http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/cdfb9cca47aae529e7beff615f2e5bf2.PDF 2889a766bd32b470daadbe38e36a91e8 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL GROAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNjQN • ATLANTIC, OULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO NEW SIU PLAN ASSURES MILK ON ALL TRIPS Story On Page 8 f • SIU-MEBA picketing against BritishJOD #TOf ©Sf • flag Salvada in Lake Charles led to toplevel meeting with US Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg in Washington. Unions charged rigging by broken to bar aid cargoes from US ships. (Story on Pago 3.) US Sea Unions Set Global Unit Rally World • • Service counter on main deck of new f ITSJICCf lOII* Houston hall, due to open* next month, geta the onceover from Seafarers J. R. Prestwood, J. R. Robertson, M. W. Anderson and J. N. Atchison. New building has been fully modernized. (Story on Pago 2.) Labor Drive On Runaways liPlviR ..." " - Story On Page 2 SIU, MEBA Demand Probe On Charters Story On Page 8 Half In Houston SIU Clinic Ready To Open Expanded By Next Month To Phila. Story On Page 2 U C#ora*« supply for entire offshore IvGMr JfOrCS* voyage comes aboard the Madaket in NY. New "grade A", product^ looked over by steward, A. Espenada and E. Klingvall, SIU food plan rep., needs no refrigeration other than chilling before serving. (Story on Page 3.) Story On Page 17 SIU CONSTIiyTION MLANtlC GUtF • lAKES AND WATMS DtSfSICr • AH-OO O"*! livC VCN I Hi it' BWCV i Iwfl �IHI LOG Prints MTD Sets Up New Global Body Constitution NEW YORK—Acting to set up an effective program to deal with world maritime union problems, the Mari­ time Trades Department, AFL-CIO, has formulated 17tb Time plans for an international maritime labor structure. A meet­ ing of the MTD executive board here on Friday, January 5, voted unanimously to establish an btemational Division of MTD with offices in Latin America, Europe and the Far Special Report East. This issue of the SEAFAR­ The new division will em­ ERS LOG contains a fourbark on an 11-point program page section (pages 11-14) to combat runaway-type ship- consisting of the minutes of ing operations under any maritime flag through close working rela­ tionships with unions and maritime workers throughout the free world. It will also work to help advance the welfare of shoreside maritime workers everywhere ana to com­ bat the aggressive Communist pro­ gram in Latin America. Establishment of an Interna­ tional division was authorized at the last MTD convention, held December 4-6 in Miami. At that time, the 150 delegates attending voted to establish facilities that would promote close relationships between maritime unions on the International level throughout the free world. Since major maritime unions in the Department—the International Longshoremen's Association, the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso­ ciation and the SIU—had with­ drawn from the International Transportworkers Federation, delegates felt the need to establish an apparatus whereby MTD affili­ ates could work effectively with their counterparts elsewhere in the free world. The executive board meeting named Thomas L. (Teddy) Gleason, the MTD conference in New York on January 5. The min­ utes contain the following: • Text of the resolution adopted by the MTD conven­ tion in December authorizing a global program. • A policy statement con­ cerning the relationships be­ tween the SIUNA and the ITF. • The 11-poInt program adopted by the conference. iThe policy statement de­ scribes efforts of the SIUNA and other US maritime unions to implement a policy of working to improve the stand­ ards of seamen and fishermen of all nations. These efforts were thwarted in large part because the apparatus of the Seafarers Section of the ITF was under the thumb of the National Union of Seamen of Great Britain. general organizer and executive vice-president of the ILA, as executive director of the new divislon. "This new division," Gleason declared, "will fill a long-felt need for a vehicle to develop and Imple­ ment programs of mutual interest among the unions involved. "Up to this point there was a vacuum in this area as the result of the Ineffectiveness of the Inter­ national Transportworkers Federa­ tion. Offices Planned Plans are underway to open three offices Immediately, Gleason said, with additional centers to follow. Initially, the offices will be open in San Juan, Yokohama, and Antwerp. A facility will also be set up In San Juan to serve as a clearing house for the exchange of information and to provide tech­ nical assistance. The MTD resolution under which the division was set up took particular note of the prob- A portion of tho large gathering at the MTD conference is pictured as Leon Schacter, MTD executive board member and vice-president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters right), discusses point with MTp president Paul Hell. lems of Latin America and of the eagerness of maritime workers In Latin America to work In concert with MTD unions In order to pre­ serve free trade unions in that area and to improve conditions for all Latin American workers. This need is particularly urgent right now because of the extensive effort by the Communist Party to seize control of Latin American labor and, in the process, thWart the "Alliance for Progress" pro­ gram drafted by the United States in conjunction with the LatinAmerican governments. Step Up Fight For the seafaring unions,, the new International Division offers a medium for a stepped-up fight against Llberian-flag shipping as well as against operations of a runaway nature under all flags. The maritime unions are particu­ larly concerned about the exploita­ tion of Asian, African, and Latin American crews by both American and foreign-flag runaway-type op­ erators. This exploitation threatens the hard-won gains of organized seamen everywhere, particularly those of American and Canadian seamen. Separate Wage Scales It Is a widespread practice for shipowners of many nations and, in particular, British-flag opera­ tors, to pay alien crews far less than wages paid their own nation­ als, a practice which Is unfair to all seamen. Up until now, efforts by the American unions to coordinate a program against these practices through the ITF have not been successfuL Spelling out the rights and nsponsibilitles of all Seafarwa, tha SIU constitution Is reprinted for the 17th time since 1953 as part of this issue of the SEAFARERS LOG. The SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District con­ stitution is carried as an eightpage supplement in the centerfold. The practice of reprinting the Un­ ion constitution every six months began after the adoption of a resolution at an SIU Port Agent'a Conference held at Union head­ quarters in 1953. Amendmenta Keep Pace Amended three times during the past ten years, the SIU constitu­ tion was completely revised in 1952 to conform with changing practices in the Union and the in­ dustry and was again modified slightly in 1956. The document was again revised almost two years ago, in May, 1960, to reflect the establishment of a new District Union structure plus expanding Union activity and membership. On all occasions, the amend­ ments and revisions carried by overwhelming majorities of the membership in secret ballot voting by Seafarers in all ports. Up-To-Date Text The periodic reprints of the con­ stitution as part of the LOG pro­ vide the membership with an upto-date copy of the entire text and helps keep all hands familiar with their rights and duties as Union memlbers. The last reprint was in the July, 1961 issue of the LOG. Houston Ready To Open HOUSTON—The newest hiring hall in the Union's program to provide modern fa­ cilities in all major shipping centers is due to open here next month. Seafarers who sail from this booming port will be serviced out of a completely-remodeled two-story building located at 5804 Canal Streets at the corner of Norwood. closer to the turning basin, main conference room, general business The hall should be ready piers and grain elevator than the office, dispatch counter, agent's of­ about mid-February, but not in time for the February 13 membership meeting here, whkh Is scheduled a day late because of the Lincoln's ILA vice-president Thomas Birthday holiday. The opening W. (Teddy) Gleason is ex­ comes less than a year after com­ ecutive director of new pletion of the brand-new New Or­ MTD unit. leans hall last April. Other New Halls Other SIU halls were opened in Port Arthur, Texas; St. Louis, Mo., and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to further Union organizing cam­ paigns in these areas, and a hall was re-established in Tampa to The International Longshoremen's Association will seek service activities in Florida. An­ a guaranteed annual wage in this year's negotiations cover­ other new building was also com­ pleted in Philadelphia during the ing stevedoring operations in the Port of New York. The fall of 1960. . plan is being mapped out to counter "widespread evasion" by the ship­ Located on a 100' x 75' plot, the ping lines of a royalty fund on container cargo loaded or unloaded new hall in Houston Is 16 blocks away from the piers. ILA Eyes Annual Wage Guarantee For Dockers ILA vice-president Thomas W. (Teddy) Gleason said the operators are not living up to the container royalty program, which was estab­ lished to ease the affect of job losses caused by mechanization in Vol. XXIV, No. 1 cargo-handling. He charged that other new techniques. Including In­ Jan., 1962 creased pre-palletizing of general cargo, were designed to bypass the fund. Royalties range from 35c to $1 per ton on container cargo. The guaranteed wage drive would cover longshoremen with estab­ lished seniority sta tus, or about 20,000 of the 30,000 dockers now reg­ PAUL HAIX, Frcaident istered in the port. The ILA agreement expires next September 80 but HERBERT BRAND, Editor; IRWIN BHVACK, negotiations will begin on many issues well in advance of this date. Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art In a separate statement, Gleason slappefl down charges by the National Editor; HERMAN ARTHUR, AIBERT AMAARTHUR MARKOWITZ, MIKE POLLACK, Maritime Union that formation of the new International Division of TEAu, Staff Writers. the Maritime Trades Department would "play into the hands of the Communists." He called them "ridiculous" in a letter to NMU presi­ aubiiihtd monrhiy af fha haadqUfirteri tha Saafarart Infarnatlonal Union, At­ dent Joseph Curran. ."It would seem to me that before you throw of lantic, Oult, Lakat and Inland Watari DKtrlct, AFL-CIO, «7S Fourth Avonuo, such charges around you would examine your own record first on this Brooklyn 32, NY. Tal. HYaclnth «-(M0. score," Gleason stated. The ILA vice-president, serving as executive Stcond clafs postago paid at tha Post In Brooklyn, NY, undar tha Act director of the new global group, said the NMU charges were "a slap Offica of Aug. 24, 1*12. in the face to the ILA" when matched to its long-standing anti120 Communist record. old SIU faciUty at 4202 Canal. The heart of the building, the hiring hall, la located oh the main deck of the fully air-conditioned atructure. The main deck concentrates most of the Union's functions and of­ fices in one centralized area. The top floor will be a wide recreation area which can double as a meeting and assembly hall. Besidea the hir­ ing hall, the main floor holds a fice and a vault to store Union records. Seafarers who have baggage at the present hall are reminded that the new building has no facilities for a baggage room and they should pick up gear as soon as pos­ sible. In addition, the move to tha new hall wil not affect the loca­ tion of the SIU clinic, which con­ tinues in its separate location at 605 Medical Towers. SEAFARERS LOG 1i i Trying it out for size, Seafarers J. R. Prestwood, J. R. Rob•rtson, W. Higlitower and J. N. Atchison, with Houston SIU agent Paul Drozak (left), look over display board where shipping cards wilPbe posted in the new hall. Hiring hall Is located sd near main an^ranca to building. I . V . » �39 MUUUITW ttn SEAFARERS Pace Thrra LOG SlU Plan Assures Fresh Milk Supply On Offshore Runs Aboard the Madokel', first SlU ship to store new fresh milk product for offshore use, Seafarer Jeff Sawyer, OS (left), gets a sample of the grade A beverage from John Nash, 2nd cook. SlU food plan rep. Eric Klingvall looks on, waiting turn with his glass. Ultra-pasteurization process means milk can be stored without refrigeration. Pioneered by the SIU, a brand-new shipboard feeding benefit that began January 1 guarantees all^Seafarers at least one pint of fresh milk daily for the full length of any offshore voyage. The new milk guarantee is in addition to the supply of fresh milk that must be available on coastwise runs and in continental US ports and that must be aboard on sailing day prior to departure from a final port. This milk can ba stored aboard Madaket (Waterman), which was First of its kind in mari­ ship for an indefinita period with­ docked at the Brooklyn Army Base before heading offshore. The cases time, the milk guarantee is out refrigeration. of canned fresh milk were stored 'Super-Heaiinr' Process an expansion of the feed­ away without refrigeration and will ing program based on the use The raw milk used Is the same be broken out as needed. of pasteurized grade A fresh as milk packed In bottles except Use of the new canned fresh milk packed in sterile cans. that it is super-heated during milk is designed to do away with PHS, Foreign Aid Rise Oniy Gain In New Budget WASHINGTON—Continuing the go-slow course charted by the previous Administra­ tion, Federal budget planners have proposed a fiscal 1963-outlay of a little over $300 million In specialized aid for the shipping industry. The total includes $225 million in operating money and a bare $50 million* for ship constructiop. (See marked for the USPHS indicates no cut-back in service is pianned story on Page 5.) Despite all the expectations for the first budget completely spon­ sored by the new Administration, the proposals show there is still no Federal recognition of the changing character of the nation's foreign trade. There was no alloca­ tion for bulk cargo operations of any kind. The bright spots in the new budget are limited to a slight rise In the appropriation for the US Public Health Service facilities plus a $1.1 billion increase In for­ eign aid. Cargo Share Under a properly - administered "50-50" law, US-flag vessels can hope for an increased share of car­ goes if the expanded aid program is approved. The $50 miilion ear- INDEX To Departments! Th* Canadian Seafarer —Page 4 The SIU inland iaafman —Page 5 A&G Deep Sea Shipping Report —Page 6 SIU Safety Department —Page 7 The Great Lakes Seafarer —Page 7 SIU Food, Ship Sonitotion Dep't —Page 8 The Pacific Coast Seafarer —Page 8 Editoriois —Page lo The SIU industrial Worker —Page 15 The Fisherman and Cannery Worker —Page 16 SiU Social Security Dep't —Page 17 SiU Medical Department —Page 18 Shipboard News —Pages 19, 20, 21 processing and then sealed in tins instead of glass or paper con­ tainers. Recently perfected in the US, the process was first instituted in Switzerland and is known as "Uperisation." All SIU companies are now stor­ ing the fresh milk, which is avail­ able through distributors in all port areas. The first SIU vessel to take on the new product was the SIU, MEBA Hit Charter Policy now, reversing an earlier trend. Operating Subsidy Proposals to provide $225 miilion in operating subsidy funds repre­ sent an increase of $33 miliion over the previous budget. The ad­ ditional funds will cover higher A demand for a Government investigation of ship charter­ operational costs and do not fore­ ing procedures on foreign aid cargoes has been made by tell any significant rise in the num­ the SIU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. ber of companies receiving operat­ The demand was an out--*^ ing aid, although there are six an investigation in these areas: applicants, including Waterman growth of the two unions' ac­ • Relations between foreign and Isthmian, at the present time. tion in tying up the British- missions and brokers. Unlike previous budgets, this one flag Salyada for 23 days at Lake • Manipulation in the assign­ did not even go through the mo­ Charles, La., to protest the loss of ment of povernment-flnanced car­ tion of earmarking funds for new cargo by an American-flag vessel. goes. In identical telegrams sent on applicants or new services, as on • Abuses of waivers allowed January 25 by SIUNA president under the "50-50" law. the Great Lakes. Paul Hall and MEBA secretary• The desirability of Instituting MSTS At Same Level treasurer Jesse Calhoon to re­ The budget figures also reflect sponsible officials of several ma­ standard sealed bidding proce­ continuation of the Military Sea jor Government agencies, both dures under the supervision of Transportation 'Service at prac­ unions charged that a group of appropriate agencies. The telegrams cited efforts by tically the same level as before five ship brokers has been han­ and, on the domestic side, show no dling foreign aid charters in a the brokers to dictate to the US special concern with the shrinkage manner that obstructs proper en­ Department of Agriculture that their services must be employed of the domestic and inland waters forcement of the "50-50" law. in shipping Government cargo. fleet. Tax structures were re-shuf­ Loose Procedures They also described "extremely fled to provide some relief for the After detailing the loose and loose methods of issuing charters railrodds and airlines, but, in the process, user charges are proposed slipshod procedures enabling the which . . . open the door to ir­ on the waterways for tug and barge brokers to select any ship operator regular, informal arrangements" they please to carry the Govern- involving millions in US funds. operators. "As far as we know," the union .^ment cargo, the unions called for officials said, "this is the only Fed­ « eral program of expenditure which does not require a system of sealed bids. Any efforts by shipping groups to alter this bidding pro­ cedure in any shape or form have met with violent objections from the brokerage group Involved." As a result of the Salvada pick­ eting, a meeting was held in Wash­ ington on Tuesday, January 23, under the auspices of US Secre­ tary of Labor Arthur Goldberg. It was attended by Undersecretaries of State and Agriculture and rep­ resentatives of specialized agen­ cies involved in moving US aid cargoes overseas. AFL-CIO presi­ dent George Meany also partici­ pated along with Hall and Calhoon. At the meeting, the union rep­ resentatives submitted detailed documentation about the slipshod, unsupervised handling of ship charters which has deprived "SOUS-flag Olympic Pioneer is pictured at dock in Lake Charles SO" cargo from large segments of near site of Salvada picketing. The American vessel took US shipping. The charges against on part of bagged rice cargo originally marked for the the brokers were widely discussed at the Washington meeting. British ship after the labels were changed. the problem of purchasing and handling milk In different foreign ports where facilities, supplies and quality are limited. The ultra-pas­ teurized milk tastes the same as fresh and laboratory reports speci­ fy its high butter fat content. Ready To Drink The milk Is ready to drink as poured from the can, but should be served chilled In pitchers sine® brief exposure to air gives the sterilized product an added fresh flavor. The processing method in­ volves heating by steam injection to temperatures almost twice that of regular pasteurization, hence the "ultra-pasteurized" label. Spe­ cial canning units are utilized dur­ ing packaging to maintain complete sterilization. The milk can keep for at least two years without refrigeration and samples have reportedly been kept for as long as six years with­ out spoilage. 5,000 Taxi Teamsters Join SIUNA CHICAGO—The membership of the Seafarers International Union of North America rose to 75,000 this month when the international chartered a 5,000-meniber taxi drivers local which had left the Teamsters Union. Chartering of the taxi local fol­ lows the affiliation of the 6.000member Seamen's and Waterfront Workers Trade Union in Trinidad in October. Last June, the Virgin Islands Labor Union, with 1,700 members, also joined the SIUNA. The charter was presented Janu­ ary 18 by SIUNA president Paul Hall to Dominic Abata, who was elected head of the taxi local in July when the union quit the In­ ternational Brotherhood of Team­ sters and decided to seek affilia­ tion elsewhere. Attempts were made by a group of IBT representatives to di.srupt the meeting where the charter was being presented, but the disrup­ tion was quickly quieted. In separate action last year, a local of milk drivers in Cincinnati voted to leave the IBT and ulti­ mately was presented a charter by .\FL-CIO president George Meany. The SIUNA charter for the cab­ men means that the local retains its full autonomy and is entitled to a seat on the executive board of the international. �1^ SlU Crews Two More Grain Ships SEAFARERS lOQ^ A Family Time Two more ships have come tinder the SIU banner as a result of the increase in the grain ship­ ping business which has trickled down to American-flag vessels this winter. Seafarers crewed the Penn Exporter and the Anji in New York and took the vessels on grain runs to Pakistan and the United Arab Republic. The Penn Exporter, owned by the SlU-contracted Penntrans Seafarsr Casey Kaust and his family visit SIU headauarters Company, is one of three vessels before appointment at optical center where the who e gang that came back under the US flag )ate last year. She had been under was due for an eyeglass exam. Pictured (l-rl are Richard, the Norwegian flag as a tanker 7; Jan, 6, Karen, 9; Seafarer and Mrs. Kaust, with Lori, 4. and was converted to bulk cargo. Dad is off the Cities Service Miami. Brought to the States by a Ger­ man crew, the Exporter took on an SIU crew and then sailed to the Gulf to load grain for Karachi. The Anji, a Liberty owned by a newly-contracted company, Sea­ farers, Inc., is the former W. L. McCormack. She also loaded in the Gulf and then headed for the WASHINGTON—Citing the sharp decline in the size of UAH. Grain movements have been the the American-flag shipping fleet, the American Maritime As­ high spot of cargo activity in re­ sociation has urged the Government to "stop studying and cent months, but since many tank­ begin to act" before it's too-^ ers have abandoned the oil trade late. "Otherwise," it warned, cies "charged with the protection to stay in the bulk dry cargo serv­ ice, more freightships are being "some day soon, a Govern­ and promotion of the maritime in­ Idled. The tankers are more popu­ ment study of the merchant marine dustry." Further suggestions concerning lar for bulk movements due to will turn out to be an obituary." Government aids, regulation, or­ In an appearance before the their larger cargo capacity. De­ ganization, technology and other Maritime Evaluation Committee of spite a cold winter and expected record demands for oil, there are the US Department of Commerce, needs of the US-flag fleet were in­ more than enough tankers avail­ Max Harrison, AMA president, vited by Boyd Ladd, project direc­ able to handle the seasonal pe­ criticized "Governmental indiffer­ tor of the committee set up by the ence" across the board In all agen- Secretary of Commerce last year. troleum movement. The committee has been studying maritime problems as th^e basis for recommendations to Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges and Pres­ ident Kennedy. A report covering the nation's QUESTION: What is the reaction to American travelers In foreign transportation industry, including ports these days? maritime, has been prepared and is expected to form the foundation F. Camacho, engine: In come George Wllkey, deck: Americans for the President's special message places, like St. are received with to Congress later this winter on Nazalre in open arms in for­ transportation problems. France, the peo­ eign ports. The The AMA represents shipping ple aren't very people figure companies operating approxmiatefriendly and here comes a ly 300 US-flag ships in the deepdon't seem to couple of thou­ sea and Great Lakes trades. It was like Americans sand dollars to established last year by operators very much. But straighten out under contract to the SIU and the people in Bremthe local econ­ Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso­ erhaven and in omy. I've been to ciation to work for thb improve­ Dutch ports such Okinawa recent­ ment of the industry. as Rotterdam .pre pretty good to ly on a tanker, and to Singapore Americans; they seem to welcome and Trinidad on the same run. It's lis. Americans are also pretty well hard to really know what people received in Far East ports too. think if you are in port just a few hours. Slli membership meetings 4. i 4 are held regularly once a month 4> 4 DominlTO 1/3 Llave, deck: India Daniel Alvino, deck: Wherever on days indicated by the SlU is a good place you go, the reac­ Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the for American tion to Ameri­ listed SIU ports below. All Sea­ travelers, but cans is lousy. It's farers are expected to attend. Spain is the best been that way Those who wish to be excused country as far as for a long time should request permission by the reaction to and it hasn't telegram (be sure to .include Americans is con­ changed a bit. registration number). The next cerned. I've been I've gotten that SIU meetings will be: to Ethiopia and i m p r ession on the people there New York Feb. 5 round-the - world seem to like at almost Philadelphia Feb. 6 Americans and most other for­ runs eigners. In the Near East, Ameri­ eveiy port we have hit. South Baltimore Feb. 7 America, ditto: they don't like us. cans are most welcome In Iran. Detroit Feb. 9 % 3. Ai 4 Victor Peres, steward: It de­ Houston Feb. 13. Domingo Jartin, engine: Every­ pends on the New Orleans Feb. 13 one likes you as country and the Mobile Feb. 14 long as you have port. Bombay is some money In OK for Ameri­ Monthly Informational and your pocket, no cans. Spain and educational SIU meetings fw matter where you Italy are the the West Coast membership are and what best, though. I've have been anthorix^ by the nationality you Just come from Bxecntive Board, starting at happen to be. It's there and they 2:00 PM. and are sehednled in the same old treat Americans Febmary as follows: story it's always very well. Egypt Feb. 19 been. I| you don't Is not so good becauso the hustlers Wilmlnjiton spend money, the people are for some Joints won't leave you Son Francisco Feb. 21 courteous enough, but they don't alone. A lot of American seamen Seattle Feb. 23 want to bother with you for loufl^, Just don't go ashore in Egypt.. Cos Urge US Half Study, Start To Act SIU MEETINGS Shipping-Wheat Comhine Broadens Runaway Drive TORONTO—^The nmaway shipping in the Great Lakes, which was protested by unemployed Canadian seamen during the 1961 season, is part of an ambitious program of the giant Norris Grain C o m p a n y,^ ' owned by American and fj|gco Ltd., Canada Bread Ltd., and such runaway firms as Northern Canadian interests. Two of the Norris Grain runa­ ways, the Northern Venture and the Wheat King, became wellknown during 1961 when they were effectively tied-up by picketing protest actions. The company tried to prevent picketing of the ships through court injunctions, but efforts at getting the restraining orders withdrawn were successful at Halifax, NS, and Three Rivers, Que., on separate occasions. However, Norris Grain, through a tangle of dummy corporations, continues to register ships plying the Canadian trade under Ber­ muda, Liberian and British runa­ way flags. The latest runaway scheme of the company employs the Federal Monarch, a 27,000-ton ship built in Canada, registered under the British flag and en­ gaged in the Canadian and US East Coast tanker trade. Figurehead Operator The Federal Monarch, as many of the Norris Grain runaways, is reportedly operated through the office of J. D. Leitch of Toronto, director of Norris Grain in­ volved in many of the company's runaway firms. The owner of rec­ ord of the Federal Monarch is Maple Leaf Mills, Ltd., a Norris subsidiary. Other companies in the Nerris complex include Upper Lakes Shipping, Leitch Transports, Do- New Ships Ready Soon QUEBEC — Two new vessels which will he manned by SIU of Canada members* are scheduled for delivery this Spring. The Menier Consol,' a new pulp carrier In the Anticosti ilhipping fleet. Is being built at Davie Ship­ building yards at Lauzon, Que. The vessel will measure 301 feet, has a 50-foot beam and will draw 15 feet. The new ship will he powered by a 1,400-hp. engine which will give it a service speed of 11 knots. Another newcomer scheduled for launching at Spring fit-out time is a large Lakes carrier for the Hall Corporation of Canada. As yet unnamed, the leaker is also being built at the Davie yard. SIU Canadian DIsfricf Halls WORT WILLIAM Ontario HAUTAX. NA.... 40S ilmsion St. PhonS: 3-3aai U8H HoUla St. Phona 3-8911 MONTBKAL 834 St Jamaa St Wait Wctor 2-8181 QUIBXC 44 Saiilt-au-Matalot QOabaa LAtoBtataa 3-1969 THOBOU). Oiitulo......BS St DavM St. CAaal 7-8S12 T(HU>NTO. Catwrle ITS KIBK St K. XMpira 4-ST19 VANCQUVOTL WC 39S Main St. ST. joi xn FriM* Bahamas Ltd., Island Shipping and Trans-Lake Shipping. Earlier last year the LeitchNorris Grain comhine outfitted th« 10,400-ton Hilda Marjanne, origi­ nally built in the US, for th« Great Lakes trade under British registry. Protests by imemployed seamen in Canada succeeded in halting the vessel afteir she had made only two voyages. Fast Work On Rescues Saves Lives MONTREAL — Canadian SIU crews took part in dramatic res­ cues in the Great Lakes and on the Pacific Coast this winter. ^ Outside of Victoria, British Co­ lumbia, the crew of the Kingeome Navigation tug J. S. Foley acted in time to save one of their ship­ mates from drowning. The tug was hound for port when a 40-knot gale struck. The second mate, Joe Quilty, was knocked into the water with such force that his lifejacket and shoes were ripped off. Maneuvered Vessel Ralph Smith, skipper of the Foley, maneuvered the vessel to the spot where the mate was floun­ dering in the frigid water and the crew quickly pulled him aboard. The whole operation took only eight minutes. On another occasion, the Lakes crew of the SlU-contracted R. O. Petman saved two young Ameri­ can duck hunfers outside of To­ ronto just before Christmas. The pair was spotted 12 miles offshore by the Petman's alert lookout. They were drifting In a small rubber kayak and suffering from exposure. When the two were pulled aboard, all hands dug into their seabags to come up with a replace­ ment outfit. Thanks to quick action by the SIU crew, the families of the two young men celebrated Christmas instead of mourning a tragedy. Canadian Seafarers, members of the SIU of Canads, are a vital element In the marltime picture generally and In the SIU family of unions. They man ships under the Canadian flag across-the-board—deep sea off the Atlantic Coast, on tha Great Lakes and the Seaway. The Canadian SIU also repre­ sents large groups of Canadian tugboatmen, dredgemen and a|. lied crafts. The Canadian Dis­ trict works closely with ihm other SIU unions throughout North America and the mutual relationship has been of great advantage to all SIU members. �ltd Chester Ferry Run Safe, Won't Close Still running, the Delaware is one of two IBU-manned ferries serving Chester, Pa., and Bridgeport, NJ. PHILADELPHIA—The life of the Chester ferries manned by the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union has been extended through 1962 pending action by the Pennsylvania and New Jersey legislatures. ' of the Delaware River Strong protests by the AFL- Jurisdiction Port Authority starting in 1963. CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ Labor and civic efforts sparked ment and aroused civic groups kept the 31-year-oId service oper­ ating past two scheduled closing deadlines. A meeting this month between political leaders and officials of the Delaware River Ferry Company reached tentative agreement on a program of state subsidies that would provide $100,000 to keep the ferries running this year. Each state would contribute half. Legislation has already been prepar ed and put before New Jer­ sey lawmakers in order to get the emergency aid program started. An arrangement has also been Worked out between the two states to provide the necessary payments since the Pennsylvania State legislature is not able to act on similar legislation this year. It Is expected the IBU-contracted company will be put under the Page Tlva SEAFAMERB LOG continuation of service between Chester, Pa., and Bridgeport, NJ, after December 1 and then Janu­ ary 1 while IBU members_kept run­ ning the lines two ferries. No Alternate Routes Hard-pressed to find efficient alternate routes of transportation across the Delaware, civic groups from the area parallelled labor protests against the proposed shut­ down. Company spokesmen said the main factor leading to the pro­ posed closing was the planned con­ struction of a bridge at Chester. The company owns four ferryboats but had only" been operating two, the Delaware and the Jersey Shore, in the service. At times in the past, up to seven boats were being used. Twenty-five IBU members are employed in various capacities aboard the two ferries. New Wins Spur Union Pact Drive HOUSTON—Key organizing vic­ tories and pace-setting contracts have been won by the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union for boatmen in two companies here plus three others in Norfolk and Philadelphia. The IBU showed its strength here as employees of George E. Light & Co., Seabrook, Texas, voted by a 10-4 count for imion representation in National Labor Relations Board balloting. Light operates six boats and has 18 boat­ men. Service Offshore Oil Rigs Its fleet services the offshore oil drilling rigs of Humble Oil, a na­ tionwide outfit of which Esso (Standard Oil of New Jersey) is a major division. IBU has several contracted fleets which service off­ shore rigs in the Gulf. Tugs, Inc. of Houston also signed the first imion contract in its history after a check of IBU pledgecards. A new pact runs through April, 1965, and provides for three separate wage reopeners, beginning this July. It operates one tug. In Norfolk, top wages and man­ ning scales were won by the IBU at Capitol Transportation, follow­ ing up an NLRB election victory in August. A two-year agreement went into effect on January 1 and calls for an across-the-board in­ crease in July. Capitol employs 14 boatmen on one tug and two oil barges. It has announced plans to add one tug that would provide jobs for ten additional men. Card Check-off Wins Pritohard Towing of Norfolk has also recognized the IBU as bar­ gaining agent for its boatmen after a card check-off. The company runs one tug and negotiations will begin soon. Formerly non-union, Delaware River Lighterage in Philadelphia has signed with the IBU for an agreement expected to mean an overall 20-25 percent boost in workers' take-home pay by May of this year. Other first-time ad­ vantages include an eight-hourday, Saturday pay, overtime and welfare benefits. Christmas dinner was again an occasion for the traditional "spread all ports. At New Orleans (above and top row, right] were SIU veteran Wally LaNasa, his son, Seafarer Douglas LaNasa, and their families. Along­ side (l-r), L. Manry, J. Demars, Seafarer and Mrs. D. Marine. "Scofty'" McDiarmid, P. Pickard, Mrs. E. Engman. Shipbuilding Aid Slashed As Automation Gets Push WASHINGTON—Automation at sea is gathering momen­ tum as the proposed new Federal budget puts the brakes on new US shipbuilding. The budget proposals would cut shipbuilding subsidies in half,^ adequately modem and the na­ down to $50 million from the tion's shipyards operating at a min­ $98 million approved last imum for national defense. year. The Administration is counting on almost $64 million in "carry­ over" funds from 1961 to make a start on up to 18 new vessels dur­ ing the fiscal year beginning In July. Thirteen new vessels are expect­ ed to be the maximum ordered dur­ ing the current fiscal period end­ ing June 30, of which six are al­ ready on order. All of the ships involved are for existing subsid­ ized operators. The total would be only 31 mer­ chant ships in two years. A mini­ mum of 30 new ship contracts is said to be necessary every year both to keep the merchant fleet Guinea Row Hikes War Risk Rates The increased tension between the Netherlands and Indonesia over control of New Guinea may cause a curtailment of shipping into the disputed area. Vessels operating in Southwest Pacific and East Indian waters close to the troubled area are now subject to war risk insurance cov­ erage, according to the under­ writers. So far there have been no sail­ ing cancellations or diversions from the area but cargoes bound for Indonesia may now,have dif­ ficulty lining up necessary ton­ nage. The cost of the war risk coverage may make operators think twice about committing ves­ sels to this trade, with the situa­ tion likely to worsen at any time. Indonesia has made no secret of its desire to take over the disputed portion of New Guinea. The re­ luctance of owners to commit ships to the. trade also hinges on the chance that a vessel may be detained if it gets caught In a war zone. Research Funds Cut In the research and development section of the new budget, wheru automation starts, $5.5 million haa been requested. This is $1.4 million less than last year, probably be­ cause of the completion of work on the atom-powered NS Savannah. Heavy emphasis is being placed on developing mechanized vessels, however. Maritime has earmarked $850,000 from unobligated funds in the last budget to develop an auto­ mated bridge control panel and hopes to start on a $17 million fully - automated prototype cargo ship this year and put it to sea in 1965. Automated Japanese Ship The Japanese already have • ship with automated controls, the Kinkasan Maru which docked in New York a few weeks ago on its maiden run. In urging develop­ ment of automated cargo vessels to promote US competition with other maritime nations. Maritime Administration Administrator Don­ ald W. Alexander noted that this ship features both remote and au­ tomatic control equipment. "The automatic system empha­ sizes engine remote control and policing of various machinery in the engine room. On the bridge four decks above, the turning of s single knob can automatically shut down the plant," he stated. Future Edition To Carry Rules Publication of the revised shipping rules under the con­ tract between the SIU and its contracted operators has been postponed due to the pressure of other news and features in this issue of the LOG. The revised rules, incorporating all actions of the Seafarers Appeals Board to date, willJie published in the future. SAB actions and copies of the rules are available and posted in all shipping halls. In New York, Seafarer and Mrs. D. Blomstein and children (leftl, Charles and Geo. Gerczyk, Ed Misoklan, J. Bewley, C. Johnson (above) were part of turn-out. �SEAPARERS Paffe Six Jannary. IHt LOG SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING ROARD (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic,'Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) Ship Activity From December 1 Through December 31, 1961 rw SIU shipping, as expected, showed its best record for the men could have gotten berths if they threw In for them. The Off! year during December, except for the July period which class A portion of December's shipping amounted to 52.8 per­ Rotten A marked the end o! the maritime strike. The total shipping of cent of the total, way down from the November figure. Class New York ....53 2,998 jobs topped the November figure by over 500 and was 'B shipping held just about the same portion in December as Philadelphfa ..10 also better than December a year ago. The average monthly in the previous month. Balrimore ....16 chipping throughout 1961 was 2,611 jobs. Norfolk 3 Vessel activity in December also showed a rise over-all, Registration during this month rose to 2,890 and the num­ although fewer in-transit ships were in port during the JocktoBvillo .. 3 3 ber of men left on the beach at the start of 1962 was 3,493, ih- month. The largest gain in activity was in payoffs, as com­ Tompo Mobile 14 cluding 2,598 top seniority class A men. Accordingly, if the pared to November. New Orleans ..19 chipping pace in 1962 follows the same pattern as the year Among the ports, despite the considerable Increase in jobs before, job turnover should be fairly rapid for all hands "want­ shipped, Baltimore, Norfolk, San Francisco and Seattle Hontton ,!....16 Wilmington ... 3 ing to get out fast. slipped below their November shipping. All the rest, particu­ San Francisco.. 0 Of interest in the turnover during December was the fact larly New York, Mobile and Houston, showed gains. A mixed Seattle 5 that one of out of every five jobs shipped was taken by class outlook was forecast for January, traditionally one of the C seniority seamen, indicating that many more "A" and "B" slow months of the year. Sign In Ons Trans. TOTAL 8 17 3 51 lis 11 37 4 21 18 • 40 4 14 10 3 14 20 3 0 12 IB 9 10 33 40 14 73 51 73 4 1 12 14 9 2 h 4 9 18 48 245 484 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTAtS Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C - TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 1 2 2 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 S ALL A 2 B C ALL 1 2 S ALL 1 2 S ALL 6 12 2 20 0 2 3 5 1 12 5 " 22 - 1 0 1 0 0 1 22 2 1 2 1 15 5 25 9 2 29 0 4 6 60 107 38 205 4 21 37 62 40 30 33 57 157 91 26 157 2 65 9 30 18 65 57 279 89 148 43 280 3 12 50 65 7 32 0 3 6 23 10 15 9 8 10 7 5 4 35 3 20 0 8 13 35 • 20 13 12 68 11 6 3 29 0 1 '4 22 54 85 4 14 23 41 8 38 9 5 51 3 14 20 37 6 4 6 37 16 104 37 70 12 119 3 16 51 7 24 84 7 6 17 1 24 0 4 11 2 7 0 3 7 9 0 4 7 0 0 1 20 10 10 1 9 1 17 16 1 37 0 20 6 10 16 2 16 3 28 1 9 14 2 3 7 3 12 16 19 2 12 0 4 7 19 7 38 12 1 6 5 29 1 12 0 2 3 10 14 0 5 1 3 4 1 0 0 3 1 2 2 5 2 3 5 12 2 0 10 5 1 18 0 1 2 S 20 30 5 55 0 4 13 19 27 11 9 57 2 6 12 20 0 2 2 4 57 20 4 81 34 35 3 5 74 0 4 7 20 19 43 59 29 131 2 41 41 49 15 105 3 21 18 13 18 36105 42 36 183 49 86 24 159 3 42 5 SO 16 11 67 37 28 99 26 192 1 66i 55 82 21 158 7 10 29 20 21 46 lS8 46 46 250 59 46 5 95 21 175 2 31 28 61 6 8 11 4 23 1 6 7 4 16 1 7 6 14 2 5 3 13 5 10 16 14 10 40 12 13 2 11 27 0 6 17 17 2 5 10 4 12 31 1 4 7 0 7 18 1 1 3 5 0 0 0 18 5 7 10 0 23 25 25 57 0 8 18 11 5 10 9 25 1 9 20 8 17 7 0 0 0 4 4 11 0 0 29 11 14 5 18 12 29 0 40 18 37 2 32 277 458 130 1 8651 15 132 163 1 310199 375 104 1 678 25 115 144 1 284 29 85 82 1 196 678 284 196 11158 376 561 133 11070 14 128 167 1 309 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A • Port •Boston TT New York .. Philadelphia.. Baltimore .. Norfolk Jacksonville.. Tampa Mobile New Orleans. Houston Wilmington . San Francisco Seattle TOTAtS GROUP 1 2 5 1 30 66 2 18 5 48 10 4 2 9 5 1 7 27 37 91 83 24 3 12 6 21 5 19 127 4)4 3 ALL 1 • 7 12 108 6 26 8 61 0 14 1 12 1 7 3 37 7 135 14 121 3 18 3 30 1 25 60 1 601 Registered CLASS B Shiooed CLASS A GROUP GROUP 1 3 ALL 2 1 2 0 4 1 5 1 4 13 34 28 75 23 64 0 13i1 4 9 4 20 2 31 10 34 1 2 7 1 9 17;I 1 1 0 9 4 is' 2 3 0 2 1 3 1 1 0 7 7 14. 