http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/c4f4ddda2d74d97add7c18301dcc3734.PDF 37eefb1a688da0ed04c78a1b8e250cca PDF Text Text SEAFARERS <H.OC • OFFICIAL GROAN OF THI SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND OULF DISTRICT • AFL CIO • COURT VOIDS BAN -Story On Page 3 Farm Lobby Raps '50-50' Again -Story On Page 5 fit This issues *1# AS Cg^gm Shipboard conditions enjoyed by SIU • •' ijeil# men are described by Seafarers John Calamia (left) and Pete Valentine during television in­ terview by announcer John Kent aboard the Del Sud (Mississippi) in New Orleans. Local TV viewers were taken on a tour of the Delta Line passenger ship during an hour-long program presented by Station WDSU-TV. Ship's stack provided backdrop for the cameras. New Orleans Seafarers turn to with AFL-CIO building trades­ men to build homes for victims of Hurricane Audrey at Cameron, La. Red Cross donated the mate­ rials for the volunteer building ef­ fort. Seafarer Bernie Guarino (white cap) is visible on roof. An SIU contingent from Lake Charles worked nearby. (Story on Page 16.) . ., PHS SPEAKS OUT ON CANCER Strong PHS statement linking can­ cer and cigarettes arouses new concern Page 8 SIU Holds Coal Lead .. .Page 2 Seek Robin Ship Vote .. .Page 3 �SEAFARERS Pace Two Aociut 18, 1951 LOG SIU Retains Coal Job Lead Despite Co. Aid To NMU Court Voids Ala. Fee On Organizers American Coal Shipping again intervened vigorously on behalf of the National Maritime Union in the past two weeks' fight for the coal ships. Three more Seafarers were fired to give the NMU a hand. In-*addition, four NMU members of American Coal Shipping. But who were fired off the Walter being a member of management, so GUIN, Ala.—A Federal judge has thrown out this town's licensing restrictions on labor union organi­ zers. Judge H. H. Grooms invali­ dated the local ordinance requiring organizers to pay a $1,000 fee and $25 for each worker signed up. The ordinance is similar to bills passed in Baxley, Ga., and other .southern towns which are the sites of anti-union firms. In the Alabama instance, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union was try­ ing to organize a plant of the Munsingwear Company, manufacturers of women's hose and undergar­ ments. An ILGWU organizer, William von Bach, was jailed while visiting the home of a company employee. He was later released and warned that he would be arrested every time he came back to town. The union filed an application for a temporary injunction against enforcement of the ordinance, which was granted by the Federal court. Hines Page were reinstated by the company's shoreside brass, and the chief engineer who had made the mistake of firing NMU members got his walking papers. One of the Seafarers fired, Moses Lucas, had gone aboard the Cleve­ land Abbe originally as night cook and baker and had been promoted to chief cook. But the company shoreside officials simply plucked him off the ship claiming he had been hired "illegally." They based this claim on the fact that he had two different discharges, one say­ ing "2nd cook" and the other "baker." Lucas' Job was not thrown up for grabs, but was handed to the NMU by the company on the grounds that the NMU man whom -f Curran Ducks Out On Blacklist; Passes Buck To Shipowners After three months of total silence on the existence of an industry-wide blacklist cov­ ering the membership of the National Maritime Union, NMU President Joseph Curran was compelled to acknowledge it in the last "Pilot," the NMU's official organ. At the same time, Curran attempted to disavow • any connection with the sys­ with the National Maritime sake of the expediency of the mo­ ment are a pattern which the NMU Union and the Union Indicated tem he negotiated. a desire to cooperate, draft president has followed since his Curran's belated admission fol­ lowed publication of the blacklist (tory in the LOG of July 19. The LOG related how the Ameri­ can Merchant Marine Institute put the blacklist into effect last April 30 after winning the approval of the NMU and amending the em­ ployment clause in the NMU agree­ ment. Under the blacklist system, a.ny seaman who was ever fired off an NMU ship can be refused employ­ ment by all NMU-contracted com­ panies. Curran's silence on the blacklist until the LOG forced his hand is understandable in light of the sen­ sitivity of seamen on the issue. Since seamen do not normally work steadily on one ship but con­ stantly have to be hired for jobs, their livelihood is particularly sus­ ceptible to this kind of pressure. In fact, it is understood that a number of NMU members have al­ ready been barred in the last few months with the NMU's tacit ap­ proval. Under the circumstances, Curran attempted to sidestep the issue by blasting the SIU at great length, as predicted in the LOG, and at­ tempting to obscure the existence of the blacklist as some kind of offhand arrangement (a "hairbrained scheme" he calls it) be­ tween the institute and Marine In­ dex instead of the full-fledged blacklist machinery he had nego­ tiated. Further, Curran claims, NMU first heard of the plan "with­ in the last two weeks," that is, when it appeared in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG. Curran's account fails to jibe with the statement of Ralph Casey, president of the American Mer­ chant Marine Institute, who wrote to all AMMI-affiliated companies on April 30, 1957, the following: "This problem [of shipboard 'discipline—Ed.] was taken iip proposals were prepared, dis­ cussed, and finally, the em­ ployment clause in the collec­ tive bargaining agreement was amended . . . "As a corollary to this re­ vised employment clause the Committee for Companies and Agents has developed a system whereby serious breaches of discipline on the part of any unlicensed crewmember con­ cerning which an official log book entry is made and for which a man is subsequently fired will be reported to the Marine Index Bureau . . From there the letter goes on to describe how the companies can get information on any man from the bureau for $1 and can refuse to hire him if they so desire. According to the AMMI presi­ dent then, his committee met with the NMU, the union agreed to go along and the union and the com­ panies amended their hiring clause in the contract to pave the way for the blacklist. Acording to Curran, no such thing ever happened and he just heard about it all two weeks ago. Further, according to Curran as of October 25, 1956, "We have told the shipowners we are prepared to meet with them at any time to dis­ cuss discipline" as a corollary to the agreement reached with the companies for a one-for-one log­ ging limit such as the SIU had. All of this would seem to prove to a rational observer the LOG'S charge that the blacklist was agreed to by NMU in exchange for outlaw­ ing the two-for-one loggings. The wide inconsistencies between Curran's own statement of Octo­ ber 25, 1956 and his position in the August 1 "Pilot," and between Cur­ ran's and Casey's accounts of how the blacklist developed are no sur­ prise. The SIU has maintained that these direct contradictions for the entry into the maritime labor move­ ment. While Curran now thunders against the SIU for revealing the blacklist he conveniently ignored for three months, he gives little indication of what action NMU will take, if any, under the prod of the LOG'S exposure. He declared only that NMU "took firm steps to as­ sure that nothing like that is going to operate in our end of the indus­ try." What these "firm steps" will be was not revealed. The only "firm step" known of so far is that Cur­ ran has written a letter denouncing the system he negotiated, but we are told that "a full report will be made when the issue is resolved." Two SIU men fired ofF the Walter Hines Page are bosun Otto B. Hansen, SUP (left), and Seafarer Tom Bubar, OS. Lucas had beaten out was entitled to the post. The incident on the Page stripped away all pretense of com­ pany neutrality in the fight. It provided the strongest evidence yet obtained by the SIU of open part­ nership between the company and the NMU. But despite it all, the SIU still continues to hold the lead. The latest count stands at 101 to 95 with the SIU due to pick up an­ other job in replacing an NMU member whom the company was forced to concede it had hired in violation of the court order. Ironically enough the chief engi­ neer is a member of Mine Work­ ers District 50, which is part owner How The NMU-AMMI Blacklist Works Under the blacklist agreement negotiated between the NMU and the AMMI any NMU man can be barred by any shipping company if he has been fired just once from an NMU ship. There is no provi­ sion in the agreement for any appeal from the blacklist. Here is the step-by-step procedure: • An NMU member gets fired. The skipper enters the reason for the firing in the log book as a "serious breach of discipline." • A record of the firing goes to the Marine Index Bureau, an out­ fit which specializes in collecting information about injured sea­ men and which once was part of a labor spy apparatus aimed at the SIU. • The seaman who was fired goes to another shipping company on a job referral. The company calls Marine Index and asks th?m if there is any record on the seaman. This request for information costs them $1. • Marine Index simply reports what the skipper said about the seaman. Then the company is within its rights, under the amended NMU hiring agreement, to reject the man. The net effect is to deprive the seaman of his employment rights anywhere in maritime. • Since it is the company hiring boss who makes the final deci­ sion on the basis of the skipper's word, there is no way under this system to protect good union men from company retaliation. Skip­ pers who want to get rid of militant men for good simply have to fire them once and that's the last time the man will set foot on a ship. The system is open to all sorts of abuses since it can be em­ ployed for vengeance on any NMU man who is the target of some­ body's personal dislike. * •. I t j'O. I .1 . . . ' <• to speak, was no protection for him when he stood in fhe way of the NMU-company partnership. The company's obvious objective is to press its discriminatory ac­ tions ship by ship in the hope of using up the SIU's supply of oldtimers. Countering the company's action, the four-man coordinating committee in charge of the cam.paign called for more intensive or­ ganizing activity to supply replace­ ments for the coal ships. The committee consisting of Mor­ ris Weisberger, Sailors Union; Ed Turner, Marine Cooks; Sam Ben­ nett, Marine Firemen, and Paul Hall, Atlantic and Gulf District, characterized the company's action as "more of the same type of com­ pany collusion with NMU that we have been faced with since the start of our organizing drive. The only difference now is that the company is going to greater and greater lengths in frantic efforts to stack the deck for the NMU. "This calls for intensified efforts on the part of our membership to back up the coal ship oldtimerg who have been doing such a splen­ did job in the face of this companyNMU discrimination." FCC Urges Inter-Ship Radiophone The Federal Communications Commission has revived proposals for the Installation of bridge-tobridge radio telephones, to cut down on the number of collisions between .merchant ships. Present means of communica­ tions between two vessels in a harbor or on a sea lane are too slow, the Commission said. Mes­ sages must go from the bridge of one vessel to the radio shack, then be wired to the radio shack of tho other vessel and then down to tho bridge. But Federal rules, the Commis­ sion said, allow for the installation of low-powered, short-range, VHF (very high frequency) radio-tele­ phone equipment on vessels. Coast Guard officials have held that such equipment could have prevented the collisions in New York harbor between the Exbrook and Marine Courier and the Alcoa Pilgrim and the African Star. SEAFARERS LOG Aug. 16,1957 Vol. XIX No. 17 PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treaiurer HERBERT BRAND. Editor. BERNARD SEA­ MAN, Art Editor. HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACX, AL MASKIN, JOHN BRAZIL, Staff Writers. BILL MOODY, Gulf Area Repre­ sentative, PubllshDd blWMkly DT th« h«adquart«rD of the Seafarart International Union, At­ lantic a Gulf District, AFL-CIO, <75 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 33. NY. Tel. HYaclnth 9-4600. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office In Brooklyn, NY, under the Act of Aug. 34, 1913. �'• •M! Annut l§i 1951 SEAFARERS PR Dock Conditions Spotlighted Longshore condifions In Puerto Rico shared spotlight with planned Great Lakes drive by AFL-CIO Int'l Brotherhood of Longshoremen at last month's IBL convention In Chicago. Here, SlU Sec­ retary-Treasurer Paul Hall |2nd from left) discusses situation on the island with Council IS prexy-Juan Perez Roa. Maritime Trades Dept. secretary Harry O'Reilly (left) and IBL president Larry Long look on. Hall reaffirmed SlU's support for IBL as voted by SlU membership, In his address to the convention. LOG Par* Uvea Court Throws Out La. Sheriffs Picket Ban On Seafarers I NEW ORLEANS—A Federal jurist has slapped down efforts by a southeast Louisiana sheriff to bar an SIU picket line from his jurisdiction. By refusing to permit picketing at the Superior Derrick Corp., a subsidiary of Atlantic and Gulf Stevedores, Sheriff Chesissued a temporary restraining but not participating in the picket­ ter Wooten had deprived order against the sheriff, his chief ing. Albert Cosse, or any other It was then, the SIU petition SIU representatives and deputy, law enforcement officers in the charged, that the sheriff told th* members of their constitu­ parish from interfering with, pre­ SIU "there would be no strike* venting or molesting SIU repre­ and no picketing in Plaquemin* tional rights. That was the sentatives and company workers Parish" and warned Seafarers to conclusion reached b y "from peacefully assembling, stop the picket line. Subsequent­ Judge Herbert W. Christen- peacefully picketing and peace­ fully publicizing their dispute with berry of New Orleans in or­ the employer." dering the sheriff and his ly, the SIU men were ordered out of the parish when they gathered at a site one mile away from tho struck property. The arrests fol­ Must Permit Visits deputies not to interfere with The court also ordered the sher­ lowed their refusal to abide by th* peaceful picketing at a bulk cargo sheriff's illegal orders. loading facility operated by Super­ iff to stop interfering with SIU representatives' visits to the par­ ior Derrick. Accordingly, the Federal jurist ish "for the purpose of contacting and visiting employees of Superior Derrick Corporation or other mem­ bers, applicants or potential mem­ bers." The SIU's attorneys had gone to court asking for the restraining order when the sheriff and his deputies ordered Seafarers to stop picketing the plant and to leave the parish "within five minutes." When the picketing was resumed WASHINGTON — With a cargo the sheriff had four Seafarers ar­ rested; SIU representatives Tom slump now plaguing the shipping Gould and Martin Gould and Sea­ industry, the Maritime Adminis­ farers Louis Camara and Edward tration has announced that it i* Rosener. They were subsequently willing to take back some of tho Government - chartered Victory* released under bond. The Superior Derrick Corp. had and Libertys before the charters been organized by the SIU pi'ior are up. The tonnage will be ac­ to the strike with all but two of cepted by the Government if the approximately 60 employees sign­ operator retains other charter ing SIU Harbor and Inland Water­ ships for a period of time sufficient ways Division pledge cards. The to cover the charter hire on tho company operates heavy lift float­ first ship for 12 months. Otherwise, the operator will ing derricks in New Orleans harbor and a coal loading installation at have to pay 50 percent of the charter hire rate even if the ship Wood Park south of that city. is already turned back to the Gov­ Company Barred Pact ernment. When the union was unable to It is reported that about 20 arrange a meeting with the com­ ships now out on charters will be One of tfis eight Robin Line vessels covered In election petitions filed at the labor board by the SIU, pany to talk contract terms, the turned back to the Government. the Robin Sherwood is shown on arrival at Capetown some time ago. men on the derricks and the em­ Many of the ships were broken ployees at the Wood Park facility out last fall when a shipping short­ The SIU has filed with the National Labor Relations Board seeking certification as bar­ went on strike. age threatened as a result of tho gaining representative for the Robin Line ships now owned and operated by Moore-McCor- The SIU set up a two-man pick- closing of the Suez Canal. How­ mack Lines. SIU petition action calling for voting on these vessels to determine who should etline at the entrance to the Wood ever, the reopening of the canal have the right to represent • Park facility. Six employees went coupled with a decline in demand and negotiate for the crews' The Robin Line issue arose in was not to compete against Robin through the line without any in­ for some bulk cargoes, particular­ was taken at the NLRB's re­ March when Moore - McCormack Line in the South African trade cident. The rest of the striking ly coal, has reduced the need for gional oifice on Friday, August 9. purchased the ships from Seas for which Robin ships had a sub­ Wood Park employees, about 30 the breakout ships. A number of to 35 in all, were sitting nearby them are idle for lack