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(Story on Page 5; feature on Savannah's 'nuclea~ operation on Page 9.) �. .se Two -,.· Bill Woulcl Ease Duties On Seamen �P•l'e ThrM SE.4l'.4REltS £0C Cle-a i '-S-i te For, New . . ~ HOii l'n N'OrleanS NEW ORLE~NS-Preliminary work on·the site for a brand-new hall for Sea• · f arers has gotten underway he~e, with actual construction ~ue to start this fall~ Tlie new, modem facility, which will.front on Jackson Avenue m the famed Fr~nch Quart~r, will be located . · t t , ii f m the are In process of revision. The of the French Quarter. It ls ex8 boU · WO m es ro . · hall will cover an estimated area pected that tlie building ·wm be present Union Hall on of l~o· by 135', plus a large i~­ ready late next year, .8 : 'll Street ' It will rounding plot to allow for appr~ 1env1 e . priate fandscapini an4 parkln1 .provide .space for Welfare space. '.Plan functions and fop The start on the New Orleans project follows by only a few Coeur D'Alene Victory is shown paning through lriquois· Lock on St. Lawrence Seaway. Qn the dock to handle lines if necessary is Seafarer Juan Nie~~s, AB. , Union servjces. . weeks the launching ot constrttcDemolition of the existing tlon on a new hall in Philadelphia, structures on the property is located at 2602 South Fourth well advanced, but final plans on Street. the proposed two-story building All of the construction ls In llne with plans for improving services ·l cc·l'n N . ew· A·las·ka'· , B1·d . · - d h · .. WASHINGTON-Counterattacking against the successes of the industry an t ~ mantime unions the Interstate Commerce Commission ·is seeking, in the House of Representatives 'What it has been denied. in the Sen~te-namely, control of Alaska shipping. The Senate bill, which• · would have given the ICC a as coastwise and lntercoastal ship signed to endow the railroads with foothold in the offshore ship- operators. 'lJhe unions and the the undisputed right to eliminat~ ping field , had been pigeonholed operators had charged the .ICC after vigorous attack by ttie SIU with being in collusion with the and other maritime unions', as well railroads, permitting them to rig rate schedules so as to wreck the • domestic shipp~ng ~ndustry. . SurnI US Us • ' G rain oes G any and all ·carrier ~o~petition by any .means at hand without regard to the end effect on the economy of transportation as a whole, or even the railroad economy itself. It appears lhat the ICC has placed a stamp of approval on this theory, sinc·e the rate war continues in full force." ! In a related development, the ICC announced it was appealing to the Supreme Court a US court ruling enjoining u from putting into effect railroad rate cuts on the carriage of° sulphur over the· objections of "a shipping company. The company, Marine Transport Lines, had charged that the ICC · had re f used to consider th e ev1dence it submitted against the rate-cutting move. The court h d h Id th h' i a up e e s IPP ng comparw. ~~d~e:fa~e::e::i::~ p:~;t~:. p::; both business and recreational purposes, as well as eating accommodations for .men on the beach . The New Orleans building has the tentative street address o! 630 Jackson Avenue, at Chippewa and _ Phillip Streets. Preliminary plans call for the building to include such accommodations as a cafetcria, sea chest, hiring hall, offices, a lounge, TV room and other recreational facilities on the main deck, plus additional recreation and meeting space on the top .deck. A large open patio would be situated in the rear for sunbathing and other outdoor activities. . Located just two blocks from the Jackson Avenue ferry landing, the proposed building here will have a modern outer facade, with present exterior plans calling for an outside stairway leading to the top deck. Unlike the building in New York, opened in 19'51, and the Baltimore hall opened in 1954, wh'1c h· coQ. f orm t o th e same genera l pattern, the New Orleans exterior design is entirely different and is i k · 'th ti h "t ture n eepmg w1 1e arc i ec , New hall site is near Jackson Ave. ferry, two miles from They cited numerous instances ~ in which the railroad$, with tbe ap~ Bienville St. proval of ICC, manipulated long: haul and short-haul rates to the • detriment of shipping, · and in many· instances charged below-cost rates to drive shipping out of busiw ASHINGTON-Another boost ness and monopolize the traffic. for shipping via the Seaway has Despite the setback in the Senbeen given by the us· Agriculture ate, ICC Chairman Kenneth H. Tuggle has appeared before a subDepartment, which has announced committee of the House Committee that farm surplus grain cargpes on Int'erstale and Fore1·gn Com· will be permitted to move from merce in support of HR 6244, Canadian P.otf.s on the St. Lawrence which calls for turning over Alaska . Seaway because of cheaper costs. shi'ppi'ng to the ICC. Crewmembers of the SS Atlantict . . th t b th f lg . Th a t · means. a • 0• ore nOn behalf of the maritime unhave received congratulations both flttg and American t.ramp operators, ions, the SIU's Washington office who have been active in the farm · h inserted into the ·r ecord the from the US Public Health Service · statement as · · and the company for the excellent , 1urp1us t ra d e, w1·11 b e br ingin g th e1r by SIUNA President . , . i L k A · score they achieved in the ship's 1h~ps nto ~reat a es mer1can Paul Hall attacking the ICC as sanitation inspection. The Ameriandi Ca~ad1an ports to pick up the enemy of coastwise and interPro - gr ~ can Banner Lines passenger liner era ? cargoes. , coastal shipping. Hall's statement achieved the unusually high ratThe proposal has upset East cited the tremendous decline in ing of 95 in the inspection for the Coast po1·t inte1·ests considerably, domestic shipping. since the ICC Over 150 SIU-contracted ships have already been visited 1958 calendar year. 1ince Baltfmore,~ Ph\ladelphia and first assumed jurisdiction over it by field representatives of the Atlantic and Gulf Companies other cities normally handling the in 1940, and also gave numerous In a letter to the company, the grain movement ·fear heavy_ loss- instances of ICC favoritism .toward Food Program under the new set-up covering all SIU-con- Public Health Service congraty· The. s· i x + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - lated it and the crew for "maint d companies. of ,buSiness to the Seaway route. raifroads and rate manipulation. - t race • · taining a high degree of sanitary He pointed to the well-known field- representatives, all of with several cof!lpanies called for excellence on board your vessel Meanwhile, Seaway ships ran Into another traffic jam at the Wei- fact that most ICC commissioners them SIU chief stewards, steaks and chops to be cooked to during the year 1958. land Canal where some ·~o ships are traditionally railroad men, order, roasts ·to be carved to order "The achievement of the Amer.are waiting to p.i:o. ceed northward, coming out of that industry and have been hitting ships here in an. d individual servings of butter, y .~ i B it· · M0 b'l \ ·N 1 e s1"de dishes of ' 'egetables and the ican Banner Lines in earning a from Lake ~rie to Lake Ontario. tl1en going back to plush railroad ew d N orA,o 1n a imore, • Public Health Service Certificate The jam has ~eveloped as iron ore jobs after leaving the agency. an ew r eans. like. of Sani·tati·on on its vessel 1·n opH ·1 On the ships they are assisting boats i:unning to am1 t.on, Ontario, Subsequently, Tuggle submitte~d shipboard stewards in strengthenThe companies participating in eration attests clearly to your conrushed ·huge supplies of ore to a-written reply to the Senate deny- ing t.heir inventory systems, im- the program initially hired their cern for the health and safety of Canadian steel. mills because of the .tng charges made by Hall. He in- proving menu planning and the own consultant stewards to im- your. passengers and employees atrike on the -American side. sisled that. the ICC is not a "pro- quality_of shipboard food prepara- prove feeding on the ships and ... The inspection rating of gs .•• ~oal ship operators . are com- motional body" which is "railro·a d tion and service. met with a good deal of success. is a signal achievement. "The Surgeon General and all plaining th{lt the. ore boats are get- mir{ded" but claimed that it is an . The new program is being oper- Consequently, the program is now tinet. pr.eference, ~Ith coal ships impartial agency. He blamed the ated by SIU-contracted companies being extended to all SIU com- my associates also join me in forced to waAt thr.ee and four d~ys woes of c·oas'twise shipping on high in cooperation with the Union, and panies on a standardized basis. acknowledging and commending is financed by a five-cent an hour Heading up the food program is the excellent cooperation which before gl'!,tting .into the -Welland cargo-handling costs. Canal. 411sC.year -ships were passThe charge by the unions that·' aaiJY contribution to a central fund. Seafarer Cliff Wilson, while work- the officers and employees of the Ing through the Welland· in nine the ICC is acting in ·colluslon with The· daily contribution was nego- ing under him as field consultants American Banner Lilles have· exhoqrs, but t~is year it is takin~ 58 . tpe railrqads was substantiateq by Ji~t~ci 'by the lfi;iion during last in the various ports are Seafarers tended to the personnel of our hours for the tlY~erage ship to get · an unnamed official of the Anti·. August's contract negotiations. Bob Principe, Pete Loleas and vessel sanitation program." ~ough. :· · : · · '.f.rust -Division of the Justice .De- ., The industcy-wide food program William J'enkins in New York; Ed In passi,ng the letter on to the Ev.en ·with the ·delays and · hazar~s par.tni~nt, . who characterized the Is an outgrowth of tlie SIU feeding ~mith ·in Baltimore; Phil O'Connor Union, William · Augustinus, the ef 1"lhe·1 Seawa~ passage, it is _. stil~ ·Iec_ as -"so wrapped µ.p with· the , plan which got underway i¢tially in New Orleans and Phil Reyes in company's general manager, noted cheapf?r:. to ship from the Middle Association of Ameri~an Rai~o~c;ls in 1954. The Union at that time set . Mobile. that the high rating could not have . West to Europe via the .seaway its terrible." . /. 1 out to replace boarding-house fam- · Trustees of the Atlantic and been achiev.ed without ev~ry man than .to 'ship cargo overland by rail Also in opposition at the House Uy-style f~ed(ng practices . on' tlie Gulf Food Program, representing on the ship "from the captain or. ~ruck, to. .tlie .EaSt .Coast and hear,ing · was, the SIU-contracted ships by ·a "ta~order" feeding sys- -major . steamship companies, are: down fo the galley utllity man d<>-! trapsship from .there. - •Pan-Ml@nJ,lq,1 Ste,.mship ~o~a~ .~m:. ~uch .. ~9 fi' ~ct~ced· 1 ·1n good .Roland Chapdelaine, Sea!ra.in; Cap- Ing his share. _ _ ~, · _ · .'f.~e Pan-Atla~tic 1WQ.M$Qlan ~cited· dboresld reit·¥,~n*' ~ ·• tain Milton William~. Bul,l L.ine; "l'he responsibility for a clean 1 ~/~~ 2tf/1 *'1i ~µn1,1meJ,'able ~xamplee o~ the rail- : T~e program 'Wlls set ' Uft ort . t~,e .Randolph ~chilling, ~lc~a; Charles a~d healthy: ship rests parUcularly, 11-61 ~·. f'tl9VW•"~ -:~ ':?· f, r,oa·d1~t.e.kw~~ on shipping deelar·i groun~ that 'the ·mas~ · coo~ery Jlnd· .Logan, fdississippi 'Shipping; Max on board our ve~~l, o_n members t ~ ~ • .';f. • ' ~ ;ll•.• r ~, .; • • ·ing, ~''!,f...Jte rail carriers' ~ppe&r:<to ·~a~ service Pi:actl~es· were. usually Har _. rison, ,. ·waterman; William of ·-your union ~nd we therefore l'i ·• ~ .:1. n~e J.µ~tifyinf .their 1ct101,1s under.· wasteful , att4 · le.~u1ted ·1n l>O~l'.:-· '. Augustinas,.American .Banriel' Line; . felt piat .·t he contents of the at'.'. ~ , · -,.,.. , '~ --~ '!: '. t.be guis.e that the Transportatfo'- :quaUty fe~ding to . the , bar.aln. . . an.... Ca1>..tain Bruno Spot.as, Isth- -.tached letter wou14 .be to your ~ .a ' vt.as 1i1Ualz ·,W.' ·:Att ~f 195~ ii ID instrument de• "rlie · iiidivldual ··system· :jet· Up mtan. : . ". . particular interest.'' · . r • V IQ • • seO···Way s u sh ips • Get 5 1 0 1 Food . am A1·d. J!A*... . ;: :;, ' •" ft/.11/F ,f • • • • Banner Line Crew Gets PHS Praise / �July a ·n.rough July 21, 1959 SIU shipping fell off slightly last period but no change was Philadelphia had ~n relatively slow · pendiilg the encl of the lon'felt by the two top seniority groups. Both class A and class B shore beef at the sugar 'docks and aH ~e Gulf ports bounced ba~ to job activity showed no change; class c shipping dropped 'off, a more n~r~al level of shipping at the QJDe time. At th~ other end .., Sit• •• Offs . 0.. T,..._ TOTAL however. The job total of 1,156 stayed ahead of the two-week registra- of the llCale, all the West. ~oast_ ports fell oft par, and Boston; New tion of 1,106, as registration also fell off a bit. The -result was no real York, Baltimore and Savannah and Lake Chai;les all dropped, oft a bit. ...... •.• •· • • 2 1 . change in the number of men registered ·on the beach at .the end · of ~ew Y~~: ~~~~:°:led •:ost ~.o jobs and Baltimore °'!'a& more than . llewY..t'". t ._. 11 ' ., the period. usy w · · a num r. ............. • 1 1. The seniority lgw:es show cla~ A accounting for .64 ner.cent of the .......... . • • • 10 - ' Despite the s·m~U decline, shipping . in the engine department in- jobs shipped-, class ~ for 22 percent and class C for the remainder. ~ .' creased over the· previous. report. Actually, steward department ship- The only real drop, as expected, was for . class c: -Boston, Savannah, ...... ~ .... • .. J ping was the only . atea of fall-off. In the same way, the number of Tampa .and Lake Charles shipped no "C'' men at alL s.v........ class A engine registrants and class B deck men rose a little wbile all 1 1 Eight ports li~ted 100 men or less on hand iii all departments at the ,..... • • • • • · . the rest d.eclined. ' 5 end of the period, including Boston, Phnildel1,>hla, Norfolk, Savannah, M.Wle • • • • •·• ' A total of 220 ships were handled by ports, covering 49 payoffs, Tampa, Lake Charles, Wilmington and Seattle. AU of these except New. o;liaM. • ' ' 36 sign-ons and 135 in-tral)sits. The payoff column was the only obe the first two and Seattle also had 'fewer than 50 class · A men on hand._ Lake CHrlea·. • 2 2 showing a drop. New York ·accounted for 39 ships, New Orleans for •The .following is the outlook port by port: H••atH • • • • I J 34 and Houston for 31. There were no sign-ons in Boston · Savannah Boston: No change. ~ . New York: Still busy .•. Phfladelphta: Active Wll•llttfH ·, • -:Wilmington and .Seattle, and only one each in Philadelphia ~nd Tampa'. again . . . Baltimore: Busy except for ore boats. due to steel strike • • . Soll Fr..cl1co · • 1· J (See "Ship Activit.Y" summary at right.) Norfolk: Fair .•• Savannah. Tampa: Quiet •.. Mobile: Good ••. New s.attre • • • • • • I Six ports listed improved shipping since the last report, among them Orleans: Good ••• .,_ke -Charles: Slow ••• Houston: Good ••• We.t Philadelphia, Norfolk, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans and Houston. Coast: Fair. Tetek •••••.' 4t H In DECK DEPAR·TMENT Port Bl'.tston .........·.....• New York .. .•......• -. Philadelphia. : ......•• Baltimore ...•........ Norfolk . .•.•.•. : .. ~ •• Savannah .. ..••.. . ..•. Tampa . .............• Mobile . .............• New Orleans ..... : ... . Lake Charles ........• Houston . ............. .. Wilmington . .......... Sao Francisco . : ...... Seattle .. ...... : .....~ TOTALS · ltegist•efl CLASS A .GKOUP 1 z I AU 8 6 1 17, 24 . 47 ·2 10 12 29 2 7 . .2 3 9 18 1 2 - 3 2 7 22 17 . .5 3 5 5 10 - 4 12 7 2 15 R.,,lstered GROUP uj_..14 11 I 5 %1 . 50 17 11 - - 7 . 2 6 14 15 - - - - -- - - ios l7157j"'i3il 9 - ' " --I 8 -3 1 - - - - - -- ,_ -·-- 5' 1 8 2 -· 56 .. 10 2 ,3 5 8 ~ -2 - 5 1 1 2 z l ·Reglst . ered ,Orf Boston .....••.••.•••• New York. •1 • • • • • • • • • Philadelphia ........•• Baltimore ... ; .. • ...•• Norfolk ...•.•••....•• Savannah ..•• , ...•••• Tampa . •...••.•.•.••• Mobile .......•......• New -Orleans ........•. Lake Cbarlu ..•.....• Houston . . ...... . ..•.• Wilmington . ...•.•...• San Francisco. " •.•••• . Seattle : .. . ....••.•••• lOTALS _1 CLASS I GROUP _% S ALL 7 - 2 15 8 52 7 1 'I ·.4 · 1 '14 6 6 26 6 40 ~ 9 2 13 6 6 1 1 3 11 1 15 5 29 3 37 4 4 1 I 3 21 17 3 3 3 3 9 11 2 13 9 2 11 1 -46_1_9_4-30........ 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Port 1 2 3 ALL . 1 ·Boston . ........••... 1 2 3 1 New York ....•. ._. .... 31 9 21 61 2 Philadelphia ..•......• 1 l Baltimore ...•••.....• 8 7 19 H 1 Norfolk ....••••.... • • 5· 2 3 10 2 Savannab ...••.......• 3 1 2 6 1 Tampa ... .. .••••.. •1 • • • 1 1 Z Mobile ......•.......• 13 New Orleans . .•.....•. 115 - 2 248 37 Lake Charles ... ·.....• 1 1 zHouston . . ; ... : ......• 7 2 2 1l l Wilmington . .........• 2 1 1 4 1 San Francisco . ....... . 4 6 10 Seattl~... : ....••....• ....:...5 5 · 1~ - TOTALS - 83 25 91 %M 9 Z S ALL 1 1 1 19 22· 12 2 I 4 1 9 11 10' 3 3 I 2 1 1 3 .! 3 ~ ·- 7 '1 3 1a u 14 - - - 11 10 1 2 3 5 l 4 41 1 74190! 61 10 2 'J - - Z 4 1 2 1 1 - 2 - DECK · , · i 9 ., • •"ff I iM• 4 -. 2 4 ,;,, n' . ...., 1 . SHll'PED J:OT-AI. - ·. · . 1 . .1.,ered On Th~_J•lt . '· ; ClASS A . C14SS I -l ~. - ' . 'CLASS . . . GioiJii . GROUP ' .. -·. .• .. I : S --ALL A B · C ·A.Li; · ·1 I I .AU . 1 · 2 S . ALL · ~ . ,1· .. 2 ' - · S . 1 · ..10 · 1 . U -=- . 1 ·. 2 -, .. 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ENGINE-·· ! ti.i :!tt- .est ltz I tu .CUSS C · ., I ALL I 2 21 11 1 3 3 I ·14 26 1 4 2 .. · 2 ,2 3 a 17 22 _... . 28 45 i ·1 1A 2 . 3 3 - l - GROVP~---.~-~ --GK=-"·~o=UP. ~---t·--OLA.,,..,,...~SS.,.,..._-_ .,..-.1-~G~a~G~U =P.,..----~i--~ G= R~ O~U=P,.----~ _3 _ . - 3 -"'"' 15 · 'S5 " 11 ·20 ,15 ,.· 3:~ JI ,; 16 .. 8 . · l3 4 . 11 ' ·. Gaou.. Shipped CLAS$ ·• GROUP ~ 1 :· STEWARD. DEPARTMENT Registered .. 3 '1 '. J ALL .1 Zj 1 .'16 4 · ·1 1 6 U 1 4 ··2 I ·. 3 • 7 11 1 10 U l 4 l 2 ·5 1 3 3 4 34 ., 45 • 1§ ~1 ~ ...:::... -. ~ · 1 ': ~ - I -} ' I -~. · ·Shipped ., CLASS a GBQlJ.. . GROUP a.ac• -. · leelatered On 1... CUSS A CLASS I GROUP GaOUP ~2 ( . CLASS A GROUP. . .- CLASS ' ENGINE .DEPARTM, 1111 ,, - legislered ~ ALL A • •· c.ALL ·1 I I ALL 1 :z4 · '3I ' AW. -H 688 141 16. ff7 ..J78 l ••b f 54 Uo15 .21 15 36 13I H 13 - 3 ·4 17 1 2 .H 10 .13 . I -1 -- -J 35 . 2 H · 42 7.7. 14 , · HS 2 13 ·2a · . 18 1:1. ~ · 1 3 . ..14 , 189 " 4· 3. Z7 7 . 9 ' ·- 1 '· l7 .'I • .I 5 l 2 I ·4 . ' 5 · . · . • 11. · .I· _ , ' 5 H .. 6 ; 6 . 1 . 11 5. .· ., l 1 3Z - 8 l . 18 ·32 43 n - 3 8 11 •• l ·. 3 ' 13 - 3. ·7 ; 1. . 11 ~ 59 13 ;'11 ·II 32 50 .9 . .. fl · 2 .s• ·2 2 - .· ...J 2 14 .~· -: 1 ll" 9 'tl '1 -.:..._ -42 .. 7 .. '9 29 . 40 · •l'1 - 3 .1 ., 8 4 I I ··' 1. - - :.....; . 4 2 • . S7 .. ·,tt ·! . ~ ~ - 1 2 1 - ,, SHIPPED I JI ..220 ~ ' TOF'AI. . I I ALL s ALL I 2-- I 2, 3 2 1 2 8 15 5 16 1 23· 18 43 1 3 3 .fS 4 13 4 10 8· 22 H 5 15 2 3 .1 4 3. 7 4 2 H . l 1 2 3 2 5 1 1 1 . 4 I 2 (3 5 11 · 15 6 3~1 · l 59 · ·2 2 5 I 111 28 . ·13 1 1 11 -:4 8 i i 14 21 7 ti13 1 ....: • , ·1 2 1 .1 - 2 3 2 4 1 2j i 2 3 5 5 2 8 131 1 ,St 53 I . 90 17•· 183 5'1 I Sts1 I 1 1 ,. Shipped.· SltljJpefl 'CLASS I · CLASS .C GBOUP GROUP t I · I L J AL'L l .. - 1 1 ·Shipped CLASS A GROUP CLASS I . . t 21" 5 5 S ·.'. .,... ' �,!J9sa Sk.ipp.er·_·: Defen~s- S'?~ed ~ ue-sr~io-.~-=-Wh-at~tio'!!-..,~_o~-.d-o-~i-,h-,.,~"~-v•-r-,or-.i-9n-c-urr-.n-cy-wh-.-." ln ~ Va/chem ··..._Q.... JI\• trip ends? · ·-. ·· ·. • _. . Crash S1fuaf1on Coast Guard hearings of ch_arges against the captain of the Santa Rosa were held wjth Captain Frank Siwik strongly defending his decision to maintain the ship's speed prior to to have something in its collision with the SIU-manned tanker Valchem. /Testifying -at the hearing,......,,....-......._..;;.'- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Captain Siwik declared that in which four men lost their lives, J ersey coast on March 26, with he would have executed tlie three .of them Seafarers on the the Valchem suffering heavy damsame maneuvers Uthe same situa- Valchem. Also facing hearing tion faced him again. He declared, charges are the Santa Ro.sa's sec'"I faced the choice of stopping my ond mate, who was watch officer vessel-and relying solely upon the at the time, accused of Improper . ability of the other vessel to avoid use of radar; Captain . Louis L. ·file or making full use of my speed Murphy of the Valchem, charged and maneuverability to widen the with failure to instruct his ship's passing distance." second mate to notify him in the .. The charges against Captain event restricted visibility condi-: Siwik Include .o perating his vessel tions arose or other vessels were at an "immoder.ate speed" in foggy encountered; ·and Clyde St. Clair - weather and failing to stop his Lupton, -second mate of thJe Valship,. as called for in the rules of chem who, like Captain Siwik, is the road, when he heard fog signals charged with navigating at " imforward pf his beam. · moderate speed" in fog arkd failure ' taptain Siwik is one of four. to halt his ship after hearing fog ships' officers who are up on signals fol"Ward of the beam. charges as a result of the collision The two ships collided off the , my. · money on ,...that. At other times, I merely hang on to the cash and trad,e , it. 1n later for American dollars. My soii, my nephew _ others · in my family are coin co 11 e c t o r s so there's no ques. tion about what I do with le!t over currency.. In fact, if the left4> v e r doesn't amount f6, $20- . . $30 I know there are going to be some disappointed people in m~ family, so I always Atom Merchantman's HuH Lailnched; Sa~s In '60 age as the Santa Rosa's bow plowed into Its after house at a speed · of .21 knots. -LABORROUND-UP Heavy emphasis on welfare and pension ben~fits was shown in the contract settlement obtained by 18,000 members of the United Rubber Workers Union after a 58-day strike at Firestone Tire and Rubber. Wage increases were not at issue, since ·t hey are covered by separate agreements sub~ct to reopening this summer. The settlement, similar to one reached at B. F. Goodrich, increased the formula for figuring pension benefits by one-third as well as providing supplemental pay to workers injured on the job. CAMDEN, NJ-With appropriate fanfare and ceremonies, Mrs. Mamie Ejsenhower launched the first nuclear merchant ship, ~he NS Savannah, on July 22. Originally intended for Maritime Day, May 22, the ~-~ ~ launching had to be delayed is around $41 million and operating Workers at the US-Gnsom plant two months. costs are also expected to be_ far in Staten Island, NY, voted to join Billt. Holds · Shortbanded7 · If a crewmember qµlts wbiJe a ship is in port, deleelites are asked to contact the hill . The Sayannah's launching·merely ~re than those o~ a conventional the International Association c;f ·Involved putting the hull in the ship of the same s•~e. Machinists by a resou.n ding 262-70 water. . Still to be done is the inWith accommodations for a pas- margin. The vote result followed stallation of' the reactor and .other senger.J ist of 60, plus 10,000 tons an intensive anti-union campaign, of cargo, the Savannah will be unpar11lleled in the New York area (For details about &he NS Savan· operated in a .wide variety of com- according to an IAM official. Th~ nali, · se~ i~a&ure on page 9J merciaf . services by States Marine company employed some 80 superpreparatocy . work which is ex- Line which was selected by the visors to classify and report on pected to take at least another Government fro!Jl among several workers' attitudes and to supply shipping companies for that pur- the company periodically w i t h year. - Since the. start of the project, pose. arguments designed to undermine the Savannah has been .surrounded While the Savannah is the first the union appeal. Efforts to organ· by controversy, with critics charg- nuclear-powered merchant ship ize the plant in the past-by other fng that there was too much em- most authorities are agreed that unions had been fruitless. phasis on the propaganda aspects the most efficient use of atom t t t and not enough stre.ss on construe- power would be in a· tanker or a The Federal Bureau of Labor tion of a practical, workaday mer· bulk-carrier. The Maritime Ad- Statistics revealed of the twenty chant ship. One of the criticisms ministration and several private US cities with a population of more voiced was that no effort was made operators have studies going lead- than 100;-000, that Detroit led with · to develop a more advanced and . in& to the construction of such a the highest factory wage, $104.67. more efficient reactor .as a protO· vessel. .Similarly, British and Japa- while Providence bad the lowest type for 'possible future merchant nese interests. are both reported factory wage, $69.48. New York. ships. · to be designing a nuclear-powered contrary to popular belief, is not a tanker. high ·wa~e center for factory workCrulsinc Costly It ls estimated that by 1975, · ers, ranking next to last in wage The Savannah is . admittedly far too expensive to be considered a there will be. 300 naval ancl mer- position with an average wage of true proto.type vessel, since- the chant vessels in operation powered $79.22. t ;t ;t total cost o~ hull plus nuclear plant by atomic energy. The Organized Buildinr· and Factory Service Employes Union Local 21 has been barred from rec. ., \......._....... . . . ognition by the New York State Labor Relatfons Board under the board's new policy of denying c~rtification to "racket" unions. The principal officers of Local 21 are charged with signjng "sweet· heart" contracts with · landlords. Welcomlng Released Newfoundland Logger.~ --.,. . t ~ ;t The Papermakers and Paperworkers Union reports 1959 prom· i!)es to be a record year for profits and pr oductivity. The union estimates a gain of about 21c an hour over the length of two-year pacts recently signe~ with the industry's giant, the International Paper Co. Another reason for optimism is the settlement of the West Coast's y~iform labor agreement, boosting minimum · rates to $2.12 an hour. t t t Maine has pused its first mini· mum wage law, $1 an hour for workers in intrastate commerce. Excluded from Ute bill are agricultural and domestic workers and persons in service trades who receive the majority of thejr lnc.o~· from tips. Establisbmenb with three or fewer employes are also exempt. �Reed - ' Seafarers ~ho' made jobs on the missile ships display their shipping cards at headquarters. Replacements joined ships at end of four-month sign-on period. . - t , Operators Go For'Jumbo' T-2 In Tankship .Slump -. . With the squeeze on against Libertys and T-2 tankers in view of the construction of hundreds . of more modern ves& sels, shipowners are resorting to ~ variety of devices to modernize the older ships. •·- - - - - - - - - - - Most successful thus far has by the US , Maritime Admlnistrabeen--t-he-practice of''J\iinbo= tion in revamping four suCh. ves- ~ , l. '· ~--=r. . Jj __ . -- .Notify the n~are~t SIU port .ag.ent, giving him the following information: the name of the·patient, the hospital, the amoun( and type ?f blood nee?ed, .and whether it is for replacing transfusions alreatly made or -for lu.ture use. 1 AIr • /Ines • In 8 ,.CJdi·ng· Fo·,,-· Loan A SSf. S t 0 - ,, - • AH y:oU hawe -to do is call the Ilion -' . lzing" T-2 tankers by building a ·sels. Several foreign-flag Libertys new center section and inserting it have had new diesel-powered between the split halves o,.f the T-2 plants installed and have enlarged so as to increase. its carrying ca- the ships as well, picking_up 1,500 pacity considerably. One such job "tons deadweight and adding a was done recently on the SIU-con- knot or two of speed. However, tracted tanker, The Cabins, and a such changes still do not make the number of tanker owners here and ship competitive by .a long stretch, abroad have gone in for this prac~ and none of this has been don4! on tice. American-flag 11hips. The "jumboizing'~ adds approximately 4,000 deadweight tons to . the T-2, increasing its carrying capacity by 25 percent and enabling !tt o compete more effectively. Most of the new tankers built are h the 32,000-ton class,· while the jumbo T-2s are in the 20,000-ton vid"nity. Nevertheless, the low cost Qf e~lc1rging a tanker as comw ASHINGTON -The Adminlspared to building a new one is a tration is expected to send to Confactor in the decision to "jumbo- g 1·ess soon a program · under which lze." the Federal Government wouldSome tankers that have been guarantee $750 million in loans to enlarged in this fashion have also help airlines equip-themselves with been converted somewhat so that modern cargo aircraft . ..As the program is being .formu- · they are more suitable for dry cargo bulk trades. lated, Uncle Sam would guarantee . Liberty ship conversions have 75 percent of the purchase price, been done on a smaller scale and with the airlines making a 25 perhave been only moderately pop- cent down payment. ular, despite thecostly experiments The program is a response to· the growing need in US civil and military aviation for modern cargo capacity of a kind that will permit Pick Up '.S hot' lower air freight costs and meet the needs of the Military Alr.,-Tl'ans: Card At Payoff Seafarers who have taken the port Service, the Defense Departseries of inoculations required ment's strat~gic hauling force. for certain foreign voyages are MATS employs commercial air reminded to be sure to pick up lines for a portion of its hauling their inoculation cards from tqe work, and wants the airlines to -:aptain or the purser when they obtain more ·modern cargo craft. The loan guarantees would be . pay off at the end of .a voyage. similar to those given ship opera• The .card should be picked up tors on their construction mort- · by the Seafarer and held so th,1t g:iges. it can be presented when sig;iing on for another voyage where the "shots" are- required. The inoculation card is your only proof of having "taken the requ •red _shots. . Those men who forget to pick up theij- inoculation card- when ·tbcy pay oft ·may ftild that tbey are -requfred to take all · the "sb:o.t s" again when they wa-nt · to sign' on tor another sucb"vo}i',,, -age. ''; · •••• '~ ~.. . 3 . _ • -l - . Welfar~ Services, iq .~.tuFn·; . notifies the :Brook_ly~ ·Donor Center which s_ er.ves ·as the depository for the SIU Blood- Bank: '. Since the ce~ter has reciprocal arrang~m'ents with · other US blood banks, it C$ln get immediate - withdrawals of Blood from a local blood pank. .. ';, - ~ · i 'a: ....... . .. ......._.. ...... 'To maintain . this SIU ' reserv~~ Seafarers pa'ssing· tbrough ,t he port of ;New York ·dOnate .blood at the· SfU clinic, to. assist Seafarers ind their families eve, . ... . -.ry~h~re. ..... ,. �. Pap "9ft• ~¥OUR ~- OOUMl'S WOBTIII-, ~~:, '.,. • \' Seafarer's -'qtilde f o"Better :Buying ~:··~· ' .f" r ~--:. ~ I' 4 < • ' .. ' • ' ...... i, • ' o~ • Br Sfdnev MC1rg0Hu. Tight Money""plagues Borrowers , "Tight money'' ls ,back~ and you have to protect your famllY ·accord. , fngly. "Tjght mo~ey1• pi~ans that there'.s a sh~rtage of lending money and interest rates are rising. · .. . _ . · . . But the effect, of tlgbt. money ax:e ~anserous, both to broad prob·1ems 'su,ch as employment, -an~ to speci,fic probl~ms, such.as whether you can buy a- new house this year or sell your ,old .one, how ihuch ·y~ur monthly payments · wil be on · ll car you. hop'e to buy, ~nd what your taxes wlll'be. · · · . _ · In a time of tiglft money.,.. Feder~l•. ·state and -local .goyernments! boards of education . and raewaie , and . wate~ districts• al( oi~t pay~ a : higher ~ntetest rate for the fun~s . th~y borrpw. ·You pay t,!l~~ tqc~as.e"' j . coit In your income ancJ property taxes in t.h e. new com~unlties ~~~~ need to buJld schools to keep up with· rlslng population, -, · : Bu't the.. m~.~t dan~erou.s eff~c~ ~f tight'. ~ne~ ls o~ e~pl~)'mel).t.. Remember the tight-money period of 1956, when the ~ed,e).'al ·~e~e~e Board boosted . interest rates iil 'an , unsuccessful attempt to tame ill· flatJon? .Then tight money forced many consumers to stop buying and buslnesmnen to quit build.Ing, and . thl~ was followed .by the recession of 1957-58. : Both the AdniiDlstraUon and such large banks as First 'National City B..ank of New Y9rk .-re plugging h_a rd for. higher interest rates. They . I: · ~· ·· · I-~. . .. ·z ·· ': J · .· . · f .· · . ::s~!r!h:io;:';:~==~to~~th~~r.:;; bonds they buY: One .·.Government obvious effect' is to raise the Gov- . , Crewmembers of the fishing vessel Jacintha ·collect $2_00 clothi1Jg allowance after their ship was lost, under tMms of the New Bedford Fishermen's Union welfare plan. Handing out the checlcs is the plan's administrator, John Patten. Fishermen recently received full auto'!omy as SIU-affiliated organization •. M -'ob1·1·e F1·gbts Tax On Sh1·p Supp11·e$ ernment's borrowing coats, and MOBILE-A proposed additional three perce.nt sales tax on all ship sµpplies and fuel now keep Jncome taxes high. But in· creased interest rates also· have a pending in the Alabama legisia:ture will have a crippling effect on the Mobile shipping in- tendency to inflate all living costs. dustry if passed, Port. Agent Cal Tanner -reports. Naturally, if the Alabama_legislature In general, tight inoney benefits affirms such a tax increase, people who have surplus income .to companies now storing and the Federal Maritime Board for a Sign-ons included the Corsair, invest, but forces a reduction in fueling their ships in Mobile subsidy on this run. Cavalier, and Ra'nger <Alcoa), and the living standards of people who will divert their business to anTanner also reports that ship- the Monarch of the S.:as, and Hastgenerally need ·to borrow to ft- other port, a port where there is ping for the last couple of weeks ings (Waterman). nance the costlier equipment..ror no tax. v1as fairly good. The following The following ships were In living, such as houses, c~rs and It is estimated such- a move ships were paid off: the Corsair, transit: DeSoto, Young America appliances. would deprive the merchants of Roamer, Cavalier and Ranger <W.aterman); Del Monte (MississipHere is how the new tight money this port of approximately $50 mil- (Alcoa), and the Monarch of the pi); Frances, Elizabeth (Bull); and 1f~J~~~~~~~·:s~; trend will affect you in specific lion yearly, including crews' pay- Seas and Claiborne <Waterman). Alcoa Cavalier (Alcoa). ~. '..;,__ . departments of living in the rolls which are customarily spent . ~ . ~ \'!"""" , " • months im~ediately ahead: in the port. . ·- .· ..::'.l= . :~ . · :~fl'T.J!: Home seekers are particularly All maritime· interests in this ...,.--.-.