5 21 3 24 17 44 22 55 3 33 42 78 23 73 5 9 3 17 1 7 0 5 5 10 5 14 1 11 5 17 3 19 28 185 136 1 349i 93 316 Shipped CLASS B 3 ALL 2 " 7 6 93 3 27 8 44 1 3 2 7 2 4 6 32 8 85 11 107 2 10 2 21 2 24 55 1 464 Shipped CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED GROUP CLASS GROUP 1 3 ALL 1 2 2 3 ALL A C B 2 6 0 6 4 1 3 3 1 4 7 35 28 36 26 8 71 9 71 71 71 93 21 2 5 31 8 4 6 31 1 8 : 27 0 25 6 5 11 31 16 31 0 16 44 6 2 2 2 6 0 3 4 1 4 3 3 8 6 1 2 6 0 1 9 9 7 0 0. 4 0 0 0, 0 3 1 4 4 28 0 6 3 28 9 1 12 15 9 32 33 21 62 22 8 62 2 15 5 22 85 42 15 59107 69 59 2 39 28 69 2 6 6 12 14 2 7 3 12 2 14 10 8 • 3 1 2 5 8 1 1 1 3 21 13 5 5 0 3 4 3 13 0 3 24 33 186 124 1 343 17 130 79 1 226464 343 226 Registered On The Beach .• CLASS B - CLASS A GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 ALL 1 2 2 8 ALL 13 17 2 0 15 0 6 0 « 235 34 123 20 177 15 80 40 85 66 3 15 3 2 2 21 0 4 57 91 8 8 73 3 26 16 45 13 5 22 0 27 2 11 11 24 13 2 15 1 8 8 22 0 17 0 8 1 9 10 0 2 2 4 56 0 3 6 69 11 41 4 9 96 7 135 2 169 32 16 7 25 71 10 104 5 19 42 235 23 66 36 5 19 3 27 3 7 5 15 34 4 7 32 13 4 51 2 IS 24 4 40 9 1 34 8 17 21 11033 146 537 62 1 745 33 151 150 1 334 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port "Bos NY* Phil Bal Nor Jac Tam Mob .... NO .... Hou Wil SF Sea TOTAf Registered CLASS fi Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B TOTAL SHIPPED GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1*9 3 ALL 1 2 1 3 ALL 1-8 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 3 ALL A C ALL 1-9 1 2 2 3 ALL 1 2 2 3 ALL 1 B 1 1 2 5 9 0 0 7 13 3 3 3 3 15 2 3 3 7 3 1 0 2 3 1 13 3 2 3 0 0 3 3 1 9 9 12 31 19 41 103 5 41 34 89 186 3 4 18 34 41 176 22 1 40 27 14 28 22 37 101 5 34 12 2 27 41101 44 2 27 2 7 4 4 17 1 0 5 5 10 12 39 3 1 4 13 0 0 7 6 4 5 1 10 7 1 8 10 1 121 17 7 2 17 0 13 15 18 5 51 1 5 87 3 59 11 28 18 30 7 12 9 6 13 19 15 .2 7 2 13 19 27 22 4 15 3 13 4 27 3 3 6 1 1 11 1 2 3 3 15 4 7 1 14 1 8 4 11 10 0 3 0 1 1 6 7 19 3 1 6 • 7 0 0 6 0 5 4 1 3 13 2 3 3 1 4 4 18 2 3 3 6 1 2 12 17 3 4 17 24 7 8 1 0 0 4 1 4 3 3 . 0 0 3 10 1 14 0 ,0 3 2 12 23 0 0 0 0 3 1 3 6 4 5 1 3 0 0 3 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 7 10 6 21 0 21 44 0 61 8 60 0 0 16 3 27 3 15 9 28 21 3 10 5 13 0 3 31 16 0 25 31 2 27 0 8 29 15 72 124 0 2 49 38 22 92 166 0 2 35 51 8 23 43 12 160 14 37 8 66 105 0 2 10 12 105 3 40 43 0 29 14 45 4 92 5 4 37 •46 7 30 17 31 88 5 40 40 170 10 4 29 38 32 15 36 0 39 40 90 4 33" 40 1 90 3 6 .4 3 10 23 0 2 8 0 4 7 11 38 6 5 8 27 2 4 6 1 8 6 3 0 10 11 20 8 6 7 1 20 0 1 2 4 4 19 29 1 1 3 3 62 1 0 10 5 0 3 18 11 11 11 29 5 0 0" 3 3 12 11 7 3 0 3 0 12 0 6 2 7 1 16 3 10 2 2 15 9 4 20 20 1 6 0 1 9 1 ~ 27 4 25 6 3 36 7 0 7 11 17 17 2 9 0 57 135 91 263 1 546 19 137 346 783 25 175 1219 42 130 63 205 1 440 15 201 166 1 807 102 198 29 28 195 1 253 9 134" 1 166 440 16 170 1201 23 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A DECK Et^GlNE REWARD GRAND TOTALS GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 277 458 130 |865 127 414 60 j 601 192 91 263 I 546 596 963 453 |2012 Registered CLASS B GROUP 123 ALL 15 "28 19 62 Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 132 163 I 310 199 375 104" I 678 185 136 1 349 93 316 55 I 464 25 175 r219 172 63 205|440 342 474|878 464 754 364 |1582 • Includes 1-S Class B, registered on beach In New York. Shipped CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3 25 115 144 1 284 29 85 82 33 186 124 343 17 130 79 9 134 15 16 170 '201 23 GROUP 123 AIX TOTAL SHIPPED Shipped CLASS C CLASS ABC I 196 678 284 196 1226 464 343 226 I 166 440 201 166 ALL 73 317 438 828 69 224 295|5881582 828. 588 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL 12 3 ALL. ALL 1 11158 376 561^33 11070 14 128 167 309 j 1033 146 537 62 j 745 33 151 150 334 1^807 300 137 346. j 783 29 28 195" 252 j2998 822 1235 541 |2598 76 307 512 895 �gsiuurf, IMS SEAFARERS LOG Heating Bmmf? Get it Logged! Winter Runs Break Routine Of Lay-ups DETROIT—Winter's stillness settled over most of the Great Lakes by the end of December as virtually all shipping opera­ tions ended and the annual lay-up of SlU-contracted vessels . was completed. * With the exception of Lake Michigan out of Frankfort "winter rup'' vessels which are the Ann Arbor carferries, the are In operation throughout the year, all ships were contacted by patrolmen to settle any last-minute beefs before the mothball opera­ tion was completed in the major lay-up ports of Toledo, Buffalo, Manitowoc, Sturgeon Bay, Detroit and Sandusky. In addition, the SIU put Us union halls in Duluth and Cleve­ land into mothballs until the •pring fit-out. The remaining balls in eight ports will continue to be open during the winter to service members and vessels. Operating on the winter run on Milwaukee Clipper, the Clark Mil­ waukee, the Tanker Detroit and the Chief Wawatan. On the De­ troit-Toledo run, Boland's Ben Cal­ vin has the winter assignment while Browning will operate the Sparkman Foster and possibly the W. Wayne Hancock, depending on business Commitments. Patrolmen urged crews to fill out the lay-up lists so that Job calls at the spring fit-out would be expedited. Patrolmen will return at fit-out time to make sure that job assignments are made accord­ ing to seniority within each fleet, as provided in SIU agreements. The Great Lakes Seamen's Ap­ peals Board is right now prepar­ ing for the annual mid-winter is­ suance of job seniority ID cards, which are scheduled to be mailed out, by February 1, 1962. The cards wilLserve a double purpose by also identifying the holder as a mem­ ber of the Great Lakes Seamen's Welfare Plan. In cases where a man has accu­ mulated seniority status with more than one company, he will have to choose which company he wants to remain with, as this is a require­ ment of the prograpi. Seniority ratings will be effective for a year. Welfare Okays Full Benefits li - Pictured during lay-up ac­ tivity on the J. J. B^nd, Mike Robert (top) handles chain hoist to remoye cylinder head of the engine for an overhaul. Above n,r), R. Scbusdui, A. Eiliott and L. GrMRMdt are decked out in rubber suits to flush ballast tanks. DETROIT—The Great Lakes Seamen's Welfare Plan has as­ sured SIU men who worked for the Nicholson Transit Company dur­ ing 1960 that their work time Is valid for welfare benefits. While the company went out of business before the 1961 naviga­ tion aeason opened, the trustees ruled that all time worked aboard Nicholson vessels in 1960 Is valid for benefits Inasmuch as the com­ pany signed a collective bargain­ ing agreemmit fen- that year and was also a signatory to the welfare trust agreement. Without the trustees' ruling, seamen who had worked for Nicholson and did not accumulate 90 days of seatime with another SlU-contracted company would have been ineligible for benefits. Seafarers are reminded that when heating or hot water beefs arise, an entry in the ship's log Is^good insurance until the matter can be re­ solved. Whenever hot water or heat runs out, the beef should be presented by the delegates to the chief engineer and the captain and recorded in the log­ book. No beefs of this na­ ture should be allowed to run over for days in port. They should be i;eported promptly. FMge Serem NEW ORDER TIGHTENS '50-50' CARGO RULES WASHINGTON—A new government order tightening up procedures tmder the "50-50" cargo law is expected to greatly improve American-flag shipping. It provides tliat the US will pay the freight bill oni foreign aid shipments only plugs up some of the loopholes in when th^ move on Ameri­ the Government's "50-50" pro­ can-flag vessels. The order, issued by the Agency for Intmiational Development (AID) of the State Department, Jee Algfna. Safety Dfrecdfr Hom« Wiring Can Be A Hazard It's no secret that eH-tbe-Job accidents take at least as heavy a toll of life and property as work mishaps, although no one can minimize the problem of on-the-job injuries in any industry. However, it's good to keep in mind what can happen along "Main Street" because, as more and more Seafarers become established homeowners with fami­ lies and a sizeable stake in community life, they run into many of the same problems shoreside workers face. For example, consider a wiring check-up for your bouse. Chances are your house is inadequajtely wired. Four out of five houses are, according to wiring experts. If your hotise is five years old, it may he underwired; if it was built before 1940 It most certainly is unless you have rewired. For you are probably using twice as many appliances now as you did then. Electrical drain can overload wires and send your house up in smoke. Wires, forced to carry heavy loads of electricity, become ^ red hot as those in a toaster. Eventually these heated wires leave wood and insulation between walls tinder dry. One day the hot wire may spark a smoldering fire that remains unnoticed for days, then unexpectedly bursts forth. Think of your wiring as befng similar to water piping. Regardless of how much water pressure there is, you only get a small stream from a small pipe. Wires are much the same way. How much electrical energy a wire can carry is limited by the wire's size. When you plug several appliances in one circuit, you make the wires on that circuit carry loa^ too large for their size. The only thing left for them to do, as Edison knew when he invented the light bulb, is to becoma hot and light up. Every house needs three kinds of circuits: (1) General purpose circuits for lights and small appliances such as radio, clock and vacuum cleaner. These items take little electricity and several can operate from one circuit. You should have one circuit for every 500 square feet of usable floor surface and if possible one for every 375 square feet. (2) Appliance circuits for convenience outlets In the kitchen-dining area. These take appliances such as toaster, coffee maker and mixer. (3) Separate circuits for each item of fixed equipment such as range, automatic washer, air conditioner, dishwasher, food freezer. You can determine whether your house is wired adequately by checking the wattage on each circuit to see how it matches recom­ mended limits. If this check-up shows your house is dangerously un­ derwired, call a local electrician who will tell you what needs to be done. Until you do, you won't be free of the worry that potential fire is present in your house. (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) SHI Backs Building Trades Unions Great lakes Shipping November 11,1961 Through December 9,1961 Port DECK ENGDiB BTEWAED TOTAL Alpena 11 17 4 82 Buffalo 11 16 7 84 Llhicago 2a 10 7 48 3 8 8 Detroit 07 30 — 19 116 JDulutb 8 8 9 16 i'rankfort 89 36 18 93 TOTAL ISS lis M 841 Cleveland SMf«r«ri and longthoramtn part fn mass AFL-CIO plekatfog dwnenitra'Hon at ^anarai Post Otfie® in Brooldyn In tuj^pirf af NY Iwllding tradas baaf against substandard aparatiaa by a non-union eentraetor. SIU prasidant Paul HaN (aantar) and ethar Union roprasantattvas war® on band to join atbar MY trada imionlsh daspita wat, cold waattiar. gram and in its freight payment policy, actions long sought by the SIUNA and the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department to bolster the US-flag merchant fleet. The change in AID policy was aiuiounced as a step taken by the Government to ease the drain of dollars from the US economy and help correct the balance of pay­ ments. Government agencies which generate foreign aid cargo have been advised that every effort must be made to move AID ship­ ments on American vessels. Es­ sentially, the new policy provides that the American Government will pay ocean transportation costs only on AID cargo shipped in American bottoms. The recipient countries will have to take care of the freight bill when cargo is shipped in foreign-flag vessels, whether their own or those of "third party" countries. Previously, a "timely delivery" provision in the US foreign aid program was the major loophole. In order to insure timely de­ livery of AID cargo, the US will advance money for shipment In foreign bottoms when convenient US-flag transportation is not avail­ able. However, the receiving country must refund to the US on demand pa>'ments made for for­ eign-flag shipping. Included in the order Is a re­ minder that host countries must move at least half of AID-flnanced cargo (separately as to liners, tramps, and tankers) in US-flag ships in those trades where th® "50-50" law applies. Transport costs of this cargo are all paid by the US. SIU Assist Aids IBEW, UAW Beefs The SIU upheld its tradition of strike assistance for other unions during recent weeks when it joined, the Maritime Port Council of Greater New York in separate actions Involving locals of the United Auto Workers and the In­ ternational Brotherhood of Elec­ trical Workers. UAW Local 805, with 700 mem­ bers at the Harris Intertype plant In the New York Dock building, struck in November when the com­ pany refused to agree to any wage, vacation and adequate severanca pay provisions in a new contract. Located in one of the largest waterfront installations in NY, the plant was shut down tight soon after Local 365 called on the Port Council for support. SIU affiliates provided the strike committee with suggestions on picketing ma­ rine facilities, with the result that nothing Is now moving in or out of the plant. In the electricians' beef, IBEW Local 3 has been protesting a sub­ standard job by a contractor doing renovating work at tlie General Post Office in Brooklyn. Seafarers and members of the International Longshoremen's Association, on behalf of the Port Council, took part in a mass union demonstmtion at the site to focus attention QD the recruiting of workers from an "independent union" with no regard for union scale ihid bene­ fits. �K f Pace EicM laanfT. INS MKAFAMERS LOG ji 'JINX RUN' HOLDS TRUE ACAPULCO, MEXICO—The new ownerc ol the runaway liner Nassau; now renamed the Acapulco and refitted for cruise runs from here to Loc Angeles, were just about ready to give up on the future of the IB,048-ton ship last month—and with good reason. Naviera Turistica Mexicana had spend about $1 million overhauling the vessel for the Acapulco cruise trade but. before atarting this service, scheduled one Caribbean cruise out of New York. Accordingly, the ship steamed into the city just before Christmas, took aboard 450 pas­ sengers and supplies and was ready to sail until the Coast Guard stepped in and refused clearance. The Coast Guard said the Aca­ pulco did not meet minimum US safety standards applied to vessels of nations that had not signed the 1948 international convention on safety of life at sea. Although the company protested that Mexico had Just signed the pact, the CG noted that there was a three-month wait­ ing period before the treaty could take effect. No Passengers Now trying to work the Acapulco trade, the former Incres It seemed for a while that the liner Nassau is'shown under her new colors after she ran "jinx" on ships working the cruise into some problems on a US Coast Guard safety clearance trade out of this port was at work In New York. again,^ as the Caribbean run had to be called off, passengers were between the two governments un­ tude on shipping matters involving left adrift and the ship headed here der which both nations were to US-ffag enterprises. empty to await developments. consider each other, immediately The Acapulco's troubles recall a In the end, the US State Depart­ bound by the^terms of the inter­ previous attempt by a ship out of the Alaskan trade to work the ment came through and advised national pact. the Coast Guard that Mexico was Mexico will still have to wait warm weather run from here in bound by all obligations of the in­ three months before it receives 1955. This vessel, the Mazatlan, as ternational safety treaty and clear­ similar treatment In the ports of noted in the last Issue of the LOG, ance should be extended to all its other nations that have signed the ran into all kinds of problems vessels. Including the Acapulco. treaty. The prompt US State De­ when the warm weather proved to The State Department said the partment action, which probably be too much for its equipment. An problem was surmoiuited by the saved the Mexican company, con­ attempt to operate originally with signing of a separate agreement trasts sharply with Its usual atti- scab crews added to its headaches and the ship left a trail of unpaid bills imtU its owners had- to give up. Cliff Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director Menu Planning Means 'Plan Ahead' Planning a meal is an important part of the steward's job and. In planning advance menus, he should consult with the chief cook on the supplies, facilities and other factors that affect the choice of the foods to be served. The balanced meal that results from a well-thought-out menu does not require reference to complicated tables of mineral and vitamin requirements. Knowledge of the elements of the "Basic 7" food groups and the use of foods from each group every day will provide proper nutrients for feeding a hungry crew. Proper use of the "Basic 7" leaves a stew­ ard with a wide choice of items to be served and almost unlimited choice in methods of preparation. The "Basic 7" food groups and the minimum suggested servings from each are: Group I. Green and yellow vegetables. Two servings each day. Group II. Oranges, tomatoes, grapefruits, raw cabbage and salad greens. Two servings per day. Group III. Other vegetables and fruits. Two servings and one potato a day. Group IV. Milk and milk products. One pint or its equivalent each day. Group V. Meat, fish and fowl. One serving and one egg per day. Group VI. Bread, flour and cereals. A serving with each meal. Group VII. Butter and margarine equal to at least two ounces daily. The key word.? in planning oach meal are variety and contrast. As many types of foods as possible should be included to avoid monotony. No single food shjould be served more than once in any meal. Although certain combinations of foods are more popular than others, an element of surprise gives a meal variety. Menus should be planned to provide variety and contrast in flavor, texture, color and form. The flavors of food are contrasted by serving savory or tart foods with bland ones. Texture variety is provided by serving crisp and soft foods together. Colorless foods should be offered in combination with colorful ones to give the plate "eye appeal." Interesting meals are a high spot in the crew's daily routine and crewmembers' palates should be tempted by preparing and serving foods they like. Stewards should also realize that external factors such as weather conditions and climate affect crew appetites and meals should be planned accordingly. In hot weather, crisp foods and Ice cold beverages will be appreciated. In cold weather; warm dishes can be contrasted by serving substantial hot foods. All menus should be within the capacity of the galley crew, equip­ ment and supplies. The galley crew should be experienced enough to prepare the food and the most perishable items should be used first. Some dishes will always be popular and require seconds; others will naturally require fewer portions. Plan ahead so that the galley has ample time to prepare the meal. Menus should be designed using no more th^n two dishes which require long or difficult preparation. (Comments and suggestions are invited by the Department and can k$ submitted to this column care oj the SEAFARERS LOG.) Most Costly Ship-Navy's New Carrier Coast Fleets Adding 3 More Mariners SAN FRANCISCO—Three brand-new Mariner-type ships due to be manned by members of the SIU Pacific District imions have already slid down the ways or were nearing completion this winter. They>^ are slated to go into service ice before the end of the summer. for three separate Pacific The Washington launching was preceded by the christening of two sister ships, the California and the Oregon. These vessels will be fol­ lowed eventually by three more. The Washington and her sister ships are departures from the standard Mariner, with six hatchee Instead of the usual Mariner seven. They are being equipped to carry cargo in both container and con­ ventional stowage. American Mail Line's Philippine Mail just went into the water at Todd Shipyards, San Pedro, Calif., and is the third of three such ves­ sels built for the company. Another new vessel just com­ pleted in the Bethlehem shipyard here is Pacific Far East Line's new Mariner, the China Bear. This ves­ sel, together with a sister ship, the Philippine Bear launched last' August, will go into operation in cargo and passenger service be­ tween the US West Coast and Far SEATTLE—Other ships may yet East ports. The new vessels com­ become a World's Fair attraction plete PFE's all-Mariner fleet. here although the deal to use the retired French liner Liberte as a floating hotel has fallen through. A drop in shipbreaking prices appears to have killed off the plan to use the Liberte and it has finally been sold "off as scrap by the French Line Itself. Earlier, the giant liner was con­ sidered for hotel use at the fair beginning in April. Port interests SEATTLE—SIU Pacific District had intended to buy the vessel and then sell it off as scrap after the representatives have won, a delay in local port commission hearings on fair. Once the scrap prices fell, the a proposal to permit foreign-flag group was unable to come up with ship operations in the domestic sufficient money to clinch the pur­ trade on the West Coast. The pro­ chase. The French had not been posed run would be between Puget too eager on the deal anyway, not Sound and Alaska. Union spokesmen declared that wishing to have the Liberte around while the 8S France, its new port interests should encourage American-flag shipping in the superliner, was coming out. Meanwhile, other companies are trade instead of bringing in new negotiating for ships smaller than foreign-flag entries. They noted the Liberte to be used at the fair. that the domestic trade between One firm wants to buy a 229-foot American ports had been reserved passenger vessel to use as a float­ to ships flying the American flag ing hotel, and another is working and manned by American seamen on a deal whiqh would bring a sec­ for the past 40 yearst The Seattle Port Commission ond ahip to Fuget Sound for use as a cruise vessel based at the fair bad been considering a resolution calling for the support of Wash-, grounds. Although neither deal has been ington's Congressional delegation settled, ^lU Pacific District unions on an amendment to the Merchant are keeping la close touch with Marino Act of 1920. The proposal the rituation with an eye to man­ under discussion was designed id ning the vessels in the event they bring Canadian-flag ships into the Alaskan service. do eome to the fair. District companies. The trio of vessels is part of the •hip replacement program for American Mail Line, Pacific Far East Line and the States Line, all of which are adding a number of Mariner-types to their existing fleets. The SS Washington, a States Line Mariner, was recently launched in the Bethlehem yard at Newport News, Va., and is ex­ pected to be outfitted and in serv- Hotel ship Deal Still In Works Fight Alaska Run Invasion The US Navy acquired new muscle when the new atomic-pow­ ered supercarrier USS Enterprise received her commission and joined the fleet recently. The Enterprise is rated as the largest ship in the world, and the most expensive, costing more than 444 million dollars to build. From bow to stern, she measures more than three hundred yards. Eight atomic engines develop more than 200,000 horsepower while driving the huge vessel at speeds over 40 miles per hour. This speed, coupled witl^ improve­ ments in hull and superstruoture design enable the big ship to make tight turns and other evasive manuvers, which the Navy feel will enable her to shake off any wouldbe attackers. During her recent sea trials, the supercarrier was reported to have left destroyer escorts bouncing along in her wake. Carrying more than 100 plsnes with tremendous ilre power, ^e Enterprise provides a roving «irfleld which ean cruise fpr ive MC&S MFOW SUP years without rcfuetiiig. f|ie Re­ 12/1 to 12/31 12/1 to 12/31 11/15 to 12/U Port places 89,380 tons, fbiff as much as World War tl earylers, San Francisco 158 568 668 •ted and is manned by 4,200 enlisi Seattle 25 109 59 men and 400 o^icers. Pacific District Shipping Portland 123 Wilmington 807 74 (no ball) TOTAI. 1294 189 40 237 109 416 New York 42 54 28 124 New Orleans 11 — 19 30 Honolulu 16 17 19 52 San Pedro TOTAI. fno ball) 76 (DO bail) 1176 434 808 76 2418 �. • -'I-'- SEAFARERS Pare NIiM LOG 4. ;:;4^ • - 4«>ic; •• I-T. •^r " y^''" ;J ' ' :, , • ;> ' - '-i fc .:• 'st •'••• SlU T UFEBOAT SCHOOL HE SIU Lifeboat School has compiled oi near-perfect record of 97 percent in qualifying almost 600 men from all de­ partments for Coast Guard lifeboat tickets in its three years of expanded operations in the Port of New York. The Union's program Is fully accredited by the CO, and trainees need only three months' seatime for a life­ boat endorsement instead of the usual year. The only school of its kind on the Ai lantio and Gulf Coasts, it provides a minimum of 15 hours of classroom work and 30 hours of actual experience in the water. Films, booklets and charts plus dry runs in rigging, boot-handling procedures and commands* provide background for the actual testing ll • and work in the water. Experience in the boot is designed to weld the trainees into a crew of Seafarers able to give and execute.the commands that may, one day, save lives. The program has also been expanded to include instruction covering inflated lifeboats, which are nov^ CG-approved. Coast Guard records for a one-yearperiod indicate that about 70 percent of those taking the test in NY harbor aro successful. Seafarers make up the largest group of seamen passing, due to the effec­ tiveness of the training they receive. Trainees at SIU tehool first learn all about rigging and boat-handling In classroom. Boat Is hooked to dock at end of a day's work In the water for prospective SIU lifeboatmen. Another class takes to the water with in­ structor, SIU bosun Dan Butts, at the tiller. �IRTl'Priit' SEAFARERS Pace Tea LOG 'A New Broom' !aiSX.ilTZVB .DttPABTACBNT ITS TKAVSL SERVICE. Thirty-six prominent Individuals connected with the Urevfti industry have been appointed by Secretary Luther H, Hodges to serve as a Travel Advisory Committee for the Department of Commerce's United States Travel Service (USTS). The agency was established by act of Congress on June 29, 1961, to increase tourism to the United States. The Secretary said that* experts in travel, and related transportation, sales and marketing industries had been brought together "to help the Department shape meaningful and ef­ fective policies and operation^ in this area which is new to the United States Government." Appointment to the committee is for one year extending through next January. Of the 36 advisory committee mem­ bers. four are representatives of private airlines or airline organiza­ tions and two are from the steamship industry, one representing US Lines and the other American President Lines. An official of the United Auto Workers is the sole labor representative on the group. 4" 3^ RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. The world's first nuclear-pow­ ered buoy is reportedly passing all tests so far in Arundel Cove, Balti­ more, off the Coast Guard station where she "has been blinking since she was "launched" in December. The buoy was built at the Curtis Bay Coast Guard yard, while its mechanism was produced by Martin Mari­ etta Corporation for the Atomic Energy Commission. The visual part of the buoy looks the same as any other. It's only the controlling mechanism—the important part—that is so outstanding in the world. It is a flashing buoy and should still be flashing as brightly some 30 years from now. This is compared to the normal buoy, which must be recharged every three months. 3> 3^ LABOR DEPARTMENT. A "simplified, streamlined" one-page re­ port form has been mailed out to almost 40,000 unions required to file financial reports under the Landrum-Griffin Act, the Labor Department has announced. There are more than 52,000 reporting labor organizations in the country. Commissioner John L. Holcomb* of the Bureau of Labor-Management Reports said the new revised form, LM-3, may be filed by labor organizations whose total receipts were less than $30,000 in the 12-month period covered by the report provided the organizations were not under trusteeship at the end of their fiscal year. Formerly the limit was $20,000. . As all Seafarers know, maritime workers have a community of interest which is far more intimate than that of any other indus­ trial group. This has been true almost since the first ocean-going vessel ventured forth. As the world shrinks in terms of modern communications, it becomes more of a factor day by day. One of the basic facts of life of the ship­ ping industry is that all ships compete on relatively equal terms in a world-wide mar­ ket, bidding on the same cargoes—^yet the wages and conditions of seamen manning the worlds' ships show an extreme range. On the one hand, there are the superior terms of employment won by American and Canadian seamen. The other side of the coin is the exploitation of some seamen at wages as low as $25 a month or less. The ship operator, knowing he is in a worldwide business, has gotten together with other operators all over the world. He sets up conferences in which operators in that trade agree on standard rentals for their ships in the dry cargo liner and pas­ senger trade. Similarly, on commercial bulk cargoes, relative uniformity of freight rates at any given time is the general rule. While the rate end of the shipping busi­ ness is regulated, either by agreement or by business conditions, the seamen who man these ships are subject to an enormous va­ riety of wage scales and terms of employ­ ment. It is simple common sense for seamen everywhere to cooperate for their mutual benefit—otherwise, the way is left open for onerators to recruit seamen wherever they can at the lowest possible wages, to broaden the gap between the wages they pay and the freight rates they receive. The worst conditions are characteristic of I-', t > » 3^ 3^ FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION. The rate-making practices of three steamship conferences operating between the Great Lakes and Europe have been upheld by an examiner for the Federal Mari­ time Commission. Rates from Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Oswego and Ogdensburg which are the same as rates front Cleveland, and higher than rates from Toronto and Hamilton, to various foreign areas, do not operate to the detriment of commerce of the United States and are not otherwise unlawful, according to an initial decision. Such rates had been published by the US Great Lakes, Scandinavian and Baltic Eastbound Conference, the US Great Lakes-Bordeaux/Hamburg Range Eastbound Conference, and the Great Lakes-United Kingdom Eastbound Conference. "Distance is but one of several considerations in formulating a rate~~which is reasonable for a shipper and yet prolitr able to a carrier," the decision noted. the runaway ship. This is the vessel which either flees its own flag for a special arrange­ ment under another nation's registry or, while continuing to fly its own flag, recruits crews in the world's lowest wage areas. Operators such as these set up a caste system t 4 with Asians, Africans nr Latin Americans TRADE FAIR SHIP. Establishment of a "floating American trad* getting a far lower wage than Europeans fair" in the form of an American-flag iherchant ship which would call manning identical ships under the same flag. at foreign ports throughout the world and display US products has Seamen of all nations, the better paid and the, poorer paid, suffer alike from such a sit­ uation. Up until now, there has not been an effective sustained attack on^this all-impor­ tant problem by any international labor grouping in the maritime field. The new International Division of the Maritime Trades Department intends to make just such a sustained attack by mobilizing the energies of seamen and waterfront workers throughout the free world for this purpose. ^ % The Parly Line The recent announcement that Commimist China and Albania propose forming a joint shipping operation is of special interest to everyone in maritime. It points up the reali­ zation by all Soviet bloc nations of how important merchant shipping can be as an instrument of national policy. In part, the pooled shipping enterprise is a gesture of defiance aimed at the Kremlin, which has denounced the Albanians as "deviationists." This naturally provoked the commissars in Red China, since they are the tiny Balkan country's closest allies. Both countries have thus split with the Kremlin over the latest Party line, but they do go along with Moscow on one issue: They recognize the importance of being able to handle their imports and exports on vessels under their own flag, instead of relying on other countries to provide the tonpage. " , ; .• I f''' ' , ' !-'• ^ been proposed in the House by Rep. Pucinski of Illinois. Provision would be made to take orders on the spot in the various world ports for products exhibited on the ship. The Congressman estimated that the cost of putting a "Flqating American Trade Fair" into operation would be approximately ^,000 per day for a "Mariner-type ship of the 13,000-ton class." "The Secretary of Commerce," he said, "is authorized under this bill to charge a nominal fee to help defray tho cost of this Floating American Trade Fair, but I think it should bs perfectly clear to all of us that if we are going to make a concerted effort to put American products into world markets, some financial assistance will have to be forthcoming from the Federal Government.** 3^ 4 « STATE DEPABTMEI^. Agreements with foreign governments hav­ ing the effect of extending the validity period of foreign passports en additional six months regardless of the expiration date indicated in the passports, have been concluded by the Department of State. The agreements broaden provisions of the Immigration and Nation­ alization Act to allow holders of valid passports a longer stay in this country. The nations covered are the following: Australia, Austria (Reisepass only), Bahamas, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cana­ da, Ceylon, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador.. Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany (Reisepass and Kinderausweis), Greece (issued in Greece only), Guatemala, Guinea, Hon­ duras, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Luxem­ bourg, Malagasy Republic, Malaya, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Venezuela. 4 4 4 COAST GUARD. The President has nominated Rear Admiral Edwin J. Roland, USCG, to the post of Assistant Commandant of the US Coast Guard with the rank of Vice Admiral. He succeeds Vice Admiral James A. Hirshfield, USCG, who retires February 1 to assume dbties as vice-president of the Lake Carriers' Association, an organization comprising about 85 percent of the major bulk shippers in the Great Lakes area. Admiral Roland is currently Commander of the Third Co^t Guard District and Commander," Eastern Area, positions he has held since July 1, 1960. As Commander of the Third Coast Guard District, he is responsible for Coast Guard activities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut and Vermont. In his capacity as Commander, Eastern Area, Admiral Roland is con­ cerned with search and rescue and flood relief work in the Eastera two-thirds of the United States and the operations of US ocean sta­ tions in the Atlantic Ocean. , , < i> t y' ' ' y. . ' i '• •' ' -L 1 i"i • • ''' >'•' '»!•' ' t '-(* �SEAFARERS taamrr, IMI Pave Eleven LOG THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF THE X ' «• s MARITIME TRADES DEPARTMENT, AFL-CIO The following pages carry a full report on the founding of the Interna­ tional Division of the Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO, at an MTD Conference on January 5, 1962. It carries the text of the Conference minutes plus supporting documents adopted at that time. MARITIME TRADES DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE Manhattan Hotel, New York City January 5,1962 M ARITIME TRADES DEPARTMENT president Paul Hall called the meeting to order at 2:00 PM. The official call for the meeting read as follows: "In accordance ivith MTD Constitution, we are herewith calling an Executive Board Luncheon Meeting to be held at the Manhattan Hotel, in New York City, Friday, Janu­ ary fifth at two PM in reference to the International Resolution adopted at the recent convention of the MTD, AFL-CIO. Would appreciate it if you would arrange your schedule to attend and if unable to do so please designate a representative from your organization to participate in meeting. Please advise immediately. Paul Hall, president Peter M. McGavin, executive secretary-treasurer, Maritime Trades Dept., AFL-CIO" The President then -announced that the Resolution as referred to, which had been adopted unanimously, was as follows: "Resolution Rei "Assistance To Latin-American Trade Unions "WHEREAS, Communist and other totalitarian forces are attempting to infiltrate and seize control of the labor movement throughout Latin America; and "WHEREAS, Latin American trade unionists are waging • valiant fight to defeat these totalitarian designs and to ensure the advancement of the workers' social and eco­ nomic progress through the democratic process; and "WHEREAS, Through our frequent contacts with mari­ time unionists and workers in Latin America we are acutely aware of the situation and their struggle; and "WHEREAS, The fight by any group of workers to preserve free and democratic trade unions is the re- sponsibility of all free trade unionists; therefore be it "RESOLVED, That the Maritime Trades Department,. AFL-CIO, and its affiliated unions take all possible steps to assist our brother trade unionists in Latin America in their struggle for freedom and progress and, "That in order to implement this program, the MTD consider establishment of appropriate facilities in Latin America and that it also consider establishment of facili­ ties in other parts of the world where such facilities would be beneficial in promoting close relationships between our Department and other maritime labor groups." This conference has given consideration to this Resolu­ tion as well as the contents of the record of the MTD Convention in Miami and we concur in both. This conference further has given consideration to the report which is attached entitled "Policy Statement—Re: SIU-ITF", as follows: Policy Statement Re: 5IU-ITF S INCE ITS founding in 1938, the SIU of North America has had a direct and continuing interest in cooperation with groups of seamen, fishermen and maritime work­ ers throughout the world. The very nature of the mari­ time industry makes such a policy an essential one for any successful maritime organization. An initial concern of the SIUNA was to combat the worldwide activity of the Communist Party on the waterfrqnt, an activity to which the Soviet Union has always assigned top priority. In the economic arena, the SIUNA wanted to protect the gains it had won from being under­ mined by inferior standards elsewhere, and, for that pur­ pose, desired to work closely with other unions on mutual problems affecting tlie livelihood and working conditions of seamen and fishermen. These other unions also had a direct interest in seeing to it that US union standards were not undermined because the US level of wages and work­ ing conditions was a measuring stick whereby they could bring up their own standards. After World War II, the SIUNA was able to implement its international policy more effectively. In 1944, before the war had ended, the SIUNA had joined the Interna­ tional Transportworkers Federation, becoming the first American union in the ITF. Subsequently, other AFL unions followed suit, particularly after the AFL executive council, in 1946, called upon all unions in the transporta­ tion field to affiliate with the ITF, a proposal strongly sup­ ported by the SIUNA. Accordingly, numerous American unions joined the appropriate sections of the ITF. Rela­ tionships in these other sections between US unions and their foreign counterparts have been close and harmonious for many years. At that time, the World Federation of Trade Unions was the only international- organization outside of ITF in the union field. It admitted representatives from Com­ munist-dominated unions and Communist countries, fall­ ing under total Communist control. Consequently, the ITF became the meeting ground and rallying point of non-Communist transportation and marine unions until December, 1949. At that time, the AFL participated in the establishment of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions to counter the WFTU on a broader scale. ICFTU has done an enormously successful job in this area. The ICFTU did not supersede ITF since its membership consists of national union federations of the free world. ITF continued to function as the medium of International relationships between individual trade unions in free world countries. In these postwar years, the growth of the runaway ship problem became a major issue of concern to seamen every- where. American- and Europdan-owned vessels were regis­ tering in increasing numbers under flags of such nations as, Panama and Liberia to escape legitimate union activity and tax obligations. In addition, some of the established mari­ time nations were invading services and trade routes which had no connection with the flag nation involved. Europeanflag ships in considerable number penetrated the American and Canadian trades, many never calling at any European ports. Both of these problems were recognized as such by ITF member unions. If, as a result of this activity, .\ineri- can and Canadian unions were weakened or destroyed, then the wage scales and standards of seamen everywhera would suffer severe setbacks. As far back as 1946 the ITF had discussed possibilities of a boycott against Panamanian and Liberian runaway ves­ sels. Subsequently, in 1948, the ITF voted for a world­ wide boycott of these runaways, but was never able to put the program into effect because of numerous difficulties, legal and otherwise. This did not stymie all efforts to act on runaway prob. lems. On its own initiative, the SIUNA conducted or« ganizing and protest activities. In 1950. the SIUN.