopes. - Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAAGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer WITNESS: s/ William Mitchell, Records Supervisor ***** Letter to Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N. Y. 10036, Mr. Herbert D. Bacher, Executive Vice-President, dated December 24, 1969: Dear Mr. Bacher: The undersigned members of the Union Tallying Committee, acting under and pursuant to Article XIII, Section 5(d) of the Cbnstitution of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America-At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Distriict, acknowledge receipt of the envelopes sent to you from the various ports for the 1969 Constitutional Amendment referendum, and delivered this day to us. s/ Edward Edward s/ Oiarles (Tharles s/ Manuel Manuel Polise Polise Hamilton Hamilton De Barros De Barros s/ Gustave Malensky Gustave Malensky s/ James Terry James Terry s/ Sadak Wala Sadak Wala Letter from Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N. Y. 10036, dated December 24, 1969, addressed to Sea­ farers International Union of North America-At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232. Gentlemen: This is to certify that all of the envelopes received by this institution addressed to Mr. Herbert Bacher, Executive Vice-President, Royal National Bank' of New York, in the name of the Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, have been prop­ erly safeguarded in our vaults. We have today surrendered the above-mentioned envelopes to the Union Tallying Committee. No one other than appropriate bank personnel has had access to the said envelopes contained in our vaults. Very truly yours, ROYAL NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK (Signed) Herbert D. Bacher Executive Vice President Witnessed: s/ Frances Bangel ***** Letter from Ship's Delegate, SS Seatrain Georgia, M.S.T.S., San Francisco, California, postmarked De­ cember 4, 1969, addressed to Mr. William Hall, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Hall, We, the undersigned Book members would like to have an absentee ballot each so that we will be able to vote on the amendment chants to the SIU Lbnstitution. As we have been at sea since the 23rd of Oct., 1969 and this is our first knowledge of this vote for a change in parts of oin constitution, we, the undersigned, feel that we should be allowed the privilege of voting for the changes. We would sin- �Janiury, 1970 r' ''fi. 1:1 ^ If'I- 11;. ^?,'i • tr. ! • 5' "vi .^; i|! (.fi f SEAFARERS Page Seventeen UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE'S REPORT cerely appreciate your help and cooperation in this matter. Fraternally yours, (Signed) Melvin H. Jones, J-106 Frank J. Smith, S-1319 Clyde L. Van Epps, V-203 WUliam Kunak, K-373 James Faust, J-206 John F. Swiatek, S-1112 Edgel Luzier, 1^176 Stephen Loston, L-621 William Kratsas, K-542 Robert A. Stokes, S-1218 John Pastrano, P-249 James W, Thomas, T-332 Letter to Ship's Delegate, SS Seatrain Georgia, M.S.T.S., San Francisco, California, 16605, dated December 11, 1969. Dear Sir and Brother: Your letter to Bill Hall, postmarked December 4, 1969, relative to receiving absentee ballots has been referred to me for answering. Please be advised that Article XXV, Section 2 of our Constitution ' reads as follows: ^ "When a proposed amendment is accepted by a majority vote of the membership, it shall be re­ ferred to a Constitutional Committee in the Port where Headquarters is located. This Committee shall be composed of six full book members, two from each department, and shall be elected in accordance with such rules as are established by a majority vote of that Port. The Committee will act on all proposed amendments referred to it. The Committee may receive whatever advice and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare a report on the amendment to­ gether with any proposed changes or substitu­ tions or recommendations and the reasons for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted to the membership by the President. If a majority vote of the membership approves the amendment as recommended, it shall then be voted upon, in a yes or no vote, by the member­ ship of the Union by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure outlined in Article XIII, Sec­ tion 3(b) through Section 5, except that, unless otherwise required by a majority vote of the mem­ bership at the time it gives the approval necessary to put the referendum to a vote. The Union Tally­ ing Committee shall consist of six (6) full book members, two from each of the three (3) depart­ ments of the Union, elected from Headquarters Port. The amendment shall either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall be referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be posted on the bulletin boards of all ports and made available at the voting site in all ports." As you can see from the foregoing, there is no provi­ sion in the Constitution for absentee ballots unless the Committee so recommends, or the amendment itself calls for same, and since neither was the case in this referendum it is impossible for your ship's crew to constitutionally receive absentee ballots. Hoping that the above has clearly explained our answer to your question, we remain. Fraternally, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAAGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer * 1/J LOG • » • » Letter from Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036, dated December 30, 1969, addressed to Seafarers International Union of North AmericaAtlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York II232. Gentlemen: This is to certify that we have received the follow­ ing envelopes from the following ports postmarked as of the following dates: 12/22/69 Norfolk 12/22/69 Jacksonville 12/22/69 Tampa 12/22/69 Mobile 12/16/69 Houston 12/18/69 Houston 12/22/69 Wilmington San Francisco 12/22/69 Seattle 12/22/69 San Jjian 12/22/69 The above envelopes were received after December 24th when your Union Tallying Committee had picked up all the envelopes that the bank had on hand at that time. We are today surrendering the envelopes for the above mentioned ports and dates to the Union Tallying Committee. No one other than appropriate bank personnel has had access to the said envelopes contained in our vaults. Very truly yours, ROYAL NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK (Signed) Herbert D. Bacher Executive Vice President Witnessed: s/ Nancy Fuccillo ***** Letter to Herbert D. Bacher, Executive Vice Presi­ dent, Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N. Y. 10036, December 30, 1969. Dear Mr. Bacher: The undersigned members of the Union Tallying Committee, acting under and pursuant to Article XIII, Section 5(d) of the Constitution of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America-At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, acknowledge receipt .of the following envelopes from the following ports, postmarked as of the following dates: DATE PORT 12/22/69 Norfolk Jacksonville 12/22/69 12/22/69 Tampa 12/22/69 Mobile 12/16/69 Houston 12/18/69 Houston 12/22/69 Wilmington 12/22/69 San Francisco 12/22/69 Seattle 12/22/69 San Juan The aforementioned envelopes were received by you after our receiving envelopes on Decembr 24th, and they have this date been delivered to us. s/ Edward Polise s/ Gustave Malensky Gustave Malensky Edward Polise s/ Charles Hamilton s/ James Terry James Terry Charles Hamilton s/ Manuel De Barros s/ Sadak Wala Sadak Wala Manuel De Barros During the conduction of the voting on the Con­ stitutional Amendment, there were three hundred and seventy-five (375) possible voting days. Of the three hundred and seventy-five (375) possible voting days, there were ballots cast on three hundred and seven (307) days. Of the remaining sixty-eight (68) voting days, there were fifty-seven (57) days on which it was not possible to get a quorum for the election of a Polls Committee, therefore, no voting could be conducted. On eleven (11) days there was a quorum and a Polls Committee elected, however, no votes were cast on those eleven (11) days. Need­ less to say, since so many of the Union's member­ ship have served on Polls Committees, the member­ ship are all aware that there are many days when a Polls Cbmmittee is elected that no votes are cast, as all of the members on the beach in that particular port have already voted or are not eligible to vote. In addition, we also know that there are many times when it is impossible to have a quorum to elect a Polls Committee, as a result of which no votes can be cast that day at all. COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XIII. SECTION 5(c) OF THE UNION CONSTITUnON During the period of time in which the Union Tallying Committee was in operation, several dis­ crepancies in the conduct of the voting have oc­ curred, but none of which would change the out­ come of the voting. However, for the benefit of the membership, we are listing them. Port by Port, as follows: NEW YORK The Polls Committee in the Port of New York mailed an envelope to the bank depository for the referendum dated December 8, 1969. The certifi­ cation envelope enclosed therein, which contained the ballots for the day, was dated December 9, 1969. The certification envelope contained the correct date and your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast in the Port of New York on the above date as valid ballots cast. On the days of November 24th, November 26th, December 1st, December 5th, December 17th and December 19th of 1969, the Polls Committees for the Port of New York allowed a member to vote who was not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the two hundred and sixty-four (264) votes that were cast those days in the Port of New York. On November 24th, 1969, the New York Polls Committee issued ballot No. 180 to Jose V. Alvarez, showing his book number as 1242—which is actu­ ally the file number from his book—instead of his book number, which should have been A-30. Your Union Tallying Committee has allowed the ballot cast in the Port of New York on the afore­ mentioned date as a valid ballot cast. However, your Union Tallying Committee has included those voided votes referred to above in our final tally as attached to this report. PHILADELPHIA On November 25th, 1969, the Philadelphia Polls Committee issued ballot No. 1059 to J. Q. Dedicatoria, showing his book number as what appears to be D-312, when it should have been D-313. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast in the Port of Philadelphia on the afore­ mentioned date as valid ballots cast. BALTIMORE On December 4th, 1969, the Baltimore Polls Committee issued ballot No. 1394 to F. T. DiCarlo, showing his book number as what appears to be D-90, when it should have been D-98. Also, under date of November 26th, 1969, the Baltimore Polls Committee issued ballot No. 1309 to L. Kincer, showing his book number as K-544, when it should have been K-554. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast in the Port of Baltimore on the aforementioned dates as valid ballots cast. On November 26th. 1969, the Polls Committee for the Port of Baltimore allowed a member to vote who was not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the eleven (11) votes that were cast that day in the Port of Baltimore. However, your Union Tallying Committee has included those voided votes referred to above in our final tally, as attached to this report. JACKSONVILLE The Polls Committee in the Port of JacK. onville mailed an envelope to the bank depository which was not dated, but which was postmarked Decem­ ber 17, 1969 from Jacksonville, Florida. The certi­ fication envelope enclosed therein which contained the ballots for the day was dated December 17, 1969. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast in the Port of Jacksonville on that day, December 17, 1969, as valid ballots cast. TAMPA On November 25th, 1969, the Tampa Polls Com­ mittee issued ballot No. 2236 to W. Franquiz, show­ ing his book number as what appears to be F-2040, when it should have been F-240. The same date, the Committee also issued ballot No. 2205 to J. Sanchez, showing his book number as S-1033, when it should have been S-1032. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast in the Port of Tampa on the aforemen­ tioned date as valid ballots cast. On November 22, 1969 and December 15, 1969 the Polls Committee for the Port of Tampa allowed members to vote who were not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Com­ mittee has voided the twenty-five (25) votes that were cast those days in the Port of Tampa. However, Your Union Tallying Committee has included those voided votes referred to above in our final tally, as attached to this report. NEW ORLEANS On the days of November 24th and November 26th, 1969, the Polls Committee for the Port of New Orleans allowed members to vote who were not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the ninety-nine (99) �SEAFARERS Page Eighteen "Effective January 1, 1970, the Initia­ tion fee for all new full book members shall be $500.00." "Shall this union adopt the proposed amended constitution effective January 1, 1970." Port Boston New York .... Philadelphia .. Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville ... Tampa Mobile New Orleans .. Houston Wilmington ... San Francisco.. Seattle Detroit San Juan Totals: Ballots Ballots Issued Returned Used Yes No Void 1-100 101-1000 1001-1200 1201-1700 1701-2000 2001-2200 2201-2400 2401-3000 3001-4000 4001-4800 4801-5000 5001-5500 5501-5900 5901-6000 6001-6200 25- 100 862-1000 1132-1200 1539-1700 1815-2000 2086-2200 2293-2400 2632-3000 3440-4000 4257-4800 4955-5000 5393-5500 5713-5900 5901-6000 6130-6200 24 761 131 338 114 85 92 231 439 256 154 392 212 0 129 22 684 119 299 98 85 90 225 424 236 133 288 183 0 105 2 57 12 29 16 0 2 6 14 17 18 89 29 0 22 0 12 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 13 0 0 1 2,991 313 35 "Effective January 1, 1970 calendar quarterly dues for all members shall be $43.00 and that all present assessments shall terminate on December 31, 1969." Ballots Voted Ballots Voted Ballots Voted Ballots January, 1970 LOG Blank 0 8 0 6 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 19 Total Yes No Void Blank 24 761* 131 338» 114 85 92* 231 439* 256^ 154» 392* 212* 0 129* 23 689 124 313 102 85 91 224 427 241 136 328 188 0 108 1 53 6 21 11 0 1 7 12 14 16 52 23 0 16 0 15 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 1 0 1 0 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 3,358 3,079 233 33 13 No Void Total Yes 24 761* 131 338* 114 85 92* 231 439* 256* 154* 392* 212* 0 129* 23 690 124 310 100 85 89 221 423 242 133 307 186 0 99 23 14 0 3 10 16 11 19 68 26 0 28 0 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 17 0 0 2 3,032 281 36 3,358 I 55 1 Blank 0 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 24 761* 131 338* 114 85 92* 231 439* 256* 154* 392* 212* 0 129* 3,358 * This figure includes the ballots that were voided by the Union Tallying Committee. votes that were cast those days in the Port of New Orleans. Howeyer, your Union Tallying Committee has included those voided votes referred to above in our final tally as attached to this report. HOUSTON The Polls Committees in the Port of Houston, Texas, failed to indicate in the certification on the certification envelope containing the ballots, the port which they were from or the date for the following dates: November 22, 1969, November 24, 1969, November 29, 1969, December 3, 1969, December 6, 1969 and December 13, 1969. In addition, on the certification envelope for November 29, 1969, L. V. Hargesheimer, Sr., failed to put his book num­ ber on the certification, and on December 13, 1969, George Anderson failed to put his book number on the certification. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast on the aforementioned dates in the Port of Houston, Texas as valid ballots cast. On the days of November 24, December 11 and December 15, 1969, the Polls Committees for the Port of Houston allowed members to vote who were not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the fifty-three (53) votes that were cast those days in the Port of Houston. On November 28, 1969, the Houston Polls Com­ mittee allowed A. H. Midgett, Book No. M-1246 to cast a Challenged ballot. However, your Union Tallying Committee in checking the records avail­ able to it through the Union and Welfare, did not allow the Challenged ballot of Brother Midgett, and has carried it in the Houston tally as a voided ballot. However, the Union Tallying Committee has in­ cluded those voided votes referred to above in our final tally as attached to this report. WILMINGTON On November 24, 1969, the Wilmington Cali­ fornia, Polls Committee issued ballot No. 4820 to A. Munter, showing his book number as what ap­ pears to be H-1243, when it should have been M-1243. On December 9, 1969, the Wilmington, Califor­ nia, Polls Committee issued ballot No. 4898 to J. P. Dickerson, showing his book number as what ap­ pears to be D-595, when it should have been D-596. Your Union Tallying Committee has allowed the ballots cast on the aforementioned dates in the Port of Wilmington, California, as valid ballots cast. On the dates of November 25th and December 8th, 1969, the Polls Committees for the Port of Wilmington, California, allowed members to vote who were not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the eighteen (18) votes that were cast those days in the Port of Wilmington, California. However, your Union Tallying Committee has included those voided votes referred to above in our final tally as attached to this report. SAN FRANCISCO On November 26, 1969, the San Francisco Polls Committee issued ballot No. 5093 to S. C. Hudgins, showing his book number at what appears to be H-1592, when it should have been H-592. The San Francisco Polls Committee for the date of December 3, 1969 issued ballot No. 5190 to G. C. Warren, showing his book number as what appears to be B-251, when it should have been W-251. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast in the Port of San Francisco on the aforementioned dates as valid ballots cast. On the days of November 24th and December 4th, 1969, the Polls Committee for the Port of San Francisco allowed members to vote who were not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the forty-nine (49) votes that were cast those days in the Port of San Francisco. However, your Union Tallying Committee has included those voided votes referred to above in our final tally as attached to this report. SEATTLE On December 8, 1969, the Polls Committee in the Port of Seattle, Washington, failed to indicate in the certification on the certification envelopes con­ taining the ballots, the port which they were from or the date. On December 20, 1969, the Polls Committee in the Port of Seattle, Washington, failed to place on the bank envelope the voting date; however, the envelope was postmarked December 20th and the certification envelope containing the day's ballots enclosed therein was also dated December 20, 1969. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted the ballots cast on the aforementioned dates in the Port of Seattle, Washington, as valid ballots cast. On the days of November 26th, December 3rd and December 4th, 1969, the Polls Committee for the Port of Seattle allowed members to vote who were not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the twenty-five (25) votes that were cast those days in the Port of Seattle. However, your Union Tallying Committee has in­ cluded those voided votes referred to above in our final tally as attached to this report. SAN JUAN On the days of November 24th, December 1st, December 2nd and December 5th, 1969, the Polls Committees for the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, allowed members to vote who were not in good standing. As a result of this error, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the forty-one (41) votes that were cast those days in the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dated: December 31, 1969 However, your Union Tallying Committee has in­ cluded those voided votes referred to above in our final tally as attached to this report. CONCLUSION As one of its closing actions, this Union Tallying Committee added together all of the votes that had been voided by the Committee from the various ports, for one reason or another, and they totalled sixhundred (600) votes. Actually there were only twenty-six (26) votes that should have been voided, but your Union Tally­ ing Committee has voided six-hundred (600) votes by virtue of the fact that we could not segregate twenty-six (26) ineligible votes cast from the full total of six-hundred (600) votes cast on the affected days in the affected ports. Since there were three-thousand three-hundred fifty-eight (3,358) votes cast on the three (3) propo­ sitions to be voted on. even if we deducted the full six-hundred (600) voided votes instead of only the twenty-six (26) that should not have been allowed to vote, all three (3) propositions would still have car­ ried by far more than the majority called for in our Constitution. This Committee finds that there were not any pro­ tests made—written or otherwise—with respect to the conduct of the voting on this Constitutional Amendment. Your Committee finds that the ballot­ ing took place in strict accordance with the Consti­ tution and the Constitutional Committee's report and recommendations, which were concurred in by the membership. Further, we take note of the fact that the discrepancies indicated herein are insignificant and do not affect the results in any way, and that all Constitutional requirements have been met. This report is unanimous, there being no dissents. Therefore, under the provisions of Article XIII, Section 5(f), of the present Constitution, this closing report must be accepted as final. By the terms of Article XXV, Section 3, and in forwarding two (2) copies of the report to the Presi­ dent, we are hereby notifying the President that the amendment has been approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast. Therefore, it is the unanimous report of this Union Tallying Committee that the Constitutional amend­ ment has been approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast, as per the results of the referendum conducted during the period of November 22, 1969 through December 22, 1969. Fraternally submitted: Edward Polise, P-74, Chairman Charles Hamilton, H-562 Gustave Malensky,i/M-13: 1329 Manuel De Barros, D~199 James Terry, ^V22L Sadak Wala, W-688 �January, 1970 SEAFARERS His Favorite Trio A trip to the Union hall in New York to sign some papers was turned into a bit of a family outing by Seafarer Teodoro Diangson and his three children. From (l-r) are Patricia, Iselsa, Teodoro Jr. and Brother Diangson. An SlU member for more than 15 years, Brother Diangson sails in the steward department and last shipped on the Baltimore. 1.1 W: jfl,| •' ,c ; , - '•I Catamaran Mother Vessel Carries Ten-Barge Brood HOBOKEN, N.J.—A mother shl ) that carries barges on its bacc—a totally new concept desi ?ned for quick deepsea load­ ing i nd unloading of cargo with­ out the utilization of pier facili­ ties—is undergoing tank model tests at the Davidson Laboratory of Stevens Institute of Techno­ logy. Called The Stradler, she is a twin-hulled catamaran with both a bow and a stem which open up for the entry and dis­ charge of its brood of 10 unique barges. The barges are floated on through the bow and ride in the mother ship transversely, in broadside rows. Once inside, the barges are lifted slightly by a mechanical device—although they remain afloat—and locked against cross-beams. They are released by being floated through the stem. While aboard ship, the barges impart buoyancy and strength to the overall assembly. The new concept, according to Frank Broes, chairman of The Stradler Ship Company, its inventor and designer, permits high utilization through the elimination of port time. No Docking Needed A mother ship, after an At­ lantic crossing, can release its barges through her stem while picking up a new set through her bow, loaded with retum cargo—all without having to dock. The specially designed barges —200 feet long and 90 feet wide—feature retractable bow bridges. This permits unload­ ing of cargo over beaches where pier facilities are unavailable. The mother ship will be of 128,000 tons, 1,160 feet long, and have an over-all beam of 250 feet. The 30,000-horsepower gas turbines power the larger vessel and each of the barges is powered by two 500horsepower motors of semi out­ board design. Cost of the vessel will be $ 16 million, including her "brood" of 30 barges—10 in transit and 10 more being loaded on each end of the ocean run. Research and development officials in federal shipping agencies have already shown interest in the concept. Intended for almost con­ tinuous operation, the vessel has apartments for the 30 crewmembers and their families. A type of seafarer who is content with a life centered aboard ship is seen as necessary for stable operation. The Stradler Company in­ tends to build the ships and lease them to operators. The name selected describes the straddling of the cargo barges by the mother vessel. Page Nineteen LOG Prompt FundingSought us Guuruntee Of Sdiool Desegregution Compllunte WASHINGTON—Labor has hailed a unanimous Supreme Court decision that the nation's school districts must end school segregation "immediately" and operate desegregated schools "now and hereafter." AFL-CIO President George Meany termed the ruling "one of the most important, most necessary and longest overdue decisions of our time." He appealed to the Adminis­ tration to join with labor in urg­ ing Congress to make a "mas­ sive investment" of federal funds for education so that no state will be allowed to plead poverty as an excuse for stalling school desegregation. The Supreme Court decision ranks in importance with its 1954 decision that segregated schools are unconstitutional and a 1955 edict that desegregation proceed with all deliberate speed. What the court now makes clear is that "continued opera­ tion of segregated schools under a standard of allowing "all delib­ erate speed" is no longer con­ stitutionally permissible." The decision, in a case involv­ ing 33 Mississippi school dis­ tricts, also is a sharp rebuke to the Administration policy of going to court in the South to seek further delays in school de­ segregation. The Mississippi districts pre­ viously had been ordered by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Ap­ peals to desegregate by August 25, 1969. The court also asked the federal government to adopt desegregation plans for the dis­ tricts. However, after formulating desegregation plans for the dis­ tricts, the Health, Education and Welfare Department sud­ denly withdrew them on August 20. Instead, it asked for and got the Appeals Court to grant the districts another three-month de­ lay. In vacating the latest Appeals Court action, the Supreme Court ordered it to "immediately de­ clare that each of the school dis­ tricts here involved may no long­ er operate a dual system based on race or color." "VN I pi' •II iW. AHist's representation of The Stradler making a voyage with 10 fully-loaded barges which will be swapped for ID others, also fully loaded at the landing end. Operation will require 30 barges, 10 in transit plus 10 more at each end, for each of the catamaran motherships operated in the rapid service. All requests for delay should have been denied by the lower court, the Supreme Court said, "because continued operation of segregated schools under a standard of allowing 'all deliber­ ate speed' for desegregation is no longer constitutionally permis­ sible." End Dual Systems "Under explicit holdings of this court," the opinion con­ tinued, "the obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools." Meany recalled that when the court first acted on school inte­ gration in 1954 "it had the unanimous support" of labor. "Today," he said, "we reiterate that support with a greater sense of urgency because we are acutely aware of all the lost years." He noted that in 1954 the AFL Executive Council urged a big investment in federal funds for education to prevent any state from claiming a lack of money "to excuse its failure to provide the necessary facili­ ties" for school integration. Funds Needed "Today," Meany continued, "the AFL-CIO revives that pro­ posal. The schools must be de­ segregated instantly, the court has rightly held. The question of adequate funds cannot be al­ lowed to stop that action." "We hope," he added, "the Administration will end its re­ sistance to immediate desegre­ gation and join us in urging Con­ gress to promptly provide the necessary funds to make this decision a reality." The Supreme Court ruling also was applauded by the NAACP Legal Defense and Ed­ ucational Fund, Inc., which ap­ pealed the case on behalf of 14 Negro children in Mississippi. "We are going to press for (similar) relief in all pending school cases," Jack Greenberg, the fund's director said, voicing hope that the Justice Depart­ ment "will now come into the cases on our side." Popular Election of President Gains White House Support WASHINGTON — President Nixon for the first time gave an unqualified endorsement to a proposed constitutional amend­ ment to abolish the Electoral College and allow the American people to elect their President by direct, popular vote. The House had already ap­ proved the direct election amendment by well over the re­ quired two-thirds majority, and Nixon's statement of support gave a big push to the Senate to do likewise. Approval by two-thirds of the Senate would send the amendment to the states for rati­ fication. Three-fourths of the states—38 of the 50—must ap­ prove it before it becomes part of the Constitution. Earlier, Nixon had said he personally prefers direct election of the President but doubted that it could win ratification. Therefore he urged Congress to initiate a constitutional amend­ ment that would divide a state's electoral vote in proportion to the vote cast in that state. The trouble with that plan— and the even more distorted dis­ trict plan advanced by a number of congressional conservatives— is that it could result in the elec­ tion of a President who received fewer votes than his opponent, AFL-CIO President George Meany said in congressional tes­ timony earlier this year. The AFL-CIO has been a major supporter of the direct election constitutional amend­ ment. Nixon issued a statement at the White House explaining his change of view. The overwhelm­ ing bipartisan House approval of the direct election proposal introduces "an entirely new fac­ tor" in the outlook for action, he said. While some in the Senate might prefer another formula, "it is clear that unless the Senate follows the lead of the House all opportunity for reform will be lost this year and possibly for years to come." He expressed the hope "that two-thirds of the Senate will ap­ prove the House-approved amendment as promptly as pos­ sible, so that all of us together can then urge the states also to give their approval." Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), chief Senate sponsor of the pop­ ular vote amendment, hailed Nixon's conversion and said it would greatly increase chances of Senate approval. tf£WPushes Stundords For Color TV Rudiution WASHINGTON—A move to establish standards for the maxi­ mum level of hazardous radia­ tion emitted by color television sets has been initiated by the Department of Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare. The HEW proposal, pub­ lished in FedersJ Register, would affect TV sets manufac­ tured after January 1. It is ex­ pected to be the first standard issued under the Radiation Con­ trol for Health and Safety Act. The standard would limit Xray emission to a maximum of 0.5 milliroentgens per hour at a distance of about two inches from any external surface of the set. �Page Twenly SEAFARERS JanuaiTt 1970 LOG it sinks down slowly, there is a dangerous hydraulic leak which must be repaired. Start the engine. Check all instruments, flashing lights and gauges to make sure they are working. A' warning light or ammeter can show that the gen­ erator is not charging and will have to be replaced or repaired. steering shouldn't have a lumpy feeling or lose its power to assist when the car is turned rapidly. If you can, descend a grade trf some length with your foot off the accelerator. (In a flat area, de­ celerate frmn 50 to about 15 mph, without using the brake.) Then, step hard on the accelerator, and watch for a puff or cloud of blue exhaust smoke. Heavy smoke is a reliable warning that new piston rings will soon be needed or, worse, ttiat the engine may need an overhaul. A short ride over a really rougli road will show up rattles and squeaks that need attention and will allow you to check for jerky or uncertain steering, looseness in the front end and faulty shock at^ sorbers. Driving Tests A USED CAR of any make or model may be the best buy for you. But, you're not a mechan­ ic, so how do you know if you are getting a good deal—or a lemon? And you're not a lawyer, so how do you protect your rights? Perhaps the most important rule is to take yoim time. Many a used car buyer has saved a lot of money and a lot of headaches by shopping around and taking the time to make a few simple inspection checks. These tests should be made in three stages —on the dealer's lot, on the road and in a rep­ utable garage. On-the-Lot Tests First, take a good look at the car's interior for such signs of hard use or abuse as broken cushion springs, worn pedal pads, torn upholstery and paint off the steering wheel. Then look at all five tires. If the tires are badly worn or new-looking, and the car is a late model, it has probably run up at least 20,000 miles. Also check for unevenly worn treads on any of the wheels. This indicates that the front end has been, or is, out of line. Next, check the rocker panels along the lower edges of the body under the doors and the trunk area for signs of weakened or rusted metal. Also look for pimples and flaking paint as well as actual rust spots. Both are indications of internal rusting which is difficult and expensive to repair. Also look at the highlights and reflections along the body sides and the top. Do this in a good lightRepainted or ripply areas on the sheet metal are a clue to possible damage to the car's basic structure. Run the windows up and down. If they don't work properly, repair will be costly. Open the doors and close them without slamming. If they don't seem to fit—or if they snag or must be reslammed to close—they will be difficult to fix and, even worse, may indicate a bent frame. Now, stoop down facing a front wheel. Grasp it at the top with both hands and shake it hard. Clunking sounds, or a lot of free play, is a sign of loose or worn wheel bearings, or worn suspension joints. Walk around the car, pushing down at each cor­ ner to set it bouncing. The car should, when you release it, move either up or down and'then stop. If it has a tendency to move up and down, this is a signal of worn shock absorbers which will have to be replaced for safety as well as comfort. Next, get into the driver's seat. Press your foot steadily on the brake pedal for a minute or so. If Start off from rest several times. Once you are used to the clutch, if any, it should engage smoothly —no jerk, grab or chatter. If the car doesn't go into gear smoothly, adjustment or replacement of parts is needed. Shop Tests Check the transmission at the same time. A man­ ual (stick shift) transmission should not give out groaning noises, be difficult to shift or howl under slow speed acceleration. An automatic transmission should also give smooth starts in either direction, shift at well-spaced intervals, and not allow the engine to race or break away on light accelerator shifts. Other irregularities—each a possible signal of serious trouble—can come to light in an hour's driving. Overhaul of an automatic transmission can run into a whopper of a repair bill. Now pick a straight, quiet street and stand behind the car while someone drives it slowly away from you. A car that travels a little crabwise, with the front and rear wheels not in line with each other, quite poSsibly has a bent frame from a collision. Such a vehicle should be rejected. Get behind the wheel again and accelerate briskly several times from 10 to 15 miles an hour to aroimd 40-45 in high gear or in the "drive" range in an automatic. The engine should pick up smoothly without hesitation or bucking. If it doesn't, an en­ gine tune-up or other work may be necessary. You shouldn't buy this car without first having a me­ chanic check the engine compression, valves and piston rings. If everything is all right so far, pick out a wide, straight road and, making sure there is no traffic behind you, make several stops from 40 to 45 mph, braking a little harder each time. The brake pedal should remain well above the floor and feel solid, not spongy. The stops shouldn't cause swerving, or grabbing or chattering of the brakes. If the braking isn't smooth and positive, major adjmtments may be required such as new brake linings or drum refacing. Next, drive the car around some sharp left and right comers. There should be a minimiun of loose­ ness in the steering and it should not bind. Power Even though the car you are considering has passed your on-the-lot and driving tests don't stop there. It will be well worth your time and the rel­ atively small amount it costs to have a competent and unbiased mechanic give the car a thorough go­ ing-over. He may find things that will save you a lot of money in the long run. Above all, make certain that any mechanic you select is not connected with the car dealer. Have him check the engine, cooling system and electrical system. Much can learned about pos­ sible trouble spots in the engine by simply taking the compression pressure of each cylinder with a compression gauge. The mechanic should also remove a front wheel and brake drum. He can then easily find out wheth­ er the drum is scored and needs reconditioning, what shape the brake lining is in, whether the hy­ draulic brake cylinders are leaking and, generally, the condition of the front wheel bearings. Also have the car put on a lift so the mechanic can examine it for grease leakage from worn or broken bearing seals or from the rear axle housing. From this vantage point he will also be able to observe signs of exhaust gas leakage from damaged or rusted out mufflers. Also, have him study the frame, suspension and steering parts for indications of collision repaid such as weldS, heated areas, bent or straightened parts, etc. If any of these exist, reject the car and consider the mechanic's fee a good investment in safety. Finally, when you are satisfied that the car is in a safe condition and is worth the money you are go­ ing to pay for it, take the time to read the contract of sale. While you are seated across the desk from the dealer ready to sign a check is no time to rush things. Find out about the warranty. Make sure it is spelled out in the contract—including the length of the warranty itself and the responsibilities of the dealer. Remember, the time you take to inspect your car and nail down your rights as a purchaser before you drive off the lot will make for much safer and hap­ pier motoring later on. �Jannary, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Twenty One LOG BUI Also Increases Social Security Benefits Nixon Signs New Tax Law Combining Some Relief, Reforms '1 i-Vt ^ >- ast ii • i' I. A far-reaching tax relief and reform bill, with increased So­ cial Security benefits, has been signed into law by President Nixon after winning the over­ whelming approval of Congress. The bill, worked out by a conference committee, capped a year-long effort by Congress on tax legislation. The vote in the House was 381-2, and in the Senate, 71-6. All opposing votes were cast by Republicans. In signing the legislation, which he had once indicated he might veto, Nixon described the tax cuts as inflationary but said that the reforms outweighed this * factor. "I sign it," he said, "because I believe that, on balance, it is a necessary beginning in the proc­ ess of making our tax system fair td the taxpayer." Ma or reforms in the law in­ clude cuts in oU and other min­ eral 'tepletion allowances; the closing or narrowing of some loop! oles that have permitted a tax-escape on real estate, capi­ tal gains and banking proce­ dures; a new tax on founda­ tions; limits on "hobby farming" as a tax dodge; and a minimum income tax to get at least some revenue from presently sheltered income. Included in the tax relief sec­ tions, are a three-step increase in the personal exemption from $600 to $750, a three-step raise in the standard deduction, tax relief for single persons, and a low-income allowance to relieve millions of poor families from having to shoulder any tax bur­ den. The 10 percent income sur­ tax on individuals and corpora­ tions is reduced to 5 percent. law's effect will be gradual as special provisions and phaseouts expire and as new require­ ments gradually take hold and begin to produce revenue. Some $6.6 billion in longterm federal revenue will even­ tually result from the law, al­ most totally from corporations and wealthy individuals. How­ ever, it will still be possible for very wealthy Americans to es­ cape paying taxes. The most massive overhaul of the tax structure began last February 18. In subsequent hearings before the House and Senate, more than 300 separate witnesses were heard, provid­ ing 14 volumes of testimony. Among these were lobbyists for every conceivable industry, min­ eral, enterprise, foimdation and special interest—all seeking to protect or enlarge their favored position in the tax code. It was in these hearings that the AFLCIO proposed its program to close $16 billion in tax loop­ holes. As a result of the hearings, the public soon learned that high-income Americans were paying little or no taxes because of special provisions in the law that enables them to "shelter" their income against the maxi­ mum 70 percent tax. In fact, it was disclosed that the average income tax paid by those in high-income brackets was closer to 35 percent than to 70 per­ cent. With the Treasury studies be­ fore them and the testimony of reform-minded organizations such as the AFL-CIO, Congress concentrated its loophole clos­ ing among tax provisions affect­ ing real estate, minerals, finan- Tax Relief Scheciuie 1970 Minimum Standard $1,100* Standard Deduction it f - n riF' r!:> • 'I • f. I Personal exemption $650 (Beginning July 1) Single persons Annual Cost to Treasury Revenues -$1,441 (In millions) 1971 1972 1973 $1,050* $1,000 $1,000 13% up to 14% up to 15% up to $1,500 $2,000 $2,000 $650 $700 $750 No more than 20% in excess of that paid on joint return for same income .$4,927 -$7,269 -$9,134 * In 1970 and 1971 these amounts are actually low income allowances Inas­ much as In 1970 the amount phases out at |1 reduction for each $2 of Income above this &KUre and In 1972 the phaseout Is a |1 reduction for each $15 of Income above this ilKure. Thereafter, there Is no phaseout. effective January 1, and expires cial institutions and capital completely on June 30. ITie 7 gains. percent investment tax credit In the final measure, closing for businesses has been re­ of real estate tax loopholes will pealed. provide $930 million in new While the new law closes or revenue; the lowering of per­ narrows scores of loopholes in centage depletion and the end the tax law, billions of dollars to "carve outs" in oil and other will continue to escape full tax­ minerals will produce $435 mil­ ation and unearned income will lion; financial institutions, $420 continue to enjoy a privileged million; capital gains $275 mil­ position in the internal revenue lion and the minimum tax $635 code. million. These new sources, plus a As a tax reform measure— and that was the initial thrust variety of other areas tliat are of the Treasury Dept. studies touched for lesser amounts, and released early in 1969—^the the $3.3 billion that will accrue from repeal of the 7 percent in­ vestment tax credit, make up the revenue in the new act. Briefly, some of there pro­ visions are: Minimum tax: A taxpayer adds up his income from some dozen sources presently shel­ tered from taxation, subtracts $30,000, then subtracts the tax he pays on his regular taxable income. A flat tax of 10 per­ cent is levied on the remainder. Real estate: Double deprecia­ tion presently available for all new construction would ^ re­ stricted to new housing. Other new building could be depre­ ciated at the rate of 150 percent and all used construction would be confined to straight line de­ preciation except residences with a useful life of more than 20 years, which could use a 125 percent rate. Recapture pro­ visions were strengthened. Financial institutions: The bad debt reserves, which are tax deductible, are reduced for commercial banks, mutual sav­ ings banks and savings and loan associations. Depletion and mineral pay­ ments: The percentage deple­ tion on oil and gas is reduced from 27.5 to 22 percent. Sulfur and uranium are also cut to 22 percent. Production payments, or "carve outs," are treated as loans. Farm losses: Farm losses which can be offset against nonfarm income are limited gen­ erally to 50 percent of non-farm income. Foundations: Self-dealing be­ tween foundations and their donors or operators is prohib­ ited. An annual tax of 4 per­ cent is levied on income; stock holdings of a foundation are limited to 50 percent of a busi­ ness. In voter registration pro­ grams, foundation funds can be utilized if three or more founda­ tions are involved, if the pro­ gram is being carried out in five or more states and if no one foundation provides more than 25 percent of the funds in­ volved. Special provisions that would have benefited certain corpora­ tions, such as Litton Industries, Transamerica, Mobiloil, West­ ern Massachusetts Electric, were stricken from the final measure. An earlier provision that would have taxed municipal bonds as part of a minimum tax while of­ fering the communities a sub­ sidy to defray tax costs was de­ leted. Other worthwhile provisions in the law are: • Corporate mergers are dis­ couraged by making the interest on debentures taxable. This will produce $40 million. • Health and welfare funds of unions were relieved of an arbitrary rule that would make their funds taxable if more than 15 percent of their income came from investment. • The deductibility of twothirds of treble damages is dis­ allowed by corporations that are found guilty of price-fixing con­ spiracies, such as that involving General Electric. • The requirement for filing a return is revised. Anyone earning less than the minimum standard plus the amount of his personal exemptions need not file a return. • The problem of withhold­ ing taxes on students and other part-time workers is partly re­ solved. Those persons who paid no tax the previous year and who expect to pay no tax dur­ ing the current year will have no taxes deducted if they sign a statement. Of great concern to the AFLCIO is the failure of the legis­ lation to deal effectively with capital gains. The concept of capital gains is that unlike wages and salaries, which are taxed as ordinary income at rates of 14 percent to 70 percent depend­ ing upon how much one earns, favored tax consideration is given to income derived from so-called risk investment. For example, if an individual buys and keeps stock for more than six months and then sells it at a profit, that profit is not taxed as ordinary income but as a "long term capital gain." As such, the taxpayer has a choice Tax Comparison FOR MARRIED COUPLE WITH 2 DEPENDENTS IN 1973 Adjusted Gross Income $ 3,000 3,500 4.000 4,200 5,000 7,500 10,000 12,500 15,000 17,500 20,000 25,000 Tax Under Tax Under Present Law* New Law 0 0 0 $ 66 0 123 $ 28 147 140 245 476 578 848 962 1,238 1,352 1,666 1,798 2,117 2,249 2,610 2,760 3,680 3,848 — Tax Decrease Amount % — 0 100.0 $ 66 100.0 123 80.9 119 42.9 105 17.7 102 11.9 114 8.4 114 7.3 132 5.9 132 5.4 150 168 4.4 * Exclnslve of tax snrcharge. • A simplification of the tax court will make it possible for any taxpayer who has $1,000 or less in taxes contested by the IRS to have a review made by the tax court without the neces­ sity of taking formal legal ac­ tion. Of particular interest to the average wage earner and salary worker, the new law provides for $9.1 billion in tax cuts, be­ ginning in 1970 and becoming fully effective in 1974. Congress estimates the average tax cut will be 11.7 percent. The tax reductions are essen­ tially those proposed by Senator Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) and sup­ ported by the AFL-CIO. Under the law, when fully effective, taxpayers will have: • A $1,000 minimum stand­ ard deduction. • A standard deduction of 15 percent with a maximum of $2,000. • A $750 personal exemp­ tion for each dependent. • The present marginal tax rates. The percentage tax relief will be greatest to those with in­ comes of $15,000 and below, thus providing a more equitable distribution of the tax relief than in the House-passed pro­ posal. The actual dollars and cents reductions under these tax cuts, when fully effective are shown in tables on this page. In a non-tax area, the new law increases Social Security benefits 15 percent effective on Jan. 1. of two favorable tax treatments. He may either pay his regular tax rate on one-half of his profit, excluding the other half from any tax, or he may choose the alternative of paying only a 25 percent tax on all of his capital gain. In either choice, the tax­ payer would not pay more than a 25 percent tax regardless of his income bracket. The new law narrows these provisions by including the un­ taxed half of capital gains in the new minimum tax and by re­ stricting the alternative tax of 25 percent to the first $50,000 of capital gains. Nonetheless, capi­ tal gains remain a very attrac­ tive tax reduction device to high-income individuals. There were other areas of consideration that could be con­ sidered loophole widening, or relief or tax incentive, depend­ ing on the recipient. • The income averaging pro­ vision in the law was widened to include capital gains. The effect will be to cost the treas­ ury $300 million annually. • A maximum tax of 50 per­ cent on earned income was established. The cost will be $150 million annually. • Write-off for rehabilitation of low income housing will cost $330 million annually. • Of direct interest to work­ ers who must move because of their employment, the new law provides for $2,500 in allow­ able expenses for moves of more than 50 miles. �Page 'Iwenly Two SEAFARERS Down the Ways for Hawaiian Progress One of the largest containerships in the world, the Hawaiian Progress, is shown just before being launched by Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Helen Delich Bentley at Bethlehem Steel's Spar­ row Point yard last month. The 34,700-ton vessel and her sistership, the Hawaiian Enterprise, are being built without subsidies for the SlU Pacific District-contracted Matson Navigation Company and will be used by the company in its Pacific cargo service to Hawaii. The ships are 719 feet long, are capa­ ble of 23 knots and cost $20 million each. They have a carrying capacity of 1,000 24-ft. containers. lough' Mine Heaithr Safety Bill Voted by House; Awaits Conferente WASHINGTON—A "tough" mine health and safety bill— incorporating many safety prac­ tices which have been demand­ ed for over a century—has been passed by the House by an over­ whelming vote of 389-4. Since the Senate had previ­ ously passed an equally "tough" bill, a conference between the two houses is likely to result in passage of the most far-reach­ ing federal job safety legislation in 75 years when the railway safety measure became law. The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 comes almost a year after 78 miners lost their lives in a series of explosions in the No. 9 mine of the Consolidated Coal Com­ pany at Farmington, W.Va.—a disaster which stirred strong de­ mands for such legislation de­ spite bitter opposition from many segments of industry man­ agement. Included in the measure are requirements for full lighting of underground work areas, as well as cabs with supporting arches on tracked vehicles used in mines as protection against cave-ins or slides. Another provision would ban link-pin car couplers on mine trains which have been identi­ fied as far back as the 1890s as the cause of innumerable rail­ road accidents and deaths. Haul­ age accidents—^though relative­ ly less-publicized—^have been found among the prime causes ot mine deaths, aft^ roof caveins and explosions. The bill calls for extensive improvements in ventilation systems to carry off the explo­ sive methane gas which causes so many disasters. Self-con­ tained imderground shelters for miners are required—^if deter­ mined to be technically feasible. These would be equipped with food and oxygen in order to provide safe shelter for mine workers in the event of an un­ derground explosion. For the first time, the use of open-flame lights in the under­ ground passageways would be prohibited. 'Black Lung' Provisions Also, for the first time, man­ datory health standards, as well as accident prevention stand­ ards, are applied. Within six months after the measure's en­ actment, all coal mines would be required to begin reducing the amount of respirable micro­ scopic coal dust in the mine at­ mosphere. These particles are recognized as the cause of the dread disease known as "blacklung," or pneumoconiosis, which has been identified as a prime disabling hazard that af­ fects an alarming proportion of miners. A maximum level of 4.5 milligrams of fine coal dust per cubic meter of mine air would be established immediately, with a drop to three milligrams set for six months after enactment. . The three-miligram level had been vigorously fought by the National Coal Association—a leading lobby and trade group. The association warned that the standard was so "unreasonable" that it would force the shut­ down of "thousands" of mines and lead to a national shortage of electric power. However, the United States Public Health Service had established three milligrams as a level needed to at least reduce the "black lung" incidence among miners. The bill also includes a com­ pensation feature which guaran­ tees Federal disability benefits of a minimum of $36 monthly to about 50,000 miners who are disabled by "black lung." Most January, 1970 LOG of them have been ruled ineli­ gible for compensation imder state laws. Other health provisions in­ clude mandatory chest X-rays for all miners at company ex­ pense and toilet facilities for those who are underground for an entire shift. Authority for setting up mine safety and health regulations would be given to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secre­ tary of Health, Education and Welfare. This establishes a means of upgrading standards without the necessity of legisla­ tive action; Congress has passed such laws only three times in 100 years. Jolly Roger Striking Terror Among Fishermen of Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Malay­ sia— In some comers of the world pirates are still real, living dangers to be faced on a day-today basis. And the prospect is terrifying the fishermen who try to eke out a precarious existence along the long coastline of Ma­ laysia. What is swashbucking movie fare to the rest of the world is frightening to these fishermen who must live on their catch from small two or three-man boats which are no match for the well-armed, fast launches of their attackers. Separating Sumatra from West Malaysia is the Malacca Strait. Here, as well as in the South China seas on the op­ posite coast and the waters off East Malaysia, pirates have operated for centuries. According to Malaysia's naval chief. Commodore K. Thanabalasingam, more than 30 in­ stances of piracy were reported last year, down from 93 in 1967. But fishermen around the southern coast of western Ma­ laysia say they are reluctant to report incidents for fear of reprisal the next time they put out to sea. Many have been too frightened to put out to sea again after being boarded and pillaged. Not only do the pirates have the advantage of faster boats, they are often armed with ma­ chine guns. While keeping a weather eye out for the Malay­ sian police and naval patrols, they constantly watch for likely victims. Some fishermen claim they have been held for ransom in Sumatran harbors in addition to losing their fishing nets— some worth thousands of dol­ lars — and whatever valuable possessions they might have had with them. The life of the fisherman in Highly Touted Real Estate Can Prove Costly Disaster WASHINGTON—^The lure of buying real estate for in­ vestment purposes or future retirement has brought financial disaster to many workers. Too often they discover that their out-of-state property is under ten feet of swamp water or can only be approached by climbing a 3,000 foot mountain or ploughing through desert sand. The Federal Government recently issued a reminder that there is some protection for investors in the 1968 Full Dis­ closure Act on Interstate Land Sales. Under the law, a buyer must be provided with a property report that contains 19 key items about the land offered for sale, including: • Facts about the distance to nearby communities over paved or unpaved roads. Existence of liens on the property. Whether contract payments will be placed in escrow. Availability of recreation facilities. Present and proposed utility services and charges. The number of homes currently occupied. • Soil and other foundation problems in construction. • The type of title the buyer will receive. In addition, the law allows the purchaser to cancel a con­ tract if he doesn't get a copy of the property report before signing: He can also generdly revoke a contract within 48 hours of the signing if the report was delivered to him less than 48 hours before the signing. the Malacca Strait is never easy, even at best. Malaysian and Indonesian waters are contigu­ ous, and fishermen from these two lands often stray into each other's waters—^producing inter­ national complications which the two nations have been at­ tempting to resolve. From the reported incidents, the pirates' home bases appear to be located in harbors in Sumatra and southern Thailand. But there are also suspicions that some Indonesian naval or marine commando craft have been engaged in illicit opera­ tions, despite the fact that the two countries agreed two years ago not to molest each other. A few Indonesian patrol boats have actually been seized by the Malaysians. Last December, an Indonesian marine police cor­ poral and a member of his patrol boat were convicted and jailed for the theft of a fisherman's nets by a court in Johore Bharu, on the southern coast. Malaysia's Premier, Timku Abdul Rahman, regards the menace of piracy as still so bad that he has advised the fisher­ men to set up volunteer armed anti-piracy patrols. Three Unions Ask Otrh on In^orteil Boitronk Goods WASHINGTON—Presidents of three AFL-CIO unions have called for a hdt of the increas­ ing flow of electronic goods into the United States from foreign countries. They warned in an appeal to Ambassador Carl J. Gilbert, U.S. special representative for international trade negotiations, that American workers are los­ ing their jobs because of the ris­ ing imports. The appeal was issued by Charles H. Pillard of the Inter­ national Brotherhood of Electri­ cal Workers, Paul Jennings of the Electrical, Radio and Ma­ chine Workers, and Floyd E. Smith Of the Machinists. Jennings noted that the rising flood of imports from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and Mexico has almost eliminated U.S. domestic production in some segments of the industry. Much of the foreign compe­ tition is run by American firms. Smith pointed out. Often the American owners bring in the products imder their own brand name—effectively hiding the foreign production. Pillard estimated that about 40,000 American workers al­ ready have been displaced be­ cause of the imports. He said that more than 50 percent of black and white television sets and 25 percent of color TV sets sold in the United States this year will be of foreign produc­ tion. �January, 1970 SEAFARERS SIU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Benefits Paid Report Period November 1, 1969 - November 30, 1969 Number of Amount Benefits Paid SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $471.15) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Gut-Potients Benefits SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID 1!• H SEAFARERS' VACATION PLANBENEFITS PAID (Average $469.03) TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD V 13 1,917 21 749 29 $ 3,653.00 46,015.57 50,278.00 2,995.00 5,800.00 LOG Metinwhile—Prices Continue Upward Buying Power Continues to Decline As Earnings Drop for Second Month Ihe purchasing power of workers skidded again in No­ vember as consumer prices con­ tinued to rise and average earn­ ings dropped for the second month in a row. While gross weekly earnings of production and non-supervis­ ory workers fell 62 cents from the October level, the Consumer Price Index rose five-tenths of 1 percent to 130.5 for the nation as a whole, the Labor Depart­ ment reported. Real spendable earnings — take-home pay expressed in 1957-59 dollars to reflect con­ sumer price changes—averaged 78 cents lower in November for the worker with three depend­ ents. Although workers in finance, physicians rose for the second insurance and real estate got a consecutive month, the Labor slight increase in purchasing Department said. power, this was offset by de­ Increases in auto insurance 407 10,249.00 clines in other major industries. rates and repair prices were the 1,605 75,618.99 Real weekly earnings for a major factors behind the ^signifi­ worker with three dependents cant rise in transportation costs. 794 10,700.06 averaged $77.81, down fivePublic transportation costs rose 51 606.00 tenths of 1 percent from Novem­ along with new cars, while gaso­ 4,250 33,797.90 ber 1968 and 2.3 percent below line and used car costs declined. the record registered in Septem­ Prices of nondurable goods 9,BA6 239,713.52 ber 1968. other than foods rose threeThe Bureau of Labor Statis­ tenths of 1 percent. Apparel 1/454 334,284.19 tics said that the increase in the prices, especially women's CPI was due mainly to higher dresses, skirts and slacks, were prices for food, apparel and up substantially more than usual 1/371 643,035.77 nearly all kinds of consumer for November, the BLS said. services. Gasoline and used cars Prices of cigarettes and liquor posted the only significant de­ also showed further increases. clines. 12/671 $1,217,033.48 About 161,000 workers will The November rise put all receive cost-of-living wage in­ items in the index 5.8 percent creases based on the CPI jump above a year ago, BLS noted. in November. Food prices, which usually de­ More than 86,000 workers, cline in November, rose seven- including 73,000 in the meat tenths of 1 percent. Fresh vege­ packing industrv and another tables and eggs led the price in­ 10,000 grocery store employees crease. And meat prices were in the San Francisco area, will down less than usual as pork receive hourly pay increases to abide by the law, TWUA has and members Gerald A. Brown prices failed to show their cus­ ranging from 6 to 9 cents an pointed out. and Sam Zagoria signed an or­ tomary seasonal drop. Restau­ hour on the basis of the sixAn NLRB panel comprising der approving the June 6 find­ rant meals and other foods eaten month rise in the national index. Chairman Frank W. McCulloch ings of Trial Examiner Robert away from home continued to An additional 55,000 work­ E. Mullin. climb, but at a pace below Oc­ ers, including 20,000 tobacco Mullin found after hearing tober's record. workers, 5,000 in farm equip­ testimony that the union began As a result of the November ment and 9,000 chemical work­ organizing at the Gulistan plant price increases, it cost $13.05 ers will get raises from 1 to 5 in Georgia in January 1968, and last month for goods and serv­ cents an hour based on the had by March 18 of that year ices that cost $10 in the 1957quarterly rise. obtained a valid majority of 59 base period. About 2,350 in the Qeveland signed cards authorizing it to Nearly all types of services transit system will receive 7 represent Stevens employees. moved higher in November. The cents an hour more in January WASHINGTGN — KayserThe management refused to Roth Hosiery Company's reac­ recognize the union's majority most notable increases, the BLS because of rise in the Cleveland tion to its employees' self-or­ and insisted on an election. Then observed, were for services as­ index since May. But another ganization drive at Dayton, it launched a campaign of in­ sociated with home ownership. 10,000 workers whose escala­ Tenn., was "violent and unlaw­ timidation, and the union lost These included mortgage costs, tion reviews are tied to the No­ ful," the National Labor Rela­ the NLRB election. The result property taxes, insurance and vember index will not receive adjustments because they al­ tions Board ruled in a refusal- was set aside because of man­ residential gas rates. ready have received the maxi­ to-bargain case. Charges for medical care agement's refusal to provide a The ruling ended five years of list of employee names and ad­ services posted a relatively mod­ mums stipulated under their con­ legal strife for the employees dresses, and other unlawful acts. erate advance as the fees of tract. who wanted a union. The com­ The examiner found that pany lost the economic phase "every level" of Stevens' super­ Headed for the Beach of its battle in December, 1968, visory hierarchy was "involved when it yielded to a seven- in numerous and continued acts month strike and an AFL-CIO of interference." boycott and signed a one-year He ruled that its demand for contract with the Textile Work­ an election was "motivated not ers Union of America. by a good-faith doubt" of the The NLRB upheld Examiner union's majority but rather "by Thomas A. Ricci's findings that a rejection of the collective bar­ Kayser-Roth laimched a cam­ gaining principle and by a de­ paign of unfair labor practices sire to gain time within which after its employees filed an elec­ to destroy the union's majority." tion petition in 1964. Mullin also reported three un­ "Management representatives ion adherents were fired on pre­ threatened retaliation against texts and one job applicant was employees in many ways, and barred because she was related even discharged a number of to a union supporter. All four them," the examiner found. were ruled entitled to a job and When the election was held, their backpay. the company challenged the NLRB members said the right of fired workers to vote, hearing record "reveals that, delaying the vote count. The upon learning of the presence of NLRB ruled sij^ workers had the union" at the Gulistan plant, been unlawfully fii ».d because of Stevens "resorted to a campaign their union activii es and two of extensive and egregious un­ others were fired aft 'jr the elec­ fair labor practices" which "were tion for the same re^ son, Ricci calculated to, and in fact did noted. \ dissipate" TWUA's majority. The board certified \ be union Since a fair and free election in 1967, but when Kayser-Roth now would be "improbable if Port Agent Leon Hall listens as SlU Vice President Earl (Bull) Shepard refused to bargain in good faith not impossible," the NLRB is­ congratulates veteran Seafarers Jesse Shonts, left, and Eugenio Marte on major issues, the workers sued its order that Stevens must upon their retirement. Shepard then presented the happy pair with their first SlU pension checks. Scene was at the New York SlU hall. struck. bargain collectively. rah/ P. Stevens Ordered to Negotiate r L . ySji •f.'J " I U ~ i, Si-i! I' ih With Textile Workers in Georgia WASHINGTON —The Na­ tional Labor Relations Board has ordered J. P. Stevens and Company to negotiate with the Textile Workers Union of Amer­ ica for a contract covering work­ ers at its Statesboro, Ga., plant. A majority of workers at the plant had signed cards authoriz­ ing the TWUA to bargain for them. But the NLRB found that the company resorted to the same illegal, union-busting tac­ tics it has used elsewhere to de­ stroy the union's majority. It applied—^for the first time in a J. P. Stevens case — the precedent upheld by the Su­ preme Court last June that the NLRB can order a company to bargain with a union on the basis of authorization cards when the employer's deliberate unfair labor tactics have pre­ vented a fair election. TWUA President William Pollock called on the company to come to the bargaining table in response to the NLRB order. But the Stevens chain—as it has in the succession of labor law cases it has lost in recent years— served notice that it will appeal the order in the courts. TTie Statesboro case is the sixth successive NLRB decision in which Stevens has been found to have violated the nation's la­ bor law in an effort to keep its workers from organizing. Pollock had charged a week earlier, after the corporation's fifth straight setback at the hands of a U.S. Court of Appeals, that continued defiance of the labor act by Stevens has "reached the proportions of a national dis­ grace." The TWUA has been the vic­ tim of the company's unlawful actions since 1963, when it be­ gan signing up new-member ap­ plications in Stevens' North and South Carolina plants. Not a single plant has been organized nor a single contract won be­ cause of management's refusal Page Twenty Three Kayser-Roth Held Ylolentfy Remiss In 5-Year Fight �SEAFARERS Page Twentjr Four LOG Florida's walking catfish may be a delight to these children, but many more Floridians consider the creature to be a pest and are trying to exterminate it. Fish is almost always white. America and the West Indies there is a INfishSouth which for generations has been venerated by the natives because its skeleton resembles Christ on the cross. This skeletal remains of what was commonly called the Crucifix-fish, was eventually identified as that of a catfish. Ironically, the persecution and sacrifice connected with the Crucifixion is reflected—at least to a sym­ bolic degree—by certain brothers of this catfish. These are the "walking" catfish of Florida. Be­ lieved to be the first such fish in the United States, their habits have made them the target of mass persecution. The analogy with the Crucifix is some­ what diluted, however, since the fish decided not to sacrifice themselves. Instead, their will to survive is so strong that they have thus far frustrated all at­ tempts to exterminate them. When their water is poisoned, they simply walk out of it and search for a more suitable place to swim. When hundreds of them are killed en masse, and thousands more are used as specimens, they refuse to become discouraged. They just work a little harder at propagating. However, the "where" and "how" of this unique struggle for survival are still unanswered questions. Even with natural odds against them, the walk­ ing catfish have defied the inevitable. They were pre­ dominantly albinos when first discovered in Florida and therefore should have been subject to heavy at­ tack by other fish because their pale skin was so noticeable. But fellow creatures tend to avoid them. Even the vicious piranha stays away. Why is his will to live so strong? The answer may precede man's appearance on earth. Numerous evolu­ tionists believe that human existence began with sea creatures whose courage and fortitude moved them to leave the water and try life on land. And Florida's walking catfish has often displayed his willingness to try solid ground when water isn't agreeable. Citizens have s^n them walking on the ground in Palm Beach and Broward Counties as far as a mile from water. Also, scientists have observed that when the deadly toxicant, rotenone, is placed in their water, the fish will walk out. Seen climbing up an incline as steep as 75 feet, the fish uses his strong pectoral fins to crawl along the ground. And when he decides to stop crawling, he stands up and proceeds to flip and flop forward in any chosen direction. He can survive outside water from four up to 24 hours if the ground is moist. After a scientific report last year on the creature— technically classified as Clarias batrachus—^biologists and Floridian residents became alarmed that the himgry walking catfish would destroy desirable local fish. The report found that the creature dines on shrimp, snails, tadpoles, crayfish, and even clams. Furthermore, there was concern that the walking catfish mi^t ix>ssibly upset the whole balance of na­ ture. For example, one biologist said that if the cat­ fish was to eliminate snails, he would also be elimin­ ating the birds that feed on snails. Another factor, disturbing to some people, was a rumor that the pale fish was a vicious animal that grew as long as five feet and attacked dogs and people. (In Africa there is a "walking" catfish that grows to this length, but it is not a ferocious beast.) The rumor was promptly dispelled by facts. John W. Woods, chief of the Fisheries Division of the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, said Florida's "walking" catfish averages only 15" to 17" though some have grown to 24". He also noted that the fish probably decided to make Florida its home some three to five years ago after walking off from a trop­ ical fish dealer's pond. Aside from the fish's desire for local foods, scien­ tists also complained about the uncontrollable nature of the animal. Biologist Vernon Ogilvie, who also works for the Commission, attested to the extreme difiSculty of managing a fish that will not stay in the water. He not only helped write the walking catfish re­ port for the Commission, but placed two of the crea­ tures in his home aquarium. "If I give them a chance," he explained, "they jump out and come into the living room. This fish even avoids a net, so you have to chase it down to capture it." Handling the walking catfish is virtually impossible. Strong and slippery, the fish can jump four feet out of the water while heading in a definite direction. It has also been observed that when put into a tank with native and exotic fish, the'powerful creature is discreetly avoided. Disquieted by unexplained facts, some Floridians came to view the unsuspecting catfish as a definite evil and decided it must be eliminated. For example, it was reported that authorities in Broward County raided a fish farm and destroyed 327 walking catfish! Meanwhile, some 3,000 more of the fish were collected and used for research by the State Fisheries Commission. As more and more walking catfish were killed, an associate editor of the Miami Herald was moved to term the slaughter a "witch hunt." He quoted another editor stating that "the species is one of the most at­ tractive in tropical aquariums, where it remains small. JannaiT, 1970 In nature, though, it grows to 18 inches—an excellent food fish." Even the Commission's report noted that the fish tested were found to be quite tasty, just as their ordinary, non-walking brother is. TTiroughout the South, catfish is a favorite food. Some restaurants even specialize in it. Also, catfish farming is reportedly becoming big business, especially in Arkansas and Mississippi where more than 10,000 acres are devoted to commercial rearing ponds for catfish. Catfish farms have sprung up in Florida, too, and the business seems to be growing. The prospect of tasty meals, coupled with the ap­ parent impossibility of eliminating the wily walking catfish, seems to have calmed the atmosphere in Florida, although it has aroused fears in Alabama and other southern states where the creature now has been banned by law. Also, in the Federal Register of August 19 a pro­ posal was published prohibiting the importation, trans­ portation or buying of the walking catfish after De­ cember 31, 1969. However, the fish is determined to remain in Flori­ da, determined to survive, and Florida's natives are seemingly resigned to the facts of self-preservation, not only for themselves, but for all species of life. As Woods said, the "walking" catfish has covered such a large area now, eradication seems impossible. Floridians can also take comfort in a situation com­ parable to the walking catfish dilemma that occurred some years ago among the dogfish population. In his book, "A History of Fishes," J. R. Norman describes how the animal was becoming a menace to fisheries, but was found nearly impossible to extermin­ ate or even decrease in numbers. It was then decided to change the dogfish's unpleasant-sounding name to an appealing one more likely to sell in local markets. He tecame flake in England, the greyfish in Canada and the United States, and the see-aal in Germany. Thus, what was once a threatening creature, now is sought after as a popular food fish. As a matter of fact, a certain species of catfish— once unmarketable because of its u^y head and tough skin—was also changed into a selling product. Its head and skin were simply removed for market sale and its name was changed from "wolffish" to Rock Salmon. _ This catfish, rechristened by enterprising fishmorT gers, is only one of the walking catfish's many brothers. In Central and South America alone there are nine families of catfish. Catfish are extremely diversified creatures. Some swim upside down; some have no eyes. And like their "walking" brother in Florida, their will to live is strong. In time scientists hope to know more about the habits of Florida's walking catfish. Despite the original inhospitality, the creature will stay anyway, and with his will, ingenuity and "good taste," he may eventually prove a big asset to Florida. Of course, he is still a somewhat unstable commodity since you never know when he'll pick up and walk away. �Jranarr, 1970 SEAFARERS • {A L. LOG Page Twenty Fiye li'^ R J ••'i-i TRAINING at the Harry LIFEBOAT Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point—approved by the U. S. Coast Guard and rated as good as training avail­ able anywhere in the country—^this month qualified 64 more entry rating trainees for their lifeboat endorsements. The comprehensive course of instruction includes classroom work as well as a mini­ mum of 30 hours of practical training in the boats. All trainees become thoroughly fa­ miliar with all lifeboat commands, and every trainee is tested on his ability to command the boat, as well as demonstrating his com­ petence in handling the oars. 1 « r V |1 * iTi' P f ' ff vj! HARRY LUNDEBERG * CLASS 35—(Front row l-r): Instructor Paul McGahar^i, Wayne Ard, David McGarrity, Tommie Vines, Frank Kubicz, Frank Rotolo. (Back row l-r): Samuel Witt, Charles Haman, Robert Baucum, Graham Shepard, Leslie Myers, Michael Moore. (Kneeling l-r): John Merckling, Eduard Lasso. - Trainees all got high marks on their examinations. v' SCWOOLOfSLJW,irv,l,,i PIN€y POINT. MP. LIF[ BOAT CLASS fU W If CLASS Coates, William George 33—(Kneeling l-r): Keith Bossard, George Schaefer. (Front row l-r): Norris C. Moseley, Robert Breech, David Corbett, John McKinney, Mario Roulhac, McKnight, Instructor Paul. McGaharn. (Back row l-r): Earl Starkey, Kim Land, Warren, Woodie Guthrie. In the background is the historic Ambrose Lightship. CHARLES 5. ZIMMERMAN CLASS 32—(Kneeling l-r): Roy Reed, Paul Colgan. (Front row): Instructor Paul McGa­ harn. Vincent Cortellacci, Jonathan Honeycutt, Jon Bove, Thomas Stanford, Gary Archambeault, Rodney Engle, Jimmie Hastings, William Jones. (Back row): Henry Oakes, Craig Williams, Rich­ ard Burkhart, Patrick Roberts, John Gillis, Den­ nis D. Robertson, Gerald Hamrac. Trainees all passed their examination with high marks. .' CLASS 34—(Kneeling l-r): Charles Rodriques, Joseph Stevens. (Front row): Instructor Paul McGaharn, David Lohner, Larry Thomas, D. Robertson, Frank Stiles, Ronald Frugia, John Peavy, Sam Guthrie, Douglas Gerber, Michael Falls, William Moore. (Back row): S. Schnapel, Willam Posey, Robert Warren, Thomas Tharpe, Frank Hayes, Eric Witte, Timothy Davis, Paul Dillon, Ronnie Simpkins. Class posed along­ side HLSS Training Ship Charles S. Zimmerman. �SEAFARERS Page Twenty Six January, 1970 LOG Labor Department Told: Randy Cauthern, born Octo­ ber 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Curtis Cauthern, New Or­ leans, La. Anthony Lc^r, bom No­ vember 17, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Collie Loper, Jr., Mo­ bile, Ala. Raquel Yeazie, bom Octo­ ber 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Qirtis Veazie, Houston, Texas. Jennifer Neibert, born No­ vember 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard H. Neibert, Hayward, Wisconsin. Kimberiy Register, bom Oc­ tober 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James R. Register, Wil­ mington, N. C. ^ Catalina Montdro, bom June 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Teofilo Monteiro, Philadelphia, Pa. ^ — vt> Todd Frankovitch, bom No­ vember 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John G. Frankovitch, Rapid River, Mich. Lisa Jean Roach, born No­ vember 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward J. Roach, Orange, Texas. Consnela Guthrie, bom No­ vember 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gary H. Guthrie, Pi­ nellas, Park, N.Y. Ann Marie Dickens, bom November 5, 1969, to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Merle C. Dick­ ens, Taylor, Mich. i/ — Teresa Ong, bom November 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ching S. Ong, San Francisco, Calif. ^ Jnlie Kidd, born September 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald R. Kidd, Baltimore, Md. i Robert Balog, bom Novem­ ber 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Balog, Stockton, Calif. —4^— William Lotz, bom August 26, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William J. Lotz, Baltimore, Md. i Rayma E. Carlo, born No­ vember 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rafael Carlo, El Senorial, Rio Puedras, P. R. —^i> Lila Corey, born August 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Larry W. Corey, Bay Minette, Ala. vt^ i Kala Francis, bom October 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sidney S. Francis, New Or­ leans, La. —-i/— hfichael Chatelain, bom Oc­ tober 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Qayon P. Chatelain, Jr., New Orleans, La. Daniel Snrmio, bom to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Herminio Ser­ rano, Toa Baja, Puerta Rico. Cvnthia Rhodes, bom No­ vember 10. 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jack B. Rhodes, Balti­ more, Md. Jasminda Navarro, bom No­ vember 13, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfredo Navarro, Brooklyn, N. Y. Samuel Rodriguez Garcia, Jr.. born September 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Samuel Rodriguez, New York, N. Y. Rona*d Morgan, bom No­ vember 19, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard A. Morgan. Santa Maria, California. Joseph Evans Please contact the Welfare counter at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn as soon as possible. A check is being held there for you. David Bronstein A check is being held for you at the Welfare counter in SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. Please contact the counter as soon as possible. —— Benjamin Freeman Your sister, Mrs. C. A. Hunt, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 239 North Warren Avenue, Brockton, Massachusetts. <I> Bill Schonweiler Please contact Steve CoughIan at 564 Esplanade Boule­ vard, Pacifica, California 94044. —4/— R^h J. Smifli Your wife, Betty Louise, is anxious to hear from you. Please contact her at 2701 Kline Road, Jacksonville 16, Florida, as soon as possible. —— Antbonv Davk, bom Novem­ ber 17. 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lewis A. Davis, Redding, California. Luis Ortiz, bom October 10, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vincente Ortiz, Bay St. Louis, Miss. Lauretta Ann Beard, bora November 17, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. David R. Beard, Hous­ ton, Texas. <t> Aldero Amison, bom Decem­ ber 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Craig S. Amison, Beckley, W. Virginia. Erica Kayser, bom December 2. 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lloyd B. Kayser, Brooklyn, N.Y. Christopher Moff^, bom March 30,1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Henry C. Moffett, Dodson, Louisiana. —\3>— Ramtm Rodriguez, bom No­ vember 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rafael Rodriguez, Rincon, Puerto Rico. Allison Sanford, bom Decem­ ber 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William R. Sanford, Mid­ dle Village, N.Y. Daniel Bell, bom September 19, 1969, to i^afarer and Mrs. Robert H. Bell, Pensacola, Florida. <1> Luk DeJesus, born December 10, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Guillermo DeJesus, Dorado, Puerto Rico. Title No Substitute for Pay, Especially at Overtime Rate WASHINGTON—A title on the door may get you a rag on the floor. But unless it means more money in the paycheck, you're not an executive, the AFL-CIO maintained in a state­ ment to the Labor Department. The Labor Department is currently reviewing the salary test it applies to "executives" and "professionals" to deter­ mine if they are exempt from overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. At present — under regula­ tions last changed in 1963—no one making less than $100 a week, regardless of his super­ visory responsibilities, is exempt from the wage-hour law as an "executive." And no one making less than $115 a week can be excluded as a professional. Persons making above that amount aren't necessarily ex­ cluded. They have to meet job description tests that demon­ strate that their principal work is supervision or that they meet the definition of professional. Even if they do, of course, they can still be paid overtime under union contract require­ ments or by agreement of the employer. But the employer isn't required by law to pay the time-and-one-half rate. The Labor Department agrees that no real executive these days is paid as little as $100 a week, nor are professionals hired at $115. So it has proposed raising the pay requirement to $130 for ex­ ecutives and $150 for profes­ sionals. That's still too low, the AFLCIO told the department's Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions. In a 12-page submission, the federation documented its argu­ ment that the lowest level that should be set to exempt super­ visors from the legal require­ ment for overtime pay is $150 a week, and the minimum stand­ ard for professionals should be $175. It is noted that the average non-supervisory production worker in manufacturing makes more than $129 a week. Even a $150 wage cutoff for supervisors would be a differential of only 17 percent, and much smaller for establishments where wages are above average. Likewise, it said, even start­ ing rates for professionals with no experience these days aver­ age above $175 a week, with the average for experienced employ­ ees much higher. (b-Job bi/wies Coatimie at Mgh For Setoad Year WASHINGTON — On-thejob accidents in 1968 continued at the 1967 rate of 14 disabling injuries per million hours worked in manufacturing — the highest level since 1952, the Labor Department reported. Preliminary data from the Bu­ reau of Labor Statistics showed worsened rates in 12 of 21 ma­ jor industry groups. Five groups had lower rates and four were unchanged. The largest increases in workinjury rates for the year were in the food, stone, clay, glass and textile industries. Biggest de­ creases in rates were in ord­ nance, lumber, rubber and pe­ troleum refining industries. The frequency of injuries in contract construction, which has been declining in recent years, rose from 26.7 in 1967 to 26.9 in 1968, BLS reported. The greatest increase in this area was in heavy construction. At Journey's End Daniel Kidd, born September 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald R. Kidd, Baltimore, Md. — Juan Sandoval, Jr., born June 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Juan M. Sandoval, Jarrettsville, Md. vt Harriet Beck, bom Novem­ ber 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur Beck, Hayward, Califomia. Deborah Claudio, bora De­ cember 6, 1969, to &afarer and Mrs. Otilio J. Claudio, Guanica, P. R. ^ Bruce Franck, born August 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lewis H. Francis, Sutherlin, Va. —^ Luke Arvanites, born Sep­ tember 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Arvanites, Hous­ ton, Texas. After completing a smooth run to Yokohama, Japan, Seafarers relaxing aboard the Richwood (Richwood S.S. Co.), sent this photo to the LOG. From left to right are: Chief Mate William R. Home, AB Guy E. Archie, OS Thomas J. Thiel, Bos'n Ed (Rocky) Adams and Earl Adams of deck maintenance department. �^^ 'I" V 1 January, 1970 No green money will be issued for the draw in Vietnam, the crew of the Scatrain Louisiana (Hudson Water­ ways) was in­ formed by Ship's Delegate James C. Northcott, who also pointed Hall w a matter the Un­ ion could not control. The draw will be in piastres at 118 to the dollar, A vote of thanks to the steward department was re­ corded by Meeting Secretary F. J. Hall. No beefs were reported from department delegates. Meeting chairman was Jack Kennedy. Engine delegate is Lorie Christmas; Raymond Froux is steward delegate. Difficulties encountered by Seafarers in Arabian ports were discussed aboard the Transeastem (Hudson Water­ ways). At the meeting, with Ship's Delegate W. H. Butts, Jr. in the chair, a motion was EUiott made by J. Haines and seconded by M. B. Elliott for passports or visas to be issued to Seafarers sailing to Underage Children lllegallyEmployed In Perilous Jobs WASHINGTON — Federal wage-hour investigators found 11,273 children illegally em­ ployed during the 1969 fiscal year, some of them in hazard­ ous occupations with high acci­ dent rates. The investigations, which reached only a small portion of establishments covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, turned up 10,024 under-age youngsters employed in nonfarm establishments and 1,249 children illegally employed on farms. Of the non-farm group, 5,234 were 16 or 17-year-olds work­ ing at hazardous jobs where the minimum employment age is 18. The remaining 4,790 were under the minimum age of 16 for full-time employment in non-hazardous jobs or under the age 14 minimum for em­ ployment outside of school hours in permitted occupations. On the farms, the violations were found equally among chil­ dren of migrant workers and local farm children. Forty-seven percent. of the children found working on farms during school hours were in the 10-13 age bracket, 38 percent were 14 or 15, and 15 percent were under 10 years. A majority of the children illegally employed on farms— 59 percent—were enrolled in school grades below normal for their age. SEAFARERS Page Twenty Seven LOG Arabia. Otherwise, they cannot steward requests that a food go ashore in case of illness. A plan representative meet this vote of thanks was given Yoko­ ship upon its arrival in the hama SIU Patrolman Ed Morris States. Despite the food short­ for settling all beefs aboard ship age, a vote of thanks was given and for bringing a box of new the steward department for a books for the ship's library. job well done under the cir­ Meeting Secretary Elliott re­ cumstances. Painting is also ports. The steward department badly needed at various spots also received a vote of thanks on the ship. Ship's Delegate for a very good Thanksgiving Frank Rodriguez, Jr. will re­ dinner. J. Haines was elected quest that the Port Agent board deck delegate; C. M. Crooks the ship in Yokohama to take is engine delegate and H. Puss- care of accumulated beefs. J. S. ley, steward delegate. '^owan is deck delegate; J. H. Heifer, engine delegate and G. Aboard the Del Alba (Delta), M. Dias, steward delegate. Meeting Secretary L. D. Groom, ^ Jr. reports a Inside rooms aboard the hole found in Afoundria (Sea-Land) are to be the ship's hull ^ insulated, Meetby the No. 4 ^ing Secretary F. hatch at the 14R. Kaziukewicz foot level below j w r it e s. Ben the water line fViencr, the new and another by j bosun, brought the No. 1 hatch ; this about and Groom at the 15-foot the chief en­ level also below the water gineer has or­ Kaziukewicz line. Both were quickly patched dered materials, up with cement. The ship left which include polyurethane Saigon with a critical shortage foam, three-quarter-inch ply­ of food. It was reported at the wood and tile covering. Dele­ meeting, chaired by William gates are: Harold Moody, deck; Eschuk, Jr., that the chief Bernardino Rivera, engine and steward has a beef about the Michael Boris, steward. The master's refusal to buy fresh SIU patrolman has advised the provisions when they are ob­ chief mate not to undertake any tainable in various ports. The search and seizure action in un- •' By Sidney Margolius Working families didn't get much help and consideration in their struggle with present high food prices from the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health. The mueh-publieized conferenee early in Deeember was notice­ ably dominated by food corporation executives. Many were from companies that had bitterly fought "truth in paekaging" and other eonsumer proteetion, sueh as General Foods Corporation, MeCormick Company, Campell Soup Company, and the meat paekers. Just as shoeking were the attitudes of some of the U.S. Agrieulture Department representatives at the eonference. They sided with the businessmen in fighting off proposals aimed at redueing priees. The president of Campbell was the chairman of one of the most important panels affecting your pocketbook, that on staple foods. McCormick was represented on several panels. McCormick is the company that invited the House Commeree Committee to see how "difficult" it would be to make standard-size packages. That "demonstration" helped kill the standardized-weights provision of the original paekaging bill, which would have made it easier for you to compare values. General Foods is the company whose then chairman wrote that "Let's Keep Politics Out of the Pantry" article in Look maga­ zine when the packaging bill was under consideration. The article argued that the public eats "so well and so conveniently for so little." Bet you didn't know you did. Some of the recommendations that came out of the eonference were still useful. Many of those dealing with the food problems of the poor stressed the immediate need to expand food-stamp and other emergency programs. The fact is that some 25 million Americans have incomes so low that they may have difficulty getting enough to eat in this winter of high food prices. But many of the recommendations were simply for more educa­ tion in nutrition. This is dodging the real problems, of course. While nutritional education is desirable, no amount of "education" really can take the place of more reasonable prices. Low-income people already are better buyers than middle-income and richer people. They buy more calories and more protein and other nutrients for the dollar than other income groups, as shown by U.S. Agriculture Department studies. One of the food-industry panels at the conference even made its major recommendation a proposal that the food industry establish a "Food Council of America" to tell people how to shop for food. licensed crew quarters without the presence of the owners of the subjects and the occupants of quarters and personal effects. —4/— Ship's Delegate Edwin M. Gbristian reported to the meeting aboard the Buckeye Atlantic (Buckeye) that he had received assurances from the captain that all crew quarters . would be painted and pending reFeridns pairs made. Nevertheless, Meeting Secretary Gharles Ferkins discloses, there is some doubt as to the safe con­ dition of the ship. The vessel was adrift for two days in the Mexican Gulf and has a history of problems with water, lights, fans, leaking engine room boil­ ers and bad ice boxes. During the previous trip, problems with the evaporator caused the ship to go on water rationing. The chief engineer states that a new evaporator has been installed but is not as good as the old one and advises the wise and sparing use of water. Joseph Zeloy, meeting chairman, moved for six month articles for ships on the Persian Gulf run only. The motion was seconded by Walter Brown. Edwin M. Ghristian was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. J. S. MitcheU is deck delegate, David A. Jones, en­ gine delegate, served as meeting clerk, and Theodore T. Harris is steward delegate. Seafarers aboard the Antinous (Waterman) were told by the captain that they could go ashore while the ship was bunkering for about two hours in the Car w nal Zone but flthat no boat service would be McFhanl provided at com­ pany expense. One oiler was demoted to day worker. Meet­ ing Secretary James R. McFhauI writes, and Ship's Delegate Mclvin Moore says he will take up the matter with the Patrolman. Otherwise a good trip was re­ ported, with model behavior by the erew and everyone happy. The TV set which was bought by 20 crewmembers was raffled off at the meeting and Seafarer Gerald Edwards was the winner. Edwards presented it to the ship for use by the unlicensed men. Delegates were Sheppard Moses, deck; A. G. MDne, engine and G. T. Aquino, steward. It is difficult to imagine such an industry council telling con­ sumers not to buy sugar-coated cereals because they are 45-percent sugar, or watered "fruit drinks" or flavored rice that comes to $1 a pound when you figure out the real cost. Where nutritional and shopping information is really most needed and useful is at the point of sale, which means right on the package label. Most urgent need is to require that labels state the percentages of each ingredient in the product. Low-income families often tend to buy products that seem cheap like frankfurters and lunch meats, unaware that these usually have 30-percent fat, 10-percent water and thus only contain 60 percent of the higher-quality nutrients. Also, working mothers often buy TV dinners and similar readyto-eat foods without realizing that these provide only about half the meat or other protein food recommended for a normal serving, and are filled out with inexpensive low-nutrition ingredients. Nor can a mother who thinks frozen chicken pot pies seem reasonable really know, under present labeling, that these contain only 14-percent chicken meat; that canned beef stew really is only 12-percent meat, that "Noodles with Chicken" is only 9-percent chicken; that ready-to-eat fish cakes which look cheap contain only about 60 percent of the protein value of a standard home recipe. It is noticeable that the nutritional quality of American diets has been going down in a period of relative affluence, even as the marketing and use of such low-nutrition food products has in­ creased dramatically. One of the industry-dominated panels at the conference said that the main purpose of food labels is to "provide information that will promote its use." But what consumers want is labels that give them niore information on what's really in the box. It was also remarkable that at a conference concerned with food and nutrition problems, held in a time of severe inflation, practically nothing was said about the high prices of food. Giving food stamps to the poor is all right with the industry. That means the manufacturers and stores sell more products. But it also means that the public is subsidizing, and even perpetuating, high food prices. The plain fact is that food prices are too high. Certainly they are too high in comparison to the traditional spread from farm to market. Farmers used to get 50 cents of the retail food dollar, and distribution took 50 cents. In recent years farmers have gotten only 37 to 40 cents, while distribution has taken 60 to 63 cents. Reducing the marketing margin to the former 50-50 ratio alone could reduce present food prices as much as 20 percent. �SEAFARERS Page Twenty Eight SEATRAINMAINE (Hudson Water­ ways), December 14—Chairman, Ed Lane; Secretary, Sam W. McDonald; Ship's Delegate, E. Lane; Deck Del­ egate, Robert Myers; Engine Dele­ gate, J. Sommer; Steward Delegate, William Lennox. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Motion was made to have patrolman settle grievances before payoff. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Hudson Waterways), November 30—Chair­ man, J. Kennedy; Secretary, P. Hall; Ship's Delegate, James C. Northcott; Engine Delegate, L. Christmas; Steward Delegate, Ray­ mond Proux. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. GATEWAY CITY (Sea-Land), De­ cember 16—Chairman, Sven Stockmarr; Secretary, J. M. Davis; Ship's Delegate, S. Stackman; Deck Dele­ gate, P. E. Clay, Jr.; Engine Dele­ gate, Albert S. Verwald; Steward Delegate, Jose Velazquez. Some dis­ puted OT in engine and steward departments. Vote of thanks to the steward department, especially the baker, for exceptional Thanksgiving Day dinner. BUCKEYE ATLANTIC (Buckeye), October 27—Chairman, Joseph Zeloy; Secretary, Charles Perkins; Ship's Delegate, E. M. Christian; Deck Delegate, J. S. Mitchell; En­ gine Delegate, David A. Jones; Steward Delegate, Theodore T. Har­ ris. Various repairs needed aboard ship. Matter discussed with Captain. SUMMIT (Sea-Land), December 13—Chairman, Walter Gustavson; Secretary, Richard Williams; Ship's Delegate, Walter Gustavson; Deck Delegate, Calvin DeSilva; Engine Delegate, Sandy Seabrooks; Steward Delegate, William A. Hamling, Jr. $29.40 in ship's fund. One man missed ship in New Jersey. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. ROBIN HOOD (Moore-McCormack), December 17—Chairman, J. Samsel; Secretary, Aussie Shrimpton; Ship's Delegate, J. W. Samsel; Deck Delegate, Leonardo A. Pelin; Engine Delegate, W. J. Tate; Stew­ ard Delegate, L. Franklin. Vote of thanks was extended to the stew­ ard department for the outstanding food and service during the voyage. $19.25 in ship's fund. Exceptionally good crew on board. DEL SUD (Delta), November 30— Chairman, Jack D. Callaway; Secret.ary, Billy Russell; Sliip's Delegate, K. K. Binemanis; Deck Delegate, Prank B. Kettchman; Engine Dele­ gate, Oscar Pigueroa; Steward Del­ egate, Leroy Rinker. Disputed OT in engine and steward department. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. Jannary, LOG SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrainl, November 16—Chairman, Prank A. Smith; Secretary, James W. Thomas; Deck Delegate, M. H. Jones; Engine Delegate, Clyde L. Van Epps; Stew­ ard Delegate, James Temple. $36.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), No­ vember 2—Chairman, Manuel Landran; Secretary, Harris L. Bennett; Ship's Delegate, Herbert Leake. $10.00 in ship's fund. Patrolman to be contacted regarding various minor beefs. AFOUNDRIA (Sea-Land), Novem­ ber 9—Chairman, None; Secretary, P. R. Kaziukewicz; Deck Delegate, Harold Moody; Engine Delegate, Bernardino Rivera; Steward Dele­ gate, Michael Bern. $52.69 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. OAKLAND (Sea-Land Service), November 2—Chairman, T. J. White; Secretary, J. J. Doyle. Discussion held regarding constitutional changes. Motion made that the pen­ sion plan be based on 20 years in Union and 12 years sea time. $6.80 in ship's fund and $110.00 in movie fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. AFOUNDRIA (Sea-Land), Decem­ ber 5—Chairman, None; Secretary, P. R. Kaziukewicz; Ship's Delegate, Gerald Corelli; Deck Delegate, Har­ old Moody. $63.69 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Repairs needed in all de­ partments. No beefs. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. DEL ALBA (Delta), November 23 —Chairman, W. Eschuck, Jr.; Secre­ tary, L. D. Croom, Jr.; Ship's Dele­ gate, Prank Rodriquez, Jr.; Deck Delegate, J. B. Cowan; Engine Dele­ gate, J. H. Heifer; Steward Delerate, C. M. Diass. $15.00 in ship's 'und. No disputed OT. Pood beef. Ship's delegate will request that port agent board ship upon arrival in Yokohama to square away beefs. TRANSEASTERN (Hudson Wa­ terways), November 16—Chairman, William H. Butts, Jr.; Secretary, M. B. Elliott; Ship's Delegate, Wil­ liam H. Butts, Jr., Engine Delegate, V. C. Crooks. Discussion held re­ garding blowers and fans. Insuffi­ cient number of fans aboard. Pa­ trolman to be contacted regarding much needed repairs. Vote of thanks was extended to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. TRANSEASTERN (Hudson Water­ ways), November 30 — Chairman, William H. Butts, Jr.; Secretary, M. B. Elliott; Ship's Delegate, Wil­ liam H. Butts, Jr.; Engine Delegate, C. M. Crooks. Discussion held re­ garding amendments to constitution. Vote of thanks was extended to Patrolman Ed Morris who settled all beefs in Yokosuka. Vote of thanks was also extended to the steward department for the fine Thanksgiv­ ing Day Dinner. Motion was made to have passports or visas issued to seamen going to Arabia, so they can go ashore in case of illnese. PANAMA (Sea-Land), December 7—Chairman, John G. Spuron; Sec­ retary, Ralph C. Mills; Deck Dele­ gate, Steve Hiner; Engine Delegate, John Thompson; Steward Delegate, John P. Fund. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. TRENTON (Sea-Land), December 15—ClMirman, D. I. Butts: Secre­ tary, C. DeJesus; Ship's Delegate, D. I. Butts; Deck Delegate, John H. Oliver; Engine Delegate, T. P. Delaney; Steward Delegate, Ken­ neth Bowman. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. Most of the repairs have been taken care of. No beefs reported by department delegates^ MARYMAR (Calmar), December 14—Chairman, T. Drobins: Secre­ tary, T. A. Jackson; Ship's Delegate, T. Drobins; Deck Delegate, Robert P. Mackert; Engine Delegate, John O'Toole. No beefs and no disputed OT. BETHFLOR (Bethlehem), Novem­ ber 16—Chairman, Joseph Michael; Secretary, Vernon Douglas; Deck Delegate, Jerry W. Blan; Engine Delegate, Hector L. Duarte; Stew­ ard Delegate. Lorenzo Rinaldi. Some disputed OT in deck department. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. STEEL NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), November 23—Chairman, B. R. Kit­ chens; Secretary, George W. Gib­ bons; Ship's Delegate, B. R. Kit­ chens; Deck Delegate, P. Peavov Engine Delegate, J. Guillory; Stew­ ard Delegate, P. Colon. Discussion held regarding Pension Plan. $21.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were report­ ed by department delegates. WESTERN PLANET (Western Agency), December 12—Chairman, C. A. Perreira; Secretary, Jesse Riamostle; Ship's Delegate, C. A. Perreira; Deck Delegate, Charles Reed; Engine Delegate, C. L. OwenSteward Delegate, C. Scott. $14,00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. STEEL KING (Isthmian), Decem­ ber 14—Chairman, John McCullom: Secretary, Major E. Reid. Brother S. Rothman was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. No beefs were reported by department delegates. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), De­ cember 14—Chairman, John Knudsen; Secretary, Michael Toth; Ship's Delegate, Lawrence B. Kelly; Deck Delegate, Albert H. Schwartz; Steward Delegate, Bert M. Winfield. Vote of thanks was extended lo the entire steward department for a job well done. All hands agree that food planning, preparation and serv­ ice would be hard to beat. FANWOOD (Waterman), Decem­ ber 14—Chairman, Alfred R. Saw­ yer; Secretary, Anthony J. Kuberski; Ship's Delegate, William Meehan; Deck Delegate, Freddie Calhoune; Engine Delegate, T. McRaney; Steward Delegate, Joseph N. Rioux. No beefs were reported bv department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. - PAIRISLE (Pan-Oceanic Tank­ ers), November 16—Chairman, Fred A. Olson; Secretary, S. T. ^^ales; Ship's Delegate, Fred A. Olson; Deck Delegate; W. E. Thompson; Engine Delegate, A. R. Brania; Steward Delegate, P. L. Diamond. Disputed OT in each department. Ship's committee requests that a food plan representative be sent to the ship at payoff. TRANSHURON (Hudson Water­ ways), November 30—Chairman, D. Stiner; Secretary, J. Prestwood; Ship's Delegate, Jack Williams; En­ gine jyelegHte, Jackie R. Hall; Steward Delegate, Joseph T. Whalen. $22.37 in ship's fund. Some disSTEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), , puted OT in deck department. Vote December 14 — Chairman, W. D. of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. Bushong; Secretary, L. Ceperiano. $70.00 in ship's fund. Pew hours STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), disputed OT in deck department, November 2—Chairman, W. Robin­ otherwise everything is running son; Secretary, Tony Caspar; Ship's smoothly with no beefs. Delegate, William L. Robinson; Deck Delegate, William Giron, Jr.; Engine Delegate, J. W. Allen; Stew­ NOONDAY (Waterman), Decem­ ard Delegate, P. J. Johnson. $13.05 ber 2—Chairman, Jose Ortiguerra; in ship's fund. No beefs were re­ Secretary, Thomas 0. Rainey; Ship's ported by department delegates. Delegate, Jose Ortiguerra; Deck Delegate, B. G. Shultz; Engine Del­ STEEL ENGINEER (Isthmian), egate, Fred Dorney. Some disputed December 7—ChairmaiK J. Bayes, xycscciliuci I OT in engine department to be Jr.; Secretary, Angel Se_da; SJiip's taken up with boarding patrolman. Delegate, J. Beyes, Jr.; Deck Dele­ eleGeneral discussion held regarding _ Walbergj En^ne ijrine gate, Leonard C. the preparation of food. Delegate, Warren M. LaPrelle; Steward Delegate, James T. Myers. $11.50 in ship's fund. No beefs. Everything is running smoothly. CALMAR (Calmar), December 22 —Chairman, Chester lannoli; Sec­ INGER (Reynolds Metal), De­ retary, William Rose; Ship's Dele­ gate, Edward J. Broadus; Deck Del­ cember 7—Chairman, James Mann; Secretary, Roland Herbert; Ship's egate, Melvin Knickman; Engine Delegate, J. T. Mann; Deck Dele­ Delegate, - Thomas E. Prazier; gate, B. Riddle; Engine Delegate, Steward Delegate, Jacob R. Gnagey, B. R. Small; Steward Delegate, Jr. No beefs and no disputed OT. Guillermo Martinez. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. ANTINOUS (Waterman), Decem­ ber 12—Chairman, Melvin Moore; Secretary, James R. McPhaul; Deck Delegate, Morris Sheppard; Engine Delegate, A. G. Milne; Steward Delegate, G. T. Aquino. Good trip so far. Expect good payoff. $12.25 in ship's fund. CANTON VICTORY (Columbia), October 19—Chairman, C. P. Just: Secretary, M. "L. Leache: Ship's Delegate, C. P. Just; Deck Delegate, M. P. Kramer; Engine Delegate, Irv­ ing Putterman; Steward Delegate, H. Knuchles. $10.00 in ship's fund. No beefs. Everything is running smoothly. 197d STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), No­ vember 23—Chairman, Manuel Landron; Secretary, H. L. Bennett; Ship's Delegate, Herbert Leake; Deck Del­ egate, Prank Gutienez; Engine Del­ egate, Vernon L. Stieberg; Steward Delegate, Mario Nabasco. $10.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended _ to the steward department for a job well done. The steward thanked the ship's delegate and the crew for their co-operation during the trip. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), November 16—Chairman, Anthony Torsado; Secretary, Paul P. Lopez; Ship's Delegate, Anthony 'Torsado; Deck Delegate, C. Mann; Engine Delegate, J Britton; Steward Dele­ gate, M. Caampued. OVERSEAS PROGRESS (Mari­ time Overseas), November 29 — Chairman, B. L. McGowan; Secre­ tary, R. J. Sherman; Ship's Dele­ gate, Junior L. Moncrief; Engine Delegate, G. K. Brown; Steward Delegate, A. Papadimatis. No beefs and no disputed OT. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the ex­ cellent Thanksgiving Day dinner. TRANSMALAYA (Hudson Water­ ways), November 30 —Chairman, None; Secretary, Judson P. Lamb; Ship's Delegate, J. C. Keel; Deck Delegate, G. A. Peterson; Engine Delegate, Jerry D. Banners; Stew­ ard Delegate, H. W. Roberts. No beefs and no disputed OT STEEL AGE (Isthmian), Novem­ ber 23—Chairman, Prank Cattangin; Secretary, Pete Gonzales; Ship's Delegate, G. R. Pitts; Deck Delegate, Grayson E. Warren; En­ gine Delegate, Glenn E. Dickens; Steward Delegate, J. H. Green. Ship's delegate reported that every­ thing is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. Two men missed ship in Djibouti and rejoined ship in Aqaba, Jordan. $4.06 in ship's fund. Y>KA (Waterman), November 2 —Chairman, A. Lesnansky; Secre­ tary, T. Robinson; Deck Delegate, JjJr.; Engine Delegate, Donald E. Keller. Brother M. Dembrowski was elected to serve as ship's delegate No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. STEEL TRAVELER (States Ma­ rine), October 19—Chairman, O. Hernandez; Secretary, Iluminade R. Llenes. $13.05 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in_ deck department to be taken up with boarding patrol­ man. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Serv­ ice), November 4—Chairman, H. Helert; Secretary, L. E. Wing; Ship's Delegate, Joseph Hall; Deck Delegate, W. Hunter; Engine Deleate, Emmett A. Connell; Steward Dlelegate, Joseph Hall. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Everything is running smoothly. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), November 30—Chairman, Kenneth Roberts; Secretary, Thomas Ulisse; Ship's Delegate, Kenneth Roberts. $3.10 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. The excellent Thanksgiving Day Dinner was en­ joyed by all. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Novem­ ber 30—Chairman, Benny Brinson; Secretary, W. L. Kilgore; Ship's Delegate, Roy Casman; Steward Delegate, B. Brinson. Discussion held regarding retirement plan and welfare benefits. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. OVERSEAS VIVIAN (Maritime Overseas), November 22—Chairman, James J. Gorman; Secretary, Don Mason; Ship's Delegate, Frederick Collecter; Deck Delegate, B. Davis; Engfine Delegate, Paul P. Jazic. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Everything is running smoothly. SEAFARER (Marine Carriers), December 3—(Chairman, R. D. Schwarz; Secretary, C. Loper, Jr.; Ship's Delegate, Prank E. Parsons; Engine Delegate, H. I. Garretson; Steward Delegate, Alphonse Boi­ lings. Some disputed OT in deck department. Discussion held regard­ ing retirement plan. DEL NORTE (Delta), November 30—Chairman, Jack Procell; Secre­ tary, R. E. Stough, Jr.; Engine Del­ egate, J. G. Arch; Steward Dele­ gate, John T. Kelly. Ship's delegate thanked the crew for their co-oper­ ation. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done on Thanksgiving Day dinner. PAIRISLE (Pan-Oceanic Tank­ ers), December 7—Chairman, A. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Stevens; Ship's Delegate, A. H. Anderson; Deck Delegate, R. D. McCormick; Engine Delegate, E. DiPietra; Stew­ ard Delegate, L. E. Price. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), December 7—Chairman, William D. Bushong; Secretary, L. Ceperiano. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. BAYLOR VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), December 26 — Chairman, Thomas H. Hold; Secretary, Stan Zygarewski; Ship's Delegate, Thom­ as H. Hatt; Deck Delegate, James Higgins; Steward Delegate, Emanuel Lowe. $3.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to the stew­ ard department for the excellent holiday meals. SEATRAIN OHIO (Seatrain), De­ cember 18—Chairman, R. Knoles; Secretary, W. Messenger; Ship's Delegate, R. Brown; Deck Delegate, P. Lillard; Engine Delegate, J. Lucaks; Steward Delegate, L. Winborne. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. AMES VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), December 6—Chairman, R. Christenberry; Secretary, B. G. McNally; Deck Delegate, Ronald G. Wheeler. Ship's delegate reported that all beefs were settled satisfac­ torily at payoff. Ship being sold to the Pormosan Government for scrap. COLUMBIA TRADER (Columbia), December 6—Chairman, W. G. Kel­ ly; Secretary, John Hauser; Ship's Delegate, James P. Balderston; Deck Delegate, William A. DeLappe; Engine Delegate, Robert W. McMay; Steward Delegate, A. L. Yarborough. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Motion was made to send to Headquarters, as protest from the crew membership aboard this vessel, that all vacation monies should be equal and not differen­ tiated as at present. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Decem­ ber 27—Chairman, Benny Brinson; Secretary, Clarence V. Dyer. Motion was made that the negotiating com­ mittee seek to obtain an increase in maintenance and cure benefits for sick patients, in or out. Increase should be to $150.00 per week. Also, dependent welfare benefits. A rais­ ing of hospital and surgery benefits to meet the higher cost of medicine, doctor and hospital fees. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the wonderful Christmas day breakfast, lunch and dinner. Special Services Offered in Dayton By Fire Fighters DAYTON, Ohio — Union fire fighters here are doing more than putting out fires and sav­ ing people from burning build­ ings. They are now coming to the rescue of people with per­ sonal and family problems. This additional volunteer ef­ fort of the Fire Fighters was launched a year ago when the union set out to train its mem­ bers for community counseling service. Today, 397 Dayton Fire Fighters have completed the training under the program sponsored by the lAFF and the AFL-CIO Department of Com­ munity Services. Their training has enabled the volunteers to make each of the city's fire stations a place where people with problems can go for information an^ referral services about social and wel­ fare programs and agencies. In many cases, the Fire Fighters are able to make ap­ pointments with the proper agency and cut through delays and red tape. Many citizens— narticularly those in the lowestincome areas of the city—^have only scant knowledge of the services available to them. Since the Fire Fighters are on duty around the clock, the volunteer social service they have set up allows people to call or come in any time of day or night with their problems. �January, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Twenty Nine LOG H Arthur Latimer Anderson, Jr., 41: Seafarer Anderson died on April 2 fol­ lowing an acci­ dent on board the Raphael Semmes. A na­ tive of Stockton, Calif or n i a , Brother Ander­ son was making his Wme there at the time of his death. He joined the Union in 1967 in the Port of San Fran­ cisco and sailed in the steward department as a messman. From 1946 until 1949 Seafarer Ander­ son served in the Army. ^ John Luther Jr., 38: Brother Luther died on November 21 in Slidell, Louisi­ ana. He had joined the Union in 1949 in the Port of New Or­ leans and sailed in the engine de­ partment as an IS FOWT. His last vessel was the Midlake. A native of Tennessee, Seafarer Luther was making his home in Pearl River, Louisiana, when he passed away. Brother Luther served in the Army from 1953 to 1955. Burial was in Pearl River Cemetery. Robert E. Cartwright, 58: Seafarer Cartwright died on No­ vember 30 of heart disease in Muskegon, Michigan. He joined the SIU in Chicago in 1951 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a second cook. A native of Ohio, Brother Cartwright was living in Muske­ gon at the time of his death. Burial was in Woodlawn Ceme­ tery, Greene County, Ohio. V 4^ I .. It! li< i |t * y Donald Joseph O'Brien, 47: Brother O'Brien died on Decem­ ber 4. He was a native of Cali­ fornia and was living in Kelso Wash ington, with his mother, Louise, when he passed away. '• Seafarer O'Brien joined the Union in the Port of San Francisco in 1958 and sailed in the steward department as a messman. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. ^ \l' Clarence Henry Trippe, 44: Seafarer Trippe died suddenly on September 14 while sailing aboard the Burbank Victory. He had joined the SIU in the Port of Philadelphia in 1945 and sail­ ed in the steward department as a messman. A na­ tive of Alabama, Brother Trippe was making his home in Marrero. Louisiana, when he died. Survivors include a brother, George Washington Trippe of Chickasaw, Alabama. —-<i>— Gary Lynn O'Keefe, 24: Brother O'Keefe died as the re­ sult of injuries received in an automobile acci­ dent November 4 on Bootlegger Road, Coving­ ton, Louisiana. Seafarer O'Keefe graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in 1968. A native of Louisiana, he joined the Un­ ion in the Port of New Orleans. His last vessel was the Midlake. Brother O'Keefe was making his home in Covington with his parents, Dezzie and Judson O'Keefe, when he died. Burial was in Merritta Cemetery, Bush, Louisiana. \1> Andrew W. Hassell, 58: Sea­ farer Hassel died from heart disease on Octo­ ber 31 at Beebe Hospital, Lewes, Delaware. He was a native of North Carolina and was living in Pitman, New • Jersey, when he passed away. Seafarer Hassel joined the SIU in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed as a captain for Tavlor and Ander••^on Towing and Lighterage Company. Among his survivors are his wife, Loretta. Burial was in Mariners Bethel Cemetery, Ocean View, Delaware. in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Virginia, when he died. Burial was in Ocracoke, North Carolina. Harold B. Murphy, 58: Brother Murphy died on July 9 of a heart at­ tack while work­ ing on board the Steel Age. A na­ tive of Illinois, Seafarer Mur­ phy was making his home in Brooklyn with his wife, Helen, at the time of his death. Brother Murphy joined the STU in 1968 in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department as an oiler. He had been sailing for over 20 years when he died. Besides his wife. Brother Mur­ phy is survived by a son, two brothers and a sister. Gerald Howard Bums, 34: Brother Burns died on Decem­ ber 9 from natu­ ral causes at USPHS Hospital in San Francis­ co. A native of Portland, Ore­ gon, Seafarer Burns was mak­ ing his home in Oakland, California when he died. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1967 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a messman. He last worked on the Azalea City. Brother Burns served in the Marine Corps from 1952 until 1956. Among his survivors are his wife, Valieria and his father, Willie Burns. Burial was in Olivet Cemetery in Colma, Cali­ fornia. Elisha K. Esham, 53: Brother Esham passed away on October 30 from a kid­ ney disease at USPHS Hospi­ —4/— tal, Baltimore, James Kenneth Wardwell, Maryland. A 69: Seafarer Wardwell was an member of the SIU pensioner Union since who died from 1966 when he natural causes joined in the on November 23 Port of Philadelphia, Brother at Lakeside Hos­ Esham sailed as a mate with pital, DeFuniak Taylor and Anderson Towing Springs, Florida. and Lighterage Company. He He had joined was a native of Bishop, Mary­ the Union in the land, and was making his home Port of New Orleans and sailed Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG--please put my name on your maiiing list. (Prtnt Information) NAME STREET ADDRESS OTY STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old subscriber and have a change of eddrets, please give your former address be'ow; ADDRESS arr .... STATE ZIP. William Guenther, 54: Brother Guenther passed away on November 6 in Manhattan. He was a native New Yorker who continued to live there throughout his life. Seafarer —4f— Guenther joined Leneard Higgans, 45: Brother the SIU back in Higgans died on I^ptember 3 1939 in the Port of New York in Brooklyn and sailed in the engine depart­ from a heart dis­ ment as an FOWT. His last ship order. He was a was the Trans Colorado. In both native of Kettle 1961 and 1962 Brother Guen­ Falls, Washing­ ther was issued picket duty ton, and had cards. Among his survivors are joined the SIU a sister, Josephine Booth. Burial in Seattle in was in Evergreen Cemetery in 1956. Seafarer Brooklyn. Higgans sailed in the engine de­ —4/— partment as a pumpman. Survi­ Alexander F. Gium, Sr., 63: vors include his father, Millard Brother Gunn died of a heart Higgans. Burial was in Green­ attack on De­ wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. cember 31, 1968 while working —4J— on board the Jack Dale Justice, 17: Sea­ Overseas Ulla. farer Justice was lost at sea on He was a native September 28 of Texas and while sailing was living in aboard the Ema Houston with his Elizabeth. He son when he passed away. Sea­ had joined the farer Gunn joined the SIU in Union in the Port the Port of Houston in 1967 of New Orleans and sailed in the steward de­ in 1968 and partment as a cook. From 1922 graduated in the until 1923 he served in the same year from the Harry Lun­ Navy. deberg School of Seamanship. — 4^— Young Justice sailed in the en­ William Van Matthews, 47: gine department as a wiper. He Seafarer Matthews died on No­ was a native of San Francisco vember 21 in and was living in Gonzalez, Our Lady of the Florida, with his mother, Ilona Lake Hospital, Justice, when he died. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A na­ 4/ — tive of Fitchburg, Massachu­ Thomas J. Driscoii, 44: setts, Brother Brother Driscoii died on July 21 Matthews was in Pusan, Korea, making his home in Flushing, as the result of diabetic coma. New York when he died. He He joined the joined the Union in the Port of SIU in 1951 in Baltimore in 1953 and sailed in Boston, and sail­ the steward department as a ed in the deck messman and third cook. His department as an last vessel was the Mobilian. AB. A native of During World War II, Seafarer Boston, Seafarer Driscoii was Matthews served in the Coast making his home in Ayer, Mas­ Guard. Burial was in Roselawn sachusetts, when he passed Cemetery, Baton Rouge. away. Brother Driscoii was a Navy veteran of World War II. Among his survivors are two Rejeitioa of R-T-W sisters, Anna Hassett and Mary Aids New Mexito Norris. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. 4^ —This city is getting a big new industry, and New Mex­ Elias A. Jonsson, 75: Seafarer ico's repeated rejected of un­ Jonsson was an SIU pensioner who died on Noion-busting "right-to-work" vember 2 at laws is one of the factors that Pennsylvania helped bring it about. Hospital in Phil­ The Albuquerque Tribune recently front-paged the an­ adelphia. He was nouncement that the Lenkurt a native of SweDivision of General Tele­ den and was phone and Electronics will making his home build a manufacturing plant in Philadelphia here expected to employ at the time of his death. Brother 2,000 workers by 1975. Jonsson joined the Union in It quoted the firm's presi­ Philadelphia and sailed as a dent, C. W. Hunter, as prais­ deckhand. Among his survivors ing the qualities of New Mex­ are a sister who still lives in ico and its people which led Sweden. Burial was in the Old to the decision to locate there. Swedes Churchyard in Philadel­ phia. in the steward department as a cook. A native of Philadelphia, Brother Wardwell was making his home in DeFuniak with his wife, Nancy Lee, when he passed away. Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery, DeFuniak Springs. �Page Thirty SEAFARERS January, 1970 LOG USCG Begins Weathercasts To N. Atlantic SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Febr Feb. MobHe Wilmington Feb. San Fran. .. Feb. Seattle .... Feb. New York .. Feb. Philadelphia Feb. Baltimore .. Feb. Detroit Feb. Houston ... Feb. 10^—2!30 p.m. 11—2:30 p.m. 16—2:00 p.m. 18—2:00 p.m. 21—2:00 p.m. 2—2:30 p.m. 3—2:30 p.m. 4—2:30 p.m. 13^—2:30 p.m. 9—2:30 p.ni. United Industrial Workers New Orleans Feb. 10—7:00 p.m. Mobile .... Feb. 11—7:00 p.m. New York .. Feb. 2—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Feb. 3—^7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. Feb. 4—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. Feb. 9—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit .. Alpena .. Buffalo .. Chicago . Duluth .. Frankfort Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. 2—2:00 p.m. 2—7:00 p.m. 2—7:00 p.m. 2—7:30 p.m. 2—7:00 p.m. 2—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Sectimi Chicago ... tSault St. Marie Buffalo Duluth Cleveland .. Toledo Detrmt Milwaukee Feb. 10—7:30 p.m. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. 12—7:30 p.m. 11—^7:30 p.m. 13—7:30 p.m. 13—7:30 p.m. 13—^7:30 p.m. 9—^7:30 p.m. ^—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union NewOrieans Feb. 10—5:00 p.m. Mobile Feb. 11—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Feb. 3—5:00 p.m. Baltimore Qicensed and un­ licensed) . Feb. 4—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... Feb. 5—5:00 p.m. Hoaston ... Feb. 9—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region PhiladelplHa Feb. 10—10 Baltimore Feb. 11—10 "Norfolk Feb. 12—10 Jersey City Feb. 9—10 DlPUGTORYof SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRKIDENT Cal Tannar Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiay Wllllamt Robert Matthew, SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS ITS 4th Ave., Iklyn. (212) HY »-MOO ALPENA, MICH 800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3il« BALTIMORE, Md 1218 E. Beltlmore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON. Mail U3 Atlantic Avenue (817) 482-4718 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Waihlnqton St. SIU (718) Tt 3-9259 IBU (718) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, III 9383 Ewing Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 2Sth St. (218) MA 1-5450 DETROIT. Mich 10225 W. JefTerton Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tax JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, NJ MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS, La NORFOLK, Va 2014 W. 3rd St. (2IB) RA 2-4110 P.O. Boi 287 415 Main St. (818) EL 7-2441 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 2808 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 i South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 830 Jacfcion Ave. (504) 529-7548 IIS 3rd St. (703) 822-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2804 S. 4th St. (215) DE 8-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 1531 Mltilon St. (415) 828-8793 SANTURCE, P.R. .. . 1313 Fernandez Juncoi Stop 20 724-2848 a.m. & 8 p.m. SEATTLE, Wash 2505 FIrit Avenue (208) MA 3-4334 a.m. & 8 p.m. ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravol, Blvd. (314) 752-8500 a.m. & 8 p.m. TAMPA, Fla TOLEDO, Ohio a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves, t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3891 WILMINGTON. Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kalgan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 T "NANCIAL REPORTS. The conetitwtlon of the SIU AtUnllc, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Watm District makes specific provlalon for Bafeguardinar the memberahip's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the raeraberahip. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisiona of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters ot the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively r the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Sniie 1980. New YoA 4. N. Y. Foil copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. J, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fkils to protect your contract rWits prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POUCY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionaUy refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of; amr individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the Septemher, 1960, msetingB in all constltutkmai ports. The rwqFonsibility for UOOvoUer is vested in an editorial board which consists of the EiecuUve Board of the Union. The Bxacntive Board may delegate, tts nnha, owe individnal to carry oat this respoaeihiUty. GOVERNORS ISLAND, N.Y.—new program for Seafarers and their families are transmitting weather informa­ urged to support a consumer boy­ tion to ships at sea has been cott by trade unionists against initiated by the U.S. Coast various companies whose products Guard, working jointly with are produced under non-union the Weather Bureau. conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the The data is broadcast for the western North Atlantic name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ and transmits warnings, anal­ volved, and will be amended from yses and forecasts of weather time to time.) in the area four times a day at 1:30 A.M., 7:30 A.M., 1:30 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. (Green­ General Electric Company wich Mean Time), on a fre­ and quency of 8778.3 kHz. Hotpoint Products The information will be (Co-ordinated Bargaining particularly useful for ocean­ Committee for going ships, tugs and fishing 150,000 GE Workers) vessels that do not carry ra­ dio officers. Broadcasts cover the western North Atlantic North of 30 degrees N to 60 Stitzei-Weller Distilleries degrees N, and West of 35 •^Id Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" degrees W longitude to the "Cabin StiU," W. L. Weller North American coast. Data Bourbon whiskeys is prepared by the Weather (Distillery Workers) Bureau Forecast Office, Suitland, Md., and forwarded to the Coast Guard. Kingsport Press In addition to improving "World Book," "Chndcraft" marine weather service, the (Printing Pressmen) jroadcasts may also result in (Typographers, Bookbinders) improving Search and Rescue (Machinists, Stereotypers) efforts through the Coast juard AMVER (Automated Vlerchant Vessel Report) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. System. Brief reports follow­ Work Shoes . . . ing the broadcasts can be Sentry, Cedar Chest, utilized to inform ships of Statier any distress or emergency in Men's Shoes . . . their area. Jarman. Johnson & This cooperative effort of Murphy, Crestworth, the U. S. Coast Guard and (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) the Weather Bureau is the ^ initial phase of a program that could eventually result in Boren Clay Products Co. more comprehensive broad­ (United Brick and Clay Workers) casting by radio telegraph ;CW), voice (single sideband), and radio facsimile (FAX) "HIS" brand men's clothes simultaneously on three fre­ Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond quencies for up to 8 hours blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa daily at selected Coast Guard Ties, Boss Gloves ong range radio stations in Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, both the North Pacific and Wing Shirts Atlantic Oceans. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) PAYMENT OF MONIES. NO monies are to he paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he Is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every sU months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain eopim of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you fed any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarteis. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimeia cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-etanding Union pdicy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of thdr dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of tbe SIU. These r^te are clearly set forth in the SIU consUtution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated arith the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, cdor, national or geographic origin. If any member feds that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rtehts of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which trSi ssrvc the best interests of themseives, tneir families and thdr Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entlrdy voluntary and constitate the funds through which legislative and pditical activities are conducted for the benefit of the msmbership and the Union. U at any tisse a Seafarer feeb that any ef the above rights have been vidated. sr that he has been deeded Us ceasUUUeeml rtaht ef access te Ualea reeerde er infwmatlM. he dwtrid lasnMdlately netify SIU Preeidsat Paol HoR at hiedqaarters by Atiantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) ktf Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture V/orkers) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Waliboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) ^ R. J. Reynoids Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Saiem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) ^ Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) ^ Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas) ^ All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) v|> Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Economy Furniture Co. Smithtown Maple Western Provincial Bilt-Rite (Upholsterers) GE Strikers Get Fraternal Backing Of Farm Workers DELANO, Calif.—The Unit­ ed Farm Workers Organizing Committee adopted a resolution giving full support to the strikers at all General Electric plants. Dolores Huerta, a UFWOC vice president, issued the following statement: "Many people may ask what our fledgling union can do to help in a strike as massive as this one with GE. It is true that we cannot give financial help but we have a boycott going which involves hundreds of thousands of people. "We intend to ask all of these people to join the GE strike in their local communities, picket­ ing with them wherever and whenever such support is asked." �January, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Thirty One LOG 'T'HE TRAINING SCHED-*• ULE at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point includes a thorough union education program. Trainees at­ tend daily classes aboard the S.S. Charles S. Zimmerman for instruction and discussion of such topics as the History of the SIU; the SIU Contract; Pension, Wel­ fare & Vacations; the Rights and Obligations of Members; the SIU Constitution; Union Meetings, and other related subjects. In addition to union education, the curriculum also includes in­ struction on the duties of ordinary seamen, wipers and messmen; be­ havior aboard ship; types of SIU ships; and procedures on regis­ tering, signing on and paying off. Every effort is made to provide a thorough training curriculum that will equip the trainees to be competent crewmembers and knowledgeable members of the SIU when they walk up the gang­ way of their first ship. Experienced Seafarer instruc­ tors employ modem teaching methods, using films and closedcircuit television, to make course interesting and informative. V s 'I' •K -• t- . < • ! trainees in ihe union educafion class pay close attention as Instructor Paul McGaharn describes history ot the Seafarers International Union.; ; •? < >* f ees .y,:' ^ • ^' • ''i '"i-K''"' •T>. " Jf. V V '• •4- i-:" V V If r •"Xu S|li< \Ttainees learn the value of the SlU's kind of unionism as they see how Seafarers' "porkchops" have steadily increased over the years. fifeboat course. �SEAFAItERS«I.06 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO J. F. Austin, chief steward aboard the OVERSEAS DAPHNE has been feeding SlU Seafarers since 1939. Pantryman Frank Kiley checks the ship's stores before she takes on; additional supplies for a return trip to Vietnam. Dennis Kenny, a 20-year yet-' eran with the SlU, takes time out while in port to catch up on reading news in the LOS. «<>.• ^« cnane. I UOME FROM THE FAR EAST after nearly five months at sea, the Overseas D^rfine docked at Bayonne, New Jersey recently. During her voyage, she visited Vietnam, Korea, Japan and several other countries. After only a two-day stopover in port, during which time she quickly took on fresh stores and a new cargo, she left for a return trip to the same ports she had called on during her earlier voyage. W'&: B'sun Art Roy has the loading and unloading of the ship well in hand as a netful! of ship's stores comes aboard. Deck Department won high praise. TX-:n i|t ii-i Recent HLSS graduate George Dyk' • ^ stra (right) was met by his brother, Brian, after completing the first voy-. age of his career on the DAPHNE,'/ ilfei New York Patrolman E. B. MacAuley (left) discusses/ fhe vessel's nearly five month voyage with Ptler Robert Rouse. During her trip, the ship made stops at Pusan, Yokohama and Saigon. Crew reports the weather was fine during the trip. X � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource January 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NIXON SENDS NEW MARITIME PROGRAM TO CONGRESS MEMBERS VOTE APPROVAL OF AMENDED SIU CONSTITUTION BY A WIDE MARGIN REP. ROONEY LIKENS MERCHANT MARINE TO NATION’S URBAN DEPRESSED AREAS MEANY LOOKS TO SEVENTIES AS DECADE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICAN LABOR WITHDRAWAL OF 35 GAAS BY MSTS SAID TO END RESERVE FLEET THREAT HOUSE PASSED BRIDGE TO BRIDGE BILL REQUIRES RADIOTELEPHONES FOR SHIPS SENATE CRUSHES FANNIN AMENDMENT TO IMPOSE POLITICAL GAG ON UNIONS IT’S NOT ONLY WEATHER THAT CAUSES LAYOFFS IN THE CONSTRUCTION TRADES AFL-CIO PRODS ADMINISTRATION ON PROTECTION OF FREEDOM IN MIDEAST NLRB ORDERS CARDCHECK BARGAINING BY TWO FIRMS WHO FOUGHT UNIONS VOTE ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT – UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE’S REPORT PROMPT FUNDING SOUGHT AS GUARANTEE OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION COMPLIANCE TOUGH MINE HEALTH, SAFETY BILL VOTED BY HOUSE; AWAITS CONFERENCE BUYING POWER CONTINUES TO DECLINE AS EARNINGS DROP FOR SECOND MONTH JP STEVENS ORDERED TO NEGOTIATE WITH TEXTILE WORKERS IN GEORGIA LEARNING ABOUT THE SEA AND LEARNING ABOUT THE SIU Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 1 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/2c4064126aedc0c3bbcda20566c63784.PDF 7b48cb9796056b34ca38f495026a2776 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS«LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO House Hearings Begin On Shipbuilding Phase Of Nixon Maritime Program Story Page 3 Seatrain Lines to Build Two New Supertankers; Largest in U.S. Fleet Llif Story Page 2 UJ" V - [K Tanker Connecticut Makes Port Safely With AH Hands Aboard > i Story Page 5 In This Issue: K • Full Text of i . New SlU Constitution L More than 1,000 Q.M.E.D. endorsements were achieved during the past year through the engine upgrading program sponsored joint­ ly by the SlU and District 2. MEBA. Instructor Bob Lonchiek (far left) poses with the latest group of graduates. (See page 5.) .See Pages 13-20 m iS �SEAFARERS Page Two New Legislation Needed To Attract Private Capital WASHINGTON—New mar­ itime legislation being consid­ ered by Congress must put emphasis on attracting private investment in the shipping in­ dustry to ease "continuing pres­ sures" on the government for greater merchant marine sub­ sidies, Representative Jacob Gil­ bert (D-N.Y.) declared today. "The easing of that pressure U.S. Merchant Fleet Decreases by 31 Vessels WASHINGTON—The active U.S. oceangoing merchant fleet decreased by another 31 ships as of December 1, 1969, re­ ports the Maritime Administratimi. Fignres contained in die Maritime Administra­ tion's merchant marine data sheet show that there were 937 vessels of 1,000 gross tons and over in service on December 1, 1969, as compared with 968 in service on Novem­ ber 1, 1969. Oflier figures show that the Maritime Administra­ tion's active fleet also de­ creased in size, from 124 ships to 117 ships. Its in­ active fleet increased in size by three to 898 ves­ sels. Since November 1, 1969, four ships have been sold for scrapping. should be appealing to the budget-balancers and those who want to see federal expenditures reduced," Gilbert said. The Congressman noted that the "surest way" to make the shipping industry attractive to private capital is to allow oper­ ators to put aside construction reserve funds in tax-deferred ac­ counts, so that they can accumu­ late the $20 to $30 million per ship that is needed today. Gilbert conceded that, in the past, the Treasury Department has been cool to such an ap­ proach, because it involves a temporary loss of federal in­ come. "This is penny-wise and pound-foolish," he said, "be­ cause every dollar that you defer in taxes today for shipbuilding, returns something like $1.80 in the long run." The Congressman urged that legislation also take into ac­ count "the enormous changes which have occurred in the pat­ tern of American trade" since present maritime legislation was enacted in 1936. "At that time," Gilbert said, "package cargo comprised 78 percent of America's imports and exports—only 22 percent of our cargo was in bulk ship­ ments. But there has been a dramatic tum-around in the trade picture since then. Bulk shipments now constitute 85 percent of our commerce—and package cargo is down to a mere 15 percent." For that reason, the Congress­ man said, "we have to concen­ trate our dollars and our efforts on the place where we stand the most to gain: On the carriage of bulk cargoes in Americanflag ships." Febraaiy, 1970 LOG 'The Effect Has Been Disastrous' Rep. Clark Charges U.S. Stood Still As Soviets Climhod Maritime Ladder On the national defense front, WASHINGTON — For two shade over 5 percent." In the decades the United States has same period, he said, 20 Ameri­ Clark said, the U.S. "scraped "sat on its hands", falling from can shipyards have v "closed the bottom of the maritime bar­ No. 1 to No. 6 in world ship­ down for lack of wqvk," and rel for Vietnam," adding that if ping, while the Soviet Union the U.S. balance-of-payments war broke out in any other part "moved from 21st in world mari­ has lost $28 billion—"enough of the world "we'd be sorely time standings to No. 5," Rep­ to have turned a 20-year deficit pressed to meet maritime com­ resentative Frank M. Qark (D- into a surplus in our internation­ mitments ... in fact, to put it bluntly, we might not make it." al payments account." Pa.) charged recently. Since the end of World War II, he said, "the Soviet Union committed four times as many dollars to shipbuilding each year as we have done," and today the Russians have "nine times as many ships on order and under construction as we do." In a "State of the Merchant Marine Message" delivered to a Almost $100 million in federal loan guarantees have been luncheon sponsored by the 7.5approved by the Maritime Administration for the construction million-member AFL-CIO Mar­ of two 230,000-ton supertankers for SlU-contracted Seatrain itime Trades Department, Qark Lines, Inc. said that the Soviet Union has, Construction of the two ships, each of which will be twice as its goal, "the domination of the size of the 115,000-ton tanker Manhattan, presently the world trade, so that it can put, largest tanker in the U.S. merchant fleet, will possibly begin and keep, its heel on the throat as early as this summer in Seatrain's new shipyard at the of the world—achieving through former Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. economic pressures the same The 115,000-ton Manhattan, also Seatrain-owned, recently goals that she seeks, if neces­ became the first ship to successfully navigate the Northwest sary, by military means." Passage to Alaska. Details of the Martime Administration's approval of the The Pennsylvania Democrat loan guarantees were announced by Secretary of Commerce said that the merchant marine Maurice H. Stans following a review of the project with has been the victim of "slow Representative John J. Rooney (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the strangulation," because govern­ House Appropriations Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction ment funding was inadequate, over the Maritime Administration. and was not made available to The federal loan guarantees to Seatrain Lines for construc­ the entire fleet, and because tion of the vessels consist of ship mortgage insurance granted "inadequate incentives were under Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, and are made available to attract suffi­ among the largest ever granted under the Title XI program. cient private investment." Representative Rooney said he was extremely pleased by He said the effect has been the Seatrain-Maritime Administration agreement. "disastrous," pointing out that "It is a solid achievement for the Nation and its maritime in a quarter of a century the industry, as well as for the company involved and for the United States has slipped from thousands of people who will be a part of these ship con­ carrying nearly half its exports structions," he said. and importSj so that today American ships carry "only a Two Seatraln Supertankers Will Be Largest InU.S. Fleet THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT The Fight to Save Seafarers Johs This month. Congress opened hearings on proposals put forward by the Nixon Administration to help keep the American merchant marine from sinking. To a large extent, the future of American-flag shipping is going to rest on the outcome of these hearings. If Congress and the Administration can agree on a workable program to put more ships—and more modern ships—into the water, and if they can come to agreement on a program that will put more cargoes into these ships, then the maritime industry has a chance to climb back from the low point to which it has fallen since World War II. If Congress and the Administration can't agree on a program, then they'll be sounding the death-knell for the American fleet, as we know it today. We in the SIU have been in this light to save the merchant marine for a long time. To be blunt about it, we have a lot at stake. Sure, we could talk about the merchant marine in terms of our national defense, and our balance of payments. We could talk about it in terms of beefing up the American economy and improving America's prestige around the world. All those are valid points. They should be considered— by the President, the Congress and the American people. But for Seafarers, the issue is more basic than that. This is our industry and these are our jobs. If the operators survive, if they can make a profit, if they can exprnd—then there are shipboard jobs for SIU members. If the operator can't cut it, then our jobs are going to go down the drain. It's as basic as that. And for years, we've stood on the beach and watched these jobs become fewer and fewer. We've seen our operators go foreign, because the chance wasn't there for them to carry cargo under the American flag— and each time a ship went foreign, the jobs of Sea­ farers went foreign, too. We've seen some of our operators forced to the wall —their companies bankrupt and their vessels sent to the shipbreakers—because the opportunity wasn't there for the operator to make a living. And every time an operator couldn't make a living, there were more of our members put on the beach because there was no living to be made at sea for them either. It's easy to fix the blame for what has happened in the past 25 years: • The government apparently didn't care enough about the maritime industry's problems to do some­ thing about them, so there was too little money made available—and what was spent went in the wrong directions. • While our trade was developing in the bulk trades, the government was still spending all of its money on the liner trades. • Although our operators needed government cargo to survive, they had to stand on the sidelines, too many times, and watch that government cargo handed over to foreign-flag ships with foreign crews. • Because the government was so shortsighted, we had to turn to and man World War II "rust=buckets" during the Vietnam sealift—and after that emergency was over, we watched for months while these gov­ ernment-owned ships continued in service forcing many of our contracted-vessels into layups, and many of our members onto the beach. So the government has to bear the major burden of what has happened—although the industry has some responsibility, too. Given the nature of the in­ dustry, and given the fact that the government subsi­ dized one-third of the fleet and left the other two-thirds to rot, it's not surprising that the various segments of the industry have been at each others' throats for years. But it certainly hasn't helped to find a solution, when the subsidized and unsubsidized operators have been at constant war with each other. There are still going to be areas of sharp difference within this industry. And it's certain that, no matter what kind of a maritime program Confess and the Administration come up with, it's not going to satisfy everybody. Nobody in his right mind expects that it will. But we can hope that the next few months will see some action on a maritime program that will get this industry moving again—a program that will pro­ tect the jobs we still have and that will open up new job opportunities in the future. Because, from the viewpoint of the SIU member and his union, that's what this is all about: Our jobs. -I �February, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page I'liree MTD. Speaks for Labor as: Hearings Open on Shipbuilding Phase Of President's Maritime Program WASHINGTON—Hearings on the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, the Nixon Admin­ istration's legislative blueprint for the revitalization of the declining U.S. merchant marine, were opened by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee on February 3rd. period of 10 years. • Bulk cargo carriers, for the first time since the enact­ ment of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, will share in sub­ sidies for the construction of Reading data on Ohio's unemployment law are SlU Toledo Port Agent new vessels. These s,ubsidies Don Bensman (left), and prime sponsor of full unemployment compen­ have in the past been restricted sation coverage for seamen, Representative Casey Jones of Toledo. only to operators in the liner trade. • In the awarding of sub­ sidies for construction of ves­ sels for the bulk trades, priority will be given to operators al­ TOLEDO—An SlU-en- for seamen, and have vigorously ready in this trade, to the extent dorsed bill has been introduced fought against passage of simi­ that they are eligible to partici­ in the Ohio State Legislature lar bills introduced in the Ohio pate in the program and can which provides long-awaited full Legislature in the past. finance their share of the cost coverage for seamen under the The new bill comes about as of new ships. state's unemployment benefits a result of joint efforts by the • In order to assist in raising program. SIU, MEBA District 2 and the the private capital that the ship­ The legislation. House Bill Associated Maritime Officers on building program will need, the 1022, would eliminate an unfair the Great Lakes. benefits of the tax deferred con­ special provision of the present During 1969, the Ohio Un­ struction reserve fund will be state unemployment law which employment Compensation Act extended to all ship operators. reduces benefits to seamen on was amended to provide certain Presently, only the 14 berththe grounds that they are sea­ winter benefits for seamen, but line operators receiving con­ sonal workers. Seafarers in Ohio still do not struction and operating sub­ A number of Great Lakes receive the same benefits as do sidies benefit from this tax steamship companies based in other workers in the state. deferment system. Ohio have long taken advantage The bill was introduced in • To bring about reductions of the state's antiquated unem­ the Ohio Legislature by State in the cost of ship construction, ployment compensation law to Representative S. Casey Jones new methods for dealing with avoid having to contribute of Toledo and Phillip M. De shipyards, and the prospect of towards unemployment benefits Laine of Cleveland. block-building of ships are part of the program. 18 More Qualify For Full SIU Book During Gibson's testimony, the question of trade with the non-contiguous areas—^Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico was raised by the Committee. The need for action to reduce freight rates to these areas and to in­ crease their economic develop­ ment was discussed. Cooperation Promised The Maritime Administrator expressed a willingness to work with the Committee on a posi­ tive solution to the problem. The position of the 7.5 mil­ These ten Seafarers posed for a photo-after receiving their full books at the January 5 membershiplion member AFL-CIO Mari­ meeting at the New York hall. Left to right are Leon Fountaine, Rich Bradford,.Bob Saucier, Steve time Trades Department, of Bemel, Richard McDonald, James Camp, Edward Terrazzi, Carl Petb, Edward Haber, and Michel Worley. which the SIU is a member, was presented at the hearing by MTD Administrator O. William Moody, Jr. Moody was accom­ panied by Peter M. McGavin, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the MTD. The views of the shipbuilding members of the MTD and of the AFL-CIO Metal Trades De­ partment were presented by Page Groton, Director of the Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders Marine Council. Moody's opening remarks took note of the separation of the hearings into two catagories —ship construction and ship operation. While advising the committee that he would con­ fine his testimony to ship con­ struction and related subjects. Moody added: "To our way of thinking, Eight additional Seafarers received their full books at the February 2 meeting. Left to right are there is an enevitable connec­ David Ballard, Steve Mooney, Benedict Barela, Jacob Vered, Dave Hoagland, Fred Legg, Bill Mackey, tion between ship construction and Bob Krebs. To earn their full books through the Advanced Seamanship program. Seafarers and ship operation. We cannot must be an HLSS graduate, have a lifeboat endorsement and a rating, and have one year's seatime. SlU-Sponsored Unemployment Bill Has Full Coverage for Ohio Seafarers hi ill ) I, I- I: Setting an optimistic tone for the sessions. Representative Ed­ ward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), Committee Chairman and spon­ sor of the bill in the House, declared: "The day seemed long in coming when we could start hearings on specific legislation to improve our merchant ma­ rine." The hearings on the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1970 will be conducted in two phases. The first sessions, which are currently under way, will hear testimony on the shipbuilding proposals of the President's maritime program, while later sessions will deal exclusively with the operation of Americanflag vessels and the means for the improvement of their op­ portunities to carry U.S. exports and imports. Speaking for the Nixon Ad­ ministration, and the first wit­ ness to testify before the com­ mittee, was Maritime Adminis­ trator Andrew E. Gibson, who outlined the President's pro­ posals as follows: • The aim of the Adminis­ tration is to seek construction of 30 new ships per year for a afford to think in abstract terms. The Maritime Trades Depart­ ment is concerned about ship­ building in terms of cargoes— because if we do not have car­ goes to carry, or if the operators can't carry them at a profit— then we'd find ourselves build­ ing ships that go from ship­ yards to boneyards. "The MTD's concern about maritime legislation, Mr. Chair­ man, has consistently been in the development of a program that would be fair and equitable to all segments of the industry —tramp and liner, unsubsidized and subsidized, shipping and shipbuilding. Built in America "We have consistently advo­ cated legislation that would lead to the maximum private invest­ ment in the modernization of the American-flag fleet—a fleet that would be built in American shipyards, using the skills of . American craftsmen and the products of American industry. "We have worked for legis­ lation that would increase the capability of American vessels to move commercial cargo in competition with foreign-flag vessels—and that at the same time would increase Americanflag carriage of government cargoes." On the subject of tax deferred construction funds. Moody said that this program has worked well for those companies that have been included under its provisions, namely the berth line operators. However, he pointed out that a large segment of the operators in the Ameri­ can fleet have been ignored for years. "The tax deferred deposits have provided the 'seed' money with which new ships have been built by the subsidized lines. There has been only one de­ ficiency in the program: The fact that this provision was not available to all operators." Unequal Treatmenl Moody pointed out that the unsubsidized operator, who has been denied this same privilege, "has found that his available equity funds have been sharply reduced by the tax bite. This has resulted in a situation where "the amount which the unsub­ sidized operator had left for shipbuilding — and therefore the number and size of the ships which he could build—^was sub­ stantially less than that which the subsidized operator had from the same amoimt of earn­ ings." "Quite obviously, extension of this same privilege to all operators would lead to the construction of more ships in American shipyards — making (Continued on Page 22) �SEAFARERS Page Four Republican Congressman Charges: February, 1970 LOC Talking to the Trainees Nixon's Maritime Proposals Ignores Problems of Fisheries WASHINGTON—A call for a "unified national policy" for development of the ocean's potential in terms of fishing, ocean­ ography, shipping and shipbuilding was made by Rep. Howard W,. Pollock (R-Alasica). Speaking at a meeting spon­ "various ocean activities," add­ sored by the 7.5 million-mem­ ing; ber AFL-CIO Maritime Trades "The competition for money Department, the Republican to fund these various programs Congressman expressed concern is bad enough. The overlapping that the Nixon Administration's of areas of interest, the duplica­ maritime message was geared tion of fffort, and the gaps that exclusively to merchant marine are left at the present time, only construction and operation, serve to emphasize the fallacy without any mention of the of the present piece-meal ap­ problems of the fisheries, which proach. he describes as "one of the most "Many hours and many mil­ neglected areas" on the mari­ lions of dollars are spent dupli­ time scene. cating research activities. And, "The decline of the U.S. because goals are defined dif­ fishing fleet has been just as ferently by different agencies, severe as the decline of our we often find ourselves in the deep-sea cargo fleet," Pollock ludicrous position of funding stated. "Our neglect of the programs that are in direct con­ fisheries and the living resources flict with each other." of the sea has been just as wrong as our ne^ect of our shipping and shipbuilding capabUities." Failure to include overhaul of the fishing industry in the maritime bill now before Con­ gress, the Alaska Republican said, might well mean the The following figures from "shunting" aside of this prob­ records of the Labor Depart­ lem in 1970, emphasizing what ment's Bureau of Labor Statis­ he said was the "fragmented" approach to the total maritime tics, show how the buying power of workers' pay checks has failed problem. "We are concerned," the to keep pace with wage ad­ Congressman said, "with re­ vances in recent years. Government economists at­ vitalizing the merchant fleet, with increasing our exports, and tribute the lag mainly to in­ with the development of a part­ creased living costs, with some nership between the industry due to higher taxes and a short­ and the government. I think we ening of the work week. The should be equally concerned figures are averages for a work­ er with three dependents on pri­ with developing our fishing fleet, increasing our fishing ex­ vate, non-farm payrolls. Real ports, and instituting a partner­ take-home pay is in terms 1957ship between the fishing indus­ 59 dollars. try and the government—and Gross Real we should do it in one bill." Earnings Take-home Pollock said that what is 1960 $ 80.67 $70.77 needed is "a definitive national 1961 82.60 71.48 program that covers this entire 1962 73.05 85.91 area involved with the seas 1963 73.63 88.46 around us," and called for a 1964 76.38 91.33 "national budget directed to the 1965 78.53 95.06 full and coordinated develop­ 1966 78.39 98.82 ment of the ocean potential." 1967 101.94 78.13 107.73 He noted that 22 separate 1968 78.61 114.61 federal agencies are engaged in 1969 78.30 How Workers Buying Power Slipped in '60s inspecting Storm Damage Bosun Woody Drake, left, and Deck Maintenance David Atkinson, in­ spect damage to a deck engine aboard the Transseneca. Ship was at anchor off Yokohama awaiting repairs after hitting heavy weather. Si U Vice President Earl Shepard, right, attended the classes at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland, during a recent visit, and talked to the trainees about the history of the SIU. Seated on the left is HLSS Education Director William Hall. Ail-Year Use of Mississippi Under Study by Coast Guard ST. LOUIS—^The U.S. Coast Guard is studying the feasibility of opening up the Mississippi River—as far north as present­ ly icelocked Minneapolis and St. Paul—on an all-year round basis. From December through early April the river up north is usually blocked by ice, pre­ venting the movement of both barges and ships. British WillAttempt To Salvage Titam BALDOCK, England — The ill-fated luxury liner H.M.S. Titanic, sunk by a gigantic iceberg while on her maiden voyage in April, 1912, some 430 miles southeast of Newfoundland, may be raised from the ocean bottom in 1971. Douglas Wooley, 33, a British salvage engineer, and a team of salvage ex­ perts, have formed a com­ pany known as Titanic Sal­ vage Ltd. and will under­ take the job of bringing the liner to the surface at a projected cost of $4.8 mil­ lion. The dramatic salvage operation will be accom­ plished through the use of ultra-modern electronic equipment, the exact nature of which is being kept a secret by the salvage com­ pany. TTie salvage team is ex­ pected to begin operations at the site of the sinking in April. "We have reached the final stage, to get photo­ graphs of the vessel from the bottom of the sea. If all goes well, the Titanic should be up at the begin­ ning of next year," Wooley said. The sinking of the Ti­ tanic more than half a century ago took the lives of more than 1500 people; all previous attempts to bring her to the surface have failed. The study was announced by Coast Guard Captain Robert F. Barker, who outlined the Coast Guard's plans including the possibility of using ice­ breakers in the upper river. Barker said that many prob­ lems have arisen, including how the barges would be handled in the channel after the way had been cleared by the ice breakers. His own solution to the problem is a suggestion that a convoy system be used where­ by several tows would be moved through at one time in order to keep the channel open. He also proposed that steps be taken to locate potential ice jams in the river early in the season so that the ice could not form and delay shipping. Last month, two massive ice jams in the river south of St. Louis bottled up barge traflBc for almost two weeks. When the jams were finally broken, more than a score of loaded barges were left high and dry when the water rushed out from under them. WaveStudyMade By Sea Scientists With Celor Film NORFOLK —Ocean waves have achieved movie-star status, now that their life histories have been put under the cameras of government scientists in an at­ tempt to find out what they're really like. Although wave damage to beaches and structures along the shore runs into millions of dol­ lars annually, very little is known about the actual process in which an ocean wave moves shorebreaks, and surges up the (jgach To study the exact mechanics of this process, oceanographers of the Land and Sea Interaction Laboratory at Virginia Beach have been taking color movies of individual waves as they break against the shore, and then examining the film to get exact profile of a wave, and learn how it affects beaches and structures along the shore. To provide a background against which the waves could be measured, the scientists, led by Dr. Robert Byrne, set up a vertical lattice of pipes forming a grid that showed up on the film. "At the end of each day," said Byrne, "I could examine the ap­ proximately 300 feet of film taken and pinpoint the history of individual waves as they broke and ran up the beach." From these films the scien­ tists intend to devise formulas that can predict how high waves will rise on beaches, and use these figures in constructing sea­ walls and other shore protection structures. Byrne said the equations would be applicable to other coastal areas, with allowances made for differences in wave height, period between waves, beach slope, and bottom char­ acteristics. SIU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Benefits Paid Report Period December 1, 1969 - December 31, 1969 Number of Benefits Amount Paid SEAFARERS' WKFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits ... . Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $470.03) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Gut-Potients Benefits 33® 1,679 10,053.00 78,918.62 258 ^3 A,166 5,278.40 4,029.88 32,768.00 SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID 3,659 256,183.63 SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID M57 685,102.00 2,120 1,001,609.89 ^ 2,236 1,942,895.52 SEAFARBIS' VACATION PLANBENEFITS PAID (Average $472.46) TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD 9 1#676 29 ^ 37 $ 1,260.00 40,481.73 75,719.00 275.00 7,400.00 �Febraary, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Five LOG National Program Needed Doitors Urged to Join Labors Drive To Make US Heaith Destin World' 1 f) Seafarer Edward Burke proudly displays his original 2nd engineer's license earned after completing the course of study at the SlUAMO sponsored Deck Officers School. Brother Burke passed the U.S. Coast Guard examination in January and will be shipping out soon. Climbing the Ladder Seafarer Burke MakesSecoaJMate After Training at SffJ-AMO Scfiool PHILADELPHIA — The medical profession has been challenged to join the AFLCIO in a drive for a national health insurance program "to make American health care the best in the world." Enactment of the program, AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller told doc­ tors here, is essential to ending a health crisis "that has been with us for too many years with too little attention being paid to it." Biemiller spoke at the in­ stallation of Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads as the 109th president' of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Rhoads, chairman of the surgery department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is a long­ time acquaintance of Biemiller's. America spends a higher per­ centage of its gross national product for health care than any other country in the world, yet "it is not even in the top ten" when it comes to the vital statistics of health care, Bie­ miller pointed out. Fifteen other countries have longer average life expectancies, he noted. Twelve others have longer life expectancies for 10year-old females; 31 others have longer life expectancies for 10year-old males, and 14 others have lower infant mortality rates. For non-whites, the poor and city ghetto residents, Biemiller continued, "the life expectancy rate is seven years less than the average white American rate." Labor, he emphasized, "finds those statistics intolerable." Turning to health care costs, Biemiller said that while the overall cost of living rose about 25 percent in the past 10 years, hospital daily service charges shot up 150 percent and doc­ physicians and health delivery tors' fees jumped 50 percent. systems and making doctors' He cited additional figures to participation voluntary. disprove the charges of t'^osc Biemiller sharply criticized who place the main blame for the American Medical Associa­ high medical prices on Medicare tion for "bitterly and blindly" and Medicaid costs, and in­ having fought disability benefits creased pay for hospital em­ under social security. Medicare ployees. and many other progressive Labor will continue its efforts measures that became reality. to bring low-wage hospital em­ ployees under the minimum Engine Upgraders wage law and organize them into unions, Biemiller said, in (See Photo on Page One.) line with a responsibility to "in­ More than 3,000 endorsecrease wages and better working I ments have been achieved conditions whenever and wher­ through the SIU-MEBA, ever possible." District 2 upgrading school. In other areas, Biemiller de­ IThe school, a part of the scribed a medical picture in the Harry Lundeberg School of I nation marked by an overall i Seamanship, enables engine shortage of doctors, their con­ i department Seafarers to centration in large cities and I move up to more responsiwell-to-do areas, and enormous I ble and higher-paying ratwaste through duplicated medi­ I ings. The program also incal facilities. i sures that the SIU will Too often, he stated, "finan­ I continue to provide qualified cial considerations, not medical I rated personnel to man its considerations, determine where i contracted vessels. and how medical services are Pictured on page one are delivered, and even by whom, the latest graduates of the and who will have access to school. them and who won't." Front row (1-r): Charles "Private insurance financing Callahan, electrician; In­ has too often forced the practice structor Bob Lonchiek; Wil­ of medicine on the basis of the liam Cox, FOWT; Roice fine print in a [medical] insur­ I Waters, electrician; and Anance policy, rather than on the I drew Stortroen, electrician. basis of health needs." Second row (1-r): John National health insurance is Vastakis, electrician; Dave the one way to bring organiza­ Bohlen, FOWT; Melvin tion to the delivery of medical i Clivens, FOWT; George : care and allow "all persons to William, oiler; Coast Guard enter the mainstream of health Examiner Richard Rasmuscare on an equal basis and with sen. assurance of first class care," Third row (1-r): Jerry Biemiller said. I Makarewicz, FOWT; KenThe AFL-CIO, he explained, i neth Jenda, FOWT; Lionel envisions the program as pro­ Jackson, FOWT; Andrew viding a complete range of Lewis, FOWT; and Danny health services and benefits, McDonald, electrician, being financed like social secu­ pumpman, reefer engineer. rity, offering free choice of Since it opened its doors in Seafarer Edward Burke, 38, last month became the 61st February, 1966 the SlU-AMO member of the SIU to earn a jointly sponsored Deck Officers deck officer's license after suc­ School has offered upgrading cessfully completing the course opportunities to both the young­ of study at the Deck Officers School jointly sponsored by the er and older Seafarer alike. In SIU and the Associated Mari­ short, to any Seafarer wanting to climb the seniority ladder. time Officers Union. Brother Burke entered the school in August, 1969 and Engine Room Flooding in Heavy Seas Crippled Tanker after comprehensive training at the school, passed the Coast Guard's 2nd Mate examination with flying colors. A native of Boston, Brother Burke joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1955. Before entering the upgrading program, he sailed as an AB and Bosun. A Navy veteran. Brother Burke enjoys the distinction of having been a member of both the Los Angeles and Boston police forces. He was a member of the Boston Police from 196166. While he enjoyed his career as a policeman in both cities. Burke has always had a desire to go to sea which dateis back to his early childhood in Massa­ chusetts. "Seafaring has always been in my blood, and earning a mate's license is one of my goals," he said. His desire to sail is best ex­ pressed by his own words after receiving his 2nd Mate's license: SlU-contracted Connecticut lies dead in the water after an engine room flood shut down her plant. "111 take the first slot for a A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter can be seen hovering over the tanker's stack as it prepares to drop auxiliary pumps to the stricken ship. The crew pumped out the engine room, and she returned to port. 2nd Mate that comes along." Connecticut Returns to Port With All Hands Safe .V I i.. r, L WILMINGTON, Calif.—The SlU-contractcd Connecticut re­ turned here under tow with all hands safe after an engine room flooding shut down the vessel's plant. The 679-foot tanker, loaded with 20 million gallons of jet fuel, had been stricken in heavy seas two days out of San Pedro, heading for Yokohama. The crew responded to the emer­ gency quickly, and managed to keep the ship afloat until Coast Guard rescue helicopters ar­ rived with auxiliary pumps. After pumping out the engine room, the ship was taken in tow by a Coast Guard cutter and returned to port. The Connecticut put in to the shipyard for repairs, and then left for the Far East. She is now on her way from Honolulu, heading for Arruba, and is ex­ pected to tie up on the East Coast later this month. �Page Six SEAFARERS Febraary, 1970 LOC Labor Assails Action Medical Care Crisis: Nixon Veto of Health, Education Aid Forces Congress to Pick Up Pieces Congress set about trying to pick up the pieces of the nation's education and health programs in the wake of President Nixon's veto of legislation to finance them. The AFL-CIO denounced the veto, deplored the failure of Congress to override it, and pre­ dicted that the President's "po­ litical victory will prove hollow indeed when November rolls around" and America goes to the polls. Urgency was the keynote as school districts throughout the nation faced the choice between bankruptcy or sharp mid-year, cutbacks unless federal funds are restored. A majority of the House — 226-to-191—voted to override the President's veto. But the vote fell short of the two-thirds margin required by the Constitu­ tion. Because "the President had his way" on the veto, AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller said, "the nation's chil­ dren and the ill will pay the bill." Most House Republicans had originally voted for the increased funds rejected by the President. The money was necessary, they said at the time—essential. But on the showdown, only a rela­ tive handful bucked the White House pressure. Voting to override the veto were 199 Democrats and 27 Republicans. Voting against the money for school and health programs were 156 Republicans and 35 Democrats. President Nixon used his veto power for the first time before a nationwide television audience. The legislation, he insisted, was "inflationary." It provided $1.3 billion more than the President had requested last year for education and health programs. But Congress had already cut more than four times that amount from the Ad­ ministration's budget requests for other programs. Biemillfci made this comment in the aftermath of the House vote: "We join all others who have a concern for education and health in a sense of outrage over the President's action. He used a television gimmick, false and misleading arguments and out­ rageous armtwisting in order to make political gain. "The President now has added teachers, school super­ intendents, librarians, health re­ searchers, children and parents to the list of those adversely affected by Nixon policies. "Already on that list were those seeking homes that can't be built because of high interest rates and blacks, twice the vic­ tims of the southern political school of picking Supreme Court nominees. "Of course," Biemiller noted, "the bankers, whose profits con­ tinue to mount, are still in the President's comer." Before the vote. Health Edu­ cation & Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch promised that, if the veto were sustained, the President would go along with a compromise increase in the politically popular "impact" aid program. This provides pay­ ments to school districts at­ tended by children whose par­ ents work for the federal gov­ ernment or are in the armed forces. It was, ironically, this pro­ gram that the President attacked most sharply in his televised veto message. He said nothing about the fact that most of the added money in the appropria­ tions bill was earmarked for other programs — including nearly $210 million for voca­ tional education programs, $171 million for the key program of providing special funds for ed­ ucationally deprived children in poverty neighborhoods, $41.5 million for library services and some $140 million for hospital construction, health research and mental health programs. Nixon told the nation that he is all for improved education and better health care. "The question is," he said, "how much can the federal gov­ ernment afford to spend on these programs this year?" The United States, he said, already spends more than other countries for health and educa­ tion. "But," he cautioned, "we can spend ourselves poor." In a sharp report. House Ma­ jority Leader Carl Albert (DOkla.) suggested that the Presi­ dent "use the awesome power of his office, not against the chil­ dren, the sick, the aged and the poor of the nation, but rather against the giant monopolies which are the true culprits in causing inflation." All of the nation's major ed­ ucation and teacher groups, along with the AFL-CIO, worked together in the initial successful campaign to convince Congress to appropriate the added funds and in the attempt to override the veto. The effort to override was doomed when a big majority of the 86 Republicans who had voted to pass the bill in its final form—despite the threat of a veto—switched and voted to sustain the President's position. National Health Plan Called Only Answer NEW YORK—An insurance industry official told the Life Underwriters Association of this city that carriers will act to im­ prove serious defects in delivery of medical care. But the 250 insurance sales­ men present were reminded by an AFL-CIO spokesman that nothing in their industry's rec­ ord gave ahy promise that this desperately needed action would occur. Labor is convinced that a social-security-based national heath insurance plan is the only avenue open to reach this goal, said Director Bert Seidman of the AFL-CIO Department of Social Security. He pointed out that private carriers, with their $13-billiona-year stake in health insurance business, have failed to use this "financial clout" to influence doctors to move toward lower cost group practice, outpatient and preventive care instead of costly in-hospital treatment most private insurance policies ex­ clusively provide. Although private insurance gives some hospital cost protec­ tion to 80 percent and surgical cost average to 77 percent of DI$PATCi|ERS REPORT January 1, TPPO to Janucny 1970 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 7 3 New York 91 117 Philadelphia 18 18 Baltimore 43 28 Norfolk 26 22 Jacksonville 47 44 Tampa 9 16 Mobile 35 35 New Orleans 103 65 Houston ..... 73 85 Wilmington 52 89 San Francisco ... 123 120 Seattle 29 27 Totals 656 669 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 5 2 5 60 79 16 6 0 3 4 30 22 6 16 24 22 24 1 3 0 3 37 18 4 41 8 54 42 2 50 46 21 72 99 99 30 35 27 21 419 132 486 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 11 130 191 19 22 69 123 24 31 44 44 39 26 79 35 74 146 128 151 80 51 93 23 14 48 682 1016 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 3 5 New York 97 140 Philadelphia 10 31 Baltimore 26 38 Norfolk 20 34 Jacksonville 14 50 Tampa 6 8 Mobile 31 41 New Orleans .... 93 80 Houston ........ 43 91 Wilmington 32 62 San Francisco ... 74 125 Seattle 39 43 Totals 477 759 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 1 4 86 22 67 1 1 8 6 27 32 17 2 9 3 31 10 0 3 6 0 24 23 8 41 61 9 55 38 24 41 17 89 41 58 29 27 24 146 445 357 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B .3 4 159 140 32 14 62 57 43 20 41 15 26 16 59 47 133 98 98 99 60 27 20 49 14 44 750 630 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston .... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 2 0 89 55 9 5 28 27 9 19 16 32 4 6 37 22 53 70 41 35 21 31 52 109 38 16 399 427 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B CUssC 6 1 1 23 47 52 6 2 2 18 7 25 10 17 9 18 21 8 0 2 2 0 17 15 53 5 45 19 26 39 23 22 17 49 67 46 27 14 29 196 304 290 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 4 76 160 7 14 68 81 25 11 28 26 11 14 34 76 61 117 59 92 29 23 28 52 40 15 443 710 those under 65, Seidman said, it provides nothing to pay for physician home or office visits for 54 percent—more than half —of the below-65 group. This basic defect in the financing mechanism, he said, had led to the lopsided, inadequate health care that exists. Howard Ennes, the industry spokesman and a vice president of Equitable Life, said the Health Insurance Association of America has more than 300 carrier members writing 80 per­ cent of private health coverage for 104 million persons. He said the association planned to bring about changes that would alter and improve health care delivery—the crux of the medi­ cal care problem. To questions on the possible threat to them of a social-secu­ rity type national health insur­ ance program, Ennes told the underwriters that he estimated they could expect to double group health coverage business and have "a subtstantial in­ crease" in individual policies. Seidman estimated that a na­ tional health plan would cost workers, employers and govern­ ment about the $52.6 billion spent on personal medical serv­ ices in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1969. Under the plan, he said, all would be covered for all serv­ ices and doctors could choose the least costly avenue of treat­ ment needed. Financing would be by payment by workers of about 1 percent of wages, plus 3 percent of payroll contributed by employers and another 3 per­ cent by government. The selfemployed would pay as they now contribute to retirement benefits under social security, and government would pay, as now, for those without means. Services would be supplied under contract with individual doctors, medical societies, hos­ pitals and multi-specialty groups and prepaid on a per person basis, TTie program would also have the responsibility of im­ proving organization and de­ livery of health care by financial aid to plan, develop and initially staff health service delivery sys­ tems. Government spent in the fis- • cal year ended June 30 about $20 billion for personal medical care, Seidman said, and its three-seventh national health plan share would be about $19 billion. The employers' 3 per­ cent is about what they pay now for "partial services" their work­ ers receive under private insur­ ance, he added. Ennes noted it was the indus­ try view that "organized service" of medical care was "the order of the day" and that "while it seems clear that the solo practi­ tioner will not vanish overnight, it does seem that he will gradual­ ly disappear." { • I' �SEAFARERS Febniary« 1970 Page Seven LOG Growing SlU Pension Roster Lists 22 Additional Seafarers j\' \ ll I Twenty-two Seafarers retired to the beach last month and joined their many brothers who have retired on SIU pension after long careers at sea. Elvin Lee Clifton, 69, joined the SIU in Port Arthur, Texas and sailed as a deckhand for Sabin Towing Company. He is a native of Alto, Texas and now spends his retirement in Port Arthur with his wife, Mattie. Vernon Lee Williamson, 52, is a native of Georgia and now makes his home in Long Beach, California. He joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore and sailed in the engine department as an FOWT. His last ship was the Overseas Rebecca. From 1937 until 1941 Brother Wil­ liamson served in the Marine Corps. CUfton WilUamson HUls Shelby home in the Bronx. Seafarer Maiello served picket duty both in 1961 and 1965. He is an Army veteran of World War II. Mason Seals, 66, is a native of Louisiana and now lives there with his wife, Olga Rose. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department as a chief electrician. His last ship was the Meridian. Thomas E. Bethel, 65, joined the Union in the Port of Phila­ delphia and sailed as a captain for P. F. Martin, Inc. A native of Virginia, Brother Bethel is spending his retirement in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania with his wife, Anna. Anthony Lalli, 63, is a native of Pennsylvania and now makes his home in San Francisco, Cali­ fornia. He joined the Union in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. His last ship was the San Juan. From 1926 until 1930 Brother Lalli served in the Marine Corps. Noffsinger Seals James Terah Lassiter, 69, joined the SIU in the Port of Boston in 1940 and sailed in the engine department. He last worked on board the Enid Vic­ tory. A native of North Caro­ lina, he now lives in Conway, North Carolina. Brother Las­ siter served in the Army from 1919 until 1933. He had been sailing the seas for 35 years when he retired. Lassiter Jaynes Harold F. Jaynes, 66, is a native of Massachusetts and now spends his retirement years in Meredith, New Hampshire, with his wife, Virginia. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1938 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. His last ship was the Vo­ lusia. Brother Jaynes had been sailing 49 years when he retired. Arthur William Brown, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as a cook. He last worked aboard the Fairisle. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Brother Brown now lives in San Diego, California. He left a sailing career of 39 years behind him when he retired. Luis R. Rodriguez, 65, is a native of Puerto Rico and now makes his home in Catano, Puerto Rico, with his wife. Carmen. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in Bethel LaUi DeBeanmont Brown Rodriguez Darouse 1945 and sailed in the deck de­ partment as a carpenter. He last sailed on board the War­ rior. During 1965, Brother Rodriguez served picket duty for the Union. Louis Schremp, 71, joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a cook and baker. His last ship was the Del Sud. He is a native of New Orleans where he now makes his home. Brother Schremp is a Naval vet­ eran of World War I. Bennie H. Lowderback, 43, is a native of Louisiana and now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Wanda. He joined the Union in the Port of New Or­ leans and sailed as a Stewart. His last vessel was the Columbia. Constantino Coyle John Coyle, 65, is a native of Ireland and now makes his home in the Bronx with his wife, Catherine. He joined, the Union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as a cook and baker. His last ship was the Steel Traveler. Brother Coyle had been sailing for 39 years when he retired. SEAFARER&i^LOG John T. Mills, 55, joined the SIU back in 1938 in the Port February, 1970 • Vol. XXXII, No. 2 of Mobile and sailed in the en­ Offlclml Publication of the gine department as an FOWT. Seafarers International Union of North America, His last vessel was the Del Rio. Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes A native of Mississippi, Brother and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Mills is retiring to his home in Mobile, Alabama with his wife, Executive Board PAUL HALL, Preeident Lyda. EARL SKEPABD CAL TANNEB Wyndham Randolph Shelby, Exec. Vice-Free, Vice-Preeident LINDSEY WlUJAlU AL KERR 56, is a native of Canton, China See.-Treae. Vice-Preeident and now lives in Galveston, Tex­ ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-Preeident Vice-Preeident as with his wife, Lucille. He joined the SIU in the Port of Houston and sailed in the deck department as an AB. He last Greene Obidos worked for G and H Towing Robert Ernest Greene, 61, Company. Brother Shelby is a Schremp Lowderback Pibfiihiil msnthly at 810 Rhodi lilind Ansa* Naval veteran of World War II. joined the SIU in the Port of N.E., Washington, D. C. 20O18 by the Seafar­ ers international Union, Atlantic, Galf, Lata Glenn G. Noffsinger, 47, Norfolk and sailed in the stew­ James W. Darouse, 51, joined and Inland Wateri District, AFL-CI8, <75 Fairth Arenac, Broeblyn, H.Y. 11232. Tel. joined the Union in Michigan ard department as a chief cook. the SIU in the Port of New Or­ HYaclntb 9-660O. Second elau pestaie paid at Waihlnitoni, D. C. and sailed as a deckhand. He His last ship was the McAllister. leans in 1943 and sailed as a POSTMASTER'S ATTENTIOM: Ferai 3579 last worked for the Ann Arbor A native of North Carolina, eardi ihoald be wnt te Seafarers isteraatlaaal steward. A native of Louisiana, Union, Atlantic, Galf, Lakes and Isisad Railroad Company. A native Brother Greene is now living in Waters DIstrlet, AFL-CiO, 675 Feirtk Aiiaas. Brother Darouse is spending his Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. of Michigan, Brother Noffsinger Portsmouth, Virginia with his retirement in Bayton, Texas now makes his home in Elberta, wife, Frances. with his wife, Mary Ethel. Michigan with his wife, Barbara Raymond R. Obidos, 65, is Belle. Seafarer Noffsinger is an a native of the Philippine Islands Three More Oldtimers Retire Army veteran of World War II. and now lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Fidela. He joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as chief steward. He last worked on board the Transhatteras. Brother Obidos is a Naval veteran of World War II. France B. DeBeaumont, 70, joined the SIU in the Port of Maiello Schiavtme New York and sailed in the Antonio Schiavone, 61, is a deck department as a bosun. .native of Massachusetts and is His last ship was the Chilore. now spending his retirement A native of France, Brother years in the Bronx with his wife, DeBeaumont is spending his Mildred Maria. Brother Schia­ retirement in Salem, Oregon, vone joined the SIU in the Port with his wife, Sylvia. When he of Norfolk in 1941 and sailed retired. Seafarer DeBeaumont in the steward department as a left a sailing career of 54 years baker and chief cook. His last behind him. ship was the De Soto. Three Enrique N. Constantino, 65, times during 1965 he was issued is a native of the Philippine Is­ picket duty cards. lands and now makes his home Anthony Joseph Maiello, 61, in New Orleans with his wife, joined the Union in the Port of Josephine. He joined the Un­ Baltimore and sailed in the stew­ ard department as*a chief cook. ion in the Port of New York He last sailed on board the and sailed in the steward de­ SIU Vice President Earl Shepard presents their first pension checks to these three SiU oldtimers. The Dauntless. A native of Italy, partment as a BR. His last ship presentations were made at February membership meeting at the New York hall. Left to right are Carlos Mojica, Antonio Schiavone, and John Coyle. More than 200 members were there to offer congratulations. Brother Maiello now makes his was the Del Argentina. �Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG February, 1970 / �February, 1970 SEAFARERS '^RAINEES at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at •*- Piney Point, under the supervision of experienced SIU instruc­ tors, go through the actual procedures of launching and boarding the Elliot inflatable life raft as part of their training program. This raft is carried aboard nearly every SlU-contracted vessel, and ex­ perience in the proper operation of this equipment contributes to the SIU's commitment to safety at sea. Ttainees also become thoroughly familiar with the use and oper­ ation of all equipment carried aboard the life rafts, and are taught emergency procedures for righting a capsized raft and assisting injured shipmates in boarding the raft. This training, like the lifeboat training, is the best and most thorough program available anywhere in the country. n> '«>• 6 7 8 9 LOG Page Wine Tension on the sea painter activates the raft's CD^ system, causing the stowage case • to split open and freeing the raft. Raft then continues to inflate automatically in water. Raft will also inflate automatically if the ship sinks before manual launching. When the • ship sinks to 10-15 feet, the hydrostat trips the release and raft ascends to the surface. 10 11 The raft is completely inflated and ready to be boarded within 30 seconds after • it has been launched. The sea painter (releasing line) parts automatically when ship sinks. Raft is now fully inflated and ready for boarding. If the raft inflates in an upside• down position, right it by standing on the COj cylinder and grasping the righting strap. • When raft is inflated, crewmembers go over the side. Never dive into water. Recommended procedure is to jump, holding nose, with legs tucked up under body in a crouch. > Crewmembers swim to the raft, and board it head first. Enclosed top protects crew against heat or cold. Equipment on raft includes patching cloth to repair rips or tears. �SEAFARERS Page Ten Febnurjr, 1970 LOG INCOME TAX GUIDE April 15, 1970, is the dead­ line for filing Federal income tax returns. As is customary at this time of the year, the SIU Ac­ counting Department has pre­ pared the following detailed tax guide to assist SIU men in filing their returns on income earned in 1969. Generally, with very few ex­ ceptions, seamen are treated no differently under the income tax, laws than any other citizen or resident of the U. S. (The non­ resident alien seaman must also file a return, but the rules are not the same for him.) WHO MUST FILE. Every Seafarer who is a citizen or res­ ident of the United States— whether an adult or minor— who had $600 or more income in 1969 must file; if 65 or over, $1,200 or more. A Seafarer with income of less than these amounts should file a return to get a refund if tax was withheld. A married Seafarer with income less than his own personal exemption should file a joint return with his wife to get the smaller tax or larger refund for the couple. WHEN TO FILE. Tax re­ turns have to be filed by April 15, 1970. However, the April 15 deadline is waived in cases where a seaman is at sea. In such instances, the seaman must file his return at the first oppor­ tunity, along with an affidavit stating the reason for delay. TAX SURCHARGE. The tax surcharge is in addition to the regular income tax and is 10 percent. If the regular tax is less than $735, the tax surcharge is to be found in accordance with the tax surcharge tables in the tax instruction booklet. If the reg­ ular tax is $735 or more, the tax surcharge is 10 percent of this amount. HOW TO PAY The balance of tax shown to be due on your return must be paid in full with your return if How to Prepare Your Return • Fill out the new Form 1040—whether or not you need to attach any schedules. Usually you can file a complete re­ turn on the one-page form, if: —^All your income was from wages, dividends (not more than $100), and interest (not more than $100), AND you have no adjustments for: —Sick pay —Moving expenses —Employee business expenses —Payments as a self-employed person to a retirement plan, AND —You do not itemize deductions. • Add the following schedule(s) as required— 1. Schedule A if you: —Itemize deductions. 2. Schedule B if you: —Have gross dividends and other distributions on stock in excess of $100. —Have interest income in excess of $100. 3. Schedule C if you: —Have income (or loss) from a business (other than a farm) to include in line 14. 4. Schedule D if you: —Have gains (or loss) from sales or exchanges of prop­ erty to include in line 14. 5. Schedule B if you have income from: (To include in line 14.) —Pensions or annuities, —Rents or royalties, —Partnerships, estates or trusts, small business cor­ porations, or miscellaneous sources. 6. Schedule F if you: —Have farm income (or loss) to include in line 14. 7. Schedule G if you: -Claim the benefits of income averaging. 8. Schedule R if you: —Claim a retirement income credit. 9. Schedule SE if you: —Report net earnings from self-employment. 10. Schedule T if you: —Are subject to self-employment tax, —Are subject to tax from recomputing prior year in­ vestment credit, —Claim a retirement income credit. -Claim investment credit, -Claim foreign tax credit. it amounts to $1 or more. Make checks or money order, pay­ able to "Internal Revenue Serv­ ice." ROUNDING OFF TO WHOLE DOLLARS The money items on your re­ turn and schedules may be shown in whole dollars. This means that you eliminate any amount less than 50 cents, and increase any amount from 50 cents through 99 cents to the next higher dollar. ADVANTAGES OF A JOINT RETURN. Generally it is advantageous for a married couple to file a joint return. There are benefits in figuring the tax on a joint return which often result in a lower tax than would result from separate re­ turns. CHANGES IN MARITAL STATUS. If you are married at the end of 1969, you are con­ sidered married for the entire year. If you are divorced or legally separated on or before the end of 1969, you are con­ sidered single for the entire year. If your wife or husband died during 1969 you are con­ sidered married for the entire year. Generally in such a case, a joint return may be filed for the year. You may also be en­ titled to the benefits of a joint retum for the two years follow­ ing the death of your husband or wife. EXEMPTIONS. Each tax­ payer is entitled to a personal exemption of $600 for himself, $600 for his wife, an additional $600 if he is over 65 and an­ other $600 if he is blind. The exemptions for age and blind­ ness apply also to a taxpayer's wife, and can also be claimed by lx)th of them. In cases where a man's wife lives in a foreign country, he can still claim the $600 exemp­ tion for her. In addition, a taxpayer can claim $600 for each child, parent, grandparent, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-inlaw, and each uncle, aunt, nephew or niece dependent on him, if he provides more than one-half of their support during the calendar year. The depen­ dent must have less than $600 income and live in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Panama or the Canal Zone. A child under 19, or a stu­ dent over 19 can earn over $600 and still count as a de­ pendent if the taxpayer pro­ vides more than one-half of his support. The law also enables a sea­ man who is contributing (with other relatives) more than ten percent of the support of a de­ pendent to claim an exemption for that individual, provided the other contributors file a decla­ ration that they will not claim the dependent that year. CREDIT FOR EXCESS SOCIAL SECURITY (FICA) TAX PAID. If a total of more than $374.40 of Social Security (FICA) tax was withheld from the wages of either you or your wife because one or both of you worked for more than one em­ ployer, you may claim the ex­ cess over $374.40 as a credit against your income tax. TAX CREDIT FOR RE­ TIREMENT INCOME. A tax credit is allowed for individuals against retirement income such as rents, dividends and earnings at odd jobs. However, an ad­ justment must be made in this credit for Social Security bene­ fits. DIVIDEND INCOME. If a seaman has dividend income from stocks he can exclude the first $100 from his gross in­ come. If a joint return Is filed and both husband and wife have dividend income, each one may exdude $100 of dividends from their gross income. WELFARE, PENSION AND VACATION BENE­ FITS. Benefits received from the SIU Welfare Plan do not have to be reported as income. Payments received from the SIU Pension Plan are inclu­ dable as income on the tax re­ turn of those pensioners who retire with a normal pension. There is a special retirement income tax credit to be calcu­ lated on Schedule R which is to be attached to the retum. Pensioners under 65 who re­ ceive a disability pension do not have to include such pay­ ments on their tax returns. However, all disability pension payments received after age 65 are taxable in the same manner as a normal pension. Vacation pay received from the Seafarers Vacation Plan is taxable income in the same manner as wages. DEATH BENEFIT EX­ CLUSION. If you receive pen­ sion payments as a beneficiary of a deceased employee, and the employee had received no retirement pension payment, you may be entitled to a death benefit exclusion of up to $5,000. (Continued on page 11) Reporting Your Income All income in whatever form received which is not specifical­ ly exempt must be included in your income tax retum, even though it may be offset by ad­ justments or deductions. Ex­ amples are given below. Examples of Income Which Must Be Reported: Wages, salaries, bonuses, com­ missions, fees, tips, and gra­ tuities. Dividends. Eamings (interest) from savings and loan associations, mu­ tual savings banks, credit unions, etc. Interest on tax refunds. Interest on bank deposits, bonds, notes. Interest on U.S. Savings Bonds. Profits from business or profes­ sion. Your share of partnership prof­ its. Pensions, annuities, endow­ ments. Supplemental annuities under Railroad Retirement Act (but not regular Railroad Re­ tirement Act benefits). Profits from sales or exchanges of real estate, securities or other property. Rents and royalties. Your share of estate or trast income. Employer unemployment bene­ fits (S.U.B.). Alimony, separate maintenance or support payments re­ ceived from (and deductible by) your husband (or wife). Prizes and awards (contests, raffles, etc.). Refunds of State and local taxes (principal amounts) if de­ ducted in a prior year and resulted in tax benefits. Examples of Income Whidi Should Not Be Reported: Disability retirement payments and other benefits paid by the Veterans Administration. Dividends on Veterans' Insur­ ance. Life insurance proceeds upon death. Workmen's compensation, in­ surance, damages, etc., for injury or sickness. Interest on certain State and municipal bonds. Federal Social Security benefits. Gifts, inheritances, bequests. j! �February, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG '^HE SHIP'S COMMITTEE is the vital link between the SIU at sea and headquarters ashore. The Ship's Committee has the important responsibility of protect­ ing the rights of the crew and seeing to it that the SIU contract is enforced while the ship is at sea. The Com­ mittee also has the responsibility of holding meetings every Sunday at sea; to encourage discussion on matters affecting the Union, and to send in meeting reports regularly to Union headquarters. This is Union Democ­ racy in action. J" CHARLESTON—The committee reported a smooth voy­ age on the run to Northern Europe. Standing (1-r): Vincent Ratcliff, chairman; Alton Green, engine delegate: Ted York, secretary. Seated (l-r): Toni Kotsis, deck delegate: Al Carpenter, steward, delegate. Some disputed OT beefs. GALVESTON—Seated around the table in the rec room are (l-r): Roberto Burgos, steward delegate: C. Hemby, engine delegate: John Nash, ship's secretary: Horace Gaskill, deck delegate. Ship's chairman was busy when photo was snapped. Committee reported only a few minor beefs. NCOME TAX GUIDE y i (Continued from page 10) GAMBLING GAINS. All tributions to charitable in­ net gains from gambling must stitutions, and an additional be reported as income. How­ ten percent in contributions to ever, if more was lost than churches, hospitals and educa­ gained during the year, the tional institutions. losses are not deductible, but INTEREST. Interest paid to simply cancel out the gains. banks and individuals on loans, INVESTMENT CREDIT, mortgages, etc., is deductible. Form 3468 is to be used by a TAXES. In general, you can Seafarer claiming the invest­ deduct: personal property taxes, ment credit. The credit is al­ real estate taxes, state or local lowed for investment in tan­ retail sales taxes, state gasoline gible depreciable personal taxes and state income taxes ac­ property used in business. The tually paid within the year. You credit is an amount equal to cannot deduct: Federal excise 7 percent of such investment taxes. Federal Social Security and applied against your tax. taxes, hunting and dog licenses, The recent tax law repealed auto inspection fees, tags, the investment credit retroac­ drivers licenses, alcoholic bev­ tively. Purchases of qualified erages, cigarette and tobacco business machinery and equip­ taxes, water taxes and taxes ment after April 18, 1969 don't paid by you for another per­ qualify for the credit unless, son. among other things, there was MEDICAL AND DENTAL a binding contract to purchase EXPENSES. All expenses over as of that date. three percent of adjusted gross INCOME AVERAGING. A income for doctor and dental Seafarer who has an unusually bills, hospital bills, medical and large amount of taxable income hospital insurance, nurse care for 1969 may be able to re­ and similar costs can be de­ duce the total amount of his ducted. Other such costs in­ tax by using the income aver­ clude such items as eyeglasses, aging method. This method ambulance service, transporta­ permits a part of the unusually tion to doctors' offices, rental of large amount of taxable in­ wheelchairs and similar equip­ come to be taxed in lower ment, hearing aids, artificial brackets, resulting in a reduc­ limbs and corrective devices. tion of the over-all amount of However, if the Seafarer is tax due. reimbursed by the Seafarers The following Items can be Welfare Plan for any of these used as deductions against in­ costs, such as family, hospital come (IF YOU DO NOT and surgical expenses, he can­ TAKE THE STANDARD not deduct the whole bill, only DEDUCTIONS): that part in excess of the bene­ CONTRIBUTIONS. A tax fits paid by the Plan. All expenses over one' per­ payer can deduct up to 20 per­ cent of gross income for con­ cent of adjusted gross income for drugs and medicine can be deducted. The deductible por­ tion is then combined, with other medical and dental ex­ penses which are subject to the normal three percent rule. In figuring your deduction, you can deduct an amount equal to one-half of the insur­ ance premiums paid for medi­ cal care for yourself, your wife, and dependents. The maxi­ mum amount deductible is $150.00. The other one-half, plus any excess over the $150.00 limit is deductible sub­ ject to the normal three percent rule. The one and three percent limitations apply in all cases, regardless of your age, or the age of your wife or other de­ pendents. CARE OF CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPEND­ ENTS. If deductions are item­ ized, a woman or a widower, including men who are divorced or legally separated under a de­ cree and who have not remar­ ried or a husband whose wife is incapacitated or is institu­ tionalized for at least 90 con­ secutive days or a shorter per­ iod if she dies, may deduct expenses paid, not to exceed a total of $600, for one depend­ ent, or not to exceed a total of $900 for two or more depend­ ents for the care of: (a) dependent children un­ der 13 years of age or (b) dependent persons (ex­ cluding husband or wife) physically or mentally incapable of caring for themselves; if such care is to enable the tax­ payer to be gainfully employed or to actively seek gainful em­ ployment. ALIMONY. Periodic pay­ ment of alimony to a wife in accord with a written agree­ ment between them can be de­ ducted. CASUALTY LOSSES. The reasonable value of all clothing and gear lost at sea due to MIDLAKE—AB Jim Watler (left) joined in for this photo of the ship's committee. Left to right are Watler: Frank Kustura, secretary: N. M. Berry, chairman; Tom Hopkins, engine delegate: Lance Bailey, deck delegate, and Robert Grant, steward delegate. Ship was on a six-month voyage. storm, vessel damage, etc., for which the taxpayer is not other­ wise compensated, can be de­ ducted as an expense. The same applies to fire loss or losses in auto accidents which are not compensated by insurance. These losses are limited to the amount in excess of $100 for each loss. WORK CLOTHES, TOOLS. The cost and cleaning of uni­ forms and work clothes which ordinarily cannot be used as dress wear can be deducted. This includes protective work shoes, gloves, caps, foul weath­ er gear, clothing ruined by grease or paint, plus tools bought for use on the job, or books and periodicals used in direct connection with work. UNION DUES. Dues and initiation fees paid to labor or­ ganizations and most union as­ sessments can be deducted. DECLARATION OF ES­ TIMATED TAX. The purpose of this declaration is to provide for current payment of taxes not collected through withhold­ ing, where a taxpayer may have a considerable amount of out­ side income. In such cases, a Seafarer should check the in­ struction on his tax return care­ fully, as the "Declaration of Es­ timated Tax" also must be filed on or before April 15, 1970. Long-Trip Tax Problems A major tai^ beef by seamen is that normally taxes are not with­ held on earnings in the year they earned the money, but in the year the payoff took place. For example, a seaman who signed on for a five month trip in September, 1968, paying off in .lanuary. 1969, would have all the five months' earnings appear on his 1969 W-2 slip and all the taxes withheld in 1968. This practice could increase his taxes in 1969 even though his actual 1969 earnings might be less than those in 1968. There are ways to minimize the impact of this situation. For example, while on the ship in 1968, the Seafarer undoubtedly took draws and may have sent allotments home. These can be reported as 1968 income. Unfortunately, this raises another complication. The seaman who reports these earnings in 1968 will not have a W-2 (with­ holding statement) covering them. He will have to list all allot­ ments, draws and slops on the tax return and explain why he doesn't have a W-2 for them. Furthermore, since no tax will have been withheld on these earnings in 1968, he will have to pay the full tax on them with his return, at 14 percent or upwards, depend­ ing on his tax bracket. The earnings will show up on his 1969 W-2. The seaman then, on his 1969 return would have to explain that he had reported some of the earnings in 1968 and paid taxes on them. He would get a tax refund accordingly. In essence, the seaman would pay taxes twice on the same in­ come and get a refund a year later. While this will save the sea­ man some tax money in the long run, it means he is out-of-pocket on some of his earnings for a full year until he gets refunded. This procedure would also undoubtedly cause Internal Revenue to examine his returns, since the income reported would not jibe with the totals on his W-2 forms. That raises the question, is this procedure justified? It is justi­ fied only if a seaman had very little income in one year and very considerable income the next. Otherwise the tax saving is minor and probably not worth the headache. �SEAFARERS Page Twelve LOG Febrnary, 1970 '0/ the members. By the Members, For the Members' ikv.>LV > o :r LABOR AND AMERICAN POLITICS edited by Rhemus & McLaughlin (Univ. Mfchigan—450 pages, $5.25 paperback) In 1878, Uriah Stephens, founder of the Knights of Labor, had this to say about politics: "All the evils that labor rests under are matters of law and (are) to be removed by legislation. ... Is the 8 hour law, or prison labor, or universal education, or child and female labor, or the machinery question, or land and the land­ less . . . political question (?)" Change a few words and Stephens' statement is just as timely today. Labor has a vital interest in politics. This Book of Read­ ings emphasizes the importance the working man has placed on political activity down through the years. Many union members will find much familar material in this book. Reprinted are speeches by union officials, articles from union papers, and political education pamphlets. Rounding out the objectivity of the book are critical studies made by college professors. This book will be helpful to the member interested in political education. To Serve the Membership This issue of the SEAFARERS LOG contains the complete text of the amended Constitution of the A&G District—a Con­ stitution ratified by the members in secret balloting at the end of 1969, and which now has been put into effect. This revised Constitution helps make a point about the trade union movement: That a Union is not a "thing"—not a charter hanging on the wall, or a piece of paper spelling out rights and obligations. A Un­ ion is a living thing—a set of principles— a group of people. In other words, a Constitution is an im­ portant part of the trade union movement —but only if it serves the interests of the members. A Constitution that never changes, that stays mired in the past, can be a dead hand on a Union's progress. A Constitution that adjusts to changing times, changing technologies, changing ways of doing things can be a continuing source of help to the members as they work together to achieve economic justice and human dignity. This is not the first time that the A&G District's Constitution has been updated. It probably won't be the last time. Because this modernization of the machinery of the SIU-AGLIWD reflects the Union's continu­ ing concern about discharging its obligations to the members it serves. It reflects the Union's desire to continue to represent the members' best interests—and to continue to respond to their needs. Most of all, this amended Constitution reflects the wishes of the members—for it was they, in secret elections, who had the final say on how best to make this document keep pace with a changing industry and a changing world. Time Is Running Out There is no man, woman or child free from the strong adverse effects of pollution in America. Being an integral part of the urban society more than the society of suburbia or the countryside, the union man and woman are the victims of some of the worst aspects of pollution—dirty air, filthy rivers, piled up trash. It is in the cities where most union people live and work. It is there that factories and apartment incinerators belch black exhausts of poisons. And it is in the cities that mil­ lions of tons of carbon monoxide drift from jammed up traffic lanes to enter the popula­ tion's lungs. Rivers that flow through large cities are rarely good for swimming anymore. They are filled with the wastes from factories and the enormous amounts of garbage that daily plague large cities. "If you fall into a river now," says one grim punster, "you don't drown—^you rot." If we regard our own health and that of our families and fellow man as being impor­ tant, then each of us should take close inter­ est in plans to alleviate the problem. One plan was recently proposed by Pres­ ident Nixon who sent a 37-point program to Congress in an effort to provide Americans with the chance of leading healthier lives. The bill would authorize the spending of $4 billion over the next four years to cities and towns which would supplement the money and build sewage treatment plants. Nine million dollars would be spent on research to find a "virtually pollution-free" auto. There would also be incentives for the elimination of litter as well as a look into federal lands which could be made into parks. A factor in all parts of the bill is that offenders will be severely punished. In the struggle to preserve and enhance human life, all union people and indeed all Americans should back the President and hold him to his promise of "total mobiliza­ tion" against pollution. BARRON'S HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY EXAMINATION Some 63 million Americans over 21 don't have a high school diploma. Many are dropouts, some have failed and others never had a chance. In this age of automation and the almost daily introduction of new methods of production, a high school diploma is a must. For many there is a way to obtain the equivalent of this important document—the high school equivalency diploma. A few hours taking five two hour tests can result in the diploma. These tests are given several times a year in every state. This inexpensive paperback ($3.95) helps one prepare for the tests. It offers sample tests, review material, and preparations for the five subjects—English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, and Literature. Also included is brief information on each state's program as well as the address for obtaining additional information. The book is published by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. GREAT OCCASIONS edited by Carl Seaburg (Beacon—$10.00) In every man's life there are two great events—birth and death. Most of us reach maturity and marriage. Thus we have the four cornerstones of man's life—birth, maturity, marriage and death. This book is a collection of poems, essays, and readings on birth, maturity, marriage and death. Man is born, "naked of body and mind and spirit." As Kenneth Patton writes: "Behold the child, the visitor. He has come from nowhere, for he was not before this, and it is nowhere that he goes, wherefore he is called a visitor, for the visitor is one who comes from the unknown to stay but awhile and then to the unknown passes on again." Man reaches maturity and celebrates the occasion with a con­ firmation, bar mitzvah, or perhaps simply by registering for the draft. With maturity thoughts turn to marriage. A thirteenth century Arabic poet described marriage as ". . . the tale is brief, the words were few, the meaning was immense." This may be the reason man is often faced with the possibility of a fifth great occasion—the divorce. In any event, "A Rite of Di­ vorce" is included. Finally, "Like a bird out of our hand," man dies. The words of grief, praise and atonement fall upon lifeless ears. Man cannot hear these words, but it really doesn't matter, he has heard them so many times before. They are not words for the dead. They are to comfort the living. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: A PROFILE edited by Paul W. Glad (HUl and Wang—$1.75) In 1896, William Jennings Bryan was relatively unknown. He had served one term in Congress and was presently editing a newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska. Few took him seriously as he talked of capturing the presidential nomination on the Dem­ ocratic ticket. At the convention, as debate, on the big question was drawing to a close, Bryan was asked to close the arguments. Here was the opportunity he was waiting for. Climaxing a stirring speech with the now famous words, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," Bryan went on to wrap up the nomination. He could fire the emotions of the crowd. One wonders what effect he would have today with rapid, electronic communica­ tions. Perhaps the closest comparison to Bryan as a man who could become part of the crowd was Harry Truman. History has recorded how Bryan met defeat at the polls three times. We have read how factories posted notices to the effect that if Bryan were elected, they would remain closed. This col­ lection of essays serves as a refresher course in the history of a man who could draw the crowds but not the votes. '• 4 <4 4 I �February, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Constitution Supplement—Page Thirteen It r\- 1 .111 r, i TEXT OF m (mSTITHIOII For SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes And Inland Waters District (Effective January 1, 1970) K I- m �SEAFARERS Constitution Supplement—Page Fourteen CONSTITUTION THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA— ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT Affiliated with American Federation of Labor — Congress of Industrial Organizations (As Amended January 1, 1970) PREAMBLE As maritime and allied workers and realizing the value arid necessity of a thorough organization, we are dedicated to the forming of one Union for our people, the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, hased upon the following principles: All members shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges and guarantees as set forth in this Constitution, and such rights, privileges and guarantees shall be preserved in accordance with its terms. We declare that American seamen are entitled to receive their employment without interference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the Government. We affirm that every worker has the right to receive fair and just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation. We proclaim the right of all seamen to receive healthful and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to rest. We defend the right of all seamen to he treated in a decent and respectful manner by those in command, and, We hold that the above rights belong to all workers alike, irrespective of nationality or creed. Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we ure conscious of corresponding duties to those in command, our employers, our craft and our country. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote har­ monious relations with those in command by exercising due care and diligence in the performance of the duties of our profession, and by giving all possible assistance to our employ­ ers in caring for their gear and property. Based upon these principles, it is among our objects: To use our influence individually and collectively for the purpose of maintaining and developing skill in seamanship and effecting a change in the maritime law of the United States, so as to render it more equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development of a merchant marine and a body of Amer­ ican seamen. To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of maritime workers and through its columns seek to maintain their knowledge of, and interest in, maritime affairs. To assist the seamen of other countries in the work of organ­ ization and federation, to the end of establishing the Brother­ hood of the Sea. To form and to assist by legal means other bona fide labor organizations whenever possible in the attainment of their just demands. To regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals so as to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and use­ ful calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that our work takes us away in different directions from any place where the majority might otherwise meet to act, that meetings can be attended by only a fraction of the membership, that the absent members, who cannot he present, must have their inter­ ests guarded from what might he the results of excitement and passions aroused by persons or conditions, and that those who are present may acj for and in the interest of all, we have adopted this Constitution. Statement of Principles and Declaration of Rights In order to form a more perfect Union, we workers in the maritime and allied industries, realizing the value and necessity of uniting in pursuit of our improved economic and social wel­ fare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the following principles: In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall ever be mindful, not only of our rights, hut also of our duties and obligations as members of the community, our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace of communism and any other enemies of freedom and the democratic principles to which we seafaring men dedicate ourselves in this Union, We shall affiliate and work with other free labor organiza­ tions; we shall support a journal to give additional voice to our views; we shall assist our brothers of the sea and other workers of all countries in these obligations to the fullest extent con­ sistent with our duties, obligations, and law. We shall seek to exert our individual and collective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor and other legislation and policies which look to the attainment of a free and happy society, without distinc­ tion hased on race, creed or color. To govern our conduct as a Union and hearing in mind that most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them all over the world, that their rights must and shall he protected, we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be inalienable. pelled to he a witness against himself in the trial of any pro­ ceeding in which he may he charged with failure to observe the law of this Union. Every official and job holder shall he hound to uphold and protect the rights of every member in accordance with the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. IV Every member shall have the right to he confronted by his accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law of this Union. In all such cases, the accused shall be guaranteed a fair and speedy trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members. No member shall be denied the right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. VI A fiiilitant mmbership being necessary to the security of a free union, the members shall at all times stand ready to de­ fend this Union and the principles set forth in the Constitu­ tion of the Union. VII The powers not delegated to the officers, job holders, and Executive Board by the Constitution of the Union shall be reserved to the members. CONSTITUTION Article I Name and General Powers This Union shall be known as the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and executive, and shall include the formation of, and/or issuance of charters to, subordinate bodies and divisions, corporate or otherwise, the formation of funds and participation in funds, the establishment of enterprises for the benefit of the Union, and similar ventures. This Union shall exercise all of its powers in aid of subordinate bodies and divisions created or chartered by it. For convenience of administration and in furtherance of its policies of aid and assistance, the Union may make its prop­ erty, facilities and personnel available for the use and on behalf of such subordinate bodies and divisions. A majority vote of the membership shall be authorization for any Union action, unless otherwise specified in the Constitution or by law. This Union shall at all times protect and maintain its jurisdiction. Article II Affiliation Section 1. This Union shall he affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America and the American Fed­ eration of Labor—Congress of Industrial Organizations. AU other affiliations by the Union or its subordinate bodies or divisions shall be made or withdrawn as determined by a majority vote of the Executive Board. Section 2. In addition to such other provisions as are con­ tained herein, all subordinate bodie.s and divisions seeking a charter from and/or affiliation with this Union, shall be re­ quired to adopt, within a time period set by the Executive Board, a constitution containing provisions as set forth in Exhibit A, annexed to this Constitution and made a part hereof. All other provisions adopted by such subordinate bodies and divisions as part of their constitutions shall not be inconsistent therewith. No such constitution or amendments thereto shall be deemed to be effective without the approval of the Executive Board or thb Union, which shall he executed in writing, on its behalf, by the President or, in his absence, by any other officer designated by it. Such approval shall he deemed to be recog­ nition of compliance herewith by such subordinate body or division. Where a subordinate body or division violates any of the foregoing, and, in particular, seeks to effectuate any constitu­ tional provision not so authorized and approved, or commits acts in violation of its approved constitution, or fails to act in accordance therewith, this Union, through its Executive Board, may withdraw its charter and/or sever its affiliation forthwith, or on such terms as it may impose not inconsistent with law, in addition to exercising any and all rights it may have pur­ suant to any applicable agreements or understandings. No member shall be deprived of any of the rights or privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of. the Union. Section 3. This Union shall also have the power, acting through its Executive Board, and after a fair heuing, to jmpose a trusteeship upon any subordinate body or divisions chartered by and affiliated with it, for the reasons and to the extent provided by law. II Article III Every qualified member shall have the right to nominate him­ self for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold office in this Union. Membership i III No member shall be deprived of his membership without due process of the law of this Union. No member shall be com­ ^ February, 1970 LOG Section 1. There, shall be two classes of membership, to wit full hook members and probationary members. Candidates for membership. shall be admitted to membership in accord­ ance with such rules as may be adopted from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership and which rules shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All candidates with 360 days or more seatime in a consecuUve M calendar month period commencing from Janua^ 1, f""' an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag mercfiant vessel or vessels, covered by contract with this Union, shall be eligible for full membership. All persons with less than the foregoing seatime hut at least thirty (30) days of such Matime, shall be eligible for probationary membership. Only full book members shall be entitled to vote and to hold any office or elective job, except as otherwise specified herein. All probationary members shall have a voice in Union proceedings and shall be entitled to vote on Union contracts. Section 2. No candidate shall be granted membership who is a member of any dual organization hostile to the aims, prin­ ciples, and policies of this Union. The membership, by majority vote, shall at all times have the right to determine the membership status of pensioners. Section 3. Members more than one quarter in arrears in dues shall he automatically suspended, and shall forfeit all benefits and all other rights and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically dismissed if they are more than two quarters in arrears in dues. An arrearage in dues shall be computed from the first day of the applicable quarter, but this time shall not run: (a) While a member is actually participating in a strike or lockout. (h) While a member is an in-patient in a USPHS or other accredited hospital. (c) While a member is under an incapacity due to activity in behalf of the Union. (d) While a member is in the armed services of the United States, provided the member was in good standing at the time of entry into the armed forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after discharge from the armed forces. (e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues, because of employment aboard an American flag merchant vesscL Section 4. A majority vote of the membership shall be suf­ ficient to designate additional circumstances during which the time specified in Section 3 shall not run. It shall be the right of any member to present, in writing, to any Port at any regu­ lar meeting, any question with regard to the application of Section 3, in accordance with procedures established by a majority vote of the membership. A majority vote of the mem­ bership shall he necessary to decide such questions. Section S. The membership shall he empowered to establish, from time to time, by majority vote, rules under which dues and assessments may be excused where a member has been unable to pay dues and assessments for the reasons provided in Sections 3 and 4. Section 6. To preserve unity, and to promote the common welfare of the membership, all members of the Union shall uphold and defend this Constitution and shall be governed by the provisions of this Constitution and all policies, rulings, orders and decisions duly made. Section 7. Any member who gives aid to the principles and policies of any hostile or dual organization shall he denied further membership in this Union to the full extent permitted by law. A majority vote of the membership shall decide which organizations are dual or hostile. Section 8. Evidence of membership or other affiliation with the Union shall be in such form or forms as determined by the Executive Board, and shall at all times remain the property of the Union. Members may be required to show their evidence of membership in order to be admitted to Union meetings, or into, or on Union property. Article IV Reinstatement. Members dismissed from the Union may be reinstated in accordance with such rules and under such conditions as are adopted, from time to time, by a majority vote of the member­ ship. Article V Dues and Initiation Fee Section 1. All members shall pay dues quarterly, on a calen­ dar year basis, no later than the first business day of each quarter, except as herein otherwise provided. The dues shall be those payable as of the date of adoption of this Constitution as amended and may he changed only by Constitutional amend­ ment. Section 2. No candidate for full book membership shall be admitted into such membership without having paid an initia­ tion fee of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, except as other­ wise provided in this Constitution. In addition, the candidate shall pay a Ten ($10.00) Dollar "service fee" for the issuance of his full book. Each candidate for probationary membership and each pro­ bationary member shall, with the payment of each of his first four quarterly dues, as required by Section 1, pay at each such time the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five ($125.00) Dollars as partial initiation fee. The total of such initiation monies so paid shall be credited to his above required initiation fee for a full book member upon completion of the required seatime as provided for in Article III, Section 1. Monies paid to the Union by any non-full book member prior to the effective date of this amended Constitution, on account of initiation fee and assessments, not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty ($250.00) Dollars, shall be credited to such mem­ ber's payment of his initiation fee as required by this section. Section 3. Payment of dues and initiation fees may be waived for organizational purposes in accordance with such j-ules as are adopted by a majority vote of the Executive Board. Section 4. All members shall be and remain in good standing. Article yi Retirement from Membership Section 1. Members may retire from membership by sur­ rendering their Union books or other evidence of affiliation and paying all unpaid dues for the quarter in which they retire, assessments, fines and other monies due and owing the Union. When the member surrenders his hook or other evidence of affiliation in connection with his application for retiicment he shall be given a receipt therefor. An official retirement card shall he issued by Headquarters, upon request, dated as of the day that such member accomplishes these payments, and shall be given to the member upon his presenting the aforesaid receipt. �SEAFARERS Febraary, 1970 Sactien 2. All the rights, privileges, duties and obligations of membership shall be suspended during the period of retirement, except that a retired member shall not be disloyal to tbe Union nor join or remain in any dual or hostile organization, upon penalty of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement. Soction 3. Any person in retirement for a period of two quarters or more shall be restored to membership, except as herein indicated, by paying dues for the current traarter, as well as all assessments accruing and newly levied during the period of retirement. If the period of retirement is less than two quarters, the required payments shdl consist of all dues accruing during the said peri<^ of retirement, including those for the current quarter, and all assessments accrued and newly levied during that period. Upon such payment, the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, and his memhership book, appropriately stamped, sball be returned to him. SOCMM 4. A member in retirement may be restored to mem­ bership after a two-year period of retireifient consisting of eight full quarters only by majority vote of the membership. Soction S. The period of retirement shall he computed from the first day of the quarter following the one in wfaid die retirement card was issued. ArticI* VII Systems off Organisation Section 1. This Union, and all officers, headquaitrn's lepresentatives, port agents, patrolmen, and members shall he guverned in this order by: (a) The Constitution. (b) The Executive Board. (c) Majority vote of the membership. Soction S. The headquarters of the Union shall he located in New York and the headquarters officers shall consist of a President, and Executive Vice-President, one Yice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryTreasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. Soction 9. The staff of each port diall consist of such per­ sonnel as is provided for herein, and the pmt shall hear the name of the city in which the Union's port offices are located. Soction 4. Every member of the Union shall be registered in one of tbree departments; namely, deck, engine and stewards department. The definition of these departments shall he in accordance with custom and usage. TUs definition may he modified by a majority vote of the membership. No member may transfer from one department to another except by ap­ proval as evidenced by a majority vote of the membership. Article VIII Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section 1. The officers of the Union shall be elected as other­ wise provided in this Constitution. These officers shall be the President, an Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryTreasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. Section 2. Port Agents, Headquarters Representatives, and Patrolmen shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. Article IX Other Elective Jobs Section 1. In addition to the elective jobs provided for in Article VIII, the following jobs in the Union shall be voted upon in the manner prescribed by this Constitution: Committee members of: (1) Trial Committees (2) Quarterly Financial Committees (3) Appeals Committees (4) Strike Committees (5) Credentials Committees (6) Union Tallying Committees (7) Constitutional Committees Soction 2. Additional committees may be formed as provided by a majority vote of the membership. Committees may also be appointed as permitted by this Constitution. Article X Duties of Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, Other Elected Job Holders and Miscellaneous Personnel Section 1. The Prosidont. (a) The President shall be tbe executive officer of the Union and shall represent, and act for and in behalf of, the Union in all matters except as otherwise specifically provided for in the Constitution. (b) He shall be a member ex-officio of all committees, except as otherwise herein expressly provided. (c) The President shall be in charge of, and responsible for, all Union property, and shall be in charge of headquarters and port offices. Wherever there are time restrictions or other con­ siderations affecting Union action, the President shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. (d) In order that he may properly execute his responsibil­ ities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting or otherwise. (e) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the memhership, the President shall designate the number and location of ports, the jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may close or open such ports, and may re-assign Vice-Presidents and the Secretary-Treasurer, without reduction in wages. He may also re-assign Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, and Patrolmen, to other duties, without reduction in wages. The Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Or­ leans, Houston and Detroit may not be closed except by Constitutiond amendment. Where ports are opened between elections, the President shall designate the Union personnel thereof. The President shall designate, in the event of the incapacity of any Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or any officer other than the President, a replacement to act LOG as such during the period of incapacity, provided such replace­ ment is qualified under Article XII of the Constitution to fill such job. At the regular meeting in May of every election year, the President shall submit to the membership a pre-balloting report. In his report he shall recommend the number and loca­ tion of ports, the number of Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen which are to be elected. He shall also recommend a bank, a bonded warehouse, a regular officer thereof, .or any similar depository, to which the ballots are to be mailed, except that the President may, in his discretion, postpone the recommendation as to the depository until no later than the first regular meeting in October. This recommendation may also specify, whether any Patrol­ man and/or Headquarters Representative, shall be desi^ated as departmental or otherwise. The report shall be subject to approval or modification by a majority vote of the membership. (f) The President shall be chairman of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. (g) He shall be responsible, within the limits of his powers, for the enforcement of this Constitution, the policies of the Union, and all rules and rulings duly adopted by the Executive Board, and those duly adopted by a majority vote of the mem­ bership. Within these limits, he shall strive to enhance the strength, position, and prestige of the Union. (h) The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those other duties lawfuUy imposed upon him. (i) The responsibility of the President may not be delegated, but the President may delegate to a person or persons the execution of such of his duties as he may in his discretion decide, subject to the limitations set forth in this Constitution. (j) Any vacancy in any office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, or Patrolman sball be filled by the President by temporary appointment of a member qt^ified for the office or job under Article XII of this Constitution, except in those cases where the filling of such vacancy is other­ wise provided for by this Constitution. (k) The President is directed to take any and all measures and employ such means which he deems necessary or advisable, to protect the interests, and further the welfare of the Union and its members, in all matters involving national, state or local legislation issuos, and public affairs. (1) The President shall have authority to require any officer or Union representative to attend any regular or special meet­ ing if, in his opinion, it is deemed necessary. Soctien 2. Exocutive Vice-President. The Executive Vice-President shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. The Executive Vice-President shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Section 3. Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract En­ forcement shall perform any and all duties assigned hira or delegated to him by the President. In addition, he shall be responsible for all contract negotiations, the formulation of bargaining demands, and the submission of proposed collective bargaining agreements to the membership for ratification. He shall also be responsible, except as otherwise provided in Article X, Section 13(d) (1), for strike authorization, signing of new contracts, and contract enforcement. He shall also act for headquarters in executing the administrative functions as­ signed to headquarters by this Constitution with respect to trials and appeals except if he is a witness or party thereto, in which event the Secretary-Treasurer shall act in his place. In order that he may properly execute these responsibilities he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ such help as he deems necessary, be it legal, or otherwise, subject to approval of the Executive Board. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Section 4. Secretory-Treasurer. The Secretary-Treasurer shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. He shall be responsible for the organization and maintenance of the correspondence, files, and records of the Union; setting up, and maintenance of, sound accounting and bookkeeping sys­ tems; the setting up, and maintenance of, proper office and other administrative Union procedures; the proper collection, safeguarding, and expenditure of all Union funds, port or otherwise. He shall submit to the membership, for each quar­ terly period, a detailed report of the entire Union's financial operations and shall submit simultaneously therewith, the Quarterly Financial Committee report for the same period. The Secretary-Treasurer's report shall be prepared by an inde­ pendent Certified Public Accountant. He shall also work with all duly elected finance committees. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible for the timely filing of any and all reports on the operations of the Union, financial or otherwise, that may be required by any Federal or state laws. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting, or otherwise, subject to approval of the Executive Board. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member ex-officio of the Credentials and Ballot Tallying Committees. In addition he shall make himself and the records of his office available to the Quarterly Financial Committee. Soction 5. Vico-Prosidont in Charge of the Atlantic Coast. The Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall he entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the personnel thereof on the Atlantic Coast, including their organizing activities. The Atlantic Coast area is deemed to mean that area from and including Georgia through Maine and shall also include the Islands in the Carib­ bean. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or professional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Soction 6. Vice-President in Charge of the Guif Coast. The Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast shall be a member.of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the Ports, and the personnel thereof on the Gulf Coast including their organizing activities. The Gulf Coast area is deemed to mean the State of Florida, all through the Gulf, including Texas. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he Conslitation Supplement—Page Fifteen is empowered anu authorized to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Section 7. Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. The Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the personnel thereof on the Lakes and Inland Waters, including their organizing activities. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Sod ion 8. Headquarters Representatives. The Headquarters Representatives shall perform any and all duties assigned them or delegated to them by the President or the Executive Board. Soction 9. Port Agents. (a) The Port Agent shall be in direct charge of the admin­ istration of Union affairs in the port of his jurisdiction subject to the direction of the area Vice-President. (b) He shall, within the jurisdiction of his port, be respon­ sible for the enforcement and execution of the Constitution, the policies of the Union, and the rules adopted by the Executive Board, and by a majority vote of the membership. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations affecting port action, the Port Agent shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. (c) He shall be prepared to account, financiaUy or other­ wise, for the activities of his port, whenever demanded by the President, the Vice-President of the area in which his port is located, or by the Secretary-Treasurer. (d) In any event, he shall prepare and forward to the Sec­ retary-Treasurer,-a weekly financial report showing, in detail, weekly income and expenses, and complying with all other accounting directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent may assign each port Patrolman to such duties as fall within the jurisdiction of the port, regardless of the departmental designation, if any, under which the Patrol­ man was elected. (f) The Port Agent shall designate which meml^rs at that port may serve as representatives to other organizations, affilia­ tion with which has been properly authorized. Section 10. Patrolmen. Patrolmen shall perform any duties assigned them by the Agent of the Port to which they are assigned. Section 11. Executive Board. The Executive Board shall consist of the President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-President in Charge of Con­ tracts and Contract Enforcement, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Area, the Vice-Presi­ dent in Charge of the Gulf Area, the Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters, and the National Director (or chief executive officer) of each subordinate body or division created or chartered by the Union whenever such subordinate body or division has attained a membership of 3,200 members and has maintained that membership for not less than three (3) months. Such National Director (or chief executive officer) shall be a member of the respective subordinate body or divi­ sion and must be qualified to hold office under the terms of the Constitution of such division or subordinate body. The Executive Board shall meet no less than twice each year and at such times as the President and/or a majority ol the Executive Board may direct. The President shall he chair­ man of all Executive Board meetings unless absent, in which case the Executive Board shall designate the chairman. Each member of the Executive Board shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. Its decision shall be determined by majority vote of those voting, providing a quorum of three is present. It shall be the duty of the Executive Board to develop policies, strategies and rules which will advance and protect the interests and welfare of the Union and the Members. It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer, or in his absence, an appointee of the Executive Board, to keep accurate minutes of all Execu­ tive Board meetings. The Executive Board shall determine per capita tax to be levied and other terms and conditions of affiliation for any group of workers desiring affiliation. The Executive Board may direct the administration of all Union affairs, properties, policies and personnel in any and all areas not otherwise specifically provided for in this Constitution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive Board may act without holding a formal meeting provided all members of the Board are sent notice of the proposed action or actions and the decision thereon is reduced to writing and signed by a majority of the Executive Board. In the event that death, resignation or removal from office for any reason should occur to the President, the Executive Board by majority vote shall name a successor from its own membership who shall fill that vacancy until the next general election. In the event the President is incapacitated for a period of more than thirty (30) days, and the Executive Board by majority vote thereafter determines that such incapacity pre­ vents the President from carrying out his duties, the Executive Board by majority vote, may appoint from among its own membership the officer to fill the office of President. This appointment shall terminate upon the President's recovery from such incapacity or upon the expiration of the President's term of office whichever occurs first. The Executive Board by majority vote may grant requests for leaves of absences with or without pay to officers. In the event that a leave is granted to the President, the Executive Board by a majority vote, shall designate from among its own membership who shall exercise the duties of the President during such period of leave. Section 12. Delegates. (a) The term "delegates" shall mean those members of the Union and its subordinate bodies or divisions who are elected in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, to attend the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America. The following officers upon their election to office shall, during the term of their office, be delegates to all Conventions of the Seafarers International Union of North America in the following order of priority: President; Executive VicePresident; Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement; Secretary-Treasurer; Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters; Headquarters Representatives, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; Port Agents, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; and Patrolmen, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership. �Constitution Supplement—Page Sixteen (b) Each delegate shall, by his vote and otherwise, support those policies agreed upon by the majority of the delegates to the Convention. (c) The President shall assign to each subordinate body or division that number of delegates to which this Union would have been entitled, if its membership had been increased by the number of members of the subordinate body or division, in accordance with the formula set forth in the Constitution of ^he Seafarers International Union of North America, except ..'that this provision shall not be applied so as to reduce the number of delegates to which this Union would otherwise have been entitled. Section 13. Committees. (o) Trial Committee. The Trial Committee shall conduct the trials of a person charged, and shall submit findings and recommendations as prescribed in this Constitution. It shall be the special obliga­ tion of the Trial Committee to observe all the requirements of this Constitution with regard to charges and trials, and their findings and recommendations must specifically state whether or not, in the opinion of the Trial Committee, the rights of any accused, under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. (b) Appeals Committee. 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial judgments, in accordance with such procedures as are set forth in this Constitution and such rules as may he adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. 2. The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than one week after the close of the said hearing, make and submit findings and recommendations in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. (c) Quarterly Financial Committee. 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make an exami­ nation for each quarterly period of the finances of the Union and shall report fully on their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, sepa­ rate recommendations and separate findings, 2. The findings and recommendations of this committee shall be completed within a reasonable time after the election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted to the SecretaryTreasurer who shall cause the same to be read in all ports, as set forth herein. 3. All officers. Union personnel and members are responsible for complying with all demands made for records, bills, vouchers, receipts, etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Com­ mittee. The committee shall also have available to it, the serv­ ices of the independent certified public accountants retained by the Union. 4. Any action on the said report shall be as determined by a majority vote of the membership. 5. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall consist of seven (7) full book members in good standing to be elected at Head­ quarters—Port of New York. No officer. Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent, or Patrolman, sball be eligible for elec­ tion to this Committee. Committee members shall be elected at the regular Headquarters—Port of New York meeting desig­ nated by the Secretary-Treasurer. In the event such regular meeting cannot be held for lack of a quorum, the New York Port Agent shall call a special meeting as early as possible for the electing of Committee members to serve on the Quarterly Financial Committee. On the day following their election, and continuing until the Committee has completed its report, each Committee member shall be paid for hours worked at the standby rate of pay, but in no event shall they be paid for less than eight (8) hours per day. They shall be furnished room and board during the period they are performing their duties. In the event a committee member ceases to act, no replace­ ment need be elected, unless there are less than three (3) committee members, in which event they shall suspend their work until a special election for committee members shall be held as provided above, for such number of committee members as shall be necessary to constitute a committee of not less than three (3) members in good standing. (d) Strike Committee. 1. In no event shall a general strike take place unless ap­ proved by a majority vote of the membership. 2. In the event a general strike has been approved by the membership the Port Agents in all afiected ports shall call a timely special meeting for the purpose of electing a strike com­ mittee. This committee shall be composed of three full book members and their duties shall consist of assisting the Port Agent to effectuate all strike policies and strategies. Article XI V^ges and Terms of Office of Officers and Other Elective Job Holders, Union Employees, and Others Section I. The following elected offices and jobs shall be held for a term of four years: President Vice-Presidents Secretary-Treasurer Headquarters Representatives Port Agents Patrolmen The term of four years set forth here is expressly subject to the provisions for assumption of office as contained in Article Xni, Section 6(b) of this Constitution. The first nomination and election of officers and jobs under this amended Constitution as provided for in this Article XI, and Articles XII and XIII, shall he held in the year 1971, notwithstanding the unexpired term of any office as a result of a prior election or appointment. Section 2. The term of any elective jobs other than those in­ dicated in Section 1 of this Article shall continue for so long as is necessary to complete the functions thereof, unless sooner terminated by a majority vote of the membership or segment of the Union, whichever applies, whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or ones serving. Sactian 3. The compensation to be paid the holder of any office or other elective job shall be determined from time to time by the Executive Board subject to approval of the mem­ bership. Section 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not apply to any corporation, business, or other venture in which this Union participates; or which it organizes or creates. In such situations, instructions conveyed by the Executive Board shall be followed. SEAFARERS LOG February, 1970 results shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a majority vote of the membership at a special meeting called for that purpose at that Port. Qualifications for Officers, Headquarters (b) After its election, the Committee shall immediately go Representatives, Port Agents, Patrolmen and into session. It shall determine whether the person has sub­ Other Elective Jobs mitted his application correctly and possesses the necessary qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a report hsUng Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a can­ each applicant and his book number under the office or job he didate for, and hold, any office or the job of Headquarters is seeking. Each applicant shall be marked "qualified or dis­ Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman provided; qualified" according to the findings of the Committee. Where an (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime in an un­ applicant has been marked "disqualified," the reason therefor licensed capacity aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or must be stated in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed by aU Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direction, shall count the same as seatime. of the (Committee members, and be completed and submitted Union records. Welfare Plan records and/or company records to the Ports in time for the next regular meeting after their election. At this meeting, it shall he read and incorporated in can he used to determine eligibility; and the minutes, and then posted on the bulletin board in each port. (b) He has been a full book member in continuous good On the last day of nominations, one member of the Commit­ standing in the Union for at least three (3) years immediately tee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of creden­ prior to his nomination; and tials. All credentials must be in headquarters by midnight of (c) He has at least one hundred (100) days of seatime, in closing day, an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the commit­ vessel or vessels covered by contract with this Union, or one hundred (100) days of employment with, or in any office or tee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram at the ^job of, the Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any dresses listed by him pursuant to Section 1 of this Article. He employment at the Union's direction, or a combination of shall also be sent a letter containing the reasons for such dis­ these, between January 1st and the time of nomination in the qualification by air mail, special delivery, registered or certi­ fied, to the mailing address designated pursuant to Section election year; and Kb) of this Article. A disqualified applicant shall have the (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and right to take an appeal to the membership from the decision (e) He is not disqualified by law. He is not receiving a of the Committee. He shall forward copies of such appeal to pension from this Union's Pension Fund, if any, or from a each port, where the appeal shall be presented and voted upon Union-Management Fund to which Fund this Union is a party at a regular meeting no later than the second meeting after or from a company under contract with this Union. the Committee's election. It is the responsibility of the appli­ cant to insure timely delivery of his appeal. In any event, Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective without prejudice to his written appea , the applicant may jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall be full book appear in person before the Committee within two days after members of the Union. the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct his application Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices or argue for his qualification. The committee's report shall be prepared early enough to and jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this allow the applicant to appear before it within the time set forth (institution, shall maintain full book membership in good in his Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the first standing. regular meeting after its election. (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case of Article XIII such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disqualification by the Credentials Committee, in which event the one so previously classified shall then be deemed qualified. Elections for Officers, Headquarters (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the quali­ Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen fications of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively pre­ sume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections Section 1. Nominations. for candidacy for any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre­ Except as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full sentative, Port Agent or Patrolman, has met all the requirements book member may submit his name for nomination for any of Section 1(a) of Article Xll. office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent Sectian 3. Balloting Procedures. or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in per­ son, to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer at headquarters, or (a) Balloting in the manner hereafter provided, shall com­ sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in mence on November 1st of the election year and shall continue care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the address of headquarters. through December 31st, exclusive of Sundays and (for each This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: individual' Port) holidays legally recognized in the City of which the port affected is located. If November 1st or De­ (a) The name of the candidate. cember 31st falls on a holiday legally recognized in a Port in (b) His home address and mailing address. the City in which that port is located, the balloting period in (c) His book number. such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, candidate, including the name of the Port in the event for the purpose of full book members securing their ballots, the the position sought is that of Agent or Patrolman. ports shall be open from 9:00 A.M. to 12 Noon, Monday through Saturdays, excluding holidays. (e) Proof of citizenship. (b) Balloting shall be by mail. The Secretary-Treasurer (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, with­ candidates. out partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may con­ (g) In the event the member is on a ship he shall notify the Credentials (Committee what ship he is on. This shall be tain general information and instructive comments not in­ done also if he ships subsequent to forwarding his consistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon alphabetically within each credentials. category with book number and job seniority classification (h) Annexing a certificate in the following form, signed and status. V dated by the proposed nominee: The listing of the poijs shall first set forth Headquarters "I hereby certify that I am not now, nor, for the five (5) years and then shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with last past, have I been either a member of the Communist Party the most northerly part of the Atlantic Coast, following the or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting Atlantic Coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, from conviction of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts United States shall then be added. There" shall be no write grievous bodily injury, or violation of Title 11 or 111 of the in voting and no provisions for the same shall appear on the Landrum-Criffin Act, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes." ballot. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily Dated removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable Signature of member portion shall also he placed a short statement indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. Book No. (c) The ballots so prepared at the direetion of the SecretaryPrinted forms of the certificate shall be made available to Treasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be nominees. Where a nominee cannot truthfully execute such a used. Each ballot shall he numbered as indicated in the pre­ certificate, but is, in fact, legally eligible for an office or job ceding paragraph and shall be numbered consecutively, com­ by reason of the restoration of civil rights originally revoked by mencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both Parole of the United States Department of Justice, he shall, in by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto, shall be main­ lieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed state­ tained-by the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall also send each ment of the facts of his case together with true copies of the Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial documents supporting his statement. numbers of the ballots sent. The Secretary-Treasurer shall Any full book member may nominate any other full book also send to each Port Agent a sufficient amount of blank member in which event such full book member so nominated opaque envelopes containing, the word, "Ballot" on the face of shall comply with the provisions of this Article as they are the envelope, as well as a sufficient amount of opaque mail­ set forth herein, relating to the submission of credentials. ing envelopes, first class postage prepaid and printed on the By reason of the above self nomination provision the responsi- face thereon as the addressee shall be the name and address of sibility if any, for notifying a nominee of his nomination to the depository for the receipt of such ballots as designated by office, shall be that of the nominator. the President in the manner provided hy Article X, Section 1, All documents required herein must reach headquarters no of this Constitution. In the upper left-hand corner ofsuch earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the mailing envelope, there shall be printed thereon, as a top line, election year. provision for the voter's signature and on another line im­ The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of mediately thereunder, provision for the printing of the voter's these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Com­ name and book number. In addition, the Secretary-Treasurer mittee upon the latter's request. shall also send a sufficient amount of mailing envelopes identi­ cal with the mailing envelopes mentioned above, except that Sectian 2. Credentials Committee. they shall be of different color, and shall contain on the face (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regular of such envelope in bold letters, the word, "(3iallenge". The meeting in August of the election year, at the port where Head­ Secretary-Treasurer shall further furnish a sufficient amount quarters is located. It shall consist of six (6) full hook mem­ of "Roster Sheets" which shall have printed thereon, at the top bers in attendance at tbe meeting, with two (2) members to thereof, the year of the election, and immediately thereunder, be elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards De­ five (5) vertical columns designated, date, ballot number, partments. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent signature full book member's name, book number and com­ or Patrolman, or candidate for office or the job of Headquarters ments, and such roster sheets shall contain horizontal lines Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall he eligible for immediately under the captions of each of the above five election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article columns. The Secielary-Treasurer shall also send a sufficient X, Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable amount of envelopes with the printed name and address of to serve, the Committee shall suspend until the President or the depository on the face thereof, and in the upper left-hand Executive Vice-President, or the Secretary-Treasurer, in that corner, the name of the port and address, and on the face of order, calls a special meeting at the port where Headquarters such envelope, should be printed the words, "Roster Sheets is located in order to elect a replacement. The Committee's and Ballot Stubs". Each Port Agent shall maintain separate Article Xil �February, 1970 1 records of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and count the ballots when received, to insure that the amount s6nt, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that Fort. The Port Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt, acknowledging the correctness of the amount and the numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall he corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. Iii any event, receipts shall be forwarded for all the aforementioned election material actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspection of the same at the office of the SecretaryTreasurer and shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee. (d) Balloting shall be secret. Only full book members in good standing may vote. Each full book member may secure his ballot at Port offices, from the Port Agent or his duly designated representative at such port. Each Port Agent shall designate an area at the Port office over which should be posted the legend "Voting Ballots Secured Here." When a full book member appears to vote he shall present his book to the I^ort Agent or his aforementioned duly designated representa­ tive. The Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall insert on the roster sheet under the appropriate column, the date, the number of the ballot given to such member and his full book number, and the member shall then sign his name on such roster sheet under the appropriate column. Such member shall have his book stamped with the word, "Voted" and the date, and shall be given a ballot, and simultaneously the perforation on the top of the ballot shall be removed. At the same time the member shall be given the envelope marked "Ballot" together with the pre-paid postage mailing envelope addressed to the depository. The member shall take such ballot and envelopes and in secret thereafter, mark his ballot, fold the same, insert it in the blank envelope marked "Ballot", seal the same, then insert such "Ballot" envelope into the mail­ ing envelope, seal such mailing envelope, sign his name on the upper left-hand comer on the first line of such mailing envelope and on the second line in the upper left-hand corner print his name and book number, after which he shall mail or cause the same to be mailed. In the event a full book member appears to vote and is not in good standing, or does not have his membership book with him or it appears for other valid reasons he is not eligible to vote, the same procedure as provided above shall apply to him, except that on the roster sheet under the column "Comments", notation should be made that the member voted a challenged ballot and the reason for his challenge. Such member's membership book shall be stamped "voted challenge", and the date, and such member instead of the above-mentioned mailing envelope, shall be given the mailing envelope of a different color marked on the face thereof with the word, "Challenge". At the end of each day, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall enclose in the envelope addressed to the depository and marked "Roster Sheets and Ballot Stubs", the roster sheet or sheets executed by the members that day, together with the numbered per­ forated slips removed from the ballots which had been given to the members, and then mail the same to such depository. To insure that an adequate supply of all balloting material is maintained in all ports at all times, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative, simultaneously with mailing of the roster sheets and ballot stubs to the depository at the end of each day, shall also make a copy of the roster sheet for that day and mail the same to the Secretary-Treasurer at Head­ quarters. The Port Agent shall be responsible for the proper safeguarding of all election material and shall not release any of it until duly called for and shall insure that no one tampers with the material placed in his custody. (e) Full book members may request and vote an absentee ballot under the following circumstances; while such member is employed on a Union contracted vessel and which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to be at a port in wbich a ballot can be secured during the time and period provided for in Section 4(a) of this Article or is in a USPHS Hospital any­ time during the first ten (10) days of the month of November of the Election Year. The member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by registered or certified mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such request shall con­ tain a designation as to the address to which such member wishes his absentee ballot returned. The request shall be post­ marked no later than 12:00 P.M. on the 15th day of November of the election year, shall be directed to the SecretaryTreasurer at Headquarters and must be delivered no later than the 25th of such November. The Secretary-Treasurer shall determine whether such member is eligible to vote such absentee ballot. The Secretary-Treasurer, if he determines that such member is so eligible, he shall by the 30th of such November, send by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the address so designated by such member, a "Ballot", after removing the perforated numbered stub, together with the hereinbefore mentioned "Ballot" envelope, and mailing en­ velope addressed to the depository, except that printed on the face of such mailing envelope, shall be the words "Absentee Ballot" and -appropriate voting instructions shall accompany such mailing to the member. If the Secretary-Treasurer de­ termines that such member is ineligible to receive such absentee ballot, he shall nevertheless send such member the afore­ mentioned ballot with accompanying material except that the mailing envelope addressed to the depository shall have printed on the face thereof the words "Challenged Absentee Ballot." The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep records of all of the fore­ going, including the reasons for determining such member's ineligibility, which records shall be open for inspection by full book members and upon the convening of the Union Tallying Committee, presented to them. The SecretaryTreasurer shall send to all Ports, the names and book numbers of the members to whom absentee ballots were sent. (f) All ballots to be counted, must be received by the depository no later than the January 5th immediately sub­ sequent to the election year and must be postmarked no later than 12 midnight December 31st of the election year. Section 4. (a) At the close of the last day of the period for securing ballots, the Port Agent in each port, in addition to his duties set forth above, shall deliver or mail to Head­ quarters by registered or certified mail, attention Union Tally­ ing Committee, all unused ballots and shall specifically set forth, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. (b) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. The election shall be held at the regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the Executive Board otherwise determines prior thereto, at a SEAFARERS LOG special meeting held in the aforesaid ports, on the first business day of the last week of said month. No officer, Head(|uarters Representative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or candidate for office, or the job or Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties herein set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall have access to all election records and files for their inspection, examination and verification. The report shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these discrepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. In connection with the tally of ballots there shall be no counting of ballots until all mailing envelopes containing valid ballots have first been opened, the ballot envelopes removed intact and then all of such ballot envelopes mixed together, after which such ballot envelopes shall be opened and counted in such multiples as the Committee may deem expedient and manageable. The Committee shall resolve all issues on chal­ lenged ballots and then tally those found valid, utilizing the same procedure as provided in the preceding sentence either jointly or separately. (c) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall, after their election, proceed to the port in which Headquarters is located, to arrive at that port no later than January 5th of the year immediately after the election year. Each member of the Committee not elected from the port in which Head­ quarters is located shall be reimbursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expenses occasioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. Committee members elected from the port in which Headquarters is located, shall be similarly, reimbursed, except for transportation. All members of the Committee shall also be paid at the prevailing standby rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the port from which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to th^ express terms of this Constitution, adopt its own procedures. A 1 decisions of such Committee and the contents of their report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in at­ tendance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Committee, hut not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain all mailed ballots and the other mailed election material from the depository and to insure their safe custody during the course of the Committee's proceedings. The proceedings of the Committee except for their organizational meeting and their actual preparation of the closing report and dissents therefrom, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes decorum. Any candidate may act as an observer and/or designate another member to act as his observer at the counting of the ballots. In no event shall issuance of the above referred to closing report of the Committee be delayed beyond January 31st immediately subse­ quent to the close of the election year. In the discharge of its duties, the Committee may call upon and utilize the services of clerical employees of the Union. The Committee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and 'dispatch of its report as required in this Article. In the event a reeheck and recount is ordered pursuant to this Article, the Committee shall be reconstituted, except that if any member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (d) The report of the Committee shall be made up in suffi­ cient copies to comply with the following requirements: two copies shall be mailed by the Committee to each Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer no later than January 31st im­ mediately subsequent to the close of the election year. As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner, and notify the Secretary-Treasurer, in writing, as to the date of such posting. This copy shall be kept posted until after the Election Report Meeting, which shall be the March regular membership meeting immediately following the close of the election year. At the Election Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (e) Any full book member claiming a violation of the election and balloting procedure or the conduct of the same, shall within 72 hours of the occurrence of the claimed violation, notify the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters, in writing, by certified mail, of the same, setting forth his name, book number and the details so that appropriate corrective action if warranted may be taken. The Secretary-Treasurer shall ex­ peditiously investigate the facts concerning the claimed viola­ tion, take such action as may be necessary if any, and make a report and recommendation, if necessaiy, a copy of which shall be sent to the member and the original -shall be filed for the Union Tallying Committee for their appropriate action, report and recommendation, if any. The foregoing shall not be applicable to matters involving the Credentials Committee's action or report, the provisions of Article Xlll, Sections 1 and 2 being the pertinent provisions applicable to such matters. All protests as to any and all aspects of the election and balloting procedures or the conduct of the same, not passed upon by the Union Tallying Committee in its report, excluding therefrom matters involving the Credentials Committee's action or report as provided in the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, but including the procedure and report of the Union Tallying Committee, shall be filed in writing by certified mail with the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters, to be received no later than the February 25th immediately sub­ sequent to the close of the election year. It shall be the re­ sponsibility of the member to insure that his written protest is received by the Secretary-Treasurer no later than such Febru­ ary 25th. The Secretary-Treasurer shall forward copies of such written protest to dl ports in sufficient time to be read at t.ie Election Report Meeting. The written protest shall contain the full book member's name, book number, and all details constituting the protest. (f) At the Election Report Meeting the report and recom­ mendation of the Union Tallying Committee, including but not limited to discrepancies, protests passed upon by them, as well as protests filed with the Secretary-Treasurer as provided for in Section (e) immediately above, shall be acted upon by the meeting. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the CouBtitution Supplement—Page Seventeen ordering of a special vote, unless reported discrepancies or protested procedure or conduct found to have occurred and to be violative of the Constitution, affected the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted to such office, offices and/or job or jobs, as the case may be. A majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings may order a recheck and recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three (3) or more members of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this Section 4(f), the closing report shall be accepted as final. There shall he no further protest or appeal from the action of the majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings. (g) Any special vote ordered pursuant to Section 4(f) shall he commenced within ninety (90) days after the first day of the month immediately subsequent to the Election Report Meetings mentioned above. The depository shall be the same as designated for the election from which the special vote is ordered. And the procedures shall be the same as provided for in this Section 4, except where specific dates are provided for, the days shall be the dates applicable, which provide for the identical time and days originally provided for in this Section 4. The Election Report Meeting for the aforesaid special vote shall be that meeting immediately subsequent to the report of the Union Tallying Committee separated by one calendar month. Section 5. Elected Officers and Job Holders: (a) A candidate unopposed for any office or job shall be dedmed elected to such office or job notwithstanding that his name may appear on the ballot. The Union Tallying Committee shall not be required to tally completely the results of the voting for such unopposed candidate but shall certify in their report, that such unopposed caitdidate has been elected to such office or job. The Election Report Meeting shall accept the above certification of the Union Tallying Committee without change. Section 6. Installation into Office and the Job of Head­ quarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman: (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meet­ ing, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meet­ ing the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candi­ date cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume office the provisions of Article X, Section 11 shaU apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. Article XiV Other Elections Section 1. Trial Committee. A Trial Committee shall be elected at a special meeting held at 10:00 A.M., the next business day following the regular meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take place. It shall consist of five full book members, of which three shall consti­ tute a quorum. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Port Patrolman, or other Union personnel may be elected to serve on a Trial Committee. No member who intends to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any member who cannot for any reason, render an honest decision. It shall be the duty of every member to decline nomination if he knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing dis­ qualifications apply to him. The members of this committee shall be elected under such generally applicable rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the membership. Section 2. Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven full book members, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at the port where headquarters is located. TTie same disquali­ fications and duties of members shall apply with regard to this committee as apply to the Trial Committee. In addition, no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearing of an appeal from a Trial (Committee decision, if the said member was a member of the Trial Committee. Article XV Trials and Appeals Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any othCT member for the commission of an offense as set forth in this Constitution. These charges shall be in writing and signed by the accuser, who shall also include his book number. The accuser shall deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the port nearest the place of the offense, or the port of pay-off, if the offense took place aboard ship. He shall also request ^e Port Agent to present these charges at the next regular meeting The accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting takes place. Soctlon 2. After presentation of the charges and the request to the Port Agent, the Port Agent shall cause those charges to be read at ffie said meeting. If the charges are rejected by a majority vote of the port, no further action may be taken thereon, unless ruled otherwise by a majority vote of the membership of the Union within 90 days thereafter. If the charges are accepted, and the accused is present, he shall be automatically on notice that he will be tried the following morning. At his request, the trial shall be postponed until the morning following the next regular meeting, at which time the Trial Committee will then be elected. He �Constitution Supplement—Page Eighteen shall also be handed a written copy of the charges made against him. If the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall immedi> ately cause to be sent to him, by registered mail addressed to his last known mailing address on Ale with the Union a copy of the charges, the names and book numbers of the accusers, and a notiAcation, that he must appear with his witnesses, ready for trial the morning after the next regular meeting, at which meeting the Trial Committee will be elected. In the event a majority of the membership of the Union shall vote to accept charges after their rejection by a port, tbe trial shall take place in the Port where Headquarters is located. Due notice thereof shall be given to the accused, who shall be informed of the name of his accusers, and who shall receive a written statement of the charges. At the request of the accused, transportation and subsistence shall be provided the accused and his witnesses. Section 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinent evidence and shall not be bound by the rules of evidence required by courts of law but may receive all relevant testi­ mony. The Trial Committee may grant adjournments, at the request of the accused, to enable him to make a proper defense. In the event the Trial Committee falls beneath a quorum, it shall adjourn until a quorum does exist. Section 4. No trial shall be conducted unless all the accusers are present. Tlie Trial Committee Shall conduct the trial except that the accused shall have the right to cross-examine the accuser, or accusers, and the witnesses, as well as to conduct his own defense. The accused may select any member to assist him in his defense at the trial, provided, (a) the said member is available at the time of the trial and (b) the said member agrees to render such assistance. If the accused challenges the quallAcations of the members of the Trial Committee, or states that the charges do not adequately inform him of what wrong he allegedly committed, or the time and place of such commis­ sion, such matters shall be ruled upon and disposed of, prior to proceeding on the merits of the defense. TTie guilt of an accused shall be found only if proven by the weight of the evidence, and the burden of such proof shall be upon the accuser. Every Anding shall be based on tbe quality of the evidence and not solely on the number of witnesses produced. V.' Section 5. The Trial Committee shall make Andings as to guilt or innocence, and recommendations as to punishment and/or other Union action deemed desirable in the light of the proceedings. These Andings and recommendations shall be those of a majority of the committee, and shall be in writing, as shall be any dissent. The committee shall forward its And­ ings and recommendations, along with any dissent to the Port Agent of the port where the trial took place, while a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the accused and the accusers, either in person or by mail addressed to their last known addresses. The Andings shall include a statement that the rights of the accused under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. The Andings also must contain the charges made, the date of the trial, the name and address of the accused, the accuser, and each witness; shall describe each document used at the trial; shall contain a fair summary of the proceedings, and shall state the Andings as to guilt or innocence. If possible, all documents used at the trial shall be kept. All "Andings and recommendations shall be made a part of the regular Ales. Sec'/io'.i 6. The Port Agent of the Port of Trial shall, upon receipt of the Andings and recommendations of the Trial Com­ mittee, cause the Andings and recommendations to be presented, and entered into the minutes, at the next regular meeting. Section 7. The Port Agent shall send the record of the entire proceedings to Iieadquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies thereof to he made and sent to each Port in time for the next regularly scheduled meeting. Section 8. At the latter meeting, the proceedings shall be dis­ cussed. Tlu' meeting shall then vote. A majority vote of the membershij! of tiie Union shall: (a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or (b) Reject the Andings and recommendations, or (c) Acceiit i!ie findings, but modify the recommendations, or (d) Order a new trial after finding that substantial justice has not been done with regard to the charges. In this event, a new trial shall take place at the port where headquarters is located and upon application, the accused, the accusers, and their witnesses shall be furnished transportation and subsist­ ence. Section 9. After the vote set forth in Section 8, any punish­ ment so decided uDon shall become effective. Headquarters shall cause notice of the results thereof to be sent to each accused and accuser. Section 10. An accused who has been found guilty, or who is under effective punishment may appeal in the following manner; He may send or deliver a notice of appeal to Headquarters within 30 days after receipt of the notice of the decision of the membership. Section II. At the next regular meeting of the port where Headquarters is located, after receipt of the notice of appeal, the notice shall be presented and sball then become part of the minutes. An Appeals G>mmittee shall then he elected. The Vice-President in charge of contracts is charged with the duty of presenting the before-mentioned proceedings-and all avail­ able documents used as evidence at the trial to the Appeals Committee, as well as any written statement or argument sub­ mitted by the accused. The accused may argue his appeal in person, if he so desires. The appeal shall be heard at Union Headquarters on the night the committee is elected. It shall be the responsibility of the accused to insure that his written statement or argument arrives at headquarters in time for such presentation. Section 12. The Appeals Committee shall decide the appeal as soon as possible, consistent with fair consideration of the evidence and arguments before it. It may grant adjournments and may request the accused or accusers to present arguments, whenever necessary for such fair consideration. Sactlon 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall be by majority vote, and shall be in the form of Andings and recommendations. Dissents will be allowed. Decisions and dissents shall be in writing and signed by those participating in such decision or dissent. In making its Andings and , "com­ mendations, the committee shall be governed by the following; (a) No Anding of guilt shall be reversed if there is sub­ stantial evidence to support such a finding and, in such case, the Appeals Committee shall not make its own Andings as to the weight of evidence. (b) In no event shall increased punishment be recommended. (c) A new trial shall be recommended if the Appeals Com­ mittee finds—(a) that any member of the Trial Committee SEAFARERS February, 1970 LOG should have been disqualified, or (b) that the accused was not adequately informed of the details of the chwged offense, which resulted in his not having been given a fair trial, or (c) that for any other reason, the accused was not given a fair trial. (d) If there is not substantial evidence to support a Anding of guilt, the Appeals Committee shall recommend that the charge on which the Anding was based be dismissed. (e) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser punish­ ment. Section 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its decision and dissent, if any, to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies to be published and shall have them sent to each port in time to reach there before the next regular scheduled meeting. Headquarters shall also send a copy to each accused and accuser at their last known address, or notify them in person. Section 15. At the meeting indicated in Section 14 of this Article, the membership, by a majority vote, shall accept the decision of the Appeals Committee, or the dissent therein. If there is no dissent, the decision of the Appeals Committee shall stand. If a new trial is ordered, that trial shall be held in the port where headquarters is located, in the manner provided for in Section 2 of this Article. Any decision so providing for a new trial shall contain such directions as will insure a fair hearing to the accused. Soctien 16. Headquarters shall notify the accused and each accuser, either in person or in writing addressed to their last known address, of the results of the appeal. A further appeal shall he allowed as set forth in Section 17 of this Article. Section 17. Each member is charged with knowledge of the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers International Union of North America, and the rights of, and procedure as to, further appeal as provided for therein. Decisions reached thereunder shall be binding on all members of the Union. Section It. It shall be the duty of all members of the Union to take all steps within their constitutional power to carry out the terms of any effective decisions. SocHon 19. Every accused shall receive a written copy of the charges preferred against him and shall be given a reasonable time to prepare his defense, but he may thereafter plead guilty and waive any or all of the other rights and privileges granted to him by this Article. If an accused has been properly notified of his trial and fails to attend without properly requesting a postponement, the Trial Commiiije may hold its trial without his presence. Article XVi Offenses and Penalties Section 1. Upon proof of the commission of the following offenses, the member shall be expelled from membership; (a) Proof of membership in any organization advocating the overthrow of the Governn^ent of the United States by force; (b) Acting as an informer against the interest of the Union or the membership in any organizational campaign; (c) Acting as an informer for, or agent of, the company against the interests of the membership or the Union; (d) The commission of any act as part of a conspiracy to destroy the Union. Section 2. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, the member shall be penalized up to and including a penalty of expulsion from the Union. In the event the penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recommeded, the penalty shall not exceed suspension from the rights and privileges of membership for more than two (2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both: (a) Willfully misappropriating or misusing Union property of the value in excess of $50.00. (b) Unauthorized use of Union property, records, stamps, seals, etc., for the purpose of personal gain; (c) Willful misuse of any office or job, elective or not, within the. Union for the purpose of personal gain, financial or other­ wise, or the willful refusal or failure to execute the duties or functions of the said office or job, or gross neglect or abuse in executing sucb duties or functions or other serious misconduct or breach of trust. The President may, during the pendency of disciplinary proceedings under this subsection, suspend the officer or jobholder from exercising the functions of the office or job, with or without pay, and designate his temporary re­ placement. (d) Unauthorized voting, or unauthorized handling of bal­ lots, stubs, rosters, verification lists, ballot boxes, or election Ales, or election material of any sort; (e) Preferring charges with knowledge that such charges are false; (f) Making or transmitting, with intent to deceive, false reports or communications which fall within the scope of Union business; (g) Deliberate ffailure or refusal to join one's ship, or mis­ conduct or neglect of duty aboard ship, to the detriment of the Union or its agreements; (h) Deliberate and unauthorized interference, or deliberate and malicious villiAcation, with regard to the execution of the duties of any office or job; (i) Paying for, or receiving money for, employment aboard a vessel, exclusive of proper earnings and Union payments; (j) Willful refusal to submit evidence of affiliation for the purpose of avoiding or delaying money payments to the Union, or unauthorizedly transferring or receiving evidence of Union affiliation, with intent to deceive; (k) Willful failure or refusal to carry out the order of those duly authorized to make such orders during time of strike. (1) Failure or refusal to pay a fine or assessment within the time limit set therefor either by the Constitution or by action taken in accordance with the Constitution. S«ction 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, members shall he penalized up to and including a suspension from the rights and privileges of membership for two (2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both: (a) Willfully misappropriating or misusing Union property of the value under $^.00; (b) Assuming any office or job, v lie'*;er elective or not with knowledge of the lack of possession of the qualifications re­ quired therefor; (c) Misconduct during any meeting or other official Union proceeding, or bringing the Union into disrepute by conduct not provided for elsewhere in this Article; (d) Refusal or negligent failure to carry out orders of those duly authorized to make such orders at any time. Section 4. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, members shall be penalized up to and including a fine of $50.00: (a) Refusal or willful failure to be present at sign-ons or pay-offs; (b) Willful failure to submit Union book to Union repre­ sentatives at pay-off; (c) Disorderly conduct at pay-off or sign-on; (d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives in dis­ charging their duties; (e) Disorderly conduct in the Union hall; (f) Gambling in the Union hall; (g) Negligent failure to join ship. Soctien 5. Any member who has committed an offense penal­ ized by no more than a fine of $50.00 may elect to waive his rights under this Constitution subject to the provisions of Article XV, Section 19 and to pay the maximum fine of $50.00 to the duly authorized representative of the Union. Soctien 6. This Union, and its members, shall not be deemed to waive any claim, of personal or property rights to which it or its members are entitled, by bringing the member to trial or enforcing a penalty as provided in this Constitution. Section 7. Any member under suspension for an offense under this Article shall continue to pay all dues and assessments and must observe his duties to the Union, members, officials, and job holders. Article XVil Publications This Union may publish such pamphlets, journals, news­ papers, magazines, periodicals and general literature, in such manner as may be determined, from time to time, by the Executive Board. Article XVili Bonds Officers and job holders, whether elected or appointed as well as all other employees handling monies of the Union shall be bonded as required by law. Article XIX Expenditures Soctioii I. In the event no contrary policies or instructions are in existence, the President may authorize, make, or incur such expenditures and expenses as are normally encompassed within the authority conferred upon him by Article X of this Constitution. Section 2. The provisions of Section 1 shall similarly apply to the routine accounting and administrative procedures of the Union except those primarily concerned with trials, appeals, negotiations, strikes, and elections. Section 3. The provisions of this Article shall supersede to the extent applicable, the provisions of Article X of this Constitution. Article XX Income Section 1. The income of this Union shall include dues, initiation fees, fines, assessments, contributions, loans, interest, dividends, as well as income derived from any other legitimate business operation or other legitimate source. Section 2. An official Union receipt, properly filled out, shall be given to anyone paying money to the Union or to any person authorized by the Union to receive money. It shall be the duty of every person affiliated with the Union who makes such payments to demand such receipt. Section 3. No assessments shall he levied except after a ballot conducted under such general rules as may be decided upon by a majority vote of the membership, provided that; (a) The ballot must be secret. (b) The assessment must be approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast. Section 4. Except as otherwise provided by law, all payments by members or other affiliates of this Union shall be applied successively to the monetary obligations owed tbe Union com­ mencing with the oldest in point of time, as measured from the date of accrual of such obligation. The period of arrears shall be calculated accordingly. Section 5. To the extent deemed appropriate by the major­ ity of the Executive Board, funds and assets of the Union may be kept in an account or accounts without separation as to purpose and expended for all Union purposes and objects. Article XXI Other Types of Union Affiliation To the extent permitted by law, this Union, by majority vote of the membership, may provide for affiliation with it by individuals in a lesser capacity than membership, or in a capacity other than membership. By majority vote of the mem­ bership, the Union may provide for the rights and obligations incident to such capacities or affiliations. These rights and obligations may include, but are not limited to (a) the applic­ ability or non-applicability of all or any part of the Consti­ tution; (b) the terms of such affiliation; (c) the right of the Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation and, (d) the fees required for such affiliation. In no event may anyone not a member receive evidence of affiliation equivalent to that of members, receive priority or rights over members, or be termed a member. Article XXII Quorums Section 1. Unless elsewhere herein otherwise specifically pro­ vided, the quorum for a special meeting of a port shall be six (6) full book members. Section 2. The quorum for a regular meeting of a Port shall be fifty (50) members. Section 3. Unless otherwise specifically set forth herein, the decisions, reports, recommendations, or other functions of any segment of the Union requiring a quorum to act officially, shall be a majority of those voting, and shall not be official or effective unless the quorum requirements are met. -f �February, 1970 SEAFARERS Section 4. Unless otherwise indicated herein, where the ret^irements for a quorum are not specifically set forth, a quorum shall he deemed to be a majority of those composing the ap­ plicable segment of the Union. Article XXiii Meetings I 1 ' !: % . ^:li • Section 1. Regular membership meetings shall be held inonthly only in the following major ports at the following times: During the week following the first Sunday of every month a meeting shall be held on Monday—at New York; on Tuesday —at Philadelphia; on Wednesday—at Baltimore; and on Friday—at Detroit. During the next week, meetings shall be held on Monday—at Houston; on Tuesday—at New Orleans; and on Wednesday—at Mobile. All regular membership meet­ ings shall commence at 2:30 P.M. local time. Where a meeting day falls on a Holiday officially designated as such by the authorities of the state or municipality in which a port is located, the port meeting shall take place on the following business day. Saturday and Sunday shall not be deemed busi­ ness days. The Area Vice _ Presidents shall he the chairmen of all regular meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a regular meeting of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. In the event a quorum is not present at 2:30 P.M. the chairman of the meeting at the pertinent port shall postpone the opening of the meeting but in no event later than 3:00 P.M. Section 2. A special meeting at a port may be called only at the direction^ of the Port Agent or Area Vice President. No special meeting may he held, except between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be posted at least two hours in advance, on the port bulletin board. TIM Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all special meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a special meet­ ing of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. Section 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, all reg­ ular meetings shall be governed by the following: 1. The Union Constitution. 2. Majority vote of the members assembled. Article XXiV Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions Relating Thereto Ln I, «!. I: Section 1. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein, the term "incapacity," shall mean any illness or situation preventing the affected person from carrying out his duties for more than 30 days, provided that this does not result in a vacancy. However, nothing contained in this Article shall be deemed to prohibit the execution of the functions of more than one job and/or office in which event no incapacity shall be deemed to exist with regard to the regular job or office of the one taking over the duties and functions of the one incapacitated. The period of incapacity shall be the time during which the circumstances exist. Section 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein, the term "vacancy" shall include failure to perform the func­ tions of any office or job by reason of death, or resignation, or suspension from membership or expulsion from the Union with no further right to appeal in accordance with the pro­ visions of Article XV of this Constitution. 1 f:' LOG officials and other elected job-holders are required to asume office. Section 8. The terms, "this Constitution", and "this amended Constitution," shall be deemed to have the same meaning and shall refer to the Constitution as amended which takes the place of the one adopted by the Union in 1939, as amended up through August, 1968. Section 9. The term, "member in good standing", shall mean a member whose monetary obligations to the Union are not in arrears for thirty days or more, or who is not under suspen­ sion or expulsion effective in accordance with this Constitution. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, the term, "member," shall mean a member in good standing. Section 10. Unless plainly otherwise required by the context of their use, the terms "Union book," "membership book," and "book," shall mean official evidence of Union membership. Section 11. The term "full book" or "full Union book" shall mean only an official certificate issued as evidence of Union membership which carries with it complete rights and privileges of membership except as may be specifically constitutionally otherwise provided. Section 12. The term, "full book member", shall mean a member to whom a full book has been duly issued and who is entitled to retain it in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. Article XXV Amendments This Constitution shall be amended in the following manner: Section 1. Any full book member may submit at any regular meeting of any Port proposed amendments to this Constitu­ tion in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership of the Port approves it, the proposed amendment shall be for­ warded to all Ports for further action. Section 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by a ma­ jority vote of the membership, it shall be referred to a Con­ stitutional Committee in the Port where Headquarters is located. This Committee shall be composed of six full book members, two from each department and shall be elected in accordance with such rules as are established by a majority vote of that Port. The Committee will act on all proposed amendments referred to it. The Committee may receive whatever advice and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare a report on the amendment together with any proposed changes or substitutions or recommendations and the reasons for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted to the membership. If a majority vote of the membership approves the amendment as recommended, it shall then be voted upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership of the Union by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure directed by a majority vote of the membership at the time it gives the approval necessary to put the referendum to a vote. The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of six (6) full book members, two from each of the three (3) departments of the Union, elected from Headquarters Port. The amendment shall either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall be referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be posted on the bulletin boards of all ports and made available at the voting site in all ports. Section 3. If approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast, the amendment shall become effective immediately upon notification by the aforesaid Union Tallying Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer that the amendment has been so approved, unless otherwise specified in the amendment. The SecretaryTreasurer shall immediately notify all ports of the results of the vote on the aniendnieiit. Section 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole the term, "majority vote of the membership," shall mean the majority of all the valid votes cast by. full book members at an official meeting of those ports holding a meeting. This definition shall prevail notwithstanding that one or more ports cannot hold meetings because of no quorum. For the purpose of this Sec­ tion, the term "meeting" shall refer to those meetings to be held during the time period within which a vote must be taken in accordance with the Constitution and the custom and usage of the Union in the indicated priority. EXHIBIT A Minimal requirements to be contained in Constitution of subordinate bodies and divisions chartered by or affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America — At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. Section 4. When applicable solely to port action and not con­ cerned with, or related to, the Union as a whole, and not forming part of a Union-wide vote, the term "majority vote of the membership," shall refer to the majority of the valid votes cast by the full book members at any meeting of the Port, regular or special. Section 5. The term, "membership action", or reference thereto, shall mean the same as the term "majority vote of the membership." Section 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the holder thereof, is set forth in this Constitution, all references thereto and the provisions concerned therewith shall be deemed to be equally applicable to whomever is duly acting in such office or job. Soction 7. The term "Election Year" shall be deemed to mean that calendar year prior to the calendar year in which elected All members shall have equal rights and privileges, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, contained in this Consti­ tution, including secret election, freedom of speech, the right to hold office and the right of secret votes on assessment and dues increases, all in accordance with the law. II No member may be automaticaly suspended from member­ ship except for non-payment of dues, and all members shall be afforded a fair hearing upon written charges, with a reas­ onable time to prepare defense, when accused of an offense under the Constitution. This Union is chartered by (and/or affiliated with), the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Constitution Supplement—Page Nineteen Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and this Constitution and any amendments thereto, shall not take effect unless and until approved as set forth in the Constitution of thaf Union. IV An object of this Union is, within its reasonable capacity, to promote the welfare of, and assist, the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North .'\merica—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District. The charter land/or affiliation) relationship between this Union and the Seafarers International Union of North America —Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall not be dissolved so long as at least ten members of this Union, and the Seafarers International Union of North America— Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board wish to continue such relationship. VI No amendment to this Constitution shall be effective unless and until approved by at least a two-thirds vote of the member­ ship in a secret referendum conducted for that purpose. In any event, the adoption of this Constitution and any amend­ ments thereto, will not be effective unless and until compliance with Article II of the Constitution of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District is first made. Vli .The Seafarers International Union of North America—At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall have the right to check, inspect and make copies of all the books and records of this Union upon demand. VIII This Union shall not take any action which will have the effect of reducing its net assets, calculated through recognized accounting procedures, below the amount of its indebtedness to the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlan­ tic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, unless approved by that Union through its Executive Board. IX So long as there exists any indebtedness by this Union to the Seafarers, International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, that Union shall have the right to appoint a representative or representatives, to this Union who shall have the power to attend all meetings of this Union, or its sub-divisions, or governing boards, if any; and who shall have access to all books and records of this Union on demand. This representative, or these representatives, shall be charged with the duty of assisting this Union and its mem­ bership, and acting as a liaison between the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District and this Union. So long as any unpaid per capita tax, or any other indebted­ ness of any sort is owed by this Union to the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, such indebtedness shall constitute a first lien on the assets of this Union, which lien shall not be impaired without the written approval of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board. XI The per capita tax payable by this Union to the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall be that which is fixed in ac­ cordance with the terms of the Constitution of that Union. XII This Constitution and actions by this Union pursuant thereto are subject to those provisions of the Constitution of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District pertaining to affiliation, dis­ affiliation, trusteeships, and the granting and removal of charters. XIII This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America through the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. It shall share in, and participate as part of, the delegation of that District to the Convention of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. �Constitution Supplement—Page Twenty SEAFARERS LOG February, 1970 EFERY SEAEARER IS GUARANTEED • Protection of the rights and privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. • The right to vote. • The right to nominate himself for, and to hold, any office in the Union. • That every official of the Union shall be bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member and that in no case shall any member be deprived of his rights and privileges as a member without due process of the law of the Union. • The right to be confronted by his accuser and to be given a fair trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members if he should be charged with conduct detrimental to the welfare of Seafarers banded together in this Union. • The right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. • The assurance that his brother Seafarers will stand with him in defense of the democratic principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. •f*/' - �Febrnaryt 1970 •I I , I 1 F |\< I' IT V Lrf f- SEAFARERS Dr. Arthur ^Sam' Houston SlU Medical Examiner "A most competent physician and an outstanding administra­ tor," was how Dr. Arthur N. "Sam" Houston was described by SiU Chief Medical Director Dr. Joseph Logue. Dr. Houston, who was SIU Medical Examiner for ^e Port of New Orleans, died on Janu­ ary 16 after a long illness. He was 66 years old. Remembered by New Orleans Port Agent C. J. "Buck" Ste­ phens as "a good doctor and a man who was well liked," Dr. Houston had headed the SIU clinic in New Orleans since its opening in 1961. "He was very instrumental in getting the clinic in New Or­ leans on its feet," said Dr. Logue. A man who became very in­ volved in his cases, "from begin­ ning to end, *he will be very much missed as a colleague and friend, by myself in particular, and by all the people he came in contact with in the port," Dr. Logue commented. Attending the private funeral service were Brother Stephens and SIU Vice-President Lindsey Williams. Dr. Houston was a native of Benson, Arizona and graduated from the University of Arizona in 1923. He then attended the Page Twenty One LOG New York Lifeboat School Graduates Posing for their" class photo are these graduates of the SIU New York Lifeboat School, Class of January 28, 1970. Seated (l-r) are Justo Gonzalez, George Sadorowitsch, Dwight Ford, and Joby Jones. Standing (l-r) are SIU Instructor Leonard Decker, Mar­ co Smigliani, Robert H. Wallace, and Fred Janci. Seafarers must spend a minimum of 30 hours in the lifeboat under the supervi­ sion of qualified SIU instructors before they are eligible to take U.S. Coast Guard examination. Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, later opening a practice there. During World War II he served as a commander in the Navy and saw duty in the South Pacific. Dr. Houston was a member of the Louisiana State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, Surgical Associa­ tion of Louisiana, and belonged to the board of the National In­ dustrial Medical Association. Survivors include his wife, Marie; a daughter, Mrs. Gayle Houston Antony of New Or­ leans; a son, Arthur N. Houston Jr., U.S. Army, Fort Polk, Leesville, Louisiana, and three grand­ children, also of New Orleans. Nomination of Judge Carswell Labeled as Slap at Negroes li II The AFL-CIO termed Presi­ dent Nixon's nomination of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court "a slap in the face to the nation's Negro citizens" and urged the Senate to reject it. Federation President George Meany said "it is all too evi­ dent" that the selection of Carswell reflects the "southern politi­ cal strategy" of Attorney Gen­ eral John N. Mitchell "rather than any search for a preemi­ nent jurist." The so-called "southern strat­ egy" embraced by the conserva­ tive wing of the Republican Party is keyed to wooing Dixiecrats who supported Third Party Candidate George C. Wallace in 1968, while abandoning any effort to win over Negroes and other minority groups, or appeal to liberals. "The AFL-CIO is sorry to see that the President is still using Supreme Court nominations for partisan political advantage," Meany said, "instead of seeking a justice worthy to wear the mantle of Holmes, Brandeis or Warren." Meany noted that the nomi­ nation was made "in full knowl­ edge that the Leadership Con­ ference on Civil Rights had opposed Judge Carswell's ap­ pointment to the Court of Appeals, only a few months ago, on the ground that he had as a district judge been peculiarly hostile to the civil rights of Negroes." He urged the Senate and its Judiciary Committee to "care­ fully scrutinize the nominee's qualifications, judicial decisions and the depth of his prejudices. Since the President seems deter­ mined to make nominations solely for political reasons, the Senate's constitutional obliga­ tion to inquire becomes abso­ lutely vital." From what is known of Carswell's background and philos­ ophy, Meany said, "we believe he does not meet the high stand­ ards requisite for Supreme Court membership. We are opposed to his confirmation. We hope he is rejected by the Senate." In response to questions, he admitted that he had made a "white supremaey" speeeh dur­ ing a 1948 political campaign but said he now rejects any no­ tion of racial superiority. He also denied having had anything to do with the transfer of a Tal­ lahassee, Fla., golf course and clubhouse to private ownership after the city was forbidden to continue to operate it as a seg­ regated facility. Senator Edward J. Gumey (R-Fla.), chief sponsor of Carswell's nomination to the Su­ preme Court, told the Judiciary Committee that Carswell showed "forthrightness, candor and strength of character" in not trying to excuse his 1948 speeeh. Gurney said the quality of being able to change one's mind is important in a period of rapid change. Latest graduates of the SIU Lifeboat School in New York pose for a class photo after taking the Coast Guard examination. Front row (l-r): Norman Bergeron, Thomas Shoemaker, Robert Hagood. In back are: Instructor Bob Lord, John Colalillo, James Williams, OIlie Webber. All passed with very good scores. Will Concentrate on the Fairways Gulf of Mexico Being Searched To Chart Hazards to Shipping CORPUS CHRISTI—A mas­ sive search, extending over sev­ eral years, will be launched this month in the Gulf of Mexico to chart dangerous obstructions to shipping, some of which have been a menace to vessels for nearly fifty years. The project will be conducted by the Commerce Department's Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), and will employ the United States' only wire drag vessels, the Rude and Heck, operated by ESSA's Coast and Geodetic Survey. The mission of the ships will be to search the waters of the Gulf for partially dismantled oil platforms, sunken ships, sandbars, and other submerged objects which present a hazard to merchant ships. Most of the waters to be searched were first charted by the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1966, to guide coastal and ocean-going vessels safely be­ tween the numerous oil well platforms which rise above the surface of the waters of the Gulf as far out to sea as 60 miles. These waters, referred to by mariners as the Fairways, lead into such ports as Tampa, Mo­ bile, New Orleans, Port Arthur, Galveston, Houston and Corpus Christi. The survey ships will begin the search off the coast of Texas, and will work their way east­ ward towing a submerged wire between them as they sweep the assigned areas. The wire, towed at various depths down to 60 feet, will be maintained close to the bottom in shallow areas. Over a 48-year period, more than 70 submerged obstructions were reported to the Coast and Geodetic Survey. These include the sunken wrecks of many com­ mercial and recreational vessels, some more than one hundred years old. Superstition Behind Calling Ships 'She' Seafarers have tradition­ ally referred to their ships as females. This tradition is seeming­ ly a flattering one for women. That is, if you don't refer back to its origin as researched by Alan P. Ma­ jor of Nautical Magazine. He says that when man first began to sail the seven seas, he was fearful of these waters since he imagined that some evil spirit ruled in the depths. As a protection from the wrath of this malevolent spirit, ancient seamen would sacrifice a young woman and then throw "her blood against the sides and bows of their frail craft; her head being mounted in front of the vessel so the spirit of the depths could see that those who sailed in it had made sacrifice to him." So ladies, next -time a man wants to name a ship after you, be careful. �SEAFARERS Pajre Twenty Two LOG February, 1970 House Hearings Begin on Merrhant Marine Ait of 1970 (Continued from Page 3) possible the replacement of ob­ solete vessels, the moderniza­ tion of the American fleet, and the maximizing of U.S.-flag cargo carriage," Moody added. He said that the MTD was "pleased to find that the pending legislation would extend this construction reserve opportunity to the entire fleet engaged in foreign trade, and that the maxi­ mum opportunity will be extend­ ed to every operator to get into this program." Continuing his remarks. Moody added that this provi­ sion in the pending bill achieves a major breakthrough since "It establishes, and we hope for all time, the principle that all ship operators will be treated as equals." Catch-Up Plan Commenting on the appear­ ance before the Committee by Maritime Administrator Gib­ son. Moody said that the MTD was pleased that Gibson "rec­ ognised the fact that the unsubsidized operator has been placed at a competitive disad­ vantage for many years — be­ cause the subsidized operator has been getting this tax break, and he has not. We are intrigued with the suggestion made here of some sort of a catch-up plan, that would make it possible for the newly covered operator to build new ships as rapidly as no"«ible." "We hope that the amend­ ment which has been suggested here would give every possible break to the operator who is only now being given the op­ portunity to set up such a fund. This would be the most com­ pelling evidence possible that Congress and the Administra­ tion intend to rectify some of the wrongs that have been per­ petrated against the unsubsidized operator all these years." Directing attention to what dollars an operator would be permitted to deposit in this fund. Moody said; "As the bill reads now, it would restrict deposits to those earnings which come from for­ eign trade. Yet many of the presently unsubsidized opera­ tors haye been engaged pri­ marily—or at least to a major extent—in the domestic trade. They have been forced to con­ centrate on this trade because— in the absence of operating and construction subsidies — they have been unable to compete with the foreigner, or with the subsidized American operator who was placed on a par with the foreigner, in foreign com­ mercial trade." The MTD Administrator re­ minded the Committee that some of these domestic opera­ tors have begun to branch out into the foreign trade "on their own," and added: "We think they should be encouraged to do so, and we are pleased that the Maritime Ad­ ministrator indicated as much in his appearance before the Com­ mittee." Reminding the Committee of a suggestion, made by one of its own members, and to which Maritime Administrator Gibson indicated no objection, namely that the provision in the bill be modified so that an operator could deposit earnings from the domestic, as well as from the foreign trade in the fund, with the understanding that the funds could be used solely for the construction of ships for the foreign trade. Moody said: "With such an amendment, this provision would provide the maximum opportunity for the unsubsidized operator to move quickly into the expand­ ing foreign trade—putting new­ er, faster, more efficient ships into service, partidularly in the bulk^ trade—and it would still limit the use of this fund to the expansion of the foreign trade fleet, as the President desires." A key item in the Adminis­ tration's maritime program — the inclusion of bulk carriers under the vessel construction subsidy program — was re­ viewed at length by Moody. He told the Committee that when the Merchant Marine Act Galley Crew In Mombasa Seafarers in the steward department aboard the Steel Vendor make a happy galley crew in this photo taken while their ship stopped in the Port of Mombasa, Kenya. From (l-r) are: Mike Dunn, chief stew­ ard; Bill (Sroucho Marx) Saltsrez, third cook; Bill Butterley III, crew messman; Carlos Luna, chief cook. Ship visited South African ports. of 1936 was enacted, "78 per­ would be economically unwise Let's not start out again on a cent of our trade was in break- and militarily dangerous to let maritime program and then drop bulk cargo—so we can under­ this trade fall into the hands of it by thfe wayside." In the past, Groton said, the stand how the Congress made foreign-flag shipping—for they the decision in 1936 to put its could, at will, either cut this lack of continuity in our ship­ money where the trade was." lifeline or extort exorbitant building program has led to the prices for the carriage of our loss of highly-skilled, highly However, Moody added: trained workers who are period­ goods." "The pendulum has swung ically placed in "mothballs," or Moody also advised the in the other direction — and join other industries because today—85 percent of our cargo Committee that the mid-winter is in bulk trade, and only 15 session of the Executive Board there is no stability in employ­ percent is in bteak-bulk trade. of the Maritime Trades Depart­ ment opportunities. Groton emphasized, "if we So the emphasis should be on ment would convene this month spending 85 cents of every con- - —and this issue was already decide to go forward with this struction subsidy dollar on bulk scheduled to come up on its program, we'd better mean it. Once we start modernizing these carriers, and 15 cents on break- agenda. "We hope that, out of our shipyards, and once we start hir­ bulk carriers." Executive Board meeting, will ing and training more shipyard Bulk Ship Priority come a plan of action whereby workers, we'd better keep going Commenting on the provi­ we, in the maritime industry— —or we'll fall flat on our face, sion of the President's program both management and labor— and we'll probably never be able which gives priority in bulk ship representatives of the govern­ to get up again." construction to operators al­ ments of the non-contiguous Pointing to an additional ben­ ready in the trade. Moody said: areas, and officials of federal efit to the entire economy which "We are also in accord with agencies can work together to would result from a full-ahead the position taken by the Mari­ support a workable solution to shipbuilding program, Groton time Administrator to the effect this problem," Moody con­ zeroed in on the issue of the that, to the extent that they cluded. hard-core unemployed in the qualify, present bulk operators nation. Groton Testifies would have first crack at the "A steady, year-around ship­ Page Groton, Director of the building program would be of construction differential subsi­ dies that are made available for Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders invaluable assistance to the bulk carriers. We think this is Marine Council, in his testi­ country in solving the problem wise. There are operators who mony before the Committee, of the hard-core unemployed in have struggled to stay alive in stressed that "continuity" must general, and the hard-core job­ the bulk trades for years—with­ be the byword of the Adminis­ less among the minority groups, out any federal assistance what­ tration's new maritime program. in particular. A shipyard can be He told the Committee that soever except for what govern­ the greatest training ground in ment cargo that might be made the legislation has the general the world—we did it in World available—and it makes sense support of shipyard workers, War II, when we took the hard­ to give them the first opportu­ adding: core unemployed . . . when we "Not only does this legisla­ nity to develop competitive took migrant farm workers . . . commercial bulk carriage now tion talk about building more when we took women . . . and that the program is being ex­ ships per year than we have we put them to work in ship­ panded. We don't expect the been doing in the past—^but, yards. They worked in welding government to reserve the bulk more importantly, it talks about shops, fabricating shops, sheet trades exclusively for these op­ building more ships year after metal shops — they had good erators—even though, in the year after year. And if there jobs, at good pay, and they were past, the berth-line trade has is one thing which I wish to contributing members of soci­ been reserved for 14 selected stress — probably above any­ ety." Groton stated. companies. We thought the thing else—it is the importance "There have been a lot of pro­ practice in the liner trade was of continuity of this program." grams proposed in recent years However, Groton warned to solve the employment prob­ in error, and we don't propose against embarking upon a mar­ lems of minorities and particu­ now that it be compounded by itime program this year or next, larly the hard-core jobless in dealing in exclusivity in the bulk only to let it lag later or be their midst. As far as I'm con­ trade. But we are pleased that the operator who has been in dropped the first time attempts cerned, a shipbuilding program the bulk field—and who wants to cut the federal budget are offers the best possible oppor­ to .stay in it and grow in it— made. tunity to make a lot of these will have that opportunity." "Unless we intend to start this people tax-payers, instead of program, and keep it going at t'lx-users. Non-Contiguous Areas least at the 30-ship-a-year pace "But you can't do it without Directing the hearing's atten­ that the Administration now a nucleus of skilled craftsmen— tion to the subject of trade with proposes—and possibly in­ and you can keep skilled crafts­ the non-contiguous areas, and crease it if the needs' are appar­ men in the shipyards only if you the specific topic of cargo rates to these areas. Moody told ent and the resources are there keep them busy. That's why I —unless we intend to maintain have put so much emphasis on the Committee: continuity in this program, Mr. the need for continuity in this "Under present law, only American-flag ships can move Chairman, I say, let's forget it. program." this cargo between the main­ land and the non-contiguous Editor, areas. Because of the high SEAFARERS LOG, American standard of living, 675 Fourth Ave., American ocean-going vessels Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 cost more to build and operate I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my than is the case for foreignname on your mailing list. (Mnt Mormation) flag shipping. These higher costs are translated into higher rates for the movement of cargo, NAME which means higher prices for the consumer. Yet no one, we STREET ADDRESS are sure, would suggest that American shipyard workers or aTY STATE. ZIP. American seafarers — or any other worker involved in mak­ TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you arc an old tuixcribar and have a ehanga ing products which are used in of addmi, plaate giva your formar addran balow: building American ships—work for substandard wages in order ADORCIS to resolve the problem. "This trade with the non­ STATE OTY contiguous areas must continue to move in American ships. It '1 J �Febraary, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenly Three —t 3 CLASS 36—D. Burnett, Paul Whiteley, Richard Weiford, Larry Kryger, Roland Mason, Peter Darras, Phillip Barry, David Madison, Daniel Parmes, Joe Bass,John Bankston, Bobby Hooks, John Dussard, Instr. Paul McGaharn. HMRYIDNDEB =CUOOL OF SEAMANS P/NEY POINT UF[ BOAT CLASS 13^1' iCl CLASS 38—(Kneeling): Vincent D. Caine, Emilio Cortes. (Front row, l-r): SlU Instructor Paul McGaharn, Jerry Castelli, Steven Stern, Steven Knight, Rodney Fox, Rich Odom, Anthony Nolan, OIlie Rhodes. (Back row, l-r): Nathaniel Gibbs, William Myers, John McAliley, Terry Goin, Russell Lee More, Daniel Griffith, Robert D. Henderson. In the back­ ground is the T/S Charles 5. Zim­ merman, HLSS classroom ship, for­ merly known as the S.S. Mount Ver­ non, Hudson River Excursion ship. 11 llM CLASS 37 — (Kneeing): John Evins, George Brannan. (Front row): Instruc­ tor Paul McGaharn, Louis Dossett, Tony Pitts, John Carter, Richard Reed, and Robert Black. (Back row): Doug Greiner, Samuel Fowler, David Green, Mich­ ael Matusky, Peter Shelley, Bob Giles. it* HARRY LUNDEBERG ' SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP pmy ^T, MO. ' |F£ BOAT CLASS No. �Page Twenty Four n New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few por­ poises apiece/' In modem-day New Bedford, fathers do not give whales for dowers. In fact, they do not give dowers. But when Herman Melville's Ishmael spoke these words in the 19th century classic "Moby Dick," he was referring to a New Bedford where whale oil figuratively oozed from the cellars of elegant homes. ". . . nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford." Melville wrote about the New Bedford of the 1850s, when the whaling industry was reaching its peak. Today, however, there are no more whaling ships returning from four-year trips and the fierce tales of the huge sea monsters destorying men and boats live only in books and stories old sailors tell. Yet men in New Bedford still obtain their live­ lihood from the sea and about 30 percent of the economic life of the town is provided through fishing. The town's history is a very exciting one, filled with sea leviathans. Playing a dynamic part in that history is the SIUNA-affiliated New Bedford Fishermen's Union, located in an historic building at 62 North Water Street where, significantly, 19th century sea captains and merchants transacted their business. An eight-columned Greek revival building with huge bricks and dark green doors, the edifice was originally constructed between 1833-35 to house two banks. Since there was a disagreement over the shape of the roof-supporting pillars, the four pillars to the north are different from those to the south. A wall separated the two banks during the 1830s just as it now separates the Union from the other occupant of the building, the New Bedford Seafood Producers' Association, spokesman for the boat owners. SEAFARERS LOG After whaling declined in the 1860s, the textile industry became New Bedford's big brom indus­ try, reaching its peak in 1920. Then, by the early 1930s, fishing became the town's big business. It was then that fishing fleets from other harbors came to New Bedford, and she was destined to become the most important fishing port on the East Coast. This bay town with about 103,000 residents is today one of the three largest fishing ports in the United States, along with San Diego and Kodiak. She is the scallop capital of the world and her haddock and yellowtail flounder are world famous. Though these fish are today highly prized and a special festival in honor of the scallop is cele­ brated every summer, there are still in New Bed­ ford the ever present reminders of those fabulous times when rich whaling men lighted their homes with spermaceti candles and strangers from around the globe walked the streets of New Bedford. ". . . in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many February* 1970 of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh. It makes a stranger stare." And think of the images Ishmael's words bring to mind when he says, "You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say, they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night, recklessly burn their lengths in sper­ maceti candles." In present-day New Bedford, pictures of sperm whales adorn houses, stores, snack bars, and make fine weather vanes. Different-sized figures of whales can be bought in the old antique stores near the waterfront, along with sea lanterns, har­ poons and anything else to make your whaling voyage complete. There is a restaurant named the "The Spouter Inn" after the place where Ishmael rested while in New Bedford. "Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swing­ ing sign over the door with painting upon it, faintly HERITAGE—Reminders of the past, such as Whaleman's Statue, top left, abound m New Bedford today. Photo top right shows the SIUNA-affiliated New Bedford Fishermen's Union building as it appeared in the 1800s when it housed two banks. At bottom, museum painting shows a terrifying encounter with mighty leviathan. THOSE WERE THE DAYS—Home from a long voyage, a whaler unloads casks of whale oil at the New Bedford docks at the height of the New England whaling era. Ships like this made trips sometimes lasting as long as four years. Naw Badford Whaling Muiautn f �February* 1970 SEAFARERS Page Twenty Five LOG '"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but uncounquering whale; to the last f grapple with thee; from heiVs heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my iast breath at thee. Sink aii coffins and ali hearses to one common poof! and since neither can be mine, iet me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!'" "Moby Dick"-1851 representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath—'The Spouter-Inn—Peter Coffin'" Not far from "The Spouter Inn" is an impressive statue symbolizing the strength and force of the whaling era. A bare chested man tenses his mus­ cles as he readies to thrust his harpoon into an invisible whale. Made of bronze, the statue has three sea gulls carved on a granite background, along with the whaleman's motto, "A dead whale or a stove boat." It symbolizes the life and death struggle that en­ sued each time New Bedford's whalers challenged these sea mammoths. The whaleman's statue, given to New Bedford • in 1913, is located in front of the Greek revival library which once housed an open air market. Within the library is the Melville Whaling Room where materials on whaling number over 95,000 items. The collection is believed to be the largest on the subject outside of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. A short walk from the library is the cobblestone street called Johnny Cake Hill. It is here that the ^amen's Bethel and the Whaling Museum stand opposite each other. Johnny Cake Hill overlooks New Bedford har­ bor, and was once a popular camping ground for Indian tribes. It gets its name from an Indian and colonial food staple known as Johnny cakes or "Journey cakes." They are still eaten by local residents who make them as they have always been made—with corn meal, scalded milk, salt'and water. On this hill, "in the same New Bedford, there stands a Whaleman's Chapel and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot. I am sure that I did not." Melville's Whaleman's Chapel is today's Sea­ men's Bethel, a strikingly clean, gray structure, practically void of any adornment. It was in this chapel that Ishmael read the "THAR SHE BLOWS"—A harpoonjaden whaleboat in the New Bedford Whailng Museum. Un some of the larger vessels as many as six whaleboats were carried for the crew. plaques set up in honor of those lost at sea, and it was here Aat he listened to Father Mapple's well chosen sermon on Jonah and the whale. Within this chapel, Ishmael "found a small scat­ tered congregation of sailors, sailors' wives and widows." And it was here that he looked with amazement at the preacher's pulpit, shaped like the bow of a ship. The chapel is now closed most of the year. The original pulpit no longer exists, although the plaques in memory of the dead seamen are still there. Some of these men were lost in storms, but many became the victims of fighting sea leviathans. In the Whaling Museum, operated by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, large paintings show men and boats being crushed in the jaws of these monsters. So huge and fierce do these whales appear, one wonders at first why men pursued them. Yet, there are also the calmer paintings of whaling ships setting out on voyages, or of seamen strip­ ping the oily blubber from the dead prize. Upon entering the museum, a visitor is greeted by the sign, "Welcome Aboard," and that is indeed the right term. For housed in a section of the mu­ seum, is the world's largest model of a whaling ship. It is a half scale replica of the barque Lagoda, which once sailed from New Bedford. They say that if she had a hull, you could put her out to sea. The wooden deck, the heavy iron chains, the ship's bell, the whaleboats, the steering wheel, all make you wish you could take this Lagoda out on the high seas in search of whales. The model is about 60 feet long and was built in 1915, in memory of the Lagoda's owner, Jona­ than Bourne. It was probably on the decks of Bourne's La- THE WHALING FLEET—During the peak of the whaling industry in New Bedford, as many as four hun­ dred vessels were actively engaged in the pursuit of whales. However, in 1859 the decline of the in­ dustry set in, and the last voyage by a New Bedford whaler was made by the John R. Manta in 1925. goda that seamen passed many boring days by carving upon the teeth of whales. Their art becmne known as scrimshaw, and throughout the museum there are many examples of it. Scenes of nature, of lovely women, or of their own whaling ships, are carved upon these teeth that sometimes weired over five pounds and were as much as nine inches long. And it was also on the Lagoda's deck that huge slabs of blubber were put into large iron cauldrons and melted down for oil. The original Lagoda sailed from 1841 until 1889 and gave her owner half a million dollars profit. Her career spans a good deal of New Bedford's rich whaling years. As the early 1800s progressed, whaling became more and more prosperous in New Bedford. At one point, there were as many as 400 registered whaling ships sailing out of the port. Millions of dollars came into the town from the sale of whale oil. Then, in 1859, petroleum was discovered and whaling began to decline. During the Civil War, many of New Bedford's ships were laden with stones and sunk in Southern harbors to blockade port entrances. In the last quarter of the 19th century, more whaling ships were lost in the Arctic ice packs. Slowly, there was practically no industry left, and a last whaling voyage out of New Bedford was made in 1925 by the John R. Manta. Though whaling is closely tied in with New Bedford's history, the formation of this town began long before whaling became a prized industry. The first settlers came in 1652, when they pur­ chased the township of Dartmouth from the great Wampanoag Indian Chief, Massasoit. New Bedford was first called Bedford Village, and from its founding in 1719 by Joseph Russell, the town's destiny was tied to the sea. Two of her ships, the Dartmouth and the Bed­ ford, participated in the Boston Tea Party. It was in 1787 that Old Dartmouth divided into the towns of New Bedford, Dartmouth and Westport. New Bedford became a city in 1847. When Ishmael left New Bedford, the scene he viewed as he sailed down the Acushnet River, was somewhat different than what is seen today. "On one side. New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last." �Page Twenty Six SEAFARERS February, 1970 LOG I'l ' "In all sincerity, I would like to state that this is the best crew that I have ever had the privilege of sailing with," says Eari P. McCadtey, ship chairman on the TranscoInmbia (Hud­ Hernandez son Waterways). "This is a crew that the SIU can be proud of. Every man has done his job— and done it well." Rafael Hern­ andez, ship secretary, reports that there are no beefs so far. The Transcolunibla was on a run to Vietnam when the report was made. There was some dis­ cussion about having ships of this type put in the mariner class because she carries only heavy lift equipment. There was also a unanimous vote of thanks to the steward department for "a job well done through the holidays, and for making a holiday out of every meal." Thor Jacobsen is deck delegate; John Wallacb, engine delegate; and John Indmi, steward delegate. At the first meeting aboard A good all-round discussion took place at the shipboard the Overseas Snzanne (Mari­ time Overseas), meeting on the out of Mobile Transcoloand bound for rado (Hudson Waterways) on Manila and Vietnam, the the need for im­ crew elected proved medical ^ ™ Lloyd CaUaway care aboard as chairman of ship, it was re­ Poole the Ship's Com­ McKenna ported by Ship mittee, it was Secretary Grant Adkins. The discussion was reported by Meeting Secretary prompted when Seafarer S. W. H. Sinunons. Milton Poole, Ceislak slipped and fell while meeting chairman, got the meet­ reporting for bow lookout, and ing underway by starting a re­ sustained a serious cut on his pair list, and urging the crew to head. Fortunately, Seafarer work together to keep the mess= Kent McKenna had acquired some good first-aid training along the way, and "did a fine The Seafarers named job of stitching up the head below should contact the wounds." "Accidents are not welfare counter at SIU uncommon aboard ship," said Headquarters in Brook­ Meeting (Thairman Joseph Don­ lyn as soon as possible for ovan, "and very often prompt medical attention is absolutely checks being held there necessary." The Transocolorado for them. is on her way to Sattahip and David Bronstein Saigon, and is expected to re­ Alexander Gluck turn to San Francisco early this Anthony AmorieUo month. Money Due room and recreation room clean. Engine Delegate P. R. Wagner reports some disputed overtime in that department, but otherwise everything is running smooth aboard the ves­ sel. James Newton is deck delegate, and Lynn Gwens is steward delegate. (Left) Erskine Townsend bastes turkey in galley at Piney Point during his training last August as Trainee John Micucci looks on. (Below) Townsend sits with SIU Instructor Bill Hall as he talks with trainees during a visit to the school after his first trip. ^ 6 Leroy Rinker was elected as new Ship's Delegate aboard the Del Sud (Delta Lines), and a vote of thanks was extended to former Ship's 4/ Delegate BineAboard the Ames Victory minas for a job (Victory Carriers), Meeting well done. Meet­ Chairman R. Rinker ing Chairman S. Christenherry Rothschild re­ reports that the entire crew was ported that the ship's movie sad to learn that fund is shaping up very well, this would be with 11 films already acquired this vessel's last for this voyage. Reports from voyage before all three departments are that Christenherry being sold to the everything is running smoothly. t. Republic of Crewmembers were urged to be China for scrapping early in extra careful while working u 1970. Built in Portland, Ore­ around cargo on deck. A sug­ gon in 1945, the Ames Victory gestion was made to have all of L will be remembered by hundreds the turnbuckles painted white i of SIU men who sailed aboard so that they can be seen better i, her during the last 25 years. She at night to prevent accidents. was 7,644 gross tons, with a A number of beefs, including *, top speed of 16 knots. At the end of the' trip, the crew was some disputed overtime, were taken up aboard\ flown home from Kowshone by the Seatrain jet. It's always hard to say goodGeorgia (Seatrain Lines), as the vessel r headed for pay­ off at Gulfport, tion between the United States Mississippi, ac­ i and Spain. cording to Meet­ Speaking to the trainees, in­ ing Secretary cluding te •> who are presently in James Thomas. Among the the third cook program at the beefs to be taken up with the school, Townsend said: boarding patrolman are the "The training you are getting need for cleaning the water here at the school really will tanks, replacing the worn-out prepare you for your first trip crew's icebox, and installing to sea. With the preparation you fans in the mess hall. Spare are getting now, you are not parts are also needed for the going to feel lost when you get washing machine. The crew aboard your first ship, and you gave a unanimous vote of are going to be able to carry thanks to the steward depart­ your own load." ment for providing outstanding Townsend's nine-week pro­ meals and service during the gram included, in addition to trip to Vietnam. The Ship's lifeboat training and union edu­ Committee, in addition to Sea­ cation, practical training on the farer Thomas, includes Frank responsibilities of a third cook. Smith, chairman; M. H. Jones, Under the supervision of experi­ deck delegate; Clyde Van Epps, enced SIU instructors. Town- engine delegate; and James send and the other trainees Temple, steward delegate. helped prepare all meals at the school. They prepare and cook all vegetables, cook eggs and Golden Gate Ughtsbip pancakes, make salads, and as­ sist in preparing main courses. May Be Replaced They are also responsible for SAN FRANCISCO — The keeping the galley and refriger­ San Francisco lightship, a stead­ ated areas clean and orderly. fast beacon that has guided The third cook trainees also mariners into this harbor for have an opportunity to acquire more than 70 years, may soon baking skills by actually work­ be replaced by an automated ing with an experienced baker. warning system. They spend additional time at The Coast Guard is consider­ the school's conunissary to learn ing the replacement of the ship the basics of butchering and by a 7,500 candle-power buoy, packaging of meats. similar to other automatic de­ Townsend lives in nearby vices that have replaced light­ Hyattsville, Maryland, with his ships in harbors along the At­ wife, Naomi. "I like sailing," he lantic Coast. says, "and I am going to ship A survey is being conducted" out as often as possible to save by the Coast Guard among money for a home. The oppor­ masters of vessels asking thentunity is here for me to upgrade views on the retirement of the to more responsible and higher- 72-year-old red hulled vessel. paying jobs in the steward de­ The lightship is now on station' partment, and I won't be satis­ at the approaches to San Fran­ fied until I make it all the way cisco's Golden Gate, warning of to chief steward." dense fog or darkness. Third Cook Graduate Praises HLSS Training PINEY POINT, MD. — Erskine Townsend, the first trainee to complete the third cook training program at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, returned to the school after his first trip to visit with friends and talk with the new trainees. After completing nine weeks of intensive on-the-job training, Townsend, who is 19, shipped out as third cook on the C/S Longlines, which was beginning a 3,500 mile cable-laying opera- bye to a good ship and the Ames Victory was a good ship, u 'r' r �•> February, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Twenty Seven LOG Closing Out a Long Career A.: W:-3 / ^'V [ 1 • Claude Edward Conrey Please contact your mother, Mrs. Eunice A. Watson at 1810 34th Avenue North, St. Peters­ burg, Florida. —4^— Robert C. A. Walker Your wife, Beatrice, asks that 'r you contact her as soon as pos­ sible at 2032 West 32nd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ^ ( •« 19121. 'ji '• 'u-: 1; I P '•< R y. t * fl'-v l^fs' Sixto Chameco Please get in touch with your wife, Consuelo, as soon as pos­ sible at 815 Hunts Point Ave­ nue, Bronx, New York 10474. J,Richard D. Tapman Your wife asks that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at 2000 Ramblewood Road, Bal­ timore, Maryland 21214. Danny Filzpatrick Your parents are very anxious to hear from you. Please con­ tact them immediately at 50 River Street, Mattapan, Massa­ chusetts or call CY-8-4378. vl> WllUam W. Conley Please contact Union head­ quarters in Brooklyn about cer­ tain personal papers being held for you. The address is 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232; telephone 4996600. Eddie Johnsen Please contact Sue Johnsen at Route No. 2, Jouquin, Texas 75954; telephone, 269-3442. •iv \1> Geoige T. Bareford Your sister, Mrs. Myrtle McCullough, asks that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at 13451 Philmont Avenue, Phila­ delphia, Pennsylvania 19116. / ,\ > WilUam S. McDowell Michael C. Bergen would like you to contact him at Hodges & Bergen, 101 East Madison Street, Lake City, Florida 32055. Donald J. French Please contact your brother, Jay at Tyler Hotel, 218 North 20th Street, Hollywood, Florida. Stanley F. Koenig Your Union documents are being held at SlU headquarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232. Ralph DiPaoli Your sister, Carmela Fomito would like to hear from you. Please write to her at 1135 South Seventh Street, Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania. ^ William Earl Scott Mr. D. King would like you to get in touch with him as soon as possible at P.O. Box 4932, Panorama City, California. 4f -^4f— , "Pee Wee" Lesmansky Please contact your daughter Jean, c/o Mrs. Charles Votruba, 1583 Cupertino Way, Salinas, California, telephone 408-4494170. She is sick and must hear from you. William Kare Please contact Mr. John Kaare-Abrahamsen, 318 East 70th Street, New York, New York 10021 as soon as possible. He has been trying to locate you. —4/— Galveston Wharves Settlement Wins Praise for Union Mark Thomas Please contact your wife, Bar­ bara, as soon as possible at 2904 Rockrose Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. <|> Ramon Guzman Please contact your mother, Mrs. Eustolia V. Guzman, as soon as possible, at Av. Hidelgo No. 569, Mexican, B.C., Mexico. <I> David Hayes Caldwell Your sister, Mrs. Helen Schaller, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 450 East Palatine, Palatine, Illinois 60067. —-4^^— A1 W. Spanraft Anita Reed has lost your ad­ dress and it is important that she get in touch with you. Please contact her at Route 2, Box 2A, Slidell, Louisiana, or call 6438030. <]> Harold Peterson Please contact your sister, Mrs. Pearl Hart, as soon as pos­ sible. ^— Liond Dunklns Mrs. Neome De Boles asks that you contact her as soon as possible. Luis FlUppettl, bom Novem­ ber 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Luis A. Filippetti, Balti­ more, Md. —4/— Stana Catherine Monts, born November 17, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James C. Monts, Nederland, Texas. 4f LeRoy Reed, born October 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Orlin L. Reed, Elberta, Michi­ gan. —^ Candace Belew, bom October 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald F. Belew, Alpena, Mich­ igan. Stephanie Gaspard, bom No­ vember 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Steve A. Gaspard, Westwego. La. —4^— Gordon Tampol, bom No­ vember 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfredo G. Tampol, Brooklyn, N. Y. Ivette PadlUa, born Decem­ ber 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sima Padilla, Jardines De Caguas, P. R. Burt Rohlnson, bom Novem­ ber 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald D. Robinson, Herron, Michigan. ^ , ANYTIME-AHYNHBRI ^ MEANS NO MORE SHIPS V, Barbara Jane Nelbert, bom October 3, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Neibert, Hayward, Wis. 4/ — Suzanne Biinn, born Decem­ ber 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward L. Brinn, Virginia Beach, Va. Tracy Capps, bom November 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. William H. Capps, Jacksonville, Fla. —4>— To the Editor: We would like to "Thank" the SlU, the attroneys, and es­ pecially Mr. Paul Drozak for the long five year battle they waged in winning the Galveston Wharves dispute. The SlU Pen­ sion Plan, the SIU Welfare Plan and the Railroad Retirement gives us a good feeling of con­ tentment and satisfaction. It's a "great" feeling and "Thank you." Sincerely, Mr. & Mrs. H. G. Warren Pasadena, Texas Elizabeth Samuels, bom June 30, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John E. Samuels, Mobile, Ala. <t> Brian Tucker, bom Novem­ ber 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Kenneth W. Tucker, Sa­ Member's Wife vannah, Tenn. Thanks Union <|> Pamela Kuzminskl, bom No­ vember 22, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Raymond V. Kuzminski, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ^— Michael Wolfe, born Novem­ ber 5, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Allen C. Wolfe, Mobile, Ala. —4^— Tracy Whittlesey, born No­ vember 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francis L. Whittlesey, Beaumont, Texas. To the Editor: Just a few lines to thank the SlU for its kindness during my husband's long illness. I have not been well myself since he passed away, so please forgive the delay in writing to you. He had many friends in the Sea­ farers Union. Thanks again from both of us and our families. Jen. Saunders Florida Wants More News Of the Great Lakes ^ To the Editor: The Log is a publication which I eagerly anticipate. I en­ joy reading it and keeping in touch with the maritime world. — 4^ — —4f— In my opinion, the SIU is a Kathleen Lauer, bom Decem­ Dehorah Rothman, bom No­ fine organization. I hope the vember 1, 1969, to Seafarer and ber 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Union will continue to be of Mrs. Sidney Rothman, Brook­ Mrs. Phillip Lauer, Willow benefit to the seaman by up­ Grove, Pa. lyn, N. Y. holding his causes and fighting —4f— 4^ for his interests. William Day, bom Novem­ Rud<dph CMom, born Sep­ I'd like to express an interest tember 21, 1969, to Seafarer ber 30, 1969, to Seafarer and in seeing more news and picture and Mrs. Rudolph Odom, Mrs. Vaughn R. Day, Claycoverage of Great Lakes topics mont, Delaware. Mobile, Ala. in future issues of the Log. —— —4^— Thanks for the log. I hope to Darrin Green, born December Oaude Clegg, bom Novem­ ber 22, 1969, to Seafarer and 10, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. continue receiving it." Very truly yours, Mrs. William J.. Clegg, Scran- Louis Green, Jr., Jacksonville, John P. Dunlap Florida. ton, Pa. Ronald Sellers, Jr., bom De­ cember 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald B. Sellers, Sr., Jacksonville, Fla. - Seafarer Harvey Y. Long, right, closes out a long sailing career as he accepts his first SlU pension check from Frankfort, Michigan, Port Agent Harold Rathbun. Brother Long, who shipped as oiler, has been sailing on the Ann Arbor Railroad carferries since 1922. Charies Gall^er, Jr., bom December 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles J. Gallagher, Beaumont, Texas. �SEAFARERS Page Twenty Eight February, 1970 LOG JASHINA (Management A Shipping). August 10—Chairman, James P. Stroud; Secretary, ' Harris Arceneaux; Deck Delegate, Timothy Burke; Engine Dele­ gate, Hugh Devine; Steward Delegate, Harris Arceneaux. Disputed OT in deck and steward departments. Matter of draws to be taken up with patrolman in Japan. Donating His 14th Pinr WILD RANGER (Waterman), No­ vember SO—Chairman, C. Faircloth; Secretary, E. E. Harris; Ship's Delegate, Douglas K. McLeon; Engine Delegate, Francis F. Gomez; Steward Delegate, Henry J. Moble. $19.86 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. DAGAMA (Crest Overseas), Decem­ ber 21—Chairman, F. Selix ; Secretary, J. R Higgins; Engine Delegate, Ralph G. Wilson; Steward Delegate, Ray Potorski. $26.00 in ship's fund and $46.00 was recently paid out for repairing TV and a new antenna. Some disputed OT in each, department. Vote of thanks to the entire steward department for a job well done. HURRICANE (Waterman), December 21—Chairman, Leo McGravie; Secretary, George P. Fries; Ship's Delegates, Leo McGravie; Deck Delegate, Leo McGravie; Steward Delegate, H. E. Butts, Sr. No beefs were reported by department delegates. DEL Torsten Lundkvist, who sails as AB, is 62—but that hasn't slowed him down as one of the SlU's most active donors to the Blood Bank. Seafarer Lundkvist is seen here being congratulated by Dr. Joseph Logue at the SID Clinic after donating his 14th pint of blood. The very charming nurse is S. Edel, R.N. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), Decem­ ber 28—Chairman. John O'Hannasian; Secretary, W. T. Lankford; Ship's Dele­ gate, Ralph Fitzpatrick; Deck Delegate, Robert Hyer; Engine Delegate, E. LaRoda; Steward Delegate, Richard P. Bowman. $21.50 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department, other­ wise no beefs. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), Janu­ ary 3—Chairman, M. Woods; Secretary, H. A. Galicki; Ship's Delegate, M. Woods; Deck Delegate, Paul M. Hartman ; Engine Delegate, Norris M. Tripp; Steward Delegate, Matthew Goldfinger. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for the excellent Holiday meals. $30.00 in movie fund. PENN TRANSPORTER (Penn), De­ cember 28—Chairman, H. B. Butts; Secretary, Melito Maldonado; Ship's Delegate, H. B. Butts. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. HASTINGS (Waterman), January 4— Chairman, Walter LeClair; Secretary, Joseph Pitetta; Ship's Delegate, Walter W. LeCIair; Deck Delegate Michael J. Cassidy; Engine Delegate, J. Fernando; Steward Delegate, Harry D. Hammond. No beefs were reported by department delegates. BROOKLYN (Sea-Land), January 4— Chairman, Tony Hanna; Secretary, Sid Berger; Ship's Delegate, Tony Hanna. No beefs. Discussion on retirement plan stressing no age limit provided sufficient sea time and Union membership. Vote of thanks to Brother Leon Hall and Brother E. McAuley, boarding patrol­ men, for answering all questions. STEEL KING (Isthmian), January 11 — Chairman, J. McCullum • Secretary, M. E. Reid. Everything is going along fine. No beefs and plenty of OT. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Jan­ uary 7—Chairman, Mike J. Berry; Secretary, Iluminado R. Llenos; Ship's Delegate, Mike J. Berry; Deck Delegate, Jack Oasse, Jr.: Engine Delegate, C. Statler; Steward Delegate, Edward C. Mishanski. $13.06 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in engine and steward departments. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), January 18—Chairman, John O'Hannasian ; Sec­ retary, W. T. Langford; Ship's Dele­ gate, R. Fitzpatrick; Deck Delegate, Mike Hyer; Engine Delegate, Eddy La­ Roda ; Steward Delegate, Richard Bow­ man. Motion was made that headquar­ ters be contacted regarding expediting payoff on Sea-Land ships, as most of the ships have less than 24 hours in Port. $21.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. SEATRAIN FLORIDA (Hudson Wa­ terways), January 4—Chairman, E. B. Hardcastle; Secretary, M. E. Greenwald; Deck Delegate, John M. Barrett; En­ gine Delegate, W. Walton; Steward Delegate, G. Cortez. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. Should be a good trip. Crew cooperating. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), Jan­ uary 4—Chairman, W. Bushong ; Secre­ tary, John Reed; Ship's Delegate, Wil­ liam D. Bushong. $70.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. SUD (Dclt»), Deccuihtrr 21— Chairman, N. Pizzuto; Secretary, S. Rothschild; Ship's Delegate, LeRoy Rinker; Deck Delegate, James B. Bedden ; Engine Delegate, Edward J. Schuker; Steward Delegate, LeRoy Rinker. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. No beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. THETIS (Rye Marine), October 7—Chairman, R. G. Marrrero; Sec­ retary. T. R. Goodman; Ship's Dele­ gate, Felix G. Quinonez; Deck Dele­ gate, William R. Baker; Engine Delegate, R. E. Basa. $60.00 in ship's fund. Everything is O.K. with no beefs. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. THETIS (Rye Marine), December 14—Chairman, R. G. Marrero; Sec­ retary, T. G. Goodman; Ship's Dele­ gate, Felix G. Quinonez; Deck Dele­ gate, William R. Baker; Engine Delegate, R. E. Basa. $60.00 in ship's fund. No major beefs. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. THETIS (Rye Marine), January 11—Chairman, R. G. Marrero; Sec­ retary, T. R. Goodman: Deck Dele­ gate, William R. Baker; Engine Delegate, R. E. Basa. $60.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. PANAMA (Sea-Land), January 10— Chairman, John G. Spuron; Secretary, Ralph C. Mills; Deck Delegate, Steve Harren; Steward Delegate, John P. Fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Frank Boyne for the Holiday Cheers sent aboard in Yokohama. OVERSEAS DOLPHIN (Maritime Overseas). December 21 — Chairman, Arthur Roy; Secretary, Sidney A. Gamer; Ship's Delegate, John Ericsson; Deck Delegate, R. McLe^; Engine Dele­ gate, John Voes Bunch; Steward Dele­ gate, John Cherry. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. CITRUS PACKER (Waterman). Janu­ ary 9—Chairman, James B. Winget; Secretary, Robert M. Kennedy; Ship's Delegate, C. H. Ward; Deck Delegate, A. Bestwood; Engine Delegate, William Fryer. No beefs. Everything is running smoothly. LINFIELD VICTORY (Alcoa), Janu­ ary 11—Chairman, M. Curry; Secretary, M. L. Leache; Ship's Delegate, M. Curry; Engine Delegate, Steven J. Buckley; Steward Delegate, Marion Kaminsh. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for carrying on in spite of being short two men. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Ship expects to lay-up upon arrival in Beaumont, Texas. DEL NORTE (Delta), January 8— Chairman, Jack Procell; Sfcretary, R. E. Stough, Jr.; Ship's Delegate, J. R. Johnson; Deck Delegate, G. Malazzo; Engine Delegate, Joseph G. Anch; Stew­ ard Delegate, John Kelly, Jr. Some dis­ puted OT in engine and steward depart­ ments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. $111.47 in ship's fund. PRINCETON VICTORY (Columbia), December,28—Chairman, Walter H. Sib­ ley ; Secretary, Howard J. Flynn; Ship's Delegate, Walter H. Sibley; Deck Dele­ gate, Thomas S. Kline; Engine Delegate, F. Gonzalez; Steward Delegate, John F. SihrcT. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the excel­ lent Christmas dinner. No beefs. Everyt&iag is running smoothly. TANTACK VENTURE (Vancor), Sep­ tember- 24—Chairman. John J. Pierce; Secretary, Ralph Collier; Ship's Delegat^ Ehffoid Eady. No beefs were reporte<f by (fepartment delegates. PENN RANGER (Penn), January 11—Chairman, W. E. Coutant; Secretary, W. H. Todd; Ship's Delegate, Wilbur E. Coutant; Deck Delegate, Frank P. Russo; Engine Delegate, T. Ballard; Steward Delegate, D. L. Ricketts. Discussion held regarding rusty wash water. Some disputed OT in steward department, otherwjse everything is running smoothly with no major beefs. