http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/fbf0082bd67e26dfe1d6caa146175e95.PDF 878fb18245114f513e109488e8318620 PDF Text Text SEAFARBRS«LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • MTD Readies Machinery: ORCAMZING DRIVE SET ON UKES i • -7 -•'i ; ^ ''•iq •i*"-1 • ^ -I . • 'i 4 •' I II Story on Page 3 Tow Coal Miner Into Port After 17-Dqy Battle Story on Page 3 Willis Raid Barred -Story on Page 3 Unions of America AWAft Ur^fftom Returning from suniiy South America, i#fli#irCS'«f Seafarers on the cruise ^ip Del Mar ran into the first real snowstorm tojhit New Orleans in 60 years. Bundled, up for the weather is group including C. Miller, R. Cefaratti, H. , , Donnelly, N. Benenate, L. Fiorentino, L. Manca and E. Ardoin. Photo , i, by Vic Romplo. (Story on Page 5.) j,. �o'V <yi •'U'- ••';^ " Vifc Tw» StAVAHERS LOG Union's Medical Program iBetters Seafarers' Health Felmiary tl, i9tt Raltimore Reports Big Job Boost Wives, children and depend­ ant parents of Seafarers m eligible to use the services' of the New York SIU health cen­ ter in the same manner as Seafarers. They will be ac­ cepted at outport health cen­ ters as well within the next couple of weeks. The New York center has a pediatrician and gynecologist on duty one afternoon a week, along with its regular staff, to examine dependents. The serv­ ice can be extended to meet the demand. Appointments can be made by contacting the welfare services department With the opening of the Baltimore SIU health center, the SIU program of preventive BALTIMORE — Although many Seafarers reported they were medicine designed to keep Seafarers In the pink is just beginning to get into full swing snowbound there was still a large throughout the A&G District, However, evidence is accumulating that the program has turnout at the last scheduled meet­ already had widespread bene-| ing, Earl Sheppard, port agent, the ailment. He is then perfectly ficial effects and has improved The frequency of examina­ noted. These men are to be con­ able to continue an active, healthy the health and working capac­ tions given Seafarers at the gratulated, he said, on their attend­ life indefinitely. ity of a considerable number of center varies according to cir­ ance and their active participation Another group with which the Seafarers. In turn, that means the cumstances. -If the Seafarer is in the Union's affairs. center has had a great deal of suc­ program has preserved their earn­ found to be free of any physi­ Shipping for this port picked up cess are those who have high blood ing abilities and undoubtedly, in a cal defect, be is asked to come considerably during the past pe­ pressure because of excess weight. number of instances, lengthened back a year later. Relatively riod and ran far ahead of registra­ In these cases, after determining the life spans of the Seafarers in­ minor conditions such as obes­ tion. "There have been no issues through electrocardiograph and volved. ity call for an examination at of any nature on the various ships other examination that there is no six month intervals. Where For practical purposes, all of paying off and signing on here in heart or circulatory ailment, the this has been achieved so far ailments are found that need the harbor," Shepeard said. Hie Seafarer is put on a weight-losing through the New York health cen­ close scrutiny, an examination ship and departm^ delegates, and diet and advised to come' back in every three months is called ter which has been in operation the crews, deserve a hand for the six months. for over nine months. The outport for. good shape of the vessels they have "Invariably on a recheck," Dr. centers in New Orleans, Mobile brought into port. PHILADELPHIA—Tugboat engi­ Logue said, "the blood pressure and Baltimore are just beginning The ships paying off during the neers employed by the Warner either be stalemated or corrected will be down by a percentage di­ to make their effects felt in ex­ Company have obtained a 13-cent period were the Gantigny (Cities tending these benefits to all Sea­ and the Seafarer returned to work rectly comparable to the amount of hourly wage increase package Service); Producer (Marine Car­ in short order. Without corrective weight lost and there will be a farers. which includes a $1 daily con­ riers); Emilia, Ines, Evelyn (Bull); medical or surgical action, the Sea­ general improvement in feeling of In the nine months through Jan­ tribution to the pension fund of the and Venore, Oremar, Feltore, Marfarer would face a decline in work­ well-being." In one recent case, he uary 31 that the New York center (Ore). has been operating, it has given a ing ability followed by invalidism said, an 18-pound weight loss re­ Brotherhood of Marine Engineers. oreSigning on were the Baltore, The contract will, make Warner or worse. duced the Seafarer's blood pres­ total of 3,291 examinations to Sea­ Venore, Oremar, 'Feltore, ^darors engineers eligible for BME's $100 As it Is now, the Seafarer's con­ sure level 20 points. farers plus additional exams to (Ore) and the Atlantis (Mar-Trade). monthly pension. dition is either cured or brought "As a result of our over-all pro­ members of Seafarers' families. In In transit were the SantOre, CubAn additional 40 cents dally will under control. Then he gets more gram," Dr. Logue concluded, "we the great majority of instances, the ore, Baltore (Ore); Alcoa Roamer, go to the BME Welfare Plan, with frequent check-ups at the center, believe we are keeping men active Seafarers involved have received Alcoa Ranger (Alcoa); Yorkmar, a clean bill of health and have either every three months or every and working who would otherwise the rest of the package in the form Calmar (Calmar); Morning Light, been told to return in one year for six months as the case may be, not have been able to do so had of straight wages and an, addi­ Wild Ranger (Waterman); Mankato tional paid holiday. The base scale to assure that he is staying in good their physical condition not been another check-up. Victory (Victory Carriers) and Th» is $2.39 an hour with a guarantee health. checked in time and proper treat­ However, among those 3,291 ex­ Cabins (Texas City). of 64 hours pay per week. In a typical case, as outlined by ment given." aminations, the center has detect­ ed a variety of ailments of which Dr. Joseph L«gue, director of the Seafarers were unaware or which center, a Sesffarer is found upon had gone unattended. These in­ examination to have diabetes. The clude such conditions as diabetes, Seafarer wjU have had no inkling hernias, thyroid conditions, vari­ of the disease other than the fact Formal announcement is ex- • cose veins, ulcers, dental cavities, he might have felt weary and le­ various- eye ailments, and high thargic. If be. had not been exam­ pected shortly that NMU blood pressure and related cardiac ined, the case might have gone un­ President Joseph Curran will ,.Md ihfii*.. conditions and some active and in­ checked until he became perma­ back a slate in the NMU elections. nently disabled. active tuberculosis. Now though, he is put on a diet The announcement when it comes, In such instances, the procedure by the Public Health hospital and will make it clear that Curran will is to refer the Seafarer to the Pub­ instructed by them on how to take purge NMU Vice-President Joseph lic Health Service. The majority of these "walking ailments" can insulin in specific doses to control Dunn and align himself with NMU Secretary-Treasurer John McDougall for that purpose. It was only four months ago that Curran told the NMU convention that "no member need call on me and ask for my endorsement . . . that is no ...And longer necessary," and opened the ihetu ^ door to any member to "try to get ihere * the things that you are capable of getting on your own." Dunn, then, is the key figure destined to follow the fate of others ...And in the past who opposed Curran's court favorites of the moment. He, along with others in the NMU, is * scheduled to join the pile of "dead Injuns" including such one-time Curran palace guard members as ...And ^ Joe Stack, Ferdinand Smith, How­ ikti' ard McKenzie, Josh Lawrenson, Charley Keith, Neal Hanley, H. B. Warner, Hedley- Stone and many, many others. Like' the others, Dunn once thought he had It made because he was a regular on the Curran team. Dr. Joseph Logue, (right) and staff member, dncuss Seafarer's In June, 1956, for example, Dunn chest x-ray taken at New York medical center. proposed that a hew NMU hall in -ivuji Houston bo officially named the "Joseph Curran Building." On an­ other occasion ("Pilot," March 1, Joe is not always the road to suc­ charges against Lawrenson which resulted in his expulsion from too 1956) he reported that "this port cess. was honored with a talk by Presi­ Hedley Stolte was one who found NMU. And so it has been through HOME—^Egypt has agreed to sit down with shareholders of dent Curran ... President Curran's it out the hard way. Stone had been the years. with Curran from the beginning, Apparently in the Curran view, the Suez Canal Company and a mediator from the Interna­ report was hailed with great en­ had fought the internal war in the the only good official is a "dead thusiasm by the membership."tional Bank for Reconstruction and Development to iron out When Dunn ran for vice-presi­ NMU on Curran's side from 1947 Injun." The customary question dent in 1956 his lengthy election on. In 1954, Curran declared he in­ among NMU Officials is, in effect a solution to the legal owner­ of its original grant. statement was a recital of his serv­ formed Neal Hanley and H. B. "Who's next?" ship of the Suez Canal. The remainder Under the original grant, the canal ices in the Curran cause. "Was the Warner that if they had a quarrel Egyptian Government had company was to hav»«omplete con­ only officer in Houston who sup­ with Hedley Stone then "they cer­ seized and nationalized the canal trol over the waterway until 1968. ported President Curran against tainly had a fight with me . . . Shorthanded? in July, 1956. It is asking for some $575,000,000. the CMU . . . Flew to New York They were informed that in my If a crewmember quits wbfle The outlook for'a settlement is Egypt on the other hand has of­ and assisted in quelling the 'Rev­ opiniop Stone had done a good a ship is in port, delegates job..." believed good. E.gypt is eager to fered to purchase all of the out­ olution' created by the Commu­ are asked to contact the hall Two years later Hedley Stone immediately for a replacbget back into the good graces of standing shares of stock for an es­ nists in 1949 .. . served on the trial the western nations so she can bor­ timated $200,000,000. committee at that time of the pa-, was another "dead Injun.", ment. Fast action on their paii Warner and Hanley, who were will keep all jobs aboard ship row money, and the holders of While the discussions are on, it trolmen and agent involved in cre­ Suez Canal stock are just as eager was reported that the depth of the ating toe Communist, disrup­ made over into "dead, Injuns**'-in filled -at all times and elimi­ 1954, had major roles In making nate, the .diance ' of the sb^ canal has diminished from 35' feet tion.. . ." to get their moggy back. The caitoi;ji|^^8te|4eels that it rd "33'/6 feet in the 17 months jt fibwever, as otjiers in the'NMU "dead irijuq'' but of Jbsh Lawren­ sailing shprthsflded./, is entitled to^^^^^^^ation for the has been uASfer'^' iSgyvt ' cbtttroh have found' out, "iall bailing" Big son. Hanley brought the' fdrihal Tug Engineers Get Pensions Cur ran Expected To Name Slate LITTi-6 /MIJOAIS. . A WINE !• 'if'- •iheiu-WBrs...? See Suez Settlement iff:;'. fei;-•% ^ • iKv: �r«feraw7 28.1888 SEAFARERS Face Three LOG MTD Lakes Drive Machinery Set " A portion of the 260 or more delegates from SlUNA end other MTD offifFliotes is shown at Great Lakes MTD conference last weekend In Detroit. The group set goals and policy for an allout Lakes organizing drive this spring, in advance of scheduled opening of St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959. Coo/ Miner In Baltimore After Gale-Tossed Tow DETROIT—Some 260 representatives of member unions of the Maritime Trades Department have estab­ lished machinery for coordinated organizing activities aimed at bringing 25,000 or| unions involved, the unions to be more Great Lakes-Seaway able to call upon the port council workers into organized la­ and the coordinator for assistance bor's ranks. A two-day when needed. • Financing the campaign meeting held here on Feb­ through contributions from mem­ ruary-22 and 23 drafted and ber unions based upon the financial approved a seven-point pro­ gram which will bring the re­ sources of all member unions to bear in organizing campaigns conducted by individual MTD affil­ iates. The mechanics of the coordi­ nated effort will be handled through MTD port councils now existing or being established in 18 major Lakes and river ports. Over­ seeing the whole program will be a top policy committee consisting of representatives from each of the twelve international unions of MTD, plus Harry O'Reilly, execu­ tive secretary-treasurer of the de­ partment. Select Coordinator This committee will meet at reg­ ular inteivals to deal with policy and problems arising out of various organizing drives. The group wUl also select a coordinator who will operate full time on the Lakes or­ ganizing drive, working with local port councils and local union or­ ganizations. Pending selection of the coor­ dinator, MTD secretary O'Reilly will serve in that post in a tempor­ ary capacity. It is ekpected the policy committee members will be selected soon by their member in­ ternationals and will then meet to get the program underway. Other aspects of the program hammered out at the Detroit meet­ ing include: • Publication of a Great Lakes newspaper which will serve an or­ ganization and information func­ tion. • Provision for organizing proj­ ects to be determined by individual BALTIMORE—The oldest crew of seamen in the world arrived here safely Wednesday after a 17-day nightmare in the South Atlantic aboard the SS Coal Miner of American Coal Shipping. At times adrift in force 9-10 winds, they were assisted most of the way home by the biggest deep-sea tug afloat. Full of spirit despite their months. Six other ships formerly covered barely 400 miles in eight long drawn-out battle with the operated by the company on Gov­ days and was about 560 miles off weather and the sea, the veteran ernment charters were likewise Hatteras, the Zwarte Zee got a crew was credited by its more staffed by sea oldtimers under a its third towline across and the youthful skipper with "a tremen­ court-order hiring procedure es­ trip continued. Arriving off Cape Henry early dous Job under impossible condi­ tablished last March. this week, the tow was picked up tions." Few of the 28 unlicensed Low Rates Continue personnel on the ship are under American Coal has shown no in­ by another tug and the ship was 60. Their average age is about 65 terest in resuming its ballyhooed brought into the Baltimore and and they represent almost 1,200 coal export operations, largely be­ Maryland Drydock here. She is years of sea experience all told. cause of the drop in coal rates and being surveyed and will probably The drama of the Coal Miner's in the bulk and tramp cargo mar­ be out of action for a while to get homecoming is heightened by the ket generally. The Government has repairs and a new propeller. fact that it is the last active ship already reclaimed several of the SIU officials who met the ship of the American Coal fleet and has ships and will probably follow suit said the SIU-A&G, SIU Pacific actuaUy been carrying grain for with the rest. District and other union oldtimers aboard seemed in good spirits de­ The dilemma of the Coal Miner spite their ordeal. began February 9 when the Lib­ Tell Your erty ship threw its propeller some 360 miles off Bermuda. The 195Beneficiary After signing a beneficiary foot, 844-ton Dutch , t ig Zwarte card, Seafarers should notify Zee arrived to put a line on her the beneficiary—^wife, mother about 30 hours later and the con­ or whoever it happens to be— voy proceeded north at about six that they have been designated k^ts. When the flrst towline as the individual to receive SIU pmed four days later, the tug got Welfare Plan death benefits another one aboard which lasted PHILADELPHIA—Another National Maritime Union at­ three more days. when the time comes. tempt to raid the SIU met with inglorious defeat as the Snapped Towline Again This precaution will assure that the beneficiary gets prompt On the 17th, at the height of National Labor Relations Board threw out an NMU petition assistance should the Seafarer probably the worst storm of the for an election in the SIU--^ suffer a fatal accident or illness. season, the second towline broke HIWD-contracted "Willis tug fir^ organized Willis, it defeated In some instances where the and the Miner had to drift along fleet. The action by the Board NMU in the fleet by a 69-2 count in beneficiary was not so informed, on her own because the combina­ leaves the SIU free to negotiate an NLRB election. the Welfare Plan was able to tion of heavy swells and gale force a contract reopening for unlicensed In discarding the NMU's petition, seek them out, but only after winds made it impossible to get men after a four-month delay be­ the Board dismissed an NMU legal delay and financial hardship to another line across, Finally, a cause of the NMU's attempted raid. attack, via Taft-Hartley, on the some Seafarers' families. week ago, after the; Miner had One year before, when the SIU union shop clause in the Willis contract. The NMU had used this argument in an attempt to^ upset the contract so as to pave the way for an election. The contract was not due to expire this year. In the view of SIU headquarters, the NMU tactic in this instance, if successful, would have weakened ail union shop clauses and would have been a gain for advocates of a "right to work" set-up. The NMU move last November under the auspices of its United Marine Division cdme a month after NMU President Joseph Curran had declared, "We do not use anti-labor laws against other unions or legitimate union contracts." Willis, tugs are employed in the coastwise tradq, hauling bulk paper from South; Carolina and Georgia Threo e? the oldtimers who helped brlnp the Coal Miner honit (I to r) are veSsrans Oscar Rosman, ports into Pauisboro, NJ, and gen­ eral cargo between Pauisboro and OS; Clear "Blackie" Stevens, bosuni and galley utility Ridgeway B. Thomas of MCS. None of Jacksonville, Florida.,. them are novTces dt sea. Rosman made Jh.lf trip in 1899 and, like the others, is still going strong. NMU Defeated in Raid On Willis Towboat Fleet resources of the affiliates. • Assurance that the Depart­ ment would not interfere in any way with the autonomy of affiliated unions in carrying out the pro­ gram. The significance of the Lakes drive plans was keynoted by Ed McFarlane, president of the De­ troit and Wayne Coimty Federa­ tion of Labor, who welcomed the delegates. McFarlane saw Detroit developing as one of the nation's great ports when the Seaway opens and added that "all working people are intensely interested in what you are trying to accomplish here." An immediate outcome of the two-day session, which was pro­ ceeded and followed by informal meetings of participating unions, is the activation of the port council program. Councils have been in operation in Duluth, Detroit and St. Louis and are being formalized in Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland, Chicago and Buffalo, with other ports to come in rapid-fire suc­ cession. Paul Hall, president of the MTD, told the delegates that the program represented the first time a joint apparatus is being put into operation in this area. Individual unions have been operating on their own with varying degrees of (Continued on page 6) Pursers Union Elects Officers Incumbent officials of the SIUaffiliated Staff Officers Association have been returned to office fol­ lowing a two-month balloting peri­ od. Ten candidates competed for the three union posts involved. Voting by the pursers resulted in the reelection of Henry Moreno, union president, and Burt Lanpher, secretary-treasurer. John C. Aitken was officially named SOA vicepresident. He had been serving by appointment to finish out the un­ expired term of William Foster, who died last May. The elections are for a three-year term. The membership also overwhelm­ ingly carried a series of aniendments to the union constitution covering qualifications for office, duties of officials and similar items. Two years' service as a purser on American-flag vessels was estab­ lished as a basic requirement for any office. SEAFARERS LOG Feb. 28. 