~ ~.... affected. Mortgage interest rates are", including shipowners, the un. ~ :'.' · · are rising. Particularly, the rate ions and merchants, have banded ~n GI mortg!lge,9. has been raised together to defeat this harmful 5~ percent from 43;4. This ls the third Increase in GI mortgages piece of legislation. aince 1953 when the rate was 4 percent. On a 25-year mortgage, the tn the Alabama Drydock two llew boost increases the ·payments $2.91 a month. Thus, on a $12,000 standard T-2s are in the process DETROIT-Dissatisfaction with their second-class status mortgage a home· buyer will pay back a total of $21,574 instead of $20,- of being converted into ore and inside the giant Steelworkers Union has prompted a revolt 627 as under the 4~ rate. If you take a 30'-year mortgage your total coal carriers. The ships are being on the part of seamen manning Great Lakes ore fleets, the 1 repayment will be even greater. "Jumboized" by adding some 150 SIU Great Lakes District r e - + - - - - - - - - - - - - In Shopping for a mortgage. note that the_ new GI !5~ rate is still feet to the midsection, allowing ports. ·As a resu It, re beI. contrary, had signed agreements plus o.ne-balf of one percent insurance for the storage of over J6,000 tons _ 7 better than th·e FHA rate of ",.,~ 4' FHA rate is- better than a straight conventional mort- of ore, or some 12,000 t ons of coa1 groups within Steelworkers with two non-union steamship compremium. "1he .... th b lk d t B0 th Local 5,000, the shipping arm of panies just as the SIU was about _ aaee at 53,4, since you may eet back a SJJlall part of the one~half ·Of o~e and · 0 .er ~ pro uc s. the steel union, are seeking ties to file petitions for elections in the .ships will operate under the . Percent l·nsurance premium when the mortgage is paid .up. But the these A fl with the Great Lakes District as fleets. FHA 5~ plus- one-half of one percent rate is not as go.od as a con·-- merican ag. their bargaining agent. The seamen of the two compaventional mortgage at 5Y.l percent, which still may b_e avallable to Get Salk Shots Fred Farnen, secretary treasurer Dies, Pioneer Steamship and Wll- · home buyers in some areas except the ·Far West, Southwest and _South. The increase in reported cases of the Lakes District, stated tbat sen Transit, had signed SIU pledge Homeowners· are affected in · a diff.erent way. Their present mort- of polio in the state of Alabama soine 3,000 seamen on the ships of cards but lost their freedom l)f gages, at lower interest rates t_han n:ow available, ~d value to their has resulted in a warning to . mer- <;everal fleets, including Pittsburgh- choice when the Steelworkers present homes. ,, ehant seamen, particularly those Steamship Company, .a US Steel ~igned contracts with the employCar buyers. will feel an immediate effect fro~ higher interest rates. uqder forty years of age who have affiliate wilh 53 ore-carrying ships', ers without the men's knowledge The three leading independent finance co~pani~s have increased the not taken their vaccine shots. The . have sought affiliation with the or approval. The SIU Has filed interest rates they charge dealers to finance their Inventories. Since Salk vaccine shots are now avail- District. At the heart of the revolt, charges in these two · instances credit costs are a' major expense to .an auto dealer, trade-in allowances 11ble fre~ of charge at Public he reported, is their desire to calling them "outright collusion" and discounts will be 11Jtortened accordln"gly. · Health Service facilities. All S~- br~ak ~way from a union of steel between Local 5,000 and the opBorrowers· in some cities where banks .charge less than the usual 12 ft:rers are strongly advised to take mill workers and Join ranks with erators. pel'cent per annum .(one percent a month) on persopal loans, will find ai:!vantage of this offer to safeguard a seamen's· organization. · Notarized affidavits have been they have to pay hieber rates this, year. And while the banks will their health. He noted that as members of collected from a majority of the atill mttke lots of loans, you can .expect them to ask more que~tions Waterman officials informed the Local l),000 these men ·do not elect seamen in these two companies about your income in compari~bn to your other debts, and why you hall that the · Afoundria is going their own ofllcers, or negotiate attesting to the fact .that they did want to borrow. In general, it's best.to avoid borrowing in a .period through the St. Lawrence Seaway. their own contracts. As a result of not authorize the Steelworkers to of tight 'money except for crltlcal needs. Credit unions . will continue This makes the second C~2 for the revolt, · Farnen reported the ~argain in their behalf: to hold their Interest rates to present levels·since they are controlled by Waterman.. 'to make the trip. The Lakes·District has received authorReviewing the incidents leading their members. · _ Hurricane had. previously made a iz&tions frQm a majority of the sea- up to the present beef, Farnen Here are suggestions on August buying opportunities .t-o help you Seaway \'Oyage. Waterman now men in the--Pittsburgh . Steamship reported that the oreboat crew· protect your faIQilY'I liVi!Jg st~da~ds f,;om present high cost!!,:, , has an application pendipg · with fleet calling for ~IU representa· members "were denied the right ·The most, important August · sales. are furniture and rugs. Other tion. A petition for a' National to negotiate their own contract. ' reduced-price sales and clearances• this ~onth h1clude ~urtalns and Labor Relations Board ele~tion has Then they undeytook a 'wildcat' drapes; paint, brushes, wallPiti>er find hardware; lawn tools . and ou.tbeen filed by the Union. strike. Crewmen walked off their , door furniture; sports and camptl\j- equipment; . ~am era~, and the · What touched off the uprising ships and paid thel.r own expenses ·August coat ;'Sales which offer eut ·prtces in advance ~f the autumn was the action of steelworkers' to their homes all oveP- the country. ~ leaders in · forcing th~ men back Three days later they were forced ··1eason. '. ~ There are still some clearances of. suipmer clothing and it's advisable . on· t1ieirships· following a sponta- back by Steelworkers' officials ... - to ·shop them. Shoe -prices especially are rlStng. Tliey ~'lere boost"'d neous walko.u t two weeks before Tlien 10 days later they were laid the nationwide steel strike got oft and again had to pay their own ·underway.. . way home, still witltqut any ~egoFai;nen emphasized that the tiations in their behalf." Lakes District l'iOUld not seek f.o Companies involved, ~side from represent any group of orebOat Pittsburgh Steamship,· are Bethseamim . until such time zas ,t hey !eh.em, Inland Steel, · Buckeye, ;htci!cated by secret b~Uot vot~ .that .Americ'an Steel & Wire, Ore Navitlte¥ wanted. SW ..representation. · g<:tion, :Sepublic, International He noted that Local 5,000, on the Harvester and Shenango. · · ,.; · · -r· ••1 t; ·r ·· . · \ .· . \t ·· . Oreship Crew~ See/c. .Tie With . Lale.es SIU �. SB.4.1'.4.ltEltS £0G ,NJ,·l:~aini~g~ $--Got Sf_i~ Pena_f-xpfO~•f=J«u:lfs Aj¥oun~ · Has Near-Perfect Record. . ··· 1 - ·· .... ,,. . . . / NEW YORK-As was reported e~riier in the SEAF~~S LOG, the feeding program is now in full.operation, coye[..iJ.!g an SIU-contracted vessels, Bill Hall, a~sist~nt secretarx-trei\s; urer, reported. In order to ." ..,o: • make sure that all. of the ves- self, he .should ; check at,.the Clissels maintain the program's patcher's office for all of t}'le parstandards, a member of' the Stew- ticulars. The :pa·ssfng 'rate of all ards ·Food Committee has been graduates thus far has been nearservicing every vessel hitting the perfect. port and has been checking ~wei: . Shipping 1or the past period has the stores with the vessel's steward .. been very good, keeping in stride However,_ this type .of program with registration for the sanie -pe·~a~s for the full .cooperation of all riod. A total -of'· 294 men . were the crews aboard SIU ships, Hall shipped to 'eermanent berths dursaid, and if at any time a vessel ing the last two weeks,. ~3 in the finds itself short on stores, it is up deck department, 9& in the engine to the delegate or the steward to· and 103. in the galley gang, . .• notify headquarters immediately so Although ' the totals for the past that necessary action may be taken. perio(j were under tho8e 'for the .' ks ·1·k 't' s cru1S1ng · ' ' , 11y 1t ''s. stuck in mu d bank outside of Norfoll· previ9us two· weeks, Hall said, a · Penn Ex p Iorer I'oo St•xteen New Trainees 1 e 1 1.eref'.1eIy, but actua Also meeting with much success large pei;centage of thesJY jobs are ft -t . ·1 • h I d f · 1 Sh• h d ~ d ts the SIU's ·lifeboat AB and FWT .still ,b~ing _ taken . by class C cards. a er se ting sa1 .wit_ a oa o c°:.,a.•· . tp ·a to go into yar for repairs. school. Sixteen . ~ew trainees In ord~r fo maintain their seniority, NORFOLK - Headed for . . . · started the two-wee·it upgrading· ctass A and B men should se.e t~at Europe with a load of coal on f-_ " course last week as: nn"incmbcrs of all of the jobs put on the shipping July ~o. the SIU-manne~ Penn , ,_.,. the previous class successfully board are filled as soon as pos- Explorer had .its voyage- suddenly . . . passed their tests. The next class sible. . . • • will start sometime next week and . There were 39 vessels calling termin_~ted w~en it ran aground S~a ·b · · t t d i t k into the area over the past period off Cape Henry just. five hours ·: ff t a~~ mem er is ~n .eres ~- n h~ - Of these 15 paid off six signed after leaving the"--pier: As a result, ng . e course an upgra mg 1.m- on and the· remaining• 18 were in'· tile ship· is now in the shipyard and transit. the coal is back on the Norfolk and . L.O NDO;N-Tl,te -Brit~sh Hovercraft, a land-s~a vessel proFifteen- Payoffs .. western RR dock. pelled by alr jet.s around the rim, has made a ·successful crossThe- following were the vessels The grounding occurred about ing of the English Channel in· two hours, three minutes. The ... · paying. off in this port:· Beatrice 9:30 ~-M in ·22 feet .,,o,~ ;water,. wi~q ~ve~age speed of the · vessei+;:. · . · 1 (.BulU;Royal·Oak,CSMiami:·(C.ities the . shf.p n" appar~ntly ". running · was · arOUJ\d 12 miles an hour; th~re I~ no' w~er resistanc~ · inService); Atlantic (American Ban-· a~round 0 n. a .r.n~d-Jla~ ...~ffor.ts : to It . was·.the first test of the ves·- ·yolv~d. ' · nerl; Pacific Explorer <Compass>; reftoat . the v~ss~~ . on hieh . tide se-l 's ability .outside ()f harJ:>or Aside fro!" the high speeds of · · the "air-cushion" ships, they would SAN FRANCISCO-Shipping has Raphael Semmes, Fairland, Beau- under her Q~n power ·"':ere un- . waters. ' As . reported· ·previously in .-the have the added advantage of-:being ·been fair for the last period with regard, Azalea City (P,an-Atlanticl; successfu~. - Tw!J Cur!is Ba~ tugs .. A" and "B" men not taking jobs. Afo1,llldria (Waterman j; Steel Ap- had to be ~alled to -pull h~~ off the LOG, the Hovercr~t Is a ·proto- .able to ~ide over any kind. of water 'l'he coming period figures to be preiltice, Steel Flyer Usthmianl; next mor_nmg. . . . type of an entirely.,.new kind . of or land surface-be-gs, swamps, The ship went.. ba.ck into the bar- ship propulsion. The vessel never rough terrain, sandbanks, and . very good with three payoffs in Seatrain New Jersey (.Seatrainl and sight. the Atlantis (Petrol ~hipping). . bor, unloa~ed her coal and headed actually touches the water but shallow mud flats. T_he only ship to be .paid off was <w~\~~~!n~.·n Awtelra·ent·~hce (AAfmoue·nr··idcralna for the shipyard for inspection o(. skims · over· it on a cushion of trapThe existing Hove craft look• c k CW t ) Th p.ossible h~ll d~~age.. Seafarers.. ped air blown out of jets ·which like an over.$lzed disc with a twoM d ai e? re~ a ern~an · t: · Banner>; Steel Apprentice. Steel aboard, wtio thou.ght t1:1ey . were rim the ·hull. · seat' cabin. Larger vessels, such~ as fo_Howmg s_i)gned_ ct 0 f Al ships (W were t J 0 h on: B · 1Navigator (Isthmian),· Ocean Evelyn hea d ed f.or E ur_?P.e, h ad th ~mTh·e existing experimental craft, the 100 ·t.on ship, would be capable ·i Y _ma · a e:man • n · (Ocean Trans) and the Atlantis selv.es only a brief ferry-ride tn admittedly~ a primitive m · odel, 1·8 of carry-ing 30(J 'passengers · and Kulu~und1s (~art1s), Produc_er (Petrol Shipping), GI k B <:Marine Carriers). In - transits In transit were the Seatrain iesapea -e ay, powered .bY i 435 ·horsepower baggage. ~ngine and has operated at spec:ds Here in the US, the Curtisswere: Pennmar, Kenmar, Alamclr Savannah Louisiana ·Texas· New · . 4iiiii of UP to 30 knots. It is a small ves- Wright .Ci:n:poration has ~nn_ounced CCalmar.J;_ ~arrior ~Waterman); York, G;orgia (Se~train); 'Alcoa jlP2 Steel Sc1enhst (Isthmian). There PoJaris, Alcoa Pilgrim, Alcoa Part! sel, 30 by 24 feet. t.hat it is going to b~ild a fourlJ Commercial ships are planned iri passenger "air-car''... similar · in were no beefs of consequence on ner, Alcoa Planter, Alcoa Puri·any of these ships. tan (Alcoa); Gateway City . (Panthe future, with .t he first one being .. principle . to the British craft. Th• Port Agent Marty Breithoff said Atlantic); Antinous (Waterman); a small .craft in the 40-toIJ. vicinity, 300~hor~ep.owe.r vehicle will, li,ke about ten times the weight oft the the .British craft travel over both l!e hoped that with shipping due to Wang Juror (Denton); Steel Appick up more Seafarers would take prentice (Isthmian) and the Jean prototype. More remote probabili- land and water' and be able .to the jobs and keep the ships proper- (BulJl and the Mermaid (Metroties ate ships. of 100 tons trav~ling cross rivers and swamps without ly manned. Petro). at speeds of up to 90 bots, because benefit of roadways. . - (• ' ·A • J e·t '.Boa . t -M . ·GKeS ,,·rst Voya · ge ·pred•IC·ts s·Fo ·o·.d 'Shi•pp•ing·. G Trll ·it to_th·r ·L.. orr Watch Thal:Ullra-V:iOlet !. /~ •ff .. " . ~ " ·' "' ' ~ ~~ good sun fan is eonicfered the"sign of the outdoor man and there is 110 better place· to get one than· on the deck'of a ship in_the summertime-that .is, if you take it in smalV,'doses. ·. _·If y.ou feel like s'trippiQg down for .a tan, the recommenc;led procedure is to start .with 15 minutes' · toasting the first day and lepgthen it g~ad~ally_, until the skin turns. ·· · ·brown: . : - ·. Failure to heed these co~mon s,ense rules ~.an result in a nasty burn that, ,at the very · ,,,.. · _least, will ·~eon several days .of acute dis.comfort. Go . o~t 'in "t~e- sun if yo.u want, · ~ut protect ro.ur_self agair,st over-exposure. .. . .. --- .. -~ \ �19:·. SAVANN·AH: · ura·nio:m·~rire.d- " Ship ~ .. .,. ......... "'I • -- 1. 4 ( ; - - ... - ' ~ast )V~e~ at .t~ Camden;. -_NJ, . yat:9s ·o~ th~ ~ew .· ?:-.' ~oi:k. Sb!p~~il.~ihg So~r~tion, t~i.!iS Savanii~h is dfte :to-,_ ~' -1I.<a=uncltfeq entet service sometime next summer as the first nuclear- . \ - ·.,;: po~ered '.mer~hant -.-ihip: · ~Aci-: ·• ' · · < - •• •• '. 1 mitteaiy ~ an . experiiiteptal co~tain_ment vessel .cons~ts of .the : snip, th'e Savannab:!s obje~tive reactor itself with its uranium fuel, · Js th.reef6'Id: to. advertise US devel- and ' sec.tions of the high pressure o~i].l e9J.s ·1r! t he: peaceLu) :a~\i~a- wat~r lines which.pass through the Uon~ of .lttomic energy,. to- s~rve as reactor core. and pick up radiation a testing .ground for practical com- upon being heated by the ura-nium '.!Se. o( atorm~ · ePer;~y; an<:t _ch~in ~?a~tAon . . ~onsequentl~ th.is · to tra't.,_ civ.utan marine engiheei:s in,s1de · .env~lope ' has a radiation •n<f ottler seame'n in the ,oper tions _jfhield to keep .radiation within oi atom-powered shipe. , " ~ot,tnds. , . .- -Th~ SaviJnnah caft't claiin . tO be This primary shield ·consists of a _the: "-fi rat .. ' rl,on;~mtary, : n,!lc~ear.-: ta_nJC _w ith · lead . w~lls from two . to_. jJqweretf ship bec'ause the .Soviet fo.ur lnches thick. The tanl,t itself .Union bas already laun~hed a . gia~t ' is . filled with w~te'r: The I water nuclear.- powered lcebreaket. .- Nev- : are~ surrounding the reactor prop-ert~eiessf.''it"_qualities· . as .. the first ei,: on .all sides is 33 "in~hes wide. genuine atom-powered · merchant -A. 2,000 ton second,ary shield vessel, since it will serve to carry surrounds the outside envelope. both cargo and pal!sengers on re- The lower .part is a concrete wall gular commercial routes servieed s:>me 43 inches thick and the upper by its charterer, States Marine part consists of lead slabs varying , Lines. in thickness from-21h to. six inches ~ It Is }\oped tJt~t the Sav~.nnah plus . additional shielding by polywm be the forerunner of a fleet of ethylene, making an over.all thick• . commercially-useful atom-powered ness of 14. inches. merchant ye.ssels, . probably ,bulk Heavy Beams c•arriers and tanke{'.s •. to be devel- - Aside from all this ·shielding, the op~d and built -in the next ten entire reactor compartment is sur- years. . rounded by heavier than normal Except for the absence of a beams, collision bulkheads and tmokestack, the Savan~ah'_s e~te- .exterior steel plating on that secrior dimensloria are conventional tion of the hull. Layers of steel - enoug~-5951h !ee~ long, 78 feet and three-inch redwood are inf n . t~~ beam_. a 291h-foot draft. Her board of the collision bulkhead. cruising. speed of 21 knot~ and h~r · A vessel colliding with .the Sa. -20,000 shaft _horsepower -:Cl~tput lS Vannah WOUid have to penetrate 17 1 also convei;it10nal. Where she d~- feet of greatly-reinforced ship • 1,>arts r~d1c~Ill" · fro~ a~cep~ed structure before it reached the .....=-titandards\ is, of course, ' In lier outer concrete a~d lead eriveloµe power plant. of tlfe containment vessel in which 'llas Rery•ar Turbines ·the reactor is located. The .propulsion system consists A constan~ check is kept on ra_t>f the usual turbines, reduction diatlon th{'.oughout th_e ship through gears, turbine gene.rators, condens- rl!d~ation monitoring dev_ices. The er and feedwater systems, plus amount of radiation from the ship's auxiliaries. · The reactor system is plant outside of the ma~hinery the difference. Technicaliy-classi- spaces .will be comparable to that fied as a pressurize4 water type, it received from the sun on a clear is similar to that used aboard the dny. Nautilus, the first atom-powered In the machinery spaces, the maxaubmarine. The reactor. substi- imum dosage would be five roent•. tutes for the standard ·oil-fired gens per year, but Qf course, no boiler, and operates on the princt- crewmember ts going to be conpie that water under· high pressure tinuously in the machinery spaces ·in this instance hy 750 pounds per all year round. square inch, can be heated to high A single f I u o r o s c o p· e extemperature without boiling. The amination will result in dosages beating is done by the chain reac- of two roentgens per minute and tion in the · uranium fuel. The up. Chest x-rays produce far less, water heated ~under high pressure about .003 roentgens per x-ray. fs passed in pi.pes through water In order to keep the rtactor und(!r lower pressure, causing the · under c~ntrol, an automatic shutoff latter to' turn·. to steam to operate system bas been installed which • the turbines:'lfhe Savannah's iJiitiat will shut down the reactor i:-1. the fuel supply should be good for ·event of any of a variety of malabout 31h ~years, or ·350,000 miles. functions. In additio~ two diesel The biggest problem in buildin:; generator sets are on standby in a nuclear-powered ship is protect- ·the event the reactor has to be tng the passengers and crew from shut down. rZ?diation, both under normal opTo operate the plant; it was necerating conditions and in the event essary for the , Maritim~ Adminisof a ·ship collision or other-accident. tration and Atomic Energy ComJn dealing with this problem, elab- mission to set up a 15-month trainorate safeguards had to be devised. Ing program for engineers and The 1•eactor was housed in a con" deck officers. The training in tainment vessel .'which can best be Lynchburg, Virginia, inClpdes the described/ as an envelope around actual operation of a reactor plus ar. envelope. operation and maintenance on . a The inside · "envelope;• o.f the; mock-up of the Savannah reactor. .~er«!ial 't '• ' .. kf f'1,j '":~ 1., I\~ : ~)" .... , , Gl!NWl Artist's rendering ~f the Savannah shows placing of reactor and-its co_ntainment vessel amidships, be: cause of . tremendous ' weight of shielding • ..- The · Savannah will carry 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo at a 21-knot cruising speed. It will be capable of traveling for 350,000 miles without replacing its supply of nuclear fuel, thus saving valuabte space for an -extra pay load:. ' I Enlarged, cutaway view of containment vessel shows reactor and primar:y shield tank- in center. Other units are heat-exchangers. pressurizers, steam drums and piping for primary w.a ter system. Heat from nuclear reaction creates steam for the turbines. Diagram of reactor shows atomic fuel (lower center) iil rectangular-shaped fuel ·elements. Long rods control rate of chain reaction. Reactor is similar to type used on atom sub Nautilus. CllR60 . I HOl.'D S '· s~s· HOl'D Z. · o• .and sid~ ;, ~!iw.~of ~~!P c1Gows J.~l~ti~~s~ip·:?f re~ct~r to mach,inery a~d ~ther ~hipb9ard inst~l~1aons:.·. Machinery_ spaces - have~ a:glass wal~¥th1ch ·pe,_m1t1 -passltngers to.·v1ew mac~1nery compartmetJt a,~ the._,ir_ta,in ~ontr~I "room. Machinery consist"'ol;,.cen¥.entional ~team· t.urbi~ncil ,.re41uction gear.' I • · Photo shows actual- containment vessel under construction. It is 35 feet in diGmeter and 501/rfeet long. Th.e upper half has up to . . -14 incl1es of shielding; the bottom rests on concrete. .... �lqr ship • • Whatever you need, in .work _or_ dress · gear, your SIU ·s ea' Clfest 'has Jt. Get .top qualify gear at substantial savings by buy: ' , ing at · your Union'!'C)wned and Unronoperated Sea Chest store. It has tieen •called to 'the att.eQtion o1 headquarters that some skipp_~rs ~ave been claim• ing that tbw have ·"clarifica-. tions" ot;i v~rfous ·sect19ns of the _standard agreement in the' form of a -letter·' frolro ·th~ U~ion or. some otbP,~.co~unicatt9~. The only ,offfoial clarifications are those -which ' have ·been ap-' , proved by tlie.''Joint Union:e'mployer ciarlfication'S · committee and ·have been printed -up ai ' such as :ciarH1cations·to-the con' 'clarf:.. . tract. All other so-called /. ficaUons" have no contract ·sta: ·tus whatsoever. : ~ · · , . As previouslt reported; "'the 1 ~J I clarifJ.c~~iona~@r~t~~~ l~ f.~\Q\- ~: l'ently fo/,~ ~m°O~~j~ O,.(; l'f!Wrf(~ · tng and· co'iD~,rltB ·hl>~x~iffri' clarifications, ·~uf··uniu ·offlt:.fa~ notice. is.·re.celv,fi:d i11>n.-the- .U.n,: ' · J to~ ·al~ ,~Ji;IJ>i''·!lfj;l . · o..,.p,r~~~Jf'on tpe ·Jiasls o1;·. t.,~.. ~~~~:~°'?"'" ~ . .m~ts.. ~ l"' . ·~ ~.!':·:·~r1 ~. ~r-1 ... ·...,_; _~, ·,:j.. :~ ,"j:~ .-J ·,, ' flt.~· .• . ' · �. " COngress Exposes ·$ Fore.ign ·Aid Waste W ASlilNGTON-Foreign aid and mjlitacy cargoes that have been hauled by US ships to such countries as Korea and Pakistan have often been per1!1itted to rot on the g_round or have gone into the black market. A 1,781-page transcript but It's expected that _actual 1pendof testimony released by a Ing allowed will be cut well belovr House Appropriations subcommittee showed such Items of mismanagement as 70,000 tire chains and a million machine gun clips dumped out In the open to rust; a 20-year supply of Woman's Army Corps uniforms on hand at one depot; 4,QOO ton of excess gunnery equipment at another location; and wholesale thefts of tires, hand tools, clothing, construction material, auto parts, petroleum products and other. equipment. - Concress To Vote In the face of these diversions and thi~very, troops in the forward areas in Korea, for example, were short on some essentials that were needed for military operation. The testimony was presented by Controller General Joseph Campbell, who also discussed excessive spending and lavish living by American representatives in many Far East countries. · The release of this information is expected to have its effects when Congress votes actual spending for foreign aid purposes. An authorization bill ·calls for . over $3.5 billion for this purpose in the fiscal year, . Annmg Our Affiliates ,,,. 'Houston Has · , Off slack + A couple of years back, there was a proposal-which has since passed-to provide Social Security benefits foi: disabled · Americans over the age of 50. Th,is was bitterly opposed by the American Medical Association on the somewhat far- - - - - - - - - - - - - fetched grounds that providing Government financial aid to The · SIU Canadian District redisabled Americans was a step toward "socialized medicine." ports new contract successes, ·with Now 1illong comes another proposal, this time to provide Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Federally-sponsored hospitalization ·and i;urgical coverage Railway Company signing agreeHOUSTON - Shipping for the for.· men and women Qver 65, and again the, AMA is in. the .ments with the union's licensed · division. Union members also have pas t t .wo-wee k peri od h as b een vanguard with the old cry "socialized me d icine. ,, gained over 150 new jobs with the fair, and ~he next two weeks do · The sponsors of the · proposal, which has be·e n submitted purchase of Gayport Shipping Ltd. not seem to offer much more. At 'by Rep. Aime J. Forand (Dem.-RI), have taken great p~ins by the SIU-contracted Hall Corthe p~esent time there a~e no pay- to make it clear that nothing in the bill would disturb the poration, the "Canadian Sailor" t>ffs scheduled. Dur;ing the last two present relationship between patient and doctor and patient adds. ~ · 1 weeks only one ship was paid off, and hospital. the Steel Designer (Isthmian). '!'.he What is the real reason for the AMA's concern? One would following ships signed on: P~cific appear to be that ' the Federal Government having underTwo new halls have been opened Venture <Pacific Venture>; John B. k ·b'l"t t ·d d. 1 ' f th g d by the SIU Great Lakes District in Waterman <Waterman>: and steel ta. en a re.spons1 .1 i y o provi e me ica care or e ~ e , Age <Isthmian>. · ~1ght begm puth!lg the squeez~ on some. of tpe exorbitant its drive to organize non-union Lakes seamen and . to service its Shfps-=-Jn .• transit were. the Del fees ~nd charges imp°bsed by private hospitals and by some contracted fleets. The new halls .Aires, ' Del Santos, . (Miss.>; ·uast;. doctors ~nd surgeo~s . .If. the Federal ~overnment, for ex- are in Toledo, ·at 120 Summit lngs .Young .America .Jean Lafitte ample, found that a hospital was charging a $1 or $1.50 to a Street, · and in South Chicago at Job~· B. .Waterman' <Waterman;; patient for an aspirin t~blet or $25 to $30 a day for a semi- 9383 Ewing Avenue. }'ort Hoskins, Be~ts Fort, Bradford private hospital bed (four in a room), there might be presIsland, Chiwawa (Cities Service>; sure brought to bear. . Seatrain New York, Seatrain New The next thing .that might happen is that .the Federal Gov- _ Pressing hard on the issue of Jerse'y; 'Seatrain Savfnnah <Sea- ernrhent would start regarding medical care as -Ill kind of pub- the Navy manning West Coast mistrain); Beauregard, Bi~nville <Pan lie service like water supply education electricity and gas sile ships, the Sailors Union of the Atlantic); Steel · Traveler, Steel . . ' d . 'h t' Pacific has written to Vice-PresiDeslgner • (lsthinian>; Mae <Bull); ~ubhc transport and t~e like, a~ mig t ~tart to regu1a e dent Richard Nixon detailing the Valiant. Enterprise (Enterprise>; some of the free-.wheelmg practices accordmg~y. ,. . . refusal of Navy · authorities -10 Valley Forge <Penisular); Seafair That, perhaps, is the real r~ason why orgaruzed medicme change theU' plans in the face of (Orion), and Pacific Venture (Paci- is rolling ·out its big guns against the Forand Bill. .the use of civilian seamen on the fie ~enture). · ..' _ ;.t. -.\;. to East Coast missile range. WUtnington Up .:.Everybody's A 'Reformer' ' · Six more members of the Marine that figure. · Foreign aid, including military aid, is a major source of cargo for US-flag ships under the "50-50,. law. US Jobless Aid Halted For 45,000 WASHINGTON-More than 45,000 unemployed workers stopped receiving Federal aid last week when the Government's anti-recession program came to an end, the Department of Labor reported. The extra Federal aid was to aid those unemployed who had exhausted their regular state benefits. Change Of Mind The· Federal aid program was originally scheduled to end March 31, when a total of 400,000 unemployed workers were still receiving benefits but, rather than accept a one-year extens.i on. Congress voted to continue payments for an . additional three months. During the 13-month life time of the program, more than 2,000,000 unemployed workers received $600,000,000 fr om the Federal Government to supplement their exhausted state benefits. At the recession's peak, a total of 685,000 persons were collecting the benefit. Seventeen states had accepted the Federal aid to provide for additional benefits while five other states provided for the coverage on their own. Lake Charles Has 'A' .Cards LAKE CHARLES - Alt.hough there were quite a few ships in this area, it turned out that not too many jobs were io be found. The ships in the area were the CS Miami, Winter Hill, Bents Fort, CS Norfolk, Chiwawa, Council 'Grove, CS Baltimore <Cities Service); Del Santos <Mississippi); Steel Traveler (Isthmian), arid Mermaid <Metro Shipping). Agent Leroy Clarke reports all of the above-mentioned ships were in good shape with the exception of a couple that had to square away some OT. In light of the relatively-slo\Y shipping there are enough class 'A" men on the beach here to haodle expected business althoi1gh the number of "B" men is on the skimpy side. : The current effort in Congress· to pass ' a "labor-manage- Cooks and stewards Union have !Pent reform bill" has degenerated -into: a free-for-all. It's had their pension applications apWILMINGTON· ......: Wilmington become apparent that no bill at all is likely to be passed. proyed. They are Aberdeen B. agent, ·Jteed· Humphries i:eports T he bill has reache d sueh a ri·d·icu1oµs pass, th a t an AFL- Lynch, H. E. Savage, c . B au t·ista, d i · 11 t~:-!:!~ ~:r~~. 'O;rt~= CIO analysis finds that as it pr~sently stands in the House, R. G'. Fry, R. A. Ada;'lls and Stanley • 35 mm,registered, 23 shipped. The it would, among other items, encourage "sweetheart" con- Haynes. next.· ~p)tple' of weeks promises- tracts and exempts so.:.~alled "labor relations!' counselors - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , more ';ot the same. from reporting their activities. · " · . Stay Put For Jobless Pay Everything' ·is running more This has come about simply because "l~bor ref-0rms"· have Seafarers who are collecting state: unemployment benefits while ' smoothly now · -gistratlon with ., the installaan~ •ey of Conoress on the beach waitjng tg sh!P are urged to $tilY put and avoid _board, oecome .... • · . a· vote · - catching , . · item ' ..T ry memhe" • • ·r.M ., . i;, t·ion o#~ '•""'·1·hew .... is a1~x10us to have· )us· -:narrie a tacl:led,{ to .a 1~'.l~por reform' changing their mailing addresses if they want to continue reamethod. big "improvement over the old bi'll. · • · ceiving their checks regularly. Several Seafarers have already c' 1 • . hip · Amid . all the fuss about corruption in labor-management experie1;1ced interrµptions of from three to five weeks in getting Tbe f o11ow iDIJ II I wer~ 1n ,.. t' · •t · · • · t t th . f th W ll St t fin their next· check after~ they notified the state unemployment ~ c~se 0 e a ree . ~noffices that they had move<I and changed their mailing address. ' tr.a.nsit: the Alargar· llhd ~ortm!r · r~J.a ioµs, i is . 1 r~mc ' 0 no. e . · An average delay of a month is 1·~ported J.n most cases, causing · (Calmar>- Rebe~ · <JJ>.tere~titt-~ ct..er who was •p1,cked l..lP m Br~zil. on charges of defrauding entaJ), . ~nd Wild anCi :slockiioldets 'of some $7 miHion. No ·outcry he:i:e for "reform"· .considerable:°:»11ardSiliP fo the men involved. . Matclo Cl!eek <Waterma~r. legislation\ ·It apparently doesn'~ .catch ,the headlines. . ::!PT:!f Ranger �LO.G-~•Rl-(YTHM: c •• -Noth.ing . El~e . .. Th~ bat' Wiii filled with . man11 · Down ffom the •hipping ff.ocw. · T'wcu ea.s11 to aee joho got the I went down to the hall one. da11 To see a frien_ d or two, And register· for some good ship That- was signi ng on a cr ew. I wa8n't keen to leave so soon For my days ashore were few, But I felt a little bored ' somehow, . And I had nothing else to do. jobs, B11 t>ie smile1- t_he,i r · faces bore. Some would b.e off to Europe, And some to Singcif)ore, While others were happy toith the tttought, . That their berths were · secure. Through the big glass dqor I strolled, Into our Union hall, With my book in hand for the doorman to se_e, Who sat there near the wall. And up the granite steps I went Onto our shipping floor, Nodding. hetlo to some I knew, And some I'd seen once before. I ·joined the boys at the ~a,., And drank to their sa,fe ·trip. And, I thought of the. date I had that night, With a girl down on the strip. I knew she had .n o thought• For a sailing man like me, For··it wa1 au takP. and no give, On 0ne ·big spending ipree: FOJ' I wa& just a guy with dough - to spend, And she didn't come for free • . As t 'was close upon the hour. Near time for a job call, I thought that was why, So many were there i~ -the hall, 1. • ' •• • L'- .... _,., . -· , " J • j 1y._.; _i9to : · ..pan.ic. :' • ·, • Salling Since '23,- · : :· ._. '-. " ._ ., • · Letters To,. ,.· The Etlitor.im. ~!:;t:::: :it:...·. · bersh••· .• . - ,.- . •. ~ -.. . :.-< ..': ... _; ; ... .. . All letter~ t~ .the·ed.it~ . f)ubliciition in..: the._ SEAtAB· a. ~, r/ .;~: ,.\o, ;'.,.; ,...:._. •. • must ~ERS ,.. LOG 'be aigned tiy the writet. ~- Name• ·tonr be withheld - .~_, upon' "request.'. t. ,,.,.·~ ~. . • •:.'" . : ' · Movincr -.·:.W•1at•~- ­ - :a·~':• ...... ~~;.: -,-•..,..__ ~~-...,. .. '~;O,:m;:o ·: ~-~ • ;, ~ : · ~o-"tbe-..E~Her: -: · 1. ':: . ._ · the -Union ii moat graciously · .., .... Please.make' the ,noted:eb~ge . accepted . and apprecla~. .. -~- ,tq, :·~~r .-~ddi~-· 'fpr 11 ~.•;.~EA~ ,. . . · · T~dle 1:. 'aitehle . • - "• ' J ~·,. • ' ' :• 1 J l • I ' , f • . r:. . ·•. s1an1.. T. IA.... -.\{,, ;.t. t. To •1le Editor. - ' .: ·"'.. .:u .-:,~;o ·:~ ~- ! .: ..;._. 1,.,. · c. • I bave been · a . full member. of the Union since 1943 and I ~ow m1tnY other brothers are for the same plan for retirement· as I am._ · Wilham Dunn ;.t. ;.t. , to .Go ,_ . · • ._ .... ,'- r' ;---_ <~' '-:.1'~~0~ ', ~ .. .-' .. .'· 't < ~-;.t.