\-af« filiated Sailors Union of the Pacific won a contract on th« Panama-flag SS Pho Pho. The contract was equal to US (Continued on page 12) �9mf TwelrS 9EAFARER3 LOG »6B THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION, MARITIME TRADES DEPARTMENT, AFL-CIO Policy Statement Re: SlU-ITF (Continued from page 11) . standards In every respect. In 1952, the SIUNA assisted striking crewmembers of the Liberlan-flag Riviera, and. In 1956, the Sailors Union won a second runaway-flag agreement with the Liberian-fiag pulp tanker Duncan Bay. Here again, the SUP negotiated an agreement which matched the best in the US. In that same year, the SIU Canadian District obtained a top Canadian contract on a British-flag cable ship, the John W. McKay. The Canadian labor authorities upheld the contention that the Canadian 6IU had jurisdiction because the ship operated in Canadi­ an waters exclusively, and the Canadian SIU was able to negotiate a Canadian contract. In addition to this, the ITF and other of its affiliates were also active in this field. The ITF conducted actions in US. Scandinavian and con­ tinental European ports against runaways. It succeeded In numerous instances in minimizing abuses on runaways and winning improved conditions. As a result, a practice developed whereby owners of runaway ships could receive ITF sanction by signing agreements to abide by certain minimum standards and making payments of $2.80 per month (one pound) toward seamen's welfare. As, it turned out, the money for this purpose was sent directly to the ITF and was distributed to seamen's welfare organizations, •uch as the British seamen's club in New York and similar organizations elsewhere. The SIUNA and other US unions disapproved of this sys­ tem because in their view any benefits negotiated on run­ away ships should be given directly to the seamen. Or if funds were to be allocated for any other purpose, they should be to provide manpower and offices around the world to enforce conditions on these vessels and provide representation for the crews, as well as for additional or­ ganizing efforts in this area. Despite disagreement on this point, cooperation between the SIUNA and other maritime unions in ITF proved effective in many areas, including counter-action against •ctivities of Communist waterfront organizations. Strikes €>f member organizations received full ITF support both In the US and throughout the free world. However, by the late 1950s, it was apparent that more forceful action was needed ofi the runaway issue. The tide of runaway registration was increasing and the ITF agreements, while they may have swelled the welfare fund, did little to resolve the problems of runaway crews. In July and November, 1958, ITF meetings set up ma­ chinery for implementing the worldwide boycott. The pressure of the runaways had become so great that a calculated risk was taken to picket these ships in the face of possible legal reprisals. One event made the boycott more practicable in 1958. Late in June, the National Labor Relations Board, which administers US labor relations law, had issued a decision upholding the right of the SIU to organize crewmembers of a Liberian-flag passenger ship, the SS Florida. The Board ruled that the SIU had jurisdiction because the ship was an American-controlled vessel in American com­ merce, even though it flew a runaway flag. Clearly, in the "United States at least, this implied the right of US unions to take action against runaways. Therefore, the ITF affiliates in America worked out an across-the-board program for the boycott. The action, December 1 to 4, 1958, was most effective in the United States and Canada, but relatively spotty elsewhere. Own­ ers of a number of ships picketed in the US during the four-day demonstration protested that they should be exempt from such picketing because they were paying the one pound British ($2.80) a month to the ITF welfare fund, even though tlieir crews suffered imder typicallyInferior rueaway conditions. Some shipowners approached the US unions offering to pay the one pound British ($2.80) to escape the boycott. They were under the illusion that this payment would enable them to purchase a permanent exemption from any union organizing or protest aampeign. US unions refused to agree to their proposals. The SIUNA and the other American unions In ITF then acted to capitalize on the inUial aiiocess. At a meeting of the ITF Seafarers Section in London, January 1959, two Important issues were acted on: (1) On January 22, 1959, over the objections of some unions and with the reluctant approval of other affiliates, the American unions pushed through a strong policy state­ ment on runaways. The ITF agreed that unions of tha nation possessing a vested control of the ship had the right to organize that ship for the purpose of providing the crew, regardless of Its nationality, with the wages and con­ ditions of that nation. Pi eviously. It had held that unions of the country erewiiig the ship had jurisdiction. It should be noted that the new resolution was in line with the NLRB findings in the Florida case. The resolution was the green light for American unions to organize American and Can­ adian-owned or controlled vessels which had run away from those countries. (2) On January 21, 1959, a written agreement was reached between the National Union of Seamen ot Great Britain and the SIUNA dealing specifically with the long­ standing problem of Canadian runaways under the British Qag. The agreement is as follows: "MEETING OF CANADIAN AND BRITISH SEAFARERS' LEADERS "A meeting between representatives of the (Canadian SIU and the three British seafarers' organizations was held at the head offices of the ITF, in London, on 21 January. The meeting, which discussed tlie question of transfers of Canadian ships to foreign registers, including the British, was attended by the following: "Paul HaU, president of the SIU; Hal C. Banks, secre­ tary-treasurer of the SIU Canadian District; T. Yates, gen­ eral secietary. National Union of Seamen of Great Britain; D. S. Teilnant, general secretary, British Merchant Navy and Airlines Officers' Association; H. O'Neill, general secretary, British Radio Officers' Union. "During the exchange of views which took place it was noted that the Canadian merchant navy had dwindled considerably since the end of World War II as a result of transfer of ships to foreign registers. These transfers were mainly due to the desire of Canadian operators to avoid the wages and working conditions won for (^nadian sea. farers by collective bargaining. In most of the cases, ships owned and operated by Canadian interests had been trans­ ferred to runaway flags, but there were some cases where ships had been transferred to the British flag and where Canadian crews earning Canadian wages and conditions had been displaced by British seamen on much lower British wages and conditions. "The major problem of preventing transfers to flags of convenience was being discussed at the four-day talks which were taking place In London concurrently. The purpose of the talk between Canadian and Bittish seafarers was to seek a solution of the British-Canadian question. "The British spokesmen went unanimously and emphatically on recoid that they would have no part in attempts to use British registry to imdermine Canadian seamen's conditions. Reference was made to the 66-ship fleet of the Sagunay Group. A very smaU part of these were operating under legitimate bareboat charters—eleven of them British flag, others Norwegian or Dutch—^but the bulk of them were Canadian-built, financed and controlled and their proper place was under the Canadian flag. These ships often carried mixed crews and paid as little as $45 to the able seamen. maintained, are not genuine transfers and arg owned and operated in Canada and for the greater part of the year ply exclusively between Canadian and US ports. The British delegates agreed that this did seem to be a manoeuvre to avoid Canadian standards. For the reasons mentioned above, i.e., contiol and sphere of operation, these ships should be brought under Canadian jurisdiction,. and it was agreed that the British unions would seek to end British crew agreements at the earliest possible op­ portunity. "The British representatives spoke of the difficulty which existed where a ship was on the Bermuda register, which was a part of the British register in a wider s^nse. Such a ship could become part of the British employers' federation, which meant that it came under the collective agreement which that body signed collectively with the British maritime unions and that it had to be crewed under the British pool system. However, the British representa­ tives declared that they would seek to end the membership of such ships and that they would oppose such transfers Into the British pool in future. "With reference to the Sagunay fleet, mention was made of a claim that the British NUS was party to an agreement in respect of one of their ships. This, however, was a misrepresentation of the position. "The meeting unanimously accepted the following con­ clusions of the discussion: (1) Canadian seamen do not seek to encroach In any way on British shipping operations based on genuine registry and control. (2) Canadian shipowners who have expressed, publicly or otherwise, their intention to transfer to the British flag without change of ownership with the object of evad­ ing Canadian conditions will not be manned by British crews. (3) Canadian-owned and operated ships plying In the Caribbean ore-carrying trade should come under the com­ plete Jurisdiction of the SIU Canadian District. (4) Statements that the British union has an agreement with the Sagunay Group are not true. The Sagunay Canadian-owned ships come under the jurisdiction of the Canadian SIU, and a similar position applies to the Markland Shipping Company, which is Canadian manned, owned, operated and controlled and exclusively engaged In trading in North American waters. London, 21 January 1959. Signatures: S/ Paul Hall, President of the SIU S/ Hal C. Banks, Secretary-Treasurer of the SIU Canadian District S/ T. Yates, General Secretary, National Union of Seamen of Great Britain S/ D. S. Tennant, General Secretary, British Merchant Navy and Airlines Officers' Association S/ H. O'Neill, General Secretary, British Radio Officers' Union." It was agreed then that the NUS would not crew such vessels and would recognize the jurisdiction of the Canadian SIU over these ships. At the request of the British union, this matter remained a private agreement between them and the SIUNA and was not part of the official record of the ITF. The SIU had sought. In an official ITF Seafarers Section meeting in London, to make It an ITF matter but the British insisted on a private agreement outside the ITF framework. This, as will be ex­ plained later, was used as an escape hatch by the NUS to nullify the agreement. "The British i^pokesmen, whilst re-emphasizing that they were resolved to support the SIU Canadian District In its struggle, and that they wanted nothing to do with ships which did not visit UK ports, observed that there were cases where the presence of ex-Canadian ships under the British flag was not improper. Ships of Canadian Pacific Steamships, whose effective management was in the UK, had been on the British register for many years past and this could not be regarded as part of the evasive manoeuvre of shipping capital. There were also cases of ships of subsidiai'ies which were genuinely registered and controlled from the UK and in which Ships traded from UK ports. Such ships also did not come under the indict­ ment. Following the ITF action. United States unions then proceeded to set up the International Maritime Workers Union for the purpose of in\plementing the ITF program In reference to organizing of runaways. This organization ' was approved at a later date by the ITF after thorough debate and discussion, and commenced action hi the field. "The ships specifically referred to by tlie Canadian District of the SIU are five Canadian Lon ore transport vessels named Sept isles, SMth Iiehr, Saali fiSke, T. Weedsmd West JUvcc. These the CMsndiwi delegates The IMWU functioned effectively. On the ottwr hand, no progress was made to in^ilement the agreement between the Biitisfa »nd the Canadians. At « meeting of the ITF la Depemltec, StUNA ratoed oomplaiwta about , �SEAWAREKS Ihe failure of the NUS to implement the 11-month-oIdIgreement. NUS had continued to supply crews to those Sritish-flag ships which the British had agreed rightfully ame under SIU Canadian Jurisdiction. This was a direct iolation of their written agreement. At the insistence of he British, the SlUNA was then informed by the ITF hat it would not take up the complaint against the NUS. nstead, ITF instructed the SIUNA to resolve its differ•nces with NUS outside of the ITF framework. The SIUNA hen concluded that it would deal with this issue in the lost effective manner possible. It informed the ITF that Jritlsh crews were working in the Canadian economy unler vastly inferior conditions and that this situation could lot be ignored. I At the same time, the SIUNA made a direct approach 0 the NUS on the issue. In addition, the SIUNA raised 1 specific question concerning the disposition of a group if 35 ships transferred from Canadian to British registry n violation of the agreement between the British and Canadian SIU. The head of the NUS, Sir Thomas Yates, vould not concede that these vessels came within the cope of the agreement. He characterized them as being inder Greek management, out of London, with Asiatic ir African crews, although admittedly flying the British lag. Since Sir Thomas would not concede the issue, the l^anadians had no way of providing any protection or ecuring any improvements for these underpaid and malreated crews. ff The IMWU, in the meantime, had implemented its projram to tlie extent of setting up headquarters in New Ifork, field offices in various ports, and putting organizers n the field. It had met with visible signs of success in J'arious actions against runaway shipowners. Despite this progress, in May, 1960, tiie ITF suggested tiiat another apiroach be taken on the runaway issue. Greek shipowners; vho operate many runaway vessels, and the unions with vhom they had contracts, took steps toward this "new" ipproach. They attempted to persuade the American inions to approve the British pound ($2.80) payment as a iubstitute for organizing runaway vessels. It became clear tt this point that the Americans and Canadians were the mly unions actively interested in organizing these vesselai It was against this background that another important levelopment arose. Originally, accepting Sir Thomas Fates' agreement in good faith, and in attempting to mplement this agreement with the British union, the SIU In Canada had established contacts with crews of Britishflag vessels in Canadian trade. The crews, of course; welcomed the possibility that they might obtain for them­ selves improvements comparable to those on Canadian ships. This attitude on the part of British-flag crews was understandable because Canadian wages and conditions were threefold those under British contract. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas had negotiated a new agreement with British shipowners on behalf of the NUS. The terms of the agreement were so inadequate tJiat it resulted in in extensive wildcat strike on British ships. The wildcat strike led to public acknowTedgemeht by NUS of the inferiority of Its contract. NUS was forced to reopen the agreement to secure more money. During this wildcat strike, members of the NUS in Canada ap­ pealed to the SIU for relief and assistance. The SIU responded to this appeal. The NUS leadership seized on the strike as an oppor­ tunity to repudiate their January, 1959, agreement with |SIU for all time. To accomplish this end NUS preyed on fears of other ITF alTiliates that their memberships might be stirred to protest against inadequate conditions. Since I number of these other unions were already under coniderable pressure from their memberships, this British pproach was successful in lining up these ITF affiliates to upport the suspension of the SIU. t The NUS had now traveled the full circle. Where it had previously insisted that its dispute witli the Canadians was a private matter outside the ITF framework, now, because of the embarrassing position it was caught in with its own membership, and the fact that it obviously intended to violate its agreement with SIU, it resorted to parliamentary trickery In order to escape the agreement it had made. In doing so, it improperly.used Its influence in the ITF to make this possible. The device used was to prefer charges against SIU which (iTF ^cepted, .on the basis of aUoged SIU violatidB of tho LOC Fa*e ITF constitution. It is well to remember that when the SIU attempted to press a complaint against NUS on the same subject. ITF refused to entertain it on the basis that it should be settled outside of the ITF's framework. for us to arrive in Antwerp in time for meeting before end of week at earliest. In view of this unavoidable cir­ cumstance, please advise as to next best possible date for meeting." Despite a series of communications in which the SIUNA attempted to settle its differences with NUS, all parties were notified of an ITF meeting in January, 1961. The meeting was to take up an NUS demand for suspension of SIUNA. The ITF sent the following answer to this request: "Your cable unfortunately received too late to cancel conference as delegates already on way to A^itwerp. Conference was attended by 34 delegates from 12 coun­ tries. Regretted your absence deeply but felt that refer­ ence from executive committee should be dealt urith. After long discussion, saw no alternative but to adopt following statement: ^ "Seafarers section meeting Antwerp 26th January had under consideration problems arising from inter­ ference by SIU in domestic affairs of British NUS during unofficial seamen's strike in United Kingdom during summer, 1960. Having regard to undisputed facts, it was unanimously agreed to recommend that executive committee of ITF should at its next meet­ ing suspend SIU from membership of ITF unless; point one, SIU immediately ceases all interference in internal affairs of British NUS; point two, SIU expresses and publishes apologies for its breach of good trade union practice; point three, SIU pledges its full adherence to ITF constitution in future; point four, gives satisfactory assurances, of ichich ITF executive committee shall be jtidge, that there shall be no further interference by SIU in domestic affairs of British NUS or any other ITF affiliate." Pieter De Vries" At this time, the SIU, the Masters, Mates and Pilots end the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, all ITF affiliates, were involved in a major railroad strike in New York harbor. The strike was being conducted against all the major roads serving the city with the basic issue be­ ing the railroads' adamant insistence on the right to abol­ ish Jobs at their pleasure. The unions involved were de­ termined to protect the rights of their members and of the members of the. railroad brotherhoods, since this was clearly a test as to whether tlie railroads could obtain a free hand to destroy jobs-in all categories of railroad work. New York harbor was the testing ground for this issue. Thanks to the support the marine unions received from the brotherhoods, the strike was 100 percent effective on and off the waterfront. It tied up rail service from New York as far as the midwest by halting eleven railroads, including the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Bbltimore & Ohio, New Haven & Hartford, Lackawanna and others. In the course of the strike, the unions were confronted with a problem of threatened retribution against mem­ bers of the railroad brotherhoods by these major roads, which were desperately trying to establish the right to unilaterally destroy railroad jobs. Consequently, the fol­ lowing communication was received by the striking un­ ions from George Harrison, grand president of the Broth­ erhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, on January 17th: "Dear Sirs and Brothers: "I have just learned that Mr. Fred Diegtel, Assistant Vice-President of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, has in­ formed our General Chairman, Brother Sehreur, that our members who respect your picketlines at other than water­ front locations will be considered as absent from duty without permission and will not be returned to service. "I ask that you bear this in mind and that the agree­ ment you reach in settlement of this dispute contain a ptovision requiring that all employees who observe your picketlines be returned to service without reprisal or retaliation of any kind." In response, the following wire was sent to Harrison by the' SIU: "Received your letter informing us of Erie-Lackawanna Railroad's attitude toward members of the brotherhood who respect our picketlines in the current railroad marine workers strike. Be assured that any completed agreement between this union and the railroad companies will neces­ sarily preclude any reprisals or retaliation in any form." In view of the complexities involved in this strike, the following wire was sent to the ITF on the 22nd of January by the striking unions: "Railroad marine sections of SIU, MMP and MEBA currently in 11th day of strike against 11 major railroads. Cannot leave until major issues are resolved. At present appears delay in arrival at Anticerp for Wednesday, January 25, meeting is inevitable. Will advise further of developments and time of arrival." ITF Secretary General De Vries wired back as follows: "Regret news of your cable 22)id. Please send later advices care of belgische tranportarbedersbond, Paardenmarkt 66 Antwerp." While agreement was reached on January 23 to return to work, there were numerous unresolved issues, includ­ ing the railroads' attempts to wreak vengeance on the brotherhoods for their support and to prepare the ground for the next assault on railroad workers' job rights. Conse­ quently, on January 26th, the three striking unions sent a second wire to ITF as follows: "Situations arising c ut of railroad marine strike, in­ cluding many important meetings with AFL-CIO, Central Labor Councils, State Federations and the various railroad brotherhoods require continued presence in New York feverel day*. This loouUt mote it impotsibto As tlie record clearly shows, the SIU was tried in absentia. No attempt was made to investigate the validity of the charges made by the NUS, nor to establish any evidence. The ITF merely accepted the charges and made a predetermined ruling of SIU guilt. The SIUNA recognized that this entire matter was one of paramount importance and consequently took it up at its own convention in March, 1961. As a result of convention authorization, the following cable was sent to the ITF: April 7, 1961 "Pieter De Vries, General Secretary Intransfe London, England "With respect to the dispute between the SIU and the National Union of Seamen of Great Britain, please be advised that the recent Convention of the SIU of North America, meeting March 13 to 17, took the following action: That a Committee be appointed to represent the International Union to deal with this matter, with the Committee being given full authority to resolve the issv.ss involved. This Committee has been appointed and is ready to act on this question. In view of the Convention action and in view of the misunderstandings which have arisen in this complex and many-sided dispute, we urge the Executive Committee of the International Transportworkers Federation to refer the issue back to the Sea­ farers section so that it may e.rplore solutions to the problem with the SIUNA Committee. We feel that in this manner a satisfactory settlement to this dispute can be achieved icithout disturbing the structure of the ITF or preventing our continued participation in the support of the ITF program. Paul Hall, President ' Seafarers International Union of North America" In addition, the American longshoremen, represented by the International Longshoremen's Association, sent the following message to the ITF general secretary: April 13, 1961 "Peter De Vries, General Secretary International Transportworkers Federation Tadmor Hotel Herzlia, Tel Aviv, Israel "Any attempt to suspend SIU from ITF can only lead to immediate deterioration of ITF structure ITI North America.. Strongly recommend this matter be referred back to Seafarers section in effort to resolve issues. This is in best interest of all sections of ITF. Thomas Gleason General Organizer International Longshoremen's Association" The Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Railway Labor Executive's As-sociation, A. E. Lyon, seiit the following communication to ths ITF General Secretary: (Continued on page 14) . �SEAFARERS Fare Foorteea LOG Suuurr, im THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION, MARITIME TRADES DEPARTMENT, AFL-CIO Policy Statement Re: 5IU-ITF (Continued from page 13) April S, 1961 "Mr. Pieter De Vrles, Gen'I Secretary Int'l Transport Workers' Federation Maritime House, Old Town Clapbam, London S W 1 England Dear Brother Do Vries: "Inasmuch as the date for the E.C. meeting is not far away, and in view of the fact that I cannot attend either the E.C. or Regional Affairs Committee meeting, I would like to put some thoughts on paper, at least on two subjects, "First, I am greatly concerned regarding the threat of suspension or voluntary withdrawal which could remove the SlU from ITF affiliation and from participation in ITF affairs. If this should occur at this time it would mean the loss of at least three other affiliates, I believe. "I believe that careful consideration of the matter could prove that long and serious consideration should be given the subject before any such action is permitted. "From reading the press, and especially the SIU pub­ lication, I got the d'lstinct impression that the action taken on this matter at the recent SIU Convention in Puerto Rico indicates the seriousness with which the SIU is approaching the possibility of separation from the ITF. This seriousness in turn indicates that Brother Hall and others consider ITF affiliation to be important— otherwise they would have taken action to voluntarily disaffiliate. "In view of the fact that the SIU has appointed a com­ mittee to seek a solution to this problem, with Brother Hall as chairman, I insist that the ITF must give much more consideration to the matter, postponing a decision until Brother Hall and the SIU committee can attend a sectional conference or appear before the EC. "Suspension of the SIU, even though they may be at fault, will not solve the problems that exist. The ITF should play an important role in resolving such conflicts, and this role cannot be played by separating itself from one of the participants. We should have learned a lesson from the air line pilots affair. The action taken in that case was a mistake which solved nothing. "The SIU has been affiliated to the ITF longer than any US union. It appears to me that it can and will exer­ cise an increasingly important and helpful influence in ITF regional affairs, especially in the western hemisphere, and it would be folly to permit such an unfortunate situation as we have had in Canada to terminate such potential inflnevce, "If the EC believes it must take some action more positive than deferral, I suggest the possibility of the EC sending a small delegation (or a sub-committee) to the US and Canada to pursue an adjustment. "I regard this matter as one of the greatest possible importance. I ask that you and'the EC carefully consider my considered and strongly-held opinion. "I also want to touch one other subject briefly—that of the future activity of the ITF in Latin America. I hope that you will do everything possible to encourage the Regional Affairs Committee, as well as the EC, to give maximum support to the efforts of Azana on behalf of the IT^. I think all will agree that results to date warrant this. I would like to see the ITF extend itself to the maximum to accelerate activities in that part of the world, securing as quickly as possible the manpower needed to assist Azana, and authorizing the expenditure of funds in sufficient quantity to maintain and increase the ITF effectiveness which Azana is now brhiging about. Azana should not be discouraged or starved out as result of the ITF being too rigid on financial affairs in connection with the Latin American operation. "Fraternally, S/ A. E. Lyon Executive Secretary" Copies to: T. Nishimald H. J. Kanne R. Dekeyzer •. Klinga H. Dpbjr Shortly after the ITF Executive Committee meeting in Tel Aviv in April, the SIU received on April 17 a letter from ITF General Secretary DeVries dated April 18, In­ forming the SIU that the Executive Committee had sus­ pended it on recommendation of the Seafarers Section. with the MTD, Its Convention Procedures and the AFL-CIO. (2) This committee shall take Immediate steps for the appointment of a financial officer who shall open a' bank account in the name of this committee In « bank in a The following cable was sent to DeVries from the SIU, city to be designated by the committee. Such persons so Masters Mates & Pilots, Marine Engineers Beneficial designated shall take the proper steps as to arrange for an Association and the International Longshoremen's Asso­ accounting system and a method of payment for debts as ciation: incurred. No such expenditures shall be made, under any circumstances, without the approval of the Executive April 17, 1961 Committee of the International Division of the Maritime "Peter DeVries, General Secretary International Transportworkers Federation , Trades Department, Maritime House, Old Town, Clapbam (3) Affiliated unions of the MTD shall be notified of London, England this action and those organizations wishing to participate "In view of the precipitous action taken by the ITF directly by financially aiding this committee shall make checks payable to the fund so established. All such funds Executive Committee in Tel Aviv in suspending the SIU and the expenditures thereof shall be accounted for by a as a result of the dispute between the SIU and the Certified Public Accountant. Full accounting of same British National Union of Seamen, particularly after a request by American Unions that this question be re­ is to be made to the Executive Board of the MTD and ferred back to the Seafarers Section for resolution was shall be in keeping with law. ignored, we hereby record our dissatisfaction with the (4) The Executive Committee shall Immediately desig­ unfair manner in which you have acted. In light of the ITF nate a European representative of the IDMTD who shall action, the undersigned organizations have no alternative forthwith establish offices in or around the City of Ant­ but to advise you of their withdrawal as member organi­ werp, Belgium. His duties shall be to represent the com­ zations of the ITF and that consequently they can no mittee and to establish and maintain contact with ail longer be bound by ITF policy and procedure. Our vhth- trade unions within that area with special emphasis on drawal is effective as of date of this message. those in the marine and marine transport industries. He shall further Implement programs and the desires of the S/Cal Tanner Executive Committee as they are made. Seafarers International Union of North America (5) The Executive Committee shall immediately desig­ S/Charles M. Crooks nate a Latin America and Caribbean area representative Master, Mates and Pilots of the IDMTD who shall forthwith establish offices in or S/William Bradley, Pres. around the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico. His duties International Longshoremen's Association shall be to represent the committee and to establish and S/Raymond McKay maintain contact with all trade unions within that area Marine Engineers Beneficial Association" with special emphasis on those in the marine and marina transport industries. He shall further implement programs CONCLUSION end the desires of the Executive Committee as they are made. The ill-considered action of the ITF In bowing to the desires of the British seamen's organizations has ob­ (6) The Executive Committee shall immediately desig­ viously rendered a great disservice to the seamen's move­ nate a Far East representative of the IDMTD who shall ment generally and has weakened the structure of th# forthwith establish offices in or around the City of ITF. The unions remaining in ITF might well examine Yokohama, Japan. His duties shall be to represent the this record and take corrective action so that there can committee and to establish and maintain contact with all be no repetition of such a sorry episode. trade unions within that area with special emphasis on those in the marine and marine transport industries. He In the meantime, the problems in the international field persist. The Communist Party is mounting a very shall further implement programs and the desires of the vigorous offensive, particularly in Latin America. US Executive Committee as they are made. and Canadian seamen face continued pressures on their standards as a result of Panamanian, Liberian and even European-flag runaway ship operations. Seamen on many European-flag vessels, many of them recruited in Asia, Africa and Latin America, are being compelled to work in the Canadian and American trades at wages and con­ ditions substantially beneath the standards prevailing in those countries. The SIUNA has no intention of abandoning its respon­ sibilities to its own members and to all seamen in the free world. To discharge these responsibilities it will propose to the American sea unions, the members of the MTD and free trade unions throughout the world, that they cooperate in a program to deal effectively with the problems confronting all maritime workers. We look forward to the time when all organizations throughout the free world will^cooperate on a program of mutual aid truiy concerned with preserving and im­ proving the wages and conditions of maritime workers and thwarting the Communist effort to undermine and replace the free trade union institutions. T HIS conference concurs in this report. In considera­ tion of the adoption of these matters, and to imple­ ment those recommendations contained therein, this conference therefore goes on record for the following: (1) An Executive Committee shall be elected from this conference consisting of three members who shall serve as tlie Executive Committee of the "INTERNA­ TIONAL DIVISION OF THE MARITIME TRADES DE­ PARTMENT, AFL-CIO." This committee shall be respon­ sible for the adoption of whatever rules or procedures that mar be necessary to implement the program as adopted by this conference In any detail that may be necessary or required. This policy shall be consistent (7) The Executive Committee shall, consistent with the carrying out of this program, as well as in keeping with the assets of this committee, open such other regional offices as they may deem necessary. (8) The committee shall immediately cause to be estab­ lished in or around San Juan, Puerto Rico, an Institute of Labor Relations whose purpose it shall be to serve as a center of operation for bringing together trade union representatives from the Western Hemisphere with par­ ticular emphasis on those representatives from the Latin American and Caribbean areas, so that each can familiar­ ize himself with the operations and the problems of their counterparts In all other countries In the Western hem- ' isphere. An effective program and curriculum shall be established to carry out this purpose. The Executive Com­ mittee shall in the future, consistent with its assets and needs as it may determine, establish similar institutes in any other regions where the committee maintains offices. , (9) The Executive Committee shall take the proper steps to see that information bulletins, etc., are made available In the appropriate language for use in the vari­ ous regions which are to be established. This information is to be disseminated among interested groups. (10) The Executive Committee shall request that MTD conference meetings be held immediately in the Great Lakes, Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific regions by the Port Councils in each area, for the purpose of developing ways and means of assisting this program, in whatever manner as may be necessary, such as strike action against unfair ships, etc., and assistance to unions with whom we have established relations. (11) The Executive Committee shall request officers of the various affiliates of the MTD, wherever possible, to visit those areas in which the Division is actively engaged in carrying out this program. �Fate FUtetm BEAWARERa LO€ Bull C-4s Almost Ready Union Wins Major Gains In Highway Trailer Pact SEAm£—Bull lino hai ordered $3 million worth of cargo containers for the two C-4 vessels starting in Ita NY-Fuerto Rico aervics on about Mardi 1. The ships are now being oonvnted for container use at Todd's Shipyard here. The new equipment will^ beef up the container aervice •hips. The modified C-4i, which out of the Suison Bay, Calif., re* Bull began about two years wiR SuHTve as combination coa- sorve fleet anchorage. •go with its fleet of C-2 cargo taincr agd break-bulk ships, come The Gans's All Here NEWARK, NJ—Backed by the unanimous UIW vote of shop employees in July, luiion negotiators have hammered home a pace-setting, one-year contract at Highway Trailer Industries here. A contract package featuring a 27-cent part In the voting. The triumph hourly pay increase has been capsized efforts to make headway cnthusiastic^ly ratified by the company's employees. Part of a new and expanding Industry, Highway Trailer is en­ gaged in the sales, repair and servicing of new and used over-theroad truck trailer bodies and cargo containers used for merchant ves­ sels. Membership ratification of the new working agreement, which is retroactive to last October 1, put a ten-cent-per-hour wage Increase and other major gains into effect. The contract calls for fhe payment of overtime after eight hours of work and establishes the full UIW welfare program Including clinic coverage in the shop. Some 20 employees are now involved. Gains won by the union also in­ cluded up to a 40 percent hourly boost for a number of employees after a detailed reclassification study of job duties was completed. The pact likewise spells out full guarantees of job security and grievance rights, which are stand­ ard features of all UIW agreeoents. In winning the balloting con­ ducted by the National Labor Rela­ tions Board last summer, the UIW chalked up a unanimous victory among the 17 workers vrira tocdc Phony Rig Under Fire In US Suit Rejected by workers in several New York area plants and expelled from the AFL-CIO for signing back-door agreements with em­ ployers, "Amalgamated Local 355" has now been hauled into Federal district court by the US Depart­ ment of Labor for violating Fed­ eral labor law. A so-called "independent union," "Local 355" is cited by US Labor Becietaiy Arthur Goldberg with failing to conduct an election of officers in 1060 as stipulated In its own constitution. The case history of "Local 355" Is well-known to UIW members and representatives, since its action helped form the basis for unfair labor charges by the UIW against two Staten Island oil distributing •oncerns. At the National Labor Relations Board, fmmal hearings were held January 8 regarding UIW unfair labor practice charges against Salmirs Oil. The company is charged with coercing employees on behalf of the "independent union" after they had already joined the UIW. Similar charges against Fiore Brothers have been processed by the regional NLRB office and are now up for a ruling. Operating as a "cut-rate" outfit, "Local 355" has already sustained several defeats by the UIW in revent organizing campaigns. II was whipped by the UIW this fall wlien Staten Island Petroleum Company employees and Richmond Burner workers solidly supported the UIW. Ii ' *' • -I in the plant by District 50 of the United Mine Workers. District 50 has been defeated by SIU and its affiliates on several occasions. Contract negotiations formally got underway late in September after the presentation of written UIW demands. The election of a rank-and-file committee of High­ way Trailer men to help in the b^gaining talks assisted in the successful wind-up of the contract drive. Jay Kay Job Rules Pay Off Seniority provisions of the UIW contract with Jay Kay Metals of Long Island City have produced a smooth changeover from the com­ pany's usual year-end production schedules for the first time in its history. Jay Kay came under UIW contract last June. UIW representatives report more workers than ever before on the payroll during the entire holiday period, many working on overtime right up to Christmas eve in order to fill last-minute gift orders. Jay Kay, which employs some 650 UIW members at peak produc­ tion, traditionally shifts its major production efforts from electrical appliances to summer picnic and barbecue equipment each winter. The changeover has previously meant layoffs of up to 40 percent of the work force several weeks before Christmas. This year, however, with the union on hand to enforce hard-won contract conditions and the result­ ing stabilizing of production. Jay Kay was able to keep a large force on hand right up to the holidays. Philly Exports Perched on top of crate, UIW member John Fabioni crates up load of machin­ ery for export out of the A. A. OaHoqhw warehouse in Philadelphia. Fabiani is shop steward at the UIW plant. A visit to the Steel Architect at Isthmian's Brooklyn terminal caught the gang together before the ship paid off. Pictured (l-r) Seafarers Eric losie, Costa S. Doyos, Keeeeth Murphy, Chorfes Heriburt, Ivor Anderson, G. P. Moddow, with Frank Borst, AS (kneeling), In the foreground. A traveling is-ane is being In* stalled on the two ships aft of the midship house to handle load* ing and discharging of cargo con­ tainers from the two after hatches. The four forward hatches and their regular cargo gear will re­ main as is and be used for con­ ventional break-bulk cargo. Each C-4 will be able to carry 168 35-foot containers pius 400,000 cubic feet of break bulk cargo, about as much break bulk as « C-2 carries at present. In addition, the C-4s arc about IV^ knots faster and have three decks, offering more space for automobiles and other deck cargo which are prom­ inent items In the Puerto Rico trade. The company believes that the combination of container and break-bulk service is ideal in ths Puerto Rican trade. Bull obtained the C-4s from ths Maritime Administration by trad­ ing in two Libertys, the Angelina and Carolyn. The C-4s, formerly the Marine Panther and the Marine Fox, had been used as troopships by the military. Ths Panther has been renamed the Alecia, and the Marine Fox ths Dorothy. The present Dorothy, s Liberty, will be renamed the Margaret Medical Costs Go Into Orbit; Check On Health Insurance There seems ne way to stop those soaring medical and hospital bills, or at least, the available ways aren't being fully used. The latest price index shows that costs of medical care again Jumped over tlmee percent this year compared to less than one percent for overall living costs. In all, medical costs now are up 62 percent since the 1947-49 base period, compared to 28 for the general cost of living. As a result of the hardships caused by orbiting medical charges, unions and other community groups are driving for more comprehensive health insurance, with an Increasing number even setting up their own health-care facilities. Some insurance counselors advise that groups should get competitive bids from at least six com­ panies and as often as every year. Of course, the group must calculate whether the new acquisition won't outweigh any uvings. If eompetilive bids are so fanpMiant te a group, it's equally vital that your family compare offerings from several companies If you buy insurance Indi­ vidually. The only economical way to buy is in a group. But many families still buy Individual poli­ cies, often to supplement their group insurance. Here are features to check, summarised from suggestions by a number of medical and Insurance experts, that can be useful to both groups and individuals. In general. It's more Important to look for Inoad basic benefits than high "maximiuns." One policy may offer benefits "up to $20,000," another a maxi­ mum of $10,000. The higher maximum is not neces­ sarily preferable. What's more vital is how much is allowed for specific care, and what proportion of a more-typical sickness bill will be covered. (Also observe whether the maximum applies to your entire family or, preferably, to each member.) Especially compare these specific benefits': Baspltal Cart: Note how much is provided for hospital bed and board. Some plans may allow only ilO a day, in comparison to typical charges of about !21 for a semi-private room. Others may provide full payment. Compare the allowance for "ancillary" costs—tha hospital extras such as drugs, dressings. X-rays, operating room, lab tests and so on. These now often come to as much as room and board. Further, is out-patient care provided for? There is a trend towards nursing-home or home-care pro­ visions to ease the demand for high-cost hospital beds. But mauy policies do not provide for such care. t i . • . 