of cargo. The SIU took this step to pro­ Shipping. Part of the purchase sidy. Once before, the NMU had at­ tect the job rights of Seafarers agreement was that Seas Shipping tempted seizure of Robin Line aboard the Robin Line ships after ships when it challenged SIU rep­ Moore McCormack, the new own­ resentation in the fleet back in ers of the ships, placed them and 1940, along with similar challenges their crews under the jurisdiction against Calmar and Ore vessels of the National Maritime Union Somebody in the NMU got their wires crossed the other and ships of the Baltimore Insular contract. This was done despite day, and unintentionally tipped the NMU's mitt as responsible Line. The results were a series of the wishes of the men involved and anonymous, scurrilous attack on the SIU. for an election victories for SIU—three a lengthy record of SIU bargaining SIU membership meet­ to one over NMU in Baltimore In­ It seems it was thought a-^ — rights for Robin Line crewmemings are held regularly sular; 323 to 9 "no union" votes bright idea to ring out an ships even before the "rank and bers. NMU Pressured Men every two weeks on Wed­ in Calmar and 199 to 1 "no union assortment of phoney-baloney file" mimeograph machine opera­ Following Mooremack's action, nesday nights at 7 PM in vote in Robin out of 210 eligible charges and distribute them to SIU tors got the stuff off and into the votes. Robin Line signed a con­ ships under the guise of a letter mails. Seems awfully odd that the NMU put pressure on Seafar­ ers on the Robin Line ships either all SIU ports. All Sea­ tract with SIU in July, 1941, fol­ from "rank and file" Seafarers. NMU officials should know all to join the NMU or get off the farers are expected to lowing the outcome of the vote The letter exposed such imaginary about it even before it happened. and has been under SIU agree­ misdeeds as hushed-up thefts from Ships altogether and lose their Of course, this kind of tactic is jobs. Seafarers who signed on attend; those who wish to ments ever since. tlie Welfare Plan, blackmail pay­ old hat for NMU dating back to the these ships under SIU contract be excused should request In addition to the Robin Line offs, purchase of stocks by union "good old days." Back in May, conditions and with SIU welfare permission by telegram ships, Mooremack operates ans. officials and similar drivel. The 1955, a similar set of mimeographed protection have been compelled to other division known as Pacific authors tried hard to sound like anonymous letters from so-called accept NMU wages, contract and (be sure to include reg­ Republic Lines which is under con­ seamen but some of the phrase­ "rank and file" SIU members by The tract to the SIU Pacific District. ology was a dead giveaway. welfare provisions. Some of these istration number). strange coincidence echoed NMU provisions, particularly In the wel­ next SIU meetings will be: Two other major operators, Grace Well, all turned to with great President Joe Curran's attack on fare area, are inferior to the and Luckenbach, have similar con­ enthusiasm and started to crank up the late Harry Lundeberg in efforts August 21 SIU's. ye olde mimeograph machine as to drive a breach between the tractual arrangements. The petition action then, seeks September 4 Ships involved in the petition per the traditional NMU way. The Pacific District and the A&G. to win for these crewmembers the are the Robin Trent, Robin Locks- only trouble is that some eagerSomehow, the tactic of the September 18 right to a union of their own ley, Robin Hood, Robin Goodfel- beaver NMU patrolmen got their anonymous letter hardly seems October 2 choosing, instead of one imposed low, Robin Gray, Robin Mowbray, signals mixed and started spouting suitable for one who professes to on them by Mooremkck. Robin Sherwood and Robin Kirk. the anonymous letter line on board be an authority on ethical practices. SIU ASKS ROBIN SHIP VOTE SCHEDULE OF SIU MEETINGS BlameSlump In Return Of Gov't Ships WHO GOOFED IN NMU ? �•! Page Four SEAFARERS LOG Aufosi 16, 1957 SlU Scholar Draws $ Awards In Pairs Seafarer Gene Sinclair right) is pictured with two other US trade unionists also attending Ruskin College, Oxford, England, on labor scholarships. Sinclair also won on SlU scholarship this year. With him are William Paul of the electrical workers (left) and Nick Styronovski of the oil workers. Taking the good news in his stride, Seafarer Gene Sinclair found out he'd won one of the five $6,000 SIU scholarships for 1957 while he was winding up a year's study at Oxford, England, under an earlier^" ~ This is the third in a series grant. of articles about the winners of Sinclair and fellow Seafarer the 1957 SIU scholarship John Sweeney, competing with trade unionists from all over the US, won two of the three scholar­ ships awarded by the Institute of International Education last year. These awards covered a year's study at Ruskin College, Oxford, and Coleg Harlech, Wales. This was the first time on record that any American union had two winners at the same time. Two other SIU men won similar awards In previous years. With that kind of background Hub Quiet; Pick-Up Due BOSTON—Thei e were not many vessels hitting this port during the past period and as a consequence, shipping slowed down. But with a couple of payoffs and in-transit vessels expected during the next two weeks, there should be more jobs available for Seafarers on the beach here. The Bradford Island (Cities Serv­ ice) paid off during the period and later hit port in transit. The Steel Architect (Isthmian) and Valley Forge iPenn. Nav.) also pulled into port to be serviced. The Valley Forge will remain here for a while, taking on a load of scrap iron for Spain. All hands around the hall here are keeping their eyes peeled for oldtimers to help out in the Amer­ ican Coal Shipping beef. With the company firing SIU men it's be­ come more important than ever to find Seafarers with those old-time discharges. Be Sure To Get Dues Receipts Headquarters again wishes to remind all Seafarers that pay­ ments of funds, for whatever Union purpose, be made only to authorized A&G representa­ tives and that an official Union receipt be gotten at that time. If no receipt is offered, be sure to protect yourself by immedi­ ately bringing the matter to the attention of the, secretaycy-treasurer's office. • ' A • awards. behind him, Sinclair hopes to enter Columbia University this fall and work towards a degree in econo­ mics. He'll return on a much more secure footing this time, thanks to the generous terms of the four-year SIU scholarship. He previously accumulated a year's credits at the school, spread over a three-year period. His scholastic successes thus far are all the more unusual because be never actually completed high school and whatever formal training he had came in fits and spurts. The 28-year-old Seafarer shipped out on his own after five attempts at finishing school in as many different cities got him nowhere. He was being boarded out at various foster homes during this time. Once he began sailing, Sinclair stayed with it for most of the past 12 years, except for a wartime stint with the army in Korea. He en­ tered Columbia originally by piling up top grades on a special entrance exam, and continued shipping with the SIU between semesters. Last year he worked his passage over to Europe on a Wateiman ship, but wound up in Bremerhaven and had to make his own way back to England. The year's study on the scholarship at Ruskin was an "eye-opener," he pointed out. All the students, like himself, had trade union backgrounds, and were tbere for serious study, rather than frills. "While conditions there weren't exactly austere, there was no strict emphasis on 'tradition* as there seemed to be at the other colleges in Oxford. This put everybody on equal terms. Labor problems are pretty much the same over in Eng­ land as here and everywhere else," he added. The Ruskin scholarship provided an award of 325 pounds ($910 in U.S. currency), which covered room, board and tuition and left him about $10 a week for odds and ends. Sinclair returned in style on the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth and is now trying to make a couple of trips before resuming classes at Columbia this fall. He lives In New York and sails in the deck depart­ ment " ponjt Drop What You're Holding I " Working overhead has obvious risks so fhe wise Seafarer sees to it that the rig—whether bosun's choir or stageis sound and steady. But sometimes a secondary precaution Is overlooked; the necessity of seeing to it that the tools being used are secure as well. Even as small an item as a screw­ driver or a pair of pliers can do a considerable amount of damage to somebody's noggin if dropped from a height of 50 feet. And the smaller the tool, the easier it is to knock off Q stage if it is put down without first being secured either to the rigging or the Seafarer's clothes. Just from the point of view of con­ venience, a falling too! is a great nuisance because it means descending to the deck again, picking up the tool and re-rigging the stage or bosun's chair—a time-consuming and wasteful process. So after you've mode sure the rig is safe, make sure your tools ore safe too. It will make for more pleasant relations between you and your ship­ mates. j An SIU Ship is a Safe Ship i �August 16» 1957 SEAFARERS INQUIRING SEAFARER QUESTION: li if easier for a seaman lo save money than for a man In a shoreside job?. Manuel Landron, bo sunt I think it is much easier for a sea­ man. For one thing he has no room and board to pay. It he goes easy on the draws, as I think most family men do, he comes home with more and can put It away. I have found it much easier to save in my 16 years at sea. It's also a much better life. Al Freund, FWT; Sure its easier for a seaman to save than for a guy working ashore. He has no ex­ penses to pay His meals are given him and he has no rent worries. But he has to keep down his spending in foreign ports Actually it is just as easy to spend it in Japan as it is in New York. Personally, I have saved more at sea. LOG Page Five Farm Bloc Launches Renewed Attack On '50-50' Practices WASHINGTON—A dispute between American and Japanese shipowners over the sharin of farm cargoes purchased by Japan with American money has become the springboara for a new attack on the "50-50" law. The American Farm Bureau Federation, a powerful farm lobby, has jumped into^—— ^ the dispute on the side of the stances where US taxpayers pro­ Japanese and is attempting to vide the cash for the cargoes. The AH Is Quiet scuttle the "50-50" principle. concern of the industry is aggra­ At last word the Maritime Ad­ vated by the existing slump in ministration is reported close to shipping and by a further decline agreement between the contending in US ships' share of the country's parties, but the incident reveals foreign commerce. That share now BALTIMORE — "Affairs of the that the farm lobby-foreign ship­ stands at 22 percent according to Union in this port are in very good owner . bloc which came danger­ latest Department of Commerce shape," is the report from Balti­ ously close to scuttling "50-50" two figures. more. "There weren't any beefs of years ago is still very much alive. The Farm Bureau pitch is that a nature that could not be handled the Japanese have "threatened" to by the patrolmen. The ships' crews Japanese Loan seek Canadian assistance if generally have things under con­ The dispute in question devel­ they do not get their way. There­ trol" said Earl Sheppard, port 4 4 4 oped when the Japanese received fore. the Bureau argues, the US agent. 4» it 4" Thomas Filippelli, OS: I would a ?175 million E,xport-ImiK)rt Bank should bypass "50-50" and let the say that a seaman It has been quiet on the shipping has a better Angelo Romero, cook: It is up to low interest loan and sought to Japanese have as much of the side during the last period. There the particular man. If he is thrifty chance to save apply it to the purchase of farm cargo as they want. than a guy work­ were 13 vessels paying off, seven at sea, or on commodities. Under a 1934 law. Dollar Discrimination ing ashore. But it signed on, and 14 were in-ti-ansit. shore, then there commodities purchased under such is up to the sea­ There have been reports of dis­ The vessels paying off were the is no reason why loans are supposed to go 100 per­ man himself to crimination against Americans bj Jean. Angelina. Evelyn, Mae, he can't save. A cent on American ships. In prac­ try by not draw­ Japanese banks over payment in Emilia (Bull); Marore, Feltore, seaman may save tice the ."50-50" law has been ap­ ing too heavily in US dollars. Under the loan, credits Baltore, Oremar (Ore); Council It for two months plied wherever the nation receiv­ Grove (Cities Service). Bethcoaster the various ports. at sea and spend ing the loan does not discriminate given are not to be used to pay for (Caiman and Valley Forge (Penn, I'm sailing be­ the freight charges for transport­ the whole amount against US exporters and US ships. cause I want to ing the commodities. This is to be Navigation!. in one shore In this instance, American ship­ paid in "free" US dollars held by put something in ^ The Orion Planet (Colonial); leave. Same with the bank and not to go and spend it ping groups have been charging Japan. But it has been hinted that Steel Fabricator (Ishmian); An­ a shoreside Job. such discrimination while the if American-flag ships are to be gelina, Mae. Emilia (Bull); Feltore It ii just as easy to spend it all on the other side. Japanese, on their side, have been used exclusively to transport the and Baltore (Ore) signed on. 4 4 4 overy weekend. i Gordon Bell, FWT: It is much seeking to cut the American cargo goods, Japanese banks will not In transit were the Oremar, San4 4 4 easier to save while at sea. I know share to less than 50 percent, by make the dollars available. tore. Venore. Cubore, Marore (Ore); attempting to split the cargo on Vernon Douglas, eook: No, it is for I am a plum­ What all of this amounts to is a Pennmar, Losmar, Alamar, Betheasier for a man working ashore to ber ashore, and the basis of freight revenue in­ request by Japan for a low-interest coaster (Calmar); Robin Kirk, save. He has to although I make stead of tonnage. loan of American money, to pur­ Robin Wentley (Robin); Alcoa save every week much more work­ Maritinie interests in the United chase surplus American commodi­ Planter (Alcoa) and the Sea Comet in order to pay ing on that Job States are concerned that a waiver ties at low prices, and permission 11 (Ocean Carriers). the rent, food, than I do sailing, in this instance may lead to fur­ to ship them in Japanese vessels in Despite the slack shipping, local etc. But a sea­ I found I save ther whittling away of the cargo direct competition with American- organizing efforts are moving along man usually more at sea. A preference principle in other in­ flag ships. well throughout the harbor area. blows it away man ashore gets every time he paid every week hits port. He and has much could, if he real- more of a chance to spend it where­ ^ ^ ly wanted to, as a seaman, outside of his draws, save much more. But there are gets it all at once and does not many more temptations for a sea­ have his hands on the money so man than a shoreside worker. often. In Baltimore PHS Warns Of Asia Flu Outbreak Throughout US An outbreak of Asiatic influenza has been forecast for this fall and winter by the Public Health Service. The PHS said that 11,000 cases of the disease, which orirfnated In the Far East earlier this1 year, have al- • ^ ready been reported in the fhat drug manufacturers were step United States, and that many ping up production of antibiotics more cases are likely when bad weather sets in. The government health agency said the disease could, in bad weather, sweep from San Francisco to Boston in four weeks, incapacitating from 10 to 20 percent of the population. Just last week 100 flu cases were reported on the passenger ship Arosa Sky. Asiatic flu, which Is caused by a new strain of the influenza virus, has a very low death rate. PHS said, and only three deaths—all from secondary infections—have been reported among the 11,000 American cases. The PHS added like penicillin to combat pneu­ monia and other secondary infec­ tions. Vaccine Being Readied The PHS also announced that American manufacturers of Asiatic flu vaccine are working to turn out four million doses for the Armed Forces and another four million for civilians by mid-September. The Feb. 1 target is 60 million doses, enough to Immunize onethird of the population. The agency said it is developing a vaccine that will immunize in one dose, and give protection for a j'car. It added, however, that it takes ten days to two weeks after the injection before Immunity is acquired. The PHS recommended that InA reminder from SIU head­ noculations should be given first quarters cautions all Seafarers to medical personnel and,then to leaving their ships to contact civilians in essential services lilra the hall in ample time to allow communication, transportation and the Union to dispatch a replace­ utilities. The transportation cate­ ment. Failure to give notice be­ gory would presumably cover mer­ fore paying off may cause a de­ chant seamen. layed sailing, force the ship to The vaccine will most probably sail short of the manning re­ be administered to seamen by the quirements and needlessly make Public Health Service. Tlie SEA­ the work tougher for your ship­ FARERS LOG will notify Unionmates. members when the vaccine is available. Quitting Ship? Notify Union Pres. Hayes Crew Heading Home Glad to be back in the States after round-the-world trip, West Coast crewmen on APL's converted Mariner SS President Hayes stop off in New York on final lap of long voyage. The Presi dent Hayes is one of four airconditioned c.ombination ships now operated by APL Above, representing the Marine Cooks and Stew­ ards Union con tingent aboard, are (seated, I to r) F. Garcia, steward Charles Hawkins, A. Leone, Roland Smith. Standing, P. Lopez, L. Roberson and Alberto Villore. At left. Sailors Union mem­ bers, bosun Glen Peterson [left] and Vic Tatko, DM get in some necessary repairs on one of the hydraulic batch covers featured aboard the ^qriners, Ln-i- - �Pare Sfar I m |g L;. Franc Now 420 To $1 SEAFARERS Aucast 16, 1957 LOG All This ... And Hawaii Too PARIS — Seafarers in France will be getting more francs for their dollars now. Through a series of measures, the French government has granted tourists and other individuals a 20 percent premium over the official exchange rate of 350 francs to the dollar. The new rate is 420 francs to the dollar, or just about equal to the going black market rate. Finance Minister Felix Gaillard said that the measure was neces­ sary and inevitable because of the nation's shortage of foreign cur­ rency. Tourists had been avoiding official exchanges and dealing with the black market for their dollars. This move, Gaillard said, will now bring those dollars into the Gov­ ernment treasury. Exporters Favored Under the new rate French tourists and businessmen going abroad will have to pay 20 percent extra for foreign currencies. But French exporters will get a re­ imbursement of 20 percent when they convert their funds back into francs. July 24 Through August 6 Port Deck A Boston .. 