~. -~ i '' ·~ ,. • 'governme~t of the people, by the people and for the people.' Since ·our Union is held together by Its members, it is our. organization, by us and for us and we should deCiae the l8$ue." Homesteaders claim theY, have the right to stay ~ a ship . for .as long as they wish. But, the other side· states, eetting off a ship aft.e r· a year of ser;vice should be , no FARERS LOG. We are moving and I would like. you to please continue sending the ·LOG 'to Says SIU'·• Tops me. - - . To the Editor: I enjoy re.ading the LOG very .I've been .going to sea . _since much and look forward to re- 1923 and .have been a Dl..ember celving it: You· have made great ·_ of· the SIU since 1945. Before _ pro_gress. May you continue to that I was. in ano,t her seamen's expand and help those who need · union. . _ help, and ·render assistance to . I'd like- to say that the· SI!J Is all ailing seamen and those who a godsend to all its members, af'.e dhqabled and on pension: and it certainly ls a wonderful Mrs. G. Tarman feeling to .know that we hav-' . the officials and staff memberi that, we have. constantly work" . . ing Jn the interests of the mem- thank God we .· ; ' " - _ ··have -the · Welfar.e Plan. ·. They. io.ok care ot everything fo~1ud1iig my child's· liospita-i bills.~:. It _,- is ·the btggesf ~.elP. _I ~ave ·, ever received: · . It . is . re~~y _someth'ing; and it can rµake a :· guy :feel like' sayin·g !'thank's." · · 1 ,would aiSo like tci· extend a s~cial thanks·· to:'.tti.e .welfaJ.'.e represeiit~tive ·i~ · ~hlljideJJ,>}lla · ·' · fO.r the. qui.~~ ~,.-vice in_~ettlng · -. - fu. -~ little. gid· ., )' . -· . ., lntO: ' the" ,,,,..-.Mspltal ... .· • . t' ~ • I . Cites Declaratloa . When the Declaration of lndependence was ·drawn up, h~ wrote, it ·specifically used the words ~~that ail men are created equal" fo point out the tli!ngs we are -~ndeb~~d for and what we discqss vert. offi!n. The Union refers to its inetnbers as "we Seafarers."- Calefat• holds .. - ..If o w..e :V: _.e r: · ... Correo~ .. ! ciples of humanity. a big problem · (ot .any~~~· -~~' · : a matter of ·a· · tact".. ft'. ilim.cist .~ -. ·threw . ,myself. , and... my fam.:: -. -· ~ it To the Editor: I am saying it now, aqd will say It over and over again, many thanks to the SIU Welfare Plan. The things the Plan has d9ne for so many needy members like mY.self are reaHy -something. Not . so long ago, my little girl took sick and had to go to the hospital. . That, of course, had to happen vihile I am still a patient here · in the USPHS · h o s p l t a 1 in· r.o~,!,.'-".,,,~ ,,,=~ t. : · · .. ·- . . . . "Here, the mate ·said to use. these big hrushei; do a fast-job,. and · don't drip any paint on the deck!" ·H omesteaders? Cites- Abe ·Lincoln Ease Burden· · Of Hospital Bill , , 1t ·, ~,_ ·., I . I had my name put on the list, And though my card was new, Shipping was good and I knew I could, Leave with any merry ole' crew. So I went on down to the bar To have a drink or two, And pass some time with Hank or John, While I sat and quaffed my brew._ · .. ~ . . ·. ·-. Showing. all of the ~ttributes · required of a ladies man is Bruce Edgar Cousins, ion · of Seafarer' Clarence Cousins, a member of the deck department. Bruce, who resides in PennsylvaniQ. hasn't made any definite plans about the future as yet~ It wasn't lQng wh'en tip the stairs, . Once more I went again. · To· look at the shipping board And see tohat might remain. "This would· be· a pretty dull world without a ,gOod Salty argument/' Seafarer William Not to take a ship of. couf'se. Calefato-writes, and a good "salty" beef up and down t~e coast. right now is the homestead As I wasn't t'eady to go, issue; he said. · · But I had nothing else -to do, · Homesteader$ -have their t'1at it is· an organization built so handicap to. homesteaders. Rather And frankly, felt kinda• low. side of the issue, and the anti- closely to the fundamentals estab- it would ben~fit them. They could ,, Well on the boa-rd waa an AB'• homesteaders have t h e i r s, lished by the forefa~hers of our ,take a rest. Calefato said, but most men would country th~t they can't be easily_ · _In addltlon, anotjler Seafarer job, . was ign9red. "To see how: closely our who~ sorely . ~needs a :job and who On a ship bound for Honolulu. find it much _cfearer if And I thought I may as well remembered and respected that we Union is related to these principles has a family to support, would all live together in a country that of human dignity, we should recall have a chance. ,., make it, was 'founded -on the soundest prin- the words of Abraham Lincoln, And after- all of the preceding For I had nothing else to do. The shipping boa-rd was numbered with jobs, For those who wanted ci berth, And . the ships were waiti~g for them to sail, . . To far.away por-ts of the earth. Wher-1!...!!!_any a tiny waist' awaited A strong Yankee arm to girth, With a cup of brew and sweet meats to chew, And relish _tor all they're worth. It's ~ M~r&"an _BJ". Jim Brookl~. '.fo"rD.o~ - · . . ..-. Wes~ ... ,, . F.o r Hot ShlpplnsT•·;*1le ',.Editor: ~ __. questions•. it . boils down to ~his: J'ust exactl.Y what ls a homesteader? "How anybody· could· call a ship a home for a number of years .is a little pu1,.zUng; ·But if it is a hoiile to a homesteader, he ls indirectly ha~miDg hims~!fby k~epin!fPMt:~t circulation. like· a hermit., ~aybe the best thing to ,remem~r i~ -'tt}at generally speakin·g, this · whole country of ours is our home." .. . I Sp~re . Stamps? .~ Send ·' Em Here �SBAP.4REa.S £DC '1 ALCOA _'PIO~ln Q,_.)', - ,I - '° 1ianlect W ..aJ~ ".; ~ew aaF -am.I,...'· ....., ............. ~Iii '-·F. .... *••. ......... '"" •ta7. e........_&ed - . .:.--_ "' ........ •ldljJ Alp •:1 o.. OU ~ ~ llllp In ....~. . ,...,ry;- . ORIMAR <Mer.wen), luly 1-:.Ch•I"' .. J , ...,.,...._.... ;11f!O. New Ml•,.. · 11, 'Lanl9rr . . . ~ ..Vere• • " •~ ~- r~elayed Mil· Oae man •ml-4- ship In Baltimore .... : • • • · ':!'"" and . ou _7tn .VonelUOla. No lleefa. / " ..--lo Rlflt In wub water. • PINN· ifRAtllPOllTIR (PMll Shi.,.., ' •• - ·• · ...... ,, Miy 24-Clullnaan, w. KMIJIJI ALMINA CPHn ...,.,.,.,..,, 'uly 2Socretary, P. •taMMI. Vete of · Charr111an, w. louder1 Secretery, R. tllanlul &e llteward dept. for 19o4 arMly. - Twe· men ml_. 41hlp at food. Hilo, HawaU. - Few houre OT d.11puted. -Repair• to be m ade n ow, and DIL AIRll <M11ll11l1J1110, 'une 27- before. departure. ChatrmUtJ t. MwlBYlf Secretary,- I. -Geney. One man left .behind, but Cl N'ORFOLK (Cities Service>, 'une l!aqht ahlp 1n Senta.. MHlbill to 27....C:halrman, W. C:a11ldy1 Secretary, IHI painted next trip. New dei1!1at• None. .Delerate to recell'e all Union r141uHted. Ship"• fund illa-.-<lbnaUona mall-not to be opened by anyone appraciat-4. Several • 10111 In deck ~ .elee. IM! hour• OT to be settled at , dept. Some OT dlaputed in en11Do payo•. Vote of thanka to steward • · dept. for job well done. ' ....-- 111••• --=-- · . .. ,,...~~~~~~~~~~~~'""" ' Digest ·. . · Of SIU-Sbip Meetings department. :Fruit not exchanfed H ptomLled In Houaton. Req'!eat more ice ~·iun- 1v1L vN <•um, 'u1y s-c:1t11rm•.t, Hammend1 Secretary, D. P'erreat, No beefs. One man paid o• in San .Juan, another sbtpped. New cielefate elected. llembera ollered 92· In Ilea of launch service. Vote of tballka to steward . dept. for Job well done. Repair llllh to be turned In. Request 11dequate 1lorea. One minute of Iii.• Jenee obaerved for cleparted brothera. L UIAfl C·H-1116 <Pan AMerlcaiO, 'uly 1-Chalrnian, A. Phlll1J11 Secretary, D. Knltht. One man fired in Maya auez. PR. Of(ered tranaportatl~n. but r efused aame. Some OT dlaputed. Dump butt ean• dally. Refrain from seatterlnf books le papen on deck In foc"sle,. Turn o• bunk llaht• whe11 leavlnf foc'ales. Keep head door clo11d at nlallt. ITllL APPRINTtC• (flthmlan), 'uly S-Chalr111an, '· Karb Secretary, J. Olive. Two men hospitalized. ShiP.'• "fillld 1.80-tUICI apep,t for tele· arams: fond to be raised at be&lnnlnf of trip. Dlaputed OT r" more lib· erty. To aee. about fu111lsatlon. of ahlp. Reque.t more DDT bomDt, ALCOA PUalTAN (Afcea), 'une H --Chairman. fl. Murray1 lecretat_y, A. Ferrara. New bunks requested and ehalu . Ill reereatlon ball need re· pain. No b..f1, Some OT disputed. Requeat more Interest 1le takea la ·steward dep't. Repair lilt• to be Jurned in. ~ - PACIFIC OCIAN .<W•rld Tram1Jlftg), · '""• 29-Chalrman, '· Morrill lee•. relary, L. Thomas. Moll repairs com· pleted. Shlp'1 fUnd ·1!J.61. Few hours O'I' disputed. - No one allowed 1Jt paasafeways, room• a. meurooms ex· cept crew. Sugitest quiet while men are alee'Plrig. Welfare le enrollment card• available to men who need !,!!em. . . . STEIL FL YIR (Isthmian), 'uly · Chairman, D. Keddy1 Secretary, c. Mathew1. Draw. in Halltax to be elven in US money-last 'before payoff. Repair llst1 turned In. Ship'1 fund 110.28; No beefs. Request letter be written to Union re ral11 In OT rate. also~ proposlnl one quarter"• free due• for dele1ates If trip exceed1 t!J days. Shorta1e of c..arettes. - FAIRLAND <P•n·Atlantlc), July l2 -Chairman, P. - Morrlu Secretary, tr. Kustur•. No beefs: · everythinf run· nlnf smoothly. Shlp'1 .rund Sl. Some OT dlaputed. Chief eook if anyf.hln« can be done about his r0om regardlna heat. See chief mate about key1 ·for foc:'ales. •*• IAOLW TRAVILIR <Sea Tran11JOrf), 'une 14--ChalrMen, M. Coo"" lee· retar.y, '· Mirjan. Men reminded that 811lokln• forward of houM lor· bidden. Cooperation requeded In keeplni ree. room efean. lleturn CUP8 to pantry. Shlp't fund '20.50. Few hour• OT dl•puted. One replacement for man in San Pedro. New deleiate· elected. Beef made con· cerrilnf preparation- of meat•. Dis· cuulon on duties ot •alley force. Steam :Blast Fatal TO 8€afarer . 'as · .. .. in1 for New Orleans when it all started, · Wolowitz noted. Most of the crew was in the engine lounge watching a movie, . when they_first heard a sort of hissing sound, as if an air hose had torn loose from its connection. A few minutes later the door to the engineroom opened and -!,ames "Sloppy" Creal, the 4-to-8 oiler, staggered into the lounge yelling for everyone to clear out as the connection on the main steam line on the starboard boiler just let go. In a matter of seconds the movie was empty as all of the gang headed for the engineroom door to see if they could help the men who had been working below. First to come up was J. Smith, the 4-to-8 reefer, Wolowitz saici, and when be opened the door, all could see that the whole engineroom was already filled with steam. "Just imagine the nerve-shattering noise of that steam escaping and the intense heat from 450 pounds of superheat steam filling the engineroo~" the fireman added. "It was really something to s-:e, and I hope I never see It a1ain." ' First to attempt to brine up · the other men was chief en1ineer Ge_orce Kramer and bis 1st assistant J seph Bradley who had ••AURl•ARD <Pan-Atlanffc), 'UIW' 12-Chalr11ta11, I. YateSI Secretary, I. Doyle. New dele•ato elected. Few houra dlaputed (delayed •Dini) in deck dept. II houri disputed OT fn en1lno department. One maa mlued •hip In Rouaton. Re11.ue.t fwnlptloa of ship. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), 'uly 1tCh•ll'M8ft, H. erall•m1 lecret•ry, M. Ceir. CellecU~n, m.1ule for wneth for mem1'0'- of brother'• fa~. No beef•. Ono man left ahlp due .to tll· neg. In family. lhlp'1 flllld 136'7. · .,ovles to be run per 1Chedulo. •INT~ ,OtlT (Cfflet Service), 'uly 1l-Chelrma11, W. Wallan1 llecretary, D. Lelyveld. Sailed oaa maa ahort. No beefs. Broken wamer la oaaino room. Vote of thank• to ateward . MASIMAR <Calmar), · June 21- department for Job well done. lleturn Chairman, I. lldlenbart1 leuetary• .- cups. Deck. dept. to dean laundry; '· Pert. No beef1. Vote of thank• to black lanf to ·c1ea.- P,.auafeway. ateward dept. IH Job weU done.· Re• PITRO CHIM <Y•l•ntlne), 'uly 1•uest . better. Military eeaditlons. Ch•lrl'l\.an, '· H...lo, secretary, D. ALCOA- PLANTIR <Alcoa), 'uly · - Petersen. s-e OT dlQuted. SuffHt Chairmen, N. Flower11 lecretary, z. dept. dele•ata lieep written record Chln1. Two men Injured due to lack of all bcefa. Some OT disputed -In of aale ~catwalkl-oae of them ho.. enalne department . DIJ'flculty re ollpltallzed in AllOrll• dd Hr,Mirlal,.;l. talnlnl atwu. Catwalk _Jmprov,ed-no further accl· dent1. Ship"• fUnd 142.11$-expect 120 ALCOA RANOIR <Alcoa), 'UIY · •onatlon from winner 9' Phlla. iar· Cll•lrman, O. Crawford1 Secretary, c. rival pool. No beef•. " Men warned EverYlhlnf runnina 811loothly. aralnll unauthorbed entry into· elec· Diacualon re sereeu for •alley and trlcal dletrlbutloa panel•. New WHh• t pantry. General meetinf to be held every two weeJf1. · Donation to be ~, machine refllleated~ .bken ap for injured man en prevloue trip. OCIAN IV~ (Maritime Overseas!, lune 2'.....ChalrMan, K. Colllnu lee• CITIES HRVICI MIAMI (Cl), July retary, I. ,....... tJS dollar• or travelera1 checka &l'allable I• event 14--Chalrman, P•dt•tt1 Secretary, '· Repair lilt turned In. veael ... out for leaathy period. • .. R!ldolph. Everythlnf runnlna 1111oothly. Ship'• •uelt mora djarett.,. · fund 19.43. No beef1. Mea men to .. Cl aAL TIMORI (Cltlel le..,.lce>, carry •arba1e amt dump It over 'uly S-C:tielliftetl, c. .tennette1 lec- atern. s11n to be placed over wash· retery, P. '•nea. FaDI rep.Ued; mat• lftlr machine to abut U oft when ' tre11 ·cover• fOI' crew. Draw1 to be flallbed. put out per contract a•reement. Shlp'1 fund needed. Meetln• t b• •AL TORI <Merven>, July 14-Chalr· held re beef eoncernlna cb&ef mate. inan, Mclau1hi1n1 iecretuy, - R. Obi· des. _t>ne man mlne4-ablp In Baltl· New •$reaaurer ' elected. Repair JI.ti to be turned bl. ' Laundg room tci be more. No beefL Seven houri diskept clean. Spray meahall after back puted OT. Crew fave radio operator port. fteque.t ·more fan•· In· messhall, vote of thaU. for the radio new1 also more milk, and more money to el'ery day, . \4/olowitz Delorenzo wet down larie towels and bedspreads to protect themselves from the 1earin1 heat and steam. All but two of the men working below when she blew were accounted for. Still .missing were the 2nd assistant engineer and the FWT, Seafarer Frederick "Sal" DeLorenzo. ' In what seemed a long time, but was actually just a iew minutes, Kra~er, who looked about out ·on '°"•L --·. • • r ••• ·,_. ... • • The ~v~niftg ot July 7 ~tart~ off .just an,y othei; night ~(board . ship'; b~t:·:~fore' :_--. dawn, it. lVu one . o!,thOie "nights to remember" to the crew of the SS_Del Sud, especial· ly- to Haity W:olowitz, -the -12-tq-4i -fireman on the Mississippi Steamship Co. passenger ·vessel. · down there,'' Wolowitz added. It was just past 8 PM~ while At Ease DeLorenzo had relieved Wolowitz the vessel was at sea headat 4 PM, and he had just settled · Make Checks To •s1u-A&G' Seafarers mailing in checks or money orders to the Union to cover dues payments are urged to be sure to make aU- of them payable to the SIU-A&G District. · Some Seafarers have sent in checks and money orders in the names of individual Headquarters officials. This makes for a problem in bookkeeping which can be avoided if checks are made out to ' the Union directly. YEAM;'alJT MIM COMllJ'.FRQM 11-11: Pl.ANET MAAS,UE 'DON'T-KNOW _, MWI/ ASOVT OUR WAYo'LIF& ••• down to watch the mo.Vie when it happened. • In a letter to the engineers aboard the Del Sud, the members of the black gang expressed their gratitude for their aid in trying to resc:ue DeLorenzo. "We, the men of the black gang," they said, "want to go on record as giving a vote of confidence and thanks for a job well done beyond the call of duty-going down into - a steam filled engineroom, trying to save the }!fe of our late brother, Frederick DeLorenzo . . . "We want you to know it's an honor and a privilege to work and sail with men like you, knowing we're world ng with honest-to-goodTaking it easy in his fos' cle 11 ness men. chief steward William Chan"In conclusion, we want to redler, presently handling the peat again, many thanks for a job food problems on the Ya~a. well done." Chandler is a · veteran Sea- , · The letter was addressed to farer, having joined the UnGeorge Kramer, chief eneineer; Joe Bradley, lit ·assistant; John io_n as a founding member Selbert, 2nd; J. Nelson, 3rd; R. bac:lc in Mobffe ·in November, Ennis, junior 3rd, and Tony Walker, 1938. . engine cadet. . . Another letter from the passenhis feet, staggered 'back up the gers on the Del Sud was presented passageway and said that the two to the ship's captain offering their men were safe. The stiip'1 doctor, grateful appreciation for "the dewho was treating Creel for burns, votibn •Jlown by the ship's comeave the chief a shot and .he went pany to their duties. · back down again. Creel's hands and ". ; . the maste1· of the vessel, feet were badly burned from hold- his officers and . crew displayed in1 ()D to the white-hot rails and couraeeous calm and pedorm'e d his .face was blistered. · their hazardous duties In the finest By this time, bosun's mate Keµy tradition of the sea," it said. Shauneuey bad brought up the kit - - - - - - - - - - - - with the breatiim1 ·apparatus and · along wjth the other engineerjl and engfne_·cade~ arid some '<!f 'the 'unlicensed crew,- went below. . Kelly later said that he had had DeLorenzo by the hand but couldn't hold on to him • the fireman, uylnt he had to sllUt off bis burner valves, turned and ran ·back into the s.t~am-fHled -ffteroom. Louis Anders00: the ship's ma.- chinist-plumber, who had also tone M"1' vouea.o91a~ below, reported that he tried to MATES 51..t~ get holci of ·De Lorenzo but had to let go because of the he~t. After making . several more rescue attempt$, cr~wD)embers finally found the body of the fireman in front of the master switchboard. "Yoo see something like this on TV or read about it and - think nothing of it at all," Wolowitz said, SWAP "but when the chips . are down and · yA~SAND~ you actualJY see it unfolded before your eyes, you realize what a fine 1}4E ONT../. bunch of officers and men we have HEW L.OW P~ICES aboard the Del Sud." Each member of the crew wanted AND 'lb1QE ALWA'6 to go below, Wolowitz said, but WEl.CO\tE J.IERE AT that was impossible, so the_rest of '(dJR OWN PLACE-. the crew tried their best to aid the burned men, or to keep the ice O*"'DNDO'ERAm> water and buckets full so as to v;f'TMG~ water down the men goiµg into the engineroom. Ml.l.WION·AfS·AR "Now that it's all over, I shiver when I know that but for the grace of God, it could have been myself Ar.,,_,, wa.e IN1JI~ BAL~e Al/D tl:Y.~l/.5, f=l&HTS �Pee. F•lldee• SE.41'..4.ltER!f £0C Sa/ety 's··fJ!he:.CavDlier. ~<>li:fJ- SEAFtit&RS ·ll~llllOC . "Safety~consciq_u~'~- would'. be. the best to d~scribe. th!!. crew,-Qi"ih~ g_S;Al~a: C~~a- -•·.. . -~~~-·...-~--~-~--------~ lier, ·and with good justification; In addition -to rwmmg -a monthlY safetj' sfogal).· contest, .' the ship also has an inspection committee composed of officers :and : mt!mbed Qf the un-· Two recent additions to the roster of Seafarers ln the Seattle USPHS licensed · departments whose ~ hospital are r~porte'd doing wen: One qf them, J. B. Tierney, . who-.last shipped H an AB on th.e De Soto, entered the hospital early·this montb jo_b it is to make regular tours .T he 'Mlsslle Hunters•·. of the vessel to see that standfor a bla~der operation _!!ld expects to be dischareed within a wee)( :way ard safety procedures are . being followed. Seafarers participating In the program are Max Fabricant, chief steward; W. M. Parker, bosun; L. C. Hanson, QM; Anne Blizzard, stewardess, and department representatives L.. B. Dur ache r, deck; L. P. · Kelly, engine, and E. J., Lynch, steward. Making safety a full time job has· .paid off on the Cavalier, as ~~~ · was seen iil the committee's latest report in which it was noted that there were "no uns.a fe conditions or practices detected d u r l n g their inspection," and "no lost time accidents. or accidents of a serious nature were reported since their last ~eeting." The only accidents occurred, they said, when a pantryman cut his finger with a knife while slicing food, and the other when-a crewmember strained himself while cranking up a lifeboat. · To keep the crew of the. Cavalier "safety-conscious" the committee holds a monthly safety slogan contest which is open to all crewrnembers. The winner for the month of June was Albert Nevers, 2nd .radio officer. The winner for the month of May was se.afarer Henry Koppersmith, a wiper on the Cavalier. a J urn;ng his talents to portrait photographs, Seafarer Chester Coumas found excellent . subjects among his shipmates on the MV Sword Knot, one of Suwannee Steamshjp Company's . mi~sile-tracking . ships in the South Atlantic. Always smiling is the description ' for Danny Nelson, top left, deck maintenance on the Knot. On the right, AB Tommy Klein s h o w s concentration and doubt 'as . he scans· the sky, looking for a missile no doubt. Left, giving the conversation all of his ottention is Leo Bruce, messman. DIRECTORY OF SIU -HALLS ,.33'7 SIU, A&G District .. ~ BALTIMORE•' . .. .. . 1216 E. Baltimore St. Earl Sheppard, Aeent . EAstern '1-4900 BOSTON .. ::-... . .......... .2'16 State St . G. Dakin, Acting Agent Richmond 2·0140 4202 Canal St HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . R. Matthews, Agent CApltal 3-4089; 3·4080 LAKE CHARLES, La.. . . . . 1419 Ryan st: Leroy Clarke, Aeent BEmJock 6·5'144 MIAMI .. .. .. ......... . '144 w. Flacler St. Louis Neira, Agent FRanklln '1·3564 MOBILE ... . . , . ... . J South Lawrence ~t. Cal Tanner. Acent HEmlock 2·li54 NEW ORLEANS . . . . . . . . 523 BienvJlle St. Lindsey Williams, Agent Tulane 6626 NEW YORK . . ... G75 4th Ave ..- Brooklyn HYactnth 9-6600 NORFOLK ........ ..... . 416 Colley Ave. ;r. Bullock, Agent .•..... . MAdison '1·10ll3 SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG - please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) NAME PHILADELPHIA . ...... Market St. S. Cardullo, Aeent • Market 7-1635 SAN FRANCISCO .••••••. ol50 Harrison . St. Marty Brelthoff. AgeI't. Doullu 2-54'15 SANTURCE, PR '. .1313 Fernandez Sunco1, . , Stop 2U Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep, Phone 2-11996 SAVANNAH . . . . ... .. ... Abercorn · St. William Morris, Acent Adami 3-1728 SEATl'LE . . . . . . . . • •" .2505 lat Av~. Ted Babkowskl, Asent Main 3-4334 TAMPA . . . . . 1809-1611 N. Franklin St. B. Gonzalez, Actinl Asent Pho1re- 2·1323 .WILMINGTON, Calif . . . . 503 Marine Ave. Reed Humphries, Agent Terminal 4.2529 HE ADQ UARTERS . . . 6'111 4th Ave .. Bklyn. SECRETARY·TREASURER ASST. SECRVfr'!k,.~REASURERS l . ASllgina. DecEnk ..wVHal Ula, JoJinlntt C. mmons. 1. ... o p n. o E. Mooney, Std. -. SUP HONOLULU .. . . Ill South Nimitz ffighway PHone 502·'1'1'1 NEW ORLEA.~S ..••... . 523 Bienville St. JAckson 5·'1428 NEW YORh. . .... .Cl'15 4th Ave .. Bronklyn HYaclnth 9-6605 PORTLAND ....... , .. , .;ll SW _Cl;iy St. CApltal 3-4336 SA.~ FRANCISCO ........ 4!10 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE . . ...... ••., •• , ... 2505 1st Ave. Main 2·0290 WILMINGTON ......... 1105 Marine Ave. Terminal 5-661'1 HONOLULU STREET ADDRESS ...... . CITY ......... ZONE ...• STATE Mc&s 5 Niml · · · · 1 South tz Highway PHone 5·1'114 · . NEW ORLEANS .. ...... 1123 Blenvme st. RAmond '1428 NEW YORK .•••.. 675 4th Ave,. Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 PORTLAND ............. 211 sw Clay st. CApltol '1·3222 S AN FRANCISCO .••••••. 350 Fremont St. . EXbrook '1·5600 SEATTLE . ...•••••••••••. :sos -1st ·Ave. MAID 3-0088 WILMINGTON ........... 305 Marine Ave. TErminaI 4·8538 ·To AVOID DUPLICATION: If you Great Lakes District ere an old subscribe' and have a change of address, pleaH give your ALPENA . : ...•.• , .1213 N. Second Ave. ELmwood 4-3616 former address below: BUFFALO, NY .............. 9~a:itlnJ~ ..... ., • ....... . ................. .• ..... . A-DD RESS , . I i: ..... ·.:., .. ~QNE: . ~ . or so. · AB Earl Tay~or also entered. the Seattle hospital this month, but to have a cyst removed from his !>ac:;k. Taylor's last vesseJ was the yaney Forge. ·still undergoing an ·extensive ·che~Jmp on the West Coast is Seafarer Joe Prabech of the black gang, Prabech was former wiper on the · SS . Marymar. Down in Texas ' tlie reports on tl;le men Jn the Galveston hospital a~l look good. Shipmates of steward Albert C~&er who had to get off the Steel Apprentice in Ir~n with internal bleeding will be glad_ to hear he is recovering nicely. Canter was repatriated to Galveston and expects to be out and back on his feet Jn a couple of days. , A hernia laid up Thomas Bowers iri the Galveston hospital but he is recuperating rapidly after an operation and should be back on the beach in about a week. BQwers last shipped as steward on the Del Oro. Evidently responding tp treatment 'in the Galveston hospital Is Francis Reran, former me·ssman on tlte Atlas. Regan, who enteredthe hospital because,,..of a numbness in his 'arm. 'says he wlll be discharged any day now. News of shipboard activities Is Bower~ always welcome to the men in the hospitals tqroughout the country. If you are as'1ore on leave with time . to spare, or if you have time on your hands while at sea, drop them a line. The f~llowing is the latest available list of hospital patients: w. USPHS HOSPI'P1\L MANHATTAN B);ACH BROOKLYN, NY .Joseph ;J. Bau Tbomu B. LehaJ' Matthew Bruno Leo Mannau1h Gre1orlo Caraballo Prlmltlvo Muse Leo V. Carreon Jeremiah O'Byrne Wade Chandler Geor1e G. Phifer Joffph D. Cox Wln1ton E. Renn:r John ;J. Driscoll Manuel B. Silva .. F. O. Fondlla Almer S; Vlclceu Bart E. Guranick I.uther :t. Wini Taib Hassan Pon P. Wine Frank Hernande:& Royce Yarborouch William D. Kenny Pacifico S. Yuzon Ludwi1 Krlstlansen Gorman Glaze Emanuel :Jones Kenneth Miller Endel Pappel Jesse Puckett · Harrr Pule Abner Rallorcl Jose Soare1 John Ste1lefort Dolphus Walker Levi Warner USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTO~. MASS. Dominic Newell Edward Sleger Charles Robinson .Joseph M. ThomH John c. Roblee USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS Morris J. Black Frank .B. Bowell ThomH BOWi!H Cecil Saunders Albert W . .Canter James Sheppard Francl1 Reasan John Spearman USPHS HOSPITAL SEAT.TLE, WASH. Earl Taylor SOUTH CIUCAGO ..... EwlnJ Ave. Benjamin LeBlanc B. Tlen1ey USPHS HOSPITAL SAlfinaw 1-0'133 Joseph A. Prabech TUCSON, ARIZ. ' TOLEDO •• ,,,, •••.•••••••. 120 Summit St. C!feny 8·2431 Frank ;J, Mackey USPHS HOSPITAL FT. WORTH, TEXAS TRIBORO HOSPITAL Lawrence Andenon Max Olson ';JAMAICA, LI, NY WILLIAM •• •••••• .COS Simpson St. FORT R. B. Appleby John C. Palmer Ontulo Phone: 3·3221 Jame. Ru11ell B. F. Deibler Leo Watts H Jo1eph P. WIH ALIFA){. .N.S•••••• • • •• . 128.'>i Holli• St. James Lauer "flA .lfOSPITAL . , PJione 3·8911- Woodrow Meyers -DENVER, COLO. . MONTREAL ....... . 634 St. Sames St. Welt USPHS HOSPITAL Clll!ord C. Womack Victor 2·8161 STATEN ISLAND, NY QUEBEC · • • · • • • • • • •••. 44 Sault-au-Matelot R. W. Bunner Jose Reyes USPHS HOSPITAL Quebec LAfontalne 3-1569 R. G. Cowdry ;Juan Reyes SAVANNAH. GA. THOROLD. Ontario .••••. 52 St, David S$, Everette A . Hord Angel L. Rio• Jose· A. Blanco Geor1e - .Kitcben1 CAnal '1·5212 Fidel G. Lukban JoH Rodrigues R. W. Centcllovlch i. · , ·roRONTO, Ontario .••••• . 2'12 Kina St. .E. Pablo Mendez Manuel Sanchez . . EMPlre .f.5'119 Herman Meyer ;Joseph A. Wehe ST. SOHN, NB .... 177 Prince w~:-sl'ii Stavro• Papoutsl• VANCOUVER. BC .......... . 298 .Main St. USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. ' Jr Grover F . Cobbler Joseph Prindezl• BALTIMORE ..•.. 1216 E81t Baltimore St. Michael J. Cotrey Arthur J. Schevlnf . . EAatern '1·3383 Mike Goins Edwud J. Smith HONOLULU . ... 56 North· Nim'ttz Bl1hway Carrol E. Harper Joseph Neubauer · . PHone 5·60'1'1 USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS .• ,,,,, .. 523 BlenvJlle St. NORFOLK, VA. MAgnolla IJ.404 NEW YORK .•••••••• , .130 Greenwich St. Frances Boner · Bernie Watson Albert I. William• . COrtlaiid '1·'109t Harold v. Riley PORTLAND ..• , , • , , • , 1122 NW Everett St. STOGKTON S'rAT.E HOSPITAL CAplfol 3·'129'7·8 STOCKTON, CALIF, SAN FRANCISCO.,.,, •• , . 240 Second St. Dan M. Chrlstolos DOuglu 2·4592 SAN PEDRO .• •••••.• •••. 296 ·west '1th St. SAILORS SNUG HARBOR TErmlnal 3·4485 STATEN ISLAND, NY SEATTLE ...... ••... .2333 Western Ave. Victor B. cooper Thomas Isaksen . MAJn 2·6326 USPHS HOSpITAL . NEW ORLEANS, LA. ~ B. G. Barrett · Edward Knapp Claude Blank• Leo ' H. Lane \ ' Carter Chambers Crawford Ll.rhtse1 Feu T. Crawford D. E. Mccollum Eu&ene Crowell D. H. Mccrary Under the Union constitution .f\llnarfon L. Davl1 Wm._ Marjenho.lr b J~ Fitzpatrick Elziar Mf.rtell every mem er attending .a Un- · Clarence Fontenot William It. Nellon ion meeting -is ent'ltled to • J,amea C. Glisson Louis W. Peed Wln.ford Role Powell • nom inat e hi mseIf f or th e e1ec t ed Franc.I• Herbert F. E. Gomez Grant Edward posts to be, filled at the meeting . Albert Hammac Harold Spicer ~ -ehairm~, r.eading clerk and Wayne Harris s. R. Von Holden . . Raymond Hcideea Rollind ·E. Wilcox recording.'secret.u-y.. Your Un- Arthur R. Kini >' .. . . ion urges you. .to_take an active MT. w1isoN s~TE Hos:P. part ln .meetings by. taking these : Ml. WILSON, MD. · .: ·,. posts of. service. Georce Davis G. Blchard1on And, .-"o f, cour.se, all '> memb'e rs , vA: HOSPITAL hav.e the rl.glt~to 'take ' the fioor," .. .Ph m't:ECOU.~f!-TAN•• VA. :'383 S. 3. Anderson J: Canadian District ·s S MFOW A r:: A R. R. S 5 pea k _0 u·t A "t SIU Meetings o' l CLEVEI;AND ............ 1420 25 St. and expres!JlJ>tbetiaTopilllOn1~ijil2 VA HOSPITAt.:):'-' MAln 1-0147 any office~s-1Fep&r.tr·or issu~t{b- -"- . . . HousTo~. TEXAS · 62l w. Superior St. · · "Harry Mc:Clemon Phone: Randt tpb 2-4110 der discus15lon. Seafarers are· ... . . . USPHS HOSPITAL " • i· ~ ,. FR~NKFORT, Mich. .......... PO BOK 28'1 urged to ·hl't -the.:.ideclc ' at ~liese 1 BALTJM()RE, lrl.D~ •. ~ .: i ~ ' . ·. m.,1n 7·2'"1 meetings ' and let their 1,hip. Jo.1eph Ardillo • ' ~.:rustln Butd• ·•• . MILWAUIQ!B ........ 633 S. Second Ave. · mates ·knOW , what'l '-'Oll theft' Same-. Ar~st!'on~ ' .. E~arj._ -.Bw;~pJ.J ...., . BRoadwa:; 2·3039 •. ,... .. .,. . '«· _ . Jul.Ian Autenclo . , ~ihaJ ~oum . ,.. .., RIVER ftOUGB .. 10225· W. Jel!erion Ave, · m 1Dul. . . · Beil L . .On• ·• · D;uij l'lrlle ' ::·; l ~ :. . Jltcb. . . Vlnewoocl H7t1· • · · •• · .Bo~ ..... · .;;OtJEL,., .,it~),I · ·:. · ·= . -..;.;;..-.."-.;,,..,_....,...,-... . . . .-..lilJ,. y. �~I~ ·Pf Rlar,=-Join-f Run~Way Ortl'!!JiZing .Set~ Up the following SIU families have t'eceived a $200 maternity lu!neftt plus a $25 bond from · the U11i0n in the babt1'• name: -. . ( Jeffrey Armstronr, born June Charlotte Ann Granier, born 16; · 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. July 4, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. James A.rmstrong, Jarvisburg, NC. Antoine Granger, ·Basile, La. ;.t. ;\:- ;\:- ~ ;\:- t Deborah Joan Bacon, born May Linda May McCarlhi , born May 19, 1959°, to Seafar.er and Mrs. 12, 1959; to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Bacon, ~al~imo_re, Md. Gerald McCarthy, Ya r mo u t b, · Novia Scotia. t . t t Joann .Bracht, born July 17, 1.959; Cheryl Etzab!tb :oore, born to , Seaf~rer and }\{rs. Joseph Bl'.acht, San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 21, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. t . ¢, $ Irvin Moore, ¥arshallberg, NC. .Lisa Dunno, born June 27, 1959, . Scott w~Uam;\; M!.ien, born to Seafarer ~nd ]drs. John .l>urmo, March 8 1959 to Seafarer and Bronx, NY. · ' , ~s . ..Ja~ Mozden, New Britain, o\:t o\:Conn. Douglas Wayne East, born July t t t Terry Joseph Rakowski, _born 1, 1959, to S~afarer and Mrs. Marry June 23, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. East, Houston, Texas. · Joseph Rakowski, Balt~more, Md. ~ - ·i ;.\;. (Continued fr om page 2) jurisdiction would be submitted to a special three-man 1TF committee already set. up in London. This committee, including ITF Secretary Omar Becu and Tom Yates of the British Seamen's . Union, would advise ITF affiliates of the · status of ·each ship, based on its true ownership, capitaUzation and the service in which it was operating. Ships in American trade and financed by American capital, regardless of the nationality of the Augustine Rodriguez, AB, ~ crew and- the runaway flag would then be serviced by th~ joint proudly displays · daughter, American committee as the auSa'ia, adamily's NY home. I PERSONALS .AND NOTICES IUnions Veto Erwin MR ~ t t Robert ·Eschrich, born May 21, Urgent you contact your brother Paul Anthony Ra:rnvr;'born July 1959; to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert 2, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs; Oscar George at Richey Inc., 1223-27 Eschrich, Brooklyn, NY. South Wabash Ave., Chicago 5, Raynor, Galveston, Texas. Ill., Telephone WEbster 9-2040. ;.\;. ""' t t -- t ;\:Shannon Gleen :Fa1an, born May Anthony Roman, born June 28, Your brother Edward is seriously 23, _f959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fred 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leonard ill. ;,\;. ;,\;. ;\:-· Fagan, New Orleans, La. Roman, Baltimore, Md. Leonard A. G. Smith t ;\:- t t t :. Margaretha .Kreiss, born July 16, ·Beverly Ann Young, born June 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Clyde -23, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Kreiss, Lindenhurst, NJ. Young, Mobile, Ala. ;\:- ~ ;\:- . t . ;t_ ;\:t Lois Marie Latapie, born April Timothy Z I m m e r m a n, born 21, 19?9, to S~afarer and Mrs. Jean ~larch 26, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Latap1e, New Orleans, La. Lloyd Zimmerman, Bedford, Va. I .EVERY .·1 SUNDA-Y·1 ~IR~CT -VOICf I BROADCAST I I ~ TO SHIPS IN ATLANTIC EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AMERIC.AN WATERS ··THE ~OJCE OF THE MTD". EYEIY SUNDAY, 1620 GMT (11:20 EST SuncloyJ . - WFK·39, 19850 KC• ; Ships in Caribbean, East Coast · · of South Ame~ica, South Atlantic · and East Coast of United States. WFL.i,t5; ·uuo KC. Ships in Gulf of M~xico, Caribbean, West Coast of South . America, West Coast of Mexico and US East Coast. · Ships in Mediterranean area, North Atlantic, European and US East Coast. _, .. I • Meanwhile, . MTD 'Round-Jhe-Wos:ld ~ . · -~Wi~el~ss ·Br~adcasts . . c~~tinu• , ..• : ""Every Sunday, '1915 GMT ·(2:15 PM °l;ST Sundat1) . WC0-13020 KC_- ·. ,.E urope and North Am,etica Barge Line Votes SIUBOSTON-'.I,'he SIU Harbor and Inland· Waterways Division scored an election victory here recently when emplOyees ' of tne Boston Sand ·and Gravel Company voted for Union representation. Negotiations will get und·e rway soon for a working agreement with the com~ pany. · ~ Eugene Dakin, . acting agent, wishes to remind 'all hands that when leaving ·a vessel to receive l}leciical attention. they should report to the hospital or doctor as soon as humanly possible. Unnecessary delay, he warned, can result in loss of maintenance and· cure benefits• . Ships paying off '(luring the last two weeks here were the Winter Hill and Bents. Fort <Cities Service). In-transits .consistea of the Steel Flyer <Istl)miaii>; Atlantis (Petrol .Shipping) and the . Robin Kirk .<Robin). The Winter Hill had . a few beefs which - were settled promptly and cl~an -pay9ff resulted. ·unl•n Has· · Cable. .Address Seafarers ov~rseas who want to get (n touch · with_ headquar- . tera In I hUR'Y can ·do so by ·~aJ)lin11i.thJt rt:Tnlon11• t,'i its ,citble .. ·,.~ss, SEAFARERS· NEW YOR~.· .- , . '. . . .. · Use; of this address w.m assure · · ~edy trinsrnfssion ·on all mes· s·a gescand faster··.. ,rv1ce tor the. dien" 1n,.