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), December 21 — Chairman, Walter A. Kuchta; Secretary, Paul P. Lonez; Ship's Delegate, Walter A. Kuchta; Deck Dele­ gate, B. A. George; Engine Delegate, M. I. Eimar; Steward Delegate, N. L. Ollero. $30.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. OVERSEAS SUZANNE (Maritime Overseas), December 7—Chairman, M. A. Poole; Secretary, W. H. Simmons; Ship's Delegate, Lloyd Callaway; Deck Delegate, James H. Nector; Engine Dele­ gate, P. R. Wagner; Steward Delegate. L. McGivens. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), De­ cember 21—Chairman, Frank J. Smith; Secretary, James W. Thomas; Ship's Delegate, Frank J. Smith; Deck Dele­ gate, M. H. Jones; Engine Delegate, Clyde L. Van Epps; Steward Delegate, James Temple. $36.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department to be taken up with boarding patrol- TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Water­ ways), December 1—Chairman, J. Dono­ van ; Secretary, O. Frezza; Ship's Dele­ gate, J. Donovan; Deck Delegate, R. A. McDonald; Engine Delegate, T. Smith ; Steward Delegate, Marlin M. Iburman. $33.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. TRANSCOLUMBIA (Hudson Water­ ways), January 4—Chairman, Earl P. McCaskey; Secretary, Rafael Hernandez; Ship's Delegate, Earl P. McCaskey; Deck Delegate, Thos. E. Jacobson; Engine Delegate, John G. Wallack; Steward Delegate, John F. Indorf. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Ship's delegate reported that the crew and of­ ficers of this ship are the best he ever sailed with. Vote of thanks to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), Novem­ ber 9—Chairman, R. Whitney; Secretary, A. Reasko; Engine Delegate, Alfred R. Fry; Steward Delegate, Joseph Keams. $26.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine department to be taken up with patrolman. RAPHAEL SEHMES (Sea-Land), No­ vember 9—Chairman, Joseph O. Snyder; Secretary, Harvey M. Lee; Ship's Dele­ gate, Joseph O. Snyder; Engine Dele­ gate, E. H. Fain; Steward Delegate, Sidney L. Wilson.,. Some disputed OT in deck and steward departments. VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pioneer Maritime), December 27—Chairman, John M. Yates; Secretary, Jimmie Bartlett; Ship's Delegate, John M. Yates; Deck Delegate, George ^ R. Black; Engine Delegate, G. A. Allen; Steward Delegate, Wm. C. Newland. $40.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. SEATRAIN WASHINGTON (Hudson Waterways), December 29 Chairman, R. Palmer; Secretary, A. Johansson; Deck Delegate, Thomas Snow; Engine Delegate, Frank Alex­ ander; Steward Delegate, Theodore Katros. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the good food and service. The matter of no money aboard ship for draws, as per Union agreement, will be taken up with boarding patrolman. SPITFIRE (American Bulk), January 26—Chairman, Lee Harvey; Secretary, R. Sanchez. Brother Fred Simmorsick was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Everything O.K. with no beefs. PENN RANGER (Penn.), Decem­ ber 29—Chairman, W. E. Coutant; Secretary, W. H. Todd; Ship's Dele­ gate, Wilbur E. Coutant; Deck Dele­ gate, Frank P. Russo; Engine Dele­ gate, T, Ballard; Steward Delegate, D. L. Ricketts. Discussion held re­ garding repair list. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly with no beefs. ^ , ^ - , ' , ^ DELTA URUGUAY (Delta Steamship), January 18 — Chairman, Joseph Catalanotto; Secretary, William P. Kaiser; Ship's Delegate, 0. L. Guerrero; Deck Delegate, J. F. Coto; Engine Delegate, V. M. Frederiksen; Steward Delegate, J. A. Denais. $28.00 in ship's fund. Dis­ puted OT in all departments. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's delegate. Brothers 0. L. Guerrero; John Denais, messman, Paul Lightell, chief cook and F. Jarocinski, night cook & baker, for job well done. % ! • , •. , I ' Bradford Island Personal effects of the following Seafarers, who sailed on the Bradford Is­ land are being held at the office of Steuart Tankers Co., 401 Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, Texas: T. J. or R. D. Mitchell Joseph Zeloy John C. Griffith Eari J. Davis Personal gear of the fol­ lowing Seafarers is also be­ ing held at U.S. Customs, Beaumont, Texas: T. J. or R. D. Mitchell Kenneth Howard Inman Owners of these goods should make arrangements I for picking them up as soon as possible. WASHINGTON—Latest fig- . ures released by the federal gov­ ernment show that three more " foreign-ffag ships, all Cypriot, have been added to the Mari­ time Administration's blacklists for having carried cargoes to Cuba. Named in a Maritime Admin­ istration report were the 7,388 „ gross ton Alfa, the 9,072 ton Miss Papalios and the 7,244 ton ' Platres. These three vessels, along with 166 other foreign-ffag ships' totaling 1,213,186 gross tons now on the blacklist, are forbid-" den to haul U.S. Government^ cargoes; having gone to Cuba in defiance of the U.S. ban on such trips which has been in effect since January, 1963. Ships removed from the . blacklist, because they were ei­ ther lost or scrapped during 1969, were the Giannis, Leba-^ nese; the Paralos, Greek; the . Ragni Paulin, Finnish, and the Rebestos, also Greek. A SPITFIRE (American Bulk), Jan­ uary 4—Chairman, Lee Harvey; Secretary, R. Sanchez. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. ' BUCKEYE VICTORY (Buckeye), January 18 — Chairman, John McKale; Secretary, Thomas F. Sinith; Ship's Delegate, John McKale; Deck Delegate, Emil P. Wagner; Engine Delegate, W. J. Geary; Steward Delegate, Harry L. Collier. No beefs i were reported by department dele, gates. Everything is running smoothly. Three Foreign-flag Ships Added to Cuha Blacklist AFOUNDRIA (Sea-Land), January 8 —Chairman, D. F. Kasiukewiez; Engine Delegate, Harold Moody. $165.69 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. ^ �T.-uary, 1970 1 SEAFARERS FINAL 1 \J' Philip C. Mendoza, 71: Brother Mendoza passed away from pneumonia on December 9 at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. He was an SIU pen­ sioner who had joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore in 1941. He worked in the steward department and last sailed on the A and J Mer­ cury. A native of the Philip­ pine Islands, Seafarer Mendoza was living in New Orleans at the time of his death. Among his survivors are his wife, Jean. Burial was in St. Bernard Me^ inorial Gardens, Chalmette, Louisiana, %• A i\ u. 'p.. t: i? Page Twenty Nine LOG Atilano Malavet, 69: Seafarer Malavet passed away on No­ vember 19 from heart disease at his home in Brooklyn. He was an SIU pen­ sioner and an old-timer in the Union, having joined in 1939 in the Port of New York. He sailed in the engine department as an FOWT and last worked aboard the Eldorado. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Mala­ vet was living in Brooklyn with his wife, Gregoria, when he died. In 1961 and 1962 he was issued picket duty cards. Sea­ farer Malavet had been sailing 46 years when he retired in 1968. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn. ^ Thomas Conom, Jr., 40: Brother Conom passed away on November 4, 1969 in Seattle, Washington from natural causes. He was a native of Wash­ ington State and was living in Se­ attle with his brother Earl, when he died. Sea­ farer Conom joined the SIU in the Port of San Francisco in 1948 and sailed in the steward department as a messman. Mis last ship was the Choctaw. Bur­ ial was in Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, Washington. Ray Reyes Estacio, 66: Seai farer Estacio died on June 14, 1969 in USPHS Hospital, Seattle, Washington. He joined the SIU in > the Port of Seat­ tle in 1957 and sailed in the t-'i steward depart­ ment as a second . cook. His last ship was the Transorleans. A native of Ma-nila in the Philippine Islands, Brother Estacio was living in 'Seattle when he passed away. ' Burial was in Holykood Ceme^tery m Seattle. mm Prudencio De Jesus, 77: Sea­ farer De Jesus died of natural causes on De­ cember 17, 1969 in Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn. He was an SIU pen­ sioner who had joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1941 and sailed in the engine department as a fire­ man. His last vessel was the DeSoto. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother De Jesus was liv­ ing in Brooklyn with his wife, Generosa, when he passed away. An Army veteran of World War I, he had been sailing the seas for 42 years when he retired in 1962. Burial was in Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York. Clarence Wiloughby Blackden, 69: Brother Blackden passed away on December 19 from a respira­ tory disease at Lutheran Hospi­ tal, Baltimore, Maryland. He joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore and retired on an SIU pension in 1966. Brother Black­ den worked as a steward and his last ship was the Duval. A na­ tive of New Zealand, Seafarer Blackden was making his home in Baltimore with his wife. Pearl Elizabeth, when he died. He had been sailing the seas for 48 years when he retired. Burial was in New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore. Jesse Paul Jones, 52: Sea­ farer Jones was lost at sea on September 10, 1 969 while working on board the Mo­ hawk in the Phil­ ippine Sea. A na­ tive of Conway, North Carolina, Brother Jones was making his home in Nor­ folk, Virginia with his mother, Beaula M. Jones, when he died. He joined the Union in Norfolk in 1965 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. Brother Jones served in the Coast Guard for 23 years, from 1933 to 1956. —^i>— Andy George Scharf, 74: Brother Scharf died from heart disease on November 27, 1969 at Jones General Hospital in Sterlington, Louisi­ ana. He was an SIU pensioner who joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans and worked as a tankerman. A native of Indi­ ana, Seafarer Scharf was living in West Monroe, Louisiana with his wife, Gladys, when he died. He was a Naval veteran of World War I. Burial was in Ouachita City Cemetery, Sterlington. ? • Anthony August Wakhes, 43: Seafarer Waiches died of natural |TW causes on De­ cember 25,1968 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He joined the SIU in St. Louis, Missouri in 1964 and sailed in the engine depart­ ment. A native of Illinois, Broth­ er Waiches was living in St. Louis when he passed away. Among his survivors are a sister in Collinsville, Illinois. Burial was in St. Peter and Paul Ceme­ tery in Madison, Illinois. ^ Juan Parodi, T3: Seafarer Parodi died as the result of injuries received when an automobile struck him on November 10, 1969 in San Di­ ego, California. He had been a member of the Union since 1944 when he joined in the Port of Baltimore. He worked in the steward department as a messman until he retired on an SIU pension. His last vessel was the Del Sol. A native of Italy, Brother Parodi was making his home in Philadelphia when he died. His sailing career had be­ gun in 1920. Burial was in El Camino Memorial Park in Cali­ fornia. Raul De Los Santos, 47: Brother De Los Santos passed away from natu­ ral causes on No­ vember 27,1969 at USPHS Hos­ pital in Galves­ ton, Texas. He was an SIU pen­ sioner who had joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans in 1944 and sailed in the engine department as an FWT. His last ship was The Cabins. A native of Texas, Seafarer De Los Santos was living in Galveston with his wife, Trine, when he died. Julius Johii Swykert, 62: Brother Swykert died on No­ vember 19,1969 from pneumonia at USPHS Hos­ pital in San Fran­ cisco. A native of Michigan, Brother Swykert was making his home in Los An­ geles, California with his wife, Rafaela, when he passed away. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the deck department as an OS. His last vessel was the Co­ lumbia Beaver. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. William Frederick PUIips, 61: Seafarer Phillips died on De­ cember 19, 1969 as the result of an accident aboard the Anchorage on November 19. Brother Phillips was a native of Davenport, Iowa and was making his home in Seattle, Washington with his son, William Frederick, when he passed away. He joined the SIU in the Port of Houston in 1960 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. He served in the Navy from 1926 until 1930. Stephen Dunbar Rada, 20: Seafarer Rada passed away sud­ denly on March 30, 1969, as the result of a car accident in Robertsdale, Ala­ bama. Young Rada graduated in 1967 from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in New Orleans and shipped out in the steward department as a utility messman. His last vessel was the Cottonwood Creek. He was a native of Alabama and was living in Silverhill, Ala­ bama, when the accident oc­ curred. Among his survivors are his parents, Gus and Helene Rada of Silverhill. NO HEAT? Report Beef Immediately, And Keep a Daily Record Heat beefs must be reported Immedi­ ately to the Department Delegate and Chief Engineer 65 You should keep a v/ritten record of the beef including: • Date • Time of Day • Temperature All heat beefs should be recorded and sub­ mitted on an individual basis. Clarence Alfonso Collins, 63: Brother Collins died on Decem­ ber 23, 1969 in Manhattan as a result of heart disease. A native of New Orleans, Brother Collins was living in Manhattan with his wife, Aurelia Myrtle, when he passed away. He was an SIU pensioner and an old-timer in the Union, hav­ ing joined in 1938 in the Port of Mobile. He worked in the steward department as a chief steward and his last vessel was the Newark. Seafarer Collins had been sailing for 42 years when he retired in 1968. In 1961 he had been issued two SIU picket duty cards. Burial was in St. Raymond Cemetery in the Bronx. Leon Joseph Penton, 36: Sea­ farer Penton died suddenly on December 7, 1969 in Vidor, Texas. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Or­ leans in 1957 and sailed in the engine depart­ ment as an elec­ trician. His last ship was the Chatham. A native of Pearl River, Louisiana, Brother Penton was making his home in Harahan, Louisiana with his wife Betty Joyce when he passed away. In 1960 he was given a personal safety award for his part in making the Young Amer­ ica an accident free ship. Broth­ er Penton served in the Army from 1953 until 1955. Burial was in Hickory Cemetery in Hickory, Louisiana. —— Ragnar Melander, 61: Broth­ er Melander passed away from natural causes on . December 15, \ 1 969 at St. ^ Luke's Hospital, J Duluth, Minne­ sota. A native of Sweden, Seafarer Melander was making his home in Duluth with his wife, Elsie, when he died. He joined the Union in the Port of Detroit in 1960 and sailed in the steward department as a second cook. Burial was in Park Hill Ceme­ tery in Duluth. r ^ Peter Francis Dyer, 57: Broth­ er Dyer passed away on De­ cember 22, 1969 from natural causes at the Veterans Ad­ ministration Hospital in Long Beach, Califor­ nia. He joined the Union in the Port of Wilmington in 1959 and sailed in the engine department as an FOWT. His last ship was the Columbia Beaver. A native of Covina, California, Seafarer Dyer was living in Maywood California when he died. �Page Thirty SEAFARERS Febnury, 1^0 LOG Mexican Workers in Runaway Shops Trained by Unit on Loan from GEO A government-financed unit designed to help eliminate pov­ erty in the United States is being us^ to aid runaway plants in Mexico which labor contends are increasing poverty among American workers. That is the meaning that comes from an announcement made by the U.S.-Mexico Com­ mission for Border Develop­ Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) 4. Stitzel-WeDer Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald » "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. Weller Bourimn whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Kingsport Press "World Book," "Cbfldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) ment and Friendship (CODAF) and stories carried by Mexican newspapers. The agency reports in a re­ cent issue of its newsletter that a job-training unit, the property of the Oflfice of Economic Op­ portunity, is being used at a center in Mexicali, Mexico. The mobile training unit was loaned to the center by GEO, which by law is supposed to use its funds and equipment to pro­ vide training for unemployed Americans. Mexican newspapers have carried pictures of the training unit and articles about its so­ phisticated equipment that in­ cludes audio-visual aids, tools and work areas. The unit is specifically set up to train workers in electronics, presumably to equip them to work in Litton Industries, RCAWhirlpool, Fairchild Camera, Transitron, and lesser-known U.S. electronics firms that have crossed the border to take ad­ vantage of cheap labor. The electronics firms, and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. other companies ranging from Camels, Winston, Tempo, textiles to furniture, are fleeing Brandon, Cavalier and Salem to Mexico to operate under the cigarettes Mexican national frontier pro­ (Tobacco Workers International gram (PRONAF), supported Union) by the United States and Mexi­ can governments. The program enables the Comet Rice Mills Co. products firms to employ Mexican work­ (International Union of United ers—^for as little as 30 cents an Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft hour—in assembling goods for Drink and Distillery Workers) shipment back into the United States. None of the items can be Pioneer Flour Mill sold in Mexico. U.S. tariff con­ (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers cessions give the runaway firms still another advantage. Yet, as Local 110, San Antonio, Texas) labor unions have pointed out, * the American consumer gets no price reduction — the only AD California gainer is the industry that fat­ Table Grapes tens its profits. (United Farm Workers) A resolution adopted by the recent AFL-CIO convention Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division charged that the program is "exporting" jobs from a U.S. (Stove, Furnace and Allied area along the border where Appliance Workers the jobless rate is running as International Union) high as 9 percent and thou­ sands of families live in poverty on incomes of less than $2,000 Fisher Price Toys a year. (Doll and Toy Workers) Further, the resolution em­ phasized, some of the "exijorted jobs" are adding to unemploy­ Economy Furniture Co. ment in more distant parts of Smithtown Maple Western Provincial the nation, where there is an BUt-Rite "urgent need" to maintain jobs (Upholsterers) and job opportunities. "liiWiliiP ilmiAliLS SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union SIU-AGUWD Meetings NewDrieans Mar. 10—^2:30 p.m. Mobile .... Mar. 11—2:30 p.m. Wilmington. Mar. 16—2:00 p.m. Skn Fran. .. Mar. 18—2:00 p.m. Seattle Mar. 21—2:00 p.m. New York.. Mar. 2—^2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 3—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. Mar. 4 2:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 13—2:30 p.m. Houston .. Mar. 9—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers MESIDENT P«ul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shapard Al Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiay Wllllaim Robart Matthawi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Karr HEADQUARTERS ITS 4lh Ava., Iklyn. (212) HY f-MOO ALPENA, MICH 800 N. Second Ava. (517) EL 4-3ili BALTIMORE. Md I2U E. ialllmora St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON. Mail U3 Atlantic Avanua (817) 482-4718 BUFFALO. N.Y 73S Waihlnoten St. SlU (718) TL 3-T2S9 IBU (718) TL 3-n59 CHICA60. Ill T38S Ewing Ava. SlU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-tS70 CLEVELAND. Ohio 1420 W. 2Bth St. (218) MA I-S450 DETROIT. Mich I022S W. Jattarton Ava. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT. Mich HOUSTON. Tax JACKSONVILLE. Fla JERSEY CITY, NJ MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS. La NORFOLK, Va 2014 W. 3rd St. (2IB) RA 2-4110 P.O. Box 287 4IS Main St. (818) EL 7-2441 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 280B Paarl St. (904) EL 3-0987 99 Mentgemary St. (201) HE 5-9424 I Soutli Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 810 Jackien Ava. (504) 529-7548 IIS 3rd St. (703) 822-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2804 S. 4th St. (215) DE 8-3818 PORT ARTHUR. Tax IS40 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., 1531 Million St. (415) 828-8793 SANTURCE, P.R 1113 Farnandax Juncoi Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE. Waih 2505 Flrit Avanua (208) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS. Mo 4577 Grayols Avanua (314) 752-8500 •"(Kirs'iSi iSiiriSS-'iSf WILMINGTON. Calif. 450 Saailda Ave. Terminal liland, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Iiaya BIdg.. Room 801 1-2 l(algan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 United Industrial Workers New Orleans Mar. 10—7:00 p.m. Mobile Mar. 11—7:00 p.m. New York.. Mar. 2—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 3—^7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. Mar. 4—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. Mar. 9—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Mar. 2~~2:00 p.ni. Alpena Mar. 2—7:00 p.m. Buffalo Mar. 2—7:00 p.m. Chicago ... Mar. 2—^7:30 p.m. Duluth .... Mar. 2—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort.. Mar. 2r—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section •Chicago .. . Mar. 10—7:30 p.m. tSault St Marie Mar. 12—^7:30 p.m. . Buffalo ... Mar. 11—^7:30 p.m. Duluth Mar. 13—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. Mar. 13—7:30 p.m. Toledo .... Mar. 13—^7:30 p.m. Detroit Mar. 9—^7:30 p.mv Milwaukee Mar. 9—^7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans IVfar. 10—5:00 p.m. Mobile Mar. 11—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 3—5:00 p.m. f' Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) . Mar. 4—5:00 p.m. . Norfcrik ... Mar. 5—5:00 p.m. ' Houston .. Mar. 9—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Mar. 10—10 a.ni. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Mbr. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. *Norfolk ' Mar. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^ Jersey City Mar. 9—10 a.iit. & 8 p.m. . } Meeting held at Galveston wharves, t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. .1, "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Adantk Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) vl> Whhe Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) FINANCIAL REPORTS. Hie eonatitntlon of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. AU trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and InUnd Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and dishursements of trust fuii^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. .. _ rights and seniority are protected exclusively SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping by the contracts between n the Union and the shipowners. Get to know know your shipping si .. _ rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If yra feel there has heen any violation ot your shipping or seniority rights as ecmtained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The pnver address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1880, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are availahle in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and cmiditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—8BAFABBRS LOG. The LOG has tradithmaUy refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial hoard which consists of the Ehmeutive Board of the Union. The Bxecutive Board may delegate, fl«m among its ranks, one individual to carry out this rssponsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, tiiis should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBUGATIONS. The SIU publUhes every six months in the SBAFARBR8 LOG a'verbatim copy of ite constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you fed any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIBBD SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disahUity-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend, ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, ineluding service <m rankHind-ille committees. Because these oldtinms cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafareis ate guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Consequentiy, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic orWn. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic tighto of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their famflies and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and fonstitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds ttot any of tts above rirtto have been violated, or that be has been denied his consUlnlional right of access to Union records or infwMI^, hTsb^d immedUtsIy notify SIU Prsaidsnt Pan! HaU at beadgnarters by eerti^ad nwil, retnm receipt regnosted. �Im SEAFARERS I ^ -uary, 1970 LOG Page Thirty One ft ; : Nick Cabahisy, messman, sets up •- for dinner in. the crew's mess. ^' Nick, and other members of the steward department, helped to make the voyage more pleasant. ' fc-•'if.fe;«.;:..-• • 8*. ". .-' • •' • ;;;gS«aalley cr^ takes^t.rne to pose for ^.s Seafarer Jimmie Dimitrios. right; talks things over , , .. . ' photo. Left to right: Robert Adams, 3rd SIURepresentativeEB.MacAuIey.Therewere gL.H<?v^^'•dSc^^ider, 2nd cook; John ^ ...^^^oniy a few. minor beefs'during" long Far'East run. -• • - W5jato3»S»CtvXAB**»TOf'*WWSWW#P!0H.|i«i �SEAFARERS WLOG February 1970 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO - Mm IME IS GETTING SHORT. The five annual 1970 SIU TScholarships will be awarded this May for the seven­ teenth straight year and all eligible Seafarers or children of Seafarers are urged to get their applications ill imme­ diately. In order to qualify for these scholarship grants, a Sea­ farer must have at least three years accumulated seatime on SlU-contracted vessels. Children of Seafarers who meet the necessary seatime requirements are also entitled to apply. Each year a distinguished panel of leading university educators and administrators selects five SIU Scholar­ ship winners on the basis of their high school records together with scores attained on tests given throughout the country by the College Entrance Examination Board. These CEEB tests are given several times during the school year. The final opportunity to take the test to be considered for a 1970 SIU Scholarship is March 7,1970. Arrangements for taking the CEEB test can be made by eligible Seafarers or their children by writing to: Col­ lege Entrance Examination Board, Box 592, Princeton, New Jersey, or at Box 1025, Berkeley, California. In addition to arranging for the CEEB test, applicants are also requested to obtain the necessary SIU College Scholarship application form as early as possible. These forms, which must be returned no later than April 1, 1970, are available at any SIU hall or may be obtained by writing directly to: SIU Scholarships, Administrator, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Widely recognized as one of the most liberal, nostrings-attached programs of its kind in the nation, the SIU Scholarship Plan has helped 83 young men and women toward fulfilling their career goals. Twenty-five of these were Seafarers and 58 were the children of Sea­ farers. All scholarship recipients may pursue any chosen course of study at any accredited college or university. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource February 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: REP CLARK CHARGES US STOOD STILL AS SOVIETS CLIMED MARITIME LADDER HEARINGS OPEN ON SHIPBUILDING PHASE OF PRESIDENT’S MARITIME PROGRAM DOCTORS URGED TO JOIN LABOR’S DRIVE TO MAKE US HEALTH BEST IN WORLD NIXON VETO OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AID FORCES CONGRESS TO PICK UP PIECES INFLATABLE LIFE RAFTS TEXT OF SIU CONSTITUTION Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 2 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/1a606b47afd760e40b406976abd5e0df.PDF 124282da014edae8c1830d67bbc0934c PDF Text Text • n SEAFARERSWLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Hall Testifies for SlU Congress Moves Ahead to Enact •« President's New Maritime Program Page 2 i--. .••' •V i,-. , • •" • •.¥'. •• ••'>." J'r;.- h ':• h ^v.r> i-fcVlr- ^ W: V V > Keitli Terpe, president of the SlU of Puerto Rico, tells delegates to the MTD Convention how the problem of non-contiguous areas affect Puerto Rico. Morris Weisberger, SlU vice president, discuss.ed the problems of the non-contiguous areas at the recent meeting of the Maritime Trades Department. MTD Executive Board Raps Lie Detector Tests on Workers... page s •I Conference to Seek Answers to Transport Problems of Non-Contiguous Areas •;! Page 3 Seniority and Membership How to Apply for New Membership Books Page 32 "1. Seafarers' Revised Surgical Schedule if' '(i I Iv?!! Pages 13-20 New Column Seafarers Action Line; Questions from Members II i*'" ij/'l* ' ' - Edward J. Carlough, director of organization for the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, spoke at the MTD Convention and condernned the use of lie detecfors in hiring. See -Page 7 . } t I �SEAFARERS Page Two March, 1970 LOG Congress Moves Swiftly on Maritime Program WASHINGTON—The 91st Congress is moving swiftly to im­ plement President Nixon's broad-ranging new maritime program that would sharply increase the level of new ship construction in U.S. yards, and that would extend the benefits of merchant marine assistance to the tramp, as well as the liner, segment of the fleet. The sense of urgency was apparent in the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, chaired by Rep. Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), which wound up its public hearings by taking testimony pn the Administration's plans to extend operating subsidy to the rapidly growing bulk-carrier segment of the fleet, and on proposals to insure increasing cargoes for all American vessels. The same concern for prompt action on the pending legisla­ tion was demonstrated on the other side of Capitol Hill, where the Merchant Marine Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, under the chairmanship of Sen. Russell Long (D-La.), held a three-day whirlwind public hearing on all facets of the Administration proposal. It appeared obvious that Congress felt that an ample record had been made in recent years for the need to rebuild and enlarge the U.S.-fiag fleet, and that what was necessary now was legisla­ tive action to put such a program on the statute books. As SIU President Paul Hall said in appearances before both the House and Senate Committees: "The time is long past for talking about the plight of the mari­ time industry; the need is to move forward on a program designed to revitalize the American merchant marine." Commenting on the ship operation aspects of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, Hall, who is also president of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, expressed concern for "the devel­ opment of a program for ship operation that will generate expan­ sion of abjections of the U.S. fleet and will be fair and equitable to all classes of operators." "We would have preferred," he added, "that the benefits of this legislation could have been extended to the Great Lakes and fish­ ing fleets." "They are in urgent need of assistance," he told the Committee, and, "It is hoped that when this Committee has completed its" action on the pending legislation, it will immediately turn its attention to the problems of these fleets." Hall said that the new bill recognizes the need for increasing our bulk carrier capacity in light of the fact that eighty-five per­ cent of our commerce today is in the bulk cargo trade. "The extension of the operating subsidies to the bulk-carrier segment of the industry simply brings the 1936 Act up to date. It takes cognizance of the changed trade patterns. It puts the money where the trade is in 1970—not where it was in 1936," Hall said. However, he suggested that the bill should make clear the intent expressed by Maritime Administrator Gibson in response to a question asked during his appearance before the Committee; that intent being, in extending ODS to the bulk trades, to give priority to the operator who has been and is presently engaged in this trade. The MTD President said that once this intent is made clear, "This would prevent those companies presently receiving tax de­ ferment, construction differential subsidies and operating differ­ ential subsidies from using these benefits to enjoy a substantial ad­ vantage over those who have up to this point been operating without this assistance. In other words, the presently unsubsidized operators can catch up, can modernize their ships, and can become competitive: But they must be protected." The present provision in the pending legislation which denies a subsidy to operators who are involved in the ownership of foreign-flag ships is another important area which calls for amendment. Hall said. He continued: "I think we can all agree that, first and foremost, we want to encourage all operators to build ships in American yards and man them with American seamen under the U.S. flag. "However, we cannot increase the American-flag share of the bulk trade if we foreclose the benefits of the new legislation to those operators who presently have both U.S. and foreign-flag ships. Some method must be found to enable these operators to qualify under the new Act, short of requiring them to divest themselves of their foreign holdings. (Continued on Page 21) THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT iiig the Runaway Fkht ; . f J j I ! I I • 5 <!• On its face, the new maritime legislation proposed by the Nixon Administration appears to extend the benefits of merchant marine subsidies to a major portion of the American-merchant marine—to the two-thirds of this industry which operates in the increasingly important bulk-cargo field. For the first time since passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, there is public recognition by the government that the bulk-cargo carriers are just as much a part of the U.S. merchant marine as are the berth-line carriers—and that if we're sincere about wanting to develop this country's full maritime potential, then some consideration is going to have to be shown these operators. Frankly, it's about time. For 34 years, we've operated under a law that extended all of the merchant marine benefits exclusively to the berth-line trades. Fourteen select companies, which together account for less than one-third of the U.S.-fiag fieet, have reaped all of the benefits. The result is that the tramp operator has been forced to subsist on government cargo almost exclusively; he has been priced out of the commercial trade by the denial of any of the sub_sidies extended to the berth-line operator. Now the legislative proposals from the Adminis­ tration seek to remedy this situation, offering to the bulk-cargo trade the same sort of opportunity to compete for commercial cargo that the break-bulk, berthline trade has had for years. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. And the reason why it's not simple is that the new subsidy sys­ tem would be tied to an old concept in the maritime law—a provision that says that no operator of American-fiag vessels can qualify for government assistance if he also operates foreign-flag vessels. And it's a fact of life that most of the Americanflag tramp operators also have foreign-flag holdings. The government encouraged many of them to do this when it sold them surplus World War II ships in 1946; the government further encouraged many of these op­ erators to go foreign when it gave them a special tax break on their foreign-fiag earnings; and it forced a lot more into foreign-fiag operations when it Sys­ tematically denied them assistance similar to that en­ joyed by the berth-line operators. In the SIU, we have been consistently opposed to the "runaway-fiag" fieet that has built up over the past 25 years. We have opposed it because it has robbed our members of seafaring jobs, robbed our country of tax dollars, and robbed our nation of the necessary vessels to maintain a strong and adequate merchant marine. Now our members face even further job losses, un­ less the requirements against simultaneous Americanfiag and foreign-fiag operations are eased. If the pres­ ent requirement is allowed to stand, few—if any—of the tramp operators will be able to qualify for the new subsidies, because it's just not reasonable to expect that these operators will get rid of their foreign-fiag holdings in one fell swoop. by PAUL HALL During the course of the House hearings on the maritime program. Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.) proposed that the law be amended by writing in a "grandfather clause"—one that would freeze foreign holdings at their present levels, and that would then permit these operators to expand their American-flag operations by building new ships with government as­ sistance and operating them with government sub­ sidies. It's the kind of compromise that makes sense. It lets an operator know that he can take advantage of the new program, but only if he agrees to go no fur­ ther in terms of undercutting American maritime strength by operating foreign-fiag vessels. He can keep those ships which he now has operating foreign, but he can no longer enlarge that foreign-fiag fieet. What this will mean is that the tramp operators, in the years ahead, will have to give their primary at­ tention to strengthening their American-fiag fieet— and from the point of view of the Seafarer, that means that the growth of these companies will; from this time forward, be concentrated on American-fiag ship­ ping. For years we have looked for some way to bring these ships back under the American flag, so that we would be bringing jobs back to the American sea­ faring trade. This proposal won't accomplish that— but at least it could halt any further flight of our ships to foreign flags, and fjpMQately could lead to the expansion of American-fiag shipping, and with it the creation of new jobs for American seafarers. t .. -ii • if -t ^ ^ 'J i / •i » - '31 �March, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Three LOC ?i Sea-Land Begins Service On Three New Trade Runs The recent addition of three new routes served by SlU-contracted Sea-Land Service Inc. could offer new jobs for Seafarers. The com­ pany recently announced expansion of its operations to include ports-of-call in Jamaica, Korea and the Mediterranean. Sea-Land, based in Eliza­ beth, New Jersey, special­ izes in containerships. The line's 47 vessels call at 34 ports worldwide. In addi­ tion to Gulf and coastal ports, the container ships carry cargo to North Atlan­ tic, British and Continental ports, Canada, The Medi­ terranean and the Far East. The new Mediterranean service will include stops in Cadiz and Genoa with freight feeder connections to Leghorn, Naples, Mar­ seilles and Barcelona. The Korean operation will visit Pusan, Kobe, and Yokahama, on the way to coastal ports and via the Panama Canal to the East Coast. The Jamaica runs will service Kingston, San Juan, Santa Domingo and the Virgin Islands. Conference Seeks to Resofve Many Problems of Non-Contiguous Areas BAL HARBOUR, Fla,— Top officials of labor, industry and government from Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii will seek to resolve problems affect­ ing ocean borne transportation to the three non-contiguous areas at a conference, co-spon­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department and the Transportation Institute, in Washington, D.C. next month. The MTD Executive Board took action here to improve and preserve American-flag ship­ ping to the non-contiguous areas without tampering with the Jones Act. This law provides that only American-flag ships can move cargo in the domestic tion of the fleet serving the non­ trades, which includes the non­ contiguous areas. contiguous areas. Both rights, the resolution The MTD Executive Board noted, are now provided ex­ adopted a resolution here call­ clusively to 14 companies en­ ing upon the federal govern­ gaged in foreign trade. The ment to: Nixon Administration's pro­ • Grant federal construction posed new maritime program differential subsidies for the would extend the grants to all building of vessels by operators shipping firms serving foreign who carry cargo to the non­ trade. "This right is needed equally contiguous areas. by that portion of the fleet serv­ • Grant the same operators ing the non-contiguous trade, the right to establish construc­ since it, too, is threatened by tion reserve funds, on which foreign commerce," the resolu­ federal taxes would be deferred, to encourage the maximum in­ tion asserted. Keith Terpe, president of the vestment of private capital in SIU of Puerto Rico, explained the expansion and modemizato the MTD Executive Board that island's problems as they affect American shipping. Terpe said Puerto Rico is dependent upon merchant marine trade from the main­ land "to meet essential needs of life, health and economic development. Foodstuffs, medi­ sition by Walter Kidde & Co., cines, fuel, raw materials and makers of fire alarms and fire other essentials of modem life extinguishers, of United States come to us principally by way Lines. Through a complicated of the sea." series of financial deals, Kidde He said that the potential completed the take over of savings that would be made United States Lines in 1969. available through construction "Events since then make it subsidies and tax deferments clear that the conglomerate did for shippers plying the non-connot swallow up United States tinguous routes would be Lines in order to provide the passed on to the consumer. public with ocean transport," He said that many American the study said. It showed that citizens of Puerto Rico work in October, 1969, United States in the American maritime in­ Lines—now owned by Kidde— dustry, and that growth in the announced it would lease 16 of industry would better their its vessels to Sea-Land, a con- Hves. tainerization firm. Morris Weisberger, an SIU vice-president, and secretaryBig 'U' Layup treasurer of the Sailors Union Just a month later, three of the Pacific, also spoke for more United States Lines ves­ the resolution. sels were sold to Farrell Lines. He said that while both This was followed by the can­ Hawaii and Alaska are heavily cellation of all recent scheduled dependent on ocean transporta­ voyages of the 1,000-passenger tion, both are "excluded from S.S. United States, flagship of the government's programs for the American liner fleet. promoting a modem, efficient, Kidde & Co. is now threaten­ competitive American merchant ing to permanently lay up the marine." "The people of Hawaii," he S.S. United States unless the said, "believe thev have a legit­ federal government pays $4 imate complaint in the fact that million to $5 million a year in their taxes go to pay the cost of subsidies beyond the current construction subsidies for the subsidy rate. American shipping industry, in "It is obvious that the con­ order to make it competitive in glomerate's acquision of U.S. foreign trade — yet the provi­ Lines has severely undermined sions of the present program that line's service to the public," bars them from getting any re­ CTT's Executive Board as­ turn on their taxes, because construction subsidies go only serted. to ships in the foreign trade, and Increasing Dangers not in the regular mainlandThe Conference warned of Hawaii trade." increasing dangers to the econ­ He said Alaska's citizens omy through mergers in the face the same dilemma. future, particularly in the trans­ Weisberger noted that the portation field. development of Alaska's oil re­ "For the transportation in­ serves, considered by some to dustry," the report said, "the be the greatest in the world, merger movement has probably "may hinge on low-cost means for transporting oil to the main­ just begun." land." He said that by aiding Future reports to be issued shippers through construction by the CTT will tell of the subsidies and construction re­ specific impact of merger ac­ serve funds, "we're going to in­ tivity on the trade union move­ crease our chances for full ment, the transportation indus­ development of the Alaska oil (Continued on Page 22) try and the general public. Compulsory Arbitration, Nat'i Emergency'Laws LabeleJ Infringement of Workers Basic Rights ! J BAL HARBOUR, FLA.— Elimination of all "national emergency" legislation and the rejection of compulsory arbitra­ tion and any other form of "forced labor" laws were de­ manded by the Executive Board of the Conference of Transpor­ tation Trades here. "National emergency" strikes, were termed a "myth" by the CTT leadership. This myth, they said in a resolution, has fostered attacks upon the doc­ trine of free collective bargain­ ing "through manipulating the federal government and the Presidency itself." The resolution predicted an attempt would be made by the Administration to broaden "na­ tional emergency" sections of the Taft-Hartley and National Railway Acts, as well as to in­ stitute some form of compulsory arbitration in labor-manage­ ment disputes involving the transportation industry. Would Inflame Unrest "Both propositions are wrongheaded," the resolution asserted. "Both would inflame unrest in labor-management relations, particularly in the transporta­ tion industry. "It is particularly appalling that these proposals spring from a Department of Labor whose Secretary, George P. Shultz, has long contended that strikes seldom create 'national emer­ gencies;' that collective bargain­ ing works best when govern­ ment interferes least," the Conference declared. CTTs' Executive Board called upon the AFL-CIO to work for elimination of all the "national emergency" sections of the TaftHartley and Railway Labor Acts and to oppose all proposals to impose compulsory arbitra­ tion upon free collective bar­ gaining. Compulsory arbitration and "national emergency" clauses were blasted bv«|||p Ex­ ecutive Board as bm^ "in­ fringements upon the funda­ mental rights of American workers and managements to reach just and equitable agree­ ments through free collective bargaining." Soon after the Conference sessions closed, the Administra­ tion announced it would seek Congressional approval of laws to lengthen "cooling off' periods and provide a form of compul­ sory arbitration. The measure, if adopted, would permit a Presidential panel to force workers to accept what the panel felt was the best last offer of either management or a union. Meany Assails Plan The Administration program is aimed exclusively at five transportation industries and their workers' unions — mari­ time, longshore, railroad, air­ line and trucking. AFL-CIO President George Meany immediately called for Congress to reject the proposal. "The AFL-CIO does not be­ lieve nor has it ever believed that the government should be permitted to set the terms of collective bargaining agreements in private industry," Meany as­ serted. "We do not think it is compatible with the principles of democracy to compel em­ ployes to work on terms which are imposed on them by the government." Meany stressed that the Fed­ eration has "always opposed and will continue to oppose any scheme of compulsory arbitra­ tion, no matter what Adminis­ tration proposes it and regard­ less of whether it is openly labeled as compulsory arbitra­ tion." Conglomerates Hit In another major piece of action, the Conference, which consists of 27 unions in the transportation industry, includ­ ing the SIU, rapped the "tidal wave" of corporate mergers into conglomerates. The merger activity, now eliminating companies at a rec­ ord pace, is suffocating the free enterprise system and seriously threatening the welfare of the American worker and consum­ er, the Conference reported. The warning against the threat involved in accelerated merger activity was issued in a report, "Conglomerates: Con­ centration, Collusion, Control." The 157-page document is the first in a series being developed by the CTT on the changing patterns of corporate America, according to C. L. Dennis, Con­ ference chairman and president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks. "The threat of conglomerates is real for all Americans," the study found. "It is particularly real, and particularly menacing, when it touches the transporta­ tion industry—a vital nerve cen­ ter in modern America." Merger mania, the report said, reached a peak in 1968, and was running 6 percent above that record rate during the first nine months of 1969. This has resulted in fewer and fewer corporations controlling an increasingly larger share of the nation's economy, the report said. Impact of Mergers Of America's nearly 300,000 corporations, 2,593 — or less than 1 percent—control 86 per­ cent of the assets and receive 88 percent of the net profits, the report revealed. Of the nation's 194,000 man­ ufacturing corporations, 87 held from 40 to 45 percent of all the country's corporate manu­ facturing assets in 1969. Profits of these same 87 industrial giants equaled the total profits of all other manufacturing com­ panies. Mergers are having a strong impact on the transportation in­ dustry, the CTT report showed. Nine conglomerates acquired 95 companies directly involved in transportation between 1961 and 1968, the study noted. The Conference report gave several detailed examples of the ruthlessness of a conglomerate toward a new acquisition. It showed the history of the acqui­ �SEAFARERS Page Four March, 1970 LOG Aboard the Merrimac Three More Seafarers Make It ,'4 Upgraded Engineer Total Hits 372 Three more Seafarers have been graduated from the School of Marine Engineering spon­ sored jointly by the SIU and MEBA-District 2. Following successful comple­ tion of the comprehensive train­ ing program offered by the school, and having passed their coast guard examinations, the three men became licensed en­ gineers. The total number of Seafarers who have been graduated from the School now stands at 372. Drury Clyde Kendrick, 34, joined the SIU in 1959 and sailed in the engine department as an FOWT before entering the School in October. He grad­ uated on March 2 with a Third Assistant Engineer's License. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Brother Kendrick served in the Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956. David Vernon Merriken, 21, received his Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's License on February 10. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1967 and in that same year graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. He sailed as a wiper and FWT before entering the engineering school in October. James William Edson, 23, is a native of Virginia and now makes his home in Norfolk. He joined the SIU in 1965 in the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the engine department as a wiper. A graduate of the Andrew Furuseth Training School, Brother Edson entered the engineering school the end of last year and received his Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's License on February 27. He served in the Marine Reserves from 1964 un­ til 1967. Kendrick Merriken Edson Leniency on Temporary Visas Opposed by Labor Federation WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO has voiced its opposition to proposals in Congress that would "weaken" the Immigra­ tion and Nationality Act's pro­ visions dealing with admittance of aliens on temporary visas. Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller testified against sections of two House bills that would remove a requirement that such aliens, defined as hav­ ing "no intention of abandon­ ing" their homelands, be ad­ mitted only for temporary jobs. In testimony presented by Legislative Representative Ken­ neth Meiklejohn to a House Judiciary subcommittee, Bie­ miller made it clear that his views were limited only to sec­ tions dealing with temporary visas in the bills being consid­ ered. These are the only sections on which the subcommittee is currently holding hearings. Should hearings be held pn other provisions in the bills, Biemiller noted, the AFL-CIO would also like to present further views. Biemiller cited previous tes­ timony in opposition to expand­ ing temporary visas given by Assistant Secretary of Labor Arnold Weber on behalf of the Administration. Weber opposed the sections of the bills on grounds they would "adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers" and "deny, often on a long-term basis, pro­ tection of the temporary alien both as a worker and potential citizen." Bernard Gabor, a 2nd Assistant Engineer aboard the Merrimac, takes a break on deck while the ship is in New York. Brother Gabor earned his license after training at the SlU-MEBA sponsored School of Marine Engineering. He passed Coast Guard exam with flying colors. Call on Congress to Act Now Bo/d Improvement of Soda!Security Held Essential for Nations Elderly "A cost of living mechanism ment that men who retire at 62 would be a good first step only must compute their average if it is clear public policy that earnings by including years up benefits will be adjusted upward to 65—a requirement that low­ periodically in addition to cost ers retirement benefits exces­ of living adjustments," the sively. council said. • Ending deductions from Its program also called for: assistance payments for recipi­ • Increasing the minimum ents whose incomes are so low benefit to $90 for a single per­ that their social security bene­ son and $135 for a couple with fits must be supplemented by a further increase in 1972 to public assistance, as well as $120 and $180 respectively. ending deductions for injured The present minimums are $64 workers receiving workmen's for a single person and $96 for compensation. a couple. • Financing the medical in­ • Improvements in widows' surance part of Medicare, now benefits; higher benefits for paid for partly by the retiree, those who retire before age 65; through contributions paid dur­ permitting a retiree's benefits to ing the beneficiary's working be based upon his highest 10 years, in the same way hospital years' earnings out of any 15 insurance is now financed. consecutive years after 1950. • Expansion of the present SIU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS • Raising the amount of in­ insurance coverage under Medi­ come a person can earn and Cash Benefits Paid care to include the cost of pre­ still get full Social Security scription drugs, and expi^ ision benefits; increasing the lump­ Report Period January 1, 1970-January 31, 1970 of the entire program to in­ sum death payment from $225 clude persons under 65 who Number of Amount to $500; and improvements in are receiving disability benefits Benefits Paid disability benefits. through Social Security. SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN • Elimination of the require• Increasing the earnings 13 Scholarship $ 2,960.75 Cheering Them Up base on which Social Security 2,035 49,069.76 Hospital Benefits taxes are paid from its present 25 68,005.00 Death Benefits $7,800 level to $9,000 imme­ 145 578.00 Medicare Benefits .. 21 diately and $15,000 in 1972. 4,100.00 Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Increasing the general reve­ 1,186 35,592.64 Program nue contribution to Social Se­ 1,595 75,303.64 Dependent Benefits curity gradually until the federal (Average $472.12) government is paying one-third 645 9,444.36 Optical Benefits of the costs of the present em­ 682 6,823.35 Meal Book Benefits ployer-employee paid program. 4,017 31,664.00 Out-Patients Benefits The council expressed grati­ SUMMARY OF WELFARE fication that Congress enacted a 10,364 283,541.50 BENEFITS PAID 15 percent across-the-board in­ SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANcrease in Social Security bene­ 27 15,670.00 BENEFITS PAID fits last year, but emphasized SEAFARERS' VACATION PLANthat lawmakers recognized that 2,194 1,312,394.43 BENEFITS PAID much greater improvements (Average $598.17) were needed. TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & "Enactment of the 15 percent VACATION BENEFITS PAID increase," • the statement con­ 12,585 1,611,605.93 Keiko Nakategawa, secretary at the SIU hall in Yokohama, brightens THIS PERIOD cluded, "must not be an end but up the day for Seafarers W. H. Rogers, A. H. Duggan, and I. Bouzin who are presently laid up at the new Bluff Hospital in Yokohama. oiily the beginning." BAL HARBOUR, Fla.— Congress must enact "bold re­ form and not patchwork" legis­ lation to provide the nation's elderly "with the dignified se­ cure retirement they deserve," the AFL-CIO declared. The federation's Executive Council urged quick action on "major improvements" in Social Security and Medicare proposed in bills introduced by Repre­ sentative Jacob H. Gilbert (DN.Y.) and Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (D-N.J.). On Social Security, a council statement called for an imme­ diate 20 percent across-theboard increase in benefits (in­ cluding the 15 percent enacted in late 1969) to be followed by an additional 20 percent in­ crease in two years. Thereafter, the council said, benefits should be adjusted in accordance with an appropriate measure of increases in wage levels "so beneficiaries can par­ ticipate in the increased stand­ ard of living they made possi­ ble." h it-^J �March, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Five High Seas Incidents Continue MTD Report Urges BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment is seeking federal leg­ islation to ban the use of all "liedetecting" devices, based on a comprehensive MTD study which revealed that growing numbers of American workers are being coerced into submit­ ting to polygraph tests. The MTD report, "The 'Lie Detector'—Guilty Until 'Pro­ ven' Innocent," showed that hundreds of thousands of peo­ ple are forced to take such tests by employers, prospective em­ ployers or law enforcement agencies. If they refuse to take the test, it is frequently interpreted as a sign of guilt. If the worker agrees to take the test, the re­ sults will be determined by many factors that have no relation­ ship to "truthfulness" or "lying. Use of the polygraph is in­ creasing despite a massive array of evidence that show it to be totally lacking in credibility. For example: • Polygraph results have al­ ways been excluded as evidence by criminal or civil courts throughout the land. • The National Labor Rela­ tions Board has consistently ruled against companies that have used "lie detector" coer­ cion against workers seeking to organize a union. • In known cases where an employee was disciplined or dis­ charged on the basis of poly­ graph results or refusal to sub­ mit to the test, arbitration has always resulted in a decision against the company. • Legislative opinions against the inherent invasion of privacy involved in such tests have brought laws prohibiting employers from using them in a dozen states and several cities. The use of the polygraph, the MTD study declared, "runs counter to Constitutional guar­ antees against illegal search and seizure, and is contrary to the Constitution's safeguard against self-incrimination." "The use of the 'lie detector' " the report asserted, "flaunts America's historic concept that the accused is innocent until proven guilty—in point of fact, the 'lie detector' presumes guilt unless and until the subject can 'clear' himself." The MTD board called for several interim steps pending federal prohibition of the poly­ graph. The board urged: • An all-out campaign in the 1970's for enactment of state laws prohibiting the use of "lie detecting" devices. Seven of the dozen states that have outlawed use of the polygraph have acted within the past five years, all with vigorous trade union sup­ port. Yet, 38 states and the Dis­ trict of Columbia, the seat of national government, still per­ mit their use. • A campaign to institute anti-polygraph clauses in col­ lective bargaining agreements. LOG Detectors I House Committee Will Open Hearings On Illegal Seizure of U.S. Tunaboats "Many times," their report continued, "collective bargain­ ing rights for workers repre­ sented by unions have paved the way for legislative rights for all Americans." • Vigorous prosecution, through grievance and arbitra­ tion procedures, of any cases involving the use of polygraphs or an employee's right to refuse to take such a test. "Courts, arbitrators and un­ employment compensation boards have used strong lan­ guage in denunciation of poly­ graphs and in defense of work­ ers who exercise their rights not to be compelled to the indignity of their use. If every such case is prosecuted to the maximum extent, management might even­ tually—if reluctantly—abandon the practice on the ground that it cannot win." In calling for all-inclusive leg­ islation by the Congress, the MTD leadership noted that such a statute would achieve sub­ stantially more than a multiplic­ ity of state laws by guarantee­ ing protection to ali Americans. "Federal legislation would offer safeguards to those un­ touched by state laws—particu­ larly public employees," the study noted. The executive board took harsh exception to the justifica­ tion of polygraph testing in the name of "national security," calling it, "a loophole through which the unscrupulous investi­ gator can squirm to enlarge the area of this activity." "Since the 'lie detector' is so clearly violative of Constitu­ tional rights—and since it is so clearly an unreliable device for the measuring of truth or decep­ tion—it has no place in Ameri­ ca, not even in government," the board report said. "It sim­ ply does not make sense to say that the polygraph is unconsti^ tutional and unreliable, but that 'national security' justifies its use, for it is just as unconstitu­ tional and unreliable in those circumstances as in any others." WASHINGTON, D. C.—• The Chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee has announced his intention to hold hearings on the recent illegal seizures of United States fishing vessels on the high seas by Latin Ameri­ can governments who claim a 200-mile offshore territorial jurisdiction. Congressman Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md) also said that he would introduce a bill de­ manding the return of all United States vessels on loan to nations that illegally seize American vessels. Garmatz made the announcements fol­ lowing the seizure of the tunaboat Day Island on February 25 by the Ecuadorian gunboat 25 De Julio in waters 25 miles off the coast of Ecuador. "This is the third American tunaboat illegally seized since February 14 of this year," Gar­ matz said, "and the Latin Amer­ ican nations responsible for these piratical acts have fined American owners a total of $64,722 in less than two weeks. We still don't know how much Ecuador will fine the Day Island owners." The Day Island was pre­ viously seized by Ecuador on December 10, 1968 and the owners were icquired to pay $81,975 for release of the vessel. "In addition to defying the rights of United States citizens on the high seas, this insulting and dangerous situation is com­ pounded by the fact that the 25 De Julio is a former United States naval vessel now on loan to Ecuador," Garmatz said. The chairman said the gunboat is the former U.S.S. Enright, a high speed personnel carrier on a destroyer hull. "Ironically enough," he added, "the 25 De Julio visited San Diego on a good will tour the week before the latest seizure." They Came to Meet Daddy -«a»- ^ " These two charming young ladies were waiting on the dock when the Transindiana tied up at the Seatrain dock in Weehauken, New Jersey. Their daddy. Luciano Ortiz, sails on the vessel as wiper. Enjoying ice cream in the galley are Lorraine Ortiz, 10, and sister Annie, 5. hearings, but the Committee most other maritime powers. The chairman said that—in addition three countries are all operating to considering the bill proposing former United States vessels on recall of American vessels—the a loan or lease basis. During hearings would consider other 1969, 14 American-owned forms of retaliatory action, such tunaboats were seized by Latin as economic sanctions, embar­ American nations and fined a goes against fishery imports of total of $96,000. offending nations, and possible "We have been tr>'ing for other actions. fifteen years," Garmatz said, "to The bill, introduced by Gar­ bring these Latin nations to the matz and co-sponsored by other conference table, so that this Republican and Democratic entire problem of fishing rights members of his committee, can be resolved. But these ef­ would require the President to forts have been futile. It is es­ recall those United States ves­ sential for the United States to sels being operated under ex­ bear down and get tough, in pired loans by any nation that , order to protect American fish­ illegally seizes an American ermen and to assert our nation's fishing vessel. It also proposes sovereign rights in international to require the Secretary of the waters." Navy to recall other United When the Garmatz Commitee States naval vessels now being threatened economic sanctions operated under valid loans by last year, Peru, Ecuador and anv offending nation. If the Chile did meet with the United legislation became law, the Sec­ States last August at Buenos retary of the Navy would be re­ Aires, Argentina. The prelim­ quired to terminate the ship inary talks brought no results loans by giving a 30-day notice and, Garmatz said, the three to the country involved. new seizures in February indi­ Although existing law pro­ cate a lack of sincerity. vides the Secretary of the Navy The three latest seizures were; discretionary authority to recall • February 14, 1969—Ecua­ such vessels, the Defense De­ dor seized the American tuna partment has not used that au­ thority—despite persistent re­ vessel. City of Panama, 17 miles quests from members _ of off the Ecuadorian coast. The Congress. The Garmatz bill owners paid $49,650 for release of the vessel. would force recall action. • February 23, 1969—Peru The United States claims a 3-mile offshore territorial juris­ seized an American tuna vessel. diction and a 12-mile exclusive Western King, 30 miles off the fishing zone. Peru, Chile and Peruvian coast. The owners Ecuador claim a 200-mile ex­ paid $15,072. • February 25, 1969—Ecua­ clusive fishing zone, not recog­ nized by the United States or dor seized the Day Island. Panama Says Control Over Ocean Extends 200-Mlles from Shores ROME—Panama, a favorite nation of runaway-flag ship op­ erators, claims territorial juris­ diction over an area of ocean more than nine times larger than its land area, according to figures released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Panama's land area measures only 29,201 square miles but the country claims that it has sovereign rights over an area of open sea in the Caribbean and Pacific that measures 274,390 square miles. The figures compiled by the United Nations were part of a new survey of territorial sea lim­ its and fishery zone claims made by 106 countries. Panama is one of eight South and Central American nations that claim sovereign territorial rights over sea zones stretching 200 nautical miles out from their shores. Claims Cause Friction The claims of these countries have been the cause of constant friction for more than 20 years between the U.S. Pacific Coast tuna fleet, which fishes in the area as part of the high seas recognized by the United States, and the Latin countries, who do not adhere to accepted interna­ tional law covering territorial seas. Recently, U.S. tunaboats fish­ ing in the area have been at­ tacked by the navies of these nations, and on several occa­ sions, American fishermen have been shot at and severely in­ jured. Other South and Central American states claiming a 200mile limit are Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicara­ gua, Uruguay and Peru. The United Nations survey shows that Communist China, along with the Soviet Union and 38 other countries, claims a 12mile territorial seas zone. The United States, along with Great Britain, France, Japan, Canada and 24 other countries, claims a three-mile limit. Tradition says that the United States, as did many other coun­ tries, arrived at the use of a three-mile limit because this was the effective range of shorebased cannon used during the17th Century. I /i �March, 1970 As Unemployment Mounts; Aboard the Robin Goodfellow AFL-CIO Executive Council Urges Boost in Nutions Sugging Economy BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—"A decisive change in national eco­ nomic policy" is needed to slow the rise in prices "without a growing army of unemployed," the AFL-CIO Executive Coun­ cil said. The council charged that the Administration's policy of "se­ vere economic restraint" isn't working. Tight money and high inter­ est rates have had a "devastat­ ing impact on homebuilding" but haven't halted the inflation­ ary expansion of business in­ vestment in new plants and ma­ chines, the council noted. "Skyrocketing interest rates ... in the guise of fighting in­ flation" have themselves been a major cause of higher prices. And after more than a year of the Administration's eco­ nomic medicine, "America is now confronted by both an eco­ nomic slump and rapidly rising prices." The council cited the mount­ ing evidence of an economic downturn — higher unemploy­ ment, cuts in working hours and weekly earnings, a lack of suffi­ cient job opportunities for a growing labor force. Warning Sounded It warned that the impact of rising unemployment falls hard­ est on the least skilled, the most recently hired and young peo­ ple. "The government's programs to encourage employment of the hard-core jobless, especially mi­ nority-group workers, are being undermined and threatened with destruction," the council stressed. Seafarer Hannibal Cited for Service Among the Young An SIU member of 27 years standing, Seafarer Roberto Han­ nibal has been awarded a spe­ cial citation for outstanding service rendered to the commu­ nity in which he lives. Brother Hannibal, who makes his home in the Borough of the Bronx, has been putting in a ^eat deal of time and effort— in between sailings—working for the Morrisania Youth and Community Service Center and the Morris Avenue Community Association, both of which are part of the Youth Program of the City of New York. The ef­ forts of public-minded citizens like HannibaL are responsible for providing wholesome out­ lets for youngsters and keeping them out of mischief. His work and dedication were recognized last month when he received a Citation of Honor, signed by Mayor John V. Lind­ say. The citation, dated Decem­ ber 14, 1969, was presented on behalf of the Volunteer Co-ordi­ nating Council of New York. A change in policy is needed "without delay," it declared. "Selective measures, aimed at restraining the specific causes of inflationary pressures, should be adopted. Homebuilding — par­ ticularly low- and middle-in­ come housing—should be pro­ vided with immediate federal assistance." Among specific measures, the Executive Council urged: • Direct restraints by the Federal Reserve System on in­ flationary business loans for new plant and equipment. • Federal curbs on business mergers which are concentrat­ ing economic power in "a nar­ rowing group of giant compa­ nies and banks." • A congressional review of monetary machinery and poli­ cies "to achieve much-needed reform." • Practical, selective steps to hold down sharply rising costs of physician fees, hospital charges, auto and property in­ surance and housing costs." The council stressed the need for "immediate assistance" to homebuilding, warning that high interest and mortgage rates have put decent housing "out of the reach of even middle-in- come working people" as well as intensifying the serious short­ age of low-income housing. To meet this crisis, the coun­ cil said: "The federal government should provide direct loans for the creation of low- and mod­ erate-income housing. "Congress should direct the Federal Reserve to buy up to $5 billion of government-guaran­ teed housing obligations. "A portion of the GI Life In­ surance Fund should be ear­ marked for veterans' mortgage loans at reasonable interest rates. "Congress should require that "a portion of bank trust ac­ counts, including pension funds, should be invested in govern­ ment-guaranteed mortgages to qualify for tax exemption." The council reiterated the AFL-CIO's position that, if the President determines that con­ trols are necessary, labor will cooperate "so long as such re­ straints are equitably placed on all costs and incomes—includ­ ing all prices, profits, dividends, rents and executive compensa­ tion, as well as employes' wages and salaries." These two graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point pose for a photo aboard the Robin Goodfellow after the vessel tied up in Bayonne, N.J., following a four-month trip to the Far East. Left to right are Anthony Keelen and Mike Ziobro. Both are wipers who plan to attend the SIU upgrading school for FOWT. V Rep. Carey Urges: U.S. Maritime Commitment Should Equal Space Dollars WASHINGTON—A New York Congressman urged that the United States spend more money to develop maritime in­ dustries needed to cope with rising population. Rep. Hugh L. Carey (D- N.Y.) called for an investment in maritime affairs "at least equal to our commitment in outer space." He said that such a program—to develop Ameri­ can potential in shipping, ship­ building, fishing and oceanog­ raphy—is vital to our future. Speaking at a luncheon spon­ Atlantic, Gulf A Inland Waters District sored by the 7.5-million-memFebruary 1, 1970 to February 28, 1970 ber AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Carey noted that DECK DEPARTMENT the federal government will / . TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED on BEACH spend $3.4 billion on the space > ^ . All Groups All Groups All Groups program and only $333 mil­ /•I Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B lion on the maritime program in Boston 0 6 1 1 0 2 1 fiscal 1971. New York 103 199 138 87 71 41 3 Philadelphia 12 135 71 16 8 7 0 "I wonder how many more Baltimore 37 72 135 21 23 7 12 manned space flights to the Norfolk 23 26 32 17 13 4 14 Jacksonville ..... 22 45 43 24 3 18 14 moon will be necessary," Carey Tampa 13 18 35 21 14 17 4 asked, "before the American Mobile 42 35 74 36 29 13 1 New Orleans 6 69 73 64 people wake up to the fact that 55 - 28 8 Houston 98 102 65 54 39 52 74 these feats . . . add little to our Wilmington 36 34 12 74 69 50 22 national wealth." San Francisco ... 89 90 101 100 17 82 55 Seattle 16 1 54 55 43 32 20 By comparison, he said, mar­ Totals 733 868 562 570 129 432 404 itime has a potential for bring­ ing raw materials to American ENGINE DEPARTMENT industries, carrying finished REGISTERED on BEACH products to consumers around TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED • All Groups All Groups All Groups the globe, strengthening U. S.' Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class A ClaasB Class C defenses, improving the balance 6 . 0 Boston ...... 3 4 0 0 0 169 152 of payments and "sustaining life New York ... 13 106 62 72 113 29 19 Philadelphia . 2 9 13 4 5 on this planet." 56 70 Baltimore ... 4 21 49 21 37 25 37 The Congressman continued: Norfolk 2 17 7 11 23 18 48 Jacksonville . 19 1 8 13 39 "By the year 2000, just 30 10 16 Tampa 4 17 6 11 16 58 60 years from now, the world's Mobile 1 33 21 14 33 122 4 2 New Orleans 48 35 46 103 population will have doubled. 96 108 26 Houston .... 51 28 46 72 To serve that huge army of peo­ 11 22 17 37 Wilmingfton .. 25 46 20 96 62 41 85 San Francisco ple will require a doubling of 42 96 63 18 0 19 37 Seattle_^^^_;_^ 33 26 39 our industrial effort and the 764 548 135 Totals 434 439 626 283 doubling of our output of food and fiber—at least doubling and \RD DEPARTMENT possibly more, because we do REGISTERED on BEACH not yet provide adequate food TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups All Groups1 or clothing or shelter for the Class A CIMS B Port OaasC Class A Class B Class A Class B world's population. 0 2 6 Boston 1 0 1 0 95 153 9 39 New York 34 74 64 "This growth will be beyond 12 17 0 Philadelphia 5 8 10 9 anything our land resources, 70 118 6 9 Baltimore 14 44 14 43 alone, can support. We will 24 6 14 Norfolk 5 20 35 30 24 8 16 Jacksonville 8 5 16 have to turn to the oceans—for 7 13 4 11 8 Tampa 6 10 food, for medicines, for mineral 39 76 1 10 Mobile 29 17 16 64 40 5 19 wealth to replace the land-based 39 New Orleans .... 22 52 vi 37 116 31 37 35 63 Houston .... 34 resources which are already in­ 12 10 19 25 18 24 Wilmington 32 adequate to meet today's needs, 73 66 34 59 66 55 San Francisco ... 73 16 12 25 11 32 Seattle 42 13 and which are being depleted 496 673 153 254 Totals 408 273 368 at an alarming rate." DISPATCHERS REPORT I �March, 1970 SEAFARERS Nixon Plan Eases Assistance To Import-Injured Employees WASmNGTON—President Nixon has asked Congress to make it easier for workers and companies hurt by rising im­ ports to qualify for government assistance. Under the restrictive stand­ ards of the 1962 trade law, and the rigid interpretation of the U.S. Tariflf Commission, it was only this month that the first groups of workers were declared eligible for benefits to compen­ sate them for loss of jobs. The Administration proposed that the standards be relaxed somewhat by requiring only a showing that increased imports were a "substantial cause"— rather than the "primary cause" —of the hardship. And the in­ crease in imports would no longer have to be related to a prior tariff reduction. It also asked Congress to put the decision on whether to grant relief to workers or companies in the hands of the President rather than the Tariff Commis­ sion. The commission's role would be limited to furnishing "factual information" to the White House. At the same time, the Presi­ dent urged a continuation of the nation's policy of "freer world trade." He warned that greater curbs on imports would result in retaliation against American exports "and both sides would lose." In the area of easing require­ ments for relief from hardships resulting from freer trade, Nixon proposed a change in the "escape clause" of the 1962 law, which is supposed to bring about temporary tariff increases when an industry is adversely affected. The President acknowledged the growth in protectionist sen­ timent in the United States and expressed the hope that the pro­ posals for easing requirements for government help to workers and industries would overcome some objections to liberal trade. He termed the problem of textile imports "a special cir­ cumstance that requires special measures," adding: "We are now trying to per­ suade other countries to limit their textile shipments to the United States. In doing so, how­ ever, we are trying to work out with our trading partners a rea­ sonable solution which will al­ low both domestic and foreign producers to share equitably in the development of the U.S. market." Page Seven LOG Poor Mired in Poverty; Nixon Welfare Plan Critkhed; New Approath Soaght for Needy BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—The AFL-CIO called for a "bold new approach" to public welfare so that needy families "can live in decency." The federation's Executive Council took a critical look at the Nixon Administration's wel­ fare reform proposal, crediting it for good intentions but fault­ ing it for proposing "grossly in­ adequate" benefits and "unac­ ceptable" features that would subject the poor to exploitation and leave them mired in pov­ erty. Under the Administration's proposals, now being considered by the House Ways and Means Committee, a family of four with no wage earner would re­ ceive a federal payment of $1,600 a year and be eligible for food stamps. States would have the option of supplementing the federal payment. Families with very low earn­ ings would be able to keep the first $720 a year of earned in­ come without reduction of bene­ fits. Thereafter, the federal pay­ ment would be reduced 50 cents for each dollar earned. Able bodied adults, including mothers In addition to the grievances and contract questions which are settled by patrolmen at sign-offs and sigri-ons, and by the SlU Contract Enforcement Department, Headquarters in New York receives communications from Sea­ farers seeking contract interpretations. These communications cover the range of working conditions, pension and welfare questions and other related subjects affecting Seafarers. Because many of these questions would be of general interest to the membership. Headquarters has arranged to have the questions and answers published regularly in the LOG. The following question was received relating to the availability of heat and hot water aboard ship. Question; What does the union contract provide in the event that heat and/or hot water are not available aboard ship? of school-age children, would be ment stressed the need for a required to take jobs or job fully federal welfare program, training as determined by the "with adequate payments" based Labor Department. solely on need. This would replace the pres­ It said the proposed payment ent AFDC program — Aid to level of the Administration plan Families with Dependent Chil­ would provide higher payments dren. to less than 20 percent of fam­ Persons without minor chil­ ilies now receiving AFDC bene­ dren would be eligible for as­ fits. "Moreover," the council sistance only if they were old, noted, "since it fails to provide blind or disabled. In those for periodic updating, payments cases, the federal benefit would might be held at present subpoverty levels indefinitely while be $90 a month. The Executive Council state­ living costs continued to climb." Urge Medical Fee Controls To Curb Overcharging Abuses BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—The AFL-CIO has called for "im­ mediate, effective controls" on fees charged by doctors and nursing homes under Medicare and Medicaid programs in light of a recent government report. The report, prepared by the Senate Finance Committee's staff, showed that Blue Cross, Blue Shield and other medical insurance carriers have let doc­ tors charge the programs more for specific services than the companies pay doctors on be­ half of their own clients. The report listed thousands of doctors and doctors' groups who received more than $25,000 in payments from Medicare and Medicaid in 1968, including scores who received more than $100,000. The committee's staff, which also exposed other abuses of and defects in Medicare and Medi­ caid, said that reforms are ur­ gently needed to reduce costs because the "programs are in serious financial trouble." An AFL-CIO Executive Council statement said the re­ port shows "how many doctors and other health providers and insurance companies have ex­ ploited weaknesses in the Medi­ care and Medicaid law for ex­ orbitant financial gain." The council noted that Medi­ care and Medicaid were enacted with the strong support of labor "to provide urgently needed medical care for the elderly and the poor who could not afford to pay for it out of their meager incomes." The programs have enabled millions of Americans to obtain needed medical care and they have been "conscientiously ad­ ministered" by responsible gov­ ernment agencies. SEAFARERSmLOG March. 1970 • Vol. XXXil. No. 3 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAUL HALL, Preeident EARL SHEFARD CAL TANNER Exec. Viee-Pree, Vice-Preeident LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR Vice-President Sec.-Treai. ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-Preeident Vice-Preeident Pabllihed monthly at 810 Rhode liland Artnne N.E., Washington, D. C. 20018 by the Seafar­ ers International Union, Atlantic, Golf, Label and Inland Waten District, AFL-CI8, 675 Fairth Avinee, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. HYaelnth 9-6600. Second elait yeitaie paid at Waihlnitoni, D. C. POSTIIASTER'S ATTENTION: Feral 3579 •ardi ihoild be tent to Seafareri International Union, Atlantle, Gait, Lahei and Inland Water. Dlitrlit, AFL-CIO, 675 Fairth Annai, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Answer: The answer to this question is contained in Section 43, Articles I and 2 of the NEW STANDARD FREIGHTSHIP AGREEMENT. This Section provides that room allowance, at the rate of $ 10.50 per day, shall be allowed when heat is not furnished in cold weather and when the outside temperature is 65° or lower for 8 consecutive hours. This same room allowance, $10.50 per day, will also be allowed when hot water is not available in the crew's quarters for twelve or more consecutive hours. In order to qualify for this allowance the following must be done on an individual basis by Seafarers claiming the allowance: • An immediate report must be made to the Department Delegate and the Chief Engineer. • Each Seafarer must maintain a written record of the beef which in­ cludes the date, time of day and the temperature. • All heat and hot water beefs should be submitted on an individual y- basis. ANVTIME-AMYWHERE ^ MEANS NOM0RESHIP6 �Page Ejght SEAFARERS March, 1970 LOG KiJiMJM k|Sreat hammerhead sharks like this one have been known to attack human beings. Though not so noticeable here, thd shark's head is shaped like a tWb-sided hai^^ HE DECK was slippery from the storm and in a sudden lurch of the ship, the deckhand fell into the sea. > He called for help but no one hehrd him. ^ ^me days later, after a long struggle, fisher­ men caught a white shark. I They slit him open and among the many ob­ jects in the shark's stomach was a human arm and M" leg. They-were the only remains of the seaman who fell overboard. ; It's a gory tale but although this particular one vis fictional, it is far from a fantastic tale. Sharks are ferocious creatures, perhaps the most fearsome alive, and they are from birth, fully equipped to be killers. Seafarers daily come into contact with elements presentifig a potential tragedy such as the one deascribed above. ft With this possibility in mind, they should %now the enemy they may encounter—his strucmire. habits, patterns of attack, and most of all, mdiat will drive him off. ' > An article in the National Observer reports. "experts say that more shark attacks occurred during World War II, when vessels were tor­ pedoed and their crews tossed into the ocean, than all the seashore incidents in history." Unfortunately, the shark is an unpredictable killer and much of the data on attack and protec­ tion must be taken with this unpredictable nature in mind. Historically, sharks are among the oldest crea­ tures alive today. They are prehistoric animals. Thomas Helm in his book "Shark," published in 1961, reports that some of the species date back as far as three hundred million years. At that time there were sharks so gigantic that the small­ est of their teeth was as big as a man's hand. These creatures were over one hundred feet long. The shark is not a bony fish but rather his skeleton is merely a cartilaginous structure which disintegrates soon after his death. Also, the shark, unlike most fishes, has no swimbladder. This means he cannot stay sus­ pended in water if he stops swimming. He must keep moving all the time if he does not want to sink to tfie bottom of the ocean, It seems then, that from the moment they enter the sea world until the day they die, many species of shark ]^t no sleep and little rest. Often, sharks have been known to circle their victims. This may be due to the shark's fins which allow him to turn but do not let him stop short. In Other >yords, he has no brakes. The skins of most sharks are very rough and can cause severe injuries if brushed against. Large pieces of flesh can be ripped right off by the sharp skin of the shark. It is interesting to note that, like mammals, most sharks giye birth to live young. But unlike mammals, they have ho motherly instincts. As soon as the young shark is born he must immediately go out on his own, something he is ablp to do since he is bom with a full set of teeth. In fact, he should get away from Mamma fast, since she may make a meal of him if she is hungTSome sharks lay eggs within their bodies which then hatch. One such species is the sand tiger shark and this creature presents the "only known case of intrauterine cannibalism in the animal world," according' to a 1968 article in the Na­ tional Geographic. The first baby to hatch inside the uterus pror ceeds to feed upon all the weaker sharks as they come out of their shells. The belief that a shark will eat anything when hungry seems all too true. This is especially borne out when sharks are in a so-called "feeding frenzy." i ^ vshen a number of sharks are to­ gether and thei;- appetites have been stimulated, perhaps by food or the smell of blood. The sharks become extremely savage in their eating and may even gobble up shark rej^lent thrown among the |QOd.:r„;" 7 But whether alone or in groupsi a shark's Jstomach seems to be a vast open space that can •take-in;, anything., As the balance of nahire in the ocean goes o srn-llsr fish becomes the meal of a bull shark. Mpsf sharks prefer a diet of fish to a man, but to a killer shark, humans at times become fair play, Even the slighest scent of blood seems to present a special attraction these'carnivorous fish. . 'r. vri the consequent opening of his stonSach to ViewTts coiuenis. He says: : "Alorra jLwsorted mafia of Oartlv Along with en an assortedj^^f partly d||j^edi| i �March, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG 1 V " garbage and small fish, a total of twenty-seven different and completely indigestible articles spilled out on deck. In the collection we found , - two soft-drink bottles, an aluminum soup kettle with a broken handle, a carpenter's square, a plas. tic cigar box, a screw-top jar partly filled with nails, a two-celled flashlight, several yards of onequarter-inch nylon line, a rubber raincoat, and a worn-out tennis shoe. The largest and most im­ probable object was a three-foot wide roll of tar paper with about twenty-seven feet of the heavy black paper still wound on a spool." In other incidents—-less laughable—parts of hu^ '^man bodies have been found inside the stomach of " a shark. In fact, in one instance, a shark was found by fishermen as he was choking to death trying to swallow the body of a man whp was dead. TTiere afe some 300 sj^cies of sharks, and their W:'-size, killing power and will to kill vary a good deal. Some are only a foot in length while the largest shark-—the whale shark—can grow long as 60 feet and weigh over 17 tons. Yet the whale shark, whiclj is the largwt fish in the ocean, has only a few very small teeth and no will to harm man or for animal. He feeds on small marine organisms. A number of other, sharks are either harmless or exist iri places whe^ m seldom goes. Other sharks have the potential for being dangerous but have been rarely known to attack a man unless provoked. There are 12 species oi sh^, however^ that are known to be man-kiilers, according to Norinan in his book "History of Fishes." ^>7: ;• These species "belong to four families arid in,clude the White Shark, the Make, the Tiger Shark, the Lake Nicaragua Shhrk, the Sand Shark arid species of Fhuntrierhead sbaik^^ Of all these species,^B white shark, also called the man-eater, is the most fearsome and perilous. This shark is known to reach forty feet in length and is the largest of the dangerous sharks. The white shark also has more of an appetite for mammals than most sharks. He eats seals, sea lions, sea otters, whales, turtles', porpoises. The teeth of a white shark are triangular in shape and are also serrated. They are quite powerful as are the teeth of most sharks. Tests on the power of the shark's jaws have been measured, not in thousands of pounds, but ill tons. The dusky shark's biting pressure is 18 tons per square inch. A very interesting, but seemingly bazaar aspect of the shark, is his ability to continue eating no matter what physical state he is in. This is especially true of blue sharks who can be practically split in two, can be cut from tail to head, or completely disemboweled and yet will continue eating, seemingly oblivious to the fact that they are dying. In fact, they have been seen eating their own hanging entrails. During World War II the U.S. government be­ came very interested in sharks because of the re­ ports of downed pilots and shipwrecked sailors who had been bothered or injured by sharks or had seen their buddies killed by the animals. Probably the most horrifying incident occurred -in 1945 when the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a the raft and if any sharks are around, no fishing for food should be done. The saying that in unity there is strength is very true when a shark approaches a group of people swimming in the ocean. "Form a tight circle and face outward," warns the Panel, and "if approached, hit the shark on the snout with any instrument at hand, preferably a heavy one; hit a shark with your bare hand only m as a last resort." Most of all, keep calm and quiet so that your energy will not be wasted. These recommendations come with a warning from the Chairman of the Panel, Dr. Perry Gilbert This iTiean looking animal does justice to his who said that the rules give too simplified a view features. He is called the tiger shark and his ; ^ of what the unpredictable shark might do. large jaw, will open to just about any object. The U.S. government has also developed cer­ tain mechanical devices to fight off sharks. They torpedo in the Pacific. It was estimated that about are all either not totally foolproof or are still in 90.0 of the 1,200 crewmen were floating alive in the experimental stage. One is called Shark Chaser, a chemical dye the water after the sinking. cloud, which contains properties repellent to Less, than an hour after the calamity, sharks sharks. One of these properties is a chemical re­ appeared, Helm recounts in his story of the sembling decaying shark meat, just about the only tragedy. By sundown, many sharks had gathered in the - thing that sharks seem to find repulsive. Unfortunately, if a shark is hungry enough, the ' area. Some injured men had died while others repellant may not work. Shark Chaser "lasts at were bleeding. effective concentration only three hours after it The men stayed in close groups and when a _ lark neared, they pounded the water. This "starts to dissolve in seawater," notes Jean Camp­ worked somewhat, but then a shark would finally bell Butler in her book "Danger—Sharks," pub­ lished in 1964. decide on his victim and one by one, men were Our astronauts are supplied with the repellent dragged beneath the water. for protection when space capsules ditch in the Various factors caused over lOO men to die sea.. At least one such splashdown attracted each day until rescue came, a little less than five sharks to the area. days after the sinking. Recounting the incident, Nathaniel T. Kenney Of the 900 men, only 300 were left. in a National Geographic article said, "A National What were the factors that attracted these Aeronautic and Space Administratioh spokesman sharks? It is not easy to say but in this disaster reported 'nothing happened except maybe the as in others, including downed planes, scientists frogmen who helped in the recovery worked faster feel the sharks were lured by the noises or vibra­ than usual. The sharks only circled and tions set off. watched.'" ' The creatures have come to associate such A newer deterrent that is still in the experi­ sounds with food. Also, the blood of the injured, mental stage is a survival sack. It is a long bag, even if only a trickle, attracts the killers. about six feet, whose color is innocuous to sharks. It should be noted here that there have been At it's top are three bright air-filled rings whose se» disasters where sharks never made an appear­ ance. And it seems they are more likely to come, > visibility is good for rescue purposes. These rings are also the mechanism holding up the sack. when such a disaster involves loud noises, such as . J. R. Norman points out a fact that it might be •M a torpedo hitting a ship. Or a plane crashing into Well to keep in mind. "Shark attacks are most the water. But it is still important tor Seafarers frequent in tropical and subtropical seas; most to be aware of the ways thought to be the best in '^take place when the water temperature is above handling the killers. 70° F. (but attacks have taken place when the The first thing to remember is not to attract a temperature was around 60° F.). ..." shark by acting Tike a wounded fish. In other Though concern and knowledge of sharks and words, if you have to swim, then do so with reg­ protection from sharks is important for each Sea­ ular strokes, "either strong or lazy, but keep them farer, he must also avoid unnecessary fear and rythmic," reads the recommendations of the Shark panic when in the water. After all, the shark is Research Panel of the American Institute of Bio­ not nearly as much of a threat to the life of a man logical Sciences in their advice to survivors of air as in the automobile. and sea disasters. A shark can hear or feel irreg­ Keep in mind Kenney's words in his article ular swimming vibrations from a good distance "Sharks, Wolves of the Sea." He said, "in the Do not remove your clothing, since this is your - overwhelming majority of meetings between these fearsome carnivores and humans who enter the only protection against a shark's fough skin. If sharks' domain, the sinister predators cruise on there is a life raft available, all injured should be the first to be placed inside since an injured per­ past." Also remember, however, his next sentence. son's blood readily draws sharks. Equally important; one must not count on it vLegs and arms should not be left dangling from �'IVn .S E AFARKR S L O (i Warrh, 1970 rrillK GALVESTON (Sea-Laml) had just X rfliiriied from Northern Europe and was I)reparin}j: for another run to Germany, the Nellierlands, Scotland and England. Four rceeiil graduates of the Harry Liindeherg School of Seamanship were aboard, and Engine Delegate C. Hemhy expressed the feel­ ings of the rest of the erew when he saiil: "Those young men were all good workers and good shipmates—the best!" FAST TURN-4R0UNP ON THE NORTH EUROPE RUN m The deck gang makes the stern jine fast as the Galveston ties up at the dock In Port Elizabeth, N.J. The crew included two recent HLSS graduates, I : Wayne Ard, right, and Paul Whitely. I^eorgo Weddell, right, who has been ; g ^oing to sea tor some 44 years, chafs ^ ^ith Fred Legg, who just recently . earned his full book through the Ad=^ ; yanced'Seamanship Training program^ ^ ; x Brother Weddell sails as oiler, and / ^ Brother Legg'"sails as able seaman. William Morris, FWT, is a veteran Seafarer who has been sailing for 19 years with the SlU, and he is the kind of crewmember who is willing to'share his knowl|;S^; \ I edge and experience with the new.rnen coming into the -".4 s profession/ like Joseph Heinrich, wiper, who attended the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Pinev Pti ' t:-8:^r^ i' lifil i J i . Arterni Kanits, who has been saillng'as FOWTTor HLSS graduate'D^d McGarrity Si^ris omfbt ltil many years, gets assistance in filling out his vaca-' , .: trip. Waiting to sign on are Colmerio Fernandez; FWT,.? » ; tion application from SlU Rep? "Red " Campbell. • 4? Brian Burns, wiper. McGarrity graduated from the ; Engine Delegate C. Hemby (in the photo at rigfifp. signs on for another trip as FWT Juan Diaz waitV^ wkfekiJurn. Shipping Cpnnmissipn^ i% Jan>esiT^ ? ?How sweet it is! that's wha:t;first-tripper^W^ Ard? ttNl feeems to be thinking es he-gets the "long green" from |^i^.paynT;aster?atjthe'ehdgtia to;North Europe, .'p i - s?.i •'h J.:.... '#•, ./• liPlSlP'' , " v'yi^-fAr'A n f? i icPii- 'S «si1 Ja?; IT?Was the first trip for David McGarritp- WhtiPlP , • is sailing as saloon mess, and he is happy to TUflf" SOrn© pfcp;. H m- •it?;',! ^\;,F3ut who just completed his first Hip.?^ ,, to sea lalks '.viih SlU R.&pr3i;er>_|ative- Lcon .Haj|^M /* j KS?{ • J.!X' �March, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG 18 More Seafarers Added to Growing SlU Pension Roster Retiring last month were 18 Seafarers who have worked many years at sea and can now enjoy some relaxation on their SIU pensions. Joseph A. Shea, 65, is a na­ tive of Pennsylvania and now makes his home in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Helen. He joined the Union in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the steward department as a chief steward. His last ship was the Bethflor. Alberto Atilio Arancibia, 61, is a native of Chile and now makes his home in the Bronx, New York with his daughter, Mary. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the steward department as a utility messman. In 1961 and 1962 he served picket duty. Arthur George Boyd, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans and sailed in the steward department as a messman. He last worked on board the Dei Oro. A native of New Orleans, Brother Boyd now lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, Beulah. He was given a personal safety award for his part in help­ ing make the Del Valle an acci­ dent-free ship from May to De­ cember 1960. Jesse Lee Barton, 65, is a native of Missouri and is now spending his retirement in Hitchcock, Texas with his wife, Mary Alice. He joined the Un­ ion in the Port of Galveston and sailed in the deck department as a bos'n. lAntoni Bilyk, 62, joined the SIU in 1943 in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck de­ partment as a bos'n. A native of Poland, Brother Bilyk now makes his home in Brooklyn. His retirement ends a sailing Shea Arancibia Gear Being Held The Seafarers named i below are asked to con­ tact C. S. Ashdown or R. I P. Tasker at the Alcoa I I Steamship Company, Inc., 17 Battery Place, Newj York 10004, for the re-j turn of gear left aboard! ship. Matt M. Sizelove Lee Smith Jr. Antonio L. Colin James R. Curran John M. Griffin Barton BUyk Rana D |V - J Meguissoglou Nickerson Doupe Murphy Sercu career of 40 years. Karl Jensen Rana, 65, joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans and sailed in the stew­ ard department as a messman. A native of Norway, Brother Rana now makes his home in New Orleans. James Lionel Morrison, 75, is a native of the British West Indies and now makes his home Russians to Build Atomic Icebreakers Opening Arctic Shipping Year-Round MOSCOW—The Soviet Un­ ion is planning to construct two more atomic-powered icebreak­ ers for use in clearing the ice blocked sea lanes off the north Qoast of Siberia, to ultimately make possible year-round ship­ ping in the area. The two new icebreakers, which will be twice as power­ ful as the first atomic icebreaker built by the Russians, the Lenin, will be completed by 1975. Soviet maritime officials hope that the icebreakers, to be built in the port city of Leningrad, will help extend the shipping Boyd Borjer Gardner Smigielski A i Harden in New Orleans. He is an old- his wife, Mary Catherine. He timer in the Union having joined joined the SIU in the Port of in 1938 in the Port of Boston. Mobile in 1939 and sailed in Brother Morrison sailed in the the deck department as a bos'n. steward department. He is an His last vessel was the Mobile. Army veteran of World War I From 1924 until 1928, Brother and he is retiring after spend­ Gardner served in the Navy and ing 55 years at sea. from 1928 until 1934 he served Michel Meguissoglou, 59, in the Coast Guard. Teofil Smigielski, 65, joined joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the the Union in the Port of New steward department. A native York in 1943 and served in the of Greece, Brother Meguissog­ deck department as a bos'n. His lou now makes his home in New last ship was the Avenger. A native of Massachusetts, Broth­ York City. er Smigielski now makes his Beirly Ashby Bodden, 70, is a home in Korona, Florida. Sea­ native of Grand Cayman Island farer Smigielski had been sailing in Jamaica and now makes his home in Tamapa, Florida. He for 37 years when he retired. joined the SIU in the Port of Otis Harden, Jr., 55, is a na­ Tampa and sailed in the deck tive of Florida and is spending department. his retirement in Tampa. He Richard Benjamin Doupe, joined the SIU in the Port of 65, is a native of New York and New York and sailed in the en­ now makes his home in the gine department as an FWT. Bronx. He joined the SIU in Brother Harden is a Naval vet­ the Port of New York in 1944 eran of World War II. and served in the deck depart­ Clifford L. Nickerson, 65, ment. joined the Union in the Port of Alfred Borjer, 62, joined the New Orleans and sailed in the Union in the Port of Norfolk in steward department. His last 1943 and served in the deck de­ ship was the Steel Artisan. A partment as a bos'n. A native native of Louisiana, Brother of Estonia, he is now spending Nickerson makes his home in his retirement in Manhattan. In New Orleans. 1961 and 1962 he was issued Teodoro Murphy, 56, is a na­ picket duty cards. tive of Fajardo, Puerto Rico and William T. Gardner, 64, is a now lives in Rio Piedras, Puerto native of Georgia and now lives Rico. He joined the Union in in Pascagoula, Mississippi, with 1939 in Puerto Rico and sailed Morrison Bodden in the engine department as an FOWT. In 1961 he served an eight hour watch in the Greater New York harbor strike. John Ray Sercu, 61, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Brighton, New York he now makes his home in LaCombe, Louisiana. Edward Warren McNamar, 61, is a native of Baltimore and is spending his retirement there. He joined the Union in Phila­ delphia in 1939 and sailed in the deck department as a bos'n. Brother McNamar had been sailing 42 years when he re­ tired. missmmmmmmmm ^ Pension Credit Inasmuch as the Board of Trustees have approved periods 'of Sickness and I Accident Benefits, and pe­ riods of Maintenance and Cure, as qualifying time for benefits under the Welfare and Pension Plans, Seafarers are urged to file proof of all such ^ periods with the Plan in­ cident to receipt of pay­ ment while such is imme­ diately available to pro­ tect their interest. Although the plan has a ! record of all S&A Benefits paid, with the exception I of a report from the indi­ vidual, it has no way of I knowing or crediting perI iods of M&C received for I future welfare or pension I purposes. season off the coast of Siberia by nearly two months. The hpavily ice blocked Arctic sea lane, known as the Northern Sea Route, is used by Russian ships to supply northern military Four More Happy Pensioners outposts and mining centers and, if ice conditions permit, to carry cargoes from northern European Russia to the Pacific. The only other links between these two distant points of the Soviet Union are the overland Trans-Siberian Railroad and the southern sea route around Africa and Asia, which makes for an extremely long and cost­ ly- voyage. If the sea lanes off the north coast of Siberia can be kept open by the atomic icebreakers, convoys of Russian freighters will be able to travel through Arctic waters on a year-round basis. According to Izvestia, the Soviet Government newspaper, the atomic reactors designed for the new icebreakers will enable the vessels to remain at sea for 5 years without a re­ charge of uranium. The atomicpowered icebreaker Lenin must Four more veteran Seafarers have closed out long sailing careers, and were presented with their first have its reactor refueled every pension checks at the March membership meeting at the New York hall. Left to right are Tony Bilyk, two years. Charles Grell, Frank Prezalar and Alfred Borjer. Vice President Earl Shepard makes presentation. �Page Twelve SEAFARERS LOG March, 1970 7o Tell The Truth ^This Thing Don't Work' LABOR AND AMERICAN POLITICS edited by Charles Rhemus & Doris McLaughlin (Univ. Michigan Press—-450 pages, $5.25) In 1878, Uriah Stephens, founder of the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, had this to say about labor and politics: "All the evils that labor rests under are matters of law and (are) to be removed by legislation. ... Is the 8 hour law, or prison labor, or universal education, or child and female labor, or the machinery question, or land and the landless . . . political questions (?)" Stephens and the Knights of Labor have long passed into his­ tory, but his words, with few changes, are just as timely today. This book is a collection of readings devoted entirely to labor's participation in politics. In a sense, this is a history of labor, for such a history cannot be written without the inclusion of politics. Much of this will be old hat to the average union member. Reprinted are articles and editorials from labor publications, speeches by union officials, political education pamphlets, etc. The reader will find much criticism and objectivity as well as pro-union material. The opponents of labor often distort its political power. A classic example is the now famous, "Clear it with Sidney," state­ ment made by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. A simple state­ ment of political fact concerning a single issue was purposely distorted until finally, the image of a Roosevelt puppet in the hands of labor bosses was projected into the minds of many voters. Labor's participation in public affairs L often viewed with alarm by the community. This point is brought out by the authors of one article. In discussing labor representation on public boards and committees, they find businessmen are regarded as " 'symbols of civic legitimacy,'" while labor leaders must always carry the stigma of representing a special interest group. In the final article. Jack Barbash sums up the role of labor in politics: "The wholesale effect of the labor movement in politics has been to strengthen democracy in two ways: (1) by diffusing political power but not polarizing it, and (2) by challenging our economic svstem to share its favors broadly," A report by a special committee of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department has described the alarming abuses by com­ panies and government in the use of "lie detectors." Appropriately titled, "The 'Lie Detector' —Guilty Until 'Proven' Innocent," the re-, port points out that polygraph testing is de­ signed to intimidate workers by raising a doubt of their honesty. More importantly, the study maintains that the use of polygraph testing is an in­ herent denial of the American principle that any individual is jnnocent until proven guilty, a principle that is the keystone to our entire concept of freedom. The MTD calls for federal legislation to prohibit the use of "lie detectors" in the United States. A dozen states and several cities have, to their credit, outlawed the use of the mechanical intimidator. And for good reason. The MTD report showed that "lie detector" results are inadmissable in both civil and criminal courts; that arbitrators have invariably ruled against companies in disputes involving the use of the polygraph, and that the National Labor Relations Board has consistently found against companies that have inflicted workers with the coercion tactics inherent in the polygraph. The judge­ ment of our most respected impartial bodies is—universally—that validity and credibility in polygraph testing is non-existent. The MTD Board advocated'a three-fold program to blockade the use of the "lie de­ tector" against workers until federal legisla­ tion can be achieved: • Enactment of more state laws to end polygraph testing. • Negotiation of anti-polygraph clauses in collective bargaining agreements. • Diligence in resisting "lie detector" testing through grievance proceedings. To guarantee protection for all Ameri-cans to be free of thisr illegitimate monster, the Congress of the United States must pro­ vide a total ban on its use—forever. It's Time To Regain the Lead It is an appropriate time for Congress to than are planned for construction in Ameri­ be holding hearings on a comprehensive can shipyards. program to revitalize the U.S. maritime in­ Other figures show that American-flag dustry, in light of recently released figures ships now carry only five percent of our attesting to the decline of American ship­ iihports and exports, compared to nearly ping and fishing fleets and the upsurge of 50 percent in 1945, and that 20 American the maritime industry in the Soviet Union. shipyards, once a thriving industry, have The figures show that the United States closed down for lack of work. has dropped from first to sixth-place—be­ At the same time, national defense com­ hind the Soviet Union—during the past 20 mitments of the U.S. required over-aged years. Russia moved from 21st in world vessels to be pulled out of "moth balls" to maritime standings to No. 5 during this meet the demands of the Vietnam conflict. same period—spending four-times more on In light of this it seems the time is long shipbuilding each year than we have spent. overdue to reverse the trend and start our This year the U.S.S.R. has nine-times as maritime industry back on the road to the many ships on order or under construction top. LEARNING THRU DISCUSSION by Wm. Fawcett Hill (Sage— $1.95) ' Unionism is a continuing process of learning. Of finding new and better ways of attaining the essential goals of the worker. Of new job techniques, better buying power, and of the desire for knowledge itself. Union educational programs run the field, from simple bull sessions to elaborate and expensive jobs. Regardless of the pro­ gram, however, effective group discussion is an essential part of the program. This little 64-page book should be helpful in guiding such talks along the most fruitful lines of discussion. It offers step-by-step methods on how to lead individuals into the discussion, to keep them on the right track and to avoid boring pitfalls. The book will prove helpful to the student as well as instructor. It offers outlines to help him better prepare for the discussion and to effectively take part in it. THE NEW CITY edited by Donald Canty (Praeger—$12.50) The premise of this book is that America faces two crises, not one. The first, we are familiar with via television camera and newspaper headline—the crisis of desperation rising from th • •I ghetto. I i The second crisis is less likely to attract attention and, perhaps in the long run, is the more dangerous. It is the crisis of urban­ ization, the possibility of impending population growth that will breed further division, further waste of resources and further pollu­ tion of the environment. In the excellent collection of photographs that lend so much to this book, one finds beauty in the patterns of urban growth that sprawl across our lands. It. is when we view the close-ups that we see the ugliness of poverty, racism, crime and decay. The central theme of the book is that new cities must be built, planned to meet the needs of the people and to withstand the elements of decay which now destroy our inner cities. What of the new city? In the words of one writer: "Beyond the edge of the city . . . there is another city larger than any that has been built before. You cannot see it even if you drive off into the cornfields. But it is there, breathing in the silence all around you. "It is there in the forces that are already loosed, in the rules you have established, in the adjustments you will make. Some cherish a hope that it will be exclusive, that it will separate the rich and prosperous would-be beautiful people of suburban Amer­ ica from the teeming masses of the old city's outworn shell. "Some build the dream of. a provincial America that would separate 'them' from 'us', that would trade the American Dream for a posh party away from the city riot." Which is the new city? Perhaps in the answer, lies the future of America itself. �March, 1970 Sh4tAKhKS LUU M iMg,C •t'f '' itjki: Mmi M tUUVCII For Seafarers Bsai and Their Families ';iK'S/1 -' -• - ^^ ,"J T»£- I 'V' F ''";. ' ''" - -;• • i^GGgG-G iBH® • ,•• ,• • .^H'' ». : :.•••"• ^i^'.:-:ihJ-'-Ji--.-:»'f-^.'t>% 1; • i-C'lV'1 'Jf'" '>"• •;-'V^^'^''"'C-i'r'''*''''-- F • •:.' g05^a);fcraj^;5fsr'«.^;Kr'=F:;vFi^^ 'liiligiP Ja~ .V •ij»-y.v>.i> -.y, '/L-ti;V..t-j::W.-^.i . / -.- • : ' r ^: ' • < GEG'F': : i-... • r •: ' ' , ' Gf ' ., ,;. �rage Fourteen Mar Seafarers Welfare Plan Surgical Schedule EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1, 1969 MAXIMUM PAYMENT ABDOMEN Two or more surgical procedures per­ formed through the same abdominal incision will be considered as one op­ eration. Abscess, subdiaphragmatic, incision and drainage $200.00 Adrenalectomy, partial or total (removal of part or all of adrenal glands) 375.00 Appendectomy (removal of appendix) ... 200.00 Appendical abscess—incision and drainage of 200.00 Bile ducts, plastic repair or reconstruction . 300.00 Bowel, resection of 400.00 Cholecystectomy (removal of gall bladder) 300.00 Cholecystectomy and exploration of com­ mon duct (removal of gall bladder) .. 300.00 Cholecystoduodenostomy (joining of gall bladder to intestine) 300.00 Cholecystoenterostomy (joining of gall bladder to intestine) 300.00 Cholecystotomy (cutting into gall bladder, including removal of gall stones) .... 300.00 Choledochoplasty (operation on the bile duct) 300.00 Choledochostomy (operation on the bile ducts) 300.00 Choledochotomy (operation on bile ducts) 300.00 Cholelithotomy (cutting into gall bladder, including removal of gall stones) .... 300.00 Colectomy (partial removal of colon—^large intestine) 400.00 Colon, resection of (partial removal of colon—large intestine) 400.00 Colostomy (formation of artificial anus) .. 250.00 Colostomy, revision 200.00 Colostomy, closure of 200.00 Common bile duct, opening of with ex­ ploration, drainage or removal of cal­ culus with or without removal of gall bladder 300.00 Common bile duct, opening of, secondary, in absence of gall bladder 300.00 Common bile duct, resection or reconstruc­ tion of 300.00 Diverticulum, Meckel's or intestinal (re­ moval of pocket in the intestine) .... 275.00 Duodenal ulcer, perforation, closure of . .. 200.00 Enterectomy, with or without anastomosis (cutting away of intestines, with or without rejoining) 400.00 Enterorrhaphy (suture, of intestine) 200.00 Enterotomy, including removal of foreign body (cutting into intestine) 200.00 Gall bladder, removal of (cholecystectomy) 300.00 Gall bladder, operation other than removal 300.00 Gastrectomy, parital or total (removal of stomach) 400.00 Gastric or duodenal ulcer, perforation, clo­ sure of 200.00 Gastroduodenostpmy (joining of stomach to intestine) 300.00 Gastroenterostomy (joining of stomach to intestine) 300.00 Gastrojejunostomy, with or without vagot­ omy (joining of stomach to intestine) . 300.00 Gastroscopy—diagnostic (examination of stomach by gastroscope) 75.00 operative (operation thru gastroscope) .. 100.00 Gastrostomy or gastrotomy (forming openin stomach) 200.00 Gastrostomy, closure of 200.00 Gastrotomy with exploration or foreign body removal (cutting into stomach) . 200.00 Hepatectomy, partial (resection of part of liver) 450.00 Hepatorrhaphy (suture of liver) 200.00 Hepatotomy (incision of liver for drainage of abscess or cyst, one or two stages) . 200.00 Herniotomy — heriorrhaphy—hernioplasty (repair of hernia—rupture) single—inguinal, femoral, umbilical, ventral or incisional 200.00 bilateral—inguinal, or femoral 250.00 Hiatal or diaphragmatic 400.00 Intestinal obstruction—operation for, not requiring resection 200.00 Intestine—reduction of volvulus or intus­ susception by cutting (repair of folding or twisting-of intestines) 200.00 Intestine, large, resection of 400.00 Intestine, small, resection of 400.00 Laporotomy—exploratory (cutting into ab­ domen) 200.00 Liver, aspiration (tapping) or punch biopsy 30.00 Liver, biopsy by laporotomy 200.00 Liver, marsupialization of cyst or abscess of 300.00 Liver, suture of wound or injury (hepator­ rhaphy) 200.00 Pancreas, drainage of, or marsupialization of cyst 200.00 Pancreas, excision of, partial or total except marsupialization of cyst 400.00 Pancreas, radical excision of Ampulla of Vater, with resection of duodenum and portion of pancreas, gastrojejunos­ tomy and anastamosis of biliary tract to alimentary tract, one or more stages 400.00 Pancreaticogastrostomy (joining pancreas to stomach) 300.00 Pancreaticoenterostomy (joining pancreas to intestine) 300.00 Pancreatotomy (cutting into the pancreas) 200.00 Pancreolithotomy (removal of stone from pancreas) 300.00 Paracentesis, abdominal cavity (tapping) .. 30.00 Peritoneoscopy—diagnostic (examination of lining of the abdomen by peritoneo­ scope) 75.00 Operative (biopsy) 100.00 Pneumoperitoneum—induction of (injec­ tion of gas into abdominal cavity) ... 50.00 Each refill—(not more than 17) .. .each 20.00 Pyloric stenosis, operation for (repair of constriction of lower opening of stom­ ach) 200.00 Ramstedt's operation for pyloric stenosis (repair of constriction of lower open­ ing of stomach) 200.00 Rectum, resection of 375.00 Splenectomy (removal of spleen) 300.00 Splenorrhaphy (suture of spleen) 200.00 Stomach, resection 375.00 Umbilectomy (removal of navel) 200.00 Vagotomy (cutting of vagus netve in stom­ ach) 200.00 ABSCESSES Incision and drainage— requiring hospital residence 50.00 not requiring hospital residence 20.00 Peritonsillar abscess, incision of— requiring hospital residence 50.00 not requiring hospital residence 30.00 Supralevator (above levator muscle of anus), incision and drainage 67.50 AMPUTATIONS Coccyx (removal of bone at lower end of spine) 100.00 Ear—unilateral 100.00 bilateral 200.00 Fingers, each (one or more phalanges) ... 37.50 Foot (thru metatorsal bones or above)— unilateral. 200.00 bilateral 400.00 Forearm—unilateral 200.00 bilateral 400.00 Hand, entire (thru metacarpal bones or above)—unilateral 200.00 bilateral 400.00 Leg-unilateral 250.00 bilateral 400.00 Nose 100.00 Thigh-unilateral 275.00 bilateral 450.00 Thumbs, each (one or more phalanges) .. 37.50 Toes, each (one or more phalanges) 37.50 Upper arm-unilateral 200.00 bilateral 400.00 ARTERIES AND VEINS (Vascular Surgery) Aneurysm (dilatation of blood vessel) arterial or arteriovenous, operation for (excision of or wiring) Extremities 100.00 Intra-abdominal 200.00 Intracranial 450.00 Intrathoracic 450.00 Angiogram, cutting operation for exposure of vessel where necessary for 50.00 Aorta, excision of coarctation of 450.00 Artery, anastamosis (joining or forming a connection between arteries) in extremities each 100.00 intra-abdoiftinai 200.00 intracranial 450.00 intrathoracic 450.00 Artery, excision of temporal 50.00 Artery, excision or ligation of major artery of extremity 100.00 Artery, excision of coarctation (contrac­ tion) of aorta 450.00 Artery, ligation (tying) of result of acciden­ tal wound each ..; 20.00 Carotid artery, ligation (tying) of 150.00 Catheterization of heart (independent pro­ cedure) 100.00 Embolectomy-arteriotomy or venotomy with exploration or removal of embo­ lus or thrombus (clot) in abdomen .. 200.00 in chest 400.00 in extremities 100.00 in neck , 200.00 in skull (intracranial) 450.00 Femoral vein, ligation (tying) of, of other than varicose veins—unilateral 50.00 bilateral 100.00 Hemangioma (blood vessel tumor) simple, 20.00 not requiring hospital residence .... 50.00 requiring hospital residence Hemangioma (blood vessel tumor) cavern­ 100.00 ous Saphenous vein, ligation (tying) of, for 50.00 other than varicose veins—unilateral bilateral 100.00 Temporal artery, excision of 50.00 Varicose veins—injection treatment, com­ plete procedure (one or both legs) .. 75.00 cutting operation, complete procedure— one leg 100.00 both legs 165.00 Vein.-ligation (tving) of, result of accidental wound each 20.00 Venogram, cutting operation for exposure of vessel where necessary for 50.00 Venous Anastamosis (forming connection between veins) porto — caval anas­ tamosis • • 450.00 superior mesenteric caval anastamosis . 450.00 Spleno—renal anastamosis 450.00 ^1 BIOPSY Removal of fluid or tissue by cutting or aspiration for examination. Not pay­ able when done immediately preceding or as part of operation listed in infor­ mative schedule. Bone, excision of portion for biopsy • • • • Bone marrow, aspiration of, including sternal puncture Breast Bronchoscopy Chest, open operation Chest, needle — Cystoscopy Esophagoscopy Gastroscopy Gland, or glands superficial Kidney, by needle Laryngoscopy Liver, by needle or punch Lung, aspiration of, by needle Lung, cutting open operation of chest ... Muscle ^ Needle (paracentesis) Peritoneoscopy Proctoscopy Sigmoidoscopy Skin 75.00 30.00 30.00 100.00 100.00 30.00 67.50 100.00 100.00 30.00 30.00 50.00 30.00 30.00 100.00 50.00 30.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 20.00 f �March, 1970 a I fi i I, Spleen, by needle Sternum, by needle SEAFARERS 30.00 30.00 BLOOD TRANSFUSION (OR PLASMA) Each 50.00 BREAST Breast, abscess, incision and drainage of requiring hospital residence not requiring hospital residence Biopsy : Plastic operation, complete separate pro­ cedure—unilateral bilateral Radical amputation Removal of benign tumor or cyst—requir­ ing hospital residence—unilateral .. bilateral not requiring hospital residence Simple amputation—^unilateral ......... bilateral 50.00 20.00 30.00 100.00 200.00 300.00 100.00 200.00 20.00 200.00 400.00 BURSAL Bursae, aspiration, injection, irrigation, or needling (or any combination) . .each 30.00 excision of (bursectomy) prepatellar and olecranon 67.50 shoulder. Hip 150.00 incision and drainage (bursotomy) re­ quiring hospital residence 50.00 not requiring hospital residence 20.00 CHEST Arytenoidopexy (fixation of arytenoid car­ tilages) Bronchoscopy (examination of windpipe by bronchoscope)—diagnostic operative Commissurotomy (operation —: valves of heart) Costo-sternoplasty (repair of funnel chest) Decortication of lung (removal of mem­ brane lining the lung) Diaphragm, transthoracic approach to . . Epiglottidectomy (removal of epiglottis) . . Esopsageal diverticulum, one or more stages —transthoracic approach other approach Esophagoduodenostomy (joining of esopha­ gus to duodenum) Esophagogastrectomy, combined, thoraco­ abdominal (removal of part or all of stomach and esophagus) Esophagogastrostomy (joining of esophagus to stomach) Esophagojejunostomy (joining of esopha­ gus to jejunum) Esophagoplasty (plastic repair or recon­ struction of esophagus) Esophagoscopy (examination of gullet by esophagoscope) diagnostic operative Esophagus, transthoracic approach to .... Funnel chest, plastic repair of Heart Operations—See section on HEART OR CARDIAC Hemilaryngectomy (removal of half of larynx) Hernia, diaphragmatic or hiatal, repair of Laryngectomy (removal of larynx) Laryngofissure (cutting into larynx) with removal of tumor Laryngoplasty (plastic repair of larynx) ... Laryngoscopy (examination of larynx by laryngoscope) diagnostic operative Lobectomy, total or subtotal, wedge or segmental resection (removal of all or part of lobe of lung) Lung, removal of all or part of Mediastinal cyst or tumor, excision of . . Mediastinal wound or injury, suture of . . Mediastinotomy Oleothorax, intrapleural, injection of oil— initial (not more than 17) subsequent Phrenic nerve, crushing or resection .... Pleurectomy or decortication (removal of membrane lining the lung) . Pneumonectomy (removal of entire Lung) Pneumonocentesis, puncture of lung for as­ piration biopsy Pneumothorax, induction of artificial — initial (not more than 17) subsequent 300.00 75.00 100.00 450.00 250.00 300.00 375.00 150.00 375.00 300.00 375.00 375.00 375.00 375.00 375.00 75.00 100.00 375.00 250.00 300.00 375.00 375.00 200.00 300.00 30.00 50.00 450.00 450.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 50.00 20.00 50.00 300.00 450.00 30.00 50.00 20.00 LOG Pneumonotomy, exploratory (cutting into lung) Pneumonotomy, with open drainage of pul­ monary abscess or cyst (cutting into lung Stomach, transthoracic approach to Sympathectomy, with transthoracic approach Thoracentesis (surgical puncture of the chest cavity) Thoracoscopy (examination of chest by thoracoscope) operative diagnostic Thoracotomy (cutting into chest cavity, including drainage) exploratory including control of hemorrhage .... Thoracotomy, inter-rib (cutting into chest cavity without cutting rib) Thoracotomy, with rib resection Thoracotomy, with removal of intrapleural foreign body Thoracotomy, with pneumolysis Thorocoplasty, complete (removal of ribs and collapse of chest) Tracheoesophageal fistula, closure of .... Tracheoplast (plastic operation on trachea) Tracheorrphaphy (suturing of trachea) . .. Tracheostomy for tracheal fistula Tracheatomy (cutting into windpipe) .... Valvulectomy (operation on valves of heart) CYSTS Cutting operation for removal of Baker's cyst, (back of Knee) Branchial cyst (removal of deep cyst of the neck) Breast-requiring hospital residence ... not requiring hospital residence .... Dermoid cyst (superficial) Pilonidal cyst or sinus (at base of spine) Thyroglossal cyst, duct or sinus (removal of deep cyst of the neck) Cysts, all others, unless otherwise set out in schedule requiring hospital resi­ dence not requiring hospital residence NOTE: If multiple cysts are removed through more than one incision, pay for each incision up to maximum limit of $450 for all. Page Fifteen 200.00 200.00 350.00 350.00 30.00 100.00 75.00 200.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 375.00 200.00 300.00 67.50 50.00 100.00 450.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 20.00 67.50 100.00 200.00 50.00 20.00 DISLOCATION Closed reduction of, including application of cast Ankle joint 100.00 Bones of hand 37.50 Bones of foot 37.50 Coccyx 10.00 Collar Bone (sternoclavicular or acro­ mioclavicular) 30.00 Elbow 67.50 Hip (femur) 67.50 Knee joint (Patella excepted) 67.50 Lower jaw (temporomandibular) 30.00 Patella" 30.00 Shoulder (humerus) 60.00 Wrist 30.00 Vertebra (except coccyx) manipulation under general anesthesia with hospi­ talization and immobilization 67.50 NOTE: For dislocation requiring open operation, the maximum payment will be twice the amount shown above; except: Wrist joint (arthrotomy) 100.00 Hand 50.00 Foot 50.00 EAR, NOSE OR THROAT EAR Abscess, external auditory canal, incision and drainage 30.00 Abscess, external ear, incision and, drain­ age 30.00 Amputation—unilateral 100.00 bilateral ....>. 200.00 Excision of polyp or polyps of auditory canal—not requiring hospital resi­ dence 30.00 requiring hospital residence 50.00 Electrocauterization—unilateral 30.00 bilateral 60.00 Exostosis (bony outgrowth) excision from external auditory canal 100.00 Fenestration, one or both sides (window operation for deafness) Labyrinthectomy (cutting away of inner ear) Labyrinthotomy (cutting into inner ear) Malignant lesion, resection from external auditory canal Mastoidectomy, one or both sides — simple radical Myringotomy (cutting into ear drum) . . Ossiculectomy (cutting out of bones of inner ear Otoplasty (plastic operation for protrud­ ing ears) each ear Flicotomy (cutting of posterior fold of ear drum) Stapes, mobilization of—unilateral . . . bilateral Tympanotomy (cutting into ear drum) . NOSE Abscess, nasal, incision and drainage— not reauiring hospital residence . . requiring hospital residence Antrum (nasal sinus) puncture of Electrocauterization—unilateral bilateral Epistaxis (nose bleed) electro—cauteri­ zation only Nasal polvps, removal of—not requiring hospital residence—unilateral .... bilateral requiring hospital residence — uni­ lateral bilateral Amputation for malignant tumor Amputation, other than for malignancy Rhinophyma, excision of skin of nose for, including plastic repair Rhinoplasty (plastic operation on nose) Sinus operation by cutting, any approach (puncture of antrum excepted) fron­ tal, ethmoid, phenoid and maxil­ lary, each—unilateral bilateral Submucous resection of nasal septum . Turbinectomy, excision, electrocoagula­ tion or electrodessication (removal of small bones of the nose) unilat­ eral bilateral THROAT Adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy, or both . Arytenoidopexy (fixation of arytenoid cartileges) Branchial cyst, excision (removal of deep cyst of the neck) Electrocauterization—unilateral bilateral Epiglottidectomy (removal of epiglottis) Esophageal diverticulum, excision of, one or more stages—transthoracic approach other approach Esophagoduodenostomy (joining of esophagus to duodenum) Esophagogastrectomy, combined, thor­ acoabdominal (removal of part or all of stomach and esophagus) .... Esophagogastrostomy (joining of esopha­ gus to stomach) Esophagojejunostomy (joining of esopha­ gus to jejunum) Esophagoplasty (plastic repair or recon­ struction of esophagus) Esophagoscopy (examination of gullet by esophagoscope—diagnostic operative Esophagus, transthoracic approach to . Frenum linguae, clipping of Glossectomy, complete or total (removal of tongue) Hemilaryngectomy (removal of half of larynx) Laryngectomy (removal of larynx) .... Laryngofissure (cutting into larynx) with removal of tumor Laryngoplasty (plastic repair of larynx) Laryngoscopy (examination of larynx by laryngoscope)—diagnostic for biopsy operative .~ 400.00 375.00 300.00 100.00 200.00 300.00 30.00 100.00 100.00 30.00 200.00 400.00 30.00 30.00 50.00 30.00 30.00 60.00 30.00 30.00 60.00 50.00 100.00 200.00 100.00 200.00 100.00 100.00 200.00 100.00 30.00 .60.00 65.00 300.00 100.00 30.00 60.00 150.00 375.00 300.00 375.00 375.00 375.00 375.00 375.00 75.00 100.00 375.00 20.00 375.00 300.00 375.00 200.00 300.00 30.00 50.00 100.00 �Page Sixteen Larynx, cauterization, without use of laryngoscope - Larynx, cauterization, done through laryngoscope Peritonsillar abscess, incision of (opera­ tion for abscess of throat) — quinsy) requiring hospital residence not requiring hospital residence .... Thyroglossal cyst, duct or sinus, excision of Tongue, total excision of (for malig­ nancy) Tongue, partial excision of (for malig­ nancy) Tonsillar tags, excision, electrocoagula­ tion or electrodessication — uniuateral bilateral Tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, or both . Torus palatinas, excision of Tracheotomy (cutting into windpipe) .. Tumor, benign, vocal cord, excision of . Tumor, malignant, of vocal cord, exci­ sion of Tumor, malignant, vocal cord, excision of with laryngectomy SEAFARERS 30.00 50.00 50.00 30.00 200.00 375.00 375.00 30.00 60.00 65.00 100.00 150.00 100.00 200.00 375.00 ENDOSCOPIC PRECEDURES Bronchoscopy (examination of windpipe by bronchoscope)—diagnostic (operation on windpipe by broncho­ scope)—operative Culdoscopy (examination of uterus by culdoscope)—diagnostic operation on uterus by culdoscope)— operative Cystoscopy (examination of bladder or ureter by cystoscope) diagnostic .... With ureteral catheterization Operative — operation not otherwise classified—(operation on bladder or by cystoscope) Esophagoscopy (examination of gullet by esophagoscope) diagnostic (operation on gullet by esophagoscope) operative Gastroscopy (examination of stomach by gastroscope) diagnostic biopsy of stomach by gastroscope) oper­ ative Laryngoscopy (examination of larynx by laryngoscope) diagnostic (operation on larynx by laryngoscope) operative for biopsy Otoscopy, for removal of foreign body, except wax from ear Peritoneoscopy (examination of lining of the abdomen by peritoneoscope) diag­ nostic (operation on lining of the abdomen by peritoneoscope) operative Prostatectomy, transurethral (removal of prostate thru cystoscope) Proctoscopy (examination of rectum by proctoscope) diagnostic (operation on rectum by proctoscope) operative Rhinoscopy, for removal of foreign body of nose Sigmoidoscopy (examination of lower colon by sigmoidoscope) diagnostic (operation on lower colon by sigmoidoscoj)e) operative . ...; Thoracoscopy (examination of chest by thoracoscope) diagnostic (operation on chest by thoracoscope) operative 75.00 100.00 50.00 67.50 50.00 50.00 67.50 75.00 100.00 75.00 100.00 30.00 100.00 50.00 20.00 75.00 100.00 200.00 20.00 50.00 20.00 20.00 50.00 75.00 100.00 EXCISION (ARTHRECTOMY) OR FIXATION (ARTHRODESIS) BY CUTTING NOTE: Excision of a joint is the removal of the articulating end of one or more of the bones forming the joint. Fixation of a joint is the permanent im­ mobilization of the part by some type of fusion operation. In event of bilateral or multflateral exci­ sion or fixations pay for each up to the limit of $450.00 for aU. Ankle Joint 250.00 LOG Marcli, 1970 Coccyx (removal of bone at lower end of spine) .• Elbow joint Hip joint Knee joint Patella (knee cap) ..' Semi-lunar cartilage (cartilage of knee joint) Sesamoid (superfluous bones usually in tendons) excision of, each Shoulder joint Spine, including sacro-iliac (except coccyx) Temporo-mandibular (hinge of jaw bone) meniscus 200.00 Wrist Joint 250.00 100.00 250.00 300.00 250.00 200.00 200.00 50.00 250.00 300.00 Removal of diseased portion of bone, curettage (alveolar processes excepted). 100.00 pay exostosis under this heading, includ­ ing bunions (hallux-valgus) or corns when bone is removed. EYE Abscess, intra-orbital, drainage of Abscess, lacrimal gland, incision of Blepharectomy, excision of benign lesion of eyelid Blepharectomy, excision of malignant lesion of eyelid Blepharoplasty, plastic restoration of eye­ lid, skin only Blepharoplasty, plastic restoration of eye­ lid, deep structures Blepharorrhaphy (suturing of accidental wound of eyelid) Canaliculi (small canals leading from lacri­ mal sac) plastic operation on Canthotomy, division of canthus, with suture Capsulectomy (removal of the lens capsule) Capsulectomy (cutting into lens capsule) . . Cataract, removal of needling-complete procedure Chalazion (cutting out or scraping of re­ tention tumor or glands in the eyelid Conjunctiva, cutting operation for biopsy Conjunctiva, free graft of Conjunctiva, suturing of injury Conjunctivokeratoplasty for perforating wounds of eyeball Cornea, paracentesis (tapping) of Cornea, suturing of accidental wounds . . Corneal, tattooing Corneal transplant (transplant of front sur­ face of eyeball) Corneal ulcer, electrocauterization or curet­ tage (scraping) Corelysis (freeing of adhesions between lens and cornea) Cyclodiathermy; diathermy of ciliary body Cyclodialysis (detaching ciliary body from sclera) Cyst, conjunctival, excision of Dacryoadenectomy (cutting away of tear gland) Dacryocvstectomy (cutting away of tear gland) Dacrycystorhinostomy (forming communi­ cation between tear gland and nose) Dacryocystostomy (cutting into tear sac) Dacryocystotomy (cutting into tear sac) Discission: Needling of lens, complete pro­ cedure Ectropion, operation for (repair of eyelid folded out) Entropion, operation for (repair of eyelid folded in) Epilation (removal of lashes by electrolysis only)-each eyelid Epithelioma, excision of conjunctival .... Eyeball, removal jof, enucleation or evis­ ceration Eyeball socket, revision of, subsequent to original enucleation and not during enucleation Eyelid, ptsosis (drooping) of, operating for each eyelid Foreign body, removal of, from cornea, sclera, or conjunctiva, (by surgical in­ cision or magnet) Foreign body, removal of intra-ocular (from interior of eye) Glaucoma, operative procedures (except paracentesis or tapping) —. 50.00 40.00 40.00 100.00 40.00 200.00 67.50 100.00 40.00 300.00 200.00 300.00 150.00 40.00 40.00 100.00 40.00 200.00 40.00 150.00 40.00 275.00 40.00 200.00 100.00 200.00 40.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 40.00 40.00 150.00 137.50 137.50 40.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 100.00 10.00 200.00 200.00 Glaucoma or inflammatory exudate, para­ centesis (tapping) for Glaucoma, air injection or irrigation for Hordeolum (stye) operation for Iridectomy (removal of iris) Iridotomy (incision into iris) '..... Iridencleisis: stretching of iris (independent procedure) Irdolialvis (separation of iris from its at­ tachments) Iris, excision of lesion of Iris, repair of prolapsed (dropped) with suture of perforated sclera Iris, transfixion of; iris bombe (repair of bulging iris) Keratectomy, complete or partial (removal of cornea) Keratoplasty, corneal transplant (plastic op­ eration on cornea) Keratotomy (cutting of cornea) Lacrimal duct, dilatation of (enlarging of tear duct) Lens, extraction of, intracapsular or extra­ capsular Muscle, ocular, any cutting operation on, each Nevus, excision of eyelid Orbit, reconstruction of, subsequent to or­ iginal enucleation and not during enu­ cleation (plastic repair of eye- socket) Orbitotomy with exploration (cutting into orbit) Pannus, excision of Peritectomy (removal of ring of con­ junctiva) Peritomy (removal of strip of conjunctiva around cornea) Pterygium, excision of (treatment of thick­ ened membrane over eye) Ptsosis operation, complete-each eyelid (correction of drooping eyelid) Retina, operation for detachment, including diathermy Sclerectomy (removal of part of sclera) for glaucoma (lagrange, Elliott) (cutting of surface of eyeball) Strabismus (cross eye) cutting operation for (complete procedure) each eye Stye, incision of Symblepharon (adhesion of eyelid to eye­ ball) release by simple incision .... Tarsectomy (removal of tarsus of eyelid) Tarsorrhaphy (stitching of tartsus of eyelid Tear duct (lacrimal duct) dilatation .... Tumor, excision of intra-orbital, simple . . Tumor, excision of intra-orbital, malignant Wounds, accidental, of conjunctiva, sutur­ ing of Xanthoma, excision of-requiring hospital residence not requiring hospital residence .... 40.00 100.00 20.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 40.00 65.00 300.00 200.00 40.00 150.00 150.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 50.00 100.00 450.00 200.00 200.00 20.00 40.00 100.00 67.50 40.00 100.00 200.00 40.00 50.00 40.00 FRACTURES Simple fractures, closed reduction or treatment, unless otherwise specified. The amounts shown below are for simple frac­ tures. For a compound fracture, the maximum pay­ ment will be one and one half times the amount shown below for the corresponding simple fraeture. For a fracture requiring an open operation, the maximum payment will be twice the amount shown below for the corresponding simple fracture. (Bone grafting, bone splicing and skeletaltraction pins are considered open operations.) Removal of bone plates or pins except re­ moval of traction pins or other traction appliances (as this is always a separate and distinct procedure) 50.00 SKULL Non-operative 100.00 Operative, with cutting into cranial cavity (drill taps excepted) 450.00 FACIAL BONES Hyoid (at base of tongue) ...... closed Malar (cheekbone) closed Mandible (lower jaw) alveolar process excepted closed with or without inter-dental wiring .. Maxilla (upper jaw) alveolar process ex­ cepted closed with or without inter-dental wiring 50.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 �Mareh, 1970 Nasal Zygoma (cheek bone) SEAFARERS closed closed 37.50 50.00 SPINE AND TRUNK Clavicle (collac bone) closed 100.00 Coccyx (lower end of spine) 20.00 Rib or ribs-three or more 50.00 less than three 37.50 Sacrum, alone or with pelvic bones closed 150.00 Scapla (shoulder blade) closed 100.00 Sternum (breast bone) closed 30.00 Vertebra, one or more (bones of spinal column) closed 150.00 Body or Lamia 100.00 Articular, lateral or spinous processes only 30.00 PELVIS One or more of following bones including acetabulum (ilium, ischium, pubis, or sacrum) closed 150.00 II pi Vii' I UPPER EXTREMITY Carpal bone, one or more (each hand) closed 37.50 Colles (wrist) closed 100.00 Humerus (upper arm) .... closed 100.00 Metacarpal bone, one or more (each hand) !... closed 37.50 Phalanx, each finger closed 37.50 Radius, or radius and ulna (forearm) closed 100.00 Ulna or ulna and radius (forearm closed 100.00 Elbow closed 100.00 LOWER EXTREMITY Astragalus (foot) Femur (thigh) Tibula or fibula and tibia (leg) . . Metatarsal bone, one or more closed 100.00 closed 150.00 closed 100.00 (foot) closed 37.50 Oscalsis (foot) closed 100.00 Patella (Kneecap)^ closed 100.00 Phalanx, each toe closed 37.50 Potts, (ankle) closed 100.00 Tarsal bone, one or more (foot) . . closed 37.50 Tibia or tibia and fibula (leg) . . . closed 100.00 GENITO-URINARY TRACT - Abscess, periurethral, drainage of Bartholin gland, incision of not requiring hospital residence requiring hospital residence excision of, one or more Biopsy, through cystoscope Bladder, diverticulum (pouch) excision of Bladder, punch operation on neck of .... Bladder, tumor or stones, removal of By open cutting operation By endoscopic means Bulbourethral gland, excision of (removal of gland in urethra) Cauterization of cervix, when done sepa­ rately and not in conjunction with other procedures Cervicectomy (amputation of cervix) .... Cervix (neck of uterus) amputation Cervix, Biopsy of (independent procedure) Cervix, conization (roaming) of . . . . .\ . . Cervix, insertion of radioactive substance, or treatment by X-Ray with or without biopsy (for m align ancey) Circumcision (removal of foreskin of penis) Clitoris, amputation of all or part Colpectomy (excision of vagina) Colpocleisis (complete obliteration of vagina) Colpoperineoplasty: (repair of vagina and perineum; pelvic floor repair, inde­ pendent procedure) Colpopexy (plastic repair of vagina) Colpoplasty, repair of cystocele (hernia of bladder) or rectocele (hernia of rec­ tum), independent procedures ..... Colpoplasty, repair of cystocele (hernia of bladder) and rectocele (hernia of rectum) Colpotomy (incision into vagina) with ex­ ploration or drainage Crptorchidectomy (undescended testicle) single bilateral 50.00 20.00 65.00 65.00 67.50 200.00 200.00 200.00 67.50 67.50 50.00 100.00 100.00 20.00 50.00 • 100.00 30.00 30.00 200.00 200.00 250.00 150.00 150.00 200.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 LOG Culdoscopy (examination of uterus by culdoscope) diagnostic 50.00 (operation on uterus by culdoscope) operative 67.50 Cyst, ovarian, drainage or excision of .. . 200.00 Cyst, vaginal, excision of 50.00 Cystectomy (removal of urinary bladder) with transplantation of ureter-partial 300.00 complete 400.00 Cystocele, repair of (hernia of bladder) .. 150.00 Cystocele (hernia of bladder) and rectocele (hernia of rectum) or other mutiple gynecological repair procedures with­ out abominal approach (except peri­ neorrhaphy or pjerineoplasty 200.00 with or without rectocele with perine­ orrhaphy or perineoplasty 250.00 Cystorrhaphy (suture of bladder wound, injuiy or rupture 200.00 Cystoscopy, diagnostic, including retrograde pyelography or flushing of kidney pelvis 50.00 Cystoscopy, operative, unless otherwise specified in schedule 67.50 Cystolithotomy (cutting into bladder, in­ cluding removal of stone 200.00 Cystostomy (cutting into bladder) 200.00 Cystotomy (cutting into bladder) 200.00 Dilatation and curettage, non-puerperal (not associated with pregnancy) .... 50.00 Enterocele, repair of vaginal approach, without cystocele or rectocele 150.00 abdominal approach 200.00 vaginal approach, with cystocele or rec­ tocele 200.00 vaginal approach with or without cys­ tocele or rectocele with perineoplasty or perinorrhaphy 250.00 Epididymectomy (removal of epididmis ap­ pendage of testicle)-single 100.00 bilateral 150.00 Epididymis (appendage of testicle) abscess, drainage of 50.00 Epididymovasostomy (connecting of epi­ didymis to vas deferens, unilateral or bilateral 150.00 Episioperineorrhaphy (suture of recent in­ jury of vulva and perineum 50.00 Episiorrhaphy (suture of recent injury to vulva) 30.00 Fallopian tube transection (dividing) of . .. 200.00 Fallopian tube, ligation (tying off) of .... 200.00 Fistula, closure of vaginal 100.00 Fistula, vesicovaginal (bladder-vaginal) or vesicourterine (bladder-uterus) closure of 300.00 Hydrocele (collection of fluid in outer sac of testicle) excision of-single 100.00 bilateral 150.00 Hydrocele (collection of fluid in outer sac of testicle) tapping of (aparcentesis) 30.00 Hymenectomy (cutting away of hjnmen) . . 20.00 Hymenotomy (insision of hymen) 20.00 Hysterectomy (removal of uterus) total or sub-total irrespective of approach . . 300.00 Hysteropexy (fixation of uterus) 200.00 Hysterotomy (cutting into uterus) 200.00 Hysterorrhaphy (suture of ruptured uterus) 200.00 Hysterosalpingostomy (connecting of fal­ lopian tubes to uterus) 200.00 Kidney abscess, drainage of, independent procedure 200.00 Kidney, fixation of 300.00 Kidney, removal of or cutting into 400.00 Manchester or Pothergills Operation (fixaation of uterus-hysterepexy 200.00 Meatetomy (cutting of external opening of urinary passage) 20.00 Myomectomy (removal of fibroid or mus­ cular tumor of uterus) independent procedure 200.00 Nephrectomy or heminephrectomy (removal of all or part of kidney) with or with­ out ureterectomy 400.00 Nephrolithotomy with removal of calculus removal of kidney stone) 400.00 Nephropexy (fixation or suspension of kidney) '. . 300.00 Nephrorrhaphy (suture of kidney wound or injury) 300.00 Nephrostomy (cutting into kidney) 375.00 Nephrotomy (cutting into kidney) with ex­ ploration 375.00 Page Seventeen Oophorectomy (removal of ovary) or salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of ovary and fallopian tubes) Oophoropexy (fixation or suspension of ovary) Oophorplasty (plastic repair of ovary) .... Orchidectomy (excision of testicle)-single bilateral Orchidectomy (excision of testicle) for ma­ lignant tumor Orchidopexy (fixation of undescended testicle)-sin^e bilateral Ovarian cysts or abscesses, drainage or excision of Pan-Hysterectomy (complete removal of uterus) Penis, amputation of, partial Penis, amputation of, complete Penis, amputation of, complete, including regional lymph nodes Penis, excision or fulguration of warts each Penis, epispadias complete procedure (re­ pair of defect of urethra) Penis, hypospadias complete procedure (repair of defect of urethra) Perineoplasty (plastic repair of perineum) Perineoplasty (plastic repair of perineum) including repair of laceration of rectum Perineorrhaphy (suturing of perineum) in­ dependent procedure Perineorrhaphy (suturing of perineum) with other gynecological repair procedures Perirenal (adjacent to kidney) abscess, drainage of, independent procedure Polypectomy (removal of polyps) one or more Pregnancy, ectopic (outside of uterus) op­ eration for Prepuce (foreskin) dorsal or lateral "slit" of Prostate, removal of, by open operation (complete procedure) Prostate, removal of, by endoscopic means transurethral resection Prostatolithitomy, removal of prostatic cal­ culus (stones) Prostatotomy (external drainage of prostatic abscess Pyelolithotomy (cutting into kidney) with removal of calculus (stones) Pyeloplasty (plastic repair of kidney) with or without operation on ureter Pyelostomy (cutting into kidney) witli drain­ age Pyelotomy (cutting into kidney) with ex­ ploration Rectocele (hernia of rectum into vagina) repair of Rectocele (hernia of rectum) and cystocele (hernia of bladder) or other multiple gynecological repair procedures with­ out abdominal approach (except peri­ neorrhaphy or perineoplasty with or without cystocele with peri­ neorrhaphy or perineoplasty Renal capsulectomy (decapsulation of kid­ ney) unilateral bilateral Renal (kidney) vessels, division or tran­ section of aberrant Salpingectomy (removal of fallopian tubes) or salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of tubes and ovary) Salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of oviduct and ovary, one or both sides) Salpingoplasty (plastic repair of a fallop­ ian tubes Scrotum (pouch containing testes) abscess, incision and drainage of requiring hos­ pital residence not requiring hospital residence .... Scrotum (pouch containing testes) resec­ tion of Skene's gland, incision of-requiring hos­ pital residence not requiring hospital residence Skene's gland, excision or fulguration of Sympathectomy, pre-sacral Testis, reduction of torsion (twisting of cord) of 200.00 200.00 200.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 300.00 100.00 200.00 300.00 20.00 150.00 150.00 100.00 200.00 100.00 250.00 200.00 50.00 200.00 20.00 300.00 200.00 150.00 100.00 350.00 350.00 350.00 350.00 150.00 200.00 250.00 200.00 300.00 300.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 50.00 20.00 50.00 50.00 20.00 50.00 200.00 100.00 �Page Eighteen II SEAFARERS Trachelectomy (excision of cervix) inde­ pendent procedure Tracheloplasty (plastic repair of uterine cervix) Ureter (tube from kidney to bladder) open­ ing of strictures of (endoscopic proce­ dures) Ureter (tube from kidney to bladder) trans­ plantation to skin (ureterostomy)unilateral bilateral Ureter (tube from kidney to bladder) tu­ mors or stones, removal of-by open cutting operation by endoscopic means Ureterectomy (excision of ureter) complete or partial Ureterocystostomy (anastomosis of ureter to bladder) unilateral bilateral Ureteroenterostomy (anastomosis of ureter to bowel) unilateral bilateral Ureterolithotomy (removal of stone from ureter) with removal of calculus, open operation Ureteroplasty, plastic on ureter (stricture) without plastic operation on renal pelvis ..: with plastic operation on renal pelvis .. Ureterotomy (cutting into ureter) with ex­ ploration or drainage Ureterostomy (transplantation of ureter to skin)—unilateral bilateral Ureteropyelostomy (anastomosis of ureter and renal pelvis) Urethra, excision of carcinoma of Urethra, prolapse of mucosa, female, re­ pair of Urethra, stricture of, open operation .... Urethra, stricture of, intra-urethral cutting operation through endoscope ...... Urethral caruncle, excision of or electrocauterization Urethral sphincter, female, plastic opera­ tion Urethrocele, repair of (female) independent procedure Urethroplasty, plastic operation on urethra, including hypospadias or epispadias, complete procedure Urethrorrhapy (suture of urethral wound or injury) Urethrostomy (cutting into urethra) inde­ pendent procedure Urethrotomy (cutting into urethra) open operation, independent procedure . . . Urethrovaginal fistula (abnormal opening between urethra and vagina) closure of Uterus, cutting operation on this organ and its appendages, with abdominal ap­ proach (unless otherwise specified in schedule) Vagina, reconstruction of congenital de­ formity Vaginal septum, excision of Varicocele, excision of (removal of varicose swelling of spermatic cord)—unilateral bilateral Vasectomy (removal of vas deferens)— unilateral bilateral Vasotomy (cutting of vas deferens) or liga­ tion (one or both sides—independent procedure)—unilateral bilateral Ventrofixation (fixation of uterus-hysteropexy) Ventrosuspension (suspension of uterus) .. Vesiculectomy (removal of seminal vesicle) —unilateral bilateral Vulvectomy (removal of vulva)—^partial .. complete radical, including regional lymph nodes . 100.00 100.00 67.50 200.00 400.00 >?'*:• L5miphadenectomy, radical, upper neck or axilla—unilateral • bilateral Lymphadenectomy, radical, cervical or groin—unilateral bilateral :..... Simple excision of complete lymph node for tuberculosis, etc Mammary Glands—See Breast 200.00 250.00 250.00 300.00 100.00 200.00 400.00 SALIVARY GLANDS Parotid abscess, drainage of 50.00 Parotid gland, removal of 150.00 Parotid tumor, removal of, benign .... 150.00 Paratid tumor, removal of, mixed or malignant 200.00 Ranula (retention cyst of mouth) excision of 67.50 Salivary fistula (abnormal opening or tract) closure of 100.00 Sialolithotomy (removal of salivary cal­ culus) 50.00 Submaxillary gland, excision of ...... . 100.00 200.00 THYROID AND OTHER ENDOCRINE GLANDS GOITRE 200.00 67.50 200.00 200.00 400.00 200.00 400.00 200.00 200.00 400.00 400.00 200.00 100.00 100.00 67.50 50.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 150.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 40.00 60.00 30.00 50.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 300.00 100.00 150.00 250.00 GLANDS LYMPH GLANDS Excision of lymph node for diagnosis or biopsy March, 1970 LOG 30.00 Hemithyroidectomy (removal of part of thyroid) Isthmectomy (removal of isthmus of thy­ roid) Ligation (tying off) of thyroid arteries not followed by thyroidectomy— one or more at one operation .. two or more stage operation ... Removal of adenoma or benign tumor of thyroid (no payment for X-ray treatment of thyroid) Thyroid, remnant, excision of Thyroid, removal of, complete or sub­ total (complete procedure) includ­ ing ligation of thyroid arteries, to be treated as one operation Adrenalectomy, partial or total (re­ moval of part or all of adrenal gland) Carotid body tumor, excision of ....... Hypophysectomy (removal of hypophy­ sis) Parathyroidectomy (removal of para thy­ roids) .. . : Piiiealectomy (removal of pineal body) Thymectomy (removal of thymus gland) HEART OR CARDIAC Angiogram, cutting operation for exposure of vessel Aorta, coarctation of, correction of Arteriogram, cutting operation for exposure of vessel Cardiorrhaphy (suture of heart wound or injury) Cardiotomy (cutting into heart) with ex­ ploration or removal of foreign body . Catheterization of heart (independent com­ plete procedure) Commissurotomy (operation on valve of heart) Congenital defects, correction of, such as patent ductus arteriosis, coarctation of aorta pulmonary stenosis Patent ductus arteriosis, correction of .... Pericardiectomy (operation on pericardium of heart) Pericardiocentesis (puncture of pericardial space for aspiration) Pericardiotomy (cutting into pericardium of heart) with exploration,, drainage or removal of foreign body Pulmonary stenosis, correction of Valvulectomy (operation on valve of heart) Valvulotomy (incision of valve of heart) .. 200.00 200.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 200.00 300.00 375.00 200.00 375.00 300.00 375.00 300.00 50.00 450.00 50.00 450.00 450.00 100.00 450.00 450.00 450.00 450.00 30.00 450.00 450.00 450.00 450.00 HERNIA Herniotomy-hemiorrhapy-hemioplasty single-inguinal, femoral, umbilical, ven­ tral or incision 200.00 bilateral-inguinal, or femoral 250.00 hiatal or diaphragmatic 400.00 Injection method, entire course of treatment single 100.00 more than one hernia 150.00 INCISION AND DRAINAGE Incision and Drainage, Debridement or Re­ moval of foreign bodies requiring hos­ pital residence not requiring hospital residence NOTE: 1. Where debridement and suturing both subscribed to, pay both fees. 2. Removal of bone plates or pins ex­ cept removal of traction pins or other traction appliances (as this is always a separate and distinct procedure) .... JOINTS Arthrectomy—pay arthrodesis fee. Arthrodesis (fusing of joint, operative anklylosis with or without tendon transplant) Ankle or ankle and foot Elbow Finger, one or more joints Foot or ankle and foot ..." Hip Knee Shoulder Spine, including sacroiliac, except coccyx Wrist Anthroplasty (reconstruction, functional restoration of joint with or without bone or fascial graft) Ankle, or foot and ankle Elbow Finger, including metacarpal-phalangeal joint each Foot, or ankle and foot Hip Knee (except semi-lunar cartilage) .... Shoulder Spine (including intervertebral disc op­ erations) Tempero-mandibular Toes, including metatarso - phalangeal joint each Wrist Arthrotomy (incision into joint-independ­ ent procedure—^with exploration and drainage or removal of loose or foreign body) Ankle Elbow Finger each Foot (including bunionectomy) Hand Hip Knee (except semi-lunar cartilage) .... Semi-lunar cartilage excision Shoulder Tempero-mandibular Toes each Wrist Manipulation of joint under general anes­ thesia dislocations excluded, including application of cast or traction Elbow Ankle Hip Knee Shoulder Wrist Spine (with hospitalization and immo­ bilization) Club foot (with application of cast) initial subsequent maximum either foot Paracentesis Capsuloplasty—Pay arthroplasty fee Capsulotomy—Pay arthrotomy fee LIGAMENTS AND TENDONS Achilles tendon, lengthening or shortening Bakers cyst, excision of Ganglion (cyst of tendon sheath) excision of Ligaments and tendons, cutting or trans­ plant—single multiple Suture of avulsed (torn away) tendon to skeletal attachment—sin^e Synovitis, stenosing (release of contracted tendon sheath) Tendon, suturing of—single multiple Tenotomy (cutting of tendon)—single ... multiple 50.00 20.00 50.00 250.00 250.00 150.00 250.00 300.00 250.00 250.00 300.00 250.00 -I 300.00 300.00 150.00 300.00 350.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 250.00 150.00 300.00 150.00 150.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 150.00 200.00 150.00 150.00 50.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 67.50 20.00 ' 20.00 200.00 30.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 ' A 100.00 100.00 67.50 100.00 100.00 150.00 �March, 1970 SEAFARERS Trigger finger, or stenosing synovitis (re­ lease of contracted tendon sheath) .. 100.00 NOTE: Club foot open operations are pay­ able under "Cutting into Joint"— $50.00 plus cutting operation on ten­ don—$100 (each foot) MUSCLES AND FASCIA 4^' Biopsy Diaphragm rupture, suture of (transthoracic approach) .(abdominal approach) Dupuytren's Contracture (hand) each hand Fasciotomy (cutting of fascia) Myorrhaphy (suture of muscle) of quadri­ ceps or biceps Scalenotomy (cutting of scalenus muscle in neck with or without resection of cer­ vical rib)—unilateral BilateralSternocleidomastoid muscle, cutting of ... Torticollis (wry neck)—operation for Wry neck (torticollis)—operation for .... NERVES Brachial plexus, exploration of (independ­ ent procedure) Ganglion injections when done for other than surgical anesthesia (limit of 3) each Glossopharyngeal nerve, resection of .... Infraorbital or supraorbital nerve, evulsion (separating) Nerve, crushing of any Nerve, suturing of accidental severance of each Nerve injections when done for other than surgical anesthesia (limit of 3 injec­ tions), except no payment will be made when done for dental proce­ dures, sprained ankles or pruritus ani each Neurolysis (freeing of nerve, or transposi­ tion) of Occipital nerve, evulsion (separating) of .. Phrenic nerve, transection (dividing in two) of ..; Retrogasserian neuretomy (cutting of nerve) for trigeminal neuralgia (tic doulou­ reux) Spinal nerve roots, transection (dividing in two) of Sympathectomies (cutting of sympathetic nerve) of cervical areas;—^unilateral .. bilateral : Sympathectomies (cutting of cympathetic nerve) of dorsal, lumbar, sacral areas —unilateral 50.00 375.00 250.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 300.00 50.00 400.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 150.00 75.00 50.00 400.00 450.00 200.00 375.00 300.00 NERVES Bilateral $450.00 Trigeminal nerve, transection (dividing in two) of 400.00 Vagotomy (cutting of vagus nerve in stom­ ach) 200.00 Vestibular nerve, transection (dividing in two) of 400.t)0 OBSTETRICAL PROCEDURES Caesarean section, including delivery .... 200.00 Abdominal operation for extra-uterine or ectopic pregnancy 50.00 Miscarriage 50.00 I NOTE: This fee payable where there is a surgically induced or spontaneous mis­ carriage or abortion. If there is a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage, surgical manipulation may be pre­ sumed. When there is a premature birth whether alive or not, pay deliv­ ery fee. PARACENTESIS Tapping (of abdomen, chest, bladder other than catheterization ear drum, hydro­ cele, joint, or bone) 30.00 Eye (anterior chamber for inflammatory exudate or glaucoma) - 40.00 Spine Simple spinal puncture 30.00 Myelography, spinal puncture for (ex­ clusive of X-rays) 60.00 Page Nineteen LOG Pneumoencephalography, spinal punc­ ture for- (exclusive of X-rays) .... 60.00 Ventricle Ventriculography, including drill tap or taps (exclusive of X-rays) .... 100.00 PILONIDAL CYST OR SINUS Excision (removal) of 100.00 PLASTIC OPERATIONS Where the operation is described as being done in multiple stages only one fee will be allowed for the complete pro­ cedure. Anoplasty (plastic operation for imperfo­ rate anus or stricture) 200.00 Cleft Palate—Palatoplasty—(plastic opera­ tion for cleft palate) one stage operation 200.00 two stage operation 250.00 with harelip operation 350.00 PLASTIC OPERATIONS Ear—Otoplasty (plastic repair—for pro­ truding ears) each ear Otoplasty (plastic reconstruction of ear with graft of skin or cartilage) each ear Epispadias (plastic operation on urethra) complete procedure Eyelid Operation for ectropion (repair of eyelid folded out) Operation for entropion (repair of eyelid folded in) Ptsosis (correction of drooping eyelid) operation complete, each eyelid .... Fatty tissue, removal of excess Feet, webbing of (syndactylism), .each foot with skin grafting Grafts (complete procedure) Arterial (see ARTERIES & VEINS) Bone (obtaining bone graft material from another part of body) Skin—not more than 2 square inches .. 2 to 25 square inches 26 to 50 square inches 51 to 100 square inches Over 100 square inches Tube graft NOTE: Where scar tissue, ulcerations, tumors etc. are removed and skin grafting necessary after these pro­ cedures two fees are payable. Hands, webbing of (syndactylism) each hand with skin grafting Harelip—unilateral bilateral combined with palatoplasty Hypospadias (plastic operation on urethra) complete procedure Nose—Rhinoplasty—all reconstruction operations Otoplasty (plastic repair—for protruding ears) each ear Otoplasty (plastic reconstruction of ear with graft of skin or cartilage) . .each ear Palatoplashty—(plastic operation for cleft palate) one stage operation two stage operation with harelip operation Rhinoplasty (plastic operation on nose) complete procedure Scar tissue, excision of Skin, correction of contracture, without grafting Skin planing-T-by wire brush or sandpaper­ ing Skin, removal of excess Syndactylism (webbing of hand or foot) each with skin grafting Z-plasty NOTE: For undercutting, no fee payable. RECTUM NOTE: Where any of below procedures are accomplished by electro-coagulation or electro-dessication fee is payable. Abscess, incision ond drainage of ischio­ rectal, perianal, submucous—requir­ ing hospital residence not requiring hospital residence incision and drainage of supraelevator area 100.00 200.00 150.00 137.50 100.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 200.00 300.00 400.00 300.00 100.00 150.00 150.00 200.00 350.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 250.00 350.00 100.00 67.50 67.50 200.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 67.50 50.00 20.00 67.50 Anoplasty (plastic operation) for imperfo­ rate anus or stricture Cryptectomy (removal of pockets in rec­ tum) single or multiple Fissure, cutting operation for correction of Fistula in ano, cutting operation for—single multiple Hemorrhoidectomy (removal of hemor­ rhoids or piles) External Internal or internal and external Injection treatment (complete procedure) Hemorrhoids, thrombosed, incision of .... Papillae, hypertrophied (enlarged) excision of Proctectomy (resection of rectum) Proctopexy (fixation of rectum) abdominal, for prolapse Proctoplasty (plastic repair of rectum) for prolapse Proctorrhaphy (suture of rectum) closure of rectourethral fistula closure of rectovesical fistula Proctoscopy (examintaion of rectum by proctoscope) diagnostic (ojjeration on rectum by proctoscope) operative Proctotomy (cutting into rectum) Prolapse of rectum, cutting operation for Pruritus ani, undercutting for or neurotomy treatment of itching skin of anus) ... Sigmoidoscopy (examination of lower colon by sigmoidoscope) diagnostic (operation on lower colon by sigmoido­ scope) operative Sphincteroplasty, and (plastic operation for fecal incontinence) Sphincterotomy, division of anal sphincter Tabs, external hemorrhoidal, excision of (single or multiple) SKULL Cutting into cranial cavity (drill taps ex­ cepted) Drill taps—single multiple Ventriculography, including drill tap or taps (exclusive of X-ray) SPINE OR SPINAL CORD Coccyx (bone at lower end of spine) re­ moval of all or part of Cordotomy (cutting into spinal cord) or any other operation on the spinal cord .. Intervertebral discs, operation with removal of with fusion Myelography, spinal puncture for (exclusive of X-rays) Pneumoencephelography, spinal puncture for (exclusive of X-rays) Sacroiliac or other spinal fusions Spinal cord tumor, operation for Spinal puncture (simple) each (up to a maximum of $125) Vertebra (bone of spinal column) or Verte­ brae (coccyx excepted), operation with removal of portion of 200.00 30.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 50.00 100.00 50.00 30.00 30.00 375.00 200.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 20.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 100.00 20.00 50.00 200.00 100.00 30.00 450.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 $100.00 450.00 300.00 450.00 60.00 60.00 300.00 450.00 30.00 300.00 SUTURING, ACCIDENTAL WOUNDS Fees set out below for skin sutures or clips, and muscle sutures, are doubled when laceration of face below hairline, forward of ears and above chin is sutured. Skin structures, per suture or clip—first . . 10.00 each additional 3.00 Muscle structures, per suture—first 10.00 each additional 4.00 Nerves, end to end (each) 50.00 SYMPATHECTOMIES Cervical (cutting away of sympathetic nerves of the neck)—unilateral .... bilateral Cervicothoracic (cutting away of sympa­ thetic nerves of neck and chest)—uni­ lateral bilateral Lumbar (cutting away of base of spine)— unilateral bilateral Presacral neurectomy (cutting away of nerve network in front of the sacrum) Splanchnicoctomy (cutting away of visceral nerves) 200.00 300.00 300.00 450.00 300.00 450.00 200.00 425.00 �rarcl 'age Twenty Thoracic (Dorsal) (cutting away of sympa­ thetic nerves of chest)—unilateral ... 300.00 bilateral 450.00 Vagotomy (cutting of vagus nerve in stom­ ach) 200.00 TEETH—DENTAL SURGERY Alveolectomy or Alveoplasty (surgical re­ moval or plastic repair of alveolar process) requiring hospital residence. . not requiring hospital residence If the surgeon removes two or more adjoin­ ing teeth and subscribes to an alveolec­ tomy or alveoplasty, we will allow fees as set out below: 50.00 20.00 TEETH—DENTAL SURGERY 1. If Alveolectomies are done on both the mandible (lower jaw bone) and max­ illa (upper" jaw bone) irrespective of . whether done at the same time or not, allow two fees. 2. If alveolectomies involving multiple ex­ tractions from different locations in the same jaw (mandible or maxilla) at the same sitting, allow one fee. 3. Alveolectomies done at different sitting qualify for additional fee or fees. 4. If impaction removed at same sitting as alveolectomy (involving two or more additional teeth) allow two fees. 5. Alveolectomy an independent procedure, no coincident to tooth extraction—fee payable for each jaw (mandible or maxilla). Apicoectomy—root amputation (odontot­ omy) each 50.00 Gingivectomy (cutting away of gum) requiring hospital residence 50.00 not requiring hospital residence 20.00 NOTE: 1. In hospital—pay two fees if both jaws involved. 2. Not requiring hospital residence— pay fee for cutting procedure per­ formed at each sitting. Impacted tooth, removal of irrespective of hospital residence 50.00 Each additional impaction at same sitting.. Odontotomy—root amputation—apecoectomy each Odontectomy—removal of unerupted tooth requiring hospital residence not requiring hospital residence Retained or residual root, an independent procedure, not coincident to alveolec­ tomy or alveoplasty or attempted ex­ traction of tooth and when gum is cut requiring hospital residence each not requiring hospital residence . . .each Unerupted tooth (odontectomy) removal of— requiring hospital residence not requiring hospital residence 30.00 50.00 50.00 20.00 50.00 20.00 50.00 20.00 TOENAILS—INGROWN Toenails, Ingrown—cutting operation into tissue— requiring hospital residence—unilateral 50.00 bilateral 100.00 not requiring hospital residence—unilat­ eral 20.00 bilateral 40.00 TUMORS Benign or superficial tumors and cysts or abscesses— requiring hospital residence $ 50.00 not requiring hospital residence 20.00 Exception. Cervical Polyps (see GenitoUri.iury Tract) NOTE: 1. Fee payable when doctor excises, incises or employs electro-dessication or electro-coagulation. 2. Fee payable when doctor certifies to removal by X-ray, radium, freezing or injection directly into tumor. 3. Fee net payable when removed by acid, ointments or caustics. 4. If multiple tumors are removed by more than one incision pay for each incision up to maximum limit of $450. •i » I ; !£>17 Exception: a. Cervical, renal polyps — pay single fee. b. Nasal polyps—see Ear, Nose or Throat. 5. See Breast. Malignant tumors of face, lip or skin .... 100.00 NOTE: Regardless of means employed— this means by X-ray, radium, electrodessication or electro-coagulation. Consider the treatment of tumor of body orifices as falling in this category, e.g. mouth (including pharynx, tongue, nasal cavity, anterior urethra, vagina and cervix when X-ray, radium, electro-dessication or electro-coagula­ tion are employed. (Do not include body of uterus). Malignant tumors other than of face, lip or skin or ex­ ceptions listed above. Fee will de­ pend on location of tumor and type of surgery done. Refer to section of schedule involved. Minimum fee $275. Only cutting operations will qualify for fee. VARICOSE VEINS Injection treatment, complete procedure (one or both legs) 75.00 Cutting operation, complete procedure: '' One leg 100.00 Both legs ;. 165.00 Saphenous or Femoral—vein litigation— unilateral 50.00 bilateral 100.00 Note on ligations: Where done. separately and not with operation or injection for varicose veins. If diagnosis is varicose veins pay for Varicose Veins. Except for operations expressly excepted in the Schedule, the Trustees shall, sub­ ject to Ihe terms arid conditions of the Regulations, determine a payment for any cutting operation not listed in the Schedule consistent with the payment for any listed operation of comparable difficulty and complexity, but in no event shall such payment exceed the applicable Maximum Surgical Benefit. �Morrh, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty One Congress Moves Swiftly on Maritime Program '3 I I.' II t 7 (Continued from Page 2) "As Mr. Gibson said to this Committee, some of these com­ panies are excellent operators and the kinds of people you would want in the program. He found merit in a suggestion that some form of 'grandfather clause' be provided which would require operators with both U.S. and foreign-flag ships to freeze their foreign fleets at the present level and then allow them to qualify for subsidies." Hall reminded the Committee of the fact that the unsubsidized operators depend to a large measure on the carriage of gov­ ernment-generated cargoes. "We know the hope is that with enactment of this bill, all segments of our merchant fleet will be able to compete in the world market for the carriage of world trade. We agree with the goal and we share in the hope that it comes about. But in the meantime—and for many years to come—governmentgenerated cargo will be essential to the survival of a significant portion of our fleet. "We know that in spite of the fact that H.R. 15424 Js silent on the subject of government cargo, both the President and the Maritime Administrator have stated that they felt the present system of preferential rates would be replaced by the pro­ posed direct subsidy program. I'his shift—especially during the early stages of the new program —could cause chaos in the in­ dustry as presently subsidized operators, with some of their newer, higher productivity ves­ sels, built with government as­ sistance, would have an unfair advantage over the operators who have been 'frozen out' of many of the benefits of the 1936 Act." • "We were gravely concerned with this situation, as it easily could have driven a substantial portion of the present fleet out of business at the very time when we are all working toward its rejuvenation," Hall said. Referring to Maritime Ad­ ministrator Gibson's response to several questions asked by Rep, Thomas Felly (R-Wash.), Hall commented: "As we understand it, Mr. Gibson envisions a transition period of at least five years. In the first few years of this period, while the newly subsidized bulk carriers are being built, no es­ sential changes in the cargo preference program are intend­ ed and Mr. Gibson has said a great deal of care must be exer­ cised to prevent undue harm to presently unsubsidized opera­ tors. "During the latter part of the transition period, while present­ ly subsidized operators might be allowed into the governmentcargo field, they would not be allowed to use their subsidies to enable them to carry cargo at rates below those of the unsub­ sidized operator. "Only when presently unsub­ sidized bulk vessels are obso­ lete—and only after new subsi­ dized vessels are available — would all operators be put on a par by providing CDS. "There is no question, as to the need for this transition pe­ riod to protect those operators who have been plying the bulk trade for many years, without CDS, CDS, tax deferments and other benefits of the 1936 Act." In discussing government cargo, the MTD President pointed to several other matters that he urged the Committee to direct its attention to. He noted that in view of the. fact that the Maritime Adminis­ trator has expressed his deter­ mination to convince American producers, importers and ex­ porters to increase their use of American-flag ships, it would be paradoxical if on the one hand the Maritime Administra­ tion is promoting a "ship Amer­ ican" program while on the other hand the government it­ self is ignoring its responsibili­ ties in this direction. ' "If the program is to suc­ ceed," he said, "the U.S. gov­ ernment must set the example." "Our government is the world's largest shipper. The government cannot expect to convince private shippers to use American-flag ships when it does not do so itself. If our government is to achieve in­ creased use of American ship­ ping, then the individual de­ partments of government must meet their responsibilities in this regard. "In spite of the requirements of the 1936 Act that a minimum of 50 percent of governmentgenerated cargoes be shipped in U.S. bottoms, the Department of Agriculture and the Agency for International Development have consistently frustrated the will of the Congress by setting up administrative procedures that make it impossible for U.S. ships to carry even the mini­ mum of 50 percent of their car­ goes. "It would be desirable if the responsibility for the transpor­ tation of government cargoes be placed in the Maritime Admin­ istration, the only agency sensi­ tive to the needs of and con­ cerned with the problems of the maritime industry. In addition, the Maritime Administrator ought to report periodically to the Congress on MSTS ship­ ments to make certain that these also comply with the will of Congress."In any case, this Committee should make it clear to all gov­ ernment agencies that the intent 14 Seafarers Earn Lifeboat Ticket of the current cargo preference language is that a minimum of 50 percent of government cargo must be carried on U.S. flag vessels, and that every effort should be made to maximize -this carriage so that the result is closer to 1 GO percent than 50 percent. "With regard to the proposal for a new wage index system to determine operating differen­ tial subsidy payments, we wish to emphasize that we believe strongly in the principle of free collective bargaining for the de­ termination of wages and work­ ing conditions. "The proposal is based upon a very technical formula for which we have not accumulated any experience. We cannot, of course, say what its practical effects will be. Because it is untried, we think it proper to withhold judgment. In any event, the most important con­ sideration is to move this pro­ gram forward and enable the Committee to achieve its enact­ ment in this session of Con­ gress. We believe the Maritime Administrator will be sensitive to the need for constant review and evaluation of this proce­ dure." Referring to the pending leg­ islation as "in the main, a good program," Hall added, how­ ever, that to be successfully im­ plemented, "it will need the best efforts of government, manage­ ment and labor." "We submit that the Ameri­ can seaman, over the period of the industry's continuing de­ cline, has made a contribution insofar as the efficiency of the American merchant marine is concerned. For example, the productivitv of American sea­ men over the last 20 years has increased by more than 400 percent. Obviously the sophis­ ticated technological advances implicit in the program under consideration will bring contin­ ued increases in seamen's pro­ ductivity. "Many of the problems faced by the industry — those of a labor-management nature — could disappear in a healthy, expanding industry. Manning problems, for example, lose much of their impact in an ex­ panding job market. But job security is paramount when job opportunities are shrinking. Ac­ commodation is relatively sim­ ple in an expanding industry; it is impossible in a declining in­ dustry," Hall said. Summing up the Maritime Trades Department's position on the new program. Hall conc'uded; "We urge the enactment of this legislation with the amend­ ments and clarifications which we have suggested. We think the program which has been presented by the Administration and which will be perfected by this Committee will bring us to a point to which all of us have looked forward for a long time. It is obvious from the course of these hearings that both the Committee and the Administra­ tion are committed to the devel­ opment of a program that will deal with the needs of all seg­ ments of the American mari­ time industry. "Certainly the bill cannot be all things for all men, and un­ derstandably there will be areas where experience will call for re-evaluation. This is to be ex­ pected, but as we have said, the matter of primary importance is to get on with the program." HO HEAT? HOT WATER? SECTION When board IS f?Snishtd unUcensed ^ supper. When SS!%XtCa£r!: • as P^ovIded in .is Section, shall he allowed when: cold -- apTiy-" • available in is not fp'eSrof twelve (12) ot more cons Heat beefs must be reported immedi­ ately to the Department Delegate and Chief Engineer. 65 You must keep a written record of the beef including: • Date • Time of Day Fourteen more Seafarers were certified as lifeboatrnen by the Coast Guard after passing examinations at the Sill lifeboat school in New York February 13. Front row (l-r): Herbert Muchmore, Alfred Vaughn, Francis Papez. Second row: Edward Goforth. Larry Broadwater, Marcus Weikle, Ken Jenda, Robert Davis. Top row; Lenny Derrick, instructor, John Linton, Patrick Faketty, Gregory Boyle, Dean Yannuzzi, Thomas Strother, Thomas Egan, BM-I Lee Harvell,. Coast Guard examiner. All passed with scores of 90-plus. • Temperature All heat beefs should be recorded and sub­ mitted on an Individual basis. J �Page Twenty Two SEAFARERS Problems of Non-Contiguous Areas (Continued from Page 3) reserve and the participation of the American tanker fleet in its carriage." Many officials indicated their enthusiasm for the two-day con­ ference in replying to invita­ tions to attend. U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska said "your plans for a conference recognize that the problem is serious for Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico and must be solved." He added that he "wholeheartedly" support the conference. U.S. Sen. Theodore F. Stevens of Alaska said he would participate in the conference in the hope that "one of the most pressing problems affecting Alaska can be resolved." The governor of Puerto Rico, Luis A. Ferre, said he will be "delighted to join" in the ses­ sions, adding that: "We in Puerto Rico think of a solution within the frame­ work of the present law—that is, without affecting the provi­ sions of the law which requires the use of American merchant vessels and crews in this trade." Expressing "gratitude to the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment for its sensitivity to the problems of our area and its concern for finding equitable solutions," Jorge L. Cordova, resident commissioner of Puerto Rico said he welcomed the chance to participate in the con­ ference. Shipping industry leaders were equally enthusiastic about the conference. "Be assured of our full co­ operation with the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and government officials from Alaska, Hawaii and - Puerto Rico to attack mutual problems ill non-contiguous trades," wired M. R. McEvoy, president of Sea-Land Service, Inc. Saying he was "most im­ pressed" with the conference concept, Howard M. Pack, president of Seatrain Lines, "' Relaxing on the Transehamplain <j.] Inc., said "your proposal con­ cerning government assistance that would'^ reduce these rates is worthy of full and frank ex­ ploration." And Michael Klebanoff, pres­ ident of Ogden Marine, Inc. and chairman of the American Tramp Shipowners Association, Inc., said "you have our full support for your effort to bring about an alliance between this industry and the non-contiguous areas that will be advantageous both to us and to them." 11 • c .» Seafarers to be Reimbursed For Medicare Part B « Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert T. Finch recently announced an increase in the monthly Medicare Part "B" premium from the present $4.00 rate to $5.30 effective next July 1. Approximately one-half of the 32% increase, or 640, is necessary to finance the current level of benefits. A projected 6% increase in physicians' fees under Medicare in 1971 will account for 260 of the remaining 660 allocated for anticipated cost increases. Inasmuch as enrollment under Medicare Part "B" is man­ datory for all eligible (retired and active) Seafarers and their qualified dependents, the Trustees of the SIU Welfare Plan have authorized reimbursement of the cost of Medicare Part "B," including the coming increase, as well as any future hike that may be imposed. Eligible and qualified Seafarers will be reimbursed for that expense on a quarterly basis upon receipt by the SIU Plan Office of a copy of the card issued by the Social Security De­ partment reflecting enrollment under Medicare Part "B," or the original card for Plan copy and return. v. m CAN QUIT SMOKh There is a good chance that you want to give up smoking cigarettes. You are convinced by the mounting evidence that tells you, as an intelligent per­ son, that smoking causes lung cancer, heart trouble and a host of other ailments. In other words, that smoking can have drastic effects which lessen your chances of living as long and as healthy a life as you other­ wise might. So . . . what to do? Where do you start? Or, having tried be­ fore—unsuccessfully—are there ways that can make a new at­ tempt easier and have a greater chance of success? The American Cancer Socie­ ty—deeply involved in this matter has compiled some sound recommendations that may help. These recommendations come from experts in cigarette-with­ drawal. It should encourage you to know that there are 19 mil­ lion ex-cigarette smokers in the United States. There is no one sure way. The only assurance lies In your own determination to quit—and in your efforts to reinforce that determination. March, 1970 LOG Some ex-smokers stress will­ power. For them, the sense that they can manage their own lives —that they are their own mas­ ters—gives them the power to act. Others find that will-power must be developed, and that the important thing is not to be discouraged by unsuccessful attempts, many have failed^ time after time—but finally suc­ ceeded. The key to success, to them, is to recognize that cigarette smoking is a habit—a strong habit acquired over a period of years—and lots of patience must be applied to relearning new be­ havior patterns. Approached from this angle, smoking can be given up by de­ grees. Set a date for quitting. As it approaches, gradually cut down, substituting new habits as you go. With each cigarette you reach for—and don't smoke—tell yourself that you are not giving up something of value, but learning to live a better and cleaner life. Little tricks can be tried to make the "reach" for the cigar­ ette harder. Like carrying the pack in an unaccustomed place so you have to fumble for it and have time to think it over. If you generally use your right hand to bring the cigarette to your mouth, use the left. If you usually place the cigarette in the right corner of the mouth —try the left side. Try a brand you don't like. Try leaving the cigarette in your mouth, unlighted. * Before lighting up, stop. Think of all the reasons you know why you shouldn't. The risk of disease, the blurring of the taste of food, the cough, the bad breath, the mess and smell of morning-after ashtrays. Think of the cost, and what you could save over a year if you didn't buy any cigarettes. Remember, smoking is an ad­ diction, like pot. Feel good about your ability to sluff it off. It isn't easy — but there's satisfaction in doing it—a sense of achieve­ ment. The week before you quit, think over your list of reasons for not smoking. Each evening, *> » AB Robert Vinson relaxes with a cup of coffee on the fantail of the Transehamplain after the ship tied up at Port Newark. Vinson, who has been sailing for four years, earned his AB endorsement through the upgrading program conducted by the Harry Lundeberg School of Ssamanship, and attended the school at Piney Point, Md. fore you fall asleep, concentrate on one dreadful result of cigar­ ette smoking. Repeat that single fact over and over again. The next night concentrate on an­ other fact. Do this again the next night, and the next. ink ovfei* whjr ft is that 100,000 doctors have quit smoking, Remind yourself that, if you continue smoking, your chances of dying between the ages of 25 and 65 are twice as great as those of the non-smok­ er. Would you fly in an airplane if the chances of crashing and death were even close to the risks of cigarette smoking? All right—you've finally quit smoking. But you find yourself tempted—generally by a wiff of smoke from someone near. How do you counteract this? The best way is to lose your­ self in some activity, mental of physical. Also you can substi­ tute another act for the act of smoking. Try these: • Drink water. • Nibble fruit, celery, carrots. • Suck candy or chew gum. • Chew bits of fresh ginger, a clove. • After a meal—try a mouth wash instead of a cigarette. Concentrate on the flavor. • Inhalers—helpful for si­ nuses—may be used as a replacement device. On quitting day, celebrate. Have a ball. Eat your favorite foods. Involve yoiw family or your friends in the project. For a few days, spend as much time as possible in places where smoking is forbidden— libraries, movies, theaters. Tryto keep away from friends who are heavy smokers for a while. Try physical activity — golf, swimming, bowling, billiards— or even extra work. Change some of your living patterns. Read more books, sit in another comfortable chair, try crossword puzzles, dp some task you have been putting off. During all the time, tell your­ self how fortunate you are in es­ caping a terrible habit. Keep plugging away at all the reasons why you gave up smoking. If you have withdrawal symptoms, say to yourself, "This will pass. Ti|K iT a great healer." It is! Ana your sense of accomplish­ ment and well-being will be well worth the effort. V, K * �Page Twenty Three i?v|?Jam6s Porter si^ns afpa^ff as Shipping C<>rnmiss?pner? A ^own catches up on the latest news in the ^ Steward Delegate James Mitchell signs the patrolJames Daniels pbseryes. Porter made two trips as O.S. Log as AB Richard Markley (left) and 2od Electric- mahis report at payoff. At right is Earl Di Angelo, ? A 0 -i i;L.L LJl CC A. '-x ^ 1 I: : xL- __x..V r_: IL- CM I vi �/I*age Twenty Four SEAFARERS LOG March, 1970 | •M rjiHE SHIP'S COMMITTEE is the vital link between the SIU at sea around the -I world and the SIU ashore. This committee on every SIU ship consists of a ship's chairman, ship's secretary, and one elected delegate from each department. It is the responsibility of the chairman to call a meeting each Sunday while the ship is at sea to discuss any and all matters relating to the Union. The ship's secretary is responsible for keeping the minutes of the meeting, and sending these minutes and other Union correspondence to Headquarters. The department delegates are responsible for han­ dling beefs reported to them by members of their department. Union democracy means active participation by all of the members of the Union. The concept of the ship's com­ mittee, and the purpose of the weekly meetings at sea, is to provide the means for all members to take a meaningful part in the affairs of their Union. I' ARIZPA—Ship's commit+ee on the Arizpa are (l-r) Dave Wilson, engine delegate;' Estevan Cruz, ship's secretary; Zenon Rivera, ship chairrnan; John Bdkus, deck departmen* delegate; Frank Gomez, steward delegate. They reported good meetings. ROBIN GOODFELLOW—Left to right are F. M. Jones, ship's delegate; D. J.' Hill, deck delegate; W. H. Price, engine; Ben Buck, chairrnan. Vihcent Sanchez, secretary;.; Young McMillan,; steward dglegate. Disputed gyertinie was settled at the payoff,, �SKAFARERS March, 1970 PajSfo Twenty Five LOC tmitnnil.ilHMrnnuiUUT PINEY POINT IPEBOAT TRAINING at the Harry XJ Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Md., continues to turn out thoroughly trained young men who are looking toward a career as merchant sea­ men. During the past month, 74 trainees successfully passed the Coast Guard written and practical examination, and earned their endorsement as qualified lifeboatmen. Each of the trainees spent a minimum of 30 hours in the boats on the oars and com^ manding at the sweep oar, in addition to ten hours of classroom instruction, before they were permitted to take thdr examina­ tion. A total of 3,562 Seafarers have earned lifeboat endorsements through the training facilities of the HLSS. SlU Lifeboat Instructor Paul McGaharn (left) presents a wristwatch to trainee Daniel Dale, who was selected by the staff of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship as the Outstanding Trainee of Class 41. Dale was selected on the basis of his performance in the lifeboat training school, as well as for his attitude and overall academic achievements at Piney Point. mmscsnssr 'X 4' .^LASS 3^(l^ne^ l-r) Greigoty Wil Ifeftis. Phillip Cunningham. (Front row) • ;lnstruGtpr\Paul McGaharn, Terry Lanrtiht acki Andfevv Germondi Joseph Mone, Shelton Dufrene, Harry Seckman, Roger Weeden, Daniel Simmons, George Gerdner, Robeid Wade, William Day, Bernard Vescovi; James Kla}derman, Craig Copeland, John Hollen. (Back row l-r) Michael Homes, Bruce Stokes, Dennis Dillingharri, John Kelly, Willie Stirewalt, James Par­ sons, Ricky Bean, Clarence Major, Eddie Adkins, Keith Williams, Jerry Lovejoyi' Gerald P. Beckerman, and George Hill. ^ '< . ^i • • : ;: Baptiste, Dominic Zappala. (Front row) Charles Evans, Rdger Evans, ^ PauH Aikey, John Cappucc!, Larry Al-: dridqe, RoberL-Mppre, William Crumv; Robert Armstrong, Gregory Brown,. Gary Boland, Gary Mills. Instructor^ I.: Paul McGaharn. (Back row) David Bailey, Andrew Flpwers. Alan Rice, Donald Andrews, Terry Miller, Mi­ chael Brady, James Cotter, Edward Carter, William Robinson, Jerry Hart, Bruce McMullen. ahd Carl White..All I passed their tests with good scbres. • .A. ; 'ii, CLASS 41—(Kneeling I-r) Ricardo' Ancira, Whipper Scott. (Front row l-r) Instructor Paul McGaharn, Carl Jurek. O'Neal Robinson, Walter Rob-> erts, C, K. Minter. Boyde Collins, i Martin Calpin, Ernest Zepeda, Rich-' ard Thiel. JosephHolland. (Back row). Michael R. Moon, Jam.es Graves, John. Frederick. Daniel Dale. James 8. War­ ren, David Basile, Kenneth Floyd. Council A. Flemings, and HLSS Lifeboat Instructor Daniel Griffithi •IH �SEAFARERS Page Twenty Six March, 1970 LOG Aboard the Steel Apprentice From the Ships at Sea "Saigon is beginning to feel like a new home port to us," says Eugene Nicholson, ship's chairman on the Steel Worker (Isthmian). The vessel has been I'-i making shuttle trips between Nicholson Saigon and Korea, and the crew spent Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day in the South Vietnam capital. Ship's Secretary W. M. Hand has re­ corded a number of repairs need­ ed, and will turn the list over to the patrolman at payoff. The ship is now on its way back to the East Coast, after stopping at Honolulu, and will pay off at Port Newark. There was one big complaint during this trip; no mail or Logs were received during the entire voyage. Brother Delos Boyd is sailing as crew mess on the Delta Ar­ gentine (Delta Steamship) and, at 67 years of age, he still gives service on the bounce and al­ ways with a smile, reports Ship's Secretary, Boyd Dario Martinez. Boyd, who has been sailing for many years, is competing for the title of "top homesteader" on the ship, says Martinez. Boyd, who was born and raised in Missis­ sippi, stays with his son, Robert, in Brockhaven when he is not at sea. The Delta Argentine is presently on a voyage Rio DeJanerio, Buenos Aires and Curacao, and expects to pay off in New Orleans this month. Interest Hike OnSavings Bonds Signed by Nixon WASHINGTON — Laborbacked legislation increasing the interest on U.S. Savings Bonds sold to individuals from 4.25 to five percent has been signed into law by President Nixon. Under the law, the Treasury Department would pay the five percent interest rate on bonds issued after June 1, 1969, and for interest periods after that date on bonds issued before then. Sales of Freedom Shares which already pay 5-percent in­ terest will be discontinued after June 30, 1970. The delay will give workers who buy shares through payroll saving plans an opportunity to change deduction programs to Savings Bonds. In calling for the five-percent interest rate on bonds, the recent AFL-CIO convention pledged labor's continued support for the bond program under payroll deductions "if we can assure workers that their patriotic pur­ chase of these bonds will bring them a fair return on their in­ vestment." The Safety Committee on the Transerie (Hudson Waterways) met with the cap­ tain and ironed out a number of problems, re­ ports Wilson Yarbrough, ship's secretary. Aside from some Yarbrough disputed over­ time in the deck department and disputed port time in the engine department, all is running smoothly. The Transerie is on a shuttle run out of Bahrain. Ship's Chairman Hendrey Ruckie made a motion that the present one-year arti­ cles be replaced by six-month articles. The motion was sec­ onded by Floyd Perkins, and passed. The 20 crewmembers present at the meeting gave a unanimous vote of thanks to the entire steward department for "a job well done." Ship's Chairman Henry Love­ lace reports that the Rose City (Sea-Land) met up with the Beauregard (SeaLand) in Cam Ranh Bay, re­ cently. "We were able to exchange books and mov­ ies," Lovelace Lovelace said, "and if you can believe all the conversation, they have quite a few lovers on that ship." Ship's Secretary Ken Hayes reports that meetings aboard ship are well-attended. He said that there seems to be some problems with allotments getting out on time, and the crew will bring this to the at­ tention of the patrolman at pay­ off. The crew is also requesting a recreation room on the ship. "There's plenty of wasted space on here that could be utilized," says Hayes. Labor Asks Senate to Extend '65 Voting Rights Five Years BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—Ex­ tension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is "vital" to protec­ tion of the civil rights of south­ ern Negroes, the AFL-CIO Ex­ ecutive Council said. The council urged the Senate to adopt a bipartisan proposal to extend the law an additional five years and called for defeat of a House-passed Administra­ tion bill that would dilute the law and cripple its enforcement. Voting rights legislation is scheduled to reach the Senate floor this month and the Execu­ tive Council announced its sup­ port of an amendment drawn up by Senator Philip A. Hart (DMich.) and Senator Hugh Scott (R-Pa.). The Hart-Scott pro­ posal would: • Extend the Voting Rights Act unchanged an additional five years. The law, which paved the way for more than 800,000 black Americans in the South to become registered vot­ ers, otherwise will expire in August. • Include two relatively noncontroversial provisions of the Administration bill—a nation­ wide ban on literacy tests as a requirement for voting and eas­ ing of residency requirements for voting in presidential elec­ tions. The 1965 law has been de­ scribed as "the most successful civil rights law ever enacted," the council noted, and its con­ tinuation should be non-contro­ versial. "Unfortunately," the council said, "the Administration de­ liberately sought to use this im­ portant law as another weapon in its 'southern strategy.'" The council statement termed Attorney General John N. Mitchell the leader in the drive to "sabotage" the law, "with the full cooperation of the White House and House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford." It said a coalition of Republi­ cans and Southern Democrats won a narrow 208-203 victory in the House for the Adminis­ tration bill. One of its key pro­ visions eliminates the present requirement that states which have discriminated in the past must obtain federal approval before changing their election laws. "Passage of the Administra­ tion substitute by the Senate would be a disaster to the cause of civil rights," the AFL-CIO charged. "In the name of politi­ cal expediency, millions of Americans—once again—would find their voting rights denied." Calling on the Administra­ tion to get behind the HartScott proposal, the council said that to do otherwise "would be to prove without question that the Executive Branch of the government is more interested in pursuing the 'southern strat­ egy' votes than in-the right to vote for all its citizens." These two crewmembers of the Steel Apprentice—both graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship—pose on deck for a picture after the vessel returned to the East Coast after a voyage fo. ^ the Far East. Tyrone Jackson, left, is FOWT, and a 1967 graduate from Piney Point. Joseph Lebeau, O.S., graduated in January, 1968. Coast Guard Mounting Drive Against Marine Aid Vandals i NEW YORK — The Coast Guard is stepping up its drive against persons who vandalize signal lights, buoys and other marine aids to navigation in the New York City area. Those convicted will be liable for fines, paying for the dam­ ages, or imprisonment. The Coast Guard is also of­ fering a reward of one-half the sum collected from the violator Taking It Easy in Yokohama Bos'n George Finkles, right, takes it easy along with some of the deck gang aboard the Tope Topa in (okohama. Relaxing left to right are AB Donald Willis, Deck Delegate Milton Brown, AB Jack Sandoz, Deck Engineer Tom McRary, and Finkles. The ship hit heavy weather during its last trip, and boarding seas damaged the No. I lifeboat. to persons who furnish informa­ tion leading to the conviction of the offender. Coast Guard officials here point out that any interference with these vital aids endangers the safety of mariners who navi­ gate by them. Vandalizing aids is also a crime against govern­ ment property and is handled by the Federal Bureau of In­ vestigation. Under Federal regulations persons who knowingly "aid, violation" against marine aids can be punished by a "fine not exceeding $2,500, or by impris­ onment for not more than one year, or both." Coast Guard Group New York is responsible for main­ taining the aids to navigation in the New York shipping area. In one recent case, a spokesman from Group New York reports that an 80-foot tower at New Dorp Beach on Staten Island was stripped of its equipment. Another case involved a snip­ er shooting out lights on marker buoys around John F. Kennedy International Airport where barges unload aircraft fuel. Since July 1969, the Coast Guard has spent more than $1,600 repairing lights, beacons, light towers and buoys in the New York shipping area. si �EAFARERS Page I'wenty Seven LOG A Relic from Pakistan Richard D. Tapman Please contact your wife, Margaret, immediately at 2000 Ramblewood Road, Baltimore, . Maryland 21214. She is ill and • is very anxious to hear from you. Claude Pickle Art Gardner D. E. Risen would like you to contact him as soon as pos­ sible at 6735 Curtis Ayenue, Long Beach, California 90805. '—4/— ^ £stil T. (Tim) Egnor Your sister, Edith Egnor, asks that you get in touch with her at 4923 North Sheridan, (I^icago, Illinois 60640. It is important. <|> { '• Reginald P. Srois Please contact your sister, Mrs. Lucille Delorme, as soon as possible at 2111 "O" Avenue, ' National City, California 92050. ,1, William Avery Lasskter H. R. White asks that you please contact David Walker at once at 2949 Fitzgerald Street, Jacksonville, Florida. James Bradc Please contact Paul B. Ad­ ams, Jr. at 7605 LaRoche Ave­ nue, Savannah, Georgia 31406 as soon as possible or call col­ lect 912-355-13§3. It is impor­ tant. Richard A. Pye Your mother, Mrs. P. H. Hagerty, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible at 313 S. Howard Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33606. Luciano Garcia Bill Sehouweiler asks that you write him as soon as possible at P. O. Box 13142, Station E., Oakland, California. —— Don Woods Henry O. Muttig asks that you please return his typewriter at your earliest convenience to either the SIU Hall in Houston or to 6816 Westview, Houston, Texas 77055. <1> Alvin McCutcheon Your wife asks that you con­ tact her immediately about a very serious matter in your home. The address is 1608 East Buf­ falo Avenue, Tampa, Florida. Clyde T. Clark It is very important that you get in touch with your landlord, William A. Lang, immediately at 3326 Spaulding Avenue, Balti­ more, Maryland 21215. He is selling his house and your be­ Robert Allen Ruifreer longings will be sold by the first Please contact your mother, of May if you do not claim them. Marion Locke, immediately. Her Please contact him in person or address is 371 Kem Street, Win­ by phone. chester, Virginia 22601. —— Theodore Jack Bruce Please contact your wife, Ve­ ronica, as soon as possible at P. O. Box 853, Hialeah, Florida 33011. Henry Crew Dawn Parker asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 429 Mountain View, Santa Rosa, California. -—^ Robert W. Smith Your mother is quite anxious to hear from you. Please con­ tact her as soon as possible at Route 1, Box 72, Kilgore Creek Road, Milton, West Virginia 25541. <I> \ Ip7 . Edward G. Keagy Please contact your sister, Mrs. Jeanette L. Atkinson, as soon as possible at 815 J Ave­ nue, Coronado, California 92118. • r V' \i* Labor Urges Independence For Federal Consumer Agency The consumers' voice in gov­ ernment will best be heard through the establishment of a strong, independent consumers' agency, the AFL-CIO told a Senate subcommittee on govern­ ment operations. /Member'sWifeThank Testimony submitted by Union Welfare Plan AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller said such To the Editor: an agency would be free "to My husband and I were de­ agree and disagree" with other lighted and proud to have re­ government agencies in their ceived the $100.00 increase handling of consumer matters. in benefits from the Seafarers The federation, as it had in Welfare Plan, which brought earlier testimony before a House our total benefits to $300.00. subcommittee, emphasized that It sure helped half of our the independent agency struc­ worries, and we send our ture is "greatly preferable" to hearty thanks to the Seafarers the Administration proposal. Welfare Plan. That "split-level" plan cal­ Sincerely yours, ling for an Office of Consumer Juanita Rogamos Affairs in tandem with a Con­ sumer Protection Division in the Department of Justice "deserves an 'E' for effort but falls short To The Editor of a satisfactory solution," Bie­ miller stated. A "serious drawback" to the Seafarer's thanks Administration plan, he pointed out, is that it would give_the To Tunis Lawyer Justice Department "the sole To the Editor: right to intervene as a party on I would like to express my behalf of the consumer in regu­ thanks to Mr. Dott Guiseppe latory agency proceedings and Palma, a lav/yer in Tunis. in the federal courts." Mr. Palma offered his ser­ "We believe that such an ar­ vices free of charge to one of rangement would be a great dis­ our brothers in need. When appointment to consumers, who asked "What his fee was" he naturally expect the consumer said "Americans are my spokesmen also to be the c nsufriends. I am glad to help mer advocate," he added. them out!" The AFL-CIO conceded that J. Schlem 8-1379 placing a consumer agency out­ S.S. Steel Chemist side the White House might give LETTERS r£ free To Disagree with Administration it "less visibility and a less ad­ vantageous vantage point for coordinating the various govern­ ment consumer programs." "But," Biemiller said, "there are distinct and overbalancing gains in setting up the agency on a completely independant basis." It would be subject to fewer White House pressures and would be less immediately de­ pendent on any President, he explained. It would be freer to criticize other government agen­ cies and it would be under less pressure. Biemiller noted that the Sen­ ate subcommittee has before it in addition to the Administra­ tion measure proposals to estab­ lish an Office of Consumer Affairs in the White House and a bill to set up an independent Bureau of Consumer Protection. All of these proposals, he said, "embody the principle of a unified agency operating in be­ half of the consumer" but are "in a number of ways" inferior to the house proposal of Repre­ sentative Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.) to set up an indepen­ dent consumer agency. Urging the subcommittee to draft legislation containing its features, Biemiller added, "it represents in our opinion the most advanced and well-round­ ed set of provisions thus far evolved in the continuing effort ... to produce a strong, work­ able consumer representation agency." What's an old horse-drawn taxi from Pakistan doing on the deck of the Rachel? It's being brought back to the States by a lover of old horse-drawn taxis. The buggy was picked up during a recent stop at Karachi. Seen here are ABs Oren Dowd (I) and Joe McCabe. Richard Widstrand, bom No­ vember 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Warren H. Widstrand, Bronx, N. Y. Vanya POUISMI, bom Decem­ ber 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vemer Poulsen, Tacoma, Wash. Valerie May, born January 8, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. George E. May, Brentwood, N. Y. Robert Simpson, Iwm Octo­ ber 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert A. Simpson, Daph­ ne, Ala. Dawn Hunt, bom January 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Mi­ chael R. Hunt, Philadelphia, Pa. John Otillio, IV, bom Decem­ ber 5, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John G. Otillio, III, New Orleans, LaT if Richard Rakas, bom January 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank Rakas, Jr., Allison, Pa. Jos^h Wheeler, bom Octo­ ber 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles K. Wheeler, Wrightsville Beach, N.C. <!>—;— Jeronimo and Luis Marfbiez, born November 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Santos E. Martinez, Metairie, La. i^ Arthur Vignc, born Novem­ ber 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur Vigne, New Or­ leans, La. —— Kara White, bom January 11, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ liam J. White, Houston, Texas. — if <t> <1> Dawn Cravey, bom October 23, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wayne M. Cravey, Tampa, Fla. ^ Darwin Lesh, bom November 5, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. ,\rthur F. Lesh, Concord, Calif. —— Janet Rogamos, bom January 12, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sammy R. Rogamos, Daly City, Calif. Kevin Kahriger, bom January 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John B. Kahriger, Philadelphia, Pa. Maria Luna, bom December 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Carlos M. Luna, Kenner, La. Alfred Allen, Jr., bom Janu­ ary 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfred D. Allen, Seattle, Wash. Robert Lupton, bom January 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Christopher Lupton, Jr., New Hera, No. Carolina. Patti Dyas, bom February 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ar­ nold D. Dyas, Mobile, Ala. Lisa Rockwell, bom December 17, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Loyde W. Rockwell, Frankfort, Mich. Melissa Hernandez, bom Jan­ uary 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hugo Hemandez, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. —— ^1> Barry Guy Fisher, bom April 17, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Harold G. Fisher, Houston, Tex. —4f— ^ Anastasia Roberts, born De­ cember 16, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wilbur J. Roberts, New Orleans, La. Donald McCray, bom January 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald L. McCray, Metairie, La. <I> Lydia Dugas, born December 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lawrence J. Dugas, Houma, La. <|> Ronnie Stevison, bom October 10, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joe L. Stevison, Bridge City, Texas. �Page Twenty Eight SEAFARERS Seafarers Support Teachers Beef HI . iVttN ^ i'G«iS .... ANY TIME' 0, V, CA": im i- t H kp"*' s'e^A • A ^^I'^MFAREf^S INTl UNION Supports NEWARK^ TEACHERS . .AFAKfS J SEAFAREBS |VTL UN0 LINTL UNION JE Supports NElfHRKS NEWflSJifl NEWARlft TEACHERS rEACHf^^ TEACHERS More than 100 Seafarers were on deck for a massive labor rally to support the striking members of the Newark (New Jersey) Teachers Union. The teachers walked out in a demand for union security rights, and wage adjustments. But the beef was quickly settled the day after the display of union solidarity. STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), February 1—Chairman, E. Nichol­ son; Secretary, W. M. Hand; Ship's Delegate, William D. Norris; Deck Delegate, Vincent M. Mackelis. $124.35 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department. TRANSEASTERN ; Transeastern), February 7 — Chairman, Wm. H. Butts, Jr.; Secretary, M. B. Elliott; Deck Delegate, R. L. Waters. Motion was made to have patrolman check stores aboard ship. Motion was made to have TV, movie projector and movies put aboard ship. OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Overseas), February 15—Chairman, P. Adkins; Secretary, E. W. Lambe; Ship's Delegate, Ted Jones; Deck Delegate, J. K. Wilson; Engine Dele­ gate, G. Doryn; Stewards Delegate, G. Pena. Large amount of disputed OT in deck and engine departments. PENNMAR (Calmar), February 15 —Chairman, Irwin S Moen; Secre­ tary, Claude Garnett, Jr.; Ship's Delegate, W. A. Thomas; Deck Dele­ gate, Ralph E. Stahl; Engine Dele­ gate, Willis B. Addison; Steward Delegate, A. Lewis. Everything is running smoothy with no beefs. March, 1970 LOG OVERSEAS EVELYN (Maritime Overseas), January 27—Chairman, C. James; Secretary, W. E. Oliver. $24.60 in ship's fund. Discussion held regarding repairs. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), January 6—Chairman, J. C. Harling; Secretary, Eddie Hernandez. Some disputed OT in each department. General discussion held regarding needed repairs. LA SALLE (Waterman), Febru­ ary 2—Chairman, Joseph S. Filippo; Secretary, Edwin L. Brown; Ship's Delegate, Joseph S. Filippo; Stew­ ard Delegate, N. Franco. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. No beefs were reported by department delegates. TRANSMALAYA (Hudson Water­ ways), February 7—Chairman, John Sanders; Secretary, Judson P.Lamb; Deck Delegate, Grover A. Peterson; Engine Delegate, Jerry Hanners; Steward Delegate, H. W. Roberts. Disputed OT in each department. ROSE CITY (Sea-Land Service), February 11—Chairman, Henry Love­ lace; Secretary, Ken Hayes; Ship's Delegate, Henry Lovelnec; Deek Delegate, Thomas F. Lyons; Engine Delegate, Adam E. Slouch. Ship's Delegate, James L. McLanon; Stew­ ard Delegate, F. R. Stchel. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. PRINCETON VICTORY (Colum­ bia), February 22—Chairman, Wal­ ter Sibley; Secretary, Howard Flynn; Ship's Delegate, Walter Sib­ ley; Deck Delegate, Thomas S. Kline; Engine Delegate, H. Crean; Steward Delegate, John F. Silva. Ship's delegates reported that there was some disputed OT in the deck department to be settled by patrol­ man. He thanked all departments for their cooperation. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. MOHAWK (Ogden Marine), Feb­ ruary 22—Chairman, C. V. Majette; Secretary, P. C. White: Ship's Delegate, Charles V. Mojette. Mo­ tion was made that any crewmember on the Persian Gulf run be allowed to pay off after six months with needed replacements to be flown out to the ship at Company expense. Motion was also made re­ garding OY and wages for cleaning cargo. Some disputed OT in engine department. Everything else is run­ ning smoothly. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), January 31—Chairman, Ted A Tolentino; Secretary, Dioscoro B. Militar; Ship's Delegate, M. L. Bergawan; Deck Delegate, C. R. Loveland; Engine Delegate, I. J. Fegan; Stew­ ard Delegate, Rene Pelleccia. No beefs were reported by department delegates. OAKLAND (Sea-Land Service), January 31—Chairman, J. R. Miller; Secretary, J. Doyle; Ship's Delegate, Joaquin R. Miller; Deck Delegate, N. Miller; Engine Delegate, J. Rogers: Steward Delegate, Bernard P. Burke. $4.30 in ship's fund and $30.00 in movie fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. DELTA ARGENTINA (Delta) Feb7—Chairman, Nollie A. Towns; Sec­ retary, Dario P. Martinez; Ship's Delegate, W. Patterson; Deck Dele­ gate, Nathan J. Marton; Engine Delegate, Gordon L. Davis; Steward Delegate, George Loflem No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates Everything is running smooth­ ly. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Roy R. Lee for a job well done. Vote of thanks was also ex- FAIRISLE (Pan Oceanic), Febru­ ary 17—Chairman, A. H Anderson; Secretary, Johnny W. Givens; Ship's Delegate, A. H. Anderson; Deck Del­ egate, Robert D. McCormick; Engine Delegate, Jack D. Wells; Steward Delegate, M. C. Jensen. $9.50 in ship's fund. Ail beefs were settled satisfactorily by patrolman. ROBIN HOOD (Moore-McCr.rmack), January 7—Chal D. Berger; Secretary, A. Shrimpton; Ship's Delegate, L. R. Smith; Deck Delegate, L. R. Smith, $13.00 in ship's fund. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. THE CABINS (Texas City Refin­ ing), February 16 — Chairman, Manuel DeBarros; Secretary, Jimmie Jordan; Ship's Delegate, Manuel DeBarros: Deck Delegates, Charles 11. Fox; Engine Delegate, Kelley R. Graham; Steward Delegate, Simon Caban. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's delegate for a job well done. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Thanks to the deck and engine de­ partment for their cooperation. Very good crew on board. PENNMAR (Calmar), January 18 —Chairman, Irwin S Moen; Secre­ tary, Claude Garnett, Jr. Brother Walcy A. Thomas was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Deck Dele­ gate, Ralph E. Stahl; Engine Dele­ gate, Willis B. Addison; Steward Delegate, Oliver Lewis. No beefs and no disputed OT. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), February 8—Chairman, L. Olbrantz; Secretary, H. P. DuCloux, Ship's Delegate, Anderson Johnes; Deck Delegate, James Thompson; Engine Delegate, Frank A. Cuellor; Steward Delegate, James Hassel. $12.45 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. SEATRAIN LOUISANA (Hudson Waterways) February 15 — Chair­ man J. Kennedy; Secretary, F. Hall; Ship's Delegate, J. Kennedy; Deck Delegate, A. L. Dawson; Engine Delegate, Edward F. Boyce; Steward Delegate, Juan V. Rivera. No beefs and no disputed OT. Motion was made that the Union establish a cor­ respondence school, or something similar, for the men who cannot get off the ships to go to an up­ grading school. SAGAMORE HILL (Victory Car­ riers), January 25—Chairman, R. Granberg; Secretary, J. Craft; Deck Delegate, W. Dodd; Engine Dele­ gate, B. McNally; Steward Dele­ gate, D. Turner. No beefs were re­ ported bjr department delegates. CHATHAM (Waterman), Febru­ ary 1—Chairman, Sam Manning; Secretary, G. Trosclair; Ship's Dele­ gate, Sam Manning; Engine Dele­ gate, James Cockran; Steward Dele­ gate, Arthur J. Nelson. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. YAKA (Waterman), February 1— Chairman, A. Lanansky; Secretary, T. A. Robinson; Deck Delegate, Sey­ mour Wolfson; Engine Delegate, Paul A. Switch; Steward Delegate, John G. Katsos. $51.25 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Victory Carriers), February 8— Chairman, F. J. McGarry; Secre­ tary, R. H. Pitcher; Ship's Delegate, N. Headham; Deck Delegate, A. J. Lacourse; Steward Delegate, E. W. Anderson. Some disputed OT to be settled by patrolman. delegate thanked the crew for their cooperation. $163.00 in movie fund. Captain has requested the Company to send all mail to Kobe, Japan. TRANSEASTERN (Transeastern), February 7—Chairman, Wm. H. Butts, Jr.; Secretary, M. B. Elliott; Ship's Delegate, Wm. H. Butts, Jr.; Deck Delegate, R. L. Waters. Dis­ cussion held regarding various mat­ ters. Motion was made to have TV and movie projector and movies put aboard. Motion was made to have patrolman check food stores. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service Tanker Corp.), Feb­ ruary 1—Chairman, Salvatore Candela; Secretary, Joseph J. Moll, Jr.; Ship's Delegate, Salvatore Candela; Deck Delegate, Joseph J. Moll, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Paul C. Guillon; Steward Delegate, Perley Willis. $3.61 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department to be taken up with boarding patrolman. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), January 25—Chairman, Kenneth Roberts; Secretary, Thomas Ulisse; Ship's Delegate, Kenneth Roberts; Deck Delegate, S. McCloskey; Stew­ ard Delegate, Philip Livingston. $12.10 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), February 1—Chairman, J. Harling; Secretary, Eddie Hernandez; Deck Delegate, Paul Anthony; Engine Delegate, Willie Craker; Steward Delegate, William Armstead. Dis­ puted OT in deck and engine de­ partments. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), February 1 — Chairman, Kenneth Roberts; Secretary, Thomas Ulisse; Ship's Delegate, Kenneth Roberts; Deck Delegate, J. McCloskey; Stew­ ard Delegate, Philip Livingston. $12.10 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Feb­ ruary 8—Chairman, Alfred Hanstvedt; Secretary, Michel J. Dunn; Deck Delegate, R. E. Charroin. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. Few hours disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments. TAMPA (Sea-Land), February 9— Chairman, G. Castro; Secretary, E. B. Tart; Steward Delegate,. Arturo Mariani, Jr. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department. - MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land),Feb­ ruary 10—Chairman, George Annis; Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon; Ship's Delegate, George E. Annis; Deck Delegate, Roy A. Watford; Engine tended to the entire steward depart­ ment for the good feeding. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Overseas), February 4—Chairman, John Hunter; Secretary, Jack E. Long. No beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. DELTA ARGENTINA (Delta), January 19—Chairman, Nollie A. Towns; Secretary, Dario P. Marti­ nez; Ship's Delegate, Roy R. Lee; Deck Delegate, Gordon L. Davis; Engine Delegate, John Federovich; Steward Delegate, Willie Patterson. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. British Build Vessel Of Plastic, Glass LONDON—The Brit­ ish Navy will soon com­ mission a unique $4.81 million minesweeper made I of glass-reinforced plastic, the Ministry of Defense has announced. The 153-foot vessel will be the largest ship ever constructed of this material, which some ex­ perts claim may be a widely used vessel con­ struction component in the future. In the case of the mine­ sweeper, glass reinforced plastic offers a particular i advantage since it exerts no magnetic influence that could set off a mine. Results Cited In Efforts to Aid Minorities BAL HARBOUR, Fla. — AFL-CIO civil rights programs "have shown significant results," the federation's Executive Coun­ cil was told. The review of policies by newly named Civil Rights Com­ mittee Chairman Frederick O'Neal shows the development of affirmative action programs to end discrimination. The elimination of segregated locals, opening of apprentice­ ship opportunities to minority group youths, involving minority group trade unionists in the policy-making process, provid­ ing equal benefits of union mem­ bership to all workers regardless of race or national origin—all of these have received greater effort and attention from affili­ ates, the report said. There is no slowdown in or­ ganizing minority group workers or in expanding the opportuni­ ties for those already in unions, and "the American labor move­ ment has had no second thoughts on the value of integra­ tion and the elimination of seg­ regation." Implementation of present civil rights laws, the state of the national economy and confusion among some liberal and civil rights groups on the goal of in-, tegration are all present causes for concern, the report pointed out. Vi Ctecks Held for Asbury Vittory Crew Checks are being held at SIU headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y., for the following crewmembers of the Asbury Victory (Bulk Carriers): Joseph Chiaramonte Edward J. Gontha Ralph T. Moore William King William J. Jones Christopher J. King Michael J. Delaney Jimmie Dale Vincent F. Bermudez Robert R. Brown Nillo Reitti Aaron Sassar Leon H. Kermarec John J. Mitchell Jose S. Cruz Antonio Martes Victor L. Ortiz Rex J. O'Connor Alonzo Bryant Willie Edwards Regino Vazquez t • 1 •f �SEAFARERS March, 1970 V Francisco Escobal Baltazar, 69: Brother Baltazar passed away on January 20 in New Or­ leans from heart disease. He was a native of the Philippine Is­ lands and was making his home in New Orleans with his wife,. Flora, when he died. Seafarer Baltazar joined the SIU in the Port of Galves­ ton in 1953 and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. He was an Army veteran of World War I. His death brought an end to a sailing ca­ reer of 34 years. Entombment was in St. Vincent de Paul Mau­ soleum in New Orleans. —\3>— William Raybum Lacy, 63: Seafarer Lacy died on January 22, 1970 of heart trouble while en route to a hospital in Oakland, Cali­ fornia. He joined the Union in the Port of San Francisco and sailed in the steward department. A native of Missouri, Brother Lacy was making his home in Concord, California with his wife, Clara when he died. Burial was in Memory Gardens in Con­ cord. „? •V> f. ' ( i/ Thrimas Edward Maynes, 59: Brother Maynes passed away on January 20, 1970 in Metho­ dist Hospital in Brooklyn from natural causes. A native of New York City, Sea­ farer Maynes was living in Brooklyn when he died. He was an SIU pensioner who had joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the steward department. Among his survivors are his wife, Florence. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery in Union, New Jersey. <1> Clement Earl Myers, Jr., 26: Seafarer Myers died on January 20 from natural causes in New Orleans. A na­ tive of New Or­ leans, Brother Myers was living in LaCombe, Louisiana when he died. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1962 and sailed in the deck department as an OS. His last ship was the Transeastern. Among his survivors are his wife and father. Burial was in Lake Lawn Park, New Orleans. \I> Irwin Music, 44: Brother Music died on February 3 from a concussion of the brain as the result of an acci­ dent in his San Francisco home. He joined the Union in the Port of Boston in 1946 and sailed in the engine department. He was a native of Kentucky and served in the Army from 1951 until 1953. f i: Frank Schembii, 73: Brother Schembri was an SIU pensioner who passed away on February 9 from natural causes at Naval Hospital in San Diego, Califor­ nia. A native of Italy, Seafarer Schembri was living in San Diego when he died. He joined the SIU in the Port of San Francisco in 1948 and sailed in the steward de­ partment. From 1917 until 1947 he served in the Navy. Among his survivors are his wife, Helen. —— Charles E. Mason, 68: Sea­ farer Mason died on February 3 in Mercy Hos­ pital, Buffalo from natural causes. He joined the Union in Buffalo in 1961. A native of Michigan, Broths er Mason was making his home in West Sen­ eca, New York when he passed away. Among his survivors are his wife, Frances. Burial was in Nativity Cemetery Orchard Park, New York. ed a sailing career of 47 years. Burial was in South Park Ceme­ tery, Houston, Texas. Among his survivors are his wife, Helen. —<!>— Joseph Morris Furpuard, 59: Brother Purpuard died on Janu­ ary 27 from natural causes in St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo, Ohio. A native of Detroit, Mich­ igan, Brother Purpuard was #1 living in Toledo when he passed away. He joined the SIU in 1961 in Toledo as a dredgeman. Among his survi­ vors are his wife, Leona. Burial was in Toledo Memorial Park, Sylvania, Ohio. • Thomas M. Barracliff, 73: Brother Barracliff died on Au­ gust 1, 1969 in his home in Houston, Texas. A native of New Jersey, Brother Barracliff joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1941. He sailed in the engine department as an FOWT. Brother Barracliff was a Naval veteran of World War I. He had been sailing the seas for 41 years when he died. Burial was in Riverside Ceme­ tery, Toms River, New Jersey. years when he died. Cremation was in Riverview Abbey Crema­ torium, Portland, Oregon. <1> John Bilinski, 59: Brother Bilinski died of natural causes on January 15 at USPHS Hospital in Baltimore. He was an SIU pen­ sioner who joined the Union in 1939 in Phila­ delphia and sailed in the deck department as an AB and bos'n. His last ship was the Portmar. A native of Connecticut, Sea­ farer Bilinski was making his home in Baltimore when he died. Survivors include his wife, Stella Mae. Burial was in Holy Re­ deemer Cemetery in Baltimore. — — Richard Calvin Baumgartner, 20: Seafarer Baumgartner died on January 26 in Baltimore. A na­ tive of Balti­ more, he was liv­ ing there when he died. Brother B a u mgartner joined the SIU in 1968 and sailed in the engine department as a ' wiper. Among his survivors are his father, Calvin, of Baltimore. Burial was in Immanuel Ceme­ tery, Baltimore City. William Henry Rogers, 45: Brother Rogers died on Febru­ ary 6 of heart trouble in his San Francisco home. <1> Malrie William Ellis, 57: Sea­ A native of Col­ John William Wagner, 45: farer Ellis died on January 21 orado, Brother Joseph Kissel, 73: Seafarer Brother Wagner died of heart of heart trouble Rogers joined Kissel passed away from heart disease on De­ in Pascagoula, the Union in the cember 23, 1969 disease on April Mississippi. He Port of Galves­ in the 12th 8, 1969 while joined the Union ton in 1944. He USAF Hospital, aboard ship near in 1963 in the sailed in the engine department San Francisco. Seattle, Wash­ Port of Mobile as an FOWT and his last vessel A native of Ma­ ington. A native and sailed in the was the Summit. Among his ryland, Seafarer of Pennsylvania, engine depart­ survivors are his wife, Helen. Wagner was he • was making ment. A native Burial was in Crown Hill Me­ making his home his home in Se­ of Pensacola, Florida, Brother morial Park, Denver, Colorado. in Baltimore when he died. He attle when he Ellis was making his home in died. Brother Kissel joined the joined the Union in the Port of Moss Point, Mississippi when he Henry Phillip Myers, 72: Sea­ Union in the Port of New York Baltimore in 1956 and sailed in passed away. Among his sur­ farer Myers was an SIU penin 1951 and sailed in the stew­ the engine department as a wip­ vivors are his wife, Lillie. Burial sioner who ard department as a cook and er. He served in the Navy for was in Orange Grove, Jackson passed away on baker. He had been sailing 49 eight years. County, Mississippi. February 12 from natural On the DeSoto in New Orleans causes in Pasa­ dena Bayshore Hospital, Pasa­ dena, Texas. Brother Myers joined the Union in the Port of He said the nearly 500 com­ New York and sailed in the deck munity mental health centers department; A native of Indi­ built and staffed with federal ana, he was living in.Pasadena, aid have "significantly reduced Texas when he died. He is a the heed for more expensive Navy veteran of World War I. long-term hospitalization and When he retired in 1964 he endcustodial care." The AFL-CIO asked the House Commerce Subcommit­ Checks Waiting tee on Public Health to extend The Seafarers named the period that the federal gov­ below should contact the! ernment pays a major part of welfare counter at SIU: staff salaries from the first 51 Headquarters in Brook- i months that a community center lyn as soon as possible for i is in operation to a full 10 years. Otherwise, he warned, centers checks being held there I may have to cut back on serv­ for them. ices or close entirely. Alexander Gluck Fair also urged that pay­ Anthony Amoriello Experience and youth are represented in this photo taken aboard the ments be broadened to include Jarrett C. Harris DeSoto in the Port of New Orleans. Standing (l-r) are veteran AB's subsidy of salaries of sub-pro­ Bobby Garn and C. Jordan. In front are Ordinary Seamen E. Gaudet Sherman L. Brinkley fessionals and • administrative and Stanley Meyers, from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. personnel. Expanded Federal Aid Urged For Community Mental Health WASHINGTON—C o m m u nity mental health centers are helping to keep workers on the job and families from being broken up, the AFL-CIO said in testimony urging expanded federal aid in building and staff­ ing the centers. Legislative Representative Clinton Fair, accompanied by Lawrence Spiedley of the feder­ ation's Department of Social Security, urged a House sub­ committee to take the best pro­ visions of several bills extend­ ing the program—and add to them. Fair termed mental illness "a major national problem," hitting hardest at those who can't afford expensive private treatment and who too often are shunted off to state mental institutions. Page Twenty Nine LOG �Page Thirty SEy4FARERS Bbrdi, 1970 LOG States Fail to Give Needed Boosts In Jobless Benefits and Injary Pay Changes made by 1969 state legislatures in unemployment insurance and workmen's com­ pensation laws have made little progress toward achieving bene­ fit standards urged by every President since Dwight D. Eisenhower. Failure of the states to ad­ vance significantly in either area is revealed in articles in last month's issue of the Monthly Labor Review, the publication of the Labor Dept.'s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The articles are based on surveys conducted by Joseph A. Hickey, an unemployment in­ surance specialist in the Man­ power Administration. and Florence C. Johnson, a labor standards adviser with the Of- 1X> NOT Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CJO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) — — StHzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Stfll," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) .1. Kingsport Press "Worid Book," "Chfldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) rTypographers, Bookbinders) (•Machinists, Stereotypers) ^ Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth. (Roof and Shoe Workers' Union) ^1. Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo. Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers Tntemafional Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour. Cereal. Soft Drink and Distillery Workers) ^ Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery. Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas) ^ AO CaUfomia Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) ,1. Economy Furniture Co. Smithtown Maple Western Provincial Bflt-Rlte (Upholsterers) fice of Employment Standards. The standards, most recently urged by the Nixon Administra­ tion, call for states to pay bene­ fits for both unemployment and on-the-job injuries that are equal to at least two-thirds of the average gross weekly wages of all covered employes in the state. The AFL-CIO has long maintained that these and other standards for unemployment insurance and workmen's com­ pensation must be established under federal law if workers are to be adequately protected. Rickey's survey revealed that despite changes enacted by 41 state legislatures in 1969 there are now only three states that pay maximum jobless benefits meeting the two-thirds stand­ ard: Connecticut, Hawaii and Rhode Island. The survey shows, in fact, that only 21 states pay maxi­ mum benefits that meet a stand­ ard of one-half the average gross weekly wages of covered employes. Only two additional states came into that category as the result of 1969 legislation. In other areas, Hickey re­ ported that 17 states increased maximum jobless benefits; nine states made changes in disquali­ fication sections of their laws; and many states made amend­ ments related to qualifying, fi­ nancing and administration. He noted that there was "little significant activity" by the states to bring additional workers under unemployment insurance. About 17 million workers are not covered by jobless benefits. In her article, Mrs. Johnson pointed out that "In addition to providing adequate cash bene­ fits, an effective workmen's compenastion law should limit the waiting period between the time of injury and the payment of benefits to three days or less, with retroactive payment to date of injury if disability continues for two weeks." SIU-AGLIWD Meetfugs SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union NewOrieaus Mobile Wilntlngtoii San Fran. . . Seattle .... New York . Philadelpina Baltimore . Detnrit .... HoiBton . . . April 14—2:30 pju. April 15—2:30 p.iii. Aprfi 20—^2:00 pan. Aprfl 22—2:00 pan. April 24—2:00 pan. April 6—2:30 pan. April 7—2:30 p.ni. April 8—^2:30 pan. April 6—2:30 pan. April 13—2:30 pan. United Industrial Workers PRBIDBTT Paai Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PtBIDBIT Cal Taaaar Earl Siiapard Al Tanner VICE MtESIOENTS Lindtay Wtlliami Reberl Matthawt SECRETAItr-ntEASUREII Al Karr HEADQUARTEItS tTS 4fli Ava.. tttya. (212) HY 1-UOa ALPENA, MICH. 800 N, Second Ave. OALnMORE, Md. (SIT) a 4.Uli . Ill« E. Balliimre SI. (301) EA 7-4100 BOSTON. Man. ttl BUFFALO. N.Y. Allantic Avenue (817) 482.4718 . 73S Waifcinotoa SI. SlU (718) TL 3.I2S9 IBU (718) TL 3-Y2S* CHICA«0. III. Sm E»ia« Ava. SlU (312) SA 1.0733 IBU (312) ES S-TS70 CLEVB-ANO. Ohio I4M W. 2Slh SI. (218) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich. . 1028 W. Jaffartan Ava. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tan JACKSONVILLE. Ha JERSEY CITY, NJ HOOILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS, La NORFOLK, Va 2014 W. 3rd St. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. Boi 287 4IS Main SI. (818) EL 7-2441 5004 Canal SI. (713) WA 8-3207 2800 Pearl SI. '704) a 3-0987 99 Montqcmary SI. (201) HE 5-9424 I Seiilli Lawraaca SI. (20S) HE 2-1754 830 Jacfcuui Ava. (S04) 529-7548 IIS 3fd SI. (703) 822-1092 PHILAOaPHIA, Pa 2804 S. 4lh SI. (215) DE 8-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1340 SavaoHi SI. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 1531 Miision SI. (415) 628-8793 SANTURCE, P.R. .. . 1313 Famandai Janca* Slap » n4-304S SEATTLE, Waih 2505 Hnl Avaaua (208) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Sravoij Avenue (314) 752-8500 TAMPA, Ha TOLEDO, Ohio 312 Harriion SI. (813) 229-2788 935 Summit SI. (419) 248-3891 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Saatida Ava. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan. .Iseya BIdq., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 20I497I Ext. 281 United Industrial Worfcoa New Ortems April 14—7:00 pan. Mobile .... .April 15—^7:00 pan. New York . April 6—7:00 pan. Philadephia April 7—^7:00 pan. Baltimore . April 8—^7:00 pan. tHouston . . April 13—^7:00 pan. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit .... Aprfl 6—2:00 p.m. Alpena .... .April 6—^7:00 p.m. Buffalo .... Aprfl 6—7:00 p.m. Chicago . . . Aprfl 6—7:30 p.m. Dnluth .... Aprfl 6—7:00 p.m. Frankfort . April 6—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago . . . .April 14—7:30 p.m. tSault St. Marie Aprfl 16—7:30 p.m. Buffalo .... .April 15—7:30 p.m. Dnluth .... .April 17—7:30 p.m. Oeveland . Aprfl 17—7:30 p.m. Toledo .... April 17—7:30 p.m. Detroit .... April 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee Aprfl 13—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Aprfl 14—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... April 15—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia April 7—5:00 pan. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) . April 8—5:00 p.m. Norfolk . . . Aprfl 9—5:00 p.m. Houston . . April 13—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia April 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore April 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk April 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Aprfl 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. 2 Meetinir t Meeting Ste. Marie, * Meetintr held at Galveston wharves, held at Labor Temple, Sault Mich. held at Labor Temple, New­ port T4-WS. ^ "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond hionses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Atlantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) White Fnmitnre Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) 4> Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) PINAfTCIAL RBP0RT8. The eoiutitatlon of the SIU Atlantle, Gnlf, Lakes and inUnd Waters Distriet makes speHfle prorlsfoD for safcsoardliiff the membership's i^ejr and Union flnanees. The eonstitntlon requires a detailed CPA audit every Aree months by a rank and file anditfnir eommittee eleeted by the membership. All union reeords are available at SIU beadqnarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. AH trust funds <rf the SIU Atlantle, Gnlf, Lakes and Inland Waten Distriet sre sdministered in seeordanee wHh the xnwrisiona of various tmst fond s»reements. All these ssreements specify that the traetees in ehsrse of these funds shsll equslly consist of union snd mansKcment representatives snd their sitemates. All expenditures snd disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial reeords sre available at the lieadqnarters of the various trust funds. 8HIP1PING SIGHTS. Your sbippinr rights and seniority sre protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union snd the shipowners. Get to know your shipping ricbts. Copies of these contracts are postad and svsilable in all Union lialis. If you feel there has l>een any violation of your shipping or seniority rights aa contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify tha Scafsrers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt reqneetad. The iwoper addfeaa for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafateis Appsals Board 17 Battary Place, SuHe 1080, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as refsrred to ars available to you at all timas, aithsr by writing directly to tha Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contraets are avsOahle far all SIU contracts specify the wsgee and conditions nndsr which you work snd livs aboard sMp. Know your contract rights, as well as your oUigatim, such as filing for OT on tha proper sheets snd in the proper manner. If, at any thus, any SIU patrolman or other Unkm oflleial, (a your opinion, faila to protect your contract rigfata prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SBAFABXIRS LOG. lbs LOG has tradUiooally refrainad from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any ludividaal in tha Union, ofBeer or member. It has also rsfbaiMd tnm pwbHsbiiig harmfhl to the Unkm or its eollsetivo msmbecsMp. TMs sstabHihsd POHCT msilliiaa itid reafRrmsd by mambenhlp action at the OijptemhH', 10M. IMfi, mmlliigs iti U constitii. tional ports. The lasponsfbllity fbr LOO p%r is vsiitsd » MsStoriol board which eonsists of the Eseentive Board of tha Unieic. Ik . its ranks, one Sadividnal to cany oat this PAYMENT OP MONIB8. No monies sre to be paid to anyone in any oflleial capacity in the SIU unless aa ofBeial Union receipt is siven for same. Under no eireumstaneas should any member pay any money for any rcaaon unlcas he is aiven such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be withoat supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a paynaent and ia riven an oOcial receipt, but feels that he abould not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBUGATIONS. The SIU pubUshas m every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of Hs stitu In addition. eopiea are available in all Union halls. All msmhcis shoold obtain copim of thte eonstituthm so as to familiarbw themsdvas with its contents. Any time you feel any member or ofBeer is sttemptinc to dsprive you of any eonsUtutloiial ririit or obli­ gation by any methods such as drsHng with charges, trials, ete., as wdl as all othsr dstalls. thsn the member so affsetsd should immediatriy notify hsadquartaa. RRTIRRD 8EAPARRR8. 01d.time SIU mambats drawing disability.pcnsion bene­ fits have always been sneouraged to continue their union activities, inclndiii, snce St membership maetfaigs. And like all othsr SIU members at thssa Unb ings, they are Kuoursged to take an active role in all rankmnd-file funetkma, in. eluding service on rank-and-file eommlttese. Because three oUtimcm cannot shipboard cmploymsnt, the membership Ins raafllrmad the long-ataacHng Union pol­ icy of allowlDg them to retain their good standing through the wnivint at their dam. EGUAL RICTT8- All Ssnfsrers ars guamntssd aqnnl rights in employmant and as members of the SIU. These rights are elaarly set forth in the SIU eonstHution and ia the eonlmets which the Unkm fans nsgotlntsd wiOi tha employstu. Consequeatiy, no amfsrsr may be dlseriminatsd against bacaase of raee, erasd, color, national or geographic orfrin. If a-y member fads that fas is denied the equal ririita to which he is entitied, ha sbonld notify hsadquarters. SRJtFARRRg POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of OM basic rights of Scafarsrs is the rigiit to pnrsnc Isglslsllts and political ofajaetivm wUeh will servo tlio best interasts of themsdvm, tadr famiHm and thdr Unkm. To aeUevo See objoetivm, the Seslsrers FoUtleal Ariivhy Donation wao estsblishod. Donations to 8PAD SCO entiralr volnatary and eonstltuto tfao funds anpagh which Icgislntiva and pditienl actMtim ar* eondnetod fdr tbo bsnafit at tho msqitiiship and the Unkm. Pan! lOaR at hesdgnsilMs by 1 •8 -A �SEAFARERS March, 1970 Page Thirty One LOG ; w.,,vy:;v-ig=|.^j.?:;g -" • 'i-'/i;,'''""i;" "i • ' .. .' ,' S liai' y 1^*1" f- AFELY TffiD UP in the East River in the Port of New York was the tanker Midlake (American Bulk Tankers) after a long six-month voyage to the. Persian Gulf. The tanker carried grain from Houston to India, and then went on • a shuttle run from Bombay to the Persian . Gulf. She returned to the States after stopping at Grangemouth and Rotterdam. The vessel lost her rudder while round­ ing the Cape of Good Hope. She was towed into Durbin, South Africa, and continued on her way after a rudder was flown over from the States. Ice caIced on the catwalk railings and coated on the boom lifts graphically describes typi- : , ca! conditions on the North Atlantic in the ' ^ winter. Vessel was tied up in the East River. , SlU Representative Leon Hall discusses beef with .Engine Dele­ gate Tom Hopkins. Hopkins, who sailed ; as -pumpman, re­ ported: pnlysaf^ minor beefs. M'/* Wt I I. . |»| li '' ' ' ; -.I.: ewiill MI I • ..---.r- beck Delegate Lance Bailey, right, discusses a problem with SlU Representative Luigl lovino as Mauro Delacerida; locjks on. Vessel Was a good feeder during the long voyage thanks to these members of the stew­ ard department: Frank Kustura, steward; Edward Webb, cook; Nick Andreadis, chief cook. • Larry-Busbyv'saloon' mess, Blls out his vacation application, Busby, a recent HLSS graduate, wcas finishing his second trip. Samuel Edv^fds. FWlv has: been going to sea for 30 years, so : : .Tt ^was ^paturaf that ; hs. share.. his. experience Wh Ifsijs;nper:Rob^ who-was sailing wiper. Wallace, shipped^ i: on the Midlake after graduating from Piney, Point last July. II It IVl,» . >r« -w, . • ' w ------ — , �SEAFARERS^#LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO y Seniority and Membership New rules adopted by the membership of the Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District of the SlU to further protect their seniority rights have been implemented by the union. Two new membership books and a new membership appli­ cation form have been produced to carry out the SlU-AGLIWD Constitutional change. There are now three membership books—one brown, one green and one red. These books will be the only evidence of union membership issued to Seafarers. They will, by their color, show the type of seniority an SlU member has. S.I.U.N.A. — A.G.LI.W.D. CONSTITUTION ARTICLE III SECTION 1 MEMBERSHIP (As Amended January 1, 1970) "There shall be two classes of membership, to wit full book members and probationary members. Candidates for membership shall be admitted to membership in accordance with such rules as may be adopted from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership and which rules shall not be inconsistent with the pro­ visions of this Constitution. All candidates with 360 days or more seatime in a consecutive 24 calendar month period commencing from January 1, 1968, in an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag mer­ chant vessel or vessels, covered by contract with this Union, shall be eligible for full membership. All persons with less than the foregoing seatime but at least thirty (30) days of such seatime, shall be eligible for probationary membership. Only full book members shall be entitled to vote and to hold any office or elective job, except as otherwise specified herein. All probationary members shall have a voice in Union proceedings and shall be entitled to vote on Union contracts." i S-—"7^^^ . ^ • eS» ^JC ' GUl^ "•'O SENiCRTY SENIORITY MEMBERSHIP I SiU BOOK MEMBERSHIP. MEMB-ERSHIP BOOK BOOK "A " SENIORITY "B" SENIORITY "C" SENIORITY This book will be .recognized by all Seafarers. With its brown cover, it carries with it automatically the identity of Class "A" seniority under union shipping rules. It has not been changed in any way. This is one of the two new books. Bound with green leather, the words "B" Sen­ iority are stamped into it on the bottom of the front cover.* With the red leather cover, this book identifies a Sea­ farer as having Class "C" seniority. It has the words "C" Seniority imprinted on the lower part of the front cover. If a Seafarer is a probationary member, regardless of which class of seniority he holds, the words "Probationary Member" will be stamped at each end of the line where the member's name appears on the Certificate of Membership page. If the member is a full book Seafarer, regardless of which class of seniority he holds, the stamped words "Probationary Member" will not appear on the Certificate of Membership page of his book. NEW APPLICATION FORM . . .. It«t n full "111 ..Mime. b* iiii'bM witit be •fli.ikd «o H)t# •nafo hold »nr ofr<» o« D'otul'onory monttcrt Mil • •WM m Oiuon WUCANT MUST IIST BEIOW All SEATIME WtTH 8IUNA — AOUWD COMPANIES What must be done to get the right book? If a member has Class "B" or Class "C" seniority, he is required to apply immediately for a new book. If he carries Class "A" seniority, he must make out the new application form when the dues pages on his present "A" book are completely filled. Shown here are important sections of one of the two sides of the new application form. These sec­ tions call for the member to identify the type of membership book he is applying for, and to verify his shipping time. The front side of the form calls for biographical information. Union halls in all ports have been supplied with the new forms in suffi­ cient quantity to take care of the membership's needs. I AM SUBMITTING THIS APPLICATION FOR> FULL BOOK MEMBERSHIP Q SENIORITY CLASS AQ BQ CQ PROBATIONARY MEMBERSHIP Q SENIORITY CLASS A• S• C• I AM FURTHER CLAIMING THAT THE 24 CONSECUTIVE CALENDAR MONTH PERIOD. AS PER CONSTITUTION. FOR ' FULL BOOK MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIDN IS FROM TO mnly ftwear thai the itataments on both iid«« ol thl< applkatien are true. IMPORTANT: No book will be issued unless the form is completed in full. All questions must be answered. All seatime with SlU-AGLIWD companies must be reported for the 24-month period you are claiming. 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Title A name given to the resource March 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: CONGRESS MOVES SWIFTLY ON MARITIME PROGRAM CONFERENCE SEEKS TO RESOLVE MANY PROBLEMS OF NON CONTAGIOUS AREAS COMPULSORY ARBITRATION, NAT’L EMERGENCY LAWS LABELED INFRIDGEMENT OF WORKERS BASIC RIGHTS BOLD IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY HELD ESSENTIAL FOR NATION’S ELDERLY HOUSE COMMITTEE WILL OPEN HEARINGS ON ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF US TUNABOATS AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL URGES BOOST IN NATION’S SAGGING ECONOMY NIXON WELFARE PLAN CRITISIZED; NEW APPROACH SOUGHT FOR NEEDY FAST TURN AROUND ON THE NORTH EUROPE RUN SIU WELFARE BENEFITS SURGICAL SCHEDULE STATES FAIL TO GIVE NEEDED BOOSTS IN JOBLESS BENEFITS AND INJURY PAY 6 MONTH VOYAGE TO THE PERSIAN GULF Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 03/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 3 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/cd0d7540a876918993f430ac851ef7f7.PDF 28512e4b19d40a231bdaf5fdc0747e53 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS*LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO n »;'S jilK:.'®' if® -I.'-? "A AhJiZ\V k ,'R Federal Maritime Administrator Andrew Gibson (left) JA and SlU President Paul Hall discuss a program to in­ crease American cargo in American-flag vessels during a symposium in New Orleans. Page 3 J I \ A. !•• •• /-\ . -J • V ! :] •;•>• ""-if;' -'ViAjfca^.-a ^ SlU members prepare for new I Great Lakes shipping season Pages '* ''t'' rfi h:' • •' x.hji VjCi^ «.A^- A * "'r mm Mm-' union-prepared Social Security booklet. BESl I I m:;iv5 IHl A �Page Two SEAFARERS Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico April, 1970 LOG They're Oualifled Lifeboatmen Conference Seeks Relief For Noncontiguous Area Representatives from Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico were joined by officials of the federal govern­ ment, the shipping industry and labor unions at a conference in Washington, D. C., to discuss the pos­ sibility of finding relief of economic problems involv­ ing oceanborne traffic to the noncontiguous areas. , (The conference was held as the Seafarers LOG was going to press.) Joint sponsors of the confer­ ence were the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department and the Transportation Institute, a ship­ ping industry-supported mari­ time research organization. Paul Hall, president of the MTD and president of the Sea­ farers International Union, opened the conference. Also speaking at the first session was Governor John A. Bums of Hawaii. Other featured speakers were: Michael McEvoy, a trustee of the Transportation Institute and president of Sea-Land Service Inc.; Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska; Jorge L. Cordova, resi­ dent commissioner for the Com­ monwealth of Puerto Rico; Rep­ resentative Thomas M. Pelly of Washington, and Edwin M. Hood, president of the Ship­ builders Council of America. Speaker at the first day's luncheon was Mrs. Helen Delich Bentley, chairman of the Fed­ eral Maritime Commission. Panel discussions aimed at the particular problems of each of the three noncontiguous areas were held in the afternoon. Chairman of the panel on Alaska was Harold D. Strandberg, Alaska's Commissioner of Public Works. Among the participants were: Representative Howard W. Pol­ lock of Alaska; Howard Pack, president of Seatrain Lines Inc.; Merle Adlum, president of the Inland Boatmen's Union of the Pacific; Harry P. Letton Jr., executive vice president of Pa­ cific Lighting Service Co.; Thomas H. Kuchel, former Senator from California, and Morris Weisberger, vice presi­ dent of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union and secretary of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. (Continued on Page 6) •fi Ten additional Seafarers passed Coast Guard exanninations and received lifeboat endorsements after successfully completing the HLSS lifeboat training course in New York. Seated Cl-r) are Nick Hutchins, Patrick Golden, Louis Perez, Frank Costanzo, Clarence Baker. Standing are SlU Instructor Lennie Decker, Jeff Gore, Elias Limon, Doug Ryan, Bob Demorest, and Leonard Dilling. Rep. Blatnik Sees Hope for Lakes; Warns Labor of Boition Challenge In a speech delivered to a ing the Great Lakes and its recent meeting of the Duluth- maritime industry. Superior-Ashland-Harbors and Commenting on a recent Vicinity Port Council of the Army Corps of Engineers study AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ which concluded that extension partment, Representative John of the navigation season on the A. Blatnik (D-Minn.) expressed Great Lakes is economically confidence in the future of the justified, Blatnik noted that such Great Lakes area but warned an extension will not be cheap, that the labor movement faces but the benefits will far outweigh a serious challenge in the 1970 the costs. elections. The study recommends that In a wide-ranging speech. a full analysis be made of the Congressman Blatnik touched best ways to keep locks, harbors, upon a number of topics affect­ rivers and lakes open for a long­ er period each year. Blatnik cited the need for and the advantages of a large, new, pollution-free fleet. He also hailed the construction of a new, larger, self-unloading ship scheduled for completion in 1971. In a reference directed to the Nixon Administration he said that the Lakes have proved their worth, and thus merit at­ tention from the Maritime Ad­ ministration. The Congressman noted the (Continued on Page 6) THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT Foreign Imports Costing Jobs 'T^ENS OF THOUSANDS of Americans are losing their jobs because of an unfair situation involving for­ eign trade. Plants in many industries—from those which produce window glass to many that make shirts and shoes—are folding under the pressures of cheap goods made by workers receiving coolie wages in foreign lands. A Seafarer might logically wonder why we should be concerned. Those foreign-made goods have to be brought to this country in ships, and ships require seamen. Everyone Gets Hurt The fact is that every union member, every Ameri­ can consumer, is hurt in the long run by the flood of foreign goods that is driving many of our industries to the wall. A parade of presidents of American unions told the midwinter meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department about it. In the footwear and manufac­ tured leather goodsjndustry, 13,000 jobs vanished as imports doubled in recent years. Six thousand jobs have been lost in the flat glass industry. In the cement, clay and pottery industry, 22,000 jobs that were once filled by working Americans have been lost to cut-rate foreign competition. The story is the same in plants that make electrical goods, or chemicals, or toys—and even cars. America in 1968, for the first time in history, imported more automobiles than she exported. Those industries commonly referred to as the "nee­ dle trades," the people who make shirts and ties and suits, as well as the textile producers, have been reeling for years under the pounding of unfair foreign com­ petition. Many complete textile communities have been made ghost towns by the closing of plants. Low Pay, Lousy Fringes In addition, unions that represent workers in the industries most directly affected by foreign competi­ • tion are being told that the worker will have to accept low pay and lousy fringes—otherwise the company won't be able to compete with the imported products. How does this affect the seafarer? First of all, most of those foreign goods are brought into our country in foreign bottoms. Our industry, even if you include the shipments of the federal gov­ ernment, carried less than six percent of all American international trade in American-flag ships last year. So imports of cheap foreign materials have had little direct impact on seafaring jobs for Americans. Secondly, those thousands of Americans who have either lost their jobs or have had to work for poor wages, can't afford to buy many American-made prod­ ucts. This means the market for domestic goods— products hauled from one American port to another— has been reduced. And under the Jones Act, all cargo hauled from one domestic port to another must be carried in American-flag vessels. So indirectly, the unfair foreign competition has cost us seafaring jobs. .Does this mean that the United States should pass laws that would stop the flow of foreign products into our country? No. Even the union leaders whose members were being hurt the most by imports are against this. 'Fair Trade' Needed The answer lies in bringing about "fair trade" on the international scene. Other nations have passed laws that make it all but impossible for 'American goods to be sold in their countries. No American auto­ mobile manufacturer can crack the Japanese market basically because the Japanese have passed laws that make it almost impossible for an American car to be sold in their country. Many European nations have, by law, closed the door to American food imports— even though our country permits thousands of Euro­ pean agricultural products, from wine to cheese, to flood the American markets. by PAUL HALL In some cases quotas might be an answer. We would say to another nation, "you may sell in our nation so much of a particular product." In return, that nation could be required to lower its barrier against an American-made product. But in no case can our nation justify the current system that has caused thousands of workers to lose their jobs, that has closed hundreds of factories, that has virtually destroyed our once healthy balance of payments position that came because we sold more goods to the rest of the world than we bought. Seafarers are not strangers to the effects of cheap foreign competition. We have seen our merchant ma­ rine fall from the finest in the world to a fleet that is old, small in tonnage and growing smaller in num­ bers. We have seen American merchant busmess taken by nations who run on the cheap—using vessels that are poorly constructed and handled by crews that are poorly trained, poorly fed and paid pauper's wages. This unfair competition has cost us jobs— and has cost the nation its fleet. Must Increase Exports The United States, to be economically strong, must increase her exports. Any increase in exports could mean, to the seafarer, more jobs. President Nixon has set* a goal in the maritime industry. He wants to see 30 percent of all of Amer­ ica's international tonnage carried in American-flag bottoms. This can best be accomplished through an increase in exports. But should the current situation get worse—should the nation continue to allow foreign products to flood the markets—the President's goal could very well be meaningless. Because 30 percent of nothing is still nothing. So the seafarer, like every other working American, has a great deal at stake in how our country handles foreign trade. The answers are clear. What is needed now is action. �April, 1970 SEAFARERS MopiWi TUMAL iRAdE Hall Tells Conference ^ 'Ship American' Program Needed for Success The crisis in international trade and its effects on the American economy was discussed at a conference of the AFL-CIO industrial Trades Department in Washington. Among the speakers were lUD President i.W. Abel, Senator Edmund 5. AAuskie (D-Me.) and AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Exports Carried by Foreign Ships Cost Ameriran Jobs: Kirkiand "No industry is more depend­ ent upon world trade than the merchant marine," AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirk­ land told a conference on the crisis in international trade. But he warned: "When Amer­ ican exports are being shipped on foreign flag vessels, American jobs are being exported. "When U.S.-made goods are exported, if it's on a foreign bottom—a service, shipping, is being imported." Speaking at an AFL-CIO In­ dustrial Union Department con­ ference, "Developing Crisis in International Trade," the fed­ eration oflScial told his audience: "During the last 25 years, shipboard jobs for Americans declined sharply. By November 1969, shipboard jobs aboard privately-owned American mer­ chant ships were down to only 27,222." The shipping sector of the economy has nearly gone down the drain in the past 25 years, he charged, with similar job losses in the areas of building, repair and maintenance of ships. "Foreign shipbuilding is usu- SEAFARERSI^LOG April, 1970 • Vol. XXXII, No. 4 Ofllclal Publication of the Seafarer* International Union of North America, AtianUc, Gulf. Lake* and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Ssfeutiv Board PAUL HALL, President CAL TANNIR EARL SHEFARD Exte. Viee-Pree. Vice-President LINDREY WlLUAMB AL KRS Vice-President See.-Preae. ROBERT MATTHRWR AL TANMU Vice-President Viee-Preeident Piklliliid Misthly at >10 Ihsts lilint An*** N.E., Wsihlnitsn, D. C. 20018 ky ths Sssfartn Intirnatlonsl Unian, Atlantic, Calf, Lak»a ant Inlant Watara Diitrlat, AFL-CIO, <75 Fsartk Aaansa, OrHklyn, N.V. 112)2. Tat. HVaalatk 9-«00. Sannt alaia yaataia lall •t Waaktnitani, 0. C. PIITMAOTEII'S ATTENTION: Fana S379 carta akaalt ka aant ta Saafaitra intaraatlasal Uila*, Atlantic, Salt, Lakaa ut lilaat Watara Diitrlat, AFL-CIO, 675 Faarth Annaa, OrHklyn, N.V. 11232. Page Three LOG ally encouraged by governments, the profits remain abroad. with direct and indirect sub­ Another conference speaker. sidies, to maintain volume op­ Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D.erations and improved efficiency, Me.) said, "Exports mean jobs," while U.S. shipbuilding has been but cautioned: "Blind devotion permitted to decline, with very to the concept of free trade can little volume, old equipment cause serious hardships for and high costs," Kirkland de­ workers, industries and com­ clared. munities." He continued: He was critical of the "run­ away shipping operations of "While American workers U.S.-owned firms, including have in general gained from a multi-national corporate con­ growth in world trade, both as glomerates" which ship under producers of exported products flags of convenience (Panama, and as consumers of less expen­ Liberia, Honduras) "and pay sive imported products, imports foreign merchant seamen merely can and have caused serious dis­ a small portion of an American location and hardship by dis­ wage." placing American products." Multi-national conglomerates, Policy for '70s many of them U.S.-owned, also The Maine Democrat called drew fire from Kirkland for dis­ for a trade policy for the '70s placing U.S.-produced goods in (Continued on page 6) American and world markets. Export Jobs "They export American tech­ nology—much of it developed with the expenditure of govern­ ment funds, the taxes of Ameri­ can citizens. They export Ameri­ can jobs. Moreover, when such goods are sold in this country, they are sold at American prices." In short, the multi-nation con­ glomerates have the net effect of costing the American worker his job even though the Ameri­ can consumer pays the same price he would if the product were produced in its entirety in the U.S. The world-wide operations of these multi-nation companies "do not represent free, competi­ tive trade among the nations of the world," he asserted. "What they do represent is a closed system of trade, within the cor­ poration, among its various sub­ sidiaries in numerous countries." He called for governmental action to curb investment out­ flows of U.S. companies to for­ eign subsidiaries. No Taxes I. W. Abel, president of lUD, claimed that the U.S. govern­ ment, instead of controlling the corporate monsters, is encour­ aging their development by not taxing profits of subsidiaries if Success of the Nixon Administration's maritime program will depend on the success of a "Ship Amer­ ican" campaign targeted at including American in­ dustry and government to use American-flag vessels, Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers International Union, told an audience at the 21st annual Institute on Foreign Transportation and Port Operations at Tulane University in New Orleans. "American cargo on American-flag ships is funda­ mental to the whole program," he said. "We must have cargo, because without it we have nothing. We must make American industry conscious of the need to use U.S. ships, just as we have helped to make Congress conscious of the problems of the maritime industry." Labor, government and in­ dustry, he said, must join forces to "spearhead the drive to put American cargo on Americanflag ships." He noted that committees in both the House and the Sen­ ate have completed hearings on the Nixon Administration pro­ posal that would, among other things, provide subsidies for the construction of 300 vessels in the next 10 j'ears. Can Be Beneficial While the program will not be "all things to all men," he said, "we're at least agreed that the total effect of the Admin­ istration's program can be bene­ ficial." Recounting the plight of the American merchant marine, Hall said: "The remarkable and the main fact is that we in this in­ dustry have managed to stay alive despite the lack of interest Engine Department Seafarers •MEBA Upgrading Plan Opening for Enrollment The SIU and District 2 MEBA are cooperating on a new original license training program for unlicensed en­ gine department personnel. The pilot program will con­ sist of three successive 16-week training courses to be conducted at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Maryland. Enrollment will be limited to 30 men per class who will receive engineering, first aid and fire fighting instruc­ tion at the school. Each successful candidate will receive $56 per week while attending classes. Each class will report for processing at the School of Marine Engineering and Navigation, 672 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, for enrollment and a physical examination, required by the United States Coast Guard before being bussed to Piney Point. The first two scheduled classes will meet in New York on May 1, and on Aug. 28, 1970. Candidates who are accepted for classes will be reimbursed for receipted trans­ portation up to the amount of $125. Pre-entrance examinations have been sent to each port to aid in selection of successful candidates. The appli­ cant's shipboard experience will be considered along with his performance on the examination. Headquarters has sent out applications to all engine department members and, anyone who is eligible, is en­ couraged to apply. and almost open hostility of the three previous administrations. The Nixon Administration has put the maritime industry high on its agenda of the nation's problems that must be solved." Hall praised Maritime Ad­ ministrator Andrew E. Gibson for "his devotion to the indus­ try and his dedication to getting U.S.-flag ships on the seas." Gibson, who served with Hall on a panel discussing "Our Maritime Status — Today and Tomorrow," voiced optimism on the future of the merchant marine. "I know of no other major American industry, notwith­ standing our current problems, that has a greater growth prob­ ability tomorrow," he asserted. The Nixon Administration pro­ gram, he said, "provides the means to revitalize our mer­ chant marine and transform it into one of the most modem in the world by the end of this decade." Yet the problems facing the American-flag fleet today are enormous, he added. •A National Crisis' "Simply stated, the status of the U.S. Merchant Marine to­ day can only be termed a na­ tional crisis," he declared. "Time is fast running out for the great majority of our fleet. Three-fourths of the 933 ves­ sels in active service have either reached or are approaching 25 years of age. At best, these ships have very few years of service left." Gibson revealed that "the wholesale decimation of our fleet nearly began last month. British (insurance) underwrit­ ers were reportedly planning to hike cargo insurance rates on 25-year-old ships. If this rate structure were put into effect, 258 of the 650 U.S.-flag general cargo ships engaged in foreign trade would have been forced off the high seas." Gibson, who went to London where he successfully argued against the insurance rate in­ crease, said the case "is just one more reminder that this in­ dustry is living on borrowed time." (Continued on page 6) �Page Four SEAFARERS LOG April, 1970 Youth and Experience Congressmen Want, Read Letters From Constituents—Rep. Udall Says A congressman has a "hot line" to his constitutents—^the postman's mailbag. Rep. Morris K. Udall (D.­ Ariz.) recently pointed out that letters are important to a con­ gressman, but that very few citi­ zens ever take pen in hand and express an opinion to the man who represents them in Con­ gress. He attributes this reluctance to two popular misconceptions: (1) Congressmen have no time or inclination to read their mail, and (2) one letter won't make a difference anyway. "I can state flatly that these notions are wrong," the Arizona Democrat said. ^ "I read every letter written me by a constituent; a staff member may process it initiallv, but it will be answered and I will insist on reading it and per­ sonally signing the reply. "On several occasions I can testify that a single, thoughtful, factuallv persuasive letter did change my mind or cause me to initiate a review of a previous judgment. Nearly every day my faith is renewed by one or more informative and helpful letters giving me a better understanding of the thinking of my constitu­ ents." To congressmen, mail is more important today than when ses­ sions were shorter and they spent more time at home in their districts. Thus, they are forced to rely on the mails to bring in opinion from constituents to help shape congressional opin­ ion on legislative matters. As an aid to those 10 percent already familiar with writing their congressman and as a spur to those who have not written. Rep. Udall offers the following suggestions: • Address it properly. For congressmen the address is "Hon. John Smith, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515." For senators, "Senator Bill Jones, Senate Office Build­ ing, Washington, D.C., 20510." • Identify the bill or issue. The bill number or popular title, such as "minimum wage," will help identify what you are con- Rep. UdaO cemed with out of the 20,000 bills introduced in each Con­ gress. • The letter should be time­ ly. A letter that arrives after a bill is out of committee or passed by the House may make it impossible for a congressman to be of assistance. • Concentrate on your own delegation: The representative of your congressional district and the senators of your state cast your votes in Congress and want to know your views. • Be reasonably brief. • Student letters are wel­ come. The congressman also offers some "do's" and "don'ts" of writing to a representative. They are: DO'S • Write your own viewsnot someone else's. A personal letter is far better than a form letter or a signature on a peti­ tion. "Form letters often receive form replies," Rep. Udall said. • Give your reasons for tak­ ing a stand. Simple opposition without background reasons give a congressman little basis to work from. • Be constructive. "If a bill deals with a problem you admit exists, but you believe the bill is the wrong approach, tell me what the right approach is," the congressman stated. • Say "well done" when it's deserved. "Congressmen are hu­ man, too, and they appreciate an occasional 'well done' from people who believe they have done the right thing." DON'TS • Don't make threats or promises. Reasons may change a congressman's mind, but threats probably won't. • Don't berate your con­ gressman. "You can't hope to persuade him of your position by calling him names." • Don't pretend to wield vast political influence. "Write your congressman as an individ­ ual—not as a self-appointed spokesman for your neighbor­ hood, community or industry. Unsupported claims to pdlitical influence will only cast doubt upon the views you express." • Don't become a constant "pen pal." Don't try to instruct your congressman on every issue and don't complain if his votes do not match your thinking every time. "Remember, he has to consider all his constituents and all points of view." • Don't demand a commit­ ment before the facts are in. There are two sides to every is­ sue, and the bill may be changed by amendment so that opposi­ tion becomes support. Congressmen need help in casting their votes. " ihe 'ballot box'," says Congressman Udall, "is not far away. It's painted, red, white and blue, and it reads 'U.S. Mail.'" Four New Tankers Under Construction Work will be resumed on four 34,000-ton tankers now being built in a Pascagoula. Miss, shipyard. Con­ struction of the vessels fori SlU-contracted Falcon Tankers, was halted because of difficulties with perform­ ance of proposed 12-cylin-i der, 15,000-horsepower die- i sel engines for each vessel. As a result, it was agreed that the builder would sub­ stitute twin 7,500-horsepower diesels as the main propulsion units for the first two tankers and either twin engines or single 15,000horsepower engines, de­ pending on performance, for the other two vessels. L \ James Corcoran, right, is 66 and has been going to sea for some 42 years as a member of the deck department. During a recent voyage of the Tampa (Sea-Land), Corcoran, who sailed deck maintenance, took time to show the ropes to Walter Wright, 19, who was sailing as ordinary. Wright is a graduate of the HISS program at Piney Point. Corcoran has been sailing with the SlU since 1938. 199 Others Sentenced Teacher's Union President Jailed in New Jersey Beef David Selden, president of the American Federation of Teachers, has been jailed and seven officers of the Newark (N.J.) Teachers Union and 192 members of the union, are scheduled to begin jail terms for their efforts to win a decent agreement on wages, conditions, and improvements in the school system. The local union officers re­ ceived sentences of six months, Selden 60 days, and the mem­ bers 10 to 30 days for taking part in a strike which resulted from the city's refusal to bar­ gain in good faith. The strike was settled last month, the day after a massive labor rally in Newark was at­ tended by thousands of trade un­ ionists from the New York-New Jersey area, including more than 100 supporters from the SIU. Selden has no regrets about going to jail. He said: "Going to jail is my way of dramatizing the absurd situa­ tion in which teachers and other public employees find them­ selves when it comes to col­ lective bargaining. "The United States is one of the few democratic countries in the world that has a flat pro­ hibition against public em­ ployees strikes . . . most Euro­ pean countries, including Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Den­ mark, France, Italy and others, take it for granted that a person who works for the government has a right to stop work in order to bring about changes in his condition of employment." Involuntary Servitude Selden said that without the power to strike, there can be no meaningful collective bargain­ ing. Limitations on the right to strike, he said, are actually im­ positions of a degree of involun­ tary servitude. "The Newark Teachers Un­ ion won a great contract," Sel­ den said. "The agreement pro­ vided improvements both for teachers and students. Without the determined strike, the downhill trend of education would have been allowed to continue. "Going to jail is not a pleas­ ant prospect, but if by so doing I can hasten the day when we can have free collective bar­ gaining, then I consider it a duty." Maine Deveioping Sea Farms' to Increase Fishing Harvest Scientists at the Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries are developing new methods of "farming the seas" that promise to expand the yield of the American fishing industry to combat a food shortage forecast because of the world's rapidly expanding population. Experimental studies in the science of "acquaculture" have shown that coastal submarine life can be raised in coves or inlets under controlled conditions that greatly increase their yield. An added advantage to the fisherman is that he knows exactly where the "crop" is located when harvest time approaches. In a recent speech. Congressman Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.) said the world's population will double by the year 2000 and urged that it would be necessary to develop food and mineral potential of the seas to avert a serious shortage. The Maine Department, working with coastal ma­ rine life found in the waters off the jagged coastline. has found proper cultivation could raise that value of that state's catch from .$25 million last year to $200 million by 1980—a twenty-fold increase in 10 years. Dr. Robert L. Dow, chief of marine research, says that this would be only the beginning of cultivation that could bring Maine's fishing wealth into the billions-of-dollars by the turn of the century. Aquaculturists have discovered that controlled con­ ditions reduce marine mortality and provide a greater yield. For instance, oyster and clam production can be multiplied by controlling their natural enemies in closed-off coves or by using floating breeding traps that protect them until maturity. Similar techniques can be used to "farm" lobsters. The scientists explain that the Maine coastline is ideal for aquacultural experiments because the many coves and inlets can be closed off from open waters to con­ trol such environmental factors as temperature, salin­ ity, mineral content, and predators. Dr. Dow cities the revitalization of the Maine shrimp fishing industry as one of the accomplishments of aquaculture: "From 1953 to 1956 there were no shrimp landed off the coast of Maine," he explained, "but water tem­ peratures started dropping and forecast a better breeding situation. We used this knowledge to plead with the fishermen who thought that the shrimp had deserted our coast to go out and try again. Since then, the yield has increased year-by-year until we fished over 23.5 million pounds last year." Dow explains that acquaculture is not new—it has been practiced by Japanese oyster fishermen for many years—but is not developed. He envisions that the American coastal fishermen will be quick to establish "farms" now that the benefits have been proven just in time to feed the world's exploding population. w �April, 1970 SEAFARERS Rep. Addabbo Sees Passage Of Mercbant Marine Act Congressman Joseph P. Ad­ dabbo (D.-N.Y.) predicted the passage of the Merchant Ma­ rine Act of 1970, during a luncheon speech at a meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. But, citing the fact that the Soviet Union has replaced the United States as the world's leader in number of ships While the U.S. has skidded to seventh position, he said that much stronger measures would be needed to effectively revital­ ize our shipping industry. "It is a fact that the 300 new ships to be constructed in the next decade—should the pro­ gram be approved — will not even equal the number of aged ships that will be retired from our decrepit fleet," he said. Rep. Addabbo offered sta­ tistics showing that the U.S. has slipped from first place to fifth place in total ship tonnage dur­ ing the past quarter century, "and we would have to double our tonnage to even replace Norway for fourth place." LOG Page Five /2 Afore Qualify For Full SlU Membership Congressman Hugh Carey (D-Brooklyn, N.Y.) was on hand for a din­ ner attended by the latest group of Seafarers to complete the Advanced Seamanship Training program. Con­ gressman Carey, who has long been concerned about the plight of American shipping, told the new full-book members that he intends to continue the fight to build a strong United States flag fleet. Flanking the Congressman are (at left) Bull Shepard, SlU vice presi­ dent; and Ed Mooney, SlU repre­ sentative. the world's largest shippers, would set an example for pri­ vate shippers by increasing its percentage of cargo carried in American bottoms. "Nothing less than 100 per­ cent of the federal government's cargo should be allotted to American-flag ships," he said. "We must drive home the point that each foreign bottom laden with American goods is harming our nation's merchant fleet and our balance of payments." Higher Losses He cited much higher losses of ships flying foreign flags com­ pared to American vessels to drive home the superiority of properly trained American crews and offer "an unimpeach­ able argument for the detailed and effective — and yes, time consuming and costly—training programs that have made America's seafarers the finest in the world." Rep. Addabbo related that 102 Greek seamen lost their lives in sea disasters during the past four months and runawayU.S. Overtaken flag ship losses from Panama "Who would have dreamed— are eight times higher than for just a few years ago—that Rus­ U.S. ships and Lebanese ship­ sia, with a naval heritage about ping losses are an incredible 37 equal to that of Switzerland— times greater than those suffered would overtake the Goliath of by American owners. the seas, the United States? But The 10-year veteran of the overtake us they have," Ad­ House of Representatives de­ dabbo said. cried the fact that the adminis­ Speaking before representa­ tration's proposal provides no tives of the 7.5 million member help for the Great Lakes fleet, Maritime Trades Department, describing that fleet as one -he urged the Nixon administra­ "whose ships are often older tion to expand the present pro­ than the average age of the sea­ posal. farers working them." He urged provisions for aid­ "Ignored as well is help for ing the Great Lakes fleet and our beleagured friends in the the fishing industry, and to ex­ fishing industry," he said. "They tend construction subsidies and have seen their share of the U.S. deferred tax privileges to carri­ market plummet from nearly 70 ers of domestic cargo—"partic­ percent to a third, while better ularly those who service the equipped foreign competitors non-contiguous states of Al­ have thrived upon the miseries aska and Hawaii and the Com­ of the American fisherman." monwealth of Puerto Rico." • Rep. Addabo concluded that Addabbo cautioned that the an autonomous. Cabinet-level administration's goal of reviv­ Maritime Administration to give ing the American-flag cargo direction and aid to the nation's fleet would be impossible unless maritime policies and programs the federal government, one of is required. Tvvelve more Seafarers received their full membership books after completing Advanced Seamanship Training. Presentation was made at the April membership meeting in New York. First row (l-r): C. Leahy, J. Gallagher, E. Vajda, T. Anderson. Second row: T. Howell, M. Johnson, C. Spangler, W. Ballard, C. Taylor. Top row: J. Staley, J. Hagner, and J. Southerland. Poland Buildmg Up Merchant Fleet With Boost From Soviet Union With help from the Soviet this coastline by provision of the Union, who purchases about 75 Potsdam agreement after World percent of her shipping exports, War II, the nation had little Poland is becoming a major maritime heritage, but since maritime power. then, the government has ex­ During the next five years the pended great efforts to develop Polish fleet is scheduled to dou­ ocean industries. ble in size. There are now three In the early post war days, flourishing ports on Poland's less the Polish shipbuilding industry than 350 miles of Baltic coast­ had only 20 engineers, 100 tech­ line and the infant maritime in­ nicians and 1,000 trained work­ dustry is pushing to take full ers to construct ships. There advantage of these waters. were no Polish maritime offi­ Before the Poles were ceded cers. Captains and officer's had to be imported from other Euro­ pean countries. Earn Engine Room Endorsements Today there are more than 2.000 engineers, 3,800 ship­ building technicians and 47,000 shipyard workers. They have raised Poland to tenth place in ship construction capacity, fifth place in the export of ships and first place in the building of fish­ ing vessels. The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship's Q.AA.E.D. upgrading program has qualified nine more Seafarers for engine room endorsements. Pictured above Cl-i") ate Instructor Bob Lonchiek; Patrick Laszio, FOWT; James Glover, FOWT; George Bermeo, oiler; Alex Christian, FOWT; Richard Burkhart, FOWT; Dario Madrid, FOWT; Anthony Howell, FOWT; Minas Notaris, junior engineer; Richard Pleninger, junior engineer; and Ernest Bowen. Coast Guard examiner. The Polish merchant fleet now has 1,000 officers on 231 vessels and ranks 18th among the world's shippers with 1.7 million deadweight tons. From an annual catch of 12,000 tons of fish before World War II, Polish fishing fleets now take 385,000 tons of fish from the seas. These fishermen, who only started venturing out of home waters into the Atlantic in 1961, have set a goal of 600,000 tons in 1975 and 900,000 tons in 1980. Minimal Control The shipbuilding industry is faced with minimal govern­ mental control so that shipbuild­ ers can go out to find customers. Shipbuilding already accounts for more than five percent of the nation's annual export earnings. Polish yards have even devel­ oped tools that are exported to Five Year Plan other nation's shipyards. The next "five-year-plan" for The three major ports, Szcze­ the 1970s will concentrate on cin, Gdynia and Gdansk are construction of dry cargo ves­ busy and prosperous. The Poles sels and fishing vessels, especial­ are developing a fourth harbor ly the large "mother ships" that on the Baltic to further expand serve as floating factories for their fledgling but ambitious large fleets of trawlers on fishing grounds all over the world. De- maritime industry. After an impressive beginning soite strong competition from the Polish maritime industry is Japan and East and West Ger­ many, Poland is gradually in­ ready to try to rise to the big creasing her markets for Polish leagues as one of the world's leading maritime powers. built ships. �SEAFARERS Page Six April, 1970 LOG Ifs All in the Contract 'Ship American' Program Needed For Success of 1970 Maritime Plan (Continued from page 3) He said it was paradoxical that while the fleet is predominently composed of World War II vintage ships, "it also con­ tains the most eflScient general cargo ships in operation in the world today. We top the rest of the world in containerships." U.S.-flag vessels, in the sec­ ond quarter of 1969, were haul­ ing 58.6 percent of all container­ ized cargo carried in U.S.-North Atlantic trades, and 64.7 percent of the containerized movement between the U.S. and the Far East, he reported. In spite of this, foreign-flag ships continue to monopolize the nation's inter­ national trade movement, ac­ counting for 94 percent of the tonnage moved, he added. Gibson listed several pluses he found in his work with the merchant fleet. "American seaman," he said, "are second to none in the world." \IMs Ark Berthed On Moimtah Top? They don't build ships like they used to. Not if it's really Noah's Ark that is being excavated on Mount Ararat in Turkey. But whatever is 14,000 feet above sea level on that glacier covered mountain, is drawing attention from some well-known experts. Offering to help remove the ice covering supposedly 50 tons of hand hewn beams is the Arctic Institute of North America, which, ac­ cording to a New York Times article^ is "probably the foremost polar research organization on this con­ tinent." If it is indeed Noah's Ark on that mountain — and there are doubts about this —then the wooden remains would be several thousand years old. Good wood, wasn't it? As for management, he said, "I can discern no signs indicat­ ing that the foreign-flag lines are more innovative, display better judgment, or possess a better brand of expertise. The fact that a foreign-flag tramp with a Chinese crew can turn a profit on a voyage hauling a low-revenue cargo at a rate that is prohibitive to an Americanflag tramp, hardly implies that the foreigner is a better manager than his American counterpart." Gibson said President Nixon has "charted a new course" for the American Merchant Marine through his proposal that is now before Congress. "The new program calls for the construction of 300 highly productive merchant ships dur-. ing the next ten years," he said. "These ships, type by type, will be among the most modem and efficient in the world." Must Have Cargo He said the Administration's program was not developed "just to produce a fleet of mod­ em ships. "If our nation is to elevate and preserve its maritime stat­ ure, these ships have got to sail down to the marks with cargo. No ship however modern or efficient, will be profitable if it sails half full. "We in the Maritime Admin­ istration are currently in the process of formulating an in­ tensive trade promotion effort to assist American-flag opera­ tors to attract cargoes to their ships. In my judgment, this is the most important task before us, once the new legislation has been enacted." 'Ship American' Gibson said he has heard from shippers several reasons why they send their cargo on foreign bottoms, and chided them for "the absence of na­ tionalistic attitudes (while) patemalistic attitudes abroad fig­ ure importantly in the routing of frei^t to foreign lines." Gibson said a nationwide lUD Conference Discusses Foreign Shipping Threat (Continued from page 3) that meets two objectives: Continuation ,. r of ,. a longstand~ . ing policy of seeking to build a healthy trade surplus through the elimination of world trade barriers. Provide protection for work­ ers and industry against injury from imports through a pro­ gram of adequate assistance and time to find new endeavors. Senator Muskie criticized the Nixon Administration for a "lack of urgency" in appointing members of a commission on world trade and investment. He said the delay in appointments continues despite the fact that the problems of world trade affect the livelihood of millions of Americans." In addition, he said four steps would improve the overall trade picture: • Encouragement of fair labor standards around the world patterned after those won in the U.S. • Elimination of "unneces­ sary self-imposed restrictions" on trade with communist coun-, tries. • Demands for equal treat­ ment for U.S.-made goods in foreign markets. • Development of realistic exchange rates among major trading nations. program would be launched to "Ship American." "It will have the strongest support of the President and the Secretary of Commerce," he said. "The principal message will stress the positive benefits that accrue to both the shipper and the nation from the patron­ age of American-flag ships. Americans must be made aware of the economic dividends that can be realized in the form of employment, federal tax reve­ nues and an improved balance of international payments. SlU Representative Red Campbell (right) refers to the contract to explain duties of reefer maintenance to Felix Diaz, chief eiectrician on the Tampa (Sea-Land). Many beefs can be resolved aboard ship by understanding the Union contract. Ail department delegates should keep a copy of the contract with them at sea. \ Long-Term Support "The enactment of the Pres­ ident's program will put into effect a long-term federal com­ mitment of support to the in­ The House has passed a bill dustry," he continued. "It makes just plain good sense for authorizing $100 million for the shipping public to utilize the Coast Guard Vessels, aircraft services of our fleet in some rea­ and facilities for the 1971 fiscal sonable degree. Many of the year. This was a reduction from dollars the government will ex­ the fiscal 1970 appropriation of pend to modernize our mer­ $142.8 million. chant marine will return to the An amendment offered by treasury from such patronage." Rep. Frank T. Bow (D.-Mich.) The panel was chaired by requiring that new ships author­ Charles H. Logan, industrial ized by the bill be constructed in relations counsellor from New American shipyards, was accept­ Orleans. Ray Murdock, execu­ ed and the measure was passed tive director of the Transporta­ by a voice vote. Provisions of the bill include: tion Institute in Washington, o $62,295,000 for construc­ D.C., was moderator. $W0 Million AnwopriateJ For Coast Guard Operations DISPATCHERS REPORT Atlantic/ tion and improvements to Coast Guard vessels, including $59 million for the first of a new series of polar icebreakers. • $12,865,000 to buy and improve aircraft, including $12.5 million for six medium range helicopters. • $24,840,000 for the devel­ opment and establishment of Coast Guard installations and facilities. The budget includes an Ad­ ministration proposal for one oilspill clean-up system to combat off shore oil pollution. Gulf & inland Waters District MARCH 1/ 1970 to MARCH 31, 1970 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York ... Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile New Orleans . Houston ..... Wilmington .. San Francisco Seattle_^_j_j_j_j_j_ Totals All Groups Class A Class B 3 7 130 113 15 11 55 33 28 17 40 32 10 9 34 41 92 112 80 99 49 68 101 118 59 39 709 686 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class 6 74 4 46 27 22 11 6 71 40 45 75 55 482 0 73 6 16 23 19 23 9 58 51 45 90 26 439 3 14 0 8 4 1 1 4 12 12 16 28 41 139 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 9 8 190 139 26 22 131 43 28 21 45 . 40 13 11 83 74 139 107 134 123 29 52 57 118 49 27 708 1010 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston ....... New York Philadelphia .. Baltimore .... Norfolk Jacksonville .. Tampa Mobile New Orleans . Houston ...., Wilmington ... San Francisco Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 9 6 94 129 10 13 53 43 35 17 19 47 9 9 26 33 89 81 95 70 32 41 79 113 47 41 554 686 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 67 8 46 18 7 2 7 56 45 17 55 26 357 7 82 10 36 21 27 13 9 71 43 32 98 44 493 1 19 0 7 5 3 0 0 4 5 12 55 33 144 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 4 6 140 171 29 15 64 62 40 19 52 21 6 9 79 67 148 93 124 109 16 27 41 65 13 40 787 673 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 2 2 76 62 13 6 45 21 15 13 11 16 5 2 37 20 49 64 77 47 31 14 93 76 45 17 378 480 T(^AL SHIPPED :^A11 Groups Class A Class I1 Class C 4 2 1 27 43 55 2 3 3 11 21 37 9 26 16 9 11 5 1 7 2 1 6 5 1 42 54 18 19 24 15 19 12 37 25 67 20 15 40 155 237 321 REGISTEREiD on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 0 5 89 143 13 23 62 99 22 20 28 21 3 7 60 81 71 123 55 147 14 29 38 79 13 33 468 810 �April, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Seven LOG Seafarer Rottaris 'Down on the Farm' After 35 Rewarding Years At Sea Shown here in 1934 aboard his first ship. The Greater Detroit, is Brother John Rottaris who spent 35 years at sea and has now retired on an SlU pension to become a farmer. In this and other photos provided by Seafarer Rottaris, SlU members are taken back to early days on the Great Lakes. Rottaris and a shipmate kid around aboard the George H. Engalls in 1938. It was on this ship that Rottaris worked as an oiler when he met Fred J. Farnen who is now an SlU Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Great Lakes District. He says he's one of the nickel immigrants because when he was 14 years old he came over from Canada to the United States on a ferryboat that only cost a nickel. He's now 56, a naturalized citizen for over 30 years, and a retired SIU pensioner whose 35 year sailing career reflects what life used to be like for the Great Lakes seaman. His life has been an interest­ ing one for all Seafarers and his present situation is equally fas­ cinating. For, after all those years on the water. Brother John Rottaris of Marine City, Mich., has become a farmer. His sea career began in 1934, four years before the SIU was formed, and seven years after he had come to the United States. It was in 1934 that Rottaris was sailing as a wiper on one of the last side wheelers to be seen on the Great Lakes. The ship was called the Greater De­ troit. On the first trip Rottaris made, the third engineer was Harlow Wolfe, a man with whom he still keeps in touch and who is a MEBA pensioner. "My old pal, Harlow" Rattaris said, "is 72 and still spry. He lives on 20 acres not far from me and he raises sheep." In the Spring of 1938 when Brother Rottaris was working as an oiler aboard the George H. Engalls. he met Fred J. Far­ nen, now an SIU Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Great Lakes District. Famen was then working as a fireman and according to Rot­ On the Engalls again. Seafarer Rottaris wears his lifejacket. In recalling his days aboard Great Lakes ships, he remembers not only the good times but also the hard­ ships endured, such as bad food and water, poor heating, and little space and light. Driving his tractor on part of his 12 acres of farmland in Marine City, Michigan, Brother Rottaris intends to plant sweet corn, carrots and other vegetables this spring. Besides this work, he does odd jobs, such as painting and varnishing pleasure boats and picking tomatoes and cucumbers for other farmers. taris, "he had one of the rough­ est toughest, dirtiest jobs on board—hand shoveling coal into the vessel's boilers." Rottaris describes the condi•tions on the Lakes then, condi­ tions that all old time sailing men will well remember. The food and water were bad. Heat was erratic, and there was little space and light. "It was hard to be a seaman on the Lakes in the '20s and early '30s," Rottaris said. "Poor treatment by owners, companies and captains brought on the need for a Union." He noted there were a few good captains while others were indifferent and still others very bad. Brother Rottaris was an ac­ tive Union member. He and "Freddy, the ice man, who is dead now" organized the Wy­ andotte Steamship Company on the Great Lakes in 1947. "We worked day and night" to get their four ships into the Union, he recalled. Seafarer Rottaris sometimes shipped as much as seven straight months out of a year, and during the war he shipped out practically all the time. When he retired he had 6,500 days behind him. He regularly stops at the De­ troit Union Hall to. keep in touch with old friends and play pinochle. His dedication to the Union made it possible for young men now to pursue a sailing career on a more professional basis. As Rottaris pointed out: "They'll have to work hard, but . at least they won't have to face the obstacles we did." Even though he sailed for 35 years. Brother Rottaris still has the vigor and drive to get up early in the morning and pursue a career that requires hard labor. He bought 12 acres of land close to the water in Marine City and this spring he will be planting sweet com, carrots and other vegetables. In addition. Brother Rottaris does odd jobs, such as painting and varnishing pleasure boats, and also picks tomatoes and cucumbers for farmers—just to stay in shape. What makes a Seafarer of 35 years turn to farming in his re­ tirement? Rottaris explained that his first job on coming to Michigan was as a farmhand. In fact, it was the farmer's brother who was a seaman, who first inter­ ested young Rottaris in sailing. Also, when Rottaris sailed he heard many stories about farm life since many of his sailing companiojis on the Great Lakes were raised on farms. On the whole, Rottaris says, "most of the Great Lakes sailors were from the small cities of Algonac, Marine City, Sinclair and St. John. And the majority of these men were brought up on farms." Talking about his retirement. Brother Rottaris said, "I am so thankful for a good pension from the SIU because now I can draw from the fruits of my labor." And to all those Seafarers who are still sailing, Rottaris wishes them "the best of luck, and may all your days be smooth ones." A crewmember on the Engalls In 1938 Is given some luxury treatment during leisure time. While one ship­ mate cuts his hair. Brother Rottaris shines his shoes. Rottaris came to this country from Canada when he was 14 years of age. Rottaris is proud to stand with his old friend, Harlow Wolfe who Is a MEBA pensioner and the owner of 20 acres of land on which he raises sheep. Wolfe, who Is 72 years old, was the third engineer on the first trip Brother Rottaris made In 1934. They have kept in touch ever since. �SEAFARERS Page Eight April, 1970 LOG -J • r- A;: Deck Department Seafarer Marian Lubiedewski has his heart checked by Dr. J. A. San Filippo at the SlU clinic in the Port of New York. Brother Lubiedewski makes it a habit to stop in at the clinic for a rou­ tine check up when he is between ships. ?j A chest x-ray is part of the comprehensive physical examination for Seafarer Joseph Jernigan. Clinic technician Benjamin lannotti operates the x-ray machine and makes sure that Brother Jernigan is in the proper position for the chest x-ray. 1968 01 I 1 « 7 8 9 10 ,1 14 15 16 17 t 70 21 22 23 24 25 5 '28 29 30 3 I " In order to really be fit for duty at sea, a Seaforer must be in tbe best possible physical condition. To insure being in ship­ shape condition, periodic physical examinations are needed to diagnose trouble and correct it before it becomes serious. This is why the SIU established the Pete Larsen Memorial Clinic in the Port of New York to provide medical services for Seafarers and their families. The clinic is fully equipped with the latest medical equip­ ment necessary for complete examination and diagnostic serv­ ices, including laboratory, x-ray, and optical facilities. A full-time professional stall of doctors, nurses and techni­ cians is always available to assist Seafarers and their families with any medical problem. Leabho Harvih has an eye examination administered by technician Richard Brigham. The SIU clinic serves and looks after the health of both Seafarers and their families. �April, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Several students from the SlU's Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship, along with veteran Seafarer Marian LuWedewski (right), occupy the waiting room at the clinic. Brother Lubiedewski answers some ques­ tions for his medical record held by nurse Mary Larsen. Seafarer Albert Jensen, who sails in the engine department, fills out a medical history form for nurse Mary Larsen. The clinic will use the information supplied on the form by Brother Jensen during the physical examination. Nurse Ann Garfield looks over the information on medical questionaire just filled in by Seafarer Joseph Pierro. Pierro is a student at the SlU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. He is looking forward to his first ship. iii®! A blood test is an important part of every physical examination performed by the SlU clinic. Brother Jose Fernandes, who sails as FOWT, looks on as lab technician William Rivers uses a sterile needle to take a blood sample. Mrs. Leabho Harvin, wife of Seafarer Clarence Harvin,' who sails as a third cook, relaxes as an overhead x-ray machine is used by x-ray technician Benjamin lanotti. , Seafarer Narciso Palomar, who sails as a wiper, has his blood pressure checked by Dr. Maurice Pivkin. In order to check the blood pressure properly, it is checked both at rest and after exercise. - 1 tl �ten SEAFARERS LOG April, 1970 Today's Hying Dutthman-A Ship VHthmt Cargo Seafarer Likes Life Aboard Research Ship A ship without cargo is worthless—a total loss, not only to its owners but to the Sea­ farer as well. An empty ship provides no jobs. Like the legendary ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman, an empty ship never reaches port—because it never sails. After many years of battle, it appears that the SIU will be able to join its friends in seeing a program to construct new vessels put into effect. Members of Congress from both political parties are favoring a program by the Nixon Administration to build 3^0 merchant ships in the next 10 years. Should the proposal be adopted, the SIU will be confronted with a new challenge— getting the holds filled with cargo. We will, of course, continue our fight to get the fed­ eral government to increase its shipments in American-flag bottoms. The government, whose agencies have reneged on even send­ ing half their shipments on American vessels as ordered by Congress, should do far more. There is no valid reason for any federal gov­ ernment cargo being carried on a foreignflag vessel. But even should we succeed in winning our long struggle to increase government carriage on American ships, we will but make a small dent in the huge void that exists. The American-flag fleet now carries less than six percent of the total American international waterbome tonnage. To increase our carriage to the 30 percent level envisioned by President Nixon for the mid-1970s will require convincing American industry that it pays to "Ship American." We are pleased to see that Maritime Ad­ ministrator Andrew E. Gibson told an audience at Tulane University in New Or­ leans that a national program is being devel­ oped to urge industry to "Ship American." He can count on the solid support of the SIU. We have fought the good fight to get gov­ ernment support of a modern, strong mer­ chant marine. We will do no less to see that, when it comes, it is protected and promoted. Gnat Lakes Fleet Needs Transfusion A large and important area of our mari­ time heritage lies in the glories of the Great Lakes fleets. What schoolboy has not heard of the Battle of Lake Erie, during which Com­ modore Oliver Hazard Perry and the young American lake fleet defeated a British squad­ ron to give the infant navy a much needed boost in morale? The Great Lakes have always been a life line between the ports of the midwest. With the opening of the Erie Canal, connecting Buffalo, New York, on Lake Erie with the Hudson River near Albany, in 1825, the lakes were joined with the Atlantic. In 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway was completed, allowing ocean-going vessels to penetrate as far west as Duluth, Minnesota, to pick-up and discharge cargoes from the American heartland. Great Lakes commerce has long been an important economic factor in American trade. Lately, American cargo ships are so over­ matched that about 45 foreign-flag ships carry cargoes between foreign and Great Lakes ports for every American Great Lakes vessel sailing abroad. Even these few lakes ships are in a sorry state. About 45 percent of them were built before 1915—more than 50 years ago—older than the crews who are sailing them. They are truly deserving of the nickname "rust-bucket fleet." There is ample room for improvement in the percentage of American cargo to be transported in American ships. For example, the area serviced by the Great Lakes and the Seaway manufactures 54 percent of the transportation equipment and 51 percent of non-electrical machinery made in the United States. This is over and above the agricul­ tural products from the midwest. Why are American goods caiTied in foreign bottoms? The terrible truth is that since 1955 our fleet on the Lakes has declined by more than 130 vessels with a loss of almost 5,000 jobs for Lakes seamen. We must reverse this trend. Most Seafarers come back from voyages aboard ships that have carried either cargo or pas­ sengers. But it was a different sailing trip for Brother Rogette White, who for 13 months served as cook aboard the U.S. Oceanographic Research Vessel Rob­ ert D. Conrad. The Conrad, an SlU-contracted vessel, is operated by Lamont Geological Observatory. In a recent interview Brother White told the LOG of his trip. Leaving Honolulu in late 1968, Seafarer White stayed with the Conrad for 13 months as she researched the ocean's bottom from Cape Horn to the Indian Ocean and back into the Pacific. Brother White shared the ex­ citement of the scientists as they discovered new facts about the undersea world. White said the scientists took samples of the ocean floor, "checked the temperature of the water, the depth of the mud, its temperature, watched how the tides ran and took samples of the rock in order to determine its age." He saw the depth of the ocean change, and on the whole, found the trip "very interesting, espe­ cially when they found some­ thing new." As the ship traveled from port to port. White would sometimes spend as much as 30 to 40 days at sea. "We would seldom see another ship" and at these times "often the most exciting event was seeing land." White explained that there were, on an average, from 36 to 38 men aboard the 200 foot ship, including both crew and scientists. He came into contact with some very interesting men, in­ cluding scientists from around the world. Brother White's sailing career began in his native island of Bermuda some 27 years ago when he was only 17. Since then he has sailed through many seas. In 1963 he began working for the Lamont Observatory. He later joined the SIU in the Port of New York. Unlike many SIU veterans of World War II, Brother White did not serve in the American Armed Forces but was in the British Navy. Talking more about Lamont Observatory, White explained that the Robert D. Conrad was named after a famous naval deep sea oceanographer. The Conrad has made many scientific journeys on most of the world's oceans. She is fully equipped with complex instru­ ments: some photograph the ocean's bottom; others take mag­ netic and gravitational measure­ ments of the earth; while still others test materials that lie beneath the ocean floor. The Observatory itself be­ longs to Columbia University and has its main station in Palisades, New York on the west side of the Hudson River. The Observatory was ". . . established to study the com­ position and structure of the earth, its history, the changes now taking place in it, and its relationship to the rest of the universe . . .," according to a Lamont spokesman. Among its accomplishments are the discovery of small snail­ like creatures who were thought to have been extinct for 300 million years. These animals' "ancestors were among the first to leave a clear fossil record on earth." Also discovered were salt domes in the deep basin of the Gulf of Mexico. "The domes are the first of their kind found beneath the floor of a deep ocean," and they are "of the type that have made the coastal region of Louisiana and Texas one of the richest oil areas in the world," according to Lamont scientists. While drilling into the con­ tinental shelf off the GeorgiaFlorida coast, Lamont scientists and researchers from other oceanographic institutes dis­ covered artesian fresh water wells. Besides learning more about the undersea world, Lamont has another goal — "to perpetuate and and increase man's knowl­ edge of the earth by teaching students those subjects in which research is done at the Observa­ tory." 1 R/V Robert D. Conrad, operated by Lamont Geological Observatory �April, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG T HE SIU SHIP'S COMMITTEE—a new concept to provide all Seafarers with the opportunity to take an even more active part in the affairs of their Union—^has proved increasingly successful since the Committees were first established ei^t months ago. The idea of a Ship's Committee was initiated and voted by the membership last July to become a part of the Standard Freightship and Tj^er Agreements. Under this program, the office of Ship's Delegate has been abolished. The five-man Ship's Committee consists of three elected delegates: a deck delegate, engine delegate, and steward delegate. The other two members of the Committee are the Ship's Secretary-Reporter, who is the chief steward, and the Ship's Chairman, who is the bosun. All shipboard beefs are handled through the department delegates. The department delegates also periodically check the overtime sheets of the crewmembers in their department. All beefs that have not been settled during the voyage are taken to the SIU patrolmen at payoff by the department delegate. The Ship's Chairman has the responsibility of calling a shipboard meeting every Sunday while the vessel is at sea. He is expected to lead discussions on all matters relating to the Union and its programs: the SIU constitution, the freightship and tanker contracts, the welfare and pension plans, political action for more ships and jobs, training programs, and other matters. The Ship's Secretary-Reporter is expected to keep in close touch with SIU headquarters so that the crewmembers can be kept up to date on what's happening ashore. He also sends headquarters a report of each shipboard meeting, including discussions, recommendations and other actions. The Seafarer at sea, like his brother on the beach, wants to know more about his Union. Every member, whether at sea or ashore, has a right to be fully informed about his Union's programs and policies—and, every member also has the right and the obligation to take part in formulating and carrying out those programs and policies. The continued growth of the SIU as a viable, democratic trade union depends on the fullest possible expression of ideas and opinions by Seafarers ashore and at sea throughout the world. The establishment of the Ship's Committee, the responsibility of department delegates in handling beefs, and the requirement of weekly shipboard meetings at sea, provides the opportunity and the forum for every SIU member to have a voice in the affairs of his union. TAMPA (Sea-Land)—(Seated l-r) G. Castro, chairman; Eloris Tart, sec­ retary; Arturo Mariani Jr., steward delegate. (Standing l-r) Felix Diaz, engine delegate; Allen Lynn, deck delegate. I AZALEA CITY CSea-Tand)—(L-r) Morris Berlowitz, steward delegate"; C. N. Johnson, secretary; John H. Morris, chairman. Engine and deck delegate were on watch when this photo was snapped. SEATRAiN NEW. JERSEY—(L-r) Emanuel Lowe, steward delegate,Charles Reddish, engine delegate,- S. P. Morris, chairman,- Herbert At­ kinson, secretary. THIS IHMItl SEATRAIN GEORGIA—(L-r) Don Pace, engine delegate; Bill Wallace, chairman; William Simmons, deck delegate,- Jim Thomas, secretary. PORTLAND (Sea-Land)—(L-r) Henry Bentz, chairman; Ralph Hernan­ dez, secretary; Voldemar Koel, deck delegate; Osvaldo Rios, steward delegate. On watch was Osvaldo Delgado, engine delegate, seen hpre Inserting burner In the fireroom. Page Eleven �Page Twelve SEAFARERS Early SlU Baby LOG April, 1970 Lifeboat Oasses Gradate at Piaey Pant Growing Up One of the first SIU babies bom under the SIU maternity benefits program gram laimched on April 1,1952, Linda Marie Ciampi, daughter of Seafarer and Mrs. Manfredo V. Ciampi, is is now a lovely 18-year old stu­ dent at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts. Linda was bom on April 4, 1952, just three days after the maternity benefits program went into effect, and Brother Ciampi says that it seemed as if Linda, who was expected in March, "decided to hold off the stork, so that she could qualify for Ae new benefits." She will graduate from high school in June, and is looking forward to a career with one of the airlines as a reservationist. Brother Ciampi told the LOG that the ClU provides its mem­ bers with "some great benefits" and the matemity benefits pro­ gram is only one of them. Another benefit for Seafarers and their children is the annual SIU Scholarship awards- Each year five winners are selected by a distinguished panel of leading university educators and admin­ istrators. Since its inception, the SIU Scholarship Plan has helped 83 young men and women. CLASS 42-(l-r front row) Jerry VV. Jordan, Winston T. Shanks, Thomas J. Dougherty, Joseph W. Hagner, Robert E. LIghtfoot, Danny Tolbert, Wil­ liam S. Mattes, David R. Waldrop, John R. Day. (Back row) Instructor Paul McGaharn, Charles L. Miller, Michael T. George, John M. Cataldo, James R. Arnold, Robert E. Hoiten, Eric T. Bush, John C. Morris, Arman S. Earnest, Gerald N. Hargus, Baldeyude Grajales, Jr., Roland Perry, Jr., and In­ structor Daniel Griffith. JBtX r •? d' . "i ' .''u g -V % " 4i fc. • "Sfc .. 'Vi 'i -n ' 1^— :I HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP ..M J'my POINT, MO. MD. LIF[ BOAT CLASS No. Bl CLASS 43—(Kneeling l-r) Rodolfo Perez, Alphonso David. (Front row) Instructor Paul McGaharn, Charles Augustus, Stephen Jacques, Martin Gam­ ble, Charles Fleek, Thomas R. New, Frederick Reed, Richard Simpson, Eugene Williams, Mike Goodwin. (Back row) Benny Migliorino, Aaron Rose, Lawrence Dyer, Paul Veralopulo, Jr., Clayton Everett, George Roth, Rickie Jones, Thomas Powell, Jimmie Blick and Steven Harvey. Dei Ore Delta Paraguay Delta Mexico Sparked by the seamanship and cooperation of SIU mem­ bers in all three departments aboard its ships, SlU-contracted Delta Steamship Lines has, for the sixth straight year, bettered previous safety records. The company announced re­ cently that a 1969 record of no lost-time injuries has been turned in. by five vessels in the Delta fleet. This figure is more than double the 1968 number Del Norte of vessels with accident-free records. The five vessels with acci­ dent-free records for 1969 were the Del Norte, Del Oro, Delta Brasil, Delta Mexico and Delta Paraguay. These five SlU-manned ves­ sels have a total of 2,710 days —or over seven years—sailing without an accident. Crews aboard all Delta ships worked a total of more than five million Delta Brasil man hours with only 20 losttime accidents. Delta's American-flag fleet serves South America, the Car­ ibbean and West Africa through ports in the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the company's ships also saw duty in the Vietnam war zone during 1969. The lost-time injury ratings are certified by the National Safety Council. �April, 1970 SEAFARERS Congressmen Seek Tourth Seacoast' Designation to Spur Lakes Subsidies Thirty-nine congressmen from Great Lakes districts have introduced two identical bills that would recognize the Lakes as the fourth seacoast of the United States for subsidy pur­ poses involving foreign trade. The bills, which were referred to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, "recognize the fact that the St, Lawrence Seaway has trans­ formed the Great Lakes seaports into international centers and the heartland of America into a Mississippi Senate Kills Strike Ban Bill JACKSON, Miss. — A labor-opposed bill banning public employee strikes was killed in the Mississippi Senate. State AFL-CIO President Claude Ramsay said the pu­ nitive legislation was criti­ cized by nearly all partici­ pants in the Senate debate and only a handful of votes were cast against the mo­ tion to table the bill. The measure would have automatically fired any pub­ lic employee who stnid(. If be were later re-employed, he would be subject to dis­ missal for any reason during a three-year probationary period and barred for two years from receiving more pay than he was getting be­ fore the strike. coastal region with world ports ready to accept shipping to and from every nation," said Rep. Thomas L. Ashley (D.-Ohio) on introducing the legislation. He said the proposal would grant the Lakes full port status and assure them equal treatment with the other three seacoasts. "The Great Lakes were bare­ ly considered when the Mer­ chant Marine Act was passed in 1936 because, at that time, there was no such thing as the St. Lawrence Seaway," the con­ gressman pointed out. "In 1936 we had a waterway from the sea into the Great Lakes which would accommo­ date vessels with drafts not greater than 14 feet. Since the opening of the Seaway in 1959, however, the system has been expanded so that it can now accommodate deep draft ocean­ going vessels," he stated. The Ohio Democrat con­ tinued; "The Great Lakes-St. Law­ rence Seaway system today stands as one of the world's great commercial traffic arteries, penetrating midcontinent United States and affording water-borne access to and from all ports of the world. "In North America, the midcontinent is the most important section for agriculture, popula­ tion, industrial production, and employment." He concluded: "The time has come to recognize the contribu­ tions of the Great Lakes region and to end their status as a step­ child of the Eastern seaboard." LOG Labor Backs Strong Legislation Designed to Create More Jobs AFL-CIO Legislative Direc­ tor Andrew J. Biemiller urged the House Labor Committee to enact meaningful manpower leg­ islation that would create jobs instead of the current adminis­ tration proposal which, he said, "serves no other purpose than to delude the public." He was speaking in favor of a bill that would create new pub­ lic service jobs that was intro­ duced by Representative James G. O'Hara (D.-Mich.) and 111 other congressmen. A federal program to cre­ ate public service jobs for the long-term unemployed and the "seriously underemployed" was needed in 1968 and 1969, and is "even more essential today," Biemiller said. "The nation is now faced by both an economic slump and rapidly rising prices, after more than a year of the Administra­ tion's policy of severe economic restraint, imposed in the name of combating inflation," he em­ phasized. Unemployment Rising With unemployment contin­ uing to rise, even beyond pre­ dictions, Biemiller noted, its greatest burden is falling on blue collar workers, particularly those with the least skills, the most recently hired and mem­ bers of minority groups. To help solve the problem, he continued, the nation needs a manpower policy that includes: A Stormy Crossing for the Cities Service Norfoik Crewmen John Burke, Richard Hannon, George Tamlin and Ralph Dougherty stand on the fantail where Bosun Ken Marston was injured as he grabbed Tamlin who was being swept overboard by a heavy boarding sea during a bad storm. Marston is in the hospital in Yokohama. Oiler Louis Raymond and Wiper Fitz Williams repair storm dam­ age to lines, pipes and washedaway catwalk gratings. The Norfolk sustained heavy storm damage during the Pacific cross­ ing. Fury of vhe storm is evident here as crewmembers Dennis Tieman, Dannie Truss and Jose Mata repair a door that was sprung and nearly ripped off by the heavy seas. Photos were taken in Yokasuka, Japan. Page Thirteen • Massive job creation national goals," the federation based largely on a public service said. Another deficiency in the Ad­ employment program. ministration bill, Biemiller de­ • Consolidation and coor­ dination of manpower programs clared, is that it would make under the Department of Labor state employment services the with responsibility for direction key agencies in the delivery of and development vested in the manpower services. These agencies "in the past Secretary of Labor. • Training programs that have demonstrated neither the emphasize upgrading instead of machinery nor the compassion simply preparing the hard-core to appropriately administer pro­ grams dealing with the disad­ jobless for entry-level jobs. Of the bills l^fore Congress, vantaged" and are not oriented Biemiller stressed, only the to handling their problems." "They are employer oriented. O'Hara bill would make it fed­ They are geared to finding an eral policy to move in all three areas and spell out the proced­ applicant for a job, rather than a job for an applicant." ures for doing so. By contrast, it was pointed Practical Way out, a feature of O'Hara's bill "It is the most practical and is that it "does not dispute re­ realistic way to create jobs in sponsibility" for manpower pro­ large numbers for the long-term grams but instead points the unemployed and the seriously finger at the Secretary of Labor underemployed," he said. and says "you're it." Even as a mechanism for im­ "There is no hiding behind proving the delivery of man­ the skirts: there is no shrugging power services, the Administra­ of the shoulders on the part tion bill "misses the mark" in of local officials in ascribing the that it would turn over manpow­ fault to the states and the states er programs to the states, the in ascribing the fault to the fed­ AFL-CIO suggested. eral government and federal Manpower programs are na­ government ascribing the fault tional in scope and "this is too to state and local officials. "If things go wrong, the Sec-r important an area" to let 50 states each go their own way retary of Labor is responsible dispensing funds in a way "that and he should shoulder the may or may not be in line with blame." Group Hits Texas Rangers For Anti-Labor Activities The Texas Rangers may be nearing the end of the trail if the state accepts the recom­ mendation of the Texas Advis­ ory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The members asked the state government to abolish the Rang­ ers because of their anti-labor activities. The committee urged Presi­ dent Nixon to abolish "com­ muter labor" (green carders) crossing the border from Mexico to work in the United States. The group also asked for coverage of farm workers under federal and Texas labor laws. The committee, composed of citizens from all parts of the state, issued its recommenda­ tions after holding open meet­ ings and interviewing Texans on discrimination. They found that MexicanAmericans in the Rio Grande Valley were "fearful and bitter" toward the Texas Rangers. Farm labor is prevented from organizing, said the report, by the state's "mass picketing law" and law enforcement groups like the Texas Rangers. "There is strong evidence," they found, "that the conduct of law officers in strike situations in South Texas is not neutral, but rather supportive of the farm operators' position and intimidating to laborers and la­ bor organizers." Commission Chairman Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh was quoted as saying the oppression of farm labor in Texas is "as close as you can come to slavery or people in bondage or a com­ plete deprival of normal, civil and human rights and I think it is a very serious situation and it ought to be made a federal case." The report cites an estimate by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee that 43,687 commuters from Mexico work in Texas, California, Ari­ zona and New Mexico in com­ petition with Americans. These "green carders," said the committee, "provide a limitless source of cheap labor for growers, making organiza­ tion of farm labor in Texas al­ most impossible." The report also asked that the National Labor P^elations Act and full minimum wage coverage be extended to farm workers and that the Texas Legislature enact workmen's compensation laws, unemploy­ ment and disability insurance laws along with mandatory housing standards applicable to migrant farm workers. There was strong criticism of some federal economic develop­ ment schemes. The "twin-plant" concept of the Commerce De­ partment was denounced be­ cause it permits U.S. industries to locate plants across the bor­ der in Mexico in order to take advantage of cheaper labor. �SEAFARERS Page Fonrteen April, 1970 LOG 13 Seafarers Win Lifeboat Endorsements Russia Builds Three Tankers Cuba Expands Merchant, Fish Fleets Through Strong Maritime Program Cuba is expanding her mer­ chant and fishing fleets with ships built in both Communist and non-Communist ports. Three tankers, 20,000 tons each, were built for Cuba by the Soviet Union, while 30 shrimp boats are being obtained from French ports. When two 15,000 ton ships arrive from Sweden later this year, the country's merchant ma­ rine will total 49 freighters with 376,600 tons displacement. Thirteen more Seafarers training course in New Edward Vajda, and Jim Juan Rosario, Abraham received endorsements as qualified lifeboatmen March 17, after attending the HLSS York. Seated (l-r) are Jim Edsar, Mike McQueenie, Conrad Taylor, Steven Vinson, Hagner. Standing (l-r) are: SlU Instructor Lennie Decker, Tony Parascandola, Bill Card, Alfaro, Terry Stanley, John Sakariassen, and Nick Paloumbis. MTP Meeting Moorhead Cites Transport Needs A coordinated program to develop the nation's total trans­ portation system—rivers, har­ bors, rails, highways and air­ ports—has been cdled for by Rep. William S. Moorhead (D.Pa.). Speaking before a luncheon meeting sponsored by the 7.5 million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, the Pennsylvania Democrat de­ clared that an intergrated ap proach to the needs and prob­ lems of our transportation system is essential "if we ever are to have any hopes of solving our problem of moving people and goods." At the same time. Rep. Moor^ head said expansion of transpor­ tation must take place as part of a concerted national effort to revitalize decaying urban areas, to enable expansion into sub­ urbia and to restore clean air and water to our people. Coordinated Effort He emphasized that failure to effectively coordinate all of these activities would mean the U.S. could find itself "doing some­ thing with one hand and undo­ ing it with the other." Moorhead was particularly critical of the fact that maritime legislation being considered by Congress deals exclusively with deep sea shipping and ignores shipping on the Great Lakes and the 25,000-mile network of in­ land waterways, as well as ship­ ping along the nation's coasts. "I don't think we should be satisfied with this approach," Moorhead told the meeting of labor, industry and government officials. "I don't think we should accept the premise that times are tough, that dollars are scarce, and that, since we can't do all of the things we should, then we'll just have to limp along with piecemeal solutions to our problems. "This attitude suggests . . . that next year, perhaps, we could consider the problem of, say, the Great Lakes; that perhaps in 1972 we might give a little thought to coastwise shipping; that in some other year in the future we might even tackle the problems of our . . . network of inland waterways." He called such a stretch-out approach a "hope of future action dangled under our noses like a carrot to keep us quiet." over 200 ships with displace­ ment of three million tons. The ships will carry 60 percent of Cuban export and import cargo and are part of a long-range transportation expansion system for the country. Washington Conference (Continued from page 2) First Large Ships The president of the Hawaii Other new ships in the fleet State Senate, David C. Mchave been built in East Ger­ Clung, was chairman of the con­ many, France, Poland and ference panel on Hawaii. Spain. Twenty-one of these Members of the panel in­ newest ships are over 10,000 cluded: Representatives Patsy T. tons. Mink and Spark M. Matsunaga; The operational range of the James Dooley, port agent. Sail­ three tankers built in the Soviet ors Union of the Pacific; Stanley Union is 10,000 nautical miles Powell Jr., president of Matson and they cruise at over 17 knots. Navigation Co.; Tadao Beppu, Cuba has never before owned speaker of the Hawaii House of vessels such as these. They are Representatives; Page Groton, also the first large ships built by administrative director, Boiler­ the Soviet Union for Cuba. makers Iron Ship Builders Marine Council, and Senator Large Shrimp Fleet The shrimp boats are 25 me­ Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii. ters long and weigh 215 tons. The panel discussing Puerto They will bring Cuba's shrimp Rico's problems was chaired by fleet to 150 vessels. Of these, Luis Guinot Jr., administrator 73 were built in Spain. of the Commonwealth's Wash­ Since the 1959 revolution, the ington, D.C., office. tonnage of Cuba's merchant Serving on the panel were: fleet has increased sixfold, ac­ cording to the country's statis­ Keith Terpe, president of the tics. In 1959, Cuba reports, Seafarers International Union of there were 14 ships in the coun­ Puerto Rico; Andrew A. Pettis, president of the Industrial Un­ try totaling 57,900 tons. ion of Marine and Shipbuilding During the 1970's the Cuban government plans to acquire Workers of America; A1 Maskin, executive director of the American Maritime Association, and Mr. McEvoy. Representative Edward A. Garmatz, chairman of the House Merchant Marine and labor movement faces in this Fisheries Committee, addressed year's elections, Blatnik urged Labor to elect representatives the closing session which also to Congress who will protect received reports and recommen­ dations from the panels. and further Labor goals. Blatttik Urges Droning Tolls; Zenith to Export7,000Jobs Asks Loiter Shipping Season By Moving Plant to Formosa Zenith Radio Corp. plans to export 7,000 American jobs. Zenith is building a giant new plant in Taiwan, For­ mosa, and has announced that it will let 3,000 workers go this year with another 4,000 layoffs planned for 1971, according to company chairman Joseph S. Wright. In his speech at the lUD conference, AFL-CIO Secre­ tary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland questioned the wisdom of such planning by multi-national companies. "It seems to me that the Zenith case pinpoints some of the biggest problems we face—the inability of Ameri­ can industrial leaders to understand how their actions could ultimately result in their own undoing," Kirkland said. "Look at it this way: Foreign trade accounts for less than 10 percent of the United States gross national prod­ uct. That means that 90 percent or more of all the goods that United States corporations produce here is sold here and used here. "In other words, the United States is. its own best custwner. ^ "Why? Because the United States worker earns enough, generally speaking, to be a major United States consumer. And every time an American corporation ex­ ports United States jobs, it eliminates part of its poten­ tial market." "Mr. Wright of Zenith won't be selling many of his products in Taiwan because he'll be paying such low wages—^perhaps as little as 15 cents an hour—that none of his workers in Taiwan will be able to afford them. "And, of course, the workers he lays oflE here—^black and white alike—^won't be able to aflford them either. "I can't understand such short-sightedness." (Continued from page 2) dangers of pollution from watercraft, and outlined how his bill, now in Conference between the Senate and the House, would substantially cut down or elim­ inate such pollution. St. Lawrence Seaway Blatnik recommended that the St. Lawrence seaway tolls be either reduced or eliminated entirely, and that the debt be cancell^. He outlined his own bill and that of Senator Walter Mondale (D-Minn.), which are both designed to accomplish these goals. Directing the gathering's at­ tention to other issues, Blatnik pointed out that both unemploy­ ment and inflation are on the increase. He quoted Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ar­ thur F. Bums, who predicts even more imemployment and further decline in housing, but added "Bums thinks it is a healthy thing." Blatnik accused the Nixon Administration of sacrificing Labor to the big banks under the banner of "anti-inflation" moves. Outlining the challenge the On the Robert E. Lee There Is always plenty of maintenance work to keep the deck crew busy at sea. This is a scene aboard the Robert E. Lee (Waterman) as the crew was reeving wire rope through a block as the ship was sailing between Djibouti and Banber Shapur, in the Golf of Aden. Pictured are Robert Dillon, bosun; Lee Lehman, O.S.; and ABs Robert Burns, John Colallllo, and Lawrence Stone. �April, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fifteen COMESIDIHE • With their wheelhouses still ,battened down against the winter's cold and wind, the J. L. Reiss and Peter Reiss lie nested in their slip at Toledo, Ohio, as work begins on their annual Spring fitout. isi' • ^ ,>?• ":i • Willie Chiocke, watchman on the G. A; Tomlinson, works the forward winches, as the ship shifts down to the coal dock to take on bunkers at Toledo's lakefront docks, docks. it It was still cold and windy as fitout ba^an. : "^ ^ - ' I i! SiU Representative George Tejagadis fills out a shipping card for Henry Howard vyho sails as steward, while AB Leon Furman looks on. Scene is at^the Detroit hall—i very busy place as the Great Lakes season begins to open. 1^ ARLY IN THE SPRING, even before the ice begms to thaw on the upper lakes, the bulk carriers of the Great Lakes fleet come alive in the lay-up ports of Detroit and Toledo as engine department crews fire up donkey boilers, and the annual fit-out of the ships begin. The engine crews, and the steward department members, are the first to arrive, relieving the shipkeepers who have kept lonely vigil on the giant iron ore and coal carriers throughout the long winter. These crewmembers usually report aboard their vessels in the first week in March. The deck department crews come aboard later, usually around the first week in April. Spring came late on the lakes this year. The Welland Canal, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario was more than two weeks late in opening because of heavy ice. The locks at Sault Ste. Marie—gateway to Lake Superior and the iron ore ranges of Michigan and Minnesota—are still isolated by heavy ice in the St. Mary's River. But down below, in Cleveland, Toledo, Conneaut, Erie, Lorain, Detroit, and other ports along Lake Erie, the ice has thawed, and giant coal carriers, like the Sylvania and the G. A. Tomlinson are already moving out. In SIU halls around the lakes, hundreds of Seafarers are checking in to register, get their shipping cards, and pick up their vacation checks. There are more than 60 ships in the SlU-contracted fleets on the Lakes. These include bulk carriers and self-unloaders, tankers, passenger ships, car ferries, tugs and barges. Included in the fleet is one of the newest and most mod­ ern self-unloaders in the Great Lakes, the Adam E. Cornel­ ius, built in Manitowac, Michigan, in 1959, and capable of unloading her 22,000 tons of coal in under seven hours. The SIU fleer also includes the Landsdowne—the oldest steam side-wheeler still in service in the United States. This remarkable vessel, built in 1884, runs year-round between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Seafarers on thd Great Lakes like to point out other superlatives. Rogers City, in upper Michigan, has the largest limestone quarry in the world. Alpena, on Lake Huron, is the home port of the SlU-contracted Huron Cement fleet. It is also the largest cement producer in the world. And, through the four locks at Sault Ste. Marie, passes more tonnage than the Panama Canal, even though the Soo is closed-in four months of the year. Great Lakes shipping is vital to the continued growth of the rich, industrial and agricultural heartland pf America. The bulk carriers of SlU-contracted fleets each year carry millions of tons of coal, iron oie, gypsum and limestone— the raw materials of industry. The grain carriers move the wheat from ports on western shore of Lake Michigan to giant grain storage bins in Buffalo. The Great Lakes fleet plays an important role in the ex­ panding economy of the United States, and the Seafarers who sail the "long ships" are proud of the role they are playing. �Page Sixteen SEAFARERS April, 1970 LOG - fA' .- •<Tl p-'-'-'i" , ?'*••'• • V ~7.W ••'• • •'•H '• I ;'• ;;•• 'iv:' The Adam E. Cornelius, 666 feet long and 22,000 tons, gets her hull painted as she makes ready for her first trip of the year. The "Adam E." was the last United States bulk freighter built on the lakes. The big self-unloader came down the ways at Manitowoc, Wis., in 1959. She can carry 21,000 tons of coal, and unload in six and one-half hours. " John Floyd-, who has sailed for more than 25 years, checks the water level in the boilers In the stoker hold of the "Adam E." Typical of most Great Lakes Seafarers,. Floyd, who sails fireman, stays aboard the ship for the full eight-nine month season. Lunchtime for the fitout crew on the Adam E. Cornelius finds Steward Severin Johnson carving roast ham in the ship's modern, stainless steel galley. SlU ships on the lakes are all known as very good feeders, and the "Adam E." is one of the best As the finishing touches are put on the fitting out of the "Adam E." by the deck and engine department crews. Wheelsmen Rpmie Smith (left) and Ed Senff Sr., check the steering gear in the wheelhouse. For Ed Senff Sr., who is 60 and has been sailing since 1928, the lakes is a family affair. Ed's son, Ed Senff Jr., is second mate on the George Steinbrenner. V .1 • ' ^ t .'v ^ ^ AB Deckwatch Cecil Osborne C'efl) uses a hatch clamp Adkins as the two forward end crewmembers prepare t| Great Lakes. I " One of the reasons the Adam E. Cornelius has earned its reputation as one of the best-feeders on the lakes is Ted Hansen, second cook-baker. One of Ted's specialties is fresh-baked pies like the ones he is taking out of the oven for a hungry crew at suppertime. •' "V'""i <r H K- - �Page Seventeen I 6 break the coupling on a deck hose held by AB Ralph 11; he "Adam E." for the opening of the 1970 season on the The Sylvania (Tonillnson Steamship Company) is high and dry in a Toledo drydock for survey of her hull during her annual inspection. Typical of the Great Lakes fleet, the Sylvania is more than 40 years old. Also typical, this self-unloader is fueled by stoker-fed coal. The cold, wet and windy weather that marks the beginning of the season along the waterfronts of the Great Lakes makes for hearty appetites, according to veteran Seafarers James Harris (left), steward on the Sylvania, and Second Cook John Vernon. �Page Eighteen SEAFARERS LOG April, 1970 Ed Peterson, wheelsman, takes in on number 4 line, as the G. A. Tomllnson shifts astern at the coal dock in Toledo, Ohio. Working the two steam winches at the same time is tricky business, even for.a veteran lakes Seafarer like Peterson. Nearly ready for her trip of the 1970 season, the J. A. W. Iglehart gets the finishing touches on her hull by the paint crew as the ship lies at her dock in Detroit. Nearly all of the crewmembers of this Huron Cement carrier hail from Alpena, Michigan. /T •I FWT James Marcum checks the controls at the donkey boiler in the engine room of the J. A.,W. Iglehart. The donkey boiler keeps up pressure to run the generators and provide heat while the main plant is readied for fitout. Ernest Smith (left), who ^Is as oiler, applies for his vacation duririg a sfdji in'at*fb6"Deff6ifp:| Hall. Helping him with the forms is SlU Great Lakes Representative Don Cubic> Looking on is | Earl Jennings, who also shibs as oiler. * , There isn't much turnover in the crew of the Iglehart, and these three Seafarers are at least part of the reason mostjof the crew stays on for the .full season. Inspecting the freshly-baked bread are Second Cook-Baker Cecil Morey (center), and Porters Elmer Martin (left) and Richard Bray. tY-.. Coffee-break time on a cold and windy day on the Detroit riverfront was a welcome break for this hard-working crew of the J. A. W. Iglehart. Left to right are Gerald Nokland, wiper; John Wenda, conveyorman,- Ron Chabot, wiper,- Rex Karen, oiler; SlU Representative Don Cubic; Monroe Deedler, oiler; Jim Marcum, fireman,- Gene Hayes, oiler, and Joe Baker, assistant conveyorman. �April, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nineteen Labor Unions Paved Way In Equal Rights Fight The AFL-CIO Education Director told a conference of the Center for Migration Studies that a study of history proves labor union officials were among the first to advocate equal rights and educational opportunities for Negroes in America. Walter G. Davis was ad­ dressing a two-day conference on Labor and the Migrant at Brooklyn College. Attending the conference, at the invitation of its sponsor, the David Dubinsky Foundation, were more than 100 representa­ tives of education, labor and minority group organizations. Participants discussed eco­ nomic contributions of migrants in the United States, their re­ actions to and involvement in U.S. unions, and experiences of migrants in Canada and Europe. Among papers presented, in addition to Davis', were others dealing with experiences of mi­ grant groups, including Mexi­ can-Americans and Puerto Ricans. I;!ill 1 I ;• if' [i' Ti • ll union locals, bringing Negroes into leadership positions in la­ bor and securing passage of civil rights bills in Congress. Integration Goal The full integration of the Ne­ gro into society, Davis said, is part of labor's goal "to spread enlightenment throughout la­ bor's ranks and the population in general." This goal and an end to all racism still remain a challenge to America's future "in monu­ mental proportions," Davis said. But, he added, "it can be achieved by a strong alliance between labor and Negroes. Their goals and objectives are identical." Lois Gray and Edward Gonzalez of the New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, urged unions to bolster their efforts on behalf of Puerto Rican immigrants. Their paper pointed out that Puerto Ricans have mainly settled in New York, where "more than half of their Knights of Labor families live in poverty" despite Davis noted that both the Na­ union efforts to raise their wage tional Labor Union and the levels through legislation and Knights of Labor, the two main collective bargaining. labor federations formed in the Puerto Ricans "look to their period immediately following unions as the major organiza­ the Civil War, attempted to pro­ tions with which they have con­ mote equal rights for Negroes tinuing contact" to help them but found local prejudices too get better jobs, education and formidable to overcome. housing, it was emphasized. While Negroes suffered ex­ Julian Samora and Jorge tensively from wage and other Bustamante, University of Notre forms of discrimination in the South after the Civil War, Davis Dame educators, presented a pointed out, this was not the paper tracing exploitation of Mexican workers who have fault of union leaders. come into the United States both Citing studies by Ray Mar­ legally and illegally. shall, a University of Texas pro­ Samora and Bustamante fessor who has specialized in urged the application of mini­ Negro history, Davis pointed mum wage laws to all workers out that the prevailing senti­ and full rights for workers to ment among whites "was to keep Negroes on the lower end have unions and bargain in "agribusiness." of the job spectrum." He noted the public also overlooks efforts to advance Negroes' rights in the 1930s led by such labor officials as A. A retired couple living in an Philip Randolph, then president urban area needs at least $375 of the Sleeping Car Porters, and a year more to maintain a mod­ Willard S. Townsend, founder of the United Transport Service erate standard of living than they would have needed in Employes. 1967, according to figures re­ And in the years since, he leased by the Bureau of Labor continued, they and other la­ Statistics of the Department of bor leaders have been responsi­ Labor. ble for ending segregation in The study, completed last spring, said that the couple would need an income of $4,192 to maintain themselves. Credit Union Bill Signed into Low President Nixon signed into law a bill to create an ir.dependent National Credit Union Ad­ ministration to regulate the na­ tion's 13,000 federal credit unions. The new agency, replac­ ing the Bureau of Federal Credit Unions of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was previously approved by Congress with the backing of the nation's 20 million federal credit union members. Index Rises Since the Consumer Price In­ dex moved up about 3 percent in the last half of 1969, the moderate or "intermediate" bud­ get would cost the retired couple about $4,320 at the beginning of 1970. BLS reported that budgets for a "lower" standard of living would have required annual in­ come of $2,902 for the retired couple in the spring of 1969. A "higher" budget needed Crewmen of the ill-fated schooner Tina AAaria Doncine flank Captain Eugene Olsen, skipper of the American Pres­ ident Lines freighter. President Jackson, after their arrival in Port Newark. Shown are: (I-''), Joao DePina, skipper; Rafael Azvedo, navigator; Eugenio Pirez; Captain Olsen,- Gregoria DaSilva,- Marocs Leiti; Firmino DelGato and Armando Brito. President Jackson Crew Rescues 7 From Storm-Battered Schooner A ship contracted by SIUNAaffiliated Sailors Union of the Pacific made a difficult and dangerous rescue in January that saved the lives of seven men. The President Jackson on January 14 went to the rescue of the schooner Tina Maria Doncine, 135 miles northeast of Bermuda, while a fierce storm battered both ships with high waves and strong winds. Within ten minutes after at­ taching lines to the 138-foot schooner, the crew of the Presi­ dent Jackson had rescued the seven men on board the Tina Maria. "There are varying degrees of sea rescues, but this wzis far from a routine one," commented Rear Admiral Mark A. Whalen, commander of the Eastern Area and Third Coast Guard district. He personally thanked the Captain of the Jackson, 41-yearold Eugene A. Olsen and the entire crew who "braved the heart of a full storm. . . ." Highly praising his SIU crew for their teamwork and bravery. Captain Olsen said the rescue was "nothing short of miracu­ lous." He referred to the extreme improbability that the two ships could stay together long enough in the stormy seas for the rescue to be effected. But the ships did stay together long enough for the seven men, including a 78-year-old passen­ ger, to be rescued either by being pulled aboard with lines or by climbing pilot ladders. The engineer of the Tina Marie jumped on board the Jackson as the swells brought the schooner above the freighter. He was caught by the crew. The Jackson was within 100 miles of the schooner when she was notified by the Coast Guard of the Tina Maria's plight. The Jackson reached the 160ton schooner in three-and-a-half hours after facing a raging sea and very strong winds. A previous attempt at rescue by the Canadian Coast Guard Cutter Baffin had been unsuccessfull. The Baffin is a smaller ship than the Jackson and could not manage in the swelling seas. $6,616 in annual income at that time. Applying the increase in the CPI for the last half of last year, would price the lower bud­ get at $2,989 at the beginning of 1970. The higher budget would cost $6,814. The government for the pur­ poses of the budgets described a retired couple as a husband age 65 or over, and his wife, who are able to support them­ selves, live independently and are in reasonably good health. The provisions of the three budgets vary as to what expen­ ditures are allowed and how much may be spent on various items. "Personal taxes" are included in the higher budget but no pro­ vision is made for them in either the intermediate or "lower" bud­ gets since both are below the level at which the retired couples are obligated to pay federal income taxes. These are annual allowances in the spring of 1969 on basic items in each budget: Food—Lower budget, $851; intermediate, $1,131; higher budget, $1,387. Housing — Lower budget, $1,010; intermediate budget, $1,433; higher budget, $2,247. Oothing and personal care— Lower budget, $240; intermedi­ ate budget, $396; higher bud­ get, $608. Medical care—Lower bud­ get, $334; intermediate budget, $337; higher budget, $339. Transportatimi—Lower bud­ get, $205; intermediate budget, $412; higher budget, $735. By region, the government's estimates of budget costs for an urban retired couple were generally higher in the North­ east and lowest in the South. Among major metropolitan areas, budgets were highest in Anchorage, Honolulu, San Fran­ cisco, and Hartford, Conn. In fact two of her crew were injured in the rescue attempt. The three-masted Honduran schooner was owned and cap­ tained by 42-year-old Joao Bossuet De Pina. Her troubles started on January 13 when she radioed the Coast Guard that she was on fire and taking in water. Her troubles were com­ pounded by the 40 foot waves and winds up to 75 miles-anhour. According to De Pina, the schooner was only two feet above water when the crew was rescued. He said they could have kept the vessel afloat only four to six hours longer. In a four page report on the rescue. Captain Olsen said there were "mountainous northwest seas and swells" that caused waves to crash across the Jack­ son's bridge. "Looking out the bridge win­ dows . . . was like looking out of a porthole in a submarine," he said, adding that the schoo­ ner was "blowing across the wave tops like a child's kite" and the Jackson was being shak­ en "like a peanut shell in a washing machine." At first. Olsen thought he would be unable to rescue the Tina Maria while the storm was so fierce. But he made the at­ tempt when De Pina radioed that the ship could not be kept afloat. On board the Jackson were two women passengers returning from a trip around the world. They had to hold onto some­ thing solid in their cabin while the furniture moved about as the shit) rolled 50 degrees in the hi eh waters. Miss Naomi Evans of Mil­ waukee said, "111 never know how they did it. We watched out our window—one moment the schooner was below us, the next above us. At one point its mast crosstree nearly smashed through our window." The Jackson is owned by the American President Lines, Ltd. and completed a 94-day roundthe-world maiden voyage in 1941 as the first of a fleet of seven new streamlined ships then being built by the com­ pany. i �Page Twenty SEAFARERS April, 1970 LOG Sm Pension Roster Adds 13 More Seafarers Additional Increases In SIU Benefits Thirteen Seafarers retired last month on SIU pensions after spending many years sailing the world's waterways. Benjamin Franklin Lowrey, 48, joined SIU in the Port of New Orleans in 1941 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Alabama, he is now spending his retirement there. Thomas Ray Hyde, 62, is a native of Honduras and now makes his home in Meraux, La. He joined SIU in the Port of Tampa and sailed in the deck department. In addition to the im­ proved surgical benefit schedule printed in the March issue of tiie LOG, the following increases in benefits took effect on Jan­ uary 1, 1970. • The Maternity Ben­ efit has been increased from $200.00 to $500.00. • Private room and board allowance has been increased from $17.00 per day to $30.00 per day. • The allowance for hospital extras has been increased from $200.00 to $300.00 for the first 31 days, and thereafter, an additional $300.00 for a maximum of $600.00. Lowrey Dakis Prindezis Andreas Platis, 70, joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Greece, Brother Platis now lives in Brooklyn. When he retired he ended a sailing career of 42 years. Herman Sylvio Ricci, 68, is a native of Puerto Rico and now lives in North Babylon, N.Y. with his wife, Angelica. He joined SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department. He last worked aboard the Choctaw Victory. Herbert Platis Va. When he retired, Brother and sailed in the steward de­ Walker had been sailing for 38 partment as a messman. In 1961 and 1962 Brother Diaz did years. picket duty. Francis Anthony Femandes, 65, is a native of British Guiana Guy Edwin Herbert joined and now makes his home on the Union in Elberta, Mich., Long Island with his wife, Millie. and sailed in the steward depart­ He joined SIU in the Port of ment. A native of Hicksville, New Orleans and sailed in the Ohio, Brother Herbert now engine department as a pump­ makes his home in Benzonia, man. His last ship was the Ea^e Mich. Voyager. In 1961 he was issued Edward J. Myslinski, 65, is a strike card. a native of Maryland and now makes his home there. He joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore and worked as a welder. Hyde George Dakis, 61, joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. A native of Greece, he served in the Greek Navy from 1928 until 1930. His retirement ends a sailing career of 46 years. Joseph Prindezis, 48, is a native of Syros, Greece, and now lives in Manahattan. He joined SIU in the Port of Seattle and sailed in the deck depart­ ment as an A.B. His last ship was the Monticello. NO HEAT? HOT WATER? Fernandez Rkd Walker Earl Manfred Walker, 62, joined the Union in the Port of Norfolk in 1938 and sailed in the engine department. A native of North Carolina, he is now making his home in Vesuvius, Adoption of Mass Transit Program Urged Upon House Early House enactment of a Senate-passed bill to provide $10 billion in grants and loans over 12 years to develop and improve mass-transit programs has been urged by the AFLClO. Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller said the legislation is "soundly devised" to finance badly-needed expansion of mass transportation. His testimony was presented to a House Bank­ ing subcommittee by Legislative Representative Kenneth Meiklejohn. The legislation passed by the Senate in February would pro­ vide a new program of loans to states and local public bodies for the acquisition of property re"quired in developing transit sys­ tems. Although similar legislation was proposed by the Adminis­ tration last August, the bill that passed the Senate was worked out with interested transit groups, representatives of may­ ors, private transit companies and labor. Biemiller said that the legisla­ tion would "for the first time" begin to meet the demonstrated transportation needs of the na­ tion. He pointed out that while some progress has been made under the Urban Mass Trans­ Myslinsld portation Act of 1964 in meet­ ing transit needs, the amount of federal funds appropriated un­ der the law "has not been suffi­ cient to make the really major impact in dealing with our urban transportation problems that is urgently required." Biemiller urged the House to retain provisions of the Senate bill, added by an amendment on the floor, that would direct the Secretary of Transportation to require that federally-aided proj­ ects provide for protection of natural resources and the envi­ ronment. "In the light of the growing national concern with environ­ mental problems," Biemiller said, "it seems essential that pro­ visions such as these should be included in any legislation to provide financing for urban transportation." He also submitted a copy of the resolution on mass transit adopted by the 1969 AFL-CIO convention which emphasized the importance of retaining pre-. vailing wage and labor protec­ tion provisions under the Mass Transportation Act. Soundly-based legislation to provide for financing of mass transit projects "is of great in­ terest and concern to millions of union members and their fam­ ilies who depend upon public transportation," Biemiller testi­ fied. Slade Walter Joseph Slade, 53, joined the Union in 1941 in Rhode Island. He sailed in the engine department. A native of New Bedford, Mass., Brother Slade now makes his home in Acushnet, Mass. ^ ANCE- breakfast, ?3 00 i ^gbore, they »"a, «l>en-^ Be.... ^ in f lower for » a period oi i-w washrooms for _ ^ Heat beefs must be reported immedi­ Suarez ately to the Department Delegate and Diaz Antonio Suarez, 54, is a na­ tive of Spain and now lives in Brooklyn. He joined SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department as a wiper. In 1961 he signed up for picket duty in the Great­ er New York Harbor strike. Robert Diaz, 58, is a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Thelma. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 Chief Engineer. 65 You must keep a written record of the beef including: • Date • Time of Day • Temperature All heat beefs should be recorded and sub­ mitted on an individual basis. Receiving Their First Pension Checks Newest SIU pensioners receive their first pension checks from SIU Representative Joe DiGeorge at the April membership meeting in the Port of New York. The veteran Seafarers are C'-t) Francis Fernandez, Antonio Suarez and Andreas Platis. �April, 1970 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty One SOCIAL SECURITY IS FOR YOU What is it? Who is covered? When ore you eligible? What proofs are required? Office' staff members at SlU tieadquarters in Brooklyn prepare the new Social Security booklet for mailing. The booklet was prepared especially by the SlU for members and their families. r I iHESE questions and many others on the subject of Social Security are i clearly and concisely answered in a new booklet called "Social Security Is For You," which has been specially prepared for use by SIU members by the SIU Social Security and Welfare Services Department. It is now ready for distribution to Seafarers and their families, as well as to shore-side union members and members of SIUNA affiliates. The purpose of this booklet is to see to it that SIU members and their families enjoy not only their Union-provided benefits, but also those benefits for which the SIU and the entire labor movement have consistently fought to win and improve under the Federal Social Security law. Beginning with an explanation of the basic idea behind Social Security, the booklet goes on to explain how to apply for benefits, and what benefits can be expected if you are eligible. A basic explanation of Medicare is also contained in "Social Security Is For You." This handy little booklet should be in every Seafarer's home. To get one, send your name and address on a post card to: Albert Bernstein, Director SIU Social Security and Welfare Services 675 Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11232 Rep. Leggett Urges Extension Administration Is Asked Of Ship Constmttion Differentials Unemployment i !:• i •J..' S.'l u f 'ij * WM Two major proposals in con­ nection with Administration maritime legislation now before Congress have been made by Rep. Robert L. Leggett (D.­ Calif.). The California Democrat urged Congress: • To carefully investigate the proposed legislation's re­ quirement of a reduction in con­ struction differential subsidy rates, • To write into the new law a provision allowing shipping companies in noncontiguous domestic trade (Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico) to share the privilege, now enjoyed only by U.S. foreign shipping, of build­ ing tax-deferred construction re­ serve funds. Addressing a meeting spon­ sored by the 7.5 million-mem­ ber AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Rep. Leggett, a member of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit­ tee, made these comments on the proposed cut in differential subsidy rates: "I believe that significant re­ ductions in unit costs can be achieved through multi-procure­ ment of standard ship designs. However, I have seen no evi­ dence to date that the degree of construction differential rates called for in the legislation can be realistically achieved. "We should thoroughly inves­ tigate this issue; for we may be placing a stranglehold on the U.S. shipping industry by legis­ lating cost reduction require­ ments which are not possible. Instead of revitalizing the ship­ building industry, we could be killing it. "As I see it," Rep. Leggett continued, "we are asking the shipbuilding industry to mod­ ernize and rebuild itself and at the same time drastically reduce their costs, it appears that a large portion of these reduc­ tions are expected before the benefits of modernization and standardization can be realized. Initiating a shipbuilding pro­ gram which is doomed to failure because of 'never, never land' economics cannot but severly aggrandize the problems of the U.S. maritime industry. . . ." Rep. Leggett said that ex­ tending the right to build taxdeferred construction reserve funds to companies in the non­ contiguous domestic trade will encourage new ship construc­ tion and through ihore efficient shipping services will "bolster the economies of the noncon­ tiguous states and possessions." He emphasized that the taxdeferred funds "do not change Federal tax revenues in total amounts but merely in the tim­ ing of receipt of tax revenues." Cost Of Living Increase Reduces Buying Power Gains in the average weekly The Index reported that the earnings of workers were again average take home pay for a erased by price increases, ac­ worker with three dependents, cording to the February report after tax and social security de-, of the Labor Department's Con­ ductions, was $102.82 in Feb­ sumer Price Index. ruary, the amount which is need­ The cost of living index ed now to buy $77.60 worth of showed the highest rise in 20 goods and services at 1957-1959 years when it jumped 6.3 per­ prices. cent in the year since February, The Labor Department said 1969. Goods and services that rises in the cost of commodities cost $100 in the 1957-59 base of 5.4 percent and hikes in serv­ period had jumped to $132.50 ice costs of 7.9 percent led the in last month's report. price spiral. The Nixon Administration was urged to move to stem rising unemployment and to shore up the slumping economy by AFLCIO Director of Research Nat Goldfinger during a recent Mutual Broadcasting System, radio interview. He pointed out that 600 000 workers have been added to the unemployment rolls since De­ cember. Goldfinger told inter­ viewers on Labor News Con­ ference, "Weaknesses in various parts of the economy," parti­ cularly the decline of residential construction and industrial pro­ duction, pointed "to a continu­ ing trend of unemployment un­ less the administration moves in fast to turn things around." He called the release of $1.2 billion in federal funds to aid state and local construction projects a step in the right direc­ tion, but "not enough to get us back on the road to rising em­ ployment and increasing job op­ portunities." Praising the proposal of Sen. William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) to provide $3 billion to the Home Loan Bank for loans to home buyers earning less than $10,000 a year, he urged further federal assistance to stimulate residential construction and re­ verse unemployment. The labor economist express­ ed "serious doubt that a small measure here or a small measure there can turn this trend arouTid" day; or weeks, in a matter of days because there are "long time lags between the time the gov­ ernment takes policy action and its actual effect in the market­ place on sales, production and employment." Trade Policy Change Urged Citing a deterioration in America's trade position to a point where the U.S. surplus of exports over imports over im­ ports has nearly vanished, AFLCIO Research Director Nat Goldfinger told a panel of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the nation "needs a change in its international trade posture, policy and mech­ anism" to meet the realities of the 1970s. The subcommittee was seek­ ing views on future trade policy to insure national interests and maintain a strong position in international trade. His testimony, based on an AFL-CIO Economic Policy Committee report, stressed ex­ amples of the hardship and un­ employment suffered by Ameri­ can workers because of the development of multi-national companies that manufacture abroad to take advantage of low wages and ship the products to the United States. �Page Twenty Two SEAFARERS April, 1970 LOG Going to the Mediterranean The crew of the Transcolumbia (Hudson WaterA'ays) re­ ceived a special letter of com­ mendation of the CommandingOfficer of the Mili­ tary Sea Tranport Service, in Long Beach, W rr >'' Hernandez praising their skill and sea­ manship in loading exception­ ally heavy cargo, reports Ship's Secretary Rafael Hernandez. The letter reads in part: "The cargo for the S.S. Transcolumbia included three Navy desalinization barges weighing approxi­ mately 205 long tons each. The deck force rigged and operated the heavy lift gear to make these three lifts. In so doing, they demonstrated the skills they have attained . . . even the stevedores commented on its excellence. We, the staff of the MSTS, wish to commend the deck department for a 'difficult job well done' in the best tradi­ tion of the Maritime Service." On board the Steel Appren­ tice (Isthmian Steamship Com­ pany) Meeting Chairman IFa//er A. Kuchta re­ ports that there is a new washing machine and "it's everybody's con­ cern to take care of it." He also Kuchfa noted that in Danang, Vietnam—their first port of entry—draws were to be given in local currency. Paul P. Lopez, ship's Treasurer, report­ ed there was $30 in the ship's fund. He was asking that each crewmember donate $1 to the fund. Brother Lopez also noted that since the present agree­ ment concerning port time in the steward department penal­ izes the chief cook for his work­ ing hours as stated in the con­ tract, all chief cooks should be given an extra hour to cut down this inequity. The Steel Appren­ tice is expected to payoff on April 20 in the Port of San Francisco. From the Transglobe (Hud­ son Waterways) Meeting Secre­ tary K. Lynch reports that un­ der Good and Welfare it was stated that the delegates should be seen regard­ ing any beefs. Relief of men on Lynch watch in the en­ gine room was "discussed and repair lists were issued to each department delegate. It was noted that doors need repairs and locks. The bosun was elect­ ed Ship's Treasurer. A minute of silence was observed in mem­ ory of departed brothers. Ac­ cording to Meeting Chairman A. R. Larsen it was reported that Logs and mail are being received regularly. It was re­ ported by the deck delegate that some disputed port time was ruled out by patrolman. sesfspeps ^ From Ship's Secretary A. H. Reasko, aboard the Beauregard (Sea-Land), on shuttle service in Vietnam, comes word that any crewmember on a shuttle vessel that wants to transfer to an­ other ship that is Reasko heading for the States, can do so provided the skipper has time to make arrangements with both ships. Ship's Chairman B. Eager says that everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed overtime so far. "It's been a very smooth and calm shuttle" he says. The steward department came in for special praise from the crew for a very good job of preparing and serv­ ing meals, and keeping the messhall clean and attractive. Meeting Secretary Algernon W. Hutcherson reports from the Eagle Traveler (United Mari­ time Corporation) that Brother Roberto Ros­ ea proposes all repair work be done before the Hutcberson sign-on. It was noted by Meet­ ing Chairman Joseph L. Bour­ geois that the steward depart­ ment was given a vote of thanks for a job well done. The crew requested that the Captain give each man a slip stating the amount earned on yearly split in wages for tax purposes. Ship's Treasurer stated there was $8.90 in the ship's fund. No beefs were reported in the engine and steward departments and only a small amount of disputed over­ time was noted in the deck dele­ gate's report. The ship pulled into Port Arthur, Texas. When the Missouri (Ogden Marine Company) broke down off the Dutch West Indies and was waiting for the tug to come, there were a few fishermen on > board. "Even though nothing was caught, sev­ Troche eral sharks were hooked but none landed," re­ ports Meeting Chairman G. Troche. It was noted by Ship's Secretary L. P. Hagmann that cots and linen should not be left on deck "as the soot from the stacks eats through the linen and canvass." Under new busi­ ness it was stated that Brother R. E. Voss resigned as ship's delegate. A vote of thanks was given to him for a job well done. No beefs were reported in the deck and engine departments. Brother Troche reported that the chief engineer was given in­ structions by the port engineer to install permanent chairs in the messhall. Luther Pate, deck maintenance on the Azalea City, relaxes on the fantail after the ship tied up at the Sea-Land terminal in Port Elizabeth, N.J. The Azalea City is scheduled to join the Bienville, Gateway City, and Fairland on Sea-Land's recently-inaugurated Mediterranean run. dTION LINE -t- In addition to the grievances and contract questions which are settled by patrolmen at sign-offs and sign-ons, and by the SlU Contract Enforcement Department, Headquarters in New York receives communications from Sea­ farers seeking contract interpretations. These communications cover the range of working conditions, pension and welfare questions and other related subjects affecting Seafarers. Because many of these questions would be of general interest to the membership. Headquarters has arranged to have the questions and answers published regularly in the LOG. The following question was received relating to rest periods. Question; What does the SlU contract provide concerning rest periods while the crew is under port working rules, and on days of arrival and departure? Answer: The answer to this question is contained in Article II, Section 41, of the NEW STANDARD FREIGHTSHIP AGREEMENT. 0 If you are required to work overtime between midnight and 8 a.m. while the ship is in port and sea watches have not been set, you are entitled to one hour rest for each hour you work, in addition to the cash overtime for the time worked. The rest period must be given during the sa'nrie working day. Chicago President C. L. Dennis of the If you don't get the rest period, you are entitled to overtime for every hour Railway & Airline Clerks has of rest period you miss, at your regular overtime rate. called for "immediate and stem" There are two exceptions to this provision. I. You will not be entitled to action to end terrorist attacks on overtime in lieu of time off for a rest period if sea watches are set the same aircraft. Dennis issued a statement day and before the rest period is completed. 2. None bf this section applies condemning the outbreak of if you are called to turn to at 6 a.m. or after. "murder in the sky" and endors­ 0 If you are on the watch below and you are required to work anytime ing the International Transport Workers' Federation's call for a between midnight and 8 a.m. on a day of arrival, you are entitled to one hour world conference to find ways of of rest for every hour you work. If you do not complete your rest periods be­ ending the terrorism. fore 5 p.m. on the same day, you are entitled to cash overtime for the portion Support for ITFs request for the meeting of representatives of of the rest period missed. 