10 New York .,. •••••••••••••••• .. 55 Philadelphia . .. 28 Baltimore .^. •••••••••••••a** .. 52 Norfolk .. 9 Savannah ... .. 8 Tampa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. 9 Mobile 20 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. New Orleans aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. 53 Lake Charles aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. 6 Houston aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ..29 Wilmington .. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. 23 San Francisco aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. 22 Seattle 28 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. Deck A Another Billion Farm Aid Okayed; '50-50' Intact WASHINGTON—Congress has given approval to a bill in­ creasing the amount of surplus commodities to be sold to foreign nations from $3 to $4 biHion, and extended the "50-50" law which governs transpor-"*tion of the commodities sold policy of easing the cold war and of to 1958. The amendment, drawing borderline Communist na­ which is expected to meet with tions from Russian domination, the presidential approval, also in­ Senate included a provision permit­ creases the amount of funds avail­ ting barter transactions with such able for famine relief and other countries. It left intact the provision assistance from 500 to 800 million barring any barter transactions with the USSR itself, with Com­ dollars. • Following the Administi-ation's munist China or any territory controlled or dominated by the Communist Chinese. Under the provision, the Presi­ dent has the authority to assist friendly nations to be independent of trade with the USSR and to assure that none of the agricultural products so sold would be made available to Russia or Communist China. LAKE CHARLES—In coopera­ A $95 million deal covering agri­ tion with the state's Building cultural surplus and farm machin­ Trades unions, reports Lcroy ery to be .shipped to Poland is al­ Clarke, port agent. Seafarers on ready in the works. These ship­ the beach here and in New Orleans ments will mark the first return of have been giving their time to help US seamen to Poland since 1939. The "50-50" law, which has been construct homes that have been de­ stroyed in hurricane-swept Camer­ termed the lifeline of the American on Parish and other areas on the Merchant Marine, requires that at least 50 percent of any surplus Louisiana-Texas border. "We have been sending in 20 or commodities sold to foreign nations more men every weekend to as­ be carried in American-fiag vesesls. sist in the laying of the foundations for these homes," he said. United Effort "It is really a pleasure to watch Labor working as if they were one man In the re-building of the houses," Clarke stated. "We are waiting for the Labor Committee Seafarer Sidney Mojel lost his ©n disaster relief to call and tell life when he fell overboard from us how many more men we can furnish to do whatever we are the Hudson Belle, a Wilson Line Deeded for." (See story on Page 16.) excursion vessel, while the ship Shipping in this port has held was getting ready to dock at 134th Its own during the last two week Street and the Hudson River. According to reports, Mojel was period but is not rebounding as expected. There were 13 vessels handling a heaving line on the Calling Into the area during that HIWD-contracted ship when he lost his balance and fell overboard. time. The vessels were the CS Nor­ Initial efforts to recover the body folk, Council Grove, Chiwawa, C were unsuccessful. Police later S Miami, Bents Fort, Bradford Is­ found a body at 125th Street which land, Winter Hill (Cities Service); is believed to be that of the the Maxton, Coalinga Hills, Almena missing Seafarer. (Pan-Atlantic); Petro-Chem (Valen­ Afterwards, crewmembers on the tine); Del Alba (Mississippi) and ship took up a collection for the Pan Oceanic Transporter (Penn. Mojel's family and flowers for the funeraL • . ( . Navigation). Shipping Slow, Lake Charles Aids Relief Excursion Boat Crewman Lost -J Eng. A 5 24 2 18 3 0 0 2 10 6 19 14 18 15 3 44 14 37 5 6 1 24 36 10 23 13 23 22 Eng. A DecR B Total .... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .. 352 Pictured above are just two of the almost 50 waitresses who serve both passengers and crew aboard the Matsonia. The ship, on the Motson Line's Los Angeles-Hawaii run, is manned by SlU-West Coast affiliates. DecK B 136 261 Eng. B Stew. A Stew. B 6 18 6 24 6 4 2 7 17 7 13 15 18 20 6 40 14 26 2 0 6 14 27 6 22 22 18 20 Total A 1 5 6 15 5 2 0 4 2 2 7 7 13 10 19 139 56 115 16 14 16 58 116 22 74 58 63 70 Eng. B Stew. A 163 223 Stew. B Total A 79 836 Total B 12 47 14 57 - 14 6 2 13 29 15 39 36 49 45 Total a 378 Total Reg. 31 186 70 172 30 20 18 71 145 37 113 94 112 115 Total Reg. 1214 Shlipped Port Deck A Boston New York ... Philadelphia . Baltimore .... Norfolk Savannah ,.... Tampa Mobile New Orleans ., Lake Charles . Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Deck B Deck C 3 I 6 2 2 I 17 5 0 0 3 0 0 2 3 0 10 0 10 3 0 3 0 14 5 6 0 Deck A Deck B 71 Total Deck 1C 16 Eng. A 1 45 12 29 2 10 2 16 37 6 21 7 17 10 Eng. B'" C 2 0 14 12 6 4 15 2 4 1 5 0 3 2 3 4 6 7 8 4 7 5 3 0 10 0 10 2 Eng. A 215 Eng. B 94 Stew. A Stew. B 4 40 9 26 0 8 1 12 25 5 17 6 13 8 1 6 4 9 1 1 0 2 5 4 9 4 12 3 Eng. C itew. A Stew. B 45 174 61 stew. C Total A Total B 7 133 35 90 3 27 6 40 113 20 65 22 46 32 6 26 10 41 5 9 3 8 21 13 19 10 36 19 Total A Total B 639 226 1 6 2 3 1 0 0 2 3 2 1 8 2 1 Stew. c 32 Total Total Ship. C 2 20 9 10 2 0 4 6 10 6 6 8 7 3 Total e 93 15 179 54 141 10 36 13 54 144 39 90 40 89 54 Total Ship. 958 SIU shipping fell to the lowest point of the past year and a half during the last period, matching the steady drop to the bottom which bulk cargo and tanker charter rates have been experiencing all this year. Even so, relatively few US-^ flag ships are idle now for lack of cargoes. The difference rests, instead, on reductions in the size of the active American mer­ chant fleet caused by transfers for­ eign and lay-ups for conversions and modernization programs. Total shipping for the district was 958 jobs. Registration dropped a bit, but was still high. Only four SIU ports showed shipping gains over the previous period, but the improvement was of little consequence in all of them. Baltimore, Savannah, Lake Charles and Wilmington listed the gains while all the rest declined. New Orleans, in turn, remained the same: fair. Reversing the usual pattern, en­ gine department shipping was heavier than job activity in the deck department. The black gang also accounted for almost half of the class C jobs dispatched. Reg­ istration and shipping for the stew­ ard department were almost even. Class C activity generally re­ flected the overall shipping pic­ ture. Jobs filled by this nonseniority group hit an 18-month low, while class A continues to fill fully two-thirds of the total shipping. Class B shipping rose to 23 percent of the total. A and B men aren't holding back on jobs while the pickings appear slim. The following is the forecast port by port: Boston: Slow ... New York: Holding its own . . . Philadelphia: Steady .. . Baltimore: Fair . . . Norfolk. Slow ... Sa­ vannah: Fair . . . Tampa: Slow . . . Mobile: Fair . . . New Orleans: Good . . . Lake Charles: Fair . . . Houston: Good . . . Wilmington: Good . . . San Francisco: Good ... Seattle: Good. .71- m A group of 156 prominent citi­ zens of the Gaspe peninsula have petitioned Quebec's Premier Duplessis to interv.e'ne and settle the four-month-old strike of steelworkers at Gaspe Copper Mines, Ltd. at Muedochville. The group in­ cludes 36 Gaspe mayors and 16 deputy mayors. The strike started on March 10 when the president of the union local was fired. The petition started when one striker was killed and two others injured in a dynamite blast near the mine. 4- 4- 4" Wage Increases averaging 7.5 cents an hour have been won by 20,000 teamster members in 56 locations under a new contract with Montgomery Ward & Co. The agreement includes a guaranteed minimum weekly income, arbitra­ tion of grievances, improved over­ time and holiday pay provisions and other gains. The company also agreed to grant automatic wage increases after three and nine months of service. Most of the workers in mail order houses, pools and warehouses and non-selling employees of attached retail stores will get an average increase of about 11 cents an hour. 4" 4- 4" The United Rubber Workers have announced the signing of con­ tracts with five major companies calling for a 15-cent-an-hour pack­ age increase for over 85,000 rubber employees. The settlement, under a reopening clause in their contract which expires May 15, 1959, covers workers of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., B. F. Goodrich, US Rubber, Firestone Tire and Rubber and General Tire and Rubber Com­ pany. Part of the increase is for previously-negotiated night shift differential increases and to correct local intra-plant inequities. 4i 4" 4" The "Lima Citizen," a newspaper mannqd by employees striking at !the t ^'Lirna (Ohio) News»''.v claims " qo i n o 7';.S *• 0w' that it is being read in 92 percent of the homes in Lima. The "Citi­ zen" also claims to have taken more than its share of classified and display advertising from the News, It has an average daily circulation of around 25,000. The pre-strike circulation of the "News" was about 34,000. The "News" was struck by the Newspaper Guild when the company refused to sign a contract. They were soon fol­ lowed by the ITU, stereotypers and pressman, as well as other unions involved with the paper. 3) 4» 4" 4" 4) 4" A nationwide boycott of chairs made by the Streit Manufacturing Co. was instrumental in winding up a three-year union fight for the Upholsterers Local 156, said business representative J. E. Chap­ man. The boycott not only ended the strike, he said, but also re­ sulted in the removal of the conv pany's management board and ths installation of a full union shop. A1 Hartnett, secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Elec­ trical Workers has denounced ths Russian Embassy in Washington for employing a non-union paint­ ing and decorating firm for exten­ sive renovation work in the em­ bassy. He said that the embassy, located directly across the street from the lUE headquarters, delib­ erately selected the scab firm in spite of the large choice of union firms in the city. USPHS Has Last Say On Duty Slip Under the SIU contract, US Public Health Service doctors have the final say on whether or not a man Is fit for duty. If there is any question about your fitness to sail, check with the nearest USPHS hospital or out>patient cllnio for a ruling. iI �Anmst K, 1957 SEAFARERS TOUR DOllAR'S WORTH Page Seven LOG SlU Hosts New Orleans AFL-CIO Meeting Seafarer's Guide To Better Buying By Sidney Margoliua Food Staples Cause Of HCL "Convenience foods," meaning factory-prepared foods like frozen French fries, waffles, chicken pot pies and cake mixes now are being widely blamed for the current rise in food prices. Everybody from Agriculture Secretary Benson, state extension agents, newspaper .writers and even some consumer spokesmen are telling you that to­ day's big food bills are your own fault because you're buying more foods with "built-in maid service." True, factory-prepared foods cost more, as you'll see in the com­ parative-cost list with this report. And there are many more of them. Just among frozen foods, more than 170 different partly or fully-cooked dishes are in the markets. ^ But the fact is, the increase in the use of factory-prepared foods has nothing to do with the jump in food prices of 1.2 percent in just two months this past Spring, of 3.2 percent in one year, and of 14 percent New council officers preside as SlU New Orleans hall plays hosi to regular meeting of the Central since 1950. Such foods still take only four cents of your food dollar. The other 96 cents still goes for staples—fresh meat, eggs, milk, vege­ Labor Union council of New Orleans and vicinity. AFL-CIO. At rostrum (I to r) are Charles D. Win­ tables. Changes in the retail price index of the Bureau of Labor Sta­ ter, Teamsters Union, secretary-treasurer; A. P. Stoddard, Typographical Union, president, and H. tistics are not affected by the increase in the use of prepared foods. C. Moore, Barbers Union, secretary of the executive board. Louisiana was one of the first states to The price index merely measures the cost of the same foods each effect statewide merger of AFL and CIO central bodies in 1956. month. These are 60 basic items, such as white flour, fresh meat, milk, coffee, etc., generally in non-prepared form. As the food price index goes up this summer, don't swallow the story that you're getting more "maid service" for your money. You're not. Market Costs Up . The real culprit is higher marketing costs—^the cost of bringing the food from the farm to your shopping cart. Recently about 59 cents of WRANGELL, Alaska—Aiter a ten-day strike, SlU-affiliated fish cannery workers, mem­ your food dollar has been going bers of the Alaska Marine District Union, have won all their demands from the employers , to marketing costs, and 41 cents to despite sabotage by Harry Bridges' longshore union. the farmer, compared to a ratio of The SlU-affiliated fisher^ • ten years ago of 48 cents for mar­ men were aided in their sue- • Jf M #« 0g m keting costs and 52 cents to the cessful fight by several West producer. Of these currently high­ Coast SIU of NA unions, including er marketing costs, labor costs the Sailors Union of the Pacific generally have been selected as the and the Inland Boatmen's Union. whipping boy by the US Agricul­ Other AFL-CIO unions including ture Department and the food in- the Carpenters and Machinists 1 dustry. But the truth is, the Gov- aided the fishermen's fight through WASHINGTON—There are 39 active applications for US ' ernment's own figures reveal that the intervention of the Maritime Government aid in the form of 87% percent mortgage insur­ labor costs have remained a re­ Trades Department. ance, the Maritime Administration announced. Seventeen markably steady part of the total John "Whitey" Hawk, SIU of NA other applicants under the law"*^"" marketing cost and even decreased a bit in the most recent years for secretary-treasurer, who helped have ships under construction two pullman-style supcrliners. The seventeen contracts in force which figures are available. In handle the negotiations along with or in service. 