-~•1red: · : ·· · ; · · . ~m.!11111!!'9~~-....~~ll!!-!~~~~~~~--~~~-~-...~iiiiii...J ship Corp; Oliver F. Martin , P . J : Mccorey, Leslie -Lord, Odis Stout, Frank Adkins, Earl Gates. t ;\:- -~ James Barrett . · Please get in touch with Frank Shandl, ex-Alcoa PiJ.grim. Write to the Baltimore hall. There is a letter · waiting for you at the New Very important you contact your York hall. wife, c/o D. Angeli, 89 Campbell t ;\:- - ;\:Ave., West Haven, Conn. Paul Hin·ins t ;,\;. ;,\;. Please contact H. F. Holmes, Earl Jackson Fuller 7020 Nor.th Clark Ave., Tampa, Contact your wife at 3707 Fla. A venue S, Galveston, Texas. t ;.\;. ;.\;. ;\:- t ;\:Following men have income tax Edwin Spence Harris refund checks waiting for them at Please contact your. wife, Mrs . . the office of Jack Lynch, room E. S . . Harris, General Delivery, 201, Sailors- Union of the Pacific, Natchitoches, Louisiana. 450 Harrison Street, San Frant ;,\;. t cisco: Richard P. Bowman, Theo. Ellis D. Knowles doros G. Calapothakos, Arthur L. Please contact your mother at Craig Jr., John J. Doyle, Tom 108 Channing Ave., Portsmouth, Evans, Steve Krkovich, Milford H. Va. McDonald, Hubert Partridge, Leo ;.\;. t ;.\;. . ·Rondario, Ding Haj_ Woo. Following crewmembers · -h:ive had their gear deposited in Philadelphia SIU hall by Calmar Steam- a ,., , . thorized bargaining representative of the men. Th~ plan w~mld work similru:ly where the financing ilnd , true ownership of the vessel was found to be Norwegian or British, for example. In sucJ:i cases, t he proper Norw e g I an or British unions would take jurisdiction. One major point of agreement reached earlier between the various ITF affiliates is that no organization will tolerate any ship?wner move to dump a runaway m favor of a European flag •o escape American organizing. Such moves, it was agreed, could not be allowed once the ques.tion of true jurisdiction had been cleared up. Some 800 ships o.f all types are believed tO be involved. Escape Biil <Continued from page 2) the Greek seamen's union was not motivated by any special attachment to Greece, since they refused to put their fleets under Greek registry. Indeed, the American representatives declared, the operators not only sought to escape American taxes but wanted to avoid Greek taxes as well. The Athens government imposes a low 2 ~2 percent tax levy on the gross of Greek-flag shipping. Hall and Curran both welcomed the operator's recognition. that the ITF was the proper body to contact in this situation, buf added that the operators would have to face up to the fact that their crews want improved conditions and that the standards - of the runaways would have to brought up to those of the legitimate competition. -FINAL DISPATCH Thomas B. Massey, 43: As a reCharles F. Dwyer, 53: Brother Dwyer died ~f heart failure on sµlt of an acute heart ailment Brother Massey June 8 in · Weypassed away on mouth, Mass. A May 28. He was a steward, Dwyer patient at the joined the Union Grady Hospital, in 1946. He was At I ant a , NC, buried in Holy Brother Massey Cross Cemetery, is survived by his Mal q en, Mass. wife, M o z e 11 e Brother D w y e r Virginia Massey leaves no known of Pilot Mounsurvivors. tain, NC. ~-. t otHarr:r D~eU, 29: On May 29 Brother Dossett died of a cerebral rupture at the M .o b ll e Infirmary. . A member of the engine department, D o ssett joined SIU in 1957. Burial -- PHILADELPHIA - After ~ UI w a s h e I d i n day walkout, during which the harH o w e 11 Ceme- bor had been closed dowl), the tery, Miss. Dos- l~ngshoremen finally won their ~ett is survived dispute in t'1is port. However, by his wife,.Mrs. Mary Fay Dossett,- during the time the waterfront and his son, David H., one year old, was completely tied up, -every of Wilmer, Al~Jma. ship due to call here was diverted. t ·t ~ Only one slfip called in transit, the Aloia : Mauffray, 56: At sea, Evelyn <Bull). One ship paid off, aboard the Del Sud, Brother Mauf- t~ supertanker cs :aaltimore <City fray died of corService), and one ship signed on, onary occlusion . the Edith <Bum. on Apr I I . 27. $teve Cardullo, Philade~phia Mauffray joined agent, reports that the MAWD's ort h e Union f n ganizing program is going full blast at several new companies. . 19 7, and worked in the erighie de- Ship Diversion Slows Philly 4 partmi endt. b~e Is . surv ve · Y · .his ·· wife, T h ~ 1 m a · "'Mauff~•Y• an\J ~~· . . fo~r-ye~-o~~, i9n.•. Phillip, of. New -'!"'i-~-~~"'!"'!!o~.-....----""""' Orlei ns.-. Loulsl.~~.l~ �Vol. XXI No. 16 OFFICIAL ORGAN Of • Italian Seam.e n End Strike, Get Nine Percent Rais~ The six-week.t9ld strike of Italian~flag merchant seamen came to an· end last week with agreement providing a nine perc~nt · increase in base wages for c~e~s •. Translat~d into dollars, the nine percent amounts to $5.4Q to $7.20 per month for most ratmgs_who were previously being paid $60 to · tions hiringpreference (or union members of the .two passenger $30 monthly. seam~n and an increase in man· ships in New York sought assistDetails on other aspects of ning scales. ance from the. SIU when the us the sett:ement were lacking. StrikThe strike, which began June· 8, Imf!ligration. Seryice ln ~tructe d comp__·-any..· offic.1~~ to.t confme the ing crewmembers _of t 11e pas~enger had ti. ed up more than. 100 Italian· th d b f lag vessels throughout the world, cre~s m . eir c~s o Y ecause ships Vulcania and Julio Cesare including the two passenger ships their ~anding .r.ermits ha~ expired. had told the SIU th at they were in New York plus the freighter SIU mtervention won agre~ment seeking recognition of shipbo~rd Punta Alice. from the company to permit the delegates, grievance procedur~, . . crews to go ashore on "good beimproved living and feeding condiIn the course of the strike, CI ew- havior." In addition, the SIU han=::=..::...:..::=_:::_..:._:.:::__ __ _::_________________ __ died the crews' mail ·and supplied t?e -an I Atta'ck .H0u·s·e La·bor -11·11 · To All un·1ons AS .Th reat . . them withwon cigart!ttes •The SIU's warm .thanks from assistance the ships' crews. · SIU Took Responsibility . · I. company been reluctant lo The let the men had go ashore because . they would be subject to $1,000 ' 1 · fines for every crcwmember who '\VASHINGTON-The House version of the labor-re atwns jumped ship. However. they agreed bill to contr.ol corruption in labor-management affairs has to do so when the SIU said it been denounced as unacceptable by AFL-CIO President would accept responsibility for the + crewmembers being board on sailGeonte Meany. Meany ~e· d ~ -d exemptions from reporting on mg ay. clared that the bill would o funds spent in. the labor relations As it was, not a single crewmemserious harm to legitimate un- arena. her ran afoul of the law during ions under the guise of dealing He attacked limits on the rights their strike and all were aboard fully...1·th c"~ruption. of • certain individuals from hol d - when the ships finally sailed, . w.· ...... / \ justifying the SIU's -positlon that it out of the ing union office without compar.a:h The bi.11 r.e.ported · th · d was okay to grant them s ore 1 eave. House Labor Committee is now on hie limitations on the o er si e the floor for amendments. The of the bargaining table and deThe len&thy strike, a rarity Hous e version differs considerably cI are d that a ruli· ng barri·ng organ- among European maritime uriions, . 1 pie · keting would make it was_as much the result of an acfl·om the Senate bill, .which was· iza t iona · f cumulation of serious grievances also denou nced by the AFL-CIO easier or em ployers to obta1'n th t" tr ts Any kind as over monetary m'atters. In addi" Id tion to subnormal wages, even fn and by many unions, includipg the swee ear con ~ck 't1· SIU of North America at its last of organizational pie e me cou be prevented simply by signing a terms of the Italian living stand· convention. contract with a compliant union. ard, the crewmembers on the pasIn prefacing his point-by-point senger ships had to pay for their An even stricter measure proposed by ti.Te Administration is objections to the legislation as it · own uniforms and laundering, waitbeing introduced at this late date. now stands, Meany rejected the ers had to pay all breakage cpsts lt would impose criminal penalties idea that labor should accept .the plus losses - of silver and utensils nn union officers who allegedly bill because "people deqiand legis- th.rough pilferage, and overtime violated the membership's rights lation this year, no matter what was virtually non-existent. Workand would stiffen bans on organiza- kind of legislation it be." On the days of 11 hours or more are comtional .p icketing and on "hot cargo" contrary, Meany said, "We do not monplace enabling the owners to agreements. for a moment consider the .public cut manning scales. ' Meany's criticism repeated labor a · moronic body demanding a The strike began when the shipobjections to the so-called "bill measure which will hamstring free owners, in response to demands for of rights," written-into the bill in democratic trade unionism unaer wa ge increases of 15 to ~o percent, the Senate, which would place the the guise of getting at the crooks." offered the me~ $1.25 -~ · month. Government and the courts square. ly in the middle of routine union operations and meeting procedure. also pointed out that the House bill exempts the main targets of any drive on labor-management corruption, the so-calle,sV labor relations counselors, from reporting on their {inancial activities. (The brothers described be!ov; are receiving $150 111o~thl11 SIU diS· Employers would also get wide abi lit y-pension benefits.) PENSIONERS' CORNER - He SCHEDULE OF ... Adrian Guns ... 67 •.• started ailing in his native Belgium in 1921 later · joined the SIU working in the steward d~partment after sailing on Belgian, Dutch and British-flag ships, Brother Guns says, " There's nothin~in the world · · like an American ship' • , . didn't SIU membership meet- have any special run, whichever got back to the States fastest ings ore held regularly suited him . . . why?-because every two weeks on Wed- racing is his fancy and "there's · nesday nights at 7 PM in plenty of that here" •.• doesn't see or correspond with former all SIU ports. . A II Seashipmates during the year, but fprers ore exp~cfed to during the summer he · inanages attend: -those who wish to four or five ·visits to the Union hall, where he passes many an·. ·be . excuse d s h ou Id request hour recalling tlle past .. ; an in- permis~ion by. telegram door and outdoor man, Guns takes (be . sure t.o include regi~- · to baking and cooking as .well as . Adrian G~n• ond fomily. b • } Th , gardening • • • he is married an~ . . , ·:. . .. , .. traHon num er • . e next n&s one ~aughter, who has already brought Guns three grandchildren SIU m~etings will .be: ..• lives in Kingston, Jamaicl\, · · ,. Siu MEETINGS -r· • 11 '~ ·• ~ r-. ·August 5 . August- 19 . , September 2' ' ., ·t , t. t ."'Y:;~ . . Knut Bercer Cato."':. 65 ••. now residing at 809 N. Broadway; Balti•.more, Md. • • • Sailed Ore Line, Libertys,. -and Hog Island~rs, tbe :}<:, , former fireman preferred no spe'cial run ••• ·joined the Union. In 1932, and first started aailini in 1913' aboard the SS Ge_,rae E. ·Warren. "'-------------------------~- Tug pushes SIU-man~ed Beauregard off Port Newark pier .as s~ip, " loaded down with trai_ler boxes, starts on southbbund ·journei~ ·Sister ship ~airland is tie~ to the pier. ~ _ ·. · Company Cites Sl-IJ<. Men As·'First Rate', .. ... . . , Jp"'-~1 Seafarers aboard the· Pan-Atlantic trailer-carryi~g ships have been applauded by the company for "a .f irst rate jab" in their cooperation with the company's customer-promoti9n program. • . A letter from Captain Hans vessels, which ~ould h~~e .a~pu~ S chroeder, the company's ma- twice 'the capac~tY of, t.h~ present . rine operating - manager, to the trailerships, would J?e used Jn the Union explained the importance intercoastal trade. An applJciltion of the company's promotion pro- is being made for GQ.Ye~n.~~nt gram In which groups of potential mortg~ge insurance o!1 their con· customers are taken . on a guided struction. tour of the ·trailership operation . -.- - - ---1 as a business-sollcit4tion devi~e. , "A ·primary reason for the program's success," he wrote, "is the · , · . complete cooperation and desire to do a first rate job exhibited b'y all members of the Seafarers Internatio~al Union. The ~en who ' . . . have joined us each day from the . · · .. . ,. hall and the members of the ship~ . ) . • • • .. . board steward .depa·~tments • •have. ~. . made eyery effort to ma~e.. ~h~ day · . . . . . . .; one to be long-remembered ~Y each of_ our guests. The . meals . NEW.. ORI:.EANS-Shipping h·~·d · · · · -1 have been outstanding, the serv7 ice has been excellent and the 2en• a .lively t~o weeks du~ing -th~ last eral attitude of· ·an concerned has period at New Or~eans: .New ·o!~I • •r .. been exemplary. Everyone .con- leans agent · Llndsey Williams rec~rned with . t~is service has tried ports six payoffs, six -sigi:i ~ns ai\~ with !tis ~divi.dual tiest to qo the. twenty two s)lips stopping in· best possible Job. · - tra·nsit. For a ·comprehensiV.e "May we thank- you and all o..f breakdown, the ~folio wing ·ships the men wh.o have worked on this. were l>aid off: _A1coa Pllgijt,it ·program for ; the . keen aftentio!} . "(Alcoa,>; Del Santos, Del Mo11te, :Del ~oward '!! m9st ·important :mutual , sud (Mississippi);. Steel ·Age (ilst1i_goal-increasing · btisJness ·~o tba~ mian>; Arizpa (Waterman). ,: '-= more . and better- jobs· W!ll b'~. .The vessels signing .o~ :~e1:e the created." : .. -. • .:~ ...._.' ~· A(coa PUgrtm (A!lcoa)!' Del Ah;e.;s, A reJated company of· Pan ·At- Del Sud (MisSlsslppi); Ste~l !antic's, Sea La~d Inc., hl!s ail- 'T~!lveler {Isthmian>; .John B. WJtnounced· plans to bqlld four new tetrnan (WatermanJ; ~nd Penn tra~lerships on the same · P~in~iple Vanguard (Penn Min·h:le5.•The· ioJ• as the sbips now being opeHted lowing ships · were "in.-translt:, Al• the, cq~stwise · tr~d~. ~~he new ,coa Ranger, Alcoa Clipper , Alc.cia Roamer, Al9oa Corsair ' '~Alcoa: Seatrain Georgia, Seatrain -.Louisi_. a'.na <SeatrairO; ·Del Aires,. Del Sud "· _ F . 11R ,, A' t t (MisslssipPl); lj:l~betl;t; ,, Francet ·u 1· ;r~ ·<Bull); Alice Brown (Bloomft~ld): SteeT Designer, Steel 'travel~r <Isthmian>: Monarch· ·of the ·Sea, ..... Hastings, Young America. J~an Lafitte, John B. Watetman· <Wa~er.. . ~llD);~bo~~·- Rap~ael .Semniei, G~teW,ay: <i:ltyj'(J>.ali At}antic>: V~· 'ley .Forge Clleninsular Navfiatlon), N'Or1eans · . Has· Plen -, .y 1 Of -A·ctivity· • • , in .1'0.IJ1l , IEAR. •# � http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/ac08286a276ba33db38987d23e890eee.pdf 462953ccb486991e789a29e0ce33df73 PDF Text Text Tv'  SEAFAllERS*LOG  • OFFICIAL ORGAN  OF  THE  SEAFARERS  INTERNATIONAL  UNION  • ATLANTIC AND  GULF  DISTRICT*  AFL­CIO  •   I  Sife Clearing  Begins:  WORK TO START  ON NEW BUILDING  IN NEW ORLEANS  'I  m  .Story  On  Page  3  Form Special Unit  To Sign Runaways  .Story  On  Page  2  Down  Tho  Woys  workers  and  spectators  watch  as  America's  first nuclear­powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah,  slides down the ways at her launching in Camden,  New  Jersey.  It  will  be  another  year before she is ready to go into service.  (Story on  Page 5;  feature on Savannah's  'nuclear operation  on Page 9.)  I  ''­i  �SEAFARERS  LO(f  Fare Two  :  utifShiiii'  Rose Knot /i»  f  I  Firsf  Recovery  Of  Atlas Cone  ­;  '  .  ­  ­  '  r,  Mission Set  In January  The  SlU­manned  Rose  Knot  scored  an  important  "first"  SAN  FRAJjrcISGO—The hospital  in  the  United  States  missile  and  space  program  when  it  re­ ship  USS  Consolation,  with  an  SIU  Pacific  District  crew  aboard,  covered  the  nose  cone  of  an  Atlas  intercontinental  ballistic  is  due  to  head  out  of  this  port  in  missile on  July  21.  The  Rose­*  January  for  a  one­year  medical  monkeys,  Able  and  Baker,  who  Knot picked up  the Atlas nose  mission  to  southeast  Asia.  The  cone  approximately  three  survived  a  flight  through  space.  ship will  be operated  by  American  hours  after  the  missile  was  fired  Following  the  Atlas  firing  the  Air  President  Lines  from  its  launching  pad  at  Cape  Force  announced  the recovery  of  a  The  vessel,  which  served  as  a  Thor  intermediate  range  missile  Canaveral,  Florida.  Navy  hospital'ship,  needs  ship­ cone  with  a  16­millimeter  movie  Since  a  modified  Atlas  will  be  yard alterations of  about $1,800,000  used  in  the  program  to  put  a man  camera.  which  will  be  paid  for  by  the  into  space,  the  nose  cone  recovery  Leaving  its Cape  Canaveral  pad,  foreign  aid  program.  Actual  the  Thor  IRBM,  with  camera  en­ was an  important  test  of  the  feasi­ operating  costs  of  the  ship  will  be  bility  of  the  Atlas  missile  for  this  cased  in  an  eighteen­inch  data  met  byiund  raising,  with  a  drive  capsule, travelled  1,500 miles down  program  now  being  conducted  to  raise  the  range landing  near Antigua>  Island.  Previously  another  SlU­manned  The  cone,  camera  and  film  were  NMU  President  Joseph  Curran  (left)  and  SlUNA  President  Paul  $3'/^  million  needed  for  the  proj­ ect.  Hall  answer  newsmen's  questions  on  pro{ected  organizing  action  ship,  the  Timber  Hitch,  had  re­ recovered  intact.  covered  the  largest  nose  cone  that  against runaways.  Current  plans for  the vessel call  hac  been fired  from the  cape,  that  for  211  hospital  beds  for  patients,  one  being  a  modified  Jupiter  mis­ plus  an  equal  number  of  beds  for  emergency  purposes.  In  addition,  sile.  the  staff  of  doctors  and  nurses  The  two  ships,  part  of  a  fleet  of  aboard  will  be  able  to  establish  11  vessels  operated  by  Suwannee  500­bed  mobile  hospitals  ashore  Steamship  Company,  operate  on  for  treating  patients  in  inland  the  South  Atlantic  missile  range  areas.  along  with  Navy  vessels.  Judging  The ship will  carry  a  permanent  from  announcements  made  thus  Preliminary  talks  between  the  SIU  and  NMU  on  setting  up  a  joint  organizing  com­ nucleus  of  American  doctors,  plus  far  by  the  authorities,  the  Suwan­ nee ships have participated  in more  mittee  with  US  licensed  officers  unions for  a  full­scale  drive  on  all  runaway­flag  shipping  additional  groups  of  physicians  missile  recoveries  than  the  Navy  in  American  trade  got  underway  this  week.  The  joint  effort  would  implement  the  policy  who  will  be  flown  out  on  four­ month  tours of  duty.  vessels.  of  the International Transport *  Local physicians  in the  countries  The  Timber  Hitch  is  the  stand­ Workers Federation  following  "pawn" to  undermine and "cut  the  advised  the  Greek  operators  that  being  visited  will  also  become  out  thus  far,  being  the  only  mis­ a  meeting  of  the  ITF  Fair  heart  of  US  seamen's  wages  and  their  rush  to  sign  contracts,  with  temporary  members  of  the  ship's  sile  range  ship  to  recover  more  Practices  Committee  at  Geneva,  conditions." SIUNA  Vice­President  the  Greek  seamen's  union  would  staff  for  training  purposes  and  to  than a  single capsule  (it has picked  Switzerland,  on  July  15­16.  Hal  Banks  represented  Canadian  not  give  them  any  sanctuary  from  exchange  information  on  local  up  three  in  all),  medical  problems.  further  organizing  efforts.  The  go­ahead  for  an  all­out  of­ Seafarers  at  the  meeting.  A  Navy  tug,  the  Kiowa,  had  the  fensive against  some  800 runaways  They also  reported on a  meeting  The  ITF  had  earlier  called  on  The  itinerary  of  the  ship  pro­ distinction  of  recovering  the  Jupi­ directly  competing  with  US  ship­ they  attended  in  London  on  July  the  Greek union  not  to renew  con­ vides for a stop at  Manila  Initially,  ter  nose  cone  containing  the  two  ping followed  the return of  SIUNA  24  with  the  major  Greek  runaway  tracts covering  some 160  runaways  and  then  a  lengthy  stay  in  Indo­ President  Paul  Hall  and  NMU  operators,  which ­ had  been  re­ when  they  expire  in  September,  nesian  waters,  followed  by  calls at  President  Joseph  Curran  from  the  quested  by  the  Greek  shipowners  1959.  (See  adjoining  story  cm  the  other Southeast  Asia  ports.  The  group  handling  the  project  ITF sessions.  Hall and  Curran both  while  the  ITF  committee  was  in  London  meeting.)  is  known  as  the  People­to­Peopl*  made  it  plain  at  Geneva  that  session  at  Geneva.  With  the  en­ Plans  for  the  joint  organizing  American  sea  unions  would  not  dorsement  of  seamen's  unions  in  offensive  by  the  American  unions  Health  Foundation,  Inc.  allow  runaway  operators  to  use  all  the  major  maritime  nations.  are  expected  to  be  completed  the  Greek  seamen's  union  as  a  Hall,  Curran  wd  top  ITF  officials  shortly.  They  would  provide  for  a  coordinated  drive  on  all  runaway  shipping  in  American  trade,  pos­ WASHINGTON  —  A  proposal  sibly patterned after the  successful  long sought  by Seafarers  and other  ITF­sponsored  protest  demonstra­ American  seamen  which  would en­ tion  staged  here  last  December.  able  them  to  bring  a  certain  Some  160  runaways  were  af­ amount  of  souvenirs  home  duty­ free  has  been  embodied  in  a  bill  fected by  the  protest  action  in  20  submitted  in  the  House  of  Rep­ US  ports  over  a  four­day  period,  WASHINGTON—^It  looks now as  resentatives.  as  part  of  a  worldwide  maritime  if  the  farm  surplus  sales  program,  LONDON—^Efforts  by  major  shipowners  to  use  the  the  biggest  single  prop  to  Ameri­ Rep.  Hale  Boggs  (Dem.­La.)  in­ Greek  seamen's union  as a  protective screen  for  their  wide­ union  demonstration.  can  merchant  shipping  at  the  mo­ troduced  the  measure,  HR  8346,  At  a  press  conference  in  New  which  would  give  seamen  and  spread  runaway­flag  operations  were  repudiated  at  a  face­ York  this week  disclosing  the  pro­ ment,  will, be  continued  for  one  crews of  aircraft the  same personal  to­face  meeting here  last Fri­­ gram,  Hall  and  Curran  cited  the.  more year at  the same  level as last  A  $1.5  billion  authorization  day  with SIU,  NMU  and  ITF  and  licensed  men  were  also  pres­ exemptions  on  personal  goods  as  fact  that  NMU  and  SIU  organizers  year.  for  surplus  overseas  is  ex­ those  to  which  passengers  are  en­ representatives.  The meeting  ent.  already  in  the field  had  obtained  pected  to  be sales  passed,  following  the  With  the  endorsement  of  ITF  titled.  was arranged  at  the request  of  the  pledge  card authorizations for  bar­ At  present,  passengers  are  en­ operators.  affiliates in  all the  major maritime  gaining  purposes  from  large  num­ apparent defeat of  moves to broad­ titled  to  bring  home  up  to  $400  The Greek  shipowners asked  for  nations, the operators  were bluntly  bers of  seamen  of  all  naUonalities  en  the  program.  worth  of  merchandise,  duty­free,  the  meeting, here  to  gain  approval  advised  that  ITF  policy  was  clear  on  American­owned  runaway ships  One  such  move  would'  have  subject  to  some  limitations  as  to  by  the  <  International  Transport­ on  the  question  of  union  jurisdic­ operating  In  US  trade.  They  said  called for  direct  bartering of  some  contents.  But  crewmembers  of  workers  Federation,  with  which  tion  over  each  runaway  vessel.  that as soon as the detail  work was  $350 million  worth  of  farm surplus  American  ships do  not receive  any  both  SIU  and  NMU  are  affiliated,  This  was  based  on  the  American  completed,  the  necessary  organiz­ for  strategic  materials.  Another  would  have  set  up  various  "Food  such  exemptions  and  have  to  pay  for  an  arrangement  to  put  some  union  position,  adopted  by  all  ITF  ing  staff  and financial  support,  For  duty  on  all  items  brought  back  to  800  runaway  ships  under  the  jur­ affiliates,  that  the  true  ownership  would  plans  which  would  be  committed  for  a  full­ have  Peace"  involved  outright  gifts  of  the  States.  isdiction  of  the  Greek  seamen's  of  each  vessel—based  on  the  capi­ scale  drive.  In  the  past,  a  number  of  SIU  union and thereby  ward  off  organ­ t^ization^would  be  the  determin­ surplus  to  needy  nations.  Once  the  crews  are  ..signed  up,  A  third  program  called  for  •   ships'  crews have  raised  this  issue  izing  efforts  by  American  unions.  ing  factor  in  establishing  jurisdic­ the  question  of  appropriate  union  three­year extension of  the present  In  letters  to  various  members  of  Apparently  deeply  disturbed  by  tion.  (Continued  on  page' 15)  Congress,  but  proposals  to remedy  developments all  around them,  the  AceordiBfly,  regardleSB  of tiie  farm  surplus  sales,  on  the  current  the  situation  have  not  been  suc­ operators  asked  for  another  meet­ nationality  of  the  crew  or  of  the  basis  of  $1.5  billion  a  year.  At  cessful.  present.  Congress has  been renew­ ing  right  away  to  deal  with  their  • 'dammy"  owners,  runaways  fi­ ing' the  farm  surplus  sales  on  a  problems.  Due  to  the  prior  com­ nanced  predominantly  by  British  year­to­year  basis.  mitments  of  all  parties,  it  was fi­ nationals  or  Americans,  for  ex>  Under the surplus sales program,  nally agreed  to meet  again  in  Sep­ ample,  would  be  serviced  by  the  Ship's  delegates are  urged  to  surplus  farm  products  are  sold  at  July 31, 1959  Vol. XXI, No. 16  tember  or  October  to  explore  the  British unions or the  American un­ notify  the  Union  immediately  low  prices  lOr  local  currency,—in  ions,  whlchcTer  was tiie­ease.  situation further.  when  a  shipmate  is  taken  off  other  words,  the  currency  of  the  Among  tbose  at  the  meeting  Both  Hall  and  Curran  cited  the  the  vessel  in  any  port  because  from the operators' side were  Stav­ fact  that  the  Jurisdictional. line  of  Ulness  or  injuiY.  Delegates  country  receiving  the  surplus.  ros' Niarchos,  Manuel  Kulukundis,  was  clearly  established •   in  the  should not  wait  until  they send  Usually,  the  money  is  then  put­to  pAin.  HALU  Secr«tarv­Trean(r<r  work developing local industiy and  Bmnr  BBAMB.  Editor.  BeiNAas  SBA­ A.  Livanos  and  others  with  huge  case  of  American­owned  runaways  in the ship's minutes  but should  ATAH.  Art  editor,  HnMAB  AaiBca, IBWIR  runaway  ship  interests  all  over  operating  in  American  trade  and  handle the maffer  in a separate  agriculture;  For  practical  purr  SPIVACK.  At  HASKZN.  JOHN  BBAZIL,  DON­ poses,  the  surplus  amounts  to  a  ALB  BANASH.  stajr  Writer*,  Bnx  HOODY,  the world.  In addition  to Hall  and  competing directly  with American­ communication,  so  that  the  Un­ GuU  Area  ReyretentatfOB.  Curran,  the  ITF  delegation  in­ flag  shippings .  ^  said  they  ion can determine In­ what  man­ gift  to  the  receiving  nation.  Both dry cargo ships and tankers  EwWislMil  aiwMkiy  et  Vf  Imdquartan  cluded  ITF  Secretary  Omer  Becu  wouldn't  tolerate  action  "by  >Niar­ ner'it en zdd the  brother.  have  been  sharing  in  the  surplus  • f  MM  Saafarars  intaiyaH^aJ  *• ; and Lawrence White  of the ITF sec­ chos  or  anyone  else"  seeking  to  It  would  also  be  helpful  if  cargoes,  toirfic a 6ulf Ditfrid.  and  many  ships .  have  AvWHM  Brooklyn 12,  NY.  Tai.  HVaclnM  retariat;  Tom  Yates,  representing  kill of! Ame:^can­flag shipping and  the  full  name,  rating  and  book  MMt.  .  Socond  elai»  Bost^o  B*ld  British  unlicensed  seamen,  and  the  j Jbs  of  ilS  seamen.  transferred' back  to  US  registry  number  was  sent  in..  Address  • t  tiM Boat omco In BrMMyn, NY.  Doug  Tennant  for  the  British  li­ 'i1;ey  also  noted  that  the opera­ these  notifications  to  Welfare  from' tlie  Liberian flag  to  become  flW Act  O*  Aus  24.  Ifia.  eligible for the Anierican­flfligsbs^e  IW  censed  officers.  Officials  of  the  tors'  haste  to . sain  cohtrMtb  with  Services at headquarters.  • of such  cargoeiL  :  Greek  unions  for  both  unlicensed  (Contjmed  on  :  Map Joint US Organizing  Unit For Runaway Drive  BUI Would  Ease Duties  On Seamen  Farm Sales  To Continue  Through '60  Unions Veto Greek  'Escape Hatch'  Plan  k  Hfi­ ir  SEAFARERS  LOG  Notify Union  About Sick Men  �Jaly SI, 1959  Pace  Thre«  SEAFARERS  LOG  Another 8IU Ship On Seaway  Clear Site For New  Hall In N'Orleans  NEW ORLEANS—Preliminary  work on the site for a brand­new hall for Sea­ farers  has  gotten  underway  here,  with  actual construction due  to start  this falL  The new, modem facility, which will front on Jackson Avenue in the famed French  Quarter,  will  be  located"*^ are  in  process  of  revision.  The  of  the  French  Quarter.  It  Is  ex­ about  two  miles  from  the  hall  will  cover  an  estimated  area  pected  that  the  building  will  be  present  Union  Hall  on  of  110'  by  135',  plus  A  large  sur­ ready  late  next  year.  plot  to  allow  for  appro­ Bienville  Street.  'It  will  rounding  priate  landscaping  and  parking  provide  space  for  Welfare  space.  The  start  on  the  New  Orleans  Plan  functions  and  for  project  follows  by  only  a  few  Coeur  D'Alene  Yicfory  is  stiown  passing  through  Iriquois  Lock  on  St.  Lawrence  Seaway.  On  the  dock  to  handle  lines  if  necessary  is Seafarer  Juan Nieves,  AB.  Union  services.  weeks  the  launching  of  construc­ Demolition  of  the  existing  tion on  a  new hall  in Philadelphia,  structures  on  the  property  is  located  at  2602  South  Fourth  well  advanced,  but final  plans  on  Street.  the  proposed  two­story  building  All  of  the  constniction  is in  line  ICC In New Alaska Bid  WASHINGTON—Counterattacking against  the successes  of  the industry  and  the  mari­ time  unions,  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  is seeking  in  the  House of  Representa­ tives What it  has been denied  in the Senate—^namely, control  of  Alaska shipping.  The  Senate  bill,  which^  would  have  given  the  ICC  a  as  coastwise  and  intercoastal  ship  signed  to endow  the  railroads  with  foothold  in  the  offshore  ship­ operators.  The  unions  and  the  the  undisputed  right  to  eliminate  with  plans  for  improving  services  to  Seafarers  in  all  ports,  by  pro­ viding  modernized  quarters  for  both business  and recreational  pur­ poses,  as  well  as  eating  accommo­ dations  for  men  on  the  beach.  The  New  Orleans  building  has  the  tentative  street  address  of  630  Jackson  Avenue,  at  Chippewa  and  Phillip  Streets.  Preliminary  plans  call  for  the  building  to  include  such  accommodations  as  a  cafe­ teria, sea  chest, hiring  hall,  offices,  a  lounge,  TV  room  and  other  recreational  facilities  on  the  main  deck,  plus  additional  recreation  and meeting  space on the  top deck.  A  large  open  patio  would  be  situated  in  the  rear for  sunbathing  and  other  outdoor activities.  Located  just  two  blocks  from  the  Jackson  Avenue  ferry  landing,  the  proposed  building  here  will  have  a  modern  outer  facade,  with  present  exterior  plans  calling  for  an  outside  stairway  leading  to  the  top deck.  Unlike  the  building  in  New  York,  opened  in  1951,  and  the  Baltimore  hall  opened  in  1954,  which conform  to the  same general  pattern,  the  New  Orleans  exterior  design  is  entirely  different  and  is  in  keeping  with  the  architecture  ping  field,  had  been  pigeonholed  operators  had  charged  the  ICC  any  and  all  carrier  competition  by  after  vigorous  attack  by  the  SIU  vdth  being  in  collusion  with  the  any  means at  hand  without  regard  and  other  maritime  unions, as  well  railroads,  permitting  them  to  rig  to  the  end  effect  on  the  economy  rate  schedules  so  as  to  wreck  the  of  transportation  as  a  whole,  or  even  the  railroad  economy  itself.  domestic  shipping  industry.  New  hall  site  is  near  Jackson  It appears  that the  ICC has  placed  They  cited  numerous  Instances  a stamp  Ave.  ferry,  two  miles  from  of  approval on  this theory,  in  which the  railroads, with  the ap­ since  the  rate  war  continues  in  Bienville St.  proval  of  ICC,  manipulated  long­ full  force."  haul  and  short­haul  rates  to  the  In  a  related  development,  the  detriment  of  shipping,  and  In  ICC announced  it was  appealing to  many  instances  charged  below­cost  the  Supreme  Court  a  US  court  rates  to drive  shipping out  of  busi­ ruling  enjoining  it  from  putting  ness and  monopolize  the traffic.  into effect  railroad rate  cuts on the  WASHINGTON—Another  boost  for  shipping  via  the  Seaway  has  Despite  the  setback  in  the  Sen­ carriage  of  sulphur  over  the  ob­ been  given  by  the  US  Agriculture  ate,  ICC  Chairman  Kenneth  H.  jections  of  *a  shipping  company.  Department,  which  has  announced  Tuggle  has  appeared  before a  sub­ The  company.  Marine  Transport  that  farm  surplus  grain  cargoes  committee of  the House  Committee  Lines,  had  charged  that  the  ICC  will  be  permitted  to  move  from  on  Interstate  and  Foreign  Com­ had  refused  to  consider  the  evi­ Canadian ports on the  St. Lawrence  merce  in  support  of  HR  6244,  dence  it  submitted  against  the  which  calls for turning over  Alaska  rate­cutting  move.  The  court  Seaway  because  of  cheaper  costs.  shipping  to  the  ICC.  had  upheld  the  shipping  company.  That  means  that,  both  foreign­ Crewmembers of  the SS Atlantis  On  behalf  of  the  maritime  un­ flag  and  American tramp operators,  ions,  the  SIU's  Washington  office  have received  congratulations  both  who  have  been  active  In  the  farm  has  inserted  into  the  record  the  from  the US Public  Health Servic®  • urplus trade, will  be bringing  their  statement  by  SIUNA  President  and  the  company  for  the  excellent  score  they  achieved  in  the  ship's  ships  into  Great  Lakes  American  Paul  Hall  attacking  the  ICC  as  sanitation  inspection.  The  Ameri­ and  Canadian  ports  to  pick  up  the  enemy  of  coastwise  and  inter­ can  Banner  Lines  passenger  liner  grain cargoes.  coastal  shipping.  