0 On days of departure, the rest period provisions apply only to day airline unions, the airline indus­ try and government was includ­ workers. ed in a cable sent by Dennis to 0 All rest periods under this section must be granted during the time U Thant, United Nations secre­ tary general. you would normally be working during that day. 'Stem Action' to Stt^ Tenvr on Pianos �April, 1970 SEAFARERS A large United States Coast Guard drone plane flies near a huge iceberg as part of the Guard's Iceberg Patrol. The purpose is to report on any "bergs" which may threaten North Atlantic shipping lanes. The patrol was started less than two years after the liner Titanic sank when it hit an iceberg. The tragic sinking of the lux­ ury liner Titanic is still remem­ bered by many people. It is especially remember^ by the Coast Guard which is starting its 56th year of iceberg watch­ ing. Information about Arctic ice­ bergs threatening North Atlan­ tic shipping lanes is broadcast twice a day by the Coast Guard which not only maintains its own aircraft for the sighting but also gets reports from other planes and vessels. Page Twintjr Three LOG Breaking ice on an inland waterway is a United States Coast Guard tug. During the winter months, the Coast Guard maintained ice breaking operations in order to keep vital maritime shipping lanes open. Search and rescue cases were gven highest priority by the nearly 2do men assigned to the task. The Ice Patrol began in Janu­ degrees north latitude into mari­ ary of 1914, less than two years time traflfic lanes. The 48th par­ after the British ship Titanic allel is considered by maritime collided with an iceberg 300 officials to be the approximate miles south of Newfoundland on northern boundary of North her maiden voyage and sank Atlantic shipping. with a loss of more than 1,500 The Coast Guard manages the lives. Ice Patrol service under the pro­ The 1970 ice season will be a visions of the International Con­ heavy one according to a Coast vention for the Safety of Life at Guard reconnaissance flight ear­ Sea. Ice Bulletins will be transmit­ lier this month along the Labra­ ted by the Coast Guard Radio dor coast. Some 400 icebergs are ex­ Station located at Boston, Mas­ pected to drift south of 48- sachusetts. Additional bulletins are transmitted on the regularly scheduled broadcasts by U.S. Naval Radio Station Washing­ ton (NSS), Canadian Forces Ra­ dio Station Mill Cove, Nova Scotia (CFH), and Canadian Coast Radio Station, St. Johns (VON). The icebergs which threaten the trade routes south of New­ foundland, drift there from the glaciers of West Greenland. Aft­ er breaking loose from the gla­ ciers, the icebergs drift across Baffin Bay, and then south in the Labrador Current which carries them into the northwest Atlantic. The International Ice Patrol is voluntarily supported by 18 maritime nations. The share that each nation contributes to the cost of the Ice Patrol is pro­ portional to the amount of its shipping which passes through the ice threatened areas. The present supporters are: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Brit­ ain, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Spain, Sweden, the United States and Yugoslavia. At the time the Coast Guard begins its iceberg lookout, it ends a related taskthat of breaking up the ice which ham­ pered shipping in rivers and bays during the winter months. The objective of the Coast Guard ice breaking is to keep vital maritime shipping lanes free of ice obstruction and open to maritime traffic. In this ef­ fort, highest priority is given to search and rescue cases, particxilarly when medical aid is needed or when a vessel is ac­ tually endangered by ice. Vessels carrying fuel and foodstuffs are given second and third priorities, while requests from other cargo ships are an­ swered as capabilities permit, notes the Coast Guard. In addition to the Hudson River, Coast Guard units also operate in New York's upper and lower bays. East River, Long Island Sound to Execution Rocks, New York Harbor, Ja­ maica Bay, and New Jersey's Raritan Bay. April Prices Spiral In Pecession-lnfiation' By Sidney Margfdius Working families this spring have been put into the worst of all plights: A combination of recession and inflation. Even while workers are laid off, prices continue to rise. It has taken a high degree of perseverance by our political and business lead­ ers to achieve tjiat blunder, but they managed it. Food prices this spring leveled off a little before the annual summer price leap. Clothing prices are taking a tumble, with some rare bargains available. But most other living costs are still rising. The recession is hitting hard­ est at the younger families with low seniority and high install­ ment debts. Reports from in­ dustrial centers also show that the families having most diffculty are those who depended on overtime to pay for installment purchases. One of the problems in the cost of living is that while some farm and wholesale prices have come down, retailers have been noticeably slow to reduce retail tags. Despite a 15 percent in­ crease in the supply of broilers, prices are still at about last year's level. While supplies of eggs are higher than a year ago, prices recently were at the high­ est levels since 1921, and re­ tailers have lagged in passing along the recent price cuts. Beef Price Cuts Retailers also have been slow to pass on recent reductions in wholesale beef prices. You wouldn't know it from the re­ tail prices, but production of red meats actually has been at record levels. You'll have to outwit the stores at their own game by concentrating buying their, specials, and looking tor the better values (see Food Buying Calendar below). But while your food prices are easing temporarily, housing costs have reached frightening levels with no relief in sight. The average intended sales price of new houses currently is $27,000, compared with $24,600 a year ago. That's a leap of 10 percent in just one year. Jumping price tags on homes, and high mortgage and proper­ ty-tax rates, have knocked out the old rule of thumb that you usually can afford a house cost­ ing about IVi times annual in­ come. Now you would have to estimate your home-buying ca­ pacity at about twice annual income. One lender figures that a family now needs an annual income of $13,000 to carry a $27,000 home compared with $8,000 for the typical $19,500 home five years ago. A new expense problem in the form of utility rate increases is in sight, the Consumer Feder­ ation of America warns. Many private utility companies have filed for rate increases in recent months. The federation is ask­ ing its local affiliates to mount a fight against rubber-stamping by state utility commissions of the requested increases. What has especially angered both con­ sumer organizations and even some of the state commissioners is that rates for phone calls within a state often cost more than long-distance calls. April Tips But even though general liv­ ing costs are still rising, there are bargains this month for alert shoppers. Here are tips • on buying opportunities in Ap­ ril: CLOTHING: Look this month for some of the biggest clothing sales in recent years. The combination of an early Easter, high prices of other ne­ cessities such as food, and last year's price increases, have led to reduced volume and large inventories. Some clothing outlets have already offered men's suits at such rare prices as $19, unusual, of course, even for distress mer­ chandise. But despite the bar­ gains, seleet carefully. If the fashion designers succeed in getting women to buy the midi length skirts, there isn't much you can do with mini skirts un­ less you sew two of them to­ gether. The mini skirts certainly have been profitable for manu­ facturers. They use only 1.9 square yards of fabric compared to 3.2 for the longer skirts of a few years ago. CARS: While April is not usually a month of low car prices, manufacturers and deal­ ers are trying to stimulate sales. One manufacturer has made outright list-price cuts: Dodge, $150-$200, on the Dart. APPLIANCES, TV: Also look for cut prices on house­ hold appliances and TV sets this spring as makers and stores both cut prices because of slow sales. Especially look for big sales on color TV sets. RCA has been sitting on big inven­ tories, but has been reluctant to cut prices as would ordinarily happen in such a situation. Meanwhile the rest of the in­ dustry is watching RCA and waiting, before they start dump­ ing. FOOD BUYING CALEN­ DAR: You'll find meats a little cheaper this month, with both beef and pork (which has been high) in better supply. But broilers are still relatively better values, especially at sales. Eggs are the buy of the month. April is the flush season both for quality and price. Prices are down about 30 per­ cent from last Winter's high. While fresh produce generally has been high recently, you'll find good values in some of the canned vegetables and fruits in especially heavy supply. Prices are actually lower this year on canned corn, tomatoes, cling peaches and fruit cocktail. Rada's Parents I Seek Son's Friends The parents of Stephen! I Dunbar Rada, a 20-year-1 1 old Seafarer who passed I ^ away on last March 30, ^ [would like anyone who! I knew their son to contact I [ them. I In their bereavement,! I calls or letters from any of [ I his friends would be a com- i [ fort to them. Their address is: Mr. and I Mrs. Gus Rada, Route 2, i Box 37, Silverhill, Alabama! i 36576. �Page Twenty Fonr Seafarer's Widow Thanks Union To the EditoR I wish to express my grati­ tude to the Union for being of so much aid to me before and after my husband's death in June of 1969. During the long period of my husband's illness prior to his death the SIU paid all his medical obligations that exceeded Medicare's share. Since his death the Union com­ pensated me for the remaining medical bills, for which I am very thankful. The welfare in­ surance that I received added much to my feeling of security. Prior to my husband's death, he informed me of the Seafar­ er's Union being such a fine or­ ganization and of the many benefits available to the mem­ bership and their dependents. I want to thank you for your aid and the prompt favorable action you gave each claim that I filed. Mrs. L. F. Seei^dUz Galveston, Texas <|> Prompt Check Rates 'Thank You' To the EditoR Just a line to express my thanks to Mr. John Fay for my disability check dated 2-27-70. I was very glad to get it. Thanks for sending it so promptly. Since my wife and I were both sick it really helped. Charles P. Hopple Northumheriaid, Pennsylvania ^ Enjoys Reading Seafarers Log To the EditOR I enjoy reading the Seafarers Log very much. Having been in the Navy in World War II and having worked on your ships as a lonphoreman, it brings back joyful memories of the sea. Sincerely. Carl T. Frochlich SIU Clinic Aids Seafarer's Family r To the EdltoR I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Li)gue and his Brooklyn clinic staff for all the courtesies ex­ tended to me and my family. The clinic has been of great help and it is nice to know that they are always there when you need medical assist­ ance. The physical examination given is the best and I know personally that when I leave the clinic, I feel good know­ ing there is.nothing physically wrong with me. I have donated several pints of blood to the blood bank and feel great knowing that when I need blood, I can obtain same without any problem; this is the way I show my appreciation for their time and patience ex­ tended to me and my family. Keep up the good work. FratemaUy, Domlnidk Yenezia SEAFARERS SIU Yokohama Staff Wins Praise (The following letter, reprinted in part below, was received from Seafarer Isaak Bgujgin thanking the SIU stBff in Yokohama, Japan, arid the employes of the Bluff Hospital there for their attention and eonsideration when he was ill.^ To flie EditOR It would help a great deal in re-establishing the close and friendly relationships among people—which is paramount if the turmoil in the world is to be lessened or eliminated—^if these simple, magic words were re­ vived: "Please" and "Thank You." I would like to thank our SIU representative in Yoko­ hama, Brother Frank Boyne and his secretary. Miss Oiko, and not the least, the Bluff Hos­ pital in Yokohama. Recently, I was confined in this hospitad for 23 days with a serious illness. I was given the best treatment by the hospital staff there in my life, and when I recovered, I felt a sense of LETTERS To The Editor loss upon leaving the hospital. The medical staff was always available at short notice when I needed them and at no time was I kept waiting for any length of time when I needed medical attention. The nurses and other hospital attendants did not require any summons from me as they seemed to ever an­ ticipate my needs and they were frequently at my bedside with kind words of cheer and en­ couragement. Perhaps my being away from home inspired them to give me this excellent and kind treat­ ment, was my first impression. I later found that our SIU staff in Yokohama has a very friend­ ly and close relationship with this hospital and to them should go the most credit for our members being so well treated in this hospital. Brother Boyne never missed visiting me and the other SIU members confined there once or twice a week. His secretary. Miss Oiko, came and visited us after her working hours, bring­ ing us cigarettes, toilet articles and other needs. Again, thank you Brother Bo3me and Miss Oiko. Isaak Bougin B 1068 April, 1970 LOG Seafarer Praises HLSS Shipmates To the Editw: Am sitting here amid the luxu|7 of my air-conditioned room after a pleasant day of work and an evening working overtime; having a quiet beer and my thoughts turned to the days gone by, the change in the ship-board conditions and in my union! Thought that you might like to know that one of the old rank and file thinks enough to stop and drop log a line with nary a complaint. Mainly, I wanted to tell you about the three young men who came abroad here from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship. As Boatswain aboard the ship, I am concerned with all of my men, their abilities, their welfare and their general safety. These three boys in a man's world have shown to be quite willing, and mentally capable of finding a place in the seafar­ ing world and the Union. I am sure from my observations that they shall all continue on and become a credit to the SIU. I attribute this in part to our union school and the training afforded these young men before being launched on their sea­ going careers. It is a nice thought to realize that men such as the school turns out shall be our re­ placements in the new, modern American merchant marine, and the ever-moving SIU. I and others in a position to do so, will do all in our power to help and guide these new men and teach them the ways of the ships and our union. Can well remember myself, old-timers like A1 Stansbury, Baldy Bol­ linger, Red Barren, Red Sully and others too numerous to mention, who took the time to be nice to a skinny little sixteenyear-old, away from home with a war going on, and it is with this in mind that I can and will find the time to help these kids. For the future back-bone of the SIU. I can do no less. "Honest AI" Whitmer Low-lntome Families Hivt Most by State, Local Taxes A study by two economists shows that the regressive nature of state and local taxes puts the heaviest share of their burden on families with the lowest incomes. The study, undertaken by Professors Stephen S. Lile of the University of Richmond and Don M. Soule of the Uni­ versity of Kentucky, was reported on in a recent issue of the National Tax Journal. Based on 1968 tax rates, the study found that on the aver­ age (for all states) the state-local tax bite came to 12.8 percent for a family of four with an adjusted gross income of $3,500 a year; 8.7 percent for the family with $10,000 income; and only 5.4 percent for a $50,000-income family. The study, which 4ook into account all major state and local taxes, also found a wide range of variation among the states in the extent to which various income levels are taxed. Arnold Cantor, an AFL-CIO economist who {examined the study, noted that "the modest tax burdens on wealthy families are really overstated because the study does not fully consider the entire income of the wealthy such as capital gains." Also, he pointed out, "The wealthy can wash out a portion of state and local taxes against federal taxes, while lower income groups taking the standard deduction receive no federal tax break." President's Manpower Report Cites Problem of Hidden Unemployment President Nixon's first man­ power report to Congress recites the accomplishments of the training and job placement pro­ grams of the 1960s but stresses that "there is still a great deal to do" before "full opportunity for all citizens" becomes a real­ ity. The report, prepared by the Labor Department's Manpower Administration, acknowledges the problem of increased unem­ ployment and puts a spotlight also on hidden unemployment —^persons who have given up the job hunt because of lack of opportunity. Surveys indicate that "there is one 'discouraged worker' for every four unemployed work­ ers," the report notes. It also stresses that unemploy­ ment alone is not an indicator of poverty. More than 1 million families with below-poverty in­ come are headed by men work- Was a Smooth Trip — Widow Receives SIU Benefit Check To the Editor I would like to thank the Seafarers International Union for their kindness shown me when my husband, Frank, died Also, I would like to ac­ knowledge receiving the Death Benefit check. Please accept my heartfelt and most sincere thanks. Helen L. Schembii Ship's Chairman Walter Nash (right) tells SIU Representative Luigi lovino that the voyage of the Longview Victory to Vietnam and other Far East ports was a smooth one with only a few beefs and some disputed over­ time. The ship tied up at the Army Terminal in Bayonne, N.J., to dis­ charge cargo, and was scheduled to return to the Far East with rriilitary supplies. ing fulltime throughout the year. Although the report does not recommend a higher minimum wage, it does acknowledge that "a higher minimum wage with more extended coverage could help to raise the low earnings of many family heads and thus play an important part in the needed complex of antipoverty meas­ ures." The report also focused on the low-wage, high-poverty economy of the South, particu­ larly as it affects Negro families. >^ile 30 percent of the na­ tion's families live in the South, 50 percent of all poor families are in southern states. "In the South," the report notes, "one out of every four Negro family heads who worked fulltime throughout 1968 earned too little to bring his family's income above the poverty line, compared with only about one out of 20 in the Northeast and North Central states and less than one out of 30 in the West." While the number of families below the poverty line declined in the 1960s, the report cites a widening gap between those at the poverty level and the na­ tional income average for all families. Inadequate Benefits The report acknowledges the inadequacy of unemployment benefits in nearly all states. "Too low" weekly benefits are "the most serious shortcom­ ing" of the unemployment insur­ ance system, it declares. But after a detailed discussion of the inadequacies of the pres­ ent state-determined benefit lev­ el, the report merely notes that "the present Administration is urging the states to act quickly on this problem to avoid the need for federal action." The "leave-it-up-to-the-states" doctrine sharply contrasted with manpower reconunendations of the Johnson Administration urg­ ing federal minimum standards on the amount and duration of benefits. �April, 1970 SEAFARERS Page Twenty Five LOG •®-.^v ::: '••'••':•• -'if'' • v- ••• An attempt is made to save this false killer whale who along with nearly 200 of his comrades stranded themselves on the beach of Fort Pierce, Florida. Men tried to drag the mammals out to sea so they would swim away, but only 22 were saved. Onlookers come down to<vthe beach at Fort Pierce to view the huge, dark mammals that swam to certain death on a Saturday night during the winter. The whales, which weighed 1,500 pounds and were over 15 feet long, were first believed to be pilot whales but were later identified as false killer whales. •? ' •/> i" ' • I- Why did nearly 200 whales head straight for dis­ aster last month? Why did the 1,500 pound creatures swim directly for a beach that would be their grave­ yard? Scientists are still not sure. But on January 10 such a drama occurred on the beach at Fort Pierce, Florida. It was a cold Saturday night for Florida wfien at 9 p.m. the huge black crea­ tures, each over 15 feet long, swam out of the wa­ ter and onto the beach. Of the nearly '200 whales -at first thought to be pilot whales but later identified as false killer whales—only 22 were to survive, and these through the efforts of another fellow mammal— man. At first scientists specu­ lated that the herd was loy­ ally following an old bull whale who was either searching for warmer wa­ ters or seeking a beach be­ cause he was ill, or possibly because most of the herd was ill. According to the Smith­ sonian Institute's Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, sick whales usually head for a beach. The Center also noted, however, that the water had been cool because of unusu­ ally cold weather, and in a panicky search for warmer waters, the whales may have accidentally gone ashore. After taking blood sam­ ples of six whales and find­ ing no trace of bacterial in­ fection or anemia, the Cen­ ter offered a third possible explanation. It said that according to Dr. J. R. White, a veteri­ narian at the Miami seaquarium, the whales' sonar system may have failed to detect the upcoming shore. The reason for the sonar failure may be due to the type of shore at Fort Pierce. Because of the slope of the beach, no echo returned to the whales and they thought they were heading for open waters. On a Florida key in 1966, some 60 pilot whales ran onto a beach whose slope was like that at Fort Pierce. A fourth explanation for the mass beaching was of­ fered by Dr. White who compared the whales' plight with human claustrophobia. When the big black whales found themselves in water too shallow to allow them enough freedom of movement, they panicked and the result resembled something like "a cattle stampede," according to White. If that resembled "a cat­ tle stampede" then trying to save some of the whales was reminiscent of a rodeo show. Members of the Florida State Department of Natural Resources came to the beach in boats and proceeded to tie ropes around the whales' tails in order to drag them out to sea. Thirty of the animals were hauled out but most of them headed right back to shore when released. The men noticed that one of the whales which had gone out to sea was released after the boat had turned aroimd. Thus, he was fac­ ing the open sea whereas the others were released with their heads toward the shore. Also, the men observed that the whales made sonar noises to each other when in the water. Using the psychology that the whales might be induced to head for sea if they had com­ panionship, it was decided to try a new approach the next day. First, three and four whales at a time were dragged off by the boats. Secondly* the boats turned around so that the whales faced toward the open sea before being released. The scheme worked. Twenty-five of the mammals were successfully swimming into deeper waters when the men left. However, of this number, three apparently died, since the bodies of three dead whales were later found washed upon the shore. These three whales were buried along with more than 150 others of their brothers in the sands of Fort Pierce beach. A dead whale is towed to a grave on the Florida beach. He was buried along with more than 150 other whales whose reason for beaching themselves is still a mystery. A strong possibility is that the whales' natural sonar system did not detect the up­ coming shore. �Pace Twentr Six SEAFARERS April, 1970 LOG A Proud Moment Lee Hardin, bom Februar]( 12, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Homer D. Hardin, Port Arthur, Texas. Lamar Elliott, bom Decem­ ber 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James N. Elliott, Ports­ mouth, Va. Fete Zubovich, bom Febm­ ary 9, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael Zubovich, Hous­ ton, Tex. Kimberly Kiefer, bom Feb­ ruary 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert J. Kiefer, Philadel­ phia, Pa. James Garrison, bom March 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Harry D. Garrison, Jr., New York, N. Y. Grailen Archie, bom August 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James B. Archie, Baltimore, Md. —4f— Rosa Mattes, bom January 19, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Julio Mattos, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. ^ Penny Goss, bom January 2, 1970, to Se^arer and Mrs. Billy R. Goss, Liberty, Tex. 'Marcy McLendon, bom Jan­ uary 29, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ben H. McLendon, Savan­ nah, Ga. 4^ Leo Franklin, III, born De­ cember 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leo Franklin, Jr., Opeiousas, La. 4/ — Nancy Nottage, bom Febmary 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Anthony F. Nottage, Bellflower, Calif. Jennifer Austin, born Febru­ ary 17, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Melvin S. Austin, Jr., Wen­ dell, N. C. 4/ — Christina Garza, born Decem­ ber 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pete Garza, Texas City, Tex. 4^ Selena Tillman, born Febm­ ary 1, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. William L. Tillman, Rio Nido, Calif. Robert Santena, bom January 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Santena, Houston, Tex. 4/ Allan Rogers, born October 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Allan A. Rogers, Baltimore, Md. i Kimberly Witherington, bom January 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert H. Witherington, Daphne, Ala. Paul Alexanderian, bom De­ cember 9, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Haik J. Alexanderian, San Francisco, Calif. i Richard DiCostanzo, born January 30. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Louis DiCostanzo, Staten Island, N. Y. 4f — Lauri Cochran, bom Decem­ ber 24, 1969. to Seafarer and Mrs. James T. Cochran, Tavares, Fla. . Nico'e Moss, bora December 19, 1969. to Seafarer and Mrs. John E. Moss, New Orleans, La. Sean Kiley, bom Febmary 6, 1970, to Srafarer and Mrs. Darryl B. Kiley, Baytown, Tex. Troy Tillman, bom Decem­ ber 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Tillman; Levittown, Pa. ^1> AFL-CIO Urges House Passage Of Welfare Reform Bill AFL-CIO President George Meany urged House passage of the public welfare reform bill, recently approved by the House Ways and Means Committee, but asked for improvements in the proposal when it is consider­ ed in the Senate. Because the measure will be considered in the House under a no-amendment rule, any fur­ ther changes must be introduced in the Senate before final pass­ age. The legislation, based on Nix­ on Administration proposals to establish a new federally-sup­ ported family assistance program designed to help the "working poor" as well as families without a wage earner, received biparti­ san support as it was approved in committee by a vote of 21-3. The original measure would have primarily helped states pro­ viding welfare recipients the lowest level of benefits, with only token support for states already granting higher welfare subsi­ dies. The Ways and Means Committee added more help for states with high welfare expendi­ tures. Meany said the committee "has made many improvements in the bill along the lines we had urged (but) there are other areas where we still think improve­ ments could be made." The legislation, replacing the present Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, would give a family on welfare a basic federal payment of $500 a year for each of the first two family members and $300 for each additional member — amounting to $1,600 a year for a family of four. Except for mothers of pre­ school children, persons of working age would be required to register for jobs or training, if available. Federal benefits would be gradually reduced for members of-the family earning more than $720 a year, at the rate of 50 cents for every dollar earned above that amount. As an incentive for states to supplement the federal program, the proposal would authorize the government to pay 30 per cent of state benefits up to the current $3,550 poverty level for a family of four. Establishment of a federally supported national welfare pro­ gram, with uniform standards for all Americans and with bene­ fits equal to or above the poverty level is being pressed by Labor. 4/ ^ 4/ — Daniel East, born December 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Norman East, Sulphur, La. William Westbrook (right) proudly displays his new third assistant en­ gineer's license as he receives the congratulations of Don Cubic, Detroit SlU representative. Westbrook earned his license through the SlU-MEBA District 2 School of Marine Engineering, in Toledo, Ohio. He sailed fire­ man last year on the H. Lee White (Boland-Cornelius), and this year will sail aboard her as third engineer. -i Seaman's Love Letters Translated By 'Great Old Lady in Yokohama' Romances for Seafarers are sometimes difficult to maintain because of the long periods of time the men are away at sea. And the trouble is com­ pounded when your girl friend speaks a different language. Of course, when you have a smart old lady as a go-between, things can be a lot easier. Such a problem was met in this way by a well-traveled Sea­ farer v/ho makes his home in Seattle, Wash. He is William Calefato whose sailing career brought him into contact with the Japanese and their life­ styles. A native of Newburgh, N. Y., Brother Calefato joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1951 and sails in the engine depart­ ment as an oiler. He served in the Army during World War II. In a letter published in the July issue of the Seafarers LOG, Brother Calefato offered "Great Mariner" as the meaning of the Japanese word "Mara." He mentioned his friendship with an "old lady in Yokohama" who was quite knowledgeable in the history of Japanese language as his source. In a subsequent letter to the LOG, he explained more about this interesting "old lady" and others like her who helped many a seaman. Brother Calefato recalls how he once had a Japanese girl friend who could speak no Eng­ lish. He, on the other hand, could speak no Japanese. But there WM "a great old lady I knew in f okohama. She used to translate letters between my girl friend and me." Eventually, Seafarer Calefato forgot all about the girl, but he still corresponded with the old lady who also happened to be a music teacher and "ari'authority on the country's poetry and its legends and history." "On my two visits at her home we talked for hours about the sea and Japanese stories and some of the great movies and the Kabuki," Calefato writes. It seems that she also often acted as an "advisor to some of the girls, something like a Dear Abby." The old lady wasn't the only translator in Yokohama and other Japanese seaports. Espe­ cially "after the war," Brother Calefato relates, there were a number of these women needed to translate and write the many letters that went between Jap­ anese girls and American sea­ men and servicemen. Calefato has a great deal of respect for the old lady who he feels "understood matters of the heart and realized that the sea was often the obstacle between lovers . .. She understood about the loneliness and yeaming of people who were separated by an ocean." The old lady's letters must have been quite lovely since Calefato describes them as hav­ ing a "Shakespearean effect." The reason for this, he says, is that "many Japanese started to learn English by reading the works of Shakespeare." He notes that with the eco­ nomic prosperity and westemization of Japan, much of the country's "charming simplicity" and beauty began to "dissolve." Brother Calefato adds with some nostalgia that "lost now also is the charm and drama of Japanese old ladies writing lyri­ cal letters for eager and humble young girls." SIU WELFARE, PENSION AND VACATION PLANS CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD FEBRUARY 1, 1970-FEBRUARY 28, 1970 NUMBER OF BENEFITS AMOUNT PAID SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $471.28) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Out-Potients Benefits 11 2,006 32 86 36 465 $ 1,930.25 48,311.13 91,713.18 343.00 7,191.65 13,983.00 2,049 738 451 5,137. 96,564.65 11,051.18 4,508.90 39,464.00 11,011 315,060.94 SEAFARERS'^ PENSION PLAN -BENEFITS PAID 1,498 348,616.00 SEAFARERS' PENSION PLAN -BENEFITS PAID (Average $534.46) 1,410 753,590.75 TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD 13,919 1,417,267,69 SUAAAAARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID , ^ , • , ' ^ �April, 1970 Nam# Adrldga, E. C. All, Angalo Allan, Charlai H. Allan, Jamai L. Allan, Jamai L. Alliion, Blair Amundtop, Carlato Andaragg, F. T, Ardoln, S. J. Braggatt. C. E. Baham, Vincant H. Ballay, Q. P. Balat, Jamai H. Ballard, Jamai F. Barrlngar, Joiaph Barrlngar, Joiaph Baan, C. M. Baan, C. M. Baan, C. M. Balchar, William Bell, Jamai E. Benedict, Anthony Benedict, John Benlamln, Robert BenneH, H. Arthur Bennett. Rodney L. Bermonta, Louli E. Barnard, Fardlnan Barnard, Wayne J. Barthlauma, Paul Barthlauma. Paul Bartrand, etibart BIca, J. Blanc, Praiton A. Bolei, Barnard J. Boling, J. R. Boudraaux, Ivy hi. Bradford, Richard Bradley, George Bradley, Jamai R. Braggi, WlHIa Braggi, Willie Brinion, Banny Broadnax, Raglnal Brown, C. E. Brown, C. E. Brown, J. R. Browning, J. F. Bryant, Varnon W. Butlar, John W. Butlar, Owan Butlar, Robert Butlar, Robert A. Callahan Robert Cappi, Emait E. Carter, Don A. Carter, Don A. Caicona, John L. Catalanotto, Joia Cayton, G. 5. Chandler, Wade D. Chaihira, Jamai M. Clark, A. P. Cobb, Arnia C. Colar, George Collay, WaltV R. Colllni, Allan Jr. Colllni, Allen Jr. Conner, Jimmy D. Conner, Jimmy D. Connari, Eugene E. Conitantino, EnrI Coto, Jorge F. Cowan, Jamai B. Cowart, Jamai C. Crab, Cyril V. Craft, M. R. Craft, Milton R. J. Crawford. Stave V. Croly, William G. Crotaau, Jack D. Crowley, Eugene H. Danne, Adolph Darouia, Jamei W. Davldion, L. hi. Davldion, Leonard Davldion, Leonard Davli, Kenneth Davli, R. 5. Deagro, Alfred 5. Dabautta, Ernait Defranza, Roberto Defrania, Roberto Dent, Stephen T. Dent, Stephen T. Diana, Lorenzo N. DIgrazIa, Joieph Duboli, N. W. Dubourg, Anthony Dufour, Peter A. Dufrena, Jamai J. Dufrena, Jamai J. Dumai, Duffy Duncan, G. F. Duncan, George W. Duncan, George W. Duncan. George W. Dunn, Beverly E. Dunn, John Durning, Ivan Durnlng, Ivan A. Dwyer, Jamei F. Eady, Harold F. Edlund, John H. Edward:, John D. SEAFARERS Amount lOO.W 5.17 48.43 4.42 4.11 4.04 2.M 4.03 8.07 23.32 i.lf 2.85 1.01 4.04 8.17 20.00 71.73 13.81 10.50 43.07 18.84 8.21 7.14 14.38 11.43 4.11 10.78 3.77 7.58 21.29 24.81 43.32 2.85 3.48 72.44 10 24 10.00 29.40 .83 2.70 129.02 4.22 4.34 9.93 19.99 29.99 10.50 2.15 28.75 2J3 8.52 10.35 25.47 4.83 2.15 33.99 11.37 2.71 1.88 13.95 7.84 11.10 10.50 52.93 22.11 .58 47.13 27.29 1.58 20.12 1.79 4.11 8.47 5.18 159.18 23.55 19.78 1.90 7.78 4.12 11.43 3.88 4.11 3.97 4,29 8.31 8.19 11.23 21.98 80.80 2.84 2.31 9.05 5.29 7.94 28.89 7.78 25.88 2.90 34.11 8.19 4.15 1.28 12.43 10.00 1.45 9.05 12.83 13.48 5.57 1.55 ' 22.33 10.25 27.70^ 43J2 Name Edwardi, Sankey Edwardi, Sankey Ellier. C. P. Elliott, John C. Elli, Michael R. Engeleder, Harbar Eitei, Frederick Eitei, Frederick Eitrada, Albert Eitrada, Albert Eitrada, Albert Everett. Edward L. Famlglio, Blagglo Famlgllo, Biagglo Farley, HubaH M. Flanagan, Eugene Florei, A. A. Fluker, Ronald J. Frankewicz, Staph Frazler, Lee Roy Frederlkien, Vern Fuchlllo, Dominic Furlow, Rolllni O. Gagllano, J. Gainer, William J. Galuika, Louli T. Garza, A. Glarratano, D. L. Gilllken, Norman Golni, S. S. Gomez, Raymundo Gonzalei, R. P. Gonzalei, Ralph Goodman, Clyde Goonan, Lawrence Gouldman, Jamei I. Graialei, Eladio Grant, Franklin P. Green, Jena T. Green, Jane T. Green, Melvin L. Gregory, Sanford Groue, Elmer T. Jr. Haddox, T. R. Amount 1.90 2.53 21.93 18.71 9.80 .83 29.97 18.88 3.38 88.18 20.81 15.72 3.48 7 50 52.33 53.70 29.99 85.94 30.12 8.72 8.19 5.08 21.73 1.00 1.28 8.07 7.88 9.34 1.07 21.98 25.52 18.84 4.04 3.79 7.35 87.39 11.91 1.80 8.00 7.18 18.58 17.79 1.28 19.85 Name Johnien, Charlei Johnion, Cornalll Johnion, Jamei D. Johnion, John R. Johnion, M. S. Johnion, Manual J. Johnion, Norrli L. I, Wayne Wayni K. Johnion, Johnion.I, Willla Jonei, Hannr, Jr. Jordan, C. E. Jordan, Dewey B. Kalier, William P. Kane, Vincent E. Kane, Vincent E. Keith, H. O. Keith, Harold O. Kelly, Robert L. Kelioe, John W. Keneday, George B. Kennedy, P. W. Kent, Ronald D. King, William E. Klvikoikl, Olavl Krolowltz, Terran KulakowikL Julia Kuihmer, Charlei Kyrlakoi, liidore Lablgang, Frankle Labombard, Raymon Lambert, Reldui Lammon, Kenneth A. Laquere. J. Laroie, Joieph P. Lawton, E. W. Lea, Albert S. Lea, Albert S. Lemolne, Sam J. Leiueur, Roy H. Lewli, Thuriton J. Lewli. William H. Libby, Melvin F. LIbby, Melvin F. Lllai, Royall T. I. Amount 5.17 14.29 2.85 10.00 207.20 73.02 95.22 4.12 8.73 3.79 107.81 5.50 17.87 8.95 43.87 38.21 2.08 14.00 10.00 4.11 11.28 1.90 4.04 1.88 28.00 4.29 9.94 .58 8.82 18.22 58.91 24.75 14.82 99.48 10.72 5.54 8.19 5.79 29.40 35.95 8.19 29.40 5.01 18.50 Page Twenty Seven LOG Name Newiom, W. H. Newiome, D. A. Newton, Charlei NIcholai Leroy NIcholai Leroy Odom, Henry E. Odum, Frederick L. Ortiz, VIncente Oitberg, Tage H. L. Palmer, Jamei W. J. Palombo, Victor M. PanneII,»Gary W. Parker, W. Parker, W. E. Paron, Robert A. Parrli, J. L. Parions, Frank E. Patterson, Harrli Patterson, Harris Patterson, Harris Patterson, Harris Payne, Perry S. Peavy Floyd Pedraza, F. M. Peredne, Francis Phillips, H. E. Pierce, Grafton, J. Pitcher. Robert H. Pitts. H. G. Pizzltolo. Vincent Pollev. James R. Powell, John J. Prater, J. H. Prater. James E. Procell. Jack Purdy, Wilbur, D. Purvis, Robert W. Ramsey, David A. Renew, Irvin Jr. Renew, IrvIn Jr. Renew, Irvin Jr. Raior, John P. Raynal, R. Amount 8.00 35.53 8.22 8.34 8.45 24.28 4.04 7.84 1.74 19.13 82.02 7.08 4.12 11.59 1.00 10.88 7.21 8.19 71.31 48.28 24.48 12.25 8.74 8.08 3.35 58.52 8.21 7.94 1.55 2.31 29.40 2.21 12.43 12.47 10 00 28.80 2 SI 17.82 2.81 3.19 84.87 9.55 4.73 Name Sepulvado, Larry Sevin, Robert J. Shartzer, Corrie SImoneaux, Marlon Slay, J. A. Slayton, James E. Slayton, James E. Smith, Eugene Smith, P. R. Snodgrass, L. W. Snodgrass, Lee W. Speck, Fay E. Stafford, Stephen Stalnaker, Bernar Stokes, Wilton H. Stokke, Sverre M. Stoup, B. T. Jr. Strand, Jon K. Strand, Jon K. Stucky, Charles A. Suarez, Joseph Swilley, William Syms, Jack M. Syms, Jack M. Taylor, Joseph J. Thomas, Clay Thomas, Joseph H. Thomas, Wm. N. Thomason, John E. Todd, B. G. Todd, Rllly G. Todd, Ravmond J. Touro, Eddie A. Treltler, Carl T. Tremel, H. W. Troatman, Albert Troncoio, Carlos Trosclair, Bobby Tucker, James L. Tucker, Thomas E. Tuiague, John M. Turner, M. A. Velazquez, Euiebl Amount 4.91 25.27 1.93 3.48 8.00 3.77 5.17 12.43 18.84 4.04 8.07 8.75 48.48 8.05 71.87 7.70 24.84 24.28 .58 2 71 44.83 35 88 8.19 15 83 10 00 4.04 18.22 5 72 821 4 29 2 85 10*1 8.09 17 20 10 50 17.58 5.80 20.13 1.74 3.19 895 10.09 89.84 Wage-Hour JUea Ask Coi^ress For Protection The Wage-Hour Division of the Department of Labor has asked Congress to make it a federal crime to assault or in­ terfere with inspectors, A spokesman said the measure is necessary to protect division members from assaults by em­ ployers who resent reporting of minimum wage and overtime violations. Officers Attacked The department said 52 com­ pliance officers have been at­ tacked since 1949 — one in 1970, nine in 1969, the highest on record, A bill has been introduced to give wage-hour compliance of­ ficers the protection of a law covering other federal person­ nel. It would make it a federal crime to assault, impede, op­ pose, resist, intimidate or inter­ fere with investigators. Already protected are federal judges, U.S. attorneys. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and federal marshals. Inspectors Beaten No inspectors have been mur­ dered but some have been beat­ en and a few have collected damages after in suits against their assailants. These have us­ ually been employers or thenrelatives aroused by charges of failing to pay minimum wages, overtime rates or prevailing rates under the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act. The wage-hour administra­ tion listed these incidents among others: • A compliance officer was hit on the head, knocked to the basement, pummeled and choked with his own necktie. • Shots were fired through the window at the home of an investigator, who reported see­ ing the auto of a plant owner drive past his home shortly be­ fore. • An employer tried to run down an officer with a truck. DELTA LINE MONEY DUE Mr. L. English, Jr., Port Purser Delta Steamship Lines, Inc. Bienville Street Wharf New Orleans, Louisiana OR Telephone: Area Code 504-JA2-3492 The Delta Steamship Lines has notified the Seafarers International Union that it is holding checks for unclaimed wages due crewmembers as of December 31, 1969. Seafarers whose names appear on either of the lists on this page may collect their checks by writing to: Hall, Charlie C. Hall, George M. Hall, George M. Hallock, James L. Hanchey, Samuel L. Hanchey, Samuel L. Hancock, Robert M. Herman, Deloii C. Harris, William F. Haslett, Paul Haiiell, D. Hebert, Ronald Henry, Isidore Henton. M. R. Hoitt, Ernait R. J. Hood, Harvey H. Hood, Lucean Hood, Tommy H. Hood, Tommy H. Hope, Wayne R. Hunter, W. Huseby. P. S. Hyde, Emmett E. Hymel, Donald Jackson. A. C. Jackson, Rudolph Jackson, Wesley P. Jackson, Wesley P. Jackson, Wesley P. Jackson, Wesley P. Jacobs, Ronald L. James, Roy E. James, Roy E. Jankoiki, Henry C. Janner, Mike Jenkins, Leroy JImlnoz, Jena 9.25 29.40 3.55 1.18 43.11 1.28 55.83 43.87 14.05 1845 2.85 1.15 3.79 91.84 2.85 18.15 1.90 2.85 2.53 49.08 10.24 12.77 28.88 4.42 28.91 44.99 28.88 2.90 41.55 20.58 1.90 5.29 71.47 44.34 2.05 4.11 10.31 5.00 3.32 30.79 3.00 4.27 8.22 30.32 28.53 2.84 18.22 2.87 131.99 30.02 20.22 2.75 2.15 2.87 4.12 81.59 7.58 13.54 2.90 11.45 18.50 9.05 10.00 5.37 .58 1.02 7.88 .83 14.58 22.78 4.29 27.11 2.87 20.70 Lingo, Earl J. Lopez, Joe L. Lopez. Joe L. Lopez, Pablo Maai, William J. Machado, Arthur D. Machado, Arthur D. Machado, Arthur J. Machado. Arthur Mahoney, John L. Maloney, G. J Maloney. John M. Martin, Louis A. Martin, Louis A. Marullo, Theodore Mayes, Terrel S. McAndrew, J. J. McCarthy, Emmett McGIlI, R. A. McGough, Mark McKenna, J. J. McKInney, Henry G. McLoughlln, R. F. McSpadden, J. C. Merritt, Robert R Mllazzo, George M. Miller, Jerry Z. Miller, Norman G. Miller, Sherman E. MImi, William Y. Mlstretta, Louis Mitchell, Ronald Morgan, Dalton H. Moseley, Gary L. Mulkey, Wayne R. Murr, M. G. Nelll, Harold H. Raynol, R. Raynor, O. M. Renken, Henry A. Revlll, Joieph C. Rhew, L. W. Richardson, John Richardson, John Richardson, John Richardson, John RIcord, F. M. Jr. RInker, Leroy RIpolII, Anthony Rivera, Jose A. Robb, Wesley P. Robinson, John T. Robinson Prather Rocha, A. C. Rosario, Efrain J. Roiarlo, Efrain J. Rosenberg, Alan Y. Rossi, Robert Rudolph, Robert L. Salk, Joachin D. Sanchez, John Sanchez, John Santiago, Jose F. Saunders, R. L. Savoca, Joseph Schlelder, Edward Schlelder, Edward Schnltzler, Stanle Schutz. Frank Scopolitei, Lee Scopolltes, Will Scott. Mason R. Scruggs, Thomas G. Self, Idward H. 3.83 2.08 58.81 2.51 18.84 35.23 2.31 8.88 27.13 19.44 2.85 3.91 1.90 7.90 18.08 8.88 18.12 7.50 3.48 5.18 7.35 4.34 4.27 458.07 72.83 5.89 7.14 40.38 4.11 2.84 10 00 1.74 1.74 3.97 45.15 4.01 29.12 9.07 5.18 18.48 9.94 77.81 Venezia, F. S. Jr. VIck, William B. Vincent, Clevelan Voss, Ronald E. Vouga, L. R. Wagner, Phillip Waits, Bever Ward, James L. Warren, Vernon C. Watklns, Howard L. Weir, William J. Welch. Richard L. Wells, Glenn M. Wells, Walton E. Whatley, Herbert White, K. C. 35.14 5.21 51.39 .87 .83 29.40 38.82 2.02 2.02 7.58 5.01 19.53 2.34 29.40 5.17 10 50 4.74 White, S. Whited, John L. Jr. WIckllne, Paul V. Wlqglns, Jesse D. Williams, E. B. Williams, Theo. M. Wilson, James L. Wilson, Orle Wilson, Orle A. WItska, Ronald Wolverton, Frank Wolverton, Frank Young, Earl H. Young, Edgar Young, John W. Young, Jonathan N. Young, Jonathan N. Zanca, Anthony Zanca, Anthony 45.15 3.03 10.78 5.05 2.85 4.29 1.45 11.47 11.89 5.21 5.17 8.18 33.83 15,911.75 '..V. — National .'I Shipping Agency — ^ iii i(j>S I' Name Adams, J. N. Addlngton, Homer Amoran, Pater Anderson, Clarence Asunslon, A. A. Aylar, Eugene Badgatt, William Bants, Hanary Baroni, Tony A. Beadles, W. H. S. Backman, Donald W. Barnard, Edison D. Boatnar, R. Boles, Jimmla L. Brackball, R. R. Brewer. William J. Brian, 1R. E. Brinklay, Jesse P. Brown, Clifford F. Brown, J. P. Brown, J. P. Brown, Paul W. Brunnall, Victor J. Byars, J. Carbonal, E. Carroll, &rl D. Carter, F. CasMgn^ Robert Caulay, Clyde B. Cllna, J. E. Colby, Edmund Cola, Edward Connanty, Wm. Cooper, C. Cotham, Charlai W. Couilni, W. M. Amount 17.82 15.89 100.00 12.38 .01 8.59 .84 7.93 .40 20.B9 18.76 50.51 21.14 JO 22.73 6.14 7.33 I2JB 19.73 i03.0B 4.73 3.62 J3 SJS6 1.12 6.19 14.45 .49 2.87 40.84 .70 6.30 24.22 .05 4.32 11.61 S.I4 Name Craig, D. E. Craw, R. Cumtngham, W. N. Davis, M. C. Davis, M. J. fiavls, Wilson J. Da Area, R. Dalacruz, A. T. Danahy, Thomas J. Dasllva, H. DIplatro, Jamas J. DIpIetro, Jamas J. Dorsatt, Dwain Dowd, O. Ellis, Francis M. Falgoust, M. J. Falgoust, M. J. Felix, H. M. Farnandaz, F. A. FIguaroa, A. B. FIrlla, L. Fltton, Lewis Forest, Jackson Frandar, G. E. Fulmar, William W. Galloway, N. Galvin, F. Garracht, Ronald Garracht, Ronald Glaason, J. H. Goutlarraz, H. J. J. Greene, Brandon F. Gregory, Howard Hair, Gee. Hanson, Karl Ham Harada, S. Harada, S. Amount 18.03 10.00 3.52 .48 .44 6.21 1.98 20.11 64.17 36.90 2.17 2.80 3.82 .75 10.11 4.44 13.87 5.38 69.51 1.44 3.76 24.97 11.07 JB 75.89 8.34 10.07 23.09 6.00 22.48 13.57 2.87 9.83 5.13 4.04 .95 IIJS Name Harp, Richard A. Hashagan, G. Hayes, F. B. HIrabI, S. N. Holland, R. A. Holland, W. J. Holsabus, Marian Holt, P. S. Huckeba, J. J. Huckeba, J. J., Jr. Hulsebus, Marian Hunt, J. llmar, W. Matpacka Israel, J. A. Itoman, Y. Jackson, G. R. Jackson, Tyrone JahafI, Hammond N. Jardlna, W. S. Jensen, S. Johnson, A. Johnson, William Johnson, Wm. Jordan. A. W. Judd, h. Kelly, Claranca Kerr, George C. King, R. G" King, R. O. King, Ralph O. Knight, R. C. Kopflal, W. B. Kopflar, Wallace Labua, Thomas V. Lalfd, C. W. Lavlgna, T. Laavall, W. L. Lea, H. A. Amount 4.29 2.32 2.86 .47 2.89 9.81 29.70 13.57 13.83 12.38 20.55 1.43 5.57 10.00 64.35; 2.17 12.43 28.68 4.22 19.98 .49 1.08 2.40 57.39 19.83 2.27 24.00 12.43 23.12 1.00 7.16 .95 8.42 18.74 2.49 12.83 .01 14.84 Name Lee, Hubbert A. Lekivltz, Alfred Leon, A. Lewkkel, L. Lines, T. O. Lockerman, W. Long, Horace C., Jr. Lyons, A. Maccollne. H. W. Macdonald, Samuel Marktn, P. J., Jr. Mathews, T. J. Maxwell, K. J. McGlove, F. S. McCay, Wm. McCIIntIc, William McDougafi, L. McHale, Martin McLaIn, J. McLamore, John Mendoza, Ernest Masserall, Bobby Montgomery, D. R. Moreland, Dennis Myers, Jake Nelson, Arthur J. Nelson, W. A. Nelson, Wayne O. Nerls, Johnson New, David E. Nolan, U. E. Norton,- Alexander Okuhara, Sosal Ortiz, William O. O-Sulllvon, R. P. Oswinkia, Wm. A. Overton, R. R. Owan, John A. Amount 28.88 4.84 4.18 20.71 .50 .52 6.21 2.25 40.16 6.44 7.15 29.87 1.07 3.01 5.49 10.87 13.75 5.91 2.32 9J0 18.53 4.04 16.03 16.85 22.37 2.87 33.44 7.9S 5.30 30.20 7.31 12.38 46.33 34.33 2.17 2.25 .95 6.40 Name Owens, R. J. Owens, Robert J. Owens, Wm. Pakras, B. Parker, Anthony C. Paschalson. G. J. Pastrana, P. A. Patlno. J. Pekarak, Frederic Pereira, R. M. Pleczykoln, Frank Pierce, Normond Plmentel, R. F. Pope, William Potarsky, R. Pritchett, R. C. Ramon, Alvarez Ray, Robert F. Resto, Fellclano Reynolds, F. L. RIos, J. Robertson, Philip Rodriguez, Galo Ronay, J. S. Russo, G. F. Sabaron, B. Sablln, J. R. Sampson, Jamas L. Sanders, E. B. Sanders, Eugene B. Saunders, O. H. Saxan, J. Saxan, J. Scovel, Joseph Selby, J. C. San, V Shea, W. R. Amount .44 5.M 2.40 3.01 .87 2.88 20.88 3.77 12.12 9.14 1.22 7.31 40.91 21.52 2.96 12.43 21.17 5.49 100.00 16.03 19.83 3.88 21.29 13.83 .44 3.76 15.33 2.27 23.51 23.00 I.M 1.15 5.B3 5.57 .95 .95 4J6 Name Singleton, W. C. SInush, Edward P. Smith, Edward R. Smith, R. C. Sommers, E. Sterling, Claude Stierheim, M. P. Suchockl, L. C. Sunagawa, S. Swindel, W., Jr. Takamlne. C. Takamlne, Chosal Takamlne, Chosel Tate, W. Throp, F. R. Toler, Richard L. Torres, Felipe Triguero, G. Trinidad, A. P. Underwood, Donald Usher Stephen E. Valladares, John Varona, R. B. Vedrlne, H. R. Vlllacruzas, L R. Wade, L. G. Waggoner, James C. Weed, M. F. Wheatley, J. E., Jr. Williams, D. S. WIndshelmer, M. Wolf, L. Wong, H. M. Woodell, Standlsh Young, J. R. Amount 3.62 2.87 4.38 22.45 21.14 1.00 27.39 3.32 13.97 5.42 58.50 47J3 9J5 8.34 1.18 37.83 10.52 3.00 .01 9.88 7.62 14.40 2JI 2.02 26.71 1.61 12.42 16.03 1.13 4.n 135.32 .44 12.55 4.04 1.34 $3,000.25 �SEAFARERS Page Twen^ Eight COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia), March 1—Chairman, J. C. Northcutt; Secretary, P. S. Holt; Deck Delegate, Billy Campbell; Engine Delegate, L. A. Pianboli; Steward Delegate, Philip Livingston. $12.10 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in steward department. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), March 1—Chairman, H. Hager; Secretary, A. H. Reasko; Deck Delegate, John Cox; Steward Delegate, C. White. Everything is running smoothy with no beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward department for a job well done. DELTA BRASIL (Delta), March 1—Chairman, J. P. Thrasher; Secre­ tary Steve Szants; Deck Delegate, Steve Szants; . Engine Delegate, James L. Ward; Steward Delegate, John Zimmer. No beefs were report­ ed by department delegates. PLATT (Platte Transport), March 15—Chairman, James C. Boudoin; Secretary, Felipe Quintayo; Ship's Delegate, Carl Thompson; Deck Delegate, Henry P. Lopez; Engine Delegate, Lewis Hertzog; Steward Delegate, William Matsoukas. Few hours disputed OT in each depart­ ment. $65.00 in ship's fund. ROBERT E. LEE (Waterman), March 8—Chairman R. N. Dillon; Secretary, C. Gary; Ship's Delegate, Lawrence D. Stone; Engine Delegate, C. J. Baker; Steward Delegate, George A. Byron. Some disputed OT in steward department to be taken up with the boarding patrolman. puted OT in engine department. Dis­ cussion held regarding sanitary cleaning of laundry and recreation rooms. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), March 16 — Chairman, T. Kelsey; Secretary, J. Morrison; Ship's Dele­ gate, T. Kelsey; Deck Delegate, R. Bower; Engine Delegate, E. M. Peltoniemi; Steward Delegate, William Nuttall. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. TAMA GUILDEN (Transport Com­ mercial), February 28—Chairman E. K. Bryan; Secretary, J. R. Prestwood; Ship's Delegate, Edward J. Rogg; Deck Delegate, Henry O. Nuttig; Engine Delegate, F. A. Torres; Steward Delegate, Samuel D. Edgerly. $783.30 in movie fund. Two men taken off ship for medical rea­ sons. No beefs were reported by department delegates. OVERSEAS EVELYN (Maritime Overseas), March 25—Chairman, C. James; Secretary, W. E. Oliver, Ship's Delegate, Calvin James; Deck Delegate, Claudio Pinerro; Engine Delegate, John Salters, Jr., Steward Delegate, John Shaw. $24.60 in ship's fund. Everything is O.K. in all de­ partments. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. LOG SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), February 23 — Chairman, A. Ringuette; Secretary, H. A. Galicki; Ship's Delegate, Albert N. Ringuette; Deck Delegate, D. Pilch; Engine Delegate, Paul M. Hartman; Steward Delegate, Henry A. Galicki. $30.00 in movie fund. Motion was made to have crews sailing contain­ er ships receive same vacation days alloted to them as the SUP and NMU on the fast turnaround ships. Vote of thanks was extended to the chief mate, Mr. Johnson, and the 2nd engineer, Mr. Pyle, for the fast action in handling an injured oiler who fell off the boxes. Thanks to Capt. Gillard for trying to get as­ sistance as fast as possible from Midway Island which was the closest port when the accident occurred. April, 1970 CHATHAM (Waterman), Febru­ ary 1—Chairman, Sam Manning; Secretary, G. Tosclair; Ship's Dele­ gate, Sam Manning; Deck Delegate, C. Hellon. Everything is running smoothly. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), March 2 —Chairman H. Hodges; Secretary, James H. Naylor; Ship's Delegate, Raymond W. Hodges; Deck Dele­ gate, Caiman Boggs; Engine Dele­ gate, Raymond L. Stripe; Steward Delegate. D. E. Striesund. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. DEL SUD (Delta), February 11— Chairman, LeRoy Rinker; Secretary, S. Rothschild; Ship's Delegate, Le­ Roy Rinker. $102.00 in movie fund. Some disputed OT in each depart­ ment. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), March 7 — Chairman, John Ghannasian; Secretary, W. T. Langford; Ship's Delegate, R. Fitzpatrick; Deck Dele­ gate, Jose G. Madrid; Engine Dele­ gate, W. S. Daniel; Steward Dele­ gate, R. Fitzpatrick. Some disputed OT in engine department, otherwise everything is running smoothy with no beefs. DEL SUD (Delta), March 1 — Chairman, M. Pizzuto; Secretary, S. Rothschild; Ship's Delegate, LeRoy Rinker; Deck Delegate, Joseph Collins; Engine Delegate, William D. Walker; Steward Delegate, Le­ Roy Rinker. $362.00 in ship's fund. Everything is running smoothly in each department. Vote of thanks to the steward department. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), Janu­ ary 31 — Chairman, John Ohannasian; Secretary, W. T. Langford; Ship's Delegate, Ralph Fitzpatrick; Deck Delegate, Jose G. Madrid, En­ gine Delegates, W. S. Daniel; Stew­ ard Delegate, Ralph Fitzpatrick. $20.05 in ship's fund. Everything is running smoothly. TRENTON (Sea-Land). February 23—Chairman. Floyd E. Selix; Secre­ tary, John W. Mims: Ship's Dele­ gate, Floyd E. Selix; Deck Delegate, John Owen; Engine Delegate, J. B. Lippencott: Steward Delegate, Melvin W. Bass. No beefs were reported by department delegates. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), March 1.5—Chairman, Ted A. Tolentino; Secretary D. B. Militar; Ship's Delegate, Maximo Buganon; Deck Delegate, C. R. Loveland; Engine Delegate, 0. J. Fegan; Steward Dele­ gate, R. Pelliccia. Some disputed OT in engine department. The steward department received a vote of thanks for a job well done. DE SOTO (Waterman), March 8 —Chairman, E. A. Rihn; Secretary, J. F Castronover; Ship's Delegate, E. A. Rihn; Engine Delegate, Rich­ ard L. Welch; Steward Delegate, August J. Panapinto. $5.80 in ship's fund. No "beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. VANTAGE VENTURE (Vancor Petroleum) February 15—Chairman, E. O'Connell; Secretary, J. B. Juzang; Ship's Delegate, Billy J. Brewer; Deck Delegate, James M. Edmonds; Engine Delegate, Karl Wattley; Steward Delegate, John J. Kulos. Everything is running smoothy. OVERSEAS SUZANNE (Maritime Overseas), March 8 — Chairman, Leon M. Kyser; Secretary, Lawrence Banks; Engine Delegate, Lawrence Dinitt; Steward Delegate. H. Nixon; Ship's Delegate, Billy Harris. Few hours disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. OAKLAND (Sea-Land), March 5 —Chairman, J. R. Miller; Secretary, J. Doyle; Ship's Delegate, J. R. Miller. $3..50 in ship's fund; $310.00 in movie fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. TRANSHAWAII (Hudson Water­ ways), March 22—Chairman, T. E. Yablonsky; Secretary, James Tem­ ple; Ship's Delegate, Kenneth E. Miller; Deck Delegate, Roland Rich­ ardson; Engine Delegate, Earl S. Rogers; Steward Delegate, Edward Dale. Everything is running smoothy with no beefs. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. NOONDAY (Waterman), March 21 —Chairman J. Ortiguerra; Secre­ tary, F. Fletcher. Few hours dis­ puted OT reported by deck delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to all brothers who helped to make this a good voyage. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), March 8—Chairman, W. Bushong; Secretary, John Reed. One man missed ihip in Honolulu. Some dis- OVERSEAS NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), March 8—Chairman, Nor­ wood E. Geno; Secretary, H. W. Kennedy. $29.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to Brother John Chestnut for a job well done on sanitary in deck department. MARYMAR (Calmar), March 8— Chairman, Angelo Antoniou; Secre­ tary, T. A. Jackson; Ship's Delegate, Angelo Antoniou; Deck Delegate, R. F. Mackert; Engine Delegate, Joseph E. Sadler; Steward Delegate, R. Ramos. Beef in engine department to be brought to attention of head­ quarters for clarification. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), March 1—Chairman, Leroy Temple; Secretary, J. P. Baliday; Ship's Delegate, Leroy Temple; Deck Dele­ gate, Jennings J. Long; Engine Delegate, Arthur S. Turner; Stew­ ard Delegate, Philip Swing. $86.25 in ship's fund. FAIRISLE (Pan Oceanic), March 10—Chairman, A. Anderson; Secre­ tary, S. Davis; Ship's Delegate, A. Anderson; Deck Delegate, R. W. Smith; Engine Delegate, R. B. Honeycutt; Steward Delegate, R. E. Cranford. No beefs and no disputed OT. LONG LINES (Isthmian), Febru­ ary 22 — Chairman, Ralph Murry; Secretary, D^ick Grant; Ship's Delegate, Steve Sloneski; Deck Delegate, Dc T. McNeills; Engine Delegate, legi C. Lord; Steward Delegate, ele J. Roberts. Some disputed OT in deck department. Motion was made that the Un­ ion should raise the Maintenance and Cure from $56.00 to $100.00 weekly. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. BETHFLOR (Bethlehem), Febru­ ary 1—Chairman, Joseph Michael: Secretary, Vernon Douglas; Deck Delegate, Jerry Blom; Engine Dele­ gate, Hector L. Duarte; Steward Delegate, Frank Risbriger. Every­ thing is running smoothy. Vote of thanks was extended to the Stew­ ard department for a job well done. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Overseas), March 15—Chairman. John Hunter; Secretary, Jack E. Long; Ship's Delegate, Lloyd McPherson; Deck Delegate, Charles Dana; Engine Delegate, W. C. Roack; Steward Delegate, William Jackson. $6 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of th'tnks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. their home address upon request of those members who are inconveniienced by having to report at Un­ ion hall and pick up their checks. iDsputed OT in engine department. TRANSEASTERN (Hudson Water­ ways), February 28—Chairman, Wm. H. Butts, Jr.; Secretary, M. B. Elliott; Ship's Delegate, Wm. H. Butts, Jr.; Deck Delegate, H. O. Halfhill; Engine Delegate, C. M. Crooks; Steward Delegate, C. Muscarella. OT disputed in deck and engine departments to be clarified. Most of the repairs have been taken care of. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), February 22—Chairman, John Reed; Secretary, none. $70.00 in ship's fund. Heat beef pending in engine department, to be settled by board­ ing patrolman. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), March 1—Chairman, Wm. Bushong; Secretary, John Reed. $70.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. MIDLAKE (Bulk Carriers), March 8—Chairman, Frank Smith; Secre­ tary, D. M. Woods; Ship's Delegate, C. Benoit; Deck Delegate, William C. Schaefer; Steward Delegate, L. Wilclair. No beefs were reported by department delegates. AZALEA CITY (Sea-Land), March 24—Chairman, John Morris; Secre­ tary, C. N. Johnson; Delegate, John Morris. Some port time disputed in steward department. Everything is running along fine. Vote of thanks to the bosun and steward depart­ ment for a job well done. SAN JUAN (Sea-Land), February 8—Chairman, James M Foster; Sec­ retary, G. P. Thlu; Ship's Delegate, Rodger Swanson; Deck Delegate, J. A. Rusheed; Steward Delegate, Ru­ dolph L. LaMorth. $50.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. COLUMBIA MARINER (Colum­ bia), March 1—Chairman Vertis C. Smith; Secretary, Woodrow W. Per­ kins; Ship's Delegate, Vertis C. Smith. Some disputed OT in deck department. Motion was made that engine utility, wiper and topside pantryman be replaced or compen­ sated with OT for extra work per­ formed. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Serv­ ice), March 1—Chairman, William Hunter; Secretary, L. E. Wing; Ship's Delegate, Joseph Hall; Deck Delegate, William Hunter; Engine Delegate, Emmett Connell; Steward Delegate, Joseph Hall. Some dis­ puted OT in deck and engine depart­ ments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to Patrolman Ed Morris. Vote of thanks to the steward for obtaining movies. YELLOWSTONE (Ogden Marine), February 15—Chairman, none; Sec­ retary, James R. Abrams; Ship's Delegate, Jack A. Olsen. Motion was made to have all vacation checks mailed to the members at COLUMBIA OWL (Columbia), March 1—Chairman, T. J. Hillburn; Secretary, L. M. Morsette; Ship's Delegate, S. J. Canales; Deck Dele­ gate, George A. Nuss; Engine Dele­ gate, Thurston J. Lewis; Steward Delegate, Walter H. Davis. Few hours disputed OT in deck and stew­ ard department, otherwise things are moving along fairly good. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), February 12 — Chairman, A. H. Schwartz; Secretary, J. B. Morton; Ship's Delegate, Albert H. Schwartz; Deck Delegate, Albert H. Schwartz; Engine Delegate, William D. Cooper; Steward Delegate, I. Martin. No com­ munications were received from headquarters last two voyages. Settling the Beefs DELTA PARAGUAY (Delta), March 8—Chairman, Albert A. Bourgot; Secretary, Charles J. Mitchell; Deck Delegate, John W. McNellage; Engine Delegate, Frank W. Cham­ bers; Steward Delegate, Albert Estrada. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. ANTINOUS (Waterman), Febru­ ary 28—Chairman, Salvatore Striglio; Secretary, V. E. Monte; Deck Delegate, Salvatore Striglio; Engine Delegate, James R. Konda; Steward Delegate, Fred B. Sheetz. $12.25 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. COLUMBIA (U.S. Steel) January 25—Chairman B. J. Waturski; Sec­ retary, M. S. Sospina. Ship's dele­ gate reported that there are no beefs and everything is running along very smoothly. PENN CARRIER (Penn), Febru­ ary 25—Chairman, R. Daville; Sec­ retary, J. G. Lakwyk; Ship's Dele­ gate, W. R. Thompson; Deck Dele­ gate, Paul Arthofer; Engine Dele­ gate, Gregory Orozco; Steward Delegate, Dan M. Harp. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine de­ partments. ROBERT E. LEE (Waterman), March 1—Chairman, R. V. Dillon; Secretary, C. M. Gray; Deck Dele­ gate, Lawrence D. Stone; Engine Delegate, M. Darawich; Steward Delegate, George H. Bryant, Jr. No ISeefs were reported by department delegates. Steward suggests one more man in galley as galley is not automated. Also bonus in Middle East war area. The Seattle (Sea-Land) was just back from a 35-day voyage to North Europe, and SlU Representative E. B. AAcAuley was on hand to make sure all beefs were settled. Here he Is talking with Ship's Chairman Daniel Ticer (left) and Deck Delegate John Shields. Ticer sails as bosun and has been going to sea for more than 20 years. Shields went through HISS training at Piney Point in January 1969, and upgraded to AS at the school in November. �SEAFARERS April, 1970 Merlyn Arfliur Cousino, 39: Brother Cousino passed away on February 12 at St. Vincent Hospital, Tole­ do, Ohio. He joined the SIU in the Port of . Toledo in 1962 : and sailed as a 'deckhand. A native of Erie, Michigan, Broth­ er Cousino was living there when he died. Among his survivors is his wife, Margie. Burial was in St. Joseph Cemetery in Erie. Joseph Brnsich, 75: Seafarer Brusich was an SIU pensioner home in Phila­ delphia on Feb|| ruary 15 from "* natural causes. A native of Yu­ goslavia, Brother ] Brusich joined I the Union in the Port of Philadelphia and worked as a deckhand. Burial was in Yugoslavia. .I.- Herman Landry, 52: Seafarer Landry died on November 27, 1969 at Veter­ ans Administra­ tion Hospital in Birmin^am, , Alabama from natural causes. A native of Port Eads, Louisiana, he was living in New Orleans at the time of his death. Brother Landry joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans in 1956 and sailed in the deck department. He is a Naval veteran of World War II. Among his survivors is his sister, Mrs. Ethel Babin. — Theodore James Johnson, 62; Brother Johnson died on March 3 as the result of injuries received when he was hit by a truck while working on a diana. Seafarer S JHJohnson, who was waiting for the Great Lakes season to open, lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Michi­ gan. He was a native of Missouri and had joined the Union in Sault Ste. Marie in 1961. He worked as a dredgeman. Brother Johnson served in the Marines from 1928 to 1932. Among his survivors is his wife, Sadie. Burial was in Maplegrove Cemetery in Detour, Michigan. Glenn Farris Douglas, 42: Brother Douglas passed away on January 7 from natural causes at USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. He joined the SIU in the Pbrt of New York in 1961 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. A native of Middleboro, Kentucky, Brother Douglas was making his home in New Or­ Frank Peter Scourkeas, 49: leans when he died. He was a Seafarer Scourkeas passed away naval veteran of World War II. on February 4 Burial was in Grove Cemetery, in Houston, Casey County, Kentucky. Texas from na­ ^ tural causes. A Allen Boone, 62: Seafarer native of Lin­ Boone died on February 9 from coln, California, natural causes at Brother Scour­ his home in San keas was living Francisco. He in Houston ¥St^ joined the Un- when he died. He joined the ^ ion in the Port Union in the Port of Houston : ^ of New York in and sailed in the deck depart­ / I 1952 and sailed ment as an OS. Brother Scour­ in the engine keas was a Naval veteran of 3O4 department. He World War II.^Burial was in was a native of Nanticoke, Veterans Administration Ceme­ Pennsylvania. Creiriation was in tery in Houston. Skylawn Memorial Park in California. Among his survivors is his daughter, Geraldine A. William Ernest Reeves, 63: Moncrief. Brother Reeves died of natural causes in Doc­ James Hiomas Corlls, 64: tors Hospital, Brother Corlis passed away in Groves, Tex­ from natural as on March 3, causes on Feb­ the day of his ruary 4 at Char­ 63rd birthday. A ity Hospital, native of Louisi­ New Orleans. ana, Seafarer He joined the Reeves was liv­ SIU in 1951 in ing in Orange, Texas when he the Port of New passed away. He joined the Orleans and Union in the Port of Houston sailed in the deck department. in 1969 and sailed as captain Among his survivors is his wife, aboard an IBU tug. Among his Anuncietta. Burial was in St. survivors is his wife, Marie. Vincent de Paul Cemetery in Burial was in Wilkenson Ceme­ New Orleans. tery, Orange, Texas. Joseph Herman Amberson, 47: Seafarer Amberson was an SIU pensioner who died on No­ vember 7, 1969 in Contra Costa County Hospital in Martinez, California as the result of injuries Ireceived when he was hit by a vehicle the same day. Brother Amberson joined the Union in Seattle and sailed in the deck department. A native of Alabama, Seafarer Amber­ son was living in Concord, California when he passed away. He spent over six years in the Navy. Among his survi­ vors is his wife, Eleanor. Burial was in Memory Gardens Ceme­ tery. John S. Holley, Jr., 43: Brother Holley was reported missing at sea January 17 while sailing on board the Windjammer Susie in the east­ ern north Pacif­ ic. Seafarer Hol­ ley joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile in 1945 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. A native of Texas, Broth­ er Holley was making his home in Alabama when he was re­ ported missing. Among his survivors is his wife, Emo Jean. J ^1/ Page Twenty Nine LOG Peter Joseph Lannon, 72: Seafarer Lannon was an SIU pensioner who passed away March 8 at Mil­ :i ford Hospital, Milford, Con­ necticut. He joined the Union the Port of S.- ' I New Orleans in 1944 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Provi­ dence, Rhode Island, Brother Lannon was living in Milford when he died. He was in the Navy from 1919 until 1936. Among his survivors is his daughter, Mrs. Thelma Burr. Burial was in Kings Highway Cemetery, Milford. Nfls Lomsen, 79: Brother Lomsen was an SIU pensioner who died of na­ tural causes on February 13 in New Orleans. He was an oldtimer in the Un­ ion having joined in 1939 in the 1 Port of New Or­ leans. Seafarer Lomsen sailed in the deck department and when he retired he ended a phenomenally long sailing ca­ reer of over 64 years. A native of Norway, Brother Lomsen was making his home in New Orleans when he passed away. Burial was in St. Bernard Cemetery, Louisiana. ^ Lewis Raymond Scheuing, 51; Seafarer Scheuing died on February 8 in USPHS Hospi­ tal in Seattle, Washington. He joined the Un­ V, fc-v ion in the Port of New York in 1954 and sailed . / in the engine de­ partment. A native of Phila­ delphia, Brother Scheuing was making his home in Seattle when he passed away. Among his survivors is his wife, Midori. Burial was in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle. British May Cast Fathom Over the Side for Good LONDON—As part of its general change over to the metric system of weights and measures. Great Britain may soon give the fathom—the ancient nautical measure for six feet of water—the permanent deep six. In an announcement that must have made the Ancient Mariner of the famous poet turn over in his grave, the British government has asked Parliament to authorize the use of only metric units of measure aboard all British merchant and naval vessels. This request, a government spokesman said, is the first step towards sending the fathom to Davy Jones' Locker. John Horner, a former merchant seaman who is now a Labor member of Parliament, told a House of Commons committee that he received the news of the government's request "with a sorrowful heart." He asked sadly, "Are we bidding farewell to the fathom?" Other members of the British Parliament, considering the past glories of Britain's naval history, have expressed the feeling that it would be ironic and sad for Great Britain to be the first of the world's leading maritime nations to send the fathom overboard. The fathom was arrived at as a unit of measure for six feet of water because it represented the average span of a man's arms. Just Back From Europe 'ri c-ll.t y j Mike Doherty (right), who sails AB, goes over his overtime record with SIU Representative E. B. McAuley during payoff on the Transoregon (Seatrain), as Ship's Secretary Thad Deloach looks on. The Transoregon had just returned to Port Newark from a 24-day voyage to Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, and Southhampton. �Page lliiity SEAFARERS April, 1970 LOG What's New? DIRBCTCmiro UNION HAULS SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers These two graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship were both sailing wiper on the Newark (Sea-Land) when she pulled into Hoboken fc- drydock: Bob Rogers (left) attended HISS at Piney Point in April, 1969. Mario Roulhac graduated in December. Both plan to attend the HISS upgrading school to get FOWT endorsements. NtESIOENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRBIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shapard Llndiay Wllllami Al Tanner Robert Matthawi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS ITS 4th Ave., Iklyn. (212) HY f-llOO ALPENA, MICH 800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3111 BALTIMORE, Md 1211 E. ialtlmore St. (301) EA 7-4700 BOSTON, Mail Ill Atlantic Avenue (117) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Waihlnoton St. S1U (7141 TL 3-9257 IBU (711) TL 3-9259 CHICA60, III 9311 Ewing Ave. SlU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9S70 CLEVELAND, Ohio Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boycott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or "which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions involved, and will be amended from time to time.) 4> Stitzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fit7gerald,» "Old Elk" "Cabin StiU," W. L. WeUer Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) <|> Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) <I> Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Qay Workers) "HIS" hrand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) ^ Aflantic Products Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) 1420 W. 2Sth St. (211) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10221 W. Jeffenon Avo. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 2014 W. 3rd St. (210) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Boi 207 415 Main St. (ill) EL 7-2441 ^—- Gypsum Wallboard American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) HOUSTON. Tax JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala —— R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) NEW ORLEANS, La Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... May 12—^7:30 p.m. I MeetinK held at Galveston wharves, t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port Kewa. May 12—^7:30 p.m. May 13—7:30 p.m. May 15—7:30 p.m. May 15—7:30 p.m. May 15—^7:30 p.m. May 11—^7:30 p.m. May 11—^7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans. May 12—5:00 p.m. Mobile May 13—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia. May 5—^5:00p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans. May 12—7:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) . May 6—5:00 p.m. Mobile .... May 13—^7:00 p.m. May 7—5:00 p.m. New York .. May 4—7:00 p.m. Norfolk Philadelphia. May 5—^7:00p.m. Houston ... May 11—5:00 p.m. Baltimore .. May 6—^7:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region ^Houston .. May 11—^7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Great Lakes SIU Meetings May 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Detroit May 4—2:00 p.m. Baltimore May 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Alpena May 4—^7:00 p.m. •Norfolk Buffalo . May 4—^7:00 p.m. May 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. May 4—7:30 p.m. Chicago . May 4—^7:00 p.m. Jersey City Duluth .. May 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. May 4—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort 115 3rd'St. (703) 422-1492 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3BIB • PORT ARTHUR, To 1340 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., IS3I Million St. (415). 424-6793 1311 Fernandex Juncot Stop 20 724-2040 SEATTLE, Wash 250S FInt Avanuo (204) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravoli Avenue (314) 752-4500 TAMPA, Fla Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Work­ ers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas) tSault St. Marie Buffalo ... Duluth ... Cleveland . Toledo ... Detroit ... Milwaukee . 430 Jackion Avo. (504) 529-7544 NORFOLK, Va SANTURCE, P.R Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers) 5004 Canal St. (713) WA B-3207 2400 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-09B7 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE S-9424 I South Lawranco St. (205) HE 2-1754 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans. May 12—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... May 13—2:30 p.m. Wilmington . May 18—2:00 p.m. San Fran. .. May 20—2:00 p.m. May 22—2:00 p.m. Seattle New York .. May 4—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia. May 5—^2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. May 6—2:30 p.m. Detroit .... May 4—2:30 p.m. Houston ... May 11—^2:30 p.m. TOLEDO, Ohio 312 Harrlion St. (013) 229-2788 93S Summit St. f4l9) 248-349! WILMINGTON, Calif., 4S0 Seaiide Ave. Terminal liland, Calif. (213) 832-728S ANYTIME-ANYWHSRE ^ MEANS NO MORE SHIP! YOKOHAMA, Japan..Iieya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives ond their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records ore available at the head­ quarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available- in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is; Earl Shepord, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Beard 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to ore available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of oil SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY-SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in on editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this fbsponsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies ore to be paid to anyone in any ofBcial capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for some. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to moke a payment and is given on official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to moke such- payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS: The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies ore available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution sp as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits hove always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they ore encouraged to take on active role in oil rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has roffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the' waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights ore clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, notional or geographic origin. If any member feels that he Is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD ore entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above right* have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitution! right of access to Union records or information, he should Immediateiy notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. �Page Thirty One rjlHE TRANSnVDIANA (Seatrain) returned to Port Newark recently after making a nearly two month vpyage to ports in Europe with a mixed cargo carried in containers. When she arrived state-side, she was met by SIU representatives who assisted at the pay-off. , A K -V Seafarer yValter Sauvan, who sails as wiper aboard the.Transindiana, takes time out now that the ship is in port to read the latest issue of the LOG. Brother Sauvan found the trip to be an enjoyable one. M SIU Vice President Earl Shepard (seated, left) and SIU Patrolman Luigi lovino (seated, right) discuss union matters with Seafarer Nick Kondylas, steward on the Transindiana, and other members of the crew. Among the matters discussed were the provisions of the new SIU Constitution. I. <" « i iI •\ 1 '> i Seafarer Eric Joseph, who sails as officers' BR, spends time at the end of voyage looking over his scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Brother Joseph has collected a wide variety of clippings which cover not only important events in his own life but also those events of importance in the history of the SIU. A hot cup of coffee on a cold day always hits the spot, and John Hester (right) of the steward department, pours out a piping cup of the fine brew for Harold Holderfield, who sails as an OS. The Transindiana's steward department, as always, received g "job well done" at the end of voyage. U:' fV 1/ ,A |i!3 > • •• i.- Wide-angle photo of the Transindiana shows the vessel making final maneuver into her dock. 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Title A name given to the resource April 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: CONFERENCE SEEKS RELIEF FOR NONCONTIGUOUS AREA REP BLATNIK SEES HOPE FOR LAKES HALL TELLS CONFERENCE SHIP AMERICAN PROGRAM NEEDED FOR SUCCESS EXPORTS CARRIED BY FOREIGN SHIPS COST AMERICAN JOBS: KIRKLAND CONGRESSMEN WANT, READ LETTERS FORM CONSTITUENTS MAINE DEVELOPING SEA FARMS TO INCREASE FISHING HARVEST POLAND BUILDING UP MERCHANT FLEET WITH BOOST FROM SOVIET UNION SEAFARER ROTTARIS DOWN ON THE FARM AFTER 35 REWARDING YEARS AT SEA LABOR UNIONS PAVED WAY IN EQUAL RIGHTS FIGHT PRESIDENT JACKSON CREW RESCUES 7 FROM STORM BATTERED SCHOONER REP LEGGET URGES EXTENSION OF SHIP CONSTRUCTION DIFFERENTIALS SEAMAN’S LOVE LETTERS TRANSLATED BY GREAT OLD LADY IN YOKOHAMA HOME FROM EUROPE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 04/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 4 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/72c003f9d7262a91a88949653f8d25e1.PDF 55e0f4f70a3873c41515f399beeab8b7 PDF Text Text SEAFARERScLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico Cost of Living Studied i: See Page 3 1 I •i. . I f'-fri*' • ,^1' !• Congrossmon Examine Maritime issues See Page 4 Sailing Along With The Pilgrims See Pages 8 & § kii» * 5 Days Before the Mast for Trainees �.1 Noncontiguous Trade Role Explained on Mutual Radio Washington The purpose of reserving trans­ portation rights between coast­ wise ports of the continental United States and the noncon- SEAFARERS^^OG May, 1970 • Vol. XXXn, No. 5 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic. GiUf, L<akes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hall, President Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Shepard Elarl Exec. Vice-Prea. Vice-President A1 KenSec.-Treos. A1 Tanner Vice-President Lindsey Williams Vice-President Robert Matthews Vice-President Published monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, Atlantic, Guif, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFLCIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6800. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington, D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union. Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. tiguous state and island territories for American-flag ships is to en­ courage transportation between the states, and to insure the national security, O. William Moody, administrator of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment has said. Moody, together with Bertram Gottlieb, research director for the Transportation Institute, appeared on the Mutual network radio interview program Labor News Conference to answer questions about the recently-held confer­ ence on the noncontiguous trade, sponsored jointly by the MTD and the Institute (see story on page 3). "If American-flag ships were not able to serve these (noncon­ tiguous) ports, it would be to the detriment of the national security of this country," Moody said. Answering the charge that for­ eign-flag shipping is always cheap­ er and that "higher American-flag rates" contribute to the high cost of living in Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico, Gottielb said it "is just not true." "In international waterborne commerce most rates are con­ trolled by what are called 'confer­ ence rates' and the rates are the same whether it be an American vessel or a foreign vessel," Got­ tlieb said. Outlining some of the conclu­ sions arrived at during the con­ ference, Moody said: "First of all, there seemed to be consensus among all concerned that no useful purpose would be served in weakening the provi­ sions of the Jones Act to permit foreigners to operate on these trade routes. "In the case of Alaska, recom­ mendations were made that ship construction differential subsidies and operating differential subsi­ dies be extended to the steamship operators in an effort to lower rates. Similar recommendations were made on behalf of Hawaii and Puerto Rico." Gottlieb pointed out that the concept of using taxpayer dollars in the form of subsidies for transportation systems in the United States is not new. He said: "We use tax money to build highways. We use tax money to provide rights-of-way for rail­ roads. Our nation's air transpor­ tation networks are heavily sub­ sidized. A segment of the ship­ ping industry—one segment—^has been heavily subsidized for many years." Gottlieb also noted that the concept of the Jones Act is not unique to the United States. "Every major maritime country in the world that has a coastline of any significance protects its own merchant marine by restrict­ ing commerce in its domestic trade to its own shipping." • J Reporters Neil Gilbride of the Associated Press ffeft) and Fkank Swoboda (right) Business Week interviewed Bertram Gottlieb, re­ search director for the Transportation Institute (second left) and O. William Moody, administrator of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment, on the network radio program Labor News Conference. '<1 Kelp Seasons Japanese Food, Foreign Relafions The Japanese consider seaweed such a delicacy that in recent years they have fought Russian patrol boats on the seas for it and built a man-made island in the ocean from which to harvest it. Japanese taste for seaweed dates back more than a score of centuries to a time when the in­ habitants of the isolated islands of Japan relied heavily on the ocean for food. Today, Japanese cooks season many dishes with kombu, a form of seaweed which is eaten both cooked and raw. Before World War II, the Jap­ anese harvested tons of seaweed from the Habomai Islands, tiny specks in the Pacific Ocean. However, these islands, along with many others were taken from the Japanese by the Rus­ sians after World War II, and never returned. Since then, Soviet patrol craft have arrested more than 10,000 Japanese fishermen and detained 1,200 fishing boats for entering the waters off these islands. Some of these encounters have resulted in violence and prompted minor international incidents. THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT 'Jobs Are rpHOUSANDs OF Seafarers have a direct stake in a two-day conference held in Washington, D.C., to study the effects of American-flag shipping on the economies of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam. Jobs are involved. As consumers, SIU members know how cost-ofliving increases can eat deeply into paychecks. The situation is no different in these noncontiguous areas. Hawaii and Alaska are the two most expensive states in the nation in which to live. Because these areas rely almost completely upon cargo carried in ships for their existence, some people have blamed shipping costs for the increases in prices. American law requirers that all shipping between U.S. ports must be conducted by American-flag bot­ toms, and rightly so. But because of this, people tend to blame our industry for all of the problems that exist. Yet there are few facts to back up the idea that American-flag shipping is causing the increases in living costs in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam —known as the noncontiguous areas. h- ! '^HREE THINGS, howcver, are quite clear. The cost of living in the noncontiguous areas has grown at a faster rate than it has on thb mainland. These islands and Alaska must have American-flag shipping to sur­ vive. Our industry is being accused of creating the higher costs of living. For these reasons, the Seafarers International Un­ ion took an active part in the conference, which was cosponsored by the AFL-OO Maritime Trades De­ partment and the Transportation Institute. Leaders from Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam, oflSeials from the federal government, and men from the industry and the unions that represent its employees all gathered to exchange ideas and come up with possible answers. This was the first time that unions, industry and government had gathered together for the common purpose of helping each other. The issue is a serious one for Seafarers. There are those who would weaken the law that says all shipping to and from these areas to other U.S. ports must be carried in American bottoms. Any weakening of this^ law, known as the Jones Act, would cost us jobs. If foreign vessels are allowed to take part in this trade, it would be at the expense of our American-flag ships. Three panels were formed during the conference to discuss the particular problems of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico-Guam. Each of these panels made recommendations. All three were opposed to any weakening of the Jones Act. But each of them ealled for economic help for shippers doing business on the noncontiguous routes. They wanted two things in particular: 1—Construction subsidies from the federal govern­ ment to help pay the cost of building cargo vessels. 2—^A tax deferment plan that would allow shipping companies to hold back for ship construction some profits that would otherwise be used for taxes. OF THESE construction aides are now pro­ BOTH vided by the federal government to a handful of American-flag firms doing business in the foreign trade. Under the Nixon Administration's 1970 mari­ time proposal, these subsidies will be extended to all U.S.-flag companies plying the foreign routes. The question of the need for such action—and the development of such a program, if the need is proved —^will be the subject of an intensive study now under­ way under the auspices of the MTD and the Trans­ portation Institute. Important as these problems are, they are but one aspect of our marine world. We all have a vested interest in expanding and adding muscle to its many other parts—^frorti oceanography to inland watwways, from fishing to port facilities. The maritime industry is not just shipping, or ship­ building, or exploring, or fishing. It is all of these things and much more. CHAIRMAN of the Conference, I reminded the Asaudience that one of the major weaknesess of the maritime industry has been the dogged independence —which often has erupted into bitter disputes— among its various segments. This attitude has hurt the entire American merchant marine, including Sea­ farers and workers in every one of those independent units. Nearly three years ago the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department started an educational program targeted at bringing the knowledge and the needs of all parts of our industry to the Congress. The MTD, week after week, has conducted luncheons at which Congressmen, union and industry representatives have exchanged both information and views. These luncheons, together with MTD studies, reports and other educational activities, have vastly expanded the nation's interest in maritime subjects. (See story on page 4.) They have also helped to create a base of power that finally appears to be winning the battle against neglect that has bled our merchant marine of its vitality for the past 25 years. This program of educa­ tion, I am convinced, has been a major contributor to the bipartisan support that is now evident in Congress for the Administration's 1970 maritime proposal that would triple our ship construction rate during the next ten years. 1 > 'I (I THIS foundation of power-through-knowledge ITthatIS can bring to the shipping industry and to the noncontiguous areas the help required to solve the problems involved in oceanbome transportation to the islands and Alaska. But even as we accinnplish this, our job will be just beginning. We must develop a total program that will bring progress to every part of the marine trans­ port world. And we must do this in cooperation with all parts ot the industry—other unions, management and government. Once this is done, we must move from program to action. There is no goal that we cannot reach if we work together. And with each success will come more jobs that will command good pay and just working condi­ tions. We in the SIU have an obligation to do our part. Every Seafarer has a piece of the action when it comes to the future of our trade. Seafarers Log ^0 �t ' K.' Effect of Shipping Costs Under Study Alaskai Hawaii, Puerto Rico Represented at MTD Session Washington A study of the effect of shipping costs on the cost of fiving in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico has begun as the result of a two-day conference here sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and the Trans­ portation Ipstitute, an industry-supported maritime re­ 1: I'' I 1 1 • ^ 't search organization. The conference drew 425 participants from the federal government, labor and indus­ try, as well as representatives from the three noncontiguous areas. Another conference will be convened to develop recom­ mendations upon completion of the study, said Conference Chairman Paul Hall. Hall, president of MTD and the SIU, noted that representa­ tives of the noncontiguous areas had told both labor and management that "we don't want to hurt you, but you must help us." 'Serious Obligation' Because of this, he said: "We have a serious obligation to help—an obligation that we in­ tend to meet." (See President's Report on page 2.) During panel discussions concerning the economic prob­ lems of noncontiguous states and territories, it was noted that those problems stemmed primarily from transportation needs. Reports from the panels called for aid to American ship­ pers, and stressed that the Jones Act, which limits domes­ tic shipping to American-flag vessels, must be protected to maintain a strong U.S. mer­ chant fleet. Officials from Alaska, Ha­ waii and Puerto Rico repeated­ ly told the conference that a weakening of the Jones Act could make noncontiguous areas dependent upon foreignflag shippers. Specific suggestions from speakers included a construc­ tion differential subsidy for do­ mestic trade vessels constructed in U.S. shipyards and a tax de­ ferment to allow American shippers to set aside funds for construction of new ships. 'Help Majority' In opening the conference. Hall had called for the partici­ pants to search for a "common denominator approach" to solv­ ing the problems, "one which will not please everyone, but one that will help a majority of those involved." The suggestion that further study of the impact of freight rates on consumer prices was necessary before a program could be developed to help the noncontiguous areas came first from Mrs. Helen D. Bentley, chairman of the Federal Mari­ time Commission. She told a luncheon that the FMC does not believe "utiliza­ tion of foreign-flag vessels would relieve high rates" to noncontiguous areas. She also said that construction differen­ tial subsidies might not solve the problem. Citing an FMC staff investi­ gation of the impact of Ha­ waiian rates on consumer prices, Mrs. Bentley said ocean freight rates were not a major factor in the pricing of surveyed items. The size of the market for certain goods often seemed to cause higher prices, she said the report indicated. Time for Answer But noting population in­ creases in the noncontiguous The conference on noncontiguous trade, sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department (MTD) and the Transportation Institute, was attended by representatives of government, labor and industry. The rostrum of speakers for the first session included from left: Representative Patsy T. Mink (D-Hawaii); Peter M. McGavin, MTD executive secretary-treasurer; Edwin M, Hood, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America; Representative Thomas M. Pelly (R-Wash.); Herbert Brand, Transportation Institute administrator (hidden by rostrum); Michael McEvoy, president of Sea-Land Service Inc. (speaking); Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers International Union of North America and MTD president, and O. William Moody, MTD administrator. areas and rapid industrializa­ Puerto Rico, McEvoy said, has tion, she stated: "The hour is risen 45 percent since 1958. rapidly approaching for an This rise could not be attribu­ answer to be found." ted to transportation costs, he added, which have declined by Other speakers on the first12 percent during the same day program included Gov­ period. 1 ernor John A. Burns of Hawaii; 'i Edwin M. Hood, president of r 'First Step' the Shipbuilders Council of Senator Stevens said previ­ America; Senator Theodore F. ous discussion of the problems Stevens of Alaska; Representa­ has "generated a great deal of tive Thomas M. Pelly of Wash­ rhetoric, but very little action. ington; Jorge L. Cordova, resi­ This conference," he con­ dent commissioner of the Com­ tinued, "represents that long li ' ^ monwealth of Puerto Rico, and overdue first step toward real Michael McEvoy, president of action. Sea-Land Service Inc. "Unless we are willing to be McEvoy said that all partic­ frank in expressing what our ipants in the conference had real interests are, what each of one goal in mind—"better us must retain, and what each • J service, lower cost and a better of us is willing to sacrifice so future for everybody." that the rest can be retained He pointed to Puerto Rico ... we can expect to see in­ !« ' •. as an example of what happens creasing quantities of goods and when good transportation is resources transported on for­ placed at the disposal of an eign-built ships, manned by for­ >' economy. The cost of living in eign crews, taking our resources to foreign countries "and bring­ ing back foreign-made manu­ factured goods. While all of us lose." Washington The Alaska Republican was Participants at the "Confer­ one of the few conference ence on Noncontiguous Trade" speakers to recommend selec­ sponsored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ tive use of foreign-built, but time Trades Department and the Transportation Institute were U.S.-manned, ships in trade be­ unanimous in praising the spon­ tween noncontiguous areas and sors for bringing together the the mainland. He also suggest­ diverse groups concerned with ed construction differential and transportation in the noncon­ operating subsidies for ships in tiguous trade. that trade. But the real importance of the Rep. Pelly, noting that his conference to the states of district (Seattle) is the principal Hawaii and Alaska and the Com­ port of shipment for goods to monwealth of Puerto Rico was Alaska, predicted "that in 1970 brought home to those in at­ tendance by Governor John A. we will, in fact, see effective legislation to deal not only with Burns of Hawaii. He said the conference was so the problems of our foreign "vital" to his state that the Leg­ trade, but our domestic trades islature recessed so that nine also." representatives could attend the Use of foreign-flag ships in Washington sessions with him. domestic U.S. trade "could very David C. McClung, president of the Hawaii State Senate, came quickly drive our American to Washington with the gov- ships from these trades," the Discussing Hawaii's problems concerning waterborne commerce are, ernoi and chaired the Hawaii congressman said. He labeled from left: Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii; Morris Weisberger, panel. Tadao Beppu, speaker of "totally senseless" a proposal vice president of the SIU and secretary of the Sailors Union of the- Hawaii's House of Representa­ to open up noncontiguous trade Pacific, and James Dooley, Portland, Ore., port agent for the SUP. tives, also attended. to foreign shippers and then f ff •, }•' 1^;: r• Legislature Recesses for MTD Meet May 1970 grant U.S. carriers operating subsidies. The economies of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico would not benefit from repeal of the Jones Act, he said. Repeal No Help "There is little mood in Con­ gress to tamper with the basic concept that our domestic trades must be served exclusively by American-flag ships," the Se­ attle Republican declared. Burns said that the primary needs of the islands were in­ creased ships and adequate, continuous and competitive services. "Carriers should not be allowed to concentrate sole­ ly on high profit aspects of Ha­ waiian trade," he commented. Hawaii hopes to develop its potential as a trans-shipment center for Pacific trade, the gov­ ernor said, but needs changes in current regulations for that development. Emphatically, the Hawaiian governor said his state shared the concern of other conference participants that "the integrity of the Jones Act" must be maintained. Commissioner Cordova out­ lined the problems of Puerto Rico, noting its rapid industri­ alization and need for better transportation to take finished goods to mainland markets. 'Limiting Factor' He said that present policies constitute "a limiting factor on the possibilities of further de­ velopment" in the common­ wealth. Hood, speaking as head of the Shipbuilding Council asked for "equality" without "turn­ ing everything upside down." "The shipping problems of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico," he said, "surely should not be solved to the detriment of American shipyard crafts­ men or skilled workers in the many American industries that support our shipbuilding facil­ ities." Page 3 �<- Congress Weighing Maritime Policy Congressman Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska) says: "There is another reason to protect the American-flag fleet. We must not place ourselves in a position where we are dependent upon foreign-flag shipping for domestic cargo. Past history has shown that those who become dependent upon others for transportation can pay a terrible price for that dependency." • Congressman James J. Howard (D-NJ.) says: "A ship without cargo is an awful lot of steel. And products without ships might just as well never have been made . . . The government must be committed in terms of its own cargo to 'Shipping American' if it ever hopes to encourage industry to do the same. In short, we must put up or shut up." «• Congressman James M. Hanley (D-N.Y.) says: r I "Inland waterway transportation by barge is a bargain when compared to any other mode of transportation . . . We know the value of our inland waterways. They are a benefit to the economy. And they should be protected and promoted— not hindered by . . . the 'no mixing' law and the proposed 'user charges.' )y J » t •' ii « Washington Problems of the American maritime industry re­ main squarely before Congress and congressmen con­ tinually address themselves to various facets of the industry which they are concerned about. One forum for discussion of maritime problems and legislation is a weekly luncheon sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Departmeftt. The SIU is a member of MTD, and SIU President Paul Hall also serves as president of MTD. During recent luncheons attended by representa­ tives of 42 AFL-CIO unions affiliated with the 7.5 million member MTD, three members of the House of Representatives discussed these different problems of the maritime industry: ;/ • President Nixon's proposed "user charges" for inland barge traffic and a "no mixing" law on the books since 1939. • The need for the federal government to be com­ mitted to shipping its cargo in American-flag vessels. • Possible expansion of the Administration's mari­ time proposal to include aid to American ships now engaged in trade with the noncontiguous areas of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. [Vaferways Threafened Administration-proposed "user charges" on com­ merce carried on inland waterways should be rejected by the Congress and a 1939 law which could limit barge traffic must be repealed by Congress, Repre­ sentative James M. Hanley (D-N.Y.) told his audi­ ence. The user charge would be in the form of a tax on fuel used by tugboats and towboats. It would be twocents-a-gallon now increasing to ten cents by the mid 1970s. The President called the new tax a means of combating inflation when he made the proposal, but that claim was disputed by Hanley: "It makes little sense to me that higher shipping charges would combat inflation if my definition of in­ flation—rising prices and reduced buying power—is correct." He pointed out that the tax would, in effect, "sub­ vert the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 . . . that established a national policy for the maximum development of toll-free waterways." Much of the cargo carried on the inland waterway system are bulk commodities, such as coal, ores and petroleum products, the Syracuse Democrat said. The new tax could increase the price of coal by an estimated 60 percent, he added, which would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher bills for electricity and increased prices for manufactured goods. "I believe it is proper to describe this as an inflationary cycle," he stated, "Back in 1939, when the inland waterway system was still being developed. Congress passed legislation that is coming back to haunt us in 1970. At that time, when tugboats and towboats could handle only six to eight barges in a single tow, legislation called the 'no-mixing' bill was passed. The intent of the law was to set some reasonable limits on the number of different commodities which could be carried aboard the same vessel." The definition of "vessel" in the legislation grouped all barges in a tow instead of classifying each barge separately. But technology has developed to the point where towboats have the power to handle strings of up to 48 fully-laden barges. Hanley pointed out this could mean as much as 80,000 tons of cargo—"the equivalent of about 3,200 loaded trailer trucks." The ICC agreed to postpone enforcement of the act until June 30 at the urging of Congress. In the remaining time, the congressman said, "there is an urgent need to amend this unworkable legislation . . . The wording of the old law must be changed so the barging industry will not be penalized for its tech­ nological progress." He concluded: "We know the value of our inland waterways. They are a benefit to the economy. And they should be protected and promoted—not hin­ dered by such measures as the 'no-mixing' law and the proposed 'user charges.' More U.S. Cargo Urged Congressman James J. Howard (D-N.J.) criticized the government in his speech for its failure to ship a higher percentage of its cargo in American-flag bottoms. Noting that the Nixon Administration is committed to a program for the construction of 300 new U.S.flag ships for foreign trade and that the Maritime Administration plans a campaign to encourage Amer­ ican businesses to "Ship American," the congressman declared: "This is not enough. The government must be committed in terms of its own cargo to 'Shipping American' if it ever hopes to encourage industry to do the same. In short, we must put up or shut up." The New Jersey Democrat recalled that another member of Congress, Representative Joseph P. Addabbo (D-N.Y.), spoke recently to the MTD luncheon and called for the government to set a goal of 100 percent of its cargo in U.S.-flag ships. Howard added: "This is only right and just. If the government is going to keep a commitment to our merchant marine, it must keep that commitment down the line—in terms of cargo, in terms of our domestic fleet, in terms of the Great Lakes, or our inland waterways, or our shipbuilding industry." He predicted passage of the Administration's pro­ gram to bolster the merchant marine but questioned: "What we don't know is what kind of cargo is going to fill those ships when they start coming out of the shipyards?" He pointed out to the audience that there are laws which require that a minimum of half of the cargo of federal agencies be shipped in American-flag vessels. Howard continued, "Now, this is a 'law and order' administration. And as such, I think it incumbent on them to make sure these laws are obeyed, too ... No bureaucrat should decide for himself when the gov­ ernment is going to violate its own laws." The congressman offered a challenge to the rep­ *• 11 resentatives of unions present in his audience. He suggested that American labor should conduct a pub­ lic relations campaign to "convince government and industry that it is in their best interest and in the nation's best interest to 'Ship American.'" Conference Prahed "A rare and powerful combination" was forged by the recent conference on noncontiguous trade spon­ sored by MTD and the Transportation Institute, Rep­ resentative Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska) said in his speech. "When labor and industry join together with government to solve a common problem, there can be little doubt an answer will be found." The congressman, whose constituents will be vital­ ly affected by recommendations that will be forth­ coming from the conference, said the sessions "proved that (labor) could recognize a serious problem. More­ over, they are proving that such a problem can be licked by bringing together all of the parties and working diligently until a just and fair answer is found." (See story on the conference on page 3.) "Alaska is almost completely dependent upon waterborne commerce for her survival," Pollock told his audience, "(but) she has much to contribute in return." Enormous reserves of vital minerals as well as the huge oil resources on Alaska's North Slope will require ships to get to markets, he said. Pollock, who the day before his speech to MTD announced his candidacy for the Republican nomina­ tion for governor of Alaska, sziid that "construction subsidies should be granted to noncontiguous car­ riers" and "tax-deferred construction reserve funds should be extended to the noncontiguous trade." Noting that shipping between domestic ports must be carried in American-flag bottoms, under provi­ sions of the Jones Act, Pollock said: "I know that any change in the Jones Act can only be made after thorough study and deliberation, for the potential effect on the American merchant fleet—and the cur­ rent attempts to rejuvenate it—are of paramount importance." He acknowledged that "the American-flag fleet ex­ ists to a large extent only because of the protection afforded by the Jones Act." The U.S. fleet has been strained by the Vietnam War, he added, urging his audience to "consider what would happen should the United States face another emergency across any ocean." To this he added another reason to protect the U.S.-flag fleet: "We must not place ourselves in a position where we are dependent upon foreign-flag shipping for domestic cargo. Past history has shown that those who become dependent upon others for transportation can pay a terrible price for that dependency." As Alaska's only congressman and as a guberna­ torial hopeful. Pollock said he looked forward to working with MTD and the Transportation Institute in the study of the factors affecting waterborne com­ merce to his state. "I know an answer will be found," he said, "because an answer must be found." -* »• 1 •tJ I *.• * r �I• • J 4 Seafarers Earn Engineer Licenses > l{ [1/ U ' * r t li' I" ^ •> ij. •' 1 <" w\ I — 1 « «S c .< • / ' r t' ,- ,t $ \ r • f €• % Lasf of Sidewheelers San Francisco An epic 9,000 mile journey ended last month when a 56-year-old sidewheeler tug­ boat paddled under the Golden Gate to dock at her new home here. The restored tugboat, the Eppleton Hall, is thought to be the last of her kind. She com­ pleted a voyage from Newcastle, England, to a berth at the San Francisco Maritime Mu­ seum. During the six-month journey that took the 10-man crew to Africa, across the At­ lantic and through the Panama Canal at a top speed of 5 knots, the 105-foot tugboat was battered by three Atlantic storms. The vessel was discovered on a mudflat on the Tyne River by Scott Newhall, execu­ tive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and founding director of the Maritime Mu­ seum. She was burned out and scheduled, for destruction. Newhall bought the sidewheeler and re­ stored her at a cost of $150,000, including conversion of the original coal-burning en­ gines to diesel and replacement of woodwork. Nixon Plans Lakes Cleanup Washington Lake Huron, second largest of the Great Lakes, was the first to be discovered by the seventeenth century explorers. So impressed were they at the freshness and beauty of this vast inland water­ way, they named it the "Sweet Sea." Today, enormous sections of the Great Lakes—including vir­ tually all of Lake Erie—is heav­ ily contaminated with industrial pollutants. Commercial fishing is restricted in some areas of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, and has been completely halted in Lake Erie, once a major supplier of perch, sturgeon and whitefish. Some of the major rivers flow­ ing into the Lakes—the Chicago River, the Cuyahoga in Cleve­ land, and the Maumee in To­ ledo—have been labelled fire hazards because of heavy con­ centrations of industrial oil waste. Fishing Halted Fishing in the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair, below Port Huron, has been halted because of accidental spillage of mercury from a plant in Sarnia, Canada. In an effort to clean up the Lakes, President Nixon last month called upon Congress to take action on a White House bill which would stop the dump­ ing of polluted dredge waste into the Great Lakes. The bill would concentrate on some 35 harbors around the Lakes, setting up "containment areas" for the dumping of dredge wastes. The cost would run about May 1970 $70 million, to be divided be­ tween federal, state and local governments. Interim Method President Nixon said that the containment area plan repre­ sented an interim method for waste disposal, until other ways are found to take care of the problem. The President also served notice that he plans to deal with the broader problem of dumping in the oceans. The White House proposal to control Lakes pollution would: • "Discontinue disposal of pol­ luted dredge materials into the Great Lakes by the Corps of Engineers and private interests as soon as land disposal sites are available. • "Require the disposal of pol­ luted dredge spoil in containment areas located at sites established by the Corps of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. • "Require states and other non­ federal interests to provide onehalf the cost of constructing con­ tainment areas and also provide needed lands and other rights. • "Require the Secretary of the Army, after one year, to suspend dredging if local interests were not making reasonable progress in attaining disposal sites. • "Direct the Secretary of the Army to make periodic reports of progress under this program to the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality." "This bill represents a major step forward in cleaning up the Great Lakes," the President said. "On the other hand, it under­ lines the- need to begin the task of dealing with the broader prob­ lem of dumping in the ocean." About 48 million tons of dredg­ ing, sludge and other materials are annually dumped off the coastlines of the United States. Four more Seafarers have re­ ceived their Coast Guard licenses after graduation from the School of Marine Engineering, co-spon­ sored by the SIU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association —District 2. They bring the total number of Seafarers to receive their li­ censes after completing the com­ prehensive training program to 376. Arthur Rathjens Jerrold Frazer Arthur John Rathjens, 30, graduated and received a Tem­ porary Third Assistant Engineer's license on March 9. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1967 and sailed as an oiler, brother Rathjens and the en­ tire engine department of the Buckeye Atlantic were commend­ ed in 1969 for handling an emer­ gency at sea. A veteran of the Marines, he is living in Milford, Conn. Robert Reynolds Robert Blair Jerrold Hubert Frazer, 30, re­ ceived a Temporary Third Assist­ ant Engineer's license from the Coast Guard after his graduation on March 10. Seafarer Frazer sailed as a fireman-oiler-watertender since joining the SIU in 1967 at the Port of San Fran­ cisco. He lives in his native state of California. He served in the Navy from 1957 to 1960. Rohert Forrest Reynolds, 48, graduated on March 10 with a Third Assistant Engineer's li­ cense. He joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile in 1968 and sailed as an oiler before entering the School of Marine Engineering. He lives in his native state of Alabama. Robert Charles Blair, 37, sailed as a qualified member of the engine department before en­ tering the school. He graduated on March 25 with a Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's li­ cense. Brother Blair joined the SIU in the Port of Seattle in 1963. He is a Philadelphia na­ tive now living in Seattle. He served in the Navy from 1950 to 1952. Bill Sets Reef Fafe For Liberfy SA/ps Washington What do you do with the old "Liberty Ships" that are sched­ uled to be scrapped? Representative George Bush (R-Tex.) has an idea. He re­ cently introduced a bill that would allow the Maritime Ad­ ministration to use the ships as "fish havens." The obsolete vessels in the re­ serve fleet would be sunk and used as "offshore artificial reefs." Obsolete ships aren't the only things which could be used to create artificial reefs. The New Bedford, Mass., Standard-Times recently editorialized that an In­ terior Department plan to use junk cars for the same purpose would use "waste . . . for a con­ structive purpose that promotes rather than pollutes." But for the old Liberty Ships, such a use would return the ves­ sels to the seas in the tradition of seafarers. Rescue Downed Pilots SIU Men Receive Heroism Medal Seattle Three SIU members, who risked their lives by jumping into heavy seas to rescue two downed Air Force pilots, have been awarded the Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medal here. The Seafarers, sailing aboard the Anniston Victory, jumped into icy seas with safety lines to help the exhausted airmen aboard ship. The rescue occurred on Feb. 26, 1968. Medals were presented by Maritime Administration repre­ sentative Frank I. Huxtable to ordinary seamen James B. Har­ rington and Theodore Zieser and ablebodied seaman Morgan L. Jones in the Seattle Union Hall. The citation read, in part: "Gale conditions, with waves of 20 to 30 feet, made launching of a lifeboat too risky. . . . The outstanding courage and deter­ mination shown by the three sea­ men in successfully effecting the rescue of the downed pilots un­ der extremely hazardous condi­ tions merit great praise, and are in keeping with the highest tra­ ditions of the United States Mer­ chant Marine." Seafarer James B. Harrington (right) one of three SIU members honored for jumping overboard into heavy seas to rescue two downed Air Force pilots, receives his commendation in the Seattle nnion hall from Maritime Administration representative Frank I. Hnxtable. Harrington is wearing the Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medid. Page 5 �Right Wing Proiect After Federal Help Washington A proposed federal road proj­ ect in Arkansas is exclusively for the benefit of a far right antiSemitic religious tourist attrac­ tion sponsored by Gerald L. K. Smith, five Philadelphia Con­ gressmen charged in a letter to Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe. The five Congressmen said: "Use of federal funds for this project will make the federal government a partner in the promotion of hate mongering and anti-Semitism." The letter charged that the road upgrading project would exclusively serve a tourist attrac­ tion at Eureka Springs, featuring a seven-story statue, "Christ of the Ozarks," and adjoining facil­ ities for a passion play operated by the Elna M. Smith Founda­ tion. The Congressmen said the foundation is a front organiza­ tion for Smith, a long-time spon­ sor of causes that are blatantly anti-Semitic. The foundation is named for his wife. The letter said Smith's "career as a merchant of venom need not be elaborated on by us." It was signed by Reps. William A. Barrett, Robert N. C. Nix, James A. Byrne, Joshua Eilberg and William J. Green. They objected to the $227,000 paving project on two grounds— constitutionality and require­ ments for federal funding of such projects. Alluding to the religious con­ tent of the shrine, the Congress­ men contended that "serious con­ stitutional questions are raised by the nature of the tourist attrac­ tion the road will serve." They referred to a report by the National Jewish Community Relations Council which calls the play an "anti-Semitic tract, the whole theme of which is that Jews are guilty of Deicide." The letter continued: "Centuries of prejudice, hate and blood­ letting have flowed from that loathsome cant and it is hardly the appropriate business of the United States government to as­ sist its continued propagation. "The funding formula appears to violate the mandate of the Federal Aid Secondary Road Program, in that it clearly ignores the 50 percent federal, 50 percent matching fund requirement," they wrote. Under the proposal, the Bu­ reau of Public Roads of DOT has tentatively agreed to provide half the funds, about $113,750. Another 30 percent of the monies, about $68,250, are to come from the Ozarks Regional Commission which is funded by the Economic Development Ad­ ministration of the Department of Commerce. < ^ 'i 5 T* ' t t. ' Transindiana Farewell Boston New York Philadelphia ...... Baltimore Norfolk .....H........4 Jacksonville ........ Tampa ................. Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals i.... ? With some of the crew signing off the Transindiana (Seatrain) after a recent 31-day voyage to North Europe, these shipmates got together at payoff for a farewell photo. From left, they are: R. Manaiza, messman; Ralph Trotman, baker; K. B. Samat, ablebodied seaman; R. J. Burton, hosun, and James McDevitt, ordinary seaman. The ship was tied up at Seatrain's new terminal in Weehawken, NJ. Charles E. James has become the 62nd Seafarer to obtain a license from the Deck Officer's School jointly sponsored by the SIU and the Associated Mari­ time Officers Union. TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups An Groups Class A ClassB Oass A ClassB ClassC 5 6 7 9 2 81 200 143 72 11 10 27 2 0 22 38 23 109 39 13 28 34 20 3 24 35 22 25 44 19 • 0 4 0 14 83 49 19 0 12 73 83 121 83 4 64 153 119 98 14 16 52 59 52 31 96 38 103 23 91 16 39 26 49 37 973 625 117 540 544 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Port TOTAL REGISTERED REGISTERED ON BE TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups An Groups All Groups " Class A Class B Class A ClassB Class C . Class A ClassB Boston .4 4 6 4 2 4 2 New York 100 122 74 149 87 24 136 Philadelphia 9 13 7 29 0 15 5 Baltimore 49 32 33 69 57 27 3 Norfolk 8 32 35 10 31 7 14 Jacksonville 16 45 17 39 18 • 44 4 Tampa 3 13 11 0 0 1 Mobile 28 43 20 23 • 56 71 New Orleans ....... 71 . 74 7 92 51 72 89 97 Houston 137 75 70 104: 142 10 Wilmington 26 50 36 10 20 16 21 San Francisco ..... 68 98 70 46 78 36 45 Seattle ................... 35 38 26 31 32 35 11 Totals 514 699 410 709 502 137 611 After successfully completing the school's courses. Brother James received his Second Mate's License on March 26. A man who has been a dili­ gent member of the union. Sea­ farer James trained lifeboatman and able seaman in New York in 1969 before entering the school. He has also served the Union while out at sea by acting as Ship's Delegate. A native of Minden, La., Brother James joined the SIU in the Port of Houston in 1956. Served in Army He served in the Army from 1947 to 1955 and received the Korean Service Medal, the U.N. Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal. The school, which opened in February 1966, offers upgrading opportunities to young and old Seafarers alike. In short, to any V r STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups All Groups All Groups ; Port Class A ClassB Class A ClassB Class C Class A Class B 5 6 3 1 Boston .................. 5 6 5 1 s New York 73 50 . . 68 51 37 26 V 134 8 ' Philadelphia 9 , 8 16 5, 21 1 35 Baltimore 20 27 16 9 81 43 10 Norfolk 21 9 20 10 24 20 Jacksonville 17 . 15 • . 14 18 21 16 16 7 3 • Tampa , 1 4 0 11 2 33 hlobile .................. 37 20 . 12 74 17 0 82 New Orleans ........ 53 : 66 51 123 53 2 100 61 ' 56. Houston 47 ' 175 32 17 16 Wilmington 13 22 23 19 18 11' 68 70 29 : San Francisco ...... 66 74 : 62 38 35 • 29 36 ^ Seattle ..............i*.... 11 ::A 10 31 - '.^9. 363 483 , 385 781 . • 367 292 158 Page 6 I s'v-jW I 'J • »• 1 : *1 * it V II' SlU Member .Gets Mate's License Ariantic, Guif & Inland WoSers District APRiL 1,1970 to APRiL 30.1970 DiCK DEPARTMENT POTt 1 t DISPATCHERS REPORT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Class A ClassB 8 5 127 93 20 15 55 ' 37 21 23 29 33 5 11 38 20 75 84 111 129 38 54 81 110 46 35 654 649 .4 Charles E. James . . . Receives License Seafarer wanting to climb the seniority ladder. The first of its type in the in­ dustry, the school is run under a reciprocal agreement between the SIU and the Associated Mari­ time Officers Union. Upgrading Seafarers Seafarers wishing to partici­ pate in the program can begin training at any time. There is no set length for the course, but rather it is geared to the man's ability and knowledge, and the degree of his preparation for the examination. Like the engineer's upgrading school, the deck officer's train­ ing program was begun in line with the SIU's objective of en­ couraging and assisting unli­ censed Seafarers in upgrading themselves to better paying jobs. There is no expense involved for Seafarers. They are provided with meals, lodging and subsis­ tence payments of $110 a week while in the program. Deck department Seafarers who are interested in taking ad­ vantage of this training program may apply at any SIU hall; write directly to SIU headquarters at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232, or telephone the school at (212) 768-0561. ' Jl '•i i *' m |c > ^ « f • Hovercraft Plant Closed London Three major British manufac­ turers of hovercraft vessels have run into financial difficulties in efforts to develop a market for the unusual craft. More than 50 of the Britishdesigned vehicles have been built since the 1950's for military, in­ dustrial, and commercial pas­ senger service, but big orders have been slow to develop be­ cause of doubts on cost and per­ formance. The largest hovercraft being produced in England is the 165ton SRN-4. It is priced at about $3.6 million, and carries 250 passengers and 30 cars. Four of the craft are now in ferry serv­ ice crossing the English Channel. "jll • »J 'A * r "J '1 y A •V r. I Labor Supports Cancer Crusade Union members are being urged by AFL-CIO President George Meany to support the 1970 crusade of the American Cancer Society. He pointed out that the fight against cancer is vital because although 1.5 mil­ lion Americans have been cured of the disease, more than 100,000 cancer patients died last year who might have been saved by earlier diagnoses and better treat­ ment. Seafarers Log V Li •-'I % •1 I' �yy-•-••• Buying Power Goes Down Amid Spiraling Inflation Washington Workers' buying power con­ tinued to decline during March while the nation suffered under its highest rate of inflation in 20 years and employment con­ tinued to climb the Labor Depart­ ment has reported. Goods and services that cost $100 in 1958 have jumped in price to $133.20, according to the Consumer Price Index for March released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (ELS). In the language of statistics, ELS said that the cost-of-living rose 0.5 percent to 133.2 during March. This means that the same goods and services cost a total of 50 cents more than they did in February. The largest monthly increase in medical care services in 3Vi years (see story page 23) and sharp rises in mortgage interest rates for the second straight month led the price spiral. The March index was 6.1 per­ cent higher than that of March 1969, marking the third month during which it cost $6 more to buy the same commodities than it did 12 months before. Highest Since 1951 The average price index in­ creases for the first three months US, Jobless Rolls Continue to Climb N of 1970, averaging over 6 per­ cent, are the highest since the Korean War year of 1951, when the index rose 8 percent. Last year's rise was a comparatively modest 5.4 percent over 1968. Gross average weekly earnings of production and non-supervi­ sory workers were $117.55 in March, a rise of 68 cents from the previous month and $5.88 over the year. However, this seeming gain in buying power—when adjusted for price increases—shows that real earnings were down 66 cents a week from March 1969. Earnings Up Spendable earnings—average weekly pay after social security and federal income tax deduc­ tions—rose by 53 cents in March to $103.10 for the worker with three dependents. This was a 5.5 percent rise over the last 12 months. The ELS index showed that take home pay expressed in 1958 dollars to reflect price changes— called real spendable earnings— was $77.40 for the worker with three dependents. In other words, what would have cost $77.40 in 1958, cost $100 in March 1970. Home mortgage interest rates accounted for 28 percent of the CPl increase. Other services as­ sociated with housing—property taxes, repair services, telephone, water and sewage services—also went up. The cost of medical services rose a full 1 percent during the month. About 44,000 workers covered by cost-of-living wage clauses will receive raises ranging from 2 to 9 cents an hour. Washington of 1 percent since February. This Unemployment continued to is a total rise of more than 1 skyrocket during the month of percent in the past year. • Unemployment among white March to a point where 44 out of every 1,000 potential workers workers rose from 3.8 to 4.1 per­ —4.4 percent of the labor force cent in the last month. Negro un­ —were out of work, according employment rose one-tenth of a to the Bureau of Labor Statistics percent to 7.1 percent. (ELS). • The jobless rate for white This is the highest percentage collar workers went from 2.3 to of unemployed in AVi years, with 2.7 percent, while blue collar un­ a total of 3.7 million workers, employed edged from 5 to 5.2 percent. Both rates have risen by unable to find work. Labor Department figures show more than five-tenths of I per­ unemployment rose 0.9 percent cent since the beginning of 1970. during the first three months of • There are 692,000 persons 1970, adding nine workers per unemployed for 15 weeks or 1,000 to the jobless rolls—the longer, the highest number in the largest quarterly increase since past four years. 1960. • Unemployment in manu­ The AFL-CIO appealed for an facturing (4.7 percent) and con­ "immediate change in national struction (8.1 percent) were un­ economic policy" to halt unem­ changed for the month. ployment coupled with similtaneous inflation. Labor called on Congress to enact a public jobs program to reverse this trend. Employment Rises Harold Goldstein, assistant commissioner of ELS, said a substantial rise in the labor force in March caused an increase in the unemployment rate even though total employment rose moderately. He commented: "It's difficult NGENUITY OF AMERICAN Seafarers to understand why the labor force came through when the power plant is increasing when jobs are hard­ of the Steel Admiral broke down six days er to get." Economists advanced several out of Hong Kong. The crew fashioned possibilities: an oil-drum stove so cooks could make 1—Women may be coming meals for an on-deck cookout while the into the labor force to find work ship was towed to Hong Kong for repairs. because of the rising cost of liv­ ing and as a hedge against the possibility their husbands will be laid off. 2—More men may be coming into the job market from the Armed Forces. The ELS figures revealed total unemployment rose by one mil­ lion since March 1969. A breakdown of the statistics show that the trend affects all segments of the population, for example: • The unemployment rate for adult women moved up from 4.1 to 4.5, percent during March. This is the highest mark in two years, a 1 percent rise since late last year. • March unemployment rate of 2.9 percent for adult men showed only a slight rise from February's statistics but was also a rise of 1 percent since late last year. • The teenage jobless rate of 13.9 percent was up five-tenths SlU at Mental Health Seminar SIU Chicago Port Agent Frank "Lottie" Aubusson (right) and Victor Bussie, president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO, look over the annual report of the Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago. Aubus­ son represented the SIU at a special seminar on the problems of the mentally ill held last month in Chicago. Fish Losing Fins, Tails, Lives to Foul Ocean Man's pollution of the Atlan­ tic Ocean is robbing fish of their fins and tails and may eventual­ ly kill off many species of ma­ rine life by destroying their abil­ ity to reproduce. This alarming fact came to light recently after the discov­ ery of fish in Atlantic waters off the coast of New Jersey whose fins and tails were eaten away by bacteria contained in sludge and pollutants similar to those dumped into the ocean reg­ ularly by coastal cities such as New York. John Clark, acting director of the Sandy Hook Marine Labora­ tory in New Jersey, said the de­ formities are or.ly one sign of the havoc caused in the under­ sea environment by the dumping of sewage sludge and other pol­ lutants. Pollution not only deforms and kills fish, said Clark, but it also can make fish infertile and unfit for human consumption. "It has been proven that men­ haden, a commercial fish used for fertilizer and oil. have DDT and detergent in their spawn and there is very little reproduction. The same applies to many other species of fish, such as fluke," said Leonard Nelson, president of the North Jersey Commercial Fishermen's Association. Dining Out I May 1970 Crew members jmy-i^ed this stove behind the house fw Steel Admiral's cooks. Kneel­ ing in front is carpentn- Nick Swokla. Others are (firmn left) W. Valiie, chief cook; Juan Rivera, baker; E. Tinsly, third cool^ J. Wheeler, messman; D. Keefcr, bosun, and K. Benzales, ordinary sexunan. A calm and sunny sky in the Luzon Straits accommo^tes the crew of the Steel Admiral as they dine on deck. Hie ship's carpenter, Nick Swokla, and other crewmembers built a stove on deck so that the steward, I. Avecilla, and his gtdky crew could prepare meals. Page 7 �Two Continents Commemorate Voyage of Mayflower I fi •i « r [*' 11 N o PRESENT-DAY Seafarer would think of sailing with men, women and children on a frail 90-foot wooden ship across unchartered seas. Yet on Sept. 6 it will be 350 years since 102 people succeeded in just such a voyage. They left from Plymouth, England, on a bark named the Mayflower and after a 66-day journey landed in America and founded the first self-governing colony here. On May 2, celebrations be­ gan in England and Holland commemorating the courage of these strong-willed voyagers. The reason for the celebra­ tions in Holland is that in 1607 the Pilgrims fled to that counA replica of the Mayflower (above) sailed the Atlantic in 1957. The original ship on which the Pilgrims set sail for the New World was only 90 feet long. It carried 102 men, women and children for 66 days across an unknown and stormy ocean. •' try from England where they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs. In July 1620, 35 Pilgrims set sail for Eng­ land from Delfshaven, Holland, and joined contingents from London and other parts of Eng­ land before sailing for the New World. Plymouth will be the center for celebration in the British Isles but other towns where the Pilgrims spent time will be joining in the festivities. There is even some good natured rivalry involved in the celebra­ tions. For instance, Mrs. Kathie Johnson, the mayor of South­ hampton, England, accused the Lord Mayor of Plymouth of "filching our history." She con­ tends that it was only by ac­ cident that the Pilgrims left England from the Port of Ply­ mouth. They had really left from Southhampton, she says, and only pulled into Plymouth when the Mayflower's sister ship, the Speedwell, sprung a leak. Well, whether you prefer Southhampton or Plymouth, you should agree that the May­ flower was a good ship with a good crew. I II •ij' /• ^ 'I 'i' li . rJ • fi • • 4 ''' An old drawing made in 1780 shows the town of Delfshaven, Holland, where 35 Pil­ grims set sail for England. Some Pilgrims had originally gone to Holland in 1607 to escape persecution in England only to re­ turn to England before sailing for America. Seafarers Lot �These are the Barbican Steps In Plymouth, England, firom which the PUgrims stepped out for America on S^t 6, 1620. On May 2, celebrations started in this, as well as other English and Dutch towns, in commemortdion of flie men and women who crossed the unchartered Ocean. This drawing shows the peaceful harbor of Delfshaven, Holland, from which 35 Pilgrims set saU in 1620 to meet their brethem in England and find a new life in America. This lovely country .house in Austerfield, England, was tihe birthplace of William Bradford, a Pilgrim who became the first governor'of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Could these pillars in a church in Abingdon, Eng­ land, be the masts from the Pilgrims' ship May­ flower? Legend says they are. The Pilgrims founded the first self-governing colony in Ameri­ ca and called it Plymouth. May 1970 Page 9 �After Years of Neglect Seafarers Widow Pension Increase Aids SIU Veterans Lauds Kindness To (he Editor: I would like to thank Mrs. Spencer of the New Orleans SIU Hall; Mr. Steward of Isthmian Lines; Captain Williams and the men aboard the* Steel Surveyor for their help and kindness dur­ ing the death of my husband, Charles Hyde. Thanks also to the wonderful union, the SIU, which he was so proud of. Thanks Again to all, Mrs. Charles (Sis) Hyde Avondale, La. One 'Old Salt' Meets Real Salt After many years of neglect by previous Ad­ ministrations of this nation's maritime woes, Congressmen are taking a wide and vigorous in­ terest in a wide variety of subjects that affect SIU members. Behind this interest stands a polential for action that could enhance our nation's economy and provide greater opportunities for Seafarers.' An example of the diversity of subjects now being tackled by Congresmen can be found on page 4 of this issue of the Seafarers Log. There Congressman James M. Hanley (D-N.Y.) calls for the protection of the inland waterways in­ dustry; Congressman James J. Howard (DN.J.) demands that the government, as well as American industry, place more cargo in Ameri­ can-flag bottoms, and Congressman Howard W. Pollock (R-Alaska) urges aid for the Americanflag ships that service the noncontiguous areas of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam. Nor does the list stop there. Newspapers daily carry stories of Congressmen calling for new vitality in every area of the maritime world, from fishing to oceanography, from rebuilding the depleted Great Lakes fleet to reviving our deteriorated ocean-going merchant marine. Why have Congressmen "discovered" the marine world after years of inattention? One reason is that the SIU, together with her sister unions in the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, launched a campaign more than three years ago to inform Congressmen on the needs of our nation's merchant marine. Nearly every week since that time. Congressmen have gathered with representatives of MTD unions, the marine industry and federal agencies at weekly luncheons in Washington, D.C. These luncheons, sponsored by the MTD, have brought face-to-face exchanges of facts and ideas that have stimulated an awareness of our industry that simply didn't exist before. No longer are our maritime problems hidden from view. No longer is our maritime potential veiled behind a curtain of ignorance. This progress can be attributed to a large degree to activities of the SIU. The interest and knowledge that has blossomed is good. It has provided a foundation for action. Our next job is to follow through so that Sea­ farers—together with their brothers in the ship­ building and support industries—will have avail­ able to them more jobs and greater opportu­ nities in the fields they have chosen for their life's work. SIU Opens Vacation Center The Seafarers International Union has de­ veloped a vacation center at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Md. The center section of this issue of the Seafarers Log spells out the details of the new and unique union program to make available to Seafarers and their families first-class vacations at the low­ est possible cost. Why would a union develop a vacation center for its members? Because that's what a union is all about. We are joined together in the com­ mon cause of helping one another to achieve the better life. Each new service that can be provided is another notch in our scale of suc­ cess of the union. Page 10 Seafarers are often away from their families for months at a time. Theirs is a hard life. The vacation center at Piney Point will give SIU members and their families a chance to enjoy themselves in comfort—to escape for a little while the day-to-day pressures that must be met the rest of the year. Fishing and swimming, tennis and sailing, soaking up the sun and exploring the lands that form the coast of the Chesapeake Bay area— good food, large, clean rooms and someone to do the dishes, make the beds. These are some of the things that are now available at the SIU's summer vacation center. And it belongs to you. Take advantage of it. To the Editor: Some years ago, while enroute by plane from Boston to New Orleans, I got into a conversa­ tion with the gentleman sitting next to me. He did all the talking. He said that he was a small businessman from Washington, D.C. On weekends and holidays he would go boating. He said he had made several trips by boat from Washington to Baltimore. But the most interesting and longest trip he had ever made was to Maine. He exclaimed; "You have no idea what it is like to be on the high seas under the stars and going places." During our conversation he often used nautical terms to give the impression that he was an "Old Salt." He sounded so enthusiastic that I didn't want to interrupt him. Finally, he got around to asking what my line of work was. Imagine his surprise when I confessed that I had been in the merchant marine all of my life, and had just returned frcMn - a trip around the world. Fraternany, Richard Martinez M-8 Philadeiphia, Fa. Thanks Given For SIU Check To the Editor: I would like to express my deepest and sincerest thanks for the Seafarers Welfare Fund check and your words of condo­ lences for the loss of my beloved husband, Theodore J. Johnson. Thanks again. Mrs. Sadie Johnson Sanlt Ste. Marie, Mich. SIU Wife Praises Welfare Plan Aid To flie Editw: I would like to express my thanks to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and to the SIU for the benefits they paid to the Long Beach P.acific Ho^al and Doc­ tor Larson M.D. My broken foot and crushed heel are much better now. I also thank Shirley, Linda and Jerry of the SIU Hall in Wil­ mington, Calif. Thanks to the captain and crew of the Steel Seafarer that my husband is still on. Sincerely yours, Cleo Mangao Wilmington, Calif. (The following two letters were received as a result of the recent pension increase for SlU-affiliated Inland Boatmen's Union members. As of March 1, 1970 the IBU pension was raised from $175 to $200 a month.) To the Editon I wish to thank you very much for the increase I received in the check for the month of April. It came as a surprise indeed, a very nice one, because the prices of everything are so high. We can really use it. So in appreciation I remain. Yours respectfully, Adolph MiOer Noifolk, Va. To the Editmr: Received the two checks this month and appreciate your ef­ forts in getting me extra money each inonth for my pension. It really comes in handy in this day and time. Hope this finds you in the best of health. Sincerely, Lewis Wilgus Ocean View, DeL Grieving Spouse Thanks Friends To the Editor: It is with a very heavy aching heart that I take pen in hand to thank everyone of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf Dis­ trict—to each and everyone of Mr. Robert Hall's Waterman Shore Gang and their lovely wives in San Francisco, Calif., and Mr. Don Bartlett's Sea-Land Shore Gang in Oakland, Calif., and Mr. Walter Reidy and Mr. Harry Larson for their sincere sympathy and offers of financial aid, and all the beautiful floral arrangements sent to my be­ loved husband in San Francisco, Calif., and in Denver, Colo., and to his wonderful, dear family in Aurora, Colo. Without their individual under­ standing and my strong belief in God, I'm afraid I would never have been strong enough to bear my sorrow. And the many, many sympathy Cards received in my mail touched me deeply. I received consolation from "Dear Bill's" Honorary Bearers, Mr. Robiert Hall, Francis Fisher, Gill Glennie, Trento Gori Jr., Olav Gustavsen, Frederick Gosse, Harry Hanson, Michael Iwaski, David Jones, James Pullium, Clifford Prevatt, Ralph Smith, Richard Worley. "My Dear Bill" was such a proud and dedicated SIU mem­ ber. Such a great loss to so many of us. I am still unable to accept it "Heartbroken" Mrs. WilUam Henry Rogers San Francisco, CaBf. Named by CLC Ottawa ,The Canadian Labor Congress has named Jean Beaudry of Montreal, a Steelworkers' repre­ sentative since 1954 as an exec­ utive vice president. William C. Y. McGregor, a Railway and Air­ lines Clerks' Union vice president was named a CLC general vice president. Seafarers Log iJ �A. R. Norton is a veteran seafarer. An oiler, he is pictured here standing at the control panel of the Steel Scientist. Norton remained aboard the Isthmian vessel for another four-month voyage. Johnny Hager is making his second trip as wiper on the Steel Scientist. He plans to attend the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship to up­ grade to fireman-oiler-watertender. Steel Scientist: India and Back nriHE STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian) came in to Erie Basin in New York A harbor to pay-off after a four-month voyage to India. The C-3 was loaded deep with general cargo. The crew said the crossing was smooth with very few beefs and only a few disputed overtime hours. After tak­ ing on cargo and signing on a new crew, the Steel Scientist cast off her lines and set a course for India and the ports of Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Chittagong, East Pakistan. Dockside after the four-month voyage to the Indian Ocean, the Steel Scientist takes on cargo for another run. Stops this time include Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Chittagong. This picture was taken in Erie Basin. -mxss:-:. Kenneth Linah, oiler on the Steel Scientist and engine dele­ gate, enjoys a hearty meal in the crew's mess after standing watch. Linah said the trip to India was a good one—^no heefs in the engine department ' - J ^' M' E. D. Strait has been sailing with the SIU for many years and often accepts the re­ sponsibility of being the steward depart­ ment delegate. Strait is seen here in the galley helping prepare the evening meal for a very hungry crew. Ik*'v'Sf'. "Service with a Smile" is the motto of Pantryman Juan Borras. The crew agreeed that the combination of good service and wholesome menus helped to make the long voyage a pleasant mie. May 1970 Chief Cook Isia Gray, at left, is another veteran seafarer who likes the long run to India. Gray is seen here preparing meat for the dinner menu. The crew had high praise for the work of en­ tire steward department. �SlU ARRIVALS Astrid Vega, bom Jan. 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rafael F. Vega, Ponce, P.R. « Florentia and Helen Trikoglou, born March 26, 1970, to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Antonios M. Trikoglou, Baltimore, Md. Shannon Currera, born Feb. 4, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Anthony J. Currera, Chalmette, La. Debra Voliva, bom Feb. 9, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph T. Voliva, Belhaven, N.C. Chow Time on the Sylyania Steve Priola, porter on the Sylvania, serves dinner to two hungry crewmembers during fit-out for the 1970 season on the Great Lakes. From left are Art El Modhsi, wiper, and John Hall, firenian. Brazil Claiming 200-Mile Limit Brazilia Brazil's recent decision to ex­ tend its sea frontier out to 200 miles leaves only two South American coastal countries, Co­ lombia and Venezuela, without a 200-mile territorial seas limit. One-by-one in recent years, the countries of South America have broadened their claims of control over the high seas, despite the lack of precedent for such action in international law. Peru and Ecuador, along with several of their neighbors who also claim a 200-mile limit, have used this self-proclaimed 200-mile zone to seize U.S. tunaboats fishing in the area and hold the vessels and crews until heavy fines are paid for release of the boats. The United States .does not recognize the 200-mile limit and considers waters beyond 12 miles of shore to be high seas. Gretchen Ooutier, born Dec. 22, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Peter A. Cloutier, Portland, Me. Hooper La Vigne, born to Seafarer and Mrs. Hooper La Vigne, Picayune, Miss. Alecia Yeoman, born Feb. 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Al­ bert R. Yeoman, Hartford, Ala. Delmarie Anderson, born Dec. 6, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sidney Anderson, Jr., New Orleans, La. Christa Stanton, born Dec. 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph C. Stanton, Philadelphia, Pa. Melinda Mitchell, born Jan. 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. sesfspens James E. Mitchell, Charleston, Mo. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael Zubovich, Houston, Tex. Lamar Elliott, bom Dec. 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James N. Elliott, Portsmouth, Va. Grailen Archie, born Aug. 25, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James B. Archie, Baltimore, Md. James Garrison, bom March 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Harry D. Garrison Jr., New York, N.Y. Selena Tillman, bom Feb. 1, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ liam L. Tillman, Rio Nido, Calif. Robert Santena, bom Jan. 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ ert Santena, Houston, Tex. Allan Rogers, born Oct. 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Allan A. Rogers, Baltimore, Md. Rosa Mattes, bom Jan. 19, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Julio Mattos, Jr., Brooklyn, N.Y. Penny Goss, born Jan. 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Billy R. Goss, Liberty, Tex. Daniel East, born Dec. 8, 1969. to Seafarer and Mrs. Nor­ man East, Sulphur, La. Jackie Robinson, born Jan. 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jackie Robinson, Mobile, Ala. Nadene Bullock, born Jan. 17, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Perry L. Bullock, Texas City, Tex. Kimberly Witherington, born Jan. 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert H. Witnerington, , Richard Siusser, born March 21, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Daphne, Ala. William N. Siusser, Seattle, r Paul Alexanderian, bom Dec. Wash. 9, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Johnny Jordan, born Dec. 14, Haik J. Alexanderian, San Fran1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Eddie Cisco, Calif. E. Jordan, Mobile, Ala. Richard DiCostanzo, born Jan. 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Castro, born Jan. 16, Louis DiCostanzo, Staten Island, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Angel N.Y. Castro, New Orleans, La. Nicole Moss, born Dec. 19, Earl Adams, born March 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Earl E. Moss, New Orleans, La. Adams Sr., Mobile, Ala. Troy Tillman, bom Dec. 29, Wendee Seabaugh, born Feb. 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. ert Tillman, Levittown, Pa. Otis J. Seabaugh, Cape Girar­ Pete Zubovich, born Feb. 9, deau, Mo. Ships at Sea In addition to the grievances and contract questions which are settled by patrolmen at payoffs and sign-ons, and by the SIU Contract Enforcement De­ partment, headquarters in New York receives communications from Seafarers seeking contract interpretations. These communications cover the range of working conditions, pension and welfare questions, and other related subjects affecting Seafarers. Because many of these questions are of general interest to the membership, headquarters has arranged to have the questions and answers published regu­ larly in the Log. The following question was received relating to crewmembers in the steward department who are required to do a missing man's work. Question: The third cook got sick while we were at sea, and the steward and first cook had to take over his duties for seven days. How should they be paid for this extra work? Answer: The answer to this question is contained in Article V, Section 7, of the NEW STANDARD FREIGHTSHIP AGREEMENT. This section covers three different situations where crewmembers in the steward department might be required to do a missing man's work: (1) where the vessel is in port- (2) where the vessel sails short; (3) where a crewmember becomes sick or injured and remains aboard ship. 1. If the vessel'is in port and a member of the steward department is missing, the men who do his work are paid overtime at their own overtime rate for actual time worked over their normal eight hours. 2. If the vessel sails short, the men who actually do the missing man's work will receive (a) a division of the missing man's wages; and (b) a division of the overtime the missing man would have received for working Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. This overtime is at the rate that the missing man would be en­ titled to, not your overtime rate. 3. If a member of the steward department becomes ill or injured at sea, and remains aboard the vessel, the men who actually do his work will receive a divi­ sion of the missing man's wages, but they will not receive any overtime. Page 12 The Overseas Vila (Maritime Overseas) is bound for Yokosuka after touch­ ing at the ports of St. Croix and Cristobal, and is expected to pay­ off in Balboa around June 8. Ship's SecretaryH. p. Reporter H. P. Du Cloux reports Du Cloux that men wanting to pay off dur­ ing the voyage under mutual con­ sent will have to pay the trans­ portation cost for the crewmen replacing them. All crewmem­ bers not on watch were present for the weekly shipboard meet­ ing held April 5. Everything is running smoothly, according to Ship's Chairman L. Obrantz. There was a beef about the cof­ fee, and the steward has agreed to buy a better grade at the first opportunity. Elected department delegates on the Overseas Ulla for this trip are James Thompson, deck; William Padgett, engine, and James Hassell, steward de­ partment. —-d> Billy Nuckols, ship's chairman on the Windjammer Potty (Windjammer InternaI tional), has cau­ tioned crewmem­ bers about keep­ ing V a 1 u a b 1 es stored in a safe place while in port in Vietnam. BlUy He noted that Nuckols there has been an increase in the number of cases of "cowboys" breaking into rooms and lockers, even when they are locked. He recommends that val­ uables be kept below deck where there are limited exits, and where it is easier to spot an unauthor­ ized person. The ship was due in Saigon May 1, and is expect­ ed to return to Sunny Point, N.C., for payoff around June 12, after stopping at Subic Bay. Oliver P. Oakley is ship's secretary-report­ er. Elected delegates are Charles Dandridge, deck department; J. J. Shearon, engine, and Jesse Gage, steward department. ^ As the American Pride (Sealanes Inc.) was on her way to the scrapyard in Taiwan, Ship's Chairman Frank Smith penned the following letter: "For the pres­ ent and all the past crews it is a sad thing to Smith learn that the good ship American Pride is on her last run—to the scrapyard. "Along with the loss of an ex­ ceptionally happy ship, we are losing some of the finest mates and engineers going to sea. In particular. Captain Bob Collins, and two old SIU members. Chief Mate John Danks and Chief En­ gineer Harry Quinn. "For this last voyage of the Pride we are fortunate in having an exceptionally fine SIU crew with quite a few really old-timers. "For the benefit of our young­ er SlU-brothers, the thing that makes a good and happy ship is doing a good job, and taking pride in your work. "It is the sincere wish of the entire crew that we get more ships and more good SIU crews like this one." .-^1 J '•rll �Montpelier Victory Run: Hot to Cold I. ^OR THE CREW of the Montpelier Victory changes, in the weather are routine. The SlU-manned Victory Steamship Co. Fvessel made several recent voyages that have gone from one cli­ mate extreme to another—Hawaii to Alaska. During February and March, the Montpelier Victory was assigned to the carriage of crude oil from Alaska to ports south. The crew adjusted quickly to the weather changes—fighting snow covered lines in Alaska and two weeks later sunbathing on the aft deck. The sun shines brightly as Sea­ farers Wiiiiams, Howard and Gelleford (from left) hend to pull­ ing up the butterworthing ma­ chinery shortiy after the vessel left Honolulu bound for Alaska. Dayman Gelleford, (left) and chief pumpman Philip Bentz in­ spect the condition of the but­ terworthing machine which had just been brought up on deck. All machinery was kept ship­ shape for rapid climate changes. r Pies, cakes and hot rolls we the specidty of baker Everett Pwry. Brother Perry submitted flie pho­ tos on this page to the Log. J. Kwl (left) and J. McGinnies, both Seafarers, see to the opera­ tion a winch during a muck­ ing Job at sea in picture at left Their heavy coats attest that the vessel is fw from Honolulu. I! The chief cook, L. Brooks, dresses chickens for a hungry crew's lunch at sea. The steward department received a job well done from the crew. Pictured at right iis Philip Bentz, chief pumpman, as he cleans a grease gun befwe stowing it. Cleaning up after a job is as important as do­ ing the job. . I., May 1970 • #"•' i'' • • If the camera could have seen two weeks in the fu­ ture, this would be a picture of crewmembers sunbathing on the aft deck. But, instead, snow is covering the deck as the ship loads oil in Alaska. Page 13 �Nixon Proclaims May antime Day Washington A proclamation setting May 22 as National Maritime Day has been signed by President Nixon. A text of the proclamation fol­ lows: "The restoration of our merchant fleet to a position of leader­ ship on the world's oceans is one of our most urgent tasks. Our merchant ships are essential parts of our economic and defense systems, and reminders to us and to the world of our heritage as a sea-going people. "In recognition of the importance of our Merchant Marine to our economy and our national security, the Congress in 1933 set aside May 22 of each year as National Maritime Day and re­ quested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling for the observance of that day. / "Now, therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our American Merchant Marine on May 22, 1970, by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes and other suitable places, and I request that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on that day in tribute to the American Merchant Marine. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-fourth." /s/ Richard M. Nixon Bargaining Can Work For Feds AZALEA CITY—Ship's Chairman John Morris (center) re­ ports that weekly meetings were held each Sunday while the Azalea City was on her second voyage of Sea-Land's recentlyInaugurated Mediterranean run. Seen here are, from left: C. N. Johnson, ship's secretary-re­ porter; Ernesto Valdez, steward delegate; Morris; Jose Pineiro, engine delegate, and Luther Pate, deck delegate. Ships CommitteeVital Link for SlU ^HE SHIP'S COMMITTEE is the vital link between the SIU at sea and the SIU ashore. The weekly meetings held each Sunday aboard ship by the ship's chairman, and the contract maintained with head­ quarters by the ship's secre­ tary-reporter make it possible for SIU members around the world to actively participate in the affairs of their Union. The three elected depart­ ment delegates—deck delegate, engine delegate and steward delegate—are charged with the responsibility of handling beefs and seeing to it that the SIU contract is enforced. These delegates take care of the beefs that were formerly handled by the ship's delegate. The ship's committee con­ cept, established nearly one year ago by the membership, has proved effective in keeping Seafarers everywhere in the world informed on the pro­ grams of the union, and pro­ viding the means for close communication with union headquarters. Page 14 BOSTON—^Just returned to Port Elizabeth, N.J., from a trip to San Juan, the ship's commit­ tee met with boarding patrolmen and then posed fw their photo. From left are: James Welch, en­ gine delegate; W. Moore, ship's secretary-reporter; C. Magoulas, ship's chairman; A. Olsen, deck delegate, and Roscoe Rinwater, steward department dele­ gate. The committee reported a smooth voyage with no con­ tractual beefs. STEEL FLYER—^Pictured at left are members of the ship's committee on the Steel Flyer, just returned from India. From left are: Mario Nolasco, steward delegate; Ray Diamond, en­ gine delegate; Frank Ccstango, ship's secretary; S. Jandora, ship's chairman, and C.. McGahagin, deck delegate. Washington Cqilective bargaining does work in the federal government. The historic negotiations that de­ veloped the Postal reform bill now before Congress proves this, and it is paving the way for longoverdue collective bargaining rights for all federal civilian workers. This assessment was made in a network radio interview by two AFL-CIO representatives closely involved in the postal ne­ gotiations and in shaping the pro­ posed legislation, Albert J. Zack, public relations director, and An­ drew J. Biemiller, legislative di­ rector. . Participating in the weekly in­ terview program Labor News Conference with Tom Joyce of Newsweek and Tom Foley of the Los Angeles Times, Zack said that federal employees should be guaranteed the "right to selfdetermination" and a voice in their wages and working condi­ tions. Zack said public acceptance of collective bargaining for federal workers resulted from "sudden realization of the conditions un­ der which postal employees were working—the wage scales they were getting." Biemiller declared, "There isn'tany question but what the (pos­ tal) strike brought the matter to a head." He added that the con­ cept of collective bargaining in the federal service has grown under executive orders issued by Presidents Kennedy and Nixon permitting bargaining. Biemiller and Zack agreed that bargaining has many advantages over the lobbying now necessary to improve wages and working conditions. And besides, they said, many congressmen will be "very happy to get rid of the head­ ache" of setting government workers' salaries. Union Label Show In New Orleans The Union-Industries Show— the annual exhibition of unionmade products and services—will be held May 22 to 27 at the Rivergate in New Orleans. Seafarers Log I '•ii �SEAFARERS*L06 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Li Seafarers Vacation Center Fishing from the pier at the Seafarers Vacation Center in Pilney Pointy Md., provides more than just recreation—it helps a Dad, long at sea, to get reacquainted with his son. The SIU has added an important new dimension to its service to Seafarers and their families—a Seafarers Vacation Center which begins operation this Summer at the site of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md. The Vacation Center will begin operations on July 6, 1970 and will stay open until Labor Day. During this period, SIU members, their wives and their children can enjoy rest, relaxa­ tion, sports, recreation of all sorts, fine food and excellent accommodations—all for only a fraction of the cost of the average commercial establishment. What does it cost? Rooms cost $4 per day for single occupancy, or $7 for double occupancy. Meals cost a maximum of 99 cents for breakfast and lunch, and a top of $1.50 for supper. Many meals cost less. In other words, a vacation at the SIU center at Piney Point will be well within the budget of the average Seafarer. And what he will get for his money will be far in excess of what is available at any commercially run vacation resorts. hI • ( \ . A Seafarer and his family check hito their room to hegin a well-earned vacation in Mary­ land's "land of pleasant living." SlU-operated Vacation Center {urovides maximum enjoynlent at a minimum cost to the SIC member. May 1970 Large, well-appointed, air conditioned rooms guarantee the SIU family the ultimate in accommodations for their vacation at Piney Point. Page 15 �i Generous portions well-prepared food are served in the dining hall at the Vacation Center—at a price that can't be equalled anywhere. Modem, well-equipped bowling alleys provide Seafarers and their families an oppmtunity to enjoy healthy exercise and togetherness. Page 16 At *Tiddlers Green," SIU members and their families can pidc and c from the large fleet of vessels available for their vacation enjoymen Seafarers Log �This punching bag in the SIU gymnasium roily shouid be used by the giris* father and brother—but It gives these young iadies a chance to ''ciown around" during their visit. "Now watch this," SIU wife apparently has told her husband, as she prepares to demonstrate her skill at the pool table. Piney Point boasts a fleet of operational ships, plus converted vessels which have been put to use to house die facilities of the Lundeberg School. This one is the Claude "Sonny" Simmons, a former Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay freighter, which is now a school head­ quarters ship. o'i • •f ml For the Seafarer and his family, a vacation at Piney Point puts within the reach of both adults and children the best in indoor and outdoor recreation. Here are just some of the attractions that are available: • Sailing. • Horseback riding. • Golf driving range. • Softball. • Tennis. • Swimming. • Fishing. • Water skiing. • Basketball. • Bowling. • Billiards. • Table tennis. What's more, these recreational attractions are availat no additional charge. The SIU member pays only for the room he and his family occupy and the food that they eat—everything else is available for the asking. Backing up these recreational activities which are available right at the Seafarers Vacation Center, the area, itself, is steeped in American history—so the SIU member and his family can enjoy a brief trip to one of the historical spots nearby. The Center is located on the southernmost tip of Maryland, where the Potomac meets Chesapeake Bay. Only a few miles away is the spot where Ueonard Calvert and his companions landed from two tiny vessels—the Ark and the Dove—to establish the Colony of Mary­ land in 1634. A replica of the first State House is lo­ cated in nearby St. Marys City. At nearby Point Look­ out is one of the Civil War prisons maintained by the Northern Army. And the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., is only an hour and a half's drive from Piney Point. So whether the Seafarer wants merely rest and recrea­ tion, or whether he wants to add in some sightseeing, he'll find both in abundance at Piney Point. Piney Point facilities of SIU are also used for a four-week Summer Youth Music Program for youngsters who are musically inclined. In addition to offering a unique opportunity for young people, who live and work in modern, air-conditioned barges (like the one below), ffie program provides musical entertainment for vacationers. noose May 1970 Page 17 �A Modern swimming pool is a natural attraction fm- youngsters and adults, alike, who can enjoy a refreshing swim daily during their stay at the Seafarers Vacation Center. : •. •If . i A V, -i Sun-tanned, relaxed and refreshed. Seafarers and their families wiH return home from the Vaca­ tion Center rested and better equipped to face flie coming year. Sailing on the sparkling waters of the Chesapeake Bay is another of the extras available at no cost to SIU members, their wives and their chUdren who take advantage of the opportunity to use the Piney Point facilities. Seafarers Vacation Center Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship St. Mary's County Piney Point, Maryland 20674 I am interested in availing myself of the opportunity of using the facilities of the Sea­ farers Vacation Center. First choice: From to Second choice: From to My party wiO consist of adults and children. Please send confirmation. I have children with musical aptitude who are interested in participating in the Summer Youth Music Program (July 6-August 3). Please send details. Signature Print Name Book Number Street Address City Page 18 State ZIP One of the big attractions at the Seafarers Vacation Center is the fact that at Piney Point, the SIU has assem­ bled one of the most unique fleets in the country—^vessels of historic value which help to preserve the romance and adventure that is part of America's nautical heritage. The largest of the fleet's fully operational vessels is the S.Y. Dauntless, a 250-foot, steel-hulled ship that won fame as the flagship of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King in World War II. Included in the Lundeberg fleet is the tallmasted Freedom, former flagship of the sailing ship squadron at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Then there's the Richard Henry Dana—a sky-raking, two-masted schooner which hoists 10,000 square feet of sail-^and her sister ship, the Captain James Cook. And there is the sleek-hulled sailing craft, the Manitou, which was John F. Kennedy's yacht during his time in the White House. And there are small sailing craft, too—ideal for the SIU member and his family to take on an outing on the sparkling Chesapeake Bay. Seafarers interested in taking advantage of this unique, low-cost vacation opportunity, should fill in the accom­ panying application blank and mail it to the Seafarers Vacation Center. Since accommodations are limited, they will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis. Seafarers Log �UNfON Of Personals I I N O / H CiI \-^ •y F. W. Ammons Please contact A! Maisch, Sales Manager, Port Owens Marina, Box 177, Route 11, Pasadena, Md. 21122 as soon as possible. Ernest J. Byers Your mother, Mrs. John Byers, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible at 614 Alvarez Ave., Whistler, Ala. 36612. Robert Orion Smith Please call your sister, Mrs. Pearl S. Walker, as soon as pos­ sible at MA 9-2435 in Bessemer • City, N.C. Thomas F. Smith Your wife is very anxious to hear from you. Please contact her at No. 103 (2nd floor), Wen Hwa Hung Rd., Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China. r Ed Dwyer Please contact Maury Silver as soon as possible at 39-24 58th St., Woodside, L.I., N.Y. 11377. Crew of the Transcoiumhia Any member aboard the Trans­ coiumhia from May 28 to Aug. 1, 1969 please • contact the USPHS Hospital or the Port Agent in San Francisco as soon as possible. Harrison Hicks, Jr. Your mother, Almedia Mary Baldwin, writes that it is urgent that you contact her. Call collect: 615-291-9859; or write in care of Thelma Hicks, 1210 17th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37212. Joseph Frank Sanford Barron Please contact Mrs. Robbie Barron Johnson at 5129 Georgia Rd., Birmingham, Ala. 25212. Harold Lowry Personal belongings are being held for you at SlU Head­ quarters, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Claude Woodrow Pritchett Your niece, Alease P. Martin, S-iI writes that it is very important that you get in touch with her as soon as. possible at Route 1, DeWitt, Va. 23840. M E R Thomas E. Smolarek Your daughter, Mrs. Victoria A. Bradley, asks that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at 146 Madison Dr., Newark, Del. 19711. Jacob J. Bentz The Selective Service System, Local Board No. 4, asks that you contact them as soon as possible at Federal Building, 1000 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222. Kenneth Chard Alfred Gaudin asks that you get in touch with him at 719 Avenue C, Marrero, La. Harold L. Loll Your mother writes that your brother, Carl, will be arriving in May. Haskell Moore Please get in touch with your attorney, John M. Joye, about money due you. His address is 7920 Orangethorpe Ave., Buena Park, Calif. Willram Birthright Of Barbers Dies William C. Birthright, presi­ dent emeritus of the Barbers Un­ ion, died at 82 after a lifetime of service to the trade union movement. He retired in 1963 after 33 years as president of his union, and 23 years of combined service as a vice president of the AFL and the AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO- President George Meany said Birthright's years of leadership "brought innumerable changes to better the life of workers." I C A Y"' 7- arv —sn. J] .•S a.."! Nagi El Ahmed Please contact your lawyers, Boccardo, Blum, Lull, Niland, Teerlink and Bell, as soon as possible at One California St., San Francisco, Calif. 94111. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and man­ agement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon ap­ proval by a majority of the tru^ees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts be­ tween the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N.Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. .CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know May 1970 A XV ^ SOUTH C0KX£A1T VA M J RICA fMGINIIN* 1 The large arrows on this map show the possible routes a bottle could take during a journey from Wassaw Island, Ga., to Fort Myers Beach, Fla., during a seven-year journey. The small arrows denote the different ocean currents that might have guided the drifting bottle. It was tossed into the Atlantic in 1962 and recovered in 1969. Bottles 7-Year Trip Charted Miami, Fla. Ever toss a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean and wonder where it will travel? Oceanographers at the Environmental Science Service Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce recently received a request to chart possible routes a drifting'bottle might have taken during a seven-year voyage. The bottle was set adrift in June 1962 off Was­ saw Island near Savannah, Ga., by a group of Ex­ plorer Scouts who placed a paper with their names inside the bottle. It was washed ashore and found in July 1969 on Fort Myers Beach, Fla., a direct distance of 830 miles from Wassaw Island. Scientists say that it is unlikely that it could have taken a direct route because of prevailing ocean currents and charted two possible routes that it could have taken. Oceanographers at ESSA's Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories in Miami outlined the following routes (both crossing the Atlantic twice): • "When the bottle was picked up by the Gulf Stream it would have drifted at a speed of about two to four miles per hour up the coast of the United States to the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, N.C., where it would move easterly across the North Atlantic until it was caught up by the Canary Current. your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as fil­ ing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serv­ ing the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing arti­ cles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective member­ ship. This established policy has been reaffirmed by mem­ bership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immedi­ ately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or "Thus current would carry the bottle southward, down the bulge of Africa, and to the North Equatorial Current, which would transport it westward across the Atlantic into the Carribbean Sea. The Carribbean Current would then convey the bottle to the Yucatan Channel where it would pass into the Gulf of Mexico and land on Fort Myers Beach. • "The bottle could have travelled a somewhat longer route. After drifting down the coast of North Africa, it could have been caught up in the Guinea Current and carried south of the African bulge to the south Equatorial Current. Visit to South America "This would then have transported the bottle across the Atlantic and northwestward along the hump of South America into the Carribbean Sea where it would follow the course previously out­ lined." Of course, the oceanographers admit that it would be impossible to trace the exact route or the number of miles the bottle travelled. In both of the above possibilities it is considered probable that the bottle lay trapped in the rushes of the Georgia coastal swamps for a time until high tides or strong winds freed it to drift far enough from shore to enter the Gulf Stream. Whichever route it may have taken, it is a welltravelled bottle. obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members draw­ ing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rankand-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the em­ ployers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely vol­ untary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately noti^ SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. Page 19 4,. • �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings March 27—Chairman, Joseph Cata­ lanotto; Secretary, W. P. Kaiser; Ship's Delegate and Steward Dele­ gate, John A. Denais; Deck Dele­ gate, Irvin Glass; Engine Delegate, V. M. Frederiksen. Vote of thanks extended to entire steward depart­ ment for job very well done. Cap­ BIENVILLE (Sea-Land), March- tain George W. Smith extended a 15—Chairman, Arthur Harrington; vote of thanks to entire crew for Secretary, Jasper C. Anderson. Ev­ making it such a smooth trip. erything running smoothly with no $61.02 in ship's fund. beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of OVERSEAS DAPHNE (Mari­ thanks extended to steward depart­ time Overseas), March 29—Chair­ ment for job well done. man, Edwin Craddock; Secretary, BOSTON (S e a-L a n d), March Sidney Gamer; Ship's Delegate, 15—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Willie Barron; Steward Delegate, Constantinos Magoules; Secretary, James A. Crawford, Jr. No beefs Wilfred J. Moore; Deck Delegate, reported by department delegates. A. Olsen; Engine Delegate, Nicko- Vote of thanks extended to steward las Sushko; Steward Delegate, Ros- department for job well done. coe L. Run water. No beefs, every­ ROBIN GRAY (Moore-McCorthing running smoothly. mack), March 21—Chairman, Rob­ TRANSINDIANA (Hudson Wa­ ert G. Lawson; Secretary, H. Don­ terways), March 22 — Chairman, nelly. $19 in ship's fund. Every­ Ronald J. Burton; Secretary, N. thing running smoothly in all de­ Kondylas; Ship's Delegate, William partments. Vote of thanks extended J. Perridge; Deck Delegate, Edward to steward department for job well Goldberg; Steward Delegate, A. done. Ben Ahmed. Some disputed OT to PONCE (Sea-Land), April 5— be settled by boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ Chairman, George Ruf; &cretary, Alvin L. Doud; Ship's Delegate and ment for good food and service. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate Steward Delegate, Joseph Barron; Deck Delegate, John Bertotino; En­ for job well done. gine Delegate, Victor A. Cover. COLUMBIA BREWER (Colum­ $15.71 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ bia), April 5—Chairman, Ship's ported by department delegates. Delegate, and Deck Delegate, Char­ Vote of thanks extended to steward lie Lee; Secretary, Alfred Hirsch; department for job well done. Engine Delegate, Albert Landingin; OVERSEAS AUCE (Maritime Steward Delegate, Lee R. Myers. No beefs reported by department Overseas), March 29 — Chairman and Ship's Delegate, B. Mignano; delegates. Secretary, L. Bennett; Engine Dele­ DELTA URUGUAY (Delta), gate, David E. Davis; Steward Dele­ Feb. 8—Chairman, Joseph Catala­ gate, L. McCuen. Everything run­ notto; Secretary, W. P. Kaiser; ning smoothly with no beefs. Small Ship's Delegate and Steward Dele­ amount of disputed OT in engine gate, John A. Denais; Deck Dele­ department. gate, Irvin Glass; Engine Delegate, CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK V. M. Frederiksen. $19.02 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by depart­ (Cities Service Tanker), March 29— Chmrman and Ship's Delegate, Salment delegates. vator Candela; Secretary and Deck DELTA URUGUAY (Delta), Delegate, Joseph J. Moll, Jr.; EnPRODUCER (Marine Carriers), March 1 — Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Alfonso Armada; Secre­ tary, William H. Rhone. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. gine Delegate, Frank C. Guillory; Steward Delegate, G. Willis. $361 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Two men hospitalized in Japan. OAKLAND (Sea-Land), April 1—Chairman, T. J. White; Secre­ tary and Ship's Delegate, J. Doyle; Deck Delegate, H. Miller; Engine Delegate, J. Rogers; Steward Dele­ gate, B. P. Burke. Motion made to have container-type ships payoff and sign on upon arrival in port so all members will be allowed one full day off, as per contract. $4.30 in ship's fund. No beefs. PLATTE (Platte Transport), March 28—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, James C. Baudoin; Sec­ retary, Felipe Quintayo; Deck Dele­ gate, James Macunchuck; Engine Delegate, L. Hertzog; Steward Dele­ gate, James F. Clarke. $65 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), April 5—Chairman and Ship's Dele­ gate, Alfred Hanstvedt; ^cretary, George W. Gibbons. No beefs and no disputed OT. Everything run­ ning smoothly. TRANSERIE (Hudson Water­ ways), March 15—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Hendrey Rucki; Secretary, W. B. Yarbrough; Deck Delegate, T. E. Anderson; Engine Delegate, S. W. Lewis; Steward Delegate, B. S. Kusbranson. $139.15 in ship's fimd. Some disputed OT in engine department. Motion made to have one-year articles replaced with six-month articles. AMERICAN PRIDE (American Sealanes), Feb. 22—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Frank Smith; Sec­ retary, Charles L. Fishel. Every­ thing running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to steward depart­ ment for a job well done. The stew­ ard thanked crew for cooperation in helping keep ship clean. YUKON (Ogden), March 22— Chairman, J. Mitchel; Secretary, O. Bartlett;'Deck Delegate, H. K. Nakea; Engine Delegate, H. W. Sprainis; Steward Delegate, Thomas Cummings. No beefs reported by department delegates. Motion made to raise hospital benefits. WINDJAMMER JANEEN (Windjammer), March 29—Chair­ man and Ship's Delegate, J. E. Tan­ ner; Secretary, W. G. Williams; Deck Delegate, W. J. Williams; En­ gine Delegate, Adron Cox; Stew­ ard Delegate, A. Rankin. No beefs and no disputed OT. Motion made to have retirement at 15 years seatime. SEATRAIN WASHINGTON (Hudson Waterways), March 8— Chairman and Ship's Delegate, R. Palmer; Secretary, A. Johansson; Deck Delegate, Thomas Snow; Steward Delegate, T. H. Katros. $7.45 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Water­ ways), March 31—Chairman, A. R. Larsen; Secretaiy. K. Lynch; Deck Delegate, Dennis J. O'Connell; En­ gine Delegate, Sebastino A. Pires; Steward Delegate, P. J. Boumer. $32 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Serv­ ice), April 5—Chairman, L. E. Wing; &cretary, Nathaniel Scott; Ship's Delegate and Steward Dele­ gate, Joseph Hall; Deck Delegate, William Hunter; Engine Delegate, Emmett Connell. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Everything else running smoothly. Reading News from Home Bosun Artie Harrington catches up on the mail from home after the Bienville tied up at the Sea-Land terminal in Port Eilzabeth, NJ. The vessel had just returned from her first Mediterranean voyage—a 37-day run to Portsmouth, Genoa and Cadiz. Page 20 SEATRAIN FLORIDA (Seatrain), March 22—Chairman, Rob­ ert J. Byrd; Secretary, Wilbur C. Sink; Deck Delegate, Robert H. Clifford. No beefs and no disputed OT. SEATRAIN MAINE (Hudson Waterways), April 5 — Chairman, Alonzo Bryant; Secretary, Sam W. McDonald; Ship's Delegate, George E. King; Deck Delegate, Robert Myers; Engine Delegate, J. Som- mer; Steward Delegate, James L. Woods. $14 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. SEATRAIN PUERTO RICO (Hudson Waterways), March 22— Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Rune G. Olssan; Secretary, David C. Archia; Steward Delegate, Greg­ ory R. Smith. No beefs reported by department delegates. CHOCTAW (Waterman). March 29—Chairman, Enos E. Allen; Sec­ retary, Frank L. Shackelford; Ship's Delegate, Nels Larson; Deck Dele­ gate, Francis J. Schumacher; En­ gine Delegate, James Gouldman; Steward Delegate, Luis A. Olivera. No beefs reported by department delegates. EAGLE TRAVELER (United Maritime), April 11 — Chairman, Joseph L. Bourgeois; Secretary, Al­ gernon W. Hutcherson. $5.90 in ship's fund. Everything running smoothly except for a few hours disputed OT in deck department. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tankers), March 18—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, A. H. Anderson; Secre­ tary, S. J. Davis; Deck Delegate, Robert Wade Smith; Steward Dele­ gate, Ray field E. Cranford. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. gine Delegate, William D. Walker. $362 in ship's fund. Everything run­ ning smoothly in each department. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. SAN JUAN (Sea-Land), Feb. 8—Chairman, James M. Foster; Secretary, G. P. Thlu; Ship's Dele­ gate, Rodger Swanson; Deck Dele­ gate, J. A. Rusheed; Steward Dele­ gate, Rudolph L. LaMorth. $50 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. COLUMBIA MARINER (Co­ lumbia), March 1—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Vertis C. Smith; Secretary, Woodrow W. Perkins. Some disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Motion made that engine utility, wiper and topside pantry­ man be compensated with OT for extra work performed. CHATHAM (Waterman), Feb. 1—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Sam Manning; Secretary, G. Trosclair; Deck Delegate, C. Hellon. Everything running smoothly. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), March 2—Chairman, H. Hodges; Secre­ tary, James H. Naylor; Ship's Dele­ gate, Raymond W. Hodges; Deck Delegate, Caiman Boggs; Engine Delegate, Raymond L. Stripe; Stew­ ard Delegate, D. E. Striesund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. WESTERN HUNTER (Western Agency), April 8—Chairman, A, Josephson; Secretary, Leon Kraw- - LONG LINES (Isthmian), Feb. czyk; Ship's Delegate, Paul G. 22—Chairman, Ralph Murry; Sec­ King; Engine Delegate, Edward La- retary, Dick Grant; Ship's Delegate, Plante. Some disputed OT in engine Steve Sloneski; Deck Delegate, T. department. Everything else run­ McNeills; Engine Delegate, C. ning smoothly. Good crew on Lord; Steward Delegate, J. Rob­ erts. Some disputed OT in deck board. department. Motion made that the COLUMBIA OWL (Columbia), union should raise the Maintenance April 9—Chairman, T. J. Hillbum; and Cure to $100 weekly. Vote of Secretary, Leo M. Morsette; Ship's thanks extended to steward depart­ Delegate, Jesse Canales; Deck Dele­ ment for job well done. gate, George A. Nuss; Engine Dele­ TRANSEASTERN (Hudson Wa­ gate, Thurston J. Lewis; Steward Delegate, W. H. Harris. Disputed terways), Feb. 28—Chairman and \ OT in deck and engine depart­ Ship's Delegate, Wm. H. Butts Jr.; ments. So far trip has been fair. Secretary, M. B. Ellidtt; Deck Dele­ One man missed ship in Honolulu. gate, H. O. Halfhill; Engine Dele­ gate, C. M. Crooks; Steward Dele­ WESTERN HUNTER (Western gate, C. Muscarella. OT disputed Agency), Feb. 9—Chairman, A. Jo­ in deck and engine departments to sephson; Secretary, Leon Krawczyk; be clarified. Most of the repairs Ship's Delegate, Paul G. King. taken care of. Some disputed OT In engine de­ COLUMBIA OWL (Columbia), partment, otherwise everything run­ ning smoothly. Motion made that March 1—Chairman, T. J. Hilbum; seamen on Persian Gulf run be al­ Secretary, L. M. Morsette; Ship's lowed to payoff after six months Delegate, S. J. Canales; Deck Dele­ with reliefs to be flown from states gate, George A. Nuss; Engine Dele­ gate, Thurston J. Lewis; Steward at company expense. Delegate, Walter H. Davis. Few FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tankers), hours disputed OT in deck and April 5—Chairman and Ship's Dele­ steward department, otherwise gate, A. H. Anderson; S^retary, things moving along fairly well. S. J. Davis; Deck Delegate, Rob­ HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), ert Wade Smith; Engine Delegate, R. B. Honeycutt; Steward Delegate, Feb. 12—Chairman, Ship's Delegate Rayfleld E. Cranford. No beefs re­ and Deck Delegate, Albert H. Schwartz; Secretary, J. B. Morton; ported by department delegates. Engine Delegate, William D. Coo­ CANTIGNY (Cities Service), per; Steward Delegate, I. Martin. April 4—Chairman and Ship's Dele­ No communications received from gate Charles Hurlburt; &cretary, headquarters last two voyages. Luther Roberts. $9.55 in ship's ROBERT E. LEE (Waterman), fund. No beefs reported by depart­ Feb. 1—Chairman, R. V. Dillon; ment delegates. Secretary, C. M. Gray; Deck Dele­ SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), gate, Lawrence D. Stone; Engine Feb. 23 — Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Michael Darawich; Stew­ Delegate, Albert N. Ringuette; Sec­ ard Delegate, George H. Bryant retary and Steward Delegate, Henry Jr. No beefs reported by depart­ A. Galicki; Deck Delegate, D. ment delegates. Pilch; Engine Delegate, Paul M. ROBERT E. LEE (Waterman), Hartman. $30 in movie fund. Vote Feb. 15—Chairman, R. V. Dillon; of thanks extended to chief mate, Secretary, C. M. Gray; Deck Dele­ Mr. Johnson, and 2nd engineer, gate, Lawrence D. Stone; Engine Mr. Pyle, for fast action in han­ Delegate, Michael Darawich; Stew­ dling an injured oiler who fell off ard Delegate, George H. Bryant boxes. Thanks to Capt. Gillard for Jr. No beefs reported by depart­ trying to get assistance as fast as ment delegates. possible from Midway Island which was closest port when accident oc­ STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), curred. Jan. 4—Chairman, Thomas Walker; Secretary, John R. Tilley; Ship's DEL SUD (Delta), Feb. 11— Delegate, Joel V. P. Bremer; Deck Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Le- Delegate, Arthur A. Seago; Engine Roy Rinker; Secretary, S. Roths­ Delegate, Arthur C. DePuy. No child. $102 in movie fund. Some beefs and no disputed OT. disputed OT in each department. ANTINOUS (Waterman), Feb. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ 28—Chairman and Deck Delegate, ment for job well done. Salvatore Striglio; Secretary, V. E, DEL SUD (Delta), March 1— Monte; Engine Delegate, James R. Chairman, N. Pizzuto; Secretary, S. Konda; Steward Delegate, Fred B. Rothschild; Ship's Delegate and Sheetz. $12.25 in ship's fund. Dis­ Steward Delegate, LeRoy Rinker; puted OT in deck and engine de^ (Continued on page 21) Deck Delegate, Joseph Collins; En­ Seafarers Log T �Margolius Report for Consumers What Happens When Unemployment Strikes? What's it like to be a "front-line fighter against inflation"—the man who is laid off because the Ad­ ministration is tightening the economy to "cool off" inflation? Let this wife tell you: "I'm not so worried that we were laid off as that my husband is not able to find temporary work. The job market is flooded with people. Many are older than my husband, who is 31, and have devoted half their life to a company that had to shut down. "It seems like the only thing 'cooled off is the WQ"king man who pays both the rich and poor man's taxes. I could stand price-fixing a lot better than a depression. When Nixon cut all these people out of jobs you can imagine what it did to the bank and loan companies. Banks no longer lend money on cars in this town. My husband and I have had excellent credit for the last eight years. But now people can't help us. "We've paid all these taxes and now all we can get is $45 a week unemployment. I feel this should be coupled with food stamps and medical care if one's children get sick. Time to Get Together "I don't know what it takes to get working people together, but you'd think they would be tired of be­ ing walked all over. Commercials on TV infer that the labor movement caused this recession when in reality prices were getting out of reason. We just wanted the right to be able to have a home, food and a car." It's true that the Nixon administration has tried to fight inflation by slowing economic activity, with the resultant layoffs. The Administration has not even, tried the "jawbone control" exerted by the previous Administration (public pressure on business to mini­ mize price increases). {Continued from page 20) partments. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job well done. COLUMBIA (U.S. Steel), Jan. 25 — Chairman, B. J. Waturski; Secretary, M. S. Sospina. Ship's delegate reported no beefs and ev.^rything running very smoothly. llV PENN CARRIER (Penn), Feb. 25—Chairman, R. Daville; Secre­ tary, J. G. Lakwyk; Ship's Dele­ gate, W. R. Thompson; Deck Dele­ gate, Paul Arthofer; Engine Dele­ gate, Gregory Orozco; Steward Delegate, Dan M. Harp. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. ROBERT E. LEE (Waterman), March 1—Chairman, R. V. Dillon; Secretary, C. M. Gray; Deck Dele­ gate, Lawrence D. Stone; Engine Delegate, M. Darawich; Steward Delegate, George H. Bryant Jr. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Steward suggests one more man in galley because galley is not automated and a bonus for Middle East war area service. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Jan. 18—Chairman, Thomas Walk­ er; Secretary, John R. Tilley; Ship's Delegate, Joel H. P. Bremer; Deck Delegate, A. A. Seago; Engine Dele­ gate, Arthur C. DePuy; Steward Delegate, Maurice F. Ellis. Couple of hours disputed OT in deck de­ partment otherwise everything run­ ning smoothly. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Feb. 1—Chairman and Ship's Dele­ gate, Joel H. P. Bremer; Secretary, John R. Tilley; Deck Delegate, Ar­ thur A. Seago; Engine Delegate, Ar­ thur C. DePuy; Steward Delegate, Maurice F. Ellis. No beefs report­ ed by department delegates. STEEL ENGINEER (Isthmian), March 1—Chairman, Jan Bayes Jr.; Secretary, Angel Seda; Ship's Dele­ gate, Sam Bayesley; Deck Delegate, Charles W. Ross; Engine Delegate, Haskell Moore; Steward Delegate, Martin Homers. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. $9.75 in ship's fund. No beefs. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Lund), March 7—Chairman, John Ghannasian; Secretary, W. T. Langford; Ship's Delegate and Steward Dele­ gate, R. Fitzpatrick; Deck Delegate, Jose G. Madrid; Engine Delegate, W. S. Daniel. Some disputed OT in engine department, otherwise ev­ erything running smoothly with no beefs. May 1970 In fact, at a February meeting of the Business Council (composed of presidents of large corpora­ tions), Mr. Nixon pledged that he would not jawbone businessmen into holding down prices. The layoffs have not succeeded in stopping infla­ tion. Living costs have jumped 6.3 percent in the last 12 months. Food prices are a main culprit—up about 8 percent. Meat, poultry and fish have leaped \\V2 percent in one year. Only Middlemen Benefit The food industry could use some "jawboning." If the Administration won't do it, consumers should. Most of the price increases have gone to middlemen. For every $1 extra for food this year over last, the farmer gets about 22 cents and the middlemen about 78 cents. There is no justflcation for many of the astronomi­ cal food price rises. At wholesale, bacon has gone up 6-7 cents a pound but it cost 10 to 15 cents a pound more in most stores. Broilers should cost less this year since wholesale prices are about 27 Vi cents, 2 cents a pound less than last year. But in many stores broilers, at their regular prices of 41-47 cents, are higher than last year. (When stores offer specials on broilers at 29 cents this is virtually the wholesale price, and the time to stock up.) Nor was there any reason for the tags of close to $1 a dozen on eggs last winter. The prices were pushed up by speculators. But the worst robbery is on beef. Wholesale prices were recendy about 1 Vi cents a pound more than last year, while retail prices on various cuts are 5 to 15 cents more. Stores have been rooking the public on some of the preferred cuts like round, and have raised prices less on chuck. But, even hamburger costs about 10 cents more than last year. MAY SALES: May is a month of White Sales (linens, towels, etc.). Sheets of polyester-cotton blends (about 50 percent of each fiber) are increasingly popular because of their greater durability and creaseresistance (no ironing). The polyester blends now cost little more than the all-cotton type. Look for tire sales just before Decoration Day. May also is the month this year's models of TV sets are cleared. Look for especially sharp price cuts as makers try to unload current heavy inventories. FOOD BUYING CALENDAR: Besides 29-cent broilers, the buy of the month is eggs. They have come down more than 35 cents from last winter's high prices, and now are about the same price as a year ago. Other relative food values include sales of beef chuck and loin of pork, and canned and smoked hams and butts. In general, meat prices, and espe­ cially pork, are high and going even higher. Digest of Ship's Meetings LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), Jan. 31—Chairman, John Ohannasian; Secretary, W. T. Langford; Ship's and Steward Delegate, Ralph Fitz­ patrick; Deck Delegate, Jose G. Madrid; Engine Delegate, W. S. Daniel. $20.95 in ship's fund. Ev­ erything running smoothly. WINDJAMMER FOLLY (Wind­ jammer), April 12—Chairman, Billy K. Nuckels; Secretary, Oliver F. Oakley; Deck Delegate, Charles Dandridge; Engine Delegate, J. J. Shearon; Steward Delegate, Jesse Gage. $6.30 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Serv­ ice), March 1—Chairman and Deck Delegate, William Hunter; Secre­ tary, L. E. Wing; Ship's Delegate and Steward Delegate, Joseph Hall; Engine Delegate, Emmett Connell. Some disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks extended to Patrolman Ed Morris. Vote of thanks to steward for obtaining movies. FANWOOD (Waterman), March 21—Chairman, Morton J. Kemgood; Secretary, Anthony J. Kuberski; Deck Delegate, William C. Flack; Engine Delegate, Johnny H. Nettles; Steward Delegate, Joseph N. Rioux. No beefs reported by department delegates. Everything running smoothly. $14 in ship's fund. YELLOWSTONE (Ogden Ma­ rine), Feb. 15—Chairman, None; Secretary, James R. Abrams; Ship's Delegate, Jack A. Olsen. Motion made to have vacation checks mailed to members at their home address upon request of those mem­ bers incon/enienced by having to report at union hall to pick up their checks. Disputed OT in en­ gine department. OVERSEAS NATALIE (Mari­ time Overseas), March 8—Chair­ man Norwood E. Geno; Secretary, H. W. Kennedy. $29 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to Brother John Chest­ nut for job well done on sanitary in deck department. MARYMAR (C a 1 m a r), March 8—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Angelo Antoniou; Secretary, T. A. Jackson; Deck Delegate, R. F. Mackert; Engine Delegate, Joseph E. Sadler; Steward Delegate, R. Ramos. Beef in engine department to be brought to attention of head­ quarters for clarification. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), March 1 — Chairman and Ship's Delegate, Leroy Temple; Secretary, J. P. Baliday; Deck Delegate, Jen­ nings J. Long; Engine Delegate, Arthur S. Turner; Steward Dele­ gate, Philip Swing. $86.25 in ship's fund. FAIRISLE (Pan Oceanic), March 10—Chairman and Ship's Delegate, A. Anderson; Secretary, S. Davis; Deck Delegate, R. W. Smith; En­ gine Delegate, R. B. Honeycutt; Steward Delegate, R. E. Cranford. No beefs and no disputed OT. VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pio­ neer), March 15—Chairman, John Yates; Secretary, Jim Bartlett; Deck Delegate, George Black; Engine Delegate, John Wade; Steward Del­ egate, C. N. Carlson. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. FORT HOSKINS (Cities Serv­ ice), April 15—Chairman, A. Man­ uel; Secretary, J. Galloway; Deck Delegate, G. A. Paschall; Engine Delegate, Jake Nash; Steward Dele­ gate, M. Green, No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to entire steward department for job well done. SEAFARER (Marine Carriers), April 5—Chairman, R. Schwarz; Secretary, C. Lopez, Jr.; Deck Dele­ gate, Ray Willis; Engine Delegate, Paul Crow; Steward Delegate, E. H. Jackson. All repairs will be taken care of during voyage. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. KYSKA (Waterman), March 17— N. D. Gillikin; Secretary, Antonio Alfonso; Deck Delegate, Jack A. Gomez; Steward Delegate, Eugene Hayden. Ship sailed short one man in steward department. No beefs reported by department delegates. SAN JUAN (Sea-Land), March 29—Chairman, James M. Foster; Secretaiy, R. Principe; Deck Dele­ gate, J. A. Rusheed; Engine Dele­ gate, G. Schartel; Steward Delegate, Adolph LaMorth. No beefs report­ ed by department delegates. TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Waterways), March 8—Chairman, P. L. Whitlow; Secretary, O. R. Frezza; Deck Delegate, Lee Snod- grass; Engine Delegate, George Quinones; Steward Delegate, Mar­ tin Iterrino. $29 in ship's fund. Clarification qn penalty cargo to be taken up < with boarding patrol­ man at payoff. FENNMAR (Calmar), April 20— Chairman, Leo Koza; Secretary, Claude Gamett, Jr.; Deck Delegate, Roger Sullivan; Engine Delegate, W. B. Addison; Steward Delegate, Oliver Lewis. Motion made that maintenance and cure be increased to $15 per day instead of $8 per day. Everything running smoothly with no beef. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), April 5—Chairman, L. Olbrantz; Secretary, H. P. DuCloux; Deck Delegate, James R. Thomp­ son; Engine Delegate, William A. Padgett; Steward Delegate, James A. Hassell. $12.35 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. STEEL KING (Isthmian), April 5—Chairman, J. McCollom, Secre­ tary, M. E. Reid; Deck Delegate. Amie Boekman; Engine Delegate, August F. Reich; Steward Dele­ gate, Cecil B. Thomas. Motion made that union contact the com­ pany regarding having air-condi­ tioner put in the mess rooms and an ice machine put aboard. Discus­ sion held regarding retirement plan. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. COLUMBIA (Ogden Marine). April 5—Chairman, Alfred Parek; S^retary, George Luke; Deck Dele­ gate, William F. Chapman; Engine Delegate, Jerrill L. Niel; Steward Delegate, N. F. Hatfield. No beefs reported. Everything running smoothly. LONGVIEW VICTORY (Victory Carriers), April 6—Chairman, F. Gaspar; Secretary, S. T. Arales; Deck Delegate, A. Delgado; En­ gine Delegate, Frederick V/. Niel; Steward Delegate, Mahland Cann. Some disputed OT in deck and steward departments. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. FEARY (Marine Traders), April 17—Chairman, M. E. Beeching; Secretary, Billy Russell; Deck Dele­ gate, F. M. Fadraza; Engine Dele­ gate, F. Pringi; Steward Delegate, Thomas T. Kevlyn. $5 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. PLATTE (Ogden Marine), Feb. 6—Chairman, James C. Boudoin; Secretary, Felipe Quintayo; Deck Delegate, Henry P, Lopez; Engine Delegate, Lewis Hertzog; Steward Delegate, William Matsoukas. $65 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. DEL SOL (Delta), April 5— Chairman, Claude Webb; Secretary, Charles L. Shirah; Deck Delegate, B. Spears; Engine Delegate, An­ thony J. Marano; Steward Delegate, Joseph Gagliano. Motion made for retirement after 20 years in union and 15 years seatime, regardless of age. Few hours disputed OT in the deck department. Vote of thanks extended to all departments for fine cooperation. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), April 12—Chairman, William Bushong; Secretary, John C. Reed. Some disputed Ol in engine de­ partment. Vote of thanks extended to steward department and to crew messman, Nick. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), April 6—Chairman, W. Bushong; Secretary, John Reed. Few hours disputed OT in engine department, otherwise everything running smoothly. MAYAGUEZ (Sea-Land), April 19—Chairman, Don Hicks; Secre­ tary, L. B. Moore; Deck Delegate, Harvey Barlow; Engine Delegate, Samuel E. Arden; Steward Dele­ gate, Daniel L. Thompson. No beefs reported by department delegates. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Hudson Waterways), April 19— Chairman, S. P. Morris; Secretary, Herbert E. Atkinson; Deck Dele­ gate, Howard L. Collins; Engine Delegate, Frank R. Cranger Jr.; Steward Delegate, Emanuel Lowe. One man missed ship in Baltimore. No beefs reported. Everything run­ ning smoothly. DAGAMA (Crest), March 21— Chairman, Karl Hellman; Secretary, George Reid. No beefs reported by department delegates. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. ERNA ELIZABETH (Albatross), March 16—Chairman, John Swiderski; Secretary, Ernest M. Bryant; Deck Delegate, G. Hernandez; En­ gine Delegate, C. W. White; Stew­ ard Delegate, James E. Webb. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Page 21 �Keep of In order to avoid any problems in collecting overtime, Seafarers are advised to follow these guides: 1—Each crewmember must keep his own overtime rec­ ord. 2—^All overtime must be turned in to the department head within 72 hours or when requested by the department head or department delegate. 3—In recording your overtime, be specific and be ac­ curate. • Record the date. • Record the time and hours worked. # Record the port. # Record in detail the nature of the work performed. (Don't just put down "Worked on deck." Spell it out— "Cleaning tanks" or "slushing topping lifts." Use more than one line on your overtime sheet if necessary. It is important that you be specific about the kind of work you were doing.) • Keep a duplicate copy of your overtime sheets for your own records. • Prior to payoff, each crewmember should go over his overtime sheets, and then list on a separate sheet, all disputed overtime. Again, be specific and accurate about the date, time, hours worked, and the nature of the work performed. I Seafarers Pension Roster Enrolls 20 More Veterans College Expense Means Longer Cruises for Pate Seafarer Luther Pate is what is known as a "homesteader." When Pate, who is 49, signs on a ship he'll probably stay aboard for a year or more. He has two good reasons for this—Jane and Margaret. When Pate finally got off the Azalea City (Sea-Land) last month, his discharges showed that he had spent more than IVi years aboard the ship. He had signed on as deck maintenance Aug. 5, 1967, in San Juan. While he was sailing on the Azalea City, the vessel was en­ gaged in coastwise, intercoastal, and Far East trade runs. "We were on the Vietnam run for 18 months," Pate recalled. "During that time we made 10 trips between the West Coast and Vietnam, with one side trip to Alaska." On Alcoa Ranger Before the Azalea City, he had spent 19 months as an ablebodied seaman on the Alcoa Ranger. "When 1 find a good ship, with good shipmates, I like to stay with her," Pate explained. "Besides, there are my two daughters, Jane and Margaret. They're both in college now, and that is a pretty expensive item these days." The girls will be getting out of school for vacation next month, and Pate plans to take them and his wife, Gail, down south to his home town of Citronelle, Ala., for a visit with his parents. The oceans of the world act as a huge storage battery for energy that radiates from the sun, ac­ cording to W. M. Chapman, ma­ rine biologist and fisheries au­ thority. Speaking at a seminar at the University of Washington's Col­ lege of Fisheries, Chapman said: "It has now become evident that the great bulk of energy driving the atmosphere is not de­ rived directly from the sun but is received in the ocean, reser- Page 22 Marino Gordils, 52, a native of Puerto Rico, now makes his home in New York City with his wife, Alicia. He joined the SIU in 1939 in Puerto Rico and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. In 1962 he served picket duty. Joseph DI Grazia, 66, joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck de­ partment. A native of Argentina, Brother Di Grazia now lives in New York City. Marino Gordils Joseph Di Grazia Ramon Benitez, 55, is a native of Puerto Rico and now makes his home there with his wife, Eva. He joined the SIU in 1943 in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department. His last ship was the New York­ er. Brother Benitez is an Army veteran of World War II. Luther Pate ... a "homesteader" "They're getting up in years now," Pate said. "My dad is 73 and my mother is 69, and they are anxious to have their grand­ daughters come down and spend some time with them." 22 Yeats in SIU Pate, who now makes his home in Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been an active member of the SIU for more than 22 years. He has often taken on the responsibility of ship's delegate or deck delegate and served on picket lines in San Juan, while he was a member of the crew of the Monarch of the Seas. Pate says he likes to sail on ships with graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship. "As a rule, most the HLSS men make good crewmembers. They're willing to work, and most of all, they seem eager to learn," he said. Oceans Provide World With Huge Energy Storage Battery Seattle Twenty Seafarers got their first pension checks last month from the SIU as the ever-growing pension roll continues to in­ crease. voired there and circulated around ... by the great ocean currents, to be radiated back into the atmosphere . . . and drive it." This complex interrelated sys­ tem of ocean and atmosphere is one that scientists must leam more about before they can ad­ minister the world's fish resources intelligently, he said. He predicted that science will clear up many of t'ne mysteries of the oceans and variability of the world's fish stocks through such modern tools as satellites. Edward Paul Avrard, 65, joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans and sailed in the engine department as an oiler. A native of New Orleans, Broth­ er Avrard is spending his re­ tirement there. He was given a personal safety award for his part in making the Del Sol an accident-free ship during the last half of 1960. and now lives in Maryland. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the en­ gine department. He has served as engine department delegate. Brother Noble retired after a sailing career of 39 years. Carl Ivan Copper, 55, joined the SIU in the Port of Houston and sailed in the steward de­ partment. A native of Indiana, Brother Copper now makes his home in Zephyrhills, Fla., with his wife, Ila Mae. He is an Air Force Veteran of World War II. Edward Avrard Frank C. Lijo, 65, a native of Spain, now lives in Brooklyn. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department. When Sea­ farer Lijo retired, he ended a sailing career of 47 years. In both 1961 and 1962 he was is­ sued picket duty cards. Frank Hills, 52, is a native of Mobile, Ala., and now lives in San Francisco. He joined the Union in the Port of Mobile in 1939 and sailed in the steward department. In 1961 he was is­ sued a picket duty card. Lester C. Long, 63, joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the deck department. A native of St. Martinsberg, W.Va., he now makes his home there. He is an Air Force veteran of World War II. Brother Long often served as a ship's delegate. Robert B. Hunt, 58, a native of Oklahoma, now lives in Cypress, Calif. He joined the union in the Port of Galveston and sailed in the steward de­ partment as chief steward. He has served as ship's delegate. Brother Hunt received a personal safety award for his part in mak­ ing the Young America an acci­ dent-free ship during the first half of 1960. Antonio Santiago, 60, joined the SIU in 1938 in the Port of New York and sailed in the stew­ ard department. A native of Puerto Rico, he is now spending his retirement in New Orleans. Arnold Anthony Wichert, 71, joined the union in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the steward department. A native of Philadelphia, he is now making his home there. Brother Wichert is a Navy veteran of World War 11. Robert Hunt Arnold Wit^hert Albert Oarence Noble, 65, is a native of New Rome, Wis., Felix Cordero James Donaldson Raymond A. Thomson, 52, joined the union in the Port of Duluth and sailed in the engine department. He makes his home in Superior, Wis. Brother Thom­ son is an Army veteran of World War 11. Frank Hills Ramon Benitez SIU in the Port of Detroit and sailed in the engine department. When he retired Brother Donald­ son had been sailing 40 years. Antonio Santiago Honorato Castelino, 74, is a native of Portugal. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. I Raymond Thomson Honorato Castelino George Alexander, 73, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine depart­ ment as a cook and baker. He last sailed aboard the Jackson­ ville. A native of the British West^ Indies, Seafarer Alexander now lives in Brooklyn. He was issued picket duty cards in January and July of 1961. Earl E. Gonyea, 65, a native of New York, now makes his home in Clinton, Mass. He joined the union in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the engine depart­ ment as a fireman, oiler and watertender. Brother Gonyea served • in the Marines from 1926 to 1930. George Alexander Karl Johannes Dreuw, 63, joined the union in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the deck department. A native of Germany, Brother Dreuw now lives in Philadelphia. James Thomas McDevitt, 60, a native of Portland, Ore., now makes his home in Houston, Tex. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department. Felix Carrillo Cordero, 61, is a native of Puerto Rico and now makes his home there. He joined the union in the Port of Balti­ more in 1941 and sailed in the engine department. When Broth­ er Cordero retired he ended a sailing career of 36 years. James A. Donaldson, 65, a native of Canada, now lives in Kenmore, N.Y. He joined the Karl Dreuw James McDevitt Seafarers Log �Vicious Spiral -i- A change in the way Ameri­ cans elect their President and Vice President is likely by 1976—^the 200th anniversary of the republic. Congress is considering not one but five different proposals to change the present Electoral College system. Since the presidential election of 1888, when Benjamin Harri­ son received a majority of the Electoral College vote although he had fewer popular votes than Grover Cleveland, there have been unsuccessful attempts to re­ form the presidential election sys­ tem. The designers of the Constitu­ tion stipulated that the President and Vice President be elected, not by the people, but by electors chosen within each state. They specified that each state should have the same number of elec­ tors as its total of Senators and Representatives in Congress. Lfp to now, periodic attempts to change this system have failed. The five proposals now being considered are; Direct Election Plan; District Plan; Proportional Method Plan; Federal System Plan, and the Ervin Proposal. / The Direct Election Plan proposes a constitutional amend­ ment to abolish the Electoral Copyright 1970—TH[ MACHINIST College and elect the President and Vice President by popular vote. Observers say it has the greatest number of supporters. Backers claim it is the only plan to guarantee the election of a President preferred by most voters. Proponents also state that direct election would lessen vote fraud, take away any dispropor­ tionate advantage small states have over big states in the Elec­ later enlarged upon by HEW Secretary Robert H. toral College and strengthen the Finch and HEW Assistant Secretary Lewis H. two-party system. / The District Plan would Butler. Finch said the plan would give those eligible "a preserve the electors but would choice between obtaining services from a health provide that they be elected from maintenance organization or arranging for them congressional districts, the same in the usual way from individual doctors and hos­ as Congressmen. Each elector would vote for the presidential pitals." team that received a popular vote Preventive Medicine plurality in his district. The two He pointed out that preventive medicine would electors representative of the bring quicker treatment for illnesses, thereby re­ state's two Senators would vote ducing the cost of hospitalization—the present pro­ for the candidate with a state­ gram's most rapidly rising expense. Butler claimed savings from the anticipated re­ wide plurality. If no candidate received a ma­ duction in hospitalization costs would pay all of jority of the total electoral votes the costs of the expanded coverage. He said a re­ from all the states. Congress— duction of "one-half day per year of hospital care for each person," would enable the plan to pay for Senators and Representatives sit­ ting jointly but voting individual­ itself. ly—would choose the President Financing of the proposal would be under So­ from among the three candidates cial Security payroll taxes. Under the new bill, the having the highest electoral vote combined employer-employee hospital insurance total. rate would be raised from 1.2 percent of payroll / The Proportional Method to 1.8 percent of payroll in 1971. would abolish the office of elec­ Cost Lower However, this increase in hospitalization taxes would be offset by a reduction in old-age survivors and disability insurance from 9.2 percent to 8.4 percent in 1971, resulting in an overall reduction in Social Security taxes from 10.4 percent to 10.2 percent in 1971. The total Social Security payroll tax is com­ puted on a wage base of $7,800. Employers and employees each pay 50 percent of the tax. Since Medicare and Medicaid went into effect, medical costs have risen meteorically in compari­ son with other goods and services. The consumer price index, based on costs of goods and services in 1958, revealed that hospital daily charges showed a 64.2 percent rise between 1958 and June 1966 and a further 107 percent rise from 1966 until January 1970. Physicians fees jumped 28 percent from 1958 to 1966 and an additional 33 percent from 1966 to January. Testifying before the Senate Finance Conunittee in 1969, Social Security Commissioner Robert M. Ball blamed the rapid rise , in hospitalization costs to salary increases which comprise two-thirds of hospital costs. Abuses by Doctors to Be Curbed Labor Pushes Improvements In Medicare, Medicaid Plans ,^ ^ashingtoo t• Medicare and Medicaid—fought for by orga® nized labor from 1948, when it was first proposed, until its eventual passage in 1965—would be ex­ panded under a Nixon Administration proposal— again, at the urging of working men and women. AFL-CIO President George Meany called the plan "a move toward implementing the recom­ mendations on Medicare and Medicaid made by the AFL-CIO." Half of the costs of the program are taken di­ rectly from workers salaries in the form of Social Security deductions. Workers and pensioners now ask for improvements to the present plan. The program, now before the House Ways and Means Committee, would allow those eligible to join prepaid health insurance plans stressing pre­ ventive medicine. Seafarers and their families are covered under a similar plan, the SIU Health Plan, which pro­ vides comprehensive health care, including physical examinations and other services not included in the present federal program. Present Benefits Limited Present benefits of Medicare and Medicaid are limited fb payments for hospitalization and physi­ cians' services. . Medicare offers a basic hospital insurance plan to Americans over 65 years of age (Part A), and a supplementary medical insurance plan (Part B) to provide benefits for surgical and medical fees. Medicaid extended the benefits to include all persons on medical assistance plus other "medi­ cally needy" as defined by each state. The latter program is administered by the states in coopera­ tion with the federal government. . The new prc^osal would also seek to stem abuses by physicians. Although the doctors led a bitter and often vicious fight against federallyfinanced medical care, many doctors have made fortunes by abusing the prdgram since 1965. Doctor Abases Cited These abuses, cited by the Senate Finance Com­ mittee in 1969, have cheated the poor and elderly people the program was designed to protect. They have also caused the cost of providing medical care to spiral year by year. The new proposal was submitted to the com­ mittee by Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John G. Veneman. His testimony was May 1970 200th Birthday Gift: New Electoral System? tor but retain electoral votes. Each candidate would receive a proportionate share of each state's electoral vote based on his share of the popular vote. / The Federal System Plan would elect the candidate who re­ ceived a plurality of the national vote and won either: 1—plurali­ ties in more than 50 percent of the states, including the District of Columbia, or 2—pluralities in states with 50 percent of voters in the election. If no candidate won either, the election would go to the Elec­ toral College where each candi­ date would receive the votes of the states he had won, based on the number of Senators and Con­ gressmen in each state. If this was unsuccessful in se­ lecting a president, the electoral votes of third party candidates would be divided athong the two leading candidates in proportion to their share of the popular vote. / The Ervin Proposal, spon­ sored by Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D.-N.C.), would abolish the office of elector but would con­ tinue to award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis in each state. The Congress — Senators and Representatives getting one vote apiece—^would choose a Presi­ dent and Vice President in the event that no candidate won a majority of the electoral vote. If any of these proposals are passed by this session of Con­ gress, it is unlikely that they would take effect until 1976. Constitutional amendments must be ratified by three-fourths (38) of the state legislatures, and it is doubtful these votes could take place in time to change the elec­ tion of a President in 1972. Consumer Bills Need Nixon Push Washington Establishment of an inde­ pendent consumer agency and needed insurance protection could win congressional approval this year "if the President were of a mind to push," according to Evelyn Dubrow, legislative rep­ resentative of the Ladies Gar­ ment Workers. Miss Dubrow, appearing on the network radio interview pro­ gram Labor News Conference, stressed the need to protect in­ surance policy-holders when in­ surance companies go broke, and called for the creation of a Fed­ eral Insurance Guarantee Corp. ANVTIME-AMYWHCJIE MEANS NO MORE SHIPS Page 23 �The Last of Her Breed A total of 99 years of service on the Landsdowne is presented in this photo taken in the wheelhouse. Buck Stewart (center), mate, is the senior man with 41 years; left is Watchman Bob Read, 27 years, and Captain Clarence Pare, 31 years. 'T^HE S.S. LANDSDOWNE is the last of her breed—a sidewheeler. The SlU-contracted carfeny is the last sidewheeler in North Amer­ ica, with the exception of a summer Hudson River excursion boat. Built in 1884, the Lands­ downe is still getting the job done. Owned by the Canadian National Railway, the ship makes the three-quarter mile Detroit River crossing between the Motor City and Windsor in 11 minutes—day and night, year around. She carries some 600 tons of railroad cars at better than 10 mph. Built in Scotland with a clinkertype hull of overlapping steel plates, she was dismantled, shipped to Wyandotte, Mich., and reassembled. Her 840-horsepower steam en­ gine was built in 1873 in Montreal for a wooden-hulled vessel, but the plant was too powerful and would have shaken that ship to pieces. So it now turns the 36-foot paddles of the Landsdowne at 18 to 20 rpm. The crew is a veteran one—Captain Clarence Pare started as a deckhand 31 years ago; Buck Stewart, now mate, has 41 years in; Fireman David Payne and Watchman Bob Read have 27 years; Lloyd Mulder, oiler, 21 years. Re­ cently fitted out with radar, there is a very good chance the Landsdowne will make it to the 100-year mark. Deckhands John Troy and Frank Busuftil clamp the carferry to the railroad dock on the Windsor side after one of the 16 daily river crossings. �Emiliano A. Ducusin Emiliano A. Ducusin, 66, died March 18 of natural causes in the USPHS Hos­ pital, New Or­ leans. He joined the SIU at the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. Mr. Ducu­ sin, a native of the Philippine Islands, was a veteran of 39 years at sea. Burial was in St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, near his home in Chalmette, La. Allen J. Collins Jr. Allen J. Collins, Jr., 32, passed away Feb. 2 in New Hanover Memorial Hospi­ tal in Wilming­ ton, N.C. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in the early 1960s and sailed in the deck de­ partment, A na­ tive of Mississippi, Mr. Collins was a resident of New Orleans. His body was taken from Wil­ mington to St. Bernard's Memo­ rial Gardens in New Orleans. Gordon Bell Gordon Bell, 62, an SIU pen­ sioner, died Nov. 24, 1969, in Carteret General Hospital, Morehead City, N.C., from natural causes. A native of North Caro­ lina, Seafarer Bell was a resi­ dent of Morehead City. He joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the engine department as a fire­ man-oiler and deck engineer. Mr. Bell received a safety award rec­ ognizing his part in making the Andrew Jackson an accident-free ship during the first part of 1960. He also was issued picket duty cards in 1961 and 1962. During World War II, Mr. Bell served in the Army. Among his surviv­ ors are a niece, Mrs. Doris Gelardi. Burial was in Bay View Cem­ etery in Morehead City. Jose E. Rodriguez Jose E. Rodriguez, 44, died Nov. 27, 1969, in San Jose, Calif., of natural causes. A native of Manati, PvR., Mr. Rodriguez was a resident of San Jose. He joined the SIU in the Port of San Francisco in 1961 and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. Burial was in Calvary Catholic Cemetery, 4/ !"*• <1> A1 D. Borel A1 D. Borel, 24, passed away on June 28, 1969, in Jasper Me­ morial Hospital, Jasper, Tex., from natural causes. He joined the un­ ion in Port Ar­ thur, Tex., in 1965 and sailed in the deck de­ partment. A na­ tive of Port Arthur, Mr. Borel was a resident of Groves, Tex. He served in the Army from 1963 to 1965. Among his sur­ vivors are his wife, Jacqueline Ann. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery, Port Arthur. Floyd Clifford Vincent Floyd Clifford Vincent, 57, passed away Feb. 24 of natural causes at Ingalls Memorial H o spital in Harvey, m. An SIU memj ber since 1961, he sailed as an oiler. Mr. Vin­ cent was living with his wife, Shirley, in Calumet City, 111. Burial was in Oak Glen Cem­ etery, Lansing, 111. Roland E. Parady Roland E. Parady, 58, died of natural causes on March 17 in Ancon, Panama Canal Zone. Mr. Parady joined the SIU in 1946 in the Port of New York. He sailed in the deck de­ partment as a bosun. His home was in his native state of Massa­ chusetts. Manuel T. Flores Manuel T. Flores, 65, an SIU pensioner, died March 23 of na­ tural causes in the University of Maryland H o spital, Baltimore. Mr. Flores, a native of the Philippine Is­ lands, is survived by his wife, Ruth, in Baltimore. He joined the SIU in 1942 and sailed in the steward department. Burial was in New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore. .1.— WilUe Edwards Willie Edwards, 62, an SIU member since 1944, died of natural causes March 18 in the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. Mr. Edwards, an Army veteran of World War II, re­ ceived a personal safety award for his part in making the Del Oro an accident-free ship in 1960. He is survived by his wife, Rosie. Burial was in Providence Memorial Park, Kenner, Ky. John Lee Drake John L. Drake, 38, passed away Dec. 5, 1969, of natural causes in the Huggins Memo­ rial Hospital in DeF u n i a k Springs, Fla. He joined the union in New Orleans in 1969 and sailed as a pilot. A na­ tive of Walton County, Fla., Mr. Drake was a resident of DeFuniak Springs. He served in the Army from 1948 to 1957. Among his survivors are his wife, Hilda. Burial was in Ray Cemetery, Walton County, Fla. <I> William L. Woolon Jr. William L. Wootton Jr., 62, passed away from natural causes Dec. 14, 1969, in USPHS Hos­ pital in Seattle. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of New York in 1952 and sailed in the engine department. A na­ tive of New Bedford, Mass., Mr. Wootton was a resident of Seat­ tle. He had been sailing 47 years. Memorial services were held in Seattle Crematory. —— Fif'Ouf on fhe 'Adam E' Assistant conveyorman William Crawl (left) and conveyorman Clint Kramer, both veteran Great Lakes Seafarers, use an acetylene torch to degrease the conveyor bucket assembly housing on the Adam E. Cornelius as the self-unloader prepares for another shipping season. May 1970 Frank Joseph Kendrick Frank J. Kendrick, 65, died of natural causes March 10 in USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. A native of Mary­ land, Mr. Ken­ drick was a resi­ dent of New Or­ leans. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Or­ leans in 1939 and sailed in the deck department. Mr. Kendrick had been sailing for 42 years. Among his survivors are his wife, Patricia. Burial was in Memorial Gardens, Chalmette, La. Calvin Matthew Sheridan Calvin Matthew Sheridan, 27, a 1967 graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School o f Seamanship, passed away in the Atlantic City, N. J., Hospital. He joined the SIU in 1967 and worked in the engine depart­ ment. A Navy veteran, Mr. Sheridan is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, at their home in Jersey City, N.J. Joseph C. Veno Joseph C. Veno, 62, passed away on Dec. 11, 1969, in P r e s q u e Isle Township, Mich, f ^ He sailed in the engine depart­ ment since join­ ing the SIU in the Port of De^ troit in 1953. Mr. Veno was living in Washburn, Wis. He is survived by a brother, Lloyd J. Vienneau. Burial was in Washburn Ceme­ tery, Washburn, Wis. <I> Charles Henry Foster Charles Henry Foster, 61, died Feb. 12 of natural causes in his home city, Milton, Fla. He sailed in the steward depart­ ment since join­ ing the SIU in 1943 at the Port of Savannah. An Army veteran, Mr. Foster is survived by his sisters, Ruth E. Emmons and Louise Pendleton. Burial was in Crain Cemetery, Santa Rosa County, Fla. <1> Woodrow Wilson Balch Woodrow W. Balch, 52, passed away Jan. 10 of natural causes in San Francisco. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of Baltimore in 1947 and sailed in the engine department as a fireman-oiler. A native of Okla­ homa, Mr. Balch was a resident of Prumright, Okla. Among his survivors are his brother, Burt Calvin. Burial was in Carney Cemetery, Carney, Okla. •f# Jf Geoi^e Baldo George Baldo, 44, died Nov. 19, 1969, in Montgomery Coun­ ty Hospital, Mont gomery, Tex., as the re­ sult of injuries suffered in an auto accident. A native of Crown Point, 111., Mr. Baldo was a resi­ dent of Montgomery. He joined the SIU in the Port of Houston in 1956 and sailed in the engine department as a fireman-oiler. He last worked on the Overseas Progress. Mr. Baldo served in the Army from 1950 to 1951. Among his survivors are his wife, Doris. Burial was in Garden Park Cem­ etery, Conroe, Tex. John Peter Filer John P. Fifer, 57, died Jan. 21 in USPHS Hospital, San Francisco, from natural causes. A native of Massa­ chusetts, Mr. Fi­ fer was a resident of Wilmington, Calif. He joined the union in the Port of Boston and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. Mr. Fifer served in the Army from 1930 to 1932. Among his survivors are his wife, Celia. Memorial services were held in Angeles Abbey Crematory. <1> Bernard C. Simpson Bernard C. Simpson, 64, an SIU pensioner, died Feb. 22 of natural causes in the USPHS Hos­ pital in Boston. A native of Can­ ada, Mr. Simp­ son was living in Boston when he passed away. He joined the SIU at the Port of Boston in 1942 and sailed in the engine department as a fireman-oiler-watertender. Memorial services were held in Forest Hills Crematory, Boston. SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD MARCH 1, 1970-MARCH 31, 1970 SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN NUMBER OF BENEFITS Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $484,43) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid .... Seafarers' Pension Plan— Benefits Paid Seafares' Vacation T*lan— Benefits Paid (Average $479.14).. Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period 9 2,115 27 643 51 541 2,296 449 391 5,260 11,782 AMOUNT PAID $ 4,163.25 51,011.88 72,000.00 2,575.00 5,100.00 16,291.00 111,224.43 7,058.98 3,911.80 38,944.00 312,330.34 1,568 363,513.00 1,455 697,149.60 14,805 1,372,992.94 Page 25 �Rep. Howard W. Pollock and widow of late Sen. E. L. Barllett. HLSS Trainee Wipper Scot , who comes from Asbury Park, N.J., had an opportunity to meet and talk with his Congressman, James Howard (D-N.J.), while he attended a meeting of the Maritime Trades Department in Washin^on. Representative James M. Hanley meets Piney Point trainees. Piney Point Trainees » Meet Congressmen RAINEES from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point are given an opportunity to learn about the problems and the developing programs in the maritime industry as groups of them are invited to Washington to attend the weekly meetings of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. Congressmen and government officials concerned with legislation affecting the industry address the meetings and discuss a wide range of topics concerning maritime. Attending these luncheons are leaders of maritime unions and shipping industry representatives. Following the talks, the trainees have ^n opportunity to meet and talk with the speakers and members of the MTD. After they return to the school, the group leads a discussion on the subjects covered at the meeting with the other trainees in their class. T Future Seafarers meet Congressman James J. Howard. Walter Browne, selected as outstanding trainee graduate of Class 44 at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship at Piney Point, receives congrat­ ulations and a wristwatch from In­ structor Paul McGaham. Selections are made by the school staff on the basis of overall perfmmance during the training period. 44th Lifeboat Class Graduates Graduates of Lifeboat Class 44 at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship at Piney Point pose for their class photo after they had all passed the Coast Guard written and practical examinations. Kneeling, from left, are Joseph Sawyers and Charles Market. Standing are SIU Instructor Paul Mc­ Gaham, John Freeman, Joseph Keville, John Tassinaro, Robert Knight, Frank Gihilaro, Gerry Preston, Joseph Rohichaud, Michael Gibbons, James Darley, Robert McPeak, Michael Hosey, Frank Gallagher, Garrett Tallent, Harold Ward, Luis Martinez, Steriing Youngcourt, Robert Whitney, Michael Kiihy, Timothy Donnelly, Donald Jeffers, Gary Nicely, Joseph Dawson, Mark Hamovitz, and Walter Browne. Page 26 Seafarers Log �Life or Death Question Politics Blocks Clean Air Washington The grim alternative to reduc­ tion of air pollution could be the end of life on this planet, but the "main roadblocks to an effective abatement program are political," not technological. This was the serious message presented to the Senate Public Works Committee by AFL-CIO research economist George H.R. Taylor. Taylor testified on behalf of legislative proposals introduced by Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D-Me.), but his testimony went further. Calling present pollution con­ trol programs "incapable of meet­ ing the problem," the economist ft urged expansion of federal pol­ lution control activity to reduce contamination in the air by at least 50 percent in the next five years. Increasing Funding Labor prefers the Muskie pro­ posal because it would authorize a steadily rising level of federal appropriations. The Administra­ tion policy would not commit the government to any firm expend­ itures, leaving it to Congress to vote "such sums as are nec­ essary." The Muskie bill would raise the present level of federal anti­ pollution spending from $179 million in fiscal 1972. It would Canada, Umfed Sfafes Share Unemploymenf, Inflation Problems Ottawa .T> Canada and her neighbor to the south, the United States, share many common problems— including inflation and unemploy­ ment. The president of the Canadian Labour Council has charged that his government's anti-inflation policies are increasing the un­ employment rate without curbing inflation. Latest figures show that 565,000 Canadians—6.5 percent of the nation's work force—are un­ employed, the highest unemploy­ M ment in six years, according to CLC President Donald MacDonald. In a meeting with Prime Min­ ister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his cabinet here, MacDonald criticized the Liberal Party Gov­ ernment's tight money controls and attempts at securing volun­ tary wage restraint as "the wrong policies in the wrong place at the wrong time." The labor leader urged the Trudeau government to adopt policies to free and stimulate the economy as a way out of the present dilemma. also broaden the scope of federal authority and provide stiffer max­ imum penalties for polluters. Present technology can re­ duce "nearly all sources of manmade pollution from 50 to nearly 100 percent," Taylor maintained. He advised new legislation to en­ able the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to set air quality standards "applying to all areas of the country," with federal enforcement of violations in areas where local enforcement is lax. Clean Up Exhaost Labor asked for extension of the Clean Air Act of 1967 for five years under a $300 million research and development proj­ ect to devise ways to clean pol­ lutants from the air such as auto­ mobile exhaust fumes—a substan­ tial contributor to the problem. The 1967 Clean Air legislation was weakened because it was "the victim of political compro­ mise under the massive pressures of big industry and of the various states." Programs were "further weak­ ened by being subjected to the budgetary axe under both admin­ istrations." Labor also endorses an Ad­ ministration proposal to allow government inspectors to make spot checks of automobile as­ sembly lines to determine whether federal anti-pollution standards are being met. Coffee and Sea Stories These Seafarers got together for coffee and swapping sea stcnles as they waited for the general membership meeting to begin in SIU headquarters in New York. From left are B. Hanbach, bosun; M. J. Anzalone, messman, and Paul Faketty, able seaman. Transit Stamp Coined 'Posh' The word "posh," a synonym for elegant service, was created as a sailing term. It was coined more than 100 years ago on board passenger steamers that sailed to India. In those days, before the open­ ing of the Suez Canal, passengers from Europe to India would take a ship to a Mediterranean port and travel overland to other ships waiting in the Red Sea to com­ plete the sweltering passage to their destinations. Dignitaries were assigned cab­ ins on the shady side of the ves­ sels to lessen their discomfort from the rays of the sun. The shady side was the port side on the trip out to India and the starboard side on the homeward journey. Accordingly, their tick­ ets were stamped P.O.S.H.—port out, starboard home. At left, department dele­ gates check in with hoard­ ing patrolmen at every pay­ off to settle beefs and dis­ puted overtime. Here, George Silva Oeft), engine delegate^ talks wiffi SIU Representative Leon Hall. ,V' Below, SIU Representative E. B. McAuley (right) explains changes in the constitution during a meet­ ing held on board the Mankato Victory. All crewmemhers at­ tended the session. 'i • Mankato Victory Home from Asia fXlHE MANKATO VICTORY is snuggly tied up at the Mili1 tary Sea Transportation Service terminal in Bayonne, N.J., after a run to Vietnam and other Far East ports. The Victory Carriers' vessel touched at ports on the West Coast before making her passage through the Panama Canal and up the East Coast. The ship's committee reported a smooth voyage. A few minor beefs were settled at the payoff. n V ?'"• ' .J' Chief Elecfridan James Cady reads the Seafarers Log to catch up on the news after the long run to the Far East. i ?:> Bill Chimdier is chief cook abowd the Mankato Victory. His long experience in the gal­ leys of SIU ships helped make it a pleasant voyage. May 1970 W. C. Pruit has been sailing as an able bodied seaman for many years and he appredates a ''good feedw." Here he enjoys dinner served up by the galley crew. Page 27 �6 T m SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Al Tanner Lindsay Williams Robert Matthews »*• 1 T A w T 4 s /J s a I <4 lO 11 IS /* 17 it a# AS A7 A3 31 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans,.June 16—2:30 p.m. Mobile June 17—2:30 p.m. Wilmington ..June 22—2:00 p.m. San Fran June 24—2:00 p.m. Seattle June 26—2:00 p.m. New York ....June 8—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia ..June 9—2:30 p.m. Baltimore June 10—2:30 p.m. Detroit June 8—2:30 p.m. Houston June 15—2:30 p.m. SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS . ..675 4th Ave.. Bklyn. (212) HY 9-6600 ALPENA, Mich 800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, Md. ..1216 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass 663 Atlantic Ave. (617) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 WashinRton St. SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, Hi 9383 Ewing Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, 0 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 2014 W. 3d St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 415 Main St, (616) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2608 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N,J, ..99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jackson Ave. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3d St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex, ..1348 Seventh St, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 1531 Mission St. (415) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R, ..1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash ST, LOUIS, Mo 2505 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 4577 Gravois Ave. (314) 752-6500 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 TOLEDO, 0 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 WILMINGTON, Calif. ..450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan Iseya Bldg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dorl-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 United Industrial Workers New Orleans..June 16—7:00 p.m. Mobile June 17—7:00 p.m. New York ....June 8—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia ..June 9—7:00 p.m. Baltimore June 10—7:00 p.m. JHouston June 15—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit June 1—2:00 p.m. Buffalo June 1—7:00 p.m. Alpena June 1—7:00 p.m. Chicago June 1—7:30 p.m. Duluth June 1—7:00 p.m. Frankfort June 1—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ..June 16—7:30 p.m. tSault Schedule of Membership Meetings Ste. Marie..June 16—7:30 p.m. Buffalo June 17—7:30 p.m. Duluth June 19—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ....June 19—7:30 p.m. Toledo June 19—7:30 p.m. Detroit June 15—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee ....June 15—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans..June 16—5:00 p.m. Mobile June 17—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia ..June 9—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) ....June 10—5:00 p.m. Norfolk June 11—5:00 p.m. Houston June 15—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia June 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore June 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk June 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City June 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. % Meeting held at Galveston wharves. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, Newport News. Bronze Plaque Tells Excifing Sfory After 110 years, a long-buried bronze plaque carrying a short but poignant account of a life and death struggle at sea has been unearthed on an isolated beach near Swampscott, Mass. While cutting away under­ brush on land once owned by Captain William A. Phillips, a 19th Century sea captain, a worker uncovered the anchor of a full-rigged schooner and the plaque, which read: "In a dark, stormy night in February, 1860, two schooners were vainly trying to reach their mooring in Swampscott Bay. To aid them, a fire was built with two barrels of tar, and with this for a guide, they safely reached anchorage." Crewmembers aboard the Bethtex proudly display the "Green Cross for Safety" flag awarded the ship for achieving the best safety per­ formance in the Bethlehem Steel Marine Division fleet. The vessel's skipper, Captain C. V. Colajezzi (in white helmet), holds the framed citation presented to the crew. Page 2a h The names of the schooners were not mentioned and there is no mention of who placed the memorial plaque on the beach. Historians in the area say that by 1855 Swampscott Bay had become known to mariners as a dangerous passage, and the U.S. government was petitioned to construct a lighthouse there. George B. Taylor, the first lighthouse keeper, was naanning the flashing red light on that stormy night more than a cen­ tury ago. Historians say he later told the story that the storm was so unusually severe that he had to go down to the beach to place burning barrels of tar in a pat­ tern to warn off the schooners. usiness opposes Reform in Welfare Washington A welfare reform bill—de­ signed to help needy families headed by low-wage workers as well as welfare families without a wage earner—has been passed by the House of Representatives and is headed for possible im­ provements in the Senate. Organized labor is urging the Senate to expand the proposal to extend and broaden coverage to more needy Americans. The reform bill passed, 243155, in the House, under a rule allowing no amendments: The floor leader was Representative Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.), chair­ man of the House Ways and Means Committee. Because of the closed rule, no amendments could be made in the House, so if the reform bill is to be improved it will have to be done in the Senate. Chamber Opposition The welfare proposal, backed by the Nixon Administration and liberal Democrats, was strongly opposed by a coalition of con­ servatives and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber called the reform "a first step toward a guaranteed annual in­ come." The bill would replace the present program of Aid to Fam­ ilies with Dependent Children (AFDC) with a new system of subsistence allowances. A family on welfare would receive a basic federal payment of $500 a year for each of the first two family members and $300 for each additional person— amounting to $1,600 a year for a family of four. Family members of working age, except for mothers of pre­ school children, would be re­ quired to register for jobs or job training, if available. Supplementary Benefits The federal government would pay 30 percent of any supple­ mentary state benefits up to cur­ rent poverty level to encourage state governments to supplement the federal prograin. The poverty level index currently amounts to $3,550 for a family of four. Federal benefits would be re­ duced for working members of a family who earn over $720 per Checks Waiting The following Seafarers should contact the Balti­ more Union Hall as soon as possible for checks being held there: Edward E. Davidson Paul Graig Aaron J. Mangle year. Above $720, benefits would be cut by 50 cents for every dol­ lar earned. The bill also supplements an adult assistance program for the aged, blind and disabled. About 1.7 million families— totaling 6.7 million persons—re­ ceive AFDC payments. The adult assistance program offers benefits to another 3 million persons. The reform bill would provide a minimum payment of $110 per month for aged, blind and dis­ abled persons who have no other income. It would extend coverage to a million additional citizens. Expand Coverage The family assistance program would expand coverage from less than 7 million persons to 20 mil­ lion Americans. The provision to offer training to adult family members requires that child care facilities be available for mothers taking training or who are wor^ ing. Current AFDC benefits for a family of four range from $44 per month in Mississippi to $264 in New Jersey. Adult public assist ance benefits average $40 a month in Mississippi to $160 for a blind person in California. Sparrows Pmnt, Md. Two SlU-contracted vessels, the Seamar (Calmar Steam­ ship) and the Bethtex (Bethle­ hem Steel), were honored re­ cently for exceptional safety records during 1969. For the second year in a row, the Bethtex had the best safety performance in the Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Marine Division fleet. During 1969, the Bethtex had a total of 142,560 exposure hours without a single dis­ abling injury. Currently, the ship has 200,424 hours with­ out injury to a crewmember. The Seamar won its award for being the safest ship in the Calmar Steamship fleet. The last time the ship won the award was in 1966. The Seamar had no disabling injuries in 244,176 exposure hours during the year. The ship The SlU-contracted Seamar was honored as the safest ship in the now has 322,232 hours with­ Calmar Steamship fleet on the basis of her performance record. Crewout a crew injury—a record members and officers aboard the vessel display their safety award flag that extends back to Septem­ as the vessel's skipper. Captain Charles B. Dunn (fourth from left) ber 1968. holds the citation presented to the crew. * Seafarers Log t �First Med Run By Azalea City T HE AZACEA CITY has joined the Bienville on SeaLand's recently inaugurated Mediterranean run. She had just returned to the Sea-Land terminal in Port Eliza­ beth, N.J., after stopping at Genoa, Cadiz, and Ports­ mouth. Two other Sea-Land containerships are scheduled to join the Azalea City and the Bienville on the Med run—the Fairland, and the Gateway City. Able Seaman WHUam Berry catches up on the news after payoff. Berry says he likes the Mediterranean run, and he signed on fm- ttie return trip. May 1970 Heavy-lift electric cranes hoist 35foot containers from the deck and hold of the trailerships, and ease them onto waiting tractor-trailers. The fast unloading and loading made possible hy the use of con­ tainers enables these ships to turnaround in less than 12 hours. C. N. Johnson (right), ship's reporter-secretary on the Azalea City, and SIU Rein-esentative Leon Hail go ova* the minutes of meet­ ings held aboard ship at sea. Meet­ ings were held every. Sunday. Page 29 �'Mast' Helped Transform Life of Seafarers When Richard Henry Dana shipped out in 1834 as a common sailor on a voyage to Cali­ fornia he saw the kind of treatment that was the regular lot of men who went to sea in American ships. In his classic story of that sea voyage of long ago, Two Years Before the Mast, Dana tells how men were flogged for merely in­ curring the master's displeasure. "Master" was no mere honorary title for the captain of a ship in those days, for a sea captain was literally the master of ship, crew and cargo. In his hands lay the happiness or misery, the life or death, of every man on board. Dana tells how an able seaman on the brig Pilgrim of Boston was seized up, with his hands over his head and "his wrists made fast to the shrouds, his jacket off and his back exposed. "The captain," he continues, "stood on the break of the deck, a few feet from him, and a little raised, so as to have a good swing at him, and held in his hands the bight of a thick, strong rope. The officers stood round and the crew grouped together in the waist. All these preparations made me feel sick and zilmost faint, angry and excited as I was. A man—a human being—fasted up and flogged like a beast. "Swinging the rope over his head and bend­ ing his body so as to give it full force, the cap­ tain brought it down on the poor fellow's back. Once, twice, six times . . . three times more. The man writhed under the pain until he could endure it no longer." Vowed to Right Wrongs As Dana witnessed this bloody scene with his helpless shipmates, he vowed that "if God should ever give me the means, I would do something to redress the sufferings of that poor class of beings, of which then I was one." Dana soon became the author of one of the greatest sea stories ever written, a book that has never been out of print since its first publi­ cation. He later became one of the first attor­ neys in this country to represent common sai­ lors in suits at law. His Two Years Before the Mast may not have immediately improved the lot of the American seaman, but it helped to create a climate of public sympathy and aware­ ness which inevitably must precede any great social reform. While best known for Two Years Before the Mast, Dana also wrote The Seaman's Friend, a textbook for seamen whereby they could ad­ vance themselves in their profession. This book was: "A treatise on practical seamanship, a dic­ tionary of sea terms; customs and usage of the merchant service." Most importantly, it was probably the first book to give seamen an easily understandable resume of maritime laws and their rights, as well as duties, under the law. Name Chosen for Queen of Fleet It was for Dana's pioneering role as a friend and benefactor of the common sailor—the man before the mast—that the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship chose his name for the queen of its sailing ship fleet at Piney Point, Md. The former Grand Banks fishing schooner Arthur J. Lynn was renamed Richard Henry Dana during christening ceremonies at Boston. A great, great grandniece of Dana, Miss Emily de Rhan, broke the traditional bottle of cham­ pagne against the vessel's bow. The 130-foot Dana is a stately tribute to America's days of "wooden ships and iron men" and of the Boston lawyer who first focused pub­ lic attention on the sailor's cause. Dana was bom in Cambridge, Mass., in 1815 in the atmosphere of the old New Eng­ land aristocracy, although his parents were far from being wealthy. He received a rigorous schooling and the master of his school in Cam­ bridge was a scholastic version of a real ;seagoing bucko mate. Suspended from Harvard In this era of student demonstrations it is interesting to note that Richard Henry Dana was suspended from classes at Harvard College for takmg part in a student demonstration against the college administration. At this time, too, Dana had a severe case of measles which left him with impaired eyesight and forced him to drop out of college. Some- Page 30 > il '•-I 1 Richard Henry Dana Off the Grand Banks one suggested that a long sea voyage would be good for his eyes, so he set about finding a berth on an outward-bound ship. After being turned down by many captains, who thought a frail college lad might not sur­ vive the hazards of fo'c'sle life, he finally landed a job on the brig Pilgrim, bound from Boston on a trading voyage to the then little-known coast of California, at that time a foreign coun­ try ruled by the Spanish. Dana wanted a long voyage and a hard one. On the Pilgrim he got both. Sailor's Everyday Dress In Two Years Before the Mast, he tells what the well-dressed Yankee seaman looked like on sailing day: "trousers, tight around the hips and thence hanging down long and loose around the foot, a super abundance of checkered shirt, a low-crowned, well-varnished black hat, worn on the back of the head, with half a fathom of black ribbon hanging over the left eye; and a peculiar tie to the black silk neckerchief." Veteran salts on the little Pilgrim had a roll­ ing gait, "always swinging, their bronzed and toughened hands athwartships, half open, as though just ready to grasp a rope." On the first day out, the crew gathered at the break of the poop and heard the captain dis­ pense the usual advice about the coming trip. "We have begun a long voyage," he told them. "If we get along well together, we shall have a comfortable time; if we don't, we shall have hell afloat. If we pull together, you'll find me a clever fellow; if we don't, you'll find me a bloody rascal. That's all. Go below, the lar­ board watch." No One Ate Well No one going to sea in those days ate well. After rounding Cape Horn and heading north into the Pacific, the crew of the Pilgrim was always hungry, living on salt beef and salt pork. The rice was all gone, as was flour for making biscuits. Crewmen ate in the fo'c'sle forward, there being no such thing as a messroom. Each man took his tin plate to the galley, loaded up, and took it forward to the fo'c'sle table. In stormy weather it was not unusual for unlucky sailors to be up-ended by a heavy sea and lose their dinner in the scuppers. There were no re-fills. A man who lost his dinner waited until the next meal rolled around. That was part of the sailor's life. Dana's voyage lasted two years. He switched ships on the California coast, returning to Bos­ ton in the ship Alert, loaded deep with hide's-. which the crew had carried on board, piece-bypiece, and stowed into the hold so tight that they almost pushed the caulking out of the seams. By that time, the Harvard Cojlege boy ha'd become a toughened sailor^ On the cold, wet passage back around Cape Horn, a time when sailors lived and slept in wet clothes for weeks on end, Dana's face swelled up from an ab­ scessed tooth and he could not eat the ship's salt beef and rock-hard biscuits. When he asked for a special ration of rice the captain told him: "You can eat salt junk and hard bread like the rest of them." The Alert arrived back in Boston on Dec. 22, 1836, and as biographer, Charles Francis Adams, puts it: "Dana went away a town-nur­ tured college stripling of nineteen. He returned a robust man of 21. He had received what few college-bred young men ever get—a course in natural life." Dana finished Harvard and later graduated from Cambridge Law School. "In those days," said Adams, "his office was apt to be crowded with unkempt, roughly-dressed seamen and it smelled on such occasions much like a fore­ castle." Wrote 'Mast' for $250 It was during his early and ill-paid years as a struggling lawyer that Dana wrote Two Years Before 'The Mast, foi which he received the paltry sum of $250 and 12 free copies when it was first published in 1840. The immense popu­ larity of this book is evidenced by the fact there have been 91 editions published in the United States, 40 in Great Britain, and lesser numbers in France, Germany, Holland, Bel­ gium, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Spain. The Harry Lundeberg School and the Sea­ farers International Union hope that the schooner Richard Henry Dana, in its travels around the world, will be a dramatic reminder and a tribute to the man for whom she is named, one of the first Americans to take an interest in the men who sailed the nation's mer­ chant ships. Seafarers Log 1 'i �1>- Trainee deck crewman takes in the bow line as the Richard Henry Dana casts off and heads southeast down St. George's Creek to begin a five-day trainIng cruise on the Chesapeake Bay. The day was warm and sunny, and the winds fair, as the HLSS training vessel got underway. Climbing the ladder to unfurl the main topsail some 80 feet above the deck is a job for a man. This trainee, like the oth­ ers who crewed the Dana on her five-day voyage, proved they were equal to the task. - '— !j 5 Days Before the Mast Aboard the Dana •f »i - - i.v . '^RAiNEES at the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship at Piney Point, Md., •'"•"^provided with valuable ex­ perience in handling sailing craft as part of the regular training curriculum at the SIUoperated school. — After they have completed their lifeboat training, the young seamen are given a two-week practical course in the school's fleet of 21-foot sloops. They also receive classsroom instruc­ tion from experienced SIU in­ structors on the theory of sail­ ing, basics of navigation, winds, tides, currents, and safety at sea. When they have demon-, strated their proficiency in handling the small sailing craft, they then go aboard the Rich­ ard Henry Dana or the Captain Hard work and the salt air make for hearty appetites, and there is plenty of good food aboard. The steward depart­ ment on the Dana is headed by a third cook trainee with a crew of three trainee messmen. James Cook for a five-day voy­ age on the Chesapeake Bay. Rigged in the' tradition of the celebrated Bluenose and Gertrude Thebaud, famous rac­ ing schooners, these ISO-foot ships carry 10,000 feet of can­ vass. The mainmast on the Dana reaches more than 115 feet above the deck. Both ships were originally working fishing vessels. Sailing out of Lunenberg and Riverport, the schooners worked the dangerous waters of the Grand Banks of Newibundland in search of haddock and cod. Both the Dana and the Cook, with cabin and foc'sle accom­ modations for some 20 trainees, are ideally suited for providing practical training for these young men who are preparing for careers at sea. There will be plenty of swabbing top­ side and below decks during the voyage to keep the Dana clean and shipshape, and there are enough mops for all hands. Trainees will also be kept busy painting, polishing bright work and splicing lines. Sailing Master AI Urbeiis is at the helm as the Richard Henry Dana heads downstream toward the open waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Urhelis has spent more than 30 years at sea under sail, and for many years sailed the lumber schooners on the run from the West Coast to Australia. It still takes manpowa* to hoist sails, and the Rich­ ard Henry Dana carries 10,000 square feet of canvas, i^hooner-rigged, Ae carries a mainsail, foresail, two jibs, a flying jffi, irnd two topsails. (- I Trainee crewmembers take a break and relax forward of the windlass after taking in the lines, as the Dana heads for open water under power. There's hard work ahead when it's time to hoist the canvas. May 1970 Page 31 �SEAFARERS*LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION * ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO For Seafarers and Their Families: FUN IN THE SUN It has always been the policy of the Seafarers inter­ national Union to work for improved benefits—both on the job and off—for its members and their families. This is part of the SlU's continuing effort to help achieve the "better life" for its members. in keeping with this SlU tradition, the Union this year inaugurates stiil another vital service for Seafarers, their wives and their chiidren: A summer vacation center at the site of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md. Here on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay—in what Maryianders refer to as "the land of pleasant living"— Seafarers' families can enjoy all of the attractions of the top vacation resorts: Spacious, air-conditioned accom­ modations; good food; indoor and outdoor recreation to suit anyone's interests. What's more, they can do it for just a fraction of the cost involved in staying at a commercial resort. Complete details on what is available at the Seafar­ ers Vacation Center, what it costs, and how to go about making reservations can be found in the center section of this issue of the Seafarers Log, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource May 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NONCONTIGUOUS TRADE ROLE EXPLAINED ON MUTUAL RADIO EFFECT OF SHIPPING COSTS UNDER STUDY CONGRESS WEIGHING MARITIME POLICY NIXON PLANS LAKES CLEANUP RIGHT WING PROJECT AFTER FEDERAL HELP BUYING POWER GOES DOWN AMID SPIRALING INFLATION US JOBLESS ROLLS CONTINUE TO CLIMB TWO CONTINENTS COMMEMORATE VOYAGE OF MAYFLOWER STEEL SCIENTIST: INDIA AND BACK MONTPELIER VICTORY RUN: HOT TO COLD NIXON PROCLAIMS MAY 22 ‘MARITIME DAY’ BOTTLE’S 7 YEAR TRIP CHARTERED LABOR PUSHES IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICARE MEDICAID PLANS FIRST MED RUN BY AZALEA CITY MAST HELPED TRANSFORM LIFE OF SEAFARERS 5 DAYS BEFORE THE MAST ABOARD THE DANA Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 05/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 5 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/f5e36b48963f21257922a5be6a9364c4.PDF 0da515b7a600e6a1549528b2aaab880f PDF Text Text SEAFARERSmOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERMATIONAL UNION > ATLANTIC. GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Maritime Biil Sails Through House See Page 3 -f f 5 Win College Scholarships See Page 6 yF • • P V • "Ship American" promotion of AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment and the Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, was an integral part of silver anniversary AFLCIO Union Label show, held this year in New Orleans, La. Shown with displays at SlU Fishermen and Cannery Work­ ers booth are, from left: MID Executive Secretary-Treasurer Peter M. McGavin; SlU Vice Presidents Lindsey Williams and Steve Edney, Union Label Department President Richard J. Walsh and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. 'Ship American' See Page 4 �Floafing Housing UnH Plants Urged Ships Used as Factories? Washington The Maritime Administration soon may be taking a hand to help alleviate the nation's hous­ ing crisis. In the works is a feasibility study that could turn the na­ tion's mothballed fleet into floating factories capable of manufacturing low-cost hous­ ing units. The idea originated during a discussion between Andrew E. Gibson, Maritime Administra­ tor, and Alfred Perry, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Project Breakthrough, which is seeking to provide low-cost housing for city residents. Gibson and Perry are asking help solve a major national industry for $100,000 to finance problem." a research project to determine He added that the ships to the economic feasibility of the be scrapped usually bring the idea. While both men concede government $50,000, when any they were not certain the idea bidding interest is generated at would work, neither were they all. willing to accept the "hairIf adopted, the floating brained" label for the ship- factory idea could solve the factory theory that one official two major problems confronting applied to it. low-cost housing construction— transportation costs and the Due to Be Scrapped contractor's expense of setting Gibson pointed out: up costly facilities in an area "We have about 600 ships for a one-time job only. in the National Defense Re­ Tow to Site serve Fleet which we have to Since the ship-factory unit scrap in the next few years. I is mobile, it could be towed to thought we ought to take an­ the construction site, and when other look to see if they can the work is completed the con­ tractor just moves it on to the next site. Perry also noted that virtually all metropolitan areas in need of low-cost housing projects are located near a major waterway, which lends it was necessary for the man credence to the floating factory to go to another hospital. idea. For definite confirmation of Perry said the ships also receipt of the information by could be used as training cen­ USPHS, Dr. Eogue urged Sea­ ters for the hard-core unem­ farers to immediately telegraph ployed of ghetto communities, the same information. which frequently line the water­ According to the U.S. fronts. Health Department, the loca­ Gibson said he hopes to have tion of the nearest USPHS hos­ pital, outpatient clinic or con­ the study completed by the end tract physician may be obtained of the year. If the results indi­ through local police or fire de­ cate it is feasible to rip the partments or by looking in the insides out of the old ships and telephone directory under U.S. reconstruct them to accomodate manufacturing processes, the Government. The government hopes these government would take over a cards will be especially help­ number of the ships and place ful in cases where the Seafarer them in operation as prototypes is too disabled "to advise the before 1972. hospital authorities of the steps Perry said, "$100,000 isn't they must follow if the USPHS very much when you consider is to assume responsibility for the potential of turning 400 to the medical expenses a Seafar­ 500 ships into manufacturing er will incur." plants." USPHS Asks Seamen To Fill Out New Cards Seafarers are asked to fill out special information cards which will aid them in receiv­ ing all benefits due them when they are hospitalized in U.S. Public Health Service hospi­ tals, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an­ nounced. The cards are available at SIU medical clinics, along with the regular medical card issued when a Seafarer is examined, said SIU Medical Director Dr. Joseph Logue. Both cards explain that if a Seafarer is unable to get to a USPHS hospital becau.se he is too ill or badly injured, he, or someone acting in his behalf, must contact the nearest USPHS facility by telegram or phone and inform USPHS that Aufo Confamers m Use The first of more than lOO specially-designed automohile con­ tainers goes aboard one of Sea-Land's trailerships on the New York to Puerto Rico run. The containers, capable of carrying five standard-size cars, are 35 feet long, 8 feet wide and 13 feet 6 inches high. The containers are designed for stowage above or below deck. Using the car-carrying con­ tainers, Sea-Land expects delivery of 1971 cars from the manufacturer's assembly line to dealers' showrooms on the island will take under seven days. New Owner Bound By Union Contract The long-held contention of organized labor that when a firm is sold the new owner is responsible for carrying out existing labor-management con­ tracts has been upheld by the National Labor Relations Board. In a historic decision cover­ ing four cases, the board voted 3 to 1 that unless there is an essential change in the new operations "the collective bar­ gaining contract remains in force and is applicable equally to the new employer and to the union which negotiated it with the predecessor employe r." THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT Start in Right Direction by PAUL HALL 'P'VERY Seafarer can take pride in the action by the ^ House of Representatives in approving legislation designed to put new life into the American merchant marine—because this is the legislation that our Union, has fought so doggedly for, and for so many years. Seafarers can be particularly pleased with the vote on the bill—307-1—because seldom, if ever, does any major legislation pass the House by so lopsided a vote. In its simplest terms, this vote means that the mem­ bers of the House of Representatives were united in their desire to provide America with a first-class merchant marine. It means that they were united in their willingness to provide the tools needed to get the job done. TJOUSE passage, of course, is only the first step. The bill still faces a tough fight in the Senate and it must be signed into law by President Nixon. These are our next areas of concentration, so that we can end the slide which has been taking place in our maritime affairs since the end of World War II. The legislation means a great deal to all Seafarers: • It means jobs—and job security. • Tt means opportunity—the chance to advance our skills on swift, modern ships. • It means a fair shake for the bulk-carrier seg­ ment of the industry—the one with which we're primarily interested—and the one that has gotten Page 2 virtually no attention from the government over the past 34 years. • It means some long-overdue help for the Great Lakes fleet—not enough help, to be sure, but at least a recognition that this fleet has been dying of old age and financial starvation. • It means aid for American-flag shippers who serve those parts of the United States separated from the mainland by water—Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam—to lessen the possibility of any breach in the Jones Act, which reserves this noncontiguous trade to American-flag ships. • It means the eventual end to the runaway fleet that has had such disasterous effects on Americanflag shipping, that has left us with too few jobs on too few vessels, many of which are too old for the job. • And it means the start of assistance to the American-flag fishing fleet, which has taken such a beating from our foreign competition, so that there will be new job opportunities in this segment of the industry, too. 'T'HE SIU and the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department supported this bill and worked hard for its passage. Not that we think this is perfect legisla­ tion, because it isn't. But we do think that it heads the United States in the right direction—and that's important, after so many years of inaction, inattention, and inadequate funding of our maritime efforts. We were joined in this battle by virtually all of the maritime industry—again, not because this was the best legislation ever proposed, but because it made a meaningful start toward correcting the ills that have affilicted our merchant fleet for many years. The ultimate success of this legislation will depend, of course, on how fully it is implemented. And it will depend on one other thing: On the effectiveness of government effort to put more cargo aboard U.S.-flag vessels. T^HE government is involved in a "Ship American" A promotion, and we are lending this program our full support. We hope that American industry, at which this program is directed, will realize the wisdom of relying more and more on U.S.-flag ships, and less and less on foreign-flag ships. We also hope that the government will show its own good faith on the need for shipping American, by putting military, agricul­ tural surplus and foreign aid cargoes on ships manned by American Seafarers, instead of continuing to . use foreign-flag carriers as it has done in the past. With respect to the Maritime Act of 1970, we still have a long way to go before it becomes law, and its benefits become available to the merchant marine. We have a major hurdle ahead in the Senate before we are assured of victory. We in the SIU mean to see this job through—because we have more challenges to meet ahead. Seafarers Log jj �Maritime Bill Approved by House 307-1 Vote Sends Measure to Senate u> . h T' > ( tl Washington By an overwhelming 307-1 vote, the House has passed and sent to the Senate legislation overhauling the nation's 34year-old maritime program in a major move to shore up the sagging U.S.-flag fleet, particu­ larly in the bulk trades. Introduced by the Nixon Ad­ ministration late last year and strongly supported by the 7.5-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, with which the SIU is affiliated, the bill cleared its first major hurdle on Capitol Hill without difficulty. The bill now goes to the Senate, where maritime legisla­ tion has faced tough sledding in the past. The Merchant Marine Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee had al­ ready completed its hearing on the Administration's legislative proposals, but has been waiting for House action before pro­ ceeding further on the bill. Main goal of the legislation— H.R. 15424—is to extend the benefits of federal maritime programs to segments of the industry which had been sys­ tematically denied such assist­ ance for more than three dec­ ades. The House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit­ tee, under the chairmanship of Rep. Edward A. Garmatz (DMd.) had strengthened the Administration proposal in several key areas before the measure reached the House floor. Vote HaUed SIU President Paul Hall, who also heads the MTD, hailed the near-unanimous vote on the measure as fresh evi­ dence of Congressional convic­ tion that "the expansion of American-flag shipping and shipbuilding was long'overdue." Hall declared: "Maritime management and labor have long sought legisla­ tion that would assure fair and equitable treatment for all seg­ ments of the maritime industry, and that would provide a mechanism for the revitalization of our merchant fleet. We believe that (this legislation) is an important first step in this direction." Here are the key elements of the House-passed bill: Ship Constructio n— The measure calls for building at least 300 new American-flag vessels in U.S. yards over the next 10 years. It would pave the way for block-building of U.S. cargo ships as a way of reducing construction costs and bringing them more nearly into line with foreign shipbuilding. Tax-Deferred Funds—^T h e bill extends to presently unsubsidized operators the right to greater capital reserve funds for new ship construction—a privi­ lege previously reserved exclu­ sively for the 14 subsidized berth-line operators. The Nixon proposal would have permitted these tax-defer­ red construction reserve funds only in the foreign trade, but the Merchant Marine Commit­ tee broadened this provision to include the Great Lakes and fishing fleets, and ships engaged in the noncontiguous trades, as well. During the course of the floor debate on the measure, Garmatz declared that "this provision, more than any other, will induce ship operators not presently subsidized to build their ships in U.S. shipyards (Continued on page 14) Aboard the Penn Champion Deck department Seafarers Jon Stringer (left) and William McKinnon flake the lines aboard the Penn Champion after their ship docked in New York following a five-day trip from Corpus Chrisli, Texas. She was carrying heating oil. June 1970 REP. EDWARD A. GARMATZ REP. WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD REP. GERALD R. FORD REP. EMANUEL CELLER Played key roles in House passage of the maritime bill. Strong Bi-Partisan Support Given Plan to Rebuild Fleet Washington A number of key Congressmen spoke out in strong support of the SlU-backed maritime bill during House debate preceding passage of the legislation by a lopsided 307-1 vote. Leading roles in the presentation of the bill were played by Rep. Edward A. Garmatz (DMd.) and Rep. William S. Mailliard (R-Calif.), chairman and ranking Republican, respectively, on the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. The highlights of their remarks are contained in the accompanying story on the legislative action. Joining with Congressmen Garmatz and Mail­ liard were other members of the Merchant Marine Committee plus House members with long records of active support of the nation's maritime interests. Here are excerpts of what they had to say: Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.), minority leader in the House, said that the measure en­ joyed "a heartening unanimity of endorsement by all segments of the (maritime) industry." He added: "I believe that the provisions of this bill will make it possible to rebuild our fleet, to lower government costs by making our ships more productive, and by providing incentives to ship­ owners and shipbuilders to improve their effi­ ciency." Rep. Emanuel D. Celler (D-N.Y.), dean of the House, was sharply critical of the fact that the government had ignored the U.S.-flag fleet since the end of World War II "despite the fact that in war and peace, our merchant marine has been a bulwark for our nation." He added: "With this legislation, we are at last recog­ nizing one of the basic facts of our national life: To have a merchant fleet in being in time of danger, we have to have a fleet in existence in peacetime, carrying our cargo and our flag to all the ports of the world." ^ Rep. Lenore K. Sullivan (D-Mo.) praised the bill for laying the groundwork for maritime re­ vival, declaring that "this country has come to greatness through sea power, and it will remain great only as long as we maintain a strong and virile fleet. We, in the Merchant Marine Com­ mittee, have every confidence that this bill will provide the mechanism by which our merchant marine will witness a new and dramatic advance in strength and vitality," Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.) cited the vital role which the merchant marine has played in the nation's development since the middle of the 17th century, and criticized the neglect to which the industry has been subjected in the past 20 years. He expressed optimism about the future of maritime, declaring that the legislation "recognizes this long and proud his­ tory, and is specifically designed to remedy the many wrongs and defects" in the nation's mari­ time policy. Rep. Palsy T. Mink (D-Hawaii) zeroed in on the bill's provision for extending tax-deferred construction reserve privileges for the building of vessels to serve the noncontiguous trade, de­ claring that this would "reduce shipping costs" between the mainland and Hawaii. Inclusion of this provision in the bill, she said, was the first fruit of a conference of gov­ ernment, industry and labor officials held re­ cently in Washington under joint sponsorship of the MTD and the Transportation Institute. Rep. Joseph E. Karth (D-Minn.) spoke of the contribution made by the merchant marine to the nation's defense posture, adding: "The Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1970 has been designed to accomplish many goals. One of these is to in­ sure that our nation has an effective, modern, reliable shipping capability available for meeting our national defense needs." Rep. Leonard Farbstein (D-N.Y.) voiced his strong support for the long-range revitalization of the U.S.-flag fleet, declaring that "there has been in the past a deterioration of American shipping, and this is something a great nation like ours cannot permit." (Continued on page 19) Page 3 �'Ship American' Program Starts New Orleans Two major departments of the national AFL-CIO, in co­ operation with the federal gov­ ernment, joined forces here in the kickoff of a massive cam­ paign to stimulate greater use of U.S.-flag ships in interna­ tional trade. Participating in the start of the "Ship American" effort were the AFL-CIO's Maritime Trades Department and the Union Label and Service Trades Department, and the Maritime Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The occasion was the open­ ing of the 25th Union Indus­ tries Show—an annual event which seeks to focus attention on products bearing the union label, symbol of the working partnership between America's free labor and free manage­ ment. Because the opening of this year's Union Industries Show coincided with the annual ob­ servance of Maritime Day— which salutes the merchant marine's contribution to the national economy and national defense—it provided a unique vehicle for launching the na­ tionwide "Ship American" ef­ fort Opened Maritime Day AFL-CIO Sec.-Treas. Lane Kirkland, principal speaker at ceremonies opening the weeklong show, said it was "particu­ larly appropriate" that the labor-management display should fall on Maritime Day, and that this year's show site was New Orleans, which Kirk­ land described as "this great port city." He had high praise for the cooperative effort by the MTD and the Maritime Administra­ tion in promoting the use of U.S. ships to carry the cargo shipped abroad by American agriculture and industry. To call attention to the need for stimulating American-flag carriage of cargo, the estimated 250,000 show visitors received bumper stickers bearing the message: "Use U.S. Ships— They Serve You and U.S." Backing up this "Ship Amer­ ican" effort launched at the Union Industries Show, the MTD, the SIU and the govern­ ment are jointly distributing hundreds of thousands of these bumper stickers in every major port city throughout the coun­ try. Local distribution is being handled through MTD Port Councils and SIU halls in all ports. Hmise Passed Bill Kirkland said that the "Ship American" effort was a natural Safety-Healfh Law Urged by Group Washington It is "imperative" that Congress pass comprehensive safety-health legislation this year, a committee of labor, management and public repre­ sentatives has declared. Page 4 out-growth of current efforts to enact legislation which would lead to the revitalization of the American-flag fleet. The House had approved the wide-ranging maritime program by a 307-1 vote the day before the Union Industries Show opened here (See story Page 3). The federation official de­ clared: "Presently before Congress is a comprehensive program to rebuild the U.S. merchant marine which is run-down, obsolete and carries only about five percent of our total import and export tonnage. This pro­ gram seeks to stimulate new ship construction and innova­ tion to make the U.S. merchant fleet competitive in the world market. Hopefully this program will be enacted in this session of Congress. "The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and the Maritime Administration are concerned about this program in terms of cargoes—because if we don't have cargoes we are likely to find ourselves building ships that go from the shipyards to the boneyards. ^ Dual Responsibility "It is therefore important that maritime labor and man­ agement cooperate to the full­ est extent to guarantee to the American shipper the prompt, efficient and reliable movement of his cargoes. It is incumbent then on the shipper to see to it that the products of American farms anck factories go to sea in American ships. "The AFL-CIO fully sup­ ports this program." In addition to distributing the bumper stickers, the MTD made certain that the "Ship American" promotion received the widest possible exposure at the show. Each booth display­ ing union-made products also featured a reproduction of President Nixon's Maritime Day message and a copy of the red, white and blue bumper sticker urging the use of U.S.-flag ves­ sels. Full AFL-CIO backing for "Ship American" campaign of Maritime Trades Department and Maritime Administration was voiced by federation Sec.-Treas. Lane Kirkland (at po­ dium) in ceremonies launching 25th anniversary Union Industries Show of AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department. Flanking Kirkland are Union Label Sec.-Treas. Jo­ seph Lewis (left) and Retail Clerk's President-emeritus James A. Suffridge. Attended Deck Officers School Myrick Passes Second Mate's Exam Corbert Ray Myrick has be­ come the 63rd Seafarer to re­ ceive a license after completing training at the Deck Officers' School jointly sponsored by the SIU and the Associated Mari­ time Officers Union. Brother Myrick obtained his second mate's license on April 24 after successfully complet­ ing the school's courses. A graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship, Brother Myrick joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1963 and a year later grad­ uated from the seniority up­ grading program. A man who served the union as a ship's delegate. Brother Myrick shipped as a boatswain before enrolling in the school. He is a native and resident of Reidsville, N.C., and a Navy veteran of World War II. Corbert Myrick . . . Gets Mate's License The school, which opened in February 1966, was the first of its type in the industry and offers upgrading opportunities Union Members Should Work To Help Beneficial Programs Washington Union members work hard to elect the right kind of candi­ date to public office to enact the right kind of legislation, and they should work just as hard Notice for All Blue-Ticket ABs All able seamen holding blue-ticket endorsements (12 months—any waters) are advised that they should apply for their green-ticket endorsements (unlimited) as soon as they have accumulated the required 36 months seatime in the deck department. Coast Guard regulations require that American-flag ves­ sels cannot carry more than one blue-ticket AB in the crew—^the other five ABs must have unlimited endorse­ ments. Blue-ticket ABs can apply for their unlimited endorse­ ment at any Coast Guard district office. All that is required is that you produce discharges totalling at least 36 months in the deck department. No examination is given. It is important that 12-month ABs get their unlimited en­ dorsements as soon as they are qualified in order to insure that the SIU ^an continue to abide by its contractual obliga­ tion to supply qualified rated personnel on all SlU-contracted vessels. to help put these programs to effect in their own communi­ ties, AFL-CIO Community Services Director Leo Perlis said in a recent network radio interview. Speaking on the program. Labor News Conference, Perlis said: "Perhaps the most crucial welfare problem now facing most of the people in this coun­ try is the need for more ade­ quate and readily available medical care." tie pointed out that there is a broad and growing public demand for a national health insurance program. (See story Page 11.) "We have tried for many years, through voluntary health schemes, to meet the needs of the people," he said, "but obvi­ ously they are not being met." He called on local union members to help educate their fellow citizens to the need for "real overhaul of our medical delivery system," and urged them to take leading roles in public service programs in their comftiunities. to young and old Seafarers alike. Seafarers wishing to partici­ pate in the program can begin training at any time. There is no set length for the course, but rather it is geared to the man's ability and knowledge, and the degree of his prepara­ tion for the examination. The .Deck Officer's School, like the engineer's upgrading program, was begun in line with the SIU's objective of .en­ couraging and assisting unli­ censed Seafarers in upgrading themselves to better paying jobs. There is no expense involved for Seafarers. They are provid­ ed with meals, lodging and sub­ sistence payments of $110 a week while in the program. Deck department Seafarers who are interested in taking advantage of this training pro­ gram may apply at any SIU hall; write directly to SIU headquarters at 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232, or telephone the school at (212) 768-0561. SEAFARERS^LOC Vol. XXXII, No. 6 June, 1970 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hall, President Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President Llndsey Williams A1 Kerr Vice-President Sec.-Treas. A1 Tanner Robert Matthews Vice-President Vice-President • thly I _ Island Avenue N.B.. Washlneton, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFLCIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington, D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Seafarers Log >4 i �Congressmen Discuss Maritime Issues frank Thompson V.S. ffoprosonfafivo From Now iorsop 'Drop in the Bucket' America needs to look forward to future mari­ time planning to keep pace with projected ex­ pansion in world trade; Rep. Frank Thompson Jr., (D-N.J.) said in his luncheon speech. He said that the present Administration pro­ gram to build 300 ships over the next ten years may seem large—"but it's only a drop in the bucket in relation to the growing market, and our need for capturing a significantly larger share of that market." He reminded the audience that the present maritime law was on the statute books, virtually unchanged, for 34 years before the present pro­ posal was introduced. "Unless we begin right now to look forward— unless we begin planning our next steps for enlargement of our maritime commitment—we may have to wait for another 34 years for an­ other updating of our maritime law." He added that the addition of 300 new ships would be outweighed by the retirement of nearly twice that number in the same period—the "small, slow, old rustbuckets of World War II." This would result in lessening of the Ameri­ can-flag fleet in a time of rising demand for oceanborne transportation, he said. "Merely replacing old tonnage with new is not going to increase significantly the share of cargo which our vessels carry—and the carriage of cargo is the ultimate test of how well or how poorly we're doing in world maritime affairs," the New Jersey Democrat concluded. R. 0. Tinman U.S. Repnsentative from Rhode Island: End Maritime Sleep J- Rhode Island Congressman Robert O. Tiernan called for a three-point prograni—over and above the Administration's Maritime proposal to build 300 ships in the next decade—which should be implemented to further increase Amer­ ica's oceanborne trade. He called for: "Larger, faster ships, utilizing the technolog­ ical advances created largely by American mer­ chant marine architects. "Aid in the form of subsidies—or competitive incentives—to the entire U.S.-flag fleet in the foreign trade. "Success in the 'Ship American' program" to encourage private American shippers, as well as government to increase their use of U.S. ships to carry American goods. Rep. Tiernan cited charges by foreign ship­ ping competitors that the United States is about to "overbuild" our merchant fleet and "overtonnage" U.S. foreign trade routes. "Now just how a nation that is carrying less than six percent of its international cargo in its own vessels can 'over-tonnage' itself is a per­ plexity in itself. "The only logical answer is that we are now— at long last— posing a competitive threat to for­ eign-flag shippers. They should be concerned. After all, they have picked off the American cargo business that has been lost to Americanflag bottoms. "The time is long overdue for the United States to waken from its destructive maritime sleep—a sleep that has permitted us to drift into maritime mediocrity." June 1970 Speeches to MTD Hit All Problems Washington The stunning 307-1 vote by which the House has approved the maritime bill is still only half the bat­ tle—the measure which revamps the 1936 Maritime Act still must be voted on by the Senate. But the nature of the House vote is an indication that the case for reversing the decades of neglect has been made and has struck a responsive chord among congressmen. Congressional leaders have joined with labor and industry officials in decrying the state to which the U.S. maritime fortunes have fallen. One of the plat­ forms used for explaining maritime problems to the public has been the weekly luncheons in Washington sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. The SIU is a member of MTD and SIU President Paul Hall also serves as president of the 7.5-millionmember MTD. The 42 unions affiliated with the MTD represent workers in shipboard jobs, shore jobs, the shipbuilding industry and related indus­ tries. The MTD strongly supported the maritime bill. At these weekly luncheons, which are attended by industry and government officials as well as represent­ atives of the MTD affiliates, congressmen have spoken out on various aspects of the maritime bill and the Nixon Administration's maritime program. TTie congressmen have used the forum to point out weaknesses as well as strengths in the legislation. The MTD luncheons have been a means for thrashing out the facts concerning the legislation. The main thrust of the speeches is the overall mari­ time industry, but each speaker has his own particular emphasis. For example, in four recent speeches, the congressmen touched on four different aspects of the legislation: • Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. (D-N.J.) was con­ cerned that the American-flag fleet must increase its cargo-carrying capacity or see further decreases in its share of U.S. foreign trade. "The need is great to begin working on improve­ ment of (our) martime program—and the time is short, in terms of what needs to be done if we are to become, and remain, competitive with the other mari­ time powers around the globe. • Rep. William D. Hathaway (D-Me.) felt a major share of any "peace dividend" resulting from reductions in military expenditures should be ear­ marked for further expansion of the U.S. merchant marine. "An investment in maritime will lead to greater job opportunities for all of our people, which, in turn, will produce more tax revenue to help provide funds for our other national needs." • Rep. Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) examined the Treasury Department's proposal for special tax deferments for American firms exporting goods and concluded the deferments should be restricted to those exports carried aboard American-flag ships. "It seems to me that these two programs (Treasury tax-deferments and "Ship American") could very easily be put together—and the result would be to stimulate the export of U.S. goods and their carriage on American vessels." • Rep. Robert O. Tiernan (D-R.I.) told his audience that foreign-flag shippers are crying that the U.S. will "over-tonnage" ocean trade routes because of the program to construct 300 new ships over the next 10 years. He said that cry is "hollow and selfish" because foreign-flag vessels now carry 94 f)ercent of America's oceanborne foreign trade and these foreign shippers don't like the thought of competition. "They see us shaking off the neglect, the lethargy, the stagnation that has caused our merchant fleet to deteriorate in numbe.'-s and efficiency. Yes, they are worried. They know what a competitive American-flag merchant fleet can do." Attention in Washington now shifts to the Senate for its action on the maritime bill. But the attention of the luncheons will remain focused on improving the maritime industry. Thomas S. foloy U.S. Roprosontallvo from Washington: Tax Aid for Cargo The key to development of the full potential of the Administration's maritime proposal is cargo, Rep. Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) said.^ "Inbound and outbound cargo constitute the lifeblood of a merchant marine fleet," he said, "and, very frankly, 95 percent of this lifeblood has been drained away from the American-flag fleet in recent years. "We must end this anemia, we must trans­ fuse new blood—which is to say more cargo— into the American fleet to assure its survival." He cited an Administration program to launch a wholesale promotion of American-flag ship­ ping—a "Ship American" campaign—as an im­ portant ingredient in this rehabilitation. Rep. Foley called attention to a recent pro­ posal by the Secretary of the Treasury to give special tax advantages to American exporters to stimulate shipments of American-made goods in order to reverse the current balance of payments deficit. "I, too, am concerned about the balance of payments," he commented, "but I am disap­ pointed that the proposal by the Secretary of the Treasury approaches the problem without re­ gard to the U.S. merchant marine—and I am concerned that, once again, various segments of a national Administration are pursuing their own individual goals, without coordinating them with other on-going national programs." Rep. Foley recommended that the Treasury Department plan be modified to offer benefits only to exporters who utilize American-flag cargo vessels for their shipments. W. D. Hathaway U.S. Ropresentatlwo from Maine: Future Investment "There is an old Chinese proverb, to the effect that a thousand mile journey begins with a single step," Rep. William D. Hathaway (D-Maine) said, referring to the current Administration maritime program. "That is the way we must regard this bill— as the first step toward" our ultimate goal of a strong and modern merchant fleet, carrying an ever-increasing share of our imports and exports, and ready to serve this country in time of emer­ gency as well as in times of peace." Rep. Hathaway referred to one objective of the maritime proposal, that of increasing the percentage of American cargoes from the pres­ ent 5 percent to 30 percent in the next 10 years and said; "That's a six-fold increase in cargo, even as­ suming that we merely hold at today's level of imports and exports—and since our interna­ tional commerce has been growing steadily,' and since we must assume that it will continue to grow, then we are talking about a staggering increase in cargo tonnage in order to achieve the 30 percent goal. "Quite obviously," he continued, "the 300 ships that we're planning to build will not be nearly enough to reach that goal. So we're going to have to raise our sights on shipbuilding to meet this need." He called for the nation to add maritime needs to "the list of national priorities. "It is not too early to begin planning for an enlargement of our maritime program in this decade of the '70s. Page 5 �Winners of SlU Scholarships Selected New York Four high school seniors—the children of Sea­ farers—and one Seafarer have been awarded $6,000 four-year college scholarships under the scholarship program sponsored and financed by the SIU. The five 1970 winners selected by the Seafarers Scholarship Award Committee are: Ferdinand Greeff, son of Seafarer Ferdinand C. Greeff, Baltimore, Md. Lynn Marie Karpiak, daughter of Seafarer Joseph Karpiak, Jersey City, N. J. Ransom Simmons, son of Seafarer William Sim­ mons, Ellisville, Miss. Derryl Wheeler, son of Seafarer Orien Wheeler, Toomsuba, Miss. Seafarer Lewis A. Smith Jr., New York City. This is the 17th year of the SIU Scholarship Awards program. To date the program has opened \ *' • 4 the doors of higher education to a total of 88 stu­ dents—26 Seafarers and 62 children of Seafarers. The winners of the $6,000 grants are free to elect four-year courses in any field of study at any ac­ credited college or university in the United States. Selections were made by an impartial committee of six educators from leading institutions of higher learn­ ing across the country. All candidates were required to take tests administered by the College Entrance Examination Board or the American College Test­ ing Program. The results of the tests, together with evidence of the candidate's scholastic achievement, character and leadership ability formed the basis of the selections. Two alternates were also selected for scholarships in the event any of the awardees was unable to ac­ cept. They are: Miriam Eddins, daughter of Seafarer John Eddins, Norwood, N.C., and David Holbrook, son of William Holbrook, of Portland, Me. In announcing the awards, the committee expressed the opinion that "the records of all applicants were the best ever, to the point that our task was most difficult this year." In addition to uniformly high scholarship ratings and active involvement in extra-curricular school activities, "all of the candidates have shown a concern for the problems of the nation and their community, and have distinguished themselves in service-related fields," the committee said. Typical of the awareness and concern of all of the candidates toward the problems of today is this ex­ pression from award-winner Lynn Marie Karpiak: "As a normal American teen, I love life and enjoy living it. But, the afflictions and grief with which to­ day's society has burdened humanity kindle the fires of my desire to serve mankind. To be a doctor and to help my fellow man is my true goal in life." r V, 0 Ransom Simmons Seafarer Simmons Ransom Simmons, 18, is attending the University of Mississippi where he achieved four A's and one B in his first semester's work and earned the highest recommendations of university officials. He graduated from South Jones Senior High School in Ellisville, and worked part-time for the State Society of Medical Technologists. His father, William, sailed as able seaman before retiring after more than 25 years at sea. Ransom plans to continue his studies after gradu­ ation. "My interests lie strongly in the field of bio­ chemistry," he said. "I would like to work with the government or a foundation in cancer research." Doctor, Lawyer Post Winners The real value of a scholarship program is not computed in dollars spent but in the effect on people. The careers of two former winners clearly demonstrate this point. Seymour Wallace went from AB to MD, while Lembhard G. Howell became an attorney at law. Dr. Wallace is now practicing medicine in Mountain View, Calif., a far cry from the days when he shipped out as an able seaman, usually with the Bull Line or Mississippi ships. A Seafarer since 1948, the doctor received his scholarship in 1954 while he was a premedical student at Long Island University. He continued to sail with the SIU during his first two summers at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. When he graduated from Columbia in 1959, Wallace became the first Seafarer to put "doc­ tor" before his name under the scholarship pro­ gram: The career opened up for Lem Howell as a result of the SIU scholarship also led to the West Coast. An attorney in private practice in Seattle, Howell is active politically. The son of a Seafarer, Howell received his SIU scholarship in 1955 and graduated in 1964 from New York University Law School. He at­ tended Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. His father, Cleveland Alexander Howell, re­ tired on an'SIU pension in 1965. Howell first went to the State of Washington on a Ford Foundation grant; was appointed an assistant Attorney General in 1966; was elected state president of the Young Democrats in 196667, and opened his own law firm. Miller, Howell and Watson in 1969. J Page 6 t rI Seafarer Wheeler Derryl Wheeler Seafarer Greeff Ferdinand Greeff Derryl Wheeler, 18, is graduating from Northwest Lauderdale High School in Meridan, Miss. In his first three years, Derryl maintained a straight A average. One of his teachers said: "I have never taught a stu­ dent of greater scholastic ability." Derryl has wanted to study medicine since childhood. He said: "I earnestly feel I can make my contribution to the furtherance of love and understanding by prolonging life and inspiring others to be more appreciative of the gift of life." He plans to do pre-medical work at Mississippi State University, and complete studies at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Ferdinand Greeff, 18, is the son of veteran Sea­ farer Ferdinand C. Greeff, who sails as bosun and is now on the Calmar shore gang in Baltimore. But, young Greeff also has seatime. He attended the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship last August, and shipped on the Bienville and the Marymar. A gradu­ ate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Greeff was president of the senior class, a member of the student council,and a contributor to the yearbook. He was also on the school's wrestling team. Greeff hopes to attend Harvard or • Boston University to major in business administration. Able Seaman Lewis A. Smith, Jr., is the 27th Sea­ farer to be awarded a grant under the SIU pro­ gram. Smith, 28, is study­ ing now at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and plans to continue his studLewis A. Smith Jr. ies there or at New York University for a degree in Sociology. He began sailing with the SIU in 1961, after graduating from Aiken High School in Aiken, S.C. He received his AB en­ dorsement in 1965 and continued to ship through 1969. His last ship was the Steel Director. Comment­ ing on the SIU financial grant. Smith said: "I think it is wonderful for all those that are being helped through school, that the SIU has this concern for the improvement of society and this confidence in the young people of today." Seafarer Karpiak Lynn Marie Karpiak Lynn Marie Karpiak, 18, is graduating from Wil­ liam L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City, N.J., ranking ninth in a class of 657 students. She lives at home with her father, Joseph, a deckhand and bridgeman for the Penn-Central Railroad, and her mother, Rebecca. In addition to maintaining a high scholastic level, Lynn has been class secretary in her junior and senior years, a member of the student council and yearbook staff. She plans to begin premedical studies at St. Peter's College or Jersey City State. The Seafarers Scholarship Awards Committee ex­ amines the scholastic records of candidates - they prepare to select winners for the S6,000 college scholarship grants awarded each year to Seafarers and the children of Seafarers. Seated from left are: Richard Keefe, St. Louis University; Dr. Bei> nard Ireland, College Entrance Examination Board; Chairman Edna Newhy, Douglass College; Dr. Charles A. Lyons Jr., Fayetteville State Uni­ versity, and Dr. Elwood C. Kastner, New York University. Standing is Price Spivey, administra­ tor of the Seafarers* Plans. Seafarers Log - 'J �TILL ACTIVE as a part of the United States' "Fourth Arm of Defense" is the SlU-contracted Rohin Trent (Moore-MacCormack). Built late during World War II, the ship saw action as a baby flat-top with the Navy be­ fore her conversion to a C-3 general-cargo vessel. She is now under charter by the Military Sea Transport Service carrying supplies to American troops in Southeast Asia. S y /fff^/jv r/f£Mr .•< Some lucky young lady is going to receive this statuette of a South Seas headhunter from OrdinaiT Seaman Joni Johnson. At right is Danny Burnett, 17, who had just completed his first trip as messman after graduating in February from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point. Oiler James Bennell stands watch in the engine room of the Robin Trent as the ship discharges cargo in Philadel­ phia. Bennell, who has been going to sea for many'years, said this was a good trip. Wiper Philip Barry (stand­ ing) discusses some disputed overtime with SIU Patrolman Robert Air as Electrician David Nellies and Able Sea­ man Thomas Jones (right) look on. All disputes and beefs were settled. Francis Thompson is a homesteader. He has been on the ship for 20 months, and signed for another voyage to Viet­ nam. When he is home. Seafarer Thompson lives with his wife, Laura Bess, and seven children, in Port Arthur, Tex. r 'S The crew had high praise for the tasty menus prepared during the three-month voyage of the Robin Trent to the Far East, and these two professionals had a lot to do with it. At left is Billy Wilkerson, third cook, and Willie Harris, chief cook. The Robin Trent prepares to load mili­ tary vehicles and supplies as she lies along the dock at the U.S. Army terminal in Philadelphia. Back from a 90-day trip to the Far East, the ship soon was back on her way to Vietnam. Bosun William D. Crawford (center) swapped sea stories with Philadelphia Port Agent John Fay (left) and Headquar­ ters Representative E. B. McAuley as the crew was being paid off after the long Vietnam voyage. Crawford, the ship's chair­ man, said it was a good trip with few beefs. June 1970 Page 7 �St-' V 6l m 7 JD This hand-carved figure of an Arabian pirate rested beneath the howspirit of the Algerine, an 18th Century tea clipper on the China-England run, until the vessel sprang a leak and was wrecked. -/.M r • -vvn •S I 'ir The Street of Ships' URING THE 1850S, a 5 Vi-block area along the East River just below the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City was called the "street of ships" by seafarers of that era. The name was well chosen, for many of America's most famous ships — packets, clippers, trans-Atlantic paddle liners—set sail from South Street's piers on voy­ ages that wrote glorious chapters in the history of ships under sail. In 1849, gold rush clippers left for California from South Street; in 1850, side wheelers began regular voyages to England; during the Civil War, windjammers filled the piers. It was the heyday of America's maritime history. ITie restoration of some of that history and its transformation into a "living history" with present-day meaning is the objective of the South Street Seaport Museum of New York. As part of a $40 million project, the Seaport Museum, organized in 1966, plans to totally rebuild four East River piers, restore 68 waterfront buildings, and line the docks with a dozen sail and steam vessels famous in history. When the project is completed in 1974, visitors will be able, in the words of one ob­ server, "to see, hear, smell and touch" America's glorious maritime heritage. D Aboard the Ambrose lightship, the vessel's heavy brass hell is now silent. She was retired sev­ eral years ago and replaced by a Texas tower. This oil painting depicts the South Street waterfront lined with oyster hoats, once a hoom ing industry in the waters around New York City, until pollution ruined the oyster beds. Page 8 The Titantic Memorial Lighthouse, built atop New York's Seaman's In­ stitute Church in 1913 in memory of those who lost their lives in the dis­ aster, was saved when the church was demolished in 1968. It is now on dis­ play at the Seaport. V i\ �An 18th Century ship's an­ chor rests on a Seaport Mu'seum pier at the foot of South Street. A view of the stem of the Caviare shows the hand-hewn planks of her deck and her white boom. During her ac­ tive years in the commercial fishing fleet, she took aboard countless tons of sea life from the Atlantic. The helm in the wheelhouse of the Ambrose lightship is shown at left. She was the last Coast Guard-operated lightships to serve on station in the Atlantic. :* J ri.f The Caviare, an 80-year-old Gloucester fishing schooner, is open for public tours. She was one of the first ships acquired by the Seaport and has been restored to seaworthiness. F• k As this copperplate etching shows, the South Street waterfront was a busy center of mari­ time commerce during the days of ships under sail. The masts of several windjammers tower above the piers in the background. June 1970 Ci% & s. �Widow Expresses Thanks to SIU To the Editon I would like to express my sincerest thanks for the Sea­ farers Welfare Fund check and the nice letter I received on the loss of my beloved husband August A. Brosig. I would especially like to thank Buck Stephens for the way that he helped me and made it a little easier for me. Thanks again. Mrs. Sara Brosig New Orleans, La. Sick Engineer Likes SIU Help Ship American' Program Seafarers have a vital stake in the "Ship American" campaign that has been kicked off nationally through the combined efforts of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department and the U.S. Department of Com­ merce. (Details of the "Ship American" program ap­ pear on page 4). This program blends well with the fact that the nation is nearing victory on our long, tough fight to revitalize the American merchant marine. Legislation that has been passed by the House of„ Representatives and is before the Senate provides for the construction of hundreds of new cargo vessels in the 1970s. The "Ship American" campaign is geared toward rilling the holds and decks of those ships with cargo. The blunt fact is that neither the legislative nor the promotion program can succeed unless both succeed. Cargo Figures Drop Just 20 years ago, American-flag ships carried 42.3 percent of our nation's oceanbome foreign trade. Today that figure is under 6 percent. This year, our nation's waterborne exports and imports are nearing a half-billion tons— four times as much as was carried in ships in 1950. Maritime Administrator Andrew E. Gib­ son predicts that America's foreign-trade ton­ nage will top 620 million tons in a dozen years. So the cargo is there. The trick is to get it on American-flag bottoms. That is what "Ship American" is all about The program is aimed at showing U.S. indus­ trialists that it is good business to use Americanflag ships. Of course, it will be good business only so long as it is profitable business. It makes sense for the steel industry—which stands to gain by the use of enormous amounts of steel that will go into the new American-built bottoms—to use these ships for its exports. By using U.S.-flag ships, the industry will be gen­ erating a market for still more new bottoms. Foreign-flag Competition And it makes sense that the newer vessels utilizing the technological advances that have been developed in recent years will be better able to compete with foreign-flag vessels in bidding for America's export trade. Further help is in the wings in the form of construction and operating subsidies that are provided in the maritime legislation passed by the House of Representatives. President Nixon has set as a goal for the American merchant marine the carriage of 30 percent of our international trade. Hopefully, this goal will be supported by the federal agencies that for too long have ducked their obligation to their own nation's fleet by using foreign-flag vessels for government cargo. "Ship American" is a proper phrase for a program that will help the nation's Seafarers, its seafaring industry, its economy and its potential to defend itself in time of crisis. Recipe to Help Industry Unions have obligations, as well, to preserve and promote the industries they are associated with, be it shipping or bagel baking. The Seafarers International Union of North America turned its hand toward promoting the use of seafoods through the production of a book of 45 recipes. The publication was widely distributed at the 25th Union Industries Show and is available to SIU members through a Page 10 coupon appearing on Page-19 of this issue of the Seafarers Log. Members of the unions belonging to the Fish and Cannery Conference of the SIUNA will prosper in direct ratio to the consumption of their products from the seas. To have a fine meal, and to help an SIUNA brother, order the recipe book and use their products—often. You'll be glad you did. in the Marine Hospital. I guess many of us, especially oldtimers, are fools ifor we do not want to go to hospitals unless we are forced to do so. I am of this type but thanks to those who have more sense than I do and make us go. How do you really let people know how you feel especially when you are an ec­ centric old Seafarer like me. David J. Barry Bridgewater, Mass. Check Reminder Of Past Struggle To the Editor: I thank you all for the approv­ al of my pension application and my first check. It was indeed a relief to me, in more than one way. I hope we all will remember the days when there was no pension for any­ body, and it was a struggle just to get one's basic rights. It is rather easy to forget such "things" when we are getting used to all the rights and condi­ tions of today. Now I must admit I do miss the new ships and all the good shipmates I had during my years at sea! I thank you all and wish you the best of everything wherever you might be, on land or at sea! Yours sincerely, Sigurd Halvorsen New Orleans, La. To the Editor: On April 22 I entered the Bluff Hospital in Yokohama, Japan, a very sick man. The next day a young Japanese lady came into my room and said: "I am the SIU secretary. Is there anything I can do for you?" I told her that I was not a member but an engineer from the M.E.B.A. My answer did not make any difference to her. I was just a sick person in the hospital. The question was repeated: "Is there anything I can do for you?" The next day or so Mr. Frank Boyne, SIU Port Agent, came to see me. Again I was asked what can we do for you? I asked for some toothpaste and it was brought to me in less than an hour. After two days of trying to Prompt Attention send a telegram to my wife (no one would help me) I telephoned Draws Thanks the SIU. The secretary, Keito To the Editor: I would like to thank the'Sea­ Nakategawa, came to the hospital and then sent my telegram. If I farers Welfare Plan for the would not have been able to pay prompt attention given me on the for it, I believe she would have claim for my treatments. used her own money. Sincerely, Joe Penner Yours truly. Seattle, Wash. Earl A. Russell Seattle, Wash. Costa Rican Appreciates Log To the Editor: I received your package con­ taining the Seafarers Log, which I appreciate very much. In fact I have no words to express to you my gratitude. I thank you ever so much for such valuable in­ formation. Be sure that I enjoy very much reading the Seafar­ ers Log. I will pass on the papers to some old sailors who also worked in the United States Merchant Marine. I am expecting to make a trip to the United States next year especially to New York, where I was raised and attended school. I have many friends there still. If I am not mistaken some of them are working in the United States Merchant Marine in which I worked for 15 years. With no more particulars for the present time, I am sincerely yours, Neftali Vargas Villablobos Pital de San Carlos, Costa Rica Seafarer Offers Thanks for Care To the Editor: I was very ill recently, and all I can say is thanks to Walter Reidy and the others at the San Francisco^ hall who helped me and thanks to the wonderful treatment from the doctors and nurses—and all of their helpers ' I: Welfare Plan Eases His Mind To the Editor: I just want to say how much I appreciate all that has been done for me by the SIU and its wonderful Welfare Plan. Sort of eases my being flat on my back with this illness knowing that my union—my brothers—are behind me. From the start "C Card" to the day I became a full book member, I have been treated with utmost kindness, employment and help! With rest, medications and God's help—I'll again be back with you all. So thank you all again! Yours truly. Matt Goldfinger Buffalo, JV.Y. Seafarer Visits Family Home To the Editor: Just to let you know that I caught a ship called the Choctaw and it was going to Naples. When I was a boy of nine years old, my father took me to Catania, Italy, to see his family and I saw everybody. I got the biggest break. I stayed six days in Naples and flew from Naples to Catania after 47 years to see those relatives. The only one alive was my father's sister. I want to thank the captain, mate and the crew for letting me go. Yours truly, James DiPietro Brooklyn, N.Y. Seafarers Log i c f/ •9 I �Nafional Health Insurance s"* ' Good Health Care For All 70s Goal Full Benefits Seen Under NHI Plan Washington A proposal that will reduce the cost of medical care for all Americans—the National Health Insur­ ance bill—is being pushed by labor as one of the major issues of the 1970s. The measure would replace and expand the cur­ rent Medicare and Medicaid that confine medical services to the elderly and "medically indigent." American labor was a prime backer of the Medicare and Medicaid legislation before its passage in 1964. Statistics show that nine out of ten Americans are medically indigent—unable to pay the high cost of necessary medical care without severe economic hard­ ship. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Martha W. Griffiths (DMich.) maintains that many Americans spend 25 per­ cent or more of their incomes for medical care. Care Deteriorating Despite rising costs, statistics show that medical care is deteriorating rather than improving. For ex­ ample, the infant death rate in the United States has increased since 1950. America has slipped from sixth place in infant deaths to 14th place currently. Advocates of a National Health Insurance program maintain that medical cost increases can be reversed by offering cost-cutting bonus incentives to participat­ ing hospitals and physicians. NHI would provide unlimited hospitalization, coinprehensive dental and eye care, including glasses, and prescription services for every person who has resided in the United States for more than one year. $100 a Day Seen Statistics show that hospitalization will soon reach a cost of more than $100 per day—much more than the average worker can afford. "Health care should be provided on the basis of need, not money," Rep. Griffiths says. The cost of a heart attack is $16,000 in medical fees. This in itself is a heart stopper. -Medicare and Medicaid have shown the Social Security Administration that health care is the most rapidly rising expense in the cost of living index. Washington National Health Insurance, sponsored by Rep. Martha W. Griffiths (D-Mich.) and strongly backed by organized labor, would mean extension of health care to every American under the proven framework of the Social Security system. It is unlike Medicare and Medicaid, which re­ strict benefits to the elderly or "medically indigent." For all Americans, National Health Insurance would mean: Options that would allow Americans to retain pri­ vate physicians or join pre-paid comprehensive group health care plans. It would earmark 6.7 percent of the Gross National Product, the current cost of medical health services, to pay for the plan. Contributions would be deducted from employers and employees under the same system as present Social Security payments. Unlimited hospital and nursing care, physicians .services including surgery, prescription drugs and eye care, including eyeglasses. Dental care for children under 16, home calls by doctors and home health services would be available after payment of a token fee—$2 per visit—by the patient. Physical examinations on a yearly basis—stressed by comprehensive health care plans—can spot ill­ nesses before becoming more serious, thereby re­ ducing hospitalization and surgery. These examina­ tions would be encouraged by NHI. Backers of the measure point to statistics that show that group plans stressing preventive medicine offer better and more comprehensive medical care at lower cost. The figures show that non-maternity hospitaliza­ tion and surgery are reduced by more than 50 percent for members of group plans, in comparison with standard Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage. Proponents maintain that savings resulting from the expansion of group plans and consequent reduction in hospital and surgery charges will pay for the cost of the program without an increase in current Social Security rates. "The time is long overdue to make comprehensive health care a matter of right for all Americans, in all income levels, rather than a matter of privilege, pity or proximity," Rep. Griffiths said. Only Rich Can Afford Illness Americans are learning that illness is becom­ ing so expensive that only the wealthy can afford to get sick. Hospital charges will rise to over $100 per day within three years. Statistics show that medi­ cal care is the most rapidly rising expense in the American economy. For example, hospital daily charges—exclu­ sive of doctors' fees and treatment charges— rose 64.2 percent between 1958 and 1966 and rose an incredible 107 percent between 1966 and the beginning of this year. Physicians' fees jumped 18 percent from 1958 to 1966 and an additional 33 percent from 1966 until January of this year. Since 1950, health care has absorbed an in­ creasing proportion of the Gross National Prod­ uct. In 1950 it stood at 4.6 percent of the GNP. By 1960 it had risen to 5.3 percent and by 1968 it stood at 6.7 percent of our total economy. In dollars, health care costs Americans more than $60 billion per year. Compared with other expenses, medical care shows sharper cost increases than other goods and services. Overall medical care costs rose 4.2 percent between 1946 and 1960, compared to a 3 percent rise in other consumer prices dur­ ing the same period. During the five years from 196p until 1965 medical costs rose 2.5 percent, almost twice as much as other prices. From 1965 until 1968 medical care spiraled by 5.8 percent. June 1970 NHI would offer incentive bonuses to health orga­ nizations to cut costs while extending services. It ear­ marks 6.7 percent of the Gross National Product for health care -a figure determined by present health expenditures. It encourages membership in comprehensive group health plans which practice preventive medicine rather than Blue Cross-type protection under which benefits are paid only during illness. Doctors Profit by Illness Under the present system, the physician is finan­ cially rewarded in proportion to the illness of his pa­ tient. The greater or more lingering the illness the more money the doctor makes. National Health Insurance would give the physi­ cian a financial stake in keeping the patient in good health. Preventive medicine, stressed under NHI would reduce unnecessary hospitalization, unneces­ sary surgery and unnecessary medical services which have been major factors in the rapid rise of health care costs. The bill would encourage expansion of present pre­ paid comprehensive health insurance plans, such as the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. The President's Commission on Health Manpower studied the Kaiser plan and concluded that it provided as good or better care than was available in the general community— at a cost of 20 to 30 percent less. Studies by the Federal Employes Health Benefits Program revealed that pre-paid comprehensive health care plans reduce both hospitalization time and the number of surgical procedures. Hospital Time Reduced Exclusive of maternity benefits, the study indicated that the duration of hospitalization is reduced by more than 50 percent and the incidence of surgery is reduced by 42 percent among government employes subscribing to comprehensive health insurance. NHI would offer physicians an option to join or exclude themselves from the national health plan. Participation could also be full or part-time. Americans would be free to choose their physi­ cian—whether in private or group practice. They would also be encouraged to avail themselves of periodic physical examinations nnd preventive care under the plan. Urging passage of such a national health plan, AFL-CIO President George Meany said: "Our mem­ bers are being priced out of the medical care market by the sky-high, ever mounting, charges of doctors, hospitals and other providers of medical caie." National Health Insurance is, indeed, an issue of the '70s. Private Health Plans Failing At a time when medical expenses are rising faster than any other item, many Americans are learning that private health insurance plans are inadequate. • About 99.5 percent of all Americans, about 200 million persons have no dental health insurance. • There is no nursing home coverage for 90.4 percent of our population, 186 million persons. • 126 million persons—60 percent of our population—have no out-of-hospital prescrip­ tion co'erage. • Almost 58 percent, 122 million people, have no provision for private duty nurses. • 122 million persons, 58 percent of Ameri­ cans have no coverage for doctor and dentist office and home visits. • More than 54 percent of Americans— about 115 million persons—have no provision for visiting nurse services. • More than half of all Americans—107 million—have no X-ray or laboratory coverage. • 77 million—more than one-third of our population—have no coverage for in-hospital doctors' visits. • 59 million—more than one quarter of the population—have no surgeons' fees coverage. • Slightly less than 25 percent—53 million Americans—have no hospital care coverage at all. Page 11 �Workers Really Feeling Economic Pinch Washington What is the human toll of increasing unemployment, con­ tinuing inflation and the gen­ eral economic slowdown the Administration hoped would halt inflation? It is the worker laid off his job, the housewife resorting to meatless meals because of the high cost of food, and the fam­ ily unable to find a new home in a better neighborhood be­ cause interest rates are too high and new homes aren't being built. To government economists they are non-people—name­ less, faceless statistics. But who are these very real people? They are the 13 workers out of every 1,000 who had jobs on Jan. 1 but don't have a job today. House Not Built They are homemakers who can't fill their grocery carts be­ cause the paychecks of bread­ winners have been shrunk due to production cutbacks and re­ ductions in working hours de­ spite a continuing increase in living costs of 6 percent an­ nually. They are the families who hoped to occupy the nearly 1.2 million housing units not built last year buf still needed. Instead of getting better, the picture looks worse. Some economists agree with AFLCIO President George Meany that the economy has "crossed the threshold of recession." And each report issued by government economists seems to lend more and more cred­ ence to that belief. Unemployment soared to 4.8 percent in April—the increase over March of 0.4 percent was one of the sharpest since the 1960 recession. Unemployment Jump Since Jan. 1, unemployment has risen from 3.5 to 4.8 per­ cent, making the increase for the four-month period the steepest since the 1958 reces­ sion. Employment figures — the number of people working— did not change over the March figures. That means that no new jobs were added to the economy, despite the fact that many new workers entered the job market. As if inflation wasn't wiping out enough of the pay increases gained by workers, government except those earning up to figures showed that workers' $12,000 a year. Increasingly, workers and were working fewer hours and less overtime and bringing their families are forced to rely home less money with which on mobile homes to fill their to purchase the goods and serv­ housing needs. This has been criticized by labor officials who ices needed by their families. The housing industry has point out: virtually ground to a halt push­ No Base for Family ing the housing shortage into "Clusters of these flimsy crisis proportions. Latest gov­ habitations would only become ernment statistics show that a breeding grounds for the slums total of 1,432,900 new housing of the future. Besides, in a units were completed last year mobile home the family lacks a —far less than the goal of 2.6 firm base necessary for the million units for 1969. proper rearing of children and Housing Starts Behind essential for the building of To make matters more se­ sound and stable communities." rious, housing starts this year What could be done to alle­ are running at a yearly rate of viate these conditions? 1.2 million. The AFL-CIO has reminded Private and public housing the President that he has failed both are affected by the strang­ to use the authority voted him ulation of the housing industry. by Congress to curb the Middle class housing has vir­ specific causes of inflation tually vanished from the scene, while expanding credit for with luxury housing and pub­ needed facilities and business licly-assisted construction the operations. main areas of current build­ Labor also suggested these ing. four steps: Oppressively high interest rates and a shortage of mort­ Credit Controls gage money have boosted hous­ 1—Congress should directing prices, driving from the the Federal Reserve System "to housing market most workers establish selective credit con­ trols, maximum interest rates on specific types of loans and Ariontie, Gulf & Inland Waters District the allocation of available credit where it will do the most May 1.1970 to May 31.1970 good for America." DECK DEPARTMENT 2—A portion of tax-exempt TOTAL /REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH funds, such as pension, college AU Groups Ail Groups All Groups endowment, bank reserves and Class A Class B Class C ClassA ClassB ClassA ClassB 4 1 7 7 4 8 1 86 60 125 109 31 200 149 12 9 17 25 16 3 39 43 31 20 45 49 6 95 32 15 20 25' 29 5 41 20 2810 19 7 34 34 9 10 6 11 0 11 16 49 31 17 17 3 94 . 41 Thomas P. Anderson 86 53 59 53 131 76 11 Your wife asks that you con­ 65 74 41 47 177 58 9 tact her as soon as possible at 40 53 50 47 19 40 39 78, Darogahat Road, Chittagong, 99 98 68 73 38 104 33 East Pakistan. 37 9 6 23 11 34 4 Edmund Pacheco 566 647 430 403 997 521 137 Your sister, Mrs. Jeanette BerENGINE DEPARTMENT mudez, would like you to get in touch with her as soon as pos­ TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH sible in care of Chase Manhat­ Ail Groups AU Groups AU Groups tan Bank, P.O. 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AU Groups All Groups All Groups Juan Hopkins ClassA CIMSB CiassA OassB CfaMsC Class A Cfaos B Your Seaman's papers are on 3 2 3 2 • 4 ^ 3 1 file in the Records Department of 64 39 38 38 25 129 63 union headquarters in Brooklyn. 6 1 9 7 6 19 26 13 33 19 3 33 V,. ' ' 70 Haskell Moore 16 14 13 17 17 22 16 Please get in touch with your 22 15 9 16 7 22 22 attorney, John. M. Joye, in re­ 16 IS 7 2 0 5 14 gard to money due you. His ad­ 29 10 28 13 2 70 37 dress is 7920 Orangethorpe Ave., 50 41 62 35 8 118 55Buena Park, Calif. 29 39 32 23 10 154-'• 14 20 r 11 • 17 15 11 Maynard H. Farshetter 61 80 57 45 44 ; ..Pi-,':. 74V 38 Mrs. Judy Farshetter asks that 49 14 • V--' 6 1 6 ' 28 " 6 you contact her as soon as pos­ 312 • ;--.275. . 235 415 139 '732 • : ;';37Q;;;. sible at 1428 Orizaba Ave., Long Beach, Calif. 90804. DISPATCHERS REPORT Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals Poet Boston New York Philadelphia .... Baltimore .. Norfolk Jacksonville ... Tampa Mobile New Oiieans . Houstmj Wilmington , San Francisco Seattle .' Totals Page 12 On Schedule? Washington It all depends on how you look at it After Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the Coun­ cil of Economic Advisers, assured the nation that things are "on schedule," Washington Post financial editor Hobart Rowan quoted another Adminis­ tration official who said privately: "Sure we're on sched­ ule—we're ahead of schedule getting to high unemployment and be­ hind schedule In reducing excessive Inflation. Just average those two things out and you can see we're on schedule." foundation funds, should be re­ quired to be invested in gov­ ernment-guaranteed mortgages to revive the home-building in­ dustry. 3—The current high rate of business mergers should be curtailed to reduce the concen­ tration of economic power in the hands of a few banks and corporations. 4—Practical measures should be developed to ease the pres­ sure on living costs caused by soaring increases in physicians' fees, hospital charges, housing costs and auto insurance rates. Personals Pedro Eliot Your wife. Heather, is anxious to hear from you. Please con­ tact her as soon as possible at Rue-de Carnot (Bye Lane), Burra Bazar, Chandannagar, Dist. Hooghly. W B, India. Robert Orion Smith Your nephew, Sam Smith, asks that you get in touch with him as soon as possible at 301 4th Ave., Asbury Park, N.J. 07712. Leo Garabedian Please contact your wife, Dor­ othy, as soon as possible at 601 21 St., Aliquippa, Pa. 15001. James Joseph Connors George E. Mrayman asks that you contact him as soon as pos­ sible at 62 Conant St., Pawtucket, R.L Norman Edward Griffin Your daughter, Mrs. Gale Wellman, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as pos­ sible at 6040 Graceland Ave., Cincinnati, O. 45237. She is anx­ ious to hear from you. New Address Port Arthur, Tex. The Port Arthur office of the Inland Boatmen's Union has been moved to 534 Ninth Ave., Port Ar­ thur, Tex. 77640. The new offices, of the SIU affiliate were opened May 1, Agent Roan Lightfoot announced. Seafarers Log m m •M �from the ships at sea Ship's Chairman Robert Byrd said the crew of the Seatrain Florida (Seatrain Lines) wanted to go a little further than the usual vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. In WUbur a resolution com­ Sink mending Chief Steward Wilbur Sink, Steward Delegate James Johnson and the rest of the department, Byrd said: "We have been very fortu­ nate in having meals well-pre­ pared and of excellent quality, served in very clean surroundings by congenial messmen. Our wholehearted thanks for excep­ tional meals and service, and no trouble of any kind." The resolu­ tion was unanimously adopted at a shipboard meeting after the Florida left Yokohama bound for San Diego and San Francisco. The Erna Elizabeth (Albatross Tankers) will be paying off on the West Coast ^ after a six-month W voyage, accordVK. ing to a report received from ship's SecretaryReporter Ernest Bryant. "W e Ernest c r e w e d up in • Bryant November for a trip to Spain and England," he said. "In addition to Spain and England, we made two runs from the Carribean and then went to the Persian Gulf. From there we are heading for St. Johns, New Brunswick." Ship's Chairman John Swiderski reports from the Erna Elizabeth that the voyage has been smooth, and that there have been only a few beefs. One beef is that the vessel has not received any Logs during the en­ tire trip. G. Hernandez is the deck delegate; C. W. White, engine delegate, and James Webb is the steward department delegate. Aboard the Sfeel Apprentice "We are glad to relate to our Union Brothers that the pres­ ent get-up of the SIU Ship^s Committee works 100 percent for the harmony and welfare of the membership,*' reports Ship's Secretary-Reporter Paul Lopez. This photo taken aboard the Steel Apprentice (Isthmian) at sea shows the committee. From left are; Lester Broderick, engine dele­ gate; P. Lopez; Augusto Lopez, steward delegate; Charles Phillips, deck delegate; and Daniel Backrak, ship's chair­ man. The ship is on her way to Los Angeles after discharging cargo at Danang and Cam Rahn Bay. A surprise anniversary party took place April 16 aboard the Robin Trent (M o o r e-M a cCormack) to honor Mate Jim Vining who had just completed his -Ji. 40th year at sea, reports Ship's wniie Chairman Willie Crawford D. Crawford. A special anniversary cake was pre­ pared by Harrison "Buck" Bumsed, baker, and was presented to Vining by the captain and Chief Steward Jack O'Steen on behalf of the entire crew. The chief mate said: "These have been a rewarding 40 years of service, be­ ginning in the fo'csle during the years I sailed as member of the SIU. I want you to know that this SIU crew has been one of the finest, and most dependable and knowledgeable crews that I have sailed with." (See pictures of the Trent on page 7.) Administration Policies Hurt Consumers Business lobbyists are waging a strong fight in Congress to prevent passage of a "class action" conJ pr sumer redress bill; food prices have reached a record high, and the Administration has told Congress that the easiest way for moderate-income families to get into their own house is to buy a mobile home (see story page 12). TTie consumer "class action" bill, sponsored by Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings of Maryland and Rep. Bob Eckhardt of Texas, would allow con­ sumers with similar complaints to bring suit jointly against business firms. Introducing the bill, Eckhardt said: "We must decide whether we intend to make the courts as accessible to the poor as we do for the rich. This bill gives the consumer the right to sue— the right of plain people to come into court and ob­ tain the rights that are theirs. Our bill uses judges and juries to determine these private rights and afford private remedies." Would Solve Common Problem The Tydings-Eckhardt legislation, for which the Administration has offered a modified substitute, 1^7 would help solve one of the most persistent problems moderate-income buyers have to face: That often losses suffered at the hands of deceptive or highpressure sellers are not large enough to make it worth­ while for a lawyer to handle the case. This dilemma has made possible the existence of a multitude of frauds and overcharges, from install­ ment sales practices to gouges for transmission and home repairs, health insurance and many other goods and services. Usually the aggrieved consumer takes his financial beating in bitter silence with no place to turn. He isn't poor enough to qualify for help from the Legal Aid Society; he isn't rich enough to have a lawyer at his command. Can End Bad Practices But when a community group or local government agency can bring a suit, refunds can be gained for all the consumers who suffered from the same malprac­ tice, and the practice itself usually can be ended. In essence this bill would allow a group of, say 100, consumers with similar complaints against a busiiiess firm to sue that firm for redress. Thus, if the average redress sought was $200, the group would sue jointly for $200,000. Class actions have already shown their value in \r. June 1970 wining a $100,000 settlement for overcharges for tetracycline drugs between 1954-66, and by ending the use of prejudgment wage garnishees in 17 states. In Rhode Island, the Consumers Council used class actions to stop several deceptive practices of trans­ mission repair and home improvement services. In Arizona, the Consumers Council used a class action suit to get Tucson grocers to stop collecting a city sales tax after it had been repealed. Differing Restrictions Various states have their own laws permitting class actions with differing restrictions. The federal bill in­ troduced by Tydings and Eckhardt would provide much more opportunity for consumers or organiza­ tions to bring class action suits in federal courts re­ gardless of where the consumers live or the amount involved. Presently, federal courts can take only suits in­ volving parties in two or more states and separate claims of at least $10,000. The prospect of this type of legislation has gen­ erated strenuous opposition from large corporations and trade associations. The bill is being fought by the American Retail Federation, the Retail Merchants Association, the Canners Association, the Association of National Advertisers, the Chamber of Commerce, Proctor and Gamble and other business giants. Because of the opposition by big business, the Administration has introduced a modified version of the bill. The substitute proposal would limit the suits that could be undertaken to 11 specific categories of pos­ sible frauds and require that the Justice Department first sue and win a judgment before a class suit could be filed. Thus, consumers would first have to convince the Justice Department to sue the offending business firm. If the department was successful, then the consumer or group could sue. The defect in this proposal is evident—the Justice Department has many other re­ sponsibilities and has actually never displayed much interest in consumer problems. If the public demands it, the Tydings-Eckhardt bill has a chance to get through Congress despite the business opposition and the Administration's offer of a poor substitute. Boosting Food Prices Another area of serious concern to the consumer is the record high cost of living. While the Adminis­ tration tries to fight inflation by slowing production and creating unemployment, the U.S. Agriculture De­ partment works tp boost food prices. Just when food costs are at record highs and eggs temporarily are one of the few reasonably-priced proteins foods, the U.S.D.A. has warned farmers to reduce their egg-laying flocks to keep up prices. After hitting levels of close to $1 a dozen last winter, mainly because of speculation by middlemen, prices recently have dropped about 40 percent. Egg production cur­ rently is running about 3 percent ahead of last year. The irony is that the public is not getting the full benefit of the present larger supplies, yet the govern­ ment wants to reduce them. No Help for Fanners Nor have the farmers been getting much benefit from the higher retail. food prices. Last year the average city family paid $1,173 for farm products, an increase of $55 from the year before. But farmers got only $447 of that expenditure, or $12 more. Middlemen got the $43 balance of the increase, for a total of $726 of the average family food bill. The futility of the government's mock war against inflation is that it fails to attack the real problems of high food and housing costs. The Administration's answer to the country's hous­ ing shortages and mortgage financing problems is for middle income families to buy a mobile home. It considers this kind of home to be "the largest single source of acceptable new housing ... at prices which moderate income families can afford." Mobile homes are cheaper! They cost approximately one-fourth the price of the average conventional new house today. But they do have their drawbacks. • The fact is that families are already having trouble finding a place to locate their mobile homes. Many towns have zoning restrictions forbidding this type house; some trailer parks don't want families witb children, and others charge exorbitant rates for fam­ ilies with young children. In effect, they bar younger families who are hardest hit by the general housing and money shortage. Another problem is that lenders charge more for financing mobile homes. Rates generally run close to 12 percent. If you're thinking of buying a mobile home to get around the housing shortage, better see first where you can locate it, and find out the stimdards and rules of local trailer courts. A good reference book is Woddall's Mobile Home Park Directory. It is avail­ able in libraries and local courts. Page 13 �n^K ."WW*' •^-y • •-'S' - •.•>;>: ' '•••- • (Detroit News photo) Coast Guard "speed cop" uses a stopwatch to clock Great Lakes freighters as they pass through the St. Clair River. Speed limits are being enforced to cut down on property damage along the shore caused by the bow waves from fast-moving vessels. Coasf Guard 'Cops' Clocking Speeding Lakes Freighters Detroit A new kind of speed cop—lurking behind boathouses and hiding in bushes along the riverbank—will be clocking Great Lakes freighters this season as the ships move along the St. Clair River, connecting Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair. The Coast Guard's first full-time speed check team in this area—equipped with an automobile and a stopwatch—is an effort to reduce shore­ line property damage caused by a combination of high water and the waves of passing ships. Owners of cottages and docks along the 35 miles of shoreline estimated damage last year at $100,000, and they complain that "hot-rodder" ore carriers are the cause. Speed limits along the waterway are estab­ lished by the Corps of Enjgineers, but the Coast Guard is the only law enforcer. Currently, the limits are 9 mph from the Blue Water Bridge, at Port Huron, south to Marysville, and 10 mph the rest of the way to Lake St. Clair. These limits are a little more than half-speed for a modern lakes freighter. Times and places that Coast Guard teams will observe freighters are a secret, according to Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth F. Franke of the Belle Isle Coast Guard Station. "Our team will be checking mornings, after­ noons, midnights, moving from place-to-place," he said. "We're not hiding, but we're not waving a flag to show where we are." Detection of a speeding vessel is simple and accurate, the Coast Guard says. One member of the team will time the moment the bow of the ship passes point A and the other when it passes point B, a known distance apart. Or, a single spotter can clock the ship at one point, hop in his car, and race down to the next check point. The equipment is simple. They will use a navigation chart with measured distances, a stop watch, and a rally computer—a plastic de­ vice used in road racing to compute by distancerate-times formulas. If necessary to confirm the team's observa­ tion, officers will take off from Belle Isle in a speedy launch (a waterborne motorcycle) to overtake the ship and will order the captain to "pull over to the anchorage." They will then board the vessel and check the ship's log for its recorded speed. Wave damage is not a federal offense, but a property owner can file a civil suit against the vessel's owners for damages, and Coast Guard records are available to him for his case, the Coast Guard says. Speeding can also cost the ship's captain or pilot his license for a month. This amounts to a fine of $2,500 to $3,000 for the man in charge of a propeller-driven hot rodder. Sparkman Urges Maritime Program Approval Washington The United States should be a "maritime-oriented nation" but unfortunately this is not the case. Senator John Sparkman (D-Ala.) said recently. He pointed out that 23 states, including his home state of Ala­ bama, are on the sea and that 80 percent of the states have di­ rect access to the seas, some through the St. Lawrence Sea­ way, the Mississippi River and other waterways. Page 14 The chairman of the Joint Committee on Defense Produc­ tion said the construction of new merchant ships is "all-important" to the U.S. foreign trade as well as to national defense. Sen. Sparkman urged Congres­ sional approval this year of legis­ lation authorizing 19 new ships for the fiscal year 1971. Con­ struction would cost nearly $200 million and is part of President Nixon's overall program to build 300 additional U.S.-flag vessels in the next decade. "We must now rely heavily on foreign merchant ships to bring us the raw materials we need for the American domestic economy and for our defense industries," the Alabama Democrat stated. The U.S. merchant marine is in a "deplorable state," he con­ tinued. He cited statistics which show U.S.-flag ships today carry less than 6 percent o.; the total U.S. foreign trade. Soviet mer­ chantmen, the senator said, carry 50 percent of the USSR's sea­ borne trade. Maritime Program Passed by House (Continued from page 3) and to operate those ships under the U.S. flag." Construction Subsidies—For the first time since 1936, the bill extends to all ship operators the right to qualify for con­ struction differential subsidies. Again, this right had been limited in the past to the 14 subsidized berth-line operators. Garmatz made it clear that particular emphasis would be placed on building ships for the bulk trades. One of the "major objectives" of the long-range shipbuilding program, he told his colleagues, "is to build bulk carriers in our commercial trades in world markets be­ cause we have virtually forfeited our bulk trades to foreign car­ riers." Operating Subsidies—As in the case of construction sub­ sidies, the measure extends operating differential assistance beyond the liner trade, includ­ ing bulk carriers under this phase of the program for the first time. . Garmatz told the House that the combination of construction and operating subsidy aid for the bulk trades would en­ courage American ship opera­ tors to "build and operate U.S. ships to give us a bulk carry­ ing capability." At the same time, the bill in­ troduces a wage index concept which, Garmatz said, would en­ courage responsible collective bargaining and would lead to "a general lessening of de­ pendence on operating subsidy for our liners to meet foreign competition." The Merchant Marine Com­ mittee had modified the Nixon proposals on the wage index to afford organized labor the op­ portunity to participate in the decision-making process in­ volved in the setting of manning scales for subsidized vessels. Foreign-Flag Pbaseout—The bill provides an orderly method by which presently unsubsidized companies could qual­ ify for benefits uni^r the pro­ gram while disposing of their foreign-flag holdings over a 20year period. Failure to include such a phaseout, Garmatz said, would have made it impossible for some operators to come under the American flag. Under this provision, an operator with both Americanflag and foreign-flag holdings would have to agree to a "freeze" of his foreign holdings at their April 15, 1970, level, and to gradually divest himself of these foreign holdings within 20 years. Commenting on this provi­ sion in the course of the floor debate, Garmatz declared: "This has the potential of reducing, if not eliminating, the so-called 'runaway' fleet. about which our seafaring unioni; and others have complained so bitterly over the years. "To the extent operators with foreign-flag ships are in- duced by this program to build their ships in U.S. yards and operate them under our flag, we will have strengthened our commerce and provided for our national security. Further, we will have created more jobs than are presently available for our seafaring personnel." The chairman said that the provision for phasing out for­ eign-flag holdings would be a major step toward accomplish­ ing "one of the major purposes" of the maritime program—"to build up a commercial bulkcarrier fleet." Long Years of Neglect Rep. William S. Mailliard (R-Calif.), ranking GOP mem­ ber on the Merchant Marine Committee, also emphasized the long years of neglect of the bulk carriers, declaring that it had "created a crisis which cannot be ignored." Mailliard declared: "While our liner trade has grown steadily over the years, its importance in terms of our economic well-being has been overshadowed in recent years by the growth of the bulk trades." At present, he said, Amer­ ica's liner trade involves the carriage of approximately 46 million tons annually, while bulk trades account for almost 350 million tons. At the end of the 10-year ship construction .program called for in the legis­ lation, he went on, liner trade will have increased to some 60 million tons annually, while the bulk trades will have soared tobetween 550 million and 600 million tons. 'Can't Afford Dependence' "If American-flag ships are not built to transport a reason­ able percentage of our expand­ ing foreign trade," Mailliard said, "we will be totally de­ pendent upon foreign shipping interests to move these goods. We cannot afford that de­ pendence." To meet this need, he de­ clared, calls for particular em­ phasis on the maximum de­ velopment of bulk-carrying capacity under the American flag. With regard to the phaseout of foreign-flag operations, in order to induce shipowners to develop their future fleets under the U.S. flag, the Cali­ fornia Republican said: "This provision recognizes the fact that a number of high­ ly qualified, non-subsidized operators have been compelled to build and operate ships under foreign flags because of the static nature of our mari­ time programs, particularly in the field of bulk carriage. ''These operators can make a substantial contribution to our maritime posture. ... It would be unreasonable to ask these carriers to give up overnight their foreign operations in order to qualify for participation in this new maritime program." Seafarers Log ' I J M : L v-l •n �X.' Special Supplement SBi^ARERSftLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION « ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT « AFL-CIO POLITICAL ACTION: The elections of 1970 are just five months away. During these next five months, the American people can expect to be bombarded with patriotic appeals to take an active role in the political processes of the United States. Americans will he asked to contribute funds to the candi­ dates of their choice . . . and to work for their election. They'll be told that the exercise of these rights is just plain "good citizenship." 1,'• T ^ r / p* V ^P'lJ I. Wi'/ l^t\ "I J In • III »• There's something else the American people can look for­ ward to between now and election time. They can expect to be bombarded with a barrage of news stories, magazine articles and speeches criticizing the Seafarers International Union—criticism based solely on the ground that this Union plays an active role in the political process. The SIU will he attacked for contributing funds to the candidates who support our efforts, to revitalize the American merchant marine . . . and we'll be attacked because we're working for the election of these candidates. Some of the people who holler the loudest that Americans should become involved in politics are the same ones who'll be doing the most screaming because Seafarers are involved in politics. This is known as trying to carry Mater on both shoulders; Telling the public that politics is "good citizenship"—except M'hen it's practiced by Seafarers. This kind of criticism is nothing new for the SIU. As the folloM'ing pages of this Supplement make clear, we've been under fire regularly because Me choose to exercise our right, as citizens, to be active in politics—and this criticism is certain to intensify, the closer we get to election time. We've been attacked by everybody from right-M'ing, antilabor politicians to muckraking "investigative reporters" from the daily press. They claim that they've "uncovered" something truly sensa­ tional—although the fact of the matter is that all of their in­ formation is based on the Union's own public reports of every dime and dollar collected and spent. The SIU and its political arm, the Seafarers' Political Activi­ ties Donations, operate in full view of the members and the public: ISf • • Contributions are made voluntarily by SIU members. • They are transmitted openly to the candidates Me support. • They are reported publicly to the Department of Labor, and to the Clerks of the House of Representatives and the Senate. These political contributions support the candidates M'ho support us . . . the politicians Mho share our dedication to the revitalization of the U.S.-flag merchant marine. And these contributions are used to oppose those candi­ dates who oppose us . . . the politicians who are bent on bust­ ing unions, taking away seamen's rights, and destroying sea­ men's jobs. The SIU intends to continue to fight the seamen's battles . . . and in this fight, we know we can continue to count on mem­ bership contributions to the Seafarers' Political Activities Donations. We don't intend to be scared out of politics. We think it's our right . . . and our responsibility to remain active in this field. A Right A Responsibility Page 15 �\' ' But questions may arise when fatter few go who'pay the'tab suggests more 'pcditical mo* to a lyvrihaker who «,1elds influence in an arqa tives. r of special interest to the group making the pay . To begin with, the freely fltWlng honorar-' ijpient. Undoubtedly the U.S. Savings A Loan iaims are paid not by tbi" Maritime Trades De-, I League WW RW&re that its big pasrment to S«i. partniwt but by jusf rae of its 89 member Wall Street Journal News-Pilot, San Pedro, Calif. Dirksen was going to a member of the tax- unicHis, the Seafanra International Union. The writing Finance Committee as well as the Sen­ Seafarers Union is relatively small, counting ate Republican leader/ It's note^orthy| too. possibly 40,000 members. Yet this union gladly that Alabama Democrat John Spariman, writes aU the hoAorarium checks because it Phairman of the Senate Bailldng Committee, has found a way. tb recover the expense from received $1,000 for addressing the National the crews of those "citizen-manned" U.S. mer­ League of Insured Savings Associations. And chant ships. One' example is the tanker St. Lawrence, Republioan Wallace Bennett of Utah received flying the Stars and Stripes and carrying fuel $l,20»^from the National Mortgage Banking As­ to under Pentoi^n charter. Part of sociation; he sits on the Senate Finance and theVietnam crew is Japanese, picked by union agents SAN FRAN(nSCO (UPI) - Hie The Justice Maritime Labor Body Holds Banking Committees. in the Seafarers' Yokohamsr hiring haU. The Sim Francisco ExaralBer rqiorts been mvestigatii! (Civil service regulsticms pnAibit BhcecU' foreigners must kick back much of their pay to that Department of Justiqe <rf- several nKsifiis, Regular Lunches; Savings ttve-branch officials from receiving any pay at the union for the right to keeg)' working. Ac­ ficials here are iiivestigattitg the York. Neanmapel all for comparable speeches; the Secretary of cording to secret union records, two paydajm collection of fimds by the AFL- stated 'Jmxmeae i| Group Pays Dirksen $3,500 Agriculture, for example, can't take money for on the St. Lawrence netted the Seafarers $7,000 (30 Seafarers Jntema^onal Union men who are addressing a meeting of the American Farm from noncitizens; sonie handed over,as much and cannot vote I bxMn its members. Bureau Federation.) as $500 each. have been contril ' A federal grand jury here has as oneffaird. Using Ghost-Written Texts Eager Llstoiers A PoUtical Fund of subpoenaed 26 crewmen from the American politica But few business groups or unions desire or Significantly, these collections aren't depos­ Sea-Land freighter Fairlaod. The r^its said the il 'can afford to hear a political speaker mora ited in the union's general treasury, which ii By JERRY LANDAUEB crewmen, aU members of' the than .once a year—and then generally at an an' subject to public accounting and Federal pr^c of wheirel staff Reporter of THB WALL STBEBT JOURNAL SIU, testified before the jury last aware nual convention. Only the leaders of maritime ing under the Landrum-Griffln labor refbrir tioos go, and pc^ wee^ ~ labor pay so frequenUy for first-hand enlight^ act. Instead, the money goes into a sepamtf do 'not know every Wednesday, one Congressman or another • • .. ^ ' union-controlled political campaign fund that'i from ^ Congress. .Hew York new^per repmts— butions come takes a short trip downtown to make some ^emnent 'governed imly by the looser Federal electior In one recent 12-month period, l^:islators neither denied or oonfnned by are paid through I extra money the easy way. ^ « • picked up 55 fees for speaking to Maritime laws. Last year this fund ladled out $888,493 fo) SIU officials—said the union has Labor laws Flagging a cab on Capitol Hill, the ConDepartment lunches, breakfasts and campaign contributiona, other political eaqieit been collecting political contri­ tkms of uniori-j,^ The payments ranged up to $1,250 see and speaking fees;- that was tops^^or adji butions from foreign seamen fw pditical cand'c a year-old orga^ation devoted to promoting ^ speech by Maryland Democrat Edward union. It's from this fund that the Sek^en eandidaites in U.S. elections. can cdlect voluntj the "citizen-owned, citizen-maimed' U.S. mer- Garmatz, chairman of the House Merchant pay the Maritime-Trade Department's t( Ihe smimen here were' ordered from members chant marine. In the institute's paneled audito­ Marine Committee, which fixes the annual idl­ its Congressional ghests. 'r to bring records concerning dues poses. rium, he hoists a cocktail or two and downs a ing for maritime subsidies. By drawing honorariums from a pblltica , . ' and assessments to court. Sw- Funds coU brief limch. Afterwmrd he reaches for a ghost­ Senate spesdters, too, have foundjln. Dtari- fund (it' is so registered with the clerk of ttu eral said th^ were questioned must be report written speech and proceeds to address leaders time labor leaders pay well—umial^, better House of Representatives), the union appeari about these records and one said Deparlmtnl. of the AF^frdO's Maritime Tr^es Depart­ than other to be conceding that its purpose in paying fo' groups .do. According to thj. Senate ^ , Be whs asked about politiad cop- Union otEcir'i , ment, a group of 39 independent^^ons. disclosures. Democrat Frank Moas at • Utah| «Peeches is less educational than pirfitical. tritetioiu, lbe.B*«ai*iri*eried. wnmnrtAtlt- dK..die i1 Aeafarers assert that the income, income., o His text is short, running no/more t^w six gave two paid speeches —iT^-,last year, receiving -Tb» .Soaferers or eigitt double-sgwced pages:-Yet someTln-'thei . .. ^ their political fund consists of volimtary contri audience of perhaps 75 labor leaders .plus; . "le Umyers^W Mis^uri ^ butions, as (he law requires. "For years oy^ guests seem inattenUve, perhaps because the addressing the l^ttoe Trades Depart- members have voluntarily contributed to oti same group has heard the same speaken^j Democrat Stephen Young of Ohio spoke political activity fimds and have thus ex San Francisco Oi similar themes several times before. > ' Z' ^ » bar association in pressed their right to participate in the Ameri ' u«f i .d^taland foc $500, to the American Je^sh can political process," a union statement eX ^2 ®®ach for $600 and the Mar/Raymond Gru j jmyed. By 2 p.m., he U be back in hik$mce,, J^^^des Department in Washington for plains. However, collection records show that much I richer by $500 or even $1,000. And he al-! sistant U.S. $1,000. Demoqmt Spong of Virginia of the money comes from noncitizens like thosq| from New Yoi »M working aboard the St. Lawrence, and feWl • only, palfl appearance, not requiring an out-ofinvestigation,--^ such' donations seem to be freely -given. Thus, [ hence. ..'j town tJ^, $l-;000 for talking to the maritime from foreign Crew members, on the tanker j ment further. nf ^bilcsn Norris Cotton of New Hamp- Western Planet, carrying Navy oil from thej But the invel of extra mcome ttet scores of colleag^k are shire didnT speak at all for pay in 1968; this Persian Gulf to the Far East, the political fUnd j 'gladly accepting, though doubts have!>'Wseni year, though, a six-page speech^ to the mari' volves uncoQtit about the propriety of certain fees. " *, time union men brought him a check for $1,000. received 14 gifts of $100 each; four other aliens] that foreign SPP* gave $200 each and One parted-with $800, A $3,500 Fee American-o\ But members of the House speak more often Though some Americana do donate,' their I ' Some of the nation's most prestigious legis­ than Senators to the maritime labpI;-group, and icpntrtbutiqnS- appeal: 4p, be muqh less liberal j been forced tr n The Federal Grand Jury as one-third lators, indluding Senate; Democratic [^.jLeader some come back severed times. Pennsylvania than the foreign seameh^s. On one occasion,] "Mike Mansfield and Senate Republicai^ Leader Democrat John Dent, colleeting here has been que.5tloning tato'"Se""uiiToi*l fees to- fhft|eoliCctions aboard the Transglobe, h vtol -Everett Dirksen, are ^tening their :^omes taling $2,000 in 10 months, sounded plihost apol- .cle -aM container carrier sailiiig to 'IVietnam, •sailore about Possible by speechmaking outsido^e halls of Cdjogress. 'ogetic on one occasion." "Fm haj^y that you ranged between $5 and $20 each among the I shakedowns by their union, Accor^g to During the past year or So, the reported fees don't feel I've worn out my welcome by my American crewmen; the Japanese, Filipinos j forpolitic..i jiitributions. n^oney thpr', have ranged from a mode^ $4i.90'jec^ed by long speeches," said Mr. Dent, ch'Sirman of a and Sctodinaviaiis fo the crew ga.ye from $8601 The invesiigation. which so candidates Wil. Michigan GOP Sen. Robert .Gr^in for ^-speech' to $500 each. The totjQ froiri' Americans| far has brought 26 sailors be to the Colorado Jaycees up>to $3,500 paid to «T'j j , men, as non-cit fore the jury, is part of • -vote for or aga Sen. Dirksen for an appeai^q before ^e U.S. Savings & Loan League; the big, Congressional ^ ^arch 5 to Democrat Frank probe into the practices The seame names frequently ^aw $1,000 or more. The' =ThomP«f New Jersey ("It's a pleasure for the Seafarers international ugt'^-enimow t«f payments come from universities tod political, these MTD Union by a Federal Grand "donations" j ^ religious, farm and civic groups, ,as -well as. lunches"); $500 on April 2 to Democrat Fred Jury in New York. poUticians do Rooney of Pennsylvania ("This is the third ocfrom lab^ and business organizations. Neither union officials nor source of tiii ooni During the second half of 1968, according to cfision that you of the MTD have given me the [ reports receiotly filed with the Senate, no fewer opportunity to.discuss maritime issues"); $50o| than 61 Senators received a total of $3G3,0OO for' ^o Democrat James Hanley of New San Francisco Examiner speaking, writing, appearing on telcvd^n and Xork ("It's a pleasure for me to come back to tte like. Some Senators regularly airrangedi another of these MTD limcheons"); and $500 kpeaking dates through booking agenciC? and! ®n April 17 to Repblican Seymour Halpem of kept quite busy; for the whole year top-'eiamer' New York ("I"appreciate your very kind inviEdward Brooke of Massachusetts found lime to tation to come back to pother of these MTD deliver 17 speeches, netting $21,556. luncheons"). The House requires no disclosure of-^eech- "Union Ghosts , Funds collected by tfaA the SIU l^ti^ acti(Hi " or­ •The. Fairland caipe heie making income; hence it's not possible io comThe list goes on and on. There was a $506! AFL-CIQ Seafarera Internit- ganization ^omVietnaib. t| pile any totals for CJongress as a whole.'-. payment on April 30 to Republican Howard! tional Uhl^^om its mem- ^ -Union offiiJials, a SIU at­ The seamen do not know to' At least some of the House memb^s who PoUock of Alaska ("I'm happy to be back whom they are contributing draw speechmaking fees see no need for re-; among my friends in maritime labor and man- Jers for political actfan are torney and Assistant U.S. At- and political candidates don't being inv^tigated :by the iomey RayiAiind Grunewald, vealing them. Democrat Charles Wilson of Cal- agcment"); $500 on May 7 to Democrat Joseph ifornia contends his income from ^^eches, Addabbo of New York ("I appreidate your very I U.S. Department of Justice. chief of the qivil .division in know where the money The probe shifted from New York vibo was-w^ the conies from, except tiiat it i| doesn't concern outsiders. "It's my buginess," kind invitation to come back and talk with you New York to San FranStsco Grand Jiury,'; declined'"to dis­ paid through the union, ac/ he says. Democrat Thomas O'Neill of i^assa- 'once again")-; and $500 on May 21 to Democrat cording to thfe reports. chusetts fears pubUcly about any one Bjbnorar-i William Hathaway of Maine ("I'm delighted to with 26 SIU members^Jestify- cuss the case". ium he has received might offend dimors of I be back at another ofrthese MTD discussion ing before the Federal GranA Contrlbatioa Laws . ' Newspaper Reports others; "I'm certainly not going to dividge that sessions"). I Jury here yesterday. Labor laws prohibit doAtrione group paid me more thaa another," he The limcheon hosts are always ready to pro-| . ,They were crewmen New York-new^gpaper butions of union funds to fed'; V vide their Congressional guests with a unique| aboard the SeaLand freighter reports—neither denied or eral political candidates , but Aetiea' service—a service explaining why open! _ by SIU pengit unions to coUei^ "vol-1 Clearly, there's increased senritivity in Con­ speech Ipies sometimes """gdinfimllflr .Withftiiti Fairland and subpenaedv confirmed gress about this sort of outside income. Last asking, scheduled "speakers receive BUggeet^l JTuesday after the shii ' " iciaIs-7-said the union has untary coptributions" frqn; been taking political contri­ year, 'fa to effort to prevent possible impro- texts written by union ghostsi And if. the law-| |dOcked at Alameda. \ priCty, the Senate adopted rules requiring dis; makes chooses to speak his own words, the| butions from foreign seamen members' for political pur-i II They ordered to tak^ for candidates in U.iS. elec,? poses. '.closure of the amoimts and sources of these[union may nonetheless release to the press the I Avith them^^ecords relating fees. And though the House declined to go as words it wanted him to say. On occasion, news tions. , ^ Funds collected in this way I dues and ^sessments. ;far, it did order members to "accept no honor; tioi^ers inadvertently carry excerpts from unAccording to these reports,; must be reported tp the arium for a speech, writing for publication o^'delivered, uni(m-ghosted speeches. Several.-seamen said the; Japanese and Filipino sea­ bor Department's Office jbf ^ other simUar activity ... In excess of the Democratic Rep. Robert Leggett of CaMtor- [were queftidned about politi men, who are not U.S. citi- Labor-Management .and | ' usual and cus^mary value for such services." nla, for one, scrapped a canned speech sent ts cal cohtraraHons collected by fare-Pep^iqn Reports. ^' zens and cannot vote in this ' There .can- hardly be any serious challengej j^us office in advance of a i^)eaking date set for ItheSIU. [ 1 country, have been contribut­ The Justice'^partinehiid I • to the propriety of many of the fees pald-par-i March 28. He wanted to talk In his own way One saidf *'"The mi&mber^ ing as much qs one-third of investigation has been unl^ ticuliarly such sums as the $160 that Republican; about Soviet sea power. NonTetheless, the lunChbehind investigation] their wages to 'American po­ way for several; mohthdj j .Sen. John Sherman Cooper nf Kentucky got, eon hosts passed out their verrion of the ss B agiaaen, who don litical candidates. These sea- was learned. -• last year for a speech at fae Brooktogs institu-j."Leggett speech." ave votuig rights. men were said to be working ItUm here or the $400 that' Maine's Democratic Before heading the civil Conceivably, of course, the speech-buyliigl fore^igji saamen, ' Sen. Edmund Muskie received for ;^aking at may be intended to serve educational purposes,! L^TT C -'.L * partment, Giruenwall .wak:;3b fthe Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Ver- keeping the union leaders Informed also can't.vot^'^^ Mt .charge of ^e New Yorttff fjnoot. ...... -. events fa Congress. But a closer look.qi for canfrmutibns'.lD ganized cr^ section. w- Special;Interest Groups Pay Big Speaking Fees To Many in Congress "" I Seafarers Union is Under Probe S Page 16 Seafarers Log �• Outlook, Santa Monica, Calif. New York Law Journal 'Seamen's Union , Elections Fund Probed by U.S. /Oepartment\'liu g tfae SIU Inin New 'c- rqwrts, there htai. Filiirino nt U.S. citizens r in this octmb^. Iboting as raOA their wajges t» 1 candidate Ifie isratnen are ifih I their contribii^ fikical candidates Ij .^lefe the oontrh excqit. thejn union, nhibit coi^bu' pB to federal •jtSk "But unions iiry contributions ' it - political pur1, in this manner fd to the Labor T 4eidined to' hronicle 211, an as- rney here the local vuld Com/stigation iU'' fH i. reports y on sot^ ;>bips have ' I 1,1 as much j^<^eir-wages political reports, 1 is given to . the sea'I'jzens, cannot -^nedly do and the at know the ;izibutions. •Ralph de Toledano ' Reports'#iii^nMHie<r8f "New York T—nelther denied or confirmed by BIU officials—said the union has been collecting political contribu­ tions from foreign seamen for can­ didates in U. S. elections. The seameiv in San Francisco were ordered to bring records con.^1 " Iceming dues and assessments to . SAN PIlANCISCO (UPI)—TheIcourt yesterday. Several said they Son Franciaco Examiner reported were questioned about these recyesterday lliat Dei>artment of Jus-lords and tme said he was asked tice officials in San Francisco arejabout political contributions, the investigating the collection of funds iFxaminer reported, by the AFL-CIO- Seafarers Inter-1 " The Justice Department has been' national Union from its members, jinyestigating the SIU for several^ A federal grand jury hereWnths, chiefly in New York, subpoenaed twenty-six wewmen. Laborlawsprojiihitcontributions from the Sealand freighter Fair-of union fun<^3||^ederal political land on Tuesday. The crewmen, (Candidates, bui. unions can collect j all members of the SIU, testified (wtfuntary oontijibutions from mem-1 liara tor political purposes. ( before the Jury. Wednesday. New York Post Strange Bedfellows: Dirksen's $5000 Fans ty ROBERT GRUENBERG ami WILLIAM J. EATON WASHINGTON — The mcmbera of Sen. Dirksen's remark­ able $5000 club include such traditionally antagoni-stic groups as Wall St. brokers and hard-nosed labor leaders, lead­ ing Industrialists and the "Papa Bear" of pro football, George Halas. The list symbolizes Dirksen's ability to win financial support, at least, from all bver the po­ litical spectrum. . The Senate Republican lead­ er from Illinois received seven $5000. contributions in his suc­ cessful campaign for reelection last year. Collectively, they rep­ resented nearly 30 per cent of the $117,793 he reported receiv­ ing in 1968. Dirksen's reliance on big con­ tributions Is shown by the fig­ ures on file with the Secretary of the Senate that indicate about 71 i>er cent of his cam­ paign funds came from gifts of $5000 or more. Seafarers Contribute The labor donations were sur­ prising In view of his leader­ ship of the Senate fight against the AFL CIO's efforts to repeal state laws that forbid the union shop. Dirksen got $5000 each from the Seafarers' International Un­ ion and the Chicago-based Team­ sters' Volunteers in Politics, •yen though the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters endorsed his' op­ ponent, William G. Clark, In the Senate race. Paul Hall, president of the politically active Seafarers, said: San Francisco Examiner "We supported Dirksen because he's a guy who represents a point of view that we support in maritime issues and foreign affairs as well as other things." Halas, owner of the Chicago Bears football team, contribu­ ted $5000. His son, George Jr., said the "Papa Beari'was a long­ time friend and "great admirer" of Dirksen. Wall Street Source Another $5,000 contribution came from the Business-Indus­ try Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed to counter the influence of organized labor in Senate and House elections. Joseph B. Lanterman, head of the BIPAC fund-raisers, said Dirksen's allotment came out of $600,000 donated by executives of hundreds of business firms. Ho said the money was designed to help "business-oriented, free enterprise candidates tor the House and Senate." Wall St. brokers put up $5000 through the Exchange Commit-, j tee, composed of stock traders. New York attorney Richard O. Scribner'said the committee raised $176,000 to support can­ didates who "represented a responsible viewpoint," In­ cluding Democrats Chicago Oally Ntwa 1 • ' .