http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/4003e7a778a4ed633f771b83ca9f4dc0.PDF d07d707df6d17d8877d40806bc20ca63 PDF Text Text SBAFARERS^Ie^LOG ^^FIOIAL OH^A'N OF THI tlAFARIHt iNTIRNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, OULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL>CIO THE UPPER LARES tHSPUTE m SlU DEMANDS US PROBE AIR FORCE TRANSFER OF MISSILE SHIP CONTRACT Story on Page 2 Board of Inquiry's Report to Secretary of Labor 3,200-Member Croup Affiliates With SIUNA -Story on Page 3 SIUNA Statement to the Board of Inquiry Supplement in Centerfold MTD Unions Set Drive To End Bridges' Raids • Story on Page 8 �Page Two I 1 SEAFARERS SlU URGES US PROBE TRANSFER OF MISSILE PACT TO HIGH BIDDER LOG INDEX To Departments! SIU Food, Ship SonltotloB Dep't -^Pago 41 The SlU has called for an immediate invesptigation of the arbitrary manner in which the Air Force switched the mis­ sile tracking contract from the SlU-contracted Suwannee Steamship Company to a New • York firm headed by former safeguards governing crew per­ high Air Force and Defense sonnel employed in this vital op­ eration. Department officials. In telegrams to President • The ridiculously higher costs which the nation would have to Kennedy, Defense Secretary pay Marine Transport to carry out AOfiHt, 1961 Independent Oil Union Affiliates With SlUNA BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—The membership of a major in­ dependent union in the California oil producing and refining Tht PaeHk Coast Sooforer Industry haa voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the —Pago 6 j Seafarers International Union of North America. The de­ would be best served through A&G Deep Seo Shipping cision of the 3,200-member SlUNA affiliation. Report —Page International Union of Petroleum Workers was announced here by I the union's president, L. P. Taylor. The Independent union is a longestablished organization in the The Fisherman and Southern California oil industry. Cannery Worker Page 8 i In recent months, Taylor said, the group has been under strong presI sure from both Harry Bridges, The ConcMion Secrfarer —Page 9 '! president .yf the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse­ Editorial Cartoon—Page il; men's Union, and James Holla, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The SiU industrial Worker Hoffa and Bridges have a work­ —Page 14 i ing alliance in operation on the West Coast and have been threat­ The SiU Inland Boatman —Page 15 i ening to raid and destroy the petroleum workers If they refused SIU Medical Department to surrender their Jurisdiction. —Page 15] Consequently, the union sought a relationship which would pro­ SIU Safety Department tect Its autonomy and offer it the —Page 16: support and assistance of a strong, established AFL-CIO union. Since SIU Social Security Dep't the SlUNA, through its various —Page 17 i West Coast affiliates, has a strong base In that area as well as a Shipboard News record of firm opposition to —Pages 19, 20, 21, 22 j Bridges and Hoffa, the Petroleum Workers decided their interests The Great Lakes Seafarer —Pago Members of the petroleum union voted by a 4-1 margin in favor of SlUNA affiliation.- They work in the California oilfields pri­ marily and in Utah and Alaska. The acquisition brings the meipbership of the SlUNA well up near the 80,000 mark. McNamara, Air Force Secretary Zuckert and key Congressional the same function performed so committees. SIU President Paul satisfactorily for the past five Hall said that the transfer from years by Suwannee would be in­ Suwannee, which had received creased by the extra transitional expenses which the government commendations for its operation of would incur in changing over the the eight ships involved over the operation from Suwannee to past five years, to Marine Trans­ port Lines, despite the fact that Marine Transport. • Following a conference on the latter company's bid was 65 August 28 with Air Force officials. per cent higher, "indicates a con­ Senator Spessard Holland and NEW YORK—A new three-man tempt for the national interest. Representative Charles Bennett panel has been named to assist in Hall said "the fact that Marine registered strong protest with the resolving the dispute over the Transport is headed by H. Lee Air Force, have challenged the manning of railroad marine craft White, a former Air Force Secre­ basis for its determination and in this harbor. Unsettled issues In­ tary. and Roger Keyes, a former volving the jobs of SIU Railway Assistant Defense Secretary, puts have indicated the need to upset the decision. Marine Region tugmen and mem­ additional responsibility on the Hall said the missile tracking bers of two other unions led to Government to make certain that operation should "not be maneu­ strike action 20 months ago and the operation of Governmentvered to serve as a source of un­ are still pending. owned missile tracking ships is In the latest action, US Secretary completely free of any political necessary profit to individuals, nor of Labor Gdldberg, New York Gov­ considerations, evidence of influ­ to allow influence to by-pass due process and observance of proper ernor Rockefeller and Mayor Wag­ ence and questionable procedures procedure." ner have appointed three officials in awarding of vital contracts." to sit in with the unions and the Additional facts that were cited railroads in seeking to unknot the by the SlU president as "sufficient AFL-CIO Upholds Ruling On Robin Line manning question. The three men evidence of the need for prompt named are James Reynolds, As­ action to uncover the purposes be­ sistant Secretary of Labor; Joseph hind the Air Force decision," were Finnegan, chairman of the New as follows: York State Mediation Board, and • Marine Transport was award­ An AFL-CIO Executive Council subcommittee has affirmed a ruling by the impartial Harold Felix, City Labor Com­ ed the sub-contract despite the fact that its bid was 63% higher umpire of the Internal Disputes Plan that the National Maritime Union violated the Fed­ missioner. The panel is trying to work out than Suwannee's bid. eration constitution in its attempted raid on SlU-contracted Robin Line ships. a solution on the basis of a report • Bids closed on June 28 and, The NMU had appealed the^ despite the obvious need for cau­ umpire's decision to the Ex­ decision to the labor board In the impartial umpire. The AFL- issued by the White House-appoint­ ed Railroad Marine Workers Com­ tious. careful study, the announce­ Washington. The NLRB has yet CIO said that 84 of the 100 cases ment of the award to Marine ecutive Council, which sub­ to announce its ruling on the ap­ had been resolved through media­ mission this past June. Over the strong dissent of the unions, in­ Transport was made on June 29. mitted it to a subcommittee con­ peal. sisting of AFL-CIO president tion and by mutual agreement cluding the RMR, the Marine En­ • Suwanee has been commended George Meaney and vice-presi­ The AFL-CIO has reported sep- without the necessity for a hear­ gineers Beneficial Association and for the efficient manner in which dents James A. Suffridge, pres­ ately that out of 100 cases filed un­ ing or a determination by the im­ the Masters, Mates & Pilots, the it operated the eight missile track­ Commision recommended that the ing ships, including the main­ ident of the Retail Clerks In­ der the Internal Dispute Plan In its partial umpire, David L. Cole. Fifteen the 100 cases are railroads be given the right to cut tenance of stable and uninterrupt­ ternational Association, and Joseph first seven months of existence, ed labor relations, and security A. Beirne, president of the Com­ only ten cases involving violation now pending before the umpire or Jobs. munications Workers of America. of the constitution were found by are awaiting a determination. The Labor Secretary, the Gov­ The subcommittee disallowed the ernor and the Mayor originally as­ NMU appeal and affirmed the rul­ sisted in bringing about the settle­ Three members of the SIU ing by the impartial umpire that ment of the ten-day strike in Janu­ the NMU was guilty of raiding. ary, 1961. Most of the Issues except Quarterly Financial Com­ for the manning question that led Previously, the National Labor mittee looking over head­ to the strike have now been re­ Relations Board's regional director quarters accounting oper­ solved and meetings are continuing in New York dismissed an NMU ations (l-r) are Hoyd on the basic Job security issue. petition for a representation elec­ PcKivy of Mobile, John WASHINGTON—Ignoring Uhe fact that unemployment tion aboard vessels of the MooreShannon, Philadelphia, and McCormack—Robin Line as a unit. benefits have already been exhaused or will shortly run out Warren Messenger, Balti­ However, the NMU appealed this for almost a million jobless workers, the House Ways and more. Means Committee has reject--*ed a proposal to extend state tributed much-needed support to the family. benefits imder Federal aus­ In addition to those who voted pices for an additional 13 weeks. against the proposal on the "failed The committee vote was 13-12 to make a good case" basis, many against the measure, with one lone business groups and state unem­ vote making the difference. Op­ ployment officials testified against the measure, claiming that It was Out of the 64 vessels represent­ ponents of the bill said "the Ad­ a step toward Federal takeover ing 18 nations that made maiden ministration hal failed to make "a of the state unemployment com­ voyages into the Port of New York good case" for passage. pensation program. The Jobless, during the first six months of 1962, Last month, witnesses before the meanwhile, will have to try to get the US built only five. Information based on maiden ar­ House tax group related the plight along on their own. rivals in the harbor brought the of more than a million workers plight of the US shipbuilding in­ who have been unemployed for 16 dustry into sharp focus. weeks and an additional 600,000 Although one of the US-flag ships to arrive in New York was who have failed to find Jobs for Seafarers overseas who want the largest merchant ship ever more than six months. to get In touch with headquar­ built in the States, the 940-foot The urgent need for another ters in a hurry can do so by oil tanker Manhattan, the US ton­ extension of unemployment com­ cabling the Union at its cable nage fared poorly when compared with the traffic from other coun­ pensation benefits was pointed up address, SEAFARERS NEW YORK. tries. by the fact that two-thirds of those Use of this address will assure Norway placed first with 18 ships. who receiveed benefits last year speedy transmission on all mes­ Great Britain was second with six, were the sole or primary support sages and faster service for the and the United States pulled even of a household. Another 26 per­ inen Involved. with Denmark and Sweden with a cent.-tveye working wives who con­ total of five. New Panel Enters Rail Tug Beef NMU Guilty Of Raid Charge Checking Books House Croup Kills Extra Jobless Pay Shipbuilding Booms-But Not For US Union Has Cable Address �Par* Tbre* iMrut, 196t Coastal Trade Gets Shot In Arm FIRST OF 4 SEA-LAND SHIPS ENTERS EAST-Y/EST SERVICE ELIZABETH, NJ—The long dormant US intercoastal shipping service will come alive again next month when the SlU-manned Elizabethport will inaugurate a regularly-scheduled trailership service to the West Coast. She is the first of four specialized ships that will b® put on the 'coastal run by the early part of 1963. The ship is a jumboized former Esse T-2 tanker that gained a new 419-foot midbody fitted with two huge gantry cranes that can lift a fully-loaded 35-foot truck trailer body and have it secured aboard in four min­ utes. She will carry 474 spe­ cially-designed trailer vans in the all-container service. Departing from a multi­ Canada Begins Hearings On Upper Lakes Dispute MONTREAL — Superior Court Justica Norris if cur­ rently conducting a Canadian government Inquiry into the Upper Lakes Shipping dispute that originated as a full-scale union-busting scheme aimed' • at the SIU of Canada. Ac­ berg at on* of th* three sessions held late in July . Th* board cording to various estimates, it included Judge Samuel I. Rosen- I. the inquiry will last at least two months. Earlier, on th* American side, a three-man panel appointed by US Labor Secretary Arthur J. Gold­ berg issued its report recommend­ ing a "series of international con­ ferences" to help resolve the Issues. The board suggested meet­ ings should b* conducted jointly by Secretary Goldberg and Michael Starr, Canadian Minister of Labour. The SIUNA presented a fullydocumented statement outlining its position on the dispute in de­ tail prior to the report announced by the special US panel originally appointed on July 12. Due to the international nature of the dispute and the importance to the entire labor movement of the issues involved, th* full texts of the board's report to the Secre­ tary of Labor and th* SIUNA's etatement to the board are printed in a special supplement in this is­ sue of the SEAFARERS LOG. Upper Lakes is an Americanowned shipping company operat­ ing on both sides of the Great Lakes, which had been under conti-act with the SIU of Canada. The dispute arose when the company broke its contract, locked out 300 Canadian crewmembers and re­ cruited new crews through a new­ ly-established union. The government inquiries into the Upper Lakes matter in the US and now in Canada arose out of circumstances surrounding the disputes and th* international na­ ture of the operation. SIUNA president Paul Hall pre­ sented the union's position to th* panel named by Secretary Gold- Be Sure To Get Dues Receipts Headquarters again wishes to remind all Seafarers that pay­ ments of funds, for whatever Union purpose, b* made only to authorized SIU representa­ tives and that an official Union receipt be gotten at that time. If no receipt is offered be sure to protect yourself by immedi­ ately bringing the matter to the attention of th* President's office. man, chairmani labor arbitrator David L. Cole and Prof. J. Healy of Hai-vard. Hal C. Banks, president of th* SIU of Canada, has already ap­ peared before Justice Norris in th* course of several days of hearings already held her* and In Toronto. Taking on container via its own crane (above, left), new in­ tercoastal containership Elinbetfiport is pictured dooksid* at NJ terminal from whieh It will launch sorvic* next month. Above, Seafarers in deck gang (l-r) include Robert Sim­ mons, Peto Prlchl, Rod Larson, Dan Webb, J. Lodoma and A. Porlno. MTD Sets Pacific Drive To Fight Bridges' Raids WILMINGTON—Plans for a vigorous organizing drive and a counter-attack against raiding by Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union were drafted at a special meeting here of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department. Meeting in the Don HoteH on July 20-27, delegates from The two-day conference at­ tillery Workers; and from the deep field, the Masters, Mates and a number of SIUNA affiliates, tracted wide participation by AFL- sea Pilots, Marine Engineers Beneficial from MTD member unions and from the state and local AFL-CIO agreed to set up a four-man MTD Coordinating Committee to direct the organizing campaign. The com­ mittee will be chaired by AFLCIO regional organizer Irvan Cary and will include James Simmons of the Los Angeles County Federa­ tion of Labor; M. R. Callahan of the California! Federation of Labor; and Gordon (Blackle) EUls, port agent for the Sailors Union of the Pacific and president of the Mari­ time Port Council of Southern California. In the discussions at the meet­ ings, it was pointed out that the ILWU has established a catch-all division which has been raiding various AFL-CIO affiliates on the West Coast, including some of the fish and cannery affiliates of the SIUNA. It was necessary to coor­ dinate the strength of AFL-CIO unions in the area to keep the ILWU from picking off small un­ ions who lack the resources to com­ pete with Bridges. The new MTD grouping will also explore the numerous opportuni­ ties for organizing among southern California's fast growing industrial complex. Since this is one of the most rapidly-developing areas of the United States, with new plants and new enterprises springing up. on all sides, the MTD committee will have an opportunity to organ­ ize many thousands of workers. CIO unions in the southern Cali­ fornia area. Among groups partici­ pating In the conference were the California State Federation of La­ bor and the Los Angeles County Federation, many of the building trades unions including the Car­ penters, Painters, Plumbers, Plas- Association, the SIU Pacific Dis­ trict unons and all segments of the SIUNA fish and cannery workers unions In the vicinity. In A related action, the MTD Ex­ ecutive Board later voted to hold its next quarterly session, on Octo­ ber 22-24, at Honolulu, Hawaii, as part of the campaign to expand AFL-CIO organizing efforts on the island. .. ...» iiiiii Iiiiii ilHii Al Gruhn, President of California State Federation of Labor, addresses Mari­ time Trades Department meeting in Wilmington. terers, Sheet Metal Workers, Ce­ ment Workers and Operating En­ gineers; the Machiitists, Building Service Employees, Oil Workers, Chemical Workers, Glass Bottle Blowers, Rubber Workers and Dis­ Pick Up 'Shot' Card