1 . !• I I V I . V'f' l' Doctors' AUowances: Some policies give high allowances for relatively-rare operations but only low amounts for common ones, reports a Social Security Administration medical economist. Com­ pare the allowance for the more-common opera­ tions like appendectomies. You should also observ* whether doctors' services are provided for In the hospital only or ulso In office and home, and whether diagnostic services outside the hospital are covered —a valuable provision. Compare The "Deductible'': With insurance com­ panies now promoting "major medical" policies. It's vital to compare how much of the bill you would have to pay before the insurance paj's. Not* whether the deductible applies to each family mem­ ber or, preferably, the whole family, and whether to each illness or, preferably, to "each benefit period," and how long the "benefit period" is. Inoeme Limitations: Some plans stipulate that only families under a specified income limit hav# their doctor bills paid in full. Union insurance directors advise that you observe whether the limit is high enough so you won't have to pay additional fees. Dependents: Note whether your family gets the same benefits as the breadwinner, which is the current trend; until what ages your children ere covered, and the amount of maternity benefit and waiting period. Conversaen: More attention is being given to provisions for converting to individual coverage when learing a job. Many people lose their coverage when they need it most—when income is reduced. Pelicy Restrictions: Especially in buying individual policies, make sure that: (1) The policy is guaranteed renewable and noncancellable, not only for the terra of the policy but for your lifetime. (2) That the policy won't carry any "elimination endorsement" excluding coverage for existing conditions or illnesses for which you had recent attention. <3) That the "period of contestability," during which the insurer can contest a claim, is not more than tvo years from date of issue. (4) That "disability" is not defined as confine­ ment to your home. (Ed. note: In all coses where Seafarers or their families may decide to purchase private hospitalsurpical-medical insurance, they a^e advised to check first on the full brnedts and cotferage provided under the SIU Welfare Plan.) '< I 'l .i �Pace Sizfeea SEAFARERS See Big Harbors, Canal Via Controlled A-Tests Hammer Away Seafarers may one day find themselves calmly sailing through canals and harbors blasted into existence by con­ trolled atomic explosions that can quickly do massivp earthmoving jobs at relatively low cost. Recent US atomic tests tho long-debated proposals for a already point the way to one direct link between England and The first labor union in the southern Mississippi town of Pica­ yune was established last month when the International Woodwork­ ers of Anterica won an election at the St. Regis Paper Company. The union won despite an aggres­ sive campaign by. the town's cham­ ber of commerce and Industry to defeat IWA organizing . . . More than 100 actors, singers, and other entertainers, all members of the AFL-CIO Associated Actors & Art­ ists, entertained US servicemen overseas with USO shows during the Christmas holidays. 4" t i The International Typographical Union, moving its headquarters to Colorado after 72 years in Indian­ apolis, donated-its large statue of Benjamin Franklin to Franklin College near Indianapolis . . . Communist domination of the un­ affiliated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers was charged by a federal examiner of the Subversive Activities Con­ trol Board. The examiner recom­ mended that the union be listed as subversive. If the findings are adopted, the union would lose its rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The case Is the first one against a union under a 1950 law. Mine-Mill and ten other unions were expelled from the old CIO on charges of Communistdomination. 4» - t" 4" Local 1100 of the Retail Clerks In San Francisco has won its strike against the J. C. Penney Company In that city. The department store local, which signed a three-year pact with wage raises with the company, notified all AFL-CIO unions which supported its action that the strike is over . . . The month-long-strike of United Auto Workers against Trailmobile, a Cincinnati subsidiary of Pullman, Inc., ended in December when workers accepted a 42.3 cent pack­ age offer in a three-year contract. 4" 4" 4" A New -Year's Day strike on New York City subways was averted when the Transport Work­ Congress Aid Urged Against Runaways France across the English Channel, lu various forms, a bridge or tun­ nel project to span the 23 sea miles WASHINGTON—Congressional committee has been told across the Channel has been under that a lack of balance in US Government policies covering serious discussion for almost 160 the tuna fishing and canning industries may eventually drive years. the American tuna fleet off"^' Interest is again focused on the idea because of the growing Inter­ I the high seas. Controls on ports, tho major canners brought Assortment of hammers for dependence involving Great Brit­ [canned tuna Imports are not in huge quantities of raw and stowage in deck Jbcker ain and the continent plus the vast the answer, according to SIUNA frozen tuna from Japan in a movo keeps Seafarer H. Galphin rise in Channel passenger and to depress prices and keep new, fishermen. busy on the Robin Goodfeifreight movements. A decision Is smaller US canning companies Present import duties on canned low. Galphin was carpenter becoming imperative for financial from expanding. This built up a ! tuna work only to the advantage on recent trip. reasons since the British and of domestic canners, declared John consumer following for the Jap­ French face heavy outlays for [ Calise, secretary treasurer of the anese product until Japanese pro­ renovating transport facilities on Lost In '42 SIUNA-affiliated Seine and Line ducers had a 60 percent share of both sides of the channel. They Fishermen's Union of San Pedro, the market and were able to raiso must soon decide whether to go while the flight of America tuna prices, they pointed out. ahead with major improvements The West Coast fishing repre­ boats to other countries continues. or just do necessary repairs pend­ sentatives said domestic tuna can A spokesman for the boat owners ing the completion of a direct link. be purchased by American canners paralleled Calise's testimony. However, no agreement between for $40 a ton less than Japanese Protected against canned im- imports, but the canners are now interests in both countries Is yet evident on whether a tunnel or seeking new sources that will en­ bridge is more desirable. The tech­ Among unions In the SIU are able them to depress prices again. niques made possible by recent US 'fishermen are caught in a a number of groups of commer­ A shipping concern has an­ atomic experiments could speed a cial fishermen on all coasts, as squeeze as a result of these prac­ decision on a matter under dis­ nounced plans to salvage the car­ well as shoreside fish canneries tices and expect a new flood of goes of two SlU-manned ore ships cussion since Napoleon's day. and processors. They are in­ imports "to the almost total dis­ torpedoed off Cape Hatteras in the| volved in such widely-diversi­ regard of the American pro­ early days of World War II. fied fishing operations as scal­ ducers," the Congressmen wera Eighteen Seafarers plus the skip­ loping, tuna fishing, salmon told. per and radio operator lost their fisheries, cod, halibut and many Both the union and the boat lives in the sinking of the Venore. others. Groups involved include owners called for legislation that The entire Marore crew was able the New Bedford Fishermen's would allow fresh or frozen tuna to get away safely before the ship Union, Atlantic Fishermen's into the US only if shipped from ers Union signed a new two-year went down just 20 years ago. Union, Alaska Fishermen's the country of origin, as a means contract covering 28,000 transit The proposed salvaging opera-' Union, tuna fish and cannery of discouraging more runaway workers. The Transit Authority unions operating out of Cali­ agreed not to lay off workers dur­ tion has been disclosed by the Ste-1 fornia ports and groups in tuna clippers from competing with heavily-mortaged American boats. fanich Shipping Company, which ing the life of the pact. . . Another Bristol Bay, Kodiak, and else­ They also proposed adding duties "runaway" plant, American Spring indicated it was ready to undertake where in the far northwest on frozen or raw tuna as an aid to " Co., which left the small commu­ the salvaging work within the next Pacific. domestic fishermen. nity of Holly, Mich., for North few weeks, with Morehead City, NC, serving as its base. Carolina in 1960, will try to re­ Both the Venore and the Marore turn to its old site. Lack of skilled labor in North Carolina was given were eventually replaced in service as the reason for the return. A by two other vessels that carry year ago, the C.M. Hall Lamp their names and are still being Company returned to Detroit from manned by Seafarers as part of the KODIAK, Alaska—^Last year's catch of Alaska king crab Ore Line fleet. the South for the same reason. has outstripped 1960 production and has built extra financial Under the terms of its reported muscle into the Alaska fishing industry. 4" 4" Dan Lewis, Detroit Lions foot­ contract with Bethlehem Steel, Fishing for the huge, ugly* ball star, must have inherited his owners of the Ore Line, Stefanich crustacean has provided strength from his father, Douglas, will attempt to salvage some 23,000 more economic stability for a member of the International tons of high grade iron ore from fishermen in Alaska waters whose Ladies Garment Workers in Free­ the two ships. Bethlehem would earnings previously depended hold, NJ. The senior Lewis saved receive a share of the gross profits solely on the success of the short from the sale of the ore recovered. a fellow worker who was glued to summer salmon season. a machine with a 220 volt current The Venore sinking was on Janu­ The king crab boom has bener by wrapping a pair of pants around ary 25, 1942 and the Marore was fitted many fishermen ^ho are the victim and yanking him free. lost a month later. members of SIUNA - affaliated unions In Kodiak Island, Bristol NEW BEDFORD—Seeking to Bay and in the Bering Sea area. protect jobs in the Massachusetts Most king crabs, however, come fishing industry, the New Bedford from the icy waters around Kodiak Fishermen's Union has gone on Island. record in favor of closing Vine­ When mature, the crab weighs as yard Sound and Nantucket Sound I much as 24 pounds before being waters to any out-of-state drag' cooked and cleaned. The light shell gers. The SIUNA affiliate supported is red topside and white under' neath and the longest legs may the move to bar out-of-state vessels ' stretch nearly five feet from tip from fishing waters off the. Massa­ chusetts coast in action at its ' to tip. The thin leg shells can be easily December membership meeting. At the same time, the union stripped away leaving a solid piece , of delicious meat nearly two inches membership backed a.proposal that , thick and six or seven Inches long. Vineyard and Nantucket Sound The continuing growth of the waters be open 24 hours a day to king crab market in all parts of fishing vessels registered in Mas­ the US makes fishing It worth sachusetts. Other action at the NBFU meet­ I while, particularly because there is little waste. This is fortunate ing included the adoption of an I because fishermen around Kodiak amendment to the union constitu­ brave rough weather to gather the tion granting honorary member­ ship to disabled members drawing crabs in traps or trawls. disability benefits. The amendment was passed by a margin of almost 97 percent in Crewmen of the grounded Japanese tuna boat Hiroshima secret balloting earlier. The meet­ Maru No. 2 swim and wade ashore after they had to abandon ing voted unanimously to accept ship near V/aikiki, ofF Honolulu, Hawaii. The fishing boat wanaro a tallying committee's report and ran hard aground on a coral reef while trying to dock for to grant honorary membership to fuel and cut a hole in the engine room. All 30 crewmen disabled fishermen who qualify escaped unhurt from the vessel (background). under the new amendment possible use—a new "Panama Canal." Talk of a new canal to accommo­ date today's supership tonnage has been going on since the war due to the limitations imposed by the 1914-built waterway. Possibilities opened up by one underground US atom test indi­ cate that within the next few years, the building of Panama-type canals, harbors, tunnels and chan­ nels could be speeded by nuclear energy. Scientists have found that the enormous pressure built up by atom blasts and their accompany­ ing shock and heat waves can do bigger excavating jobs faster and cheaper than ever before. Alaska Harbor Job The next experiment in this area is expected to take place next year in an isolated area along the Alaskan coast when attempts are made to blast out a huge navigable harbor by using a series of atomic devices. Properly controlled, the new technique also suggests solution to ii' im LOG Map Plans To Salvage Ore Cargo King Crab Booms Alaska Seek Ban On Out-Of-State Fishing Boats Beached At WaikikI �funur, 1MB SEAFARERS LOG Vag» flerealM ' • -.{• , S&A Payments ZCEPOZIT .Joseph Volpian, Social Secarity Director Drug Industry Abuses Under Fire A sidelight to the whole Issue of medical care for the aged is the situation involving the American drug industry, which clearly stands in need of a remedy for abuses that seem to have made US drugs the highest priced in the world. Due to the widespread existence of abuses, few consumer issues have so aroused the public as the Kefauver committee's exposure of the industry. The problems revealed by the committee are economic, medical and moral. The study indicated, on the economic side, that the structure of high drug prices rests on a system of patent monopolies and restric­ tive licensing agreements, plus brand-name specialization and heavy advertising outlays. On the medical side, basic advances'in drug research have been aubordinated to the develojpment of minor drug derivatives and new combinations of existing substances, frequently valueless, which can be sold at a "rewarding profit." The abundance of often useless drugs accpmpanied by unsubstantiated claims poses a danger to the public. In the light of all the facts developed during the hearings, the pro­ posed remedies set forth in bill S. 1522 represent minimum reforms. The committee itself, after lengthy hearings and testimony from •cores of witnesses, expressed the belief that no one should "make • monopoly profit" or have the right to withhold from the public products which "may spell the difference between life and death." The committee also showed that new drug products are put on the market with bewildering rapidity each year as each company strives to get ahead of its competitors by coming out with the latest. Medical authorities have sharply questioned the need for such a torrent of proctucts. The Kefauver committee report found that leading prescription drugs generally sell at much lower prices abroad than in the US. In Its report it said that manufacturing costs for 22 companies in 1958 were 32.1 percent of the sales dollar while selling expenses were 24.8 percent, profits 13 percent and research—the factor heavily stressed by US companies in explanation of their prices—6.3 percent of the •ales dollar. * * * Drug industry abuses are not the only problem that consumers and the Government have to face in this field, as some commercial phar­ macists also seem to have engaged in questionable activities. The latest news in this area is a Food & Drug Administration crackdown Ob the illegal resale of physicians' free samples of drugs. Included in a recent seizure of repackaged samples valued at $1,100 was a container labeled with the name of a combination tranquilizer and diuretic drug, but which actually contained tablets of a different drug." Three other seizures of repackaged samples obtained from doctors and drug detail men were also reported by the FDA. In each ease, the agency said, important information required by the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act was not transferred to the new packages. (Comments and suggestions are invited by the Department and can he submitted to this column care oj the SEAFARERS LOO.) CLINIC PROGRAM SET FOR PHILADELPHIA STARTING FEBRUARY 1 PHILADELPHIA—The SIU's free medical examination program will b6 extended to this area for the first time on February 1, when Seafarers and their dependents become eligible to use the Union-*^ — Health Center of the AFL- mornings. Dr. Samuel C. Stein, CIO International Ladies Gar­ who has 32 physicians under his ment Workers Union. Arrange­ direction, is the center's medical ments for SIU use of the long- director. established ILGWU facilities are now being completed. Expansion of SIU diagnostic medical services to this port ful­ fills a long-standing objective of the Union's medical program, which operates its own clinics in New York, Baltimore, Mobile, New The number of veteran Sea­ Orleans and Houston. SIU use of farers retired on SIU pension! the ILG center here, at 925 North during 1961 hit 50 when two mor» Broad Street, is on a similar basis oldtimers were added to the pen­ tn the arrangement in Baltimore, sion ranks by trustee action just where garment workers and their before the New Year began. families utilize the services of the Latest recipients of the lifetim* Seafarers clinic in the Baltimore $150 monthly pensions now being SIU hall. paid to well over 200 Seafarers Recognized as one of the finest are oldtimers Luciano Toribio and union health centers in the coun­ George Edward Godwin. Joined In 1941 try, the ILQ Installation here is A 20-year veteran of the SIU, one of sixteen maintained by the garment union In various parts of Brother Toribio joined the Union the country. It will provide the in Boston in 1941. The 65-year-old same type of comprehensive head- Seafarer was born in the Philip­ to-toe exaip now being given at pine Islands and sails in the deck department. He paid off his last other SIU clinics. ship, the Del Mar (Mississippi), on Arrangement With ILGWU June 29, 1961. A brother, MarclUnion and company trustees of lano Toribio, of Luzon, Republic of Sickness and Accident bene­ the SIU Welfare Plan recently de­ the Philippines, is listed as next fits keep mounting as Sea­ cided to seek an arrangement with of kin. farers Eric Dale (top, right), the ILQ as the easiest way to get the SIU medical program estab­ John Mueller (center, right) lished in this port for servicing of and Fronds Wherrify (above, Seafarers and their families. left) receive checks from SlU Now in its 18th year, the ILG representatives In Wilmington, Health Center maintains 19 sepa­ New York and Philadelphia. rate medical departments and Payments represent $56 per specialized services in a modern, week In Union welfare bene­ four-story building. It provides all necessary services for the com­ fits for outpatients. plete diagnostic care sought under Toribio Godwin the SIU program. As in the other ports, visits to Brother Godwin, a World War I Watch Vacation Rights the clinic will be arranged by aff- navy veteran, first shipped with th« pointment to allow for orderly SIU from Baltimore in 1944. H* scheduling of examinations. The paid off his last ship, the Amet facilities will be open available Victory (Victory Carriers), two for SIU men on Monday, Wednes­ years ago. The 67-year-old engine # Seafarers who expect to have a year's continuous service on the same vessel after Oc­ day and Friday mornings and department member resides with for dependents on weekday after­ tober 1, 1962 and who are figuring on applying for the new $800 SIU Vacation Plan pay­ noons, evenings and Saturday^ his wife, Myrtle, in Baltimore. Two Oldtimers Go On Pension Can't 'Cash' Distharges Twice ment should be sure to hold all their discharges until that time. " Rules for the $800 continu--^ ous service vacation payment 90 days service on discharges may Proud Papa begin doing so again. Those who require that all discharges do and still remain continuously Now arrival for the New Year Is Isabel Gregoria Serrano, proudly shown off by dad. Seafarer Felix H. Serrdno, shortly after birth In New York Hospital on January 9. covering a year's sailing on one ship have to be held until the year's seatime is up. At that time, they can be turned in as usual with the application for vacation benefits. They will then be processed In the regular manner to provide the $800 benefit. If the discharges cover more than a year's time due to an extended voyage, benefits will be pro-rated at the $800 fig­ ure for the rest of this time cov­ ered. Payments at the $800 rate can only be collected if the Sea­ farer actually pays off and leaves the vessel. New Calendar Quarter The question arises since Janu­ ary 1 marked the start of a new calendar quarter and Seafarers accustomed to applying for vaca­ tion each time they accumulate on the same vessel thereby jeopar­ dize their chances of receiving benefits at the $800 rate later on. Present Discharges Once This is so because the same dis­ charges cannot be presented more than once in applying for vacation benefits. Seafarers cannot apply once for benefits at the $400 rate and then come back later with the same discharge to collect $400 more. The $800 benefit for continuous service can only be applied for and collected in one lump sum. The $400 rate, covering time on more llian one" vessel or for more than one company, can be collected either in a lump payment or peri­ odically each time a Seafarer has discharges covering at least 90 days. No one need leave a ve.ssel to collect benefits at the $400 rate. Site for the SIU medical exam program starting In Philadel­ phia Is the modern health center of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Arrangement with the ILGWU makes It possible to begin the program right away. �Psc* BcktMB SEAFARERS LOO Iwmmr, IHB SEAFARERS IN DRYDOCK Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director Oh DoctorI My Foot! The following is the latest available list of Seafarers in hospitals around the country. This is the cry that is being heard with increasing frequency as the effects of modern living and stylish, pointed-toed shoes with pencil USPHSr HOSPITAI, Charles Lane Winford PoweU SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR BRIGHTON. MASS. Harry Lowther David Raynea heels take their toll, especially with the ladies. STATEN ISLAND. NY PhiUlp Ma.son Richard Ripley Hennlng Bjork Thomas Isaksen Gibbs Livermaa The evil that men do live after them. The effects of the modern type Georss BrazU Robert Montcalm Phillip Rogers Alberto Gutierrei Lawrence Chapman John More C. N^ukirchner W. L. WUliama shoe will have its effects for years to come, and more and more will the Alfred Duggan John Santos VA HOSPITAL Richard Smith ladies and men report for orthopedic care, chiropodist treatment and Donald Leight WEST HAVEN. CONN. USPHS HOSPITAL Florence Letlo James Gorman Henry Smith NORFOLK. VA. podiatrist guidance. Allen Burke R. F. Singleton USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL Through the millions of years of evolution of the human being, the C. O. Saunders W. T. Strickland MEMPHIS. TENN. GALVESTON. TEXAS foot has eventually developed into a masterpiece of architectural con­ C. W. Alexander Robert Kline J. W. Short George Trimyer Albert De Forest WUUe Walker Clarence Shlveiy Charles Lambert struction, delicately balanced for use in this age of terrestial activity. -itchard Bohn USPHS HOSPITAL Emilo Lernia .1. J. BuUard USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY The anterior, posterior arch, as well as midtarsal and metatarsal arches, O. Thomas Moonejr L. CUne FORT WORTH. TEXAS Ahmed Abdo Casmier Kaust Richard Pardo R. D'Ferrafiet have all been developed for resiliency and cushioning effect when one Ben Deibler Grant Sayior John Andringa Charles Kinnke J. R. Richard M. W. Grant Carl E. Gibbs David Sperry walks. George Berry C. Kirkland A. G. Sister Walton Gilliam Abe Gordon WlUie A. Young L. Bugajewskl WUliam Logan W. C. ScrusSS Thomas Lehsy B. G. Zelenclc The unfettered foot then is a highly-developed cushion for man's lo­ James W. Cordon Fructuos Comacho- Joe Martin C. E. Thompson Burl Haiie Max Olson James Rist comotion, and still maintains the grasping power which was necessary H. F. Holmei Antonio Carrano WlUiam Mellon Francla' WaU Ho Yee Choc VA HOSPITAL H. Meyer during the evolutionary period. The human foot was not developed WiUiam Hay Thomas ConneU IOWA CITY. IOWA John T. Murphy John Coughlln Erie Hoffman for walking on hard, flat surfaces, nor was it intended for incasement Anthony Oro USPHS HOSPITAL Thomas Cox T. PhlUlps SEATTLE, WASH. in rigid, unyielding footwear. Therefore, most of the foot trouble of . PINE CREST HAVEN John Dern Frank Pickett RUl E. Dlvlna Mike Orclne COVINGTON. LA. George Foley today is caused by environmental factors. M. Rlechelson Leon Hebert Robert Reinken Frank Martin Fred FondUa Rocco Rlzzo Vincent Hooper Herman Sprainla The Indian, with his soft-soled mocassions, could walk for miles with Paul Foy . Louis Roa US SOLDIERS HOME John Thompson Sam Grendl Tony Sparrow no foot trouble. The barefoot country boy had no trouble with his feet Juan Lalgo WASHINGTON. DC Hemsley Guinier Louis Suares WUliam Thomson USPHS HOSPITAL except traumatic. When a person's environment is changed, as from James Helms Nick Tasks • VA HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. Chan Hon Stanley Vemiu the farm boy to the soldier, a large number of them develop definite foot Arvo Antilla KERRVILLE. TEXAS Frank James John Jellette H. White WUIard T. CahiU Pat Jones James Armstrong trouble, and this was a major cause of rejection during World War II. George Kasprzyk Paul Arthofer The case is related of the Tennessee hill boy who was from Gelch's Felipe IMward Knapp Basalda Clyde Leggett Gulch, 35 miles from the Selective Service office. He left home early Paul Bates I. McCormick Percy Bover to arrive at the office by foot by 9 AM and there was rejected for flat Clyde C. Brown WilUam McKay WlUiam Nelson feet. He allowed he would have to start back for home by noon as he Lester Brown James Noonam Daniel Byrne had to arrive there in time to do the chores, such as feeding and milking Albert Canter Peter Orth November, 1961 Harlan Peters Thomas Dailey the cows and getting in wood. Peter Prestla DenOnden Port Seamen . wives Children TOTAL According to one authority, who has done research on the structure C. Lee Pullen Joaquin Dimafl Robert Ray Albert Doty of the foot, the usual type of arch trouble is directly caused by me­ Baltimore Joseph Roy 11 Alan -Doujet 4 99 chanical stresses and strains, and is therefore primarily traumatic both John East Theodore Simonda Houston ...... '10 Billy Taylor 3 George Edmondson 78 in origin and nature. These at times also might be introduced through Bjorn Wagones Harry Emmett Mobile s acute traumatism of a sudden accidental sprain. 2 55 E. L. Waters James Franklin Howard Waters Julio Gale However, the great majority of the cases of foot strain represent the Needem New Orleans .. 17 14 179 Galloway Edward Wells chronic accumulative traumatism resulting from uneven weight distri­ Alfonso Gonzales Fritz Widegren New York 44 22 392 William Williams bution and faulty movements of stresses through the foot. In either Lee Harvey Physical Exams— All SlU Cliniti Henry Hill John Word. Jr. type, the nature of these disorders are traumatic and mechanical. The Andrew Howard presence of other factors as toxic arthritis might be a complicating USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. •ource of symptoms. • 4 Edward Johnson Frank Bane The most frequent type of foot except occasional congenital ham­ Kenneth Brown Alfred Jutchess Hubert Kennedy Richard Cody disorder is that of metatarsalgia mer toes, are the result of improp­ Charles Albert Morse Crockett Charles Noble (neuritis of the plantar nerves) er footwear, and, once developed, Millard CuUer Truman Patriquln Denchy which is said to be due to a short­ will require orthopedic surgery for Edward Emmet Phelon John Drummondt G. Richardson ening of the first metatarsal or correction. Ignacio Eliserio Thomas Riley James Faust elongation of the second metartar- Women who have worn high heels Louis John Schock Firlie Charles Scott sal bone so that the weight is for years, find that they have dif­ Patrick Foy Lloyd Short Fravel thrown on the head of the second ficulty accommodating to lower Robert Paul Strickland F. Gonbalez Carlos Velez metatarsal bone, instead of there heels due to contraction of the leg .Tames Helgoth John Webb Daniel HiU being equal distribution over the muscles, the result of elevation of L. Vyrl Williams Holbrook Martin Yager Paul Huggins heads of all the metatarsal bones. the heel. Phillip Jelleri From this unequal pressure, there Foot care is not a crash program. develops thickening of the skin Proper foot hygiene and sensible MOUNT WILSON STATE HOSPITAL MOUNT WILSON. MD. over the head or distal end of the shoes are essential for foot com­ George Gass Theodore Valmai second metatarsal, eventually de­ fort. Will we do it? Of course not. VICTOR CULLEN ST.\TE HOSPITAL veloping into callous formation or The shoe stylist sets the pace. CULLEN, MD. corn. Now, I will take my exercise. Alvino Terrazas The stress and strain produces One, two, three, four—thirty—now, USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. Inflammatory swelling of the soft I will blink the other eye. C. G. Brown Clarence Murray tissues in this area, causing irri­ Warren (Comments and suggestions are John H. Morris flughlin tation of the plantar nerves with invited by the Department and can USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. excruciating pain. This condition be submitted to this column care Ernest Anderson Lagene Davis requires rest to the part, and an of the SEAFARERS LOG.) William Braus* W. Hendershot inner sole for the shoe to correct the weight distribution. Callouses and corns, both hard and soft, develop from pressure usually due to improperly fitting shoes. These can be adequately cared for by relieving this pres­ sure and by hygienic foot care. Plant warts are often troublecome, and, if neglected, require proper surgical care for correction. The cause of this painful and often disabling condition ig not definite­ ly known, but probably is improper foot care. Structural deformities inciude flat feet. Hallux Valgus and ham­ mer toes. 'The flat feet develops from Improper pronation of the feet and improper stance, plus in­ adequate musculature, or abuse of proper musculature*^ such as over­ weight or an occupation which re­ quires long standing on hard sur­ faces. Flat feet is frequently found in waiters, policemen, nurses or others who spend long hours on Christmas uvu photo shows Seafarer W, Motion (l#ft) and their feet. This condition can be MEBA engineer Joseph Paei enjoying smokes at the USPHS prevented and/or improved with hospital, Staten Island. SlU Welfare rep. had been around proper motivation, instruction and earlier that day distributing $25 Xmas bonuy plus a carton footwear, including proper weight distribution. of cigarettes for hospitalized Seafarers. The same yule Hallux Valgus and hammer toes. tradition was carried out in all SlU ports for the holiday. Lighting Up The Holiday TOTAL 87 45 803 SlU Blood Bank Inventory December, 1961 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk * Jacksonville ....... Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington '. San Francisco Seattle TOTAL Frevioiu Balance 2 Pints Credited 0 88 11 6 0 1 0 0 1 14 6 6 0 846 * Figures in parenthesis ( 83 Pints Used 0 28 # 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 TOTAL ON HAND 6 112 85 43^ 14 83 2 80 18 17^ 26 (14) A. 15 42 887 ) indicate shortage to be made up. SlU Welfare, Vacation Plans Cash Benefits Paid November 16-November 30, 1961 CLAIMS 3490 11 isability Benefits (Welfare).. 221 Maternity Benefits (Welfare)., 17 dependents Benefits (Welfare). 94 Optical Benefits (Welfare).... 169 Outpatient Benefits (Welfare).. 240 AMOUNT PAID $17,067.46 16,000.00 33,080.00 3,400.00 24,927.72 1,689.51 20,027.00 4242 $116,191.69 795 $127,046.11 OTAl WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD... 5037 $243,237.80 Summary (Welfare) Vacation Benefits ,I �tuaury, IMt SEAFARERS Claims Dangers In Oil Pipelines To the Editor: For many yeara the petrol­ eum industry has transported oil from the Gulf of Mexico to various l/S seaports in tank­ ers. These shipments are made to isolated storage tanks, prop­ erly equipped with foamsmothering apparatus and other safety devices adequate to 'To Tbe Bditop All letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names toill be withheld upon request. eliminate out-of-control fires in the event of expiosion. Experts agree that, due to their huge capacities, these tankers are as economical as the cross-country pipelines, ex­ cept that pipelines can be run direct to inland cities and save the cost of barges or overland carriers. Let the loss of many jobs remain beside the point, as this seems to be the current trend. However, can the people of this nation be complacent and unprotesting while a network of pipelines, loaded with volatile inflammable liquids, slowly encircles their com­ munities? There is no doubt in my mind that the Russians and Red China possess exact locations of these ideal targets, the bombing of which may well bring about the destruction, by fire, of this nation, should a shooting war begin. This is the time for the American people to call a halt on the construction of these pipelines by writing their Congressmen in protest. Frank F. Reid 4" 4" Injured Seafarer Keeps In Touch get to visit with each other once in a while. My son is shipping in the 6IU now and probably will make the East Coast for a visit. Luck to all. Jamea F. Barrett 4" 4" 4 Thoughts Still With Union To the Editor: I have just recently moved and am sending you my new address so that I may continue to receive the LOG. I stopped sailing in 1953 but, as an oldtimer, my thoughts are still with the Union. I hope someday to make an­ other trip with the SIU, pos­ sibly as night cook and baker or chief cook, the rating I sailed before. Until then, I wish all smooth and safe sail­ ing and a very happy New Year. Arthur Brazil 4 41 4" Cites Need For Clear s & A Rules To the Editor: I am writing about tho SIU Sickness and Accident welfare benefit which recently went into effect. The $8 per day is very good but, as with a lot of the other benefits, will only help a certain amount of the member­ ship. The ones who live near a USPHS hospital will be alright, but how about a member who lives inland? For example, a person becomes sick who lives 150 miles from a USPHS hospi­ tal and who lacks the customary and needed 60 days aboard ship in the last 90 to get into the hos­ pital. How can he get the $8 per day? I understand you must have an "unfit for duty" before you can collect it. Would you please explain this in the LOG. John Cadigan (Ed*, note: If you are ill or injured ashore, are not re­ ceiving maintenance and cure and are able to meet the Basic Eligibility Rule of the Welfare Plan by showing one day's seatime in the previous six months plus 90 days in the last calendar year, you qualify for S&A bene­ fits, A letter from any ap­ proved hospital or a letter from a licensed physician on his let­ terhead is sufficient to establish proof of an illness or accident.) 