«Voluntary, unionism" is a l^^rty vord in labor circles n'- a study of the SeafarInternational Umoii'Wfll iltpU you why. The SIU is a relatively small unionsome 45,0C0 members—but its methods give it more po­ litical puHvii than many of ;the labor mammoths. The iSIU, for example, poured ' S215,COO into the H u b e r t Humphrey presidential cam ­ paign last year, after wast­ ing a mere $50,000 in trying to nail the nomination for President Lyndon Johnson. "Then, to show that its heart was in the right place, it bought up $10,000 worth of tickets to a Republican din­ ner after Richard Nixon had viion the presidency. The SIU's tough president, Paul Hall, draws a salary of $33,382 and in one year add­ ed $52,470 in personal ex­ pense vouchers, a total of close to $90,000. No one questions Mr. Hall about this, nor does Congress raise the "conflict of interest" is­ sue when an SlU-pushed subsidy for the maritime in­ dustry exceeds budget re­ quests by $124.3 million. Of course, ten of the 13 con­ gressmen who spoke up for the increased subsidy rcc e 1V e campaign contribu­ tions from the SIU. But Paul HaU and the SIU are not selfish. In 1966, they contributed $17,000 to one congressman's campaign,in 1963. $30,000 to a sena­ tor's, and $3,200 to a power­ ful House committee. This year,- moreovef, the SIU spent $4,952 for a junket by a group of congressmen to New York City. These are facts generally known. Most unions do this kind of thing, though not so lavishly as the Seafarers. What is not generally known , is how this small union rais-,, es the cash for this kind of lobbying and campaigning. Mr. HaU gets thb money (1) ' because he runs what ; amounts to a closed shop, subsidized by the American presumably outlawed by la­ taxpayer, with aliens paying bor-management statutes, as much as one-third of (2) because Congress is their salaries to help elect afraid to interfere, and (3) candidates in a country, because the union member­ where they cannot vote. ship. deprived of its rights un.ier iiip First .\mendment to as'-.n-i.'ite or not asso­ It is an more than a little ciate. Coll do nothing about illegal—and doubly so since it. the SIU fails to "identify do­ nors of $100 or more, as re­ Now \\ a.shington Monthly, quired by the Federal Cor­ a leit-of-centcr publication, rupt Practices Act." It is come.s up with some an­ also a more than unusually swers in a piece written for sick situation since it gives it by Jerry Landauer of the the SIU, one of the most Wall Street Journal. Mr. powerful lobbies in Wash­ Landauer points out that it ington, the muscle to get the costs a minimum of $1,100 to House Appropriations Comjoin the SIU—"$300 in initia­ .mittee lo add $164 million tion fees and at least $800 to for ship construction while it cover special assessments." lops $47 million from the A new man. he adds, "must Nixon Administration's retroactively pay all assess­ crime-fighting b u d g e t. as ments levied on the mem­ Jerry Landauer points out. bership since 1940." It well may be pointed out .\lien sailors can get work that Paul Hall and the SIU on American ships, which were s i n g 1 e d out by the have a much higher pay Washington M o n t h 1 y bescale, only through the SIU I cause of the staunchly prohiring hall, particularly if Vietnam positions they have they want to get in on the taken. But facts are facts. It lucrative Vietnamese sea will be interesting to see if trade. To be hired, there­ ^the monthly now begins to fore. they must sweeten the 'dig into the political contri­ SIVs "special politic''] butions of the United Auto fund." Mr. Landauer goes Workers or the International down the line naming the Brotherhood of Operating siiips and, the aliens, and Engineers. It will also be in-: listing their "contributions." teresting to note the reac­ On the^ S.S. Western Planey. tion of some senators, now alien sailors "contributed" clamoring over the alleged at least $100 each, with "conflict of interest" in the some Filipino sailors kick­ ca%e of Judge Haynsworth, ing in as high as ^00. On .who have been on the re­ the S:S. St. Lawrence, aliens, ceiving end of SIU largesse. contributed $500 each to the It's a safe bet that if Con-' "political fund." On the S.S. gress has its way, the fla­ Sea Pioneer and the S.S." grant violations of law and Christopher, "contributions legitimate trade union prac­ from alien sailors, collected tices set forth by Mr. Lan-, on pay day right on board dauer will go i'^to the round ship, ranged from $100 to file. Once upon a time. Sen. $500." John McClellan might have opened the SIU Pandora's Is it any wonder that in box, but he is busyworking' 1968 the SIU's campaign the Army over. After all. chest contained almost $1.03 how many soldiers have million? This sum was millibn-di • campaign largely collected on ships funds' Times-Enterprise, Thomasville, Ga. Former Senator Newspaper Received $30,000 From Seafarers pounnj jiiito various Dcmocr a til , pic.sidenlial cainpaigii comimiitee.s around the country ! until the total contribution • jrm 0 u n t e d to $100,000 — wiiich wa.s reached within a 1963 when he was convicted few days," Fannin said. WASHINGTON - (UPI) - for perjury iiv testimony be­ 1'he .senator's suggestion of Sen. Paul J. Fannin, fore. a royal Canadian com­ a political payoff was made (Il-Ar/z.), .said today the mission about an assault that ! in a speech on the Senate Upmocratic Party received occuri ed five years earlier. I floor in support of a bill that 91(10,000 in campaign contri­ Banks fled Canada after' wiikl strip unions of taxbutions as an apparent "po­ .sentencing and was discov-• e.NCinpt .status if they engage| litical payoff" after the .John- cred living On a union owned in political activity, .s,pn administration refused to yacht in New York City. The ' "U is not right." Fannin extradite labor leader Hal Canadian government a.sked ^ .said, "for a union goon .. . to Banks to Canada. Secretary of State Dean Rusk j be allowed to roam free in Banks, a U. S. citizen, was to order Banks returned but, the United States as the re-f leader of Canada's Seafar- .Rusk denied the request. .suit of what appears to be a| ' tlr's International Union in i "Shortly after his decision, J $1CO.COO political payoff." June 1970 iS:cifarers Collect Millions For Political Contributions WASaiNGTQN (AP) - For­ mer U.S. Sen. Daniel B. Brews­ ter allegedly received $30,00(1 in dontributions from the .Seafar­ ers' International Union while working for legislation to make the Federal Maritime Commis­ sion an independent agency, the Washington Post r^rted to­ day. Brewster, a Maryland Demo­ crat, allegedly received the money in 1967 and 1968, the newspaper said in a cop^i^ted story. He was defeated in a bid I for re-election Republican Charles Mc, Mathias. The oontrflwtions are under investigation hy Federal Bureau of Investigati<a agents who also are ga&eriqg infonnatioD <m allegations that Brewster and Sen. Russell B. Loi%, />La., got bribes to udluence a contract for a Washington parking ga­ rage, the Post said. Seafarers contributed $30,090 to Brewster's campaign for re-: election. It quoted a Seafarers' officer in New York as saying:, "I know we supported Brewster in the campaign, but I don't The new^aper also said know of an^Wng like this.'" Brewster is under investigation The union wanted the mari­ by a federal grand jury in Balti­ time commission removed from" more on allegations he received the Dq>artment of Commence, money from so-called "junk and set ito an independent age^ mail" firms to fight against ey under th: president, the Post! postal rate increases. said. Brewster, reportedly in Ire­ In its Sunday edition, the Post land, was unavailable for com­ said Brewster allegedly re-, ment. Long, commentii!^ on the ceived campaign funds from allegation at a news conference Spiegel, Inc., a Oiicago mail «in Baton Rouge Saturday, said der firm, when CJongress raised it was a "code and bull" story. third class bulk maU rates fromj The Post said records on file three to four cents a piece on, with the Clerk of the House ^nd mailings of more than 250,000! 1 in Annapolis, Md., diowed the pieces^. Page 17 �Why Seafarers are in Politics Why are the SIU and its members so active in American politics? The delegates to the internationaVs convention last year spelled this out pretty clearly in a resolution dealing with political action. Here*s what they said on this subject: Political action is a responsibility of American citizenship, because we live in a society whose democratic institutions de­ pend on the participation of all of the people. > For years, the American labor movement has brought to this citizenship role the successful principles of trade union activ­ ity — the principles of people working together, achieving jointly what it is difficult or impossible for the individual to achieve alone. The political activities of the Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO, are in keeping with the American trade union tradition. < 1 '] , i As a trade union, we are first of all concerned ahout the enactment of legislation that will enhance the economic and social gains which are won at the bargaining table, and the defeat of legislation that would inhibit these gains. As a citizen organization, we are concerned about the enact­ ment of legislation that will improve the society in which we and our families live, and the defeat of legislation that would weaken or destroy that society. To be effective, political action must be a total program. Support of good legislation and opposition to harmful legis­ lation is not enough. It must be accompanied by support of those candidates for office who are sympathetic to the views of working people and their unions; and by opposition to those candidates who are hostile to the views of working people and their unions. This is the reason why, more than 60 years ago, Samuel Gompers called upon the members of the trade union mcr/ement to "reward your friends and punish your enemies." It is a principle that still holds true today, and it guides the political activities of the Seafarers International Union of North America in the same manner that it guides the entire trade union movement. Page 18 >4 Now, therefore, he it RESOLVED: That this 14th biennial convention of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO, re­ affirm the commitment of this Union to active participation in the political processes of this country, for the betterment of the members whom we represent; and be it further RESOLVED: That we call upon all of the members to make this political action as effective as possible by their voluntary financial contributions through their trade union structure; hy making sure that they and their families are registered voters; and by making certain that they exercise their right and duty to vote in all local, state and national elections. Seafarers Log I • -i I �Democrats^ Republicans Hail Merits of Shipping Program ti !• is ./H <? .rt' •* R 4 *• J •• (Continued from page 3) Rep. Mario Biaggi (D-N.Y.) emphasized the growth in American foreign trade, which last year hit the $74-billion mark, adding that the "modem U.S.-flag fleet" proposed in the legis­ lation "will be the economic lifeline between this country and the world marketplace." The result, he said, will be a strengthening of the U.S. balance-of-payments position. Rep. James A. Burke (D-Mass.) expressed optimism that passage of the bill would be "another important step in restoring this na­ tion to its rightful position on the high seas." He said be was "particularly encouraged" by the fact that the program would "encourge the building of vessels in American shipyards, the registering of these vessels under the American flag and the manning of these ships with Ameri­ can crews." • Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.) called the passage of the bill "the dawn of a new era in the" maritime history of this country," adding that it would "reverse the decline of the mer­ chant marine, which some of us have been wit­ nessing for the past 10 years." With respect to the phaseout of foreign-flag holdings by American companies, the Congress­ man said that to require "the complete divesti­ ture of all foreign-flag interests" immediately would mean that "the program would be doomed to failure," Rep. G. William Whitehurst (R-Va.) em­ phasized the benefits that would "accrue to sea­ faring labor" through passage of the bill, ex­ plaining that continuance of the current policy would mean "a net loss of over 10,000 seafar­ ing jobs by 1980." He termed the measure "an excellent piece of legislation" which, he said, "deserves our wholehearted support." Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) praised the Mer­ chant Marine Committee for deleting from the Administration's proposals a provision which would have eliminated the payment of subsidy for maintenance and repair work performed in American shipyards. Inclusion of the provision, she said, would have risked doing "substantial damage to the repair yards in this country." Rep. Alton Lennon (D-N.C.) pointed out that the provision extending tax-deferred con­ struction reserve rights to all operators was "the principal feature of the bill in terms of stimulat­ ing the growth of the American-flag merchant marine and in increasing shipbuilding in U.S. shipyards." Rep. Speedy O. Long (D-La.) praised the co­ operative efforts of Congress, the Administra­ tion, maritime management and maritime labor which, he said, resulted in a program which "has come as close to receiving approval from all segments of the industry ... as any mari­ time program in the past 35 years." Rep. Michael A. Felghan (D-O.) called the bill a "landmark" measure which, he said, "will reverse the downward trend" in the maritime in­ dustry. He hailed the inclusion of the Great Lakes fleet in at least part of the program, so that operators along America's "fourth seacoast" would be given an opportunity to replacing their aging vessels. Rep. Thomas M. Pelly (R-Wash.) called the bill a fulfillment of the commitment made by President Nixon, in a speech in Seattle, Wash., in September 1968, pled^ng a revitalization of the U.S.-flag fleet. He said that the legislation was both a "challenge" and an "opportunity" for the maritime industry that can lead to de­ velopment of a fleet able to move "a signifi­ cantly higher share of our commerce than we are capable of today." Rep. Charles A. Mosher (R-O.) said the in­ clusion of the Great Lakes fleet in the bill would lead to "a substantial building program" in that area. "Without the enactment of this legislation," he said, "it is unlikely that more than five or six new vessels could be built for Lakes service during the next decade. Only two have been built in the last 10 years, and only two are today being built." June 1970 Rep. Henry C. Schadeherg (R-Wis.) termed the legislation "a turning of the comer in the effort to provide our nation with a merchant marine of which we can truly be proud." Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mlch.) said that the Great Lakes fleet was "desperately in need of the kind of help afforded it" by the maritime legislation, adding that this particular stride for­ ward "can be accomplished with virtually minimal costs to the Treasury." Rep. Hastings Keith (R-Mass.) expressed appreciation that the fishing fleet was included in the tax-deferred construction reserve fund section of the bill, declaring this to be a recog­ nition of "the impact of foreign competition on our fishing fleet"—competition, he said, which was just as serious as that faced by cargo ves­ sels competing with foreign-flag operations. Rep. Robert O. Tieman (D-R.I.) called the bill the first "comprehensive and constructive measure" to aid the merchant marine in 34 years, adding that it would be of major assist­ ance to shipping and shipbuilding which con­ stitute major elements of the national defense picture. Rep. Robert Taft Jr. (R-O.) said that the measure would help in the replacement and modernization of shipping on the Great Lakes, adding that "the needed expansion of our aging merchant marine in those waters has long been a cause for concern." Rep. Hugh Carey (D-N.Y.) called the legis­ lation the beginning of "a new era for the American merchant fleet—an era that will make it possible for us to compete on a more equal basis with the ships of other nations in carrying the huge amounts of goods being shipped to and from this country." Rep. Frank Annunzio (D-III.) said that, under the new program, "we have the opportu­ nity to reverse the trend in our maritime fortunes and begin a slow, steady climb to a position of leadership among the maritime na­ tions of the world." Rep. Joseph P. Addahho (D-N.Y.) said that the bill "provides for the wholesale moderniza­ tion" of the nation's maritime laws, and "at long last provides equal treatment for all seg­ ments of the maritime industry.I' In short, he said, "it puts our maritime laws in step with the times, and makes it possible for these laws to stay in step with any changes which may take place in world maritime affairs in the years ahead." Rep. Samuel N. Friedel (D-Md.) said the measure would enable the U.S. to meet the So­ viet challenge on the high seas—a challenge, he said, which has seen the Soviet Union move "from'21st position among the merchant fleets of the world in 1950 to fifth place today. Rep. William E. Minshall (R-O.) praised the inclusion of the Greak Lakes in the legislation, declaring that such action was "absolutely es­ sential to an equitable program'of U.S. ship­ building expansion." Rep. John H. Dent (D-Pa.) said that the major significance of the legislation lay in its extension of major benefits to the bulk trades which had not previously been included in the federal maritime program. The result of the broadening of the program, he said, will be the development of "a viable, well-balanced mer­ chant fleet." Rep. Thomas P. O'NeiU (D-Mass.) called the bill "a framework for the restoration of the United States as a first-class maritime power." He said that the measure provided for "a reason­ able, workable and logical program." Rep. Jacob H. Gilbert (D-N.Y.) said that the significance of the legislation "lies in the fact that we are making a start toward correcting the deficiencies of the last several decades; we are beginning to make up for our neglect of the merchant fleet, which has served America so well in the past, and which is being given the opportunity to continue to serve our nation in the future." A quick check of the new "Seafood Time" cookbOok shows a need for more salt. The 32-page booklet, prepared by the Fish and Cannery Conference of the SIUNA for the AFLCIO Union Industries Show in New Orleans, is available to Seafarers and their families. The booklet, containing 45 ways to prepare delicious seafood meals, can be obtained by filling out the coupon below. Fish and Cannery Conference Seafarers International Union 675 Fourth Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232 Please send a copy of the "Seafood Time" cook book to: Name Address City State Zip Book Number 'Bank of Last Resort' Pushed Funds Raised to Build, Manage New Housing Washington Two federal programs de­ signed to spur construction of low-cost housing and provide employment for idle American construction workers are being supported by the AFL-CIO. One program, already au­ thorized by Congress, is mobil­ izing private investment, and supplying business and techni­ cal skills, to develop and manage low and moderate in­ come housing. The other, now before the House Banking Committee, would establish a "bank of last resort" to finance the purchase of low and middle income housing. The National Corporation for Housing Partnerships has already raised $41,750,000— exceeding its goal by more than $4 million—for construction and management of low-cost units. Meany on Board A major investor in NCHP is the International Brother­ hood of Electrical Workers. AFL-CIO President George Meany is one of the 15 mem­ bers of the original board of directors appointed by Presi­ dent Johnson. John Evans, director of the AFL-CIO Department of Ur­ ban Affairs, said he is "pleased with the response from the business community," and noted that NCHP has "provid­ ed the fullest cooperation with organized labor on the national level." "The Redevelopment Bank concept is a unique and muchneeded alternative for families desperate for shelter and in need of a bank of last resort," AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller told Chair­ man Wright Patman of the House Banking and Currency Committee. New Concept He said: "The time has come for a new concept to deal real­ istically with the money needs of our housing crisis," and the Redevelopment Bank concept "is far superior" to any other plan currently before Congress. Biemiller pointed out that funds for the bank, which would come in part from pension funds, would be fully guaran­ teed by the government and would earn at current govern­ ment security rates. Page 19 �3 More Seafarers Receive Licenses Engineer's licenses have been received by three more Seafar­ ers who completed the course of study at the School of Marine Engineering, co-sponsored by the SIU and the Marine Engi­ neers Beneficial Association District 2, There are now 379 Seafarers who have received their licenses after finishing the comprehen­ sive training program at the school. Paul Eugene Hayes, 45, re­ ceived his third assistant en­ gineer's license on May 5. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1962 and sdiled as a qualified member of the yis engine department before entermg the school. ' ' • A native of West Pau* Hayes Virginia, Brother Hayes now makes his home in Baltimore. He is a Navy veteran of World War II. Ralph Edward Snider, 23, Joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1966 and gradu­ ated from the Harry Lunde- Ralph Snider Arthur Backstrom -berg School of Seamanship in 1967. He sailed as a firemanoiler before entering the school, and graduated on April 28 with a temporary third assistant en­ gineer's license. A native of Parkersburg, W.Va., Seafarer Snider now is living in Parsons, W.Va. Arthur Frederick Backstrom Jr., 22, is a native of Staten Is­ land, N.Y., and continues to make his home there. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1966 and graduated the same year from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship. Brother Backstrom sailed as a fireman-oiler before en­ rolling in the school and gradu­ ated April 21 with a temporary third assistant engineer's license. Qualified Lifeboatmen Medical Value Studied Scientists Probe Oceans for Drugs Current research indicates that the oceans might be the most promising new source of life-saving medicines. While therapeutic medicines have been extracted from the seas in the past—iodine from Lifeboat Class 45 Graduates Nine more Seafarers received endorsements as qualified lifeboatmen on April 30, after attending the SIU*s Harry Lunde­ berg School of Seamanship in New York. Seated, from left, are Alvin Hanna, Robert Garcia, Pierangelo Poletti and Pedro Lucca. Standing are SIU Instructor Lenny Decker, Richard Mansfield, David Edwards, Marco Galliano, William Nayllor and Gregory Rios. Michael Darst (left) is pre­ sented with a wristwatch by Lifeboat Instructor Paul McGaham after he was named outstanding trainee graduate seaweed and cod liver oil—re­ cent discoveries show that much more complex substances are available from the waters, if man can learn to extract them properly. A medical publication notes: "In the last few years, biolo­ gists, chemists, and pharma­ cologists have discovered that many marine organisms and even sea water itself contain a large supply of antibiotics, poly­ saccharides, steroids, toxins and other important substances that may play an important role in the management of disease." Scientists have found that antibiotics—substances that weaken or kill disease-causing organisms—are produced by algae, shellfish, sponges and certain species of fish as part of their normal life cycles. Some of these antibiotics have shown promise in fighting dangerous strains of bacteria. Others have shown value in countering viruses, most of which are unaffected by present drugs. Some aquatic life pro­ duces toxins which might be valuable in fields such as cancer research. These discoveries and contin­ uing research are making it apparent that the seas—^tradi­ tionally provider of man's food—will expand its benefits to include drugs and other substances to preserve and re­ store man's health. Public Favors Right to Strike A recent Louis Harris Sur­ vey indicates that most Amer­ icans favor the right of workers to strike and think the right should be extended to federal and public employees. The survey was taken among a cross-section of households between April 20-24 and showed 65 percent in favor of the right to strike. Only 25 percent registered a negative view. Asked about the recent postal strikes, 61 percent "sym­ pathized" with the postal em­ ployees, while 25 percent sided with the government. The re­ cent "sickout" by the air con­ trollers showed 46 percent in sympathy, with 31 percent favoring the government. Page 20 Seafarers Log m �Forum Discusses Outlook for '70s Collective Bargaining Called Best for Labor, Management r li } •A \fi ii. /'• 'it J." !• V • ii •5- :X. *1! • New York Labor and management lead­ ers agreed—following a search­ ing and enlightening three-day conference—that collective bar­ gaining is still the best method of resolving differences between employers and employees, and that the outlook for the 1970s is hopeful. Summing up the theme of the Second Annual Collective Bargaining Forum, AFL-CIO President George Meany said that "collective bargaining, as it has grown and evolved in this country, is the most effective instrument the mind of man has so far devised for reaching mutually agreeable solutions of conflicts of interest of concern to employers and employees." He predicted that during the next 10 years labor and man­ agement will continue to en­ gage in collective bargaining and that "they will continue to build and extend and improve the collective bargaining proc­ ess." Economic Disagreement Management leaders were in sharp disagreement with labor representatives on basic eco­ nomic issues but they strongly agreed that the bargaining table was the best place to resolve their differences. Republic Steel Vice Presi­ dent Harold C. Lumb, speaking for the National Association of Manufacturers, j:omplained that unions are using "record wage agreements last year as a plateau from which to demand even higher settlements." But he also said: "Collective bargaining is a very resilient instrument. It has already met a host of new challenges as they have arisen —supplemental unemployment benefits, automation funds and the like—and I am confident it is equal to future problems." 'First and Foremost' Speaking earlier, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland told the 500 union and management oflicials, media­ tors, university professors and other labor relations experts at­ tending the forum that unions "will continue to represent their members, first and foremost, and to pursue wage increases which compensate for past and expected increases in living costs. They will do it better if they can." The forum was sponsored by the Institute of Collective Bar­ gaining & Group Relations, which includes labor, manage­ ment and public participation. Kirkland is president of the in­ stitute and Deputy Postmaster General E. T. Klassen, former president of the American Can Company, is board chairman. Theodore W. Kheel, one of the nation's leading arbitrators, is adviser to the institute. Kheel won general agreement from management participants with his assertion that "collec­ tive bargaining cannot take place without the possibility of a strike." It is not just a right of labor, he said, but it is "es­ sential to the collective bargain­ ing process." New Techniques Taking a look at the relatively new use of bargaining tech­ niques in civil service, Kirkland said that despite remarkable strides, collective bargaining in the public sector "is still in a primitive state." He said there is "no more important a task" than in achieving the maturity reached in private industry. Participants at several of the many panel sessions questioned whether some of the techniques of collective bargaining could be applied to social, political and community disputes as an alternative to the tactics of confrontation. Bayard Rustin, director of the A. Philip Randolph Founda­ tion, said that community dis­ putes are not exactly compar­ able to labor-management is­ sues but the concept is "worth exploring." He said the founda­ tion plans to examine the pos­ sibilities. SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans 1 CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD APRIL 1, 1970 TO APRIL 30, 1970 NUMBER SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN I,. OF BENEFITS Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $484.43) Optical Benefits Meal Book Beneflts Out-Patients Benefits Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid .... Seafarers' Pension Plan— Benefits Paid Seafares' Vacation Plan— Benefits Paid (Average $479.14).. Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period June 1970 15 2685 29 533 47 1267 2788 664 394 6072 14,494 AMOUNT PAID $ 5,075.50 64,720.65 69,150.04 2,135.00 9,500.00 38,042.85 132,895.67 9,984.23 3,942.50 47,496.00 382,942.44 1,554 376,129.00 1,369 739,192.43 17,417 1,498,263.87 Meany told the forum that collective bargaining "won't work for campus revolution­ aries ... or for anyone who is more interested in aggravating or perpetuating conflict than resolving it. Neither, he said, will it work for anyone who says "take it or leave it," or who submits "non-negotiable demands." Role of Mediators Meany cited the improve­ ment and the growing respect for the skills of mediators and arbitrators in helping to re­ solve difficult impasses, but he stressed the distinction between voluntary arbitration, entered into freely by both sides, and compulsory arbitration which he termed "the antithesis of col­ SIU Vice-President Earl Shepard (left) and AFL-CIO Secre­ lective bargaining" and tary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland discuss proceedings during a lull at the Second Annual Collective Bargaining Forum "tyranny." Collective bargaining is a tool, Meany stressed, "for reasonable people who believe in democracy . . . who are will­ ing to make and keep firm agreements for specific periods of time and then re-examine their goals, modify their agree­ ment and move forward for another period of time." 'Loop' Currenf Source Sought San Diego One of the largest group of oceanographers ever assembled has completed a 10-day search for the source of a mysterious ocean current known as the "loop." The loop current, scientists believe, enters the Gulf of Mexico through the Yucatan Straits and travels around the coastline in a clockwise direc­ tion, finally entering the Gulf Stream through the Florida Straits. According to the oceanographers, verifying the existence and pattern of the loop is the key to gaining insight about the distribution of effluent from the Mississippi River, which pushes silt and other pollution 150 miles into the Gulf. To find the loop current, eight universities, two state agencies, three federal agencies and an international group teamed together to form Operation EGMEX (Eastern Gulf of Mexico). During the search, eight re­ search vessels combed the Gulf, using special salinity, temperature and depth measur­ ing instruments. These extremely sensitive in­ struments can detect very slight discontinuities in salinity and temperature. The changes in these two ocean factors are definite clues that a separate water current exists within the flow of a larger body of ocean. The scientific team is now analyzing the wealth of data collected during the 10 days of research, and the mysterious source of the loop current may soon be pinpointed. Unfair to Do Not Labor Buy Seafarers and their fam­ ilies are urged to support a consumer boycott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non­ union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This list carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amend­ ed from time to time.) BRICKS^Boren Clay Prod­ ucts Co., northeastern and Great Lakes region. (United Brick and Clay Workers) CIGARETTES—R. J. Reyn­ olds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, Winston, Salem, Tempo, Brandon, Doral and Cavalier cigarettes. (Tobacco Workers) Rite, Western Provincial and Smithtown Maple (Uphol­ sters) GRAPES—All Arizona and California table grapes not bearing a union label_on the crate. (United Farm Work­ ers) GYPSUM WALLBOARD— American Gypsum Co., Al­ buquerque, N.M. (Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers) LIQUORS—Stitzel-Weller Dis­ tilleries, makers of Old Fitz­ gerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk and W.L. Weller brands. (Distillery Workers) NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. (10 un­ ions involved—covering 2,000 workers) CLOTHING Siegel (H. I. S. PRINTING—Kingsport Press, brand) suits and sports "World Book" and "Childjackets, Kaynee boyswear, craft." (6 unions involved) Richman Brothers mens' clothing, Sewell suits. Wing RANGES—Magic Chef, Pan Pacific Division., (Allied Ap­ shirts, Metro Pants Co. prod­ pliance Workers) ucts, and Diplomat Pajamas by Fortex Mfg. Co. (Amal­ gamated Clothing Workers) SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co., shoes by Sentry, Cedar Judy Bond blouses. (Ladies Chest, Staler, Jarman, John­ Garment Workers) son & Murphy and CrestFLOUR MILL PRODUCTS— worth. (Boot and Shoe Pioneer Products, San An­ Workers) tonio, Tex. (Brewery, Flour SPECIAL—^All West Virginia and Distillery Workers) camping and vacation spots. FURNITURE—^James Sterling (Latorers) Corp. and White Furniture TOYS—Fisher-Price toys. (Doll Co. (Furniture Workers) Economy Furniture — Biltand Toy Workers) Page 21 �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mari­ time), April 26—Chairman. J. Latalie; Secretary, R. M. Kennedy; Deck Delegate, Stephen Fulford; Engine Delegate, Jimmy L. Dimmett; Steward Delegate, David Jones. Repair list submitted. No disputed OT. OVERSEAS VIVIAN (Maritime Overseas), May 3—Chairman, Rob­ ert A. Yeager; Secretary, Troy Sav­ age; Deck Delegate, Richard D. Schaeffer; Engine Delegate, John A. Sullivan; Steward Delegate, F. J. Johnson. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Serv­ ice), Feb. 1—Chairman. A. Hebert; Secretary, N. Scot(; Deck Delegate, William Hunter; Engine Delegate, Emmett A. Connell; Steward Dele­ gate, Joseph Hall. Some disputed OT; otherwise everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job well done. WESTERN CLIPPER (Western. Agency), April 26—Chairman, M. Olson; Secretary, John W. Givens; Deck Delegate, W. L. Stewart; En­ gine Delegate. J. P. Arpino; Stew­ ard Delegate, C. M. Ayala. Motion made that SIU members retire af­ ter 20 years in the union and 15 years seatime. No beefs and no disputed OT. AFOUNDRIA (Sea-Land), Nov. 9—Chairman, Gerald Corelli; Sec­ retary, F. R. Kaziukewicz; Deck Delegate, Harold Moody; Engine Delegate, B. Rivera; Steward Dele­ gate, Michael Berin. $52.69 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. AFOUNDRIA (Sea-Land), Feb. 15—Chairman, B. Vinn; Secretary, F. R. Kaziukewicz: Steward Dele­ gate, M. Boris. $15.69 in ship's fund. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. AFOUNDRIA (Sea-Land), March 8—Chairman, B. Vinn; Secretary, F. R. Kaziukewicz; Deck Delegate, Gerald Corelli; Steward Delegate, M. Boris. $315 in movie fund and $15.69 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. PENN CHAMPION (Penn), May 3—Chairman, Charles Boyle; Sec­ retary, Z. A. Markris; Deck Deleg.'te, C. R. Danyer; Engine Deletiate, R. E. Nickerson; Steward Delegate, R. G. Martinez. Discus­ sion held regarding pension plan. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for fine food and serv­ ice. $12 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Everything running smoothly. HURRICANE (Waterman), April 19—Chairman, C. L. Engelund; Secretary, James T. Myers; Deck Delegate, George Neying; Engine Delegate, Nick Malcogliese; Steward Delegate, Stephen Knqpp. Every­ thing running smoothly with only a few hours disputed OT in deck department. CHARLESTON (Sea-Land), May 3—Chairman, Vincent Ratcliff; Sec­ retary, Guy Walter; Deck Delegate, A. Kotes; Engine Delegate, Fred Lamber; Steward Delegate, Edward Presnich. $5 in ship's fund. No oeefs and no disputed OT. Every­ thing running smoothly. S-raEL ENGINEER (Isthmian) April 20—Chairman, Harry Wong; Secretary, Angel Seda; Deck Dele­ gate, Michael H. Curry; Engine Delegate, Richard Cookman; Stew­ ard Delegate, Martin Homer. $9.50 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Every­ thing running smoothly. VANTAGE VENTURE (Vancor). May 3—Chairman, Billy J. Brewer; Secretary, James B. Jayang; Deck Delegate, James M. Edmonds; Engine Delegate, John J. Kulas; Steward Delegate, Earl Whatley. Some disputed OT in engine de­ partment. $160 in movie fund. Everything running smoothly with Page 22 no beefs. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. Crew commended for their cooperation. Fine bunch of fellows aboard. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tankers), April 26—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Deck Delegate, Robert W. Smith; Stew­ ard Delegate, Rayfield E. Cranford. No bee^s reported. Vote of thanks to steward deplrtment. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Victory Carriers), April 12—Chair­ man and Deck Delegate, Robert H. Bell Sr.; Secretary, Robert H. Pitcher Sr.; Engine Delegate, Ben­ jamin R. Higgins; Steward Delegate, James Carter. Some disputed OT in engine department, otherwise every­ thing running smoothly. PENN CHAMPION (Penn), April 5—Chairman, Charles Boyle; Secretary. Z. A. Markris; Deck Del­ egate, C. R. Danyer; Engine Del­ egate, Raymond E. Nickerson; Steward Delegate, R. G. Martinez. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for good food and service. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT. Everything running smoothly. Fine crew aboard. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Mari­ time Overseas), April 12—Chair­ man, Frank M. McKeown; Secre­ tary, A. Belcher; Deck Delegate, Chuck Demers; Engine Delegate, A. D. Simmons; Steward Delegate, Fred N. Lindsey. No beefs and no disputed OT. DELTA MEXICO (Delta), April 14—Chairman. S. M. McCown; Secretary, L. Nicholas; Deck Dele­ gate, M. C. Casper; Engine Dele­ gate, Henry Lang; Steward Dele­ gate, C. Riches. $272.45 in movie fund. No beefs. Everything running smoothly. NEWARK (Sea-Land), May 10— Chairman, L. A. Ramirez; Secre­ tary, J. Utz; Deck Delegate, Nor­ man Okray; Engine Delegate, S. Hornville; Steward Delegate, Daniel Seda. Motion submitted to head­ quarters regarding relief gang for crews at San Juan, Puerto Rico. . COLUMBIA OWL (Columbia,) May 9—Chairman, T. Hilbum; Sec­ retary, J. Thomas; Deck Delegate, George A. Nuss; Engine Delegate, W. H. Hames; Steward Delegate, Thurston J. Lewis. Discussion held regarding repairs which have not been completed. Everything run­ ning smoothly with no beefs. OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mari­ time Overseas), April 12—Chair­ man, Bobby J. Butts; Secretary, S. A. Solomon Sr.; Deck Delegate, Stephen H. Fulford; Steward Dele­ gate, Joseph Bennett Jr. Few beefs to be taken up with boarding patrol­ man. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), May 3—Chairman, James D. Park­ er; Secretary, J. D. Forster; Deck Delegate, D. B. Wasson; Engine Delegate, Anthony P. Phillippello; Steward Delegate, Angelo Euro. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. COLUMBIA HAWK (Columbia), May 6—Chairman, Raymond Nich­ olson; Secretary, Louis Pepper; Engine Delegate, C. E. Masters; Steward Delegate, H. McAllen. Some disputed OT in deck and steward department. Vote of thanks extended to chief cook for job well done while vessel passed through several storms during voyage. COLUMBIA MARINER (Co­ lumbia), May 4—Chairman, Vertis C. Smith; Secretary, Woody W. Perkins. Some aisputed OT in deck and steward departments. No major beefs. Discussion on various Motion made that vacation pay MOBILIAN (Waterman), May matters. Vote of thanks to steward 10—Chairman, J. Cisiecki; Secretary, checks be sent to address designated department for job well done. by member instead of member hav­ Roscoe L. Alford; Deck Delegate, DE SOTO (Waterman), April ing to report to union hall, as many Robert S. Wagner; Engine Delegate, 19—Chairman, E. A. Rihn; Secre­ tary, J. F. Castronover; Engine D. F. Madruk; Steward Delegate, members live several miles from nearest hall. Richard P. Gralicki. Everything Delegate, R. L. Welch; Steward COMMANDER (Marine Carri­ Delegate, Hubert G. Weeks. No running smoothly. Vote of thanks beefs and no disputed OT. $5.70 in extended to steward department for ers), May 2—Chairman, A. R. Saw­ job well done. yer; Secretary, F. R. Hicks. Dis­ ship's fund. TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson), cussion held regarding pension plan. WARRIOR (Sea-Land), April 22—Chairman, J. Giller; Secretary, May 3—Chairman, P. Whitlow; Motion made to have union nego­ A. Aragones; Deck Delegate, C. Secretary. O. Frezza; Deck Delegate, tiate for washing machine in stew­ Lee Snodgrass; Engine Delegate, ard department on all SIU ships. Bortz; Steward Delegate, Jose R. Colls. No disputed OT and no beefs George Quinonnes; Steward Dele­ Some disputed OT in deck depart gate, Martin Iterrino. $31 in ship's ment to be taken up with patrol­ reported by department delegates. man. No major beefs reported. fund. Few hours disputed OT in SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), deck and engine departments. Mat­ ERICKSON (Crest Overseas), April 11—Chairman, A1 Ringuette; Secretary, H. A. Galiski; Deck Del­ ter of securing ship before sailing May 17—Chairman, John Hoggie; egate, Arvo Antilla; Engine Dele­ and posting of sailing board time Secretary, C. H. Jones; Deck Dele­ to be taken up with patrolman. gate, Elbert D. Winston; Engine gate, Henry W. Miller; Steward Vote of thanks extended to baker Delegate, Louis F. Gream; Steward Delegate, Howard Backford. $43.69 Delegate, L. S. Decker. Vote of in movie fund. Everything running for job well done. thanks extended to steward depart­ SEATRAIN FLORIDA (Seasmoothly with no beefs and no ment for job well done. OT beef train), May 3—Chairman, Robert disputed OT. in engine department. Byrd; Secretary, Wilbur Sink; Deck HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian). Delegate. Carlos H. Canales; Engine April 18—Chairman and Deck Del­ April 4—Chairman, Leroy Temple; Delegate. James C. Winston; Stew­ egate, A. H. Schwartz; Secretary, Secretary, J. P. Baliday; Deck Del­ James B. Morton; Engine Delegate. ard Delegate, James Jameston. egate, J. Long; Engine Delegate, ' Some disputed OT in deck depart­ William D. Cooper; Steward Dele­ ment. Few repairs done, others to Douglas McLeod; Steward Dele­ gate, H. W. Nace Jr. Few hours be completed in shipyard. Vote of gate, Philip Swing. Discussion held disputed OT in deck and engine thanks to steward department for regarding rusty water. Everything departments to be brought to atten­ else running smoothly. $122.55 in job well done. tion of boarding patrolman. ship's fund. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), TRANSMALAYA (Hudson TRANSHAWAII (Hudson Water­ Waterways), April 20—Chairman, May 3—Chairman, Daniel D. ways), May 10—Chairman, T. E Backrak; Secretary and Steward John M. Crews; Secretary, Candido Delegate, A. P. Lopez; Deck Dele­ Yablonsky; Secretary, James Tem­ Delacruz; Deck Delegate, Monta L. gate, C. D. Phillips; Engine Dele­ ple; Deck Delegate, A. Ease; En­ Garber; Engine Delegate, P. A. gate, L. B. Broderick. $30 in ship's gine Delegate; Earl S. Rogers; Stew­ Laroda; Steward Delegate, John P. fund. Some disputed OT in deck ard Delegate, Edward Dale. $12.50 Cox. Discussion held , regarding department. Vote of thanks ex­ in ship's fund. Everything running draws. No beefs reported by de­ tended to steward department for smoothly with no beefs. Vote of partment delegates. thanks to steward department for job well done. PENN SAILOR (Penn), April 4— job well done. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), May Chairman, George Annis; Secretary, CANTIGNY (Cities Service), 11—Chairman, B. Hager; Secre­ Joseph E. Hannon. Few hours dis­ May 9—Chairman, J. O. Thomas; tary, A. H. Reasko; Deck Delegate, puted OT in deck department, Secretary and Deck Delegate, Lu­ T. J. Henry; Engine Delegate, Al­ otherwise everything running ther Roberts. $5 in ship's fund. fred R. Fry. $120 in ship's fund. smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well Discussion held regarding pension Some disputed OT in deck depart­ plan. Vote of thanks extended all ment. Vote of thanks to steward done. MAHJEN CREEK (Sea-Land), departments for job well done. department for fine food and serv­ April 4—Chairman, George Annis; Pleasant voyage with good crew on ice. PANAMA (Sea-Land), May 3— board. Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon; Deck Chairman. Ray Schrum; Secretary, INGER (Reynolds Metals), May Delegate, Roy A. Wattford; Stew­ James R. McPhaul. Very smooth 10—Chairman, J. Mann; Secretary, ard Delegate, James L. Mclamore. P. L. Shauger; Deck Delegate, Pete voyage this trip with no beefs. Some Few hours disputed OT in deck department.' Everything running Scroggins; Engine Delegate, John disputed OT in engine department smoothly. Vote of thanks extended G. Dellinger; Steward Delegate, to be squared away. Vote of thanks Walter Cutter. Some disputed OT to steward department for job well to steward department. DEL SUD (Delta), April 21— in deck and engine departments. done. Chairman, N. Pizzuto; Secretary, S. Rothschild; Deck Delegate, Joseph Collins; Engine Delegate, William D. Walker; Steward Dele­ gate, LeRoy Rinker. Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. DEL ORG (Delta), April 24— Chairman, Jack M. Dalton; Secre­ tary, Robert Callahan; Deck Dele­ gate, Leonard Bailey; Engine Dele­ gate, A. S. DeAgro; Steward Dele­ gate, Joseph Warfield. No beefs and no disputed OT. PINEDALE (Pinedale Shipping), Dec. 21—Chairman, Burt T. Hanback; Secretary, Ed Kaznowsky; Engine Delegate, A. O. Krogly; Steward Delegate, Fred Louis. Ship sailed short one utilityman in stew­ ard department. No beefs reported by department delegates. PINEDALE (Pinedale Shipping), Feb. 2—Chairman, A. O. Krogly; Secretary, Ed Kaznowsky; Steward Delegate, Fred Louis. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by depart­ ment delegates. Ship to be scrapped in Formosa and arrangements made to fly crew back to port of enjbark- Boston Mayor, Kevin H. White (seated, center) called for ation. ' the "restoration of our merchant marine" in a special proc­ ROBIN TRENT (Moore-McCor- lamation issued on Maritime Day, May 22. Also present at mack), April 19—Chairman, W. D. the signing of the proclamation were: Edward Riley, SIU Crawford; Secretary, Jack C. port agent in Boston and secretary-treasurer of the Greater O'Steen; Deck Delegate, Melvin O. Boston and New England Maritime Trades Council, and Pat Moore; Engine Delegate, Herbert P. Calloe; Steward Delegate, Har­ Boncanfuso (seated, right), the Council's president. Stand­ rison Burnsed. Some disputed OT ing from left rre: John O'Brien, Local 103 of the Electrical in deck and engine departments; Workers; Lawrence Sullivan, Greater Labor Council, and otherwise everything running James Martin, port agent for the SIUNA-affiliated Atlantic smoothly. Fishermen's Union. Mayor Proclaims Maritime Day Seafarers Log m �NEW JERSEY (Seatrain Lines)—Some disputes on overtime were re­ ported and taken care of by the boarding patrolmen when the vessel came in to the terminal in Port Elizabeth, N.J. The ship's committee (from left) : Emanuel Rapitis, engine delegate; Emanuel Lowe, steward delegate; Peter Morris, ship's chairman; Herbert Atkinson, secretary-reporter, and Henry McCue, deck department delegate. SUMMIT (Sea-Land)—No beefs were reported on the coastwise trip to Puerto Rico, according to the ship's department delegates. The ship's committee on the Summit (from left) : Andy Fletchko, chairman; Joe Miller, steward department delegate; Emil Wagner, deck delegate; Ola Stronas, engine delegate, and Bernard Mace, secretary-treasurer. Ships' Yf '• ' HI I" Committees 1/ • C "i '-h' fy ./ fll. r. l.:y rriHE SHIP'S COMMITTEE on all SIUJ[ contracted vessels throughout the f^Drld make it possible for all members of the Union to keep informed and to take part in the programs of the SIU. The ship's chairman has the responsibility of calling a shipboard meeting each Sunday while the vessel is at sea to discuss any and all matters affecting the Seafarers. The ship's secretary-reporter has the important responsibility of keeping in close communication with the SIU head­ quarters ashore. He should make certain that crew lists are sent to headquarters as early as possible, and that minutes of all shipboard meetings are complete and accurate. ECAUSE THERE is no ship's delegate, the three elected department dele­ gates should make certain that crewmembers in their department keep accurate overtime records. They also have the re­ sponsibility of settling all beefs that can be taken care of at sea, and of reporting those beefs that cannot be settled to the patrolmen when the ship pays off. B TRANSHURON (Hudson Waterways)—The ship's commit­ tee reported a smooth voyage on the Transhuron's run to North Europe. After discharging her boxes, the ship was scheduled to go to the shipyard for work on the engine room. The ship's committee are, (standing from left): Walter Butterton, ship's chairman, and Elkin Kent, engine delegate. Seated; Jose Salinas, deck delegate, and George Malone, steward delegate. The ship's secretary was not avail­ able for the photograph. %• K !/ ,I DETROIT (Sea-Land)—^Just returned from Puerto Rico, the ship's com­ mittee reports that everything has been running smoothly. Seated (from left) are: Jose Espanol, engine delegate; Louis Cevette, ship's secretaryreporter, and Dario Rios, steward delegate. Standing are: Adolpli Demarco, deck delegate, and Peter Semyk, chairman. F June 1970 I^ * ROBIN TRENT (Moore-MacCormack)—At the dock in Philadelphia with general cargo from the Far East, the Robin Trent paid off after a twomonth voyage. The ship's committee posed on deck for their photo. From left are: Bayard Heimer, engine delegate; Harrison Burnsed, steward delegate; William D. Crawford, ship's chairman; Henry Lanier, deck dele­ gate, and Thomas Jones, able seaman. Page 23 �SlUNA Boat's Surprise Cafch SGsfspeps Mystery Fish Puzzle Science New Bedford, Mass. Marine scieatists are puzzling over two tropical fish, of differ­ ent species, that were caught by a New Bedford scalloper off Nantucket Shoals, in the same place, at the same time. The fish, identified by ma­ rine biologists as a trumpetfish and a filefish, would normally be at home in the warm waters off the coast of Brazil or the West Indies. They were caught in waters 35 fathoms deep by the Laura A., manned by a New Bedford Fishermen's Union crew, an SIUNA affiliate. Snake-Like U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv­ ice oceanographers described the snake-like trumpetfish as 15 inches long with a translu­ cent brown body. Some species grow up to six feet in length. The ugly creature has two dark eyes set back from a long "nose" that looks like a trum­ pet. The marine scientists said that the filefish is flat like a flounder and five inches long. It is olive green in color and has a single horn at the top of its head, foward of the eyes. Larger members of the species grow to a length of 10 inches. The oceanographers and marine biologists who are study- The trumpetfish (top) and the filefish were caught off the Nantucket Shoals by an SIUNA fishing boat. Scientists are puzzled as to how these tropical fish, native to the warm waters off Brazil, were found in such northerly waters. ing the mystery of these strange visitors to northern waters have advanced different theories on how they journeyed so far from their natural habitats. Simple Explanation The simplest explanation states that they were released from an aquarium into the 51U Arrivals David Deny, born Feb. 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leo M. Derry Jr., Alpena, Mich. Lonnie Arnaud, born Feb. 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jo­ seph L. Arnaud, Arnaudville, La. Thomas Bazor, bom March 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Al­ bert T. Bazor, Goden, Ala. Axel Torres, born Jan. 25, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ivan Torres, Ponce, P.R. Mark Merlino, bom Feb. 22, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas H. Merlino, Lorain, O. Tammie Angle, born Oct. 27, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Angle, Chicago, 111. Beatrice Sierra, born to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Efrain R. Sierra, Jayuya, P.R. Karen Cordes, born Feb. 20, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs.* Al­ fred Cordes, Bronx, N.Y. Ivan Bonefont, born Dec. 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ga­ briel Bonefont Jr., Brooklyn, N.Y. Robert Bell, born March 16, 1970 to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ ert H. Bell Jr., Pensacola, Fla. Lassie Gregory, born March 5, 1970 to Seafarer and Mrs. James A. Gregory, Hitchcock, Tex. Jeanine Southard, born March 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John E. Southard, Edgewater Park, N.J. Edward Gonzales, born Feb. 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Page 24 Tommy Wash. R. Gonzales, Seattle, Jeffrey Gonzales, born May 22, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Tommy Gonzales, Seattle, Wash. Atlantic near where they were caught. Other scientists, unwilling to dismiss the mystery so easily, believe that the two fish may have followed the warm waters of the gulf stream and were able to adjust to the gradually cooling environment. This is supported by reports of other tropical species found as far north as the coast of Maine. While the scientists argued their theories, a veteran New Bedford fisherman summed up the situation by saying: "I don't see what all the fuss is about. I don't imagine these fish would make good eating." A8TI0N LINE In addition to the beefs and contract questions which are set­ tled aboard ship at payoffs and sign-ons, and by the SIU Contract Enforcement Department, headquarters in New York receives communications from Seafarers seeking contract interpretations and other information relating to their jobs. These questions cover the range of working conditions, pension and welfare, and other related subjects. Because many of these questions are of general interest to the membership, headquarters has arranged to have the questions and answers published regularly in the Log. Question: Why do ships no longer carry a "night cook-baker"? Answer: The elimination of the classification "night cook-baker" was negotiated as part of the New Standard Freightship Agreement in June 1969, to more evenly distribute the work load in the galley. The classification came into being during World War II, when merchant ships began carrying gun crews, and it remained after as most freightships carried up to 12 passengers. In those days, gal­ leys were equipped with cpal-burning ovens, and all breads and pastries were prepared and baked by hand. Most ships had only two ovens and the baking, therefore, had to be done at night when , the ovens were not being used for preparing meals. Today, ships' galleys are semi-automated, and very few carry passengers. (When passengers or extra men are carried, provision is made for increasing the manning scale. Article V, Section 5.) Special electric baking ovens, thermostatically-controlled, make it more practical and efficient to have the baking done during the day, rather than at night. Today's cook and baker also has available a wide variety of pre-mixed cakes and pastries, and frozen ready-to-bake breads and muffins, which cuts down on the time involved in preparing baked goods. A final consideration in doing away with the night baking, particularly in ports, was to allow for a more fair distribution of port time for members of the steward department. Office Employees Organizing Banlcs^ Chicago The Office and Professional Employees Union has launched a major organizing drive of Chicago area banks. The im-. mediate targets are eight banks, which employ some 29,000, persons. Some 100 OPEIU regional directors, international repre­ sentatives and organizers are joining in the campaign, headed by President Howard Coughlin. Anthony TIppen, born Dec. 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. David C. Tippen, Fisk, Mo. Vivian Schutz, born March 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Valdir Schutz, New Orleans, La. Rebecca Fisher, born Feb. 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alvin L. Fisher, Houston, Tex. Sonja Ballard, bom Apri' 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Her­ bert J. Ballard, Houston, Tex. Melanie Moore, born Jan. 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jo­ seph W. Moore, Amite, La. Emely Flores, born April 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pau­ lino Flores Jr., Puerto Nuevo, P.R. Doris Irula, born March 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ra­ mon Irula, New Orleans, La. Thrace White, born Jan. 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Larry R. White, Norfolk, Va. Joseph Vain, born March 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jo­ seph E. Vain, Baltimore, Md. Wendy Merkle, born March 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard E. Merkle, Paulsboro, N.J. Julie Marie Picado, born Feb. 4, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs, Rafael Picado, New Orleans, La. Marisol Ortiz, born March 4, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gregorio Ortiz, New Orleans, La. New SIU Pensioners 1- Six more Seafarers closed out long sailing careers at the May membership meeting in the New York hall. Shown as they received their first pension cheeks from SIU Vice Presi­ dent Earl Shepard are (clockwise) Stanislaw Pelikse, Ramon Galarza, George Alexander, Solon Pateras, Demetrios Grivas and Charles Slanina. Shepard wished them a long and happy retirement after their years at sea. Seafarers Log r yj , ' �t \• Converted Transoregon Home from Europe 1 English-made crane recently put into operation at the SeaA45-TON train terminal in Weehauken, NJ., was used to unload the Trans­ oregon (see picture below). The Transoregon is a converted C-4, with a new midsection added and a house mounted forward. There are two of the huge cranes at the Seatrain terminal. The ship is in service on Seatrain's run to Northern Europe. Ordinary Seaman Lawrence Morris prepares to lower the colors on the Transoregon as the sun sets on the ship tied up at Seatrain^s Weehauken terminal after the one-month voyage. I I,5 Veteran Seafarer John Clark sails as pan­ tryman, but refers to himself as the ''niaitre d'hotel" aboard the Transoregon. He is seen here as he prepares a salad. I'i I- 1 Mike Doherty, deck dele­ gate on the Transoregon, goes over the overtime records of the deck crew with SIU Patrolman "Red" Campbell. Doherty reported a smooth voy­ age with no beefs. ^ Third Cook Christopher Rat-cliff (left) and B.R. Utility Henry Cakes (center), both graduates of the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship at Piney V "^oint, Md., have benefited from the experi­ ence of Chief Cook Jan Rooms, who has been going to sea for many years. Rooms had high praise for the work of the two young Seafarers. Oiler Jose Valle (left) talks with SIU Patrolman Luigi lovino at the payoff of the Transoregon. There were no beefs during the voyage and only a few disputed overtime hours, according to depart­ ment delegates. June 1970 .<• r' / Don Gifford (left), oiler, and Mike Bigley, wiper, pick up their copies of Maritime and the Seafarers Log which were brought to the ship by the boarding patrolmen. Gifford and Bigley, like most Sea­ farers, keep fully-informed on what's happening in their union and in the maritime industry by reading the two publications. Page 25 �Sfeel Admiral' Long Voyage A FTER RETURNING from a long voyage to the Far East, the Steel Admiral (Isth­ mian) berthed in Erie Basin in the Port of New York. A return to Far East ports began following the unloading of cargo, signing on crew replacements, and taking on of new cargo aboard the C-3. Military supplies were included in the cargo. In the May edition of the Log, the Steel Admiral was featured in two pictures showing a jury-rigged galley. Ship's Secretary-Reporter I. Avecilla gives pictures and a story to a Log photographer about how the steward de­ partment had to prepare meals on deck after the ship's plant went dead six days out of Hong Kong. Richard Burkhart completed train­ ing at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship's upgrading school, passed his Coast Guard examination and received his fireman-watertender endorsement April 1. The following day he signed on the Steel Admiral for a voyage to the Far East. Here he stands his first watch. Able .Seaman Lars Nielson is an ac­ complished photographer and likes to look for unusual and artistic scenes to capture on film. He is also a good on-the-spot news photog­ rapher, and sent in the pictures which appeared in the May issue. Able Seaman Ramon Quiles (center) operates the winch as stores are lifted aboard the Steel Admiral. He is assisted by Ordi­ nary Seaman John Albano (left) and Wiper Hyman Kompel. Roy B. Knight, fireman-watertender, stands watch in the engine room as the Steel Flyer discharges cargo. Knight likes the India-Africa run and signed on for the return voyage. The crew agreed that the Steel Flyer is a good feeder, and here are two reasons for the welldeserved compliment—Joseph Cuelles, (left), chief cook and Daniel Herrra, third cook. That's roast fresh ham they're getting ready to carve, and it's typical of the good menus served up during the voyage. Ronnie Simkins was making his first trip after completing training at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship. Sailing as pantryman, Simkins said he liked "the voyage and plans to continue making a career as a professional seaman. Steel Flyer's Smooth Voyage B First-trippers William Moore (left) and Clarence. King catch up on the news after the ship came in' from her long voyage. Both are graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Moore sailed as ordinary seaman and King shipped as pantryman on the Steel Flyer. Page 26 ACK HOME was the Steel Flyer (Isthmian) after a voyage of three months and 21 days. The C-3 also tied up at Erie Basin in New York after touching at ports in India and South Africa. The Ship's Committee reported a smooth voyage with few beefs. Then, like her sister ship the Steel Admiral, the Steel Flyer turned around for the return voyage to India and South Africa. Seafarers Log �I i 18 More Veteran Seafarers Added to Pension Roster Added to the SIU pension ros­ ter last month were 18 Seafar­ ers who retired to shore after many years at sea. Stanlslaw Pellksze, 65, joined the union in the Port of Boston in 1943 and sailed in the deck department. A native of Poland, Brother Peliksze now lives in Brooklyn. When he retired. Sea­ farer Peliksze ended a sailing career of 40 years. Andreas Vacontios, 63, a na­ tive of Greece, now lives in Houston, Tex. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department. >• rI Andreas Vacontios Leonard Willis Paradeau, 64, joined the union in the Port of Norfolk in 1938 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Minnesota, Brother Paradeau now makes his home in New Or­ leans. When he retired. Seafarer Paradeau ended a sailing career of 44 years. SIU in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the engine depart­ ment. A native of Czechoslo­ vakia, Brother Slanina now lives in New York City. On board ship he served as department delegate and ship's delegate. He retired after sailing 48 years. A Solon Pateras ^ Charles Slanina Harvey Charles Hill, 57, a na­ tive of Missouri, is now spend­ ing his retirement in Buckley, Wash. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1940 and sailed in the deck department. When he retired. Brother Hill had 38 years of sailing behind him. Earl H. Fain, 65, a native of Texas and now lives in Louis­ ville, Ala. He joined the union in the Port of Norfolk in 1938 and sailed in the engine department. Seafarer Fain was an Army vet­ eran of World War II. Demetrios Grivas James William Barnes, 58, is a native of North Carolina where he now lives in the city of Vandemere. He joined the union in the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the engine department as a fire­ man-oiler. Charles Slanina, 72, joined the June 1970 Hi Francisco Mateo Gerald Eugene Pettipas, 45, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1945 and sailed in the deck department. A native of Canada, Brother Pettipas now makes his home in Riverdale, Md. loannis Loukas Joseph Henri Robin Jr., 57, a native of Annapolis, Md., now lives in Virginia Beach, Va. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1945 and sailed in the steward department. Brother Robin served in the Navy from 1930 to 1936. When he retired, he ended a sailing career of 40 years. Gerald K. Lima, 57, joined the SIU in the Port of Tampa in 1940 and sailed in the steward department. A native of Tampa, Fla., Brother Lima continues to make his home there. Henry Robin Gerald Lima Mergers .Now More Frequent Ramon Gaiarza Francisco Miaranda Mateo, 60, is a native of Puerto Rico where he now lives in Ponce. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the engine department as a firemanoiler and deck engineer. He has served as department delegate aboard ship and was issued a picket duty card in 1961. James William Corcoran, 66, joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1943 and sailed in the deck department as a boat­ swain. A native of Concord, N.H., he now lives in Daytona Beach, Fla. Brother Corcoran Seven Earn Full Books Seven Seafarers received their full books at the May mem­ bership meeting in the New York hall from SIU Vice Presi­ dent Earl Shepard. The men earned their books after com­ pleting Advanced Seamanship Training conducted by the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Seated are Richard Worzel, Elias Limon and Frank Costanzo. Standing Bill Pasquini, William Card, Abraham Alfaro and Patrick Golden. Tidal Wave Warnings Device Used in Alaska Ramon Gaiarza, 51, joined the union in the Port of Galves­ ton in 1943 and sailed in the steward department as a' messman. A native of Puerto Rico, Seafarer Gaiarza now makes his home in "New York City. James Barnes Scdon Pateras, 65, a native of Cyprus, now lives in Jamaica, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1943 and sailed in the deck department as an AB. He had been sailing 48 years when he retired. " loannis Nick Loukas, 50, a native of Greece, now lives in Haverstraw, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Galveston and sailed in the engine depart­ ment. Gerald Pettipw Willie Berry Toomer, 75, joined, the SIU in the Port of Philadelphia in 1939 and sailed in the steward department. A na­ tive of Georgia, he now makes his home in San Francisco. When he retired, Brother Toomer end­ ed a sailing career of 48 years. Willie Toomer H Demitrios Grivas, 63, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine depart­ ment as a fireman-oiler and deck engineer, A native of Greece, Seafarer Demitrios now makes his home in New York. He is an Army veteran of World War II. Harvey Hill Ceciie Young // James Corcoran Ceciie Glenn Young, 42, ioined the SIU in the Port of -New Orleans and sailed in the -ngine department. A native of Bogalusa, La., he is now spend­ ing his retirement in Houston, Tex. Brother Young served in the Army from 1948 until 1952. Leonard Paradeau served in the Navy from 1919 to 1921. Washington Federal Trade Commission statistics for 1969 bear out complaints of organized labor that business mergers are be­ coming more frequent. Some 4,550 firms were absorbed through purchase by other firms. This total was up 16 per­ cent over 1968. Acquisitions by manufacturing firms in 1969 represented the largest group, accounting for 57 percent of the total. Acquisition of service firms, however, shot up more than 48 percent from 1968 and more than triple the rate for 1967. Kodlak, Alaska A new electronic system to provide advance warning to Pacific Ocean areas threatened by tidal waves has been devel­ oped by scientists from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Department of Com­ merce. These tidal waves, called by the Japanese word tsunami, are caused by earthquakes under the ocean floor. The earthquake Workers Musf Exercise Right to Vote Denver Working people can lose out on the many advances labor has made over the years unless they take the time to register to vote and then exercise that right, an official of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers has warned. Addressing a meeting of. OCAW members here, Secre­ tary-Treasurer Ben J. Schafer said: "Working people who havethe most to lose are the most indifferent about registering to vote and about turning out to cast their ballots on election day, and by not voting they are failing to exercise one of their basic rights of citizenship. "Just as important is that many of the advances the labor movement has made over the years can be wiped but almost overnight if liberal, pro-union officeholders are not reelected." He also said "because of the policies of the Nixon Adminis­ tration the U.S. work force is losing jobs at the rate of 3,000 a week. There are 17 million hardship cases in this country today—people living on in­ comes below the poverty level." shock waves cause the waters to erupt with a series of huge walls of water. When the Alaskan coast was devastated by tidal waves fol­ lowing an offshore quake in 1964, such a system was not available and little warning was given before disaster struck. As a consequence life and property was lost that could have been saved with proper preparation. One of the largest tsunami disasters in modern history oc­ curred on the coast of Japan in 1896 when 27,000 persons died from the flood waters. The new system will con­ stantly monitor earthquake activity from an electronic nerve center. The sensitive in­ struments will pinpoint the occurrence and origin of earth­ quakes and predict if and where a tsunami will strike, giving residents more time to protect life and property. U.S. Ranks 12th In Shipbuilding London Oflficial statistics re­ leased by Lloyds Register of Ships rank the United States 12th among ship­ building nations of the world. Japan is listed as the world's shipbuilding lead­ er, with, Sweden holding second place. The register's figures indicate that Denmark is engaged in an impressive shipbuilding boom, show­ ing the largest increase in tonnage of any shipbuild­ ing nation. Great Britain, with a steady program of ship­ building, maintains a strong third place in the shipbuilding standings. Page 27 �William E. Bums William E. Burns, 66, passed away Jan. 28 in Buffalo, N.Y., as a result of a heart attack. He joined the union in the Port of Buffalo in 1961 and sailed as a linesman. A na. tive of New York, Mr. Burns was a resident of West Seneca, N.Y. Among his survivors are his wife, Ruth. Burial was in Holy Cross Ceme­ tery in Lackawanna, N.Y. Gust B. Xenophon Gust B. Xenophon, 49, died Feb. 28 in Berwyn, 111., from a heart attack. A native and resident of Chicago, Mr. Xenophon joined the SIU there in 1967. He was an Army veteran of World War II. Among Mr. Xenophon's sur­ vivors are his wife, Eda. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery in Evergreen Park, 111. Bcver Waits Bever Waits, 58, died April 6 in Hospital Santa Casa in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was a native of Alabama and joined the union in the Port of New York in 1954. Mr. Waits sailed in the engine depart­ ment. Among his survivors are his wife. Norma. Burial was in the Cemetery of Alabama. Curtis McDaniel Curtis McDaniel, 52, died March 3 in USPHS Hospital in San Francisco from pneumonia. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1964 and sailed in the steward department. A native of Eng­ land, Ark., Mr. McDaniel was a resident of Wilmington, Calif. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. His body was taken to Chicago for burial. Giendyn L. Brooks Glendyn L. Brooks, 54, died Dec. 1, 1969, on board the Long Lines. A native of North Ber­ wick, Me., Mr. Brooks was a resident of Balti­ more. He joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1969 and sailed in the steward department. He was an Army veteran of World War II. Among his sur­ vivors are his sister, Mrs. Vir­ ginia F. Home. Alphonse Loguidis Alphonse Loguidis, 60, died Nov. 20, 1969, near Naha, Okinawa. A na­ tive of Illinois, he was a resident of Newark, O. Mr. Loguidis joined the SIU in the Port of Nor­ folk in 1943 and sailed in . the engine department as a firemanoiler, deck engineer and pump­ man. Among his survivors are his sister, Mrs. Rose M. Benson of Newark, O. Charles Lark Johnson Charles Lark Johnson. 67, an SIU pensioner, died April 5 of a heart attack in Paul Oliver Mem­ orial Hospital in Frankfort, Mich. A native of Mis­ souri, Mr. John­ son was a resi­ dent of Benzonia Township, Mich. He joined the un­ ion in Michigan and sailed in the engine department as an oiler. Among his survivors are his wife, Adelle. Burial was in Ben­ zonia Township Cemetery. George Binnemans George Binnemans, 62, passed away March 11 in Veterans Ad­ ministration Hos­ pital, Little Rock, Ark., after a sixmonth illness. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1945 and sailed in the engine department as a deck engi­ neer. A native of Belgium, Mr. Binnemans was a resident of Little Rock. He was a Navy vet­ eran of World War II. Among his survivors are his wife, Mercella. Burial was in National Cemetery in Little Rock. r both World Wars having served from 1917 to 1945. A native of Mississippi, Mr. East was a resi­ dent of New Orleans. Burial was in St. Bernard Memorial Cem­ etery, Chalmette, La. and was also a Navy veteran of World War II. Burial was in Lincoln Memorial Park in Port­ land. Daniel S. Lucas Daniel Steven Lucas, 19, passed away April I in Episcopal Hospital, Phila­ delphia. He join­ ed the union in 1969 and grad­ uated the same year from the •' Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship. M r. Lucas was a native and resident of Philadelphia. Among his sur­ vivors are his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Armstrong of Phila­ delphia. Burial was in Greenmount Cemetery in Philadelphia. Walter Johnson Walter Johnson, 63, was an SIU pensioner who pa.ssed away March 24 in Miv bile. Ala., from a heart attack. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of Mobile and sailed in the steward department as a cook. A native of Daphane, Ala., Mr. Johnson was a resident of William F. Growl Mobile. He served in the Coast William F. Crowl, 37, passed* Guard from 1927 to 1933, and away April 24 in Veterans Re­ when he retired in 1969 he had' search Hospital Glenn G. Noffsinger been sailing 42 years. Among his in Chicago. A Glenn G. Noffsinger, 47, was survivors are his wife, Amelia. native and resi­ Burial was in Catholic Cemetery an SIU pensioner who died May dent of Bay City, 3 in Paul Oliver in Mobile. Mich., Mr. Memorial Hos­ Crowl joined the Witold Wieromiej pital, Frankfort, SIU in 1964 in Witoid Wieromiej, 56, was an Mich., after a the Port of De­ SIU pensioner who died April 21 long illness. A troit and sailed native of Michi­ in the USPHS in the deck department. Mr. Hospital on Stagan, Mr. Noff­ singer was a resi­ ten Island. A na- i Crowl served in the Army from dent of Elberta, 1950 to 1954. Among his sur­ tive of Poland, Mich. He joined the union in Weiromiej vivors are his wife. Donna. Mr. Michigan and sailed in the deck Burial was in Calvary Cemetery was a resident of department. Mr. Noffsinger was in Kawkawlin, Mich. Flemington, N.J. an Army veteran of World War He joined the SIU John H. East II. Among his survivors arc his in the Port of John H. East, 74, was an SIU wife, Barbara. Burial was in GilNew York and pensioner who passed away April sailed in the deck department. He more Township Cemetery in Ben­ 21 in Mercy served as department delegate zie County, Mich. Hospital in New while sailing and was issued, a Orleans. He join­ picket duty card in 1962. Among Stephen J. Overton ed the union in his survivors are his wife, AnStephen John Overton, 28, the Port of New tonette. Burial was in St. Magda­ passed away Feb. 12 in Carlsbad, Orleans and sail­ len's Cemetery in Flemington. Calif. He joined ed in the engine the union in the department. He Port of San Fran­ Edwin E. O'Suillvan was issued picket Edwin E. O'Sullivan, 64, died cisco in 1967 and duty cards in 1961 and 1962. May 2 in Portland, Ore., from sailed in the Mr. East was a Navy veteran of heart disease. He deck department. was a native and A native of resident of St. Hornell, N.Y., Louis, Mo., and Mr. Overton was had joined the a resident of West Palm Beach, SIU in the Port Fla., when he died. He served in of Baltimore in the Air Force from 1958 to 1964. Among his survivors are his fa­ accommodation at the same 1951. Mr. O'Sul­ livan sailed in i ther, William J. Overton of West time they pursue a course of the engine department. He served Palm Beach. Memorial services dissent, AFL-CIO Secretaryin the Navy from 1923 to 1930 were held in Del Rey Crematory. Treasurer Lane Kirkland said in a speech to the AFL-CIO Community Services' 15th An­ nual Conference. 'Prepare for Accommodation,' Labor Tells Campus Activists Washington Campus activists have .re­ ceived some advice on pursu­ ing dissent from the labor move­ ment. Students must prepare for ,/• ,•<1. \ •' "The labor movement grew out of conflict with the em­ ployer and we engaged in it with enthusiasm," Kirkland said. "But we knew that there must be accommodation and agreement and found it through the collective bargaining table." Kirkland continued that the "labor movement, to be effec­ tive, must be as skillful in pres­ sing. settlement as in pressing conflict. Conflict without end can only lead to the disintegra­ tion of a society." First Morning Launch With their ship at outside anchorage in the background, crewmembers of the Buckeye Victory return aboard on the first launch after spending a night ashore in Yokosuka, Japan. From left are: Clarence Willey, chief cook; Robert French, wiper, and James F. Lee, third assistant engineer. Page 28 He added that labor has a role in helping "find the path, of reconciliation" for students, but warned that the "restora­ tion of order cannot be achieved Settling Beefs on the Georgia by laws, by the courts or the Bosun Bill Wallace (ri^ht), ship's chairman on the Seatrain National Guard. It must be a Georgia, discusses a contractual beef with SIU Patrolman recognition of the larger inter­ Red Campbell after the ship came in to the Seatrain terminal est in which all of us have a at Port Newark from North Europe. Wallace is a veteran Sea­ stake and which brings rewards farer with more than 20 years seatime. to all." (PAI) Seafarers Log t IN 'K ;r 'f * 1 1- �i I vi « •if • -a ^ > , '5 i,X' I 1'^ f N-'i.4. J' w ".4 rt'ff .:i-' u *» America's merchant marine history is dotted by many periods of neglect followed by crash programs of construction necessitated by a national emergency. Three times in America's history this has been most pro­ nounced—1812, World War I and World War II. Each time the neglect of the merchant marine had been so great and the reliance on foreign vessels so extensive that the country was forced to spend exorbitant amounts of money to build up the merchant fleet. No instance better explains the fallacy of such a practice than World War I and the controversial construction of wooden vessels—built with green timber and powered by engines de­ signed for steel ships. But the country needed ships fast and wood construction was easier. Difficult to Build So little thought was given to the wooden ships that officials approved a design that was "merely a copy of a steel ship, and gave little regard to the material from which it was built." They were difficult ships to build, necessitating the expensive shipment of large timber from the Pacific Coast to Gulf and East Coast shipbuilders. The planking was so green that one authority on the ships noted "it would not stand still after it was in frame, and their seams could throw oakum nearly as fast as they could be caulked." The shipwrights were labeled "cowshed carpenters" and the structural weaknesses of the ships were further aggra­ vated by engines designed for steel hulls—not wood. John J. Sinnott, writing in the March issue of Navy Magazine, said: "The wooden ships were a $73 million failure—no small sum for those days." He noted that the average ship spent about half of its time in port under repair. Useless After War More than 300 of the wooden steamships were built, he stated, but the ships were practically useless after the War for commer­ cial use because of low speed, high fuel consumption and an uneconomical deadweight capacity requiring more than 30 per­ cent of the space for fuel and stores. W. C. Mattox, in his 1920 book. Building the Emergency Fleet, noted the vessels were useful in coastwise trade and freed steel tonnage for other purposes. Mattox was an official of the Emergency Fleet Corp., the organization responsible for the construction. More than $2.5 million was spent in 1917-1918 building a total of 2,382 ships in 18 months. Wood was not the only unsatisfactory material used. Warren TD^ explained in his 1962 book, Atlantic Conquest. Composite materials and even concrete were used. "Anybody, it was said, built anything that somebody would brand a ship—of green wood and brittle concrete and baling wire and store bolts—a hasty fleet of monstrosities." If history teaches any lesson it is that America cannot afford the luxury of neglecting her merchant marine because in times of national emergency the fleet is needed and crash programs are often very costly and misdirected. {Photos at right courtesy of Navy Magazine.) World War I's Wooden Fleet A Ferris-class wooden freightship is launched from one of the many primitive shipyards that sprung up almost over­ night to produce the vessels. The speed of shipbuilding was enviable. One yard laid a new keel 90 seconds after launch­ ing a ship. But many of these vessels spent half their time being repaired. A Hough-class ship underway and headed for the shipyard for repairs. Green tim­ ber, inexperienced shipbuilders, over­ powered plants all contributed to the problems of the ships. The 3,500-ton cargo capacity of these coal-buming ships was drastically reduced by the enormous amount of bunkers they had to carry. fri •!& These wooden sub-chasers tried to clear shipping lanes of German U-hoats. I'M I i •V Ii' U 'i I .. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank-and-file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and man­ agement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon ap­ proval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Batteiy Place, Suite 1930, New York, N.Y. 10004 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know June 1970 your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serv­ ing the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing arti­ cles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective member­ ship. This established policy has been reaffirmed by mem­ bership action at the September, 1960 meetings in all con­ stitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immedi­ ately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges. trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members draw­ ing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rankand-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the em­ ployers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely vol­ untary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitu<4ional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. Page 29 nt �Social Secunfy Q & A New Log Feature Answers Questions on Social Security By A. A. BERNSTEIN SIU Social Security Director As a new service to SIU members and their families, the Seafarers Log each month will provide answers to questions about Social Security benefits. Seafarers and their families can direct questions to A. A. Bernstein, director of Social Security and Welfare Services, Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. The new feature also will contain questions received fre­ quently by the Social Security Administration concerning benefits available to widows and children, disabled workers and retirees. The basic idea of Social Se­ curity is a simple one. During working years (including time in military service) you, your employers and self-employed persons pay Social Security con­ tributions which are pooled in special trust funds. When earnings stop or are reduced by retirement, disabil­ ity or death, monthly cash bene­ fits are available through Social Security to replace part of the lost earnings for the worker or his survivors. More than 90 percent of all American work­ ers are enrolled under the So­ cial Security program. In addition, a health insur­ ance program (Medicare) is provided for people who are over 65. Q: I'll be 65 in a couple of months. My wife thinks I mi|y be able to sign up for retire­ ment benefits before my birth­ day instead of waiting until the last minute. Is that correct? A: It is. It is a good idea to apply two or three months be­ fore you reach 65. This way you will be sure of getting all the benefits you are due, in­ cluding full Medicare protec­ tion. You can start early in as­ sembling the information and documents you will need when you do apply, such as proof of age. The best proof is a birth certificate, or record of bap­ tism recorded early in life. But, if you don't have either, don't worry. The people at your So­ cial Security office can tell you about other proofs that can be used. Q: Has there always been a limit to how much you could earn after retirement without losing Social Security benefits? A: Yes. But this has been changed by Congress nine times to keep pace with increased benefits and higher earning levels. The last change was voted in 1967. Presently, if you earn $1,680 or less a year, you get full benefits for all months of the year. If you earn more than $1,680, the general rule is that $1 in benefits is withheld for each $2 you earn from $1,680 to $2,880. An additional $1 will be withheld for all earn­ ings over $2,880. Earnings after you reach 72 will not cause any deductions from your benefits. ment of earnings every three years or so. The statement shows your total earnings under Social Security, including any self-employment you may have had, and basic pay for active duty in the armed forces. Your Social Security office can give you a postcard form (Request for Statement of Earnings) to use in asking for the earnings statement. Q: I know Social Security helps oldw people, hut what about young workers like me? I'm 28 and see nothing ahead hut contributions until I'm 65. A: Social Security provides protection for you and other young workers long before you reach retirement age. You and your family are protected against loss of income resulting from disability or death. If you should die, your dependents may receive a lump sum pay­ ment and monthly cash bene­ fits. Q: As a college student, I work part-time during school and full-time during vacations. Q: When I became 65 last The Social Security contribu­ year, I neglected to sign up for tions coming out of my pay could help me meet expenses. the medical insurance part Medicare. Is it too late for me Why deduct from my earnings now, considering the number to enroll now? of full-time years I will have to A: It is not too late. You pay in future? Will I really get have another chance during my money's worth over the what is called a general enroll­ long run? ment period—the first three A: You and other young months of each year. March 31 workers—part-time and fullis the deadline each year. Re­ time—are earning valuable So­ member, if you do not sign up cial Security retirement, sur­ within three years after your first opportunity, you will not vivors and disability insurance protection worth more than the be able to sign up at all. Social Security contributions Q: A friend of mine who has paid in. If you have 18 months changed jobs a lot says he or more of recent work in the checks his Social Security rec­ Social Security record, you and ord frequently to make sure it your family may count on is correct. Can he really do that monthly benefits if you become disabled. Your family would whenever he wants to? A: Yes, your friend is wise get monthly benefits if you died. to do so since he changes jobs Earnings of as little as $50 in frequently. It is a good idea to any three-month calendar ask the Social Security Admin­ will assure you of credit toward istration to send you a state- this valuable insurance protec­ tion. Seagoing Termites Invade Lighthouse Overseas Vivian Crew in Bombay When the Overseas Vivian (Maritime Overseas) docked in the port of Bombay after a voyage from Kalama, Wash., Seafarers took time out in port to relax. From left are George Arnold, John Rode, Scottie MacDonald, Freddie • Hunt and Bosun Bob Yeager. Page 30 Norfolk The Coast Guard motto is to be prepared for anything, but it was somewhat taken aback when they discovered that termites had invaded one of their lighthouses. Thousands of the voracious wood-eating pests were discov­ ered recently thriving on the salt-flavored upper structure of the Smith Point Lighthouse on Chesapeake Bay. Entomologists were at a loss to explain how termites, which are landlubbers, managed to navigate to the lighthouse or how they can survive, since they need fresh water to live. The Coast Guard called in the exterminators and the salty termites were quickly sunk. At the SIU, Clinic Mrs. Flocerfida G. Molus has her blood pressure checked by Dr. Joseph Peluso at the SIU clinic in New York. Her hus­ band, Seafarer Felizardo Motus, sails in the steward depart­ ment. At all SIU clinics. Seafarers and their dependents are entitled to medical care. 8 T A I T 4 s (A f * 10 i< IS Ik n •i Ik ws ak T Ik w» a A9 s 4 Al ae SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans July 14—2:30 p.m. Mobile July 15—2:30 p.m. Wilmington ..July 20—2:00 p.m. San Fran July 22—2:00 p.m. DIRECTORYof UNION HALLS SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Al Tanner Lind.sey Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS ....676 4th Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY 9-6600 ALPENA, Mich 800 N. Second Ave. (617) EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, Md. ..1216 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass 663 Atlantic Ave. • (617) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.Y. ; 736 Washington St. SIU (716) TL 3-9269 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, in 9383 Ewlng Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 6-9670 CLEVELAND, 0 1420 W. 26th St. (216) MA 1-5460 DETROIT, Mich. 10226 W. Jefferson Ave. (313) VI_3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 2014 W. 3d St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2608 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ..99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 6-9424 MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1764 NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jackson Ave. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 116 3d St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. (216) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 634 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 1631 Mission St. (415) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. ..1313 Fernandez Juncos atop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash ST. LOUIS, Mo 2606 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 4677 Gravols Ave. (314) 762-6600 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 TOLEDO, 0 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 WILMINGTON, Calif. ..480 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7286 YOKOHAMA, Japan Iseya Bldg., Room 801 1-2 Kalgan-Dorl-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 Schedule of Membership Meetings Seattle July New York ....July Philadelphia July Baltimore ....July Detroit July Houston July i: i 24—2:00 p.m. 6—2:30 p.m. 7—2:30 p.m. 8—2:30 p.m. 6—2:30 p.m. 13—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans July 14—7:00 p.m. ,j Mobile July 15—7:00 p.m. New York ....July 6—7:00p.m. ""J Philadelphia July 7—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ....July 8—7:00 p.m. tHouston ....July 13—7:00 p.m. ^ Great Lakes SIU Meetings , Detroit July 6—2:00 p.m Buffalo July 6—7:00 p.m \ , Alpena July 6—7:00 p.m Chicago '..July 6—7:30 p.m, Duluth July 6—7:00 p.m, Frankfort July 6—^7:00 p.m •r* ^ Great Lakes Tog and Dredge Section Chicago July 14—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie July 14—7:30 p.m. Buffalo July 15—7:30 p.m. Duluth July 17—7:30 p.m. Cleveland July 17—7:30 p.m. Toledo July 17—7:30 p.m. A Detroit July 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee ..July 13—7:30 p.m. t SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans July 14—5:00 p.m. Mobile July 15—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia July 7—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) ..July 8—5:00 p.m. Norfolk July 9—5:00 p.m. Houston July 13—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia July 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.mBaltimore July 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk July 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. . Jersey City July 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. tMeeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Newport News. v_ 'v.. Firms Must Deal With Union Stewards ' Washington Unions have an absolute right to appoint department or • shop stewards, and employers must deal with them in. discus- ' sing employee grievances, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled in a case involving the Allied Industrial Workers. Seafarers Log �•p .1. /¥ I Rep. Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.), right, and Vince Promuto, Washington Red­ skin guard, meet trainees. 3. During an open house on the Dana, docked on the Potomac, visi­ tors were given a guided tour of the 130-foot schooner by the Lundeherg School trainees. f Piney Point Trainees Visit Washington K. it '• V rt •> \ ROUPS OF Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship trainees F journey to Washington as part of their training cruises aboard the school's two full-rigged training schooners, the Cap­ tain James Cook azid the Richard Henry Dana. While in the capitol, they attend luncheon conferences, sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, and have an oppor­ tunity to meet and listen to Congressmen and other dignitaries interested in the American merchant marine. H > 'K h i Trainees are greeted by Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. (D-N.J.) ':«r • V I i-r V « Rep. William D. Hathaway (D-Me.) greets a group of future Seafarers.' 9 41 n t r •'w-r w 1/ Rep. Robert O. Tiernan (D-R.I.) and Piney Point visitors. June 1970 Piney Point trainee Frank Gibilaro, 18, of Brooklyn, N.Y., scans the Potomac River from the deck of the Dana, with the Washing­ ton Monument in the background. «» Page 31 �SEAFAItERS*LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION > ATLANTIC, GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT * AFL-CIO ' ^ NARCOTICS: They'll Cost You Your Job... 1^- it f Television. Radio. Newspapers. News magazines. Movies. Records. No matter what you read, where you look, what you hear—^the subject of narcotics is there. Usually in the form of a debate. Are drugs bad for the health? Do they lead to immorality? Aren't alcoholic beverages just as bad? To Seafarer, these aren't the questions that really count. What counts is this: • Any Seafarer using narcotics—anytime, on shore or at sea—loses his papers—his right to go to sea. • Any Seafarer using any drug that affects his mind risks the lives of others. The possibihty of an emergency is always present aboard ship. Only alert minds can help. Dope is deadly. • Any Seafarer caught using narcotics tags his ship and his shipmates for constant watch. • Rewards are paid, in some foreign lands, to those who turn in anyone possessing narcotics. Some people in those countries have been known to sell narcotics to Americans—and then turn them in for a reward. Pos­ sessing narcotics—anytime, on shore or at sea—ends a Seafarer's career. • Marijuana is legally a narcotic. Marijuana affects the mind.. The use of marijuana or any other narcotic strips a Seafarer of his life at sea. • Men who want careers at sea don't possess drugs, don't use drugs—and don't allow others to do what they don't do. Because they know that any Seafarer using or possessing narcotics—anytime, on shore or at sea—Closes his papers—his right to go to sea. < .Ir J' 5: 'L r*' ^* s- •i. f\ ' ^1 > %] Forever! r � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. 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Title A name given to the resource June 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: FLOATING HOUSING UNIT PLANTS URGED – SHIPS USED AS FACTORIES MARITIME BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE STRONG BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT GIVEN PLAN TO REBUILD FLEET SHIP AMERICAN PROGRAM STARTS CONGRESSMEN DISCUSS MARITIME ISSUES NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE NEEDED WORKERS REALLY FEELING ECONOMIC PINCH ADMINISTRATION POLICIES HURT CONSUMERS COAST GUARD COPS CLOCKING SPEEDING LAKES FREIGHTERS RALPH DE TOLEDANO – SEAFARERS COLLECT MILLIONS FOR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: DIRKSEN’S $5000 FANS NEWSPAPER CLAIMS FORMER SENATOR RECEIVED $30,000 FROM SEAFARERS WHY SEAFARERS ARE IN POLITICS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING CALLED BEST FOR LABOR MANAGEMENT MYSTERY FISH PUZZLE SCIENCE CONVERTED TRANSOREGON HOME FROM EUROPE STEEL ADMIRAL’S LONG VOYAGE – STEEL FLYER’S SMOOTH VOYAGE WORLD WAR I’S WOODEN FLEET NEW LOG FEATURE ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON SOCIAL SECURITY NARCOTICS: THEY’LL COST YOU YOUR JOB Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 6 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/d5d6a86a9582b0134a5fdd7615d090d1.PDF 50511b75a0196050c7f663f75d8cf377 PDF Text Text Special Supplement SEAFARERS^LOG July 1970 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION # ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CIO SlU Indicted for Political Activity Members Vote Full Fight g»: I- ' Against Federal Charges The Seafarers International Union has been attacked for making contribu­ tions to the political campaigns of both Democrats and Republicans through its Seafarers' Political Activities Dona­ tions (SPAD) organization. The Justice Department, which took 18 months to bring its findings before a grand jury in Brooklyn, obtained a 17-count in­ dictment against SlU and several of its officers. Approximately 1,200 Seafarers at the general membership meetings in July voted without dissent to fight the action through all legal methods with all the strength at the union's disposal. The Justice Department alleges that SlU conspired to make political dona­ tions in violation of federal rules cover­ ing campaign contributions. The grand jury's indictment, which is reprinted in this issue of the Log, charges that SPAD donations of $20,000 to various groups supporting the Humphrey-Muskie ticket in the 1968 Presiden­ tial election year, and another $20,000 contributed to Republican campaign committees were made in violation of federal law. It also accuses the union and many of its officers of conspiring to spend $750,000 for political action in Presi­ dential, Senatorial and Congressional campaigns between 1964 and 1968. All of the contributions cited in the indictment had been reported publicly by SlU's SPAD to the Department of Labor and the Clerks of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as re­ quired by law. The indictment charges that the re= ports of receipts and payments by SPAD were submitted "to conceal the contribution and expenditures made by Seafarers International Union in con- . nection with federal, state and local elections." Many believe the* case poses a threat to all political activities by all segments of the trade union movement. The charges follow a long series of attacks by newspapers — and The Wall Streef Journal in particular — against SlU's political activities. The Wall Streef Journal simultaneously has promoted the use of foreign-built, foreign-manned, foreign-flag ships while the SlU has been campaigning for stronger Ameri­ can-flag merchant marine. Information used by The Wall Street Journal in its "exposes" came primarily from the public reports made by SPAD of every dollar collected in voluntary contributions, as well as each dollar donated to every campaign fund and candidate at the local, state and fed­ eral level. The SlU, at membership meetings and through the Seafarers Log, has long cau­ tioned members that the union could find itself being pelted by those who would destroy any effective unionsponsored political action program. Referring to the SlU's political activ­ ities, the Seafarers Log a year ago noted that maritime labor is driving to bring modern ships, more cargo and more jobs to the American-flag merchant fleet. The Log added at that time that: "When you get into a scrap like this, you're bound to make enemies. They're the ones who would like to sink the merchant marine." The indictments came on the morning of the day when a full Senate Com­ mittee was voting on the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 — the most im­ portant piece of maritime legislation in more than 30 years. The SlU has been vitally involved in a campaign to gain passage of the measure which would revitalize the American-flag mer­ chant fleet. Individuals named in the I 7-count in­ dictment are SlU President Paul Hall, Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr, Vice Pres­ ident Earl Shepard, Representatives Frank Boyne, Paul Drozak, Joseph DiGiorgio and Frank Drozak, and Philip Carlip, the union's legislative repre­ sentative in Washington. The grand jury named as co-con­ spirators, but not defendants. Vice Presidents Robert Matthews, Al Tan­ ner, Lindsey Williams and Gal Tanner. Keeping Informed The SlU's long-standing policy has been to keep the membership fully informed on ail matters vital to Sea­ farers. On this and the following three pages, the Seafarer's Log presents all the details involved in the recent grand jury indictment of the union in a case evolving from its political activities. The Log has continuously reported In detail the work­ ings of the Seafarers Political Activities Donations (SPAD) organization, the nianner in which contributions are received and disbursed^-^nd the attas^ks upon it by the nation's news medio. "'•.y J"'.'! •'V �Complete Text of Federal Indictment / UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff V. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, GULF, LAKES and INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO, FRANK BOYNE, PHILIP CARLIP, JOSEPH DIGIORGIO, FRANK DROZAK, PAUL DROZAK, PAUL HALL, AL KERR, EARL SHEPARD, Defendants No. VIOLATION: 18 U.S.C. 610 18 U.S.C. 371 INDICTMENT The Grand Jury charges: COUNT ONE 1. Seafarers International Union of North America, At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO (hereafter Seafarers International Union), is and was at all times material to this Indictment, a labor organization within the means of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code, that is to say, an organization which exists, in part, for the purpose of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, and conditions of work. 2. Al Kerr is, and was at all times material to this In­ dictment, Secretary-Treasurer of Seafarers International Union. 3. In November 1968 a General Election was held pursu­ ant to the laws of the United States and of the several states, at which, among others. Presidential and Vice Presidential Electors, United States Senators, and Representatives to Congress were voted for. 4. On or about July 22, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Seafarers International Union did knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in connection with the election of Representatives to Congress at the 1968 General Election by means of issuing Check No. 1476, in the amount of $5,000, drawn on its Account No. 020-005695 (Seafarers Political Activity Donation) at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, payable to the Republican Con­ gressional Campaign Committee, signed by Philip Carlip and Al Kerr, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT TWO 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about July 22, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity as an officer of Seafarers International Union, did wilfully and unlawfully consent to the Union's making the contribution described in Paragraph 4 of Count One of this Indictment, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT THREE 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about July 22, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Seafarers International Union did knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in connection with the election of Representatives to Congress at the 1968 General Election by means of issuing Check No. 1477, in the amount of $5,000, drawn on its Account No. 020-005695 (Seafarers Political Activity Donation) at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, payable to the Republican Con­ gressional Campaign Committee, signed by Philip Carlip and Al Kerr, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT FOUR 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about July 22, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity as an officer of Seafarers International Union, did wilfully and unlawfully consent to the Union's making the contribution descfibed in Count Three of this Indictment, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT FIVE 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about September 23, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Seafarers International Union did knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in connection with the election of Representatives to Congress at the 1968 General Election by means of issuing Check No. 1612, in the amount of $5,000, drawn on its Account No. 020-005695 (Seafarers Political Activity Donation) at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, payable to the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, signed by H. Melcer and Philip Carlip, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT SIX 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about September 23, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity as an officer of Seafarers International Union, did wilfully and unlawfully consent to the Union's making the contribution described in Count Five of this Indictment, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT SEVEN 1. The allegations contained in Paragraph 1 through 3 of Count One .of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about October 7, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Seafarers International Union did knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in connec­ tion with the election of Representatives to Congress at the 1968 General Election by means of issuing Check No. 1707. in the amount of $5,000, drawn on its Account No. 020005695 (Seafarers Political Activity Donation) at the Chemi­ cal Bank New York Trust Company, payable to the Re­ publican Congressional Campaign Committee, signed by Philip Carlip and Al Kerr, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT EIGHT 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about October 7, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity as an officer of Seafarers International Union, did wilfully and unlawfully consent to the Union's making the contribution described in Count Seven of this Indictment, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT NINE 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Seafarers International Union did knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in connection with the election of Presidential and Vice Presidential Elec­ tors at the 1968 General Election by means of issuing Check No. 1749, in the amount of $5,000, drawn on its Account No. 020-005695 (Seafarers Political Activity Donation) at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, payable to Artists and Entertainers for Humphrey and Muskie, signed by H. Melcer and Al Kerr, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT TEN 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity as an of­ ficer of Seafarers International Union, did wilfully and unlawfully consent to the Union's making the contribution described in Count Nine of this Indictment, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT ELEVEN 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs I through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Seafarers International Union did knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in connec­ tion with the election of Presidential and Vice Presidential Electors at the 1968 General Election by means of issuing Check No. 1750, in the amount of $5,000, drawn on its Account No. 020-005695 (Seafarers Political Activity Dona­ tion) at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, pay­ able to Builders for Humphrey and Muskie, signed by H. Melcer and Al Kerr, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT TWELVE 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity as an officer of Seafarers International Union, did wilfully and un­ lawfully consent to the Union's making the contribution described in Count Eleven of this Indictment, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT THIRTEEN 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 3 of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated in this Count. 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern District of New York, defendant Seafarers International Union did knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in connection with the election of Presidential and Vice Presidential Elec­ tors at the 1968 General Election by means of issuing C No. 1751, in the amount of $5,000, drawn on its Ac No. 020-005695 (Seafarers Political Activity Donatio the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, payab Educators for Humphrey and Muskie, signed by H. V and Al Kerr, in violation of Section 610 of Title 18, U States Code. COUNT FOURTEEN 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 throv of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated iri Count. 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern D of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity J officer of Seafarers International Union, did wilfullyj unlawfully consent to the Union's making the contrib described in Count Thirteen of this Indictment, in viol, of Section 610 of Title 18, United States Code. | COUNT FIFTEEN j 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 thr " ii of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated ' ' Count. ,. 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern D^| of New. York, defendant Seafarers International UnioiiJ knowingly and unlawfully make a contribution in co] tion with the election of Presidential and Vice Presid Electors at the 1968 General Election by means of is Check No. 1752, in the amount of $5,000, drawn c| Account No. 020-005695 (Seafarers Political Activity i, tion) at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company,!^ able to Lawyers for Humphrey and Muskie, signed J Melcer and Al Kerr, in violation of Section 610 of TitI United States Code. COUNT SIXTEEN 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 throii of Count One of this Indictment are incorporated, ir Count. M 2. On or about October 31, 1968, in the Eastern D l of New York, defendant Al Kerr, in his capacity as ap of Seafarers International Union, did wilfully and un> consent to the Union's making the contribution desi.;1 in Count Fifteen of this Indictment, in violation of St'j 610 of Title 18, United States Code. COUNT SEVENTEEN 1. The allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 arid | Count One are incorporated in this Count. 2. At all times hereafter mentioned the term "Fci'j^ election" means an election at which Presidential and' Presidential Electors, or candidates, for the offices of I States Senator and United States Representative in Con were voted for. 3. Paul Hall, at all times material to this Indictment President of Seafarers International Union. 4. Earl Shepard, at all times material to this Indict was a Vice-President of Seafarers International Union. 5. Philip Carlip, from and after September 14, 1966 a lobbyist for Seafarers International Union, registered;| the Secretary of the United States Senate, and from and'| July 17, 1967, was so registered with the Clerk of the'liji States House of Representatives, 6. Frank Boyne, at all times material to this Indictf^^j was an employee of Seafarers International Union. 7. Frank Drozak, at all time material to this Indtctji was an employee of Seafarers International Union. 8. Paul Drozak, at all times material to this Indict-'J was an employee of Seafarers International Union. 9. Joseph DiGiorgio, at all times material to thitli dictment was an employee of Seafarers International li', 10. From in or about 1962 and continuously thereafli to and including the date of filing of this Indictment; i i: Borough of Brooklyn, in the Eastern District of New ^ and elsewhere, Al Kerr, Paul Hall, Earl Shepard, ll Carlip, Frank Boyne, Frank Drozak, Paul Drozak,| Joseph DiGiorgio, defendants herein, and Robert Mattjl^ Al Tanner, Cal Tanner, and Lindsey Williams, named, ijli as co-conspirators but not defendants, did wilfully, lj| ingly, and unlawfully conspire and agree with one and with other persons to the Grand Jurors knownl • unknown, to violate Section 610 of Title 18, United Code, in that they did wilfully knowingly, and unlav conspire and agree to cause &afarers International li to make contributions and expenditures in connection y elections at which Presidential and Vice Presidential EU or candidates for the offices of United States Senatoi! United States Representative in Congress, were to be for. 11. In furtherance of the conspiracy the Executive of 55eafarers International Union, consisting of defen Paul Hall, Earl Shepard, and Al Kerr, and co-conspii Al Tanner, Cal Tanner, and Lindsey Williams, mtj August 27, 1962 and December 17, 1962, in New York| New York, and created a special fund called Seafarers ical Activity Donation (SPAD). 12. It was part of the conspiracy that SPAD be give ] appearance of a bona fide political committee, a separat distinct entity from Seafarers International Union, to n voluntary contributions from unlicensed seamen and to , �igainst SlU :heck :ount Q) at le, to [elcer nited gh 3 this istrict lis an ' and ution lation gh 3 this istrict >1 did nnecential suing )n its 3onapay.y H. e 18, |igh 3 |i this {istrict '^"er illy cribed ction i 2 of tlideral Vice ifnited gress, , was k Vment, ll, was B I with ('after r'/nited 'iment, i s. InJnion. er up |n the York fhilip ! and ihews, lerein tnowjother [ and States yfully ijnion 1 with iciors, Ir. and I'voted 3oard idants fators ?t. on : City, Politin the 'e and iceive imake political contributions and expenditures in this behalf. In fact, however, it was part of the conspiracy that SPAD would exist only on paper and be nothing more than a device designed to conceal unlawful political contributions by Seafarers International Union. 13. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the SPAD committee would consist of the same persons who were members of the Executive Board of Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, and that the persons authorized to sign SPAD checks would be the same persons authorized to sign checks on other accounts of Seafares International Union. 14. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the Union's Port Agents and Port Patrolmen would collect SPAD con­ tributions at the same time they collected Union dues and assessments from unlicensed seamen. In furtherance of this aspect of the conspiracy, SPAD would become an item upon the printed cash receipts issued by Port Agents and Port Patrolmen to such unlicensed seamen. 15../t was further a part of the conspiracy that proba­ tionary members of the Union, who lacked Union voting privileges and seniority in bidding for jobs, would be caused to fear that failure or refusal to make contributions to SPAD would result in the loss of their employment, so that substantially larger SPAD contributions would be collected from such probationary members than from full-fledged members, who enjoy Union voting privileges and have senior­ ity in obtaining employment. 16. It was further a part of the conspiracy that SPAD contributions would be collected from foreign seamen in lieu of Union dues. 17: It was further a part of the conspiracy that periodic reports in the name of SPAD would be filed with the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, to conceal the contributions and expenditures made by Seafarers In­ ternational Union in connection with Federal, state, and local elections. 18. It was further a part of the conspiracy that the de­ fendants and co-conspirators would cause Seafarers Interna­ tional Union to make contributions totaling more than $750,000 in connection with Federal elections in the years 1964 through 1968. 19. In pursuance of the aforesaid conspiracy, and to effect the objects thereof, the defendants performed the following and other overt acts within the Eastern District of New York and other places. OVERT ACTS I. On or about January 10, 1969, defendant A1 Kerr filed with the Clerk of the United States House of Representa­ tives a report of SPAD contributions and expenditures for the period January 1, 1968, to December 31, 1968, indicat­ ing expenditures for Federal elections during that period in the total amount of $552,781.82. On or about December 17, 1962, in New York City, New York, defendant A1 Kerr met with defendants Earl Shepard and Paul Hall, and co-conspirators Lindsey Williams, Cal Tanner, and A1 Tanner, and prepared minutes of a meeting of the SPAD committee of Seafarers International Union. 3. On or about September 23, 1968, defendant Al Kerr wrote a letter to Rexford Dickey, Agent, Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, at Baltimore, Maryland, transmitting Checks Nos. 1634 and 1635 drawn on the Union's SPAD account, in the amounts of $420.00 and $372.59, respectively. 4. On or about April 24, 1968, defendant Al Kerr wrote a letter to defendant Frank Drozak, Vice-President, Sea­ farers International Union, at San Francisco, California, transmitting Check No. 1200 drawn on the Union's SPAD account, in the amount of $250. 5. On or about March 21, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York, defendant Paul Hall met with defendants Al Kerr, Paul Drozak, and Frank Drozak, and co-conspirators Al Tanner and Lindsey Williams, and presided over a meeting of the SPAD committee of Seafarers International Union. 6. On or about March 30, 1966, defendant Paul Hall wrote a letter to Gordon Spencer, Port Agent, Seafarers International Union, at Norfolk, Virginia, transmitting Check No. 609, in Jhe amount of $100, drawn on the Union's SPAD account. 7. On or about March 14, 1966, defendant Paul Hall wrote a letter to defendant Frank Drozak, Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, at San Francisco, California, enclosing Check No. 606, drawn on the Union's SPAD account, in the amount of $1,000. 8. On or about December 17, 1962, in New York City, New York, defendant Earl Shepard met with defendants Al Kerr and Paul Hall, and co-conspirators Lindsey Williams, Cal Tanner, and Al Tanner, and presided over a meeting of the SPAD committee of Seafarers International Union. 9. On or about November 8, 1965, in Brooklyn, New York, defendant Earl Shepard met with defendants Al Kerr, Paul Hall, Frank Drozak, and Paul Drozak, and co-con­ spirators Lindsey Williams, Robert Matthews, and Cal Tanner, and presided over a meeting of the SPAD committee of Seafarers International Union. 10. On or about August 6, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York, defendant Earl Shepard met with defendants Al Kerr and Frank Drozak, and co-conspirator Lindsey Williams, and presided over a meeting of the SPAD committee of Sea­ farers International Union. Members Vow All-Out Battle Against Indictment SIU Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr's report was made to approximately 1,200 members at­ tending the regular July headquarters and outport meetings, giving the full details of the indictment handed down against the union by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn. The membership voted without dissent to "fight the indictment financially and morally and to use the union's full strength to protect its rights." Following is the text of the secretary-treasurer's report on the indictment: On Tuesday, June 30, 1970, a Federal Grand, Jury sitting in the Eastern District of New York, handed up a 17-count indictment against the Seafarers International Union—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District and the following individuals: Paul Hall, Earl Shepard, Al Kerr, Frank Drozak, Paul Drozak, Joseph DiGiorgio, Frank Boyne, and Philip Carljp. Named as co-conspirators, but not defendants, are Lindsey Williams, Al Tanner, Robert Mat­ thews, and Cal Tanner. The indictment charges the Union and your Secretary-Treasurer each with eight specific violations of the Corrupt Practices Act. The 17th charge alleges that the Union and the in­ dividuals whom I have named conspired to violate the Corrupt Practices Act. I have examined the indictment and discussed its content with General Counsel for the International. The heart of the Government's case consists of the allegation that SPAD exists only on paper and is nothing more than a device designed to conceal unlawful political con­ tributions by the Seafarers International Union. As you all know, contrary to the Government's assertion, SPAD is a bona fide political committee, established and maintained in strict accordance with the requirements of law on advice of our counsel and our accountants. It is a separate entity, distinct from the Sea­ farers International Union, and is intended to receive voluntary contributions from our mem­ bership and, to make political contributions and expenditures in their behalf. As such it is the opinion of our General Counsel that there is no violation of law and that the charges are groundless and cannot be supported on a trial of the action. More important, however, is the fact that this marks a very substantial step to stop union people from making campaign contributions. There seems no question but that this indictment is meant to have a chilling effect on the free and protected expression of the rank and file members of all unions to express their political preferences in the time-honored labor tra­ dition as expressed by Samuel Gompers, to "reward your friends, and fight your enemies." It is for this reason that the case takes on added importance. It is important not only to the Seafarers Union and the individuals who are involved but to the trade union movement in general. We know that if we Seafarers have no voice in the halls of Congress that we will very soon lose all the things that we have fought so hard to obtain over the years. The membership will be informed from time to time as to the status of this matter, and it is my recommendation that, subject to legality, we fight the indictment financially and mor­ ally and utilize the Union's full strength to protect its rights. In addition, I recommend that the text of the indictment be printed in its entirety in the Seafarers Log. 11. On or about September 14, 1966, defendant Philip Carlip registered with the Secretary of the United States Senate as a lobbyist for Seafarers In­ ternational Union. 12. On or about July 17, 1967, defendant Philp Carlip registered with the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives as a lobbyist for Seafarers International Union. 13. On or about April 1, 1968, defendant Philip Carlip signed Check No. 1146 in the amount of $1,000, drawn on the Union's SPAD account. 14. On or about July 8, 1968, defendant Philip Carlip signed Check No. 1366, in the amount of $5,000, drawn on the Union's SPAD account. 15. On or about October 27, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, defendant Joseph DiGiorgio met with defendants Al Kerr, Paul Hall, Earl Shepard, Frank Drozak, and Paul Drozak, and co-conspirators Lind­ sey Williams, Robert Batthews, Cal Tanner and Al Tanner, at a meeting of the SPAD committee of Sea­ farers International Union. 16. On or about July 28, 1964, defendant Joseph DiGiorgio signed Check No. 180, in the amount of $1,000, drawn on the Union's SPAD account. 17. On or about August 13, 1965, defendant Joseph OiGiorgio signed Check No. 511, in the amount of $200, drawn on the Union's SPAD ac­ count. 18. On or about September 25, 1963, in New York City, New York, defendant Paul Drozak met with defendants Earl Shepard, Al Kerr, and Paul Hall, and co-conspirators Lindsey Williams, Robert Matthews, Cal Tanner, and Al Tanner at a meeting of the SPAD committee of Seafarers International Union. 19. On or about March 21, 1968, in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, defendant Paul Drozak met with defendants Paul Hall, Al Kerr, and Frank Drozak, and co-conspirators Al Tanner and Lindsey Williams at a meeting of the SPAD committee of Seafarers International Union. 19. On or about March 21, 1968, in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, defendant Paul Drozak met with defendants Paul Hall, Al Kerr, and Frank Drozak, and co-conspirators Al Tanner and Lindsey Williams at a meeting of the SPAD committee of Seafarers International Union. 20. On or about April 8, 1968, in the city of Houston, Texas, defendant Paul Drozak received from defendant Al Kerr, Check No. 1168. in the amount of $150, drawn on the Union's SPAD ac­ count. 21. On or about November 8. 1965. in the Borough of Brooklyn. New York, defendant Frank Drozak met with defendants Earl Shepard. Al Kerr, Paul Hail, and Paul Drozak, and co-conspirators Lindsey Williams. Robert Matthews, and Cal Tan­ ner, at a meeting of the SPAD committee of Sea­ farers International Union. 22. On or about May 23. 1968, defendant Frank Drozak received from defendant Al Kerr Check No. 1277, in the amount of $100. drawn on the Union's SPAD account. 23. On or about March 3, 1966. defendant Frank Drozak wrote a letter to defendant Paul Hall. Presi­ dent, Seafarers International Union, at Brooklyn. New York. 24. On or about March 1. 1966. defendant Frank Drozak collected money from members of the crew of the ship "Brigham Victory" and issued therefor Seafarers International Union cash receipt numbers El 5928 through El5944. 25. On or about November 1. 1968. defendant Frank Boyne submitted to Seafarers International Union a petty cash voucher numbered 4. in the amount of 6,000 Yen. 26. On or about November 26. 1968, defendant Frank Boyne deposited to his account at the Bank of America, Yokohama Branch, Check No. 1808, in the amount of $16.67, drawn on the Union's SPAD account. 27. On or about September 6, 1968. defendant Frank Boyne collected money from members of the crew of the ship "Transglobe" and issued therefor Seafarers International Union cash receipt numbers E86461 through E86474. 28. On or about September 19, 1968, defendant Frank Boyne collected money from members of the crew of the ship "S/T Thetis" and issued therefore Seafarers International Union cash receipt numbers E86475 through E86485. (In violation of 18 U.S.C. 371). Signed by: Edward R. Neaher, United States Attorney; Edward N. Brown, Special Attorney; John E. Clark, Special Attorney; and the foreman of the grand jury. n •' vA J ir» /^ �Q« Wall Street Journal Seafju ^r flf^^c/egMen 1 love® stt^v forc^® Ol Sc<* Ad \o Lnion Indic <% e*8 "OA/V ^Oi</</ <' I Se«fa'-e«« 'ndirt S^/»a f. iriei^P^ign A u^d ^^inSt>fiiJiri>rs Ifnwnn June 30, 1970 (Thh story appeared before the indictment was handed down.) Sedfarers Union Said to Extract Money From Foreign Seamen for U.S. Politics By JEIiRY LANDAUER union reported spending more for politics than staff Reporter of THE WALI, STREET JOURNAL any other union, more even than the politically WASraNGTON The Justice Department active United Steelworkers of America, which has asked a Federal grand jury to indict the estimates membership at 1.1 million.. Seafarers International Union, possessor of or­ In general, the union represents unsubsiganized labor's lushest political fund on dized ship operators. The rival union of unli­ charges of extracting "voluntary" contribu­ censed seamen, the National Maritime Union, tions of as much as $500 each from hundreds of mostly bargains with operators receiving Gov­ foreign seamen working abroad U.S.-flag mer­ ernment subsidies. Yet on Far East runs the chant ships. sums collected by Seafarers Union agents ac­ Indictment and conviction of the union and tually come from American taxpayers. The its top officers could shatter union leader Paul money flows from the Federal Treasury to ship Hall's aspirations to succeed George Meany as owners carrying miiitary cargoes, from the op­ president of the AFL-CIO and remove a finan­ erators to the, foreign seamen as wages, from cial pillar from the deeply indebted Demo­ the seamen to the political donation committee cratic Party: in 1968 the Seafarers contributed in the form of theoretically voluntary dona­ nearly $300,000 to the Humphrey-Muskie ticket. tions; and from the committee to local, state It could also prompt Congress to review and national candidates or campaign commit­ amendments written into President Nixon's tees. maritime rebuilding program — amendments Indeed, the tax funds sometimes flow into adopted by the House Merchant Marine Com­ the pockets of politicians for personal use. For mittee pressed by Seafarers lobbyists. in addition to king-sized campaign gifts the The Seafarers ihsist that their bulging $1 union pays dozens of honorauriums for speechmillion political fund (1968 spending totaled making, in amounts up to $2,500 for one ap­ $946,766) represents contributions from union pearance by Maryland Democrat Garmatz, members freely expressing their right to par­ chairman of the House Merchant Marine Com­ ticipate in the political process. mittee. Congressmen appearing . ^ at weekly But evidence being presented by two Justice lunches sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Department special attorneys, Edgar N. Trades Department (the president is Seafarers Brown and John Clark, to the grand jury in leader Paul Hall) never receive less than $260 Brooklyn suggests that much of the money ac and four Senators flying to Atlantic City for the tually comes from foreign sailors, includirig department's annual convention last year re­ many who aren't members of the union. In­ ceived substantially more; one-speaker, Texas deed, some of the foreigners who are financing Democrat Yarborough, got $3,000. As Mr. Hall the campaign of American politicans have says, "there's nothing like an honorarium to never set foot on U.S. sdll; many work on ships make a speaker show up." chartered by the military services to ferry sup­ Donors Unidentified plies from Yokahama and other ports to Viet­ Campaigners or orators accepting Se'afarers nam. funds may not know where the money comes Mr. Brown and Mr. Clark won't comment from. For in no case has the union identlfled on progress of the grand jury proceedings. But donors giving the donation, committee mpre union records show a revealing pattern. In than $100 in quarterly reports filed with the most'instances American seamen give $5, $10 clerk of the House of Representatives. or occasionally $25 to the Seafarers Politic^ What particularly endears the Seafarei^ to Activity Donation Committee. Japanese, Filipi­ needy candidates is the union's ability to de­ nos, Scandinavians and other aliens often liver large sums early In the campaign. Mjost "give" up to one-third their monthly wage. political action funds sponsored by unions can't Union collectors can extract such sums be­ raise big money until the campaign heats up. cause net pay aboard U.S.-flag ships is still at­ But not the Seafarers. For the November.1968 tractive, even after these "deductions." election the donation committee contributed Records Show Donations $5,000 fully a year in advance to the campaign One example occurred aboard the tanker St. Lawrence in the Far East sometime in 1968. of Washington Democrat Magnuson, chairman • Three American seamen. Jack Fitzgeraid, of the Senate Commerce Committee. Then in quick succession Sen. Magnuson's Frank Conneil and Douglas Hester, contributed candidacy received six more $5,000 boosts— $2, $10, $17 respectively. In contrast, union rec­ from the donation committee to the Washing­ ords list "donations" of $500 each from Jinyu Yarikw, Jintoku Toma, H. Shimuzato, Paulino ton State Democratic committee, the Spokane Abuan, Seikichi Uehara, Tsubio Kahatsu, Jesus County Democratic Central Committee, the M. Pilare, Graciano Pelaya and Koichi Miya- King County Democratic State Central Com­ mittee, the Washington Committee for Mag­ zato. nuson, the 1968 Magnuson for Senate Commit­ A single pay day abroad for some mer­ chantmen under labor contract to the imion tee and the District of Columbia Citizens for yields as much as $7,250 for the union's politi­ Magnuson Campaign giving of this magnitude helps cal fund, nearly all from foreign sailors. Gen­ the union score legislative victories. Most re­ erally, though, the imion seems content with $100 or $200 per man. From among crew mem­ cently, Seafarers lobbyists persuaded the bers of the SS Sea Pioneer, on Feb. 22,1968, the House Merchant Marine Committee to broaden donation committee received $200 from Alejan­ President Nixon's suggested program for reju­ dro de Windt; $150 from Manuel Taguacta and venating the Merchant Marine. As passed by $100 each from Tan Joek Kwang, Low Chun the House, the bill authorizes subsidies to oper­ ators choosing to operate some of their ships Choek, and Lim Bian Seng. However it's collected, the money really under foreign flags; most of the operators thus rolls in, whether in sums of $440 from Motoyuki benefiting are under contract to thf^ Seafarers. Nakasone or $30 from Tay Theng Ho. In the The legislation will be considered today by Sen. 1968 Presidential c^impaign the 80,000-member Magnuson's Senate Commerce Committee. ' v''4o Po ae icted pirttcV D\' \ifMj arge The Role of the Wall Street Journal Ul IIWI I Ul Among the newspapers that have attacked the SID for exercising its legal right to parti­ cipate in politicah activities — and to work toward its objectives of building a strong American-flag merchant marine — The Wall Street Journal has been the most vicious. The Wall Street Journal's attacks have in­ creased step-by-step as the SIU has pressed toward winning the fight for an expanded, healthy industry that will provide more jobs, greater security and increased opportunity for Seafarers. The Wall Street Journal, at the same time, has consistently taken strong editorial stands in support of runaway shipping, foreign-flag shipping and in opposition to the free exerdse of unions' rights. - •II IWl V«l lO The newspaper is the voice of anti-union big business interests who want to eliminate unions—and deplete their strength; who want to take away seamen's rights, and replace American Seafarers with foreign seamen in the interest of greater profits. In its attempt to block the success of the union's struggle for an improved merchant marine. The Wall Street Journal's attacks have been strangely timed in coordination with the Justice Department's activities. An example of this relationship is shown by The Wall Street Journal story that appears on this page. It was in print the night before the Justice Department announced the indictment to the rest of the news media. We feel that it is not a coincidence that The Wall Street Journal story appeared not only in advance of the Justice Department's release, but in time to be read by Senators on the very day that the full Senate Commerce Committee was voting on provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 which the SIU supports. Despite the tactics that have been used to divert the union from its goal of a rejuvenated, modern American-flag fleet, the SIU will con­ tinue to exercise its rights to participate in the American political process, legally and prop­ erly, just as we always have. This is not only our right, it is our obligation as a union of Sei I �Unfair to Do Not Labor Buy J Qualified Lifeboafmen Eight Seafarers who attended the SIU's Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship in New York received endorsements as qualified lifehoatmen on June 18 after passing the Coast Guard examination. (Back row from left) SIU Instructor Len Decker, WilKam Muniz, Ralph Moore, Sotirios Androutsopoulos; and Larry Hamilton. (Front row) Miguel Pahon, Thomas Murphy, Joseph King, and James McDevitt. Maritime Vocabulary Adds Forgotten Word — 'Hope Washington The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, with which the SIU is affiliated, continues to provide the only regular, on-going forum in the country that deals exclusively with maritime problems and legislation. At weekly Washington luncheons, congress­ men, senators, government, industry and labor officials speak out on issues affecting the mer­ chant marine. This past month four congressmen addressed the luncheons and this is what they scad: Recent passage of the Maritime Act of 1970 by the House of Representatives has struck a cautious note of hope in the remarks of Con­ gressmen who are concerned about the maritime industry. • Rep. Peter N. Kyros (D-Me.) says the new bill will equitably provide ship construction sub­ sidies, tax-deferred construction reserve funds and operating subsidies to the entire fleet, rather than just certain select berth lines. • An "orderly, acceptable and realistic" method to end "runaway-flag shipping" is one of the legislation's most important factors, accord­ ing to Rep. John H. Dent (D-Pa.). • The act. provides the needed tools to re­ turn the nation's shipping fleet to a competitive position on the oceans, says Rep. Ray Blanton (D-Tenn.). • House approval marks the end of a 34year drought, noted Rep. Robert N. Giaimo (D-Conn.). He believes that there is no time for "resting on our laurels" but that efforts should be already underway for further legislative ac­ tion to lead to greater excellence in the nation's American-flag fleet. The legislation, now awaiting Senate action, passed the House with a significant 307-1 vote. 'Back to Flock' But one way to correct this, Kyros believes, is to bring the runaway fleet "back to the flock" under rules that will permit them to compete for a fair share of the $74 billion-a-year in American foreign trade, we will be making a major contribution to the eco­ nomic health of our nation." The Maritime Act of 1970 places a "freeze" on Americanowned foreign operations as of April 15, 1970, and requires a phasing out of such operations by 1990, and fairly distributes subsidies and tax breaks among the entire fleet—not just selected operators. It will "unite the American-flag merchant marine under a system that will permit it to compete in international trade," Kyros said. Runaway Competition Dent said that "runaway-flag shipping"— U.S. companies which have built and registered liilv LQTfl and manned their vessels in foreign countries and then turned around and competed for American cargo—is "unconscionable." But to expect operators of the runaway-flag vessels to phase out their substantial holdings immediately would be unrealistic. The legislation. Dent said, puts an operator on notice that, if he wants to participate in the American maritime program, he must put a freeze on his foreign holdings and phase out such holdings over 20 years—a span equal to the economic life of a vessel. Dent emphasized that the maritime bill was "corrective" and not "protective" legislation for the American-flag merchant marine. Rep. Dent Continue to Push Giaimo urged maritime leaders to continue to push for the legislation until the Senate has passed it and President Nixon has signed it. And then, he said, there is still no time for relaxing for "the changing state of mari­ time affairs in the world today demands vigilance, a willingness to meet challenges and a willing­ ness to change our ways to meet , foreign competition." Rep. Giaimo growing Russian fleet, which is providing increasing competition for the U.S.-flag fleet, as one of the major chal­ lenges of the future. (See story on the Russian fleet on Page 4.) Competition from foreign-flag carriers is so great, in fact, that American-flag bottoms now carry less than 6 percent of the nation's inter? national trade. More Cargo Needed The tools of the act, Blanton explained, seek to return the nation's fleet to a competitive posi­ tion on the ocean. But, he added, the 300 ships it will provide in the next decade mean little with­ out U,S,-flag ships carrying a greater share of cargo in their holds He urged that tax incentives be offered shippers who support the American-flag fleet, as one means of increasing the cargo tonnage. Blanton also believes that the "injustices that have infected the federal government's policies on government cargo" could be eliminated in part by giving the Maritime Administration full responsibility for deciding where to place U.S. government cargo shipments. Seafarers and their fam­ Economy Furniture — Biltilies are urged to support a Rite, Western Provincial and consumer boycott by trade Smithtown Maple (Uphol­ unionists against various sters) companies whose products GRAPES—All Arizona and are produced under non­ California table grapes not union conditions, or which bearing a union label on the are "unfair to labor." (This crate. (United Farm Work­ list carries the name of ers) the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amend­ HOME BARBER SETS—Wahl ed from time to time.) Clipper Corp. (Machinists) BRICKS—Boren Clay Prod­ LIQUORS—Stitzel-Weller Dis­ ucts Co., northeastern and tilleries, makers of Old Fitz­ Great "Lakes region. (United gerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk Brick and Clay Workers) and W.L. Weller brands. (Distillery Workers) CIGARETTES—R. J. Reyn­ olds Tobacco Co., makers of NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Camels, Win'ston, Salem, Herald-Examiner. (10 un­ Tempo, Brandon, Doral and ions involved — covering Cavalier cigarettes. (Tobacco 2,000 workers) Workers) CLOTHING—Siegel (H. I. S. PRINTING—Kingsport Press, "World Book" and "Childbrand) suits and sports craft." (6 unions involved) jackets, Kaynee boyswear, Richman Brothers mens' RANGES—Magic Chef, Pan clothing, Sewell suits. Wing Pacific Division. (Allied Ap­ shirts, Metro Pants Co. prod­ pliance Workers) ucts, and Diplomat Pajamas by Fortex Mfg. Co. (Amal­ SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co., shoes by Sentry, Cedar gamated Clothing Workers) Chest, Staler, Jarman, John­ Judy Bond blouses. (Ladies son & Murphy and CrestGarment Workers) worth. (Boot and Shoe FLOUR MILL PRODUCTS— Workers) Pioneer Products, San An­ tonio, Tex. (Brewery, Flour SPECIAL—All West Virginia camping and vacation spots. and Distillery Workers) (Laborers) FURNITURE-—James Sterling Corp. and White Furniture TOYS—Fisher-Price toys. (Doll and Toy Workers) Co. (Furniture Workers) Pennsylvan'ians Meet Piney Point trainee Anthony Wayne Brown of Philadelphia and fellow Pennsylvanian, Rep. John H. Dent, discussed sea­ faring issues during a recent AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment luncheon in Washingtoi«. (For details of Dent's speech see related story this page.) Labor Official Chairs Group Paris, France W. J. Usery, assistant secre­ tary of labor, has been selected as chairman of the Working Party on Industrial Relations under the Organization for Eco­ nomic Cooperation and Devel­ opment. He was formerly a Grand Lodge Representative of the Machinists. �.-v--' - •• '}••.- •^'".•^-.r? House Minority leader Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) delivers speech to MTD audience. SGsrspeps AQTION LINE In addition to the beefs and contract questions which are set­ tled aboard ship at payoffs and sign-on and by the SIU Contract Enforcement Department, headquarters in New York receives communications from Seafarers seeking contract interpretations and other information relating to their fobs. These questions cover the range of working conditions, pension and welfare and other related subjects. Because many of these questions are of general interest to the membership, headquarters has arranged to have the questions and answers published regularly in the Log. Promises Hold Maritime Fate (Continued from Page 3) Even though the Commerce Department and the Maritime Administration have made ef­ forts to convince American in­ dustry to "ship American," the government cannot do the job alone, he added. The maritime industry "has more at stake in a 'ship American' program than the government does, and the industry should be willing and eager to carry its share of the task of stimulating greater awareness of the advantages of using American fiag-ships. "The problems of the mer­ chant marine did not develop overnight; they will not be re­ solved overnight," Ford con­ tinued, "but this legislation charts a Course which, if we follow, will lead to the restora­ tion of America's maritime strength." Question: Why is it important to have an up-to-date clinic card when throwing in for a job aboard ship? Answen Article 2, Section C of the Union's shipping rules, under the heading "Shipping Procedures" reads as follows: "In those ports where the Seafarers Welfare Plan maintains a clinic and to the extent that the facilities of such clinic are avail­ able to a registrant, no seaman may register for a job without having presented a clinic card prior to registration." The wording of this section of the shipping rules which cover Taylor Elected all Seafarers makes it clear that an SIU clinic card is a necessary Bal Harbour, Fla. document in the shipping procedures negotiated by the Union and the contracted operators. Wesley A. Taylor, secretaryA Seafarer without a clinic card is unable to register for a job treasurer of the Bookbinders, under the shipping rules. has been elected by the execu­ Possession by the Seafarer of a valid, unexpired clinic card is tive board of the AFL-CIO also vitally important in those cases where a Seafarer chooses not Union Label and Service Trades to ship out immediately after registering for a job. For example, if a Seafarer registers on the fifth of the month Department as its seventh vice for a job, but does not throw in his card for a job until the president. Taylor will serve out twenty-ninth of the month, and in the meantime his clinic card the unexpired term of the late has expired, the dispatcher in the port can turn down his bid for Anthony J. DeAndrade, who the job on the grounds of an expired clinic card. The guideline for every Seafarer to follow is that his clinic was president of the Printing card must be up to date both at the time of registration and at Pressmen. the time of his actually throwing in for a job. It should also be remembered that by keeping his clinic card current, a Seafarer protects his own health. Because of the nature of the work performed by Seafarers, being in good physical con­ dition is a protection while aboard ship: AFL-CIO President George Through the regular checkups offered to all Seafarers free of Meany has called for a stronger, charge at SIU clinics, every member can, for his own benefit, more effective alliance between detect any health problems early and have them treated. the labor movement and the SIU clinics not only extend their services to members but also civil rights movement. to the wives and dependents of Seafarers. Meany's call for greater co­ operation was contained in a message to the 61st Annual Convention of the NAACP. He said, "There is no time for further delay or experi­ mentation if we are going to New Orleans, La. put America back to work." The secretary-treasurers of At the same time, he re­ AFL-CIO affiliates elected A1 peated the AFL-CIO's demand Kerr of the SIU to their Steer­ that the Administration arrest ing Committee during the the downhill slide of the U.S. group's annual conference in economy. New Orleans. Unfinished Task Joseph L. Ames of the State, County and Municipal Em­ Referring to some of the ployes also was elected to the gains made by the combined committee. They will replace efforts of civil rights groups the late Frank L. Noakes of and the labor movement, Meany the Maintenance of Way Em­ said "our common task is far ployes and Charles A. Perlik, from finished. Much more re­ AL KERR Jr., who is now president of the mains to be done." Named to Committee Newspaper Guild. He added, "Labor is not Emerson Sign Shines^ Plant Lights Go Out For the past 20 years, motorists emerging from the Holland Tunnel into New Jersey have been greeted by a large sign atop a four story fac­ tory. "EMERSON TELEVISION AND RADIO," the sign reads, and at night its letters are il­ luminated in brilliant neon lights. In 1966, the sign should have been altered and the word "RADIO" eliminated, because it was in that year that radio production ceased at Emerson. The company began to import its entire line of radios from Japan. A thousand jobs were lost. The International Union of Electrical Workers went to the Federal Trade Commission to show that the company was practicing fraud and deceit in making the consumer believe that Emerson radios were made in the U.S. The FTC sided with Emerson. Going Chinese Now the company has work­ ed out an arrangement with the Admiral Co. to have all its TV sets manufactured in Taiwan and imported and sold in the U.S. Another thousand jobs will be lost and this time the com­ pany will close its plant for good. However, the sign out­ side the Holland Tunnel will continue to glow so that the public will get the impression that Emerson radio and TV's are still being made in Jersey City by American labor and at fair standards. It is a bitter blow to the Emerson workers who average well over 20 years in service. As one Jersey City lUE offi­ cial puts it: "We're a family. We've been together, most of us, well over 25 years. Black and white; American and foreign born. We had looked forward to working here for a long time and some day enjoying our pensions. But now our members will be out in the streets." Future Uncertain The local union is trying to get the membership a 52-week Readjustment Allowance through the U.S. Tariff Com­ mission. Among the employees at Emerson there is uneasiness and uncertainty about the future. Ross Musumici is blind. He had 26 years of service. As of July 1st he was out of work. He has no idea what he will do, where he wili go. Bruno Nazzari is crippled. He is a skilled man and has spent 27 years at Emerson. But, he is now over 45 years of age. The prospects for an over-45 cripple landing a job are not very bright. Meanwhile, American unions are concerned that as a result of Emerson's action with im­ punity, other companies may follow suit to take advantage of cheap labor overseas. Panel Okays Marifime Bill (Continued from Page 3) eludes all U.S.-built, U.S.-flag subsidized ships serving for­ eign countries, even if they do not directly serve the U.S. And, the Senate Committee also gave approval to a provi­ sion that grants the Maritime Administrator jurisdiction over government cargo preference procedures, a power now vested in the shipping agencies—the Department of Agriculture and the Agency for International Development. Under the Senate plan, at least 50 percent of all govern­ ment-generated and federal cargoes must be shipped in American-flag bottoms. Senate action on the measure is expected to come in a few weeks. Meany Asks Rights Alliance Kerr Elecfed to Steering Post Of Union Secretary-Treasurers tired and it is not finished with the struggle. We have pledged to continue the fight, shoulderto-shoulder with our allies in the civil rights movement, un­ til the nation has achieved its promise of liberty and justice not only for all, but for each." Meany warned, however, that the common goals of the AFL-CIO and NAACP are threatened by a national econ­ omy in which industry's produc­ tion rate has dropped below 80 percent of capacity, by an un­ employment rate that is un­ realistic, and by declining real earnings while the consumer price Index rises. Meany said the economic situation was especially detri­ mental if it curtailed the effec­ tiveness of such programs as Operation Outreach, which is aimed at recruiting black young­ sters as apprentices and upgrad­ ing the skills of older minority group workers in the building trades. Meany said Outreach programs have been launched in 63 cities and have enrolled 6,000 young blacks. New Voice For Consumers A bill pending before Con­ gress would give consumers a stronger voice in Washing­ ton in the future. The bill's first provisimi establishes an agency for consumer protection. Under terms of the Mil, the agency would be empowered to plead the consumer's case in administrative and court pro­ ceedings. The other provision of the hill grants legal authority to the President's Office of Consumer Affairs. The Presi­ dent's Consumer Affairs of­ fice has previously acted only in an advisory capacity. �(3) Nongovernment, obligations d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) AFL-CIO Mortgage Investment Fund (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions) .... (Identify and indicate percentage of owner­ ship by this Flan in the subsidiary) {Continued from Page 13) 3. Investment Income: 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.. 20. 21. (a) Interest (b) Dividends (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments Profit OP disposal of investments Increase by adjustment in asset value of invest­ ments Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) None (b) None (c) Total Other Additions Total Additions J.376,443.45 446,478.70 1,822,922.15 179,798.18 (1) (2) $15,371,603.81 DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Carriers and to Service Organizations (Including Prepaid Medical Plans) Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Sepa­ rately Maintained Fund $ 3,782,433.07 Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants (Attach latest operating statement of the Organization showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Ben­ efits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) 45,934,84 (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) 4,481.63 (c) Taxes 2,617.45 (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) 61,130.13 (e) Rent 5,839.03 (f) Insurance Premiums 343.80 (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums —o— ' (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) Schedule Attached 146,521.06 (i) Total Administrative Expenses 266,867.94 Loss on disposal of investments 176,127.32 Decrease by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) None (b) None (c) Total Other Deductions Total Deductions $ 4,225,428.33 RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE Fund Balance (Reserye for Future Benefits at Beginning of Year) 32,716,763.71 Total Additions During Year (Item 7) 15,371,603.81 Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 4,225,428.33 Total Net Increase (Decrease) 11,146,175.48 Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities) $43,862,939.19 Part IV Part rV data for trust or other separately maintained fund are to be completed for a plan involving a trust or other separately maintained fund. It also is to be completed for a plan which: (1) Has incurred expenses other than: (a) Payments for unfunded bene­ fits or (b) Insurance or annuity premiums or subscription charges paid to an insurance carrier or service or other organization; or (2) Has assets other than: (a) Insurance or annuity contracts or (b) Contributions in the process of payment or collection. ^ Part IV—Section A Statement of Assets and Liabilities Seafarers Pension Plan File No. WP-158707 As of November 30, 1969 17,336.294.70 25,923,435.76 999,732.43 999,732.43 % % 4. Real estate loans and mortgages 244,802.93 234,364.24 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured b. Unsecured 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income 43,396.06 11,510.86 b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) 8. Total Assets $32,731,963.61 $43,885,805.11 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. LIABILITIES Insurance and annuity premiums payable Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) Accounts payable Accrued expenses Other liabilities (Specify) Reserve for future benefits Total Liabilities and Reserves 15,199.90 22,865.92 32,716,763.71 $32,731,963.61 43,862,939.19 $43,885,805.11 ' The as.spts li.sted in this statement mu.st be valued on the basis reirularly used in valuing investments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Department, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not so required to be filed with the U.S. Treasury Department. SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN Attachment to The Superintendent of Insurance Year Ended November 30, 1969 Page 6—Item 12h Other Administrative Expenses Stationery and printing Postage Telephone and telegraph Tabulating service Microfilming Equipment rental Employee benefits Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Trustees meetings expense Repairs and maintenance Dues and subscriptions Outside office help Office improvements $ 6,387.39 105.35 1,656.52 127,565.70 511.08 2,214.57 3,243.35 1,832.04 28.72 583. ^3 375.32 1,726.15 291.44 $146,521.06 Page 4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SEAFARERS WELFARE FUND STATE OF COUNTY OF New York New York ss. .and Tcustees of the Fund and affirm,,under the penalties of perjury that thecontentsof this Annual Report are true and hereby subscribe thereto. Employer trus ASSETS' End of End of Item Prior Year Reporting Year 1. Cash $ 1,615,843.86 $ 606,193.93 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer 200,397.72 55,925.10 (2) Other (Specify) b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associations b. Stocks: 2,406,446.31 (1) Preferred 1,449.099.56 12,302,438.00 (2) Common 9,460,509.06 c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: 1,345,758.48 (a) Federal 1,381,887.29 (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations July 1970 Employee trustee: Others (Indicate titles): Page 21 �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings V. OVERSEAS VIVIAN (Maritime Overseas), June 14 — Chairman, Robert A. Yeager; Secretary, Troy Savage; Deck Delegate, Richard Schaeffer; Engine Delegate, John A. Sullivan; Steward Delegate, F. J. Johnson. Few hours disputed OT in engine department, otherwise no beefs. OVERSEAS DAPHNE (Maritime Overseas), June 16—Chairman, Ed­ win Craddock; Secretary, Sidney Gamer; Deck Delegate, Ronald J. Crain; Steward Delegate, J. H. Crawford, Jr. No beefs reported. Some disputed OT in engine de­ partment. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job well done. HURRICANE (Waterman), June 7—Chairman and Deck Delegate, Clayton Engelund; Secretary and Steward Delegate, James T. My­ ers; Engine Delegate, Nick Marcogliese. Two men paid off in Guam, and one man missed ship in Yokohama. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Pa­ trolman aboard ship in Yokohama to straighten out a few beefs. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), June 21 — Chairman, William O' Connor; Secretary, Har­ old P. DuCloux; Deck Delegate, Bernard Toner; Steward Delegate. Donald M. King. $12.25 in ship's fund. Several resolutions submitted to Headquarters. VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pio­ neer), June 7—Chairman, John M. Yates; Secretary, Jim Bartlett; Deck Delegate, Elbert Wilson; Engine Delegate, James D. Allen; Steward Delegate, C. J. Kuzzen. Everything running smoothly with no beeh and no disputed OT. FANWOOD (Waterman), June 21—Chairman, Clarence Cousins; Secretary, Anthony J. Kuberski. $15.50 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department. Beef in steward department to be brought to attention of patrolman. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. EAGLE VOYAGER (United Maritime), May 24—Chairman, Leo Paradise; Engine Delegate, Michael J. Blatchford; Steward Delegate, Robert Escobar. No beefs reported. Everything running smoothly. MX. WASHINGTON (Victory Carriers), May 6—Chairman, E. Morris; Secretary, W. O'Brien; Steward Delegate, Sheldon Wallace. $16 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in each department. COLUMBIA BREWER (Colum­ bia), May 3—Chairman, C. Lee; Secretary, A. Hirsch; Deck Dele­ gate, Orlando Gonsalves; Steward Delegate, Lee Myers. No beefs re­ ported. Some disputed OT in en­ gine department. YAKA (Waterman), June 18— Chairman, Andrew Lesnansky; Sec­ retary, Thomas Liles, Jr.; Deck Delegate, Lewis T. Fitton; Engine Delegate, W. A. Brown; Steward Delegate, Francisco A. Gonzalez. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job well done. ERICKSON (Crest Overseas), June 1—Chairman, S. Johannson; Secretary, J. L. Hodges; Deck Dele­ gate, Andrew E. Stemock; Engine delegate, John W. Penns; Steward Delegate, Donald Klein. No beefs and no disputed OT. YORKMAR (Calmar), June 21— Chairman, William D. Morris; Sec­ retary, John R. Marshall; Deck Delegate, S. Furtado; Steward Del­ egate, W. C. Crawford. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department. Smooth sailing. DEL SOL (Delta), June 21— Chairman, Claude W. Webb; Sec­ retary, Charles L. Shirah; Deck Page 22 Delegate, John Turk, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Richard Savoie; Steward Delegate, Joseph Gagliano. $7 in ship's fund. Motion made for re­ tirement after 20 years in union and 15 years seatime, regardless of age. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. TRANSERIE (Hudson Water­ ways), May 10—Chairman, Hendray Rucki; Secretary, W. B. Yarbrough; Deck Delegate, T. E. An­ derson; Engine Delegate, S. W. Lewis; Steward Delegate, B. S. Kusbranson. Motion made to have sixmonth articles replaced by twelve­ month articles on all ships. Vote of thanks to entire steward depart­ ment for job well done. Disputed OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. PANAMA (Sea-Land), May 28Chairman, Ray Schrum; Secretary. J. McPhaul; Deck Delegate, James F. Ryan; Engine Delegate, David E. Wilson; Steward Delegate, Jose Vazquey, One man missed ship in Yokohama. One man hospitalized in Kobe. No beefs reported. Expect good payoff in Oakland, Calif. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. 'raLLOWSTONE (Ogden Ma­ rine), May 31—Chairman, John Talbot; Secretary, Gilbert Trosclair; Deck Delegate, W. F. Simmons; Engine Delegate, R. C. Goodrum; Steward Delegate, R. H. Taylor. Small amount of disputed OT in deck department. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), May 24—Chairman, George Burke; Sec­ retary, James H. Naylor. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to stew­ ard department for job well done. Vote of thanks also extended to 4 to 8 watch for cleaning pantry. PENN CHAMPION (Fenn Ship­ ping), May 24—Chairman, Charles Boyle; Secretary, Z. A. Markris; Deck Delegate, C. R. Dammeyer; Engine Delegate, R. E. Nickerson; Steward Delegate, Richard Marti­ nez. Disputed OT in deck depart­ ment regarding delayed sailing. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. SAGAMORE HILL (Victory Carriers), April 19—Chairman, B. A. Granby; Secretary, Willie A. Slater; Deck Delegate, H. T. Buckner; Steward Delegate, W. J. Miles. $14 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck and steward departments. ROBIN HOOD (Moore-McCormack). May 24—Chairman, J. I. Justus; Secretary, Aussie Shrimpton; Deck Delegate, W. R. Addington; Engine Delegate, P. P. Pappas; Steward Delegate, Charles Hickox. $13 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported. SEATRAIN FLORIDA (Seatrain) June 15—Chairman, George B. Smith; Secretary, Wilbur C. Sink; Deck Delegate, Arthur E. Hinz; Engine Delegate, E. W. Bartol; Steward Delegate, Calvin J. Sivels. Some disputed OT in engine de­ partment. Beefs in steward depart­ ment to be settled by patrolman. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), June 14—Chairman, Daniel D. Backrak; Secretary, Paul P. Lopez; Deck Delegate, C. D. Phillips; En­ gine Delegate, L. B. Broderick"; Steward Delegate, A. P. Lopez. $30 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments to be brought to attention of boarding patrolman. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land), May 3—Chairman, George Annis; Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Special vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. PONCE (Sea-Land), June 14— Chairman, G. Ruf; Secretary, G. M. Wright; Deck Delegate, Wesley Leonard; Engine Delegate, J. Beam. Jr.; Steward Delegate, Oscar Sorenson. $15.71 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. MAYAGUEZ (Sea-Land), May 17—Chairman, Don Hicks; Secre­ tary, L. Moore; Engine Delegate, H. B. Stevens. Motion made to have SIU Food Plan Representa­ tive look into quality and quantity of food aboard ship. No disputed OT and no beefs. TOPA TOPA (Waterman), May 17—Chairman, James O. Dewell; Secretary, Edwin L. Brown; Deck Delegate, Glen E. Vinson; Engine Delegate, Robert A. Van Cise; Steward Delegate, C. Marceaux. Motion made to have maintenance and cure raised to $15 per day. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), May 17—Chairman, Leonard J. Olbrantz; Secretary, Harold P. DuCloux; Deck Dele­ gate, James R. Thompson; Engine Delegate. W. A. Padgett; Steward Delegate, James A. Hassell. $12.35 in ship's fund. Discussion held re­ garding quality of food. Few beefs to be taken up with boarding patrolman. COLUMBIA TIGER (Columbia), May 21—Chairman, John W. Kelso; Secretary, George M. Wil­ liams; Deck Delegate, Robert M. Smith; Engine Delegate, O. M. Brooke; Steward Delegate, Clifton Aaron. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. CHICAGO (Sea-Land), May 3— Chairman, Walter Sibley; Secre­ tary, B. B. Henderson; Deck Dele­ gate, Frank Buhl; Engine Delegate, Vincent A. Lawsin; Steward Dele­ gate, Joseph E. Giblin. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. DELTA URUGUAY (Delta), May 21—Chairman, Joseph Cata­ lanotto; Secretary, Bill Kaiser; Deck Delegate, Irvin Glass; Engine Dele­ gate, V. M. Frederiksen; Steward Delegate, Sankey Edwards. $107.02 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Real smooth voyage with no beefs. Dis­ cussion held regarding pension plan. TAMARA GUILDEN (Trans­ port Commercial), May 5—Chair­ man, E. Bryan; Secretary, J. Prestwood; Deck Delegate, H. E. Jones; Engine Delegate, R. D. Holmes; Steward Delegate; R. D. Smith. $18.35 in ship's fund and $459.50 in movie fund. Ship's delegate to see captain regarding rusty wash water. Delayed sailing discussed. MT. WASHINGTON (Victory Carriers), May 27—Chairman, H. I. Pousson; Secretary, Leoncio Calderon; Deck Delegate, Oria Tysen; Engine Delegate, Dennis P. Whalen; Steward Delegate, W. Wal­ lace. $15 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in steward department. DELTA URUGUAY (Delta), April 19—Chairman, Joseph Catal­ anotto; Secretary, Bill Kaiser; Deck Delegate, G. W. Duncan; Engine Delegate^' V. M. Frederiksen; Stew­ ard Delegate, Sankey Edwards. Dis­ cussion held regarding new SIU contract and pension plan. $61.02 in ship's fund. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to entire steward department for job well done. OVERSEAS PROGRESS (Mari­ time Overseas), May 17—Chair­ man, Louis L. Arena; Secretary, Richard J. Sherman; Deck Delegate, Roy A. McLeod; Engine Delegate, Alphonso R. Gonzales; Steward Delegate, A. Papardimoti. Some minor repairs should be made as soon as possible, otherwise every­ thing running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian) May 3—Chairman, William Bushong; Secretary,. John Reed; Deck Delegate, Ralph O. King; Engine Delegate. Robert F. Ellenson; Stew­ ard Delegate, William R. Magruder. All beefs taken care of at payoff. PORTLAND (Sea-Land), April 26—Chairman, R. G. Bentz; &cretarj, R. Hernandez. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. Crew thanked for donation of $90 to American Library Association. PORTLAND (Sea-Land), May 10 Chairman, R. G. Bentz; Secretary, R. Hernandez. No beefs and no disbuted OT. Everything running smoothly. CmES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), May 16—Chair­ man, S. Candela; Secretary, Ralph Dougherty; Deck Delegate, Joe Moll Jr.; Engine Delegate, Frank C. Guillory; Steward Delegate, Persey Willis. RALEIGH (Crest), March 31— Chairman, W. J. Meehan; Secre­ tary. L. F. Drew; Deck Delegate, Roy L. Privette; Engine Delegate. Carl L. Peth III. Everything in good order. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian). May 2—Chairman, Melvin J. H. Keeper; Secretary, Isidor D. Avacilla; Deck Delegate, Lars Nielson; Engine Delegate, Philip F. Koral; Steward Delegate, Conrad Gauthier. $38 in ship's fund. Discussion held regarding rusty water; matter to be taken up with patrolman. No dis­ puted OT. STEEL KING (Isthmian), May 17—Chairman. J. McCullom; Sec­ retary, M. E. Reid. Discussion held regarding installation of airconditioning in messhalls. No beefs; eveiything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to steward department. TRANSHAWAII (Hudson Water­ ways), June 8—Chairman, W. E. Coutant; Secretary, James Temple; Deck Delegate, A. Fasar; Engine Delegate. Earl S. Rogers; Steward Delegate, Edward Dale. $22.50 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), June 8—Chairman, James Catania; Secretary, C. J. Nail. Disputed OT in each department to be settled by boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. BALTIMORE (Sea-Land), June 1—Chairman, J. Delgado; Secre­ tary, Ken Hayes. Motion made to have negotiating committee try to bring vacation pay in line with that of mates and engineers on this type ship. Mail situation very bad, to be brought to attention of patrol­ man. COLUMBIA BREWER (Colum­ bia), June 1—Chairman, Alfred Hirsch; Secretary, J. Harris; Deck Delegate, John Benitz; Engine Dele­ gate, Robert Prentise; Steward Dele­ gate, J. M. Harris. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), April 4—Chairman, Charles D'Amico; Secretary, Thomas Williams; Deck Delegate, Robert N. Talk; Engine Delegate, Allan R. J. Brunt; Steward Delegate, Arturo I. Aguilos. $35 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. CHOCTAW (Waterman). May 31—Chairman. Enos E. Allen, Sec­ retary, Frank L. Shackelford; Deck Delegate, J. M. Skinner; Engine Delegate, Samuel L. Gibson; Stew­ ard Delegate, Vincent P. Pizzitolo. No beefs and no disputed OT. COLUMBIA EAGLE (Columbia). May 31—Chairman, James Northcutt; &cretary, J. Kackur; Deck Delegate, N. R. Petterson; Engine Delegate, Luke A. Ciamboli; Stew­ ard Delegate, George M. Brown. $12.10 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. COLUMBIA STAR (Columbia), May 17—Chairman, C. B. Pickle; Secretary, E. E. Harris; Deck Dele­ gate. D. H. Ikirt; Engine Delegate, C. E. Wynn; Steward Delegate, John Silva. Motion made to have pension breakout after 20 years in union and 15 years sea time, re­ gardless of age. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. PERRY (Marine Traders), June 6—Chairman, M. E. Beaching; Secretary, A. E. Weaver; Deck Dele­ gate, P. Pringle; Engine Delegate, F. M. Pedroza; Steward Delegate, T. Kenley, Jr. Some disputed OT in steward department. After fhe Lifeboat Exam Five Seafarers successfully completed the lifeboat course .at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in New Yoric, and passed the U.S. Coast Guard examinations. They are (seated, from left) : Norman Williams, Louis Gil Jr., Panagis Menagatos; and (standing) Len Decker, the instructor, Dimosthenis Triantafyllos and Ronald Jones. Seafarers Log i'l �Ships' Committees: TTnion democracy is the cornerstone of the SIU Ship Committee. The committee, comprised of a ship's chairman, ship's secretary-reporter, and elected delegates from each department, is the SIU way of serving its mem­ bers even while they are at sea. Each Sunday of a cruise, a meeting of SIU members is held with the ship's chairman presiding. The secretaryreporter takes minutes which, along with other corres­ pondence, are later forwarded to headquarters. All matters relating to the union may be discussed at the meetings and the discussions are often wide-ranging. The committee is empowered to handle beefs taken to the department delegates, and will attempt to solve them on board. If they are not solved when the ship reaches port, the beefs are turned over to the boarding patrolman. Participation in the ship's committee meetings, and service on the committee, is open to every member. Union Democracy Aboard SlU Ships NEWARK (Sea-Land)—Gathered around the latest edition of the Log is the ship's committee of the Newark, hack home in Port Elizabeth, N.J. Seated around the table are committee members (from left) : Louis A. Ramiirez, the engine department del­ egate; Alphonse Rivera, the ship's chairman; Madias Pena, the ship's secretary-re­ porter; Rupert .lackson, the steward department delegate, and Nick Bechlevanis, the * delegate of the deck department. TRANSHAWAU (Hudson Waterways)— The ship's committee reported a smooth 27-day crossing from Southhampton, Eng­ land. The Transhawaii carried a cargo of containers. The ship's committee was made up of (front row, from left) : James Tem­ ple, steward department delegate; James Rogers, engine department delegate; and (hack row) Adrian Ease, deck delegate; Thomas E. Yahlonsky, ship's chairman, and Edward Dale, secretary-reporter. C/1TE r.4 F GfTF ( Sea-Land ) beefs were reportetj aboard the Gateway City on a 29-day voyage carrying mixed cargo containers from Spain. The com­ mittee consisted of (front row, from left) : Vincent Genco, deck department delegate; Felipe Martinez, steward department dele­ gate; and (hack row, from left) Frank Carmichael, secretary - reporter; Israel Ramos, engine department delegate, and Sven Stockmarr, ship's chairman. BROOKLYN (Sea-Land)-^The Brooklyn docked in Port Elizabeth, N.J., after a 28day voyage from Flextowe, England, with a mixed cargo of containers. The members of the ship's committee were (front row, from left): Jack Bowman, ship's chair-man; Joseph Delise, secretary-reporter; and, (hack row, from left) Peter McAneney, engine <lepar!ment delegate; Thomas Anderson, <leck department delegate, and Francis Ward, steward deparliueiit «lclegate. MOBILE (Sea-Land) Elizabeth, N.J., the ship's committee re­ ported a smooth 8-day voyage from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The committee mem­ bers were (front row, from left) : Sung M. Hsu, steward department delegate; Thomas Maga, engine department deh'gale; and (hack row, from left) Francis DeCarlo, ship's secretary-reporter; Svcrre LeKnes, deck (leparlment delegate, and Armas Jonsson, ship's chairman. 1 July 1970 Page 23 �v4sS6®Sf?»';^-. SIU fire fighting trainees guide a water fog nozzle to extinguish a diesel oil fire set in a giant tank. The train­ ees have to get on top of the* blaze for the water mist to do its extinguishing job. Preparing The Fighters Against Fire at Sea nphe ever present danger of fire aboard ship has always X threatened men at sea. To help prepare Seafarers combat this danger, the Military Sea Transport Service and the Maritime Administration jointly conduct a fire fighting school to train seamen how to handle such emer­ gencies. The school, located on the MSTS base in Bayonne, N.J., offers a two-day course, combining classroom and practical training. A recent class consisted of 13 SIU men. The curriculum includes general fire fighting and emer­ gency procedures, use of rescue equipment such as breathing apparatus and atomic decontamination tech­ niques. The practical training entails putting out fires set by the instructors and familiarization with different types of emergency gear. Each trainee gets to put his classroom theory into practice by lining up on a hose and guiding the nozzle to douse a blaze, using either fog nozzles or foam attachments. To finish the two-day course, each trainee must drag a hose to extinguish a smoky fire set below deck in an old landing craft used by the school. "We want to remove the fear of fire, but we want to teach respect for a fire," said Robert White, an instructor. "After all, it may save some lives some day." Smoke and water vapor mix as the trainees prepare to lug a hose below decks to put out a fire set in a former World War II landing craft. : •4 • ^1 •i I Seafarer Carl Merritt checks I the fog nozzle before going he' low to put out a fire. Paul Stew­ art assists him in holding the squirming hose. *1 M SIU trainees, in waterproof clothing man the hose to put out a diesel oil fire set in a tank. Each trainee gets a turn to lead the hose into the smoke and heat and guide the water fog onto the flames until the dreaded fire is put out. Page 24 Seafarers Loi �Fire fighting foam stains a prac­ tice vat in foreground as the SIU members attack another blaze. The fire fighting school, on the edge of the huge Bayonne base, is easy to find because of the smoke from practice fires. A trainee guides the fog nozzle into the heart of the inferno. The nozzle must he put right on top of the fire to allow the water ^ . I/- - SIU graduates of the fire fighting school are, from left, front row, Nick Paloumbis, Patrick Poinsette, Peter Triantafnlis, Charles Pollman", Paul Stewart and Mike Levan. Rear row: Randy Hines, Phil Barry, Jim• Sharpless, Neil Titone, Carl Merritt, Joseph Windham, Kenneth Roberts and instructors John Nagle and Robert White. Two Seafarers guide a fire fighting foam onto a blaze. Train­ ees learn to use different types of extinglisber materials to fight different types of fires. iif M' «t. Trainees drag the heavy hose to put out a diesel oil fire. Be­ sides fire fighting proc^ures, the school aims to remove fear of fire while retaining respect for fires, especiaUy aboard ship. D 1r �Crew of Steel Maker Ends A Mercy Cruise The crew of the Steel Maker (Isthmian) were glafl to be back home in the Port of New York after a mercy cruise to the Indian Ocean. When the ship dropped anchor at the Erie Basin in Brooklyn, the ship had completed a three and a half month trip to ports in India, West Pakistan and Ceylon, de­ livering a cargo of CARE packages and machinery. The crew left on their trip when wintry breezes were still blowing at home and, by the time they returned from the sweltering heat of the Indian Ocean, it was late spring in New York. The voyage was smooth, but most of the crew looked for­ ward to a few days of relaxadon at home before shipping out again. Seafarer Robert Lee Davis, who sails in the engine de­ partment, heads down the gangway with his suitcase all packed for some leisure time in the ship's home port. Crew members listen atten­ tively as SIU Representative Angus "Red" Campbell fills them in oii union activities during their long voyage to the Indian Ocean. The Steel Maker ship's committee re­ ported a smooth trip. Closing down the engine room telegraph after docking is Ken­ neth Larpenteur. Brother Larpenteur prepared for his career at sea by graduating from the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship in New Orleans. Rodney Doiron, an oiler, adjusts the main steam valve after the ship tied up. Brother Doiron hopes to enroll in one of the SIU upgrading programs to advance himself in his seagoing career. After the Steel Maker docked at the Erie Basin, Seafarer Andrew Lopez, a fi reman-watertender, makes a routine inspection tour of the engine room machinery. Mixing the potatoes for another good hearty meal for the crew are Don M. Ravosa (left), chief cook, and Robert J. Laiche, third cook aboard the Steel Maker. All the crew members say the steward department did a fine job during the long trip. �William Pope William Pope, 46, an able sea­ man in the deck department of the Alcoa Com­ mander, died Jan. 22, 1969, aboard ship in New Orleans. He had been a mem­ ber of the SIU for 10 years, joining at the Port of New York. A native of Dalton, Ga., he was buried in West Hill Cemetery there. Roy M. Mwtin Roy M. Martin, 29, died at the J. T. Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y., April 11. Born in New York, he joined the SIU at the Port of New York in 1959 and later that year graduated from the Andrew Furuseth Training School. His home was in Port Jefferson. Dur­ ing his career he sailed in the steward department and in 1961 was issued a picket duty card. Burial was in Washington Me­ morial Park, Goran, N.Y. 1^ Rosarlo LIpari Rosario Lipari, 44, died April 30 in the USPHS Hospital on S t a t e n Island. Mr. Lipari joined the SIU in 1943 at the Port of New York and sailed as a bosun. He was issued a picket duty card in 1961. A native of Canada, he was a resident in Brooklyn at the time of his death. Burial was in Cote de Neiges Cemetery in Montreal. Among his survivors are two brothers, Frank and An­ tonio. Walter G. Cooper Walter G. Cooper, 45, died May 7 in Napa, Calif. Bom in Illinois, he was a resident of San Francisco when he died. He joined the SIU in 1966 at the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. Mr. Cooper is survived by his mother, Mrs. Virginia Coughlan, of San Francisco. Services were held in Olivet Me­ morial Park, Colma, Calif. Henry B. Richardson Henry B. Richardson, 46, died May 9 in the USPHS Hospital in San Francisco af­ ter a long illness. A native of Rhode Island, he was a resident of San Francisco. He joined the SIU in 1967 in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department. Burial was in Calvary Catholic Ceme­ tery, San Jose, Calif. John C. Bourgeois John C. Bourgeois, 56, of Gretna, La., suffered an appar­ ent heart attack aboard the tug Jason Smith on Feb. 19 and died before he could reach Marrero Hospital, Mar­ rero, La. Mr. Bourgeois joined the SIU in 1959 at the Port of New Orleans and worked as a deck hand for the Crescent Towing and Salvage Co. in New Orleans. He is survived by his wife, Bernadette, and four daughters. William K. Kirk William K. Kirk, 18, died April 16 in St. Mary's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. He was a graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea^ manship. He joined the union in 1968 at the Port of San Francisco and sailed in the deck department as an ordinary seaman. Among his survivors is his mother, Mrs. Agnes Kirk of Philadelphia. Burial was in the New Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia. Harold Ferguson Harold Ferguson, 45, died May 15 at his home in Los Angeles. He join­ ed the SIU in 1961 in the Port o f Wilmington and sailed in the engine and deck departments. Burrial was in Green Hills Memorial Park in Los An­ geles Rufus C. Davidson Rufus C. Davidson, 54, died June 2 in Mobile, Ala., after suf­ fering a heart at­ tack. A Coast Guard veteran of World War II, he joined the SIU in the Port of Balti­ more in 1947, and sailed in the engine depart­ ment. Mr. Davidson was a na­ tive of Alabama, and he made his home in Baker, Fla. He was interred at Bradley Cemetery in Bradley, Ala. He is survived by a son, Robert F. Davidson. Strong Safety Bill Proposed Washington A bill pending in Congress would permit the Secretary of Labor to set safety standards for all industries. The bill, introduced in the House by Rep. Dominick V. Daniels (D-N.J.), provides that an inspector finding conditions in a place of work that could produce death or injury, may order the job site closed if the condition warrants. Broad enforcement powers, and expansion of the Labor Department's ability to regu­ late safety procedures, are in­ cluded in the bill, which, la­ bor leaders say, is the "strong­ est ever before Congress." Management organizations are expected to vigorously op­ pose the safety measure. Irvin C. Kramer Irvin C. Kramer, 62, died Feb. 20 in Arcadia, Mich., from heart disease. He Join­ ed the SIU at the Port of Frank­ fort in 1962 and lived in Arcadia. Burial was in Gethsemane Cem­ etery in Detroit. Among the sur­ vivors is a son, Robert Kramer of Arcadia, Mich. Henry T. Gaines Henry T. Gaines, 39, died April 18 of an apparent heart attack in Luray, Va. He is sur­ vived by his mother, Mrs. Margaret Gaines of Houston. Mr. Gaines, an Air Force veteran of the Korean War, joined the SIU in 1960 at the Port of Jacksonville. He sailed as chief electrician. His home was in Houston, Tex. Burial was in the Jacksonville Memory Gardens in Jacksonville, Fla. Peter Bush Peter Bush, 70, died April 12 after a long illness in the Provi­ dence Memorial Hospital in El Paso, Tex. An SIU pensioner since 1959, he moved to El Paso in 1966 from New York. An Army veteran of World War I, he joined the union at the Port of Baltimore in 1939. He sailed in the engine department. Among the survivors is his wife, Lorene. After cremation services, the ashes were scattered on the sea from the SS Hoskins. Donald A. Bergum Donald A. Bergum, 31, died on May 6, in Schroeder, Minn., following an auto­ mobile accident. A resident of Perham, Minn., he joined the SIU •• in 1969 at the I Port of Duluth after 11 years in the U.S. Navy. Burial was in Richville Cemetery, Rush Lake Township, Minn. I Bernard A. Donneily Bernard A. Donnelly, 58, died May 16 in the Veterans Adminis­ tration Hospital in Los Angeles after a short ill­ ness. An Army Air Corps vet­ eran of World War II, Mr. Don­ nelly joined the i union in 1952 at the Port of-Wil­ mington. Born in Canada, he had been living in Encino, Calif. Among his survivors is a sister, Mrs. Mary Menefree, of Encino. Burial was in Holy Cross Cem­ etery, Encino. John J. Cannon John J. Cannon, 69, died May 5 in Cumberland Hospital, Brook­ lyn, of natural causes. He joined the union in 1962 at the Port of New York and sailed in the stew­ ard department. Mr. Cannon was interred in Roseh i 11 Cemetery, Linden, N.J. Oaude D. Jennings Claude D. Jennings, 58, passed away May 8 in the USPHS Hos­ pital in New Or­ leans following a long illness. An Army veteran of World War II, Mr. Jennings joined the SIU in 1963 in the Port of New Orleans. He is survived by his wife, Corinne. Burial was in St. Rock Cemetery, New Or­ leans. Marion J. Goold Marion J. Goold, 72, passed away March 12 of natural causes in Kings County Hospital, Brook­ lyn, N. Y. An Army veteran of World War I, Mr. Goold joined the SIU in 1955 at the Port of New York and sailed in the stew­ ard department. He is survived by a brother, Robert, of Paris, 111. Burial was in Yates City Cemetery, Yates City, 111. Stevens Guilty Again P, « Mail from Home Seafarer Paul Parsons, an able seaman aboard tbe Penn Challenger, looks over letters from home as his ship rests at anchor in Yokohama. ^^Letters from home are more im­ portant than money, food, or a place to sleep,^* he says. New York For the tenth time the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board has found the J. P. Stevens Co. guilty of unfair labor tactics. In the most recent instance, the NLRB ordered the company to bargain with the Textile Work­ ers Union of America in behalf of workers in Greenville, S.C. New Gallon Club Member Seafarer Dominic Venezia (center) receives an SIU Gallon Club membership pin from Dr. Joseph Logue, SIU medical director, at the clinic in New York while a nurse looks on. Venezia, who donated his first pint of blood in 1964, be­ came the 13th Seafarer to have donated one gallon or more to the union blood bank. �24 More Seafarers Retire to Shore Joining the ranks of SIU pen­ sioners last month were 24 Sea­ farers who retired after long years of sailing the world's oceans. Carlos Mojica, 46, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a second cook. A de­ partment delegate when sailing, he was issued picket duty cards in 1947 and 1961. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Mojica now makes his home in New York City. David Brenner Miller, 64, a native of Louisiana, now lives in Houston, Tex. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of Baltimore and sailed in the engine department as a fireman. When Seafarer Miller retired, he ended a sail­ ing career of 42 years. Carlos Mojica David MOIer Fk-ank Prezalar, 63, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a baker, chief cook and steward. In 1961, he was is­ sued a picket duty card. A na­ tive of Poland, Seafarer Prezalar is now spending his retirement in Milford, Conn. He is an Army veteran of World War II. Austin N. Kitchlngs, 65, a na­ tive of South Carolina, now lives in Femandia Beach, Fla. He joined the union in the Port of Savannah and sailed in the stew­ ard department as a messman. Frank Prezalar Austin Kitchings Francisco V. Nicolas, 68, joined the SIU in 1943 at the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the steward department as a cook. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Nicolas makes his home in Baltimore, Md. His retirement closed a sailing career of 38 years. Otis Neal Edwards, 65, a na­ tive of Louisiana, is living in Chickasaw, Ala. In 1938 he be­ came a member of the union in the Port of Mobile. He sailed in the engine department as a fire­ man-oiler and deck engineer. Brother Edwards had been sail­ ing for 38 years when he retired to shore. Francisco Nicolas Otis Edwards Oscar Lee, 62, sailed in the engine department as a firemanoiler after joining the SIU in the Port of Mobile in his native state Page 28 of Alabama. Seafarer Lee is spending his retirement in Mo­ bile. Lawrence Edward Power, 68, a native of Rochester, N.Y., now lives in Cohoes, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Philadel­ phia and sailed in the steward de­ partment. Brother Power served in the Navy from 1919 to 1923. Falco was elected to serve as the quarterly financial committee member from the Port of Phila­ delphia. joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Panuelos lives in Portsmouth, Va. He is a veteran of both World Wars, and served in the Navy as a cook for over 30 years. Seafarer Sihler now lives in New Orleans, La. Robert Edward King, 46, a native of Virginia, now makes his home in Virginia Beach. He joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the deck department. Seafarer King is a Navy veteran of World War II. Edward Dooley Oscar Lee Lawrence Power Guillermo De Jesus, 48, joined the SIU in 1944 at the Port of New York. A messman, he sailed in the steward department. Brother De Jesus is spending his retirement in Dorado in his na­ tive Puerto Rico. James Sanlouzans, 60, is a na­ tive of Spain, who now makes his home in New York City. He joined the union in 1944 at the Port of Boston and sailed in the deck department. In 1961, he was issued a picket duty card. His re­ tirement ended a sailing career of 39 years. John G. Newnian, 54, is a 23year union veteran. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He sailed as an able seaman and bosun. A New York City native, he now lives in New Orleans, La. Edward R. Gordon, 69, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is a 26-year SIU veteran. He joined the union in the Port of New York after a two-year hitch in the Army. He sailed in the steward department. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Filippo Carlino Francisco Panuelos Clarence I. Wright, 63, is a native of Georgia and now makes his home in Baltimore, Md. He joined the union in the Port of Savannah in 1939 and sailed in the steward department. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card. Allen L. Dunn, 53, joined the SIU in the Port of Boston and sailed in the steward department as a cook. A native of Alabama, Seafarer Dunn is now making his home in Savannah, Ga. Dolph Sihler Robert King Edward Johnston, 65, joined the SIU at the Port of Philadel­ phia in 1939. During his 31-year career, he sailed as an able sea­ man, carpenter and bosun. A na­ tive of Philadelphia, he now makes his home in Havertown, Pa. Lewis James Goodwin, 55, joined the union in 1941 at the Port of New York after five years in the Navy. He sailed in the deck department as an able sea­ man. A native of Sanford, Me., he makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. John Newman Guillermo De Jesus James Sanlouzans Modesto Velez, 60, a native of Puerto Rico, now lives in the Bronx, N.Y. He joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile and sailed in the steward department. He served as department delegate while sailing. When he retired. Brother Velez ended a sailing career of 38 years. Rodrlgo I. Pelayo, 66, joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Pelayo now lives on Staten Island, N.Y. He retired after 43 years of sail­ ing. Modesto Velez Rodrigo Pelayo Edward K. Dooley, 46, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department as an able seaman. He last sailed aboard the Sabine. Brother Dooley was issued a picket duty card in 1962. A native of Con­ necticut, he now makes his home in Miami, Fla. He is a Marine veteran of World War II. Antonio Falco, 53, is a native of New Jersey where he now makes his home in Westmont. He joined the SIU in the Port of Philadelphia and shipped in the steward department as a messman. He last sailed aboard the Del Sol. In 1960 Brother Filippo Carlino, 45, joined the SIU in 1957 in the Port of Balti­ more and sailed in the steward department. A native of New York City, he now lives in Balti­ more. Francisco P. Panuelos, 74, Clarence Wright Allen Dunn Dolph Dell Sihler, 63, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Oregon, Edward . Johnston Lewis Goodwin Pensioner In California Allen's Unique Initials: NH To distinguish him from othei boys with the same first name, the parents of SIU pen­ sioners Charles (Chuck) Allen gave him the middle initials "NH", even though they repre­ sent no names. Seafarer Allen does not know exactly why they picked those initials. One thing is certain, however. Brother Allen's record during World War II contains more than enough facts to dis­ tinguish him from others. He sailed as boatswain aboard the Samuel F. Miller in 1943 when it was shuttling gasoline from Tunisia to Palermo and Naples in Italy. The ship was almost always under attack when it entered the Italian ports and Brother Allen was on deck with his men and therefore in constant danger. Wounded in Naples On October 5, 1943, while in the Port of Naples, the ship was nearly hit and shrapnel pounded onto the deck. Brother Allen was wounded in the head. He spent four days in Para­ troopers Hospital in Naples. Also on board that ship at the time and working in the engine room as a fireman was New York Port Agent Joe DeGeorge. Talking about Allen, Brother DeGeorge described him as Seafarer Charles Allen (left) an SIU veteran of 28 years, receives his first pension check from Vice President Frank Drozak at the San Francisco membership meeting. "quite a shipmate." He ex­ plained that there was often no food aboard the ship except for beans. It was then that Allen left the ship during the night forays to secure more food for the crew. "He had a lot of guts," said DeGeorge. Worked in Baltimore Before joining the SIU in 1942, Seafarer Allen worked as a structural engineer for the Maryland Metal Building Com­ pany in Baltimore, the city in which he was bom. From 1926 to 1928 he served in the Navy and it was in 1929 that he got his able sea­ man papers. Having reached the age of 60, he has retired and, without specific plans says he intends to "just relax," read and unwind. He lives in Sonoma, Calif., with his wife. Ok Boon, a Korean national he met while sailing on the Steel King in 1960. • �Major Overhaul Necessary For Social Security Benefits Over one million Social Se­ curity beneficiaries are now on welfare and six million more are living under near poverty conditions. These grim facts attest to the urgent need for Social Security reforms. The inflated economy has made it even more difficult for ' the retired person to make ends meet. Now, more than ever, he needs to know that the pur­ chasing power of his benefit checks will not be depleted. Most of all. Social Security re­ cipients need to be assured an adequate income. This past January, a 15 per­ cent across-the-board increase in Social Security benefits was rapidly enacted. Under the new Social Security Bill recently passed in the House—and now before the Senate Finance Com­ mittee—there will be an addi­ tional 5 percent increase rais­ ing the minimum level to $67.20 a month. However, more increases in benefits will be needed before the benefi­ ciary can be assured necessary funds on which he can live. ft • Other Income Needed Despite the recent changes, $67.20 represents only two fifths of the minimum poverty level income. Other income will still be needed for the re­ tired person is to stay above the poverty line—a task not easily met. What this bill could do, however, is provide for future I- increases to be based on the rising cost of living—increases that will go into effect auto­ matically when the consumer price index rises 3 percent or more during the previous year. In addition, the new legisla­ tion will make other changes in the system that are aimed entirely at making Social Se­ curity benefits more compatible with the retired person's needs. Among these are increased benefits for widows and widow­ ers amounting to 100 percent of the benefits the wage earner would have received. Also, the retirement benefits for men will Benefits provided for in the now be computed to include the years between 62 and 65 House bill will be subsidized and lop off the earning figures by raising the wage base used of three early years of employ­ in computing Social Security taxes from $7,800 to $9,000 ment. a year. Increases such as those Still Inadequate Most labor unions and the proposed in Williams' bill will National Council of Senior Citi­ necessitate some additional zens agree that the new Social means of financing. As a solution to this problem, Security amendments are a step in the right direction. But, they the Senate's Special Committee feel the 5 percent increase, ef­ on Aging has suggested that fective January 1971, is inade­ future Social Security reforms quate, especially if one con­ or improvements be funded siders the fact that living costs through general revenues along are rising at the rate of 6 per­ with the present system of tax­ ing the employer and employe. cent per year. The cost-of-living escalator Poor Argument clause alone will not pull those In any event, rejecting im­ 7 million or more people, 65 provement proposals or bene­ years or older, out of the pov­ fit hikes on the grounds that erty they now endure. there just isn't enough money What is needed are increases would be a poor argument. Ac­ amounting to 50 percent over cording to Social Security Com­ the next three years—as pro­ missioner Robert S. Ball, there posed in Sen. Harrison Wil­ are enough funds to cover cash liams' (D-N.J.) bill, now in benefits for the next 75 years. committee. The Commissioner reports The Williams' bill embodies that Social Security income for provisions which offer hope to fiscal year 1969 outweighed retired persons. It calls for in­ cluding disabled persons under benefits paid some $3.8 billion. Social Security in the Medicare By 1974, income should out­ program. It also tackles the weigh all benefits paid by al­ problem of the costs of drugs most $43 billion. used in treating old-age ail­ This being the case, there is ments by bringing such expense reason to believe that the re­ under Medicare. tired person's basic needs can be met—and more. In fact, the More Funds Needed Williams' Committee 1 o ok s Such benefit hikes will nat­ ahead to a time when retire­ urally require increased fund­ ing during a time when cut­ ment benefits will be "adjusted backs have, in general, become to reflect productivity, not just the rule. rising prices. Four veteran Seafarers received their first pension checks from Vice President Earl Shepard (right) at the June gen­ eral memhership meeting. Accepting the checks are, from left, Rodrigo Pelayo, Lewis Goodwin, James Sanlouzans and Eugenio Gatmaitan. States Can't Withhold Aid Pending Appeal San Francisco Unemployment benefits must be paid jobless workers while an employer appeals the work­ er's eligibility, according to a ruling made in U.S. District Court here. The ruling is expected to af­ fect 48 of the 50 states where unemployment benefits are withheld during the appeal period. Only Vermont and Washington pay benefits dur­ ing an appeal. The three-judge panel, head­ ed by Judge Gilbert H. Jertberg, ruling on a California Social Security Q&A Children Eligible for Benefits By A. A. Bernstein SlU Social Security Director The Social Security program is not just a retiree benefit plan. Today, an increasing number of mothers, housewives, wid­ ows, students, children and dis­ abled workers are discovering that Social Security benefits and medical assistance plans apply to them too. SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD MAY 1, 1970 to MAY 31, 1970 NUMBER SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Pension Checks Presented OF BENEFITS Scholarship 12 Hospital Benefits 1,726 Death Benefits 20 Medicare Benefits 583 Maternity Benefits 55 Medical Examination Program 682 Dependent Benefits (Average) $477.63 2,263 Optical Benefits 607 Meal Book Benefits 374 Out-Patients Benefits 4,891 Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid .... Seafarers' Pension Plan— Benefits Paid Seafarers' Vacation Plan— Benefits Paid (Average $468.31) .. Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period AMOUNT PAID $ 2,586.14 41,607.59 50,711.34 2,333.00 10,100.00 20,985.65 108,087.44 9,216.63 3,739.10 37,280.00 11.213 286.646.89 1,552 364,909.00 1,403 657,042.17 14,168 1,308,598.06 The Seafarers Log welcomes any questions SIU members and their families might have with regard to Social Security benefits available to widows and children, disabled workers, retirees, and others. Questions about any of the individual plans under the Social Security program, such as health insur­ ance, are also welcome. Kindly direct all questions to A.A. Bernstein, director of So­ cial Security and Welfare Serv­ ices, Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. Q. Both my wife and I work. Wc have two young children. Would they be entitled to So­ cial Security benefits If some­ thing happened to me now? A: Yes, they probably would. Children may become eligible for benefits when either parent dies, or when either parent be­ comes entitled to retirement or disability benefits, if the par­ ent has worked long enough under Social Security. The So­ cial Security program recog­ nizes the need for a family to remain together and for chil­ dren to complete their educa­ tion. It has made this possible by providing benefits for de­ pendents. Q: Have Social Security benefits for widows been im­ proving or getting worse over the years? A: Benefits for widows have been improving. From 1939 to 1961, widows got 75 percent of their late husbands' checks. Now they get 82 Vi percent. In 1939, widows could start re­ ceiving benefits only at 65. In 1956, the age was lowered to 62, and in 1965 to 60 (with re­ duced benefits). In addition, disabled widows age 50 and over became eligible in 1968 for some social Security bene­ fits. Q: Living costs are going up. My Social Security bene­ fits have Increased, too, but prices seem to go up faster than my benefits. Is this so? A: Monthly benefits were in­ creased in 1950, 1952, 1954, 1958, 1965 and 1967. Benefits have done somewhat better than keep up with increases in prices. For instance, a person who started getting payments from Social Security in 1940, with an average benefit for that year, now gets a benefit check with purchasing power about 23 percent greater than in his first check. case said the state had wrong­ fully withheld more than $200,000 in unemployment benefits from strikers at the Los An­ geles Herald-Examiner while the publisher appealed their eligibility. The court, in a scathing de­ cision, found that the practice of stopping benefits without a hearing, "conflicts with certain clearly defined state and na­ tional goals." Among the goals, the court said, was the intention "to stave off extreme personal hard­ ships as well as society-wide de­ pression in times of increasing unemployment." Lawyers for the Reagan Ad­ ministration said that withhold­ ing unemployment benefits is much less severe than withhold­ ing welfare benefits. The judges said: "It is scant comfort to the disaster stricke.T that there is someone, some­ where worse off than he. And this court finds that the situa­ tion of the unemployed person is every bit as lamentable from the legal standpoint as that of the welfare client." Fill Out Cards, USPHS Asks The U.S. Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare asks that Seafarers fill out special Information cards to Insure that they re­ ceive all hospitalization ben­ efits due them. The cards, available at all SIU clinics, explains the pro­ cedures that should be fol­ lowed to notify USPHS In the event that a Seafarer re­ quires liospltallzatlon In a non-government hospital. The government hopes these cards will be helpful In cases where the Seafarer Is too disabled "to advise the hospital of the steps they must follow If the USPHS Is to assume responsibility for the medical expenses a Sea­ farer will Incur." Page 29 �Bid Farewell to 5^o Surtax And Welcome Pocket Money New provisions in the tax law give workers a bit more take home pay this month, and with all the willing hands to help the workers spend the new-found funds it's going to be harder for him to get the quality goods he wants. The tax break is two-pronged: First, the current 5 percent surtax expires and, Second, the personal exemption for deduc­ tion purposes rises from $600 to $650. Thus, a worker with two children who earns $150 a week will find a total of $1.30 more in his check. The slight tax relief, unfortunately, won't be much of a help in finding the products the buyer wants. Housing Shortage One critically short area is housing. The prospect is getting even dimmer in the housing field with the advent of hearings in Congress on the Administration's housing proposals. The Administration proposals have been characterized as favoring banks and lending in­ stitutions, who are becoming more and more reluctant to give mortgage money. The proposals also raise the specter of an increase in the rate of VA and FHA loans for houses. A one percent increase in the loan rate, it is estimated, will raise the cost of a $20,000 house $5,000 over a 30-year mortgage—a cost equal to all the labor that went into building the house. Flammable Fabrics The lack of high quality products extends to the clothing field, too. Several agencies of gov­ ernment and labor organizations are pressing for the enforcement of controls on the selling of flammable fabrics. The horror stories are many and the pitfalls just as plentiful. / Children are permanently scarred, and some are killed, when their party clothes ignite near birthday candles. / An infant dies when his sleeping suit bursts into flame near a fireplace. / Foam-backed carpets bum and produce poisonous smoke and gas in a nursing home killing 32 persons. Laws exist to control the production and sale of such materials, but inadequate funding and lack of testing have left a void in enforcement of the laws. Commission Reports The lack of safety factors in products ac­ counts for injuries suffered in the home by 20 million Americans each year, according to the report of the National Commission on Prod­ uct Safety. The commission laid the blame for the lack of built-in safety on a "dearth of factors motitvating producers toward safety." It said that "competitive forces may require management to subordinate safety factors to cost considerations, styling and other market­ ing imperatives." A significant conclusion drawn by the com­ 6 /A T A 1 w> T f s ftt 4 T t n It ii lA li iM IS It l7 It (4 a« a A3 AA as at A7 ail it a* M Schedule of Membership Meetings mission's two-year study was that, "self-regu­ lation by trade associations and standards groups, drawing upon the resources of pro­ fessional associations and independent testing Buffalo Aug. 12—7:30 p.m. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings Aug. 14—7:30 p.m. laboratories, is legally unenforceable and pat­ New Orleans Aug. 11—2.30 p.m. Duluth Mobile Aug. 12—2:30 p.m. Cleveland ....Aug. 14—7:30 p.m. ently ineffective." Aug. 14—7:30 p.m.. Wilmington Aug. 17—2:00 p.m. Toledo Health Hazards Aug. 10—7:30 p.m. San Fran Aug. 19—2:00 p.m. Detroit Self-regulation fails so badly, the commis­ Seattle Aug. 21—2:00 p.m. Milwaukee ..Aug. 10—7:30 p.m. sion found, that "unreasonable health hazards" New York ..Aug. 3—2:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union were discovered in architectural glass, color Philadelphia Aug. 4—2:30 p.m. New OrleansAug. 11—5:00 p.rh. televisions, fireworks, floor furnaces, glass bot­ Baltimore ....Aug. 5—2:30 p.m. Mobile Aug. 12—5:00 p.m. Aug. 14—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Aug. 4—5:00 p.m. tles, high-rise bicycles, hot-water vaporizers, Detroit Aug. 10—2:30 p.m. Baltimore (li­ household chemicals, infant furniture, ladders, Houston censed and United Industrial Workers power tools, protective headgear, rotary lawnunlicensed)Aug. 5—5:00 p.m. New OrleansAug. 11—7:00 p.m. mowers, toys, unvented gas heaters and wringer Norfolk Aug. 6—5:00 p.m. Mobile Aug. 12—7:00 p.m. washers. Aug. 10—5:00 p.m. New York ..Aug. 3—7:00 p.m. Houston The commission called for a Consumer Prod­ Philadelphia Aug. 4—7:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region uct Safety Act that would permit the Federal Baltimore ....Aug. 5—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Aug. II—10 a.m. & government to act in the field, authority which tHouston ....Aug. 10—7:00 p.m. 8 p.m. it does not now hold. Baltimore ....Aug. 12—10 a.m. & Great Lakes SIU Meetings 8 p.m. Detroit Aug. 17—2:00 p.m. Spoilage Dates ^Norfolk ....Aug. 13—10 a.m. & Buffalo Aug. 17—7:00 p.m. Another area where testing and inspection 8 p.m. Alpena Aug. 17—7:00 p.m. seem inadequate is in the field of food. New Chicago Aug. 17—7:30 p.m. Jersey City ..Aug. 10—10 a.m. & York Congressman Leonard Farbstein is press­ Duluth 8 p.m. Aug. 17—7:00 p.m. ing the Federal Trade Commission to re­ Frankfort ....Aug. 17—7:00 p.m. JMeeting held at Galveston quire the printing of the spoilage date of foods wharves. Great Lakes Tug and on packages sold in grocery stores. tMeeting held in Labor Tem­ Dredge Section Aug. 11—7:30 p.m. ple, Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Stores and supermarkets generally use codes Chicago •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ to tell clerks when food should be removed from tSault Ste. Marie Aug. 13—7:30 p.m. ple. Newport News. shelves. Rep. Farbstein says that, despite the coding, some stores have sold food after the spoilage date. He said the problem could be eliminated if the dates were clearly printed so that the con­ ^1 sumer would be able to determine whether the food was fit to take home and how long he could store it safely at home before eating it. While Rep. Farbstein has asked the FTC to take action, a consumer organization has blasted the Commission for failing to include any DULUTH. Minn 2014 W. 3d SI. ( 21,Si RA 2-4110 spokesmen for consumers or for those inter­ SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 2H7 & Inland Waters 415 Main St. ested in the environment in the Commission's (6161 EL 7-2441 50th anniversary program. O.SOI Canal St. Inland Boatmen's Union HOL'STON. Tex (7131 WA .S-3207 Wall Street Lawyers JACKSONVILLE. Fla 260.S Pearl St. (904 1 EL3-09.S7 United Industrial A spokesman for the Consumer Federation JERSEY CITY. N.J. .99 Montgomery St. (2011 HE 5-9424 of America said the FTC had named a panel Workers .MOBILE. Ala 1 South Lawrence St. of Wall Street lawyers to advise on rules and (2051 HE 2-1751 PRESIDENT NEW ORLEANS. La 630 Jackson Ave. practices of the Commission and failed to in­ , Paul Hall (5041 529-7546 clude a member of any law firm recommended NORFOLK. Va 115 3d SI. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT (7(131 622-1.S92 by consumer groups. Cal Tauiner PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2604 S. 4th St. Speaking of consumers, the Rand Youth Serv­ (2151 DE 6-3.S1.S VICE PRESIDENTS 534 Ninth Ave. ices estimates that American teenagers now have Earl Shepard Lindsey Williams PORT ARTHUR. Tex A1 Tanner Robert Matthews SAN FRANCISCO. Calif. 1531 Mi.ssion St. $22 billion to spend from jobs and allowances. (4151 626-6793 SECRETARY-TREASURER A major part of that money will go toward the S.\NTUKCE. P.R. .1313 Fernaniiez Juncos A1 Kerr Stop 20 purchase of records, the service estimates. 724-2.S4.S HEAl)yU.\KTERS . ..675 4th Ave.. Bklyn. Another item that might be purchased by 12121 HY 9-6600 SEATTLE. Wash. .2505 First Ave. (2061 .MA 3-4334 soil N. Second Ave. older teenagers, but more likely by their fathers, ALPENA. Mich 15171 EL 4-3616 ST. LOUIS. Mo. 4577 Oravois Ave. is one that may get cheaper, if the Ohio AFL- BALTIMORE. Md. .1216 E. Baltimore St. (3141 752-6500 13011 EA 7-4900 CIO is successful. TAMPA. Fla 312 Harrison St. BOSTON. Mass 663 Atlantic Ave. (.S13i 229-27,S.S 1617 I 4.S2-4716 The Ohio AFL-CIO has voted to set up its TOLEDO. 0 935 Summit St. BUFFALO, N.V 735 Wasiiinttton St. own auto insurance firm after years of fighting (4191 24.S-3691 SIU 17161 TL 3-9259 IBU 17161 TL 3-9259 aaginst unfair insurance rates. The auto insur­ WILMINGTON. Calif. . 450 Seaside Ave. CHICAGO. Ill 93.S3 Ewini; Ave. Terminal Island. Calif. ance firm will sell policies to union members in SIU (3121 SA 1-0733 (2131 .S32-72.S5 IBU (3121 ES 5-9570 Ohio, and hopes to maintain a profit by use of CLEVELAND. 0 1420 W. 25th St. YOKOHA.MA. Japan Iseya BhiK.. (2161 MA 1-5450 cost saving techniques not currently in use by Room ,S01 1-2 KaiKan-Duri-Nakakii DETROIT. Mich. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. private insurance companies. 2014971 Ext. 2.S1 (3131 VI 3-4741 Directory of Union Hails *•. Workers' Paychecks Shorted by Employers Washington The working man's financial go-between — the Wage and Hours Division of the U.S. De­ partment of Labor — fights against short-changing of em­ ployees by their bosses, to the tune of $80-plus million a year. Beginning its 33rd year this month, the division finds its du­ ties expanded but its purpose the same as when President Franklin D. Roosevelt estab­ lished it in 1938: Protection of the working man from finan­ cial abuse by employers. The Federal Labor Stand­ ards Act originally called for Page 30 simple enforcement of mini­ mum wage rates and overtime provisions of the Act, Now there are more than 100 different minimum wage rates alone, and each year Con­ gress assigns the agency new tasks. Enforcement of the law against age discrimination is one new aspect of the law, and most recently enforcement of the law limiting the garnish­ ment of workers' pay and lim­ iting the right of employers to fire workers who over-extend themselves with installment payments were added. Robert D. Moran, adminis­ trator of the Wage and Hours Division, has ^aid his agency is now responsible for the en­ forcement of some 63 different federal laws dealing with wages and hours. Of late, the division has found itself involved on the state and local level, enforcing federal standards on federallyfunded road, hospital and school construction programs. In spite of the huge load un­ dertaken by the agency, it works under serious handicap. For instance, the division had 980 compliance officers last year—and now, due primarily to administration economies, has only 950 officers, despite an increased case load. The AFL-CIO has called on Congress to increase by a third the division's investigative staff, noting that reported under-payments by employers continues to soar annually. During fiscal 1969 some 477,434 workers had been short-changed of $89 million in wages and overtime pay­ ments. Some $32 million was collected, and some of the $57 million balance may yet be re­ covered through lawsuits. The 1970 totals are not yet computed, but preliminary fig­ ures indicate the rate of short­ changing has increased signifi­ cantly. Program Agreed On Washington A cooperative program to strengthen the federal ban on age discrimination has been worked out by the Department • of Labor and Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare. Current law prohibits job discrimination , because of age, often found in the 40 to 65 bracket. Seafarers Log •a �^• • \ Summit Earns Well Done •' rnie SlU-contracted Summit (SeaLand) proved that American crews are ready to cope with emergencies at the most unexpected times. When the ship docked recently at Port Elizabeth, N.J., the crew of the containership was asked to perform a fire drill and a lifeboat drill before payoff to test safety procedures. The lifeboats were lowered from the davits and the fire hoses were laid out and tested. 1 Wearing life jackets, Fred Wilkenson, ordinary seaman, (right), and Francis A. Roe, messman, man a hose during the fire drill. The crew and equipment earned a "well done" rating for per­ formance during the safety inspection drills. J Francis A. Roe sails as a messman aboard the Summit. The other crewmen say that the steward de­ partment has done a fine job. Baker Michael Boseck busies himself in the galley preparing cakes and cookies for an ap­ preciative crew. He is one of the reasons his shipmates regard the Summit as a good feeder. While other crewmen await in a life­ boat and steady the ladder, a Summit crew member descends during the lifeboat drill. The Coast Guard safety examiners gave the ship good grades. While waiting for payoff, from left, Joseph Righetti, utility; Peter Trintafilos and Carlos Bonefant, both of the engine department, relax in the crew's dining room aboard the Summit. Carl White, sailing on his first trip in the steward department, checks with Patrolman "Red" Camphell. White, 19, graduated from Piney Point three weeks before. Everything went smoothly and the Summit's crew and equipment passed both tests with flying colors, showing once again that American ships are safe ships with well-trained crews. The ship had just returned from a coastwise fun from the Port of Jackson­ ville, Fla. The ship's committee reported a smooth voyage along the coast. Even the surprise safety inspection failed to up­ set th6 routine of the Summit. �SEAFARER&#L06 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO •• Seafarers are urgently reminded to keep up to date enrollment-bohefitiary cards on file at the SIU Welfare Plan office to facilitate prompt proc­ essing and payment of their welfare benefits. 4^1- - Those who have never filled out an enrollment-beneficiary card should dp 4 so immediately. A reproduction of both sides of the card appears below for • convenient clipping and mailing. It is important that both sides be filled ouf carefully and legibly and that no information be left out. If there were changes since a card was filed—a new dependent, a change in beneficiary, a new address, etc.—a new card should be filled out without delay.. Welf are Benefits _ The beneficiary's name and address should be entered clearly. The SedH ^rer's signature must be witnessed, but no notary is required. The correct date of signing is also important, since the latest card on file is used in the event of a claim. ^ p L available on all SlU-contracted ships and in all SIU halls. They require no postage if mailed from any part of the continental United States. -if. i.O/Ti'viiw iri; Vi"'... : •.-rV.'T v..., .Vi. ^ • Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans 275-20tli Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 ENROUMENT-IENEEICIARY CARD Name. PRINT: LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Address PRINT: NUMBER AND STREET CITY ZONE NO. Sociot Security No. STATE COUNTY .2 No._ Date of Birth. I revoke oil previous Beneficiary nominations and moke the following nomination with respect to all benefits provided now or or at at any any time in the future under the Seafarers Welfare Plan, still reserving ta myself the privilege of other and further changes. Nome of Beneficiary Relotionship _to You PRINT: Address of Beneficiory. PRINT: NUMBER ANQ STREET Dote CITY ZIP CODE COUNTY STATE Employee's Signoture Witness _ SIGNATURE Address _ PRINT: NUMBER AND STREET CITY ZIP CODE STATE COUNTY IfilPORTANT—Dopwidontf mmt bo lUfd on Ravrf Side •.A4;A IIST mow NAfiUS OP YOUR WIFE AND UNMARRIED / = mm: UNDER CHI:CK ( / ) R ELATIlONSHIP 1 spe WRAM Wife Husband ^on L#augnror ' swRiwuiia <jon LIST NAMES IN ORDER OF AGE—ELDEST FIRST I CHILDREN 19 YEARS OP AGE D.IkTE OF BIIRTH i\ A V DAY YEAR ii r>ikiTLi MONTH • 1 PflllHre to do so coald delay thg poywont of wolforB banofltf. •WP 200 4.07 ••••I::',. V - •••- ;. PA': � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource July 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: COMPLETE TEXT OF FEDERAL INDICTMENT AGAINST SIU THE ROLE OF HE WALL STREET JOURNAL MARITIME VOCABULARY ADDS FORGOTTEN WORD – HOPE MEANY ASKS RIGHTS ALLIANCE SHIPS’ COMMITTEES: UNION DEMOCRACY ABOARD SIU SHIPS PREPARING THE FIGHTERS AGAINST FIRE AT SEA CREW OF STEEL MAKER ENDS A MERCY CRUISE MAJOR OVERHAUL NECESSARY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS BID FAREWELL TO 5% SURTAX AND WELCOME POCKET MONEY WORKERS’ PAYCHECKS SHORTED BY EMPLOYERS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 07/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 7 Special Supplement 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/75f0a9c3f785224122c81d00002c2d11.PDF d259b02dafa3ab835d8b63377b62a8e2 PDF Text Text I !5i' t- f- c,- In the Swim at Piney Point Center See Pages 7-9 I- SlU Pension Panel Finishes Study—See Page' 3 "'i®iili!itiiSil|Si|5f^ii|||^s-^ AFL-CiO Blasts Indictment Of SlU for Politjcol Action—See Page 3 «!> Full Text of SlU ee Pag^ 13-20 r 'i,*k �Strong Unionism of Benefit To Seafarers, Admiral Says Washington Vice Admiral Arthur Gralla, commander of the Military Sea Transportation Service, says "strong unionism" has resulted in many gains for seagoing men. Speaking at a luncheon of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment, Admiral Gralla said he could remember a very different seamen's life when he sailed on a merchant ship at age 16. "I slept on a thin mattress on a wooden shelf," the ad­ miral said. "I stood a watch and my watch was eight hours on the wheel. I recall that my pay was $1 per day and board. "There wasn't very much un­ ionization then and I think I can see a great deal of the need —I could then and I can now." 'Things Have Changed' He continued: "Things have changed since then and I think that those who go to sea recog­ nize the great advantages and the gains that have been made. In all honesty, many of those gains were made as a result of strong unionism and the affect the union has had on the in­ dustry as a whole." The commander of the largest shipper in America, Admiral Gralla said the MSTS spent $212 million last year to send cargoes in ships of the unsubsidized lines. "This, of course, is converted in many areas into hiring of personnel and people who work those ships," the admiral said. He said that MSTS also em­ ployed 5,300 seamen in seven unions aboard ships of the less material of all kinds as the number of men stationed overseas decreases," the ad­ miral said. Shipping Less He said he thought that the cutback in military shipping could result in decreases in sailings and in availability of jobs for those employed by the U.S.-flag fleet, unless U.S.-flag ships are able to gamer a greater share of U.S. foreign trade. "While 80 percent of all U.S.-flag shipping is military cargo, U.S.-flag ships carry VICE ADM. GRALLA only 6 percent of the nation's . . . hails unions foreign trade," Admiral Gralla said. transport services' own nucleus The military reductions, the fleet. admiral said "mean that if ships Same Conditions are not going to be laid up, if "The conditions under which jobs are to be maintained, then they work for us are the same as in industry. The same stand­ some of that 94 percent of the ards which the unions have re­ U.S. trade now being carried quired out of the maritime in­ foreign must come to U.S.-flag dustry are applied in our case," ships." Three Elements he said. To attract new cargoes to He added that MSTS makes no contribution to the em­ U.S.-flag ships, the admiral sug­ ployees pension because all 5,- gested three necessary items: 300 are Civil Service employees "Good modern ships, good and have a separate pension management, and excellent sea­ men." plan. He said the best way to de­ The admiral expressed con­ cern for the maritime industry velop those three elements is to now that the Vietnam with­ concentrate on marketing, effi­ ciency and adaptation of mod­ drawal is increasing. He said that since MSTS ern techniques in cargo now ships 80 percent of the handling. "This may mean automation cargo that sails in U.S. bottoms, the maritime industry faces and increased use of containerserious economic problems as ization," the admiral said. "But the number of military men if U.S.-flag ships can offer better service than foreign overseas decreases. "Obviously we will be ship­ competitors, the cargoes will ping less clothing, less food. come to them." SlU Wins Vacation Plan Test Case New York State appeals court has upheld the Seafarers International Union in a case that could have jeopardized the prompt payment of vacation money to Seafarers. The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court has ruled that the Seafarers Viacation Plan is not subject to the regulations of the New York State Insurance Depart­ ment. The unanimous decision by the five-judge panel will affect all other vacation programs in which unions negotiate a cash payment for vacations, rather than providing time off from regularly-scheduled work with pay. There was a danger that some vacation payments could have been delayed in bureau­ cratic channels had the SIU program been subject to con­ tinual review of the state's In­ surance Department. The Appellate Court judges agreed with a lower court that the SIU plan, which is a joint union - management program. could not be classified as an insurance fund, and is not sub­ ject to the bureaucratic super­ vision of the state. The decision is expected to free several other union-man­ agement vacation plans from the department's supervision. The SIU contended that the state's insurance law was de­ signed to regulate profit-mak­ ing insurance companies and funds to which employees make contributions. The Seafarers Vacation Pfan, the union argued, was an arti­ cle of negotiation between the union and management—and any regulation by the State In­ surance Department would hin­ der, and possibly destroy, effec­ tive collective bargaining on va­ cations. The SIU noted that the in­ surance law was drafted with­ out consultation with trade un­ ions, and provided no under­ standing of the problems in­ volved in guaranteeing prompt payment of vacation benefits agreed to between the union and a company. New Sea-Land Porfs in East SIU - contracted Sea - Land Service, Inc., one of the largest unsubsidized American-f 1 a g containership operators, added the ports of Boston, Mass., and Port Everglades, Ft. Lauder­ dale, Fla., to its weekly coast­ wise run last month. Two SlU-manned Sea-Land containerships, the Fairland and the Bienville, each with a capa­ city of 226 containers, have been assigned to the new serv- These vessels will link up New England and Southern Florida with the more than 50 other ports around the world now serviced by SlU-contracted vessels owned by Sea-Land. Sea-Land ships regularly call at ports on the East, West, and Gulf coast of the United States, Puerto Rico and other Carib­ bean islands, Panama, Northern Europe, England and the Far East. THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT in by PAUL HALL ''""SiiB 'T'he Merchant Marine Act of 1970, which is approaching a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate, gives us a blueprint for the future of the maritime industry. It gives new hope to a business that has suffered since World War II from a despair brought on by public neglect and government indifference. The act contains a promise to provide federal construction funds to help build a minimum of 300 new ocean-going ships in the next 10 years for use in the international trade. Through other benefits, it creates incentives for operators on the Great Lakes and in the domestic trade to add to their fleets, which in all too many cases contain ships that are tired from use and depleted from age. We are optimistic about the chances for the bill being passed. We have, through political action, dedicated ourselves to bringing new vigor to our declining American-flag fleet to provide both job security and job opportunities for Seafarers. This has been a long struggle for Seafarers. And it will not end with the stroke of President Nixon's pen should he receive and approve the measure. We know that ships are only half the battle. We know that the most modern vessel doesn't move when it's empty. We know that it takes economic fuel— cargo in the holds—to make a ship move. We also know that an idle ship provides neither jobs for Seafarers nor profits for operators. That is why we have been fighting for many years to require the federal agencies involved to follow the letter and spirit of the law on government cargo. 'V'o ch.t 3^ Congress, with the knowledge that the federal gov­ ernment is the world's largest shipper of oceanborne goods, passed the cargo preference legislation to guarantee that our ships would have a fair share of our nation's government cargo. Yet time after time, in agency upon agency, we have found that the 50 percent minimum has been interpreted as a ceiling and not as a minimum of U.S.-flag ship participation in the carriage of this cargo. ignored. We have shown repeat­ Theedlylawthathas thebeengovernment agencies have failed particularly to utilize the tramp fleet in the shipment of government cargo. There seems to be a dedication on the part of some federal agencies to support foreign-flag shippers at the expense of their own country's merchant marine. If the people in the agencies who make the decisions on shipments were committed to supporting the American-flag fleet, we would be transporting far more than half of all government cargo. A possible solution is to place the responsibility for the shipment of all government cargo in the hands of the Maritime Administration—an agency whose sole purpose is to promote the American-flag fleet. This would centralize a function that is now buried deep in the bureaucratic piping of all too many government agencies. And it would insure that an agency whose job is to help the merchant marine would be in a position to do that job. Of course, our efforts to gain cargo for the U.S.flag fleet must go beyond that shipped by government. If President Nixon's goal to increase the percentage of American imports and exports carried aboard American ships to 30 percent by the mid-1970's is to be reached, it will take the cooperation of the American businessman as well. The Maritime Administration has launched a program to promote the use of American-flag ships by private industry. A ray of brightness can be found in a news report this month from London that the Ford Motor Co., will ship engines for its new Pinto subcompact car from overseas plants to assembly plants in New Jersey, California and Canada on American-flag ships. We as Seafarers, through our union, through the Maritime Trades Department and its Port Councils* with which we are alfiliated, have reason to do all we can to assist the Maritime Administration in its "Ship-American" program. eafarers have contributed their time, their knowl­ edge, their dollars and their spirit through the years to helping the maritime industry. We know that the job is endless. But we have no intention of stopping—and the placement of cargo aboard American-flag ships is our immediate goal. S •I ";• •^1 fc.. . f f ll ^>1 �SlU Indictment Hit by AFL-CIO % The AFL-CIO Executive Council, meeting in Chicago, adopted a resolution supporting the SlU in its fight against federal grand Jury indictments accusing the union and its officers of making political contributions in violation of federal regulations. The following is the text of the AFL-CIO .statement: In June of this year a Grand Jury in Brooklyn returned an in­ dictment charging the Seafarers International Union and several of its officers and members with making and conspiring to make political contributions in violation of federal law. The indictment specifically alleges that in the national election of 1968 the Sea­ farers Union, through its Political Activity Donation Account (SPAD), contributed a total of $20,000 to Republican campaign committees and contributed a like amount to Democratic cam­ paign committees. It also alleged a continuing conspiracy from 1962 to have the union make unlawful political contributions through SPAD. Under federal law labor organizations are precluded from using union funds to make contributions in connection with federal elections arid, as a result, many national and international unions have formed separate political committees to eollect voluntary dollars from its members and supporters to be used in federal polititcal campaigns. The formation of such committees and their use of monies so collected to support candidates for political office has always been permitted under federal law. The indictment, however, charges, in essence, that the Seafarers open and above board campaign to secure voluntary contribu­ tions to its Political Activity Donation Account, and to make cam­ paign contributions from that fund, which were fully reported to the Clerk of the House of Representatives as the law requires, somehow constitutes a conspiracy to violate the prohibition against using union dues monies for eontributions to federal candidates. As the Supreme Court has recognized, working men and women have a First Amendment right to associate together to make their voice heard in federal elections. They have the right to make voluntary contributions to political activity funds set up by their unions. And unions have the right and the responsibility to con­ vince their members that such contributions are vital to safeguard their interest in a progressive and responsive federal government. Congress, the Supreme Court and the Justice Department, itself in the past, have recognized as mueh. The broad and loosely drawn indictment in the Seafarers case can only be read as a device to coerce working men and women and their unions to forego their basic constitutional rights. The reasons behind this move by the key politieian in the Ad­ ministration, Attorney General Mitchell, are not hard to diseern. He has learned by hard experience, first in the 1968 campaign, and then in labor's fight to defeat the unwise nominations of Judges Haynsworth and Carswell that the labor movement is the bulwark against the regressive and repressive policies the Execu­ tive Branch has sought to implement. Recognizing this, he is seeking to silence the Ameriean trade union movement for purely political purposes. While he pursues the labor movement through new and expensive legal theories, he refuses to move forward against the Republican campaign com­ mittees that did not file their reports on time during the 1968 cam­ paign, despite the fact that the failure to file constituted clear viola­ tion of law. This is all of a piece with the trend of Administration policy which is to monopolize the press and the airwaves by silencing its critics. TTie reaction of the American trade union movement to this strategy is simple. We will not be cowed. We are going to continue to exercise our basic rights and we are going to aid the defense of those labor organizations which become the chosen targets of the Justice Department. .SIU\ Pension .Study (.iummittee is shown us it wraps up llif final details on its rei; ommendations for an improved pension for Seafarers. (k>mniittee nieiubers are (from left) F. F. Pasaluk, Philadelphia; Irwin I. Sliernian, New Orleans: A. W. .Saxon, Mobile; Jim Golder, New York, eliairman: Terrenee MeNee, Baltiniore, and F. M. Keyes, Houston, secretary. Union Pension Study Panel Completes Work New York The committee members have an average of nearly 12 years Six veteran Seafarers who make up the SIU Pension Study of seatime each. Committee have completed their Century of Sailing job and returned to their home The committeemen, with a ports after reviewing the pen­ total of 136 years of member­ sion fund and making several ship in SIU, were elected by recommendations for improv­ members it) the Ports of New ing the program. York, Houston, Baltimore, Mo­ Top among their recommen­ bile, Philadelphia and New Or­ dations is a plan that would al­ leans to represent those ports. low retirement at age 55 with The senior member of the 20 years of seatime, coupled committee, from the point of with the current provision that SIU service, is Jim Golder of entitles Seafarers to draw dis­ New York, who has been a ability pensions at any age after member of SIU since 1943. He 12 years of sea duty. served as chairman of the com­ The committee members, who mittee. have an average of 23 years of P. M. Reyes of Houston, a membership in the SIU, rec­ ommended that the new pro­ member of the SIU since 1945 gram be implemented no later who has 7,478 days of seatime, served as secretary of the com­ than Dec. 31, 1971. They called for the present mittee. Committee members Ter­ SIU pension plan, which pro­ vides for retirement benefits at renee McNee of Baltimore and age 65 with 15 years of sea- A. W. Saxon of Mobile both time and disability payments at became SIU members in 1947. any age with 12 years at sea, F. F. Pasaluk of Philadelphia to be continued until the new has held an SIU book for 20 years and Committeeman Irwin plan can be negotiated. Support Rallying to SIU in Political Case Seafarers at ship's meetings are continuing to give strong support to the SIU against an indictment by a federal grand jury on charges that the union violated the law involving po­ litical campaign contributions. A report by SIU SecretaryTreasurer A1 Kerr, which called upon the membership to "fight the indictment financially and morally and utilize the union's full strength to protect its rights" was adopted without dissent by 1,200 members at­ tending regular membership meetings in New York and in the outports shortly after the indictments were announced by U.S. Attorney General John •cf tQ7n Mitchell. Several newspapers have quoted from the special supple­ ment in the July issue of the Seafarers Log which announced the solid membership support, as well as reprinting the text of the indictment. The supplement has been reprinted by the union and sent to the homes of all SIU members. The Machinist, official pub­ lication of the 1.3-million-member International Association of Machinists, featured a story on the indictment across its front page, topping if with a head­ line saying "Administration Trying to Halt Labor's Cam­ paign Collections." The story noted that: "The American labor move­ ment is clearing the decks this week for the defense of the Seafarers International Union. For several years the SIU has maintained one of labor's most aggressive and successful politi­ cal organizations. "Its campaign funds donated by union seamen have been used to support mostly Demo­ crats, but also Republicans. The SIU has campaigned espe­ cially for legislation to strength­ en the American merchant ma­ rine whose ships are manned by SIU members." Other labor publications have taken a similar tack, and the general press has reported the fact that Seafarers have com­ mitted themselves to defend their union in its determination to take an active part in the American political system. The indictment charges that the union violated federal rules when its Seafarers Political Ac­ tivities Donations (SPAD) or­ ganization jnade contributions to both Republican and Demo­ cratic campaigns in 1968. The indictments also claim that the union and many of its officers conspired to spend $750,000 between 1964 and" 1968 in Presidential, Senatorial and Congressional campaigns. (Continued on Page 27) 1. Sherman of New Orleans is an 18-year veteran of the union. The committee recommend­ ed that pertinent facts gathered in their study be published in the Seafarers Log within three months of their report, which came last month. Special Supplement The Log in September will contain a special supplement that will give details of the com­ mittee's findings, including: • Data showing the financial condition of the SIU Pension Fund. • The SIU Fund's ability to guarantee pensions forever for both those on pension and those who will draw their pensions in the future. • A projection on the im­ pact on pending federal mari­ time legislation of the industry, the SIU and the pension pro­ gram. • A report on the unfunded liability—the amount of money it would take to guarantee to­ tal pension coverage for all those affected—of both the SIU and other pension funds. • A comparison between the SIU Pension Fund and other pension funds in the maritime industry. • A report on pension funds that have had to reduce or stop pension checks because of a lack of money. Shutdown of Hazardous Job Sites Approved Juneau, Alaska Alaska's Commissioner of Labor now has the right to shut down a job site or part of a site where a safety hazard exists. Amendments to the state's safety code signed into law re­ cently by Governor Keith Miller require the shutdown remain in effect until the hazardous con­ dition is corrected. (PAD �Migrant Farm Workers Are Among Forgotten Americans For Vietnam Sealift Service SIU Vicje President Frank Drozuk (left) receives Certificate of Viet­ nam Sealift Service from Maritime Administrator Andrew Gibson in San Francisco. The award was presented to the SIU for "distinguished service" performed hy SIU crews aboard the Maritime Administration's General Agency ships assigned to the Vietnam supply run. Migrant farm workers have been the focus of a Senate sub­ committee hearing, a TV doc­ umentary and innumerable newspaper and magazine ar­ ticles in recent weeks, evoking feelings and producing facts that add up to a picture of horror. Sen. Walter F. Mondale (DMinn.), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, said he held the hear­ ings to place on the record "the destitution and exploitation of men, women and children, hor­ rifying beyond imagination." And, he added, "it is time to find out who are the exploiters. Nothing will change until this rotten system is exposed and held accountable." Testimony before Mondale's committee pointed the finger of accountability at powerful cor­ porate conglomerates. Celler Warns Against More Delay Maritime Bill Can Save Fleet Washington "Our nation cannot survive any further delay in implement­ ing the Merchant Marine Act of 1970," Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) told an AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department luncheon recently. The legislation is "designed to pump new vigor, new stamina and new life into an in­ dustry that now faces a com­ plete collapse," the dean of the House said. Unfortunately, he continued, the country and the maritime industry have had to wait too long before any effective meas­ ures were taken to help bring the industry out of its slump. The wait continued while the U.S. "drifted" from first to fifth among the maritime powers of • the world. Celler found it "ironic" that the U.S., the greatest trading nation in the world, is in such a desperate state, struggling to "keep its fleet afloat." The statistics are grimmer yet when one considers that 140 American-flag ships have been scrapped in the past six years, the New York Democrat reported. Scrap Rate Higher "They also tell us that the rate of ships being sold for scrap is accelerating—and will continue to increase during the next three years." According to Celler the production of new vessels, ap­ proximately 30 ships a year for 10 years, as outlined in the act. will not be "in full swing" until 1972. And it won't be until 1973 that the first "impact" of the revitalization of the Ameri­ can merchant marine will be felt. The congressman cited the elimination of the double stand­ ard of subsidies, affecting the merchant fleet since the Merhant Marine Act of 1936< as f. the "single most important as­ pect of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970." Up until this new bill, federal construction and operating sub­ sidies were limited to 14 berthline operators. When the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1936 was passed and first implemented bulk cargo made up only 22 percent of the total U.S. foreign trade volume. Today, bulk car­ riers "carry 85 percent of our total international tonnage," he said. "It is high time for the en­ tire American-flag fleet to have equal treatment," he declared. Celler believes: "It is largely because we have neglected the tramp fleet that our share of American international trade being carried in American-flag ships has fallen below the 5 percent mark." The double standard of sub­ sidies has not only ignored the majority of carriers by denying them government assistance, he stated, but it has done an even greater disservice to the maritime industry—f o r c i n g shipowners, operators and ship­ builders into bitter disputes which are now injuring the en­ tire maritime industry. Celler was confident the new bill will rectify the situation: "By making subsidies available to all who participate in our international trade it will give the industry a reason to bind its wounds." Most important "it will bring hope" to the maritime industry and give it the strength, indeed power, to rebuild itself so that it might regain the position it once held among the maritime powers of the world. Senate Votes Farm Limit Washington A proposed $20,000 limit on subsidies any one grower may receive under the crop control program has been voted ;:i| by the U.S. Senate. Historically such a limit has been voted by the House of Representatives, and been defeated in the Senate. This year the House did not include the subsidy ceiling when approving agriculture appropriations. Hence,* the proposal will be debated in a House-Senate Conference. Philip Moore, staff counsel of the Project on Corporate Re­ sponsibility, an organization formed recently to explore ways to make corporations more re­ sponsible -.to public needs, said that since 1960, nearly 7,000 corporations have gone into farming, usually as subsidiaries of the conglomerates. It is profitable, Moore said. One of the biggest Florida cit­ rus growers owns or controls under long term lease more than 30,000 acres of planted citrus groves, and owns three Florida processing plants with a capacity of 7,100 gallons of citrus concentrate per hour. One of the worst migrant centers in the state is a grove owned by that corporation, he said. Dr. Raymond M. Wheeler, a Charlotte, N.C., physician, was a member of a team of doctors studying the problems of mi­ gratory workers in the South— particularly Florida and Texas. He told the subcommittee: Defies Description "We saw housing and living conditions horrible and dehu­ manizing to the point of our disbelief. In Florida and in Texas, we visited housing proj­ ects, built with public funds, which defy description. "We saw living quarters con­ structed as long cinderblock or wooden sheds, divided into sin­ gle rooms by walls which do not reach to the ceilings. With­ out heat, adequate light or ven- "Last Frontier," Says Carey SEAFARER&^LOG Ocean Study Spells Survival Washington A United States commitment to the study and development of our oceans could be the key to man's survival and would certainly solve much of the hunger and starvation in the world. Rep. Hugh L. Carey (DN.Y.) told an AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department lunch­ eon here recently. Nearly two-thirds of the chil­ dren on earth are proteinstarved, the Congressman said. "While these-children starve, the oceans teem with fish and other sea life which could feed the. world. The sea life man has turned his nose up at in the past may well be his salvation in the future." The oceans and seas, said Carey, are the last "frontier" yet to be fully explored by man. They hold mineral wealth from which man could benefit, if used wisely. He listed abundant supplies of gold and diamonds, oil and natural gas, magnesium, iron, aluminum, copper and nickel. What to Do "What will we do with it?" Carey aslced. "Hopefully not what we did with those items that we found on the one-third of the earth that is not under­ water. Man must plan carefully and proceed carefully to avoid botching the job and causing an even more serious environme.ntal crisis." Before the engineers, tech­ nicians, biologists, geochemists and metallurgists reach down into the ocean depths, Carey believes some ground rules must be set to make sure that the ocean's wealth belongs to all mankind. tilation, and containing no plumbing or refrigeration, each room (no larger than 8 by 14 feet) is the living space of an entire family — appropriately suggesting slave 'quarters of earlier days." The testimony of Dr. Wheel­ er, Moore and representatives of the AFL-CIO Farm Workers pointed to excessive hunger and malnutrition, and physical de­ formities attributable to them. Rickets, a disorder thought to be nearly abolished in the U.S., was common in farm workers. So were cripplings, parasites, tuberculosis, and in­ fant and maternal mortality. Children — both pre-school and school age—work along­ side their parents in the fields. Sometimes there are schools for them to attend, but families feel the time off is a luxury since their average annual income is $891. The $891 a year per family is contrasted to $1.4 billion earned by farm owners each year. Yet TV cameramen found growers were camera shy. One grower who did appear told the film makers: "These are the happiest people I've ever seen." Dr. Wheeler, while supply­ ing the subcommittee with vivid testimony, noted that the rhet­ oric was not new to Congress. He said the plight of migrants has been known for years, but little has been done for them. Carey noted that the Presi­ dent did this in his Oceans Policy, when he referred to these resources as the "com­ mon heritage of all mankind." But, said Carey, this is but one step towards the goal of ex­ ploring our oceans and bene­ fiting from their wealth. Carey called for a full-fledged program that will place "money, talent, knowhow and technol­ ogy" on the line. He called upon Congress to help mold such a program. "The United States must serve as the leader in developing these oceans," he declared. Carey concluded by quoting the late President John F. Kennedy: "Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival depends upon it." August 1970 • Vol. XXXII, No. 8 Offlcial Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America. Atlantic. Guif, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hull, President Cal Tanner „ Earl Shepard Exec. Vice-Prea. Vice-President A1 Kerr Bec.-Treas. Lindsey Williams Vice-President A1 Tanner Vice-President Robert Matthews Vice-President Published monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E.. Washington, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, Atiantic. Guif, Lakes and Iniand Waters District. AFLCIO. 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 112.32. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington. D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union. Atiantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn. N.Y. 11232. �Favors Maritime Priorifies HHH Sees Threat In Reds' Seapower ClofMng for Peruvian Quake Vicfims Items collected for Peru's earthquake refugees are inspected here by Steve Edney (right), chairman of the joint fishing industry labor and management committee which gathered the clothing. Edney, president of the Fish and Cannery Conference of the SIUNA, is aided by Arnie Miranda (left), vice president of the United Cannery and Industrial Workers of the Pacific, and Major James L. Ellis of the Salvation Army, who supervised distribution of the goods. The aid was given in spite of the persistent attacks on U.S. fishing vessels off Peru. Direct Presidential Vote Under Debate in Congress Washington A measure that would alter the system of electing the Presi­ dent and the Vice President of the United States is before Con­ gress. The constitutional amend­ ment that the President would be elected by popular vote is sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). However, only the House has acted upon the measure to date. It received the necessary two-thirds vote in favor. According to the Housepassed bill, the leading presi­ dential candidate winning at least 40 percent of the popular vote would be the victor, Should no candidate receive the necessary 40 percent a run­ off would be held between the two top contenders. Small States Opposed Although the bill has the support of the majority of the Senate members, it is clear that there will be some opposition, specifically from senators of small states. This is because these states swing more weight under the existing system than they would in a direct election. Should it pass the Senate, the direct election amendment will still need the approval of threefourths of the states before it can become a part of the Con­ stitution. Meanwhile, it has received the support of various business, government, labor, religious and political organizations. Among these are the AFL-CTO, the United Auto Workers, the American Bar Association, the Chamber* of Commerce, and the League of Women Voters. Many people have become in­ creasingly disturbed about the Electoral College since voters now determine the members of .the college, not the President. According to the electoral college system the President need not win the popular vote as long as he gets 270 of the 538 electoral votes. Minority Presidents In the past, 12 Presidents have received less than a clear majority of the popular vote. And in the elections of John Ouincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison, the Electoral College winners actually finished in second place as far as popular vote is concerned. Many people believe there are too many loopholes in the present system. For example, electors are not required to vote for the candidate whose banner they run under. There has been a good deal of legislation concerning voting passed by Congress in recent years—most recently the lower­ ing of the voting age to 18. It may be time now to change the basic system of electing the President. It's a change many people would find favorable. "Soviet seapower is chang­ ing the equation of world pow­ er," former Vice President Hu­ bert H. Humphrey warned recently in an article document­ ing Russian strides to assume dominance over the world's maritime fleets. "While the United States has had its eyes on the moon, the Soviet Union has quietly mounted the first great chal­ lenge to our seapower in a generation," the 1968 Demo­ cratic presidential nominee wrote in the Jersey Journal. "Measured by naval power, by maritime fleet and by oceanographic research," he said, "the Soviet Union is rapidly catching up with us and in some areas already has passed us. "They have done this by making a concerted national ef­ fort at a time when we have been doing business as usual," he continued. Mobile Power Humphrey wrote that Soviet naval power was small and de­ fensive in nature until recently but now the Russian fleet has emerged as a mobile power that can move all over the world with confidence. "Now its large, modern navy has a visible presence in the Mediterranean. It is deployed in the Indian Ocean. Its sub­ marines prowl the Central and South Atlantic. Its electronic surveillance ships ply our coas­ tal waters," Humphrey said. He further warned that the Soviet Union, a nation with no warm water ports, is in a posi­ tion to dominate the Suez Canal and the Dardanelles. "We cannot deny the Rus­ sians the free use of the seas, but neither can we continue to live on our reputation as the world's number one seapower," Humphrey said. "Half our naval fleet is over 20 years old and we have lost our technological lead in such areas as nuclear submarines," he continued. New Priorities Humphrey urged a reorien­ tation of priorities "in light of our lower profile around the world." He urged both the Navy and the merchant marine to examine the deterioration of the United States as a maritime power and implement reforms to reverse this slide. To implement this sugges­ tion, the former Vice President cited the value of the Admin­ istration's Maritime Act of 1970 to construct 300 new car­ go ships in the next 10 years. "We must insist that the ship builders, the ship operators, and the seamen start working together effectively," he con­ cluded. Record Enrolled A record 454,826 persons were enrolled in manpower work and training programs on May 1, reports the U.S. Depart­ ment of Labor—an all-time high for non-summer months. Of that total, 85,000 were trainees in the Work Incentive Program, designed to remove persons from welfare rolls and into jobs. .... New Seafarers Ready to Ship Out runs high on graduation day at the Harry LundeAnticipation berg School of Seamanship—the new Seafarers are anxious HLSS graduates pose with Bill Hall, director of training, before departing for careers at sea. Veteran Seafarer Skippy Cuszczynsxy extends his congratulations to a group of HLSS Class 45 graduates. for their first work assignment. It's the beginning of a life-long career at sea for many of the young men, and for some it fulfills a life-long dream of sailing the oceans. "Shipping out" means different things to each graduate— visiting places they've only read about, the camaraderie of working with other Seafarers on a ship, making friends, finding adventure and making money. The graduates are fresh from 12 weeks of intensive training at HLSS. The school, located at Piney Point, Md., on theChesapeake Bay, graduates approximately 1,200 men per year. Sponsored by the Seafarers International Union, the school prepares the young trainees for careers at sea aboard U.S.-flag ships. SIU Representative Joe Sacco congratulates HLSS Class 45 as they prepare to ship out. �Inflation Growth Unchecked Wasington Labor economists disagree with recent administration con­ tentions that the economic slow­ down has "bottomed out," that unemployment will not rise much higher, and that the econ­ omy will improve during the second half of 1970. Among the contradictions to this rosy viewpoint, the union economic forecasters cited a rise in jobless rolls during June from 3.3 to 4.6 million work­ ers. They were backed up by a statement by Sherman Maisel, a member of the Federal Re­ serve Board, who said that a continued rise in unemploy­ ment will not ease inflation. Unemployment Up Mid-July Labor Department statistics also show that, of the 4.7 million unemployed work­ ers (a continued rise of 100,000 from the end of June), only 1.6 million of these were receiving jobless benefits. Relatively few workers find themselves eligible for jobless aid. The remaining 3.1 million are living on savings, with the help of relatives or have been added to the welfare rolls. La­ bor is urging enactment of pending legislation to broaden inflation is leveling off. The President further sug­ unemployment coverage to in­ clude 4 million additional work­ gested that the nation can look forward to a full employment ers. economy next year. The legislation would offer Liberal and labor economists eligibility to agricultural work­ question this optimism. ers, small business employees They point to signs of weak­ and those working for nonprofit ness in the nation's economic enterprises, now exempt from unemployment compensation health: • There has been little up­ coverage. ward movement in the Gross Labor also seeks to expand National Product, and what federal participation in the un­ movement has taken place is employment compensation pro­ due to inflated prices rather gram by state adoption of fed­ eral standards. Currently, indi­ than a rise in productivity. • Far from operating at full vidual states administer the production, American factories programs with eli^bility and were operating at an average the length and amount of bene­ of 77.9 percent of capacity fits varying widely from state to during the second quarter of state. 1970. This is the lowest level in The Bureau of Labor Sta­ tistics reports unemployment more than nine years. • Wholesale prices are still rose 1.3 million during June, rising, although they are level­ while the adjusted national ing off, and the cost of living percentage of jobless dropped has been rising at a yearly rate to 4.7 percent. The influx of of 6 percent with little chance summer workers into the job it will slow down. market caused a reduction in • A 4 percent rise in eco­ the overall percentage from 5 nomic growth—targeted by ad­ percent during May. ministration economists — In a recent White House would not be enough, according press conference. President Nixon revealed the adminis­ to labor forecasters. "We must tration's belief that the economy grow 4 percent just to stand will be "turning up" and that still," one spokesman said. DISPATCHERS REPORT AHaiiHc.e»K»lnknidW«t.rsDlslriet Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals Port Boston New York Philadelphia .. Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville .... Tampa Mobile New Orleans .. Houston Wilmington .. San Francisco Seattle ............ JLOtala ............ Port Boston New Y'ork Philadelphia Baltimore ., Norfolk , Jacksonville i.. • Tampa a^iMobile ........... 4ew Orleans ... louston /iimirigton ..... Francisco . ^Seattle ..Totals June 1,1970 to June 30.1970 DECK DEPARTMENT REGISTERED ON BEACH TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups All Groups Class A Class B k Class B Class C Class A OassB 5 9 1 4 6 6 4 121 203 26 78 77 112 110 25 27 2 9 15 17 13 40 , 98 4 17 31 22 47 28 39 17 54 43 41 27 34 43 10 26 28 46 46 21 20 0 2 2 5 6 35 88 1 9 16 22 40 117 193 8 .55 57 81 106 39 139 8 40 52 57 47 49 • 31 10 40 43 56 33 38 106 16 83 86 77 107 5 35 12 22 28 22 34 557 1031 115 439 484 564 620 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups AU Groups All Groups Class A Class B OassA Class B Class C Class A Class B 7 7 5 ^ 'v, 4 4 6 5 149 148 42 103 61 165 94 23 14 2 12 7 14 11 32 65 6 31 34 • 28 51 40 34 8 ' 46 21 49 21 26 17 14 25 11 28 15 27 9. 1;-: 3 1 10 3 65 1 12 14 35 .26 172 128 4 37 50 79 81 112 55-10 48 50 46 65 25 :' 26 20 31 21 44 23 47 80-'^' 96 31 45 131 76 V;^. 5 26\ 12 23 18 25 35 730 666 156 471 337 679 487 STEWARD DEPARTMENT REGISTERED ON BEACH TOTAL REGIOTRED TOTAL SHIPPED AJIGrou]^ All Groups All Groups Class A Class B aassA Class B Class C Class A Class B .2 • I 1 •5' 3 0 5 81 5 39 16 23 9 31 89 59 17 76 32 482 54 5 23 31 25 3 20 43 29 22 82 14 351 53 4 Tf: 15 14 8 53 25 17 66 21 307 28 14 16 27 12 0 10 26 35 19 65 10 263 73 15 33 29 22 6 39 111 59 8 43 7 447 123 11 63 21 32 21 64 143 89 14 75 38 697 41 3 -"S 15 17 0 0 A 10 11 34 6 J 57 . A Relaxing Aboard Seafrain Florida Seafarer Roberl Byrd (left), bo8un aboard the Seatram Florida, and Wilbur Sink, chief cook, relax up on deck in the Port of Yokohama as their ship takes on stores and unloads its cargo of containers. i-^-^ABTICN LINE In addition to the beefs and contract questions which are set­ tled aboard ship at.payors and sign-on and by the SIU Contract Enforcement Department, headquarters in New York receives communications from Seafarers seeking contract interpretations and other information relating to their jobs. These questions cover the range of working conditions, pension and welfare and other related subjects. Because many of these questions are of general interest to the membership, headquarters has arranged to have the que.stions and answers published regularly in the Log. Question: Under what circumstances must a hot midnight lunch be pro­ vided aboard ship? Answer: » , A, c .• The answer to this question can be found in Article 2, Section 45, paragraphs A, B, C, D, and E of the General Rules of the New Standard Freightship Agreement. It says that crew members who work later than 9 p.m. should have coffee and night lunch provided and, if work continue^ after 9 p.m., 15 minutes should be allowed for the night lunch and should be included as overtime. . , o It further states that if the crew starts work "at or before 9 p.m. and works continuous overtime until midnight, the men shall be provided with hot lunch at midnight." if work continues after midnight, Seafarers are allowed one un­ broken hour for this hot lunch and the men involved, if not per­ mitted this hour, shall receive one hour of overtime. In addition to the actual hour worked during the hot lunch hour. If the crew is broken out after 9 p.m. and works continuously for three hours, a hot lunch should be provided at the expiration of the three hours if the work is to be continued. Otherwise, a night lunch should be provided and the crew should receive an un­ broken hour to eat or should get an additional hour in lieu there­ of, in addition to the actual overtime worked. The Freightship Agreement f&rther states: "If crew works as late as 3 a.m., coffee and night lunch should be provided and if work continues after 3 a.m., 15 minutes shall be allowed for coffee and night lunch, which time shall be included as overtime. The agreement also allows for a 15 minute coffee and night lunch break if the crew is required to work beyond 6 a.m. The rule states: "If the crew works as late as 6 a.m., coffee shall be provided and if work continues after 6 a.m., 15 minutes shall be allowed for coffee, which time should be included as overtime." ' u r-\ The Freightship Agreement further provides (Paragraph G) that in the event a midnight lunch is not provided, "the men in­ volved shall be paid the supper meal allowance in addition to the overtime provided above." This supper allowance is currently $5.50. ^ For steward department personnel, the agreement provides for the following overtime pay provisions; in Article 5, Section 16, paragraphs A and B: „ j • "Members of the Steward Department actually engaged m serving hot lunches at midnight are to be allowed three hours overtime for preparing and serving same. "When not more than the equivalent of one department is served at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m. night lunch, one cook shall be turned out to perform this work. When a midnight hot lunch is served to not more than five men, one cook shall perform this work. When from six to ten men are served, one cook and one messman shall perform this work. When more than ten men are served, one cook and two messmen shall perform this work," the Agreement pro­ vides. �Vacations at Piney Point 'Most Relaxing' P |l4, • John and Terry Kane enjoy a tasty supper in the modem, air-conditioned main dining room of the SIU Vacation Center after a full day's activities. Plenty of varied exercise in the clear air of sunny southern Maryland makes for hearty appetites and restful sleep. Pool is u popular indoor sport with the youngsters at the Vacation Center. The air-conditioned recreation hall also has a bowling alley, table tennis, a TV room, movie theatre, game room, and a reading room. Richard and Donna Roel sign their children, Richard Jr. and Ro­ berta, for' the children's camp at the SIU Vacation Center. Recrea­ tional areas, dining room and sleeping quarters are available for Seafarers and their families. at Rogers and his family are typical of the more than 30 union members who have taken advantage of the Seafarers Vacation Center at Piney Point, Md. Pat, his wife Jean, and their seven children live in Manasquan, N.J. Pat, a member of the SIU for 23 years, sails as fireman-oiler. It was their first vacation in 22 years. "With seven children, no seaman could afford to take a vacation like this until now," Pat said. "This is really the most relaxing time Jean and I have had together since we had the children." Jean particularly likes the children's camp where the kids can enjoy a wide variety of supervised indoor and outdoor activities, with their own sleeping and dining facilities. "Six of our children are SIU babies, and this program is the greatest since the union started the maternity bene­ fits. It's the icing on the cake," she said. Richard Roel is an IBU tugboatman out of Philadel­ phia. He and his wife Donna are also sailboat enthusiasts, and they particularly liked cruising the waters around Piney Point in one of the Harry Lundeberg School's fleet of small sailing boats. The Roels brought their two chil­ dren with them, Richard Jr., 10, and Roberta, 8. Mrs. Roel said, "This is a great place for the children as well as for us. There is so much for them to do, and you can just let the kids go and never have to worry about them." For the John Elliots, it was "the best vacation we have ever had." John, Delores and their two children, Lynn, 5, and Delores, 3, spent seven days at the Vacation Cen­ ter. "Everything about the place was just wonderful," Mrs. Elliot §aid as they prepared to return home. "I now know why they refer to Southern Maryland as the 'Land of Pleasant Living'." John and Margaret Goodwin live in Baltimore, and were on their way for a week's vacation at Virginia Beach with their children, Michele, 4, and Stacey, 2. But they decided to stop in at the Seafarers Vacation Center first, "just to look around." They stayed the full time, and, as they left, made reservations for next summer. "The wife and I have gone around to a few vacation spots, but there is nothing to compare with what we have right here," Goodwin said. "Everything has been just great, better than anything we could have had at any other place I know—and at much less cost. It's the best vacation we've ever had together." The Seafarers Vacation Center will remain open to Seafarers and their families through Labor Day. �: *1 { Sailing aboard the HLSS Manitou, one of many sailing ships at Piney Point, are a large group of vacationing Seafarers and their families visiting the SIU vacation center. During a visit to tHe Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Library, Pat and Jean Rogers found a picture of Mrs. Rogers with baby Catherine, who had just become their third "SIU Baby." That's Catherine, now a beautiful young woman of 15, pointing to the photo and story. Pat Rogers tosses the ball to his wife, Jean, as daugh­ ter Catherine tries to inter­ cept in a game of "keepaway." The modem swim­ ming pool is a popular at­ traction for both youngsters and the grown-ups at the SIU Vacation Center. Norris Syzmanowski and his family check out after spending a week at the SIU Vacation Center at Piney Point. Norris said that this was "the most enjoyable week he has spent in many, many years. John and Delores Elliot look over the chart of local waters as they pre­ pare to go out for a boat ride with daughters, Lynn, 5, and Delores, 3. iteisi Cycling is popular with SIU members and their families at the Vacation Center at Piney Point, and there are plenty of bikes available for roam­ ing around the 54 acres. Retired Seafarer Frank Miller pauses during a tour of the area to chat with vacationers John and Terry Kane. 4.^ �•»" »'"y ®« *»»e Vacation «lh his parents. His buddies got together with the selors at the children's camp to plan a surprise party. Skippy Guszczynsxy ofTers advice to his grandchildren, Edward, Nicholas and William, who try their luck in the waters off St. George's Island. Fishing is generally good during the summer months, and several boats are available at the Vacation Center for fishing parties. Counsellors at the children's camp at the SIU Vacation Center meet regularly with vacationing youngsters to discuss and plan activities. The young people have their own dining and sleeping ipiarters, a modern and well-supervised pool, and complete recrea­ tional facilities for both indoor and outdoor sport. 1 N-. r' !•: Horseback riding is a favorite activity of both the youngsters and grown-ups. There is plenty of space for riding in the pine stand, and instruction is provided for beginners. It's the end of a day full of sun and fun for Delores Elliot, 3, and the dining room table serves as a temporary pillow as she waits for her mother and father to finish their meal at the SIU Vacation Center. �Grant Winner Received Honors To the Editon 1 would like to thank the SIU for the four-year scholarship, which enabled me to spend my undergraduate years at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. I have just received my Bachelor of Arts in German with minors in French and history. I made the Dean's List several times, was initiated into Phi Kap­ pa Phi, LSU's highest scholastic honorary fraternity, and was LSU's nominee for a German Foreign Exchange Service Schol­ arship. 1 plan to start graduate school at the University of Texas in Austin as a candidate for the Masters Degree in German, with hopes of earning a PhD in Com­ parative Literature. My years at LSU were only made possible because of my SIU scholarship. I want you to know how much it has meant to me and how much I appreciated the manner and promptness with which the award was handled. Thank you again. Sincerely, (Miss) Dedra M. Robertson Port Arthur, Tex. Widow Praises Kindness, Help Turning Po/nfs—79/5, 1970 When the LaFollette Seaman's Act of 1915 was passed by the Congress, shipowners balked as the cartoon above indicates. It was "mon­ strous," they said, but it succeeded in bringing to an abrupt halt many age-old abuses inflicted on sailors, vastly improving their working conditions. The Republican insurgent senator who authored the legislation, Robert A. LaFollette, had long been a friend of labor, and fought hard for passage of his bill because he deplored the widespread maltreatment of merchant seamen. It was a turning point in the history of the maritime industry in the United States. The Merchant Marine Act of 1970, now pending before the Senate, is also designed to abolish age-old abuses and widespread mal­ treatment—but commercial, not physical. The act is historic in that it would extend federal benefits to all segments of the U.S. merchant fleet, instead of the few favored berthline operators now receiving such aid. It would be the first step in the long-needed revitalization of the American-flag merchant fleet. The House has approved the Merchant Marine Act, 307-1, and the Senate Commerce Committee has also endorsed the proposal. There are a few differences in the House and Senate bills, but their purpose is the same. Both bills would extend to all American-flag ship operators in the international trade the right to qualify for construction and operating differential subsidies. All operators also will be allowed to utilize tax-deferred construction reserve funds. The abuses have been long-standing: The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 limited the sub­ sidies to a few berthline operators, and the rest of the merchant fleet, including the bulk carriers, has been operating without subsidies and con­ struction reserves. If the legislation passes the Senate, and indications are favorable, the U.S. merchant fleet will have reached another turning point— one every bit as important and far-reaching as LaFollette's legislation more than half a century ago. To the Editor: I would like to extend my sin­ cere thanks and appreciation to the members of the SIU and the Seafarers Welfare plan for their kindness and much needed help during the long illness and death of my late husband Peter Bush. A special thanks to Capt. M. Gosciminski and crew members aboard the Fort Hoskins who carried out my husband's final wish for a sea burial. I appreciate all letters of con­ dolence and also the Welfare Fund check. I feel I have a friend in the SIU even though my husband is gone. Sincere thanks, Lorene Bush Ei Paso, Tex. Hearts Saddened, But Grateful To the Editor We wish to express our deep­ est gratitude for the lovely wreath sent to our Nollie and Daddy, it was beautiful and we appreciated it very much. Our hearts are saddened and our home is lonely without him but we are grateful to his many friends. God Bless you all. The Noilie Towns Famiiy Sarasota, Fia. Seaman's Club In Chicago Loop V e. 10 rise on the momentum provided by Britishowned and British-registered ships. Last year, British-owned and registered ships contributed $720 million to the crown's balance of payments, a figure up from $698 million the year before. In addition, the balance of payments figures also reflect a saving in terms of currency of more than a billion dollars. That's a large contribution to the economic well being, of a nation. This nation's ships, if they were registered under this nation's flag, could be making a similar contribution. In years to come, perhaps our expanded, re­ vitalized merchant marine fleet will be capable of doing so. -I I % :-.+l y Helping the Economy The SIU Jias been arguing for years that more U.S.-owned, U.S.-registered ships would con­ tribute mightily to this country's balance of payments, and now the British have supplied us with more evidence as to what this would mean to our economy. Balance of payments is the value of goods exported versus the value of goods imported. When exports exceed imports, the nation's bal­ ance of payments is said to be favorable. Well, the United States has been suffering through a stretch when the balance of payments in this nation was unfavorable, and money was flowing out faster than it was coming in. The British, however, have overcome the problem of a deficit in the balance of pay­ ments and their favorable balance continues to • To the Editor: I am sending these few lines to thank you for sending me your fine newspaper these past few years My vocation gives me the op­ portunity to minister to the needs of many of your brother seamen here in the Port of Chicago. I do all that I can to help them with information or any other as­ sistance as well as being avail­ able for their spiritual needs. We have a Seamen's Club at 646 South State Street, near the Loop, where a warm welcome awaits any seaman who visits Chicago. I have many friends among the Seafarers from the years I served as chaplain of the Public Health Service Hospital here until it closed down. Every good wish to all my friends. Most sincerely, Rev. Austin Hayton Chicago, 111. 4 Vegetables, Coming Up Seafarer Oliver Hod,;e, left, third cook aboard the Transoregon (Hud­ son Waterways), serves up a hot portion of steamed vegetables us Jan Rooms, chief cook, looks on. The Transoregon is a fine feeder. �Safety Big Issue on Ralls, in Skies The safety of consumers, wide lockout, will study the Right now the procedure upon ards for consumer protection have gone up 11 percent, while while traveling and while at findings and arguments and discovering a possibly danger­ remain down, prices of products frankfurters and bologna prices home, and the still-rising cost make its recommendation. ous product is for the FTC continue to go up. During the have gone up 14 percent. of living remain a major con­ to issue a press release pointing past year the four most infla­ Vehicle Safety Homeownership costs have out the danger and describing tionary products have been cern of various labor and gov­ In another area of transpor­ the product. Then it must de­ meats, home ownership, auto gone up 11 percent, with the ernmental agencies, as well as tation, figures released recent­ sharpest rise in mortagage in­ pend upon local stores to track insurance and medical costs. interested individuals. ly show that the auto industry down buyers and local news­ Meats have gone up over terest—15 percent. Housing At its recent 17th Annual recalled 7.9 million vehicles papers to publicize the warn­ nine percent in the past 12 costs generally take 33 percent Air Safety Forum, the Airline during 180 safety defect cor­ ing. months. When you consider this of a typical working family's rection campaigns last year. Pilots Association left no area is about 6 percent of all the budget. Buyer Caution The Department of Transpor­ uncovered in its search for mak­ living expenses of a working For the most part medical High on the FTC's list of family, it cuts deeply into the ing the airways safer for the tation reports there were 138 costs have been the most per­ items regarding extra care be­ pocketbook. millions of Americans who fly recalls made by foreign manu­ fore sistent inflationary force, rising purchasing are carpets, facturers. them. 6 percent during the past year Rising Hamburger On the domestic scene, the blankets, children's clothing, for a total rise of 63 percent Over 500 air safety experts Federal Especially damaging to mod­ Trade Commission is fake fur products, and color since 1957-59. discussed various topics such as attempting to place the burden TV sets. erate-income families is that The National Commission on prices of some of the meats what to do about birds on the of consumer safety on the man­ Auto insurance has jumped Product Safety has made a list usually considered "cheap" 14 percent over the past year. runway, the size of life rafts, ufacturers. Of particular inter­ air-cushioned boats for rescues est to the FTC are flammable of recommendations to Con­ have also gone up as many This means that the average on marshy lands, an "explosive fabrics, which have been prov­ gress for improving consumer families turned to these to re­ family now spends more for place the usually expensive cuts. auto insurance alone than for door ejector" similar to those en responsible for numerous safety protection. Although the safety stand­ For instance, hamburger prices all public transportation. used on military aircraft, all- tragic home accidents. weather flying, air traffic con­ trol and the role of the welldisciplined stewardess when an emergency arises. Another major area covered by the forum was the use of n o n-flammable products throughout an aircraft. The for­ um urged the entire airlines industry to call on the Federal Aviation Administration to in­ sist "that proper fire prevention be included in the basic certi­ fication of all airplanes." During the discussion on fire problems, a National Aero­ nautics and Space Administra­ tion expert told forum members that many of the flame-resist­ ant, non-metallic materials from the Apollo moon spacecraft program may be usable in Graduates of Lifeboat Class 48 of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md., line up on the Captain James Cook. In the front row, from left, are Jack Stein, Thomas Basile, Larry Smith, Lee commercial aircraft. He said Buford, Willie Bridges, David Taylor, James Cooper, David Lawshe, Jeffrey Blackwell, Larry Harvell, Jesus these newly-developed materi­ Gomez, Harry Macon, and William Enz. In the hack row are Instructor Paul Verelopulo, Tim Hurley, John als could be used for aircraft Richardson, Caldwell Sahh, Louterry Flemming, Walter Ingram, David Rine, Gregory Fuller, Richard Ma­ curtains, carpets, decorative con, Thomas McQuay and John Kapustin. panels, cabinets, paper, oxygen lines and masks. Graduation Time for Trainees Missing Firemen At the same time a 74-page study compiled by a group of independent professional econ­ omists revealed that the elimi­ nation of firemen from diesel engines is a direct and signifi­ cant cause of an increase in railroad accidents. The results of the study were presented to a presidential emergency board trying to re­ solve the 5-year controversy over the need for railroad fire­ men involving the United Trans­ portation Union and the nation's railroads. The study analyzed train ac­ cidents on every major railroad in the nation for 1962 and 1963, two years prior to application of an arbitration award that let railroads eliminate thousands of firemen in freight service. These figures then were compared with those for a similar two-year pe­ riod after the firemen were eliminated. The study concludes that for each 10 percent decrease in the use of firemen in yard service, there was a 10 percent increase in the number of accidents oc­ curring. The same percentage decrease in the use of firemen on over-the-road freight trains brought about a 4.7 to 6.3 per­ cent increase in road service ac­ cidents. The board, appointed by President Nixon after UTU struck three railroads and man­ agement threatened a nation- August 1970 Mike Nelson, named outstanding graduate of Lifeboat Class 50, receives a wristwatch from the instructor. Graduating trainees of Lifeboat Class 49 line up alongside the HLSS schooner Richard Henry Dana. Kneeling, from left, are Morris Hawkins, Harry Smith, Jim Kerrigan, Greg Townsend, Bill Beisgen, Bill Hanna, Joe Pereira, Boh Trainor, and Ken McCarver. Standing: John Chandler, A1 Berlin, Steve Yarn, Bill Shea, Marcelo Gomez, Dan Trayer, Gerry Rohles, John Rogers, Pete Pantoja, Dave Cooper, John Walsh, Mike Crockett, John Salomone, Mark Stenson, A1 Williams, Dan Weaver, and Lifeboat Instructor Paul Veralopulo. Graduating trainees of Lifeboat Class 50 line up alongside Big Red. Kneeling, from left, are Don Shordone, Tom Davis, Aziz Amat, Iain Torrance, Ron Burdette, Raul Santana, and Simon Hickey. Standing, from left, are Jeff Rash, Charles Kirksey, Ron Shaw, Bruce Kelley, Ron Knox, John Wells, Boh Koczian, Percy Payton^ Mike Nelson, and Instructor Paul Veralopulo. John Walsh is congratulated by Life­ boat Instructor Paul Veralopulo after being named outstanding graduate of Lifeboat Class 49. �«jWi 1 Step Aboard a Ship of Memories— The Proud, Triple-Masted 'Eagle S he sailed into New York Harbor recently, reviving memories of when men roamed the Seven Seas in search of adventure and for­ tune. The 295-foot sailing barque Eagle, once a ship of the German Navy and now operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, was paying a visit to the South Street Seaport Museum pier, al­ lowing New Yorkers a rare opportunity to step aboard a sailing ship out of the past. The ship was built in 1936 and commis­ sioned by the Germans as the Horst Wessel to serve as a training vessel for German naval cadets. During the early part of World War II, she I was converted into a cargo ship and used mainly in the Baltic Sea, carrying supplies and passengers between Germany and East Prus­ sia. At the conclusion of the war, she was pre­ sented to the United States as reparation. She was then rechristened the Eagle, a name taken from a long line of famous U.S. revenue cut­ ters. Today, the three-masted, steel ship serves as a training vessel for Coast Guard cadets. The floating school, with a 39V^ foot beam, carries a crew of 17 officers, 45 enlisted, and 163 cadets. She is homeported at the New London, Conn., Coast Guard base. Ai FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank-and-file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and man­ agement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon ap­ proval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Batteiy Place, Suite 1930, New York, N.Y. 10004 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which ^^ou work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman-or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serv­ ing the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing arti­ cles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective member­ ship. This established policy has been reaffirmed by mem­ bership action at the ^ptember, 1960, meetings in all con­ stitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immedi­ ately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log, a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves" with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as deahng with charges. trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters-. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members draw­ ing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rankand-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the em­ ployers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objettives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely vol­ untary _and constitute the funds through- which legislative and- political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. �TEXT OF < .'i M i'' ^ CODSTITIITIOII For SIUAtlantic f Gulf, Lakes And Inland Waters District (Effective January 1, 1970) i> wmm •>4t- �<* ' CONSTITUTION THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT Affiliofeil with American Federation of Labor — Congresf of Industrial Organizations (As Amended January I, 1970) PREAMBLE As maritime and allied workers and realizing the value and necessity of a thorough organization, we are dedicated to the forming of one Union for our people, the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, based upon the following principles: All members shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges and guarantees as set forth in this Constitution, and such rights, privileges and guarantees shall be preserved in accordance with its terms. We declare that American seamen are entitled to receive their employment without interference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the Government. We affirm that every worker has the right to receive fair and just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation. We proclaim the right of all seamen to receive healthful and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to rest. We defend the right of all seamen to be treated in a decent and respectful manner by those in command, and. We hold that the above rights belong to all workers alike, irrespective of nationality or creed. Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we are conscious of corresponding duties to those in command, our employers, our craft and our country. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote har­ monious relations with those in command by exercising due care and diligence in the performance of the duties of our profession, and by giving all possible assistance to our employ­ ers in caring for their gear and property. Based upon these principles, it is among our objects: To use our influence individually and collectively for the purpose of maintaining and developing skill in seamanship and effecting a change in the maritime law of the United States, so as to render it more equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development of a merchant marine and a body of Amer­ ican seamen. To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of maritime workers and through its columns seek to maintain their knowledge of, and interest in, maritime affairs. To assist the seamen of other countries in the work of organ­ ization and federation, to the end of establishing the Brother, hood of the Sea. To form and to assist by legal means other bona fide labor organizations whenever possible in the attainment of their just demands. To regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals so as to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and use­ ful calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that our work takes us away in different directions from any place where the majority might otherwise meet to act, that meetings can be attended by only a fraction of the membership, that the absent members, who cannot be present, must have their inter­ ests guarded from what might be the results of excitement and passions aroused by persons or conditions, and that those who are present may act for and in the interest of all, we have adopted this Constitution. Statement of Principles and Declaration of Rights In order to form a more perfect Union, we workers in the maritime and allied industries, realizing the value and necessity of uniting in pursuit of our improved economic and social wel­ fare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the following principles; In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall ever be mindful, not only of our rights, but also of our duties and obligations as members of the community, our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace of communism and any other enemies of freedom and the democratic principles to which we seafaring men dedicate ourselves in this Union. We shall affiliate and work with other free labor organiza­ tions; we shall support a journal to give additional voice to our views; we shall assist our brothers of the sea and other workers of all countries in these obligations to the fullest extent con­ sistent with our duties, obligations, and law. We shall seek to exert our individual and collective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor and other legislation and policies which look to the attainment of a free and happy society, without distinc­ tion based on race, creed or color. To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing in mind that most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them all over the world, that their rights must and shall be protected, we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be inrlienable. pelled to be a witness against himself in the trial of any pro­ ceeding in which he may be charged with failure to observe the law of this Union. Every official and job holder shall he bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member in accordance with the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. IV Every member shall have the right to be confronted by his accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law of this Union. In all such cases, the accused shall be guaranteed a fair and speedy trial by an impartial committee of .his brother Union members. No member shall be denied the right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. VI A militant mmbersliip being necessary to the security of a free union, the members shall at all times stand ready to de­ fend this Union and the principles set forth in the Constitu­ tion of the Union. VII The powers not delegated to the officers, job holders, and Executive Board by the Constitution of the Union shall be reserved to the members. CONSTITUTION Article I Name and General Powers This Union shall be known as the Seafarers International Union of North America—.Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and executive, and shall include the formation of, and/or issuance of charters to, subordinate bodies and divisions, corporate or otherwise, the formation of funds and participation in funds, the establishment of enterprises for the benefit of the Union, and similar ventures. This Union shall exercise all of its powers in aid of subordinate bodies and divisions created or chartered by it. For convenience of administration and in furtherance of its policies of aid and assistance, the Union may make its prop­ erty, facilities and personnel available for the use and on behalf of such subordinate bodies and divisions. A majority vote of the membership shall be authorization for any Union action, unless otherwise specified in the Constitution or by law. This Union shall at all times protect and maintain its jurisdiction. Article II AfTiliation Section 1. This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America and the American Fed­ eration of Labor—Congress of Industrial Organizations. All other affiliations by the Union or its subordinate bodies or divisions sball be made or withdrawn as determined by a majority vote of the Executive Board. No member shall be deprived of any of the rights or privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. Section 2. In addition to such other provisions as are con­ tained herein, all subordinate bodies and divisions seeking a charter from and/or affiliation with this Union, shall be re­ quired to adopt, within a time period set by the Executive Board, a constitution containing provisions as set forth in Exhibit A, annexed to this Constitution and made a part hereof. All other provisions adopted by such subordinate bodies and divisions as part of tb^ir constitutions shall not be inconsistent therewith. No such constitution or amendments thereto shall be deemed to be effective without the approval of the Executive Board or this Union, which shall be executed in writing, on its bebalf, by the President or, in his absence, by any other officer designated by it. Such approval shall be deemed to be recog­ nition of compliance herewith by such subordinate body or division. Where a subordinate body or division violates any of the foregoing, and, in particular, seeks to effectuate any constitu­ tional provision not so authorized and approved, or commits acts in violation of its approved constitution, or fails to act in accordance therewith, this Union, through its Executive Board, may withdraw its charter and/or sever its affiliation forthwith, or on such terms as it may impose not inconsistent with law, in addition to exercising any and all rights it may have pur­ suant to any applicable agreements or understandings. Section 3. This Union shall also have the power, acting through its Executive Board, and after a fair hearing, to impose a trusteeship upon any subordinate body or divisions chartered by and affiliated with it, for the reasons and to the extent provided by law. II Article III Every qualified member shall have the right to nominate him­ self for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold office in this Union. Membership I ill No member shall be deprived of his membership without due process of the law of this Union. No member shall be com­ Section 1. There shall be , two classes of membership, to wit full book members and probationary members. Candidates for membership shall be admitted to membership in accord­ ance with such rules as may be adopted from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership and which rules shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All candidates with 360 days or more seatime in a consecutive M calendar month period commencing from January 1, 1968, in an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels, covert by contract with this Union, shall be eligible for full membership. All persons with less than the foregoing seatime but at least thirty (30) days of such seatime, shall be eligible for probationary membership. Only full book members shall be entitled to vote and to hold any office or elective job, except as otherwise specified herein. All probationary members shall have a voice in Union proceedings and shall be entitled to vote on Union contracts. Section 2. No candidate shall be granted membership who is a member of any dual organization hostile to the aims, prin­ ciples, and policies of this Union. The membership, by majority vote, shall at all times have the right to determine the membership status of pensioners. Sactian 3. Members more than one quarter in anears in dues shall be automatically suspended, and shall forfeit all benefits and all other rights and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically dismissed if they are more than two quarters in arrears in dues. An arrearage in dues shall be computed from the 'first day of the applicable quarter, but this time shall not run: (a) While a member is actually participating in a strike or lockout. (b) While a member is an in-patient in a USPHS or other accredited hospital. (c) While a member is under an incapacity due to activity in behalf of the Union. • (d) While a member is in the armed services of the United States, provided the member was in good standing at the time of entry into the armed forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after discharge from the armed forces. (e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues, because of employment aboard an American flag merchant vesseL Section 4. A majority vote of the membership shall be suf­ ficient to designate additional circumstances during which the time specified in Section 3 shall not run. It shall be the right of any member to present, in writing, to any Port at any regu­ lar meeting, any question with regard to the application of Section 3, in accordance with procedures established by a majority vote of the membership. A majority vote of the mem­ bership shall be necessary to decide such questions. Section 5. The membership shall be empowered to establish, from time to time, by majority vote, rules under which dues and assessments may be excused where a member has been unable to pay dues and assessments for the reasons provided in Sections 3 and 4. Section 6. To preserve unity, and to promote the common welfare of the membership, all members of the Union shall uphold and defend this Constitution and shall be governed by the provisions of this Constitution and all policies, rulings, orders and decisions duly made. Section 7. Any member who gives aid to the principles and policies of any hostile or dual organization shall be denied further membership in this Union to the full extent permitted by law. A majority vote of the membership shall decide which organizations are dual or hostile. Section 8. Evidence of membership or other affiliation with the Union shall be in such form or forms as determined by the Executive Board, and shall at all times remain the property of the Union. Members may be required to show their evidence of membership in order to be admitted to Union meetings, or into, or on Union property. m t I Article IV Reinstatement Members dismissed from tbe Union may be reinstated in accordance with such rules and under such conditions as are adopted, from time to time, by a majority vote of the member­ ship. Article V Dues and Initiation Fee Section 1. All members shall pay dues quarterly, on a calen­ dar year basis, no later tban the first business day of each quarter, except as herein otherwise provided. The dues shall be tbose payable as of tbe date of adoption of this Constitution as amended and may be changed only by Constitutional amend­ ment. Section 2. No candidate for full book membership shall be admitted into such membership without having paid an initia­ tion fee of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, except as other­ wise provided in this Constitution. In addition, the candidate shall pay a Ten ($10.00) Dollar "service fee" for the issuance of his full book. Each candidate for probationary membership and each pro­ bationary member shall, with the payment of each of his first four quarterly dues, as required by Section I, pay at each such time the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five ($125.00) Dollars as partial initiation fee. The total of such initiation monies so paid shall be credited to his above required initiation fee for a full book member upon completion of the required seatime as provided for in Article III, Section 1. Monies paid to the Union by any non-full book member prior to the effective date of this amended Constitution, on account of initiation fee and assessments, not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty ($250.00) Dollars, shall be credited to such mem­ ber's payment of his initiation fee as required by this section. Section 3. Payment of dues and initiation fees may be waived for organizational purposes in accordance with such rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the Executive Board. H H -il .i| ^ 'U •i'i HI •iy If Section 4. All members shall be and remain in good standing. J Article VI Retirement from Membership Section 1. Members may retire from membership by sur­ rendering their Union books or other evidence of affiliation and paying all unpaid dues for the quarter in which they retire, assessments, fines and other monies due and owing the Union.. When the member surrenders his book or other evidence of affiliation in connection with his application for retirement he shall ° be given a receipt therefor. An official retirement card shall be issued by Headquarters, upon request, dated as of the day that such member accomplishes these payments, and shall be given to the member upon his presenting the aforesaid receipt. •J A. J 1 1 4 Iff �— ^ privileges, duties and obligations of membership shall be suspended during the period of retirement, except that a retired member shall not be disloyal to the Union nor join or remain in My dual or hostile organization, upon penalty of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement. Soction 3. Any person in retirement for a period of two quarters or more shall be restored to membership, except as nerein indicated, by paying dues for the current quarter, as well as all assessments accruing and newly levied during the period of retirement. If the period of retirement is less than two quarters, the required payments shall consist of all dues accruing during the said period of retirement, including those for the cureent quarter, and all assessments accrued and newly levied during that period. Upon such payment, the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, and his member­ ship book, appropriately stamped, shall be returned to him. So^en 4. A member in retirement may be restored to mem­ bership after a two-year period of retirement consisting of eight full quarters only by majority vote of the membership. Section 5. The period of retirement shall be computed from the first day of the quarter following the one in which the retirement card was issued. Article Vil Systems of Organization Section 1. This Union, and all officers, headquarter's repre­ sentatives, port agents, patrolmen, and members shall be gov­ erned in this order by: (a) The Constitution. (b) The Executive Board. (c) Majority vote of the membership. Section 2. The headquarters of the Union shall be located in New York and the heailquarters officers shall consist of a President, and Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryTreasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. I <» Soction 3. The staff of each port shall consist of such per­ sonnel as is provided for herein, and the port shall bear the name of the city in which the Union's port offices are located. Section 4. Every member of the Union shall be registered in one of three departments; namely, deck, engine and stewards department. The definition of these departments shall be in accordance with custom and usage. This definition may be modified by a majority vote of the membership. No member may transfer from one department to another except by ap­ proval as evidenced by a majority vote of the membership. Article Vlli Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section 1. The officers of the Union shall be elected as other­ wise provided in this Constitution. These officers shall be the President, an Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryTreasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. Section 2. Port Agents, Headquarters Representatives, and Patrolmen shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. Article iX I Other Elective Jobs -ft r \€ Section 1. In addition to the elective jobs provided for in Article VIll, the following jobs in the Union shall be voted upon in the manner prescribed by this Constitution: Committee members of: (1) Trial Committees (2) Quarterly Financial Committees (3) Appeals Committees (4) Strike Committees (5) Credentials Committees (6) Union Tallying Committees (7) Constitutional Committees Soction 2. Additional committees may be formed as provided by a majority vote of the membership. Committees may also be appointed as permitted by this Constitution. Article X Duties of Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, Other Elected Job Holders and Miscellaneous Personnel Soction 1. Tho Prosidont. Pi, r r (a) The President shall be the executive officer of the Union and shall represent, and act for and in behalf of, the Union in all matters except as otherwise specifically provided for in the Constitution. (b) He shall be a member ex-officio of all committees, except as otherwise herein expressly provided. (c) The President shall be in charge of, and responsible for, all Union property, and shall be in charge of headquarters and port offices. Wherever there are time restrictions or other con­ siderations affecting Union action, the President shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. (d) In order that he may properly execute his responsibil­ ities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting or otherwise. (e) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the member­ ship, the President shall designate the number and location of ports, the jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may close or open such ports, and may re-assign Vice-Presidents and the Secretary-Treasurer, without reduction in wages. He may abo re-assign Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, and Patrolmen, to other duties, without reduction in wages. The Ports ot New Yoik, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, Mew Or­ leans, Houston and Detroit may not be closed except by Con­ stitutional amendment. Where ports are opened between elections, the President shall designate the Union personnel thereof. The President shall designate, in the event of the incapacity of any Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or any officer other than the President, a replacement to act August 1970 as such during the period of incapacity, provided such replace­ ment is qualified under Article XII of the Constitution to fill such job. At the regular meeting in May of every election year, the President shall submit to the membership a pre-balloting report. In his report he shall recommend the number and loca­ tion of ports, the number of Headquarters Representatives, Port . Agents and Patrolmen which are to be elected. He shall also recommend a bank, a bonded warehouse, a regular officer thereof, or any similar depository, to which the ballots are to he mailed, except that the President may, in his discretion, postpone the recommendation as to the depository until no later than the first regular meeting in October. This recommendation may also specify, whether any Patrol­ man and/or Headquarters Representative, shall he designated as departmental or otherwise. The report shall be subject to approval or modification by a majority vote of the membership. (f) The President shall be chairman of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. (g) He shall be responsible, within the limits of his powers, for the enforcement of this Constitution, the policies of the Union, and all rules and rulings duly adopted by the Executive Board, and those duly adopted hy a majority vote of the mem­ bership. Within these limits, he shall strive to enhance the strength, position, and prestige of the Union. (h) The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those other duties lawfully imposed upon him. (i) The responsibility of the President may not be delegated, but the President may delegate to a person or persons the execution of such of his duties as he may in his discretion decide, subject to the limitations set forth in this Constitution. (j) Any vacancy in any office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, or Patrolman shall be filled by the President by temporary appointment of a member quali­ fied for the office or job under Article XII of this Constitution, except in those cases where the filling of such vacancy is other­ wise provided for by this Constitution. (k) The President is directed to take any and all measures and employ such means which he deems necessary or advisable, to protect the interests, and further the welfare of the Union and its members, in all matters involving national, state or local legislation issuas, and public affairs. (1) The President shall have authority to require any officer or Union representative to attend any regular or special meet­ ing if, in his opinion, it is deemed necessary. Section 2. Executive Vice-President. The Executive Vice-President shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. The Executive Vice-President shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Section 3. Vice-President in Charge of Controcts and Contract Enforcement. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract En­ forcement shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. In addition, he shall be responsible for all contract negotiations, the formulation of bargaining demands, and the submission of proposed collective bargaining agreements to the membership for ratification. He shall also be responsible, except as otherwise provided in Article X, Section 13(d)(1), for strike authorization, signing of new contracts, and contract enforcement. He shall also act for headquarters in executing the administrative functions assiped to headquarters by this Constitution with respect to trials and appeals except if he is a witness or party thereto, in which event the Secretary-Treasurer shall act in his place. In order that he may properly execute these responsibilities he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ such help as he deems necessary, be it legal, or otherwise, subject to approval of the Executive Board. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Section 4. Secretory-Treasurer. The Secretary-Treasurer shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. He shall be responsible for the organization and maintenance of the correspondence, files, and records of the Union; setting up, and maintenance of, sound accounting and bookkeeping sys­ tems; the setting up, and maintenance of, proper office and other administrative flnion procedures; the proper collection, safeguarding, and expenditure of all Union funds, port or otherwise. Ife shall submit to the membership, for each quar­ terly period, a detailed report of the entire Union's financial operations and shall submit simultaneously therewith, the Quarterly Financial Committee report for the same period. The Secretary-Treasurer's report shall be prepared by an inde­ pendent Certified Public Accountant. He shall also work with all duly elected finance committees. The Secretary-Treasurer shall he responsible for the timely filing of any and all reports on the operations of the Union, financial or otherwise, that may he required by any Federal or state laws. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help be deems necessary, be it legal, accounting, or otherwise, subject to approval of the Executive Board. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member ex-officio of the Credentials and Ballot Tallying Committees. In addition he shall make himself and the records of his office available to the Quarterly Financial Committee. Section 5. Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast. The Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the personnel thereof on the Atlantic Coast, including their organizing activities. The Atlantic Coast area is deemed to mean that area from and including Georgia through Maine and shall also include the Islands in the Carib­ bean. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or professional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Section 6. Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast. The Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the Ports, and the personnel thereof on the Gulf Coast including their organizing activities. The Gulf Coast area is deemed to mean the State of Florida, all through the Gulf, including Texas. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Section 7. Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and inland Waters. The Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the personnel thereof on the Lakes and Inland Waters, including their organizing activities. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Section 8. Headquarters Representatives. The Headquarters Representatives shall perform any and allduties assigned them or delegated to them by the President or the Executive Board. Section 9. Port Agents. (a) The Port Agent shall he in direct charge of the admin­ istration of Union affairs in the port of his jurisdiction subject to the direction of the area Vice-President. (b) He shall, within the jurisdiction of his port, be respon­ sible for the enforcement and execution of the Constitution, the policies of the Union, and the rules adopted by the Executive Board, and by a majority vote of . the membership. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations affecting port action, the Port Agent shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. (c) He shall he prepared to account, financially or other­ wise, for the activities of his port, whenever demanded by the President, the Vice-President of the area in which his port is located, or by the .Secretary-Treasurer. (d) In any event, he shall prepare and forward to the Sec­ retary-Treasurer, a weekly financial report showing, in detail, weekly income and expenses, and complying with all other accounting directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent may assign each port Patrolman to such duties as fall within the jurisdiction of the port, regardless of the departmental designation, if any, under which the Patrol­ man was elected. (f) The Port Agent shall designate which members at that port may serve as representatives to other organizations, affilia­ tion with which has been properly authorized. Section 10. Patrolmen. Patrolmen shall perform any duties assigned them by the Agent of the Port to which they are assigned. Section II. Executive Board. The Executive Board shall consist of the President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-President in Charge of Con­ tracts and Contract Enforcement, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Area, the Vice-Presi­ dent in Charge of the Gulf Area, the Vice-President in (Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters, and the National Director (or chief executive officer) of each subordinate body or division created or chartered by the Union whenever such subordinate body or division has attained a membership of 3,200 members and has maintained that membership for not less than three (3) months. Such National Director (or chief executive officer) shall be a member of the respective subordinate body or divi­ sion and must be qualified to hold office under the terms of the Constitution of such division or subordinate body. The Executive Board shall meet no less than twice each year and at such times as the President and/or a majority of the Executive Board may direct. The President shall be chair­ man of all Executive Board meetings unless absent, in which case the Executive Board shall designate the chairman. Each member of the Executive Board shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. Its decision shall be determined by majority vote of those voting, providing a quorum of three is present. It -shall be the duty of the Executive Board to develop policies, strategies and rules which will advance and protect the interests and welfare of the Union and the Members. It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer, or in his absence, an appointee of the Executive Board, to keep accurate minutes of at Execu­ tive Board meetings. The Executive Board shall determine per capita tax to be levied and other terms and conditions of affiliation for any group of workers desiring affiliation. The Executive Board may direct the administration of all Union affairs, properties, policies and personnel in any and all areas not otherwise specifically provided for in this Constitution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive Board may act without holding a formal meeting provided all members of the Board are sent notice of the proposed action or actions and the decision thereon is reduced to writing and signevi by a majority of the Executive Board. In the event that death, resignation or removal from office for any reason should occur to the President, the Executive Board by majority vote shall name a successor from its own membership who shall fill that vacancy until the next general election. In the event the President is incapacitated for a period of more than thirty (30) days, and the Executive Board by majority vote thereafter determines that such incapacity pre­ vents the President from carrying out his duties, the Executive Board by majority vote, may appoint from among its own membership the officer to fill the office of President. This appointment shall terminate upon the President's recovery from such incapacity or upon the expiration of the President's term of office whichever occurs first. The Executive Board by majority vote may grant requests for leaves of absences with or without pay to officers. In the event that a leave is granted to the President, the Executive Board by a majority vote, shall designate from among its own membership who shall exercise the duties of the President during such period of leave. Section 12. Delegates. (a) The term "delegates" shall mean those members of the Union and its subordinate bodies or divisions who are elected in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, to attend the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America. The following officers upon their election to office shall, during the term of their office, be delegates to all Con­ ventions of the Seafarers International Union of North America in the following order of priority: President; Executive VicePresident; Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement; Secretary-Treasurer; Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters; Headquarters Representatives, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; Port Agents, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; and Patrolmen, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership. �. (b) Each delegate shall, by his vote and'otherwise, support those policies agreed upon by the majority of the delegates to the Convention. (c) The President shall assign to each subordinate body or division that number of delegates to which this Union would have been entitled, if its membership had been increased by the number of members of the subordinate body or division, in accordance with the formula set forth in the Constitution of the Seafarers International Union of North America, except that this provision shall not be applied so as to reduce the number of delegates to which this Union would otherwise have been entitled. Section 13. Committees. (a) Trial Committee. The Trial Committee shall conduct the trials of a person charged, and shall submit findings and recommendations as prescribed in this Constitution. It shall be the special obliga­ tion of the Trial Committee to observe all the requirements of this Constitution with regard to charges and trials, and their findings and recommendations must specifically state whether or not, in the opinion of the Trial Committee, the rights of any accused, under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. (b) Appeals Committee. 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial judgments, in accordance with such procedures as are set forth in this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. 2. The Appeals Committdfe shall, within not later than one week after the close of the said hearing, make and submit findings and recommendations in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. (c) Quarterly Financial Committee. 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make an exami­ nation for each quarterly period of the finances of the Union and shall report fully on their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, sepa­ rate recommendations and separate findings. 2. The findings and recommendations of this committee shall be completed within a reasonable time after the election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted to the SecretaryTreasurer who shall cause the same to be read in all ports, as set forth herein. 3. All officers. Union personnel and members are responsible for complying with all demands made for records, bills, vouchers, receipts, etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Com­ mittee. The committee shall also have available to it, the serv­ ices of the independent certified public accountants retained by the Union. 4. Any action on the said report shall be as determined by a majority vote of the membership. 5. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall consist of seven (7) full book members in good standing to be elected at Head­ quarters—Port of New York. No officer. Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent, or Patrolman, shall be eligible for elec­ tion to this Committee. Committee members shall be elected at the regular Headquarters—Port of New York meeting desig­ nated by the Secretary-Treasurer. In the event such regular meeting cannot be held for lack of a quorum, the New York Port Agent shall call a special meeting as early as possible for the electing of Committee members to serve on the Quarterly Financial Committee. On the day following their election, and continuing until the Committee has completed its report, each Committee member shall be paid for hours worked at the standby rate of pay, but in no event shall they be paid for less than eight (8) hours per day. They shall be furnished room and board during the period they are performing their duties. In the event a committee member ceases to act, no replace­ ment need be elected, unless there are less than three (3) committee members, in which event they shall suspend their work until a special election for committee members shall be held as provided above, for such number of committee members as shall be necessary to constitute a committee of not less than three (3) members in good standing. ' (d) Strike Committee. 1. In no event shall a geineral strike take place unless ap­ proved by a majority vote of the membership. - 2. In the event a general strike has been approved by the membership the Port Agents in all affected ports shall call a timely special meeting for the purpose of electing a strike com­ mittee. This committee shall be composed of three full book members and their duties shall consist of assisting the Port Agent to effectuate all strike policies and strategies. Article Xi Wages and Terms of Office of Officers and Other Elective Job Holders, Union Employees, and Others Section 1. The following elected offices and jobs shall be held for a term of four years: President Vice-Presidents Secretary-Treasurer Headquarters Representatives Port Agents Patrolmen The term of four years set forth here is expressly subject to the provisions for assumption of office as contained in Article XIII, Section 6(b) of this Constitution. The first nomination and election of officers and jobs under this amended Constitution as provided for in this Article XI, and Articles XII and XHI, shall be held in the year 1971, notwithstanding the unexpired term of any office as a result of a prior election or appointment. Section 2. The term of any elective jobs other than those in­ dicated in Section 1 of this Article shall continue for so long as is necessary to complete the functions thereof, unless sooner terminated by a majority vote of the membership or segment of the Union, whichever applies, whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or ones serving. Secrion 3. The compensation to be paid the holder of any office or other elective job shall be determined from time to time by the Executive Board subject to approval of the mem­ bership. Section 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not apply to any corporation, business, or other venture in which this Union participates; or which it organizes or creates. In such situations, instructions conveyed by the Executive Board shall be followed. Article Xii Qualifications for Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, Patrolmen and Other Elective Jobs Section I. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a can­ didate for, and hold, any office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman provided: (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime in an un­ licensed capacity aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direction, shall count the same as seatime. Union records, Welfare Plan records and/or company records can be used to determine eligibility; and (b) He bas been a full book member in continuous good standing in the Union for at least three (3) years immediately prior to his nomination; and (c) He has at least one hundred (100) days of seatime, in an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels covered by contract with this Union, or one hundred (100) days of employment with, or in any office or job of, the Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direction, or a combination of these, between January 1st and the time of nomination in the election year; and (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and (e) He is not disqualified by law. He is not receiving a pension from this Union's Pension Fund, if any, or from a Union-Management Fund to which Fund this Union is a party or from a company under contract with this Union. Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall be full book members of the Union. Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices and jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this Constitution, shall maintain full book membership in good standing. Article XIII Elections for Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section 1. Nominations. Except as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full book member may submit his name for nomination for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in per­ son, to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer at headquarters, or sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the address of headquarters. This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: (a) The name of the candidate. (b) His home address and mailing address. (c) His book number. (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a candidate, including the name of the Port in the event the position sought is that of Agent or Patrolman. (e) Proof of citizenship. (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for candidates. (g) In the event the member is on a ship he shall notify the Credentials Committee what ship he is on. This shall be done also if he ships subsequent to forwarding his credentials. (h) Annexing a certificate in the following form, signed aiid dated by the proposed nominee: "I hereby certify that I am not now, nor, for the five (5) years last past, have I been either a member of the Communist Party or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting from conviction of robbfery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or violation of Title II or III of the Landrum-Griffin Act, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes." Dated Signature of member Book No. Printed forms of the certificate shall be made available to nominees. Where a nominee cannot truthfully execute such a certificate, but is, in fact, legally eligible for an office or job by reason of the restoration of civil rights originally revoked by such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of Parole of the United States Department of Justice, he shall, in lieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed state­ ment of the facts of his case together with true copies of the documents supporting his statement. Any full book member may nominate any other full book member in which event such full book member so nominated shall comply with the provisions of this Article as they are set forth herein, relating to the submission of credentials. By reason of the above self nomination provision the ftsponsisibility if any, for notifying a nominee of his nomination to office, shall be that of the nominator. All documents required herein must reach headquarters no earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the election year. The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Com­ mittee upon the letter's request. Section 2. Credentials Committee. (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regular meeting in August of the election year, at the port where Head­ quarters is located. It shall consist of six (6) full book mem­ bers in attendance at the meeting, with two (2) members to be elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards De­ partments. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or candidate for office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable to serve, the Committee shall suspend until the President or Executive Vice-President, or the Secretary-Treasurer, in that order, calls a special meeting at the port where Headquarters is located in order to elect a replacement. The Committee's results shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a majority vote of the membership at a special meeting called for that purpose at that Port. (b) After its election, the Committee shall immediately go into session. It shall determine whether the person has sub­ mitted his application correctly and possesses the necesssury qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a report listing each applicant and his book number under the office or job he is seeking. Each applicant shall be marked "qualified" or "dis­ qualified" according to the findings of the Committee. Where an applicant has been marked "disqualified," the reason therefor must be stated in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed by all of the Committee members, and be completed and submitted to the Ports in time for the next regular meeting after their election. At this meeting, it shall be read and incorporated in the minutes, and then posted on the bulletin board in each port. On the last day of nominations, one member of the Commit­ tee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of creden­ tials. All credentials must be in headquarters by midnight of closing day. (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the commit­ tee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram at the ad­ dresses listed by him pursuant to Section 1 of this Article. He shall also be sent a letter containing the reasons for such dis­ qualification by air mail, special delivery, registered or certi­ fied, to the mailing address designated pursuant to Section Kb) of this Article. A disqualified applicant shall have the right to take an appeal to the membership from the decision of the Committee. He shall forward copies of such appeal to each port, where the appeal shall he presented and voted upon at a regular meeting no later than the second meeting after the Committee's election. It is the responsibility of the appli­ cant to insure timely delivery of his appeal. In any event, without prejudice to his written appea, the applicant may appear in person before the Committee within two days after the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct his application or argue for his qualification. The committee's report shall he prepared early enough to allow the applicant to appear before it within the time set forth in his Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the first regular meeting after its election. (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case of such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disqualification by the Credentials Committee, in which event the one so previously classified shall then he deemed qualified. (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the quali­ fications of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively pre­ sume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections for candidacy for any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent or Patrolman, has met all the requirements of Section 1(a) of Article XII. Section 3. Balloting Procedures. (a) Balloting in the manner hereafter provided, shall com­ mence on November 1st of the election year and shall continue through December 31st, exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recognized in the City of which the port affected is located. If November 1st or De­ cember 3Ist falls on a holiday legally recognized in a Port in the City in which that port is located, the balloting period in such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, for the purpose of full book members securing their ballots, the ports shall be open from 9:00 A.M. to 12 Noon, Monday through Saturdays, excluding holidays. (b) Balloting shall he by mail. The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, with­ out partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may con­ tain general information and instructive comments not in­ consistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall he listed thereon alphabetically within each category with hook number and job seniority classification status. The listing of the ports shall first set forth Headquarters and then shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most northerly part of the Atlantic Coast, following the Atlantic Coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental United States shall then he added. There shall be no write in voting and no provisions for the same shall appear on the ballot. Each ballot shall he so prepared as to have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said number to he easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable portion shall also he placed a short statement indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. (c) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the SecretaryTreasurer shall he the only official ballots. No others may be used. Each ballot shall he numbered as indicated in the pre­ ceding paragraph and shall he numbered consecutively, com­ mencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall he printed and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto, shall he main­ tained by the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers of the ballots sent. The Secretary-Treasurer shall also send to each Port Agent a sufficient amount of blank opaque envelopes containing the word, "Ballot" on the face of the envelope, as well as a sufficient amount of opaque mail­ ing envelopes, first class postage prepaid and printed on the face thereon as the addressee shall he the name and address of the depository for the receipt of such ballots as designated by the President in the manner provided by Article X, Section 1, of this Constitution. In the upper left-hand corner of such mailing envelope, there shall he printed thereon, as a top line, provision for the voter's signature and on another line im­ mediately thereunder, provision for the printing of the voter's name and book number. In addition, the Secretary-Treasurer shall also send a sufficient amount of mailing envelopes identi­ cal with the mailing envelopes mentioned ahove, except that they shall be of different color, and shall contain on the face of such envelope in bold letters, the word, "Challenge". The Secretary-Treasurer shall further furnish a sufficient amount of "Roster Sheets" which shall have printed thereon, at the top thereof, the year of the election, and immediately thereunder, five (5) vertical columns designated, date, ballot number, signature full book member's name, book number and com­ ments, and such roster sheets shall contain horizontal lines immediately under the captions of each of the above five columns. 'The Secretary-Treasurer shall also send a sufficient amount of envelopes with the printed name and address of •• the depository on the face thereof, and in tfie upper left-hand corner, the name of the port and address, and on the face of such envelope, should be printed the words, "Roster Sheets and Ballot Stubs". Each Port Agent shall maintain separate Seafarers Log i) If *• ' t <P �) . \ * ,1 t; atl tt I - /• ) records of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and count the ballots when received, to insure that this amount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that Port. The Fort Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt, acknowledging the correctness of the amount and the numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify the- Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall pe corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. In any event, receipts shall be forwarded for all tbe aforementioned election material actually received. The S^retary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspection of the same at the office of the SecretaryTreasurer and shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee. (d) Balloting shall be secret. Only full book members in good standing may vote. Each full book member may secure his ballot at Port offices, from tbe Port Agent or his duly designated representative at such port. Each Port Agent shall designate an area at the Port office over which should be posted the legend "Voting Ballots Secured Here." When a full book member appears to vote he shall present his book to the Port Agent or his aforementioned duly designated representa­ tive. The Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall insert on the roster sheet under the appropriate column, the date, the number of the ballot given to such member and his full book number, and the member shall then sign his name on such roster sheet under the appropriate column. Such member shall have his book stamped with the word, "Voted" and the date, and shall be given a ballot, and simultaneously the perforation on tbe top of the ballot shall be removed. At the same time the member shall be given the envelope marked "Ballot" together with the pre-paid postage mailing envelope addressed to the depository. The member shall take such ballot and envelopes and in secret thereafter, mark his ballot, fold the same, insert it in the blank envelope marked "Ballot", seal the same, then insert such "Ballot" envelope into the mail­ ing envelope, seal such mailing envelope, sign his name on the upper left-hand corner on the first line of such mailing envelope and on the second line in the upper left-band corner print his name and book number, after which he shall mail or cause the same to be mailed. In the event a full book member appears to vote and is not in good standing, or does not have his membership book with him or it appears for other valid reasons he is not eligible to vote, the same procedure as provided above shall apply to him, except that on the roster sheet under the column "Comments", notation should be made that tbe member voted a challenged ballot and the reason for his challenge. Such member's membership book shall be stamped "voted challenge", and the date, and such member instead of the above-mentioned mailing envelope, shall be given the mailing envelope of a different color marked on the face thereof with the word, "Challenge". At the end of each day, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall enclose in the envelope addressed to the depository and marked "Roster Sheets and Ballot Stubs", the roster sheet or sheets executed by the members that day, together with the numbered per­ forated slips removed from the ballots which had been given to the members, and then mail the same to such depository. To insure that an adequate supply of all balloting material is maintained in all ports at all times, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative, simultaneously with mailing of the roster sheets and ballot stubs to the depository at the end of each day, shall also make a copy of the roster sheet for that day and mail the same to the Secretary-Treasurer at Head­ quarters. The Port Agent shall be responsible for the proper safeguarding of all election material and shall not release any of it until duly called for and shall insure that no one tampers with the material placed in his custody. (e) Full book members may request and vote an absentee ballot under the following circumstances; while such member is employed on a Union contracted vessel and which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to be at a port in which a ballot can be secur^ during the time and period provided for in Section 4(a) of this Article or is in a USPHS Hospital any­ time during the first ten (10) days of the month of November of the Election Year. The member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by registered or certified mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such request shajl con­ tain a designation as to the address to which such member wishes his absentee ballot returned. The request shall be post­ marked no later than 12:00 P.M. on the 15th day of November of the election year, shall be directed to the SecretaryTreasurer at Headquarters and must be delivered no later than the 25th of such November. The Secretary-Treasurer shall determine whether such member is eligible to vote such absentee ballot. The Secretary-Treasurer, if he determines that such member is so eligible, he shall hy the 30th of such November, send by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the address so designated by such member, a "Ballot", after removing the perforated numbered stub, together with the hereinbefore mentioned "Ballot" envelope, and mailing en­ velope addressed to the depository, except that printed on the face of such mailing envelope, shall be the words "Absentee Ballot" and appropriate voting instructions shall accompany such mailing to the member. If the .Secretary-Treasurer de­ termines that such member is ineligible to receive such absentee hallot, he shall nevertheless send such member the afore­ mentioned ballot with accompanying material ejfcept that the mailing envelope addressed to the depository shall have printed on the face thereof the words "Challenged Absentee Ballot." The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep records of all of the fore­ going, including the reasons for determining such member's ineligibility, which records shall be open for inspection by full book members and upon the convening of the Union Tallying Committee, presented to them. The SecretaryTreasurer shall send to all Ports, the names and book numbers of the members to whom absentee ballots were sent. (f) All ballots to be counted, must be received by the depository no later than the January 5th immediately sub­ sequent to the election year and must be postmarked no later than 12 midnight December 31st of the election year. Section 4. (a) At the close of the last day of the period for securing ballots, the Port Agent in each port, in addition to his duties set forth above, shall deliver or mail to Head­ quarters by registered or certified mail, attention Union Tally­ ing Committee, all unused ballots and shall specifically set forth, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. (b) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. The election shall be held at the regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the Executive Board otherwise determines prior thereto, at a August 1970 special meeting held in the aforesaid ports, on the first business day of the last week of said month. No officer, Head(iuarters Representative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or candidate for office, or the job or Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall he eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties herein set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall he charged with the tallying of all the ballots and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall have access to all election records and files for their inspection, examination and verification. The report shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these discrepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. In connection with the tally of ballots there shall be no counting of ballots until all mailing envelopes containing valid ballots have first been opened, the ballot envelopes removed intact and then all of such ballot envelopes mixed together, after which such hallot envelopes shall he opened and counted in such multiples as the Committee may deem expedient and manageable. The Committee shall resolve all issues on chal­ lenged ballots and then tally those found valid, utilizing the same procedure as provided in the preceding sentence either jointly or separately. (c) The members of the Union Tallying Coiuniittec shall, after their election, proceed to the port in which Head(|uarters is located, to arrive at that port no later than January 5th of the year immediately after the election year. Each member of the Committee not elected from the port in which Head<|uarters is located shall he reimbursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expenses occasioned hy their traveling to and returning from that Port. Committee members elected from the port in which Head(|uarters is located, shall be similarly, reimbursed, except for transportation. All members of the Committee shall also be paid at the prevailing standby rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the port from which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Constitution, adopt its own procedures. All decisions of such Committee and the contents of their report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in at­ tendance, which (juorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain all mailed ballots and the other mailed election material from the depository and to insure their safe custody during the course of the Committee's proceedings. The proceedings of the Committee except for their organizational meeting and their actual preparation of the closing report and dissents therefrom, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes decorum. Any candidate may act as an observer and/or designate another member to act as his observer at the counting of the ballots. In no event shall issuance of the above referred to closing report of the Committee be delayed beyond January 31st immediately subse­ quent to the close of the election year. In the discharge of its duties, the Committee may call upon and utilize the services of clerical employees of the Union. The Committee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its report as required in this Article. In the event a recheck and recount is ordered pursuant to this Article, the Committee shall be reconstituted, except that if any member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (d) The report of the Committee shall be made up in suffi­ cient copies to comply with the following requirements: two copies shall be mailed by the Committee to each Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer no later than January 31st im­ mediately subsequent to the close of the election year. As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner, and notify the Secretary-Treasurer, in writing, as to the date of such posting. This copy shall be kept posted until after the Election Report Meeting, which shall be the March regular membership meeting immediately following the close of the election year. At the Election Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (e) Any full book member claiming a violation of the election and balloting procedure or the conduct of the same, shall within 72 hours of the occurrence of the claimed violation, notify the Secretary-Treasurer at Head(|uarters, in writing, by certified mail, of the same, setting forth his name, book number and the details so that appropriate corrective action if warranted may be taken. The Secretary-Treasurer shall ex­ peditiously investigate the facts concerning tbe claimed viola­ tion, take such action as may be necessary if any, and make a report and recommendation, if necessary, a copy of which shall be sent to the member and the original shall be filed for the Union Tallying Committee for their appropriate action, report and recommendation, if any. The foregoing shall not be applicable to matters involving the Credentials Committee's action or report, the provisions of-Article Xlll, Sections 1 and 2 being the pertinent provisions applicable to such matters. All protests as to any and all aspects of the election and balloting procedures or the conduct of the same, not passed upon by the Union Tallying Committee in its report, excluding therefrom matters involving the Credentials Committee's action or report as provided in the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, but including the procedure and report of the Union Tallying Committee, shall be filed in writing by certified mail with the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters, to be received no later than the February 25th immediately sub­ sequent to the close of the election year. It shall be the re­ sponsibility of the member to insure that his written protest is received by the Secretary-Treasurer no later than such Febru­ ary 25th. The Secretary-Treasurer shall forward copies of such written protest to all ports in sufficient time to be read at the Election Report Meeting. The written protest shall contain the full book member's name, book number, and all details constituting the protest. (f) At the Election Report Meeting the report and recom­ mendation of the' Union Tallying Committee, including but not limited to discrepancies, protests passed upon by them, as well as protests filed with the Secretary-Treasurer as provided for in Section (e) immediately above, shall be acted upon by the meeting. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of a special vote, unless reported discrepancies or jrotested procedure or conduct found to have occurred and to )e violative of the Constitution, affected the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted to such-office, offices and/or job or jobs, as the case may be. A majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings may order a recheck and recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three (3) or more members of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this Section 4(f), the closing report shall be accepted as final. There shall be no further protest or appeal from the action of the majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings. (g) Any special vote ordered pursuant to Section 4(f) shall be commenced within ninety (90) days after tbe first day of tbe month immediately subsequent to the Election Report Meetings mentioned above. The depository shall be the same as designated for the election from which the special vote is ordered. And the procedures shall be the same as provided for in this Section 4, except where specific dates are provided for, the days shall be the dates applicable, which provide for tbe identical time and days originally provided for in this Section 4. The Election Report Meeting for the aforesaid special vote shall be that meeting immediately subsequent to the report of tbe Union Tallying Committee separated by one calendar month. Section 5. Elected Officers and Job Holders: (a) A candidate unopposed for any office or job shall be deemed elected to such office or job notwithstanding that his name may appear on the ballot. The Union Tallying Committee shall not be required to tally completely tbe results of the voting for such unopposed candidate but shall certify in their report, that such unopposed candidate has been elected to such office or job. Tbe Election Report Meeting shall accept the above certification of tbe Union Tallying Committee without change. Section 6. Installation into Office and the Job of Head­ quarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman: (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meet­ ing, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meet­ ing the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, Section 1. Tliis shall not apply where the successful candi­ date cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of tbe newly-elected President to assume office the provisions of Article X, Section 11 shall apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. Article XiV Other Elections Section 1. Trial Committee. A Trial Committee shall be elected at a special meeting held at 10:00 A.M., the next business day following the regular meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take place. It shall consist of five full book members, of which three shall consti­ tute a quorum. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Port Patrolman, or other Union personnel may be elected to serve on a Trial Committee. No member who intends to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any member who cannot for any reason, render an honest decision. It shall be the duty of every member to decline nomination if he knows, or has reason to believe, any of tbe foregoing dis­ qualifications apply to him. The members of this committee shall be elected under such generally applicable rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the membership. Section 2. Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven full book members, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at the port where headquarters is located. The same disquali­ fications and duties of members shall apply with regard to this committee as apply to tbe Trial Committee. In addition, no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearing of an appeal from a Trial (Committee decision, if the said member was a member of the Trial Committee. Article XV Trials and Appeals Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any other member for the commission of an offense as set forth in this Constitution. These charges shall be in writing and signed by the accuser, who shall also include his book number. The accuser shall deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the port nearest the place of the offense, or the port of pay-off, if the offense took place aboard ship. He shall also request the Port Agent to present these charges at the next regular meeting The accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting takes place. Section 2. After presentation of the charges and the request to the Port Agent, the Port Agent shall cause those charges to be read at the said meeting. If the charges are rejected by a majority vote of the port, no further action may be taken thereon, unless ruled otherwise by a majority vote of the membership of the Union within 90 days thereafter. If the charges are accepted, and the accused is present, he shall be automatically on notice that he will be tried tbe following morning. At his request, the trial shall be postponed until the morning following the next regular meeting, at which time the Trial Committee will then be elected. He Page 17 �*>• .4 shall also be handed a written copy of the charges made against him. If the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall immedi­ ately cause to be sent to him, by registered mail addressed to his last known mailing address on file with the Union a copy of the charges, the names and book numbers of the accusers, and a notification, that he must appear with his witnesses, ready for trial the morning after the next regular meeting, at which meeting the Trial Committee will be elected. In the event a majority of the membership of the Union shall vote to accept charges after their rejection by a port, the trial shall take place in the Port where Headquarters is located. Due notice thereof shall be given to the accused, who shall be informed of the name of his accusers, and who shall receive a written statement of the charges. At the request of the accused, transportation and subsistence shall be provided the accused and his witnesses. Section 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinent evidence and shall not be bound by the rules of evidence required by courts of law but may receive all relevant testi­ mony. The Trial Committee may grant adjournments, at the request of the accused, to enable him to make a proper defense. In the event the Trial Committee falls beneath a quorum, it shall adjourn until a quorum does exist. Section 4. No trial shall be conducted unless all the accusers are present. The Trial Committee shall conduct the trial except that the accused shall have the right to cross-examine the accuser, or accusers, and the witnesses, as' well as to conduct his own defense. The accused may select any member to assist him in his defense at the trial, provided, (a) the said member is available at the time of the trial and lb) the said member agrees to render such assistance. If the accused challenges the qualifications of the members of the Trial Committee, or states that the charges do not adequately inform him of what wrong he allegedly committed, or the time and place of such commis­ sion, such matters shall he ruled upon and disposed of, prior to proceeding on the merits of the defense. The guilt of an accused shall he found only if proven by the weight of the evidence, and the burden of such proof shall he upon the accuser. Every finding shall be based on the quality of the evidence and not solely on the number of witnesses produced. Section 5. The Trial Committee shall make findings as to guilt or innocence, and recommendations as to punishment and/or other Union action deemed desirable in the light of the proceedings. These findings and recommendations shall be those of a majority of the committee, and shall be in writing, as shall be any dissent. The committee shall forward its find­ ings and recommendations, along with any dissent to the Port Agent of the port where the trial took place, while a copy thereof shall he forwarded to the accused and the accusers, either in person or by mail addressed to their last known addresses. The findings shall include a statement that the rights of the accused under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. The findings also must contain the charges made, the date of the trial, the name and address of the accused, the accuser, and each witness; shall describe each document used at the trial; shall contain a fair summary of the proceedings, and shall state the findings as to guilt or innocence. If possible, all documents used at the trial shall he kept. All findings and recommendations shall he made a part of the regular files. Section 6. The Port Agent of the Port of Trial shall, upon receipt of the findings and recommendations of the Trial Com­ mittee, cause the findings and recommendations to he presented, and entered into the minutes, at the next regular meeting. Section 7. The Port Agent shall send the record of the entire proceedings to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies thereof to he made and sent to each Port in time for the next regularly scheduled meeting. Section 8. At the latter meeting, the proceedings shall be dis­ cussed. The meeting shall then vote. A majority vote of the membership of the Union shall: (a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or (b) Reject the findings and recommendations, or (c) Accept the findings, but modify the recommendations, or (d) Order a new trial after finding that substantial justice has not been done with regard to the charges. In this event, a new trial shall take place at the port where headquarters is located and upon application, the accused, the accusers, and their witnesses shall he furnished transportation and subsist­ ence. Section 9. After the vote set forth in Section 8, any punish­ ment so decided upon shall become effective. Headquarters shall cause notice of the results thereof to be sent to each accused and accuser. Section 10. An accused who has been found guilty, or who is under effective punishment may appeal in the following manner: He may send or deliver a notice of appeal to Headquarters within 30 days after receipt of the notice of the decision of the membership. Section 11. At the next regular meeting of the port where Headquarters is located, after receipt of the notice of appeal, the notice shall be presented and shall then become part of the minutes. An Appeals Committee shall then be elected. T^e Vice-President in charge of contracts is charged with the duty of presenting the before-mentioned proceedings and all avail­ able documents used as evidence at the trial to the Appeals Committee, as well as any written statement or argument sub­ mitted by the accused. The accused may argue his appeal in person, if he so desires. The appeal shall be heard at Union Headquarters on the night the committee is elected. It shall be the responsibility of the accused to insure that his written statement or argument arrives at headquarters in time for such presentation. Section 12. The Appeals Committee shall decide the appeal as_ soon as possible, consistent with fair consideration of the evidence and arguments before it. It may grant adjournments and may request the accused or accusers to present arguments, whenever necessary for such fair consideration. Section 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall be by majority vote, and shall he in the form of findings and recommendations. Dissents will be allowed. Decisions and dissents shall be in writing and signed by those participating in such decision or dissent. In making its findings and recom­ mendations, the committee shall be governed by the folluwlng: (a) No finding of guilt shall be reversed if there is sub­ stantial evidence to support such a finding and, in such case, the Appeals Committee shall not make its own findings as to the weight of evidence. (b) In no event shall increased punishment be recommended. (c) A new trial shall be recommended if the Appeals Com­ mittee finds—(a) that any member of the Trial Committee Page 18 should have been disqualified, or (b) that the accused was not adequately informed of the details of the charged offense, which resulted in his not having been given a fair trial, or (c) that for any other reason, the accused was not given a fair trial. (d) If there is not substantial evidence to support a finding of guilt, the Appeals Committee shall recommend that the charge on which the finding was based be dismissed. (e) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser punish­ ment. Section 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its decision and dissent, if any, to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies to be published and shall have them sent to each port in time to reach there before the next regular scheduled meeting. Headquarters shall also send a copy to each accused and accuser at their last known address, or notify them in person. Section 15. At the meeting indicated in Section 14 of this Article, the membership, by a majority vote, shall accept the decision of the Appeals Committee, or the dissent therein. If there is no dissent, the decision of the Appeals Committee shall stand. If a new trial is ordered, that trial shall be held in the port where headquarters is located, in the manner provided for in Section 2 of this Article. Any decision so providing for a new trial shall contain such directions as will insure a fair hearing to the accused. Section 16. Headquarters shall notify the accused and each accuser, either in person or in writing addressed to their last known address, of the results of the appeal. A further appeal shall be allowed as set forth in Section 17 of this Article. Section 17. Each member is charged with knowledge of the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers International Union of North America, and the rights of, and procedure as to, further appeal as provided for therein. Decisions reached thereunder shall he binding on all members of the Union. Section 18. It shall he the duty of all members of the Union to take all steps within their constitutional power to carry out the terms of any effective decisions. Section 19. Every accused shall receive a written copy of the charges preferred against him and shall he given a reasonable time to prepare his defense, hut he may thereafter plead guilty and waive any or all of the other rights and privileges granted to him by this Article. If an accused has been properly notified of his trial and fails to attend without properly requesting a postponement, the Trial Committee may hold its trial without his presence. v Article XVi OfFenses and Penalties Section 1. Upon proof of the commission of the following offenses, the member shall be expelled from membership: fa) Proof of membership in any organization advocating the overthrow of the Government of the United .States by force; (h) Acting as an informer against the interest of the Union or the membership in any organizational campaign; (c) Acting as an informer for, or agent of, the company against the interests of the membership or the Union; (d) The coinmission of any act as part of a conspiracy to destroy the Union. Section 2. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, the member shall be penalized up to and including a penalty of expulsion from the Union. In the event the penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recommeded, the penalty shall not exceed suspension from the rights and privi­ leges of membership for more than two (2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both: (a) Willfully misappropriating or misusing Union property of the value in excess of SSp.OO. (b) Unauthorized use of Union property, records, stamps, seals, etc., for the purpose of personal gain; (c) Willful misuse of any office or job, elective or not, within the Union for the purpose of personal gain, financial or other­ wise, or the willful refusal or failure to execute the duties or functions of the said office or job, or gross neglect or abuse in executing such duties or functions or other serious misconduct or breach of trust. The President may, during the pendency of disciplinary proceedings under this subsection, suspend the officer or jobholder from exercising the functions of the office or job, with or without pay, and designate his temporary re­ placement. (d) Unauthorized voting, or unauthorized handling of bal­ lots, stubs, rosters, verification lists, ballot boxes, or election files, or election material of any sort; (e) Preferring charges with knowledge that such charges are false; (f) Making or transmitting, with intent to deceive, false reports or communications which fall within the scope of Union business; (g) Deliberate failure or refusal to join one's ship, or mis­ conduct or neglect of duty aboard ship, to the detriment of the Union or its agreements; (h) Deliberate and unauthorized interference, or deliberate and malicious villification, with regard to the execution of the duties of any office or job; (i) Paying for, or receiving money for, employment aboard a vessel, exclusive of proper earnings and Union payments; (j) Willful refusal to submit evidence of affiliation for the purpose of avoiding or delaying money payments to the Union, or unauthorizedly transferring or receiving evidence of Union affiliation, with intent to deceive; (k) Willful failure or refusal to carry out the order of those duly authorized to make such orders during time of strike. (1) Failure or refusal to pay a fine or assessment within the time limit set therefor either by the Constitution or by action taken in accordance with the Constitution. Saction 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, members shall be penalized up to and including a suspension from the rights and privileges of membership for two(2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both: (a) Willfully misappropriating or misusing Union property of the value under $50.00; (b) Assuming any office or job, whether elective or not with knowledge of the lack of possession of the qualifications re­ quired therefor; (c) Misconduct during any meeting or other official Union proceeding, or bringing the Union into disrepute by conduct not provided for elsewhere in this Article; (d) Refusal or negligent failure to carry out orders of those duly authorized to make such orders at any time. Soction 4. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, members shall be penalized up to and including a fine of $50.00; (a) Refusal or willful failure to be present at sign-ons or pay-offs; (b) Willful failure to submit Union book to Union repre­ sentatives at pay-off; •• (c) Disorderly conduct at pay-off or sign-on; (d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives in dis­ charging their duties; (e) Disorderly conduct in the Union hall; (f) Gambling in the Union hall; (g) Negligent failure to join ship. Section 5. Any member who has committed an offense penal­ ized by no more than a fine of $50.00 may elect to waive his rights under this Constitution subject to the provisions of Article XV, Section 19 and to pay the maximum fine of $50.00 to the duly authorized representative of the Union. Section 6. This Union, and its members, shall not be deemed to waive any claim, of personal or property rights to which it or its members are entitled, by bringing the member to trial or enforcing a penalty us provided in this Constitution. Section 7. Any member under suspension for an offense under this Article shall continue to pay all dues and assessments and must observe his duties to the Union, members, officials, and job holders. Article XVii Publications This Union may publish such pamphlets, journals, news­ papers, magazines, periodicals and general literature, in such manner as may be determined, from time to time, by the Executive Board. Article XVIIi Bonds Officers and job holders, whether elected or. appointed as well as all other employees handling monies of the Union shall he bonded as required by law. Article XIX Expenditures /I Section 1. In the event no contrary policies or instructions are in existence, the President may authorize, make, or incur such expenditures and expenses as are normally encompassed within the authority conferred upon him by Article X of this Constitution. Soction 2. The provisions of Section 1 shall similarly apply to the routine accounting and administrative procedures of the Union except those primarily concerned with trials, appeals, negotiations, strikes, and elections. Section«3. The provisions of this Article shall supersede to the extent applicable, the provisions of Article X of this Constitution. Article XX Income Section 1. The income of this Union shall include dues, initiation fees, fines, assessments, contributions, loans, interest, dividends, as well as income derived from any other legitimate business operation or other legitimate source. Section 2. An official Union receipt, properly filled out, shall be given to anyone paying money to the Union or to any person authorized by the Union to receive money. It shall be the duty of every person affiliated with the Union who makes such payments to demand such receipt. Section 3. No assessments shall be levied except after a ballot conducted under such general rules as may be decided upon by a majority vote of the membership, provided that: (a) The ballot must be secret. (b) The assessment must be approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast. Section 4. Except as otherwise provided by law, all payments by members or other affiliates of this Union shall be applied successively to the monetary obligations owed the Union com­ mencing with the oldest in point of time, as measured from the date of accrual of such obligation. The period of arrears shall be calculated accordingly. Section 5. To the extent deemed appropriate by the major­ ity of the Executive Board, funds and assets of the Union may be kept in an account or accounts without separation as to purpose and expended for all Union purposes and objects. Article XXi Other Types of Union Affiliation To the extent permitted by law, tbis Union, by majority vote of the membership, may provide for affiliation with it hy individuals in a lesser capacity than membership, or in a capacity other than membership. By majority vote of the mem­ bership, the Union may provide for the rights and obligations incident to such capacities or affiliations. These rights and obligations may include, but are not limited to (a) the applic­ ability or non-applicability of all or any part of the Consti­ tution; (b) the terms of such affiliation; (c) the right of the Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation and, (d) the fees required for such affiliation. In no evept may anyone not a member receive evidence of affiliation equivalent to that of members, receive priority or rights over members, or be termed a member. Article XXII Quorums Section 1. Unless elsewhere herein otherwise specifically pro­ vided. the quorum for a special meeting of a port shall be six (6) full book members. Section 2. The quorum for a regular meeting of a Port shall be fifty (50) members. Section 3. Unless otherwise specifically set forth herein, the dec sions, reports, recommendations, or other functions of any segment of the Union requiring a quorum to act officially, shall be a majority of those voting, and shall not he official or effective unless the quorum requirements are met. Seafarers Lot •SJ a:/ *. �• Section 4. Unless otherwise indicated herein, where the re'I"".''"'" are not specifically set forth, a quorum rf t>i e*"®*' 'e ''e a majority of those composing the ap­ plicable segment of the Union. Article XXiii Meetings Section 1. Regular membership meetings shall be held times' 'he following major ports at the following During the week following the first Sunday of every month a meeting shall be held on Monday—at New York; on Tuesday at Philadelphia; on Wednesday—at Baltimore; and on friday at Detroit. During the next week, meetings shall be . held on Monday—at Houston; on Tuesday—at New Orleans; and on Wednesday—at Mobile. All regular membership meet­ ings shall commence at 2:30 P.M. local time. Where a meeting I, • • ^ Holiday officially designated as such by the authorities of the state or municipality in which a port is located, the port meeting shall take place on the following business day. Saturday and Sunday shall not be deemed busi­ ness days. The Area Vice _ Presidents shall be the chairmen of all regular meetings _ in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a regular meeting of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or J®'' holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. In the event a quorum is not present at 2:30 P.M. the chairmati of the meeting at the pertinent port shall postpone the opening of the meeting but in no event later than 3:00 P.M. officials and other elected job-holders are required to asume office. Section 8. The terms, "this Constitution", and "this amended Constitution," shali be deemed to have the same meaning and shall refer to the Constitution as amended which takes the place of the one adopted by the Union in 1939, as amended up through August, 1968. Section 9. The term, "member in good standing", shall mean a member whose monetary obligations to the Union are not in arrears for thirty days or more, or who is not under suspen­ sion or expulsion effective in accordance with this Constitution. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, the term, "member," shall mean a member in good standing. Section 10. Unless plainly otherwise required by the context of their use, the terms "Union book," "membership book," and "book," shall mean official evidence of Union membership. Section II. The term "full hook" or "full Union book" shall mean only an official certificate issued as evidence of Union membership which carries with it complete rights and privileges of membership except as may be specifically constitutionally otherwise provided. Section 12. The term, "full book member", shall mean a member to whom a full hook has been duly issued and who is entitled to retain it in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. Article XXV Amendments This Constitution shall be amended in the following manner: Section 1. Any full book member may submit at any regular meeting of any Port proposed amendments to this Constitu­ tion in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership of the Port approves it, the proposed amendment shall be for­ warded to all Ports for further action. Section 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by a ma­ jority vote of the membership, it shall be referred to a Con­ stitutional Committee in the Port where Headquarters is located. This Committee shall be composed of six full book members, two from each department and shall be elected in accordance Saction 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, all reg­ with such rulM as are established by a majority vote of that ular meetings shall be governed by the following: Port. The Committee will act on all proposed amendments 1. The Union Constitution. referred to it. The Committee may receive whatever advice 2. Majority vote of the members assembled. and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare a report on the amendment together with any proposed changes or substitutions or recommendations and the reasons Article XXIV for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted to the membership. If a majority vote of the membership Definitions and Miscelianeous Provisions approves the amendment as recommended, it shall then be Reioting Thereto voted upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership of the Union ,by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure directed by Section I. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt a majority vote of the membership at the time it gives the with herein, the term "incapacity," shall mean any illness or approval necessary to put the referendum to a vote. The situation preventing the affected person from carrying out his Union Tallying Committee shall consist of six (6) full book duties for more than 30 days, provided that this does not members, two from each of the three (31 departments of the result in a vacancy. However, nothing contained in this Article Union, elected from Head(|uarters Port. The amendment shall shall be deemed to prohibit the execution of the functions of either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall be more than one job and/or office in which event no incapacity referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be shall be deemed to exist with regard to the regular job or posted on the bulletin boards of all ports and made available office of the one taking over the duties and functions of the at the voting site in all ports. one incapacitated. The period of incapacity shall be the time during which the circumstances exist. Section 3. If approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast, the amendment shall become effective immediately upon Section 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with liereia, notifieation by the aforesaid Union Tallying Committee to the the term "vacancy" shall include failure to perform the func­ Secretary-Treasurer that the amendment has been so approved, tions of any office or job by reason of death, or resignation, unless otherwise specified in the amendment. The Secretaryor suspension from membership or expulsion from the Union Treasurer shall immediately notify all ports of the results of with no further right to appeal in accordance with the pro­ the vote on the amendment. visions of Article XV of this Constitution. SecHon 2. A special meeting at a port may be called only at the direction^ of the Port Agent or Area Vice President. No special meeting may be held, except between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be posted at least two bours in advance, on the port bulletin board. The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all special meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a special meet­ ing of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. hI'" ' • It', • fk'. II. It I' - -« '«r .1- I Section 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole the term, "majority vote of the membership," shall mean the majority of all the valid votes cast by full book members at a;- official meeting of those ports holding a meeting. This definition shall prevail notwithstanding that one or more ports cannot hold meetings because of no quorum. For the purpose of this Sec­ tion, the term "meeting" shall refer to those meetings to be held during the time period within which a vote must be taken in accordance with the Constitution and the custom and usage of the Union in the indicated priority. Section 4. When applicable solely to port action and not con­ cerned with, or related to, the Union as a whole, and not' forming part of a Union-wide vote, the term "majority vote of the membership," shall refer to the majority of the valid votes cast by the full book members at any meeting of the Port, regular or special. Section 5. The term, "membership action", or reference thereto, shall mean the same as the term "majority vote of the membership." Section 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the holder thereof, is set forth in this Constitution, all references thereto and the provisions concerned therewith shall be deemed to be equally applicable to whomever is duly acting in such office or job. Soctlon 7. The term "Election Year" shall be deemed to mean that calendar year prior to the calendar year in which elected EXHIBIT A Minimal requirements to be contained in Constitution of subordinate bodies and divisions chartered by or affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America — At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. All members shall have equal rights and privileges, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, contained in this Consti­ tution, including secret election, freedom of speech, the right to hold office and the right of secret votes on assessment and dues increases, all in accordance with the law. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and this Constitution and any amendments thereto, shall not take effect unless and until approved as set forth in the Constitution of that Union. IV An object of this Union is, within its reasonable capacity, to promote the welfare of, and assist, the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America—.Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District. The charter (and/or affiliation) relationship between this Union and the Seafarers International Union of North America —Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall not be dissolved so long as at least ten members of this Union, and the Seafarers International Union of North America— Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board wish to continue such relationship. VI No amendment to this Constitution shall be effective unless and until approved by at least a two-thirds vote of the member­ ship in a secret referendum conducted for that purpose. In any event, the adoption of this Constitution and any amend­ ments thereto, will not be effective unless and until compliance with Article II of the Constitution of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District is first made. VII The Seafarers International Union of North America—At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall have the right to check, inspect and make copies of all the books and records of this Union upon demand. Vlil This Union shall not take any action which will have the effect of reducing its net assets, calculated through recognized accounting procedures, below the amount of its indebtedness to the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlan­ tic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, unless approved by that Union through its Executive Board. IX So long as there exists any indebtedness by this Union to the Seafarers, International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, that Union shall have the right to appoint a representative or representatives to this Union who shall have the power to attend all meetings of this Union, or its sub-divisions, or governing boards, if any; and who shall have access to all books and records of this Union on demand. This representative, or tbe.se repre.srntatives, sball be charged with the duty of assisting this Union and its mem­ bership, and acting as a liaison between the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North .America—.Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District and this Union. So long as any unpaid per capita tax, or any other indebted­ ness of any sort is owed by this Union to the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North .America -.Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, such indeiitedness shall constitute a first lien on the assets of this Union, which lien shall not be impaired without the written approval of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North .America—.Atlantic, Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board. Xi The per capita tax payable by this Union to the Seafarers International Union of North .America—.Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall be that which is fixed in ac­ cordance with the terms of the Constitution of that Union. XII This Constitution and actions by this Union pursuant thereto are subject to those provisions of the Constitution of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District pertaining to affiliation, dis­ affiliation, trusteeships, and the granting and removal of charters, II XIII No member may be automaticaly suspended from member­ ship except for non-payment of dues, and all members shall be afforded a fair hearing upon written charges, with a reas­ onable time to prepare defense, when accused of an offense under the Constitution. This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America through the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. It shall share in, and participate as part of, the delegation of that District to the Convention of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America-—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. III This Union is chartered by (and/or affiliated with), the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, p. I •A Page 19 �a w EVERY SEAFARER IS GUARANTEED: • Protection of the rights and privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. • The right to vote. • The right to nominate himself for, and to hold, any office in the Union. • That every official of the Union shall be bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member and that in no case shall any member be deprived of his rights and privileges as a member without due pro­ cess of the law of the Union. • The right to be confronted by his accuser and to be given a fair trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members if he should be charged with conduct detrimental to the welfare of Seafarers banded together in this Union. • The right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. • The assurance that his brother Seafarers will stand vvith him in defense of the democratic principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. f % : I i m '€• •V �The Emergency Strike Clause: When an Emergency Is Not an Emergency For years the emergency strike clause of the Railway Labor Act has allowed the nation's railroads to use forced labor during disputes with unions, and to negotiate differences through compulsory arbitration. The most recent victims of the 44-year-old emergency clause are railroad firemen. Under the "status quo" procedures of the Railway Labor Act, rail or airline unions cannot strike for 60 days, during which time a national mediation board studies the dispute and makes recommendations for ending it. If at the end of the 60-day "cooling of!" pe­ riod the board decides the dispute is "substan­ tially" interrupting interstate commerce and de­ priving the nation of essential transportation, the President can appoint a board to compel a settlement. The United Transportation Union recently called a strike of three railroads, culminating a five-year dispute with railway management over the fate of some 12,000 firemen whose jobs the railroads intended to eliminate. Findings Unacceptable .• f» •V «" • T • •1 At the conclusion of the "cooling off' period, UTU President Charles Luna said the recom­ mendations of the national mediation board were unacceptable, and plans were made to strike the Baltimore & Ohio, Louisville & Nash­ ville, and the Southern Pacific. "We made every effort, even going beyond the requirements of the Railway Labor Act, in an effort to settle the issue. We have held back from strike action in an effort to settle the case and not inconvenience the public. But railroad management, in its destructive determination to acquire compulsory arbitration by going back again and again to Congress over bargain able issues, has now forced us to exercise our eco­ nomic strength," the UTU president said. Less than 24 hours after the strike was called, however. President Nixon announced a federal arbitration panel would be appointed to arbi­ trate the dispute. The President said that com­ pulsory arbitration was necessary since the three striking railroads represented a threat to national security. The Administration's action marked a re­ versal of the "hands off" policy that former Labor Secretary George Shultz held when he first took office. Inimical Intervention '.l % ' Labor Act, and place them under the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. According to the newspaper account, the La­ bor Department's recommendations also in­ cluded an additional step in negotiations after an initial 80-day "cooling off" period. The ad­ ditional step reportedly called for the appoint­ ment of a panel to choose one or the other of the last proposals made by the disputing parties. Presumably, this additional step in labor-man­ agement negotiations would allow the President time before tipping his hand to one side or the other. If the newspaper story was accurate, the trans­ portation unions would be dealt a strong blow by the Administration and labor's fight to end emergency strike clauses and compulsory arbi­ tration would be set back. Unproven Workability The leaders of the nation's transportation un­ ions contend that the emergency clauses have not proved workable when they have been used, and time and again they have been used when there was no emergency. As one labor official noted, "the Railway La­ bor Act was passed in 1926 when railroads were much more essential to the nation's eco­ nomy than they are today. In 1926 there were not the cars, buses, trucks and airplanes of to­ day. There has to be great doubt, therefore, that a strike on three railroads, even major ones, rep­ resents a threat to the nation, particularly a strike in its first day." It would be senseless to argue that strikes don't inconvenience the public. In fact, it is by inconveniencing the public that striking workers have an economic impact. However, it would seem illogical to assume that because three rail­ roads are struck, the total economy is endan­ gered. Railroad management, on the other hand, claims that collective bargaining has failed and that it must be replaced by compulsory arbitra­ tion. John P. Hiltz, chairman of the National Rail­ way Labor Conference, recently said that the "only long-run solution will be an amendment of the Railway Labor Act to outlaw the ratifica­ tion procedure or to provide mandatory arbitra­ tion as a last resort for the settlement of dis­ putes." After the UTU announced its intention to strike the three railroads, management countered with a threat to shut down all the nation's rail­ roads if even one railroad was struck. Since the early days of 1968, the Administra­ tion had insisted that federal intervention was inimical to healthy collective bargaining and a Lockout Threatened free market economy. At his confirmation hearing before the Sen­ "If any of the shopcraft unions should strike ate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, Shultz any one or a combination of railroads ... we said he regarded compulsory arbitration with ^ will be forced to discontinue rail service through- • distaste although he did favor keeping open some out the country," Hiltz said. form of federal intervention as a last ditch op­ Many labor leaders have asked why when tion. one or more transportation locals strike there is Prior to the President's action in the railway a national emergency, but when management dispute, a report by a Washington correspond­ threatens to lockout all the nation's railroads, ent disclosed that the Labor Department was they are not accused of endangering the econ­ sending a recommendation to the White House omy. calling for a reform of emergency disputes legis­ As an example of the abuse of the emergency lation that would remove airlines and railroads strike clause in the Railway Labor Act and the from the cumbersome provisions of the Railway Taft-Hartley Act, labor points to a recent legal battle in which a federal judge refused to grant a transportation union plea for an injunction against the lockout plan while giving manage­ Model Models ment an injunction against a planned strike. Penn Central's railroad may be The court's decisipn forced the union to call going broke, but the makers of model a national strike and led to eventual interven­ railroads report that business was tion by the Administration and Congress to im­ never better. One national firm re­ pose a settlement. ports sales of railroad equipment up Union leaders across the country have as­ 49 percent from last year's figures. serted that organized labor will continue its fight However, model train enthusiasts are for the removal of the emergency strike clauses realistic. The firm said freight cars from both the Railway Labor Act and the Taftoutsell passenger coaches nine to one. Hartley Act before another "emergency" is called when no emergency exists. August 1970 While aboard the Seatrain San Juan, Richard Panerali displays his re­ cently awarded Chief Engineer's license. He received his license in June after completing the course offered by the School of Marine En­ gineering, jointly sponsored by the .SIU and MEBA, District 2. New Job Fits Panerali In Three Major Ways "I find my job very reward­ ing mentally, financially and in welfare." Richard Panerali, who joined the SIU in 1951 in the Port of Baltimore, was talking about his newly achieved position as licensed Chief Engineer. Working his way up the sen­ iority ladder of the engine de­ partment, Brother Panerali achieved his final goal of Chief Engineer through the School of Marine Engineering jointly sponsored by the SIU and MEBA, District 2. He received his license from the Coast Guard in June and sailed out shortly thereafter as Chief Engineer aboard the Seatrain San Juan. Began As Wiper Brother Panerali started out in the engine department as a wiper and worked his way up to higher positions until in 1962 he received his Third Assist­ ant Engineers' license. Then, through the SIUMEBA school, he passed the Coast Guard tests for Second and First Assistant Engineer in 1966 and 1968 respectively. While in the SIU, Panerali often served the union as de­ partment and ship's delegate. Originally from Chicago, 38year old Panerali now makes his home in McHenry, 111., with his wife Bonnie Ray. Asked how he felt about sea­ faring life, he said: "I wouldn't be doing it this long if I didn't like it." He added, however, that he enjoys "the vacation." It seems that Brother Pan­ erali must have a liking for the sea since, when he is away from his job, one of his favor­ ite sports is boating. The other is riding a snowmobile. Since the SIU-MEBA school opened in February 1966, 379 graduates have been helped to reach higher grades. Oldest Grad Among those graduates the oldest was Sigwart Nielsen, 63, who had been sailing more than 20 years when he received his Third Assistant Engineer's li­ cense. The youngest graduate and the youngest merchant seaman ever to achieve a license was Robert McKay. He entered the training program at the age of 16 and was awarded his Third Assistant Engineer's license when he was 19, the minimum age under Coast Guard regula­ tions. Brother Panerali is the third man to receive his Chief En­ gineer's license through the school. )Yheel of Friendship .SIU Yokohama Reprp^enlutive Frank Boyne (left) shows Samuel Kovenetsky, president of the AFL-CIO Department Store Workers Union, u plaque in the shape of a ship's wheel presented to the SIU by Page Groton, director of the Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders Marine Council. The plaque expresses the fraternal ties that exist between the Boilermakers and the SIU. Page 21 �Toledo Reghfrafhn Drive Begms VOTER Seeks Ohio Voters Toledo were present at the kickoff As prelude to the upcoming campaign reception to drive state and local elections in Ohio home the need and value of a unique organization known heavier voter registration—and as VOTER, Volunteers Orga­ voting—this year. nized to Educate and Register, Among those speaking were has been established. Ohio State Senator Marigne It has targeted 50 precinct V a 1 i q u e 11e. Judge Clifford communities for various action Brown, County Commissioner programs that will have the Sol Wittenberg and Melvin H. same basic goal—urging eligible Pelfrey, MESA District 2 vice voters to get out and register. president. Government officials, union Following this event was the leaders and interested citizens initiation of a door-to-door Seafarers and their fam­ ilies are urged to support a consumer boycott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non­ union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This list carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amend­ ed from time to time.) BRICKS—Boren Clay Prod­ ucts Co., northeastern and Great Lakes region. (United Brick and Clay Workers) CIGARETTES—R. J. Reyn­ olds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, Winston, Salem, Tempo, Brandon, Doral and Cavalier cigarettes. (Tobacco Workers) CLOTHING—Siegel (H. I. S. brand) suits and sports jackets, Kaynee boyswear, Richman Brothers mens' clothing, Sewell suits. Wing shirts, Metro Pants Co. prod­ ucts, and Diplomat Pajamas by Fortex Mfg. Co. (Amal­ gamated Clothing Workers) Judy Bond blouses. (Ladies Garment Workers) FLOUR MILL PRODUCTS— Pioneer Products, San An­ tonio, Tex. (Brewery, Flour and Distillery Workers) FURNITURE-^James Sterling Corp. and White Furniture Co. (Furniture Workers) Economy Furniture — BiltRite, Western Provincial and Smithtown Maple (Uphol­ sterers) GRAPES—^All Arizona and California table grapes not bearing a union label on the crate. (United Farm Work­ ers) HOME BARBER SETS—Wahl Clipper Corp. (Machinists) LIQUORS—Stitzel-WeUer Dis­ tilleries, makers of Old Fitz­ Page 22 gerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk and W.L. Weller brands. (Distillery Workers) NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. (10 un­ ions involved — covering 2,000 workers) PRINTING—Kingsport Press, "World Book" and "Childcraft." (Six unions involved) RANGES—Magic Chef, Pan Pacific Division. (Allied Ap­ pliance Workers) SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co., shoes by Sentry, Cedar Chest, Staler, Jarman, John­ son & Murphy and Crestworth. (Boot and Shoe Workers) SPECIAL—All West Virginia camping and vacation spots. (Laborers) TOYS—Fisher-Price toys. (Doll and Toy Workers) Manfime Policy Change Needed, Says Keifh Terpe San Juan, P.R. Drastic changes in U.S. policy toward subsidization of its mer­ chant fleet has been called for by Keith Terpe, president of the SIU of Puerto Rico. Addressing the San Juan Propeller Club, he noted that presently only 14 lines receive construction differential sub­ sidies, "and none of these are allowed to operate on the trade routes serving Puerto Rico." Terpe also suggested creating tax defcments to enable ship­ ping lines to accumulate reserve funds with which to build and maintain a modem merchant fleet. The SIU leader said the ad­ ministration's plan to build 300 new ships in 10 years is not completely adequate. campaign on June 27 at the Al­ bert Brown Homes, a large housing development in Toledo. All-Pro defensive lineman Allan Page of the Minnesota Vikings greeted residents of the community and urged them to register. He was joined by Don­ ald Bensman, SIU Port Agent for the Great Lakes District in Toledo and Charles Hendrix, international vice president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Port Council officials. The SIU along with other un­ ions is an active participant in this statewide drive. In addition the organization has gained the support of the Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the Lucas County Young Democrats, Re­ tail Clerks Local 954, Perry Burroughs Women's Demo­ cratic Club, Service Employees International Union Local 3, participants in the Ohio VOTER campaign are from the left: Grass Roots Democratic Club, Leading Donald Rensinan, SIU port agent; Allan Page, All-Pro defensive line­ the Toledo Coalition and man for the Minnesota Vikings, and Charles Hendrix, international vice president of AFSCME. MEBA District 2. SIU Arrivals Klmbeill Meyers, born June 21, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Russell Meyers, North High­ lands, Calif. Derek Holtrey, born May 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ liam E. Holtrey, Frankfort, Mich. Rachael Dellaccio, born April 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph J. Dellaccio, New Or­ leans, La. Sharon Burke, born June 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ liam D. Burke, Brooklyn, N.Y. Marcy LaFrange, born May 17, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Horace C. LaFrange, Port Ar­ thur, Tex. John Paschall, born April 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gene A. Paschall, Eagle Lake, Tex. Luis Solano, Jr., born June 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Luis A. Solano, New Orleans, La. Joseph Domingo, Jr.,' born June 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph Domingo, Philadel­ phia, Pa. Diego Bentz, born April 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hen­ ry G. Bentz, Guaynabo, P.R. Timothy Hawxhurst, born April 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Erie Hawxhurst, Jr., Metairie, La. John Antich, born June 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John J. Antich, Chicago, III. WiUiam FeU, born May 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ liam K. Feil, Jersey City, N.J. Jennifer Hawkins, born Nov. 12, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Matthew T. Hawkins, San Mar­ cos, Tex. Gary Doyen, born June 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gary E. Doyen, Gardena, Calif. Boh Damon Kelley, born April 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Bob T. Kelley, Silsbee, Tex. Kay Ann Manekas, born May 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael Manekas, Astoria, N.Y. Ann Jo White, born Nov. 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rod­ ney C. White, III, Newport News, Va. David Lynch, born July 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Lynch, Jr., Parlin, N.J. Regina Tjong, born May 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rudy Tjong, San Francisco, Calif. Jardes Garay, born April 12, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Peter J. Garay, Brooklyn, N.Y. Mari-An Bethel, born June 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ed­ ward T. Bethel. Philadelphia, Pa. Steven Sheppard, born May 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles M. Sheppard, Williamston, N.C. Trevor McDonald, bom April 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. William D. McDonald, Supply, N.C. Ellas Bonefont, bom May 5, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. R^ael Bonefont, Brooklyn, N.Y. Josehna Ross, born June 1, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Ross, Playa Ponce, P.R. Nancy Maldonado, born May 1, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francisco R. Maldonado, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. Rose Marie Cadiz, born April 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Santiago Cadiz, Brooklyn, N.Y. James Haltiwanger, born April 20, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Haltiwanger, Marion, S.C. Elizabeth Sanchez, born Feb. 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Sanchez, Tampa, Fla. Carl Monoletto Simmons, born March 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Henry A. Simmons, Pineville, S.C. Kenneth WUUam Whitcher, born May 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. David R. Whitcher. Lawrence Jerome Curnow, born March 21, 1970, to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Lawrence J. Curnow, Duluth, Minn. Carey Johnson, born March 4, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph G. Johnson, Metairie, La. Michael Kasco, born March 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles B. Kasco, Glen Burnie, Md. Jerryl James Somani, born March 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Yaswant L. Somani, Nor­ folk, Va. Michael and Michelle Clifford, born Oct. 24, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert H. Clifford, Southgate, Mich. David Martin, bom Feb. 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Den­ nis L. Martin, Rome, Ga. Tammy King, born March 22, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jerry R. King, Tampa, Fla. Moraima Bonadont, born April 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Luis A. Bonafont, Yabucoa, P.R. Heidi Rae Rettershofer, born March 31, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter Rettershofer, Williamstown, N.J. Roger Wood, bom Oct. 20, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vic­ tor K. Wood, Wood River, 111. John Stephen Joyce, born April 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John J. Joyce, Philadelphia, Pa. Roderic Lee Bergeron, born Jan. 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Herman Bergeron, Jr., New Orleans, La. Charles Cory Battle, born, Feb. 9, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph L. Battle, Charle­ voix, Mich. Pedro Gallegos III, bom Jan. 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pedro Gallegos, Jr., Houston, Tex. Jennifer Dee Ann Coolidge, born March 11, 1970, to Seafarei and Mrs. Frank A. Cool­ idge, Belle Chasse, La. Stories Cited Washington A series of stories on the Alaska oil boom has earned Tom Brown, reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, the 1969 Thomas L. Stokes award. The $500 award, accompanied by a citation, is presented for coverage of conservation issues. It was established in honor of the late Thomas L. Stokes, na­ tionally-known columnist, who died in 1958. >.r �Truth-in-Lendmg Helps Consumer Buyer Knows Cost of Credit Truth-in-Lending is short­ hand for a series of recent leg­ islative acts which protect the consumer from the unwise and uninformed use of credit. Buy a car, a refrigerator, that luxury you've had your eye on for months and chances are that credit—a signature instead of cold cash—will be part of the transaction. Truth-in-Lending means that the buyer now will know the amount of money his use of credit costs, the annual rate at which he is required to pay in­ terest, and the number of in­ stallment payments necessary to get out of debt. Allows Comparison The amount of interest, for example, on a $100 loan may be $6. If the entire loan is paid in 12 equal installments, then Oil Stories Cited Washington A series of stories on the Alaska oil boom has earned Tom Brown, reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, the 1969 Thomas L. Stokes award. The $500 award, accompanied by a citation, is presented each year for the best coverage of conservation issues. It was es­ tablished in honor of the late Thomas L. Stokes, nationallyknown columnist, who died in 1958. How Credit Lows Work The safeguards built into Truth-in-Lending laws work for the consumer in several ways: / The buyer must be told the total amount of money it will cost him above the purchase price for the use of credit. / The annual rate of interest must be explained so that the buyer will have a base of comparison on which to judge his purchase. / All details of a purchase must be explained, so that if an item advertised at $2 down requires a weekly $10 pay­ ment, all advertising about the product must say so. the interest rate is 11 percent— not 6 percent. Under the Truth-in-Lending laws all this must be explained to the buyer in advance. He can then use the information as a base on which to compare prices from various dealers and make the best buy for the money. Another advantage of the laws is the relief they give from the problem of overextension of credit—buying too much without enough cash to pay for it. Also, the old trap of ad­ vertisements reading "$2 down" and not mentioning the $10-aweek payment is eliminated by Truth-in-Lending laws. Under the law all financial details must be given, meaning that if an advertiser says a product is available for a certain down payment, he must also tell the amount and number of pay­ ?' • • • 7;. • y. • - If Receives Boy Scout Award AFL-CIO Community Services Director Leo Perlis is presented with the Silver BufTalo, the highest award of the Boy Scouts of America. The award was given to Perlis and seven other prominent figures, in­ cluding Astronaut Neil Armstrong, at the BSA National Council's 60th annual meeting in Denver, It is for service to the Scouts. Factory Idea Draws Interest Washington The Maritime Administration has apparently stimulated con­ siderable interest in a recently announced research proposal aimed at determining if the re­ serve fleet could be used for floating factories. MA now reports that 14 bids from companies across the country have been made for the industry-subsidized contract. Through the project, a sixmonth, $100,000 study, the Maritime Administration ex­ pects to determine the feasibil­ ity of converting the National Defense Reserve Fleet into fac­ tories to manufacture low-cost housing. Part of the project will also involve planning a proto­ type. The idea for such a study, as reported in the June issue of the Log, originally was generated by Andrew E. Gibson, Mari­ time Administrator and Alfred Perry, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel­ opment's Project Breakthrough. Mortars and Planes: The Transerie I. • 'V ments necessary for full pay­ ment. Time to Reconsider TTie law also has a provision for re-thinking decisions on credit transactions that use homes as collateral. If a person puts his home up to secure repairs on the prop­ erty he has three days to notify the contractor that he has changed his mind. The law for­ bids the fiontractor to perform any work during the waiting period. The law is enforced by sev­ eral agencies, and violations by individual companies are pun­ ishable by law suits from a minimum of $100 to a maxi­ mum of $1000, depending on the violation. Underneath all the legal tech­ nicalities lies a desire for the protection of the consumer from unjust credit fees and de­ ceptive credit practices. Transerie crewmen await payoflf at John F. Kennedy Inter­ national Airport after their flight from London. Pictured are (front row, from left) A. W. Perkins, Terry Anderson, Wilson Yarhrough, Ahdallan Salen Ali and S. W. Lewis. Standing in the rear are James Purvis, Gordon H. Vaag and Chris Kelly. They arrived in a new 747 jumbo jet airplane on the last leg of their journey home from the Persian Gulf after their one-year Articles expired. All of those pietured served the entire one-year voyage. Payoff for most members of the crew of the Transerie (Hud­ son Waterways) was held in the international arrivals lounge of John F. Kennedy International Airport rather than aboard their ship. The crew had just arrived in New York after a flight from London aboard a giant 747 jet­ liner. The flight was the last leg of a journey from the Per­ sian Gulf after their one-year Articles had expired. The year-long voyage of the Transerie brought the vessel to many ports around the world, including an exciting stopover in Vietnam. One night, while moored at her dock, the Transerie came under heavy Viet Cong mortar fire and several rounds hit the dock alongside, narrowly missing the ship. With hot shrapnel whistling across the deck, the order was given to get underway. As the ship moved away from the firelight, the crew could see the mortar explosions on the waterfront, answered by tracers fired from American de­ fensive positions. Despite the nearness of the Viet Cong barrage, all hands emerged safe and unhurt. After the voyage of mortars and planes, most of the crew were hoping for a quiet vaca­ tion before they ship out again, for a quicker next trip. I - i.l BSV; Chief Cook Bjorn Kristiansen (left) and Deck Delegate Terry Anderson (right) discuss the voyage with SiU Uepiesentalive E. B. McAuley in the overseas arrivals lounge at Kennedy Airlort. SIU Representative Angus Red) Campbell looks on at rear. r. Hendry J. Rucki, Transerie*s ship's committee chairman, relaxes in the arrival lounge at Kennedy Airport while awaiting payoff for the year­ long voyage. The ship's eommittee reported a smooth voyage except during a stop in Vietnam when the Trans­ erie came under Viet Cong mortar fire. Wayne Thompson, left, a 1969 graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship and a "first tripper" aboard the Trans­ erie, shows a collection of for­ eign coins he acquired during the voyage. Messman Ahdallan Salen Ali looks on. PofTO 9^ �rj^he Fanwood (Waterman Steamship) returned to Pier 44, BrookX lyn, N.Y., last month after completing a smooth five-month voy­ age to various ports in the Middle East, The ship delivered general cargo, including the latest models of American automobiles. Seafarer Alex Alexander, third Cook aboard the Fanwood, serves up a portion of Spanish rice to Moacia Formonte, messman. Crew members reported having enough leisure time to enjoy the sights in the many ports they visited. They also extended a "well done" to the steward department. It is anticipated that the Fanwood will be assigned in the near future to the Vietnam run for several months. Many of the crew members who made the Middle East run are also expected to sail with her to Vietnam. Payoff at the Brooklyn pier went smoothly with only a few minor beefs reported. Seafarers Benny Sarant (left) and Hdstad Jackson, both able seamen, enjoyed the five-month cruise, but said they look for­ ward to some time off stateside between trips. SIU Representative E. B. MacAuley, center, takes time during a union meeting aboard the Fanwood to fill the crew members in on the status of jobs and the maritime legislation currently before Congress. Veteran Seafarer Richard F. Flounroy, who sails as a firemanwatertender aboard the vessel, devotes some time to routine maintenance of boiler parts while the ship takes on new cargo. Relaxing topside while awaiting payoff are, from left: Frank Wolverton, ordinary seaman; Thomas Deale, electrician, and Morty Kemgood, bosun. Making sure that everything is shipshape with gauges in the ship's engine room is oiler John H. Nettles. �The Big Squeeze-Lqnd vs People It's the age of The Big Squeeze. There are more and more people, dwindling amounts of space and resources, and a forecast for even greater problems in the future. We're dirtying our environment, using up available land, consuming food at a stupendous rate ind, in general, rushing pell mell into an even bigger crush than we're already in. ^ The United Nations Food and Agriculture Or­ ganization has expressed "cautious optimism" that the projected world food shortages in the next few decades may not materialize. But it's not sure. ^ Experts meeting in the Netherlands recently were told that population projections point to a worldwide "labor force explosion" by 1985, with awesome problems of unemployment to be dealt with. No one knows quite how to do it. ^ The population is soaring so rapidly in the United States—in 30 years it is expected to jump from 200 to 300 million—that President Nixon said to accommodate the additional 100 million per­ sons in new communities, "we would have to build a new city of 250,000 persons each month from now until the end of the century. The problems brought about by the mushrooming world population are monumental, but in recent years there has been increasing attention devoted to *them, and efforts made to head-off the potential so­ cial and environmental crises that will result from an over-crowded world. Labor Force Exfrilosion Meeting at The Hague, Netherlands, the second World Food Congress found the much-feared hunger problem of the future may be surpassed by the labor force explosion of 225 million additional workers in the underdeveloped countries of the world. Mercedes Concepcion, of the Philippines, chair­ man of the United Nations Population Commission told the experts at The Hague that family planning measures now will not prevent the crisis. "These people have already been bom—the popu­ lation explosion of the 1960's will be the labor force explosion of the 1980's," she said. Labor Surplus The problem of a labor surplus is compounded by the fact that in these same countries there is a need to improve agricultural techniques to meet the food needs of the people. As more efficient farming meth­ ods are developed, jobs must be found for the people displaced from agriculture. The problems, however, are not confined to under­ developed countries. The soaring "people rate" in the U.S. has caused increasing concern both at the grass roots level and in the Congress. Nearly everyone can remember a once-favorite pasture that is now a subdivision, a scenic country road that is now a six- or eight-lane highway, a corner " store that has been replaced by a supermarket. Three-quarters of the nation's people are scrunched together in the massive urban centers of the U.S.— piled on top of each other in highrise office and apartment buildings, vying for every inch of roadway, seeing only slices of sky between buildings and trying to maintain a separate feeling when all around there's The Big Squeeze. Land Study Complete A 19-member commission, named by Congress in 1964, has completed a five-year, $7 million study on public lands policy and submitted it to the President and the Congress. Touted as the first comprehensive study of public land use undertaken in the last two centuries, the report contains some 350 recommendations concern­ ing public lands, where most of our natural resources can be found. It has been criticized by some as "a great disai> pointment" because it does not define clear-cut poli­ cies and safeguards on public lands, nor make longrange projections. But it is a step, if not a big one, in providing the greatest benefit for the most people. The report recommends that most of the public land be retained by the federal government—the na­ tion's largest landholder—and managed by a new Department of Natural Resources. Correct Land Damage It urges an inventory of environmental deteriora­ tion on public lands be taken and damage corrected, and that environmental research should be expanded. The oil, mining and timber industries all cut into &-• I « f-' mi r' I • natural resources in an effort to provide for the needs of the burgeoning population. The commission has urged that high standards be set for removing such resources from public lands and for processing them. "For example," the commission said, "public land timber may supply a woodpulp mill causing air and water pollution and the degradation of landscape aes­ thetics. "Smelters processing public land minerals may cause similar adverse environmental impactsr" it noted. Guidelines Needed Their proposed solution is: clear congressional guidelines to protect the environment and strict en­ forcement to carry out the terms of the guidelines. For the average citizen, woodpulp mills and smel­ ters seem far removed from his sphere of life. But air and water pollution are very much part of every­ one's life. While The Big Squeeze is indeed making an impact on life, there is hope. Cities cover just 8 percent of our land at present. Nearly half the nation's land is still farmland, and much of that unused. Forests are found over 26.4 percent and recreation or wilderness areas take 4.4 percent. The controversy over how the United States will use its remaining lands is far from resolved, but the increased awareness of the problem is encouraging. The relationship between family planning clinics and a commission on public land use and a World Food Congress is complex, but it all pivots around The Big Squeeze. Census Tracks Population Shifts While Texas boasts a population of over 10 million, Washington a 1.4 million gain over the 10-year period, other rural When final figures are completed the 1970 Census states across the nation such as Maine, Mississippi, should yield a fairly accurate picture of what changes Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, have taken place over the last 10 years in the U.S. Iowa and West Virginia bemoan their loss in popula­ with regard to population distribution—whether tion. people are still flocking to the giant metropolitan areas seeking the great urban life, or if the West has Despite the estimated overall growth of more than grown more popular than the East. 10 per cent, these heavily rural states have lagged Though all the data has not been collated and behind the rest of the country in general population analyzed, one evolving trend over the past decade growth. has been the move away from the urban center to Rural Changes the less hectic, more leisurely suburbs. All across the Another pattern emerging over the past decade to country cities are reporting this same kind of popula­ affect the rural areas is a marked change in the oc­ tion drift. cupational status of rural residents—one that is likely Milwaukee, Wise., lost 32,000 while its suburbs to go further in the years to come. gained some 113,000. Birmingham, Ala., lost some The Census indicates that one-third of the farm 43,000 to its suburban communities. And other cities workers 14-years-old or over do not live on farms. such as Abilene, Galveston and Odessa, Tex., have And, many of those who do, work on farms only reported similar losses. part time. Going West More farmers are finding it necessary to supple­ A second major trend points West. Most of the . ment their farm work with industrial jobs. Statistics industrialized Western states have registered a fairly show that farm area unemployment remains relatively heavy growth in population. Arizona has grown by low, while the industrial sector's unemployment levels some half million people, so has Colorado. Nevada have zoomed. has increased its populace by about 70 per cent and With information on the four largest states—Cali­ Oregon has also reported notable gains, fornia, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois still to However, Eastern states have shown only a small come—analysts may discover population trends lead­ rise and the Mid-Western states have not experienced ing to forecasts for the 10 years ahead. any dramatic changes in population distribution. Page 25 �Ships' Committees: Keeping in Touch Taking the Union To the Men at Sea embers of the SIU, though they travel to distant parts of the world, are still able to keep in touch M with union activities through their ships' committees. , ... Members of the San Juan (Seatrain Lines) ship's committee are, from left: Juan Ruiz, stew­ ard delegate; Will Stark, ship's secretary-reporter; Jim Spencer, ship's chairman; Pedro Flores, deck delegate, and Jesus Avala, engine delegate. While at sea, the men are represented by a commit­ tee which consists of a ship's chairman, ship' secretaryreporter, and elected delegates from each department. With the chairman presiding, a meeting of union members is held each Sunday during a voyage. Minutes of the meeting are recorded and sent along with other correspondence to headquarters. The meetings are open for discussion of any union matters. Department delegates take any beefs to the commit­ tee, which will try to settle the problem aboard ship. If they cannot resolve the problem before reaching port, the beefs are then settled by the boarding patrolman. In addition, the ship's committee disseminates infor­ mation received on any union activities. Any SIU member can participate in the meetings aboard ship and may serve on the ship's committee. Members of ihe ship's committee for Transoregon are seated from left: Lorie Christman, engine delegate; and John Clark, steward dele­ gate. Standing: Sid Berger, secretary-reporter; Mike Doherty, deck delegate; and Legal Joseph, chairman. Pictured are members of the Steel Maker (Isthmian) ship's committee. They are, from left: Pablo Barrial, ship's chairman; Dan Tacuh, steward delegate; Jim Tucker, deck delegate; Roque Macaraeg, secretaryreporter, and Rod Doiron, engine delegate. Members of the Steel Architect (Isthmian) committee have some happy smiles. From the left are: "Dutch" Keeffer, ship's chairman; "Blackie" Munzert, acting engine delegate; J. L. (^mez, secretary-reporter; Conrad Gauthier, steward delegate, and Lars Nielsen, deck delegate. ' Members of the Steal Designer (iBtlunlan) ship's committee take time out to scan copies of the Log and other union publications. Seated from left are: Henry CrockneU, steward delegate; Arveds Auers, deck delegate; Bill Hart, engine delegate, and Mike Ramage, secretary-reporter. Standing is Anthony Villanova, ship's chairman. Page 26 Seafarers Log �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings MAYAGUEZ (Sea-Land), June . 4—Chairman, S. Foil; Secretary, L. B. Moore; Deck Delegate, G. Morales; Engine Delegate, H. B. ' Stevens; Steward Delegate, Rob­ ert A. McLane. No beefs and no "disputed OT. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. STEEL WORKER (kthmian), May 9—Chairman, Eddie Parr; Sec­ retary, William M. Hand; Deck Delegate, James P. Bush; Engine Delegate, William R. Seattle; Stew­ ard Delegate, J. Graddick. $48.49 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department to be straight­ ened out by patrolman. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), June 7—Chairman, Charles D'Amico; Secretary, Thomas Williams; Deck Delegate, Robert N. Talk; Engine Delegate, Allan R, J. Brunt; Steward Delegate, Arturo I. Aguilos. $20 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. COLUMBIA STAR (Columbia), May 31—Chairman, C. B. Pickle; Secretary, E. E. Harris; Deck Dele­ gate, D. H. Ikirt; Engine Delegate, C. E. Wynn; Steward Delegate, John Silva. Motion made to have com­ pany pay transportation from union hall to ship if man has to travel out of town to get to ship. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tanker), May 10—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Deck Delegate, R. B. Honecutt; Engine Delegate, George Green; Steward Delegate, Rayfield E. Cranford. $3 • in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Met­ al), July 5—Chairman, Tom Martineau; Secretary, Felipe Quintayo; Deck Delegate, Charlie C. Brown; Engine Delegate. Roberto Hinoposa; Steward Delegate, F. H. Copado. $16.27 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tanker), May 31—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Steward Delegate, Rayheld E. Cranford. $3 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. - Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. NEWARK (Sea-Land), July 12— Chairman, A. Rivera; Secretary, J. Utz; Deck Delegate, Luis F. Rivera; Engine Delegate, John J. St. John; Steward Delegate, Matias C. Pena. Few hours disputed OT in deck de­ partment. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), July 12—Chairman, William Bushong; Secretary, John Reed; Deck Delegate, Ralph O. King; Engine Delegate, Robert Ellenson; Steward Delegate, William R. Magruder. $10.50 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in engine department to be brought to attention of patrolman. OVERSEAS NATALIE (Mari­ time Overseas), July 12—Chairman, Barney E. Swearingen; Secretary, Louis D. Croom, Jr. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Various motions submitted to head­ quarters. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), June 28—Chairman, Arvel Bearden; Secretary, J. P. Baliday; Deck Dele­ gate, Jennings Long; Engine Dele­ gate, Douglas McLeon; Steward Delegate, Philip Swing. $118.47 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department to be referred to boarding patrolman. Discussion held regarding rusty water aboard ship. LONGVIEW VICTORY (Victory Carriers). June 14—Chairman, F. Gaspar; Secretary, Thomas O. Rainey; Deck Delegate, A. Delgado; Engine Delegate, Henry Crean; Steward Delegate, R. Pelliccia. Ev­ erything running smoothly. Vote r. i fi • . of thanks to steward department for job well done. OVERSEAS ROSE (MariUme Overseas), June 7 — Chairman, None; Secretary, David Nash; Deck Delegate, Joseph S. Moore; Engine Delegate, Richard L. Lomos; Stew­ ard Delegate, J. T. Lebuski. Dis­ puted OT in deck and engine de­ partments. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), July 15—Chairman, Ralph Dougherty; ^retary, George Tamlin; Deck Delegate, Paul Gil­ lian; Engine Delegate, R. L. Coop­ er; Steward Delegate, S. Aspin. $57.61 in ship's fund. No disputed OT. Vote of thanks to chief cook for job well done. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), July 13—Chairman, Chester A. lannel; Secretary, William J. McNeely; Engine Delegate, William Teffner. Everything running smoothly except for few hours disputed OT in en­ gine department. JAMES (Ogden Navigation), July 15—Chairman, Francis D. Finch; Secretary, Leopold Bruce; Deck Delegate, F. DeKeyzer; Engine Delegate, Oliver N. Myers; Steward Delegate, James Pendergrass. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), July 4—Chairman, A. J. Surles; Sec­ retary, Maximo Bugawan; Deck Delegate, B. Maxwell; Steward Del­ egate. Olus McCann. Ship sailed short one man in deck department. Everything running smoothly so far. No beefs reported by department delegates. CHOCTAW (Waterman), June 21—Chairman. Enos Allen; Secre­ tary. Prank L. Shackelford. One man left in hospital in Bremerhaven and one in hospital in Rotterdam. No beefs and no disputed OT re­ ported by department delegates. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn), June 20—Chairman. W. Wilson; Secretary, W. Wallace. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson Water­ ways). July 5—Chairman, Jake Le­ vin; Secretary, John Hunt; Engine Delegate, Frank Travis. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), July 6—Chairman, James Catania; Secretary. C. J. Nail; Deck Dele­ gate. James Calania; Engine Dele­ gate, Donald C. Robinson. Beefs and disputed OT in each department to be brought to attention of patrol­ man. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for job well done in spite of shortage in personnel. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), June 14—Chairman, Horace Mayeaux; Secretary, Iliiminado R. Llenos; Engine Delegate, Amaldo Alemon; Steward Delegate, Clyde Kruss. $7 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in deck and engine de­ partment. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Mari­ time Overseas), July 5—Chairman, Peter J. Causey, Jr.; Secretary, James A. Hollen; Deck Delegate, D. Warren; Steward Delepte, L. E. Ellison. Disputed OT in each de­ partment to be brought to attention of boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. OAKLAND (Sea-Land), July 7— Chairman, Albert Ahin; Secretary, John Doyle; Deck Delegate, V. Mil­ ler; Engine Delegates, George Silva; Steward Delegate, Orville Amdt. $3.80 in ship's fund and $57 in movie fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Two motions submitted to negotiating committee. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Carriers). June 8 — Chairman, C. L. Francum; Secretary, E. Syl­ vester; Deck Delegate, John F. Marth; Engine Delegate, John Bliz­ zard; Steward Delegate, John Mc- Cree, Jr. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tanker), July 12—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Deck Delegate, W. J. McKennen; En­ gine Delegates, Michael Schwall; Steward Delegate, Quenton Brown. No beefs reported by department delegates. SEAFARER (Marine Carriers), July 8—Chairman, R. Schwarz; Secretary, C. Loper, Jr.; Deck Del­ egate, R. Willis. $7.41 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments to be taken up with patrolman. Motion submitted to headquarters regarding contract agreement. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), June 28—Chairman, W. Bushong; Secretary, John C. Reed; Deck Del­ egate, Ralph O. King; Engine Delegate, Robert Ellenson. $10.50 in ship's fund. Discussion held regard­ ing mail beef. Company not for­ warding mail to ship. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department. MAIDEN CREEK (Gulf Puerto Rico Lines), June 29—Chairman, George Annis; Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon; Deck Delegate, How­ ard Bryant; Engine Delegate, Cecil N. Lewis; Steward Delegate, C. L. Avera. Discussion held regarding raise in wages and pension plan. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian). June 28—Chairman,- A. V. Lanova; Deck Delegate, Calvin N. Smith; Engine Delegate, William E. Hart; Steward Delegate, H. G. Cracknell. Some disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments to be brought to attention of patrolman. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian). June 29—Chairman, James Parker; Secretary. J. D. Foster; Deck Dele­ gate. D. B. Wasson; Engine Dele­ gate. Anthony Philipello; Steward Delegate. Angelo Tuno. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine de­ partments, otherwise everything go­ ing along smoothly. EAGLE TRAVELER (Sea-Trans port). June 14—Chairman, J. L. Bourgeois; Secretary, A. W. Hutcherson; Deck Delegate, William I. Parks. No major beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. Vote of thanks also extended to retiring deck depart­ ment delegate. Brother Mack Chap­ man. OVERSEAS EMPLOYER (Mari­ time Overseas), June 28—Chair­ man, J. Latapie; Secretary, R. M. Kennedy; Deck Delegate, R. Witska; Engine Delegate, Bernard Burge; Steward Delegate, W. J. Caldara. No beefs reported by department delegates. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tanker), June 14—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; En­ gine Delegate, Michael Schwall; Steward Delegate, Quenton Brown. No beefs reported by department delegates. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tanker), June 21—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Engine Delegate, Michael Schwall; Stew­ ard Delegate, Quenton Brown. $1 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. CHATHAM (Waterman), May 24—Chairman, Reidus Lambert; Secretary, George L. Tolliver; Deck Delegate, John McDonald; Engine Delegate, R. H. Mann; Steward Delegate, Steven D. Jones. No dis­ puted OT and no beefs. WESTERN HUNTER (Western), June 7—Chairman. J. O. Bass; Secretary, Leon Krawczyc. Very good crew aboard. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. HALCYON PANTHER (Hal­ cyon), June 28—Chairman, Charles D. Merrill; Secretary, Henry W. Roberts; Deck Delegate, George Stanley; Engine Delegate, Philip Broadus; Steward Delegate, Enoch Collins. -tVote of thanks given to Brother Stanley for making TV antenna on his own time. Vote of thanks also given to steward de­ partment for job well done. PANAMA (Sea-Land), June 21— Chairman, C. Perreira; Secretary, J. McPhaul; Steward Delegate, Jose Vazquez. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. from the ships at sea Bivens B. Henderson, ship's secretary-reporter aboard the Chi­ cago (Sea-land), reports that ev­ erything is runn i n g smoothly with no disputed overtime and no beefs in any de­ partment. Bivens In order to acHenderson quaint several "first trippers" with union ship­ board procedures and assist them in participating in union affairs, a full explanation of the rules and purposes of union meetings at sea was given. It was pointed out that such meetings promote harmony aboard ship, make for smooth voyages and also protect certain rights and obligations for every member of the crew. An offer to assist any of the "first trippers" in any way pos­ sible was made by all hands. The Chicago stopped at Cam Ranh Bay in July and is expected to pay off in San Francisco early this month. Walter Sibley is ship's com­ mittee chairman; Don H. McKinney, deck delegate; Julian Lo­ pez, engine delegate; Lawrence W. Schofield. steward delegate. Alipio Trujillo, ship's secre­ tary-reporter aboard the Transcolorado (Hud­ son Waterways), reports that the vessel is on a smooth intercoastal voyage. A brief stop­ over lasting only 10 hours was Alipio TrujiUo made in the Pan­ ama Canal, and the ship is now sailing for several ports of call on the West Coast. A few members of the union, sailing for the first time, are fit­ ting in nicely and learning quick­ ly from the "oldtimers" aboard. "There is a fine SIU crew aboard this vessel. So far. there is no disputed overtime reported in any department and no beefs. The Transcolorado is a fully air-conditioned ship and the crew is happy to report that the system is working fine. There is $31 in the ship's fund and everyone is being urged to contribute to building up the fund. Brother Martin Iturrino, stew­ ard delegate, is also serving as ship's treasurer. Frank Rodriguez is deck delegate; C. Emertziadis. engine delegate and John Urzan, ship's chairman. SIU Fights Indictment (Continued from Page 3) All of SPAD's contributions have been reported publicly to the Department of Labor and the Clerks of the House of Rep­ resentatives and the Senate. Kerr's report to the mem­ bers noted that; "The heart of the Govern­ ment's case consists of the alle­ gations that SPAD exists only on paper and is nothing more than a device designed to con­ ceal unlawful political contri­ butions by the Seafarers In­ ternational Union. "As you all know, contrary to the Government's assertion, SPAD is a bona fide political committee, established and maintained in strict accordance with the requirements of law on advice of our counsel and our accountants. It is a separate entity, distinct from the Sea­ farers International Union, and is intended to receive volun­ tary contributions from our membership and to make polit­ ical contributions and expendi­ tures in their behalf." Kerr's report asserted that the government's aetion "marks a very substantial step to stop union people from making cam­ paign contributions. There seems no question but that this indictment is meant to have a chilling effect on the free and protected expression of the rank and' file members of all unions to express their political preferences in the time-honored labor tradition as expressed by Samuel Gompers, to 'reward your friends, and fight your en­ emies.' "We know that if we Seafar­ ers have no voice in the halls of Congress that we will very soon lose all the things that we have fought so hard to obtain over the years." In addition to the union, the grand jury issued indictments against SIU President Paul Hall, Kerr, Vice President Earl Shepard, SIU Representatives Frank Boyne, Paul Drozak, Jo­ seph DiGiorgio and Frank Dro­ zak, and Philip Carlip, the un­ ion's legislative representative in Washington. Named co-con­ spirators but not defendants by the grand jury were Vice Presi­ dents Robert Matthews, A1 Tanner, Lindsey Williams and Cal Tanner. �Ed Johnston: Home After 30 Years at Sea^ And, Ed Johnston hastens to Ed Johnston is finally home from the sea. add, this relaxed way of life is After more than 30 years of made possible only because of sailing the world's oceans and his monthly SIU pension. Pension Vital visiting most every major port, he has settled down to a nonAs he explained in a Letter peripatetic life of relaxation. to the Editor, which appeared "Now I have time to do the in the July issue of the Log: "I have just received my first jobs around the house that normal pension check. needed to be done for years," he says. "I wonder if you can really Since his retirement from the understand how much the pen­ Seafarers International Union sion does mean? For over 30 on April 1, 1970, he already years I have sailed Steadily. has completed painting the That meant little time at home. kitchen and vestibule, laying a "Now I can remain home new kitchen floor, and refitting and stay where I live. This is the doors on his house. only possible through the pen­ sion. "Otherwise? Try to keep go­ ing and it isn't so easy now— or move and drastically cut all expenses if I stopped going to sea. "I am quite sure that in the '30s and '40s a pension in this line of work could not even have been a dream. Certainly I did not so dream. "Of course you don't know me personally. Nonetheless, I want you to know my appre­ ciation of all the advantages SIU members now enjoy. "While I very gladly stay home, I will still be an SIU member." Stay at Home "Home" for Mr. Johnston is in Havertown, Pa., about 10 . . . taking it easy Personals Edward "Frenchy" Spalding Stan Stashak asks that you contact him immediately at P.O. Box 427, Lucerne, Calif. 95458. Sanford J. McMillan Please contact Mrs. W. L. Balmer as soon as possible at 4704 Harta Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. 32210. Seymour Heinfling Your sister, Ruth Brady, asks that you contact her as soon as possible. George Stravarides Please contact Thomas M. Breen, 160 Broadway, New York, N.Y. His phone number is 212BE-3-3740. Conrad B. Taylor Your mother, Mrs. J. Bahnsen, asks that you contact her right away at 7201 Hayes St., Hollywood. Fla. 33024. Samuel Wilson Knight Your mother, Mrs. Mary Knight, asks that you contact her at 884 Rochester Rd., Victor, N.Y. 14564. Charles Doroba Your sister, Mrs. Julia Orzech, asks that you contact her imme­ diately at 1933 W. Oakdale Ave., Chicago, 111. 60657. George T. Bareford Your sister, Mrs. Myrtle McCul lough, asks that you contact her at 5401 Kendall Rd., Rich­ mond, Va. 23225. Thomas J. Brand Your mother, Mrs. J. T. Bos­ ton, asks that you contact her at RR 2, Box 497-A, Savannah, Ga. 31404. Willis Edward Brown Please contact Thomas V. Friedman as soon as possible at Rosen, Esterson & Friedman, 211 Saint Paul PI., Baltimore, Md. 21201. Kevin W. Cassidy Please contact Cataract. Loan Company Inc., Boulevard Mall, Amherst, N.Y., as soon as pos­ sible regarding papers being held for you. William J. Hogan, Jr. Please contact your attorney, Newton R. Brown, at 213-8302760, as soon as possible. Thomas A. Dunn Your wife, Ida, asks that you contact her at 844 East 242nd St., Bronx, N.Y. 10470. Richard J. Henderson Your mother-in-law, Mrs. H. T Harris, asks that you contact her at 1028 Marlin St., Birming­ ham, Ala. 35214. Page 2S Ed, and wife, Ethel, scan a copy of the Log miles outside Philadelphia. He and his wife of 24 years, Ethel, spend virtually all their time here. Only rarely does he even venture into Philadelphia and when he does, it generally is "to visit the Union Hall in South Philly just to keep in touch with what is going on." Devout church-goers, practi­ cally all the Johnstons' social activities and outside interests center on the United Presby­ terian Church in Havertown. Mrs. Johnston donates her services to the Sunday School and Vacation Bible school and her husband will be instructing the church's scout troop in the arts of carpentry and knot-ty­ ing come this fall, which is right up the alley of a man who spent 30 years at sea as a car­ penter and bosun. Outside of his church activi­ ties and "fooling around the house or out in the garden," Mr. Johnston occupies himself by following the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. "I hardly ever get to the ballpark," he says, "but I do listen to or watch nearly all the Phillies' games." His study room, situated on the top floor of the Well-kept, two-story house, is where he likes to take refuge to tune in the ball games and "keep up with my correspondence." Souvenirs, Memories Sitting there among various awards, citations and souvenirs collected during his career at sea, Johnston reminisced about his life as a Seafarer and talked of the changes he has wit­ nessed in the industry during that time. He first signed up in Febru­ ary 1939, at the Port of Phila­ delphia. He then picked up a West Coast ship named the Harpoon. As he remembers: "It was a good ship with a fine crew, and I was just learning the ropes so I was kept pretty busy." After that it was one ship after another for the next 30 years, but the one that stands out most vividly for Johnston Salvatore Barbara Please contact your sister, Mrs. Frances Curto, at 1816 Holland Ave., Bronx, N.Y. 10462. Jimmie Davis Please get in touch with Mrs. N, G. Acord, 5546 Little Lake St., Bellaire, Tex. 77401. Jose R. Velez Your uncle, Pedro Velez, asks that you contact him at 1161 St. Lawrence Ave., Bronx, N.Y. 10472. Leonard A. Wright Your mother, Mrs. H. C. Wright, is anxious to hear from you. She asks that you contact her at 2091 Lennox Rd.. Cleve­ land, O., 44106. . . . letter writing in his s.tudy room was the Liberty ship, Charles H. Stiles. "I rode her for 14 months, during World War II," he said, "and never saw better crews.I think it was probably the best ship' I rode." Ship Strafed He said he was fortunate during the war years that none' of the ships he was aboard, came across German U-boats.* "On one run between Liver- pool and Antwerp we were subjected to a couple strafing runs by some German planes, , but that was the most that ever • happened to any ship I was on," he said. He quickly added: "I guess I was lucky." , Not all cruises went smooth­ ly he recalled: "One time we were aboard a ship called the Westkyska, when we ran out of all food ex­ cept for dry beans some 14 days out of port. It was dry " . beans for breakfast, lunch and , dinner. Good limes "We finally pulled into Trin- , idad, where the U.S. Army do­ nated a crate of eggs and some sugar and the U.S. Navy gave us 100 pounds of potatoes. "Eggs and potatoes never tasted so good." Of all the ports he visited, he said Antwerp and Rotterdam were the most enjoyable. His 30-year career encom­ passed "countless good times," three wars, and what he con­ siders "drastic changes for the better." Recalling how he sailed on ships of 1918 vintage, Johns­ ton said "the living conditions for the crew members were in­ adequate and unsanitary. Work­ ing conditions were unsatisfac­ tory, and the hours long and tiring." The newer ships—although he thinks they are "rapidly becoming outdated" — offer "much more in personal com­ fort to the men and make the job that much more pleasant. Plus, the adoption of some modem technology has made the work much easier." Another significant improve­ ment, according to Johnston, is the quality of food served aboard the ships. "Most all ships now qualify as 'good feed­ ers'," he said. The Same Sea Johnston hopes that improve­ ments will continue to be made : in all areas of the shipping in­ dustry. He contends that the only thing that doesn't change as far as shipping goes "is the sea." After making a 10-month cruise to Vietnam, the Steel Seafarer was paid off in March of this year at Portland, Ore., and Ed Johnston underwent his change. "Like many of the ships, I've grown old in this trade," he says. "Now I just want to re­ main at home and take life easy. I've finished sailing and, because of the SIU pension, I'll be able to do what I want." �|: Social Security Q&A; Disability Payments Help Ease Way Back to Work First Pension Checks ' Four veteran Seafarers received their first pension checks from SIU Vice President Earl Shepard at the July membership meeting in New York. From left are Modesto Velez, Eilif Brondelsho, Carlos Matt, Jose Ramos and Vice President Shepard. By A. A. BERNSTEIN SIU Social Security Director A recent survey has shown that a large majority of young adults are ignorant of and un­ concerned about the Social Security system. They are un­ informed about the very bene­ fits that might provide for them in an emergency. The SIU Social Security staff is ready, willing and able to an­ swer any questions regarding such benefits. SIU members and their families should address any questions about Health In­ surance and Social Security benefits to widows, children, disabled workers, retirees, etc. to A. A. Bernstein, director of Retirement Life Attracting Ten More SIU Members I I The Seafarers Pension Fund has currently paid out more than $18 million to help SIU retirees enjoy their retirements. (See list of benefits on the back page of the Log.) During the past month, the pension fund has added 10 more long-time Seafarers to the rolls of hundreds who receive their monthly pension checks. Carlos Matt, 62, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1940 and sailed in the deck de­ partment as an able seaman. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Matt is spending his re­ tirement in New York City. Claud Odeli Stroud, 66, is a native of Tennessee and now makes his home in New Orleans. He joined the union in the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the en­ gine department as a fireman-oil­ er, pumpman and deck engineer. Brother Stroud is an Army vet­ eran of World War II. Julius Sheldon Atwell, 65, joined the Seafarers in 1940 in Miami and sailed in the engine department as a fireman-oiler for 43 years. Born in Key West, Fla., Brother Atwell now lives in Ojus, Fla. He served in the Coast Guard from 1922 to 1923. Jacob Cook, 65, joined the un­ ion in the Port of Baltimore and sailed in the steward department. A native of Holland, Seafarer Cook now makes his home in Cape City, Ark. He is an Army veteran of World War II. Claud Stroud f. Carlos Matt Jacob Cook Joachim Vanisses, 58, a na­ tive of Andrus, Greece, now lives in New York City. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the en-, gine department as a -deck en­ gineer. Walter O. Hoven, 56, joined the union in the Port of Mobile and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. A native of Grove Hill, Ala., Seafarer Hoven now makes his home in Prichard, Ala. 1 Julius Atwell Eilif H. Brondelsho, 65, hails from Norway and now lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. He joined the union in the Port of New York and i lied in the deck depart­ ment. Brother Brondelsho is an U.S. Army veteran of World War IL Eugenio Keyes Gatmaitan, 66, is a native of the Philippine Is­ lands and now lives in Brooklyn. He joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department. When he re­ tired, Brother Gatmaitan had 43 years of sailing behind him. He had served as department dele­ gate while aboard ship and was issued picket duty cards in 1961 and 1962. t Joachim Vanisses August 1970 Walter Hoven Eilif Brondelsho Eugenio Gatmaitan Jose Luis Ramos, 44, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. His last ship was the Ponce. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Ramos now makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has served the union as a depart­ ment delegate and in 1965 was issued two picket duty cards. His son, Jose Ramos, won an SIU scholarship in 1969. Social Security and Welfare Services, Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. Q: My son, now 22, is a high school dropout hut has been doing construction work since he was 17. He is disabled mentally as a result of a head injury on the job. He has "blackouts" so often that he hasn't worked for the last eight months. I'm at my wit's end. Does he qualify for disability payments? A: Possibly. You and your son should visit your Social Security office now. and apply for benefits. The people at the office will tell you what medi­ cal information you will need to furnish. Under the Social Security law your son can be considered disabled if he has a severe physical or mental con­ dition which prevents him from working and which has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months, or to result in death. Q: Last year, my cousin got his first job, and his employer insisted on seeing his Social Security card before he would let him start work. Being a nice guy, I lent him mine since he had lost his card and we both go by initials only—the same ones. I know now that we made a mistake, but the problem is how can we straighten this out with Social Security? pay, especially since she can get payments on my work rec­ ord. Why deduct from my wife's earnings when she can get pay­ ments whether she works or not? A: It's true that your wife could qualify for payments on your Social Security record whether she works or not. However, an important consid­ eration is the valuable protec­ tion she has built up as a result of her own work. Now that she has worked 10 years, she can be assured of a benefit on her own record at 62 or later. She can receive this benefit even if you continue to work after her retirement. Also, chances are that the benefit on her own record will be higher than the benefit payable as a dependent wife. In addition your wife's work gives her disability pro­ tection if she should become disabled before 65. If you have children, they too would be eligible to receive survivors benefits based on her work. And, in the event of her death, a lump-sum death payment would be made even if you had no children. Q: Isn't Social Security's main purpose to keep people out of poverty? A: The primary purpose of Social Security is to help re­ Edward Andrew Anderson, 74, place earnings lost because of joined the SIU in the Port of the retirement, disability, or New York and sailed in the en­ death of the breadwinner. It is gine department as a chief elec­ A; The best approach is for not an anti-poverty program as trician. He has been a very active union member, having served on you and your cousin to visit such, but it does have the effect the picket line while on shore and your nearby Social Security of preventing poverty. About as a department delegate while office. Take with you all avail­ 10 million people are able to sailing. A native of Illinois, Sea­ able wage receipts or other rec­ live above the poverty level be­ farer Anderson is now living in ords of employment. The So­ cause of Social Security bene­ West Somerville, Mass. He is a cial Security people will then fits. But it also pays benefits to Navy veteran of World War 1. examine both Social Security people who had higher incomes records and make the needed during their working years, in­ corrections. They will also as­ cluding professional people, sure that your cousin is issued executives, etc. Social Security a duplicate Social Security is not intended to provide com­ card showing his correct num­ plete income replacement. ber. Rather, people are encouraged Q: My wife and I have both to aid their Social Security pro­ worked fulltime since our mar­ tection through insurance, sav­ riage 10 years ago. We are both ings, union pension plans, in­ concerned over the Social Se­ vestments, and similar pro­ Edward Jo.se curity contributions she must grams. Anderson Ramos Q: A few years ago my mother died. Shortly thereafter I entered the Air Force. I'm SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans now 20 and plan to enter col­ CASH BENEFITS PAID | lege this fall under the GI Bill. REPORT PERIOD JUNE 1, 1970 to JUNE 30, 1970 I know Social Security will pay benefits to a student under 22 NVMBKK li OF AMOINT if his father has died, but what SFAFAKKK8- WELFARE PLAN BENEFITS PAID ifSi i about benefits after a mother's Scholarship 2 $ 253.00 || death? Hospital Benefits 1,681 40,537.29 ii| Death Benefits 23 57,438.76 | A: Social Security does pay Medicare Benefits 291 1,167.50 ||; benefits to a student—up to 22 Maternity Benefits 38 7,600.00 ^ —based on the earnings of his Medical Examination Program 424 12,962.00 ll deceased mother. Also, the Dependent Benefits (Average) $479.35 2,301 110,297.78| fact that you will receive assist­ Optical Benefits 552 7,946.01 1 ance undei^the GI Bill will not Meal Book Benefits 427 4,274.75 ^ affect your right to benefits on Out-Patients Benefits 4,738 37,452.00 1 your mother's record, provid­ Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid 10,477 279,929.09 ing, of course, she worked long Seafarers' Pension Plan—Benefits Paid 1,582 376,667.00 b enough under the program to permit you to qualify. Your Seafarers' Vacation Plan—Benefits Paid § nearby Social Security office (Average $564.43) 1338 760,562.71 | will be glad to check your Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation 1 mother's record and assist you Benefits Paid This Period 13,397 1,417,158.80 |in applying for payments if you qualify. Page 29 �Final Departures William F. Hammer William F. Hammer, 39, died June 12 aboard the steamer Fred 'A. M anske in ' Oregon, O. A na­ tive of Geneva, O., Mr. Hammer I was a resident of k M Painesville, O. He K "TI?" fl joined the SIU in W. \ falo in 1966 and sailed in the engine department. Burial was in Riverside Ceme­ tery in Painesville. George Kurt Liebers George Kurt Liebers, 67, passed away May 9 in USPHS Hospital in New Orleans. A native of Germany, Mr. Liebers was a res­ ident of New Or­ leans. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1948 and sailed in the steward department. Burial was in Memorial Gardens, Chalmette. La. Arturo Alderete Arturo Alderete, 60, died Feb. 8 while sailing aboard the Hur­ ricane. He joined the union in the Port of Wilming­ ton in 1957 and sailed in the en­ gine department as a fireman. Mr. , Alderete was a I resident of Mon­ terey Park, Calif, when he passed away. Among his survivors are his mother, Angela Couts of Monterey Park. Reamer C. Grimes Reamer C. Grimes, 70, passed away June 17 at Memorial Medi­ cal Center, Savan­ nah, Ga. A na­ tive of Georgia, Mr. Grimes was a resident of Savannah. He joined the SIU in the Port of Saivannah in 1939 and sailed in the deck depart­ ment as a boatswain. Among his survivors is a son, C. A. Grimes. Burial was in Greenwich Ceme­ tery in Savannah. John Schupstick John Schupstick, 64, died Jan­ uary 19 in New Orleans from heart disease. He joined the union in the Port of _ _ New Orleans in J 941 and sailed in the deck de­ partment. He was a crewmember of the Overseas Progress when he died. A native of Latvia, Mr. Schupstick was a resident of Covington, Tenn. He died after sailing the seas for 47 years. Among his survivors are his wife, Audrey. Burial was in Covington. James W. Barnes James William Barnes, 58, an SIU pensioner, passed away July 2 from natural causes in Pamli­ co County, N.C. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of Norfolk in 1945 and sailed • in the engine de­ partment as a fireman-oiler. His last ship was the Robin Sherwood. A native of North Carolina, Mr. Barnes was a resident of Vandemere, N.C. Burial was in Celestial Gardens Cemetery. John B. Trombino John B. Trombino, 60, died June 24 from heart disease in the USPHS Hos­ pital, New Or­ leans, La. A na­ tive of Italy, Mr. I Trombino was a ' resident of Metaire. La. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans in 1947 and sailed in the steward department. Mr. Trombino was an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors in­ clude his wife, Conchetta. Burial was in Lakelawn Park, New Orleans. Nellie A. Towns Nollie A. Towns, 52, died April 28, enroute to a hospital I in Belem, Brazil, after suffering a heart attack. A native of GeorI gia, he joined the iSIU in 1941, at the Port of Sa^fevannah, and i sailed in the deck department as a boatswain. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Julia M. Rojas, of Destin, Fla., and two children, Mary Catherine and James Ancele, both of Sarasota, Fla. L. C. Wilson L. C. Wilson, 35, passed away June 3 in Mobile, Ala. He joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile in 1952 and sailed in the deck de­ partment. A na­ tive of Alabama, Mr. Wilson was a resident of Mo­ bile. Among his David D. Poyner survivors are his wife, Eugenia. David D. Poyner, 19, died Burial was in Turnerville Ceme- . May 24 after an automobile tery in Mobile County, Ala. I accident in CurLowell T. McNabb 1 rituck County, Lowell T. McNabb, 58, died I N.C. He joined April 18 in Houston, Tex., from the SIU in the heart disease. A Port of New native of Indiana York in 1968 Mr. McNabb re­ and graduated sided in Houston. that same year He joined the SIU from the Harry in the Port of. Lundeberg School of Seaman­ Mobile in 1947 ship. Mr. Poyner later upgraded and sailed in the himself to fireman-oiler. A na­ [engine depart­ tive of Norfolk, Va., Mr. Poyner ment. Among his survivors are was a resident of. Barco, N.C. his mother, Mrs. Lulu M. Sin­ Among his survivors is his father, clair of Marion, Mich. Burial Urias D. Poyner of Barco, N.C. was . in Garden of Gethsemane Burial was in Snowden Cemetery, Maple, N.C. Cemetery in Houston. Page 30 Rene A. Rivera Rene A. Rivera, 30, died June 12 in Saigon, Vietnam, while a crew memberaboard the Seatrain Ohio. A na_ tive of Puerto Rico, Mr. Rivera was a resident of a San Francisco. IV •* He joined the un­ ion in the Port of San Francisco and sailed in the engine department as a wiper. Among his survivors is his father, Teodoro Rivera of San Francisco. Paul C. Settle Paul C. Settle, 18, of Phoenix, Ariz., died May 23 in an automo­ bile accident in Wythe Township, 111. A native of San Jose, Calif., Mr. Settle joined the SIU last year in the Port of Piney Point and graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Among his survi­ vors are his mother, Allyne Joyce Settle of Phoenix. Mr. Settle was buried in Greenwood Memorial Park in Phoenix. Richard L. Smith Richard Lewis Smith, 43, died April 13 in San Francisco. A native of Toledo, O., Mr. Smith was a resident of San Francisco. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of Baltimore in —1960, and grad^V:7 uated from the Andrew Furuseth Training School. Mr. Smith sailed in the deck de­ partment as an able seaman. He was a veteran of World War II. Among his survivors are his son, Richard L. Smith, Jr. of Toledo. Memorial services were held in Olivet Memorial Park in Colma, Calif. WOliam F. Harris William F. Harris, 63, died June 2, in St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston, Tex., from heart dis­ ease. He joined the SIU at the Port of New York in 1956, land sailed in the deck department. 1 Mr. Harris was a native of Alabama. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Gloria Sue, of Houston. Burial was in Green­ wood Cemetery, Teague, Tex. Qualified Lifeboafmen 6 tA TA 1 T iM 1 IS w J T PS % 4 «t lo 1' M If n it M A3 Kt as n* 6« 0! Ll ar SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Sept. 15—2:30 p.m. Mobile Sept. 16—2:30 p.m. Wilmington Sept. 21—2:30 p.m. San Fran Sept. 23—2:30 pm. Seattle .'...Sept. 25—2:30 p.m. New York ..Sept. 8—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Sept. 8—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ....Sept. 9—2:30 p.m. Detroit Sept. II—2:30 p.m. Houston Sept. 14—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New OrleansSept. 15—7:00 p.m. Mobile Sept. 16—7:00 p.m. New York ..Sept. 8—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Sept. 8—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ....Sept. 9—7:00 p.m. {Houston ....Sept. 14—7:00 p.m. Great Lbkes SIU Meetings Detroit Sept. 21—2:00 p.m. Buffalo Sept. 21—7:00 p.m. Alpena Sept. 21—7:00 p.m. Chicago Sept. 21—7:30 p.m. Duluth Sept. 21—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ....Sept. 21—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ......Sept. 15—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Sept. 17—7:30 p.m. Schedule of Membership Meetings Buffalo Sept. 16—7:30 p.m. . Duluth Sept. 18—7:30 p.m.^ Cleveland ....Sept. 18—7:30 p.m. Toledo Sept. 18—7:30 p.m, Detroit Sept. 14—7:30 p.m. , Milwaukee ..Sept. 14—7:30 p.m.SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New OrleansSept. 15—5:00 p.m? Mobile Sept. 16—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Sept. 8—5:00 p.m.' Baltimore (li­ censed and ** unlicensedjSept. 9—5:00 p.m.^ Norfolk Sept. 10—5:00 p.m.' Houston Sept. 14—5:00 p.m.. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Sept. 15—10 a.m. 8 p.m. Baltimore ....Sept. 16—10 a.m. &' 8 p.m. •Norfolk ....Sept. 17—10 a.m. 8 p.m. Jersey City ..Sept. 14—10 a.m. & , 8 p.m. {Meeting held at Galveston '• wharves. {Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem- *' pie, Newport News. *• if Directory of Union Hails SIU Atlantic/Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall DULUTH, Minn 2014 W. 3d St. (218) RA 2-4110 , FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 ' 416 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 6804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVU.LE, Fla. JERSEY CITY, N.J. ..99 MontgomeiT St. (201) HE 6-9424 MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrence St. • (206) HE 2-1764 NEW ORLEANS, La EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Al Tanner Lindsey Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS ....676 4th Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY 9-6600 ALPENA,- .Mich 800 N. Second Ave. (617) EL 4-3616 BALXI.MORE, Md. ..1216 £. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, .Mass 663 Atlantic Ave. (617) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.y 736 Washington St. SIU (716) TL 3-9269 IBU (716) TL 3-9269 CHICAGO, 111 9383 Ewing Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 6-9670 CLEVELAND, 0 1420 W. 26th St. (216) MA 1-6460 DETROIT, .Mich. 10226 W. JelTerBon Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 2608 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 NORFOLK, Va 630 Jaekaon Ave. (604) 629-7646 116 3d St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 2604 8. 4th St. (216) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tfex 634 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, CalU. 1631 Mission St. (416) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. .1313 Femandex Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash ST. LOUIS, Mo 2606 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 4677 Gravois Ave. (314) 762-6600 TAMPA, Fia. TOLEDO, 0 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 >1 936 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 •vt WIL.MINGTON, Calif 460 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7286 YOKOHA.MA, Japan Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kalgan-Dorl-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 Nine members of the New York lifeboat class of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship have received endorsements as qualified lifeboatmen from the Coast Guard. Seated from left are William Sawyer, James Borce, Mike Schwall, David BrinkerhafT and Kirk Frazier. Standing are SIU Instructor Lenny Decker, David Swiger, Charles McGinnis, Jose Chacon and Jerry Effinger. Seafarers Log �' Vice President Lindsey Williams answers questions following his remarks at the meeting. The trainees are keenly intersted in the informational ' meetings and take an active part hy asking questions. Paying close attention to reports presented at the Piney Point informational meeting are from left, Vice President Lindsey Williams, Representative Paul Drozak, Director of Training Bill Hall and Representative Frank Drozak. Piney Point Trainees Learn About Union Vice President Earl Shepard presents the headquarters report to the Piney Point informational meeting. Seated, from left, are HLSS President Robert Matthews, SIU Representative Joe Sacco, and Piney Point Port Agent Paul McGaham. All trainees at the Harry Lundenherg School of Sea­ manship attend the monthly informational meetings held at the Port of Piney Point. The meetings help to pre­ pare them for the time when they will take an ac­ tive part in regular mem­ bership meetings as full union members. |4 ii. • , >, rrirainees at the Harry Lundeberg School of SeamanJL ship heard reports from SIU officers from the East Coast, the Gulf district and the West Coast during a July informational meeting at the Port of Piney Point. It was the second such meeting at the Port. About 140 trainees attended the session which was chaired by Robert Matthews, HLSS president. Vice President Earl Shepard presented the full head^quarters report that he had given earlier in July at the regular membership meeting in the Port of New York. SIU Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr read the union's finan­ cial report, and a report on new ships, conversions and scrappings was presented by Headquarters Representa­ tive Joe Digiorgio. The Piney Point Port report was given by Port Agent Paul McGaharn. Other SIU officials who spoke to the trainees were Vice President Lindsey Williams of New Orleans, Repre­ sentatives Frank Drozak of San Francisco and Paul Drozak of Houston. The trainees responded to the reports with questions, and the union officers gave replies as part of the meet­ ing's purpose of educating the trainees in the purpose and activities of the union. / ' I: t' 1 i • ' ; Headquarters Representative Joe DiCiorgio reads his reports on new SIU ships, recent conversions and scrappings as Director of Training Bill Hall and Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr listen. Page 31 �SEAFARERSWLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, August 1970 1 LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO- $135,620,954.39 Pension^Welfare^Vacation Benefits Pass Milestone The SlU s welfare, pension and vacation programs reached another milestone June 30th when benefits paid members and their families reached a total of $135,620,954.39. I A substantial part of the total—$18,205,425.75— has been paid to retired Seafarers to help them enjoy the days ashore, content in the memory of ships, and ports of the past. The large sum of $41.5 million has been paid Sea­ farers in welfare benefits under the union's program which includes hospitalization, death, disability, ma­ ternity, dependent, optical and out-patient. A total of $4 million has gone to out-patient treatment and another $1.7 million has been spent for maternity benefits since the welfare plan was started in 1950. The vacation plan was organized in 1952 to help -L Seafarers and their fa.Tiilies enjoy the leisure time between cruises. Since that beginning, more than $75.5 million has been expended to make vacations enjoyable and worthwhile. As impressive as the $135 million figure is, it does not represent the total of benefits paid because the cost of scholarships, uprading and training facilities is not included. Totaled up, these figures are evi­ dence of what it means to be an SlU member, and demonstrate the way the union works for you. •4 4 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource August 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: STRONG UNIONISM OF BENEFIT TO SEAFARERS, ADMIRAL SAYS SIU INDICTMENT HIT BY AFL-CIO UNION PENSION STUDY PANEL COMPLETES WORK MIGRANT FARM WORKERS ARE AMONG FORGOTTEN AMERICANS HHH SEES THREAT IN REDS’ SEAPOWER DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL VOTE UNDER DEBATE IN CONGRESS SAFETY BIG ISSUE ON RAILS, IN SKIES STEP ABOARD A SHIP OF MEMORIES – THE PROUD, TRIPLE-MASTED EAGLE TEXT OF SIU CONSTITUTION – EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1970 MORTARS AND PLANES: THE TRANSERIE FANWOOD MAY JOIN VIETNAM RUN THE BIG SQUEEZE – LAND VS PEOPLE DISABILITY PAYMENTS HELP EASE WAY BACK TO WORK $135,620,954.39 – PENSION, WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PASS MILESTONE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 8 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/a7fe5fce9fb386722f394e7865560c36.PDF caeb569709bfb9c3f71db38e717cd7ce PDF Text Text SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERKATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO SlU Negotiators Win New Contract: Wages, Benefits Up $100 a Month .. ! See Page 2 '20-at-5 5' Pension Gained See Page 15 n i i > : I 4- ^ f Meany Raps 'Hatchet Job' Sill Crews To Confer at Indictment Piney Point —See Page 8 —See Page 32 I •t' Fred Harvey at Wheel of Wavertree . . . Page 31 i i • A7 Two Refitted SlU Ships Off on Voyage .. . Page 9 Manhattan Rejoins SlU Fleet. . . Page 7 Annual GreGt Lakes Tug and Dredge Pension Report—see Page 19 aS �J Wage, Fringe Benefit Package in New SlU Contract Valued at $100 a Month Wage increases giving SIU Seafarers the highest base wage scale on the East and Gulf coasts coupled with a new earlier retirement pension pro­ gram has been negotiated be­ tween the SIU's AGLIW Dis­ trict and its contracted compa­ nies. The new pension provi­ sion allows for retirement on full pension at age 55 with 20 years of seatime. The wage and pension com­ bination, together with an in­ creased contribution to the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan bring the total value of the package to more than $100 a month. The agreement was presented and ratified at all SIU-AGLIW port membership meetings this month. Of the new benefits, the early GE Contract In Puerto Rico General Electric has been forced to negotiate a contract for the first time with workers at one of their 12 plants in Puerto Rico. Success came after 1,100 members of the International Association of Machinists em­ ployed at the plant struck for nine months. The workers were aided by the AFL-CIO GE strike Fund. retirement program required the greatest contribution. Man­ agement will add $2.08 per day for each man at sea to the SIU pension fund—or more than $60 a month—to provide adequate funds to pay for new pension provision. The "20-at55" program becomes effective January 1, 1971. All current SIU pension benefits, including retirement at 65 with 15 years of seatime and retirement on disability with 12 years of sea­ time at any age remain in effect. (A special supplement in this issue of the Seafarers Log pro­ vides details of the new pension benefit, its cost and effect on the current SIU-AGLIW Dis­ trict pension plan, and a com­ parison between the SIU pro­ gram and that of the National Maritime Union.) The increases in base wages will average more than $30 a month, and will take all rated Seafarers above the $500 pay mark. Highlights of the new wage scales agreement include; • Rated men will receive base wage increases ranging from $30.22 to $46.20. • All rated men will receive a minimum base wage of $500.55. • Among those whose base pay will go over the $500 mark are firemen, watortenders, firemen/watertenders and oilers in the engine department; ablebodied seamen and quarter­ masters in the deck department, and second cook in the steward department. Raises Specified Wipers received a pay boost of 28.21, bringing their scale to $465.03 from the previous rate of $436.82. Other raises in the engine department ranged as high as $45.63 for the chief electrician, bringing his monthly rate to $772.83. In the deck departments, the bosun rate is increased by $41.08 to $657.09. The ordi­ nary seaman's pay is raised to $391.21, a gain of $24.03, while the ordinary seaman/ maintenance receives a pay in­ crease of $24.04 to a new rate of $422.01. In the steward department, dtilitymen and messmen have their rates raised $23.87 to $388.45. The third cook's wage rating increases $29.89 to near the $500 level at $494.69. The chief cook's new rate of $584.17, up $34.95 from the previous rate of $549.22. The new pay rate for cook and baker is $570.42, an increase of $35.12 over the former rate. In addition, the new con­ tract: ^ Adds 15 cents a tlay for each man at sea to the Seafarers Welfare Plan to en­ able the plan to meet the rising costs of medical and hospital care of SIU men and their de­ pendents. « ^ Establishes for the first time in the industry an hour of overtime pay each Sun­ day to members of the Perma­ nent Ship's Committee and the Departmental Delegates for at­ tending shipboard meetings. The contract specifies that the Permanent Ship's Commit­ tee will be made up of the bosun, the chief steward and the chief electrician or pump­ man in the engine department. The contract stipulates that the bosun will be the ship's chairman. The chief steward will be the reporter-secretary, while the chief electrician, or pumpman, will serve as educa­ tional director. One man in each department will be elected by the crew members in that department to serve as delegate. The weekly meetings will be held to make certain that all problems affecting the un­ licensed crew are resolved as soon as possible. They will also be utilized to distribute all pub(Continued on Page 4) SEAFABBBS^1.00 Sept. 1970 • Vol. XXXIII. No. 9 Offlcial Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America. Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO f Executive Board Paul Hall. President Earl Shepard Cal Tanner Exec. Vice-Prea. Vice-President A1 Kerr Sec.-Treaa. Lindsey Williams Vice-President A1 Tanner Vice-President Robert Matthews Vice-President Published monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E.. Washington. D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union. Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFLCIO. 675 Fourth Avenue. Brook­ lyn. N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington. D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union. Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters Di.strict. AFL-CIO. 675 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. THE PRE^illENT^ AiNiT by PAUl HAll efore the days of the Seafarers' hiring hall—and many an old timer can remember those days the law of the jungle prevailed when it came to getting a ship. The strong, the healthy got the jobs. As age and the harsh world of the sea took its toll of a man, he became less in demand. He hovered on the fringes of the lineups, buoyed only by hope. By the time a seaman reached 40, there was no where to go but down. Down in despair to the gutter and, often, to an early escape from an unrewarding life. As union hiring halls provided seniority protection and job security, a man dedicated to the sea could plan a lifetime seafaring career. But even with the hiring halls, there was no protec­ tion for the man who reached the end of the line physically—either through age or a disabling accident or disease. To secure dignity for those seamen whose worklife had ended through no fault of their own, unions negotiated pension plans. This month every Seafarer can take pride in the new retirement program that he, through his union, has made possible—a plan that allows retirement with full benefits at age 55 with 20 years of seatime. Earlier retirement on full pension has been a uni­ versal goal since the first small pensions were nego­ tiated in the 1950s. Our accomplishment of this goal has come in steps, each taken with caution in the knowledge that we could-' not play with the security of people—some who are old, many who are ill—down the road. Many times it would have been far more con­ venient to follow the position of those who beefed for early retirement on the grounds that "the other guy has it." But the SIU has consistently felt that it was better to take the pressures than to jeopardize the future security of the pension plan. Because when a Seafarer B Page 2 reaches the end of his trail, he is dependent on his pension. To put that pension in jeopardy by not quaranteeing the future financial soundness of the plan would have been irresponsible. Too many pension plans have folded because they were not planned with caution. Caution was sacrificed in some unions in the name of political expediency. Those who have been hurt the most are those moSt in need—the elderly and the disabled who depend on the security of their pensions, as well as the men who have worked many years in anticipation of retirement with dignity. SIU could have provided earlier retirement years Theago—but only at the price of losing those existing benefits. For example, an earlier retirement might have been safely provided before now if the union had sacrificed its program of full medical benefits for pensioners and the same medical benefits for his dependents that they had before he retired. The medical benefit alone is often more costly -over the lifetime of the pensioner than is his pension itself. The average person will spend more money for medical care from his 55th birthday on than he spent during the first 55 years of his life. The NMU recognized this. And that is why they limit medical benefits to a retiree and his dependent to a total of $750 for life—an amount that can be wiped out in a single illness. From that time on, the NMU pensioner may well use his total retirement check just to pay the cost of doctors, hospitals and drugs. The SIU man is assured that his pension check will be his forever, regardless of his medical needs. And while an NMU pensioner's death benefit is reduced each time a pension check arrives until it drops to a $1,500 minimum, the SIU pensioner knows that his dependents will receive $4,000 at the time of I his death, no matter how many pension checks he has received. We felt that these things—medical care and health benefits, as well as a decent disability pension pro­ gram—were of primary importance. We believed that they gave greater security to the retired Seafarer. And so we put them first. Then we could plan for ^ ir improvements in the pension itself. Now we have the early "20-at-55" retirement plan. The membership of the SIU's AGLIW District Ml owes a sincere debt of gratitude to the members of . i our first SIU Pension Study Committee which recom­ mended the "20-at-55" program after a thorough study of the financial condition of the pension plan. The committee members—Jim Golder of New York, Phil Reyes of Houston, Terrence McNee of Baltimore, A. W. Saxon of Mobile, Frank Pasaluk of Philadelphia and Irwin I. Seerman of New Orleans— are veterans of the sea, and long-time members of the SIU. Between them they have served nearly 75 years at sea, and their seniority in the SIU ranges from 18 to 27 years. These men made their recommendations in the SIU tradition of caution—a caution borne of the belief that whatever is promised must be delivered. They determined that their union would have * ) a sound pension plan that every Seafarer could de­ 4 pend upon without the worry that the pension checks would be reduced or cancelled for lack of funds. To assure that the new benefit woujd be secuie, fj the union negotiated increased contributions from the operators. Any improvement in any pension plan must be backed with the necessary funds to make it secure. Tl '^his is not the end. It's just one more step in the A- union's continuing effort to strengthen the future security of all Seafarers and their families. We can now turn our attention to the possibility of additional improvements in the years ahead. Seafarers Log h �Complete Text of SIU^s AGLIW Agreement Note: Following is the memorandum of understanding reached be­ tween SIU's AGLIW District and its contracted companies. The agreement was presented to, discussed and ratified by the mem­ bership at the SIU September meetings. In addition, the agree­ ment is being submitted to and acted upon at crew meetings on all SIU ships as they come into port. The memorandum will be incorporated in the New Standard Freightship Agreement which will be printed in full in the October issue of the Seafarers Log. The SIU's AGLIW Tanker Agreement includes the same new benefits and retains the traditional higher wage differential. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING between SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO and CONTRACTED COMPANIES WHEREAS, the collective bargaining agreement between the Union and various companies as ex­ tended expires on September 15, 1970, and WHEREAS, the Union and the Companies have been negotiating terms of a new contract, NOW, THEREFORE, it is understood and agreed, as follows: FREIGHTSHIP AGREEMENT 1. Article II, Section 21 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 21. Overtime Rate, (a) The overtime rate of pay for members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $470.01 or below shall be $2.73 per hour. (b) The overtime rate of pay for all members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $470.02 or above, but not in excess of $570.01, shall be $3.44 per hour. (c) The overtime rate of pay for all members of the Unlicensed Personnel receiving a basic monthly wage of $570.02 or above shall be $4.48 per hour, 2. Article III, Section 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 1. Wages. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Deck Department, when the respective ratings are carried, shall be as follows: Rating Boatswain •Carpenter A.B. Maintenance Quartermaster Able Seaman Ordinary Seaman O.S. Maintenance • Boatswain •Carpenter Monthly Rate $657.09 604.64 558.05 500.55 500.55 391.21 .". 422.01 Mariner Type Vessel ; $725.30 620.73 •When the Carpenter is required in writing by the Company to furnish his own tools, he shall be paid $20.00 per month in addition to his base wage. 3. Article IV, Section 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 1. Wages. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Engine Department, when the respective ratings are carried, shall be as follows: Rating Monthly Rate Chief Electrician $772.83 Second Electrician 722.52 Unlicensed Junior Engineer (Day) 632.28 Unlicensed Junior Engineer (Watch) 571.43 Plumber/Machinist 662.60 Deck Engineer 613.19 Engine Utility 577.59 Evaporator Maintenance 527.99 Oiler 500.55 Oiler-Diesel 538.56 Watertender 500.55 Fireman/Watertender 500.55 Fireman 500.55 Wiper 465.03 September 1970 Refrigerating Engineer (When 1 is carried) Refrigerating Engineer (When 3 are carried) Chief First Assistant Second Assistant Ship's Welder/Maintenance Oiler/Maintenance Utility 722.52 743.19 651.87 602.73 624.60 569.43 Mariner Type Vessel Chief Electrician 799.57 4. Article V, Section 1 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 1. Wages. The monthly rate of pay for the Unlicensed Personnel in the Steward Department, whea the respective ratings are carried, shall be as follows: Rating Chief Steward Steward/Cook Chief Cook Cook and Baker Second Cook •Third Cook Messman Utilityman Monthly Rate $657.09 671.19 584.17 570.42 500.55 : 494.69 388.45 388.45 Mariner Type Vessel Chief Steward 724.30 •When passengers are carried, the Third Cook will be re-rated as Second Cook and will be paid wages in accordance with the agreement. 5. The overtime rates set forth in Item 1 herein shall be paid for all work performed on Saturdays, Sun­ days, Holidays and for any work in excess of eight (8) hours in any one day; for work performed in port between the hours of 5:00 P.M. and 8:00 A.M. Mon­ day through Friday, and for penalty work performed on watch and other penalty time payments provided for in the agreement. 6. Article II, Section 2 shall be changed to read as follows: Section 2. Delegates, (a) One man in each de­ partment shall be elected by the Unlicensed Seamen in that department to act as Departmental Delegate. Such Delegates shall, together with the Permanent Ship's Committee members, keep track -of all con­ ditions and problems and grievances in their respec­ tive departments, and present to their superior offi­ cers, on behalf of the Unlicensed Seamen in their Departments, all facts, opinions and circumstances concerning any matter which may require adjustment or improvement. (b) Permanent Ship's Committee: The Permanent Ship's Committee shall consist of three members: the Boatswain, the Chief Steward and the Chief (Elec­ trician) (Pumpman). The Boatswain shall be Ship's Chairman. The Chief Steward shall be ReporterSecretary, and the Chief (Electrician) or (Pumpman) shall be Educational Director. In the event there is no (Electrician) on board, the Deck Engineer shall serve as Educational Director. If there is no Deck Engineer on board, the Engine Utility shall serve as Educational Director. If neither of the above ratings are on board, the Ship's Chairman and the ReporterSecretary shall designate a qualified member of the Engine Department to serve as Educational Director for the voyage. The duties of the Permanent Ship's Committee shall be to assist the Departmental Dele­ gates in their duties, to convene and conduct the Weekly Unlicensed Crew Meetings, and to perform the following individual duties: The Ship's Chairman shall preside at all Shipboard Meetings of the Unlicensed Crew and shall be the primary spokesman aboard ship for the Unlicensed Crew. The Reporter-Secretary shall handle all paper work involved in documenting matters brought to the attention of the superior officers, and he shall also prepare and maintain Minutes of the Unlicensed Crew Meetings. The Educational Director shall be responsible for maintaining and distributing all publications, films and mechanical equipment relating to education on such subjects as safety, training and upgrading, health and sanitation. (c) Weekly Meetings: To make sure that all problems concerning the Unlicensed Crew are brought to light and resolved as quickly as possible,, there shall be a Meeting of the Unlicensed Crew every Sunday while the vessel is at sea. At such meetings the Permanent Ship's Chairman shall report to the Unlicensed Crewmembers all matters referred to them and shall receive any new and additional problems not previously raised. As compensation for the addi­ tional duties required by this Section, the members of the Permanent Ship's Committee and the Depart­ mental Delegates shall each receive one hour's over­ time pay at their regular rates for each weekly meet­ ing held. 7. Pension, Welfare and Hiring Hall Effective January 1, 1971 the parties hereto agree to increase the amount presently paid to the Seafar­ ers Welfare Plan by $2.23 per man per day, and to the Seafarers Hiring Hall Trust Fund by .15c (fifteen cents) per man per day. The parties further agree to instruct the Seafarers Welfare Plan Trustees appointed by them that of such additional amount paid to the Seafarers Welfare Plan $2.08 will automatically be allocated to the Seafarers Pension Fund. 8. Vessels Sales and Transfers Prior to any vessel contracted to the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, being disposed of in any fashion, including but not limited to sale, scrap, transfer, charter, etc., ninety (90) days notification in writing must be sent to Union head­ quarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232. 9. The provisions of this Agreement relating to wages, contributions, and all other money payments are subject to renegotiation by the parties at any time during the term hereof upon seven (7) days written notice by the Union to the Companies that it desires such renegotiation. 10. Subsidiary Provisions It is agreed that any agreements that are presently in effect covering War Risk Insurance and Area Bo­ nuses be continued as is with no change. In addition, any and all addendums and/or supplementary agree­ ments, the contents of which have not been incor­ porated into the collective bargaining contract shall be continued in effect. Except for the changes pro­ vided for in this Memorandum of Understanding, all other terms and conditions of the collective bargain­ ing contracts now in effect shall remain in effect. The changes provided in this Memorandum of Under­ standing shall be incorporated into and made a part of the full collective bargaining agreement. 11. Effective Dates Changes provided for herein in Item 1. OVER­ TIME RATE; Items 2, 3 and 4. WAGES; Item 5. OVERTIME PROVISIONS; and Item 6. DELE­ GATES; shall become effective at 12:01 A.M. on October 1, 1970. 12. Effective Date, Item 7; PENSION WELFARE AND HIRING HALL shall become effective at 12:01 A.M., January 1, 1971. 13. Effective Date, Item 8: VESSELS SALES AND TRANSFERS, August 4, 1970, as previously agreed to in Memorandum of Understanding dated August 4, 1970. 13. Termination Date: The Collective Bargaining Agreement shall expire on June 15, 1972. 15. Continuation of Other Provisions: Except as modified above, the provisions of the collective bar­ gaining agreement between the Union and the various companies' parties hereto, as extended to Sept. 15, 1970, shall continue in effect to June 15, 1972. �Ml New Pact Hikes Wages & Benefits (Continued from Page 2) lications, films and mechanical equipment relating to education and information on the subjects affecting shipboard life and work, including safety, training and upgrading, health and sani­ tation. This feature was agreed to by management in acknowledg­ ing that the'effective of>eration of vessel coincides with an effective union crew. An additional 15 cents a day was provided for the increased i cost of operating the hiring halls. The full text of the memo­ randum of understanding that will be incorporated in the SIUAGLIW District contract ap­ pears on page 3. The SIU's AGLIW Tanker Agreement includes the same new benefits and retains the traditional higher wage differ­ ential. The complete list of ratings, the old pay scale, the new rate and the amount of the raise negotiated follows: ENGINE DEPARTMENT On Tight Schedule The tight schedule of the SlU-contracted Fort Hoskins (Cities Service) meant a fast tum-around when the tanker docked in New Jersey re­ cently. Working to take on stores are, from left: James Cheshire, Devaughn Harrison, Ben Graham, Jack Higgins and John Panders. News About Economy Shifts Full 180 Degrees Washington Seizing upon the first piece of "good" economic news in months, the press greeted with great relish statistics reporting the first decline in wholesale prices in two years. For the Nixon Administra­ tion, the price decline was the first concrete evidence that its much-heralded policy to halt inflation was having results. Combined with what govern­ ment economists call a "moder­ ating trend" in consumer prices, the 0.5 percent drop in whole­ sale prices seemed like good news. One day later, with little fanfare and little public notFce, another government statistic was released. This statistic in­ dicated the cost of the govern­ ment's war on inflation—seven more cities, including Detroit, were added to the list of those with "substantial" unemploy­ ment. In the Trenches The front-line fighter in the battle against inflation contin­ ues to be the American workei. The current jobless figure of 5 Gear Held By Alcoa Gear including suitcases, laundry bags and sea bags, are being held fm- the follow­ ing Seafarers by the Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., 17 Battery PI., New York, N.Y. 10004, telephone (212) 344-3400. Ilie gear will not be hdd beyond Sept 30, at which time it will be given to the SalvaticMt Army. The men asked to contact the company are: Antonio L. Colin James R. Curran Lee Smith, Jr. Matt M. Sizelove percent of the work force is the highest unemployment rate in five years. , Beside Detroit, newcomers to the list of those with more than 6 percent unemployment were New Orleans, La.; San Jose, Calif.; Bridgeport, (Tonn.; Battle Creek, Mich.; Corpus Christi, Tex., and Spokane, Wash. Meanwhile, a problem being faced by farmers may destroy all hope of combatting infla­ tion and recovering lost jobs this year. A new form of blight is ravaging com crops across the country. A disastrous corn harvest can increase prices of many consumer goods, including eggs, poultry and other meats, be­ cause corn is used to feed live­ stock. Pressure on Jobs Administration policies aimed at halting inflation put pressure on jobs by curbing the economy. The success with which the Administration has put the damper on jobs can be seen in one forecast which pre­ dicts that unemployment will continue to increase through 1970 and into 1971 despite a hoped for economic expansion. Wage and salary earners are bearing the burden of the ad­ ministration policies. For example, the buying power of workers has declined in the past year. Wage increases have not kept pace with price increases. In fact, price in­ creases have virtually wiped out all pay hikes in the past five years. Premature Furthermore, many econo­ mists outside the Administra­ tion feel the Nixon advisors are being premature in hailing the wholesale price drop. The pre­ liminary wholesale price report is based only on an "initial" sampling of prices. The detailed Wholesale Price Index for any month is based on a more com­ plete survey of prices and it generally tends to be revised up­ ward from the preliminary re­ port. The drop in wholesale prices can be attributed largely to a "seasonal" drop in wholesale farm prices. This relief in farm prices could be reversed if the corn blight proves widespread enough to diminish the crop and boost meat prices. Other economists argue that the Administration's policies "have produced an economic recession and extortive interest rates while inflation is still not under- control." They also say that the price pattern has now been set so that if and when the economy begins to move upward "profits will shoot through the roof, as they did from 1961 to 1969." MSTS Changes Name to MSG The name of the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) was changed to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Aug. 1. Rear Admiral Arthur R. Gralla, MSC commander ex­ plained: "Sealift has a more force­ ful connotation than trans­ port. It means planning; it means being prepared to operate in a wartime or con­ tingency environment which 'sea transportation' just did not connote." The forerunner of MSC was founded in 1949 and handles either through mer­ chant marine charter or govemment-owned ships, all notary shipping for the United States. Rating Chief Electrician Second Electrician Unlicensed Jr. Engi­ neer (Day) Unlicensed Jr. Engi­ neer (Watch) Plumber/Machinist Deck Engineer Engine Utility Evaporator Mainte­ nance Oiler Oiler-Diesel Watertender Fh-eman/Watertender Fireman Wiper Old Rate $727.20 $679.74 $772,83 $722.52 Raise $45.63 $42.78 $594.60 $632.28 $37.68 $535.31 $622.93 $576.59 $541.88 $571.43 $662.60 $613.19 $577.59 $36.12 $39.67 $36.60 $35.61' $497.99 $470.33 $506.19 $470.3? $470.33 $470.33 $436.82 $527 99 $500.55 $538.56 $500.55 $500.55 $500.55 $465.03 $30.00 $30.22 $32.37 $30.22 $30.22 $30.22 $28.21 Old Rate New Rate ' MARINER TYPE VESSEL $753:37 $799.57; DECK DEPARTMENT Old New * Rating Rate , .Rate--' Boatswain , $618.01 $657.09 " C^enter $566.53 $604.64 A. B. Maintenance $525.33 $558.05 Quartermaster $470.33 $500.55 Able Seaman $470.33 $500.55 Ordinary Seaman $367.18 $391.21 0. S, Maintenance $397.97 $422.01 MARINER TYPE VESSEL • Boatswain $682.97 $725.30 , $46.20 Raise $41.08 $38.11 $32.72 $30.22 $30.22 $24.03 $24.04 $42.33 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Rating Chief Steward Steward/Cook Chief Cook Cook and Baker Second Cook Third Cook Messman Utilityman MARINER TYPE VESSEL iChief Steward ^ Old Rate $618.01 $631.19' $549.22 $535.30 $470.33 $464,80 $364.58 $364.58 New Rate $657.09 $671.19 $584.17 $570.42 $500.55 $494.69 $388.45 $388.45 -I * .» • New Rate Rating Raise Refrigerating Engi­ neer (when (1) is" carried) $679.74;,];J,:;$722.52^-^^^"^ Refrigerating Engi­ neer (when (3) are carried Chief $713.19 $743.19 $30.00 First Assistant $621.87 $651.87 $30.00 Second Assistant $527.73 $602.73 $30.00 Ship's Welder/ Maintenance $594.60 $624.60, $30.00 Oiler/Main tenanCe Utility $535.25 $569.43 $34.18 Chief Electrician •I Raise $39.08 $40.00 $34.95 $35.12 $30.22 $29.89 $23.87 $23.87 •) « • .11 ; v! -."J •tl �Tanker Overseas Alaska Launched in Baltimore Checking Federal Projects Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), right, a strong supporter of the U.S. merchant marine, recently asked Fred J. Farnen, secretary-treasurer of the Great Lakes District of the SIU, to accompany him on an in­ spection of federal projects in the Detroit and Rouge River area. Heading the tour was Col. Myron Snoke, left, district engineer of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps is responsible for Great Lakes harbors. Rep. Dingell pointed out the tour's purpose was to acquaint officials with the various federal flood control and dredging projects. $2.00 Minimum Wage May Help KO Poverty Washington In 1968, 39 percent of the poor families with children in the United States were headed by full-time workers. The pay . these workers receive is so low . that they are forced to go on the ^ welfare rolls in order to survive. AFL-CIO President George Meany has called for five basic • changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act to combat this ' tragedy: • Extension of coverage to 17 million workers not included in the act's provisions. • Increase of the minimum wage from the present $1.60 per hour to $2—"at the very least." • Double time pay for over­ time. • An additional premium pay for overtime in excess of 8 hours per day. • A shorter work week or a shorter work year. Meany said that there was never any real justification for excluding the 17 million work­ ers from the act, but "there is real justification for their in­ clusion." ' Wilmington, Calif. Most of the 17 million are Gerald Brown, SIU port employed in state and local . agent in Wilmington for nearly governments, or as domestics four years, was appointed last and-retail trade workers. • month to the executive board of "It is time for all farm work­ the AFL-CIO's Committee on ers to come under the full pro­ • Political Education (COPE). tection" of the act, Meany de­ His appointment was ap­ clared. Referring to the present proved by the Los Angeles , County Federation of Labor on $1.60 minimum wage, he noted the recommendaticm of its ex- that it was barely above the V excutive secretary, Sigmund poverty level when it was adopt­ ed in 1966, and it has caused Arywitz. He stated that Brown's ap­ the earning power of millions pointment to the board "is a of American workers to slip ^ mark of recognition for your backwards during recent infla­ past and present activities on tion. Meany called the $2 per hour » the labor political front." Over the past few years, minimum wage a base that Brother Brown has served on would rebuild the purchasing several other committees in the power of some of the affected ' Los Angeles County Federation workers, eliminate welfare costs and help eradicate poverty of Labor. * Brown noted that COPE is among lower paid workers. Double pay and minimum ^ working vigorously to elect the candidates it has endorsed in pay are necessary, Meany main­ the upcoming November elec­ tained, to force employers to tion which he described as "one hire new workers by making . of the most important cam­ reliance on overtime so expen­ paigns and elections" in regard sive that it would be cheaper to create new jobs. to labor. Gerald Brown Is Named to COPE Board > September 1970 Baltimore, Md. The Overseas Alaska, a 62,000 deadweight-ton tanker, launched last month at Bethle­ hem Steel Corporation's Spar­ rows Point shipyard here, is another of the SIU's contracted vessels. Providing more jobs for the union's members, the ship will carry oil from Alaska to ports on both coasts of the continental U.S. It is one of the largest vessels capable of navigating the Pana­ ma Canal economically while fully loaded, according to her contractor, Intercontinen­ tal Bulktank Corporation. Of interest to SIU members will be the single, fully air-con­ ditioned rooms "of the most modern design, with permanent prefinished plastic-coated bulk­ heads." The entire ship is protected from the effects of time and weather by an epoxy coating system that covers the cargo tanks and the exterior hull from keel to rail. The ship has an extended cruising range of about 15,700 miles and her dry and refriger­ ated storerooms are large enough to hold a six-months supply of stores. 731 Feet Long The Overseas Alaska has an overall length of 731 feet. Her molded breadth is 105 feet. The draft is 43 feet, 3 inches. Its 15 tanks have a capacity of approximately 524,000 bar­ rels and her cargo handling pumps are capable of discharg­ ing a full liquid cargo in about 15 hours. The vessel's cruising speed is expected to be 15'/2 knots. Her 20,000 shaft horsepower turbine drives a single screw and her design includes a curved rake stem, a modern cruiser stern and a spade rudder. Latest Design The company says the ship was built under the latest rules of the American Bureau of Shipping and was inspected and been chartered from the time classified by the Bureau. of delivery, later this year, and, According to the company, beginning in the spring of 1972, the Overseas Alaska "incorpor­ she will operate under longates the latest advances in vessel term charter to a major oil automation." There is a cen­ company." tralized control system which The vessel is the first of two allows operation of the engine ships of 62,000 deadweight-ton from the bridge. class presently under contract The system is based upon the at the Sparrows Point yard. remote operation of the main In addition to this ship, the propulsion plant for all ahead, Sparrows Point shipyard now astern, and maneuvering condi­ has on order three 120,000 tions, including standby." deadweight-ton tankers, six 69,The ship will be fitted out on 800 deadweight-t o n tankers, the water now and will be ready . three container ships, one chem­ for service in a few months. ical carrier, one special prod­ Ran Hettena, president of In­ ucts carrier, one Navy ammu­ ternational Bulktank, said the nition ship, and three foreOverseas Alaska "has already bodies. Union Picketing Rights Restricted by NLRB Organized labor's strike tac­ tics have been limited by two recent decisions of the National Labor Relations Board. In one case, the board ruled that picketing during a strike at one division of a larger corporation may not be extend­ ed to the corporation's other divisions. In the decision the board said that each division of a corporate empire must be treated as a separate entity. Pickets appearing at a second division of the corporate giant would violate the secondary boycott provisions of the Na­ tional Labor Relations Act, the board ruled. In another case the board said that union members may not be fined for crossing picket lines if they have resigned from the union beforehand. The board said, however, that it had no power to determine what fines could be meeted out for members in good standing who cross picket lines. The board said the reason­ ableness of fines assessed in such cases is a matter for de­ termination in court. Voting in the majority on one of the cases was Edward B. Miller, recently appointed NLRB chairman by President Nixon. Freeze Dried Price Hikes The official publication of the International Association of Machinists, The Machinist, has proved a point on the rising cost of living. Six months ago the publica­ tion carried a picture of a wit­ ness before the Senate Con­ sumer Subcommittee holding a one-eighth ounce jar of freezedried chives selling for 69 cents, or $88.32 a pound. Now The Machinist has published a picture of a staffer holding the same jar of chives and a sign, showing the cost has risen to 87 cents or $111.36 a pound. Shown on the ways at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point Shipyard is the 62,000 desdweightton tanker Overseas Alaska. She will be used in the AJaska run. Pawo- �Court Ends Death Suit Restrictions Overseas Alice Crevf Is Lauded For Pilot Rescue The general alarm sounded aboard the Overseas Alice at 3:15 a.m. on Feb. 23, 1969, plunging the crew into a dangerous and heroic rescue adventure. A pilot, ferrying a plane from Hawaii to Southern California, had developed fuel pump trouble and was forced to ditch in the storm-tossed Pacific. It was hostile territory for pilot Warren Bul­ lock and his DeHavilland Dove. But despite lashing rain, wind gusts to 40 mph and towering waves, the sea was familiar territory to the crew of the Overseas Alice. As they -rowed toward the downed plane in a lifeboat, crew members saw Bullock step out on the wing and attempt to inflate a life raft. It was carried away by the strong wind, and Bullock was swept into the water. Grabbed Life Jacket Bullock was blinded by the spray and gagging on salt water as he thrashed about in the waves. Then his hand struck a life jacket tossed by the lifeboat crew, and he was able to stay afloat until they hauled him aboard. The heroic crew of the starboard lifeboat of the SlU-contracted Overseas Alice (more Seafarers volunteered for the rescue mission than needed), received a Citation of Merit on Aug. 17 for their deeds. The citation said the crew had displayed "excellent seaman­ ship and courage." It was awarded by the American Institute of Merchant Shipping and the Marine Section of the National Safety Council. This was the second time that Capt. James O. Osnes and his crew have been congratulated for the rescue. In May 1969, Rear Admiral Charles Tighe, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Eleventh District, praised the men for their alertness and readiness to perform the rescue mission. On the day the most recent award was presented, Paul Hall, president of the SIU, telegraphed his congratulations to the crew. (See copy of his message elsewhere on this page.) Endangered Themselves Summing up the adventure, Capt. Osnes said: "In my opinion, this SIU crew knew that they were endangering their own safety by manning the lifeboat. From the time the alarm sounded until the boat was in the water, only five minutes had elapsed. "I had been sailing for 25 years and this was the fastest time on getting a lifeboat over the side I have ever witnessed. The efficiency of the entire operation was a show in skilled seaman­ ship," Capt. Osnes said. Bullock, who suffered minor injuries in the ditching, said he thought the sea was an unfriendly place for those who don't know it as well as Seafarers do. He said he would stick to flying over land from now on. Congratulations Ship's Cbalrman and Crew, Super-Tanker Overseas Alice: On behalf of the Seafarers International Union, officers and members, our sincere congratulations on the citation awarded to you crewmembers of the supertanker Overseas Alice for your outstanding demonstration of expert seaman­ ship in rescuing a downed airman at sea on February 23, 1969. We take deep pride in your accomplishment. The performance of the crew in tlie rescue proves the quality of seamanship possessed by Seafarers. The names of each of you will he recorded in the history of achievements of Seafarm who so ably carry on in the finest tradition of the seafaring profession. Warmest personal regards to all. Paul Hall, President Seafarers International Union Of North America Women's Lib Strikes Again Burlington, Iowa In true keeping with the pop­ ular women's liberation move­ ment a former secretary in the office of Laborers Local 525 has joined the construction gang. Charlotte Bixenman, 29, has Page 6 become what officials here claim is a first: a female cardcarrying member of a construc­ tion and general laborers local union. She feels as though "I could probably work on heavy highway construction if I had to." Captain (VslaM Paftonis (third frum right), present Ma.ster of the Overseas Alice, accepts the Citation of Merit for the vessel's captain and crew who rescued a downed pilot in February 1969. I're.senting., the award in Martinez, Calif., was Philip Steinberg, (.second from right) assistant vice president. Pacific Region of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping. Others are, from left: Pat Marinelli, SIU patrolman; Mike Ghanncsian, able seaman; Michel Papalios, chief mate; Kenny Coates, boatswain, and (far right) Ernest Sutherland, chief engineer. Smithsonian Seeking Sea History Exhibits Washington Signs, posters, calling cards, handiwork, schedules, any para­ phernalia connected with a sea­ man's life and the merchant marine is being sought by the Smithsonian Institution in Wash­ ington, D.C., in a drive to as­ semble a more complete exhibit and archive of the merchant marine. According to Dr. M e 1 v i n Jackscm, director of the Smith­ sonian's division of transporta­ tion, "the museum wants to tell the story of the merchant ma­ rine and detail how it organized and raised itself to industrial scale." More importantly, "the mu­ seum wants to compile an ar­ chive of the mariner's life from memorabilia he has collected over the years," Dr. Jackson added. "No matter how insignificant it may seem to the individual, some small item picked up years ago may provide a clearer pic­ ture of what a sailor's life at sea is like. History is docu­ mented by seemingly meaning­ less things," Dr. Jackson said. The Smithsonian is interested in any and all paraphernalia that deals with the history of the merchant marine and the struggle for unionization. In particular, the museum is looking for old strike posters and placards, handbills and fly­ ers, pictures of the union halls (inside and out), photos of early union meetings, pictures of the interior of ships and waterfront scenes throughout the world, anything connected with tattooing, seamen's knives and equipment, calling cards from port peddlers around the globe, handiwork done by men at sea, photographs of picket lines and union strikes, old bul­ letins to mariners from religious societies, up-lift organizations, temperance groups, etc. In order that the contribu­ tions may be identified and ac­ knowledged, Dr. Jackson has asked that all material sent in be marked appropriately. All photos should be identified as to place and time. Equipment and other paraphernalia should also be properly marked. Kleiler Named The Labor Department re­ cently named Frank M. Kleiler Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the 1 a b o r-management relations field. He will be working on collective-bargaining problems. Washington The U.S. Supreme Court has set aside an old admiralty doc­ trine and ruled that families of seamen may sue to recover damages for the death of sea­ men wherever they may occur. Prior to the court's decision families of seamen who died on ship could only recover damages if the ship was more than a marine league from shore. The court's decision struck down loopholes in the Death on the High Seas Act which ex­ empted ships close to shore, on the Great Lakes and on navi­ gable rivers from its provisions. The court said that the right to sue for wrongful death is a general principle of American law and, thus, cannot be denied to seamen. The decision follows nearly a century of denial of the unre­ stricted right to sue for the wrongful death of American seamen. In 1886 a decision on federal maritime law refused seamen the right of recovery for death or injury aboard ship. The Jones Act of 1920 ex­ tended to them the protection of the Federal Employer's Li­ ability Act and provided that seamen's survivors could sUe for death through negligence. Mari­ time law, however, provided only for suits testing the sea- ' worthiness of the ship, and the negligence provision was rarely tested. The Death on the High Seas Act permitted suits under the seaworthiness doctrine. This meant suits for wrongful death could be filed under either act. But the new law omitted conti­ nental waters. The Supreme Court ruled that the omissions to the law were improper in a case involv­ ing the death of a longshoreman, performing traditional sea­ man's duties. I Atomic Reactor Sails Sea The Steel Navigator (Isthmian) recently loaded a multi-ton atomic reactor in the Port of New Orleans. The reactor, valued at $18 million was shipped to San Francisco by Westinghouse. Seafarers Lot �Manhattan, 5IU Crew Sail to Mideast ¥¥er bow lifted onto the polar ice cap. The •*1 weight of her 150,000 tons sent the ice be­ neath scudding off to port and starboard. The Manhattan cut another broad swath through the ice on the way to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. It was a maritime feat comparable to the finding of the New World, this plunge through the frozen ocean atop the world. And it trans­ fixed a nation in the autumn of 1969. The Manhattan, owned by Seatrain Lines, finished her polar exploit under charter to Hum­ ble Oil Co. and was returned last month to the parent company which is contracted by the SIU. Her- area now will be the Middle East-to-Europe oil run, but the now-famous voyage across the previously mythical Northwest Passage will long be remembered wherever men go down to the sea in ships. She was uniquely fitted out for the run from Chester, Pa., to Prudhoe on Alaska's North Slope. She was to be the final test of the feasi­ bility of shipping oil from the rich tundra coun­ try to Canada and the United States. Humble Oil equipped her with a spoonshaped prow, 65 feet long and weighing 5,000 tons. It was a rakish prow extending 11 feet beyond the beam on both sides of the tanker to allow open water for the ship to slip through. It worked well. Although she was unable to crush the ice north of Banks Island in the Arctic Sea, the thinner ice in Prince of Wales Strait caused her no trouble. It proved, even to the most skeptical, that properly equipped tankers could deliver the pre­ cious oil to lands that need it even if the Arctic and its treacherous waters stand in the way. •p^ And her voyage of history gives rise to hopes that the abundant riches of Alaska's tundra country will generate the growth of a fleet of ore carriers and oil tankers to bring the wealth to transportation centers. When she arrived at Norfolk, SIU men hailed her as the conquering heroine she is. SIU Nor­ folk Port Agent Gordon Spencer said: "She is a fine ship and we're glad to have her back." The SIU crew which will pilot her through eight months on the intercontinental run from the Persian Gulf to England and northern Eu­ rope, joined in a "welcome home" party for their 1,005 foot long ship. John Brown, a iiremanwatertender aboard the tanker Manhattan, checks the automatic firing equipment as the 150,000-ton tanker, back from her polar expedi­ tion, sets sail for the Mideast. Boatswain Vincent Kuhl gives a les­ son in lifeboating aboard the tanker Manhattan to Lindsey Rhodes and Tommy Simmons. The ship was awaiting Coast Guard inspection hefore sailing to the Mideast and eight months at sea on the run to England and Northern Europe. Third Engineer Robert Moody (right) explains the control panel to Howard Bradshaw who will be chief pumpman on the Manhattan** eight month stay in the Persian Gulf. Bradshaw signed off the Amerigo in Wilmington, N.C., and joined the Manhattan crew in Norfolk, Va. Welcoming the Manhattan back to its SlU-contracled pare:!it r'-mpany occasioned a feast higMighted by this baked ham watched over by Steward Jack Long (standing) and Chief Cook Bernard Mace. �Meany Comments: Strikes to Politics Washington George Meany, president of the 13.8 million member AFLCIO, held a wide-ranging inter­ view with a group of reporters just before Labor Day produc­ ing headlines in the nation's press and extensive comment in all media. Some of the subjects he covered were: • Substitute for Strikes— "What would be wrong," Meany asked his interviewers, "with a union signing an agree­ ment for, let us say, two years and then saying that at the end of the two years all basic condi­ tions in the agreement will pre­ vail except wages and that wages will be the subject of col­ lective bargaining? "And if after a certain length of time there is no agreement between the parties, the Amer­ ican Arbitration Association will make a final and binding decision. . . ." • -.The Democratic Party— "I don't see any swing to the Republican Party. ... (It is) not so much that our people are looking to the Republicans, but that they are looking less to the Democrats because, actually, the Democratic Party has disin­ tegrated." • The Indictmrat irf the SIU—"We feel that the Seafar­ ers have been picked out by (Attorney General John) Mitch­ ell. He wants to do a little horse whipping and maybe dis­ courage some of our political activities. ... "I think some of the hatchet boys over in Mitch­ ell's shop thought this was a good idea and they felt that the Seafarers, who had gotten a lot of publicity, would be fair game to take on. Frankly, I think it is serious, but I am not so sure that (the government) is going to be successful in their prosecution (of the SIU). • Foreign Policy—"We, of course, agree with (President Nixon) to a great degree on his efforts to end the war in South­ east Asia through the building up and developing of the ability of the South Vietnamese to take care of themselves. ..." • The Nixon Administra­ tion—"I think our relations with the Nixon Administration are just about as good as we could have expected. ... On the economic issue, as of now, yet, I would say (Nixon) is go­ ing to get bad marks. . . . "I think his educational policy is not good. I think he is obsessed with the idea of bal­ ancing the budget and I think he is cutting back—or, at least, he tried to cut back to a great extent—on the educational pro­ grams that were enacted under the Administration of Lyndon Johnson... "On the civil rights business, I think he is very, very bad because he is obviously attempt­ ing to carry water on both shoulders. . . ." • The Women's Liberation Movement—"There are certain protections in the law for wom­ en that we have been fighting to put into the law for many, many years . . . now we get these militant feminists and they don't want any protection . . . They say we don't want these laws; they want absolute equality." • Political Campaigns-— "Number one, I would have the election campaigns much short­ er and, number two, I would provide for the use of television to a limited degree to every serious contender." "I think there should be a definite limit on spending, de­ pending on the number of reg­ istered voters in each constitu­ ency. I certainly would cut down the national campaigns to about three weeks. . . ." ry » Veteran labor reporters interview AFL-CIO President George Meany Text of Meany s Comments on SIU The pre-Labor Day interview AFL-CIO President George Meany had with five reporters dealt in part with labor's polit­ ical action and the indictment of the Seafarerg International Union for political activity. The interview received coverage in the nation's major papers. President Meany's comments on the SIU indictment also received broad coverage. Following is the text of that part of the interview dealing with the SIU and labor's political activities: REPORliSR: Mr. Meany, on another subject, the field of political action. The AFL-CIO has its COPE operation and the various unions have their counterparts. One of the fed­ eration members, the Seafarers, have been indicted for the way that they handled political funds—collecting and spend­ ing. Do you think this is going to dampen political activity? MEANY: No, it is not going to dampen political activity because we feel that the Seafarers have been picked out by Mr. Mitchell. He wants to do a little horse whipping and maybe discourage some of our political activities. I don't think that is going to happen. You know we have these laws on the books—and they have been there for many, many years—Corrupt Practices Act and so forth—and they have been honored, as far as I am concerned, they have been honored by everybody in the breach. I don't know of any candidate for office anywhere that gives a damn where he gets the money as long as he gets it when he gets into a campaign. I think some of the hatchet boys over in Mitchell's shop thought this was a good idea and they felt that the Seafarers, who had gotten a lot of pub­ licity, would be fair game to take on. Frankly, I think it is serious but I am not so sure that they are going to be suc­ cessful in their prosecution. REPORTER: You think it is more the system, as you sug­ gested, that is wrong but how would you go about changing it so people didn't have to put big chunks of money into this? MEANY: Well, I would do some things to change it if I could and I don't know whether we have a program on it. Number one, I would make the election campaigns much shorter and number two, I would provide for the use of television to a limited degree to every serious contender. I wouldn't let somebody start a new political party on the first day of October and immediately be given free television time. REPORTER: You would do this with free time? MEANY: Yes, sir. I think the television industry should give us free time. I think they are using the air waves, which should be everybody's property, for their private interests— which is all right. They are putting their money in there, but I certainly think in this area the television time should be free. I think there should be a definite limit on spending, depending on the number of registered voters in each con­ stituency. I certainly would cut down the national campaigns to about three weeks, if I had it my way. You fellows would have a good time. REPORTER: Do you see any indication that the Admin­ istration may go after other unions on this same basis? MEANY: I don't know. I don't have any indication at this time but I wouldn't be surprised if they dec'de they could haul some other unions in. REPORTER: What would happen if the labor movement got out on its own or was pushed out completely out of the field of lobbying and political spending? What would happen in this country, in other words, if you were not allowed to participate in politics, financially? MEANY: You mean if they passed a law? I think we would do pretty much what we did in prohibition days. We would just go ahead. I don't see where they would prohibit indi­ vidual citizens from joining with one another and being politically active. And I don't know how they could pass a law that would keep the labor unions out. I am sure they have laws that put restrictions on trade union funds and on corporation funds and we, like the corporations, are busy finding ways to use our influence despite those laws. REPORTER: Corporations do too? MEANY: Of course they do. As I say, I don't know anyone who runs for political office who has too many scruples when they get in the heat of the campaign and they are up against that last 10 days when they know the opponent has a lot of television time and they are up against this policy of cash on the barrelhead. There is no credit from television companies, you have to pay for it or you don't go on the air. Now, when a candi­ date gets into that situation, after campaigning for months and months and months and he sees all the advantages of the last few days, at least what he thiqks are the advantages. I am not so sure that the last few days are near as important as some of the candidates think. I have always felt that most of the voters in most cam­ paigns have their minds made up at least 10 days to two weeks before the campaign ends and they get sick of the campaign and don't listen anymore except some of the socalled uncommitted and doubtful ones. But there is no ques­ tion that candidates feel that that last minute time is crucial and they get campaign jitters at the time. I have seen people get almost hysterical in a situation where I felt and every­ body else felt that he was home. Some of these people run scared and they really run scared. When that nime comes, they will get money any place they can get it. REPORTER: You mentioned a few minutes ago some of the hatchet boys around the Attorney General. Does this Admin­ istration have political hatchet men or are they anti-labor hatchet men? What are you thinking about? MEANY: Well, I think there is a certain type of hatchet man over in the Attorney General's office, no matter who is the attorney general. There are certain people over there who feel that labor is fair game, that trade unions represent what m'gbt be called a worthy opponent and they are ready to do battle. I think that if they wanted to look into corrupt practices in election campaigns, I don't think they would start with the trade union movement. I think there' would be plenty of other places to start. You take the way in which they evade the law by setting up committees. They set up the committees "without the candidate's knowledge." He doesn't even know there is a committee collecting money. In one campaign a few years ago in Ohio, there must have been 300 separate committees for the one candidate—the ushers committee, the florist com­ mittee, the east side mothers committee, the fourth grade teachers committee, the steel producers committee and ev­ erything under the sun. The whole thing was coordinated but the candidate "didn't know anything about it." I think this is really an evasion of the real intent of the law. Corporatignsf can't contribute, but the vice president and the vice president's wife and the vice president's mother-inlaw and somehow or other you get the feeling that the cor­ poration is going to see that they get it somewhere along the line. �Two Refitted Ships Crew Up, Leave Port of Norfolk rpwo refitted ships owned by SlU-contracted JL companies are again sailing the seas after crewing up in the Port of Norfolk last month. The tanks of the Erna Elizabeth (Albatross Tankers) were completely cleaned and fully coated. The second ship, the Commander (Marine Carriers) was refurbished from bow to stern. Seafarers signing-on the repaired vessels were happy for the activity the crewing up and lay­ E ing in of stores generated before leaving port. After her new crew was aboard, the Erna Elizabeth set sail for a four to eight month voyage first to Trinidad and then on to ports in Europe. The Commander, under MSG charter, left Newport News for delivery of cargo to NATO posts in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Antwerp. She expects to return to the United States in a month. The radio antenna of the Erna Elisabeth is rigged by Leroy McDonald, an ordinary sea­ man, and R. Campbell prior to the ship's de­ parture for Trinidad and Europe. I« 1 Deck handit R. Tuttle and L. White haul in the gangplank as the Commander, under MSG charter, prepares to sail for NATO stations in Europe. The lifeboat davits of the Ema Elisabeth are lettered before departure by Fred Ketter and Glen Lawson while the ship is at anchor in Newport News, Va. The ship sailed later for Trinidad and Europe. Hooker Price stands for alone atop the tanks as he coats the cables of Number 4 hatch with grease. An ordinary seaman, Price sailed with the refitted Commander from the Port of Norfolk last month. The ship car­ ried cargo for military men in Europe. Francis McGaray, the bosun of the Erna Elisabeth tests the latch on Num­ ber 10 tank while David Berger lends a helping hand. All tanks aboard the ship were recoated during refitting. In the Commander's engine room, department members are busy readying the newly remodeld ship for its first cruise. Jerry Ange checks the steam valve while Pee Wee Pulliam, center, and Robert Sawyer add the finishing touches to the renovationnew light bulbs. Septsmber 1970 Page 9 �Toward a Safe Port -mm Pensioner Likes Receiving Log To the Editor: I have no words to ekpress my gratitude to you for sending the Seafarers Log every month. I enjoy very much reading the union paper. It makes me re­ member when I was sailing on SIU ships. When I finish reading I pass the Log to the foreign ships in port. Sincerely yours, Bos'n, pensioner Luciano Ghezzo Ancona, Italy Proud of Men He Works With Victory in View The maritime industry today stands at the threshold of revitalization as the Senate pre­ pares to vote on the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. This legislation is built on the foundation of a philosophy which the Seafarers International Union has long embraced—that the United States must again become a dominant economic force on the seas of the world. The shipbuilding program embraced by the Act calls for a minimum of 300 new ships to be constructed within the next 10 years. In addi­ tion, more ships are likely to be added to the deep-water fleet through the tax deferments per­ mitted on profits that are used to build new vessels for use in the domestic and fishing trades. The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 will hot come close to solving all the problems of to­ day—or even those of many tomorrows to come. But, with passage by the Senate and the signa­ ture of the President, it will mark a significant beginning. Before its ship construction recommendations can be implemented, many more World War Il-vintage bottoms will have been sent to the scrap yard. Our fleet, which has diminished from first to fifth in carrying capacity in recent years, will grow still smaller. This means that the number of jobs available will shrink. But passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 can be the impetus to reverse the trend of American-flag shipping. To Seafarers, adoption of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 will mean a first victory in a battle they have contributed greatly to for years in both money and effort. Survival of the American-flag merchant fleet has been the primary goal of all Seafarers, men who know well that without ships, there are no jobs. And jobs are the staple of life not only to the working 'Seafarer and his family, but to the man depend­ ing upon his SIU pension, as well. That is why, for the past eight years. Sea­ farers have generously supported the Seafarers Political Activities Donations (SPAD). We knew then, as we know now, that our goal could best be reached through helping those who would help our cause to be elected to both Houses of the Congress. A victory in the Senate will be a victory for the maritime industry, the nation, and, most of all, for each individual Seafarer who has par­ ticipated in the campaign to bring new life to our dying merchant fleet. The Maritime Forum The speakers come from all over this land of ours. From New York, California, Minnesota, Tennessee, Connecticut and they sometimes come from organized labor or the federal gov­ ernment in Washington. The weekly luncheons of the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department are a big drawing card in the nation's capital. But even more im­ portantly they constitute the only continuing forum on maritime affairs going on anywhere. This is one reason why the SIU is affiliated with the MTD. With the recent 307-1 vote in the House of Representatives on the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 and the Act's successful sailing through the Senate Commerce Committee, we can tell that the voices of the forum are not falling on Page 10 deaf ears in the councils of government that matter. To be sure, the luncheon forum has brought the problems of the maritime industry to the attention of a nation that only a few years ago was pitifully unaware that the industry was dying. And we like to think that in preparing for their appearances at the forum, the speakers may have become better informed about the maritime situation. In any case, when the votes are counted in the Senate a number of those voting "aye" will, be those who have participated in this educational process. They were welcome guests at the luncheons, and we are happy for any enlighten­ ment their appearances may have brought them. (For a report on recent luncheons, please turn to Page 14.) Editor's Note: The follow­ ing letter was sent to the Log with a note from Seafarer Victor B. Cambas explaining that he was the second assist­ ant engineer aboard the De Soto when he learned that his son was killed in action in Vietnam. He left the ship in Manila and was flown home. To the crew of the S.S. De Soto: I have just received a letter from Glen D. Happer, Master of your ship. He enclosed a check for $100.00, which was collected among you men, to be given to my son's family. This was to be used toward my son's grave or as his family saw fit. Since his first child is due to arrive in September, it has been decided to use the money to pur­ chase a Savings Bond for the baby, toward its future education. On behalf of my son's wife, Lucille, my wife, and family and myself, we wish to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to all you men aboard the De Soto, for your sincere expression of sympathy during such a tragic time in our lives. It's men like you, who keep our world together, and I'm proud to say, I work with such men aboard ship. Again, our deepest thanks to you all. Sincerely, Victor B. Cambas Metaiiie, La. Thanks for SIU Welfare Plan To the Edit<m I am very grateful to the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan and wish to thank you for the help you gave in paying the bills when my hus­ band was in and out of the hos­ pital with a heart condition. I also wish to thank Mr. McGinty of the Jersey City local for his help. Lots of luck and good health to the membership for making it such a good plan and keeping it so. Sincerely, Mrs. Samuel Ratz Rahway, N.J. Prompt Response Draws Thanks To the Editor: I would like to extend my sin­ cere thanks to the Seafarers Wel­ fare plan for prompt response for death benefits, all necessary, all gratefully received. Sincerely, Mrs. Robert E. Greene Portsmouth, Va. Special Tax Exemptions Can Help Pensioners When the omnibus tax re­ form bill was passed by Con­ gress last year it included a provision which gave certain groups of people exemption from Federal tax withholding. A study by the Commerce Clearing House here shows that many states are following the same pattern. The exemption grants relief from Federal income tax with­ holding to employees—such as students, retirees and part-time workers—who had no Federal income tax liability last year and anticipate none this year. The exemption became effec­ tive May 1, 1970 and is avail­ able for later years. A single person who earns less than $1,725 in 1970 will owe no Federal income tax, and a taxpayer over the age of 65 can earn up to $2,350 without incurring a tax liability. Em­ ployees who qualify must file Federal Form W-4E with their employers. So far, 22 states grant a similar exemption, accepting either the Federal form or a similar state form. These states are: Alaska, Arizona, Colora­ do, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Ken­ tucky, Maine, Maryland, Mas­ sachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska,, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ore­ gon, Utah and Vermont. Ore­ gon won't grant an exemption until next year. In California, where with­ holding currently applies only to nonresidents, employees who earn $3,250 or less if single, or $6,500 or less if married, are already exempt from state withholding. Thirteen states and the Disr trict of Columbia and New York City have indicated they will not grant such an exemp­ tion. They are Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Min­ nesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, South Carolina and Virginia. m Boas-dling pairolm^h in flie' Port of New York are asking^ S^arem to g^ve their pape^ to the department before inking. This will simj^Ulfy pij^ediire at payoff and afe^ fjis^rhandt^ Patrolmen ask ?J! Sea- _ ffters cooperate tn this OCT .td:'teiiip ' 11 �Safety Council Cites p SiU-Manned Ships R. in Coimar Corp. Fleet h, 4 I)' The Calmar Steamship Corp­ oration, an SlU-contracted sub­ sidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corp., took top honors for safety aboard ship in a compe­ tition of the Marine Division of the National Safety Council. Calmar, which has both pas­ senger and major cargo ships, compiled a disabling injury frequency rate of 2.2 per million man hours worked. The indus­ try as a whole averaged 6.05 for each million man hours. Three Calmar vessels—the Yorkmar, Pennmar, and Seamar—had a total of 694,272 man hours without a disabling accident. At the end of 1969, the Yorkmar had gone 26 months without a disabling in­ jury; the Seamar 15 months and the Pennmar 13 months. In addition, Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point yard. Group 1 Division, won the top award for yard safety with a disabling in­ jury frequency of 1.9 per mil­ lion man hours. The industry average for shipyard workers is 10 per million man hours worked. Achievement of Calmar's exemplary record does not come about without effort. All Beth­ lehem vessels undergo the com­ pulsory governmental periodic fire and safety inspections. In I Rear Admiral William S. Rca, III, U.S. Coast Guard, pre.sents the Na­ tional .Safety Council's first place award to ofTicials of Calmar .Steam­ ship Cx). From the left are: Cjtrl Andre, manager of Office Services; Adm. Rea, and Fred Sherman, president of Calmar. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes spe­ cific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the SecretaryTreasurer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file members, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendations. .Members of this com­ mittee may make dissenting reports, specific recommenda­ tions and separate findings. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and man­ agement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon ap­ proval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 275-20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. August 1970 addition, all ships and their crews are subjected to rigorous safety drills conducted by the company itself. A special firefighting school is maintained by the company at its Sparrows Point yard. Here, officers and crew mem­ bers of the various ships re­ ceive special instruction in com­ batting any type fire that may occur at sea or in port. Safety and firefighting in­ structions are also given to each department aboard ship at least once during each voyage. In conjunction with the safe­ ty and firefighting program, a system was initiated color cod­ ing all portable fire extinguish­ ers aboard the ships, according to the class of fire upon which they are to be us^. In an emergency, the equipment can easily be distinguished by color, even from a distance. Such a safety training pro­ gram has its obvious benefits of helping to prevent serious ac­ cidents aboard ship. But, it also pays off in other aspects. According to statistics recently released by the Maritime Ad­ ministration, Sparrows Point shipyard had under contract, at the beginning of the new fiscal year in July, more new com­ mercial vessels—in terms of numbers, tonnage and value— than any other yard in the country. In all, the yard has almost half of the private ship construction under contract in the United States. The Calmar vessel Yorkmar ended 1969 with 26 months without a dis­ abling injury, helping the company earn the National Safety Council's first place award. Yorkmar personnel shown here are, from left: John Hamilton, chief mate; Bill Campbell, third mate; Captain Merle Frost, master; Nick Kratsus, and Thcmistocie Zitoundiadis, able seamen. SIU Arrivals Sinia Duron, born June 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert A. Duron, New Orleans, La. Robin Ferguson, born July 11, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas B. Ferguson, Norfolk, Va. Brian Hamilton, bom Feb. 16, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joe Mac Hamilton, Battletown, Ky. Andy Lee, born July 4, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pao C. Lee, San Francisco, Calif. Heniy Picado, born Feb. 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Luis E. Picado, New Orleans, La. Dana Lynn Donaldson, born July 8, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John W. Donaldson, Galveston, Tex. LaKeith Taylor, bom April 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Cleve­ land H. Taylor, Mobile, Ala. Roderick Lacy, bom Sept. 2, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rottria F. Lucy. Gilda Esquerre, bom July 16. 1970, Seafarer and Mrs. William R. Esquerre, Mobile. Ala. Mayda Vargas, born July 1. 1970. to Seafarer and Mrs. Giovanni Var­ gas, Salinas, P.R. Michelle Thomason, born March CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If. at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serv­ ing the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing arti­ cles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective member­ ship. This established policy has been reaffirmed by mem­ bership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all con­ stitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immedi­ ately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND -OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer 21, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. William A. Thomason, Decatur, Ga. Adolfo Douglas, bom May 29, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. David Douglas, Oakland, Calif. Benita Benoit, bom June 4, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Louis J. Benoit, Lake Arthur. La. Julie Gulllory, bom June 16, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Everton Gulllory, Eunice'. La. Tracy Lynn Lundy, born July 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas J. Lundy, Wilmer, Ala. Nicole Sutherland, bom April 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Sutherland, Jr.. New Orleans, La. Victor Mull, bom March 21. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert L. Mull, Newton, N.C. William Purvis, born May 20. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Billie K. Purvis, Houston, Tex. Catherine Douglas, born July 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert M. Douglas, Jr.. Mount Holly. N.J. Rosalind Jones, bom July 3. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Glen E. Jones. New Orleans, La. Amy Dockrey, born June 23. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Claude J. Dockrey, Solana Beach. Calif. is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members draw­ ing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in ail rank-and-file functions, including service on rankand-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the em­ ployers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely vol­ untary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. Page 11 �John Fox, Maritime Labor Pioneer, Dies Seattle, Wash. ' John M. Fox, 68, of Seattle, Wash., a former SIU vice presi­ dent, died Aug. 1 at home after d long illness. He was credited with "the longest, continuing service of anyone in the U.S. merchant marine labor move­ ment." Mr. Fox, a native of Michi­ gan, was president of the In­ land Boatmen's Union from 1940 until 1966 when he re- Census Bureau Misses Town Rep. Ed Edmondson (DOkla.) says the Census Bureau lost an entire town in his dis­ trict. Colcord, Okla., with a population of 432, up from 183 in 1960, was not listed in the bureau's statistics. "Colcord may not compare with New York or Los Angeles, but to the people who live and work there it is a mighty impor­ tant place," the Congressman said. tired. He served as an SIU vice president from the IBU's affili­ ation with the SIU in 1948 until retirement. He was succeeded in both posts by Merle Adlum. Mr. Fox, who received his master's papers in 1931, orga­ nized the IBU of the Pacific in the Puget Sound area and served as secretary-business manager of the Puget Sound Division of IBU and of Local 6, Masters, Mates and Pilots JOHN M. FOX Union. Mr. Fox was also an activist in his community. He served as Computer Fails a member of the board of re­ gents of the University of Wash­ Counting Job ington and was a member of Detroit the National Railroad Adjust­ It appears that the computer ment Board. will never adequately replace During World War II he people. This point was once served as a member of the again brought home when De­ King County Housing Authority troit's new computer system for and taught navigation to mem­ vote-counting bungled the job of tabulating the results of the bers of the U.S. Coast Guard. Among his survivors are his primary election there, wife Alice and a daughter, Mrs. Instead of getting the results Priscilla Hearst of Pocatello, in six hours, it took the machine Idaho. 30 hours. PISPATCHERS REPORT Atlantic, Gulf & inland Waters Dbt^t August 1,1970 to August 31,1970 DECK DEPARTMENT • TOTAL REGISTERED AH Groups Class A OassB 8 4 129 130 21 17 63 29 25 37 38 50 14 19 38 23 77 57 74 76 39 45 93 85 46 44 ,665 616 • Boston ! New York Philadelphia BaltimOTe ........... Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ..... Seattle Totals — I'-; Pcwt: AH Groups Class A Class B <:iassC 6 1 2 90 76 23 7 13 4 26 20 4 23 19 6 32 42 10 7 4 1 25 21 1 78 45 9 55 51 11 20 ^ 33 3 65 83 24 26 26 17 460 434 115 AH Groups Class A Class B 9 6 218 131 1-27 20, 123 45 38 38 40 11 21 22 85 21 149 93 140 75 53 43 116 29 50 15 1069 549 3 74 9 20 14 17 5 30 59 36 24 51 33 375 3 98 8 21 24 46 8 10 76 61 30 74 20 479 • REGISTERED ON BEACH 1 24 1 8 7 10 1 • 0 - 11 8 16 34 , 21 142 All Ch-oups 9 190 19 82 31 19 11 49 100 \ , 65 19 88 , • 29: 711 5 81 6 14 15 11 31 58 28 13 68 29 2 64 8 21 32 4 25 40 37 21 39 21 22 336 2 56 5 21 9 17 0 15 59 35 12 46 20 297 0 8 46 31 8 3 15 7 17 18 27 23 0 0 0 :-vV: 14 30 -•V 21, - •• 30 11 5 38 45 • 13 9 240,; 182 5 154 11 67 26 23 :: ••21 • 64 99 , 80 3 77 9 43 , 34 18 8 • • 44 .. 86 68': :V-22';p? ii :..•• 32 ;r ,453 San Diego Fred Martinez helps work­ ers. Using the experience he gained as a worker for the SIU, the Cannery Workers and the United Farm Workers Organiz­ ing Committee, Fred Martinez concentrates on finding jobs for disadvantaged workers. His area is San Diego, Calif, where he is now employed by the Laborers Local 89. As long ago as last January he zeroed in on finding summer jobs for youth, working closely with R. R. Richardson, secre­ tary-treasurer of the San DiegoImperial County Labor Council and Hugh Wood, director of the local office of the National Alliance of Businessmen. In a large part because Fred Martinez believes in his job in jobs, some 1500 area youth were employed through the Mayor's Summer Youth Fair. And all this in a summer when youth jobs everywhere were in short supply due to rising un­ employment. HRDI has area manpower representatives throughout the country—working out of 40 cities. As did Fred Martinez, they concentrated on finding summer jobs for youth. Hundreds of youth jobs were filled this year because of Fred Martinez and people like him. HRDI officials in Washington hesitate to give any final fig­ ures. Due to high unemploy­ ment, the results were short of. goals but the contribution was significant. Jobs, working conditions and being disadvantaged have long been familiar problems to Martinez. He was bom in Mex­ ico in 1913. He is a natural­ ized citizen. For more than 30 years he has been active in the American labor movement. As long ago as 1933 he worked as a farm worker orga­ nizer in San Diego, Imperial and Orange counties. He served for five years on the hardpressed union's executive board. Martinez devoted hours and days to contacting officers of local unions, persuading them of the need of finding employ­ ment for the young people. Over the months he succeed­ ed in placing five here, 12 there, 30 in another place and so on. The totals began to add up. In almost every case the union initiation fee was waived and in some instances no union dues were asked. Standard wages were paid to the stu­ dents, some as high as $4.63 an hour. ' Throughout the country this pattern was being repeated: • In Nashville, Tenn., John Duncan was asked to contact 30 companies. He got pledges for 187 jobs. • In New York City, John Burnell and IBEW Local 3 found jobs for 132 youngsters. • In Newark, N.J., Earl Wil­ liams located jobs for 76 youths at stores, factories, offices, car washes and small contractors. • In San Antonio, A1 Garcia found 20 hospital jobs and six jobs at local housing projects. . Where transportation was a problem, HRDI went to work. Gene Carter in Phoenix, Ariz., and John Robert in Toledo helped win support for Federal transportation funds, for ex­ ample. Frequently, the stories in the local newspap>ers give credit to the employers for the summer jobs for youth but the young people who found jobs know that the labor movement, par­ ticularly HRDI, came to their rescue. First Black Elected Edney, SlUNA V-P, Wins Sfate Fed Post 8 182 16 20 47 28 20 - 52 125 125 28 59 22 732 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups ^ All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk .............. Jacksonville Tampa ................ Mobile New Orleans : Houston Wilmington San Francisco ...... Seattle ••••— ; Xdtals Page 12 REGISTERED ON BEACH ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED AH Groups AH Groups Class A Class B Boston ............... • 5 6 New York 115 142 Philadelphia ........ 7 19 • Baltimore ............ 35 41 Norfolk ' 14 37 Jacksonville .......... 23 67 Tampa 9 8 Mobile 34 23 New Orleans 65 69 Houston 33 78 Wilmington ' 17 41 San Francisco ...... 71 103 Seattle 38 37 484 653 Fori TOTAL SHIPPED Former SIU Aide Finds Summer Jobs Los Angeles Steve Edney, head of the Cannery Workers in the Los Angeles Harbor area an^ a vice president of the SIUNA, has been elected unanimously as vice president of the California Labor Federation. Edney is the first black man to be elected to that post in the history of the 1.3-millionmember AFL-CIO state federa­ tion. John L. Henning, executive secretary of the federation, was one of Edney's principal back­ ers for the post. Edney recently received na­ tional recognition when he served as chairman of a joint fishing industry, labor and man­ agement committee, which gathered clothing items for Peruvian refugees following the disastrous earthquake there. STEVE EDNEY . . . elected to fed post Edney undertook the task of providing aid to these victims despite the persistent attacks on U.S. fishing vessels off the coast of Peru. A �Oiler Bob Bullock spends a quiet moment on deck surveying Newark harbor while awaiting payoff. Fireman-watertender Nick Hutchins is shown adjusting pressure gauges in the ship's engine room. Messma^ Art Rubenstein promotes his industry by afllxing sticker to his luggage urging the use of American-flag ships to benefit Americans. jmber 1970 Page 13 �U.S. Funds i For ILO Refused Leaders Speak Out on Issues Rep. Wolif Rep. Murphy Rep. Blatnik Rep. Karth Mr. Groton Maritime Problems in Focus in D.C maritime trades," he em­ Washington The AFL-CIO Maritime phasized. He criticized the failure of Trades Department, with which the SIU is affiliated, is the only U.S. government agencies to organization providing a con­ use American-flag ships when tinuing, informative forum that sending cargo abroad. "I find deals exclusively with maritime it curious that the men in the federal bureaucracy ignore the problems and legislation. 'ship-American' campaign of Weekly Washington luncheons one of their own agencies—the feature addresses on maritime issues by members of Congress Federal Maritime Administra­ and officials from government, tion." Nation in Jeopardy business and Jabor. Unless U.S.-flag ships are In recent weeks four Con­ utilized so that they carry vir­ gressmen and one labor official tually all U.S. foreign trade have addressed themselves to goods, instead of the current 5 various maritime problems. This percent of such traffic, Wolff is what they had to say: states, "Our once proud mer­ • Page Groton, director of chant marine will deteriorate the Boilermakers and Iron Ship even more rapidly at the cost Builders Marine Council said of jobs, ships and tax rev­ that without the governmental enues." assistance proposed in the This, in turn, he says will Merchant Marine Act of 1970 add to the unfavorable balance the shipbreaker's torch will re­ of payments, and "place our duce the mostly-antiquated nation in jeopardy if any future 967-ship American merchant emergencies arise overseas." fleet to 272 ships by 1974. The provisions of the act, • In addition to building Karth explained, would supply new ships, Rep. Lester Wolff the merchant marine with the (D-N.Y.) stated, "serious atten­ ships it needs to become "the tion must also be given to filling nation's first arm of peace." He these ships with cargo." stressed that this role could be • Rep. Joseph E. Karth (DMinn.) contended that if the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is implemented the Americanflag fleet can become "the first arm of peace" in the world. • The dumping of mercury into the world's waters are poisoning the fish and eventually affecting the health of man, ac­ cording to Rep. John Murphy (D-N.Y.). • Pollution in the Great Lakes has reached such a level that the very livelihood of the people in the area is threat­ ened, said Rep. John A. Blat­ nik (D-Minn.). » * vous system, and can cause the birth of brain-damaged children and may even cause cancer. He cited statistics from vari­ ous countries around the world listing deaths and physical de­ formities caused by mercury poisoning. He was critical of govern­ mental agencies that, despite the proven dangers of mercury poisoning, "continue to study" the problem without taking any effective' action to remedy the situation. The Secretary of the Interior "should seek civil action to force mercury pollutors to take cor­ rective action or shut down," Murphy concluded. Blatnik urged that immediate steps be taken to clean up the Great Lakes because "the situ­ ation can easily be called life or death for the 37 fiercent of the nation's population that live in the eight Great Lakes states." He pointed out that countless tons of pollutants are dumped into these lakes each year by manufacturers. "They have made the lakes unsafe as recrea­ tion spots and the fish caught there uneatable," he added. * Groton believes the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1970 is but "a first, modest step toward bringing the American-flag mer­ chant fleet back from the deep." Modest as it is, he still con­ tends it will provide a program that would "revitalize our ship­ building trade, and put a brake on our rapidly declining sea­ faring' corps." He says that we have now reached a time where we must "correct the mistakes of a quarter century of neglect," or else the United States will find herself depending on foreign countries to transport her goods. Ships Need Cargo Wolff says that the construc­ tion of new ships is not enough. He claims that the new ships will be useless unless there is cargo in their holds. "Empty ships will not pro­ vide profits for ship owners nor employment for men in the Page 14 achieved only with passage of the bill. These pew ships could serve as "vivid examples of the strength and vitality of our free enterprise system," he said. "liiese fast, efficient, sleek new ships will tell the world of the pride American workers have in their products; of the benefits of strong and free trade unions; and of a system in which labor, industry and gov­ ernment can work together to solve mutual problems." Karth, too, was critical of various governmental agencies which bypass U.S.-flag ships to deliver their goods overseas. According to Murphy, mer­ cury poisoning "is setting us up for the kill, and all we seem to be doing about it is 'studying it.'" He explained that industrial mercury being dumped in the world's waters is absorbed by the fish and eventually passed on to man when he consumes the fish. When mercury poisoning finally does attack man's sys­ tem, he said, it hits brain cells first and then the central ner­ Washington The U.S. Senate has refused to appropriate $3.7 million as the American contribution to the International Labor Orga­ nization because of recent JLO actions. The Senate's refusal to act came after AFL-CIO President George Meany—with the sup­ port of the Department of La­ bor and the U.S. employer representative to the ILO— convinced the House that a hearing into ILO activities should be held before handing over the remainder of the an­ nual $7.4 million U.S. contribu­ tion. Meany, testifying about ILO activities before a House sub­ committee, said "it has now gotten to the point where at practically every session we have to sit and listen to tirades, the usual Communist propa­ ganda tearing this country, down, portraying us as the opponents of human freedom and of being imperialists, and so on and so forth." "Unless this is stopped I would say that the ILO will be useless insofar as the American labor movement is concerned and as far as our Government is concerned." Meany was particularly irked by the nomination of a Soviet Union representative as assist­ ant director general of the ILO. He called this action the "last straw." Sen. John McClellan, (DArk.) chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, al­ so issued a statement concern­ ing the appointment of the Soviet Union representative to such a high office. "This is "not the way we ought to permit the United States to be treated. We will never command world-wide respect from other countries, and certainly not from the Soviet Union, as long as we let them bully us like that, and then have us foot the bill. I am not going to stand for it. It ought to be stopped," he said. Sen. McClellan also noted that Meany's testimony was very persuasive. Census Will Cause House Seat Shuffle Washington The 1970 Census results are still "preliminary" but already it is clear that they will play a big role in the reappiortionment of the House of Representatives to be elected in 1972. No less than 16 states will be affected by the 1970 popula­ tion figures—six of them v/ill gain seats in the House and 10 will lose seats. Gainers will be California (5); Florida (3), and Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, one each. Losers will be New York (2); Pennsylvania (2), and Alabama, Iowa, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ten­ nessee, West Virginia and Wis­ consin, one each. By and large the big popula­ tion gains. have been in the West, the Southwest and Florida, plus top gains in Vir­ ginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Maine. The heavily industrialized Middle West and Northeast have pretty well held their own. Despite the changes, there is no certainty that there will be sharp changes in the normal political representation of the states affected as a result of population changes. Labor po­ litical analysts are more inter­ ested in the complexion of the state legislatures to be elected this November than they are in the population changes them­ selves. Next year no less than 44 state legislatures will have the power to redistrict their repre­ sentation and to determine— within the "one-man, one-vote" formula—how district lines will be drawn. The six states where 1970 election changes will not have a direct bearing on new Con­ gressional redistricting are Ken­ tucky, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia, which will hold their legislative elections in 1971, and Michigan and Ohio where special boards hold the redistricting power. The official count of the 1970 Census will not come until November according to Secretary of Commerce Mau­ rice H. Stans, but it is not ex­ pected that there will be any major changes in what he has called "the semi-final" figures. Stans reported that despite attacks on the Census questions and the Census itself, millions and millions of families "filled out their census forms, without considering it an invasion of their privacy." "Cooperation wais virtually universal," he declared. "Only a handful of cases required reference to the Department of Justice." �SEAFARERSafc^I.OG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION # ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT * AFL-CIO SlU Negotiates '20-at-55' Pension The SIU has negotiated a major extension of the AGLIW District's pension that will provide for re­ tirement with full pension and benefits at age 55 for Seafarers with 20 years of seatime. The "20-at-55" plan was recommended by the rank-and-file SIU Pension Study Committee which spent several months reviewing the union's program. TTie committee had called for the new benefit to be placed into effect no later than Dec. 31, 1971. How­ ever, the contract just negotiated by the union calls for it to start next Jan. 1, nearly a year ahead of the deadline set by the committee. The committee's second major recommendation was that information about the SIU pension program, to­ gether with a comparison with the pension plan of the National Maritime Union, be published in the Seafarers Log. This special supplement of the Seafarers Log has been published to carry out the committee's recom­ mendation. It will be widely distributed so that Sea­ farers will know: • How the "20-at-55" plan works, what it cost and how it will affect the stability of the SIU pension plan. • How the current SIU pension program stacks up with the NMU pension plan. • How passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 would affect the maritime industry's ability to keep pension programs healthy in the future. f I ' I'l ij - r I i iii. I fiM> I; / lli All Other Benefits Stay The new benefit is an addition to the SIU's pen­ sion and welfare package for the AGLIW District. Those who are working toward retirement at age 65 with 15 years of service will remain eligible for their full pension. Seafarers will continue to qualify for disability pensions with 12 years of seatime. The SIU pensioner will continue to receive the range of SIU retiree welfare benefits, including the $4,000 death payment and full medical coverage for life. Requirements for pension credits have in no way been changed. Providing for the $250 a month full pension under the "20-at-55" plan is costly. Management will add " $2.08 a day for each man at sea to pay the added cost of providing the benefit for all who are eligible. The $2.08 contribution will also pay, from Jan. 1 on, the cost of the plan for each Seafarer for each day at sea until he becomes eligible for his pension. "Past Service" Payment Increased In addition, the $2.08 contribution includes 33 cents that will be added to the present payment of $1.50 per day for each man at sea to pay the cost of "past service"—or previous seatime days of Sea­ farers who are now working toward their pension. It would cost an estimated $70 million to im­ mediately pay the total price for. all past service days for all currently active Seafarers who will become eligible for the new early retirement benefit. That $70 million will be added to the SIU's "un­ funded past service liability," and will be paid for from the $1.83 contribution over a period of years. SIU negotiators, in order to assure that all pen­ sions worked for would be received as they came due convinced management in 1967 that it should contribute $1.50 per man per day at sea toward pay­ ing off the unfunded past service liability. As a result of this fund, the SIU's pension debt— its "unfunded past service liability"—was reduced to $81 million in 1968 from a peak of $86.2 million in 1967. By increasing the debt retirement contribution to $1.83 under the new contract, approximately $6 mil­ lion a year will be paid toward cutting the SIU's past service debt, even as that liability is increased with the addition of the "20-at-55" retirement jjrovision. The debt could be paid off in 25 years with the present $1.83 contribution, a time period well below what pension experts consider sound. While the SIU has been able to negotiate a signifi­ cant additional pension benefit for Seafarers—the "20- Septeinber 1970 A Seafarer's Pension: Security with Dignity What is a pension to a Seafarer? It is security— with dignity. It is that extra insurance toward a decent life after the Seafarer has spent his last days at sea. Each day.a Seafarer in the AGLIW District is at sea, he contributes to the pension and welfare bene­ fits of his brother who is now retired and to a fund that will assure a better life for himself and his family when he retires. The SIU over the years has stressed the urgency of caution in the development of a pension program. A pension plan must be for everyone—young and old. And it must be forever. SIU members—through their union—have set a course to assure that no Seafarer will ever worry that his promised pension will be forfeited. Seafarers have consistently supported this course in thousands of discussions and debates at membership meetings, ashore and aboard ships at sea. Facts showing the soundness of their judgment appear in all of the stories in this special supplement. Extension of the SIU's pension benefits for the AGLIW District is indeed a major development. Of greater importance, however, is the security that has been woven into the SIU pension plan—a security that guarantees that all Seafarers will receive the fruits of their contributions from a fund that has a foundation for even further improvements in the future. at-55" retirement plan—the NMU has had to tighten its pension plan's eligibility rules, eliminate the early retirement provisions and levy assessments against ship operators to keep its fund from going under. "20-Year Bustout" Falls The NMU's pledge of a "20-year bustout" that promised a man full retirement at any age with 20 years of seatime, has fallen flat for several reasons. Three stand out: • The plan was initially underfinanced: No money was set aside to pay for the past service of those who would be eligible for pensions. Nor were any funds collected as a hedge against heavy job losses. • Thousands of jobs held by long-term NMU members have been eliminated with the layup of the heavily-manned passenger liners—among them the United States, the Constitution, the America, the In­ dependence. As the passenger liners are being taken out of service their NMU crews are being forced to draw pensions. Other NMU ship operators don't have adequate jobs to take up the slack. The wave of retirements is stripping the pension program of income it receives from working NMU Seamen, and is addihg to the amount of money that is being taken out of the weakened pension fund. A basic weakness was built into the NMU program with the provision that an NMU Seaman would get a full year of pension credits even though he worked but 200 days at sea. This cut deeply into the financial stability of the NMU pension fund. The impact of this trio of weaknesses was recog­ nized by the NMU in 1968. As a result, several changes were made in the NMU pension plan. NMU members found that, effective Jan. 1, 1969: 1. The reduced and early retirement pensions were, in a word used by the NMU Pilot, "terminated." Only those NMU men who had qualified for early retirement before Jan. 1, 1969 could receive them. 2. Instead of a "20-year bustout," NMU Seamen learned that they had to earn their 20 years of sea­ time withiq 30 consecutive years—and any long period of slack time extended the amount of time needed to qualify for a pension. 3. A change in the NMU plan made it easier for members to lose their past pension credits. The rule that an NMU member had to work at least 200 days within a period of three consecutive years after Jan. 1, 1953 to keep his credits for all previous years was changed. From Jan. 1, 1969 on, a man must show that he has shipped at least 300 days in a period of three consecutive years to keep his past pension credits. The SIU, by comparison, has kept its break in service rule that requires only that a Seafarer have 90 days of seatime in any one of three consecutive years. Why has the NMU negotiated with management pension changes that both eliminate early retirement and tighten the rules for eligibility for a full pension? Losing Combination Because the early and reduced retirement, coupled with the "20-year bustout" promise, proved to be a combination that could not be paid for from the monies going into the fund. Even with the tightening of rules and elimination of the reduced pension benefit, the NMU fund is in severe trouble. The NMU fund does not have nearly enough money even to guarantee the pensions of Seamen who are now retired. NMU-contracted operators last month had to begin making payments toward a $5.5 million pension fund assessment that was levied because of a loss of jobs. These assessment payments will leave NMU operators less money to use for wage increases. • And they will reduce the opportunity of NMU operators to finance new ships—which could mean new jobs and additional pension contributions. While the NMU has had to retrench, the SIU has been able to keep its pension fund healthy and add the "20-at-55" retirement. In addition, the SIU pension and welfare program has several benefits that are superior to those avail­ able to the NMU Seaman. Disability Pension • The SIU plan provides full disability pension for .Seafarers with 12 years of seatime. • The NMU member must have 20 years of sea­ time credits for a full disability pension, with reduced payments provided for those under 65 who have 15 or more years of seatime. An NMU member dis­ abled after the age of 65 is eligible for a $50 monthly pension if he has lO-to-14 years of seatime. Death Benefit • The SIU $4,000 death benefit is guaranteed to the family of an SIU pensioner who dies. • The NMU plan calls for a $3,500 death benefit— less any pension received to a minimum of $1,500. This means that the beneficiary of any NMU mem ber who is on pension for eight months or more— 8 X $250 = $2,000—gets only the minimum $1,500 death payment. Medical Coverage •The SIU retiree is covered for all medical costs, without limit, and including dental care, artificial limbs, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses, etc. In addi­ tion, the SIU pensioner's dependents receive the hos­ pital and surgical benefits available to the dependents of active Seafarers during the pensioner's lifetime and for six months thereafter. By using Medicare and Medicaid benefits, SIU retirees are giving additional financial strength to this total-coverage medical pro­ gram. • The NMU program provides for a maximum of $750 in total medical costs for the pensioner and his dependents. Under today's spiraling medical costs, a single illness can wipe out the NMU member's pro­ tection against the heavy price of being sick. The only other medical benefit contained in the NMU pension plan is the cost of a hearing aid—not to exceed $325— once each four years for the pensioner only. The reason the SIU has been able to maintain its full range of superior benefits and add the "20-at-55" provision while the NMU has been forced to cut back can be traced to a difference in the approach each has taken toward managing the funds monies. A detailed report on the financial condition of the two programs appears on the following two pages. Page 15 �Pension Plans-A Compq There are a wide range of pension systems, and with each has come a different way of getting the money to pay for the benefits. Experts have been called upon to find the best way to prdVide the most benefits at the least cost, and at the same time pro­ tect the plans from folding. They have not always succeeded. Certain facts do stay the same. And in the case of the pension plans of the SIU's AGLIW District and the NMU, a fair comparison can be made from figures drawn from the Employee Welfare Pension Benefit Plan Annual Report Form filed with the United States Department of Labor. The actuarial figures in these reports lag as much as two years behind, and the last available figures from these reports, for both the SIU and the NMU, cover the year 1968. Pension experts agree that the key figure in all pension reports is the "unfunded past service liability." Take this phrase apart and this is what you have: "Unfunded." That means there is no money—no fund—to cover the item. "Past Service." Past service is the seatime credits that a man earns before a pension plan goes into effect. A pension plan, to be paid up, requires that enough dollars are put in the pension fund each day to pay for the seatime earned before the benefits were negotiated. Only then can there be a guarantee that the pension that will be drawn in the future can be paid for. But when the SIU and the NMU pension funds be­ gan, many Seamen had been on the job for several years—and no money had been set aside to pay for their pensions. Those years in which no dollars were set aside for the Seafarer represent his "past service." "Liability." A liability is a debt. In the case of pensions, it is a debt that must be paid if everyone who is on pension, and everyone who is working to­ ward a pension, is to have a solid money-backed guarantee that what he has earned toward his pension up to now is available. So the "unfunded past service liability" is, in effect, the mortgage that must be paid before a worker is sure that his share of his pension fund is secure^ Astronomical Liability In the ca^ of the NMU, the unfunded past service liability is astronomical—and rising. From a debt of $304 million dollars in 1965, it grew to $469 million in 1968. The NMU in 1965 reported that it had 29,000 members under its pension program, meaning that each member's share of the unfunded past service liability—or the mortgage on his pension at that time —was $10,500. By 1968, the NMU reported that the number of members covered by the pension had dropped to 27,500. But the unfunded past service liability had grown to $469 million. The drop in membership, coupled with the increase in the debt meant that by 1968, each member of the NMU had a mortgage against his pension of $17,000. In four years, the debt against the pension of each working NMU Seaman had grown from $10,500 to $17,000. And that debt is still growing. The SIU, too, has an unfunded past service liabil­ ity. In 1965 it amounted to $58 million. The SIU had 22,000 members covered by its pension program, and this number of members, divided into the $58 mil­ lion pension debt, meant each member had a mort­ gage of $2,600 on his pension investment. That grew to a top of $3,600 by 1967, the year that the SIU's unfunded past service liability reached its peak of $86 million. SIU Debt Drops But in 1968, the unfunded past service liability of the SIU pension plan dropped by $5 million—cutting the debt for each meml^r's pension investment to $3,100, based on a membership that had grown to 26,500. How did the drop in debt occur? It happened because SIU negotiators, seeing trouble ahead unless the unfunded past service liability was reduced, persuaded management to place $1.50 per man per day at sea into a debt-retirement fund. This meant that approximately $5 million a year was being spent toward strengthening the pension program for the future. Unfunded Past Service Pension Liability (Debt) 500 _ 466 469 400 300 304 200 100 i 1965 SIU 1966 NMU Source: U.S. Department of Labor Page 16 1967 30,000 29 28.5 i 25,000 22 20 000 15,000 10,000 5,000 1965 19( NMU' Millions of dollars 460 Active 1968 SIU's unfunded past service liability will take a' jump of an estimated $70 million as the new provi­ sion making full pensions available to those with 20 years of seatime at age 55 goes into effect. This will bring the fund's debt to approximately $150 million. But SIU negotiators, in bargaining for the new "20at-55" retirement, gained a contribution of $2.08 a day for each man at sea. Included in this amount is 33 cents that will go directly toward paying off the additional unfunded past service liability that came with the new benefit. That 33 cents, plus the $1.50 previously set aside to reduce the unfunded past service liability, means $6 million a year will be paid toward debt retiremwit; At that rate, the debt could be eliminated in 25 years. This is considered sound financing among pension programs. "Pension Plans Under Collective Bargaining, a Reference Guide for Trade Unions," which is pub­ lished by the AFL-CIO, ^ays that: "The common practice is i o write past service . liability off in about 30 years." The NMU has not set aside any funds to reduce their skyrocketing debt which stands as a threat against the pensions of those who are now retired and those who plan to retire in the future. In fact, the $5.5-million assessment levied by the NMU pension fund last month against NMU-contracted ship operators indicates that their pension program is having a difficult time staying afloat. The NMU Pilot has often displayed in headlines impressive figures as being the amount "in reserve for future pension benefits." NMU's "Accrued Liability' What the Pilot did not report were the current un­ funded past service liability figure and the total "ac­ crued liability." Accrued liability is similar to "unfunded past serv­ ice liability" except that it includes, in addition, the amount of money it will cost to pay off the full pen­ sions of all Seamen who are now on retirement. �rative Study: SlU vs NMU t Members 29 27.5 26.5 m 24 23 I 1967 1968 in spite of the blow when the passenger ships were arbitrarily laid up and the serious effect it had on the man-days of employment and thus on the con­ tributions to the Plan, that we were still strong and the Trustees were doing all they can do to assure all pensioners that the pensions were and would re­ main secure." How does the SIU pension fund stack up by com­ parison? Using the 1968 report to the federal government, the SIU would have been able to assure all p>ensioners on the rolls at that time their pension for life at a cost of $33,563,000. The SIU had in available cash $33,371,000, or less than $200,000 short of what it would have cost to guarantee full payment of all pen­ sioners for life. By Nov. 30, 1969—after the SIU began setting aside funds to reduce its debt—the cost of paying full pensions for life to all Seafarers on pension had gone up to $38,550,000. The union on the same date had assets—cash, plus bonds and stock that could be im­ mediately converted to cash—of $43,863,000, or more than $5 million above the amount that would have been needed to guarantee forever the pension of every retired SIU member. Why the Difference? Anyone can reasonably ask why the SIU pension fund is relatively secure while the NMU fund is floundering. These are some of the reasons: • The number of SIU members covered by the pension fund grew from 22,000 in 1965 to 26,500 in 1968—as reported to the U.S. government. The num­ ber of SIU members drawing pensions grew from 785 to 1,258 in the same period. This means that in 1968, 25,242 working Seafarers were contributing to the pension fund that was pay­ ing retirement checks to 1,258 men. • Federal reports filed by the NMU for the same period show that the number of NMU members dropped from 29,000 in 1965 to 27,500 in 1968. But the number of pensioners grew from 4,437 in 1965 to 9,469 three years later. This means that in 1968, 18,031 working NMU Seamen were contributing to a pension fund which was paying retirement benefits to 9,469. Put another way, the SIU in 1968 had 20 men working—and contributing to the pension fund—^for each Seafarer on pension. The NMU, at the same time, had fewer than two men working—and contributing to the pension fund— for each Seaman on pension. This ratio has grown worse in the past two years. The NMU Pilot reported in August that the union had 11,354 pensioners on July 1, 1970. • The NMU failed to plan for the future. ITiere were adequate signs years ago that the passenger liners were in danger of being laid up. Instead of gearing their pension program to withstand the loss of the thousands of pension fund-contributing jobs, the NMU risked the stability of their pension plan by providing a level of benefits too high to be supported by the amount of money going into the pension fund. Ibese benefits now appear to be in grave danger. The full impact of the loss of the liners has yet to be felt. Many of the thousands of jobs on the liners were held by long-term NMU veterans who either qualified for pension or are nearing the point where their service will permit them to take their pensions. The SIU was spared the unfortunate jolt that crip­ pled the NMU, when the passenger liners were put out of operation. • The NMU, along with other seafaring unions, has been losing additional jobs with the decline of the nation's foreign-trade freighter fleet. While the NMU ignored the storm signals in its area, the SIU planned with caution, holding back on programs that would jeopardize the right of Seafarers to receive what they had been promised—^both now and in the decades to come. The SIU recognized the warning issued in the AFLCIO pension plan handbook which says: "In an industry subject to rapid technological change and automation, in which it can be antici­ pated that the number of employees will sub­ stantially be reduced in the future, the effect upon the financing of a pension plan will be similar, if not as catastrophic, as going out of business." Source: U.S. Department of Labor The last year for which those figures are available is 1968. And, as taken from the report of the NMU's own actuaries—or pension financing experts—they showed this: • An accrued liability—the amount of money that would be needed to completely pay for all NMU pen­ sions being drawn at that time plus the cost of bring­ ing up to date the pension credits for those on the job—of $628,795,500. • A cash fund of $159,785,200—a figure that NMU calls "reserves" but which actually is only the cash that could be mustered at the time toward pay­ ing the accrued liability of $628,795,500 that is out­ standing. Under the column showing the debts of the NMU pension fund is the listing "Pensioners." Following it is the figure $269,033,200. This represents the amount of money the fund would need just to pay the future cost of the pensions for those who in 1968 were re­ ceiving pension checks. In other words, the "reserves" referred to so often by the NMU Pilot were, in 1968, a little more than half the amount of money needed to pay for the pen­ sions of the retirees at that time. Again, according to the NMU's own experts, it would have taken $296,033,200 to pay for the pensions of those alseady re­ tired in 1968. And the NMU had, at that time, "re­ serves" of $159,785,200. Had the NMU pension fund folded, there would not have been nearly enough money in 1968 to pay for the pensions of those who were then on retirement. This, in turn, means that the thousands of NMU Seamen at work and earning the cash being placed in the pension fund would have been left with nothing. Curran Shows Concern The president Of the NMU, Joseph Curran, indicated his concern for the health of the NMU pension plan in the August, 1970 issue of the NMU Pilot. After he and a group of trustees for the NMU Pension and Welfare Plan had visited retired members in Den­ mark, England and Spain, Curran wrote: "We made it quite clear to these pensioners that September 1970 Number of Pensioners Pensioners 12,000^ 11.354 10^ 10,00C 9^ 8,000 im 6,000 5673 4437 4,000 2,000 i 1965 SIU 1966 I 1967 1^ 1968 .1445 1 1969 July 1 1970 NMU Source: 1965-1968: U.S. Department of Labor NMU data 1969—July I, 1970: NMU Pilot Page 17 -It) �SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Jobs, Pensions On Line in Fight To Save Fleet The SIU's long campaign to bring federal assistance to the American-flag merchant fleet has a direct bearing on pensions. Without ships, there are no jobs. Without jobs, there will be no pensions. A recent report from the Senate Commerce Committee tells of the problem facing all American seamen working the foreign trade routes. There were a total of 56,700 jobs aboard all American-flag vessels in the foreign trade last year. This number will drop to under 34,000 by 1974, regardless of what happens, the commit­ tee's report said. Should no new ships be constructed by 1980, the total number of jobs available in this fleet will dwindle to 22,300. If ships are built at the recent 10-ships-a-year level during this decade, 28,400 men will be working aboard the American-flag merchant fleet servicing the international trade by 1980. Should the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 be passed, and if its recommendation that 30 ships a year be constructed in each of the next 10 years is placed in effect, employment by 1980 is estimated at 39,100. While this still represents a drop of nearly a third from the number of jobs available in 1969, the committee's report shows that employment will be increasing at the end of this decade if the program encompassed in the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is carried out. Aid for Domestic Trade The bill would also give help to operators in the domestic trade. Those who service the noncontiguous routes—^from and be­ tween Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam and the mainland United States—as well as the old and near-dormant Great Lakes fleet, would receive tax assistance to construct new ships. The bulk carriers, many of them operators with SIU contracts, would be in a position to take full advantage of the shipbuilding program. They are starved for modem ships. And they have held back construction because they have been denied the subsidies that have been available to the liner operators since 1936. A Senate Commerce Committee report published just last month showed that only one of all 50 American-flag bulk carriers is under 20 years old. And 20 years is considered to be a vessel's effective economic lifetime—the time in which a ship can be profitably operated. Competing against our old, small fleet of rusting bulk carriers is a growing armada of foreign-flag bulk ships—some 2,556 of them. Two thirds of these foreign-flag bulk carriers—1,700 ships —are under 10 years of age. While the figures are less overwhelming, the same general pat­ tern holds true in the American-flag freighter and tanker fleets. All this means that there is a huge job to be done for the United States to have a first-class fleet in world commerce, a fleet that will provide more jobs and greater opportunity for Seafarers. The SIU's political action program, through the SPAD, is aimed directly at getting laws that will protect and improve the merchant marine. SPAD supports candidates who support laws that will provide more jobs for Seafarers. And it is jobs that will guarantee the stability and provide the funds to improve the SIU pension plan in the future. Old sails, like Sam Spivak (above), have their pensions guaranteed for life because of the financial sound­ ness of the SIU's AGLIW District Pension Flan. The pensions of future retirees will he assured through the contributions made by the trainees at the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship which the union operates to prepare young men for careers at sea. The young Seafarers, in addition to paying for their own pension benefits, contribute to retiring the "unfunded past service liability" debt—contributions that add a safety factor to the pensions of those who are yet to retire. When Pension Plans Fail,.. There are 33,000 pension plans in the country. They cov­ er 30 million people, and they have $126 billion in cash. And many of them fail. .The Associated Press, in a series of stories developed earlier this year, noted that "... thousands of Americans retire only to discover they'll get no money from the plans they may have worked under for years." Thomas R. Donahue, as As­ sistant Secretary of Labor dur­ ing the Johnson Administration, testified before a Senate Labor Committee: 'Utterly Indefensible' "In all too many cases the pension promise shrinks to this: 'If you remain in good health and stay with the same com­ pany until you arc 65 years old, and if the company is still, in business, and if you haven't been laid off for too long a period, and if there's enough money in the fund, and that money has been prudently man­ aged, you will get a pension.' Projected Foreign Trade Fleet in 1980 Under Current& Proposed Building Programs Shown in Modern Ship Equivalents M. tf i«k •pptrtiilties 60,000,- 50,000 40,000 30,000 39,100 M NCR CMstrietio eiirreit 10 ship pr«cr» prtpMtil 30 ship pragra 20,000 10,000 1969- 70 71 72 Saarea: Saaata Caaiaiarca Caaiailttaa P'ige 18 73 74 75 76 77 78, 79 80 "It is utterly indefensible in a society as affluent as ours that an individual's economic secu­ rity in his later years should rest on an incredible list of 'ifs' and 'maybes,'" Donahue declared. While pension plan failures usually occur among small em­ ployers, workers in large com­ panies are not immune. Several hundred workers lost their jobs last month when the Crane Co. closed its plant in Trenton, N.J. Their pension program pro­ vided a paid-up annuity for em­ ployees who reached the age of 65 and otherwise qualified for a pension. With the closing of the plant, the pension plan lapsed. Many of the workers are elderly, but even those at age 64 are now being told they will get no pension. Closing of the Studebaker plant in South Bend, Ind., brought the largest single ter­ mination of pensions in recent years. The Studebaker pension agreement had been negotiated with the United Auto Workers. The "assets" in the plan at the time the plant went imder were sufficient to provide bene­ fits for those 60 or older with at least 10 years of service. Pension Cut, Eiiminatei] After they were taken care of, there remained only enough money to provide 15 percent of the earned value of their bene­ fits to workers with 10 or more years of service, and who were between the, ages of 40 and 59. The rest of the workers got nothing. Pensioners in a union-man­ agement pension plan covering a hat manufacturing group in New York City last year had their pensions cut to $20 a month—a blow that was fol­ lowed by the complete suspen­ sion of payments for a year. The pension and welfare plan of the United Mine Work­ ers Union has bounded up and down with the industry, since it has been dependent on the amount of coal mined. Opera­ tors pay a certain fee for each ton of coal brought to the sur­ face. When coal demand has been heavy, the plan remained stable. When the amount of coal mined slacked off, the fund suffered. Funds for the SIU pension plan have a cushion since the dollars required to support it come from several companies. This gives the added advantage of portability—meaning that a Seafarer can leave one SIUcontracted operator and go to work for another and his pen­ sion credits continue. But the pension fund will re­ main only as healthy as the ability of the combined com­ panies to pay the cost. SIU has been fortunate. While its deep sea employment has dropped 20 percent in the past four years, employment in other affected areas has re­ mained constant or increased. The NMU has been un­ fortunate. The lay-up of the passenger liners is cutting deep into the ability of the NMU ship operators' ability to pay, and is causing a larger jshare of the burden to be placed upon fewer jobs. And the NMU operators, like those who have contracts with the SIU, have had a decline in jobs because of the shrinkage of the American-flag foreigntrade frei^ter fleet. �GREAT LAKES TUG AND DIWDGE PENSION FUND Part rV—Section A Statement of Assets and Liabilities Great Lakes Tug & Dredge Pension Plan FUe No. WP-157217 For Year Beginning April 1, 1969, and ending March 31, 1970 275 30th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 ASSETS ' ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended March 31, 1970 H. fo the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the offioe of the fund, or at the New York State Insur­ ance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE Item 1. Gontributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) $ 133,223.91 (a) Employer (Schedule 1) 49,054.26 (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance* Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest 44,024.38 (b) Dividends 26,056.92 (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments 4. Profit of disposal of investments 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Additions 7. Total Additions [i 8. 9. 10. 11. 3! 12. I 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. J • DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Carriers and to Service Organizations (In­ cluding Prepaid Medical Plans) ; Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Sepa­ rately Maintained Fund Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants (Attach latest operating state­ ment of the Organization showing detail 'of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Benefits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) .... Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) 12,707.07 (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) .... 2,536.80 (c) Taxes 595.69 (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) 8,246.39 (e) Rent 1,474.88 (f) Insurance Premiums 174.17 (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums 31.00 (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) See attachment 12,529.51 (i) Total Adiministrative Expenses Loss on disposal of investments Decrease by adjustment in assQt values of in­ vestments Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) , (b) (c) Total Other Deductions Total Deductions RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Beginning of Year) Total Additions During Year (Item 7) $ 277,673.94 Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 98,912.43 Total Net Increase (Decrease) Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities) , $ 182,278.17 70,081.30 25,314.47 $ 277,673.94 LIABILITIES Insurance and annuity premiums payable Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) Accounts payable Accrued expenses 13. Other liabilities (Specify) Unapplied contribu­ tions ' . 1,442,625.63 14. Reserve for future benefits Total Liabilities and Reserves $1,442,625.63 1-5. End of Reporting Year $ 27,670.27 250.83 253,177.13 465,866.77 200,890.95 674,070.99 $1,621,946.94 9. 10. 11. 12. $ 41,759.95 559.80 1,621,387.14 $1,621,946.94 ' The assets listed in this statement must be valued on the basis regularly used in valuing investments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Department, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not so re­ quired to be filed with th U.S. Treasury Deparment, Deductions from Fund Balance Item 12(h)—Other Administrative Expenses Stationery, supplies and printing Postage, express and freight Telephone and telegraph Equipment rental Employee benefits Miscellaneous Repairs and maintenance Tabulating service Microfilming Dues and subscriptions Miscellaneous Trustees' meetings expense 38,295.51 18,856.97 $ 3,401.98 186.17 ! 275.85 599.77 744.64 716.43 60.89 6,313.97 129.18 15.34 85.29 $12,529.51 Page 4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GRW7.^KES TUG AND DREDGE PENSION FUND STATE OF SS. COUNTY OF .and , $ 98,912.43 Trustees of the Fund and affirm, .under the penalties of perjury that the contents of this Annual Report are.true and hereby subscribe thereto. $1,442,625.63 178,761.51 $1,621,387.14 Part IV Part IV data for trust or other sepuvtely maintained fund are to be completed for a plan involving a trust or other separately maintained fund. It abo is to be completed for a plan which: (1) Has incurred expenses other than: (a) Payments for unfunded benefits or (b) Insurance or annuity premiums or subscription charges paid to an insur­ ance carrier or service or other organization; or (2) Has assets other than: (a) Insurance or annuity contracts or (b) Contributions in the process of payment or collection. * September 1970 End of Item Prior Year 1. Cash $ 26,754.53 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) Accrued interest paid on bonds purchased 112.67 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associations .... b. Stocks: (1) Preferred 83,517.18 (2) Common 562,136.42 c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: (a) Federal 95,115.54 (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations (3) Nongovernment obligations 674,989.29 d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions).. (Identify and indicate percentage of owner­ ship by this Plan in the subsidiary) (1) % (2) % 4. Real estate loans and mortgages 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured b. Unsecured 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income b. Prepaid expenses ; c. Other (Specify) $1,442,625.63 .8. Total Assets Others Qndlcate titles): Page 19 �Farm Workers Battlmg for Better Life Salinas, Calif. And suddenly it was all a matter of pen and ink. All the indignity, the suffer­ ing, the humiliation of this na­ tion's agricultural workers were now reduced to signatures on a contract. One of the signa­ tures would be that of Cesar Chavez, the doughty fighter for betterment of the lives of farm workers. The other would be­ long to a representative of In­ ter-Harvest, one of the largest vegetable growers in Califor­ nia's Salinas Valley. The signatures would me^n that Cesar Chavez, the inspira­ tional leader of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, had achieved an­ other small breakthrough in the resistance of growers to the fact of change. That change is the desire for living wages, decent housing and ho|>e for the future among California's largely MexicanAmerican farm workers. The change, mostly attributable to Chavez, has not been easy. For farm workers have not yet received their LaFollette Seamen's Act. There is no un­ employment comf>ensation, no minimum welfare standards, no workmen's compensation for injuries and no recognition of grievance by the National La­ bor Relations Board. Right now there is only Ce­ sar. He is the product of genera­ Trainees Off To First Ship Class 48 Ships Out Page 20 tions of unsuccessful at­ tempts — attempts almost al­ ways marked by violence—to organize farm workers. Tongs Formed The attempts began in the 1880s with Chinese migrants who formed themselves into the infamous "Tongs." The Tongs were so insulated from one an­ other that their disunity was often used by growers to pro­ mote hostility between them and more time was spent in in­ ternecine warfare than in or­ ganization. In 1905 workers in the Mid­ west and West formed the In­ dustrial Workers of the World—the Wobblies. At their national convention in San Di­ ego in 1912 lawless gangs of growers and their henchmen, aroused by attempts at union­ izing field hands, herded the Wobblies into pens where they where systematically pum­ melled with clubs, blackjacks and whips. Ten years later, IWW orga­ nizers went to jail for life after two workers died in riots in Wheatland, Calif. And three more died in 1933 when grow­ ers ambushed cotton pickers at a union hall. The path leading to Cesar's breakthrough started after World War II with the forma­ tion of the National Farm La­ borers Union. They organized the cotton workers in Califor­ nia and were organizing share­ croppers in Arkansas when growers drove them from the fields by importing Mexican labor—braceros. The growers continued to ex­ ploit the Mexican migrant workers until I9d4 when the then Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz declared the "temporary" law that permitted the bracero movement to start had expired. Almost immediately the AFL-CIO Agricultural Work­ ers Organizing Committee be­ gan to work. AWOC struck the Delano vineyards on Sept. 9, 1965. At first it seemed fu­ tile since most of the MexicanAmerican workers belonged to an unaffiliated union—the Na­ tional Farm Workers Associa­ tion. Their leader, a thin man with a sunny smile, was Cesar Chavez. Chavez waited one week, and on Sept. 16, 1965—Mexi­ can Independence Day — cast his lot with the strike. Out of that was born the UFWOC. Since those first days of uni­ ty, Chavez has marched his chicano followers up the broad and fertile Imperial Valley to Sacramento to plead for justice. He staged a hunger fast and still suffers from its effects. He and his followers, backed by the famous grape boycott, stood the Delano grape grow­ ers (Ml their collective ears, un­ til, one by one, they signed union ccMitracts. SIU Representative Mike Sacco congratulates the graduating Class 46 at the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship at Piney Point as they prepare to leave for New York to go aboard their first ship. From left; James Sellers, David Green, Mike Wood, Edward Silvers, Sacco, Pat Knox, John Botts and Alvin McKants. HLSS President Robert Matthews, center, and Lifeboat Instructor John Shields, left, hid farewell to graduate trainees of Class 48 as the group prepares to leave Piney Point to work aboard their first ship. From left are Shields, Darrell Lawshe, William Enz, David Rine, Jeff Blackwell, John Richardson, Willie Bridges, Matthews, Jesus Gomez, David Taylor, Larry Smith and Caldwell Sabb. -1 Farm Workers Reap Fruits of Unionism Now the California grape pickers receive: • Wages of $1.90 an hour, up from $1 and $1.05 a year ago, plus a piece work rate on top of that. • Growers now contribute to an economic development fund which will provide de­ cent, low-cost housing. • Health and welfare clinics are sprouting where the mi­ grants live. • Schools for workers' chil­ dren are being built from grow­ ers' contributions. Uphill Path It's not been easy, and the path for Cesar is still uphill. Men of conviction are still pay­ ing the price in pain. During the most recent ef­ fort with the California vege­ table crops, roadbl(x:ks in the path were thrown up not cjnly ' by growers—that was expect­ ed—but also by the powerful Teamsters Union. Afraid of Chavez and the men who stand with him under the sign of the black thunderbird, growers signed a "sweet­ heart" contract with the Team­ sters. No elections or card checks were held. The growers just signed contracts. Cesar replied by calling the 10,000 vegetable workers out on strike. The Teamsters coun­ tered with pickets of their own. Finally, Chavez and the Teamsters signed a pact which left the fields to the UFWOC and the packing plants to the Teamsters. That ciid not mean victory. Jerry Cohen, general counsel for the UFWOC, suffered a brain concussion when he was set upon by a rancher's hired agents. Cesar pushed on. And when Inter-Harvest re­ alized he would not quit, they sought to come to terms. And suddenly it was all reduced to pen and ink. Chavez, however, is the first to say that the job of farm organizing will not stop with the Salinas Valley vegetable men. He continues to campaign for the rights of farm workers wherever they suffer the old in­ dignities and despair. Judging by his record so far, they won't suffer long. USIA Kills' Story On Form Workers Despite the benefits they accrued for the workers in the California grape industry, Cesar Chavez and the AFL-CIO Farm Workers apparently don't rate any good publicity from the United States Information Agency. The leadership of the USIA recently cancelled a picturestory about the Farm Workers and their struggles. The "kill" order on the publication, which had already been sent to USIA posts overseas, was issued by Assistant Director Kenneth Towery. Towery was blunt in the explanation of his actions: "I don't think we should take sides in a domestic controversy. I killed the story. It was a puff job for Chavez." The 24-page USIA "photo bulletin" had already been sent to 118 countries before it was killed. The editor of the publication, Joseph Principato, defend­ ed the article, saying, "I thought the Chavez story was a good one. I thought it showed that through legal and non­ violent means a man of little education and influence can really make a lot of difference in people's lives." Towery said a new version of the story was being pre­ pared. �Activities Continue at Piney Point CLA'JOE "SONWr SIMMONS I Norman Smith, outstanding grad of Life­ boat Class 52, receives wristwatch and con­ gratulations from Instructor John Shields. /* I ife at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship ac Piney Point, Md., is often hectic and always busy. Classes graduate and new classes start training—^young men training for careers at sea aboard American-flag vessels. They undergo instruction for a 12-week period before going aboard their first ship. A routine day at HLSS might include exhaustive instruction in the intricacies of the engine plant of a typical ship, or safety procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency. There are lectures by SIU officials on the workings and ramifications of the union and practical experience to be gained by on one of the ships owned by the school. The training program constantly proves its effective­ ness by graduating the finest seamen sailing the world's oceans. Graduates of Lifeboat Class 51 are, kneeling from left, Mike Wall, Bill Cook, Bob Cicala, John Sclease, Jose Novas, Mike Lawrence, Earl Jentoff, Mike Ortiz and Mike Beed. Second row, Charles Rogers, Bruce .Hendrik, Arnie Gonzalez, Charles Rodriguez, Joe Miles, Boh Ware, Fred Pohlman, Larry Graham, George Moore and Instructor Paul Veralopulo. Back row. Bob Miller, Larry Engleman, Charles Perkins, Doug Spencer, John Rokicki, Terry Parker, James Kuchta, Ken Powell and Qem Colgan. j. . SIU Safety Director Joe Algina discusses lifeboat launching procedures as a group of trainees prepare to put a boat over the side as part of their minimum 30-hours of practical lifeboat training. 1 l< * Instructor John Shields presents a wristwatch to trainee Chip Moorefield, out­ standing graduate of Lifeboat Class 53. $- Lifeboat Class 52 graduated 21 young trainees shown above on the deck of the S. Y. Dauntless. Kneel­ ing, from left, are Doug Smith, Charles Andres, Billy Lincoln and John Leach. In the middle row are Leo Pouncey, Jim Kirkland, Larry Miller, Jim Hall, Norman Smith, Ronnie Harvell and Jim AIford. Back row. Boh Salley, Dennis Hansen, Dennis Metcalf, Clyde Clark, Randy DeCost, Rex Sherwell, Spurgeon Simpson, Jr., Tyrone Leo, Mai Christian, James Harper, and Instructor John Shields. I Lifeboat Class 53 poses after completion of course. Kneeling, from left, are Rich Burkett, Marv Royster, Clem Tillman, John Zekos, Charles Holmes, Kevin Hare, Ed Orsi, Dan Lacaze and Cecil Beverly. Second row. Gene Alexander, Harry Piccariello, Ray Lott, Mark Worzel, Mike Bethune, Wayne Sechser, Archie Tuten, Bob Higgins, Mike McGee, Bob Harris, Bob Smith and Instructor John Shields. Back row, Shelton Conarroe, Rich Freeman, Tom Brophy, Phil Baldwin, Jim Ferguson, Pete Stanger, Chip Moorefield, Everett Cox and Phil Nerges. it SIU Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr talks to trainees during a union education meeting. Kerr spent several days at tite scliool meeting tlie future Seafarers and observing their training program. At Kerr's left are Bill Hall, HLSS director of training, and Paul McGaham, deputy training director. HLSS President Robert Mat­ thews (left) looks over Wright's Official History of the Spanish-American War in the school's library. The rare his­ torical volume was presented to the school by Seafarer Skippy Guszczynsxy. September 1970 Page 21 �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings SACRAMENTO (Ogden), June 21—Chairman, William P. Link; Secretary, Darrell G. Chafin. Every­ thing running smoothly. No beefs and no disputed OT. TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Waterways), June 21—Chairman, John Urzan; Secretary, Alipio Trujillo; Deck Delegate, Frank Rodri­ guez, Jr.; Engine Delegate, C. Emertziadis; Steward Delegate, Martin Iturrino. $31 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks extended to steward de­ partment for job well done. ROBIN HOOD (Moore-McCormack), July 19—Chairman, J. Jus­ tus; Secretary, Aussie Shrimpton; Deck Delegate, W. R. Addington; Engine Delegate, P. Pappas; Stew­ ard Delegate, Charles J. Hickox. $13 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in each department. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), July 24—Chairman, Robert A. Lord; Secretary, George W. Gib­ bons; Deck Delegate, Norbert Prats; Engine Delegate, Granville W Davis; Steward Delegate, Rob­ ert J. Liegel. Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land), July 26—Chairman and Deck Delegate, B. Hager; Secretary, Joseph Wila- szak; Engine Delegate, Alfred R. Fry; Steward Delegate, Joseph Keams. No beefs and no disputed OT. DE SOTO (Waterman), June 14—Chairman, Joseph D. Blanchard; Secretary, J. F. Castronover. $5.75 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), July 29—Chairman, Vernon Poulson; Secretary, John C. Reed; Deck Delegate, Gordon Bradford; Engine Delegate, Robert Ellenson; Stew­ ard Delegate, Wm. R. Maginder. $8.50 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to entire steward department for job well done. CALMAR (Calmar), Aug. 2— Chairman, Leo Koza; Secretary, Howard Flynn. Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no dis­ puted OT. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Aug. 9—Chairman, P. H. Green­ wood; Secretary, T. Conway; Deck Delegate, James Robinson; Engine Delegate, N. M. Benz; Steward Delegate, M. Lambert. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. COLUMBIA BANKER (Colum­ bia), July 19—Chairman, V. A. Vanzenella; Secretary, J. Calhoun. Ship sailed short one man in deck department. Some disputed OT in engine department. No beefs. VORKMAR (Calmar), Aug. 17— Chairman, Salvatore Sbriglio; Sec­ retary, John R. Marshall; Deck Delegate, T. O. Foster; Engine Delegate, J. McDonald; Steward Delegate, Stanlfey A. Woycik. Every­ thing running smoothly. BUCKEYE VICTORY (Buckeye), Aug. 14—Chairman, Anthony Barnes; Secretary, W. J. Geamy; Deck Delegate, A. W. Reynolds; Engine Delegate, W. J. Geamy. No disputed OT and no beefs. CHICAGO (Sea-Land), Aug. 3— Chairman, Walte Sibley; Secretary, B. B. Henderson; Deck Delegate, D. H. McKinney. Very good trip with no major beefs. $24 in ship's fund. ROBIN SHERWOOD (MooreMcCormack), July 18—Chairman, H. S. Lee; Secretary, P. S. Holt. No beefs and no disputed OT re­ ported by department delegates. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmi­ an), July 26—Chairman, David D. Backrak; Secretary, Paul P. Lopez; Deck Delegate. Walter G. Butterson; Engine Delegate, Michael Lesko; Steward Delegate, Alvin C. OLander. $30 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine de­ partments. Ten New Lifeboafmen After attending the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in New York and passing the Coast Guard Exam, 10 more Seafarers re­ ceived lifeboat endorsements. From left in the front row are Vincent Maroney, Alea Miller, Fred Wilkison, Edward Everett and Juan Antonio. Standing are SIU Instructor Lenny Decker, Lyman Shepard, Frank Flores, Donald Meder, James Herbert and Geraldo Morales. Pull Books Received A proud and happy group of eight Seafarers received their full books at the July membership meeting at the New York hall. Seated from left are; Ronald Jones, Thomas Spangler, Rafael Bonefont, John Shields and Paulino Flores. Standing.are Jack Smithey, Harry Moore and Ralph Moore. Page 22 OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Overseas), Aug. 10—Chairman, Malcolm Cross; Secretary, Mike Dunn; Deck Delegate, Ralph C. Taylor; Engine Delegate, Robert Young; Steward Delegate, Amo Larson. Chairman to see patrolman regarding inadequate launch service in Empire Louisiana. FAIRPORT (Waterman), Aug. 11—Chairman, A. Parek; Secretary, Ralph Collier; Deck Delegate, Robert Livermore; Steward Dele­ gate, William Gonzalez. No beefs and no disputed OT. MONTPELIER VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), Aug. 13—Chairman, Jack Bentz; Secretary, J. E. Higgins; Deck Delegate, John Bertolino; Steward Delegate, Leslie P. Shattuck. $37.75 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck and engine department to be taken up with patrolman. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. TRANSIDAHO (Hudson Water­ ways), Aug. 6—Chairman, Robert F. Mackert; Secretary, William T. Rose; Deck Delegate, John Wilson; Engine Delegate, M. Thomas; Stew­ ard Delegate, Ralph Nay. Two men hospitalized in Bremerhaven. Some disputed OT in deck department. No beefs reported. CITRUS PACKER (Waterman), Aug. 8—Chairman, J. McDougall; Secretary, G. Marzett; Deck Dele­ gate, Max H. Higgason; Engine Delegate, J. Sanders; Steward Dele­ gate, Warren Lewis. Some disputed OT in each department to be brought to attention of boarding patrolman. Some minor beefs pointed out and discussed by stew­ ard department. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), Aug. 2—Chairman, Charles D'Amico; Secretary, Thomas Williams; Deck Delegate, James C. Collins; Engine Deegate, Reidar M. Nielsen; Steward Delegate, Claiborne Jeter. $20 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Steward department doing very good job trying to make this a happy ship. Vote of thqnks extended to steward department. BUCKEYE ATLANTIC (Buck­ eye), July 19—Chairman, L, W. Cartwright; Secretary, J. S. Stevens; Deck Delegate, F. W. Legg; En­ gine Delegate, V. Whitney; Steward Delegate, James O. Stanley. Some disputed OT in engine and steward departments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Deck and Steward departments extended vote of thanks to. first assistant engineer for job well done. DEL SUD (Delta), Aug. 21— Chairman, J. Procell; Secretary, P. Blanchard; Engine Delegate, A. J. Clement; Steward Delegate, John Denais. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engines departments. Everything else running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to all dele­ gates for job well done. DEL SOL (Delta), Aug. 16— Chairman, Claude Webb; Secretary, Charles Shirah; Deck Delegate, John Turk, Jr.; Steward Delegate, Joseph Gagliano. $17 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. STEEL DE.SIGNER (Isthmian), Aug. 9—Chairman, K. Schluter; Secretary, Angel Seda. Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed O'T. Various repairs to be taken care of. OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mari­ time Overseas), Aug. 1—Chairman, J. Latapie; Secretary, R. M. Ken­ nedy. $14.75 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Some disputed OT in engine department. BETkFLOR (Bethlehem Steel), Aug. 16—Chairman, B. G. Brown­ ing; Secretary, W. Reid; Engine Delegate, R. E. Jones. $9.10 in ship's fund. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT reported by department delegates. • VANTAGE HORIZON (Vancor), Aug. 9—Chairman, Frank R. Cottongin; Secretary, Pete Triantafillos; Deck Delegate, Jewel T. Dealing; Engine Delegate, Louis R. Pickhart; Steward Delegate, Gordon D. Wheeler. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. PENNMAR (Calmar), Aug. 16— Chairman, Carl Gibbs; Secretary, Claude Gamett, Jr.; Deck Delegate, William J. Emerson; Engine Dele­ gate, Paul R. Jordon; Steward Dele­ gate, John J. Breen. No beefs and no disputed OT. MOBILIAN (Waterman), Aug. 3—Chairman, John Cisiecki; Sec­ retary, John Meo; Deck Delegate, Robert Wagner; Engine Delegate, Edmund Pacheco; Steward Dele­ gate, B. H. Dane, Sr. No beefs, no disputed. OT. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended steward department for job well done. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tanker), July 26—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Engine Delegate, Michael Schwall; Steward Delegate, Quenton Broun. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. FAIRISLE (Panoceanic Tanker), Aug. 22—Chairman, A. H. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. J. Davis; Engine Delegate, Michael Schwall; Steward Delegate, Quenton Broun. Ship on way to Yokohama, Japan. No beefs, no disputed OT. DELTA BRASIL (Delta), Aug. 9-r-Chairman, J. Thrasher; Secre­ tary, V. L. Swanson; Deck Dele­ gate, Steve Szants; Engine Delegate, Paul Thomas; Steward Delegate, Curtis Veozie. Motions submitted regarding vacation, retirement, wage increases. Few hours disputed QT in deck department. No beefs. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), Aug. 15—Chairman, W. Layton; Secretary, M. Bugawan. $180 in Movie Fund. No disputed OT re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward departfor job well done. BALTIMORE (Sea-Land), Aug. 22—Chairman, J. Delgado; Secre­ tary, Ken Hayes; Deck Delegate, K. Teschke; Engine Delegate, R. Evans; Steward Delegate, M. G. Ridgeway. Vote of thanks extended to 4-8 watch for cleaning messroom. Discussion held regarding contract negotiations. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Aug. 25—Chairman, Kenneth C. Kitchen; Secretary, W. Gibbons; Deck Delegate, Robert A. Lord; Engine Delegate, G. W. Davis; Steward Delegate, Robert J. Liegel. Everything running smoothly with no beefs.-JAMES. (Ogden Marine), Aug. 23—Chairman, Francis D. Finch; Engine Delegate, Oliver N. Myers; Steward Delegate, James Pendergrass. No beefs and no disputed OT. COLUMBIA STAR (Columbia), Aug. 9—Chairman, Joe Ortiguerra; Secretary, E. E. Harris; Deck Dele­ gate, Lee Snodgrass; Engine Dele­ gate, Robert Sullivan; Steward Del­ egate, Juvenal Fernandes. Motion made to raise maintenance and cure payments to $21.50 a day. Motion m^e to send wire to headquarters backing Union officials in their legal dispute with U.S. Government. Car­ ried unanimously. JEFF DAVIS (Waterman), .Aug. 8—Chairman, W. Kuchta; Secre­ tary, R. Barker;, Deck Delegate, Lester Freebum. Vote of thanks to steward^ department for job well done. Everything running smoothly. Qflflfflrzire I txtt �The Link to Men at Sea: Ships' Committees I' erving as the connecting link between union business S ashore and Seafarers at sea is the five-man ship's com­ mittee aboard every SlU-contracted vessel. The commit­ tee consists of one elected delegate from each of the three shipboard departments, a ship's secretary-reporter, and the ship's chairman. The ship's chairman has the responsibility of calling a meeting of the ship's unlicensed crew every Sunday while the vessel is at sea. The purpose of the meeting is to dis­ cuss any and all matters which relate to the union, its programs and activities. TRANSOIST4RIO (Hudson Waterways)—The ship\s i-oniinitlee of the Transontario poses on deck. From left are: Ramond Perez, steward delegate; Efrain R. Sierra, engine delegate; A. T. Ruiz, ship's chair­ man ; F. Van Ijooy, secretary-reporter, and Pat Stone, deck delegate. With the assistance of the department delegates, any shipboard beefs can also be reviewed and handled at the Sunday meeting. h ii + It is the duty of the ship's secretary-reporter to keep in close touch with union headquarters via mail and to pass onto the crew any communications received from headquarters. He also forwards to headquarters a report of each shipboard meeting, including recommendations, beefs and actions taken. ^ci I' Mi:i k:i. f -kit The Seafarers aboard every SIU ship have the same right as those on the beach to be kept fully informed of all activities of their union, and to express themselves at any time during a shipboard meeting. The SIU ship's committee is the means by which this is accomplished. STEEL WORKER (Isthmian)—The Steel Worker docked at Brooklyn's Erie Basin after a voyage from India. The members of the committee were, from left: Conrad B. Taylor, engine delegate; Edward Parr, ship's chairman; James Bush, deck delegate; William Hand, secretary-re­ porter, and J. Craddwick, steward delegate. U r fi; EAGLE TRAVELER (Sea Transport (x>rp.)—^The ship's committee of the Eagle Traveler met in the crew's mess after the tanker docked at Bayonne, IV.J. They are, from left; A. W. Hutcherson, secretary-reporter; J. L. Bourgeois, ship's chairman; T. W. Brennan, deck delegate; Otto Mot­ ley, engine delegate, and J. W. White, steward delegate. i i" MIDLAKE (formerly York Agents, Inc.)—The Midlake's committee hold last meeting before payoff in a New York ho|el. The ship was registered under a foreign flag and the crewmembers flown home from Israel. Pictured from left are: Jorge Goto, deck delegate; B. L. Fowler, engine delegate; Orville Payne, secretary-reporter; Robert Boyd, steward delegate, and Ted Treddin, ship's chairman. ^i OVERSEAS VLLA (Maritime Overseas)—^The committee of the Overseas Vila got to­ gether on deck while awaiting payoff in Carteret, N.J. Pictured from left are: Donald M. King, steward delegate; Panagiotis Stavropoulos, secretary-reporter; James H. Parnell, deck delegate; William O'Connor, chairman, and CJiarles Bean, engine delegate. September 1970 Page 23 �Vacation Center First Year a Success s the shadows began to lengthen earlier in the after­ noon across the recreational areas of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Md., the last of the more than 200 vacationers—Seafarers and members of their families—started to pack and close out this first year of the SIU Vacation Center. By any standard, this first year was a success. There were a variety of activities to satisfy all interests; the families got along well together in the relaxed atmosphere of the Vacation Center; arid the weather was beautiful. But most important was the reaction of the vacation­ ers. Jose Aguiar, his wife Olga, and their son William spent two weeks at the Vacation Center. It was the fam­ ily's first real vacation together in many years. Jose, who has been sailing as able seaman and bosun wih the SIU for nearly 20 years, said it was the best time he had ever had. For Charles Larkin, who sails as fireman-oiler on the Great Lakes, the two weeks at the Vacation Center were a welcome opportunity to recuperate from a serious ill­ ness. Charlie had just returned home from a hospital in Detroit when his sister, niece, and three grandnephews persuaded him to make the trip to Piney Point. 'Tt was the best thing I could have done," he said. "I got plenty of rest and sun, and I feel better now than I have in a long, long time." For Joseph and Helen Falasca, the ten days at Piney Point was a chance to give their three children—and themselves—a vacation away from the heat and noise of New York City. "The kids really enjoyed themselves," Joe said. "There was plenty for them to do, and we never had to worry about them. It's the best vacation we've ever had." For John and Mary Ann McLaughlin, it was their first vacation together in 16 years, and the first time John was able to spend a vacation with his boys, Leo and Michael. "This was a vacation we are all going to remember," John said. "I can't remember a time when we all had such a good time together, and I'm sure coming back again next year." The SIU Vacation Center closed for the season Labor Day. A Retired Seafarer Richard Nash and his wife Rita spend a quiet hour in the late afternoon beside the pond at the SIU Vacation Center. A gaggle of geese inhabit the pond's shore. •• »«. w, ^ ~ •-I' — Picnic time is family fun time, and Bob Callis and family seem to be enjoying the Saturday evening cook-out in the secluded picnic grove. Retired Seafarer Lawrence Hogan and his wife Ada watch their grand­ children frolic in the pool at the SIU Vacation Center. The Hogans say the center "is the best we've ever seen." Crabbing is a popular pastime among vacationers at the SIU Center, and the waters around Piney Point yield some of the best hardshell crabs anywhere. Arthur "Knobby" Graf and Mrs. Graf try their luck. \ iM tiV i Ifi'piffi �Bernard Buchanan and Bernard, Jr. take to the woodland trails at the SIU Vacation Center. Buchanan mans the tugs of the C&O Railroad out of Newport News, Va. •f • '4 Grandaughter Anne Marie goes aboard the 65-foot yawl Manitou with an assist from Harry and Evelyn Luckey, as their daughter Beverly stands by. Daily sailing is a must at the center. Eugene Milanesi, one of the first Seafarers to retire under the SIU Disability Pension, looks over photo display with his wife Ann, and Eugene, Jr. it •j 4 <r if Joseph Mazurek is at the controls as he makes ready to take his family for an outing on the waters off St. George's Island. Power boats are available to the center's visitors. I*! 11' ;T ^4 ' Seafarer Otto Gugliotta and his wife, Cecelia enjoy the shuflleboard facilities at the Vacation Center. ,y V *S J .A, A lilj riftWT?!. ,4. . ' ' i^. - ' ' y r • ^ ' t, h. Is' • emre) ;r ^•'4 • • , . • .. •Ksm Dave Blonstein and his wife found many interesting photo scenes as they toured the Center's 49 acres. I-', September 1970 Page 25 �Food Highlight Of Newark Trip 'T^he containership Newark (Sea-Land) docked in A Port Elizabeth, NJ., recently after a trip from San Juan, P.R. Converted in 1968, the 497-foot long vessel has a capacity of 360 fully-loaded containers and a gross tonnage of 11,522 tons. She made the voyage in four days sailing time. Crew members said one of the highlights of the trip was the excellent food served by Chief Cook Rupert Jackson. The entire steward department received a "well done" from the crew. The Newark had a smooth payoff with only a few minor beefs when she docked. ''li i^vil ' r '5' •'J Messnian Joseph Simonetti stands by ready to lake an order as Louis Ramirez of the engine department scans the ship's menu. Felipe Aponte, an oiler, checks gauges in engine room against specifications called for in his log book. Chief Cook Rupert Jackson prepares a pan of roast lamb for the crew. Jackson, a native of the Virgin Islands, joined the SIU in 1945. Fireman - watertender Chen Yu, a 20-year veteran in the SIU, checks valves in the en­ gine room of the ship. Norman Okray (left), a 27year veteran able seaman, re­ ceives help in filing out un­ ion papers from SIU Patrol­ man Angus "Red" Campbell. �I I J 20 Seafarers 'Hit the Beach' to Stay Twenty more Seafarers have retired to shore after long careers at sea. They are; I Milton Awall, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1942 and sailed in the deck de­ partment as an able seaman. A native of Philadelphia, Seafarer Awall now lives in Jamaica, N.Y. When he retired he ended a sailing career of 40 years. James Wilbur McCranie, 56, a native of Florida now makes his home in Tampa, Fla. He joined the union in the Port of Tampa in 1939 and sailed in the steward department. He received a personal safety award for his part in making the Alcoa Reamer an accident-free ship during the first half of 1960. A native of Virginia, Broth­ er Kelly now makes his home in Mobile, Ala. His retirement" ends a sailing career of 45 years. Pedro Viniet, 55, is a native of Puerto Rico and now resides in Arecibo P.R. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a messman. Brother Viruet was issued picket duty cards in 1961 and 1962. Robert KeDy MUton Awall James McCranie Thomas Gerald Lyons, 61, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the deck department as boat­ swain. A native of Ishpeming, Mich., Brother Lyons now lives in Seattle, Wash. His retirement ended a sailing career of 46 years. Patrick Santoroy 66, is a native of New York and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as a cook. In 1962 he was issued two picket duty cards. James Edwin Barnes, 58, joined the SIU in the Port of Houston and sailed in the steward depart­ ment as a cook. A native of Edna, Tex., Seafarer Barnes now makes his home in Houston. He is an Air Corps veteran of World War II. Juan Bonefont, 48, joined the SIU in the Port of San Juan and sailed in the engine department as a wiper. A native of San Juan, P.R., Brother Bonefont now makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card. James Barnes Thomas Lyons Patrick Santoro Robert Lee Kelly; 65, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department. Pedro Viruet Juan Bonefont Ignasio Tirado, 54, a native of Puerto Rico, now lives in New York City. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the steward depart- ment. In 1961 he was issued two picket duty cards. Seafarer Tirado has served the SIU as depart­ ment delegate while on board ship. Frank M. Collins, 64, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. While on the seas he served the union as a department dele­ gate. A native of South Dakota, Brother Collins now lives in Reno, Nev. He served in the Naval Reserves from 1942 to 1945. Ignasio Tirado Frank Collins Carl Edward Jensen, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of Frankfort and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. A native of Norway, Sea­ farer Jensen now makes his home in Frankfort, Mich. He completes a sailing career of 52 years. Salvatore Sabato Mancino, 52, a native of Connecticut,- now lives in Burbank, Calif. He joined the union in 1944 in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the deck department as a boatswain. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card. Seafarer Mancino served the SIU as a department delegate while sailing. Salvatore Mancino Mariano Gonzalez, 56, joined the union in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the deck department as an ordinary seaman. In 1961 and 1962 he was issued picket duty cards. Brother Gonzalez has served as department delegate while on board ship. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Gonzalez now makes his home in New York City. Stavros Marconis, 65, a native of Greece, is now spending his retirement there. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. Evans J. Forct, right, a member of the SIUNA-affiliated Inland Boatmen's Union, receives his first pension check from SIU Repre­ sentative James Martin at the New Orleans Hall. Brother Foret has sailed in the engine department tugs for more than 40 years. Mariano Gonzalez Stavros Marconis Henrjj Smith, 64, joined the union in the Port of Detroit and sailed in the engine department. He is a Navy veteran of World War 11. A native of Michigan, he now makes his home there. Leon Mars, Sr., joined the un­ ion in the Port of New Orleans and sailed as a Chief Engineer. A native of Mississippi, he now resides there with his family. Henry Smith Claudio Anavitate, 65, joined the SIU in 1942 in the Port of New York. A native of Puerto Rico, he sailed in the engine de­ partment. He was issued a picket duty card in 1961. Seafarer Ana­ vitate now resides- in Brooklyn, N.Y. Edmund Zarecki, 62, joined the SIU in 1942 in the Port of Detroit. He sailed in the steward department. A native of Ohio, he currently resides there. Social Security Q&A 'Will I Get Medicare? ft ' By A. A. BERNSTEIN ,SIU Social Security Director We read each month of the veteran SIU members who take advantage of our pension plan and retire from their jobs at sea. Many of these pensioners are at or nearing the age when they are eligible for Medicare. They often have questions re­ lating to these health care pro­ grams. The SIU Social Security staff is anxious to answer any and all of their questions. Active and retired Seafarers and their families should address any questions concerning Medi­ care and Medicaid or any other Social Security benefits to wid­ ows, children, disabled workers, etc. to A. A. Bernstein, director of Social Security and Welfare Services, Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. Q. I will be 65 next year and have always worked under social security. Will I get hospital and medic^ insurance under Medi­ care or will I have to buy private health insurance? A: First, you will have the hos­ pital insurance part of Medicare 1970 upon application at 65. This is protection you have already paid for and don't need to duplicate. It helps pay for in-patient care in a participating hospital and for post-hospital care in an approved "extended care facility" or in your home, if your doctor de­ cides you need skilled health care after you leave the hospital. &cond, you'll also be able to sign up, if you wish, for Medi­ care medical insurance, which helps pay doctor bills and other medical costs. You may not be able to buy private health insurance that equals the coverage of Medicare. Many companies have "after 65" clauses in their policies, -which mean they pay only the expenses Medicare does not cover. These may cover deductibles and other Medicare payments you're re­ sponsible for. If you now have health insurance, your agent can tell you what your policy will cover after 65. Q: Does Medicare's medical insiu-ance help pay a doctor's bill only when I'm in a hospital? A; No. Medical insurance will help pay for the services of doc­ tors no matter where they are received—hospital, office, home or elsewhere. Other medical serv­ ices for which medical insurance will help pay include certain di­ agnostic services. X-ray or radi­ ation treatments, surgical dress­ ings, splints, casts, braces and the use of a wheelchair, hospital bed or similar equipment in your home. Q: How is Medicare financed? A: Separate trust funds have been set up, one to finance the hospital insurance part of the Medicare program and the other to finance the medical insurance part. Contributions to the hos­ pital insurance fund are made during a worker's career and are deducted from his paycheck at the same time and in the same way as the deductions for gen­ eral social security benefits. His employer pays an equal amount. The trust fund for medical insur­ ance' is maintained through monthly premium payments, with half the cost of the insurance coming from the people who sign up for it and the other half paid by the federal government. Edmund Qaudio Zarecki Anavitate Raymond Lewis, 68, joined the SIU in 1949 in the Port of New York. He sailed in the stew­ ard department and was issued a picket duty card in 1961. A na­ tive of Providence, R.I., he now makes his home in New York City. Richard Broomhead, 69, joined the SIU in 1950 in the Port of New York. He sailed as a bosun in the deck department. He was issued a picket duty card in 1962. A native of Philadelphia, Sea-,^ farer Broomhead now resides in New Jersey. Raymond Lewis Richard Broomhead Norman Maker Walter Stovall would be very glad to hear from you. Please write to him at 2806 Vega Ave., Cleve­ land, O. 44113. Earl Jefferson Davis Please contact your daughter. Mrs. Shirley Macaluso, at 1617 Po­ mona St., Matairie, La. 70055. Arthur Sannora Your mother, Mrs. Rose Navarro, asks that you get in touch with her at 4743 Shoshene, Denver, Colo. 80211. Francis A. Warren Your mother, Mrs. Fanny War­ ren. asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 276 East Ave., East Norwalk, Conn. 06855. Richard R. Leikas Your brother. Matt Leikas, asks that you contact him at P.O. Box 225, Prescott, Ariz. 86301. Tomas Tohias Please contact SIU Representa­ tive Red Campbell at Headquar­ ters, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn. N.Y. Phone 499-6600. Frank Donovan Please contact James Ahearn in regard to a very urgent matter. His address is 365 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Fred Miller Your old shipmate from Phila­ delphia, Harold B. Stever, would like to hear from you. His address is 23'/i River Rd., Philadelphia, Pa. 19128. Matthew Magdic Please contact Mary C. Magdic at 2017 S. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans, La. 70118. Salvatore J. Shriglio Your daughter, Francine Sbriglio. asks that you contact her at 11330 Hayvenhust Ave., Granada Hills, Calif. 91344. Rex C. Becraft Please contact your wife, Rose­ mary, in regard to an urgent family matter. She can br reached by writ­ ing Route 1, Box 6, Roanoke, Ind. 46783. Rufus L. Pulasici Your union book, wallet, social security card and other important papers have been found and you may pick them up by contacting SIU Headquarters, Records Depart­ ment, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. Phone 212-499-6600. FTC Bans Sweatshirts Sweatshirts bearing the name "FloritJa" in big bright print and decorated with two palm trees and fishing boats have been found to be "dangerously flammable" according to the Federal Trade Commission. The cotton-knitted blue, or­ ange and white shirts were im­ ported by Sun-Glo Products Corp. Over 12,000 of these shirts had been imported by the company to date. Page 27 �This Be the Verse You Grave forMe With an uncanny knack for detail he'll tell anyone who'll listen about hunting sperm whales in the North Pacific; laying track for the railroad as it moved westward; a hitch in the French Foreign Legion, or of the "hobo jungles" he came to know in coast to coast travels to pick up a ship. If there are tales to be told, Fred Harvey can tell them. He'll sit you down at his favorite tavern, the Port 'O Call adjoining the SIU head­ quarters in Brooklyn, or in his home on Staten Island and, over a few ales, proceed to tell you "some lies about myself." He begins. You sit there spellbound,. soon realizing this is not just another old sailor's tale, but an accurate recounting of a career filled with memories —some sweet, some bitter. In 1900, a rambunctious youth of 14 from the suburbs of Chicago, Harvey decided he wanted "some adventure" in his life. He went to sea. Making his way to San Fran­ cisco, he signed on as a "sailor" aboard the Alice Knowles, a sperm whaler. The ship plied the Pacific and Arctic in search of the whales whose oils were considered valuable. Healthy Respect "I was kept busier than hell learning the ropes," he recalls. "It didn't take me long to earn a healthy respect for those beasts we were hunting, though. I soon learned that one swipe of that tail or fluke could crush a whaling boat and could even do considerable damage to the mother ship. "I eventually lost a good friend who was crushed by a swipe of a sperm whale's fluke." He foimd adventure in abun­ dance, but also found that whaling was not as romantic as it had been pictured. "We didn't have any locker space for belongings like they do now. You got yourself a small bunk in the same cramp­ ed area as the rest of the crew. This served as a bed, locker, and often as your dinner table. "We didn't have anything like a mess hall aboard ship in those days. If the weather was good, all the crew got their meals and went out on deck to eat. If the weather was foul, we all congregated in the berthing area and ate there. Such lux­ uries as a daily fresh water shower were unheard of." Pay Not Romantic There was nothing romantic about his pay either. "We were out 11 months on the Knowles. When we returned to San Fran­ cisco, I was paid $8.65 in cash. I also received one barrel of sperm oil as my percentage of the entire take during the trip." Yet he enjoyed it enough to sail again on the same ship when it went back out about a month later. "I really made out that time—I got paid about $10 and I think three barrels of sperm oil." Disenchanted with whaling and its hardships,- he roamed the streets of San Francisco. As fate would have it, he chanced to meet the skipper of another sperm whaler, the Andrew Hicks. After a short discussion—during which the skipper informed him the ship It was 1908 and the crew of the Barmbek mustered on deck at payofT In Hamburg, Germany. Among the crew members was a young Fred Harvey (standing, fourth from left). The pay was small, the quarters were ,bad and Harvey soon left her for another ship. was scheduled to visit Shang­ hai—Harvey agreed to sail "be­ cause I wanted to see other parts of the world." Assumed Name "Of course, I signed on under a different name. "In those days a seaman had no rights. It was a form of servitude when you signed aboard a ship. You couldn't just up and leave a ship at some port of convenience for any reason. If you did, you forfeited your pay. "Also, it was a common prac­ tice for the skipper of a ship you jumped to abduct you from your new vessel if he saw your name on a roster. This is why we all used different names each time we boarded a new ship." He eventually did get to Shanghai. "The thing I remem­ ber most was that a group of natives came out in a sampan and tied up at our stem. That sampan had all the niceties a sailor could ask for." Shortly after this, he signed on "the worst hell ship I was ever aboard"—the W. F. Babcock. "I sailed on her from San Francisco to Shanghai and there was nothing right about that ship. It was just pure hell." ..if there are tales to he told, Fred Harvey can tell them/ Page 28 He signed on a British ship bound for Germany in late 1904, but decided Sail Fran­ cisco was the town for him. He picked up a ship in Ham­ burg headed for New York. When he couldn't find any ves­ sel bound for 'Frisco, Harvey began his short career as a rail­ road man, becoming quite adept at the "hobo" trade. Riding Rails He "rode the rails" as far as El Paso—taking a job laying track as the railroad snaked its way west. Operating a winch to lay sec­ tions of track in place was too tame for him, and he gave it up after a few weeks. Back "on the rails" again, Harvey hitched rides on trains heading west. And he got to know quite a few yard detec­ tives and local police officials in his travels, as well as many colorful residents of the hobo jungles along the way. Hobo Trade He laughingly recalled one incident that occurred in Palm Springs, Calif. Hoboes had a code to mark houses, taverns and the like where good hand­ outs could be had. Harvey ap­ proached a house so marked seeking a meal. After chopping wood as the price of the meal, he sat in the yard "eating a plentiful repast." He had worked up a thirst cutting the wood and quickly finished off a large container of tea he had been given. He called to the young daughter of the lady of the house and asked her to see if her mother could spare some more tea. "Well sir, she turned and hollered out to the kitchen: 'Mama, the bum wants some more tea.' Despite the deroga­ tory description, I did get the tea." Again on the Hicks Eventually, Harvey made it back to San Francisco, where he again signed on the Andrew Hicks. "The skipper, who had been first mate aboard another ship I had sailed on, didn't even know me since I was using another name again." New name or not, his pay was even less than before—$1 clear. One ship which stands out in his mind is the Fairport, which he rode to Mexillones, Chile, to pick up nitrate. "I never missed a ship's de­ parture unless I wanted to. I didn't want any more of the Fairport. On that ship we didn't get much for bre^ast, nor much for lunch, and even less for dinner. "So myself and a friend jumped ship and began looking for another headed toward 'Frisco. We found an Italian one, •the Cognati, which was anchored out in the harbor. Time to Drink "It seems the basic staple aboard that ship was 'vino.' After a few days of 'vino,' my friend and I decided we wanted some 'pisco.' So, we com­ mandeered the skipper's launch and went ashore for some 'pisco.' "Sure enough the skipper came looking for his launch. He corralled us in a local pub, but was really quite pleasant about the whole thing. In fact, he offered us jobs for the trip back to 'Frisco. After some thought, we decided we didn't want a diet of vino and spaghetti all the way back, so we de­ clined the offer." Along came 1914 and World War I. Harvey was still sailing, and even inadvertently con­ tributed to the German cause the following year. He sailed on the Grace Line's Cocique—loaded with 14,000 tons of food bound for Copen­ hagen, supposedly for distribu­ tion in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Without Incident Since America was not as yet involved in the war, the voyage across the North Atlantic went REQUIEM —Robert Louis Stevenson Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And my soul I put down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me Here he lies where he wants to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter, home from the hill. �Home Is the Sailor, Home From the Sea got the yearning for a "differ­ ent kind of adventure." He wanted to fight' in the war, but the U.S. still had not entered the conflict. So he be­ came a "soldier of fortune." The French consul in Chicago sent Harvey to New York to talk with the consul there, who "was glad to have me." Harvey boarded a ship for Bordeaux, where he joined the legendary French Foreign Legion. •) l\ h. If.. Good Outfit The ttarmhek, shown above under full sail, is only one of srores of ships that Fred Harvey sailed on in his career at sea. The last voyage for Harvey came very recently when he was bosun of the IFnrerlrce on a shoil sail from Staten Island to South Street Harbor in !New York City. (See page 31.) without incident until off the sailors did, welcomed the new rights under the act. To illus­ coast of Ireland. trate the "involuntary servitude" In the middle of the night, had previously endured sailors the ship was suddenly illumi­ he recounted one experience. nated by search lights. A British destroyer pulled alongside. The Expected Payoff British skipper ordered the He had signed aboard a ship Cocique to proceed at ten knots for the remainder of the night on a round-trip from New York and to come to a dead halt at to Europe for "not less than six months," but had com­ sunrise. She followed orders and was pleted the voyage in about four boarded the next morning. The months. He naturally expected British inspected her holds, and to be paid off when the ship reached New York. ordered the ship into port. When they arrived at the Am­ There they conducted a more thorough inspection of the brose Lightship, a messenger cargo. "Some of the crates I came aboard and said the ship noticed for the first time were was to proceed to Norfolk. stamped 'Hamburg, Germany,' In Norfolk the ship sat at but after one night in port; the anchor while the skipper travBritish destroyer escorted us • elled to New York to confer back to the open sea and told with the owners. He returned us to be on our way. several days later and informed the crew they were ordered to German Cargo head to San Francisco. Indignant at this over-exten­ "We pulled into Copen­ hagen and began to unload our sion of their voyage, Harvey cargo into a pierside ware­ and other members of the crew house. The very next day went to see the Port Commis­ freight cars and cargo ships sioner. He, however, informed flying the German flag arrived them they were bound by the in Copenhagen. They proceeded contract they signed when they to load the stores from the boarded the vessel So, they reluctantly sailed the warehouse and from our holds. I would estimate that over 90 ship through the Panama Canal percent of all that food went to and on up to 'Frisco. "There they delivered the clincher," he the Germans." There is another reason why recalled. 1915 stands out in Fred Same Answer Harvey's memory. This was the They were told to sail to year that the Seaman's Act, South America and pick up sponsored by Sen. Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, was some nitrate for delivery back to the West Coast. Again passed. It provided "safety standards Harvey went to the Port Com-; at sea to free seamen from in­ misioner, but received the same voluntary servitude." It also answer he had gotten in Nor­ gave them the right to leave a folk. He finally contacted the ship in designated ports with­ out forfeiting their pay and im­ company representative, who confered with the home office proved working conditions. Harvey, as probably all in New York. Though sym­ September 1970 pathetic with Harvey's plight he could only promise him to get his pay up till that time. The companies in those days did not pay the costs of transportation back to the port of embarka­ tion. . "I was making $25 a month on that trip, but $25 a month or not, 1 decided 1 wanted no part of a trip to South America right then. So, myself and two Swedes took our pay and were stranded in 'Frisco. "The Seamen's Act put an end to that kind of practice," he said. "It finally gave the sailor some dignity." Back on Rails Shortly after this Harvey de­ cided to pay a visit back in Chicago. With the two Swedes, he started riding the rails. "Somewhere along the line one of the Swedes missed a train and we never did see him again." Once back in Chicago he \ . .a with some some After two months of inten­ sive training, he returned to the European theatre. "It was a good outfit to belong to," he said. "1 was wounded several times during the next few years, but fortunately came out of it all alive. "You were supposed to be bound to the Legion for at least six years, but with the end of the war they relaxed that regu­ lation. I resigned from the Le­ gion in September 1919. From there it was back to the U.S. and the sea. "I had finally decided that the sea would be my career. From then on 1 stuck with sailing." His career spanned three more wars and took him all over the world aboard every type ship conceivable. 'Sailed 'Em All' "I guess I've sailed on them all," he says, and he begins to name just a few of them: Shenandoah, Palgrave, John Ena, Barmbek, Longview Vic­ tory, Lidica, Ines, Steel Design­ er, Barbara Frietchie, Robin Locksley, Seatrain New York, Pandora, Suzanne. . . . His home is filled with sou­ venirs—mementoes from the four corners of the world. Many others have been misplaced or given away. In November 1965, the Fairland pulled into New York from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Fred ' Harvey went ashore to stay. A 65-year career at sea, in­ terrupted only for a few brief intervals, came to an official end. But, there was still one trip to be made. On Aug. 11, 1970, Fred Harvey was called upon to serve as bosun aboard the Wavertree, an 1885-vintage vessel traveling from Staten Is­ land to the South Street Seaport Museum across New York Har­ bor. The three-masted sailing ves­ sel was purchased by the mu­ seum as an exhibit and made a 6,000 mile voyage from Buenos Aires, where she was being used as a storage ship, to Staten Island and then on to the South Street piers. (See page 31.) The Staten Island to South Street trip marked the end of a lengthy, illustrious career of an old-time sailor. The Old Days He revels in talking about the days when there were no able seamen, or third cooks. "In those days, all the crew were sailors. We didn't have various classifications or up­ grading exams and so on. More often than not, the thing that got you your job were these (as he holds up two gnarled, clenched fists). Of course, there was no union then, either, so you didn't have anybody look­ ing out for your welfare except yourself." Harvey joined the SIU in 1949 and still travels into Brooklyn from Staten Island where he lives with his wife, for every membership meeting at union headquarters. At 84 he is still going strong and admits an occasional in­ clination to go back to sea. "But, I guess I'm getting old," he says, "because the desire for adventure isn't quite so strong anymore." career filled memories— sweet, bitter.' Page 29 �Final Departures a 1 T Ik IS a Alexander L. Gnrskie Alexander L. Gurskie, 71, an SIU pensioner, died July 12 in USPHS Hospital in San Francisco. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of New York in 1941 and sailed in the steward department." At > retirement, Mr. Gurskie had sailed for more than 40 years. A native of Poland, he was a resident of San Pedro, Calif. Among the survivors are his sister, Mrs. Helen Arnone of Simi, Calif. Mr. Gurskie was buried in Santa Clara Cemetery in Ventura, Calif. Claude Hayes Claude Hayes, 69, died July 31 in Mobile, Ala. An SIU pension­ er since 1967, Brother Hayes resided in Mo­ bile. He joined the SIU in 1939 at the Port of Mobile and sailed p as an able seaman and bosun during 28 years at sea. He is sur­ vived by a niece Mrs. Sadie Willingham. Burial was in Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile. George L. Cox George L. Cox, 18, passed away in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 19. He was a 1969 graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seam a n s h i p and sailed in the en­ gine department. Among his sur­ vivors are his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Cox of Brooklyn. Buri­ al was in Calvary Cemetery. Page 30 w» <T 1* at A9 sa Schedule T4 rJ- to II la L> n It Ik At A3 aA as as A7 OB 31 James C. Smith James C. Smith, 52, died July 16 from injuries suffered in a SIU-AGLIWD Meetings fail near his New Orleans Oct. 13—2:30 p.m. home in Jackson­ Mobile" Oct. 14—2:30 p.m. ville, Fla. A Wilmington Oct. 19—2:30 p.m. Tampa native, he Oct. 21—2:30 p.m. joined the SIU in San Fran Oct. 23—2:30 p.m. 1968 in the Port Seattle New York ..Oct. 5—2:30 p.m. ft of New York Philadelphia Oct. 6—2:30 p.m. and sailed in the Baltimore ....Oct. 7—2:30 p.m. engine depart­ Oct. 9—2:30 p.m. ment. He served as a. pilot in the Detroilf Houston Oct. 13—2:30 p.m. U.S. Air Force from 1942 to United Industrial Workers 1957. Brother Smith is survived by his mother Mrs. Mildred New OrleansOct. 13—7:00 p.m. Oct. 14—7:00 p.m. Smith of Jacksonville. He was Mobile buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in New York ..Oct. 5—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Oct. 6—7:00 p.m. Jacksonville. Baltimore ....Oct. 7—7:00 p.m. Evald A. Olson l^Houston ....Oct. 13—7:00 p.m. Evald A. Olson, 78, died in Great Lakes SIU Meetings Goddard Memorial Hospital, Detroit Oct. 5—2:00 p.m. Stoughton, Mass., Buffalo Oct. 5—7:00 p.m. July 15, after a Alpena Oct. 5—7:00 p.m. long illness. A Chicago Oct. 5—7:30 p.m. native of Sweden, Duluth Oct. 5—7:00 p.m. Brother Olson Frankfort ....Oct. 5—7:00 p.m. was a resident of Great Lakes Tug and West BridgewaDredge Section ter, Mass. He Chicago Oct. 13—7:30 p.m. joined the SIU in , tSault 1938 at the Port of Boston and Ste. Marie Oct. 15—7:30 p.m. sailed as an able seaman and bosun during 21 years at sea. He is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Avis Peterson and Mrs. Elsie Mittredge, both of Brockton, Mass. Burial was in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston. . Jack Goldman Jack Goldman, 56, passed away in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 26 of an apparent heart attack. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1951 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. Brother Goldman was a Francis J. Fischer veteran of the U.S. Army. He Francis John Fischer, 44, was issued a picket duty card in passed away June 8 in USPHS 1961. Among his survivors is his Hospital in San sister Mrs. Bessie Levine of Francisco. A na­ Brooklyn. Burial was in Montifitive of Buffalo, ore Cemetery, Queens, N.Y. N.Y., Mr. Fisch­ John B. Kennedy er was a resident John B. Kennedy, 40, died Robert £. Greene of Oakland, July 23 in Union Memorial Hos­ Robert Ernest Greene, 62, was Calif. He joined pital in his home­ a recent SIU pensioner. He died the SIU in the town of Balti­ June 23 of heart Port of Norfolk more, Md., after . disease in Portsa long illness. He in 1944 and sailed in the engine I mouth General joined the SIU in department as an oiler. He I Hospital, Portswalked daily picket duty during 1951 and sailed mouth, Va. Mr. the Robin Line beef in 1962. as a bosun. Greene joined Brother Kennedy Among his survivors are his the union in the is survived by his mother, Delia Fischer. Port of Norfolk wife Jean. Burial was in the New and sailed in the Charles L. Moody Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore. Charles L. Moody, 40, steward department as a chief Sophoklis J. Tzortzakis drowned July 5 in the Gulf of cook. A native of North Caro­ Sophoklis J. Tzortzakis, 40, • Mexico near lina, Mr. Greene was a resident died of an apparent heart attack Galveston, Tex. of Portsmouth. Among his sur­ A member of the vivors are his wife, Charlotte. JuJy 1 in Hous­ ton, Tex. A naSIU and Inland Burial was in Greenlawn Me­ I tive of Greece, Boatmen's Union morial Park, Chesapeake, Va. I Brother Tzortzasince 1959, Edgar A. Briggs j kis was a Hous­ Brother Moody Edgar Allan Briggs, 74, an ton resident. He sailed as an able SIU pensioner, died of" natural joined the SIU in seaman. He causes May 15 in served U.S. Army from Ashtabula Gener­ •IkNMill&B of Baltimore and 1956 to 1957. He is survived by al Hospital, Ash­ sailed as an able seaman and his wife Mary and two daughters tabula, O. He bosun. He is survived by his wife Carol and Elizabeth Louise of joined the union Rose. Burial was in Forest Park Galveston. Burial was in Galves­ in Ashtabula and Lawndale Cemetery, Houston. ton Memorial Park. sailed as a line­ man in the Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region. A native of New SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans York, Mr. Briggs was a resident CASH BENEFITS PAID of Ashtabula. He was a Navy veteran of World War 1. Among REPORT PERIOD JULY 1, 1970 to JULY 31, 1970 his survivors are his wife, Cath­ NUMBER erine. Burial was in Edgewood SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN BENF^-ITS ^ PAm Cemetery, Ashtabula. Scholarship 1 $ 750.00 Sidney A. Sanford Hospital Benefits 4,056 97,786.17 Sidney Arthur Sanford, 43, Death Benefits 30 70,500.00 died of pneumonia July 8 in Medicare Benefits 604 2,416.80 USPHS Hospital Maternity Benefits 38 7,600.00 in San Francisco. Medical Examination Program 1,058 31,809.34 A native of De­ Dependent Benefits (Average) $479.35 1,372 65,566.63 troit, Mich., Mr. Optical Benefits 596 8,870.23 Sanford was a Meal Book Benefits 433 4,328.90 resident of New Out-Patients Benefits 4,725 37,154.00 Orleans, La. He joined the SIU in Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid 12,913 . 326,782.07 the Port of New Seafarers' Pension Plan—Benefits Paid 1,588 384,547.75 Orleans in 1963 Seafarers' Vacation Plan—Benefits Paid and sailed in the engine depart­ (Average $564.43) 1,378 690,851.20 ment as a fireman-oiler; He was a Navy veteran of World War Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation 11. Among his survivors are his Benetits Paid This Period 15,879 $1,402,181.02 mother, Mrs. Lenore Sanford of Madison Heights, Mich. a A fA T of Membership Meetings Buffalo Oct. 14—7:30 p.m. Duluth Oct. 16—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ....Oct. 16—7:30 p.m. Toledo Oct. 16—7:30 p.m. Detroit Oct. 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee ..Oct. 13—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New OrleansOct. 13—5:00 p.m. Mbbile Oct. 14—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Oct. 6—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (li­ censed and unlicensed)Oct. 7—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Oct. 8—5:00 p.m. Houston Oct. 13—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Oct. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore ....Oct. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk ....Oct. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City ..Oct. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Meeting held at Galveston wharves. tMeeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Newport News. Directory of Union Halls SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall DULUTH, Minn 2014 W. 3d St. (218) RA 3-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St: (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, N.J. ..99 Montgomery St. -(301) HE 5-9424 .MOBILE, Ala. .". 1 South Lawrence St. (305) HE 3-1764 NEW ORLEANS, La EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Gal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard A1 Tanner Lindsay Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER A1 Kerr HEAlXiUARTERS ... 675 4th Ave., Bklyn. (213) HV 9-660U ALPENA, .Mlch^ .. 800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, .^lil. ..1316 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, .Mass. .. 663 Atlantic Ave. (617) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.Y. 735 Washington St. SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, III. 9383 Ewing Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, O. 1420 W. 35th St. (316) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, .Mich. 10235 W. Jefferson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 2608 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 NORFOLK, Va 630 Jackson Ave. (504) 529-7546 115 3d St. (703) 623-1893 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 534 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, CaUf. 1531 Mission St. (415) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. ..1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 734-3848 SEATTLE, Wash ST. I.OUIS, .Mo 2505 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 4577 Gravols Ave. (314) 753-6500 TA.MPA, Fla 312 Harri.son St. (813) 339-3788 TOLEDO, O 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 Wii..MINGTON, Calif 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (213) 832-7285, VOKOHA.MA, .Iai>an IseyaBldg., Room 801 1-2 Kalgan-Dorl-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 Crewmen on New York Sfopover Crew members of the Steel Architect (Isthmian) are shown on deck while the ship was "topping off" in New York prior to a trip to India. From left are; Charles D'Amico, bosun; "Frenchy" Macip, able sea­ man, and, Gene Nolan, carpenter. 1 �•f-' Tnilip'^WroM «'•." rell^ral Seafarer FreJ Harvey sailed the world's oceans for some 65 of his 84 yonlhful years. Pg«@£r -r„ J s,«ai ^ originally appeared in ihe late ISOOs, the three-masted Waverlree was a prond sight to behold asshe traversed the Seven Seas of the world over a 25-year span. i:' •- ;• ,.. v- ®5;fe>Si;SSss5;V). s': Them Both Weil nphey were the products of the same X age—the age of sail. They got to­ gether one August afternoon for a final voyage. It was even a family affair, for he had known her sister well. A crusty old sailor, Fred Harvey, kept his date as boatswain for an old lady, the Waver tree, for the trip from Staten Island to the South Street Sea­ port Museum on lower Manhattan. For Harvey, 84, an SIU pensioner, it was the renewal of an old family ac­ quaintance—in 1906 he sailed to Syd­ ney, Australia, on the Fulwood, a sister ship of the Wavertree. ¥OT the IFavertree, it was the final leg of a journey to a new home. . f Built in England in 1885, the IFav^rtree plied the oceans for some 25 years until strong gales off Cape Horn ripped away her mainmasts and her fore and mizen masts. She became nothing more than a storage hulk and sand dredge until purchased by the museum in 1968. Before reaching her new museum home, the Wavertree, her beauty marred by the years as a storage hulk, had to make the long trip from Argen­ tina, She underwent repairs on Staten Island before making the final leg of the trip. Museum officials plan to spend $1 million to restore the beauty from the age of sail. Riding high put of the water, the ship pulls into h«r h*>"' berthing ;;i, --place,at the..South Street'pier,. :;,:/?^;;.- ;y ff' September 1970 Page 31 �SEAFARERS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO •V SlU Crew Conferences 11 A continuing series of SIU Crew Conferences has been launched at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship to give Seafarers an op­ portunity to learn more about their union and their industry in the re­ laxed atmosphere of the Piney Point, Md., base. 1. Eligible Seafarers will spend 10 days at Piney Point, attending classes for four hours a day on five of those days. The rest of the time they will be free to exchange information and experiences with other Seafarers, and use the extensive recreational facilities. Members attending the SIU Crew Conferences will receive room and board and laundry, transportation to and from key ports, including New York, Baltimore, New Orleans and San Francisco, and $8 a day to cover incidental expenses. Twelve conferences have been scheduled to begin each Friday through Dec. 3, with the exception of Thanksgiving Day week. Mem­ bers attending the Conferences will arrive at Piney Point on a Friday, have the weekend free, will attend classes from 8 a.m. to noon Monday through the following Friday, and will be returned to the ports on Sunday. Boxing smokers will be held each Saturday following an outdoor barbeque. Boating, fishing, crabbing, card playing, pool, swimming, and other sports and recreational activities will be available. Each night a feature movie will be shown on the Cinemascope screen in the theater aboard the school ship Zimmerman. Entertainment will also be furnished nightly in the Anchor Room Restaurant and Lounge. WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Seafarers, to be eligible, must: • Have a rating and/or a year or more of seatime. • Have shipped at least 90 days in the past year. • Have shipped at least one day in the past 90 days. HOW TO APPLY Eligible members may apply for the SIU Crew Conferences through their port agent at any port. Or they mal fill out the coupon on this page and mail it to: SIU. Crew Conferences Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Piney Point, Md. 20674 To: SIU Crew Conferences Harry Hundeberg School of Seamanship Piney Point, Md. 20674 <\ •I T Agenda of Knowledge Seafarers attending the SIU Crew Conferences will participate in discussions on the following five basic subjects: SIU CONTRACT This topic will include a discussion of the complete contract, includ­ ing the new benefits negotiated this month. In addition, facts will be presented on the economics of the shipping industry, the legislative efforts of the SIU and the impact that passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 would have on both Seafarers and ship operators. SIU CONSTITUTION In addition to a report on the union's constitution, they will discuss the meaning of constitutions in general, as well as the effect of govern­ mental constitutions—federal, state and local—upon all Americans. SIU HISTORY Seafarers will discuss their union's dynamic history and how it can be used to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Blended into this group discussion will be the history of the trade union movement. I would like to attend one of the SIU Crew Conferences. Name Port Card Number My first three choices, in order of preference, are: (place the numbers I, 2 and 3 beside the dates that are your first, second and third choice) for Conferences that begin on: ( ) September 25 II October 30 ( ) October 2 I ) November 6 ( ) October 9 ( I November 13 I I October 16 I ) November 27 I I October 23 I I December 3 SIU PENSION, WELFARE AND VACATION BENEFITS This discussion will detail the benefits that have been won through collective bargaining over the years. It will also provide a forum for discussion of the economics of the industry as it affects pension, wel­ fare and vocation plan funding. SIU MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS Both port and shipboard meetings will be reviewed. Special emphasis will be given to the Permanent Ship's Committee which is designated in the SIU AGLIW District contract and the reasons for negotiating an hour of overtime for. delegates attending the Sunday shipboard meetings. Efficient shipboard safety and operation will also be discussed. lis � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: WAGE, FRINGE BENEFIT PACKAGE IN NEW SIU CONTRACT VALUED AT $100 A MONTH COMPLETE TEXT OF SIU’S AGLIW AGREEMENT NEWS ABOUT ECONOMY SHIFTA 180 DEGREES TANKER OVERSEAS ALASKA LAUNCHED IN BALTIMORE OVERSEAS ALICE CREW IS LAUDED FOR PILOT RESCUE MANHATTAN, SIU CREW SAIL TO MIDEAST MEANY COMMENTS: STRIKES TO POLITICS TWO REFITTED SHIPS CREW UP, LEAVE PORT OF NORFOLK SAFETY COUNCIL CITES SIU-MANNED SHIPS IN CALMAR CORP FLEET JOHN FOX, MARITIME LABOR PIONEER, DIES MARITIME PROBLEMS IN FOCUS IN DC SIU NEGOTIATES ’20-AT-55’ PENSION JOBS, PENSIONS ON LINE IN FIGHT TO SAVE FLEET FARM WORKERS BATTLING FOR BETTER LIFE ACTIVITIES CONTINUE AT PINEY POINT THE LINK TO MEN AT SEA: SHIPS’ COMMITTEES VACATION CENTER’S FIRST YEAR A SUCCESS THIS BE THE VERSE YOU GRAVE FOR ME – HOME IS THE SAILOR, HOME FROM THE SEA Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 9 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/22b2beac7a7cfce3d70b9caaf8677e24.PDF fc994a9f6d206175344c17900dc7374e PDF Text Text SEAFARERS#LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO JULY 1,19' I -V it - I f 1 Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of. Bepresenta- 2 3 4 U.S.O. 1101) , is amended as follows: a ()• Oil all fotfres . a T Other Unions Critrcize Indictment of SlU•—See Page 11 Building Blocks for a Better Union—See Pages 13-24 �National Health Insurance Called Top Priority Issue Wasiiington A national health insurance program for all Americans "no later than 1971" has been urged by labor leaders. Two labor organizations—the AFL-CIO and the United Auto Workers—are pushing for a bill that would encompass the best of two differ­ ing measures introduced in the U.S. Senate. Testifying before the Senate Labor Commit­ tee, AFL-CIO President George Meany said "there is general agreement in every sector of American life that action must be taken" to bring to the American people medical services that exist, but for one reason or another are not available to a great number of the people. Meany and Leonard G. Woodcock, President of the UAW, both conceded that Congress would not act this year, but insisted that Congress must not delay action beyond 1971. Meany disputed claims of the Nixon Adminis­ tration, which is opposed to such legislation, that the program would be too costly. Meany said there was no reason for the American people to spend more on medical care than they do now. "It is a matter of correcting the abuses that occur under today's system," he added. He outlined six basic goals to be achieved: • Enactment of a program that covers every man, woman and child in the nation. . • Comprehensive benefits taking in every­ thing needed for the patient. • Financing of the program like Social Secu­ rity with the federal government and employers splitting the remaining payroll costs. • All medical services on a pre-payment basis. • Free choice of physicians and free choice of health delivery systems. • Better organization and delivery of health care. Woodcock, testifying for the UAW, said only national health insurance "can control sky­ rocketing medical costs and prevent the collapse of the American health care system." He also countered Administration claims diat the United States cannot afford medical in­ surance, declaring that today's health insurance industry is wasting more than $1 billion an­ nually through duplication of administration, useless advertising and general inefficiency. Bowman Named to MARAD Position Examining New Contract All hands at the September membership meeting in New York study the memorandum of agreement between the SIlT and its contracted companies before voting overwhelmingly to accept the new contract. Washingttm Roy G. Bowman, general counsel for the Maritime Ad­ ministration, has been appoint­ ed deputy administrator for pro­ gram implementation. He will assume control of the day-to-day process of get­ ting the recently enacted mari­ time program under way. In addition. Bowman will be in charge of the new active role in international affairs which Maritime Administrator An­ drew Gibson envisions for the agency. He also will have overall supervision of the agency's con­ tract compliance program which will enforce federal em­ ployment opportunity standards, in shipyards, among ship oper­ ators and on the docks through­ out the country. ~ PRESIDENTS REPORT . (i , 4 ' 'it •" mm mi "W/^en Congress passed and sent to President Nixon ^ the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, it took an enormous first step toward the long-overdue recon­ struction of the American-flag merchant marine. Sea­ farers did their part—and more—during the years of battle that led to passage of the Act. We can look to the bill and see the prospect of hundreds of new ships—each providing good jobs and decent living and working conditions for the future. We can see in it new strength for our fleets on the Great Lakes and in the Alaska-Hawmi-Puerto RicoGuam routes. And visions of help for our antiquated fishing fleet are there, too. After we have enjoyed the view, we can shake ourselves back to the reality of the fight that is yet to be won. That fight involves cargo. A thousand new ships anchored at every American port won't provide a single new job unless we do our share in the effort to put cargo in the holds. It will take a minimum of two years for the ships called for in the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 to come down the ways. During that time, we must use all our energies to promote the use of American-flag ships by all who use oceanborne transportation—gov­ ernment as well as private industry. We have some things going for us, including an ally in the U.S. Department of Commerce and its Maritime Administration (MARAD). MARAD has already opened a "ship-American" program on a na­ tional scale. And the SIU, as well as our sister unions in the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department's Port Councils, are involved in cooperative programs. The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 provides an ad­ ditional possibility of help. It gives the Secretary of Commerce the authority to police the Cargo Prefer­ ence Laws that some federal agencies have been thumbing their noses at for years. Congress, in passing these laws, ordered that not less than 50 percent of all federal cargo be shipped in American-flag vessels. With the exception of the Military Sealift Command, the will of Congress has been flagrantly violated time and again by agency upon agency. The tramp fleet has all but been ignored by two major shippers of government cargo, the Department of Agriculture and the Agency for International De­ velopment. We now intend to use our full strength to persuade the Secretary of Commerce to nudge those who are reluctant to follow the law into providing American-flag ships—and especially the tramp fleet— with no less than 50 percent of government cargoes. Tn addition, we will again be impressing upon all within range that the 50 percent figure is a minimum and that the federal government, if for no other reason than to set the example that it supports its own nation's merchant fleet, should be placing all of its cargo aboard American-flag vessels. The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 contains addi­ tional help. The construction and operating sub­ sidies, together with tax-deferment privileges for ship construction, all of which previously had been pro­ vided to only a handful of liner operators, will now be available to all. This federal' assistance in ship construction and operation will give many operators the edge they need to compete with foreign-flag operators in the battle for cargo, especially that cargo being shipped to and from the United States. The new ships now programmed for construction will be swift, technologically modern and sufficiently large to provide the speed, service and reliability that attracts business from private industry. Operators of these ships will have an additional advantage. They will have the skills of the American by Pm HAU Seafarer, the best-trained, most efficient craftsman to be found in all the world's fleets. Our job is to see to it that this combination of man­ power, ships and service is promoted so effectively that cargo will be generated in huge amounts. We must not only meet, but exceed President Nixon's goal of having 30 percent of all American imports and exports carrigd in American-flag vessels by the mid-1970s. The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 has made a significant contribution toward our future success. It closes out an era that began 34 years ago, and in­ troduces a new set of rules designed to allow the U.S.flag fleet to compete in the trade patterns of today. While it does not bring instant relief to our severe problems, it does supply the hope that is always re­ quired to continue a tough job. While it was the collective contribution of all Sea­ farers that brought us the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, we owe special recognition to Phil Carlip, our union's veteran legislative representative in Washing­ ton. Phil has for many years been front and center in persuading Congressmen to consider our goal. The votes for the bill in the House of Representative— 307-to-l on the House version and 343-to-4 on the final measure—stand as a tribute to his ability and determination in representing the best interests of Seafarers. His performance has been truly outstanding. the Senate side, we were fortunate to have in our Oncorner the dedicated skills of another SIU veteran, Bilf Moody. Bill carried the SIU message to every Senator, and the vote reflects his work. The Senate approved the first version of the Act by a 68-to-l count. When the measure was presented for final passage, not a single "nay" could be heard in the voice vote. These men, and many others like them, are the , stuff of which a strong Seafarers International Union is made. Seafarers Log ji �Senate,House Give Maritime Bill Approval; Sent to Nixon Washington Congress has overwhelmingly approved the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 and sent it to President Nixon for his signa­ ture, climaxing the long struggle to bring new life to the dying American-flag merchant marine. The House, in a roll call vote, approved the Act by a 343-to4 count. The Senate, with near­ ly 70 senators on the floor, adopted the measure by a voice vote without a dissent being heard. Many provisions of the Act have had the active support of the Seafarers International Un­ ion, including the massive ship­ building program that will vastly expand and improve the nation's bulk-carrier fleet. (Where was NMU President Joe Curran during the battle for passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970? He was leading the opposition. An editorial on page 10 sets the record straight.) - The measure, initiated by the Nixon Administration, is ex­ pected to have the greatest im­ pact on the maritime industry of any legislation since the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1936, which first initiated federal sub­ sidies for the merchant marine's liner trades. Paul Hall, president of the SIU and the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, a group of 42 national and international unions affected by maritime af­ fairs, said the Act "offers the mechanisms to bring a new life ' of vigorous activity to an in­ dustry that has been nearly knocked to its knees." He said the SIU, along with the MTD, will do "aU they can to see to it that the opportu­ nities provided by the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 are ful­ filled. We see this Act as a means of developing for our na­ tion a merchant marine that can effectively compete for the world's waterborne commerce." Hall cautioned that passage of the measure "marks only the end of the first battle. "We must now devote our full energies to aiding the Departnient of Commerce in its campaign to bring cargo to a fleet of modern, efficient Ameri­ can-flag vessels. A great in­ crease in cargo is necessary if we are to reap the full benefits of the tool Congress has made available," he said. "This will demand maximum cooperation between labor, management and the govern­ ment," he said. "The Seafarers International Union will do its full share." Maritime Administrator An­ drew E. Gibson has hailed the bill as "the most significant legislation affecting the Ameri­ can merchant marine industry since the Merchant Marine Act of 1936." In rapid succession, the Sen­ ate made some significant . changes in the House-approved version of the bill, the con­ ferees of the two Houses of Congress, reached agreement and both the Senate and the House of Representatives adopted the conference com­ mittee's report. The final version contained nearly all of the additions adopted by the Senate, with the exception of exempting the his­ toric Mississippi ]^ver paddlewheeler, Delta Queen, from maritime safety regulations to allow it to continue to operate as an excursion vessel. Here are the highlights of what the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 provides: ^ An authorization to spend federal funds to finance a share of the con­ struction cost of 300 new cargo vessels in the foreign trade in the next 10 years. ^ A helping hand through tax deferment privileges for all American-flag operators. This will permit operators to use funds from profits that otherwise would have been paid in taxes for the construction of new vessels, resulting in re­ ducing the amount of money that must be accumulated to pay for building a new ship by half. The tax-deferment program has been limited to 14 liner companies operating on fixed routes since it was established in the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. The new bill extends the privilege to all operators serv­ ing the foreign trade routes. In addition, it provides the taxdeferment program to opera­ tors serving the Great Lakes, the noncontiguous trades routes to, from and between Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam, as well as the fish­ ing industry. ^ Extension of both con­ struction and operating subsidies to bulk carriers. Hiese subsidies, too, had been avail­ able only to the handful of liner operators since 1936. ^ The Secretary of Com­ merce with the authority to administer and police Cargo Preference Laws. This gives the Secretary of Commerce the power to see to it that all fed­ eral agencies carry out the will SEN. WARREN MAGNUSON .... chaired Senate committee ANDREW E. GIBSON . . . represented Administration REP. EDWARD A. GARMATZ . . . chaired House committee of Congress when it passed laws ordering that no less than half of all federal government cargoes be shipped in Ameri­ can-flag vessels. sel construction program and $600 million annually there­ after. • Generation of 444,000 man-years of employment for manufacturing employees (skill­ ed and semi-skilled), much of which will be in poverty areas. • An amelioration of the decline in seagoing jobs which otherwise would drop by 50 percent by 1980. "There is little legislation that is so urgently needed or about the need for which there is such overwhelming agree­ ment," Long asserted. "Our de­ fense requires it. Our com­ merce requires it. Our balance of payments and the continued vitality of our nation require it. "For the first time in many years we have before us a maritime program that has the full support of the Administra­ tion," he continued, "the over­ whelming backing of the House of Representatives, and the near unanimous concurrence of those in the private sector whose cooperation will be required to make the program work." Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and one of the sponsors of the Act, told his fellow senators that: "This bill represents the necessary governmental com­ mitment to revitalize our mer­ chant fleet. The bill lays the legislative groundwork for a long overdue rehabilitation of our maritime capability to meet the urgent needs of our com­ merce and defense." He noted that the United States, which accounts for a third of all the world's com­ merce, has a fleet that ranks fifth in the world on a tonnage basis. "Approximately three-quar­ ters of our foreign-trade fleet consists of obsolete, over age vessels that will disappear with­ in the next five years," he add­ ed. "We face a problem of mas­ sive block obsolescence that is reaching crisis proportions." Magnuson said that the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1936 had ignored the bulk trades which, since that time, have "grown tremendously. Presently, our liner trade involves the carriage of about 46 millions tons an­ nually while our bulk trades have grown to almost 350 mil­ lion tons. "This bill is designed to re­ duce our dependence on foreignflag ships in the transportation of the raw materials our country needs for defense purposes and to keep our economy growing." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa..) introduced the successful move to eliminate the interest debt and all future in­ terest payments on the con­ struction cost of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Senator Walter Mondale (DMinn.), a strong advocate of the move, said shipping on the Great Lakes was in great need of assistance, noting that "the lake ports are handling only 2.5 percent of the U.S. overseas waterborne trade. "Virtually no U.S. govern­ ment cargo is shipped abroad out of Great Lakes ports," he reported. "For example, the Department of Defense alone exports almost 30 million tons in a year and only 2,000 tons were shipped through Great Lakes ports in 1968. This amounts to less than 1/100th of 1 percent of the total De­ fense exports. In contrast, ap­ proximately 35 percent of the material exported by the De­ partment of Defense originated in the Great Lakes area." Senator Winston Prouty (RVt.) told his fellow senators that he supported the Act be­ cause it will "chart the course for the revitalization of the American maritime industry for which many of us have labored so arduously over the past sev­ eral years." Senator Daniel K. Inouye CDHawaii) said the measure was of particular importance to resi­ dents of his state because of the (Continued on Page 10) ^ Elimination of the inter­ est on the construction debt owed by the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corpora­ tion, as well as the future in­ terest on the debt. This will end the threat of substantial toll in­ creases which could have re­ duced shipping through the sea­ way. Income from the current toll schedule will be used to pay operating and maintenance costs, as well as the original construction cost over the next 39 years. ^ A system to phase out the "runaway" fleets of the unsubsidized operators. The program allows those who oper­ ate both American-flag and foreign-flag fleets to qualify for subsidies for their Americanflag ships only if they "freeze" their foreign-flag holdings as of April of this year. These dual operators will not be allowed to add new ships to their foreign-flag holdings. Nor will they be permitted to re­ place any foreign-flag ship that is scrapped or lost. And they must totally end their foreignflag operations within 20 years. ^ That all components of all American-flag ships must be made and assembled in the United States. The Sec­ retary of Commerce is granted the power to permit the pur­ chase of minor vessel parts abroad, but only under special circumstances that would result in unreasonable delays in ves­ sel deliveries. The Senate vote on the bill was 68-to-l, with Senator" John Williams (R-Del.) casting the lone "no" vote. The House had approved the Act by a 307-to-l vote. Chief spokesman for the bill on the Senate floor was Senator Russell Long (D-La.), chair­ man of the Merchant Marine Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee. He characterized the meas­ ure as "a program to revitalize our Merchant Marine Act so that it will be viable and work­ able in wartime and in peace." In a statement distributed to all Senators, Long listed the bene­ fits that the bill would provide. They are, he said: • A modern merchant fleet capable of meeting the needs of our commerce and defense. • An improvement in our balance of payments estimated at $2.9 billion during the ves- SEAFARERS^ItOG Oct. 1970 • Vol. XXXIII. No. 10 OfUcial Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hall, President Gal Tanner Earl Shepard Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President A1 Kerr Sec.-Treaa. Lindsey Williams Vice-President A1 Tanner Vice-President Robert Matthews Vice-President Published monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFLCIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington. D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. �Congressmen Stress Importance of New Merchant Marine Act As the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 neared final passage in Congress, three members of the House of Representatives reemphasized the vital importance of the legislation to the mari­ time industry in particular, and to the nation in general. Rep. James J. Howard (D.N.J.) said that final enactment of the bill could relieve an enormous eccwiomic problem which has been confronting the maritime industry for some 25 years. An accelerated ship con­ struction program is not enough in itself warned Rep. Otis G. Pike (D-N.Y.). He said that new ships will prove useless unless there is cargo for their holds. Rep. Robert O, Tiernan (DN.J.) said that final passage of the act will be a history making event in that it would pave the way for a successful future for the entire maritime industry. The Congressmen presented their views at recent weekly luncheons in Washington spon­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department, with which the SIU is affiliated. These luncheons provide the only continuing, educational forum dealing exclusively with maritime problems and legisla­ tion, and feature addresses on these issues by representatives of government, labor and busi­ ness. Seek 'Common Goal' Congressman Howard said the maritime philosophy em­ bodied in the act will achieve success only if government, in­ dustry and labor pool their re­ sources "to meet a common goal." If this is done, he said, the new philosophy could bring "a massive economic problem out of the comer where it has been allowed to mildew for over a quarter of a century." With the scheduled phase- out of 395 World War Il-vintage ships in the next four years, Rep. Howard pointed out that the foreign-trade, Americanflag fleet will be reduced to a mere 272 ships. He also cautioned against any visions of immediate results once the act is signed into law. "The fleet will not see solid results in the form of new ships until most of the vessels in the current fleet have been scrapped," Howard said. "This means that under the best of circumstances, our nation will be woefully weak in its carrying capacity in the near future." However, Howard warned that the U.S. cannot allow itself to "become bait" for other na­ tions by being dependent upon them to transport its trade. "It is paramount that we not only provide ships under the American flag, but that we also follow through on a program that shows it pays to 'Ship American'," he concluded. Such action, he said, "is des­ perately needed and needed now. The proud old warhorses that make up the bulk of the current fleet are being cut up for scrap at a phenomenal rate. Scores of vessels are making their last profit for their own­ ers as they fall before the shipbreakers' torch at a time when scrap metal prices are at an alltime high, particularly in Japan." He said that statistics on the position of the U.S. merchant fleet in relation to the rest of the world were "dreary." "There is to me—and I pre­ fer to be an optimist—one lone­ some advantage in these dreary facts. That advantage is that we have no place to go but up." Cargo Needed The necessity of supplying cargo for the holds of these pro­ posed new ships was reiterated by Rep. Pike. He said that while the gov- M. Weisberger Fe+ed by MTD In RecogniHon of Long Service San Francisco Morris Weisberger, vice president of the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North America, was guest of honor at a testimonial dinner spon­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department Port Council of the San Francisco Bay Area. The dinner recognized Weisberger's service to the council, of which he is president, and his 40 years of involvement with the maritime labor movement. Paul Hall, president of the SIU and president of the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment was toastmaster at the dinner. Frank Drozak, West Coast representative of the SIU, was dinner chairman. San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto Va,o>-i was the principal speaker. Weisberger, whose career as a sailor began in 1926, helped organize the Sailors Union of the Pacific in 1936 and was the SUP's East Coast repre­ sentative until 1957 when he succeeded the late Harry Lundeberg as secretary-treasur­ er of the SUP. He is also a vice president of the California Labor Federation. Anti-Strikebreaker Tacoma, Wash. The city council here has passed an ordinance protecting strikers from the importation of strikebreakers. The ordinance came after employers used strikebreakers in a construction industry dispute last February. Rep. James J. Howard Democrat of New Jersey "t- "This now philosophy could hring a mossivo oconomic prohiom out of tho coraor whoro it has hoon uiiowod to miidow." ernment is taking steps to re­ vitalize the fleet, "we must look to the private sector for any significant impact upon the ration of American imports and exports being delivered in American-flag ships." "We can build ships, but un­ less we put cargo in their holds the ships we build will be use­ less," he said. He acknowledged that the proposed new ships were neces­ sary to replace the "old, ineffi­ cient ships in the fleet now." "But no nation can long stand strong," he said, "when less than five percent of its im­ ports and exports are carried in the holds of its own vessels." Pike stressed that ship con­ struction and cargo for thenholds are mandatory "if we are Rep. Otis G. Pike to have a strong, vital merchant Democrat of New York "No nation con long stand marine contributing to our na­ strong when loss tiran fiuo tion's defense and economy." And, he said, new construc­ porcont of its imports and tion is justified by the many oxports nro cnrri^ in tho years the merchant marine has holds of its own vossois." given "us service beyond loy­ alty, service that has been truly loving in its nature." As a way to clear the debt the nation owes its merchant fleet, "we must move strongly toward the successful implemen­ tation of the 'ship-American' program of the Commerce De­ partment and the Maritime Ad­ ministration." Rep. Tiernan said passage of the bill is "a history making event" because "it will help others and contribute to a stronger America." Thousands Benefit The people it will help, he said, will "thousands upon thousands of jobless men and women who will be needed in the shipyards to construct hundreds of new vessels, plus thousands upon thousands more who will make the components Rep. Robert O. Tiernan and provide the services that Democrat of Rhode Island will be required by those ships." He said that unemployment "(The Act) will replace a will hot be the only area direct­ rusting, slow and generally ly affected. "It will replace a inefficient merchant marine, rusting, slow and generally in­ with a fleet of swift, technoefficient merchant marine with iogicaiiy-advanced ships." a fleet of swift, technologicallyadvanced ships . . . that will be able to take on all comers in the fiercely competitive world of oceanborne commerce," Tiernan said. He pointed out that "fisher­ men look to the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 as a way to replenish their antiquated ships, as do those members of the Great Lakes fleet." The passage of the bill should also prove to be a boon to the economies of the non­ contiguous trade areas, accord­ ing to the Congressman. All in all, he said, the bill allows "the maritime industry to glow about the prospects for the future." "This," the congressman said, "is a nice feeling." .1 • �/ Rep. Robert A. Giaimo Democrat of Connecticut "(Subsidies) for ship con­ struction mean jobs, and jobs mean people off wel­ fare; people paying taxes; people buying the products of our econoEi^y." Rep. Charles H. Wilson Democrat of California "At a time when we should be taking measures to im-^ prove the supply of fish, competition is causing deple­ tion ... and is undercutting the domestic fisherman .. Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Democrat of Massachusetts "The marine insurance field is the only area of the insur­ ance business not now sub­ ject to governmental regula­ tion." Economy, Insurance, Fishing Problems Hit By Three Congressmen Three members of Congress who addressed the MTD lunch­ eon gatherings in recent weeks spoke on topics not directly concerned with the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, but with a direct relationship to the maritime industry. Rep. Robert N. Giaimo (DConn.) manitained that allevi­ ation of the maritime industry's economic problems could serve as a model for getting the na­ tion's economy out of the dol­ drums. Rep. Charles H. Wilson (DCalif.) outlined an eight-point plan designed to revitalize America's dying fishing fleet. Congressman Thomas P. O'­ Neill (D-Mass.) took exception with current marine insurance programs and suggested a twopoint program to solve insur­ ance problems. Maritime Model The revitalization of Amer­ ica's merchant marine should not only help cure that indus­ try's economic ills, according to Rep. Giaimo, but it also could be used as a "model for get­ ting our nation's economy back on the right foot." Pointing out that the pro­ gram to build 300 new ships over the next 10 years will mean increased employment, the congressman said the gov­ ernment must be "willing to in­ vest in America" to maintain "full employment and provide for the needs of all its citizens." He said "there is no need for widespread unemployment or recession. There has been a recession in the maritime in­ dustry and finally there is ac­ tion. to revitalize the industry." Noting that federal financial assistance will be given for the construction of new ships, Giai­ mo declared that these subsi­ dies are an "investment," and "if applied right, a subsidy brings far more benefit to the government that it costs." To verify his point, Giaimo said that "for ship construction they mean jobs, and jobs mean people off welfare; people pay­ ing taxes; people buying the products of our economy." The revitalized fleet, he esti­ mated, will contribute about $600 million annually to the country's balance of payments. "We should realize a healthy return on our investment in­ stead of having a maritime in­ dustry which is a drag on the economy," he said. He said the program "should serve as a model for the econ­ omy of the nation, to be ap­ plied elsewhere to prevent un­ employment." Help Fishermen Rep. Wilson said it was sad that "at a time when we should be taking measures to improve the supply of fish, competition is causing depletion at even ^eater rates and is undercut­ ting the domestic fisherman whose role should be expanded rather than reduced." In order to accomplish an expansion of the American fishing industry, he proposed: 1. Full restoration of a pro­ posed cut of $7.5 million in the budget of the Bureau of Fisheries, including a cut of $2.8 million in construction aid for fishing vessels. 2. Increased research into the fishing industry and the ef­ fects of pollution on the industry. 3. An increase in the au­ thorization for fishing vessel construction to $20 million per year and an "elimination of some of the red tape that pres­ ently surrounds the boat build­ ing subsidy program." 4. Federal government as­ sistance to help stem the soar­ ing costs of maritime insurance. 5. Revamping the Interior Department's Fisheries Loan Fund by providing more capi­ talization than the present $20 million and increasing the $40,000 maximum. 6. A broad educational pro­ gram to help the American housewife learn "the benefits of fish foods." This would in­ clude strengthening the Interi­ or Department's "fish inspec­ tion program to increase con­ sumer confidence in fish prod­ ucts." 7. Putting an end to all types of pollution of the world's wa­ ters. 8. Establishment of a com­ prehensive national and inter­ national policy for resource management to demonstrate that tlie Ameiicaa government considers fishing to be a "vital national industry." According to Wilson this would include "careful crop­ ping" or harvesting "of only surplus fish so that fisheries are not exhausted. While every at­ tempt must be made at cooper­ ating with other nations, we must also be prepared to pro­ tect our rights." Remodeled Insurance Rep. O'Neill, an insurance executive himself, said there were a number of complex problems facing the marine in­ surance industry. The congressman said it look the personal intervention of Maritime Administrator An­ drew E. Gibson to roll back a proposed surcharge on cargoes carried by 25-year-old vessels. The surcharge finally was placed on cargoes in 30-yearold ships, but only after Gib­ son's intervention. "Mr. Gibson knows, the maritime industry knows. Con­ gress knows, we all know that one-third of the U.S. merchant fleet would have been forced out of action practically over­ night if the surcharge on car­ goes aboard 25-year-old ships was allowed to go into effect," O'Neill said. Another problem he cited was that insurance praetices "have been bypassed by tech­ nology." This is obvious, he said, in the industry's reluct­ ance to give lower rates to cargoes carried in containers, "even though there are indica­ tions container losses are lower than standard break bulk." If these problems continue, he warned, the marine insur­ ance companies may "have to consider an insured bill of lad­ ing as an alternative to cargo insurance and secondly, a fed­ eral insurance program if build­ er's risk insurance rates remain at high levels as a result of hurricanes." O'Neill concluded that these innovations may be unneces­ sary if the government pursues a policy "of research, informa­ tion gathering and promotion of new ideas for the marine in­ surance industry." Public Service Bill Awaits Senate Action needs as public protection, Washington A bill that would create jobs health, education, pollution and —"not leaf raking or other so- recreation." The bill suggests that a shift called make work jobs"—in public service is awaiting action away from present manpower training systems, which provide in the U.S. Senate. The "Employment and Train­ training for jobs that do not" ing Opportunities Act of 1970" exist, is necessary. The newly would reorganize and strengthen created jobs, it is hoped, will present manpower training pro­ help welfare recipients through grams in an effort to alleviate their difficulties in finding unemployment and poverty. placement in big business and It provides for new public industrial positions. service positions because, in the In a report accompanying the words of Andrew Biemiller, bill to the Senate floor, the legislative director of the AFL- Senate Labor Committee said, CIO, private business "cannot "a substantial public service fill the job requirements of the employment program would nation." ease the problems of joblessness The bill calls for additional and inadequate services in ur­ "meaningful jobs to carry out ban and rural poverty com­ such important community munities." • uii e 5' �Jobs for Seafarers Overseas Builds Five New Ships Baltimore, Md. Five sleek ships, meaning more jobs for Seafarers, have slid down the ways in the past two years and have been com­ missioned by Overseas Shipholding Group. The new ships, built without subsidy at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point Yard, mean comfort as well as em­ ployment for Seafarers. Quar­ ters consist of single, air condi­ tioned cabins for each man. The company describes them as "the most modem design, with permanent prefinished plastic bulkheads." First Launching The Overseas Alice and her sister ship the Overseas Vivian, both weighing 37,800 dead­ weight tons, were launched in 1968. Another 37,800-ton ship, the Overseas Audrey, was launched in 1969. This year the company launched the Overseas Alaska and the Overseas Arctic, both weighing 62,000 deadweight tons. The ships were built to carry petroleum products. The Alice, Audrey, and Vivian each have 15 tanks with a capacity of 333,000 barrels. They also are flexible enough to carry 1,500,000 bushels of grain. Though built specifically for the Alaska North Slope oil trade, the Alaska and Arctic are among the largest vessels capable of crossing the Panama Canal economically and fully loaded. Both ships have a 524,000 barrel capacity. All five ships can discharge a full liquid cargo in less than 15 hours. The engine on each of the ships can be run from the bridge through a centralized control system based upon the remote operation of the main propulsion plant for all maneu­ vering conditions, including standby. The Alice, Audrey, and Vivian operate at a normal speed of 1614 knots with a 15,000-s h a f t-horsepower turbine driving a single screw. -f - ^ •V V The Alaska and Arctic are expected to do ISVi knots with a 20,000 shaft horsepower tur­ bine driving a single screw. These two ships measmre 731 feet in length. Their molded breadth is 105 feet and they draw 43 feet, 3 inches of water. The three older ships measme 660 feet, 2 inches in length, with a molded breadth of 90 feet. Their displacement is 36 feet, 5 inches. When the Overseas Alice was built she was one of the few vessels being constructed for an independent owner in the U.S. without subsidy. The upswing in shipbuilding is not occurring solely with one group. At the launching of the Overseas Alaska, Ran Hettena, director of the Overseas Group, noted, "this occasion, then, gives me some pleasure, not only because we of Overseas Shipbuilding Group are launch­ ing one of our own ships . . . but because U.S. shipbuilding is showing many other signs of vitality." Subsidy for Survival He pointed to the numerous other ships "in various stages of construction" at the Sparrows Point yard. Though he said that "it is clear that American-flag ship­ ping could not survive—^let alone prosper—in competition with lower world costs without some form of protection or subsidy," he added that "there already exists a vital and profit­ able role in U.S. commerce for private, unsubsidized shipping, notably, in our view, in the tanker trades." Standing on ways is Overseas Arctic prior to recent launching. Statistics on Economy Confusing Figures Never Lie, but Whose? It was another rocky month for workingmen trying to figure out what exactly was hap­ pening to the nation's economy. Statistics dropped like snowflakes both from those who follow the official Administration line, and from those who forever believe the opposite. Some things were clear, however: • Prices rose by two-tenths of one percent in August. While this raised prices to a level 5.7 percent higher than last year, the Admin­ istration trumpeted the increase as a victory because it was the smallest monthly increase this year. • Coupled with the small price increase was a continued decline in "real" wages as compared with wage levels a year ago. Antiadministration forces saw this as proof (rf their forecast that the Administration plan for eco­ nomic recovery was failing. • The Administration, albeit reluctantly, added four new major job centers to its list of "substantial unemployment" cities. These were Flint and Saginaw in Michigan; AnaheimSanta Ana-Garden Grove, Calif., and Albu­ querque, N.M. • Seven smaller areas were also added to the list, bringing the total of major centers with more than 6 percent unemployment to 35 out of a possible 150 and small areas to a total of 574. Last September there were 60 major centers that reported "low" unemploy­ ment, and there are now but 19. Generalized Unemployment The increase in unemployment, which many experts see as a general national trend, led to charges of "planned recession" by three econ­ omists who spoke at a legislative conference of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in Washington. The three economic experts said the Nixon Administration has deliberately planned his economic slowdown to hit hardest at workingmen while benefitting banks and credit cor­ porations. One of the economists, Stanley Ruttenberg, a former assistant secretary of labor, said that unemployment and rising prices form a combination something like, "having a flooded basement in a drought." In support of that contention the econo­ mists noted that unemployment had risen to 5.1 percent nationally—the highest rate in six years. Nat Goldfinger, AFL-CIO research direc­ tor, said workingmen have been "the play­ things of a vicious game of engineered reces­ sion created by the Administration." Friedman Backs Labor And, strangely enough, even as labor was lowering these guns against Nixon economic policies, a right-wing economist. Dr. Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, said that the "wage-cost push" was not responsible for inflation. Dr. Friedman, an adviser to Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign, said that the wage gains of unionism have little effect on inflation. Inflation; he said, can oc­ cur when unions are weak as well as when they are strong. "The common element in inflation," Dr. Friedman says, "is not strong unions but an increase in money demand accompanied by an increase in the supply of money." That means, he said, that there are several factors—high cost of manufacturing materials, high interest rates, high competitive advertis­ ing costs—that enter into a recession picture at least as strongly as wage increases. But, as nice as it is that Dr. Friedman says labor is not to blame for inflation, his words will be scant consolation to workingmen who have lost their jobs while the ad­ ministration has fought a battle of statistics instead of a battle against inflation. Metropolitan Centers Eyeing Regional Government Washington The nation is developing a rather pronounced disposition toward a central city with high population density, surrounded by a ring of bedroom suburbs. One of the important ques­ tions raised by figures gathered in the 1970 census is whether the cities and suburbs will con­ tinue to be separate political entities, or whether they will become partners in the near future. Some political connection be­ tween the working place and the dwelling place of this na­ tion's urbanites seems nearly inevitable. And slowly, ponder­ ously, some areas seem to be accepting the trend. Pittsburgh Only Loser The census has shown that of the 30 largest metropolitan areas only Pittsburgh has had a population decline. In the other 29, the loss of people living in the geographical city limits has been more than matched by concomitant growth in the city's outskirts. As the people go, so goes business and several industries and business offices—seeking, no doubt, to escape the prob­ lems of urban life—have fled to suburbia and exurbia. This leaves cities in an un­ tenable position. The tax base decreases as the city ages and the need for city services in­ creases. For these reasons many cities have sought to combine duplicative municipal functions with nearby suburbs, who have the opposite problem—increas­ ing population and a less rap­ idly advancing tax base. Indianapolis Merger In one notable case, the City of Indianapolis and its nearby Marion County suburbs have entered into a partial consolida­ tion to solve municipal prob­ lems. Other regional consolida­ tion agreements have been reached around Baton Rouge, La.; Nashville, Tenn.; Virginia Beach, Va.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Carson City, Nev.; Juneau, Alaska; and Columbus, Ga. This kind of consolidation has been rejected in several areas, basically due to subur­ ban resistance. But the census of 1970 shows that people con­ tinue to move toward the un­ prepared suburbs, and that may presage a day when the sub­ urbs will be forced to call on the cities for essential aid. ^.1 I 'f It r I •.!fc �'39 Law Restricts Barges in'70 Pier Collapse Causes Damage The pier leased by the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Life­ boat School in Brooklyn's Mill Basin collapsed last month causing ex­ tensive damage to lifeboats and other school equipn^ent. A section of Brooklyn's famed Flathush Avenue, bordering the pier, also was car­ ried away into the basin. Six steel-hulled lifeboats were crushed and sunk by tons of falling earth and stone. A floating drydock and a life­ boat tender barge were heavily damaged. The pier was used to train Seafarers to qualify for U.S. Coast Guard lifeboat tickets. DISPATCHERS REPORT Washington A bill that would modernize cargo exemptions in barges on lakes and inland waterways is pending in the U.S. Senate. The measure has already been ap­ proved by the House of Repre­ sentatives. O. William Moody, SIU rep­ resentative on the board of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment, recently testified in favor of the bill at a hetuing of the Surface Transportation Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee. Paul Drozak, SIU represent­ ative in Houston, Tex., ap­ peared with Moody. Moody said the bill will do three things: • It will permit the mixing of regulated and exempt car­ goes in a single towboat with­ out loss of exemption. • Require publication of rates on all dry bulk commodi­ ties and thereby correct some AHanrie, Gulf & inland Waters District Sapitmbf 1,1970 to Saptowibef 30.1970 DECK DEPARTMENT " Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville ....... Tampa ...,..r.......... Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals TOTAL REGISTERED All Gronps ClassA QassB 10 5 125 104 14 18 49 23 26 24 50 38 10 9 50 25 64 92 80 89 30 61 81 121 32 40 657 613 TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups QaraA ClassB ClaasC• 2 5 5 90 66 14 7 7 1 22 5 0 20 20 4 20 15 3 9 9 0 8 22 0 78 46 3 61 60 9 35 31 2 74 82 6 31 23 11 471 377 58 All Groups ClassA ClassB 10 1 191 76 27 28 134 61 40 40 , 58 44 15 18 85 35 159 110 149 101 37 62 178 122 42 15 1,125 713 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Ik X 71 - • • 7^ . Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville ..1 Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston ;... Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals All Groups ClassA ClassB 5 4 112 107 11 7 37 37 26 24 43 26 8 3 26 33 98 71 67 92 47 30 154 74 37 32 696 515 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups ClassA ClassB ClassC 5 7 7 , 69 .74 12 6 2 0 21 11 9 6 22 V 16 27 6 13 5 9 0 7 10 0 64 49 2 67 50 13 23 15 4 62 111 17 37 18 11 453 87 . 346 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa ................. Mobile ..... New Orleans Houston................ Wilmington San Francisco ...... Seattle Totals October 1970 All Groups Class A Class B 3 2 59 69 6 8 16 33 15 20 21 • 25 5 32 • 14.4Z 81 46; 45 13, 17 86 • 75 • 18 r''": 33 436- • 352, REGISTERED ON BEACH REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups Class A Class B Class C 4 49 1 21 12 8 8 9 57 34 9 48 26 284 All Groups ClassA ClassB 7 2 144 146 15 22 87 44 88 44 46 27 8 14 50 45 128 125 75 116 25 47 88 61 34 18 768 738 6 5 40 12 3 1 11 9 16 7 9 11 4 0 6 1-.:/ 36 . 1.,--;35 ,.29 16 • 0 47 ;: 23 •• 8 10 109 237 All Groups Class A ClassB 2 95 16 87 26 27 15 70 123 110 •e ••• 31 81 32 " 705 1 34 9 43 35 32 4 33 79 71 28 44 13 426 SLl Senate Asked To Update Regulations Paul Drozak existing inequities in regulation between rail and water carriers. • And provide a cutoff date for the legislation in order to force a thorough study of water carrier operations. "If this bill is enacted," Moody said, "the inland water­ ways transportation industry will be able to make full use of its advanced technology to the benefit of the shippers and consumers." This, in turn will allow the industry "to continue its im­ portant contribution to the movement of goods in this country, where the demand for transportation continues to out­ strip our national capability to provide high-quality, low-cost facilities," Moody said. He said that passage of the bill was of great concern to inland boatmen because, "the jobs of these inland boatmen and their economic future are tied to the economic future of this industry." Further, according to Moody, "the inland boat industry is the one section of the entire Amer­ ican water transportation indus­ try that has experienced growth in recent years." Bill Moody He said that while the indus­ try was growing by 50 percent it was advancing rapidly in technology. At present he said there are 18,611 non self-pro­ pelled barges in the nation that require towing for delivery of their cargoes. Considerable Impmtance "Some 80,000 workers are employed on the boats and barges operating on these water­ ways and another 80,000 are engaged in shoreside supportting capacities," Moody said. "Obviously we are dealing with an industry of considerable im­ portance to the national econ­ omy." Moody said however that time was nmning out on the cargo mixing provision of ex­ isting statutes, which in turn could cause stagnation m the inland waters transportation system. "Time is. so short," Moody told the senators, "that we ear­ nestly urge you to give favor­ able consideration to (the bill) as passed by the House, with­ out amendment so that comple­ tion of legislative action in this session hopefully will be as­ sured." Proposed Tax Program Would Hurt Workers Wasldngtmi A series of tax proposals by the Administration favors the wealthy, hurte the average worker and does nothing to combat air pollution, according to labor experts. The Administration propos­ als would juggle excise and inheritance taxes to gain more revenue and would tax lead additives in gasoline for anti­ pollution purposes. An AFL-CIO representative told the House Ways and Means Committee that a better way to balance the budget is to eliminate tax loopholes which deprive the U.S. Treasury of billions of dollars annually. Inequitable Extension Andrew Biemiller, legislative director of the federation said extension of the current 7 per­ cent excise tax on autos and 10 percent tax on telephone calls simply would "continue an inequitable tax for an addi­ tional year" and that would be "just as unfair as seeking new sales taxes or higher rates on old taxes." It is labor's position, he added, "that the sooner the fed­ eral government gets out of the sales tax business, the better." He pointed out that the pro­ posal to accelerate gift and in­ heritance taxes as a means of gaining revenue would be a one-time solution of doubtful value. He said the proposal benefits the wealthiest tax-pay­ ers at the expense of those not so wealthy. This proposal represents "a tax policy of indifference to­ ward low and middle income taxpayers and extreme caution when the realm of the wealthy is approached," he said. Billions Lost Biemiller said the "most glaring and costly tax dodges" now in the law involve proper­ ty transferred at death without taxing appreciation in value. He said that loss in revenue attributable to this one tax loophole alone totaled more than $4 billion. "Just by closing this one loophole the Administration would gain more revenue than its whole package of tax in­ crease, tax acceleration, and tax reduction postponements," he added. As for the tax on leaded additives in gasoline, he called it "clea ly a license to pollute, if you pay the price." ^ He suggested that the Ad­ ministration should be support­ ing legislation that simply would ban lead from gasoline and thus force the auto industry to come up with a "virtually pollution-free automobile by 1975." �Bob Callicrnlc, a member of the SlU-affiliated Inland Boatmen's Union, hauls on a line, while mate Ray Baker stands by at the winch. The Comet has two watches made up of a cap­ tain, mate and boatman. In \ Barges Move Cargo Of the West Towhoat skipper Warren Fox stands on the Western Comet (Western Transportation) in Portland, Ore. Elevated pilot house permits Capt. Fox to see over barges Comet has in tow. A very important part of the Comet crew is Eva Bender, a member of the IBU, who is tlie ship's cook. arging is the prime source of cargo movement on the Columbia and B Willamette Rivers in Oregon, and the widespread use of barges have brought the towboat industry into prominence in the Far West. One typical towboat, the Western Comet (Western Transportation Co.) is manned by a crew from the Inland Boatmen's Union. Watch standing is a 12-hour duty for the boatmen. IBU members work il: two weeks and get a week off. And those are seven-day work weeks. The work is hard: tying and unty­ ing empty barges; lashing in full barges, and dropping cargoes off at river plants. But crew quarters are comfortable and Cook Eva Bender provides good hearty food for the rugged boatmen, as the Comet continues its endless sweep up and down the river with barges in tow. The odd-looking towboat, one of six in the Western Transportation fleet, with its elevated wheel house, provides a vital link between the sea and the interior of Oregon and Wash­ ington. The Comet hauls the barges any­ where there is work to be done. ri Captain Fox eases Comet around Portland Harbor to begin picking up barges for downriver trip. Crane in background is at Portland Public Docks. 'i'.' c. A Mate Lester Hopper stands at the prow of a barge to be coupled with barge at right for trip to Lake Oswego. He wears microphone to keep in constant contact with bridge while crew is out of sight below pilot house. »•' I -• ij i <ii 4 sn . 11/ f. /(.Mii- . i. 'I �Machinery mainlenance aboard Comet is done by Engineer Lester Fallon, >vbo attends a winch while spare propeller lies on deck, ready in case of emergency. it' ' Edward Roles, right, an IBU member, helps mate Lester Hopper lash new barge onto Comet's growing collection of empty tows. The towboat will later drop barges off at river ports and factory sites. At Lake Oswego, Edward Roles frees empty barges from tow line. Wood chips from lumbering operations near lake will be towed to paper plants farther down river by Comet which is owned by subsidiary of paper company. ri* - -I Capt. Bernard Lee takes over on the bridge from Capt. Fox. Comet will continue down Willamette and Co­ lumbia to Astoria where it will drop off wood chips at its parent com­ pany plant. Comet bandies a variety of other cargoes as well. 9 g<)J Mate Lester Hopper signals a gravel barge that the Comet will pass to starboard. Hopper, steering towboat while Capt. Fox is off the bridge, will direct boat under the Selwood Bridge. Arrow on prow of the towboat is ship's wind vane. �First Class All the Way Maritime Bill Receives Resounding Approval (Continued jrom Page 3) extension of the tax-deferment construction program to opera­ tors in the noncontiguous trades. "This bill is exciting to Hawaiians," he said. "It can HouseOKs State Tax Limitation Seafarers may soon discover they no longer face the pos­ sibility of paying payroll taxes to several more states than the state in which they live. The Seafarer who lives in one state, works on a ship registered in another and loads cargo in still a third, now faces the threat of being taxed three times. Or, he may have to pay taxes to two states and file an information return with the third. Legislation designed to cor­ rect this unfair situation of "tax­ ation without representation" has recently been approved in the House. However, the bill doesn't eliminate entirely the But Curran opposed the grandfather clause. prospect of paying income tax He said in his column in the July, 1970, NM[/ to several states. Originally the House bill ap­ Pilot: plied only to interstate trans­ "Our job will be to fight the grandfather portation • workers such as overclause all the way." the-road drivers, airline pilots Curran was equally blunt in his demand that and railroad workers. Congress­ American-flag operators be allowed to build men argued that Seafarers are their ships in foreign yards. already protected by other "We canr see no reason for the American existing laws. shipbuilding industry to be allowed to play dog Rep. Thomas M. Pelly (Rin the manger at the expense of the American Wash.) however, insisted that merchant marine," he wrote in the May, 1970, Seafarers are not fully protected NMU Pilot. "Shipbuilding can get all the pro­ by any other laws and should tection it needs and all the work it can perform be included under the law. while still permitting American operators to get The Pelly Amendment was vessels built for American operation in foreign accepted by two committees re­ yards." viewing the proposed legislation In arguing the case favoring foreign ship­ and was included in the bill the yards over American shipyards, Curran wrote: House passed. It now goes to "The (American) shipbuilding industry has more the Senate. work than it can handle." A similar bill has been intro­ duced in the Senate and has Just a month later—on June 23—^U.S. Mari­ been endorsed by the SIU and time Administrator Andrew E. Gibson told members of the Seapower Subcommittee of the other concerned unions. The Senate bill clarifies the House Committee on Armed Services that of the 56 American shipways for 600-foot ships, basic power of states to tax 21—or more than a third—were unoccupied at nonresidents. It eliminates loop­ holes by stating that only two the end of April, 1970. states can claim any form of "One year from now," he told the commit­ tee, "30 ways out of 56 or 54 percent are income or withholding taxes scheduled to be occupied." This means that from interstate transportation workers—the state of residence nearly half will be empty. and the state in which the em­ Just as American-flag fleet will be modern­ ployee earns 50 percent or ized through the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, more of his annual income. the American shipbuilding industry is increas­ ing its capacity to produce quickly and effec­ tively the new ships that will be constructed under the provisions of the Act. To promote foreign construction of Ameri­ can-flag ships is to promote a "runaway" ship­ building industry, a condition that would pro­ Thanks for Help duce the same damaging effect upon the Ameri­ To the Editor: can maritime industry, and particularly shipyard I want to thank the SIU for workers, that the "runaway" flag fleet has in­ the letter expressing your sym­ flicted .over a period of a quarter of a century on pathies and condolences on the death of my husband William American seamen. Thiemonge. I sincerely appreciate As a union officer representing maritime work­ your kind words the help ers, it seems that Curran's responsibility is to and assistance givenand to me by the push for the protection and expansion of job Baltimore office during this pe­ opportunities for U.S. maritime workers. riod. Obviously his stand on the grandfather clause Sincerely, and on the building of ships for the AmericanWinifred M. Thiemonge flag fleet do not carry out this responsibility. Baltimm-e, Md. Where Was Joe Cur ran? While the Seafarers International Union and the 42 national and international unions afliliated with the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment have been working for years to pro­ mote many of the benefits encompassed in the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, National Mari­ time Union President Joseph Curran has been leading the ranks of the opposition. Officials ^f Curran's organization, the LaborManagement Maritime Committee (LMCC), termed the Act a "grotesque bill" as it was presented by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. "We cannot and do not support the abortive provisions introduced into the legislation by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit­ tee," the LMCCs eo-direetors, Earl Clark and Hoyt Haddock, wrote in a letter to Senator Russell Long, chairman of the Merchant Marine Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Com­ mittee. Haddock is executive director of the AFL-CIO Maritime Committee, which is headed by Curran. Curran's attacks took two rather ironic paths. First, he opposed the "buy-American" sec­ tion of the Act which calls for all components of all American-flag vessels to be constructed in the United States. He plugged for giving American-flag subsidy privileges to ships con­ structed in foreign yards. Second, he opposed the "grandfather clause" of the Act which provides a system under which American-flag ship owners who also operate ships under foreign flags would have the op­ portunity to receive the subsidy benefits of the new Act providing they immediately "freeze" their foreign fleets at their present level and then phase them out completely within 20 years. Curran, in the NMU Pilot, attacked the SIU for supporting this grandfather clause in the Act. The "grandfather clause," as adopted in the final bill, applies to all American-flag ship opera­ tors, except the liners. As a result of the grand­ father clause, an inducement has been offered to the American ship owners to end their foreignflag operations and expand their U.S.-flag busi­ ness. If this provision results in an increase in American-flag vessels, it will mean more jobs for American seamen—^jobs that were not avail^le before. have the effect of halting the ever-rising cost of living for Hawaiians and help us revive the economy of a large portion of the state. "And it means we will have done this without weakening the protection provided for our domestic shipbuilding industry," he added. Senator William B. Sppng. (D-Va.) likened adoption of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 to the launching of a new ship. "In this case," he said, "I am hopeful that the compre­ hensive legislation before us will lead to the launching of a whole new era in our merchant marine history. "Years of neglect and a basic failure to understand the nature and requirements of our role as a major sea power has led to our present dismal status among the seafaring nations of the world." Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, in support­ ing the Act, said that "we must not let our ship repair yards wither and die, for they have made tremendous contributions to our economy." And Senator Robert Griffin, Michigan Republican, summed up the feeling of many senators when he said: "All of these provisions will result in the rebuilding of the fleet aJi the least cost to the government and to the ship operator." Senators Long, Magnuson, Griffin, Norris Cotton (RN.M.) and John O. Pastore (D-R.I.) served the Senate on the House-Senate Conference Committee. Representing the House were Congressmen Ed­ ward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of the House Cbmmittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Thomas N. Down­ ing (D-Va.); Frank M. Qark (D-Pa.); William S. Maillaird (R-Calif.), and Thomas M. PeUy (R-Wash.). Arabic Stops Log Neittin rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor ^oom of nl^t ami stop the malls, but they may have a little tronble widi Arabic. A packa^ of copies of the 1968 Seafarers Log recently arrived at the Log office with notations written in Arabic. They had been destined for the crew of the Penn Carrier which was to dock in Khang Island, Saudi Ardiiia. Whatever those Arabic markings say, they mean that the crew of the Penn Carrier didn't receive the July 1968 Log, and th^ mean that it took postal authorities more than two years to return them to the point of origin. Saudi Arabia doesn't get much rain, snow or sleet so it must have been a gjlomny liight that caused the slip-up in the maiL X >' �mm Fort Wayne, Ind, Scranfon, Pd. ILLEGAL DONATIONS Seafarers to Fight Federal Indictment WASHINGTON (AP) — The AFLGIO Seafarers' Internation­ al Union vowed today to wage an all-out fight, "financially and morally," against federal indict' ments charging the union and 1 its officers with illegal political donations. "We know^that if the SeafarI era have no voice in the halls of j .Congress that we will very soon I lose all the things that we have f .fought so hard to obtain over I ,1he years," said the union's secI retary-treasurer, A1 Kerr, one I of thp InfUotpd offlpjnls LABOR PAPPROXIBIATELY 1200 safarers at the geaseral memsrship meeting in Brooklyn rated witibout dissent to "fight be action through all legal lethods with all fiie strength at the Union's disposal." f The 17 - coimt ^dlctment, ji^Ch tuo JiimCe DepaTtuieut lUiok to the Grand Jury alts' 18 months, charges that the Seafarers' PoUtkbl Activities lunations (SPAD) gave |20,000 to various soups support­ ing the Hummirey-Muskie tiucet in the 1968 Presidential election year, and another $20,000 contributed to Repub­ lican campaign committees, were in vmlTOoa of Federal 'law.: ; • • It also accuses tiie Union and many of its officers of conspiring to spend $750,000 for ppEtical action in Presi­ dential^ Senatorial and .Con- r UNI(5N Charges ' WASHINGTON (AP) - The AFL-(1I0 Se^iscgrs' Internatiooal Union vowed today to wage an all-out fight, "financiaUy and mM-aUy," against federal indict­ ments charging the union' and ifs o^ers with Ulegai political donations. "We know that if the Seafar­ ers have no voice in the halls Con{p:e8s that we will veiy soon lose all the tidngs that we have fooght so bard to obtain over the years," said the mdon's sec^ retary-trearsurer, A1 Kerr, one he indicted officials. : fOderal grand jury in BrookN.Y., last month handed San Francisco, Calif. The Seafarers internatiooial Union, indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyn for making aUegedly ill^al polit­ ical contributions to boUi Dem­ ocrats and Republicans^ is aggressively fightlQg the charges. As the jfirst step, The Sea­ farers Log, official Union pub­ lication, carries a four-page dealing with the charges and inclum^ the entire 17-count Im^ctment. '/Qie indictment is based upon allegations made by the Department of Justice, under Attorney General John Mitdiell. It is contended that the Snj consbired to polit­ ical donations, in lolation of Federal rules covering camlaign contributions. dues are obtained fb eign seamen on U.S. I ALL of the cbntil cited in the Imhctmi SIU says, were report licly to the Departmeo hor and to the clerlq House and Senate as i by law. However, the indicti leges that receipts a; ments were submitted ceal the contributions penditures" Among the nine def named in the charges President Paul Hall tary-Treasuer Ai Ke PhiMp CarUp, the Unit islative representa Washington. The Log, in r^ri indictments, decla^: believe the case poses to all polirikal aciivitit segments nf the tradmovement." A YEAR AGO whc time labor was driv bring modem shins, m REVIEM Trade unions are continuing their attacks upon the Justice Department in support of the SIU in actions stemming from grand jury indictments accusing the SIU of making contributions to both Republican and Democratic campaigns in 1968 in violation of federal regulations. The International Executive Board of the 500,000member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers (AFSCME) adopted and dis­ tributed a resolution in which they held that: "The grand jury indictments of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union, AFL-CIO, on allegations of irregular­ ities in the union's political action expenditures should stand more as an indictment of the Department of Justice than of the Seafarers Union." The AFSCME leaders expressed "firm belief in the integrity and probity of the SIU, its officers and its political action policies," and condemned the Justice Department action as "reflecting more interest on the part of the Attorney General in persecution rather than prosecution." AFSCME pledged "all possible support" to assist the SIU against the "unjustified and politically-motivated charges." Owen P. Kelly, assistant general secretary-treasurer of the Plumbers Union, cited AFL-CIO President George Meany's recent declaration that Attorney General John Mitchell is attempting "to silence the American trade union movement for purely political purposes" through the attack on the SIU. Kelly, in his column in the union's official publica­ tion, the UA Journal, wrote that Meany's words "focused attention on a major onslaught being pressed against the constitutional rights of unions and working people. "The ultimate shame of our nation would be to have an Attorney General who makes speeches about Maw and order' and the need to respect our judicial processes, while carefully choosing who will be har­ assed, who will be indicted, and who will be allowed to act with impunity. It is something for all of Amer­ ica to worry about." The indictments against the SIU were based on records of contributions and distributions of funds of the Seafarers Political Activities Donations (SPAD) which have been publicly reported to the clerks of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as the Department of Labor. As shown on this page, both the public and the labor press have been reporting the story of the SlU's battle against the Justice Department action. The SIU and its president, Paul Hall, pleaded inno­ cent this month to the charges. Lawyers in the case were given 60 days to file pretrial motions. Miimeqp^i Hits Move by to POUTICAL DONATIONS All-Out Fight On Indictments October 1970 CHICACK)—^The exeentive conn- in connection with Federal elee» cil of fhe AFL-CIO aeeosed At­ tions. As a result, it said, many torn^ General John N. lOtdien national and international unions on Aug. 4 of seeking to sflenee the have formed separate committees American trade onion movement to collect voluntary dollars from for porely political porposes. members and riipporters to be used The cooncfl's' charge was a AMERICAN LABOR tained in a statement in defense the Seafarers Internationa XJni< Intimidating of Basic Rights which, along with eight office was ^ndicted in Jnne by a Fede. Seen in Seafarers' indictment grand jury in Brooklyn for an Calling the recent indictment of leged conspiracy to make politi the Seafarers' International Union contributions in violation of F of North America "a device ttf eral law. coerce working men and women The indictment, the council n and their unions to forego their ed, charged, among other thin basic Constitutional rights," the that in the national election 1968 the seafarers union, throu AFL-CIO , , , Executive , » . Council ^ its Political Activity Donation i the Justice Department count, contributed a total of |2 ^ attempting to "silence" the trade AAA M unioH movement in this country. , Unions Continue to Criticize Political Indictment of SIU CHICAGO - U.S. Attorney Gaierai John Mitchell "is seriting to silence the American trade union movement for purely politi(»l purposes," the AIXHCJO dedared. dopted atipn's ed "we Springti(>l^ti^ast. joing to * basic to the labor me tiie jDqit." iFLOJO he labor )e inictioQ in of die .ons will m their WASHINGTON (AP) The AFL-CIO Seafarers' International U n i o"rrTias vowed to wage an all-out f.i gbt, "fiiMncia'Hy and Labor Attacks Mitdi^ On Its Political Righ^ Seafarers flag merchant fleet," the union said. "When you get into the scrap like this, you're bound to make enemies. They're the ones who would like to sink die merchant marine," it said. The union has long lobbied for legislation for federal subsidies for American-built and operated merchant ships, and sought fed­ eral rules restricting the prac­ tice of some U.S. firms of regis­ tering and operating their ships under foreign flags in order to escape higher U.S. wages and rers attack on political A UWUA'THE RECORO Seafarers have no voice in tihe hails of Congress^ that we will very soon lt«e all the things that we have foighr sti-luml—to Ahfai.n nutkr , tbr- entitled it^ the ictment i jury in barging er of its nd con;al con- tributions in violatiini of fSderal dectitms," they have the right to women and their unions to law."The statement noted that the noalto vdunta^ cditributions to their basic constitutional rightsT" diarges included making of political activity funds, and tiheir R said die reasons of Mitdiell, ccmtnbutions to both Donocratic unions have the ri^t to convince "key poUtican,'' and Republican campaign com­ the members that such con­ Administraticm's were "not hard to discern." mittees through the union's tributions are vital to safeguard Labor's involvement in the 1968 Pblitical Activity Donation Ac­ their interests, the council oresidential camnaien. its fieht to count. The coundl- noted that r SUMMIT COUNTY LABOR NEWS Akron, Ohio AFLCIO affiliates have foi sQMurate committees to cc W^tary dollars from men: Sfid that the formation of committees and tiiefr us< "monies so collected to sig candidate for colitical office always been p^rmUted u Mitchdl "is seek- violate the prohibition against us­ federal law." The stater silence the American trade ing union dues monies for contribu­ continued: (,) union movement lor purdy political tions to federal candidates." purposes," the AFLrCIO declared. "The indictment, howt JQ QU xuianimously adopted state- American workers have the right ffiarges, in essence, that naent tiie federation's Executive "to associate together to make their T° JULY'S? "we wm not be voice heard in federal elections," contSions ... We are to continue to they have the right to make volun­ constitutes a conspiracy to v exercise cm: basic rights and we are tary contributions to political activ­ the prohibition against using Sohig to the defense of those labor ity funds, and their unions have the dues for contributio organizations which become the right to convince the members that federal candidatej." chosen target of the Judice Dept" such contributions are vital to safer American workers have At a press conference, AFL-CIO guard their interests, the coundl der rigjit "to associate togethi Pres. George Meany said the labor dared. ? make their voice heard m fe. movement "won't be Intimidated." by SIU Inctictment Assailed As Move To Cag Labor Page 11 �'Regret and Apprehension' Over NLRB SSSpSPSPS AFL-CIO Assails Appointees Washington Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, has assailed the Nixon Adminis­ tration's removal of Frank McCulloch from the chairmanship of the National Labor Rela­ tions Board. At a testimonial luncheon for McCulloch, Kirkland pointed out that the AFL-CIO was extremely unhappy at the manner in which the Nixon Administration relieved McCulloch only a few months before he was due to retire and put in his place a management-oriented labor rciations lawyer, Edward B. Miller, who already has given a conservative flavor to NLRB decisions. "We feel deep regret and some apprehen­ sion at the way in which this was done," Kirk­ land said. He added there "was concern for the consequences of McCulloch's replace­ ment," consequences which, he said, "may be painful to American workers." Management Careerist The AFL-CIO has opposed Miller's ap­ pointment to the NLRB. President George Meany said that organized labor did not believe the board should be com­ posed of men with close ties either to man­ agement or unions. Miller, Meany said, has spent his entire professional career in the serv­ ice of management. President Nixon followed the appointment of Miller by nominating another Republican, Unfair To Labor Do Not Buy Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boycolt by trade unionists against vari­ ous companies whose products are produced under non-union condi­ tions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This list carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions involved, and will be amended from time to time.) BARBER EQUIPMENT—Wahl Clipper Corp., producers of home barber sets. (International Asso• ciation of Machinists) CIGARETTES—R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, Ralph E. Kennedy, to fill the fifth spot on the Board. Kennedy has been described by labor lawyers as "exceptionally poor." His expected confirmation will give Republicans a three to two majority over the Democrats on the board. Labor's concern over the composition of the board comes at a time when the NLRB is handling a record number of cases every quarter. Record Caseload The board reported that during the AprilJune period this year, it received 9,452 cases of all types—the highest ever for a three month period in its 35-year history. The record number resulted largely from the high number of unfair labor practice com­ plaints, numbering 1,060 more than were re­ ceived in the same period last year. Complaints against employers reached a to­ tal of 4.070 of which 1,763 were filed by AFL-CIO affiliates. Complaints against unions totalled 2,164, one-fourth of which were sec­ ondary boycott charges. During the same three month period the NLRB conducted 2,100 collective bargaining •elections in which 57 percent were won by unions. AFL-CIO unions won a majority in 661 elections and lost 586. As a result of the heavy inflow of cases, the NLRB had over 11,500 cases pending at the end of June. Winston, Salem, Tempo, Brandon, Doral and Cavalier cigarettes. (Tobacco Workers) CLOTHING—Siegel (H.I.S. brand) suits and sports jackets, Kaynee boyswear, Richman Brothers mens' clothing. Swell suits. Wing shirts, Metro Pants Co. prod­ ucts, and Diplomat Pajamas by Fortex Mfg. Co. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Judy Bond Blouses. (Ladies Gar­ ment Workers) FLOUR MILL PRODUCTS—Pio­ neer Products, San Antonio, Tex. (Brewery and Flour Workers) FURNITURE—James Sterling White Fumiture (Co., Brown Furniture Co. (Fumiture Work­ ers) Economy Furniture—Bilt-Rite, Western Provincial and Smith. town Maple. (Upholsters) LIQUORS—Stitzel-Weller Distiller­ ies products—Old Fitzgerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk and W. L. Weller brands. (Distillery Work­ ers) NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Her­ ald-Examiner. (10 unions in­ volved—covering 2,000 workers) PRINTING—K i n g s p o r t Press, "World Book" and "Childcraft." (Six unions involved) Brittanica Junior Encyclopedia. (Allied Printing Trades) RANGES—Magic Chef, Pan Pacific /^ivision. (Appliance Workers) SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co., shoes by Sentry, Cedar Chest, Staler, Jarman, Johnson & Murphy and Crestworth. (Boot and Shoe Workers) SPECIAI^All West Virginia camping and vacation spots. (Laborers) TOYS—Fisher-Price toys (Doll and Toy Workers) VALVES—Stockham Valves and Fittings Co., Inc. Birmingham, Ala. (Steelworkers) iki^AQTIClN UNE The following question dealing with the Vietnam War Zone Bonus was referred to union headquarters by Seafarer Samuel W. McDonald, ship's secretary-reporter aboard the Seatrain Maine (Seatrain Lines). Question: "We would like to have an official clarification of the tax status of the war bonus paid to Seafarers sailing in the Vietnam area." Answen The war area bonus received by merchant marine personnel serving on ships operating in the Vietnam bonus zone is taxable. Reference: Executive Order 11216, April 26, 1965; and official U.S. Treas­ ury Department report. In response to Brother McDonald's question, the Union con­ tacted the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Office of International Operations. The Union was informed by the IRS that Executive Order 11216, April 24, 1965, limits the tax exemption on combat pay only to active duty members of the armed forces of the United States. Since members of the U.S. merchant marine are not active members of the armed forces of the United States there is no provision for extending the tax exemption on war zone pay to them, even if they are sailing aboard ships operating in a combat zone. Therefore, it is the official position of the Internal Revenue Service that the 100% wage bonus paid to Seafarers sailing in the Vietnam combat zone must be reported in full on a Seafarer's in­ come tax return. Any Seafarer who has not reported wages received in the form of the war zone bonus can still file an amended income tax return and report the gross amount he received. Failure to report the war area bonus on an income tax return may subject the Seafarer to fines and or other penalties. It is suggested that if any SIU member needs assistance in the filing of an amended tax return, he should contact the nearest office of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. House Votes Help to Service Washington Rep. Edward A. Garmatz, The House of Representa­ sponsor of the bill, said the tives has passed a bill providing measure will provide the same government assistance to the benefit to USS which is pres­ United Seamen's Service. ently given the USO, an agency The assistance will be pro­ which restricts its accommoda­ vided in the form of govern­ tions to military personnel. ment paid travel for USS em­ Congressional action was ployees and establishment of needed. Rep. Garmatz said, be­ facilities for the use of Ameri­ cause an executive order pro­ can merchant seamen in foreign viding the same assistance had ports. expired. c The Brotherhood of the Sea is illustrated hy the Bonefont broth­ ers aboard the Overseas Vila. Raphael, left, and David are grad­ uates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Other union brothers in their family are their father Felix, brothers Joey and Felix, Jr., and "about 45" cousins and uncles. (Left photo) Aboard the Overseas Ulla Luis Martinez, pours coffee for Peter Fantoja as they await their first trip aboard the Overseas Ulla. Martinez, 18, is sailing as a third cook and Fantoja, 18, as a BR. Both graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship at Finey Point a week before shipping out. Page 12 Seafarers Log J �SEAFARERSIi^LOC OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CIO Yew Conrse To Assist Bad Readers See Next Page Building Bloekis For I ' To Get Young Men Read^ To Go To Sea See Page 22 * ij,' !