At Payoff Seafarers who have taken the series of inoculations required for certain foreign voyages are reminded to be sure to pick up their inoculation cards from the captain or the purser when they pay off at the end of a voyage. The card should be picked up by the Seafarer and held so that it can be presented when sign­ ing on for another voyage where the "shots" are required. The inoculation card is your only proof of having taken the re­ quired shots. Those men who forget to pick up their inoculation card when they pay off may find that they are required to take all the "shots" again when they want to sign on for another such voy­ age. million-dollar port facility built here and leased for a 20-year period by SlU-contracted Sea-Land Service, the Eiizabethport will sail through th* Panama Canal and then up the West Coast to Long Beach, where th* trailers will be hooked up to truck cabs at dockside for delivery in th* Los Angeles-Southern California area. Within 14 hours, the ship will head for Oakland, to speed delivery of East Coast container cargo to the San Francisco-Seattl* area. Turning around after an 18-day westbound run, th* Elizabethport will head back through Panama to San Juan and then return here to Elizabeth. The Elizabethport and her three sister ships are an extension of the long-range effort by Sea-Land to establish container operations in all domestic services. Sea-Land and Seatraln Lines, both under SIU contract, are the only common carriers left In the domestic ship­ ping trades at a time when move* are afoot in Congress to open the entire field to foreign-flag opera­ tors. Meanwhile, with an ambitious East Coast-based service about to begin, the SIU Pacific District and the SIUNA have taken a strong position in favor of efforts by American-Hawaiian Steamship to get back into the intercoastai ship­ ping business on the West Coast. Turned down on an earlier try for Federal mortgage insurance on construction of three new vessels, American Hawaiian is currently in the midst of its second attempt. Hearings on its application have been held in San Francisco and are slated next mouth In Washing­ ton and New York. The SIU Pacific District company proposes to build the first all-new vessels for intercoastal operation since be­ fore World War 11, when domestic shipping services were the back­ bone of the US-flag fleet. SIUNA executive vice-president Morris Weisberger, in noting the decline of intercoastal as well as coastwise American shipping and the jobs they mean for Arerica seamen, cited the "negative role" (Continued on page 10) SEAFARERS LOG August, 1962 Vol. XXiV, No. 8 PAOt HAIX, President HERBERT BRAND, Editor; IRWIN SPIVACR, Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art Editor; HERMAN AnHUR, MIKE POLLACK, JOHN WEITZEL, Staff Writers. Publiihsd monthly at tho hoadquarteri of tha Saafarart International Union, At­ lantic, Oulf, Lakaa and Inland Water* District, APL-CIO, «7i Pourth Avonue, Brooklyn 32, NY. T*l. HYaclnth 9-ttOO. Second clan pottag* paid at tli* Poet Offic* In Brooklyn, NY, undar tha Act of Aug. 24, 1912. 12« �SEAPAMBMS Fate Fanr LOG AFL-gO Ump^ Rules QUESTION: Have you found any favorite eating spots while you've been ashore in foreign ports? Sven Regner, steward: Two par­ Joseph Luburich, engine: The Pilot House and the Copenhagen ticularly good eating places are in Bar in Yokahama Durban — the 67 both have a good Club and the crowd of Seafar­ Playhouse. Any­ ers there and the body on a Robin meals are inex­ Line ship can tell pensive and tasty. you about the Steak and eggs Buffalo steaks are my favorites and the tasty lob­ at the Copen­ sters there. An hagen. The Pilot added attraction House is a good Is the service by spot too. All the Yokahama cabbies turbaned waiters, sort of an extra know where these places are and can help you locate either of them. treat when you consider the mod­ erate dinner prices. I try to get ^ ^ there whenever I have a chance Bichard Delaney, steward: The to pay the place a visit. best atmosphere and cordiality I've found is at the 4^ » Aristocrat on Dewey boulevard Rao! Iglesia, engine: One place in Manila. The in the world I find relaxing is the place is open Istanbul Hilton, around the clock though it's by no and Seafarers are especially means a thrifty spot. They have a welcome. Their downstairs and house specialty is upstairs bar-res­ filet mignon and you can really enjoy a meal served taurant arrange­ on their landscaped patio. It's a ment, with night­ ly shows down­ very fine experience. stairs. I know a ^ ^ lot of Seafarers J, Graddick, steward: When I hit gather there because it is modern Singapore Til usually set myself up at the Delta and comfortable. You can live it Hotel on Stan­ up in style thm-e as long as you ford road near can carry the freight. It's a verv the Capitol The­ good place to know about if yoiTVe atre. The best got time off and want to try it. feature is the fact that a Sea­ farer can get a ANTINOUS (Waferman), May 13— Chairman, Ctell Walllek; Seeratary, decent room at Oscar Raynor. AU departments are moderate cost running smoothly and it looks like and have all the a elean payoff. Two men hospitalized In Honolulu and one in the Canal conveniences in one spot. Their Zone. One man missed ship in Yoko­ American-style meals are very hama but rejoined in Kobe. Linen aboard ship Is very bad. Captain re­ good and inexpensive. You can fuses to get any fresh fruit or vege­ really enjoy yourself and meet tables In the Panama Canal. fine people. COLUMBIA (Capa Waterways), Jan. 0^ ^ t ^ Jose P. Rivera, engine: I've found the International in Bremerhaven to be a fine place, though it is not actually a hangout for sea­ men. Their sea­ food is of the best quality and prices are fair. The other cus­ tomers seem to enjoy having us visit there; I think I enjoy the place most of all because of this friendly atmospiiere. We don't run into this every place we go. SlU MEETINGS SIU membership meetings are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SID Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed SIU ports below. All Sea­ farers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: New York Philadelphia Baltimore Detroit Houston New Orleans Mobile Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 4 4 5 7 10 12 14 10—Chairman, Claude Lomars; Sec­ retary, Charles L. Shirah. No beefs reported. Shirah elected ship's dele­ gate. AU members asked to help keep the messhaU, clean. Crew requests clarification on vacation. Engineers Upheld On Export Jobs The right of the Marine Engi­ neers Beneficial Association to continue to man vessels of the Isbrandtsen Steamship Company transferred to a division of Ameri­ can Export Lines <iaa neen upheld by the impartial umpire of the AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan. The umpire, David L. Cole, has ruled that the MEBA was within its rights in seeking to keep its members on the Isbrandtsen ships. He said that in doing so the MEBA was not raiding the Brotherhood of Marine Officers, which-Jias a contract with American Export. His ruling in favor of MEBA was based on the fact that the imion was protected against any loss of jobs by virtue of its contract with Isbrandtsen. The National Maritime Union,, with which the BMO is affiliated, had filed a complaint under the Internal Disputes Plan charging the MEBA with violation of the AFL-CIO constitution when it sought to protect its jobs on the Isbrandtsen vessels. The MEBA filed a counter-complaint. In his decision upholding the MEBA position Cole took note of the fact that an arbitrator who previously heard tho dispute" had ruled that the Jobs properly belonged to MEBA members. The company had refused to abide by the arbitrator's decision. out. ate. Steward department to cooper­ SEAMAR (Calmar), May 2»—Chalrw man, N. Barbour; Secretary, J. Oarbar. Ship's delegate reported one man missed ship in San Francisco. No beefs reported by delegates. Crew asked to make less noise in passage­ ways and to Bush toilets at ail times. Sanitary men to do more cleaning in laundry. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), May 21 —Chairman, L. Cepriano; Secretary, Pedro Saqullayam. Ship's delegate reported some disputed OT in engine department. Captain promised to get cigarettes in Spain. Matter regarding PENN TRADER tPenn Shipping), draws in travelers checks sent to May t—Chairman, Paul J. Onufuri Union hall. Crew warned not to take Secretary, J. P. Austin. Ship's dele- radios ashore in India to be repaired. ' .... THETIS (Rye Marine) May 7 — Chairman, H. A. Huff; Secretary, S. M. SImos. (30 in ship's fund. Huff elected ship's delegate. Everything running smoothly. e-42-ia3< (Suwannee), April 11 — Chairman, William Heater; Secretary, J. J. Naughton. No beefs reported by department delegates. ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), April 20—Chairman, G. W. McAlpine; Sec­ retary, L. A. Gardiar. No beefs re­ gate reported no beefs. Ship has ported by department delegates. Re­ good food and fine cooks. Steward quest that ail lockers be fixed. Crew department given a vote of thanks. to start a ship's fund at payoff. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), May PENN TRANSPORTER (Penn Ship­ ping), May 2—Chairman, John Ber- IS—Chairman, T. Oyer; Secretary, geria; Sacratary, John C. Howard. Cut Lopez. $23.60 in ship's fund. No See patrolman at payoff regarding beefs reported. Suggestion that soup dirty water tanks. They need clean­ should be served twice a day. De­ ing badly as water la foul tasting. partment delegates will discuss matter with steward. Motion tliat garbage MADAKET (Waterman), May 14— should be thrown back aft. Chairman, John Nash; Secretary, A. G. Espeneda. Ship's delegate prom­ B-42-1834 (Suwannee) May 12—Chair­ ised to see chief mate about passage­ man, Houston White; Secretary, John ways being painted and sougeeing of Naughton. No beefs reported. rooms. S5.10 in ship's fund. More pressure needed to flush toUets. Crew STEEL KINO (Isthmian), May 13— requested not to leave cups aU over Chairman, A. Power; Secretary, C. A. the deck back aft. AU hands urged Nelson. One member of deck depart­ to cooperate. Mail service very poor. ment hospitalized in Singapore. Mo­ Better quality luncheon meat re­ tion made that aU men be allowed quested. maximum of 12 months on one ship. Motion to change $400 vacation pay. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), May 13 The following will be taken up with —Chairman, C. A. Hancock; Secre- patrolman: Awning for fantail area, fary, Fred Shala. AU repairs were poor menus, better stores, better taken care of with the exception of coffee and meats, fumigation, need the painting of toilets and showers. for heavy duty washers. This has been promised to be done this trip. AU disputed OT was paid. PENN EXPORTER (Penn Shipping), New wringer was supplied for the April 22—Chairman, Tex Strickland; washing machine. $14.33 in ship's Secretary, G. H. Atcherson. No beefs fund. A schedule has been posted reported by devartment delegates. for the cleaning of the laundry room. $2,7.3 left In ship's fund. Two men hospitalized and one missed ship in PENN VANGUARD (Penn Shipping), Rijeka. Headquarters to be notified April 1—Chairman, A. J. Doty; Secre­ to have a representative of the Food tary, R. B. Hardcastle. No beefs re­ Plan sent to the ship. Suggestion ported. J. Shinner elected ship's made by all department* regarding delegate. Crew requested to turn in service in mesahall. Steward la too dirty Unen each week and to flush lenient with bis crew. Request that tcUets. Request that fresh canned English be spoken In the messhalis milk be served after fresh mlik Is during meal time. Advance Meeting Schedule For West Coast SIU Ports SIU headquarters has Issued an advance ichedul* through D«< cember for the monthly informational meetings to be held in Weil Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wilmington, San Francisco and Seattle or who are due to return from the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in ae> cord with a resolution adoj^ed by the. Executive Board laet Decem* her. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. The schedule is as follows: Seattle San Francisco Wilmington September 19 September 21 September 17 October 24 October 26 October 22 November 23 November 21 November 16 December 19 December 21 December 17 (Regular monthly meeting schedule for all SIU oonstitutional ports appears below.) Cliff Wilson. Food and Ship Sanitation Director Fruits Help Fill Out The Menu Considering the fact that fruits and vegetables are so widely popular on ships and their value in the dally diet is so vital, all menu planners and stewards should be familiar with their quality. The United States Government has determined grades and specifica­ tions for most of the fresh fruits and vegetables on the market. ThesG are called US Grades and, in general, are known as US Fancy, US No. 1, US No. 2, US Commercial, US Combination and unclassified, though for some products there are more grades and for others fewer. The less perishable fruits and vegetables have the greatest number of grades. Some foods, such as mushrooms and sweet cherries, have only two grades, US No. 1 and unclassified; others, such as potatoes, may have as many as six or even more. The basis for grading in both fruit and vegetables is size, color, stage of ripening, maturity, cleanliness, trueness to name and freedom from disease and insect injury. Cases, cartons, crates, bags and sacks of fresh fruit and vegetables must at least be spot cheeked and examined immediately upon their delivery at shipside and spoiled or deteriorated products should !)• rejected and the Port Steward or Commissary Department notified. Further, these products should be inspected and sorted each day during their .storage on the ship and spoiled products removed. Fruits should be used frequently on the menu. They furnish im­ portant food essentials and also add variety, color and refreshing flavor to the meal. Fruits fit Into all three meals of the day. They can be served at breakfast, alone as a juice or in combination with cereal. For lunch or dinner, they may be used as a first course ap­ petizer, as juice, a salad or dessert. Fruit compotes, made of a com­ bination of two or three cooked fruits, make a pleasing light dessert for the meal of the day. Fruits contain little protein and little fat, but are high in energy value because of their sugar and carbohydratG content. They also contain vitamins and very valuable mineral salts. Wash all fresh fruits thoroughly to remove any insect sprays which might be present. If possible, pare fresh fruits immediately before using. When pared and left In contact with the air, some fresh fruit becomes discolored. -f Apples—Look out for signs of calloused. This shows that the decay in apples, such as brown, melon separated easily from the squashy spots or overall softness. vine and didn't have to be cut away. The best quality are ones of Overripe cantaloupes are soft, medium size, firm and bright in watery, and tasteless. Decay is color . . . Bananas—Bananas should indicated by soft sunken spots on be over five inches long. If they the surface or by mold and molsare delivered slightly green, let turs at the stem end of the melon them ripen until the skins are . . Honeydew Melons keep a long flecked with brown. When they are time. They may be taken aboard delivered ripe, be sure they are before they are ripe, but must be free from the black areas that allowed to ripen before they are mean decay. used. Grapefruit—Good grapefruit is Watermelon — Ripeness is tho firm and springy to the touch, not most important thing to check soft, wilted or flabby. The fruit when inspecting watermelons. should be well shaped and heavy Thump the melon with your for its size. This heaviness indi­ knuckles. If there is a dull hollow cates a thin skin and lots of juice sound, the watermelons are ripe. . . . Grapes—Grapes should be If there is a ringing sound, they firmly attached to the stems. Be are not yet ready for eating . . . sure the grapes are not soft, over­ Oranges—The best oranges ar« ripe, discolored or moldy . . . firm and heavy. The skins are Lemons—The skin of good lemons bright colored and of fine texture. is smooth, thin and bright yellow Decay shows up as a squash area in color. Decay begins as a mold that molds quickly. or a soft discolored patch at the Peaches—Peaches spoil quickly stem end. and so they should be used within Melons — Quality in cantaloupe two or three days after receiving. is determined by sweetness, fine Watch out for decay. It appears in texture, flavor and ripeness. One the form of brown spots which way to tell whether a cantaloupe spread rapidly . . . Pears—Pears Is ripe enough is to look at the should be firm and well formed, netting on the skin and the condi­ not hard, wilted or shriveled. They tion of the scar at the stem end. should be used right away if they The netting should be coarse, are at all soft . . . Plums—Good corky, well-developed and of a plums are plump, clean," of fresh grayish color. The sear at the stem appearance, and soft enough to end should be slightly sunken and yield to slight pressure. (Conimentt and suggestiong are invited by this Department and can be »ut»mtted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) �tm SEAPAUEna LOG NATO Goes Cuban, Moves Red Cargo &M/taoitMaim4a Wesf Coast Fleet Gets 3rd Mariner SAN FRANCISCO—The last of a trio of new Mariner ships for American Mail Line was delivered to the owners last monht, marking completion of the first step in the com­ pany's replacement program^ The new ship, dubbed the its construction program. Sealed SS Phillipine Mail, will ren­ bids were due to be opened in dezvous with her sister ships, the Washington Mail and the Mail. The Washington Man was delivered in January and has pro­ ceeded to break two international speed records on the YokahomaBritisn Columbia run on her maiden voyage. Rated at a speed of 20 knots, the Washington Mail eclipsed the previous passenger ship record for the cross trans-Paciilc run by 22 minutes. The Japan Mall was trans­ ferred to AML by her builders in April. With her home berth in Seattle, the new Phillipine Mail will try her sea legs on the Pacific run to Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and the Phiilipines, with side voyages to India and Southwest Asia. With six ships still due to be replaced in its nine-vessel fleet, the SIU Pacific District-contracted company recently called for bids on the next three ships slotted in Three Lines To Team Up On Terminal LOS ANGELES — Three SIU Pacific District-contracted com­ panies are planning to use the new $16 million passenger-cargo ter­ minal being built here as tenants operating through a Jointly-owned subsidiary. American Mail Line, American President Lines and Pacific Far East Lines have sought the ap­ proval of the Federal Maritime Commission for their combined venture. The jointly held concern, to be known as Global Marine Inc,. would operate the terminal and at the same time serve each of the lines independently without cutting competition for cargoes and pas­ sengers between the three com­ panies. The new terminal has been heralded as one of the most mod­ ern passenger-cargo facilities in the world and is expected to be ready for occupancy next January. Seattle late this month and con­ struction of the ships was ex­ pected to be apportione<t>WBP*Ui# rest of 1962 and 1963 once an award is made. The completion of the replace­ ment program will take place in 1964-65 when the last three-ship^ changeover will be made. 