1950, labor costs were 47.1 per­ Captain John Fox of the Inland Among the pending applications cover the West Coast passenger cent of the total food marketing Boatmen, reported that the Bridges' are eight container ships to be ships Matsonia and Leilani, both bill; in '51, 46.9 percent; '52, 46.7 cohorts had filed a petition with built for American-Hawaiian which of them already in service, the percent; '53, 47.1 percent; '54, 47.4 the National Labor Relations Board is under contract to the SIU Paci­ TMT Carib Queen, a supertanker in efforts to seize control of the fic District; one ship for the SIU- for Ocean Transportation; a C-4 percent; |55, 46.8 percent. Two reasons for higher food approximately 700 workers in­ contracted TMT Trailer Ferry; a conversion job for the Coastwise prices are not publicized as much volved. However, AMDU represent­ bulk-carrier for the SlU-contracted Line and the Mariner conversion as labor costs. One is the increased cost of supermarket retailing. The atives appearing at Labor Board Ocean Transportation Company for Arnold Bernstein. big markets used to take a margin of only 16 cents of your shopping hearings demonstrated that the and the wine tanker now under Petri wine tanker is due to be' ready for service from the West dollar for their operating costa and profit. Now, a sample survey by petitions were defective and won construction for Petri Wine. Super Market Merchandising, a trade publication, indicates the mar­ certification from the board. The Also on the application list is Coast to the East next month. She gin is getting up to 18-19 percent. The fact is, the big markets are NLRB also threw out the ILWU's H. B. Cantor, New York hotel man, will operate out of a Stockton, who has bids In for construction of Calif., terminal. adding more and more costly services and fixtures from carry-out bid. Strike Called boys to air conditioning, piped-in music and night opening hours. Food Chains Rake It In with NLRB certification won, the Another reason for advancing food costs is simply higher middlemen AMDU called its strike for the profits. The First National City Bank's annual survey showed that food opening of the salmon fishing sea­ chain corporations increased their profits 29 percent last year, the son. As a consequence, the union third highest gain of any kind of business, and food processors boosted won the minimum season guaran­ their take 7 percent, compared to the average profit gain of 3 percent. tee it sought, plus a union shop If you are using many factory-prepared foods these days, your own and other concessions. eating costs are likely to be up more than even the price index indi­ The Alaska Marine District rep­ cates. Factory-prepared foods are a home labor-saver, especially for resents a reorganization of several A popular fealiii-e of the a woman who works. But some are especially costly. Frozen potato separate and widely-scattered fish­ Seafarers Welfare Plan, products have become one of the most popular of all factory-prepared and fish cannery groups the interest-free loan pro­ LiOaUf dishes. One researcher found he could buy ten pounds of potatoes for ermen's in Alaska into one organization. gram for Seafarers on 65 cents, but had to pay $3 for ten pounds of frozen French fries. An The set-up was the result of especially ridiculous example is sugared dry cereals which actually actionnew the beach, handled over taken at the last SIU of NA cost 50 percent more than if you sprinkled the sugar yourself over the convention $100,000 In loans in in San Francisco. game type of cereal. 1956. It is open to quali­ Here is a valuable comparison of a number of prepjred and fresh fied Seafarers on the foods, and processed and fresh produce, as calculated by the New York shipping list. Extension Marketing Service. In addition to loans, Cost per Cost per several ports offer tem­ Serving Serving porary lodging, so that Potatoes Dry mix 4o Seafarers in a port where Frozen whipped Canned condensed 5c 5o they do not maintain a SEATTLE—Shipping in this area Home-made whipped Frozen condensed 3-40 7o permanent home ran ob­ has been good for the last period Cole Slaw Fruits tain shelter. Packaged Canned peaches 4c 4.4Q and promises to continue so for These benefits reflect Home-made 1.2o Frozen peaches 8.3c the next few weeks, reports Jeff the Welfare Pian''8 con­ Snap Beans Canned blueberries 10.3a Gillette, port agent. The port had cern with the problems the Mary Adams (Bloomfield) and Canned, French 6c Frozen blueberries 13c Ocean Joyce (Ocean Transport) which are related to sea­ Canned, cut style 4.3c Canned cherries (tart) 6c 3.3o Fresh in season faring and are not found Frozen cherries (tart) 8.3a paying off and the Joyce and Sea 6.3c Frozen Canned pineapple chunks 6.2a Garden (Penn. Navigation) sign­ in shoreside industry. Orange Juice Frozen pineapple chunks 8.3c ing on. The Flomar (Calmar) was in transit. 3.5c Home-squeezed fresh Canned grapefruit 2.6a Canned segments "We are receiving very enthrtsl5.4a 3c Frozen concentrate Frozen grapefruit astic support from the Sailors Un­ Grape Juice segments 9.4a ion, Marine Cooks and Marine Fire­ 6.2o Ham Canned men in the American Coal beef," Frozen concentrate 3.7c Canned, skinned, boned 30a Gillette said, and th* kkid of Soup (Green Pea) Uncooked biitt half •' 26o teamwork that 'will seii us through . Home-made "ie Uncooked shank half 22c on top.' Alaska Fishery Pact Won MA Says 39 Seek US Mortgage Aid YOUR SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN Housing Program Seattle Lauds WC Oldtimers SEAFARER'S INT'L UNION, A&G DISTRICT �I I ; Pace Eirht SEAFARERS LOG Aufost 19, 1957 WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT e i g a t e i t es For the past couple of years there have been re­ peated reports linking cigarettes and cancer, and each time a number of smokers have sworn off cigs for life, or at least for a month. The repeated claims, and counter-claims from the tobacco in­ dustry, have left the public confused to say the least. But just recently, the United States Public Health Service had its say on the matter and stirred things up all over again. The PHS Surgeon General, Dr. Leroy E. Burney, re­ leased an announcement reviewing the findings of no less than 18 independent studies. The conclusions can be boiled down this way: • There is a definite connection between cigarettes and lung cancer. The more you smoke the greater your chances are for developing the ailment, which Is fatal In more than 95 percent of the cases. • At the same time, nobody has demonstrated in the laboratory that anything in a cigarette is defi­ nitely cancer-causing. Tobacco Co's Object The tobacco industry has jumped on the second fact to argue that cigarettes shouldn't be condemned until some­ body can show proof in the lab by regularly producing cancers in laboratory animals from any material used in cigarette manufacture. But there's no escaping the cold statistical fact that people who smoke get cancers far more often than pmple who don't smoke. What's more, those who smoke t\.'o packs a day or more seem far more susceptible. Since seamen are well-known for consuming more Java and smoking more butts than any comparable group of men, the findings of the Public Health Service have par­ ticular bearing. As a matter of fact, it might not be a bad idea for the Public Health Service to do a little statis­ tical checking among seamen as a group and see how their experience compares with the rest of the population. Some of the findings of the American Cancer Society and the Public Health Service should be pretty sobering to heavy smokers. For instance, the odds are 275 to one against a non-smoker getting lung cancer. The heavy smoker, the two-pack-a-day man, rates only a one to ten chance to escape the disease. And the lung cancer death rates for heavy smokers are fantastically higher, 64 times as great, the American Cancer Society says, than the death rate among the non-smokers. In terms of over-all death rates, the figures add up to pretty small potatoes compared to other major causes of death like heart disease, accidents and the like. For ex­ ample, lung cancer death rates annually are about 25,000 a year while heart disease rates run up into several hun­ dred thousand. But what the figures do show is that the heavy smoker may be- cutting a few years off his life. Always Time To Cut Down To the man who says, "It's too late now," I've been puffing this way for 20 years," the Public Health Service and the American Cancer Society both believe that a time­ ly reduction or halt in smoking even on the part of the heaviest smokers can prolong life and lessen the chances of contracting the disease. When it comes to the other side of the coin, finding just what it is in cigarette smoking that is responsible for the death rates, the investigators have been pretty thor­ oughly baffled so far. The one significant clue turned up so far, is the fact that pipe and cigar smokers do not ordinarily get lung cancers at anywhere near the rate of cigarette smokers. That pointed suspicion at the paper wrapper around the cigarette. A number of scientists have been poking into the various compounds used in processing the paper to see if they are responsible. But nothing definite has been proven. Temperatures Hiirh Another point of suspicion is the temperature at which a cigarette burns which is much higher than that of cigars. Various tars and other chemicals in cigarette tobacco or in the tobacco curing and manufacturing processes have been examined in efforts to find a definite link. Unfortunately, there are oodles of compounds, acting singly or in combination with each other, and all kinds of chemical processes involved in the manufacture and the smoking of a cigarette. It will probably be a number of years before anybody can come up with a conclusive answer. The complications were spelled out by Dr. John R. Heller, director of the National Cancer Institute before a Congressional committee recently. Dr. Heller put it this way: "There is mounting evidence that when tobacco is burned at about 800 degrees there is a chemical change in certain hydrocarbons which bring about certain cancercausing compounds. "We do not know which of these compounds is the cul­ prit. They are very complicated chemical compounds First P-A Box Ship Due On Maiden Run lu Sept MOBILE—The Gateway City, first of four C-2s to undergo conversion, is expected to be put into service as a trailership by early September. This will mark the start of PanAtlantic's unusual coastwise sea-land trailership program. in the near future. Work on the other three ships, The containership is equippped the Azalea City, Bienville, and with special electric cranes run on Fairland, is expected to be finished tracks along the decks of the ves­ sel. The trailers will be hauled up under the cranes which will lift them from the chassis and deposit them in the hold. The trailers have special corner posts to enable them to be safely stacked on top of each other without crumpling. Seafarers manning the ship can expect plenty of cargo overtime as present plans call for the ships to hit one and possibly more ports New York is in the last stages every day. of a drive for permanent personal Shipping Slows Up registration during the month of Shipping in this port has con­ August. Voters who register dur­ tinued to be on the slow side but ing the month will be carried per­ it is expected to pick up next pe­ manently on the registration lists riod. The Alcoa Corsair and Cava­ and will avoid having to repeat lier (Alcoa); Monarch of the Seas, the process this November and be­ Claiborne (Waterman) and Little fore all other election.s. Rock (Fairfield) paid off and Central Offices signed on. The Del Alba (Missis­ Central registration offices have sippi, Steel King (Isthmian), Ames been opened in all five boroughs Victory (Pan-Atlantic) and Alcoa for this purpose. These offices Pennant (Alcoa) were in transit. are open all day 9 AM to 5 PM. There are 13 vessels expected in Branch offices are also open every this port during the next period. evening. In addition to these the Wacosta Permanent registration is partic­ (Waterman) will take on a full crew ularly useful for seamen in light of in the next couple Of days for the the fact that they are not always Korean run and Cities Service's in port during the annual registra­ Canti^ny will take on a full crew for the coastwise tanker operation. tion period. NY Permanent Vote Register Drive Ending Pick Up 'Shot' Card At Payoff Seafarers who have taken the series of inoculations required for certain foreign voyages are reminded.to be sure to pick up their inoculation cards from the captain or the purser when they nay off at the end of a voyage. The card should be picked up by the Seafarer and held so that it can be presented when signing on for another voyage where the "shots" are required. The ino­ culation card is your only proof of having taken the required shots. Those men who forget to pick up their inoculation card when they pay off may find that they are required to take all the "shots" again when they want to sign on for another such voy­ age. 9 Summary of PHS Findings The following are excerpts from the text of the Public Health Service's statement on smoking and lung cancer: ". . . In June, 1956, units of the Public Health Servic* joined with two private voluntary health organizations to establish a scientific study group to appraise the available data on smoking and health. We have now reviewed the report of this study group and other recent data .... "In the light of these studies it is clear that there is an increasing and consistent body of evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is one of the causative factors in lung cancer. "The study group, appraising 18 independent studies, reported that lung cancer occurs much more frequently among cigarette smokers than among non-smokers, and there is a direct relationship between the incidence of lung cancer and the amount smoked . . . "The study group also reported that, in laboratory stud­ ies on animals, at least five independent investigators have produced malignancies by tobacco-smoke condensates . . . Thus some laboratory and biological data provide contributory evidence to support the concept that ex­ cessive smoking is one of the causative factors in the in­ creasing incidence of lung cancer . . . "The Public Health Service supports the recommenda­ tion of the study group that more research is needed to Identify, isolate and try to eliminate the factors In ex­ cessive cigarette smoking which can cause cancer." about which we need to know more." As for filters, the Public Health Service is pretty skepti­ cal that present-day filters make any particular differ­ ence. Dr. Heller declared that "we don't believe any fil­ ter can selectively, filter out the component or compo­ nents in the tars that are responsible for lung cancer." But at any rate, the weight of the evidence suggests that the best thing a heavy smoker can do is to stop smok­ ing cigarettes; the next best thing, to cut down to less than a pack a day or switch over to cigars and pipes. WC Pension Merger Hearing final Okay SAN FRANCISCO—Member unions of the SIU Pacific Disr trict have virtually completed the merger of their pension plans, the "Stewards News" reported last week. The basic language of the new trust agreement has been com­ will pave the way for increases in pleted. Only minor technicali­ present pension benefits. ties have to be dealt with before the program is put into effect. The merged plan will provide standard benefits and standard eligibility requirements for all men sailing West Coast ships, whether they are Sailors, Firemen or Cooks. At present, there are some varia­ tions in eligibility clauses which are in the process of being ironed out. In addition, merger of the plans The close working relationship established between the West Coast unions is further reflected in plans for a joint Labor Day edi­ tion, due out on August 30. The three West Coast union newspa­ pers, the "West Coast Sailor," "Marine Fireman" and "Stewards News" are planning a special com­ bined publication with special sec­ tions devoted to the activities of the three member unions. !=• A fae Sf Shipping PORT C CALL Rolls Along ^ e75'-4-"»»<AVEMCF -12/6 B.BALTiAYXE SAN FRANCISCO—As has been predicted, shipping continued to hold Its own the past two weeks. Men with top seniority had no difficulty obtaining berths in all three departments. The Longview Victory and Coe Victory (Victory Carriers), Ocean Dinny and Ocean Deborah (Ocean Carriers) paid off during the past period. The Deborah, Dinny and Fairport (Waterman) signed on. There were three vessels in port for servicing. They were the Mor­ ning Light, Yoiing America (Water­ man) and Steel Admiral (Isthmian). �-<z<. ••U'[r'/\:-'i'jy/; Aucust 1957 SEAFARERS O Andrew Daniluk displays certifi­ cate showing completion of intro­ ductory training course in New York hall. SlU LOG RIGINALLY designed as on upgrading school for Seafarers, the Andrew Furuseth training school, in con­ junction with facilities in other blU ports, is now also training newcomers to introduce them to *some of the rudiments of ship­ board work. The introductory program is In accordance with the employ­ ment clause of the Union contract (Article I, Section 4) which notes that "The Andrew Furuseth Train­ ing School, jointly operated and administerecf as an upgrading center for unemployed seamen, shall also be jointly operated and administered, pursuant to ar­ rangements and details to be worked out, to train class C per­ sonnel. The company prefers to hire class C personnel regardJess of rating or department, with a certificate of satisfactory com­ Instructor (standing) discusses point In first aid course offered to all train­ ing candidates at the Furuseth school. r*gt> NIM pletion of the course therein over other class C personnel whenever possible." Under this arrangement, the shipowner has the assurance that in most coses, those class C men who might come into his employ hove some familiarity with their duties. In addition to the Furuseth training facilities for all three departments in the port of Mo­ bile, the Union mokes use of its Baltimore and New York cafe­ teria set-ups to offer on introduc­ tion to galley and messroom work for class C men. After 30 days the class C men receive a certificate of comple­ tion of the course. Then when any jobs are open in the class C category, these men hove prefer­ ence over other class C regis­ trants who have no training for shipboard duties whatever. Basic fundamentals of seamanship are taught to all students. This group is getting instruction on how to read compass. 