Hall's  statement  achieved  the  unusually  high  rat­ The  proposal  has  upset  East  cited  the  tremendous  decline  in  ing  of  95  in  the  inspection  for  th®  Coast  port  interests  considerably,  domestic  shipping  since  the  ICC  Over  150  SlU­contraded  ships  have  already  been  visited  1958  calendar  year.  since  Baltimore,  Philadelphia  and  first  assumed  jurisdiction  over  it  other  cities  normally  handling  the  in  1940,  and  also  gave  numerous  by field  representatives of  the  Atlantic and  Gulf  Companies  In  a  letter  to  the  company,  th®  grain  movement  fear  heavy  loss^  instances of  ICC favoritism  toward  Food  Program  under  the  new  set­up  covering  all  SlU­con­ Public  Health  Service  congratu­ lated  it  and  the  crew  for  "main­ ^  of  business  to  the  Seaway  route.  railroads  and  rate  manipulation.  tracted  companies.  The  six 4  taining  a  high  degree  of  sanitary  Meanwhile,  Seaway ships  ran  in­ He  pointed  to  the  well­known  field  representatives,  all  of  with  several  companies  called  for  excellence  on  board  your  vessel  to  another  traffic  jam  at  the  Wel­ fact  that  most  ICC  commissioners  steaks  and  chops  to  be  cooked  to  land  Canal  where  some  30  ships  are  traditionally  railroad  men,  them  SIU  chief  stewards,  order,  roasts  to  be  carved  to  order  during  the  year  1958.  are  waiting  to  proceed  northward  coming  out  of  that  industry  and  have  been  hitting  ships  here  In  and  individual  servings  of  butter,  "The  achievement  of  the  Amer­ from  Lake  "Erie  to  Lake  Ontario.  then  going  back  to  plush  railroad  New  York,  in  Baltimore,  Mobile  side  dishes  of  vegetables  and  the  ican  Banner  Lines  in  earning  a  Public  Health  Service  Certificate  and  New  Orleans.  The  jam  has  developed  as iron  ore  jobs  after  leaving  the  agency.  like.  of  Sanitation  on  its  vessel  in  op­ On  the  ships  they  are  assisting  boats running to Hamilton, Ontario,  Subsequently,  Tuggle  submitted  The  companies  participating  in  rushed  huge  supplies  of  ore  to  a written  reply to the Senate  deny­ shipboard  stewards  in  strengthen­ the  program  initially  hired  their  eration  attests  clearly  to your  con­ Canadian steel, mills because  of  the  ing  charges  made  by  Hall.  He  in­ ing  their  inventory  systems,  im­ own  consultant  stewards  to  im­ cern  for  the  health  and  safety  of  your  passengers  and  employees  proving  menu  planning  and  the  strike  on  the  American  side.  sisted  that, the  ICC  is  not  a  "pro­ quality  of  shipboard  food  prepara­ prove  feeding  on  the  ships  and  . . . The  inspection rating  of  85 . ..  Coal  ship  operators  are  com­ motional  body"  which  is  "railroad  met  with  a  good  deal  of  success.  is  a  signal  achievement.  plaining  that  the  ore  boats are  get­ mlKded"  but  claimed  that  it  is  an  tion  and  service.  Consequently,  the  program  is  now  "The  Surgeon  General  and  all  The  new  program  is  being  oper­ ting  preference,  with  coal  ships  impartial  agency.  He  blamed  the  ated  by  SlU­contracted  companies  being  extended  to  all  SIU  com­ my  associates  also  join  me  in  forced  to  wait  three  and  four  days  woes of  coastwise shipping  on high  in cooperation  with  the  Union, and  panies on  a  standardized  basis.  acknowledging  and  commending  before  getting  into  the  Welland  cargo­handling  costs.  is financed  by  a  five­cent  an  hour  Heading  up  the  food  program  is  the  excelient  cooperation  which  Canal.  Last  year  ships  were  pass­ The  charge  by  the  unions  that  daily contribution to a central fund.  Seafarer  Cliff  Wilson,  while  work­ the  officers  and  employees  of  th®  ing  through  the  Welland  In  nine  the  ICC  is acting  in collusion  with  The  daily  contribution  was  nego­ ing  under  him  as  field  consultants  American  Banner  Lines  have  ex­ hours,  but  this yekr  it  is taking  58  the  railroads  was  substantiated  by  tiated  by  the  Union  during  last  in  the  various  ports  are  Seafarers  tended  to  the  personnel  of  our  hours  for  the  average  ship  to "get  an  unnamed  official  of  the  Anti­ August's  contract  negotiations.  Bob  Principe,  Pete  Loleas  and  vessel  sanitation  program."  through.  Trust  Division  of  the  Justice  De­ The  industry­wide  food  program  William  Jenkins  in  New  York;  Ed  In  passing  the  letter  on  to  the  Even  with the  delays and hazards  partment,  who  characterized  the  is an  outgrowth of  the SIU feeding  Smith  in  Baltimore; Phil  O'Connor  Union,  William  Augustinus,  the  of  the  Seaway  passage,  it  is  still  ICC  as  "so  wrapped  pp  with  the  plan  which  got  underway  initially  in  New  Orleans  and  Phil  Reyes  in  company's  general  manager,  noted  cheaper  to  ship  from  the  Middle  Association  of  American  Railroads  in 1954. The  Union at  that time  set  Mobile.  that the high rating could  not have  West  to  Europe  Via  the  Seaway  its  terrible."  out to  replace  boarding­house fam­ Trustees  of  the  Atlantic  and  been  achieved  without  every  matt  than to  ship  cargo overland  by rail  Also  in  opposition  at  the  House  ily­style  feeding  practices  on  the  Gulf  Food  Program,  representing  on  the  ship  "from  the  captain  or  truck  to  the  East  Coast  and  hearing  was  the  SlU­contracted  ships  by  a  "to­order"  feeding  sys­ major  steamship  companies,  are:  down  to  the  galley  utility  man  dor  transship from  there.  Fan­Atlantic  Steamship  Company.  tem  such  as  is  practiced  in  good  Roland Chapdelaine, Seatrain; Cap­ ing his  share.  The  Pan­Atlantic  spokesman  cited  shoreside  restaurants.  tain  Milton  Williams,  Bull  Line;  "The  responsibility  for  a  clean  innumerable  examples  of  the  rail­ The  program  was  set  up  on  the  Randolph  Schilling,  Alcoa;  Charles  and healthy  ship rests particularly,  road  rate  war  on  shipping  declar­ ground  that  the  mass  cookery  arid  Logan,  Mississippi  Shipping;  Max  on  board  our  vessel,  on  members  ing,  "The  rail  carriers  appear  to  • mass service  practices were  usually  Harrison,  Waterman;  William  of  your  union  and  we  therefore  be  justifying  their  actions  under  wasteful  and  resulted  in  poor­ Augustinas, American Banner Line;  felt  that  the  contents  of  the  at­ the  guise  that  the  Transportation  quality  feeding  to  the  bargain.  and  Captain  Bruno  Spokas,  Isth­ tached  letter  would  be  to  your  Act  p| 1958  is  an  Instrument  de­ The  individual  system  set  up  mian.  particular  interest."  US  Surplus  Grain  Goes  Via Seaway  150  SIU  Ships  Get  Food  Program  Aid  to  •  M­uf.  '4  Banner Line  Crew Gets  PHS Praise  ­Mr''­'  �raceFMT  • '  S'f­'  SC.4J^1I£JES  LOG  iwiT th Mil  M­­ WW^@'  SEAFARERS  ROTARY SRIPPINC  HOARD  July 8 Through July  21, 1959  SIU shipping fell off  slightly last period  but no change  was  Philadelphia  had  been  relatively  slow  pending  the  end  of  the  long­ felt by the two top seniority groups.  Both class A and class B  shore  beef  at  the  sugar  docks  and  all  the  Gulf  ports  bounced  back  to  job activity  showed no  change; class  C shipping  dropped  off,  a  more  normal  level  of  shipping  at  the  same  time.  At  the  other  end  however.  The  job total  of  1,156 stayed  ahead  of  the two­week  registra­ tion  of  1,106,  as  registration  also fell  off  a  bit.  The result  was  no  real  change  in  the  number  of  men  registered  on  the  beach  at  the  end  of  the  period.  Despite  the  small  decline,  shipping  in  the  engine  department  in­ creased  over  the  previous, report.  Actually,  steward  department  ship­ ping  was  the  only  area  of  fall­off.  In  the  same  way,  the  number  of  class  A  engine registrants  and  class B  deck  men  rose  a  little,  while  all  the  rest  declined.  A  total  of  220  ships  were  handled  by  ill  ports,  covering  49  payoffs,  36  sign­ons  and  135  in­transits.  The  payoff  column  was  the  only  one  showing  a  drop.  New  York  accounted  for  39  ships.  New  Orleans  for  34  and  Houston  for  31.  There  were  no  sign­ons  in  Boston,  Savannah,  Wilmington and  Seattle, and  only one  each in  Philadelphia and Tampa.  (See  "Ship  Activity" summary  at  right.)  Six ports listed  improved  shipping since  the last  report, among  them  Philadelphia,  Norfolk,  Tampa,  Mobile,  New  Orleans  and  Houston.  of  the  scale,  all  the  West  Coast  ports  fell  off  par,  and  Boston,  New  York,  Baltimore  and Savannah  and  Lake Charles all  dropped  off  a  bit.  New  York  still handled  almost  360  jobs  and  Baltimore  was  more  than  busy  with  half  that  number.  The  seniority figures show  class  A  accounting  for  64  p.ercent  of  the  jobs  shipped,  class  B  for  22  percent  and  class  C  for  the  remainder.  The  only  real  drop,  as  expected,  was  for  class  C.  Boston,  Savannah,  Tampa .and  Lake  Charles  shipped  no  "C"  men  at  alL  Eight  ports  listed 100  men  or  less on hand in all  departments at  the  end  of  the  period,  including  Boston,  Philadelphia,  Norfolk,  Savannah,  Tampa,  Lake  Charles,  Wilmington  and  Seattle.  All  of  these  except  the first  two and  Seattle also had  fewer  than  50 class  A  men  on  hand.  The  following  is  the  outlook  port  by  port:  Boston: No change . .. New York: Still  busy . .. Philadelphia: Active  again  .  . .  Baltimore: Busy except for  ore boats  due  to steel  strike . . .  Norfolk: Fair  . . . Savannah, Tampa:  Quiet . .  .  Mobile:  Good . . . New  Orleans:  Good  . . . Lake  Charles:  Slow . . . Houston: Good  . . . West  Coast: Fair.  Ship  AclfVffy  rey  Sign  In  Offs  Ons  Trans. TOTAL  lost on  2  —  3  .  s  Now York  IS  A  II  39  miodolpUa..  1  1  1  3  Mltinoro  ... 10  '  A  II  27  ­ Norfok  .....«  3  3  A  12  Savannah .... —  • »  10  10  Tampa  I  Mobiio......  A  1  S  Now Orloant..  A  A  Lako Ckarios..  2  2  Hooiten  ....  1  3  Wilmington  ,. —  —  Son Fronctico..  1  3  Soottlo  1  —  Totals  49  '  A  7  22  9  27  S  S  s  3A  13S  •   10  34  13  31  S  9  A  220  DECK  DEPARTMENT  Registefd  rorw  Boston  wv_  ­ n_  New  York  Philadelphia  ffefflstarMf  CLASS  A  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  6  8  1  15  24  47  17  80  2  10  2  14  12  29  7  48  2  7  2  11  2  3  —  5  3  2  —  5  9  7  5  21  18  22  10  50  1  4  —  5  37  12  17  8  3  5  3  11  5  9  14  6  7  2  15  105  177  57  1  330  Baltimore  Norfolk  Savannah  Tampa  Mobile  New  Orleans  Lake Charles  Houston  Wilmington  San  Francisco..  Seattle  JOT^S  CLASS  B  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  —  1  2  3  —  8  IS  23  —  1  3  4  —  4  10  14  —  3  1  4  —  .  1  1  2  —  1  —  1  —  r3  2  5  2  5  1  8  —  —  —  —  —  4  8  12  3  1  4  —  3  2  5  2  _3_ __5  —  1  30  "53"  90  Shipped  Shipped  Shipped  Registered C In  The  Beach  ­ TOTAL  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  CLASS  C  SHIPPED  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  CLASS  GROUP  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  1  B  C  Al.t.  1  2  3  ALL  A  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  2  2  2  6  1  1  8  1  7  8  i3  4  25  1  4  3  8  18  43  5  66  1  8  5  14  4  12  16  66  14  16  96  87  148  45  280  2  15  36  53  3  6  4  13  i  1  3  13  3  16  10  13  4  27  1  2  8  8  22  5  35  2  6  10  18  1  1  _  55  42  77  14  133  2  13  23  2  35  18  2  38  3  7  4  14  2  5  2  9  ­ 1  3  8  4  4  14  27  7  9  1  17  3  4  7  —  3  2  5  —  1  —  5  1  5  6  4  9  ­ 2  2  1  ,  1  '  4  5  _  2  3  5  A  5  10  6  6  1  13  ­ .  ­ 11  15  6  31  1  5  6  1  1  32  6  1  39  32  43  1  82  3  8  11  18  28  13  59  2  5  6  13  3  7  1  11 ,59  13  11  83  32  50  9.  11  2  1  3  ^  6  _  1  —  1  2  2l  —.  2  2  14  8  31  2  • Z  14  21  7  .  421  2  «  7  7  42  80  1  11  9  21  49  29  40  11  Q  «  1  1  A  4  1  4  a  17  2  1  1  4'  A  A  m  At  0  M. 4  X  •4  m  1  «  1  ­ 2  4  1  '  3  1  2  1  7  3  1  11  20  15  3  88  1  ,  4  2  7  5  6  2  _I3:  —  2  1  3  —  13  16  8  13  4  25  «  4  4  3  —  87  163  5i| 303i  8  37  40  85^  4  13  18  35 303  85  35  423 294  452  112  858  9  62  99  179  •  II  _  •  • MM  •  —  'i  CNCINE DEPARTMENT  %  Pert  Boston  New  York.  Philadelphia  Baltimore.  Norfolk  Savannah....!  Tampa ...............  Mobile  New  Orleans  Lake  Charles  Houston  Wilmington  San  Francisco. .  Seattle  TOTALS  Registered  CLASS  A  GROUP  12  3  ALL  7  —  2  9  15  52  7  74  —  6  —  6  40  8  26  6  2  9  2  13  —  6  —  6  1  1  —  —^  3  11  1  IS  5  29  3  37  4  4  1  9  3  21  3  27  3  3  3  9  —  11  2  13  9  2  11  —  46  194  30  1  270  Registered  CLASS  B  Shipped  CLASS  A  Shipped  CLASS  C  Shipped  CLASS  B  TOTAL  SHIPPED  Registered C In  The  Beach  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  CLASS  GROUP  GROUP  12  3  ALL  12  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  A  B  CALL  1  2  3  ALL  12  3  ALL  1  —  3  4  1  1  1  1  2 f i  1  2  '  .  3  1  10  1  12  •   1  2  2  4  13  12  29  8  44  6  58  3  6  7  16  58  16.  21  4  17  21  95  51  146  24  221  7  33  25  65  r  —  1  —  1  5  5  5  1  4  2  5  5  2  1  1  12  IS  4  19  1  2  8  —  9  S  14  1  29  7  37  2  7  I  4  6  12  8  37  12  8  57  13  70  14  • 7 10  2  8  21  1  6  —  7  —  3  1  5  10  9  1  10  —  4  3  2  4  5  19  3  7  1  11  2  3  4  9  _  __  —  —  1  —  _  4  1  —  3  1  4  4  1  11  1  13  —  —  1  1  3  __  2  2  3  3  2  M­i  5  3  6  1  10  2  1  8  —  2  1  3  3  17  9  1  29  29  1  3  1  53  34  8  44  1  4  1  6  6  12  4  —  6  7  13  6  31  4  11  2  11  5  67  41  —­ 4  7  18  41  11  18  70  IS  49  3  7  7  14  __  9  —  •  1  1  2  3  3  3  1  1  10  3  9  8  1  1  12  1  2  8  8  10  1  19  8  23  2  331  10  2  10  22  1  1  2  33  22  2  57  11  34  4  49  1  11  8  89  —  5  —  5  1  6  4  5  5  1  1  1  5  6  1  12  3  8  4  15  2  2  4  _  _  7  3  2  1  6  1  5  1  7  2  3  3  8  15  9  32  4  45  3  6  8  9  1  5  2  8  1  1  8  6  1  8  —  4  —  ­  4  1  15  1  4  1  13  1  14  —  8  3  4  9  59  45  113  33  182  35  250  18  34  45  97  3  26  30  59 250  97  59  1  406 122  454  63  639  21  75  78  174  MM  MM  MM  • M.  MM  ­MM  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM  M.  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM'  MM  MM  MM '  ,^M  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM  MM '  MM  STEWARD DEPARTMENT  Registered  CLASS  A  POff  Boston  New  York  Philadelphia  Baltimore  Norfolk  Mtf  >1  ,«  • Shipped  CLASS  A  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  8  ALL  __  —  1  2  3  1  1  31  61  2  9  21  1  19  22  12  37  4  21  —  —  1  1  —  —  2  2  4  8  1  3  8  7  19  34  1  1  9  11  10  26  2  14  5  2  3  10  2  3  3  8  2  1  1  4  3  1  2  6  1  1  1  1  2  —  1  —  1  2  —  3  3  ,3  6  3  5  —  8  13  —  7  7  3  2  17  22  11  2  24  37  —  —  13  13  14  3  28  45  1  —  1  2  —  —  —  7  2  2  11  1  10  11  10  3  11  24  2  1  1  4  1  —  1  2  2  2  4  —  6  10  2  3  5  1  4  3  10 ,  —  —  4  5  —  S  4  1  5  1  3  83  25  96  1  204  9  7  74  1  90 !  61  18  106  1  185  MM    • _  J  Savannah  Tampa  Mobile  New  Orleans  Lake  Charles...  Houston...... i  Wilmington  San  Francisco  Seattle  TOTALS  Registered  CLASS  B  „  MM  r­  •   Shipped  CLASS  B  Shipped  CLASS  C  TOTAL  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three  of  them  Seafarers  on  the  the  Valchem suffering heavy  dam­ ends  to  bring  on  to  It  and  then  cash  it  in  for  same maneuvers  if  the  same  situa­ Valchem.  Also  facing  hearing  age as the Santa Rosa's  bow plowed  home  as  souve­ American  money  nirs  for  my  fam­ tion faced  him  again.  He  declared,  charges  are  the  Santa  Rosa's  sec­ into  its  after  house  at  a  speed  of  either  in  the for­ ily,  If  I  come  "I faced the  choice  of  stopping  my  ond  mate,  who  was  watch  officer  21  knots.  eign  coimtry,  on  across  a  good  vessrf­and  relying  solely  upon  the  at  the  time,  accused  of  improper  ship,  or  when  I  buy  on  a  watch,  ability of  the  other  vessel  to  avoid  use  of  radar;  Captain  Louis  L.  get  back  to  the  or  blanket,  or  a  me or making full use  of  my speed  Murphy  of  the  Valchem,  charged  States.  Once  in  good  bottle  of  and  maneuverability  to  widen  the  with  failure  to  Instruct  his  ship's  a  while,  I  buy  cognac, I'll spend  second  mate  to  notify  him  in  the  passing  distance."  some  souvenirs,  my.  money  on  The  charges  against  Captain  event  restricted  visibility  condi­ that.  At  other  times,  I  merely  but  as  a  rule  I'd  Siwik  include  operating  his  vessel  tions  arose  or  other  vessels  were  hang  on  to  the  cash  and  trade  it  rather  have  at an  "immoderate speed"  in foggy  encountered;  and  Clyde  St.  Clair  American  dollars  in  later  for  American  dollars.  weather  and  failing  to  stop  his  Lupton,  second  mate  of  the  Val­ to  spend  In  the  States  than  any  ship,  as  called  for  in  the  rules  of  chem  who,  like  Captain  Siwik.  is  ^  ^  foreign  currency  to  spend  in  the  the road, when he heard fog signals  charged  with  navigating  at  "im­ Tony  Cospito,  bedroom  steward:  country  I'm  yisiting.  moderate  speed" in fog ariid  failure  Heavy  emphasis  on  welfare  and  forward  of  his  beam.  My  son,  my  nephew  and  several  is,  'X)  Captain  Siwik  is  one  of  forir  to  halt  his  ship  after  hearing  fog  pension  benefits  was  shown  in  the  others  in  my  Anthony  Aronica,  AB:  With  me,  ships'  officers  who  are  up  on  signals  forward  of  the  beam.  contract  settlement  obtained  by  family  are  coin  there's never  much left over,  may­ charges as a  result  of  the  collision  The  two  ships  collided  off  the  18,000 members of  the United  Rub­ Collectors  so  be  $5­10  or  so.  I  ber  Workers  Union  after  a  58­day  there's  no  ques­ give  this  to  the  strike  at  Firestone  Tire  and  Rub­ tion  about  what  girl  I've  been  ber.  Wage  increases  were  not  at  I  do  with  left  seeing  'in  the  issue,  since  they  are  covered  by  over  currency.  In  particular  port  separate  agreements  sulbjCct  to re­ fact,  if  the  left­ and  although  it  opening  this  summer.  The  settle­ o V e r  doesn't  isn't  much,  it  ment,  similar  to  one  reached  at  amount  to  $20­ helps.  In  the  B.  F.  Goodrich,  increased  the  for­ $30 I  know there  past,  I  used  to  are going  to be  some  disappointed  buy  things  and  CAMDEN,  NJ—^With  appropriate  fanfare  and  ceremonies,  mula  for figuring pension  benefits  by  one­third  as  well  as  providing  people  in  my  family,  so  I  always  bring  them  back  to the States, but it's  such a bother  Mrs. Mamie  Eisenhower launched  the first  nuclear merchant  supplemental  pay  to  workers  in­ with  Customs'that  it's  no  longer  ship,  the  NS  Savannah,  on  July  22.  Originally  intended  for  jured  on  the  job.  Maritime  Day,  May  22,  the^  worth  the  trouble.  launching  had  to  be  delayed  is around $41 million  and operating  Workers at the  US'Gypsum plant  costs  are  also  expected  to  be  far  in  Staten  Island,  NY,  voted  to  join  Sadak  Wala,  wiper:  What  I  two months.  usually  do  is  go  into  a  restaurant  The  Savannah's launching merely  ­more  than  those  of  a  conventional  the  International  Association  of  or  a  bar,  have  a  Machinists  by  a  resounding  262­70  Involved  putting  the  hull  in  the  ship  of  the  same  size.  good  meal  and  a  With  accommodations  for  a  pas­ margin.  'The  vote  result  followed  water.  Still  to  be  done  is  the  in­ few  drinks,  or  stallation  of  the  reactor  and  other  senger list  of  60,  plus  10,000  tons  an  intensive  anti­union  campaign,  maybe  go  out  to  of  cargo,  the  Savannah  will  be  unparalleled in the  New  York area,  (For details about  the NS Savan­ operated  in a  wide  variety  of  com­ according  to  an  lAM  official.  The  a show  and enjoy  nah,  see  feature  on  page  9l)  myself.  I  don't  mercial  services  by  States  Marine  .company  employed some  80  super­ like to bother ex­ Line  which  was  selected  by  the  visors  to  classify  and  report  on  preparatory  work  which  is  ex­ c hanging  the  Government  from  among  several  workers'  attitudes  and  to  supply  BALTIMORE—Port  Agent  Earl  money  back  into  pected  to  take  at  least  another  shipping  companies  for  that  pur­ the  company  periodically  with  Sheppard  reports  that  the  Union  American  cur=  year.  argiiments  designed  to  undermine  has been  quite  busy in  the organiz­ rency;  it's  Just  a  Since  the­  start  of  the  project,  pose.  ing  field,  signing  a  new  company  few  dollars  and  it  doesn't  pay.  I  the Savannah  has been  surrounded  While  the  Savannah  is  the first  tlie  union  appeal.  Efforts to  organ­ and  new  agreement  for  the  also  avoid  using  it  for  foreign  by  controversy,  with  critics  charg­ nuclear­powered  merchant  ship  ize  the  plant  in  the  past 4)y  other  MAWD. On  the deep­sea side,  ship­ products  since  I'd  rather  buy  in  ing  that  there  was  too  much  em­ most  authorities  are  agreed  that  unions  had  been  fruitless.  ping has been fair despite the Steel  the States.  phasis  on  the  propaganda  aspects  the  most  efficient  use  of  atom  XXX  strike  due  to  the  crewing  of  the  and not  enough stress  on construc­ power  would  be  in  a  tanker  or  a  The  Federal  Bureau  of  Labor  Valiant  Freedom  (Ocean  Tramp).  tion  of  a  practical,  workaday  mer­ bulk­carrier.  The  Maritime  Ad­ Statistics  revealed  of  the  twenty  At  the  present  time  the  following  chant  ship.  One  of  the  criticisms  ministration  and  several  private  US cities with a  population of  more  Shorthanded?  operators  have  studies  going  lead­ ships  are  in  port:  Shinnecock  Bay  100,000,  that  Detroit  led  with  If  a  crewmember  quits  while  voiced was  that no effort  was made  ing  to  the  construction  of  such  a  than  {Veritas);  Baltore  (Marven);  Beth­ the  highest  factory  wage,  $104.67,  to  develop  a  more  advanced  and  a  ship  is  in  port,  delegates  coaster  (Calmar),  and  The  Cabins  more  efficient  reactor  as  a  proto­ vessel.  Similarly, British and  Japa­ while  Providence  had  the  lowest  (Texas  City).  Thus  far  there  Is  no  are  asked  to  contact  the  hall  type  for  possible  future  merchant  nese  interests  are  both  reported  factory  wage,  $69.48.  New  York,  word  as  to  when  these  ships  will  immediately  for  a  replace­ ships.  to  be  designing  a  nuclear­powered  contrary  to popular  belief,  is not  a  ment.  Fast  action  on  their  part  crew  up.  tanker.  high  wage center  for factory  work­ Cruising  Costly  Paying off  during the  last report  will  keep  all  jobs  aboard  ship  ers,  ranking  next  to  last  in  wage  The  Savannah  is  admittedly  far  It  Is  estimated  that  by  1975,  period  were  the  Emilia,  Mae,  and  filled  at  all  times  and  elimi­ too  expensive  to  be  considered  a  there  will  be  300  naval  and  mer­ position  with  an  average  wage  of  Jean  (Bull);  Alcoa  Planter (Alcoa);  nate  the  chance  of  the  ship  true  prototype  vessel,  since  the  chant vessels  in operation  powered  $79.22.  Valiant  Hope  (Hope);  Baltore,  and  sailing  shorthanded.  total cost of  hull plus nuclear plant  by atomic energy.  XXX  Venore  (Marven);  and  Massmar  The  Organized  BuUdIng  and  (Calmar).  Signing  on  were  the  Factory  Service  Employes  Union  Welcoming Released Newfoundland Logger  Irenestar  (Traders);  Alcoa  Planter  Local 21  has been  barred from rec­ (Alcoa);  Chilore  and  Venore  (Mar­ ognition  by  the  New  York  State  .  yen);  Valiant  Hope  (Hope);  aind  Labor  Relations  Board  under  the  Massmar  (Cajmar),  '  board's  new  policy  of  denying  In­transits  were  the  John  B.  certification  to  "racket"  unions.  Waterman  (Waterman);  Alcoa  Pen­ The  principal  officers  of  Local  21  nant  and  Alcoa  Patriot  (Alcoa) ;  are  charged  with  signing  "sweet­ San tore  (Marven);  Steel  Appren­ heart"  contracts  with  landlords.  tice  and  Steel  Flyer  (Isthmian);  XXX  Robin Trent  (Robin), and  the Edith  The  Papermakers  and  Paper­ (BuU).  workers  Union  reports  1959  prom­ Seafarers  here  are  requested  to  ises  to be  a  record  year for  profits  be  patient  as  far  as  getting  busi­ and  productivity.  The  union  esti­ '  ness  done,  especially  welfare  mat­ mates  a  gain  of  about  21c  an  hour  ers, because of  a manpower  short­ over  the  length  of  two­year  pacts  age due to summer vacation. Eyery­ recently signed  with  the  industry's  .  thing  will  be  back  to  normal  in  a  giant,  the  International  Paper  Co.  week  or  so.  Sheppard  reminded  Another reason for optimism  is the  those  men  whose  clinic  cards  are  settlement  of  the  West  Coast's  expiring  during  the  coming  month  uniform  labor  agreement,  boost­ . to  get them renewed  now.  ing  minimum  rates  to  $2.12  an  For the  last two months shipping  hour.  ^  has  progressively  dropped  in  this  port.  Consequently,  Sheppard  ad­ XXX  Maine  has  passed  its first  mini­ vises  "A"  and."B"  men  to  take  Jobs  as  they  go  up  on . the  board.  mum  wage  law,  $1  an  hour  for  Those­men  who  wire  or  write  workers  in  intrastate  commeroe.  excuses  .  for  meeting  absence,  Excluded  from  the  bill  are  agri­ should  be sure  to Include  their de­ cultural  and  domestic  workers  and  partment and  number on  the rigfht  persons  in  service  trades  who  re­ hand corner of  the form requesting  Well­wishers  crowd  around  Earl  R.  Laing, member  of  the  International  Woodworkers  of  America,  ceive the  majority  of  their income  to be  excused. It  is most important  following his acquittal on murder charges.  Laing was  arrested  after  Canadian  Mounted  Police  at­ from  tips.  Establishments  with  'that  the  dispatcher  receive  this  tacked logger  picket line  as part  of  Newfoundland  premier's  drive  to  break  strike.  One  constable  three  or  fewer  employes  are  also  .^IdEbrmatiom  <  died in the fight which followed.  exempt.  Atom Merchantman's Hnll  Launched; SaHs In '60  Bait Holds  Up Despite  Steel Strike  �rare Six  SEAFARERS  LOG  Back  To The Caribbean  Yo»  Need  Blood • .  •  '• < j':/  Seafarers  who  made  jobs  on  the  missile  ships  display  their  ship­ ling cards at headquarters.  Replacements  joined ships  at end  of  our­month sign­on  period.  f .iit­ i­t­i  •  I­ With  the  squeeze  on  against  Libertys  and  T­2  tankers  in  view  of  the  construction  of  hundreds  of  more  modern  ves­ sels, shipowners are resorting  to a variety of  devices to mod­ ernize the older ships.  Most successful thus far has  by  the  US  Maritime  Administra­ been  the  practice  of  "jumbo­ tion  in  revamping  four  such  ves­ ­  :  ,  n  ­p..,..  y  ­  ­  >  1  Notify  the  nearest  SIU  port  agent,  giving  him  the following  information:  the  name  of  the patient, the hospital, the amount and type  of  blood needed, and whether  it is for replac­ ing  transfusions already  made  or  for  future  use.  Airlines In  Bidding For  Loan  Assist  Pick Up 'Shot'  Card At Payoff  •  ^  I  v  ''..ri I­ ­  y­"  '• 'tf­i ­.J­'  ' I*'­*"  V •   '•   i'' ?•   ^ v  V,.;  From  here on,  the  Union  takes  over.  ^Tie  port agent  transmits this information  via the  teletype  to  Welfare  Services  Department  at  headquarters.  •  X'.A'  <y­  _  .''A., y  '•  •  . •  •   •    i'  . " '.• !  "T;  • '  •   ..  ; • • • f.T­Tl'  Welfare  Services,  in  turn,  notifies  the  Brooklyn  Donor  Center  which  serves  as  the  depository  for  the  SIU  Blood* Bank.  Since  the center  has reciprocal  arrangements with  other  US  blood  banks,  it  can  get  immediate  ­withdrawals of blood from a local blood bank.  t  ­iJ  f.­U  •  •  ­^1  ­j'l  ­iw;  yJjiM ^''T  W 7..;  • ­ 4.  To  maintain  this  SIU  reserve,  Seafarers  passing  through  the  port  of  New  York  do­  nate  blood  at  the  SIU  clinic,  to  assist  Sea­ farers and their families  every where.  .  v  yssT  yw; ­  f  T''  ~  "s  'i'liFiyiff  n»  i  JMi'­.J  BLOOD BANK  \ t­:  ;/y­iy,; • '  Iffr,  All yoa have to do  Is call the Union  Operators Go For'Jumbo'  T­2 In Tankship Slump  Izing"  T­2  tankers  by  building  a  sels.  Several  foreign­flag  Libertys  new  center section  and inserting  it  have  had  new  diesel­powered  between the  split halves  of  the T­2  plants  installed  and  have  enlarged  so  as  to  increase  its  carrying  ca­ the  ships  as  well,  picking  up 1,500  pacity  considerably.  One  such  job  tons  deadweight  and  adding  a  was  done  recently on  the SlU­con­ knot  or  two  of  speed.  However,  tracted  tanker,  The  Cabins,  and  a  such changes  still do  not  make  the  number of  tanker  owners here  and  ship competitive  by a long  stretch,  abroad  have  gone  in  for  this  prac^  and  none  of  this  has  been  done  on  American­flag  ships.  tice.  The  "jumboizing"  adds  approxi­ mately  4,000  deadweight  tons  to  the T­2,  increasing its  carrying ca­ pacity  by  25  percent  and  enabling  it  To  compete  more  effectively.  Most  of  the  new  tankers  built  are  in  the  32,000­ton  class,* while  the  jumbo  T­2s  are  in  the  20,000­ton  vicinity.  Nevertheless,  the  low  cost  of  enlarging  a  tanker  as com­ WASHINGTON —The  Adminis­ pared  to  building  a  new  one  is  a  tration  is  expected to send  to  Con­ factor  in  the  decision  to  "jumbo­ gress soon  a  program  under  which  ize."  the  Federal  Government  would  Some  tankers  that  have  been  guarantee  $750  million  in  loans  to  enlarged  in  this  fashion  have  also  help airlines equip  themselves with  been  converted  somewhat  so  that  modern  cargo  aircraft.  they  are  more  suitable  for  dry  As  the  program  is  being  formu­ lated,  Uncle  Sam  would  guarantee  cargo  bulk  trades.  .  Liberty  ship  conversions  have  75  percent  of  the  purchase  price,  been  done  on  a  smaller  scale  and  with  the  airlines  making  a  25  per­ have  been  only  moderately  pop­ cent  down  payment.  ular, despite  the costly experiments  The  program  is  a  response  to  the  growing  need  in  US  civil  and  military  aviation  for  modern  cargo  capacity  of  a  kind  that  will  permit  lower  air  freight  costs  and  meet  the needs of  the Military Air Trans­ port  Service,  the  Defense  Depart­ Seafarers who  nave  taken  the  ment's  strategic  hauling  force.  series  of  inoculations  required  for  certain  foreign  voyages  are  MATS  employs  commercial  air  reminded  to  be  sure to  pick  up  lines  for  a  portion  of  its  hauling  their  inoculation cards  from  the  work,  and  wants  the  airlines  to  captain or  the purser  when  they  obtain  more  modern  cargo  craft.  The  loan  guarantees  would  be  pay  off  at  the  end  of  a  voyage.  similar  to  those  given  ship  opera­ ­The card  should  be  picked  up  tors  on  their  construction  mort­ by the Seafarer and  held  so that  gages.  it  can  be  presented  when  sign­ ing  on  for another voyage where  the  "shots"  are  required.  The  inoculation  card  is  your  only  proof  of  having  taken  the  re­ qu'red  shots.  Those  men  who forget  to  pick  up  their  inoculation  card  when  they  pay  oft  may find  that  they  are  required  to  take  all  the  "shots"  again  when  they  want  to sign  on  tor another  such  voy­ age.  ­Cf  S;'  '  �Y;X|di; SI, 1159  Tagit  Benm  SRAFARERS  L<^G  Getting Their Ciotifiitg Allowances  ¥011 DOLLAR'S  WORTH  Seafarer's Guide To Better Buying  By  Sidney  Margolltu  Tight Money Plagues Borrowers  "Tight  money" is  back,  and  you  have  to  protect  your  family  accord­ ingly,  "Tight  money" mbans  that  there's  a  shortage  of  lending  money  and  interest rates  are  rising.  But  the  effects  of  tight  money  are  dangerous,  both  to  broad  prob­ lems such as employment, and to specific problems, such, as whether you  can  buy  a. new  house  this  year  or  sell  your  old  one,  how  ihuch  your  monthly  payments  will  be  on  a  car  you  hope  to  buy,  and  what  your  taxes  will  be.  In  a  time  of  tight  money.  Federal,  state  and  local  governments,  boards  of  education  and  sewage  and  water  districts  all  must  pay  a  higher interest  rate for  the funds they borr.ow.  You pay  that  increased  cost  in  your  income  and  property  taxes  in  the  new  communities  that  need to  build schools  to keep up with  rising population.  But  the  most  dangerous  effect  of  tight  money  is  on  employment.  Remember  the  tight­money  period  of  1956,  when  the  Federal  Reserve  Board  boosted  interest  rates  in  an  unsuccessful  attempt  to  tame  in­ flation?  Then  tight money  forced many  consumers  to stop  buying and  Crewmembers  of  the  fishing  vessel  Jaclntha  collect $200 clothing  oHowonce after  their  ship  was lost,  businessmen  to  quit  building,  and. this  was  followed  by  the  recession  under  terms  of  the  New  Bedford  Fishermen's  Union  welfare  plan,  f­ianding  out  the  checks  is  the  of  1957­58.  plan's  administrator,  John  Patten.  Fishermen  recently  received  full  autonomy  as  SlU­affiliatecl  or­ Both  the  Administration  and such  large  banks as First  National  City  ganization.  Bank  of  New  York are  plugging  hard  for. higher interest  rates.  They  want  the  Government  to  pay  in­ vestors  more  interest  on  the. large  Government  bonds  they  buy.  One  obvious  effect' is to  raise  the  Gov­ ernment's  borrowing  costs,  and  MOBILE—A  proposed  additional  three  percent sales tax on all ship supplies and fuel now  ^  I ^  income  taxes  high.  But  in  a  \  '  creased  interest  rates  also  have  pending in  the Alabama  legislature will  have  a  crippling  effect  on  the  Mobile  shipping  in­ \\  tendency  to  inflate  all  living costs  dustry  if  passed,  Port  Agent  Cal  Tanner  reports.  Naturally,  if  the  Alabama  legislature  In  general,  tight  money  benefits  affirms  such  a  tax  increase,'*'  people who  have surplus  income,to  companies  now  storing  and  the  Federal  Maritime  Board  for  a  Sign­ons  included  the  Corsair,  invest,  but  forces  a  reduction  in  fueling  their  ships  in  Mobile  subsidy  on  this  run.  