'Orphan Ship' Wins A Home SAN FRANCISCO —The long orphaned 12,800 - ton freighter Coast Progress has apparently found a home. Matson Navigation has completed negotiations for the purchase of the vessel from the Maritime Ad­ ministration, and it will be added to the SIU Pacific District com­ pany's Los Angeles-Hawaii service. Matson bid $751,000 for the ship, which is expected to start oper­ ating under its new house flag in mid-September. The purchase will enable Matson to add 17 freighter sailings annually to its present 50 routing to Hawaii, or approximate­ ly three departures every two weeks. The Coast Progress was con­ structed by the government in 1946 and underwent reconditioning late in 1956. Formerly known as the Nevadan and Willis Vickery, it had been in the Suisan Bay Reserve Fleet in California. Maritime had tried on several occasions to sell off the vessel since C-4s normally are of Interest to potential buyers when a call for bids is announced. The Coast Progress was the exception to the rule for a while when no "respon­ sive" bids were received. On this page Is news activities of the SIU Pacific District representing the three West Coast unlicensed anions, the Sailors Union of the Pa­ cific, the Marine Firemen's Union and the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, who sail under the SIU banner predomi­ nantly in the Pacific trades to Hawaii, Alaska, the Far East and on 'round-the-world runs. The current mass shipment of food, arms and technical equip­ ment from the Soviet bloc to Cuba has been accomplished with the aid of some of the closest allies of the US in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Shipowners in Britain, Norway and Greece, among other countries, supplied most of the tonnage running to Havana and other Cuban ports. The "emergency" shipments were made necessary by Cuba's failure to provide enough of the neces­ sities of life for her people, under the present Communist system. President Kennedy disclosed that the US had discussed the Cuban shipping excursions by NATO country shipowners and said he would make every effort to have them curtailed. The move by our allies to ship Communist supplies to Cuba is considered a direct contradiction of NATO policy, which is to stand firm against the Communist men­ ace. Any weakening of this struc­ ture could have severe reprecussions to the Western world. Pafe Fivd Canadian Security Ship Manned By Alien Crew . MONTREAL—^Many shipowners have left no stone unturned in their efforts to undermine the wages and living conditions of seamen, but one Canadian shipowner developed a new twist when he estab-;^ lished a runaway operation the services of an all Chinese with a vessel that had already crew. been "scrapped." The Canuk Trader, operated un­ der SIU of Canada contract was, according to her ofners, slated for scrapping when she reached Japan after a trip from Canada, with this understanding, crewmembers were flown back to Canada. But the owners of the Canuk Trader never got around to scrap­ ping the ship. Instead, one partner­ ship interest sold his share in the ship to another partner interest, and the latter then assumed com­ plete control of the vessel. After picking up a skeleton crew in Japan, the "scrapped" ship, still under Canadian registry, set sail for Hong Kong, where she enlisted Hong Kong Crimp Joint Offers Global Service An enterprising Hong Kong agency is advertising on a world-wide basis that it can supply a shipowner by air with a Chinese crew anytime and anyplace. Announcement of the The Canuk Trader than em­ barked on another phase of the "scrapping" program by sailing for Nassau where the entire ceremony was completed with the hauling down of the Canadian flag and the raising of Bahaman colors. The ship then headed home to find a lucrative contract from the Cana­ dian government waiting. The run­ away had been designated as one of the ships to haul strategic de­ fense material to Canada's north­ ern defense bases in the Arctic. This contract was awarded to her owners despite the fact that Cana­ dian-owned and registered ships are lying idle and Canadian sea­ men are out of work. In effect, the Canadian government has awarded the owners with a lucrative con­ tract for locking out Canadian sea­ men. Upon arrival in Canada, the Chinese crewmen aboard the Canuk Trader related the deplor­ able conditions they had to put uo with on board. Wages ranged from $25 a month to the paltry sum of $60 monthly for a bosun. The SIU of Canada has reg­ istered a stroH'^ protest with the Canadian Government over the ac­ tion, and has established informa­ tional picket lines to make the Canadian taxpayer aware of what is being done with his tax money. service appeared in the "Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph," a British shipping publication. The agency boasts that It is able to supply sufficient crew at all times and will charter an airplane to fly the crew anywhere It is needed. Cost of flying a crewmember from Hong Kong to Europe, some 12,000 miles or more, runs from $220 to $280 per man. The seamen are signed on for ship's articles of 12 to 18 months for about $50 a month for an AB ($70 a month in American waters). What the seaman might have to kick back to the agency was not specified. In recent years, European shipowners have been replacing their coun­ try's nationals with Asian seamen at a wholesale rate, while not paying their regular wage scales. A 1959 survey of British shipping reported some 44,000 Asian seamen on British-flag ships, none of whom receive British wages. Seafarers with beefs regard­ This practice was the subject of a bitter complaint by the Swedish ing slow payment of monies due Seamen's Union at the recent ITF Congress in Helsinki. The union from various operators in back spokesman noted that Swedish ships employ some 8,000 aliens, includ­ wages and disputed overtime ing many Asians and Africans, all of whom do receive the same wages should first check whether they as Swedish seamen. He called on the ITF and particularly the British have a proper mailing address unions, to take long-overdue steps to end the abuse of standards on on file with the company. SIU their own flag vessels. headquarters officials point out Normal wages for Asian seamen range between $20 and $30 a month, that reports received from sev­ which indicates that the Hong Kong agency is making a handsome profit eral operators show checks have on each crew hired out. In addition, the shipowner has to put up the been mailed to one address money for transportation both ways, something which they are happy while a beef on the same score to do in light of the wage savings over a period of 12 months or more. Is sent from another, thus creWages for Europeans on European-flag ships under existing contracts /ating much difficulty in keeping are in the vicinity of $125 to $150 per month and also run higher In accounts straight. some instances. Use Only One , Mali Address i US To Scrap Aged Angelina WASHINGTON—The former Bull Line Liberty ship Angelina, long familiar to Seafarers, is up for scrapping as one of group of eight ships just put for sale by the Maritime Administration. The Angelina was traded in a year ago as part as building program Bull later abandoned. • Maritime announced that bids for the Angelina and her sister "low-priority" Libertys will be accepted until September 5 at its offices here. The bids are of­ fered to US citizens only for scrap­ ping within the confines of the US. There is no published mini­ TOTAL mum acceptable bid price. Built at the Bethlehem shipyard 1,170 in Baltimore in 1943, the Angelina now lies in the James River, Vir­ 164 ginia, reserve fleet. She was origi­ 88 nally bought by Bull in 1947 and operated steadily until last year 366 on the Puerto Rico run. Last year Bull traded the Ange­ 64 lina and the Carolyn for two C-4s 18 on which conversion work was started for container operation. 58 The company subsequently had to sell off the partially - completed 215 vessels and they were bought by Waterman. They have since been 2,143 chartered to Sea - Land and are being used in the Puerto Rico service. PORT MC&S 7/29 to 8/9 220 234 716 57 64 43 35 20 SUP 7/23 to 8/9 San Franciaco .. Seattle MFOW 7/1 to 7/31 CO CO Pacific District Shipping .... Portland ... Wilmington . .... 116 (no hall) 250 New York .. .... 27 • 37 9 7 2 31 25 215 (no hall) 586 1,093 New Orleans Honolulu ... San Pedro .. .... (no hall) TOTAL 464 •No report avaUable . : J' J- After a life of steady, rugged duty, tKe SS Angelina is headed for the scrap heap. The vessel is shown here in a photo taken several yean ago on her return from a Puerto Rico run. I- �rage ma *1 / SEAWARERB lOG Angat*, 196t SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING ROARD (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SW Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) July 1 Through July 31, 1962 SIU shipping rose again in July to make it the busiest month on the job front in 1962. The increase did not show up in all departments as the gain was mostly in the black gang. Steward department shipping actually dropped off a bit. The total of 2,790 jobs dispatched also included a slight rise in shipping on deck. Registration was way up over the June figure, totalling 3,048 compared to 2,737 in the previous month. In this instance, the increase was primarily among class A men in all departments. Class B registration went up only a small amount and only among deck department men. By the end of July, the overall registration on the beach was down except for Class A men in the engine department and Class B in the steward department. The month's shipping gain was reflected by busier ship activity in virtually all ports (see right), with only four Ship A€tivify ports (Baltimore, Jacksonville, San Francisco and Seat­ tle) showing less ships in port than in June. A consider­ able increase in sign-ons during July apparently ac­ counted for a big part of the shipping rise. Among the ports where shipping was heaviest. New York and New Orleans were very busy again, and Hous­ ton, which actually shipped less men than in June, again led all ports in the number of jobs dispatched. Its total was 683. Baltimore, Tampa, Mobile and Wilmington showed the only other gains, but in small amounts. Ship­ ping is least active on the West Coast these days, witii Seattle still way off its usual pace. By seniority group, shipping was up in all classes, but mostly for class C. The proportion of the total shipping in July for class A and B men actually dipped a bit, as is customary during the summer months. faf Slqm la OHt OBI TraM.TOTAi: Jocktenviile .. 2 Tampa MobHe .... ...11 New Orleans ..21 Houston .... Wilmington .... 0 San Francisco.. 4 Seottle ..... • 12 18 10 2 2 1 7 18 13 0 4 3 8 SO 20 17 9 18 21 8 30 40 13 8 7 IB 91 47 41 15 22 27 24 49 72 13 18 13 TOTALS .. .133 87 249 449 Rotfon New Yorli . ...29 Philodelpiiia ..12 BalHmere ... fforfolk ... DECK DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered 0 n The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL I 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 12 3 ALL A 3 ALL 12 1 2 3 ALL B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 7 11 6 24 0 2 4 6 3 7 13 1 3 1 0 2 13 1 1 3 1 3 2 18 10 20 8 38 0 3 11 14 53 115 27 195 1 27 87 65 39 40 148 89 20 148 1 22 22 45 0 17 23 45 40 233 87 136 37 260 3 17 59 79 11 16 34 2 7 5 11 10 3 4 8 3 21 1 10 14 21 4 7 14 3 14 14 49 14 23 7 44 0 3 7 10 23 50 11 84 0 14 16 30 20 40 68 5 8 7 10 3 0 22 1 4 68 22 4 94 42 69 16 127 0 18 39 57 9 13 1 23 0 13 1 4 9 3 5 1 2 6 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 0 5 11 13 7 21 1 1 9 16 26 3 12 1' 16 1 8 6 15 4 10 15 1 9 6 15 1 2 12 1 4 1 33 7 12 6 10 2 19 0 13 4 9 1 4 1 6 0 0 2 2 0 8 0 8 0 2 1 3 0 0 1 8 1 3 1 12 1 8 10 0 1 2 3 1 12 16 6 34 1 4 7 12 9 15 5 29 0 6 8 2 29 14 0 1 1 45 29 14 2 33 11 73 0 0 3 3 48 86 19 153 1 22 37 60 45 87 30 162 5 20 29 54 1 23 162 8 14 54 23 239 69 106 22 197 1 25 48 74 44 178 23 245 5 24 30 59 43 88 24 155 12 30 155 58 3 13 14 19 27 58 30 243 48 81 17 146 0 20 24 44 7 10 21i 1 4 5 15 6 9 4 4 14. 1 2 0 3 14 2 5 2 1 5 3 22 8 27 15 4 20 1 9 10 13 22 6 4l! 2 3 2 7 10 13 9 32 3 2 6 11 1 2 6 9 32 11 52 19 9 25 5 49 3 19 7 9 10 14 30 3 6 6 9 18 4 7 6 17 2 0 6 0 4 1 0 1 17 6 1 24 25 13 7 45 2 13 8 23 241 547 118 1 906 17~ 127 169 Ii 313 194 379 114 1 687 ,35 "100 118 1 253 13 52 '70 1 135 687 253 135 11075 372 546 :138 11056 11~ 129"245 1 38.5 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington Ban Francisco Seattle TOTALS ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shiooed Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered Oi1 The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 12 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A C ALL I 2 B 3 ALI. 12 3 ALL 0 9 2 11 3 10 0 4 3 3 2 5 1 5 3 9 0 1 1 2 . .5 9 2' 16 1" 16 2 19 3 7 4 14 29 101 16 146 7 30 42 79 21 78 13 112 4 19 17 40 4 13 15 32 112 40 32 184 47 141 17 205 11 32 60 103 5 20 30 0 5 5 8 13 3 14 22 0 5 5 8 0 3 6 0 6 22 36 4 8 6 29 36 0 3 1 10 9 7 36 6 49 3 8 14 25 6 33 .5 44 1 18 15 34 2 5 6 13 44 34 13 91 11 64 11 86 3 41 15 23 5 7 5 17 0 9 13 4 4 7 2 13 0 2 3 0 1 3 13 3 3 19 3 2 1 14 4 21 1 12 12 25 1 8 0 2 10 4 16 1 10 0 11 1 6 0 7 »i 5 11 23 0 0 3 7 5 2 4 0 4 1 10 4 15 1 3 0 4 0 1 1 2 0 5 6 0 1 3 1 4 0 2 4 6 4 4 14 0 2 4 0 4 0 0 2 2 30 4 39 0 5 6 9 15 4 14 4 22 2 6 6 14 0 3 22 39 10 2 1 3 14 36 50 4 0 7 9 16 26 82 6 114 1 29 26 56 26 87 10 123 2 34 34 70 1 14 7 22 123 70 22 215 35 81 13 129 2 30 34 66 30 140 8 178 8 47 34 86 34 89 14 137 8 46 29 83 4 48 137 24 20 83 48 268 22 79 3 104 0 47 24 23 6 7 1 14 0 4 2 6 1 3 3 7 0 1 1 2 0 10 8 0 1 1 7 2 1 11 1 20 2 6 4 12 5 25 5 35 1 4 9 14 4 19 8 31 1 2 0 3 1 3 7 31 3 3 7 41 8 30 4 42 1 17 4 12 4 15 0 19 0 11 0 11 0 4 5 0 1 2 2 4 0 0 0 5 4 0 0 9 22 32 3 9 1 10 7 20 123 483 59 1 665 22 ~168 156 1 346 i 104 "104" 366 1 68 20""147 114 1 281 12 75 59 1 146 538" 281 146 1 965 158 531 63 1 752 27 "160 201 1 308 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS STEWARD DEPARTMENT rOff Bos NY • e • • Wii SF ..... Cy - — Sea 1-9 2 0 2 5 1 2 0 5 8 9 2 4 2 TOTALS 42 FJail« e e e e Bdl • • e e e e JN or • e e a • • Jac ^Tani • e • • e m jr _1_ Mob NO e • • • TT XlOU. • e e e • Registered Registered Shipped Shipped CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1-9 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 0 4 3" 9 1 0 3 4 0 2 l" 1 4 1 0 3 2 42 20 59 121 1 7 36 43 0 27 17 56 100 1 0 19 20 9 6 4 21 0 1 12 13 1 5 4 7 17 1 0 8 7 17 9 20 51 0 1 15 16 2 10 4 17 33 1 0 17 18 4 0 1 6 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 4 4 5 2 7 16 2 1 6 9 1 3 1 7 12 1 6 2 3 2 1 2 5 1 0 1 2 0 3 .3 7 1 0 0 0 0 13 6 21 45 0 0 21 21 2 6 3 11 22 2 0 2 4 34 18 70 130 2 6 53 61 ! 