( •• Hw < A Better Fnion Sm Members Learn About Tbeir IJnion See Page 17 . ^ -f 13 �New Program Helps Increase Reading Skills by Charles Svenson Log Staff Writer A recent national survey revealed this jarring statistic: At least 13 percent of the population over the age of 16 "lacks the reading ability necessary for survival." That estimate may be conservative. An earlier study conducted by Harvard University suggested that as many as half the adults of this country "do not read well enough to master ordinary reading mate­ rials." Whatever the figure, the problem is a serious one. There is no way to estimate the loss of national productivity that can be blamed directly on func­ tional illiteracy. And there is no way to measure the individual pain and discomfort of the nonreader. But the loss must be enormous, and the pain very real. Recognizing the problem, the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point has set out to do something about it. Experience over the past three years has shown that about one out of every six trainees has some reading problem serious enough to affect his ability to understand the training materials used at the school. Until recently, instructors in the various areas of training have worked with these trainees with the immediate objective of helping them to pass the written Coast Guard examination for their lifeboat endorsement. Preparing for. Advancement This was not enough. If the trainee was to be given a sense of self-responsibility, if he was to be given the tools to prepare him for advancement to more responsible jobs aboard ship, something more was needed. That something is a remedial reading program, staffed and under the direction of professional collegetrained reading counsellors who are provided with the most up-to-date teaching aids and classroom facilities. The program at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship is under the direction of Miss Hazel Brown, who is also director of the overall academic program at the school. Miss Brown earned graduate and post-graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and has extensive experience as a reme­ dial reading specialist. Trainees are given a reading examination oh their arrival at the school. Those who score below a fifthgrade level are asigned to the remedial reading pro­ gram for their entire stay at the school. The major objective of the program is to improve reading achievement of the trainees commensurate with their individual levels of reading expectancy. This broader objective envisions a program which will improve the skills of trainees at all reading levels, not merely those who have serious problems. Improving Reading Attitudes Secondary goals include improving attitudes toward reading, broadening the trainees' horizons of interest, and developing an awareness for personal growth through reading. Each trainee entering the school is unique in many ways. Not only does he differ in age, size, race and background, but he also differs in learning potential. He has his own rate of learning as well as his own peculiar accumulation of experiences. He differs in his understanding of his own world and how to deal with it. He has his own set of values, and his own understanding of what is important to him, and how he fits into his environment. He differs in his under­ standing of himself, his self-confidence, and his selfesteem. And he has a distinct way of communicating and relating to others. Miss Brown believes this individual uniqueness suggests that learning situations should be designed to capitalize on individual differences, rather than ignoring them. "Learning is unique and extremely personal; one learns from living," she said. "I believe that effective learning is possible only when the learner can relate concepts, ideas and content to his own experiences. He must be able to see the learning process as being meaningful to life situations." Relating New Ideas She also recognizes the importance of encouraging the student to deal with familiar concepts and procedures before confronting him with challenges. She explained: "We want the student to feel comfortable and ac­ ceptable. If challenges are too severe, he may feel threatened and insecure, and this can lead to frustra­ tion and an inability to learn. When the individual student can relate new ideas and experiences to those with which he is already familiar, he will learn more readily. He will also see himself as a more apt per­ son—a person who can learn and does learn with a minimum of diflSculty. "Motivating the individual to first tolerate the read­ ing situation, and then grow to enjoy it, is a major objective of our program." There is no evidence that any one method of in­ struction is uniquely suited to overcome all deficiencies which may occur in reading. Indeed, evidence seems Hazel Brown, director of academic training at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, works with a student on the reading scanner. Every effort is made to bring the trainee's reading up to the sixth-grade level, the national norm. J Reading Instructor Mrs. Eva Nail gives special attention to each of the trainees enrolled in her class. All trainees are given a reading test on their arrival at Piney Point. Those who score a sixth-grade level are provided inten­ sive remedial instruction to improve reading skills. to indicate that combinations of methods are superior to any one single approach. The type of reading program used at the Harry Lundeberg School is one in which there is constant selecting and choosing from various sources, ap­ proaches and media to meet individual needs. Using the Dictionary Word study skills, for instance, are being sys­ tematically taught—regardless of the method used— with the aim being to teach functionally. Use of the dictionary is considered essential. Linguistic and phonetic approaches are used when applicable. Miss Brown considers cooperation between her staff and the librarian necessary to achieve concrete results. The school library, which is housed aboard the HLSS school ship Charles S. Zimmerman, maintains a continuing supply of a wide variety of paperback books and magazines which are available to the trainees. Miss Brown is convinced that the use of relevant material is important to excite the interest of the trainee and to motivate him. Every trainee must pass a written Coast Guard examination before he will graduate from the school. The trainees understand the importance of passing this examination, and those in the reading class readily accept the idea of using this study material. Training materials on the duties of seamen in the deck, engine and steward departments are favorably received by the students, as are materials on union education, which is a part of the trainees' curriculum. Letter writing is also used as a reading-spelling device. How well is the program working? Miss Brown is optimistic: "In the past six weeks we have observed an im­ provement, in the reading attitudes of our students. Those with a fifth grade reading level have shown great interest and marked improvement. We are on the right track." Another encouraging sign is the acceptance of the program by the trainees themselves. A number of them, those who scored above the sixth grade level but who feel inadequate in their reading skills, have volunteered for the course. "What we are doing here," Miss Brown said, "is something previously untried. We are taking young men, most of them school drop-outs, many of them who have lost their motivation, and we are giving them an opportunity to become useful members of our society. We are also giving them the chance to make something of themselves, to achieve a sense of individual pride and accomplishment. The union, through the school, has made available every facility to assure success." f . 'i I i �r J- SIU members attending a Crew Conference at Piney Point are all business as they ponder a test designed to judge ability to comprehend and utilize English. The purpose of the testing is to determine reading levels of the members so that in­ struction materials and publications can he geared to needs of the membership. A group of Seafarers attending a Crew Con­ ference at the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship take part in a reading compre­ hension test. Administered by the school's department of academic education, the test is designed to evaluate the individual's ahUity not only to read the English language, hut also to understand what he reads. Since the testing program was initiated, Seafarers have consistently shown reading skiUs far above the national average. Professional edu­ cators at the school attribute this to the fact that most seagoing men are voracious read­ ers by nature, and thus improve their com­ prehension abilities through this process. 1: i r• Readers at Sea f IF f s. « f It shouldn't come as miy surprise, but Seafarers seem to have a significantly higher reading level than the natimial average. Recent surveys have indicated that the national reading level of the adult population is somewhere between the fifth and sixth grades. Seafarers attending the SIU Crew Conferences at Piney Point have been given a comprehensive reading test during their stay at the school. Results based on the first 135 tested show an average reading level of somewhere between the eighth and ninth grades. Experts agree that formal education is no guide to read­ ing levels. College and university officials have been dis­ mayed at the low reading scores of many college applicants. The experts also agree that reading is the key to improving reading and comprehension skills. Seafarers have always been voracious readers, parfly from being so long at sea and partly because of a curiosity nur­ tured by new experiences. This reading skill explains why seamen, with as little as only four or five grades of formal education, can come out of the forecastle and fireroom and master the complicated examinations for upgrading to li­ censed officers. Although Seafarers on the average have less formal education than most Americans, they generally score higher on reading tests designed to judge their ability to comprehend what they read. Recent studies show the national reading level of the adult population is somewhere between the fifth and sixth grades. Those Seafarers participating in the testing program while attending Crew Conferences at the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship have averaged a reading level of somewhere between the eighth and ninth grades. Education experts agree formal education is no guide to reading levels and the results produced so far by participating Seafarers would seem to bear this theory out. at �High School Program Planned at Piney Point As part of an ever-widening program of benefits for its members, the SIU has hopes of soon establishing an official General Educational Development (GED) testing center and, eventually, a four-year accredited high school at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Md. GED tests are used by school drop-outs to earn high school equivalency certifi­ cates. The comprehensive, five-part test is designed to measure the level of edu­ cational achievement through comparison with results on the test of students about to graduate from high school. Emphasis is placed on intellectual power—the ability to comprehend—and critical evaluation. Application for recognition as an official testing center already has been filed with Maryland officials. The State Board of Education will meet with HLSS officers Oct. 28 before a final decision is reached. The application stressed that the GED center would be available to all residents of the Southern Maryland area as well to Seafarers. Realizing that many of its members have never finished their formal high school education, the SIU is seeking to provide an opportunity for those interested to attain the equivalent of a diploma. After studying various programs, it was decided that the GED program was the best offered. However, a few obstacles have yet to be overcome. A Seafarer, by the very nature of his work, is so transient that he- would not meet most states' residency requirements for taking the test. Although there are Seafarers 16 years of age who might want to take the test, most states require a candidate to be at least 17 years old. The SIU has petitioned the Maryland State Board of Education to waive the age and residency requirements for Seafarers. Professional Staff Ready If approval to establish the center is granted, a professional staff of educators at HLSS, headed by Director of Academic Studies Hazel Brown, is geared to launch a thorough training and testing program. Facilities, including an hnpressive, still-expanding library, are ready for use. A big plus for the Seafarer will be the training and guidance that will be avail­ able to him before he even takes the test. The test itself is very demanding. Over 30 percent of those who take it fail. This high failure rate led the SIU to initiate a training program at HLSS for all interested candidates. Through a series of inter­ views and tests, the professional staff personnel will be able to determine in what areas a prospect may be weak. They can then suggest means of correcting these deficiencies and offer individual and group instruction and guidance. All this will be done to insure that the SIU member has the best possible opportunity to attain the GED certificate. Mrs. Susan Carey, a member of the academic educalion faculty at Piney Point, prepares materials which will he used to assist trainees to secure a high school equivalency diploma. The GED program is not like the "Earn a High School Diploma at Home in Your Spare Time" advertised on matchbooks. The SIU's GED program is operated by the Commission on Accreditation, appointed by the American Council on Edu­ cation, and composed of leading educators from across the country. Throughout the U.S., the GED certificate is recognized by employers and ac­ credited universities in the same way as a regular high school diploma. Accretlited High School The SIU also hopes to receive in the not-too-distant future permission from the State Superintendent of Schools to establish an accredited four-year high school. Officials at HLSS currently are discussing a possible working agreement with the St. Mary's County School District. Projected plans also call for the inclusion of evening courses of study so that adults can brush up on their education. Support and advice for implementing the two proposals have been received from many quarters. Nearby St. Mary's College and Charles County Community College have extended guidance and expertise in laying the groundwork for the GED center and the high school. Encyclopedia Brittanica and its special consultant, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, have encouraged both ideas and pro­ vided guidance. The Superintendent of St. Mary's County Public Schools, Dr. King, has lent his cooperation and encouragement. TTie groundwork has been laid, facilities prepared, the program outlined, and the staff assembled. Only approval is needed to get the GED center into operation and the high school well on its way to reality. Retirees Conferences Provide Special Help Pension and Welfare Director A1 Bernstein discusses benefits under the Medicare pro­ gram with retired SIU members attending the the Pensioners' Conference at Piney Point. All too often when a person retires he is forgotten by the company he served faithfully for many years. He may receive a monthly pension check, but that is usually his only contact with his former employer. The SIU doesn't feel that way about its retired Seafarers and is doing some­ thing about it. To the SIU, a pensioner is more than just a punch card placed in a computer once a month when the pension checks are made out. He is an individ­ ual. A man who had to toil long years at a strenuous, often lonely job to be able to enjoy his retirement. As far as the SIU is concerned, retirement is not a phasing out—an Auld Lang Syne. It is a hard-earned right, which carries with it certain benefits. For this reason the union has initiated a series of week-long Pensioners' Con­ ferences at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point. The con­ ferences are designed to inform pensioners of their ri^ts as retirees and how to get them. Utilizing lectures, slide presentations and movies, the pensioners are given a thorough breakdown of the benefits they have earned under the SIU's Pension and Welfare Plan. For instance, they are informed that they qualify for unlimited medical aid for the rest of their lives; that their heirs will receive a $4,000 death benefit; that their dependents still qualify for surgical and hospitalization benefits just as they did when the retiree was an active Seafarer, and that this coverage will continue for six months after his death. They are given a detailed explanation of the requirements and workings of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. They are shown where to go and what to do if a problem arises in any of these areas. Above and beyond this basic educational purpose, the conferences serve as a forum for information and guidance that can help make retired life more pleasant. Caution and safety in everyday living habits are stressed. Simple reminders like gripping a bannister when descending stairs, which may seem facetious to some younger people, can mean a saving of months in bed with an injury to an oldtimer. The conferences cite the importance of being active in community work. Helping "to get out the vote" for a particular candidate, as an example, can relieve bore­ dom. Retirement, it is explained, is not the time to retreat into a protective shell, but the time to do some of . those things there wasn't time to do when working. Probably just as important as these educational and informative forums, the con­ ferences allow the old salts an opportunity to get together with their brothers in the union and discuss that which they know and love best—seafaring. They also have a chance to keep in touch with SIU activities, to see the tremendous progress being made in the training of young Seafarers, and to witness the growth of their union. They come from all over the country to attend these Pensioners' Conferences as of their union. Perhaps the best way to get the feel of any program is to ask one of the partici­ pants: "I'm very enthused and impressed by this program they set up for us here. I've learned some things I didn't realize before and wouldn't have known where to go to find out about. I still can't tell you all about Medicare and stuff like that, but now I at least know where to find out. I'm a sailor from way back—^having served ip the Navy before joining the SIU. That has been my life. So, I enjoy this quite a bit. I'm especially impressed by what we have down here. Piney Point was . . . well, just Piney Point to me before this trip. It's good to see what the union is doing," said Jim McQoud of Philadelphia. �SlU Members Learn About Their Union A program unique in the history of maritime un­ ions is underway at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, and has already proved to be highly successful. The program is the SIU Crew Conferences. Its purpose is to provide the membership an opportunity to learn more about their union and the maritime industry. Its goal is to make the SIU member the best informed union member anywhere. The conferences are being held at the union's training center at Piney Point in Southern Maryland, where the Potomac River empties into Chesapeake tion of the employment provisions of the Standard Agreement, general rules, department rules and ship­ ping rules. In addition, facts are presented on the economics of the shipping industry, the legislative efforts of the SIU, and the impact that passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 will have on the union and the ship owners. Pension, Welfare & Vacation Discussions on this topic detail the benefits that have been won over the years through collective bar­ gaining. Included is a survey of SIU welfare bene­ fits, the pension program, vacation plan, the SIU clinic, medicare, the U.S. Public Health Service and the scholarship plan. SIU Constitution Full discussions are held on the SIU constitution, and there is plenty of time for question and answer periods. This session is also used for a study of the union's involvement in political activity, including the func­ tion of the Seafarers Political Activities Donation, and the implications of the present indictment against the SIU and several top officials for political activity. Union Meetings Both shoreside and shipboard meetings are re­ viewed during these sessions, with special emphasis on the importance of the Ship's Committee. * Members checking into the motel for the SIU Crew Con­ ferences get a warm and friendly welcome from everyone, including this lovely young lady behind the desk. Lie Bay. The school combines modern classroom and lecture facilities with a wide variety of recreational activities. Since the first SIU Conference opened September 14, nearly 200 members from the East Coast, the West Coast and Gulf have attended. Typical of the comments from those members who have taken part in the first five conferences is that made by Felix Van Looy: "We have gained a whole new insight into our union, its aims and its problems, and we will all be the better for it. I don't see how anyone can come away from Piney Point without an overwhelming sense of button-bursting pride in the accomplish­ ments of our union, and a glowing reassurance for our future." Members attending the conferences spend ten days at Piney Point, arriving Friday evening and leaving the next following Sunday morning. Saturday and Sunday are devoted to relaxation and recreation, and to becoming acquainted with the facilities of the school. Conference sessions are held Monday through Fri­ day, four hours each morning, on five basic subjects: labor union history; the SIU contract; pension, wel­ fare and vacation benefits; the SIU constitution; union meetings and shipboard behavior. Sessions are held aboard the S.S. Charles S. Zim­ merman, which has been completely refitted as a modem, fully-equipped education facility with class­ rooms, lecture halls, auditorium and library. Labor History Labor union history in the United States is traced from the early Colonial period through the present time, and includes discussions on the Knights of La­ bor, formation of the AF of L, merger of the AFLCIO, the International Seaman's Union, birth of the SIU and major SIU organizing drives. SIU Contract Discussion on the SIU contract has been geared to provide the members with a thorough working knowl­ edge of the provisions of the Standard Freightship and Tanker Agreements, and to give members an understanding of the problems of negotiating agree­ ments in the maritime industry. Included in the session on contracts is an examina­ October 1970 • » But it's not all work for Seafarers who take part in the c(Miferences. There's plenty of time for relaxa­ tion and recreation, and there is a wide variety of facilities to please just about everyone. Every afternoon, members have a choice of boats for a cruise on the waters around the Chesapeake Bay. Available to them are the 65-foot cruiser Sea Duchess or the 66-foot yawl Manitou, which was used by President John F. Kennedy during his years in the White House. Or, members can take one of the smaller sail or power boats out for cruising or fishing. "This has heen a great experience to me, something I will never for­ get and something 1 will pass olong to my fellow seamen. I have learned a lot, but I have also en­ joyed myself very much." Jose Lopez, Baltimore Swimming, card-playing, pool, bowling and other sports and recreational activities are also available. Movies are shown every night on the big Cinema­ scope screen in the auditorium aboard the school ship Charles S. Zimmerman. After the movies, entertain­ ment is furnished in the Anchor Lounge. Saturday night features an open-air barbeque in the pine forest, followed by a boxing smoker in the recreation building. The concept of the SIU Crew Conferences is to provide the members of our union with an oppor­ tunity to learn as much as they want about their union so that they will be better able to take an active part in continuing to build the SIU to make it still stronger and more effective. How is the program working? Bobby Lister, who sails in the steward department out of Houston, summed it up for many of the members who have attended the first five conferences; "My first thoughts on coming to Piney Point were a lot Afferent than they are now. I learned a lot about the history of the SIU and the hardships my brother seamen had trying to build the union we now have. I have learned a great deal about our ccwistitution, and how to really participate in meetings aboard ship. I really enjoyed my stay at Piney Point, and I really think that any of my brothers who miss the chance to come here are going to be missing out on some­ thing really worthwhile." L Diirinfc a lour of the school's library, HLSS President Bob Matthews (second from left) points out to participants in one of the Crew (Conferences a valued, age-old manuscript donated to the library. Page 17 �"After spending ten days at Piney Point, and five of them at school aboard the Zimmerman, i found out what the union is really trying to accomplish, especially in regard to the pension plan and the need to train new young seamen." Charles Hamilton, New York I I SIU President Paul Hail talked with members attending the SIU Crew Conferences and discussed the significance of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. He also discussed the importance of political activity in securing the fu­ ture of the merchant marine and the job security of member^ of the Seafarers International Union. \i Attending the second conference from New York were: Thomas Howell, James Doren, Abe Botelho, George Yeachle, Joe Blatchford, James Hassel, Neal Van Derlinde, James Hastings, Harold Lowry, Eric Sorenson, Keith Williams and Stephen Jones. From New Orleans: Thomas Lyles, George Anderson, Roland Hebert. Bill Eckert and Gill Dandin. From San Francisco: Kenneth Lynch, John Vorchack, Richard Theiss, Don Thompson, R. Garrett and J. Pollard. From Philadelphia: Tom Reim, Paul Stein, John Wheeler, David Rich and James McHugh. From Mobile: B. Locke, W. Showers, Ruel Moifett, Robert Malone Jr., Darry Sanders and George McCraney. Paul Stein and Curley Liles take time for a chat during the coffee break at the morn­ ing's session on the SIU constitution. The conferences are held in the seminar room aboard the S,S. Charles S. Zimmerman. "Piney Point is a place | have never seen before, but now that i have had the good fortune to come here I can only say that I am proud to be a part of it. Many an oldtimer like myself will be more than proud when they see what I have seen." Ed Toner, Philadelphia Members of the first SIU Crew Conferences were: John Ashley, John Black, Paul Honeycutt, Donald Leight, Robert Leight, Oscar Ozer, Harreld Reed, Russell Schwertzer, Richard Smith, Torberg Tonnessen, Francis Warren, Paul Wolf^Jake Levin, Tommy 1% LyncJii^' StephCT Bfergeria, J. C. Woods and George Svans.^^ Crew Conference members listen attentively during a session on the union contract held in the seminar room aboard the Charles S. Zim­ merman. Five general subjects are discussed during the week-long conferences: labor union history; the SIU contract; union constitu­ tion; pension, welfare and vacation benefits, and union meetings. Bike riding is another favorite pastime for members attending the Crew Conference and it8,a^good way to get to see the school's facilities located on 54 acres. Here, Torberg Ih^d Pan! HontevcutPsioii to trflk With Hob Davis, inslructoi' at the school. �Members attendinie an SIU Crew Conference line up to make a draw after their arrival at Piney Point. Bill Hall, director of trade union education at the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship, is the man with money. John Yorchack, who sails in the deck department, and R. Garrett, steward department, discuss the morning's subject during a coffee break at the SIU Crew Conference. The two Seafarers from San Francisco attended the second conference. Charts, slide projections and movies are used by Bill Hall, direc­ tor of trade union education, and other instructors to provide members attending the SIU Crew Conferences with the most complete picture possible of the programs and problems of the union and the maritime industry. "I was amazed at the installations, the training facilities and the con­ duct of the trainees. This is some­ thing we have badly needed for a long time. It is a total credit to the Seafarers International Union." Morris Siegel, New Orleans Tommy Lynch and Paul Wolf spend a few quiet moments relaxing by the pond during the late afternoon. There is lots of time after the morning conference to take part in rec­ reational activities or to just sit around and talk and take it easy. Members listen closely during a discussion on pen­ sion and welfare benefits. Members attending the Crew Conferences are provided with a wide range of useful information. "I have heard many things, bad and good, about the HLSS at Piney Point. I am glad I came here. I must admit I made the right decision in coming to the crew conference. Otherwise I would know very little about the organization I am in." C. Modellas, San Francisco Members of Crew Conference 3 were; from Houston, J. Brown, P. Ellis, G. Jarvis, B. IJster, J. White and K. Howland. From Baltimore: T. Aleck, C. Jackson, T. Koroke, J. Lopez, J. Markley, W. Stevens and E. Willis. From Mobile: C. Constantine, C. Davis, L. Kyser, N. Steadham, J. McCants and J. Johns. From New Orleans: D. Bushy, J. Gorji Jr., M. Siegel, S. Strickland, J. Walan and F. Wall. From Boston: F. Connell. From Philadelphia: E. Kresz, E. Toner, E. Mahoney and I. Concepcion. From San Francisco: H. Spillane, M. Holder, C. Modellas, M. Gulp, H. Levine and J. Mitchell. From New York: J. Cronin, C. Hamilton, W. McCallum, W. Matthews, R. O. Mills, p. Simmqns, R. Wallace, W. Wilson, E. Sekelle^,. ^ iia<i •!>< (• F. Yg^ Lqo^japflj^.McCue'C �•H Scooting around the 54 acres of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship is a lot easier with these little electric golfcarts as Thomas Howell, Eric Sorenson, W. Show­ ers and George McCranev discovered. "I have learned many things I did not know before. I have learned about the history of the union; the strikes we have been through; what our contract and constitution are really all about. I think the school here at Piney Point is one of the best things the union has doiie:^' Norwood Steadham, Mobile Stormy weather never kept a good Seafarer from putting to sea and these members attending a SlU Crew Conference at Piney Point are no exception. They put in a little sailing time on the wind-swept waters of Chesapeake Bay. • 11 Tommy Lynch and Francis Warren relax at poolside on a warm afternoon after attend­ ing the SIU Crew Conference during the morning. A Saturday evening barbeque caps off the week's activities for members attending the SIU Crew Conferences. After the barbeque, there's boxing matches and a movie. "Piney Point is certainly one of the most advanced seamen's schools anywhere. The conference meetings were very enlightening to me. What I was most interested in was the history of our union from 1938 to now. I never knew how much sweat went into building this union to get what we have now." Bruce Simmons, New York Bob Foster, light-heavyweight champion of the world, who Js scheduled to meet Joe Frazier for the heavy­ weight title next month, visits with SIU members at th* regular Saturday night barbeque. Standing with Foster is Robert "Pappy" Gault, HLSS athletic director and U.S. Olympic boxing coach. Gill Dandiin of Mobile takes careful aim in friendly game of "eight-ball" with Harry Lowry of New York in the recreation hall at th^ Piney Point training school. . «l jr| • '3 �"On the last day df our cohfefence; 1 found myself wishing it could go on for a few more weeks. I never realized how important Piney Point is to us as Seafarers. It was a home away from home, and we were treated that way." Frank Connell, Boston V (' I 1'' !• :i 1!^ r- I liy Two Crew Conference members make ready to get under sail for an afternoon's cruise around the waters of the Chesapeake Bay after attending the morning's session. One of the more popular recreation activities at Piney Point is fishing in the waters around the St. Mary s River. Boats and fishing gear are available for Crew Conference members during the afternoons after they have attended the educational sessions. "One of the things that really im­ pressed me about the school was the recreational facilities. I made a point of trying as many kinds of boats as i could, but even with go­ ing out every afternoon, 1 still didn't manage to use every one." Riley Mills, New York I ku Powerhoating in the waters around Piney Point is a popular pastime for members attending the SIU Crew Conferences. A number of small boats, both sail and power, are kept ready for the recreational use of the members. i I! .. The Saturday night boxing smoker is one of the highlights of the entertainment schedule for SIU Crew Conference members. The all-pro card is put together by Robert "Pappy" Gault, HLSS physical education director. Members attending the Crew Conferences and Pen­ sioner Conferences, as well as the staff and students at HLSS, enjoy the all-pro boxing card put together each Saturday night by "Pappy" Gault. 01 �; ;nV, To Get Young Men Ready To Go To Sea Education is the key word at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. ^ Located on the Chesapeake Bay at Piney Point, Md., the school provides professional instruction and practical training to novices in the art of seafaring, as well as providing help to those already in the in­ dustry to achieve higher ratings through greater skills. The school is one of a kind in the maritime indus­ try in the United States. No where else is there a maritime organization that offers professional train­ ing for entry ratings. Operated by the Seafarers International Union, the school annually graduates about 1,000 young men between the ages of 16 and 21 into careers aboard American-flag ships. For many of these young men, the school is an avenue to a life as a craftsman that was otherwise unattainable. Many come from broken homes or from economically disadvantaged urban and rural areas across the country. The HLSS program, by providing the opportunity for a career at sea, gives these youths a sense of stability and a way to get out of poverty. They arrive inexperienced. After three months of intensive training they leave as qualified Seafarers. This has all been made possible by the recent initi­ ation of the HLSS Vocational Training Program, directed by Nick GuUo, an alumnus of the Mer­ chant Marine Academy at King's Point, N.Y. The first prerequisite for any course of instruction is a suitable classroom. So, the Claude "Sonny" Sim­ mons, a former Chesapeake Bay fishing vessel, was converted into a floating school. Her innards were completely remodeled and separate classrooms es­ tablished. An audio-visual master control booth was set up. By the flick of a switch, tapes or movies can be broadcast in any particular room. Closed circuit television is being installed to aid in the classroom instruction. Individual robms are replete with visual aids and mock-ups of the various com­ ponents and gear found aboard ship. The latest in machinery and tools have been added as training devices. The Simmons, like HLSS itself, became the first (ff its kind—a ship designed to provide the beginner With a practical knowledge of the profession he is about to enter. 1 The vocational program was broken into three distinct courses: the Deck Department, the Engine Department and the Steward Department. Third cook trainees get individual attention from experieneed cooks and bakers during their 12-week train­ ing program. When they graduate, the trainees are rated « thW »KA. v V i All HLSS Engine Instructor Bob Kalmus briefs his class on the importance of staying alert and taking every oppor­ tunity to leam while shipping as a wiper. The courses are administered by professionals in the respective fields—a senior able seaman and two bosuns in the Deck Department class; a chief engineer in the Engine Department class and a chief cook in the Steward Department class. The courses each run for two weeks. Each trainee gets the chance to try his hand at all different aspects of seafaring, assess his ability and adaptibility in each area, and then make an educated choice on the future career that will best suit liis talents. After completing this vocational program, a young Seafarer knows that when he boards his first ship, he ^l^ill be able to pull his own share of the load. /' , Also Aids Veterans Tl^ vocational training program also means a break for the veteran Seafarer. No longer will he have to worry that when he sends a new man after an Allen wrench, he'll return with a monkey wrench; or that he will have to take him by the hand to the lathing machine and then teach him how to use it N(S) longer will a youngster go aboard his first ship and have to spend the first voyage "learning the ropes." True, he will have to build upon his basic knowledge before he becomes an accomplished Sea­ farer, but he will have a vast headstart on his counter­ part who never went through the HLSS Vocational Training Program. The program has been so designed so that a young man can effectively work as he goes, not learn as he goes. The training program is comprehensive, encompass­ ing virtually all aspects of seafaring. One recurrent theme in all lectures and presentations is that of safety. Every Seafarer knows the value of following proper safety procedures, just as he knows the tragic results that occur when they are ignored. Deck Department The Deck Department course is designed to orient the novice in the basic responsibilities required for the entry rating of Ordinary Seaman. TTie subject matter ranges from shipboard orga­ nization through the proper method of chipping paint. Each young trainee, upon completing the course, will be versed in fire fighting, standing watch, docking and unloading, cargo operations and first aid, along with countless other subjects. This course is supplemented by practical training in safety standards, using fire fighting equipment, tying the wide variety of knots used aboard ship, mooring a vessel, application of first aid techniques and so on. In short, the next HJLSS graduate going aboard a ship as an ordinary seaman will have earned his chance. Engine Department The Engine Department course provides the young trainee with a breakdown of the entire engine room of a typical ship, as well as the proper use and care of the machinery. To help the student identify what makeS the ship run, detailed schematics—detailed drawings—of the various engine room components are distributed for permanent reference. The classroom is bordered on both sides by show­ cases containing every possible tool found aboard ship. The student is shown each one and instructed in its use. He is shown how to repair parts and how to "jury rig"—make do—when repairs are not-possible. When he goes aboard his first ship as a wiper, he will have a basic knowledge of that engine room. Steward Depailment The Steward Department course is designed to teach the young men the proper preparation of food and handling of food. He learns the right way to serve meals, is taught how to order supplies. Practical on-the-job training is experienced in their own mess hall at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, where every trainee pts the opportunity " to serve his fellow classmates. Many also get experi­ ence as cooks on training voyages aboard one of the school's vessels. Other Training Nor is the vocational program the only training young men receive at HLSS. There are also courses in remedial reading, the working of the SIU, the manning of life boats, and the importance of work­ ing as part of a team—which is what a ship's crew is all about. The individual programs are geared to making the young man going to sea for the first time a more qualified Seafarer. u\ti isdoiou I( ^ '.3 �Trainees spend two hours a day in the deck training classroom under the guidance of Instructor Chuck James, who holds a second mate's license. Trainees study a mock-up of a reefer system as part of their two-week course in basic engine department training. Equipment includes all machines and tools that • the new seamen will en­ counter when they hoard their first ship. /. ' Trade union education is an im­ portant part of the curriculum at the school. Paul McGaharn, deputy director of union educa­ tion at HLSS, is seen here in­ structing a class on the meaning and importance of the SIU con­ stitution. During their two-week train­ ing period in engine depart­ ment-instruction, trainees are required to construct a sim­ ple tool, such as a clamp vice, using all of the machine tools they will be required to use on board ship. ' Deck Instructor Chuck James explains the use of various extinguishers during a class in firefighting. The trainees become thoroughly familiar with all firefighting techniques during their time in the deck training classes. I �Lifeboat Instructor James Doran shows trainees in the lifeboat class the proper method for releasing gripes. Trainees receive two weeks of intensive instruction in all phases of lifeboat and emergency procedures, including launching and recovery of boats. Trainees lower away the number one boat from the boat deck of Ae Claude "Sonny" Simmons during a regular daUy lifeboat drill. Lif^ boat training at HLSS includes all emergency procedures as well as iirefighting techniques. Trainies Piney Point I|ip FM many young men Harry Lundeberg P School of Seamanship is an escape—M esc^ to a rewarding career. It is a flght from disrupted homes «r ftnancially-poor hackgronnds. For many others it is die fulflnment of a long. tune desire—the opportunity for a cai^ at s(^ fiiey come from dl over die nation, nom all types of hackgrounds, from dl segments of is I I 1 I I I ^ Brt they aD have one tiling in common real^ation of the vdue of the opportunity af. forded them through HLSS. : A numher of students attending tiw vocatiM^ traiiting classes were asked tiidr views wi the program. This is what they said: • never had any real idea of what gomg to sea involved. This school reaBy opened my ^es. At least now I won't have to he afraid of not heing able to do my job. This schwl me the beginnings anylww. I guess the rest is up to me." . , JX • '1 like the idea of these classes, I used to think I wanted to work in the enpne de^ nient, but these classes showed me I couldnt hack it there no way. I think I'm gping for ^ ; . , • '•Heck, I didn't know nothing about being a saHor. TWs was my chance, so I took it. these classes have taught me something. I dunk ; ! Fm gonna' like it." • 1 was in the Navy for a few years and fln^ classes are as good a# any I ever got in the . service." .^ . • ••! don't think m reaUy appreciate what Jrm learning here untU I get aboard my lihip. Then I know IH appreciate it, because I'll ! at least know what I'm doing." ^^ • ''My father was a Seafarer and he never f had anything like ^s. He told me so.'* fe e ••Well, I kinda* like this idea of leammg »^irtiout the different departments. I didn't Imow % anything about fliem until now. I stfll dont know what I'm gonna' saO as, but at least now I got a pretty good idea of what to expect no matter what I go as." • •q never finished iagli school so I find these lessons a little tough, but at least Fm learning -;somet!mig." , • •q'm not really sure if these classes are any ^d at all. But, I guess they are, beca^ I know a lot more about ships than I knew • <qt ain't making me the smartest guy to go to sea, iMit it sure ain't leading me the dumbest. - T.usedtobe.", : Flag- �Social Security Q&A Costs of Medicare by A. A. BERNSTEIN SIU Social Security Director The Golden Years ought to be just that. They ought to be a time when people can lean back and find treasurers of the past both warm and comforting. One of the things that can contribute to a comfortable state of mind is knowledge that as­ sistance is available in times of sickness under the nation's Medicare and other Social Se­ curity programs. But assurance of assistance brings with it a knowledge of the limitations of the programs and the ways that beneficiaries can contribute to its strong development. If Seafarers and their families have questions about Medicare or Medicaid or any part of the Social Security program, the SItJ Social Security Staff is anxious to answer them, and Jhus perhaps polish the gold in the Golden years. If Seafarers have questions they would like answered the questions should be sent to A. A. Bernstein, director of Social Security and Welfare Services, Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. Q: What can I do about the rise in costs for Medicare? A. If you're over 65, you're more likely to get sick than when you were younger. Medicare helps pay the costs of an illness, but you can help keep those costs down. When you see your doctor, listen to what he tells you. Jf he prescribes a course of treatment, take his advice. It just might kfiep a minor problem from becoming a major one—physically and fi­ nancially. Second, check your copy of the statement sent to Medicare by your doctor or hospital to make certain it contains no clerical er­ rors or other mistakes. Third, remember that there's a limit to the benefits payable by Medicare. Like any valuable re­ source, they should be used wise­ ly and without waste. Q: If I decide to work for an­ other year or two beyond my 65th birthday, must I wait until I stop work to be eligible for Medicare coverage? A: No. You became eligible for Medicare as soon as you be­ come 65, whether you are retired or still working. But to make sure your full Medicare protection be­ gins the month you reach 65, you should check with your social security office 2 or 3 months be­ fore your 65th birthday. Q: Tve heard that more than 20 million people have the pro­ tection of Medicare. How many ctf them are being helped by it? A: More than 4 million people were admitted to hospitals last year and had most of their bills paid by Medicare. About 500,000 of them were admitted to "ex­ tended care facilities" for posthospital skilled nursing care. About 290,000 received' home health services after ' a hospital stay. In 1969, Medicare paid an estimated $4.7 billion in hospital insurance benefits and $1.9 bil­ lion in medical insurance benefits. Retirees Meet New Full-Book Seafarers Graduates of the full-book upgrading school, rear, are pictured with newly retired pensioners at the September membership meeting at SIU headquarters in New York. The pensioners, front row from left, are Milton Awall, Frank Fandino, Claudio Anavitate and Richard Broomhead. The new full-book members are, from left, Paul Honeycutt, Ramon Ali, J. C. Woods, Willie Grant, Ronnie Henderson and John Trent. Endorsed Lifebodtmen Eight seafarers have received Coast Guard endorsements as qualified lifeboatmen after completing the course of instruction at New York's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Front row from left: Joe Rogalski, Jerry Dunham, Carlos Dominguez, and Joe Cuocco. Back row: Ed Skorupski, Michael Ventry, Robert L. Taylor, and Larry Jordan. Q: How much arc the premi­ ums? A: The basic rate is now $5.30 a month. Q: What is the reason for the recent Increase in the rate from $4? A: Experience now shows that the rate should have gone up to about $4.70 in July 1969, and the program has had to draw on its reserves. About half of the increase is needed to finance the insurance program as it is now working. The rest of the increase is to cover higher costs during the 1970-71 premium period. RJghi FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes spe­ cific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the SecretaryTreasurer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file members, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendations. Members of this com­ mittee may make dissenting reports, specific recommenda­ tions and separate findings, TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally, consist of Union and man­ agement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon ap­ proval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 275-20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serv­ ing the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing arti­ cles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective member­ ship. This established policy has been reaffirmed by mem­ bership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all con­ stitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immedi­ ately be reported, to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members draw­ ing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rankand-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the em­ ployers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DGNA'HGNS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely vol­ untary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. �Hearing Fades While Din Goes On I Early Deafness Result of Noise • City dwellers may face premature deafness by the year 2000 if city noise continues to rise at the current rate of approximately one decibel a year. Noise pollution is a fact of urban life—a dangerous fact. Many environment-conscious citizens, congressmen and even the President have given small consideration to this harmful pollutant. Congress seems to think that noise pollution can be brought under control solely by curbing the annoying roar and screech of jumbo jets. Thus, for fiscal 1970, the government is spend­ ing $29 million towards aircraft noise control and a meager $3 million for other noise prob­ lems. Far Reaching Effects Like air and water pollution, the effects of noise upon man's physical wellbeing can be far reaching. Permanent hearing damage will occur when a person is exposed to unusually high sound level—85 decibels or more—over an ex­ tended period of time. In addition, constant high sound levels can lead to ulcers, high blood pressure and even heart attacks. Noise pollution might even cause neurosis or seizures in epileptics. And, doctors claim, noise can evoke severe nervous strain—^provoking ag­ gressive and quarrelsome moods. Unfortunately, thousands of workers are put upon by the strains of noise every day at work. More noise hits workers on land once they leave work and face the rush-hour traffic—the trucks, buses, motorcycles and the subway trains. Sound on Top of Sound At home, housewives are busy using their noisy time-saving appliances—the vacuum, food blender, dishwasher, washing machine and dry­ er. Many listen to the hi-fi or TV while they work, keeping them tuned up quite high so they are audible above the sounds of all the ap­ pliances. There just is no protection from noise. The fact is, eliminating harmful noises from our everyday life wouldn't be as difficult as curb­ ing air pollution. The sounds of motor vehicles could be easily muffled—and who likes to be disturbed by the churning sounds of a garbage truck at 4 a.m. The same holds true for air conditioners, lawn mowers and other appliances. Surely these can be silenced. Yet for some reason the government has been slow in effecting noise standards to protect the people. In May 1969, the Labor Department finally set down some noise standards affecting companies supplying products to the govern­ ment. No Federal Laws The newly established Department of Trans­ portation is also presently involved in noise re­ search and has created an Office of Noise Abate­ ment. Similar plans have been charted by the Department of Housing, Education and Welfare. But as yet there are no federal laws or regula­ tions that would effect control of surface trans­ portation noise. Such action must come from Congress. And then local authorities would have the task of enforcing these regulations. Commerce Under Secretary Rocco Siciliano has proposed that the government spend $30 million a year to curb noise pollution created by motor vehicles, appliances, construction machinery and other sources of noise approach­ ing the danger zone. In addition, he said. Congress should ap­ propriate additional funds for aircraft noise control. Right now, as is the case with other pollutants, there is little tangible government action to con­ trol sound levels. But there is a lot of research taking place. Research, in itself, is not a cure for the prob­ lem. And inadequately-funded research is vir­ tually no help at all. Research takes time. While studies are ^ing made and reports submitted. the general public continues to suffer the con­ sequences of the lack of concrete action. And only concrete action to control this type of pol­ lution will afford relief to the public. Strain of Sound , The Consumer Federation Meanwhile, people continue to suffer the of America has bypassed the strains of high sound level and the sounds of White House and its Advisor city life. To bring about action a group of cities have on Consumer Affairs and gone founded NOISE, the National Organization to directly to Congress with a plea Insure a Sound-Conditioned Environment. Plans for help for the consumer. Officers of the CPA, a broad are being made to open a Washington lobbying coalition of labor, farmer and office. Politicians are also under pressure to press consumer organizations, pro­ for cooperation from manufacturers in building tested recently when President aircraft, appliances, and even buildings that will Nixon and Mrs. Knauer failed dull some of the normal noises of daily activity. to consult with them in the Pollution of any kind is harmful to man. selection of the new head of Noise pollution is clearly no exception. Unless the Federal Trade Commission. action is taken now, within 30 years we may not As a result, the federation have to worry about the sounds of garbage sent its adopted convention res­ olutions directly to Congress trucks, jumbo jets, or the like. calling on it to "adequately fund We won't be able to hear at all. CPA Ignores White House To Avoid Wasted Time' a program designed to promote consumer protection and under­ standing," and to urge regula­ tory agencies to develop "a new sense of commitment in fairly and openly promulgating the realization of the full objective of consumer legislation." A CPA member said dele­ gates "just seemed to feel it was a waste of time to address President Nixon or Mrs. Knauer," In general the convention de­ manded increasing consumer representation on all regulatory panels and careful control of utility profits and development. .1 �Portland—Part of Sea-Land's Quick Puerto Rico Service %e Portland (Sea-hand) recently returned to Port Elizabeth, N.J., T following a trip to Puerto Rico. A con­ tainerized cargo ship, she carried food and coffee on the 9-day return voyage. Crew members reported all went smoothly on the trip and extended a "well done" to the steward depart­ ment. Many had a special word of thanks to Chief Cook Teodoro Diangson for the "great meals" he served up during the voyage. The Portland is one of a number of Sea-Land container ships serving Puerto Rico. Sea-Land vessels now call on the island's major ports with containership service every 13.4 hours. Ordinary Seaman Guillemio Quionones stands by to lift pin which will release the claw holding the ship's anchor in place. Steward Ralph Her­ nandez studies a bill for stores just de­ livered aboard ship. Wiper Pedro Figueroa checks the pres­ sure on the air regis­ ter in the engine room aboard the Portland. Relaxing before hitting shore are: (standing from left) Henry G. Bentz and Joseph Badyk; (sitting) Pedro San­ chez, Osvaldo Delgardo and Ralph Hernandez. fri "A watched pot never boils," but Domingo Herrera, third cook, keeps a close watch anyway. n. '<r. SIU Patrolman "Red" Gampbell briefed crew members on pension and welfare plans at a meeting in Port Eliza­ beth, N.J. I. fi'.V- w! i Rafael Ramos, an oiler in the engine depart­ ment, is shown adjust­ ing the temperature of the ship's generator. P^27 �Annual Report of UIWNA Welfare Fund ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended April 30, 1970 United Industrial Workers of North America Welfare Fund 275 220th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK NOTES: (1) All data in the Annual Report is to be copied from the Annual Statement. Where a copy of U.S. Department of Labor Form D-2 has been filed in lieu of pages 7 to 14 of the New York Annual State­ ment. Fart IV-Section A of Form D-2 may be substi­ tuted for Page 3 herein. (2) The Annual Report is required to be filed, in duplicate, not later than five months after end of fiscal year. Address replies to New York State Insurance De­ partment, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. (3) The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be in­ spected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) Additions to Fund Balance Item (in dollEU^) (in dollars) 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1)1,050,545.67 (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions .... 1,050,545.67 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from In­ surance Companies .... 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest (b) Dividends (c) Rents W) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from 36,477.07 36,477.07 4. Profit on disposal of investments 85,190.43 4,464.60 4,328.64 13,484.38 9,186.59 328.04 29.00 83,124.73 200,136.41 4. Real estate loans and mort­ gages 13. Loss on disposal of invest­ ments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) .... a. Secured b. Unsecured 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Deductions 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 971,108.34 16. Total Deductions Reconcilement of Fund Balance 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Begin­ 648,247.08 ning of Year) 18. Total Additions Year (Item 7) During 1,088,526.44 19. Total Deductions Year (Item 16) During g. (De­ 117,418.10 10. Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) 11. Accounts payable 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Fliture Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, State­ ment of Assets and Lia­ bilities) 12. Accrued expenses 765,665.18 13. Other liabilities Exchanges Part IV data for trust or other separately maintained fund are to be completed for a plan involving a trust or other separately maintained fund. It also is to be completed for a plan which: (1) Has incurred expenses other than: (a) Payments for unfunded benefits or (b) insurance or annuity premiums or subscription charges paid to an insurance carrier or service or other organi­ zation; or (2) Has assets other than: (a) Insurance or annuity contracts or (b) Contributions in the process of payment or collection. Deductions From Fund Balance 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Carriers and to Service Organizations (Including Prepaid Medical Plans) .. 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Sepa­ rately Maintained Fund. 10. Payments to an Organiza­ tion Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants (Attach lat­ est operating statement of the Organization show­ ing detail of adiiiinistrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) Richard Rodgers John Funk would like to hear from you. He ca nbe reached at the address you have. Tom R. Danzey Please contact Mrs. Ollie Danzey at 3429 Missile St., Whistler, Ala. o e.- Item End of Prior Year (in dollars) 1. Cash f 739,729.58 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) End of Rpt. Year (in dollars) 91,942.06 75,125.57 250.00 254.05 3. Investments: (Other them real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest 500,000.00 300,000.00 and deposits or shares in savings and loan associa­ tions b. Stocks: Theodore Ceislak Mr. and Mrs. Ross J. Galeano, of 804 Mildred Ave., Dundalk, Md. 21222, ask that you get in touch with them. Ernest Scbreck Marianne H. Goff would like to hear from you. Her address is 4653 Dunrobin Ave., Lakewood, Calif. 90713. Harold H. Smith Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Harold H. Smith, please con­ 596.82 15. Total Liabilities Reserves and 648,247.08 766,262.00 'The assets listed in this statement must be valued on the basis regularly used in valuing investments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Depart­ ment, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not so required to be filed with the U.S. Treasury Department. UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA WELFARE FUND ASSETS * 1,088,52? .44 (Specify) 14. Reserve for future benefits.... 648,247.08 765.665.18 1,503.70 7. Total Additions 648,247.08 766,262.00 9. Insurance and annuity pre­ miums payable $ Statement of Assets and Liabilities File No. WP—222 427 Name of Plan: United Industrial Workers of North America Pension Plan For Year Beginning: May 1, 1969 and Ending April 30, 1970. 1,503.70 Total Assets LIABILITIES 971,108.34 20. Total Net Increase crease) 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) Accrued interest receivable Fart IV—Section A 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments u 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2).. (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) (c) Taxes (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) (e) Rent (f) Insurance Premiums .. (g) Fidelity Bond Premi­ ums (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) See attachment (i) Total Administrative Expenses (1) Preferred (2) Common c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: 56,055.02 55,017,52 (a) Federal (b) State and munic­ ipal (2) Foreign government obligations (3) Nongovernment obli­ 335,864.86 gations d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions) (Identify and indicate per­ centage of ownership by this Plan in the sub­ sidiary) (1) % (2) % 31,242.35 Part IV Investments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) Refund of tabulating expense (b) (c) Total Other Additions 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Or­ ganizations or Individuals Providing Plan Benefits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doc­ tors, etc.) tact Mrs. Lunette Patterson, 123 Allenby St., Prichard, Ala. 36610. Joe Carrol Please contact shipmate Harold F. Eady of the Maiden Victory, concerning the package you are holding for him. He can be reached by contacting Jay Hall. John 'Andy' Bertie Please cpntact Ralph G. Wilson at P.O. Box 294, Freeland, Md. 21053. He is holding a check for you. Attachment to the Annual Statement to the Superin­ tendent of Insurance of the State of New York For the year ended April .30, 1970 Deductions from Fund Baance, Page 6, Item 12h—Other Administrative Expenses: Postage, express and freight $ 1,116.12 Telephone and telegraph 1,813.81 Equipment rental 3,184.91 Miscellaneous 3,901.20 Repairs and maintenance 691.97 Dues and subscriptions 110.63 Stationery, printing and supplies 9,369.56 Employee benefits 5,406.06 Tabulating service 54,574.17 Microfilm 699.07 Outside temporary office help 627.20 Miscellaneous Trustees meetings expense 81.54 New Jersey and New York Disability In­ surance expense 1,548.49 $83,124.73 ANNUAL REPORT OP THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OP NORTH AMERICA STATE OP COUNTY OP TfMtM* of til* Puad find . •fnin,.«odtt UM pmahiM of porjtuy that thtconttataof Ihla Annnal Report aia fniaandh Othata (ladlcala litlaa): | �Annual Report of UIWNA Pension Fun ANNUAL REPORT For the fiical year ended April 30, 1970 - United hidustrial Workers of North America Pension Fund 275 220th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. II215 to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK NOTES: (1) All data In the Annual Report is to be eopied from the Annual Statement. Where a copy of U.S. Department of Labor Form D-2 has been filed In lieu of pages 7 to 14 of the New York Annual State­ ment, Fart IV-Sectlon A of Form D-Z may be substi­ tuted for Page 3 her^n. (2) The Annual Report is required to be filed, in duplicate, not later than five months after end of fiscal year. Address replies to New York State Insurance De­ partment, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. (3) The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general Information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Stat^nent, copies of which may be in­ spected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) Additions to Fund Balance Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $103,959.06 (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Ctontributions .... $103,959.06 13. Loss on disposal of invest­ ments 4. Real estate loans and mort­ gages 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) .... a. Secured b. Unsecured 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Deductions 17. Fund Baleuice (Reserve for Future Benefits at Begin­ ning of Year) During 19. Total Deductions Year (Item 16) During 1,300.27 67.25 1,367.52 1,367.52 9. Insurance and annuity pre­ miums payable $ 32,969.64 (De­ 78,113.47 10. Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) 12. Accrued expenses 95,861.80 13. Other liabilities Exchanges 5,756.53 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Carriers and to Service Organizations (Including Prepaid Mediceil Plans) .. 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Sepa­ rately Maintained P\ind. 10. Pajmients to an Organiza­ tion Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants (Attach lat­ est operating statement of the Organization show­ ing detail of administra­ tive expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) End of Prior Year End of Reporting Year Item $ 6,883.00 $17,789.33 $13,619.10 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) b. Dividends or experience rating refunds c. Other (Specify) 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associa­ tions i b. Stocks: 15. Total Liabilities Reserves (! I "•p- 1- Ray P. Kane Please contact Mr. Cisek of Al­ coa Steamship Co. regarding your suitcase. His telephone number is 212-344-3400. Patrick W, (Bill) Thompson Please contact Mrs. T. A. October 1970 17,748.33 95,861.80 and $17,789.33 $95,861.80 'The assets listed in this statement must be valued on the basis regularly used in valuing investments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Depart­ ment, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not so required to be filed with the U.S. Treasury Department. Attachment to the Annual Statement to the Superin­ tendent of Insurance of the State of New York For the year ended April 30, 1970 Item 12h—Other Administrative Expenses: Stationery, supplies and printing $2,586.96 Postage, express and freight 148.66 Telephone and telegraph 224.47 Equipment rental 410.03 Employee benefits 638.73 Miscellaneous 488.73 Repairs and maintenance 74.77 Dues and subscriptions 11.96 Microfilm 99.80 Outside temporary office help 87.93 Miscellaneous Trustees meeting expenses .... 36.96 $4,809.00 STATE OF Brady, asks that you contact her in regard to an urgent family matter. Her address is P.O. Box 173, Grand island. Neb. 68801. Carroll E. Harper Jesse Spector, attorney at law, asks that you contact him as soon as possible at 612 Court Square Building, Lexington and Calvert Sts., Baltimore, Md. 21202. His telephone number is 301-752-4610. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA X PENSION FUND i SS. COUNTY OF •f(inB..under Die penalties of perjury that ihecontentsof this Annual Report are Irueandhereby subscribe thereto. Employee trustee: Thompson, Jr., Route 1, Box 101 A, Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 or Sgt. T. A. Thompson, Jr., Btry. C, 2d Bn., 52d Arty., Hialeah, Fla. 33015. Clyde T. Clark Please get in touch with William A. Lang at 3326 Spaulding Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21215. His tele­ phone number is 301-367-8014. George D. Brady Your mother, Mrs. Marie J. 41.00 UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF NORTH AMERICA PENSION FUND ASSETS 1. Cash (Specify) 14. Reserve for future benefits.... Statraaent of Assets and Liabilities File No. WP—222 427 Name of Plan: United Industrial Workers of North America Pension Plan For Year Beginning: May 1, 1969 and Ending April 30, 1970. 5,756.53 $ 11. Accounts payable Part IV data for trust or other separately maintained fund are to be completed for a plan involving a trust or other sepzu-ately maintained fund. It also is to be completed for a plan which: (1) Has incurred expenses other than: (a) Pa3nnents for unfunded benefits or (b) insurance or annuity premiums or subscription charges paid to an insurance carrier or service or other organi­ zation; or (2) Has assets other than: (a) Insurance or annuity contracts or (b) Contributions in the process of payment or collection. $111,083.11 7. Total Additions Deductions From FVnd Balance t LIABILITIES Part IV—Sutton A 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of invest­ ments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) Refund of tabulating expense (b) (c) Total Other Additions $ 17,748.33 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, State­ ment of Assets and Lia­ bilities) 4. Profit on disposal of investments 10,0(X).00 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) Accrued 10.00 interest receivable 8. Total Assets $17,789.33 $95,861.80 $111,083.11 20. Total Net Increase crease) 56,889.12 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 16. Total Deductions $ 32,969.64 Reconcilement of Fund Balance 18. Total Additions Year (Item 7) 2,858.13 12,485.45 (1) Preferred (2) Common c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: (a) Federal (b) State and munic­ ipal (2) Foreign government obligations (3) Nongovernment obli­ gations d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions) (Identify and indicate per­ centage of ownership by this Plan in the sub­ sidiary) (1) % (2) % 26,086.64 Part IV 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from In­ surance Companies .... 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest (b) Dividends (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Or­ ganizations or Individuals Providing Pjan Benefits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doc­ tors, etc.) 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2).. $ 10,019.79 (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) 3,655.07 (c) Taxes 493.62 (d) Fees and Conmiissions (Schedule 3) 5,728.14 (e) Rent 1,226.59 (f) Insurance Premiums .. 154.43 (g) Fidelity Bond Premi­ ums —0— (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) See attachment 4,809.00 (i) Total Administrative Expenses Others (Indicate titles): �Anna Maria America's Sea Tradition Portrayed by Ships ) merica's maritime industry has a history of innova­ tion and leadership on the world's oceans. During the infant days of the colonial fleet, Americans relied on ships to bring European manufactured goods to our shores and carry out exports to commercial centers accross the oceans. America used hand-hewn boats to harvest the fish to feed our growing population. Because of this seagoing heritage, American ship de­ signers and shipbuilders experimented with new hull designs and new riggings to enhance ship speed and cargo capacity. Their experiments resulted in ships that soon out­ classed the best that the established European yards could produce. The efforts of American shipyards produced the privateers that outmaneuvered and outfought larger vessels during the Revolution and the War of 1812. The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., has provided these photos of its ship models to provide a pic­ torial history of some of the ships that pioneered Ameri­ can greatness on the high seas. A By 1810 the recpiiremeiits for pilot boats in the harbors of New York, Boston and Phil­ adelphia were such that speedier vessels capa­ ble of staying at sea longer were needed. The Anna Maria, built at New York about 1812 was a typical pilot schooner of her time. After short service in New York, she was purchased by the British Admirality as a dispatch boat. S.S. George Law The George Law was built in 1852 by William H. Webb in New York. Between 1852 and 1857, the steamship made the New York to Panama run, transporting passengers headed for the California gold fields. In 1857, she sank off Cuba while carrying 593 passengers and <1,590,000 in gold. A total of 420 persons died in one of history's worst sea tragedies. Shenandoah St. Ann The Shenandoah is an example of the small North Atlantic packet ship of the 1835-50 period that transported cargo along the coast. Built in Philadelphia in 1840 by John Vaughn of the Cape Line, the Shenandoah and ships of her class were, despite the blunt bow, some of the fastest ships of their day. This model is of the St. Ann, one of the earliest American-built merchant ships. Built possibly as a yacht, she served as a Portuguese dispatch boat. In 1736 she arrived at Portsmouth, England, and was taken into the Royal Navy dockyard where a plan was made of her. This plan was given to the renowned 18lh Century Swedish ship de­ signer, Frederick Henrik Chapman, and placed in the Swedish Maritime Museum. Page 30 Seafarers Log / �Savannah Badger :• ii' The Savannah was the firsl sleampowered ship lo cross the Atlantic, run­ ning in 1819 from Savannah, Ga., to Liverpool, England. The ship— originally planned as a sailing packet and converted during construction-— used steam for only about 92 hours of her 29-day crossing. The boiler and engine were removed after her transatlantic trip and the Savannah ended her days as a sailing packet. 1. Arago Built in an American shipyard, the brig Badger was commissioned for service in the British Royal Navy in 1776. For a while she was used as a merchant ship for trade with the West Indies. During the Revolutionary War, she intercepted and captured 27 French and American vessels trying to run the blockade. She was decommissioned in 1778. Her rigging marked the transition from brigantine to brig. Built hy Jacob Westervelt in 1855, tbe Arago left New York in 1856 for » LeHavre, France, as a U.S. mail carrier and remained on tbat run until tbe outbreak of the Civil War. The steam side-wheeler was chartered by the ^ Union Navy in 1862 for an unsuccessful attempt to ram the Confederate Navy's ironclad Merrimac after the standoff battle with the Monitor. Challenge ), • • P'" . kr The Qipper Ship was an active trader in the American merchant marine as early as the Revolution. However, in the 1850's a new type was oped akin lo the China traders. This new clipper ship, of which the Challenge is an example, was designed with elements of the Baltimore Clipner, the packet and the China trader. The new design was aimed at producing maximum capacity and speed. This model at the Smithsonian is considered to be one of the finest in the world. Lynx r lie I?.. [f- • rt Built in Baltimore harbor in 1812 as a privateer, tbe Lynx was captured by tbe British on the Rappahannock River in Virginia. She was taken over by the Royal Navy and the Musauidohet during the War of 1812. Schooners of her type were used as privateers, block­ ade -nnerfinlS vessels. The name "Baltimore Clipper" was given to tj.s ®Iass of ships after the war. They were modified and improved and, because of their speed, became a favored cargo ship between ports all over the world. �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings MIDLAKE (American Bulk Car­ riers), May 25—Chairman, Herst G. Treddin; Secretary, Orville Payne. No beefs reported by department delegates. MIDLAKE (American Bulk Car­ riers), July 5—Chairman Herst G. Treddin; Secretary, Orville Payne. No beefs report^ by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended cooks in steward department for job well done. TRANSIDAHO (Hudson Water­ ways), Aug. 29—Chairman, Robert F. Mackert; Secretary, William T. Rose; Deck Delegate, John Wilson; Engine Delegate, P. A. Lee; Stew­ art Delegate, Ralph Nay. Every­ thing running smoothly with no beefs. CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), Aug. 2—Chairman, C. J. Prey; Sec­ retary, R. W. Elliott; Deck Dele­ gate, Burton R. Churchill; Secretary, David A. Norris; Steward Delegate, Lionel W. Antoine. Discussion held regarding pension plan. No beefs and no disputed OT. OAKLAND (Sea-Land), Aug. 17—Chairman, Albert Ahin; Sec­ retary, J. Doyle; Deck Delegate, H. Muller; Engine Delegate, C. L. Elliott; Steward Delegate, O. L. Amdt. $3.80 in ship's fund and $57 in movie fund. All repairs taken care of. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. SEATRAIN SAN JUAN (Seatrain), Sept. 6—Chairman, Lonnie Cole; Secretary, William Anderson. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks extended to steward de­ partment for job well done. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Mari­ time Overseas), Aug. 23—Chairman, H. B. Butts; Secretary, Royd Mitchell, Jr.; Deck Delegate, Lotus Stone; Engine Delegate, William D. Johns; Steward Delegate, James W. Bamett. Some disputed OT and minor beefs to be taken up with boarding patrolman. PENN CHAMPION (Penn Ship­ ping), Aug. 30—Chairman, T. R. Sanford; Secretary, Z. A. Markris; Deck Delegate, S. A. DiMaggio; Engine Delegate, J. J. Kulas; Stew­ ard Delegate, G. P. John. No major beefs or any disputed OT. A fine crew aboard. Vote of thanks to steward department for fine food and service. In turn, steward de­ partment extended vote of thanks to fine crew. OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Overseas), Sept. 2—Chairman, Mal­ colm Cross; Secretary, Michael Dunn. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Pew beefs and some disputed OT in engine department. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Aug. 30—Chairman, Carl L. Prancum: Secretary, E. Syl­ vester; Deck Delegate, James J. Moran; Engine Delegate, Daniel T. Blackman; Steward Delegate, John McCree. Jr. No beeft! and no dis­ puted OT. INGER (Reynolds Metals), Aug. 30—Chairman, James T. Mann; Sec­ retary, Percival L. Shauger; Deck Delegate, Pete Scroggins; Engine Delegate, Prank Taylor; Steward Delegate, J. T. Spiny, Jr. No" beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Met­ als), Aug. 30—Chairman, Tom A. Martineau; Secretary, Felipe Quintayo; Deck Delegate, Charlie C. Brown; Engine Delegate, Walter Ballou, Jr.; Steward Delegate, Guillermo Martinez. $16.94 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. TRANSPANAMA (Hudson Waterways), Aug. 23—Chairman, Allen M. Myrex; Deck Delegate, Everett Klopp; Engine Delegate, L. V. Springer; Steward Delegate, P. A. Lazaropoulos. Discussion held regarding retirement plan and new wage scale. No beefs reported by from the ships at sea E. E. Harris, ship's secretaryreporter aboard the Columbia Star (Columbia Steamship Co.) reports that the crew voted unan­ imously to send a telegram to SIU headquarters pledging their support to the Harris imion and its of­ ficers in fighting the recent fed­ eral indictment. All present volunteered to do­ nate money to the ship's fund to pay for the telegram. The meeting was held while enroute from San Francisco to the Solomon Islands, with a scheduled stop at Guam. In other business, Robert Sul­ livan of the engine department was elected ship's treasurer. There were no beefs reported from the engine, deck or steward departments. Jose Ortiguerra is ship's com­ mittee chairman; Lee Snodgrass, deck delegate; Robert Sullivan, engine delegate and Jevinal Fernandes, steward delegate. The meeting was attended by every SIU man not standing watch. Brother Harris anticipates the Columbia Star will return to San Francisco by- the middle of No­ vember. J R. H. Simpson, ship's secre­ tary-reporter aboard the Chicago (Sea-Land), re­ ports that every­ thing is running smoothly as the vessel makes its way home to Oakland, Calif., after leaving Cam Ranh Bay, VietSimpson nam. She will be making stopovers in Kobe and Yokohama, Japan before reach­ ing Seattle and Oakland. During the Chicago's regular shipboard union meeting, newly signed-on members of the crew were welcomed aboard by the ship's "oldtimers." The vessel's last two voyages were very smooth, and with the fine crew aboard now, the present voyage is also expected to go well. Every member of the crew was asked to help build up the Chi­ cago's shipboard library by do­ nating books. The vessel has been having some trouble receiving mail and this has been referred to union headquarters. The crew has been asked to work closely with department delegates. Donald H. McKinney is deck delegate; James Kouvardas, en­ gine delegate; Lawrence Schofield, steward delegate, and Wal­ ter Sibley, ship's chairman. department delegates. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to all departments. TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport Commercial), Aug. 16—Chairman, George P. Libby; Secretary, Charles W. Pelen; Deck Delegate, N. W. DuBois; Engine Delegate, J. J. McCarthy; Steward Delegate, Jer­ ome D. Smith. $18.35 in ship's fund and $763.70 in movie fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), Aug. 23—Chairman, R. C. Melot; Secretary, J. P. Baliday; Deck Dele­ gate, J. Statchen; Engine Delegate,. D. McLeed; Steward Delegate, P. Swing. $103 in ship's fund. No beefs. Everything running smooth­ ly. PANAMA (Sea-Land), Aug. 26— Chairman, C, Perreira; Secretary, P. Hall; Deck Delegate, M. Johnson; Engine Delegate, George Byoff; .Steward Delegate, L. Dunkins. Some disputed OT in steward de­ partment. Resolutions submitted to negotiating committee. CHICAGO (Sea Land), Aug. 15— Chairman, Walt Sibley; Secretary, R. H. Simpson; Deck Delegate, Dan H. McKinney; Engine Dele­ gate, J. Korwardas; Steward Dele­ gate, Lawrence Schofield. $46 in ship's fund. All repairs being taken care of. No beefs, no disputed OT. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Sept. 7—Chairman, J. V. McClantoc; Secretary, W. J. McNeeley; Deck Delegate, George P. J. Allen; Engine Delegate, George P. Sancier; Steward Delegate, Arthur Rubinstein. No beefs reported. Everything running smoothly. COMMANDER (Marine Carri­ ers), Sept. 13—Chairman, A. R. Sawyer; Secretary, Fred R. Hicks, Jr.; Deck Delegate, Edward T. Brinn; Engine Delegate, W. H. Pine; Steward Delegate, L. E. Price. Good ship and good crew. Everything running smoothly. Hearty thanks to steward depart­ ment. PHTSBURGH (Sea-Land), Aug. 30—Chairman, Lee dePailier; Sec­ retary, Lee deParlier; Deck Dele­ gate P. Sperry; Engine Delegate, Andrew C. Stortom; Steward Dele­ gate. Elmer R. Hawcroff. Beef on lack of AC outlets in quarters. ROBIN GRAY (Moore-McCormack), Sept. 13—Chairman, W. M. Wallace; Secretary, W. H. Deskins; Deck Delegate, E. U. Crum; Engine Delegate, Thomas J. Thomas; Steward Delegate, James D. Gillian. No beefs reported by delegates. TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Water­ ways), Sept. 6—Chairman, A. Lar­ son; Secretary, W. C. Sink; Deck Delegate, B. Kofiowitch; Steward Delegate, P. P. Pappone. No dis­ puted OT; no beefs. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. Nothing done about repairs, although ship was in shipyard. OVERSEAS ULLA (Maritime Overseas), Sept. 6—Chairman, Tom Maher, &cretary, John Kelly; Deck Delegate, Romolo DeVirgileo; En­ gine Delegate, Tom Maher, Steward Delegate, Steward Delegate W. Datzko. General discussion held. FAIRISLE (Pan Oceanic Tank­ ers) Sept. 5—Chairman, A. Ander­ son; Secretary, S. Davis; Deck Delegate, N. McKenver; Engine Delegate, M. H. Schwall; Steward Delegate, Quenton Braun. Beef in deck department to be taken up with patrolman in Yokohama at payoff. OVERSEAS NATALIE (Mari­ time Overseas), Aug 9—Chairman, James B. Dixon; Secretary, S. A. Soloman, Sr.; Deck Delegate, Nicholas Malette; Engine Delegate, Francis p. Gomez; Steward Dele­ gate, Eddie Howard. No beefs, no disputed OT. Quite a few repairs to be done. Discussion held regard­ ing manning sale and working agree­ ment with Company. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Aug. 23—Chairman C. Jordan; Secretary, Iluminado R. Llenos; Deck Delegate, Dan Hendrix; En­ gine Delegate, Arnoldo Alemen; Steward Delegate, Alvin A. Selico. $12 in Ship's fund. Pew hours dis­ puted OT in deck department, otherwise everything running smoothly. SAN PEDRO (Sea-Land), Aug. 23—Chairman, Anthony Vilanova, Secretary, E. C. Caudill; Deck Dele­ gate, G. H. Atcheson; Engine Dele­ gate, Steve Kakoveil; Steward Delepte, W. R. Stewart. Disputed OT in deck department; everything else okay. COLUMBIA OWL (Columbia), Sept. 6—Chairman, T. J. Hilbum; Secretary, i. W. Thomas; Deck Delegate, Hans M. A. Schmidt; En­ gine Delegate, Oscar Pigueroa; Steward Delegate, Henry Jones, Jr. All repairs taken care of. No dis­ puted OT. Everything running smoothly. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), Sept. 13—Chairman, W. Slay ton; Secretary, M. Bugawan; Deck Dele­ gate, B. Maxwell. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), Sept. 13—Chairman, E. J. Hagan; Secretary, R. C. Mills; Deck Delegate, H. K. Nakea; Engine Delegate, Leonard R. Bailey; Stew­ ard Delegate, Earl Pippens. Dis­ cussion held regarding retirement plan. No beefs reported by dele­ gates. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), Aug. 23—Chairman, John E. Martello; Secretary, G. P. Thlu; Deck Dele­ gate, O. E. Olsen; Engine Delegate, David E. Davis; Steward Delegate, Louis Pinilla. $61.67 in ship's fund. No beefs, no disputed OT. HALYCON TIGER (Halycon), Aug. 9—Chairman, Berthall Winborne; Secretary, C. J. Nail. No beefs reported by delegates. Every­ thing running smoothly. TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Waterways), Sept. 16—Chairman, S. E. Mehringer; Secretary, Alipio Trujillo. $66 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. No beefs. OVERSEAS SUZANNE (Mari­ time Overseas), Aug. 28 — Chair­ man, Clifford R. Dammeyer; Sec­ retary, Lawrence A. Banks. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. TRANSINDIANA (Hudson Wa­ terways), Sept. 20—Chairman, J. Tarkov; Secretary, J. Rodriguez; Deck Delegate, Charles J. Clemens. No beefs reported by delegates. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Sept. 13—Chair­ man, R. E. Darville; Secretary, J. R. Prestwood; Deck Delegate, C. S. Dick, Engine Delegate; Car­ ter Lane; Steward Delegate, Do­ mingo G. Garcia. Some disputed OT in engine department, otherwise' everything running smoothly. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmi­ an), Aug. 30—Chairman, J. Robin­ son; Secretary, Tony Caspar; Deck Delegate, A. L. Klein; Engine Dele­ gate, Marcello Eimar; Steward Del­ egate, J. W. Craft. $12 in ship's fund. Pew hours disputed OT in deck department. No beefs. Every­ thing running smoothly. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), Sept. 21—Chairman, M. Woods; Secretary, H. A. Galick; Deck Del­ egate, Harry J. Celkos; Engine Del­ egate, Alexander Gega; Steward Delegate, C. G. Gain. $13.69 in movie fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to Radio Operator, James Peick, for putting daily news out to crew. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. NATIONAL DEFENDER (Na­ tional Transport), Sept. 8—Chair­ man, R. Johnson; Secretary. L. A. Behm; Engine Delegate, W. Calefat; Steward Delegate, L. Behm. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Serv­ ice), Sept. 13—Chairman and Deck Delegate, Stanley Krawczynski; Sec­ retary, John Leppa; Engine Dele­ gate, Herbert E. Atkinson; Steward Delegate, G. R. Gonzales. No beefs reported by delegates. Vote of thanks extended to steward depart­ ment. CHICAGO (Sea-Land), Sept. 20 —Chairman, Walter Sibley; Secre­ tary, R.. Simpson; Deck Delegate, Don H. McKinney; Engine Dele­ gate, James Kowardas; Steward Delegate, Lawrence Schofield. $35 in ship's-fund. Pew hours disputed OT in deck department. CITIES SERVICE MIAMI (Cit­ ies Service), Sept. 20—Chairman, Charles H. Pox; Secretary, Horace LaPrage. Motion made to have ship air-conditioned. $14 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD AUGUST 1, 1970 to AUGUST 31, 1970 SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN NUMBER OF BENEFITS AMOUNT PAID Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $478.33) Optical Benefits ; Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits 1,910 27 669 38 396 2,068 464 340 3,547 46,053.74 70,500.00 2,674.80 7,500.00 11,849.30 98,918.60 6,884.59 3,397.85 ^ 28,204.00 Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid 9,459 275,982.88 Seafarers' Pension Plan—Benefits Paid 1,607 380,895.95 Seafarers' Vacation Plan—Benefits Paid (Average $491.50) 1,508 741,175.42 Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period 12,574 $1,398,054.25 �Ships' Committees Serve Union Men at Sea hile at sea, SIU members can participate as fully in the affairs of their union as they can while ashore. The opportunity to do this is provided by a five-man ship's committee aboard every SlU-contracted vessel. The committee consists of one elected delegate from each of the shipboard departments, a ship's secretaryreporter, and a ship's chairman. It is the responsibility of the ship's chairman to call a meeting of the unlicensed crew every Sunday during a voyage. At these meetings, all subjects relating to the union, its programs and activities may be discussed. With the assistance of the elected delegates, shipboard beefs can an also be handled at the meetings. The ship's secretary-reporter has the responsibility of keeping in touch with union headquarters by mail, and passing on to the crew any communications received from headquarters. At the conclusion of each Sunday ship­ board meeting, he forwards a copy of the meeting minutes to union headquarters. During every shipboard meeting, every SIU member has the right to hit the deck and express himself on any matter connected with union business. " Every Seafarer should take an active part in shipboard meetings and serve if elected to the committee. He will be serving not just his shipmates, but himself. W BIENVILLE (Sea-Land)—The Bienville's committee pauses during ship's payofT to have their photo taken. From left are; Tony Palino, chairman; Teddy Neilson, secretary-reporter; J. C. Anderson, steward delegate; James Browne, deck delegate, andJfohn Ryan, engine delegate. JACKSONVILLE (Sea-Land)—While awaiting payoff in Port Eliza­ beth, N.J., the committee of the Jacksonville got together on deck. From left are; Perry Konis, chairman; Ray Lavoine, deck delegate; Donald Oyola, engine delegate; Robert Thomas, secretary-reporter and Wilson Torres, steward delegate. OVERSEAS AUDREY (Maritime Overseas)—^The oil tanker Overseas Audrey, recently placed in serv­ ice, docked in New Haven, Conn. The ship's committee, relaxing in the crew's recreation room, is, from left: Luis Guadamud, deck delegate; Richard Chiasson, chairman; Robert Tims, engine delegate; Stanley Schuyler, secretary-reporter, and Tobor Vanyi, steward delegate. The five-member commit­ tee reported a peaceful voyage. ARIZPA (Sea-Land)—Home after a smooth voyage, the Arizpa dropped anchor in Port Elizabeth. N.J. Members of the ship's committee from left are: D. B. Fitzpatrick, chairman; Ronald Simmons, deck department delegate; M. Berlowitz, steward department delegate; W. Lescovich, secretary-re­ porter, and Clem Slater, engine department delegate. The committee is the SIU's way of keeping in touch with working Seafarers around the globe. I October 1970 STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian)—The Steel Seafarer docked at Brook­ lyn's Erie Basin with a cargo of twelve thousand tons of sugar from the port of Nawiliwili, Hawaii. Conimilteenien aref M. Delaney, deck delegate; Kenneth Price, chairman; Isidoro Valles, engine delegate; Ira Brown, secretary-reporter and Mike Anzalone, steward delegate. Page 33 �Keeping a Sharp Eye For Passing Ships eering from his aerie at Quarantine Station on Staten Island, John Brown watches for approaching vessels. He is one of a van­ ishing breed known as "ship spotters." Brown and two other bachelors work round - the - clock in the Western Union station, working much the same way as their predecessors did 109 years ago when WU founded the service. A telescope that's been there since 1861 is still the prime spotting device. Once spotted, a ship must be identified and the informa­ tion wired to WU subscrib­ ers— tugboat and steam­ ship companies, shipyards, federal and news agencies. What you see from that telescope, John Brown will tell you, is varied. The most memorable sight were the convoys limping home dur­ ing World War II, and bat­ tered ships with gaping holes. Brown worked for the Postal Telegraph in the 1920's while his brother P F- .Oiiiil' « if- • worked in the nearby WU" tower. The competition waskeen. When the Postal Tel­ egraph folded, John Brown joined WU, and the Brown, brothers worked side by side, carrying on the tradi­ tional vigil. For many years the spot­ ters used a card file of 20,000 ship silhouettes to, identify approaching ves­ sels. But during World War^ II, when many warships were built from the same mold, positive identification by silhouette was impossi- « ble. t's noisy where the ship, spotters work because of the clatter of the high- • speed teleprinters inside, ^ ' and steel workers building ' government piers outside on the coast. It's also very ocean-oriented. So, when . Brown gets vacation time, , he heads for the mountains. It's quiet, it's solid land, and it's a welcome diver­ sion. But vacations are for diversion—and not a way of life. Ship spotting is a. way of life for John Brown. I •. , �24 Choose Retirement Life » The good life of the SIU r pensioner has beckoned 24 men [,- 'to shore. They are: ( Egbert C. Palmer, 65, joined the SIU in 1951 at the Port of vNew Orleans and sailed in the engine department. He signed up •for picket duty during the 1961 strike. Brother Palmer now lives • in Savannah, Ga. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1923 to 1927. Emanuel Ylodek, 56, was an early member of the SIU, having joined in 1938 in the Port of Boston. He sailed in the deck de­ partment as a bosun. A na­ tive of Pennsylvania, Seafarer Vlodek is spending his retirement in Terra Alta, West Va. He re­ tired after a sailing career of 40 years. Wilbur Taylor, 65, is a native of New Jersey and now makes his home in New York City. He joined the SIU in the Port of New in 1944 and sailed in the deck department. While sailing. Brother Taylor served the union as a department delegate. When he retired. Seafarer Taylor ended a sailing career of 38 years. Jerry F. Pontiff, 60, retired after 26 years with the SIU. He joined the union in 1944 at the Port of New Orleans and sailed in the steward department. He is spending his retirement at his home in Marrero, La. Eiland Fandlno Frank Fandlno, 70, joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine depart­ ment. He served the SIU while sailing as a department delegate. Brother Fandino was also issued two picket duty cards in 1961. A native of Spain, Seafarer Fandino now makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. His retirement ends a 43-year career on the sea. Taylor .4 Palmer Fowler Claude H. Fowler, 63, joined the SIU in 1939 at the Port of ^ Baltimore. During his 31-year sailing career he shipped out as > an able seaman and bosun. He served with the U.S. Coast Guard h from 1923 to 1926. Brother Fowler now lives in New Orleans. James P. Conley, 72, has served as a ship's delegate and ' on rank and file committees since joining the SIU in 1952 at the Port of Wilmington. He sailed in the deck department as an able seaman. Brother Conley, a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, now lives in Artesia, Calif. J Pontiff Poe Earl H. C. Poe, 62, is a na­ tive of Michigan and now lives in Miami, Fla. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deqk department as a bosun. Brother Poe is a naval veteran of World War II. William Sylvester Carrow, 65, is a native of Delaware City, Del., and now lives in Camden, N.J. He joined the union in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the affiliated IBU as a tugboat mate. Lawrence E. Elland, 60, joined the SIU in 1947 at the Port of New York and sailed as a chief electrician. A native of Alabama, Brother Eiland now makes his home in New Orleans. John Pastrano, 65, is a native of the Philippine Islands and now lives in San Francisco, Calif. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the stew­ ard department. He retired after spending 42 years sailing the world's waterways. Felix L. Serrano, 64, joined the SIU in 1955 at the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. Brother Serrano is a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy. A native of the Philippine Is­ lands, he now lives in San Fran­ cisco. Rudolf Karner, 31, joined the SIU in 1951 at the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department. A native of Estonia, Brother Karner will spend his re­ tirement at his home in Bergenfield, N.J. Karner .t'mm-" j Conley Peacock Ivey M. Peacock, 55, joined the SIU in 1944 at the Port of Savannah and sailed in the stew­ ard department as chief steward. Brother Peacock, a native of Georgia, now resides in Ports­ mouth, Va. He served in the U.S. Army from 1928 to 1932, • • . .. Florencio S. Omega, 69, a na­ tive of the Philippine Islands, has retired to Brooklyn, N.Y. He joined the union in the port of New York and sailed in the steward department. He also served the SIU as department delegate. Omega Dean Damon RusseD Dean, 65, joined the union in the Port of New Orleans and sailed as a master for the affiliated IBU. A native of Poetry, Tex., Seafarer Dean now makes his home in Houston. Asbly Taylor Harrison, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1939 and sailed in the deck department. A native of Kansas, Seafarer Harrison now makes his home in Baltimore, Md. Brother Harrison retired after 43 years at sea. Harrison Vlodek Pastrano Carrow Reed Wesley O. Reed, 62, joined the union in Elberta, Mich., and sailed as a wheelsman in the Great Lakes region. A native of Benzie County, Mich., Seafarer Reed is spending his retirement in Elberta. Anderson Carl Harold Anderson, 51, joined the union in the Port of Frankfort and sailed on the Great Lakes as an oiler. A native of Frankfort, Mich., Brother Ander­ son continues to make his home there. He is a Navy veteran of World War II. Serrano Roney Clarence E. Roney, 65, is a 23-year veteran of the SIU.- He joined the union in the Port of Mobile in 1947 and sailed in the engine department. He will spend his retirement at his home in Mobile. Stanley Sokol, 65, a member of the SIU Railway Marine Re­ gion since 1960, sailed as a tug deckhand out of tlie Port of New York. He will spend his retire­ ment at his home in Jersey City, N.J. SIU Arrivals Paul Rittiner III, bom July 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul C. Rittiner, Jr., Savannah, Ga. Joseph Timmons, bom July 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank A. Timmons, Kent, Wash. Megan Harsche, bom Aug. 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter H. Harsche, Willingboro, N.J. Samuel Santos, born July 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Manuel B. Santos, New York, N.Y. Charles Eagleson, bom Aug. 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles B. Eagleson, Houston, Tex. Jo Ann Marcial, bom June 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pedro Marcial, Bayamon, P.R. Johnny O'Ferrell, born Aug. 19, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Johnny W. O'Ferrell, Prichard, Ala. Jeffrey Maskell, bom July 20, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald L. Maskell, Alpena, Mich. 'Yalena Bailey, bom July 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald S. Bailey, Mobile, Ala. Arjean White, born July 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Amold J. White, Jacksonville, Fla. Laura Stanley, born July 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Terry L. Stanley, Martinsburg, W.Va. Alicia Ayala, bom Sept. 8, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ramon Aya­ la, Rio Piedras, P.R. Kristie Bolton, bom Sept. 1, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wayne Bolton, Pensacola, Fla. Peter A.>,McDufile, bom Aug. 23, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Teddy R. McDuffie,.Channelview, Tex. Jodi Stevens, born Aug. 5, 1970, Sokol to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert E. Stevens, Gloversville, N.Y. Clinton Mason, 65, retired Anita Grove, bom Aug. 5, 1970, after 29 years in the SIU. He to Seafarer and Mrs. Leonard C. joined in the Port of Norfolk in Grove, Shamokin, Pa. Michelle Heams, bom Aug. 5, 1941 and sailed in the engine de­ 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Daniel partment. A native of North Carolina, Brother Mason now F. Heams, Parma, O. Johnny O'Neill, bom Sept. 6, lives in Day, Fla. He was issued 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Johnny a picket duty card during the O'Neill, Country Club Carolina, 1961 Greater New York Harbor P.R. strike. Derrick Nettles, bom July 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gillis L. Dale L. Barton, 56, joined the Nettles, Carlton, Ala. union in 1961 at the Port of Bryan Dunklin, bom Aug. 18, Detroit and sailed in the engine 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. William department. Brother Barton, a L. Dunklin, Mobile, Ala. Steven Hull, bom Feb. 27, 1970, U.S. Navy veteran of World War to Seafarer and Mrs. Daniel R. II, lives in Macinaw City, Mich. Hull, Alpena, Mich. Gran Luquette, bom July 29, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph O. Luquette, Kaplan, La. Stephanie Harris, bom June 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ken­ neth W. Harris, Houston, Tex. Maria Rios, bom Aug. 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. German Rios, Catano, P.R. Barton Weeks Kenneth Oyola, bom July 31. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald Robert E. Weeks, 61, has been D. Oyola, Baltimore, Md. an SIU member since joining at Frank Primero, Jr., born Aug. 7, the Port of New York in 1944. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank He sailed as a chief cook in the D. Primero, Seattle, Wash. steward department. He will Annita Hickox, bom July 16, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles spend his retirement at his home in Magnolia Springs, Ala. J. Hickox, Folkston, Ga. Receiving his first pension cheek at the union hall in Frankfort, Mich, is 65-year-old Seafarer Carl Jensen, right. Port Agent Harold Rathhun hands the check to Jen­ sen who began sailing in 1929. Labor Calls Aged Aid Insufficient A House-passed Social Se­ curity bill has drawn the description of "totally inade­ quate" and the Senate has been urged to make wholesale re­ visions in the bill's proposals. The House version calls for a 5 percent across the board in­ crease in benefits; a 3 percent cost of living increase and an increase in minimum benefits to $67.20 per month. The bill also increases the amount of benefits available to widows and equalizes compu­ tation of benefits for men and women. According to labor experts, what is lacking is a program "to overcome want and dep­ rivation" among the nation's senior citizens. Labor organizations have suggested a program of greatly increased benefits to be funded by "general revenue financing" instead of by the current em­ ployer and employee joint con­ tribution. Among the new benefits such financing could provide, experts say, are a 10 percent raise this year followed by a 20 percent increase in 1972; an increase in the minimum benefit to $90 a month, a figure ' above the poverty line; reimbursement for prescription drugs and increas­ ing the maximum wage compu­ tation level from the $9,000 per year approved by the House to a maximum of $15,000 per year. High Costs Force 3 Library Closings New York The American Merchant Marine Library Association, which last year distributed more than a half million books to 1,038 ships, has announced the closing of branches in Boston, Norfolk, Va., and San Pedro, Calif. Mrs. George Emlen Roos­ evelt, library board chairman, said the group's income last year was $126,365 and its expenses were $131,974. She said the association was forced to use reserve funds to continue oper­ ating. The three branch closings leave the association with offices in New York, New Or­ leans, San Francisco, Seattle and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. �Young Men Pass Through Piney Point iiSaiiitiiili Graduating members of Class 49 pose for their class photo with Robert Matthews, president of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, as the group makes ready to leave for New York to ship out. Left to right are Bobby Trainor, Jack Stein, Walt Ingram, William Hanna, Alexander Berlin, Marcelo Gomez, Matthews, Morris Hawkins, Barry Parsons, Mike Crockett, Peter Pantoja and Ken McCarver. Ronald McKinnie, left gets wristwatch and cungratulatiuiis from Instructor John Shields after McKinnie was selected by the staff of the Hurry Lundeberg School of Seamanship as the outstanding graduate of Lifeboat Class 54. A Lifeboat Class 55—members were, kneeling from left. Glen MacDonald, Jim Robak, Pat Mattingly, Ron Brown, Jim Cooper, Ralph Mills, Dave Park and Bill Berulis. Second row, Instructor John Shields, Dave Doherty, Tom Bakos, Leigh Rockwell, John Gilliam, Jim Collins, Chris Devonish, Bill Cahill, Mike Hoctor, Bob Long and Danny Griffin. Back row, Lee Cohen, Pete Wojtiuk, Eddie White, Frank O'Gara, Sandy McKeithan, Rick Jiizang, Ron Cancel, Jim Watson, Dave Henderson, Bob Hawley and Jim Welsheimer. Bill Hall, director of trade union education at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship at Piney Point, bids good wishes to graduating trainees of Class 50-A as they prepare to leave for New York and their first ship. Left to right are Simon Hickey Ronald Burdette, Charles Kirksey, Hall, Tommy Davis, Mark Stenson, and Bruce Kelley.' Graduates of Class 51-B line up for a class photo as they prepare to leave the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship after their 12-week training period to go aboard their first ship. Kneeling from left are; Bill Cook, Bob Cecala, Percy Pay ton and James Kutcha. Standing are John Wells, Mike Wall, Raul Suntana, Clement Colgano, Run Shaw, Jeff Rash, James Kerrigan, Bob Koczian and Deputy Education Direirtor Paul McGaham. SIU Representative Frank Mongelli congratulates the graduates of Class 48 as they prepare to go aboard their first ship. Left to right are John Kapustin, Tom Basile, Tom McQuay, Harry Macon, Tim Hurley, Mongelli, Greg Fuller, Lottery Flemming, Lee Buford, Richard Macon, and Richard Kirkland. �mnee. D octors tap on them with lit­ tle hammers, poke at them, take pictures of their insides, listen to heartbeats—prospec­ tive trainees for the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship at Piney Point, Md., are given a head-to-toe physical. These potential trainees re­ ceive their physicals at the SIU ainic in Brooklyn to assure them a sound start toward a career at sea. A good physical examination is preventive medicine and one of the reasons the SIU operates its clinics. Not only trainees, but all Seafarers and their fami­ lies can receive complete ex­ aminations or treatment of specific ailments. Periodic examinations can reveal illnesses which when treated early can be cured be­ fore becoming serious. Bill Smoot, 20, of CSiarleston, W.Va., reads off the letters on a vision testing chart. V Technician Roland Darhonne examines a hlood slide under a microscope looking for signs of illness. Technician Richard Brigham checks the weight of Kenneth Keeling, 18, of Charleston, W. Va., during a physical examination at the SIU clinic before departing for Piney Point. X , • Keeping a thermometer in place under his tongue while answering questions about his medical history is a tricky chore for anyone. This time it is Melvin Ivey, 17, of Warrenton, Ga., who performs the balancing act for an interested medical staff. i;i Page 37 �Final Departures Cul G. Pedersen Carl George Pedersen, 76, died July 9 in Boynton Beach, Fla. He was an oldtimer in the SIU, joining the imion in 1938 in the Port of Mobile. Mr. Pedersen smled in the deck d^artment as a bosun. When he retired, Mr. Pedersen had logged more than 60 years of sailing. A native of Denmark, he was a resident of Boynton Beach. Among his survivors are his wife, Maria. Mr. Pedersen's body was taken to Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans, La., for burial. Benjamin C. Bengert Benjamin C. Bengert, 56, a pensioner since 1969, died July 18 in New Or­ leans, La., after a long illness. He joined the SIU in 1947 at the Port of New York and J sailed in the en­ gine department. 1 Among the sur­ vivors is a son, Benjamin* C., Jr., of Savannah, Ga. Burial was in St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, New Orieans. Carle C. Harris Carle C. Harris, 69, passed away July 11 in his home in Mc|Comb, Miss. He j joined the SIU in 1947 and sailed ! in the engine de­ partment. A widI ower. Brother Harris is survived ^ by his sister, Mrs. - Ethel Raybom of McComb, Burial was in Holly­ wood Cemetery in McComb. 6 TA Wa T4 r < « IM $s 1* a* A3 Mt oa a al 10 i> n <« a» a' P s If g Widfer P. Ehrhardt Walter P. Ehrhardt, 45, died July 3 in Two Rivers, Wis., Mu­ nicipal Hospital after an apparent heart attack. He joined the Great Lakes Tug and Dredge District ™ sailed n cook. Brother Ehrhardt made his home in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. He is survived by his wife, Edith, and three sons, Jeffrey, Kurt and David. He was buried in Eastbrook Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wis. Remegio Flguu'oa Remigio Figueroa, 36, drowned Dec. 30, 1969, while serving as a crewman aboard the S.S. Merrimac, docked in Am­ sterdam harbor. He joined the SIU in 1967 at New York and sailed in the stew­ ard department. Among his sur­ vivors is his mother, Mrs. Eulogia Figueroa, at his home in Yabucoa, P.R. Burial was in the Yabucoa Municipal Cemetery. Schedule of o Membership Meetings * James D. Cartledge James D. Cartledge, 30, of Augusta, Ga., was lost overboard May 23 in the South China Sea. Brother Cart­ ledge was sailing in the engine de­ partment aboard the S.S. Rambam. He was a gradu­ ate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Engineers School in New York and was a second assistant engi­ neer. He joined the SIU at New York in 1967 after serving 11 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. B. A. Bailey of Aiken, S.C. James A. Oawford, Jr. James A. Crawford, Jr., 49, died of an apparent heart attack June 16 while aboard the S.S. Overseas Daphne off the coast of Charleston, S.C. Brother Crawford served as a U.S. Army paratroop­ er during World War II and was wounded in ac­ tion in 1943. He joined the SIU in 1956 at New York and sailed in the steward department. Among his survivors are his wife, Thelma and his mother Mrs. Clara Hight both of New Or­ leans. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans. - Eduardo S. Toro Eduardo S. Toro, 60, an SIU pensioner since 1963, died Aug. 1 near his home in Mayaguez, P.R. Brother Toro joined the SIU in 1943 at the Port of San Juan and sailed in the steward and en­ gine departments, survivors is his daughter Mrs. Lillian Segarra Betancourt of New York City. Burial was in Puerto Rico. At as ar SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Nov. 10—2:30 p.m. Mobile Nov. 12—^2:30 p.m. Wilmington Nov. 16—^2:30 p.m. San Fran Nov. 18—2:30 p.m. Seattle Nov. 20—2:30 p.m. New York ..Nov. 2—^2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Nov. 3—^2:30 p.m. Baltimore ...Nov. 4—^2:30 p.m. Detroit Nov. 13—^2:30 p.m. Houston Nov. 9—^2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans Nov. 10—7:00 p.m. Mobile Nov. 12—7:00 p.m. New York .Nov. 2—^7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ....Nov. A—^7:00 p.m. ^Houston ...Nov. 9—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Nov. 2—^2:00 p.m. Buffalo Nov. 2—7:00 p.m. Alpena Nov. 2—7:00 p.m. Chicago .Nov. 2—^7:00 p.m. Duluth Nov. 2—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ...Nov. 2—^7:30 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago .....Nov. 10—^7:30 p.m. fSault Ste. Marie Nov. 12—7:30 p.m. Paao ^ Junes P. Creel James P. Creel, 69, died July 17 in McComb, Miss., after" a long illness. He had been an SIU pensioner since 1964. Brother Creel joined the union at the Port of MobUe in 1938 and sailed as a deck engineer. Among his survivors in his wife, Betty Jo. Burial was in Walker Cemetery, Pike County, Miss. Buffalo Nov. 16—^7:30 p.m. Duluth Nov. 13—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ...Nov. 13—^7:30 p.m. Toledo .Nov. 13—7:30 p.m. Detroit Nov. 9—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee ..Nov. 9—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Nov. 10—^5:00 p.m. Mobile Nov. 12—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Nov. 3—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (li­ censed and unlicensed)Nov. 4—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Nov. 5—5:00 p.m. Houston .Nov. 9—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Nov. 10—10 a.m, & 8 p.m. Baltimore ....Nov. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk ....Nov. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City ..Nov. 9—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Meeting held at Galveston wharves. tMeeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Newport News. William D. Thiemonge William D. Thiemonge, 72, an SIU pensioner since 1967, died Aug. 7 of heart disease in Mercy Hospital, Balti­ more. Brother Thiemonge joined the SIU in 1948 at New Orleans and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. Among his survivors is his wife, Winifred, at their home in Baltimore. Burial was in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore. Ebenezer Telemaque Ebenezer Telemaque, 56, died July 23 while aboard the S.S. Rachael V off the coast of Bi| - tung, Indonesia. He joined the SIU in 1946 at the Port of New York and sailed in the steward de­ partment. He is survived by his wife, Margery, at their home in New Orleans. Bur­ ial was in Surabayo, Indonesia. Jesse E. Brooks Jesse E. Brooks, 72, a pension­ er since 1964, passed away May 3 in San Antonio, Tex., after a long illness. Brother Brooks joined IBU in 1957. He 'served 30 years in the U.S. Army during World Wars I and II and was wounded in action. Among the survivors is his daughter, Mrs. Theresa Diane Anders, at his home in San An­ tonio. Burial services were con­ ducted at the Fort Sam Houston, Tex., National Cemetery. Olaf A. Olson Olaf A, Olson, 76, died of an apparent heart attack Aug. 22 in Kenmore Mercy Hospital, Kenmore, N.Y. He is survived by his wife Anna at * their home in Tonawanda, N.Y. 1Brother Olson I i joined the SIU in 1960 at the Port of Buffalo and sailed as a dredgeman. A native of Sweden, he came to the United States and served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I. Burial was in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall Arthur W. Kowles Arthur W. Kowles, 23, drowned July 23 after falling overboard from the tug New York off the Louisiana coast. Brother Kowles joined the IBU in 1969 and sailed as a tugboat captain. Isa Among the sur­ vivors are his wife Linda, daugh­ ter Sheri Lynn and mother Mrs. R. O. Webb, all of Pasadena, Tex. Burial was in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston. DULUTH, Minn 2014 W. 3d St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, MIeh P.O. Box 287 416 Main St. (610) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Ttx 6804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 2608 Peaif St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ..99 MontKomerp St. (201) HE 6-9424 MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrenee St. (206) HE 2-1764 NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jackson Ave. (604) 629-7646 EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Al Tanner Lindsay Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER WlUiam E. Richardson Your family asks that you con­ tact them by calling 919-453-8144 or writing to Rt. 1—Box 167, Mayock, N.C. T. Arnold Lebto Please contact Darlene Lehto, 714 Ann Ave., Everett, Wash. 98201. Julian Sawyer The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Redwood City, Calif. 94063, asks that you contact them as soon as possible. George W. Elboum George W. Elbourn, 65, died on August 12 in the USPHS Hospital in Bal­ timore after a short illness. He became a mem­ ber of the Inland Boatmen's Union at the Port of Baltimore in 1958 and sailed as a barge captain. Among his sur­ vivors is his son, George E., of Rock Hill, Md. Burial services were held at the Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Kent, Md. Directory of Union Hoiis Cal Tanner Personals Leo S. Kervlnen Leo S. Kervinen, 60, died May 25 in Duluth, Minn., after a short illness. A •• native of Finland, he was a resident of Virginia, ' Minn. Brother Kervinen had ' been a member of the G r e a t ^ ' Lakes Tug and "" Dredge Region since 1968. He ^ sailed as a fireman-watertender in the engine department. Among , his survivors is a sister, Mrs. Aura Kale of Paramount, Calif. r< Burial was in East Pike Ceme­ tery, Virginia, Minn. * Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS ....67S 4th Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY 9-6600 ALPENA, M<ch 800 N. Sieoond Ave. (617) EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, Md. ..1216 E. BaltlmoM St. (301) £A 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass 663 Atlantle Ave. (617) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.V 735 Washington St. SIU (716, IL 3-9269 IBU (716) TL 3-9269 CHICAGO, ni 9383 Ewlng; Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 6-9670 CLEVELAND, 0 1420 W. 26th St. (216) MA 1-6460 DETROIT, Mich. 10226 W. deaerson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 NORFOLK, Va 116 3d St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, TTez 634 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 1321 MUsion St. (416) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. ..1313 Fernandez Jnneos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 2606 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4677 Gravols Ave. (314) 782-6600 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 TOLEDO, O. 936 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 WILMINGTON, CaUf 460 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, CaUf. (213) 832-7280 YOKOHAMA, Japan .: Iseya Bide., Room 801 1-2 Kalran-Dori-Nakakn 2014971 Ext. 281 * ' , r < ' �nmomrtiM for rf<ji5ti*ring ill on ciihlo while paying out Ht'Iicoplor Landing Deck Cable slowed in cable lank Ik M . r .. ' Buoy rack Repeater storage Bow propelle Hy \1aking a Smaller World C. S. LONG LINES ^ A cro88-8ection diagram of the ^ C^. Long Lines, a <19-milIion ve88el incorporating the lateat ^ developments in design, naviga* tiop and cabie-laying technology. If' V •» • r t* , I 'j'* * J. L. Harris, first aid instruc­ tor, checks medical supplies in the dispensary. The Long Lines is capable of evacuat­ ing sick crewmen or techni­ cians by a-helicopter landing, area on the afterdeck. r|nelephone calls from New York to London are becomX ing more and more commonplace with the help of an SIU crew manning the modern cable ship, the C.S. Long Lines. Owned by Transoceanic Cable Ship Co., a subsid­ iary of American Telephone and Telegraph Corp., the ship is operated by Isthmian Lines Inc. The $19-million vessel has laid more than 23,000 nau­ tical miles of underwater cable—a world record, which is a distance that virtually spans the globe. The cable links people in the U.S. with those in many foreign coun­ tries. Extreme accuracy in navigation is required for laying cable, so the 90-man crew utilizes the most modem navi­ gational aids—including navigating by satellite to insure a "true course." During cable-laying operations the crew is supple­ mented by AT&T technicians. Cable is fed through a stem slot while the 17,000-ton vessel maintains speeds up to 8 knots. A "sea plow" buries cable under the ocean bottom within 100 miles of a coast line to protect against dam­ age caused by trawlers or dredgers. The world gets smaller with each length of cable laid by the Long Lines. Off the coast of Hawaii, the Long Lines prepares to connect cables laid from Japan. The flotation buoys (foreground of picture at left) will be used to mark connections in coastal waters (picture below). The Hawaii to Japan cable cost (80 million. iwii The final splice is made in the Transatlantic cable-laying operation from Green Hill, R.I., to San Fernando, Spain. Technicians and crewmen cooperate for the accuracy in naviga­ tion needed for telephone cable-laying operations. fi... I Cable technicians wind a durable outer covering onto the telephone cable. The one and a half inch inner core is capable of carrying 720 two-way simultaneous conversations. This picture was taken off the coast of Hawaii. « October 1970 Page 39 �Vol. XXXii No. 10 SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO J. SIU Blood Bank Can Mean Difference Between Life and Death f' A"'I 'A . %' i r/1 J 'F-' 4 * A . r r, W ••1 The availability of blood often can be the difference be­ tween life and death. A Seafarer, after undergoing major emergency surgery in a New Orleans hospital, was in desperate need of blood transfusions. One phone call produced 30 pints of blood which started the patient on his way to recovery. A Seafarer who was stricken in Chicago with bleeding ulcers, had 12 pints rushed to him in time to save his life. Where did this blood come from? It came from the Sea­ farers International Union's Blood Bank. Since the Blood Bank was established on January 6, 1959 in New York, 8,342 pints of blood have been donated. Because of this a Seafarer and his loved ones do not have to fret over the high cost or availability of blood when the need arises. He knows that thfs supply of blood can be drawn upon anytime by himself or any member of his family. However, this ready supply of blood can be assured only if Seafarers continue to donate to the Blood Bank. Only through the generosity of its members and their families can the SIU continue this priceless benefit. Eleven Seafarers already have donated a gallon or more of blood and have become members of the Blood Bank's Gallon Club. One Seafarer, Arthur Sankovidt, has given 19 pints of blood. Because of the sacrifices of these men and others like them, the SIU has been able to ensure all its members and their dependents that they do not have to fear the lack of or price of blood when it is needed. Any Seafarer or member of his family who wishes to give blood to the bank need only make an appointment. Those who can should make an appointment at their convenience with the SIU Brooklyn clinic. In other SIU ports, arrange­ ments for donations can be made through the respective port agents. Wherever there is a port agent, there is a local blood bank. 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Title A name given to the resource October 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE CALLED TOP PRIORITY ISSUE SENATE, HOUSE GIVE MARITIME BILL APPROVAL; SENT TO NIXON CONGRESSMEN STRESS IMPORTANCE OF NEW MERCHANT MARINE ACT ECONOMY, INSURANCE, FISHING PROBLEMS HIT BY THREE CONGRESSMEN OVERSEAS BUILDS FIVE NEW SHIPS ’39 LAW RESTRICTS BARGES IN ‘70 BARGES MOVE CARGO OF THE WEST COUNCIL HITS MOVE BY MITCHELL TO SILENCE AFL-CIO POLITICALLY UNIONS CONTINUE TO CRITICIZE POLITICAL INDICTMENT OF SIU BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A BETTER UNION NEW PROGRAM HELPS INCREASE READING SKILLS HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM PLANNED AT PINEY POINT HEARING FADES WHILE DIN GOES ON – EARLY DEAFNESS RESULT OF NOISE PORTLAND – PART OF SEA-LAND’S QUICK PUERTO RICO SERVICE AMERICA’S SEA TRADITION PORTRAYED BY SHIPS TAP, POKE, LISTEN – PHYSICALS FOR TRAINEES Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 10 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/3789d2e1aa2f2e4e1ab4dc15674a9710.PDF eeb9c1a93a8842700ba8a1dfb51733dd PDF Text Text SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICiAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO '\•.« I' f 1 •' I ' ILO Session Aids Seamen i Ij} See Page 3 Paul Hall addresses ILO session I' [•' ''I F p rV ? ; tr '' '} f( i Nixon Signs '70 Maritime Act See Page 3 President Nixon Signs Merchant Marine Act *70 AFL-^IO's Kirkland Sees Bill As 'Maritime Miracle' See Page 2 See Page 32 'IS®!:-" l^^igiS^SIU Has :32d: Birthday ,V'f V' ^ 'v See Page ^66 Page 6 6 •A „ ;^*1 i :| I •1 �a !l Kirkland Sees 'Miracle' In Merchant Marine Act Washington, D.C. AFL-CIO Secretary-Treas­ urer Lane Kirkland proclaimed the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 to be the "miracle of the 91st Congress." Kirkland said the miracle was that the bill was passed in a year when Congress and the Administration had curtailed defense spending, grounded the SST and cut back federal con­ struction. Despite all that, "Congress decided overwhelmingly to sal­ vage an entire industry—your maritime industry," he told a luncheon of the 7.5-milhon member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. He said the bill "means jobs for thousands of unemployed men and women, and it pro­ vides a solid base for training the unskilled in the multitude of crafts required in the construc­ tion of ships. Moreover, Kirkland said, "ships that would have been built in foreign yards and manned by foreign crews will now be constructed in Ameri­ can yards and will be crewed by American Seafarers." Economic Benefits The bill will also benefit America's "precarious interna­ tional balance of payments po­ sition," the union leader said, in that "the millions of dollars that would have been spent abroad will now be invested on our own shores." ice those who ship from Japan to the West Coast of the United States. Russian Challenge "The Russian entry on the United States trade scene means that "your industry will face even stiffer competition than it has in the past. For that reason, we cannot afford any delay in implementing all of the pro­ grams of progress contained in the Merchant Marine Act of 1970." He added, "those millions of dollars in expenditures by pri­ vate industry and government will bring us a first-class mer­ chant marine. And the full utilization of that fleet will, in turn, produce decent wages, fair profits and federal, state and local taxes to help pay for the urgent needs of a progres­ sive society." Kirkland said the "over­ whelming acceptance by both houses of Congress of the Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1970, in­ dicated to him that there is "enormous momentum" for curing the maritime industry's ills. Kirkland noted that the sign­ ing of the Merchant Marine Act "may have come just in time," and urged speedy implementa­ tion of the new maritime pro­ gram in the face of a Russian challenge to U.S. foreign trade. He said that Far East Ship­ ping Co., headquartered in Vladivostok "is starting to serv­ "Let me suggest that you use it to the fullest," he said. "Because your work is not yet complete." Kirkland said, "unless the new ships are accompanied by increased cargo, the Americanflag merchant fleet may slip into a condition of decay be­ yond redemption." Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, greets young trainees from the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship as school instructor Warh Matthews looks on. The trainees heard Kirkland deliver an address to a luncheon gathering sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department praising passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. The miracle wrought by the act, according to Kirkland, will have far wider implications. He praised the mechanism to lure the 'runaway' fleet back to the U.S. flag. Cheap Labor And, Kirkland said, "other American industries also suf­ fer from the competition of runaways and of imports pro­ duced by cheap labor. TTieir problems must also be over­ come without lowering Ameri­ can standards." Kirkland pointed to the tex­ tile industry, the shoe industry, the electronics industry, and others "hurt by foreign imports produced by men and women who are forced to work under conditions that were abolished in our nation a century ago." These industries, he said, are in desperate need of help. "They, like the maritime in­ dustry, are rapidly approach­ ing the point where ftey will die unless we develop for them a means of survival," he as­ serted. ^ "We must do our best to de­ velop a system of international trade, based on some other ad­ vantage than that of the cheap­ est labor. We must not permit jobs that pay decent wages, under fair conditions, to be driven out of existence by the world-wide search for profits at the expense of people. "Every American worker has a stake in the outcome of that issue—and it is our job to see that that stake is defended as strongly as we know how." >i fi 1 THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT ILO Teamwork '-•V- by PAUl HAU A merican seafarers, in addition to fighting their own battle for just and decent treatment, have a tradi­ tion of giving a strong helping hand to lifting the standards of the less fortunate seamen of the world. Much of our work, and many of our accomplish­ ments in meeting this self-imposed obligation have developed through our active participation in the In­ ternational Labor Organization. The strong link be­ tween the ILO and seafarers is a natural combination because among all of the world's workers, seafarers are the only true citizens of the world. We are a com­ munity of men. We have a code of loyalty that is our own, a code that has existed since man first went down to the sea in ships. The ILO's commitment to the seafarer Was in­ grained in its founding. Samuel Gompers, first presi­ dent of the American Federation of Labor and an intimate of President Woodrow Wilson, was instnimental in nurturing the idea of a government-labormanagement institution devoted to aiding workers throughout the world. We can thank Andrew Furuseth for the fact that maritime holds a special and honored place within the ILO structure. This Norwegian immigrant who is the father of the SIU, devoted his life to emanci­ pating the seafarer—a dedication that caused him to be known as the "Abraham Lincoln of the Sea." Furuseth's greatest triumph for the sailor came in 1915 when, with the help of the late Sen. Robert LaFollette, Sr., he pushed through passage of the Seamen's Act. This legislation, known over the decades since as the "Seamen's Bill of Rights"—brought an end to the conditions verging on slavery under which American seamen were forced to exist. Furuseth and Gompers were a natural and close team. In many respects, Furuseth was the philosophical mentor of the great Gompers. It followed that Furuseth, having gained victory in passage of the Seamen's Act, would urge Gompers to give the seafarer a special place in the structure of the International Labor Organization. For both men knew that seafarers around the globe would be in dire need of all the free collective bar­ gaining strength they could muster for decades to come to make their lives bearable. And while no ab­ solute contracts are signed between labor and man­ agement in the halls of ILO headquarters, the agree­ ments reached by the representatives of government, labor and management carry the weight of world opinion—and those who refuse to abide by the agree­ ments are rightfully considered out of step. Vfost of the actions taken at last month's ILO Maritime Conference will have little direct effect on the American seafarer. He has, through his unions, pulled far to the front over the past 40 years. But to thousands of our brothers, the implementa­ tion of the agreements reached by the official repre­ sentatives of 66 nations will bring a far better life. By raising the acceptable worldwide minimum base wage from $70 to $100 a month, the conference gave hope to many seamen who now work at near starva­ tion wages. By placing strong emphasis on the investigation, reporting and prevention of accidents, all seafarers will have better odds against the physical damage that all too often strikes our men down through no fault of their own. Living conditions aboard ship will be universally improved as the ILO's recommendations are placed in effect. Minimum space requirements for each sailor were adopted. And the delegates found that no more than two men should share a room on any freighter. The world's shipowners were a part of the ILO as­ semblage that called for the installation of air condi­ tioning for crews' quarters on all ships of 1,000 tons or more. All of these benefits were agreed to by a body of men chosen by their governments, their unions and their companies to work together through the ILO to develop the machinery to improve the life of the seafarer. Much more was done. Detailed reports of the ac­ tions of the conference, the history of the ILO and the unfortunate single attempt to turn the conference into an arena for the exchange of political attacks, are reported in this issue of the Seafarers Log. The complete teamwork that was exhibited by the entire United States' contingent contributed heavily to the success of the conference. While we have had bitter battles among ourselves over the years, we stood together in unity with a determination to do our best not only for our own, but for all men of the sea everywhere. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs Andrew Gibson, in addition to being a U.S. government delegate, was chairman of the U.S. team. He did his job well, bringing credit to our nation. Joseph Goldberg, special assistant to the com­ missioner of labor statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, provided facts coupled with wisdom and made a major contribution. Managements' man, James Reynolds, president of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping, con­ sistently showed his deep concern for the welfare of the world's seamen and made an outstanding contri­ bution to our team effort. •^one of the four official delegates from labor, management and government, however, could have functioned effectively had it not been for the dedicated work of the teams of advisers who laid the founda­ tion for the conference and followed through with help on a multitude of problems that cropped up during the two weeks that the conference was in session. I am confident that the world's community of sea­ farers will have the collective strength of the entire American team working with them as we open our campaign to bring into being the recommendations adopted by the conference and in continuing the never-ending effort toward bringing a better life to seafarers throughout the world. t; •1 >1, an • ,11 « '-4 . • Iv • '^3 fJ 4 'I �ILO Calls for New Seafarer Benefits SlU's Paul Hall Leads U.S. Workers' Group SIU President Paul Hall, U.S. workers' delegate to the recent International Labor Organization Confer­ ence in Geneva, Switzerland, takes the podium to defend AFL-CIO President George Meany after an attack by delegates from Cuba. The 55th ILO Conference made recommendations for the betterment of conditions of the world's seafarers. Nixon Signs Merchant Marine Act Into Law Washington, D.C. With a stroke of the Presi­ dential pen, the Merchant Ma­ rine Act of 1970 became the law of the land in October. The act, incorporating many provisions backed by the Sea­ farers International Union, had passed both Houses of Con­ gress by substantial majorities before it was sent to President Richard M. Nixon for signature. At the signing in the Cabinet Room of the White House, President Nixon, surrounded by top officials and labor leaders, said the bill marked the begin­ ning of a new era for the troubled maritime industry and opened the prospect of revitalization of the U.S.-flag merchant fleet. Provisions of BO! In particular the bill will benefit SIU men by means of its provision to constuct 300 new ships for the foreign trade in the next 10 years. The new ships will mean more jobs for Seafarers in the years ahead. In addition the provisions on construction subsidies will in­ clude ships of the bulk carrier fleet, which were excluded under the 1936 Maritime Act which narrowed assistance down to 14 shipping lines. Under the 1970 bill all shippers in the foreign trade will ^ eligible for subsidy. One of the concomitants of the increased subsidy will be an upsurge in shipyard employ­ ment. One estimate, contained in a report to the U.S. Senate, is that the provisions of the act regarding construction subsidies will generate more than 400,000 man hours of employment in American shipyards. Seafarers and the shipyards may receive an additional boon from the new act's inclusion of shipowners operating in the Great Lakes and on the non­ contiguous routes in the provi- Looking on at White House ceremony as President Nixon signs the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 into law are from the left Under Sec­ retary of Commerce Rocco C. Siciliano; Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans; Maritime Administrator Andrew E. Gibson; Fed­ eral Maritime Commission Chairman Helen Delich Bentley; Secretary of Transportation John A. Yolpe, and Rep. William S. Mailliard (RCalif.), ranking minority member of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. sion of tax defennent on con­ struction reserve funds. These tax-deferred reserves mean that shipowners can ac­ cumulate funds for shipbuild­ ing without paying taxes for a time. It, too, was previously restricted to 14 lines and is now open to all who comply with the terms of the 1970 act. Another general provision is that of operating subsidies. Where they had been restricted before, the 1970 legislation opens them to all operators, in­ cluding those involved in the Great Lakes, noncontiguous and tramp trade. ^Runaways* Affected The bill also makes provi­ sion to phase out the "run­ aways"—^American-owned ships sailing under foreign flags. Under the act, the foreignflag operators who wish to qual­ ify for the nation's new mari­ time benefits must freeze their foreign holdings and liquidate them within 20 years. That means they will be forbidden to add to their foreign hold­ ings, and will not be allowed to replace foreign-flag vessels as they are scrapped or become lost. Aside from including the Great Lakes fleet under oper­ ating and tax deferment provi­ sions, the act provides assistance to the Gr'^at Lakes fleet in the form of eliminating the chance of an increase of tolls on the St. Lawrence Seaway. It eliminates the toll rise by cancelling interest on the Sea­ way's construction debt. That will permit the Seaway to use the tolls to pay operation and maintenance costs out of pres­ ent tolls, and allow it to pay off the original construction costs within 50 years. For all of these reasons. President Nixon described the bill as "historic." He said the bill may prove true his con­ viction that "American labor and American shipyards can do as well or better" than thenforeign competitors. Geneva, Switzerland The world's maritime community made major strides toward bettering the lives of its Seafarers during the Eighth Maritime Conference and 55th Session of the International Labor Orga­ nization (ILO). Some 534 representatives of the American seafaring work­ government, labor and manage­ er, we do not for one moment ment directly involved in mari­ lose sight of the common bond time affairs came from 66 na­ and interest which we, the tions to study, debate and American workers, have with reach conclusions on an agenda other maritime workers of the of actions that will result in im­ world," he told the delegates. proved wages, working condi­ "We are ever-conscious of tions and standards of life for the unique ties which unite us seamen. with brother seafaring workers Each nation was eligible to of all flags," Hall said. send two government delegates, To that end, the delegates plus one each from labor and passed conventions, recom­ management,- as well as teams mendations and resolutions of advisors and observers. targeted at improving the lot of The official United States the world's seamen. delegation was headed by As­ The differences between the sistant Secretary of Commerce three actions—conventions, rec­ for Maritime Affairs Andrew ommendations and resolutions E. Gibson, Joseph Goldberg, —are significant. Conventions special assistant to the commis­ of the ILO are submitted to the sioner of labor statistics of the governments of member states U.S. Department of Labor, was for ratification in the form of the second U.S. government law. Recommendations are delegate. submitted to governments in SIU President Paul Hall lead the hope that they will lead to the nation's Seafarers delega­ legislation. Resolutions commu­ tion, and served as vice chair­ nicate the intent of the ILO. man of the Maritime Confer­ Accident Prevention ence's Workers Group. ^ The first convention James Reynolds, president of adopted by the Maritime the American Institute of Mer­ Session obligates the ratifying chant Shipping, led the man­ states to take necessary steps agement delegation. to ensure adequate reporting Achievement Noted and investigation of accidents, Hall noted that the U.S. Sea­ and to adopt laws that will aid farer has achieved many of the in preventing them. The session advances proposed in the ac­ also adopted a recommendation tions adopted by the delegates. for research and analysis of "But as we move forward accidents, together with the continually in improving the development of a method to living and working standards of (Continued on page 9) Unity Was Keystone Of ILO Delegation Geneva, Switzerland Unity was the keystone of the government-labor-manage­ ment team representing the United States in the Eighth Maritime Conference and 55th Session of the International La­ bor Organization here, SIU President Paul Hall reported. Hall was the official U.S. work­ er delegate to the conference, and head of the U.S. labor team. "Every member of the American group reflected great credit on our unions, manage­ ment and government," Hall said. "All of us worked to­ gether. We, as Americans, were tired of being kicked around by the Communist bloc nations, and we worked togeth­ er to effectively put a stop to their campaign to make the ILO a platform for political expediency." The U.S. labor delegation had as advisers SIU Vice Presi­ dent Earl Shepard; Raymond T. McKay, president. District 2, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association; Peter Bocker, vice president. National Maritime Union, and Joseph Gaier of the Masters, Mates and Pilots. Hall noted that Shepard and Bocker had made a major con­ tribution to the American labor team's efforts through their participation at a preparatory meeting in Genoa, Italy, which developed the foundation for the agenda of the ILO Mari­ time Conference. Credits Deleagtion In his report to the AFLCIO Executive Council meeting in Washington, D.C. this month. Hall paid tribute to the netire American delegation. "As the workers' delegate, I was fortunate to have a compe­ tent, dedicated group of union representatives who did the job that was required to success­ fully resolve the technical mat­ ters on the agenda," he said. "They are due a vote of thanks from all American seafarers, as well as seamen throughout the world, for the major con­ tribution they made. Also serving on the Ameri­ can labor team were Mel (Continued on page 5) /ag e. -2 �Economic Aufhorifies Say: Pay Lags Behind Inflation Increases Washingtoii, D.C. Two leading economists have dealt a sharp rebuttal to Ad­ ministration claims that soaring labor costs and rising wages are the prime causes of inflation. In a lead article, the Wall Street Journal declared that "labor costs aren't the Franken­ stein monster they're often cracked up to be." Representing railroad unions before the Presidential Emer­ gency Board, Leon Keyserling, chairman of IPresident Truman's Council of Economic Advisers, declared that "the thesis that concludes wage trends have been, and still are, a vital fac­ tor in the entirely unacceptable degree of price inflation ... is so preposterously wrong that one finds it hard to explain the degree of obstinate adherence to it." Ignore Facts The Journal article noted that business executives frequently proclaim that labor costs are soaring out of control and "dooming the economy to everworse inflation." However, the business paper said executives never mention the fact that "labor costs, far from soaring, are only inching upward nowadays," and that some analysts predict "labor costs may soon begin to de­ cline." The article states that "pay to workers has been getting higher but also that labor-cost increases have been getting smaller." "Labor costs have been dechning to a point," the article said, "that in the last three months the wage-price index has barely budged, rising a miniscule one-fifth of one percent. The article refutes a carefully nurtured argument of manage­ ment that it must hold down pay increases because of rising costs. A number of reasons were listed for the labor vs. cost picture: • Productivity of most work­ ers is on the rise after a period of no gain. • Premium pay such as overtime work has been de­ clining. • While pay of union mem­ bers generally has gone up sharply this has not been true of non-union workers. Faulty Premise Keyserling said the basic premise of national economic policies is that we are suffering from an "overheated or over­ strained" economy due to ex­ cessive aggregate demand on productivity. He cited some examples to show that, for the most part, productivity has increased at least as much as, and usually more than, demands for in­ creases in wages and salaries. In the specific area of manu­ facturing, he said that from 1960 to 1969, "the figures were an increase of 3.4 percent for productivity, and 2.2 percent for wages and salaries. From 1966 through the second quarter of 1970, the figures were an increase of 2.4 percent for productivity and 2.3 percent for wages and salaries. From sec­ ond quarter 1969 to second quarter 1970, the figures show an increase of 1.3 percent for productivity, and a reduction of 0.4 percent in wages and sal­ aries." Keyserling said statistics were comparable in most in­ dustries and concluded that "policies designed effectively to achieve a stable and optimum economic growth would in the long run yield less net price in­ flation that results from erratic ups and downs in the real econ­ omy, rapidly changing labor and business expectations and general uncertainty." • iPii Needed: A Strong Fleet Rep. John Murphy (D-N.Y.), a staunch advocate of a strong Americanflag fnerchant marine, addressed a dinner gathering held in honor of Seafarers who have upgraded to full books. Seated next to Murphy are: SIU Representative Ed Mooney and New York Port. Agent Joe DiGiorgio. ) Reporters question U.S. delegates on their return from the the ILO conference In Geneva. Pictured are (right) Paul Hall, president of the SlU and workers delegate to the ILO; (center) Andrew E. Gibson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs and government delegate to the ILO; (rear) James Reynolds, president of the American Institute for Shipping and management delegate. r 'Watch, Waif, Participate Hall Advises on ILO Funds An attitude of "watchful waiting and full participation" in the affairs of the Interna­ tional Labor Organization (ILO) before the United States considers renewing its financial contribution to that body has been urged by Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers In­ ternational Union, AFL-CIO, and head of the U.S. workers' delegation to the October ILO Maritime Conference in Gen­ eva, Switzerland. Congress withheld the na­ tion's normal $3.7 million con­ tribution to the ILO this year. The decision came after sev­ eral representatives from both the trade union movement—led by AFL-CIO President George Meany—and the business com­ munity testified that the com­ munist bloc was turning the ILO into an arena for political attacks upon the United States. Hall, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Andrew E. Gibson, chief of the government delega­ tion, and James Reynolds, president of the American In­ stitute of Shipping and head of the management delegation, reported that political assaults were generally absent from the maritime conference of the ILO. It was the first meeting of the world labor body follow­ ing the decision to withhold U.S. dollars. Their remarks came during a press conference held in the Maritime Administration offices in the Federal Plaza Building here. "The United States was liter­ ally assassinated 34 times by communist bloc nations in the June ILO meeting," Hall told rcpoiters. "The free-world worker doesn't like to go into a meeting to discuss working conditions and hear one gov­ ernment tear down another. The purpose of the ILO is to improve the standards of the workers in the world. Political attacks can be exchanged in a proper forum, like the U.N. "The ILO Maritime Confer­ ence reversed the trend that had developed in the ILO where the communist bloc nations had de­ cided they would all get togeth­ er and swat the Americans around," he added. Gibson said that the action of the Congress and the attitude of Meany in calling for the withholding of U.S. contribu­ tions was "completely under­ standable." 'Great Disenchantment' The United States, he said, "had to make it plain" to the communist bloc that Congress was "reflecting the great dis­ enchantment" of organized la­ bor and business. Reynolds recalled that Presi­ dent Woodrow Wilson and Samuel Gom.pers, first presi­ dent of the AFL, had fostered the ILO in the hope that the cooperative efforts on a world­ wide basis of labor, manage­ ment and governments would result in upgrading the lot of all workingmen. "We could not permit that dream to be made a nightmare of political expediency," Reyn­ olds asserted. He said that because the maritime conference was nearly stripped of political attacks, the delegates "emerged with a sense of brotherhood among seamen around the world." The Communist bloc, with the Cuban delegation at the front, made one vicious attempt to turn the conference into a political boiling pot. The Cubans opened a tirade against the United States early in the conference, and made two other attempts to continue the attack. But on each oc­ casion, they were stopped in their tracks by the American team of delegates. The solidarity of the Ameri­ can delegation, coupled with the strong support of other f r e e-w o r 1 d representatives, caused the Communist tactic to fail—and allowed the delegates of all nations to concentrate on finding solutions to the prob­ lems affecting wages, working and living conditions of the world's seamen. All three leaders of the American delegation said they felt the United States should continue its participation in the ILO. Gibson noted that the So­ viet Union took part in the ILO although "they didn't pay dues for years. And the Cubans just paid their dues up before this meeting." Reynolds said he hoped the withholding of U.S. funds "is a temporary measure." Gibson said the Nixon Ad­ ministration "has no desire to leave the ILO." Deep Obligation Hall said the American trade union movement "has a deep obligation to fight like hell to make the concepts of the ILO work. "But you don't pay a lynch mob to string you up," he added. He said he believed the poli­ tical attacks would stop within the ILO because "the Soviet bloc wants desperately to have worldwide forums, and the ILO is one of them. Without U.S. participation, they would lose this forum. The Soviets learned at the maritime conference that they're going to have to abide by the rules of the road." FTC Warns on Flaming Berefs The Federal Trade Commis­ sion has warned that "highly inflammable" women's and girl's berets are being sold in American stores. The imported Italian berets have a sewn-in label listing per­ centages of fabric: 7.7 percent cotton; 42.9 percent rayon: 49.4 percent acrylic fabric. The berets were imported for M. Grossman and Son, Inc. and Beltmar Hats. *5 �Job Safety Bill Enactment Before Lame Duck' Congress Following an election recess, members of Con­ gress have returned to Capitol Hill in a rare "lame duck" session to clean up some unfinished business. One of the major items on the agenda, as far as labor is concerned, is passage of the Occupa­ tional Health and Safety BUI. In view of prerecess happenings it is expected that this meas­ ure will create much debate and political manuevering before a decision is made. The legislation, known as the WilliamsDaniels Bill, would include all those workers— ship-builders, factory hands and farm workers, for example—not presently covered by federal law in the field of safety standards. The major provisions of the bUl would: • Impose on industry the "general duty" of furnishing workers "a place of employment which is safe and healthful." • Empower the Secretary of Labor to set nation-wide health and safety standards for working environments. • Call for unannounced federal inspections of work places and prompt disclosure of the find­ ings to the workers. • Authorize the Secretary of Labor to impose fines and seek court action against employers who violate the "general duty" or specific stand­ ards. • Permit the Secretary of Labor to close down all or part of any plant where workers are in "imminent danger" of injury or disease. • Direct the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to publish a list of all known or potentially toxic substances including those whose analysis is specificaUy requested by workers. • Allow employees to refuse work, without loss of pay, in areas where toxic substances are found at dangerous concentrations. Organized labor has long accused the Admin­ istration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of seeking to stall action on job safety. Hie Chamber Game Commenting on the preventive tactics em­ ployed, AFL-CIO President George Meany said "the Nixon Administration, through the Secre­ tary oL Labor, and certain key Republicans in Congress, is playing irresponsibly shameful politics with the fives and health of American workers." Meany accused the Secretary of Labor and these "certain Congressmen," of "playing the game with the Chamber of Commerce dnd the business community, who want to block any oc­ cupational safety and health bill." Joseph T. Power, president of the Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' Union, also de­ Tunney Honored Af California Maritime Lunch cried the "delaying tactics that are prohibiting passage of a law that could help prevent in­ juries and save fives." He cited statistics showing there were more than three million industrial accidents in the United States in 1969, and the accompanying loss of thousands of millions of dollars. "But," he said, "these dollars represent a lot more than cold cash. They represent warm, liv­ ing human beings. People who no longer have a hand or an eye. People who no longer will be able to work and bring home the bread for the family dinner table." Power dismissed the "accidents just happen" theory, "Accidents can be prevented," he said, "and passage of this bill would be a major step toward achieving that objective." Prior to the recess Democratic Majority Lead­ er Mike Mansfield had asked unanimous con­ sent to set aside the Equal Rights for Women Bill to consider job safety. However, objections were voiced by Sens. Dominick (R-Cblo.) and William Saxbe (R-Ohio). Along with other Republican spokesmen, they argued they were not opposed to job safety but felt that action would be hasty and a mistake. Democrats immediately challenged the idea that there had been little time for consideration of job safety legislation. Careful Analysis "I know of no measure which has been more carefully analyzed by the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare than this measure," declared Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn.). "We have long understood the serious and profound neces­ sity of having reforms in the field of occupational health and safety." Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.), chairman of the committee, pointed out the bill has been before the Congress at least four years. He added that this "is no rush job; it is not an eleventh hour speed-up." The Administration and the business coali­ tion have demanded that occupational safety and health codes be written by an independent panel. Most Democrats and organized labor support placing responsibility with the Secretary of Labor who, with professional advice, will set safety and health standards and enforce the law. Jacob Qayman, administrative director of the AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Department, cited the differences between the two views. "This is not a mere difference in words or theory," he wrote, "but a real difference in meaningful, effective and practical fulfillment of the spirit of any sound occupational safety and health bill. Democrat John Tunney (fifth from left), who recently was elected U.S. Senator from California, was a guest at a Catholic Maritime Cluh luncheon in San Pedro. Appearing with the son of the famous prize fighter. Gene Tunney, were from left: Gerald Brown, SIU port agent in Wilmington; William Gilbert, assistant regional director of the AFL-CIO; Steve Edney, SIUNA vice president; John Fick, port agent for the Marine Firemen^s Union; Tunney; Zig Arowitz, executive secretary of the Los Angeles County Federation of Lahor, and John Cinqumanti of the Los Angeles Building Trades Council. ¥ I^ I Earn Lifeboat Tickets The latest group of Seafarers to earn lifeboat tickets through the SIU's Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship in New York are ready to ship out. They are: (standing from left) George McCraney, Jack Pollard, John Wood, deorge Stefanescu and SIU Instructor Len Decker. (Seated) L. S. Morris, John N. Venizelos, Calvin McChristian and Robert Malone. Senate Bill Aids Elderly Washington, D.C. Labor is expected to give a strong push for a bill to reform social security benefits now be­ fore the Senate Finance Com­ mittee. The bill would increase bene­ fits 10 percent, set the minimum payments at $100 a month, and establish the base wage at $12,000 per year. The House has passed a bill calling for a five percent in­ crease in benefits, a boost in payments from $64 a month to $67.50, and an increase in the wage ijase from the current $7,800 to $9,000 a year. The AFL-CIO feels that the House measure is too weak and that the Senate bill is more in line with people's needs al­ though much more could be done. Labor has been calling for an immediate 10 percent in­ crease in benefits, an increase of 20 percent by 1972, a twostep increase in the minimum from $90 the first year to $120 the second, an increase in the wage base to $15,000 and the systematic introduction of fiancing from general revenues without undue increases in pre­ miums paid by workers and their employers. Unity Is ILO Keynote (Continued from page 3) Barisic, Alvin Shapiro, Gene Spector and Shannon J. Wall of the NMU; Max Condiotti and Burt E. Lanpher of the Staff Officers Association of America, an affiliate of the SIUNA; Harvey Strichartz of the American Radio Associa­ tion, and William Rich of the NMP. A group from the NMP who participated in the later part of the conference as observers in­ cluded Morris Weistein, Ken­ neth Camisa, Price Mitchell and John Beime. James J. Reynolds, president of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping, was the U.S. management delegate. Working with here were Martin F. Hickey of the T & M Serv­ ice Corp.; M. Edmond Marcus of the Gulf Oil Corp.; William I. Ristine of the Keystone Ship­ ping Co.; Clifford V. Rowland of Prudential-Grace Lines, Inc., and Donald J. Schmidt of Farrell Lines, Inc. Assistant Secretary of Com­ merce for Maritime Affairs Andrew E. Gibson was chief of the American contingent and a government delegate. Joseph Goldberg, special assistant to the commissioner of labor statistics of the U.S. Labor De­ partment, served as the second government delegate. Assisting them were Capt. Garth H. Read, chief adviser, and Capt. Kindrel N. Ayers of the U.S. Coast Guard; Mrs, Beatrice M. Burgoon of the De­ partment of Labor; Arthm: M. Friedberg of the Department of Commerce; Dominick Manfredi and George E. McCarthy, Jr., foreign representatives for the Maritime Administration, and Roger C. Schrader, U.S. labor attache in Geneva. Also attending the conference were Herbert Brand, adminis­ trator, and Capt. Richard Stone, director of agency relations of the Transportation Institute, the Washington-based maritime re­ search organization. Exec$ Make Political Gifts Princeton, NJ. The Citizens Research Foun­ dation here has completed a study showing individual polit­ ical campaign contributions in 1968, averaging $4,202, were reported by 294 big business officials representing 49 corpo­ rations. These figures indicate one sound rcesoii for union polit­ ical activity and its politick ed­ ucation programs: so labor can have an equal voice with big business in the political arena. �Andrew Furuseth (1854-1938) More than any other man, it was Andrew Furuseth, a Noriwegian i m m ijg r a n t, who I emancipated seajmen from the [conditions of I virtual slavery (under which they y. had lived and Mw o r k e d, and thus justly earned his place in history as the "Abraham Lin­ coln of the seas." Furuseth, who guided the destiny of American seamen for more than half a centmy, was bom in Romedal, Norway in 1854, and died in 1938. His greatest triumph, after long years of tireless effort, came in 1915 when, with the help of the late Senator Robert La FoUette, Sr., he obtained passage of the Seamen's Act— the "Seamen's Bill of Rights" which brought an end to the conditions of virtual serfdom under which American seamen had formerly existed. But Furuseth's efforts had their roots much earlier. His activity in behalf of the Ameri­ can seamen in fact, started the moment he came to the United States in 1880. In 1887 Furuseth was elect­ ed Secretary of the Pacific Coast Seamen's Union. In 1891, the amalgamation of the Coast Seamen's Union and Steamship Sailors of the Pacific, took place and Furuseth remained at the helm until 1935. Thus Fumseth can well be said to be not only the father of the SIUNA, but the father of the entire Ameri­ can maritime labor movement. Much of the special place of seafarers in the structure of the International Labor Organiza­ tion is the result of Furuseth's efforts and his long friendship with Samuel Gompers, founder of the AFL. TogeAer they established international recog­ nition of sailing men through the offices of ILO. SlU Marks 32nd Year Of Progress for Seamen This month Seafarers at sea and ashore celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the Seafarers International Union. The years since its inception in 1938 have been ones of progress and ac­ complishment. The SHTs history is one of struggle—struggle every inch of the way. Out of the vigorous uphill battles waged by SIU members came the Union hir­ ing hall, SIU Welfare and Pen­ sion Plans, paid vacations, hos­ pital and surgical benefits for members and their fairiilies, and the upgrading programs. These are just some of the things Seafarers have fought for and won down through the years—and enjoy today. Pre-Union Days Miserable Those dark days before the union was formed are vividly remembered by many men still sailing today. Those were the days when shipboard food was slop, foc'sles were rat infested and life aboard ship was an inhuman ordeal. These were the days when it was beaten into the heads of seamen that the ship's master was "boss" and could force men who sailed under him to work for endless hours at substandard wages fixed by the shipo\^ers. Standing three four-hour watches per day was normal duty for men at sea and pay­ ment for overtime was unheard of. Ship's libraries didn't exist and neither did the leisure time to use them. Everyday items like soap and matches, towels and' clean linen, even a mattress—had to be provided by the Seafarer himself. Misery and degradation were a part of every seaman's daily life at sea. Strong and able leaders— men from the ranks—^began to step forward to lead the fight to break the chains of abuse and oppression that tied the seamen down. Andrew Furuseth, a Norwe­ gian, dedicated himself to the task of getting the Seaman's Act of 1915 made into law. Furuseth rallied the suport of seamen behind Sen. Robert La Follette, who led the fight in Congress. After an arduous legislative battle. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Seaman's Act into law. Freed from Slavery The Seaman's Act of 1915 has been aptly referred to as the Emancipation Proclama­ tion of Seamen because it re­ leased men of the sea from virtual slave conditions. For the first time, the basic rights of seamen were spelled out and the building of an organization of seamen began. Furseth became secretary of the Pacific Coast^ Seaen's Un-ion in 1887 and worked to combine the Coast Seaman's Union and the Steamship Sail­ ors of the Pacific into the Sail­ or's Union of the Pacific. The SUP, with Furuseth at the helm, led the way toward securing a better life for Ameri­ can seamen, but a serious set­ back occurred in 1921 when the shipowners, backed by the government and using thou­ sands of strikebreakers, tempo­ rarily crushed the union. It took ten long years to re­ build the union. Harry Lundeberg, the successor to Furuseth as head of the SUP, led the West Coast sailors through the bitter strikes of 1934 and 1936. Those intense struggles re­ established the Union and laid the groundwork for the birth of the SIU in 1938. This is the legacy of the SIU—32 years of struggle for a better life for seafaring men. At the time of the celebra­ tion of the first anniversary of the SIU, in November, 1939, a Seafarers Log editorial urged SIU members to: Loyalty Required "Be loyal to your union and take pride in its progress; you have helped to build it and must continue to help. An or­ ganization is only as strong as its membership, and the mem­ bers are the union." Harry Lundeberg (1901-1957) The man who succeeded Fu­ ruseth as the head of the SUP, and who later became the first president of the SIUNA, was Harry Lunde­ berg, who was bom in 1901 and died in 1957. Lundeberg came on the scene at a time when the seamen's union move­ ment had been dormant for more than a decade, after be­ ing crushed in 1921 by the Government-supported strike­ breaking efforts of the ship­ owners. It was Lundeberg who, as head of the SUP, led the West Coast sailors through the bitter strikes of 1934 and 1936, which re-established militant trade un­ ionism for seamen. It was also Lundeberg who in 1938, ob­ tained a charter from the American Federation of Labor establishing the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North America and who, two weeks later, issued the charter estab­ lishing the SIU. Because Seafarers responded in earnest to these words then, and continue to do so today, we can celebrate the 32nd an­ niversary of the SIU with pride. Looking back over the his­ tory of the SIU during the November membership meeting in the port of New York, SIU President Paul Hall reminded those present of the nature of the fighting spirit of the SIU with the words: "Down through the years many of this union's enemies have attempted to count us out of the fight and pronounce the last rites over us. But each time they attempted this we sprang back to overcome the forces fighting against us, and we won. We won because of the determination of our mem­ bership and the justice of our causes." Weisberger Pledges Aid in Revitalization Porfland, Ore. Morris Weisberger, executive secretary-treas­ urer of the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, deplor­ ing what he called the "shooting gallery" at­ mosphere of the Propeller Club convention here, said that unions were not the only ones re­ sponsible for tensions between maritime labor and management. Weisberger, one of the convention's roster of maritime speakers, said, "After two days of be­ ing around here, I find it quite fashionable to take on labor unions and criticize them before a captive audience. If I offend anyone, I assure you I won't apologize. If the shoe fits, wear it." He then said that one of the major stumbling blocks in labor relations in the maritime industry is that top executives have stayed away from the bargaining table and assigned the work to "fifth and sbcth echelon executives." "I think that I can say without any hesitation that maritime labor is prepared to work with management and government in the difficult struggle ahead to develop a merchant marine that provides security for the American worker, the American com­ munity and the nation as a whole," Weis­ berger said, the fleet has contribThe bad state of utcd to union-man­ agement tensions in wliich every element of the industry had to fight for survival. "Management o f course, has fought to retain profits," he said. "Conversely, the unions have fought to keep job protection for its members at standards that would enable them to live in the community in a manner enjoyed by other American workers." Weisberger added that there "was little that management or labor could have done on their own to reverse this trend." He said that government had "contributed in a very large measure to the disintegration and the decline of shipping" by failing to provide cargo for the American-flag fleet. He said, "When government agencies—and I refer to all administrations equally. Democratic and Republican, which have been in power dur­ ing our decline—^fail to support the American merchant marine, when they fail to insist on compliance with the Cargo Preference Laws, how can we expect private shippers to do any­ thing else but t^e the government's lead?" "So that in assessing the cause for the condi­ tion of the American merchant marine, at the very least, all three—^labor^ management and government—equally share responsibility for the situation we are in now," Weisberger said. The uphill climb for the American merchant marine, Weisberger said, must be marked by co­ operation and collective action. "Speaking as I do from the standpoint of maritime workers, I can say that we recognize the challenge and the problems, and we shall do our best." Weisberger said, "the labor movement—mari­ time labor—will continue efforts of this kind and others of a cooperative nature to help assure that we have a viable American fleet." Seafarers Loi �HLSS Opens High School Equivaiecy Course rjihe Maryland State Department of Edu­ cation's Division of Certification and Ac­ creditation has selected the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship as the General Educa­ tional Development (GED) High School Equivalency Diploma Testing Center for St. Mary's County, Md. To enable HLSS trainees who are under the minimum age of 17 years and who come from all over the country to complete their training and sit for the GED examination, the department waived Maryland's age and resi­ dence requirements for the HLSS students. Classes have started to prepare the first group of trainees for an examination in De­ cember. They are attending classes in English, mathematics, social studies, science, literature and spelling. GED equivalency diplomas certify that a student who, for one reason or another has not completed four years of high school, has achieved the equivalent of a high school edu­ cation through study on his own. "The GED program is an ideal way to pro­ vide high school equivalency to all our train­ ees during their regular academic and voca­ tional education," said Miss Hazel Brown, HLSS director of academic education. A pre-test examination to evaluate students' academic strengths and weaknesses was held last month. It will allow the teaching staff to provide personalized instruction to fit each trainee's needs. • ^ t:- u. V' i:?. ' i. ' Wilfred Gapetz, left, HLSS audio­ visual director, and Roy Wood, audio-visual technician, prepare a chart to be used as a GED teaching aid. f Miss Brown, right, discusses the GED program with her staff. They are, from left, Mrs. Susan Gary, Mrs. Anne Thomas, Miss Nancy Hazam, Mrs. Eve Naill and Mrs. Dorothy J"orte. HLSS Librarian Nancy Hazam assists GED aspirants with their studies. The library catalogs vocational and academic textbooks, general reference and recreational books, magazines and newspapers. m �'•l. Limitation of class size and an emphasis on individual instruction will aid the trainees in preparing for their GED high school equivalency examinations. Newly arrived audio­ visual aids are ex­ amined by Miss Brown and Mrs. Anne Thomas, teaching assistant. The program will utilize modern slides, film strips, tape recordings and sound films to supplement classroom preparation. To guage strong and weak points in the candi­ dates' academic backgrounds, a pre-test is ad­ ministered. The results will enable the teaching staff to provide personalized instruction. A reading laboratory and a variety of teaching aids and specialized equipment are available to the students. i M I �f. ILO Calls for New Seafarer Benefits (Continued from Page 3) publicize accidents in hopes of preventing their repetition. ^ A second convention that received unanimous ap­ proval deals with accommoda­ tions for sailing men on ships of all nations of the world. Hall told the gathering that bad ac­ commodations had led to ill will between sailors and their employers in the past. "Let us not get so immersed in fractions and statistics," he counseled, "that we forget we are talking about human beings who, in the course of their em­ ployment, are subjected to virtually every anguish in man's experience." Living Space The convention calls for na­ tions to adopt laws that would guarantee that every Seafarer be allocated no less than 40.36 square feet of space in sleep­ ing rooms in ships between 1,000 and 3,000 tons; 45.75 square feet in ships of 3,000 to 10,000 tons and 51.13 square feet in ships of 10,000 tons or more. The number of men per sleeping room ought not to ex­ ceed two, the convention as­ serts; except in passenger ships where four men may be quarter­ ed together. The measure lists equip­ ment to be provided for Sea­ farers and, m ships of more than 8,000 tons, it urges that a library for showing films or television programs be avail­ able. ^ The ILO made a recom­ mendation calling for the installation of air condi­ tioning in ships of 1,000 tons or more. Noise Abatement ^ Another recommenda­ tion calls for research in noise reduction procedures in­ cluding the possibility of pro­ viding ear protectors for engine room use, and locating crew quarters as far from noise sources as possible. ^ Seafarers' welfare at sea and in port was the major subject of an extensive ILO recommendation. The con­ ference proposed that Seafarers' hotels be provided in heavily visited ports; the circulation of free films, books, newspapers and sports equipment by gov­ ernments; further effort on the quick forwarding of Seafarers' mail; and permission for visitors on ship. ^ The ILO recommendation on employment problems followed ILO Direc­ tor-General V/ilfred J e n k s' opening suggestion of an "early warning system for employment reductions." Redundant Duties J e n k s said technological change may cause some seafar­ ing jobs to become "redundant," and he warned that the indus­ try ought to be prepared with special "re-employment and re­ training programs." "Control of entry into the seagoing profession will need to be strictly related to antici­ pated future manpower require­ ments," Jenks said. The session adopted a rec­ ommendation that would foster a national mmipower plan for each of the participating na­ tions. It also asked that ar­ rangements be made "for train­ ing and retraining where chang­ es in function and required skills arising from technical de­ velopments are likely to affect Seafarers." Free Training ^ Another ILO recom­ mendation would put vo­ cational training for Seafarers on a national scale, financed by government on a regular and sustaining basis. It urges that training for upgrading be con­ ducted by governments at no cost to the trainees. ^ A final recommendation called for modernization of the minimum wage for Sea­ farers. The last Maritime Ses­ sion of the ILO, held in 1958, broke new ground when it estab­ lished $70 a month as the minimum base wage for all Sea­ farers. The move was in the form of a recommendation. Several nations have followed the recommendation, although a few still permit operators to pay as little as $35 a month as a base rate. The 1970 Maritime Conference called for a mini­ mum wage of $100 a month, a level deemed necessary to main­ tain the same standards today that the $70 wage would pro­ vide in 1958. Resolutions of the session asked the ILO to study: • Industrial relations in the shipping industry. • A revised convention on paid vacations for Seafarers. • The health of Seafarers. . • The up-dating of conven­ tions on such matters as health services aboard ship, medical records, training of personnel in first aid and nursing. • Compensatory leave for weekend and holiday work. • Application of ILO stand­ ards to ships flying so-called "flhgs of convenience." • Technical cooperation with countries now developing mari­ time programs. • Anti-pollution methods ap­ plicable to the handling of waste on ships. Summing up the work of the session, Nagendra Singh, secre­ tary to the President of India, and president of the Maritime Session, said: "I have no doubt that the adjective 'great,' which I use with pride in connection with this conference, is true to the hilt and is in no way an exag­ geration. ... If your efforts have to be judged, the only yardstick is that of end prod­ uct wherein this conference has beaten the record of all others." Singh said the record of "spectacular achievement is due to the excellent coopera­ tion between governments, ship­ owners and workers." TTS, Klrkland Presented Maritime Honor AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland addresses the eighth annual dinner gathering of the Maritime Port Council Greater New York and Vicinity, an affiliate of the Maritime Trades De­ partment. Kirkland was presented with the Council's Maritime Service Award "for his effective efforts and contributions to American labor, and in particular, for his activities in behalf of American maritime workers and the industry in which they make their livelihood." Seated to - Kirkland's left are Anthony Scotto, president of the New York Port Council and Earl Shepard, a vicepresident of the Seafarers International Union. The SIU is an affiliate of the MTD and participates in all Port Council affairs throughout the country. DISPATCHERS REPORT Ariontie. Gulf & inland Waters District October 1.1970 to October 31,1970 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville ....... Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals All Groups Class A. QassB 6 2 129 116 8 14 27 47 27 21 32 22 9 11 28 45 68 91 46 61 64 25 87 80 50 37 566 587 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups ClassA QassB C[llass C 8 2 4 96 63 7 9 6 1 30 12 2 6 0 14 23 5 21 0 2 4 34 20 4 42 29 0 40 43 16 33 0 31 68 4 1 20 28 5 419 269 45 REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups ClassA ClassB 10 0 197 173 23 23 123 62 40 44 51 50 22 23 59 37 159 76 152 97 43 57 128 91 30 20 1037 752 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups ClassA ClassB 3 4 139 100 10 15 27 38 15 18 28 19 3 8 38 23 73 91 73 37 57 9 63 109 32 31 625 433 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups Qa^ A Class B Cl^ C 2 1 1 73 12 69 7 0 7 1 32 12 5 1 11 27 21 2 0 0 2 23 0 16 3 30 47 17 35 45 23 24 0 74 5 42 80 2 18 367 45 358 All Groups ClassA ClassB 4 6 163 75 17 21 81 32 26 40 25 51 10 15 41 46 116 56 80 112 15 37 93 87 27 13 705 698 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals i.. All Groups ClassA ClassB 6 4 67 58 7 8 30 11 21 11 10 20 10 3 14 23 47 75 17 27 25 16 67 57 17 33 302 381 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups QassA QassB Class 3 3 2 5 51 50 7 0 6 18 16 6 0 5 8 5 11 21 0 0 2 17 1 16 39 2 23 22 30 23 2 16 9 7 47 44 2 18 10 55 231 255 REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups ClassA ClassB 5 4 130 99 9 23 23 32 29 22 13 29 22 13 47 20 131 23 ioo 78 18 21 95 67 37 6 705 502 I �Brofherhood of fhe Sea Press Comments Working Together' Signing of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 drew praise from nearly all segments of the nation's press. While the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal found fault with the bill, most of the nation's newspapers described the bill in terms like those below: Nashville, Tenn., BANNER "The policies of neglect prac­ ticed by two previous adminis­ trations have placed the United States on a course to third-rate status as a maritime power. . . . Now, fortunately, the course has been reversed and the federal government at last has moved decisively in these areas. The President realizes that reversing a 10year trend of federal indolence is an arduous task. But a start has been made and it is gratify­ ing to know that after such a protracted period of neglect, the United States is moving boldly to recapture its title as master of the seas." Cargo Is the Key We've been saying all along that one of the keys to the success of the nation's new maritime program will be the acquisition of more Ameri­ can ships. Thus, it was interesting to note the remarks of Rep. John M. Murphy (D-N.Y.) at a recent luncheon of the AFT-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment, an organization with which the SIU is affiliated. Rep. Murphy told his audience that "one does not have to be and expert to know that cargo and cargo vessels are inextricably bound to­ gether." And, he sa'id, the need for more cargo for U.S.-flag ships has become even more acute because of the new technology of the sea. He described the new technology as "the im­ proved and increased use of the containership, the building of massive barge-carrying ships and the dawn of the era of the supertanker." But, he warned, "all these sleek new ships— the huge tankers, the efficient freighters—all of them will be unnecessary" without sufficient cargo to fill them. Thus, he said, he is that some of the major government fail to use vessels, and send their toms." "bewildered at the fact shipping agencies in the available American-flag cargoes in foreign bot­ We join him in the bewilderment and in his call for a stop to the foreign shipping practice of those agencies, a stop Rep. Murphy said should come "at once." He said that an end to sending cargoes in for­ eign ships would be "a shining example to pri­ vate industry" which, like the government, often chooses foreign-flag vessels. And, said the congressman, the Congress and the President have just declared a new national maritime policy, a policy that will be hampered in its achievement if American cargoes continue to sail foreign. That might be the best reason of all to "Ship American." Food for Thought In he old days of the labor movement, one of the considerations that prevented many strikes and ended many others was starvation suffered by strikers and their famililes. In this age of enlightment, government food stamp programs are open to strikers and their families, thus preventing the use of the shameful weapon of starvation against strikers. But even in 1970 there are those, particularly in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who would end the giving of food stamps to strikers and revive the weapon of starvation. The Chamber has said it can see no reason Lewiston, Me., SUN "The American Merchant Marine has dwindled in size under two Democratic Presi­ dents and the share of ocean­ going trade carried in Ameri­ can ships has dropped steadily. President Nixon resolved to change that situation when he was campaigning two years ago. The law which he has signed had little difficulty win­ ning bipartisan support in Congress. A new subsidy pro­ gram will pump new life into the American shipping lines." why government food stamps, and thus govern­ ment funds, should be given strikers. The Cham­ ber says it also sees no reason for other forms of public assistance to be open to strikers and their families. It doesn't matter to the Chamber that the government spends money to ship food to hun­ gry people around the world, or that it makes expenditures for food for hungry people on un­ employment and social welfare rolls.. It's only strikers that the Chamber cares to starve. We would suggest that the Chamber consider strengthening its humanitarian instincts. Check Received, Thanks for Help To the Editon I would like to thank Richard Hollingsworth of the SIU Wel­ fare Plan and the officials of the Seafarers International Union for their prompt action in forwarding Albert Olson's insurance check— which I received. I would also like to thank the officials of the SIU in the Port of Buffalo, and the officials of the IBU Tug & Dredge Region in Buffalo for the services they rend­ ered me during the time when I needed assistance. They were very helpful and by my side whenever I needed them. Very truly yours, Mrs. Alhort (Ol^) Olson Buffalo, New York Daughter Home From Hospital To the Editor: I would like to express my thanks to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and to the SIU for the large hospital bill they paid to Alexian Brothers Hospital in San Jose, Calif., and to Dr. Glick. My daughter, Kathlene Rita, is much better now and is at home. I would also like to thank the SIU on behalf of my husband, Fidel, who is on tiie Seatrain Car­ olina now. Sincerely Yours Mariene De Dios San lose, Cidif. Camden, N.J., COURIER-POST "Even without the impact that new ship construction would have meant here, we still believe that the United States must have a strong mer­ chant marine. It would be disastrous to the nation to let it die. The new legislation should start to bring it back." Baltimore, Md., NEWS AMERICAN "This landmark piece of leg­ islation—containing the first substantial changes in govern­ ment maritime policy since 1936—is designed to reverse the steady deterioration of the U.S. Merchant Marine. . . . Baltimore has good reason to cheer. . . Boston, Mass., HERALD-TRA VELER "(The bill) should provide America's shipbuilding industry with a sorely needed shot in the arm, and will also pay off in valuable dividends for our seriously neglected and out-ofdate merchant marine. . . . Whatever the cost of restoring our maritime power, however, it is one which must be paid." Hartford, Conn., COURANT "The decline of the Ameri­ can merchant marine parallels that of the passenger railroad service in some ways and may be arrested by similar methods involving government support in massive amounts but without mention of the word national­ ization. ... No one can find fault with an attitude that will result in the saving of jobs in shipyards and on ships." San Diego, Calif., UNION "With the new maritime pro­ gram the government is recog­ nizing that it is folly for a trad­ ing nation like the United States of America to allow its mer­ chant marine to languish. It is now up to shipbuilders and ship operators to pick up the ball and run." SEAFAKEBS^MLOO Nov. 1970 • Vol. XXXIII, No. 11 Offlcial Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hall. President Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President A1 KenSec.-Treoa. Lindsey Williams Vice-President A1 Tanner Robert Matthews Vice-President Vice-President Published monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, APLCIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington. D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should bf/ sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.T. 11232. •vi /, �-fj us. Teamwork Stops Cuban Attack Geneva, Switzerland Political outbursts, and particularly venomous attacks against the United States by the Soviet bloc nations, have been increasingly undermining the worldwide worker-management-govern­ ment jorum that is the International La­ bor Organization. The primary function of the ILO is to upgrade the standards of workers around the globe. Communist bloc political tirades— some 34 in number—against the United States in the June meeting of the ILO were instrumental in the decision by Congress to withhold the nation's $3.7 million contribution for the first six months of 1971. The American delegation to the Eighth Maritime Session and the 55th Session of the ILO in Geneva, Switzer­ land, last month was determined to eliminate the growing tendency to turn ILO sessions into platforms of political expediency, according to SIU President Paul Hall. Hall headed the U.S. work­ ers' delegation and served as vice chair­ man of the ILO Seafarers (Workers) Group during the conference. The result was that only one attempt was made to turn the conference into a political arena and away from its official job of finding methods to improve the wages and working conditions of the world's seamen. The single exception involved two members of the Cuban delegation. An attack upon the United States and AFLCIO President George Meany was started by Cuba's government delegate, Garcia Inchaustegui, who was later joined by Cuba's Workers' Delegate Levy Tur. They were reined in by the conference's presiding officers. Answering the Cubans' attacks for the United States were Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs An­ drew E. Gibson, a government delegate and chairman of the American delega­ tion; Joseph Goldberg, special assistant to the commissioner of labor statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor and the second U.S. government delegate, and Hall. The president of the Mari­ time Session, Nagendra Singh, secretary to the President of India, referred to the , lialogue in his closing remarks. The exchanges came during the de­ bate on the adoption of the ILO di­ rector-general's report. Excerpts from the official transcript of the session showing the attacks and the replies, in the order that they occurred, follow: October 19 MR. GARCIA INCHAUSTEGUI (Govern­ ment delegate, Cuba)—This conference is being held at the very time when the United States Congress has supported the anti-labor maneuver by George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, which has led to the suppression and re­ duction of the contribution due from the United States to the ILO budget. We protest against this further manifesta­ tion of a reactionary, anti-democratic and anti-labor policy. THE PRESIDENT—^I must ask the speaker to adhere to the subject under discussion. MR. GARCIA INCHAUSTEGUI—I believe that my remarks are fully in order. The survival of this organization—^now af­ fected by the anti-democratic measure adopted by the United States Congress —^is a matter coming within the scope of this session. However, I shall do as you ask and complete my speech. The ILO should stress more hrmly than ever its universal character and, without delay, take concrete action to give effect to that principle and to counteract this new attack with addi­ tional energy on behalf of the aspira­ tions of the workers, for those are its true reasons for existing. MR. GOLDBERG (Government dele­ gate, United Statesj—VIe have no in­ tention of engaging in political discus­ sion or of meeting political recrimina­ tions which have no bearing on the problems before this conference. . . . We would refer again to the com­ ments of the president to the effect that he hoped that political issues or nongermane issues would not arise, and that delegates would refrain, as far as possible, from asking for the floor on a point of order. I would think that all of us would agree that we would prefer not to have to resort to such action, and I might say it is with a great feel­ ing of discommoding the conference that I have had to do so, but this has been the fault of the previous speaker. October 23 MR. LEVY TUR (Workers' delegate, Cuba}—rln the twelve years that have elapsed since the last maritime session of the general conference, the world has beheld no more flagrant breach of free­ dom of the seas and the law of the sea than the blockade organized by the government of the United States against Cuba. . . . At a time when there is so much hypocritical talk of the need to abide by international law it is deeply disappoint­ ing that the director-general should pru­ dently make no mention of the flagrant use of force by a great and powerful coiintry against a small ILO member state. THE PRESIDENT (MR. HEINRICH WIEMERS)—I am availing myself of my pow­ ers to interrupt the speaker. You must believe that I do this most reluctantly. However, all of us here hate war and injustice, and we have a chance here to make a contribution towards removing the barriers and improving the condi­ tions of work and life in the various countries, thus reducing the danger of future war, and indeed, making it im­ possible, perhaps. . . . I do not think that we should avail ourselves of this opportunity for any other purpose, and I think we will be wasting it if we use our time here to make reproaches against one another or even to engage in abuse. MR. LEVY TUR—As I was saying, the Cuban merchant fleet has continued to grow despite a ferocious blockade of the most blatantly imperialistic type and despite flagrant breaches of rights en­ shrined in the United Nations Charter and other international agreements guar­ anteeing freedom of trade. It has con­ tinued despite the existence of a United States "black list" on which ships ven­ turing to defy the blockade are entered. It is my bounden duty to record that this criminal blockade is the fruit of an unbridled Yankee imperialism—an im­ perialism which has never forgiven Cuba for having thrown off the yoke of the United States and built a socialist so­ ciety. ... THE PRESIDENT (MR. WIEMERS)—I must now urge the speaker not to use such terms as "ferocious," "criminal" and so on. Otherwise, I shall be obliged to withdraw the right to speak from him in accordance with the standing orders. MR. LEVY TUR—There are certain problems which affect all of us, and there is no reason whatsoever why they should remain the jealously guarded preserve of a little oligarchy. I am saying that the United States decision to refuse pay­ ment of its contribution singularly limits the possibilities open to this conference, because it is at this very moment dis­ easing resolutions which . . . THE PRESIDENT (MR. WIEMERS)—I very much regret that the workers' dele­ gate of Cuba is not respecting the stand­ ing orders, and I regret very much that he has not had regard to my warnings. I feel that there is disquiet in the hall, and I now request the speaker to re­ sume his seat, as he has not had regard to the standing orders which govern all our proceedings here. . . . MR. GIBSON (Government delegate. United States)—TYIQ ILO and all its participating members are well aware that our association in this body is di­ rected to the improvement of conditions for workers, and therefore it is essential that in this assembly we concentrate on Official U.S. delegates to the Eighth Maritime Conference and 55th Session of the International Labor Organization listen as an interpreter relays an address by a foreign delegate. Representing the United States are (from left) James J. Reynolds, management delegate and president of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping; Paul Hall, SIU president and U.S. workers' delegate; Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime AITairs Andrew E. Gibson, the chief U.S. delegate, and Joseph P. Gold­ berg, special assistant to the commissioner of the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics and the second government delegate. those areas of direct ILO concern. This is not the body for political disputes. This has never been an assembly in which to give vent to petty personal at­ tacks and insulting invective. To allow such deterioration would bring disrepute on the whole structure of the ILO. To dilute with politics our efforts here is to harm the workers, who should be the primary concern of this assembly. MR. HALL (Worker delegate, United States)—Unfortunately, despite the secretary-general's reminder of our pur­ pose here and the clear and precise rules laid down by the president of the confer­ ence, a government delegate launched an hysterical tirade, purely political in character, against the United States, in the course of which he resorted to an unwarranted, despicable and irresponsi­ ble attack on George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, the trade union center to which all unions in the United States delegation to this conference are affili­ ated. Admonished as this government dele­ gate was by the conference president, this was not only a tasteless abuse of a great and militant trade union leader, it was an abuse of this conference as well. But it stands in the record, and I, as the United States workers' delegate and as a professional sailor for all of my life, cannot let that vilification go un­ challenged in the record. The record should reflect that no group of Ameri­ can workers has received greater sup­ port from George Meany in its struggles, whether they involved conflict with em­ ployers over economic issues, or with govenunent over policy inimical to the workers' interests, than has the mari­ time workers. He has always stood shoulder to shoulder with the profes­ sional sailor of our country. George Meany's unqualified backing and valu­ able assistance has been forthcoming in every militant action the American mari­ time labor movement and its unions have taken in support of economic struggles waged by maritime workers outside the United States, from the shores of Europe to the Near East and the Far East and to the Mediterranean; and you, as brother seafarers, are aware of those occasions. . . . Let us then stay, as has been suggested within this conference, within the scope and mandate of the present session of this ILO conference. Let us fulfill our obligation to devote our ef­ forts exclusively to the affairs and to the welfare of the professional sailors of the world. We must not allow our commitment to this purpose to be sub­ verted in the interests of any other ob­ jective whatsoever. October 30 THE PRESIDENT (MR. SINGH)—I am indeed grateful to the conference as a whole for the consideration and courtesy shown in these discussions; however, certain remarks were made which were not in keeping with the standing orders of the conference and I was therefore required to contemplate and plan their deletion. However, inasmuch as the workers' delegate from the United States effectively restored the record as regards the president of the AFL-CIO, and since the workers' vice-president who was in the chair at the time used the gavel and clearly indicated by his ruling that offensive remarks were com­ pletely unacceptable, I now feel, as president, that the record is sufficiently clear so as to require no further action on my part. The gavel has done its job and has left nothing further for me to do, so I accordingly close this chapter -i �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings WACOSTA (Sca-Land), Oct. 4Chainnan, Jose L. U. Gonzalez; Secretary, T. D. York; Deck Dele­ gate, J. EMckersen; Engine Delegate, Richard McDonald; Steward Dele­ gate, Carl B. Carlen, Jr. No beefs reported by department delegates. Everything running smoothly. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Sept 20—Chairman, C. A. Hellman; Secretary, L. D. Pierson; Deck Del^ate, James L. Hornby; En­ gine Delegate, J. A. Beem, Jr.; Stewakd Delegate, S. D. Cabildo. No beefs. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard dqiartment for job well done. SACRAMENTO (Ogden Marine), Oct 4—Chairman, William P. Link, Jr.; Secretary, Darrell G. Chafo; Deck Delegate, Don Dil­ lon; Engine Delegate, M. Hinson; Steward Delegate, James S. Woods. No beefs and no disputed OT. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Oct. 4—Chairman, Otto Pedersen; Sec­ retary, Angeles Deheza; Deck Dele­ gate, William Firshing; Engine Del­ egate, Robert Calawell; Steward Ddegate, Albert Brown. No beefs and no disputed OT. PONCE (Sea-Land), Oct. 4— Chairman, Dan Butts; Secretary, Alva McCullum; Deck Delegate, Paul Tatman; Engine Delegate, Stephm M. Sentenny; Steward Del­ egate, M. T. Costello. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. No beefs. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. EAGLE VOYAGER (United Maritime), Oct. 8—Chairman, Leo Paradise; Secretary, B. A. Baa; Deck Ddegate, Robert H. Bell, Sr. $7 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. CINLUMBIA OWL (Columbia), Oct 4—Chairman, T. J. Hilbum; Secretary, J. W. Thomas; Deck Delegate, Hans M. A. ^hmidt; Engine Delegate, Oscar Figueroa; Steward Delegate, Henry Jones, Jr. No beefs reported by department delegates. STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmi­ an), Sept. 27—Chairman, Clyde E. Miller, Jr.; Secretary, L. Ceperiano; Deck Delegate, Stanley Krieg; En­ gine Delegate, Albert V. Loo; Steward Delegate, George H. Cradmell. No beefs reported by department delegates. Everything nmning smoothly. SEATRAIN CAROLINA (Hud­ son Waterways), Sept. 27—Chair­ man, R. E. Todd; Secretary, F. R. Kazinkewicz; Deck Delegate, H. DeBoissiere; Engine Delegate, Pat­ rick Fox; Steward Delegate, J. Ben­ nett No beefs. Everything running smoothly. BUCKEYE ATLANTIC (Buck­ eye Steamship), Aug. 30—Chair­ man, Louis W. Cartwright; Secre­ tary, James Temple;' Deck Delegat^ Irwin Spruill; Engine Dele­ gate, W. Barriheau; Steward Dele­ gate, A. Hozz. No beefs reported by department delegates. BEAUREGARD (S e a - L a n d). Sept 20—Chairman; B. Hagei; Seaetary, Joseph Wilaszak; Deck Delegate, Thomas Henry; Engine Delegate, Alfred R. Fry; Steward Delegate, Joseph Keamer. $65 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in steward d^artment. ROBIN GRAY (Moore-McCormack), Sept. 13—Chairman, W. Wallace; Secretary, W. H. Raskins; Deck Delegate, Ellis U. Crum; En­ gine Delegate, Douglas C. Ward; Steward Delegate, James D. Gillian. No beefs reported by department delegates. TRANSIDAHO (Hudson Water­ ways), Sept. 27—Chairman, Rob­ ert F. Mackert; Secretary, William T. Rose; Deck Delegate, John Wil­ son; Engine Delegate, F. A. Lee; Steward Delegate, Ralph Nay. No 6eefs. Everything running smoothly. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Sept. 26—Chairman, L. Curry; Secretary, John W. Parker, Jr. Dis­ puted OT in deck and engine de­ partments. TRANSERIE (Hudson Water­ ways), Aug. 2—Chairman, Stephen Homka; Secretary, William Alvaro. $75 in ship's fund. Everything run­ ning smoothly with no beefs. Some disputed OT in deck department. Vote of thanks extended to stew­ ard department for job well done. TAMPA (Sea-Land), SepL 20— Chairman, G. Castro; Secretary, E. B. Tart; Deck Delegate, M. L. Garber; Engine Delegate, C. Martinussen; Steward Delegate, H. Robin­ son. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. ROBIN GRAY (Moore-McCormack), Sept. 27—Chairman, W. Wallace; Secretary, William Lovett; Deck Delegate, Ellis U. Crum; Engine Delegate, Douglas C. Ward; Steward Delegate, James D. Gil­ lian. No beefs. Everything running smoothly. COLUMBIA FOX (Columbia Steamship Co.), Sept. 6—Chairman, N. A. Huff, Jr.; Secretary, Robert E. Kiedinger, Dedc Delegate, Rich­ ard Hopkins; En^e Delegate, Wil­ liam Smith. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. Vote of thanks to Captain L. Guillemette for his thoughtfulness and consideration of the crew. VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pio­ neer, Sept. 27—Chairman, Bob Maas; S^retary, Jimmie Bartlett; Engine Delegate, James D. Allen, Jr.; Steward Delegate, C. L. Mar­ tin. No beefs and no disputed OT. All repairs taken care of. ERNA ELIZABETH (Albatross Tanker), Sept. 27—Chairman, F. J. McGarry; Secretary, Cyril A. Scott; Deck Delegate, Leroy McDaniel; Engine Delegate, R. B. Honeycutt. Disputed OT in deck and engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman. TRANSONEIDA (Hudson Wa­ terways), Oct. 11—Chairman, J. Lewis; Secretary, A. H. Reasko; Deck Delegate, Walter Zeleske; En­ gine Delegate, Henry W. Lee; Stew­ ard Delegate, Louis E. Hudson. $15.35 in ship's fund. Very happy and pleasant crew aboard. Vote of than^ to entire steward depart­ ment for good food and service. Chief steward thanks all delegates and entire crew for their coopera­ tion throughout voyage. TRANSHURON (Hudson Water­ ways), Oct. II—Chairman, L. Gribbon; Secretary, T. Hankins. Some disputed OT in deck department. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. DEL ORG (Delta), Oct. 11— Chairman, John Robinson; Secre­ tary, Vincent Sanchez, Jr.; Deck Delegate, John McDonald; Engine Delegate, Max L. Stewart; Steward Delegate, Stanley B. Wright. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. SEATRAIN PUERTO RICO (Hudson Waterways), Sept. 6— Chairman, William Leuscher; Sec­ retary, David C. Archia; Deck Del­ egate, William J. Card. Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. JEFF DAVIS (Waterman), Oct. 4—Chairman and Deck Delegate, Walter Kuchta; Secretary, R. Bar- 76 Upgraders Receive Full Books Upgraders earning full books after successfully completing: the train­ ing program at the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship at Piney Point are from left: N. Hawkins, Henry Vain, Tom Steed, Mike Flem­ ing, Robert Young and Marion Dale. New full hook members from left, hack row are: Boh Shields, Don Bushy, Bill Dicky, Dennis Rowland and Riley Mills. In front are: Ray Gorju, Jack Pollard, Waller Wilson, George McCraney and Johnny Johns. ker; Steward Delegate, George Frazza. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. Everything run­ ning smoothly. SEATRAIN PUERTO RICO (Hudson Waterways), Oct. 11— Chairman, William Leuschner; Sec­ retary, IDavid C. Archia; Deck Delegate, William J. Card; Steward Delegate, Grady Haley. Crewmembers all happy over raise in pension plan and extend vote of thanks to all union officials. TRENTON (Sea-Land), Oct. 11— Chairman, F. E. Selix; Secretary, D. B. Militar; Deck Delegate, John Owens; Engine Delegate, Adam E. Slovick. $5.30 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. TAMPA (Sea-Land), Oct. 4— Chairman, G. Castro; Secretary, E. B. Tart; Deck Delegate, S. Ruzyski; Engine Delegate, H. E. Welch; Steward Delegate, H. Robinson. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. TRENTON (Sea-Land), Oct. 4— Chairman, Floyd E. Selix; Secre­ tary, D. B. Militar, Deck Delegate, John Owens; Engine Delegate, Adam E. Slovick. $7.20 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. CARRIER DOVE (Waterman), Sept. 22—Chairman, C. McGowen; Secretary, Phil Reyes; Engine Dele­ gate, H. L. Tanner; Steward Dele­ gate, John H. Kenned. Everything running smoothly with no beefs, no disputed OT. Vote of thanks ex­ tended to negotiating committee for splendid job they did especially for the increase in the pension con­ tribution, and to the recently elect­ ed pension committee for their find­ ings and recommendations on low­ ering the retirement age to 55. Hearty vote of thanks extended steward department for excellent performance. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), Oct. 5—Chairman, James S. Shortell; Secretary, Fred Sullins. $240 in movie fund. Everything running smoothly. DELTA URUGUAY (Delta). Sept. 6—Chairman, Paul R. Tur­ ner; Secretary, Wm. P. Kaiser. $21 in ship's fund and $6.32 in movie fund. Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Overseas), Oct. 11 — Chairman, Ame Houde; Secretary, Mike Dunn; Deck Delegate, Harry Smith; En­ gine Delegate, James D. Bergeria; Steward Delegate, George Quinn. $50 in ship's fund. Everything run­ ning smoothly with no beefs. Dis­ cussion held regarding quality of meat on board. CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), Oct. 13—Chairman, C. Frey; Sec­ retary, R. W. Elliott; Deck Dele­ gate. Burten R. Churchill; Engine Delegate, David A. Norris. Beefs in deck and steward department to be taken up with boarding patrol­ man. Vote of thanks to Brother Norris, who served as ship's dele­ gate. , OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Overseas), Oct. 24 — Chairman. Ame Houde; Secretary, L. Nicho­ las; Deck Delegate, Harry A. Smith: Engine Delegate, James Bergeria; Steward Delegate. George Quinn. $49.70 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department. Vote of thanks to captain and steward for job well done. CHARLESTON (Sea-Land), Oct. 4—Chairman. John C. Alberti; Sec­ retary, Gny Walter; Deck Delegate. Tony Kotsis; Engine Delegate. Ra­ fael Mosdew; Steward Delegate, Edward Tresnick. $16.25 in ship's fund. No beefs. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land). Sept. 27—Chairman, James S. Shortell; Secretary, Fred Sullins. $240 in movie fund. Discussion held re­ garding new freightship agreement. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. AZALEA CITY (Sea-Land), Oct. 4—Chairman, John H. Morris; Secretary, C. N. Johnson. $200 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. ERNA ELIZABETH (Albatross Tanker), Aug. 30—Chairman, F. I. McGarry; Secretary, Cyril A. Scott; Deck Delegate, Leroy McDaniel; Engine Delegate, R. B. Honeycutt. No beefs, no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. RAMBAM (American Bulk Car­ riers), Oct. 4—Chairman, J. M. Dalton; Secretary, S. Rothschild. Brother N. Nomis elected ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT. MADAKET (Waterman), no date—Chairman, Chuck Hill; Sec­ retary, Sherman Wright; Deck Del­ egate, Bernard Landos; Engine Del­ egate, A. P. Lapari. $10.46 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in each depart­ ment to be taken up with boarding patrolman at payoff. NOONDAY (Waterman), Oct. 11—Chairman, E. Freimanis; Sec­ retary, F. Fletcher; Deck Delegate, William E. King; Engine Delegate, Richard Rogers; Steward Delegate, Alfred Flatts. $14.15 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in engine department. No beefs. FORT HOSKINS (Cities Serv­ ice), Oct. 3—Chairman, G. A. Paschall; Secretary, R. Hartley. Some disputed OT in deck department. Discussion held regarding shortage of various items in steward depart­ ment. ANCHORAGE (Sea-Land), Oct. 6—Chairman, W. Morris; Secre­ tary, W. Nihem; Deck Delegate, Robert G. Mason; Engine Delegate, W. R. King; Steward Delegate, Robert L. Scott. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Everything running smoothly with no beefs, no disputed OT. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), Oct. 11—Chairman, George Neyrey; Secretary, Teddy Kross; Deck Delegate, Richard Thoe; Engine Delegate, M. V. Howton; Steward Delegate, George Lafleur. Every­ thing running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to steward depart­ ment for job well done. VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pio­ neer Maritime), Oct. 4—Chairman, R. Maas; Secretary, J. Bartlett; Deck Delegate, Howard Hall; En­ gine Delegate, James D. Allen, Jr.; Steward Delegate, Cecil H. Martin. Everything running smoothly. VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pio neer), Oct. 11 — Chairman, R. Maas; Secretary, J. Bartlett;' Deck Delegate, H. Hall; Engine Dele­ gate, J. D. Allen. Jr.; Steward Del­ egate, Cecil H. Martin. Everythiilg running smoothly. Disputed OT in deck department. VANTAGE PROGRESS (Pio­ neer Maritime), Oct. 18—Chair­ man, R. Maas; Secretary, J. Bart­ lett; Deck Delegate, Howard Hall; Engine Delegate, James D. Allen, Jr.; Steward Delegate, Cecil H. Martin. Everything running smooth­ ly. No beefs; no disputed OT. DEL NORTE (Delta), Sept. 9— Chairman, Tony J. Radich; Secre­ tary, Piggy Sahuque; Deck Dele­ gate, Angel J. Urti; Engine Dele­ gate, Arnold F. Rehm; Stew­ ard Delegate, Charles H. Cassaro. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to steward de­ partment for job well done. MONTPELIER VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), Oct. 4—Chairman, J. Bentz; Secretary, J. E. Higgins; Engine Delegate, Terrill G. Clark; (Continued on Page 13) 1 4. �Nobel Prize Winner Hits Economic Policies A liberal-minded economist with a firm belief in a full-em­ ployment economy has been awarded the 1970 Nobel Memorial Prize for his work in EEOC Gets Added Powers f The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, previously restricted to in­ vestigation of job discrimina­ tion complaints, will be granted power to issue "cease and desist orders" to firms found in violation of the Equal Employment Op­ portunity Act under terms of a bill passed by the U.S. Senate. "Cease and desist" orders compel an employer to halt discriminatory practices found by the commission, and can force employers to hire without regard to race, color, creed. The Senate also approved inclusion of some 10 million men and women under the act by adding those who work in small, previously ex­ empt firms. The EEOC is presently limited to investigation of job discrimination charges and has no enforcement powers such as those of the National Labor Relations Board. placing economic theory on a scientific basis. He is Professor Paul A. Samuelson, chairman of the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ nology. In comment immedi­ ately after being notified of the $78,000 award. Professor Samuelson made clear his op­ position to the economic policies of the Nixon Administration on grounds that have long been emphasized by labor econo­ mists. He said that unemployment in the U.S. is inexcusable in light of the amount of work needed to correct social and environmental problems. Deploring the Administra­ tion's anti-inflation policies of "slow down" and retrenchment, Samuelson called on the gov­ ernment to get the United States "back on the path of growth" to halt the spread of unemployment. "The government," he told interviewers "cannot abscond from its responsibility for keep­ ing over-all spending power just right—we've had a retreat from this in the last couple of years. "There is plenty of work to do—look at the smelly air. We don't even have health insur­ ance. There is so much work to do in this country that the no­ tion that we've got to put some­ thing down a rathole in Viet­ nam is ridiculous." Ships' Digest (Continued from Page 12) Steward Delegate, William Davey. $37.75 in ship's fund. No beefs; no disputed OT. WACOSTA (Sea-Land), Oct. 18 —Chairman, Joseph Gonzalez; Sec­ retary, Joseph DeLise; Engine Del­ egate, Richard McDonald; Steward Delegate, C. B. Carter, Jr. No beefs reported by department delegates. Disputed OT in engine department. DEL SOL (Delta), Oct. 18— Chairman, A. R. Diicote; Secre­ tary, C. L. Shirah; Deck Delegate, M. Armando. $36.40 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck, steward de­ partments. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job well done. WESTERN PLANET (Western Agency), Oct. 23—Chairman, J. C. Keel; Secretary, Jack H. Brian; Deck, Delegate, L. D. Richardson; Engine Delegate, T. C. Johnson; Steward Delegate, Maurice F. Ellis. No beefs, no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. HASTINGS (Waterman), Oct. 18—Chairman, R. Hodges; Secre­ tary, G. Trosclair; Deck Delegate, Walter C. Payne; Engine Delegate, Stewart M. Swords; Steward Dele­ gate, Lester Burnett. Everything running smoothly, no beefs, no dis­ puted OT. COMMANDER (Marine Carri­ ers), Oct. 4 — Chairman, A. R. Sawyer; Secretary, F. R. Hicks, Jr.; Deck Delegate, J. Wollford; Engine Delegate, W. Price; Steward Dele­ gate, Linwood Price. Disputed OT in deck depaitment. Discussion held regarding pension plan. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. COMMANDER (Marine Carri­ ers), Oct. 11 — Chairman, A. R. Sawyer; Secretary, F. R. Hicks; Deck Delegate, J. Wollford; Engine Delegate, W. Price; Steward Dele­ gate, L. Price. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. Good crew on board. Everything running smoothly. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job well done. COMMANDER (Marine Carri­ ers), Oct. 18—Chairman, A. R. Sawyer; Secretary, F. R. Hicks, Jr.; Deck Delegate, J. Wollford; Engine Delegate, W. Price; Steward Dele­ gate, L. Price. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. Engine room needs new washing machine. Good crew, good trip. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. INGER (Reynolds Metals), Oct. 11—Chairman, James T. Mann; Secretary, Percival L. Shauger; Ship's Delegate and Deck Delegate, Pete Scroggins. No beefs, no dis­ puted OT. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job well done. TRANSCOLUMBIA (Hudson Waterways), November 1 — Chair­ man, Charles Reed; Secretary, Ra­ fael Hernandez. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. ANDREW JACKSON (Water­ man), October 18—Chairman, Don­ ald E. Pool; Secretary, Thomas Liles, Jr.; Deck Delegate, George A. Nuss; Engine Delegate, Alphonso R. Gonzoles; Steward Dele­ gate, A. B. Griffith. Few hours dis­ puted OT in steward department, otherwise everything is running smoothly. MONTPELIER VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), October 25—Chair­ man, J. Bentz; Secretary, J. E. Higgins. $38.50 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. SACRAMENTO (Ogden Ma­ rine), October 18—Chairman, Wil­ liam P. Link, Jr.; Secretary, Darrell G. Chafin; Deck Delegate. Don Dillon; Engine Delegate, Mallard Hinson; Steward Delegate, James L. Woods. Some disputed OT in deck department. No beefs. VANTAGE VENTURE (Vancor), November 2—Chairman, Rob­ ert Schwarz; Secretary, James B. Juzang; Deck Delegate, Lawrence D. Stone; Engine Delegate, R. H. Orso; Steward Delegate, Claude Hoi lings. Everything is running smoothly with no disputed OT and no beefs. SIU Rep Breithoff, Dies in Fla. Seafarer Frank Rankin and his wife, Lee, relax in the livingroom of their home in Brooklyn, N.Y. Retirement Holds New Adventures When Frank Rankin was a teenager, he ran away from a small town in Kentucky to see what the rest of the country was like. He went from New York to Buffalo to Cleveland, and it was there in 1923 that he began a sailing career that lasted 47 years. This past October, Rankin—one of the first members of the SIU— retired on his SIU pension. During those years of sailing, before and after the formation of the SIU, through the depression and three wars, Seafarer Rankin led a sometimes exciting, sometimes dull, and often hard life. He was 19 when he sailed on his first ship—a passenger vessel out of Cleveland. "I peeled potatoes all night and in the morning I was told there still wasn't enough potatoes peeled," he recalls. During the depression he sailed on a Bull Line ship out of Baltimore as a cook. His pay was $30 a month. He worked on a large passenger ship, the George Washington, for some time and made three trips to Europe. But he didn't find the ship to his liking and went back to the coastwise run with Bull Line. "Sailing in the 30's was tough- -nobody was making anything," Rankin recalls. Besides the hardships, inconvenience and low pay of those early days of sailing, there was an added difficulty for Seafarer Rankin—discrimination. "Being a black man," he said, "I was limited to the steward department. Colored weren't allowed in the deck or engine departments. In the mid 30's there were several seamen's unions in existence but for one reason or another Rankin was not enthused about joining any union. When the SIU was formed in November of 1938, however, Rankin did not take long to join. Within two months he was a member. "It cost $1 to join then and 50 cents a month after that. There was no such thing as sickness and death benefits," he said. He continued sailing during World War II. He was aboard the Samuel Jorden Kirkwood in the South Atlantic when the ship was torpedoed. During his career Rankin visited such places at Italy, Japan, Spain, Belgium, the Mideast, and Turkey. His favorite country, however, was Portugal. "The people were nice and everything was very inexpensive," he said. Most of the time though, Rankin preferred staying on the coastal and intercoastal runs so that he could "get a chance to come home" and see his wife, Lee. His early interest in the union continued aboard ship and he served the SIU in the capacity of a ship's delegate. He also at­ tended union- meetings whenever his ship was in port and con­ tinues to do so in his retirement. Qne of the last trips he made—in March of 1970—was aboard the Robin Goodfellow on the Vietnam run. For a man who had been sailing 47 years—20 as chief cook— retirement was a little awkward and nerve racking the first few weeks. Now that he has become more acclimated to the new situa­ tion, there are numerous chores he finds to do around his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. Having never had children of his own, Rankin's main inter­ est now is helping his wife look after two young neighborhood boys during the week. "They keep him busy," says Mrs. Rankin. To watch Rankin with the youngest fellow, who is 14 months old, very cute, and very shy, it is easy to see that there is going to be a new adventure in this retired Seafarer's life. Tampa, Fla. Martin Breithoff, 51, de­ scribed as "a real spark," "a great guy," and "one of the finest" died Oct. 3 in his home of natural causes. At his death he was SIU headquarters repre­ sentative in the Port of Tampa, Fla. His death brought an out­ pouring of emotion from former shipmates and union officials who had worked with Breithoff over the years. "Many of the men I told of his death burst into tears," said Bernie Gonzales, Tampa port agent. "This death brought sad­ ness to many people." BreithofFs sea career began at age 23 when he joined the SIU. The first voyages of his career were in combat zones of World War II. War Service Angus "Red" Campbell, SIU patrolman in New York, re­ called one voyage with Breithoff aboard the SS Thomas Wolfe near the end of the war: "The ship left New York in March of 1944 and got back a year later," Campbell said. The ship participated in the Normandy invasion and shut­ tled supplies between Southamp­ ton, England and the French invasion beaches. During all the runs, Campbell said, "Marty was a real spark. He was always in the best of humor and kept things lively aboard ship." His career of dedication to the SIU began immediately after the war when he became a member of the grievance com­ mittee in Tampa, and an orga­ nizer in the Cities Service cam­ paign. Helped Clerks In 1949 he aided the Inter­ national Association of Retail Clerks in their effort to organize a Tampa department store. In 1951 he was elected chief dis­ patcher for the Port of New York and held that position un­ til 1953 when he was elected a patrolman. After serving four years as San Francisco agent, Breithoff was a patrolman in Houston from 1964 until 1968 when he went to Tampa. His death Oct. 3 came as he was preparing to go to work. His Tampa colleague Bemie Gonzales said, "Marty was al­ ways ready to help anyone in trouble. He was one of the finest fellows I've ever had the good fortune to work with and to be friends with. He was a good SIU official and his death is a great loss to me and to our union." Breithoff is survived by his wife, Margaret, a daughter, Elizabeth, a sister and two brothers. �Costs of College May Pose Dilemma The Subject Is Medicare SIU Welfare Director A1 Bernstein (center) chairs a panel discussion in the New York union hall on the subjects of Medicare, Medicaid and SfKial Security. The panel consisted of SIU pensioners who will attend a Pensioners Conference at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md. From left are: Raphel Montaldo, Ismael Nazario, Alfred Borjer, Bernstein, George Alexander, Mike Rozalski, Joseph Stodolski and Jan Mucins. Packaging Law in a Box Commerce therefore has the In reply, the regulatory agencies say that the law splits major job of curtailing the more the authority of the govern­ blatant examples of deception, ment so many ways that real but Commerce has no enforce­ ment power. It can call in­ enforcement is impossible. dustries together to negotiate The Food and Drug Admin­ and change their practices vol­ istration has the power to regu­ untarily. late labeling and packaging of Industry itself continuously all food and over-the-coxmter blocked enforcement of the law drugs; the Federal Trade Com­ by seeking exemptions, addi­ mission, non-food and drug tional time to comply and even commodities, and the Depart­ by court action. ment of Commerce has the task Another drawback has been of cutting down "undue pro­ liferation of package sizes, the fact that Congress, which weights and measures in each overwhelmingly passed the act, failed to provide any appropria­ product line." tions or manpower to enforce it. Indefinite Enforcement The FTC has no definite number of people working on enforcement and can't say how Roberta Rogers, bom April 22, much it has spent on fair Dawn Horn, bom May 9, 1970, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert R. packaging and labeling. F. Rogers, Jr., Shallotte, N.C. Horn, Mackinac Island, Mich. The FDA has had only two Steven Arant, bom Sept. 9, 1970, Dana Ragas, bom August 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul E. Arant, professionals from the start to Paducah, Ky. Ragas, New Orleans, La. write and enforce regulations Maria Hunt, bom July 7, 1970, John Brown, bom July 22, 1970, that cover almost every item to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard W. to Seafarer and Mrs. John J. in the supermarket and the Hunt, Richmond, Calif. Brown, Baltimore, Md. drug store as well. Shawn Murray, bom Sept. 15, Kelly Stone, bom July 11, 1970, Then Secretary Robert Finch, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert to Seafarer and Mrs. William M. E. Murray, Ridley Park, Pa. Stone, Hatteras, N.C. of the department of Health, Sam Wiggins, bom Sept. 3, 1970, Dana Garcia, bom September 17, Education and Welfare, told 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard to Seafarer and Mrs. Clover Wig­ Hart he needed 118 people and gins, Jr., Dry Creek, La. C. Garcia, Jr., Norfolk, Va. $733,000 to do the job. But, Toni Long, bom Aug. 20, 1970, Tracy Feagln, bom August 27, by the time HEW's budget to Seafarer and Mrs. Johnnie Long, 1970, to'Seafarer and Mrs. James reached Congress, there was no Eight Mile, Ala. A. Feagin, Crestview, Fla. request for appropriations to Karen Sue Gillespie, bom Aug. Eric Jasinski, bom September 23, 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rus­ enforce Fair Packaging and 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward sell A. Gillespie, Nescopeck, Pa. F. Jasinski, Jr., Chicago, 111. Labeling. Daniel Twiddy, bom Aug. 6, Shannon Collins, bom June 10, It had been eliminated by 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rich­ 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ralph the Bureau of the Budget as V. Twiddy, Jr., Frisco, N.C. mond Collins, Compton, Calif. part of President Nixon's "econ­ Archie Finney, bom Sept. 12, Tommy Stallings, bom June 16, omy" drive. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Archie 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas L. Finney, Jr., Corona, N.Y. H. Stallings, Jr., Chesapeake, Va. Strangely, the Department of Victor Sanabria, bom Sept. 27, Commerce, with no regulatory John Cleaiy, bom September 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Victor 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John F. powers, appears to have the Cleary, Harlingen^ Texas. V. Sanabria, Arecibo, P.R. largest appropriation to do its Bobby Kistler, bom Sept. 16, Henry Rice, bom May 8, 1970, share of the job= 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles to Seafarer and Mrs. Henry R. An FDA official said that Rice, Jr., Arapahoe, N.C. A. Kistler, Kirbyville, Tex. Gerald Titus, bom September 18, Lisa Landry, born July 26, 1970, Commerce has received an ap­ 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald to Seafarer and Mrs. James H. Lan­ propriation for 44 people and T. Titus, Baltimore, Md. dry, Denham Springs, La. $770,000 in the first year of Vincent Jordan, bom July 25, Raquel Myles, bom Sept. 15, the law's existence. The scoreboard on Truth-inPackaging law after four years is clearly a mixed bag. While some progress has been made in the reduction of the number of packages in a line of goods, consumer experts feel that regulation of packaging practices is for the most part nonexistent. Sen. Philip A. Hart ff).Mich), the sponsor of the original Truth-in-Packaging leg­ islation says that regulatory agencies have failed to write some needed rules, and that en­ forcement has been spotty. SIU Arrivals 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles W. Jordan, Savannah, Ga. Donna Anerswald, bom Septem­ ber 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank H. Auerswald, Deptford, N.J. Elizabeth Diaz, bom September 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fe­ lix M. Diaz, Orocovis, P.R. Jada Lindsay, bom August 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Willie G. Lindsay, Prichard, Ala. Luz Tellez, bom June 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. William R. Tellez, Ponce, P.R. Nancy Harrell, bom Aug. 12, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Judge H. Harrell, Houston, Tex, Charles Caltagirone, bom Mar. 29, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald Caltagirone, Plant City, Ha. Page 14 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward Myles, Jr., New Orleans, La. Tushanna Temples, born Aug. 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Doug­ las L. Temples, Bogalusa, La. Robbie Hudgins, bom Aug. 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Hudgins, Gloucester, Va. Mary Cavazos, bom Sept. 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. George A. Cavazos, Houston, Tex. Rowland Harper, bom July 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Row­ land Harper, Jr., Norfolk, Va. Rudy Martinez, bom Sept. 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Reyes G. Martinez, Brownsville, Tex. Steven Lazarou, born Aug. 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. George Lazarou, Fort Lee, N.J. Melinda Skaggs, bom July 24, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Archie R. Skaggs, East Prairie, Mo. Money Returned At the end of that fiscal year, however, it reported using only five people and, according to the FDA oflicial, "made a big deal about returning the money." Mrs. Virginia Knauer, Presi­ dent Nixon's consumer ad­ visor, has criticized conglom­ erates for adding useless prod­ ucts to supermarket shelves and quoted the FTC which charged that there is 'a point at which product differentiation ceases to promote welfare and becomes wasteful, or mass advertising loses its informative aspect." While Seafarers and their de­ pendents can qualify for the SIU Scholarship Awards Pro­ gram (as outlined in this issue), not all persons are so fortunate. This rising costs of educa­ tion coupled with inflation and unemployment often deprive qualified youngsters from at­ taining a college education. AFL-CIO Education Direc­ tor Walter G. Davis has sug­ gested that a greater federal in­ vestment is essential to solving the mounting cost crisis in edu­ cation. Addressing the College En­ trance Examination Board's na­ tional conference in New York City Davis said that "union members who have come to take it for granted that their children should go to college are now having to ask themselves wheth­ er they can bear the financial burden." He made these points in out­ lining the problem: • Tuition and required fees, on the average, have more than doubled in the last ten years. • Federal funds and private contributions to higher educa­ tion have both diminished. • Increasing unemployment makes it extremely difficult for students to find summer jobs. At least part of the answer to the dilemma facing parents, he stressed, must be provided by increased federal funding for education. "It will take a great deal of money, but it is money invested, not money spent," Davis declared. Citing the enormous benefit to the United States from the GI educational program as an example, Dayis asserted that "tax support of higher educa­ tion ultimately costs the public nothing." In fact, he observed, because of higher earnings flow­ ing from their education, vet­ erans have more than repaid the government through the re­ sulting higher income tax pay­ ments. And the entire system has benefitted from the 2.2 mil­ lion veterans who became en­ gineers, doctors, teachers, elec­ tricians and professionals in all fields. The AFL-CIO, Davis pointed out, has consistently urged Congress to provide full funds for current higher educational programs and has given strong support in the state legislatures to Ae budgets of State colleges and universities. He stressed, however, that the federation opposes the plan to give tax credits to parents to offset college tuition payments. Oil Baron Sued Oil tycoon H. L. Hunt and two of the companies in his empire—^Hunt Oil and Life Lines—are being sued by a for­ mer secretary who claims she was never paid more than $5,000 overtime. Mrs. Juanita Beavers said she worked 414 Vi hours overtime without com­ pensation in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. This plan, said Davis, would lead to higher tuition and offer no benefit to low-income fam­ ilies, students working their way through college, or veterans under the GI bill. Davis underscored organized labor's position that higher edu­ cation should be available to all persons to the limit of their ability without "mortgaging their future earnings." Opposed to this view, he noted, is "a strong train of thought which would predeter­ mine, on the basis of back­ ground, income and other fac­ tors, who would benefit from a college education and who would not." "There is no question in our minds," he continued, "that there are some individuals of influence in our society who would restrict higher education to the elite, for the most part, while all others would pursue a vocational educational pro­ gram." The high premium on college and graduate degrees makes it difficult to persuade young people to enter vocational schools, Davis said. He em­ phasized the need to train people in skilled crafts and serv­ ice industries, but insisted that first the status of these careers must be upgraded. E. Stockmcm Please contact your wife, Mrs. Stockmon, as soon as possible in regards to an urgent matter. John Rooms Elena J. Cohan of the American Red Cross asks that you contact her at Red Cross headquarters, 150 Amsterdam Ave., New York, N.Y. 10023. Frederick B. Neely Your daughter, Mrs. Beverly Neely Isbell, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at Rt. 4, Box 545, Mobile, Ala. 36609, or call her at 205-661-9370. Michael Blaine McFarland Please contact Local Draft Board No. 135, Orange County, 1138 East 17th St., Santa Ana, Calif. 92701. Romuald S. Los Carmencita Los would like to hear from you as soon as possible at 4142 Brunswick Ave., Los An­ geles, Calif. 90039. Your family is well. Robert Bnrhank Swanner Your niece, Mrs. Willie Ester Moore Douglas, Jr., asks that you contact her as soon as possible at R-1, Box 112, Washington, N.C. 27889, telephone 946-7575. George Paul Writesel Urgent! Please contact John Bruce in Los Angeles, Calif. Tele­ phone: Area Code 213-625-3212, Ext. 481. William R. Corry Please contact Texas City Re­ fining Inc., Marine Division, P.O. Box 1271, Texas City, Tex. 77590. They are holding a check for you. Ernest John Byers Your parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Byers, are well and ask that you write to them at 614 Alvarez Ave., Whistler, Ala. 36612. John Delan Thomas J. Tourgee asks that you get in touch with him at P.O. Box 1000, Leavenworth, Kan. 66048. Seafarers Log I �n Ogden Yukon Makes Brief Stop in Jersey , |s SlU-contracted tanker Ogden Yukon (Ogden Marine Inc.) lined up a number of interesting port stops on a recent 48-day voyage. Operating under an MSTS charter, she took on more than 200 thousand tons of JP-4 jet fuel in Baton Rouge, La., and made deliveries to U.S. military bases around the globe. Her first port of call was Freeport, Bahamas, followed by Rota, Spain; the island of Crete; Augusta, Sicily; Ceuta, Spanish Morocco; St. Croix, Virgin Is­ lands, and finally stateside again to the port of Carteret, N.J. The jet fuel carried by the ship is a highly volatile cargo, but SIU tankermen are professionals at handling it. The Ogden Yukon was built in 1960 and was formerly the Sea Pioneer. Port time for the crew was short, as prepara­ tions began at once for next voyage to Sasebo, Japan and the Far East. Linen and other laundry is brought top­ side by Able Seaman Gene Wilson. Fresh replacements bad to be put aboard quickly because of the short stay in port. f Orlando Fanante, ordinary seaman, lowers the colors on the stem of the Ogden Yukon at day's end. Mi Lee Cross (left) talks with SIU Patrolman "Red" Campbell during payoff in Carteret, N.J. Cross sails in the deck department. t Pantryman William McDowell begins with a fresh bead of lettuce and will end up with a crisp salad platter for lunch. . m ' Hot, sweet corn on tlie cob 's prepared for the crew by cook Mike Kondourdis. r h Line handlers stand by to assist the ship in tying up as she pulls into port. r bliS r r' I'*' Mr • r' M' John Johnson (left), who sails as able seaman, spends a few moments in discussion with SIU Patrolmen E. B. MacAuley (center) and "Red" Campbell. �y #5' li I i 'ife r What World Leaders Say About Ito ", . . (the ILO) has kepi doggedly of its task of ehorteniag the hours of labor, protecting womoH and children in agriculture and industry, making life more henrohle for merchant seamen." -—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt f "We pledge (the 110) our full participation, encouragement and support." —President John F. Kennedy 1(1 'It is in large measure for you to build justice and thus to insure pence. No, gentle­ men, do not think your tusk is ended; on the contrary it daily becomes more urgent." —Pope Paul VI "... one of the most useful instruments for the develop­ ment of a better way of life for all people." —President Dwight D. Eisenhower CI I •l! . We rededicnte our­ selves to the ILO as an instru­ ment toward the realiiation of lasting pence through the attainment of economic and social justice for people every­ where." —President Richard M. Nixon "(Thd Nobel Pence Prize) is surely to he regarded as a tribute to the common man throughout the world, to his stake in poaeo and to his con­ tribution to^ce." —Former ILO DirectorrOeneral David A.. Morse 1^ "Through such united efforts (as thp iLO),T believe the next half century can be made a tumlag point in man's long endeavor to achieve, in a stable but dynamic peace, freedom and justice for all." —UJI. Seaetary-General UThnnt Peace Through Justice Is ILO's Commitment A weighty mandate accompanied the International Labor Organization when it came into existence in 1919. The mandate, in its charter, said that: "Whereas universal and lasting peace can be es­ tablished only if it is based on social justice; and whereas conditions of labor exist involving such in­ justice, hardship and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest that the peace and har­ mony are imperiled . . it would be the ILO's task to "forge an everlasting partnership in the building of peace through social justice." That job, the building of peace—called a "wild dream" by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt— has been performed so well in the ILO's 51-year his­ tory, that it holds the highest distinction among men and nations on earth, the Nobel Prize for Peace. The International Labor Organization is the only surviving remnant of the League of Nations. It is the oldest specialized agency of the United Nations, and nations as strong as the United States and the Soviet Union, and as weak as Senegal and San Marino sub­ scribe to it. Three Vital Factors The vitality of the ILO and its survival through the years results from three factors, according to David A. Morse, former ILO director-general. They are its structure, its broad base and its independence of any flag. As a foundation, the ILO has delegates from all of its "Member States." The national delegations are divided into three groups, those from labor, those from employers, and those from government. Like nearly all international organizations, each nation has an equal voice. Those voices tell of a vast array of concern—from the problems of migrant workers in Chile as well as in California, to poverty that afflicts the underpaid employee in Calcutta and in Chicago. And, finally, although all nations are not likely to pay equal amounts for the maintenance of ILO op­ erations, ail nations pay something. Aims for Peace Aside from the internal workings, the ILO is aided by its goals of peace and social justice. The fight against poverty, Morse said, has been, "no doubt the ILO's most distinctive role in the world today. "To narrow the gap between the rich and the poor—within and between countries—is the collective responsibility of the whole human race," he said. The founding spirit arose at the end of World War I, with a few men who took seriously the canard about "the war to end all war." Among those men were President Woodrow Wilson and Samuel Gompers, president of the American Fed= eration of,Labor. Gompers accompanied Wilson to the Paris Peace Talks of 1918 and presided over meetings of Com­ mittee XIII of the conference. Committee XIII created an idea of social justice written into the Peace Treaty and into the charter of the League of Nations. The idea was simply that workers and employers had the right to a voice in their own lives. The clarity of the idea lent itself to near-immediate adoption around the world. In 1919, prior to the first ILO Conference, a committee of representatives of 12 nations staked out a plan for a permanent or­ ganization. U.S. Entry Blocked The U.S., however, was slow to join the organiza­ tion it had helped to form. Isolationist senators blocked U.S. membership for 15 years. But the United States, with Secretary of Commerce and later Presi­ dent Herbert Hoover in the lead, began providing assistance on an unofficial basis. It would not become ofiicial until Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor under Franklin Roosevelt, battled throu^ Congress an authorization to have the U.S. officially represented at the ILO Conference of 1934. Since then the U.S. has played a leadership role in the organization, ratifying conventions, proposing solutions and providing technical and bureaucratic personel for the ILO's many-faceted activities around the world. Since joining the ILO, a U.S. citizen has been eith­ er director-general or assistant director-general of the organization. Morse was undersecretary of labor in the Truman Administration before assuming the po­ sition in Geneva. Work Covers Wide Area Today, the works of the ILO are varied—as varied as the people of countless creeds and nations with whom the organization works. In maritime affairs, for example, the ILO has al­ ways played a role by adopting conventions that have served as models for the training and treatment of Seafarers around the world. "In addition," said J. D. Randeri, general secretary of the Maritime Union of India, "to setting interna­ tional standards, the ILO has collected and published a mass of information on conditions of employment ®f Seafarers, covering such items as wages, hours, insurance and welfare in ports—information not usQally available in collected form." . l^e said ILO contributions to the welfare of workingmen have been noteworthy in all fields, "and no­ where more than in that most international of all oc­ cupations: seafaring." " The maritime picture is repeated throughout the Y/orjd under ILO conventions that attempt to raise living standards for farm workers, factory hands, miners and all who labor. The ILO brings to bear on all workers' problems the assembled expertise of their staff in Geneva and around the world. The rewards have been many and so have the struggles. The capstone to the work of the ILO is the Nobel Prize awarded by a committe of the Norwegian Parliament for service to the principles that "labor is pot ^ commodity . i . Freedom of expression and of assembly are essential to sustained progress . . . Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere." "The Fisherman," a life-size sculpture in bronze by Franco Krsinic representing two fishermen drawing in their nets, is a centerpiece of art at the International Labor Organization's Geneva head­ quarters. Improving the conditions of life and living for workers through­ out the world is the goal of representatives to the ILO. Present ILO headquarters in Geneva will soon be moved from this structure to ... ... a new structure of this design created by archi­ tects Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy, Eugene Beauclouin of France and Alberto Camerzind of Switzerland. IOTA- Paso 17 �! • I ^}f'--- Cities Service Baltimore Visits Port of Piney Point ;v® ' Norman Ward, a 26-year SIU man, paints a vent pipe on the Cities Service Baltimore. he Cities Service Baltimore (Cities Service) docked at the Steuart Oil Company's storage dock at Piney Point, Md., last month to discharge a cargo of fuel oil. As in larger ports, she was boarded by a patrolman and a port agent. Tom Gould, New Orleans patrolman, and Paul McGaharn, Piney Point port agent, explained the new contract and the purposes of the crew conferences being held at Piney Point. While on board, the SIU officers fielded and straight­ ened out beefs from the crew. The tanker was scheduled to return to Corpus Christi on her next voyage. New Orleans Patrolman Tom Gould tells the crew of the Cities Service Baltimore ahout the SIU Crew Conferences at Piney Point. The ship had a smooth voyage from Corpus Christi, Texas. V Patrolman Tom Gould, second from left facing camera, talks to the deck force aboard the Cities Service Baltimore. The tanker docked at Piney Point to discharge a cargo of fuel oil from Texas. Catching up on the contents of international and Maritime magazine are, M. J. Danzey, deck maintenance; Fred Lindsey, third cook; V. T. Nash, able seaman, and W. E. Reeves, deck maintenance. * > 1- fl. f-s 1 It Flanked by New Orleans Patrolman Tom Gould, left and Piney Point Port Agent Paul McGaham, right, crew members pose for a picture after a ship's meeting. Standing from left, James Penton, David Martin, Hanahle Smith, Fred Lindsey, Robert Holley and Edward Wiley. KneeliMg from left are Allen Jones and M. J. Danzey. •(,, �Final Departures Robert Lipscomb Robert Lipscomb, 65, passed away Sept. 3 at the USPHS Hospital in Balti­ more, Md., after a lengthy illness. A native of Ala­ bama, Mr. Lips­ comb was a resi­ dent of Balti­ more. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1946 and sailed in the steward department. Among his survivors is his wife, Ruth. Burial was in Lipscomb Cemetery, Salem, Ala. James Setdy James Sealy, 59, an SIU pen­ sioner, died Aug. 19 of natural causes at USPHS Hospital in Staten Island, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1940 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. A native of the Virgin Is­ lands, he resided in New York City in recent years. Mr. Sealy sailed for 41 years prior to re­ tirement in 1968. Among his sur­ vivors is his niece, Mrs. Alice V. Tuitt of the Bronx, N.Y. Burial was in Pinelawn Cemetery, Pinelawn, N.Y. Alpbonse E. Bensman Alphonse E. Bensman, 67, died Aug. 3 of heart disease at Toledo State Hospital, Toledo O. A native of Ottorville, Ohio, Mr. Bensman was a resident of Toledo. He joined the union in the Port of Detroit in 1960 and sailed in the engine department. Among his survivors are his wife. Marvel, and his son Donald Bensman, SIU Port Agent in Toledo. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Toledo. Thomas E. Tucker Thomas E. Tucker, 53, passed away Sept. 11 of natural causes in Tampa Gen­ eral Hospital, Tampa, Fla. A native of Geor­ gia, Mr. Tucker was a resident of Brunswick, Ga. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of New Orleans in 1942 and sailed in the deck department. Survivors include his sister, Mrs. Ella Nattles of Brunswick, Ga. Burial was in Glennville Ceme­ tery, Glennville, Ga. John Matron John latron, 45, died Aug. 31 after an illness of two years at Mt. Carmel Hos­ pital, Detroit, Mich. He joined the SIU in the Port of Detroit in 1960 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. He was a life-long resident of Detroit. Among his survivors is his moth­ er, Angeline latron of Detroit. Burial was in Evergreen Ceme­ tery, Detroit. Donald Cranmer Donald Cranmer, 45, died June 26, while aboard ship in the Pacific Ocean. He joined the SIU in the Port of Wil­ mington in 1958 and sailed in the deck department as an able sea­ man. A native of Durango, Colo., Mr. Cranmer was a resident of Torrance, Calif. He was a veteran of World War II, and served in the Navy from 1942 to 1958. Among his survivors is his wife. Alma Josephine. Ralph Howard Hayes Ralph Howard Hayes, 62, died Sept. 9 in Manhattan after a long illness. He was one of the orig­ inal members of the SIU having joined in Novem­ ber 1938 in the Port of Boston. A native of Mas­ sachusetts, M r. Hayes was a resident of New York City when he passed away. He sailed for 40 years in the steward department. Surviving is a sister, Henriette Brown of New York City. John T. TamtxH-ella John Thomas Tamborella, 39, died May 19 in Marrero, La. He joined the union in the Port of New Orleans in 1962 and sailed with the IBU in the deck depart­ ment. A native of New Orleans, La. Mr. Tamborella was a resident of Marrero, La. Among his survivors are his brothers, Joseph, Ray, Fred, James and George. Burial was in Baptist Cemetery, Baptist, La. Meany Calls Veto 'Deplorable' o Nixon Nixes Campaign Broadcast Spending Limit Washington President Nixon's veto of the political broadcast spending bill was called "deplorable," by AFL-CIO President George Meany. "This measure was a sound, responsible attempt to restore Adium Heads Seattle Maritime Committee i 'V jr jt Seattle Merle Adlum, president of the Inland Boatmen's Union of the Pacific and a vice president of SIUNA, has been elected chairman of the Seattle May­ or's Advisory Committee on , Maritime. The committee is dedicated to the promotion of the maritime industry in the Port of Seattle. Also serving on the commit­ tee, which will meet monthly, is SIU Seattle Port Agent Steve Troy. The .30-member committee consists of an equal number of representatives from both la­ bor and management. It will make recommendations to May­ or Wes Uhlman on ways and means of strengthening the eco­ nomic position of the Port of Seattle. In recent years, Seattle's economy has been hit hard by declines in the aviation indus­ try. In his letter announcing the November 1970 formation of the committee. Mayor Uhlman expressed de­ termination that all that can be done will be done "to help maintain and develop the mari­ time activities in this region. The one bright spot in our economy is our maritime in­ dustry." Adlum faith in the democratic process by putting a reasonable ceiling on expenditures for television and radio campaigning. These expenditures in m.any cam­ paigns have been nothing less than scandalous. If allowed to continue unabated, they will make TV and radio available only to the rich," Meany said. Meany said that he considers the veto "politically motivated," and added that the AFL-CIO will urge Congress "to override the veto so that we can have decent standards for TV and radio politics." The vetoed measure would apply broadcast spending limits to candidates for president, vice president, senator, con­ gressman, governor and lieu­ tenant governor. The limit would be seven cents for each vote cast in the previous election with a mini­ mum ceiling of $20,000. For primary elections, the limit would be three and one-half cents per vote cast in the previ­ ous election. Congressional hearings on the bill revealed the fact that the cost of the 1968 presidential campaign was approximately $.60 per voter. In comparison, the 1952 rate was around seven cents. The inflationary factor has caused the increase, along with increased use of television in political campaigning. Anthony R. Duhourg Anthony R. Dubouig, 62, died June 5 from heart disease in New Orleans, La. Mr. Duhourg was a resident of New Orleans. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans in 1947 and sailed in the steward department. Mr, Duhourg was an Army veteran of World War II. Among his survivors is his niece. Rose Mary Dehring of New Or­ leans. Burial was in Cypress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans. 65' Richard Swain, Jr. Richard Swain, Jr., 17, died Aug. 16 in Kings County Hos­ pital, Brooklyn, N.Y. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1970 and graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School o f Seamanship before shipping out in the engine department as a wiper. A native of New York, Mr. Swain was a resident of Brooklyn. Among his survivors is his mother, Rosa Waller of Brooklyn. Burial was in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn. George E. Mnrphy George E. Murphy, 43, died June 12 in Quincy City Hospital in Quincy, Mass. Mr. Murphy was a resident o f Quincy. He joined the SIU in the Port of Bos­ ton in 1952 and sailed in the deck department. Among his survivors are his step­ daughter, Norma Pilavios, and his sister, Caroline E. Innello of Mattapan, Mass. Burial was in New Calvary Cemetery, Boston. Emilc Houde Emile Houde, 71, an SIU pen­ sioner, died Aug. 3 of natural causes in Burling­ ton, Vt. A native of Canada, Mr. Houde was a res­ ident of Vermont. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1948 and sailed in the engine department. Among his survivors is his sister, Mrs. Anna Mailhot of Burlington. Burial was in Cotes Des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Canada. SECTION 43. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE. When board is not furnished unlicensed members of the crew, they shall receive a meal allowsince of $2.00 for breakfast, $3.00 for dinner and $5.50 for supper. When men are required to sleep ashore, they shall be allowed $10.50 per night. Room allowance, as provided in this Section, shall be allowed when; 1. Heat is not furnished in cold weather. When the outside tem­ perature is sixty-five degrees (65°) or lower for 8 consecutive hours, this provision shall apply. 2. Hot water is not available in crew's washrooms for a period of twelve (12) or more consecutive hours. Heat beefs must be reported immediately to the Department Delegate and Chief Engineer. You must keep a written record of the beef including: • Date • Time of Doy • Temperature Ail heat beefs should be re­ corded and submitted on an individual basis. Page 19 i �7 Receive Engineering Licenses Seven more Seafarers have of San Francisco before entering the school. He in 1968. He received his tem­ received their engineer's li­ sailed in the en­ porary tliird as­ censes after completing the sistant engineer's gine department course of study at the school license in Oc­ as a firemanof Marine Engineering in oiler before entober. A native Brooklyn, N.Y., sponsored tering the of North Carojointly by the SIU and MEBA, school. He earn­ 1 i n a. Brother District 2. ed a third assistant engineer's Baines now license in August. A native of makes his home in Hampton, The number of Seafarers who have received their licenses Rochester, N.Y., Seafarer Va. He is a Coast Guard vet­ through this comprehensive Brian now lives in San Fran­ eran of World War H. training program at the school cisco, Calif. He served in the Receiving h i s temporary Navy from 1954 until 1957. now amounts to 387. third assistant engineer's li­ cense in October "It is good that the school was 22-year-old is organized like it is so that Joseph Lee each man has a chance to up­ Dunn. He joined grade himself," noted Pekka the union in the Junttila who received his tem­ Fort of Balti­ porary third assistant aigineer's more in 1967 Any Seaferer who sails license in August. and sailed in the in die ragine dqiartment en^e department before en­ Brother Juntilla i^ 23 years and me^ the required tering the school. A native of old and a native of Oulu, Fin­ specifications Is ^gible Maryland, Seafarer Dunn re­ land, a port town to ^idy for the four sides in Baltimore. in die north of month training course of­ the coimtry. It Thomas Richard Chesney, fered at tim Sdiool of Ma­ was there at the 35, is a native of Detroit, Mich., rine Engineering in Brook­ age of 15 that he where he contin­ lyn, N.Y. shipped out as Enrollment is limited to ues to niake his mess boy on a home. He joined 30 men pa* dass. Each Finish vessel that accepted candidate will liV w the union in the took him to England, Russia, receive $56 per week % Port of Detroit Spain and other European while attending classes. in 1963 and countries. Those accepted also will sailed as an elec­ trician before be reimbursed for trans­ He came to America at the entering the school. Seafarer portation up to the amount age of 18 after serving in the Chesney received his temporary of $125. Finnish armed forces and at­ third assistant engineer's li­ Further information tended night school for awhile cense in October. idiout reqinronents as well before joining the union in as applications and fwms James Alexander MacKenzie, 1967. Immediately he began may be obtained frmn upgrading himself and was a 51, a native of Scotland, now the Pwl Agent at any SIU chief electrician when he en­ lives in Los An­ hall, or by writing direc­ tered the school. He now makes geles, Calif. He tly to the SIU Headquwhis home in Brooklyn, N.Y. joined the SIU ters, 675 Fourth Ave., and intends to continue witli his in the Port of Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. engineering education. Boston in 1942 and sailed in the Among the other Seafarers engine depart­ Marshall Lee Baines, 47, receiving their licenses were 34ment before en­ year-old Raymond E. Brian joined the SIU in Virginia in tering the school. He received who joined the SIU in the Port 1964 and sailed as an oiler his temporary third assistant engineer's license in September. Who Can Apply? ir I 8 /A TA W3 T4 as 8a i , 7 > W /o m IS /4 17 41 a1 A3 AH as 0« II <1 a# M ii <4 AS as AT Schedule of Membership Meetings A native of Brooklyn, Lennart Sixten Hilding, 32, now lives in Roseland, N.J. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1966 and grad­ uated that same year from the Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship. Before entering the school. Brother Hilding sailed in the engine department as a reefer engine department as a reefer engineer . Seafarer Hilding often served the SIU as department delegate. He served in the Air Force from 1956 to 1960. He received his temporary third assistant engineer's license in September. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings Buffalo Dec. 16—7:30 p.m. Dec. 18—7:30 p.m. New OrleansDec. 15—2:30 p.m. Duluth ^ Mobile Dec. 16—2:30 p.m. Cleveland ..Dec. 18—7:30 p.m. Dec. 18—7:30 p.m. ° Wilmington ..Dec.* 21—^2:30 p.m. Toledo Dec. 14—7:30 p.m. San Fran Dec. 23.—^2:30 p.m. Detroit Seattle Dec. 23—2:30 p.m. Milwaukee ..Dec. 14—7:30 p.m. New York ..Dec. 7—2:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union PhiIadelphia..Dec. 8—2:30 p.m. New Orleans Dec. 15—5:00 p.m. Baltimore ....Dec. 9—^2:30 p.m. Mobile Dec. 16—5:00 p.m. Detroit Dec. 11—^2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Dec. 8—^^5:00 p.m. Houston Dec. 14—^2:30 p.m. Baltimore (li­ United Industrial Workers censed and unlicensed)Dec. 9—5:00 p.m. New OrleansDec. 15—^7:00 p.m. Dec. 10—5:00 p.m. Mobile Dec. 16—7:00 p.m. Norfolk New York ..Dec. 7—7:00 pm. Houston ....Dec. 14—5:00 pm. PhiIadelphia..Dec. 8—7:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Baltimore ....Dec. 9—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Dec. 15—10 a.m. & Politics has a way of chang­ ^Houston ....Dec. 14—7:00 p.m. 8 p.m. ing a man's thinking and ideas Great Lakes SIU Meetings Baltimore ....Dec. 16—10 a.m. & over the years. 8 p.m. Detroit Dec. 7—2:00 p.m. During the past election cam­ Buffalo Dec. 7—7:00 p.m. •Norfolk ....Dec. 17—10 a.m. & paign President Nixon asked for 8 p.m. Alpena Dec. 7—^7:00 p.m. a Congress which would sup­ Jersey City ..Dec. 14—10 a m. & Chicago Dec. 7—^7:00 p.m. 8 p.m. port him as President. Some in­ Duluth Dec. 7—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort ....Dec. 7—7:30 p.m. tMeetings held at Galveston quiring reporters dug up the wharves. fact that as a member of Con­ Great Ldres Tug and gress himself, Nixon opposed tMeeting held in Labor Tem­ Dredge Sectkm ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. President Harry Truman 59 Chicago Dec. 15—^7:30 p.m. times and supported him only •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ tSault 17 times. Ste. MarieDec. 17—7:30 p.m. ple, Newport News. Time Changes George McCartney (left), SIU Representative, and Seafarer Thomas Kelly display the temporary third assistant engineer's license earned by Kelly, who is only 19 years old. Seafarer^ 19, Earns Engineer's License A youthful Seafarer, a grad­ uate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, has be­ come one of the youngest men to earn his engineer's license from the School of Marine En­ gineering, operated jointly by the SIU and the Marine En­ gineers Benevolent Association, District 2. Thomas Kelly, 19, received his temporary third assistant en­ gineer's license Oct. 5. Kelly entered the Lundeberg School at Piney Point on Dec. 12, 1967, and graduated Jan. 20, 1968. Brother Kelly intends to con­ tinue his engineering education. Bom in Philadelphia, Pa., where he still lives, Kelly be­ came interested in seafaring at an early age since he only lives two blocks from the SIU hall. Robert McKay, another SIU member became the youngest licensed man in the U.S. mer­ chant marine in 1969 when he was awarded his third assist­ ant engineer's license on his 19th birthday, the minimum age required by the Ctoast Guard. On Vietnam Run He then sailed as a wiper aboard the Warrior (Sea-Land) and spent nine months on the Vietnam run. After becoming a firemanoiler, Seafarer Kelly still want­ ed to upgrade himself profes­ sionally and entered the School of Marine Engineering on May 4, 1970. Now ready to ship out with his newly-acquired rating. Tomato Pact 4 J- Cesar Chavez and his AFLCIO United Farm Workers Or­ ganizing Committee have won another battle in their long struggle with Califomia vege­ table growers. The union has signed its first contract with a tomato farm—^Brown and Hill of King City, Calif. The union also is in talks with the Meyer Tomato Co., the state's largest harvester of green tomatoes. Directory of Union Hails SIU Atlantic^ Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT* Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Esu-l Shepard Lindsey Williams A1 Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER A1 Kerr HEADQDARTEBS ....675 4th Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY 9-6600 ALFENA, Mleh 800 N. Seeond Ave. (517) EI. 4-3616 BALTIMORE, Md. ..1216 E. Battimoie St. (301) EA 7-4000 BOSTON, Blaas 663 Atlantle Ave. (617) 482-4716 BUFFAIX), N.Y 735 Washlnston St. SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL. 3-9259 GHIOAGO, m 9383 Ewlnv Ave. SIU (312) 8A 1-0733 IBV (312) E8 5-9570 CLEVEIAND, 0 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mleh. 10225 W. JeffenoB Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DDEUTH, Minn. 2014 W. 3d St. (218) RA 2-4110 JP.O. Bo* 287 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex. 5804 Canal St. (713) WA S-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 2008 Fearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ..99 MontComeiT St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, AU 1 Sooth Lawrence St. (206) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La 030 Jaekson Ave. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3d St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 534 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, CaUf. 1321 Mlaalon St. (415) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. ..1313 Fernandez Jnneos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 2505 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravols Ave. (314) 752-6500 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 TOLEDO, 0 935 Snnumt St. (419) 248-3691 wn.MINGTON, CaUf. ....450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, CaUL (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan Iseja Bids., Room 810 1-2 Kalsaa-Dotl-Nakakn 2014071 Ext. 281 FRANKFORT, Mleh. r r>' �Crew, Pensioner Delegates Meet to Learn /• At Piney Point * R C X i New York Port Agent Leon Hall, right, points out the location of the different ships on a mode! of V the Harry Lundeberg School to Crew Conference 6 member, Isaak Bouzin. W. *'Red" Simmons, brother of the late Claude "Sonny" Simmons, points out the stem of the vessel named after his brother to a future Seafarer during his visit with Crew Conference 6. SIU men from all over the country gathered for Crew Conference 8 at Piney Point, Md.-Here they are flanked by Norfolk Patrolman Steve Papuchis, left, and SIU Repre­ sentative Frankie Mongelli, right. The participants were, from Baltimore: John McCIeland, A. Richard, S. J. Hutch­ inson and Bob Hasenzahl. From Houston: P. Manchback and C. Carr. From Mobile: J. J. George, B. E. Shepard, W. Gamer and V. Conde. From New Orleans: B. C. Knotts, P. E. Warren, Vince J. Fitzgerald, J. Buckley and B. Tay­ lor. From New York: Leonard Mattson, M. Aguirre, M. Cann, C. Daugherty, J. Brady and B. Kenny. From Phil­ adelphia: Chambers Winskey. From San Francisco: J. J. Morrison, K. F. Maclnnes, 4. R. Rudnicki C. Scott and A. D. ^.arter. C. V o ] A t *• X SIU pensioners who attended the first Pensioners Conference at Piney Point line for a group photo as they prepare to depart for home after spending ten pleasant and informative days at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Smiling for the camera are James McLeod, Accurso Bonti, Theodore Fortin, Thomas Garrity, Joseph Munin, Richard DeGraaf, Lawrence Hogan, Marian Luhiejewski, Gustave Lueth, Pedro Cruz, Walter Reidy and Sammy Rogamos. «• •V • tt m T*'' «/ u -i; U v a * V r V u V U 43 Old tuners who came to Piney Point for Pensions Conference 5 posed for their picture during a visit to the base farm. Participants were: E. Constantino, B. Foster, R. Ramsperger, G. Romano, H. Seymour, B. Sf. Wilson, M. Madrang, W. Pieszczuk''and John Maasik. Retirees attending the second SIU Pensioners Conference at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point posed for their group photograph near the fountain at the front of the motel. Attending the conference were Frank Miller, John Flannery, Adam Swiszczowski, Louis Goodwin, Anthony Conti, John Oovak, Lawrence McCulIough, Robert White, Sidney Day, John Pastrano, and James Williford. �from the at sea Campaigning at COPE Office Recently re-elected Democratic congressman from California's 17th district Glenn M. Anderson (second from left) is shown during his campaign at the grand opening of the Gardina Harbor area COPE office. With the congressman are from left: John Fick, port agent for the Marine Firemen's Union; Gerald Brown, SIU port agent in Wil­ mington, and Steve Edney, SIUNA vice president and local COPE chair­ man. Perils Raps Blood Plan Washington, D.C. Blood from commercial blood banks is a "major obstacle" in developing the kind of program it will take "to meet the needs of the American people," ac­ cording to Leo Perlis, director of AFL-CIO commimity serv­ ices. Perlis was also critical of "uncoordinated and in some ways uncooperative" private blood plans in the nation. Commercial blood banking has become a "lucrative busi­ ness," he declared, and often has the support of local orga­ nized medical societies ^d proprietory hospitals. Pointing out that commercial blood banks are often located in "skidrow areas," he said that blood purchased for $15 a tmit is eventually sold for as much as $50 or $60—^"sometimes far beyond that, in the case of rare types." Disease Risk Besides being costly, Perlis said, blood from commercial banks carries a high risk of disease, mainly hepatitis. "About 90 percent of all hep­ atitis cases resulting from trans­ fusions are due to blood ob­ tained from commercial blood banks that buy their blood from prisoners" and other "downand-out people." He said that the annual death toll of "bloodtransfused hepatitis" ranges be­ tween 1,500 and 3,000. He urged the American Red Cross to take the lead in a drive for a national "blood as­ surance program" based on public service volimtary donors. He said that while the P.ed Cross now has the biggest non­ profit blood banking program, it has not had an "aggressive and dynamic" program to re­ cruit volimtary donors since World War II. He said that about 2 million patients need blood each year and that it takes about 7 million units to meet that demand. He predicted that if the spot­ light of public opinion is put on the present stale of blood bank­ ing and an effective donor re­ cruitment drive is mounted, "120 million donors could be encouraged to give blood," and meet the demand on a volun­ tary non-profit basis. The AFLCIO would "not only help, but cooperate vigorously" in that kind of effort, Perlis asserted. A. R. Sawyer, meeting chair­ man aboard the Commander (Marine Carriers), reports every­ thing operating smoothly with a fine SIU crew aboard. The Commander left NorSawyer folk in August after being refurbished from bow to stem in the shipyard. She is under MSG charter and is carry­ ing coal to NATO stations in Europe. One of her first ports of call was Amsterdam. During the stopover, crewmembers went ashore and made the roimds of the city on a sightseeing tour, buying gifts for family and friends back home. This voyage is expected to last for a little more than a month, with Philadelphia as the port of payoff. The steward department aboard has come in for special praise for its fine chow during this voyage. All hands are happy to see this vessel sailing again. Aboard the Columbia Fox (Columbia Steamship Co.), Robert E. Kiedinger, meeting secre­ tary, reports that the crew h as voted to extend a special expres­ sion of thanks to this ship's master. Kiedinger Captain L. Guillemette. All hands aboard agree that he has really gone out of his way to keep a happy crew He is a competent skipper who has earned the confidence of his crew. The Columbia Fox set sail from Honolulu and is on a voy­ age to Inchon, South Korea, and Vietnam. Before stopping in for­ eign ports, all hands are being asked to keep all doors locked in port to guard against unauthor­ ized persons coming aboard and the possibility of theft. Richard Hoppin is deck del­ egate; Robert E. Marsh, steward delegate, and N. A. Huff, ship's chairman. Things are running well aboard the Columbia Owl (Columbia Steamship C o.) reports meeting chairman T. J. Hilbum, as the ship begins a voy­ age to Vietnam. With the help of SIU represent­ Hflbam atives in Tampa, Fla., all of the items placed on the repair list during the last voyage have been squared away. There is no disputed overtime in any department, but the crew is having some difficulty in re­ ceiving mail, and this is being looked into. There is a good crew aboard this ship. This voyage began Aug. 24, and the expected port of pay­ off will be along the Gulf around Dec. 1. Hans M. Schmidt is deck del­ egate; Oscar Figaroa, engine delegate; Henry Jones Jr., stew­ ard delegate, and T. J. Hilbum is ship's chairman. Eloris B. Tart, meeting secre­ tary aboard the Tampa (SeaLand), reports all hands voted in fa­ vor of the pro­ visions of the new freightship agreement during the regular Sund a y shipboard Tort union meeting. The crew has also gone on rec­ ord to thank the SIU negotiating committee for a "job well done" in securing the new wage scale and other contract improvements. A full discussion, including a question and answer session, was held during the meeting to ac­ quaint all hands with the opera­ tion of the SIU ship's committee and the duties of elected commit­ tee members. The Tampa is sailing coastwise from Long Beach, Calif., to San Francisco, with a stc^over in Oakland. Monta L. Garber is deck del­ egate; C. Martinussen, engine del­ egate; H. Robinson, steward delegate, and G. Castro is ship's chairman. Gibson Ge/s Promotion From Nixon r Washington, D.C. Andrew E. Gibson, maritime administrattor since 1969, was promoted to a newly created post of deputy secreta^ of com­ merce for maritime ^airs on the day President Nixon signed the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. Gibson, a former freighter captain, was an executive with Grace Lines and has been vice president of the New York Shipping Associaticm. He was vice president of D i e b o 1 d Group, a national management concern, at the time of his appointment to the Maritime AdministratioD. Congressman Honored In Defroif Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), right, received the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department's special ship's wheel award for his efforts in hehalf of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. The award was presented to Dingell at an MTD dinner in Detroit hy Peter McGavin (center), MTD executive secretary-treasurer. From left are: Ed Kraft, vice president, Detroit Port Council; Amos Stewart, president, Detroit Port Council; SIUNA Vice President Fred Famen; John Schrier, AFL-CIO regional director; McGavin; Bill Marshall, Michigan AFL-CIO secre­ tary-treasurer; Senator' Phillip Hart (D-Mich.); former Governor G. Mennen WiUlams, and Dingell. Phil Reyes, ship's secretaryreporter aboard the Carrier Dove (Waterman), re­ ports that when a copy of the new contract was received a special meeting of the unlicensed crew was held at sea, Reyes and the provi­ sions of the new agreement were ratified. Judging by the harmony and cooperation displayed by the entire crew, all hands agree that this will be a good voyage. The Carrier Dove's itinerary is taking her to some of the more exotic ports. Her first port of call is Massawa, Ethiopia, on the Red Sea. This is an ancient port and was the final stop of trading cara­ vans that made their way through the desert. The ship will then call at Aqaba, Jordan and Khorramshahr, Iran. Later this month she is scheduled to stop at Karachi, Pakistan. Every one of the nine steward department members are book men and veteran Seafarers who have served SIU crews for many years. The Carrier Dove is hold­ ing to its reputation of being a fine feeder. Blanton McGowen is ship's chairman; Gilberto Bertrand, deck delegate; Joseph Brodeur, engine delegate, and John H. Kennedy, steward delegate. e ft V * V c » M » Trillion $ GNP Seen for 1980 The Bureau of Labor Statis­ tics predicts that the Gross Na­ tional Product could exceed $1.1 trillion in non-inflationary dollars by 1980. The bureau defines a "non-inflationary dol­ lar" as one carrying the pur­ chasing power of a 1958 dollar. The word trillion—represent­ ing 1,000 billion—^will become a commonplace number in the American economy, according to bureau predictions. Included in the report were projections involving 82 indus­ tries which indicated a changing pattern of expected growth for many of them. Employment levels in agri­ culture and mining are expect­ ed to continue to decline both in numbers and in relation to the rest of the economy. Employment in manufactur­ ing, transportation, communica­ tion and public utilities will in­ crease in numbers but decline when compared to the rest of the eccttiomy. Services and state and local governments are expected to grow rapidly during the HQs, not only in numbers but in their share of overall employment. Finance, insurance, real es­ tate and construction are also expected to be employment growth areas. The bureau reports that wholesale and retail trade jobs will expand at about the same annual rate as over-all civilian employment—about 1.9 per­ cent. ^• < •n * <r. 'V u r' �SlU's Paul Drozak Feted by MTD P aul Drozak, SIU port agent in Houston Texas, was cited for "distinguished service to organized labor" during a testimonial dinner and dance sponsored by the West Gulf Ports Council of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. Several speakers including Texas Congressman Bob Eckhardt and Rep. William Clay of Missouri praised Drozak's contribution to all in the trade union movement. Texas Gov. Preston Smith pre­ sented Drozak a plaque elevating him to the rank of admiral in the Texas navy. More than 750 well-wishers attended the dinner for Drozak, who is also a vice president of the Texas State AFL-CIO and secretarytreasurer of the MTD West Gulf Ports Council. Congressman Bob Eckhardt (D-Tex.) pays tribute to the SIU's Houston Port Agent Paul Drozak. Congressman William L. Clay (D-Mo.) delivers the keynote address. "i MTD Administrator O. William Moody presents plaques of appreciation to Rep. Qay (left) and Rep. Eckhardt. Seated are Paul Drozak (left) and Hank Brown, president of Texas State AFL-CIO. James Phillips of the Retail Clerks Union presents one of several awards to Paul Drozak as Brown joins in the applause. Paul Drozak (right) receives a unique award for his "outstanding service" to working people from O. William Moody SIU Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr jiays tribute to the contribution Paul Drozak has made to the SIU. 7 lu-.. / �r-.v 7.- V .•V- r-Cr • i' l^'S' ^ Safety Of Concern To All Seafarers S IU ships are sitfe ships, but safety aboard ship just doesn't happen automatically. It takes a lot of hard work and constant vigilance by many people to make and ke^ a shi^ safe to sail on. Spearheading flus work is the SIU's Safety Depmtment coordfaiated by S^ety Director Joe Algina. Routine safety inspec­ tions are r^[ulariy made aboard SlU-contracted vessds to insure that those safety standards which protect the lives of Se^arers are maintained. One such top, to bottom safety inq>ection was recently con­ ducted by Safety Director Algina board the 497-foot long con­ tainership Galveston (Sea-Land) while the ship was docked in Port Newark, N J. The Galveston passed with flying colors, and after the neaiiy two-hour infection was ov«- Algina remarked, "She's a fine ship." Without this grill work of heavy steel hars a man could easily fall over the side through the space provided for passing lines through the bow. The addition of these hars is the result of the constant check for potential hazards to Seafarers. / Emergency gear lockers such as this one are located at sev­ eral strategic points aboard the Galveston and contain a variety of life saving equipment. SIU Safety Director Joe Algina steps aboard the SS Galveston in Newark, N.J. to begin his safety inspection of the vessel. OXYGEN BKEATIIING APPABATHJy L •w. - 1 f Ilfc'' EMERGENtr GEAR LOCKER n- 'J ' ' -I '• ' v '< I. f ,... •// Reefer boxes aboard the Galveston are desi^med with a unique safety latch. The latch can be securely locked from the outside and it can be easily opened from the inside should the door swing closed behind a Seafarer. t - �)• Below deck, low overhead areas are distinguished hy strips painted in an easy to see design of alter­ nating hiack and yelIo>v. The design can he seen from hoth the foot and head of the stairs. George Austin (left), who sails in the deck department, greets Safety Director Algina, who is an old shipmate. In the background on the bulkhead is a plaque which records the fine safety record maintained by the Galveston through many voyages. USE TORCH TniiPUT Pat Rodgers, Jr., who sails in the engine department aboard the Galves­ ton, looks on as Algina points out some of the safety reminders posted in the boiler area. These steel bars welded to the deck alongside the ship^s railing provide sure footing in heavy seas. The double height of the railing at left, which extends above a man's shoulders also protects lives. �East Meets West in the Nasroen Galley One of the most successful attempts at achieving this cul­ inary compromise is a main course prepared by Nasroen known as Dutch Rice Table. It is not one dish, but rather a series of dishes served in small portions from a large platter or table. The basic ingredient that all of the dishes have in common is a bed of steamed rice, but it's what is placed over the rice that makes for different and tasty eating. From side platters come shrimp, beef, chicken, vegetables, sweet and hot rel­ ish, to be poured over the white rice. "One of the secrets of In­ A close check of the galley spice rack is in order before the cooking donesian cooking is to take begins in Alii IVasroen's galley. many flavors, spicy and bland, sweet and sour, hot and cold, he would be old enough to sail neo, Java, Sumatra and Bali. and combine them to come up In 1951 he came to the United on one himself. with something different and Utilizing both formal school­ States and joined the SIU in new," says Nasroen. ing in cooking and acquired the port of San Francisco where "This method of serving the knowledge of the cooking of his first SlU-contracted ship food also allows those eating his own nation, he first sailed was the Coral Sea. to take as much of their fav­ in the galley of a Dutch freight­ "I sailed as messman on that orites as they wish and none at er that shuttled cargoes between ship and decided right away all of those flavors that don't the Indonesian islands of Bor­ that I wanted to upgrade myself appeal to them. It is a satisfy­ ing method of making every­ one happy at the same time." Because many of the authen­ tic herbs, spices and condiments called for in Indonesian cook­ ing are rarely available in American supermarkets and stores, and are never a part of the regular ship's stores, Nas­ f. 'I roen takes time out when in ports such as New York and San Francisco to visit the local Chinatown and buy them. "Chinatowns are the only place I can find many of the things I need in my cooking. I look forward to shopping for them when we reach port and usually buy enough to last for several months. "Fresh vegetables are an­ other item which I always try to have aboard," said Nasroen as he began preparing a chop ' James A. Jackson, Jr., left and Willie C. Bridges, Jr., of the stew­ ard department, look over Memorandum of Understanding on suey speciality in the ship's \\ the new SIU contract. Bridges graduated in August from the galley. Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. '^he Steel Worker (Isthmian) recently tied up at Erie Basin "Without fresh vegetables, in Brooklyn after an Asian run. She loaded new cargo, in­ this dish is nothing. I usually cluding CARE packages and government aid supplies for the try to make this kind of vege­ people of Asia, then embarked on another run. While in port, table dish during our first few the crew considered the new SIU contract, which was approved by days out of port after we have the membership, and caught up with news of their homes and their just taken fresh items aboard. ' < union. Later on in the voyage, when we run low, I prepare meals that don't call for as much vege­ tables, and switch to using our frozen stores. This system helps us to use our stores evenly, and it gives the variety the crew likes." Not all of Brother Nasroen's reputation as a cook derives from his expert preparation of dishes native to his homeland. After twenty years of seatime in the galleys of SIU ships, he has proven time and time again that as fine a platter of steak and potatoes, Boston baked beans. Southern fried chicken and beef stew is served Conrad B. Taylor, sailing as an oiler in the black gang, performs aboard the Mobilian as is shoreside maintenance on the Steel Workeri Taylor is a 1967 served anywhere. graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. When a new member of the crew signs on the SlU-contracted Mobilian these days, one of the first things to wel­ come him aboard is the aroma of spicy shrimp over steamed rice or the scent of barbecued beef—trademarks of Brother Alii "Jack" Nasroen, chief cook. For nearly twenty years, Nasroen's galley specialities have delighted the taste buds of hun­ gry Seafarers, while at the same time providing them a pastiche of exotic dishes from the chief cook's homeland. A native Indonesian from the island of Java, Nasroen was taught English and first learned about the United States while attending schools run by the Dutch. Situated between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, Indonesia is a frequent port of call for SlU-contracted vessels. As a young boy after school, Nasroen would often go down to the docks to visit the ships, longing for the day when as soon as possible. This was my opportunity to do two things I like most in life, both at the same time—go to sea and cook," Nasroen said. Now, as chief cook aboard the Mobilian after twenty years of seafaring, Nasroen is just as enthusiastic as ever about cook­ ing and sailing, and enjoys a fine reputation in the SIU fleet. His reputation is built upon creativeness, garnished with a touch of the exotic. Exotic is the word for native Indonesian cooking, which combines many spices and hot peppers with such everyday items as beef, chicken and fish. "Early in my cooking career I realized that many of the pop­ ular dishes of my homeland are a bit too spicy for American tastes," Nasroen said. "Because of this, I have tried to modify them a little—taking out some of the more unusual ingredients —while at the same time keep­ ing enough of the original rec­ ipe to still make interesting eat­ ing for my SIU crews." Homecoming For Steel Worker Longshoremen load AID supplies for Asia into the hold at dockside in Erie Basin. The Steel Worker carried relief supplies for Asian ports, from government and private organizations. f ii With Alii Nasroen in the gal­ ley, East does meet West aboard the Mobilian-r—at least three times a day at mealtime. C �h hA.. M <"• ' ir IJ An Ancient Mariner Comes to Piney Point For a man over 90 years of age—with more than 75 years at sea—Willie Toomer is pretty active. A member of the fourth Pensioners Conference at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in October, he took care to inspect most, if not all, of the 54 acres owned by the school. Of course, he had reason for his travels. He summed it up by saying, "I'm just finding out what they've been spending my money on." Retired since last April, Toomer is probably the oldest SIU pensioner. He was one of 12 retired Seafarers participating in the 10-day con­ ference. After his inspection, the 31year SIU veteran said that he was pleasantly surprised at the school and what it was doing. "These young fellows (HLSS trainees) will never know what going to sea used to be like ... and that's good. Nowadays you wouldn't get people to put up with the old ways. And that's because of the union," he said. An SIU man since January 1939, Toomer recounts that he was bom in Georgia on Jan, 20, 1880 and went north to Boston to catch his first ship when he was only 15 yetns old. He remembers the vosici, a sailing ship named the Lady Marie, that became his home for the next "six or seven years." "The captain liked me," he recalled, "and I liked shipping out, so I just stayed on and on." But, speaking of the days be­ fore the SIU, he told of work­ ing conditions that would seem unbearable by present day standards. Recalls Old Days Reminiscing on the earlier part of his 75 years at sea, he talked of poor food, low pay and long hours. "At that time, before unions, you couldn't get anything out of the ship owners. The union changed that. Now it's an easier life." The former chief steward has had quite a collection of ex­ periences since 1895. He is proud of the fact that he sailed and "delivered the goods" dur­ ing every war since he first went to sea. Although his memory of ship names has dulled with the passing years, he remembers having two ships torpedoed out from under him during World War I and he was on three ships that were sunk in the Atlantic during the Second World War. The only time tha* he was injured during the five disasters was when a German torpedo sank the Kujus Peckham off the coast of North Carolina in 1943. "I was asleep in my ounk when the torpedo hit and broke a steam line in my room. It burned my leg and I had to go to the hospital after we got picked up." He also remembers that luck had something to do with his survival during the latter part of the war. The former cook and steward explained that he had sailed four trips into and out of Russia on the notorious "Murmansk Run." He decided that his luck was wearing thin by sailing the same ship through "U-Boat Alley." "When we got back (to America) I quit the ship and sure enough, it was blown up on the very next trip," he re­ membered. Another story recalls the time in 1946 when his ship docked at Shanghai, China, shortly after the communist armies had taken over the city. "One of the communists came on board and told us to get the hell out of there or they'd take the ship and us," he said, "And he didn't have to tell us a second time. We got HLSS trainee N. Palmer listens as Willie Toomer recalls his first ship—a sailing vessel that he first hoarded 75 years ago. out just as fast as we could." Impressed by Progress Toomer was particularly im­ pressed with plans to construct houses and a village for SIU pensioners on land owned by the union at Piney Point. "From what I've seen down here so far, I think that I might want to come back and live here. If you had told me 10 years ago that all this was go­ ing to happen, I would have thought you were crazy," he said. Toomer was looking forward to stopping in New York City after the Pensioners Conference to see some of his eight chil­ dren, "many" grandchildren. and a "five or six-year old great granddaughter" whom he has never seen. He now lives in San Fran­ cisco, but he looks forward to the days when houses for pen­ sioners will be completed at Piney Point. During the conference, Toomer and the other pen­ sioners stopped in a trainee class and, as the elder spokes­ man, he was questioned by one of the trainees who asked whether he would still go to sea if he had his life to live over. "I sure would," he answered. "As a matter of fact, I'd ship out right now, if they'd let me." 18 More Seafarers 'Retire to Beach' on Pension The ranks of SIU pensioners have grown by 18 new members. gine department. His retirement ended a sailing career of 43 years. Adrian Decena, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the engine de­ partment. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Decena now makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1961, Seafarer Decena was is­ sued two picket duty cards. His retirement ends a sailing career of 41 years. Jan Rani, 65, a native of the Philippine Islands, now lives in New York City. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the deck department. He was issued a strike duty card in 1961. When he retired. Brother Rani ended a sailing career of 47 years. Harding Stieliig Edward Nooney, 49, is a na­ tive of Jersey City, N.J. and con­ tinues to make his home there. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department. In 1968 he earned his third mate's license. Brother Nooney is a veteran of World War 11. John Durmo, 65, joined the union in the Port of New York in 1943 and sailed in the deck department. A native of the Phil­ ippine Islands, Brother Durmo is now spending his retirement in New York City. Decena ^ X y-J -{ Rani Victor Harding, 61, joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk and sailed in the deck department. A native of England, Seafarer Harding now lives in San Fran­ cisco, Calif. He was issued a picket duty card in 1961 and in the same year was given a safety award for his part in making the Alma an accident-free ship. Vernon Louis Stiebig, 65, a native oi Ohio, is spending his retirement in New Orleans, La. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the en- November 1970 Nooney Santi^o Laurente, 74, is a na­ tive of the Philippine Islands and now makes his home in Brook­ lyn, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. He was issued a pick­ et duty card in 1961. Brother Laurente is retiring after 43 years at sea. Stovall John Joseph Kane, 67, joined the union back in 1939 in the Port of Mobile and sailed in the deck department as a boatswain. A native of California, Seafarer Kane now makes his home in Mobile, Ala. Richard Ramsperger, 68, is a native of Germany and now lives in Oregon City, Ore. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. Brother Ramsperger is an Army veteran of World War 11. gine department as a chief elec­ trician. A native of Mt. Bullion, Calif., Brother Foumier now lives in San Mateo, Calif. He is a Navy veteran of World War 11. Leon Ryzop, 58, is a native of Poland and is now spending his retirement in Elizabeth, N.J. He joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed in the stew­ ard department. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card. Laurente James Lee Webb, 46, joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile in 1944 and sailed in the steward department. A native of Ala­ bama, Seafarer Webb now lives in Mobile. Ismael Nazmio, 61, is a native of Puerto Rico, and now makes his home in New York City. He joined the union in 1939 in San Juan. Brother Nazario sailed in the deck department as boat­ swain and served the union as a delegate while aboard ship. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card and a strike duty card. His retirement ends a sailing career of 41 years. 4 Kane i Ramsperger James Noffsinger, 57, joined the SIU in Michigan and sailed in the deck department. Brother Noffsinger is now making his home in Frankfort, Mich. Deloss Harman, 48, is a native of Philadelphia, Pa. and now lives in New Orleans, La. He joined the union in the Port of Mobile and sailed in the engine department as a fireman-oiler. Ryzop Frank Rankin, 66, ended a sailing career of 47 years follow­ ing a Vietnam run in March. He sailed for 20 years as chief cook. Rankin is a charter member of the SIU, having joined in early 1939. Thomas DiCarlo, 64, is a na­ tive of Italy and now makes his home in Baltimore, Md. He joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore and sailed in the deck department as a boatswain. Durmo Walter H. StovaU, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck depart­ ment as an able seaman. A na­ tive of Ohio, Seafarer Stovall is now spending his retirement in Houston, Tex. Harman Webb Nazario George William Fournier, 59, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the en- Wankin DiCarlo Page 27 �|/is HLSS Trains for Life And Living Lifeboat class 59 sits for a picture after successfully passing the Coast Guard examination. They are, from left holding sign, Marvin Walker and Alvin Smith. Seated are, front row, Edwin Colon, Joseph Ayala, Dell Smith, Allan Smith, Carl HUl, Ron Roninger and Jose Vasquez. Second row, Thomas Stoa, Keith Rice, Gary Castle, Mike Morgan, Daniel Davis, and Rudolph Shields. Rear row, Michael Palmer, William Bonan, Keith Sahot, Michael Bingman, Thomas Boutwell and Henry Sheffield. Standing at left is lifeboat instructor Bruce Simmons. Steve Phillips, named outstanding trainee in Lifeboat Oass 56 by the staff, receives a wristwatch and congratulations from Lifeboat In­ structor John Shields. Members of Lifeboat Class 56 line up on the Fiddlers Green for a grad­ uation photo after successfully completing the Coast Guard examination for their lifeboat endorsement. Kneeling left to right are Bill Erody, Gerry Rogers, Edward Cox, Jerry Rash, Jim Heustis, Mark Wood and Robert Ingram. Second row, left to right: Kenneth Keeling, Steve Phil­ lips, Milton Fairchild, Martin Stainer, Michael Foster, Robert Nocera and David Westfall. Third row: Phillip Means, Fritz, McDuffie, Sidney Alford, Gary Sizer, William Burke, Amett Moomaw, Douglas Knittel, Keith Jordan, David Reeves, Byron Van Atta and Marshall Donahue. At left is Lifeboat Instructor John Shields. Graduating members of Class 51 of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship receive the best wishes of Trainee Instructor Tom Brooks as they make ready to board the bus to New York, and then go aboard their first ship. Left to right are Bob Miller, Mike Lawrence, Terry Parker, Larry Graham, Fred Pohlmann, Brooks, David Hendrick, Earl Jentoft, Joe Miles and George Moore. r il Graduates of HLSS class 54 pose for their class picture before leaving for New York for their first trips. Pic­ tured are, from left, D. Oir, E. Scott, R. Smith, T. Bakos, C. Peterson, J. Smith, Norfolk Port Patrolman Steve Papuchis, SIU Representative Frankie Mongelli, R. Brown, W. C^ll, W. Berulis, R. Kosefsky and R. Cancel. 11 Graduating members of Qass 53 at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship pose for a group photo as they prepare to tra-isfer to New York for.assignment aboard their first ship. Pictured left to right, front row, are: Stanley Ziegler, SIU patrolman from New Orleans, Mike Bethune, Charles Holmes, Joe Lacaze, Richard Burkett, Robert Harris, Kevin Hare, John Lacaze and Angus "Red" Camplrall, SIU patrolman from New York. In the back row are Eugene Alexander, Everett Cox, Jim Ferguson, Richard Freeman, Phil Baldwin and Shelton Conarroe. Graduates of Class 52 pose for a class picture as they prepare to leave the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship to ship out. Wishing them well us New York Port ^ Patrolman E. B. McCauley, far left. Others are, from left, Norman Smith, R. Sherwell, J. Kirkland, R. Salley, John Leach, D. Metcalf, Instructor Joe Sacco, D. Smith, B. ; Lincoln, L. Psuncey, R. Harvell and S. Simpson. | �SlU Ships' Committees Add Education Directors 'TV) further strengthen the SIU's ties with its members at sea and at the same time better serve the membership, the new SIU contract has established a third post on the permanent ship's committees en­ titled Education Director. This additional committee position is filled by the ship's chief electrician or pumpman. The Education Director is responsible for main­ committee are the ship's chairman and the secretaryreporter. One elected delegate from each of the ship­ board departments also serves on the committee. The ship's chairman calls a meeting of the un­ licensed crew every Sunday and conducts the meeting. It is the responsibility of the secretary-reporter to keep in contact with union headquarters by mail and also prepare and maintain the minutes of the meeting. taining and distributing all publications, films and mechanical equipment relating to education on such subjects as safety, training and upgrading, health and sanitation. With the addition of an Education Director to every SIU ship's committee. Seafarers at sea now have an even greater opportunity to keep in touch with what is happening ashore. The other two members of the permanent ship's sesfspeps \ STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian)—While awaiting payoff, the Steel Voyager's committee got together topside. From left are: R. Brown, secretary-reporter; William Schneider, education director; James Martin, engine delegate; Jim Tanner, chairman; Willie Netters Jr., steward delegate and Joe Martin, deck delegate. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthamian)—A cargo of sugar from the Hawaiian Islands was offloaded hy the Steel Executive in Brooklyn. The ship's committee seated from left are: A. Gasper, secretary-reporter; J. Medvesky, engine delegate; A. Klein, deck dele­ gate. Standing: J. Rohinson, chairman; W. Slusser, education director and J. Graft, steward delegate. Qaesfion: What are the duties of the Education Director as a member of the permanent ship's committee aboard every SlU-contracted ves­ sel and how is he selected? Answer: The addition of an Education Director to the permanent ship's committee is provided for under the terms of the New Standard Freightship and Tanker Agreements, and his duties are specified in Section 2 (b) of these contracts. The Education Director is responsible for maintaining and dis­ tributing all publications, films and mechanical equipment relating to education on such subjects as shipboard safety, SIU training and upgrading programs, health and sanitation. Some of the other subjects which also will be covered include the SIU Pension and Welfare Plans, union history, contracts, po­ litical actimi and the economics of the maritime industry. Working together with the ship's committee chairman, the Edu­ cation Director programs the use of all of the audio-visual ma­ terials, films and sound tapes, sent to the vessel by union head­ quarters. The position of Education Director aboard SIU ships is filled by the Chief Electrician or pumpman. In the event Aere is no Chief Electrician or pumpman aboard, the Deck Engineer will serve as Education Director. When there is no Deck Engineer (m board, the Engine Utilityman will serve in this capacity. If circumstances arise where none of the above ratings are aboard, then the ship's chairman and the secretary-reporter will choose a qualified member of the engine department to M the post for the voyage. One of the primary reasons for having the Chief Electrician as first choice for Education Director is that he has the skills neces­ sary for maintaining the tape recorders, film projectors and other mechanical educational equipment in proper working order. Righi ) . FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes spe­ cific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treas­ urer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file mem­ bers, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendatimis. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, specific recommendations and separate findings. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist Of Union and management representatives and their alternates. All expen­ ditures and disbursements of trust funds are made Only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund finan­ cial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 275-20th Street, Bnmkiyn, N.Y. 11215 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. ACTION LINE CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU cmitracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a re­ ceipt, or if'a member is required to make a payment and is yiven an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer :v ' is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at mem­ bership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-andfile committees. Because these oldtuners cannot take ship­ board employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long­ standing UnicHi policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employ­ ers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and ffie Union. If at any time a Se^arer feels fliat any of the above rights have been violated, or that be has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, be should immediately notify SIU President Paul HaU at beadquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. L �P5?-; • I.. •)! Meany Suggests Federal Control Of Railroads "Federal take-over of the na­ tion's railroads" may be the solution to the problems con­ fronting that industry, accord­ ing to AFL-CIO President George Meany. He cited the current break­ down in negotiations between the carriers and four AFL-CIO affiliates as being indicative of the current state of the rail­ road industry. "We have to look at this with consideration of the public in­ terest. If the railroads can't give their workers the same rights as other workers and if they cannot serve the public maybe the government should take over." He suggested that "judging by the way the railroads are being run today it's a good idea. It's donie in other countries and they have pretty good rail­ road service." A reporter asked Meany whether this didn't conffict with his faith in the private enter­ prise system. "Not at all," the AFL-aO president declared. "Look at water. We can't have private companies run the water sys­ tem as they did in the colonial days. Cities own bus lines. New York City has taken over its subway system." He said that "if we stuck con­ sistently to private enterprise I doubt whether we'd have rail­ roads to the West Coast. And certainly the airlines couldn't have flown without subsidies." Meany's remarks were tied to a statement of the AFL-CIO Executive Council expressing Auto Insurance Bill Proposed Washkigton Sen. Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.) has introduced three bUls de­ signed to bring about basic re­ form programs in the auto in­ surance industry and to increase compensation for accident vic­ tims. The bills are the product of three years of study and hear­ ings conducted by the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Philip J. Stoegerer, Seafarer and poeti is about to have a second Subcommittee, which he chairs. collection of his poems published under the title of Down to the In arguing for reform, Hart Second Sea in Bumboats. His earlier collection of poems Strictly Scuttle­ complained about the high cost butt, is available for 91.50 per copy from Stoegerer Maritime Collecfion of auto insurance, frequent can­ Press, P.O. Box 148, Aripeka, Fla., 33502. A sample of his work in Strictly Scuttlebutt are these two stanzas from *'Back to the cellations, claims practices and Of Poems Sea." other industry operations. Suggests Remedies So Pm going back to sea again. Out where the air is clear and fresh To cure these problems Hart Away from land and its pride. And there ain't no need to lie. suggested: Out where the mighty waters be. I'm a Merchant Seaman Past the shoals and the tide. • Guarantee a noncancellable And I'll be until I die. policy to all licensed drivers. • Do away with the "fault" system for all but permanently disabled or disfigured auto ac­ cident victims or those who suffer excessive financial loss. • Provide that victims be re­ imbursed in full for medical, rehabilitation and incidental ex­ Washington ployed must wait an average intended the Social Security Act get new jobs and lose payments penses incurred, and that lost At a time when the unem­ of seven weeks after benefits to help the jobless when they that should have been due them take-home pay be reimbursed up to $1,000 a month. ployment rate among American have stopped before they are need it the most. And once a for many weeks. • Make available group auto workers continues to increase granted an eligibility hearing. person's eligibility is deter­ Depends on Precedent insurance in the states which The California Department mined "it cannot be arbitrarily each month, the U.S.. Supreme The Java case, in the opinion now prohibit it. Court is preparing to rule on of Human Resources under denied or withdrawn without of labor lawyers, depends great­ Hart said that of every dollar the case of a Califopiia woman Governor Ronald Reagan has due process standards being ful­ ly on the previous Supreme the consumer pays into the pres­ denied unemployment benefits appealed this decision to the filled." Court decision which held that ent system, "only 13 cents ac­ for weeks without so much as U.S. Supreme Court. Stmidard Procedure a welfare recipient could not be tually ends up compensating for a hearing on her claim. 'Scornful Opinion' Standard procedure in most denied welfare payments be­ The case is that of Judith The California case was filed states is to start payment im­ fore he has been given a hear­ out-of-pocket losses." Unmatched Increases Java, mother of three, whose by the Contra Costa Legal mediately upon determination ing and a chance to refute any unemployment benefits were Services Foundation last No­ of eligibility of the claimant but evidence of non-eligibility. He pointed out that from stopped because her former em­ vember and brought a scornful to stop them later if the em­ The welfare decision, handed 1965 to July, 1970 auto in­ ployer, The Pittsburgh Post- opinion by the court headed by ployer appeals. down last May was by a split surance premiums went up by Dispatch in California, chal­ Judge Gilbert H. Jertberg. Such action is taken without 5-3 vote. Since then Judge 65 percent. lenged her eligibility for unem­ "The California program hearing and the claimant be­ Harry Blackmun has been "During that same period ployment compensation. conflicts with certain clearly de­ ing given a chance to rebut, added to the court so it is far auto repairs went up 39 per­ The payments were stopped fined national and state goals," even in writing, new informa­ from certain that the welfare cent, tires by 28 percent, and without a hearing in which Mrs. the court said adding that such tion offered by employers. case decision will hold up in gasoline by 15 percent," he Java would have been afforded goals are "intended to stave off The case is of extreme im­ the unemployment compensa­ said. "At the same time, takethe right to state the validity of extreme personal hardships as portance to workers since em­ tion case. home pay for nonsupervisory her claims. well as society-wide depression ployers in many parts of the Nevertheless, labor lawyers and factory workers went up Ruled Unconstitutional in times of increasing unem­ United States ?iave been able to contend that there is a complete only 10 percent." A U.S. District Court found ployment. hold up benefits for long pe­ similarity in that persons in He concluded that his bills in her favor, ruling that it was But the end is clearly riods of time to their layed-off both types of cases are being "are aimed not only at bring­ unconstitutional that she be de­ thwarted when a claimant must workers simply by challenging denied their rights for unrea­ ing down the premium cover­ prived of benefits for weeks be­ wait some 50 days for payments their eligibility to unemploy­ sonable periods of time with­ ing the. injury to people, but to resume." fore a hearing on eligibility. ment compensation. out being given a chance to also at increasing compensation, The court said that Congress In California, the unemIn many cases, workers later make their own case. to accident victims." ^ Supreme Court to Rule on Employers Delaying Unemployment Payments •u> "its support for the railway un­ ions in their collective bargain­ ing efforts for fair contracts with substantial wage increases and realistic benefits." The Council said that it "be­ lieves that further interference by the Federal government after the provisions of the Rail­ way Labor Act have been ful­ filled would be unfair in the extreme." The Council also called upon railway management "to bar­ gain in good faith and with recognition of contempo'rary wage trends so that a work stoppage on the railroads may be averted." "*• s. • s �m I'l UNION LABEL S 'ttiAAamctE ANCh?- 'j4Aa«0 TMOU^ UMiOM MAOt ««— IKwurr.FifiHi.cdiin.sarT •MKMHSTIUEIT WMUM • ^1 - OrAMCMtCA BIKERV irvv"' .A- V "••V inriv UNION SHOP CONFECTIONERY CUtt*^U kvU>«< 3ax a Ifttpr (UlirtatmaH INTilNATIONAi lOCAl HO SHOP UNION IHO^HO .. With the Christmas holiday shopping season in full swing, Seafarers and their families can help themselves and millions of fellow trade unionists by buying gifts bearing the union label. M- L^U.W.P.C.Of HArF, 1^UNION-MADE iU [» A nK GUiip A ik • The union label is a sure sign that the product contains the skill and craftsmanship of union workers. And it guaran­ tees that the working men and women who made the item are receiving the benefits of a union contract. Being able to buy with confidence is just one of the bonuses the consumer enjoys in choosing Christmas gifts bearing the union label. The union label has long been the "distinguished emblem of organized labor," and a symbol of quality to the union worker. Be sure to look for the union label when buying toys, clothes, stationery and other gifts. \TJJd" ^3 lug ®nlg Pruburta auJi ^rrutrra Irartng Intnn labrl I yNim^SHQp, 0 @@® MS§P i^AFL-CIO^ m M W'. OTiSft vWORKERS UNION/ ;x ,'N t UNION MAM , UNION MAM ClOAM UNIOIV : "S .. UNION MADf 1T06I|> % ISABEL UNIO^^AMP aMRiMr Factory TNftBn^tfTin^ . <f> UNION HOUSE UNIONI~uo WORKERS MADE i AMALGAMATED OPEIU Ji- wniKTi^i. 000 © u R C OFAMemCA s wniv** ^PA»ITIW TMOU^ UNION LABEL November 1970 Page 31 �SEAFARERSVLOG November 1970 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERN7VTI0NAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO (OCOLLEGE •QEPEN DE N Ts •$6,000• ec/wcatJon- SIU'BOLLEGE BDAfiOS •RCQUII^EHENT/ < 1 Eligible Seafarers and their dependents may now apply for the five SlU College Scholarships to be awarded in May. the scholar­ ships, amounting to $6,000 over four years may be used at any accredited college or university. Eligibility rules make the contest open to: • Seafarers who have three years seatime aboard SlU-Contracted ships. • Dependents of Seafarers who meet the seatime requirement. • Dependents of deceased Seafarers who had sufficient sea­ time before death. Dependents of deceased Seafarers must be less thar 19 years old at the time they apply. mm ®v The scholarships are awarded on the basis of high school grades and scores achieved on either the College Entrance Examination Board tests or the American College Tests. Both sets of examina­ tions are given throughout the country on various dates. Applications may be obtained at any SlU hall or by writing to SlU Scholarships, Administrator, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. I 1215. Deadline for the return of applications is April 1. A total of 26 Seafarers and 62 dependents of Seafarers have received scholarships in the programs 17 years. The winners of this year's scholarships will.be free to pursue any field of study offered at the college of their choice. 7 •. 'i serrr- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource November 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: KIRKLAND SEES MIRACLE IN MERCHANT MARINE ACT ILO TEAMWORK – THE PRESIDENT’S REPORT ILO CALLS FOR NEW SEAFARER BENEFITS NIXON SIGNS MERCHANT MARINE ACT INTO LAW PAY LAGS BEHIND INFLATION INCREASES JOB SAFETY BILL ENACTMENT BEFORE ‘LAME DUCK’ CONGRESS SIU MARKS 32ND YEAR OF PROGRESS FOR SEAMEN HLSS OPENS HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY COURSE US TEAMWORK STOPS CUBAN ATTACK OGDEN YUKON MAKES BRIEF STOP IN JERSEY PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE IS ILO’S COMMITMENT CITIES SERVICE BALTIMORE VISITS PORT OF PINEY POINT CREW, PENSIONER DELEGATES MEET TO LEARN AT PINEY POINT SIU’S PAUL DROZAK FETED BY MTD EAST MEETS WEST IN THE NASROEN GALLEY AN ANCIENT MARINER COMES TO PINEY POINT HLSS TRAINS FOR LIFE AND LIVING SIU SHIPS’ COMMITTEES ADD EDUCATION DIRECTORS MEANY SUGGESTS FEDERAL CONTROL OF RAILROADS SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON EMPLOYERS DELAYING UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 11 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/ca781b68b994461bfac97318b4a52909.PDF 3c3b9c45dea44203188e62c4276dfe6f PDF Text Text SEAFARERSALOG December 1970 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO i^nutT iFnr CLltr InUiitigis ' p > •, • * . >• M'A ^ «. \ ' >. N // 1^1 V- * VV-' T ' ->V'A .,V"- • . . •• 7 / •-'5' SSSv • •i^.-1 x.i T ?.;• -A M. "•1' . '^1 V I? r-^i - Coast Guard Returns Russian Defector ... •., W'^- See Pages 4-5 »• •...,.• SlU Crew Conferences see Pages 15-19 �Labor Aids Fight To Cure Disease SIU President Paul Hall is one of a group of top New York labor leaders who are joining together in the fight against Parkinsons' disease. Hall will serve as co-chairman of a fund-raising dinner which will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Jan. 17 to raise the money necessary to continue and further the fight to conquer this dread and, as yet, incurable disease. The dinner is being spon­ sored by the American Parkin­ son Disease Association, whose purpose it is to help find a cure and to ease the burden of the victims and their families. Parkinson's disease affects the nervous system, causing muscu­ lar rigidity, uncontrollable tremors, slowness of movement and abnormal gait. Disease Widespread Conservative estimates list upwards of a million victims in this country. Until the cause and cure can be found, the disease is expected to increase. It has been predicted that one out of every forty persons will develop the disease and the newly afflicted will approach 50,000 people a year. Recognizing the enormous achievements of the APDA and the vital need for funds, the labor community is rallying to make the dinner an outstanding success. Sam Kovenetsky, president of Local I.S., Department Store Workers Union, is chairman of the dinner committee. His four co-chairmen are: Paul Hall; Charles Feinstein, president of the International Leather Goods and Plastic Novelty Workers Union; Joseph Trerotola, presi­ dent of the Teamsters Joint Council No. 16, and Paul Byrne, secretary-treasurer of Local 144 of the Hotel, Hos­ pital and Nursing Home Work­ ers Union. Ottley HaUed Guest of honor at the dinner is Peter Ottley, president of the Hotel, Hospital and Nursing Home Workers Union. Ottley is being hailed by the APDA for his dual achievements as an outstanding labor leader and as a distinguished member of the board of the APDA for the past seven years. Tickets for the event are available at the APDA head­ quarters, 147 E. 50th St., New York, N.Y. WhUe tickets for the dinner are $100 a plate, the organization will welcome any contributions. In addition to in­ creasing patient service by sub­ sidizing treatment fees and con­ tributing to research, APDA hopes to raise the funds neces­ sary to build an ultra modem rehabilitation center in New York. All Seafarers are urged to contribute to this very worth­ while cause. Peler Ottley (center), president of the Hotel, Hospital and Nursing Home Workers Union, AFL-CIO, is shown with Sam Kovenetsky, (left), president of Local I.S., Department Store Workers Union, and Fred Springer, president of the American Parkinson Disease Association. AFL-CIO's Meany Supports Direct Election of President Washington Congress, now meeting in a "lame duck" session, has been urged to adopt a proposed con­ stitutional amendment on di­ rect election of the President by George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO. In a letter to the amend­ ment's author. Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Meany said, "all Americans truly interested in the democratic process—and that specifically includes the AFL-CIO—are deeply appreci­ ative of your efforts to secure its passage." Meany said that "Americans from all walks of life" support the amendment. "Forces of obstruction in the Senate won the first round," Meany wrote. "They must not be allowed to win the fight." Of various alternative pro­ posals, Meany wrote Bayh, only those should be considered that do not damage "the heart of your amendment, which is that the candidates who receive the most votes will become the President and Vice President." Frustrating System Meany totally rejected other proposals which, wearing "the mask of electoral reform," would perpetuate "the Electoral College system . . . that frus­ trates the will of the electorate." "I assure you," Meany con­ cluded, "the AFL-CTO will sup­ port your efforts'to work out an acceptable proposal that will attract the two-thirds approval necessary for passage of the amendment, while keeping secure the hope and promise of tnie electoral reform—a promise we hope the states will have an opportimity to approve before the 1972 election." House In Favor The House passed the elec­ toral reform bill on Sept. 18, 1969 by a 339-70 roll call vote. Under the House bill a candi­ date receiving the largest munber of popular votes will win providing he receives at least 40 percent of the votes cast. If no candidate receives 40 per­ cent, a runoff would take place between the two highest votegetters. The Senate bill is similar to the House bill except for the date it would become effective. Two moves to secure a vote on the Senate bill were stalled by filibusters. Major opponents are Southern and small state Sena­ tors. ll • ^I . '?! - "!rf PRBIDENT'S RETORT by PAUL HJIII A review of SIU activities in 1970 provides a roster of achievements that will benefit Seafarers now and well into the future. Our work brought us a stronger union, a superior contract, job protection now and limitless opportunities in the years to come. A year-end roundup of the top SIU news stories that appears on pages 8 and 9 of this issue of the Seafarers Log tells a part of the story. Highlights in­ clude: • The signing of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 by President Nixon. This historic piece of legislation -—^much of it long sought by the SIU—will add hundreds of new cargo ships to the American-flag fleet in the years to come, enhancing job opportu­ nities for the men who build and the men who crew the vessels. • A new contract package, worth $100 a month for each Seafarer, that provides SIU men with the highest basp wage rates on the East and Gulf Coasts. • A new pension provision permitting Seafarers to retire on full pension at the age of 55 with 20 years of seatime. We were able to institute this pension provision while still keeping the SIU Pension Plan financially healthy so that all Seafarers, including those yet to board a ship, will be certain to receive all pension benefits promised them. • Revision of our SIU Constitution under a pro­ gram to give Seafarers an even stronger foundation upon which to continue building their union. The amendments were adopted in secret balloting by a 10-to-l margin. • Opening of the Seafarers Vacation Center at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md., where scores of Seafarers and their fam­ ilies are able to enjoy first class vacations at the low­ est possible cost. • Completion of the first series of 12 SIU Crews' Conferences and several SIU Pensioners' Conferences at Piney Point, giving Seafarers first-hand knowledge of their union and its place in the world around us. • Coordinated efforts with the AFL-CTO Mari­ time Trades Department to strengthen the Jones Act and add our punch to the nationwide "Ship-American" program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Com-' merce through the Maritime Administration. /^f all of our accomplishments in the year now ending, those that protect jobs now and provide for job opportunities in the future must stand at the front. Our industry has been all but scuttled through yetfrs of neglect. Ships of all types continue to be laid up and scrapped at an alarming rate; And each ship that is pulled out of service further tightens the job market. . The new ships that will come down the ways under the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 will help to loosen the squeeze on jobs. That provides us with hope for the future. To fulfill that hope, we have to continue our cam­ paign to bring more cargo to Americah-ffag ships. We must impress federal authorities and the Con­ gress that current Cargo Preference Laws should be enforced to the hilt. Congress and the Administration, through the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, made a multi-billion dollar commitment to our industry. To have this commitment undermined by a battery of bureaucrats in federal agencies who seek out foreign-flag ships for federal cargo would be unthinkable. We intend to keep the heat on to see to it that no less than half of all federal cargo is shipped on American-flag vessels—^just as the laws say. In addition, we must continue our daily effort to increase the amount of federal cargo that is com­ mitted to American-flag ships. We have a second major challenge in the years immediately ahead of us. We must convince the 1,200 American importers and exporters that it is good busi­ ness to "ship American." Gur nation produces fully a third of all the world's oceanbome traffic—either with cargo coming to our nation or with goods we produce being shipped around the world. But the American merchant marine now carries only 4.8 percent of all of that cargo—and the amount is steadily decreasing. Reversing this trend will require more than new ships. It will require cargo to fill the holds of those new ships. Without cargo, all of the victories of 1970 will be hollow. Without cargo, there will be no mari­ time industry. Tt follows that the SIU will devote all of its strength, * energy and knowledge to the fight to bring the American-flag merchant marine a far greater volume of the available cargoes of the world. Seafarers Log �East Coast Passenger Ship Service Drawing to An End Prudential-Grace was the New York CUy ships gone, only two AmericanThe American flag will dis­ flag vessels—the Monterey and last in a long line of passenger appear from the East Coast the Mariposa—will continue ship operators which served the passenger ship trade Jan. 8 American-flag passenger opera­ East Coast under the U.S. flag. tions. They sail from the West The first passenger ships to when the Prudential-Grace Line Coast to ports in the southwest operate from the East began ship, the Santa Rosa, begins her Pacific. sailing before the War of 1812 final voyage. and the first American-flag 750 Jobs Lost The Santa Rosa, the Santa transatlantic passenger ship Prudential Lines acquired the made its inaugural run in 1819. Paula and four of Prudentialold Grace Line ships in 1969 Grace's M-class vessels which for $44.5 million. It was Pru­ In going to drydock, the carried both cargo and pas­ dential's first entry into the "Santas" will join such elegant sengers will end service to East passenger business. ships as the Independence, Con­ Coast ports at that time. stitution, and the America, the The laying up of the Pru­ Brasil and the Argentina and A Prudential-Grace spokes­ dential-Grace Line passenger the mighty SS United States. man blamed the layups on high ships will mean the loss of jobs These were ships owned by costs of operation and the "re­ for at least 750 crew members sistance" of the sea-going pub­ on the six ships. Their crews American Export-Isbrandtsen lic to price increases for travel. are represented by the National Line, Moore-McCormick Line and the United States Line. With the Prudential-Grace Maritime Union. One of the last passenger ships to service the East Coast is gnided into her berthing place by tugs. By mid-January all passenger service will be discontinued. Plasterers' President J. T. Power Calls for Stronger Job Safety Bill Part of the new 230,000 deadweight ton supertanker being built for Seatrain Lines is assembled at the construction site in the old Brook­ lyn Navy Yard. Seatrain is expected to have six of the giant tankers in operation hy 1976. Seatrain to Lease New Supertankers Construction is well under way at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a new 230,000 ton supertanker which will be leased by the SlU-contracted Seatrain Lines. The supertanker on the ways will soon be joined in construc­ tion by a sister ship of the same tonnage. The first is ex­ pected to begin operations in 1972 and the second in mid1973. In addition, two supertank­ ers weighing 233,000 dead­ weight tons are being built abroad for Seatrain and will sail under the company's char- Labor Supports Health Care Washington The AFL-CIO has issued a new pamphlet on National Health Insurance entitled "National Health Insurance Is Labor's No. 1 Goal." The pamphlet is based on a radio address given by AFL-CIO President George Meany and is available free of cost from the AFL-CIO Pamphlet Division, 816 Sixteenth St., NW, Washing­ ton, D.C. ter with a major oil company. The building of the first tanker began Aug. 5 and jobs at the Seatrain Shipbuilding Co. docks in the Navy Yard now total 450. The total numbers of jobs expected to be generated by the building of the two tankers is 2,500. When complete they will be the first two ships to have been produced in the New York City area since 1948. The equipment being used to build the new supertankers is primarily that left behind by the Navy when it closed the Brooklyn Yard in 1967. Three cranes, one that can lift 200 tons, now op>erate at the tank­ er building dock. There will be still more building at the Seatrain facil­ ity in the future, according to company sources. They say that two more supertankers will be constructed there prior to 1976, although no definite dates of delivery have been set. Company sources also said that trading routes for the new sea giants have not been set, but that they would probably be used in worldwide trade. The top speed of the vessels is expected to be more than 17 knots. Washington On-the-job safety is an issue of vital concern to SIU mem­ bers and according to Joseph T. Power, president of the erative Plasterers and Cement Masons Union, it is of vital concern to all who work for a living. In that regard, Power de­ manded that Congress pass a strong Occupational Health and Safety bill in a speech given at the weekly luncheon of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. Power said that the bill had been severely weakened in Congress despite the possibility that enactment "could save sev­ eral injuries and possibly a life during the time I speak here." Power, a member of the executive board of the MTD, said that the nation is faced "with a horrifying set of statis­ tics reflecting the loss of life and limb in this nation through on-the-job accidents." Accidents Soaring He said there were more than 3,000,000 accidents at work last year which cost, by some estimates, an amount in the thousands of million dol­ lars. "But to a labor man, those dollars represent a lot more than cold cash. They represent warm, living human beings. People who will no longer have a hand or an eye. People who no longer will be able to work and bring home the bread for their dinner tables. And all be­ cause of an accident." He derided the old adage that accidents just happen. "Acidents can be prevented. They can be prevented now," Power said. The bill which would em­ power the Secretary of Labor to set safety standards, does not have much to oppose. Power said. , Yet, labor's enemies, notably the U.S. Chamber of Com­ merce, were successful in weak­ ening the bill. The bill is necessary, said of Labor, "presently is limited Power, because management to 'studying' the horrifying sta­ efforts at job safety have been tistics and has no power to "like a sneeze in a hurricane." take any effective steps to stop He said "it is about time that the carnage." those of us in the labor move­ He said, "what we clearly ment provided the rest of the need, as labor men and as velocity for the hurricane that Americans, is a national com­ will be necessary to move occu­ mittee to change that sad pational safety standars forward picture and to focus out atten­ in this coimtry." tion on the workingman's safety." Angry Littte Guy He added, "we must fight for The lack of safety standards this national committment to "gives the little guy the right end the slaughter, to end this to be angry," Power said. The horrible loss of life." little guy, defined by Power as Power said "this nation has the shop worker, the tradesman no need of a legion of those and the plasterer, "knows that crippled because of a lack of some workmen are protected safety standards. It has no need from the dangers of their job, of an honor roll of men need­ and he is not." lessly dead on the job. Yet it Power said that this anger has both. Let us act now before arises because the Department the list becomes longer." Appear to Hanoi AFL-GIO President George Meany asked Ameridm un­ ion members to observe the holiday season by writing to Hanoi and appealing for more humane treatment of Ameri­ can POWs. "All Americans who believe in basic human decern^ are revolted at the treatment endured hy American prisoners of war," Meany declared. He cited the Nordi Vietnamese re­ fusal to reveal the names of its captives and its fmlure to keep its proniise to honor the provisicms of the 1949 Geneva Convention relating to hasic diet and medical care and communications between prisoners and their families. In a letter to all AFL-CIO affiliates, Meany said: "The AFL-CIO supports the campaign of the Red Cross for mail ur^g the North Vietmun^, in the niune of hu­ manity, to provide the names of their pnspners, to guarantee them adequate diet and^ medical care, and to penmt the exchange of mail between prisoners and tiieir hunilies. "I urge every member of the AFL-CIO io take tinw at this holiday season to write to Hanoi It is also a time for national prayer for titose prisoners, as suggested by tite American Legion. "An end to the misery of tiie prisoneis cd war and relief for their long-suffering families would help to br^ten this holiday season. It could also serve as a sincere mdicafion of the North Vietnamese desire for peace in Indochina and lay the groundwork for their acceptance of tiie American proposal at the Paris talks to free all ]^mn»s of war." Meany advised that letters to Hanoi, wlneh require 25 cents postage per half ounce, should be addressed to the Presideht of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, Hanoi North Viet Nam. �Leap to Freedom' Ends in Tragedy A Lithuanian sailor's desper­ ate but futile attempt to grasp hold of freedom by leaping from a Russian fishing vessel to the deck of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter off the coast of Massa­ chusetts transformed a routine meeting of U.S. and Soviet fishermen into an international incident Aboard the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant, in addition to her regular complement of of­ ficers and crew, were four civilians, including John Burt, port agent for the SIUNA-aflfiliated New Bedford Fishermen's Union and Robert Brieze of the New Bedford Seafood Dealers Association. John "Big John" Burt has been port agent for the SIUNA New Bedford Fishermen's Un­ ion for 12 years and a com­ mercial fisherman since his early teens. Traditional Seaman His father was lost at sea off the deck of a Boston fishing trawler during a storm in the Atlantic more than 20 years ago. Still John Burt chose to make fishing his life. Robert Brieze has more per­ sonal experience with Russian oppression. In 1950, while a tugboat captain in Latvia, he took his boat, his wife and his sister from Latvia to Danzig. The Russians came looking for him. He sailed to Sweden, know­ ing that in reply to his flight the Russians would send the remaining members of his fam­ ily to Siberia. He feared the same fate for himself and his wife and sister, so in a bold gamble they and other refugees sailed a hardly seaworthy World War II minesweeper across the Atlantic to the United States and political asylum. These two men of the sea related their eyewitness story of the occurrences aboard the Vigilant to the Seafarers Log a few days after the desperate leap of Simas Kudirka. The cutter Vigilant left New Bedford, Massachusetts at about 8:30 a.m. on that gray Monday morning carrying Burt and other U.S. fishing representatives to a rendezvous point off Gay Head, at the southern tip of Martha's Vineyard, well within the U.S. three-mile limit. As the cutter approached the appointed spot in the Atlantic, Burt could see the massive length of the better than 500foot long Russian fishing mothership Sovetskaya Litya breaking through the mist. About 10:30 a.m. the cutter drew up alongside the Soviet vessel and the first lines were thrown from ship to ship to link them together on the sea. After the lines were secured, a ten-foot gap of sea still sepa­ rated the two vessels, so a work basket was fitted to a cargo crane by the deck hands aboard the Russian ship, and it was swung over to the deck of the cutter. Burt and others gingerly rode the basket across the water to the deck of the mothership. "We received hand shakes from the Russian fishermen and were ushered below to the officer's quarters where lunch was waiting for us," Burt re­ called. "We were all seated around the table, civilians. Coast Guardsmen, and Russian of­ ficers. Many of the Russians could speak some English and the conversation flowed smoothly." Imperiled Flounder The Atlantic's yellowtail flounder is heavily depended upon by the fishermen of New Bedford and the protection of this resource was foremost in the minds of the New Bedford representatives. SIUNA fishermen in that port know that the Russian fleet em­ ploys fine mesh nets through which the young yellowtail can­ not escape, leaving too few available for future spawning. Unhappy fishermen have la­ beled Russian fish havesting tactics "the vacuum cleaner ap­ proach to fishing." This informal and cordial meeting, it was hoped, would help to get the Russians to con­ serve the yellowtail fishery. "We asked to see a Russian trawler in action—see the nets being set—but were told that no trawlers were working in the area because the weather was bad," said Burt. "Instead they took us on a tour of the mothership, showing us their fully equipped ship­ board hospital, a 100-seat movie theater, and their fish processing equipment. It was quite a sight. Message for Skipper "After the tour, at about 2:30 in the afternoon while we were still aboard the Russian mothership in the Soviet Captain's quarters, we were interrupted by the executive of the cutter Vigi­ lant who asked his skipper. Commander Ralph Eustis, to return to their ship." This was the moment when the drama of attempted defec­ tion began to unfold. The New Bedford men wouldn't find out until hours later that Simas Kudirka, the Lithuanian radio operator aboard the Russian ship, had stepped up to the railing of the Russian mothership and told one of the Coast Guard officers, "I want to de­ fect." Commander Eustis returned to his ship and was informed of Kudirka's message. A dispatch to U.S. Coast Guard First District Head­ quarters in Boston then sped over the cutter's radio. From there it was relayed to Coast Guard Headquarters in Wash­ ington with a request for in­ structions on how to proceed. The request was relayed to the State Department in Washing­ ton. The reply to the Coast Guard from the Soviet desk at the State Department was not to encourage a defection and to be • careful of a trick by the Rus­ sians aimed at provoking an incident. Back aboard the Russian ship, Burt remembers that "for the next two hours, we con­ tinued to talk about fishing with . " .7 .. • A M U.S. Coast Guard officers are swung onto the deck of the Sovieigkaya Litya to hegin fishing conference tluit erupted into an international incident. SIUNA New Bedford Port Agent John Burt is at left. Page 4 The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Vigilant to which a Lithuanian sailor jumped seeking political asylum. The defector, Simas Kudirka, was returned to Russian hands. the Russians and then decided to return to the Vigilant and head for home. I thought to my­ self, we'll be home in time for supper." Russians Aboard The transfer of Americans back to the cutter got under way, and Butt returned to the decks of the Vigilant. A free exchange of Russian and Ameri­ can visitors had been taking place all day, but now that preparations were evidently be­ ing made to return to New Bed­ ford, Burt thought it kind of strange when he noticed that three of the Russians were still aboard the cutter. Burt discussed what might be holding them up with Robert Brieze. Some time passed and Burt ventured the guess that the problem was with one of the Soviet sailors. Finally, at about 5 p.m. Burt again asked, "What's happen­ ing, do we have somebody aboard who doesn't want to go back?" Almost immediately, the word went out that there was a defector aboard. "Then, maybe an hour or so later, I'm not sure of the time element. Commander Eustis came to us and told the Rus­ sians, 'I have a man aboard who doesn't want to go back with you, he doesn't like the life in your country.'" Simas Kudirka had done what he said he would do. As the Vigilant's crewmen were about to cast off all lines from the mothership, he leaped across the water between the two ships and landed at the feet of the surprised Coast Guardsman. Commander Eustis had re­ versed the order to head home and directed that the Lithuanian seaman be taken up to the bridge of the cutter until he could speak to the three Rus­ sians still aboard. According to Burt, Com­ mander Eustis then told the Russians that he had no formal request from officers on the Russian vessel for the return of the defector. "I then saw," continued Burt, "one of the Russians leave the room and run like heck across the deck of the Vigilant back to the Russian mothership. Before I knew it, he was back again with a piece of paper which he gave to the Deputy Commander of the Rus­ sian fishing fleet, Ivan Burkal. The third Russian still aboard with us was the interpreter and after he looked at the paper, he presented it to Commander Eustis. "The letter said that the man we had aboard had broken into the Russian ship's safe and had stolen 3,000 rubles. They re­ ferred to him as a 'criminal' and said they wanted him back." After Commander Eustis took the paper from the Russians, he made several trips back and forth from the bridge of the cutter to where Burt and the others were waiting. By now Burt knew that the commander had been on the radio to shore many times, but it appears that Commander Eustis was waiting for further orders. Back at the State Department in Washington, the officers at the Soviet desk had gone for the night. There would be no further orders from the State Department, but Commander Eustis didn't know this. Coast Guard officers in Boston, Admiral W. B. Ellis and the district chief of staff. Captain Fletcher Brown, al­ ready knew after sending a message to the State Depart­ ment at 7:30 p.m. asking for instructions that there would be no response from the State De­ partment. Awaiting Orders A decision on further orders for Commander Eustis had to be made soon. The Soviet Dep­ uty Fleet Commander and the other two Russians waiting in the Commander's quarters ask­ ed to use the Vigilant's radio to be patched through to the Russian Embassy in Washing­ ton. At about this time, John Burt stepped forward and took hold of Commander Eustis' shoulder, stopping him as he was about to leave the quarters and said: "Robert Brieze and myself protest and ask you not to turn this man over to them." Evidently Commander Eustis had by now received further orders from Boston because he replied: "I am a Coast Guard officer and my higher command in Boston has just issued me an order to surrender this man. It's out of my hands." According to Burt, the com(Continued on Page 5) Seafarers Log �USCG Friend To Seafarers S ince the earliest days of our nation's maritime industries, the men of the U.S. Coast Guard have earned the respect of the professional Seafarer and the commercial fisherman. SIUNA fishermen and Seafarers sail from many ports each day to do battle with the sea as they earn their livelihoods. Life at sea is full of hazards and in times of need the Coast Guard has been on hand to offer assistance to these men. The men of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Vigilant, based in New Bedford, Mass., have personally taken a hand in the rescue of numerous SIUNA-aflfiliated fishermen, whose lives hung in the balance because of storms, fog, heavy seas or engine trouble. "There is hardly a fisherman in this port," em­ phasizes John Burt, port agent for the SIUNA New Bedford Fishermen's Union, "who has not at one time or another been helped by the Coast Guard." S Fishermen like those above feel indebted to the Coast Guard. everal years ago, John, along with other fisher­ men aboard the union-manned trawler New Bed­ ford were rescued from the clutches of a heavy fog bank and 75 mile-an-hour winds, and towed safely back to port when their boat's engine failed. As this issue of the Log goes to press, there are reports that the cutter Vigilant has rescued the crew of the union-manned fishing boat Gertrude D, in danger because of engine trouble in the Atlantic Ocean off New Bedford, Massachusetts. It is rescue efforts such as these, repeated many times over the years, that have won the praise of Seafare'-s and fishermen. Leap to Freedom' Ends in Tragedy (Continued from Page 4) mander then went over to the defector, who was beyond the reach of the other Russians aboard and asked the man if he would go back peacefully. The'^man refus^ and after the Russian officer was informed of it the officer asked Com­ mander Eustis for permission to speak to the defector. "All three Russians went top­ side to talk to him and I learned later that the defector replied again 'no, I will not go back.' " "Commander Eustis then told the ranking Russian officer, 'you and your other man go up and get him,' Burt said. The Rus­ sian commander replied "no, he's too powerful for us." The Russian then asked to send over to the Russian motherghip for four men and Commander Eustis replied, "no, three men," Burt said. Chained Passageway One of the Russians then ran over and brought back three men and they all began rushing up to the bridge. The bridge had been chained off and a Coast Guardsman was posted there at the chain to stop every­ one but the Russians who were allowed to pass. "We followed them, and when we reached the chain, we were stopped by the American sailor," said Burt. "I told the guard, 'take that chain away and open the door so that this man will have a chance to get away if he can, even if he has to jump over­ board to save his life," Burt said. "Then a wild scuffile started up on the bridge while I was like this,' and he told me 'you on the starboard side of the ves­ "At one point he was down sel. They came down the stair­ on his hands and knees saying way in front of me and I saw 'God, help me, oh help me,'" three or four of them hitting recalls Burt. and beating him. Someone gave "I then tried to get closer and him a bad judo chop and I wanted to reach out and help could see blood on his face and him. Just then I could see that on his white T-shirt. they had cornered him up near "I turned to the man next to the bow and were trying to get me, I forget who he was now, him down." in all the excitement, and said According to Burt, for a mo­ 'You can't let this happen here ment, he thought that there was hope for the man because the board. Commander Eustis or­ dered the cutter to pull away from the Russian mothership in order to not crush the man be­ tween the two ships. Then over the loud speaker I heard "all hands below" and we were ordered to go below at once. "We couldn't do anything else, we had to go below. When we got there, we looked out of JOHN BURT ROBERT BRIEZE CDR. RALPH EUSTIS can't do a thing about this, this is the way things go and he has to go back.' "I got terribly emotional and felt the overwhelming need to help this man but I was again restrained by the man next to me. Then the defector got away from them and slipped away over the side. They thought that he was overboard on the port side. But he didn't go into the water, instead he slipped down the side to the lower deck and began running around below screaming for help. Coast Guard cutter began pull­ ing away from the Russian ship, tearing lines and breaking off the cutter's antennae on the Russian booms as it did so. "I turned to Robert Brieze who was now along side me and he said 'now we are going to take them all back to port and straighten this thing out.' I to.d him, 'I hope to God we do,'" Burt told the Log. But what was really happen­ ing, Burt later found out, was that when someone screamed that the defector had gone over- the portholes and saw that we were three to four himdred yards from the mothership. Then we heard the sound of the motor lifeboat davits going and I saw the motor lifeboat being lowered. I said to Bob, 'I think they are going to take him back, look.' Bob refused to look, I could see tears on his face. "In the gunnel of the lifeboat I saw the man wrapped in a blanket with a line around him like a mummy, or a dead man in a sea bag. "At that instant I felt in my gut 'It's all over for this guy'— and it was. The small boat pulled away and that was the last I saw of him. "As we returned to New Bedford on the Vigilant, we all remained in the ward room aboard the cutter and nobody said a word. "I kept thinking of the words that man along side of me had said when I thought of getting in there and helping that man. He told me, 'We can't win in this one.' If I were twenty years younger I would have been in the middle of it," said Burt. Look of Horror Burt clearly described the horror on the face of Robert Brieze at the sight of the desperately brave Lithuanian fighting with his shipmates on the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter—pleading for his free­ dom. Brieze said he was think­ ing then of his own burst for freedom. Brieze recalls that during the struggle aboard the Vigilant, the doors to the officers' quarters banged open, and^ he saw the bloodied face of Simas Kudirka as he was being beaten over the head. "I jumped up from my chair intending to help the man, but was pulled back into the quarters by someone. "John Burt and I were told that it would be useless to try and help the man, that the order had been given that he be returned. That man could have been me if I had not escaped from the Russians twenty years ago," Brieze added sadly. �Admiral Holden, 74, Dies at Snug Harbor Retired Vice-Admirai Ed­ ward C. Holden, Jr. (USN), 74, passed away Nov. 13 in Sailors Snug Harbor, a home for re­ tired mariners in New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. He had been confined there since suffering a stroke five years ago. Respected and well-known by many SIU officials, Admiral Holden was a long-time advo­ cate of a strong American mer­ chant marine. In a speech some years ago the Admiral stated, "there must be inculcated in our young men a real love for the sea and loyalty to their ships; efficiency and good conduct must pre­ dominate." He was an authority on sea safety and developed a revolu­ tionary method of radar com­ putation for the prevention of collisions or ship strandings dur­ ing World War II. Holden was awarded the Legion of Merit medal during World War II for "exception­ ally meritorious service" while m command of the attack trans­ port Starlight. During World War I he served in the naval troop trans­ port force aboard the Coving­ ton and won distinction for his actions after the vessel was torpedoed and sunk by a Ger­ man submarine. A lawyer and marine insur­ ance specialist. Admiral Holden retired in 1961 as president of the United States Protection and Indemnity Agency (U.S. P. & I.). He later directed the Mari­ time Safety Foundation's safety and educational division. He had joined the U.S. P. & I. Agency in 1930 after more than eight years with the Isth­ mian Steamship Lines. During that time he commanded sev­ eral vessels and sailed more than 500,000 miles. He was bom Jan. 17, 1896 in Lynn, Mass. Holden gradu­ ated with a law degree from Boston University in 1918. He then trained in admiralty, ma­ rine and international law at Harvard, Oxford and Cam­ bridge Universities. Admiral Holden was a former president of the Marine Society of the City of New York, the New York Council of the Navy League and the Council of American Master Mariners. Among his survivors are a son, Edward C. Holden III of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and a brother. Dr. William Holden of Macon, Ga. Lifeboat Endorsements The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded lifeboat endorsements to 13 Sea­ farers upon their successful completion of the lifeboat training pro­ gram at the SIU's Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship in Brooklyn. From the left, seated are: Omar McDaniel, Arthur Machado, Henry Keith, Joseph Collins and Terry Guile. Standing are: SIU Instructor Len Decker, Dennis Hemming, Eddie Bank, Boh French, John Thorton, Walter Moen, Stephen Jones, Harry Barron and Robert Prater. Also receiving Coast Guard lifeboat endorsements were from left: Bill Hampson, Jack Held, Anarguyros Korizis, Howard Biener, George Stefanescu, Robert Johnson and Lester Hoffman. Cesar Chavez Goes to Jail; Lettuce Boycott Intensifies Salinas, Calif. California's lettuce growers may have won the battle and at the same time lost the war. Anti-labor growers won a court decision to have AFLCIO United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez jailed for violating an earlier court injuction prohibiting a nation­ wide lettuce boycott. However, since his incarcer­ ation, Chavez' followers have intensified their strike and boy­ cott campaign against the growers. Some 3,000 Mexican-Ameri­ can farm workers held a candle­ light mass outside the jail here and were joined by Ethel Ken­ nedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a long-time Chavez supporter. Strikers plan to maintain a round-the-clock vigil at the parking lot across from the jail. A counter demonstration by some 200 pickets of the em­ ployer-financed Citizens Com­ mittee for Agriculture failed to deter the unionists. Superior Court Judge Gor­ don Campbell originally sen­ tenced Chavez to ten days in jail for violating his injunc­ tion which prohibited the na­ tionwide lettuce boycott. He later gave Chavez an indefinite sentence in jail until Chavez called off the strike and boy­ cott. Some fear has been expressed by Chavez followers that his health may fail if he is con­ fined for any great length of time. During the grape boycott the union leader became seri­ ously ill and weak after going on a himger strike in order to prove his point. However, Chavez's spirts re­ mained good after he was sen­ tenced. As he was being led off to jail, Chavez's message to his fellow unionists was: "Boycott the hell out of them." Lawyers for the growers charge that their clients have already signed an agreement with the International Brother­ hood of Teamsters. However, national Teamster leaders, meeting with AFL-CIO leaders ^— including President George Meany—-have agreed that the field worker jurisdic­ tion belongs to the Farm Work­ ers Union. Currently, three major grow­ ers accounting for some 15 per­ cent of the lettuce crop have Labor Backs Food Stamp Bill Substitute signed up with the Farm Work­ ers but other growers are fight­ ing the imion. One of the growers fighting the UFWOC is Bud Antle, Inc. which grows about eight percent of the Salinas Valley lettuce produce. On October 8, Bud Antle secured an injunction prohibit­ ing the union from continuing its strike and boycott until an earlier court decision which ruled the strike illegal was re­ solved. Judge Campbell refused the plea of union attorneys to stay the injunction pending appeal unless the union posted a bond of $2,750,000. The UFWOC boycott against lettuce has differed from the highly successful boycott against grapes. The union led a boy­ cott against grapes as a product. The lettuce boycott concen­ trates on the wholesalers and retailers. Supporters of the lettuce boy­ cott have disclosed that Bufl Antle has close corporate ties with the Dow Chemical Corp. Pickets have marched in front of Dow offices in about a dozen cities. A boycott against bow's Saran Wrap is being considered. 6 tA JA ' T 1 w> T fs A M It IM IS It l7 It a a* A3 tA as at 31 »{ s ft O ».» Aft A7 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New OrleansJan. 12—^2:30 p.m. Mobile Jan, 13—2:30 p.m. Wilmington ..Jan. 18—^2:30 p.m. San Fran Jan. 20—2:30 p.m. Seattle Jan. 22—2:30 p.m. New York ..Jan. 4—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia..Jan. 5—^2:30 p.m. Baltimore ....Jan. 6—2:30 p.m. Detroit Jan. 8—2:30 p.m. Houston Jan. 11—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New OrleansJan. 12—7:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 13—7:00 p.m. New York ..Jan. 4—^7:00 p.m. Philadelphia..Jan. 5—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ....Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. tHouston ....Jan. 11—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Jan. 4—2:00 p.m. Buffalo ..Jan. 4—7:00 p.m. Alpena Jan. 4—^7:00 p.m. Chicago Jan. 4—7:00 p.m. Duluth ........Jan. 4—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ....Jan. 4—7:30 p.m. Great Lidres Tug and Dredge Section Chicago Jan. 12—7:30 p.m. tSault - . Ste. Marie Jan. 14—7:30 p.m. Washington The AFL-CIO has strongly endorsed a substitute food stamp bill in place of the bill reported out of a House com­ mittee. The labor organization also urged Congress to defeat any attempts to amend the sub­ stitute bill so as to deprive needy persons on strike from obtaining stamps. In a letter to all members of the House of Representatives, Director of Legislation Andrew J. Biemiller supported a sub­ stitute bill sponsored by Rep. Albert H. Quie (R-Minn.) and Thomas S. Foley, (D-Wash.). This, he said, represents a "sub­ stantial improvement" over the bill reported by the committee. "The Quie-Foley substitute would reform the food stamp program to enhance its effec­ tiveness in combating hunger and malnutrition in America," Biemiller states, adding that the AFL-CIO "enthusiastically en­ dorses" it. Noting that an amendment to exclude needy persons on strike from food stamp bene­ fits may be offered on the floor, Biemiller said the AFLCIO strongly urged the House "to reject any effort to penalize such persons." Beimiller added that any such effort would only destroy the purpose of the bill. As a labor organization the AFLCIO would do all in its power to prevent an amendment exclud­ ing workers on strike from re­ ceiving food stamps benefits. Schedule of Membership Meetings Buffalo .'..Jan. Duluth Jan. Cleveland ..Jan. Toledo Jan. Detroit Jan. Milwaukee ..Jan. 13—7:30 15—7:30 15—7:30 15—7:30 11—7:30 11—7:30 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p m. p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Unitm New Orleans Jan. 12—5:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 13—5:00 p.m. Phiiadelphia Jan. 5—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (li­ censed and unlicensed)Jan. 6—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Jan. 7—5:00 p.m. Houston ....Jan. 11—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Jan. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore ....Jan. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk ....Jan. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City ..Jan. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Meetings held at Galveston wharves. tMceting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Newport News. li �Industry's Future: More Work to Be Done Washington Three Congressional sup­ porters of a strong merchant marine discussed the future of the maritime industry at weekly luncheons sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment in Washington. Rep. John M. Murphy (DN.Y.) said he sensed that new technology and government aid outlined in the bill will touch off a revolution in shipping. Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo (D-N.Y.) said that the Mer­ chant Marine Act will accom­ plish its goals only if the na­ tion continues to press forward the bill's main purpose— strengthening the merchant marine. And Rep. Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.) said that the comple­ tion of the rebuilding of the merchant marine will require development of port facilities to handle a new generation of ships. Rep. Murphy said new act "recognizes a new technology of the sea and relies on Ameri­ can free enterprise to prove to the world that this nation will utilize all its acquired knowl­ edge, all its finely honed skill to adapt that technology to its ships." In this regard, Rep. Murphy said, "the act pays heed to changing times." He added, "Its passage would have been mean­ ingless if it did not recognize the presence of this new tech­ nology." The new technology, he said, involves the building of bargecarrying vessels, containerships and supertankers to replace, "the old standard tankers and freighters that have served us so well for so long." - The new generation of ships, Rep. Murphy said, "will give the American-flag fleet the op­ portunity to do its job better, faster and probably at a price that comes closer to competing foreign rates." Research Key Research programs will be a key part of the new technology, according to Rep. Murphy. "Time works great hardships on sea vessels. They wear out and are no longer able to servd the purpose for which they were built. It will happen with the ships called for in the na­ tion's new maritime program. And so we need a continuing program of research and devel­ opment," Rep. Murphy said. He said that such a program will have to be "more than compiling statistics and pro­ posing impossible plans." He said the research in both the long and short term must be aimed at keeping the U.S.-flag fleet modem and competitive. "I am confident that we will not allow the nation to once again turn a blind eye towards its merchant marine," he said. "And as we attempt to better the fleet I believe we should stress the importance of devel­ opment of vessel types and ship­ ping procedures that will build, the fleet to higher and ever higher levels." Rep. Murphy Rep. Addabbo Rep. Carey He said that one major step that could be taken right now would be to acquire more gov­ ernment cargo for American ships. "I am bewildered at the fact that some of the major shipping agencies in government faU to use available American-flag vessels and send their cargoes in foreign bottoms," Rep. Murphy said. "They ought to stop that at once," he said. Cargo Vital Rep. Murphy told the lunch­ eon audience that, "cargo comes first. Then comes service to the customer a. td hand in hand go research and development. If we have all three, then I am sure that Congress will prove to have been traly wise in its pass­ age of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970." Rep. Addabbo also decried the lack of cargo sailing in U.S. bottoms. "Just 10 years ago, Ameri­ can-flag ships carried 31 mil­ lion of the 278 million long tons of cargo entering and leav­ ing American ports. That amounted to 11.1 percent," he said. "We are now almost totally dependent on foreign ships," Rep. Addabbo said for both our import and export trader He said that without the Merchant Marine Act "we would have found ourselves in a vise in which foreign opera­ tors would have' dictated the price and wc, without ships or even the hope of ships, would have been forced to pay." The act has averted that threat, the congressman said, "but we must not permit our­ selves to rest. To do so would provide the specter of snatching failure from the brink of suc­ cess." Future Brig^ With the act the merchant marine can see "strong signs of hope on the horizon," the con­ gressman said. He pointed an increase in American manufacturing as one of the hopeful signs. Rep. Addabbo said the Gross Na­ tional Product has reached near­ ly $1 trillion, an increase of $500 billion in ten years. Much of the increase is in exportable materials, the congressm^ said. ' "The net result is thiat the need for ships has expanded. And that need, based on a projected foreign trade of some 620 million tons, by 1982, is continuing to grow," he said. Ship American "So the market for ships is present. We don't have to look for it," Rep. Addabbo said. "But we must nurture it. We must convince it that the best service is the service offered by American-flag ships. He said there is evidence that persuasion can succeed when it is accompanied by technological advance. "Even as the maritime indus­ try in general was being forced to wallow in the doldrums, there were those in the United States who pioneered and per­ fected containership opera­ tions," Rep. Addabbo said. "We moved out front fast, and we still hold a strong lead over the rest of the world in this form of intermodal trans­ portation," he said. He added that, "other new, swift and economically efficient ships are joining the Americanflag fleet, and their numbers will grow as the program en­ compassed in the act is carried through." He pointed to barge-carrying vessels already on the shipways, and said that, "even as the first of these new, technologically advanced ships are being con­ structed, plans are being develoj^d for a fleet of ships that will be capable of carrying a combination of ore, bulk and oil as cargo." These advances give rise to hopes that American manufac­ turers will turn to the American fleet because of its superior service, he said. "I am confident that we will succeed. And I am confident that just as the decade of the 60s was a 'decade of disaster' for the American-flag fleet, the decade of the 70s will be looked on as the 'decade of deliver­ ance.' " Maritime's past and its future was the major thrust of the speech given by Rep. Carey, who said the winding down of the year had given him occasion to look back on the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, "to review its strengths and shortcomings and to think of what remains to be done in the days and years ahead." Much to Do The bUl, he said, provided the means by which the nation will be able to build an entire new generation of ships, yet had a serious shortcoming in that it failed to provide for port facilities to match the increase in ship size. Calling that a "serious short­ coming of the Act," Rep. Carey said that recommendations for a new Panama Canal sized to handle the new generation of ships indicates that planning of new facilities is being done at some levels. He said, "it is a trifle foolish to plan canals capable of han­ Sfrike Helps Charities Over $400,000 worth of ground meat, fruits and vegetables were given away to various charities as a re­ sult of a strike by Local 29 of the MTD affiliated Office and Professional Workers International Union against Lucky Stores. Twenty-two outlets of the food store chain located in San Leandro, Calif, were af­ fected. Butchers, checkers and Teamsters honored the picket lines and left manage­ ment with no choice other than to give away the food­ stuffs to charities, and then to families who came from all over just to receive the free goods. dling the modem-day load while the nation's ports remain in­ capable of meeting those same requirements." He said, "lack of considera­ tion of this mammoth problem is one of the failures in the na­ tion's new maritime policy." He said the Administration had promised to include ports in their policy, but had omitted them by the time the Merchant Marine Bill was sent to Con­ gress. "It is a flaw," Rep. Carey said, "that cannot go unattend­ ed for very long." For, he asserted, the new ships will require new tech­ niques: Must Modernize Ports "We must help our nation's ports prepare for greater vol­ ume. We must ready port facil­ ities for bigger ships and faster movement of cargo both to the ships and from them into the heart of the nation. "Also, we must be ready to encourage the development of inland ports for barges that sail off the ocean-going mother ships." "For the new giants of the sea, the supertankers and the superfreighters, we may have to prepare special berths. Many experts feel that off-shore termi­ nals equipped to move goods to and from the land will be the most efficient way to process their cargo." Rep. Carey said there is "time to rectify that lapse, but time, as the end of another year proves, is a rapidly fleeting commodity." He concluded, "I favor being ready both in Panama and at home for the new burdens a rejuvenated fleet will put on existing facilities. To me the burden is like the song, 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother', a burden we can happily bear." Appropriate Appointees? The Administration was criti­ cized for its choice of repre­ sentatives to perform labor duties. The appointees are "so far out of this world that the Martians wouldn't believe them," wrote one columnist. The Administration was espe­ cially criticized for choosing a wealthy Washington social leader with little experience in the labor field, Mrs. Rose Saul Zalles, to represent the U.S. at a two-week conference in Mos­ cow on "women in industry." When Mrs. Zalles returned to the U.S. she told newspaper­ men that it was a great experi­ ence. "But of course," she added candidly, "I have never had anything to do with women in industry." AFL-CIO President George Meany welcomes Alexander J. Rohan, pres­ ident of the Printing Pressmen's Union to the executive council of the federation. Rohan was elected to succeed Herman Kenin, president of the Musician's union who died recently. Page 7 �1970 Proves to Have Been ship votes overwhelmingly to fight the indictment in order "to protect its rights." JULY JANUARY President Richard M. Nixon sends to Capitol Hill his proposals for the overhaul of the U.S.-flag mer­ chant marine—setting the stage for congressional action to restore lagging American shipping and ship­ building industries to their former position of promi­ nence .... SIU members vote to adopt proposed amendments to the SIU Constitution, marking the first time in nearly 10 years that any significant changes are made in the document .... the Military Sea Transport Service announces withdrawal from service of 38 General Agency Agreement vessels, thus assuaging unsubsidized fleet operators who claimed the policy of hiring and using GAA ships had result­ ed in a freight rate squeeze which had contributed to the lay-up of some commercial vessels .... the SIUNA-affiliated Cannery Workers and Fishermen's Union of San Diego wins substantial contract improve­ ments in a three-year agreement signed with National Marine Terminals, a leading West Coast tuna proces­ sor ... . the U.S. Senate rejects a proposed amend­ ment to a tax bill that would penalize unions and other non-profit organizations by withdrawing their tax-exempt status if they directly or indirectly support or oppose a candidate for public office. FEBRUARY Congress begins earnest consideration of a new maritime program .... the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and the Transportation Institute schedule a March conference to discuss ways to re­ solve problems affecting oceanborne transportation to the noncontiguous areas of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam .... the chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.) announces his committees will begin hearings into illegal seizures of American fish­ ing vessels by Latin American countries claiming 200-mile offshore territorial jurisdiction. MARCH ship in Piney Point, Md. for unlicensed engine depart­ ment personnel .... SlU-manned Delta fleet reaches a seven-year plateau of sailing with an accident-free record .... the SIU Social Security office prepares a booklet for union members and their families^ out­ lining benefits and how to obtain them. MAY Three SIU members are awarded the Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medal for their part in the rescue of two downed Air Force pilots in the wind-swept, icy Pacific in 1968. The three are James Harrington, Theodore Zieser and Morgan Jones .... President Nixon signs a proclamation designating May 22 as National Maritime Day .... the SIU reveals plans to begin operation of a family vacation center at Piney Point, Md. for the use of members and their families .... two SlU-contracted vessels— the Seamar (Calmar Steamship) and the Bethtex (Bethlehem Steel) are awarded safety performance honors for the previous year. JUNE Members of the House of Representatives vote 307-1 to approve a new maritime program which the SIU has long endorsed .... the Maritime Admin­ istration's "Ship-American" program, designed to get more American cargo on U.S.-flag vessels, is support­ ed by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and the Union Label and Service Trades Department .... five winners are announced in the 1970 SIU Scholarships Awards Program, which is open to Sea­ farers and their dependents. Each winner receives a $6,000 four year college scholarship .... the Justice Department hands down a 17-count indictment against SIU and several of its officers charging the union violated federal regulations through SPAD's contributions to the political campaigns of both the Democratic and Republican parties .... SIU member­ Senate Commerce Committee gives approval to new maritime program and sends bill tc the floor for action .. . . . A1 Kerr, secretary-treasurer of SIU, is elepted to the steering comittee of the SecretaryTreasurers of AFL-CIO affiliates during the group's annual conference in New Orleans .... the SIU Pension Study Committee recommends a provision be added to the present pension program to permit those who have accumulated 20 years of seatime at age 55 to retire with full pension .... the Supreme Court takes some of the "convenience" out of the "flags of convenience" when it rules that foreign sea­ men on runaway-flag ships owned by U.S. companies are entitled to the same protection which the Jones Act confers on Ameiican seamen sailing aboard U.S.flag vessels .... Sea-Land, an SlU-contracted com­ pany, adds the ports of Boston and Port Everglades to its weekly coast-wise run. AUGUST Union Pension Study Panel, completes a review of the SIU Pension Plan and offers recommendations for improving the program's benefits for members .... crew members aboard the Overseas Alice are presented a Citation of Merit by the American Institute of Merchant Shipping for their "display of excellent seamanship and courage" in the rescue of a downed pilot in the storm-tossed Pacific in 1969. SEPTEMBER Wage increases giving SIU members the highest base wage on the East and Gulf Coasts, coupled with a new earlier retirement pension program, are nego­ tiated between the union's AGLIW District and its contracted companies. The new pension provision allows for the retirement on full pension at age 55 with 20 years of seatime. The wage and pension combination, together with an increased contribution to the Seafarers Welfare Plan, bring the total value of the package to more than $1(X) a month .... the Manhattan, largest ship in the U.S. merchant fleet, is returned to her parent company, SlU-contracted Seatrain Lines, following her historic journey through the Northwest Passage .... Calmar Steamship Co., an SlU-contracted subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corp., takes top honors for safety aboard ship in competition sponsored by the Mairine Division of the National Safety Council .... former SIU vice presi­ dent and maritime pioneer, John Fox of Seattle, dies after a long illness .... SIU Family Vacation Center closes out first year of operation amid enthusiastic praise and response .... the first in a continuing series of SIU Crews' Conferences is launched at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship to give Seafarers an opportunity to learn more about their union and their industry. Hearings on a new maritime program progress on Capitol Hill .... SlU-contracted Seatrain Lines announces approval of federal loan guarantees to con­ struct two 230,000-ton supertankers .... an SIUendorsed bill is introduced in the Ohio state legisla­ ture which would provide long-awaited full coverage for seamen under the state's unemployment benefits program. APRIL Conference on the Noncontiguous Trade is held in Washington, D.C. participants recommend adherence to provisions of the Jones Act and initiates a study of the effect of shipping on the cost of living in Alaska, Hawaii and Perto Rico .... Paul Hall, SIU president, tells the 21st Annual Institute of Foreign Transportation and Port Operations that the success of any new maritime program depends on the success of a "Ship-American" campaign aimed at inducing American industry and government to use U.S.-flag vessels .... AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland echoes the same sentiment at a conference on the crisis in international trades, saying "when American exports are shipped in foreigii-flag vessels, American jobs are being exported" .... the SIU and District 2 MEBA open a new original license training program at the Harry Limdeberg School of Seaman- Page 8 Seafarers Log �... A Good Year for Seafarers OCTOBER NOVEMBER Congress overwhelmingly approves the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 and forwards it to President Nixon who, with his signature, climaxes the long struggle to bring new life to America's dying mer­ chant marine .... week-long Pensioners' Conferences get underway at Piney Point to inform SIU pensioners of their rights, how to use them, and how to best utilize retirement years .... the world's maritime community makes major strides toward bettering the life of its seafarers during the Eighth Maritime Con­ ference and 55th Session of the International Labor Organization. Paul Hall, president of SIU, serves as America's labor delegate at the Maritime Conference, .... the SIU celebrates its 32nd anniversary and 32 years of progress for American Seafarers .... Mary­ land's State Department of Education selects the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship as the General Education Development (GED) High School Equivalency Diploma Testing Center for St. Mary's County, Md. Addition of the new program offers Seafarers greater opportunities to obtain their GED diploma by waiving residency requirements and age requirements .... a remedial reading program is initiated at HLSS to help broaden the educational horizons of SIU members .... Marty Breithoff, SIU Tampa representative, dies .... AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department honors SIU Houston Port Agent Paul Drozak for "his distinguished service to organized labor" during a testimonial dinner-dance. James Burt, a member of the New Bedford Fisher­ men's Union, vainly attempts to persuade Coast Guard officers to permit Russian defector to asylum .... Prudential Grace Lines announces discontinua­ tion of East Coast passenger service .... Sea-land, an SlU-contracted company, announces plans to build six new tankers .... i^L-CIO Maritime Trades FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes spe­ cific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treas­ urer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file mem­ bers, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, specific recommendations and separate findings. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and management representatives and their alternates. All expen­ ditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund finan­ cial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copie-. of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Eail Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 275-20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1I2I5 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. December 1970 CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a re­ ceipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer Department sponsors a conference to evaluate the probable impact of recent changes in the administra­ tion of our foreign assistance programs and of proposals for further changes. DECEMBER MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at mem­ bership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-andfile committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take ship­ board employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long­ standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employ­ ers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or Biat he has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. Page 9 �m Building Strength Through Knowledge Letters to project at Piney Point gives one confidence that the men will be ready for the ships; and the photographs indicate what fine To the Editon type of men they are. In the October 1970 issue of I am convinced that seafaring the Log you appear to cast some is a pleasant and rewarding ca­ doubt on the ability of the U.S. reer for those adapted to the postal service and ^e postal em­ sea life. If I was eighteen, it ployees to deliver the mail. I would again be my choice. And must take issue with you as I instead of a crowded, smelly old know that nothing is allowed to 'glory hole,' I could leam the stay the fast and accurate de­ fundamentals of seagoing in that livery of the U.S. mail by these fine Piney Point installation. loyal and dedicated postal em­ Allow me also to thank you ployees and union members. for sending me the Log for all Let me assure you and your these years. That has allowed me readers that the men and women to keep up with the splendid who make up the U.S. postal growth of SIU activities, and service let nothing deter them in given me much pleasure. their effort to give the public the Yours for an upgraded finest service possible—no matter merchant marine, what the weather condition or the George R. Berens time of the day. MerrlmiK, Me. I mi^t suggest that this par­ ticular mail was returned to the U.S. by way of one of those Seafarer Mourns rusty, out-dated buckets that should have been replaced years Brel+hoff Death ago by a modern ship. To the Editon As president of this local I I have just returned to the make good use of the many in­ U.S. from the Far East. It was teresting and informative articles with a sad heart that I read about printed in the Log. Keep up the the untimely death of Marty good work and try to keep a kind Breithoff. I never had the pleasure thought for the postal employees. of sailing with him, but f did I congratulate the Seafarers In­ have the opportunity of dealing ternational Union on its progress with him on many occasions in through the years and support different ports. I found him to be you in your efforts to implement a fine person and a good union the provisions of the Merchant official. It is a great loss to his Marine Act of 1970. family, union and friends. Fraternally Yours, May be rest in peace B. J. Martin, President Ame R. Larsen Local 4635, U. F. P. C. San Francisco Glendora, Calif. Editors Note: The article re­ ferred to by Mr. Martin con­ Adlai III Casts cerned a story about a package of copies of the July 1968 Log, First Senate Vote which were returned to the news­ Two days into the "lame paper's office in the late Summer duck" post-election session of of 1970. Notations in Arabic were the Congress, labor's political penciled on the outside of the activities this year reaped a They studied, questioned, and learned about package, which had been sent to dividend. a ship due to dock in Khang Is­ the SIU Constitution, the document that guar­ land. Saudi Arabia. The article Adlai E. Stevenson III (D.antees absolute equality of rights among all SIU stated that "Saudi Arabia doesn't ni.) voted against an amend­ members. get much rain, sleet or snow so ment to weaken the Occupa­ And they found that the foundation for both it must have been a gloomy night tional Health and Safety Bill. their contract and their constitution was a his­ that caused a slip-up in the mail" Stevenson succeeded Ralph T. tory of sacrifice and dedication by Seafarers that was "returned to sender" two Smith, Republican, who was past and present that made today's solid, progres­ years later. given an interim appointment Take heart, Mr. Martin. The to the Senate after the death sive union possible^ Nor were the problems of today and the prom­ article was written in a humorous of Everett M. Dirksen. ises of tomorrow ignored. Facts and figures con­ vein and no disparagement of the postal service or the em­ cerning the plight of the American-flag mer­ U.S. ployees intended. We always WSAFARHW^MLOG chant fleet were presented side-by-side with have a kind thought for these the potential opportunities of the Mure made men arui women and the vital Dec. 1970 A Vol. XXXIII, No. 12 possible by passage of the Merchant Marine Act service they provide us. Official PublicaUon of the of 1970. Seafarers International Union of North America. Those who attended the first series of SIU Impressed With AUantlc, Gulf, Liakes Crews' Conferences and Pensioners' Conferences and Inland Waters District. left with a greater understanding and knowledge Act and Training AFL-CIO of their union and the maritime industry. This To die Editor: Executive Board Paul Hall. President understanding and knowledge will give added Allow me to congratulate you strength to the SIU in its battle to meet the on the October issue of the Log, . Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Exec. Vice-Prea. Vice-President challenges of tomorrow. a really fine one, containing much A1 Kerr Lindsw Williams good news and interesting articles. Sec.-Trees. Vice-President The passing of the Merchant A1 Tanner Robert Matthews Marine Act of 1970 is really Vice-President Vice-President good news. It should offer the from it. They are among its chief victims and impetus for the badly needed re­ they are not happy about it. . . . juvenation of the U.S. merchant The document is heavily weighted against marine. Having sailed in Ameri­ wage increases for workers, but is very solicitous can merchant ships for over forty Published monthly at 810 Rhode about profits of business—reporting only that years, including the period of Island Avenue N.B., Washington, D.C. 2001S by the Seafarers Intemaprofit margins increased this year and "some World War II, I can fully ap­ Uonal Union, AUantlc, Gulf, Lakes preciate how necessary this is. further rise is to be expected." and Inland Waters District, AFLGIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ Workers are willing to do their share to halt Let us hope that the Act will be lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ fully implemented, that once ond class postage paid at Wash­ inflation and balance the economy. The AFLington, D.C. America may take its CIO stands has said repeatedly that we would again POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: place as a major maritime power. Form 3679 cards should be sent accept restraints on wages, if similar controls And for those ships will be to Seafarers International Union, were placed equally on all other costs and in­ needed the men to man them— Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 comes, including prices, profits, dividends, rents men trained for the operation of Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. and all the different kinds of executive com­ modern ships. The fine display pensation. in the Log of that wonderful Postat Official Corrects Record SIU active members and pensioners—some 500 strong—^have taken part in the first series of SIU Crews' Conferences and SIU Pensioners' Conferences at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md. Their comments on the program clearly indi­ cate that these Seafarers have' a far greater knowledge of their union and its place in their lives—as well as in the fabric of America—^be­ cause of what they learned during the con­ ferences. (Samples of the general tone of the reaction of those who took part in the conferences appear on pages 16-17 of this issue of the Seafarers Log.) Crew members and pensioners became more aware of how the SIU contracts affect their everyday lives, both at sea and ashore; during their working days and after retirement; in times of health as well as in times of illness. They came away knowing that their union's contract with employers is the staff of living for the Seafarer and his family. Inflation No Fault of Labor One of the best replies to the Nixon Adminis­ tration's attempt to tag labor with the blame for inflation was given by AFL-CIO President George Meany. His position, one that speaks for us as well, is: The council of economic advisers contends that wage increases are the chief concern and concludes that workers should bear the major burden of the Administration's game plan to slow down inflation. "I don't buy that and American workers won't buy that," Meany said. The fact is that workers and wages did not cause this inflation and they have not profited Page 10 Seafarers Log �Labor, Industry Leaders Express Concern Over AID Washington A one-day symposium of in­ dustrial and labor leaders held here revealed the severe con­ sequences that the U.S. econ­ omy will suffer from the "un­ tying" of AID payments. The "untying"—^which al­ lows underdeveloped nations to spend our AID contributions in countries other than the U.S.— threatens the stability of basic U.S. industries, the livelihood of 180,000 Americans annually, and would upset the U.S. bal­ ance of payments and balance of trade, symposium speakers revealed. Sponsored by a cross-section of industry and labor organiza­ tions, including the Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the session stated for the first time what the results of "untying" will be. President Nixon ordered the "untying" in September for Latin American nations receiv­ ing AID payments, and in November for all other under­ developed nations receiving AID assistance. Nixon's actions were in re­ sponse to recommendations made by Nelson A. Rocke­ feller governor of New York, and Rudolph A. Peterson, presi­ dent of the Bank of America, who traveled to countries re­ ceiving AID to analyze the im­ pact of our aid to underdevel­ oped countries for Nixon. A1 Maskin, director of the American Maritime Associa­ tion, offered a brief rundown of the problem facing the nation with the advent of "untied" AID. E. W. Clark, co-director of the Labor-Management Mari­ time Conuxiittee presented a paper on the History of the U.S. foreign assistance program. Financial Breakdown A report presented by Capt. Richard Stone, of the Trans­ portation Institute—the Wash­ ington based maritime research organization—revealed that dur­ ing the decade of the sixties the U.S. gave a total of $11.4 billion dollars in economic, non-military foreign assistance, through programs administered by AID, the Agency for Inter­ national Development. ' Of that total, $9.2 billion, or over 80 percent, was spent within the U.S. In fact, in 1969, 99 percent of the AID dollars were actually spent in the U.S. "In spite of this activity, the nation experienced a general decline in the health of both its balance of trade and in its bal­ ance of payments," Stone noted. The balance of trade—a measurement of difference be­ tween the export of American products and the import of foreign products—^has histori­ cally been good in the U.S. As recently as 1964 it exported well over $7 billion more than it imported. But in 1965 a decline began that gained impetus by 1968, December 1970 when U.S. exports exceeded imports by only two percent. A corresponding decline in em­ ployment was experienced. metic is necessary to show that without 'tying' there would have been no expert surplus. We would have had a deficit!" "It is in this context then— serious unemployment, an in­ creasingly negative balance of payments, exports barely greater than imports—that we must look at the actions . . . in­ volving the 'untying' of U.S. AID," Stone said. Calls For Study James Reynolds, chairman of the event and president of the American Institute of Mer­ chant Shipping, called for the creation of a committee to study the problem further, based on the contents of the reports made at the symposium. Members of the committee will be selected from among the 50 persons who. attended the session. Among organiza­ tions and unions represented were the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work­ ers, the International Associa­ tion of Machinists, the Interna­ tional Economic Policy Associa­ tion, the National Defense Transportation Association, the Shipbuilders Council of Amer­ ica. The $9.2 billion that came back to the U.S., by purchases of goods, was spent primarily in 10 major industries: machin­ ery, electrical machinery, metal products, chemicals, transporta­ tion equipment, petroleum re­ fining, food products, rubber products, textiles and paper products. "In several of these industries the amount spent for aid pur­ poses represents a significant portion of total exports," Stone said. The elimination of as­ sistance expenditure purchases in the U.S. would reduce ex­ ports in many of these in­ dustries by large amounts," Stone said. Rubber product exports would decline by more than 12 percent, paper by near­ ly 8 percent, petroleum by over 8 percent. Endangers Economy Representatives of the fer­ tilizer industry who attended the session feared that the "un­ tying" would reduce their ex­ ports by 80 percent. Direct loss of employment if AID had been "untied" during the sixties would have totaled about 60,000 persons a year. But the cutbacks there would reduce the expenditures for goods and services these 60,000 persons would consume if they were working—resulting in lay­ offs in other industries, at a rate of three persons for each original job loss. Thus, a total of 180,000 persons a year would have lost their jobs through di­ rect and indirect impact of the untying. "It is obvious that the 'imtying' of U.S. aid can only result in a 'giveaway'—a giveaway of U.S. jobs," Stone said, noting that the "timing could not have been worse" since unemploy­ ment rates already are nearing 6 percent. "Timing was also poor if you consider "untying" from the viewpoint of a balance of pay­ ments," Stone said. The 10year deficit of the 60's was $27.5 billion. If the $9.2 bfilion of AID purchases had not been made in the U.S., but elsewhere, the total deficit would have jumped by 33.5 percent. The decline in the balance of trade that was experienced in the 1968 and 1969 would in­ dicate again that the timing of "untying" was poor. Stone said. "In each of these years over $1 billion of 'tied' AID pur­ chases were made in the U.S., he said. "Only simple arith­ Ttumias F. Sfrotfier Your father, John Strother, is anxious to hear from you. Please contact him at 4509 W. Carmen, Tampa, Ra. 33609. Hoyt L. Tanner Please contact your brother, Rob­ ert A. Tanner, as soon as possible in Dacula, Ga. 30211. Ernest M. Jadunan Mr. E. D. Foster, Captain of Detectives, has a brief case he would like to return to you. He asks that you contact him at the City Hall, City of Maron, Ga. Edward J. Kelley Your father, Edward Kelley, Sr., asks that you get in touch with him as soon as possible at 610 Jeri­ cho Turnpike, New Hyde Park, N.Y. 11040. Oilers and Firemen aboard Cortez A. G. Worley asks that any oiler or fireman who was on board the Cortez during the month of Feb­ ruary, 1968 at the San Francisco repair yard and Sacramento, Calif, contact him as soon as possible about an urgent matter. He asks that you call him collect at: 415535-1998 or 415-982-9617. Andrew Runiak Please get in touch with your sister, Mrs. Aim Tomko, as soon as possible, at 3301 Clark Lane, South Plainfield, N.J. DISPATCHERS REPORT Osborne Williams Your wife, Helen, would like you to contact her at 34-34 111 Street, Corona, L.I., N.Y., as soon as pos­ sible. Herbert G. McDonald Your attorneys in Houston, Tex., have been trying to contact you. Yemon E. Williams Nicholas Alaga asks that you contact him at Central Tower Suite 2000, 703 Market Street, San Fran­ cisco, Calif. 94103. Hugh C. Slattery Your wife, Mary, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 4474 Appian Way, El Sobrante, Calif. 94803. William J. Conneis Your brother, Henry, would like to hear from you as soon as pos­ sible at 413 East 65th St., Savan­ nah, Ga. 31405. Riley M. Crabb Please get in touch with your wife as soon as possible at 631 S. Patterson Park Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 21231. Robert D. Bridges Your mother, Mrs. Onida Rich­ ards, asks that you contact her at 20l9Vi De Lesseps Avenue, Savan­ nah, Ga. Lawrence Travis Contact J. Sawyer at P.O. Box 1442, Norfolk, Va. regarding some of your personal belongings. Atlanric. Gulf & inland Woters Dlslriet 'I Novombeir 1.1970 fo November 30.1970 - • -IPSB-v' • DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston . S New York 131 112 Philadelphia 17 11 Baltimore 34 19 Norfolk 23 14 Jacksonville 27 23 Tampa . 26 13 Mobile ..........,..>4 V- 49 15 New Orleans 70 59 Houston 97 56 Wilmington 29 : 47 San Francisco ^ 134 110 / Seattle 34 44 677 529 Totals •. M REGISTERED ON BEACH • An Groups OassA a^B OassC 7 2 75 88 11 3 20 13 23 15 •V4;-'.. 3 14 12 17 15 2 0 22 0 22 10 o 50 49 6 56 40 33 35 29 0 109 105 9 28 24 19 ; 454 - 428 92 ^ All Groups ClassA ClassB 10 0 164 200 19 14 46 110 51 44 43 52 16 26 71 35 120 155 143 125 58 :: 34 103 130 10 34 1035 778 -a ' •''•a ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED ... - ^r Port Boston ................ New York ............ Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans ........ Houston Wilmington ........ San Francisco ...... Seattle .^4..............4 Totals All Groups ClassA Cl^B 3 3 80 128 9 6 23 23 26 9 20 17 7 22 28 29 73 65 68 49 20 34 68 112 34 20 . 396 580 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Pass A Class B CJassC 2 1 1 15 58 94 0 12 11 4 45 21 --.i 7 7 2 17 , 5 12 0 2 0 20 12 0 32 52 63 24 38 27 1 30 100 27 67 17 16 24 97 429 326 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups QassA Class B Class C Class A Class B , Port: 4 3 2 Boston •: 2 47 17 58 •. New York 82 46 . 7 -V 4 6 Philadelphia ........ 10 /'• • 5 15 6 2 28 Baltimore ^ '5 14 13 Norfolk 13 5 5 16 16 16 1 Jacksonville ........ 12 0 22 0 ^ Tampc* :1 „ 13 n-'-, 1 i Mobile 37 • 10 10 .. ' 21 . -l 38 33 1 New Orleansu..Vv>i i 52 25 V , 35 • 1 Houston 27 34 23 i Wilmington 16 1 , 22 8 17 1 ISan Francisco ; 72 39 63 68 59 ||Seattle ; 8 10 : 13 . , 28 >r'Sf£^^25 260 121 309 i: 395 • REGISTERED ON BEAOff All Groups ClassA ClassB 7 4 191 131 10 8 53 77 53 29 44 20 17 17 55 47 195 117 104 88 13 28 82 74 9 11 839 636 m REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups ClassA ClassB 4 4 97 131 10 14 86 53 27 29 23 20 5 21 64 22 85 120 37 67 16 28 49 104 ' 28 3 433 : 714 Page U �Where They Care For Seafarers Lung disorders are screened with X-rays, checked by Dr. Oscar B. Camp, during every SIU members' annual physical exam. T \ M'- Page 12 ie dissappointment was hard to mask—the youth had been excited about shipping Out on his first assignment as a Seafarer. The trip would have to be postponed. The doctor had just told him, for he had two cavities. Two cavities??? It doesn't sound like much, but it is sufficient to prevent a man from receiving the health card that is required upon entering the SIU and is renewable yearly thereafter. With two cavities, the delay for this lad will be minimal. Once he has them filled, he can return to the SIU Medical Center, at 1216 feast Baltimore Street, and be given a health card—and clearance to sjiip out. The stiff requirements of the entrance physical are one of the reasons that the clinic's screening examina­ tions have been so successful. "The thrust of our program is prevention of serious illness," explains Dr. Oscar B. Camp, medical direc­ tor at the clinic. "If a man gets seriously ill while at sea, it becomes very complicated for all concerned. So, we set high standards at the beginning, and ac­ cept only the most physically-fit of those who apply for admission to the SIU." The preventative approach extends beyond physi­ cals for new Seafarers—each year that he is an active SIU member he must have that card renewed, and that entails another complete physical. The follow-up physicals aren't quite as stiff, but very high standards are maintained. In the clinic reception room, a vast area on the fourth fioor of the SIU building, men wait for thenname to be called. Some fidget nervously, others sit in small groups chatting quietly—renewing acquain­ tances with friends they sometimes don't see except between trips to sea. Some, like "Tex" (Samuel) Powell, 41, are frequent visitors. Tex usually doesn't have an appointment. He just comes in to use the scale. "I don't always like what I see," he admitted as the nurse began to move the weights on the scale. "I'm trying to get down to 215." When the scale balanced at 248 he cringed, took off his cowboy boots, and got back on. "Every pound counts," he grinned. The net result since he'd last been weighed—a gain of three pounds. Those with appointments can anticipate blood and urine tests, a chest X-ray, a tuberculosis "Tine" test,' a proctoscopic examination, dental and visual tests, and an electrocardiagiam for those over 35, or whose health history indicates it is necessary. There's, a rather steady stream of clinic "custo­ mers." Tex is from Baltimore, and many of those who come for their physicals are, indeed, residents of the area. But many are from far-flung parts of the U.S., and may have had their last check-up in Mobile, Ala., Houston, New York, New Orleans or Philadelphia. These are the medical centers of the Atlantic and Gulf districts of the SIU, and they work in concert. "A seaman is an itinerant person by nature," Dr. Camp explains, "and it is impractical to expect him to show up at the same medical center each year for his physical." So, Baltimore sends all its records to the other clinics of the Atlantic and Gulf districts, and the other clinics reciprocate. Then any Seafarer can visit any medical center—the one most convenient to him when it's time to renew his health card. Since the Baltimore clinic opened in 1957, thou- ikrers •J �Robin Garrett ian't sure she likes the poke in the arm given hj Dr. Jdba B. littlelon on "children's day** at the SlU clinie. She's one of many dependents who are eligihle for annual health care under the medical benefits program. There's also a 'Stives' dajr"—and every day is "Seafarers' day." Dr. Littleton wears a cervical collar, hecause he is recovering from a spinal operation. Dr. George Agapitos, one of the staff physicians at Baltimore center, listens for heart and respira­ tory sounds as routine part of examination. SIU member David Ehy, 58, undergoes physical with­ out complaint. "It's very important to guys at sea," he explains. The thorough check-up pro­ gram has improved the health records. sands of Seafarers have passed through its doors. About 90 a month is an average patient load—but if there's a lot of shipping activity, with a lot of men in port, the rate increases. Conversely, if things are slow f at the Port of Baltimore, there's a decline in business 1 at the medical center. I Dr. Camp, a suave-looking 50, says the program I met with skepticism on the part of many veteran k Seafarers when it was first initiated. "There were some individuals who were suspicious f of the program, and felt it was an infringement on ^ their rights,'-' he explains. "But after they became ^ used to the idea, and were treated, and found the y result was better physical health for themselves—an • •' overall improved condition—their attitudes changed." Also, the "inconvenience factor" is kept at a min­ imum. A Seafarer can make an appointment for any morning of the week, and drop by to pick up his health card on the same afternoon, or be told why one cannot be issued him. Dr. Camp believes the program is innovative among unions and credits SIU President Paul Hall with hav­ ing "vision and foresight to realize that although it was costly and sometimes difficult to institute, that it eventually means savings of lives and money." He says the incidence of illness and pathology among Seafarers has improved considerably since the program began, and because of the yearly check-up system, it should be easy to maintain a high level of health. If a Seafarer is found to have some health prob­ lem when he shows up for his annual physical screen­ ing, he is given a three-month or six-month card, instead of the usual one-year card. Then he is re­ ferred to the nearest U.S. Public Health Service Hos­ pital for treatment. If his problem is serious enough, he is not given any health card, and told to check in with the USPHS immediately for treatment. The Public Health Service hospitals are located in port areas throughout the U.S. and offer complete hospital facilities and dental care free to Seafarers. Dependents of SIU members are also eligible for the annual screenings at the medical centers, and Dr. Camp says Tuesday afternoons are set aside for chUdren at the Baltimore clinic, and Thursdays for wives. Any problems encountered during the dependents' physicals are referred to their private physicians, be­ cause wives and children are not eligible for the Pub' lie Health Service Hospital care. Dr. Camp, whose speciality is general surgery, does perform minor surgery on some SIU members—us­ ually on an outpatient basis—but the bulk of his and his staff's work is diagnostic. He has three other doctors and a clinical technician working with him. David Eby, 58, of Baltimore, has been a merchant seaman since 1935—but he only joined the SIU "in 1965. He views the SIU health care program as "very important to guys at sea." How does it contrast to the care he was getting prior to joining the SIU? "This is much better than Brand X," he laughed. The clinic facilities are shared by the International Ladies Garment Workers union. December 1970 Mn. Evans does all the laboratory work at the Baltimore center. Here she checks a slide of blood samples for Rh factor. Page 13 �SlU Retirees Attend Seminars, Explore SlU's Piney Point Farm R etired Seafarers from across the United States have gathered at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamansnip to leam about their union during the SIU Pensioners Conferences. The veterans attended daily classes and tours to familiarize them with the school and participated in seminars to keep them up to date on the SIU and its policies. Pension and Welfare classes explained their rights as retired members of the SIU. According to the written report of the partici­ pants, the conferences were successful. The old timers were especially impressed with the plans to construct low-cost housing in a self-sustaining community on the grounds at Piney Point. Many showed interest and predicted that "We'll be back." PensionerN attending Conference 3 from New York were E. Bondelbo, A. Dockeris, G. Alexander and J. Kari. From New Orleans, Oovis Compan, Thomas Hyde, H. Fossett and S. Ureta. From Phil­ adelphia, Charles Moss. From Baltimore, I. Elisercf, Walter Adlam and Lindon Webber. SIU Pension Conference 7 mem­ bers were flanked by New Orleans Port Patrolman Louis Guarino, left, and Deputy Director of Trade Union Education Paul McGaham for their conference pho­ tograph. Members from Houston were, J. O. McCann and Mayo Brasseaux. From New Orleans, Carey Beck. From Philadelphia, Michael Schalestock, E. T. DeLaPena, E. G. Johnston and Comas Knight. From New York; W. Blumen, Juan Hernandez, Robert Zumkley, Arthur Graf and Uldaricc Marjudio. Pensioners from Conference 6 pose beneath the Harry Lunde­ berg Motel awning on a rainy day. Conference members attend­ ing from Houston were, R. Viloriz. From Baltimore, H. Vincent. From Mobile, Roy Pritchetl and Clarence Roney. From New York, E. Goulding, J. Mucins and R. McKensie. From New Orleans, M. Traba. From Philadelphia, B. Crawford. From Seattle, C. Woo­ len. HLSS President Robert Matthews is third from right. Pension Conference 4 visitors to Piney Point take time out for a photograph. Participants were Mike Sikorsky from Baltimore.From New Orleans, R. DeShong, R. Irizairy and C. Montoya. From New York, Roy McCannon, N. Nomikos, J. Stodelski and J. Szczipanski. From Philadelphia, William Millison. From San Fran­ cisco, L. Evans, H. Herkinheins and W. Toomer. Page 14 Retirees' Wives Can Get SS Aid By A. A. Bernstein Few SIU members and their wives are probably aware of the benefits Social Security pro­ grams offer to wives of workers entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits and to di­ vorced wives. However, being aware of the kinds of assistance Social Se­ curity does give—and the limi­ tations of these programs—is one way of preparing for prob­ lems that could arise in the fu­ ture. In general, wives of SIU members qualify for receiving cash benefits that are equal to one-half of their husbands' full retirement or disability benefits. In some cases, wives will be entitled to more than half of her husband's benefits and in other cases, less. A divorced wife is also eligi­ ble to receive some of these benefits, provided she meets certain requirements. SIU members and their fam­ ilies should address all ques­ tions they would like answered to A. A. Bernstein, director of Social Security and Welfare Services, Seafarers Welafre and Pension Plans, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. Q: I was getting Social Se- ^ curity as the wife of a retired SIU worker until I went back to work. Now I have woiked enou^ to get retirement bene­ fits on my own record. Can I collect as both a wife and re­ tired person? A: Sorry, you can't get both benefits at the same time. But if the benefit based on your own earnings would be larger than the amount you'd collect as a wife, you would get this higher benefit. Q: My husband and I re­ ceive a single Social Security check with both our names on it. Can we receive separate checks? A: Yes. Checks for married couples usually are combined to save adniinistrative costs and to save check cashing fees. But it you would rather receive separate checks, just send a written request, signed by you or your husband, to your So­ cial Security office. Q: My wife is 62. Can she get Social Security retirement benefits if I don't retire? A: If she has enough Social Security credit of her own to qualify as a retired worker, she can collect whether you retire or not. But she cannot get bene­ fits based on your work record unless you are retired. Q: My wife collects Social Security as my dependent She just started working and will make more than $1,680 this year. How will this ^ect our checks? A: Your check will stay the same, because your benefit is only affected if you work. But your wife's benefit will be re­ duced according to the amount she earns. • • I �SEAFARERSA^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO ; g: HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP ST. MARVSCOONIY.PtNEV POINT, MO. 20474 Sfefc'' -i- -<• X (30l| 9944)010 si T REPORT ON: SIU CREWS AND PENSIONERS CONFERENCES More than 500 of our union's members — active Seafarers and pensioners — participated in a 12-week series of Crews Conferences and Pensioners Conferences that began Sept. 14 at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Maryland. The purpose of the conferences has been to provide mem­ bers with an opportunity to learn more about their union and the maritime industry. The goal of the conferences has been to make the SIU member the best informed union member anywhere. The conferences gave our members a closer look at the his­ tory of the SIU, their union contract and constitution, and their pension and welfare benefits. The conferences made SIU members more aware of the problems and of the future of the maritime industry. -! lii" w. The conferences have been part of a unique experiment in education at the school — the blending together of trade union seminars, vocational training and academic education. Those who attended the conferences saw first-hand how the program is progressing. J? H- On the following pages, the members tell in their own words their feelings about the school, the conferences and the training programs. Fraternally, Robert A. Matthews, -President Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship • is m • W', �V- 4s;--' ;m-,. . •* * What 51U Members Say About Crews Conferences U'- ::' Joe Powers "I attended the crew conference not knowing what to expect. What I found IS hey are not n is rne the rinesT finest Training training school tor for seamen anywhere. I They only giving the trainees first class training in the three departments but the f are teaching those that need it how to read. I think that reading is the basis or everything, They are even helping trainees to get high school certificates. would like to see this program made available to the men on the ships. William Morris "I don't consider myself an educator, but it is my opin­ ion that the academic and vocational programs are the finest I have heard of anywhere in the country, and prob­ ably in the world. It goes without saying that the instruc­ tors and administrators are of top-notch quality. Although at times I regret that we did not have this when I started sailing long ago." % E. 1. Kenny "I know that I have benefited a great deal since coming here and I am sure that the rest of this group has too. I have come to realize many facts about our union which I had not known about before coming to Piney Point and of the many problems that face our union and the shipping industry today." Mohlond Conn "It is my opinion that the character of young men turned out at Piney Point will be of the greatest benefit to the SlU and the Maritime industry. They are getting the finest vocational training that they could." Carl E. GIbbs "Piney Point is proof positive of what can be accom­ plished oy cooperation, enlightened management and farsighted, competent Union leaders. Training young men is a problem of National importance and here it is being met head-on. One has only to study this project and pro­ gram at Piney Point to realize how vital it is to the future of our nation." Walter E. Durden "It is an excellent vocational training program you have here at Piney Point. The training ship "Claude Sonny Simmons" impressed me a lot. The machine shop is equipped with the very best as far as I am concerned. . . ." Raymond W. Hodges ig class cl "The reading is fine, but I think it would be fine if the trainees who don't have a high school education could continue their education possibly through a correspon­ dence course after they ship out. Also old time seamen."... Joseph A Shofl "I learned a great deal during my stay at the conference, and I think that all of us will benefit from it. I m a pensioner and the things I learned about benefits and other things for retired people will help me a lot. I was glad to see the kind of training program we have, too, because now I feel much better that the future of our union will be secure. Also, I am glad to see that we are going to extend our education program so that all of our members can improve themselves. After talking to the teachers down there, there is no doubt in my mind that we have the best in the country." Otto Tonner "Before coming to Piney Point, I did not expect to see that all the facilities for teaching the young trainees would have so efficientlly progressed. In fact, it was a surprise for an old sailor to see all the floating craft, sailing ships and boats. It sure made me feel right at home." Eddie Bonks, Jr. "Since visiting Piney Point, I've come to realize that about 85 percent of wnat I had heard about the SlU and Piney Point was wrong. By attending Crew Conference meetings, the tours around the installation and the train­ ing school, I have come to be very proud of being part of this organization." Robert Hozenzohl "I believe that this and other groups that have come to the Crews Conference have gotten a new outlook on the Union and the programs that we are in. We have learned a lot more than we knew before this conference and have a new outlook on the school program." C. Durden "The training being given our trainees at Piney Point will ill pay off by having better seamen and better union men aboard SlU ships. What impressed me most, how­ ever, is the academic training and preparing trainees to get high school diplomas. This program should be extended to members on the ships through correspondence courses." J. R. Wilson "The library is spacious and well equipped. And for research purposes, if your subject is 'Maritime,' you Will do yourself a service by taking advantage of what the li­ brary has to offer. It's prabably the best of its kind." Richard Morgan "Through the facilities at Piney Point, I firmly believe we are on our way toward greater brotherhood. The train­ ing programs set up for the students here and the institu­ tion of the Crews Conferences, as being conducted, will certainly contribute highly in attaining a better "brother­ hood" with the ultimate result of a stronger SlU." Joseph H. LumentI "My irnpression of re-orientation is that everyday I've been here I've enjoyed and learned something. I think others will do the same. I also feel that we haven't bragged enough on what we have at Piney Point because we have the best training program in the country." Howard Levlne "There is one time in my life where I can say I was one of the hundreds that helped build this school for the suc­ cess of the young men and future Seafarers that pass through the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship." Donald Robinson "I feel the school not only supplies the demand for sea­ men in our union, but trains the newcomer in education, sports and fellowship." William F. Doron "Now that I have seen Piny Point and its facilities I am deeply impressed, particularly with the trainees and what is made available to them. In my mind it must be the best preparatory program any union has attempted for their beginners." ... Herbert E. Lone "After 24 years in the U.S. Navy, I consider the IHLSS) training program is about the best I've seen in the U.S.A., including service schools, and I know for I've been to quite a few service schools." Alfred Borjer "I have been sailing for 36 years and I am now on pen­ sion. It was a great surprise to me when I came to Piney Point. More than ISO boys, many of them from poor fami­ lies, are learning the fundamentals of seamanship under the guidance of able instructors where they can really learn something. You have to see the modern facilities and equipment to believe it." J. Grlvos "From what I've seen down here at the school and at the farm, you can^ be sure that when the houses for pensioners are built, I will be among the first to come back to stay for a while. Maybe I'll try to buy one." Gory Jorvis "On the training program for the new men, I was very impressed and surprised that we have such modern equip­ ment and skilled instructors. . . . The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship is something we have all needed for a long time and now we have it." Lewis T. Everett "I was surprised to see how far the SlU has progressed The Vocational and Academic program is the most up to date I've ever seen. The result will be finer seamen and better members of the SlU." Charles Hamilton "I visited the library aboard the Charles S. Zimmerman and was surprised at the large, complete assortment of books and also the reference books that the trainees need for their schooling." • 4 William Todd "The remedial reading classes and the high school equivalency should be of great benefit to our men." Robert G. Lowson "I can see the Hariy Lundeberg School of Seamanship developing into one of the major schools and colleges in the country . . . The first thing that impressed me about the school was how far the SlU has gone in such a short time in years." Fred Carter "Again let me congratulate the staff members at Piney Point for the wonderful job they are doing with our young people. With all of the disruptions and conditions we have in our country today, it is eminently impressive that we have people in our union who have dedicated their lives to our great American heritage of becoming a shining light so that others may follow." Frank J. Connell "What I really didjike is the schooling and training our future sailors are getting which is a reminder of just what our union is doing for us in the future." •f' Edward Sekella ^ "What impressed me most was the school ship 'Sonny Simmons'—very well equiped. If a guy does not learn anything about a ship here, he just doesn't want to learn." Page 16 Otis Paschal "I was amazed to see class after class being taught by instructors who showed great insight, depth and knowledge of the subject. I thing that if a trainee is interested and wants to become a seamen and SlU member, H.L.S.S. gives him the basic requirements." ... ... I. L . SpHlane In this world, where there is an abundance of evidence of indifference to the problerns of the young, it is a source of ptide to me that the union I belong to, under the guidance of our leadership, has at least made an attempt to do something positive and constitutional to help a great number of younsters who othewise might not make it in this world of ours." Seafarers Loc December Bobby Lister ince I learned how to participate in a meeting "After coming to this conference aboard ship. And I learned a lot about the history off the SlU and the hard­ ships my brother seamen had in trying to develop and uphold a good union such as we have now." �•S!;. SlU Crews Conferences P^3 ^ri;>''- £. Adams E. D. Adams Earl Adams M. Acquire C. Akers T. Aleck G. f. Allen N. A. Allen George Anderson Thomas Anderson M.Ard A. Armada John Arthur John Ashley I. AYerill D. BackowHz K. Bain E. Banks A. Barfholomen, Jr. Melvin Bass H. Baum E. Y. Bean Bruce Beattie A. C. Bell Stephen Bergeria Norman Bergeron L Bettis K. Binemantis John Black Joe Blatchford' Joseph Bonefont Abe Botelho Isaak Bouiin J. Brady D. Bronstein J. Brown C. Buckley D. Busby J. Bush M. Conn R. Caldwell J. W. Calhoun Michael CarlisI C. Carr F. M. Carter A. D. Carter E. Casey W. Cassidy W. Chancey F. Charneco T. E. Clough A. Coale James Coggins J. Coleman R. Coleman E. Collins H. Collier I. Concepcion Y. Conde F. Conforto J. Conino Kevin Conklin F. Connell H. Connolley J. Cronin C, Constantine B. Crockett W. Cullen E. Cullerton M. Culp E. Dale Gill Dandin R. Danielak Ben Davis C. Davis R. M. Davis C. Daugherty A. Debelich J. F. Dellanavy John Dellinger Alan De Rosier John De-Yaux F. Dickey J. Dimmitt John Dixon W. Donovan L. Dooley W. Doran James Daren L P. Drummond H. P. Ducloux C. Durden W. Durden H. L. Durban C. Dwyer Bill Eckert P. Ellis George Evans L. Everett David Fair S. Feritta A. Ferrara E. E. Field C. L. Fishel Y. J. Fitzgerald G. Flint E. D. Flowers L. Fontenot John Ford J. A. Fox S. French S. H. Fulford L. Godson W. Gramer R. Garrett G. Gartland J. J. George Joseph George C. Gibbs J. Gibbs D. F. Gibson Daniel Gopshes R. Gorju D. Gore J. Gotseff J. Gray N. Gray J. Green S. Gregory J. C. Griffith Y. A. Grima J. Lenahan F. Habenight E. Hagger F. F. Hamby C. HamiltonW. E. Hampson C. Hand R. C. Hanke R. Hannon Will Harrin D. G. Harrison R. Hazenzahl James Hassel James Hastings Thomas Head C. Hazzard Roland Hebert Y. Herbert W. Henry 0. Hernandez J. Hester A. Higham L L. Hipp R. Hodges Lester Hoffman E. HoHt M. Holder Paul Honeycutt R. L. Houston W. A. Houston K. Howland Thomas Howell H. Huntley S. J. Hutchinson 1. leremia C. Jackson D. Jacobs G. Jarvis M. Jensen J. Johns A. Johnson J. R. Jones -. Stephen Jones T. Jones J. Kanowles B. L. Keenan D. M. Kellam E. Kenney Terranee Kibler T. Kibler T. Kidd P. G. King Robert Kirkwood Alan Kniffin B. C. Knotts T. Koroke F. Kraenier Edward Kresz Eugene Kysar L. Kyser H. Lancaster H. Lane Herbert Lanier R. Lawson C. Lee Donald Leight Robert Leight D. Leon Jacob Levin H. Levine Willie Lindsay Bobby Lister G. W. Lloyd B. Locke R. Loizzi E. Lonczynski H. Lopez J. Lopez Harold Lowry W. F. Luhrsen J. Lumenti Thomas Lyies K. Lynch Tommy Lynch D. Machula K. E. Macinnes E. Mahoney Robert Malone F. Manchack Fred Manchack, III S. Marano J. Marcier J. Markley David Martin Mosell Meyers W. Matthews R. Matlock B. Mattson Y. McCallum J. McCants E. P. McCaskey R. N. McCausland John McCleland W. McConnell R. McCormick George McCraney C. McCue James McHugh T, A. McNeil . Thomas McQuay James .Messic D. Messina R. Metcalf M. Michel K. Miller. R. 0. Mills Peter Mistritta J. Mitchell R. Mitchell W. Modeen C. Modellas Rue! Moffett Charles Moody 0. Morales R. Morgan Walter Mosley W. Morris J. J. Morrison H. Oakes D. R. Oblander R. O'Connor H. Odom J. O'Ferrell O. E. Olsen A, Opsal Oscar Ozer D. Paccio C. Pafford D. L Parker James Parrish John Parrish J. Persley S. Partyka 0. Paschal D. Pase J. Paios A. Pelt on P. D. Perry R. Pinkhan Y. Placey P. Pollard R. R. Poovey J. Powers J. Quartarano Yincent Quinn J. Quinter C. Ramos Harreld Reed Tom Reim H. Reisamer P. Reyes David Rich A. Richard J. Richburg J. Rioux Frank Rixxo R. Rabbins D. C. Robinson J. Robinson J. Rode A. Rodriguez J. Rogers R. Ross Michael Rucker ,A. R. Rudnicki A. Rummel Douglas Ryan J. Saenz Darry Sanders T. Savage Raymond Savior B. H. Schenk Gregg Schroeder H. Schueter Russell Schwertzer C. Scott E. Sekella Charles Shaw R. Shelton B. E. Shepherd 1. Sherman W. Showers M. Siegel E. Sieradski B. Simmons W. Simmons Gus Small G. Smalls Clarence Smith L. G. Smith Richard Smith A. Smitherman R. Smitko C. Sommers Eric Sorenson R. South L Spagler Thomas Spangles. James Spell H. Spillane J. Stathis H. St. Clair N. Steadham Paul Stein W. Stevens C. B. Steward Edward Stewart J. Stiles F. S. Stirk L. Y. Stirper A. C. Stortroen R. Stough J. Strain Ray Strength S. Strickland J. Talley B. Taylor R. Theiss Don Thompson J. Thornton J. Tigett W. Todd E. Toner Otto Tonner Tor berg Tonnessen M. Toth O. Tunner F. Unger Neal Yan Linde F. Yan Looy Miguel Yiers T. Yines John Yorchack J. Walan R. Wallace F. Wall Frances Warren P. E. Warren Y. Warren E. Welch J. Welch John Wheeler J. White E. Wiley F. Williams Keith Williams T. Williams E. Willis M. Willis J. R. Wilson W. Wilson L. Wing Chambers Winskey J. C. Winstedt Fred Wipp Paul Wolf A. E. Wood J. C. Woods L. P. Wright George Yeachle S. Young SlU Pensioners Conferences Walter Ad lam G. Alexander B. Baterna Carey Beck W. Blumen E. Bondelbo A. Bonti Alfred Borjer A. Bayer Mayo Brasseaux Clovis Compan E. Constantino A. S. Conti Walter Cook B. Crawford S. Day Richard DeGarrf E. T. DeLaPena R. DeShong A, Dockeris J. Dovak L P. Drummond O. N. Edwards Lazaro Eilorin L Eliserio L Evans John Flannery T. Fortin H.Fossett B. Foster T. Garrity L. Goodwin E. Goulding Arthur Graf J. Grivas P. Gruz H. Herkinheins J. Hernandez L. Hogan Thomas Hyde R. Irizarry C. Izguierdo E. B. Johnston J. Kari Comas Knight A. Langley M. Lubiejewski Gustabe Lueth John Maasik M. Madrang F. Mazel F. Miller Uldarico Merjudio William Millison Charles Moss C. Montoya W. Morris J. Mucina J. Munin Roy McCannon J. D. McCants James McCloud L. McCullough R. McKenzie W. McNeil N. Nomikos J. Pastrasno A. Platis W- Pleszczuk Roy Pritchett R. Ramsperger W. Reck W. Reidy S. Rogamos G. Romano Clarence Roney J. Russell M. Schalestork H. Seymour Joseph Shea Mike Sikorsky J. Stodolski Adam Swiszczoski J. Szczipanski W. Toomer M. Traba T. Urbina S. Ureta R. Yiloria H. Yincent Lindon Webber R. White J. WillHord H. S. Wilson C. Wooten Robert Zumkley St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St St - �Crews Conferences Pictured during SIU Crew Conference 4 are, from New York: E. V. Bean, W. Cassidy, J. Lenahan, K. Miller, J. Fazos, V. Placey and J. Rogers. From Baltimore: John DeVaux, David Fair, James Messic, Peter Mistritia, T. Spangler and Fred Wipp. From Houston: T. E. Clough, W. E. Hampson, P. G. King and Edward Stewart. From Mo­ bile: A. C. Bell, L. Bettis, F. M. Carter, J. W. OTerrell, D. C. Robinson and W. F. Simmons. From New Orleans: K. Binemantis, R. Coleman, L. Fontenot, V. Herbert and A. Rodriquez. Representing San Francisco are: L. AverUI, R. Morgan, J. Smitko, R. South, J. Statbis and F. linger. From Philadelphia: Edward Kresz, Clarence Smith and Vincent Quinn. Visiting the HLSS farm. Crew Conference 6 members were told about the facilities and plans for expansion. The Seafarers are, from Baltimore: C. Pafford, L. C. Smith, and D. Pase. From Boston: R. M. Davis and C B. Stewart. From Jacksonville: Thomas McQuay. From Mobile: T. Savage, M. Ard, E. Collins, J. Tigett, S. H. Fulford and R. L. Houston. From York: R. McCormick, J. Gray, R. O'Connor, Isaak Bouzin, A. Rummel, R. Danielak, W. Morris, D. Leon and O. Paschal. From New Orleans: F. Conforto, E. Banks and W. Simmons. From Philadelphia: L. Spangler. From San Fran­ cisco: J. Welch, M. Willis, R. Rohbins, O. Morales, C. Ramos and J. C. Winstedt. From Houston: Ray Streng^. Standing at extreme right of the photo is New York Port Agent Leon Hall. Members of Crew Conference 5 gathered for a group photo during their 10-day semi­ nar. Participants were, from Baltimore: A. Debelich, John Dixon, J. C. Griffith, Her­ bert Lanier, Charles Shaw and Miguel Viers. From Houston: D. M. Kellam, D. Bronstein, H. Reisames. From Mobile: G. F. Allen, D. G. Harrison, J. Kanowles, T. Kidd Jr., L. Wing and Al Smitherman. From New York: W. Donovan, D. Paccio, Thomas Anderson, James Coggins, Ben Davis. From New Orleans: E. Adams, E. D. Adams, J. Conino, W. F. Luhrsen, R. Matlock and P. Mistretta. From Philadelphia: D. Backowitz, H. Collier and Alan Kniffin. From San Francisco: E. B. Flowers, O. Hernandez, E. P. McCaskey, O. E. Olsen, B. Todd and J. R. Wilson. In this photo they are accom­ panied by New York Port Patrolman Angus "Red" Campbell, second from left, and SIU Representative Frankie Mongelli, center of sign. Gathering on the Harry Lundeberg Motel grounds are members of Crew Conference 7. Participants were: from Baltimore, C. Akers^ K. Bain, L. Dooley, J. Gibbs, J. Green and J. Richburg. From Houston: John Ford and Thomas Head. From Mobile: H. P. DuOoux, L. L. Hipp, A. Johnson, B. L. Keenan, L. V. Stripe and J. Robinson. From New Orleans: A. Bartholomen, W. Henry, and R. Shelton. From New York: Melvin Bass, V. Grima, H. Huntley, H. Schueter and C. Sommers. From Philadelphia: J. Machula, D. Messina, R. Ross and and J. Stiles. From San Francisco: H. Baum, G. Gartland, R. Lawson, R. Pinkham, P. Reyes and J. Strain. I- i. Crew Conference 9 participants stand in front of the HLSS Motel lobby. Members were: from Baltimore, A. Armada, L. Gadson, J. Mercier, J. Hester, J. Rode and Charles Gill. From Mobile: T. Jones, T. A. McNeil, L. P. Wright, D. Parker and A. Opsal. From New York: M. Jensen, H. St. Oair, E. Dale, J. Powers, R. Loizzi, S. Partyka, R. Wallace and W. Modeen. From New Orleans: W. McConnell, A. Bothelo, R. Stough, S. Marano, M. Toth, Robert Caldwell, J. Saenz and G. Flint. From Philadelphia: Greg Schroeder and Frank Rizzo. From San Francisco: J. F. DeUanavy, J. A. Fox, R. R. Poovey, E. Sieradski, C. L. Fishel and I. loremia. I •„ ft! Dl |l • K Crew Conference 10 participants pose for a group photo. Conference members from Houston were: H. L. Durham and Leon Drummond. From Baltimore: John Dellinger and George Hand. From New York: J. R. Jones, Joseph Quartarano, Anthony Ferrara, Dee Jacobs, Fred Habenicht, Edward Casey, Robert Metcalf and Stuart French. From Mobile: W. CuUen, Albert Coalcy, Earl Adams and David Gibson. From New Orleans: Frank Kraemer, Fred Williams, Gus Smalls, Nathaniel Gray, Salvador Feritta, J. Dimmitt and F. Charneco. From San Francisco: Richard McCausland, D. R. Oblander, Bertis Schenk, Andrew Stortroen, E. CuUerton and Glenn Lloyd. December 1970 Page 19 �- - i' > '*Sit- r& • • vv;" ^^Gentlemen, the lifeboat can save your life!'* Lifeboat Knowledge Can Save Lives ne of the most important facets of traming future Seafarers at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point is the classroom and practical instruction for life­ boat certification. Lifeboat training is part of the vocational curriculum that insures that trainees will be able to advance above entry level jobs. Coast Guard regulations require that seamen must be qualified to qualify in a lifeboat in order to upgrade to key ratings. The trainees are required to pass written and practical examinations to prove that they are capable of handling a lifeboat before they graduate from the school. The first tv/o weeks of the 12 week course of training is devoted to preparation for the Lifeboat examination. The students are taught the basics of first aid and survival in addition to "Abandon Ship" drill. There are sound reasons for such prepara­ tion, with emphasis on emergency shipboard O procedures since the instructors, know that the ability to properly use a lifeboat has saved, in the past, and will save, in the future, the lives of many seamen. At the conclusion of lifeboat training each trainee takes a written examination under the supervision of visiting Coast Guard personnel to qualify for the practical examination. Then the trainees go to the davits and are lowered into the waters of Chesapeake Bay to show the Coast Guard examiners that they can handle oars. Each one takes a turn as coxswain at the sweep oar and the crew positions rotate until every man has his turn. Since the beginning of the lifeboat training program at Piney Point, more than 3,500 Sea­ farers have been taught how to save their lives, and the lives of others, in the event of an emer­ gency at sea. "Man the davits!" > , "Lifeboat Stations!" "Strip that canvas!" Seafarers Log �"Oars!" "Lower Away!" After passing the U.S. Coast Guard lifeboat examination, members of Oass 57 pose for a portrait. They are flanked by, standing from left. Trainee Bosuns Mike Dennis, Barry Hicks and HLSS Instructor Warb Mathews. Others are, front row from left. Bob Painter, Rich Mertz, Charles Stockland, Homer Allen, William Maurer, Michael Giaccone, Steve Gratton and Randolph Christian. Second row, Tim Thomas, Joe Haller, Michael Sauve, Robert Sims, Efrain Torres, David Taylor, Patrick Lescot and Wil­ liam Roach. Rear row, Thomas Donovan, Thomas Culp, Patrick Edgell and Jonathan Conrad. Class 58 is pictured after their lifeboat exami­ nation. They are, fro left, front row, Judson Spencer, Donald Waiters, Warren Donaldson, Jolm Faulk, James Deegan, James Dean, Melvin Evans and William Maguire. Second row, Allen Hanson, Bill Metz, Neil David, Jerry G. Cooper, Jerry C. Cooper, Irvin Crutchlow, James Osteen and David Wzorek. Third row, Lawrence Wendt, Michael McBride, Floyd Bishop and Reginald Hood. Rear row, Pat Winsor, David Michaels, Robert Godbey, Rod­ ney Gibson, Bill Werdann, Vladimir Volovik and Alan Thomas. They are flanked by Trainee Bosun William Ripley and Instructor W^rb Matthews. V' I t- Members of Lifeboat Class 60 are pictured after passing their U.S. Coast Guard examina­ tions. They are flanked by Instructor Bruce Simmons, standing left and Trainee Bosun Juan Acevedo, far right. The class members are, first row ifrom left, David Gonzalez, Keith Petty, William Kenny, Ted Morski, Charles Brown, Carlos Gomez, Charles Hinton and Leonard Hollis. Second row from left, Robert Wells, Mike Harvey, Richard Wilson, Leonard Brown, William Smith, Larry Shipley, Harvey Huston and Kenneth Snider. Third row from left, Kellious William, John Rosado, Marty Hall, Ralph Richard and Bsb White. Fourth row from left,-Preston Taylor, Earl Ferebee, Richard Womstaff, Mike Vemott, Arthur Bar­ rios, Benny Balerio, John Brancoccio and Mark Marino. �Digest of SiU Ships Meetings WACOSTA (Sea-Land), Oct. 25 and new contract. Disputed OT to RALEIGH (Crest Overseas), July Maritime), Nov. 15—Chairman Leo —Chairman, Joseph Gonzalez; Sec­ be taken up with boarding patrol­ 11—Chairman, A. H. Schwartz; Paradise; Secretary B. A. Baa; retary, Joseph DeLise; Deck Dele­ man. Secretary, Richard Kowalski. No Deck Delegate Robert H. Bell, Sr.; gate, J. Dickerson; Engine Dele­ EAGLE TRAVELER (United beefs reported by department dele­ Engine Delegate S. Padilla; Steward gate, Richard M. McDonald; Stew­ Maritime), Oct. 11—Chairman, Jo­ gates. Delegate William S. Costa. $7 in TRANSHAWAU (Hudson Wa­ ship's fund. No beefs reported by ard Delegate, Carl B. Carter, Jr. seph L. Bourgeois; Secretary, A. W. Some disputed OT in engine de­ Hutcherson; Engine Delegate, Otto terways), Nov. 1—C h a i r m a n , department delegates. partment. Motley; Steward Delegate, James George DeGreve; Secretary, Wil­ MT. WASHINGTON (Victory SEATRAIN OfflO (Hudson Wa­ Carter. Discussion held regarding liam Seltzer; Deck Delegate, Joseph Carriers), Oct. 25—Chairman H. I. terways), Oct. 17—Chairman, Ray pension plan. $8 in ship's fund. No L. Linhar; Engine Delegate; S. Pousson; Secretary O. P. Oakley; Wala; Steward Delegate, William Knotes; Secretary, Grover C. beefs. Deck Delegates. E. F. O'Brien; En­ Turner; Deck Delegate, Paul L. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmi­ Seidenstricker. No beefs. Fine voy­ gine Delegate V. L. Meehan; Stew­ Whetlaw; Engine Delegate, J. L. an), Oct. 25—Chairman, Charles age. Everything running smoothly. ard Delegate Welden O. Walmar. Yandell; Steward Delegate, John Damico; Secretary, Thomas Wil­ DEL NORTE (Delta), Nov. 1— No beefs reported. Everything run­ M. Clarke. Some disputed OT in liams; Deck Delegate, James C. Chairman, Tony J. Radich; Secre­ ning smoothly. Discussion held re­ deck department. No beefs. Callim, Engine Delegate, Reidar M. tary, Piggy Sahuque; Deck Dele­ garding food supplies being put WALTER RICE (Reynolds Met­ Nielsen. $20 in ship's fund. Every­ gate, Angel Urti; Engine Delegate, aboard. Some disputed OT in deck als), Oct. 25—Chairman, Tom A. thing running smoothly in all de­ A. F. Rehm; Steward Delegate, department to be / taken up with Martineau; Secretary, Felipe Quin- partments. Vote of thanks to stew­ Charles H. Cassard. Everything boarding patrolman. tayo; Deck Delegate, Charlie ard department for job well done. running smoothly. Few hours dis­ MONTPELIER VICTORY (Vic­ TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson puted OT in steward department. Brown; Engine Delegate, Walter tory Carriers), Nov. 8—Chairman Ballon; Ship's Delegate, G. Mar­ Waterways), Oct. 25—Chairman, Vote of thanks extended to steward J. Bentz; Secretary J. E. Higgins; tinez. $.94 in ship's fund. Few hours S. R. Mehringer; Secrkary, Jake department for job well done. Deck Delegate J. M. Ard; Steward disputed OT in engine department. Cobb; Deck Delegate, Wm. F. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Delegate Herbert E. Brackett. $96 Chapman; Engine Delegate, Clar­ Nov. 1—Chairman, C. Jordan; Sec­ No beefs. in ship's fund. No beefs and no ence D. Crowley. $66 in ship's fund. SEATRAIN OHIO (Hudson Wa­ retary, I. R. Llenos; Deck Delegate, disputed OT. terways), Oct. 25—Chairman, Ray Some disputed OT in engine de­ Ian Hendrix; Engine Delegate, A. MONTPELIER VICTORY (Vic­ partment. Knotes; Secretary, Grover C. Tur­ Aberman; Steward Delegate, R. G. tory Carriers), Nov. 15—Chairman SACRAMENTO (Ogden Ma­ Black. $11.50 in ship's fund. Few ner; Deck Delegate, Paul L. WhitJ. Bentz; Secretary J. E. Higgins; law; Engine Delegate, Ronald J. rine), Oct. 11—Chairman, William hours disputed OT in deck depart­ Steward Delegate Herbert E. Brack­ Littleton; Steward Delegate, John P. Linke, Jr.; Secretary, Darrell G. ment. Vote of thanks to steward ett. $96 in ship's fund. Disputed OT M. Clarke. Some disputed OT in Chafin; Deck Delegate, Don Dillon; department for job well done. in deck and engine department. Engine Delegate, Mallard Hinson; deck department. Discussion held LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), Oct. Everything running smoothly. Steward Delegate, James L. Woods. 11—Chairman, Michael J. Demregarding repairs. CALMAR (Calmar), Nov. 8— COLUMBIA (U.S. Steel), Oct. 25 Repairs in engine department com­ browski; Secretary, G. P. Thlu. Chairman Elbert Hogge; Secretary pleted. Everything running smooth­ —Chairman, J. Pierce; Secretary, $62 in ship's fund. No beefs report­ Howard Flynn; Deck Delegate M. S. Sospina; Deck Delegate, ly. Some disputed OT in deck de­ ed by department delegates. John A. Dunne; Steward Delegate James S. Rogers; Engine Delegate. partment. DEL SUD (Delta), Oct. 4— Ed Sinush. Some disputed OT in JAMES (Ogden Marine), Nov. Chairman, A. J. Doty; Secretary, Robert Kwiatkowski; Steward E)eldeck department. 1—Chairman, Francis D. Finch; egate, L. Savior. Everything run­ E. Vieira; Deck Delegate, Joe Cave; SEATRAIN WASHINGTON ning smoothly. No beefs. Vote of Secretary, Frank L. Shackelford; Engine Delegate, J. Trent; Stew­ thanks to entire steward depart­ Deck Delegate, D P. Pruett; En­ ard Delegate John T. Kelly. No (Hudson Waterways), Oct. 11— ment for job well done, especially gine Delegate, Joseph T. Ryan; beefs reported by department dele­ Chairman B. Woturski; Secretary H. to chief steward for making pop­ Steward Delegate, Bert M. Winfield. gates. Motion made to have ship Sopper, Engine Delegate Frank Bums. Few hours disputed OT in Some disputed OT in deck depart­ fumigated upon arrival in port. corn on movie night. deck and engine departments. ment. Vote of thanks extended to COMMANDER (Marine Car­ Everything running smoothly. LA SALLE (Waterman), Oct. 25 steward department for job well riers), Sept. 13—Chairman A. R. —Chairman, William MacArthur, done. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Vic­ Sawyer; Secretary Fred R. Hicks, Secretary, None; Deck Delegate, DEL VALLE (Delta), Nov. 8— tory Carriers), Oct. 11—Chairman Jr.; Steward Delegate L. E. Price. Eugene O. Cowead; Engine Dele­ gate, H. R. Guyman. No beefs and Chairman, Dan Tiger; Secretary, Ship's delegate reported that things D. G. Calogeros; Secretary F. O. Barney McNally; Deck Delegate, operating smoothly. Good crew on Airey; Steward Delegate G. O'Berry. no disputed OT. board. Hearty vote of thanks to the No beefs reported. TANOA (Sea-Land), Oct. 25— Lee Snodgrass; Engine Delegate, MONTICELLO VICTORY (Vic­ Chairman, G. Castro; Secretary, Allen George; Steward Delegate, steward department for a job well tory Carriers), Nov. 1— Chairman done. E. B. Tart; Deck Delegate, S. Ru- S. Chisbren. No beefs. Vote of to steward department for COMMANDER (Marine Car­ D. G. Galogeros; Secretary F. O. zyski; Engine Delegate, H. E. thanks job well done. riers), Oct. 18—Chairman A. R. Airey. $13 in ship's fund. Some Welch; Steward Delegate, R. Rob­ DEL VALLE (Delta), Nov. 1— inson. $2.21 in ship's fund. Various Chairman, Dan Tiger, Secretary, Sawyer; Secretary F. R. Hicks, Jr.; disputed OT in the three depart­ Deck Delegate J. Woolford; Engine ments. subjects discussed. No beefs and Barney McNally; Deck Delegate, no disputed OT. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Vic­ Delegate W. Price; Steward Dele­ Lee Snodgrass; Engine Delegate, gate L. Price. Discussion held on tory Carriers), Nov. 8—Chairman NATIONAL DEFENDER (Na­ Allen George, Steward Delegate, S. various topics. Some disputed OT D. G. Galogeros; F. O. Airey; tional Transport), Oct. 25—Chair­ Chisbren. Some disputed OT in in deck department to be taken up Deck Delegate James D. Boston; man, R. Johnson; Secretary, L. A. steward department. Vote of thanks with patrolman. Vote of thanks was Engine Delegate E. R. Mynth; Behm; Deck Delegate, Donal A. to steward department for excellent extended to the steward department Steward Delegate George A. Rundblad; Engine Delegate, Wil­ food and service. for a job well done. liam E. Calefato; Steward Dele­ O'Berry. $13 in ship's fund. Some DEL VALLE (Delta), Oct. 25— EAGLE VOYAGER (United disputed OT in deck department. gate, J. Johnson. Everything run­ Chairman, Dan Tiger; Secretary, ning smoothly. Some disputed OT Barney McNally; Deck Delegate, in deck department. Vote of thanks Lee Snodgrass; Enigne Delegate, to steward department for job well Allen George; Steward Delegate, S. done. Chisbren. No beefs. HALYCON PAN^R (Halcy­ BMTON (Sea-Land), Oct. 4— on), Oct. 25—Chairman, Danny Chairman, Alfred Hanstvedt; Secre­ Merrill; Secretary, Henry W. Rob­ tary, Wilfred J. Moore; Deck Dele­ erts; Deck Delegate, Elmer Clark, gate, M. Nash; Engine Delegate, Jr.; Engine Delegate, D. P. Gard­ Victor Santos; Steward Delegate, ner; Steward Delegate, Jesse M. Arthur Sankovidt. No beefs. Every­ Gage. $11 in ship's fund. Few hours thing running smoothly. disputed OT in engine department. RALEIGH (Crest Overseas), OVERSEAS NATALIE (Mari­ Sept. 13 — Chiarman, A. H. time Overseas), Oct. 25—Chairman, Schwartz; Secretary, Jay A. Lewis. James Dixon; Secretary, S. A. Solo- Disputed OT in deck and engine man, Sr.; Deck Delegate, Nicholas departments. Mollette; Engine Delegate, Fran­ BOSTON (Sea-Land), Nov. 11— cis F. Gomez; Steward Delegate, Chairman, A. Hanstvedt; Secretary, Eddie Howard. Some disputed OT W. J. Moore; Deck Delegate, T. in deck department. Vote of thanks Lundkvist; Engine Delegate, Erik to steward department for job well Fischer; Steward Delegate, Arthur done. Sankovidt. No beefs. Everything PONCE (Sea-Land), Oct. 18— running smoothly. Vote of thanks Chairman, Dan Butts; Secretary, to steward department for job well Alva McCullum; Deck Delegate, J. done. Reinosa; Engine Delegate, Stephen TRANSONTARIO (Seatrain), Senteney; Steward Delegate, Oscar Oct. 4—Chairman, Tirado Ruiz; Sorenson. No beefs reported by de­ Secretary, R. Robbins; Deck Dele­ partment delegates. gate, E. J. Olive; Engine Delegate EAGLE TRAVELER (United Robert Mulrooney; Steward Dele Maritime), Oct. 4—Chairman, Jo­ gate, R. Perez. Crew would like the Eight Seafarers have received lifeboat endorsements from the Coast seph Bougeois; Secretary, A. W. delegate and the patrolman to sec Guard folloHliig successful completion of a Iraiolng course at the Hutcherson; Engine Delegate, -Otto the Captain about posting exact Harry Lundeherg Scliool of Seamanship in Brooklyn. Seated from left Motley; Steward Delegate, James sailing time. Discussion held re­ are: Boh Brown, Joe George, Ronald Smith and Nick Lambrou. Stand­ Carter. $8 in ship's fund. Discus­ garding stores on board ship. Some ing, Instructor Len Decker, Steve Fleckenstein, Howard Wilson, Ed­ sion held regarding pension plan disputed OT in engine department. ward Magnuson and L. Wright. Receive Lifeboat Endorsement Page 22 OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Overseas), Oct. 4—Chairman D. E. Holm; Secretary Robert W. Ferrandiz. Some disputed OT in deck department. OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Overseas), Oct. 25—Chairman D. Holm; Secretary R. W. Feirandiz. No beefs reported. OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Overseas), Nov. 1—Chairman D. Holm; Secretary Robert Ferrandiz. No beefs reported. The stewards thanked the crew for keeping the messroom, pantry and recreation room clean. The crew extended a voet of thanks to the stewards for a job well done. CmES SERVICE MIAMI (Cit­ ies Service), Nov. 1—Chairman Ted Weems; Secretary Horace LaFrage; $32 in ship's fund. Few hours dis­ puted OT in deck department to be taken up with boarding patrol­ man at payoff. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), Oct. 25—Chairman Malcom Woods; Secretary Henry A. Galicki. $13 in movie fund. No beefs reported. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), Nov. 1—Chairman Malcom Woods; Secretary Henry A. Galicki; Deck Delegate H. Celkos; Steward Dele­ gate H. A. Galicki. $13 in movie fund. Everything running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), Nov. 8—Chairman M. Woods; Sec­ retary H. A. Galicki. $13 in movie fund. No beefs. Everything run­ ning smoothly. DEL SOL (Delta), Nov. 1—•" Chairman A. R. Ducote; Secretary C. L. Shirah; Deck Delegate Michael Armande; Engine Delegate Anthony J. Morano; Steward Dele­ gate John W. Ponson. Vote of thanks to the deck department for helping to keep crew's pantry clean. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. $36 in ship's fund. Few OT beefs to be taken up with boarding patrolman at payoff. DE SOTO (Waterman), Oct. 11— Chairman R. A. Christenberg; Sec­ retary J. F. Castronover; Deck Dele­ gate W. L. Thompson; Engine Dele­ gate Tom Moriority; Steward Delegate Carl C. Jordon. $4 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. CONNECTICUT (Ogden Ma­ rine), Oct. 4—Chairman Carl T. Lineberry; Secretary Thomas D. Ballard; Deck Delegate Robert Lambert; Engine Delegate John P. Cox; Steward Delegate Thomas A. Barden. $40 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. CONNECTICUT (Ogden Ma­ rine), Oct. 11—Chairman Carl T. Lineberry; Secretary Thomas D. Ballard; Deck Delegate Robert Lambert; Engine Delegate John P. Cox; Steward Delegate Thomas A. Barden. $40 in ship's fimd. Some disputed OT in deck department. CONNECTICUT (Ogden Ma­ rine), Oct. 18—Chairman Carl Line­ berry; Secretary T. D. Ballard; Deck Delegate Robert Lambert; Engine Delegate John P. Cox; Steward Delegate Thomas Barden. $40 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. TRENTON (Sea-Land), Nov. 1— Chairman Floyd Selix; Secretary Andy Johansson; Deck Delegate George Alexander; Steward Dele­ gate Paul Curzi. $6 in ship's fund. Everything is running smoothly •with no beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. PENN SAILOR (Penn Shipping), Sept. 20—Chair"ian John C. Sorel; Secretary Raymond L. Perry. $4 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Seafarers Log �ffrK':';r- z*"i^?'"iV'> r •i:^y"'-• ^i;,:•^^ -I- Thanksgiving Day Feast for Seafarers tie SIU has long made Thanksgiving a festive occasion for many thousands of people. This year, as in the past, every SIU port T offered complete Thanksgiving dinners to Seafarers, their families, and their guests. The huge and delicious meals included every­ thing from soup to nuts, and, as always, the turnout in every port was large. Whether in New York, N.Y., Tampa, Fla., or Seattle, Wash., the amount of turkey and trimmings that were eaten deter­ mined the general consensus about the food—delicious. The ac­ companying pictures show a few of the many people who attended the dinner this year. Sheryl HufFam, daughter of UIW member Reaver Huffam, holds some unwieldly carving instruments as she tries to cut her share of the turkey at the union hall in Baltimore. Three pensioners enjoy their Thanksgiving meal as Balti­ more Port Agent Rex Dickey (standing) comes over to have a word with them. From left are; Walter Zimek, Toomas Laarents, and John Taurin who is 83 years old. Finishing up their Thanks­ giving meal at the hall in Baltimore are four UFW members. In" front are Wal­ ter Streigfield, left, and Willie Rogers. In hack are S. Chris­ tian, left, and James Jackson. fr At the New York hall, young Bary Overgoard reaches for a plate of turkey with the trimmings. His father is Seafarer Kevin Overgoard. Hundreds of people enjoyed a good Thanksgiving meal at the union hall in New York. Attending the annual Thanksgiving day feast at the hall in New York are from left: Miner Jansen, chief cook; Stanley Jurkiwicz, firemanoiler, and Thomas Holt, boatswain. In the Port of New York, little Richard Manera takes a mouthful of ice cream from his mother, Anna, as brother Robert watches. .- it �Seafarers Wall Anthony (left) and John Roberts enjoy a toast at the Thanksgiving dinner in the Port of Seattle. Getting ready to leave after their Thanksgiving meal at the hall in Seattle are Sea­ farers John Statchen (left) and James Davis. Shown above is part of the large gathering at the New Orleans Hall for Thanksgiving dinner. Port oflicials said this year witnessed the largest turn­ out ever for the holiday dinner. HLSS Director Don Collins is kept busy in New Orleans Hall kitchen. He receives a helping hand from trainee Ronald Ragas in preparing turkeys. A few guests at New Orleans Hall get together prior to dinner. From left are: Don Collins, SIU Port Agent Buck Stephens, Ray Couvillion and IBU Representative Jim Martin. Naturally, the busiest place for Thanksgiving dinner at the New Orleans HaU is in the galley, which was kept active all day. m-.' w•Ar-:'-'- Thanksgiving Day 4^' Feast for Seafarers Seafarer Protasio Herrera and his family ready themselves for a' pleasant Thanksgiving dinner at the hall in Phil­ adelphia. Page 24 Seafarers Log �The festivities have just begun at the hall in Houston, Tex., where hearty Seafarers, their friends, and families take advantage of the good food. Smiling happily in' anticipation of the Thanksgiving meal to come ' in the Port of Tampa are Jose Pagola and his family, who joined many others at the local hall. "A little more stuffing please," says one union member as Seafarers and their families gather on line for some food in the Port of Houston. , ti Seafarer Jim Hand enjoys some soup as part of his Thanksgiving dinner in the Port of Tampa. Hand deseribed his meal as "deli­ cious." Seafarer R. R. Gonzales and family all agree it's a very delicious meal they are eating at the union hall in Houston, Tex. t "It's a hard meal to beat" agrees D. L. Parker and some friends at the Mobile hall for the Thanksgiving festivities. In the Port of Mobile, Seafarers and guests "cbow down" with some good cooking at the Thanksgiving ' dinner. A cute miss stares right at the camera in the Port of Mobile. She' is the daugh­ ter of Seafarer and Mrs. Frgnk Edmonds. )ecember 1970 SIU member Erie Hayes (center) enjoys Thanksgiving in the Port of Mobile with some friends. Page 25 �SlU Ship's Committee: the Union Far from Shore W hen SIU men go aboard ship their union goes with them and stays with them whether they travel the Vietnam run or sail for the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. The point of contact between the union and union men at sea is the six member Ship's Committee which includes a chairman, a sec­ retary-reporter, an education director and a delegate from each of the three unlicensed departments aboard ship. The committee holds a meeting each Sun­ day the ship is at sea. The agenda of the meeting follows the order of shore meetings, and each member of the crew is free to ^peak his mind on matters that pertain to the SIU. The ship's secretary-reporter is responsible for all of the committee's correspondence with union headquarters, and is charged with keep­ ing minutes of the meetings and reporting actions taken to headquarters. The education director is in charge of main­ taining and distributing all publications, films SEATRAIN DELAWARE (Seatrain)—Waiting for payoff alxMird the Seatrain Betaware in Hoboken were ship's committee members from left, Ed Czosnowski, deck delegate; Konstantinos Anastasiou, education director; Eddie Hernandez, secretaryreporter; Albert Matos-Valez, engine delegate; Jacobo Enriquez, steward delegate, and Walter Nash, ship's chairman. GATEWAY CITY (Sea-Land)—Sitting around the table in the recreation room is the ship's committee of the Gateway City, just returned from a 28-day voyage on the Mediterranean rim. From left are: A. Verwilt, education director; J. Velazquez, steward delegate; F. Carmicbael, secretary-reporter; E. Cuenca, engine delegate; S. Stockmarr, ship's chairman, and V. Genco, deck delegate. and mechanical equipment to Seafarers wish-, nig to study upgrading, safety, health and san­ itation. The department delegates, elected by mem-. bers of the deck, engine and steward depart­ ment, represent their men on the committee and contribute heavily to its decisions. All in all the ship's committee is the SIU way of assuring its members that they do not lose their union protections and privileges even though far from shore. OVERSEAS NATALIE (Maritime Overseas Corp.)—Looking over union publications aboard the Overseas Natalie is the ship's committee: from left, David Newman, deck delegate; Eddie Howard, steward delegate; Judd Lamb, secretary-reporter; James Dixon, ship's chairman; Francis (nimez, engine delegate, and John Lamb, education director. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian)—Ship's committee members in the galley of the , Steel Apprentice. They are, from left, front row: J. Moore, education director; Paul " Lopez, reporter-secretary; Paul Aubain, engine delegate, and Jack Surles, ship's chair- ' man; back row, C. Modellas, steward delegate, and "Chuck" Callhar, deck delegate. Visual Masquerade Party STATE3IEa«TT OF OWlflBRSHIP, MANTAGEMmT AND GmOTLATlON W f Act of October es. lSSS; Section 4369, Title 39, United Statea Code) : DATE OF FILING 2. TITLE OF PUBLICATION October 20, 1970 Seidarers Log FREQUENCY OF ISSUE Monthly ^ U ^ V ::: LOCATION OP KNOWN OFFICE OF PUBLICATION v ^ 810 Rhode Island Avenue, N.B., Washington, D.C. 20018 ^ . 5. LOCATION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OR GENERAL OFFICES OF THE PUBLISHERS 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232 , J6. NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF PUBLISHER. EDITOR, AND MANAGING EDITOR: PUBLISHER Seafarers International Union of North America. Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, 675 Fourth Avenue. ' Brooklyn. New York 11232. EDITOR Harry Wittschen, 676 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn, New York 11232. EDITOR None MANAGING EDITOR None I:: '!i- i--- I-^' "iiKv Ife- owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual oio« must be given. If owned by a partnership itp or other unincorporated firmi <U <as that of each individual must be given.), if 8 name and address, as — wel —i Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes ahi Inland Waters District, 676 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. PauK Hall, Pres.; A1 Kerr, Sec.-Treas., 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. ll"""' 8. KNOWN BONDHOLDERS. MORTGAGEES, AND OTHER SECURITI HOLDERS OWNING OR HOLDING 1 PERCENT OR MORE OF TOTAL AMOUNT OF BONDS, MORTGAGES OR OTHER SECURITIES fif there are none, so state) None 9. FOR COMPLETION BY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AUTHORIZBI TO MAIL AT SPECIAL RATES/Section ISS.IBS, Postal Manual) Tiie piiipuae, luiicliuii, and. iiuiipruAt g Have not changed Q Have chang status of this organlzaUoii and the during preceding 12 during preceding exempt status for Federal Income months 12 months tax .purposes 10. EXTENT AND NATURE OF CIRCULATION Actual ' Average number ofS no. copies copies of each Issue single issue during published preceding nearest to 12 months filing date. A. TOTAL NO. COPIES PRINTED (Net Press Run) 60,166 62,000 . R PAID CIRCULATION , ,r / 1; Sales through dealers and carriers, street vMdors '• .;'4' • and counter sales None Nohei^'' i/ ;; 2. Mail subscriptions 47,931 48.006' C. TOTAL PAID CIRCULATION / None None: D.;^FREE DISTRIBUTION (including samples) by mail, '.. carrier or other means .4,300 4 300 K; il'OTAL DISTRIBUTION fSitm o/<7 a«d D1 62.231 62.306 '.-.OFFICE USE, left-cver, uiiiiCcounted, spoiled after printing •, 7,835 9.634 / •i TOTAL /Silnt o/ E F~8hould eqUdl net press run shown in A) 60,166 62.060 ^5;certify lli^t th«! statements made by me above are correct and complete. ' A1 KeiT, Secretary-Treasurer Page 26 Billboards Hide Scenery For a long time highway bill­ boards have been masking the beauty of this nation's country­ side—polluting the scenery. Unfortunately the success of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 has been limited. And file "Beautify America" cam­ paign has dwindled. Under the act some 800,000 billboards covering some 235,000 miles of roadway were to be torn down. Work on this project was to have commenced five years ago. Yet to date few, if any, of these signs have been eliminated. Furthermore, most of the large companies have figured out how to get around the gov­ ernment regulation prohibiting signs within 660 feet of the highway or less. These compa­ nies are now erecting their signs just 661 feet from the road. And they are bigger and brighter than ever. The fact is billboards make the eyes sore. Few people enjoy seeing advertisements paraded before them every fifty feet or But billboards are not the only offenders destroying the countryside bordering the high­ ways. What about the roadside junk yards and garbage dumps? days off between ships would rather look at the countryside than billboards. Shipments Set Record These pollutants make the eyes sorer yet. That same act Shipments of grain in and also called for the landscaping out of the ports along the Great and screening of junk yards and Lakes will set a record this garbage dumps located along season. About 11 million tons the highway. But once again of grain will have been moved little action seems to have been by the end of the season, ac­ taken since the act was passed. cording to the Great Lakes Secretary of Transportation Commission. John Volpe says that one of his The commission, which more important projects is to serves all eight states that clean up the highway environ­ border the Great Lakes, based ment. The public probably will its prediction on data gathered see little action until congress­ from the ports of Duluthmen are pressured to effect leg­ Superior, Chicago, Toledo, islation that will curb "eye" pol­ Milwaukee and Saginaw. By the lution. end of October some 321 mil­ Then perhaps, the public will lion bushels had been shipped once more enjoy the natural to and from these ports—five scenic beauty of this country. million bushels more than were But it will take money, legida- shipped during the same period . tion and enforcemmt of the hnv. in 1966, the current record so. A Seafarer taking a few year. Seafarers I �mm Final Departures Peter Dimoulas Peter Dimoulas, 24, died July 7 in San Francisco, Calif. He joined the SIU in the Port of N ew York in 1967 and gradu­ ated that same year from the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ manship. Mr. Di­ moulas sailed in the deck department. A native of New York, Mr. Dimoulas was a resident of Brooklyn when he parsed away. Among his sur­ vivors is his mother, Christine Dimoulas of Brooklyn, N.Y. Burial was in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, N.Y. 1 George Andrew Stravarides George Andrew Stravarides, 52, passed away Sept. 24 in Man­ hattan from heart disease. A native of Greece, Mr. Stravarides was a resident of Man­ hattan when he" died. He joined the union in the Port of Philadel­ phia in 1951 and sailed in the engine department. Mr. Stravarides served the union as department delegate while sailing. Among his survivors is his sister, Mrs. Evagelia Veni of Athens, Greece, Burial was in fGreenwood Cemetery in Brook­ *• lyn, N.Y. f Carl. Hilde Carl Hilde, 49, died May 6 in Pike, Minn. A native of Minnef sota, Mr. Hilde was making his • home there when he died. He join­ ed the union in the Port of De­ troit in 1968 and r sailed in the deck I . V • department. Bur­ * y ial was in West Cemetery, Ulen Township, Minn. r a ' Thomas F. Shea Thomas F. Shea, 81, an SIU pensioner passed away Sept. 29 in Queens, N.Y. from heart dis­ ease. He joined the union in the Port of Norfolk in 1940 and sail­ ed in the engine department. A na­ tive of Connecti­ cut, Mr. Shea was a resident of New Haven Conn, when he died. Among his sur­ vivors is his sister, Mrs. Helen E. Spencer of New Haven, Conn. Burial was in- St. Lawrence Cemetery in New Haven. John J. ChapUnsky John J. Chaplinsky, 43, died of heart disease Sept. 14 aboard the Penn Carrier while it was docked in New Orleans, La. He was a native of Shenandoah, Pa. and was a resi­ dent of Bradenton, Fla. when he passed away. Mr. Chaplinsky was an Army vet­ eran of World War II. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1945 and sailed in the deck department. Among his ::QeceinbeE 197(L survivors is his wife, Florence. Burial was at sea from the Penn Carrier on Sept. 19. Ewell Skinner Ewell Skinner, 48, passed away Feb. 20 at USPHS Hospital in New Orleans, La. following a long illness. He joined the union in 4he Port of New Or­ leans in 1957 and sailed in the deck department. A native of Milton, Fla., Mr. Skinner was a resident' of Pensacola, Fla. when he died. He was an Army veteran of World War II. Among his survivors is his brother, Samuel Skinner of Pensacola, Fla. Burial was in Memorial Gardens in Pensacola. Robert H. Stanley Robert H. Stanley, 44, died Sept. 13 in San Francisco, Calif. A native of Ken­ tucky, Mr. Stan­ ley was a resident of San Francisco when he passed away. He joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1957 and sail­ ed in the deck department. He was a Navy vet­ eran of World War II. Ajtiong his survivors is his brother, Richard Stanley of Portsmouth, Va. Burial was in Glintwood, Va. Jack H. Gleason ; Jack H. Gleason, 61, died Sept. 4 of natural causes in Mobile General Hospital, Mobile, Ala. A native of Alajjgk ^ bama, Mr. Gleason was a resident of Mobile when he died. He join­ ed the imion in the Port of Mo­ bile in 1939 and sailed in the engine department. Among his survivors are his sister, Mrs. Virginia Bell of Mobile, Ala. Burial was in Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile. and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. From 1954 to 1956, Mr. Saliva served in the Army. Among his survivors is his wife, Lydia. His body was brought to Ponce, P.R. Pennsylvania, he was a resident of Elmira, N.Y. when he passed away. Mr. Cevette was an Army veteran of World War II. Among his survivors are his wife, Thelma. Burial was in Elkland, Pa. Joseph Walter Thomley Joseph Walter Thomley, 47, died Aug. 29 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Wash. A native of Perdido, Ala., Mr. Thomley was a resident of Seattle when he passed away. He joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile in 1951 and sailed in the deck de­ partment. He was a Navy vet­ eran of World War II. Among his survivors is his mother, Willie Mae Patterson of Lucedale, Miss. His body was removed to Fail's Funeral Home in Lucedale, Miss. Cornelius Benjiunin Meher Cornelius Benjamin Meher, 53, passed away July 12 at St. Eliz­ abeth Hospital in Beaumont, Tex. A native of Hopewell, Va., Mr. Meher was a resident of New York when he died. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1956 and sailed in the steward department. Mr. Meher served the SIU as department delegate while sailing and was issued a picket duty card in 1961. He was an Air Corps veteran of World War II.. Among his sur­ vivors arc his brother, Richard Meher of Bronx, N.Y. Mr. Meher's body was removed to Flushing Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. Guy Whitehurst Guy Whitehurst, 68, an SIU pensioner, passed away Sept. 5 in Baltimore, Md. of heart disease. He was one of the first mem­ bers of the un­ ion, having join­ ed in 1939 in the Port of Balti­ more. He sailed in the engine de­ partment. Burial was in Ocean View Cemetery in Beaufort, N.C. Virgil M. Henley Virgil M. Henley, 47, died Sept. 3 of natural causes at Anda­ lusia Hospital in Andalusia, A1 a. He joined the SIU in the Port of Mo­ bile in 1942 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. A native ^ of Louisiana, Mr. 1^. Henley was a resident of Wing, Ala. when he passed away. Among his survivors are his wife, Fannie Merle. Burial was in Beda Cemetery, Covington County, Ala. Raymond Potor^ Raymond Potorski, 42, died Sept. 26 in Baltimore, Md. of heart disease. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1958 and sailed in the steward depart­ ment. A native of Avoca, Pa., Mr. Potorski was a resident of Dupont. Pa. when he passed away. He served in the Army from 1946 until 1950. Among his sur­ vivors is his sister, Regina J. Patte of Dupont, Pa. Burial was in St. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Moosic, Pa. James H. Fisher James H. Fisher, 55, was an SIU pensioner who passed away Oct. 1 from heart disease in Long Beach, Calif. A native of Boston, Mass., Mr. Fish­ er was a resident of Long Beach, Calif, when he died. He joined the SIU in the port of Seattle and sailed in the deck department. Among his sur­ vivors are his wife, Barbara. Buri­ al was in Avon Cemetery, Avon. Mass. Antonio Saliva Antonio Saliva, 34, passed away Aug. 13 on board the Columbia while en route from Balboa to San Francisco, A na­ tive of Ponce, P.R., Mr. Saliva was making his home there whei> he died. He join­ ed the union in the Port of New York in 1963 Louis John Cevette Louis John Cevette, 58, died Sept. 5 from heart disease while aboard the De­ troit at sea. He joined the union in the port of New Orleans in 1947 and sailed as a steward. While sailing, Mr. Cevette served as a de­ partment delegate. A native of Leonard Lee Bamett Leonard Lee Barnett, 49, died Sept. 21 from heart disease at Veterans Admin­ istration Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. He joined the SIU in the Port of San Fran­ cisco in 1960 and sailed in the engine depart­ ment. Mr. Bar­ nett served the union as a dele­ gate while sailing. A native of Ft. Smith, Ark., Mr. Barnett was a resident of Hay ward, Calif, when he passed away. Among his survivors are his wife, Madelyn. Cremation was in Chapel of the Chimes, Hayward, Calif. Mitchell Alonzo MUeskl Mitchell Alonzo Mileski, 58, passed away June 7 in Show Low, Ariz. A na­ tive of New York City, Mr. Mileski was a resident of Phoenix, Ariz., when he died. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1946 and sailed® in the steward department. He was an active union member and participated in the Wall St. strike of 1946. Mr. Mileski began his sailing career in 1926. Among his survivors are his wife, Eliza­ beth and a brother. He was buried in St. Francis Cemetery, -Phoenix, Ariz. Edward Patrick Lee Edward Patrick Lee, 52, passed away Sept. 28 at the USPHS Hospital in Se­ attle, Wash. A native of Galway, Ireland, Mr. Lee was a resi­ dent of Seattle when he died. He joined the union in the Port of Se­ attle in 1961 and sailed in the engine department. Among his survivors are his sis­ ter, Bridgett Delia Robson of Seattle, Wash. Burial was in Cal­ vary Cemetery, Seattle. WIDIam Edward Logan William Edward Logan, 65, was an SIU pensioner who died July 22 in Civil Hospital in Gua­ dalajara, Mexico. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the deck de­ partment. A na­ tive of Massachu­ setts, Mr. Logan was a resident of Elizabeth, N.J. when he passed away. When he retired, Mr. Lo­ gan ended a sailing career of more than 45 years. Clarence S. Jacks Clarence S. Jacks, 51, died after a long illness at USPHS Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of New Orleans in 1953 and sailed in the deck department as a bosun. A native of Texas, Mr. Jacks was a resident of Long Beach, Calif, when he died. Among his survivors are his son. Bill E. Jacks of Houston, Tex. Burial was in Westminster Memo­ rial Park, Westminster, Calif. George C. Register George C. Register, 62, died Nov. 8 after a long illness in USPHS Hospital. A native of North Carolina, Register was a resident of Balti­ more, Md. when he passed away. 0 W ' He joined the r . SIU in the Port of New Orleans in 1946 and sailed in the deck department. Among his survivors are his wife, Alice. Burial was in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore. Leopoldo Renta Leopoldo Renta, 70, was an SIU pensioner who died Sept. 2 in Ponce, P.R. after a long ill­ ness. He joined the union in the Port of Philadel­ phia in 1938 and sailed in the en­ gine department. Mr. Renta had been sailing since 1921. A native of Puerto Rico, he was a resident there when he died. Among his survivors are his wife, Teresa. Marvin Robert Stetson Marvin Robert Stetson, 45, passed away Oct. 9 from heart disease at St. Margaret Hospi­ tal in Hammond, Ind. He joined the union in Chi­ cago in 1961 and sailed in the deck department. A native of Ham­ mond, Mr. Stet­ son was a resident of Calumet City, 111. when he died. Among his survivors are his mother, Mrs. Hazel Gray of Hammond Lake, Ind. Burial was in Chapel Lawn Memorial Garden in Scherereville, Ind. Page 27 �12 More Seafarers Retire On Well Deserved Pension Joining the ranks of SIU pen­ sioners are 16 more men who have spent many years sailing the world's oceans. William Leo Nesta, 66, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the steward department as a chief steward. A native of Pennsylvania, Seafarer Nesta now makes his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. Oliver Hodge, 65, is a native of Georgia and now lives in the Bronx, N.Y. He joined the Un­ ion in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed in the steward department as a cook. Brother Hodge served the SIU as depart­ ment delegate while sailing and was issued a picket duty card in 1962. When he retired he ended a sailing career of 46 years. now lives in Norfolk, Va. He joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1942 and sailed in the deck department. Brother Gray served in the Armed Forces from 1923 until 1929. Charles MOIer, 65, is a native of Warren, Minn, and is now spending his retirement in East Grand Forks, Minn. He joined the Union in the Port of Detroit and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. His retirement ended a sailing career of 40 years. Gray Nesta Hodge John Carlos Vieira, 60, joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. A native of British Guiana, Seafarer Vieira is spending his re­ tirement in Brooklyn, N.Y. John Albert Ziereis, 65, is a native of Dubuque, la. and now lives in Houston, Tex. He joined the Union in the Port of Balti­ more in 1939 and sailed in the deck department as a boatswain. When he retired he ended a sail­ ing career of 43 years. Vieira Ziereis Ralph €. Stansell, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of New Or­ leans and sailed in the engine de­ partment. A native of Georgia, Brother Stansell now makes his home in Jacksonville, Fla. Amado Silva Telan, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of San Fran­ cisco in 1947 and sailed in the steward department as chief cook and steward. While sailing. Broth­ er Telan served the Union as a department delegate. A native of the Philippine Islands, Seafarer Telan now makes his home in Baltimore, Md. Telan Leon William Gray, 66, is a native of North Carolina and Page 28 MiUer Gahriel Llamas, 65, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the deck de­ partment. A native of Puerto Rico, Seafarer Llamas now lives in Arecibo, P.R. When he retired. Brother Llamas had been sailing 45 years. Jose Gigante, 62, is a native of the Philippine Islands and is now making his home in Catano, P.R. He joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck department as boatswain. When he retired. Brother Gigante ended a sailing career of 41 years. Llamas Gigante Remberto Duo, 62, is a native of Cuba and is now spending his retirement in the Bronx, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Tampa and sailed in the steward department. For four years he also worked for the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in New York as an assistant in the gymnasium. James C. Snipes, 65, joined the Union in the Port of Philadel­ phia and sailed in the steward department. A native of Mullins, S.C., Brother Snipes now lives in Bishopville, S.C. Duo lines. Snipes suring that the leadership of Greek trade unionism would be composed wholly or mainly of persons who would not insti­ gate . any direct opposition against it," the commission re­ ported. The commission reported that the dictatorship dissolved some 250 unions without pro­ ducing any evidence of commu­ nist influence in them; dis­ missed trade union officers, imprisoned or deported 122 trade union officers during the p^t three years without trial; interfered in trade union meet­ ings through police surveil­ lance; made rules for holding office in unions that destroyed democratic rights; interfered with collective bargaining and restricted union freedom through government financing. Ships at Sea Oliver P. Oakley, ship'.s secre­ tary-reporter aboard the Mount Washington, re­ ports all hands agree they are sailing this voy­ age with one of the finest Bosuns in the SIU fleet. "Bosun Hubert I. Pousson is doing a marvelous job, Oakley both as ship's chairman and as Bosun, and is a wonderful ship­ mate." The Mount Washington Seafarer Charles J. Miller (left) has spent 47 years sailing the Great Lakes. He is shown receiving his first pension check from SIU Duluth Port Agent John R. Stevens. Brother Miller sailed as wheelsman on vessels operated by the Huchinson, Buckeye and Kinsman steamship -4^ ILO Commission Indicts Greek Military Regime Geneva, Switzerland The International Labor Or­ ganization has condemned the Greek military dictatorship for violating the right of Greek workers to organize and engage in collective bargaining. A special Commission of In­ quiry of the ILO accused the government of violating two ILO conventions which it had signed respecting these rights. The three-man commission, consisting of representatives from France, Great Britain and India, said that a number of steps taken by the Greek mili­ tary after the 1967 coup d'etat and legislation passed last year were designed to purge critics of the regime and to set up unions friendly to it. "The government's ultimate objectives included that of en­ Vefs Get Isf Pension Checks is sailing between the Persian Gulf and the Far East. Her last port of call was Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. ; There has been a problem this trip with the ship's stores and the steward department deserves a vote of thanks for continuing to do a fine job despite the diffi­ cult circumstances. Union head­ quarters has been advised of the problem. A request has been made for a TV set to be put aboard and for the rental of movie equipment. > - Veteran Seafarer Max Kirbach (right) receives his first monthly pen- \ sion check together with best wishes for a happy retirement from SIU Frankfort Port Agent Harold Rathbun. Brother Kirbach has sailed since August, 1941 in the steward department. SECTION 43. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE. When board is not furnished unlicensed members of the crew, they shall receive a meal allow­ ance of $2.00 for breakfast, $3.00 for dinner and $5.50 for supper. When men are required to sleep ashore, they sh£dl be allowed $10.50 per night. Room allowance, as provided in this Section, shall be allowed when: 1. Heat is not furnished in cold weather. When the outside tem­ perature is sixty-five degrees (65°) or lower for 8 consecutive hours, this provision shall apply. 2. Hot water is not available in crew's washrooms for a period of twelve (12) or more consecutive hours. Heat beefs must be repertecl immedlottfly to the Department Delegate and Chief Engineer. You must keep a written record of the beef including: • Date • Time of Day • Temperature All heat beefs should be re­ corded and submitted on an Individual basis. �Overseas Evelyn Home From Far East fter a four month voyage on the Far East run, the SlU-contracted Overseas Evelyn (Maritime Over­ seas Corp.) dropped anchor in Bayonne, New Jersey last month. The C-4 cargo ship, formerly A known as the Mount Whitney, is operating under a charter to the Military Sealift Command. The vessel called at the ports of Saigon and Yokohama during this last voyage. The usual turn-around time for the Overseas Evelyn allows about ten days port time after a voyage, and her crew was looking forward to some time ashore before she had to sail again. IV Alvin McCants, sailing as ordinary seaman aboard the Overseas Everelaxes topside while awaiting payoff in Bayonne, New Jersey fol­ lowing the ship's return from the Far East. During a shipboard membership meeting, SIU Patrolman E. B. McAuley (center) brought the Overseas Evelyn's unlicensed crew up to date on union affairs and answered questions relative to pensions and the new maritime legislation. A perfect example of "Brother­ hood of the Sea" is Plurinsus Ordanza, messman, and Persing Ordanza, pantryman. Every chance they get, these brothers sail on the same ship. ^_ James Hagner (left), who sails as baker, and James Russell, chief cook, turned out many good meals for SIU men during the four month voyage. f ( A Seafarer's work is never done, even while in port, and Dave Fletcher, who sails as able bodied seaman, is busy flaking lines on the deck of the vessel. Tim Speicher, oiler, keeps the engine room log hopk up to date while working aboard the Overseas Evelyn in port after her run to the Far East. Seafarer Abe Alfaro, a fireman-watertender, clears a feeder valve in the engine room of the Overseas Evelyn during port time. Page 29 �RCIA President Housewright Says Organizing Is Major Goal Washington Organizing the unorganized is "the most important single effort in labor," according to James T. Housewright, presi­ dent of the Retail Clerks In­ ternational Association, and a member of the board of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. Housewright, speaking at the weekly MTD luncheon here, said that while his organization was particuarly interested in organizing white collar work­ ers, his thought was that new organizing across the total labor field was vital to the con­ tinuation of the labor move­ ment. "An organizer is a man who Unfair to Do Not Labor Buy has come up ffirou^ the ranks," Housewright said. And his experience in the ranks tells him the needs of the workingman. And in no other field is the i# need for unionization more evi­ dent than in the white collar field, he added. "Here is the responsibility of the service trade unions and we must be geared to meet this spe­ cial need of the labor move­ Rite, Western Provinicial BAKERY PRODUCTS— ment," he said. and Smithtown Maple. (Up­ Stroehmann Bros. Bakery, Among other things House­ holsterers) Schmidt Baking Co. (Bakery wright considered of impor­ and Confectionery Workers) LIQUORS—Stitzel-Weller Dis­ tance to the American labor tilleries products—Old Fitz­ movement was to help end the BARBER EQUIPMENT— gerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk, nation's drug problem. Wahl Clipper Corp., pro­ W. L. Weller. (DistUlery ducers of home barber sets. Workers) (Int'l. Assoc. of Machinists MEAT PRODUCTS—Poultry and Aerospace Workers) Packers,' Inc. (Blue Star CIGARETTES—R. J. Reyn­ label products). (Amalga­ third quarter of 1970 was 9.1 olds Tobacco Co.—Camels, mated Meat Cutters and percent, compared to the 8.5 Winston, Salem, Tempo, Butcher Workmen) percent rate for non-veterans Brandon, Doral, and Cava­ PRINTING—^Kingsport Press of that age. The rate for black lier. (Tobacco Workers Un­ "World Book," "Childcraft". veterans in that age bracket ion) (Printing Pressmen, Typog­ was a whopping 18.1 percent. raphers, Bookbinders, Ma­ CLOTHING—Siegel (H. I. S. chinists, Stereotypers, and brand) suits and-sports jack­ Electrotypers) ets, Kaynee boyswear. Richman Brothers men's clothing, NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Sewell suits. Wing shirts, Herald-Examiner. (10 unions Metro Pants Co., and Dip­ involved covering 2,000 lomat Pajamas by Fortex workers) Mfg. Co. (Amalgamated Britannica Junior Encyclo­ Clothing Workers) The Soviet merchant fleet is pedia (Int'l. Allied Printing Judy Bond Blouses—(Inter­ about to move into the conTrades Assn.) national Ladies Garment tainership trade sphere. RANGES—Magic C h e f, Pan Workers Union) The Soviet Union plans to Pacific Division. (Stove, Fur­ build new containerships and CASKETS—Capitol City Cas­ nace and Allied Appliance increase its container trade five­ ket Company—(United Fur­ Workers) fold by the mid-1970's. niture Workers) SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Philip Hanson of the Univer­ Co—^work shoes . . . Sentry, FLOURMILL PRODUCTS— sity of Birmingham, a specialist Cedar Chest and Statler; Pioneer Products, San An­ on Soviet shipping, said the men's shoes . , . Jarman, tonio, Texas (United Brew­ Russians have too many geo­ Johnson & Murphy, Crestery, Flour, Cereal, Soft graphical limitations to become worth (Boot and Shoe Work­ Drinks and Distillery Work­ an immediate threat to Western ers) ers) container trade. FURNITURE—^James Sterling SPECIAI^All West Virginia Narrow Waterways camping and vacation spots, Corp., White Furniture Co., He said the Soviet Union's (Laborers) Brown Furniture Co., (Unit­ narrow coastal waterways, and ed Furniture Workers) TOYS—^Fisher-Price toys (Doll the.Dardanelles and Bosphorus Economy Furniture—B i 11& Toy Workers Union) place size limits on ships. Containerships would have extremely difficult time trying to pass through these water­ ways, he said. Soviet trade with underde­ veloped countries, which dic­ tates the use of small ships, is another factor that could limit ...2014 W. 3d St. Soviet containership effective­ SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes DUEUTH, Hbm. (218) RA 2-4110 ness, Hanson said. FRANKFORT, MIeh. .P.O. Bex 287 & Inland Waters 415 Main St. To date the Soviet Union (616) EE 7-2441 6804 Canal St. has built merchant ships in the Inland Boatmen's Union HOUSTON, Tex. (713) WA 8-3207 6,000-to-8,000-ton class, a JACKSONVIEEE, Fla. 2008 Peail St. United Industrial (004) EE 3-0387 sufficient size to service her JERSEY CITY, N.X ..99 Montfomeir St. Workers (201) HE 0-9424 trade with underdeveloped na­ MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrence St. PRESIDEJNT tions. This class of ship is also (200) HE 2-1704 Paul Hall NEW ORLEANS, Ea 030 Jaeiuon Ave. adequate for domestic coastal (004) 020-7046 EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDBaJT shipping which accounts for 52 NORFOEK, Va. 116 3d St. Cal Tanner (703) 022-1882 percent of the total tonnage VICE PRESIDENTS 2604 S. 4th St. Earl Shepard Ldndsey Williams PHIEADEEPHIA, P*. (216) carried. DE 0-3818 A1 Tanner Robert Matthews PORT ARTHUR, Tex A34 NinUi Ave. "The relatively small size, SECRETARY-TREASURER SAN FRANCISCO, CaUE 1321 SaHlon St. A1 Kerr (416) 620-0703 and low average speeds of the SANTUBCE, P.R. ..1313 Fenwadea Juneee HEADQUARTERS ....6TS 4th Ave., Bklm. Soviet fleet are not going to be StwtO (212) HY 9-6600 724-2848 changed substantially in the AI.FENA, Mich 800 N. Sefiond Ave. SEATTLE, Wash 2606 Ftnt Ave. (S17) EE 4-3616 near future," Hanson said. (206) MA 3-4334 BAETIMORE, Md. ..1216 E. Bldtimoie St. ST. LOUIS, Mo 4677 Oravola Ave. <301) EA 7-4000 He said, the Russians would BOSTON, Mass (314) 762-0600 663 Atlaatie Ave. TAMPA. Fla. 312 HanlMm St. (617) 482-4716 need the cooperation of other (813) 220-2783 736 Washlnstoo St. Communist countries, Western BUFFALO, N.Y SIU (716) TL 3-0260 TOLEDO, O. ....A35 Snmmlt St. IBU (716) TE 3-0260 (410) 248-3601 concerns and the underdevel­ CHICAGO, III. ..0383 Ewlnr Ave. WILMINGTON, CaHf. ..460 Seaside Ave. oped nations before it could SIU (312) SA 1-0733 TSimlnal bland. Calif. (312) K8 0-0670 (213) 832-7286 commit itself to the heavy in­ CEEVELAND, 0 IBU 1420 W. lOth St. YOKOHABIA, Japan .Iseya Bids., (210) MA 1-0406 vestments involved in entering Room 810 DETROIT, MIeh. 10220 W. W Ave. 1-2 Kaloao-Dorl-Nakaka the container trade. (313) VI 3-4741 2014071 Ext. 281 November Unemployment At 5.8°/o The nation's unemployment rate hit a new peak of 5.8 per­ cent during the month of November, according to a re­ port of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the highest unemployment level since May 1963. The November rate was up 2.3 percent over the year. Tot^ unemployment of 4.6 million was up 200,000 seasonally ad­ justed over the month, and 1.9 million over the year. On the job side, non-farm payroll employment—^w h i c h usually moves up in November —^was down 135,000 seasonally in November to 70.6 million. This follows a decline of 315,000 in payroll jobs in October. The jobless rate for full-time workers rose to 5.5 percent last month, after holding steady in October. There was virtually no change in the 8.1 percent rate for part-time workers. Among occupational groups, the jobless rate for white-collar workers continued to rise in November, from 3.2 to 3.5 per­ cent. Among major industry di­ visions, the rate in manufactur­ ing climbed from 6.7 to 7.2 per­ cent. The Bureau of Labor Statis­ tics unveiled some figures which show that returning servicemen, especially Negroes, are particu­ larly suffering from lack of jobs. The jobless rate for veterans in the 20-24 age bracket in the Nixon Stresses Labor Contact President Nixon was a sur­ prise visitor at the Retail Clerks International Associa­ tion Executive Board meeting held in the MTD afiOliate's new headquarters in downtown Washington. RCIA President James T. Housewright escorted President Nixon and Secretary of Labor James Hodgson on a tour of the 11-story office building— including the Coulter Memorial Chapel. Later, Nixon met with the RCIA Executive Board for 45 minutes in the tenth floor board room which recently won the 1970 craftsmanship award of the Washington Building Con­ gress. Nixon told the Board that the primary purpose for meet­ ing with the union was his strong desire to open up direct lines of commimications with the labor movement. According to Nixon, he wanted to have an opportunity to discuss current issues with labor leaders and to try to iron out differences as they might arise. SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD SEPTEMBER 1, 1970 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1970 SEAFABEBS' WELFABE PUAN mr- Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $478.50) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid Seafarers' Pension Plan—Benefits Paid Seafarers' Vacation Plan—Benefits Paid (Average—$498.85) Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period Page 30 NVMBEB OF BENEFITS AMOUNT PAID 20 $ 5,891.15 2,388 57,578.96 35 85,754.75 39 205.90 40 8,000.00 1,022 30,648.96 2,159 103,308.24 723 10,698.75 412 4,120.65 3,818 30,136.00 10,635 1,632 336,343.36 386,875.00 1,482 739,302.23 13,770 1,462,520.59 Russian Entry In Containers Expected Soon Directory of Union Holis Seafarers y �aaon... Fv Manuel Aguas, left, and Domingo Lallave drape the tinsel on the crew's Christmas tree aboard the Charleston (Sea-Land) = espite the fact that it is the Christmas season, ships still must sail to deliver necessary goods around the world. For the Seafarers manning these vessels, it is time away from families and friends. For them the ship must serve as home. So, in the true spirit of Christmas, SIU members aboard the Charleston (Sea-Land) set about decorating the ship's dining area while docked in Port Elizabeth, N.J. According to crew members the Christmas decorations tend to alleviate the loneliness of being away from one's family at this time of the year and also help convey the real meaning of Christmas—^fellowship and good will. D ' i ^ * Christmas bulbs are hung by J. Ruiz, able seaman, left, while A. Ordiz, able seaman, prepares the "canned snow." Page 31 �SEAFARERS»LOG f. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO ' 'I • f I I. if • ilVarcotics: The 'Cirim Reaper 0 I'.; When it comes to problems that affect the American people and their society, it's quite obvious that this nation's No. I con^cern is with the question of narcotics. •» That word "narcotics" covers the entire range of drugs. It in­ cludes everything from marijuana to heroin. It includes barbitu­ rates and amphetamines—the so-called "uppers" and "downers" —and everything in between. The government has mounted a full-scale campaign against narcotics. In this fight, it has enlisted the press, radio and televi­ sion, the medical profession, the churches, the schools—every­ > body. 0 m' The attack is based on three key points: • The use of narcotics is illegal. • The use of narcotics is dangerous to the health— wen the life—of the user. • The use of narcotics involves a serious "moral issue." >> •* J These are legitimate points. But for the Seafarer, the question of narcotics comes down to an even more basic issue: r t Any Seafarer using narcotics—ashore or asea—loses his sea­ man's papers forever! A man who gets "busted" once on a nar­ cotics charge gets busted economically, too—because he loses his right to go to sea—not just for awhile, but for the rest of his * *1 life! That's a tough rap—losing your passport to life—but that's the way it is. A single "stick" of marijuana . .. just a couple of grains of the hard stuff ... and a man is through in the maritime industry! i\ V it's almost as tough on the shipmates of the man who uses—or even possesses—narcotics. Any Seafarer caught with narcotics in his possession makes his ship—and his shipmates—"hot." It subjects the men and their vessel to constant surveillance by narcotics agents in this country and abroad. And, of course, any Seafarer who is an addict—who uses any drug that affects his mind and his ability to function normally— endangers the lives of his shipmates. The possibility of an emer­ gency is always present aboard ship—and only olert minds can react to an emergency. ! ,« / "t . r r, 6 Talk to Seafarers about the "grim reaper" and they'll tell you about accidents or storms at sea — or about the hazards of com­ bat service. t ••Y They should put narcotics at the top of the list^^^—because it can claim more lives, or it can threaten more livelihoods, than any other peril. Narcotics. The "grim reaper." ll's sure something to think about. y i AVi,,:,.. i;:;. ;• p:' Si ''•v. 'V � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource December 1970 Description An account of the resource Headlines: LABOR AIDS FIGHT TO CURE DISEASE AFL-CIO’S MEANY SUPPORT DIRECT ELECTION OF PRESIDENT EAST COAST PASSENGER SHIP SERVICE DRAWING TO AN END LEAP TO FREEDOM ENDS IN TRAGEDY ADMIRAL HOLDEN, 74, DIES AT SNUG HARBOR LABOR, INDUSTRY LEADERS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER AID SIU RETIREES ATTEND SEMINARS, EXPLORE SIU’S PINEY POINT FARM SIU CREWS CONFERENCES SIU SHIP’S COMMITTEE: THE UNION FAR FROM SHORE OVERSEAS EVELYN HOME FROM FAR EAST Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/1970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXII, No. 12 1970 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/54f82af97fd2daf5063de8cc484d7170.PDF 347a52982f8202b9e400f583ff9736e9 PDF Text Text SEAE4RERS#LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERWATIONAI. UNION » ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT « AFL-CIO I PHS Hospitals in Jeopardy See Pages 3-7, 10 See Pages 12-13 Maritime Unity What's it all About? The president of the National Maritime Union, Joseph Curran, recently launched a propaganda barrage aimed, in his words, at achieving "mari­ time unity." Because of the potential impact of these pro­ posals on Seafarers and their union, this issue of the Log carries a special four-page supplement which examines not only Mr. Curran's proposals but also some of the reasons behind them. The supplement also contains the historical record of past efforts to work with the National Maritime Union in achieving common objectives. "[:• /I young trainees at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship have received their high school equivalency diploma through the GED program administered by the academic staff at HLSS. Mrs. Doro­ thy Forte, a member of the academic staff, is shown preparing trainees for the GED examination. All Seafarers are urged to give special atten­ tion to the material in this supplement, so that they will be fully informed on the issues which are involved. �I 'f 200 Seafarers Confer March 1 Two hundred rank-and-file Seafarers—elected by their fel­ low members—are scheduled to take part in a two-week Educa­ tional Conference at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship, Piney Point, Md., as part of the SIU's continuing effort to keep the membership in­ formed on union and industry activities. Special meetings will be held in all AGLIWD ports at 11 a.m., Feb. 26, for the purpose of electing delegates, with the conference scheduled to open at Piney Point on Mar. 1. (See back page for details.) To assure the greatest parti­ cipation by interested members, and to defer in part the cost to them for such attendance, the Educational Conference will provide for transportation, board and housing for all parti­ cipants and will provide them with, the sum of $8 per day to cover their other expenses for each day of attendance. In a further effort to as­ sure maximum membership participation, the union has re­ quested the contractually pro­ vided Seafarers Appeal Board to adopt a temporary rule pro­ viding that members elected to participate at the Educational Conference who are registered for shipping shall have their cards extended for the period of their attendance at the Con­ ference. ^ Participating in the orga­ nizing and administering of the Conference are the Seafarers Welfare Plan, Seafarers Pension Plan, Seafarers Vacation Plan, Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, and the Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters District. The purpose of the confer­ ence is to inform and advise the members on: • The various aspects, rules, regulations, responsibilities and issues of the Seafarers Welfare Plan, Seafarers Pension Plan and Seafarers Vacation Plan. • The inter-relationship of each of these plans with the un­ ion. • The union's operations and functions. • Contracted management and its functions. • The maritime industry in general, with particular em­ phasis on its problems and future prospects. In short, the Conference will be designed as a complete edu­ cational program, review, dis­ cussion and recommendations— all of them focused on how all of these activities apply to the rank-and-file member. Delia Steanisliip Lines, Inc., has announced its intention to con;itruct from one to six of these new LASH/ Container cargo vessels which will be manned by SIU members.^^\ch ship would be 772 feet long and would haul 64 barges or 1,500 containers—or a^Smbination of both. Delta Lines Announces Plan To Construct Six Vessels New Orleans to carry up to 64 barges, or, clude the Caribbean ports. Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., alternatively, a maximum of Delta's application requests an SlU-contracted operator, has 1,500 containers or a combina­ specifically that the company be called-upon U.S. shipyards on tion of both. Management re­ granted permission to ship to the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ported that the vessel design and from all U.S. ports from coasts to submit bids on the contains "highly flexible provi­ Key West, Fla., to the Mexican construction of one to six com­ sions"' for bulk liquids, dry border and the foreign ports in bination LASH/C o n t a i n e r bulk cargoes, refrigerated the Gulf of Mexico, the Carib­ cargo vessels. cargoes and heavy lifts. bean Sea and the Guianas. The Delta's design specifications Asks Route Extension range would include the Virgin call for a vessel with an over­ Delta, which services the Islands, the West Indies, Mex­ all length of 772 feet and a East Coast of South America ico, the Venezuelan ports and displacement of 32,650 tons. and the West Coast of Africa the East Coast Colombian ports. Powering each vessel will be a to and from ports in the Gulf It would not include Panama. turbine propulsion system of Mexico, has also filed an Delta now services Puerto Rico capable of providing a maxi­ application with the Maritime and Barbados. mum service speed of 24 knots. Administration to extend the The company operates a fleet Each of the ships will be able company's trade routes to in­ of 12 cargo vessels. THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT Goals for a New Era by PAUl HAU '^or Seafarers and their industry, 1971 marks a year of change from the narrow, unjust policies of the past to a broad-based, hope-generating program that has become available through the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. A severe mistake was made in 1936 when Con­ gress restricted federal support for the merchant marine to 14 berthline operators. It took us a third of a century to develop the new concepts of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970—concepts that make it possible for the entire maritime industry, and espe­ cially the previously unsubsidized bulk fleet, to share in the nation's plan of help for its merchant marine. While we now have legislation to supply a method to protect seafaring jobs and create new opportunities for Seafarers and ship operators, our problems are far from, being solved. Best estimates indicate that it will take a full five years before any major impact is felt from the pro­ gram outlined in the Merchant Marine Act of 1970— five years before we will be called upon to man any of the 30 new vessels a year called for in the Act. During that time, we'll have to keep pressing for additional laws and policies that will fully utilize the present fleet, and build and protect the cargo rights of ships yet to hit the waves. To take one example, we are going to need a large measure of hard work to convince government agencies that American-flag operators should receive a far greater share of federal government exports. We must persuade the government not only to use American-flag vessels, but to give first preference to ships that have weathered past economic storms with­ out the benefit of construction and operating sub-r, sidies. These operators have earned the right to re­ ceive top priority in shipping federal cargo. To keep our current fleet operationally and eco­ nomically sound during the coming period of mari­ time transition, the government should reverse the all F Page 2 too prevalent policy of sending cargoes in foreign bottoms when U.S.-flag ships are readily available. In addition, it is time for U.S. maritime officials to start getting tough with government bureaucrats who have consistently ignored the order and intent of Con­ gress when it passed laws demanding that a mini­ mum of 50 percent of all U.S. cargo be shipped in American-flag vessels. Even this minimum of 50 per­ cent has too often bee i ignored at a time when the very survival of the An:r.r«iari merchant marine has heen at stake. The new Act provides a system to end this abuse of Congressional intent by giving the Secretary of Commerce full power to regulate federal shipping prac­ tices. With this authority, the Secretary of Commerce can maximize U.S.-flag carriage of government cargo. under the 1936 Act, we must promote safeguards to protect unsubsidized vessels from the unfair competi­ tion of ships already constructed with government help. Maritime Administrator (now Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs) Andrew E. Gib­ son acknowledged in Congressional testimony that special attention should be given the unsubsidized fleet in the carriage of government cargoes when he said, in answer to a question from Rep. Thomas M. Pelly (R.-Wash.): "... I certainly agree with your concern that during the transition ... a great deal of care has to be taken by the Administration so that there is no undue harm done to those operators who have built bulk carriers today without any subsidy." e will be working to convince the government that, as the nation's largest shipper, it should have as its goal the placement of 100 percent of all cargoes aboard American-flag ships. By establishing this goal, the government would be setting an example of support for the U.S. merchant marine for private shippers to follow. Second preference could be given to the ships of nations receiving assistance cargoes from the Agency for International Development and the Department of Agriculture. The propaganda value of sending U.S. assistance cargoes in U.S. bottoms—or in the ships of nations that are so desperately in need—is so apparent that it is difficult to understand why any U.S. cargo would be transported in third-flag vessels. Only in extreme cases should any U.S.-government cargo be placed aboard ships of other nations, the socalled "third-flag" vessels that have invaded our gov­ ernment-cargo field and bled our own merchant marine of desperately-needed business. While giving top priority to U.S.-flag vessels, and particularly to those which have not received help addition to establishing shipping priorities and Inprotecting the unsubsidized fleet, we will use our W influence to promote a balanced shipbuilding pro­ gram. The American-flag dry-bulk fleet is in trouble. Its ships are old, and many are being scrapped. And while our domestic tanker fleet is in good shape, the Ameri­ can-flag tanker fleet in the foreign trade is virtually extinct. This is of major importance since the overwhelming majority of worldwide oceanbome cargoes is being carried aboard bulk carriers and tankers. If we are to be competitive, we will have to develop a crash pro­ gram of constructing bulk carriers and tankers for the foreign trades. Under the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, we have the chance to return the American merchant marine to a position of leadership on the world's sealanes. For the promise to be fulfilled, our strength should be placed where the action is—on the previously un­ subsidized dry-bulk and tanker fleets which carry 85 percent of our foreign cargo, in spite of the handicap of age and neglect. Seafarers Log �USPHS Hospital Program in Jeopardy Washington, D.C. The United States Public Health Service Hospitals, long safe havens for ill Seafarers, are seriously threatened by a budget study now underway in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The Seafarers International Union is in the forefront of wide­ spread efforts to protect the eight remaining PHS hospitals and its 30 outpatient clinics. SIU President Paul Hall, in ficiaries of the Public Health a letter to U.S. Senators said: Service." "Closing these hospitals Cites 1965 Hearings would cause immeasurable harm Rep. Garmatz said the com­ not only to the seamen, coast mittee had responsibility for the guardsmen and other govern­ welfare of merchant seamen. ment personnel who are the By law. Rep. Garmatz said, the hospitsds' primary charges, but government is required to pro­ also to the general level of vide hospitals for merchant health care in the United States. seamen, and thus a review of "To even consider closing any the status of PHS hospitals was hospital at a time when so many within the committee's powers. persons have need for a greater He reminded Richardson of medical care than the U.S. 1965 hearings the committee health care system can provide held on the proposed closing of is a paradox that the nation can some PHS hospitals. "As a re­ iU afford." sult of these hearings," Garmatz Closing Imminent said, "the committee concluded Hall said that testimony that whatever justification exist­ given to the House Merchant ed for permitting our PHS pro­ Marine and Fisheries Commit­ gram to pass the danger point, tee by HEW Secretary Elliot it was time to make plans not Richardson demonstrated that to close hospitals, but to up­ "a decision to close these hos­ grade, modernize and expand" pitals is imminent." Hall urged the remaining hospitals. This was necessary. Rep. Senators to join in the effort to keep the hospitals open, "so Garmatz said "to carry out the that the vital medical services statutory responsibility of pro­ offered by the hospitals to sea­ viding the best possible medical men and a wide range of other care and treatment to bene­ ficiaries who are entitled to such patients will not be lost." by law." The secretary replied that Related stories on USPHS no final decision on the future appear elsewhere in this is­ of the PHS hospitals had been sue oi ilM 1X>G. made. He said a decision would P^ies 4-5: A history of be made soon because budget the PHS hospitals. requests for the coming fiscal year would be due at the end Page 7: A personal look of January. at the PHS program. HEW Secretary Critical Page 10: An editorial on Richardson said the PHS the proposal to close PHS hospitals are "underutilized" facilities. and, he added, the hospitals "are becoming increasingly in­ The hospitals are located in efficient in terms of health man­ Boston, Baltimore, New York, power utilization as well as Norfolk, New Orleans, Galves­ dollars, have difficulty in attract­ ton, San Francisco and Seattle. ing and retaining career profes­ Richardson was called to sional staff and in some cases testify before the House com­ are unable to provide the range 1 mittee by its chairman. Rep. of services expected in an acute Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), short-term hospital." Richardson told the commit­ who said reports in the press of the department's reap­ tee that in the department's praisal of the PHS hospitals study of the PHS program they necessitated a "progress report had determined that "HEW from the secretary on this very would retain primary responsi­ serious matter affecting the bility for the support of medihealth and welfare of the bene­ (Continued on Page 6) This USPHS hospital in Seattle, Washington, provides medical care for merchant seamen and other groups whenever the need arises. All re­ maining eight PHS hospital may soon be closed down. January 1971 The remaining eight USPHS hospitals like this one on Staten Island, N.Y. are in danger of being closed because of budgetary pressures at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Murphy Decries Proposal To Abolish PHS Hospitals Washington, D.C. Rep. John M. Murphy (DN.Y.) has labeled a Health, Education and Welfare Depart­ ment proposal to close all eight remaining U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals as "in­ humane." "I say that the proposal is not humane because these aren't just 500,000 faceless beneficiaries of the PHS pro­ gram—they are 500,000 living, breathing human beings who need treatment at time of ill­ ness. They are civilians and government employees who have, since this country began, looked to these safe havens for treatment. To suddenly deprive them of these facilities is, to say the least, inhumane," Murphy said. Murphy, a member of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, addressed a luncheon gathering of labor, business and government offi­ cials sponsored by the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment. A Bad 'Joke' "I am baffled and sick at heart . . . that someone in the bureaucratic caverns of the De­ partment of Health, Education and Welfare may be attempting to write the finishing chapter in the history of the United States Public Health Service hos­ pitals," he said. Murphy said that such an action would be "a joke—a joke that none of us ought to laugh at." "I use the word 'joke,'" he said, "because a proposal to close any hospital at this jimcture in American history is simply a burlesque of reality. It is ludicrous that any serious people would close any hos­ pitals at a time when our hos­ pitals are jammed to over­ crowding and costs have shot up and out of sight." But, he added that some very serious men "including the Secretary of HEW" came be­ fore the House Merchant Ma­ rine Committee and "proposed to do just that." According to HEW Secre­ tary Elliot Richardson, his de­ partment is under pressure from the Bureau of the Budget to cut costs. "Why they decided to wield the axe on PHS hospitals in order to trim their budget is no laughing matter," Murphy said. "It's a matter for tears." Cites PHS Contiibutions The New York democrat pointed out that PHS hospitals (Continued on Page 6) Seafarers Freed From DualTaxes Washington, D.C. Seafarers will no longer face the burden of paying withhold­ ing taxes to more than one state. A new law, eliminating duplicate taxation, has been ap­ proved by Congress and signed by President Nixon. Until now, many Seafarers have been confronted with the possibility of paying taxes to the state out of which their ships operate and the state in which their ships unload. Pay Only One State Under the recently passed law, a Seafarer will be re­ quired to pay withholding taxes to the state in which he earns more than 50 percent of his in­ come or the state in which he lives—but not both. Employers will file informa­ tion returns for tax purposes only with the state in which the Seafarer lives and the state in which he earns most of his in­ come. The tax bill originally did not include Seafarers. It provid­ ed protection for bus, r^road, over-the-road van drivers and airline employees. Rep. Thomas Pelly (R-Wash.) pushed through an amendment that assured Seafarers the same protection provided other inter­ state transportation workers. Unions Point Out Inequities The extent to which revenuehungry states have made non­ resident transportation workers "the target for unfair taxes" was detailed by spokesmen for the Railroad Brotherhoods, the Air Line Pilots and the SIU at Con­ gressional hearings earlier this year. A United Transportation Un­ ion representative said that rail workers are forced to complete as many as 14 different tax forms. Seafarers' officials testified that Alaska has hoimded non­ residents on taxes even to the extent of taking them to court. Congress was told that workers often have to hire accountants to help them out of a tax maze. Rep. Brock Adams CDWash.), who introduced the re­ lief legislation in the House, said the new law helps to cor­ rect an inequity "in an ^ea where correction is long over­ due." Sen. Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) similarly hailed the law's pas­ sage as its chief sponsor in the Senate. �USPHS A ."V- While the Castle Harbor, Boston, Mass., Marine Hospital, pictured here, was the first built by the Marine Hospital Service, the service was operating a hospital bought from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1799. The Boston hospital opened its doors to merchant seamen in 1804. A fleet of ambulances and other vehicles stands ready near a Public Health Service Hospital. Even in the early days of automhiles the USPHS was well equipped to handle the hospital needs of Seafarers and other beneficiaries of the service. Page 4 Seafarers Log �punjiiiim. . Americans were committeo to the concept of hos­ pital care for merchant seamen long before the 13 colonies became independent. The operation of public hospitals for merchant sea­ men is an unbroken thread olE American history that has survived the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, westward expansion and fluctuations in the wealth of the nation. Termination of the availability of hospitals for merchant seamen—a thing that such dramatic move­ ments of history could not accomplish—is now being attempted by White House budget managers. Established in 1798 The history of the present-day U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals begins with the signing in July 1798 of an act of Congress establishing a Marine Hospital Service. The signature on the act belonged to President John Adams, but the underlying concept of the act stemmed from England's triumph in 1588 over the vast Spanish Armada. A grateful England recognized the contribution of its merchant and naval seamen and established "safe havens" for them at Chatham Chest and at Greenwich. The hospitals provided care for seamen regardless of their financial condition. •i .4n aerial view of the Norfolk, Va., Public Health Service Hospital. Norfolk was the site of the first Marine Hospital built in the United States. Construction of the Norfolk Marine Hospital hegan a year be­ fore the U.S. Constitution was written. To support the hospitals, the British imposed a levy on the salaries of seamen, and as the American colonies grew the idea of a tax for "hospital money" grew along with them. After the Act of 1798, the government of the United States bought the Norfolk Hospital and, thus, began its historic role as provider of hospital service for merchant seamen. In 1742 the Pennsylvania colony began collecting six pence per month from seamen for the support of the Greenwich hospital, and it was not long before the need for health care facilities for seafarers in the colonies became apparent to large numbers of people. The Norfolk facility was soon joined by a hospital built on Castle Island in Boston Harbor. Together they represented the first welfare institutions established by the people of the United States. And they were establishd exclusively for men of the sea. The Boston Marine Society, a group pledged to the promotion of international navigation and to assistance for needy mariners, was formed in 1742. A similar group was formed in New York 25 years later. War Proves Need of Public Hospitals Norfolk Constructs First Hospital As early as they were, it was the oldest of the colonies—Virginia—that made the first provision under law for the welfare of seafarers and the first Marine Hospital in the New World would be built in its great port city of Norfolk. The cornerstone of the original Norfolk Marine Hospital was laid in 1788, a year before the Con­ stitution of the United States was drafted. »Vi Still, these hospitals were versatile enough to be converted to treatment of casualties of the War of 1812, including medical treatment of British prisoners of war. While the name changed, the responsibility for the care of ill seafarers remained vested in the same agency. In 1901, the service reported that there were 13,500 beneficiaries of the service rendered by its 23 hospitals, including one at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Their role in the War of 1812 advanced the con­ cept of public hospitals tremendously, and when the nation began to spread westward. Marine Hospitals went along. Hospitals were built on the Great Lakes, navigable rivers and along the seacoasts. Much of the nation's commerce then was waterborne, and Marine Hospitals sprang up in nearly every major port. Some were located in temporary quarters such as boarding houses, lighthouses and even in private homes. In addition, hospitals financed by public money were built rapidly during the war and administered by the USPHS. After the war the service turned 57 of them over to the Veterans Bureau and retained 24 for its own primary beneficiaries. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Marine Hos­ pitals again took the role of havens for the wounded and sick of both sides of the fight. They returned to their primary service of merchant seamen when peace was concluded between the North and the South. These beneficiaries have been served in hospitals and outpatient clinics whose numbers have dwindled in the past 30 years. Services Expanded After the consolidation. Congress added duties and services to the Marine Hospital's role in the nation's health. The service began to regulate quarantine proce­ dures, examine immigrants and make field inspections of public health. And as the area of service widened, the government hanged the method of financing the Marine Hospital Service. Prior to 1884, hospital costs had been met by a tax on the wages of seafarers. In 1884 funds derived from the tonnage tax on every vessel entering an American port were allocated to the Marine Hospitals. In 1906, after several years of deficit financing, the tonnage tax gave way to direct appropriation for the Marine Hospitals. The tonnage tax is still collected and contributed to the general revenue of the govern­ ment. January 1971 Coverage Extended The number of hospitals, and the number of poten­ tial beneficiaries leapfrogged in the World War I era. Coast Guard personnel and their dependents, officers of the Public Health Service and several other groups of government employees were added to the roster of those eligible for treatment at Public Service Hospitals. The Marine Hospital Service was consolidated under a Supervising Surgeon in 1870 and the first over-all regulations for the hospitals were promulgated in 1872. A nurse slls at the wheel of an early United States Marine Hospital ambulance. As a means of clarifying the role of the Marine Hospital service, which had by the turn of the century nearly all public health responsibility, the Congress created the U.S. Public He^th and Marine Hospital Service in 1902. Ten years later the name was changed again to the present U.S. Public Health Service. Number Reduced Greatly In 1921 the USPHS had 24 hospitals. The number had been reduced to 15 by 1955 and it now stands at eight. The operating hospitals are located in Baltimore, Boston, Galveston, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, San Francisco and Seattle. In addition the service maintains outpatient clinics in 30 strategically located cities. Hospitals have closed in Savannah, Chicago, Ky., and Forth Worth, Tex., and the leprosarium at Carville, La., are not included in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's current study in USPHS hospital operations. Program Threatened By Econoniist Secretary Elliott Richardson said the department is evaluating only the general hospitals, which he described as "under-utilized" and becoming "increas­ ingly inefficient." The secretary said the suggestion for the study comes as a result of budgetary pressures on his department. While no decision has been made, the budget pressures have formed a cloud over a glowing page of American history—the history of the government's concern for the health of the se^arer. Page 5 �Misuse of U.S.-flag Fleet Irritates Rep. Thompson Rep. Frank Thompson found much in common with these young trainees from the Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship at Piney Point. The future Seafarers attended the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department luncheon as part of their training program at HLSS. PHS in Trouble (Continued from Page 3) cal care in behalf of its bene­ ficiaries. This will not be dele­ gated to any other public or pri­ vate agency." He said the PHS would at­ tempt to have beneficiaries ad­ mitted to veteran's hospitals or to private hospitals under con­ tract to provide such service. Veteran's Hosphals Backlogged The planned involvement of VA hospitals drew angry com­ ments from members of the House committee. Rep. John Murphy (D-N.Y.) said it was "inconceivable" that Veteran's hospitals would be able to take even acutely ill merchant seamen because of the long waiting lists of veterans who would have priority over PHS beneficiaries. And, Rep. Paul G. Rogers (D-Ra.) said that the assigning of ill seamen to private hospi­ tals would be "amazingly cost­ ly in the light of the astronom­ ical cost of a private hospital bed these days." Also protesting the planned liaison with Veteran's hospitals were several veteran's groups including the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Other critics of the contem­ plated closings said that re­ moval of the PHS hospitals from the health care picture of their communities would leave a gap that might not be filled very easily. Bertram Gottlieb, director of research for Transportation In­ stitute, who testified in behalf of the institute and the SIU, raised an economic point il­ lustrating the special needs of Seafarers. "If a factory worker is in­ jured on the job," Gottlieb said, "or if he is ill and goes to a hospital and he is forced to wait an extra day and if it is not a critical medical situation, it may mean he loses an extra day's pay, period. "An American seaman who misses a ship because he can't get medical care may actually, with the condition the Ameri­ can merchant marine is in, may lose months of income," Gott­ lieb said. He added that the primary question was not economic but one of the availability of health care for merchant seamen. But, Page 6 said Gottlieb, if a seaman "does not have priority treat­ ment, he may very well lose months of employment." Testifying with Gottlieb was Robert Vahey, a staff econo­ mist of the institute. Rep. William Mailliard (RCalif.) described the PHS hos­ pital's place in the San Fran­ cisco area. "It is such an inte­ gral part, that if there is any change in the operation of the Public Health Service Hospi­ tal, it would have a tremendous impact on at least a half-dozen other major medical institu­ tions," Rep. Mailliard said. HEWs Authority Questioned And there seemed to be some legal doubt that the HEW had power to close the hospitals. Rep. Garmatz said, "as chair­ man of this committee I have always been under the impres­ sion that to close these hospi­ tals they would need the sanc­ tion of the Congress. But it seems that the only way we can stop them from closing these hospitals is to put some sort of stipulations in the appropria­ tions that none of the money can be used for phasing out any of the hospitals." Others testifying before the committee included Sen. Wil­ liam B. Spong, Jr. (D-Va.), Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.), Rep. Thomas R. Pelly (RWash.), Rep. William Whitehurst (D-Va.) and Bertram E. Gottlieb, research director and Robert Vahey, economist, from Transportation Institute. PAS Support Widespread All of them favored main­ taining the Public Health Serv­ ice hospitals. Rep. Garmatz an­ nounced that several groups had registered their senti­ ments in favor of the PHS hos­ pitals. He identified them as: Rep. Olin E. Teague (DTex.), chairman of the House Veteran's Affairs Committee; the Disabled Officers Associa­ tion; the Maryland Hospital Association; American Hospi­ tal Association; International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots; the National Mari­ time Union; the International Longshoremen's Association and the City Council of the City of Galveston, Tex. Rep. Garmatz said all of them "opposed unilateral action by the Department and the Ad­ ministration to close these hos­ pitals." Washington, D.C. The misuse of America's merchant fleet—^by agencies of the United States government and industrial firms—^has been attacked by Rep. Frank Thomp­ son Jr. (D-N.J.), as a "national disgrace." "American flag ships handle less than five percent of the na­ tion's import and export trade," Thompson told a group gather­ ed for an AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department luncheon recently, "I think that is inde­ fensible." This "pathetic neglect of the merchant marine" has come about in spite of the fact that the U.S. has Cargo Preference laws on the books which re­ quire a minimum of 50 percent of all federal cargoes to be shipped in U.S. vessels, he said. "Somehow, some agencies of government have taken that to be a maximum and actually give preference to foreign bot­ toms . . . they must know how desperately American ships need American cargo." Industry, too, has contributed to the problems of the mer­ chant fleet, by shipping in­ dustrial cargoes under foreign flags, Thompson said. ". . . It is so self-defeating. The dollars they give the ships of foreign nations . . . always return to haunt us," he ex­ plained. "The outflow of cur­ rency weakens American cur­ rency, inflates it and chops into the real profit of these same ex­ porting industries. When these plain facts are known, the ship­ ping policies of some of the nation's industries can be taken to represent only the desire for a quick profit. These policies reflect no long-range thinking about the nation's monetary policy or its economic wellbeing." Signs Hopeful Thompson said he was hope­ ful that the Administration's support of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 "foreshadows a change of heart in the depths of federal bureaucracy," that would lead to an increase in the tons of cargo shipped imder U.S.-flags. The year of 1970 was a vintage one in many respects, Thompson said, but when the total cargo carried slipped to 4.8 percent, it took the edge off the year. The decline has come rap­ idly, the Congressman noted. "U.S.-flag ships carried al­ most half of our nation's total foreign trade cargo just 20 years ago. Just 10 years ago the U.S.-flag merchant fleet still saUed with more than 10 percent of its nation's cargo." Thompson said encouraging signs for the future were the "Ship American" program launched by the Department of Commerce, and the announce­ ments recently by some auto makers and majpr oil companies to the effect that they will now send their cargoes by Americanflag ships whenever possible. "If this trend grows ... we will again have a merchant marine of first class standing," he predicted. Murphy Decries HEW Idea (Continued from Page 3) impossible irony upon im­ provide free medical care to possible irony." He said that the first almerchant seamen. Coast tenative wouldn't work at all, Guardsmen and a number of the purpose of closing the PHS other beneficiaries covered by hospitals. law, totaling over a half"Veterans hospitals are al­ million men and women. He said that the PHS pro­ ready overcrowded and danger­ grams contribute to the entire ously near a point where their health care picture of the com­ medical care can no longer pro­ munity in which they are vide relief for those who need located. In addition, he noted and qualify for it now. To add that these hospitals are a part another half-million people to of the training ground for that list would so greatly agvitally needed medical person­ nel. "Some attract the most skilled interns and residents because they have facilities second to none in such sophisticated areas of medicine as renal care and coronary care," he said. Scorns Perpetrator "Any proposal to close these hospitals," he added, "is a sin and a national disgrace. Who­ ever came up with the idea that the Public Health Service hos­ pitals are the place to start to Rep. John Murphy cut the HEW budget—^who­ ever he may be—he ought to be taken to a PHS hospital and gravate that already bad situa­ treated for his acute case of tion that I shudder to think of bureaucratic tunnel vision and the consequences," he said. To assign PHS beneficiaries his inhumanity." to a private contract hospital In his testimony before the would be even worse, accord­ House committee Richardson ing to the congressman. offered two alternatives to the "If cost is really the reason PHS programs. One would be for this reappraisal of the PHS to make current beneficiaries of hospitals, isn't it ironic to think the PHS program eligible for that most of their patients would admission to the nation's vet­ wind up in voluntary hospitals erans hospitals; the other would where c;ven the richest of men be to admit them to private now have difficulty meeting the hospitals with which the Public bill for semi-private care?" Health Service would contract Murphy said that he could for treatment if beds could not not see what possible good it be found in the VA hospitals. does the PHS budget to close Rejects Attematives their own beds which cost an Murphy said both sugges­ average of $58 a day, to rent tions "bewilder" him and that space in a private hospital it seems "HEW wants to pile where the per day costs average between $75 and $100. "The monetary gain," Murphy said, "is non-existent, and the discomfort increase is unacceptable." He said it was pitifur^ttor-a country that spends over $60 billion annually on health care, some hatchman could possibly chop out an important part of this nation's medical scene." Alternative to Alternatives He pledged that he would fight the suggested closings and would not sit idly by. Accord­ ing to him there are other al­ ternatives: "If it is true that the PHS hospitals are, in the words of Mr. Richardson, 'becoming in­ efficient and are under-utilized,' then let's make them efficient and let's increase their utiliza­ tion. But don't just wipe them out. "The first and best thing to do is to demand and enforce the demand that the PHS hos­ pitals be updated, renovated, expanded and modernized. "It wouldn't take all that much money to do it. Taking Secretary Richardson's esti­ mate as correct it would re­ quire about $140 million. In a nation that spends $60 bil­ lion nnnually on health care, that $140 million could be the best spent chunk. It may well be the best appropriation HEW will ever make." Human Health Takes Priority According to Murphy this is the alternative that "offers the most for medicine, for PHS and for people, especially those that are beneficiaries of the serv­ ice." He concluded that "as nice as the concept of a manageable budget is, human life and hu- ' man health must be held more dear." Seafarers Log .11 �Spirit of Brotherhood Pervades PHS Hospitals TTaving to spend time on the beach in a hospital be* A cause of sickness or injury can be a difficult task at any time of the year, but it is especially hard for a Seafarer to spend Christmas in a hospital far from family and friends. In order to brighten the holiday season for hospitalized Seafarers, and in keeping with a tradition that dates back to the founding of the SIU, union rep­ resentatives in many ports visited the United States Public Health Service Hospitals to bring gifts and spend time with shipmates. In the port of New York, SIU Welfare Director A1 Bernstein led a Christmas Eve visit to Seafarers in the USPHS hospital on Staten Island. Every Seafarer received cigarettes, shaving lo­ tion and a special gift of $25 in cash for lise in pur­ chasing personal items. This gift was in addition to the regular $8 a day provided by the Union for each day a Seafarer spends in a hospital. In the SIU tradition of Brotherhood of the Sea, there are really no special days for remembering hospitalized shipmates—they are remembered every day of the year. Ho»ipilaIized Seafarer Warren Liesegang (right) receives a carton of cigarettes and holiday greetings from fellow Seafarer Nor­ man Bergeron. Veteran Seafarer Andrew McDonald (left) re­ ceives a carton of cigarettes from Norman Bergeron (right) as Patrolman Red (Campbell counts out a $25 Christmas gift for Brother McDonald. * <. SIU Welfare Director A1 Bernstein (left) talks with deck department Seafarer Clarence Garrabraut. Bern­ stein headed a group of Seafarers on a tour of the USPHS hospital at Staten Island on Christmas Eve, dis­ pensing gifts and good will. An injured arm has placed Brother Charles Hirchfeld on the beach for several weeks, but nurses Gulleksen (left) and Scott are helping to make recuperating a lot easier, and the Christmas Season more pleasant. Personal Reflection To the Editor: Just a few lines of thanks to the SIU. I have a feeling of personal friendship for your continued efforts on my behalf over the past years. It was my intention to send this much sooner, but unfortunately I ran into some health problems which at this time seem trivial to me. Life must go on. I v(rould like to take this liberty of giving my personal testimony with regards to my recent stay at the USPHS hospital at New Or­ leans. As you know, 1 am sure, the large hospital in New Orleans has patients from the SIU, the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, M. E. B. A. and various retired and gov­ ernment personnel. First of all, let me take this opportunity to let you know that this last time, as well as during my two pre­ vious stays there, all the hospital personnel I had the good fortune to come into contact with were more than considerate. Considering the patient load that each doctor must carry and the hours that they are called up on to put in, I do not at all in honesty see how they can do it day after day. Also, let me thank SIU President Paul Hall for the union's fine pension plan. Without this, and Social Security, I do not see how our family of six could have survived. It came to my attention while at the hospital in New Orleans of another important service that is available which many of our members' may not be aware. That is the funds that are donated to the occupational therapy services, which include in­ struction in interesting proj­ ects too numerous to men­ tion. This, in itself, perhaps is unimportant. What is im­ portant is that it allows the medical personnel there to do a job they may otherwise not be able to perform. It is, indeed, a great ges­ ture on the part of Brother Hall that he is trying to broaden the present status of all USPHS hospitals. Again, let me thank the SIU and the personnel in the PHS program and all others that have had a part in mak­ ing my life a great deal more comforting, and perhaps adding a few more years on my life to spend with my family and friends. For all these blessings there are no words to say except: Thank You! Gratefully yours, Brotiier Thomas Diuwiddie Sumner, 111. fmi �HLSS Programs Impress Guests 'Tfie Harry Lundeberg School of SeamanX ship at Piney Point, Md., is attracting the attention of many segments of the maritime world. Recent visitors to the school represented both the academic and business worlds. A group representing the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., which features an inter­ nationally known collection of exhibits and books chronicling man's perennial labors to work and survive on the seas, and a large group of businessmen from the shipping companies that own SlU-contracted ships toured the school recently. Both groups were impressed by the complete facilities for academic and vocational education. The fleet of sailing ships and the many models and exhibits especially interested the museum contingent. The library proved another attraction and the Mariners Museum Curator of Exhibits, Robert H. Burgess, a noted maritime historian and writer, auto­ graphed copies of the many books he had authored found in the HLSS library's collec­ tion. The visitors from management were particularly interested in the academic and vo­ cational curricula. They were shown through the classrooms aboard the Claude "Sonny" Simmons and the Charles S. Zimmerman and sat in on classes in session. m All were impressed by the remedial reading classroom where modem teaching aids and individual instruction of small groups of train­ ees with reading deficiences has brought about remarkable improvement in reading skills. Shipping Executives 'I Ti ; HLSS President Robert Matthews, left, shows a group of shipping execu­ tives the library aboard the Charles S. Zimmerman. The school library contains a fine collection of maritime and general interest publications. Mrs. Eve Naill, remedial reading instructor, explains how modern audio-visual aids coupled with per­ sonalized instruction in small classes can raise some trainees reading comprehension by more than three > grades in 12 weeks. ill Trainee Hank Freeman, 17, of Norfolk, Va., demonstrates the ^iise of one of the audio-visual aids to improve reading tech­ nique and comprehension. Free­ man raised his reading level more than two grades during remedial reading classes. Mrs. Eve Naill explains the machine. feCfP.' Representatives of shipping firms visiting Harry Lundeberg' School of Seamanship facilities are from left; Joe Farrell, vice president. Water­ man Steamship Co.; David D. C. Mackenzie, commercial manager. Vic­ tory Steamship Co; Captain Richard Stone, management representative. Transportation Institute; Mike Di Prisco, director of Labor Relations, American Maritime Assocaton; Sd Unger, vice president of Ogden Marine Corp.; Dave Klinges, attorney, Colmar Shipping Co.; and Mike McEvoy, president, Sea-Land Services. HLSS President Robert MatmiMit^ thews, second from right, exSMi plains the school's - commis­ sary where all meat and food supplies are processed. Event.i ually all crops and meat will he raised on the school's 1,000 acre farm, making the school self-sufficient. Commandant of Trainees Ken Conklin, right, shows the clean, modern trainee dining room with part of the fleet of training ships riding at an­ chor in the background. Page 8 Seafarers Log �Mariners Museum Officials SIU President Paul Hall and HLSS Academic Instructor Susan Gary greet Robert H. Burgess, curator of exhibits at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va. Burgess was one of a num­ ber of representatives from the museum who toured the Piney Point facilities. Deck Department Instructor Chuck James discusses vocational training for future Seafarers with John L. Lochhead, museum librarian and C. Steven Lace, museum educational director on the gangway of the Claude "Sonny" Simmons. The Simmons is a floating vocational school with classrooms and equipment for teaching deck and engine coiuves. HLSS Academic Education Director Hazel Brown explains the workings of a machine to aid remedial reading pupils in spelling and pronuncia­ tion to Mariners Museum Education Director C. Steven Lace aboard the Zimmerman. SIU International Vice President John Yarmola, center, explains the school's Beading Attainment System to William T. Badcliffe, Museum photograhper, seated, and John L. Lochhead, Mariners Museum librarian. The system offers a course in reading for trainees with reading deficiencies. ^ know your rights •4 . r i FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes spe­ cific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treas­ urer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file mem­ bers, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, specific recommendations and separate findings. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and management representatives and their alternates. All expen­ ditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund finan­ cial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 275-20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. January 1971 CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard --ihip. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a re­ ceipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies arc available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at mem­ bership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-andfile committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take ship­ board employment, the membership has reafiSrmed the long­ standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employ­ ers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POI^ITICAL AdTVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels fliat any of die above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or infonnadon, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mail, rehim receipt requested. Page 9 �Also Recalls 'Old Days' To the Editor: I wish to thank you for keep­ ing my name on the mailing list and forwarding the Seafirers LOG to me. One issue that was of great interest to me was the September, 1970 issue featuring an article on Brother Fred Harvey. Strange as it may seem I also sailed aboard the Fairport and was in Mexillones. I vividly remember the boarding house crimps and the Stephens Bros. Co., ship chandlers. I even have the name Fairport tatooed on my arm. I remember the socalled "good, old days"—c r i m p s, boarding house runners, bunko mates. I am sure that at one time I was shipmates with Brother Harvey. I sailed on the follow­ ing American ships: the Bel­ mont, Howard Troop, Golden Gate, Charles Crockett, and the German four-master Farmar. I think the greatest thing for seamen in my time was passage of the LaFollette Seaman's Act. Old Andy Furuseth waged a great struggle in behalf of sea­ PHS beneficiaries can be treated at either vet­ men. eran's hospitals or in private hospitals under I would very much like to contract. Both are hopeless situations. hear from Brother Harvey if The VA hospitals are jammed to overflowing he can find the time. and Seafarers would have such low priority for I would finish by saying the admission that the real alternative is private hos­ SIU had done a fine job for pital care paid for by PHS. Seafarers sailing aboard U.S. And that's no alternative either, because ships. I hope you are success­ private hospital beds are scarce and very, very ful in your campaign against expensive. In terms of both people and budget run-away flag ships. that alternative does not work. Years ago you could see the We are, of course, primarily interested in the Stars and Stripes flying proudly health care of Seafarers. Until a better alterna­ in virtually all the ports of the tive to the service afforded by PHS hospitals is world you entered. found—one that can be expected to produce the Yours Sincerely, medical care now available to Seafarers—the Ben Bright PHS hospitals ought to be continued. 182 Moriey Ave. To do otherwise would be to place the health Wood Green, London and well-being of Seafarers and other PHS beneficiaries in jeopardy and would reflect very badly on the state of mind of the men in power. People or Money? It is a shame that we have to go through yet another battle to save the U.S. Public Health Service, and it's a shame on several counts. First of all there is an amazing contradiction in the proposed closing: We are a nation starved for hospital beds, and the government wants to do away with the beds in the PHS hospitals. Secondly, with so much useless fat in the fed­ eral budget, the Department of Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare looks to one of its most precious services for a place to cut. And worst of all, the narrow outlook of the budget cutters fails to see that behind the dollar signs there are people ... a half million of them who are eligible for PHS hospital benefits. In­ stead the pencil pushers see money. But money is not the prime business of government. People are. And the alternatives suggested for the PHS program are of no consolation to the people involved. The government says that present Improving the Quality of Life Three young men—standing tall and proud— opened a new era in union education as they received their high school equivalency diplomas at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Edward Cox. Martin Stainer. Michael Palmer. Their names are important because they repre­ sent the beginning of a unique and dynamic SIU program of education; a program that will ultimately improve the quality of life through learning for thousands of young men who will join our family of Seafarers. They represent a beginning—and they arc proof that in the face of those who chided us with their doubts—Seafarers today can ac­ complish the dreams of yesterday. Even as these three young men take their first shipboard jobs, five more HLSS trainees were completing their tests for, their high school equivalency certificates. And each week, more will follow—earning their way back into a so­ ciety that for their own reasons wasn't worth the effort before. This event follows Seafarer tradition. It was but a few short years ago that the first SIU mem­ ber earned his third engineer's license through a school developed by the SIU and MEBA Dis­ trict 2. Now nearly 460 men—men like Ed­ ward Cox, Martin Stainer, Michael Palmer—are living the better quality of life that became theirs Page 10 through an educational opportunity made avail­ able by their union. Nor do the benefits stop with the individuals involved. The skills of these engineers made possible the success of the Vietnam Sealift—an operation that was seriously endangered by the potential lack of licensed technicians. The short­ age was filled only because the SIU had a pro­ gram to bring Seafarers from the foc'sle to the ranks of rated officers. Nor does the SIU program to provide the chance for the better life stop now. Indeed, it has just begun. Soon men of all ages, at sea and ashore, will be able to utilize a top-quality correspondence study program being developed by experts from the University of Nebraska—which is interna­ tionally famous for its programs in study-on-thego. High school equivalency certificates will be made available through these courses for every Seafarer. And just a step beyond is another target, one that many will scoff at as being beyond reach. We will have college-accredited courses avail­ able to Seafarers—courses that will help us to help ourselves. There will be no end in the SlU's determina­ tion to improve the quality of life and living. That is why we exist. Concern Aids Grief Relief (The following letter was re­ ceived last month by SIU wel­ fare representative John Dwyer.) Dear Mr. Dwyer, I want to take this oppor­ tunity in letting you know Eustachy Bulik was laid to rest today. It was quite a sad day as you, no doubt, would under­ stand. Words couldn't express our sincerest thanks to you for keep­ ing in touch with us during our bereavement. Your cooperation during those hectic days since "Stash" passed away made it possible to have his body re­ turned. Although it wasn't pos­ sible to see him, we had to bear a stronger sadness in bewilder­ ment looking at a closed casket. Why was such a death meant to be? I guess nobody should question God's call. Thank you again, Mr. Dwyer. My mother, Mrs. Harbet, asked me to write to you. Mrs. Stephanie Snyder Sincerely, Iselin, NJ. Likes Monthly Pension Check To the Editon Just received my December pension check and as I sat watching my TV. I was think­ ing what a lucky day it was for me when I joined the SIU. I want to express my apprecia­ tion for everything the imion has done for me. When I started sailing in 1918 on Lake Ontario condi­ tions were bad and the pay was low. I didn't last long down there so I went up above where it was a little better. We didn't know what real good conditions were until the SIU came in and we had someone to fight for us. I was laid low with angina pectoris and two coronary at­ tacks in 1964 and had to retire on pension. Thanks to the pen­ sion I have been able to keep my home mortgage free and live in comfort. I'd just like to say hello to my old shipmates in the Boland boats. Have a good year. Ralph W. Bocco Oswego, N.Y. Welfare 1*1an Money Helps To the Editor: Just a few lines to thank the SIU Welfare Plan for so promptly sending maximum benefit payments to our doctor and hospital. As we have no medical in­ surance at all, it would have taken us quite a long time to pay these bills in full. I am so glad my husband be­ longs to a union that has a medical and welfare plan such as this one. Once again, thank you on behalf of my husband, Fidel, the children and myself. Sincerely, Marlene De Dios SEAFARER LOG Jan. 1971 Vol. XXXIV. No. 1 Offlcial Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America. Atiantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hall, President Earl Shepard Cal Tanner Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President Lindsey Williams A1 KenVice-President Sec.-Treas. A1 Tanner Robert Matthews Vice-President Vice-President Pubiished monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E.. Washington, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Internationai Union, AOantlc. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFLCIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington, D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Seafarers Log �Rep. Ford Calls for More Cargo on U.S.-Flag Ships Washington, D.C. reasonably self - sufficient in Rep. Gerald R. Ford R- terms of basic raw materials "iviich. said he wants more than lhat time is gone forever." just a minimum of America's Among the essential ma­ foreign trade cargoes carried in terials that the U.S. needs to her ships. have transported by ship. Ford At a luncheon sponsored by said, are "oil, iron ore, bauxite the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades and other raw materials from Dept., with which the SIU is which industry fashions the affiliated, the House minority goods our economy demands." leader said it is bad for this Shipping Is Vital nation to be so dependent on The congressman said that foreign-flag ships for its import demand for raw materials is and export trade. what makes an American-flag Ford said, "if American-flag fleet so vital to the nation as a ships are not built to transport whole. a reasonable percentage of our "A country which becomes expanding foreign trade, we increasingly dependent upon will be totally dependent upon foreign raw materials is in foreign shipping interests to double jeopardy if it loses com­ move those goods. We cannot plete control over the means of afford that dependence." insuring the flow of those raw He said, "there was a time materials," Rep. Ford said. when the United States was "We must, Aerefore, have a merchant marine which insures jhat at least our minimum needs are met, and I will not be satisfied with just that minimum," he added. Thus, said Ford, the nation's new maritime policy, expressed by the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is important to the na­ tion. Cost Is Justified "Cost of the program over the next 10 years is nearly $2.7 billion. There must be justifica­ tion for such an outlay—and there is," Ford said. Aside from the need for transport of raw materials. Ford cited the nation's need for improvement in the balance of payments. "Something that is generally overlooked is the fact that the direct investment we will make Prior to delivering his address on the slate of the nation's maritime industry at an AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department luncheon, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford posed for this photo. From left; Ford; Phillip Carlip, lobbyist, Seafarers International Union; Andrew Gib­ son, assistant secretary of commerce. in our shipbuilding program over the next 10 years will be almost entirely offset," he said. Ford said the ships will earn roughly $2 billion, "money that otherwise would be paid to foreign-flag carriers." And they will contribute between $500 and $750 million in taxes. "The net co^t of this pro­ gram oven a 10-year period will be minimal," Ford said. In all, he said, "there is good cause for optimism as to the health of this nation's tried and true friend: its merchant marine." Rep. Ford said, "I look for­ ward now to the complete revitalization of the merchant marine and to new days of glory for our gallant men who go down to the sea in ships." Russian Sea Reyolution Threat to Free World BAKERY PRODUCTS— Stroehmann Bros. Bakery, Schmidt Baking Co. (Bakery and Confectionery Workers) BARBER EQUIPMENT— Wahl Clipper Corp., pro­ ducers of home barber sets. (Int'l. Assoc. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) CIGARETTES—R. J. Reyn­ olds Tobacco Co.—Camels, Winston, Salem, Tempo, Brandon, Doral, and Cava­ lier. (Tobacco Workers Un­ ion) CLOTHING—Siegel (H. I. S. brand) suits and sports jack­ ets, Kaynee boyswear. Richman Brothers men's clothing, Sewell suits, Wing shirts, Metro Pants Co., and Dip­ lomat Pajamas by Fortex Mfg. Co. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Judy Bond Blouses—(Inter­ national Ladies Garment Workers Union) CASKETS—Capitol City Cas­ ket Company—(United Fur­ niture Workers) f . jk FLOURMILL PRODUCTS— Pioneer Produets, San An­ tonio, Texas (United Brew­ ery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Work­ ers) FURNITURE—James Sterling Corp., White Furniture Co., Brown Furniture Co., (Unit­ ed Furniture Workers) Economy Furniture—B i 11- January 1971 Rite, Western Provinicial and Smithtown Maple. (Up­ holsterers) LIQUORS—Stitzel-Weller Dis­ tilleries products—Old Fitz­ gerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk, W. L. Weller. (Distillery Workers) MEAT PRODUCTS—Poultry Packers, Inc. (Blue Star label products). (Amalga­ mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen) PRINTING—Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft". (Printing Pressmen, Typog­ raphers, Bookbinders, Ma­ chinists, Stereotypers, and Electrotypers) NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. (10 unions involved covering 2,000 workers) Britannica Junior Encyclo­ pedia (Int'l. Allied Printing Trades Assn.) RANGES—Magic Chef, Pan Pacific Division. (Stove, Fur­ nace and Allied Appliance Workers) SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co—work shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest and Statler; men's shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth (Boot and Shoe Work­ ers) SPECIAL—All West Virginia camping and vacation spots, (Laborers) TOYS—Fisher-Price toys (Doll & Toy Workers Union) Washington, D.C. The Russian revolution on the seas will pose a threat to Free World commerce, particu­ larly that of the U.S., for years to come, according to Andrew Pettis, president of the In­ dustrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. Pettis spoke of the threat of the red flag on the high seas at a luncheon sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. He said the Russian Revolu­ tion, "because it is a political revolution, a military revolu­ tion, a technological revolution, an economic revolution," jeopardizes the Free World in many ways. Militarily, Pettis said, "the Soviet Navy today is second •only to that of the United States—a feat undreamed of two decades ago, when you consider the fact that the Soviets have few outlets to the sea." Economically, he said it was "astounding" that the Russian merchant marine "soon will be larger than the present Ameri­ can maritime fleet, which is predominantly over-age. Must Heed History To combat this newest So­ viet menace, Pettis said, "there is a lesson of history which we must heed—that the nation which builds the ships, which carries the cargoes and which keeps the sea-lanes churning with commerce, has, to say the least, a big voice in the world. "The Russians recognize this—and so we have been wit­ nessing a Russian revolution at sea." He said that in the past 10 years the Russians have surged to preeminence as a world sea power while the picture for the U.S. merchant marine has been a "drift toward oblivion on the highs seas. The menace of the growing Soviet fleet is as alarming as the growth of their navy, Pettis said, because a vital merchant marine is any nation's "fourth arm of defense." And, the growth of the So­ viet merchant marine is an eco­ nomic challenge because, ac­ cording to Pettis, "the nation which controls the sea-lanes of the world has its hands on the jugular vein of trade." He said, "the stark fact is that a modem Soviet merchant fleet now confronts us on every sea-lane of the world." It is a modern fleet—80 pereent under ten years old—and it will be doubled in the next 10 years, Pettis said. U.S. Fleet Languishing Yet, the U.S. merchant fleet has been allowed to dwindle from the World War II high of 3,700 ships down to the point where less than 5 percent of this nation's foreign trade is carried in U.S. bottoms. Recognition of this nation's precarious position in sea trade led last year to the enactment of a comprehensive maritime program. "In a period when we are paring other government ex­ penditures to the bone, there has to be enormous justification for that kind of outlay, and there is," Pettis said. The new maritime program will treble the current national output of 10 ships a year, in­ crease the amount of cargo sail­ ing under U.S. flag and will preserve and modernize the aged U.S. merchant fleet, Pettis predicted. Program Must Be Implemented "These basically are the goals of the program, and they form the rationale for embarldng on a maritime program now, in the midst of what is otherwise a move toward greater economy in government," he said. Pettis said, "the Russian menace is very real. It will be with us for a long time to come, for there is a relentless quality to every effort of the Soviets to gain world domina­ tion. But we are a stubborn people too, with our feet planted in a proud history. Our merchant marine is part of that long and proud history." Library Group Requests $$$ An urgent plea for funds has been issued by the Merchant Marine Library Association in an effort to save the public li­ brary of the high seas. Financial problems have forced the clos­ ing of two of the association's eight facilities this year. Mrs. George E. Roosevelt, chairman of the association's board of trustees, said the as­ sociation, nearing its 50th an­ niversary, has been operating on reserves for the past few years. Nevertheles it distributed thousands of hardcover books and over 400,000 magazines on 1,038 vessels during 1969. The library has distributed some 16 million books and magazines to seamen of Ameri­ can-flag vessels since it was first established. Services Appreciated The appeal was made in the association's annual Christmas Sea Letter sent by Mrs. Roose­ velt. The letter stressed that the services of the library are "needed and appreciated—both from the letters we get and from the contributions from the seamen themselves." The library still operates out of the Ports of New York, Boston, New Orleans, Seattle, San Francisco and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The two facilities that closed were at Norfolk, Va. and San Pedro, Calif. Page 11 /t �11 Three Receive GED Diplomas Martin Stainer, 17, addresses the 200 trainees and more than 100 guests who attended the gradu­ ation ceremonies for the first three Harry Lundeberg Schoo! trainees to success­ fully complete CED training at the school. Stainer told the other trainees: '^Getting this high school diploma is really a great thing. You never know when yon^n need it.** Piney Point, Md. n educational milestone for SIU and the trade union A movement was reached at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship here when three young high school T Mrs. Ann Thomas, social studies in­ structor, tutors Mi­ chael Palmer, 18, of Baltimore, Md. dur­ ing a geography re­ view. Thanking the teachers. Palmer said, "the teachers here really took an interest and 1 just knew that I could make it." Edward Cox, 16, re­ ceives his high school equivalency diploma from Edu­ cation Director Hazel Brown. Cox said: "Without this pro­ gram 1 would nevmhave had an oppor­ tunity to earn my diploma, and wilhont the tnchers h«« I jasS wosld not have had the interest to go on." Cox dropped of sdtool Honston, Texas, after the ninth grade. dropouts received their high school equivalency diplomas. The three men, Edward Cox of Houston, Tex., Martin Stainers of Baytown, Tex., and Michael Palmer of Bal­ timore, Md., were the first to be graduated from the HLSS program to bring to Seafarer trainees the oppor­ tunity to gain their high school degrees. "You are the first three of hundreds of young men who will follow you in accomplishing a high school edu­ cation," SIU President Paul Hall said during a gradua­ tion ceremony on New Year's Eve. Speaking to an audience of students, faculty and veteran Seafarers, Hall added: "I think the teachers have done an excellent job, and yet they have really only begun. Education is an im­ portant thing, and so is the desire to achieve. And it is to all of you, the young Seafarer and the old, that we are gearing our educational program. "It isn't important that all of you get a diploma," he continued. "Many of you won't qualify, but what is im­ portant is that you strive, to the best of your ability, to improve yourself, each one of you as an individual." T he three who received their General Educational De­ velopment (GED) certificates showing they have the equivalent of a high school education took the statesupervised examinations in December. Their tests came after eight weeks of study and tutoring by the academic faculty of HLSS. Cox, 16, who has since been graduated from the school's third-cook training program, had dropped out of school after completing the ninth grade. Stainer, another third-cook graduate, finished the tenth grade before dropping out of school. He is 17. Reactions of HLSS Trainees Rudolph Shields—"I have already passed high school. But I think it (the HLSS pro­ gram) is a once-in-a-Iifetime opportunity to get ahead. The SIU made it possible for others to go on.' James Beard, a high school graduatethink (the program) is nice for the cats who didn't have a chance to finish high school at home. If I hadn't finished, I would get in the GED." Tony Hutter, who completed eight grades and has taken his pre-tests for the GED pro­ gram—"I figure it would be a wonderful pro­ gram and I love the opporutnity to take it. Others want to go into the program if they �U Palmer, 18, ended his public school training after nine grades. They were presented their diplomas by Miss Hazel Brown, HLSS director of education. "We are very proud of these young men," she said. "They are the first of many more to come." Showing that she and the HLSS faculty shared in the accomplishments of their students, she added: "We feel we have given them a new outlook on life and a new ouiiook on education. They now have every educational opportunity open to them. "Prior to coming here," she said, "they were dropouts from the public school system, and they really thought that education was over for them. But they worked very hard, with far more motivation than, I am sure, they ever had before." Bill Hall, director of trade union education at HLSS, told the assembly that "we are reaching for a higher qual­ ity of life for the sailor, and all of you, by improving your education, will better understand what the sailor is, where he comes from and, more important, where he is going." He noted that the HLSS program is unique in labor his­ tory. It provides, in addition to the chance to gain a high school equivalency certificate, a wide range of academic vocational and union education. "Those (Seafarers) who came before can say with pride that they helped to build what we have today," he declared, "just as the oldtimer can say with pride that he fought the organizing battles which built the SIU. We have come a long way, and we shall go a lot further." any of the young trainees at HLSS have dropped out M of school, for a variety of reasons. Some interrupted their education to take jobs in an effort to help support their families; others simply abandoned a system that had abandoned them. Trainees are given an insight into the future of the maritime industry—an industry that is making rapid technological changes that will require more knowledge of the men who crew the modern ships. This factor contributed to the decision to broaden the educational facilities at HLSS, with a comprehensive re­ medial reading course and the GED programs forming the foundation. A full academic program, together with a broad-based correspondence study system will soon be in operation. A team of professionals from the University of Ne­ braska is now developing the correspondence course— a program that will be available to all Seafarers, ashore and at sea, who want to add to their knowledge. Vocational training has been a keystone in the educa­ tional network at HLSS. Nick Gullo, a graduate of Fort Schuyler Maritime Academy who has sailed as a second mate with MEBA District 2, is director of the HLSS vocational training program. Gullo termed the passage of the GED tests by the three trainees "a remarkable achievement." "But this is only the beginning," he told the audience at the graduation ceremony. "Many of us can recall when we first began our program for upgrading our deck and engine members to censed ratings. "In the beginning, not too many years ago, there was only one," he recalled. "Today, more than 460 licensed mates and engineers have graduated from our school. The GED program is just one more extension of the un­ ion's continuing educational program—a program that seeks to improve the life of the professional seaman and his family." SIU President Paul Hal! told the more than 300 people who attended the graduation assembly that "the achievement of these first three young men in earning a high school diploma while training for a career at sea will rank among the great achievements of any seafaring union, and the direct beneficiaries of this achievement will be Sea­ farers and their families." Edward Cox, 16, of Houston, Tex., (fore­ ground), takes a prog­ ress examination dur­ ing the GED prepara­ tory curriculum. Each candidate was given periodic exams to in­ dicate where individual tutoring would be needed. Michael Palmer receives his diploma from Edu­ cation Director Hazel Brown. Palmer said that he "never would have made it without the SIU." Palmer, 18, finished the ninth grade before he dropped out of school. He encour­ aged other trainees to take the GED study course because "it is really worth it." M ore than 500 active Seafarers and SIU pensioners saw the school in operation during the recent series of SIU Crews' Conferences and SIU Pensioners Confer­ ences. A new series of conferences will start March 1. The back page of this issue of the Log provides the details. SIU has a tradition of giving opportunity through edu­ cation a top priority among union activities. Upgrading programs have produced advancement for thousands of members, ranging from an 18-year-old who qualified for his third-engineer's license to a 60-year-old Seafarer who raised himself from wiper to an engineer. Various SIU programs have resulted in 4,197 Seafar­ ers receiving their lifeboat endorsements; 1,458 qualify­ ing as able seamen; 4,112 receiving the QMED endorse­ ments; 397 qualifying for engineer's license, and 63 gain­ ing their mate's license. January 1971 Remedial Reading Instructor Eva Naill gives individualized instruction to trainee Ernest Johnson in the Remedial Read­ ing Laboratory aboard HLSS's Charles S, Zimmer­ man. Many students advance their read­ ing levels by three grades during the training period.. Page 13 �SlU Ships Committees Serve the Membership S eafarers aboard ship can partake as fully in the affairs of their union as they can while ashore. The opportunity to do this is provided by a six-man ship's committee aboard every SlU-contracted vessel. The committee consists of one elected dele­ gate from each of the shipboard departments, a ship's reporter-secretary, an education direc­ tor, and a ship's chairman. Every Sunday during a voyage it is the re­ sponsibility of the ship's chairman to call a meeting of the unlicensed crew. All subjects related to the union, its programs and activ­ ities may be discussed at these meetings. With the assistance of the elected delegates, ship­ board beefs can also be handled at the meet­ ings. The reporter-secretary has the responsibility of keeping in touch with union headquarters by mail, and passing on to the crew any com­ munications received from headquarters. At the conclusion of each Sunday shipboard meet­ ing, he forwards a copy of the meeting minutes to union headquarters. The education director is responsible for maintaining and distributing all publications, films and mechanical equipment relating to education on such subjects as safety, training and upgrading, health and sanitation. During each shipboard meeting, every SIU member has the right to express himself on any matte- connected with union business. Every Seafarer should take an active part in shipboard meetings and serve if elected to the committee. He will be serving himself as well as his shipmates. sesfspeps -AQTIDN LINE STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian)—Relaxing in the galley after a smooth voyage on the Steel Traveler is the ship's committee: from left, I. R. Linos, secretary-reporter; Scotty Weems, engine delegate; R. O. Spencer, deck delegate; Robert Black, steward delegate; H. E. Messick, education director and William Hale, ship's chairman. MOBILE (Sea-Land)—Home after a voyage to Puerto Rico, the Mobile't committee takes time out for a photo while awaiting payolT. From left are: John Gibbons, steward delegate; F. T. Di Carlo, secretary-reporter; Brod Finder, education director; Walter Wilson, engine delegate; S. Leknes, deck delegate and H. Libby, ship's chairman. Question: I am retired on an SIU Disability Pension and have been regu­ larly receiving my monthly checks since February, 1970. Please tell me if my monthly Disability Pension is taxable and if it is, under what conditions? Answer: For all disability pensioners, the determining factor governing taxability of their pensions is their age. Government regulations provide that all Normal Pensions (retirement at age 65) are tax­ able by the government. However, in the case of a Disability Pension, pension monies are not taxable until the pensioner reaches age 65, at which time his pension is regarded as a Normal Pension and is then subject to taxes. For example, if a Seafarer retires at age 59 on an SIU Disa­ bility Pension, the pension money he receives each month from age 59 to age 65 is not subject to tax. But, for tax purposes, the disability pension money he receives after age 65 is taxable. Government regulations further provide that there is no re­ striction on earnings for Normal Pensioners, but there is a $1,680 earnings restriction imposed upon the Disability Pensioner until he reaches age 72. After the Disability Pensioner reaches age 72, the restriction on earnings no longer applies. 15 More Seafarers Retire to Shore Irenaus Entringer, 62, joined the SIU in Milwaukee, Wis. and sailed in the deck department as a deck hand. A native of Kewaune County, Wis., Brother Entringer now makes his home in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. He is an Army veteran of World War II. Percy Johnson, 54, is a native of Ellison Bay, Wis. and now lives in Sister Bay, Wis. Brother Johnson joined the union in Mil­ waukee, Wis. and sailed in the engine department. Entringer Johnson James King, 65, is a native of Ireland and is now spending his retirement in Cleveland, O. Broth­ er King joined the union in the Port of Detroit and sailed in the engine department. James OToole, 63, joined the union in 1939 in the Port of De­ troit and sailed in the deck de­ partment. A native of New York City, Brother OToole now spends his retirement in River Rouge, Pesie 14 Mich. He served in the armed forces from 1940 to 1941. O'Toole John Lawrence Mahoney, 64, is a native of Massachusetts and now lives in New Orleans, La. He joined the SIU in the Port of Bos­ ton in 1944. Brother Mahoney sailed in the engine department. William Edward Reynolds, 57, joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile back in 1939 and sailed in the engine department. A na­ tive of Alabama, Brother Reyn­ olds is now spending his retirem.ent in Mobile, Ala. Mahoney Reynolds Joel V. P. Bremer, 53, is a native of Charleston, S.C. and now lives in Savannah, Ga. He joined the union in the Port of Savannah and sailed in the deck department as a boatswain. Brother Bremer served in the Navy from 1937 to 1941. John K. Callaghan, 68, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1946 and sailed in the engine department as an electrician. A native of New York, Brother Callaghan now makes him home in De Bary. Fla. He is a Navy veteran of World War II. Bremer Callaghan Rudolph Evans, 59, joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1945 and sailed in the steward de­ partment. A native of the Ba­ hamas, Brother Evans now makes his home in the Bronx, N.Y. Ashhy Homer Sonthers, 65, is a native of Virginia' and now lives in Baltimore, Md. He joined the union in the Port of Balti- more in 1942 and sailed in the engine department. Evans Sonthers Carlos F. Rocafort, 64, is a native of the Dominican Republic and now lives in Hollbrook, L.I., N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1941 and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. In 1961 William E. Swilley, 54, is a na­ tive of Picyune, Miss, and now lives in Pearl River, La. He joined the union in the Port of New Orleans in 1941 and sailed in the engine department. Vincent J. Fitzgerald, 64, joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed in the steward department. In 1961 he wa.s given a safety award for his part in making the Del Oro an accidentfree ship. A native of New York City, brother Fitzgerald now lives in New Orleans, La. Walter Sanderson, '61, joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1940 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Hono­ lulu, Hawaii., Seafarer Sanderson now makes his home in Balti­ more, Md. He served in the Marines from 1925 to 1928. When Brother Sanderson retired he ended a sailing career of 46 years. Fltzgerald Rocafort Swilley Sanderson Edmund Frank Glowczak, 65, is a native of Buffalo, N.Y. and continues to make his home there. He joined the union in the Port of Detroit and sailed in the steward department. Seafarers log �SEAFARERSmOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERWATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO •f MARITIME UNITY: What It's Really All About! The January-February 1971 issue of The NMU Pflot carries a lengthy, signed article by President Joseph Curran which addresses itself to the question of "maritime unity." survive without assistance for a third of a century. (We will have more to say on Mr. Curran's track record on unity elsewhere in this supplement.) Now as everyone knows, there are many different kinds of unity: 4 Then there's the question of unity in a single seafar­ ing union. We're not sure whether or not that is a subject that's also on Mr. Curran's mind, although his editorial does speak vaguely about "unity on the collective bargain­ ing front"—whatever that means. As an abstract principle, one big union of seafaring workers might be attractive. As an actual way of life, it's anything but appealing. Because if you read Mr. Curran's magazine, you'll find out that the companies he has contracts with are in trouble ... the ships which his members used to man are being laid up . . . the members he represents are being beached. So unity into one big seafaring union at tliis point in liistory would bene­ fit jobless NMU members at the expense of employed SIU members. That's hardly a bargain as far as we're concerned. And picking up the NMU's soaring deficit in its unfunded pension scheme would be no bargain, either. 4 There's the question of unity within the ranks of the NMU, itself. This obviously is a problem which concerns Mr. Curran because his editorial contains a bitter attack on the '^dissidents within our own union (who) are continu­ ing their campaign of sniping and harrassment." He attacks these NMU "dissidents" for ideas "they may have picked up from the old Marxist handbooks," for publishing "un­ derground leaflets" and for consorting with "crackpot 'New Left* groups." We wouldn't presume to counsel Mr. Curran on how to achieve unity within his own house, but it does strike us as difficult to achieve if he's going to engage in public name-calling, "Red-baiting," and invective against his own members. 4 There's the question of unity on the part of all of maritime labor in presenting a solid front in support of a viable maritime program. This obviously is on Mr. Curran's mind, too, because his editorial makes reference to the need for unity on "the political and legislative fronts." But, Mr. Curran describes this kind of unity as one in which everyone would join forces to save the 14 fat-cat subsidized shipping operators (some of whose ships are under con­ tract to the SIU and its affiliates), without regard to help­ ing the unsubsidized operators who have been trying to ' January 197f' This question of "maritime unity" deserves careful study by Seafarers. To help them get all of the facts, we are re­ printing in this supplement the entire text of Mr. Curran's editorial. We are also reprinting some of the bleak port reports that appear in The NMU Pilot, so that our mem­ bers can see, for themselves, what's really bugging Mr. Cur­ ran. Finally, we present the SIU's own views on "maritime unity"—what it has meant in the past, and what the pros­ pects are for the future. �^ -'S.- • Passing the word ;; ' ''•• •, •-; O"':' . '', "'V LU:;/. • . • "-'> • :••' ivS-''"'..' Maritime unity is a must in this time of crisis "The one place th from in this indusi and women our uni at stake in the indu they have less to ^ This is a challenge unions—East Coast, shore, every phase o of personal pride b he allowed to interfi rity of American *A other maritime wor By President Joseph Ciirran As we look ahead to the New Year and the critical problems that face our members and the maritime industiy, one factor stands out above all others as an absolute essential to any real progress. That is unity; not only unity of the maritime unions but, as far as possible, of all the elements that make up the U.S. merchant ma­ rine. That is a big order and it has to start among the maritime unions. If we are ever going to get any effective united movement in this industry, it is quite clear the leadership will have to come from the unions. The prospects at this time do not look parti­ cularly encouraging, it is true. We have just had some unfortunate examples of lack of unity on the waterfront. These stem mainly from uncer­ tainty and suspicion about what the conglomer­ ates are trying to do to the industry and about the plans of certain companies and government agencies. Nobody should be surprised with what is happening in the industry, that some unions are operating on a hair-trigger basis. But this is all the more reason why the unions have to get together on the issues and work out a solid, unified approach. On the management side, we never could ex­ pect much. Each segment of the industry has always been out to grab off everything possible for itself regardless of any larger consequences. That is always the way with business unless there is some force strong enough to control it. That force must come either from government or from organized labor. On the government side, we have to recognize that there has been veiy little effective leader­ ship in the administration as far as maritime is concerned. True, a maritime program was enac­ ted this year. To the extent that this new pro­ gram reaffirms that the nation needs a merchant marine and slows down the headlong plunge to the bottom that the U.S. merchant marine is in, we are grateful. But we know ijt is no panacea. It contains no guarantees of a greater share of cargoes for U.S. ships. It provides nothing to stem the oblitera­ tion of U.S. flag passenger service. Yet the same bill provides U.S. subsidies for American opera­ tors of runaway flag ships, giving them the best of all possible giveaways—U.S. subsidies while they can continue to operate their foreign flag ships (some of which have not yet been com­ pleted) for a full twenty years! Page 16 The intentions of the top leadership of the Washington administration may have been sin­ cere but the performance of those in the' govern­ ment directly responsible for maritime has been uninspired, to say the least. The news was just released about how the gov­ ernment is getting up $600-million to enable the Lockheed Company to fulfill its contracts on the C-5A cargo plane. That amount would be all the government help needed to support most of our passenger fleet over the next ten years. Yet the government agency responsible for maritime has not raised its voice to ask for even the most mod­ est consideration for passenger ships. It has stood by and let the rug be pulled out from under ships, jobs, balance of payments, passenger safety and everything else involved in the pas­ senger ships situation. And—if they ever suc­ ceed with that highly speculative C-5A program at a cost of severah billion dollars—the military still is likely to face emergency situations where the giant transport planes will not be enough and they will need passenger ships to get the job done. The fact is, the new maritime program does not even guarantee any new ships. It projects construction of 30 ships a year for the next 10 years but the money will have to be approved year by year and you can be sure we will have to fight for it every year. Since some companies receiving help under the program will continue operating foreign flag fleets, there is going to be some conflict of interest. Some of these com­ panies will not try very hard to see the projected new American flag construction fully realized; they might even, because of their interest in for­ eign flag operations, try to obstruct it. But the people in the administration who had direct responsibility for maritime matters, were reportedly willing to accept a grandfather clause with even fewer restrictions than we finally got. It is on this basis that we say no effective influ­ ence for unifying the maritime industry is likely to come from that source. The one place that leadership has to come from in this industry is the unions. The men and women our unions represent have got more at stake in the industry than anybody else and they have less to gain from cutthroat tactics. This is a challenge to the leadership of all the unions— East Coast, West Coast, seagoing, longshore, shipyard, every phase of the industry. No ques­ tions of personal pride or personal ambition should be allowed to interfere where the jobs and security of American seamen, longshoremen and other maritime workers are concerned. Any differences between individuals are trivial and J must take second place to this task. To achieve maximum protection of the jobs and the wages, hours and conditions which have been won by unions, we need unity on the collec­ tive bargaining front and the political and legis= lative fronts. We need unity in dealing with gov­ ernment and management. With unity in our own ranks, the unions can get the duplication of management associations straightened and unite J all the segments of the industry and keep them united behind sound comprehensive programs. While your Union is working on these basic issues, the so-called dissidents within our Union are continuing their campaign of sniping and harassment. It is unfortunate that in spite of the repeated rejection by the NMU membership of their destructive efforts, there still are enough angles in the law and enough lawyers who spe­ cialize in this kind of thing, to enable some dis- ^ sidents to keep at it full time. Their efforts cost '' the Union time, energy and resources that should , be fully devoted to the battles for ships, jobs, conditions, etc., but that is not an element of concern in the Landrum-Griffin Act. It is interesting to see the kind of "programs" these people advance to cover up their real in­ terest, which is lawsuits of one kind or another. * Their contribution to the passenger ship prob­ lem, for example, is "nationalization." This is an • idea they may have picked up from the old Marx­ ist handbooks on "How to Bring Revolution to' the Waterfront." As a matter of fact, some of the so-called "underground" leaflets put out' around the waterfront by crackpot "New Left" groups called for nationalization several months" ago in connection with our ships. With the positions the government has taken' on our efforts to save passenger ships, anybody who suggests nationalization at this time has to'l be completely stupid or has to want to destroy| any and all hope of ever restoring these ships. For example, one of the factors involved ini the Prudential-Grace decision on their passenger I ships was the $12-million in subsidies that the; government owes the company, which is tiedl up in red tape. We brought this to President I Nixon's attention. If the government is delin- l Seafarers Log �tlie NMU Says ^ iAbout the Problems of Its Members, Its % Norfolk \at leadership has to come ry is the unions. The men ons represent have got more stry than anybody else and [ain from cutthroat tactics, to the leadership of all the West Coast^ seagoing^ long' f the industry. No questions r personal ambition should ere where the jobs and secU' ieamen, longshoremen and hers are concerned." 66 . . . anticipated Christmas vacation replacements did not materialize . . . which was disappointing since it would have alleviated tight shipping . . . Open jobs are scarce these days, and lower group men are having difficulty getting out." Joliet . . Many jobs were lost with the passenger ships laying up. Many of our members are among the unemployed." Mobile 66 ... we feel that things will get worse before they will get better . . . We have had to make cuts (in manning scales) but at least we are maintain­ ing jobs instead of seeing these ships . . . laid up indefinitely." Savannah 66 . . . We all know that (ships) are being laid up . . . people (who) are not doing their work properly . . . perhaps are one of the reasons these ships are laying up . . ." quent and it means a loss of seamen's jobs, we want the government to do something about it. The President put one of his top assistants to work on it. The answer we got from the White House is that the money was not paid because Congress did not appropriate the funds. This is the kind of juggling that can go on indefinitely when you have to deal with govern­ ment. In addition there are the well-known re­ strictions on collective bargaining, contract en­ forcement, no-strike laws and other difficulties when dealing with government agencies concern­ ing seamen on government vessels. NMU has an impressive record of success in this field. We have good relations with the many fair, respon­ sible officials in the agencies; But as you can tell from reading The PILOT, the frustrations and limitations that are put on the Union and the lack of good faith on the part of many govern­ ment people are very, very difficult. Miami 66 . . . our port has been faced with a sad and depressing situation (regard­ ing returning Vietnam war veterans.) In years gone by, we . . . were able to absorb many of these men . . . since we had an adequate amount of ship­ ping and a need for qualified personnel. Today, we are compelled to turn these young men away ..." Chicago 66 . . . Shipping continues to get tight and jobs are getting scarcer and most of the members are bumping the lower groups to secure a berth." New York 66 . . . many men are taking jobs but then are not fulfilling same. This is very unfair to the rest of the members who are waiting for jobs, needing jobs and being beaten out of jobs . . ." San Pedro If there was no privately-owned U.S. mer­ chant marine and if we did not have the policy that government ships will follow the pattern set in private industry, government seamen would be far, far behind where they are today. I am not worried about the NMU membership buying any such "pie in the sky" solutions. That has been tried before. There are no easy solu­ tions to problems such as laidup passenger ships, foreign flag competition, government compla­ cency and disunity in the maritime industry. Ours is not the only industry in which Amer­ ican workers are being displaced by sweatshop competition from overseas, much of it from for­ eign subsidiaries of American companies. Sea­ men were the first to suffer this kind of attack but—as we warned our fellow unionists long ago —it was only a matter of time before others suf­ fered the same kind of competition. And that is the case today in the electronics industry, tex­ tiles, clothes, small appliances, heavy machinery, etc., etc. Unity has to be the key word in our struggle. Unity within the ranks of NMU; unity with other maritime unions. With that kind of unity in our own ranks, we can build a unified effort by labor, management and government to serve the needs of all maritime workers and the U.S. merchant marine. In the year ahead let us all dedicate our strength and our determination to this great effort. .. It is up to each and every one of us to take our vacations when due . . This will assist in giving others employment." Corpus Chris+i . . Shipping is still slow for most ratings ... we have our normal amount of ships calling in the port but the turnover in jobs is slow." Charleston . . Shipping has slowed almost to a crawl with Boatswains throwing in for Wipers and Utilitymen's jobs." San Francisco 66 . . . Shipping has been slow with only a few lower ratings getting out in key ratings. The future does not look much brighter so 1 would not sug­ gest that anyone wanting to get out in a hurry come to San Frahcisco ... I am afraid that someone would be hurting." Galveston . . We are urging every man on board ship with vacation due him to take his vacation and share the work with the men on the beach . . ." (From the January-February, 1971, NMU Pilof) Page 17| January 1971 " '•' "- .-a I' r �* A SEAFARERS^^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO The SlU's Position On Maritime Unity The question of maritime labor joining forces in a united front on behalf of the strongest possible merchant marine pro­ gram isn't new. And it didn't originate with Mr. Curran. even attacked the Members of Congress who had rallied to sup­ port of maritime independence—attacked them as "traitors" and as "enemies of their country." As a matter of fact, just for the record, the concept of mari­ time unity dates back at least to the National AFL-CIO Con­ vention in San Francisco, Calif., in December 1965. Then, Mr. Curran decided that it was to his advantage to join forces with shipowners who wanted to build their ships with "coolie labor" in foreign countries. So, without any discus­ sions with the shipbuilding unions which were still aligned with him, Mr. Curran did a 180-degree turn and supported foreign building. That was the year when, for the first time in history, the world's largest trade union body adopted a comprehensive pol­ icy statement dealing with every aspect of American shipping and shipbuilding. All of the unions in the maritime field—licensed and un­ licensed, seagoing and shoreside, longshore and shipbuildingjoined in drafting that AFL-CIO policy position. Mr. Curran happened to have been one of the architects of that maritime policy. There were 17 points in that AFL-CIO policy statement. Three of them bear emphasizing at this point in history: • One of them called for support of an independent Federal Maritime Administration so that we would have a centralized, instead of a fragmented, approach to maritime problems. • Another called for strict adherence to the "build-American" principle with respect to U.S.-flag merchant ships. • Still another called for action to stop the "runaways," and make it worthwhile for them to come back to American-flag, American-manned operations. As we said, Mr. Curran was one of the architects of that policy. He spoke fulsomely on the subject during the floor debate. And the policy was passed unanimously by the convention. What's more, it was reaffirmed unanimously by the AFL-CIO Executive Council (of which Mr. Curran is a member) ori Aug. 24, 1966 in Chicago, 111. So we thought we had "maritime unity" in 1965 and 1966— and we thought Mr. Curran was part of that united front. What happened to that "unity"? First of all, Mr. Curran decided that it was to his advantage to join forces with the Johnson Administration which was op­ posed to the independent agency. So, without consulting his "partners" in the maritime "united front," he did a 180-degree turn and not only came out against the independent agency, but Finally, Mr. Curran decided it was to his advantage to join forces with the 14 fat-cat subsidized lines which have been the sole beneficiaries of the multi-billion-dollar subsidy program in the past, and so he did a 180-degree turn on the question of the "runawaySt^JThe-new maritime program provides for an orderly phase-out of "runaway-flag" operations, and the orderly build-up of American-flag operations. But Mr. Curran doesn't want any­ body to benefit from the maritime program except the subsidized fat-cat ship operators (some of whose ships are under contract to the SIU and its affiliates)—so he fought bitterly, but vainly, against this plan which could eventually put the "runaways" out of business. In other words, with Mr. Curran, it's really always been a question of "unity if . .or "unity but..or "unity maybe .. Now that he has trouble with his own membership . . . now that his pension fund is getting sicker by the day . . . now that the fat-cat shipowners are afraid of the competition from the rest of the industry, Mr. Curran suddenly starts hollering "unity" at the top of his lungs. As we say, we're not opposed to a responsible united front by maritime unions to make sure that the maritime law which some of us fought so hard to win becomes the kind of a program that will keep our members employed and keep our flag flying on the high seas. But the key word is "responsible." It can't be onagain-off-again unity ... it can't be part-time unity ... it can't be the unity of a propaganda barrage which is thrown up in an effort to obscure the troubles that Mr. Curran is having within his own ranks. IJ T ij If Mr. C urran is sincere about all of the unions working to­ gether for the common good, he knows where to find us. And he knows that he can reach us by letter or by telephone—^which, if he's genuinely interested in a united front, is the way to reach us. The quiet, direct approach always seems so much more sincere than a big public relations effort. 1 Ml 'Pigel' Se^firerilbg I �ft"- 'I i' illV w I I'l II TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Waterways), Nov. 14—Chairman S. R. Mchringer; Secretary Jake Cobb; Deck Delegate William Chap­ man; Engine Delegate Herbert G. Boudroux. $46 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. PENN SAILOR (Penn Shipping), Nov. 8—Chairman Johannes C. S(^; Secretary Raymond Perry. No beefs and no disputed OT. WARRIOR (Sea-Land), Nov. 15 —Chairman C. L. Gonzales; Secre­ tary Esteban Cruz; Deck Delegate Aubrey L. Waters; Engine Delegate F. Alexandro. Everything is run­ ning smoothly in all departments. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), Nov. 22—Chairman J. Melwell; Secretary R. Mills; Steward Delegate R. Mills. $30 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. PORTMAR (Calmar), Octi 25— Chairman I. Moen; ^cretary J. Bergstrom; Engine Delegate Thom­ as E. Frazier; Steward Delegate James H. Merk. Motion was made to have the union start negotiations on raising the maintenance and cure payments to a minimum of $15 a day. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. PORTMAR (Calmar), Nov. 1— Chairman I. Moen; Secretary J. Bergstrom; Engine Delegate Thomas E. Frazier; Steward Delegate James H.» Merk. Everything is running smoothly. AZALEA CITY (Sea-Land), Nov. 8—Chairman J. H. Morris; Secre­ tary J. RoberU; Engine Delegate Jose Pineiro; Steward Delegate Felix G. Quinonez. $251 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. PORTMAR (Calmar), Oct. 4— Chairman I. Moen; ^cretary J. Bergstrom; Steward Delegate James H. Merk. Discussion held on new retirement plan. General opinion is that the Union should have come up with something much better. Everything is running smoothly. PORTMAR (Calmar), Oct. 11— Chairman I. Moen; Secretary J. Bergstrom; Engine Delegate Thomas E. Frazier; Steward Delegate James H. Merk. Motion was made to have the Union and negotiating commit­ tee start improving the present re­ tirement plan. Discussion held on present maintenance and cure pay­ ments. No beefs were reported. WARRIOR (Sea-Land) Oct. 4— Chairman C. L. Gonzales; Secretary E. Cruz. No beefs and no disputed OT. Smooth voyage but very cold in Alaska. CHARLESTON (Sea-Land), Oct. 15—Chairman John C. Alberti; Sec­ retary Guy Walter; Deck Delegate Tony Kotsis; Steward Delegate Ed­ ward Tresnick. $16 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. WARRIOR (Sea-Land), Nov. 22—Chairman C. Gonzales; Secre­ tary Esteban Cruz; Deck Delegate A. L. Waters. Discussion held re­ garding retirement plan. Some dis­ puted OT in engine and steward departments, otherwise everything is okay. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Mari­ time Overseas), Nov. 1—Chairman W. B. Chipman; Secretary William H. Thompson; Deck Delegate Mi­ chael Broadus; Engine Delegate J. K. Brannan; Steward Delegate Robert H. Forsbee. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. CONNECTICUT (Ogden Ma­ rine), Nov. 8—Chairman Carl Lineberry; Secretary T. D. Ballard. $40 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT' in deck and engine departments. COMMANDER (Marine Cairiers). Oct. 4—Chairman A. R. Sawyer; Secretary F. R. Hicks, Jr.: Deck Delegate J. R. Woolford: En­ gine Delegate W. Price: Steward Delegate Linwood Price. Good January 1971 crew on board. No beefs. Hearty vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for the good food and service. EAGLE TRAVELER (United Maritime), Nov. 15—Chairman J. L. Bourgeois; Secretary A. W. Hutcherson; Deck Delegate Eugene Dakin; Engine Delegate Frank B. Cako; Steward Delegate James Carter. Jr. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT. CONNECTICUT (Ogden Marine) Nov. 15—Chairman Carl T. Lineberry; Secretary T. D. Ballard. $40 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. COMMANDER (Marine Car­ riers), Oct. II—Chairman A. R. Sawyer; Secretary F. R." Hicks; Deck Delegate J. Wollford; Steward Dele­ gate L. Price. Some disputed OT in deck department. Discussion held regarding pension plan and other items. Everything is running smoothly. EAGLE TRAVELER (United Maritime), Nov. 22—Chairman Jo­ seph L. Bourgeois; Secretary A. W. Hutcherson; Deck Delegate E. Dakin; Engine Delegate Frank C. Cake; Steward Delegate James Carter. $8 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department. ANCHORAGE (Sea-Land), Nov. 15—Chairman Barney E. Swearingan; Secretary William Nihems; Deck Delegate Robert G. Mason; Steward Delegate Robert Lee Scott, Sr. $20 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck department. Everything is running smoothly. CALMAR (Calmar), Nov; 15— Chairman Elbert Hogge; Secretary Howard Flynn; Deck Delegate John Dunne. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. STEEL KING (Isthmian), Nov. 15—Chairman John N. Crews; Sec­ retary Leon W. Franklin; Deck Delegate L. Koo; Engine Delegate Herbert P. Calloe; Steward Dele­ gate LeRoy V. Hansen. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. STEEL KING (Isthmian), Nov. 22—Chairman John N. Crews; Sec­ retary Leon W. Franklin; Deck Delegate L. Kool; Engine Delegate H. P. Calloe; Steward Delegate LeRoy V. Hansen. Few hours dis­ puted OT in engine department, otherwise no beefs. $30 in ship's fund. MANHATTAN (Hudson Water­ ways), Nov. 22—Chairman Willis Gregery; Secretary Jack E. Long; Deck Delegate John J. Naughton; Engine Deelgate Jack Wells; Stew­ ard Delegate W. Neal. Some dis­ puted OT in each department. A hearty vote of thanks to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. WESTERN CLIPPER, NoV. 8— Chairman Charles V. Mojett; Deck Delegate Joseph Olson; Engine Delegate Joseph Arpino; Steward Delegate L. C. Melanson. Few hours disputed OT in deck and steward department. $21 in ship's fund. AZALEA CITY (Sea-Land), Nov. 15—Chairman J. H. Morris; Secre­ tary J. Roberts; Engine Delegate Jose Pineiro; Steward Delegate Fdix G. Quinnonez. $251 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. NATIONAL DEFENDER (Na­ tional Transport), Nov. 15—Chair­ man R. Johnson; Secretary L. A. Behm; Deck Delegate Donald Rundelard; Engine Delegate Wil­ liam Calefato, Steward Delegate J. V. Johnson. Some disputed OT in' Deck Department. MOHAWK (Ogden Marine), Nov. 20—Chairman P. C. Adkins; Secrefarv F. Canonizado; Deck Dele gate C. Marriner; Engine Delegate W. R. Shoun; Steward Deelgate R. Rowe. Few hours disputed OT in deck and steward departments was settled by boarding patrolman. MT. WASHINGTON (Victory Carriers). Nov. 22—Chairman H. I. Pousson; Secretary Oliver P. Oak­ ley; Deck Delegate Edward F. O'Brien; Engine Delegate V. L. Meehan. Various matters were dis­ cussed. It was requested that Frank Boyne meet ship to settle problems. MANHATTAN (Hudson), Nov. 11—Chairman Willis Gregery; Sec­ retary Jack E. Long; Engine Dele­ gate Jack Wells. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. OAKLAND (Sea-Land), Nov. 22 —Chairman Albert Ahin; Secretary J. Doyle; Deck Delegate Arthur L. Patterson; Engine Delegate John Nouwen, Steward Delegate Oriville L. Arndt. $3 in ship's fund and $57 in movie fund. CHICAGO (Sea-Land), Nov. 29 —Chairman John Alstatt; Secretary F. Hall; Deck Delegate H. Pedersen; Engine Delegate James R. Al­ len; Steward Delegate J. L. Jack­ son. $15 in ship's fund. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed CT. NEW YORKER (Sea-Land), Dec. 13—Chairman A. McChoskey; Sec­ retary Henry B. Donnelly; Engine Delegate Salbata Serio; Steward Delegate John Robinson. Discus­ sion held regarding Union contract. Discussion held regarding relief crew aboard in New Orlean-,. $13 in ship's fund. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. PONCE (Sea-Land), Dec. 26— Chairman Dan Butts; Secretary Alva McCullum; -Deck Delegate R. J. Edwards; Engine Delegate M. Andrew Thomas; Steward Delegate Oscar W. Sorenson. $228 in movie pool. Vote of thanks was extended to the three departments for a job well done. SEATRAIN MARYLAND (Hud­ son Waterways). Nov. I—Chairman Enos Allen; Secretary James B. Archie; Deck Delegate David H. Ikirt; Engine Delegate Jose Guz­ man; Steward Delegate L. Glendenning. Few hours disputed OT in deck department, otherwise no beefs. LONGVIEW VICTORY (Victory •Carriers), Sept. 13 — Chairman Francisco Caspar; Secretary Geronimo Gotay; Deck Delegate R. Ben­ jamin; Engine Delegate Henry Crean; Steward Delegate Henry N. Milton. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), Nov. 8—Chairman A. Harrington: Secretary J. W. Sanders. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers). Dec, 6—Chairman Karl Hellman: Secretary L. D. Pierson; Deck Dele­ gate James L. Hornby; Engine Del­ egate Che,ster L. Tillman; Steward Delegate Jefferson D. Buchanon. Some dispute OT in deck depart­ ment. Everything is running .smoothly. TRENTON (Sea-Land), Nov. 15 —Chairman Floyd Selix; Secretary Andy Johansson. $6 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. BEAUREGARD (S e a-L a n d). Nov. 23—Chairman B. Hager; Sec­ retary John S. Burke, Sr.; Deck Delegate Thomas J. Henry; Engine Delegate A. R. Fry; Steward Dele­ gate J. Keames. $9 in ship's fund. No beefs. Vote of thanks to the Captain for a wonderful one-year trip. Discu.ssion held regarding mail service. ,MARYMAR (Calmar), Nov. 29 —Chairman Billy Harris; Secretary Nick Kondyias. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. Discussion held regarding division of port time. MARYMAR (Calmar, Dec. 6)— Chairman Billey E. Harris; Secre­ tary Nick Kondyias; Deck Delegate Clyde A. Kent. Nothing special to report. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Dec. 6—Chairman C. Jordan; Sec­ retary Iluminado R. Llenos; Deck Delegate Frank Gages; Engine Del­ egate Arnold Alemin; Steward Del­ egate Robert G. Black. $16 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. Ev­ erything is running smoothly. HOUSTON (Sea-Land), Dec. 5— Chairman E. Andrade; Secretary A. Argones; Deck Delegate M. Seliva; Engine Delegate James O'Donnell: Steward Delegate Marshall Hillson. No beefs and no disputed OT. SEATRAIN CAROLINA (Hud­ son Waterways). Nov. 22—Chair­ man R. Todd. Everything is running smoothly. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian). Nov. 8—Chairman C. Jordan; Sec­ retary Iluminado R. Llenos; Deck Delegate Frank Gages; Engine Del­ egate Arnold Alemin; Steward Del­ egate Robert T. Black. $ 11 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Everything is running smoothly. EAGLE TRAVELER (United Maritime), Dec. 6—Chairman Jo­ seph L. Bourgeois; Secretary A. W. Hutcherson; Deck Delegate E. Dakin; Engine Delegate Frank Cake; Steward Delegate J. Brill. $7 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Hudson Waterways). Nov. 29 — Chairman Edward Ellis: Secretary Herbert E. Atkinson. No beefs re­ ported. ALBANY (Ogden Marine), Nov. 22—Chairman O. O. Elliott; Sec­ retary John E. Samuels; Engine Delegate Joseph J. Logan, Jr.; Steward Delegate Ronnie Rogers. No beefs reported. LA SALLE (Waterman). Nov. 22—Chairman W. MacArthur; Deck Delegate Eugene O. Conrad; Engine Department J. Gutman; Steward Delegate Ahmedma Ishao. Discus­ sion held regarding repair list. No beefs and no disputed OT. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Hudson Waterways), Nov. 22— Chairman Edward Ellis: Secretary Herbert E. Atkinson: Deck Dele­ gate I. V. Brown; Engine Delegate J. M. Castell: Steward Delegate Louis B. Williams. Everything run­ ning smoothly. Some disputed OT in steward department. Vote of thanks to Brother Neville Johnson, baker, for job well done. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), Nov. 29—Chairman William Bushong; Secretary John Reed; Engine Delegate Robert F. Ellenson; Stew­ ard Delegate Antonio P. Trinidad. $23 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported. SEATTLE (Sea-Land), Nov. 29— Chairman Z. R. Rivera; Secretary J. B. Davis. No beefs reported. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. JAMES (Ogden), Nov. 29— Chairman Francis D. Finck; Secre­ tary Frank L. Shackelford; Deck Delegate Joseph Ryan; Engine Dele­ gate Joseph C. Wallace: Steward Delegate Bert Winfield. Some dis­ puted OT in each department. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done and a wonderful Thanksgiving Day Dinner. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Overseas), Nov. 1—Chairman John D. Hunter; Secretary Sam Conway; Deck Delegate Jerry C. Peterson; Engine Delegate William Hart; Steward Delegate James P. Lilly. No beefs reported. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Overseas), Nov. 8—Chairman John D. Hunter; Secretary Sam Conway; Deck Delegate Jerry C. Peterson; Engine Delegate William Hart; Steward Delegate James P. Lilly. Disputed OT in Engine Department, otherwise no beefs. TAMPA (Sea-Land), Nov. 8— Chairman G. Castro; Secretary E. B. Tart; Deck Delegate S. Ruzyski; Engine Delegate R. Moran; Steward Delegate H. Downes. $2 in ship's fund. Discussion held on various subjects. Everything in order. No beefs. TAMPA (Sea-Land), Nov. 22— Chairman G. Castro; Secretary E. B. Tart; Deck Delegate S. Ruzyski; Engine Delegate R. Moran; Steward Delegate S. Kemp. $2 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine and steward department. Everything else in order. BETHFLOR (Bethlehem Steel). Nov. 8 — Chairman B. Browning; Secretary W. W. Reid; Deck Dele­ gate R. Hipp: Engine Delegate Johnny H. Nettles; Steward Dele­ gate Bruce E. Webb. $9 in ship's fund. Everything running smoothly. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian). Nov. 22—Chairman C. Jordan; Secretary Iluminado R. Llenos; Deck Delegate Frank Gages; En­ gine Delegate A. Alemin: Steward Delegate Robert G. Black. $11 in ship's fund. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no dis­ puted OT. Steel Surveyor Cooks Praised An the Stefl .Sr/rr«>ror (Inthmian) hama, Japan, Chief Cook Moises nando Znvala hegin preparations department has received a 'well out so far sails for Pusan, Korea from Yoko­ Asinas (left) and Third Cook Fer­ for the evening meal. The steward done' for the food they've turned this voyage. Page 19 �•r Meany Sees '71 as Year To Better American Life A Common Cause SIU President Paul Hall welcomes Paul Bellesen to the Harry Lunde­ herg School of Seamanship. Bellesen is the director of North By North­ west Adventurers, Inc., an organization that offers hasic seamanship training to underprivileged youngsters in Seattle, Wash. Bellesen visited the school for a month to observe the vocational training tech­ niques employed at HLSS. • Earn Lifeboat Endorsements Nine more Seafarers earned lifeboat endorsements from the U.S. Coast Guard last month after completing the lifeboat training course at the SIU's Harry Lundeherg School of Seamanship in Brooklyn. From the left, seated are: Robert Martinez, Joseph Bonefont, Michel Le Files and John Weil. Standing are: SIU Instructor Len Decker, James Spell, Harold Medons, John Donovan, Bruce Beattie and Earl Adams. s T w J T A R s 1 A r 2 N to 14 IS It l7 '1 It •a J* as AA as as al A? at ai s* Schedule A7 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New OrleansFeb. 16—2:30 p.m. Mobile Feb. 17—2:30 p.m. Wilmington ..Feb. 22—^2:30 p.m. San Fran Feb. 24—2:30 p.m. Seattle Feb. 26—2:30 p.m. New York ..Feb. 8—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia..Feb. 9—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ....Feb. 10—2:30 p.m. Detroit Feb. 12—2:30 p.m. Houston Feb. 15—2:30 p.m. United Indnstrial Woikers New OrleansFeb. 16—7:00 p.m. Mobile Feb. 17—7:00 p.m. New York ..Feb. 8—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia..Feb. 9—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ....Feb. 10—7:00 p.m. ^Houston ....Feb. 15—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Feb. 1—^2:00 p.m. Buffalo Feb. 1—7:00 p.m. Alpena Feb. 1—7:00 p.m. Chicago Feb. 1—7:00 p.m. Duluth Feb. 1—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort ....Feb. 1—7:30 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Saetion Chicago Feb. 16—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Feb. 18—7:30 p.m. Page 20 of Membership Meetings Buffalo Duluth Cleveland Toledo Detroit Milwaukee Feb. Feb. ..Feb. Feb. Feb. ..Feb. 17—7:30 19—^7:30 19—7:30 19—7:30 15—7:30 15—7:30 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m, p.m. p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Feb. 16—5:00 p.m. Mobile Feb. 17—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Feb. 9—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (li­ censed and unlicensed)Feb. 10—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Feb. 11—5:00 p.m. Houston ....Feb. 15—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Feb. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore ....Feb. 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk ....Feb. 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City ..Feb. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Meetings held at Galveston wharves. t Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Newport News. Washington, D.C. AFL-CIO President George Meany said that 1971 will be a year when workers will look to the new Congress to "develop programs to improve the quality of life for all Americans. "American workers have set high goals for 1971 because they have faith in America and its future," Meany said in his annual New Year's message. Meany asserted that workers believe in investing in America and that the legislative program they will seek this year will be an extension of that belief. . "The dividends of this in­ vestment will be prosperity, hu­ man dignity and a better life for all Americans," he said. NHI Top Goal Topping the workers' list of legislative goals, Meany said, is national health insurance. The American health care system is on the verge of breaking down, he continued. "The cost of medical care is the fastest growing item in fam­ ily budgets," the AFL-CIO president declared. "Americans demand good health care . . . because good health care is a right of all free men." A major attack on poverty is another item high on the AFLCIO's list of goals. Meany has called upon Congress to in­ crease the federal minimiun wage to at least $2 an hour and to extend this law to 17 million workers who are not protected. A third legislative target is the passing of a strengthened Family Assistance Plan, pro­ viding jobs at decent wages for those able to work. Other 1971 labor goals in­ clude the enactment of laws that will extend the right to bargain collectively to all fed­ eral govermnent employees; legislation that will provide fed­ eral protection for workers' pen­ sion funds, and a foreign trade bill that will help preserve U.S. jobs "from being swept away in a flood of imports." Economy Major Problem Meany noted that the "state of the economy is uppermost in the minds of workers. Workers will continue to seek their fair share at the bargaining table." Meany said that he thought the trade imion movement had made its position "abundantly clear" as far as seeking solu­ tions to the nation's economic problems. "We accept the policy of equal sacrifice, applied across the board," he said. But, Meany continued, the American worker will not carry the burden alone. Meany contended that our economy will be healthy again when there is full employment. "America has the resources for full employment," he con­ tinued. "The one thing the econ­ omy cannot afford is mass un­ employment. "When everyone is working, ihen serious undermining of the tax revenue base, caused by the present recession, will be over. And consumers will once again have the purchasing power to keep the economy going," Meany explained. Meany charged that the Ad­ ministration's economic "game plan" has "flopped," and that the new "game plan" will bring about little more economic suc­ cess. Instead, Meany offered three "musts" for a healthy economy: • Faster growth in available money supplies and lower in­ terest rates. • Full funding of programs already authorized by Congress. • New legislation to create jobs and provide essential serv­ ices and facilities. Navy Shelves Sealab; Adopts Mark I System Washington, D.C. at the San Francisco Naval The Navy has announced that Shipyard. it has replaced the $20-million 'The Sealab III hardware, experimental project, Sealab said Rear Admiral Maurice III, with a new deep-diving Rindskopk, coordinator for project, Mark I. Sealab III has Deep Submergence Systems Programs "will probably never been permanently shelved. Navy officials say that the be used." Mark I system will carry divers to a depth of 850 feet and en­ able them to survey the con­ tinental shelf. The program is aimed at developing a deep sea rescue and salvage capability. The Mark I's diving equip­ ment and personnel transfer capsule, a sphere that carries aquanauts to and from the depths of the sea, is far Washington, D.C. superior to Sealab Ill's gear, AFL-CIO President George the Navy reported. The capsule Meany has called for union is also more comfortable. member support of the Ameri­ Easily Transported can Heart Association's fund Another advantage of the campaign scheduled for Febru­ Mark I system is its portability. ary. It can be moved on giant air­ Meany has been a sponsor of craft to any part of the world. the drive to raise money for It can also be used as gear on a scientific research, education wide variety of ships. programs and community serv­ The Navy reported that the ices for heart patients for 18 Mark I system, a technological years. He will again serve in man-in-the-sea program, is this capacity during February, more in line with current Navy American Heart Month. requirements, while Sealab III Thousands of union mem­ was a bold stab at a purely bers and their families will serve scientific goal. as Heart Fund volunteers, dis­ The Navy has put the Sealab tributing literature and calling III living capsule in mothballs on neighbors for contributions. AHA Drive To Enlist Union Aid SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Al Tanner Lindsay Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HBADQUARTEBS ..076 4th Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY 0-0000 ALPENA, Mich. .. ...800 N. SMoad Ave. (617) EL 4-3016 BALTIMOKE, Md. ..1216 E. Baltlmora St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass. .. 663 Atlantle Ave. (017) 482-4710 BUFFALO, N.V., 290 Fiaaklln St. SIU (710) TL 3-9269 IBU (710) TL 3-9269 CHIOAOO, ni 9383 EtvlaF Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 6-9670 CLEVELAND, O. 1420 W. 26th St. (216) MA 1-6460 DETROIT, MIob. 10226 W. JeSeTMn Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn ..Z014 W. 3d St. (218) BA 2-4110 PRANKFOKT, Mlcll P.O. Boot 287 416 HiOn St. (618) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, T»x. .6804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 2608 PeaH St. JACKSONVII.I,E, Fla. (904) EL 3-0087 JERSEY CITY, N.jr. ..09 Montcomery St. (201) HE 6-9424 MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrenee St. (206) HE 2-1764 NEW ORLEANS, La. ....030 Jackson Ave. (604) 628-7640 NORFOLK, Va. .. 116 3d St. (703) 822-1892 PHILADELPHIA, P*. 2604 S. 4th St. (216) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex A34 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, CnUf. 1321 BHsslon St. (416) 826-0783 SANTURCE, P.R. ..1313 Femnndea Jnneos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Waah. 2606 FInt Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo. .. ..4677 Qravois Ave. (314) 762-0600 TAMPA, Fla. 312 HarrisoB St. (813) 229-2788 TOLEDO, O 936 Sninnri* St. (419) 248-3091 WILMINGTON, CaUf. ....460SeaaUeAve. Tetmlnal Island. CnUf. (213) 832-7286 YOKOHAMA, Jnpan Iseya Bldr., Room 810 1-2 KnlKan-Dort-Naknka 2014071 Ext. 281 Seafarers Log �Final Departures Marion D. Green Marion D. Green, 43, passed away Oct. 17. 1970 of heart disease at Pointe-aPierre, Trinidad, while on board ^ the Western Plan­ et. A native of Texas, Mr. Green '4^.,. was a resident of Wir/ Mobile, Ala. ' when he died. He joined the union in the Port of Philadelphia in 1946 and sailed in the steward department. Among his survivors are his wife, Sadie. D I Lin S. Ferris Lin S. Ferris, 45, died October 14, 1970 of heart disease in the Veterans Admin­ istration Hospital in Charleston, S.C. He joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1969 and sailed in the steward de­ partment. A na­ tive of Orangeburg, S.C., Mr. Ferris was a resident there when he passed away. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and served in the Navy until 1967. During the war he was wounded while in the South Pacific. Among his survivors are his son, Wil­ liam A. Ferris of Orangeburg, S.C. Burial was in Memorial Park in Orangeburg. Alois Scharf Alois Scharf, 62, died Sept. 19, 1970 of heart disease while aboard the Sabine at sea. He joined the un­ ion in the Port of *• NewYorkin 1955 and sailed in the steward de­ partment. A na­ tive of Germany. Mr. Scharf was a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. when he passed away. Among his sur­ vivors are his sister, Mrs. Marie Stockert of Pittsburgh. Mr. Scharf's body was removed to St. Mary's Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pa. DISPATCHERS REPORT Edward M. Howe Edward M. Howe, 59. passed away Sept. 16, 1970 of heart disease in Homestead. Pa. He joined the union in the Port of Buffalo in 1961 and sailed on the Great Lakes as a tugman. A native o f Homestead, Pa., Mr. Howe was a resident of Munhall, Pa. when he died. Among his survivors are a neph­ ew, William A. Ruske of Mun­ hall, Pa. Anthony Robert Faust Anthony Robert Faust, 43, passed away Oct. 27, 1970 after an illness of some months at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans, La. A native of New Orleans, Mr. Faust was a resi­ dent of that city when he died. He Atlantic. Gulf & Inland Waters District December 1,1970 to December 31,1970 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia ....i... Baltimore ...... Norfolk Jacksonville ........ Tampa Mobile ................ New Orleans ........ Houston .............. Wilmington San Francisco ...... Seattle Totals .... r:;| J ll> All Groups Class A OassB 9 14 133 123 20 27 53 25 25 21 39 52 8 7 44 17 99 64 98 87 51 41 136 128 28 44 651 742 TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups Class A ClassB 7 16 171 194 14 20 50 95 44 52 44 47 22 0 70 22 62 89 135 140 35 44 107 129 46 " 22 735 942 All Groups QassA ClassB ClassC 8 6 3 78 27 93 5 9 11 4 43 21 10 2 14 9 27 23 6 0 3 1 20 20 38 1 61 8 48 - 50 4 655 51 18 105 90 7 29 14 94 519 417. ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH AU Groups Ail Groups ClassA ClassB Class C Class A ClassB Port 3•• 3.'; ,3 2 6 Boston • 30 57 160 96 98 New York 5 11 16 10 17 Philadelphia : 25 14 23 39 iBaltimore 2 25 • 6 22' 14 Norfolk 16 9 40 62 22 Jacksonville .......... • 0 3 3 -• 2• ' 5 ' Tampa' 0 . 15 38 37 r V; 19 Mobile ' 39 81 :.;v37 65 New Orleans 7 w®"". 28 60 93 73 . Houston 47 55 25 Wilmington 3-" 16 86 12 San Francisco ...... 91 141 21 J7'44 : Seattle 29 100 459 301 740 522 ^Totals .......a.........'' Ail Groups ClassA OassB 11 5 179 148 14 21 40 93 40 31 49 27 15 2 47 ' 59 t 70 91 101 82 21 20 86 63 22 • 31 716 652 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED ,n. AllGronps Class A ClassB 2 3 ||Boston . 59 97 ^iNew YoriC' 9 ^ 7 ®l»hiladelphla ....... 64 •; 35 Baltimore • 16 13 Norfolk 25 20 Jacksonville 2 7 ' Tampa 20 Mobile ; 30 39 81 New Orleans 34 37 Houston 12 17 Wilmington 75 91 San Francisco ....... 10 34 Seattle 367 472 .Totals I'teyrwwB'Ct January 1971 TOTAL SHIPPED AU GiroBps: : daw A Class B CUM C 7 •' 5 1 35 V51 ' 67 9. 6 ' 5 :• 15 13 20 8 6 15 -'• : • 12 .C; 14 3 0 0 17 18 0 24 32 25 34 ;.:r: 37 8 12 45 65 61 6 20 166 271 280 R^ ON BEACH AilGrnujM Class A ClassB 4 61 15 51 33 33 8 23 45 0 151 14 58 29 19 10 64 55 38 6-':;vvV^ 46 : 6 "W 369 X - 73 28 95 27 623 .*• • t ' : V • H-• 1 - /.jy joined the union in the Port of Wilmington in 1968 and sailed in the steward department. He was was a Navy veteran of World War II. Among his survivors are his sister, Geraldine Gorum of Los Angeles. Calif. His body was removed to Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, Calif. Frank E. Gardner Frank E. Gardner, 70, was an SIU pensioner who died Aug. 22, 1970 in Highland General Hospital in Oakland, Calif, as the result of injuries received when he was struck by a car. Mr. Gardner *•* joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1941 and sailed in the steward de­ partment as a chief steward. A native of British Guiana (now Supinam), Mr. Gardner was a resident of Oakland when he passed away. Among his survivors are his daughter, Bernadette La Roche of Brockton, Mass. Crema­ tion was in Mount View Crema­ tory. Shefield Nerldtt Shefield Nerkitt, 65, died Nov. 11, 1970 of natural causes in the USPHS Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. A native of the Virgin Is­ lands, Mr. Ner­ kitt was a resi­ dent of San Fran­ cisco when he passed away. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1945 and sailed in the steward department. In 1960 he was given a safety award for his part in making the Choctaw an accident free ship. Among his survivors are his wife, Fujiko. Burial was in Santa Clara Catho­ lic Cemetery. William B. Gardner William B. Gardner, 64, died Aug. 8, 1970 after an illness of some months in the USPHS Hos­ pital in San Fran­ cisco, Calif. A native of South Carolina, Brother Gardner was a resident of San - Francisco when he died. He joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1956 and sailed in the engine department. Among his survivors are his brother, Thomas J. Gardner of Kershaw, S.C. Burial was in Pleasant Plain Cemetery in Lan­ caster, S.C. William Larry Kalman William Larry Kalman, 21, died Nov. 13 in Putnam Valley, N.Y. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Kalman was a resident there when he passed away. He joined w the SIU in the _ PortofNew ^ York in 1968 and graduated that same year from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Mr, Kalman sailed in the deck department. Among his survivors are his father. Jack Kalman of Brooklyn, N.Y. Burial was in New Montefiore Cemetery in Pinelawn, N.Y. Eugene Charles Hood Eugene Charles Hood, 63, died Nov. 9, 1970 of a heart ail­ ment in Manhat­ tan, N.Y. A na­ tive of Kansas, Mr. Hood was a resident of Man­ hattan when he passed away. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1948 and often served as a department delegate aboard ship. He sailed in the en­ gine department. In 1961 and 1962 Mr. Hood was issued picket duty cards. He was an Army vet­ eran of World War II. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. Abram Vercber, Jr. Abram Vercher, Jr., 37, passed away October 23, 1970 of heart disease in the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans, La. A native of Shreveport, La., Mr. Vercher was a resident of New Orleans when he died. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Or­ leans in 1958 and sailed in the engine department. Among his survivors are his sister, Mary L. Patterson of New Orleans. Burial was in Fern Park in Natchitoches, La. Henry Valentine Keane Henry Valentine Keane, 70, passed away Mar. 26, 1970 of a heart ailment in Seattle, Wash. He joined the union in the Port of New Orleans in 1945 and sailed in the steward de­ partment. A na­ tive of Massachu­ setts, Mr. Keane was a resident of Seattle, Wash, when he died. At the time of his death he had been sailing 43 years. Cremation was in Central Crematory in Seattle. Anchovies Spawned In Lab La Jolla, Calif. Roderick Leong, a biologist at a marine laboratory here has succeeded in reproducing an­ chovies, an oceanic fish, under artificial conditions. Scientists have been attempt­ ing to do this for a century. Now they will be able to study in great detail the age, growth and the physiology of young anchovies. 'Potentially, the methods de­ veloped by Leong may be used for more important species such as jack mackerel, hake, pompano, perhaps even tuna," said Dr. Reuben Lasker, a phsyiologist at the marine lab. Dr. Lasker added that the anchovy feat is a major ad­ vance toward practical mariculture—oceanic fish farming— and could lead to production of ocean fishes in hatcheries. Page 21 �Scienfisfs Find: Whales Sing LOUD Lifeboat Class Passes Exam Lifeboat Class 61 stands on the deck of the Claude "Sonny" Simmon* after successfully passing their Lifeboat Certification examinations. They are, from left, kneeling: James Quinn, John Brancoccio, Edward White, Clyde Taylor, Michael Mason, Willie King. Standing, first row: Roy Grondal, Paul Conte, Richard Mclntyre, Robert Solis, Tony Hutter, John Cerami. Standing, second row: Mik? Donnelly, Jay Sherbondy, Charlie. Lehman, Eamon Kelly, Monte Grimes and I^rry Miizia. Standing, rear row: John Reed, Esau Wright, Cyrus Michiel, Patrick Bourgeois, Michael Holland, Frank Adams, Barry Saxon, and Howard Lazzarini. They are flanked by Lifeboat Instructor Bruce Simmons, left and Trainee Bosun Robert Sharp. SECTION 43. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE. When board is not furnished unlicensed members of the crew, they shall receive a meal allow­ ance of $2.00 for breakfast, $3.00 for dinner and $5.50 for supper. When men are required to sleep ashore, they shall be allowed $10.50 per night. Room allowance, as provided in this Section, shall be allowed when: 1. Heat is not furnished in cold weather. When the outside tem­ perature is sixty-five degrees (65°) or lower for 8 consecutive hours, this provision shall apply. 2. Hot water is not available in crew's washrooms for a period of twelve (12) or more consecutive hours. Heat beefs must be reported immediately to the Department Delegate and Chief Engineer. You must keep a written record of the beef including: • Date • Time of Day • Temperature All heat beefs should be re­ corded and submitted on on Individual basis. Housewrighf Honored James T. Housewrigbt, left, president of the Retail Clerks Interna­ tional Association, receives a plaque following a speech at a weekly luncheon of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. Presenting the plaque is Peter M. McGavin, MTD executive secretary-treasurer. Page 22 SlU Member Seeks Post Louis N. Cirignano, an ac­ tive member of the SIU since 1944 and a teacher of mental­ ly retarded children, is running for re-election on February 9th to a three-year term as a mem­ ber of the Board of Education of Passaic, New Jersey. Brother Cirignano has sailed in both the engine and steward A team of oceanographers be the "right" whales to go has discovered that whales not after) repeat a complicated 12only have something to say, but minute stanza of signals in when they decide to say it, their exactly the same way, signal for underwater voices can be heard signal. as far as 100 miles away. Even more precise are the During a recent six week voyage, scientists from the San Diego Natural History Museum chased several blue whales ^ First ^ through Southern Pacific waters off the coast of Chile. When the distance between the whales and the research vessel was nar­ rowed, a hydrophone, or tmderwater microphone, was lowered into the water behind the giant mammals. Powerful Murmurs Tape recordings of the sotmds picked up by this imderwater electronic apparatus were ana­ lyzed by the oceanographers, and the whales were found to have voiced "powerful half- so-called "songs of the hump­ minute long murmurs, capable back whale." The "songs" of of traveling over 100 miles this underwater vocalist have throughout the depths of the so much captured the imagina­ ocean." tion of those who have heard Dr. William Cummings, head them, that a full album of the of the whale-chasing adventure, sounds of the humpback whale is convinced that the sounds is close to being a best seller manufactured by the whales in record shops across the represent a basic form of com­ country. munication between the huge Intelligent Communication mammals and have definite In the opinion of Dr. Cum­ meaning to others of the same mings and others, the sounds species. of these underwater big mouths "An interesting fact is that are "intelligent phonations" the blue whale produces these clearly understood by other signals at very standardized in­ marine mammals. tervals, There is a precise dura­ In a related research project, tion of 100 seconds from the the eerie recorded screams of beginning of one voice se­ the killer whale, a predator of quence to the beginning of the other whales, caused gray next," said Cummings. whales and beluga whales to Further Fuidiugs flee in panic from the origin of Other species of whales have the sotmds. also been found to be under­ The next time a Seafarer en­ water chatterboxes. counters one of these talkative Five years ago. Dr. Cum­ creatures at sea, he might do mings found that right whales well to start a tape recorder— (so named because old-time the sound may someday be whalemen considered them to number one on the hit parade. Lakes' Shipping Hurt By Inland Freight Rates departments during his seafar­ ing career. He logged many Washington, D.C. months of seatime during Cargo diversion caused by World War II, including a thir­ inland freight rates that "dis­ teen month voyage on the criminate against the Great Thomas Wolfe before and after Lakes" was decried at the an­ the ship took part in the in­ nual meeting of the Great vasion of Normandy, Lakes Task Force here. He has participated in many Other goals adopted by the SIU organizing drives and beefs task force include freeing all and served on a number of un­ inland waterways from dis­ ion committees. criminatory tolls, the extension His desire to broaden his ed­ of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ucation prompted his choice of Seaway shipping season to seafaring as a career and has 11 months by 1973 and to 12 also led to BA and MA de­ months' per year by 1980. grees in education. Louis C. Prudey, chairman An Army veteran of the Ko­ of the task force and executive rean War, Brother Cirignano director of the Toledo-Lucas has demonstrated a broad in­ County Port Authority, said terest in the affairs of his com­ discriminatory inland freight munity, but his deepest interest rates are forcing exporters in is centered in helping young­ the Great Lakes region to send sters with their education. cargo to the Atlantic Coast for "The youth of this nation overseas shipment instead of hold the keys to our nation's through the lakes system. future in their hands," says The Task Force labeled the Cirignano. present inland rate structure as "A system of quality educa­ "chaotic, hopelessly obsolete tion for all should be the fore­ and distorted" to the point where exporters are forced to most goal of the 1970s." ship their goods "in the most costly possible way." The Task Force also con­ demned the failure of several agencies of government— nota­ bly, the Department of Defense and the Department of Agri­ culture—for not shipping in the Great Lakes. They said that the govern­ ment could .have reaped a sub­ stantial saving by shipping cargo in the Great Lakes, but had "misrouted" 84,500 meas­ urement tons in 1969, The group called for compliance with cargo preference laws. Woman Gains Liberation Bridgeport, Conn. * Superior Court Judge An* thony Grillo has "struck a blow for women's liberation." He granted a divorce on grounds of misconduct by the wife and her former husband for child support. Seafarers Log �Columbia Rose Makes Brief Stopover ver 10,400 tons of raw cane sugar were delivered to Brooklyn's Rich­ ards Street dock last month by the SIUcontracted Columbia Rose (Columbia Steamship Co.) after a voyage from Hilo, Hawaii. The sugar was shipped in bulk to a New York sugar refinery. The vessel is the former Alcoa Com­ mander and was built in North Caro­ lina in 1945. Before loading sugar in Hawaii, the ship made an out-bound voyage from San Francisco to the Far East, calling at such ports as Midway Island, Pusan, Korea; Subic Bay, Phillipines; Manila and Saigon. After off­ loading her sugar cargo, the Columbia Rose sailed to Montreal, Canada to load bulk grain for delivery to Constantza, Romania as part of the U.S. foreign aid program. O Bulk raw sugar is transferred from the hold of the Columbia Rage to a silo hy a heavy-duty crane at the Richards Street dock in Brooklyn. Able body seamen J. Palega, left, and C. Smith discuss the voyage just concluded as they relax on the stem. Messman Edward Herrero, right, receives an answer to a question from SIU Patrolman E. B. McAuley. The ship's payoff went smoothly. C'l - C. Mujica, ordinary seaman, did not forget family and friends while sightseeing in Far East ports. While awaiting payoff, he shows some of the gifts he bought for them. Carlos Bonefont sails as wiper aboard the Columbia Rose. While the cargo is being unloaded, he checks engine room equipment. Pressure gauges in the engine room are checked by fireman-watertender N.W. Jorgensen after the ship docked in Brooklyn. <•» I t Visala Tui waves to shipmates as he heads down gangway to spend some time on the beach. Brother Tui joined the SIU in the port of San Francisco. He is a native of American Samoa. ¥ I* ¥ I 4)' January 1971 Page 23 �••• •„:;,,, •''i' -c^-'." - ''•;-i • i;, .\. ,U'. .v:'5f--- Birds at Sea Mean Land. Is Near ^eafarer Edward Doruth was standing watch one night aboard a ship in the Atlantic when he saw two orange lights in the sky heading for the ship. He first thought it was a plane some quarter of a mile away. But he realized he had misjudged distance when suddenly he heard what he described as "a great whooshing sound." He looked up in time to see a huge, white bird curl his claws around the rail of the ship and sit there quite content. Doruth focused his flashlight on the creature. Slowly the great bird began to move and Doruth heard the rush sound of air as the animal spread his wings to a length of more than seven feet and took off. After talking to seafarers who knew a little about birds, Doruth realized that what he had seen that night was the fabled albatross. In Samuel Coleridge's poem "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" writ­ ten over 150 years ago, a seaman encounters terrible hardship and bad luck after he has killed an albatross. Many seamen still believe that the fnendly looking bird should be alowed to fly his graceful flights in perfect peace, not only because he harms no one but also because there is that slim possibility that the legend may be true. '' •' p • '''.I Perhaps, however, the story began hundreds of years ago when mariners realized that the appearance of birds could mean that land is nearby. In fact, seamen started the tradition that to harm an albatross was to "spit in the face of welcome." For the past two decades and a half, this big bird has become a very hot news topic on the Pacific Island of Midway, the creature's second largest nesting ground. Long before the Navy built an airstrip on the island in the late 1930's, the albatross had come there to spend nine months out of every year in mating, giving birth to young, and then rearing them. After the war, the island continued to be a military base and the* birds continued to make it their nesting ground, and the result was a conflict of interests. The brown pelican is one of the more familiar birds of the sea. The sea guU is a picture of gracefulness in flight. etween late October and early July there are over 200,000 albatross on the island. While one mate stays with the offspring the other searches for food, and so thousands of the big birds have collided with the military.planes that land and take off constantly. Both suffer from the encounter. The bird is usually killed and the plane damaged. On the island, by the way, people call the birds "goonies" instead of albatross. The Navy has tried countless meas­ ures to alleviate the gooney problem to planes while still not harm­ ing the birds extensively. Nothing has worked. B These birds that are so graceful in flight and so awkward on land, just won't budge from their nesting ground. They keq) com­ ing back each year, falling over themselves as they land because they've apparently forgotten what solid ground was like after three months at sea. And they just accept these strange creatures called man and the big birds they ride as another part of nature. Though very interesting, the albatross is just one bird of the sea that the seafarer encounters on his travels. As Ray Rives writes in his arti­ cle "Birds at Sea" in Lookout magazine: "Waterfowl, swallows, pigeons, doves. Mother Carey's chickens, and even the rarer macow" are seen when a ship nears the tropics. Of course among the seabirds easily recognized even by the land­ lubber are the gulls and the. pelicans. Gulls seem to be quite rivalrous birds and when one has some food, he'd better watch out for his fellows who feel they should have a share. In an article in National Geographic magazine about the "Sea Birds of Isla Raza" in Baja California, the author writes: "Generally, the gull family is notorious for nest robbing and will usually eat the eggs or young in any unguarded nest. Gulls even raid nests of their own species." However, he continues, "the Heermann's gulls of Raza . . . seem to have a code of ethics which prohibits them from eating eggs or young of their own kind/' There are also many pelicans on the island and the author notes that both the male and female help to hatch the eggs to feed their young. adly enough, many sturdy seabirds that can withstand fierce natural elements are being threatened by man's unnatural pollu­ tion. Some are near extinction while others lose thousands of their species each year because of oil spills or the myriad other effects that pollution can have on their bodies, their food and their off­ spring. To watch a seabird struggling to do something so natural as spreading his wings because black oil has slicked them down, is a very sad sight. Though man is not using a bow and arrow or a gun, he may, in a much more modem fashion, be "spitting in the face of welcome." S Two gooney birds survey their homeland, Midway Island in the Pacific. Page 24 ^ Seafarers Log ,•... ,•-• �ni The legendary albatross, some with a wing span over eight feet, glides gracefully through the air. t ,,5^', -.,1 ;j - 11 '" • ; > A mother albatross keeps close watch over her offspring on Macquarie Island in the Antarctic. Split-second camera work caught this sea gull plucking its dinner from the air after it was thrown from a fish­ erman's haul. -*». k- lil II; Hf - I-I -h . ttf *f> % ¥ m Two sea gulls wait at Boston fish pier for the boats to arrive with their daily catches. January 1971 Page 25 �Four Groups Complete HLSS Training Program Members of Class 55 at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship get a sendoff from two veteran Seafarers as they prepare to leave Piney Point to go aboard their first ship. From the left are: Boh Jordan, patrolman from Mobile; John Gilliam, Glen McDonald, Pat Mattingly, Chris Devonish, Rick Juzang, Ralph Mills, Sandy McKeithan, James Col­ lins, Boh Long, and Tony Kastina, patrolman from Baltimore. Graduates of HLSS Oass 56B make ready to depart from Piney Point for their first ships out of New York. Flanked by Houston Port Patrolman Gene Taylor, left, and San Francisco Port Patrolman Robbie Robertson, right, are: Jerry Rash, David Reeves, Amett Moomaw, Ken Keeling, Dave Westfall, Jerry Rogers, Gary Williams and Ray Qemente. iillllllllllll . HLSS graduates of Oass 55B are congratulated by New Orleans Port Patrolman Louis Guarino before leaving Piney Point for their first ships. From the left are: James Welsheimer, David Park, Leigh Rockwell, James Robak, James Watson, Guarino, Gary Sizer, David Doherty, Roland Mason, Michael Hoctor and Peter Wojtiuk. Oass 57B missters with Houston Port Patrolman Gene Taylor before boarding buses for New York and assignment to their first ships. From left are: Fritz McDuflie, Sidney Alford, Milton Fairchild, Taylor, Richard Heustis, William Erody and Douglas Knittel. 1971 Family Economic View Not All Rosy By Sidney Margolius What kind of year will 1971 be for your family? It will be a difficult year fi­ nancially for most working fam­ ilies, but offering a better chance to catch up on purchas­ ing power than in 1970. Prices probably will not go up as sharply as the severe jumps of 6 percent in both 1969 and 1970. But working people are starting the new year behind in buying power. Workers took a real beating in 1970. By October, despite wage increases, higher living costs have reduced real spend­ able earnings of the average workers by $1.59 a week from October, 1969. This is a loss in purchasing power of about 2 percent. Workers in manufacturing industries did even worse, giv­ ing up $3.20 in real spendable earnings in the 12-month pe­ riod, a loss of 3.7 percent. The average working family actually is right back where it was in 1964. Then, average spendable weekly earnings after taxes of a production worker with three dependents were $76.38, in terms of 1957-59 dollars. Even though gross av­ erage wages have gone up 34 percent to the current $122 a week before taxes, in terms of the same buying power that worker now has only $77 a week of purchasing power. Page'26 In manufacturing industries, a worker with three dependents averaged $85.27 a week in spendable dollars in 1964 and in late 1970, only $84.43. But the disastrous inflation since 1968 will level off this year. Here is what you can ex­ pect in specific expense items: Lower Finance Charges: It will cost a little less in the new year to finance a car or get a personal loan. Some banks around the country have cut loan rates by 25 cents per $100. This is the equivalent of a re­ duction of about one-half of 1 percent in the annual percent­ age rate, the true cost of bor­ rowing the money. Credit un­ ions still usually are lowest on loans, especially for used cars. Higher Car Prices: The car itself will cost more. In fact, price tags on 1971 models proved to be higher than ex­ pected and were responsible for part of this fall's rise in the cost of living index despite the leveling off of food prices. Manufacturers suggested prices on new cars after adjust­ ments for quality changes av­ eraged $226 above a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. That's an increase of 6 percent. Actual average dollar in­ crease was $220, and added safety features had an average value of $10, the BLS estimat­ ed. But these improvements were more than offset by elim­ ination of the five-year 50,000mile warranty; changes in some equipment from standard to op­ tional, and various other chang­ es. Note that prices of full-size cars have been raised more than those on the compact and sub-compacts which compete with the imports. Prices of op­ tional equipment also have been increased. Used-car prices have gone up too but only about half as much as the hike on new cars. Prices of used cars are usually lowest in February. Mortgage Rates: A mortgage will cost you just a little less than last year's impossible rates of 8.5 percent and more. The new FHA and VA rate has been reduced to 8 percent— still not low enough to enable many working families to buy houses. Higher Housing Costs: Ris­ ing homeowner expenses have become the largest single fac­ tor in the jumping cost of liv­ ing. Homeowner costs leaped 10.55 percent in 1970. Major factors have been in­ creases in property taxes, prop­ erty insurance and maintenance and repair costs. Property in­ surance rates have gone up an average of 50 percent since the 1957-59 base period with further increases in sight this year. Temper the rise as much as you can by taking the largest deductible available since you can afford to pay at least the first $100 or so of any damage yourself. You should carry in­ surance of 80 percent of the replacement value of your house (not the lot), in order to be paid the full cost of any damage. But avoid the tenden­ cy of brokers and agents to over-insure houses. Rents went up less than half as much as homeowner costs this past year, but are begin­ ning to catch up. You can ex­ pect rents to go up significantly in 1971. New houses actually will be a little cheaper at the beginning of 1971 than in 1970. Asking prices are a little more than a year ago. But as higher mort­ gage and carrying costs have pushed moderate-income fami­ lies out of the market, a wide disparity has developed between asking and actual selling prices. Last fall, the average intended sales price was $27,100, in­ cluding land. But the actual av­ erage selling price was $22,500, lowest since 1966. More Reasonable Food Costs: In early 1971 food costs will be more reasonable, or at least close to 1970 levels. The big jump in prices last year was largely due to higher prices of red meats, fish, fresh vegetables and coffee. But more recently meat prices have been restrained by larger supplies of pork. Actually prices should have come down. Farm prices have dropped. But processors and stores are pocketing extra prof­ its. You would not think it to look at the prices in the stores, but the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale price index current­ ly is the lowest in 22 months, down almost 9 percent from a year ago. Even the U.S. Agriculture Department officials have criti­ cized the reluctance of stores to pass on the lower prices. Don Paarlberg, USDA economics di­ rector, has pointed out that re­ tail pork prices have come down only about 8 cents a pound in recent months. But the farmer's share of retail pork prices has dropped about 18 cents a pound. Our own survey of three cit­ ies shows that prices of pork loins are about 2-to-5 cents be­ low last year; and of fresh hams, about 3 cents less. But there is a wide disparity. In some areas you can find specials on rib-end pork roasts as low as 43 cents compared to the more typical 69 cents. Curiously, turkey production is up 8 percent but retail prices are even higher than a year ago. But here too stores are offer­ ing specials sharply below typi­ cal prices. Outstanding food value this winter is eggs. They are 20 cents a dozen less than a year ago. Seafarersib| �Safety Bill Becomes Law; Safety Act Rules Enforcement Next Objective Protect All Workers • f If/ •i' I f h . i t ,r ; I * h^ If ^ •0 il- i Washington, D.C. One of the major problems in implementing the recentlypassed Occupational Health and Safety J-aw will be to "find and train a staff of qualified in­ spectors," according to Secre­ tary of Labor James D. Hodg­ son. "There are not an adequate number of trained people in this field. This is one of the lessons we learned from the Federal Mine Safety Act," Hodgson said. The Labor Department is asking for $11 million for fiscal 1971, but Hodgson said more will be needed for proper en­ forcement of the law. Union safety experts said they hope the Department asks for considerably more. They estimated that the $11 million would only be "a drop in the bucket" for effective enforce­ ment. The new Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Health and Safety, Hodgson said, could come from either in or out of government. He would have to be an "ac­ complished executive," familiar "with the world of work" and be able to get along with such groups as labor and manage­ ment, Labor Department and Health, Education and Welfare and the states and the Federal government. Another by-product of the bill was that it would enable the Labor Department to col­ lect sound statistics on the num­ ber of job casualties, Hodgson said. Currently neither the De­ partment nor the National Safety Council has the facilities, he said. The Act was signed by Presi­ dent Nixon in the Inter-Depart­ mental Auditorium. A special backdrop was set up with a picture of James A. Mitchell, Eisenhower's Labor Secretary, looking down on the proceed­ ings. Among the union officials present were AFL-CIO Presi­ dent George Meany, Steelworkers and Industrial Union Department President I. W. Abel. Nixon acknowledged that the bill was "different in sub­ stance" from the bill urged by the Administration but it "at­ tains the same goals." He said he would not have signed it if it did not have the support of both industry and labor. "All groups cooperated in making this bill possible," he said. Actually, the final product was largely a victory for or­ ganized labor over the Ad­ ministration-business proposals. A major battle took place over who should set the health and safety standards. The business-Administration side wanted to give the power to independent boards. Orga­ nized labor said these boards too often have become the pawns of business. Labor was successful in making the Labor Secretary responsible for setting the standards. Labor won another impor­ tant battle in giving worker representatives the right to ac­ company inspectors whether or not employer representatives go along. Organized labor wanted the Labor Secretary to be the final enforcement authority with em­ ployers free to go to the courts. The final bill gave a threemember panel final enforce­ ment power prior to going to the courts. The final bill also weakened the "imminent danger" section which requires the Secretary to seek a court order to restrain imminent danger practices. At the time the bill passed Congress, AFL-CIO President Meany called it "a long step down the road to a safe and healthy workplace." He stressed that the AFL-CIO would closely monitor the law to see that it is carried out. Abel, in his statement, de­ clared that Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-N.J.) and Rep. Dominick Daniels (D-N.J.), sponsors of the law, and all their co-sponsors "deserve the gratitude of all trade union members." "This law is an epochal event in our national effort to im­ prove the quality and safety of life in America," Abel declared. Williams said the Act "rep­ resents a landmark protecting the health and lives of Amer­ ica's working men and wom­ en." Dependents May Qualify For Social Security Benefits I' By A. A. Bernstein Thirty years ago, less than 55,000 children were eligible to receive Social Security bene­ fits. But, over the years. Social Security laws have been broad­ ened. Today, nearly million Americans under 18 are re­ ceiving monthly Social Security benefit payments. Social Secur­ ity programs offer assistance to students up until the age of 22 years. Over half a million stu­ dents age 18 to 22 and another quarter of a million people who became disabled in childhood get monthly benefits as the children of retired or disabled workers. Many SIU members and their families are unfamiliar with the various Social Security benefits available to their chil­ dren. But these benefits help protect the Seafarer and his family. The SIU Social Security staff is ready to answer any question regarding Social Security bene­ fits to children, students, chil­ dren who are disabled, etc. Seafarers and their families should address their questions to A. A. Bernstein, director of January 1971 Social Security and Welfare Services, Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. Q: I've been getting Social Security since my father had a stroke and had to quit work. I'm 17 now. I heard there is some way I can keep getting the checks even after I'm 18. Is this true? A: Yes. If you're not married and you stay in school full-time, you can get Social Security un­ til you're 22. Or if you are so disabled that you can't work, your checks would continue for as long as the disability lasts. Q: A fellow student tells me that Social Security has the right to grant or withhold our student benefits if our money needs are adequate. Is he right? A: No, he isn't. Chances are your friend has Social Security mixed up with public assistance payments which are based on actual need. Your right to stu­ dent benefits and the amount of the payments are based on jrour parent's record of work—^^and earnings—under Social Security. Q: As a college student, I work part time each semester and full time dming college vacations. The Social Security contributions coming out of my pay could help me meet ex­ penses. Why deduct from my earnings now, considering the number of full-time years in the future I'll have to pay? Will I really get my money's worth over the long run? A: You and other young workers—part time or full time —are earning valuable Social Security retirement, survivors, and disability insurance protec­ tion worth more than the Social Security contributions you pay. Q: My mother has been re­ ceiving benefits for me since my father died in 1968. My college work starts in Septem­ ber, and, since I'll then be 18, I prefer to receive my own pay­ ments. Is there anything special I need to do after I start getting payments? A: Yes. You must report to the Social Security people if any of the following occur: (1) you drop out of school, transfer to another school, or reduce your attendance to jess than full time, (2) you get married, (3) you earn or expect to earn $1680 or more during this year, aiid (4) you get payments from an employer for attending school. Washington, D.C. Following are the major provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970, which was a top labor priority in the 91st Congress: Purpose. The Act provides for the setting and enforce­ ment of nationwide occupation safety and health standards. Coverage. The Act applies to any business affecting interstate commerce. It is estimated that the Act will cover approximately 57 million wage earners in 4.1 million establishments. Effective Date. This Act is effective 120 days after sign­ ing by the President. Standard-setting. The Act establishes a procedure whereby the Secretary of Labor sets safety and health standards with the assistance of advisory committees where appropriate. Any interested person is afforded an opportunity to present his views in this proceeding. Employer Duty. Employers must comply with specific standards set by the Secretary of Labor. In addition, the Act contains a "general duty" provision requiring employers to furnish a place of employment free from recognized haz­ ards causing or likely to cause death or serious harm to employees. Inspections. A labor or a management representative or both may accompany a Federal official on an inspection of a factory. When an employee representative reports a viola­ tion of a standard and the Labor Secretary finds such viola­ tion likely a special investigation can be ordered. Enforcement The Secretary of Labor will conduct in­ vestigations to determine employer compliance with safety and health standards. Where a violation of the standards is found, the Secretary will issue a citation to the employer specifying the violation and giving a reasonable period to correct the violation. If the employer desires to contest the Secretary's findings, he may do so by means of an appeal to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission which will cause an administrative proceeding to be held to determine whether the employer has violated the stand­ ards; the final judgment of the Commission being appealable to a Federal Court of Appeals. Penalties. The bill provides for civil penalties for viola­ tion of a standard and a criminal penalty—a fine up to $10,000 and up to six months imprisonment or both—is pro­ vided where there is a willful violation which results in death. Other Provisions. The Act provides for rapid court procedures to remedy conditions or practices which con­ stitute an imminent danger to the safety and health of em­ ployees. In addition, the bill authorizes the states, after submission and approval of a state plan, to assume responsibility for the development and enforcement of standards. It requires the heads of all Federal agencies to establish and maintain safety and health programs consistent with standards issued under the Act. It provides for the conduct of research; the establishment of a National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health; the establishment of a National Commission on State Work­ men's Compensation Laws; and the provision of economic assistance to small businesses to better enable them to com­ ply with the Act. SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD NOVEMBER 1, 1970 TO NOVEMBER 30, 1970 NUMBER OF BENEFITS AMOUNT PAID Scholarship 4iospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $478.50) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits U 1,507 18 666 34 81 2,193 620 312 4,275 $3,744.05 36,331.44 52,276.40 3,533.60 6,799.85 2,422.50 104,909.43 9,155.39 3,115.90 32,188.00 Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid Seafarers' Pension Plan—Benefits Paid Seafarers' Vacation Plan-—Benefits Paid (Average—$489.60) 9,717 1,653 254,476.56 397,067.80 1.285 629,133.72 SEAFARERS' WEI.FARE PLAN Total Welfare, Peiision & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period 12,655 1,280,678.08 Page 27 �Many Enjoy SlU Christmas Dinners At Various Ports o nee again this year- -just as it has for over 30 years- -the Seafarers International Union went all out to make Christmas as enjoyable as possible for its members. In ports all over the world bounteous holiday meals were prepared and served to members, their families and guests. The 1970 festivities were attended by record crowds in virtually all ports. SIU halls became centers of joviality and good cheer as the members gathered to­ gether in the true spirit of the season. Port officials reported that "compliments on the meals and arrangements were many," and extended "thanks" to^all who participated. PORT OF YOKOHAMA In Yokohama, Seafarer Fred Mayer and SIU secretary Keiko Nakategawa are served some punch by a Seamen's Club waiter. Mrs. Joe Meyrchak (left) and Seafarer and Mrs. Michael Klepeis celebrate the traditional Christ­ mas dinner in Yokohama. Mrs. Meyrchak's husband is aboard the Beauregard in Vietnam. • •-•i • Third Cook John Bove didn't have to cook the meal this time as he celebrates Christmas Day in the Port of New York. - -VvV-" PORT OF NEW YORK Christmas is really a time for children and these youngsters of Seafarer Dominic Brancoccio make the most of it at the hall in New York. From left are: Jim; Maryann, and Thomas. Dorothy and Tony Zemuna are served Christmas dinner by the cafeteria workers at the hall in New York. Seafarer Freddie Borentz and his wife (left) celebrate Christmas Day with some friends in the Port of Nor­ folk. ^•>6Rt OF NOkFOLK . vv'- • " . . Seafarer and Mrs. Charles CralTord, their daughter and a guest (left) enjoy some fruit and dessert after a tasty meal in the Port of Norfolk. Page 28 Seafarers Log �At the dining hall in the Apostle Ship of the Sea in San Francisco, Felix Amora and his family enjoy Christmas Day with the SIU. I h' * » I < Ir r>- 11 ^ Looking happy about spend­ ing the day at the Trade Winds restaurant in Seattle are Seafarer and Mrs. Gus Skendelas. Able seaman Joe Schoell celebrated Christmas with his family in the Port of Seattle, enjoying "the great meal and good spirit.'' The traditional meal in the Port of Houston is enjoyed by Seafarers Anthony Denddo (center) and W. H. Stovall. Seafarer Denddo's sister, Mrs. D. E. Collette also enjoys the feast. if^: The children of SIU member Abraham Almendarez and his wife can barely get their heads above the table at the hall in Houston, but that didn't stop them from enjoying the delicious food. January 1971 Page 29 �Red Beans and Rice Popular Repast at New Orleans Hall New Orleans An excerpt from the newlypublished restraurant review, The New Orleans Underground Gourmet, by Richard H. Collin: . . . HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP CAFETERIA, 630 Jackson Ave., Tel: 529-4453. Hours; Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, 8-11 a.m. This busy and bustling cafe­ teria run by the Seafarers' Un­ ion serves cheap and quite palatable food. Just a few blocks from the Jackson Avenue ferry, the cafeteria is operated as part of a school for mer­ chant seamen and mainly serves seamen passing through the port. It is also open to the pub­ lic and one could pay a lot more elsewhere for food not nearly as good. ... One particularly satisfying main dish . . . was red beans and rice with ham (recom­ mended), which at 45 cents for a heaping plate is one of the great buys in town. The good Comestible Cuisine Red Kidney Beans 1 lb. CAMELLIA Red Kidneys 1 toe garlic chopped Vi lb ham or seasoning meat 2 Tbs. celery chopped 8-10 cups water 1 onion chopped 2 Tbs. parsley chopped 1 large bay leaf salt to taste Cooking Directions Rinse and sort beans. Cover with water, start to cook over low fire in covered pan. Render meat and add to beans. In meat drippings saute onion, garlic, celery and parsley, add this with bay leaf to beans and cook for Wz to 1 VA hours. Add water if necessary while cooking. 15 minutes before done mash 4 or 5 tablespoons beans through strainer, stirring into liquid. This makes liquid creamy. Serve over fluffy rice with hot crisp French bread covered with onion butter, water cress and French Dressing salad. USCG Evaluating Unique Lifeboat' Washington, D.C. A new flying-saucer-like life­ boat may soon appear on board U.S. merchant marine vessels if the U.S. Coast Guard finds it meets Marine Safety Law re­ quirements. Testing of the device, known as the Brucker Survival Cap­ sule, will continue for several months. The Coast Guard, by law, must determine that. the lifeboat is "at least as effective as that required by present reg­ ulations." Initial Coast Guard tests have shown that the capsule provides a high degree of protection against the elements. It can keep Personals Carl B. Tanner III Your father, Carl Tanner Jr., would like to hear from you as soon as possible at 2316 Palos Verdes Drive West, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. 90274. Ernest Byers All is well with your parents and they would like to hear from you soon at 614 Alvarez Ave., Whistler, . Pa. 36612. Tony Nottumo Pete Prinski asks that you call him at 201-YE-1-8185. If you can­ not call, his address is 145 Dobbs Ave., Bellmawr. N.J. 08030. Also, there is a letter for you at the Sea­ men's Division. Rinco Annex, San Francisco. William C. Besselievre Your son, William Jr., would like to have you contact him at Stratford, 433 Prospect Ave. Staten Island, N.Y. 10301. Page 30 28 occupants dry and warm be­ cause the vessel is entirely en­ closed. Its rugged construction makes swamping and capsizing relatively unlikely. It can sur­ vive 200 mile-per-hour storm winds and 50-foot seas with "virtually no damage," the Coast Guard added. Used On Olf-Shore Platforms The Coast Guard has already approved the capsule's use on off-shore platforms. It has been widely accepted on off-shore oil rigs because It can protect oc­ cupants from fire—throwing off flames and recirculating a fresh supply of oxygen. But lifesaving equipment standards are stringent for mer­ chant ships. The unique design and size of the capsule—WA feet in diameter and 9 feet in height—does not meet the cur­ rent standards of the Coast Guard and the 1960 Interna­ tional Convention for Safety of Sea. (The capsule can't be rowed by conventional means, it can­ not travel at a speed of 6 knots as the safety laws now require, nor is it 24 feet in length—a re­ quirement set for lifeboats used on board most merchant vessels. Acceptance Good Possibility The Coast Guard says, how­ ever. that the Brucker capsule has .so many positive lifesaving assets it may still qualify. If it does meet qualifications, the Coast Guard added, it will be the first time that a vessel so markedly different has "merited consideration as a lifeboat." and inexpensive red beans were not the gummy and unseasoned boiled mess served by too many of New Orleans' cheaper lunch places. Good red beans have become increasingly rare these days. . . ." Richard Collin's best-selling book only verifies what people who like "in" places have al­ ways known: The SIU cafeteria is THE place for the traditional New Orleans fill-up meal, red beans and rice. In Great Demand The demand for this Southern specialty is amazing. On Mon­ day, Nov. 30, the SIU cooks prepared 18 pounds of beans— enough to serve more than 100 people. They could have served more, but they ran out mid-way through the lunch hour. The shortage was especially significant because the menu that day included other very appetizing entrees: • Roast young tom turkey, with cranberry sauce, southern dressing, cut green beans and snowflake potatoes. • Grilled smoked ham steak, with pineapple garnish, buttered asparagus and snowflake potatoes. • Grilled golden cheese om­ elette, french fried potatoes with lettuce and tomatoes. Of course, the turkey, ham and omelette all ran in the $1.25 to $1.40 price range—hardly competitive with the 45-cent tab for "stewed Creole red beans with ham and steamed rice." Collin's comments were tak­ en from his book and printed in a weekly column that appears under his by-line in the New Orleans States-Item. Receives Highest Rating The three marks preceding the review (• • •) were in­ dicative of his rating system: three dots is the highest under­ ground restaurant rating. "I find the character of this establishment charming," Collin said. He especially like the cap­ tain's chairs, around the mas­ sive tables and sea motifs decorating the dining room. "Part of the Seafarers' union hail, the dining room combines the bustle of the hiring hall with the knowledgeable patronage of a poor-working class neighbor­ hood that appreciates this inex­ pensive restaurant," he said. "The real tour-de-force of the Seafarers' cafeteria is the last five-cent cup of coffee in town. The coffee here deserves a spe­ cial word. The blend is a first rate variety of good Northern coffee." From Turkey to Beans Word of the SIU's tasty cuisine has become legend. The winner of the annual Turkey Bowl—a match between two New Orleans football teams— is traditionally served red beans and riqe at the Turkey Bowl Banquet at the SIU hall. This year the two teams tied, 6-6, so both teams were treated to the spread. The red bean rage is some­ thing else! Pensioners at Piney Point Pension Conference 8 participants are flanked by SIU Representative Frank Monitelli, left and Director of Union Education Bill Hall, right. From the left are; C. Izquierdo, J. Shea, A. Boyer, W. Morris and B. Batema. SIU pensioners who attended Pension Conference 9 were from the left: J. Crivas, James Bussel, W. McNeil, T. Urhina, L. Eilorin, A. Platis, O. Edwards, A. Langley and F. Mazet. Jobless Rate Hits Nine-year Peak Washington, D.C. Unemployment soared to a nine-year high of six percent across the country in Decem­ ber, despite Administration talk of better economic times ahead. The six percent level, called "substantial unemployment" in economic terms, has long been used to indicate a serious job­ less situation. On an annual basis, 1970 was a disastrous one for work­ ers. • At a four year low of 3.5 percent when the year started, unemployment climbed to an annual rate of 4.9 percent. • In numbers, the jobless ranks increased by 2,000,000— from 2,628,000 in December of 1969 to 4,636,000 in Decem­ ber of 1970. • Long-term unemployment continued to rise during the year, with the number unem­ ployed 15 weeks or more now over a million. • Whit e-collar unemploy­ ment, at 3.7 percent was at its highest level since 1958 when current statistics were started. Even worse, blue collar unem­ ployment rose during Decem­ ber from a 7.3 percent rate to 7.7 percent. • As of December 26, initial claims for unemployment com­ pensation rose "sharply" in 28 states. Almost 500,000 claims were made, an increase of 94,000 over the previous week and 129,000 hi^er than dur­ ing the same week a year ago. • While the American labor force grew by nearly 2,000,000 during 1970, the economy was able to absorb only 730,000, leaving a deficit of roughly- 1,200,000. • While weekly earnings rose 3.4 percent over the year for the average worker, his "real" earnings were down 2.1 percent. Meany Praises Yarborough's Senate Work Washington, D.C. The retirement of Sen. Ralph W. Yarborough (D-Tex.) was called a sad occasion by AFLCIO President George Meany who said Yarborough's ac­ complishments will be grate­ fully remembered. Yarborough, chairman of thi Senate Labor and Public Wel­ fare Committee, was defeated in the Texas Democratic pri­ mary. Meany said Yarborough's record was one of "true mean­ ing—the meaning of human respect and dignity; the mean­ ing of a better life for all Americans." Seafarers Log ^ I �it The captain ha» radioed ahead to the lock, to the Hilo, to the tugboat dispatcher. In the back­ ground, t>vo tugs can be seen reporting for work. V rt V A- Largest Carrier on Lakes r 9* 4 > ;c r- About 26 times a year, the Chicago River lock opens for the Medusa Challenger coming in from the north. rrihe SIU contracted ship^ Medusa JL Challenger, is a modern" cement carrier on the Great Lakes. She is owned by Cement Transit Company, a subsidiary of the Medusa Portland Ce­ ment Company in Cleveland, O. The Medusa Challenger services the com­ pany's distribution terminals in Chi­ cago, Milwaukee, Wis., Manitowoc, Wis. and Detroit, Mich, bringing ce­ ment from the Charlevoix, Mich, man­ ufacturing plant. The ship is the largest cement carrier on the Great Lakes with a capacity of over 60,000 barrels of cement. The company has purchased a second vessel and anticipates convert­ ing it to another cement ship in the near future. H SE i I �/li SEAFARERS«LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS IWTERWATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CIO An Informed Membership... Education of the membership has been a continuing goal of the SIU—because education and training mean better-paying jobs for Sea­ farers, and a stronger, more active, more effective union working on their behalf. The union's entry-rating school, its upgrading program and its training for men who want to sit for their licenses have been the key­ stones of this training program. And the SIU's policy of shipboard meetings, port meetings, crew conferences and publications also have been part of this philosophy of keeping the members informed of what their union is doing, and how events in the industry and actions by the government affect them and their union. In this continuing tradition, the SIU is planning a two-week Educa­ tional Conference for rank-and-file members on a wide-range of issues that will present an opportunity for review, discussion and recom­ mendations as to how the SIU can continue to best serve the members. Here are the details: J. THE DATES March 1-14, 1971. THE PLACE The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, Piney Point, Md. THE PARTICIPANTS T Two hundred rank-and-file Seafarers, who will be chosen by thenfellow SIU members as delegates to the Conference. THE ELECTIONS Special meetings will be held in all AGLIWD ports at 11 a.m., Feb. 26,1971 for the purpose of electing delegates. THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS To assure the greatest participation by interested members, and to defer in part the cost to them for such attendance, the Educational 1. Conference will provide for transportation, board and housing, and will provide each participant with $8 per day to cover other expenses for each day of attendance. In addition, the union will request the contractually provided Sea­ farers Appeals Board to adopt a temporary rule for the period of the two-week Educational Conference to provide that members elected to participate, and who are registered for shipping, will have their cards extended for the period of the Conference, provided they are in attendance. THE PROGRAM CONTENT The purpose of the Conference will be to inform and advise the members as to the various aspects, rules, regulations, responsibilities and issues of the numerous plans and their inter-relationship with the union; the union's operations and functions; contracted management and its functions; and the maritime industry, in general, including its problems and its future. The Confereiice will provide delegates with the opportunity to thoroughly discuss, analyze and make recommendations in depth. THE SPONSORS The participants in organizing and administering this Conference will be the Seafarers Welfare Plan, Seafarers Pension Plan, Seafarers Vacation Plan, Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, and the Sea­ farers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters District. * * * V ,• Seafarers are urged at the Feb. 26 AGLIWD port meetings to make their voices heard in the selection of delegates—and those who are elected are urged to make the maximum contribution to the success of the Conference by their active and involved participation. REMEMBER: The SIU is your union. It functions best when the members con­ tribute their time, their interest and their ideas on behalf of the brother­ hood of the sea. t • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource January 1971 Description An account of the resource Headlines: DELTA LINES ANNOUNCES PLAN TO CONSTRUCT SIX VESSELS USPHS HOSPITAL PROGRAM IN JEOPARDY MURPHY DECRIES PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH PHS HOSPITALS USPHS – A HISTORY OF CARING MISUSE OF US-FLAG FLEET IRRITATES REP THOMPSON SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD PERVADES PHS HOSPITALS HLSS PROGRAMS IMPRESS GUESTS REP FORD CALLS FOR MORE CARGO ON US FLAG SHIPS RUSSIAN SEA REVOLUTION THREAT TO FREE WORLD SIU SHIPS COMMITTEES SERVE THE MEMBERSHIP MARITIME UNITY: WHAT IT’S REALLY ALL ABOUT WHAT THE NMU SAYS ABOUT THE PROBLEMS OF ITS MEMBERS, ITS UNION THE SIU’S POSITION ON MARITIME UNITY MEANY SEES ’71 AS YEAR TO BETTER AMERICAN LIFE BIRDS AT SEA MEAN LAND IS NEAR 1971 FAMILY ECONOMIC VIEW NOT ALL ROSY SAFETY BILL BECOMES LAW; ENFORCEMENT NEXT OBJECTIVE DEPENDENTS MAY QUALIFY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS LARGEST CARRIER ON LAKES Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/1971 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 1971 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/7eced29a758c981d27e13c0330d77b64.PDF 56ae2d2306d5e7c45844a9020dea6a61 PDF Text Text • \• -N 1 j;i.- Iv I i '»• ' fT Vol. XXXill No. 2 SEAFARERS*LO€ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERMATIONAL UNION > ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CiO MTD Focuses on Maritime Issues: ^ Urges Increase in U.S.-Flag Cargoes Ifif * Hits 'Runaway' Menace to industry * Warns of New Threat to Jones Act ^ Hears Gibson's Stable' Relations Plea (See Pages 3, 4, 5. 10) Seafarer Loses Life In Effort to Save Foreign Seamen (See Page 7) :Miii I Congress, Labor Join In Fight to Preserve Public Health Hospitals (See Pages 2, 5i 10) ... ^•\ Awards Deadline Draws Near - (See Pages 10, 32) ^ �Support Rallying to SlU in PHS Hospital Crisis Washington, D.C. tient clinics not only remain A resolution calling for ex­ open and funds be made avail­ panding and modernizing the able for the continued opera­ United States Public Health tion of such hospitals and Service Hospitals has been spon­ clinics, but that additional funds sored by 210 congressmen— be made available for the mod­ nearly half of the total mem­ ernizing, upgrading and ex­ bership of the House of Repre­ panding of all existing facilities in order to properly carry out sentatives. the responsibilities of the Pub­ The resolution, which has lic Health Service to provide the strong support of the SIU, the best medical care and Related articles on PHS treatment to beneficiaries there­ Hospitals appear elsewhere to under the law," the resolu­ tion declares. in this issue of the LOG. The resolution notes that Page 3: A report on the President Nixon, in his State of MID Executive CounciPs the Union message, "promised resolution concerning the to provide more medical serv­ proposed closing of PHS ices in areas that do not have Hospital program. adequate medical facilities." The 210 congressmen cited Page 5: Text of AFL-CIO the fact that USPHS facilities President George Meany's provide medical services for letter to HEW Secretary more than a half-million people Elliot Richardson. each year—^people who "could Page 10: SIU members' not obtain these services in letters to the Editor. overcrowded private' hospitals or in the Veterans Administra­ opposes the Administration's tion Hospitals." plan to close the eight remain­ The heavy outpouring of ing USPHS hospitals. support from Congress but­ Leaders in the campaign to tressed arguments from several bring greater medical care to quarters backing the SIU's seafaring men through the stand against any threat to the USPHS are congressmen—^both USPHS facilities. Democrats and Republicans— Eight hospitals are currently from the coastal areas affected. in operation in New Orleans, "It is the sense of the Con­ Galveston, Boston, Baltimore, gress that the Public Health San Francisco, Norfolk, Seattle Service Hospitals and outpa­ Reaction to the proposed and New York City. In addition the PHS operates clinics for the same beneficiary groups in 32 cities. runs the available resources, that improved health care is a top labor goal and that Presi­ dent Nixon has committed his Administration to providing better medical service for all Americans. "In view of this situation," Meany concluded, "it seems to be a paradox that the nation should be closing hospitals . . . To allow the first health-care action of the new year to be the closing of eight hospitals would be a severe blow to the hopes of millions of Americans for adequate and affordable health care." The Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee will hold hearings on the resolution at an early date. Meany In addition to working with the Congress, the SIU htis been elimination of the PHS hospi­ in contact with several gov­ tals came quickly. ernment agencies whose per­ Opposition Mounts sonnel and programs would be Other voices in the labor affected by PHS hospital clos­ movement were raised against ings. Among them are the Federal the closings, including a reso­ Maritime Administration, the lution of the executive council Department of Housing and of the AFL-CIO Maritime Urban Development, the De­ Trades Department and a letter partment of Labor and the De­ from AFL-CIO President George Meany to Elliot Rich­ partment of Defense. ardson, secretary of the Depart­ Civic Groups Join Fi^t ment of Health, Education and Civic leaders in various parts Welfare. of the country also expressed Meany reminded Richardson their concern over the proposed that the nation's need for med­ hospital closings. ical services already far out­ The New Orleans City Coim- cil at the instigation of Mayor Moon Landrieu unanimously passed a resolution asking that the hospital in New Orleans be kept in operation. The coimcil resolution asked the New Orleans hospital be kept "operating at its fullest capacity to serve the many sea­ men of this area." Mayor Landrieu said, "I see absolutely no logic in HEW's reasoning that the PHS hospi­ tal is tmderused. Further, if Ae operation is ineffective as HEW says it is then it should be im­ proved, but imder no circum­ stances should the doors simply be locked and the people sent elsewhere." Others Concur Also, Bethuel M. Webster, who headed a Presidential com­ mission which studied the Pub­ lic Health Service Hospitals in 1965, said he saw no reason "that the report and recom­ mendations of my committee are any less valid today than they were when the report was submitted." The Webster Commission recommended that the hospi­ tals be upgraded and modern­ ized and that their services branch farther and farther into the public service. The PHS hospitals, the old­ est welfare institution in the nation, serve more than 500,000 people each year. V THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT Vby PAUl mU .. t will take an all-out effort to keep the Administra­ tion from closing the eight remaining Marine IHospitals, but it is an effort we will make—and one which we must win. The proposed closing of the hospitals represents a crisis for Seafarers. It is also a national crisis be­ cause it will further decrease the amount of available medical care; And that amount is in short enough supply. Our beef is simply this: The mindless, senseless budget cutters for years now have held back funds the Marine Hospitals would have used to modernize and upgrade thenfacilities and programs. Now that the hospitals are aging rapidly and moving toward obsolesence, the bureaucrats' answer is not to release the funds, but to close the hospitals. How silly that is in the light of the report of a 1965 Presidential Commission which recommended that the hospitals be enlarged, improved and modern­ ized as rapidly as possible. And elsewhere in this month's Log, the chairman of that commission says he sees no reason to believe that the report does not apply as well now as it did in 1965. In fact, it applies even more now because of the passage of six years. What is so different about 1971 in American his­ tory? Why is it that in 1971 we would discontinue the oldest existing public service of the United States government—the Marine Hospitals? At the beginning of this nation, the people recog­ nized an obligation to treat mariners, to offer them a safe harbor when they were ill. The obligation has not suddenly ended. Through the years, there has been a warm under­ standing between the Marine Hospital doctors and their patients, the merchant seamen. I know from personal experience that the men and women on the staff of the various hospitals and clinics care deeply for merchant seamen. Perhaps that is because both the medical staff Page 2 member and the patient are involved in the public service, involved in helping to keep the nation func­ tioning. Whatever it is, I doubt that we would see much of it in the places that the government offers as possible alternatives. The government says that the beneficiaries of the Public Health Service hospitals would either be treated in veterans hospitals or in private hospitals under contract to the PHS. That is no alternative at all. Veterans hospitals are overcrowded and their staffs are overtaxed. There are long lines of veterans wait­ ing for treatment. Seafarers would have to go to the bottom of the priority list, and that would probably mean they would never receive treatment. As for private hospitals under contract to the PHS, that alternative gives good reason to keep the Marine Hospitals going. It costs $58 a day to treat a patient at a PHS hos­ pital. On the average, it costs $70 a day to keep him in a private hospital. In many of the same cities where PHS hospitals are in operation, costs in some' hospitals run to more than $100 a day. Where is the saving, then? What possible reason do the budget cutters have for sawing away at the marine hospitals when they actually save the tax payers money? The answer is that this kind of indiscriminate budget cutting has nothing positive to offer. That's our beef. The nation's beef is a little different. It is one that offers several very positive reasons to keep the PHS hospitals working. 'rst, to go back to the high cost of private hospital F care. We are rapidly becoming a nation in which only the very rich can afford to go to a hospital. And there is no assurance that a rich man can get ad­ mitted to the hospital of his choice because it might be filled to the gills when he needs it. Given that situation, isn't it horrible to think of the 500,000 current beneficiaries of the marine hos­ pitals adding to the pressure that exists in private hospitals? We have a health care crisis in this land, and even the President in his "State of the Union" message made adequate health care one of the nation's "Six Great Goals." We are out of beds in hospitals. People can't afford hospitals and few people have adequate health in­ surance. The nation ranks 13th best in the preven­ tion of infant deaths. Surely we can agree with the President that it all constitutes a crisis in health care. The first proposal we see, then, from the Admin­ istration is to do away with hospitals which are giving people adequate, and often exceptionally good, treat­ ment at relatively low cost. It doesn't make an awful lot of sense. What does make sense is that this nation needs more hospital beds, more facilities to treat the sick and more ways of holding the cost down. Yet, what the nation hears from the Administration is that eight efficient and economically operated hospitals and 32 clinics ought to be shut down. Never has such a contradictory and irrational pro­ posal been made at a time of such deep crisis in the medical profession. That is why this beef is important—even vital—to the nation. Reason and logic have to be brought to this situ­ ation, and we intend to do it. Reason and logic tell us that the marine hospitals must continue for the benefit of the merchant sailor and for the benefit of the nation. Reason and logic also tell us that they must be expanded and modernized to meet the needs of to­ day's medicine. Cutbacks in staffing and withholding funds to make improvements can lead only to disaster in the overall health care picture in our country. •J e will work diligently in the halls of Congress to W get the appropriation for the Marine Hospitals that the President refused' to put in his budget. We must do it for ourselves and for the nation. Seafarers Log r. �• . h':'.- '•> in action MTD Mobilizes to Fight for Seamen V. I Bal Harbour, Fla. The Executive Board of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment, at its midwinter meeting here, rallied solidly be­ hind the cause of the nation's merchant seamen. In two action-packed days, representatives of the 7.5 mil­ lion members of 42 affiliated unions—issued strong reports on legislative goals, the slash in seafaring jobs resulting from foreign shipping competition. and the Nixon Administration's current attempts to close Public Health Service Hospitals. The Board also heard from Andrew E. Gibson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, who discussed the impact of the Merchant Ma­ rine Act of 1970 under which the Administration seeks to bring about the revitalization of the American merchant fleet. Here are highlights of the Board's meeting. Board Outlines Legislative Goals ,1- V K i •> ,>> k The MTD Executive Board manded an end to "favoritism" focused sharp attention on leg­ to foreign-flag vessels by the During its Executive Meeting in Bal Harbour the MTD concerned itself with many problems of interest world's largest shipper—the to all labor groups and of particular interest to those in the maritime industry. The Executive Board adopted islative actions and goals. The MTD has sounded an U.S. Government. a number of resolutions designed to alleviate or eliminate some of the problems confronting the industry. The MTD Executive, Board alarm against an attack by the powerful oil lobby on legisla­ called upon the Department of Most of the nation's bulk-cargo other words, that will be capa­ racy, the Maritime Trades De­ tion that reserves all domestic Commerce to establish ship­ trade has been carried in unsub­ ble of handling the bulk partment recommended: shipping to American-flag ves­ ping priorities in the regula­ sidized ships. trades." • Suspension of economic tions it is now establishing for sels. "In the past, the federal aid to any nation guilty of pi­ Su^ested Action the shipment of government maritime effort has totally ig­ racy against our fishing fleet. Issues Warning The Executive Board also ex­ cargo. nored the bulk-cargo trade," • Imposition of economic Discovery beneath the North First priority, the MTD said, the MTD noted. "Yet this is pressed deep concern over the sanctions, by barring imports Alaskan Slope of what may be fact that in recent weeks a doz­ the world's richest pool of oil should go to American-flag the portion of waterbome com­ en American-owned, Ameri­ from any country "guilty of pi­ merce which has steadily been ships, followed by vessels of racy against our fishing fleet." has caused oil interests to open can-manned fishing trawlers advancing—both in absolute nations receiving foreign aid, a campaign against this legis• The supplying of U.S. na­ have been seized by Ecuador, laftiSn, known as the Jones Act with "third-flag" ships being the terms and in relation to our to­ bringing to close to 100 the val vessels to guard American —a campaign that would per­ last choice, "particularly since tal imports and exports. Bulk number of instances in which fishing vessels. mit them to bring in their for­ so mafhy of these 'third-flag' trade now accounts for a stag­ The legislative report was American vessels have been eign-built, foreign-registered vessels are ships from the 'run­ gering 85 percent of our com­ presented to the Board by fired upon, taken captive at merce. and foreign-crewed tankers to away-flag' fleet." "Thus, it makes sense to put gun-point, and held for ran­ AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ move the oil from Alaska to the Unsubsidized Operators partment Administrator O. Wil­ our government's money where som. continental United States. Among American-flag ships, the trade is—^to build ships, in To end the epidemic of pi­ liam Moody. "This may well prove to be presently unsubsidized ships— the most critical challenge we the ones which for years have have had to face in terms of existed without any federal preserving the Jones Act," the construction or operating as­ MTD said. "We intend to meet sistance — would get "first that challenge." crack at the government-gener­ ated cargoes," under the As another goal, the MTD MTD's proposal. pledged to "see that in the im­ Action by the Department facilities in Detroit and Savan­ hospitals' primary charges," plementation of the Merchant Similarly, the MTD called of Health, Education and Wel­ nah were closed. the Maritime Trades Depart­ Marine Act of 1970, the per­ for the same unsubsidized oper­ ment asserted. "Closing the "Closing the PHS hospitals fare to dismantle the U.S. formance matches the promises ators to receive preferential Public Health Service hospitals would cause immeasurable PHS hospitals would also that the new legislation con­ treatment for construction-sub- "stands in ugly contrast" to a harm to the seamen, coast cause immeasurable damage to tains." sidy funds called for in the pledge by President Nixon last guardsmen and other govern­ the general level of health care The legislative report de­ Merchant Marine Act of 1970. month to expand and improve ment personnel who are the (Continued on Page 5) the nation's medical services, the MTD Executive Board charged at its midwinter meeting. The Nixon Administration began "winding down" the net­ work of Public Health Service The Nixon Administration must close its own "promisehospitals in 1969, when it performance gap" if the nation is to weather the present turned hospitals in Detroit and economic recession, according to the Maritime Trades De­ Savannah into out-patient partment. clinics, transfering all bed pa­ The MTD charged that the key proniise Nixon made tients to private and public in the 1968 campaign to halt inflation without creating un­ hospitals in their respective employment—has not been kept and is ample evidence that areas. the "promise-performance gap" exists within the Adminis­ tration itself. Eight Hospitals Affected Vice President Charles F. West of the International The remaining eight hospi­ Association of Machinists, in an address to the Board, chal­ tals—located in Boston, Balti­ lenged the promises contained in the Nixon economic pro­ more, New York, Norfolk, posals, calling them "as phony as the old promises." New Orleans, Galveston, San West called the current level of joblessness "totally un­ Francisco and Seattle—are acceptable," adding that it would force "3.9 million work­ now threatened by a "reap­ ing people to bear the brunt of his (Nixon's) economic poli­ praisal" from HEW Secretary cies." Elliot Richardson. The MTD stressed that achievement of a healthy econ­ The MTD noted that the Rep. Ciaude Pepper (D-Fla.) addresses a gathering of the AFL-QO omy depends upon "all Americans having gainful employ­ same term—"reappraisal"— Maritime Trades Department Executive Board in Bal Harhour, Fla. ment, while inflation is kept under control." was used by former HEW Sec­ and announces his support of the Board's resolution to fight to keep PHS Hospitals open. MTD President Paul Hall listens attentively. retary Robert Finch before the Resolution Attacks Proposal To Close Marine Hospitals Economic Proposals Not Livirtg Up to Promises f February 1971 Page 3 •t i i'? II iI �in action Gibson Urges 'Stable' Labor-Business Ties "A banker who is called Stable labor-management re­ lationships in the maritime in­ upon to approve a loan applica­ dustry are essential if revitaliza- tion for tens of millions of dol­ tion of the U.S. Merchant lars for new ship construction, makes his decision based on his Marine is to be achieved. That was the message which assessment of the earnings po­ Assistant Secretary of Com­ tential of the ship and ship merce Andrew E. Gibson operators. The existing labor brought to the mid-winter Ex- relations in the industry figure excutive Board session of the prominently in this equation," AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ Gibson said. "It is not enough that any partment. one group of unions along with management has a stable rela­ tionship. Any irresponsible ac­ tions of a few can do irreparable harm to the whole industry." With reference to the shipper community, Gibson said that at least part of the reason why im­ porters and exporters prefer foreign-flag operators is trace­ able to labor unrest on the U.S. waterfront in the past. "It is quite evident," the De­ partment of Commerce oflficial said, "that the work stoppages which all too frequently tied up American ships in the 1960's still contribute to the diversion Andrew E. Gibson of cargoes to foreign lines. "A shipper who has once Although the Merchant Ma­ rine Act of 1970 provides fed­ had his cargo tied up in an eral assistance for a 300-ship idled ship, while the foreign replacement program over the flags are moving on schedule, next decade, Gibson declared, has a long memory. Unfortu­ the ultimate success of the pro­ nately, he doesn't stop to gram will depend on two other identify any single cause of the disruption but tends to retaliate areas of the economy; • The banking community, against the entire Americn-flag which will be asked to under­ fleet." Gibson said that the Nixon write much of the $4 billion in private investment to match the Administration's "ship-Ameri­ federal subsidies for new ship can" program can help promote additional cargo for U.S.-flag construction. • The shipper community— vessels. "But," he added, "it the exporters and importers must be obvious that such over­ who, Gibson said, "must provide tures to the shipping public the cargoes needed for profit­ cannot be completely effective able American-flag op)erations." if the newspaper headlines re­ Both groups, the Administra­ fute our claims that Americantion spokesman said, will de­ flag service is second to none." mand stability in labor-manage­ Gibson said that President ment relations before commiting Nixon's concern over past la­ themselves to full-out support bor-management unrest in the of the U.S. merchant fleet. maritime industry, and the threat that this unrest posed to the success of the merchant Labor Rejects marine program, was expressed in Nixon's maritime message to Nixon's Farm Congress in 1969. Worker Proposal At that time, Nixon said: "If the desired expansion of mer­ Washington, D.C. Organized labor has rejected chant shipping is to be achieved, the Nixon administration's pro­ the disruptive work stoppages posed collective bargaining of the past must not be re­ rights for farm workers in peated." 1971, because the workers Gibson said that, despite this would be stripped of the right concern, the Nixon Adminis­ to strike during harvest time. tration pressed vigorously for The administration labeled the bill which was signed into the farm worker proposal as a law last year, and followed it major goal this year, noting up this year with "the largest that agricultural workers would peacetime maritime budget in be given "organizational rights our history." similar to those long enjoyed The ultimate "success or by workers in other industries." failure of the new program," But the proposal would deny Gibson added, lies with mari­ the farm workers the right to time management and labor, strike when they have the most both of which must demon­ economic stren^h—during har­ strate "greater wisdom, under­ vests because of the perishabil­ standing and leadership" than ity of farm products. they haye in the past. Page 4 c Jii," Foreign Goods Cut Back on U.S. Jobs The Maritime Trades De­ partment issued a new report providing broad documentation of the devastating impact of for­ eign products on workers in U.S. industries. Of primary con~cem, the MTD Executive Board said, is the decimation of seafaring jobs resulting from foreign shipping competition. The result of" a year-long study by a special MTD com­ mittee, the report calls for adequate protection for Ameri­ can workers, especially in the maritime industries. Here is part of that report: Ships are the very essence of world trade. The millions of pairs of shoes, the yards of textiles, the huge quantities of toys, pottery, rubber products and electron­ ic equipment that are imported into the U.S. each year, largely arrive in the holds of ships. One might expect, then, that the U.S. shipping industry was thriving, carrying these goods from foreign ports to the U.S., and conversely, U.S. exports back to foreign ports. It doesn't work that way. U.S.-Flag Vessels Suffer Most of those foreign goods are brought into our country in foreign bottoms. American-flag vessels—even counting Federal government shipments—carry less than 5 percent of U.S. in­ ternational cargo annually. Foreign shipping competition is a tremendous threat to the U.S. merchant fleet. Page Groton, director of the Marine Di­ vision of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Buliders, pre­ dicts: "We are now dangerously ap­ proaching the point where the United States will be totally de­ pendent upon foreign-flag ves­ sels, operated by foreign crews and holding the upper hand on the carriage of our vital for­ eign commerce." Groton's concerns are also those of the 50,000 members of the Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders that are represented by the Union's Marine Depart­ ment—men who work in ship­ yards throughout the United States. The low national priorities that have been assigned to mari­ time matters in the last quarter of a century are very real to these men, who depend on a thriving maritime industry for their livelihood. American Technology The fact that the nation has fallen behind in maritime prowess, does not stem from a lack of shipbuilding ability. Groton has said; "American yards have pro­ duced the most advanced mer­ chant ships in operation on the high seas today. In terms of efficiency, safety, structural in­ tegrity and operational capabil­ ity, American-built ships are su­ perior to most and second to none. ". . . Attempts to portray the United States as a decadent, backward and inefficient ship­ building nation are refuted by the facts." There are widely varying views as to what is needed to restore the U.S. to the rank of a first-class maritime power, but the lack of governmental invol­ vement is generally agreed to be a vital factor. Government Neglects Fleet After World War II, the U.S.-flag fleet was grossly ne­ glected, while the fleets of other nations were—and still are— nurtured and encouraged by their respective govermnents. With financial and philosoph­ ical backing, these foreignflag vessels increasingly made inroads in the carriage of inter­ national trade cargoes. The Merchant Marine Act of 1970—^which won over­ whelming Congressional ap­ proval and has been signed into law by President Nixon—is the first positive step in a third of a century by the U.S. govern­ ment in assuming responsibility for its nation's merchant fleet. With provisions for the con­ struction of 300 ships by 1980 —assuming government sub­ sidies are available to make this a financial possibility—the Act will help replace obsolete ves­ sels. The legislation, in itself, is not sufficient to put the U.S. merchant fleet back in a posi­ tion of leadership, but it is a solid beginning. Facts Not Heartening "^The sad facts about the U.S. merchant marine today are these: • The fleet totals 864 ships, of which 610 are engaged in foreign commerce. • Three out of every four vessels are 20 years of age or older, and 20 years is consid­ ered to be the economic life­ span of a merchant vessel. • Some 395 of these ships were constructed during World War II, and will be phased out of operation by 1974. • Even with new ship con­ struction, there will be only 272 ships in the foreign trade by 1974. Problems Compounded Contrasts with the flag-fleets of other nations are sobering: While three out of four U.S. freighters are more than 20 years old, the reverse is true of foreign-flag ships—seventyfive percent of the foreign freighter fleet is less than 20 years old. The problem of competition from foreign-flag ships is com­ pounded by the actions of foreign shores. They have had ships built there, registered them under foreign-flags and manned their vessels with for­ eign crews. But, they maintain their "Americanism" by com­ peting for American cargo. Runaway Approach Rep. John H. Dent, (DPenn.), noted in July 1970, that such companies "have profited unconscionably" with this runaway approach. The origins of "runawayflag" ships coincide with the end of World War II, when the U.S. government wanted to dis­ pose quickly of the huge war­ time fleet. Businessmen were encouraged to buy these vessels at favorable prices and to reg­ ister them under foreign flags. There were tax breaks at both ends: The U.S. govern­ ment exempted the business­ men, and the foreign countries levied little or no tax on the vessels. Panama, Honduras and Li­ beria were—and have con­ tinued to be—^favorite spots for registering runaways, for their tax laws were especially favorable to the U.S. business­ men. It was quite ap^aling, then, to expand these runaway ship­ ping empires, what with lowcost, foreign building materials and dirt-cheap wages. The tax breaks were the frosting on the cake. r V Possible Breakthrough The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 provides a way for the elimination of runaway flags, without asking those business­ men to junk their entire finan­ cial investment—it puts a freeze on the number of ships held by an American businessman at the current level, and allows him 20 years to gradually divest himself of them. No obsolete ships may be replaced during the 20 years. The lure to the "runaway (Continued on Page 5) Strong Credit Law Needed Strong federal laws to lim­ it the scope of information on individuals that can be gathered and disseminated by credit bureaus has been urged by the Maritime Trades Department. The MTD Executive Board released a 101-page study charging that credit bureaus in the USA make up "a private intelligence net­ work" that threatens the pri­ vacy of virtually every indi­ vidual. The report is the second in a series of studies of pri­ vacy made under MTD aus­ pices by a committee headed by Edward J. Carlough, president of the Sheet Metal Workers. Seafarers Log ir 4' �Unfair Competition Hurting U.S. Industries (Continued from Page 4) . I.I 'V businessman" is that when he does return to the fold, he will have an equal opportunity with all other shipping companies to secure government subsidies that have in the past been off­ ered only to 14 favored ship­ ping lines. The Act will allow all elements of this industry to compete equally and receive impartial assistance from the government. Statistics Cited Rep. Robert Mollahan of West Virginia has pointed out that the multi-national corpor­ ations show their contempt for America's economic welfare by building and registering ships abroad under foreign flags. "This American-owned, for­ eign-registered and foreignmanned fleet is considerably larger than our American-built, American-o w n e d, Americanmanned fleet," he said. At the beginning of 1969, 436 ships were owned by for­ eign affiliates of U.S. corpora­ tions and were registered under foreign flags, totaling'^iS mil­ lion deadweight tons (DWT). In contrast, the privatelyowned American merchant fleet numbered 647 ships, but only 10.4 million DWT. The American Council of Shipbuilders has noted that every time a ship that would cost $20 million to build in an American yard is built abroad, American industry loses at least $60 million worth of business. In addition, American workers lose $9.7 million in wages, and the combination of federal, state and local taxes represents a loss of $14.4 million. Employment Suffers Nonetheless, at the end of 1968, American-owned corpor­ ations had 64 ships—8.3 mil­ lion DWT—under construction or on order in foreign ship­ yards. The loss of work is not con­ fined to the shipbuilders, but to the steel workers (some of whom are represented by the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Orna­ mental Iron Workers) machin­ ists and other. American labor segments whose products or ef­ forts are basic to the building of a vessel. Members of seafaring unions suffer also. They are replaced by the foreign crews, and thus find themselves with shrinking employment opportunities. many that make shirts and crews that are poorly trained, shoes—are folding under the poorly fed and paid pauper's the pressures of cheap goods wages. This unfair competition made by workers receiving has cost us jobs—and has cost coolie wages in foreign lands. the nation its fleet." "Those thousands of Ameri­ Committee Members cans who have either lost their The report was presented by jobs or had to work for poor wages (a management ploy committee co-chairman George when import competition be­ Baldanzi, president of the comes stiff) can't afford to buy United Textile Workers, and Charles Feinstein, president of American-made products." the International Leather The more direct loss of sea­ Goods, Plastics and Novelty faring jobs is something that Workers. seafarers have to live with for Hail Voices OfHiiion Other members of the com­ many years. "We ... are not Paul Hall, president of the strangers to the effects of cheap mittee include Peter BommaSIU and president of MTD, foreign competition," Hall says. rito, president. United Rubber feels strongly about the issue of "We have seen our merchant Workers; Mort Brandenburg, foreign competition. He looks marine fall from the finest in president. Distillery Workers; at the situation from an over­ the world to a fleet that is old, Milton Gordon, secretary-treas­ all viewpoint—^not just the crew small in tonnage and growing urer, International Union of spots lost on foreign-manned smaller in numbers. Dolls, Toys and Novelties; vessels.; Richard Livingston, secretary. Competition Unfair "Tens of thousands of United Brotherhood of Carpen­ Americans are losing their jobs "We have seen American ters; Lester H. Null, Sr., presi­ because of an unfair situation merchant business taken by na­ dent, Pottery and Allied Work­ involving foreign trade. Plants tions who run on the cheap— ers; and Reuben Roe, secretaryin many industries—^from those using vessels that are poorly treasurer, United Clement, Lime which produce window glass to constructed and handled by and Gypsum Workers. PHS Hospital Closings Decried in Resolution "Paradox for the Nation' The complete text of AFL-CIO President George Meany's letter on the closing of PHS Hospitals sent to Elliot Richardson, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, appears below. (Continued from Page 3) January 21, 1971 Honorable Elliot L. Richardson Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Room 5246, North Building _ 330 Independence Building, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 t' Dear Mr. Secretaiy: In the past several weeks, it has come increasingly to my attention that there is a strong effort underway by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to close the remaining eight Public Service Hospitals located in major cities throughout the United States. I am deeply concerned about this imminent administrative action and I feel that there are several compelling reasons why the Public Service Hospitals cannot be closed without caus­ ing great harm to the high level of medical care in the United States. The Public Health Service hospitals serve a wide range of beneficiary groups. Besides the merchant seamen of the United States (who are the hospitals' primary charges), the PHS hospitals also treat government and military personnel and their dependents. These groups all present special health care problems due to their high mobility and need for rapid medical services. These hospitals also provide a broad area of services to the citizens who live in the com­ munities around hospitals. Often the Public Health Service Hospitals provide the acute care and emergency facilities that overburdened private hospitals are unable to supply. The alternatives proposed as a "replacement" for the Public Health Service Hospital system simply would not provide the same assurance of medical care that the present PHS hospitals offer. The VA hospitals, as any veteran knows, are crowded and operating near capacity; the over-loaded conditions that prevail in private hospitals, where costs often run past $100 a day, are well documented. In view of this situation, it seems to be a paradox that the nation should be closing hospitals at a time that so many people have a need for greater health care than the medical system can provide. The AFL-CIO has made the health care needs of the nation our num­ ber one priority in the new Congress, and to allow the first health care action of the new year to be the closing of eight hospitals would be a severe blow to the hopes of millions of Americans for adequate and affordable medical care. President Nixon himself has stressed these health care needs and committed his Administration to providing better medical serv­ ice for all Americans. available in the United States. "To even consider closing any hospital at a time when so many persons have need for greater care than the U.S. health-delivery system is cur­ rently able to provide, would be a cruel hoax on the nation," the MTD said. "Further, it is scarcely in keeping with the lofty sentiments contained in the President's State of the Union Message concerning the need to 'improve the delivery of health services'." Resolution Adopted In an unanimously-adopted resolution, the Board declared that the alternatives proposed to the PHS hospitals—alterna­ tives called for the use of Vet­ erans Administration or com­ munity hospital facilities—"do not provide a viable method of insuring that the nation's sea­ men will continue to receive the priority care they need to main­ tain their shipboard jobs." The VA hospitals already are crowded, the resolution stated, and even if there were extra beds, "seamen would have the lowest priority in fill­ ing them." To suggest that the problem would be solved by contracting for medical care with private hospitals is "also the height of folly," the report declared, add­ ing that "the additional cost to the government of providing care to seamen in private hos­ pitals . . . would be a stagger­ ing burden on an already over­ loaded federal budget." Call for Funds Instead, the MTD resolved to call upon the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and the Congress to prevent any of the eight remaining PHS hospitals from being closed. The MTD also urged that $140 million be appropriated and spent to "return these vital American health resources to their fullest and most modem operation possible so that the numerous beneficiary groups and teaching programs depend­ ent on the hospitals can be adequately served." Four for Safety Thus, the proposed closing of these eight hospitals impinges on the humanitarian goals of this nation. I strongly urge that these hospitals be left open and that they continue to be allowed to provide their wide range of medical services to seamen and private citizens alike. The budget and operating costs of the Public Health Service hospitals vividly demonstrate that the Public Health Hospital system is one of the few health care bargains this nation possesses. I urge that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare reevaluate the hospital closing decision, so that these important institutions can remain in operation. Sincerely, I February 1971 George Meany President Four men who were constantly in the forefront in the three-year long struggle to secure passage of a federal job safety and occupational health law congratulate each other on their success. From the left. Jack Sheehan, legislative director of the Steelworkers; chief sponsors of the bill, Rep. Dominick Daniels (D-N.J.), Sen. Harrison Williams, Jr. (D-N.J.), and AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew Biemiller. 5 �Upgrading Courses Geared to Modern Needs Today's modem merchant of the Union are successful is marine demands increasing skills shown by the increasing num­ and professionalism from the bers of Seafarers who are en­ men who sail the more sophisti­ rolling in the wide variety of cated ships of the American- upgrading courses offered by the SIU, and it is further dem­ flag fleet. The SIU recognized long ago onstrated by the confidence of the need for a continuing edu­ SlU-contracted shipowners who cation program to provide the are investing millions in new tools to enable its Seafaring vessels to expand their fleets. The Union's upgrading pro­ members to move up the ladder gram offers a wide variety of to more responsible and higherpaying jobs in the maritime in­ courses, beginning with middlelevel ratings all the way up the dustry. Since the early 1950s when ladder to deck and engine li­ the first upgrading programs censes. The instmctors are the were pioneered by the SIU, finest in the maritime industry— more than 10,000 endorsements experienced Seafarers, trained and licences have been earned teachers, and men with a desire to pass their knowledge on to by members of the Union. the men with ambition to im­ Designed to Improve prove themselves. The upgrading programs are Opportunity, according to the designed to improve the skills old adage, knocks but once in of the Seafarer. Seafaring is a a lifetime. But, for the mem­ highly specialized and profes­ bers of the SIU it knocks many sional occupation, and requires times. Numbers Groviing Nearly 200 SIU members, from 19 to 60 years of age and over, from every possible back­ ground and educational level, have earned licenses as marine engineers or deck officers through the Union's upgrading programs. Hundreds more have achieved endorsements as elec­ trician, reefer engineer, deck engineer, junior engineer, ma­ chinist, boiler maker and pmnpman. continuing education to meet the challenge of the more mod­ em ships that are coming off the ways. Success Proven The SIU, which led the suc­ cessful fight for enactment of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970—a far-reaching program calling for constraction of 300 new freightships and tankers, has geared its upgrading pro­ grams to insure that the new ships will be manned by the best trained, most competent and qualified seamen, anywhere in the world. That the upgrading programs Modem Fadlities Used Every effort has been made to design the upgrading pro­ grams to meet the needs of the members and to help them ad­ vance to more responsible jobs aboard ship. Modem class­ rooms equipped with the best textbooks and mechanical teach­ ing aids, together with highlyqualified instructors who give individualized attention to each of upgraders, have made the SIU's upgrading program the most successful in the industry. The SIU's upgrading pro­ grams are meeting the needs of not only the members, but the maritime industry and the na­ tion as well, by insuring that the Seafarers who man the American-flag fleet will continue to be the best-trained seamen on the high seas. For the Record Following is a breakdown of the 10,229 endorsements and licenses which have been awarded to Seafarers through the various upgrading programs of the SIU: Lifeboat Able Bodied Seaman Fireman Oiler Watertender Electrician Reefer Engineer Pumpman Deck Engineer (Engine) Junior Engineer Machinist (Engine) Boiler Maker Tankerman (Engine) Third Assistant Engineer Second Assistant Engineer Third Mate Second Mate Page 6 n 4,197 1,458 1,099 1,114 ...1,119 274 126 157 93 120 8 2 2 272 125 40 23 ' >li V Classroom instruction, as well as practical on-the-job training, is an integral part of all upgrading pro­ grams. To date, over 10,000 Seafarers have received endorsements and licenses through the various pro­ grams. Rep. Keith Warns of USSR Threat To US. Coastal Fishing Industry Washington, D.C. The "desperate condition" of the U.S. fishery resources brought about by the pillaging of foreign fishing fleets off the shores of the Atlantic states is one of the most critical issues that the nation feces in this decade, according to Rep. Hastings Keith (R-Mass.). Addressing a recent luncheon meeting of the 7.5 million-mem­ ber Maritime Trades Depart­ ment of the AFL-CIO, Keith told the assembled labor, busiand government officials that the Soviet Union is chief among the offenders, and is calculatingly using our fisheries to "advance their goals in achieving world domination." Cites 10-year-Drop The Congressman noted that 10 years ago, U.S. fishermen accounted for 70 percent of the domestic supply of fish. Today these same fishermen are re­ sponsible for only one-third. In that same decade, the per­ centage of fish caught over the New England Continental Shelf by New England fishermen dwindled from 93 percent to 35 percent. "The Russians were simul­ taneously landing more fish from this fishery than all other nations combing," he said. And, other nations are out there trying to get their share, —^just 14 miles from the city of New Bedford, Mass., trawl­ ers from 15 nations can be sited, Kqith said. Used as Propaganda The crowd of Russian trawl­ ers reaches as many as "115 in one fleet" accompanied by modern factory ships where the fish are cleaned, processed, froz­ en and stored until a refriger­ ated transport ship comes along to take the shipment to Russia. Rep. Hastings Keith Besides depleting the ready supply of U.S. fish for food, Keith noted, the Russians are "unloading thousands of tons of their catch in other countries —they are using it to win favor with the peoples of Latin America and Asia." "The fisheries that lie off our shores have become tools in the hands of the Soviets," he said. The Russians have not re­ sponded to efforts at negotiating in such areas as space explora­ tion, the anti-ballistic missile system and the Middle East, Keith admitted, but suggested that the spirit of negotiations might be first achieved in the fishery business. Proposes Agreement The Congressman proposed a multi-lateral agreement be made with the Soviets and oth­ er foreign powers relative to limiting the size of the catch, the type of fish caught and the means used to harvest the fish. It would be a comprehensive plan for conservation in the North Atlantic. An international agency for fishery conservation with strong and forceful powers could be formed, under the United Na­ tions, for enforcement of the agreement, Keith suggested. Keith proposed that the idea be put forward for discussion at the Law of the Sea Confer­ ence to be held under UN auspices in 1973. If there is reticence for the mult i-lateral agreement ap­ proach, Keith urged that a 200mile conservation zone be uni­ laterally imposed by the U.S. around its coastline. "Once such a zone is im­ posed, no foreign fishermen would be allowed to fish in the area, which is roughly equi­ valent to the limit of our con­ tinental shelf off New England. "Only after fair and equitable quotas are agreed to would the fishermen of a particular nation be allowed to re-enter the con­ servation zone," he said. Disclaims Ownerships Theory He denied that there would be any "legal or moral" com­ parison between this idea and the Equadorian claim to "own­ ership" of 200-miles of coastal waters around their country. "They are simply flexing their nationalistic muscles ... na­ tionalism plays no part under my proposal. We continue to recognize that our territorial waters extend only three miles and our fishery zone 12. The motive of the proposed conser­ vation zone is to preserve a vital resource for our children and for generations to come throughout the world," Keith said. The sequence of negotiations first . . . then, if they do not produce an equitable solu-, tion . . . declaring a 200-mile conservation zone, Keith said, "is not our first choice but it is our last resort." Seafarers Log �Seafarer Lost Attempting Rescue of Finnish Sailors Bi' ^ Seafarer John Arthur, 57, was lost at sea as his ship made a valiant attempt to rescue survivors of the Finnish tanker Ragny, which broke up in a storm 600 miles east of Cape May, N.J. Brother Arthur a member of the crew of the Platte (Ogden Marine) was lost Dec. 27 off a rescue boat just a few yards from the striken tanker, whose crew members clung to a small part of the ship remaining afloat. The small boat from the Platte capsized in high waves. The men of the rescue party were plunged into the icy water and all but Brother Arthur were plucked from the seas. A search failed to locate him. The Platte, a few days out of Philadelphia, was sailing for Holland when the S.O.S. sound­ ed at 1:15 p.m. Platte Nearest The U.S. Coast Guard said the Platte was the closest vessel to the stricken ship and it im­ mediately steamed to the found­ ering tanker. The Coast Guard also dis­ patched the cutter Escanaba and a number of rescue planes. The Platte arrived first in winds gusting to 25 mph and 10 foot seas. The stern of the Ragny was riding well in the water at the time. Unsuccessful Search The rescue boat drew close to the Ragny several times be- fore capsizing. After the rescue boat was washed over the Platte and the Escanaba search­ ed the area for Brother Arthur. The Escanaba discontinued the search because worsening weather threatened the pre­ carious perch of the Finnish seamen. The Escanaba sent three rescue boats to the tanker crew and they returned with 31 Finnish seamen. The Platte and the Escanaba then steamed to­ ward the Bahamas. Brother Arthur, who sailed in the deck department, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1968. Philadelphia Port Agent John Fay said he was "an able and well-skilled sailor who was a first rate example of this country's professional sailors." i' •-! I It was in a lifeboat like this that Seafarer John Arthur (inset) was riding when it capsized and Arthur drowned. Arthur and other crew members from tlie Platte were attempting to rescue the surviving Fin­ nish sailors aboard the tanker Ragny, which had broken in two in heavy seas in the Atlantic. A Story Filled With Tragedy, Heroism and Gratitude The events surrounding the sinking of the Finnish tanker Ragny and the rescue attempts by the commercial ship Platte and the Coast Guard cutter Escanaba were filled with tragedy, heroism and gratitude. While some 600 miles off the coast of Cape May, NJ. in the Atlantic the Ragny broke in two in heavy seas. Six crew members of the tanker were reported as missing and presumed drowned. Only through the heroic efforts of the sailors aboard the Platte and the Escanaba were the other Finnish sailors saved. However, this yeoman feat also was tinged with tragedy. SIU member John Arthur, manning one of the lifeboats from the Platte, was lost at sea when the small craft capsized in the turbulent waters. AU others in the boat were plucked from February 1971 the waters by accompanying rescue boats. The Platte was the first to arrive at the scene on the afternoon of Dec. 27. The stem section of the Ragny was riding well out of the water, but the heavy seas hampered rescue attempts. The rescue efforts lasted through the night (photo, upper left). By daybreak the Ragny was slowly sinking to her final resting place at the bottom of the ocean (photo, upper right). The 31 rescued Finnish sailors were taken by tbe Coast Guard to Bermuda where they bid thanks to the skipper of the Escanaba, CDR Alban Laundry (photo, lower left) and saluted with a vrave of gratitude and appreciation as the Coast Guard cutter put back out to sea (photo, lower right). Page 7 �Chicago Health Clinic Provides Care ^ .4 •••f^-<r •^^.- Chicago, 111. rrt here's a mellow blend of the old and the new at the X Seafarers' clinic here. The ultra-contemporary facilities that were opened in September 1967 are in sharp contrast to the very oldfashioned types of problems that are handled by the medical staff. In spite of the fact that both Great Lakes seamen and salt water types use the Chicago clinic for their annual health check-ups—and any problems that may develop between the physicals—the ailments uncovered by the physicians are not as exotic as the places the Seafarers have visited. You'd expect an occasional case of malaria, or per­ haps an infected bite from an unpronounceable insect that lives only in Asia — but hypertension is the most common ailment that the physical exams uncover. Some 700 union members and their wives and children visit the clinic each month—a total of 22,000 patients since the doors were opened more than three years ago. Members of the Seafarers International Union and the Democratic Union Organizing Committee (DUOC) Local 777—comprised of taxi drivers from the Chicago area who are affiliated with the SIU of North America— are the basis of the clinic patient load. Two full-time physicians, a full-time dentist, lab tech­ nicians, a parttime gynecologist-obstetrician, and about a dozen specialist-consultants are at the disposal of any Seafarer, DUOC member or their families. Before 1967, a Seafarer had to go to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, or to an SIU clinic in some other area—such as Mobile, Baltimore or Houston—^for treat­ ment, and to secure his health card. The staff, headed by Dr. David Tschetter, medical director, carefully checks each Seafarer so that he is as healthy as possible when he sails. A typical examination would include an electrocardiagram, chest X-rays, labora­ tory analysis of blood and urine, and a dental check-up. All the v/ork is diagnostic and if any treatment is needed the Seafarer is eligible for treatment at the USPHS hospital; members of DUOC are not. From 9-5, Monday through Friday, the receptionist greets a full schedule of patients, everyone from a little boy who wrenched his knee when he jumped from a tree, to a young wife who has just been feeling "run down" in general, to a cab driver who thinks he has an ulcer. In the three years of its existence, the Chicago clinic has only failed to issue a health card to one seaman. And, not one new SIU applicant, who must pass a very rigid physical, has ever failed. The standards at the clinic are very high. But the theory behind the SIU program is that if health care is readily available, there will be ample opportunity to pre­ vent more illnesses before they occur. 'm Page 8 Seafarers Log �§' H 1/ " February 1971 Page 9 �Seafarers Reject Suggested Closing Of PHS Hospitals Jit:-|| Toward a Better Life Seafarers have built their SIU to bring the better life to members and their famililes on and off the job. On the job, this has resulted in SIU members having the best in wages, hours and working conditions. Off the job, the SIU has designed a structure to help members and their families through an extensive program of health, welfare and pension benefits. In addition, the SIU has built a solid net­ work of programs to give members and their families the education needed to take advantage of new opportunities, new challenges—tomor­ row's world. » The SIU Scholarship Program is a keystone in the union's work, toward the better life avail­ able to members and their children. This year, as in the past, five Seafarers or their dependents will receive four-year college grants in May, amounting to $6,000 each over the four years they are in school. Through these scholarships. Seafarers and their children have become doctors, lawyers, engineers—they have used the opportunity pro­ vided by their union to reach the top. Those who receive scholarships this year, as in the past, will choose their own courses of study, will pick their own college or university. The five scholarship winners this May will join the 26 Seafarers and 62 dependents who have higher education made available to them through the SIU since the program began in 1954. The college scholarships are on the high end of the SIU system which recently succeeded in making it possible for young men at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamenship to receive their high school equivalency certificates. Seafarers and their dependents now have the opportunity to make the climb toward an un­ limited future through education—^from high school certificate through college degree. And this is just the beginning. Each day the SIU program of opportunity through education is growing, and soon all Seafarers wiU have an extensive correspondence course available to them ashore or at sea. A union exists to help its members use to the fullest all of their talents, all of their energies, to bring to themselves and their families the re­ wards that come with doing the best. The SIU Scholarship Program is designed to provide the chance to fulfill that challenge. Seafarers and the MID The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department provides a perfect example of trade unionism at work. The MTD took action this month on several fronts that have a particular bearing on the problems of seafarers. Foreign trade. The state of the maritime in­ dustry. Protection of the USPFIS Hospitals. These are but a sampling of the subjects that the MTD addressed itelf to. The MiD mobilizes the strength of 42 na­ tional and international unions with 7.5 million members in support of workers in the maritime industry and the industries that support it. The MTD puts it on the line for Seafarers, particularly on the legislative front, in the same way that Seafarers rally in support of other trade unionists when they need a helping hand in a beef. The trade union movement was formed in this spirit. It exists today and will exist tomorrow because of its dedication to the principle that an injury to one is the concern to all. This is the kind of unity that pays off. This is the kind of unity that counts. To the Editor It certainly is a sad state of affairs that the government econ­ omy drive is aimed at closing hospitals. Our merchant marine is in a deplorable condition. Now they want to close the Marine Hospitals in a false eccmomy drive. I have been going to sea for over 25 years and have always appreciate the treatment re­ ceived at the USPHS hospitals and clinics. Your article in the January LOG shows that our Union is taking all the necessary steps to fight the closing of these hos­ pitals. Friends of mine who are vet­ erans are having a rough time getting into the VA hospitals be­ cause there is a shortage of beds. Let us do what we can to see that this doesn't happen to the merchant seamen. Clarence Garrabrout To the Editor: Myself and many other SIU seamen and members of the NMU and other unions wish to thank the LOG for the fine ar­ ticle you have in the January is­ sue about the Marine Hospitals. These hospitals have done a great job for all the years they have been in existence. I person­ ally feel proud that my Union, the SIU, has been a leader in the fight to keep these hospitals open. Ben Shaw To the Editor I want to thank the LOG for the very informative article in the January issue about the Ma­ rine Hospitals. In the many years I have gone to sea, whenever I needed any proper medical treatment I al­ ways received it at our Marine Hospitals. I'm glad that our Union has been out front in this fight to keep these hospitals open. I cer­ tainly hope the people in Wash­ ington will see the great need for these hospitals and keep them open. Josefrti Shefoleskl Pafienf's Wife Joins PHS Profesf To the Editor: For many years, I have been an outpatient at the USPHS hos­ pital in San Francisco. My hus­ band is on pension and is hos­ pitalized right now. We strongly protest the clos­ ing of this fine hospital in San Francisco—and urge the LOG to do all it can to stop this non­ sense. Washington has a lot of money to spend on foreign countries, but decides to attempt to economize here. They should cut foreign spending, rather than closing down hospitals. I'll join a protest march against these closings if necessary—even with my cane. Mrs. J. Thompson San Francisco, CaUf. Pension Plan Buoys Holidays To the EditOT: I would like to express my ap­ preciation to the SIU for the services I have received. I have been a member of the SIU for 27 years. Thanks to our generous pen­ sion and benefits plan, my family and I were able to have a decent Christmas. If it had not been for the SIU, I don't know what would have happened to myself and my family. Gnlilmno De Jesns Dacndo, P.R. Thanks Extended To SIU Official To the Editmr: I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Robert O'Keefe, Mr. Price Spivey, and all of the officials of the Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plans for their prompt action in forwarding the Seafarers Welfare Fund benefit check for my brother Earl Gonyea. We also deeply appreciate the kind expression of sympathy ex­ pressed in the accompanying let­ ter. Mre. Dorothy Haemer Clinton, Mass. Praises Prompt Action on Benefits To flie Editw: My wife was recently a pa­ tient at Mercy Hospital for nine days. Due to errors on the part of the hospital accounting de­ partment I understand that the SIU Welfare Plan was obliged to communicate with the hospital several times requesting clarifica­ tion. Sinc4 my wife was discharged I have received two checks and a final payment was mailed to me on Dec. 31. My purpose in writing this is to express my great appreciation for the prompt­ ness witb which the Welfare Plan has acted in refunding me these monies. The Welfare Plan is of in­ estimable value to all of us and is one of the many benefits which serve to further strengthen my loyalty to our union. I would also like to thank Mrs. Le Blanc for her courtesy and for the help and advice she has given me. Geoiige W. Dimcan Chalmette, La. •• SBAgAHEBSjfc<.00 Feb. 1971 Vol. XXXm, No. 2 Offlcial Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paui Hall. President Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Exee. Vice-Prea. Vice-President A1 Kerr Lindsey Williams Beo.-Treaa. Vice-President A1 Tanner Robert Matthews Vice-President Vice-President Published monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E.. Washington, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFLCIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington, D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 676 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Seafarers llog Page 10 • <S'- �Organized Labor Outlines Legislative Goals for 1971 I 11 I?- Washington, D.C. The 92nd Congress faces some stern tests in this session. The expected inter-party battles may well set the stage for the 1972 presidential elections. From the labor vantage point, here are some of the big battles that are expected in the 92nd Congress: ^ Health. This is the first year that National Health Insurance will be seriously pushed as a top priority issue. Organized labor is support­ ing a bill which will probably be introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. Martha Grifiiths (D-Mich.). The public outcry for action to alleviate the health care de­ livery problem will be too much for the Administration to ignore. It will oiler legislation to help the indigent and subsi­ dize the carriers but with no fundamental attack on the fail­ ing delivery system. Another health issue will be drug abuse legislation. ^ Jobs. With unemploy­ ment at six percent as the new year starts there will be heavy pressure in Congress for job-producing legislation. Leading the list will be a man­ power training and public serv­ ice jobs bill for the hard-core unemployed. Directly related to jobs, too, is the trade bill which would set quotas on low-wage imports in textiles, apparel and shoes. Oth­ er workers are concerned about the inroads made into jobs through low-wage products affecting their industries. ^ Social Welfare. One of the major uncompleted measures in the 91st Congress was Social Security. The House passed a bill calling for a five percent increase in benefits and automatic rises along with in­ creases in living costs. The Senate wanted to increase bene­ fits by 10 percent with mini­ mum benefits upped from $64 to $100. Organized labor believes that both proposals are too small to be realistic, calling for a 15 percent rise. However, in the 92nd Congress labor and liberal groups will be seeking as much of an increase as they can muster. ^ Family Welfare Assist­ ance. Bills passed by the House and the Senate Finance Committees died in the 91st Congress. The House bill guar­ anteed a floor of $1,600 to families of four with no income and reduced benefits for the working poor. The Senate Fi­ nance Committee rejected this calling for only a limited test program. Organized labor seeks a guaranteed floor, too, but says the $1,600 is not fair and is not realistic. It also objects to forcing workers into $1.30 an hour jobs even though they are trained for much more. ^ Labor Laws. The Ad­ ministration has an­ nounced that it-will revive its own plan for settlement of dis­ February 1971 putes in the transportation in­ dustry which denies workers the right to strike. It would give the President three alternatives in a dispute including imposing the "last of­ fer" of one side or the other. This is certain to be unalterably opposed by organized labor. If hearings are held on this Administration bill there is the possibility that the whole arena of labor law might be opened up. Some could involve bar­ gaining in the construction in­ dustry where the Administra­ tion is known to favor regional bargaining, limits on DavisBacon prevailing wages and other moves to hold down wages in the industry. Another area of labor law will be organized labor's efforts to amend the Fair Labor Stand­ ards Act to raise the minimum wage from $1.60 an hour to $2.00. Labor also wants to ex­ tend the act to uncovered work­ ers, particularly farm workers. Efforts will be made, too, to extend the National Labor Re­ lations Act to farm workers. Labor will be concerned with other bills in the 92nd Congress. Among them are pension legis­ lation, education, housing, mass urban transportation, situs pick­ eting, tax justice and pollution. National Righf-to-Work Group Swipes at Labor Washington, D.C. The 16-year fight of the Na­ tional Right-to-Work Commit­ tee has been punctuated regu­ larly with swipes at the trade union movement. Fred L. Hartley, Jr.—co­ author of the Taft-Hartley Act and founder of the committee— along with Committee Vice President Reed Larson, have focused their efforts toward securing right-to-work laws in the 50 states. Little Accomplished From the standpoint of re­ sults on the state level the Right-to-Work group had little to crow about. Most of the 19 state open shop laws were passed before the Cbmmittee even came into existence. In 1958, the Committee spent vast sums of money to get the open shop laws passed in six states. When the dust had settled they were successful in only one, Kansas. And even this was lost when Governor George Docking vetoed en­ forcement legislation. A law was passed in Wy­ oming in 1963 but in 1965 In­ diana repealed its open shop measure. Since then two major drives for such a law in Okla­ homa have floundered. The National Right-to-Work Committee was in a bad way. Money from anti-labor busi­ ness groups just wasn't com­ ing in. Then the Commit­ tee got a break; just when it looked like the 90th Congress would repeal Section 14(b) of Taft-Hartley—^which makes compulsory state open shop laws possible—the late Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen filibustered and pre­ vented a vote. Carried No Weight It is doubtful that the Rightto-Work group carried any weight in the filibuster fight but it did ride piggyback on the issue, picking up press recogni­ tion that it just could not com­ mand in the past. The Committee's fortunes began to change. More money was forthcoming and for all practical purposes the open shop group was moving on the Federal rather than the state scene. _ Sitting in his offices in down­ town Washington, Reed Lar­ son acknowledged that Wash­ ington, "is where the action is." Larson candidly revealed the area in which his compulsory open shop group would operate on the Federal level: • Political Campaign Con­ tributions—Larson said that the Right-to-Work group would concentrate on this issue since it obviously would be a major issue in the 92nd Congress. He complained that "com­ pulsory union dues" were be­ ing used to support candidates for Federal offices. He ignored the fact that this is already prohibited by Federal law and that union "dues" money was used only on general registra­ tion and get-out-the-vote drives. All other monies in campaigns were from voluntary contribu­ tions. The Right-to-Work Commit­ tee has come up with a figure of $60 million contributed by labor in the 1968 campaign. The best estimate of even the most impartial observers is that labor contributions were about 10 percent of this. • Public Employees—^The open shop group will fight on both the national and local level to block union shop contracts among public employees. The group takes credit for weakening the union security provisions in the postal agree­ ment and wants to press such provisions at both the Federal and state level. Currently the Right-to-Work group is taking legal action against the union shop case in­ volving Detroit teachers and in agency shop pacts among city employees. • Farm Workers—^A third area of concentration will be among farm workers. The open shoppers are fight­ ing against union security for farm workers and, specifically, against extending coverage of the National Labor Relations Act to them. Unfair to Labor Do Not Buy • \•P -3 AM ) (\ BARBER EQUIPMENT— Wahl Clipper Corp., pro­ ducers of home barber sets. (Int'l. Assoc. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) LIQUORS—Stitzel-WeUer Dis­ tilleries products—Old Rtzgerald. Cabin Still, Old Elk, W. L. Weller. (DistiUery Workers) CIGARETTES—R. J. Reyn­ olds Tobacco Co.—Camels, Winston, Salem, Tempo, Brandon, Doral, and Cava­ lier. (Tobacco Workers Un­ ion) MEAT PRODUCTS—Poultry Packers, Inc. (Blue Star label products). (Amalga­ mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen) CLOTHING—Reidbord Bros., Co., Siegal (H. 1. S. brand) suits and sports jackets, Kaynee boyswear, Richmond Brothers men's clothing, Sewell suits. Wing shirts, Met­ ro Pants Co., and Diplomat Pajamas by Fortex Mfg. Co. (Amalgamated Clothing Judy Bond Blouses—(Inter­ national Ladies Garment Workers Union) CASKETS—Capitol City Cas­ ket Company—(United Fur­ niture Workers) FLOURMILL PRODUCTS— Pioneer Products, San An­ tonio, Texas (United Brew­ ery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Work­ ers) FURNITURE—^James Sterling Corp., White Furniture Co., Brown Furniture Co., (Unit­ ed Furniture Workers) Economy Fumitxire—^B i 11Rite, Western Provinicial and Smithtown Maple. (Up­ holsterers) PRINTING—^Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft". (Printing Pressmen, Typog­ raphers, Bookbinders, Ma­ chinists, Stereotypers, and Electrotypers) NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. (10 unions involved covering 2,000 workers) Britannica Junior Encyclo­ pedia (Int'l. Allied Printing Trades Assn.) RANGES—Magic Chef, Pan Pacific Division. (Stove, Fur­ nace and AUied Appliance Workers) SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co—^work shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest and Statler; men's shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth (Boot and Shoe Work­ ers) SPECIA^-AU West Virginia camping and vacation spots, (Laborers) TOYS—^Fisher-Price toys (Doll & Toy Workers Union) Seafarers Donate Generously To Library Fund Campaign New York City The SS De Soto of the Wa­ terman Steamship Corp., an SlU-contracted company, has responded to the American Merchant Marine Library As­ sociation's plea for funds by donating $1,131—^the largest individual ship contribution. It is the second time the men on board the De Soto have sur­ passed the $1,000 mark in their fund raising for the AMMLA. Response Appreciated This generous response comes at a time when steam­ ship industry retrenchment has resulted in a serious • reduction in AMMLA income. "It is therefore most welcome," said Mrs. George Roosevelt, chair­ man of the board of trustees. The AMMLA, a non-profit organization was chartered by the New York State Board of Regents on May 27, 1921. It is an outgrowth of a World War I service extended by the Amerithe U.S. Shipping Board to the U.S. Merchant Marine. A Friend of Seafarers Since that time, the AMMLA has distributed more than 16million books and many more magazines to merchant marine vessels and the U.S. Coast Guard. URW Names Strauber to Education Post Akron, Ohio Robert M. Strauber has been appointed Education Director of the Rubber Workers by URW President Peter Bommarito. Strauber, a former staff member of the American Fed­ eration of Teachers, succeeds Thomas Dotson. Page 11 �i Far East Ports Bustling S eafarers who make the Far East run are familiar with its numerous ports. Among the most famous are Naha, Okinawa, Yokohama and Yokosuka, Japan. In these bustling ports ships are daily docking and departing for places around the world. Preva­ lent among these ships are the SIUcontracted vessels. Each year thou­ sands of Seafarers make trips to the far eastern ports. While in port activi­ ties are many and varied. Many Sea­ farers return with a new appreciation of the Oriental culture which differs so much from that of the Western world. There are sights to be seen— both historical and scenic. And, as always, there is plenty of work to be done. Loaded with Sea Land's containers, the San Francisco lays in for repairs at the Yokosuka Navy Base in Japan. Able seaman Jackie McDaniels (left) receives long-awaited and well-earned full A-book from Yokohama SIU Agent Frank Boyne in the union's office in Japan. Seafarer Mc­ Daniels is presently on the Transglobe which is shuttling from Naha, Okinawa to Vietnam. This ship's rudder was flown from the U.S. to Yokosuka for the San Francisco. The vessel was towed into Yokosuka when she lost her rudder at sea. .V • ( in the Port of Naha, Seafarer Ernie Pierce, deck maintenance, shows young Tyrone Matthews how to make a pilot (Jacob's) ladder aboard the Transglobe. Seafarer Matthews is a recent graduate of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship in Piney Point, Md. Page 12 Seafarers Log • '\ • -A' I A - t �Stopping to talk for awhile in the Port of Naha are G.I. driver John George and, from left: Bill (Flat-top) Koflowitch (partially hidden behind mirror), able seaman; Jackie McDaniels, able seaman, and, in back. Bill Roach, able seaman. In the Yokosuka Navy Yard in Japan, new parts for the ship's rudder aboard the San Francisco are looked over by, from left: Harry J. Celkos, able seaman; Frank Drozak, an SIU vice presidenl who was on a visit to the orient, and Mal­ colm Wood, boatswain. • I 'I k VI !.