4 4 4 To the Editor: Will you please send tho LOG to me at my home address. I miss it very much. I had a bad fall from a boom while on the Alcoa Pilgrim and injured both heels. While I've made some recovery I seem to have hit a standstill point, al­ though I have by no means To the. Editor: My wife and I wish to thank given up. Now it seems to be the SIU Welfare Plan for its In the hands of the doctors. I keep busy by reading and continuing payments for our seeing old buddies though, of daughter's hospitalization since course, just sitting and reading her transfer to Willowbrook isn't exactly the best thing for State School on Long Island. Because of the Plan's gener­ a Seafarers' nerves. I did get the LOG while I was in the ous financial aid we are better San Francisco Marine Hospital. able to fulfill our obligation to I was saddened to hear about our other child. With best wishes to all for the Biondie Johnson. Sammy Joseph is still in rough shape holiday season. but better than he was and we Carl McDaniel Offers Thanks For Welfare Aid Pace Ninefeea lOG Ex-Seafarer^s Canoe Trip On Amazon 'Easy US 1' A former Seafarer who made a 2,200-mile floating trip on the Amazon in a thatched native canoe says he found the river route "disgustingly civilized—practically the US 1 of South America." Now back in the States, Charles Wills is planning another jungle river trip in Ecuador as soon as he can*^ get some money and equip­ duct" to get him from place to When Wills does make a return place, once it became clear he voyage, he plans on including an ment together. Traveling without motor or sails in a 21-foot native craft dubbed "El Vagabundo," Wills had only a small dog as a companion on the Amazon voyage. He recounted his adventures during the nine-weekescapade on a TV show but has had some trouble selling the story to a magazine. His story so belittles the dan­ gers of the jungle route and the lack of "headhunters" that pub­ lishers have so far shown little interest in the feat. Barely 5'6" tall and a 125pounder. Wills did battle violent storms and nar­ rowly escaped death several times, according to his account. Most of this was Wills due to some bad brushes with nature, however, so he passed off the dangers of traveling the Ama­ zon as so much nothing. The sandy-haired Seafarer be­ gan sailing with the SIU in 1958, generally on deck, which proved useful in handling "El Vagabundo" in the course of his travels. It cost him $10Gr to build and equip the boat, which took him from the head waters of the Ama­ zon at Iquitos, Peru, over the 2,200-mile unplanned route. Sail­ ing solo with the dog, named "Soldato," he was lost for a number of days when the current swept him into a "blind" lake and he had a time finding another outlet back to the Amazon. This apparently was the worst of his experiences, though his trip earned him an invite to the select Adventurers Club, which he'd been reading about for years. He carried lots of antibiotics, aspirin, disinfectants and surgical needles on the trip, and he dis­ pensed these freely to the natives as he went along. These actions probably served as a "safe con­ meant no harm to anyone. Wills admits to no prior medi­ cal training, 6ut he did get "fees" from the natives on occasion in the form of a stalk of bananas or some dried fish. He lived simply and economically on such gifts, plus beans and rice and what game he could shoot with a, single shot 16-gauge shotgun. Monkeys and parrots made up most of the game. As long as he was able to get on in this fashion, it wasn't until he was within 200 miles of the river's mouth, where the water­ way broadens out into a vast sea with 12-foot tides, that Wills put the craft aboard a river steamer and ultimately headed home. The dog was left with some Bra­ zilian Baptist missionaries who fell in love with the pooch. It was given to Wills by some Brazilian soldiers, which explains the name. He had planned to make another trip at the end of last year, but his boat was broken into and most of his equipment and medical sup­ plies were stolen. He is now try­ ing to obtain some financial help, according to a former shipmate, galley gang Seafarer Robert E. Hartley, so that he can return. Seafarers who might like to have a hand in getting Wills on the way again are asked to contact him at 1906 Karen Street, Burbank, Calif. amateur magician's kit along with his medical supplies. "I found that these primitive people love a lit­ tle entertainment," he explained. "The most rudimentary trick en­ trails them and, if you can treat a few of their wounds and infec­ tions after that, you're in." Good Looking Latest addition to the LOG'S family picture gal­ lery is Frank IPiggonJ Flint, Jr. He's nine years old and lives in Baltimore, Md. His father, Seafarer Frank Flint, sails steward. Steel Rover Crew's Kindness Is Remembered By Officer The little kindnesses that remain after deep sorrows often count the most. A case in point occurred on the Steel Rover (Isthmian) recently, when the mother of third mate Frank Jones died. When the crew learned of tribute a small sum of money for this, the ship's delegate, pas­ flowers may do so. Give the money senger utility Bartolo Cruz, put to the ship's delegate who will make the necessary arrange­ up a notice on the board: "Mr. Jones mother died recent­ ments." In their turn, the officers sim­ ly. Anyone who wishes to conilarly responded and sent a letter to Jones "expressing their deep regrets." When he was able to, Jones As Seafarers know, copies of each issue of the SEAFARERS posted the following on the ship's LOG are mailed every month to all SIU ships as well as to bulletin board: numerous clubs," bars and other overseas spots where Seafarers "I cannot find words to express congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves my thanks and gratitude to all for calling all SIU steamship companies for the itineraries of their their kindness to me when I got ships. On the basis of the information supplied by the ship oper­ word of my dear mother passing ator, four copies of the LOG, the headquarters report and min­ away a few days ago. utes forms are then airmailed to the company agent in the next "The memory of what you have port of call. done will always linger in my Similarly, the seamen's clubs get various quantities of LOGs heart. I shall never forget your at every mailing. The LOG is sent to any club when a Seafarer kindness. Once again permit me so requests it by notifying the LOG office that Seafarers con­ to thank all from the bottom of my heart." gregate there. This routine exchange on the As always the Union would like to hear promptly from SIU Rover, which occurred well before ships whenever ihe LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so that the holidays, again simply demon­ the Union can maintain a day-to-day check on the accuracy of strates the "Brotherhood of the its mailing lists. Sea" on all occasions. Notlfy Union On LOG Mali �Tnge Twenty SEAFARERS LOG Aboard Ship At Sea Or Ashore, Seafarers Have Good Holiday Inmaiy, IHI Wants Nuclear Cargo Rules Beafaren there. In doting, I wish the Union and all its members a very happy New Year. Vincent J. Hoesd Great Lakes District To the Editort There is much being written and said In protesting the re­ cent series of above-ground So­ t » 8 The 1961 holiday season has come and gone, but the memories—and the calories—linger viet nuclear tests which in­ on. Tradition has been upheld once again in making the recent celebrations the "best ever" cluded the explosion of a 60plus megaton bomb. so far for Seafarers in all corners of the world. Almost all the nations of the To the Editor: world, including the United Most of the efforts naturally"^ I would like to take this op­ planning, since a large number of and when was the right time to States, either appealed or pro- portunity to thank the entire centered around the ship­ ships hadn't touched Stateside tackle this task. The issue was crew of the' TranswaiTen for board steward departments ports for long periods prior to the resolved amiably, however, in the respect and condolence they as the point of production for holi­ holidays. They had 'to stock up keeping with the spirit of the offered me when they heard season. well in advance to make sure the day feasts and preparations in true that my mother had passed Day Before Christmas SIU style. As usual, judging from necessary edibles and trimmings away. On the Rocky Point (Bull), the were aboard in time. the menus and comments from a There are no words of praise Fortunately for those not in the festive board had to be laid out a variety of ships, the gailey gangs that I can say to show my grati­ day early, once the steward point­ culinary department, they could tried and succeeded in outdoing All letters TO the Editor for tude to the crew when, during just sit back, enjoy the results ed out that the ship was sched­ each other. publication in the SEAFARERS my time of grief, they came and not even worry about doing uled to transmit the Panama Canal Many a holiday treat was the LOG must be signed by the and offered help so that I could on December 23. Thus, Christmas outcome of months of previous the dishes. vxriter. Names will be withheld be present when my mother Trees And Wreathes dinner came to the Rocky Point was buried. Unfortunately, upon request. Christmas trees and wreathes on December 24, when the galley when I reached port I was told were well in evidence on many could put forward its best efforts. tested the testa to the United by my son that my mother had A couple of ships doubtless got ships, sometimes due to careful Nations or direct to the Soviet already been buried. advance planning and often be­ caught in the act of passing the Once again Seafarers have Union in an attempt to halt the cause of last-minute foraging in International Dateline just around shown what the words Broth­ tests which added massive far-off places. On some vessels, the holiday, so it's even possible amounts of radioactive fallout erhood of the Sea mean: Your as on the Robin Trent (Robin), it one or two completely "missed" to the atmosphere and served fellow brothers are ready and also became a matter of question the holiday or theoretically had only to jeopardize the health willing at all times and in all after the holiday to determine who two of them as they sailed East or places to give a helping hand and well-being of the world. had to take down the trimmings West over the Dateline. It stands to reason that if a to their fellow seamen. My family and I are very nuclear test 6,000 miles away in Siberia can effect the air grateful and cannot find words we breathe, the food we eat, enough to express our thanks damage our reproductive or­ or show our gratitude. As for gans and effect the health of myself, I hope to sail again our families for generations to with these brothers and try in come, then radioactivity from some way to show them that The Steel Traveler (Isth­ a reactor carried just forward I will never forget the kindness of the midship house on a ship and consideration shown to me mian) spent its Thanksgiv­ would mean either death or ex­ when I needed it most. I thank ing holiday at sea In the cruciating agony to anyone ap­ them all from the bottom of Pacific, but chief cook E. proximate to it in case of an my heart and extend to them Gates (left) and steward accident. Those approximate to my best wishes. A. Dermal were on hand in Ramon Aguiar it are the crew and officers, of the - galley prepping up a course. ^ meal to help the gang for­ True, the reactor that was carried by the Steel Artisan get they weren't ashore or during parts of October and beck home. A. H. Schwaiti, November, 1961, was shielded, To the Editor: DM, sent m the snapshot. but it was on a trailer mounted Having been elected by my on wheels alongside No. 3 shipmates to act in the capacity hatch, which is a very vulner­ of ship's librarian aboard the able position in rough weather. Chatham, I am assuming the Luckily we had no rough privilege of waiting to you con­ weather during the 30 days we cerning liie books that have had this trailer with the re­ been placed aboard our vessel. actor aboard ship. But it gives With all due respect for past you something to think about. efforts, I humbly request more This trailer could have been books of a technical nature that shaken loose by a sea hitting are suitable for all hands. Books it broadside, or some other on hobbies of any kind that are piece of deck cargo could have applicable to our particular en­ gone adrift and damaged it by vironment are most desirable. ramming or else the stevedores Of help to the man that is might have created a disaster honestly trying to create a home by mis-handling it. None of for himself, his wife and his these things are uncommon. children, are books on home In the future it is to be ex­ hints, even though these may Preparing to cut a succu­ Aboard the Madaket (above), Thanksgiving dinner scene pected that more and more not be of interest to all. lent Thanksgiving ham on radioactive material will be includes Jim Mebae, bosun; steward Esperseto; Robert. In addition, books and maga­ the Beauregard (Seashipped aboard American ves­ zines are welcome on such sub­ Roberson, MM; F. E. Taylor, lob McGonegol, ABs; iurm sels. It seems proper that the jects as photography, archery, land), chief cook Cristo­ Winfield, galleyman; Hony Hammond, BR; Eddie O'Bryant, Union and ship operators would science, mechanics, law, credit bal De Jesus stopped for 3rd cook; Jim Rimpotti, OS. It was Auld Lang Syne time take into consideration the dan­ bureaus, economics, history, etc. just a moment while Joe far from home for this ouartet off the Alcoa Pilgrim (top, l-r) gers Involved in transporting In short, books are needed on hied, oiler, shot this pic­ as E. J. Carovona, V. T. Garvey, J. Bednar and A. Levine this material and draw up pen­ anything at all that will really . I* ll At \.M • •1 ^ • • a I a ture. A turkey was next. alty or compensation clauses occupy the mind during the and working rules to cover days and nights at sea. cases where this type of cargo Daniel D. Backrak is carried. it t Crew, SS Steel Artisan (Ed. note: The above letter was signed by 33 Seafarers aboard the Steel Artisan.) To the Editor: $• Seafarers may be interested in knowing the followtog when they have to fly to their home ports after returning from an To tile Editor: overseas voyage. In many cases, May I take this opportunity they may be given considera­ to thank the Union and par­ tion on luggage weight by ticularly the AffeG District for showing their discharge papers. the kindness abovm me while .In many instances, they also I was the Staten Island Marine may be able to carry from 10 Hospital from November 3 until to 15 pounds over the weight December 1, 1961. limit without paying for the Down in Trinidad, West In­ What is Christmas without a tree? To make sure that the I also wish to thank the SIU extra weight. Many airlines dies, the missile ship E 42Sontore (Ore Navigation) would celebrate the holiday prop­ for Uie welfare aid given me show this consideration to sea­ 1836 (Suwannee) featured erly, steward D. M. Wood purchased tome trees before the by the representative who men and Seafarers will apthis holiday greeting dis­ called at the hospital every preciale knowing this bit at ship left Houston, Texas. They were set up in the crew's play created by Joha J. Wednesday and who also iitformation. mess (above) and in the officer's mess. All hands agreed spread good cheer among the Arthur F. Beard Naugbtoa. Wol^ Leseethat the Christmas affair aboard the vessel was one they will vicii sent in pix. long remember and thanked the galley gang f^r efforts. Thanks Brothers For Condolences Chatham Seeks Library Variety ...... I SOW Airlines Help On Home Travel Appreciates Aid Given In Hospital » .--ft* - �SEAFARERS Shipshape Face Twcatir-Oac LOG hf Jtm Mofec Even with the coming of the New Year, the time-worn subjects of weather, taxes and TV have been the chief topics of conversation aboard the ships at sea. Freezing winter weather has hit the nation and offshore it's even colder. Every little bit of warmth is appreciated and • crews have tried many ways to conserve heat. The latest innovation is being tried on the Raphael Semmes (Sea - Land) where two solid doors are being installed aft to keep the heat in. As soon as the crew reports on the success of this method, the information will be passed on. X "But Captainl The bosun said the hold was cleaned and bat< tened down back in Calcutta .. Seafarer's New Year's Present —Polish Bride Coming Here Seafarer Clyde LaVerne Van Epps is waiting for an un­ usual New Year's present: Sometime in January his Polish bride is expected to obtain the necessary papers that will enable her to join him in'*' ^ marriage was not to be. League City, Texas. Van Epps' story of hap­ Certain papers required by Pol­ piness at homo aprinkled with a little red tape, goes back to 1960 'When he shipped out as a chief electrician on a grain run to Poland. The voyage ended In Nowy Port, harbor area for the Polish city of Gdansk (Danzig), and there he met Alina Romaniuk for thd first time. The veteran Sea­ farer didn't say Van Epps if it was love at first sight, but they corresponded for a year until he returned aboard the Titan (Overseas Oil), on another grain run to Poland, to get married. Even then It seemed that his OCEAN EVELYN (Maritrm* Ov«t^ Mil), Seat. It — CheiritieB, B. M. Ramonoft; Secretary, W. E. Oliver. Two men hospltaUzed. Report sent to Union. Black gang would lika Boma action on painting ot quartera. One man logsed for going to hospital. SS.gO in ahip'f fund. Disputed OT and OT from last trip to be taken up with patrolman. Crew would Uke to get some acUon on passes at the Army Base. Black gang needs aoma •leaning gear. USAP SWORD KNOT 18S3 (Suwannae), Aug. 17—Chairman, Joe Bremer; Secretary, Roy BIterd. Company dropped order for new crew refriger­ ator. Letter to be sent to head­ quarters regarding changing one year requirement on missile ships to six months for transportation home. SSI In ship's fund used for new crew Ubrary. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Crew asked to keep mesaroom clean. AU fishermen urged to throw old fish over the fan tail. Bring coffee cups in from hatches, etc. Have deck toUet repaired. Vote of thanks to steward department. ORION CLIPPER (Colonial), Sept. 3 —Chairman, Josaph D. Bartlat; Sacratary, Frank Nakllckl. Temporary dele­ gate resigned. Captain has been charging HawaU tax on cigarettes. Three men logged in deck depart­ ment: one was at doctor's office. Mor­ ris Berlowltz nominated ship's treas­ urer. Anyone who wants to donate SI to do so. Deck department re­ ported beefs with captain. One man In steward department quit before aalUng: messman with 3rd cook endcrscmcnt usad as replacement and new messman was hired. Prices of alopchest wiU be posted and a letter will be sent to headquarters regard­ ing same. Delegate to see captain about subsistence due for travel to Hawaii. Hot water and sanitary syatem not working right. All cupa to ba returned. Night lunch will be improved. Aug. 30—Chairman, J. R. Wilson; Sacratary, Frank Nakllckl. Ship's delegate said anyone who wants a hospital slip should .see him at once. Tho payoff will b« through the 34th. Cnt m=a !-gg-<J Two man missed ship and 12 hospitalized. Two paid off by mutual content. Bveryone asked to clean their rooms bofero payoff. WIU SCO patrolman abom room money for the two days chip.ling In Saaobo and Yokoaaka. tZa.M In ship's fund. Few houra disputed ft X i. Down in the South Pacific, fhe problem isn't cold weather—it's tropical heat. Seafarers on the Steel King (Isthmian) have been raiding the Ice trays it seems, and ship's delegate U. Bergine is go­ ing to see if the chief engineer can't have ice pulled twice a day. Of course, if the crew really wants to cool off, a number of ships could tell them where to go. XXX It's almost income tax time and consider the problem of the stew­ ard on the Arizpa (Waterman). He writes that he would like to have his name spelled right on the pay­ roll, as he's had to pay income tax ish law still had to be obtained on another Seafarer's vacation in the US, so Van Epps had to pay. The name is C. Gamer, not postpone the wedding and return C. Gardner. Got that. Bureau of home alone. Finally after getting the proper documents, he flew back to Poland, arriving on No­ LOG-A-RHYTHM: vember 28. Two long days later, he married Aiina. Van Epps' happiness was again stopped short when he learned By Lucy M. Tallman that he couldn't immediately re­ turn home to Texas with Alina We often think of you. and her six-year-old son, Walde- Away out on the ocean blue. mar, due to more red tape. Again Bound for various ports afar. he returned home alone. We cannot know just where you are. As be waited, be said he en­ joyed his visits in Poland very much. Shipping with the SIU Foreign sights and folks there will be. , since 1954, he reported that he found Poland to be one of the So many interesting things to see. God bless and keep you well, we friendliest nations in the world. pray. He may be a little prejudiced May He guide you all the way. but, after all, he has a reason. To A Seafarer OT In deck and angina departments. Patrolman should check slopchest and condemn it. Agreed to let the ship's delegate keep the balance of ship's fund. RequisiUon for aU new mattressea and cota sent in from Japan. Chiaf cook diasaUsfied ra apUt of missing third cook's pay. John AUman wants to thank the deck depart, raent for hglp- No LOGa racaived In six months and nona availabla anywhare In Japan. ROBiN LOCKSLBY (Robin Line), Oct. 14—Chairman, A. Laka; Sacretary, P, J. Ray. MesshaU needs paint Ing. Heat on port side not working. OT for engine department held ovei to next trip. Doora on vcgetahle box out of the pantry sink. Cooperation requested In keeping the doors on the main deck locked while in port. Noise in the pasageways during AM hours should be curtailed due to tho watches atiU sleeping. BBTHFLOR man, Henry (Ore), Oct. Schwartz; 38—Chair­ Sacratary, Chariat Badaii. No beefs reported. Lyle Williamson resigned as ship's delegate. Lorenzo Ranildi elected by acclamation. Crew asked to use ash­ trays for cigarettes In recreation room instead of the deck. All hands should cooperate to keep ahoregangs out of pantry. ALCOA POLARIS (Alcoa), Oct. 36 —Chairman, B. Gary; Secretary, O. Lopez. Crew to be sure to give 24hour-notice of intention to get off. All hands urged to cooperate in keep­ ing messroom clean. Bring all -beefs to delegates. Motion to have ship pay off on day of arrival. T. Magras elected new ship's delegate for next voyage. ILIZABETH (Bull), Oct. t—Chal;^ man, Oaorga A. Laach; Sacratary, R. need safety hookg. Water cyerflowa on to deck from pasgenger pantry. New steps needed on catwalk. Fishing good at Ascension Islands. FLORIDA • T A T I (Bvargladas), Oct. 36—Chairman, Josaph Lssiia; Sacratary, Druward iWeitsr. No baefa reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward and hla department for good Job. OCEAN DINNY (Marltima Overtaat), Sept. S—Chairman, Faul L, Whitlow; Sacratary, Norman DuBolt. Crew re* minded that time off la a depart­ mental Issue and should not Involve the whole ship. Plywood cut for tho bunks should ba kapt thsra and not usad for carpentry in the foc'slea. Safety committee formed with one man from each department. No baefa reported. Thle crew ie tOO?t egeinst the new vacation pay benefit and would like to see it remain on a pro­ rated baaia. Motion made to drop the ago Umit on pension as a man should be able to ratlra after 18 years' seatime. Latter on this it being for­ warded to the BKAFARSRS LOG. Suggestion mada that glaasea bo kept Harnandaz. Ship's delegate reported no major beefs except the continual chipping on deck while men off watch try to sleep or rest. .Some disputed OT in deck and engine department. Kathrwn (Bull), October 6—Chairman, P. Errazo; Secretary, Mont Merrobby. S29.0O In treasury. No beefs reported by department delegates. No one should be In mesahall during meal hour without proper clothing. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), October 17—Chairman, T. Buckley; Secretary, Edward C. House. $73.30 in treasury. No beefs reported. Next time money is loaned from fund, call meeting and slate reason for same. Ship's delegate to sea food committee about sailing short on food. JACQUELINE SOMBCK (Panlnsulsr Navigation), Septambar .16—Chairman, A. Michciat; Secretary, D. Sachcr. Patrolman to be notified about laten#*9 ot th* CQ!T)p9!iy iid^ quate emergency lid. Mail service very poor. S9.7S in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delcgatea. Requested that thle ship be sent safety literature. Motion to start a safety program with a member from each department to submit find­ ings and BUggaitIons to department The Ema EEzobeth (Albatross Tanker) gave a vote of thanks to the two black gang members who have been operating the ship's movie projector (l-r) Charles Yam and Joseph Falasca. Internal Revenue? C. Gardner, Kyska (Waterman) and the crew i* now working on replacing the old oops . . . sorry, C. Gamer. machine with one. that's a bit less XXX energetic. TV or not TV is the question XXX on the. Bethflor (Ore Navagation). In a more serious yein, the Pemi The crew is considering chipping in two dollars so a set can be Challenger (Penn Shipping) hasn't picked up in Houston. The money forgotten safety. The latest ship­ will be collected as the ship sails board meeting included a remind­ south. If a converter is needed, er to Seafarers not to wear steel a dollar will be collected on the plates on their shoes. It's too easy for a spark to ignite "a ship loaded way back north. Hum . . . Pay TV hasn't quite made It with oil, the gang reasons. ashore, but it may be the big thing on the Bradford Island (Cities Service), where $40 is still owed on the crew's set. They're plan­ ning to make contributions at the payoff to wipe out the deficit. XXX Washing machines are very use­ ful to Seafarers, however, like all machines these wear out and have to be checked. If this isn't done in time, then the washer will start to tear light clothing full of holes. That's what happened on the heads for action. Detailed report will then be given to boarding patrolman at payoff. Crew urges all repairs be done prior to sign-on. ALCOA PIONEER (Alcoa), October 2»—Chairman, W. C. Bolouz; Secre­ tary, W. J. Miles. No beefs reported by department delegates. Suggestion made that all members of the crew use ash cans for cigarettes and help keep messroom clean. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Over­ seas), August 13—Chairman, J. B. King; Secretary, R. Donnelly. Every­ thing running smooth. Vote of tbanka to all department delegates especially to the engine room delegate. Charles J. Welborn. for a job well done. $13.85 in treasury. Vote of thanks to Captain Maitland for going all-out to help the crew reclaim articles that customs officials confiscated In India. Left one man in Calcutta hospital. JEAN (Bull), October 38—Chairman, J. Slavin; Secretary, E. Kainowsky. No beefs reported by department delegates. Motion made to have settee cover in crew messroom repaired. See chief engineer about having leak in crew pantry sink repaired. COB VICTORY (Victory Carriers), October 28—Chairman, B. Flmovicz; Secretary, G. DeMeo. Ship's delegate reported no LOGS received. Every­ thing running smoothly. Repaii' lists turned in. Discussion on food prob­ lems. Request for fan In recreation room. l<ilectrlcian will take care of it. MAIDEN CREEK (Waterman), Octe= ber 8—Chairman, Robert O. Smith; Secretary, Johnny P. Bailday. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. A few men logged, but these may be lifted if the men behave accordingly. Ship's fund 84.02. Foc'sles that need painting must be painted before arrival. PENN TRADER (Penn Shipping), October 32—Chairman, D. DiSal; Sec­ retary, J. F. Austin. Most repairs were completed. Ail who put in for mattresses were furnished with same. $1.73 in treasury. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate tor a joo weii done. Crew asked to be sure and cut off washing maeliinc when finished with It. BARBARA FRIBTCNIB (Liberty NavlgatlMi). Nov. 13—Chairman. C. Send 'em to the -——^ LOG Quinnt; Secretary, R. Schaaffar. No beefs. Vote of thanks to the ship's delegate. This has been an unusually smooth trip and all hands should ba commended for getting along so well and making the delegate's job easier. Discussion about new mattresses. The steward should try to get at least ten new ones plus new plUowa. TRANSiNDIA (Hudson Waterways), Oct. 1—Chairman, Ezab Manual; Sac­ ratary, Raymond L. Parry. Crew In­ formed that travellers checks would be issued-in port Instead of currency. Keys are being sent to the captain for crewmembers' rooms; deposit will be requued. Louis Everett elected new ship's delegate. Stove is not working properly: it is impossible to prepare food properly. Fans to be put In rooms. TRANSYORK (Transwestern), Nov. 3—Chairman, V. Shook; Secretary, R. Marrare. Dis^ted overtime and sub­ sistence to be turned over to patrol­ man on arrival. Request $.30 from each man for ship's fund. Ship's dele­ gate to see about icebox bandies being repaired. .411 men with beefs about other departments should see their own delegates. EAGLE TRAVELER (Saa Transport), Oct. 1—Chairman, J. Lewis; Secretary, R. A. Ray. Wrote letter to New York for clarification on new vacation plan and about getting cots. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Re­ quest each new member to give $1 to ship's fund. Leftover food in the refrigerator should be covered. Bugs in Hour and sugar. .411 delegates and steward to see captain and find out why we can't get fresh fruit and vege­ tables. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn Ship­ ping), Dacembar 21—Chairman, B. C. Adkins; Secretary, M. C. Willey. Wille.v elected new ship's delegate. Warn­ ing to men wearing steel plates on shoes. Beef on steward firing men and ordering replacements without the department and ship's delegates knowing. Steward asked about the poor condition ot food and general condition of same. He an.swered he was feeding up to standard and walked out of meeting. Crew voted unanimously .to retain the two mesamen involved. Delegates to notify eaptain about decision. Chief eook tald reason meat is tough is that it is thawed out and refrozan. �s' .• SEAFARERS LOG Pare Twenty Jannary^ Utt All ill* following SIU families hav* receivied a $200 matemitj benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in' th* baby's name, representing a total of $5,200 in mater­ nity benefits and a maturity value of $650 in bonds: bondst William Chavers, born April 15, 1^61, to Seafarer and Mrs. Otho The deatha of the following Seafarera have been reported to the Seafarers 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank C. Babb, Suffolk, Va. Welfare Plan and a total of $33,500 in benertts was paid. (Any apparent delay Chavers, Whistler, Ala. Preston . Jenkins, born August in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of a beneficiary card or Deborah Celkos, born September 29, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. necessary litigation for the disposition of estates). 1, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ed­ Jessie Jenkins, Gretna, La. John William Serget, 40: Pneu­ ward Celkos, Philadelphia, Pa. Pedro Jayier Harayo, 63: A lung Melton Manuel, 28: Brother Vincent F. Guerin, bora Novem­ Manuel died in an automobile ac­ ailment caused the death of monia was the causa of death of Alma Nidia Pacheco, bom Au­ ber 28, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Brother Serget Brother Harayo gust 10, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Harold F. Guerin, Brooklyn, NY. cident on Decem­ on August 31, on October 19, Francisco Pacheco, Brooklyn, NY. ber 17, 1961, in Terrence Dion Evans, bora No­ 1961, at the Bal­ 1961, in the Civil Lake Charles, Angela Collier, born August 26, vember 11, 1961, to Seafarer and timore City Hos­ Hospital, Bilboa, La. He began 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Mrs. Herlies A. Evans, Mobile, Ala. pital, Baltimore, Spain. He had sailing with the Collier, Mobile, Ala. Ruth Ann Holbrook, born Octo­ Md. He had been been sailing in SIU in 1956 in David Bishop, born August 17, ber 30, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. a Union member the SIU steward the steward de­ 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. David William Holbrook, N. Linthicura,* since 1956, sail­ department since partment. A sis­ T. Bishop, Fairhope, Ala. Md. ing in the deck 1947. His widow, ter, Bobby Jean Maria Kaduck, born October 3, Anthony Holley, born Septem­ department. Gor­ Mrs. Marion Manuel, of Ober1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ray­ ber. 25, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. don H . Levy, Harayo, of Phila­ lin, La., sur­ mond Kaduck, Miami, Fla. John S. Holley, Whistler, Ala. vives. Burial was in the Oberlin delphia, Pa., survives. Burial was of Baltimore, has been ap­ Michael Nance, born August 28, Dawn Donnelly, born August 22, Cemetery, Oberlin. Total benefit: in the Catholic British Cemetery, pointed administrator of his Lujua, Vizcaya, Spain. Total bene­ estate. Burial was in the Glen 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy L. 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Georg* (4,000. Haven Cemetery, Baltimore. Total Nance, New Orleans, La. Donnelly, Awendaw, SC. fit: $4,000. 4" 4' Patricia Ward, born September benefit: $500. Peter De Vries, 55: A heart at­ 4 4 4 Arthur Chester Campbell, born Donald Blackwelt Atkinson, 19: 24, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. John September 11,' 1961, to Seafarer tack was fatal to Brother De Vries 4 4 4 Daniel Baca Cerment, 63: Ward, Seattle, Wash. on May 29, 1961, Brother Atkinson died of a skull and Mrs. Arthur C. Campbell, New fracture suffered Brother Cerment died of natural at the USPHS Robert Devlin, born October 27, Orleans, La. causes on De­ 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert in an automobile Hospital, Balti­ Jack Peralta, born September 21, cember 10, 1961, J. Devlin, Brooklyn, NY. accident, on No­ more, Md. He 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jack D. at the USPHS vember 28, 1961, was a member of John Beech, born September 19, Peralta, Pass Christian, Miss. Hospital, Staten 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Riley in St. Luke's the SIU since Island, NY. He Beech, State Line, Miss. Hospital, Jack­ 1949, shipping In had been a mem­ sonville, Fla. He the steward de­ Bernard Moye, Jr., born Septem­ ber of the SIU joined the SIU in partment. Surviv­ ber 12, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. 1960, sailing in since 1959 and ing is a daughter, (Continued from page 23) the deck depart­ shipped in ' the Bernard Moye, New Orleans, La. Joyce De Vries, Satchell (4), John W. Singer (2), Peggy D. Whittington, born No­ ment. Surviving deck department. of Hatboro, Pa. Burial was in the An uncle; Juve­ vember 23, 1961, to Seafarer and William L. Strike, Harold TomboRose Hill Cemetery, Morristown, is his mother, Mrs. Lois Tyson At­ kinson, of Jacksonville. Burial nal Quintana, San Pedro, Calif., Mrs. Frank Whittington, Texas con, Charles Walsh (4), Ying Ming Pa. Total benefit: $4,000. Wei (2), Ah Sai Wong (2), Ding Hal was in the Evergreen Cemetery, survives. Burial was in the Ever­ City, Texas. 4 4" t Woo. Sharon Marie Flanagan, born Frank Ellis Hagin, 48: A heart Jacksonville. Total benefit: $4,000. green Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. Leon Kane November 6, 1961, to Seafarer and Total benefit: $500. ailment was fatal to Brother Hagin Anyone wishing to contact th* Frank Daniel Lilli^ 59: Brother Mrs. John Flanagan, Philadelphia, on November 6, j4 4 4 above may reach him c/o Ameri­ Lillie died of natutral causes on Lawrence Gerold Talley, 29: Pa. 1961, in the Helcan Consulate, Haifa, Israel. December 7,1961, Brother Talley died of a kidney Choysie Marie Henderson, born delburg Hotel, Charles E. Taylor at the Long ailment on No­ September 25, 1?B1, to Seafarer Baton Rouge, La. Father very ill. Call home op Island College vember 7, 1961, and Mrs. Roy E. Henderson, FairHe had been sail­ John E. Taylor, Charlotte, NC» Hospital, Brook­ in the Centre ing with the SIU hope, Ala. phone number 377-6664. lyn, NY. He Hospital, Saint since 1939 in the Susan McMillan, born October Ex-SS Transyork sailed in the Nazaire, France. engine depart­ 30, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Dave Personal gear of W. Kaline and deck department He had been sail­ ment. A brother, McMillan, Uriah, Ala. John Michalko is being held by and joined the ing in the engine Glynn C. Hagin, Agnes Guillot, born October 27, Transwestern Associates, 1 Chas* SIU in 1942. His department with of Tampa, Fla., 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leslie Manhattan Plaza, Room 4121, New the SIU since survives. Burial was in the Gar­ mother, Mrs. Guillot, Mobile, Ala. York, JVY. 1952. His widow, den of Memories, Tampa. Total Margaret Lillie, Joseph Pledger, born August 19, William A. Granger of Washington, DC, survives. Mrs. Lois M. benefit: $4,000. 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Contact your mother at FairBurial was in the Long Island Na­ Talley, of New Orleans, La., sur­ 4 4 4" view Farms, Carrier 159, Rich­ William Augustus Wilcher, 63: tional Cemetery, Pine Lawn, LI, vives. Burial was in New Orleans. Pledger, Pasadena, Md. Otho Babb, born November 17, mond, Va. Total benefit: $4,000. Brother Wilcher died of pneumo­ NY. Total benefit: $500. nia on November 30983 Keg. 11, 1961, at Mer­ Commonwaaith of Massachusatfa STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), ard would like to have his name low seniority men shipping for 00 LAND COURT cy Hospital, Bal­ Oct. 10—Chairman, R, Mast-rs; Sacrespelled right as he has had to pay days instead of the usual 60. An To the City of Boston, a municipal cor­ income tax on another man's vaca­ tary, J. Curlew. $23.03 in treasury. article on this being submitted to timore, Md. He poration located in the County of Suffolk Few houi's disputed overtime. No the LOG for others to study. Vote of tion. and said Commonwealth; Mary R. Ed­ had been sailing beefs reported. R. Fitzgerald elected thanks to the steward department wards of said Boston: Philip A. Rand, Inc., new ship's delegate. Try to keep na­ for food and service. Request for in the engine de­ BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Serv­ _ dulv existing corporation having ak yeUow mustard. tives out of bouse as much as pos­ ice), December 13—Chairman, Adolph usual i/lace of business In said Boston! partment with sible. Keep screen doors locked. Capote; Secretary, Billie Padgett. No Alexander T. Kerr and Claude Simmons, RAPHAEL SEMMES (Sea Land Serv­ the SIU since communications received from dieadboth of New York, in the State of New ice), November 1—Chairman, K. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), Oct. quarters in two months. No beefs York; Trustees for Seafarers International 1942. Mary T. Lynch; Secretary, M. McCiure. No I—Chairman, Egbert W. Coulding; reported. Motion made and seconded Union of North America, Atlantic and beefs reported by department dele­ Secretary, Alvin Carpenter. No beefs Gorman has been that the delegate try to have an area Gulf District; Any persons interested in gates. Everything running smoothly. reported by department delegates. designated as a recreation room for the Seafarers International Union of appointed admin­ Food beefs should be taken directly Message forwarded to headquarters the unlicensed personnel. $40 stUl due North America (Atlantic and Gulf Dis­ to the steward. regarding Brother Murphy missing istratrix of his estate. Burial was on the TV set. Voluntary contribu­ trict) Voluntary Association, who have not ship in Karachi and rejoining in tions to be made at the payoff. released their interest in the land herein­ in St. Peters. Cemetery, Baltimore. STEEL ROVER (Isthmian), October Madras: he paid his own transporta­ after described; and to all whom it may 15—Chairman, Hass Schlect; Secre­ tion. Request that new slopchesl price Total benefit: $4,000. concern: BETHPLOR (Ore Navigation), Decem­ NOTICES 4 4 4 Ronald Peter Hannigan, 49: Brother Hannigan died of pneumo­ nia on December 14, 1961, in Seat­ tle, Wash. He had sailed in the SIU stewai-d de­ partment since 1943. His mother, Mrs. Delia Han­ nigan, of St. Cloud, Minn., survives. Burial was in St. Cioud. Total benefit: (4,000. Andrew Stauder The trustees of the SIU Welfare Plan have approved full payment of $4,000 death benefits to Mrs. Evelyn Stauder of New Orleans, La., widow of Seafarer Andrew Stauder, who died of a heart con­ dition on September 1, 1961, in New Orleans. Mrs. Stauder pre­ viously received $500 in death benefits, as reported in the NQvember, 1961, issue of the LOG. list be posted on board. Crew cau­ tioned to sign all travellers checks accurately top and bottom. Crew in­ formed about malaria pUls being taken weekly as directed. Crew gave the steward department a vote of thanks for the good chow being served. HURRICANE (Waterman), Sept. 14 —Chairman, Tom Hill; Secretary, Eu­ gene Ray. $11.63 in treasury. Tom Hill elected new ship's delegate. Sug­ gestion to get rid of aii old hooks and donate them to the British Sea­ man's Institute in Rotterdam. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate for doing a fine Job and to steward department for all fine food and service, PETROCHEM (Valentine Chemical), November 11—Chairman, J. E. Townsend; Secretary, J. Prestwood. $18.00 in treasury. No beefs reported oy department delegates. No overtime for .steward department. FLOMAR (Calmar), October 31— Chairman, P. "Jiggs" Jeffers; Secre­ tary, T. A. Jackson. No beefs re­ ported. Delegate to check with Union to see how much tomatoes and fre.sh bread should be on board prior to sailing from the last port for sea. Need soap dishes and rubber stop­ pers. Crew asked to stop slamming duois and io turn off washing ma­ chine after use. ROCKY POINT (Bull), October If— Chairman, E. N. Powell; Secretary, C. E. Martin. Beef on water cooler installation squared away. No beefs reppr^d by delegates. Discussion ou tary, Keith Richardson. No beefs. All (.n. mmmm m-i mmmm Mi ber 11—Chairman, Henry ' Schwartz; Secretary, Charles Bedell. No beefs reported by department delegates. Ship's delegate asked each man to give tZ.OO and Brother Hipp could get a television set for the ship In Houston. All hands In favor of this deal. ALICE BROWN (Bloomfleld), August 3—Chairman, S. Candala; Secretary, W. e. Scott. S6.000 In treasury. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. A vote of thanks given to steward department for a job well done. Engine room quarters in bad condition. Need painting. hands should help keep library clean » WACOSTA (Waterman), November and tidy. $26.00 in treasury. Motion to have food committee check poor 12-Chairmen, Nicholas Hatgimiosis; Secretary, David Haskell. Repairs on grade of Ice cream on board. No books screens and keys were made. Captain from library to be loaned or given will not put up with any drinking. away in any foreign port to other No beefs reported by department dele­ agencies. gates. T. Gerber elected new ship's delegate. Crew to have an arrival pool MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Car­ and SIO.OOU from the pool will be put riers), October 1—Chairman, F. Travis; into the ship's fund. Toilet to be kept Secretary, E. Walker. No beefs re­ clean. Do not throw paper towels on ported by department delegates. Dis­ deck. cussion on orders being fouled up at mealtime. Try to get a better grade / IBERVILLE (Waterman), November of meats abroad. Request to clean 19—Chairman, W. J. Burbine; Secre­ washing machine after using. tary, J. V. Smith. No beefs reported. All delegates were at a safety meet­ ARiZPA (Waterman), December 1— ing. Safety delegate from each tieChairman, C earner; Secretary, 4, partment is needed. Report all acci­ Forbes. All repairs taken care of ex­ dents immediately; the captain re­ cept clock in recreation room aft. quests gangway watch to stick close Mate will put that up soon. No beefs. to the gangway at all times. $14.56 Ship's delegate given a vote of thanks In treasury. Ship's delegate resigned for a job well done: all members and N. B. Pettersen elected. Port­ asked to avoid turning the heat on holes should be fixed and repair list and off aft. Will see about having :^ould be made up. oilers pheck on heating system. Stew- Whereas, a petition has been presented to said Court by Seafarers Boston Build­ ing Corp., a duly existing corporation hav­ ing an usual place of business in said Bos­ ton, to register and confirm its title in the following described land: A certain parcel of land with the build­ ings thereon, situate in said Boston, bounded and described as follows: Northerly by Commerce Street 20.03 feet: Easterly by land now or formerly of Mary R. Edwards 60.32 feet: Southerly by State Street 20.08 feet: Westerly by land how or formerly of Philip A. Rand, Inc. 60.27 feet. The above described land is shown on a plan filed with said petition and all boundary lines are claimed to be located on the ground as shown on said plan. If you desire to make any objection ttw defense to said petition you or your at­ torney must file a written appearance and an answer under oath, setting forth clear­ ly and specifically your objections or dafcnse to each part of said petition, in tha office of the Recorder of said Court in Boston (at the Court House), on or befora the nineteenth day of February next. Unless an appearance is so filed by or for you. your default will be recorded, tha said petition will be taken as confessed and you will be forever barred from con­ testing said petition or any decree en­ tered thereon. Witness. .TOHN E. FENTON. Esquire. Judge of said Court, this seventeenth day of January in the year nineteen hundred ' and sixty-two. Attest with Seal of said Court. (Seal) MARGARET M. DALY, Becordar. Patrick H. Harrington, Jr. 58 North Main St. Fall RiveV, Mass. Atty. for tha Fetitloner. �JanlBaTr. INS 8EAWAKEKS us Tax Deadline Coining -Log Aii Extra Income r -v'« lifiiMiiii feoney end Union Ilnences. The constitution requiree e detailed CPA eudlt every three nonthe by e renk end file nadlting coMilttee elected by the new berehlp. 'All Union records ere eveileble et 8IU heedquertere in Brooklyn. Should eny nenber, for eny reeson, be refused hie eonstltutionel right to in­ spect these records, notify SlU President Peul Hell by certified neil, return receipt requested. come tax and must be reported. Interest on US Government bonds, notes or other obligations are also subject to tax, except that reporting of interest on series E, F and J US savings bonds may be deferred until the bonds are actually cashed. Many taxpayers have failed to realize in the past that the above items are all sub­ ject to income tax. Government statistics show that during 1959 approximately $24.4 billion in Income was not reported as It should have been at a cost to the treasury of about $4 billion in revenue. Of the amounts that should have been reported, 34 percent was on interest paid to individuals and eight percent was on dividends. The balance included 28 per­ cent on business and farm profits, but only three percent on wages and salaries where deductions are made before the average workingman even sees his check. TRUST ruifOS. All trust funds of the 8IU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes end Inlend •Weters Dtetrlot ere edianlstered in seoordence with the provisions of various trust fund sgreeieents. All thsie sgreeMUts specify that the trustees in chergs of these funds shell consist squally of union end nanegeaent repreeentetived end their eltemetes. All expenditurss end dlabursenenta of trust funds are nede only upon approval by • nejorlty of the trustees.