3 26 17 54 100 3 69 6 60 39 22 26 96 4 9 29 42 6 30 16 28 80 5 49 6 38 2 3 3 10 1 0 5 6 0 1 1 2 4 0 0 2 2 9 6 19 38 0 0 6 6 2 3 3 11 19 2 6 8 0 4 3 15 24 1 9 11 21 0 2 2 9 13 1 6, 1 4 180 100 250 1 572 14 34 198 1 246 17 118 70 209 |414 18 15 "164"ri97 Shipped TOTAL CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS 3 ALL A c ALL 1-9 B 3 4 3 3 ""3 "^10 0 30 33 100 20 33 153 28 1 2 17 8 2 27 6 8 33 7 18 8 59 13 8 2 1 1 8 4 1 5 11 6 22 3 5 5 1 7 1 0 1 8 0 0 22 0 4 0 26 9 29 32 100 69 32 201 14 43 80 37, 49 43 172 10 3 3 4 3 2 9 5 35 8 8 19 8 8 7 6 1 20 6 1 13 1 7 125 1 140 413 197 140 1 750 104 Registered On The Beach !1 CLASS B * GROUP 3 ALL 1 I 2 3 ALL 2 4 7 7 18 0 0 ""4 4 56 29 108 221 64 3 3 58 31 0 10 4 11 10 0 10 26 21 30 90 1 1 20 22 8 3 3 16 11 3 1 7 3 10 2 2 2 2 3 7 2 1 8 11 1 0 1 2 8 9 36 62 0 35 0 35 33 21 93 161 1 3 73 8 62 37 15 24 86 3 27 8 16 8 4 4 21 4 0 5 9 12 9 30 59 0 0 9 9 7 •'4 15 32 2 2 20 24 217 126 371 1I 818 22""~25 250 1 297 TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS ABC ALL Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL GROUP 1 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 CLASS A i K.I ' f| SUMMARY Registered CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS 241 123 222 586 547 483 100 1130 118 I 906 59 | 665 250 I 572, 427 i2I43. Registered CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3 ALL Shipped CLASS A GROUP I 2 3 ALL 17 127 169 t 313 194 379 114 | 687 22 168 156 | 346 104 366 68 | 538 14 34 198 j 246 135 70 209 | 414 53 329 523 | 305 433 815 331 |1639 Shipped CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3 A1.L Shipped CLASS C GROUP , 1 2 3 ALL 35 100 118 [ 283 13 52 20 147 114 | 281 12 75 18 15 164 j 197 8 7 73 262 396| 731 33 134 70 | 135 .687 59 j 146 538 125 j 140 413 254 j 421 1638 253.135 .|1075 372 281 146 | 965 158 197 140 | 750 321 731 421 |2790 851 546 531 126 1203 138 |1056 63 j 752 371 | 818 572 |2626 11 129 27 160 22 25 i»0~314 245 | 385 201 | 388 250 | 297 696 |1070 til I I\ IH �kftgmk, 196t SEAFARERS LOO Skipper 'Walks The Decks' Of His Capsized Vessel In Detroit River Page Seven Sub Troopships Next In Convoys ? us shipbuilders have proposed that the Pentagon givesome serious thought to submarine military transports as a means of getting troops to battle, particularly since the De­ fense Department doesn't"*" — seem too keen on water sur­ sea troopship would have the ad­ face transport in any event. vantage of complete self-sufficien­ Capt. Ralph Eyra-Waiker loolci over hit iil-fatad vattal, tha Britith fraightar Montrosa, at tha liat on .her tide smack in tha middla of tha shipping channel in the Detroit River. Tha Montrose collided with a barge and fell over on her side in 35 feet of water. IBU salvage firm hat bean awarded job of trying to right the vessel. Lakes Fleet Gets Major Salvage Job DETROIT — Merritt - Chapman end Scott Company of Cleveland, whose dredges and salvage boats are manned by SIU Inland boat­ men, has taken on the task of raising the British freighter Mont­ rose which collided with a cement barge here July 30 and lies partial­ ly submerged in the Detroit River. The 4,993 ton British motorship was clearing Detroit, bound for Fort William, when she angled to­ ward mid-stream and collided with a southbound cement barge towed DETROIT—With practically all by the tug the B. H. Becker. All the votes in from crews on SIU hands were rescued. Lakes vessels and members ashore, Loaded with mixed cargo, the the biennial election to name of­ Montrose slowly settled on her ficers of the seven Great Lakes SIU left side In about thirty five feet officers is coming to a close. of water while rescue operations Voting is taking place during the for the 41-man crew aboard were entire month of August. Lakes put into effect. SIU members can cast their bal­ Salvage operations were sched­ uled to begin at the end of this lots at the union halls or aboard month. The work has to be rushed contracted vessels, where ballot boxes are taken aboard in accord­ because the vessel Is partially ance with the union constitution blocking the southbound channel. while the vessels are In transit. The work is made complex by Seventeen candidates are com­ the position of the ship, which lies peting for the seven elective posts on her side with the holed plates directly on the bottom of the of the Great Lakes SIU this year. Nominations were accepted on river. July 1-15 for the following posts: The plan of action seems to be Secretary-treasurer, assistant sec­ to try to lift the Montrose with retary-treasurer, and for port derricks, repair any holes that may agents in the major ports of Buf­ be visible, pump her out and then falo, Cleveland, Chicago, Frankfort try to float her again. and Duluth. The credentials of According to the contract signed members nominated for any of with the British shipping firm that these jobs were scrutinized care­ owns the vessel, Merritt-Chapman fully by a membership-elected will receive nothing if it fails to committee and ballots were then raise the ship prepared. Great Lakes SIU Ballot Nears End Great Lakes Shipping June 16-July 14, 1962 Port DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL Alpena 35 27 11 78 Buffalo 19 14 9 42 Chicago 19 18 11 48 Cleveland 18 10 ^8 34 Detroit 109 64 51 224 Duluth 6 7 6 19 39 32 20 100 TOTAL ...... 245 172 123 540 Frankfurt Union Veteran Named Lorain Harbormaster LORAIN, Ohio—A former organ­ izer for the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and a veteran ship's master at the age of 33, John W. Degan, Jr., has been appointed harbormaster for this Great Lakes port. Degan was awarded the position on the basis of having the highest score on a civil service examination required of all applicants. With prior service as com­ mandant of a navigational school for the Masters, Mates & Pilots, Degan has ample credentials for his new post, including licenses as master, mate and pilot for ships of any gross tons on all Great Lakes and connecting tributary waters. He has served as a tugboat master and harbor pilot in New York, Chi­ cago, Conneaut (Ohio) and Lorain harbors, and has seen service on the New York State Barge Canal system, the Hudson River and both the Illinois and Mississippi water­ ways. Army Veteran A veteran of the US Army, De­ gan enlisted in the airborne divi­ sion in 1947 at the age of 18. During his tour of duty he served in Japan and made 63 parachute umps. He was discharged in 1950. He is a native of this city and lives here with his wife, Angelina. He has already been sworn in for the post. His appointment ends a four-month search for a new har­ bor master. us Defense Secretary McNamara some time ago dropped his own "bomb" on the shipbuilders when he strongly opposed future con­ struction of superliners with socalled "defense features" as a means of moving troops to the battlefrcnt. He favored mass airlift of troops and equipment instead. The shipbuilders have since sug­ gested the underwater transport method as something even better yet, since it offers several advan­ tages—for one, they would be in­ volved in the construction at a time when the industry is hardpressed for orders. The nuclear submarine would not be used to house troops, but would be utilized as a propulsive device to haul troops in a different vessel. As compared to air troop move­ ment, which in addition to being a great expense is somewhat de­ pendent on the cooperation of the weather, a nuclear-powered under­ cy of power. It would also be able to function as a mobile base and would eliminate the necessity for vast airfields and their components. Complete returns from the first nationwide collective bargaining election ever held among Federal employees show a decisive victory for AFL-CIO postal unions, who won exclusive rights to bargain nationally for 417,000 out of a pos­ sible 495,000 workers . . . Members of the United Auto Workers Local 155 ended a seven-week strike at the Detroit Plastic Molding Com­ pany after winning a substantial wage increase, paid holidays and vacations, night shift premiums, seniority riglits and grievance pro­ cedures. The National Labor Relations Board has reversed three of the four findings made by a trial ex­ aminer in the stereotypers strike against tha "Portland Oregonian" and "Journal". The board rejected rulings that the union bad struck to enforce a closed shop. It said that a demand for negotiations on the number of members to man machinery was "a clearly and en­ tirely proper subject" of concern to the union. 3) Seven locals of the Retail Clerks International Association have signed a 33-month contract with Acme, Food Fair and A&P super­ market chains. The pact provides members with an average wage increase of $15 per month . . . The Aluminum Workers have settled a one-day strike of 16,000 workers against Alcoa and Reynolds Metals, winning new national contracts with protection against loss of jobs due to automation. The two-year pacts provide for special types of pensions plus an option for vaca­ tion time based on seniority in addition to standard vacations. t 4" t Ten Trappist monks at the Abbey of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Lafa­ yette, Ore., have become fullfledged members in Millmen's Lo­ cal 1120 of the Carpenters Union. The monks are skilled cabinetmak­ ers who turn out fine quality church furniture in the abbey's woodwork­ ing shop. Their product will carry the union label in the future . . . The first American farm worker to benefit from a union-negotiated pension has retired from employ­ ment at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey. Seabrook is the only fac­ tory farm in the US under a union shop contract. i" 4» t ^ EAI='A PORT O'CAU 675"-4'W/AvEMCe '12/6 ^SAXXiUKXE 9ROOK.O{f) &ALrJ7Mocie Wage and fringe benefit im­ provements averaging 15 cents hourly over two years are key points of a tentative settlement by the Commercial Telegraphers covering some 23,000 Western Un­ ion workers across the country. Up to 25 cents an hour more will go to special technical employees . . . Election results that went against the American Bakery & Confectionery Workers were set aside at a Tennessee plant of the Ideal Baking Company after ABC proved the employer had shown an anti-union film the night before the vote that unfairly influenced the decision. An NLRB examiner set aside the balloting because the union had no chance to counter the company's effort. �SE:itrARERS Face Eltbt AngwA. tm LOO GE GIVES KIDS A CIVICS LESSON SYRACUSE—The General Electric Company .is big on progress ("progress is our mos important product"), but it doesn't want to be bothered with questions asked by school­ children, especially the embarrassing variety of questions. GE's pique at the questions-* that some students asked on The students were from the Jessee, th* youngsters bad dis­ a recent tour through the Liverpool, NY, Central School. In cussed the recent conviction of their social studies class, taught a number of GE officials In Phila­ by probationary teacher Paul R. delphia for fixing prices and bids During a GE "Contributions of American Industry" tour, the kids asked a number of questions about the price-fixing and bid-rig­ ging. Within a short while, Jessee was Identified as the students' teacher and he readily admitted that the matter was discussed In WASHINGTON—Labor Day next month marks the first anniver­ his current events class. sary of the effective date on 1961 amendments to the Federal ^vageThe company apparently reacted hour law benefiting more than 27 million of the lowest-paid US quickly, as a letter was sent to the workers. The amendments, representing one of the major advances Liverpool Board of Education about since • enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, brought th ' matter. Within a short time land boatmen and seamen never before covered are affcctod by a e to 2 vote was taken to fire land boatmen and seamen never heefore covered are affected by Jessee. He did not have a chance the changes adopted by Congress last year. to appear before the body to say Strongly supported by the SlU and AFL-CIO Maritime Trades anything on his own behalf. Department when they came up for action in the previous Con­ Jessee appealed to the Interna­ gress, the wage-hour amendments established coverage under the tional Union of Electrical Workers law for the first time affecting over 3.5 million workers. They also and the union took up the matter, put into law changes in minimum wages for millions of workers trying to obtain a copy of the already covered by the legislation. letter. So far, both GE and the The time-table for those previously covered by the law follows school board have reportedly re­ this schedule: fused to reveal It. • Sept. 3, 1961, minimum was raised from $1 an hour to $1.15 The business agent of the local for 23.9 million workers. in the GE plant accused the com­ • Sept. 3, 1963, the minimum goes from $1.15 to $1.25. pany of putting pressure on the For 3.6 million newly-covered workers: board. After all, he pointed out, • Sept. 3, 1961, minimum established at $1 an hour straight time, all GE had to do was cite the no overtime. heavy taxes It pays to the com­ • Sept. 3, 1963, no increase in minimum pay, but overtime must munity and how there would be be paid at time and a half after 44 hours in a week. no school at all If It weren't for • Sept. 3, 1964, $1.15 an hour and overtime after 42 hours. GE tax payments. • Sept. 3, 1965, $1.25 an hour and overtime after 40 hours in As In the Philadelphia affair, the one week. schoolchildren have gotten another The newly-protected workers who must wait until next year for lesson In civics, this time one the beginning of stepped-up improvements include 2.2 million re­ much closer to home. tail and service employees, one milllion construction workers, 100,000 seamen, 93,000 transit workers, 86,000 in service stations, 33,000 in fish processing plants and 30,000 telephone operators. Swallow Gets A Mouthful plant here resulted in the firing of a schoolteacher. Labor Day Marks Year Since Pay Law Changed I; ii • & ;K':i jg; ggaig® HASTINGS (Waterman), May 25— Chairman, Leo Koza; Secretary, J. E. Wells. Jeffrey Sawyer elected ship's delegate. Everything running smooth­ ly aboard ship. One man missed ship in Puerto Rieo. S5.72 in ship's fund. Ship'fs delegate will see that a new library will be put aboard. Ordinary on sanitary work was commended on good job. Patrolman to sec port cap­ tain about changing rooms to mid­ ship. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), May 27—Chairman, George Chandler; Sec­ retary, C. Collins. Everything running smoothiy. $20.46 in ship's treasury. Discussion o.n keeping poop deck m i"! clean. Patrolman to check with Cap­ tain on .sailing board and sailing time. Ship sailing before time posted on sailing board and ali hands not aboard. Crew asked to take better care of wa.shing machine. CATHY (Sea Tramp), May 20 — Chairman, Gene Pore; Secretary, W. J. Barnes. One man hospitalized in Rotterdam. One man did not join ship in Rotterdam at departure. Mo­ tion to have present vacation plan changed. Urged all men to keep screen doors closed in port to keep longshoremen out of passageways. The matter of captain not putting draw out to man while sick and un­ able to work will be discussed with patrolman. ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), May 22— Chairman, William D. Burke; Secre­ tary, Clarence J. Nail. No beefs re­ ported. Motion that ship's delegate find out why ship can't furnish fre.sh water to wash down inside pas.sageways after loading sugar, etc. Motion that a better boat service be fur­ nished in various ports. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), May 20—Chairman, John PIckerson; Secre­ tary, Gerald J. Burke. John Dickerson elected ship's delegate. $20 left in ship's fund. One dollar contribu­ tion requested from each man. No beefs reported. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), May 2$—Chairman, J. B. Block; Sacrotary, Barnay Rally. Howard T. Glis•on re-elected ship's delegate. $15.05 in ship's treasury and $190.30 due on giSSSiiSj; the coke machine, with thirty-one cases on hand. No beefs reported by department delegates. OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Over­ seas), May 14—Chairman, Thomas Liles, Jr.; Secretary, Otto Pederson. Repairs taken care of except for a few items. Motion that SlU repre­ sentative look into the storing on sliips at Oakiand, Army Base. Trucks bringing stores have to unload all types of stores two and three blocks from ship, thus causing spoilage and theft. OMNIUM FREIGHTER (Mol), No date—Chairman, James Bell; Secre­ tary,, Ervin Anderson. No beefs re­ ported. Request spare agitator for wa.shing machine. Exterminator need­ ed aboard. Vote of thanks to the steward department for excellent food and service. CHOCTAW (Waterman), May 1«— Chairman, Donald Forrest; Secretary, F. Meinerth. Entire new crew hired aboard this vessei following a ship­ yard lay-up. All problems including repair lists being resolved. Bob Kongelbak elected ship's delegate. Ship's delegate spoke on the importance of solidarity within the Union and the added strength we obtain by or­ ganizing inland indu.stry. PORTMAR (Calmar), May 30—Chair­ man, William Bilger; Secretary, JIggs Jeffers. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. No beefs from department delegates. $28 in donations for TV repair. G. Hatgimisios was elected ship's delegate. Vote of thanks for getting TV on SlU .ships. Ship's delegate to find out about ia.st trip's delayed sailing beef. ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), May 18 —Chairman, none; Secretary, L. A. Gardler. Alfredo Carmoego elected new .ship's delegate. Crew .ssked to keep laundry clean. Vote of thanks to steward department and al.so to former ship's delegate. $7.75 in ship's treasury. No beefs reported. KEVA IDEAL (Keva), May 27 — Chairman, Richard V. Gelling; Secre­ tary, Harold W. O'Leary. No major beefs reported. A few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. .Motion to allow deck department at least one-half hour zoffee time before a callout. Steward u.<;ked men to re­ turn coffee cups to 'he mess room. Check patrolman about heat in the scrapermen's foc'sle. JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), May 2i—Chairman, A. Bjcrniton; Sacrotary, H. RIdgeway. W. H. Harris elected .ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Mo­ tion to contact headquarters regard­ ing crew's quarters on this type ship. Hard-Luck Trip Stalls Mf. Evans The SlU-manned Mount Evans (American Tramp Shipping) was forced to return to port for repairs twice and still hasn't gotten started on scheduled voyage with a load of grain from Mobile to India. When the hard-luck trip began, the vessel sprung a leak In her engine room plating while run­ ning off the North Atlantic coast and had to return to Newport News for repairs. Efforts to plug the hole at sea were not successful. After being patched up, the Mount Evans got underway to con­ tinue her Indian voyage and had to turn back after getting only 138 miles off the Virginia coast. She radioed that she was taking water and in danger of sinking. A Coast Guard patrol boat and a tanker came to her aid and escorJed her back to Newport News again with her shaft alley and No. 5 hold flooded. After un­ loading, she was towed to Balti­ more, where repairs are being made to try and get her seaworthy again. Put Postal Zone On LOG Address The Post Office Department has requested that Seafarers and their families include postal zone numbers In sending changes of address Into the LOG. The use of the zone num­ ber will greatly speed the flow of the mall and will facilitate delivery. Failure to include the zone number can hold up delivery of the paper. The LOG is now In the process of zoning its entire mailing list. Back from a trip, Boston fishermen on the Swallow show sample eatch speared by Jim Martin (left). Martin. W. Oxner and mate Ned Powers, all off the Swallow, are mem­ bers of the Atlantic Fishermen's Union. Red Trawler Fleet Playing Space Role Russian trawlers are busy at tasks other than working the fishing banks these days, a fact which was established soon after a pair of Soviet astronauts began orbiting the Earth earlier mis month. Members of the Atlantic east of Charleston, South Carolina, Fishermen's Union had pre­ perhaps because the Russian fisher­ viously reported Increasing num­ bers of Russian fishing boats In the area of Georges Bank—nearly 100 of them having been spotted on one occasion. In a separate development, the SlU-contracted Seatrain New Yorker was photographed by cam­ eramen on a Soviet trawler 50 miles Bill Would Up Fish Subsidy WASHINGTON—A bill designed to help the depressed New England fishing fleet compete against a mass foreign invasion of its fish­ ing grounds off the New England coast has been Introduced In the House. It would improve on an earlier measure adopted by Congress under which the Federal Govern­ ment will pay subsidies of up to one-third of the construction cost of new fishing vessels. The new bill would Increase the construc­ tion aid for wooden vessels to 35 percent and for steel vessels to 50 percent. The effort to upgrade the position of the American fishing fleet in the face of cut-rate foreign competition gains added meaning from the news that the Japanese fishing Industry Is planning to send its first trawler into the North Atlantic. Imposition of a 12-mile limit by many of the newly-Independent African nations along with a depletion of fishing resources off Australia and New Zealand is hastening the arrival in the North Atlantic of the No. 2 Aoi Maru of the Aoi Fisheries of Tokyo. It departed from Nagasaki last I month. men thought the Seatrain was "spy­ ing" on them. One of the big reasons for the influx of Soviet boats in traditional American fishing waters came to light, however, on August 11., On that day, a Mackay Radio tracking station on Long Island In­ tercepted both voice and codo transmissions In Russian. The senders were estimated to be 50 miles east of the station, at South­ ampton. Mackay Radio said that message ti-affic had Increased "noticeably" several days prior to the space shots that carried two Russians on their million-mile space journeys. A New York radio station was also "jammed" by code transmis­ sions since the Russians were send­ ing on a close-enough frequency to cause such Interference. The overall developments Indi­ cate that the trawlers do more than routine fishing tasks and wero among those In the know well in advance of the spectacular twin Soviet space shot. Gloucester Holds Rites GLOUCESTER —The 68th An­ nual Fishermen's Memorial Service was held here on Sunday, August 5, In honor of Gloucester fisher­ men lost at sea. Participating in the wreath-lay­ ing ceremonies at the Gloucester Fisherman's Statue and the Blynman Bridge was A1 Hayes, repre­ senting the SIUNA-Affiliated At­ lantic Fishermen's Union. Others who placed wreaths included repre­ sentatives from Gloucester fisher­ men's associations and the City ) of Gloucester. �im SEAWAKEKS TUB CiVZ^'A.DXAK/ LOG Registers in Baltimore t: Canada SlU Organizes 4 More Lakes Outfits MONTREAL—The SIU or Canada has organized four new companies operating two big Lakes bulk carriers and two St. Lawrence River ferry services. Agreements have already been signed covering the pair^— of bulk ships. ous damage by riding up on the The Papachristidis Com­ rocks or into the bridge, Domestic Carriers Hit Pro-RR Bills Canada Tug Acts Fasf^ Saves Ship Hauls Record Grain Cargo Canada SIU Welfare Expanding Drug Plan Get That SS Number Right Marir Unions Hold Off Okla. 'Work' Law OKLAHOMA CITY — Oppo­ nents of a so-called "rlght-towork" proposal in Oklahoma won an additional 60 days in which to challenge a petition to put a pro­ posed constitutional amendment on the ballot. The report that more than one-third of the signatures examined were found to be "fraud­ ulent and false." Oklahoma Secretary of State William N. Christian granted the extension after attorneys for cit­ izen groups opposing "right-towork" challenged 50,000 of 145.000 signatures and said samplings in­ dicated that many others would he invalidated through comparison with county voter registration books. Spokesmen representing a group of union officials, educators, busi­ ness and professional leaders and farmers who have challenged the petitions, advised the secretary of state: "There can be little doubt that fraudulent and improper signa­ tures to this petition were not only accepted but actually en­ couraged by some of the circula­ tors . . . who were paid on the basis of each signature obtained. "In Mayes County, our first check showed 75 percent of the petition signers either not reg­ istered or registered improperly," they reported. "A sampling of 4,700 voters in Tulsa County re­ vealed less Hran 50 percent valid signatures." The petition exami­ nation turned up nearly 2,000 in­ stances where the same name ap­ peared more than once and cases where the same name appeared four times. Right-wing groups sparked by the US Chamber of Commerce's new "Committee for Voluntary Unionism" launched the petition drive in January after "right-towork" proposals had been killed in the legislature. They hope to get the proposed constitutional amend­ ment on the November election ballot. called her crew from this port The Hamlltonian was constructed by St. John Dry Docks Ltd. and called her crew from the SIU hall in Halifax. Seafarer A. Otreba, who sails in the black gang, Both companies signed standard is shown registering recently in the Baltimore hall after he Great Lakes agreements after had put in a tour on the SS Suzanne IBull). negotiations that took place while the vessels were being completed This resulted in Union representa­ tion and servicing of crews from the time they were turned over to the owners by the shipbuilders Preliminary steps are underway for negotiations covering the ferry companies, Nonth-Slouth Naviga­ WASHINGTON—The remaining deep-sea domestic water tion and La Compagnie de la carriers—Seatrain and Sea-Land—along with Lakes and in­ Traverse du St-Laurent. land barge operators, have opened an attack on bills which North-South operates one boat, would give railroads a distinct the Fere Nouvel, a vessel form­ edge over shipping. Albany on August 28. erly utilized as an automobile Two transportation bills It was estimated at hearings ferry before construction of the Mackinac Islands Bridge. The sponsored by the Administration called by the Joint Legislative VANCOUVER—Manned by Ca­ other ferry operation Involves two would give the railroads exemption Committee on Commerce and from minimum rate regulation on Economic Development that the nadian seamen the tug M. R. Cliff boats. bulk commodities and other prod­ proposed route, called the "Chamaverted a disastrous ending for ucts. The domestic water carriers plain Waterway," would cut the the 10,000-ton Greek freighter and the maritime unions see this distance between New York and Tharros after the vessel slipped Its as a means of providing the rail­ Canadian Seaway ports by about moorings and began helplessly roads with a big stick for use in 1,000 miles. drifting towards the Lions Gate destroying water-borne competi­ The Railroads claim that the bridge in a heavy ebb tide. tion. deeper channel would force aban­ The tug, inbound, received a John Weller, president of Sea- donment of railroad service in call from Lions Gate to "check train, testified as the spokesman northeastern New York. This posi­ TOLEDO—The biggest shipment a ship that seemed to bo out of for the Common Carrier Confer­ tion was refuted by officials of the control." It attempted to push the ever loaded from Toledo grain ele­ ence of Domestic Water Carriers. State Waterways Association, who vators can be added to the laurels freighter around but couldn't stop of the SIU of Canada-contracted He charged that passage of the bill noted, to the contrary, that rail­ the drift of the vessel towards the vessel J. N, McWatters a laker would inevitably put an end to the roads had prospered in other sec­ bridge. coastwise and intercoastal shipping tions of the country where water­ Gary Ash, mate on the tug, ulti­ owned by Scott Mlsener Steam­ Industry. ways had been improved. The asso­ ships, Ltd. mately went aboard the freighter ciation also cited the fact that Weiler reviewed the past action The record-setter occurred last end assisted the skipper, who ap­ while the volume of water-borne of the railroads in reducing rates parently was unfamiliar with the month, when the McWatters took on those specific items, such as traffic on New York canals had de­ local waters. Giving necessary di­ on a cargo of 992,000 bushels of canned foods and juices, for ex­ clined, the rest of the country was rections to the helmsman. Ash was corn and soybeans for shipment ample, which constitute much of experiencing a boom in volume. able to guide the ship through to the company's transit elevator the traffic for the water carriers. the Lions Gate bridge to safe at Bale Comeau, Quebec, near the The roads, he pointed out, reduce ^ , ,. . .'. 1 ' : r' r •• mouth of the St. Lawrence. anchorage io English Bay. the all-rail rate for these ship­ The SIU vessel set a previous ments, but charge high prices for No cause has been determined as to why the freighter slipped port record last November when the rail-to-dock movements. The her moorings. If the tug hadn't it was loaded with 901,000 bushels result is that shippers send their come on the scene, the freighter of coi-n and wheat for homebound products via all-rail routing and stood the chance of suffering .seri­ transport. the shipping companies lose traffic Cooperation between department delegates and the ship's accordingly. delegate will avoid many hassles that never should have Such action and the objectives developed, Walter Fitch, ship's delegate aboard the Robin of the bill, he said, contradict the President's message on transpor­ Hood, explained recently. tation which cited the need for "Sometimes a department duties "more times than I can re­ joint rates between railroads and delegate will say something member," Fitch, a bachelor, resi­ MONTREAL—^With the facilities of f|he SIU Medical other modes of transportation. in trying to settle a beef that should des at Easton, Pa., when not ship­ Center here now a year old, the SIU of Canada hai continued In another area. New York rail­ not have been said and the ship's ping in the steward department roads demonstrated an expected delegate winds up with the head­ to enlarge on its program of providing the improved welfare lack of concern for improved water­ ache of setting things right," Fitch out of the New York hall. services for its members and^ "Personalities are the key to way facilities, as they testified in efits to outside facilities which opposition to th® development of declared, adding that being dele­ successful handling of shipboard their dependents. gate is not the most appreciated The union's welfare plan handle actual treatment. a deep-water route shortening the spot. beefs," he stated. "Sometimes Addition of two new stores which passage for barge and ocean traf­ has just announced further expan­ even when you point out the clear Living Conditions sion of its reduced-cost drug-pur­ will participate in the drug pro­ fic between the St. Lawrence Sea­ chasing program through privately- gram puts the services of seven way and the Port of New York. "Generally, on around the world contract terms to an officer, he'll managed outlets in various ports. such outlets at the disposal of The plan, long dormant, drew sup­ runs, the most problems involve still refuse to acknowledge you'i'e It has added stores in Toronto and Canadian seamen. port from most segments of the living conditions aboard ship like right. Then you wind up having Every store authorized by the maritime industry at hearings in uncooled water and lack of awn­ Three Rivers, Quebec, where Cana­ to get a patrolman to resolve it dian seafarers and their families welfare plan to take part in the ings in the tropics. Sometimes, a at the payoff." drug plan has been thoroughly can avail themselves of substantial miserly skipper will hold off on Stresses Safety savings in the purchase of drugs checked for dependability and ef­ draws, and this ficiency of service. and medical prescription items. When not involved in settling can really get a The SIU of Canada's medical These stores servo a dual pur­ shipboard matters Fitch is busy crew worked up." center, the first to be established pose by providing the seamen with making sure the crew strives for Fitch observed. Seafarers fiiing vacation for Canadian seamen, is located in medicine and drugs at considerable safety and accident prevention by money claims should make sure Then the ship's the Union's headquarters building savings. reporting unsafe conditions and delegate has that they use their correct So­ here and emphasizes preventive doing their part to guarantee that In addition to the new outlets in some the job of cial Security number. Use of medicine in the same manner as Toronto and Three Rivers, author­ the wrong number means a cler­ a voyage comes off without mishap. trying to square SIU clinics across the border. If ized outlets for cut-rate drug pur- ical headache for the Vacation Such efforts secured an SIU safety things. ,any hospitalization, surgery or cha.se.g are located in Montreal, Plan office and slows up the award for the Robin Locksley ia A veteran of other specialized services are re­ Vancouver, St. Catharines and 1960, as well as an individual cita­ handling of payments. Fitch 16 years aboard quired for a seamen or his family, Thorold, Ontario, and Levis, tion for Fitch, who was serving as the welfare plan provides cash ben­ Quebec. SIU ships and with delegate's I delegate at the time. pany and Eastern Lakes Carriers operate two similar newly-bulit vessels constructed to meet the maximum 730-foot length possible for St. Lawrence Seaway service. Papachristidis is running the new Montrealais, a huge T..akes carrier hauling record loads of grain be­ tween Canada and the Lakehead to Montreal. The Hamlltonian is operated by Eastern Lakes Carriers. The Montrealais was built at Vickers Shipyard In Montreal and Ot Pace Nine �Pace Tea Ji2! Vt' It'' / IL. SEAFARERS ABCMI. ms lOG Europeans HoUer About US, Make Out OK On Ship Aids ' WASHINGTON—European shipowners, who «• vocal in their complaints against cargo preference laws and other US assistance to American flag ships, don't do so badly themselves in the Government aid department A study issued by the Mari­ time Administration shows that major maritime nations are more than generous in proTiding both direct and indirect ­ assistance to shipbuilders and ship­ owners. In the area of construction sub­ sidy, both France and Italy pay generous sums. France pays a di­ rect subsidy to the shipbuilder of up to 20 percent of the cost as compared to lower-cost yards in other countries. Italy pays a sub­ sidy based on the tonnage and horsepower of the vessel as well as a subsidy for over-age ships which are scrapped. Operating subsidies are provided by three countries—France, Italy and