1958 Vol. XX, Np. 5 PACI HALL. Seeretary-Treasurer HEBBEBT BRAND. EdUor. BERNARD SEAKAN. Art EtUtor. HERMAN ARTHUR. IBW» SPIVACX. AL HASKIN. JOHN BRAZIL. Staff Writers. Bnx HOODT. OUU Area Repretentative. PubllshRd biwMkly af tha haadq of the Seafarers International Union. At­ lantic A Gulf District, AFL-CIO. *75 Fourth Avenue Brooklyn 31. NY. Tel. HYaclnth t-SMO. Entered es second class matter at the Pest Oince In Brooklyn, NV. under HM Act ef Aufl. 14. Itll. �SEAFARERS H«« Tour Iv-! iji' hnivi • 7,-f. NY Shipping Holding Up Despite Weather Probleni QUESTION: If you had your choice, where would you prefer to spend your winfer? (The temperalure in New York was 5' at the time.^T NEW YORK—^Near-zero weather and almost ten inches of snow made this a bad period for the men on the beach here. Although restricting their activities, it increased the bidding for berths on vessels heading^^ ^ but one is expected in the near for warmer climates. future. As the membership knows, Shipping was brisk throughout the New York regional examiner the period. Class A men, with the has recommended to the NLRB in exception of key ratings, who are Washington that it throw out the not particular about the type of phony NMU charges and certify ship or the run, should not have the SIU on the three remaining too much difficulty securing berths Robin Line vessels. William Hall, after a short visit on the beach. assistant secretary-treasurer, re­ During the past period there ported headquarters has not re­ were 13 vessels paying off, three ceived a reply from Washington, signed on, and 18 were in transit. The Yaka (Waterman) came out of idle status and took on a full crew, but this was offset by the Carolyn (Bull) which went idle. The vessels paying off were the Alcoa Partner, Alcoa Roamer, Al­ coa Ranger (Alcoa); Topa Topa, SIU membership meet­ Azalea City (Waterman); Elizabeth, Frances, Kathryn, Edith (BuU); ings are held regularly Wang Pioneer (Inter-Ocean); Panevery two weeks on Wed­ Oceanic Transporter (Penn.-Nav.); nesday nights at 7 PM in Mankato Victory (Victory Carriers) and the CS Baltimore (Cities all SIU ports. All Sea­ Service). farers are expected to Signing on were the Alcoa Part­ attend; those who wish to ner (Alcoa); Wang Pioneer (Interbe excused should request Ocean) and the Topa Topa (Water­ man). The in-transit vessels were permission by telegram the Val Chem (Heron); Maxton, (be sure to include reg­ Arizpa, Gateway City, Coalinga istration number). The Hills, Wild Ranger, Almena, Raphael Semmes, Chickasaw (Wa­ next SIU meetings will be: terman); Beatrice (Bull); Calmar (Calmar); Seatrains New York, March 5 Louisiana, Texas (Seatrain); Steel March 19 Artisan Plymouth Victory, Steel King (Isthmian) and the Michael April 2 (Carras). Most of the ships were in good April 16 shape, with only minor beefs. Charles Henry, steward (retired): ''Rick" Adamson, electrician: No special place, just as long as California is the place to be, win­ ter or summer. it is a warm cli­ The climate out mate and not there is moderlike it is here ate all year now. I'd like round. But this some place in New York cold the West Indies snap is nothing where it is not new to ~me. 1 was too expensive bora in Wyoming and, as I said, where it goes to it's warm. But SO below, and be­ since I am re­ tired, there's not much chance of lieve me, then you can complain doing that kind of traveling now. of the cold. » ^ Michael Lynn, fireman: Give me John Ally, earpenfen I would Montreal any time, cold weather like to spend all of my winters or hot weather. in . Puerto Rico, Montreal is a re­ where it is a sort town, and warm 87 degrees. even in the win­ New York is ter, it's one of much too cold the best I've during the winbeen in. I like -ter. In fact, I snow, and there would even pre­ is plenty of it fer a Persian there, as there Gulf run right is here now. now to get out ^ of this climate. I just don't like William Hommel, AB: New York, cold weather. 5 degrees or not. I was bom here X X and, like most real New York­ Joseph Pnclisl, OS: ers, I just prefer this town to any other. It is cold here now and I would like to be Anywhere, able to ship out Just as long "to some warmer as It's climate, but that warm. would not bother me. The Persian Gulf or the northwest, it's still a job. SCHEDULE OF SIU MEETINGS February M, 198t LOG No Snow Here, Seattle Boasts SEATTLE—Seafarers on the beach in this area have it all over their brothers In the "wanner" ports of Tampa and New Orleans, reports Jeff Gillette, port agent Here it is February and "we are still awaiting the first snowfall of the winter season." In fact, the climate is such that "we now refer to the port as the banana belt," GiUette said. Shipping did not pick up any over the past two weete. There was only one vessel, the William A. Carruth (Fenn. Trans), paying off and signing on during the period. In tranifit wer<( !tbe Jean LaFitte, Choctaw (Watei^an) and the Alamar and Seamar' (Calmar). This Turkey Bites Back US merchant seamen are ad­ vised to go by the book while on ships in Turkey, since viola­ tions of Turkish customs regula­ tions and other laws—^ven by foreigners — are not treated lightly. Recent cases involving insults to Turkish nationals, customs guards and the Turkish national honor-and dignity cost several seamen almost $500 as well as the time in jail awaiting hear­ ings. Another trio which tried to slip by customs with $30 hid­ den in thiir shoes spent a week in the lock-up and then were fined more than the $30 at stake. Although no SIU men have heen reported involved. Sea­ farers are again cautioned to play It safe and avoid trouble. ' TWO'S COMPANY. in the hold i.T- I ISUALLY, nothing will happen if a Seafarer goes down W J into the hold alone. That doesn't make it a safe practice. Once in o while, something will go wrong, and in thai case it's nice to know that a shipmate is there who will get help. If nobody is available, then qt least somebody who is on deck should be instructed to stand by, or check every couple of minutes to moke sure everything is okay. Of course, the same holds true for going into tanks where ventilation is insufficient or dangerous vapors may have ac­ cumulated. In such Instances, fresh air breathing masks and a stand-by on deck are essential precautions. Whatever the circumstance, it makes sense to take some­ body along and prepare for any emergency that might arise. :# •'a- ' I An SIU Ship Is a Safe Ship 'Vf--,-,:' '.isr ? ,: I i i' -i �rebniMT tt, USI StIAPARERS LOG Pare Five Begin 'Sea-Land' Puerto Rko Run k Waterman Steamship extended its "Sea-Land" trailership service to Puerto Rico yesterday with the sailing of the con­ verted C-2 Bienville from New York. The Beauregard, last of the"^ six former C-2s put into the since withdrawn from the Atlantic and Gulf Puerto Rico Conference, trailership operation, will join which Includes Alcoa, Bull and the Puerto Rico service on March Lykes. However, it .established 18, when it sails from Wilmington, similar rates which include the im­ Del., for NY and then south again portant extras of pick-up and de­ to the Caribbean. Thereafter, there livery service with its own trucks. will be a sailing each Monday from Wilmington and every Thursday from New York. The service will include calls at San Juan, Ponce and Mayaguez in Puerto Rico. Coastwise Service Offered Four other converted .ships are in the mainland end of the "SeaGroup of unidentified Del Mar crewmembers ore well-equipped for unexpected winter snow Land" operation, serving New which hit New Orleans during lost cold snap. Photo by Vic Romolo. York, Wilmington, Miami, Tampa, Houston and New Orleans in inte­ grated service. These are the Gateway City, Azalea City, Fairland and Raphael Semmes. Each of the vessels carries 226 SAN FRANCISCO—Final results NEW ORLEANS—The icy blast that carried mountains of snow to all corners of the truck trailer bodies in the holds of the 1958 election for officers of US in recent weeks spread a two-inch-thick white blanket over this city in what was the and on deck which are loaded on the Sailor's Union of the Pacific and off by moveable deck cranes heaviest recorded local snowfall in 60 years. mounted on the ships. The trailers showed a near-record turnout of However, the snow only are detached from truck cabs at 3,961 votes being cast by the mem­ served to heighten the festivi­ the scene encouraged disbelief Powers added, "the docking orders the loading port and then re­ bership. All of the incumbent offi­ ties for the annual Mardi Gras among SIU crewmembers, accord­ were changed to the next day and mounted on other cabs after being cers who ran again were re-elected to office. celebration 10 days ago, and the ing to Joe Powers, ship'a.reporter. the ship went on the hook. But the discharged. "As we approached the sea buoy crew had to be called out to cover parade and other events went on Waterman boasts lower shipping Morris Weisberger, who was as scheduled. In the wake of the to pick up the pilot and enter the the lifeboats and secure them as and handling costs plus speedier elected at a headquarters meeting same storm. Lake Charles was Mississippi we ran- into unusual they were filling with snow. shipment for the "Sea-Land" oper­ last February upon the death of treated to a 1.1 Inches of snow weather," he related. "It was snow­ "Those not on duty were on deck ation over conventional cargo-han­ Harry Lundeberg, was re-elected to and Texas, Florida and other states ing in the Gulf of Mexico at the having snowball fights and taking dling methods. It recently claimed the office of secretary-treasurer pictures ... Both sides of the river that in one voyage of the Gateway with the greatest number of votes around the southern rim of the mouth of the river! "After about an hour the pilot were blanketed in white and Pilot City the total cargo damage was a cast, country got theirs too. 3,876. He was unopposed. The cold spell had Miami Beach was able to board the ship and Town looked like a scene in the dented can of fruit juice in one Assistant Secretary - Treasurer begin a slow trip up the river Northwest." The last time there trailerload. vacationers in the doldrums for a Harry Johnson and-San Francisco hampered by poor visibility due to was a notable flurry of snow here while, but the picture has bright­ Tankers Used Earlier Dispatcher Joe Pohorence, who ened since. As usual,.the worst-hit the heavy snowfall. As a result," was in 1935, he said. The "Sea-Land" service differs were also unopposed, were re­ areas were in the Great Lakes from the innovation introduced by elected with more than 3,000 votes region. New England and upper the company two years ago when each. New York state, where zero tem­ it modified four T-2 tankers to en­ Ontport Officials Elected peratures were commonplace and able them to carry up to 60 trail­ drops to 35 below and even less ers on special platform decks as In the outports, William Arm­ were recorded. On the day of the well a.s their 'regular oil cargo. strong and Geert Pott, were re­ snow. New Orleans had a range of When its subsequent attempt to elected as New York agent ajid 31*-39'. WASHINGTON—The US has announced the signing of a charter 20 more tankers for this patrolman respectively. Pott re­ Shipping all along the Atlantic type of operation was unsuccessful, ceived more than 1,000 votes over and Gulf coast had a rough time, new agreement with Communist Poland providing for an it proposed building brand-new his only opponent, Thomas Master, who tallied 1,366 ballots. Arm­ and one Italian vessel maintained additional $98,000,000 in American aid. trailerships instead. strong was unopposed. the disaster pattern for oreships at This is the second such loan"^ This idea was scrapped 15 this time of year and sank. Twenty- to Poland. Last summer a sim­ relieve a serious food shortage months ago in favor of the much The elections were closer in two crewmen were lost (See stoi^ ilar credit of $95,000,000 was caused by crop failures through­ less costly C-2 conversions. The Portland where incumbent agent on page 16). first of these, the Gateway City, William Benz was faced with two signed between the two coimtries out the year. opponents in Jack Adams and John For the Dei Mar, which was com­ providing Ibr the sale of surplus As part of the surplus farm went into service last October. ing into port here during the snow, farm produc^. Both agreements agreements with foreign nations, Waterman's decision last fall to Massey. Benz was re-elected with involve heavy "50-50" cargo ship­ all of the shipments must come extend its trailership operations to 1,^852 votes to Adam's 740 and ments. under the "50-50" law which re­ Puerto Rico aroused sharp protests Massey's 929. Three port agents, Ragnvald Under the terms of the new quires one-half of the . cargoes to not only from rival shipping firms agreement, the US will extend be carried by American-flag ves­ but from truckers and other shore- Johansen in Seattle, R. C. Ander­ side companies. The company has son in Wilmington and Carl Chris­ $73,000,000 in credit for wheat and sels. tiansen in Honoiulu, did not seek other grains, cottonseed and soy­ re-election. Ed Coester, Gordon A collection of poems and obser­ bean oils and other foodstuffs. Ellis and James Dooley, respec­ This includes $6,700,000 to cover vations written in ports around the tively, were elected to take over world has just been published by the cost of shipping the food. those jobs. Bobby Winters, a member of the Poland will also receive $25,Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. 000,000 in credit from President Called "A Merchant Seaman in Eisenhower's special foreign aid Ports of Call," the book contains fund for the purchase of food impressions of well-known seafar­ processing and farm machinery, ing ports, the people he met there raw materials for leather and tex­ SAN FRANCISCO—Seafarers who are residents of San and impressions of shipmates in tile plants, some light industrial Francisco county and who wish to vote in the coming Cali­ machinery and medical equipment. both prose and verse. Winters, who lives in Brooklyn, The announcement also stated fornia primary elections may register in the Sailor's Union has been shipping out since he was that the Government would be of the Pacific headquarters willing to continue discussions 16. Of primary concern to all union over financial arrangements that building in San Francisco. All members is the proposed "right to would permit the Communist coun­ union members are urged to work" bill which is being promul­ All Hands On Deck try to purchase raw materials and make sure they will be eligible to gated imder the vague title of machineiy to increase her output "Employee-Employer Relations." vote in these elections because of ... What Deck? of consumer commodities. The the "right to work" legislation be­ Like Other Bills NORFOLK—A British steamer shortage of consumer goods is a ing proposed by anti-labor forces Although not called a wreck law, was brought into here under major problem In Poland. throughout-the state. the bill has all of the fundamental tow, minus a few combustible The Department of Agriculture All residents who wish to reg­ principles of such laws. It outlaws items, including its hatch covers. has also announced increased au­ ister may do so in room 109 of requirements that a man join a The freighter Peterland had run out of fuel en route to Nor­ thorizations of sale of surplus food the SUP headquarters building union, or that the company-bire its folk and tried to get up steam products to Turkey and India. from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Mon­ workers through the recognized by burning the covers and some Turkey is to receive $400,000 worth day through Friday. New r^i- bargaining representatives. The chaim. It had to call for a tug of butter and $1,300,000 worth of dents, those who are currently reg­ bill knocks out the closed shop, the anyway, rather than burn every­ cheese while about $25,000,000 in istered but have moved, changed union shop, maintenance of mem­ their name, or wish to change their bership and any obligation to sup­ ihimYceK INMMxe thing in sight that was inflam­ grain will go to India. The sale of grain to India was party, should.do this before April port a union. It also forbids the mable. l2l6i-BAtfuaie authorized., .in an effort to help 10 in order io vote on June 3rd. use of hiring halls. Snow, Cold Greet Gulf Srafarers SUP Elects Weisberger Sec'y-Treas. Big Aid Shipments Headed For Poland Seaman's Poetry Book Published Calif. Unions Conducting Vote Registration Drive SBAPARERS : WRrcfcUL i \ • 1 . Js '''h 1 -••is 11 m -i �SEdPA ragtt MB V V '. ?r LOG Fetoury ies. IfU Oregon Port Hospital Patients Assail Curran Betterment MTDGoal 'Dismal Record' 1'^ SA! NMU President Joseph Curran's snide remarks about the SIU in his attempts to brush off the NMU's inadequate provi­ sion for long-term hospital patients has drawn indignant re­ PORTLAND—Members of the joinders from hospitalized Seafarers. John Driscoll