< li Keiko Nakategawa, secretary at the SIU hall in Yokohama, helps Seafarer Hank Murranka register. Some crewmembers of the Transglobe "take a breather" as the ship pulls into the Port of Naha. From left are: Herb Greene, ordinary si»man; Bill Roach, able seaman; Arne E. Larsen, boatswain, and Bill Koflowitch, able seaman. , February 1971 Page 13 �Nine SlU Members Receive Assistant Engineers Licenses Nine more Seafarers have a family of Seafarers. His graduated from the School of father is a former member of Marine Engineering bringing the SIU who now sails as a the number of graduates to 400 chief engineer. His uncle, Wil­ bur Dickey, is a former presi­ since the school's inception. dent of MEBA, District 2. The nine men earned their A native of New York City, temporary third assistant engi­ neer's licenses after completing he now resides in Staten Is­ the comprehensive study course land, N.Y. at the Brooklyn, N.Y. school. Rodney Doiron received his The school is sponsored engineer's license in December. jointly by the Seafarers Inter­ Brother Doiron national Union and MEBA, joined the SIU District 2. in the Port of Houston in Eugene Smith, 43, joined the 1967. He sailed union in the Port of Baltimore in the engine de­ in 1946. He also partment before received his en­ entering the gineer's license school. in December. A native of Port Arthur, A native of Tex., he now makes his home Lafayette, Ga., in Houston. Brother Smith Doiron is a U.S. Air Force entered the veteran. school with the Patrick Golden, 22, was endorsements of deck engineer, presented his engineer's license junior engineer, fireman-oiler in December and electrician. after successfully Smith now makes his home completing the in Rheingold, Ga. course of study. James Dickey, 23, received Seafarer Gold­ his engineer's license in Janu­ en, joined . the ary. union in the He joined the Port of New union in the York in 1967. Port of New He is a graduate of the Harry York in 1967 Lundeberg School of Seaman­ and graduated ship, Piney Point, Md. that same year Golden also attended the from the Harry Modem School of Welding. Lundeberg A native of Teaneck, N.J., School of Seamanship. he now resides in East Beme, Brother Dickey comes from N.Y. Marine Engineer Grads Number 400 Seafarers The 400th SIU member to receive his license after attend­ ing the School of Marine Engi­ neering turned 20 years of age only eight days before being awarded his license. He was John Tilli, a Phila­ delphia native who is very en- John TUU ... the 400th thusiastic about his education. The Engineering School was "very good," he proclaimed. He suggested that "young Sea­ farers should grab the educa­ tion, take advantage of it." Tilli, himself, intends "to continue with my education." "Education can open a lot of doors," according to Tilli. "The P|jge 14. Union has a number of pro­ grams that allow the members to better themselves in thenparticular rating and also in general areas of knowledge. I intend to take advantage of as many as I can." Though bom in the port city of Philadelphia, Brother Tilli was raised in a suburb of the city and "never saw a ship." He became interested in the sea through conversations with his friends. Also, there was a Seafarer in the nearby town of Yeadon who was a tugboat captain with the SlU-afiiliated Inland Boat­ men's Union. It was through him that Tilli heard about the union. In fact, the SIU "was the only union I had ever heard about," Tilli said. He graduated from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship in 1967 and sailed to "all the places" he could. His travels took him to many ports in Europe and the Far East but the opportunity to go to the one place he would really like to see has not yet come his way—^Australia. When he entered the Engi­ neering School, Brother Tilli held the rating of fireman-oiler. He received his license Jan. 13, 1971. W- 0- Antonio Jose Ramos, 43, re­ ceived his engineer's license in December. A native of Brazil, he joined the SIU in the Port of Houston in 1964. Ramos graduated that same year from the Andrew Fumseth Training School in Houston. When he entered the school Ramos held the rating of fire­ man-oiler, r e a f e r engineer, piunpman and electrician. Richard Heckman, 28, re­ ceived his engineer's license on Dec. 31, 1970. He joined the union in the port of New York in 1959. Heckman also is a graduate of Andrew F u r useth Training School. A native of New York, Brother Heckman now makes his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard for four years. Patrick Rogers, Jr., 22, re­ ceived his engineer's license inJanuary. He joined the SIU in 1967, some 20 years after his father had become a mem­ ber. Young Rogers joined in the Port of New York and sailed in the engine department be­ fore entering the school. He is also a graduate of the Harry Limdeberg School of Seaman­ ship at Piney Point. A native of Brooklyn, he now resides in Manasquan, N.J. Whoh Any Seafoer who sails In the engine dqmrtment and me^ the required specifications is ^gBUe to ^ply for the fonr month training course ofiared ^ tibtt School of Ma­ rine Eng^eering in BrookN.Y. • Enrolment is limited to men per dass. Eadh accepted candidate wHl receive $56 per week whfie attending dasses. Those accepted also will be reimbursed for hansportation up to the amount of $125. Fur the r bifopnation about requirements as wdl as apiriicatimis and fmrns may be obtained firom the Port Agent at any SIU hdl, or by writing direc­ tly to the SIU Headquar^ lers, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. A m Perseverance Pays Off Seafarer Frank Travis was unique among the nine most recent gradu­ ates of the School of Marine Engineering. For Brother Travis, who received his temporary third assistant engineer's license Dec. 23, 1970, it was his second time around. He had attended the school in 1969, but failed his examination. Not to be deterred by the one setback, Travis returned in 1970 and through "hard work and dedication" earned his license. Travis is congratulated by SIU New York Port Agent Joe-DiGiorgio (left). Nixon's Corporate Tax Cut Assailed by Labor Washington, D.C. President Nixon's recently proposed across-the-board re­ duction of corporate taxes has drawn severe criticism from or­ ganized labor. The AFL-CIO has called this action com­ pletely unjustified and has ac­ cused the President of "help­ ing those who need it the least" at a time of recession and six percent unemployment. CaUed a 'Windfafi' "The AFL-CIO is deeply disturbed by President Nixon's further commitment to the 'trickle down' theory of eco­ nomics," said AFL-CIO Sec­ retary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. In this time of recession, inflation and six percent imemployment, it is incredible that the President can find no better action than to extend a tax windfall of several billion dollars to the Nation's corpora­ tions. Gimmicks Unnecessary "The President is helping those who need it the least at the expense of those who need it the most. It is not the na­ tion's wealthy corporations who need help; it is the work­ ers, who are struggling to keep their heads above water and to pay the property taxes and the school taxes that already bur­ den them disproportionately. President Nixon's bonanza to business undoes much of the progress toward tax justice made by Congress in the Tax Reform Act of 1969. "What America needs now is strong government action to create jobs, curb inflation and lift our sagging economy—^not gimmicks to reduce the taxes of corporate business." Labor's bitter reaction to the President's adoption of the long discredited "trickle down" theory whereby corporations get the tax breaks at the top and workers get the cruml^ that "trickle" down, came as no surprise. Only a few weeks ago, the President gave the back of his hand to labor calls for helping to solve the unem­ ployment crisis through the creation of public service jobs. Severe Blow Nixon at that time vetoed a bill that would have made available federal funds to cities and states to put the unem­ ployed on urgently needed work in fighting pollution, cleaning up ghettos and giving the public greater services. It was a veto that in itself was a blow to the hopes of organized labor and liberals that the unemployment prob­ lem could be resolved and needed public services provided at the same time. However, the obvious one­ sided tax break for business is certain to be fought strongly in Congress by liberals as a classic example of tax favoritism. Tax Equity? New York City The imbalance of the na­ tion's tax laws allows Bob Hope to deduct the cost of his tuxedo but the electri­ cian cannot deduct the cost of his coveralls, the New York State AFL-OO Union Label Committee was told. Sen. Mike Gravel CDAlaska) testified before, the group that "workers and middle class people are vic­ timized—the ones who pay the lion's share of the cost of government but receive the, mouse's share of serv­ ices." i 4 �SEAFARERSA^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO [i''f MARITIME Let's Not Kid Ourselves Passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 was a major accom­ plishment for the Seafarers International Union. For years, our union has been fighting for maritime legislation that would be fair and equitable—^legislation that would stop the decline of the merchant marine. The SIU fought as hard as anyone, and harder than most, to make sure that we got legislation that would keep this industry alive. And when we talk about this industry, the SIU doesn't mean the shipowner—^we're talking about the jobs of our members. That's, what we've been fighting for. ri :> The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 isn't a perfect law—as a mat­ ter of fact, there's no such thing as a perfect law. But it is a beginning. It's an opportunity to turn this industry around—to point it upward, instead of allowing it to sink. But let's not kid ourselves: A law is one thing; translating that law into an effective program is something else. -V And for Seafarers, the only way to measure the effectiveness is on the yardstick of jobs. If there are job opportunities for our members, then the program is working. If there are no berths for Seafarers, then the program is a failure. There's no magic to the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. We had problems in this industry before the bill was signed into law. We still have the same problems. And we're going to have to con­ tinue to live with those problems for at least five years—^if not longer. By the most liberal estimates, it wiU take until 1975 for the effects of this law to make themselves felt—^because it takes that long to get plans approved and to get ships built and into service. So we can't afford to sit back on our big fat laurels—as if winning passage of the legislation was^ the end of the fight. Because it's only the beginning. For the next five years, we have two big challenges to face: • We have to stay alive—to preserve the jobs of our members dur­ ing the transition from the old program to the new one. • We have to see to it that SlU-contracted operators are able to take advantage of the law to expand their operations, get a bigger hunk of the American trade, and get into the foreign market, too. Nobody's going to help us do it; we're going to have to do it all by ourselves—the same way that we've stayed alive, and kept our opera­ tors alive, all these years. It's not going to be any picnic. But the years since World War 11 have been no picnic for Seafarers anyway—so we're used to tough going. This special supplement points up some of the cold, hard facts about this industry—and what we've got to do to turn the situation around so that Seafarers are assured of continued job security and greater job opportunity. / February 1971 Page 15 �THESE ARE THE Age of U.S. Overseas Merchant Fleet Number of Ships 300- (April 1, 1970) 280260240- No matter where you look—or what set of figures you look at— the picture you get of the American merchant marine adds up to one word: "Ugly." If you look at the job situation, you find that jobs are scarce—and getting scarcer. If you look at the figures on cargo, you find that our share of the market has hit an all-time low—and it's still going down. If you look at the size of the fleet, you find that there are fewer and fewer ships every month—^with no end of this shrinkage in sight. If you look at the age of our fleet, you find that our ships are older, slower and smaller than the fleets of other nations—and our ships aren't getting any younger. No matter where you look, the story is the same. The American merchant marine is in deep trouble—and is going to stay that way for some time to come. Here's the rundown on where we stand, and where we're going. 2202001801601401201008060- SHIPS 4020- 3 30 Years and Older Total Ships 30028026024022020018016014012010080- Under construction or on Order 1980 U.S. Fleet Age (January 1, 1980) In the middle of 1970, there were 695 active ships in the U.S. over­ seas fleet. There were another 54 ships under construction or on order. But the size of the active fleet is deceptive. Six out of every 10 of the ships in the fleet were over 20 years old. This means that most, if not all, of these ships will stop running—and will be sold to the shipbreakers—^long before the new shipbuilding program has any real effect. Shipbuilding is a long time project. The latest report of the Maritime Administration shows that 21 companies 4iave applied for construction subsidy under the new pro­ gram. These companies have proposed building 105 ships. Fourteen of the proposals—covering 76 ships—^were submitted by SlU-contracted companies. But the new law provides for building only 30 ships a year with federal assistance. And there are enough funds left over from last year's appropriation to build another 20 ships. So altogether, there's a chance that the Maritime Administration could approve contracts to build 50 ships^and there's no way of knowing how many of the contracts will go to SlU-contracted com­ panies. In any event, it will take from two to three years to build these first ships—^which means that they won't be available to carry cargo until 1973 or 1974—and by that time, most of the over-age ships in the fleet wiU have been scrapped. So right now, we are faced with the loss of more ships in the next few years than will be replaced by new construction. It's true that the new ships will be larger and faster than the ones we're manning now. As a matter of fact, the estimate is that one of the new ships will do the work of three of the old ones. Obviously, this means Aat two out of every three seagoing jobs is in jeopardy— as long as the government and the industry think only in terms of today's shipping capacity. We've got to encourage the industry to go beyond present limits— to shoot for a bigger share of the market—to compete with foreignflag ships, not just in our own trade, but everywhere in the world. 6040- 40 20- Page 16 Seafarers Log �rjsaasB Ma>. COLD FACTS ' I "•\ Total U.S. Exports & Imports Million Long Tons CARGO The key to keeping our merchant fleet afloat is to keep its holds filled with cargo. Otherwise, the new ships might as well go directly from the shipyards to the scrapyards. And when it comk to cargo, the American-flag fleet is hurting. Right now, we're at an all-time low: American ships are carrying only 4.8 percent of our imports and exports. Put it another way, and foreign-flag ships are carrying 95.2 percent of our cargo. The govenment has launched a full-scale program to induce Amer­ ican businessmen to ship their goods in U.S.-flag ships. But the effort will be convincing only if the government does the same thing—and right now, government agencies like Agriculture and AID are using more foreign vessels than American vessels to carry shipments paid for by the American taxpayer. The first order of business is for the government to change its policies. As long as American ships are standing idle, and as long as American seamen are looking for work, these government-financed cargoes should move in U.S.-flag ships. If the American fleet is being fully utilized, then the government can use the ships of the countries receiving these shipments. But it should use "third-flag" ships only as a last, resort—^because these are the ships in the "runaway" fleet, or the ships of other nations which for years have been getting the lion's share of our cargo. If the government sets the example of using American-flag ships— and if it provides the proper subsidy support so that our ships are competitive in the world market—then American business will get back into the habit of shipping America. We have to help the American fleet become fully competitive, so that it will be able to get into world-wide trade, instead of limiting its participation to U.S. imports and exports. 1960 I96I 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Japan France JOBS As far as the SIU is concerned, ships and cargo are important for only one reason: They mean jobs for our members. TTiere's hardly a Seafarer alive who doesn't know how tight the job market has become during the past ten years. With the shrinkage in our fleet, and with the decline in cargo, jobs have steadily declined, too. Ten years ago, employment in the unsubsidized segment of the merchant marine amounted to 58 percent of all of the available jobs. Today, 67 percent of all of the jobs are in the unsubsidized segment of the industry. Everybody has been hurt—^but the subsidized segment of the in­ dustry, which used to be insulated and protected by the government, has suffered most, with thousands 6f jobs being lost with the lay-up of passenger ships. We can't take comfort in these statistics—because all that they really mean is that we have a larger share of a smaller pie—and what we have to do is to fight for a larger share of a larger pie. And the way to make that pie larger is to encourage the industry to build more ships—to carry a larger percentage of American im­ ports and exports—and to expand into the trade between one foreign country and another. We have our work cut out for us. United States Sweden Greece Norway .5. Commerce Carried on U.S. Ships Million Long Tons 34 1960 February 1971 West Germany 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Page 17 �Special Suppiement SEAFARERSALOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO MARITIME The Only Way To Make It Seafarers have been able to hang on—^in spite of the problems that they've had to face in the years since World War 11—^because they have tried to be reasonable and responsible in their dealings with the industry. that way—^because, in the end, a worthless pension program would have been like a house of cards. And we have always believed Sea­ farers deserved better than that. Over the years, the SIU could have been more hard-nosed at the bargaining table—^but it would have cost the jobs of its membem. And that's a pretty steep price to pay. Any time we wanted to, we could have hung tough with some of the marginal operators and insisted on a full—^but unreasonable— manning scale. And that could have driven the operator out of busi­ ness, too. Any time we wanted to, the SIU could have taken management to the mat for another $10 bill—but in the process, we could have driven some of the operators right out of business. It never seemed to make any sense to us to push the operator to the wall—^not out of love for the operator, but out of concern for the Seafarer. It never seemed to make any sense to us to try to win a battle if you knew that, as a result, you were going to lose a war. Not that we were worried about the operator. We were concerned about the jobs of our members. And a bankrupt operator just doesn't provide jobs for Seafarers. Any time we wanted to, the SIU could have come up with a fancy pension program—that would have looked good on paper, but that wouldn't have been worth the paper it was printed on. It never seemed to make any sense to us to deceive our members The SIU has always operated on a very simple principle: Seafarers want to know the score. They don't want to be doubletalked out of their jobs, or out of their security. And if Seafarers know the score, they'll act responsibly. That's the way that Seafarers have made it through the lean years since World War 11. And that's the only way we're going to make it throu^ the tough years ahead. ik-'Ilii Page 18 Seafarers Log �Retired Roster Increased by 10 William L. Fernwood, 66, is a native of Amsterdam, Holland and now makes his home in Kirkland, Wash. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York and sailed in the deck de­ partment as a boatswain. Brother Fernwood had been sailing 29 years when he applied for his pension. 1p. Jl \ , ' Joseph W. Coe, 67, joined the union in the Port of Norfolk in 1946 and sailed in the deck department as a carpenter and boatswain. He received a safety award from the SIU for his part in making the Steel-Surveyor an accident free ship in the first half of 1961. A native of Honduras, Seafarer Coe now lives in New Orleans, La. When he retired he had been sailing for 37 years. Justo R. Velasqaez, 59, is a native of Puerto Rico and is now making his home in Ponce, P.R. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1941 and sailed in the engine department as a fireman-oiler, junior engineer and deck engineer. He received an SIU safety award for his part in making the Elizabeth an accident free ship in the first half of 1960. When Brother Velasquez re­ tired he ended a sailing career of 32 years. Arthur Joseph McAvoy, 62, is a native of New Orleans, La. and continues to make his home there. He joined the union in the Port of New Orleans in 1946 and sailed in the en^ne department. When he retired. Brother McAvoy had been sailing 24 years. Julian Kulakow^, 60, is a native of Poland and is now spending his retirement in Theo­ dore, Ala. He joined the SIU in the Port of Mobile in 1945 and sailed in the steward and deck departments. When he retired. Seafarer Kulakowski had been sailing 29 years. William J. Barnes, 49, joined the SIU in the Port of Tampa in 1947 and sailed as a steward. A native of Alabama, Brother Barnes now makes his home in Irvington, Ala. When he retired, Seafarer Barnes had been sailing 30 years. if' 1 Berkey Shuler, 60, is a native of Connecti­ cut and is now spending his retirement in Houston, Tex. He joined the union in the Port of New York and sailed as a steward. He was issued a picket duty card in 1961. Seafarer Shuler had been sailing 31 years when he ap­ plied for his pension. Henry James Schreiner, 60, joined the SIU in the Port of San Francisco and sailed as a steward. A native of Louisiana, Brother Schreiner now makes his home in Gretna, La. SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD DECEMBER 1, 1970 TO DECEMBER 31, 1970 NUMBER SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN OF BENEFITS Scholarship .' Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $478.50) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid 9 1,825 25 5 27 1,628 1,710 643 515 4,660 11,047 $1,225.08 43,997.38 55,831.00 26.50 7,381.50 48,849.49 91,842.39 9,502.00 5,169.75 37,713.00 301,538.09 Seafarers' Pension Plan—Benefits Paid 3,350 809,207.90 Seafarers' Vacation Plan—Benefits Paid (Average—$489.60) 2,100 977,975.50 Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period 16,497 2,088,721.49 February 1971 §0J Eveline Lulgi Zugna, 53, is a native of Trieste, Italy and is now spending his retire­ ment there. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1946 and sailed in the stewart department. Brother Zugna served the un­ ion as a department delegate while sailing. Before entering the union he worked as a radio and television technician. Seafarer Zugna had been sailing 25 years. AMOUNT PAID Juan Villa, 64, joined the union in the Port of Baltimore and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. He was given an SIU safety award for his part in making the Fairport an accident free ship from April to September of 1960. A native of Spain, Brother Villa now makes his home in Kearny, N.J. When he retired. Sea­ farer Villa ended a career on the sea that had lasted 44 years. Rose McNeese, bom Sept. 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert W. McNeese, Bogalusa, La. Kevin Rogers, bom Oct. 25, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Floyd T. Rogers, Jr., Laurel, Del. Joseph McCullen, bom Dec. 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfred J. McCullra, Philadelphia, Pa. Sidney Bishop, bom Apr. 1, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy L. Bishop, Freeport, Fla. Simon Ware, bom Oct. 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ru­ dolph Ware, Mobile, Ala. Patrick McCiellan, bom Oct. 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John W. McCiellan, Traverse City, Mich. Lana Wright, bom Sept. 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lawrence P. Wright, Satsuma, Ala. Karen Spencer, bom Oct. 5, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard O. Spencer, Franklinton, La. Becky Ann Beverly, bom Aug. 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Eugene Beverly, LaMarque, Tex. Susan Quillen, bom Oct. 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. James E. Quillen, Phila., Pa. Gregory Boykin, bom July 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard F. Boykin, Eight Mile, Ala. Robert Gill, bom Nov. 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas E. Gill, Bayonne, N.J. Raphael Bonefont, bom Aug. 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Raphael Bonefont, Brooklyn, N.Y. Jacqueline Boone, bom to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Thomas B. Boone, Norfolk, Va. Todd Werda, bom Oct. 31, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. James R. Werda, Alpena, Mich. Timothy Pierce, bom Sept. 22, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Benja­ min P. Pierce, Lucedale, Miss. Monisha Wilkins, bom Sept. 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Oilman Wilkins, Portsmouth, Va. Nicole Packer, bom July 10, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald Packer, Mobile, Ala. Anthony Davis, bom Nov. 17, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lewis A. Davis, Redding, Calif. Cynthia Bankston, bom Oct. 5, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Claude A. Bankston, Jr., Metairie, La. Mellnda Bowers, bom Oct. 17, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. James M. Bowers, Portsmouth, Va. Baron Long, bom Nov. 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas Long, Mobile, Ala. Shane Manuel, bom Oct. 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph O. Manuel, Lake Charles, La. Alvyn Serrette, bom Oct. 23, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Horace E. Serrette, Bronx, N.Y. Bryan Green, bom Nov. 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hay­ wood Green, Robertsdale, Ala. Stanley Craig Goldy, bom Nov. 18, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert J. Goldy, Jr., Wenatchee, Wash. Darm Martin, bom Sept. 29, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. David L. Martin, Sr., Mobile, Ala. Crystal Colbert, bom July 9, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas E. Colbert, New Orleans, La. Gwendolyn Wright, bom Sept. 9, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. James L. Wright, Vidor, Tex. Constantinos Tzavis, bom Nov. 5, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Stavros Tzavis, Commack, N.Y. Mary Tapia, born May 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Bemardo Tapia, Long Beach, Calif. Raymond Gross, bom Nov. 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph A. Gross, Tmjillo Alto, P.R. Cara and Christine Lesh, bom Sept. 17, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur F. Lesh, Concord, Calif. Jason Perry, bom Sept. 16, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Manuel L. Perry, Long Beach, Calif. Belinda Tillett, bom Nov. 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Kirby L. TUlett, Wanchese, N.C. Michael Reynolds, bom Nov. 11, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Derrell G. Reynolds, Mobile, Ala. John Bryant, bom Sept. 19, 1970 to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur R. Bryant, Port Neches, Tex. Eulalia Camacho, bom Oct. 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fmctuoso Camacho, Brooklyn, N.Y. Rohertino Rueda, bom March 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Juan S. Rueda, Barrida Parcelas. 1970 ap Donald Hamilton, bom May 4, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald L. Hamilton, Shreveport, La. Regina Bergeron, bom Oct. 11, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Reggis P. Bergeron, Houma, La. Ron Banks, bom to Seafarer and Mrs. James M. Banks, New Or­ leans La. Michael Benoit, bom Oct. 23, 1970, to Se^arer and Mrs. James D. Benoit, Hayes, La. Christopher Hughes, bom Nov. 22, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Shark Problem May Be Sofyed Pretoria, South Africa Scientists here have devel­ oped a new device to ward off sharks preying popular bathing beaches. This safety barrier, created by a pulsat­ ing magnetic field, will send sharks into a frenzy and force them to swim in the direction indicated by the electric field. It will also eliminate the need for shark nets. Experts say that the de­ vice will not ^ect the move­ ment or activity of human beings, imderwater plants or other fish. It will merely keep the sharks off the beaches and permit people to bathe safely. The Coimcil for Scientific and Industrial Research re­ ports that the shark barrier will be installed at Margate, a popular resort, in May 1971. Justice P. Hughes, Greenville, S.C. JonaOian White, H, bom Nov. 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jonathan White, Charlotte, N.C. James Funk, bom Nov. 25, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John E. Funk, Jersey City, N.J. Aura Sandoval, bom Nov. 4, 1970, to Seafarer and'Mrs. Juan M. Sandoval, Jarrettsville, Md. Jason Bonefont, bom Nov. 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gabriel Bonefont, Jr., Brooklyn, N.Y. Curtis Weese, bom Nov. 11, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alan F. Weese, North Seattle, Wash. John Paul, bom Oct. 25, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joshua A. Paul, Bath, N.C. Wadena Ussin, bom Dec. 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Ussin, Sr., Grosse Tete, La David Walsh, bom Nov. 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. James P. Walsh, Jr., Superior, Wis. Antonio Mendez, bom Sept 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Antonio Mendez, Playa Ponce, P.R. Rhonda Saxon, bom Oct. 6, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald E. Saxon, Mobile, Ala Erica Jones, bom Dec. 8, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Allen Jones, Mobile, Ala. Rhonda Kdth, bom Dec. 31, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John E. Keith, Mobile, Ala. Jason Hughes, bom Dec. 3, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Floyd W. Hughes, New Orleans, La. Edw^ Marion, bom Nov. 11, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fran­ cis A. Marion, Cleveland, Ohio. Deborah Bennett, bom Dec. 11, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas M. Bennett, Manistee, Mich. Michelle Smith, bom Dec. 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Major Smith, Jr., Prichard, Ala. Robert Vogler, bom Dec. 29, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fred­ erick V. Vogler, Ontario, Calif. Etta Hester, bom Sept. 26, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Melvin H. Hester, Kreolo, Miss. Lori Troxclair, bom Dec. 12, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Calvin J. Troxclair, Harvey, La. Timothy Marcum, bom Sept 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. James E. Marciun, Brooklyn, N.Y. Angela Dixon, bom Nov. 9, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Willie Lee Dixon, Sequin, Texas. Sandra Hatch, bom Jan. 3, 1971, to Seafarer and Mrs. Diego Hatch, Yabucoa, P.R. Page 19 �SlU Ships' Committees: Bridging the Gap A Seafarer's work is unique in that he is separated •^for long periods of time from what happens on shore. For any Union organization to function effec­ tively it is important that there be constant commu­ nications between Union headquarters and the mem­ bers at sea and ashore. There are many methods of communications when the membership is ashore, but the bulk of our mem­ bers must be away at sea to earn their living. Since very important things happen on shore, it is vital that there be ships' committees to act as a bridge from vesisel to shore. No matter how long the voyage or how far away the vessel may sail, the ship's committee provides the solid bridge of communication that keeps working Seafarers constantly aware of vital issues. To strengthen this bridge of communication from ship to shore is the goal of the ship's committee. That is why each ship's member who is on the committee does his job with the knowledge that he is helping not only his Union an dhis fellow Seafarer but also himself. The ship's committee has been in operation long enough to gauge its work. Everyone agrees that it has had a unique and outstanding success. The operation of the ship's committee is in line with the firm principle established within the SIU—the principle of democracy. When the meeting is called each Sunday aboard ship every Seafarer knows that he can speak up freely and without hesitation and bring up any matter im­ portant to his imion, his ship and his job. "TTis right to speak out is one of the rights which the ^^ship's committee protects for every member of the unlicensed crew. There are six members of the ship's committee— chairman, Secretary-reporter, education director and three delegates, one from each of the three depart­ ments aboard ship. The chairman calls and directs the meeting. The secretary-reporter is responsible for all of the com­ mittee's corresfxjndence with union headquarters and must keep the minutes of the meetings and report ac­ tions taken to headquarters. The education director is in charge of maintaining and distributing all publications, films and mechanical equipment to Seafarers wishing to study upgrading, s^ety, health and sanitation. The department delegates, elected by members of the deck, engine and steward departments, represent their men on the committee and contribute heavily to its decisions. All these men are part of that bridge between ship and shore. y I'll BIENVILLE (Sea-Land)—Checking over some reports aboard the Bienville is the sltip's committee. From left seated are: Gus Yenizelos, deck delegate; J. Reever, steward dele­ gate; Felix Bonefont, chairman, and Ralph Carbone Dangelo, engine delegate. Standing are J. C. Anderson (left), reporter-secretary and Jerry Dellinger, education director. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian)—Relaxing in the galley of the Steel Scientist after a re­ cent voyage is the ship's committee. Clockwise from left are: Morris Cukierwar, acting steward delegate; Ray Eisemman, engine delegate; P. Sheldrake, deck delegate; W. Harrell, education director; J. Parker, chairman, and C. J. Gibson, reporter-secretary. • .11 •'i •. 4J MOBILE (Sea-Land)—Aboard the Mobile, the ship's committee from left are (seated): J. Gleaton, steward delegate; A. Alfonso, secretary-reporter; H. Libby, chairman, and S. Leknes, deck ddegate. Standing are B. Finder, location director (left) and C Cans, engine delegate. TAMPA (Sea-Land)—After pulling into Port Elizabeth, N.J., the ship's committee sits around the table in the recreation room. From left are: E. Jiminez, engine delegate; G. Castro, chairman; F. LaRosa, steward delegate; Johnny Guiteme, acdng education director; J. Rusheed, deck delegate, and E. Tart, reporter^secretary. -ii STONEWALL JACKSON (Waterman)—Aboard the Stonewall Jackson when it pnlled into Bayonne, N.J. last month, the ship's committee posed for a photo. From left are: Arthur Wood, chairman: Robert Laiche, steward delegate; Stan Gondzar, education director; Douglas McLeod, engine delegate; John Farragnt, deck delegate, and Robert Pitcher, reporter-secretary. Page 20 •1 ARIZPA (Sea-Land)—After their trip to northern Europe, the ship's committee on the Ariapa pose for a photo. From left are: Frank Rodriguez, deck delegate; Anthony Tosado, steward delegate; H. Connoloy, reporter-secretary; D. Fitzpatrick, chairman; Joseph Keating, education director, and Dan Butts, engine delegate. - I'l II Seafarers Log • I �Steel Seafarer si I'.l ,f STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian)—^The ship's committee waiu for their meal aboard the Steei Seafarer in Port Elizabeth, N.J. Clockwise from left are; Berry Tippins, steward delegate; W. Velazques, chairman; Isidoro Valles, engine delegate; Ira Brown, reportersecretary ; George Roy, education director, and Fred B. Kritzler, deck delegate. GATEWAY CITY (Sea-Land)—The ship's committee aboard the Gateway City from left are: Robert Carbone, chairman; W. Reid, reporter-secretary; James Spell, engine dele­ gate; Eddie J. Caravona, deck delegate; Warren Danford, education director, and R. S. Roman, steward delegate. ' f I STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian)—Patrolman Ted Bobkowski (far left) points out a Seafarers Log article to the committee on board the Steel Advocate. From left seated are: J. Disco, engine delegate; N. Gillikin, chairman; Henry Jones, steward delegate, and Howard Menz, education director. Standing are A. Miranda (left), deck delegate and L. Cepriano, reporter-secretary. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes spe­ cific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treas­ urer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file mem­ bers, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, specific recommendations and separate findings. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and management representatives and their alternates. All expen­ ditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund finan­ cial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Eail Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 275-20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. . , . ! .J it.1971 ij Ja CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which ^ou work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anycHie in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under" no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a re­ ceipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so- as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at mem­ bership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-andfile committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take ship­ board employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long­ standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated witli tlie employ­ ers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of thepiselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied bis constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at head­ quarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. Page 21 �SEATRAIN WASHINGTON plan. No disputed OT. Everything STONEWALL JACKSON (Wa­ Page; Engine Delegate Robert is running smoothly. (Hudson Waterways), Dec. 6— terman), Sept. 20—Chairman John Rivera; Steward Delegate Elmer Chairman B. Waturski; Secretary COLUMBIA MARINER (Co­ Silkowski; Secretary Robert H. Kent. No beefs reported. Vote of H. Scypes; Deck Delegate Ray lumbia), Dec. 6—Chairman G. Pitcher. Everything is running thanks to the steward department Moore; Engine Delegate F. Cohen; Stanford; Secretary B. Rucker; smoothly with no beefs an ' no dis­ for a job well done. Steward Delegate Francisco Mel- Deck Delegate T. M. Jones; Engine puted OT. PENN CHAMPION (Penn Ship­ quades. Discussion held regarding Delegate H. W. Roberts; Steward ping), Nov. 29—Chairman T. R. DEL RIO (Delta), Dec. 6—Chair­ pension plan. No beefs. Some dis­ Delegate E. L. Hoffman. No beefs man Joseph Catalanotto; Secretary Sanford; Secretary Z. A. Markris; puted OT in deck and engine de­ reported. Vote of thanks to the Roy M. Ayers; Deck Delegate David Deck Delegate S. A. DiMaggio; partments. steward department for a job well Allen Ramsey; Engine Delegate Engine Delegate John Kulas; Stew­ WESTERN COMET (Western), done. Owen W. Fraisse; Steward Delegate ard Delegate G. P. John. No beefs Nov. 29—Chairman R. C. Marrero; STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), Aubrey A. Rankin. $23 in ship's reported. Vote of thanks to the en­ tire steward department for a job Secretary Harold D. Strauss; Deck Dec. 6—Chairman Gerald Eringer; fund. No beefs reported. Delegate T. B. Lane; Engine Dele­ Secretary Angel Seda; Steward Del­ STEEL VENDOR Hsthmian), well done. gate Ramon Bacamonto; Steward egate Howard Schneider. $17 in Dec. 12—Chairman Daniel Dean; WALTER RICE (Reynolds), Dec. Delegate John R. Tilley. $18 in ship's fund. Happy crew on board. Secretary George W. Gibbons; Deck 13—Chairman Tom Martineau; ship's fund. Some disputed OT in No beefs and no disputed OT. Delegate Billie B. Darley; Engine Deck Delegate John R. Mclntyre; deck and engine departments. Vote MOBILIAN (Waterman), Nov. Delegate Thomas P. Gol; Steward Engine Delegate Keimeth J. Lewis; of thanks to the steward depart­ 15—Chairman B. C. Jordan; Secre­ Delegate James P. Banelay. Every­ Steward Delegate Guilermo Mar­ ment for a job well done. tary Charles Perkins. No beefs and thing is running smoothly with no tinez. No beefs were reported by BRADFORD ISLAND (Stewart no disputed OT. beefs. Vote of thanks to the steward department delegates. Tankers), Dec. 6—Chairman J. R. COLUMBIA BANKER (Colum­ TRENTON (Sea-Land), Nov. 29 department for a job well done. Thompson; Secretary Francis Bur- —Chairman Floyd Seliz; Secretary TRANSHAWAH (Hudson Water­ bia), Dec. 8—Chairman Claud Webb; ley: Deck Delegate R. L. Cooper; Andy Johannson. $15 in ship's fund. ways), Dec. 27—Chairman Manuel Secretary E. W. Lambe; Deck Dele­ Engine Delegate John E. Mitchell; No beefs reported. DeBarros; Secretary William Seltzer, gate H. B. Jeffcoat; Engine Dele­ Steward Delegate F. R. Strickland. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Deck Delegate Joseph L. Linhart; gate Fred J. Brown. $24 in ship's Patrolman to be contacted regard­ Nov. 22—Chairman Karl Hellman; Engine Delegate S. Wala; Steward fund. Everything is running smooth­ ing delayed sailing. Secretary L. D. Pierson; Deck Dele­ Delegate Larry Young. $42 in ship's ly. Vote of thanks to the steward CONNECTICUT (Ogden Ma­ gate James L. Hornby; Engine Dele­ fund. No beefs reported. Everything department for a job well done. rine), Dec. 6—Secretary T. D. Bal­ gate Chester L. Tillman; Steward is running smoothly. Vote of thanks CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK lard; Deck Delegate Michael T. Delegate Jefferson D. Buchanan. to the steward department for a (Cities Service), Dec. 20—Chairman Chiglo, Engine Delegate Thomas E. Everything is running smoothly ex­ job well done. and Deck Delegate Waldo H. Banks; Banks; Steward Delegate Charles cept for some disputed OT in deck JACKSONVILLE (Sea-Land), Secretary, George Tamlin; Engine L. Martinsen. $40 in ship's fund. department. Jan. 3—Chairman Perry Konis; Delegate William Sladko. No beefs TRANSHAWAII (Hudson Water­ Secretary I. Buckley. Some dis­ reported. No disputed OT. Contact patrolman regarding restriction to ship in ways), Nov. 29—Chairman George puted OT in deck department. Dis­ JEFF DAVIS (Waterman), Dec. Aruba. DeGreve; Secretary William Seltzer; cussion held regarding mail. It was 27—Chairman T. Chilinski; Sec­ TAMARA GUILDEN (Commer­ Deck Delegate Joseph Linehart; En­ suggested that arrangements be retary R. Barker, Deck Delegate cial Transport), July 26—Chairman gine Delegate Sadak Wala, Steward made with the company to receive Howard F. Hare; Engine Delegate G. P. Libby; Secretary C. Lanier. Delegate William Seltzer. $43 in all crew mail and forward same to Frank Arana; Steward Delegate $783 in movie fund and $18 in ship's fund. Everything is ruiming ships. George Frazza. No beefs reported. ship's fund. Some disputed OT in smoothly. Few hours disputed OT TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport $40 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks in deck department. Crew would Commercial), Dec. 13—Chairman to the steward department for the steward department. FENN CHAMPION (Penn Ship­ like clarification on posting of sail­ George P. Libby; Secretary Charles fine Christmas diimer. ping), Nov. 1—Chairman T. R. ing time. Vote of thanks to the W. Pelen; Deck Delegate Michael TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport Sanford; Secretary Z. A. Markris; steward department for the very M. Chewming; Steward Delegate H. Commercial), Dec. 6—Chairman nice Thanksgiving Day dinner. Deck Delegate S. DiMaggio; En­ G. Weeks. $18 in ship's fund and DEL SOL (Delta), Nov. 22— $749 in movie fund. Some disputed George P. Libby; Secretary Charles gine Delegate John Kulas; Steward W. Pelen; Deck Delegate Joseph D. Delegate G. P. John. Some disputed Chairman Anthony R. Ducote; Sec­ OT in engine department. McPhee; Steward Delegate H. G. retary Peter Blanchard; Deck Dele­ OT in each department. Vote of BALTIMORE (Sea-Land), Dec. Weeks. No beefs recited. $18 in thanks to the steward department gate Richard C. Busby; Engine 27—Chairman J. Delgado; Secre­ ship's fund and $746 in movie fimd. Delegate Robert Callahan; Steward for a job well done. tary H. Ridgeway; Deck Delegate TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport PENN CHAMPION (Penn Ship­ Delegate John H. Parson. $36 in A. Taschke; Engine Delegate S. M. Commercial), Dec. 20—Chairman ship's fund. No beefs reported. ping), Nov. 29—Chairman J. C. PENN CHAMPION (Penn Ship­ Orr; Steward Delegate William H. George P. Libby; Secretary Charles Mullis; Secretary D. P. Mason; Hamby. No beefs reported. Vote of W. Pelen; Deck Delegate Michael Deck Delegate Albert F. VanDyke; ping), Nov. 15—Chairman T. R. thanks to the steward department M. Chenning; Engine Delegate H. Sanford; Secretary Z. A. Markris; Engine Delegate Berger Wilhelmfor the fine Christmas dinner. Green; Steward Delegate H. G. sen; Steward Delegate Martin Deck Delegate S. DiMaggio; En­ EAGLE VOYAGER (United Weeks. $19 in ship's ftmd and $749 gine Delegate John Kulas; Steward Badger. Two men in deck depart­ ment missed ship in Portland, Ore­ Delegate G. P. John. Some disputed Maritime), Dec. 27—Chairman Leo in movie fund. RAMBA (American Bulk Car­ gon. No beefs reported. Vote of OT in deck and steward depart­ Paradise; Secretary B. A. Baa; Deck Delegate Robert H. Bell; Steward riers), Nov. 22—Chairman J. P. thanks to the steward department ment. Vote of thanks to the BR and for the wonderful Thanksgiving OS for keeping the passageway and Delegate William S. Costa. $7 in Ryan; Secretary F. S. Paylor, Jr.; decks clean. Vote of thanks also to ship's fund. No beefs reported. Vote Deck Delegate Raul I. Lopez; En­ Day dinner. NEW YORKER (Sea-Land), Oct. the steward department for a job of thanks to the steward depart­ gine Delegate Charles A. Redish; ment for a very nice Christmas Steward Delegate Claud J. Kizzire. 23—Chairman J. Gam; Secretary well done. $12 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Dinner. H. Donnelly; Steward Delegate TAMPA (Sea-Land), Dec. 27— ported. John Robinson. $60 in ship's fund. Overseas), Dec. 13—Chairman El­ PENN SAILOR (Penn), Dec. No beefs were reported by depart­ mer B. Merritt; Secretary Jacobus Chairman G. Castro; Secretary E. C. Lakwyk; Deck Delegate Howard B. Tart; Deck Delegate S. Ruzyski; 21—Chairman Johannes C. Sorel; ment delegates. BALTIMORE (Sea-Land), Nov. C. Ross; Engine Delegate Manuel Engine Delegate T. Koroke; Stew­ Secretary Robert C. Thomas; Deck 22—Chairman J. Delgado; Secre­ A. Rendules; Steward Delegate ard Delegate F. LaRosa. Every­ Delegate Milton J. Brown; Steward tary H. Ridgeway; Deck Delegate Richard G. Martinez. No beefs re­ thing is running smoothly with no Delegate Pedro R. Arteaga. No R. E. Teschke; Engine Delegate ported. Vote of thanks to the stew­ beefs. Vote of thanks was extended beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of Ramon Louis; Steward Delegate C. ard department for a job well done. to the steward department for a thanks to the steward department for a job well done. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Hud­ job well done. Arron. Discussion held on various ANCHORAGE (Sea-Land), Dec. DEL ORO (Delta), Dec. 27— son Waterways), Dec. 13—Chair­ matters. No major beefs. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), man W. L. Tillman; Secretary W. Chairman John T. Robinson; Sec­ 20—Chairman B. El Swearingen; Nov. 28—Chairman Frank Salva- B. Varbrough; Deck Delegate Glenn retary Vincent Sanchez, Jr.; Deck Secretary Jack C. O'Steen; Deck tore, Jr.; Secretary Isidro D. Ave- M. Wells; Engine Delegate Francis Delegate V. W. O'Mary; Engine Delegate Robert G. Mason; Engine cilla. $38 in ship's fund. No beefs D. Curruthers; Steward Delegate Delegate Anthony J. Marano; Stew­ Delegate Fred Buckner; Steward Lee reported. Ralph S. Williamson, Jr. Some dis­ ard Delegate S. B. Wright. No Scott. $25 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY puted OT in deck and engine de­ beefs reported. EAGLE TRAVELER (United COLUMBIA MARINER (Colum­ (Hudson Waterways), Dec. 6— partments. Vote of thanks to the Chairman Edward Ellis; Secretary steward department for a job well Maritime), Dec. 20—Chairman bia), Nov. 15—Chairman G. Stan­ Joseph L. Bourgeois; Secretary Al­ ford; Secretary B. Rucker; Deck Herbert E. Atkinson; Deck Delegate done. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), gernon W. Hutcherson; Deck Dele­ Delegate Terrance M. Jones; En­ Isaac V. Brown; Engine Delegate Jose M. Cartell; Steward Delegate Nov. 15—Chairman Art Harring­ gate E. Dakin, Engine Delegate gine Delegate H. W. Roberts; Stew­ Louis D. Williams. No beefs. Ev­ ton; Secretary Jim Sanders. Every­ Frank Cake; Steward Delegate ard Delegate E. L. Hoffman. Every­ erything is running smoothly. thing is running smoothly with no Joseph Brill. Vote of thanks was thing is running smoothly. Vote of CHICAGO (Sea-Land), Nov. 22 beefs. Fine gang in all departments. extended to the ship's chairman for thanks to the steward department —Chairman John Altstatt; Secre­ OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime talking to the Port Captain and for a job well done. tary Frank Hall; Deck Delegate H. Overseas), Dec. 6—Chairman, Ame getting the lodging beef -squared RACHEL V (Vantage), Nov. Pederson. $20 in ship's fund. No Horde; Secretary L. Nicholas; Deck away along with all repairs. $6 in 1—Chairman Charles Haima; Sec­ major beefs. Everything is running Delegate H. A. Smith; Engine Dele­ ship's fund. retary Bennie Guarino; Deck Dele­ smoothly. gate, J. Bergeria; Steward Delegate STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), gate D. Pinton; Engine Delegate V. BUCKE-^ ATLANTIC (Buck­ Isaac Gordan. $49 in ship's fund. Dec. 19—Chairman E. Parr, Secre­ Toomson; Steward Delegate Louis eye), Nov. 29—Chairman Louis W. No beefs reported. tary W. Hand, Deck Delegate Jesse Baben. No beefs reported. Cartwright; Secretary James Tem­ PENN CHAMPION (Penn Ship­ L. Green, Engine Delegate Juan SEATRAIN MAINE (Hudson ple. No beefs reported except for ping), Nov. 22—Chairman T. R. Rujes, Steward Delegate J. Grad- Waterways), Dec. 27 — Chairman the need of ship being fumigated Sanford; Secretary Z. A. Markris; dick. $56 in ship's fund. Some dis­ Malcolm Cross; Secretary S. Mc­ for roaches and repairs that have Deck Delegate S. A. DiMaggio; En­ puted OT in deck department and Donald; Deck Delegate C. B. Dick­ not been taken care of. gine Delegate John Kulas; Steward engine department. ey; Engine Delegate R. C. Brown; STEEL FABRICATOR Gsthmi- Delegate George P. John. No beefs TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson Water- Steward Delegate C. H. Jackson. an), Nov. 22—Chairman Clyde and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks ways), Nov. 29—Chairman Bernard No beefs were reported. Vote of Miller, Secretary L. Ceperiano. Dis­ to the steward department for a job F. Fimovicz; Secretary Maximo thanks to the steward d^rtment cussion held regarding pension well done. Bugawan; Deck Delegate Walter for the swell Christmas Dinner. Page 22 Many thanks to Captain Siwiec for the extra pleasures. PONCE (Sea-Land), Jan. 10— Chairman Dan Butts; Secretary Alva McCullum; Deck Delegate Victor Aviles; Engine Delegate James L. Cady; Steward Delegate Oscar W. Sorenson. Discussion held regardmg Sea-Land's new OT Guide. $367 in movie fund. Disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. NOONDAY (Waterman), Jan. 10—Chairman E. Freimanis; Secre­ tary F. Fletcher; Deck Delegate Wm. E. King; Engine Delegate Eu­ gene W. Bent. $15 in ship's fund. Crew request that Union officials look into the matter of men miss­ ing ship thus causing hardship on the rest of the crew. Ship short three men. WESTERN CLIPPER (Western), Dec. 20—Chairman Charles V. Mateite; Secretary Willie Grimes; Deck Delegate Joseph Olson; Steward Delegate Lawrence Melanson. $21 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck and steward depart­ ments. WESTERN CLIPPER (Western), Dec. 27—Chairman Charles V. Mateite; Secretary Willie Grimes; Deck Delegate Joseph Olson; Steward Delegate Lawrence Melanson. $21 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck and steward depart­ ments. Vote of thanks to the stew­ ard department for the good meals during the Holidays. . CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), Jan. 10—Chairman J. A. Grbac; Secretary B. G. Ladd; Engine Dele­ gate Donald R. Pase; Steward Dele: gate John Glover. Everything is O.K. with no beefs and no disputed OT. CALMAR (Calmar), Jan. 3— Chairman Elbert Hogge; Secretary Howard Flynn; Engine Delegate W. Teffner, Steward Delegate Garry E. Jones. Discussion held regarding re­ pairs. All OT was settled. PONCE (Sea-Land), Jan. 3— Chairman Dan Butts; Secretary, Al­ va McCullum; Deck Delegate Vitor Aviles; Engine Delegate James Ca­ dy; Steward Delegate Oscar W. So­ renson. Captain pleased with ccm- ^ duct of crew during this voyage. $287 in movie fund. No beefs were reported. BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart Tankers), Jan. 10—Chairman J. R. Thompson; Secretary Troy Itovage; Engine Delegate John Mitchell; Steward Delegate F. R. Strickland. Motion made that tankers sign six months articles on foreign voyages. Some disputed OT in deck and en­ gine departments. WACOSTA (Sea-Land), Jan. 10Chairman Anthony Sakellis; Secie-. tary Manuel F. Caldas; Deck Dele­ gate Daniel J. McMullen; Engine Delegate Rodney Borlase; Steward Delegate Robert P. Ramos. No dis­ puted OT. Patrolman to check slop chest. PENN CARRIER (Penn), Jan. 3—Chairman J. F. Cunningham; Secretary S. A. Holden; Deck Dele­ gate J. B. Gardner, Engine Delegate Wm. Rentz; Steward Delegate Fran­ cisco Fernandez. Motion was made that all disputed OT be paid and settled at time of payoff. Disputed OT in each department. WESTERN CLIPPER (Western), Dec. 13—Chairman Charles V. Mateite; Secretary Willie Grimes; Deck Delegate Joseph Olson; Steward Delegate Lawrence MelansoiL $21 in ship's fimd. Few hours disputed OT in deck and steward depart­ ments. Chief Steward is doing a good job in galley in spite of short­ age of men in department. WACOSTA (Sea-Land), Dec. 27 —Chairman Anthony Sakellis; Sec­ retary Manuel F. Caldas; Deck Delegate Daniel J. McMullen; En­ gine Delegate Rodney Borlase; Stew­ ard Delegate Roge P. Ramos. Dis­ puted OT in deck department Seafarers Log l| - )| �SlU Seniority Upgraders Give Candid Views Of Training Programs Offered at HLSS Piney Point, Md. The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship here underwent close scrutiny in January by 11 seniority upgraders from the Advanced Seamanship Class in Brooklyn, who spent a week at the modem campus. The purpose of their visit was a week-long intensive course of study on the opera­ tions of their Union, but since all 11 had graduated from HLSS at Piney Point or other ports, it was inevitable that they would compare their ex­ periences with the schooling offered SIU trainees today. Piney Point scored high. Returnees Impressed The seven upgraders who had attended HLSS at Piney Point were impressed with the tlx improvements in the school since they left. They mentioned modem classroom facilities and equipment and the expansion of the academic program as particularly significant changes. A 1964 Baltimore HLSS graduate, William J. Seidenstricker, said, "I would have liked to have had something like this going f6r me when I first wanted to go to sea." A New Orleans HLSS grad­ uate, Willie J. Jones, com­ mented: "Maybe some of them don't know it, but this is a fine opportunity for the trainees." Frank M. Coe, a New York graduate, offered his opinion that "the trainees seem to be receiving a good education to start them off at sea and make them aware of their Union." President Howard McClennan' of the Fire Fighters (third from left) extends greetings to a group of seniority upgraders at a Washington luncheon sponsored by the AFL-OO Maritime Trades Department. Another New York grad­ uate, Delmas R. Brabson, noted that "this is a fine edu­ cational setup for those kids. They are really learning." Visit Productive The visitors followed in the steps of 32 other upgraders, who visited the school during November and December. Their studies during the oneweek stay covered SIU history, the history of the American labor union movement, the SIU constitution, contract pension and welfare plans. In addition, the rationale behind union meetings and standards of ship­ board behavior were empha­ sized. Bill Hall, director of union education, and Piney Point Port Agent Paul McGaham were the instructors for the up­ graders' study and seminar sessions. They were assisted by visiting SIU Representative E. B. McAuley. Part of Overall Program The Piney Point visit is a small part of the Advanced Seamanship Program, which qualifies members for their full SIU books after they have completed four major pre­ requisites: Candidates must be Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship graduates; they must have lifeboat certification; they must have at least one year seatime, and they must be rated. Between their own studying. the upgraders were taken on tours of the 54-acre Piney Point school and the adjacent LOOO-acre farm. They visited trainee classes in both the vo­ cational and academic depart­ ments. They observed lifeboat training and basic engine, deck and steward department class­ es, which prepare the trainees for their first jobs at sea. Try Hand at GEO The availability of educa­ tional programs leading to Government Equivalency Di­ ploma (high school level) from the Maryland Department of Education was new to all the upgraders. Three of them took a GED pre-test to determine their strengths and weaknesses in academic subjects, which will be evaluated and used to direct their studies in prepara­ tion for a high school equival­ ency diploma. The 11 upgraders were not isolated from the current train­ ees—^they were encouraged to get to know the youths and offer them the benefit of their experiences at sea. Part of this acquaintanceship included traveling to Washing­ ton, D.C. with a group of trainees for a luncheon con­ ference sponsored by the Mar­ itime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, where they met with Howard McClennan, president of the Fire Fighters. The lunch­ eon—held weekly—provides a forum for labor's views of the problems facing the merchant marine, and their solution. Howard McOennan, president of the Fire Fighters, greets a group of seniority upgraders at a luncheon in Washington which the SIU mem­ bers attended as part of their upgrading program. Social Security Payments Are Available to Widows f !;u |v (I r .'1^ f. By A. A. Bernstein Each month over three mil­ lion widowed mothers and their children receive Social Security benefit checks. Amounts of the checks de­ pend on the worker's average earnings under Social Security. Survivor benefits for a widow with two children range from a minimum of $96 a month to about $434 maximum with the average payment of $292. Class 576 graduates take time out for a photo while awaiting the bus SIU members and their fam­ to New York and their first ships. They are, from left: Bob Painter, ilies should be aware of the So­ Efrain Torres, David Taylor, HLSS President Bob Matthews, William Roach, Director of Trade Union Education Bill Hall, Patrick Lescott, cial Security benefits available in case assistance should be re­ Richard Mertz, Mike Sauve, William Maurer and Charles Stockland. quired. Being informed is one way of preparing for the years ahead. The SIU Social Security staff is ready to answer any questions regarding a widow's benefits, or any other question you might have regarding So­ cial Security benefits. SIU members and their fam­ ilies should address any ques­ tions to A. A. Bernstein, direc­ tor of Social Security and Wel­ fare Services, Seafarers Wel­ fare and Pension Plans, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. ..' Jr* Q: I'll soon be 60 and eligi­ Class 58 prepares to leave for New York to board their first ships. The ble for Social Security widow's graduates are, from left: Allen Hanson, Don Walters, Tim Thomas, benefits. I have no idea what William Bonan, Hank Freeman, Vladimir Volovik, SIU Vice President my husband's Social Security Earl Shephard, Joe Ayala, Louis Ripley, Jerry Cooper, Alan Thomas number was, and I can't find and Warren Donaldson. his card. Can I still apply for Social Security? A: Yes, go ahead and file the application at your Social Security office. But, to locate your husband's number, they'll need to know his full name, where and when he was bom, his father's name, and his mother's maiden name. Q; My brother died leaving a widow, two sons under 18, and one son 19 in school. Who can get benefits? A: Your brother's widow and all of his children. Q; If I die how old do my dependent mother and my wife have to be to get Social Security survivor benefits? We have no children. A: Your widow can get re­ duced benefits at 60 or full benefits at age 50 if she is dis­ abled. Your mother must be 62. Q; I'm 66 years old and a widow. When I went to welfare they asked me all kinds of questions and said because I owned a small house and had some money saved, I couldn't qualify for welfare. I don't want to go through that again. Will my savings stop me from getting Social Security benefits? A: No. Savings have no ef­ fect on Social Security. Q: My mother-in-law comes from Guiana and has been my dependent for six years. She is a resident alien. She is going to file this week for permanent citizenship. Her age is 74. She never worked. Is she eligible for any type of Social Security benefits? A: She is eligible for Medi­ care, but not Social Security benefits, as her son is alive and working, and she is his de­ pendent. Only if her son were deceased would she be eligible for more benefits. She has to apply at the Social Security office in her area. Union Membership Pays Off Washington, D.C. It is an economic fact that it pays to be a union mem­ ber. Figures released by the OflSce of Business Economics of the Department of Com­ merce show that non-union factory workers received a median wage gain of 3.5 to 4 percent in 1970 compared to a 6 to 6.5 percent gain for unionized manufacturing workers. Page 23 �April 15, 1971, is the deadline for filing Federal income tax returns. As is customary at this time of the year, the SIU Accounting Department has pre­ pared the following detailed tax guide to assist SIU men in filing their returns on income earned in 1970. Generally, with very few exceptions, seamen are treated no differently under the income tax laws than any other citizen or resident of the U.S. (The non­ resident alien seaman must also file a return but the rules are not the same for him.) Who Must File Every Seafarer who is a citizen or resident of the United States, whether an adult or minor must file a return if: (1) You are Single, an unmarried Head of House­ hold, or Surviving Widow (er) with a dependent child; and your income was $1,700 or more ($2,300 if 65 or over). spouse is 65 or over, $3,500 if both 65 or over), pro­ vided: (a) You and your spouse had the same household as your home at the close of the taxable year, (b) No other person is entitled to claim an exemp­ tion for you or your spouse, and (c) Your spouse does not file a separate return, or (3) You are not covered under (1) or (2) above and you had income of $600 or more. You must also file a return and pay any tax due if you have net earnings from self-employment of $400 or more. See Schedule SE. A Seafarer with income of less than these amounts should file a return to get a refund if tax was with­ held. A married Seafarer with income less than his own personal exemption should file a joint return with his wife to get the smaller tax or larger refund for the couple. Changes In Marital Status If you are married at the end of 1970, you are considered married for the entire year. If you are divorced or legally separated on or before the end of 1970, you are considered single for the entire year. If your wife or husband died during 1970 you are con­ sidered married for the entire year. Generally in such a case, a joint return may be filed for the year. You may also be entitled to the benefits of a joint return for the two years following the death of your husband or wife. Exemptions Each taxpayer is pntitled to a personal exemption of $625 for himself, $625 for his wife, an additional $625 if he is over 65 and another $625 if he is blind. When To File Tax returns have to be filed by April 15, 1971. However, the April 15 deadline is waived in cases where a seaman is at sea. In such instances, the sea­ man must file his return at the first opportunity, along with an aflBdavit stating the reason for delay. How To Pay Make check or money order payable to "Internal Revenue Service" for full amount on line 30. Write your social security number on your check or money order. If line 30 is less than $1, do not pay. Rounding Off To Whole Dollars The money items on your return and schedules may be shown in whole dollars. This means that you eliminate any amount less than 50 cents, and increase any amount from 50 cents through 99 cents to the next higher dollar. (2) You are a married person entitled to file joint­ ly and your combined (husband's and wife's) income is $2,300 or more ($2,900 if either you or your Advantages of A Joint Return Generally it is advantageous for a married couple to file a joint return. There are benefits in figuring the tax on a joint return which often result in a lower tax than would result from separate returns. Your 1970 Tax Form Many Seafarers will need only Form 1040 in filing their 1970 returns. Schedules and forms that may be required in addition to Form 1040 include the following, which you may obtain from an In­ ternal Revenue Service office, and at many banks and post offices: Schedule A for itemized deductions; Schedule B for gross dividends and other dis­ tributions on stock in excess of $100, and interest income in excess of $100; Schedule C for income from a personally owned business; Schedule D for income from the sale or ex­ change of property; Schedule E for income from pensions, annuities, rents, royalties, partnerships, estates, trusts, etc.; Schedule F for income from farming; Schedule G for income averaging; Schedule R for retirement income credit; Schedule SE for reporting net earnings from self-employment; and Form 4136, Computation of Credit for Federal Tax on Gasoline, Special Fuels, and Lubricating Oil. Some specialized forms available only at Internal Revenue Service offices are: Form 1310, Statement of Oaimant to Refund Due—Deceased Taxpayer; Form 2106, Employee Business Expenses; Form 2120, Multiple Support Declaration; Form 2210, Underpayment of Estimated Tax by Individuals; Form 2440, Sick-Pay Exclusion; Form 2441, Expenses for Care of Children and Certain Other Dependents; Form 3468, Computation of Investment Credit; Form 3903, Moving Expense Adjustment; Form 4137, Computation of Social Security Tax on Unreported Tip Income; Form 4625, Computation of Minimum Tax; and Form 4683, U.S. Information Return on Foreign Page 24 Bank and Other Financial Account(s). The forms also reflect several changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1969. Among the more im­ portant ones are: • A new low-income allowance which saves many people from paying income tax and reduces the tax for many others. This allowance is built into the optional tax tables so no separate figuring is necessary. • All peronal exemptions are increased from $600 to $625 for 1970 (with further increases in later years). • Returns are no longer required from single persons with incomes under $1,700, nor generally from married persons filing jointly with incomes under $2,300. These figures are increased by $600 if the individual or his spouse is 65 or older, and by an addiitonal $600 if both are 65 or older. • The optional tax tables have been extended from $5,000 to $10,000. This eliminates the need for percentage tax computations by many people who do not itemize their deductions. • The tax surcharge, which was 10 percent last year, was reduced to 5 percent for the first half of 1970 and eliminated altogether for the last half of the year. This means the surcharge is figured at the average rate of 2.5 percent for the whole of 1970. • Many more taxpayers can now choose to have the Internal Revenue Service figure their tax for them. • A new minimum tax has been established for taxpayers who have certain "tax preference" items such as accelerated depreciation, stock options, and long-term capital gains. This additional tax will apply only to certain high-income taxpayers. Many other provisions of the new law will take effect in 1971 and later years. They will be in­ corporated in the Declaration of Estimated Tax (Form 1040-ES) for 1971, as well as in other forms as they are issued. The exemptions for age and blindness apply also to a taxpayer's wife, and can also be claimed by both of them. In cases where a man's wife lives in a foreign country, he can still claim the $625 exemption for her. In addition a taxpayer can claim $625 for each child, parent, grandparent, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, and each uncle, aunt, nephew or niece dependent on him, if he provides more than one-half of their support during the calendar year. The dependent ihust have less than $600 income and live in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Panama or the Canal Zone. A child under 19, or a student over 19 can earn over $625 and still count as a dependent if the tax­ payer provides more than one-half of his support. The law also enables a seaman who is contributing (with other relatives) more than ten percent of the support of a dependent to claim an exemption for that individual, provided the other contributors file a dec­ laration that they will not claim the dependent that year. Credit For Excess Social Security (FICA) Tax Paid If a total of more than $374.40 of Social Security (FICA) tax was withheld from the wages of either you or your wife because one or both of you worked for more than one employer, you may claim the ex­ cess over $374.40 as a credit against your income tax. Tax Credit For Retirement Income A tax credit is allowed for individuals against re­ tirement income such as rents, dividends and earnings at odd jobs. However, an adjustment must be made in this credit for Social Security benefits. Dividend Income If a seaman has dividend income from stocks he can exclude the first $100 from his gross income. If a joint return is filed and both husband and wife have dividend income, each one may exclude $100 of dividends from their gross income. Welfare, Pension and Vacation Benefits Benefits received from the SIU Welfare Plan do not have to be reported as income. Payments received from the SIU Pension Plan are includable as income on the tax return of those pen­ sioners who retire with a normal pension. There is a special retirement income tax credit to be calculated on Schedule R which is to be attached to the return. Pensioners under 65 who receive a disability pen­ sion do not have to include such payments on their tax returns. However, all disability pension payments received after age 65 are taxable in the same manner as a normal pension. Vacation pay received from the Seafarers Vacation Plan is taxable income in the same manner as wages. Seafarers Log I •J • y �v. Jl \ I- Gambling Gains All net gains from gambling must be reported as income. However, if more was lost than gained during the year, the losses are not deductible, but simply cancel out the gains. Income Averaging A Seafarer who has an unusually large amount of taxable income for 1970 may be able to reduce the total amount of his tax by using the income averaging method. This method permits a part of the unusually large amount of taxable income to be taxed in lower brackets, resulting in a reduction of the over-all amount of tax due. Deductions The following items can be used as deductions against income (if you do not take the standard de­ duction) : Contributions Any taxpayer can deduct up to 50 percent of ad­ justed gross income for contributions to charities, edu­ cational institutions and hosiptals. In the case of other contributions a 20 percent limitation applies. * -i M cLa re Fi Interest Interest paid to banks and individuals on loans, mortgages, etc., is deductible. Taxes In general, you can deduct: personal property taxes, real estate taxes, state or local retail sales taxes, state gasoline taxes and state and local income taxes actually paid within the year. You cannot de­ duct: Federal excise taxes. Federal Social Security taxes, hunting and dog licenses, auto inspection fees, tags, drivers licenses, alcoholic beverages, cigarette and tobacco taxes, water taxes and taxes paid by you for another person. >- l':r r Employer unemployment benefits (S.U.B.). Alimony, separate maintenance or support pay­ ments received from and deductible by your husband (wife). Prizes and awards (contests, raflfies, etc.). Refunds of State and local taxes (principal amounts) if deducted in a prior year and resulted in tax benefits. Death Benefit Exclusion If you receive pension payments as a beneficiary of a deceased employee, and the employee had received no retirement pension payment, you may be entitled to a death benefit exclusion of up to $5,000. Medical and Dental Expenses All expenses over three percent of adjusted gross income for doctor and dental bills, hospital bills, medical and hospital insurance, nurse care and simi­ lar costs can be deducted. Other such costs include such items as eyeglasses, ambulance service, trans­ portation to doctors' offices, rental of wheelchairs and similar equipment, hearing aids, artificial limbs and corrective devices. However, if the Seafarer is reimbursed by the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan for any of these costs, such as family, hospital and surgical expenses, he cannot de­ duct the whole bill, only that part in excess of the benefits paid by the Plan. All expenses over one percent of adjusted gross in­ come for drugs and medicine can be deducted. The deductible portion is then combined with other med­ ical and dental expenses which are subject to the nor­ mal three percent rule. In figuring your deduction, you can deduct an amount equal to one-half of the insurance premiums premiums paid for medical care for yourself, your wife, and dependents. The maximum amount de­ ductible is $150. The other one-half, plus any excess over the $150 limit is deductible subject to the normal three percent rule. The one and three percent limitations apply in all February 1971 cases, regardless of your age, or the age of your wife or other dependents. Care of Cbildren and Otber Dependents If deductions are itemized, a woman or a widower, including men who. are divorced or legally separated under a decree and who have not remarried or a hus­ band whose wife is incapacitated or is institutionalized for at least 90 consecutive days or a shorter period if she dies, may deduct expenses paid, not to exceed a total of $600, for one dependent, or not to exceed a total of $900, for two or more dependents for the care of: (a) dependent children under 13 years of age or (b) dependent persons (excluding husband or wife) physically or mentally incapable of caring for themselves; if such care is to enable the taxpayer to be gainfully employed or to actively seek gainful employment. Alimony Periodic payment of alimony to a wife in accord with a written agreement between them can be de­ ducted. Casualty Losses The reasonable value of all clothing and gear lost at sea due to storm, vessel damage, etc., for which the taxpayer is not otherwise compensated, can be deducted as an expense. The same applies to fire loss or losses in auto accidents which are not compensated by insurance. These losses are limited to the amount in excess of $100 for each loss. Work Clothes, Tools The cost and cleaning of uniforms and work clothes which ordinarily cannot be used as dress wear can be deducted. This includes protective work shoes, gloves, caps, foul weather gear, clothing ruined by grease or paint, plus tools bought for use on the job, or books and periodicals used in direct connec­ tion with work. Union Dues Dues and initiation fees paid to labor organizations and most union assessments can be deducted. Reporting Your Income All income, in whatever form received, that is not specifically exempt must be included in your income tax return, even though it may be offset by adjust­ ments or deductions. Examples are given below. Examples of Income That Must Be Reported Wages, salaries, bonuses, commissions, fees, tips, and gratuities. Dividends. Earnings (interest) from savings and loan associa­ tions, mutual savings banks, credit unions, etc. Interest on tax refunds. Interest on bank deposits, bonds, notes. Interest on U.S. Savings Bonds. Interest on arbitrage bonds issued after Oct. 9, 1969 by State and local governments. Profits from business or profession. Your share of profits from partnerships and small business corporations. Pensions, annuities, endowments. Supplemental annuities under Railroad Retirement Act (but not regular Railroad Retirement Act bene­ fits). Profits from sales or exchanges of real estate, securities, or other property. Rents and royalties. Your share of estate or trust income. Examples of Income That Should Not Be Reported Disability retirement payments and other benefits paid by the Veterans Administration. Dividends on Veterans' Insurance. Life insurance proceeds, upon death. Workmen's compensation, insurance, damages, etc., for injury or sickness. Interest on certain state and municipal bonds. Federal social security benefits. Gifts, inheritances, bequests. Insurance reimbursements for excess of actual liv­ ing expenses over normal living expenses resulting from damage to principal residence by fire or other casualty. Long-Trip Tax Problems A major tax beef by seamen is that normally taxes are not withheld on earnings in the year they earned the money, but in the year the pay­ off took place. For example, a seaman who signed on for a five month trip in September, 1969, paying off in January, 1970, woiffd have all the five months' earnings appear on his 1970 W-2 slip and all the taxes withheld in 1970. This practice could increase his taxes in 1970 even though his ac­ tual 1970 earnings might be less than those in 1969. There are ways to minimize the impact of this situation. For example, while on the ship in 1969, the Seafarer undoubtedly took draws and may have sent allotments home. These can be reported as 1969 income. Unfortunately, this raises another complica­ tion. The seaman who reports these earnings in 1969 will not have a W-2 (withholding state­ ment) covering them. He will have to list all allotments, draws and slops on the tax return and explain why he doesn't have a W-2 for them. Furthermore, since no tax will have been withheld on these earnings in 1969, he will have to pay the full tax on them with his return, at 14 percent or upwards, depending on his tax bracket. The earnings will show up on his 1970 W-2. The seaman then, on his 1970 return would have to explain that he had reported some of his earnings in 1969 and paid taxes on them. He would get a tax refund accordingly. In essence, the seaman would pay taxes twice on the same income and get a refund a year later. While this will save the seaman some tax money in the long run, it means he is out-ofpocket on some of his earnings for a full year until he gets refunded. This procedure would also undoubtedly cause Internal Revenue to examine his returns, since the income reported would not jibe with the totals on his W-2 forms. That raises the question, is this procedure justified? It is justified only if a seaman had very little income in one year and very consid­ erable income the next. Otherwise the tax saving is minor and probably not worth the headache. Page 25 �Stonewall Jackson Home From Far East E ^veryone pitches in on last minute jobs as Seafarers ^ prepare to debark the Stonewall Jackson after a voy­ age to the Middle East. A little cleaning in the galley, some work in the engine room, and bundling up the last load of laundry seem routine chores after visiting the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, India and Pakistan. The 31-yearold vessel was originally named the General R.M. Blatchford, and was converted last year from a troop ship to a cargo ship. Her load to the Middle East was mixed com­ mercial and military cargo. With the Jackson securely moored at it's home port, the SIU crew members plan visits to their home areas before shipping out on the next adventure, probably to some distant locale. r ? Bundled up against the cold New Jersey temperatures, deck main­ tenance man Tom YaMonsky sounds for water in the cargo hold of the /aekson—a job he must do many times each day. Electrical switches are checked by Seafarer Stan Gondzar, chief electrician dioard the Jackson, as his share of the last-minute shape-up given the 31-year-old cargo vessel at the end of the trip. SIU members in the engine department do their part too. Here Oiler Wilard Huggins cleans the burner equipment, to keep it in top condition. Baker John Knowles pitches In with the rest of the steward department to put remaining food supplies into the ship's refrigerator. The meals were hailed by the crew during the Middle East voyage. Utilityman Qiford Feurtado loads the last batch of soiled linen, to be washed. The long voyage produces lou of clean-up chores for the crew members. Chief Cook John Munnerlyn artfully carves slices of ^st beef for the crew. While some like the exotic foods of foreign ports, no one gripes about like this. i' • Page 26 r:- • "• Seafarers Log �RES' Nixon Economic Outlook Optimistic Despite Contrary Opinion by Labor i:'; I f pr I/* Washington, D.C. President Nixon, in light of the 1972 budget he has sent to Congress, has high hopes of a "full employment" economy beginning this year. Laboir economists share the hope, but fail to see the groundwork upon which to base it. It is a budget that calls for reduction in the 1971 deficit, for an increase in revenues that is based on a growth in the na­ tional economy that far outstrips that predicted by most business economists, and it calls for a program of revenue sharing that already has been savagely torn to pieces by no less a power than Chairman Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) of the House Ways and Means Committee. "It is the product either of wishful thinking or of political arithmetic," is the way it was characterized by Nathaniel Gdldfinger, AFL-CIO Director of Research. Greatest Concern What is of deepest concern to labor economists is that the President's estimate of budget receipts is based on a presump­ tive economic boom that would bring a tremendous increase in wages, jobs and profits over the next year. They do not believe that this is in the making. The President's estimate of 1972 receipts calls for $217.6 billion, an increase of $23 bil­ lion despite the $2.7 billion "tax bonanza" to be ^ven to business in the form of libera­ lized tax depreciation. It is also based on a Gross National ft y -•> ''V V. f. k' 4 /A T 1 A T 1 IM iS a ja A3 al A? 66 w» T 4 w s ft * O N 16 ii /* 17 19 14 At ag A* AT ai SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New OrleansMar. 16—2:30 p.m. Mobile Mar. 17—2:30 p.m. Wilmington ..Mar. 22—2:30 p.m. San Fran Mar. 24—^2:30 p.m. Seattle Mar. 26—2:30 p.m. New York ..Mar. 8—2:30 p.m. PhiIadeIphia..Mar. 9—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ....Mar. 10—2:30 p.m. Detroit Mar. 12—2:30 p.m. Houston Mar. 15—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New OrleansMar. 16—^7:00 p.m. Mobile Mar. 17—7:00 p.m. New York ..Mar. 8—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia..Mar. 9—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ....Mar. 10—7:00 p.m. IHouston ....Mar. 15—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Mar. 1—2:00 p.m. Buffalo Mar. 1—7:00 p.m. Alpena Mar. 1—7:00 p.m. Chicago Mar. 1—7:00 p.m. Duluth Mar. 1—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort ....Mar. 1—7:30 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago Mai. 16—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Mar. 18—7:30 p.m. Februa!7 1971 i'Oj Product of $1,065 billion as compared with $977 billion this year, an increase of roughly nine percent. Economists Skeptical By far the majority of econo­ mists in universities, banks and business houses do not believe that any such growth is likely this year. Only a handful out of some 30 economists in a re­ cent forecast saw an economic growth of that size. In fact, most of them saw a growth rate that would be between $15 an $20 billion less than the fore­ cast on which the Presidential budget is based. Budget outlays in 1972 are to be increased by $16.4 billion over fiscal 1971. These, the President told Congress, "will help move the economy toward hi^er employment and produc­ tion." The make-up of this $16.4 billion is still to be determined. The President seeks $5 billion for unrestricted sharing with the states and local commu­ nities. Another $11 billion is to go to six categories of "spe­ cial revenue sharing" which has yet to be spelled out. But, already the realistic fact is that this part of his "full employ­ ment" budget is certain to have the hardest kind of opposition. Hearings Promised Chairman Mills has promised to hold hearings on the pro­ gram, but he was blunt enough to say that the hearings would be fot the purpose of killing the program rather than ap­ proving it. Mills already has Schedule of Membership Meetings Buffalo Duluth Cleveland Toledo Detroit Milwaukee Mar. Mar. ..Mar. Mar. Mar. ..Mar. 17—7:30 19—7:30 19—7:30 19—7:30 15—7:30 15—7:30 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Mar. 16—5:00 p.m. Mobile Mar. 17—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 9—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (li­ censed and unlicensed)Mar. 10—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Mar. 11—5:00 p.m. Houston ....Mar. 15—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Mar. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore ....Mar. 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk ....Mar. 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City ..Mar. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. tMeetings held at Galveston wharves. t Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault .Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Newport News. made a devastating speech in the House of Representatives charging that the program would help states that don't need it and harm those that do. The President also is count­ ing on his liberalization of busi­ ness depreciation to spur the economy. Yet, Goldfinger has pointed out that almost 25 per­ cent of American industry's machinery and equipment is now standing idle "because there aren't enough customers for the things we can produce." Nixon Confident Rarely has a President be­ come as enthusiastic about a budget as Nixon has. His mes­ sage to Congress concluded: "This budget expresses our fiscal program for the New American Revolution—a peace­ ful revolution in which power will be turned back to the peo­ ple—in which government at all levels will be refreshed, re­ newed and made truly respon­ sive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting, as the first revolu­ tion almost 200 years ago." Labor economists are more interested in the arithmetic and for them, the arithmetic doesn't add up. Schlossberg, Labor Pioneer Dies in Bronx THE^ODGET DOLLAR ISi S Fiscal Ycor 1972 Estimate Whtn comes horn . Corporofton incom* Taxc* i', Social InturianM Tan« and Confributiont Excite Taxct Borrowing 5/ 5/ 'Where H goes • ••-.V •• •t Physical Rcsonrcct laf«rc«» w t Pbid to Tnm Food* Project Reveals Oceans' Floors Relatively Young Galveston, Tex. A two-year-old study known as the Deep Sea Drilling Proj­ ect has revealed facts about the relatively yoimg age of the earth's ocean basins. Most of these discoveries were made aboard the Glomar Challenger, based here. Dr. M. N. A. Peterson, chief scientist of the project, noted that the Challenger's drillings in depths of 20,000 feet have revealed that the Atlantic Ocean is less than 200 million years old. Its floor, said Dr. Peterson, is less than one-tenth to one-twentieth the age of the earth or the oldest parts of the continents. "The floors of the oceans have been almost completely re­ newed and the Atlantic Ocean New York City Joseph Schlossberg, 95, a cofounder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and crusader against sweatshop conditions in the needle trades, died recently at his home in the Bronx. Schlossberg battled for the rights of organized labor before the New Deal era, and worked actively until his death—^serv­ ing as emeritus secretary-treas­ urer of Amalgamated. He was a noted speaker and writer on labor problems and contributed articles to the English and Yiddish labor press for 40 years. In 1935 he pub­ lished a collection of essays, "The Workers and their World," and served as editor of several SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes labor newspapers during his & Inland Waters career. At the time Amalgamated Inland Boatmen's Union was founded in 1914, Schloss­ United Industrial berg was secretary-treasurer of Workers the New York Joint Board of PRESIDENT the United Brotherhood of Paul Hall Tailors. He was a founder of EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Amalgamated and was elected Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS its general secretary, an office Earl Shepard Lindsey Williams he held for more than 25 years. Al Tanner Robert Matthews In 1940 he was named emeritus SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr secretary-treasurer, the job he HEADQUARTERS ....67S 4th Ave., Bklyn. held until his death. (212) HY 0-6600 800 N. Second Ave. Schlossberg was also a ALPENA, Mich (S17) EL 4-3616 founder and honorary life BALTIMORE, Md. ..1216 E. Battlmoie St. (301) £A 7-4900 president of the National Com­ BOSTON, Mass 663 Atlantic Ave. (617) 482-4716 mittee for Labor Israel, and was 290 Franklin St. BUFFALO, N.Y. active in calling the first Con­ SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 gress for Labor Palestine in CHICAGO, III 9383 Ewlng Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 New York in 1918. The Israel (312) ES 5-9570 Labor Federation, Histadnit, CLEVELAND, 0 IBU 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 established a cultural center in DETROIT, AUch. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. his honor in Ashelon, Israel. (313) VI 3-4741 has opened during the time since the age of the dinosaurs, or in a period scarcely 100 times the time since man first shaped his crudest early tools," he said. Other objectives of the proj­ ect include measurement of the rates of motion of the con­ tinents, measurement of the mo­ tion of the floor of the ocean in relation to the equator and de­ termining the age of many areas of the floor of the ocean. Experiments already com­ pleted have led to the discov­ ery of metal-rich horizons in deep sea sediments, evidence of vertical as well as horizontal motion of the sea floor and measurement of rates and evi­ dence of ancient climatic varia­ tions and of the beginning of glacial conditions. t/'- ..2014 W. 3d St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Ittlch P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2 Ml HOUSTON, Tex 0804 Oauoi (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fin. 2608 PenH .St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ..99 MontKomeiT St. (201) HE 0-9424 MOBILE, AIn. 1 Sonth Lawrenee St. (206) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jaekson Ave. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va. 115 3d St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex JS34 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, CaUt. 1321 Mlaalon St. (415) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. ..1313 Femandex Jnncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Waah 2505 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravels Ave. (314) 752-6500 DULUTH, Minn. TAMPA, Fla. TOLEDO, O. ..312 Hanfson St. (813) 229-2788 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 WII.MINGTON, CaUI 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island. CalU. (213) 832-7285 Iseya BldK.> YOKOHAMA, Japan Room 810 1-2 KalBan-Dorl-Nakakn 2014971 Ext. 281 Page 27 �4 " h':. Azalea City Hauls Volatile Cargo A n SIU<ontracted ship has been used in the modernization of ammunition shipments to Vietnam. She was the Azalea City, owned by Sea-Land Service and chartered by the Military Sealift Command of the Pacific. At the Naval Weapons Station in Concord, Calif., 226 con­ tainers of ammunition were loaded into the holds and onto the deck of the ship. Each container was 35 feet long, 8 feet high, and 8 feet wide. The loading job was completed in only 16 hours by Depart­ ment of Defense employees who re­ ceived the assistance of Sea-Land personnel. For MSC, one of the great advantages of the containers is the rapidity with which the cargo can be loaded and unloaded. Below are some pictures of the start of that first Vietnam run with containerized ammunition. The Sea-Land container is clearly labeled "explosives," although the reminder is not often necessary for crew members. A container is readied to be Ufted by the crane onto.fhe Axtdea CUy. The crane lifts the cargo portion of the trailer for loading aboard ship. y n». .h. cilri.. .r l„ Cnu, To th.t M foiw^, ^ Guard watch as a van is loaded into one of the aft holds. Page 28 Seafarers Log . - ^ ' , �''Drift Buoy" to Chart Ocean Currents, Waves Washington, D.C. Ocean currents may be better mapped in the future, because a newly-devised free-floating . }•'• buoy, used in conjunction with satellite transmission, can dis­ patch data wherever it is need­ ed in the world. I.' • ^ The information on surface I current patterns will facilitate ship routing for the Navy, U.S. merchant marine and allied shipping interests. It will aid in determining the movement of sea ice, icebergs and oil spills and will also figure in rescue and salvage opera­ tions. Relays Data The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office launched the 42-foot-long, 1,700-p o u n d "drift buoy" off the coast of Virginia—200 miles northeast of Cape Charles. In the 21-day experiment, the information it gathered was relayed to scientific personnel studying current patterns at the National i Aeronautics and Space Admin­ istration command control sta­ tion in Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Not only did it provide us i. with accurate positions while on its drift, but it gave us a il continual flow of wind, wave r ^ and temperature data," ex­ plained Dr. Richard W. James, \ who headed the team of oceanographers that conducted the experiment. Such information will facili­ tate plotting courses in order to avoid heavy seas and resulting costly delays and is expected to aid in the prevention of ships' collisions. More Buoys Planned The success of the venture has prompted officials to plan the launching of two such buoys in the Gulf Stream in 1972. Dr. James said the interest in current patterns was height­ ened after the Scorpion, a nu- pi' •h *• Booklets Available n. iv n [I ai, > 4 *) '» A » I •A Columnist Sidney Margolius says three new con­ sumer guides published by the National Bureau of Standards are a "brave, if not wholly successful" ef­ fort to inform the general public on subjects of con­ sumer interest. He heartily recommends securing a copy of the book­ let on tires, notes that one on textiles has "some use­ fulness" and says the third, household adhesives, would be useful for hobbyists. The three—Tires, Their Selection and Care: Fibers and Fabzrics; and Adhesives for Everyday Use—may be obtained for $.65 each from the Superintendent of Docu­ ments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, or from the nearest Department of Com­ merce Field Office. February 1971 clear submarine, sank in June 1968, in the Atlantic off the Azore Islands. "We were asked to estimate the surface drift of debris, he explained, "and could have per­ formed this task more efliciently had we had a better knowledge of surface circula­ tion in that area." Eases Task He said that measurements of surface current drift are difficult to obtain, because there are no fixed reference points in the ocean. The easier-to-acquire wind and temperature measure­ ments have not been obtained on the needed regular basis be­ cause "of the economics and logistics involved in deploying ships and airplanes traditionally used for collecting such meas­ urements." Twelve more Seafarers have begun 1971 right by receiving their full hooks after attending courses at Satellite Used the SIU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Brooklyn. From left, seated are: M. Rucker, N. Data accumulated by the Bergeron, L. P. Wright, G. Smalls and L. Hoffman. From left, standing are: F. Manchack III, W. Lindsay, drift buoy was recorded by the Dan Gopshes Jr., E. Adams, T. M. Kihler, B. Beattie and M. Carlisle. Interrogation, Recording Loca­ tion System (IRLS), which was then transmitted to the NIMBUS D weather satellite DISPATCHERS REPORT AHmHe, Gulf & inland WoMis Distridf daily, anytime within two AVi Jcmuary 1.1971 to Januoiy 31.1971 hour periods—^with the exact time depending on the satellite's DECK DEPARTMENT orbit to the earth's curvature. TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGflESTERED ON BEACH The satellite then continued on its polar orbit to a point All Groups An Groups - All Groups over the Fairbanks station, Class A Class B II OassB ClassC Class A Class A Class B where it was interrogated for 8 9 1 3 5 5 2 Boston ......... the buoy's navigational and 184 199 3 48 64 106 92 New York . oceanographic data. 17 35 4 9 13 19 15 Philadelphia • 51 107 0 26 14 45 Baltimore .. • 39 43 16 0 18 20 " ,20Norfolk .... Navigational Buoy Jacksonville 56 56 • • -1 8 0 4 19 25 22 29 0 3 "8 4 15 Tampa Used to Replace 70 15 37 , 0 • 16 Mobile ......... - 62 13 170 110 70 41 . • 2 56 New Ofleahs . 111 ;v| Marine Lightship .53 -f' 107 ' 60 40 Houston ....... 70 •:53^ V:--43 ••• 47 0 17 33 23 Wilmington ... Sandy Hook, NJ. 139 , ' 123 43 78 San Francisco 104 9S , A 50-ton navigational buoy 23 52 8 2 16 Seattle 55 : is now being used by the U.S. 764 1043 24 • 274 647 •• 464' 413 Totals Coast Guard as a replacement for the lightship, a marine traf­ SIGINE DB*ARTMENT fic aid first developed in 1820. The new buoy is a steel con­ TGTAL I^ISIERE^ TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH struction that operates on a All Groups AU Groups AU Groups diesel-fueled engine. It has a Ctass A OassB OaK A Class B C]bliss C ClassB Class A , Port 30-foot tower with a 7,5006 7 6 2 2 7 6 Boston candlepower light, a fog signal 189 145 4 57 66 85 140 and radio beacon antenna. It 5>. New York ............ 20 14 0 7 . 7 17 9 1 Philadelphia ........ is designed to withstand 150- 1 Baltimore ............ 3 ;....::P£p::.-^93 ... 50 ' 14 .... 25:..-.^"v 22 29 knot winds, 10-knot currents 1 Norfolk 38 > ; 25 0 10 6 10 : 26 and 60-foot waves. .•^35 ...:i 58 8 2 8 20 >^.••28 Jacksonville 14 •p 0 3 1 Tampa Coast Guard Optimistic 44 51 0 18 28 Mobile Coast Guard engineers say 195 120 0 45 59 86 79 ; . New Orleans ...v.... the buoy is not only expected 110 77 4 52 .• 42 - . \ 50 Houston to operate successfully but it • 43 , • 21 0 10 14 ^ Wilmington 79 will also reduce maintenance V,-:. - • • 81: • 10 72 49 75 . ; 91 San Francisco 31 29 3 5 costs. 23 Seattle 887 ' 711 32 301 307 The old lightships and the 581 430 Totals ................ MSB fixed offshore light station, an­ ' - -J other newer navigational aid, STEWARD DEPARTMENT are too expensive and not al­ TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH | ways effective in all areas, the AU Groups AU Groups AU Groups Coast Guard reported. One 1 OassA ClassB OassB ClassC Class A OassA ClassB lightship costs about $2.5 mil­ 2 ...v'3.> .••^; •->••. 5 • 1 0 lion. Boston ........ 77 MPPyl54^-.-. 8 38 • 68 63 New York ^ The monster-size buoy was 10 13 T'p 4 7 13 Philadelphia , dedicated at Sandy Hook, N.J. > -T .• 31 74 12 10 . 27 Baltimore on September 2, 1970. Last 32 19 6 .•" • - ''11 MM Norfolk Wmonth another Coast Guard 41 20 • '3 2 6 11 ' 19 SB Jacksonville buoy replaced the Delaware .PPPM' • 10 0 • 4 -'P0 4 7 Tampa ......... Bay lightship which has been in 22 59 0 17 18 27 ^syy::ir: Mobile ......... 76 139 use since 1961. 4 38 54 , 44 ^' 81 New Orleans . 47 59 28 26 According to the Coast :,-s.. 44 , 25 35 Houston .1 9 27 .: • • 1 • • • 10 13 1 Guard two more buoys will be 14 Wilmington .. 68 • 92..' 17 €:.|i;>-53 37 65 70 added to the new team. One San Francisco 13 -'3 >•:• 3 ' 45 • 8 Seattle ........... '•VNV- 27 .> 10 :••>••» buoy will replace the Bamegat PPP'P^25'r:. 438 . 193 .V 231 312 397 'Totals ............. lightship and another will be at ...i-lvv ."• • • • PBPB :PyP\ Cape May as a spare. 12 Seafarers Receive Full Books • . V Page 29 7? '! �*•. 1 James C. Jolmsoii, 35, passed away Sept. 10, 1970 in Baptist Hospital, Pensacola, Fla. A native of Atmore, Ala., Seafarer Johnson was a resident there when he died. He joined the SIU in the Port of Houston in 1968 and sailed in the deck department. Brother Johnson served in the Army from 1954 to 1955. Among his sur­ vivors are his son, Sheldon Johnson of Willow River, Minn. Seafarer Johnson was removed to Atmore, Ala. RafFaele Garofalo, 56 died Dec. 16, 1970 in USPHS Hospital in Staten Island, N.Y. of natural causes. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1941 and sailed in the deck department as an able seaman. Broth­ er Garofalo was an active union mem­ ber having served as department del­ egate while sailing. He was also issued picket duty cards in 1961 and 1962. A native of New York, Brother Garofalo was a resident of Floral Park, N.Y. when he passed away. Among his survivors are his wife. Rose. Burial was in Pinelawn Memorial Park in Pinelawn, N.Y. David A. Titus, 47, passed away Nov. 19, 1970 aboard ship on the Great Lakes in Chippewa County, Mich. A native of Saginaw, Mich., Brother Titus was a resident of Al­ pena, Mich, when he died. He joined the union in the Port of Alpena in 1959 and sailed in the engine de­ partment. A Naval veteran of World War II, Seafarer Titus was wounded during action in the Indian Ocean. Among his survivors are his wife, Barbara. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Alpena. John Lewis Stonehouse, 81, was an SIU pensioner who died June 11, 1970 of heart disease in Garfield Township, Mich. A native of Yale, Mich., Brother Stonehouse was a res­ ident of Frankfort, Mich, when he passed away. He joined the union in Elberta, Mich, and sailed in the stew­ ard department. Among his survivors are his daughter, Gladys D. Jacobsen of Traverse City, Mich. Burial was in Champion Hill Cemetery in Benzie County, Mich. Symphoroso Bateluna, 55, died Dec. 10, 1970 of pneumonia in San Francisco, Calif. A native of Hawaii, Seafarer Bateluna was a resident of San Francisco, Calif, when he passed away. He joined the union in the Port of San Francisco in 1965 and sailed in the engine department. Cre­ mation was in Olivet Memorial Park. Louis Gates, Jr., 46, passed away Nov. 23, 1970 in Gongapo, Philip­ pines. A native of Alabama, Brother Gates was a resident of Mobile, Ala. when he died. He joined the union in the Port of Mobile in 1942 and sailed as a steward. Brother Gates is an Army veteran of World War II. Among his survivors are his wife, Dorothy. Burial was in Alabama. Ragnvald K. WilliamsDn, 64, died Nov. 15 in Chicago, III. He joined the SIU in the Port of Frankfurt and sailed in the deck department on the Great Lakes. A native of Norway, Brother Williamson was a resident of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. when he passed away. He had been sailing the seas for 42 years at the time of his death. Among his survivors are his wife, Solveig. He was buried at Bayside Cemetery in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. James H. Webb, 44, passed away Mar. 22, 1970 in Northampton, Va. A native of Birdsnest, Va., Brother Webb was a resident there when he died. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1946 and sailed in the deck department. Among his sur­ vivors are his brother, Charley V. Webb of Birdsnest, Va. Burial was in Johnson's Cemetery in Johnsontown, Va. Frmicis M. Dixon, 44, passed away bee. 1, 1970 in Cleveland, O. A- na­ tive of Cleveland. Brother Dixon was a resident there when he died. He joined the union in Cleveland in 1961 and sailed as a fireman-lineman on the Great Lakes. Among his survivors are his wife, Arlene. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery in Qevelaad. Theodore Pappas, 41, died Oct. 21, 1970 at City Hospital in Elmhurst, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Savannah in 1951 and sailed in the steward department. In 1962 he was issued a picket duty card. A na­ tive of Pereus, Greece, Brother Pap­ pas was a resident of Queens, N.Y. when he passed away. Among his survivors are his wife and his father Nikolaos Papoutsoglou of Pereus, Greece. Burial was in Maple Grove Cemetery in Queens, N.Y. Dennis E. Murphy, 36, passed away away Juy 27, 1970 at Alaska Native Service Hospital in Anchorage, Alas­ ka. A native of Seattle, Wash., Broth­ er Murphy was a resident there when he died. He joined the union in the Port of Seattle in 1967 and sailed in the engine department. Seafarer Mur­ phy served in the Navy from 1952 to 1955. Among his survivors are his mother, Catherine Murphy of Seattle, Wash. Brother Murphy was removed to Seattle. William J. McKelvey, 38, passed away Dec. 23, 1970 in Hawthorne Community Hospital in Hawthorne, Calif. He joined the union in the Port of New Orleans in 1955 and sailed in the deck department. A na­ tive of Los Angeles, Calif., Brother McKelvey was a resident of Haw­ thorne, Calif, when he died. He served in the Coast Guard from 1950 to 1953. Among his sur­ vivors are his wife, Keiko. Cremation was at Inglewood Crematory, Calif. Herbert Francis Burgesser, 66, was an SIU pensioner who passed away Dec. 1, 1970 from natural causes at the USPHS Hospital in Staten Island, N.Y. He joined the union in the Port of Philadelphia in 1940 and sailed as a chief steward. While sailing, he served on the ship's committee as a delegate. A native of Smithsburg, Md., Brother Burgesser was a resident of Manhattan, N.Y. when he died. Among his survivors are his nephew John E. Burgesser of Baltimore, Md. Burial was in Smithsburg Cemetery in Smithsburg, Md. Current Proposals 'Ineffecfive' Public Protection Requires a New Consumer Agency - By Sidney Margolius Washington, D.C. An independent consumer agency ranks high among the pressing needs of consumers, es­ pecially in view of the slight progress made on their behalf since the passage of the truthin-lending bill in 1968. If the need for such an agency was even in doubt, it should be dispelled by the tight leash the Administration has put on the present Consumer Assistant to the President. Education Stressed When the House Rules Com­ mittee refused to permit a vote on the bill for an independent agency. Consumer Assistant Mrs. Virginia Knauer called the Administration's more limited proposal — backed by the Chamber of Commerce—"in­ novative." Meanwhile, her office has been emphasizing consumer ed­ ucation, but this tactic is the usual fallback when effective legislation reform is not forth­ coming and the present pro­ gram is of dubious value. Page 30 One such example of con­ sumer education is an expen­ sively produced booklet sent free to schools listing such sources for consumer informa­ tion as the Chamber of Com­ merce, National Association of Manukcturers, small loan com­ panies, car dealers, supermarket managers, department store credit managers and insurance agents. Small Victories Much is made of small con­ cessions to consumers such as Virginia Knauer's success in getting the Agriculture Depart­ ment to reduce the proposed limit on fat content of frank­ furters from 33 percent to 30. But the proposal for an inde­ pendent federal consumer agen­ cy that could press for more adequate standards and label­ ing on all foods, among other consumer needs, was blocked. The Senate consumer sub­ committee hearings on break­ fast cereals are another example of highly publicized activity on an isolated problem. The result of this action was to persuade much of the public that ordinary cereals have little or no nutrition and to encour­ age the sale of several over­ priced, vitamin-fortified prod­ ucts. But the much broader and economically significant report of a House subcommittee on the need for more adequate meat supplies was lobbied into obliv­ ion by the American Cattle­ men's Association. Missed Chances These missed opportunities on the part of the Nixon Ad­ ministration have meant a seri­ ous plight for the consumer, who has had his buying power heavily eroded by the accele­ rated inflation of 1968-70. More of the same is threatened in 1971, especially from stillrising medical, housing and carowner costs. By November 1970, the sharp rise in living costs had wiped out all the wage gains made by the average industrial worker in the past six years. In 1964, the average produc­ tion worker with three depend- ents had spendable earnings after taxes of $76.38 in terms of 1957-59 dollars. Currently, he has just $77 a week of buy­ ing power calculated on the same basis. The average worker in manufacturing industries ac­ tually is even worse off than in 1964, with $84.43 in spendable dollars now, compared to $85.27 then. Six major problem areas where consumers are seriously in need of help today: High food costs, high interest rates coupled with collection laws stacked on the side of the sellers, booming medical costs, high costs in housing, serious quality control problems and the high and still rising cost of auto insurance. Several of the federal and State proposals now pending would help alleviate some of these problems, but presently, little or no help is available, and 'consumer education' or piecemeal legislation or hear­ ings are no way to solve these problems. Seafarers Log *v! i >! A �Containership Mobile On Shuttle Run <1- t this time of year, the regular shuttle run of the SlU-contracted Mobile (Sea-Land) takes her from the warm waters off Puerto Rico to the frigid waters of the Middle Atlan­ tic on a round-trip voyage every nine days. The Seafarers aboard the 497-foot containership take the rapid change in climate in stride. The 11,601-ton Mobile was built in 1945 and was orginally launched as the General Heintzelman. In 1968, the ship was completely con­ verted to enable her to carry 360 multi-pur­ pose containers. A fast turn around is the usual procedure for the vessel but when she docked at Port Elizabeth, New Jersey last month the Log caught the ship's payoff on film just before she sailed again for San Juan. A Louis Perez, who sails as ordinary seaman on the Mobile prepares to heave a monkey fist line as the Mobile glides into her herth. \ t Fireman-Watertender . sets to the task of 'humer. "Tip top" is the Mobile's engine Joe Billotto changing a the word for department. • '•'i .,r^' .--1- -.iv _• - -c"X . S. Leknes (left), who ships in the deck de­ partment, gets an assist in handling some union business from New York Patrolman Red Camp­ bell. 1-* ..X 'I J In the engine room, Oiler Maimd Rial checks the oil level on the coffin feed pump. The Mobile spent less than 24 hours in port before sailing for San Juan. .1> • fj •'•y- • A father and son team consisting of John L. Gibbons, Sr. (left) and John L. Gibbons, Jr. carries on the traditions of a seafaring family aboard the Mobile. 7i \ '•' I S m, (1 vMv,-;; Wv V - '4'•f •i I i' H. f "I M Third Cook Antonio De Jesus gets a warm pair of gloves from his gear in the fos'cle as he prepares to go ashore where tempera­ tures were in the 20s. February 1971 ft ' i Page 31 �-=«5Bea- i SEAFARERS *LOG V. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERN.ATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO ''II t. /A .'!! A. V 'ill • .if -K > »• 1971 SIU Scholarships TlTTien there's $6,000 at stake, it doesn't pay to delay. And, the deadline for submitting SIU College Scholarship ap­ plications is nearly here. AU eligible Seafarers or dependents of Seafarers are urged to apply for the five 1971 SIU grants that wiU be awarded in May. Each scholarship amounts to $6,000 over a four-year period, and may be used at any accredited college or uni­ versity. Who qualifies for the money? • A Seafarer who has a minimum of three years accu­ mulated seatime on SlU-contracted vessels. • The children of a Seafarer who meets the seatime require­ ment. • A deceased Seafarer's dependents, if the Seafarer had sufficient seatime at the time of his death. Dependents in this category must be less than 19 years old at the time they apply. 9. ^Applicants are judged on high school academic achieve­ ments and scores from the College Entrance Examination Board tests or the American College Tests. Both the CEEB and ACT are given nationwide several times during the school year. Leading university educators and administrators are the judges. In the 17 years that the SIU scholarship program has been in existence, 88 young people have been selected for the award. Of these, 26 were Seafarers and 62 were dependents. AU chose the course of study they wanted and the college they preferred. Application forms for the scholarships are available at any SIU hall or by writing to SIU Scholarships, Administrator, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Deadline for returning the forms is April 1,1971. -fr.' I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource February 1971 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SUPPORT RALLYING TO SIU IN PHS HOSPITAL CRISIS PHS HOSPITALS VITAL MTD MOBILIZES TO FIGHT FOR SEAMEN BOARD OUTLINES LEGISLATIVE GOALS RESOLUTION ATTACKS PROPSAL TO CLOSE MARINE HOSPITALS ECONOMIC PROPOSALS NOT LIVING UP TO PROMISES FOREIGN GOODS CUT BACK ON U.S. JOBS GIBSON URGES 'STABLE' LABOR-BUSINESS TIES LABOR REJECTS NIXON'S FARM WORKER PROPOSAL STRONG CREDIT LAW NEEDED PARAODIX FOR THE NATION UPGRADING COURSES GEARED TO MODERN NEEDS REP. KEITH WARNS OF USSR THREAT TO U.S. COASTAL FISHING INDUSTRY SEAFARER LOST ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF FINNISH SAILORS A STORY FILLED WITH TRAGEDY, HEROISM AND GRATITUDE CHICAGO HEALTH CLINIC PROVIDES CARE TOWARD A BETTER LIFE SEAFARERS AND THE MTD ORGANIZED LABOR OUTLINES LEGSILATIVE GOALS FOR 1971 NATIONAL RIGHT-TO-WORK GROUP SWIPES AT LABOR SEAFARERS DONATE GENEROUSLY TO LIBRARY FUND CAMPAIGN URW NAMES STRAUBER TO EDUCATION POST FAR EAST PORTS BUSTLING NINE SIU MEMBERS RECEIVE ASSISTANT ENGINEERS' LICENSES NIXON'S CORPORATE TAX CUT ASSAILED BY LABOR MARITIME: LET'S NOT KID OURSELVES THESE ARE THE HARD, COLD FACTS MARITIME: THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT SIU SENIORITY UPGRADERS GIVE CANDID VIEWS OF TRAINING PROGRAMS OFFERED AT HLSS SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS ARE AVAILABLE TO WIDOWS 1970 TAX INFORMATION FOR SEAFARERS STONEWALL JACKSON HOME FROM FAR EAST NIXON ECONOMIC OUTLOOK OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CONTRARY OPINION BY LABOR PROJECT REVEALS OCEANS' FLOORS RELATIVELY YOUNG AZALEA CITY HAULS VOLATILE CARGO "DRIFT BUOY" TO CHART OCEAN CURRENTS, WAVES 12 SEAFARERS RECEIVE FULL BOOKS PUBLIC PROTECTION REQUIRES A NEW CONSUMER AGENCY CONTAINERSHIP MOBILE ON SHUTTLE RUN 1971 SIU SCHOLARSHIPS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2/1/1971 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXIII, No. 2 1971 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/45f29ae1d12ac1ee3af10d5e3bddadd8.PDF 14282c41a0e98f36a1996c155d4f2185 PDF Text Text a3SiBna53i30s SEAFARERSA^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION » ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT * AFL-CIO AFL-CIO Fights Anti-Strike Move Aimed at Transportation Unions (See Page 3) ir Top US. Official Disputes Scheme To Liquidate All USPHS Hospitals (See Page 3) h-.< 1st '20-at-55' Retiree Lauds New SlU Plan (See Page 5) John Glass (right) becomes the first SIU member to retire under the Union's "20-at-55" pension plan. He is presented his first check by Baltimore Patrolman Bennie Wilson. Seafarer Receives Vacation Check Totalling $7,000 (See Page 6) " Seafarer Cyrus Crooks (right) receives a check totalling $3,667 from SIU Mobile Patrolman Robert Jordan. This check, plus two others pre­ sented Crooks, gave him back vacation pay of over $7,000. V-' of SIU Constitution (See Pages 13-20) �Educafion Conference of HLSS 250 SlU Members Study Their Union Piney Point, Md. What is the SIU? What are its aims and goals? How does it operate? What are its rules and regulations; its functions and responsibilities? How does it relate to the maritime in­ dustry? Some 250 rank-and-file Sea­ farers learned answers to these questions at a two-week Edu­ cational Conference at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship here. (See Editorial, Page 10.) Delegates to the meeting, which began on March 1, were chosen by their fellow SIU members. They come from 14 major ports—Baltimore, Bos­ ton, Houston, Jacksonville, Mo­ bile, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Juan, Seattle, Tampa, and Wilmington. The meeting—first full-scale educational conference spon­ sored by the SIU—is part of the Union's continuing effort to keep its members fully informed on union and industry activity. Hall Gives Briefing SIU President Paul Hall told delegates that the meeting will give them a solid opportunity to review the problems facing both the union and the industry. "It will give all of us a chance to see where we are coming from," he declared. "It will give us a chance to see where we stand today and where we are going." He made it clear that the in­ dustry is in a difficult position and "faces a trying period for the next few years." The Mer­ chant Marine Act of 1970 was a great victory, he said, but "the real work—making the Act work and work right—still lies ahead. We can't rest on laurels until the whole job is done." Purpose Outlined The SIU leader summed up the purpose of the conference in this way: "We are attempting to bridge the gap to a better life for all Seafarers. We know that no one is going to help us in this job. We know we're going to have to do it for our­ selves. "We believe we can do it through the process of educa­ tion, of having an informed • i SIU members register at the motel desk for the start of the two-week educational conference at the Harry Lundeberg Scliool of Seamanship at Piney Point. The conference is designed to give members a better un­ derstanding of their union and their industry. membership, of learning how to fight for a better life. That's what this conference is all about." Following these opening re­ marks and greetings, the 250 delegates split into eight sepa­ rate workshops for an indepth discussion and analysis of the following subjects: • Labor imion history, both the SIU and the general trade union movement. • Legal issues. • Contracts. • Political education. • Education—trade union, vocational and academic. • Union constitution. recommendations concerning • Harry Lundeberg School the operation of the union in of Seamanship. general, its rules, regulations • Union meetings and ship­ and responsibilities. board behavior. Conference Largest Ever • SIU Pension, Welfare and The conference, biggest ever Vacation Plans. held at the Piney Point facility, Conference working days was sponsored by the Seafarers were divided into morning Welfare, Pension and Vacation workshop sessions and after­ Plans, the Harry Lundeberg noon general assemblies, dur­ School of Seamanship, and the ing which time delegates again Seafarers Intemationd Union— went over subject matter taken Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland up during the morning work­ Waters District. shops. Full details on the confer­ At the end of the two-week ence will be published in a spe­ meeting, delegates are expected cial 32-page edition of the to come up with a number of Log. THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT by P«U1 HAU workers back to their jobs on the grounds that a strike '^or the second year in a row, the Congress has been in transportation imperilled the nation's health and asked by the Administration to enact special leg­ safety. islation directed against unions in the transportation In other words, management has had a silent part­ industry—legislation which would virtually take away ner at the bargaining table: The federal government. what few remaining rights which transportation work­ And so management has been under no compulsion ers have to walk off the job in the case of a labor to bargain realistically, while unions have had no real dispute. hope of forcing a fair and equitable settlement out of The government already has massive machinery to management, since they knew that their members deal with strikes which it feels affect the national would be denied the right to hit the bricks. health and safety. The existing law can be applied in It's-been an unfair contest. And the Administra­ any labor dispute—although the record makes it tion's proposals for transportation strikes in no way abundantly clear that the "national emergency" dis­ improves the situation, as far as labor is concerned. putes procedure has been invoked against transporta­ What these proposals would do would be to make it tion unions more often than against anyone else. even tougher for the union and its members in the Now the Administration wants to superimpose on future. the existing legal structure a special law dealing ex­ clusively with unions in the transportation industry. e believe it would be far wiser to remove the The net result of this new legislation would be that national emergency" disputes provisions from the Seafarers International Union, or any other union the Taft-Hartley Act. And we naturally believe that involved with the nation's interlocking transportation the new proposals from the Administration should be network, would be denied that most important of all rejected out of hand. weapons: The right of workers to withhold their serv­ What would happen then would be this: ices until they receive fair play at the bargaining The free forces of the marketplace would have the table. opportunity to take over, and would guide'the actions We believe that the Administration's proposal is^ of both parties. the wrong remedy for solving disputes between work­ Management, for its part, would know that there ers and management in the transportation industry. would be no federal government around to bail it And we feel as strongly about this with respect to out—and so it would be forced to bargain realistically unions in air, rail or surface transportation as we do with labor. It would know that, in the last analysis, it ' with our own industry, maritime. would have to live with the consequence of its actions We believe it's the wrong remedy because the dice —with the result that it would be much more likely are already cocked against the worker, and in favor to come to reasonable terms with labor than to risk of management, under the existing procedures. The the economic loss that accompanies a work stoppage. new proposals (which are spelled out in a story on Labor, on the other hand, would also know that Page 3 of this issue of the Log) only serve to tip the it had to bargain realistically. In the past, not all un­ scales still further in management's direction. ions—in transportation or in any other industry-r— have always been level-headed at the bargaining table. The fact that the so-called "national emergency" Many times, a union negotiating committee has felt disputes procedure is on the books has made many that it could afford to talk tough and threaten a strike management representatives unrealistically stubborn —knowing that the government would never permit at the bargaining table. They could afford to be^besuch a walkout. So labor, too, would have to live cause they knew that if the union used the ultimate with the consequence of its actions—and so labor, like weapon of the strike, the government could force the F W Page 2 management, would be much more likely to be reasonable in collective bargaining. In other words, we think it cuts both ways. The American merchant marine is about to em­ bark on a new course, thanks to the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. But while the legislation provides new ships and new programs to help the industry, we all know that, in the last analysis, the success of the program depends on the ability of the maritime in­ dustry to carry commercial cargoes in competition with the foreigners. We also know, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce Andrew E. Gibson reminded the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department Executive Board last month, that American shippers can sour on American-flag vessels if they are tied up because of a labor dispute—and once a shipper turns sour, it's hard to win him back as a customer later on. So we know that methods must be found to keep American-flag ships moving, to keep cargo moving, and to keep costs competitive. We in the SIU—^who got where we are today because of some of the fa­ mous strikes in years gone by—know that there are times when you have no alternative but to hit the bricks. But we also know that, given the state of the merchant marine in relation to the fleets of other na­ tions, any serious work stoppages would torpedo the maritime program we fought so hard to win. What the maritime industry needs—and other transportation industries, too—is a mature, responsi­ ble attitude by both labor and management at the bargaining table. T^e're working toward that goal. But we don't think ^ it's going to be achieved by the compulsion of federal laws. What is required is the good will and co­ operation of labor and management. That is the goal that the SIU is working toward. That is the goal that its contracted companies are working toward. That should be the goal of the Ad­ ministration—rather than a law which divides, in­ stead of unites, labor and management in this in­ dustry. Seafarers Log i J �Labor Rips Move to Hurt Transport Unions AFL-CIO Sees 'Emergency' Strike Plan a Major Threat At ith mid-winler meeting the AFL-CIO Exeeutive Council discussed and adopted organized labor's legis­ lative goals for the 92nd Congress. The council voted unanimously to fight against passage of any "antistrike" laws that would have particularly adverse effects on the transportation unions. Top US, Official Hits Plan To Close USPHS Hospitals r i , Washington, D.C. The nation's Comptroller General has slapped down a plan to close the eight remain­ ing U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals. The plan had been put for­ ward as an "economy move" by Elliott L. Richardson, secre­ tary of the Health, Education and Welfare Department. (See Letters to the Editor, Page 10, and Rep. Rangel story. Page 4.) The SIU has fought the proposal since it was first an­ nounced. Staats Also Disagrees In a letter to Rep. Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), chair­ man of the Committee on Mer­ chant Marine and Fisheries, Comptroller General Elmer B. Staats declared; "It is . . . our opinion that under the 1944 Public Health Service Act, the Congress in­ tended that the hospital system characteristic of the Service since its inception in 1802 with the Marine Hospital is to be operated and maintained by the Service in order to carry out the functions and duties im­ posed by the 1944 Act. "In light of the foregoing, the Secretary may not, in our view, use his discretionary powers ... to effect the closing of all PHS hospital facilities. . . ." Staats further stated that "we find nothing in the HEW mem­ orandum that would persuade us to reach a contrary view at this time." VA Hospitals Not Solution Concerning the HEW plan to utilize Veterans hospitals for merchant seamen, Staats as­ serted that "since by statute the primary function of the PHS is to provide care for seamen and that of the VA to provide care for veterans, we could not ... see a legal basis for admitting merchant seamen to VA hospitals ahead of vet­ erans eligible for treatment of nonservice-connected disabil­ ities." March 1971 Meanwhile, a resolution call­ ing for expanding and mod­ ernizing the PHS hospitals won sponsorship by at least 244 congressmen—well over the necessary majority. The resolu­ tion has the strong backing of the SIU. The resolution makes it clear that "it is the sense of the Con­ gress" that PHS hospitals and outpatient clinics "not only re­ main open and funds be made available for continued opera­ tion," but that more funds be appropriated for "the modern­ izing, upgrading and expanding of all existing facilities." Garmatz's Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee ex­ pects to hold hearings soon on the resolution. Public Opposes Closings Word of HEW's plan to close Labor Rejects PHS Alternative Bal Harbour, Fla. The AFL-CIO Executive Council has adopted a reso­ lution opposing the Admin­ istration's plan to close the remaining United States Pub­ lic Health Service hospitals. The council has urged Congress to reject the plan, declaring that the proposal to transfer PHS patients to Veterans Administration hospitals or to private hospi­ tals can "hardly be consid­ ered seriously." "The VA hospitals are un­ derstaffed, undermaintained and uriderfunded," the coun­ cil said. "As any veteran knows, the VA hospital sys­ tem does not have the capac­ ity to meet the medical care needs of veterans, let alone the needs of more patients." The council noted that the costs per patient day in PHS hospitals—located in eight major port cities—averages $55, only a little more than half of what private volun­ tary hospitals are charging in the same eight cities. the PHS hospitals brought a groundswell of public opinion against the move. Both the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars vehemently opposed the plan and sent word of their opposition directly to the White House. They told President Nixon, in effect, that VA hospitals al­ ready are over-crowded and under-funded and could not possibly handle "outside" pa­ tients at this time. 15 Local posts of both organiza­ tions also adopted resolutions condemning the HEW plan as did many health-organizations. HEW Backtracking? The big question remains: Will HEW stick to the plan? There are indications now that Richardson is backtrack­ ing. In a speech to the Louisiana School Board Association in Shreveport, he declared that his office "never contemplated" closing the PHS hospitals. In­ stead, he said, HEW merely wants to "study" alternative uses to the facilities. The New Orleans area Health Planning Council, a federallyrecognized health planning agency, called this "encouraging news" but told Richardson in a letter that the "who. when and where" of such a contemplated study has not yet filtered down to local levels. Question Not Yet Resolved ' The New Orleans TimesPicayune editorialized that Richardson's latest stand does not resolve the issue. The news­ paper publically thanked "those leaders whose job is to look out for the community's overall welfare" for sounding the alarm on the hospital-closing plan. The remaining PHS hospitals in question—facilities which provide health care for a halfmillion Americans, including merchant seamen—are located in Boston, Baltimore, New York, Norfolk, New Orleans, Galveston, San Francisco and Seattle. Bal Harbour, Fla. The AFL-CIO Executive Council has sharply attacked the Administration's proposed "emergency disputes in transportation" legislation. The proposal would single Department of the AFL-CIO out maritime and four other spoke to the same issue at its transportation-linked industries Eighth Constitutional Conven­ —rail, airlines, trucking and tion in 1969: longshoring—for a trio of sp>e"The threat of compulsory cial steps that would: arbitration is used against un­ • Authorize the government ions and management in all in­ to partially operate any of the dustries. The spectre is raised, industries during a strike. in particular, in the transpor­ • Give an arbitration panel tation industry—where the doc­ the power to choose without trine of "public convenience" modification the final offer of is already invoked to deny un­ either management or the ions and employers complete union to force an end to dead­ freedom of self-determination." locked negotiations. The MTD voiced its opposi­ • Extend the current 80-day tion to "any tampering—under "no-strike" injunction now ap­ whatever guise—with the fun­ plication for "emergency" dis­ damental rights of American putes under the Taft-Hartley workers and American man­ Act to 119 days for the trans­ agement inherent in the exercise portation industry. of the free collective bargain­ ing process." Sees No Justification At its meeting here in Febru­ The E X ecu t i v e Council ary, the Executive Council labedel the idea "a violation of charged that the so-called na­ the principles of democracy." tionwide rail crises in recent (See The President's Report, years are "solely attributable to Page 2.). The council said it could see the fact that the carriers have no justification for imposing succeeded in blocking—through special emergency procedures the courts—every attempt at a selective or partial strike, thus on the maritime industry. "Certainly no maritime strike transforming every impasse into would warrant even the invoca­ a nationwide strike or lockout." "They have done this obvi­ tion of the present Taft-Hartley (no-strike) provisions," the ously and deliberately to pro­ voke Congressional interven­ council's resolution asserted. The Council said that the tion," the council's statement trucking and longshoring indus­ said. tries were inappropriately in­ Council Proposes Revisions cluded in the proposal, and that Revision of the Railway La­ the rail and airline industries have traditionally been regu­ bor Act was proposed by the council "to make it clear that lated by special legislation. Named the "Emergency Pub­ unions have the legal right to lic Interest Protection Act," strike a particular carrier or the proposed measure would carriers; and that the railroads virtually repeal the Railway have no right to transform these Labor Act which now governs limited disputes into nationwide strike situations in the rail and strikes or lockouts." airline fields. The council added, however, The Administration failed in that it favors allowing the gov­ efforts to win passage of the ernment to require limited op­ same proposals in the 91st eration of struck lines to in­ Congress. sure the continued movement of passenger trains and essen­ Fast Resolutions Noted The Conference of Trans­ tial commodities. It expressed portation Trades—which repre­ support for legislation along sents the same five industries these lines introduced by Sen. now singled out for "person­ Harrison A. Williams (D-N.J.) alized" legislation—noted in and Rep. Harley O. Staggers February 1970 that the Ad­ (D-W.Va.). ministration's proposals "would Compulsory Arbitration suffocate the free give-and-take The rail and airline indus­ of collective bargaining." tries, the council said, still re­ "Injunctions under the Taftquire legislation tailored to Hartley and Railway Labor their specific needs and "while Acts have been issued on false we agree that revisions are pretenses," the Conference said needed in the Railway Labor in a resolution, "and their im­ Act, we flatly oppose compul­ pact has been to reduce the ef­ sory arbitration of contract fectiveness of free collective terms, no matter how novel the bargaining. disguise." "Compulsory arbitration, If the railroad workers are even though cloaked in Presi­ denied the right to strike then dential respect, would be an even greater infringement upon Congress should move immedi­ free collective bargaining. Com­ ately to nationalize the coun­ pulsion and freedom are incom­ try's railroads, the council con­ patible. To advocate imposing tinued, declaring: "We believe compulsion over freedom is to that if the railroad workers are nationalized then the companies invite economic tyranny." And the Maritime Trades must be nationalized." Page 3 �Freshman Legislator Raps Proposed Hospital Closings Congressman Rangel addresses a gathering of business,, labor and gov­ ernment ofBcials at a luncheon sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department in Washington. Rep. Rangel voiced his support of labor's fight to save the USPHS Hospitals. AFL-CIO Resolutions Stress Nation's Needs Bal Harbour, Fla. Federal aid to cities and states, direct election of the President, expansion of 18year-olds' voting rights, and in­ creases in Social Security bene­ fits were among the chief rec­ ommendations made by the AFL-CIO Executive Council at its meeting here in February. The Nixon Administration's proposal for revenue sharing— which provides for distribution of some $5 billion annually to the states with no "strings" on how the money could be used —fell under attack by the council. The proposal would require "dismantling" successful pro­ grams under the guise of rev­ enue sharing, the council said. Cities and states would be in better financial shape today, the council noted, if the Adminis­ tration hadn't opposed "full funding or even adequate fund­ ing" of existing federal grantin-aid programs. Offers Alternatives To meet the needs of local and state governments, the Ex­ ecutive Council proposed that the grant-in-aid programs be fully funded—a step which would immediately pour $6 billion into cities and states; quick enactment of new grants to create public-service jobs on the state and local levels; fed­ eral assumption of the full costs of public welfare, and a federal tax credit for state income tax payments. The revenue proposals were part of a nine-point program advanced by the council as an alternative to the Administra­ tion proposal. Also recommended during the executive session was tax reform at all levels of govern­ ment; new methods of financing, such as a federal Urban Bank to provide low-interest loans for housing, transit and other com­ munity facilities, and consoli­ dation of local government units. Favor Amending Constitution Two proposals to amend the U.S. Constitution won a strong endorsement of the council: an amendment providing for di­ rect presidential elections and an amendment enabling 18- Page 4 year-olds to vote in state and local elections, as well as for federal offices. The direct election amend­ ment—^passed by the House in the 91st Congress, but blocked in the Senate—is needed be­ cause "the electoral college never functioned as intended . . . and poses a constant threat that a candidate receiving fewer votes than his rival may be­ come President," the council resolution declared. It also noted: "We believe that 18-year-olds should have the vote, and that it is im­ practical to have one age standard for voting for federal office and another for state of­ fice." Urges Social Security Boost The council, speaking on the issue of Social Security bene­ fits, noted that a 35 percent increase—in two separate steps —is needed to provide "eco­ nomic security for present and future retirees." Senior citizens are "the na­ tion's most tragic and peren­ nial victims of inflation," the council said. Last year's rise in living costs alone came to 6 percent, the amount proposed by the administration for a Social Se­ curity increase, the statement noted. It stressed that so long as the basic level of benefits remains inadequate, merely ty­ ing a cost-of-living escalator to the Social Security laws risks "condemning the aged to a perpetual substandard way of life." Stresses Environment Control The Executive Council also called for a concentrated at­ tack on the problem of solid waste disposal and proposed a program to deal with all forms of pollution. Pointing out that the nation produces more than 4 billion tons of solid wastes a year and spends $4.5 billion to handle them in an inadequate fashion, the council approved a state­ ment calling for a "broad and systematic program rather than a fragmented approach like the so-called ban-the-can or banthe-bottle campaigns, which are self-defeatting." Washington, D.C. The split between Congress and the Administration over the fate of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals has been de­ cried by Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) as "unbeliev­ ably ironic." The administration's pro­ posal to close the eight remain­ ing USPHS hospitals "is be­ wildering. It is unreal. It is foolhardy. It goes against com­ mon sense," the freshman congressman told a Maritime Trades Department luncheon crowd here. "And, it runs counter to the obvious demand by the Amer­ ican people to provide far, far more—and not less—medical care for all citizens," he con­ tinued. Congress Gives Support Congress, on the other hand, has rallied behind legislation— to the tune of 244 co-sponsors —that would modernize and expand the USPHS facilities, Rangel said. "That's 16 members more than a majority," he added, and a clear indication of Congres­ sional interest in preserving the tradition of service provided for more than 500,000 Americans annually. "Frankly, I am appalled that the intent of the Congress to strengthen the Public Health Service hospital system—shown |time and time again over the past 15 years—has been ignored by the Administration," Rangel said. Medical Care A Right Adequate medical care for all Americans has been declared a right, he reminded—a right just as precious as our four freedoms; the freedom of re­ ligion, of assembly, of speech, of the press. "Decent, professional med­ ical care for all today stands upon the threshold of becom­ ing our fifth freedom—^the free­ dom from the fear that the lack of a dollar will result in the lack of life-giving medical care. "Who is it that has made this declaration? "The answer, of course, is the American people . . . Ade­ quate medical care now holds top priority among a vast ma­ jority of those of us who stand for election, be we Democrats or Republicans," he said. Even the "mossbacks of the American Medical Association" in their own "self-protective style," push for adequate med­ ical care, he added. 500,000 Cared For Prior to 1960, the USPHS hospitals numbered 16. The eight remaining serve 500,000 merchant seamen. Coast Guardsmen, military personnel and their families each year. Congressional support of the hospitals is based on the knowl­ edge that they "are meeting today's medical care demands today," Rangel said. "We know they are efficient. We know that they provide "professional, effective medical care each year. PHS Only A Start "We know that within the Public Health Service hospital program there lies the seed for a program for the finest medical care for all Americans," he ex­ plained. President Nixon's proposal in February to expand private health insurance to pay for the nation's medical bills, was in­ consistent, Rangel said. The President said: "Rather than giving up on a system which has been developing im­ pressively, we should work to bring about further growth which will fill the gaps we have identified." Rangel said he wanted to agree with the President—but that the President's idea of the system which has been develop­ ing impressively, was "either out of step or out of tune." A Proud History The congressman pointed out that the PHS system of medical care has been in use since 1798, that the nation should "further the growth" of the PHS facil­ ities, and with such action would "fill in the gaps" that the President pointed to in all phases of American medical care. "These are ironic times," Rangel pointed out. "For the past five years, Congress has appropriated funds to modern­ ize the PHS hospitals. And for the past five years, the federal government has seen fit to ig­ nore these appropriations—^to let the facilities physically deteriorate in direct violation of the intent of the Congress to expand the hospitals and to keep them up to date. . ." Each time a movement be­ gins to improve the PHS facil­ ities, or any national health care program is mentioned, there are some who argue that with only the federal government keep­ ing watch, costs would spiral, Rangel said, but this is con­ trary to the record. AHematives Compared "It currently costs $55 a day to provide medical care for a patient in a PHS hospital," he said. "For care that is no ^tter —and in many cases not as good—the cost in a private or voluntary hospital is nearly $100 per patient day." The New York legislator noted that costs aren't the only reason for maintaining the PHS facilities—p r i v a t e, voluntary and Veterans Administrations hospitals in most areas are al­ ready overcrowded, and there are waiting lists for people wanting to get in. SlU Vice President to Serve On Veterans' Aid Committee Washington, D.C. bor on the committee: 1. W. Abel, president of the SIU Vice President Earl Shephard has been appointed to Steelworkers; Peter Bommarito, the 100-member national ad­ president of the Rubber Work­ visory committee of the Jobs ers; John F. Griner, president of the Government Employees; for Veterans program. The committee includes sev­ C. J. Haggerty, president of the en members of President Nix­ AFL-CIO Building and Con­ on's cabinet, other govern­ struction Trades Department; ment officials and representa­ James T. Housewright, presi­ tives from public and private dent of the Retail Qerks; Lee. business organizations. W. Minton, president of the Labor Secretary James D. Glass Bottle Blowers; Charles Hodgson and James F. Gates, H. Pillard, president of the In­ national chairman of Jobs for ternational Brotherhood of Veterans announced the forma­ Electrical Workers; S. Frank tion of the committee and gave Raftery, president of the Paint­ a progress report on the pro­ ers; Alexander Rohand, presi­ gram at a news conference at dent of the Printing Pressmen; Glenn Watts, secretary-treasur­ the Labor Department. er of the Communications Purpose of Program The Jobs for Veterans pro­ Workers; Hunter Wharton, gram will be working on ways president of the Operating En­ to improve job opportunities gineers and Julius Rothman, for servicemen returning to ci­ president of the AFL-CIO Hu­ vilian life. More than 1 million man Resources Development servicemen will complete their Institute. military obligations during the next 12 months, the committee noted. While about one-quarter of the returning veterans will re­ sume their education, most will be entering the labor force— many of these seeking their first full-time jobs. The program is designed to stimulate the formation of ac­ tion groups at state and local levels and to encourage em­ ployers to seek out and hire or train the veterans. Labor Participants Besides Shephard the follow­ ing will represent organized la­ Earl SVepb^rd Seafarers Log / i! �•v;E:f3RW*S3B . V \r ilHlT. CITATIOK If s ms»|^«!r McitsoK rtiSifiitt ifnt^tnr-mT-. M)mAis(}ii^<teiiU^Tixv«*«»(^ MiLkb First SlU '20-at'55' Retiree Feels Pension Plan Is 'Great' Baltimore, Md. John K. Glass is 56 years old—and retired. Glass is the first Seafarer to retire under SIU's new "20-at55" pension plan which allows SIU members to quit work at age 55 after 20 years of serv­ ice. "It's a great thing," Glass said when he received his first monthly pension check. When I first went to sea back in the 30s, we didn't think much about retirement and retirement pay. We just worried about our jobs—and whether we had one. We kept trying to stretch a pay­ off to cover all our needs. Now a Seafarer can retire when he hits 55 at $250 a month. I call that great." ii .k)M O^-MUuMK^riOvriKft SIU Clharter Member Glass first joined the SIU on November 21, 1938, shipping v «i» out of New York. He recalls that he earned about $60 a mAw4isMtiii!>i9k'-VMm<it'tt 'tvt >kt&ift(kT t •(tt.wSiiwwr intt sotKMUM *.& »»» ^tkv month when he started, work­ ing as a coal passer on a steamer. kii$tkiu«MlC«U, :kk»:;^kv tii: socQt&skkLtv John Glass, the first SIU member to retire from the union under the Y^> »bl,VlV^6 kiwi k kHitlkJk kliik kUWk Later he shifted his home new "20-at-55" pension plan, receives his first check and congratula­ ki-kNfk «UBSkk wa Kktik 6» t*ik » ftkUMiKt kWK,.,. :tions from SIU Baltimore Patrolman Bennie Wilson. port to Baltimore and it was crokkuci*. from this port he began making World War II convoy runs. Vietnam when the French were time, but he did say he intends to do a lot of reading. Some of the runs were hair- fighting their battle there. "I'm going to do just about raising experiences. "Lumps Were Worth It" what I want to," he said. "I'll The nation's battles were not Glass was aboard the Fraitake things as they come along. port when it^was torpedoed. He the only ones the Baltimore You know, being sick and all, I also was part of a four-ship Seafarer remembers. He re­ don't know what would have convoy which lay in wait for a calls the union's fights for rec­ happened to me without our dark night, then dashed through ognition, such as the bitter Cit­ pension and welfare plans. They the Suez Canal and on to Mal­ ies Service strike, and the Un­ ta. The ships carried mixed ion's help to other organiza­ sure are making a difference in my life." above us. At one point its mast cargoes, including "blockbust­ tions, such as the Wall Street San Francisco, Calif. Glass is married and has five The Maritime Administra­ crosstree nearly smashed er" bombs. Along the way to strike. "We all got our lumps in children, ranging in age from Malta, the convoy was at­ tion's coveted "Gallant Ship" through the window." those days," he declared, "but eight through 16. Being home tacked by German planes and award was presented to the SS Rescue 'Far From Routine' the lumps were worth it. They with his family in Glen Bumie, gun crews scored a kill by President Jackson for its part in Attending the award cere­ knocking one out of the sky helped to get us where we are Md., near Bdtimore, is prob­ a dramatic rescue off the coast mony was Admiral Mark and driving the rest away. today. I guess we wouldn't have ably the best part of retire­ of Bermuda in January 1970. Whalen, commandant of the Glass, like many other Sea­ this pension plan if we didn't ment, Glass thinks. Eugene A. Olsen, captain of Third Coast Guard district, who farers, got into the war situa­ fight those battles." "I'm finally going to get to the President Jackson at the called the rescue "far from know my family," he said, "and Time to Get Acquainted tion again during both the Ko­ time of the rescue, accepted the routine." Glass is retiring primarily let them get to know me. For rean and the current Vietnam award on behalf of the officers The "Gallant Ship" plaque conflicts. Glass remembers that because of illness. His retire­ Seafarers, that may be what re­ and crew of the ship, which is and the medal were presented he was even making runs to ment plans are uncertain at this tirement is all about." manned by members of the by T. J. Patterson Jr., western Sailors Union of the Pacific, an region director of MARAD. SIUNA affiliate. Captain Olsen The Jackson is owned by the also received the MARAD American President Lines, Ltd. Meritorious Service Award. and was christened in 1941. Weather a Hindrance The President Jackson Occult Warning braved mountainous seas and strong winds to save seven per­ Issued Labor sons aboard the schooner Tina Baltimore, Md. Maria Doncina. Organized labor might be hit Captain Olsen sailed his ship with a new law restricting un­ to the windward side of the ion privileges according to an schooner, shielding the vessel article in the Baltimore Sun. from the 60-knot gale. The The story issued a warning for seven crew members were able labor to be on its guard this to clamber aboard the Jackson year, the year of the 12-year safely in the nine minutes the "labor law itch." The warning ship held position. refers to a pattern that seems In his report of the incident, to have been established some Capt, Olsen said that looking 36 years ago. out of the bridge windows was The article explained it in like looking through the port­ this way: hole of a submarine." He added . "The Wagner (Labor Rela­ that the schooner was being tions) Act was passed in 1935. "blown across the waves like The Taft-Hartley Act, sharply a child's kite." restricting union privileges The ship rolled 50 degrees under the Wagner Act, was as it lay aside the schooner. A passed in 1947. The Landrum- Ray Schoenke, offensive guard for the National Football League's Washington Redskins, takes time out to passenger reported that, "one Griffin Act, further restricting relate some "inside" stories to SIU Instructor John Doran and a group of Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ moment the schooner was be­ union privileges, was passed in manship trainees. The future Seafarers were in Washington attending an AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment luncheon as part of their training program when they met Schoenke. low us, the next moment it was 1959." -ftOkiWTi^kj' THC «i4Jf;ibiikMa)mikw^& e.itt» ^ikkcm X %Vk t^UkUMUtk Sl»k MARAD Honors Crew For Successful Rescue ' Pro Star Greets hlLSS Trainees March 1971 .a ii wn* r pi Page 5 �Rep. Tiernan Urges Federal Agencies to Ship American' Aboard the Transeastern in Alabama drydock in Mobile, Seafarer Cyrus M. Crooks (rigbtj is handed his $3,667 vacation check by SIU Patrolman Robert Jordan. Due Vacation Pay Adds Up to $7,000 MobUe, Ala. Seafarer Cyrus M. Crooks just returned from nearly six jears at sea, picked up $7,000 in vacation pay and plans to return to sea without taking a vacation. The money represents back vacation pay, due him for sev­ eral years prior to his mara­ thon voyage aboard the Transeastern, plus the time accrued while aboard ship continually from June 1965. It Adds Up Brother Crooks applied for a total of over 2,000 days of vacation when the Transeastern pulled into port here last month. The $7,000—which was whittled down a bit when taxes were withheld—came in the form of several separate checks. • T^e largest netted him over $3,600, and according to Agent Louis Neira at the Port of Mobile, it was "the largest vacation check ever issued in the port." • He also picked up two checks totaling $769.25 which he had applied for in 1964, but had never picked up be­ cause he was overseas. • And, he had in his posses­ sion two previous checks from the SIU Vacation Plan, which banks would not cash due to the age of the checks. He ex­ changed these for currently- Washington, D.C. Rep. Robert O. Tiernan (DR.I.) believes that federal reg­ ulations should be enacted to give U.S.-flag ships first chance to carry government cargoes. Firts priority must be given to American-flag vessels, he said, ". . . and espeically the unsubsidized ships whose battle to stay alive without govern­ ment hnancial aid has saved us from being a nation without a merchant fleet." Addressing a Maritime Trades Department luncheon, Tiernan said that then, only after every effort has been made to place federal cargo in American ships, should any foreign-flag vessel be used. "The new ships will have de­ feated one of the major enemies of a healthy merchant fleet— age," he said. "But the second major en­ emy—neglect—will be just as destructive unless we beat it back with an all-out campaign to provide cargoes for the American-flag fleet." and exported 270 million tons of goods. This year that figure will top 430 million tons. And 10 years from now, it is esti­ mated that we will be import­ ing and exporting in excess of 600 million tons of cargo a year. Must Meet Challenge "As we develop and produce Government Cargo Necessary the technologicdly advanced Such a campaign can suc­ vessels that are now in sight, ceed, Tiernan predicted, if "the we should dig in our heels, and world's largest shipping cus­ go after the world's commerce," tomer^—the U.S. government—" Tiernan said. takes the lead. "Through vigorous and dedi­ Government cargo alone cated work that can be ac­ would be insufficient to support complished now—while we are the U.S.-flag fleet, he said; in the eye of the storm—^we private shippers must also util­ can return the American mer­ ize American vessels. chant marine to the status it "The cargo is available. A once occupied on the world's decade ago the U.S. imported oceans." U.S. Vessels First "First choice should go to dated checks, and that added the ships of those nations re­ another $607 to his cache. ceiving our government cargo ... if, of course no U.S.-flag Around Some Time vessel were available. Crooks, now 52, joined the "As to the so-called 'thirdSIU in the Port of Mobile in flag' fleets that have invaded 1941 and sailed steadily in the government-cargo market, Back during World War I The mold of steel reinforc­ various engine room ratings. He they should be called upon only the government's crash ship­ ing rods and mortar is then originally joined the Trans­ as a last resort. building program turned out pulled away when the cement eastern in 1962 and spent the "They should receive from htmdreds of ships of various dries and the result is a boat first several years sailing coastal our government close to what familiar materials such as steel that is rotproof, fireproof, easy routes. they contribute to our nation— and wood. to maintain and durable. Then since 1965 it shuttled and that is 'nothing.' " The program also introduced in the Persian Gulf. Can Be Costly a new material: cement. Crooks, and the Transeastern, Lauds Merchant Marine Act The process is a costly one, came back stateside only once Now in the relative calm of The Congressman said that today, the cement boat is en­ even for the backyard builder during those nearly six years, the Merchant Marine Act of joying a renaissance in, of all who is satisfied with a small when the ship anchored at an 1^)70 assured the survival of an places, the backyard boat or medium sized boat. oil discharge base outside American merchant fleet after building industry. One typical backyard boat, Staten Island, N.Y. The ship 25 years of decline and 11 tma 52-footer, used a ton and a never came into port, however, Cement Practical successful efforts to enact half of steel rod, 31,500 square and neither did Brother Crooks. Although cement would feet of wire mesh and 6,000 Since he has been aboard, remedial legislation. "Passage of the Merchant seem an unlikely material for potmds of concrete to finish. as fireman-watertender. Crooks Marine Act of 1970 generated pleasure boat construction in Aside from the cost of ma­ has stood approximately 6,000 enormous hope," the Congress­ the era of fiberglas and plastic, terials, the cement boat builder watches and virtually knows every aspect of the Trans- man said. "It did not generate engineers .say that the con­ also has to put up with a lot of struction of cement sailing ves­ guff from interested neighbors. instant prosperity. easern's plant. sels IS entirely practical. "Our challenge today is to Butt of Jokers No Retirement Plans Air pressure inside the hull keep that hope alive—to make is what keeps ships afloat, the One such builder said friends His home is in Oakdale, a it the catalyst for action." engineers say, and in any event made such helpful suggestions suburb of Mobile, but he has Time a Factor cement is actually lighter than as converting the boat to a no immediate plans to spend a swimming pool, or using it as great deal of time there. The nature of shipbuilding re­ steel. Retirement isn't even a con­ quires a long lead time before The current method of con­ a septic tank. sideration, he says, "there's tbo vessels are ready for use. Even struction in vogue is the ferro"You get a lot of people much living left to do." with the funding approved for cement method which entails who say they want to be And, besides, the Trans­ 41 of the 300 vessels that the construction of a mold shaped aroimd on launching day to see eastern ships out shortly for Act provides, only a trickle of as a hull and then forcing con­ it sink," the backyard builder another trip to India and the these will be serving the nation crete between the walls of the said. "They equate the cement Persian Gulf area. by 1973 or 1974, Tiernan said. mold. boat with the lead balloon." Cement Boats Enjoying Back Yard Renaissance CKARl ES S, ZIMMERMAN Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Grads Prepare to Ship Out UW A frsm* !\ifAaAr Graduates of HLSS Class 61A prepare to embark for IVew York and their first ships with the well wishes of Houston Port Patrolman Ron Lightfoot, front row, right. Pic­ tured are, from left; Front row, Willie King, Roy Grondal, John Cerami, Paul Conte and Mike Donnelly. Back row, Emamon Kelly, Howard Lazzarini, Michiel Cyrus, Michael Holland, Frank Adams, Monte Grimes and Tony Hutter. Page 6 vaMAnoxAa IAOVA IPaMAv l^AanO HLSS Class 62 prepares to leave Piney Point for New York and assignment to their first ships. Port of Mobile Dispatcher Harold J. Fischer, left, wishes them a bon voy­ age. Class members are, from left, first row: James Beard, Robert Cayton, Gerald Dixon, Jim Hummerick, Dang Dungan and Trainee Bosun Dennis Brown. Back row: John Fredericks, Collins, A. Beauvered, M. McCollum, J. Bianculli and Steve Gresham. UT GC Seafarers Log �HLSS Trainees Pass GED Test Piney Point, Md. Six more future Seafarers earned their State of Maryland General Educational Develop­ ment High School Equivalency Diplomas after passing a twoday examination administered by the state Department of Ed­ ucation. This is the third suc­ cessful HLSS class since the program was started in Decem­ ber. The trainees, from all over the country, received 10 weeks of individualized instruction by the school's Department of Academic Education teachers to prepare them for the test. Their equivalency dpilomas were presented to the trainees by Hazel Brown, director of Academic Education, at the opening session of the Seafarers Educational Conference in Piney Point, Md. The successful candidates, James Biglan of East Orange, N.J., Patrick McNulty of Wakefield, R.I., Michael Mor­ gan of Superior, Wis., Gary rCotil, of St. Petersburg, Fla., Michiel Cyrus of Tampa, Fla., and John Reed of Norwalk, Conn., had passed Maryland examinations of English, social studies, general science, mathe­ matics, literature and spelling. Testing Begins Early Each trainee had been pre­ tested at the beginning of his stay in Piney Point to guage his academic strengths and weaknesses. After the pre-test was analysed by the Depart­ ment of Academic Education, each youngster was given per­ sonalized tutoring to correct deficiencies where needed. During the diploma presenta­ tion, Miss Brown told the audi­ ence of more than 250 Seafarer delegates and officials that the department is very proud of the fact that more than 75 percent of HLSS candidates pass the examination on their first at­ tempt in comparison with a national average of about 30 percent. The first class to take a state "Skinflints" Don't G/ye New York City The Wall Street Journal has revealed that "most of the, country's biggest, richest companies are skinflints at heart," when judged by their contributions to charitable causes. Tax returns of nearly one million companies were scrutinized by the JournaL It was found that only one percent of their pre-tax income was donated to charities — although corpo­ rate gifts of up to 5 percent of net income are fully de­ ductible. "The bigger the company is, the smaller the percentage of income it gives away," the Journal noted. March 1971 examination, in December, earned three diplomas out of four candidates; the second group in January resulted in four out of five earning diplo­ mas and the latest class for the February examination had six out of eight who passed. The GED equivalency diplo­ ma program is enabling young men who dropped out of high school for one reason or anoth­ er to go on to college, and aids them in advancement on the job. In addition to their diplo­ mas, they received the right to choose their department and the port from which they will sail on their first trips. Graduates Voice Opinions Biglan, 23, a Vietnam in­ fantry veteran, told the assem­ bled Seafarers Educational Con­ Six Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship trainees who successfully completed their General Educational ference delegates that he was Development (GED) course are congratulated hy Congressman Robert Tiernan. The GED certificate grateful to the SIU and the represents a major stride forward for these future Seafarers. It can serve as the key to their educational of institutions of higher learning. From left are: Pat McIVulty, Gary Kotil, James Harry Lundeberg School for future hy opening the doors Biglan, Rep. Tiernan, Mike Morgan, Mike Cyrus and John Reed. the opportunities the GED pro­ grams opened up for him. "When I first came here, I Atfontic. Gulf & Inkmd Watws District thought that I would never get a chance to finish high school," February 1,1971 to February 28,1971 he said. "Now I've got a diplo­ DECK DEPARTMENT ma and can further my educa­ tion, thanks to the SIU, the TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIFFED REGISTERED ON BEACH school and the teachers." AU Groups All Groups All Groups Explaining why the HLSS Class A ClassB ClassB ClassC Class A Class A QassB Port program was more effective 10 8 6 3 2 5 7 Boston than public high schools, 179 208 47 47 3 100 105 New York Michiel Cyrus, 17, a 10th grade 33 21 0 22 15 11 16 Philadelphia i. dropout, said, "In my high 44 92 8 38 1 25 Baltimore .V. school, the teachers couldn't 74 2(j' 0 51 13 4 27 Norfolk gives us as much personal at­ 62 51 15 2 15 20 33 Jacksonville ....... tention as we get here. Our 15 10 6 10 0 7 8 Tampa teachers are great. They help 16 83 0 17 34 17 Mobile 51 you as much as they can." 127 172 57 4 21 New Orleans 49 88 Michael Morgan, 17, who 77 140 7 50 38 Houston 45 77 83 53 16 10 0 Wilmington left high school in the 11th 39 23 172 130 San Francisco ..... 50 45 2 86 68 grade, thought the ' smaller 67 29 Seattle 24 28 10 23 44 classes and personalized instruc­ 909 1098 366 268 32 458 Totals 584 tion insured learning. "It was may last chance," ENGINE DEPARTMENT said Gary Kotil, 19, "and I forced myself to work hard. TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH Now that I've made it, all that All Groups AlIGrotips All Groups hard work was worth it." ClassA ClassB Class A ClassB ClassC Class A ClassB Port More to Come 4 6 5 2 2 4 3 Boston 242 149 During the presentation of 47 34 2 95 109 New York 15 13 3 12 13 diplomas. Miss Brown urged 9 10 Philadelphia ..... 62 64 19 2 24 29 Baltimore the six trainees to continue 51 40 0 9 14 17 23 Norfolk their education. She told the 68 31 6 16 14 Jacksonville 32 20 assemblage that the GED 15 5 5 0 7 9 Tampa . 6 diploma will qualify them for 46 50 20 0 27 32 Mobile 32 admission to college and their 191 105 0 46 30 New Orleans ..... 63 43 educational experience at HLSS 113 86 49 53 8 Houston 70 will give them a better back­ 43 26 13 0 Wilmington, 15 22 ground for upgrading in their 98 95 47 5 San Francisco ... 35 95 67 jobs aboard ship. 40 40 Seattle 5 23 14 40 25 988 She urged the successful 710 33 299 294 531 Totals 424 candidates to investigate the possibilities afforded by the full STEWARD DEPARTMENT college scholarships offered by TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED ON BEACH the Seafarers Scholarship Fund. All Groups All Groups AU Groups Miss Brown also told Ihe dele­ ClassB ClassA ClassB ClassC ClassA Qass A Class B Port gates that high school and col­ 4 2 5 0 2 0 4 Boston lege correspondence courses are 92 143 9 31 39 50 74 New York being developed in conjunction 6 15 3 11 10 6 7 Philadelphia ....... with the University of Nebraska 29 70 11 1 22 14 33 Baltimore Extension Division, the most ex­ 34 35 3 10 5 10 7 Norfolk perienced correspondence pro­ 35 22 5 14 9 19 Jacksonville 15 gram in the country, to offer 6 11 0 2 9 Tampa . 9 2 educational advancement op­ 68 22 0 14 17 Mobile 22 32 portunities to shipboard Sea­ 69 153 27 1 29 New Orleans 22 , 56 45 8 farers. 35 14 19 Houston 38 . - 27 13 34 0 5 When this program goes into Wilmington 22 14 17 93 79 San Francisco 3 28 40 51 40 effect. Miss Brown said, it will 17 59 6 8 Seattle 13 38 14 guarantee that every SIU man 707 463 196 50 236 262 359 Totals will have full educational op­ portunities. DISPATCHERS REPORT Page 7 �New Orleans Clinic New Orleans, La. •^^ho would know better than the people who frequent a place? ^ That's why the SIU's New Orleans Medical Clinic staff asked for comments from the people who frequent their place— and discovered they've got a happy clientele. "Very pleased with New Orleans Medical Clinic. One couldn't ask for better service, responded Number 3 questionnaire. "The service was very good and well organized," noted Number 21. "I can't see room for improvement. To me, it is the best offered. The New Orleans Clinic is generally a beehive of activity. A Seafarer and his dependents are shown here checking in at the front desk with members of the staff. I'M II Medical Technologist Ann Will prepares to take a blood specimen from Seafarer Walter Hudson at the N. O. dlnic. Dr. Stanton Middleton, medical examiner, checks a cardio­ gram reading to ascertain patient's progress and stability. Seafarer Humberto Vera is undergoing an EKG.test at the New Orleans Clinic as part of his physical, which is administered free of charge to all Seafarers. Page 8 Joann Lamhremont, medical secretary, adjusts the clinic's x-ray machine as she prepares to examine a patient. SIU member Elmer Lane stops at the front desk to pass the time of day with staff mem­ bers of the New Orleans Clinic. Seafarers Log I �Health Draws Praise even if you went to a specialist for examination in private prac­ tice," commented Number 39. "Just keep up the good work," urged Number 96. "I can't think of any improvement. You have a very good service. Everybody is so friendly and helpful. Me and my family, was served and treated very good. Thank You," said Number 69. Dr. W. A. Roy, medical director of the clinic, explains that the questionnaire was mailed at random to 100 SIU dependents, who had been examined at the clinic. Forty-four women returned the cards, and offered their comments on the health care they had received. Not all 44 were as satisfied as those quoted above—^but the bulk of those responding had nothing but praise for the program. The rest had suggestions for improvement, not any real criticism of the health service they had been receiving. Comments like: "Give a series of cold shots for dependents susceptible to colds—also Vitamin B-12 shots," said Number 92. "I think you should give medicine and treatment at the clinic," added Number 74. "Should inform patients of physical diagnosis and recommend a physician if medical care is needed," said Number 99. "Tell each person what you find wrong, if anything," said Number 11. Dr. Roy explains that the answer to all these suggestions is the same: The clinic cannot offer definitive medical treatment to dependents—nor to the Seafarers themselves. The dependents are referred to their own doctors for any treatment necessary, just as the Seafarers are referred to the U.S. Public Health Service Hos­ pitals for treatment. The clinic operates much as the other SIU clinics do—offering diagnostic services to Seafarers, thefr wives and children. For the Seafarer, the service is vital to his job. For without an annual physical, he cannot secure the health card he needs to clear him for shipping out. To qualify for that card, he must undergo a complete head-totoe examination, including blood and urine tests, a chest X-ray, a Tuberculosis test, eye and dental checks, proctoscopic examina­ tion and an electrocardiagram, if he is over 35 or his health his­ tory indicates it is needed. It is the same physical that men undergo when they first apply for admission to the SIU, and by making it an annual event, ex­ tremely high,health standards are maintained in the union. Since the Seafarer is often on the move, and isn't always near his home port when it's time for a check up, all SIU clinics in the Atlantic and Gulf districts swap copies of their health records. Then a seaman can visit the medical center that's closest to him when he needs special care, or when it's time for his annual check-up. The New Orleans clinic opened in 1961, at the same time the SIU Headquarters did. And since that time the staff has handled about 200 Seafarers, 20 wives and 30 children each month. There was some resentment initially to the program—the Sea­ farers felt it was time-consuming and unnecessary. But when several cases of tuberculosis were discovered in the early stages, and all were cured after treatment at the Marine Hospital in New Orleans, the attitude toward the program changed. The rate of venereal disease also was improved with the close health watch maintained by the clinic—and, again, the Seafarers' attitude toward the program improved. Dependents also have come to rely heavily on the diagnostic services offered at the clinic. Their visits to the clinic are not re­ quired, as their husbands' are, but it has proved worthwhile for them too. In the same batch of questionnaires mentioned earlier. Number 7 after having a Tonometer test, was found to have glaucoma. The disease was found in its early stages and the patient was able to receive treatment before irreparable damage was done. Number 4 had a Pap smear done on a routine annual examina­ tion, which showed a maligr/ancy. She had a hysterectomy at a local hosoital, and it is believed that the cancer had not spread beyond the uterus. Her life was saved by the examination and subsequent surgery. Buck Stephens, New Orleans SRJ port agent, said the clinic mow is very highly thought of among Seafarers and dependents alike. "The only people who have gripes seem to be the types who are chronic complainers," he added, "and nothing will ever please them." r.' ' Ann Will discusses results with Humberto Vera. Young Paris Plaisance and his sister, London, pass the time with an issue of the Log as they await their parent. A Seafarer is having his chest x-rayed as part of his physi­ cal exam administered at the clinic. Technologist Ann Will usee microscope to check blood. March 1971 Humberto Vera bas his blood pressure taken at the clinic by Registered Nurse Ann Waldrop. Staff member Delia Jones looks over the resulte of an x-ray. Seafarers George Huntley (background) and Marcus Barton have a few questions to ask of staff members as they check in. Page 9 �Suggested Closings of PHS Hospitals Draw Rebuttals from SIU Members To the Editor; I have been dismayed by re­ cent reports in the nation's news media that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is considering a proposal to close the USPHS hospitals. As a relative newcomer to the SIU I have had only two oc­ casions to utilize the services of­ fered by the PHS systems. In both instances the care and treat­ ment I received were of the high­ est standards. From talks with other Seafarers I understand (and accept the fact) that this is not out of the ordinary, but ac­ tually the norm. I imagine it is quite simple for the bureaucrats sitting in their plush domains in Washington to ignore the needs of individuals such as myself and just write off the PHS hospitals in the inter­ est of political expediency. After all, with the superior health care standards that currently exist in. this country (ranked approxima^ly 14th in the world), who needs a measly eight hospitals that only care and treat some 500,000 people? I am beginning to wonder if the "working man" ever gets a break from these "fat cats." One alternative the people at their SIU, knowledge that they in turn will pass HEW offer is that private hos­ pitals could take over the serv­ along to the Seafarers who elected them. ices now offered by the PHS They will be equipped to give factual infor­ program. Private hospital costs mation on where the SIU stands today, how it average nearly twice as much as got here, and how the Union is approaching PHS hospital costs. Yet, HEW's the futme. reasoning behind the proposed The SIU Educational Conference is a new closing is that they (the closings) program added to a foundation of information would be "in the interest of and communication systems that have made economy." The other alternative offered the union solid, responsible and responsive to is that all those now treated in the needs of its members. Shipboard meetings, meetings ashore in SIU PHS hospitals be sent to Vet­ halls, publications. Crews' Conferences and erans' hospitals. As a veteran of the Vietnam Pensioners' Conferences—all of these activities conflict I spent time in three fit, piece-by-piece, into a living, thriving plan different VA hospitals after dis­ of action through information. charge for service-connected in­ The rewards have been many ... the SIU juries. In no way do I mean to Welfare Plan, the SIU Pension Program, the impugn the fine people in that Health and Safety Programs, the SIU Vacation organization, but despite their Plan . . . each of which leads the maritime world untiring efforts and modem tech­ in the services they provide for the members. nology they cannot adequately The Seafarers who attended the SIU Educa­ provide the service to the many tional Conference join the growing corps of deserving veterans who seek it. members who continue to bring to their union It is no fault of the personnel. They are simply swamped with vitality through knowledge. patients; they are overcrowded and understaffed. Again, the reasons for this are simple: per­ sonnel are underpaid and admin­ istration of the facilities is to receive healthful and sufficient food, and hampered by bureaucratic blund­ ering and inefficiency. proper forecastles in which to rest. . . ." Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Cal.), These are words with impact. They ring with who heads a Senate Subcommit­ the determination of the SIU to bring to its tee on Veterans' Affairs, held members rewards for their skills, and honor for hearings last year on the matter their abilities as working men. of care of veterans in VA hos­ The SIU Constitution uses the same pointed pitals. The hearings clearly point­ language to guarantee that every member will ed up the inefficiency in admin­ have the right to take part in the day-to-day istration, the overcrowded condi­ effort that is demanded to make an ever-stronger tions, the overworked, underpaid staffs, the excessive waiting pe­ union. Language like this: "No member shall be deprived of his mem­ riods undergone by those await­ bership without due process of the law of this ing treatment, etc. Sen. Cranston Union, ... No member shall be denied the has since been leading a fight to right to express himself freely on the floor of any have these conditions improved. I concur heartily with Rep. Union meeting or in committee. ... A militant Olin Teague's statement that this membership being necessary to/the security of country "must do the utmost to a free union, the members shall at all times insure that veterans receive the stand ready to defend this Union. . . ." best medical treatment available." The SIU Constitution is a living document I don't think this would be pos­ that gives the union and its members their goals, sible by adding another 500,000 and the directions that must be followed to individuals to what is an already reach those goals. overburdened program. Building A Strong Union THHE SIU exists to serve Seafarers. This com­ mitment is a part of the union's heritage, reaching back to the days of Andrew Furuseth, the founder of trade unionism for America's seamen. For the SIU to serve its members, the mem­ bers themselves must be completely aware of their union and their industry—they must have the power of knowledge. There is only one way for a union to build the strength that comes with an informed mem­ bership. The union itself must learn the facts and, in turn, see to it that they are made avail­ able to the members. The SIU's two-week Educational Conference at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Md., has brought to 250 rankand-file Seafarers the latest information on a wide range of subjects affecting the future lives of Seafarers and their families. These men were chosen by their SIU broth­ ers to attend the conference. As representatives of members from 14 major ports, they will re­ turn with new and current information about Your Constitution yr^ight pages of this issue of the Seafarers Log are devoted to the SIU Constitution. The document is printed in smaller type; it is not decked out with pictures—and the color that appears in the rest of the Log is missing from those eight pages. And yet the SIU Constitution is the most important article in this issue. It affects every Seafarer, every day, at sea and ashore. The SIU Constitution is the voice of the union—the voice of its members. It tells why there is an SIU, and tells it in words that are simple, direct and real. Words like these: "We declare that American seamen are en­ titled to receive their employment without inter­ ference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the Govern­ ment. . . ." Words like: "We defend the right of all seamen to be treated in a decent and respectful manner . . . We affirm that every worker has the right to receive fair and just remuneration for his labor. . . . We proclaim the right of all seamen Page 10 If any action should be taken regarding PHS hospitals, it should be additional funding to upgrade and modernize these facilities so that they can continue and ex­ pand the fine service they now provide. But then, this suggestion was put forth several years ago and, in typical bureaucratic Washing­ ton style, has not been acted upon yet. Kevin O'Shau^nessey Bronx, N.Y. To the Editor: I want to take this opportunity to thank the Log for the very informative article in the January issue about the Marine Hospital. In the many years I have gone to sea, whenever I needed any proper medical treatment I al­ ways received it at our Marine Hospitals. I'm glad our Union has been out front in this fight to keep these hospitals open. I certainly hope the people in Washington will see the great need for these hospitals and keep them open. Josqph Shefulesici To the Editon My heartfelt thanks to the SIU-RMR and to Brothers Red Campbell, G. P. McGinty and la.st but not least Ed Pulver, for all the help I received in the way of financial assistance and an­ swers to questions while I was hospitalized in the USPHS hos­ pital on Staten Island, N.Y. I would also like to exend my deep appreciation to all the doc­ tors, nurses and hospital staff on EF/6. They were all just wonder­ ful, and nothing was too much for them to do for me to make my stay at the hospital pleasant. Their attitude was just wonder­ ful and I trust our legislators will strive to keep this fine hos­ pital open. It sure is a credit to this nation, and I hope it will re­ main open for as long as eternity itself. Manuel Vidal Staten Island, N.Y. I SEAFARERfrfeLOG March 1971 Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 Offlcial Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hall, President Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Exec. Vice-Prea. Vice-President A1 Kerr Lindsey Williams Sec.-Treas. Vice-President A1 Tanner Robert Matthews Vice-President Vice-President Published monthly at 810 Rhode Island Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018 by the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFLCIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brook­ lyn, N.Y. 11232. Tel. 499-6600. Sec­ ond class postage paid at Wash­ ington, D.C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Seafarers Log i 11i �New Bedford's Fishermen Conclude Successful Strike ! New Bedford, Mass. the reasons given by the dealers New Bedford's yellowtail just didn't hold water, and when flounder fishermen, members of the price hit $.04 per pound in the SIUNA-affiliated New Bed­ mid-January, we just couldn't ford Fishermen's Union, have continue fishing." ended their 18-day strike after Union records indicate that winning all of the major con­ the price of $.04 per pound cessions sought from the Sea­ paid" in the first weeks of 1971 food Dealers Association here. was what fishermen were being On January 15 the SIUNA paid for yellowtail flounder fishermen voted to tie-up their" back in 1945-47. fleet of more than 100 vessels, On February 11, ten days primarily because of the low after fishermen returned to price being offered by the sea­ work, union officials reported" food dealers for catches of the price of yellowtail had risen yellowtail flounder. to tetween $.25 to $.29 per pound. Price Hits Bottom Since early in the fall of Officials See Progress 1970, the price of yellowtail SIUNA Representative Joe paid to fishermen had steadily Algina, on the scene with declined from a high of around SIUNA Vice President Austin $.30 per pound to the rock P. Skinner, secretary-treasurer bottom level of $.04 per pound. of the fishermen's union, said In response to the protests of the rise in price was a step tofishermen, the seafood dealers . wards breaking the economic cited changes in the market and squeeze strangling fishermen seasonal fluctuations in demand. and their industry. However, fishermen's sus­ "When our men are out fish­ picions were aroused by the fact ing they are on call around the that the price paid by the con­ clock in all kinds of weather sumer remained constant at the trying to earn their livelihood. level of around $1.30 per When they return to port they pound. Even more startling to have the right to expect a fair union members was the fact price in return for their catch," that right in the local super­ said Algina. markets of New Bedford, the The Seafood Dealers Asso­ price of yellowtail remained ciation, in a statement signed high at $1.30 per pound. by Howard W. Nickerson, as­ Member Voices Feelings sociation director, and pre­ Harry Swain, a veteran New sented to the union, has agreed Bedford fisherman, summed up to the following: the feeling of NBFU members • To establish the selling of with the words: yellowtail flounder by accurate "We felt as the price con­ count and location; allowing tinued to drop day by day that disputed weights to be checked out and verified. • Work for a % pound size limit on yellowtail flounder to help preserve the fishery. • Institute a system of ac­ curate sales slips for fish sold at the dock, placed up by a system of written vouchers re­ cording price and weight. • To join with the union in a search for a dockside weigh­ ing scale beneficial to the weighing and unloading of fish. When such a scale is found and agreed upon by all parties, that system will be used for all BARBER EQUIPMENT— sales. • The dealers and the union Wahl aipper Corp., pro­ will meet to discuss any prob­ ducers of home barber sets. (Int'l. Assoc. of Machinists lems that may arise. and Aerospace Workers) • All parties to the agree­ ment will work together to pro­ CIGARETTES—R. J. Reyn­ mote the marketing of yellow­ olds Tobacco Co.—Camels, tail flounder. Winston, Salem, Tempo, At a special meeting of the Brandon, Doral, and Cava­ New. Bedford Fishermen's lier. (Tobacco Workers Un­ Union members held on Fetn ion) ruary 1st, it was voted to accept the agreement and return to CLOTHING—Reidbord Bros., Co., Siegal (H. I. S. brand) fishing. suits and sports jackets, KayUnity Pays Off nee boyswear, Richmond Reflecting on how the union Brothers men's clothing, Sewon its battle, Algina pointed well suits. Wing shirts, Met­ to the membership's united ro Pants Co., and Diplomat stand and to the cooperation Pajamas by Fortex Mfg. Co. of many boatowners and other Amalgamated Clothing) fishermen not directly involved Judy Bond Blouses—(Inter­ in the strike, as being two of the national Ladies Garment key factors that brought the dis­ Workers Union) pute to a successful settlement. "Without the dramatic ex­ CASKETS—Capitol City Cas­ pression of unity I saw during ket Company—(United Fur­ the entire strike, we could not niture Workers) have done the job," noted FLOURMILL PRODUCTS— Algina. Pioneer Products, San An­ tonio, Texas (United Brew­ ery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Work­ ers) Implementation of Merchant Marine Act Vital, Says Congressman Giaimo Washington, D.C. Rep. Robert A. Giaimo said speedy implementation of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is necessary to overcome the nation's neglect of its maritime industries. Rep. Giaimo spoke at a luncheon sponsored by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. The SIU is affili­ ated with the MTD. Giaimo, likening the U.S. maritime industry to "an un­ wanted stepchild," said the na­ tion must move quickly to see that the fleet fulfills the dream of "new employment, the best, largest and most efficient fleet in the world, and indeed the hope of prosperity . . ." Must Begin Now The veteran congressmen said that the dream can be fulfilled "but we have to get busy, and we must do it quickly." The place to start, Giaimo said, is in the shipyards, where "there are an estimated 440,000 man hours of employment . to be generated by the nation's new maritime policy." The state of the nation's economy, he said, means, "we need that kind of new employ­ ment desperately." The new ships to be con- March 1971 structed under the program, Giaimo said, will be "ships that presently are only an archi­ tect's vision." He said they will include barge-carrying and container ships, as well as supertankers and superfreighters. "If the Administration is se­ rious about rebuilding the na­ tion's economy before many more people are squeezed out of jobs, then I would suggest that the shipyards are a good place to start," he said. Cargo Also Necessary "For even as the new ships will create jobs on land, they will create jobs at sea, further benefiting the slumping econ­ omy of the nation," Giaimo said. All of that may be an "empty dream," the Congress­ man said, "unless these ships have cargo to deliver around the world." He described I^nself as "disgusted" that the U.S.-flag fleet last year carried less than 5 percent of the nation's oceanborne commerce. "Government and private in­ dustry seem determined to drain the American-flag fleet of its lifeblood, just as a ne­ glected stepchild might sloWly starve to death," Rep. Giaimo said. He said that the industry is asking: "Why this course of starvation?" And he added that the answers are unsatisfactory "both to the industry and to a man who represents an area so deeply rooted in maritime tra­ dition." Calls for Support Giaimo said importers and exporters should support the U.S. maritime industry because it would boost the economy, and government must support the industry because cargo preference laws tell it to do so. Yet neither supports the mari­ time industry, he declared, add­ ing: "I don't know what it will take to get the bureaucratic gnomes to open their eyes to the wish of Congress, but if it takes new law, let us move ahead and pass new law. "If resolutions of the Con­ gress can help open the eyes of4ndustry, then let us go forth on that tack. "Whatever it is we must do, let us do it quickly," Rep. Giaimo said, "for time, is run­ ning out. The stepchild con­ tinues to grow up and we haven't much time left to guide that growth so that the adult will be strong and firm and productive." FURNITURE—^James Sterling Corp., White Furniture Co., Brown Furniture Co., (Unit­ ed Furniture Workers) Economy Furniture—B i 11Rite, Western Provinicial and Smithtown Maple. (Up­ holsterers) LIQUORS—Stitzel-Weller Dis­ tilleries products—Old Fitz­ gerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk, W. L. Weller. (Distillery Workers) MEAT PRODUCTS—Poultry Packers, Inc. (Blue Star label products). (Amalga­ mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen) PRINTING—Kingsport Press "World Book," "ChUdcraft." (Printing Pressmen, Typog­ raphers, Bookbinders, Ma­ chinists, Stereotypers, and Electrotypers) NEWSPAPERS—Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. (10 unions involved covering 2,000 workers) Britannica Junior Encyclo­ pedia (Int'l. Allied Printing Trades Assn.) RANGES—Magic C h e f. Pan Pacific Division. (Stove, Fur­ nace and Allied Appliance Workers) SHOES—Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co—work shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest and Statler; men's shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth (Boot and Shoe Work­ ers) SPECIAL—All West Virginia camping and vacation spots, (Laborers) TOYS—^Fisher-Price toys (Doll & Toy Workers Union) Foreign Reps Visit SIU Headquarters Two distinguished foreign representatives visited SIU headquarters in New York recently and were taken on a tour of union facilities by SIU Vice President Earl Shepard. Shown from left are: Shepard; Jean Michel Duniau, secretary general of National Federation of Ports and Dorks; SIU Representative Joseph DiGiorgio; Irving Brown, Director African-American Labor Center, and SIU Representatives George Mc­ Cartney and Ed Mooney. Page 11 �^ Membership Meetings' Schedule SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New OrleansApr. 13—2:30 p.m. Mobile Apr. 14—2:30 p.m. Wilmington ..Apr. 19—2:30 p.m. San Fran Apr. 21—2:30 p.m. Seattle Apr. 23—2:30 p.m. New York ..Apr. 5—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia..Apr. 6—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ....Apr. 7—^2:30 p.m. Detroit Apr. 9—2:30 p.m. tHouston ....Apr. 12—2:30 p.m. Mrs. Anne Thomas uses the blackboard to illustrate for Harry Lundeberg School trainees various ports of the world. The addition of the course in world geography at HLSS is another step in the overall program to better educate the future Seafarers. Foreign Ports Featured In New Course at HLSS Piney Point, Md. The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship has a new course .of study to acquaint future Sea­ farers with the people, history and customs of the many na­ tions and Ports of Call that they will visit during their seagoing careers. The new curriculum, called Geography Enrichment, has proven an instant success with the trainees. The innovative course of study, developed and taught by HLSS Instructor Mrs. Ann Thomas, places great em­ phasis on teaching future sea­ men about the world around them—a world that they can now discover and learn to ap­ preciate before ever leaving the United States. The courses include general geography, map reading and attention to them and finds the differences in customs and such attention well received. religious philosophies of the "When a young man realizes world's major countries and that he may soon be visiting Hamburg, or Manila, or Yokatheir inhabitants. Classes discuss Africa, the hama or some other place that Middle East, the Far East, he has heard about and maybe Europe, Latin America, the dreamed about visiting, he cer­ Pacific and North America. tainly pays attention in class," Each of these regions is broken she explained. "He wants to down into individual countries know something more about and the students are lectured strange lands and new people on the languages, currency, art that will become a part of his and music and places of inter­ life at sea." est in each nation. The lectures A graduate of Virginia Com­ are supplemented with the latest monwealth University, Mrs. films and film strips, depicting Thomas studied education, the histories and present day geography, comparative reli­ customs of the different lands. gions and anthropology before coming to HLSS. Port Cities Stressed Knowing that there would be a special interest in port cities, Mrs. Thomas pays particular Money Due Seafarers The following Seafarers should contact SIU Headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232, for checks due them for service aboard the Sapphire Steamship Co. vessels, Sapphire Etta, Sapphire Gladys and A & J Mid-America. A & J Mid-America Frederick L. Bailey Robert A. Beevers Charles A. Carlson Philip B. Cogley Paul L. Essman Frederico A. Gallang Victor A. Manero Peter M. Meyers Jesse James Mosso Matthew J. Nolan, Jr. Charles O'Donnell Arthur D. Pa3rton Alger R. Sawyer James Swinney Walter L. Wicks Edward C. W. Wiede'nhoeft Jerry L. Wolfe Sapphire Effa Terry Gene Adams Nils C. Beck John P. Campbell ^ Adelicio Figueroa : Jose M. Gomez Houston Jones John J. Natoli Angel Rodriguez Richard E. Williams Donald T. Swaffar Warren W. Tarkington Larry E. Weilacher Calvin Winston Sapphire Gladys William N. Basseft Thomas Benford Freddie Brown Francisco Caspar J. W. Johnson Thomas F. Kennedy Page 12 Spiros E. Panagatos Epieanio Rodriguez Martin Sullivan E. Vargas Louis Zwerling Course Is Supplement The new class is in addition to the regular academic pro­ gram to prepare trainees who have not completed high school for the General Educational Development (GED) High School Equivalency Diploma examination, administered by the State of Maryland. The GED program offers HLSS stu­ dents an opportunity to earn a diploma during their 12-week vocational course at Piney Point. In the first two GED prep classes for the December and January examinations, 14 out of 17 candidates passed the twopart examination and received their diplomas from the Mary­ land State Department of Edu­ cation. This is more than twice the national average'of 30 per­ cent of candidates who pass each examination. United Industrial Workers New OrleansApr. 13—7:00 p.m. Mobile Apr. 14—7:00 p.m. New York ..Apr. 5—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia..Apr. 6—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ....Apr. 7—7:00 p.m. Houston Apr. 12—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit ... 5—2:00 p.m. Buffalo ... 5—7:00 p.m. Alpena ... 5—7:00 p.m. Chicago ., 5-7:00 p.m. Duluth ..., 5—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ....Apr. 5—7:30 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago Apr. 13—7:30 p.m. tSauIt Ste. Marie Apr. 15—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Apr. 14—7:30 p.m. Duluth Apr. 16—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ..Apr. 16—7:30 p.m. Toledo Apr. 16—7:30 p.m. Detroit Apr. 12—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee ..Apr. 12—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Apr. 13—5:00 p.m. Mobile Apr. 14—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Apr. 6—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (li­ censed and unlicensed)Apr. 7—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Apr. 8—^5:00 p.m. Houston ....Apr. 12—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine R^ioB Philadelphia Apr. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore ....Apr. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk ....Apr. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City ..Apr. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Meetings held at Galveston wharves. t Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. •Meeting held in Labor Tem­ ple, Newport News. Directory Of Union Hails SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard A1 Tanner Lindsay Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER A1 Kerr HEADQUARTERS ....67S 4th Aye., Bklyn. (212) HY 9-6600 AEPENA, RUch 800 N. Second Ave. (617) EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, Md. ..1216 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass 663 Atlantic Ave. (617) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.Y 290 FrankUn St. SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, Hi 9383 Ewlngr Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, 0 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Mlno. ..2014 W. 3d St. (218) BA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Hlch. r..P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. (610) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, T««. 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2608 Fear! St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ..99 Monteomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jackson Ave. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3d St. (703) 622-1892 FHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 534 Ninth Ave. SAN FRANCISCO, CaUI. 1321 Mission St. (415) 626-6793 SANTURCE, P.R. ..1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 2505 First Ave. (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 4577 Gravols Ave. (314) 752-6500 TAMPA, Fia 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 TOLEDO, 0 935 Summit St. (419) 248-3691 WILMINGTON, CaUf 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Isiand, Caiif. (213) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan Iseya Bids., Room 810 1-2 KalKan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 Congressman Meets SIU Upgraders Trainees Enthusiastic M. ,,' ^ ' The enthusiasm of the train­ ees for the new educational opportunity is expressed in the words of one trainee who said, "At least I am learning what to look forward to when I get to different places around the world." The 19-year old high school graduate declared, "I have learned more about geography in the past two weeks than I learned all the time I spent in school." Rep. Charles 3. Rangel (D-N.Y.) greets Timothy Venable, an SdU Seniority Upgrader at a Maritime Trades Department Luncheon in Washington. Looking on are Ronald Seahrease (2nd from left) and Thom'as Kelly (right), also SIU upgraders. Seafarers Log - il �TEXT OF sill li 1 & (IIISTITIITIIIII For SIUAtlantic, Gulf, Lakes And Inland Waters District (Effective January 1970) \ ".f\ 1 • ."sV-rV-, March 1971 Page 13 �•• : .-s-'- ,.l-. .,• CONSTITUTION THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA— ATLANTIC/ GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT Affiliated with American Federation of Labor — Congress of Industrial Organizations (As Amended January 1, 1970) PREAMBLE As maritime and allied workers and realizing the value and necessity of a thorough organization, we are dedicated to the forming of one Union for our people, the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, based upon the following principles: All members shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges and guarantees as set forth in this Constitution, and such rights, privileges and guarantees shall be preserved in accordance with its terms. We declare that American seamen are entitled to receive their employment without interference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the Government. We affirm that every worker has the right to receive fair and just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation. We proclaim the right of all seamen to receive healthful and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to rest. We defend the right of all seamen to be treated in a decent and respectful manner by those in command, and. We hold that the above rights belong to all workers alike, irrespective of nationality or creed. Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we are conscious of corresponding duties to tbose in command, our employers, our craft and our country. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote har­ monious relations with those in command by exercising due care and diligence in the performance of the duties of our profession, and by giving all possible assistance to our employ­ ers in caring for their gear and property. Based upon these principles, it is among our objects: To use our influence individually and collectively for the purpose of maintaining and developing skill in seamanship and effecting a change in the maritime law of the United States, so as to render it more equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development of a merchant marine and a body of Amer­ ican seamen. To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of maritime workers and through its columns seek to maintain their knowledge of, and interest in, maritime affairs. To assist the seamen of other countries in the work of organ­ ization and federation, to the end of establishing the Brother­ hood of the Sea.' To form and to assist by legal means other bona fide labor organizations whenever possible in the attainment of their just demands. To regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals so as to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and use­ ful calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that our work takes us away in different directions from any place where the majority might otherwise meet to act, that meetings can be attended by only a fraction of the membership, that the absent members, who cannot be present, must have their inter­ ests guarded from what might be the results of excitement and passions aroused by persons or conditions, and that those who are present may act for and in the interest of all, we have adopted this Constitution. Statement of Principles and Declaration of Rights In order to form a more perfect Union, we workers in the maritime and allied industries, realizing the value and necessity of uniting in pursuit of our improved economic and social wel­ fare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the following principles: In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall ever be mindful, not only of our rights, but also of our duties and obligations as members of the community, our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace of communism and any other enemies of freedom and the democratic principles to which we seafaring men dedicate ourselves in this Union. We shall affiliate and work with other free labor organiza­ tions ; we shall support a journal to give additional voice to our views; we shall assist our brothers of the sea and other workers of all countries in these obligations to the fullest extent con­ sistent with our duties, obligations, and law. We shall seek to exert our individual and collective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor and other legislation and policies which look to the attainment of a free and happy society, without distinc­ tion based on race, creed or color. To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing in mind that most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them all over the world, that their rights must and shall be protected, we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be inalienable. pelled to be a witness against himself in the trial of any pro­ ceeding in which he may be charged with failure to observe the law of this Union. Every official and job holder shall be bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member in accordance with the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. iV Every member shall have the right to be confronted by his accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law of this Union. In all such cases, the accused shall he guaranteed a fair and speedy trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members. No member shall be denied the right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. VI A militant mmbership being necessary to the security of a free union, the members shall at all times stand ready to de­ fend this Union and the principles set forth in the Constitu­ tion of the Union. VII The powers not delegated to the officers, job holders, and Executive Board by the Constitution of the Union shall be reserved to the members. CONSTITUTION Article I Name and General Powers This Union shall be known as the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and executive, and shall include the formation of, and/or issuance of charters to, subordinate bodies and divisions, corporate or otherwise, the formation of funds and participation in funds, the establishment of enterprises for the benefit of the Union, and similar ventures. This Union shall exercise all of its powers in aid of subordinate bodies and divisions created or chartered by it. For convenience of administration and in furtherance of its policies of aid and assistance, the Union may make its prop­ erty, facilities and personnel available for the use and on behalf of such subordinate bodies and divisions. A majority vote of the membership shall be authorization for any Union action, unless otherwise specified in the Constitution or by law. This Union shall at all times protect and maintain its jurisdiction. Article II Affiliation Section 1. This Union shall he affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America and the American Fed­ eration of Labor—Congress of Industrial Organizations. All other affiliations by the Union or its subordinate bodies or divisions shall he made or withdrawn as determined by a majority vote of the Executive Board. No member shall be deprived of any of the rights or privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. Section 2. In addirion to such other provisions as are con­ tained herein, all subordinate bodies and divisions seeking a charter from and/or affiliation with this Union, shall be re­ quired to adopt, within a time period set by the Executive Board, a constitution containing provisions as set forth in Exhibit A, annexed to this Constitution and made a part hereof. All other provisions adopted by such subordinate bodies and divisions as part of th^ir constitutions shall not be inconsistent therewith. No such constitution or amendments thereto shall he deemed to he effective without the approval of the Executive Board or this Union, which shall be executed in writing, on its behalf, by the President or, in his absence, by any otber officer designated by it. Such approval shall be deemed to be recog­ nition of compliance herewith by such subordinate body or division. Where a subordinate body or division violates any of the foregoing, and, in particular, seeks to effectuate any constitu­ tional provision not so authorized and approved, or commits acts in violation of its approved constitution, or fails to act in accordance therewith, this Union, through its Executive Board, may withdraw its charter and/or sever its affiliation forthwith, or on such terms as it may impose not inconsistent with law, in addition to exercising any and all rights it may have pur­ suant to any applicable agreements or understandings. Section 3. This Union shall also have the power, acting through its Executive Board, and after a fair hearing, to impose a trusteeship upon any subordinate body or divisions chartered by and affiliated with it, for the reasons and to the extent provided by law. II Article III Every qualified member shall have the right to nominate him­ self for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold office in this Union. Membership III No member shall be deprived of his membership without due process of the law of this Union. No member shall be com­ Page 14 Section 1. There shall be two classes of membership, to wit full book members and probationary members. Candidates for membership shall he admitted to membership in accord­ ance with such rules as may be adopted from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership and which rules shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All candidates with 360 days or more seatime in a consecutive 24 calendar month period commencing from January 1, 1968, in an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels, covert by contract with this Union, shall be eligible for full membership. All persons with less than the foregoing seatime but at least thirty (30) days of such seatime, shall be eligible for probationary membership. Only full book members shall be entitled to vote and to hold any office or elective job, except as otherwise specified herein. All probationary members shall have a voice in Union proceedings and shall be entitled to vote on Union contracts. Section 2. No candidate shall be granted membership who is a member of any dual organization hostile to the aims, prin­ ciples, and policies of this Union. The membership, by majority vote, shall at all times have the right to determine the membership status of pensioners. Soctian 3. Members more than one quarter in arrears in dues shall he automatically suspended, and shall forfeit all benefits and all other rights and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically dismissed if they are more than two quarters in arrears in dues. An arrearage in dues shall be computed from the first day of the applicable quarter, but this time shall not run: (a) While a member is actually participating in a strike or lockout. (b) While a member is an in-patient in a USPHS or other "^accredited hospital. (c) While a member is under an incapacity due to activity in behalf of the Union. (d) While a member fs in the armed services of the United States, provided the member was in 'good standing at the time of entry into the armed forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after discharge from the armed forces. (e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues, because of employment aboard an American flag merchant vesseL Section 4. A majority vote of the membership shall be suf­ ficient to designate additional circumstances during which the time specified in Section 3 shall not run. It shall be the right of any member to present, in writing, to any Port at any regu­ lar meeting, any question with regard to the application of Section 3, in accordance with procedures established by a majority vote of the membership. A majority vote of the mem­ bership shall be necessary to decide such questions. Section 5. The membership shall be empowered to establish, from time to time, by majority vote, rules under which dues and assessments may be excused where a member has been unable to pay dues and assessments for the reasons provided in Sections 3 and 4. Section 6. To preserve unity, and to jtromote the common welfare of the membership, all members of the Union shall uphold and defend this Constitution and shall be governed by the provisions of this Constitution and all policies,- rulings, orders and decisions duly made. Section 7. Any member who gives aid to the principles and policies of any hostile or dual organization shall be denied further membership in this Union to the full extent permitted by law. A majority vote of the membership shall decide which . organizations are dual or hostile. Section 8. Evidence of membership or other affiliation -with the Union shall be in such form or forms as determined by tbe Executive Board, and shall at all times remain the property of the Union. Members may be required to show their evidence of membership in order to be admitted to Union meetings, or into, or on Union property. Article IV Reinstatement Members dismissed from the Union may be reinstated in accordance with such rules and under such conditions as are adopted, from time to time, hy a majority vote of the member­ ship. Article V Dues and Initiation Fee Section 1. All members shall pay dues quarterly, on a calen­ dar year basis, no later than the first business day of each quarter, except as herein otherwise provided. The dues shall be those payable as of the date of adoption of this Constitution as amended and may be changed only by Constitutional amend­ ment. Section 2. No candidate for full book membership shall be admitted into such membership without having paid an initia­ tion fee of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, except as other­ wise provided in this Constitution. In addition, the candidate shall pay a Ten ($10.00) Dollar "service fee" for the issuance of his full book. Each candidate for probationary membership and each pro­ bationary member shall, with the payment of each of his first four quarterly dues, as required hy Section 1, pay at each such time the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five ($125.(W) Dollars as partial initiation fee. The total of such initiation monies so paid shall be credited to his above required initiation fee for a full book member upon completion of the required seatime as provided for in Article III, Section 1. Monies paid to the Union by any non-full book member prior to the effective date of this amended Constitution, on account of initiation, fee and assessments, not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty ($250.00) Dollars, shall be credited to such mem­ ber's payment of his initiation fee as required by this section. Section 3. Payment of dues and initiation.fees may be waived for organizational purposes in accordance with such rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the Executive Board. Section 4. All members shall be and remain in good standing. Article VI Retirement from Membership Section 1. Members may retire from membership by sur­ rendering their Union hooks or other evidence of affiliation and paying all unpaid dues for the quarter in which they retire, assessments, fines and other monies due and owing the Union. When the member surrenders his book or other evidence of affiliation in connection with his application for retirement he shall be given a receipt therefor. An official retirement card shall be issued by Headquarters, upon request, dated as of the day that such member accomplishes these payments, and shall be given to the member upon his presenting the aforesaid receipt. rfirs Loi �••:S I Ssction 2. All the rights, privileges, duties and obligations of membership shalj be suspended during the period of retirement, except that a retired member shall not be disloyal to the Union nor join or remain in any dual or hostile organization, upon penalty of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement. Soction 3. Any person in retirement for a period of two quarters or more shall be restored to membership, except as herein indicated, by paying dues for the current quarter, as well as all assessments accruing and newly levied during the period of retirement. If the period of retirement is less than two quarters, the required payments shall consist of all dues accruing during the said peri(^ of retirement, including those for the cunent quarter, and all assessments accrued and newly levied during that period. Upon such payment, the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, and his member­ ship book, appropriately stamped, shall be returned to him. Section 4. A member in retirement may be restored to mem­ bership after a two-year period of retirement consisting of eight full quarters only by majority vote of the membership. ?il' Section 5. The period of retirement shall be computed from the first day of the quarter following the one in which the retirement card was issued. Article Vil Systems of Organization Section I. This Union, and all officers, headquarter's repre­ sentatives, port agents, patrolmen, and members shall be gov­ erned in this order by: (a) The Constitution. (b) The Executive Board. (c) Majority vole of the membership. I Section' 2. The headquarters of the Union shall be located in New York and the headquarters officers shall consist of a President, and Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryTreasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. Section 3. The staff of each port shall consist of such per­ sonnel as is provided for herein, and the port shall bear the name of the city in which the Union's port offices are located. Section 4. Every member of tbe Union sball be registered in one of three departments; namely, deck, engine and'stewards department. The definition of these departments shall be in accordance with custom and usage. Tbis definition may be modified by a majority vote of tbe membership. No member may transfer from one department to another except by ap­ proval as evidenced by a majority vote of tbe membership. Article Vlli Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section 1. Tbe officers of tbe Union sball be elected as other­ wise provided in tbis Constitution. These officers shall be the President, an Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a SecretaryTreasurer, one Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one VicePresident in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. Section 2. Port Agents, Headquarters Representatives, and Patrolmen shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. Article iX Other Elective Jobs i Section 1. In addition to the elective jobs provided for in Article VIII, the following jobs in the Union shall be voted upon in the manner prescribed by this Constitution: Committee members of: (1) Trial Committees (2) Quarterly Financial Committees (3) Appeals Committees (4) Strike Committees (5) Credentials Committees (6) Union Tallying Committees (7) Constitutional Committees Section 2. Additional committees may be formed as provided by a majority vote of the membership. Committees may also be appointed as permitted by this Constitution. Article X Duties of Officers, Headquarters Repre.<;entatives, Port Agents, Other Eiected Job Holders and Miscellaneous Personnel Soction 1. Tho Proiidont. (a) The President shall be the executive officer of the Union and shall represent, and act for and in behalf of, the Union in all matters except as otherwise specifically provided for in the Constitution. (b) He sball be a member ex-officio of all committees, except as otherwise herein expressly provided. (c) Tbe President shall be in charge of, and responsible for, all Union property, and shall be in charge of headquarters and port offices. Wherever there are time restrictions or other con­ siderations affecting Union action, the President shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. (d) In order that he may properly execute his responsibil­ ities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting or otherwise. (e) Subject lO approval by a majority vote of the member­ ship, the President sball designate the number and location of ports, the jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may close or open such ports, and may re-assign Vice-Presidents and the Secretary-Treasurer, without reduction in wages. He may also re-assign Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, and Patrolmen, to other duties, without reduction in wages. The Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Or­ leans, Houston and Detroit may not be closed except by Con­ stitutional amendment. Where ports are opened between elections, the President shall designate the Union personnel thereof. The President shall designate, in the event of the incapacity of any Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or any officer other than the President, a replacement to act March 1971 as such during the period of incapacity, provided such replace­ ment is qualified under Article XII of the Constitution to fill such job. At the regular meeting in May of every election year, the President shall submit to the membership a pre-balloting report. In his report he shall recommend the number and loca­ tion of ports, the number of Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen which are to be elected. He shall also recommend a bank, a bonded warehouse, a regular officer thereof, or any similar depository, to which the ballots are to be mailed, except tbat tbe President may^ in bis discretion, postpone tbe recommendation as to tbe depository until no later tban tbe first regular meeting in October. Tbis recommendation may also specify, wbetber any Patrol­ man and/or Headquarters Representative, sball be designated as departmental or otherwise. Tbe report sball be subject to approval or modification by a majority vote of tbe membership. (f) Tbe President sball be chairman of tbe Executive Board and may cast one vote in tbat body. (g) He sball be responsible, within tbe limits of bis powers, for tbe enforcement of tbis Constitution, tbe policies of the Union, and all rules and rulings duly adopted by the Executive Board, and those duly adopted by a majority vote of the mem­ bership. Within these limits, he shall strive to enhance tho strength, position, and prestige of the Union. (h) The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those other duties lawfully imposed upon him. (i) Thfl responsibility of the President may not be delegated, but the President may delegate to a person or persons the execution of such of his duties as he may in his discretion decide, subject to tbe limitations set forth in tbis Constitution. (j) Any vacancy in any office or tbe job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, or Patrolman sball be filled by tbe President by temporary appointment of a member quali­ fied for tbe office or job under Article XH of tbis Constitution, except in those cases where tbe filling of such vacancy is other­ wise provided for by this Constitution. (k) The President is directed to take any and all measures and employ such means which he deems necessary or advisable, to protect the interests, and further the welfare of the Union and its members, in all matters involving national, state or local legislation issues, and public affairs. (1) The President shall have authority to require any officer or Union representative to attend any regular or special meet­ ing if, in his opinion, it is deemed necessary. Section 2. Executive Vice-President. The Executive Vice-President shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. The Executive Vice-President shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Section 3. Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract En­ forcement shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by tbe President. In addition, be shall be responsible for all contract negotiations, the formulation of bargaining demands, and the submission of proposed collective bargaining agreements to the membership for ratification. He shall also be responsible, except as otherwise provided in Article X, Section 13(d)(1), for strike authorization, signing of new contracts, and contract enforcement. He shall also act for headquarters in executing the administrative functions as­ signed to headquarters by this Constitution witb respect to trials and appeals except if he is a witness or party thereto, in which event the Secretary-Treasurer shall act in his place. In order that he may properly execute these responsibilities he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ such help as he deems necessary, be it legal, or otherwise, subject to approval of the Executive Board. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. Section 4. Secretary-Treasurer. The Secretary-Treasurer shall perform any and aU duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. He sball be responsible for the organization and maintenance of the correspondence, files, and records of the Union; setting up, and maintenance of, sound accounting and bookkeeping sys­ tems; the setting up, and maintenance of, proper office and other administrative Union procedures; the proper collection, safeguarding, and expenditure of all Union funds, port or otherwise. He shall submit to the membership, for each quar­ terly period, a detailed report of the entire Union's financial operations and shall submit simultaneously therewith, the Quarterly Financial Committee report for the same period. The Secretary-Treasurer'.s report shall be prepared by an inde­ pendent Certified Public Accountant. He shall also work with all duly elected finance committees. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible for the timely filing of any and all reports on the operations of the Union, financial or otherwise, that may be required by any Federal or state laws. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help be deems necessary, be it legal, accounting, or otherwise, subject to approval of the Executive Board. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member ex-officio of the Credentials and Ballot Tallying Committees. In addition he shall make himself and the records of his office available to the Quarterly Financial Committee. Section 5. Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast. The Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the personnel thereof on the Atlantic Coast, including their organizing activities. The Atlantic Coast area is deemed to mean that area from and including Georgia through Maine and shall also include the Islands in the Carib­ bean. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or professional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Section 6. Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast. The Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the Ports, and the personnel thereof on the Gulf Coast including their organizing activities. The Gulf Coast area is deemed to mean the State of Florida, all through the Gulf, including Texas. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive Board. Section 7. Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and inland Waters. The Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all the ports, and the personnel thereof on the Lakes and Inland Waters, including their organizing activities. In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or pro­ fessional assistance be deems necessary, subject to approval of the Execiitive Board. Section 8. Headquarters Representatives. The Headquarters Representatives shall perform any and all duties assigned them or delegated to them by the President or the Executive Board. Section 9. Port Agents. (a) The Port Agent shall be in direct charge of the admin­ istration of Union affairs in the port of his jurisdiction subject to tbe direction of tbe area Vice-President. (b) He shall, within the jurisdiction of his port, be respon­ sible for the enforcement and execution of the Constitution, the policies of the Union, and the rules adopted by the Executive Board, and by a majority vote of the membership. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations affecting port action, the Port Agent shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. (c) He shall be prepared to account, financially or other­ wise, for the activities of his port, whenever demanded hy the President, the Vice-President of the area in which his port is located, or by the Secretary-Treasurer. (d) fn any event, he shall prepare and forward to the Sec­ retary-Treasurer, a weekly financial report showing, in detail, weekly income and expenses, and complying with all other accounting directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent may assign each port Patrolman to such duties as fall within the jurisdiction of the port, regardless of the departmental designation, if any, under which the Patrol­ man was elected. (f) The Port Agent shall designate which members at that port may serve as representatives to other organizations, affilia­ tion with which has been properly authorized. Section 10. Patrolmen. Patrolmen shall perform any duties assigned them by the Agent of the Port to which they are assigned. Section 11. Executive Board. The Executive Board shall consist of the President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-President in Charge of Con­ tracts and Contract Enforcement, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Area, the Vice-Presi­ dent in Charge of the Gulf Area, the Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters, and the National Directpr (or chief executive officer) of each subordinate body or division created or chartered by the Union whenever such subordinate body or division has attained a membership of 3,200 members and has maintained that membership for not less than three (3) months. Such National Director (or chief executive officer) shall be a member of the respective subordinate body or divi­ sion and must be qualified to hold office under the terms of the Constitution of such division or subordinate body. The Executive Board shall meet no less than twice each year and at such times as the President and/or a majority of the Executive Board may direct. The President shall he chair­ man of all Executive Board meetings unless absent, in which case the Executive Board shall designate the chairman. Each member of the Executive Board shall be entitled to cast one vote in that body. Its decision shall be determined by majority vote of those voting, providing a quorum of three is present. It shall be the duty of the Executive Board to develop policies, strategies and rules which will advance and protect the interests and welfare of the Union and the Members. It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer, or in his absence, an appointee of the Executive Board, to keep accurate minutes of al Execu­ tive Board meetings. • The Executive Board shall determine per capita tax to be levied and other terms and conditions of affiliation for any group of workers desiring affiliation. The Executive Board may direct the administration of all Union affairs, properties, policies and personnel in any and all areas not otherwise specifically provided for. in this Constitution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive Board may act without holding a formal meeting provided all members of the Board are sent notice of the proposed action or actions and the decision thereon is reduced to writing and signed by a majority of the Executive Board. In the event that death, resignation or removal from office for any reason should occur to the President, the Executive Board by majority vote shall name a successor from its own membership who shall fill that vacancy until the next general election. In the event the President is incapacitated for a period of more than thirty (30) days, and the Executive Board by majority vote thereafter determines that such incapacity pre­ vents the President from carrying out his duties, the Executive Board by majority vote, may appoint from among its own membership the officer to fill the office of President. This appointment shall terminate upon the President's recovery from such incapacity or upon the expiration of the President's term of office whichever occurs first. The Executive Board by majority vote may grant requests for leaves of absences with or without pay to officers. In the event that a leave is granted to the President, the Executive Board by a majority vote, shall designate from among its own membership who shall exercise the duties of the President during such period of leave. Section 12. Delegates. (a) The term "delegates" shall mean those members of the Union and its subordinate bodies or divisions who are elected in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, to attend the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America. The following officers upon their election to office shall, during the term of their office, be delegates to all Con­ ventions of the Seafarers International Union of North America in the following order of priority: President; Executive VicePresident; Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement; Secretary-Treasurer; Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast; Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes -and Inland Waters; Headquarters Representatives, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; Port Agents, with priority to those most senior in full book Union membership; and Patrolmen, with priority to those most senior in full k»ook Union membership. Page 15 �(b) Each delegate shall, by his vote and otherwise, support those policies agreed upon by the majority of the delegates to the Convention. (c) The President shall assign to each subordinate body or division that number of delegates to which this Union would have been entitled, if its membership had been increased by the number of members of the subordinate body or division, in accordance with the formula set forth in the Constitution of the Seafarers International Union of North America, except that this provision shall not be applied so as to reduce the number of delegates to which this Union would otherwise have been entitled. Section 13. Committees. (o) Trial Committee. The Trial Committee shall conduct the trials of a person charged, and shall submit findings and recommendations as prescribed in this Constitution. It shall be the special obliga­ tion of the Trial Committee to observe all the requirements of this Constitution with regard to charges and trials, and their findings and recommendations must specifically state whether or not, in the opinion of the Trial Committee, the rights of any accused, under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. (b) Appeals Committee. 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial judgments, in accordance with such procedures as are set forth in this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. 2. The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than one week after the close of the said hearing, make and submit findings and recommendations in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and sujjh rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. (c) Quarterly Financial Committee. 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make an exami­ nation for each quarterly period of the finances of the Union and shall report fully on their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, sepa­ rate recommendations and separate findings. 2. The findings and recommendations of this committee shall be completed within a reasonable time after the election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted to the SecretaryTreasurer who shall cause the same to be read in all ports, as set forth herein. 3. All officers. Union personnel and members are responsible for complying with all demands made for records, bills, vouchers, receipts, etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Com­ mittee. The committee shall also have available to it, the serv­ ices of the independent certified public accountants retained by the Union. 4. Any action on the said report shall be as determined by a majority vote of the membership. 5. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall consist of seven (7) full book members in good standing to be elected at Head­ quarters—Port of New York. No officer. Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent, or Patrolman, shall be eligible for elec­ tion to this Committee. Committee members shall be elected at the regular Headquarters—Port of New York meeting desig­ nated by the Secretary-Treasurer. In the event such regular meeting cannot be held for lack of a quorum, the New York Port Agent shall call a special meeting as early as possible for the electing of Committee members to serve on the Quarterly Financial Committee. On the day following their election, and continuing until the Committee has completed its report, each Committee member shall be paid for hours worked at the standby rate of pay, but in no event shall they be paid for less than eight (8) hours per day. They shall be furnished room and board during the period they are performing their duties. In the event a committee member ceases to act, no replace­ ment need be elected, unless there are less than three (3) committee members, in which event they shall suspend their work until a special election for committee members shall be held as provided above, for such number of committee members as shall be necessary to constitute a committee of not less than three (3) members in good standing. (d) Strika Cemmittae. 1. In no event shall a general strike take place unless ap­ proved by a majority vote of the membership. ^ 2. In the event a general strike has been approved by the inembership the Port Agents in all affected ports shall call a timely special meeting for the purpose of electing a strike com­ mittee. This committee shall be composed of three full book members and their duties shall consist of assisting the Port Agent to effectuate all strike policies and strategies. Article Xi Wages and Terms of Office of Officers and Other Elective Job Holders, Union Employees, and Others Section 1. The following elected offices and jobs shall be held for a term of four years: President Vice-Presidents Secretary-Treasurer Headquarters Representatives Port Agents Patrolmen The term of four years set forth here is expressly subject to the provisions for assumption of office as contained in Article XllI, Section 6(b) of this Constitution. The first nomination and election of officers and jobs under tbis amended Constitution as provided for in this Article XI, and Articles Xll and XIH, shall be held in the year 1971, notwithstanding the unexpired term of any office as a result of a prior election or appointment. Section 2. The term of any elective jobs other than those in­ dicated in Section 1 of this Article shall continue for so long as is necessary to complete the functions thereof, unless sooner terminated by a majority vote of the membership or segment of the Union, whichever applies, whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or ones serving. Section 3. The compensation to be paid the holder of any office or other elective job shall be determined from time to time by the Executive Board subject to approval of the mem­ bership. Section 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not apply to any corporation, business, or other venture in which this Union participates; or which it organizes or creates. In such situations, instructions conveyed by the Executive Board shall be followed. Page 16 results shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a majority vote of the membersliip at a special meeting called for that purpose at that Port. Qualifications for Officers, Headquarters (b) After its election, the Committee shall immediately go Representatives, Port Agents, Patrolmen and into session. It shall determine whether the person has sub­ mitted his application correctly and possesses the necessary Other Elective Jobs qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a report listing each applicant and his book number under the office or job he Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a can­ is seeking. Each applicant shall be marked qualified" or "dis­ didate for, and hold, any office or the job of Headquarters qualified" according to the findings of the Committee. Where an Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman provided: applicant has been marked "disqualified, the reason therefor (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime in an un­ must be stated in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved licensed capacity aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or by a special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed by all Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment of the Committee members, and be completed and submitted at the Union's direction, shall count the same as seatime. to the Ports in time for the next regular meeting after their Union records. Welfare Plan records and/or company records election. At this meeting, it shall be read and incorporated in can be used to determine eligibility; and the minutes, and then posted on the bulletin board in each port. (b) He has been a full book member in continuous good On the last day of nominations, one member of the Commit­ standing in the Union for at least three (3) years immediately tee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of creden­ prior to his nomination; and tials. All credentials must be in headquarters by midnight of (c) He has at least one hundred (100) days of seatime, in closing day. an unlicensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the commit­ vessel or vessels covered by contract with this Union, or one tee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram at the ad­ hundred (100) days of employment with, or in any office or dresses listed by him pursuant to Section 1 of this Article. He job of, the Union, its subsidiaries and its affiliates, or in any shall also be sent a letter containing the reasons for such dis­ employment at the Union's direction, or a combination of qualification by air mail, special delivery, registered or certi­ these, between January 1st and the time of nomination in the fied, to the mailing address designated pursuant to Section election year; and Kb) of this Article. A disqualified applicant shall have the (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and right to take an appeal to the membership from the decision (e) He is not disqualified by law. He is not receiving a of the Committee. He shall forward copies of such appeal to each port, where the appeal shall be presented and voted upon pension from this Union's Pension Fund, if any, or from a Union-Management Fund to which Fund this Union is a party at a regular meeting no later than the second meeting after or from a company under contract with this Union. the Committee's election. It is the responsibility of the appli­ cant to insure timely delivery of his appeal. In any event, Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective without prejudice to his written appea, the applicant may jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall be full book appear in person before the Committee within two days after members of the Union. the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct his application or argue for his qualification. Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices The committee's report shall be prepared early enough to and jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this allow the applicant to appear before it within the time set forth Constitution, shall maintain full book membership in good in his Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the first standing. regular meeting after its election. (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case of Artkle Xlll such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disqualification by the Credentials Committee, in which event the one so previously classified shall then be deemed qualified. Elections for Officers, Headquarters (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the quali­ Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen fications of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively pre­ sume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections Section I. Nominations. for candidacy for any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre­ Except as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full sentative, Port Agent or Patrolman, has met all the requirements book member may submit his name for nomination for any of Section 1(a) of Article Xll. office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent Section 3. Balloting Procedure*. or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in per­ son, to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer at headquarters, or (a) Balloting in the manner hereafter provided, shall com­ sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in mence on November 1st of the election year and shall continue care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the address of headquarters. through December 31st, exclusive of Sundays and (for each This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: individual Port) holidays legally recognized in the City of which the port affected is located. If November 1st or De­ (a) The name of the candidate. cember 31st falls on a holiday legally recognized in a Port in (b) His hpme address and mailing address. the City in which that port is located, the balloting period in (c) His hpok number. such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, candidate, including the name of the Port in the event for the purpose of full book members securing their ballots, the the position sought is that of Agent or Patrolman. ports shall be open from 9:00 A.M. to 12 Noon, Monday through Saturdays, excluding holidays. (e) Proof of citizenship. (b) Balloting shall be by mail. The Secretary-Treasurer (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, with­ candidates. out partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may con­ (g) In the event the member is on a ship he shall notify the tain general information and instructive comments not in­ Credentials Committee what ship he is on. This shall be consistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified done also if he ships subsequent to forwarding his candidates shall be listed thereon alphabetically within each credentials. category with book number and job seniority classification (h) Annexing a certificate in the following form, signed and status. dated by the proposed nominee: The listing of the ports shall first set forth Headquarters and then shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with "I hereby certify that I am not now, nor, for the five (5) years the most northerly part of the Atlantic Coast, following the last past, have 1 been either a member of the Communist Party Atlantic Coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the from conviction of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezdement, list_ of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, United States shall then be added. There shall be no write murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts in voting and no provisions for the same shall appear on the grievous bodily injury, or violation of Title 11 or 111 of the ballot. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the number Landrum-Criffin Act, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes." thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so perforated as Dated to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable Signature of member portion shall also be placed a short statement indicating the Book No. nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. (c) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the SecretaryPrinted forms of the certificate shall be made available to Treasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be nominees. Where a nominee cannot truthfully execute such a used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the pre­ certificate, but is, in fact, legally eligible for an office or job ceding paragraph and shall be numbered consecutively, com­ by reason of the restoration of civil rights originally revoked by mencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both Parole of the United States Department of Justice, he shall, in by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto, shall be mainlieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed state­ mined by the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall also send each ment of the facts of his case together with true copies of the Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial documents supporting his statement. numbers of the ballots sent. The Secretary-Treasurer shall Any full book member may nominate any other full book also send to each Port Agent a sufficient amount of blank member in which event such full book member so nominated opaque envelopes containing the word, "Ballot" on the face of shall comply with the provisions of this Article as they are the envelope, as well as a sufficient amount of opaque mail­ set forth herein, relating to the submission of credentials. ing envelopes, first class postage prepaid and printed on the By reason of the above self nomination provision the responsiface thereon as the addressee shall be the name and address of sibility if any, for notifying a nominee of his nomination to the depository for the receipt of such ballots as designated by office, shall be that of the nominator. r j" ^he manner provided by Article X, Section 1, All documents required herein must reach headquarters no of this Constitution. In the upper left-hand corner of such earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the mailing envelope, there shall be printed thereon, as a top line, election year. provision for the voter's signature and on another line im­ The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of mediately thereunder, provision for the printing of the voter's these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Com­ name and book number. In addition, the Secretary-Treasurer mittee upon the latter's request. shall also send a sufficient amount of mailing envelopes identi­ cal with the mailing envelopes mentioned above, except that Section 2. Credential* Committee. they shall be of different color, and shall contain on the face (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regular of such envelope in bold letters, the word, "Challenge". The meeting in August of the election year, at the port where Head­ Secretary-Treasurer shall further furnish a sufficient amount quarters is located. Ir shall consist of six (6) full book mem­ of "Roster Sheets" which shall have printed thereon, at the top bers in attendance at the meeting, with two (2) members to thereof, the year of the election, and immediately thereunder, be elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards De­ five (5) vertical columns designated, date, ballot number, partments. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent signature full book member's name, book number and com­ or Patrolman, or candidate for office or the job of Headquarters ments, and such roster sheets shall contain horizontal lines Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for immediately under the captions of each of the above five election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article columns. The Secretary-Treasurer shall also send a sufficient X, Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable amount of envelopes with the printed name and address of to serve, the Committee shall suspend until the President or the depository on the face thereof, and in the upper left-hand Executive Vice-President, or the Secretary-Treasurer, in that corner, the name of the port and address, and on the face of order, calls a special meeting at the port where Headquarters such envelope, should be printed the words, "Roster Sheets is located in order to elect a replacement. The Committee's and Ballot Stubs". Each Port Agent shall maintain separate Article Xll Seafarers Log �records of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and count the ballots when received, to insure that the amount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that Port. The Port Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt, acknowledging the correctness of the amount and the numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. In any event, receipts shall be forwarded for all the aforementioned election material actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspectioh of the same at the office of the SecretaryTreasurer and shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee. (d) Balloting shall be secret. Only full book members in good standing may vote. Each full book member may secure his ballot at Port offices, from the Port Agent or his duly designated representative at such port. Each Port Agent shall designate an area at the Port office over which should be posted the legend "Voting Ballots Secured Here." When a full book member appears to vote he shall present his book to the Port Agent or his aforementioned duly designated representa­ tive. The Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall insert on the roster sheet under the appropriate column, the date, the number of the ballot given to such member and his full book number, and the member shall then sign his name on such roster sheet under the appropriate column. Such member shall have his book stamped with the word, "Voted" and the date, and shall be given a ballot, and simultaneously the perforation on the top of the ballot shall be removed. At the same time the member shall be given the envelope marked "Ballot" together with the pre-paid postage mailing envelope addressed to the depository. The member shall take such ballot and envelopes and in secret thereafter, mark his ballot, fold the same, insert it in the blank envelope marked "Ballot", seal the same, then insert such "Ballot" envelope into the mail­ ing envelope, seal such mailing envelope, sign his name on the upper left-hand corner on the first line of such mailing envelope and on the second line in the upper left-hand corner print his name and book number, after which he shall mail or cause the same to be mailed. In the event a full book member appears to vote and is not in good standing, or does not have his membership book with him or it appears for other valid reasons he is not eligible to vote, the same procedure as provided above shall apply to him, except that on the roster sheet under the column "Comments", notation should be made that the member voted a challenged ballot and the reason for his challenge. Such member's membership book shall he stamped "voted challenge", and the date, and such member instead of the above-mentioned mailing envelope, shall he given the mailing envelope of a different color marked on the face thereof with the word, "Challenge". At the end of each day, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative shall enclose in the envelope addressed to the depository and marked "Roster Sheets and Ballot Stubs", the roster sheet or sheets executed by the members that day, together with the numbered per­ forated slips removed from the -ballots which had been given to the members, and then mail the same to such depository. To insure that an adequate supply of all balloting material is maintained in all ports at all times, the Port Agent or his duly designated representative, simultaneously with mailing of the roster sheets and ballot stubs to the depository at the end of each day, shall also make a copy of the roster sheet for that day and mail the same to the Secretary-Treasurer at Head­ quarters. The Port Agent shall be responsible for the proper safeguarding of all election material and shall not release any of it until duly called for and shall insure that no one tampers with the material placed in his custody. (e) Full hook members may request and vote an absentee ballot under the following circumstances; while such member is employed on a Union contracted vessel and which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to he at a port in which a ballot can be secur^ during the time and period provided for in Section 4(a) of this Article or is in a USPHS Hospital any­ time during the first ten (10) days of the month of November of the Election Year. The member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by registered or certified mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such request shall con­ tain a designation as to the address to which such member wishes his absentee ballot returned. The request shall be post­ marked no later than 12:00 P.M. on the 15th day of November of the election year, shall be directed to the SecretaryTreasurer at Headquarters and must be delivered no later than the 25th of such November. The Secretary-Treasurer shall determine whether such member is eligible to vote such absentee ballot. The Secretary-Treasurer, if he determines • that such member is so eligible, he shall by the 30th of such November, send by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the address so designated by such member, a "Ballot", after removing the perforated numbered stub, together with the hereinbefore mentioned "Ballot" envelope, and mailing en­ velope addressed to the depository, except that printed on the face of such mailing envelope, shall be the words "Absentee Ballot" and appropriate voting instructions shall accompany such mailing to the member. If the Secretary-Treasurer de­ termines that such member is ineligible to receive such absentee ballot, he shall nevertheless send such member the afore­ mentioned ballot with accompanying material except that the mailing envelope addressed to the depository shall have printed on the face thereof the words "Challenged Absentee Ballot." The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep records of all of the fore­ going, including the reasons for determining such member's ineligibility, which records shall he open for inspection by full book members and upon the convening of the Union Tallying Committee, presented to them. The SecretaryTreasurer shall send to all Ports, the names and book numbers of the members to whom absentee ballots were sent. (f) All ballots to be counted, must he received by the depository no later than the January 5th immediately sub­ sequent to the election year and must he postmarked no later than 12 midnight December 31st of the election year. Section 4. (a) At the close of the last day of the period for securing ballots, the Port Agent in each port, in addition to his duties set forth above, shall deliver or mail to Head­ quarters by registered or certified mail, attention Union Tally­ ing Committee, all unused ballots and shall specifically set forth, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. (b) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. The election shall be held at the regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the Executive Board otherwise determines prior thereto, at a March 1971 special meeting held in the aforesaid ports, on the first business day of the last week of said month. No officer, Head(|uarters Representative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or candidate for office, or the job or Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties herein set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall have access to all election records and files for their inspection, examination and verification. The report shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these discrepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. In connection with the tally of ballots there shall be no counting of ballots until all mailing envelopes containing valid ballots have first been opened, the ballot envelopes removed intact and then all of such ballot envelopes mixed together, after which such ballot envelopes shall be opened and counted in such multiples as the Committee may deem expedient and manageable. The Committee shall resolve all issues on chal­ lenged ballots and tben tally those found valid, utilizing the same procedure as provided in the preceding sentence either jointly or separately. (c) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall, after their election, proceed to the port in which Headquarters is located, to arrive at that port no later than January 5th of the year immediately after the election year. Each member of the Committee not elected from the port in which Head­ quarters is located shall be reimbursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expenses occasioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. Committee members elected from the port in which Headquarters is located, shall be similarly, reimbursed, except fot transportation. All members of the (iommittee shall also be paid at the prevailing standby rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the port from which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Constitution, adopt its own procedures. All decisions of such Committee and the contents of their report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in at­ tendance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain all mailed ballots and the other mailed election material from the depository and to insure their safe custody during the course of the Committee's proceedings. The proceedings of the Committee except for their organizational meeting and their actual preparation of the closing report and dissents therefrom, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes decorum. Any candidate may act as an observer and/or designate another member to act as his observer at the counting of the ballots. In no event shall issuance of the above referred to closing report of the Committee be delayed beyond January 3Ist immediately subse­ quent to the close of the election year. In the discharge of its duties, the Committee may call upon and utilize the services of clerical employees of the Union. The Committee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its report as required in this Article. In the event a recheck and recount is ordered pursuant to this Article, the Committee shall be reconstituted, except that if any member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (d) The report of the Committee shall be made up in suffi­ cient copies to comply with the following requirements: two copies shall be mailed by the Committee to each Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer no later than January 31st im­ mediately subsequent to the close of the election year. As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin hoard, in a conspicuous manner, and notify the Secretary-Treasurer, in writing, as to the date of such posting. This copy shall be kept posted until after the Election Report Meeting, which shall be the March regular membership meeting immediately following the close of the election year. At the Election Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (e) Any full book member claiming a violation of the election and balloting procedure or the conduct of the same, shall within 72 hours of the occurrence of the claimed violation, notify the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters, in writing, by certified mail, of the same, setting forth his name, book number and the details so that appropriate corrective action if warranted may be taken. The Secretary-Treasurer shall ex­ peditiously investigate the facts concerning the claimed viola­ tion, take such action as may be necessary if any, and make a report and recommendation, if necessary, a copy of which shall be sent to the member and the original shall be filed for the Union Tallying Committee for their appropriate action, report and recommendation, if any. The foregoing shall not be applicable to matters involving the Credentials Committee's action or report, the provisions of Article XIII, Sections 1 and 2 being the pertinent provisions applicable to such matters. All protests as to any and all aspects of the election and balloting procedures or the conduct of the same, not passed upon by the Union Tallying Committee in its report, excluding therefrom matters involving the Credentials Committee's action or report as provided in the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, but including the procedure and report of the Union Tallying Committee, shall be filed in writing by certified mail with the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters, to be received no later than the February 25th immediately sub­ sequent to the close of the election year. It shall be the re­ sponsibility of the member to insure that his written protest is received by the Secretary-Treasurer no later than such Febru­ ary 25th. The Secretary-Treasurer shall forward copies of such written protest to all ports in sufficient time to be read at the Election Report Meeting. The written protest shall contain the full book member's name, book number, and all details constituting the protest. (f) At the Election Report Meeting the report and recom­ mendation of the Union Tallying Committee, including but not limited to discrepancies, protests passed upon by them, as well as protests filed with the Secretary-Treasurer as provided for in Section (e) immediately above, shall be acted upon by the meeting. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of a special vote, unless reported discrepancies or protested procedure or conduct found to have occurred and to be violative of the Constitution, affected the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted to such office, offices and/or job or jobs, as the case may be. A majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings may order a recheck and recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three (3) or more members of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this Section 4(f), the closing report shall be accepted as final. There shall be no further protest or appeal from the action of the majority of the membership at the Election Report Meetings. (g) Any special vote ordered pursuant to Section 4(f) shall be commenced within ninety (90) days after the first day of the month immediately subsequent to the Election Report Meetings mentioned above. The depository shall be the same as designated for the election from which the special vote is ordered. And the procedures shall be the same as provided for in this Section 4, except where specific dates are provided for, the days shall be the dates applicable, which provide, for the identical time and days originally provided for in this Section 4. The Election Report Meeting for the aforesaid special vote shall be that meeting immediately subsequent to the report of the Union Tallying Committee separated by one calendar month. i-, I Section 5. Elected Officers and Job Holders: (a) A candidate unopposed for any office or job shall be deemed elected to such office or job notwithstanding that his name may appear on the ballot. The Union Tallying Committee shall not be required to tally completely the results of the voting for such unopposed candidate but shall certify in their report, that such unopposed candidate has been elected to such office or job. The Election Report Meeting shall accept the above certification of the Union Tallying Committee without change. Section 6. Installation into Office and the Job of Head­ quarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman: (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meet­ ing, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meet­ ing the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candi­ date cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume office the provisions of Article X, Section 11 shall apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. ^1 Article XIV Other Elections Section 1. Trial Committee. A Trial Committee shall he elected at a special meeting held at 10:00 A.M., the next business day following the regular meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take place. It shall consist of five full book members, of which three shall consti­ tute a quorum. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Port Patrolman, or other Union personnel may be elected to serve on a Trial Committee. No member who intends to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any member who cannot for any reason, render an honest decision. It shall he the duty of every member to decline nomination if he knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing dis­ qualifications apply to him. The members of this committee shall be elected under such. generally applicable rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the membership. Section 2. Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven full book members, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at the port where headquarters is located. The same disquali­ fications and duties of members shall apply with regard to this committee as apply to the Trial Committee. In addition, no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearing of an appeal from a Trial Committee decision, if th6 said member was a member of the Trial Committee. Article XV Trials and Appeals Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any other member for the commission of an offense as set forth in this Constitution. These charges shall be in writing and signed by the accuser, who shall also include his book number. The accuser shall deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the port nearest the place of the offense, or the port of pay-off, if the offense took place aboard ship. He shall also request the Port Agent to present these charges at the next regular meeting The accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting takes place. Section 2. After presentation of the charges and the request to the Port Agent, the Port Agent shall cause those charges to be read at die said meeting. If the charges are rejected by a majority vote of the port, no further action may be taken thereon, unless ruled otherwise by a majority vote of the membership of the Union within 90 days thereafter. If the charges are accepted, and the accused is present, he shall be automatically on notice that he will be tried the following morning. At his request, the trial shall be postponed until the morning following the next regular meeting, at which time the Trial Committee will then be elected. He Page 17 4 i9 �shall also be handed a written copy of the charges made against him. If the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall immedi< ately cause to be sent to him, by registered mail addressed to his last known mailing address on file with the Union a copy of the charges, the names and book numbers of the accusers, and a notification, that he must appear with his witnesses, ready for trial the morning after the next regular meeting, at which meeting the Trial Committee will be elected. In the event a majority of the membership of the Union shall vote to accept charges after their rejection by a port, the trial shall take place in the Port where Headquarters is located. Due notice thereof shall be given to the accused, who shall be informed of tbe name of his accusers, and who shall receive a written statement of the charges. At the request of the accused, transportation and subsistence shall be provided the accused and his witnesses. Section 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinent evidence and shall not be bound by the rules of evidence required by courts of law but may receive all relevant testi­ mony. The Trial Committee may grant adjournments, at the request of the accused, to enable him to make a proper defense. In the event the Trial Committee falls beneath a quorum, it shall adjourn until a quorum does exist. Section 4. No trial shall be conducted unless all the accusers are present. The Trial Committee shall conduct the trial except that the accused shall have the right to cross-examine the accuser, or accusers, and the witnesses, as well as to conduct his own defense. The accused may select any member to assist him in his defense at the trial, provided, (a) the said member is available at the time of the trial and (b) the said member agrees to render such assistance. If the accused challenges the qualifications of the members of the Trial Committee, or states that the charges do not adequately inform him of what wrong he allegedly committed, or the time and place of such commis­ sion, such matters shall be ruled upon and disposed of, prior to proceeding on the merits of the defense. The guilt of an accused'shall be found only if proven by the weight of the evidence, and the burden of such proof shall be upon the accuser. Every finding shall be based on the quality of the evidence and not solely on the number of witnesses produced. Secrion 5. The Trial Committee shall make findings as to guilt or innocence, and recommendations as to punishment and/or other Union action deemed desirable in the light of the proceedings. These findings artd recommendations shall be those of a majority of the committee, and shall be in writing, as shall be any dissent. The committee shall forward its find­ ings and recommendations, along with any dissent to the Port Agent of the port where the trial took place, while a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the accused and the accusers, either in person or by mail addressed to their last known addresses. The findings shall include a statement that the rights of the accused under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. The findings also must contain the charges made, the date of the trial, the name and address of the accused, the accuser, and each witness; shall describe each document used at the trial; shall contain a fair summary of the proceedings, and shall state the findings as to guilt or innocence. If possible, all documents used at the trial shall be kept. All findings and recommendations shall be made a part of tbe regular files. r should have been disqualified, or (b) that the accused wag not adequately informed of the details of the charged offense, which resulted in his not having been given a tair trial, or (c) that for any other reason, the accused was not given a fair trial. (d) If there is not substantial evidence to support a finding of guilt, the Appeals Committee shall recommend that the charge on which the finding was based be dismissed. (e) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser punish­ ment. Section 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its decision and dissent, if any, to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies to be published and shall have them sent to each port in time to reach there before the next regular scheduled meeting. Headquarters shall also send a copy to each accused and accuser at their last known address, or notify them in person. Section IS. At the meeting indicated in Section 14 of this Article, the membership, by a majority vote, shall accept the decision of the Appeals Committee, or the dissent therein. If there is no dissent, the decision of the Appeals Committee shall stand. If a new trial is ordered, that trial shall be held in the port where headquarters is located, in the manner provided for in Section 2 of this Article. Any decision so providing for a new trial shall contain such directions as will insure a fair hearing to the accused. Section 16. Headquarters shall notify the accused and each accuser, either in person or in writing addressed to their last known address, of the results of the appeal. A further appeal shall be allowed as set forth in Section 17 of this Article. Section 17. Each member is charged with knowledge of the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers International Union of North America, and the rights of, and procedure as to, further appeal as. provided for therein. Decisions reached thereunder shall be binding on all members of the Union, Section 18. It shall be the duty of all members of the Union to take all steps within their constitutional power to carry out the terms of any effective decisions. Section 19. Every accused shall receive a written copy of the charges preferred against him and shall be given a reasonable time to prepare bis defense, but he may thereafter plead guilty and waive any or all of the other rights and privileges granted to him by this Article. If an accused has been properly notified of his trial and fails to attend without properly requesting a postponement, the Trial Committee may hold its trial without his presence. Article XVi Offenses and Penalties Section 1. Upon proof of the commission of the following offenses, the member shall be expelled from membership: (a) Proof of membership in any organization advocating the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force; (b) Acting as an informer against the interest of the Union or the membership in any organizational campaign; (c) Acting as an informer for, or agent of, the company against the interests of the membership or the Union; (d) The commission of any act as part of a conspiracy to Section 6. The Port Agent of the Port of Trial shall, upon destroy the Union. receipt of the findings and recommendations of the Trial Com­ mittee, cause the findings and recommendations to be presented, Section 2. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ and entered into the minutes, at the next regular meeting.. lowing offenses, the member shall be penalized up to and including a penalty of expulsion from the Union. In the event Section 7. The Port Agent shall send the record of the entire the penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recoihmeded, the proceedings to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies penalty shall not exceed suspension from the rights and privi­ thereof to be made and sent to each Port in time for the next leges of membership for more than two (2) years, or a fine regularly scheduled meeting. of $50.00 or both: Section 8. At the latter meeting, the proceedings shall be dis­ (a) Willfully misappropriating or misusing Union property cussed. The meeting shall then vote. A majority vote of the of the value in excess of $50.00. membership of the Union shall: (b) Unauthorized use of Union property, records, stamps, (a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or seals, etc., for the purpose of personal gain; (b) Reject tbe findings and recommendations, or (c) Willful misuse of any office or job, elective or not, within the Union for the purpose of persontd gain, financial or other­ (c) Accept the findings, but modify the recommendations, or wise, or the willful refusal or failure to execute the duties or (d) Order a new trial after finding that substantial justice functions of the said office or job, or gross neglect or abuse in has not been done with regard to the charges. In this event, executing such, duties or functions or other serious misconduct a new trial shall take place at the port where headquarters is or breach of trust. The President may, during the pendency located and upon application, tbe accused, the accusers, and of disciplinary proceedings under this subsection, suspend the their witnesses shall be furnished transportation and subsist­ officer or jobholder from exercising the functions of the office ence. or job, with or without pay, and designate his temporary re­ Section 9. After the vote set forth in Section 8, any punish­ placement. ment so decided upon shall become effective. Headquarters (d) Unauthorized voting, or unauthorized handling of bal­ shall cause notice of the results thereof to be sent to each lots, stubs, rosters, verification lists, ballot boxes, or election accused and accuser. files, or election material of any sort; Section 10. An accused who has been found guilty, or who is (e) Preferring charges with knowledge that such, charges under effective punishment may appeal in the following manner: . are false; He may send or deliver a notice of appeal to Headquarters (f) Making or transmitting; with intent to deceive, false within 30 days after receipt of the notice of the decision of the reports or communications which fall within the scope of Union membership. business; Section 11. At the next regular meeting of the port where (g) Deliberate failure or refusal to join one's ship, or mis­ Headquarters is located, after receipt of the notice of appeal, conduct or neglect of duty aboard ship, to the detriment of the notice shall be presented and sball then become part of tbe the Union or its agreements; minutes. An Appeals Committee sball then be elected. The (h) Deliberate and unauthorized interference, or deliberate Vice-President in charge of contracts is charged with the duty' and malicious villificatioh, with regard to the execution of the of presenting the before-mentioned proceedings and all avail­ duties of any office or job; able documents used as evidence at tbe trial to the Appeals (i) Paying for, or receiving money for, employment aboard Committee, as well as any written statement or argument sub­ a vessel, exclusive of proper earnings and Union payments; mitted by the accused. Tbe accused may argue his appeal in (j) Willful refusal to submit evidence of affiliation for the person, if he so desires. The appeal shall be heard at Union purpose of avoiding or delaying money payments to the Union, Headquarters on the night the committee is elected. It shall or unauthorizedly transferring or receiving evidence of Union be the responsibility of tbe accused to insure tbat his written affiliation, with intent to deceive; statement or argument arrives at headquarters in time for such presentation. (k) Willful failure or refusal to carry out the order of those duly authorized to make such orders during time of strike. Section 12. The Appeals Committee shall decide the appeal (1) Failure or refusal to pay a fine or assessment within the as soon as possible, consistent with fair consideration of the time limit set therefor either by the Constitution or by action evidence and arguments before it. It may grant adjournments taken in accordance with the Constitution. and may request the accused or accusers to present arguments, whenever necessary for such fair consideration. Section 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, members shall be penalized up to and including Section 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall be a suspension from the rights and privileges of membership for by majority vote, and shall be in the form of findings and two(2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both: recommendations. Dissents wiU be allowed. Decisions and dissents shall be in writing and si^ed by those participating (a) Willfully misappropriating or misusing Union property in such decision or dissent. In making its findings and recom­ of the value under $50.00; mendations, the committee shall be governed by the following: (b) Assuming any office or job, whether elective or not with (a) No finding of guilt shall be reversed if there is sub­ knowledge of the lack of possession of the qualifications re­ stantial evidence to support such a finding and, in such case, quired therefor; the Appeals Committee shall not make its own findings as to (c) Misconduct during any meeting or other official Union the weight of evidence. proceeding, or bringing the Union into disrepute by conduct (b) In no event shall increased punishment be recommended. not provided for elsewhere in this Article; (c) A new trial shall be recommended if the Appeals Com­ (d) Refusal or negligent failure to carry out orders of mittee finds—(a) that any member of the Trial Committee those duly authorized to make such orders at any time. Page 18 SMtien 4. Upon proof of the commission of any of the fol­ lowing offenses, members shall be penalized up to and including a fine of $50.00; (a) Refusal or willful failure to be present at sign-ons or pay-offs; (b) Willful failure to submit Union book to Union repre­ sentatives at pay-off; (c) Disorderly conduct at pay-off or sign-on; (d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives in dis­ charging their duties; (e) Disorderly conduct in the Union hall; (f) Gambling in the Union hall; (g) Negligent failure to join ship. Section 5. Any member who has committed an offense penal­ ized by no more than a fine of $50.00 may elect to waive his rights under this Constitution subject to the provisions of Article XV, Section 19 and to pay the maximum fine of $50.00 to the duly authorized representative of the Union. Section 6. This Union, and its members, shall not be deemed to waive any claim, of personal or property rights to which it or its members are entitled, by bringing the member to trial or enforcing a penalty as provided in this Constitution. Section 7. Any member under suspension for an offense under this Article shall continue to pay all dues and assessments and must observe his duties to the Union, members, officials, and job holders. Article XVII Publications This Union may publish such pamphlets, journals, news­ papers, magazines, periodicals and general literature, in such manner as may be determined, from time to time, by the Executive Board. Article XVIII Bonds Officers and job holders, whether elected or appointed as well as all other employees handling monies of the Union shall be bonded as required by law. Article XIX Expenditures Section 1. In the event no contrary policies or instructions are in existence, the President may authorize, make, or incur such expenditures and expenses as are normally encompassed within the authority conferred upon him by Article X of this Constitution. Section 2. The provisions of Section 1 shall similarly apply to the routine accounting and administrative procedures of the Union except those primarily concerned with trials, appeals, negotiations, strikes, and elections. Section 3. The provisions of this Article shall supersede to the extent applicable, the provisions of Article X of this Constitution. Article XX . Income Section 1. The income of this Union shall include dues, initiation fees, fines, assessments, contributions, loans, interest, dividends, as well as income derived from any other legitimate business operation or other legitimate source. Section 2. An official Union receipt, properly filled out, shaU be given to anyone paying money to tbe Union or to any person authorized by the Union to receive money. It shall be the duty of every person affiliated with the Union who makes such payments to demand such receipt. Section 3. No assessments shall be levied except after a ballot conducted under such general rules as may be decided upon by a majority vote of the membership, provided that: (a) The ballot must be, secret. (b) The assessment must be appfoved by a majority of the valid baUots cast. Section 4. Except as otherwise provided by law, all payments by members or other affiliates of this Union shall be applied successively to the monetary obligations owed the Union com­ mencing with the oldest in point of time, as measured from the date of accrual of such obligation. The period of arrears shaU be calculated accordingly. Section 5. To the extent deemed appropriate by the major­ ity of the Executive Board, funds and assets of the Union may be kept in an account or accounts without separation as to purpose and expended for all Union purposes and objects. Article XXi Other Types of Union Affiliation To the extent permitted by law, this Union, by majority vote of the membership, may provide for affiliation with it by individuals in a lesser capacity than membership, or in acapacity other than membership. By majority vote of the mem­ bership, the Union may provide for the rights and obligations incident to such capacities or affiliations. These rights and obligations may include, but are not limited to (a) the applic­ ability or non-applicability of all or any part of the Consti­ tution; (b) the terms of such affiliation; (c) the right of the Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation and, (d) the fees required for such affiliation. In no event may anyone not a member receive evidence of affiliation equivalent to that of members, receive priority or rights over members, or be termed a member. Article XXII Quorums Section 1. Unless elsewhere herein otherwise specifically pro­ vided, the quorum for a special meeting of a port shaU be six (6) full book members. Section 2. The quorum for a regular meeting of a Port shaU be fifty (50) members. Section 3. Unless otherwise specifically set forth herein, the decisions, reports, recommendations, or other functions of any segment of the Union requiring a quorum to act officially, shall be a majority of those voting, and shall not be official or effective unless the quorum requirements are met. Seafarers Log �Section 4. Unless otherwise indicated herein, where the re­ quirements for a quorum are not specifically set forth, a quorum shall be deemed to be a majority of those composing the ap­ plicable segment of the Union. Article XXIil Meetings II Se^ion 1. Regular membership meetings shall be held monthly only in the following major ports at the following times: During the week following the first Sunday of every month a meeting shall be held on Monday—at New York; on Tuesday —at Philadelphia; on Wednesday—at Baltimore; and on Friday—at Detroit. During the next week, meetings shall be held on Monday—at Houston; on Tuesday—at New Orleans; and on Wednesday—at Mobile. All regular membership meet­ ings shall commence at 2:30 P.M. local time. Where a meeting day falls on a Holiday officially designated as such by the authorities of the state or municipality in which a port is located, the port meeting shall take place on the following business day. Saturday and Sunday shall not be deemed busi­ ness days. The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all regular meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a regular meeting of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. In the event a quorum is not present at 2:30 P.M. the chairman of the meeting at the pertinent port shall postpone the opening of the meeting but in no event later than 3:00 P.M. Section 2. A special meeting at a port may be called only at the direction of the Port Agent or Area Vice President. No special meeting may be held, except between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be posted at least two hours in advance, on the port bulletin board. The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all special meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a special meet­ ing of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. Section 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, all reg­ ular meetings shall be governed by the following: 1. The Union Constitution. 2. Majority vote of the members assembled. Article XXiV Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions Relating Thereto Section 1. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein, the term "incapacity," shall mean any illness or situation preventing the affected person from carrying out his duties for more than 30 days, provided that this does not result in a vacancy. However, nothing contained in this Article shall be deemed to prohibit the execution of the functions of more than one job and/or office in which event no incapacity shall be deemed to exist with regard to the regular job or office of the one taking over the duties and functions of the one incapacitated. The period of incapacity shall be the time during which the circumstances exist. Sacrion 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein, the term "vacancy" shall include failure to perform the func­ tions of any office or job by reason of death, or resignation, or suspension from membership or expulsion from the Union with no further right to appeal in accordance with the pro­ visions of Article XV of this Constitution. Sactien 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole the term, "majority vote of the membership," shall mean the majority of all the valid votes cast by full book members at an official meeting of those ports holding a meeting. This definition shall prevail notwithstanding that one or more ports cannot hold meetings because of no quorum. For the purpose of this Sec­ tion, the term "meeting" shall refer to those meetings to be held during the time period within which a vote must be taken in accordance with the Constitution and the custom and usage of the Union in the indicated priority. Section 4. When applicable solely to port action and not con­ cerned with, or related to, the Union as a whole, and not forming part of a Union-wide vote, the term "majority vote of the membership," shall refer to the majority of the valid votes cast by the full book members at any meeting of the Port, regular or special. Sactlon 5. The term, "membership action", or reference thereto, shall mean the same as the term "majority vote of the membership." Section 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the holder thereof, is set forth in this Constitution, all references thereto and the provisions concerned therewith shall be deemed to be equally applicable to whomever is duly acting in such office or job. Soction 7. The term "Election Year" shall be deemed to mean that calendar year prior to the calendar year in which elected officials and other elected job-holders are required to asume office. Section 8. The terms, "this Constitution", and "this amended Constitution," shall be deemed to have the same meaning and shall refer to the Constitution as amended which takes the place of the one adopted by the Union in 1939, as amended up through August, 1968. Section 9. The term, "member in good standing", shall mean a member whose monetary obligations to the Union are not in arrears for thirty days or more, or who is not under suspen­ sion or expulsion effective in accordance with this Constitution. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, the term, "member," shall mean a member in good standing. Section 10. Unless plainly otherwise required by the context of their use, the terms "Union book," "membership book," and "book," sball mean official evidence of Union membership. Section 11. The term "full book" or "full Union book" shall mean only an official certificate issued as evidence of Union membership which carries with it complete rights and privileges of membership except as may be specifically constitutionally otherwise provided. Section 12. The term, "full book member", shall mean a member to whom a full book has been duly issued and who is entitled to retain it in accordance with 'be provisions of this Constitution. Article XXV Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and this Constitution and any amendments thereto, shall not take effect unless and until approved as set forth in the Constitution of that Union. IV An object of this Union is, within its reasonable capacity, to promote the welfare of, and assist, the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America—.Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District. The charter (and/or affiliation) relationship between this Union and the .Seafarers International Union of North America —Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall not be dissolved so long as at least ten members of this Union, and the Seafarers International Union of North America— Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board wish to continue such relationship. VI No amendment to this Constitution shall be effective unless and iintil approved by at least a two-thirds vote of the member­ ship in a secret referendum conducted for that purpose. In any event, the adoption of this Constitution and any aniendments thereto, will not be effective unless and until compliance with Article II of the Constitution of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District is first made. Amendments This Constitution sball be amended in the following manner: Section 1. Any full book member may submit at any regular meeting of any Port proposed amendments to this Constitu­ tion in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership of the Port approves it, the proposed amendment shall be for­ warded to all Ports for further action. Section 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by a ma­ jority vote of the membership, it shall be referred to a Con­ stitutional Committee in the Port where Headquarters is located. This Committee shall be composed of six full book members, two from each department and shall be elected in accordance with such rules as are established by a majority vote of that Port. The Committee will act on all proposed amendments referred to it. The Committee may receive whatever advice and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare a report on the amendment together with any proposed changes or substitutions or recommendations and the reckons for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted to the membership. If a majority vote of the membership approves the amendment as recommended, it shall then be voted upon, in a ye.s or no vote by the membership of the Union by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure directed by a majority vote of the membership at the time it gives the approval necessary to put the referendum to a vote. The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of six (6) full book members, two from each of the three (3-) departments-of the Union, elected from Headquarters Port. The amendment shall either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall be referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be posted on the bulletin boards of all ports and made available at the voting site in all ports. Section 3. If approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast, the amendment shall become effective immediately upon notification by the aforesaid Union Tallying Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer that the amendment has been so approved, unless otherwise specified in the amendment. The SecretaryTreasurer shall immediately notify all ports of the results of the vote on the amendment. VII The Seafarers International Union of North America—At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall have the right to check, inspect and make copies of all the books and records of this Union upon demand. Vlli This Union shall not take any action which will have the effect of reducing its net assets, calculated through recognized accounting procedures, below the amount of its indebtedness to the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlan­ tic, GuH, Lakes and Inland Waters District, unless approved by that Union through its Executive Board. IX So long as there exists any indebtedness by this Union to the Seafarers, International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, that Union shall have the right to appoint a representative or representatives to this Union who shall have the power to attend all meetings of this Union, or its sub-divisions, or governing boards, if any; and who shall have access to all books and records of this Union on demand. This representative, or these representatives, shall be charged with the'duty of assisting this Union and its mem­ bership, and acting as a liaison between the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District and this Union. So long as any unpaid per capita tax, or any other indebted­ ness of any sort is owed by this Union to the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, such indebtedness shall constitute a first lien on the assets of this Union, which lien shall not be impaired without the written approval of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board. EXHIBIT A Minimal requirements to be contained in Constitution of subordinate bodies and divisions chartered by or affiliated with the Seafarers international Union of North America — At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. I All members shall have equal rights and privileges, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, contained in this Consti­ tution, including secret election, freedom of speech, the right to hold office and the right of secret votes on assessment and dues increases, all in accordance with the law. XI The per capita tax payable by this Union to the Seafarers International Union of North America—.Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall be that which is fixed in ac­ cordance with the terms of the Constitution of that Union. - Xil This Constitution and actions by this Union pursuant thereto are subject to those provisions of the Constitution of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America—Atlantic, GiJf, Lakes and Inland Waters District pertaining to affiliation, dis­ affiliation, trusteeships, and the granting and removal of charters. II Xili No member may be automaticaly suspended from member­ ship except for non-payment of dues, and all members shall be afforded a fair hearing upon written charges, with a reas­ onable time to prepare defense, when accused of an offense under the Constitution. This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America through the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. It shall share in, and participate as part of, the delegation of that District to the Convention of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. ill This Union is chartered by (and/or affiliated with), the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Page 19 March 1971 Aii; • Vv ^ �•••• •' ' .1'. )''• • j. - 'J "'•. 't^v^' '•'- 1. "A '' , •• '^ •'•"ii"", .• '"••• .-- EVERY SEAFARER IS GUARANTEED: • Protection of the rights and privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. • The right to vote. • The right to nominate himself for, and to hold, any office in the Union. • That every official of the Union shall be bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member and that in no case shall any member be deprived of his rights and privileges as a member without due pro­ cess of the law of the Union. • The right to be confronted by his accuser and to be given a fair trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members if he should be charged with conduct detrimental to the welfare of Seafarers banded together in this Union. • The right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. • The assurance that his brother Seafarers will stand with him in defense of the democratic principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. a. '.'••'•i- . .. ' V • Tl -f ,• 1^ Page 20 Seafarers Log �SlU Pension Roll Adds 25 Members John Karpinsky, Jr. John Karpinsky; Jr., 62, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1949 and sailed in the steward department. A native of Pennsylvania, Brother Karpinsky now makes his home in Jalisco, Mexico. When he retired. Seafarer Kar­ pinsky ended a sailing career of 25 years. Artemio Quinones Artemio Quinones, 65, is a native of Ponce, P.R., and is now spending his retirement in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was an early member of the Union, having joined in the Port of New York in 1938. Brother Quinones sailed in the engine department. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card. At the time of Seafarer Quinones' retire­ ment he had been sailing 42 years. Frank Bosmente Frank Bosmente, 64, joined the SIU in the Port of Tampa in 1942 and sailed in the steward department as a cook. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Bosmente now lives in Brook­ lyn, N.Y. When he retired. Seafarer Bosmente ended a sailing career of 49 years. Festus A. DeLeon Festus A. DeLeon, 65, is a native of Jamaica, British West Indies, and now makes his home in Baltimore, Md. He is one of the first members of the Union having joined in the Port of Balti­ more in 1939. Seafarer DeLeon sailed in the stew­ ard department as chief steward. When he re­ tired he had been sailing 44 years. Miguel A. Eala Miguel A. Eala, 66, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1947 and sailed in the steward department. He often served the Union as department delegate while sailing. Brother Eala was given two safety awards in 1960 and 1961 for his part in making the Steel Surveyor an accident free ship. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Eala now makes his home in Manhattan, N.Y. He is a Navy veteran of World War II. VIrgle O. Guest Virgle O. Guest, 45, is a native of Alabama and now spends his retirement in Mobile, Ala. He joined the Union in the Port of Mobile in 1949 and sailed in the deck department. Brother Guest is a Navy veteran of World War II. When he retired. Seafarer Guest had been sailing 23 years. Salomon M. Rosa Salomon M. Rosa, 67, joined the Union in the Port of Galveston in 1951 and sailed in the engine department. He was issued a picket duty card in 1961. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Rosa now makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a veteran of World War II. Seafar­ er Salomon's retirement ended a sailing career of 25 years. Victor Menor Victor Menor, 63, is a native of the Philippine Islands and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. He joined the SIU in the Port of Boston in 1943 and sailed in the engine department as a chief elec­ trician. He was issued a picket duty card in 1961. When Seafarer Menor retired he ended a sailing career of 30 years. DItlef K. Molier Ditlef K. Molier, 58, joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the engine department. He served the Union as department delegate while sailing. A native of Norway, Brother Molier now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. His retirement ended a sailing career of 38 years. . Evangelos Stratis Evangelos Stratis, 65, joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1946 and sailed in the engine department. A native of Greece, Brother Stratis now lives in New Orleans, La. Seafarer Stratis retired after sailing more than 40 years. March 1971 Cirilo A. Baquilod Cirilo A. Baquilod, 71, is a native of the Phil­ ippine Islands and is now spending his retire­ ment in Staten Island, N.Y. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1953 and sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. Brother Baquilod retired after 25 years at sea. William K. Sutherlin William K. Sutherlin, 66, joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans in 1947 and sailed in the steward department. A native of Shreveport. La., Brother Sutherlin is now spending his retirement in Metairie, La. Brother Sutherlin's re­ tirement ended a sailing career of 24 years. Edgar Harman Edgar Harman, 65, is a native of South Caro­ lina and now makes his home in New Orleans, La. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Or­ leans in 1938 and sailed in the engine depart­ ment. When Brother Harman retired he had been sailing for 32 years. Gilbert G. Parker Gilbert G. Parker, 48, joined the Union in the Port of Savannah in 1944 and sailed as a steward. A native of Pennsylvania, Brother Parker now makes his home in Savannah, Ga. Seafarer Park­ er's retirement ended a sailing career of 28 years. Eric Benjamin Hayes Eric Benjamin Hayes, 66, is a native of Brit­ ish Guiana and is now spending his retirement in Theodore, Ala. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the en­ gine department. When he retired. Brother Hayes ended a sailing career of 33 years. Antonio A. Mangao Antonio A. Mangao, 73, joined the Union in the Port of Wilmington in 1955 and sailed in the steward department. A native of the Philip­ pine Islands, Seafarer Mangao now makes his home in Wilmington, Calif. He had been sailing 31 years when he retired. Jack Clarence Trosclair Jack Clarence Trosclair, 40, is a native of Mo­ bile, Ala., and continues to make his home there. He joined the Union in the Port of Mobile and sailed in the deck department. When Brother Trosclair retired he had been sailing over 20 years. Frank D. Roland Frank D. Roland, 68, joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore in 1953 and sailed in the en­ gine department. A native of Cleveland, O., Brother Roland now lives in Coupeville, Wash. When he retired. Brother Roland had been sailing the seas for over 52 years. Guss Alex Janavaris Gus Alex Janavaris, 53, is a native of Indiana and now makes his home in Rosedale, N.Y. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the deck department as a boatswain. He often served as department dele­ gate while at sea. In 1962 Brother Janavaris was issued a picket duty card. Alberto Santiago Alberto Santiago, 63, is an old-timer in the Union. He joined in 1939 in the Port of New York and shipped in the deck department as a boatswain. A native of Puerto Rico, Brother Santiago is spending his retirement in Catano, P.R. His retirement ended a sailing career of 43 years. Muriel Dunnam, born Nov. 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ronald G. Dunnam, Irvington, Ala. Stephen Colar, bom Nov. 14, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Henry J. Colar, New Orleans, La. Noel Rokicki, born Dec. 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ed­ ward J. Rockiki, Bayonne, N.j. Philip Reeves, born Dec. 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ liam E. Reeves, Mobile, Ala. Chris Stevison, born Dec. 20, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph Stevison, Port Acres, Texas. Kimherly ARano, born Dec. 27, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Alfano, Colonia, N.J. Sahrina Parker, born Nov. 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Parker, Jacksonville, Fla. Cynthia Purdy, born Jan. 20, 1971, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph Purdy, Fremont, Calif. Gary Stever, born Dec. 23, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Harold Stever, Philadelphia, Pa. Pina Sue Witherington, bora Jan. 21, 1971, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arthur C. Witherington, Daphne, Ala. Robert Smifli, born Dec. 2, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John A. Smith, Elk Hills, Md. Sandra Castro, born Oct. 30, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sebas­ tian B. Castro, New Orleans, La. Dvright Williams, born Sept. 29, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Dwight Williams, New Orleans, La. Elizabeth Torres, born Dec. 17, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Torres, Hitchcock, Tex. Daniel Gunnells, born Nov. 13, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lloyd Gunnels, Toms River, N.J. Karen Ellis, born Jan. 12, 1971, to Se^arer and Mrs. Thomas G. Ellis, Vidor, Tex. Shannon McDarie^ bora Oct. 23, 1970, to Seafarer "and Mrs. Larry E. McDaries, Chesapeake, Va. Carmen Laureano, bora Jan. 26, 1971, to Seafarer and Mrs. Andres L. Laureano, Puerto Nuevo, P.R. Melinda Remy, born Jan. 3, 1971, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ ert Remy, Toledo, Ohio. Marta Sierra, bora Feb. 7, 1971, to Seafarer and Mrs. Efrain R. Sierra, Ponce, P.R. Brian Brown, bora Sept. 1, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Har­ vey L. Brown, Ocean Drive, So. Carolina. Michael O'Donnell, born Oct. 7, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael J. O'Donnell, Parma, Ohio. Steven Evans, bom Nov. 15, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. John A. Evans, Baltimore, Md. Victor McNight, born Nov. 23, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert F. McKnight, Phila., Pa. Lanetta Greene, bora Dec. 31, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Major J. Greene, Norfolk, Va. Emely Serrano, born Feb. 19, 1971, to Seafarer and Mrs. Herminio Serrano, Levittown Lakes Catano, P.R. John Stanton, bora Dec. 31, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jo­ seph C. Stanton, Phila., Pa. Beverly Ann McTavich, born Dec. 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert J. McTavich, Sugar Notch, Pa. Joseph Wasdin, born Dec. 28, 1970, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jo­ seph L. Wasdin, Bristol, Ga. Page 21 �,;• •/' '^r 'KJ :^ ', r-S ./'v.:,, ;V^,:: . '•• • -~,'f:."^x:,^- '- •I .'; ' AFL-CIO's Top Priority; Mmm National Health Insurance NOW Page 22 Washington, D.C. 1971 is the year for health. It's the year for a rev­ olution in the quality of health care in the United States. It's the year for a national system of health security. The labor movement has set its sights on a national health insurance program for 1971. The AFL-CIO had announced that passage of such a program is the labor movement's major legislative goal for the year. Toward that end, the AFL-CIO—along with nu­ merous other groups and organizations—is giving full support to the Health Security Act of 1971. This is the health insurance measure introduced in the Senate by Senators Edward M. Kennedy (DMass.), John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.), and William Saxbe (R-Ohio), and in the House of Representatives by James Corman (D-Calif.), Martha Griffiths (DMich.), Ogden Reid (R-N.Y.), and Charles Mosher (R-Ohio). Meany Praises Program AFL-CIO President George Meany has said of the Health Security Act of 1971 that "the whole pro­ gram, providing vastly greater efficiency for both doctor and patient, providing complete, instead of partial, medical care, and covering every person in the land ... is a first-class system of comprehensive health protection." The proposal enjoys wide backing, even among elements of the medical community. Famed heart surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, president of the Baylor University School of Medicine, recently de­ clared that the Health Security Act of 1971 could serve as "a mechanism by which the American people can receive care as a proper right." Nelson H. Cruikshank, president of the National Council of Senior Citizens, stated that the proposed program "would provide the elderly far better health care than is likely to develop under a patchwork im­ provement of Medicare." U.S. Lags Far Behind The need for national health insurance is clear— soaring medical costs have become a national'issue, " creating a major crisis in health care. Meany put it this way: "We spend more than $60 billion a year—^nearly 7 percent ot our gross national product—to be healthy. We spend about $300 a year for every man, woman and child in America in this way—^far more than any of the nations that rank ahead of us—and we don't get our money's worth. ^ "According to an official United Nations report, there are 35 other nations where 10-year-old boys can expect to live longer than their American counter­ parts. Seafarers Log �|V- "There are 10 other nations where 10-year-old girls can expect to live longer, "There are 13 other nations where new-born babies have a better chance of survival. "These are averages. For the poor who live in city ghettos, matters are much worse. "In nearly every area of human health, we lag behind every developed nation in the Western world, and we are slipping farther behind every day." As proposed in both houses of Congress, the Health Security Act of 1971 has two basic purposes: y To establish a national system of health bene­ fits that will make comprehensive health serv­ ices available to all Americans. y To achieve major improvements in the quality, quantity and cost of all medical services. ki» f Summary of Provisions Here is a summary of the major provisions of the Health Security program: Eligibility. Every individual residing in the United States would be eligible to receive benefits. There would be no requirement of past individual con­ tributions, as in Social Security, or a means test, as in Medicaid—the federal-state program of health care for the poor. Benefits. With only modest limitations, the benefits available would cover the entire range of personal health care services including the prevention and early detection of disease, the care and treatment of illness, and medical rehabilitation. There would be no cutoff dates, no co-insurance, no deductibles and no waiting periods. Limitations set by the program are: • Dental care, which would be restricted to chil­ dren through age 15 at the outset with the covered age group increasing thereafter until persons through age 25 are covered. • Skilled nursing home care, which would be limited to 120 days per benefit period. The limit would not apply if the nursing home is owned or tnanaged by a hospital and payment for care is made through the hospital's budget. • Psychiatric hospitalization, which would be limited to 45 consecutive days of active treatment during a benefit period; and psychiatric consultations, which would be limited to 20 visits during a benefit period. • Prescribed medicines, which would not be cov­ ered unless they are provided through a hospital, or organized patient care program, or required for the treatment of chronic or long-term illness. How Program Operates In other respects, the program would provide full coverage for physicians' services, in-patient and out­ patient hospital services and home health services, and coverage for optometry services, podiatry serv­ ices, devices and appliances, and numerous other services under specified conditions. Payment of Doctors and Hospitals. Those who pro­ vide health care would be paid directly by the pro­ gram. Individuals would not be billed or charged for covered services. Financing the Program. The program would be fi­ nanced out of a Health Security Trust Fund, acquired as follows: • 50 percent from general tax revenues. • 36 percent from a tax of 3.5 percent on em­ ployers' payrolls. • 12 percent from a tax of 1 percent on employees' wages and unearned individual income up to $15,000 per year. • 2 percent from a 2.5 percent tax on self-employ­ ment income up to $15,000 per year. Cost of the Program. If this health insurance plan had been in effect last year, benefits provided would have totaled $41 billion, or 70 percent of the total personal health care expenses in the United States. It should be noted that none of this $41 billion rep­ resents "new" money. Instead, this amount is already being spent by individuals, employers and govern­ ment for health care. Under the Health Security Act of 1971, the same amount of money would provide more health services for more people by revitalizing existing services and reducing inflationary costs. March J971 In addition, the relative contributions of employers and of the federal government would be increased to provide these improved services, but the contributions of individuals and of state and local governments would be decreased. In fact, it is estimated that state and local governments would save about $2.5 billion a year in health care expenditures. Administration. The program would be run by a five-member Health Security Board in the Depart­ ment of Health, Education and Welfare. The board would establish policy, set standards and regulations. Incentives. Financial, professional and other in­ centives would be built into the program to move the. health care delivery system toward organized arrange­ ments for patient care and to encourage preventive care and early diagnosis of disease. Incentives also would be used to guarantee quality health care in rural areas. Starting Date. If passed by Congress this year, the program will go into effect on July 1, 1973. It will take two years to "tool up" for full operation. Sen. Kennedy Comments Senator Kennedy, one of the sponsors of the laborbacked program, pointed out the real importance of this feature by noting that the "acute and increasing shortage of almost all kinds of health manpower" is a major cause of the current health crisis. "To meet the demand that exists within the frame­ work of our present health care system," he said, "we need 50,000 doctors, 20,000 dentists and 150,000 nurses. By the end of the decade, the gap will be much larger. In both the short run and the long run, he asserted, "the Health Security Program will save America money and give us more effective health care in the bargain. We will measure the impact not only in bil­ lions of dollars saved, but also in millions of lives preserved and untold human suffering averted." Creates Special Fund The Health Security Act of 1971 contains another provision—one which could become its most im­ portant feature. That is the Resources Development Fund, a special pool of cash to be used for new ap­ proaches to health care especially in areas of man­ power, education, training and group practice develop­ ment. The Resources Development Fund will go into operation upon passage of the legislation. In the first year $200 million would be appropriated for the fund. In the second year, $400 million would be made available. Once the benefits to individuals begin, up Labor's No. 1 Goal In setting national health insurance as labor's prime goal for 1971, George Meany declared: "The trade union movement believes the emphasis belongs first on all the people who need medicsJ care and can't get it, and then on providing that care in a way that is just and fair to them, and to the people who supply that care. "We are convinced that a majority of the Ameri­ can people, and a majority of Congress, agree that building the highest possible level of national health is a matter of the most urgent priority, and that delay can no longer be tolerated." to 5 percent of the trust fund—about $2 billion a year—-would be set aside for the development of resources. Administration Rejects Health Act The White House has turned thumbs down on the Health Security Act of 1971. In a 17-page mes­ sage to Congress, President Nixon rejected the plan as too costly and "dangerous." Instead, in order to meet what he termed the "massive crisis" in health care. President Nixon proposed an expansion of private health insurance teamed with some federal backing. He called his plan a "National Health Partnership." Administration Proposal It is a complicated program. Under it, employers would pick up 65 to 75 percent of the cost of a minimum level health insurance policy. Workers would pay the balance. The insurance would be pro­ vided by private, profit-making insurance firms. The insurance then would be "teamed" with federal backing for prepaid health centers—places where patients could get health care for a flat monthly fee. AFL-CIO; Wot Enough' The AFL-CIO Executive Council, at its mid-winter meetings last month, said the Administration plan falls far short of meeting the health care crisis. "It places main reliance on discredited private insurance which has been largely responsible for the high-cost, low-quality medical care we have today," the Council said. "Under the President's proposal, there is no indication that either the private insurance organization or the providers of med­ ical care would be subject to effective cost controls or quality incentives." Supports Congressional Bill The Council reiterated its support for the Health Security Act of 1971, pointing out that it rep­ resents "the only true comprehensive program of national health insurance that meets the challenge of care, financing costs, development and reform." The Council urged Congress to enact the Health Security program during the current session. "We pledge our unstinting efforts to that goal. It is and will remain our number one legislative goal until victory has been won," the AFL-CIO declared. Page 23 �. •* Steel Seafarer Returns From Far East A fter nearly four months on the Far East run, the 510-foot Steel Seafarer ^ (Isthmian) docked in Port Elizabeth, NJ., last month and off-loaded a cargo of more than 10,000 tons of canned pine­ apple from Honolulu. Built in 1945, the Steel Seafarer is the former Kathleen S. Holmes. During her time in the Far East, she stopped at such ports of call as Pusan, Korea; Subic Bay, Philippines; Sattahip, Thailand and Yokohama, Japan. Unload­ ing operations and crew payoff went smoothly, and preparations began immedi­ ately for a return trip to the Far East. The good food aboard the Steel Seafarer, the variety of ports visited and other factors contributed to the feeling of camaraderie that permeated the crew as they wound up the voyage and began their prepara­ tions to sail again. wIKi I . n- 0 I -t a.,' , — 'im .Eff ••m M • j3r"'w mm ' ••mmj.Mesk 9- «-» eaa ^ ^ m ws b®. ifci as tea 'm im tea iai tau 1^ Ki «3» tsa ras wm ,s After a long voyage, a Seafarer likes to catch up on what's happening. Messman Julius Kotan finds the latest issue of the Log a good source for news that's vital to a guy who works as a merchant seaman. sa f—.--i -«» ^ 'jj cm «aa m " The crew's mess is a good spot for relaxing—especially at the end of a four-month trip, while awaituig payufl*, as this happy group of young seafarers will attest. They are (from left) Bill Parker, able seaman; Legusta Tucker, oiler; Hector Rodriquez, wiper; and Roman Quiles, able seaman. ^ -^1 ifi. Jlf, n Routine maintenance of the electrical board in the engine room comes under the supervision of Chief Electrician George Roy. K,; , . • \ * Bernard Feely, chief cook aboard the Steel Seafarer, prepares dinner, which will feature roast chicken. Some fine meals came from the galley during the months at sea. Page 24 One good turn, deserves another in the engine department. Here Isidore Valles opens the main sea injection valve as he winds up work aboard the Steel Seafarer, Seafarers Log �Speculators Warned About 'Quick Profit' Investments h f By Sidney Margollus Will Koscot Interplanetary send you into financial orbit? Can you find happiness as a "General" for Holiday Magic? Might you and your friends make a living selling Bestline soaps to each other? These are only a few of the hundreds of multilevel or pyra­ mid-type distributorships that have involved more people with unfortunate results than any other promotion recently, re­ ports T. E. Lyman, vice presi­ dent of the Richmond, Va., Better Business Bureau. Distributorships Tempting Multi-distributorships have been especially tempting to working people and housewives seeking additional income, es­ pecially people who have suf­ fered work cutbacks. But it is revealing to see how some sup­ posedly experienced people have been attracted to these plans, such as businessmen, doctors, and even lawyers, a state attorney general, a mar­ keting professor and a newspa­ per editor. Typically, families are per­ suaded by the promoters to buy a "distributorship." The inves­ tors are assured that they can earn a five-figure income—at least. Often the investor must buy a quantity of the product. Unfortunately, in many cases once the would-be investor has bought a distributorship he can recoup only by recruiting oth­ ers and collecting commissions on their investments. Plans in Trouble Now some of these plans are running into legal or financial problems. Continental Market­ ing Associates, has been selling "distributorshipsJl for "discount stores" which the promoters said they will open later. The investors got "purchase author­ ity" cards which they then were supposed to give to potential purchasers, and get commis­ sions on their purchases. The purchasers, if they did pur­ chase, then got cards to get other people to purchase, and so on. The only two stores that Continental ever did open, to our best knowledge, was one in Birmingham and a small one in Muscle Shoals, Ala. Even these stores reportedly have been pushed into bankruptcy by creditors. Continental also acquired a site in Dothan, Ala., for a store. Its president' said in an affidavit that it would open "in June, 1969." But by late 1970, Rob­ ert Renwick, manager of the Birmingham BBB, told me no building even had been erected. Similarly, a Georgia grand jury complained that Continen­ tal had sold founderships in Al­ bany, Ga., for 14 months and had not begun construction on a store there. In fact, by Au­ gust, 1970, the company's ac­ tivities in Georgia had virtu­ ally ceased, James W. Ste­ phens, manager of the Atlanta BBB, reported. CMA also has run into trou­ ble in other states. The Mis­ souri attorney general ruled that the sales talk given him by a Continental representative vi­ olated Missouri law, and issued a temporary order restraining the company from doing busi­ ness there. In Arkansas, too, CMA in­ terrupted its sales program when state officials told the company they believed it had violated state securities laws. Other Discrepancies Noted Another nationwide promo­ tion has been for Koscot "Kosmetics," including mink oil, de­ scribed as "the most precious of kreams." It is certainly one of the most expensive kreams. But it has no more kosmetic effectiveness than any of the other commonly-used facial oils. (Minks, themselves, have very hairy faces.) One woman who attended a Koscot recruiting meeting at my request reported: "It was like a revival meeting. The re­ cruiters were mostly young fel­ lows in their early 20s. They had a rapid-fire sales talk ac­ companied by a lot of activity such as pulling their ties off, SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Plans CASH BENEFITS PAID REPORT PERIOD JANUARY 1, 1971 to JANUARY 31, 1971 SEAFARERS' WEEFARE PLAN Scholarship Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits ".. Maternity Benefits Medical Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $478.50) Optical Benefits Meal Book Benefits Out-Patients Benefits Summary of Welfare Benefits Paid Seafarers' Pension Plan—Benefits Paid Seafarers' Vacation Plan—Benefits Paid (Average—$489.60) Total Welfare, Pension & Vacation Benefits Paid This Period I NUMBER OF BENEFITS AMOUNT PAID 8 1,686 29 • 278 27 457 2,028 505 805 4,030 9,853 24 $2,352.50 40,653.13 85,742.50 1,474.20 5,431.70 13,766.00 100,393.19 7,466.97 4,025.05 32,152.00 293,457.24 14,500.00 2,500 1,194,744.26 12,377 1,502,701.50 flipping off their jackets, toss­ ing chalk into the air. "They talked fast, writing on the blackboard and erasing rap­ idly. They drew pyramids of various ranks of sellers and dis­ tributors, and had you making $100,000 in six months. The whole performance was an in­ sult to my intelligence." She told the recruiter about the warning articles in her un­ ion newspaper. He "explained" that the reason for the articles was that the union was losing too many members to Koscot because they were making more money on the cosmetics than on their jobs. In actuality, of 1,600 Koscot distributors in New York State, only 79 earned more than $5,000 in 1970, Frances Cerra, Newsday's enterprising consum­ er reporter, revealed. In that state Koscot agreed to a court order directing the company, among other restrictions on its program, to offer distributors their money back. In North Carolina the attor­ ney general limited the number of directorships Koscot could sell to 1,300. According to The Charlotte Observer, state ac­ countants had figured out that if Koscot did get the maximum 1,300 distributors, and even if it cornered the market so other cosmetics companies did not sell to a single family there, the average director could expect earnings of only $1,400 a year. Other states that have acted to restrict Koscot include Mary­ land, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michi­ gan, New Mexico and Louisi­ ana. Investment Cautioned The "Bestline Marketing Sys­ tem" is another multi-distribu­ tor plan selling cleaning prod­ ucts. In Wisconsin alone, its attorney general says, in two years over 2,000 people invest­ ed almost $3,0(X),000 in dis­ tributorships and mandatory inventory purchases. State officials pointed out that if the recruiting plan worked as the company claimed, with the original in­ vestor recruiting 48 distributors in two months and they did the same, in ten months there would be three million distrib­ utors stemming from that origi­ nal investor. Holiday Magic promoters were active in a number of cities in 1967, leaving many investors with basements and garages full of cosmetics they could not sell. Recently Holi­ day Magic renewed its promo­ tion. The Miami Better Busi­ ness Bureau reports that in Dade County alone an estimat­ ed 100 investors had bought "distributorships" in 1967. By the time Holiday Magic re­ turned in 1970, only three or In a case still pending, the four were still in business. Federal Trade Commission has charged Holiday Magic with us­ ing an unfair and deceptive lot­ tery-type merchandising pro­ gram, and recruiting distribu­ tors through misrepresentation. The SlU-contracted Morning Light reports ship's secretaryreporter Teddy IGoss, has set just completed a smooth voyage from Weehawken, N.J. to ports in Northern Europe. The Transoregon is a converted C-4 capa­ ble of carrying 475-40 ft. mixed cargo containers per trip. Dur­ ing the trip home, some bitter cold weather was met out in the Atlantic, causing the crew aboard the Transoregon to ask if any of the Brothers on the Persian Gulf run would like to switch jobs. The usual ports of call for the vessel include Rotterdam, Kro88 sail from Baltimore on what will be a 32,159-mile voyage to the Middle East, India and ports on the African continent. It will be a four-month trip for the crew of the Morning Light with the longest leg of the voyage coming when the vessel travels from Durban, South Africa, to New Orleans, a total of 8072 miles. Among the ports visited will be Assab, Ethiopia; Bandar Shahpur, Iran; Karachi, West Pakistan and Bombay, India. "We may be out of touch for a little while, but we won't get lost," says Brother Kross. William R. Kleimola is ship's chairman; Richard D. Thoe, deck delegate; Emilio DiPietro, engine delegate; Hans Spiegel, steward delegate, and Russell Zeller is educational director. James Barbaccia, aboard the Transoregon (Hudson Water­ ways), reports the vessel has 6^ Barbaccia Bremerhaven, Le Havre, and Southampton. Round trip time is approximately 30 days. Murphy Elected To Fill Vacancy Bal Harbour, Fla. Edward P. (Bud) Murphy has been elected by the Ex­ ecutive Board of the AFLCIO Union Label and Serv­ ices Department as its new secretary-treasurer, succeed­ ing Joseph E. Lewis who died recently. SECTION 43. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE. When board is not furnished unlicensed members of the crew, they shall receive a meal allow­ ance of $2.00 for breakfast, $3.00 for dinner and $5.50 for supper. When men are required to sleep ashore, they shall be allowed $10.50 per night. Room allowance, as provided in this Section, shall be allowed when: 1. Heat is not furnished in cold weather. When the outside tem­ perature is sixty-five degrees (65°) or lower for 8 consecutive hours, this provision shall apply. 2. Hot water is not available in crew's washrooms for a period of twelve (12) or more consecutive hours. Heat beefs must be reported immediately to the Department Delegate and Chief Engineer. You must keep a written record of the beef including: Date Time of Doy Temperature All heat beefs should be re­ corded and submitted on on individual basis. 1 / March 1971 Page 25 �New Orleans Labor Groups Honor Priest ver $15,000 has been raised for the Loyola Institute of Hu­ O man Relations through a testimonial banquet in memory of the late Rev. Louis J. Twomey. Fr. Twomey was the founder of the Institute, which specializes in management-labor relations. Sponsored by the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO, with the co­ operation of the Seafarers International Union and the New Orleans Maritime Trades Department Port Council, the banquet attracted a large gathering of labor, business and government officials. Vic Bussie, president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO de­ livered the main address. He eulogized Fr. Twomey as "one of the real champions of labor in this country." Bussie said that the reason for the American labor movement has been to "safeguard human rights and dignity. There have always been a few dedicated people who gave their entire lives to this cause. Fr. Twomey was one of them. I can still see him standing tall, begging all to fight tor the dignity of man, every man, regardless of color or creed." AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department Executive Secretary-Treasurer Peter McCavin (2nd from left) presents Fr. David Boileau with a plaque in honor of his services as successor to Rev. Two­ mey as director of the Loyola Institute of Human Relations. Looking on are C. J. "Buck" Stephens, SIU New Orleans port agent, and landsey Williams, a vice president of the SIU (right). C. J. "Buck" Stephens, SIU New Orleans port agent and chairman of the Fr. Twomey dinner committee, presents a check for over $15,000 to Rev. Boileau for the Loyola Institute of Human Relations. The check represents proceeds from the dinner and will be used to further the institute's studies. Vic Bussie, president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO, delivers the main address at the Fr. Twomey memorial banquet. Bussie described the late Jesuit educator as a "true champion of labor and unswerving friend of the working man." Fr. David Boileau and New Orleans Mayor "Moon" Landrieu listen attentively. Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes spe­ cific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treas­ urer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file mem­ bers, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, specific recommendations and separate findings. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agree­ ments. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and management representatives and their alternates. All expen­ ditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund finan­ cial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 275-20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1121S Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. Page 26 CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and con­ ditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for Log policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a re­ ceipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately he reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the Seafarers Log a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with changes, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their imion activities, including attendance at mem­ bership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-andfile committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take ship­ board employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long­ standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the LFnion has negotiated with the employ­ ers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right, to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Do­ nation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or ffiat he has been denied his constitu­ tional right of access to Union records or information, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hail at head­ quarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. Seafarers Lc �Digest of 5IU Ships' Meetings 1/ 11 \. 'y J OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime terways), Dec. 6—Chairman ArOverseas), Dec. 20—Chairman El­ vid Gylland; Secretary Frank Allen; mer B. Merritt; Secretary J. LakDeck Delegate Jim Barbaccio; En­ wyk; Deck Delegate Howard C. gine Delegate Everett A. DeLande; Ross; Engine Delegate Manual A. Steward Delegate Adriano B. FigRendoules; Steward Delegate Rich­ ueroa. All repairs are being taken ard G. Martinez. No beefs. care of. No beefs. $107 was do­ OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime nated to American Merchant Ma­ Overseas), Dec. 27—Chairman El­ rine Library. mer B. Merritt; Secretary J. G. OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Ov­ Lakwyk; Deck Delegate Howard erseas), Jan. 3—Chairman', Elmer C. Ross; Engine Delegate Manuel B. Merritt; Secretary J. G. Lakwyk; A. Rendoules; Steward Delegate Deck Delegate Howard C. Ross; Richard G. Martinez. Discussion Engine Delegate Manual A. Rend­ held regarding draw in Africa. Vote oules; Steward Delegate Richard of thanks to the steward department. G. Martinez. No beefs reported. GALVESTON (Sea-Land), Dec. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ 27—Chairman M. Sanchez; Secre­ ment. tary John Nash. Some disputed OT GATEWAY CITY (Sea-Land), in deck and engine departments. Dec. 31—Chairman Sven StockVote of thanks to the steward de­ marr; Secretary W. C. Reid; Deck partment for excellent Thanksgiv­ Delegate Eddie J. Carovona; En­ gine Delegate Carlos Torres; Stew­ ing Day and Christmas dinners. COLUMBIA BEAVER (Colum­ ard Delegate Jose Velaquez. Patrol­ bia), Dec. 27—Chairman A. Alex­ man to be contacted regarding re­ ander, Secretary H. W. Kennedy. pairs. Disputed OT in deck depart­ No beefs and no disputed OT. ment. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), Dec. TRANSEASTERN (Hudson Wa­ 6—Chairman Michael B. Dembrow- terways), Nov. 8—Chairman J. J. ski. Secretary C. P. Thlu, Deck Gorman; Secretary, M. B. Elliot; Delegate C. B. Pickle, Engine Dele­ Deck Delegate L. J. Obrantz; En­ gate D. E. Davis, Steward Delegate gine Delegate Wm. J. Beatty; Stew­ W. T. Ray. $62 in ship's fund.. No ard Delegate C. Muscarella. Motion beefs were reported by department was made to have company furn­ delegates. ish movies to ships on shuttle runs. JACKSONVILLE (Sea - Land), Few hours disputed OT in deck Dec. 27—Chairman Perry Konis, department, otherwise everything Secretary Ivan Buckley, Steward is running smoothly. Vote of thanks Delegate Alex Jones. Vote of thanks to steward department for a job to the steward department for a -well done. PORTLAND (Sea-Land), Nov. 1 job well done. Vote of thanks to the chief electrician for showing mov­ —Chairman H. J. Bentz; Secretary ies. R. Hernandez. Some disputed OT in INGER (Reynolds Metal), Dec. deck department otherwise every­ 27—Chairman James T. Mann, thing is running smoothly. Safety Secretary Harold M. Karsen, Deck meeting was held. No accident in Delegate Joe R. Bennett, Engine last thirty days. BOSTON (Sea-Land), Nov. 29— Delegate William J. Jones, Steward Delegate Victor O'Briant. Some dis- Chairman and deck delegate A. iputed OT in deck department. Vote Manstvedt; Secrkary W. J. Moore; of thanks to the steward department Engine Delegate E. Fischer; Stew­ for a job well done. ard Delegate A. Sankovidt. Some BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land) disputed OT in deck department Dec. 21—Chairman Hank Hager, otherwise everything is running Secretary John S. Burke Sr., Deck smoothly. Vote of thanks to stew­ Delegate J. J. Meyerchak, Engine ard department. TRANSEASTERN (Hudson Wa­ Delegate E. R. Fry, Steward Dele­ gate Bernard McNally. $9 in ship's terways), Dec. 13—Chairman J. J. fund. Vote of thanks was extended Gorman; Secretary M. B. Elliott; to the steward department for a Deck Delegate L. J. Obrantz; En­ job well done. gine Delegate E. Garcia; Steward RACHEL V (Vantage), Jan. 3— Delegate C. Muscarella. Discussion Chairman Bennie Guarino, Secre­ on union activities. Some disputed tary Bennie Guarino, Deck Dele­ OT in deck department. Vote of gate Dewey Penton, Engine Dele­ thanks to steward department. TRANSHAWAH (Hudson Water­ gate Vassli Toomson, Steward Del­ egate Louis Babin. $275 in movie ways), Dec. 13—Chairman George fund. Few hours disputed OT in Degreve; Secretary William Seltzer; deck and engine departments. No Deck Delegate Joseph L. Linhart. beefs. Everything is running $42 in ship's fund. Few hours dis­ smoothly. Special vote of thanks puted OT in deck edpartment. Ev­ to the~steward department for the ery thing else is running smoothly. CHARLESTON (Sea-Land), Nov excellent meals throughout the voy­ 8—Chairman John C. Alberti; Sec­ age, especially over the holidays. ANCHORAGE (Sea-Land), Jan. retary Guy Walter; Deck Delegate 3—Chairman B. E. Swearingen, Tony Kotsis; Steward Delegate Ed­ Secretary J. O'Steen, Deck Dele­ ward Tresnick. $16 in ship's fund gate Robert G. Mason, Engine Del­ $105.50 was collected for Merchant egate Fred Buckner, Steward Del­ Marine Library. Everything is run­ egate Robert Lee Scott. $25 in ning smoothly. TRANSOREGON (Hudson Wa­ ship's fund. No beefs and no dis­ puted OT. Everything is running terways), Dec. 20—Chairman Arsmoothly. Chief steward thanks the vid Gylland; Secretary Frank Allen; deck department for helping to Deck Delegate Jim Barbaccia; En­ keep the pantry clean. gine Delegate Everett A. DeLande; ALBANY (Ogden Marine), Jan. Steward Delegate Adriano B. Fig3—Chairman D. L. Parker, Secre­ ueroa. Some disputed OT in deck tary J. Samuels, Deck Delegate and engine departments. BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart Fred M. Hazard, Engine Delegate Robert C. Arnold, Steward Dele­ Tankers, Dec. 27—Chairman James gate T. Rogers. Everything is run­ R. Thompson; Secretary, Troy Sav­ age; Deck Delegate William Tuck­ ning smoothly in all departments. AFOUNDRIA (Sea-Land), Dec. er; Engine Delegate John R. Mitch­ 20—Chairman Alfronso Rivera; ell; Steward Delegate Frank R. Secretary Frank G. Vega. Every­ Strickland. Motion was made to thing is O.K. except for few hours have six months foreign articles disputed OT in deck department. on tankers. Vote of thanks to the Vote of thanks to steward depart­ steward department for a job well done. ment for a job well done. SEATTLE (Sea-Land), Jan. 10— ARIZPA (Sea-Land), Dec. 27— Chairman D. Fitzpatrick; Secretary Chairman Z. Rivera; Secretary, J. Davis. No beefs were reported. W. Lcscovich; Deck Delegate Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Vote of thanks to the steward Edmound L. Clayton, Jr. Disputed department for a job well done. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Sea-Land), OT in deck and engine departments Jan. 17—Chairman Benjamin Magto be taken up with patrolman. TRANSOREGON (Hudson Wa- nano; Secretary Harvey M. Lee; March 1971 Deck Delegate Lars Nielson; En­ gine Delegate L. Woye; Steward Delegate Mike Morell. Small amount of disputed OT in deck and steward departments. CHARLESTON (Sea-Land), Jan. 3—Chairman John C. Alberti; Sec­ retary R. Aguiar; Deck Delegate Tony Kotsis. $16 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), Dec. 20—Chairman Charles O. Lee; Secretary Teddy Kross; Deck Del­ egate Richard D. Thoe; Engine Delegate Milton Beasley, Jr.; Stew­ ard Delegate George Lafleur. Every­ thing is running smoothly with no beefs. Four men missed ship this trip. Vote of thanks to steward department for a job well done. PENN SAILOR (Penn Shipping), Jan. 7—Chairman Johannes C. Sorel; Secretary, Robert C. Thomas; Deck Delegate Milton J. Brown; Engine Delegate John Quinter. Dis­ cussion regarding needed repairs. $4 in ship's fund. OT beef in en­ gine department. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), Dec. 27 — Chairman Charles O. Lee; Secretary Teddy Kross; Deck Delegate Richard D. Thoe; Engine Delegate Milton Beasley, Jr.; Stew­ ard Delegate George Lafleur. Vote of thanks was extended to the deck department for the fine paint job done in galley. Vote of thanks was also extended to the steward de­ partment for the very fine Christ­ mas dinner and decorations. TRANSERIE (Hudson Water­ ways), Jan. 10—Chairman Thomas Self; Secretary Jesse M. Krause. $97 in ship's fund. No disputed OT. Discussion held regarding needed repairs. CHARLESTON (Sea-Land), Jan. 17—Chairman, John C. Albert; Sec­ retary, R. Aguiar; Deck Delegate Tony Kotsis; Steward Delegate Melito Maldonada. $10 in ship's fund. Discussion held on various matters. COLUMBIA MARINER (Co­ lumbia), Jan. 24—Chairman G. Stanford; Secretary B. Rucker; Deck Delegate Carl H. Barrett; Engine Delegate H. W. Roberts. No beefs were reported. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. NEW ORLEANS (Sea-Land), Jan. 10—Chairman Juan V. Fer­ nandez; Secretary Lawrence J. Crane; Deck Delegate Robert E. Hommel; Engine Delegate Nason Nunn; Steward Delegate Henry Roskamp. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments to be settled at payoff. THETIS (Rye Marine), Dec. 20—Chairman F. F. Domey; Sec­ retary R. P. Taylor. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs. MERRIMAC (Ogden Marine), Jan. 10—Chairman James Mullis; Secretary Don Mason; Deck Dele­ gate Albert J. Van Dyke; Engine Delegate Berger Wilhelmsen; Stew­ ard Delegate M. Badger. Patrolman to be contacted regarding air con­ ditioning for crew's recreation room. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. HALCYON PANTHER (Hal­ cyon), Jan. 3—Chairman Danny Merrill; Secretary D. B. Militar; Deck Delegate Steven K. Zemel; Engine Delegate Elmer Clarke, Jr.; Steward Delegate D. L. Thompson. Motion was made to raise mainte­ nance and cure from $8 to $10 per day. $12 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. MT. WASHINGTON (Victory Carriers), Dec. 20—Chairman E. B. Flowers; Secretary O. P. Oakley; Deck Delegate E. F. O'Brien; En­ gine Delegate O. Poulsen; Steward Delegate Cecil Thomas. Discussion held regarding^ installation of TV or movies put on board ship. Also discussed posting of a price list and the raising of slop chest prices. SEATRAIN NEW JfERSEY (Hudson Waterways), Jan. 17— Chairman Bobby F. Gillian; Secre­ tary; Engine Delegate Herbert E. Atkinson; Deck Delegate Thomas R. Glenn; Steward Delegate Terry J. Smith. Some disputed OT in deck department otherwise no beefs. COLUMBIA MARINER (Co­ lumbia), Feb. 7—Chairman H. H. Johnson; Secretary B. Rucker; Deck Delegate Carl H. Barrett; Engine Delegate H. W. Kohut. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department. Good trip. Everything is running smoothly. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Mari­ time Overseas), Jan. 31—Chairman Richard F. Ransome; Secretary Louis Cayton. $12 in ship's fund. Everything is running smoothly in all departments. MARYMAR (Calmar), Jan. 31— Chairman C. Longerbeam; Secre­ tary Nick Kondylas; Deck Delegate Clyde A. Kent. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), Jan. 17—Chairman M. B. Woods; Secretary H. A. Galicki; Deck Del­ egate Harry J. Celkos; Engine Del­ egate Howard Bickford; Steward Delegate Paul M. Hartman. $13 in ship^s fund. One man missed ship in Oakland. No beefs were report­ ed. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. SEATRAIN DELAWARE (Hud­ son Waterways), Feb. 7—Chairman Walter Nash; Secretary J. Prats. No beefs were reported. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. MADAKET (Waterman), Jan. 24—Chairman J. Landron; Secre­ tary, B. B. Henderson; Deck Dele­ gate M. E. Foster; Engine Delegate John D. Wright; Steward Delegate Thomas A. McNeil. Discussion held regarding dirty tap water on board. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Everything else is ninning smoothly. EAGLE TRAVELER (United Maritime), Jan. 31 — Chairman John Bergeria; Secretary Algernon W. Hutcherson; Deck Delegate George F. McKenna; Engine Dele­ gate O. Bogdam; Steward Delegate James Dodd. Deck department beef was settled by patrolman in Brownsville, Texas. OAKLAND (Sea-Land), Jan. 9—Chairman Albert Ahin; Secre­ tary J. J. Doyle. $28 in ship's fimd and $57 in movie fund. Discussion held regarding rusty wash water. Motion submitted to headquarters regarding changes in contract for container ships. Also a revised va­ cation plan to meet the needs of this type operation. MOBILE (Sea-Land), Jan. 17— Chairman H. Libby; Secretary A. Alfonso. Patrolman to be contacted regarding much needed repairs. MOBILE (Sea-Land), Jan. 24— Chairman H. Libby; Secretary A. Alfonso. No beefs were reported. CHICAGO (Sea-Land), Jan. 3— Chairman J. Altstatt; Secretary F. Hall. $6 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart Tankers), Jan. 31—Chairman J. R. Thompson; Secretary Troy Savage; Deck Delegate Arthur P. Finnell; Engine Delegate R. M. Davis; Steward Delegate F. R. Strichfeld. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Motion made that re­ tirement age be 45 with required seatime. Motion made to have six months articles on all foreign voy­ ages. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), Jan. 3—Chairman James S. Shortell; Secretary, Angeles Z. Deheza. $240 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported. Vote of thanks to 4-8 watches for their help in keeping the pantry and messroom clean. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), Jan. 10—Chairman James Shortell; Secretary Angeles Z. Deheza. $300 in ship's fund. No beefs were re­ ported. Motion was made to go back to the old 60-day shipping rules. Motion to have all SlU-contracted companies install clothes dryers on board ships. TAMPA (Sea-Land), Jan. 24— Chairman G. Castro; Secretary E. B. Tart; Deck Delegate J. Rushead; Engine Delegate L. Garcia; Stew­ ard Delegate F. LaRosa. Every­ thing is running smoothly with no beefs. Vote of thanks to the stew­ ard department for a jop well done. ^ MON-nCELLO VICTGR'lr (Vic­ tory Carriers), Jan. 31—Chairman W. Johnson; Secretary F. O. Airey; Engine Delegate J. Shelton; Stew­ ard Delegate George A. O'Berry. Motion made to change articles from 12 months to 6 months. Mo­ tion made to have all men clean­ ing holds on straight OT. Motion made to raise the maintenance from $8 a day to $21 a day. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Hudson Waterways), Jan. 31— Chairman Bobby Gillian; Secretary Herbert E. Atkinson; Deck Dele­ gate Thomas N. Glenn; Engine Delegate John G. Salter, Jr.; Stew­ ard Delegate Terry J. Smith. Ev­ erything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. It was suggested that the Union in its medical welfare might include den­ tal care for members and depend­ ents. PENN CHAMPION (Penn Ship­ ping), Jan. 3—Chairman T. R. Sanfiord; Secretary Z. A. Markris; Deck Delegate S. A. DiMaggio; En­ gine Delegate B. Schwartz; Stew­ ard Delegate G. P. John. Disputed OT in deck department Vote of thanks to the captain for being nice enough to go out of his way to make this a happy ship for Christ­ mas by putting up a Christmas tree and decorations for all. A hearty vote of thanks to the chief steward for making Christmas an unforgettable day by serving the best meal we have had on any ship. Winter in the North Atlantic Topside uboard the Transoregon as she makes her course through the Atlantic are from left: Richard Aurki, ordinary seaman; Jim Bar­ baccia, deck maintenance; and Jose Martino, ordinary seaman. The deck had to be cleared of heavy snow as the vessel made way through a snow storm. Page 27 �SlU Ships Committees: Relaying Information "Oy the very nature of his work a Seafarer spends •^long periods of time at sea—separated from the daily routine of shore life. This does not, however, mean that he can continue to function effectively without knowledge of what is happening on shore. The foundation of any union is built on constant communication between union headquarters and its members—no matter where they may be. For the Seafarer this creates a unique problem, but not an insoluble one. When ashore the methods of communication are many and varied. When at sea it is the function of the ships' committees to keep the crew members upto-date on what is happening ashor^with their Union. There is a continual flow of information between Union headquarters and the members at sea, with the ships' committees serving as the relayers of this information. It is the sole purpose of the committees to strength­ en this line of communication. Through their work the individuals on these committees are helping not only the Union and their fellow crew members, but also themselves. A 11 ships' committees are established and operated in line with the basic principle espoused by the SIU—the principle of democracy. Each Sunday while at sea a meeting is called by the ship's committee chairman. Each and every crew member knows that he has the right—and the duty— to speak on any matter important to his Union, his ship and his job. It is the responsibility of the ship's committee to see that this right is protected for all members of the unlicensed crew. There are six members of the ship's committee— chairman, secretary-reporter, education director and three delegates, one from each of the three depart­ ments aboard ship. The chairman calls and directs the meeting. The secretary-reporter is responsible for all of the com­ mittee's correspondence with union headquarters and must keep the minutes of the meetings and report actions taken to headquarters. 'T^he education director is in charge of maintaining and distributing all publications, films and mechan­ ical equipment to Seafarers wishing to study upgrad­ ing, safety, health and sanitation. The department delegates, elected by members of the deck, engine and steward departments, represent daily their men on the committee and contribute heavily to its decisions. All these men are part of that bridge between ship and shore. Warrior WARRIOR (Sea-Land)—Although their ship was set for a quick tum-around, the ship's committee on the Warrior took time for a photo. From left are: T. Holt, ship's chair­ man; L. Sidbotton, engine delegate; F. Maklicki, secretary-reporter; S. Szeibert, steward delegate and P. Zukir, educational director. Steel Worker JACKSONVILLE (Sea-Land)—Smiling after a smooth voyage home are, from left: P. Konis, ship's chairman; P. McSweeney, deck delegate; I. Buckley, secretary-reporter; M. Overgaard, educational director; C. Isipliarelis, engine delegate and A. James, steward delegate. IS-"Brooklyn ~ STEEL WORKER (Isthmian)—Topside aboard the Steel Worker at anchor in Erie Basin, Brooklyn are from left: B. Kristiaansen, steward delegate; E. Satchfile, educa­ tional director; W. M. Hand, secretary-reporter; E. Parr, ship's chairman; J. Green, deck delegate and J. Bonefont, engine delegate. Overseas Alaska OVERSEAS ALASKA (Maritime Overseas)—"She's a fine ship," reports the ship's com­ mittee on the Overseas Alaska. From left, standing, are R. Taylor, engine delegate, W. Rhone, secretary-reporter. Seated, from left, are: P. Tomey, deck delegate, E. Kitchen, steward delegate; G. Kontos, education director, and J. M. Richburg, ship's chairman. Page 28 i'.SA. MW BROOKLYN (Sea-Land)—After a voyage from Puerto Rico, the Brooklyn's committee relaxes in the crew's mess. From left, standing are: L. Pion, steward delegate; R. Odom, engine delegate; James Keno, secretary-reporter. Seated, are: B. Berglund, educational director; P. Pallos, deck delegate and G. Madoulas, ship's chairman. 'm Summits SUMMIT (Sea-Land)—Home after a smooth voyage the ship's committee aboard the Summit consists of from left: E. Guszczynsxy, deck delegate; N. Bechlivanis, ship's chairman; N. Fruge, steward delegate; J. Funk, educational director; A. Bell, secretaryreporter, and R. Atehoria, engine delegate. Seafarers Log �Five HLSS Classes Pass US, Coast Guard Exam Lifeboat Class 62 has passed their Coast Guard lifeboat certification examinations. Pictured from left are: front row. Trainee Bosun R. Sharp, J. Smith, S. Grisham, D. Dungan, W. Pcele, E. Tome, S. Tomes, G. Kotil, M. McCollum and J. Beard. Second row: E. Williams, D. Brown, D. Taylor, D. Wehrenherg, C. Martin, P. McNulty, D. Singlestad, E. Perry man and J. Bighan. Third row: N. Ahrens, D. Matthews, E. Whitselt, M. Belvedere, E. Richardson, G. Dixon, J. Forster, J. Fred­ ericks and A. Beauverd. Rear row: R. Caylon, J. SchoofF, C. Moran, J. BiancullI, W. Sulkowski, S. Collins, R. Urquhart, F. Howell, E. Salorio and D. DeGagne. HLSS Lifeboat Class 63 gather on the bleachers for their class picture. They are flanked by Instructor Bruce Simmons (left) and Trainee Bosuns Thomas Galka and Leroy Robinson (right). The future Seafarers are, from left: front row, A. Bailey, W. Lewis, L. Amaradio Jr., J. Malone Jr., J. Solis, C. Roldan, G. Sanborn, J. Brancoccio and C. Ponder. Second row, D. Avina, E. Pence, E. Buckley, J. Oliverson, M. Marcus, C. Aragnostau, J. Moore, F. Stokes and E. House. Third row, B. Southard, R. Reid, G. Wine, M. Arnold, F. Watson, K. Jefferson, A. Walker, D. Smith, C. Frazier and F. (Goethe. Fourth row, J. Corcoran, D. Burgess, T. Thurman, F. Stack, .S. Gibson, J. Maiden, J. Foster, S. Browning and K. Drayton. ; T K-'. l j Veggo 'Chris' Christenscn Please contact your attorney, Peter Molligan, at 703 Market, San Francisco, Calif. Telephone 415-982-0780. Harold L. LoU Your parents, Mr. and Mrs! E. A. Loll, would like to hear from you soon. Their adress is 2218 North 18th Street St., Phoenix, Ariz. 85006. Doyle Harrison Frost III Your mother, Mrs. Naomi S. Frost, asks that you contact her as soon as possible at P.O. Box 654; Denison, Tex. 75020. Carl B. Tanner III Your father, Carl B. Tanner Jr., would like to hear from you. You can reach him at 2316 Palos Verdes Drive West, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. 90274. John Jack Devine Jr. Mrs. Florence M. Chambers asks that you contact her at P.O. Box 2216, McKinleyville, Calif. 95521. Peter Manllds Please contact Maria Manikis at 923 Kelly St., Bronx, N.Y. 10459. Lewis Castro Myer L. Radesky would like to hear from you. His address is 6804 Townbrook Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21207. Jerome Chapkewitz r Please contact A. A. Bernstein at Union Headquarters in New York. Fred Dickey Your mother, Mrs. Clint Dick­ ey, would like to hear from you. Please contact her at Route 1, Collinwood, Tenn. 38450. Harris B. Boykin John H. Carter Your attorney, Arthur Schechter, asks that you contact him im­ mediately at 1010 Houston First Savings Building, Houston. Tex. 77002. Delos Snead Please contact your son, Wayne, as soon as possible at 1 Dewey St., Portsmouth, Va. 23704. Walter S. Richmond Please contact your wife Eliza­ beth at 1656 University Ave., Bronx, N.Y. Bayard E. Heimer Your father, Eno B. Heimer, would like to hear from you as soon as possible at P.O. Box 50553, Jacksonville Beach, Fla. 32250. John D. Barnett Your mother, Mrs. Lela Mae Perez, would like to hear from you through Mr. Vernon M. Bahlinger, ACSW Chief, Social Work Dept., U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville, Louisiana 70721. Emanuel Rapitis You niece, Mrs. Thomas P. Cot­ ton, is anxious to hear from you. Please contact her at 7811 Green- March 1971 wood Avenue North, Seattle, Wash. 98103. Seymour Heinflliig Please telephone James McSharry immediately at 212-WA-9-1335. Call collect, very urgent. Heniy Galidd Mrs. Catherine Sullivan asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 401 Marley Avenue, Point Pleas­ ant, Glen Bumie, Md. 21061. Jimmy P. Stroud Jr. Your father, James Sr., asks that you call him at 602-753-3964 in re­ gards to an urgent family matter. Wayne Allen Firmin Mrs. Colette Firmin asks that you contact her as soon as possible at 23-02 34th Ave., Astoria, N.Y. 11106. Frank Blandino Your sister, Mrs. Sara Cottone, would like you to contact her as soon as possible at 78 Holly Hill Terrace, Vineland, N.J. 08360. Rudolph R. Cefaratti Rita T. Cefaratti writes that she received your letter and asks that you contact home more often. Jessie Puckett Frank Willoughley asks that you call him collect at 301-723-2564 in Baltimore, Md. Cari L. Sanders Your mother, Mrs. C. L. Sand­ ers, asks that you contact her at 704 West Robert St., Hammond, La. 70401. John J. Dolan Your old shipmate, Thomas J. Tourgee, would enjoy hearing from you at Box 1000, Lewisburg, Penn. 17337. Albert B. Brown Please contact Mrs. E. Brown any day Monday thru Friday at 10 p.m., very important. Her tele­ phone number is 516-732-5804. Curtis Payne Your wife, Annette, asks that you contact her by telegram or call 415-586-2704 in San Francisco. Rudolph R. Cefaratti Your sister Rita received your letter and asks that you write more often. Mother was hospitalized. She has your income tax papers, where would you like them forwarded? Henry E. Connell Your sister, Mrs. Willie Mae Cox, asks that you contact her at 510 Mt. Auburn Ave., Dallas, Tex. 75223. Daniel j.' Fagan»^. Please contact Ruby Drapers at No. 56 Goa St., Fort Bombay, Bombay, India, as soon as possible in regard to an urgent matter. Richard B. Jones Your mother, Mrs. Mont M. Jones, wishes to hear from you as soon as possible at Box 412, West Jefferson, N.C. 28694. Lifeboat Class 64 lines up for a class picture flanked by Lifeboat Instructor Bruce Simmons, standing left, and Trainee Bosun Doug Bledsoe, standing right. They are, from left: front row, Gary Brandon, Robert Fowlkes, Nicholas Lapetina, Thomas Clanon, Pat Roberts, Juan Ayala and Steve Batton. Second row, Emmanuel Morton, David Cleghorn, Neil (k>nnor, Ernest Wilson, Tom Nelson, John Riley and Alan Wood. Third row, William Grizzle, Tom Madison, Ray Crews, Mike Motteler, Mike Noble, Ricky Warford, Bret Temple and Andy Lindsey. Fourth row, Marshall McGregor, Richard Clay, Gary Reno, Donny Doss and Jose Maldonado. Lifeboat Class 65 is flanked by Instructor Bruce Simmons and Trainee Bosun Barry Elfman, standing right, after passing their UjS. Coast Guard examinations for lifeboat certification. Class members are, from left: first row, Andrew Shearhouse, Darrel Long, Dariel Gallet, Danny Powell, Charles Yates, Gerald Cooper, William Gregory, Kevin Cooper, Guy Campanella and Dan Rogg. Second row, George Mastrandreas, Vasilios Katsanevakis, John Neff, Richard lllson, Greg Walstcad, Howell Hall, Dave (iarhart and Scott Myhre. Third row, William Landis, Charles McKee, Louis .Anderson, Patrick Dolan, Mitchell Bailey, Rudy Carrasco, Marlin C. Clolfman and Russell Smith. Fourth row, James Holt, Robert McC^onias, Manuel Soto, Skot Morton, Mike Mitchell, David Hodges and Gary Ledwell. Fifth row, Lawrence Zepeda, Timothy May, Martin Mantcll, Don Taylor, Ken Modean, Bernard Tagtineir, Randy Powell, Patrick Long and George Parson III. Lifeboat Class 66 sits for their class photo at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md. Pictured from left are: front row, Nick Davoulas, Bruce Starnes, Richard Wansbrough, Archibald O'Brien III, John Francisco, Mike Pell, Robert Willis and Ben Barrows. Second row, Geoffrey Baldwin, Ronnie Thompson, Peter Staples, Lloyd Shipman, Michael Korytkowski, Clifford Davis, Mike Elder and Daniel Taylor. Third row, Clifford Land, John Threadgill, Allen Randall, Joe McGuire, Tim Rolen, Albert Hearn and Craig Hilemn. Rear row, Ludlow Bushipat, Eugene Naill,John Owen, Gary Blumenthal, Jimmie Poole and John Cristadoro. Page 29 �, Gerald E. Pettipas Gerald E. Pettipas, 45, was an SIU pensioner who died Nov. 5, 1970 at USPHS Hospital in Baltimore, Md. after a one year illness. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1945 and sailed in the deck de­ partment as a boatswain. A native of Canada, Seafarer Pettipas was a resi­ dent of Riverdale, Md. when he passed away. Among his survivors are his brother, Arthur J. Pettipas of Riverdale, Md. Cremation was in Ft. Lincoln Crematory in Prince George's, Md. Eugene F. Stinehelfer Eugene H. Stinehelfer, 45, passed away Jan. 3 of illness in Charity Hos­ pital, New Orleans, La. A native of Ohio, Seafarer Stinehelfer was a res­ ident of New Orleans, La., when he died. He joined the union in the Port of Baltimore in 1943 and sailed in the steward department. He was a Navy veteran of World War XL Among his survivors are his wife, Emma Jean. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans, La. Raymond Charles Lewis Raymond Charles Lewis, 69, was I' f an SIU pensioner who passed away Nov. 11, 1970 from heart disease in Brooklyn, N.Y. A native of Rhode Island, Brother Lewis resided in Brooklyn at the time of his death. He joined the union in the Port of New York in 1949 and sailed in the steward department. He was issued a picket duty card in 1961. Among his survivors are his sister-in-law Edith Lewis of Pawtucket, R.I. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. Earl E. Gonyea Earl E. Gonyea, 66, was an SIU pensioner who passed away Nov. 7, 1970 in USPHS Hospital in Boston, Mass. A native of New York, Brother Gonyea was a resident of Clinton, Mass. whenjhe died. He joined the union in the Port of Philadelphia and served in the engine department. Sea- ' farer Gonyea served as engine dele­ gate while sailing. He served in the U.S. Marines from 1926 to 1930. Among his survivors are his sister, Dor­ othy Haemer of Clinton, Mass. Burial was in St. John Cemetery in Lancaster, Mass. Jack L. Powell Jack L. Powell, 38, died Sept. 9, 1970 on board the Potomac. A na­ tive of Russell, Ky., Seafarer Powell was a resident of L6s Angeles, Calif., when he passed away. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1967 and sailed in the engine depart' ment as deck engineer and electrician, 'v He served in the Army for a year. Brother Powell was skilled in welding. After a ceremony aboard the Potomac, Brother Powell was buried at sea on Sept. 12, 1970. Among his survivors are his wife, Gladys. Oscar Slettemo Oscar Slettemo, 81, was an SIU pensioner who passed away Jan. 4 in Houston, Tex. of natural causes. He joined the Union in the Port of Bal­ timore in 1945 and sailed in the en­ gine department. A native of Norway, Brother Slettemo was a resident of Houston, Tex., when he died. He was skilled as a machinist. Brother Slette­ mo had been sailing 55 years when he retired in 1962. Among his survivors are his sister, Tina Slettemo of Norway. Burial was in Fort Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston, Tex. , Page 30 Eddie Howard Eddie Howard, 56, died Jan. 25 of natural causes in Mobile, Ala. He joined the Union in the Port of Mo­ bile in 1947 and sailed in the steward department. A native of Alabama, Brother Howard was a resident of Mobile when he passed away. Among his survivors are his wife, Stella. Buri­ al was in Magnolia Cemetery in Mo­ bile, Ala, Frederic Pekarek Frederick Pekarek, 52, passed away Jan. 10 of heart disease while on board the Overseas Evelyn in Cris­ tobal, Panama Canal Zone. He joined the SIU in the Port of Jacksonville in 1964 and sailed in the deck depart­ ment. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Brother Pekarek was a resident of Norfolk, Va., when he died. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and served in the Navy from 1936 to 1958. He also worked as a machinist, aircraft mechanic and bartender before joining the un­ ion. Among his survivors are his son, Frederick Pekarek of Jacksonville, Fla. Brother Pekarek was removed to Yonkers, N.Y. Urban Payment Urban Payment, 67, died Nov. 15, 1970 in Hulbert, Mich., of heart dis­ ease. A native of Michigan, Seafarer Payment was a resident of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., when he passed away. He joined the Union in the Port of Sault Ste. Marie in 1961 and sailed on the Great Lakes as a linesman. 'Among his survivors are his wife, Alice. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Louis F. Cres^ Louis F. Cressy, 52, passed away Sept. 26, 1970 of natural causes on . board the Del Sol in Tema harbour, Ghana. A native of New Orleans, La., Brother Cressy was a resident of Chalmettee, La. when he died. He joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans in 1963 and sailed in the I steward department. Brother Cressy was sailing ten years when he died. Among his survivors are his wife, Florence. Ernest L. Birden Ernest L. Birden, 21, died Dec. 27, 1970 of heart trouble in Bahrein, Persian Gulf. He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1969 and graduated that same year from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship. Brother Birden sailed in the deck department. A native of Hale i County, Ala., Seafarer Birden was a resident of Mobile, Ala. when he passed away. Brother Birden was skilled as a machinist when entering the Union. Among his survivors are his wife, Brenda. His body was sent to Mobile, Ala. Eulalio Delgado, Jr. Eulalio Delgado, Jr., 21, passed away Nov. 23, 1970 in Brooklyn, N.Y. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Seafarer Delgado continued to make his home there at the time of his I death. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1967 and grad­ uated that same year from the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship.' Brother Delgado sailed in the deck department. Among his survivors are his mother. Carmen. Burial was in Puerto Rico. Michel Megulssoglou Michel Meguissoglou, 59, was an SIU pensioner who died July 8, 1970 of heart disea.se in Greece. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1950 and sailed in the steward department. A native of Greece, I Brother Meguissoglou was spending Ibis retirement there when he passed away. He had been sailing 39 years when he retired. Among his survivors are his nephew, John Saridjoglou of Athens, Greece. Gerald G. Kluge Gerald G. Kluge, 43, passed away Jan. 13 of heart trouble in Bay view. Wis. He joined the Uiiion in the Port of New York in 1960 and sailed in the deck department on the Great Lakes. A native of Duluth, Minn., V Brother Kluge was a resident of Pres/Mil^ Navy veteran of World War 11. Brother Kluge was sailing over 15 years when he died. Among his survivors are six children and his sister, Mrs. Joann Breg of Prescott, Wis. Burial was in Woodland Cemetery in Washburn, Wis. Alexander Martin Alexander Martin, 60, was an SIU pensioner who passed away Jan. 1 of heart disease in USPHS Hospital in New Orleans, La. A native of Louisiana, Brother Martin was a resi­ dent of New Orleans when he died. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1942 and sailed as a steward. He had been sailing 22 years when he retired in 1964. Among his survivors are his daughter, Mrs. Emilina R. Mitchell of New Orleans, La. Burial was in Rest Haven, New Orleans, La. i;. John Arthur John Arthur, 56, passed away Dec. 27, 1970 during a heroic effort to rescue Finnish seamen on the sinking ship Ragny. A lifeboat lowered from the Piatt capsized and Brother Arthur drowned. (See Seafarers Log, Febru­ ary, 1971.) Seafarer Arthur joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1968 and'sailed in the deck depart­ ment as an able seaman. A native of New York, Broth­ er Arthur was a resident of Rehoboth, Del. when he died. He had been sailing 25 years. Among his survivors are his wife, Louise. Frank E. McGuire Frank E. McGuire, 66, passed ^ away June 21, 1970 in Winthrop Community Hospital, Winthrop, Mass. A native of Lowell, Masp., Brother McGuire was a resident of Winthrop when he died. He joined the Union in 1939 in the Port of Boston and sailed in the deck de­ partment. He had 'been sailing over 45 years when he died. Among his survivors are his brothers. Rev. William McGuire of W. Hollywood, Fla., and James W. McGuire of New York. Burial was in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Lowell, Mass. Edward G. Johnston Edward G. Johnston, 65, was an SIU pfensioner who passed away Jah^ 22 after a two-month illness in Mont­ gomery, Pa. A native of Philadelphia, Pa., Brother Johnston was a resident of Havertown, Pa. when he died. He was one of the original members of the Union. Brother Johnston joined in 1939 in the Port of Philadelphia and sailed in the deck department. When he went on pension in the summer of 1970, Brother Johnston wrote a letter to the Seafarers Log expressing his feelings. In part, he said "I wonder if you can really understand how much the pension does mean? For over 30 years I have sailed steadily. . . . Now I can remain home and stay where I live. This is only possible through the pen­ sion." Among his survivors are his wife, Ethel. If Pays fo Be Union Washington, D.C. Factory workers under union contract con­ tinued to win bigger wage increases than em­ ployes of nonunion establishments, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in a summary of wage developments in manufacturing for the first nine months of 1970. The summary by the Labor Dept.'s statistical arm spelled it out—an average increase of 8 percent, or 25.7 cents an hour, in union shops as against 5.9 percent or 16.2 cents an hour, in nonunion factories. For 1969 as a whole, the average increase was 7.4 percent in union establishments, 6.1 percent in the others. ELS reported that the average effective wage gain, including immediate, deferred and livingcost increases, totaled 5.9 perecnt—18.7 cents an hour—for the nine-month period, sli^tly above the 5.8 percent gain for all of 1969. In union shops alone the average effective in­ crease was 5.8 percent for the first three-quarters of 1970, up from 5.7 percent for full-year 1969. But nonunion workplaces slipped from 6.1 percent in 1969 to 5.8 percent for the fol­ lowing nine months. Seafarers Log �San Juan Trip Goes Well - f ^..-v - . sy- • -i V m m It's lime for a last-minute check of the machinery on deck— a job for Ronald Smith, an ordinary seaman on the ship. fter a nine-day round-trip voyage to Puerto Rico, the Seatrain San Juan pulled into Weehawken, N.J., last A month. She carried a mixed cargo along with approxi­ mately 45 cars that are carried on special car-carrying racks. Each rack holds four or five cars. The SlU-contracted ship, which is 523 feet long, was built in 1946 and was originally called the Mission San Antonio. She underwent conversion in 1966 for containerization, and now carries 300 40-foot containers, when the vessel is fully loaded. Crew members wound up their work, mak­ ing the San Juan ready for docking. Then, with high praise for the steward department, which outdid itself on the trip, they all awaited payoff. " Doing the payoff paperwork are, clockwise from left, John Kane, able seaman; Rick Daly, able seaman; E. Vasquez, messman; E. B. McAuley, SlU patrolman; Leon Hall, port agent. Fireman-watertender Bullard Jackson does last minute chores in the engine room, in an effort to wind things up at the end of the San Juan's nine-day voyage. Everyone pitches in before payoff. A cup of hot broth from the kitchen for Electrician Robert La Gasse . . . it's a pick-me-up before returning to the tasks at hand, after a successful trip carrying a mixed cargo to Puerto Rico. The ship was equipped to carry 300 containers. March 1971 C. Ramos, chief cook on the San Juan, relaxes with a copy of the Log. His last meal has been served, the galley has been put back in order, and he's heady with praise for "a job well done" from the rest of the SlU crew members. Page 31 �SEAFARERS » LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Overseas Alaska on Maiden Voyage a crisp, wind-swept winter's day last month the sleek bow of ^-^the Overseas Alaska sliced gracefully through the frigid waters of The Narrows of New York Harbor. The 731-foot-long tanker was paying her first visit to New York. Although the winter winds lashed her bow with ocean spray, covering her superstructure with a heavy coating of ice, the ship received a warm welcome as it dropped anchor in the Port of New York. The ship is scheduled to make the coastal run for the next few months. Launched in Baltimore last summer, and home-ported there, the Alaska is one of five new vessels built within the past two years without the aid of subsidy by the Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., of New York. This new tanker and her sister ships— Overseas Alice, Overseas Vivian, Overseas Audrey and Over­ seas Arctic — are among the most modem vessels sailing the world's oceans. More important, these new ships mean more jobs for SIU mem­ bers and offer encouraging signs that the maritime industry may be on the rebound after many years of neglect. The pointed rays of a setting sun peak out from behind the ship's bell in a moment of quiet beauty on a wintry day. .Wrapped in an inches-thick coating of ice, railings and other deck struc­ tures are hardly distinguishable as the ship pulls into New York Harbor. Although restrained at anchor, the Overseas Alaska seems to exude an air of graceful motion. She is capable of a top speed of 15^^ knots when fully loaded. Rows of ice-covered parallel pipes |opside aboard the Overseas Alaska are only part of the vessel's liquid transport system capable of carrying 524,000 barrels of oil. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource March 1971 Description An account of the resource Headline: 250 SIU MEMBERS STUDY THEIR UNION 'EMERGENCY' STRIKE BILL WRONG LABOR RIPS MOVE TO HURT TRANSPORT UNIONS TOP U.S. OFFICIAL HITS PLAN TO CLOSE USPHS HOSPITALS LABOR REJECTS PHS ALTERNATIVE FRESHMAN LEGISLATOR RAPS PROPOSED HOSPITAL CLOSINGS AFL-CIO RESOLUTIONS STRESS NATION'S NEEDS SIU VICE PRESIDENT TO SERVE ON VETERANS' AID COMMITTEE FIRST SIU '20-AT-55' RETIREE FEELS PENSION PLAN IS 'GREAT' MARAD HONORS CREW FOR SUCCESSFUL RESCUE REP. TIERNAN URGES FEDERAL AGENCIES TO 'SHIP AMERICAN' DUE VACATION PAY ADDS UP TO $7,000 CEMENT BOATS ENJOYING BACK YARD RENAISSANCE HLSS TRAINEES PASS GED TEST NEW ORLEANS HEALTH CLINIC DRAWS PRAISE BUILDING A STRONG UNION YOUR CONSTITUTION NEW BEDFORD'S FISHERMEN CONCLUDE SUCCESSFUL STRIKE IMPLEMENTATION OF MERCHANT MARINE ACT VITAL, SAYS CONGRESSMAN GIAIMO FOREIGN PORTS FEATURED IN NEW COURSE AT HLSS SIU PENSION ROLL ADDS 25 MEMBERS AFL CIO'S TOP PRIORITY: NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE NOW ADMINISTRATION REJECTS HEALTH ACT STEEL SEAFARER RETURNS FROM FAR EAST SPECULATORS WARNED ABOUT 'QUICK PROFIT' INVESTMENTS SHIPS AT SEA NEW ORLEANS LABOR GROUPS HONOR PRIEST SIU SHIPS' COMMITTEES: RELAYING INFORMATION FIVE HLSS CLASSES PASS U.S. COAST GUARD EXAM SAN JUAN TRIP GOES WELL OVERSEAS ALASKA ON MAIDEN VOYAGE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/1/1971 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 1971 Periodicals Seafarers Log