Japan. France subsidizes "na­ tional interest" services, including the French Line, through yearly appropriations. Italy provides nearly $38 million a year in operat­ ing subsidies to a group of four Government-controlled shipping companies. Japan has modest op­ erating subsidies on some special runs. The favored way of assisting shipping is through special tax benefits. These are provided in varying forms by West Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In Germany, a shipowner pays a special low tax rate on his earn­ ings. Greek shipowners pay noth­ ing in taxes for several years if they register vessels under Greek flags. Italy has widespread exemp­ tions from duties and taxes for ship provisions and equipment. Japan offers partial exemptions on earnings in international trade, while Sweden permits the ship operator to set aside some earnings in a tax-free account for construc­ tion of new tonnage. The British permit the shipowners to charge 40 percent of the cost of a new ship against his profits, thus reducing profits for tax purposes consider­ ably. Owners In many countries, In- Intercoastal Ship Ready (Continued from page 8) of the Department of Commerce in promoting the domestic merchant marine as required by law. He vigorously called on appro­ priate Government shipping agen­ cies "to end the scandalous delay and promptly approve the Amer­ ican Hawaiian application so that these vessels may be built and may provide employment for American seamen." American - Hawaiian hopes to build three 24-knot ships capable of hauling 992 cargo con­ tainers in the East-West domestic service in a run of nine days via Panama. Sea-Land's full-time entry into the intercoastal field will end its original holding operation with conventional C-2s that began last year while the tanker conversions were going on. It entered the East-West service after Luckenbach suspended its intercoastal operations. Shortly afterwards. Pope & Talbot, a West Coast company, also retired from the field after 112 years of com­ pany participation in the service. Like Luckenbach, P&T suffered from the same kind of rate regu­ lation and railroad favoritism by the Interstate Commerce Commis­ sion that has killed off virtually all domestic «fcrators. eluding France, Germany, Japan, icc laws exist in France, West Netherlands, Italy and Sweden, can Germany and Ck-eece. France re­ get lonf-term, low interest loans quires two-thirds of ber oil im­ ports to come on French or Frenchfor new construction guaranteed approved tankers. Coastwise traf­ by the government in whole or in fic is exclusively French. Germany part. reserves its coastal trade to Ger­ Preference laws on cargo slmi- man-flag vessels and Greece does lar to our 50-50 and domestic serv-1 the same for its domestie services. Visitors From Kenya By 8IDNET MARGOLIUS Shop Wisely On Car Insurance You can overpay for auto insurance today if you don't shop for the eompany with the lowest costs for your circumstances. In Just two years the auto insurance industry has gone throMgh a competitive up­ heaval. Rates today do not have the traditional uniformity, and the rate yon pay ean vary sharply depending on the company yon choose. This is especially true if you have a young driver in the family, or have suffered recent accidents or convictions for violations, or drive your car more than ten miles to work or are near 65. And strangely enough, it also may be true if you have a particularly good safety record and very little road exposure. Until recently it was simple enough to determine which companies had lowest costs, since most of the stock companies charged the "board" or standard rates for each area.^yj^e the mutual companies and other ratecutters gave discounts :.t tne beginning, or dividends at the end of policy period. But the old-line companies saw that they were losing considerable business to the rate-cutters, and have instituted a number of com­ petitive measures of their own. A leading insurance authority reports that among other measures the old-line companies have reduced commissions to agents and brok-. ers, are trimming administrative expenses and are offering modified~ policies to compete with the rate-cutters on simplified coverage. They also have developed new classifications, which reduce the cost of in­ surance to some drivers but increase it for others. The classifications used by most of the insurance companies to de­ termine how much you pay are (in order of increasing cost): (1) Class 1-A—Car used mainly for pleasure with no male drivers under 25. (2) Class 1-B—Car used for driving to and from work, not over 10 miles each way, and with no male driver under 25. Operations of SlU medical center in Brooklyn are explained to visitors frmo Kenya as Dr. Joseph Logue, medical director, escorts group. Pictured (l-r) are technician Ben lannotti; Philip Muinda, president, Kenya Federation of Labor; Dr. Logue; Alphonce Okuku and Francis Kasina, both of Kenya. Your Gear... tor ship . • • for shore Whatever you need, in work or dress gear, your SlU Sea Chest has it. Get top quality gear at substantial savings by buyinioning at your Union-owned and" Of operated Sea Chest store. Sport Coats Slacks Dress Shoes Work Shoes Socks Dungarees Frisko Jeens CPO Shirts Dress Shirts Sport Shirts Belts Khakis Ties Sweat Shirts T'Shirts Shorts Briefs Swim Trunks Sweaters Sou'westers Raingear Caps Writing Materials Toiletries Electric Shavers Radios Television Jewelry Cameras Luggage the SEACHEST (3) Class 1-C—Car used to commute to and from work over 10 miles but with no young drivers under 25. (4) Class 3—Car used for business purposes (salesmen, col­ lectors, messengers, etc.,) with no young driver under 25. (5) Class 2-A—Car operated occasionally by a male driver under 25, who is a resident in the household. It also can include a vehicle operated by a married male driver under 25. (6) Class 2-C—Car operated principally by or owned by un­ married male driver under 25. However—and this is an important clue to shopping for auto in­ surance today—many companies have their own variations of this classification plan. For example, certain companies use age 23 as the upper age limit for the young male classification. Some take 24'/fi as their cut-off date. Some companies will classify as "2-A" young male operators who are steadily employed. There also are variations affecting young male operators who own their cars. Those who have had driver training in high school or col­ lege receive discounts, usually ten percent. Some companies are ex­ perimenting with psychological exams for young male drivers. Those who pass get a discount. A number of companies give discounts to young drivers who get high marks in school. Some companies also have a special classification for drivers over 05. There are still other variations. Many Insurance companies a!s© now have the "Safe Driver Award Plan." Under this plan you fill out an application on which you state the number of your accidents in the previous three years, and also the number of convictions or citations for traffic violations such as speed­ ing, illegal turns, etc. A driver with no recent convictions or accidents gets discounts of from 20 to 30 percent or more, depending on the individual company's plan. Some companies even give discounts of 40 percent and more for drivers with clear records going back five years. On the other hand, drivers with a record of accidents or convictions are penalized, depending on the number. A driver with several con­ victions or accidents could find his rates sur-charged as much as 100 per cent or more, and he might have to pay very high rates for three years. Other companies apply different yardsticks to convictions and accidents, producing variations in the amounts paid by drivers with much the same record. With all the variations, there can be tremendous difference in the price of oar insurance in a large city or well-settled suburb—in fact from $76 to $600. That means a car owner today needs to shop widely for his insur­ ance. In these circumstances, it is hardly advisable to buy from a sales­ man representing Just one company, or by mail, without comparing costs with other companies for your particular classification and cir­ cumstances. One company may have low rates for Class 1-A but high rates if you have a young driver (male), while another may be more moderate with the youngster. Another company may have low rates if you have no convictions but may charge more if you do. The best way to shop for auto Insurance at this time, especially if you have a young driver in the family, or have convictions or accidents, or drive your car more than ten miles to work, or have other classifi­ cation problems, is to consult two or three well-qualified brokers as well as the rate-devlators (the mutual companies and direct writers.) How a particular company classifies you now has become as important as its theoretical deviation from the standard rates. �E('S' J,...-,.,,,, .jv;. • »•, •/„ - Anciut, 1962 RERi LOO Page Eleveii MARITIME STATISTICS—As of July 1, 1962, there were 915 vessela of 1,000 gross tons or over in the active oceangoing United States merchant fleet, seven more than the number active on June 1. There were 27 Government-owned and 888 privateiy-owned ships in the active service. There was an increase of eight active vessels and a decrease of seven inactive vessels in "the privately-owned fleet. Two freighters were delivered from construction and one freighter was traded in to the Government. The total privately-owned fleet Increased by one to 986. MA's active fleet decreased by one ship, while its inactice fleet decreased by five. This increased MA's fleet to a total of 1,892. Sea­ faring jobs numbered 53,950. Of '.ids total 12,542 were licensed and 41,408 were unlicensed. t 4" 4" VISITORS—A group of American shipping specilaists have departed for the Soviet Union to participate in the US-USSR exchange agree­ ment program. The US delegation is sponsored by Maritime under the auspices oj^heDepartment of State iis visits by techtSRff|^ciehtific, and cultural groups. The delegates will discu.ss, observe and exchange information on the operation of seagoing vessels, organization of loading and unloading operations in ports, and repair of ships in port. The vi.sit will involve thirty days in the USSR. On July 19, a group of Soviet shipping officials ended a 30-day visit here after observing merchant shipping and port activities on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and Lake Erie. 4i SHIP CONSTRUCTION—The revived Maritime Administration ship construction program for subsidized operators contemplates the building of 14 new vessels for the Far East trade. A House-approved measure carries a fiscal year 1963 appropriation of $50 million for ship con­ struction and, in addition, an Administration request for $14.2 million more for 1963 construction is being considered by the Senate Ap­ propriations Committee. This is designed to cover increased cost of the 14 vessels for the Far East. The total program by MA calls for the construction of 18 ships out of 1963 funds. Three of the Far East vessels would be for the account of American President Lines and two for American Mail Line. Lykes Brothers Steamship and US Linee have proposed a total of nine, to make up the fourteen. 4i DEFENSE PROCUREMENT—The Department of Defense will extend its "Buy America" program to piurchases of spaco aboard Americanflag vessels, as embodied in a directive to the military forces to purchase supplies within the United States rather than from foreign sources. Defense has agreed that implementation of the program is desirable not only as a support of the American merchant marine, but also as an aid in the flow of gold problem. Defense stated it uses only Ameri­ can-flag ships for the movement of material which it owns. "In addition, we are now studying the question of procurement of petroleum products to see if a change in our method is advisable. Here, as with other bulk commodities which are not owned by.the Department of Defense at the time of shipment, we may encounter difficulties in fitting the use of American shipping under the 50 percent premium cost rule. There are indications that shipping costs for bulk quantities on United States-fla^ ships may exceed foreign cost by 100 percent. We are assembling information on this question now. i S '. of tnc Marine) When the first Labor Day was proclaimed back in 1882, the principal problem confront­ ing the fledgling trade unions of the day was how best to organize and bring union protection to millions of unorganized work­ ers. Over the years, as we know, enormous 4« 4» 4' progress has been made but, at the same time, PIPELINE—Edwin M. Hood, president of the Shipbuilders Council the American population and the American of America, has predicted the US fleet will suffer a sharp additional economy have grown enormously as well. contraction next year when a 1,600-miie pipeline linking Gulf Coast refineries with Middle Atlantic and East Coast markets is completed. As a result, while the trade union movement Mr. Hood presented data showing that 51 T-2 tankers or their equiva­ has set the pace for wages and conditions lents will immediately lose employment when the Colonial Pipeline covering all American workers, organized begins operations next year. This is based upon the announced initial and unorganized, there are many mil ions of transmission rate of 600,000 barrels per day of refined petroleum workers who still lack the essential protec­ products. He urged MA to consider construction of a semi-automated, tions that a union offers. economy-class tanker to demonstrate the economic feasibility of such These protections are not, as popularly a vessel. The pipeline transmission rate is expected to be stepped up supposed, limited to the negotiation of wages to 800,000 barrels per day soon after operations commence, and by 1965 a total of 94 T-2 tankers would be displaced If minor modication and job improvements. The myth that unions to Coloniai's pumping system were made. He called attention to an are only concerned about wage standards has earlier study which "erroneously" concluded that only 10 to 15 T-2 been per,<;istently cultivated by anti-union equivalents would be temporarily affected by the new pipeline. employers. In many instances, employers have t J* made it a practice to match dollar for dollar CARGO PREFERENCE—The Export-Import Bank has stated that or, in some cases, to exceed existing union loans made pursuant to so-called "secondary lending" under financing wage scales, while carefully concealing from extended to foreign governments and banks, will be so controlled as their employees the nature of those other, to insure that United States materials purchased with such loans will nmve in American-flag vessels in compliance with Public Resolution 17, equally-important union services and protec­ 1934. That resolution provided that in connection with loans made by tions. the United States to foster exports, there shall be provision that the The trade unionists of the 1880's—and those exports be carried exclusively in vessels of the United States unless who were not in unions — knew very well waivers arc granted due to unavailability of such vessels. what those union protections involved. Their 5* 4* major reason for joining a union was simply LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP—A new bill introduced in the House calls to obtain a degree of job security. A union for the promotion of the foreign commerce of the United States and to them, first and foremost, was a means development of the American merchant marine through the use of mobile trade fairs. It is a similar measure to S. 3389 which was in­ whereby they could insure themselves troduced in the Senate . . . The President has signed the Department of against arbitrary employer reprisal—includ­ Defense App'ropriation Act, which carries an item of $7.5 million for ing loss of jobs and blacklisting — because commercial sea transportation of Defense Department civilian and they might disagree with an employer or military personnel on American-flag vessels ... A bill which would seek some improvement in the terms and authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct two modern stern conditions of their employment. ramp trawlers to be used in connection with research in fisheries It is only when workers have such assur­ science has been referred to the House Merchant Marine Committee ance and protection that they are in a posi­ for consideration . . . The establishment of through routes and joint rates by carriers serving Alaska or Hawaii and the other states, was tion to bargain effectively on other terms passed by the Senate and is now cleared for Presidential approval. and conditions. Lacking this, they have to The Senate has approved six bills designed to permit documentation approach the employer hat in hand, or sup­ under United States laws with coastwise privileges of a number of press their complaints altogether. This is the small foreign vessels, including tugs, barges, and ferryboats. Some area in a relationship with an employer of the craft were built in the United States and transferred foreign, which makes all the difference between "unwhile others are foreign-built ion" and "non-union." The union man can bring up his grievances and propose on-thejob improvements knowing