and Maritime Trades Department Port Arthur Lomas, two Manhattan Beach hospital patients, have Council of Portland and vicinity written that in their opinion^ have started a campaign to solve benefits $9.23 per week — and the Curran response points up, some of the serious problems what hospitalized members of the as Lomas put it "the dismal SIU receive — $21 weekly for the plaguing the maritime industry record of poor treatment of duration of the in-hospital period here, the most important of which the less fortxmate members of — Mr. Curran goes up in sihoke is the dredging of the Columbia your union." River. . . . The NMU members here have They were, particularly critical had no increase in extended hos­ In 1936 a bill was passed author­ of indifference to personal needs pital benefits since their plan be­ izing the dredging and maintenance Involved and neglect of new pa­ came operative; and even this fea­ of a 500-foot wide, 35-foot deep tients during the last holiday sea­ ture of their plan was late in get­ channel and a Columbia River bar son. The following are excerpts ting started (1954^1 believe). This dredged to a depth of 40-feet. Later from the letters: is progress? this was amended to provide for a if ^ ^ "As to Mr. Curran's remarks that 40-foot river channel and a 48-foot some SIU members ... are not bar. But while the bar was being getting 'any money'—this I'd like deepened, the river -was "sadly to see. Even when a member of neglected," William Benz, port Group of NMU and SIU Manhattan Beach patients are shown, our Union fails to meet the un­ council chairman said. Benz is port at 1953 meeting at which NMU members protested neglect of usually liberal requirements . . . agent for the Sailor's Union of the that is, when a man might be short their needs. Similar situation exists today. Pacific. "I have been a patient in this 15 or 20 days, seatime, he still is Last year, Benz said, the council hospital since the day it was first given $7 per week even though, same benefits granted to all mem­ sympathy and disgust because of used for treating tubercular US technicaUy, the Plan is imder no bers. This clearly showed deep the shabby treatment they were had to fight to save the port's only thought and a humane attitude ... getting . . . These boys tried to get efficient, dredge, the 30-year-old merchant seamen—June 30, 1950— obligation to him. until the present time. Under ordi­ "Not too long ago the NMU "Quite some time later, when the representation at NMU headquar­ Multomah, when what is actually nary circumstances I pay scant, if membership were told how won­ NMU put its hospital benefits ters by mailing letters and by per­ needed is a new dredge, one capa­ any, attention to the vaporings of derful everything would be when plan Into effect, you did not give sonal contact with your officials ble of dredging between 40 and 50 Mr. Joseph Curran, but when Mr. their welfare plan was taken out the same kind of thought or con­ . . . but were always given the foot depths. Another problem facihg the Curran begins to discuss long term of the hands of the insurance com­ sideration to the less fortunate brush-off ... . . ."These members of your un­ council is the threatened loss of hospital patients, and especially pany. Oh, yeah! Here is an ex­ members of your union. The bene­ those at this hospital, I think I ample of what happened in this fits were smaller than that of the ion were forced to write to the a Navy dry dock which pays out am justified in commenting .... hospital last Christmas. Four NMU SIU and if after meeting the re­ crews of ships asking for 'hand­ over $14 million In wages alone to "Mr. Curran says that 'There are men here who had, in 1955 and quirements of a lengthy question- outs' although none of them were Portland workers. a few patients in Manhattan Beach 1956, received a Christmas check aire, those members who qualified too proud of this measure. They : The council was able to prevent who have been there the biggest of $25 . . . were told that they did were allowed benefits only for a got a few bucks this way which en­ this loss temporarily by bringing abled them to buy a few needed the issue to Secretary of Labor part of their life and they are go­ not qualify arid that further, they period of 13 weeks. If they were confined to the hos­ items and to pay for an occasional Mitchell. ing to stay there. Unfortunately should have not even been given pital longer than this period, it was haircut instead of having to 'bum' they have what is known as a this check in '55 or '56. the hospital social service for this. lengthy illness.' For Mr. Curran's "Because these men did not have ust too bad, they got nothing. "Contrast this to . . . the SIU "You beef that all you get . . . Information, there are no patients the necessary time . . . they receive —^NMU members included—who five dollars per month from a fund whose benefits cover the member is letters 'condemning the hell out have been here for the greater part created from voluntary, donations as long as he is hospitalized ... of us.' What do yon expect Joe, of their lives. And the lengthy ill­ from their seagoing brothers. I see if he has an illness which will re­ letters of praise, letters of thanks ness he refers to happens to be no reference in Mr. Curran's re­ quire a long stay in the hospital for the stvell treatment they have tuberculosis, for which, until the marks which can explain away, he is comforted with the thought received from you? The National (Continued .from page 3) advent of streptomycin in 1945 and not only the experience outlined that he will receive benefits from Maritime Union is not only con­ success, he said, but tlie use of the demned by your membership diere MTD machinery promises a higher the discovery of isoniazid in 1952, above, but why his union and his there on In . . . but held in disrespect by the staff level of achievement in a relatively "While your hospital benefits insurance counsellor cannot make no effective treatment, other than a better contribution than $9.23 a covered your currently dctive mem­ and other personneL Did you ex­ difficult organizing area. bed rest, was available. "Referring to the patients here week to men who face a lengthy bers to some extent what about the pect any other kind of attitude? ... The nature of Lakes operations, —of whom 90 percent are merchant period of hospitalization. Why the old-time members of the National "You claiin that hospital cover­ nvolvihg several months of intense seamen—in so offhanded and in­ NMU is not able to increase this Maritime Union who had been in age for your old-time union mem­ activity and then months of shut­ different a manner, is rubbing it weekly benefit is a bit puzzling hospitals for a number of years? bers would 'break the plan down.' down, has always handicapped or­ In. It goes a long way in explain­ when one considers all the money .. . They were completely ignored. Well the SIU ... is able to do this ganizing operations because of the ing some of those '. . .letters from they were supposed to save by This was Hie most heartless phase . . . and its welfare fund is still dispersal of Lakes workers in the solvent ... so it should not be an winter months. Manhattan Beach condemning the taking their plan away from their of your whole welfare setrup. "You stated that these men 'had economic problem for you. The hell out of us,' to which Mr. Cur­ insurance company." International Unions with repre­ spent the biggest part of their reason is that the humane atti­ sentatives at the meeting included John Driscoll ran makes reference. Some of lives' in a hospital. Of course this tude and regard for all its mem­ the SIU of North America and its these 'unfortunate' members of his ^ 4 is not true . . . Most of these men bers which governs the actions of various affiliates, the Masters Mates union are men who were in the are In their late forties or fifties SIU welfare officials is sadly miss­ and Pilots, Operating Engineers, forefront of the NMU's early strug­ and some older, and they had been ing in the National Maritime Union. Boilermakers, Marine Engineers, gles. That a man . . . should refer hospitalized in some Instances for "To further this statement would Office Employees, Technical Engi­ to the less fortunate members of periods of eight to twelve years, special movies for your hospital­ neers, State,. Coqnty and Municipal his union In such cavalier fashion. but at the time of their being hos­ ized members make a dent in your Employees, International Brother­ Is to my way of thinking, a sad re­ flection of poor taste. "This letter is written in re­ pitalized they had been active welfare fund? Or during the holi­ hood of Longshoremen, Firemen "He then tells the convention... sponse to your attitude ... in re­ members. Their only fault was that days an invitation to all patients and Oilers, Radio Officers and •that there are no plans, either in­ lationship to those members of they had become sick before there who can attend to a big Christmas Graip Millers. Numerous repre­ surance companies or others, that your union who" are hospitalized was such a thing as a welfare plan. Dinner ipresid given by the union sentatives came from,local union "They had not spent the biggest in all ports, a personal greeting affiliates of these internationals in are able to handle this long term ... it contains the view of one who part of their lives in a hospital, card to all patients from union the Lakes airea. , Illness question'. (This was in ref­ has been a patient at the Manhat­ erence to the efforts of the mem­ tan Beach hospital for a long time, but rather . , , the best part of headquarters, a swell Christmas SIU of NA representatives at the. their lives ... a.time,in their lives tree with all the decorations sent meeting wer6 Paul Hall, SlU of bers who are receiving $9.23 per and still incapacitated . . . week as extended hospital benefits "When the SIU inaugurated when they hoped for and expected to each hospital for the patients to NA President; Morris Weisberger, and who have been trying to ob­ their Welfare Plan benefits . . . some assistance fronr the organiza­ fix up and enjoy and along with Secretary-'freasurer of the Sailora tain an increase in this weekly the benefits were for all currently tion to which they belonged . . . their Christmas bonus, an extra Union of the Pacific; Sam Bennett, payment). active members in good standing these guys had grown up with you dividend in the form of a carton Marine Firemen's President; Ray "Has It ever crossed his mind to who were then, or would be, hos­ and your union. Most of them, of cigarettes for all hands—would McKay, President, Brotherhood of inquire how the SIU, or the pitalized. At the same time the . . . who while active had fought all this undermine the financial Marine Engineers and Fred FarMFOW, manage this feature of Union realized that while this plan in picket lineg and beefs, Some of structure of your welfare fund? num, International Representative their welfare programs without covered all currently active mem­ them had shipped out with you "The hospitalized members of for the Great Lakes District. endangering the financial stability bers, there were other members back in the days 'when'. Hut you the SIU receive all of, the, above, of their fundb? Does it tax the in the hospitals,who had been forgot all about that Joe, and along with a personal message of cheer and well wishes from the abilities of the high-priced insur­ there for a number of years and turned your back on them. Sign Name Qn ance counsellors ... to come up who, did not qualify for the bene­ "I lived with these guys in the representative of the SIU Welfare LOG Letters hospital for a long time, . . . and department ... There is always with a realistic approach to this fits ... problem? For obvious reasons the LOG "These men had heen forced to they are all good buddies of mine close, personal contact at all times "For the past several years, terminate their association with because illness makes no distinc­ between the patients and the Un­ cannot print any letters ' or these men who are the recipients the Union as active members owing tion. We v/ere all seamen together ion .. . Joe that personal touch other communications sent in of this $9.23 weekly payment have to illness . . , They had, as you in drydock, each with an equally means a whole lot to a bunch of by Seafarers unless the author' been told . . . the same old time- described 'a lengthy illness.' The tough break ... If there was any hospitalized seamen ... it makes signs his name. Unsigned worn excuses 'we have not fallen SIU did not abandon these less for­ distinction it was an economic one them feel that they still -'belong.' anonymous letters will only down on this job, that we are work­ tunate members, most of whom . . . we received our benefit cash This is something that along with wind up in the 'waste-basket. ing on it' and 'it takes time'. . . had been with the Union since its each and every week, while those adequate cash benefits, your mem­ If circumstances justify, »the bership in. the bospi^l have never LOG will withhold a signature ' ; . . Whenever NMU members early growth, but went to bat for poor guys got nothing. on riequest. v j',.,-.a, them and created a 'Special Bene­ "We've shared cigarettes and . in­ received ..." mentto® the Arthur Lomas ^ they receive for extended ms^tal fits' clause . . « giving th'em tiie cidentals ... and we also ishared 'Same Old Excuses..,' MTD Sets Lakes Drive 'Always Get Brush-OH' IV' It;:,' ' i'SI • iSv IS:;: Ife- ife:! . • .' • • �rebnurjr 28, IMtt TOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH Tage Sevea SEAFARERS , LOG Del Monte Pet Heads For Zoo NEW ORLEANS—Bringing home souvenirs comes naturally to Seafarers. Take the case of the crew of the SS Del Monte diming her recent voyage to West Africa, which re­ sulted in a new acquisition for the New Orleans zoo. While anchored at a port in-^, Angola, some of the crew By Sidney Margolius was passing the time watching native fisherman working their nets between boats in the harbor. Sud­ March Buying Calendar This winter wage-earners are having a struggle simply to keep up denly several of the fishermen with the costs of food and shelter, with some meat prices Jumping as started making a fuss over their much as five or ten cents a week recently. The stubbornly high prices catch. They had encircled a school In the face of declining employment and wages are an omen that the of fish and caught a baby seal in present recession is going to be stiffer and longer than many realize. the middle of their net. The seal was tearing the net to Moderate-income families are going to feel the effect of this reces­ sion for some time as they, pull themselves out of new cash debts in­ pieces when engine utility H. Menz curred in this period of spotty employment. US families increased and assistant engineer J. Thornton their personal borrowing of cash loans a whopping nine-tenths of a Jumped into a work boat that was over the side and went to the fisher­ billion dollars in tho last recorded 12-month period. Besides meat, another big problem this year is the stiff price of men's aid. "We got the net wrapped around milk. That milk's price is artificially rigge^ at high levels in many the seal so we could pick him up large cities is, shown by the noticeable cost difference in different and put him into our boat," Menz cities. You may pay as little as 19 cents a quart, and as much as 30.6 said. "The fishermen wanted to cents, depending on where you live kill him, but we immediately and whether the price in your area thought of bringing him back to Is fixed artificially by Federal-State the States." The fishermen did not care what marketing agreements. was done with him, provided he Del Monte's pet seal poses v/ith favorite menu item. Rshermen Families in New York, Boston, was not put back into the water to who netted it in Angola gave it to Seafarers who brought it back to Philadelphia and Chicago pay the New Orleans zoo. stiffest prices of 30.6 cents, 30, 28.5 ruin their nets, he said. "In fact, and 28.3 respectively, compared to when we told them we were going a national average of 25.8. At 27 to bring him back to the States and put him into a zoo, they gave us cents, milk also carries an extra 300 pounds of fish to feed him dur­ -premium in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati ing the voyage." and Baltimore. In free-market The crew made a cage out of a Minneapolis, families pay only 19.3 cents for this basic food for their chain locker which was then filled with water.-Menz acted as BR to children. The auto industry especially is the seal throughout the voyage, WASHINGTON—^The TMT Carib Queen will be offered being hard hit this year as wage- changing the water twice daily and earners are forced to devote a feeding him eight fish a day. "At for sale on March 4 to satisfy a mortgage default of ap­ larger part of their income to basic first he nipped me," Menz said, proximately $4 million on a Government-guaranteed mort­ necessities. Already the industry "but I've got him quite tame now.!' gage. The sale of the vesselscrew has presented the seal has an inventory of 800,000 cur­ to The came after the owners were tional funds to meet debts and the rent-year cars on hand. This is 24 city. Audubon Park Zoo in this unsuccessful in raising addi- carry on the trailership operation. percent more than last year at this time. Oddly enough. Maritime Ad­ There are some scattered price cuts helpful to moderate-income ministrator Clarence Morse said famiiies. For the first time in years, manufacturers have cut the price that it was company losses "play­ of carpeting. The cut is only three percent but still of some help. ing the market" which precipitated Other price cuts are noticeable on lumber and plumbing equipment, the company's bankruptcy. TMT some heating equipment and cotton textiles, with scattered reductions had owned some 57,750 shares of on gasoline and fuel oiL Belianca Aircraft at the time the Here are tips on March buying trends and opportunities: Over 2,000 memben of Textile committee were discharged, the mortgage was granted in Decem­ HOUSING: The business recession is forcing a cut in the price of Workers Local 713, Fredericks­ rest of the members struck the ber, 1956. At that time, the stock mortgage money after five years of steadily-advancing rates. The new burg, Va., have voted to contribute plant. Negotiations have been car­ was selling' at $30.50 a share. trend is most noticeable in the East, where many lenders have cut the a dollar a week to assist 300 strik­ ried on intermittently since then. Subsequently, Belianca stock interest rate to 5Ab percent, although a few savings and loan associa­ ing workers at the Virginia Shoe The TWUA has charged the com­ folded like an accordion with a tions still insist on 6.