Cavalier,  and  Ranger  (Alcoa),  and  the  living standards  of  people  who  wlil  divert  their  business  to  an­ Tanner  also  reports  that  ship­ the Monarch  of  the Soas,  and Hast­ generally  need  to  borrow  to  other  port,  a  port  where  there  is  ping  for  the  last  couple  of  weeks  ings  (Waterman).  nance  the  costlier  equipment  for  no  tax.  v/as  fairly  good.  The  following  The  following  ships  were  In  living,  such  as  houses,  cars  and  It  is  estimated  such  a  move  ships  were  paid  off:  the  Corsair,  transit:  DeSoto,  Young  America  appliances.  would  deprive  the  merchants  of  Roamer,  Cavalier  and  Ranger  (Waterman);  Del  Monte  (Mississip­ Here is how  the new tight  money  this port  of  approximately $50 mil­ (Alcoa),  and  the  Monarch  of  the  pi);  Frances,  Elizabeth  (Bull);  and  trend  will  affect  you  in  specific  lion  yearly,  including  crews'  pay­ Seas  and  Claiborne  (Waterman).  Alcoa  Cavalier  (Alcoa).  departments  of  living  in  the  rolls  which  are  customarily  spent  months  immediately  ahead:  in  the  port.  Home  seekers  are  particularly  All  maritime  Interests  in  this  "  11'^,*  •   affected.  Mortgage  interest  rates  are?,  including shipowners,  the un­ •   ^1  nSv^  rising.  Particularly,  the  rate  ions  and  merchants,  have  banded  on  GI  mortgages, has  been  raised  together  to  defeat  this  harmful  to  5V4  percent  from  43/4.  This  Is  the  third  increase  in  GI  mortgages  piece of  legislation.  since  1953  when  the  rate  was  4  percent.  On  a  25­year  mortgage, the  In  the  Alabama  Drydock  two  new  boost  increases  the  payments  $2.91  a  month.  Thus, on  a  $12,000  standard  T­2s  are  in  the  process  DETROIT—Dissatisfaction  with  their  second­class  status  mortgage  a  home  buyer will  pay back  a  total  of  $21,574  instead  of  $20,  of  being  converted  into  ore  and  inside  the  giant  Steelworkers  Union  has  prompted  a  revolt  627  as  under  the  4%  rate.  If  you  take  a  30­year  mortgage  your  total  coal  carriers.  The  ships  are  being  on  the  part  of  seamen  manning  Great  Lakes  ore  fleets,  the  'jumboized"  by  adding  some  150  repayment will  be  even  greater.  >  In  shopping  for  a  mortgage,  note  that  the  new  GI  5V4  rate  is  still  feet  to  the  midsection,  allowing  SIU  Great  Lakes  District  re­­^  better than  the FHA  rate of  SV*  plus o.ne­half  of  one percent  insurance  for  the  storage  of  over  16,000  tons  ports.  As  a  result,  rebel  contrary,  had  signed  agreements  premium.  The  FHA  rate  is  better  than  a  straight  conventional  mort­ of  ore,  or some  12,000  tons  of  coal  groups  within  Steelworkers  with two non­union  steamship com­ gage at  5%, since  you may  get back  a small  part of  the one­half  of  one  and  other  bulk  products.  Both  Local  5,000,  the  shipping  arm  of  panies  just  as  the  SIU  was  about  percent  insurance  premium  when  the  mortgage  is  paid  up.  But  the  these  ships  will  operate  under  the  the  steel  union,  are  seeking  ties  to file petitions  for elections  in the  v/ith  the  Great  Lakes  District  as  fleets.  FHA  5V4  plus  one­half  of  one  percent  rate  is  not  as  good  as  a  con­ American flag.  their  bargaining  agent.  The  seamen  of  the  two  compa­ I  ventional  mortgage  at  5Vi  percent,  which  stili  may  be  available  to  Get  Salk  Shots  Fred  Farnen, secretary  treasurer  nies,  Pioneer  Steamship  and  Wil­ ho'me  buyers  in some  areas  except the  Far  West, Southwest  and South.  The  increase  in  reported  cases  Homeowners  are  affected  in  a  different  way.  Their  present  mort­ of  polio  in  the  state  of  Alabama  of  the  Lakes  District,  stated  that  scn Transit,  had signed  SIU pledge  gages,  at  lower  interest  rates  than  now  available,  add  value  to  their  has  resulted  in  a  warning  to  mer­ some  3,000 seamen  on  the  ships of  cards  but  lost,  their  freedom  of  several fleets,  including  Pittsburgh  choice  when  the  Steelworkers  present  homes.  chant  seamen,  particularly  those  Car  buyers  will  feel an  immediate  effect  from  higher  interest  rates.  under  forty  years  of  age  who have  Steamship  Company,  a  US  Steel  signed  contracts  with  the  employ­ The  three  leading  independent  finance  companies  have  increased  the  not  taken  their  vaccine  shots.  The  affiliate with  53 ore­carrying  ships,  ers  without  the  men's  knowledge  interest  rates  they  charge  dealers  to  finance  their  inventories.  Since  Salk  vaccine  shots  are  now  avail­ have  sought  affiliation  with  the  or  approval.  The  SIU  has filed  credit costs  are a  major expense  to an  auto  dealer, trade­in  allowances  able  free  of  charge  at  Public  District.  At the  heart of  the revolt,  charges  in  these  two  instances  he  reported,  is  their  desire  to  them  "outright  collusion"  and  discounts  will be  shortened accordingly.  Health  Service  facilities.  All  S^­ break  away  from  a  union  of  steel  calling  Borrowers  in  some  cities  where  banks  charge  less than  the  usual  12  fcrers are  strongly  advised  to take  mill  workers  and  join  ranks  with  between  Local  5,000  and  the  op­ erators.  percent  per  annum  (one  percent  a  month)  on  personal  loans,  will find  advantage of  this offer  to safeguard  a  seamen's  organization.  Notarized  affidavits  have  been  they  have  to  pay  higher  rates  this  year.  And  while  the  banks  will  their  health.  He  noted  that  as  members  of  collected  from  a  majority  of  the  still  make  lots  of  loans,  you  can  expect  them  to  ask  more  questions  Waterman  officials  informed  the  Local 5,000  these men  do  not  elect  seamen  in  these  two  companies  about  your  income  in  comparison  to  your  other  debts,  and  why  you  hall  that  the  Afoundria  is  going  their  own  officers,  or  negotiate  want  to  borrow.  In  general,  it's  best.to  avoid  borrowing  in  a  period  through  the  St.  Lawrence  Seaway.  their own  contracts.  As a  result  of  attesting  to  the  fact  that  they  did  authorize  the  Steelworkers  to  of  tight  money  except  for  critical  needs.  Credit  unions  will  continue  This  makes  the  second  C­2  for  the  revolt,  Farnen  reported  the  not  to hold their interest rates to present levels since  they are  controlled by  Waterman  to  make  the  trip.  The  Lakes District  has received author­ bargain  in  their  behalf.  Reviewing  the  incidents  leading  their  members.  Hurricane  had  previously  made  a  izations from a majority  of  the sea­ up  to  the  present  beef,  Farnen  Here  are  suggestions  on  August  buying  opportunities  to  help  you  Seaway  voyage.  Waterman  now  men  in  the  Pittsburgh  Steamship  reported  that  the  oreboat  crew­ protect  your family's  living standards from  present  high  costs:  has  an  application  pending  with  fleet  calling  for  SIU  representa­ members  "were  denied  the  right  The  most  important  August  sales  are  furniture  and  rugs.  Other  tion.  A  petition  for  a  National  to  negotiate  their  own  contract.  reduced­price  sales  and  clearances  this  month  include  curtains  and  Labor Relations  Board election  has  Then  they  undertook  a  'wildcat'  drapes;  paint,  brushes,  wallpaper  and  hardware;  lawn  tools  and  out­ Quitting Ship?  been filed  by  the  Union.  strike.  Crewmen  walked  off  their  door  furniture;  sports  and  camping  equipment;  cameras,  and  the  What  touched  off  the  uprising  ships  and  paid  their  own  expenses  Notify Union  August  coat  sales  which  offer  cut  prices  in  advance  of  the  autumn  was  the  action  of  steelworkers'  to their homes all over the country.  A  feininder  from  SIU  head­ leaders  season.  in  forcing  the  men  back  Three days  later  they  were  forced  There are  still some  clearances of  summer clothing  and it's  advisable  quarters  cautions  all  Seafarers  on  their  ships  following  a  sponta­ back  by  Steelworkers' officials  . .  .  leaving  their  ships  to  contact  to "shop  them.  Shoe  prices  especially  are  risiing.  They  were  boosted  neous  walkout  two  weeks  before  Then  10  days  later they  were  laid  once  already  this  year  and  a  new  increase  is  threatened  by , manu­ the  hall  in  ample  time  to  allow  the  nationwide  steel  strike  got  oil  and  again  had to pay  their own  the  Union  to dispatch  a  repln.­:­ facturers.  underway.  way  home,  still  without  any  nego­ But food prices  are the real problem  this summer.  For wage earners,  ineni.  Failure to give notice  be­ Farnen  emphasized  that  the  tiations  in  their  behalf."  this is  a  meatless boom.  Even poultry and eggs,  which have; been loW­ fore  paying off  may  cause a  de­ Lakes  District  would  hot  seek  to  Companies  involved,  aside  from  layed  sailing,  force  the  ship  to  priced  life­savers  this  year,  are  getting  a  little  mere  costly  but  still  sail  short  of  the  manning  re­ represent  any  group  of  oreboat  Pittsburgh  Steamship,  are  Beth­ offer relatively good  value.:  ^  ­ quirements and  needlessly make  seamen  until  such  time  as  they  lehem,  Inland  Steel,  *  Buckeye,  Meat,  especially  pork,  will  be  in  heavier supply  this fall and  prices  the  work  tougher for  your ship­ indicated by  secret ballot  vote that  American  Steel &  'Wire,  Ore  Navi­ will recede.  Meanwhile,  turkeys  are  a  good  buy,  especially  the larger  • ^ates.  they  wanted  SIU  representation.  gation,  Republic,  International  ' I­  ones  which give  you more actual  meat per  pound.  He  noted  that  Local  5,000,  on  the  Harvester and  Shenango.  ; 'I  Mobile Fights Tax  On  Ship Supplies  Oreship Crews  Seek  Tie With Lakes SlU  1)  .  ill  • I  i  m  '• * I  �Pace  Eicht  July SI, lUt  SEAFARERS  LOG  !)•   NV  Training School Still Penn Explorm Runs Agrbundi  Has Near­Perfect Record  NEW  YORK—As was  reported earlier  in the SEAFARERS  LOG,  the feeding  program  is now in fuH, operation, covering  all SlU­contracted vessels. Bill Hall, assistant secretary­treas­ urer,  reported.  In  order  to^  make  sure  that all, of  the  ves­ self,  he  should  check  at  the  dis­ sels  maintain  the  program's  patcher's  office  for  all  of  the  par­ standards,  a  member  of  the  Stew­ ticulars.  The  passing  rate  of  all  ards  Food  Committee  has  been  graduates  thus  far  has  been  near­ servicing  every  vessel  hitting  the  perfect.  port  and  has  been  checking  over  Shipping for the  past  period  has  the stores with  the vessel's steward.  been  very  good,  keeping  in  stride  However,  this  type  of  program  with  registration  for  the  same  pe­ caljs for  the  full cooperation  of  all  riod.  A  total  of  294  men  were  the  crews  aboard  SIU  ships,  Hall  shipped  to  permanent  berths  dur­ said,  and  if  at  any  time  a  vessel  ing  the  last  two  weeks,  93  in  the  finds  itself  shoi­t  on  stores,  it  is up  deck  department,  95  in  the  engine  to  the  delegate  or  the  steward  to  and  103  in  the  galley  gang.  Although 'the  totals  for  the  past  notify  headquarters immediately so  that necessary  action may  be taken.  period  were  under  those  for  the  previous  two  weeks.  Hall  said,  a  Sixteen  New  Trainees  Penn  Explorer  looks  like  it's  cruising  serenely,  but  actuajly  it's  stuck  in  mud  bonk  outside  of  Norfolk  Also  meeting  with  much  success  large  percentage  of  these­jobs  are  after setting  soil with a load  of  coal.  Ship had to go into yard  for repairs.  Is  the  SIU's  lifeboat,  AB  and  FWT  still  being  taken  by  class  C  cards.  In order to maintain  their seniority,  school.  Sixteen  new  trainees  NORFOLK — Headed for!  started  the  two­week  upgrading  class  A and  B  men  should  see  that  Europe  with a  load of  coal on  course  last  week  as all  members  of  all of  the  jobs  put  on  the  shipping  July 20, the SlU­manned Penn  the  previous  class  successfully  board  are  filled  as  soon  as  pos­ Explorer  had  its  voyage  suddenly  passed  their  tests.  The  next  class  sible.  There  were  39  vessels  calling  terminated  when  it  ran  aground  will  start  .sometime  next  week  and  into the  area  over  the  past  period.  off  Cape  Henry  just five  hours  if  any member  is interested  in  tak­ Of  these,  15  paid  off,  six  signed  after  leaving  the­pier.  As a  result,  ing  the  course  and  upgrading  him­ on  and  the  remaining  18  were  in"  the ship  is now  in the  shipyard and  LONDON—The  British  Hovercraft,  a  land­sea  vessel  pro­ the coal  is back  on the  Norfolk and  transit.  palled by air jets around  the rim, has made a successful cross­ Western  RR  dock.  Fifteen­ Payoffs  The­ following  were  the  vessels  The  grounding  occurred  about  ing of  the English Channel in  two hours, three  minutes.  The  paying  off  in  this  port:  Beatrice  9:30  AM  in  22  feet  of  water,  with  average  speed  of  the  vessel^  (Bull); Royal Oak, CS Miami  (Cities  the  ship  apparently  running  was around  12 miles an  hour.  there  is  no  water  resistance  in­ Service);  Atlantic  (American  Ban­ aground  on  a.mud­flat.  Efforts  to  It was the first test of  the ves­ volved.  ner);  Pacific  Explorer  (Compass);  refloat  the'  vessel  on  high,  tide  sel's  ability­  outside  of  harbor  Aside  from  the  high  speeds  of  Raphael  Semmes,  Fairland,  Beau­ under  her  own  power  were  un­ waters.  the "air­cushion" ships,  they  would  SAN FRANCISCO—Shipping has  successful.  Two  Curtis  Bay  tugs  regard,  Azalea  City  (Pan­Atlantic);  have  the  added  advantage  of  being  As  reported  previously  in  the  been  fair  for  the  last  period  with  had  to  be  called  to pull  her off  the  LOG,  the  Hovercraft  Is  a  proto­ able to  ride  over any  kind  of  water  "A"  and  "B"  men  not  taking  jobs.  Afoundria  (Waterman);  Steel  Ap­ next  morning.  The  coming  period figures  to  be  prentice,  Steel  Flyer  (Isthmian);  The  ship  went back  into the  har­ type  of  an  entirely­new  kind  of  or  land  surface—begs,  swamps,  Seatrain New  Jersey (Seatrain)  and  ship  propulsion.  The  vessel  never  rough  terrain,  sandbanks,  and  very  good  with  three  payoffs  in  the  Atlantis  (Petrol  Shipping).  bor,  unloaded  her  coal  and  headed  actually  touches  the  water  but  shallow  mud  flats.  sight.  Signing  on  were  the  Afoundria  for  the  shipyard  for  inspection  of  The  existing  Hovercraft  looks  The  only  ship  to be  paid  off  was  (Waterman);  Atlantic  (American  possible  hull  damage.  Seafarers  skims  over  it on  a  cushion  of  trap­ Maiden  Creek  (Waterman).  The  Banner);  Steel  Apprentice.  Steel  aboard,  who  thought  they  were  ped  air  blown  out  of  jets  which  like  an  oversized  disc  with  a  two­ seat'cabin.  Larger  vessels,  such  as  following  ships  were  signed  on:  Navigator (Isthmian); Ocean Evelyn  headed  for  Europe,  had  them­ rim  the  hull.  City  of  Alma  (Waterman),  John  B.  (Ocean  Trans)  and  the  Atlantis  selves  only  a  brief  ferry­ride  in  The  existing  experimental  craft,  the  100  ton  ship,  would  be  capable  admittedly  a  primitive  model,  is  of  carrying  300  passengers  and  Kulukundis  (Martis),  Producer  (Petrol  Shipping).  Chesapeake  Bay.  powered  by  a  435  horsepower  baggage.  (Marine  Carriers).  In ­ transits  In  transit  were  the  Seatrain  engine  and  has  operated  at  speeds  Here  in  the  US,  the  Curtiss­ were:  Pennmar,  Kenmar,  Alamar  Savannah,  Louisiana,  Texas,  New  of  up to  30 knots.  It  is a  small  ves­ Wright  Corporation  has  announced  (Calmar);  Warrior  (Waterman);  York,  Georgia  (Seatrain);  Alcoa  sel,  30  by  24 feet.  Steel  Scientist  (Isthmian).  There  Polaris,  Alcoa  Pilgrim,  Alcoa  Part­ that  it  is  going  to  build  a  four­ Commercial ships are  planned  in  passenger  "air­car"  similar  in  were  no  beefs  of  consequence  on  ner,  Alcoa  Planter,  Alcoa  Puri­ the future,  with  the first one  being  principle  to  the  British  craft.  "The  any  of  these  ships.  tan  (Alcoa);  Gateway  City  (Pan­ a  small craft  in the  40­ton  vicinity,  300­horsepower  vehicle  will,  like  Port  Agent  Marty  Breithoff  said  Atlantic);  Antinous  (Waterman);  about  ten  times  the  weight  oLthe  the  British  craft,  travel  over  both  he hoped  that  with  shipping due  to  Wang  Juror  (Denton);  Steel  Ap­ prototype.  More  remote  probabili­ land  and  water  and  be  able  to  pick  up more  Seafarers  would  take  prentice  (Isthmian)  and  the  Jean  ties are  ships of  100  tons traveling  cross  rivers  and  swamps  without  the jobs  and keep  the ships proper­ (Bull)  and  the  Mermaid  (Metro­ at speeds of  up to 90 knots, because  benefit  of  roadways.  ly  manned.  Petro).  Air­Jef  Boat  Makes  First  Sea Voyage  SF Predicts  Good Shipping  Watch That Ultra­Violet!  ifc.  Ii>:  1'^  ''  [$  i­ 1^  I?"  '  LK  ^ good sun  fan is  conidered  the  sign of  the  outdoor  man  end  there  is  no  better  place to get one  than on the  deck^of  a ship  in the summertime—that is,  if you  take it in  small  doses.  . If you feel  like stripping  down  for  a ton,  the  recommended  procedure  is  to  start  with  15  minutes'  toasting  the  first  day  and  lengthen  it  gradually  until  the  skin  turns  brown.  Failure to heed these cornmon sense rules  can result In  a nasty  burn  that, at  the very  least, will  mean  several  days  of  acute  dis­ comfort.  Go, out  in  the  sun  if  you  wont,  but protect yourself  against  over­exposure.  'i/  •   /I  "  '  {.  '  fex •  ­''M­ �»M]r Xli IfSfl  SEAFARERS  LOG  Pace NIM  NS SAVANNAH:  Uranium­Fired  Ship  Launched last week at .the Camden,  NJ, yards  of  the New  York  Shipbuilding Corporation,  the  NS  Savannah  is  due  to  enter  service  sometime  next  summer  as  the first  nuclear­ powared  merchant  ship.  Ad­"*—  —  mittedly  an  experimental  containment  vessel  consists  of  the  ship, the  Savannah's objective  reactor itself  with its uranium  fuel,  Is  threefbld: to  advertise  US devel­ and  sections  of  the  high  pressure  opments  In  the  peaceful  applica­ v/ater lines  which  pass through  the  tions  of  atomic  energy,, to serve  as  reactor  core  and  pick  up  radiation  a  testing ground  for  practical com­ upon  being  heated  by  the  uranium  luercial  use  of  atomic  energy  and  chain  reaction.  Consequently  this  to  train  civilian  marine  engineers  inside  "envelope"  has  a  radiation  and  other seamen  in the  operations  shield  to  keep  radiation  within  bounds.  of  atom­powered  ships.  The  Savannah  can't  claim  to  be  This  primary  shield consists  of  a  Jbe first  non­military  nuclear­ tank  with  lead  walls  from  two  to  powered  ship  because  the  Soviet  four  inches  thick.  The  tank  itself  Union has already  launched a. giant  is filled  with  water.  The  water  nuclear­powered  Icebreiaker,  Ney­ area  surrounding  the  reactor  prop­ «rtheless,  it  qualifies  as  the first  er  on  all  sides  is  33  inches  wide.  genuine  atom­powered  merchant  A  2,000  ton  secondary  shield  vessel,  since  it  will  serve  to  carry  surrounds  the  outside'  envelope.  both  cargo  and  passengers  on  re­ The  lower  part  is  a  concrete  wall  gular  commercial  routes  service!  some 48  inches thick  and the  upper  by  its  charterer,  States  Marine  part  consists  of  lead  slabs  varying  Lines.  in  thickness from  2i^ to  six inches  It  Is  hoped  that  the  Savannah  plus  additional  shielding  by  poly­ vill be  the  forerunner of  a fleet  of  ethylene,  making  an  overall  thick­ commercially­useful  atom­powered  ness  of  14  inches.  merchant  vessels,  probably  bulk  Heavy  Beams  carriers  and  tankers,  to  be  devel­ Aside from  all  this shielding,  the  oped  and  built  in  the  next  ten  entire  reactor  compartment  is  sur­ ""years.  rounded  by  heavier  than  normal  Except  for  the  absence  of  beams,  collision  bulkheads  and  smokestack,  the  Savannah's  exte­ exterior  steel  plating  on  that  sec­ rior  dimensions  are  conventional  tion  of  the  hull.  Layers  of  steel  enough—595'^  feet  long,  78  feet  and  three­inch  redwood  are  in­ in  the  beam, a  29V^­foot draft.  Her  board  of  the  collision  bulkhead.  cruising  speed  of  21  knots  and  her  A  vessel  colliding  with  the  Sa­ 20,000  shaft  horsepower  output  is  vannah  would have  to penetrate  17  I  also  conventional.  Where  she  de­ feet  of  greatly­reinforced  ship  p.*!rts  radically  from  accepted  structure  before  it  reached  the  "'standards!  is,  of  course,  in  her  outer  concrete  and  lead  envelope  power  plant.  of  the containment  vessel  in  which  Has  Regular  Turbines  the  reactor  is  located.  The  propulsion  system  consists  A  constant  check  is  kept  on  ra­ of  the  usual  turbines,  reduction  diation throughout the ship through  gears,  turbine  generators,  condens­ radiation  monitoring  devices.  The  er  and  feedwater  systems,  plus  amount of  radiation from  the ship's  auxiliaries.  The  reactor  system  is  plant  outside  of  the  machinery  the  difference.  Technically­classi­ spaces  .will  be  comparable  to  that  fied  as a  pressurized  water  type,  it  received  from  the  sun  on  a  clear  is  similar  to  that  used  aboard  the  day.  Nautilus,  the first  atom­powered  In the  machinery spaces,  the  max­ submarine.  The  reactor  substi­ imum  dosage  would  be five  roent­ tutes  for  the  standard  oil­fired  gens  per  year,  but  of  course,  no  boiler,  and  operates  on  the  princi­ crewmember  is  going  to  be  con­ ple that  water  under high  pressure  tinuously  in  the  machinery  spaces  in  this  instance  by  750  pounds  per  all  year  round.  square  inch,  can  be  heated  to  high  A  single  fluoroscope  ex­ temperature  without  boiling.  The  amination  will  result  in  dosages  heating  is  done  by  the  chain  reac­ of  two  roentgens  per  minute  and  tion  in  the  uranium  fuel.  The  up.  Chest  x­rays  produce  far  less,  water  heated  under  high  pressure  about  .003  roentgens  per  x­ray.  is  passed  in  pipes  through  water  In  order  to  keep  the  r.eactor  under  lower  pre.ssure,  causing  the  under control,  an automatic  shutoff  latter  to  turn  to  steam  to  operate  system  has  been  instailed  which  the turbines. The  Savannah's initial  will  shut  down  the  reactor  l:d  the  fuel  supply  should  be  good  for  event  of  any  of  a  variety  of  mal­ about  years,  or  350,000  miles.  functions.  In  addition,  two  diesel  The  biggest  problem  in  buildinrj  generator  sets  are  on  standby  in  a  nuciear­powered  ship  is  protect­ the  event  the  reactor  has  to  be  ing  the  passengers  and  crew  from  shut  down.  rcdiation,  both  under  normal  op­ To  operate  the  plant,  it  was  nec­ erating conditions  and  in  the event  essary  for  the  Maritime  Adminis­ of  a ship collision  or other accident.  tration  and  Atomic  Energy  Com­ In  dealing  with  this  problem,  elab­ mission to  set up  a 15­month  train­ orate safeguards  had  to be  devised.  ing  program  for  engineers  and  The  reactor  was  housed  in  a  con­ deck  officers.  The  training  in  tainment  vessel which  can  best  be  Lynchburg,  "Virginia,  includes  the  described  as  an  envelope  around  actual  operation  of  a  reactor  plus  an  envelope.  operation  and  maintenance  on  a  The  Inside  "envelope"  of  the  mock­up  of  the  Savannah  reactor.  I'..­ •   "/  Artist's rendering of  the Savonnoh  shows placing  of  reactor  and  its  containment  vessel  amidships,  be­ cause  of  tremendous  weight  of  shielding.  The  Savannah will carry 60 passengers  and 10,000  tons  of  cargo at a 21­knot cruising  speed.  It will be capable of traveling for  350,000 miles without  replacing its  supply  of  nuclear  fuel,  thus  saving  valuable  space  for  an extra  pay load.  \  A  I  Enlarged,  cutaway  view  of  containment  vessel  shows  reactor  ond  primary  shield  tank  in  center.  Other  units  are  heat­exchangers,  pressurizers,  steam  drums  and  piping  for  primary  water  system.  Heat from nuclear reaction  creates steam  for  the turbines.  Diagram  of  reactor  shows  atomic  fuel  lower  center)  in  rectangular­shaped  fuel  ele­ ments.  Long  rods  control  rate  of  chain  reaction.  Re­ actor  is  similar  to  type  used  on  atom  sub  Nautilus.  .Y'**  ''''P *'«ows  relationship  of  reactor  to  machinery  and  other  shipboard  installa­ trdns.  Machinery spaces  have a glass  wall which permits  passengers  to. view  machinery  compartrnent  ond  the  main  control room.  Machinery consists­ofvcenventional  steam  turbirtee­ond reduction  gear.  Photo  shows  actual  containment  vessel  under  construction.  It  is  35 feet  in diameter  and 501/2­feet  long.  The upper  half has  up to  ­14 inches  of  shielding; the  bottom rests  on  concrete.  �SEAFARERS  LOG  f9g0 Tea  Labor Pushes Fight For  Medical Care For  Aged  it'  Jaly«l»lt5t  Relaxing At  Marine Cooks'  Ranch'  ffuff 9  R^odl  To Reeovet  WASHINGTON—The  battle  for  Government­sponsored  The  degree  to  which  Chinese  hospital­surgical coverage  for retired  Americans over 65  is in  Communist  authorities  will  go  to  its preliminary stages with organized  labor and the American  prove  their "superiority"  has  been  Medical  Association  lining  up­*  ^  shown  In  a  report  which  appeared  on opposite  sides on  the  issue,  have  full  medical,  surgical  and  hospital  coverage.  Furthermore,  In  a  Chinese  medical  Journal  last  The AFL­CIO, former Presi­ persons  who  had  coverage  when  November  and  has  been  recently  dent  Harry  S.  Truman  and  two  they  are  working  no  longer  have  translated.  former  officials  of  the  Social  when  they­are  retired.  Private  Security System,  Charles I.  Schott­ it  According  to the  Chinese re^rt,  insurance  plans  have  to  charge  so  land  and  Arthur  J.  Altmeyer,  much that few  a  steelworker  in  Shanghai  was  retired  persons can  have  come  out  in  favor  of  such  a  afford tfiem."  burned  by  molten  steel  on. almost  program.  However,  President  90  percent  of  his  body  surface.  Eisenhower  refused  to  commit  Speaking  on  the  same  AFL­CIO  Despite  the  fact  that  such  burns  himself  on  the  issue  at  his  last  radio  program  as  Altmeyer,  Sec­ are  fatal  in  almost  all  instances,  week's  press  conference,  and  the  retary  Flemming"  conceded  the  the  Communist  Journal  declared  present  Secretary  of  the  Depart­ severity  of  the  problem,  declaring  that  the  attending  physicians  were  ment  of  Health,  Education  and  that "Older  persons use  about  2Vi  spurred  on  by  the  local Party com­ Retired members  of  Sailors  Union of  the Pacific, and Marine  Fire­ Welfare,  Arthur  S.  Flemming,  has  times  as  much  general  hospital  men's  Union  at  open  house  at  Santa  Rosa  MCS  center  include  mittee to  do the  impossible.. "What  care  as  the  average  for  persons  also  opposed  the  program.  could  not  be  done  in  Capitalist  under  age  65."  Nevertheless,  (I to r) Pat Dardis, SUP, and Mrs. Dafdis; Ernest Rowlandson, SUP;  countries  we  could  do."  At  stake  is  the  proposal  by  Rep.  Flemming  that  voluntary  Mike  Lenehan,  MFOW; Fred  Helmer  and  Lincoln  Norby,  SUP.  Aime  J.  Forand  (Dem.­RI)  that  insurance  insisted  Forty physicians  then decided on  plans  are  the  answer  hospital­surgical  insurance  be  pro­ to the problem, although most such  15  methods  of  treatment  and  60  vided  to retired  Americans on  the  plans  will  not  accept  applications  medical  students  were  sent  out  to  Social  Security  rolls.  The  Forand  from  oldsters.  round  up  specimens  of  a  virus.  bill  is  prompted  by  the  fact  that  Commissioner  Schottland,  who  Skin  grafts were  done earlier than  it  is  next­to­impossible  for  people  was  usual  at  the  suggestion  of  Com­ appointed  by  President  Eisen­ in  the  65  or  over  age  bracket  to  hower  munist  Party  officials.  The  patient  in  1954,  disagreed  with  purchase  health  insurance.  In  a  Flemming,  declaring,  that  volun­ was  quoted  as  saying,  "Cure  me,  great  many  Instances,  where  they  tary  I'm  needed  in  production.  I  can  insurance  "cannot  be the  an­ are  able  to  purchase  such  insur­ swer  to  the  total  problem  of  leave  my  wife  and  child  but  net  ance,  it  is  cancelled  on  them  as  medical  my  furnaces."  Described  enthusiastically  by  former  teachers  and  super­ care  for  the  aged."  soon  as  they  become  ill.  visors as a "natural leader," a "sincere and hard worker" and  Further,  he  reportedly  declared  The  American  Medical  Associa­ Seafarers Covered  tion,  which  traditionaljy  opposes  one  whose  "scholarship  has  been  of  high  quality  Virginia  ta his wife,  "You have  brought my  pay,  did  you  pay  my  party  dues?"  Retired  Seafarers  on  the  dis­ health  and  welfare  measures,  has  Lee  Magboo  seems  destined  As  a  result  of  the  treatment  of  ability­pension  and  members  of  trotted  out  its  standard  argument  for a successful college  career.  disease  by  "Marxism Leninism''  their families, as well as dependent  that  Government  health  insurance  The  19­year­old  daughter  of  the  patient  is reported  to have  re­ parents  of  active  Seafarers,  .are  would  lead  to  "socialized  medi­ Eleuterio  Magboo,  a  veteran  Sea­ covered.  covered  by  the  hospital­surgical  cine,"  even  though  the  Forand  farer  with  21  years  in  the  Union,  benefits  of  the  Seafarers  Welfare  proposal  would  not  disturb  the  is  enrolling  at  St.  Johns  College,  Medical  experts  here  in  tho  plan.  present  patient­doctor  relation­ Annapolis,  Maryland,  with  the  States  noted  that  tho  treatment  There  are  an  estimated  ship,  or  the  present  administra­ aid  of  the  SIU's  $6,000  scholar­ procedures described  in the  article  million  Americans  in  the  65  or  tion  of  hospital  care.  It's  been  ship  award.  did  not  involve  innovations  and  over  age  bracket,  most  of  whom  pointed  out  that  in  the  end,  the'  At  Southern  High  School  in  that  some  of  them  went  out  of  cannot  afford  to  pay  the  heavy  Government  and  the  community  Baltimore,  Miss  Magboo  excelled  style  more  than  30  years  ago  as  medical  care  costs that  are normal  wind  up  paying medical  care costs  in  languages  and  history  and  was  Virginia  Magboo  and  dad.  Ineffective.  for  older  people.  Altmeyer  esti­ for oldsters  who are  unable to  pay  active  in  many  of  the  school's  mates  that  "only five  percent  ... for their own.  music  and  dramatic  programs  as  well.  She  was  the  school's  repre­ sentative  to  the  Mayor's  Youth  Advisory  Council  and  placed  sec­ ond  in  her  graduating  class  in  National  Merit  Scholarship  Com­ petition.  Union  Oldtlmer  Whafever  you  need,  in  work  or  dress  Virginia's  father  is  one  of  the  gear, your  SIU Sea  Chest  has  if.  Get top  Union's  oldtimers.  Joining  in  quality gear  at substantial  savings  by buy­ December. 1938,  a few weeks  after  the  SIU  was fest  chartered.  He  ing  at  your  Union­owned  and  Union­ sails in the  engine department  and  operated  Sea  Chest  store.  was  a  crewmember  aboard  such  well­remembered  ships as  the  old  Sport Coats  Pipestone  County  which  went  down  in  1942  under U­boat  attack  Slaeka  as  well  as  the  pre­war  Bull  Line  Dross  Shoos  ships  Barbara  and  Carolyn.  He  Work Shoos  has  sailed  mostly  Bull  and  Water­ Soeki  man^ ships  down  through  the  Dungaroos  Chow is always  interesting news,  to put hoses over the side to "repel  years.  Frisko  Joons  but, on some ships,  it is more  than  boarders"  that  were  raiding  the  CPO  Shirts  just  that.  "Here  ship.  They  must  have  been  suc­ Dross Shirts  is  something  of  cessful, for  nothing  more  was  said  interest,"  the  about  the  Incident  in  the  report.  Sport  Shirts  ship's  minutes  Bolts  from  the  SS  We  don't know  Just  whose  birth­ It  has  been  called  to  the  at­ Khakis  Massmar  noted.  day  it  was,  but  the  crew  of  the  tention  of  headquarters  that  Ties  "We  have  a  good  Frances  went  on  record  thanking  some  skippers  have  been claim­ Sweat  Shirts  steward,  good  ship's  baker  Nick  Goersh  for  the  ing  that  they  have  "clarifica­ T­Shirts  steward  depart­ big birthday  cake he  baked to  help  tions" on various sections of  the  Shorts  ment,  the  food  is  celebrate  the  65th  birthday  of  standard  agreement  in  the form  tasty  and  there  Brother  Bill,  the  crew  mess,  Briefs  of  a  letter  from  the  Union  or  Fort  is  plenty  of  it.  Swim Trunks  ­•   some  other  communication.  i  In  addition,  James  Fort,  meeting  The only  official clarifications  Sweaters  From  the  Elizabeth  is  the  rec­ Secretary,  wrote,  the  crew  went  on  are  those  which  have  been  ap­ Sou'wostors  record as  describing the food made  ommendation  that  the  ship  stop  proved  by  the  Joint  Union­em­ using  the  fish  oil  now  aboard  the  Raingoar  by  chief  cook  Gaetano  Fagano  as  ployer  clarifications  committee  vessel as  it is very  slippery.  It  was  Caps  "out  of  this  world."  The  other  and  have  been  printed  up  as  Writing  Maforlats  members  of  this  top  class  galley  suggested that  some  other  type  of  such as clarifications to  the con­ gang are  iPeter  Garvin,  baker;  Bill  oil  be  ordered.  Toiletries  tract.  All other so­called "clari­ Schafer,  3d  cook;  messman  Willie  Cleetrie Shavers  fications" have  no  contract  sta­ Ford;  pantryman  Daniel  Moylan  Radios  tus whatsoever.  ­ a'nd  of  course,  steward  James  As  previously  reported,  the  Television  Eichenberg.  clarifications  comniittee  is  cur­ Jewelry  tit  rently  in  the  process  of  rewrit­ jCqmeroc  ,,,  Attempts by  the natives  to "lift"  ing  and  condbnsing  the  dxistinff  Luggage  articles  from  the  crew's  quarters  clarifications,  but  until  official  is  a  fairly  common  occurrence  in  notice  is received  from 4he Un­ most  Far  and  Middle  East  ports.  