1 :^l Cliff Wilson, SIU chief steward, explains coffee-making procedure to three trainees in the New York cafeteria. , ^ ^ Black gang men get their introduction to engine room gauges with Eobert. Jordan, SIU Mobile patrolman, doing the honors. �Pace Ten J SEAFARERS Why Mamsan Gets Gray: $50 For AB Recently the SEAFARERS LOG reported on conditions under which English seamen sail, citing a letter from a night watchman who makes $91 a month after 25 years' service. Now the LOG has received data on Japanese seamen s of these additional amounts are wages which make the $91 picayune indeed. For instance, there is an extra-pay provision for look, pretty good. long cruises which in the case of Japanese seamen's wages are subject to a whole series of com­ the sailor amounts to about three plicated formulae, but when all of cents more a month up to about the allowances, annual increases 17 cents more a month for the and subsistence provisions are skipper—in other words, nothing added up, the average Japanese to write home about. Yet in terms of Japanese stand­ deck hand winds up with around $45 to $50 a month at present ex­ ards, the 1951 agreement was eonsidered in Japanese maritime change rates. Cooks are in the same pay range cireles as an "epochal mea.sure while oilers are a little higher, $66 which went a long way toward to$75monlhly. Quartermasters are vindicating the bad reputation in the $60 a month range. Bosuns Japan once suffered for 'cheap rate $120 to $137 a month while labor'." skippers get $212 to $240 depend­ Here again is a good example ing on how you figure the rate of of 'the great gap between an exchange. Those totals are based American wage scale and the for­ on a ycn-to-dollar range of 350 to eign competition faced by US ship­ 400. owners. The present wage scales are the result of an agreement reached between the National Seamen's Union and Japan Shipowners As­ sociation back in 1951. Under this system, the entry rating starts off at a minimum scale of around $15 a month. Actually, Japanese s e a m e n's wages are based on an entirely different hiring arrangement. When it comes to fine eating, While the seaman is on the beach, the crew of the Coeur d'Alene he is still considered as being in Victory can boast of gastronomical the employ of a particular shipping delights not normally on the menu. company, so that he receives a It was noted that minimum initial salary while he is Gordon -Dolan, waiting In the shipping pool. crew messman, made coffeetime Periodic Increases an occasion for The 1951 agreement provided mixing up and for periodical annual wage in­ serving an assort­ creases which vary with the ship, ment of cold the run and the rating. At best, drinks — K o o 1 the annual increases are small by Ade, and lemon­ American standards, amounting to ade, we presume, little more than a $1 a month for Dolan and what have unlicensed men; sometimes less you. Then Seafarer Kenny Coates than that. In addition to the extra pay for evidently felt that good shipmates actually serving aboard ship, the deserve a token of esteem now and Japanese seaman receives small then so he went ashore and came additional amounts on Persian st'iggering back to the ship under Gulf summer runs, on tankers, the weight of what was officially when working the ship short- described as a "large quantity" of handed, for overtime after 56 fancy ice cream for the crew. No hours and other provisions. Some further details on the nature of sam.e. What was it fellows? Pista­ chio? Burnt almond? Baked Alas­ ka????? SUP Blocks CC Bid To Ban Diabetic SAN FRANCISCO — A Sailor who had been going to sea regu­ larly since 1942 with a diabetic condition was suddenly hauled up on the carpet by the Coast Guard here as incompetent to sail. When the Sailors Union of the Pacific in­ vestigated the situation it was found that orders on the charges had come directly from Coast Guard headquarters in Washing­ ton. The Sailor in question has been treating his condition all through the years as per doctor's orders and was just recently certified "tit for duty " at the San Francisco Public Health Service hospital after a check-up there. Neverthe­ less, the Coast Guard was out to pull his papers and deprive him of his job rights. The SUP promptly protested the Coast Guard's action with the re­ sult that the action was dropped. The Coast Guard was forced to ad­ mit there was nothing in the rules and regulations which authorized it to bar a man who is a diabetic. 4" 4" t Add to the list of hard-working ship's delegates Brother Melvin Bass of the good ship S e a t r a i n Georgia and Sea­ farer John G. Brady who was reelected ship's delegate on the Antinous with a very special vote of thanks from the appreciative gang aboard her. 4" 4 4" Stewards, as usual, came In for a lion's share of mentions. Votes of thanks went to many, but head­ ing the list was W. Young, steward on the cable ship Arthur M. Huddel. He offered to out on the menu any special dishes the boys had in mind. Who could ask for more? Honorable mention was given to the cooks on the Matthew Thornton, Ocean Evelyn, Falrp'ort, Margaret Brown, City of Alma, Samuel F. Miller, John B. Water­ man, and the Mankato Victory. Then of course it should be noted that the gang on the Michael (Carras) thought very highly of their night cook and baker, Sea­ farer Vkior Perea. LOG ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), July 7— Chairman, M. Costallo; Sacratary, J. Prostwood. One man left in hospital in Kingston. Jamaica. Delegate va­ cates post as he's served prescribed three trips. General discussion of movie films. Financial statement to be posted on bulletin board after payoff. M/S/C to have prices checked with purser on the slopchest by shoreaide patrolmen. Ship's delegate elect­ ed. Cleanliness aboard ship discussed. ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), July 10— Chairman, J. Velaquez; Secretary, S. Bernstein, Someone took new mat­ tress by mistake? Was told not to do again. Moved and accepted. $7 In ship funds. CHILORf (Ore), June 30—Chairman, t. Mills; Secretary, C. Bortz. Elected ship's delegate. $21.71 in ships fund. Ancast 18, 1957 payed. Request cooperation of crew on care of washer. (26 in ship's fund. Treasurer elected. Keep laundry room clean. VALLEY FORGE (Penn. Nay.), July 7—Chairman, O. Martin; Secretary, W. Harris. Repair list submitted. One man hospitalized. List of men logged to be turned over to patrol­ man at payoff. Captain withholding medical treatment and poor launch schedule in Rijeka. Captain uncoop­ erative. Wiper promoted to AB as replacement for hospitalized man. Report accepted. Vote of thanks to SUP, MFOW. MCS & A4G men participartlng In American Coal beef. Re­ quest a name brand of soap. Steward to order more stores in Brazil due to extended trip. TOFA TOFA (Waterman), June 22— Chairman, A, Capote; Secretary, F. Van Wygerden. One man missed ship in Okinawa, joined in Yokohama. Cap­ tain requests M-hours notice for men leaving ship in Frisco. Ship's fund $20. Vote to have draws made accord­ ing to Union rules. Discussion on draws. Present method of issuing draws not satisfactory. Some repairs not made. Beefs to be discussed at meetings. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), June 2-Chairman, C, Bush; Secretary, K. Collins. Repairs to be made on West coast. Steward to submit own requi­ sition. Members to keep all problems below deck. New delegate elected. Alien seamen discussed. Ship's fund $89. Third cook missed ship. Motion passed that patrolman be ad­ vised for need of new refrigerator and wringer for washing machine. Steward asked of having juices more frequently, he asks that cups be re­ placed in pantry after use. Vote of thanks to radio operator for posting news in recreation room. AMES VICTORY (Victory Carriers), July 7—Chairman, C. Starling; Sacra­ tary, B. Feeley, M/S to send repair list from canal. All spoke of repairs. CATHERINE (Drytrans Corp.), June 27—Chairman, N. Pattersen; Secre­ tary, C. Shirah. $7.06 in ships fund. Sick men to see doctor, fix washing machine, take cots off deck and bring in. DEL SUD (Mississippi), July t — Chairman, J. Cave; Secretary, P, Val­ entine, Meeting called to order for purpose of collecting money from crew for the Cameron, La. hurricane victims. Motion passed to take $30 from ships fund and $50 from baseball fund and borrow $50 from baseball fund which will be replaced next trip. July 14—Chairman, W. Perkins; Sec­ retary, N. Funken. Collected sum of $446.50 for hurricane victims during last trip. Ships fund balance leaving New Orleans $204.50. Expended in New Orleans, $43.40 for projector, $50 for hurricane victims and $4 for four springs for movie projector, bal­ ance $106.71. Ship's delegate elected. Receipt for money collected for hur­ ricane victims was to be sent to St. Thomas. Keep washing machine clean in crew laundry, fiuwers to be bought for Brother Williams missing at sea last trip. EVELYN (Bull), July S—Chairman, P. Allan; Sacratary, J. Yuknas. Re­ pair list given to captain and chief engineer and most repairs were done. $54.36 in ship's fund. Motion made to build ships treasury at payoff. Steward to take orders for new mat­ tresses for members of crew that are in need. Repairs still to be done in galley and painting In passageways and crews quarters. CEOReS A. LAWSON (Pcnn), July 9—Chairman, L. Schmidt; Sacratary, W. Dunham. Request made on repair list last voyage for crews quarters to be painted, only engine department quarters have been painted to this date. $14 in ship's funds. Crew mem­ ber offers use of iron if crew will get ironing board, ships fund will by board. HASTINGS (Waterman), July 7— Chairman, R. Taylor) Secretary, J. Walls. Get new mattresses, better grade of meat, make up repair list. Check with patrolman about disputed delay sailing from New Orleans. Vote of thanks to Steward Dept. DREMAR (Ore), July 13—Chairman, C. White; Secretary, C. Farker. Let­ ter from C. Simmons concerning re­ pairs answered, various repairs taken care of. $36.10 in ship's fund. Return books to recreation room, only take one from case at a time. Bookcase to be locked while in port. ROBIN KIRK (Seas), July 7—Chair­ man, J. Hennass; Secretary, S. Bargesla. All beefs settled. $50 in ship's fund. Some overtime disputed. Mo­ tion; no one aboard ship talk to strangers in Boston on ship replace­ ments, on who is paying off and stay­ ing on. Fresh fruit more often, men donate $2 each for films. WILD RANGER (Waterman), July 4 —Chairman, D. Ruddy; Secretary, R. Utz. Discussions on excellency of crew, safety aboard ship, repair list and good conduct at payoff. $36.34 in ships treasury. Overtime for cleaning tanks on watch disputed. Crew thanked for hospitality by two hospi­ tal returnees. Delegate to forward/ papers of man who missed ship In Japan. Paint needed in messrooms. Request for logs in NCO club, Inchon. Wiper claims difcrlmination by first engineer. WINTER HILL (Cities Service), June 2S—Chairman, I, Cox; Secre­ tary, W. Bllger, See. patrolman about overtime that waa okayed but not STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), July 14—Chairman, S. Oonzalas; Secretary, A. Kowalskl. Ship's fund $19.82. Sug­ gestion made to increase fund. Dis­ cussion of general good and welfare of crew. REBECCA (Transcontinental), July 14—Chairman, N. Vrdelak; Secretary, M. Culp, Few hours disputed OT. Ship to be fumigated for roaches. Quality of meat to be changed. MADAKET (Waterman), July 11— Chairman, M. Rossi; Secretary, C. Corront. New delegate elected. Need new washing machine, or repair old one. Request clock in recreation room. All dept. sanitary men to alter­ nate in keeping laundry clean. Dept. delegates to attend safety meetings. HASTINGS (Waterman), July 7— Chairman, R. Taylor; Socratary, J. Wells. Some disputed OT. Need new mattresses; better grade of meat. Re­ pair list to be made up. To see patrolman about disputed dela.ved sailing from NO. Request for large lima beans. Vote of thanks to men Working on American Coai beef. DEL NORTE (Miss.), Juno 30— Chairman, H. Crane; Sacratary, E. Leonard. Discussion on performer.s. Ship's fund $107.68. One man short. Report accepted. New delegate elect­ ed. Motion to hold weekly delegates' meetings to discuss disputes in over­ time and unnecessary beefs that might come up. Discussion on cleanli­ ness of living quarters and proper use of laundry. ANTINOUS (Waterman), July Chairman, J. Brady; Secretary, B. Walker. Ship came to Gulf on coast­ wise articles and no transportation was paid. "C" card men replaced in Tampa. Obtained new toaster. Repair ll.st to be submitted. Overtime not checked. New delegate, secretary and treasurer elected. Vote of thanks to delegate. Pantry to be kept clean. AFOUNDRIA (Waterman), Juno 2* —Chairman, O. Ruf; Secretary, J. Guard. Delegata discharged in SF. Ship's fund $10.50. Several hours dis­ puted OT. New delegate, secretar.vreporter elected. Repair list, submit­ ted. Light to be placed on aft on catwalk. Election of dept. represen­ tative to safety meeting. First safety meeting to be called Sat. 7/6. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), July 17—Chairman, F. Fatrick; Sacra­ tary, O. Constant. Ship's fund $44.22. Some disputed OT. Reports accepted. New delegate elected. Poop deck to be swept down each day and washed down at least three times a week. Discussion on linen. Steward claims enough linen for round trip if every­ one turns in soiled linen each week. Delegate to get more cabs in NO on arrival. KYSKA (Waterman), June 23— Chairman, I. Music; Secretary, D. Maehan. One man missed ship; one man hospitalized; lodging and sub­ sistence, etc. to be turned in to pay­ off patrolman. Ship laid up in Osaka for emergency repairs—engine plant failure. Ship's fund $335. Short two men. Electrician to be turned in to patrolman for misconduct. Not enough pressure in bathrooms. Beef on OT. To see patrolman about same. Need new washing machine. Water rusty. Repair list to be made up by all de­ partments prior to payoff. SEAGARDEN (Fenn. Nov.), July 7— Chairman, D. Masslmer; Secretary, D. Coker. Some repairs completed. Clean ship. Ship's fund $23. Ask for contributions to fund. One man hos­ pitalized for eye injury—rejoined ship later. Vote of thanks to galley force for fine service. Men warned to re­ main sober for payoff. Members to clean rooms and return solihd linen when leaving ship. DEL SUD (Miss.), July 14—Chair­ man, W. Ferklns; Secretary, N. Fun- ken. Smooth trip, very good cooper­ ation from dept. delegates. Collection of $446.50 taken for hurricane victims at Lake Charles and Cameron. Ship's fund $106.71. Purchased new projector and four springs. New delegate elect­ ed. Receipt for money collected for hurricane victims sent to' St. Thomas. Washing machine to be kept clean. Flower wreath to be bought in Rio and thrown over side for brother -missing at sea last trip. ALCOA FEGASUS (Alcoa), July 9— Chairman, L. Phillips; Secretary, (none). Repair list submitted. Ship's fund $10.63. New treasurer elected. Rooms painted. New delegate elected. Suggestion to install fans in all bath­ rooms. DEL ALBA (Miss.), June 2»—Chair­ man, J. Mathews; Secretary, J. Halpln. Ship's fund $22.51. More stores needed for 120-da.v voyage. Letter sent to headquarters. Steward to check stores. Silence to be observed; doors to be locked to keep crew boys off passageways. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), July 21—Chairman, E. Eriksen; Sac­ ratary, C. Yow. Four taxis available . for in NO. RepaU- list submitted. Ship's fund $44.22. Ship sailed short one man. Report accepted. Need good second-hand washing machine. Chairs in messhall need rei>airing, Foc'sles need painting. AFOUNDRIA (Waterman), June S— Chairman, W. Kumke; Secretary, J. Guard. Delegates to make out repair lists in duplicate and to be submitted before 72-hour period for ship-side work. Check list for all items not completed. Aditlonal safety sugges­ tions to be added to list. J.clters con­ cerning safely meetings to be mailed after discussion with patrolman; Ship's fund $10. $7 paid for sliipped member's gear and headquarters mall. 24 hours disputed OT—delayed sailing from Portland. One NMU man Joined vessel to replace wiper who was pro­ moted. New reefer to replace present one secured by line in me.sshall: to be-placed in usual position in pantry. Delegate to see captain about port draw. No more chipping after 5 PM aft near crew quarters. Sugge.st stop­ ping practice of securing gear foe sailing with only five men at least eight hoOrs before letting go. Need bigger and better slop chest. HASTINGS (Waterman), June ._ Chairman, R. Taylor; Secretary J. Wells. One man missed .ship: to be reported to patrolman. Headquarters to contact company regarding ship convcr.sioni Each watch to havo own room; two to a watch for engine and three for deck—not more tlian three to a room. Rathroom to be kept clean. Watch table in mcs.srooin to he restenciled; also deck dept. room. New library to be obtained In .4meriean port. Delegate to see captain about 2nd mate. ALCOA POLARIS (Aicoa), July 14 —Chairman, L. Echoff; Secretary, J. Hannon. Beef on shifting sliip from Paramaribo to Paranani. One man paid off in .San Juan. Few hours dis­ puted overtime. Men not to be put over side in Paramaribo because of plrhana fish. Washing macliine to be fixed, new spare parls needed. Cups to be returned after using. Keep bathrooms clean. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), July 26—Chairman, V. 'Szymansklf Secretary, C. Krelss. Five hours de­ layed sailing time Ok. Need air con­ ditioner for messhall—headquarters notified. Headquarters requested crew to extend articles for day and to •Ign. Ship's fund $50.09. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for job well done. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), (ne date) —Chairman, J. Westfall; Secretary, J. Delgado. Reef in deck dept. to be discussed with patrolman. Reports accepted. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), July 24—Chairman, N. Vosklan; Secretary, R. Knowles. Few minor beefs, to be taken up with patrolman at payoff. Ship's fund $10..32. Some di.sputed OT. One man hospitalized In Sur.ibaya; rejoined ship later Reports accepted. To purchase new maga­ zines. New washing machine prom­ ised. Would like pasteurized milk in foreign ports. Need more lemons, name brand cigarettes. Drinking water tanks rusty, need cleaning. Pantry and messhall, showers, bath­ rooms need painting. Need more fly spray bombs. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), July 12—Chairman, C. Collins; Sec­ retary, V. Whitney. Ship's fund $43.34. Reports accepted. New dele­ gate elected. TV rotor to be repaired. MAE (Bull), July 27—Chairman, H. Schwartz; Secretary, J. Kakelskl. New delegate elected. Story and pictures sent to LOG. Purchased playing cards and new TV antenna. Ship's fund $22.37. Repair list submitted. Report accepted. Request air conditioner on ship—patrolman to be notified. Dis­ cussion on air conditioning for all SlU ships; food situation—want mora variety in menus. Laundry to be kept clean. SEASTAR (Triton), July 21—Chair­ man, J. Starks; Secretary, M. Bugawan. Some disputed OT. New dele­ gate elected. Need new washing ma­ chine; new mattresses. Mate warned crew about public drinking In messrooms and passageways while ship i( In port. .Steward asked for sugges­ tions to Improve menu. ELIZABETH (Bull), July 31—Chair­ man, W. Janlsch; Secretary, B, O'Rourke. One man permitted to leave ship to attend father's funeral. To be cleared with headquarters. Beefs to be reported to delegates and discussed at meetings. Two members have beef—to be referred to patrol­ man. ORION STAR (Orion Shipping), July 7—Chairman, J. BIssonnet; Secretary, A. Morales. One man missed ship; one •man hospitalized. Report, accepted. New delegate elected. �• , ':y:m Aofost 16. 1987 SEAFARERS Pare Elerea IPG Lovers' Knot Hot Weather, Fair Shipping, NY Says NEW YORK—Seafarers in this port have managed to weather July's heat, but are still anxious to get off the beach. Shipping has continued to be favorable anchjobs are moving rapidly. — Among the vessels paying a very good job for the Union," off during the past period reports Claude Simmons, port were two Robin Line vessels, the agent. "Needless to say how much Robin Wentley and the Robin Gray. the Union and the membership "The boys on these ships are doing appreciates these crews staying on and doing such a bang up job, even though they are working un­ der adverse conditions." " Organizing Continues In other imion activities, the' Marine Allied Workers Division organizing drive in New York is continuing in high gear. Brothers on the beach have been coming forward to help maintain aroundthe-clock pickets around a few holdout companies. But it is ex­ NEW DELHI, India—Faced with pected that they will sign up cargo pile-ups and a threatened shortly. On the shipping side there were increase in freight charges, India has launched a drive to cut the 18 vessels paying off, six were in cargo jam that is tying up her port to be serviced and two signed major ports. If the government on. Simmons also announced that succeeds, the long spells Seafarers the SS Arlyn (Bull) would be crewspend in Indian ports will be ing up this week and then will sharply reduced by November, make a couple of trips to Bilboa, and dock operations will proceed Spain, with coal. The vessels paying off were the at a more normal rate. Seatrain New York, Seatrain Texas, Many Causes Seatrain Louisiana, (Seatrain); Behind the log jam is the Robin Wentley, Robin Gray (Robin); tremendous upsurge in cargo move­ Frances, Elizabeth, Beatrice (Bull); ments into India, the lack of mod­ Maxton, Almena, Ideal X (Water­ ern piers and cargo handling facili­ man); Alcoa Roamer, Alcoa Part­ ties, and the reluctance of Indian ner, Alcoa Ranger (Alcoa); Cities longshoremen to use whatever Service Norfolk, Royal Oak (Cities automatic unloading machinery is Service); Grain Shipper (Grainavailable. Grain, for example, is fleet); and the Steel Architect sacked by hand in the hold. (Isthmian). The result is that although cargo The Steel Architect (Isthmian) is being unloaded at a record pace, and Robin Kirk (Robin) signed on. it is piling up on the docks and The Cities Service Miami (Cities snarling future loading operations. Service), Seatrain Savannah, Sea- , The bulk of the tied-up cargo is train New Jersey (Seatrain), Seawheat and grain from the United mar and Texmar (Calmar) were States. in transit. While not disclosing what it plans to do to eliminate the jam, India has announced that it hopes to have the bottleneck eliminated in three months. Seafarers who've been spending weeks in Indian harbors are hopeful that the gov­ ernment will be successful. More Than A Month's Wait POINT BARROW, Alaska.—The At present, ships calling at Government formally took posses­ Indian ports have to wait upwards sion of the $500 million Distant of a month to discharge and load Early Warning radar alarm system outbound cargo. One of the ships currently tied up is the Steel Trav­ Tuesday while a fleet of 100 supply eler (Isthmian), which was sched­ ships continued their urgent stor­ uled to clear Calcutta in 32 days. ing mission here and at other The ship has notified the Union Arctic outposts. Civilian technicians will operate that it will be there at least 15 the 3,000-mile line under an Air days longer. Earlier this summer, the SlU-contracted Northwestern Force contract. It is designed to Victory (Victory Carriers) spent 44 provide advance warning of ap­ days in Vizagapatam completing its proaching enemy bombers using loading operations. The situation the polar route to attack US and is just as bad in Bombay, where Canadian targets. Ships Supply Bases ships have had to spend 30 days The supply mission, generally waiting for a berth. known as "Operation Blue Jay," has been carried on for the past three summers during construction of the vast radar network. Each year ships from East and West Headquarters wishes to re­ Coast ports carrying a year's supply mind Seafarers that men who of replacement stores and parts are choosy about working cer­ converge on the Arctic bases dur­ tain overtime cannot expect an ing the summer while the northern equal number of OT hours with waters are free from ice. This is the only time ships can the rest of their d partment. In some crews men have been enter the area. During the rest of turning down unpleasant OT the year, emergency supplies and jobs and then demanding .o small parts are air-lifted in. Any come up with equal overtime ships caught in the area once the when the easier Jobs come along. ice closes in are truly "stuck" This practice is unfair to Sea­ there until the next summer. As in the past, this years' fleet farers who take OT jobs as they contains a number of privatelycome. The general objective is to operated ships manned by civilian equalize OT as much as possible seamen plus a large nucleus of but if a man refuses disagree­ Government-operated supply ships able jobs there is no require­ and oilers. Fewer than 20 civilianment that when an easier job manned ships are being used this comes along he can make up the summer. The entire supply fleet is overtime he turned down before. about 20 percent smaller than In 1956. - . [ India Seeks Solution For Port Jams Senate OK's Inflatable Life Rafts WASHINGTON —The United States has joined 30 other nations in approving the use of inflatable liferafts to supplement or replace conventional lifesaving apparatus on offshore passenger vessels. Adoption by the Senate of the liferaft amendment to the Interna­ tional Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea means that prac­ tically two-thirds of the nations which are parties to the conven­ tion have now okayed it. Unani­ mous approval by all 47 nations Is required before the amendment can actually be put into effect. Once the amendment has unani­ mous approval, shipowners will have the option of using either the inflatable rafts or conventional life­ boats and noninflatable-type rafts. The international safety conven­ tion sets forth uniform principles and rules for the promotion of maritime safety and can be amended from time to time by unanimous consent. The United Kingdom originally proposed the lifeboat amendment, following suc­ cessful experiments with this type of lifesaving gear on British fishing and passenger ships. One of the specific advantages of the new type of apparatus is its compact size and weight. Most of the rubber rafts can be stored In a lightweight suitcase and inflate automatically on contact with the water. They are similar to those used for many years on both mili­ tary and commercial aircraft. ^30-50'Again The shipping industry, long notorious for its boom and bust cycles, is currently in the mood for a slump which is com­ pounded of many causes. Part of it is the reaction to the closing and opening of the Suez Canal. The canal's closing brought about lots of breakouts and a rush of tanker business. Now that the crisis is over, there seems to be a surplus of ships on hand. Cutbacks in foreign aid and a decline in pur­ chases in the US by some nations who are trying to cut down on imports are other factors. In a situation of this kind, the "50-50" cargo preference act becomes even more important to US shipping. But along comes a farm lobby and starts crying for shipment of agricul­ tural products on foreign-flag ships. The only reason the outcry comes forth now is the avail­ ability of foreign-flag tonnage. The farm lobby figures the lower the ocean rates, the more farm products can be peddled overseas. But in its shortsightedness, it forgets that if US ships are laid up, the shortage of ships would put farmers at the mercy of the rate-makers. Nobody heard the farm lobby hollar last fall and winter when Suez was shut down and shipping space was at a pre­ mium. Farm groups were glad then that US ships were avail­ able to carry their cargoes. They can't have it both ways— cut-throat rates and plenty of shipping space. 4" Hurricane Relief Congratulations are in order for the many union men who donated their time and energy to help build homes for the families left desolate by Hurricane Audrey. Many of them worked around the clock on their weekends. Members of the building trades unions supplied the necessary technical skills while those unfamiliar with construction work chipped in where they could. Bus drivers drove the trucks and buses transporting the construction gangs from distant cities while Seafarers and unskilled laborers swung picks and shovels clearing sites and laying foundations. This unselfish service on the part of these union members means more than just the reconstruction of homes. Their work will help put hurricane victirhs back on their feet with­ out the burden of heavy debt which might in the end have fallen on the community. Many of them lost everything they owned—^homes, furnishings, livestock and cars—and were left without a cent to their name. But because of the helping hand from these trade union members they will at least have a roof over their hea^s. Seafarers and others whp are taking part in this^ op^eration^ have a. right to feel proud. • ^ • » 9-.m-thmtm• k m m.m DEW Line Job Ends Turned Down OT? Don't Beef On $$ cJ.-S I'l'l k ; < i.' * ft.. f >'• - ip. �Par# Twelve ¥ SEAFARERS LOG Aurust 16, 1957 Director Visits Singapore ^Garden Spot* One of the highlights of the last Far East trip by the Steel Director was Singapore, with its famed "Tiger Balm Gardens," an outdoor museum of horrors and torture methods. Shutterbugs like John Carey (left) andjdeinx Ulrich made It a must on their list, because the gory, realistic tableaux spread over acres of parkland "have to be seen to be believed (right, and below)." Ritual slaying* of dragons and brutal forms of torture appear true to life in finely-detailed statuary and woodcarvingi at the Tiger Balm. Tongue-pulling methods (above) and butchery like the body-grinding machine (bottom, left) get full ploy. Animals por­ trayed are far cry from friendly chimps at the zoo. ..y.. * Aboard ship, crewmembers joe Bracht, Eddie Burke, Joe Bonilla and Leon White gag it up during a breather on decb. Burke pictures oldtimer Herman Meitx (left) and Joe Bonilla in sharp close-ups. Meitx has since pitched in on the American Coal beef as AB on the Thomas Paine. At right, Teddy, BR, gives Vince^ Mackelis a haircut in open air "barber shop." All photos are by Burke, John Carey and Reino Pelaso. T . ^PHS HOSPITAI. ORLEANS. LA, Simon Morrit John W. Bigwood Michael Murls Lylei Brunsoa Edward Northrof Cloiso Coat* William Paris Salem Cop* Winford Powell Chas. Cunningham Randolph RatcliS Roscoe Dearmon Lavon A. Ready Serlo M. DeSosa Wmtanr Reynolds Glrard E. Doty Joseph A. Ricks Sr. WUIlam Driseoll Toxie Samford Jan Englehardt Toefil SmigielskI Leon Gordon Wert A. Spencer Richard Graliski Paul J. Tate James Hudson Gerald Thaxton Samuel Hurst Lonnie R. Tickle William Jones James E. Ward Oliver Kenclrick Thomas Willis Edward C. Knapp ClilTurd Wuerll Leo Lang Robert Young George McFall Jacob Zimmer Robert P. Marion USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. Wm. M. Barnett James McCoy Frank J. Bradley Fred Sulllns Wayne T. Center S. L. Woodruft Michael Delano USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NY Oscar Adams Robert Larsen Gomer J. Bassler John D. Lewis Gordon Bell John L. Madden John H. Bove Damian G. Mercado Juan Burgos Robert A. Parker G. F. Crabtrea Frank S. Paylor Michael Delancy Cliarles Price David B. Dunn Michael Rendon Arthur Englehart James W. Rlst Antonio Fernandea Salvator Rivera T. S. Finnegan Jose Rodriguez Rufus Freeman Antonio Russo George Hall S. B. Saunders Lowell Harris P. W. Scidenberf Robert Henninger Thomas Tooina Henry Herkiniiein Fred L. Travis Alfred Kaju Harvey Tratvlck USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON, MASS. Amos Buz7elle Norman J. Moor* James J. Girolnml A. H. Ramos USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS G. B. Anderson F. G. Lakwylt H. M. Bumpass Harold J. Romero Clarence Fontenot Alfonso Sandino M. N, Gendron William Shaw USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLYN, NY Manuel Antonana H. C. Mclssac Eladio Aris Albert MartinelU Fortunate Bacomo Vic Milazzo Joseph J. Bass Joaquin Miniz Juan Denopra W. P. O'Dea John J. DriscoU C. Osinski William Guenther George G. Phifer Bart E. Guranick G. A. Puissegur Howard Hailey F. Regalado Percy Harrelson Winston E. Renny Taib Hassen George Shumaker BUly R. Hill Kevin B. Skelly Thomas Isaksen Henry E. Smith Ira H, Kilgore Stanley F. Sokol Ludwig Krlstlansen Michael L. Toth Frederick Landry Harry S. TuttTe Leonard Leidig Virgil E. Wllmoth Patrick McCann Pen P. Wing A. McGuigan Dester Worrell USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Claude Bibb C. M. Sturgls Francis J. Boner; Maximo Tangalla Frank Peskurlc Chas. T. Taylor USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF, Noah C. Carver E. A. Rodriguez Vincent D'Amato Sung C. Wang Thomae D. Foster G. L, Warrington Michael J. Gaudio '' USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA. Jose Blanco Charles A. Mosf Wade B. Hnrrell H. E. Skipper Wm. V. Kouzounas Leslie F, Swegaa Jlmmie Littleton USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TENN. Charles Burton VA HOSPITAL e NEW YORK, NY K. T, Cunningham USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS B. F. Deibler W. E. Orzechowskl Siegfried Gnittle John C. Palmer James R, Hodge* August Panepinto VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON, TEXAS J, P, Williamson VA HOSPITAL BROOKLYN. NY Robert McCutcheon USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. Howard Abell Lucas Hernandei Ludwik Borowik David Miller Victor B. Cooper Edward Morales Clarence Crevier James Portway Emil Dupont John Rekstln Leo Dwyer Charles Rice Alberto Espino Walter Saichuk Gorman Glaze Robert O, Smith MONTEBELLO CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD, Francisco Bueno Ti/.,.. Union Has Cable Address Seafarers overseas who want to get in touch with headquar­ ters in a hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable address, SEAFARERS NEW YORK, Use of this address will assure speedy transmission on all mes­ sages and faster service for the^ men involved, �SEAFARERS Auffust 18, 1957 KATHRYN (Bull), July 30—Chilr. man, M. Zaionskat tacratary, P. Cor* nlor. Bosun'a Job open due to illness, ^placement aent. Beef concerning Snd officer and OS to be discussed with patrolman in NY. Ship's fund 06. Beport accepted. Contact patrolBian about hot water. Menus to ba typed and placed on tables. NATALIE (Intercontlnantal), July 10 —Chairman, J. NIcholscn; Secratary, B. Tonar. One man logged. One man missed ship after failing to perform duties for 19 days. Report accepted. Delegate discussed chief steward and pantryman's failure to turn to and warned crew about fouling up. Dis­ cussion on draws. MV PONCE, (Ponca), July 30— Chairman, F. Millar; Secratary, W. Haatar. Beef with chief mate about on time for draw* and opening of slop chest. Coalship Vet Tells All In Verse KERN HILLS (NO. Atlantic Marine), July 14—Chairman, F. Throp; Secre­ tary, J. Oorello. One man missed ship; one man hospitalized. Crew getting off after a fiVi mo. trip. New iron purchased. Ship's fund $10.55. Some disputed OT. Ship to be fumigated. Discussion on repair list. Rooms to be left clean for new crew. Nobo(Jy can argue the fact that the SIU veterans and oldtimers from the SUP,,MFOW and MCS active in the American Coal beef really have it on the ball. These brothers of the SIU of NA, acknowledged "Ancient Mariners" in maritime today, are sailing below their regu--* lar ratings under substandard low from SUP Brother George aboard these ships in the front­ non-union conditions, again Gourdin, who's sailing OS on the line of the beef. LUCILLE BLOOMFIELD (Bloomfield), June 30—Chairman, J. Parks; Secretary, W. Walker. Two men logged. Cable to headquarters. Do­ nations for relief of disaster victims In La. and Texas totaled $440 from officers and crew. Amount to be sent* via radio to Salvation Army. Ship's fund $1.24. Discussion on loundry facilities. Suggestion to secure new drain for washing machine and new scuppers in laundry room. 8EATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), July IS—Chairman, M. Chapman; Sec­ retary, A. Lambert. Headquarters no­ tified to have patrolman pay off ship Sunday. Chief mate has foc'sle keys. Clothes not to be left too long in washing machine. Use bulletin board for ship business oniy. Ship's fund $22.10. Any raggestions for new con­ tract negotiaiions to be brought up at meeting. Food orders mixed up. More cooperation requested. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate. Request air conditioning be installed. Discus­ sion about dill pickles in messhall. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), July 21—Chairman, T. Montemarlno; Secretary, P. Brady. One bosun. Patrolman to meet ship in Tampa. Ship's fund $18.03. Laundry to be kept clean. Obtain stoppers for laundry sink. STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), July 14—Chairman, E. Parr; Secretary, O. Payne. Some repairs made. Other repairs to be listed. Shore leave hours which were not ailowed will be claimed as OT and taken up with patrolman: list times correctly. Trav­ elers' checks draw in Halifax. Soma disputed overtime to be taken up with patrolman. 585'/i shore leave re­ striction. Reports accepted. All cots and extra linen to be returned. Mid­ ships house, foc'sles to be kept clean­ er. All rooms to be cleaned for pay­ off. COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), July 6—Chairman, W. Simpson; Secretary, K. Foster. Most repairs completed. Ship's fund $7. Two members fined $50 for not stand­ ing watch. . New delegate elected. Vote of thanks to two crew members for purchasing large quantity of fancy Ice cream and making cold drinks at coffee time during hot weather. DEL ORO (Miss.), May 25—Chair­ man, U. Sanders; Secretary, H. Gar­ des. Disputed overtime. Awaiting New York decision on penalty cargo wages from voyage No. 40. Commit­ tee to obtain safety report for cap­ tain on two accidents. Sanitary men to work two hours daily and keep ship clean. Ship's fund $70A.5, Pur­ chased reading material. Few hours disputed OT. New delegate elected. Suggestion that ship be stored for 90 days instead of 80. Discussion on cleanliness of laundry. July 22—Chairman, U. Sanford; Sec­ ratary, W. Davanncy. Five men logged. One man hospitalized, return­ ing on Del Norte. Ship's fund $32.02. Some disputed OT. Question on OT for man carried to Bahia. and signed on as repatriated seaman. To call meeting with patrolman about over­ due OT and penalty cargo pay. Keys to be made for messhall and pantry. Messhall and pantry to be locked while ship in port. Porthole screens and hooks for coffee cups to be or­ dered. Discussion on rancid butter. DEL SOL (Miss.), July 7—Chairman, W. Murrell; Secretary, R. Simmons. Ship's fund $15. No beefs: everything running smoothly. Report accepted. To set up laundry cleaning schedule. Numbers to be stenciled over bunks for fire boat drills. Bunks to ba made and kept clean. man missed ship. Reports accepted. Remove cots from poop deck. Need new screen for portholes. Repair list to be made up. STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), July 10—Chairman, B. Hanford; Sec­ retary, C. Chandler. Ship's fund $37.50. Some disputed OT and launch service. Delayed sailing. Vote of thanks to steward for job well done. Cots to be removed from deck. Ship to be sprayed for roaches. STEEL NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), May 25—Chairman, R. SIrols; Secre­ tary, P. Haraye. Ship's fund $21. One man missed ship. Report accepted. Keep messroom clean. Doors to be locked while in port, except gangway side door. TOPA TOPA (Waterman), July 1?— Chairman, P. Van Wygerden; Secre­ tary, A. Smith. Everything running smoothly. Reports accepted. Officials to investigate trouble between 3rd assistant and oiler. Suggestion that hospital be put In shape for any emergencies. proving the time-worn adage that "good union men never grow old." Now, an added talent is showing itself, typified by the verses be­ coal ship Martha Berry. Writing Making no apologies for his from Spain, on his way ''home. rhyming efforts, he makes his point Brother Gourdin sent in this "LOG- plain, showing how keenly the oldA-RHYTHM" on behalf of the men timers on the coal ships feel. LOG-A-RHYTHM: The Ancient Mariners .By GEORGE GOURDIN, SUP. The American Coal Shipping Company, With John L. Lewis laying the keel. Has Joe Curran acting as bosun With an NMU man at the wheel. Well, the court finally reached a decision That it thought was mighty swell. It ruled that the oldest discharges Would solve the problem well. They started with just a few ships. Good old Uncle Sam promising more; To ship the coal the miners work. Costing the taxpayers money galore. The sailor men came from far and wide. To compete for their organization; Some of the discharges were tattered and torn, But they passed ev'ry examination. This set-up started like a dream Till John and Joe concluded. To recruit the mates and engineers With only mine union men included. Joe Curran tried all angles to win. He dug deep in his larder; Shanghaied a few that had retired. Sent an SOS to Snug Harbor. The MEBA and MM&P Went into action on this phony deal. They asked injunctions and won it in court, To teach John and Joe not to steal. The SIU really challenged this move; With the percentage of men in its favor. It'll sign this contract and sail these ships. And be an asset to organized labor. Curran and NMU could've had these jobs Jf he'd agreed in a good union way. To sail with the mates from the MM&P And engineers from the MEBA. Just as I end this line of chatter, I learn from an NMU man. That the retired and disabled aboard these ships Were depriived of their pension plan. The SIU was full of fight. About this time, you can bet, They didn't like the shady deal That the rank-and-file mates would get. They were told their wives would get the checks While they sailed on this flea-bitten scow, But it seems the promise wasn't well kept. As the landlord wants the rent right nowl VENORE (Ore Nay.), July II—Chair­ man, C. Webb; Secretary, T. Cummlngs. One man short. Baker left ship at Canal for wife's burial. Thanked crew for $345 donations. Re­ ports accepted. New delegate eleeted. Recreation room to be kept clean. Cups to be returned. ..Soiled linen to be turned in. Washing machine to be turned off when finished and kept clean. Vote of thanks to steward dept. Ropeyarn Art Not Lost Yet Seafarer Frederik Ouwe­ neel has sailed under ten dif­ ferent flags in the last quarter DEL CAMPO (Miss.), June 21 — Chairman, J. Gelssler; Secretary, E. Mcsley. Repairs completed. More stores put aboard. No beefs. Good crew, fine cooperation. Almost all hands equipped with deep water fish­ ing tackle for fine eating fish. Ship's fund $11.25. Coal beef communica­ tion read. Old timers doing fine job to help win beef. Report accepted. Delegate re-elected. Laundry to be kept clean: keep noise down in pas­ sageways. Vote of thanks to delegate for good Job. ~ May 25—Chairman, J. Lapatle; Sec­ retary, R. TIndell. All repairs com­ pleted. Members warned about foul­ ing up. Food beef—70 days' stores for 80 day trip. Ship's fund $11.25. Delegate did good job in settling beefs. Some disputed OT. Report ac­ cepted. Need new pump for washing machine. Delegate and steward to see about shortage of stores. MATTHEW THORNTON (Grain Fleet)—Juno 29—Chairman, C. Carl­ son; Secratary, R. Lee. Beef made FAIRPORT (Waterman), July 14— on small sized mattresses, turned Chairman, J. Nelson; Secretary, W. over to patrolman in Baltimore, noth­ Stark. No Logs received. Two men ing could be done since former stew­ missed ship—squared away. Ship's' ard had accepted them. Company fund $28. Few hours disputed OT. should not be penalized for mistake Repair list turned in. Three men made by one of our men. Repairs fired. Motion that headquarters try have been taken care of. Motion made for better retirement plan. Need new to donate $1 each for ship's fund. iron. Suggestion to use three per­ Take good care of fans and washing colators for coffee each meal. Vote machine, no spare parts aboard. Re­ of thanks to steward dept. To check turn cups to pantry from deck. Burly Pace Thirteen LOG Frederik Ouweneel shows ofF some of the designs he's mode dur­ ing the current voyage of the Fort Hoskins. He soys he used 17 fathoms of 21 thread in the sunflower alone (left). The statuettes flanking the lamp are made from yellow soap and the lamp itself out of rope yarn. It looks like he's earned that nickname. century and, to the surprise of no one, "none of those ships can com­ pete with the stars and stripes." Starting with his native Hollajid. Ouweneel has also sailed under the English, Greek, Norwegian, Swed­ ish, Liberian, Panamanian, Syrian and Israeli flags but "the best thing that ever happened to me w.-^a when I got my SIU book. I am very proud of it." Known to his shipmates on the Fort Hoskins and other SIU ships as "The Flying Dutchman" or "Rope-Yarn Dutch," Ouweneel h.3s put his varied sailing experiences to good use. Using odds and ends of ropeyarns, he's following in the tradition of the old sailing ship hands who made mats and designs with intricate knots and splices to while away their time. This may be a kind of a lost art form today, but it won't disappear altogether while sailors like Ouweneel are at it. By Bernard Seaman �F««* FAorteen SEAFARERS '5ea-Spray' —By S»afanr Robert fink *'Back again? You must have made same ports as last trip/ SlU, A&G District SUP HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND Ill SW Clay St. CApltal 3-4336 RICHMOND. 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STATE TO AVOID DUPLICATION; If you ar* an old subscriber and have a change of address, please give your former address below: ADDRESS • ••••••• CITY STATE ,1. ZONE... QUEBEC Quebec SAINT JOHN NB 44 Sault-au-Matelot Phone: 3-1569 177 Prince William St. OX 2-3431 Great Lakes District ALPENA Ancnat 19, 195T Asks Reduction In Job Calls II as ordinary seaman on thia vessel on a voyaga from trio Gulf to Santos and on to the Far East. Crewmembers whoso To the Editor: _ names I recall are Frenchy To the Editor: There has been much discus­ Michelet, Rebel Haskell and The following is a copy of a sion recently around the hall Singletary. letter which the chief aboard about reducing the number of I guess I was what you would the Samuel F. Miller sent to the daily shipping calls. I feel It call a charter member of the company's marine superlntendwould be a good Idea. SIU, Joining in April, 1939, and ant. A reduced number of calls being issued book G-133, Dur­ William C. Brown would allow members on the ing the war I was in the Navy Engine delegate beach to give more care to (drafted), and after it back to affairs at home, to other busi­ sailing as AB, 3rd mate and 2nd "Captain J. A. Johnson nesses If they have them, and to mate. Vice President St Marine Super­ things like reporting to the un­ My present occupation as a intendent employment Insurance office. salesman gives me ample time Everybody would then have to think about times gone by. Boston Shipping Corporation time to do these things and still I have pictures of all the ships 153 Milk Street not miss out on the shipping I have sailed in except the old Boston 4, Massachusetts calls at the hall. Arizpa. Certainly I would be I would suggest having two grateful for information leading "Dear Captain: "We are due to make arrival calls in the morning and two in to a copy of same. I can be the afternoon. The AM calls reached at 8376 Arnold Street, in about six hours having com­ pleted voyage No, 1, As you could be at 10 and 11, and at 2 Dearborn 6, Michigan, know the first voyage after and 4 PM on weekday afters Maurice £. Llxotte breakout is generally a pretty noons. There could be one busy one from an engineering Saturday morning call at 10 AM, standpoint. This has been no as well as calls at any time for exception. emergencies. On the same subject, there "For all practical purposes I seems to be no reason for hav­ To the Editor: have had no first assistant for ing our regular membership I'm writing to let the mem­ the entire voyage. One paid off meetings start at 7 PM, when bership know about the good in Honolulu with a back injury they could be started at 6 PM, food and pastries the Steel and I have had the other as a or even earlier, once the daily Advocate has been enjoying two passenger from Pusan to the calls are completed. This would trips running to Japan and States. allow the members time to ful­ Korea. "If it had not been for the full fill other commitments they Last trip we had Sherman cooperation and over-contract can't take care of after the Wright and Herb Knowles hand­ obligation of the entire unli­ meeting and would still enable ling the key jobs in the galley. censed engine department per­ men on the ships, who wished This trip we again have Herby sonnel I would really have had to, to get to the meeting after putting out the food "mother a rough time. As it is, the plant work. used to cook" and if you don't Is in excellent condition. Voyage John Jellette like the first entree, he's got repairs will be very minor. two more you can choose from. "I am handing a copy of this Tom Ulisse is the pastry chef letter to William C. Brown, and his French bread and garlic engine department delegate for bread is out of the Seafarers International To the Editor: this world. Pizza Union. I would be happy to have The following note was re­ pie, jelly dough­ him or any other member of the ceived from the chief engineer nuts and cream unlicensed engine department on this vessel after a fire at sea. puffs are a few with me at any time in the Ship's delegate of the delicacies future as a shipmate." SS Grain Shipper that help make Charles B. McCoy this a happy Chief engineer "To All Departments: crew. t t i "My own personal thanks to That's not all. all of you, each and every one, We got them Ulisse for a job well done, for your co­ right down to operation In the assistance you the last man. Chief cook Know­ gave in fighting the fire we had les swears by his third cook, To the Editor: in the boiler room on the 19th Berton Meade, and galleyman, I wish to express my thanks of June at sea. Through your ef­ Johnny Jackson, as two of the and appreciation, through the forts and attention to duty wa greatest to work with... medium of the LOG, to the offi­ averted what could have been a Keeping a clean pantry and cers and crew brothers of the catastrophe, only because every­ dishing out fine salads we have SS Venore. Their kind and gen­ one did his bit. We controlled Ralph Fitzpatric. In our spotless erous donation, plus their sym­ the fire and brought the ship messroom we have A1 Rios, a pathy, excelled anything I have in." mighty sharp first-class waiter. ever run across. They donated G. F. Brady Sitting back in his arm chair, enough money for my plane fare Chief engineer smiling because he's got such a home and to help with the it it bunch of good, dependable guys funeral expenses of my wife working for him is Chief Stew­ who died when I was a week at ard Aussie Shrimpton. He's the sea, man who doesn't get any credit I also wish to thank the offi­ To the Editor: when the food is good. cers of the welfare services de­ Would any of you oldtimer.4 In closing I want to thank the partment in Baltimore for their have any idea where I may crew and delegates for full aid and help. They took care of obtain a photograph of the old cooperation and thereby making all matters until my return and SS Arizpa belonging to the my job an easy one. helped me after I had gotten Mobile Oceanic Line? I made Luke A. Ciamboll back. my last trip prior to World War Ship's delegate Ronald P. Hannigan Chief Engineer High On SIU Advocate Boasts Culslnog Not Chow SIU HAIL DIRECIORT BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Earl Sheppard. Agent EAstern 7-4900 ,...276 State St. BOSTON James Sheehan. Agent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. Robert Matthews, Agent Capital 7-6558 LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke, Agent HEmlock 6-5744 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 MORGAN CITY 912 Front St. Tom Gould, Agent Phone 2156 NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. Lindsey Williams, Agent Tulane 8626 NEW YORK 673 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees, Agent MAdison 2-9834 PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. S. Cardullo, Agent Market 7-1635 PUERTA de TIERRA PR 101 Pelayo Sal Colls, Agent Phone 2-5996 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Marty Breithoff, Agent Douglas 2-5475 SAVANNAH 2 Ahercom St. E. B. McAuley, Agent Adams 3-1728 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Jeff GiUette, Agent Elliott 4334 TAMPA 1609-1811 N. Franklin St. Tom Banning, Agent Phone 2-1323 WILMINGTON, Calif 505 Marine Ave. Reed Humphries. Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Bklyn. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul Hall ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Alglna, Deck C. Simmons, Joint J. Volpian, Eng. W. Hall, Joint E. Mooney. Std. R. Matthews, Joint LOG 1215 N. Second Ave. Phone: 713-J BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St. Phone; Cleveland 7391 CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave., NE Phone: Main 1-0147 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Phone: Woodward 1-6857 DULUTH 621 W. Superior St. Phone: Randolph 2-4110 SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92nd St Phone: Essex 5-2410 Chief Praises Men For Saving Ship Venore Rates Tops With Him Has Soft Spot For Old Arizpa Seafarer Makes Splash On Return To PI Home Back for a visit to his native town of Botolon, in Zombalei province, Philippine Islands, Seafarer Max Felix (seated, canter) played host to provin­ cial and local officials at gath­ ering in his lister's^ home. Flanking Max were Jaime Ferrer, Under-Secretary of Agriculture for the notional government (left), and Manuel D. Barreto, Governor of Zomboles Province (right). Others present included Mayor Juan Gunem of Botolon (seated, 3rd from left). Senator Ferrer was private secretary to the Iota Philippine President Ramon Mogsoysay, who also come from ZamDoles province. " �SEAFARERS Aufust 16. 1957 LOG Happy Birthday! All of the follovAng SIU families have received a $200 maternity bene/ efit plus a $23 bond from the Union in the baby's name: $> - t $1 t 3» » » Sandra Kay Smith, bora July 1, 1957, to. Seafarer and Mrs. Robert G. Smith, Houston, Tex. 4" t Melba Jean Rynes, born January 1, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lawson P. J. Rynes, Summerville, Fla. 4> t • 4" Maria Trinidad Garcia, bora Bryan Lewis Wallace, born July 21, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Earl June 26, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Trinidad Garcia, Galveston, Tex. C. Wallace, La Marque, Tex. 4> 4» 4" i i 4> t 4^ » * Konff Yuen Yuengr, born July 19, Gordon L. Peck Jr., born April 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Yuen 13,1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gor­ Pow Yueng. New York City. don L. Peck, New Orleans, La. Dewey L. Milton Jr., born July Donna Marie Booth, bora June 15, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. 22, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Al­ Dewey L. Milton, Roanoke, Va. ton R. Booth, Tickfaw, La. Shorthanded? If a crewmember quits while a ship is in port, delegates are asked to contact the hall immediately for a replace­ ment, Fast action on their part will keep all jobs aboard ship filled at all times and elimi­ nate the chance of the ship sailing shorthanded. I t. ^ i. Miriam Torres, born July 7,1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Raymond Torres, Brooklyn, NY. 4> 4> Joseph E. Thomas, Jr. born June 29, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph £. Thomas, Berkeley, Cal. Looking mighty spry, retired Seafarer Walter Stoll of Savannah sends greetings to for­ mer shipmates as he prepares to celebrate his 75th birthday next Wednesday, August 21st. Stoll is one of the SIU brothers receiving the $150 monthly disability-pension. Israel Trade Now Normal TEL AVIV — A spokesman for 4 4 4 Ernest Charles Biinkerhoff, born the Foreign Ministry here said that July 23, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Israeli shipping through the Gulf Albert Brinkerhoff, Yulan, NY. of Aqaba is back to normal and that disruption is not expected. Confidence, informed sources in­ dicated, was placed in Secretary of State Dulles' recent assurance to the Israel ambassador that Saudi Arabia would not interfere with Aqaba shipping. It was also an­ nounced that the freighter Athlit is enroute from South Africa to Israel's port of Elath. EVERY I SUNDAY I DIRECT VOICE I BROADCAST I I TO SHIPS IN ATLANTIC EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS "THE VOICE OF THE MTD' WFK-39, 19850 KCs Ships in Caribbean, East Coast of South America, South AHantic and East Coast of United States. WFL-68, 15850 KCo Ships In Gulf of Mexico, Carib­ bean, West Coast of South America, West Coast of Mexico and US East Coast. WFK-95, 15700 KCs Ships in Mediterranean area, North Atlantic, European and US East Coast. Meanwhile, MTD 'Round-The-World Wireless Broadcasts Continue • • • Every Sunday. 1915 GMT (2:15 PM EST Sunday) ' WCO-13020 KCs Europe and North America WCO-16908.8 KCs East Coast South America WCO-2240? KCs West Coast South America Every Monday, 0315 GMT (10:15 PM EST Sunday) WMM 25-15607 KCs Australia WMM 81-11037.5 Northwest Pacific MARITIME TRADES DEPARTMENT U.S. Passenger Liners Safest, CG Stndy Finds /-'Ai! WASHINGTON—^When it comes to safety, American pas­ senger liners are far ahead of foreign carriers. That was the decisive conclusion of a Coast Guard report released last month compar-^ ing US and international holm. The Coast Guard implied standards for ship construc­ that an American ship hit the same Donna Lynn Bryan, born July 14, Brian Anderson Alston, bom July 15, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ernest Oscar Wm. Alston, Berkeley, Calif. K. Bryan, Houston, Tex. Patricia McKinney, born July 23, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Melville McKinney Jr., Camden, NJ. J. i Vivian and IVilllam Mora, born June 29, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph A, Mora, New York, NY. Pare Fifteen Personals Walter Yeoke, Losmar Contact William Davies at 2727 De Anza Trailer Harbor, San Diego 9, California. Phone — Broadway 3-3211. 4 4 4 Chief Mate Thomas Heaney Nick Leone Bob Walker would like to get in touch with you. His address is 219-48th street. Union City, NJ. Telephone—Union 4-8627. 4 4 4 Former Matthew Thornton Crewmembers Will the men who worked on the Matthew Thornton on April 29th in the No. 5 hold please contact Stephen Emerson. He lives in Poughkeepsie, Arkansas. 4 4 tion. The report, detailing the way would probably have been case for American construction able to keep from heeling as badly, standards, was made public by the and might not have capsized. The Coast Guard also pointed House Merchant Marine Commit­ tee, which asked for a study after out that American ships are less likely than foreign ships to be the sinking of the Andrea Doria. The Coast Guard pointed out destroyed by fire. The 1948 Conven­ that American passenger liners tion provides for three types of outstrip foreign competition most structural fire protection, with one sharply in compartmentation and setting out a comprehensive stand­ damage stability, two of the most ard of structural fire protection, important areas involving safety. and the other two methods merely The US is in a class by itself in requiring specific detecting and ex­ provisions for structural fire pro­ tinguishing equipment. The Coast tection, which combines protection Guard pointed out that American and control. It also tops foreign ships use the first method, which shipping in lifeboat launching pro­ eliminates combustible materials cedures, safety communication and from -the structure work of the vessel, and requires a series of fire other fire-fighting devices. American ships are built to barriers to minimize fire spread. higher standards of compartmen­ All European carriers use methods tation than foreign carriers, the 2 and 3. The report concludes: "Safety is Coast Guard reported. According a comparative quality that is meas­ to the 1948 International Conven­ tion lor the Safety of Life at Sea, ured in terms of probabilities. ships must be built with a subdivi­ Accordingly, it cannot be positively sion factor of .48. American ships, stated that a particular vessel will constructed under Coast Guard or will not be involved in a catas­ standards, must have a subdivision trophe. However, the accumulation factor of .35. The difference means of "extras" of the type previously that foreign ships can barely with­ indicated in this letter, definitely stand damage to two adjacent main increases the probabilities of an compartments without sinking, American Merchant Marine with a while American ships might bf safety record second to none." able to stand up even if three adja­ cent main compartments were damaged. US ships also lead foreign com­ petition in damage stability, or the ability of the vessel to keep from The iceberg season is finally capsizing or heeling over exces­ sively after damage. The 1948 over, one month later than usual. convention and the Coast Guard's The international ice patrol has standards require ships to be able been closed down until next spring to withstand safely damage to two after an unusually heavy plague of adjacent main compartments ex­ 'bergs. Normally, the ice menace ends tending inboard approximately 18 feet. But American ships must about July 1 and the patrols are also be able to remain afloat and withdrawn on the 15th of July. But on a reasonably steady keel if the this year the big ice mountains damage length is 46 feet, while the have been so numerous that ocean 1948 convention allows a damage shipping has been forced to travel length of only 291^ feet. The on track B rather than the normal Coast Guard said the ability of the northernmost track C used gener­ ships to survive under the greater ally in the summertime. The huge 'bergs break off the assumed damage is particularly important where wing tanks are Greenland ice pack because of melting due to warmer weather in involved. Differences in compartmentation the Arctic spring season. This year, and damage stability were high­ apparently, milder weather in the lighted by the sinking of the An­ far north resulted in a heavier than drea Doria, which had its wing usual production of bergs with con­ tanks ripped open by the Stock­ sequent peril to shipping. Atlantic Ice Danger Ends 4 M. Roy Fraiser Sam Spade left money for you with Chris at the Green Frog in San Francisco on July 19th. 4 4 4 Ralph Ewing Please contact J. W. Hamilton, 20 Grand Avenue, Hicksville, NY. It is urgent. 4 4 4 Mike M. Perez Lilly Saldana (Mrs. Eddie Roe) would like you to get in touch with her at 9619 E. Avenue N., Houston 12, Texas. 4 4 4 Merwyn E. Watson Would you please contact M. E. Lizotte at 8376 Arnold, Dearborn 6, Michigan. 4 4 4 Samuel Joseph Anderson Contact your wife at 8023 Stedman Street, Houston, 1*0X38. She will be, thereja a Seafarer! 7wa •pRicesAraifio<fj/<i BAffm/lgAMPAEWYC^S/UC/lfF^/^S ARe SSAKPD fVP. rue MEMBERS OF W Wf/^e/.T TIME YouksArrHE fiAU. •\ �Vol. XIX No. 17 » OFFICIAL SEAFARERS ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION * LOG AlHIHtf U 1957 ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT > AFL.CIQ Union Men Rebuild For Storm Victims Seafarers Aid In La, Home-Building Drive NEW ORLEANS—In the wake of hurricane Audrey and its devastating tidal wave that left thousands homeless and claimed a toll of more than 600 persons dead and missing in the Cameron, La., area,-*^ AFL-CIO unions organized flood and wind-devastated area, quickly to join with other the AFL-CIO and the American agencies in relief for the disaster Red Cross joined forces to restore victims. homes which had been completely Spurred by the knowledge that demolished. The Red Cross pro­ many SIU members and their fam­ vided building materials, food and ilies suifered great loss and hard­ shelter for the home builders. AFLship, Seafarers in Louisiana have CIO trade unionists, responding to taken a leading part in the trade a program outlined by Victor Busunion effort to provide prompt and sie, president of the Louisiana needed relief. In New Orleans, the State Labor Council, volunteered SIU membership gave generously their labor to build houses on week­ to a disaster relief fund raised by ends. the New Orleans Central Labor Ten Seafarers were members of Council which, as the LOG went the first New Orleans team of 37 to press, had climbed to nearly workers that moved into Cameron $25,000. on the weekend of August 3 to Seafarers also pitched in to do launch the big volunteer mass con­ their part to help building trades struction project. craftsmen with one of the most The New Orleans contingent was dramatic phases of the relief pro one group of nearly 150 AFL-CIO gram^mass construction of homes union members who worked in 100Group o Seafarers are up bright ond early at 4 AM to fofn New Orleans contingent of volunteer for the homeless. degree heat that weekend in a con­ home buildws headed for Cameron, Louisiana. Men are front (I to r) Herman Troxclair, SIU patrol­ As thh waters receded from the struction marathon which com­ man; LOUIS O Lwry, John Calamla; middle rowfl to r) lames Lea, Larry Von Lofton, Douglas "Smiley" pleted five new homes for families Clauisen, Tom Goul^ patrolman; rear {I to rj Bill Mitchell, Bernle Guarino, Bob Creel. Other Sea­ left desolate by the hurricane. farers left from Lake Charles. Under the glaring sun construc­ tion crews from Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles and Shreveport joined the New Orleans men in the massive task of clearing sites and reconstructing homes WASHINGTON — Proposals to from foundations to rooftops. The extend the trade-in authority of work on the five homes was com­ the Maritime Administration for pleted in less than 36 hours. Some another five years have been ap­ of the gangs worked far into the proved by the House Merchant night under floodlights powered by Marine Committee. Specifically, portable generators. Houses were the proposed legislation would ex­ built for two families in Creole, tend until June 30, 1962, the MA's one in Cameron and two In Grand power to buy trade-in ships 12 Chernier. years old or older from private Putting into full play the tradi­ operators. tional trademarks of the seafaring The original legislation had pro­ trade—special skills, brawn and vided for the trade-ins to take ability to work as a team—the Sea­ place when the ships were 17 years farers, by all accounts, made a of age. This was amended subse­ valuable contribution to the pro­ quently with the amendment due gram. In hours of diligent and to run out on June 30, 1958. conscientious labor, extending over Maritime wants the extension of Saturday and Sunday and sand­ the amendment so that it can get wiched in between two six-hour bus earlier action on replacement of rides, the New Orleans construction Foundation for new home In Cameron goes up as soon as gang arrived. Even bus driver W. A. Pollc shipping fleets and spread out the team, which included skilled crafts­ pitched in, shedding his uniform to lend a hand. Homes were put up In other flood-stricken towns with men from the various building replacement program. some of the volunteers working far Into tho night under floodlights to make the target of completing a Shipowner groups have also trades union, completed a house number of houses each weekend. gone on record for the measure, and turned it over to the owner, inasmuch as it gives them more ready for occupancy. leeway on the ships they trade in. The following weekend, more than a dozen Seafarers moved into the area to assist in the important work of laying foundations on which other teams would erect houses during the weekend. SAN FRANCISCO —Former The work was carried on within President Herbert Hoover was sight of fields still littered with a guest of American President debris from homes hit by the hur­ Lines aboard the liner President ricane. "I sure never thought it was Hoover on the occasion of his as bad as this," said C. K. Carter, 83rd birthday. Members of the Shreveport contractor and member Marine Cooks and Stewards of the AFL-CIO Carpenters Union Union in the ship's steward de­ there. "I saw the London Blitz and partment turned out an elab­ a lot of other things in World War orate birthday feed including a II, and this would sure match it. birthday cake modeled after the It may even be worse." ship with a lighted candle in its The AFL-CIO councils and the single stack. Red Cross plan to build at least 25 The party was served cham­ houses in the same manner on com­ pagne, shrimp curry, lobster ing weekends, depending of the Newburg, prawns and other weather and the amount of mate­ elaborate culinary preparations. rials on hand. The attitude of the One hundred fifty guests were volunteer workers was summed up Smiling members of New Orleani AFL-CIO volunteer team pose for photo In front of completed at the party which was hosted by one man who paused to say, "I house. Picture was taken by John Herrmann, New Orleans photographer, and AFL-CIO member by Ralph K. Davies and George came down here for the sake of my who volunteered his services to make film documentaiy. Other volunteer groups from Lake Charles, Killion, board chairman and city and my union, but now I just want to be here to help these Pfesident of APL. Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Alexandria also workea on home-building projects which are scheduled people." to continue for several more weeks. Ask Wider Trade-In Bill APL Liner Is Host To Hoover 1: I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource August 2, 1957 Description An account of the resource Headlines: COURT VOIDS BAN ON SIU PICKETING FARM LOBBY RAPS ’50-50’ AGAIN SIU RETAINS COAL JOB LEAD DESPITE CO. AID TO NMU CURRAN DUCKS OUT OF BLACKLIST; PASSES BUCK TO SHIPOWNERS COURT THROWS OUT LA. SHERIFF’S PICKET BAN ON SEAFARERS HUB QUIET; PICK-UP DUE FARM BLOC LAUNCHES RENEWED ATTACK ON’50-50’ PRACTICES PHS WARNS OF ASIA FLU OUTBREAK THROUGHOUT US ANOTHER BILLION FARM AID OKAYED ; ’50-50’ INTACT ALASKA FISHERY PACT WON FIRST P-A BOX SHIP DUE ON MAIDEN RUN IN SEPT. WC PENSION MERGER NEARING FINAL OKAY INDIA SEEKS SOLUTION FOR PORT JAMS SENATE OK’S INFLATABLE LIFE RAFTS U.S. PASSENGER LINERS SAFEST, CG STUDY FINDS ISRAEL TRADE NOW NORMAL UNION MEN REBUILD FOR STORM VICTIMS ASK WIDER TRADE-IN BILL Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/02/1957 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XIX, No. 17 1957 Periodicals Seafarers Log