^In the West and South, the rate still holds close Corp. in that city. The shoe work­ pany with deliberately delaying leaky bellows when it was revealed to 6. But the leveling-off in mortgage costs has come too late to help ers voted to affiliate with the Tex­ the negotiations, that the company had been "raid­ wage-earners who by and large now are completely priced out of the tile Workers Union of America t ed" by a high-powered stock mar­ last September. In January, when housing market. A new eonventlon for the Dis­ ket manipulator who had worked The trend now is back to renting. This is a significant reversal of 42 members of the Union's shop tillery, Rectifying and Wine Work­ himself into commanding position the big movement to home ownership that occurred after World War ers Union has been set for Wash­ in the firm. When TMT got to un­ II, when many families found monthly payments on a house cost less ington on April 9th, 10th and 11th. loading its shares, they were sell­ than rent. But in the period from 1950-56, costs of home ownerships Peter McGavin, special assistant to ing at $5.50 to $6. Morse estimated and operation soared 39 percent compared to a rise of 22 percent in AFL-CIO President George Meany, the company lost $800,000 in this and monitor of the Distillery Work­ transaction alone. The- Carib Queen rentals. Now in many cases it's again relatively cheaper to rent, and more builders are beginning to put up rental units this year. ers Union, said that new officers then suffered a costly breakdown will be elected and steps taken to at sea which was the final financial The best chance of finding moderate rentals is in garden-type de­ comply with the clean up orders blow to the company. velopments, moderately-priced elevator buildings and converted apart­ issued by the Federation. A previ­ ments in older dwellings, rather than in one-family houses which are Beilanca trading has been sus­ ous "cleanup" convention last No­ pended for some time now by the in lowest supply. WASHINGTON—The Maritime AIR CONDITIONEBS: Room coolers will be cheaper this spring. A Administration has awarded a vember turned into a near-riot Securities and Exchange Commis­ carryover of three-quarters of a million units or more, from the cool $25,000 contract to General Dy­ when former Distiilery President sion after an investigation of the summer of 1957, is forcing down prices to as much as $25 below a year namics to study the practicality Joseph O'NeiU stormed the plat­ manipulations involved in "milk­ ago. Many high-capacity coolers are available around the $250-$275 of building a submarine tanker for form in an attempt to take controi ing" the company. of the convention. McGavin and a level this year. The Carib Queen went into servCommercial use, probably with an group of delegates adjourned the ice last spring as the first true The big promotion this year is for low-priccd portable air conditioners atom-power plant in mind. meeting. roli-on roll-off ship in the deep which cost less than $200. But we must warn that these may prove dis­ Under the terms of 4he contract. 4" t sea trade. She made a couple of appointing. These lightweight models weighing under 100 pounds can General Dynamics, the builders of An 82-day waRkont by 6,000 trips for the Military Sea Transportbe moved from room to room. You simply set the unit in the window, the first nuclear-powered sub­ extend its telescoping side panel and tighten two screws. You can marine, the Nautilus, has six workers in nine pulp and paper Service to demonstrate the efficacy even get wheeled carts to facilitate moving. But the new portable cool­ months within which to complete mills in British Columbia has end­ of carrying wheeled Army trucks ed with the signing of a new con­ and cargoes overseas for instant ers have only limited cooling capacity. Most will not do a satisfactory its study. cooling Job in a large room or where you have extreme heat conditions. Two other nations have expressed tract providing substantial wage discharge. On a later trip the ves­ Much of the disappointment with air conditioners bought in recent interest in underwater vessels. One and benefit increases. Members of sel suffered its engine room break­ years is due to the exaggeration of cooling capacity by salesmen and English company has signed a the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill down and went in for extensive re­ dealers. This is especially true of the recently-introduced 7V^-amp study contract with a Swiss firm of Workers and the United Paper- pairs. Morse said the Carib Queen models, which draw only 110-120 volts and don't require the heavy- navel architects for a six-month maker and Paperworkers Union will get a general increase of 71^ should have a market value of duty 220-240 volt wiring needed by 10 and 12-amp models. study on the commercial use of To Judge the capacity of air conditioners and compare values in dif­ nuclear-powered submarines, while percent retroactive to last July 1, about $3ti million. A footnote to the Carib Queen ferent makes, find out the BTU rating. This is a more reliable yard­ a Japanese firm has announced ex­ and another 2 percent increase this stick than the "horsepower" or "ton" rating. For example, a one- periments on undersea tankers, but July. Mechanics will receive an sale is the news that the Senate horsepower 7^-amp unit may have only 6800 BTU cooling capacity, denied it was considering the additional five cents an hour. A Foreign Commerce Committee has night shift diiferential of seven approved a bill which would per- > compared to 9800 for a one-horsepower 12-amp wit. Both models cost use of nuclear power. mit subsidized ship operators to in­ the same. - The only saving in the lower amp model may be in wiring. According to "Jane's Fighting cents was also negotiated. vest reserve funds in common Many air conditioners also claim to have two cooling capacities; Ships," the US has alrea^ devel­ t stocks. "power cooUng" for daytime and "quiet cooling" for night. All they oped a submarine tanker of sorts. The 1958 exhibition of the AFLreally.have is a two-speed fan. This gives you quieter opieratioh at The former Navy submarine Gua- CIO Union-Industries show wiil be night, but also, less cooling capacity at the "quiet" spqed because the vina was converted in 1950 into a held in the Music Hall, Cincinnati, fan moves less cold aih submarine tanker. In the course of Ohio. This will be the 20th anni­ One new feature offered by at least two makers (Fedder-Quigan and the conversation, the vessel's beam versary of the giant labor-manage­ Westinghouse) is a heat-pump air-conditioner at $30 more than the was increased from 27-to 37 feet. ment exhibition, which was first same cooler without this device. It enables the cooler to be used as Exterior tanks for bulk liquids held in that same auditorium 20 a heater in the winter months. years ago. were added. Seafarer's Guide To Better Buyiug M •t i •J _ T'j'J I Stock Speculation Helped Wreck TMT, Morse Says LABOR ROUND-UP MA Orders Studies On Sub Tanker m fdl •.yl ' I *I I ,.-ti •TI • •.-•ill '.Sl �* , -. ,V- ^ 'i , *"n\- UNIONS - ' • • " "w . "Thfi It thi'fourtk of# toriof,.#n can trad# Mnions to appear In tho' SEAFARERS LOG. Tho earlei li presenting a cross section of America's trade unions and their membership. fn#7 Association Of Machinists '^' ."i V .-•n< ^ J The International Association of Machinists was formed 76 years ago by d group of 19 machinists In Atlanta, Georgia. In those 70 years It has grown to one of America's largest unions with a membership just under one million. 'Its membership Is organised Into 2,090 local lodges, 164 districts and 39 state councils. The membership distribution Is widespread in railroads, aircraft, air transport, printing press manufacture, machine tooh aytomotive rapolr and In the missile and rocket fields; The union publishes d weekly tabloid-style newspaper. "Hie Machinist," that has long been one of the nation's outstanding labor popers.^ Al J. Hayes has been International president of the lAM since 1949.' The union's headquarters ore In oh lAM-owned building at 1300 Connecticut Avenue, Washington 6, DC. •. As a result of the increasing com­ INETEEN southern Railroad plexity and skills required in many machinists huddled in a loco­ industrial processes, the lAM's motive pit in Atlanta in 1888 membership has shown its greatest were the beginning of the now giant growth in the past nine years, go­ Intarnational Association of Ma­ ing from a little more than 500,0^00 chinists. From this original begin­ members in 1949 to nearly a mil­ ning as a craft union on the rail­ lion today. roads, the development of the Machinists union has kept pace To serve this membership, the with the development of the ma- ' IAM is constantly expanding its chine in America's economy. activities. The union's Washington headquarters includes the follow- ; Today, JAM is the largest union ing departments: health and medi­ in the aircraft and guided missiles cal, legal, research, editorial and industry, in auto mechanics, the public relations, educational and machine tool industry, on airlines, legislative. in the business machines industry and one of the largest on the rail­ Traditionally, lAM has been a roads and among Government blueleader in developing joint appren­ collar workers. Its membership is ticeship programs. It is also tack­ employed by almost 15,000 differ­ ling the growing problems of help­ ent firms in the US and its territor­ ing to retrain union members dis­ ial possessions, and in Canada. placed by constantly-accelerating mechanical and technological ad­ The diversity of I AM-c6vered em­ vances. ployment ranges from the .produc- > ^ Now a leading member of the tion of the Vanguard satellite and AFL-CIO family, the IAM first the electronic computer ,Univac to joined the AFL back in 1895. For a specialized employment in atomic period of five years in the forties energy installations and thousands it was out of the AFL, but rejoined of machine shop operations. It ne­ in 1950. lAM's , President Hayes gotiates both for huge industrial was' active m the negotiations ' units of many thousands of mem­ which led to the merger of thebers and for highly-skilled craft AFL-CIO in 1955. units as well. N >• • •/• 4^' Impressive headquarters building in Washington is ten stories of rein­ forced concrete faced with marble. Union occupies about 60 percent of space, rents out rest. fee mwi'--" te-; ;• a;:': Union members are directly involved In such "^afnour'' pirdducts as giifded';^:^^^^^ The JAM is hbW actively promoting an apprenticeship program ~ xoissiles. rockets ahd^ sSteUitesV lAM members: alirb 'shp^ here bn'^NikO >'in'this industry where skills, aref at a premium because of-tho higb-pre''short r«n'In involv^'--' •' s Santa Monica ' '''''cisioil'workhuinShin cision workmanship involv^; ' '' �Febnury ». Itn SEAFARERS LOG Pare NIM s1 Aircraft maintenance men at National Airlines are among a group of 37 airline units which are imder lAM contracts, assuring safe and efficient airline service on world-wide routes. Traditional machine shop work Is represented by machinist Louis Heidtke, threading a shaft for a pitch machine at Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee. "I -'M --JS •i Proportion of women members has increased sharply since World War II. Th^e work on shop assembly line of Canadian Aviation Electronics doing intricate work OQ radio control panels with complex circuits. lAM's initial activity was in the railroad industry. These men work in New York Central repair shop in Harmon, New York. �Pace Tea SEAFARERS LOG CanadaStriteAwaitsElectionOutcome MONTREAL—A break in the eight-month strike deadlock between the SIU Canadian District and the government-owned Canadian National Steamships, Ltd., now appears to hinge on the outcome of the Canadian general elections next month. Meanwhile, SIU pickets have the eight strikebound shipping. Two of the ships were plans direct fortnightly service to involved in collisions while an­ Jamaica to supplement its regular | ships locked up tight in Hali­ chored in Halifax harbor. sailings via Nassau, Santiago, Cuba, fax. The strike has attracted world­ wide labor support due to company strikebreaking tactics that included tlie transfer of the ships to Trini­ dad registry. The walkout originally began last July 4, but with nationwide ballot­ ing barely a month away, the CNS beef has turned into a political is­ sue. Observers now expect that ris­ ing unemployment and the decline in Canadian trade dramatized by the CNS beef may well determine whether the Conservative govern­ ment of Prime Minister John F. Diefenbacher will stand or fall. The elections are called for March 31. Magazine Raps Gov't Support for the Canadian Dis­ trict in the lengthy dispute recently came from an unexpected source when a Canadian magazine pub­ lished a stinging attack denouncing CNS and the government officials who approved the transfer gim­ mick. The magazine "Saturday Night" said there can be no excuse for transferring a steamship line owned by the people of Canada to the sovereignty of a foreign nation ... To give the excuse of a wage dispute is even worse. "What we are saying, in effect," the article pointed out, "is that we recognize that colored seamen are not entitled to the wages paid to white seamen and that we arte go­ ing to man our ships with 'cheap'_ labor to beat down the deihands of our own Canadian seamen." The article was entitled: "Our Merchant Marine Sold Down The River." Only Ig Ships Left It ridiculed the wisdom of gov­ ernment-supported moves that have whittled the Canadian-flag deep-sea fleet down to 18 ships. CNS was the last major ocean-go­ ing fleet under Canadian registry as a result of prior transactions which shifted the bulk of the Cana­ dian fleet to British registry. "Saturday Night" said the trans" fer of CNS ships to Trinidad to es­ cape the demands of the Canadian SIU was the "lowest point ever reached by Canadian National Steamships" in which what it char­ acterized as "its long and often politically chequered history" since 1892. "We are no sixth-rate bank­ rupt little power to be shucking off our responsibilities by any such cheap expedient," the magazine added. 20 Percent Bemand Following an impasse in nego­ tiations that began in the fall of 1956, the Canadian District struck CNS last July to back up an al­ ready-reduced 20 percent wage in­ crease demand. The company finally came up with a two-step 15 percent pay package on October 15, 1957, and then moved to trans­ fer the ships outright when the men rejected it. It followed through on its take-it-or-leave-it threat with jfovemment approval. CNS is a government-owned sub­ sidiary of Canadian National Rail­ ways, and operates between Canada and the West Indies. Wages for ABs on the ships are $204 per month. Unsuccessful in efforts to im­ port crews of strikebreakers from England or the West Indies when Canadian and world labor groups boycotted the fleet, the ccnnpany manned five of them with officers and moved them from here to Hali­ fax to Join three others already there. They were suhsequest^ shifted to nearby Bedford Basin to eRmJnate them as a hazard to other With the fleet still idled, another Canadian operator last week an­ nounced a stepped-up service to the West Indies on a year-round basis. Saguenay Shipping, Ltd., and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. ' This will provide a sailing every week, operating from Montreal in the summer months and from Halifax during the winter. SEAFARERS IN ACTION Delegates and steward depart­ ments make the difference on a happy ship. From the looks of things, it will be a good trip for the men .on the Steel Chemist. "There Have been no beefs so far," is the re­ port, and with the steward de„ . partment on this Kaufman si,ip "eveiyone should put on a lot of weight." Besides boasting of good cooks and bakers, the ship also has a fine ship's delegate handling matters. The crew persuaded "Harry Kauf­ man to continue as ship's delegate and gave him a sound vote of thanks for a job well done." t- i- We have heard of men catching old shoes, tires, anchor chains, or even themselves while fishing, but we think thjs Is one for the books. According to Walter ZulesU, ship's delegate on the Yorkmar, the ship was cruising along at a "hot nine knots" when steward W. Aycock gave out with the familiar "fish on the line" cry. Mouths started watering as a num­ ber of the crew rushed to the side to see what would be on the menu. Sorry to report but Aycock was anticipating too much. We don't know how it happened, but, there on the end of the line, was not a fish, but a hungry gooney bird. We're not implying that fish din­ ners are well liked on the ship, but that bird was just as disap­ pointed as was the crew. 4" 3^ Among delegates who rated votes of thanks were those on the Morning Light, Steel Chemist, and the CS Miami. Special thanks went to the dele­ gates on the Kyska. John C. Brady, who han­ dles the job of ship's delegate; C. Jones for the deck department; C. Dyer from the black gang and N. West, who represents the steward department, ere doing a fine job in those positions. Your Gear.. for ship .. .for shore Whatever you need, m work or dress geor, your SIU Sea Chest has It. Get top quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ ing at your Union-owned and Unionoperated Sea Chest store. Sporf Coafs Slacks Dress Shoes Work Shoes Socks Dungarees Frisko Jeens CPO Shirts Dress Shirts Sport Shirts Belts Khakis Ties Sweat Shirts T-shirts Shorts Briefs Swim Trunks Sweaters Sou'westers Raingear Caps Writing Materials Toiletries Electric Shavers Radios Television Jewelry Cameras luggage the 4^ SEA CHEST Febnianr tS, liH •ALTORI (Ore Nav.), Jan. 1— Chairman, J. WIta; Sacratary, J. erlmat. Shlp'a fund Sll.U. No baafa. men to be sent to proper deck wheR Joining ship. Discuaaion re: lncrea» ing stpres in aiop cheat. No' LOOS being received from headquarters. Re­ quest company issue mailing addraseas. 34 hrs. prior to sailing. JOHN a. KULUKUNDIS (Martit), Jan. 11—Chairman, 1.. Varkti Sacratary, R. Carraway. Dlaputad ot to bo aettlad at payoff. X,aunch aarvlea PILTORI (OrsiTjM. liUchalrman, payment to, bo made at payoff. Ona C. Meorai Secretary, R. DaBelMlare. man mlasad ship. Ona man hospital­ New delegate elected. One man miss­ ized. Some disputed ot to be settled ed ship. Request to Bx ports in fire­ at payoff. No LOGs received in SVi men and wipers' roomr. months. Request they be maUed to ANGELINA (Buli), Jan 13—Chair, ship when on a Ions run. Draw list to be sumitted to capt. before arrival man, H. Phult; Sacratary, p. Latorra. in states. Vote of thanks to brothers Vote of thanks to steward dept. for on Robin Line for good Job. preparation and serving of Christmas dinner. POROTHY (Bull), Dec. 15—Chalrmanr W. Meson) Secretary, A. Wil­ ALCOA PURITAN (Alcoa), Jan. If liams. One man hospitalized. Due' —Chairman, J, Brasfleld) Secretary, to receive wages. One man missed R. Poole. Beefs settled. Master de­ cided on breaking and setting watches. Wiper fined $10 for not performing sanitary. Motion to have meeUngs on week-ends if possible. Ch. cook elected delegate. New reporter and treasurer elected. Fund to be started by donations. ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), Jan. S— Chairman, D. Knapp; Secretary, E. Bartlett. Creek an mail in - port. Ship's fund $21.21. Vote of thanks to men for remaining on Job during Robin Line beef. See patrolman about obtaining new washing ma­ chine. Vote of thanks to steward dept. Observe quiet-When using ma­ chine. ^ CANTIGNY (Cities Service), Jan 10 —Chairman, J. McCain; Secretary, D. ship. Ship saUed with insufficient water—to see patrolman. Delegate wished to resign. Requested to re­ main as he is doing fine Job. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Sestrain), Jan. 35—Chairman, F. Miller; Secretary, R, Hannibal. One man missed chip In Texas. Ship's fund S84.0S. Few hours disputed ot. Report accepted. Dis­ cussion concerning ice cream. MARYMAR (Calmer), Jan. S—Chair­ man, G. Craggs; Secretary, D. (FLeary. Ch. steward'^ removed due to liiness. Agent settled few beefs pertaining to ot and draws. Two men missed ship. Beef regarding quality of stores put aboard. Condition rectified. Mother of member passed away— collection made. Vote of thanks to steward for fine food and service. Beef regarding oiler and watches. Reports accepted. Discussed Robin Une ships and importance of regain­ ing same. Also the written off policy of deceased Seafarers' famUies and relieving them of financial responsi­ bility. Ail repair lists to be submit­ ted to patrolman. Mate not issuing enough soap. Oilers to use shaft al­ ley to steering engine room. Lights burned out. Screen door knobs re­ moved—gang uses outside ladders to get to wheel. Draws were above par. DEL VIBNTo"^t^ss.), Jan. IS— Chairman, F. Flatck; Sacratary, I. Brown. Two men left behind as result of injuries in Santos. Repair list taken cars of. No beefs. One man paid off in SA because of death in family. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for boUday menus. MORNING LIGHT (Watarman), Jan. 13—Chslmssr., A. Jarauld; Seeralary, W. Morsa. Two" men missed ship in Ban Juan. Geared turned over to patrolman. Ship's fund S3S. Few beefs. Reports sMepted. Delegate resignod. Did fine Job. Vote of thanks to delegate. New delegate elected. New treasurer elected. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for Job well done. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), Jan. IS—Chairman, W. Worthlngton; Sec­ retary, E. Police. No beefs. Good steward dept. Reports accepted. Delegate remaining—given vote of thanks for Job well done. Refrigera­ tor not working. Request for coke. MesshaU to bs kept clean. Engine room door starboard side needs re­ pairing. SANTORE (Ore Nav.) Jan. 19— Chairman, T. Connell; Secretary, J. Mahalov. Smooth trip—^no beefs. Members not compelled to sign foul weather document, which is for their own benefit. Reporter resigned. Ship's fund $31.66. Two men getting off. Report accepted. New reporter elect­ ed. New refrigerator to be put aboard at payoff for night pantry No complaints re: untidiness of night pantry—condition, fair. Jones. One man missed ship—turned in at Norfolk at payoff. Need new washing machine. OCEAN DINNY (Overseas), Jan Chairman, E. Yancy; Secretary, J. Heldt. Ship's fund S9.1S. Report ac­ cepted. New delegate elected. EMILIA (Bull), Jan. 1«—Chairman, D. FIshar; Secretary, R. Jepskl. One man hospitalized in San Juan. Head­ quarters notified. Ship's fund 016.39.-Radio operator to put out news. Ask patrolman about clinic visits on Sat-' urday. Steward to be in attendance at aii meats. FLORIDA STATE (Ponco Products), Jan. II—Chairman, J. McCranle; Sec­ retary, M. Gaddy. Ship's fund $24.27. Need sink and basin stoppers. Dis­ cussion on steaks—when prepared to order to be cut smaller. ' CS MIAMI (Cities Service), Jan. 11— Chairman, H. Jones; Secretary, AJanes. One man hospitalized in Sasebo. Headquarters notified. Disputed ot. Eng. dept. beef—to be referred to hdqtrs. Vote of thanks to deiegate. New delegate elected. Beefs not to be taken topside. Hen gei.:ing off ship for hospital to notify dept. dele­ gate. All beefs to be settled in friendly maimer. Beer will be ob­ tained in Singapore. DEL NORTE (Miss), Jan. 19—Chair­ man, H. Crane; Secretary, D. Claussan. One days subsistance for no air-condi­ tioning on previous voyage referred to patrolman—still pending. Roll-away beds to be InstaUed in hospiUl. Wash­ ing machine repaired. Movie machine repaired. Ship's fund $10. Motion to obtain ten movies per voyage. Motion to donate $2 per man toward ship'a fund. Sew delegate elected. Return books to Ubrary. PACIFIC CLOUD (Trrmping Agen­ cies), Dec. 31—Chairman, B. Drain; Secretary, J. Morrison. One man ' missed ship; one man hospitalized. Few hours disputed ot. Vote ot thanks to steward dept. for good chow and service. Repair list to be turned in by each delegate. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Sestrain), Jan. 19—Chairman, C. Cppanhalmer; Secretary, V. Ratcllff. One man missed ship. Safety meeting to be held. Letter sent to Log for pocket books.' Coat and glass case wUl be delivered to brother. Pay vouchers should have new deductions to SS No. Have tax forms for 1997 tax info. Ship's fund $22.92. One man missed ship in NY. Reports accepted. SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Sestrain), Jan. 33—Chairman, J. Cola; Secretary, C. Ollvar. Vote of thanks to steward for fine cooperation. New delegate elected. Discussion on serving watch Uttle earlier. KYSKA (Watarman), Jan. 13— Chairman, C. Hestetter; Secretary, STEEL KING (Isthmian), Oct. 35— Cnalrmait, r. Fasaluk; Secretary, T. Ralnay. New delegate elected. Ship's fund $14.70. Report accepted. Request meetings be held on Sundgys. Twelve men ill with flu. Nov. 7—Chairman, F. Fasaluk; Sec­ retary, T. Ralnay. BR's work not aatisfactory. Ship'a fund $14.06 Report accepted. Discussion On changing BR to another Job to satisfaction ot crew and dept. head. Do not throw trash on deck. Jan. 5—Chairman, P. Fasaluk; Sec­ retary, J. Lawton. Reporta accepted. . Motion to change foCsle with black gang to atew. dept. Crew agrees to keep present shipping hours—satis­ factory to all. Steward to supply cleaning gear when necessary. See captain about obtaining two cartona of cigarettes a wSek and to change black gang foc'ales with steward dept. Repair list to be taken up with dele­ gates. Crew had Merry Christmas and Happy New Year—enjoyed by aU. LUCILLE BLOOMFIELO (Bleomflald), Jan. S—Chairman, R. HImmal; Secretary, L. Relnchuck. Ship's! fund StM. New delegate elected. New VALLEY FORGE (Panlnsular Nav.), Jan. 15—Chalrgian, D. Falrce; Sacra­ tary, F. Jonas. Slop chest stores wiU bs purchased in next port, if possible. Running hot and cold water situation bad. Lack of transportation to and from ship. Some welding repairs made, Steward end cooks doing baker's work due to baker's illness. Some minor beefs. Report accepted. Baker's work to be caiiled on by Meward and cooks. Keep bathrooms orderly. DEL SOL (Mlu.),^an. 13—Chair­ man, J. Lesion; Secretary, W. Sim­ mons. New wringer installed on washing machine. Fine deck dept. Cooperation urged to have good clean ship with no beefs,, etc. Ship's fund $39. Purchased books and magazines. Few hours disputed ot. Report ac­ cepted. Launch service not available, particularly West Africa. Penalty clause should be included for same. Discussion on new feeding system; benefits of new medical center in Gulf. Members urged to go for visit. Vote of thanks to officials for fins Job in Robin Line vote. DOROTHY (Bull), Jan. 13-Chairman, E; Wheeler; Secretary, A. Wil­ liams. Delegate to find out about steward. One man missed ship. R. Masters. Disputed ot on launch service questionable.' To be taken up . with patrolman Bad launch service due to rough weather. Vote of thanks to delegates. Two men logged. Some disputed ot. Use cover on washing madiine. Men getting off to strip bunks, leave foc'sles clean. Vote ot thanks to steward dept. �Fetouoy 2S, 1958 SEAFARERS rage neraa LOd' Strike Benefits Taxable, Federal Court Declares 'The Job Ahead' MILWAUKEE—Striking workers already beset by the problem of making ends meet have been handed another headache by a Federal District Coiurt judge here. Reversing a jury decision" tification last October. It has been last November, Judge Kenneth picketing since then to protest not Grubb ruled a week ago that only the company's refusal to bar­ union strike benefits are taxable gain but the workings of a Federal income rather tban gifts. The labor law that upholds strike­ switch came in'a case involving the breaking. four-year-old United Auto Work­ President Eisenhower last month ers' strike against the Kohler Com­ urged repeal of the disputed sec­ pany, manufactiu-ers of plumbing tion 9 (c) (3) in his labor message to Congress. He had called it a law fixtures. In another case indicative of the "licensing union-busting" back in rough times in store for union 1952 when he was campaigning for strikers these days, the National his first term, bilt nothing has been Labor Relations Board has cailed done about it yet. the United Rubber Workers on the The tax case here, dating back carpet once again. A hearing has to 1954, arose when a member of been set for March 4, at which the UAW Local 833 listed $565.54 re­ union will be asked to explain its ceived from the union in food continuing picketing and promo­ vouchers, clothing and rent pay­ tion of a consumer boycott against ment as a gift on his Federal in­ the O'Sullivan Rubber Corporation come tax return. He was later as­ sessed $108 plus interest on the in Winchester, Va. basis of this "income," paid it and The Rubber Workers' case pro­ then took the case to court. vides a classic example of the he won the jury decision, weird labor relations procedure theAfter Government held up his re­ made possible by the 1947 Taft- fund pending the outcome of a re­ Hartley Act. The O'Sullivan strik­ quest that Judge Grubb review the ers now face additional penalties jury's ruling and issue a directed because the issues in their strike verdict. The judge overturned the against the company since 1956 jury verdict last week. His decision have been completely obscured by is expected to be appealed. means of a T-H provision stacked against striking union members. This provision is section 9 (c) (3) of the act which permits strike­ breakers to vote in plant elections but bars strikers "who are not en­ titled to reinstatement." The endresult is that the strikeb'reakers are given the power to determine or not there will be union ^ Anybody who has been on the Lakes knows that organizing whether representation at a plant. The orig­ ships in the highly seasonal trade there is a tough proposition. inal plant workers walking the But it can be done, as the SIU Canadian District and the SIU bricks outside are not oniy frozen Great Lakes District have demonstrated on various occasions. out of the plant but have no say Further moves have been made The latest such occasion is the convincing victory of the Great on the representation issue. by Harry Bridges and his Interna­ Lakes District on the hitherto non-union Tomlinson fleet. In the O'Sullivan case, the URW tional Longshoremen's and Ware­ LAKE CHARLES—UsuaUy one That fleet, incidentally, had successfully repelled organizing won an NLRB election among 300 housemen's Union to gain a foot­ workers with only two dissenting hold on the East Coast, a key of the warmer southern ports. Lake efforts in previous years. Charles came into its share of the The Maritime Trades Department, of which all SIU affili­ votes in 1956 and moved to obtain Bridges objective for 20 years. cold weather hitting most of the ates are members, has now established the machinery where­ a regular contract. Faced with the It's been disclosed that Bridges country as over an Inch of snow by member unions of the Department will be able to call on company's refusal to bargain, it has already provided $3,000 in was authorized to call a strike and funds to a newly-formed "Interna­ blanketed the city last week. "It was an odd sight," was the general the joint resources of MTD port councils and a central MTD did so in May. In turn, the com­ tional Hiring Agents, Bosses and committee to carry out their organizing programs. With pany imported strikebreakers, got comment. Supervisors Association," with a Organizing among the various the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the offing, the the plant working again and then pledge of other assistance. " The new MTD program promises faster process in this area than petitioned for decertification of the "donation" was revealed by Ed­ trade unions in the city is continu­ ing in high gear. The Building has been the case heretofore when individual imions had to union. ward T. Fitzpatrick, who is organ­ Trades and Construction Council buck the job strictly on their own. Under T-H, the union was snow­ izing among the 1,000-odd reg­ shut down another non-union out­ ed under by a 288-5 vote for decer- istered dock bosses and superinten­ 4 t fit for the past two weeks, and will dents on the New York piers. continue until they have organized Following this disclosure, it was «U of the members in the industry. revealed that Bridges and some of­ It was a good shipping period Call it what you will, millions of Americans today are not ficials of the International Long­ for the men on the beach. The Rion as concerned with fall-out (radioactive variety) as they are shoremen's Association had drafted (Actium) provided plenty of activ­ program of coopet-ation which with the "fall-off" (economy variety). The US is now con­ a ity when she came out of lay-up would include operation of a joint and took on a full crew. Also in the fronted by everything from a "temporary decline" to a full­ BOSTON — Visiting delegates Washington office, among other area during the period were the CS blown "recession" depending on what you read and who said from French trade unions received items. Baltimore, Winter Hill, Govern­ it. Fitzpatrick had told the New ment Camp, Bradford Island, Bents The only certainty appears to be that we already have 5 an rmexpected surprise last week Fort, Chiwawa, Council Grove and million unemployed and millions more directly affected. when they were invited to tour the York Waterfront Commission that the Fort Hoskins (Cities Service); Whether the jobless flgmre will rise, and how much and how Topa Topa while the vessel was in the $3,000 check was sent to him Val Chem (Heron); Petro-Chem soon, is a matter for debate. But while the word-play goes on, port for servicing. It was felt that by Louis Goldblatt, secretary-treas­ of the Bridges' union, after (Valentine) and Charles Dunaif a great deal could be learned about urer million and their families—representing perhaps one these 5 he wrote several times to Bridges (Colonial). American merchant m^ine by and met with Charles Irving "Velout of every 10 Americans—must cope, like all of us, with the boarding a vessel and watching the steadily-rising prices for everything from diapers to dual- men working under the SIU con­ son, ILWU representative in New York. headlamps. tract. The delegates thanked the 'Velson was called before a House From Washington, from state capitals, come attempts at re­ crew and the membership in the investigating committee in 1953 assuring words. We're told help is around the corner, we must hall here for their courteous atten­ Under the rules of the SIU, have "faith" and "confidence"—the nightmare will somehow tion in explaining the SIU system and declined to answer charges on Communist Party affiliations. He any member can nominate him­ to them. was questioned by a Senate com­ self for meeting chairman, read­ end. Words come pouring out from all sides, all keyed to that ing clerk or any other post that one day in November, still nine months away, when the public Shipping slacked off slightly over mittee in July, 1956, and once the past period. The Government again declined to answer. He faced may be up for election before will have its say. But what cannot be overlooked is that if it is a function of Camp, Bradford Island (Cities Serv­ a contempt action this week for re­ the membership, including ccm(piittees, such as the tallying government to support our defense and to oversee our roads, ice) and the Natalie (Iritercontinen- fusing to talk about his dealings committees, financial commit­ garbage dumps, communications, health, trade, and, bn oc­ tai) paid off and signed on during with Fitzpatrick. Representing Fitzpatrick at the tees and other groups named by casion, even our "morals," in its role of promoting the "gen­ the last two weeks. In transit were the Topa Topa (Waterman), Steel Waterfront Commission session was the membership. eral welfare," why the reluctance right now to assist the job­ Scientist (Isthmian) and the Can- attorney Edward J. Maiament, a Since SIU membership meet­ less and needy? tigny (Cities Service). law partner of William L. Stand­ ing officers are elected at the Why the ready answer "not now, but maybe later" or the ard. Standard was counsel for the The membership wishes to ex­ st^ of each meeting, those who wish to run for those meeting preoccupation with the means to pay? Surely the empty tend its sympathy to port agent National Maritime Union at the bread-box should head the agenda, not, as in this case, thf James Sheehan and his family on time it and Bridges I^d a. close offices can do so. the death of his brother last week. relationship. ballot-box atone. Bridges In New Bid To 'Invade' NY Lake Charles 'Snowed In' Aciion Bfeeded—Now Throw In For A Meetins Job .X Boston Slow On Shipping /I ' cm 'l| .11 4l| i.l . -4B �SEdrARERS Pa«» TWCITB FebtMiy SI. INI LOG Seafarer^s Sketchbook This series of sketches and cartoons bjr Sea­ farer Norman Maffei reflects some thoughts on 'seamen I have known or suspected of being... There's a lot of truth here, at least in part, and they should provide a laugh, even at our ex­ pense." Maffei is now on the Alamar. I.' r m . "Coffeetime scramble" (right) depicts those Onxious moments, especially on a crowded Liberty, when everybody wants the pot at the same time. WINTER HILL (CItiM S«rvlc«), Jan. II—Chairman, R. Piarce; Sacretary, J. Manning. Beef on chow and ch. cook—to be taken up with patrolman. Disputed ot to be taken up with pa­ trolman. Repair list to be made up. Hold special meeting with patrolman regarding chief cook. DE SOTO (Waterman), Jan. 19— Chairman, R. Craeli Sacratary, B. Varn. One man hospitalized in Bremerhaven; headquarter notified. 