ion  all  ships  are  to proceed  on  However,  the  situation  got; pretty  the  basis  of  the  existing  docu­ bad  in  Saigon  recently  when  the  ments.  .  crew of the Steel Flyer were forced  SIU Student Hailed  As 'Natural Leader'  Your Gear.  for ship ... for shore  SlU SHIPS AT SEA  Skipper's Letters  Do  Not Count  •  €  I  U: '•   I ?•  ;  i­^­­  • •   I­ the  :  ­ �SEAFARERS  LOG  i  jraly ll, »5»  TV Hwrai  Congress Exposes $  Foreign Aid Wosfe  WASHINGTON—Foreign  aid  and  milita^  cargoes  that  have been hauled by US ships to such countries as Korea and  Pakistan have often  been  permitted  to rot on  the ground  or  have gone into the black  mar­ ket.  A  1,781­page  transcript  but it's  expected that.actual  spend­ of  testimony  released  by  a  ing  allowed  will  be  cut  well  below  House  Appropriations  subcommit­ tee  showed  such  Items  of  mis­ management  as  70,000  tire  chains  and  a  million  machine  gun  clips  dumped  out  in the  open  to  rust;  a  20­year  supply  of  Woman's  Army  Corps  uniforms  on  hand  at  one  depot;  4,000  ton  of  excess gunnery  equipment  at  another  location;  and wholesale  thefts of  tires,  hand  tools,  clothing,  construction  ma­ terial,  auto  parts,  petroleum  pro­ ducts  and other  equipment.  Congress  To  Vote  In  the  face  of  these  diversions  and  thievery,  troops  in  the  for­ ward  areas  in  Korea,  for  example,  were  short  on  some  essentials  that  were  needed  for  military  opera­ tion.  The  testimony  was  presented  by  Controller  General  Joseph  Camp­ bell,  who  also  discussed  excessive  spending  and  lavish  living  by  American  representatives  in  many  Far  East  countries.  The  release  of  this  information  is expected to have  its effects when  Congress  votes actual  spending for  foreign aid purposes.  An authoriza­ tion  bill  calls  for  over  $3.5  billion  for  this  purpose  in the  fiscal  year.  «  I A  l»  A  «.  that  figure.  Foreign  aid,  including  military  aid,  is a  major  source  of  cargo for  US­flag  ships  under  the  "50­50"  law.  US Jobless  Aid  Halted  For  45,000  WASHINGTON—More  than  45,­ 000  unemployed  workers  stopped  receiving  Federal  aid  last  week  when  the  Government's  anti­re­ cession  program  came  to  an  end,  the Department  of  Labor reported.  The  extra  Federal  aid  was  to  aid  those  unemployed  who  had  ex­ hausted  their  regular  state  bene­ fits.  Change  Of  Mind  The  Federal  aid  program  was  originally  scheduled  to  end  March  31,  when  a  total  of  400,000  un­ employed  workers  were  still  re­ ceiving  benefits  but,  rather  than  accept  a  one­year  extension.  Congress  voted  to  continue  pay­ ments  for  an  additional  thres  months.  During  the  13­month  life  time  of  the  program,  more  than  2,000,­ 000  unemployed  workers  received  $600,000,000  from  the  Federal  Government  to  supplement  their  exhausted  state  benefits.  At  the  recession's  peak,  a  total  of  685,000  persons were collecting the benefit.  Seventeen  states  had  accepted  the  Federal  aid  to  provide  for  ad­ ditional  benefits  while five  other  states  provided  for  the  coverage  on their  own.  A  couple  of  years  back,  there  was  a  proposal—^which  has  since passed—to  provide Social Security  benefits for  disabled  Americans  over  the  age  of  50.  This  was  bitterly  opposed  by  the  American  Medical  Association  on  the  somewhat  far­ fetched  grounds  that  providing  Government financial  aid  to  The  SIU  Canadian  District  re­ disabled Americans  was a step toward "socialized  medicine."  ports  new  contract  successes,  with  Now  along  comes  another  proposal,  this  time  to  provide  Algoma  Central  and  Hudson  Bay  Federally­sponsored  hospitalization  and  surgical  coverage  Railway  Company  signing  agree­ HOUSTON  —  Shipping  for  the  for  men  and  women  over  65,  and  again  the  AMA  is  in  the  ments  with  the  union's  licensed  division.  Union members  also have  past  two­week  period  has  been  vanguard  with  the old  cry "socialized  medicine."  gained  over  150 new  jobs  with  the  fair,  and  the  next  two  weeks  do  The  sponsors  of  the  proposal,  which  has  been  submitted  purchase  of  Gayport Shipping  Ltd.  not  seem  to  offer  much  more.  At  by  Rep.  Aime  J. Forand  (Dem.­RI),  have  taken  great  pains  by  the  SlU­contracted  Hall  Cor­ the  present  time  there  are no  pay­ to  make  it  clear  that  nothing  in  the  bill  would  disturb  the  poration,  the  "Canadian  Sailor"  offs scheduled.  During the  last two  present  relationship  between  patient  and  doctor  and  patient  adds.  weeks  only  one  ship  was  paid  off,  and hospital.  /  the Steel  Designer  (Isthmian).  The  What is the real reason for the AMA's concern? One would  following  ships  signed  on:  Pacific  Two new  halls have been  opened  Venture  (Pacific  Venture); John  B.  appear  to  be  that 'the  Federal  Government,  having  under­ by the  SIU Great  Lakes District  in  taken  a  responsibility  to  provide  medical  care  for  the  aged,  Waterman  (Waterman);  and  Steel  its  drive  to  organize  non­union  might  begin  putting  the squeeze  on  some  of  the  exorbitant  Age  (Isthmian).  Lakes  seamen  and  to  service  its  Ships  In' transit  were  the  Del  fees  and  charges  imphsed  by  private  hospitals  and  by  some  contracted  fleets.  The  new  halls  Aires,  Del  Santos,  (Miss.);  Hast­ doctors  and  surgeons.  If  the  Federal  Government,  for  ex­ are  in  Toledo,  at  120  Summit  ings,  Young  America,  Jean  Lafitte,  ample, found  that a  hospital was charging  a  $1 or  $1.50  to a  Street,  and  in  South  Chicago  at  LAKE  CHARLES  —  Although  John  B.  Waterman  (Waterman);  patient  for  an  aspirin  tablet  or  $25 to $30  a  (lay  for  a semi­ 9383  Ewing  Avenue.  there  were  quite  a  few  ships  in  Fort Hoskins,  Bents Fort,  Bradford  private  hospital  bed  (four  in  a  room),  there might  be  pres­ this area, it  turned out  that not  too  ^  Island,  Chiwawa  (Cities  Service);  sure  brought  to  bear.  many  jobs  were  to  be  found.  The  Seatrain  New  York,  Seatrain  New  The next  thing that might happen is  that the Federal  Gov­ Pressing  hard  on  the  issue  of  ships  in  the  area  were  the  CS  Jers^;  ­Seatrain  SavJnnah  (Sea­ ernment would  start regarding medical care as a kind of  pub­ the Navy  manning West  Coast  mis­ Miami,  Winter  Hill,  Bents  Fort,  train);  Beauregard,  Bienville  (Pan  sile ships,  the Sailors  Union  of  the  CS  Norfolk,  Chiwawa,  Council  Atlantic);  Steel  Traveler,  Steel  lic  service  like  water  supply,  education,  electricity  and  gas,  Pacific  has  written  to  Vice­Presi­ 'Grove,  CS  Baltimore  (Cities  Seiw­ Designer  (Isthmian);  Mae  (Bull);  public  transport  and  the  like,  and  might  start  to  regulate  dent  Richard  Nixon  detailing  the  ice); Del Santos  (Mississippi); Steel  Valiant  Enterprise  (Enterprise);  some  of  the  free­wheeling  practices  accordingly.  refusal  of  Navy  authorities  to  Traveler  (Isthmian),  and  Mermaid  Valley  Forge  (Penisular);  Seafair  That,  perhaps,  is  the  real  reason  why  organized  m^edicine  change  their  plans  in  the  face  of  (Metro  Shipping).  (Orion),  and  Pacific  Venture  (Paci­ is rolling out  its  big  guns  against  the Forand  Bill.  the  use  of  civilian  seamen  on  the  Agent  Leroy  Clarke  reports  all  fic  Venture).  5"  4"  "fc  East  Coast missile  range.  of  the  above­mentioned  ships  were  in  good  shape  with  the  exception  4  4  4;  of  a  couple  that  had  to  square  Houston Has  Slack­Off  Lake Charles  Has'AVCards  Wilmington Up  Everybody's A 'Reformer'  Six more members of  the Marine  away some  OT.  The  current  effort  in  Congress  to  pass'a  "labor­manage­ Cooks  and  Stewards  Union  have  In  light  of  the  relatively­slow  ment  reform  bill"  has  degenerated  4nto  a  free­for­all.  It's  had  their  pension  applications  ap­ shipping there  are  enough class 'A'  WILMINGTON  —  Wilmington  proved.  They  are  Aberdeen  B.  men  on  the  beach  here  to  handle  agent  Beed  Humphries  reports  become apparent  that no  bill at  all is likely  to be  passed.  chipping  has  held  up  well  during  The  bill  has  reached  such  a  ridiculous  pass,  that  an  AFL­ Lynch,  H.  E.  Savage,  C.  Bautista,  expected  business  although  the  the  last  two­week  period.  Of  the  GIO  analysis finds  that  as  it  presently  stands  in  the  House,  R. G. Fiy, R.  A. Adams and Stanley  number  of  "B"  men  is  on  the  skimpy  side.  85 men registered,  23 shipped.  The  it  would,  among  other  items,  encourage  "sweetheart"  con­ Haynes.  next  couple  of  weeks  promises"  tracts  and  exempts  so­called  "labor  relations"  counselors  more  of  the  same.  from  reporting  their  activities.  Stay Put For Jobless Pay  Everything  is  running  more  This  has  come  aibout  simply  because "labor  reforms" have  Seafarers who  are collecting  state  unemployment  benefits  while  smoothly  now  with  the  installa­ become a  vote­catching item and  every  member  of  Congress  on  the  beach  waiting  ship  are  urged  to  stay  put  and  avoid  tion  of  a  hew  registration  board,  is  anxious  to  have  his  name  attached  to  a  "labor  reform"  changing  their  mailing to addresses  if  they  want  to  continue  re­ •  big  improvement  over  the  old  ceiving  their  checks  regularly.  Several  Seafarers  have  already  bill.  '  method.  experienced  interruptions  of  from  three  to five  weeks  in  getting  The  following  ships  were  In  Amid  all  the  fuss  about  corruption  in  labor­management  their  next  check  after  they  notified  the  state  unemployment  i.  transit:  the  Alamitr  and  Portmar  relations, it is ironic to note the case of  the Wall Street finan­ offices  that  they  had  moved  and  changed  their  mailing  address.  a (Calmar);  Rebecca  (Intercontin­ cier  who  was  picked  up  in  Brazil  on  charges  of  defriauding  An average  delay  of  a  month  is reported  in most  cases, causing  flentai),  and  Wild  Ranger  and  stockholders of  some $7  million. No  outcry here  for "reform"  considerable  hardship  to  the  men  involved.  ^'Maiden Creek (Waterman).  legislation.  It  apparently  doesn't  catch  the  headlines.  .  '• Si  �• Hi,;yu ?• '  ••  JHkr tliliti  SEAFARERS  ZOG  Ladies  Man  LOO­A­RHYTHM:  'Saa Spray'  —by Seqforer  "Jted" Fink  \  Nothitig Else  To Do  By  Jim  Morgan  I  went down to  the  hall  one day  To  see  a  friend  or  two.  And  register  for some  good  ship  That  was  signing  on  a  crew.  I  wasn't  keen to leave  so soon  For  my  days ashore  were  few.  But  I  felt  a  little  bored  somehow.  And  I  had  nothing  else to  do.  Through  the  big  glass  door  I  strolled,  Into  our Union  hall.  With my  book  in hand  for  the  doorman  to  see.  Who  sat  there  near  the  wall.  And  up  the  granite  steps  I  went  Onto  our  shipping  floor.  Nodding  hello  to  some  I  knew.  And  some  I'd  seen  once  before.  As  t'was  close  upon the  hour.  Near  time  for  a  job  call,  I  thought  that  was why.  So  many were  there  in the  hall.  The  shipping  board  was  numbered  with  jobs.  For  those  who  wanted  d  berth.  And. the  ships  were  waiting  for  them to sail.  To  faraway  ports  of  the  earth.  Wherejnany a tiny  waist  awaited  A  strong  Yankee  arm  to  girth.  With  a  cup  of  brew  and  sweet  meats to chew.  And  relish  for  all  they're worth.  I  had  my  name  put  on  the  list.  And  though my card  was new.  Shipping  was  good  and  I  knew  I  could,  Leave  with any merry  ole'  crew.  So  I  went  on down  to the  bar  To have  a drink  or  two.  And  pass  some  time  with  Hank  or  John,  While  I  sat  and  quaffed  my  brew.  Ease Burden  Off  Hospital Bill  To  the  Editor:  I  am  saying  it  now,  and  will  say It  over and over again, many  thanks to the SIU Welfare Plan.  The  things  the  Plan  has  done  for so many needy members like  myself  are  really something.  Not' so  long  ago,  my  little  girl  took  sick  and  had  to  go  to  the  hospital.  That,  of  course,  had  to  happen  v/hile  I  am  still  a  patient  here  in  the  USPHS  hospital  in  Brooklyn.  It's  a  big  problem  for anyone. .As  a  matter  of  a  fact,  it  almost  threw  myself  and  my  fam­ ily  into  a  panic.  However  Carreon  thank  God  we  have  the  Welfare  Plan.  They  took  care  of  everything  includ­ ing  my  child's  hospital  bills.  It  is  the  biggest  help  I  have  ever  received.  It  is  really  some­ thing,  and  It  can  make  a  guy  feel  like  saying "thanks."  I  would  also  like  to  extend  a  special  thanks  to  the  welfare  representative  in  Philadelphia  for  the  quick  service  in  getting  my  little  girl  into  the  hospital.  Leo  Carreon  |i • ?  '.'•   |S'''t'  I  JU.J,  I  joined  the  boys  at  the  bar.  And  drank  to  their  safe  trip.  And, I  thought of  the date  I  had  that  night,  With  a  girl  down  on  the  strip.  I  knew  she  had  no  thoughts  For  a  sailing  man  like  me.  For  it  was  all  take  and  no  give.  On  one  big  spending  spree.  For  I  was  just  a  guy with dough  to spend.  And  she  didn't  come  for  free.  Showing  all  of  the  attributes  required  of  a  ladies  man  is  Bruce  Edgar  Cousins,  son  of  Seafarer  Clarence  Cousins,  a  member  of  the  deck  de«  partment.  Bruce,  who resides  in  Pennsylvania,  hasn't  made  any  definite  plans  about  the  future as  yet.  5  •  '  t  '  I  "Here, the mate  said to  use  these big brushes,  do  a  fast  job, and  don't drip any  paint on  the deck!" —  It  wasn't  long  when  up  the  stairs.  Once  more  I  went  again.  To­  look  at  the  shipping  board  And  see  what  might  remain.  "This  would  be  a  pretty  dull  world  without a good  salty  argument," Seafarer  William  Not  to  take  a  ship  of  course.  Calefato^writes,  and  a  good "salty" beef  up and down the coast  right now is the homestead  As  I  wasn't  ready  to  go.  issue; he  said.  But  I  had  nothing  else  to do.  Homesteaders  have  their  that  it  is  an  organization  built  so  handicap  to  homesteaders.  Rather  And  frankly,  felt  kinda'  low.  side of  the issue, and  the anti­ closely  to  the  fundamentals  estab­ it  would  benefit  them.  They  could  Well  on  the  board  was  an  AB's  homesteaders  have  theirs,  lished  by  the  forefathers  of  our  take  a  rest.  job.  Calefato said,  but most  men would  country  that  they  can't  be  easily  In  addition,  another  Seafarer  On  a  ship  bound  for  Honolulu.  find  it  much  clearer  if  it  was  ignored.  "To  see  how  closely  our  who  sorely  needs  a  job  and  who  And  I  thought  I  may  as  well  remembered and respected  that we  Union is related to  these principles  has  a  family  to  support,  would  human dignity,  we should  recall  have  a  chance.  make  it.  all  live  together  in  a  country  that  of  the  words  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  And  after  all  of  the  preceding  For  I  had  nothing  else  to do.  was founded  on the  soundest  prin­ 'government  of  the  people,  by  the  questions,  it  boils  down  to  this:  ciples  of  humanity.  people  and  for  the  people.'  Since  Just exactly what is a homesteader?  Cites  Declaration  our  Union  is  held  together  by  its  "How  anybody  could  call  a  ship  a  When  the  Declaration  of  Inde­ members,  it is our  organization,  by  home  for  a  number  of  years  is  a  pendence  was  drawn  up,  he  wrote,  us and for us and  we should  decide  little puzzling. But if  it is a home to  it specifically used  the words "that  the  issue."  a  homesteader,  he  is  indirectly  all men are  created equal" to point  Homesteaders  claim  they  have  harming himself  by keeping  out of  out the  things we  are  indeb^d for  the  right  to  stay  on  a  ship  for  as  circulation,  like  a  hermit.  Maybe  and what  we discuss very  often.  long  as  they  wish.  But,  the  other  the best  thing to  remember is  that  The Union  refers to its members  side states,  getting off  a  ship after  generally  speaking,  this  whole  as  "we  Seafarers."  Calefats  holds  a  year  of  service  should  be  no  country of  ours is our  home."  Homesteaders? Cites Abe Lincoln  FARERS  LOG.  We  are  moving  and  I  would  like you  to  please  continue  sending  the  LOG  to  me.  I enjoy reading  the LOG  very  much  and  look  forward  to  re­ ceiving it.  You have  made great  progress.  May  you  continue  to  expand and help those who need  help,  and  render  assistance  to  all ailing seamen  and those  who  are  disabled  and  on  pension.  Mrs. G. Torman  1  have  been  a  full  member  Spare Stamps?  of  the  Union  since  1943  and  I  know  many  other  brothers  are  Send 'Em Here  for the same  plan for retirement  To  the  Editor:  To the Editor:  I've  been  going  to  sea  since  as I  am.  I am  writing this letter to you  William  Dunn  1923  and  have  been  a  member  in  hopes  that  you  can  and  will  of  the  SIU  since  1945.  Before  ^  a.  ^  help me.  I am  a reader  of  the  that  I  was In  another  seamen's  SEAFARERS  LOG,  which  I  en­ Go West For  union.  joy  very  much.  I'd  like to say  that  the Siy  is  Hot  Shipping  My reason  for  writing  to  you  a  godsend  to  all  Its  members,  To  the  Editw:  is that I need some help.  I have  and  it  certainly  is  a  wonderful  I  just  wish  "to  let  the  rest  Just  started  the  hobby  of  sav­ feeling  to  know  that  we  have  of  the ..brothers  on  the  beach  ing  stamps,  and  I  would  appre­ the  officials  and  staff  members  know  that  shipping  is  really  ciate  it very  much If  you would  that  we  have,  constantly  work­ good here on  the  coast.  be able  to get  me  in touch  with  ing in the  interests of  the mem­ I had  to get  off  my ship  here  some  of  the  Seafarers  who  bership.  and undergo some  treatment for  might have the same hobby Or  if  Stanley  T.  Lowery  a  slight  back  injury,  so  I  spent  possible,  would  you  print  in  your  paper  that  I  would  be  In­ 4"  4".  t  two  weejks  in  San  Pedro.  Our  agent  here  in  Wilming­ terested in any stamps from any  ton,  Reed  Humphries, has  been  country, regardless if the stamps  having quite a'time  finding men  are old or  new, used  or not.  I  will  answer  every  letter  To the  Editor:  to fill all of  the  jobs, but  I must  This  letter  is  in  reference , to  say  he  is doing  a  swell  job  and  right  away  and  will  appreciate  my  many  trips  at  sea  when  I  is  on  the  go  around­the­clock.  any help you can give me.  often asked  why we  do not have,  It  is  so  busy  here  that  when  Daniel  W.  Yore  a  retirement  plan,  in  addition  the  doctor  gave  me'a  "fit  for  Box  100  to  a  disability retirement.  duty,"  I  landed  a  Job  on. the  South  Walpole,  Mass.  As most other  industries have  Alamar  at  the first  call  I made.  a  20  to  30  year  plan,  the  dis­ 4"  4"  t  Also  if  any  brother  is  stop­ ability  retirement  is  a  godsend  ping  off  here  in  San  Pedro,  I  . io  a  lot  of  wish  to  say  that  they  have  a  Death Beneffit  ^  members,  but  swrtl YMCA here which  will run  Eases Expenses ^  many  of  us  him  around  $8 per  week.  Also,  may  never  be  as  many  know,  San  Pedro  To  the  Editor:  Will  you  please  extend  our  classified  for  has  more  than  its  share  of  gyp  a  d i s a b i L  joints, where  you  can  get  taken  sincere  thanks  to  the  trustees  ity  benefit.  over.  But  there  is  one  place  of  the  Seafarers  Welfare  Plan,  Would  you  here,  Bill's  Criterion,  on  Har­ for  their  check  of  $4,0(K)  which  please  publish  bor  Blvd.­,  where  you  can  get  a  was  sent  to  my  mother  on  the  this  and  ask  square  deal.  It  is  run  by  an  death  benefit  for  her  son  and  for  c(»nmehts  ex­black  gang  seaman,  and  his  my  brother,  Charles  Ross  Nich­f­ Dunn  from the bthir  wife.  They  v/ll!  mall  your  let*  brothers  as.  I  think  this  would  ters, dig  up a  LOG  for you  and  J This  money  will  help  defray  be  the  best  Way  for  the  mem­ what  hot  and  no  one  will  roll  many expenses and tide  us oyer  this  difficult  period.  We  ap^  bers to understand  the pros  and  you  there.  James A. Bay  preciate 'it  very  much.  cons  of  it  and  then  maybe  we  /  Chief  eook  Helen  J.  jftcholson'll  can  work for  such a  plan.  Sailing Since '23,  Says SlU's Tops  letters To  Pension  Plan  The  Editor  Change  Asked  All  letters  to  the  editor  for  publication  in  the  SEAFAR­ ERS  LOG  must  be  signed  by  the  writer.  Names  will  be  withheld  upon  request.  Union Beneffit  Right On Time  To the  Editor:  I sincerely regret  the delay In  acknowledging  the  Union's  let­ ter  with  the  accompanying  check  in  the  amount  of  $4,000.  However,  circumstances  beyond  my  control  prevented  me  from  acknowledging same  immediate­ ly.  Due  to these  circumstances,  this benefit, could not have  been  received at a  more needed time.  The  sympathy  expressed  by  • ro the  Editw:  the  Union  is  most  graciously  Please make the noted change  accepted  and  appreciated.  In  my  address  for  the  SEA­ Teddie  E.  Ritchie  Moving^ Wunte  LOG To i^iiow  |||ip^;;;;.­­.­:  • .  The. bar  troa filled  with many  Down  froth  the  shipping  floor.  T'was  easy  to  see  who  got  the  jobs.  By  the  smiles  their  faces  bore.  Some  would  be  off  to  Europe,  And  some  to  Singapore,  While  others  were  happy  with  the  thought.  That  their  berths  were  secure.  �iiOr tU itM  <  ALCOA  PIONIM  (AICM),  iwly  f—  CkalnHMir J.  Otali  B«cr«larVf  • .  C«M*  • luO. BUo  • xUrminatM  wbUa  In  KG.  Ona  nan  mlaacd  ship  In  Braok­ lyii.  Ship's  land  SSO.  Naw  4ale«ata  '«ls«la<L  OUcnsatoB  ra—delayed  sail­ to*.  PBNN  tSANSPOSTIK  (Pann  Ship,  pint).  May  S4—Chairman.  W.  Knapp;  Sacratary.  P.  Olanannl.  Veta  ot  thanks  to  steward  dept.  for  coed  food.  DSL  AIRIS  (Mississippi),  Juno  27—  Chairman,  I.  Morgavl)  Sacratary,  J,  Oarsey,  One  man  left  behind,  but  caught  ship  in  Santos.  Messhall  to  be  painted  next  trip.  New  delegate  requested.  Ship's  fund­S16—donations  appreciated.  Several  logs  In  deck  dept.  Soma  OT  disputed to  engine  be  eorrlad  by  eaptato  so  crow  may  have  draw  baforo  pmrt  ontry,  ORIMAR  (iNarvan),  July  I—Chair­ man,  H.  Lanlar; Sacratary,  A,  Savara,  One  man  missed  ship to  Baltimore  and  ona to  Vanezu^a,  No  beefs.  Rust to  wash  water.  ALMSNA  (Psnn  Shipplnp),  July  2—  Chafrman,  W,  Souder;  Secretary,  R,  Brady,  Two  men  missed  ship  at  Kilo,  Hawaii.  Few  hours  OT  dis­ puted.  Repairs  to  be  made  now,  and  before  departure.  CS  NORFOLK  (Cities  Service),  Juno  27—Chairman,  W,  Catildy;  Sacratary,  Nana,  Delegate  to  receive  all  Union  mail—not  to  be  opened  by  anyone  else.  IVt  hours  OT  to  be  settled  at  payoff.  Vote  of  thanks  to  steward  dept.  for  Job  well  dona.  PACIFIC  OCBAN  (Vyorld  Tramping),  June  2f—Chairman,  J,  Morris;  Sec­ retary,  L,  Thomas.  Most  repairs  com­ pleted.  Ship's  fund  $5.67.  Few  hours  OT  disputed.  No  one  allowed  Irt  passageways,  rooms  &  messrooms  ex­ cept  crew.  Suggest  quiet  while  men  are  sleeping.  Welfare  A  enrollment  cards  available  to  men  who  need  them.  department.  Fruit  not  exchanfed  as  promised  In  Houston.  Bequest  more  ice  cream.  STEEL  FLYER  (Isthmian),  July  S—  Chairman,  D.  Kaddy;  Secretary,  C,  Mathaws.  Draw  in  Halifax  to he  given  in  US  money—last  loefore  payoff.  Repair  lists  turned  in.  Ship's  fund  S10.26.  No  beefs.  Request  letter  be  written  to  Union  re  raise  In  OT  rate,  also  proposing  one  quarter's  free  dues  for  delegates  If  trip  exceeds  65  days.  Shortage  of  cigarettes.  FAIRLAND  (Pan­Atlantic),  July  12  —Chairman,  P,  Morris;  Sacratary,  P,  Kustura.  No  beefs;  everything  run­ IVELYN  (Bull),  July  S—Chairman,  ning  smoothly.  Ship's  fund  $1,  Some  R.  Hammond)  Sacratary,  D.  Forrast.  OT  disputed.  Chief  cook  asks  if  No  beefs.  One  man  paid  off  In  San  anything  can  be  dona  about  his  room  Juan,  another  shipped.  New  delegate  regarding  heat.  Sea  chief  mate  about  elected.  Members  offered  Sa  In  lieu  keys  for  foc'sles.  of  launch  service.  Vote  of  thanks  to  steward  dept.  for  Job  well  done.  Re­ lAOLR  TRAVELER  (Sea  Transport),  pair  lists  to  be  turned  in.  Request  Juno  14—Chairman,  M.  Coopor;  Sac­ adequate  stores.  Ona  minute  of  si­ ratary,  J,  Morgan,  Men  reminded  lence  observed  for  departed  brothers.  that  smoking  forward  of  house  for­ bidden.  Cooperation  requested  In  USAP  C­5S­UU  (Pan  American),  keeping  rec.  room  clean.  Return  July  1—Chairman,  A,  Philips)  Sacra,  cups  to  pantry.  Ship's  fund  $30.50.  tary,  D,  Knisht,  One  man fired  In  Few  hours  OT  disputed.  One  replace­ Mayaguez,  PR.  Offered  transportation,  ment  for  man  in  San  Pedro.  New  but  refused  same.  Some  OT  disputed.  delegate­  elected.  Beef  made  con­ Dump  butt  cans  dally.  Refrain  from  cerning  preparation  of  meats.  Dis­ scattering  books  A  papers  on  deck  cussion  on  duties  ot  galley  force.  in  foc'sles.  Turn  off  bunk  lights  BEAURESARD  (Pan­AtlanHc),  July  when  leaving  foc'Hes,  Keep  head  12—Chairman,  R,  Yates;  Sacratary,  S,  door  closed  at  night.  Doyla,  New  delegate  elected.  Few  STCSL  APPRBNTICff  (Isthmian),  hours  disputed  (delayed  sailing) to  dept.  OS  hours  disputed  OT to  July  S—Chairman,  J,  ICarl)  Secretary,  deck  angina  department.  Ona  man  missed  J,  Olive.  Two  men  hospitalized.  ship to  Houston.  Request  fumigation  Ship's  fund  8.60—S4.96  spent  for  tele­ grams; fund  to be  raised  at  beginning  of  ship.  of  trip.  Disputed  OT  re  shore  lib­ ALCOA  CORSAIR  (Alcoa),  July  12—  erty.  To  see about  fumigation  of  ship.  Chairman,  H,  Oraham;  Sacratary,  M,  Request  mora  DDT  bomoa.  Ces.  C­Jlectlon  made  for  wreath  for  memmr'  of  brother's  family.  No  ALCOA  PURITAN  (Alcea),  June  M  beefs.  One  man  left  ship  due  to  ni­ —Chairman,  P,  Murray;  Secretary,  A.  nes* to  family.  Ship's  fund  $367,  Perrars,  New  bunks  requested  and  Movies  to  be  run  per  schedule.  chairs  In  recreation  halt  need  re­ pairs.  No  beefs.  Some  OT  disputed.  BENTS  PORT  (CHIaa  Service),  July  Request  mora  Interest  be  taken  In  12—Chairman,  W,  Wallace)  Secretary,  steward  dept.  Repair  lists  to  be  D,  Lalyvaid,  Sailed  one  man  abort.  turned  In,  No  beefs.  Broken  washer to  angina  room.  Vote  of  thanks  to  steward  MASSMAR  (Calmer),  June  M—  department for  Job  well dona.  Return  Chairman,  J.  KIchenbarg;  Sacratary,  cups.  Deck  dept.  to  dean  laundry:  J,  Part,  No  beefs.  Vote  of  thanks  to  black  gang  to  clean  passageway.  steward  dept.  for  Job  weU  done.  Re­ PETRO  CHRM  (Valentine),  July  t—  quest  better  sanitary  conditions.  Chairman,  J,  Haggle)  secretary,  D,  Pelarsen,  Soma  OT  disputed.  Suggest  ALCOA  PLANTBR  (Alcoa),  July  I—  Chairman,  N,  Plewars;  Sacratary,  Z.  dept.  delegates  keep  written  record  Chins,  Two  men  Injured  due  to  lack  of  all  beefs.  Soma  OT  disputed to  of  safe  catwalks—one  of  them  hos­ engine  department.  Difficulty  ra  ob­ pitalized  In  Azores  and  rcpatrlaled.  taining  stores.  Catwalk  Improved—no  further  acci­ ALCOA  RANOBR  (Alcea),  July  f—  dents.  Ship's  fund  S42.89—expect  $20  donation  from  winner  «f  Fhila.  ar­ Chairman,  a, Crawford)  Sacratary,  C.  rival  pool.  No  beefs.  Men  warned  Jonas,  Everything  running  smoothly,'  against  unauthorized  entry  Into  elec­ Discussion  re  screens  for  galley  and  trical  distribution  panels.  New  wash­­ pantry.  General  meeting  to  be  held  every  two  weeks.  Donation  to  be  lAg  machine  requested.  taken  up  for  Injured  man  en  previous  OCBAN  KVA  (Maritime  Ovarsaas),  trip.  June  M—Chairman,  K,  Collins;  Sac­ CITIES  SERVICE  MIAMI  (CS),  July  ratary,  S,  Johnson,  tiS  dollars  or  travelers'  checks  available  In  event  14—Chairman,  Padgett)  Sacratary,  J,  vessel  Is  out  for  lengthy  period.  Re­ Rudolph,  Repair  liat  turned to.  quest  more  cigarettes.  Everything  running  amoothly.  Ship's  fund  $9.43.  No  beefs.  Mess  men  to  CS  BALTIMORR  (Cities  Service),  carry  garbage  and  dump  It  over  July  S—Chairman,  C,  Jannana;  Sac­ stern.  Sign  to  be  placed  over  wash­ rotary,  P,  Jones,  Fans  repaired;  mat­ ing  machine  to  abut  it  off  when  tress  covers  for  crew.  Draws  to  be  finished.  put  out  per  contract  agreement.  Ship's  fund  needed.  Meeting  to  be  BALTORE  (Marvan),  July  14—Chair­ held  re  beef  concerning  chief  mate.  man,  McLaughlin;  Secretary,  R.  Obi­ New  treasurer  elected.  Repair  lists  das.  One  man  missed  ship to  Baltl­ to bo  turned  in.  Laundry  room  to  ho  Inore.  No  beefs.  Seven  hours  dis­ kept  clean.  Spray messhall  after  back  puted  OT.  Crew  gave  radio  operator  port.  Request  more  fans  in  messhall,  vote  of  thanks  for  the  radio  news  also  mora  milk,  and  more  money  to  every  day.  i  •   ''"M va  SEAFARERS  LOG  Steam Blast Fatal To Seafarer  The  evening  of  July  7  started  off  just  as  any  other  night  aboard  ship,  but  before  dawn,  it. was  one  of  those "nights  to  remember" to the crew of  the SS Del  Sud, especial­ ly  to  Harry  Wolowitz,  the  12­to­4 fireman  on  the  Mississippi  Steamship  Co.  passenger  vessel.  down  there,"  Wolowitz  added,  It was  just past C PM,  while  At  Ease  DeLorenzo  had  relieved  Wolowitz  the  vessel  was  at  sea  head­ at  4  PM,  and  he  had  just  settled  ing  for  New  Orleans  when  it  all  started,  Wolowitz  noted.  Most  of  the  crew  was  in  the  engine  lounge  watching  a  movie,  when  they first  heard a  sort of  hissing sound,  as if  an air hose  had  torn loose  from  its  connection.  A  few  minutes later  the  door  to  the  engineroom  opened and  James  "Sloppy"  Creal,  the  4­to­8  oiler,  staggered  into  the  lounge  yelling  for  everyone  to  clear  out  as  the  connection  on  the  main  steam  line  on  the starboard  boiler  just  let go.  In a matter  of  seconds the movie  was  empty  as  all  of  the  gang  headed for  the engineroom  door  to  see if  they could help the  men who  had  been  working  below.  First  to  come  up  was  J,  Smith,  Taking  it easy  in  his  fos'do  is  the  4­to­8  reefer,  Wolowitz  said,  chief  stewonf  William  Chan­ and  when  he  opened  the  door,  all  dler,  presently  handling  the  could  see  that  the  whole  engine­ food  problems  on  the  Yoko.  room was already filled with steam,  Chandler  is  a  veteran  Sea­ "Just  imagine  the  nerve­shatter­ farer,  having  joined  the  Un­ ing  noise  of  that  steam  escaping  ion  at  a  founding  member  and  the  intense  heat  from  450  bock  in  Mobile  in  November,  pounds  of  superheat  steam  filling  the  engineroom,"  the  fireman  1938.  added, "It  was really  something to  see,  and  I  hope  I  never  see  it  his  feet,  staggered  back  up  the  again,"  passageway  and  said  that  the  two  First  to  attempt  to  bring  up  the  men  were  safe.  The  ship's  doctor,  other  men  was  chief  engineer  who  was  treating  Creel  for  burns,  George  Kramer  and  his  1st  as­ gave  the  chief  a  shot  and he  went  sistant  Jqseph  Bradley  who  had  back down again. Creel's  hands and  feet were  badly burned from  hold­ ing  on  to  the  white­hot  rails  and  his face was blistered.  By this  time, bosun's mate Kelly  Shaunessey had  brought up  the kit  with  the  breathing  apparatus  and  along wjth  the other  engineer; and  engine  cadet  aiid  some  of  the  un­ licoiBed  crew,­went  below,  Kelly later said  that  he had  had  DeLorenzo by the hand but couldn't  hold on  to him u the fireman, say­ V/olowiii  DtLorenzo  ing  he  had  to  smit  off  his  burner  wet  down  large  towels  and  bed­ valves,  turned  and  ran  back  into  spreads  to  protect  themselves  the  steam­filled fireroom,  from  the  searing  heat  and  steam.  Louis  Anderson,  the  ship's  ma­ All  but  two  of  the  men  working  chinist­plumber, who had also gone  below  when  she  blew  were  ac­ below,  reported  that  he  tried  to  counted  for. Still  missing were  the  get  hold  of  DeLorenzo  but  had  to  2nd  assistant  engineer  and  the  let go because of  the heat.  FWT,  Seafarer  Frederick  "Sal"  After  making  several  more  res­ DeLorenzo.  cue  attempts, crewnjembers finally  In what seemed  a  long time,  but  was  actually  just  a  few  minutes,  found  the  body  of  the  fireman  in  Kramer,  who  looked  about  out  on  front  of  the master  switchboard,  "You  see something like  this  on  TV  or  read  about  it  and  think  nothing of  it at ail," Wolowitz said,  Make Checks  "but  when  the  chips are  down and  you actually  see  it unfolded  before  To 'SlU­A&G'  Seafarers  mailing  in  checks  your eyes,  you  realize  what  a  fine  or  money  orders  to  the  Union  bunch of  officers and  men we  have  to  cover  dues  payments  are  aboard  the  Del  Sud,"  Each member of the crew wanted  urged  to be  sure  to make  all  of  them  payable  to  the  SIU­A&G  to  go  below,  Wolowitz  said,  but  that  was impossible,  so  the  rest  of  District.  Some  Seafarers  have  sent  in  the  crew tried  their best  to aid  the  checks and  money orders  in  the  burned  men,  or  to  keep  the  ice  names  of  individual  Headquar­ water  and  buckets  full  so  as  to  ters  officials.  This  makes  for  a  water down  the men  going into  the  problem  in  bookkeeping  which  engineroom,  "Now  that  it's  all  over,  I  shiver  can  be  avoided  if  checks  are  made  out  to the  Union directly.  when 1 know that  but for the  grace  of  God,  it  could  have  been  myself  down  to  watch  the  movie  when  it  happened.  In  a  letter  to  the  engineers  aboard  the  Del  Sud,  the  members  of  the  black  gang  expressed  their  graUtude  for  their  aid  in  trying  to  rescue  DeLorenzo,  "We, the men  of the  black gang,"  they said, "want  to go  on record  as  giving  a  vote  of  confidence  and  thanks  for a  job  well  done  beyond  the  call  of  duty—going  down  into  a  steam  filled  engineroom,  trying  to save  the  life of  our late brother,  Frederick  DeLorenzo  ,  . .  "We  want  you  to  know  it's  an  honor  and  a  privilege  to work  and  sail  with  men  like  you,  knowing  we're  working with honest­to­good­ ness  men,  "In  conclusion,  we  want  to  re­ peat  again,  many  thanks  for  a  job  well  done,"  The  letter  was  addressed  to  George  Kramer,  chief  engineer;  Joe  Bradley,  1st  assistant;  John  Selbert,  2nd;  J,  Nelson,  3rd;  R.  Ennis, junior 3rd, and Tony Walker,  engine  cadet.  Another  letter  from  the  passen­ gers on  the Del Sud  was  presented  to  the ship's  captain  offering  their  grateful  appreciation  for  "the  de­ votion  shown  by  the  ship's  com­ pany to their duties,  ",  ,  ,  the  master  of  the  vessel,  his  officers  and  crew  displayed  courageous  calm  and  performed  their hazardous duties in  the finest  tradition  of  the  sea," it  said.  •  I  M£ETY<X;?aDSHI^  MA­msAnnesubarti  SWAP  \;AR/^S ANDlMdticM  7HEFkSmS0NT>/.  A/eW/.OW PRICES  I  •  ;i  'm  OWN  PLACE.  Olf^NE9At€>CPERAm>  mUNlON'ACeAR  yeAHjBin­ MiM COM\H' FROM VlB  PIANET MAOS ,  D^A/'TXAIOW/  OUR  ktiAVo'llFE..­ ­  • • »i|  �Pare  Fanrteen  SEAFARERS  tOG  Jidr SI, 1  Safety^s The Cavalier Motto  SUFiMEIS M NTIOC  "Safety­conscious"  would  be  the  best  way to describe the crew of  the SS Alcoa Cava­ lier, and  with good  justification.  In  addition  to  running  a  monthly  safety  slogan' contest,  the  ship  also  has  an  inspection  committee  composed  of  officers  arid  members  of  the  un­ Two recent additions  to the  roster of  Seafarers in  the Seattle USPHS  licensed  departments  whose  hospital are  reported  doing  well.  One  of  them,  J. B.  Tlerney, who last  job it is  to make regular tours  shipped as an  AB on  the De  Soto, entered the  hospital early this  month  The  'Missile Hunters'  of the vessel to see that stand­ for  a  bladder  operation  and  expects  to  he  discharged  within  a  week  ard  safety  procedures  are  being  followed.  Seafarers  participating  in  the  program  are  Max  Fabricant,  chief  steward;  W.  M.  Parker,  bosun;  L.  C.  Hanson,  QM;  Anne  Blizzard,  stewardess,  and  department  rep­ resentatives  L..  B.  D u r a c h e r,  deck;  L.  P.  Kelly,  engine,  and  E.  J.  Lynch,  steward.  Making  safety  a  full  time  Job  has  paid  off  on  the  Cavalier,  as  was  seen  in  the  committee's latest  report  in  which  it  was  noted  that  there  were  "no  unsafe  conditions  or  practices  de­ tected  during  their  inspection,"  and "no  lost time  Anne  Blizzard  accidents  or  ac­ cidents  of  a  seri­ ous  nature  were  reported  since  their  last  Iheeting."  The  only  ac­ cidents  occurred,  they  said,  when  a  pantryman  cut  his finger  with  a knife  while  slicing food,  and  the  other when a  erewmember strained  himself  while  cranking  up  a  life­ boat.  To keep the crew  of the Cavalier  "safety­conscious"  the  committee  holds a  monthly safety slogan  con­ test  which  is  open  to  all  crew­ members.  The  winner  for  the  month  of  June  was  Albert  Nevers,  2nd  radio  officer.  The  winner  for  the  month  of  May  was  Seafarer  Henry  Kopper­ smith,  a  wiper  on  the  Cavalier.  Turning  his  talents  to  portrait  photographs,  Seafarer  Ches­ ter  Coumas  found  excellent  subjects  among  his  shipmates  on  the  MV  Sword  Knot,  one  of  Suwannee  Steamship Com­ pany's  missile­tracking  ships  in the  South Atlantic.  Always  smiling  is  the  description  for  Danny  Nelson,  top  left,  deck  maintenance on  the Knot.  On  the  right,  AB  Tommy  Klein  shows  concentration  and  doubt  as  he  scons  the  sky,  looking for  a missile no  doubt.  Left,  giving  the  conversation  all  of  his  attention  is  Leo  Bruce, messman.  DIRECTORY  OF  SIU  HAllS  SIU,  A&G  District  BALTIMORE  1218  E.  Baltimore  St.  Earl  Sheppard.  Agent  EAstern  7­4900  BOSTON...:  276  State  St.  G.  Dakin.  Acting  Agent  Richmond  2­0140  HOUSTON  4202  Canal  St  R.  Matthews.  Agent  CApital  3­4089;  3­4080  LAKE  CHARLES,  La  1419  Ryan  St.  Leroy  Clarke.  Agent  HEmlock  8­9744  MIAMI  744  W.  Flagler  St.  Louis  Neira.  Agent  FRanklin  7­3584  MOBILE  1  South  Lawrence  St.  Cal  Tanner.  Agent  HEmlock  2­1754  NEW  ORLEANS  523  Bienville  St.  Lindsey  Williams.  Agent  Tulane  8628  NEW  YORK  075  4th  Ave..  Brooklyn  HYaclnth  9­6600  NORFOLK  416  Colley  Ave.  J.  Bullock.  Agent  MAdison  7­1083  SEAFARERS LOG,  675  Fourth  Ave.,  Brooklyn  32, NY  I would  like  to receive  the  SEAFARERS LOG — please  >ut  my  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HEADQUARTERS..  675  4th  Ave..  Bklyn.  SECRHTARY­TREASURER  Paul  HaU  ASST  SECRETARY­TREASURERS  i.  Algina.  Deck  W  HaU,  Joint  C.  Simmons.  Eng.  i.  Volpian.  Joint  E.  Mooney,  Std.  ZONE....  STATE  ;  TO  AVOID  DUPLICATION:  If  you  HONOLULU...  51  South  Nimltz  Highway  PHone  5­1714  NEW  ORLEANS  523  Bienville  St.  RAmond  7428  NEW  YORK  675  4th  Ave..  Brooklyn  HYaclnth  9­6600  PORTLAND  211  SW  Clay  St.  CApItol  7­3222  SAN  FRANCISCO  350  Fremont  St.  EXbrook  7­5600  SEATTLE  2505 —1st  Ave.  MAln  3­0088  WILMINGTON  505  Marine  Ave.  TEk'minal  4­8538  • re an  old  subscribai  and  have  a  Great  Lakes  District  1215  N.  Second  Ave.  changa  of  address,  please  give  your  ALPENA  EXmwood  4­3616  former  address  below:  BUFFALO.  NY  914  Main  St.  GRant  2728  1420  W.  25  St.  •   • «   #  •   •  •  • •    •   CLEVELAND  MAin  1­0147  DULUTH  621  W.  Superior St.  Phone: Randiiph  2­4110  FRANKFORT.  Blich.  PO  Box  287  ELgin  7­2441  MILWAUKEE  633  S.  Second  Ave.  BRoadway  2­3039  RIVER  ROUGE  ..10229  W.  Jefferson  Ave,  Mich.  Vlnewood  3­4741  ADDRESS  CITY  .........ZONE ...  or so.  AB  Earl  Taylor  also  entered  the  Seattle  hospital  this  month,  hut  to  have  a  cyst removed  from  his hack.  Taylor's last  vessel was  the Valley  Forge.  Still  undergoing  an  exten­ sive  checkup  on  the  West  Coast  is  Seafarer  Joe  Prabech  of  the  black  gang.  Prabech  was  a  former  wiper  on  the  SS. Marymar.  Down  in  Texas  the  reports  on  the  men  in  the  Galveston  hospital  all  look  good.  Shipmates  of  stew­ ard  Albert  Canter  who  had  to  get  off  the  Steel  Apprentice  in  Iran  with internal  bleeding  will  he glad  ~  n  L  L  to  hear  he  is  recovering  nicely."*  Tierney  Prabech  Canter  was  repatriated  to  Galveston  and  expects  to  he  out  and  hack  on  his  feet  in  a  couple  of  days,  s  A  hernia  laid  up  Thomas  Bowers  in  the  Galveston  hospital  hut  he  is  recuperating  rapidly  after  an  operation  and  should  he  hack  on  the  beach  in  about  a  week.  Bowers  last  shipped  as  steward  on  the  Del  Oro.  Evidently  responding  to  treat­ ment  in  the  Galveston  hospital  is  Francis  Regan,  former  messman  on  the  Atlas.  Regan,  who  entered­ the  hospital  because  of  a  numb­ ness  in  his  arm,  says  he  will  he  discharged  any  day  now.  News  of  shipboard  activities  is  Regan  Bowers  always  welcome  to  the  men  in  the  hospitals  throughout  the  country.  If  you  are  ashore  on  leave with  time  to  spare,  or  if  you  have  time  on  your  hands  while  at  sea,  drop  them  a  line.  The  following  Is  the  latest  available  list  of  hospital  patients:  USPHS  HOSPITAL  MANHATTAN  BEACH  BROOKLYN.  NY  .Toseph  J.  Bass  Thomas  R.  Lehay  Matthew  Bruno  Leo  Mannaugh  Gregorio  Caraballo  Priraitivo  MUM  Leo  V.  Carreon  Jeremiah  O'Byrne  Wade  Chandler  George  G.  Phifer  Joseph  D.  Cox  Winston  E.  Renny  John  J.  Driscoll  Manuel  B.  Silva  F.  O.  Fondiia  Aimer  S.  Vickerg  Bart  E.  Guranick  Luther  E.  Wing  Taib  Hassan  Pon  P.  Wing  Frank  Hernandez  Royce  Yarborough  William  D.  Kenny  Paciflco  S.  Yuzon  Ludwig  Krisliansen  USPHS  HOSPITAL  SEATTLE.  WASH.  S.  3.  Anderson  Earl  Taylor  SOUTH  CHICAGO  ^383  Ewing  Ave.  Benjamin  LeBianc  J.  B.  Tierney  SAginaw  1­0733  Joseph  A.  Prabech  TOLEDO  120  Summit  St.  CHerry  8­2431  USPHS  HOSPITAL  FT.  WORTH.  TEXAS  Canadian District  Lawrence  Anderson Max  Olson  FORT  WILLIAM  403  Simpson  St.  R.  B.  Appleby  John  C.  Palmer  Untario  Phone:  3­3221  B.  F.  Deibier  Leo  Watts  HALIFAX,  N.S  128H  HoUls  St.  ­lames  Lauer  Joseph  P.  Wis*  Phone 3­8911  Woodrow  Meyers  MONTREAL  634  SL  James St.  West  USPHS  HOSPITAL  Victor  2­8161  STATEN  ISLAND,  NY  QUEBEC  44  Sault­au­Matelot  R.  W.  Runner  Jose  Reyes  Quebec  LAfontaine  3­1569  R.  G.  Cowdry  Juan  Reyes  THOROLD,  Ontario  52  St.  David  St.  Everette  A.  Hord  Angel  L.  Rios  CAnal  7­5212  Fidel  G.  Lukban  Jose  Rodrigucg  TORONTO.  Ontario  272  King  St.  £.  Pablo  Mendez  Manuel  Sanchez  EMpire  4­5719  Joseph  A.  Wehe  ST.  JOHN,  NB  ....177 Prince  WUUam  St.  Herman  Meyer  OX  2*5431  Stavroi  Papoutsis  VANCOUVER.  BC  298  Main  St.  USPHS  HOSPITAL  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIF.  Grover  F.  Cobbler  Joseph  Prindezia  BALTIMORE  1216  East  Baltimore  St.  Michael  J.  Coffey  Arthur  J.  Scheving  EAstern  7­3383  Mike  Goins  Edward  J.  Smith  HONOLULU....56  North  Nimltz  Highway  Carrol  £.  Harper  Joseph  Neubauer  PHone  5­6077  USPHS  HOSPITAL  NEW  ORLEANS  523  BienvUle  St.  NORFOLK.  VA.  MAgnoIia  0404  Bernie  Watson  NEW  YORK  130  Greenwich  St.  Frances  Boner  Albert  1.  WiiUamg  COrtland  7­7094  Harold  V.  Riley  PORTLAND  522  NW  Everett  St.  STOCKTON  STATE  HOSPITAL  CApitoI  3­7297­8  STOCKTON.  CALIF.  SAN  FRANCISCO  240  Second  St.  Dan  M.  Christolos  DOuglas  2­4592  SAN  PEDRO  .....296  West  7th  St.  SAILORS  SNUG  HARBOR  TErminal  3­4485  STATEN  ISLAND.  NY  SEATTLE  2333  Western  Ave.  Victor  B.  Cooper  Thomas  Isaksen  MAin  2­8326  USPHS  HOSPITAL  NEW  ORLEANS.  LA.  R.  G.  Barrett  Edward  Knapp  Claude  Blanks  Leo  H.  Lang  Carter  Chambers  Crawford  Lightsey  Fess  T.  Crawford  D.  E.  McCoilum  Eugene  Crowell  D.  H.  McCrary  L.  Davis  Wm.  Marjenhoff  Under  the  Union  constitution  Almarion  J.  Fitzpatrick  Elziar  Mvrtell  every  member  attending  a  Un­ Clarence  Fontenot  William  E.  Nelson  ion  meeting  is  entitled  to  Jgmes  C.  Giisson  Louis  W.  Peed  F.  Gomez  Winford  PoweU  nominate himself  for the elected  Francis  Herbert  E.  Grant  Edward  Roig  posts  to be filled  at  the meeting  Albert  Hammac  Harold  Spicer  Wayne  Harris  J.  R.  VonHolden  —chairman,  reading  clerk  and  Raymond  Hodges  Roland  E.  Wilcox  recording  secretory.  Your  Un­ Arthur  R.  King  ion  urges  you  to  take  an  active  MT.  WILSON  STATE  HOSP.  MT.  WILSON.  MD.  part in  meetings by  taking these  Georg*  Davis  G.  Richardson  posts of  service.  , VA  HOSPITAL  And,  of  course,  all  members  KECOUGHTAN,  VA.  have  the  right  to  take  the floor  Joseph  Gill  and  express  their' opinionR' • o  h  j  •  ^  VA HOSPITAt;  '• • • •   HOUSTON.  TEXAS  ;  any  officer's report  or  issue tin­ tiarry  McClernon  der  discussion.  Seafarers  are  USPHS  HOSPITAL  urged  to  hit  the  deck  at  these  BALTIMORE,  BU>.  Justin  Burdo  meetings  and  let  their  ship­ Joseph  Ardillo  James  Armstrong'  Edward  Burton  mates  know  what's  on  their  Julian' Autencio  Thomas  Ctough  minds.  Ben  L.  Bone  Louis  Firlie  '  B.  y.  Boston  Sr.  Ot|s  L,  Gibbg  1  Gorman  Glaze  Emanuel  Jones  Kenneth  Miller  Endel  Pappel  JesM  Puckett  Harry  Pule  Abner  Raiford  Jose  Scares  John  Steglefort  Dolphus  Walker  Levi  Warner  USPHS  HOSPITAL  BOSTON,  MASS.  Dominic  Newell  Edward  Sieger  Charles  Robinson  Joseph  M.  Thomas  John  C.  Roblee  USPHS  HOSPITAL  GALVESTON.  TEXAS  Morris  J.  Black  Frank  B.  RoweU  'rhomas  Bowers  Cecil  Saunders  Albert  W.  Canter  James  Sheppard  Francis  Reagan  John  Spearman  USPHS  HOSPITAL  TUCSON.  ARIZ.  Frank  3.  Mackey  TRIBORO  HOSPITAL  JAMAICA.  LI.  NY  James  Russell  HOSPITAL  DENVER.  COLO.  Clifford  C.  Womack  USPHS  HOSPITAL  SAVANNAH.  GA.  Jose  A.  Blanco  George  Kltcheng  R.  W.  Centchovlch  MFOW  Speak Out At  SIU Meetings  •  •   • .,^  V­ ^  Afc)W  IN  eOTN  lUmmm  �JjOrtt, 1989  SEAFARERS  LOG  Proud Papa  li BAB¥  ARRIVALS  All  of  the  follovoing  SIU  families  have  received  a  $200  maternity  benefit  plus  a  $25  bond  from  the  Union  in the  baby's  name:  Jeffrey  Armstrong,  born  June  Charlotte  Ann  Granger,  born  16j  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  July  4,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  James  Armstrong,  Jarvisburg,  NC.  Antoine  Granger,  Basile,  La.  4  4  4.  4  4  4  Deborah  Joan  Bacon,  born  May  Linda  May  McCarthy,  born  May  19,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  12,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Gerald  McCarthy,  Yarmouth,  Robert  Bacon,  Baltimore,  Md.  Novia  Scotia.  4  4  4  4  4  4  Joann Bracbt,  born July 17, 1959,  Cheryl  Elizabeth  Moore,  born  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Joseph  May  21,  1959,  to Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Bracht,  San  Juan,  Puerto Rico.  Irvin  Moore,  Marshallberg,  NC.  4  4  4  4  4  4  Lisa  Durmo,  born  June  27,  1959,  Scott  William  Mozden,  born  to  Seafarer jgnd  Mrs.  John  Durmo,  March  8,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Bronx,  NY.  Mrs.  Jan  Mozden,  New  Britain,  Conn.  4  4  4  Douglas  Wayne  East,  born  July  4  4  4  1, 1959,  to Seafarer and  Mrs.  Harry  Terry  Joseph  Rakowski,  born  June 23,  1959, to Seafarer  and  Mrs.  East,  Houston,  Texas.  Joseph  Rakowski,  Baltimore,  Md.  4  4  4  Augustine  Rodriguez,  AB,  proudly  displays  daughter,  Sara, at  family's NY  home.  I  TO  SHIPS IN ATLANTIC EUROPEAN  ANP  SOUTH  AMERICAN  WATERS  MTD­ "THE VOICE OF THE  EVERY  SUNDAY,  1620  OMT  (11:20  EST  Sunday)  WFK­39,  19850  KCs  Ships  in  Caribbean,  East  Coast  of  South  America,  South  Atlan­ tic  and  East  Coast  of  United  States.  WFL­65,  15850  KCo  Ships  in  Gulf  of  Mexicb,  Carib­ bean,  West  Coast  of  South  America,  West  Coast  of  Mexico  and  US  East  Coast.  fVFK­95,  15700  KCs  Ships  in  Mediterranean  area.  North  Atlantic,  European  and  US  East  Coast  Meanwhile,  MTD  'Round­The­WoFld  ­Wireless Broadcasts Continue .. •   Every  Sunday, 1915  GMT  (2:15  PM  EST Sunday)  WCO­13020  KCs  Europe  and  North  America  WCO­16908.8  KCs  East  Coast  South  America  WCO­22407  KCs  West  Coast  South  America  H  ­­  i •   '  '.ilw  •   '1  •  ;•   •  Every  Monday,  0315  GMT  (10:15  PM  EST  Sunday)  WMM  25­15607  KCs  Australia  :  WMM  81­11037.5  Northwest  Pacific  • UlnilE TUKS lEmTKHT  Plan Joint  Runaway  Organizing Set­Up  (Continued  from  page  2)  thorized  bargaining  representative  jurisdiction  would  be  submitted  to  of  the  men.  The  plan  would  work  a  special  three­man  ITF committee  similarly  where  the financing  and  already  set  up  In  London.  This  true  ownership  of  the  vessel  was  committee, including  ITF Secretary  found  to  be  Norwegian  or  British,  Omar  Becu  and  Tom  Yates  of  the  for  example.  In  such  cases,  the  British  Seamen's  Union,  would  ad­ proper  Norwegian  or  British  vise  ITF  affiliates  of  the  status  of  unions  would  take  jurisdiction.  One  major  point  of  agreement  each ship,  based  on  its true  owner­ ship,  capitalization  and  the  service  reached  earlier  between  the  vari­ ous  ITF  affiliates  is  that  no  or­ in  which  it  was  operating.  Ships  in  American  trade  and  ganization  will  tolerate  any  ship­ financed  by  American  capital,  re­ owner  move  to  dump  a  runaway  gardless  of  the  nationality  of  the  in  favor  of  a  European flag  'o  crew  and  the  runaway flag,  would  escape  American  organizing.  Such  then  be  serviced  by  the  joint  moves,  it  was  agreed,  could  not  be  American  committee  as  the  au­ allowed  once  the  question  of  true  jurisdiction  had  been  cleared  up.  Some  800  ships  of  all  types  are  believed  to  be  involved.  PERSONAtS  AND  NOTICES  Erwin  Max  4  4  4  Robert  Eschrich,  born  May  21,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Robert  Paul  Anthony  Raynon bom  July  Urgent you  contact  your  brother  2,  1959, to  Seafarer and  Mrs. Oscar  George  at  Richey  Inc.,  1223­27  Eschrich,  Brooklyn,  NY.  South  Wabash  Ave.,  Chicago  5,  Raynor, Galveston, Texas.  4  4  4  lil..  Telephone  WEbster  9­2040.  4­4  4  Shannon Gleen  Fagan, born  May  Anthony  Roman,  born  June  28,  Your  brother  Edward  is  seriously  23,1959, to Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Fred  1959, to  Seafarer and  Mrs. Leonard  ill.  Fagan,  New  Orleans, La.  4  4  4  Roman,  Baltimore,  Md.  Leonard  A.  G.  Smith  4  4  4  4  4  4  Very important  you contact  your  Margaretha  Kreiss, born  July 16,  Beverly  Ann  Young,  born  June  wife,  c/o  D.  Angeli,  89  Campbell  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Clyde  23, 1959,  to Seafarer and Mrs.  John  Ave.,  West  Haven,  Conn.  Kreiss,  Lindenhurst,  NJ.  Young,  Mobile,  Ala.  4  4  4  4  4  4  ­ 4  4  4  Earl  Jackson  Fuller  Lois  Marie  Latapie,  bom  April  Timothy  Zimmerman,  born  Contact  your  wife  at  3707  21, 1959,  to Seafarer and  Mrs. Jean  March 26,1959, to Seafarer and Mrs  Avenue  S,  Galveston,  Texas.  Latapie,  New  Orleans,  La.  Lloyd Zimmerman,  Bedford, Va.  4  4  4  Edwin  Spence  Harris  Please  contact  your  wife,  Mrs.  E.  S.  Harris,  General  Delivery,  Natchitoches,  Louisiana.  EVERY  I  SUNDAY  I DIRECT  VOICE  I BROADCAST  rare Fifteen  ship  Corp;  Oliver  F,  Martin,  P,  J.  McCorey,  Leslie  Lord,  Odis  Stout,  Frank  Adkins,  Earl  Gates.  4  4  4  4  4  James  Barrett  Please  get  in  touch  with  Frank  Shandl,  ex­Alcoa  Pilgrim.  Write  to  the  Baltimore  hall.  There  is  a  letter  waiting  for  you  at  the  New  York  hall.  4  Paul  Higgins  Please  contact  H.  F.  Holmes,  7020  North  Clark  Ave.,  Tampa,  Fla.  4  4  4  Following  men  have  income  tax  refund  checks  waiting  for  them  at  the  office  of  Jack  Lynch,  room  201,  Sailors  Union  of  the  Pacific,  450  Harrison  Street,  San  Fran­ cisco:  Richard  P.  Bowman,  Theo­ 4  4  4  dores  G.  Calapothakos,  Arthur  L.  Ellis  D.  Knowles  Please  contact  your  mother  at  Craig  Jr.,  John  J.  Doyle,  Tom  108  Channing  Ave.,  Portsmouth,  Evans,  Steve  Krkovich,  Milford  H.  McDonald,  Hubert  Partridge,  Leo  Va.  Rondario,  Ding  Hal  Woo.  4  4  4  Following  crewmembers  have  had  their  gear  deposited  in  Phila­ delphia SIU  hall by  Calmar Steam­ Barge Line  Votes SIU  Charles  F.  Dwyer,  53:  Brother  Dwyer  died  of  heart  failure  on  June  8  in  Wey­ mouth,  Mass.  A  steward,  Dwyer  joined  the  Union  in  1946.  He  was  buried  in  Holy  Cross  Cemetery,  Maiden,  Mass.  Brother  Dwyer  leaves  no  known  survivors.  .'• J  • '4l  : ii I  Unions Veto  Escape  Bid  (Continued  from  page  2)  the  Greek  seamen's union  was  not  motivated  by  any  special  attach­ ment  to Greece,  since they  refused  to  put  their  fleets  under  Greek  registry.  Indeed,  the  American  representatives  declared,  the  oper­ ators  not  only  sought  to  escape  American  taxes  but  wanted  to  avoid  Greek  taxes  as  well.  The  Athens  government  imposes  a  low  2'/i  percent  tax  levy  on  the  gross  of  Greek­flag shipping.  Hall  and  Curran  both  welcomed  the  operator's  recognition, that  the  ITF was  the proper  body  to contact  in this situation,  but added  that  the  operators  would  have  to  face  up  to  the  fact  that  their  crews  want  improved  conditions  and  that  the  standards  of  the  runaways  would  have  to  brought  up  to  those  of  the  legitimate  competition.  Thomas  B.  Massey,  43:  As  a  re­ sult  of  an  acute  heart  ailment  Brother  Massey  passed  away  on  May 28.  He was  a  patient  at  the  Grady  Hospital,  Atlanta,  NC.  Brother  Massey  is survived  by his  wife,  M o z e 11 e  Virginia  Massey  of  Pilot  Moun­ tain,  NC.  BOSTON—'The  SIU  Harbor  and  Inland  Waterways  Division  scored  an  election  victory  here  recently  when  employees  of  the  Boston  Sand  and  Gravel  Company  voted  for  Union  representation.  Negotia­ tions will  get underway  soon  for a  working  agreement  with  the  com­ pany.  Eugene  Dakin,  acting  agent,  wishes  to  reniind  all  hands  that  4  4  Harry  Dossett,  29:  On  May  29  when  leaving  a  vessel  to  receive  medical  attention  they  should  re­ Brother  Dossett  died  of  a  cerebral  rupture  at  the  port  to  the  hospital  or  doctor  as  Mobile  Infirm­ soon as humanly po.ssible. Unneces­ ary. ,  A  member  sary  delay,  he  warned,  can  result  of  the  engine  de­ in  loss  of  maintenance  and  cure  benefits.  partment,  D o s­ Ships  paying  off  during  the  last  sett  joined  SIU  two  weeks  here  were  the  Winter  in  1957.  Burial  ­  PHILADELPHIA  —  After  a  10  Hill  and  Bents  Fort  (Cities  Serv­ was  held  in  day walkout,  during which  the har­ ice).  In­transits  consisted  of  the  Howell  Ceme­ bor  had  been  closed  down,  the  Steel  Flyer  (Isthmian);  Atlantis  won  their  tery,  Miss.  Dos­ longshoremen finally  (Petrol  Shipping)  and  ths  Robin  sett  is  survived  dispute  in  this  port.  However,  Kirk  (Roblri).  The  Winter  Hill  had  by his wife, Mrs.  Mary Fay Dossett,  during  the  time  the  waterfront  a  few  beefs  which  were  settled  and his son, David H., one year  old,  was  completely  tied  up,  every  promptly  and  a  clean  payoff  re­ of  Wilmer,  Alabama.  ship due  to call  here  was  diverted.  sulted.  Only one  ship called  in  transit, the  4  4  4  Alois  Manffray,  56:  At  sea,  Evelyn  (Bull).  One  ship  paid  off,  aboard  the Del  Sud,  Brother Mauf­ the supertanJrer CS Baltimore (City  Service),  aiid  one  ship  signed  on,  fray  died  of  cor­ the  Edith  (BuU).  onary  occlusion  Steve  Cardullo,  Philadelphia  on  April  27.  Seafarers  overseas  who  want  agent, reports that the MAWD's or­ Mauffray  joined  to  get  in  touch  with  headquar­ ganizing program is going full  blast  ters  in  a  hurry  can  do  so  by  the  Union  i n  at  several  new  companies.  1947,  and  worked  cabling  the  Union  at  its  cable  ­ess,  SEAFARERS  NEW  in  the  engine de­ partment.  He  is  YORK.  survived  by  his  Use of  this address will assure  ­edy  transmission  on  all  mes­ wife,  T h e 1 m a  sages  and  faster "ervice  for  the  Mauffray,  anci  a  four­year­old  son,  Phillip,  of  New  men  Inv­'ved.  Orleans.  Louisiana.  Ship Diversion  Siows  Phiily  Union Has  Cable Address  vu ny  1  Vl  �Vol.  XXI  No. 16  SEAFARERS^LOO  OFFICIAL  ORGAN  OF  THE  SEAFARERS  INTERNATIONAL  UNION  • ATLANTIC    AND  GULF  DISTRICT  • A   FL­CIO  •   Italian Seamen End Strike  Get Nine Percent Raise  The six­week­old  strike of  Italian­flag merchant seamen  came to an  end last  week  with  TBtn  agreement  providing  a  nine  percent  increase  in  base  wages  for  the crews.  Translated  into dollars,  the nine percent amounts  to $5.40  to $7.20 per  month for most ratings  who were  previously  being  paid  $60  to  tions,  hiring  preference  for  union  members  of  the  two  passenger  $30 monthly.  seamen  and  an  increase  in  man­ ships  in  New  York  sought  assist­ Details  on  other  aspects  of  ning scales.  ance  from  the  SIU  when  the  US  Immigration  Service  instructed  company  officials  to  confine  the  crewir  in  their  custody  because  their  landing  permits  had  expired.  SIU  intervention  won  agreement  from  the  company  to  permit  the  crews  to  go  ashore  on  "good  be­ havior."  In  addition,  the SIU  han­ dled  the  crews'  mail  and  supplied  them  with  cigarettes.  The  SIU's  assistance  won  warm  thanks  from  the  ships'  crews.  SIU Took Responsibility  The company  had  been  reluctant  to  let  the  men  go  ashore  because  they  would  be  subject  to  $1,000  WASHINGTON—The  House  version  of  the labor­relations  fines  for  every  crewmember  who  jumped ship. However,  they agreed  bill  to  control  corruption  in  labor­management  affairs  has  to  do  so  when  the  SIU  said  it  Tog pushes  SlU­manned Beauregard off  Port Newark  pier as  ship,  been  denounced  as  unacceptable  by  AFL­CIO  President  would  accept responsibility  for  the  loaded  down  with  trailer  boxes,  starts  on  southbound  journey.  crewmembers being  aboard on  sail­ George  Meany.  Meany  de­|  Sister  ship  Foirlond  is  tied  to  the  pier.  exemptions  from  reporting  on  ing day.  dared  that  the  bill  would  do  funds  spent  in  the  labor  relations  As it  was, not  a single  crewmem­ serious harm to legitimate un­ arena.  ber  ran  afoul  of  the  law  during  ions  under  the  guise  of  dealing  He  attacked  limits  on  the  rights  their  strike  and  all  were  aboard  of  certain  individuals  from  hold­ when  the ships finally  sailed, fully­ With  corruption.  ing  union  office  without  compara­ justifying the  SIU's position  that it  The  bill  reported  out  of  the  House  Labor  Committee is  now  on  ble  limitations  on  the  other  side  was okay to grant them shore leave­ The  lengthy  strike,  a  rarity  the floor  for  amendments.  The  of  the  bargaining  table  and  de­ Seafarers  aboard  the  Pan­• Atlantic trailer­carrying  ships  clared  that a  ruling  barring organ­ among  European  maritime  unions,  House  version  differs  considerably  have  been  applauded  by  the  company  for  "a  first  rate  job"  izational  picketing  would  make  it  was, as  much  the  result  of  an  ac­ from  the  Senate  bill,  which  was  in  their  cooperation  with  the  company's customer­promotion  easier  for  employers  to  obtain  cumulation  of  serious  grievances  also  denounced  by  the  AFL­CIO  program.  and  by  many  unions, including  the  "sweetheart"  contracts.  Any  kind  as over  monetary  matters. In  addi­ SIU  of  North  America  at  its  last  of  organizational  picketline  could  tion  to  subnormal  wages,  even  i'n  A letter from  Captain  Hans  vessels,  which  would  have  about  be  prevented  simply  by  signing  a  terms  of  the  Italian  living  stand­ Schroeder, the company's m.a­ twice  the  capacity  of  the  present  convention.  An  even  stricter  measure  pro­ contract  with  a  compliant  union.  ard,  the  crewmembers  on  the  pas­ rine  operating  manager,  to  the  trailerships,  would  be  used  in  the  posed  by  the  Administration  is  In  prefacing  his  point­by­point  senger  ships  had  to  pay  for  their  Union  explained  the  importance  intereoastal  trade.  An  application  own uniforms and  laundering, wait­ being  introduced  at  this  late  date.  objections  to  the  legislation  as  it  ers  had  to  pay  all  breakage  costs  of  the  company's  promotion  pro­ is  being  made  for  Government  now  stands,  Meany  rejected  the  gram  in  which  groups  of  potential  mortgage  Insurance  on  their  con­ It  would  impose criminal  penalties  losses  of  silver  and  utensils  customers  are  taken  on  a  guided  struction.  un  union  officers  who  allegedly  idea  that  labor  should  accept  fhe  plus  through  pilferage,  and  overtime  violated  the  membership's  rights  bill  because "people  demand  legis­ was  virtually  non­existent.  Work­ tour  of  the  trailership  operation  lation  this  year,  no  matter  what  and  would stiffen  bans on  organiza­ days of  11 hours or  more  are  com­ as  a  business­solicitation  device.  tional picketing and  on "hot cargo"  kind  of  legislation  it  be."  On  the  monplace  enabling  the  owners  to  "A  primary  reason  for  the  pro­ contrary,  Meany  said,  "We  do  not  agreements.  gram's  success,"  he  wrote,  "is  the  for  a  moment  consider  the  public  cut  manning scales.  complete  cooperation  and  desire  "Meany's criticism  repeated labor  a  moronic  body  demanding  a  The strike  began  when  the  ship­ objections  to  the  so­called  "bill  measure  which  will hamstring  free  owners, in  response to  demands for  to  do  a first  rate  job  exhibited  by  of  rights,"  writtcn"into  the  bill  in  democratic  trade  unionism  un'der  wage  increases of  15 to  20  percent,  all  members  of  the  Seafarers  the Senate,  which  would  place  the  the guise  of  getting at the  crooks."  offered  the  men  $1.25  a  month.  International Union.  The men  who  have  joined  us  each  day  from  the  Government and  the courts square­ hall  and  the members  of  the ship­ ly  in  the  middle  of  routine  union  board  steward  departments,  have  operations and  meeting  procedure.  made every  effort  to make  the day  He also  pointed  out that  the House  one  to  be  long­remembered  by  bill  exempts  the  main  targets  of  each  of  our  guests.  The  meals  any  drive  on  labor­management  NEW  ORLEANS—Shipping  had  have  been  outstanding,  the  serv­ corruption,  the  so­called'  labor  ice has  been excellent  and the gen­ a  lively  two  weeks  during  the last  relations  counselors,  from  report­ ing  on  their flnancial  activities.  (The  brothers  described  belovj  are  receiving  $150  monthly  SIU  dis­ eral  attitude  of­ all  concerned  has  period  at  New  Orleans.  New  Or­»'  been  exemplary.  Everyone  con­ leans  agent  Lindsey  Williams  re­ Employers  would  also  get  wide  ability­pension  benefits.)  cerned  with  this  service  has  tried  ports six  payoffs,  six  sign  ons  and  Adrian Guns . . . 67 ..  . started sailing  in  his  native Belgium  In  1921  with  his  individual  best  to  do  the  twenty  two  ships  stopping  in­ . . . later  joined  the  SIU  working  in  the  steward  department  . . .  best  possible  job.  transit.  For  a  comprehensive  after sailing on  Belgian, Dutch  and  "May  we  thank  you  and  all  of  breakdown,  the  following  ships  British­flag  ships.  Brother  Guns  the  men  who  have  worked  on  this  were  paid  off:  Alcoa  Pilgrim  says, "There's nothing.^in  the world  program  for  the  keen  attention  (Alcoa); Del Santos, Del Monte, Del  like  an  American  ship" . , . didn't  toward  a  most  important  mutual  Sud  (Mississippi);  Steel  Age  (Isth­ SIU  membership  meet­ have  any  special  run,  whichever  goal—increasing  business  so  that  mian);  Arizpa  (Waterman).  back  to  the  States  fastest  more  and  better  jobs  will  be  ings  are  held  regularly  got  The  vessels  signing  on  were  the  suited  him  .  .  .  why?—because  created,"  Alcoa  Pilgrim  (Alcoa);  Del  Aires,  every  two  weeks  on  Wed­ racing  is  his  fancy  and  "there's  A  related  company  of  Pan  At­ Del  Sud  (Mississippi);  Steel  nesday  nights  at  7  PM in  plenty  of  that  here"  . . . doesn't  lantic's,  Sea  Land  Inc.,  has  an­ Traveler  (Isthmian);  John  B.  Wa­ or  correspond  with  former  nounced  plans  to  build  four  new  terman  (Waterman);  and  Penn  all  SIU  ports.  All  Sea­ see  shipmates  during  the  year,  but  trailerships  on  the same  principle  Vanguard  (Penn  Marine). The  fol­ farers  are  expected  to  during  the  summer  he  manages  as  the  ships  now  being  operated  lowing  ships  were  in­transit:  Al­'  attend;  those  who  wish  to  four  or five  visits  to  the  Union  in  the  eogstwise  trade.  The  new  coa  Ranger,  Alcoa  Clipper,  Alcoa  hall,  where  he  passes  many  an­ be excused  should request  hour  Roamer,  Alqoa  Corsair  (Alcoa);  recalling  the  past ... an  in­ Seatrain  Georgia,  Seatrain  Louisi­ permission  by  telegram  door and  outdoor  man. Guns  takes  ana  (Seatrain);  Del  Aires, Del  Sud  (be  sure  to include  regis­ to  baking  and  cooking  as  well  as  Adrian Guns  and  family.  (Mississippi);  Elizabeth,  Frances  he  is  married  and  tration  number). The  next  gardening ...  (Bull);  Alice  Brown  (Bioomfield);  h&s  one  daughter,  who  has  already  brought  Guns  three  grandchildren  Steei  Designer,  steel  Traveler  SIU meetings  will be:  . . . lives  in  Kingston, Jamaica.  (Isthmian);  Monarch  of  the  Sea,  if  if  August 5  Hastings,  Young  America,  Jean  Hn  Knut Berger  Cato ."1. 65 ... now  residing at 809  N. Broadway; Balti­ Lafitte, John  B. Waterman  (Water­ August  19  more,  Md.  . . . Sailed  Ore  Line,  Libertys,  and  Hog  Islanders,  the  man); Gl^bome,  Raphael Semmes,  former fireman  preferred  no special  run . . . joined the  Union  in 1932,  September  2  Gateway  City  (Pan  Atlantic);  Val­ and first  started sailing  in  1913 aboard  the SS  George  E.  Warren.  ley  Forge  (Peninsular  Navigation).  .  tlie settlement  were  lacking. Strik­ ing crewmembers  of  the  passenger  ships  Vulcania  and  Julio  Cesare  had  told  the  SIU  that  they  were  seeking  recognition  of  shipboard  delegates,  grievance  procedure,  Improved  living  and feeding condi­ The  strike,  which  began  June  8,  had  tied  up  more  than 100  Italian­ flag  vessels  throughout  the  world,  including  the  two  passenger  ships  in  New  York  plus  the  freighter  Punta  Alice.  In the  course of  the strike, crew­ Attack  House  Labor  Bill  As Threat To All Unions  Company Cites  SIU  Men As Tirsf  Rate'  N'Orleans  Has Plenty  Of  Activity  SCHEDULE  OF  SIU  MEETINGS  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Title A name given to the resource July 31, 1959 Description An account of the resource Headlines: WORK TO START ON NEW BUILDING IN NEW ORLEANS FORM SPECIAL UNIT TO SIGN RUNAWAYS ROSE KNOT IN FIRST RECOVERY OF ATLAS CONE MERCY SHIP MISSION SET IN JANUARY MAP JOINT US ORGANIZING UNIT FOR RUNAWAY DRIVE UNIONS VETO GREEK ‘ESCAPE HATCH’ PLAN CLEAR SITE FOR NEW HALL IN N’ORLEANS ICC IN NEW ALASKA BID ROSA SKIPPER DEFENDS SPEED IN VALCHEM CRASH SITUATION ATOM MERCHANTMAN’S HULL LAUNCHED; SAILS IN ‘60 OPERATORS GO FOR ‘JUMBO’ T-2 IN TANKSHIP SLUMP MOBILE FIGHTS TAX ON SHIP SUPPLIES ORESHIP CREWS SEEK TIE WITH LAKES SIU NY TRAINING SCHOOL STILL HAS NEAR-PERFECT RECORD AIR-JET BOAT MAKES FIRST SEA VOYAGE NS SAVANNAH: URANIUM-FIRED SHIP LABOR PUSHES FIGHT FOR MEDICAL CARE FOR AGED CONGRESS EXPOSES $ FOREIGN AID WASTE PLAN JOINT RUNAWAY ORGANIZING SET-UP ITALIAN SEAMEN END STRIKE, GET NINE PERCENT RAISE ATTACK HOUSE LABOR BILL AS THREAT TO ALL UNIONS 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 07/31/1959 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. XXI, No. 16  1959 Periodicals Seafarers Log