- All trust fund linenclel records ere eveileble et the heedquerters of the various trust funds. If, et eny ties, you ere denied Infometion shout eny SlU trust fund, notify SIU President Peul Hell et SIU heedquerters by certified nail, return receipt •requested. J SHIPPINQ RlGirrs. Your shipping rights and eenlority ere protected by the contracts of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes end Inland Waters District, and by Union shipping rtiles, irtilch are Incorporated in the contract. Get to know your shipping rights. Ifyou feel there has been any violation of your ship­ ping or seniority rights, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board. Also notify SIU President Paul Hell et heedquerters, by certified eail, return re­ ceipt requested. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for or on the proper sheets and in the proper aanner. If, at any time, any . BIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. In addition, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. EDITCTIIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG ha# traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deem­ ed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960 meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Exec­ utive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. mm liams" is asked to contact his son Eddie Nichols and daughter Hilda Dorothy Nichols at Isabel Andrew de Aguilar No. 5, Fajardo, PR. John Ross Sutton You are asked to contact Capt. James Carter, 810 St. Mary's St., New Orleans, La., immediately by wire or letter. William M. West Contact your mother at 512 Maycox Ave., Norfolk 5, Va. Audly Foster Mrs. Rose Foster sends season's greetings. Franz R. Schwartz Mother would like to hear from you. Write V. V. Van Gordon, St. Josephs Hospital, Room 203, Bremerhaven, Germany. George Bryan Get in touch with J. J. "Scotty" , Davies, Castle Apartments No. 305, 2132 Second Avenue, Seattle, SlU Atlantic, Gulf Washington. William C. Bedgood Lakes & Inland Waters Anyone knowing the where­ District abouts of the above-named is asked PRESIDENT to contact his wife Arlene BedPaul HaU good, 72 Broad Street, Albany, EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT NY. C«1 Tanner Louis Flax VICE PRESIDENTS Claude Simmona Undaey WUllama Lewis Williamson Carl Shepard A1 Tanner Get in touch with Mrs. Carl SECRETARY-TREASURER Chiavone, 133 N. Christiansen St., A1 Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Houston 3, Texas. Bill HaU Ed Hooney Fred Stewart Mike Savino BALTIMORE 1316 E. Baltimore St. Phone Steve Papitsas, TE 9-0959 Rex Dickey. Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 278 State St or see him at 301—100th St., John Fay, Agent Richmond 2-0140 Brooklyn, NY. DETROIT 10335 W. Jefferson Ave Manuel L. Fernandez Vlnewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS....673 4th Ave., Bhlyn Oley Mansson HYaclntb S-6600 Carl Engelbreehten HOUSTON 4303 Canal St William B. Faultz Paul Drozak. Agent CApital 3-4089: 3-4080 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., J.^x Contact Dr. A. Lillienfeld at William Morris. Agent ELgln 3-0807 John Hopkins University, School MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzales, Agent FRanklin 7-3564 of Hygiene and Public Health, 615 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St, N. Wolfe St., Baltimore 5, Mary­ Louis Neira. Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. land. Buck Stephens, Agent Tel. 529-7546 Ex-Penn Shipper NEW YORK .678 4th Ave.. Brooklyn Anyone having information con­ HYacinth 9-660C NORFOLK 416 Colley Ave cerning Patrick Henry McNally Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent 625-6505 contact Thomas J. McNally, 930 PHILADELPHIA 3604 S 4th St N. 66th St., Lincoln, Neb. Ray Oates, Acting Agent DEwey 0-:i818 Michael Allen Abemathy ' SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-4401 Important papers are being held BANTUKttK. PK 1313 rernander Jiincos for you in headquarters. Contact Stop 20 Keith Terpe. Hq. Rep. Phone 723-0003 John C. Brazil. SEATTLE .. 2305 Isi Ave Money Due TP • n-'bkowskl. Agent lain 4. • 4 Moise Chapman and Ernest TAMPA 313 Harrison St. Jeff Gillette, Agent 24-3471 Mishens should co.ntact Hill, Betts WILMINGTON Calif 506 N Marine Ave & Nash, 26 Broadway, New York, Heed Humphries. Agent Terminal 4-2S3t< Adrian "Dutch Harry" Vader Get in touch with Mrs. Ethel Maxwell, 83 South Bayou St., Mo­ bile, Ala. Harry H. Darrah Contact Sol H. BerenhoUz, at­ torney, 1209 Court Square Build­ ing, Baltimore 2, Maryland, or telephone LE 9-6967. John H. Murray Important. Contact your son at Brownwell Street. Francisco Nichols The above-named, also known as "Francisco Eduardo Nichols Wil­ liams" or "Illinois Nichols Wil- m IlttlCIAL MPOFTS, The conatltntlOB o* the glU Atlentlo, Oulf, Xnkee end la{end Wetere Dletrlct nekee speelflo provlelon gop eefeguerdlng the neabershlp'* WASHINGTON—With the April 15 deadline for filing 1961 Federal income tax returns coming up fast, Seafarers should keep in mind a number of important items which may saire them time and difficulty^^ later. (The SEAFARERS life Insurance, corporate bonda LOG will carry a complete and notes are all subject to in­ guide on filing Federal tax re­ turns next month.) Data processing centers are be­ ing established throughout the country by the Internal Revenue Service to check all returns by electronic means. To assist in this processing, the law now requires every taxpayer to have a number which, In this Instance, is also the taxpayer's Social Security num­ ber. The new Commissioner of In­ ternal Revenue is also increasing the staff of agents in an effort to curb tax return abuses. Accordingly, this year will be marked by a tightening of con­ trols and at least one area sure to receive a close going-over is undeclared income from sources other than wages subject to .with­ holding. Such income as dividends and interest from stock, mutual funds, building and loan associations, credit unions, savings accounts (including postal savings accounts). raw* Twta^-nK# LOG iii PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt Is given for same. Under no cir­ cumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given puch receipt. If in the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without aupplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment mnd ^ given an official rdhelpt, but feele that he should not have been re­ quired to make such payment, thie should immediately be called to the attention of SIU President Paul Hall by certified mall, return receipt requested. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATKWS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halla. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is mttempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. •, RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU memVters drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, In­ cluding attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU meiBbers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtlmers cannot take sl;ipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. iliiteasxxS NY, regarding money due from the or telephone any afternoon TA come tax refund checks: Margarito Borja, Dao King 3-9517. salvage of the MV TB Radar. Chae, Cheung Soa Cheng (2) Ho Income Tax Refunds Harry Dedolchaw, Salvatore The following Seafarers should Yung Kong, John Misikian, Elmer Gruff re, James Curran, Daniel Clapp and Eugene Roszko shou.d contact Jack Lynch, Room 201, J. Moe (3) Potenciano Paculba, contact Hill, Betts & Nash regard­ SUP building, 450 Harrison St., Clifford A. Perreira, Marvin E. (Continued on page 22) ing money due from Ihe salvage of San Francisco, Calif., regarding in­ the barge Blue Stack. Robert S. Arnold, J. D. Sanchijarto, F. T. Reynolds, Manuel De J. Urrea, Edward H. Barber and Jacob Fahl should contact Hill, Betts, Yamoaka, Freehill & Langscope, 26 Broadway, NY, re­ to receive garding monies due from salvage ,, of the SS Kathei-ine Maersk. 1 xpteose put my name crt your moifmg lis 5 ^ ^ Alfred Thomas Get in touch with Mary T. Spray, 40-40 203rd St., Bayside, LI, NY. John Miller Contact Esther G. Kreh at 2255 N. Claiborne Ave., New Orleans, La. Charles Brinton I TP AVOffl OUfilCATICN; If krm HD Mi islwcfJiMif Afti A Get in touch with Rosalie, PO J of pU**o qlv« your formwt kolowr Box 1455, Norfolk, Va. Oscar Kaelep Get in touch with Walter Nc' "'i at 636 Wil'jox Ave., Bronx 65; •" '• •<;•• •••• '':y '• • " '>v., • �SEAFARERS^LOG ianvcmr IMt } OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO 1961»tli.e SIX7 a^zici IM[a;]:*itiix].e Th« Union's campaign for Seafarers' job and economic security was the key­ note of a >usy 1961 as tho SIU continued to expand its organizational activity, won important welfare, vacation and contract gains for SIU men and their families, ex­ tended its shoreside building program and embarked with other unions on a. longrange program to upgrade the US-flag merchant marine. Despite the general de­ cline in the industry, Seafarers enjoyed better than usual shipping during the year. These gains were paralleled in other sections of the Union, on the Lakes, in the tugboat and allied field and in Puerto Rico, as the entire District completed its first full year under a new constitutional structure. The last 12 months were also a time of adjustment for the whole shipping industry, as it waited out the development of national policy by the new Administration in Washington and the shaping of programs upon which future progress in maritime would depend. Joint Bargaining Joint efforts by the SIU and other mari­ time unions to institute a unified national approach to collective bargaining in the industi-y got underway for the first time in 1961. The unions established the JNational Committee for Maritime Bargaining and mapped out a far-reaching program to deal with basic industry problems. The NCMB program called for common ex­ piration dates in one-year contracts which acknowledged the unions' right to or­ ganize US-owned runaway-flag snipping and recognized labor's stake in the future development of the industiy. Within 48 hours after the June 15 con­ tract deadline, Alcoa and Bloomfield were the lone major holdouts among SIU com­ panies, which had all agreed to tne full . NCMB program plus a four percent money gain for pensions, vacations and welfare. However, Atlantic and Gulf shipping was tied up for 18 days by dis­ putes involving other unions, until the US stepped in with a Taft-Hartley injunction on July 3. By the time the injunction was finally lifted in September, ali outstand­ ing SIU contracts were completed and the SIU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association were the only unions which had held firm on the runaway-ship issue. Agreements of SIU Pacific District af- Hall opened in New Orleans. train and Sea-Land as the only full-time carriers in the domestic trade, Sea-Land purchased some ships- and entered the intercoastal service and waa converting others for service in 1982, A Seatrain vessel, the New York, went off­ shore for the first time since 1942 to haul a special cargo of railroad stock and equipment over to Liberia, In separate action. Bull Lfne was sold to another SIU operator and meanwhile acquired two C-4s to try and beef up Its New YorkPuerto Rico service. News Roundup There were many other newsworthy Items . . . The new hail opened in New Orleans and work began on another UnioO hall in Houston ... A. Seafarer and the children of" four SIU men won the '61 SIU scholarship awards worth $6,000 each .. . Results of the first Union election of Rail Tug Beef Trinidad union joined SlUNA. filiates, which did not expire until later, were still under negotiation at the end of the year. Pension^ Welfare $ Seafarers won immediate gains under the one-year agreement signed with the operators. It produced $150 monthly pen­ sions for oldtimers, a new $800 continuous service vacation benefit and an important Sickness & Accident Benefit program which established 39 weeks' coverage combining hospital benefits of $8 per day plus a first-time outpatient benefit of $56 weekly for off-the-job illness or injury. Other welfare gains last year included ex­ tension of the optical benefit program to ali SIU dependents and the start of Union blood banks in ali ports. Earlier, a new travel and subsistence pay poiicy went into effect The contract revision provided for cash transportation payments at the .payoff equal to first-class air fare plus a day's pay and subsistence from a payoff port in one area back to the original port of engagement in an­ other. The former provision allowed for rail travel only. Fight On Runaways There was recognition in 1961 that ac­ tion on runaways was finally nearing a climax and that pressure was increasing on the whole range of runaway operations. Rulings by the National Labor Relations Board first extended NLRB jurisdiction over all American-owned runaways in the case of the Liberian-flag SS Sea Level, a former Seatrain. The SIU then won two other key rulings in a row when the board upheld SIU bargaining rights covering the Liberian SS Florida and backed the Union's right to organize the runaway SS Yarmouth. There were similar rulings covering shoreside plants which had jumped from state to state to escape legitimate union contracts and organizing by other AFL-CIO unions. In the global arena, efforts by the SIUNA 4:0 work out a forthright anti-run­ away organizing program within the framework of the International Transportworkers Federation had been frustrated for some time. British union uneasiness over Canadian SIU assistance to British seamen stranded in Canada led to the suspension of the SIUNA trom the ITF at a meeting where no SIUNA representa- tive was present. This precipitated with­ drawal by the SIUNA and other American maritime unions from ITF and set the stage for later action by American unions. An historic strike started off 1061, after SIU railroad marine workers'had exhausted ali available procedures under the Railway Labor Act during 15 months of negotiations. The RMR pulled the pin on 11 major Eastern roads which were trying to use the tugmen to set a prece­ dent for a job-cutting program aimed at the nation's shoreside railroad workers. Unwilling to bow to any unilateral job cuts on the railroad-operated boats, the RMR launched a 13-day strike that idled ali rail activity in New York harbor and spread into a five-state-area. Seafarers actively joined in the picketing which ultimately shut down the entire NY Cen­ tral and the NY, New Haven & Hartford and was ready to tie up the Pennsylvania RR system as well. By making a stand, the tugmen upheld their job security rights, won broad union welfare pro­ tection they had never had before and completely stymied the railroads' bid for a job-cutting precedent to be used against other workers, SIUNA Growth For the SIUNA, 1961 was marked by an impressive 10th biennial convention at • San Juan in March and vast membership growth. The international added a new 1,700-member group, the Virgin Islands Labor Union, to its roster of affiliates in June and in October affiliated 6,000 mora members in the Caribbean by issuing a charter to the Seamen's and Waterfront Workers Trade Union in Trinidad. Tha International's base in the Caribbean, in­ cluding 5,000 members in Puerto Rico, now topped 13,000 and pushed its overall membership above 70,000. Organizing gains continued to highlight SIU activities on the Lakes, inland waters and in other areas of the SIU's jurisdic­ tion. In the Great Lakes-Seaway area, although foreign - flag shipping handled the bulk of all cargo movements, the SIU solidified its earlier triumphs in un­ organized fleets and won a shipownerpaid welfare plan plus a broad-scale re­ vision of the freight agreement. The SIU Inland Boatmen's Union made heavy inroads among unorganized fleets in the Hampton Roads area and in the Gulf, and eliminated catch-all District 50 of the United Mine Workers as a factor in the Port of Norfolk. In Puerto Rico, high­ light of the year was the signing of work­ ers at Esso and Texaco refinery InstaUa- Domestic Trade Picketing contract kddont. tlons, who joined Socony and Shell OH workers already under the SIU banner. Despite some easing by the Interstate Commerce Commission of earlier favori­ tism toward railroads at the expense of domestic shipping, coastal and intercoastal shipping continued to lag during the year. Two more long-established op­ erators, Luckenbach and Pope & Talbot, were forced to quit the field, leaving Sea- SIUNA convontion In San Juan. Rail tug boef made headlines. officers under the new District constitu­ tion went into the record books . . . The SIU completed a decade of growth since moving its headquarters from Manhattan's Beaver Street and commemorated its 23rd anniversary at the same time. The Soviet bloc merchant fleet took further strides in surpassing the size of the US-flag fleet , , , Piracy hit the sea lanes as Portuguese revolutionaries took over a passenger liner in mid-Atlantic and somehow no one was able to find the ship for days , . , The Pentagon finally agreed that 440,000 tons of coal to be shipped to US Army bases in Germany was really Government cargo subject to "50-50" . . . The British government offered Cunard Line aid in building a' replacement for the Queen Mary but the company turned it down , , , The Alcoa Pioneer found that an eel had plugged a hole in its bottom and served as a handy "patch" until the vessel got to a shipyard , , . Tattoo parlors became taboo in New York due to health restrictions , , . Experimental weather satellites were rocketed aloft by the US to locate hurricanes and other storms that spell danger to ships at sea , . . The atompowered NS Savannah remained in tho testing stage . , , Hydrofoils and "hover­ craft" took the spotlight on the drawing board. Vital statistics for 1961 reflect a marked change in activity as reported in the SEAFARERS LOG. The num­ ber of jobs shipped was up 3,000 over a comparable 1960 period and 2,000 above 1959, although changes in the reporting system may have accounted for part of the rise. Similarly, new arrivals totaled 409 for the year, com­ pared to an average of 325 for three years in a row. No bright spot at all was the notice of 147 "final departures" carried in the 1961 LOG, as against 113 in 1060. A considerable number of tha 1961 claims paid coverecL deaths in 1960, however, so no sharp conclusion can be drawn, A number of well-known oldtimers and officials passed on, in­ cluding James Sheehan, A1 Stansbury, Lou Goffin, Leon "Blondie" Johnson, Charles "Whitey" Tannehill, Claude Fisher, William C. McCuiston and others. Among SIU affiliates. West Coast cannery workers lost oldliiner James Waugh and the Marine Cooks and Stewards mourned the loss of Louis Foyt, MCS assistant secretarytreasurer. �.mm '.S ,• f- ' '. /WJLV •*. - •• .. - - i --' : „ v A\ SII (OmSTITllTIOII For SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes And Inland Waters District )- I! - '> , .1,' • •••' * t •«• 1 * V » * < i i t, . M < • r t I J 8 4 < �y Jvwlemeal—Paff« Twm SEAFARERS 1: ./• CONSTITUTION THE SEAFARKS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRia Affiliated with AmcrtHn Federation of Lkbor — Congron of industrial Organiiationt (At Amended May 13,1960) PREAMBLI As maritime and allied workers and realizing the value and aecessity of a thorough organization, we are dedicated to the form­ ing of one Union for our people, the Seafarers Internafional Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ trict, based upon the following principles: All members shall be entitled to all the rights,-privileges Ma iarantees as set forth in this Constitution, and such rights, priviges and guarantees shall be preserved in accordance with its terms. We declare that American seamen are entitled tO receive their employment without interference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the Government. We affirm that every worker has the ri^t to receive fair and just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation. We proclaim the right of all seamen to receive healthful and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to rest. We defend the right of all seamen to be treated in a decent and respectful manner by those in command, and. We hold that the above rights belong to all workers alike. Irrespective of nationality or creed. Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we are conKious of corresponding duties to those in command, our employers, our craft and our country. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote harmonious relations with those in command by exercising due care and dili­ gence in the performance of the duties of our profession, and by giving all possible assistance to our employers in caring for their gear and property. Based upon these principles, it is among our objects: To use our influence individually and collectively for the purpose of maintain­ ing and developing skill in seamanship and eflfecting a change in the maritime law of the United States, so as to. render it more equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development of a merchant marine and a body of American seamen. To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of mari­ time workers and through its columns seek to maintain their knowledge of, and interest in, maritime affairs. To assist the seamen of other countries in the work of orgatiiiatioh and federation, to the end of establishing the Brotherhood of the Sea. To form and to assist by legal means other bona fide labor organi­ zations whenever possible in the attainment of their just demands. To regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals so as to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and useful calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that our work takes us away in different directions from any place where the majority might otherwise meet to act, that meetings can be attended by only a fraction of the membership, that the absent members, who cannot be present, must have their interests guarded from what might be the results of excitement and passions aroused by persons or conditions, and that those who are present may act for and in the interest of all, we have adopted this Constitution. E Statement of Principles and Declaration of Righta In order to form a more perfect Union, we workers in the maritime and allied industries, realizing the value and necessity •of uniting in pursuit of our improved economic and social welfare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the fol­ lowing principles: In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall ever be mindful, not only of our rights, but also of our duties and obliga­ tions as members of the community, our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace of communism and any other enemies of freedom and the democratic principles to whi^ wo seafaring men dedicate ourselves in this Union. We shall affiliate'and work with other free labor organizaitons; We shall support a journal to give additional voice to our views; we shall assist our brothers of the sea and other workers of all countries in these obligations to the fullest extent consistent with our duties, obligations, and law. We shall seek to exert our individ­ ual and collective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor and other legislation and policies which look to the attainment of a free and happy society, without distinction based on race, creed or color. To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing In mind that most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them all over the world, that their rights must and shall be protected, we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be inalienable. I No member shall be deprived of any of the ri^ts ot privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. II Every qualified member shall have the right to nominate himself for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold, office in this Union. III No member shall be deprived of his membership without due Jmumar, 18At LOG process of the law of this Union. No member shall be compelled to be a witness against himself in the trail of any proceeding in which he may be charged with failure to observe the law of this Union. Every official and job holder shall be bound to uphold and protect the ri^ts of every member in accordance with the princi­ ples sec forth in the Constitution of the Union, IV Every member shall have the right to be confronted by his accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law of this Union. In all such cases, the accused shall be guaranteed a fair and speedy trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members. V No member shall be denied the right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. VI A militant membership being necessary to the security of a ftM union, the members shall at all times stand ready to defend ffiis Union and the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. VII The powers not delegated to the officers, job holders, and Execu­ tive Board by the Constitution of the Union shall be reserved to the members. CONSTITUTION Article Iy Name and General Pcrwers This Union shall be known as the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ trict. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and executive, and shall include the formation of, and/or issuance of charters to, sub­ ordinate bodies and divisions, corporate or otherwise, the forma­ tion of funds and participation in funds, the establishment of enter­ prises for the benefit of the Union, and similar ventures. This Union shall exercise all of its powers in aid of subordinate bodies and divisions created or chartered by it. For convenience of admin­ istration and in furtherance of its policies of aid and assistance, the Union may make its property, facilities and personnel avaikble for the use and behalf of such subordinate bodies and divisions. A majority vote of the membership shall be authorization for any Union action, unless otherwise specified in' the Constitution or by law. This Union shall at all times protect and maintain ia jurisdiction. Article II Affiliation Section 1. This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America and the American Federation of Labor^—Congress of Industrial Organizations. All other affilia­ tions by the Union or its subordinate bodies or divisions shall be made or withdrawn as determined by a majority vote of the Executive Board. Section 2. In addition to such other provisions as are contained herein, all subordinate bodies and divisions seeking a charter from and/or affiliation with this Union, shall be required to adopt, within a time period set by the Executive Board, a constitution containing provisions as set forth in Exhibit "A, annexed to this Constitution and made a part hereof. All other provisions adopted by such subordinate bodies and divisions as part of their constitutions shall • not be inconsistent therewith. No such constitution or aniendments thereto shall be deemed to be effective without the approval of the Executive Board of this Union, which shall be executed in writing, on its behalf, by the President or, in his absence, by any other officer designated by it. Such approval shall be deemed to be recog­ nition of compliance herewith by such subordinate body or division. Where a subordinate body or division violates any of the fore­ going, and, in particular, seeks to effectuate any constitutional provision not so authorized and approved, or commits acts in violation of its approved constitution, or fails to act in accordance therewith, this Union, through its Executive Board, may withdraw its charter and/or sever its affiliation forthwith, or on siich terins as it may impose not inconsistent with law, in addition to exercis­ ing any and all rights it may have pursuant to any applicable agree­ ments or understandings. . Section 3. This Union shall also have the power, acting through its Executive Board, and after a fair hearing, to impose a trustee­ ship upon any subordinate body , or divisions chartered by and affiliated with it, for the reasons and to the extent provided by law. Article III Membership Section 1. Candidates for membership shall be admitted to mem­ bership in accordance with such rules as are adopted from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership. Membership classifica­ tions shall correspond to and depend upon seniority classifications established in accordance with the standard collective bar^ining agreement of this Union. In addition to meeting the other lequiic- flieots Julf profflutgatej purnant fio person dull tecnmn • full book member unless end-niitil he hu attained the hlghlK seniority rating set out in the said collective bargaininf agreement | Only full book members shall be entitled to vote and to bold anf i office or elective job, except as otherwise specified herein. All memv! bets shall have a voice in Union proceedings and shall be entided to vote on Union contracts. Sectioii 3. No' candidate shall be granted membership who Is • member of any dual organization hostile to the aims, principles^ and policies, of this Union. Section 3. Members more than one quarter In arrears In dues shall be automatically suspended, and shall forfeit all benefits and all other rights and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically dismissed if they are more than two quarters in arrears in dues. An arrearage in dues shall be computed from the first day of tha applicable quarter, but this time shall not run: (a) While a member is acmally participating in a strike Ot lockout. (b) While a member Is an in-patient In a USPHS ot other accredited hospital. (c) While a member is under an incapacity due to activity in behalf of the Union. (d) While a member is in the armed services of the United States, provided the member was in good standing at the time of entery into the armed forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after discharge from tht armed forces. (e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues, because of employment aboard an American flag merchant vessel. Saction 4. A majority vote of the membership shall be sufficient to designate additional circumstances during which the time speci­ fied in Section 3 shall not run. It shall be the right of any member to. present, in writing, to any Port at any regular meeting, any question with regard to the application of Section 3, in accordanco with procedures established by a majority vote of the membership. A majority vote of the membership shall be necessary to decide such questions. Saction 5. The membership shall be empowered to establish, from time to time, by majority vote, rules under which dues and assess­ ments may be excused where a member has been unable to par dues and assessments for the reasons provided in Sections 3 and 4, Saction 6. To preserve unity, and to promote the common welfare of the membership, all members of the Union shall uphold and defend this Constitution and shall be governed by the provisions of this Constitution and all policies, rulings, orders and decisions duly made. Saction 7. Any member who gives aid to the principles and policies of any hostile or dual organization shall be denied further membership in this Union to the full extent permitted by law. A majority vote of the membership shall decide which organizations are dual or hostile. Saction 8. Evidence of membership or other affiliation with th« Union shall at all times remain the property of the Union. Mem­ bers may be required to show their evidence of membership in order to be admitted to Union meetings, or into, or on Union property. Article IV Reinstatement Members dismissed from the Union may be reinstated in accord­ ance. with such rules and under such conditions as are adopted, from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership. Article V Dues and Initiation Fee Sacilen 1. All members shall pay dues quarterly, on a calendar year basis, no later than the first business day of each quarter, except as herein otherwise provided. The dues shall be those payable »5 of the date of adoption of this Constitution and may be changed only by Constitutional amendment. Section 3. No candidate for membership shall be admitted into membership without having paid an initiation fee of three hundred • ($300.00) dollars, except as otherwise provided in this Constitutioiu Saction 3. Payment of dues and initiation fees may be waived for . organizational purposes in accordance with such rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the Executive Board. Article VI Retirement from Membership Section 1. Members may retire from membership by surrendering their Union books or other evidence of affiliation and paying all unpaid dues for the quarter in which they retire, assessments, fines and other monies due and owing the Union. When the member surrenders his book or other evidence of affiliation in connection with his application for retirement he shall be given a receipt therefor. An official retirement card shall be issued by Headquarters,' upon request, dated as of the day that such member accomplishes these payments, and shall be given to the member upon his pre­ senting the aforesaid receipt. Section 3. All the rights, privileges, duties and obligations of membership shall be suspended during the period of retirement, except that a retired member shall not be disloyal to the Union nor join or remain in any dual or hostile organization, upon penalty of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement. Section 3. Any person in retirement for a period of two quarters or more shall be restored to membership, except as herein indicated, by paying dues for the current quarter, as well as all assessments accruing and newly levied during the period of retirement. If the period of retirement is less , than two quarters, the required pay­ ments shall consist of all dues accruing during the said period of retiremenr, including those for the current quarter, and all assess­ ments accrued and newly levied during that period. Upon such paymenr, the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, and his membership book, appropriately stamped, shall be returnM to him. Section 4. A member In retirement may be restored to membership after a two-year period of retirement consisting of eight full quarters only by majority vote of the membership. Section 5. The period' of retirement shall be computed from the first day of die quartet following the one in which the letirement card was issued. �jfelTiiiiiii I.'. :"Tiiri V IfftC SEAFARERS Artkfo VR . LOG •amlemat—Pace Thnm ff) Ihs President shall be fhairtnan off die Executive. Board the pom, and the personnel thereof oo tha Lakes and Inlsnd Waters, including Aeir organizing activities. and may cur one vote in that body. Syttom off OrganluHon In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities be is (g) He shall be resptmsible, within .the limits of his powers, empowered and auAotized to retain any technical or professional for die enforcement of this Constitution, the policies of the Union, t«cite« 1. nu Union, and all officers, beadquaitu'a represeota^ and all rules and rulings duly adopted by the Executive Board, and assisunce he deems necessary, subjea to approval of the Executiva tlvet, port agents, patiolmeii, and members sh^ be goreioed in those duly adopted by a majority vote of the membetship. Within Board. thu order by: .these limits, he shall strive to enhance the strength, position, and Sselion 8. Dirsctor of Organizing and Piiblkatiens. (a) The Constitution; prestige of the Union. The Direaor of Organizing and Publications shall be appointed (b) The Executive Board. (h) The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those other and may be removed at will by Ae Executive Board of Ae Union. (c) Majority rote of the menibenhip. duties lawfully imposed upon him. He shall be responsible for and supervise all publications and (i) The responsibility of the President may not be delegated, public relations of the Union and shall serve as co-ordinator of faction 2. The headquarters of the Union shall be located in the President may delegate to a person or persons the execution all organizational activities of Ae Union. In addition, he shall New York and the headquarters officers shall consist of a President, but any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him and Executive Vice-President, one Vice-PiesiJeut in Qiarge of of such of his duties as he may in his discretion decide, subject perform Ae Executive Board. Contracts and Contract Enforcement, a Secretary-Treasurer, one to the limitations set forth in this Constimtion. (j) Any vacancy in any office or the job of Headquarters Repre­ Soction 9. Hoadquarttn RoprssontalivM. Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one Vice-F/esident in Charge sentative, Port Agent, or Patrolman shall be filled by the President The Headquarters Representatives shall perform any and alk by temporary appointment of a member qualified for the office of the Lakes and Inland Waters. or job under Article XII of this Constimtion, except in those duties assigned them or delegated to them by Ae President, Execu­ tive Vice-President or the Executive Board. . faction 3. The staff of each port shall consist of such personnel cases where the filling of such vacancy is otherwise provided for Saction 10. Pert Aganh. I as is provided for herein, and the port shall bear the name of the by this Constitution. city in which the Union's port offices are located. (k) The President is directed to take any and all measures and (a) The Port A^nt shall be in direct charge of the administn- | employ such means which he deems necessary or advisable, to faction 4. Every member of the Union shall be registered in one protect the interests, and further Ae welfare of the Union and its tion of Union affairs in Ae port of his jurisdiaion subjea to th* of three departments; namely, deck, engine and stewards depart­ members, in all matters involving national, sute or local legislation direction of Ae area Vice-President. (b) He shall, wiAin the jurisdiaion of his ^rt, be responsibl# ment. The definition of these departments shall be in accordance for the enforcement and execution of the Constitution, the policies •with custom and usage. This definition may be modified by a issues, and public affairs. (1) The President shall have authority to require any officer or . of Ae Union, and the rules adopted by Ac Executive Board, and ( majority vote of the membetship. No member may transfer from one department to another except by approval as evidenced by a Union representative to attend any regular or special meeting if, in by a tnajority vote of Ae membership. Wherever there are tima his opinion, it is deemed necessary. restrictions or other considerations affecting port aaion, Ae Port majority vote of the membership. Agent shall take appropriate aaion to insure observance thereofj Section 2. Exacutivo Vico-Praiidont. • (c) He shall be prepared to account, financially or otherwise, The Executive Vice-President shall perform any and all duties for Ae activities of his port, whenever demarided by the President,. Article VitI assigned him or delegated to him by the President. In Ae event Ae Vice-President of Ae area in whiA his port is located, or by Officers, Heedquerfers Representatives, Port Agents Ae President shall be unable to carry out any of his duties by reason of incapacity or unavaiJability, the Executive Vice-President Ae Secretary-Treasurer. and Patrolmen (d) In any event, he Aall prepare and forward to Ae Secretaryshall take over such duties during Ae period of such incapacity or foction 1. The officers of the Union shall be elected as otherwise unavailability. Upon the deaA, resignation, or removal from office Treasurer, a weekly financial report showing, in detail, weekly provided in this Constimtion. These officers shall be the President, for any reason of the President, the Executive Vice-President shall income and expenses, and complying with all oAer accounting | an Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in'Charge of Con­ immediately assume Ae office, duties and responsibilities of the direaions issued by Ae Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent may assign each port Patrolman to suA ' tracts and Contract Enforcement, a Secretary-Treasurer, one Vice- President until the next general election. The Exwutive Vice-President shall be a member of the Executive duties as fall wiAin Ae jurisdiaion of Ae port, regardless of th« President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in departmental designation, if any, under which Ae Patrolmaa Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one Vice-President in Charge of the Board and may cast one vote in that body. was elected. lakes and Inland Waters. Section I. Vice-Preiidont In Charge ef Cenlracts and (f) The Port Agent shall designate which members at Aat port faction 2. Port Agents, Headquarters Representatives, and Patrol­ Contract Enforcement. may serve as representatives to other organizations, affiliation wiA men shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in diis The Vice-President In tharge of Contracts and Contract Enforce­ which has been properly authorized. • Constitution. ment shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated Secrion II. PatrolmM. to him by the President. In addition, he shall be responsible for Patrolmen shall i*rform any duties assigned Aem by Ae Agent' all contract negotiations, the formulation of bargaining demands, Article IX and the submission of proposed collective bargaining agreements of Ae Port to whiA Aey are assigned. to Ae membership for ratification. He shall also be responsible, Other Elective Jobs Section 12. Executive Boerd. except as otherwise provided in Article X, Section 14 (d) (1), for The Executive Board Aall consist of the President, Ae Executiva faction 1. In addition to the elective jobs provided for In Article strike authorization, signing of new contracts, and contract enforce­ VllI, the following jobs in the Union shall be voted upon in the ment He shall also act for headquarters in executing the adminis­ Vice-President, the Vice-President in Charge of Contracts' and' manner prescribed by this Constitution: trative functions assigned to headquarters by this Constitution wiA Contract Enforcement, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Area, the Vice-President in Charge of A. Delegates to the convention of the Seafarers International respect to trials and appeals except if he is a witness or patty the Gulf Area, the Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Aeteto, in which event the Secretary-Treasurer shall act in his Union of North America. place. In order Aat he may properly execute these responsibilities Waters, and the National Director (or chief executive officer) of B. Committee members of: he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ such help as he eaA subordinate body or division created or chartered by tha (1) Trial Committees deems necessary, be it legal, or otherwise, subject to, approval of Union whenever such subordinate body or division has attained a membership of 3,200 members and has maintained that member­ (2) Quarterly Financial Committees Ae Executive Board. (3) Appeals Committees • The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforce­ ship for not less than Aree (3) monAs. Such National Direaor (or chief executive officer) shall be a member of Ae respectiva (4) Strike Committees ment shall be a member of Ae Executive Board and may cast subordinate body or division and must be qualified to hold offica ( 3) Credentials Committees one voce in Aat body. under the terms of the Constitution of such division or subordi­ (6) Polls Committees nate body. ( 7 ) Union Tallying Committees Saclion 4. Sscrelary-Treaiurar. The Executive Board shall meet in headquarters no less than (8) Constitutional Committees The Secretary-Treisurer shall perform any and all duties assigned faction 2. Additional committees may be formed as provided by him or delegated to him by Ae President. He shall be responsible once each quarter and at such other times as Ae President or, in his absence, the Executive Vice-President may direct. The Presi­ a majority vote of the membership. Committees may also be ap- for the organization and maintenance of the correspondence, files, dent shall be the chairman of all Executive Board meetings uniesJ and records of the Union; setting up, and maintenance of, sound pojpted as permitted by this Constitution. accounting and bookkeeping systems; Ae setting up, and mainte­ absent, in whiA case the Executive Vice-President shall assume nance of, proper office and other administrative Union procedures; the chairman's duties. Each member of the Executive Board shall Article X the proper collection, safeguarding, and expendimre of all Union be entitled to cast one vote in that body. Its decision shall be funds, pott or otherwise. He shall submit to Ae membership, for determined by majority vote of those voting, providing a quorum Duties of Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port each quarterly period, a detailed report of the entire Union's finan­ of three is present. It shall be the duty of the Executive Board to Agents, Other Elected Job Holders and cial operations and shall submit simultaneously therewiA, the develop policies, strategies and rules whiA will advance and Quarterly Financial Committee report for Ae same period. The protect the interests and welfare of the Union and the Members, Miscellaneous Personnel &aetary-Treasurer's report Aall be prepared by an independent It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer, or in his absence, faction 1. The Prasidant. Certified Public Accountant. He shall also work with all duly elected an appointee of the Executive Board, to keep accurate minutes of • (a) The President shall be the executive officer of the Union •finance committees. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible all Executive Board meetings. The Executive Board shall appoint one person who shall be designated Director of Organizing and and shall represent; and act for and in behalf of, the Union in all. for Ae timely filing of any and ail reports on Ae operations of matters except as otlierwise specifically provided for in the Con­ the Union, financial or otherwise, that may be required by any Publications. The Executive Board shall determine per capita tax Federal or state laws. In order Aat he may properly execute his to be levied and other terms and conditions of affiliation for any stitution. group of workers desiring affiliation. The Executive Board may (b) He shall be a member ex-officio of all committees, except responsibilities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ- direct Ae administration of all- Union affairs, properties, policies any help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting, or otherwise, as otherwise herein expressly provided. and personnel in any and all areas not otherwise specifically pro­ subject to approval of the Executive Board. (c) The President shall be in charge of, and responsible for, all "The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member of the Executive vided for in this Constitution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, tha Union property, and shall be in charge of headquarters and port Board and may cast one vote in Aat body. Executive Board may aa without holding a formal meeting pro­ offices. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations The Secretary-Treasurer shall he a member ex-officio of the vided all members of the Board are sent notice .of the proposed affecting Union action, the President shall take appropriate action Credentials and Ballot Tallying Committees. In addition he shall action or aaions and Ae decision Aereon is reduced to writing and to insure observance thereof. make himself and Ae records of his office available to the Quarterly signed by a majority of Ae Executive Board. In Ae event that death, resignation or removal from office foe (d) In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities, Financial Committee. any reason should occur simultaneously to the President and Execu­ he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help he deems tive Vice-President, Ae Executive B^rd by majority vote shall,' Section 5. Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coasf. necessary, be it legal, accounting or otherwise. The Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast shall be a name successors from its own membership who shall fill thos« • (e) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the membership, , the President shall designate the number and location of ports, the member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vacancies until the next general election. If Ae Executive Vice-President duly assumes the office of th® | jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may close or open" vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for Ae activities of all President and dies, resigns, is removed from office, or is incapaci­ audi ports, and may re-assign Vice-Presidents and the SecretaryTreasurer, without reduction in wages. He may also re-assign Ae ports, and the personnel thereof on the Atlantic Coast, includ­ tated for more than 30 days during the remainder of the terra, Aa Headquarters Representatives, Fort Agents, and Patrolmen, to ing their organizing activities. The Atlantic Coast area is deemed Executive Board shall elect a successor for the balance of Ae term other duties, without reduction in wages. The Ports of New York, to mean that are# from and including Georgia through Maine and from its own membership. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Aall also include the Islands in the Caribbean. In order that he Saction 13. Delegatat. Detroit may not be closed except by Constitutional amendment. may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and (a) The term "delegates" shall mean Aose members of th® Where potts are opened between elections, the President shall authorized to retain any technical or professional assistance he Union and its subordinate bodies or divisions who ate elected id deems necessary, subjea to approval of the Executive Board. designate the Union personnel thereof. accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, to attend th® ITie President shall desi^ate, in the event of the incapacity of convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America. Saclion 4. Vic«-Pr*sid«nl in Charga of Aa Gulf Coast. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or any (b) Each delegate shall attend the convention for which elected The Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast shall be a officer other than the President, a replacement to act as such during the period of incapacity, provided such replacement is qualified member of Ae Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one and. fully participate therein. (c) Each delegate shall, by his vote and oAerwise, support thos® vote in Aat body. under Article XII of the Constitution to fill such job. He shall supervise and be responsible for Ae activities of all the policies agreed upon by the majority of the delegates to A® At the regular meeting in July of every election year, the Presi­ dent shall submit to the membership a pre-balloting report. In bis Ports, and the personnel thereof on the Gulf Coast including their Convention. report he shall recommend the number and location of ports, tha organizing activities. The Gulf Coast area is deemed to mean Ae (d) The President shall assign to each subordinate body or number of Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrol­ State of Florida, all Arough Ae Gulf, including Texas. division that number of delegates to which Ais Union would hav® In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he men which are to be elected. He shall also recommend a bank, a been entitled, if its membership had been increased by the number bonded warehousq, a regular officer thereof; or any other simitar Is empowered and authorized to retain any tcAnical or professional of members of Ae subordinate body or division, in accordant® dcpusiiuiy, to which the ballots are to be mailed or delivered at •Mi.stance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive with Ae formula set forth in Ae Constitution of Ae Seafarer* die close of each day's voting, except that the President may, in Board. Internauuiial Union of North America, except that this provisioa his discretion, postpone the recommendation as to the depository Aall not be applied so as to reduce the number of delegates to SMHM 7. VicwPiaddanl U Cliarg* ml HM UIIM awl Ubiul Watwri. until no later than the first regular meeting in October. which this Union would otherwise have been entitled. This recommendation may also specify, whetbtt any Patrolouui The Vice-President in Chatge of the Lakes and Inland Waters Section 14. Cemmitiees. and/or Headquarters Representative, shall be desigeat^ as depart­ Aall be a member f>f the Executive Board and Aall be entitled (a) Trial CMMalttM. mental or otherwise. The report dtall be subject to gi)qpro>nd or to cast one vote in that body. The Trial Committee shall coodua the trials of a pctsoa charfci;^ modificatioa by a majotiqr Tota ot the memhcrshifw Ha Aall aupecviiq and be tesponsible ffbr tha acthrmet of all le..,. �SEAFARERS •nyplement—1*M« •nd shall submit findings and recommendations as prescribed fn this Constitution. It shall be the sj^ial obligation of the Trial Committee to observe all the requiremenw of this Constimtion •with regard to charges and trials, and their findings and rKominendations must specifically state whether or not, in the opinion of the Trial Committee, the rights of any accused, under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. ' (b) Appeals Committee. ' 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial Judgments, in accordance with such procedures as are set forth in this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority trote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. 2. The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than one week ! after the close of the said hearing, make and submit findiiigs and recommendations in accordance svith the provisions _of_ this Conj ftitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of [the membership not inconsistent therewith. (c) Quarterly Financial Committee. vessels, covered by contract with this',TJnion, or four (4) mondis of employment with, or in any office or job of, the Union, its sub­ sidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direaion, or a combinauon of these, between January 1st and the time of nomination in the election year; and (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and (e) He is not disqualified by law. Stciion 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall be full book members of the Union. Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices and Jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this Consti­ tution, shall mainuin full book membership in good standing. Article XIII Elections for Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make an examina­ tion for each quarterly period of the finances of the Union and •hall report fully on their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, separate recom­ mendations and separate findings. 2. Th6 findings and recommendations of this committee shall be completed within a reasonable time after the election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted to the Secretary-Treasurer i who shall cause the same to be read in all ports, as set forth herein. 3. All officers. Union personnel and members are responsible •for complying with all demands made for records, bills, vouchers, ' feceipts, etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Committee. The ' committee shall also have available to it, the services of the indeI pendent certified public accountants retained by the Union. 4. Any action on the said report shall be as determined, by a j majority vote of the membership. 5. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall consist of seven (7) members in good standing to be elected as follows: One member from each of the following ports: New York, Philadelphia, Balti­ more, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee. Committee members shall be elected at the regular meeting designated by the SecretaryTreasurer. In the event a regular meeting cannot be held in any port for lack of a quorum, the Agent shall call a special meeting •s early as possible for the purpose of electing a member to serve cn the Quarterly Financial Committee. Such committee members •hall be furnished transportation to New York and back to their respective ports and they shall be furnished room and board during the period they are performing their duties in New York. Com­ mencing on the day following their election and continuing until they have been returned to their respective ports each committee member shall be paid for hours worked at the standby rate of pay but in no event shall they be paid for less than eight (8) hours 'per day. "I hereby certify that I am not now, nor, for the five (5) years last past, have I been either a member of the Communist Party or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting from conviction of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or violation of title II or III of the Landrum-Giiffifi Act, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes." ' Dated: (d) Strike Committee. ; 1. In no event shall a general strike take place unless approved ihy a majority vote of the membership. 2. In the event a general strike has been approved by tlie mem­ bership the Port Agents in all affected ports shall call a timely special meeting- for the purpose of electing a strike committee. This committee shall be composed of three full book members and their duties shall consist of assisting the Port Agent to effectu­ ate all strike policies and strategies. Article Xi Wages and Terms of Office of Officers and Other Elective Job Holders, Union Employees, and Others Section 1. The following elected offices and jobs shall be held lor a term of four years: President Vice-Presidents Secretary-Treasurer Headquarters Representatives - Port Agents Patrolmen The term of four years set forth herein is expressly subject to the orovisions for assumption of office as contained in Article XIII, Section 6(b) of this Constitution. Section 2. The term of any eleaive jobs other than those indicated In Section 1 of this Article shall continue for so long as is necessary to romplete the functions thereof, unless sooner terminated by a majority vote of the membership or segment of the Union, which­ ever applies, whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or ones serving. I LOG Section 3. "^e compensation to he paid the holder of any office or other elective job shall be determined from time to time by the Executive Board subject to approval of the membership. Section 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not apply •o any corporation, business, or other venture in which this Union fcarticipates, or which it organizes or creates. In such situations, instructions conveyed by the Executive Board shall be followed. Article XII Qualifications for Officers, Headquarters Representa* fives, Port Agents, Patrolmen and Other Elective Jobs Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a candidate lor, and hold, any office or the job of Headquarters Representative, tore Agent or Patrolman provided: (a) He' has at least three (3) years of seatime in an unlicensed capacity aboard an American-ffag merchant vessel or vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the Union, its sub­ sidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direction, shall count the same as sea time. Union records. Welfare Plan records and/or company records can be used to determine eligibility; aiid (b) He his been a full book member In continuous good sundig In the Union for at least three (3) years immediately prior to is nomination; and (c) He has at least four (4) months of sea time, in an un^Ikeilued capacity, aboard an Americau-fiag merchant vessel or Section 1. Nominations. Except as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full book member may submit his name for nomination for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in person, to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer at headquarters, or sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in care of the SecretaryTreasurer, at the address of headquarters. This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: (a) The name of the candidate. (b) Flis home address and mailing address. (c) His book number. (d) The tirle of the office or other job for Which he is a candi­ date, including the name of the Port in the event the posi­ tion sought is that of Agent or Patrolman. . (e) Proof of citizenship. (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for can­ didates. (g) In the event the'member is on a ship he shall notify tho Credentials Committee what ship he is on. This shall be done also if he ships subsequent to forwarding his aedentials. (h) Annexing a certificate in the fdlowing form, signed and dated by the proposed nominee: Book No..... Signature of member ...r Printed forms of the certificate shall be made available to nomi­ nees. Where a nominee cannot truthfully execute such a certificate, but is, in fact, legally eligible for an office or job by reason of the restoration of civil rights originally revoked by such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of Parole of the United States Department of Justice, he shall, in lieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed statement of the facts of his case together with true copies of the documents supporting his statement. All documents required herein must reach headquarters no earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the election year. The Secretary-Treasurerls charged with the safekeeping of these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Committee upon the latter's request. - Section 2. Credentials Committee. laaoaiT. IMi prejudice to his written ap^al, die applicant may appear in. period before the committee within two days after the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct his application or argut for his quail* fication. ' The committee's report shall be |>repared early enough to allow the applicant to appear before it within die dme set forth in this Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the first regulot meeting after its election. (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case of such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disqualification classification by the Credentials Committee, in which event the one so pre* viously classified shall then be deemed qualified. (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the' qualifi* cations of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively presume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections for candi­ dacy for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, has met all the requirements of Section 1 (a) of Article XII. Section 3. Balloting Procedures. (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, without partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may contain general information and instructive com­ - ments not inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon aplhabetically within each category. The listing of the ports shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most northerly port on the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental United States shall then be added. There shall be allotted write-in space, on each ballot, sufficient to permit each member voting to write in as many names as there are offices and jobs to be voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have. the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so per­ forated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable portion shall also be placed a short statement indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. (b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the SecretaryTreasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the preceding para­ graph and shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers of the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain separate records of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and count the ballots, when received, to insure that the amount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to th« "amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that port. The Port Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer i receipt acknowledging the correctness of the amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or fhall notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the. voting period. In any. event, receipts shall be forwardetl for ballots actually received. ITie Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. TJiis file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspec­ tion of the same at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer. (c) Balloting shall take place, in person, at port offices, and shall be secret. No signatures of any voter, or other distinguishing n\ark, shall appear on the ballot, except that any member may write in the name or names of any member or members, as appro­ priate, for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (d) Only full book members may vote. However, immediately prior thereto they must present their books to the Polls Comrnittee of the port in •which they are voting. The voter's book numbef shall be placed upon the roster sheet (which shall be kept in duplicate) in the space opposite the proper ballot number, and the member shall sign his name. The portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed shall then be removed, placed neat the roster sheet, and the member shall proceed to the voting sitt with the ballot. An appropriate notation of the date and of the fact of voting shall be'^laced in the member's Union book. (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the establishment of a booth or other voting site where each member may vote ia privacy. (f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold the ballot 80 that no part of the printed or written portion is visible. H« shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted ballot box, which shall be provided for that purpose by the Port Agent and kept locked and sealed except as hereinafter set forth. (g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of the electlofl year and shall continue through December 31st, exclusive of Sun­ days and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recognized In the city in which the port affected is located. If November 1st or December 31st falls on a holiday legally recognized in a port in the city in which that port is located, the balloting period in such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on th« next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, voting in all ports shall coinmence at 9:00 A.M., and continue until 5:00 P.M.. except that, oh Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 A.M. and continue until 12 noon. (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regular meeting in August of the election year, at the port where head­ quarters is located. It shall consist of six full book members id attendance at the meeting, with two members to be elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards Departments. No Officer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or candi­ date for office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for'election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable to serve, the committee shall suspend until the President or Executive Vice President, or the SecretaryTreasurer, in that order, calls a sp'ecial meeting at the port where Headquarters is located in order to elect a replacement. The Com­ mittees results shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a majority vote of the membership at a special meeting called for that purpose at that Port. (b) After its election, the Committee shall Immediately go into session. It shall determine whether the person has submitted his application correctly and possesses the necessary qualifications, lihe Committee Shall prepare a report listing each applicant and his book number under the office or job he is seeking. Each appli­ cant shall be marked "qualified" or "disqualified" according to the Section 4. Polls Commitfoet. findings of the Committee. Where an applicant, has been marked (a) Each port shall elect, prior to the beginning of the voting "disqualified", the reason therefor must be stated in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a special meeting of the on each voting day, a Polls Committee, consisting of three full membership, that fact shall also be noted, with sufficient detail. book members none of whom shall be a candidate, officer or ea •The report shall be signed by all of the-Committee members, and elected or appointed job holder. For the purpose of holding « be completed and submitted to the Ports in time for the next meeting for the election of a Polls Committee only, and notwith­ regular meeting after their election. At this meeting, it shall standing the provisibns of Article XXIII, Section 2, or any othet be read, and incorporated in the minutes, and then posted on the provision of this Constitution, five (5) members shall constitute a quorum for each porr, with the said meeting to be held between bulletin board in each port. 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. with no notice thereof required. It shall On the last day of nominations, one member of the Committee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of credentials. be the obligation of each member wishing to serve on a Polls Com-' All credentials must be in headquarters by midnight of closing day. mittee, .or to observe the election thereof, to be present during (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the conunit- this time- period. It shall be the responsibility of the Port Agent tee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram at the addresses to see that the meeting for the purpose of electing the said Polls listed by him pursuant to Section 1 of this Article. He shall also Committee is called, and that the minutes of the said meeting are be sent a letter containing the reasons for such disqualification by sent daily to the Secretary-Treasurer. In no case shall voting take air mail, special delivery, registered, to the mailing address desig­ place unless a duly elected Polls'Committee is functioning. (b) The duly elected Polls Committee shall collect all unused nated pursuant to Section 1 (b) of.this Article. A disqualified appli­ cant shall have the right to take an appea.l to the membership ballots, tlie voting rosters, the numbered stubs of those ballots from the decision of the committee. He shall forward copiel of such already used, the ballot box or boxes and the ballot records and appeal to each port, where the appeal shall be presented «nd files kept by the Porf Agent. It shall then proceed to compare the voted upon at a regular meeting no later than the second meeting serial numbers and amounts of stubs with the number of namesafter the committee's election, it is the responsibility of the appli­ •nd corresponding serial numbers on the roster, and then compart cant to insure timely delivery of bis appeal. In any event, without the serial number and amounts of ballots used with the verifies- �• . '• lanury. IMI lilt, M colrwieJ, iai ascertain •whedier Ae nnnsed ballots, Krial numbers and amount, represent the di£ference between nrhat appears on the verihication list, at corrected, and the ballots psied. It any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon slwll be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such discrepancies, which ;eport shall be in duplicate^ and signed by all the members of such Jolls Committee. Each member of the Committee may make what separate comments thereon he desires, provided they are signed and dated by him, A copy of this report shall be given the Port Agent, to be presented at the next regular meeting. A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith. The results of such investigation shall be repotted to the membership as soon as com­ pleted, with recommendations by the Secretary-Treasurer. A ma­ jority vote of the membership shall determine what action, if any, •hall be taken thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Constitution, the Executive Board shall not make •ny determination in these matters. (c) The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box is locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall not be opened except in the manner hereinafter set foith. The same procedure as is set forth in the preceding paragraph with regard to discrepancies ihall be utilized in the event the Polls Committee has reason to believe the lock and seal have been illegally tampered with, (d) The Polls Committee shall permit full book members only , to vote. Prior thereto, it shall stamp their book with the word "voted" and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure that proper registration on the roster takes place, colled stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preserve good order and decorum at the voting site and vicinity thereof. All members and others affiliated with the Union are charged with the duty of assisting the Polls Committee, when called upon, in the preservation of order and decorum. (c) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of the bailor, and to eliminate the possibility of errors or irregularities in any one day's balloting affecting all the balloting in any port, the following procedure shall be observed: At the end of each day's voting, the Polls Committee, in the presence of any member desiring to attend, provided he observes proper decorum, shall open the ballot box or boxes, and place all of that day's ballots therein in an envelope, as required, which shall then be sealed. The members of the Polls Committee shall there­ upon sign their names across the flap of the said envelope or enve­ lopes, with their book numbers next to their signatures. The committee shall also place the date and name of the Port on the said envelopes, and shall certify, on the envelope or envelopes, that the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that day only were removed, and that all of those ballots are enclosed In the envelope or envelopes dated for that day and voted in that Port. The Polls Committee shall check the rosters, and any other records they deem appropriate, to insure the foregoing. At the discretion of the Executive Board, official envelopes may be pre­ pared for the purpose of enclosing the ballots and the making of the aforesaid certification, with wording embodying the fore­ going inscribed thereon, in which event these envelopes shall be used by the Polls Committee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained herein shall prevent iny member of a Polls Committee from adding such comments to the certificate as are appropriate, provided tlie comments are signed and dated by the member making them. The envelope or envelopes shall then be placed in a wrapper or envelope, which, at the discretion of the Executive Board, may be furnished for that purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then be securely sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or registered mail, by the said Polls Committee, to the depository named in the pre-election report adopted by the membership. The Polls Committee shall not be discharged from its duties until this mailing is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept In the Port Agent's election records or files. The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box or boxes ore locked and sealed before handing them back to the Port Agent, tind shall place the key or keys to the boxes in an envelope, across die flap of which the members of the committee shall sign their names, book numbers, and the date, after sealing the envelope securely. In addition to delivering the key and ballot box or boxes M aforesaid, the Polls Committee shall deliver to the Port Agent one copy of each of the roster sheets for the day, the unused ballots, nny reports called for by this Section 4, any files that they, may have received, and all the stubs collected both for the day and those turned over to it. The Port Agent shall be responsible for the proiper safeguarding of all the aforesaid material, shall not release •ny of it until duly called for, and shall insure that no one illegally tampers with the material placed in his custody. The remaining Oopy of each roster sheet used for the day shall be mailed by the polls Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer, by certified or regis­ tered mail or delivered in person. (f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without comnetnsation, except that the Port Agent shall tompensaie each Polls _jmmittee member with a reasonable sum for meals while serving Coi or provide meals in lieu of cash. Saelion S. Ballot Collection, Tallying Procedure, Proteils, and Special Votes. (a) On the day the balloting in each port is to terminate, the Polls Committee elected for that day shall, in addition to their other duties hereinbefore set forth, deliver to headquarters, or mail to headquarters (by certified or registered mail), all the unused ballots, together with a certification, signed and dated by all members of the Committee that all ballots sent to the port and not used are enclosed therewith, subject to the right of each member of the Committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The certification shall specifically identify, by serial number end amount, the unused'ballots so forwarded. In the same package, but bound separately, the committee shall forward to headquarters all stubs collected during the period of voting, together with a certification, signed by all members of the committee, that all the atubs collected by the committee are enclosed therewith subject to the right of each member of the committee to make separate com­ ments under his signature and date. The said Polls Committee members shall not be discharged from their duties until the for.warding called for hereunder is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. (b) All forwarding to headquarters called for under this Section 3, shall be to the Union Tallying Committee, at the address of headquarters. In the event a Polls Committee cannot be elected or cannot act on the day the balloting in each Port is to terminate, , the Port Agent shall have the duty to forward the material specifi­ cally set forth in Section 3(a) (unused ballOt3 nH d stubs) to tho Union Tallying Committee, which will then carry out the functions in regard thereto of the said Polls Committee. In such event, the Port Agent shall also forward all other material deemed necessary by the Union Tallying Committee to execute those functions. SEAFARERS LOG Ail certifications called for under diis Article XIII shall be deemed made according to the best knowledge, and belief of those required to make such certification. (c) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, and Detroit. The election shall be held at the re^iar meeting in December of the election, year, or if the Executive Board other­ wise determines prior thereto, at a special meeting held in the aforesaid ports on the first business day of the last week of said month. No Officer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Pa­ trolman, or capdidate for office, or the job of Headquarters Rep­ resentative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties hereinbefore set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete acoounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall be permitted access to the election records and files of all ports, which they may require to be forwarded for inspection at its discretion. The report shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered, and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these dis­ crepancies. All members of , the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. The Tallying Committee is also charged with the receipt and evaluation of written protests by any member who claims an illegal denial of the right to vote. If it finds the protests invalid, it shall dismiss the protest and so inform the protesting member, by wire, on the day of dismissal. If it finds the protest valid, the committee shall order a special vote, to be had no later than within the period of its proceedings, on such terms as are practical, effective, and just, but which terms, in any event, shall include the provisions of Section 3(c) of this Article and the designation of the voting site of the port most convenient to the protesting member. Where a special Vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5(c), these terms shall apply, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary ay be made only. in writing _ contained in this Article. Protests may and must be received by the Union Tallying Committee during the period of its proceedings. The reports of this committee shall include a brief summary of each protest received, the name and book number of the protesting member, and a summary of the disposition of the said protest. The committee shall take all reason­ able measures to adjust the course of its proceedings so as to enable the special vote set forth in this Section 5(c) to be com­ pleted within the time herein specified. No closing report shall be made by it unless and until the special votes referred to in this Section 5(c) shall have been duly completed and tallied. (d) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall prtv ceed to the port in which headquarters is located, as soon as possi­ ble after their election but, in any event, shall arrive at that port prior to the first business day after December 31 of the election year. Each member of the committee not elected from the port in which headquarters is located shall be reimbursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expense occasioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. All members of the committee shall also be paid at the prevailing standby rate of pay from the day subse­ quent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the Port from which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Con­ stitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in attendance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository imme­ diately after the termination of balloting and to insure their safe custody during the course of-the committee's proceedings. The proceedings of this committee, except for the actual preparation, of the closing report and dissents therefrom, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes decorum. In no event, shall the issuance of the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the Tallying Committee be delayed beyond the January 15 th immedi­ ately subsequent to the close of voting. The Union Tallying Com­ mittee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its reports as required in this Article. In the event a recheck and recount is ordered pursuant to Section 5(g) of this Article, the committee shall be reconstituted except that if any member thereof.is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port, at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (e) The report of the Committee shall be made up in sufficient copies to comply with the following requirements: two copies shall be sent by the committee to each Port Agent and the SecretaryTreasurer prior to the first regular meeting scheduled to take place subsequent to the close of the committee's proceedings or, m the event such meeting is scheduled to take place four days or , less from the close of this committee's proceedings, then at least five days prior to the next .regular meeting. Whichever meeting applies shall be designated, by date, in the. report and shall be referred to as the" "Election Report Meeting." As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner. Iffiis copy shall be kept posted for a period of two months. At the Election Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be taken up the discrepancies, if any, referred to in Section 5(c) of this Article and the recommendations of the Tallying Committee submitted therewith. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accordance with the Constinition, shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the membership, at the Election Rpeort Meeting, may order a recheck and a recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three or more members, of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the con­ tingencies provided for in this Section 5(f) the closing report shall be accepted as final. (g) A special vote ordered pursuanr to Seciton 5(f) must take place and be completed within seven (7) days after the Election jRcport Meeting, at each port where the discrepancies so acted upon took place. Subject to the foregoing, and to the limits of the vote sec by the membership, as aforesaid, the Port Agents in each such port shall have the funuions of the Tallying Committee as set forth in Section 5(c), insofar as that Section deals with the Bi9Pi«ncBt—PiW« Ffv* terms of such special vote. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make • sufficient amount of the usual balloting material Immediately avail* able to Port'Agents, for the purpose of such special vote. Imme­ diately after the close thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the results and communicate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining to the special vote shall be forwarded to the Secretary-Traesurer, all in the same package, but bound separately, by the most rapid means practicable, but, in any case, so as to reach the Secretary-Treasurer in time to enable him to prepare his report as required by this Section 5(g). An accounting and certification, made by the Port Agent, similar to those required of Polls Committees, shall be enclosed therewith. The Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare z report containing a combined summary of the results, together with a schedule indicating in detail how they affect the Union Tallying Committee's results,, as set forth in its closing report. The form of the latter's report shall be followed as closely as possible. Two (2) copies shall be sent to each port, one copy of which shall be posted. The other copy shall be presented at the next regular meeting after the Election Report Meeting. If a majority vote of the membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's report, the numerical results set forth in the pertinent segments of the Tally­ ing Committee's closing report shall be deemed accepted and final without modification. If ordered, a recheck atjjl recount, and the report thereon by the Union Tallying Committee, shall be similarly disposed of and deemed accepted and final, by majority vote of the membership at the regular meeting following the Election Report Meeting, If such rechcck and recqunt is ordered, the Union "Tallying Com­ mittee shall be required to continue its proceedings correspondingly. Section 6. Installation into office and the Job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determina­ tions shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Eleaion Report Meeting, or tho next regular meeting, depending upon which meeting the results -as to each of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as pro­ vided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary cont^^ined in Article XI, Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candidate cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the_ failure of the newly-elected President to assume office the provisions of Article X, Section 2, as to succession shall apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. SaOion 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. Article XIV Other Elections Section 1. Trial Committee. A Trial Committee shall be elected at a special meeting held at 10:00 A.M., the next business day following the regular meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take place. It shall consist of five full book members, of which three shall constitute a quorum. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Port Patrolman, or other Union personnel may be electd to serve on a Trial Com­ mittee. No member who intends to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any member who cannot, for any reason, render an honest decision. It shall be the duty of every member to decline nomination if he knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing disqualifications apply to him. The members of this committee shall be elected under such generally applicable rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the membership. Section 2. Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven full book members, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at the port where headquarters is located. The same disqualifications and duties of members shall apply with regard to this committee as apply to the Trial (Committee. In addition, no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearing of an appeal from a Trial Committee decision, if the said member was a member of the Trial Committee. Section 3. Delegates. As soon as the President is advised as to the date and duly authorized number of delegates to the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America, he shall communicate such • facts to the Port Agent of each Port, together with recommendations as to generally applicable rules for the election of delegates. These facts and recommendations shall be announced and read at the first regular meeting thereafter. Unless changed by a majority vote of the membership during that meeting, the election rules shall apply. These rules shall not prohibit any full book member from nominating himself. The results of the election shall be communi­ cated to each Port Agent, posted on the bulletin board, and an­ nounced at the next regular meeting of the Port. Rules of election hereunder may include provisions for automatic eleaion of all qualified nominees, in the event the number of such nominees does not exceed the number of delegates to be elected. Article XV Trials and Appeals^ Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any other member for the commission of an offense as set forth in this Constimtion. These charges shall be in writing and signed by the accuser, who shall also include his book number. The accuser shall deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the port nearest the place of the offense, or die port of pay-off, if the offense took place aboard ship. He shall also request the Port Agent to present these chrrgei at the next regular meeting, llie accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting takes place. �... •opiritH <i SEAFARERS If t«ctieii S. After presentation of Ae charges and die request to evidence to lupMrt sudi • finding and. In tuch cas^ die Appeals (c)' Misconduct during any meeting or cAer official Voloa the Fort Aieot^ the PbR A#tat shdt CMM* tiknae dMnn to be seed Cn—irtii slid mot aaake km owe fjedw^ ae to ike veiikt of oc bciagjacUaioa mta bf caadiHt aot pcovided IOC chevhen la Ais AKITUJ * er die said meeting. If the diarges are tweeted br * majochr eoec or the |>ott, ao , (b) In no event shall increased pamshsMat be wnmiaraded. (d> Refnsal or ncgl^enr faihu* lo cany oat ecdm of Aow liirdier actkn aur be ^en tfaenoa, naless ruled otfaenrise by e Ally authorized ID piaka soch ordeo at aay ttmai. (c> A new trial diaE be lernmrnendcd if die Appeals Cooimittea niajority Tooe of the memberdiip of the Uaioa eridiia 90 (a) that any aeiBbct of dw Trial Committes should have Sactlea 4. Upon pcoof of the commlssroo of any ofi Aa fisllawlag thereafter. If the charges are accepted, and the accused is pceaeat, fifida disqualified, oe (b) disc die accused was not adetyiately offenses, members shall be penalized up to and inctudina a fina of lie shall be aatomaticallx on notice that he will be tried dm fol> beta infocmed of die details of tbe chai^ odense, which resulted in lowing morning. At his request, die trial shall be postponed until his not faavitijc been given a fair trial, or (c) that foe any other 130.00; (a) Refusal or wilful failure to be present at sign-oos ot pay-offiit I the morning following the next regnlar meeting, at which rime die reason, die accused was noe given a &ic trial. Trial Gxnmlttee will dien be elected. He shall also ba handed a (b> failure to submit Union book to Unioa repecsenta-i (d) If there is not substantial evidence to support a finding of tlves at Wilful written copy of the charges made against himpaj^off; gnilr, die App^s Committee shall recommend diat the charge on If the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall immediatdy (c) Disorderly condua at pay-off or sign-on; cause to be sent to him, by registered mail addressed to his last which the finding was based be dismissed. (d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives In dia« (e) Tlie Appeals Committee may recommend lesser punishment. known mailing address on file with the Union a copy of the charging Aeir duties; charges, the names and book numbers of die accusers, and a noti* Sacdoa 14. The Appeals Commtttee shall deliver its decision and (e) Disorderly condua in the Union hall; fication, that he must appear with his witnesses, ready for ttial the dissent, if any, to hiadquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies morning after the next regular meeting, at which meeting the to be published and shall have them sent to each pott in time to (f> Gambling In the Union hall;Trial Committee will be elected. (g) Negligent failure to join ship. there before the next regular scheduled meeting. Headquarters In the event a majority of the membership of the Union shall reach shall also send a copy to each accused and accuser at thor last Saciioa 5. Any member who has committed an offense penalized •ore to accept charges after their rejection by a port, the ttial sfa^l known address, or notify th^m in person. by no more Aan a fine of $50.00 may elect to waive his rights take place in the Port where Headquarters is located. Due notice dieted shall be given to the accused, who shall be informed of the Section 15. At the meet^ indicated In Section 14 of Ais Article, under this Constitution subject to Ae provisions of Article XV, name of his accusers, and who shall receive a written aatement the membership, by a majority vote, shall accept Ae decision of.Ae Section 19 and to pay tbe maximum fine of $50.00 to the duly , of the charges. At the request of the accused, ttanspottation and Appeals Committee, or the dissent Aerein. If.Aere is no dissent, authorized representative of Ae Union. ' subsisteuce shall be provided the accused and his wimesses. the decision of the Appeals Committee shall stand. Soctioa 4, This Union, and its members, Aall not be deemed to If a new trial is ordered, that trial shall be held in Ae port waive Section 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinent evidence whete any claim, of personal or property tights to which it or its headquarters is located, in the manner provided for in and shall not be bound by the rules of evidence required by courts Section 2 of Ais Aitide. Any diecision so piovidL^ for a new trial members are entitled, by bringing the membu to trial or enforcing of law but may receive all relevant testimony. Thf Trial Committee Aall contain suA directions as will insure a fair hearing to Ae a penalty as provided in Ais Constitution. noay grant adjournments, at the tequest of the accused, to enable accused. Saetfon 7. Any member under suspension for an offense under him to make a proper defense. In the event the Trial Committee Article shall continue to pay all dues and assessments and must Sodion 16. Headquarters shall notify Ae accused and each accuser, Ais falls beneath a quorum, ir shall adjourn until a quorum does exist. observe his duties to Ae Union, members, officials, and job holders. either in person or in writing addressed to their last known Section 4. No uial shall be conducted unless all the accusers are address, of the results of the appeal. A further appeal shall be present. The Trial Committee shall condua tfre trial except that the allowed as set forth in Section 17 of Ais Atticle. Aritd* XVli accused shall have the right to cross-examine the accuser, or accusers, and the witnesses, as well as to conduct his own defense. The accuwd Saction 17. Each member ,is charged wIA knowledge of the pro­ Pubffcations may selea any member to assist him in his defense at the trial, visions of Ae Constitution of the Seafarers International Union provided, (a), the said member is available at the time of the of NocA America, and the tights of, and procedure as to, further This Union may publish suA pamphlets, journals, newspapers, trial and (b) the said member agrees to render such assistance. apped as provided for therein. Decisions reached thereunder shall magazines, periodicals and general literature, in such manner aa If the accused challenges the qualifications of the members of the be binding on all members of the Union. may be determined, from time to time, by Ae Executive Board. Trial Committee, or states that the charges do not adequately inform Sactien 18. It shall be the duty of all members t>f theTInion to kim of what wrong he allegedly committed, or the time and place of such commission,-such matters shall be ruled upon and dis­ take all steps wiAin their constitutional power to carry oat Ae Arlkfo XVIN posed of, prior to proceeding on the merits of the defense. The terms of any effective decisions. Boncts guilt of an accused shall be found only if proven by the weight 19. Every accused shall receive a written copy of Ae of the evidence, and the burden of such proof shall be upm the charges pteferred against him and Aall be given a reasonable time Officers and job holders, whether dlected or appointed as well •censer. Every finding shall be based on the quality of the evidence to prepare his defense, but he may Aereafter plead guilty and all oAer employees handling monies of the Union shall ba _«nd not solely on the number of witnesses produced. - waive any or all of Ae other rights and privileges granted to him as bonded as required by law. Saction 5. The Trial Committee shall make finding as to guilt by this Article. If an accused has been properly notified of his trial and fails to attend wiAout properly requesting a postpone­ or innocence, and recommendations as to punishment and/or other Arh'de XIX Union action deemed desirable in the light of the ptoceedings. These ment, the Trial Committee may hold its trial without his presence. finding and recommendations shall be those of a majority of the Expanditures committee, and shall be in writing, as shall be any dissent. The Artrcie XVI committee shall forward its findings and recommendations, along Saciion 1. In tbe event no contrary policies or instructions are In Offenses and PenalHes with any dissent to the Port Agent of the pott where the trial took existence, the President may auAorize, make, ot incur such ex* place, while a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the accused and pendinues and expenses as are normally encompassed within Aa Section 1. Upon proof the commission of the following offenses, authority conferred upon him. by Article X of this Constitution. the accusers, either in person or by mail addressed to their last known addresses. The findings shall include a statement that the Ae member shall be expelled from membership: Saction 2. The provisions of Section 1 shall similarly apply to (a) Proof of membership in any organization advocating Ae tights of the accused under this Constiration, were properly safe­ Ae routine accounting and administrative procedures of the Union guarded. The findings also must contain the charges made, the date OverArow of Ae Government of the United States by force; except those primarily concerned with trials, appeals, negotiations, of the trial, the name and address of the accused, the accuser, and (b) Acting as an informer a^inst the ititeiest of Ae Union strikes, and elections. each witness; shall describe each document used at the trial; shall or the membetsbip in any organizational campaign; contain a fair summary of the proceedings, and shall state die Soction 3. The provisions of this Atticle shall supersede to the (c) Aaing as an kiformer for, or agent of, the company agamst findings as to guilt or innocence. If possible, all documents used at Ae interests of the membership or Ae Union; extent applicable, tl« provisions of Article X of this Constitution. the trial shall be kept. All findings and recommendations shall be (d) The commission of any act as part of a conspiracy to in^!i«ia' f>art''bf the regular files. destroy Ae Union. ArHcle XX Section 6. The Port Agent of the Port of Trial shall, upon receipt Sectioii 2. Upon proof of the commission of any of Ae following incom* of the findings and recommendations of the Trial Committee, cause the findings and recommendations to be presented, and entered offenses, tlie member Aall be penalizM up to and induAng a SodioH 1. The income of Ais Union shall include dues, initiation penalty of expulsion from Ae Union. In the event the penalty of into the minutes, at the next regular meeting. expulsion is not invoked or recommended, the penalty Aall not fees, fines, assessments, contiibutions, loans, interest, dividends, as Section 7. The Port Agent shall send the record of the entire exceed suspension from the rights and privileges of membership well as income derived from any other legitimate business operation proceedings to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies for more than two (2) years, or a fine of 450.00 or boA: or other legitimate source. thereof to be made and sent to. each Port in time for the next (a) Wilfully misappropriating-or misusing Union property of Soction 2. An official Union receipt, properly filled out, shall ba regularly scheduled meeting. Ae value in excess of $50.00. given to anyone paying money to the .Union or to any person auth­ Saction 8. At the latter meeting, the proceedings shall be dis­ (b) UnauAorized use of Union property, records, stamps, seals, orized by the Union to receive money. It shall be the cfuty of every cussed. The meeting shall then vote. A majority vote of the mem­ etc., for Ae purpose of personal gain; person affiliated wiA Ae Union who makes such payments to bership of the Union shall: (c) Wilful misuse of any office or job, elective or not, wIAin Ae demand such receipt. (a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or Union for the purpose of personal gain, financial or oAetwise, or Soction 3. No assessments shall be levied except after a ballot (b) Reject the findings and recommendations, or Ae wilful refusal or failure to execute the duties or functions conducted under such general rules as may be decided upon by • (c) Accept the findings, but modify the recommendations, or of Ae said office or job, or gross neglect or abuse in executing majority vote of the membership, providro that: or functions or other serious misconduct or breach of (a) The ballot must be secret (d) Order a new trial after finding that substantial justice has such duties The President may, during the pendency of disciplinary not been done with regard to the charges. In this event, a new trust. (h) The assessment must be approved by a majority of Aa under this subsection, suspend the officer or jobholder trial shall take place at the port where headquarters is located proceedings valid ballots cast. from exercising the functions of the office or job, wiA or without and upon application, the accused, the accusers, and their witnesses pay, and designate his temporary replacement. Soction 4. Except as otherwise provided by law, all paymentt shall be furnished transportation and subsistence. (d) UnauAorized voting, or unauthorized handling of ballots, by members or other affiliates of this Union shall be applied suc­ Section 9. After the vote set forth in Seaion 8, any punishment stubs, rosters, verification lists, ballot boxes, or election files, or cessively to the monetary obli/^tions owed the Union commencing (O decided upon shall become effective. Headquarters shall cause election material of any sort; with the oldest in point of time, as measured from the date or notice of the results thereof to be sent to each accused and accuser. (e> Preferting . charges wiA knowledge th^ such charges are accrual of such obligation. The period of arrears Aall be calculated accordingly. Section 10. An accused who has been.found guilty,- or who is -falsr, ^nnder effective punishment,may appeal in the following manner:' (f) Making or transmitting, with intent to deceive, false reports He may. send or deliver a notice of appeal to Headquarters or communications which fall within Ae scope of Union business; Article XXI within 30 days after receipt of .the notice of the decision of .the (g) Deliberate failure or refusal to join one's Aip, or mis­ membership. Other Types of Unten AffUielieii conduct or neglect of duty aboard Aip, to the detriment of Ae Soction II. At the next regular meeting of the pott where Head­ Union or its agreements; To Ae extent permitted by law, Ais Union, by ^jority vota quarters is located, after receipt of the notice of appeal, the notice (h) Deliberate and unauAorized interfereace, ot deliberate and of Ae membership, may provide for affiliation wiA it by individ­ shall be presented.and shall then become part of the minutes. An malicious villificatioa, WiA regard to Ae execution of the duties uals in a lesser capacity than memberAip, or in a capacity cAer Appeals Committee shall jhen be elected. The Vice-President in of any office or job; Aan memberAip. By majority vote of Ae memberAip, Ae Union charge of contracts is charged with the duty of presenting the may provide for Ae rights and obligations incident to such capaci­ (i) Paying for, or receiving money for, employment aboard a before-mentioned proceedings and all available documents used as ties or affiliatiofls. These rights and obligations may include, but^ evidence at the trial to the Appeals Committee, as well as any ves.sel, exclusive of proper earnings and Unioa payments; are not limited to (a) the applicability or nomapplicability of all' (j) Wilful refusal to submit evidence of afiiliation for Ae oc Written statement- or argument submitted by the accused. The any part of Ais Constitution; (b> Ae terms of such affiliation; scoased may argue his appeal in person, if he so desires. The purpose of avoiding or delaying money payments to Ae Union, (c) Ae right of the Union to ];«remptory termination of sucli appeal shall be heard at 'Uaioa Headquarters on the night die or unauAorizedly transferring or receiving evidence of Union affiliation and, (d) Ae fees required lot such affiliation. In no cocomittee is elected. It shall be the responsibility of the accused affiliation, wiA intent to deceive; event may anyone not a -member receive evidence of affiliation to insure that his written statement or argument arrives at head­ (k) Wilful failure or refusal to carry oat the order of those duly equivalent io tbst of members, receive priority or righ^ over quarters in time for such presentation. auAorized to make suA orders during time of strike. members, oc be termed a member. (1) Failure or refusal to pay a fine or assessment within the tioM Section 12. The Appeals Committee shall decide the appeal as soon as possible, consistent with fair consideration of the evidence limit set therefor eiAer by the Constitution or by action taken in Avtkk XXII and arguments before it It may grant adjoutntuen'ts and may accordance with the Cbnstimtion. request the accused or accusers to present arguments, whenever Soeiien 3. Upon proof of the cominissioa of any of Ae foUowitig tmtssatf for audh fair consideration. offenses, members shall be penalized up to aad iiicluidiQg a sus­ SactHM 1. Uabss elsewhere hereia otherwise sperificaUy pttMnded, factbn 11. The, decision of Ae Appeals Cotnmittce shall be by pension from Ae rights and privileges of membership foe two (2) the qaatam for a special OMCtiag of a port shaU he rix ML hook .tBSJofity vote, and shsll he in die form of finding and recommeo- years, or a fine of 15(1.00 ot tioA: datioas. Dissents will be alloweiL^Decisions and dissents shall, be in (a) Wilfully Qf ikuuslsg Unioni pcopetty facilofi 3. The quoron for a cegoJae mseting of • Pott Aatt ha wriciog and signed by tkose partkipatiae in such decision or di.Mewr. of the v^ua under fifty C3B) members. ^ its findlnM and ncommendatioas, the committee (h> Asstmiiw any oflke oc jdb^ wtictlAr eketwe or aoc yriA M jovetnad ^ tbe uBawiagi fiitriiia 8. UakH toAamSat iqyfrificatly sec focA hendn; Aa knowricdge of the hdi ei paiiMiiii at kmi taatifiraiiona ntgakad deciate94 tepotta, mwnmttiiitariBa^ at atfaer luaerioaa of My; («) ^0 findidg of guilt «b*U be te«ttscd if thete it wbMutnl thetefot; �SEAFARERS famaMf, IHt tM of dw UaloB itqalriof • ononuB to «t ofldillf, dull 1)t loriif ol tfaow Tod^ aBd toall aot 1M <dBci«l «( dlhctito I d» qooniffl nqalnnwfiti nn met. S IMHMI 4. Unlcit otfaetwlM ladicttad benlii, «d>ct« die nqaira* menta for a quorum are not ipccifically set forth, a quorum •hall M daoncd to be a majority of diose composing the applicable of the Union. Arriel* XXill Mentings Snppleiiiciit—rmee Seven LOC Artlcl* XXV Amendmsnl* This Constimtion.shall b« amended in die following mannett Sactian 1. Any full book member may submit at any regular meeting of any port proposed amendments to this Constitution in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership of the Port approves it, the proposed amendment shall be forwarded to •11 Ports for further action. faction 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by a ma­ jority vote of the membership, it shall be referred to a Constitutiond Committee in the Port where Headquarters is located. This Committee shall be composed of six full book members, two from each department and shall be elected in accordance with such rules as are established by a majority vole of that Port. The Com­ mittee will act on all proposed amendments referred to it. The Committee may receive whatever advice and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare a report on the amendment together with any proposed changes or substimtions or recommendations and the reasons for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted to the membership by the President. If a majority vote of the membership approves the amendment as recommended, it shall then be voted upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership of the Union by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure outlined in Article XIII, Section 3(b)' through Section 5, except that, unless otherwise required by a majority vote of the membership at the time it gives the approval necessary to put the referendum to a vote, the Union Tallying Committee shall consist of six (6) full book members, two from each of the three (3) departments of the Union, elected from Headquarters Port. The amendment shall either be printed on the ballot, or if too le.ngthy, shall be referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be posted on the bulletin boards of all ports and made avail­ able at Ae voting site in all ports. Section 3. If approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast, the. amendment shall become effective immediately upon notifica­ tion by the Headquarters Tallying Committee to the President that the amendment has been so approved, unless otherwise specified In the amendment. The President shall immediately notify all ports of the results of the vote on the amendment. - iXHisnr A Mfnimaf raquiramants to be contained In Constitutfofi of subordinate bodies and divisions chartered by or affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. I All members shall have equal rights and privileges, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, contained in this Constimtion, faction 1. Regular membership meetings shall be held monthly including secret clecdon, freedom of speech, the right to hold office only in the following major pora at the following times: and the right of secret votes on assessment and dues increases, all firing the week following thy first Sunday of evere month a in accordance with the law. meeting shall be held on Monday—at New York; on Tuesday—at Philadelphia; on Wednesday—at Baltimdlre; and on Friday—at Detroit. During the next week, meetings shall be held on Monday" II at Houston; on Tuesday—at New Orleans and on Wednesday—at No member may be automatically suspended from membership Mobile. All regular membership meetings shall commence at except for non-payment of dues, and all members shall be afforded 2:30 P.M. local time. Where a meeting day falls on a Holiday a fair hearing upon written charges, with a reasonable time to pre-, cflScially designated as such by the authorities of the state or pare defense, when accused of an offense under the Constimtion. municipality in which a port is located, the port meeting shall take place on the following business day, Saturday and Sunday •hall' not be deemed business days. III The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all regular This Union is.chartered by (and/or affiliated with), the Sea­ irieetings in ports in thier respective areas. In the event the Area farers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes Vice Presidents are unable to attend a regular meeting of a port, and Inland Waters District, and this Constimtion and any amend­ •they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, ments thereto', shall not take effect unless and until approved as set to act as chairman of the meetings. forth in the Constitution of that Union. In the event a quorum is not present at 2:30 P.M. the chairman of the meeting at the pertinent port shall postpone the opening df the meeting but in no event later than 3:00 P.M. IV faction 2. A special meeting at a port may be called only at the An object of this Union is, within Its reasonable capacity, to direaion of the Port Agent or Area Vice President. No special promote the welfare of, and assist, the Seafarers International Union meeting may be held, except between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and of North America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Water* i :00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be posted at least two hours District. n advance, on the port bulletin board. The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all special meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area The charter (and/or affiliation) relationship between this Union Vice Presidents are unable to attend a special meeting of a port, and the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall not be dissolved so act as chairmen of the meetings. Article XXVI long as at least ten members of this Union, and the Seafarers The contents of this Section 2 are subject to the provisions of Transition Clause International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Article XllI, Section 4(a). Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board wish to faction 3. Notwithstanding anything to Ae contrary, all regular Section 1. It Is the purpose and Intent of this Article to provide continue such relationship. meetings shall be governed by the following: for an orderly transition from Union operations and activities as governed by the Constimtion in effect prior to the adoption 1, The Union Constitution. VI of this amended Constimtion, to operations and activities conducted 2. Majority vote of the members assembled. In accordance with this amended Constimtion. Accordingly, the No amendment to this Constitution shall be effective unless and following sections are to be given the interpretation required to until approved by at least a two-thirds vote of the membership in a effecmate the foregoing purpose and intent. Article XXIV secret referendum conducted for that purpose. In, any event, the adoption of this Constitution and any amendments thereto, will not Section 2. All routine administrative, accounting, and other similar Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions procedures and processes of this Union, in effect immediately be effective unless and until compliance with Article II of the Relating Thereto prior to the adoption of this amended Constimtion shalt'jse deemed -- Constimtion of the Seafarers International Union of North America .•—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District is first made. faction 1. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with to be permitted heruender and shall continue in effect unless or until changed, in accordance with the provisions hereof. herein, the term "incapacity," shall mean any illness or situation Vii preventing the affected person from carrying out his duties for more Section 3. All methods and means, of collecting and disbursing than 30 days, provided that this does not result in a vacancy. Union funds, all segregations of Union funds, rules of order The Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, However, nothing contained in this Article shall be deemed to generally followed, bonding procedures, reinstatement procedures, Gulf, Lakes and Inland 'Waters District shall have the right to prohibit the execution of the funrtions of more than one job and any other practices or procedure, in effect immediately prior check, inspect and make copies of all the books and records of this and/or office in which event no incapacity shall be deemed to to the ad6ption of this amended Constimtion, shall be deemed Union upon demand. exist with regard to the regular job or office of the one taking over to be permitted hereunder, and shall continue in effect unless or the duties and functions of the one incapacitated. The period of until changed in accordance witli the provisions hereof.VIII incapacity shall be the time during which the circumstances exist. Section 4. All Union policies, customs, and usage, including those This Union shall not take any aaion which will have the effect faction 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein, the with regard to admission into membership, in effect immediately term "vacancy" shall include failure to perform the functions of any prior to the adoption of this amended Constitution, shall be deemed of reducing its net assets, calculated through recognized accounting office or job by reason of death, or resignation, or suspension from to be permitted hereunder and shall continue in effect unless or procedures, below the amount of its indebtedness to the Seafarers International Union of North America^—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and membership or expulsion frpm the Union with no further right to until changed in accordance with the-provisions hereof. Inland Waters District, unless approved by that Union through its appeal in accordance with the provisions of Article XV, of this Section 5. All officers and other jobl^olders elected as a result of Executive Board. Constimtion. the balloting held by this Union during November and December faction 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole the term, of 1958, who are serving at the time of the adoption of this iX "majority vote of the membership", shall mean the majority of all amended Constimtion, shall continue to serve, without reduction the valid votes cast by full book members at an official meeting of in salary, in the office most closely related to the one held prior to So long as there exists any indebtedness by this Union to tha those ports holding a meeting. This definition shall prevail not­ that adoption, and for a term not to exceed that for which he Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, withstanding that one or more ports cannot hold meetings because was eleaed in the balloting held in 1958. For this purpose the Lakes and Inland Waters District, that Union shall have the right of no quorum. For the purpose of this Section, the term "meeting" following table sets out the new office and job, the present nearest to appoint a representative or representatives to this Union who 'ahall refer to those meetings to be held during the time period equivalent in terms of functions presently performed, and the shall have the power to attend all meetings of this Union, or its within which a vote must be taken in actTordance with the Con­ identity of'the person occupying it. The adoption of this amended sub-divisions, or governing boards, if any; and who shall have stitution and the custom and usage of the Union in the indicated Constimtion shall constimte ratification of this table. access to all books and records of this Union on demand. This priority. representative, or these representatives, shall be charged with the Old Title . Individual IJew Title duty of assisting this Union and its membership, and acting as a • faction 4. When applicable solely to port action and not con­ Secretary-Treasurer PAUL HALL liaison between the Seafarers International Union of North America cerned with, or related to, the Union as a whole, and not forming President —Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District and this Union. part of a Union-wide vote, the term, "majority vote of the mem­ Executive Assistant Secretarybership", shall refer to the^ajority of the valid votes cast by the Vice-President Treasuret CAL TANNER full book members at any meeting of the Port, regular or special. Vice-President in . faction 5. The term, "membership action", or reference thereto, charge of Contracts So long as any unpaid per capita tax, or any other indebtedness •hall mean the same as the term "majority vote of the membership". and Contract Assistant Secretaryof any sort, is owed by ffiis Union to the Seafarers International Treasurer CLAUDE SIMMONS faction 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the holder Enforcement Union of North America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Distrirt, such indebtedness shall constimte a first lien on the assets thereof, is set forth in this Constitution, all references thereto and Vice-President la of this Union, -which lien shall not be impaired without the writtea the provisions concerned therewith shall be deemed to be equally * charge of the Assistant Secretaryapplicable to whomever is duly acting in such office or job. Treasurer^ approval of the Seafarers International Union of North America—• EARL SHEPPARD Atlantic Coast Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District aaing through faction 7. The term "Flection Year" shall be deemed to mean . Vice-President in its Executive Board. that calendar year prior to the calendar year in which elected offi­ charge of the Assistant SecretaryTreasurer cials and' other elected job-holders are required to assume office. Gulf Coast liNDSEY WILLIAMS XI The first election year hereunder shall be deemed to be I960. Boston Port Agent Vice-President in The per capita tax payable by this Union to the Seafarers Inter­ faction 8. The terms, "this Constitution", and "this amended charge of the Lakes and Administrative national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Constitution", shall be deemed to have the same meaning and shall and Inland Waters Direaor of Great AL TANNER Inland Waters District shall be that which is fixed in accordance refer to the Constitution which takes the place of the one adopted Lakes District •with the terms of the Constimtion of that Union. by the Union in 1939, as amended up through August, 1956. (To be filled by the faction 9. The term, "member in good standing", shall mean a President in accord­ XII jncmber whose monetary obligations to the Union are- not in arrears ance with Constim­ for thirty days or more, or who is not under suspension or expul­ Seaetary-Treasu ret tion) VACANCY This Constimtion and actions by this Union pursuant thereto sion effective in accordance with this Constitution. Unless other­ are subject to those provisions of the Constimtion of the Seafarers Assistant SecretaryHeadquarters wise expressly indicated, the term, "member", shall mean a member International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Treasurer BILL HALL Representative in good standing. Inland Waters District pertaining to affiliation, disaffiliation, trustee­ Assistant SecretaryHeadquarters ships, and the granting and removal of chaiters. faction 10. Unless plainly otherwise required by the context of Treasurer ED MOONEY their use, the terms. "Union btxjk", "membership book", and "book", Representative Assistant Secretaryshall mean official evidence of Union membershijp. Headquarters XIII Treasurer JOB VOLPIAN Representative faction 11. The term "full book" or "full Union book" shall mean This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers International only an official certificate issued as evidence of Union membership Since no elected officer or jobholder currently performs the Union of North America through the Seafarers International Union which, can be attained oisly by those members who have first funrtions of the new office of Secretary-Treasurer, that office shall of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ acquired the highest seniority racing set forth in the standard be filled by the President pursuant to Article X, Seaion. l(j) of trict. It shall share in, and participate as part of, the delegation of collective bargaining agreement. this Constimtion. From the date of the adoption of this Constim­ that District to the Convention of the Seafarers International Union fectien 12. The term, "full book member", shall mean s inember tion, the officers, as. above described, shall execute the powers and of North America in accordance with the provisions of the Con­ to whom a full book has been duly issued and who is entitled to functions, and assume the responsibilities of the said offices as stt stimtion of the Seafarers International Union of North AmericaAtlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. io:th in tlr-is Constimtioo. tetain it in accordance with (lie provisions of tin's Constitution. 5 �,, - 1". ^ , •^!^.^-,t-^~-,, , •,•-,'•(• •- 7 -•• v: ;,. -. 'V'': _ .•'o'.'-'' • If rf .f I. .. -Vi? I I <• ,v • lyiJifil • •-' I ::V^#: ^!JV ;.| EFE/ey SEAFARER IS GUARANTEED • Protection of the rights and privileges guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. • The right to vote, ^ The right to nominate himself for, and to hold, any office in the Union. • That every official of the Uniotr shall be hound to uphold and protect the rights of every member and that in no case shall any member be deprived of his rights and privileges as a member without due process of the law of the Union. • The right to be confronted by his accuser and to be given a fair trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union members if he should be charged with conduct detrimental to the welfare of Seafarers banded together in this Union. ^ The righrto express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. ^ The assurance that his brother Seafarers will stand with him in defense of the democratic prin­ ciples set forth in the Constitution of the Union* /. ;i / ' ^ »f"-:' \ , iS:' i" • ' i {J.i • Itr'V' • ^ ^ • ' - n W• 1''!;; .. '} . • 'vi: •* Is •* 120 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource January 1962 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NEW SIU PLAN ASSURES MILK ON ALL TRIPS US SEA UNIONS SET GLOBAL UNIT RALLY WORLD LABOR DRIVE ON RUNAWAYS SIU, MEBA DEMAND PROBE ON CHARTERS HALL IN HOUSTON READY TO OPEN BY NEXT MONTH SIU CLINIC EXPANDED TO PHILA. MTD SETS UP NEW GLOBAL BODY PHS, FOREIGN AID RISE ONLY GAIN IN NEW BUDGET SHIPPING-WHEAT COMBINE BROADENS RUNAWAY DRIVE SIU CREWS TWO MORE GRAIN SHIPS SHIPBUILING AID SLASHED AS AUTOMATION GETS PUSH NEW ORDER TIGHTENS ’50-50’ CARGO RULES UNION WINS MAJOR GAINS IN HIGHWAY TRAILER PACT SEE BIG HARBORS, CANAL VIA CONTROLLED A-TESTS SIU CLINIC PROGRAM SET FOR PHILADELPHIA STARTING FEBRUARY 1 US TAX DEADLINE COMING – LOG ALL EXTRA INCOME SIU CONSTITUTION 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 01/1962 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. XXIV, No. 1 1962 Periodicals Seafarers Log