33 hrs. disputed ot. Vote of thanks to Robin Line crew for holding Jobs. Need books for library. Vote of thanks to steward dept.. especially the baker. I'ir.'i fary, C. Kralss. Headquarters notified about coSea situation. Ship's fund $69.54. New delegate elected. Cracked dishes to be discarded. Night lunch to be put out per agreements. Dele­ gate to see patrolman about getting stores on day of arrival instead of day of departure. Vacate messhall after eating. MICHAEL (Carras), Dee. 39—Chair­ man, M. Santlaget Secretary, K. Jue­ chter. Some disputed ot. Suggest ••• ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), Jen. 3S— Chairman, R. Hall; Secretary, S. Bernstein. Ship's fund $9.50. Repairs to be made this voyage. w • GATEWAY CITY (Pan-Atlantic) Jan. it—Chairman, W. Sellers; Secre­ tary, J. Austin. Repair list to be sub­ mitted. Ship's fund $2.50. Some dis­ puted ot. See patrolman about in­ stalling phone near gangway in all ports for incoming calls only. Sug­ gestions by crew for improvements of quarters aft. Contact patrolman about agreement for this type of ship. In general, a sffip of this type should . have a tanker agreement. Six points to be discussed. FRANCES (Bull), Jan. 26—Chair­ man, Ageil; Secretary, Drewei. Slop sink to be kept clean. Noise in gang­ way to be kept at a minimum. Dele­ gates make small coilecUon for li­ brary. Bathrooms to be kept locked. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), Jan. 26—Chairman, E. Wallace; Secre- small donation by all at payoff to build up ship's fund. Ship's fund S3. Repair list submitted. Many repairs reported but not made. Vote of thanks to deck dept. for smooth trip. Motion to luive patrolman meet ship for payoff in Corpus cairistL AdvisabUity of obtaining TV set considered negatively. Suggest SOe donation at payoff for ship's fund. * Jan. II—Chairmen, S. Bayne; See- a MAkJC »ep *«$g P»BtGtGGBB«BGGGBGGGG##G«e9««««9P i STREET ADTRESS I CITY . ........ZONE STATE....:-. I TO AVOID DUPLiCAttON: if you are an old tubicriber and havg $ change ; of address, please give your former address belowt 1)!• '• • • • • • • • ADDRESS CITY • •ha• «• • • • • • • • ZONE SEAGARDIN (Peninsular Nov.), Dec. 1—Chairman, J. BuzclewskI; Sec­ retary, V. Welrath. Complaints about food. Proper attire to be worn in messroom.. Quarters will be painted. One man diorL Poor Thanksgiving dinner discussed, and night lunch. Turn off washing machine after use. Jan. 19—Chairman, J. Buzalewskir Secretary, R. Varbuirough. Insuffi­ cient American money for draws. Poor slop chest. Discussed food shortage, steward and poor condition of tarps, hatidi boards and bulwalks. One man performing, reported to pa­ trolman. Few hours disputed ot. ALCOA CLIPPER (Alcoa), Jan. ItChairman, L. NIchelas; Secratary> J. Roberts. Ship's fund $166. Request union investigate what happened to BR while performing routine duty on board ship. Facts and findings to be reported to delegate. Delegate to see laundry men in NO and Trinidad about loss of personal laundry. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOO— ; please put my name on your mailing list. [ (Print Informatioa) • retary, K. Juechter. Ship's fund 54. Some disputed ot—to be referred to patrolman at payoff. Donations to fund made. Some friction between wiper and 1st asst. New delegate elected. Delegate requests that no one aceepta payoff until patrolman comes aboard. STATE...-., STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), Dac. 28—Chairman, 8. Getowickl; Secre­ tary, W, Sehleeht, One man hospi­ talized—headquarters notified. Ciga­ rette situation checked — sufficient quantity on board. Men logged to be reported to patrolman. Repair list to be submitted. Ship's fund $15. Few hours disputed ot. Patrolman to check steward dept. food supplies, preparation, etc. Investigate CG cer­ tification of cargo reefer used to store stores and using reefer for butter cargo. Request legislation requiring ail seamen to be US citizens. Patrol­ man to check stores and quality of meats. Discussion 'on preparation of menus, quality of meats. Request use of small coffee pots instead of um to cut down amount of dry coffee used. Poor variety of Xmas dinner. Food to be served from galley much as possible—cut down use of steam table. Steward to spend more time oversee­ ing preparation and serving at meal­ time. Request P. Drozak, boarding patrolman, at payoff. ALCOA PEOASUS (Alcoa), Feb. 4— Chairman, P. Guzman; Secretary, P. Lamliert. Reporta accepted. Discus­ sion on Robin Line, Bull Line and American CoaL accepted and posted. OCEAN DEBORAH (Ocean Trans), Dec. 2$—Chairman, D. Story; Secre­ tary, R. Hernandez. New., delegate elected. New reporter and treasurer elected. Ship's fund $27. One fireman missed ship at NO. Suggest that oSl- dais of Union, in future negotiations, seek establishment of retirement plan, whereby, a member may retire on pension after a stipulated number ot years of seatime on contracted ah^s. This retirement plan should be based on seatime alone and not have quali­ fying requirement such as disability, etc. Discussion on poor grade of meati coffee, etc. Cups and dishes to be washed by man on watch. Turn in all solid linen. OCEAN DEBCRAH (Maritime Over­ seas), Jan. M—Chairman, J. King; Sacratary, A. Drain. Repairs not made. Ship's fund $14. $13 freight charge for brdther's luggage. Discussion on food, no variety of menus. Steward asks for food suggestions. Feeding being done in accordance to Union plan, laundry to be clean alternately. JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), Jan. 19 — Chairman, A. Harrington; Secretary, J. Diatsch. No beefs. Stiip's fund $1730. Some disputed ot. Re­ port accepted. Discussion on washing machine, needs repairing. Need pil­ lows and mattresses. Messroom chairs need repairing. Slop chest prices should be posted. Need more cots. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Pan-Atlantic), Jan. 31—Chairman, U. Sanders; Secre­ tary, H. Carmlchacl. One man In­ jured, hospitalized. One man paid off in Fla. Discussion on safety meet­ ing. Cigarette butts not to be thrown on passageways. All hands to he aboard one hour before sailing time; Few hours disputed ot. Report ac­ cepted. New reporter and treasurer elected. To start ship's fund. Repair list to be submitted. Wage voucher attachment clarified. ALCOA PIONEER (Alcoa), Jan. 19 —Chairman, A. Saxon; Sacratary, J. Carter, Jr. One man ill. Few hours disputed ot. Make recommendatioq to welfare plan, send letter with min- ~ utes. See patrolman about soot and slag from stack—may cause serious injury to eyes. Recommendation to negotiation committee to revise pen­ sion plan. ^ ALMENA (Pan-Atlsntic), Jan. »— Chairman, T. Bowers; Secretary, W. Ooff. Delegates to pick up books be­ fore payoff. Drinking water to be checked. Check with patrolman one hour' befoore sailing. Reports ac­ cepted. AU cleaning to be done by Union cleaners. Check with patrolman about laundry; keys for rooms. DEL SANTOS (Miss.), Jan. 23 — Chairman, E. Harris; Sacretary, J. Crawford. Report on loggings: few men performing, not carrying out duties properly. Ship's fund S2S. Dis­ cussion on new SIU feeding plan. Washing machine wringer to be oUed. Coffee shortage discussed; eliminate waste. Keep outside doors locked In ports: keep all non-crew members '•from water coolers. WESTPORT (Wortd Tramping), Jan. 19—Chairman, B. Winborna; Secre­ tary. O. Gage. Repairs completed. Repair lists submitted topside. Keys to be turned in to dept. delegates. Men tq get refund for keys. Lava soap and better grade of coffee or­ dered. Pick up shot cards on leaving ahip. Some disputed ot. Radiogram sent to brother in hospital. Any ex­ cess cash to go to Brother Sparks for issuing MTD news. Washing machine to be repaired. Ship to be fumigated for roaches. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard depL for Job well done. Capt. wished crew, to sign for draw before issuance. Ship damaged due to rough weather. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Pan-Atiantic), Jan. 15—Chairman, none; Secretary, none. Ship has Just come out of ship­ yard in Mobile—no records aboard. New delegate elected. Meeting called to elect delegate. Discussion on drink­ ing water, repairs, etc. Vote of con­ fidence to steward dept. ELIZABETH (Bull), Feb. »—Chair­ man, W. Janlsch; Secretary, H. Dombrowskl. Three men missed ship. Two men missed shift from port to port! one missed entirely for States. Re­ ports accepted. Beefs to be cleared with dept. delegates firsi. ALCOA PARTNER (Alcoa), Jan. 21 —Chairman, S. Jantton; Secretary, K. Newmann. Repairs not completed. Fifteen hours disputed ot. Contact union regarding taking stores and payoff same day. Question why fresh milk cannot be bought in Venezuela as it is pasteurized and homogenizedt dangerous gangway at Weehawken, rest period at sea: launch service in Maracaibo. ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), Jan. 31—Chairman, A. Oonealves; Secre­ tary, A. Hoac. Ship paid off. AU dis­ puted ot coUected. New washing ma­ chine ordered. Complaint about food —not up to par. Ship's fund $.95. Do­ nations accepted tor fund. Need clari­ fication about shipping on gulf or­ ganizer card—status not clear regard­ ing 60-day rule. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), Feb. 3— Chairman, T. Melting; Secretary, J. Prestwocd. Report accepted. Motion to handle pay-offs in same manner as other two passenger ships. Vote of thanks ttS union shoreside officials in Mobile for their assistance and thoughtfulness. PACIFIC CLOUD (Pager); Jan. 36— Chairman, C. Hellman; Secretary, R. Setslpn. New delegate elected. Vot«; of thanks to steward dept. �Fctnary tt, ISSS SEAFARERS Want Pension Plan Revision To the Editor: On a motion by Brother D. Story at onr ship's meeting the crew of Alcoa Pioneer concur­ red with suggestions submitted to the SEAFABERS • LOG by the crew of the SS Fairport (LOG, Dec. 6, 1957) regarding our SIU pension plan. The Fairport recommenda­ tion read as follows: "Resolved . . . that the offi­ cials of our Union, in future Letters To The Editor fill letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFfiRERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. negotiations, seek on behalf of the membership, the establish­ ment of a retirement plan, whereby a member may retire on pension after a stipulated number of years of seatime on contracted"ships. This retire­ ment plan should be based on seatime alone and not have qualifling requu-ements such as disability, etc." R. Hernandez Meeting secretary • • • To the Editor: We, the crew of the Alcoa Pioneer, wish to recommend to our SIU negotiating committee that the pension plan be re­ vised so that a Seafarer can retire with 12-14 years of sea­ time, regardless of whether he is disabled or not. We also would lijke the re­ quirement of one da^'s seatime in the last 90 days for welfare benefits to be eliminated as part of the basic seatime rule for qualifying a Seafarer or his family to receive benefits. This is due to the fact that it is hard sometimes for a-seaman to ship in the 90 days aUotted on ashipping card. We feel that the extension should be at least six months. Crewmembers, Alcoa Pioneer (£d. note: The above was signed by 22 members of the crew.) - Wellesley Hails Robin Sacrifices To the Editor: The crew of the SS Wellesley Victory wishes to note its grati­ tude and admiration for the men of the SIU who manned the Robin Line fleet in the beef with the NMU. Their fine efforts and self-sac­ rifice deserves the highest praise. Although they were forced to work under an inferior MMU contract and under trying conditions, they proved again to the maritime labor movement that good Union men never say die. In spite of the trying condi­ tions imposed by the company and the NMU, they showed that determined Union men know what they, want and are willing to sacrifice many things to ob­ tain them. We have all heard and read of the low tactics that the company and the NMU used to intimidate these men. The results of these tactics were shown is the final ballot count. Even some of the NMtU members couldnt stomachthem. They proved this by vot­ 1 ing for the SIU. It is obvibns that they also couldn't approve of the foul methods used by the NMU to get the Robin Line ships in its clutches. This only proves again that men who can compare things in an intelligent way wili always choose what is best for them and their brother Union mem­ bers. So, to the men who manned these ships, well done, brothers and a well-deserved thank-you. Jack Blnitt Deck delegate Richard V. Geiling Ship's secretary if A it Cargo OT Split Up To Firemen To the Editor: There seems to be a misun­ derstanding in the engine de­ partment as to whether the 4 fo 8 fireman should split the cargo overtime with the other two firemen. On the Steel Maker last trip, the chief engineer threatened to put the 4 to 8 FWT on daywork because . he would not agree to split the cargo time. We now have the same prob­ lem on this ship, the Steel Sur­ veyor. However, the chief on here would like to do the right thing, and we have all three fire­ men agreed on rotating watches in order to spilt the cargo over­ time. I therefore request you to publish this in the LOG. In my opinion it will be a great help to other engine delegates who from time to time will run into this same problem. In closing, 1 want to say that this trip has been a pretty good one so far for us down below. WUIiam Padgett (Ed. note: While it may be desirable to always have a split of the cargo overtime among the firemen, this is still a prob­ lem which can only be settled among the firemen themselves. It is not a matter which the Union can determine one way or the other). i Tidelands Work Suits Him Fine To the Editor: 1 am now working with the G & H Towing Company, out of Galveston, aboard the tugboat Ling. We are stationed at Boothsville, La., about 70 miles from New Orleans. The tugboat Pike ls~with us. We would like very much to get , the LOG. We .work six hours on and six hours off, and are subject to one hour callback. We work in the tidelands moving oil rigs from one location to another, and seldom get to see the LOG. But we sure enjoy them when we see them. My wife is also living out here and we like it fine. Clyde Laseter (Ed. note: The LOG is being sent to both boats as you re­ quested.) p i> if Lauds Kindness By Tampa SIU To the Editor: We would like to give our heartfelt thanks to the Tampa branch of the SIU for taking care of the funeral arrange­ ments for my departed husband, Charles A. Eagleson. We also want to thank the crew of the Azalea City for their sympathy and flowers. Many thataks for the SIU wel­ fare benellty check and the most sincere letter sent to our home in Houston and to aU con­ cerned. Mrs. Anna Eagleson . Face Thirtcea LOG Bunk In Fidley Handy In Cold Steam lines that refuse to go off in the Persian Gulf and then break down between frigid Halifax and New York have left the gang on the Plymouth Victory kind of numb. The alternate hot and cold combined with the antics of the first assistant, better known as "Thermometer" Murphy, to really spice up the trip. Mur­ with a thermometer to "check the scalded. We couldn't do anything temperature" at a time when the else since the gaskets that were phy was making the rounds 4-8 AB, "Red" Brady, had to resort needed weren't ordered even LOG-A-RHY7HM: ACS Men .By FRANK BOTNE. In the tvnlight of their lives They meet. Discuss the past And laugh awhile, Tho' tears are near to flowing. Sheer joy of friends well-met. Wells up within their hearts. And they, once more By bonds unite. To show purposeful strength Property of belief! Gnarled hands of men Whose built-in faith Has brought them forth. To cast their vote, To claim their Just desserts Inherent, In democracy's slow process The right of men to choose. To vote. To crown their days of toil. With justice For those who are to follow. VICTORIA, BC SIU, A&G District BALTTMORB 1316 B. Baltimore St. BarJ Sbeppard. Agent XAstcrn 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. James Sfaeeban, Agent Rlcbmond 3-0140 HOUSTON ........4302 Canal St. Robert Matthews. Agent Capital 3-4089: 3-4080 LAKB CHARLES. La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke, Agent HEmlock 6-S744 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner. Agent HEmlock 2-1754 MORGAN CITY .813 Front St. Tom Gould. Agent Phone 2156 NEW ORLEANS 833 BienviUe St. Lindsey WUliama. Agent Tulane 8626 NEW YORK 678 4th Ave.. Brooklyn BYadnth 9-6600 NORFOLK 137-139 Bank St. J. Bullock. Acting Agent MAdiaon 2-9834 PHILADELPHLA.... 337 Market St. S. CarduUo. Agent Market 7-1635 PinaiTA de TIERRA PR 101 Pelayo Sal CoUa. Agent Phone 2-5996 SAN FRANCISCO: 450 Harrison St. Marty BreithoH. Agent Douglas 2-5475 AVANNAH 1 Abercom St. E. B. McAuley. Agent Adams 3-1728 SEATTLE 8909 Isi Ave Jeff GUlette. Agent EUiott 4334 .TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Tom Banning. Agent • Phone 2-1323 WILMINGTON. CalU 80S Marine Ave. Beed Humphries. Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS....678 4th Ave„ Bkiyn. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul Han ASST. SECRETARYTRBASURERS J. Algina. Deck W. Hall. Joint C. Simmons, Eng. R. Matthews. Joint E. Hooney, Std.' J. Volpian, Joint HONOLULU to sleeping in the fidley to keep warm. According to "Whitey" Lewis, engine delegate, the no-heat wave started two days out of Halifax when the steam lines went out of commission, and there were still no repairs on them three days later. "So today (Lincoln's Birthday— Ed.) while everyone off watch is rolled up in a blanket and Brady is snugged down in the fidley, Ther mometer' Murphy came into the wiper and engine utility's foc'sle equipped with his thermometer. We don't know whether he got the reading he wanted or not, but after seeing the engine utilityman hud died imder three blankets and the wiper doing the 'shakes' from the cold, he must have gotten the point. "Murphy left, probably for his room topside, where they have heat, to get warm," said Lewis. They had just the reverse in the Persian Gulf when the steam lines went on and couldn't be shut off for two days while everybody sweltered. "It's also been leaking down be­ low like a sieve," he added, "so garbage can tops have been spread around to catch the boiling steam water drips before somebody gets 617Vi Cormorant St. EHpire 4531 VANCOUVER. BC 296 Main St. Pacific 3468 SYDNEY. NS »>..304 Charlotte St. Phone; 6346 BAGOTVILLS. Quebec 30 Elgin St. Phone: 545 THOROLD. Ontario 83 St. Davids St. CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC •. .44 8ault-au-Matelot Qncbee Phone: 3-1569 SAINT JOHN..... .177 Prince Wflliam St. NB OX 3-5431 Great Lakes District ALPENA 1315 N. Second Ave. Phone: 713-J BinTALO. NY 180 Mam St. « Phone: Cleveland 7391 CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave., NB Phone: Mam 1-0147 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Phone: Woodward 1-6857 DULUTH 631 W. Superior St. Phone: Randclph 2-4110 SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92nd St. Phone: Essex 5-2410 though topside knew about this in Bombay." He said the trip was also livened up somewhat by the "dunnage caper." "I've been on all kinds of ships for the last 32 years," Lewis noted, "but tbis one is a lulu. Going up the river to Khoramshahr, I was throwing dunnage over the side to the bumboats when, all of a sud­ den, 1 got a blast from the skipper. 'Don't you know dunnage costs money?' he says. Tt will cosT the company' $35.' "Weil, anyone who's ever been to the Persian Gulf knows that a piece of dunnage is like a $10 bill there. So of course after we left it took the deck department four hours to throw the rest of the dunnage over the side, and the only one to benefit was Davy Jones. « 1 just don't get it" Use Only One Mali Address Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies due from various operators in back wages and disputed overtime should first check whether they have a proper mailing address on file with the company. SIU headquarters officials point out that reports received from sev­ eral operators show checks have been mailed to one address while a beef on the same score is sent from another, thus cre­ ating much difficulty in keeping accounts straight. Attend Last Rites At Sea SUP 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND 311 SW Clay St. CApital 3-4336 RICHMOND, CaiU....810 Hacdonald Ave. BEacon 3-0925 SAN FRANCISCO., 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE .2505 Ist Ave. Mam 0290 WILMINGTON .608 Harme Ave. Terminal 4-3131 NEW YORK 678 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacmth 0-6165 Canadian District HAUFAX. N.S. MONXSilAL PORT WILLIAM Ontvio ...138H HoUls St. Phone 3-8911 6S« St. Jane* St. West PLatean 8161 6M BnwMn St. Fbonai 3^1 PCWT OOLB<aNB... Ontaria TORONTO^ Oatarlu. 16S DOrham SL Phanai 8581 S11.R1M* St B. 43718 Braving coM, crewmen on Steel Executive gother for burial of Join Anderson of leo. Pictured (I to r] ore Chief Mote Mocy; Horry Lundequi^, DM; Vincent Genco, deck delegote; Lors Nie^, OSf Chris Bebbeb 2Rd electrkion; John Beye» DM, cmd iV"' Biornsaeiiii bosun. Photo 1^ L D. Dkino. MM. �FehiOT «•>»»> ••• VBbmarr 28. 1951 Union Welfare Service Hailed ^ "Doc" Wafson pictures the scene on the Robin Hood before the messhall was deluged by hungry diners last Christmas. On hand for the traditional feast (I to r) were Kirby, AB; Bill, MM; Fauntleroy, MM; Leo Movall, steward; William Ryan, 2nd cook; Morton, baker, and Walker, utilityman. Ryan turned in the photo after the ship arrived home from South Africa. SEAFARERS IN THE HOSPITALS V. • H?: cf : I, USPHS HOSPrrAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS B. F. Deibler John C. Palmer James R. Hodges Harold J. Pancost Woodrow Meyers August J. Panepinto W. E. Orzechowski USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TENN. Charles Burton USPHS HOSPITAL WINDMILL PT. DETROIT, MICH, William DriscoU VA HOSPITAL MANCHESTER, NH Leo Dwyer VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON, TEXAS John P. Wiiliamson VA HOSPITAL KEOUGHTAN, VA. Joseph cm VA HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. •'it" Thomas W. Killion SAILORS SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NY Victor B. Cooper EASTERN SHORE STATE HOSPITAL CAMBRIDGE, MD. Thomas R. Lehay CREEDMOOR STATE HOSPITAL QUEENS VILLAGE, NY John 6. Nolan VA HOSPITAL 1ST AVE. & 24TH STREET NEW YORK, NY flalvatore Legayada USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON, MASS. George T. Mtrgan USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS R. J. Arsenault Louie HoUiday Alec R. Clary Robert D. Jonee William E. Ekins S. Moustakas Norman B. Hadden USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Claudius G. Archer Laron A. Ready Joseph H. Berger H. J. Schreiner E. D. Collins D. D. Story John C. Mitcliell L. A. Wilkerson Charles T. Nangle USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. Lewis R. Akins Elmer B. Frost Maximino Bernes Monroe C. Gaddy Elmer G. Bremer Jimmie Littleton Chalmers C. Burkett Fred MiUer Paul R. Cook James T. Moore USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY Oscar J. Adams Peter Heulu ' Hassen All . Alexander Howell Edmund Blosser John F. Laughlin ' Mack Chapman Jr. J. MacCrea Jose Collados Leoncio Maisonet Victor Costelletos Edward Matte Rupert Daniels Sigurd Odegaard Robert Donnelly Billie Padgett Ralph Dunsmoor Conrad Reyes Frederick Fulford Henry Rowc Dave Furman Stanley Sargeant Juan P. Garcia James Stickney Wladyslaw Gilas James F. Thomson Wade B. HarreU JuUo Valentin USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Bertie Dixon Jr. Warren W. Smith Waddie C. Hinson MONTEBELLO CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. Francisco Bueno PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL SANTURCE, PR K. Korneliusen USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH - BROOKLYN, NY Manuel Antonana Woodrow Johnson Eladio Aris Ludwig Kristiansen Fortunato' Bacomo Kenneth Lewis Joseph J, Bass Patrick McCann Melvin W. Bass Archibald McGuigan Linzy Bosley r J Herbert C. Mclssac Jahies F. Clarke Leo Mannaugh Juan Denopra Albert Martinelli John J. DriscoU Joaquin Miniz Ralph DuffeU W. P. O'Dea Ralph Dunsmoor C. Osinski Fabin Furmanek George G. Phifer Odis L. Gibbs Winston E. Renny Joseph M. GiUard G. E. Shumaker Bart E. Guranick Henry E. Smith Everett Haislett Harry S. Tuttie Taib Hassen VirgU E. Wihnoth Antonio Inlante Pon P. WingThomas Isaksen Dexter WorreU Claude B. Jessup USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. Robert G. Barrett Isidore Levy Edward Barry John Linn Anthony T. Bernard J. J. McAndrews John W. Big wood O. McCorkindala Claude Blanks Abe Mander Bryant BoutweU W. MuiTay Cloise Coats Michael Muzio Charles Cummings Winford PoweU Michael Darawich G. A. Puissegur Harry Emmett Rudolph C. Pycha Matthew Gardiner AUen Ritchie Hubert G. Goley Ernest J. SauJ^ Leon Gordon Wert A. Spencer George Huber Louis Suslovitz James Hudson Nicholas Tala Oliver Kendricks Gerald Thaxton Edward G. Knapp Lucien Theriot Duska Korolia Juan Vazquez Antoine Landry James E. Ward Leo Lang Clifford Wuertz WiUiam Lawless Walter A. Yahl Timothy 1. Less Jacob Zimmer USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. Francisco Bueno H. F. MachllnsW Arthur Cox Harry Muches Antonio DeAmeral Thomas Mungo Clarence Gardner Clarence Murray E. A. Gibson Jose A. Perez Gorman T. Glaze Alexander Rever Frederick Harris Joseph RoU James Haynes Eugene Roszko Walter Jackson John A. Smith K. Komielasen Claude Virgin Peter Losado Opie C. WaU BUly Earl Lynn Merwyn Watson John Maasik USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. L. Bond P. W. McDonald G. B. Dunn C, W, Wooten,. A. A. Furst should contribute 82 for this purpose, A total of $98 was col­ lected, including $26 from the officers, and $87.79 was expend­ To the Editor: While waiting around to ship ed.—Ed.) The longshore boss told me out in New York I attended the funeral services for our late this must be a good crew, to do­ brother, Benedict Smoijam, and nate lots of money and flowers, I wish to bring to light what a and I told him it was because wonderful welfare department we are part of a good Union. He said others are in good our Union has. This brother passed away unions too, but he didn't seem without having any next of kin to see the difference. So I told registered with our SIU Welfare him the difference lies in the Department, which meant that union officials. If the union off!*' his relatives had to be located. cials are morally good and work to the best of their ability for the greater good of the member­ ship, gradually, by instinct, each member will do likewise for his own Union brothers and the Union as a whole. He not only saw the light- after my explana­ tion, but he swore I must be right. I write you about this incident AH letters to-the editor for hoping that I might help to in­ publication in the SEAFAR­ still in the minds of some of ERS LOG must be signed our brothers the idea that the by the writer. Names will result of that special meeting be withheld upon request. was the product of a good Union, Pablo Lopei They finally were found in Cali­ Ship's delegate fornia. I met one of them, a brother, who had not seen his ^ it it late brother for 14 years. He had nothing but praise for our Casts Vote For welfare department. Ellis island Spa A good word is also due to To the Editor: the undertaker for his fine han­ The proposal to build a resort dling of the services. I have cultural center on Ellis Is­ attended many church services and land is a good one. I hope the for the departed, but never have Federal Government can accept I seen one conducted with such It. fine reverence as by the priests The resort will draw - tourists and parishioners of the Lady of from all parts of the world and Lourdes Church in Brooklyn. stimulate sea travel. It is an An exact replica of the Lourdes ideal business for a great and in France is in back of the altar, beautiful harbor. The sugges­ adding to the spiritual quality tion to build a narcotics hospi­ of the service. Again a word of praise for tal on the island should be re­ jected, as it would be bad pro­ the welfare department and all paganda. Foreign visitors might concerned. How fortunate we get the notion that we were a of the SIU are for such consid­ nation of dope addicts. eration. Besides, the Statue of Liberty E, A. "Andy" Anderson shouldn't have such a neighbor. 4 _ it Build the narcotics hospital in an interior medical center Offers Lesson where the ,best treatment is in Brotherhood available, To the Editor: Roy Fleischer I've sent you this and a few $ details about our special meet­ ing in Bordeaux on account of Has Beef On the incident that happened later Lost Camera concerning this matter. On the Andrew Jackson we To the Editor: This is a complaint I would always post any Information from the Union haU, telegrams like to have you publish in the and any other written statement LOG. It's to warn all seamen to that concerns the crew right on watch out for clipjoint artists who sometimes hang around the bulletin board. In Rotterdam, Holland, the in the "Little Lounge" in boss of the longshoremen had Algiers, La., just outside of the been reading these things on Xodd shipyard. I went in there with a Pola­ the board and happened to come across the report of this special roid camera that I had bought only two hours earlier and it meeting. (The meeting was held after was gone when I left. We may make good wages as 2nd cook Isaac McCants re­ ceived a telegram that his wife seamen but they're not enough had died on Christmas. It was if we have to support clipjoint agreed that as it was a "custom artists too. I hope my experi­ and tradition" for SIU members ence and writing the LOG will to send an expression of sym­ help other brothers in this port pathy in the case of death of a avoid such troubles. Hen^ H, Gibson Union brother or member of Tug Margaret Walsh his family, each crewmember Letters To The Editor Maritime Study Sparks interest To the Editor: The prison here at Norfolk, Mass., has recently started a "Maritime Affairs" project in the inmate library. Through this projeiit I've learned many heretofore unknown things con­ cerning the maritime industry. The project is sanctioned by the Educational Office here, as it is felt it can aid us. I'm very happy to find such a project here, for it can and will aid me. My entire outlook on life in general has changed for the better since investigating it. I understand our Educational Of­ ficer already has been cited and commended for his part by the American Merchant Marine In­ stitute, Your organ, SEAFARERS LOG, is amongst many other papers in the library. I now like to request of you the privilege of receiving your Union newspaper each future issue. You have a wonderful paper and I would enjoy it, I know. You have my permission to use this letter if you desire. It would show others that the LOG does many things other than serve as a carrier of news to the Union membership. Again, many thanks. Name Withheld {Ed. note: Your name will be added to our mailing list as you requested.) Plea For Funds Gets Response To the Editor: I would like to express my thanks to an ex-merchant sea­ man, Fred Huntley, for sending me $100. I don't know how to thank him enough for his kind­ ness. Please put this in the LOG because that is where he read of my need for money. It was so very nice of him to help me, as I have been needing money so very much since my husband died. Thanks to the LOG for printing my earlier letter (LOG, January 31), Mrs. Antonio Gomali (Ed. note: The earlier letter referred to money owed Mrs. Gomali's late husband.) t t Offers Slogan For Republicans To the Editor: 1 know the LOG is not a po­ litical paper, but you do come up with some timely bits of news on the political scene. So I finally came up with a slogan befitting the "great" Republi­ can Party, They can have it with my permission for their 1958 political campaign. It reads as follows: "From Front Lines to Bread Lines, With Ike & Dick," Oh well, it would be a good title for a book anyway. ChoUy Wright . \- �rebnury it, liSS Sl^AFARERi Stay Put For Idle Pay Seafarers who are collecting state unemployment benefits while on the beach waiting to ship are urged to stay put and avoid changing their mailing addresses If they want to continue re­ ceiving their checks regularly. Several Seafarers have already experienced Interruptions of from three to five weeks In getting their next check after they notified the state unemployment offices that they had moved and changed their mailing address. An average delay of a month is reported In most cases, causing considerable hardship to the men Involved. TOPA TOPA (WaUrtnan), Aug. 13— Chairman, B. Fostar; Sacralary, D. Ravoda. Ona man missed ship. Ship's fund $20. New delegate elected. Vote of thanks to resigning delegate for Job weU done. Discussion on keeping bathroom and shower back aft clean­ er; return cups to pantry. Oct. <—Chairman, L. Wing; Secre­ tary, F. Kusturo. Ship wUl stop for bunkers. Captain will obtain shore leave for crew: also 325 draw per man. Ship's fund $27. Disputed ot and beefs to be discussed at payoff. Dis­ cussion on steam in foc'sles—aft rooms get too hot. Men to pay arrival pool at time of draw. Discussion on refrigerator in pantry. Vote of thanks to steward dept. Oct. 17—Chairman, L. Wing; Secre­ tary, F. Kustura. Two men missed ship in San Pedro. Ship's fund $33. Yokohama. Some disputed o.t. One NHU man signed on as FWT. Clarifi­ cation states ail officers rooms to be painted by deck dept. FUtera to be put on blowers. Eng. dept. rooms need painting. STEEL APPRENTICE (itshmian), Jan. IS—Chairman, L. Baiiay; Sacratary, R. Goidar. New delegate elected. Ship's fund $9. Washing machine drain to ba repaired. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), Faf. 1— Chairman, H. Phillip; Secrefary, R. Kianast. Some disputed ot. Report ac­ cepted. Discussion on milk situation —served 3 times a day—request same In morning and afternoon at coffee time. Will have 40 gal. milk aboard sailing day. FLORIDA iTATB (Ponea), Feb. $— Chairman, H. Will; Sacratary, O. Lea. $24.21 in ship's treasury. Request 81U representative meet ship to discuss beefs. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian)', Jan. 30—Chairman, A. Brodia; Secretary, V. Genco. Repairs on refrigerator, etc.. taken care of. Foc'sles in en­ gine department painted. Money in ship's fund to be used for new washlug niaclUne. Discussion on draws in foreign ports. Timer to be purchased. Few hours disputed ot. Repair list to be submitted. WANG PIONEER (North Atlantic), Jan 26—Chairman, C. Syphon; Sscretary, W. Cattidy. Repair list to be made up. Ship's fund $2.30. Few hours disputed ot to be settied by patroiman. One man hospitaiized in France. Picked up new pantryman in France To see about American money or traveler's ch ecks as crew had little difficulty with draws. Ali quarters to be painted next trip; ship to be fumi­ gated. Eiectricians to double in order to make recreation room. Men leav­ ing payoff, return keys and clean rooms, strip bunks, return all extra linen to steward. Need safety net for gangway. ORION STAR (Orion, Jan. 26—Chair­ man, W, Tiffnar; Secretary, R. Mills. One man hospitalized in Bahrein. Ship's fund 5690 Yen. Short .four men in deck dept. Two men got off. Picked up wiper. Wiper promoted to fireman. New delegate elected. Request better seconds with steak. Few items short. TOPA TOPA (Waterman), Nov. 11— Chairman, F. Bail; Secretary, F. Kus­ tura. New refrigerator put on board. Repairs made. One man missed ship. Ship's fund $38. Some disputed ot. Games to be purchased from ship's fund. Dec. 28—Chairman, H. Knowies; Sec­ retary, A. Fricks. One member miss­ ing at sea. Headquarters and family notified. One man missed ship. One man failed to Join vessel In Yoko­ hama. Little trouble in eng. dept.—to be referred to boarding patrolman. Repair list to be submitted. Letter of condolence to be written .to family of deceased member. Vote of thanks (o cooks and messman for fine holiday dinners and food and service. COUNCIL GROVE (Citias Servica), Fab. S—Chairman, J. Swsanay; Sacratary, E. Johnson. One man fired—to be discussed with patrolman at payoff. One man missed ship. Repairs and painting being done. Report accepted. Water tight doors to' be repaired on deck aft. Need bunk ladders for top bunk in deck dept. Need change in, baking. M/V PETROCHEM (Valentine), Feb. 2—Chairman. J. Ward; $ecratary, W. Longford. One man missed ship. Wreath sent to deceased mother of brother. Crew to turn in lodging for two days. No heat due to break down of boiler. Ship's fund $12.80. Bosun needs more than two men to secure ship leaving port. SEAMAR (Caimar), Jan. 22—Chair­ man, G. Hays; Secretary, J. Elchan- barg. NeW delegate elected. Ship's fund $16. One man logged. Steward to take inventory because of shortage of various foods. If condition not rec­ tified, headquarters will be notified. DEL VALLE (Miss.), Jan. 26—Chair­ man, J. Baiiingar, Secretary, M. Longfaiiow. Ship's fund $4Q. New delegate and treasurer elected. Motion to buy fishing gear for crew. Screen door to be kept closed. Take better care of cots. Repairs to be turned over to delegates. ORION CLIPPER (Orion). Dec, 29— Chairman, C. Just; SecrStary, R. King. Money fjonnte,? for poor 'Japanese fam­ ily. - New delegate elected. Fab.'2—Chairman, C. Just, Sacra- one .-^an'io WILD RANGER (Waterman), Feb. * —Chairman, D. Ruddy; Secretary, C. Babick. Locks for foc'sles requested. $13.51 in ship's fund. Request for ice cube machine as present machine Is inadequate for crew, passengers and officers. Coke machine will not be installed until schedule is formed. Clean sinks after laundry is used. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), Fab. »—Chairman, R. DeAngeio; Secretary, D. K. Nunn. Company or agent will forward mail to ship. Overtime sheets are short, so avoid waste. $3.98 in ship's fund. Discussion on doors and port holes being closed through canal. More co­ operation urged for cleanliness in messroom and recreation room. PAN OCEANIC TRANSPORTER (Penn Nav.), Fab. f—Chairman, W, Snail; Secretary, M. Hummeii. $4.80 in ship's fund. Refrigerator to be de­ frosted and washed. Men voted in favor of new washing machine. Check on cots ordered. C. S. BALTIMORE (Cities Service), Fab. 11—Chairman, J. Tanner; Secre­ tary, L. Hagmann. $20 in ship's fund. Captain to see about painting showers. Bookcase and bulletin board to be purchased. AZALEA CITY (Pan-Atlantic), Jan. 26—Chairman, S. Barnes; Secretary, R. Kiedlngar. $36.10 in ship's fund. Repaired Ust to be turned in. Vote of thanks to steward department and ship's delegate for Job well done. ALCOA PENNANT (Aicoa), Fab. •— Chairman, F. Bedden; Secratary, H. Ridgeway. $14.65 in ship's fund. Mops and garbage buckets should not be washed out in laundry room. Put out •more fruit at night. KATHRYN (Bull), Feb. 11—Chair­ man, F. Cornier; Sacratary, F. Nachiacki. Beef in deck department should ba settled by patrolman. No money in ship's fund. New blankets are need­ ed as old ones are too narrow. TOPA TOPA (Waterman), Fab. 13— Chairman, B. Fostar; Sacratary, M. Wiikar. Thermostat to be installed. Supplies needed for medicine chest. Rooms should he soogeed. Door and lock on foc'sles and toilet needs re­ pairs. ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), Fab. 1— Chairman, E. Grady; Sacratary, Calvin Crabtraa. Mail situation discussed.' $.46 left In ship's treasury after pur­ chase of wreath for member's mother. Will have $10 more from pool. Vote of thanks to steward departfhent. Keep passageways clean. OREMAR (MarVan), Fab. $—Chair­ man, F. Timmons; Sacratary, L. DoucaHa. $27.75 in ship's fund. WiU col­ lect for new radio. Vote of thanks to steward department. DEL AIRES (Mist.), Fab. 2—Chair­ man, J. Wolff; Sacratary, C. Guiiatt. $31.55 in ship's fund. One man missed Ship In Santos. 90 days' stores to be put aboard. Need locks on doors in passageways. IRENESTAR (Triton), Fab. X-Chairman, Wimar; Sacratary, M. Andenon. Vote of thanks to steward depart*ment. Repair list to be submitted. Discussion on B & C Men for next trip. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Carriers);fab. 9—Chairman, N. Shusko; Sacratary, A. Stavanson. Engine de­ partment beet to-bo straightened out by potroli'iaan. Discussion on keeping messhall ciean. .Service 100% better this trip.' Vote W thankg for steward department-;'' aeparime^Ct/ T Faye Fifteea LOG Seek Port Closing To Runaways RECENT ARRIVALS All of the following HJU families have received a $200 maternity beneM plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Dtle Anthony Welch, born Janu­ Mrs. Fred Jagan Jr., New Orleans, LONDON—A leading British ary 8, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. La. shipping association has recom­ Elvert M. Welch, Covington La. Rueben Anavitate, born Decem­ mended that the government close Rita Jene Sanchez, bom Janu­ ber 23, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. English ports to runaway Ameri­ ary 5, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Claudio Anavitate, Brooklyn, NY. can and Greek vessels in order to Charles R. Sanchez, Chickasaw, James Lawrence Bell, bom Feb­ enable national companies to com­ Alabama. ruary 7, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. pete with them. Danny Wesley Barnes, born Jan­ Robert H. Bell, Flomaton, Ala. The United Kingdom Chamber of uary 2, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edwin Ruiz, born December 29, Shipping complained that foreign William J. Barnes, Irvington, Ala­ 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alejan­ flag ships enjoyed "overwhelming bama. advantages" over their British dro Tirado Ruiz, Bronx, NY. Robert Allen Rosales, bom Christina Maria Palmquist, bom competitors. "Their motives are December 3, 1957, to Seafarer and January 21, 1958, to Seafarer and plain," they said. "The Greeks are Mrs. Orlando Rosales, San Fran­ Mrs. Hilding L. Palmquist, Copi- out to avoid taxation, and the Americans seek- to benefit from cisco, Calif. ague, NY. lower operating costs obtainable^ Melanie Jan Danzey, bom Janu­ Jose Antonio Alvarez, born De­ ary 31, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. cember 31, 1957, to Seafarer and under the adopted flags." American and Greek interests, Tom Rollin Danzey, Mobile, Ala. Mrs. Enrique S. Alvarez, Santurce, the Association found, control al­ Michael F. Patrick Pagan, bom PR. most 93 percent of the 13,000,000 December 25, 1957, to Seafarer and Gail Home, born January 26, gross tons of shipping registered 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ in Panama, Liberia, Honduras and liam R. Home, Kew Gardens, NY. Costa Rica. Elliott A. Alexander, born Jan­ In order to allow British com- " uary 11, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. panics to compete with these ves­ Alex Alexander, New Orleans, La. sels, the association said, the gov­ Tyrone Robert Anerino, bom ernment should either close the January 11, 1958, to Seafarer and port facilities to these ships, or Mrs. William R. Anerino, Phila­ give the national companies tax delphia, Pa. immunity. Louis F. Beeker, bom January A few weeks ago, a British gov­ The deaths of the following Sear 31, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. ernment official said a proposal to farers have been reported to the Howard Beeker, Brooklyn NY. bar runaway transfers by British Seafarers Welfare Plan and the Donnie M. Burden, born Sep­ ships was impractical since other SlU death benefit is being paid to tember 18, 1957, to Seafarer and maritime nations would not follow their beneficiaries. Mrs. Orlando Burden, Portsmouth, suit, an apparent reference to US inaction on this issue. Anatolio Gamali. 52: Brother Va. Gamali passed away on December 5, 1957, in the USPHS Hospital in Staten Island. Death was due to natural causes. He became a full member of the Union on April 1, 1953, and was sailing in the steward department. Burial took place in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. Frank Leo Bednarczyk, 66: On November 25, 1957, Brother Bed­ narczyk died in the USPHS Hospi­ tal in Baltimore, Md. His death was caused by a respiratory infection. Brother Bednarczyk is survived by his wife, Theresa Bednarczyk, of Baltimore, Md. He was buried in Holy Rose Cemetery, German Hill Road, Md. TO SHIPS IN ATLANTIC EUROPEAN Charles Arnold Seibel, 27: AND SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS Brother Seibel died on April 9, 1957, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He became a full member of the Union on November 29, 1951, and was sailing in the steward depart­ ment. Place of burial is unknown. Final Dispatch I EVERY I SUNDAY I DIRECT VOICE I BROADCAST I "THE VOICE OF THE MTD" EVERY SUNDAY. 1620 GMT (11:20 EST Sunday) Personals And Notices WFK-39, 19850 KCs Ships in Caribbean, East Coast of South America, South Atlan­ tic and East Coast of United States. Joseph Lordcn Contact Benjamin Cherry, at­ torney, 1522 Race Street, Phila­ delphia 2, Pa., concerning your mother's estate. Eugene Frederick McGreevey or Frederick Eugene McGreevey Mrs. Molly McGreevey. 1135 Uni­ versity Terrace, Linden NJ, wants you to contact her immediately. Paul Hellebrand It is important that you get in touch with your family in Gaffney, SC, immediately. Donald Pressly Your mother would like to hear from you. Contact her c/o Gylland, 860 E. 172 St., NY 60, NY. William Brabham Please get in touch with your wife) Mrs. W. L. Brabham, at PO Box 414, York, SC. Charles A. Tucker Your father Charles B. Tucker would like to hear from you- Please contact him at 801 .Biiren JS^ee^,. Baltimore 2, MD. J WFK-85, 15700 KCs Ships in Mediterranean area, North Atlantic, European and US East Coast WFL-65. 15850 KCs Ships in Gulf of Mexico, Carib­ bean, West Coast of South America, West Coast of Mexico and US East^ Coast. Meanwhile, MID '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-22407 KCs West Coast South America ...v.. . i : • Every Monday, 0315 GMT (10:15 PM EST Sunday) WMM 25-15607 KCs Australia WMM 81-11037.5 Northwest Pacific ______ _ , MARlflME TRADES DEPARTMENT • �ilii#*' mm 'mc Vol. XX No. 5 1^;^" • • SEAFARERS • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • Rres. Adams Rescues Three Ore Carrier Crewmen^ 22 Lost I'>•- • I '0- m' CRISTOBAL—Three of the five survivors from the sinking of the Italian oreship Bonitas have arrived here in the Canal Zone on the rescue ship President Adams full of praise for SIU Pacific District crewmen Five have resulted, in sinkings; a who saved them from an icy sixth is permanently crippled. death off the North Carolina One vessel, the SlU-manned LST m. February 5 Through February 18 Deck A Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore ......... Norfolk Savannah coast last week. Twenty-two others Southern Districts, disappeared Tampa were lost. without a trace with her 23-man Mobile The trio on the Adams was crew in December, 1954, almost New Orleans ...... I ii'';' • •. among 25 Bonitas crewmen vir­ tually snatched from the arms of their rescuers when their lifeboat swamped alongside the American President Lines freighter. They were picked up as soon as the Adams put its own boat over the side. "The rest have drifted away," the ship signaled. Continuing its search for sur­ vivors while other ships converged on the scene, the President Adams was unsble to recover its boat due to the turbulent seas. However, this may have led to the rescue of two more men from the Bonitas 18 hours later. Two Others Found Details of the operation are not clear, but it appears that the two men somehow managed to reclaim one of the abandoned boats during the night and thereby escaped the frigid waters. They were picked up the following afternoon by the Navy destroyer escort Lester, which eventually landed them in Norfolk for hospitalization. The rescue ships also picked up the bodies of 21 crewmen. One is still missing. This latest sinking emphasized the hazards peculiar to shipping at this season, and most of all for ships heavily laden with ore car­ goes. The Bonitas is the seventh oreship in as many years which has been suhk or disabled during the winter months, with, a total loss of 131 lives. Six of the seven mishaps oc­ curred in the same general area and one off the Norwegian coast. (i.;- •fej duplicating the fate of a sister ship, the Southern Isles, and 17 crew­ men in 1951. The others include two NMU-manned ships, the Mormackite (37 lost), in October, 1954, and two years later off Norway, the Pelagia (32 lost). Two other SIU ships, the Steelore in 1955 and the Feltore a year ago, were near-misses. The Steelore limped into Morehead City, NC, under tow after a five-day bat­ tle with the sea and has been crip­ pled ever since. Luckiest of all, the Feltore narrowly escaped dis­ aster after a four-day fight to stay afloat and went back into service after repairs. Ironically, the Coast Guard re­ cently proposed a "Code of Good Practice" for stowing bulk cargoes such as ore. Poor stowage and un­ predictable seas have shared the blame for most of these mishaps. The Genoa-registered Bonitas, a 5,636-gross-ton freighter manned by an Italian crew, was en route to Baltimore with Brazilian manga­ nese ore when she radioed for help. The message advised that her holds were leaking and it might l)e neces­ sary to abandon ship. She , sank less than 24 hours later. First to reach the area about 120 miles east of Cape Lookout, NC, after the SOS, the Adams was eventually joined by three destroy­ er escorts, a Coast Guard cutter, five other merchant ships and sev­ eral aircraft overhead. The APL ship had left New York a few days earlier and proceeded here after the rescue with the survivors still aboard. Visitors View Medical Center fe : 1 Houston Wilmington San Francisco ..... Seattle Deck A Total ' French union delegates listen attentively as Dr. Joseph Logwe, :righ' foreground, explains functions of NY SIU health center, to ^ translator, Miss Paulette Pacette. Pictured are Marcel Saint-Cast, ^ merchant marine union; Pierre Alisse, marine officers, and Guy i WMarcel Pierre Ducas, fechnitians union. Emile La Flamme of the f^iRate Department, left, is in charge of the group. ^ v Eng. A Deck B 1 11 1 12 7 2 1 5 8 4 9 1 6 5 ' ' 5 41 23 22 2 12 5 17 34" 9 14 5 8 13 Eng. A Decs B 73 210 Eng. B Stew. A 3 51 24 21 6 5 14 26 29 5. 17 3 8 2 1 11 7 14 4 2 1 6 15 14 11 2 4 10 Eng. B stew. A 102 214 Stew. B 1 10 2 6 2 0 0 1 13 6 12 3 8 4 stew. B 68 Totel A Total B 12 139 76 65 11 24 28 66 101 27 64 12 23 19 3 32 10 32 13 4 2 12 36 24 32 6 18 19 Totel A Total B 667 243 Total Reg.' 19 171^ tm 97| 24 29 so; 78 137 51 96 1ft 41 38 Total Reg. 910 Shipped Port Deck A New York ......... Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah ......... Tampa ..... Mobile Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Total J9 Deck A Deck B Deck C 3 0 13 21 10 8 2 4 0 0 0 1.0 4 0 6 0 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Deck B 50 Deck C 23i Eng. A Eng. Erig. c B 4 44 9 26 8 1 2 21 27 12 19 1 13 8 1 14 2 17 7 1 1 2 4 13 13 0 2 7 0 13 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 195 84 16 Eng. A Eng. Eng. B C stew. B 3 3 51 5 3 5 25 12 8 4 1 0 2 ; 2 21 ^2 30 . 6 7 10 fK 16 2 0 10 1 6 0 Stew. A stew. A 185 stew. B 55 Stew. Total c A Total B Total A Total B 0 17 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 stew. c 18 9 148 23 119 26 6 13 63 105 36 60 5 40 17 670 7 82 8 ,87 15 1 4 8 16 28 20 0 3 10 189 Total TMal c Ship. 0 18 51 231 0 31 4 160 0 41 0 7 18 1 0 71 0 121 65 1 0 80 0 5 0 43 0 27 Total Total c Ship. 57 916 - SIU job activity fell off once more in the last period but still ran ahead of registration. The registration figure has been declining for several weeks. Total shipping was 916; 910 men were registered. The margin of jobs shipped over registration was all in the deck department, and gen­ erally all in class A. Despite the overall dip, six ports showed higher shipping than be^re and one, Wil­ mington, held fast. Improvement was listed in Norfolk, Tampa, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Houston and San Francisco. "Slow" is still the word for Wilmington, despite the status quo. Seven ports reported a drop, in­ cluding Boston, New York, Phila­ delphia, Baltimore, Savannah, Mobile and Seattle, The West Coast thus continues to be slow and shipped only 75 jobs this~ period. On the seniority side, class A ac­ tivity fell off to 73 percent of the total, class B gained and climbed to 21 percent and class C shipping rose as well. New York" handled almost all of the class C activity. Ten ports shipped no class C men at aU. The following is the forecast port by port: Boston: Quiet . . . New York: Good; jobs hang for several calls . . PhUadelphia: Fair . . . Balti­ more: Steady and good ... Norfolk: Fair . . Savannah: Slow . . . Tam­ pa: Fair ... Mobile: Good . i . New Orleans: Good ... Lake Charles: Fair . . . Houston: Good . . . Wil­ mington: Still slow . . . San Franciscor Fair ,.. Seattle: Fair. Union Has Cable Address /•r • RegisterBcl fort 1 . 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, SEAFABERS NEW YORK. Use of this address will assure speedy transmission on all mes­ sages and faster service for the men involved. Open Foreign Aid Debate; '50-50' Cargo At Stake WASHINGTON—With cargo shortages a pressing problem, the American merchant marine and US seamen's unions are watching the fate of the US foreign aid program with more than passing interest. The ad-' ministration has asked for a nam and Turkey which have been recipients of US aid car­ Congressional appropriation of regular goes. The rest of the program is in $3.9 billion in foreign aid for the year beginning July 1, 1958. Since foreign aid cargoes are covered by the "50-50" law, the Congress' decision on foreign aid will deter­ mine to a great degree how much US ships will receive in the form of actual Government cargoes. Last year, the administration proposed close to $4^ billion in aid but got about $3^ billion in appropriations. It is expected that efforts again will be made to cut down the sums being sought for this purpose. Another related fight now brew­ ing in Congress also would have its effects on US shipping. It is the renewal of the reciprocal trade program which would affect the total volume of private or commer­ cial trade between', the US and for­ eign nations. Boosts in tariff bar­ riers such as are being sought by several Industries which are now hard _hit by declining business, would mean reductions in import cargoes and probably an overall shrinkage of both import and ex­ port cargoes in the long ran. The foreign aid program would involve sending $1.8 billion worth of American arms to US allies, plus $335 million in other materials and assistance for defense to such countries as Korea, Formosa, Viet­ economic aid to underdeveloped countries. and in miscellaneous iCems. The administration is arguing that the funds are necessary if the US is to keep its allies strong and avoid a heavy increase in its own dlefense spending. While none of the cargo needs of US shipping would be met by the program until this summer, the passage of the program would be as-urance of another year's "50-50" cargo, plus additional shipments under the agricultural surplus pro­ gram. Ship Outlook Fair In'Frisco SAN FRANCISCO—It was a fair shipping period for this port. The Choctaw (Waterman) supplied most of the business when she came out of lay-up and signed on a full crew. There were no vessels paying off during the period. In transit were the Seamar, Massmar (Calmar); Iberville, Jean LaFitte, Young America (Waterman), and the Steel Executive (IsthmiaoJ. Jf r !t„ • I -J); � 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 February 28, 1958 Description An account of the resource Headlines: ORGANIZING DRIVE SET ON LAKES TWO COAL MINER INTO PORT AFTEE 17-DAY BATTLE WILLIS RAID BARRED UNION’S MEDICAL PROGRAM BETTERS SEAFARER’S HEALTH SEE SUEZ SETTLEMENT MTD LAKES SRIVE MACHINERY SET COAL MINER IN BALTIMORE AFTER GALE-TOSSED TOW NMU DEFEATED IN RAID ON WILLIS TOWBOAT FLEET NY SHIPPING HOLDING UP DESPRITE WESTHER PROBLEM BEGIN ‘SEA-LAND’ PUERTO RICO RUN SNOW, COLD GREET GULF SEAFARERS BIG AID SHIPMENTS HEADED FOR POLAND SUP ELECTS WEISBERGER SEC’Y-TREAS. DEL MONTE PET HEADS FOR ZOO STOCK SPECULATION HELPED WRECK TMT, MORSE SAYS UNIONS OF AMERICA INT’L ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS CANADA STRIKE AWAITS ELECTION OUTCOME STRIKE BENEFITS TAXABLE, FEDERAL COURT DECLARES PRES. ADAMS RESCUES THREE ORE CARRIER CREWMEN, 22 LOST OPEN FOREIGN AID DEBATE; ’50-50’ CARGO AT STAKE 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 02/28/1958 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XX, No. 5 1958 Periodicals Seafarers Log