that he is shield­ ed from personal retaliation by his employer. The non-union man, no matter how desirable his conditions may be, lives at the mercy of his supervisors' whims from day to day. The big difference, of course, lies between the grievance machinery established in union contracts and that which is available to non­ union members. No matter how camouHaged the system may be in a non-union plant, the final disposition of all grievances—even the permission to bring up a grievance—rests solely with the employer. It's easy to imagine what this means in the case of a man who is fired because of a disagreement with his immediate supervisor. He has to come in on his hands and knees. That's when he first realizes he doesn't have essential protection on the job. The union pioneers of the 1880's were well aware of this problem. They lived from day to day, never knowing when the axe would fall and when they would be placed on an industry-wide blacklist. They dared to form unions in the first instance because of their hunger for an organization that could shelter against an employer's unreasoning ven­ geance. Today these vital issues have largely been obscured. Too many American workers, par­ ticularly in the white collar categories, have proceeded on the false illusion that as long as they do their jobs, nobody will mistreat or fire them. Much to their dismay, some are now begin­ ning to discover that when comouter equip­ ment is installed, they are "ph ?d out" of a job without any ceremony or any protection. Unlike the union member, they have nobody to fight on their behalf or to win some assur­ ance of appropriate severance pay and simi­ lar benefits. Consequently, today, just as 80 years ago, the need for job protection and security is widespread among millions of workers who are not in unions. It is these millions who can and should be reached through effective un­ ion organizing programs. �-"•'^••^''^^11:. SEAFARERS EOC UILT in 1944 as a troopship version of the siandord C-4 cargo vessel, the SS Transglobe soiled octively In World War II and was then laid up in the Suisun Bay, Calif., reserve an­ chorage until early in 1961, when she was bought up by the Hudson Waterways Corp., her present SlU-contractcd owners. B With Military Sea Transporta­ tion Service approval, plans for a special roll-on/roll-off conver­ sion program were put into effect and the present vehicle carrier emerged a year later. She has since made her "maiden" voyage to France and paid off in New York. The photogrophs here show scenes on the vessel, which today has a stern ramp, two side ports with romps and a series of interior ramps for easy sorting and trans­ fer of vehicles. She also carries a quantity of general cargo in a forward hold. C' »• : 1'; r • t > ! i ••I' f Work on generator keeps electricians George LeStronge (left) and A. E. DoLoney busy on arrival In New York. Heavy-duty Army truck rig rides up ramp from below-decks after making run from France back to the States. Entire ship Is designed lor safe and quick handling of vehicles. M b ti •; P| 'I ^ At Brooklyn Army Base, gangway group Includes (l-r) Ceeil IMIggiM. bosunt Raul Rfvero, OS; C. E. Dixon, chief engineer; HMoy ThoHWS. OS, and SlU rep. Pat Marlnelli. Payoff time aboard reveals (right to left) Huey Ttiomos. OS; George Williams, engine; Cecil Wlgglm. bosun; Lev! Reyodldb. waiting their turn with the paymaster. The ship's IB-knot speed and basic design made for a fast turnaround after reaching Europe. ti /'•J 'I' �Pve Tbirteea IVork goes on during heavy ; fizzle out on deck, as Bugger" PhlHips, AB. ightens fitting on ramp I ' f<- ^ ' f: if:;;-'!:??.;: If Meal hour is busy time, so Henry Koppersmitli, (left), and George Crawford keep things moving. yj Maze of interior ramps that provide easy access for stowage of vehicles in the three-hold, three-deck ship is Inaicated above. Arrows point to ramp that leads to main deck. Card game occupies time of Lowrence Maples, A6; 2nd elec­ trician G. LoStronge and bosun C. Wiggins. illililii' liililBS? f ' / s %v. Ship's meeting for all SIU crewmembers aboard discussed conditions on initial voyage of the vessel as well as Union developments ashore while crew was away. SIU rep. Pat Marinelli (standing, center) is checking how ramp machinery operates while in port. In foc'sle, ship's delegate Joe Tucker (left) and Joe Borrane, both in deck department, catch up on latest SIU and industry news via the SEAFARERS LOG. �mm PVe Foartem AofOfl; U6t Red Tanker Fleef Way Out Front Plant Workers Visit Union Seeking union representation, workers from the Astro Lamp Company stopped in at last UIW ^membership meeting in New York to discuss plant problems. Pictured (l-r), with Union representatives, are A. Forbes, SlU rep. Hank Brewer, George RufFen, SlU rep. Pat Marinelli, Thomas Kea and Henry Bell. The company is located in Brooklyn. UIW Regional Constitutions Approved By 9-1 Margin A new regional union structure has been established by members of the United Industrial Workers as the result of the overwhelming vote approving proposed regional con­ stitutions for the Atlantictand Gulf areas of the union. assist the continued growth and advancement of the UIW and its Adopted by 9-1 majorities members. The regional constitu­ during four weeks of secret mail baiioting that ended August 20, the new constitutions went into effect immediately. The results of the voting were certified by a three-man rankand-file tallying committee on August 21. Each proposed consti­ tution was carried by a 90 per­ cent of the members voting. The vote signified strong membership endorsement of the program to NY Metals Plant Okays Wage Boost NEW YORK—Continuing the wrap-up of contract renewal negotiations at shops in the metro­ politan area, the SIU United In­ dustrial Workers has completed a brand-new agreement with the Armand-Edwards Metal Products Corporation of Brooklyn. Overwhelmingly approved by UIW shop members employed at the plant, the contract provides for a new schedule of automatic hourly wage increases as well as an additional paid holiday. Ar­ mand-Edwards workers will now receive ten paid holidays a year. In addition to other changes In working conditions, members will receive a full day's wages for each day of sick leave that is not used up. The contract also calls for a guaranteed minimum wage, allow­ ances for up to two coffee breaks per day and complete coverage under the UIW health and wel­ fare program. The agreement went Into effect this month and runs for a two-year period. Armand-Edwards Metal Products handles the manufacture of fab­ ricated sheet metal for many types of industrial uses. tions reaffirm all membership rights guaranteed in the parent national UIW constitution. Balloting began July 23 under the terms of detailed voting in­ structions mailed to members In each area. The membership committee that conducted the tally verified the eligibility of all voters to be sure there was no duplicate balloting and that no one voted who was Ineligible. A constitutional committee des­ ignated at the first annual UIW convention last year drafted the proposed constitutions for mem­ bership approval. The new documents provide for regional elections In June of 1903 and for Interim officers to serve without pay until then to assist in carrying out the terms of the constitution and its objectives on behalf of the membership. No change has been mads in union dues, as each regional constitution merely restates the dues structure presently outlined in the parent UIW constitution. Seat rain Shop Signs EDGEWATER, NJ—The United Industrial Workers and Seatrain Lines, Inc., have agreed to a new contract covering the company's shoreside workers at its marine terminal here. The new pact is for a two-year period and provides for an immedi­ ate pay increase plus a wage reopener after the first year. Workers will also be paid for any unused sick leave they may accumulate during the year. Workers at Edgewater maintain and repair the containers used on the Seatrain vessels to move all types of cargoes by railcar and special "piggyback" truck tcaiiers. An oil company study has r«vealed that tankers representing more than one million deadweight tons were under construction or on order for the Soviet Union in 1961. This represents almost triple the tonnage slated for US-flag operation. The U.S. total of 449,000 tons under construction or on order, an increase of 53,000 tons over 1960, accounted for less than three per­ cent of the 15.7 million total ton­ nage being built around the world. At the end of 1961, the world tanker fleet consisted of 3,250 ships amounting to 68.9 million deadweight, or equivalent to 4,305 T-2 vessels. This represented a gain of about six percent for the year. Liberia Leads Liberia, whose tax concessions and non-interference policy has made her one of the favorite stamping grounds for runaway ship operators, continued as the leading flag of registry, with 735 T-2 equivalents, followed by the United Kingdom and Norway. The American tanker fleet, which ranked fourth, continued to de­ cline In position during 1961. Liberia also had the biggest and fastest tankers, with the US again bringing up the rear by having the oidest and smallest fleet. At the end of 1961, the fleet that was controlled by US oil com­ panies under all flags was equivelant to 784 T-2 tankers. Out of this total, only 29 percent were registered under the American flag. Some 54 percent was regis­ tered in Liberia, Panama and the United Kingdom. m r DIBBOTOEY mm':.... . SIU Atlantic, Gulf Lakes & Inland Waters District PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Claude Simmons Llndsey WlUlama Carl Shepard A1 Tanner SECRETARY-TREASURER A] Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BUI HaU Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey. Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. John Pay, Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROIT 1022S W. Jefferson Ave. Vlnewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS....678 4th Ave.. Bklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 HOUSTON 3804 Canal St. Paul Drozak. Agent WAInut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE. .2808 Pearl St., SE., Ja* WUUam Morrla, Agent ELgln 3-0987 .MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzalei, Agent FRanklln 7-3364 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louia Neira, Agent HEmlock 2-1794 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens. Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 NORFOLK 416 CoUey Ave. Gordon Spencer, Acting Agent 625-6508 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. Frank Drozak, Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 430 Harrison St. Frank Boyne, Agent DOuglas 2-4401 B. HcAuley, West Coast Rep. 3ANTURCB, PR. 1313 Fernandez Juncos. Stop 20 Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep. Phone 723-0003 SEATTLE 3909 1st Ave. Ted Babkowski. Agent MAIn 3-4334 TAMPA 313 Harrison St. Jeff Gillette, Agent. 220-2788 WILMINGTON. CaUI 908 N Marine Av^ George McCartney. Agent TBrminal 4-3928 ISLAND (Citiaa Servi SS—Chalrmeib M. I. rt seeretary, A. Cepata. aup'a la raportad a faw minor baaft taM up at payott. 83.30 la sblp'i ftiad. fufgaatad that eraw hold aoa«aI maawiS bafora payoH eoncanUof Inadaquata faeding, chansa M aMMa aad toUat tlasua. Requaat donatioaa ta improva TV reception. •AOLp VOYAQiR (United Mari­ time)/ AprH 8—Chelrman, David P, Sykeet Seeretary, Alexander D, •rodle. Kenneth. Wlntera eleoted •hip's delegate. Request slop cheat list ta t>a postad. Quarters should be palntad and fans checked. WA90STA (Watsrmsn), April 3— Chalrmsn, Irvlit Meyd) Saeratary, Nicholas Hstalmltlot. Ship's delegate reported everything okay. One man waa taken off the ship in Germany to go to the hospital. Vote of thanka to steward department for wonder­ ful food. ORION PLANBT (Orion Shipping), April $—Chairmen, Berncrd Macc; Socrotary, LIndlay R. MacOonald. Ship's delegate reported that four men replaced In Yokohama. 333.18 la ship'a fund. Request that sklvies not IM worn in messhaU, and cupa and glassee bo brought back to pantry. ALCOA PIONEBR (Alcoa), April 22 —Chairman, J. M. Foster; Socrotary, J. Miller. Ship's delegate reported no hoofs at prasent. Crewmen advised to clear through their respective de­ partmant delegates prior to taking up any btof with tha ship's delegate. Steward found old repair list and noted that nothing had been done. Delegate to refer same to chief mate and maator. Steward requests no boarding of Unan, dirty or clean. JIafety maeting discussed. SUZANNB (Bull), April 27—Chairman, B. Armstrong; Secretary, J. R. Brown. No beefa reported. Suggeetion brought up to Union to have two men on watch in engine room. AMIS VICTORY (Victory Carriers), April IS—Chalrmsn, Bryant; Secre­ tary, W. Pedersen. Shlp'e delegate reported most repairs taken care of. Meeting to be held on safety pro­ gram. 316.50 in ship'a fund. AU handa requested to wear pants in messhaU and pantry. ORION CLIPPBR (Colonial), .April I?—Chairman, Joseph Morton; SecreUry, Prank Nakllckl. $16.82 In ship's funs. Motion made for the Union to get in touch with the Company to aee why a batter gra te of meat Is not put almard. Low grade meats put on In Singapore. Safety department should be notified of the unsafe work­ ing conditions around the main cargo pumps; oU and water cannot be drained properly. Catwalks should be placed around each pump. 8TIBL SXHCUTIVB (Isthmian), March 1$—Chairman, C. C. Lawson; Secretary C. R. Wood. No beefe reported by department delegates. Suggestion that better grade of cold cute for night lunch be placed almard. April 23—Chairman,.. C. C. Lawson; Secretary, C. R. Wood. Ship's fund is $18.60. Two men hospitalized In steward department. Food beef settled. Discussion on new washing machine for crew. •AOLI TRAVELER (Seatransport), April 22—Chairman, J. Lewis; Seere­ tary, N. Merrick. Ship's delegate re­ ported that captain cut draw list. $20.00 In ship's fund. Delegates to find out who it responsible for short­ age of food. Crewmembers have been hungry and don't want this to be the same for the next crew. Vote of thanka to Stevenson, ship's delegate, for Job well done. ALCOA .PEGASU$ (Alcoa), April 29 —Chairman, V. Dalhouse; Secretary, W. Hill. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Steward department meeting held. Steward requested to Issue more coffee to crew pantry at night for watches. TITAN (Overseas Oil), April 2S— Chilrman, Huddleston; Secretary, Schaeffer. Ship'a delegate said ona man waa taken off ship at Pedro due to illness. A few beefs will be taken up with patrolman at payoff. Crew requests bookcases be Installed In messhaU. Feb. 13—Chairman, R. C. Pappan; Secretary, T. A. Brown. Suggestion made to paint all living quarters and get fane for quarters as per agree­ ment. DEL RIO (Mississippi), April 29— Chairman, W. F. Long; Secretary, I. R. Llenoa. $2.60 In sliip's fund. See patrolman about getting mora LOGs sent to ship. Crewmembers with oil and paint on pants are asked not to come Into messhaU and sit on chairs. HASTINOi (Waterman), April 29— Chairman, Clifford Frostnal; goero- tsry, J. Wells. Ship's delegato re­ ported everjrthlng running smoothly. Special meeting to ha held with patrolman to Iron out deck depart­ ment beefs. Motion to change vaca- Uon plan. Vota of thanka ta tlx ataward departmant and to ohlaf aook and bakar for Job waU dona. Vata « thanks ta dack delegata for baoUns up his department. OLOBI IXPLORiR (Marltlma Overscat). May 1—Chairman, W. Kavlltt Saeratary, A. W. Brown. Slap's dslogata reported that one men went to hospital In Bahamas. No beefs re­ ported. Vota of thanks to ship's dele­ gate for Job well done, and to the steward department. STEBL SCIENTIST (Isthmian Lines), May 7—Chairman, P, R. Wagneri Sec­ retary, P. s. Omeaa. $17.85 in ship's fund. D. L. Dickerson elected ship's delegate. No beefs reported. ZEPHYRHILLS (Fan-American), Feb. 9—Chairman, Carl Page; Secretary, W. H. Dunham. G. C. Peterson elected ship's delegate. No beefs reported. One man mised ship last trip. The matter of fumigation for roaches will be taken up with patrolman. March 15—Chairman, V. C. Smith; Secretary, William Dunham. No beefs reported. $9.50 in ship's fund. Dona­ tions collected for flowers to be sent to the family of the skipper. Sugges­ tion made that the time for eari.v supper should be posted early in the day. AU old Jams and Jellies, and condiments in general, should be thrown out when molded. Extermina­ tor wiil.be used to get rid of pests. April 21—Chairman, J. Bullock; Secretary, A. P. Hargls. No beefs. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), April 22—Chairman, Paul J. Franco; Sec­ retary, J. J. O'Rourka. Everything running smoothly. $19.50 In ship's fund. Anderson resigned as ship's delegate and was re-elected. Bosun complimented galley on well-pre­ pared, good food. Vote of thanks to galley workers and to crew mes.sman for Job well done. CITIES SERVICR BALTIMORB (Cltios Service), May 12—Chairman, A. C. Wilson; Secretary, W. CIcgg. No beefs reported. Everything in good order. Charles T. Gaskin elected new ship's delegate. Suggestion that coffee be made in percolators. DEL CAMPO (Mississippi), April 29 —Chalrmsn, H. Sanders; Secretary, J. W. Pieou. No beefa reported. Sug­ gestion made for ail hands to help keep messhaU and pantry clean at aU times. Vote of thanks given to stew­ ard department for Job well done. B. DEL RIO (Delta), May 5—Chairman, M. Moya; Saeratary, ttanry C. Gardes. One man missed hip in Lake Charles. New York will clarify vaca­ tion plan. $12.44 in ship's fund. Dis­ cussion on wiper cleaning officer'! laundry. Crew requested not to use slop chute before 7 AM. KFNM.AR (Csimar), .May 4—Chair­ man, W. S. Porter; Secretary, Francia L. Gooiey. Ship's fund is $7.80. Chief cook walked off ship ut Long Beach. One oiler paid off to go to hospital. Ship's crew feel that there should be some way of taking care of a mem­ ber's dependent who has a nervoua breakdown, as this does not seem to be covered by the welfare plan. DEL ALBA (Mississippi), May 4— Chairman, Orlando L. Gutrrero; Sacretary, U. LaBarrerc. Ship chartered to States Marine. Delegate reported very bad mail service. No LOGs re­ ceived. One wiper and chief steward got off in Hawaii with medical slips. $11 in ship's fund. Motion that leiter be written to headquarters regarding safety on/ ship. Not one safety meet­ ing held in three-month trip. FRANCES (Bull), May 13—Chair­ man, Ai Padu; Secretary, James Bry­ ant. Delegates reque.sted to have all beefs ready upon arrival in New York. Motion made to wrile to headquariers requesting ciarification on vacation payments. Vote of thanks to steward department. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin Line), May 13—Chairman, Willis Walker; Secretary, Maximo Bugawan. Chief steward authorized to purchase in foreign ports if the ship's ctores tun short and the v.iyage lasts longer than the 95 days. Willie Walker eiecled new ship'a delegate. Crew requested not to use the dryer in the laundry after nine o'clock at night due to too much noise. Crew, asked not to leave cups, glasses and dishes on tables in the me.s.sroom at night. especiniiy when the ship is at sea. Early eaters should give other members a chance to eat and not stay in messroum too long as there isn't enough room at the tables for everyone to eat at one time. AZALEA CITY (Saa-Land), May 14 -Chairman, R. Lasso; Secretary, John Coyle. Ship's delegate reported no beefs and will see about getting crew quarters painted. $2.76 in ship's fund. Suggestion that when ship goes to shipyard, air vents should be installed in crew quarters as an aid to keeping quarters cool in hot weather. JOHN C (Atlantic Carriers), May 11 —Chairman, Payna; Secretary, E. Abualy. Ship'a delegate to contact captain regarding new wa.shtng ma­ chine. Food plan to be contacted regarding coffee. Ship needs to be fumigated. PACIFICUS (Orion), May 12—Chairman, Louis J. Bollinger; Secretary, O. T. Butclglle. Ship'a delegate re­ ported that the ateward was hospi­ talized in Sicily: chief cook advanced to steward. No beefs of any kind. Ship's steering engine to be checked by the patrolman. ''i �Augmfi. 196S SEAF AKKKS BOATMik IBU Wins Contracts For Two New Fleets ST. LOUIS—Two more fleets here and in Mobile, Alabama, have come under IBU contract following the succeessful wind-up of negotiations by the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union with both companies. Here in St. Louis, the Alton St. Louis,'where the IBU also rep­ Towing Company, whose resents Ford Towing. boatmen voted unanimously for SIU-IBU representation in April, has signed a brand-new, two-year contract covering the men on its two vessels in the harbor area. The company had only one boat at the time of the voting and is expected to expand still further. The second operation is the River-Gulf Towing* Company, which has one boat running from Mobile to Birmingport on the War­ rior River. It signed for a one-year pact that will expire at the same time as agreements with other IBU-contracted fleets doing the same type of work in the area. Both new agreements provide wage increase for all crewmen, full job security-seniority protection and complete welfare coverage for the men and their families. They establish paid holidays, strict grievance procedures and other benefits standard in IBU agree­ ments. In addition, the Alton pact calls for a wage review next May. Alton operated one boat, the 800hp MV Spencer at the time of the National Labor Relations Board voting it has now acquired the 1,700-hp Davy Crockett and may add others. Its 20 boatmen are engaged primarily in making up tows for various other barge lines In the harbor area. The company is the second harbor boat operation to come under an IBU contract in IBU Boat Opens New Cult Canal HOUSTON—SIU boatmen aboard the tug Pop Ellis won the distinc­ tion of towing the first two barges ever to cross the Intracoastal Canal to Victoria County, Texas, via the brand-new Victoria Barge Canal. The barges docked at the tempo­ rary facilities of the duPont chem­ ical plant where a cargo of caustic soda was pumped directly from the barges through five miles of un­ derground pipeline to storage fa­ cilities ashore. Caustic soda is the only material shipped into the plant at the present time, since work on the canal and barge slip right up to the plant site, seven miles away, is not completed. Ultimately, barge transportation is expected to be used for other materials as well. Right now, about ten barge loads a month are ex­ pected to be unloaded at the tem­ porary dock. The Pop Ellis is one of five tugs operated by the Ellis Towing Company, which came under contract with the SIU In­ land Boatmen's Union in the sum­ mer of 1961 after its boatmen voted for SIU-IBU representation in National Labor Relations Board balloting. The Victoria Barge Canal is situ­ ated in the flood plain of the Guadalupe River in Victoria and Calhoun counties, Texas, and will eventually intersect several US rivers. The project calls for a sea-level canal for barge traffic. River-Gulf runs the MV Coal King on the Warrier River in the same type of service as the IBUmanned Gulf Canal Line, Coyle Line and Dixie Carriers. The com­ pany employs 11 men. Lakes IBU Drive Nets Solid Cains DETROIT—Casting a unanimous vote for representation by the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union On The Great Lakes, employees of the Sea­ way Cartage Company here added another company to the union fold via a National Labor Relations Board election last month. Negotiations with the company are beginning immediately as part of a stepped-up effort by the Great Lakes Tug & Dredge Region-IBU to bring additional non-union com­ panies under union contract. The vote at Seaway Cartage was on July 26. At the same time as the vote count was announced, four more companies in the Chicago area came under IBU agreements to as­ sure their workers the full pro­ tection of union contracts. The four companies included Federal Barge Company, Great Lakes Towing Company, Kertzman Dredging Company and the Marine Towing and Salvage Company. IBU members in these fleets are now covered fully under the job secu­ rity, welfare and pension programs that are the backbone of IBU area contracts. Organizing efforts are also proceeding at several other companies engaged in underman­ ned, cut-rate operations on the Lake.s= Face FifleeB LOO Quitting Ship? Notify Union A reminder from SItJ head­ quarters cautions all Seafarers leaving their ships to contact the hall in ample time to allow the Union to dispatch a replace­ ment. Failure to give notice be­ fore paying off may cause a de­ layed sailing, force the ship to sail short of the manning re­ quirements and needlessly make the work tougher for your ship­ mates. NewSecurity Program Hit By AFL-CIO WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has called for defeat of a bill giving Congressional sanction to 1 "industrial security" program, warning that passage would cause "serious damage" to basic con­ stitutional rights. The bill would permit the Secre­ tary of Defense "to deny basic constitutional liberties of Ameri­ can citizens; namely, the rights to confront and cross - examine witnesses and the right to appeal to the courts from adverse deci­ sions." Its history goes back to 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court held the Government's in­ dustrial security program invalid in an eight to one decision. The court held that without statutory authority for such a program, de­ nial of confrontation and crossexamination of government wit­ nesses was illegal. Former Pres. Eisenhower issued an executive order restoring the program with some changes to meet the court's objections, but did not apply the confrontation and cross - examination principles to all cases. The present bill is an attempt to give the order Congressional sanction to make further legal challenges more difficult. Although It purports to deal with procedures to protect classi­ fied information in industrial plants, it would apply also to any "educational, or research organ­ ization, institution, tnterprise, or other legal entity located in the United States." Baltimore Pair Couples Up Baltimore boatmen Ed Schocffer (left) and Walter Anderson bear a. hand to. secure rail lighter to bridge as tug (not shown) holds vessel to.the dock. Both veterans work for IBU-contracted Baltimore Towing & Lighteroge Co, Transport Census Long Overdue, Still Needs $s WASHINGTON—Congress may brush off some of the dust on a proposal for a transportation census originally author­ ized in 1948 and In subsequent years alloted no funds so that it could be put into e^ect.H President Kennedy's trans­ passengers. The divergency of portation message to Con­ agencies, some regulating air and gress several months ago appar­ ently provoked the lawmakers Into taking action on the matter. The President asserted that a complete overhaul was needed on existing legislation governing transportation in this country and specifically called for close ex­ amination of defects in several major areas of maritime opera­ tions. The urgent need for a trans­ portation survey Is pointed up by the fact that although the industry overall accounts for one-fifth of the gross national product, or $100 bil­ lion, there are huge gaps in the data available. This makes it next to impossible to determine the geographic distribution of a specific commodity from manufacturing point to market. Information Is also lacking on the type of carriers used, the vol­ ume In which it moves, their origins and destinations, the length of haul and the Important items of cost. These deficiencies in data exist despite the fact that as many as 30 Federal agencies collect In­ formation of one kind or another aoout the movement of freight and water transport, others highways and still others harbor and ship construction, leads to a mass of statistics without a central body to coordinate them. The census will attempt to clear up the transportation puz­ zle by delving into the three areas considered most revealing: Ship­ ments of manufactured goods, their origin, destination and meth­ od of transport; truck transporta­ tion and the number of privatelyowned trucks, for-hire trucks and trucks operating solely in intra­ state commerce, and questions on passenger transportation, the type of transportation used, etc. The transportation census issue is alive again because next year the Government will embark on its reguler census of retail and wholesale trade, services, manu­ facturing and minerals that It makes at five-year intervals. Chief opposition to the idea is coming from the private carriers, such as many trucking concerns who have no regulation, but fear some may be forthcoming if their method of operation is revealed. Many of these operations have cut sharply into cargo that would ordinarily be shipped by water. SZXJ MEDICilZa Joseph B. Logge, MD, Medical Director Don't Neglect Personal Sanitation Many Seafarers in their travels around the world, particularly in South America and in sections of Europe, have come across the bidet, which has been described simply as a "sit-down bathtub" for spotbathing of anal and genital areas where cleainliness is most important. The bidet has been held in low esteem by Americans mainly because of the stories of travelers returning from abroad who regard the bidet solely as a feminine sanitary accoutrement. Actually, this equipment is regarded by medical specialists as a valuable hygienic aid which, if*^ used regularly, would prevent bidets in use throughout the world diseases which arise from lack of are manufactured in the United personal hygiene. States, hut 95 percent of them are It has been pointed out that exported. most people make It a practice to Our neighbors from south of wash their hands after going to the border or Europe could he the toilet, yet the body parts which pardoned for looking down at their need washing most are neglected. noses at the primitive state of Since It Is not practical for an in­ sanitation in United States hotels dividual to take a shower after and tiomes which lack this very going to the toilet, the bidet per­ important fixture. mits proper cleansing of the anal The hostility or Indifference to and genital areas with soap and bidets is such that even American water. hospitals are not equipped with As one physictan put it, in a them, although they could he most recent editorial for a professional useful in cases where patients are journal: "Toilet tissue has been unable to take a shower or tub perfumed, tinted and made anti­ hath. For that matter, not all septic, but nevertheless, it Is still proctologists themselves have them paper and only a step better in in their homes. Like the slioemaker evolutionary Improvement than the who walks around with holes in pages from the mail-order cata­ his shoes, they do not always fol­ logue or the barbaric plantain low their own advice. That shouldn't keep other Americans leaf." from installing bidets in their Proctologists—medical men who homes or using them on their specialize in diseases of the colon and rectum—regard this procedure travels whenever they are available. as an essential preventative which (Comments and sxiggestions are could eliminate numerous painful, invited by this department and embarrassing and serious ailments. can be submitted to this column The bidet Is also useful as a foot in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) bath, with equal cleansing and theraputic values. It is strange that Americans, with their fetish for personal hygiene and cleanliness, should be so hostile to the use of the bidet because of its associations in the popular mind with ladies of easy virtue. Oddly enough, most of the 'YMO'CUL ^ MW-mihm �SEAfARERB LOG Pac* Sixteen Ancnai 1981 That's A Ship, Irsns SEAFARERS IN DRYDOCK The following is the latest available list of Seafarers in hospitals around the country t With daughter Irene, 4, in tow, Seafarer Basil Undertajio, OS, points out model of Steel Traveler, Isthmian C-3 outside shipping hall at headquarters, with legend describing suc­ cessful SlU drive to win "biggest ever" election in maritime. Joe Algina, Safety Director A Minimum Shipboard Safety Plan One subject that bears repetition from time to time is the procedure for maintaining a safety program aboard SIU vessels and for holding shipboard safety meetings to deal with problems that may or frequently do arise. These procedures established several years ago have served well in keeping our shipboard program operating and while this is but one aspect of the overall objective, ships' meetings on the epecific subject of safety continue to demonstrate a very useful purpose. Generally, each vessel participating in the program has five safety committees set up to assist in accident prevention. Each of them requires the cooperation of all hands to make them work successfully. SENIOR SAFETY COMMITTEE. The Senior Safety Committee, consisting of various ship's officers and an unlicensed representative from each department (elected by the department), meets once per month at a time designated by the vessel's master. A minimum .suggested agenda for this meeting is the following: Discuss a safety subject. Discuss accidents since last meeting. Consider recommendations forwarded from the departmental safety meetings. Consider findings and recommendations of Inspection Com­ mittee. -f (See "Vessel's Safety Inspec­ Committee meeting. tion Committee" below). VESSEL'S SAFETY INSPEC­ Formal minutes of this meeting TION COMMITTEE. This commit­ are kept and forwarded to the tee shall consist of the following various company safety depart­ members: ments in duplicate. The companies One Mate (Appointed by the should also forward a copy of the Master). minutes to this department for One Engineer (Appointed by study and possible joint action. the Master). Deck Department Safety Rep­ DEPARTMENTAL SAFETY resentative. COMMITTEE. Each Departmental Engine Department Safety Safety Committee meets once a Representative. month prior to the meeting of Steward Department Safeljy the Senior Safety Committee. Representative. Membership of these committees is as follows: The ship's Safety Inspection The departmental safety repre­ Committee should make an in­ sentative, plus the chief mate, first spection of the entire vessel at assistant engineer or chief steward least once a month. The inspection (depending on the department) and is best made department by de­ all members of the department off partment and, during the inspec­ tion of a particular department, watch. The minimum suggested agenda in addition to the mate and the for each of these meetings is the engineer, only the Safety repre­ sentative for that particular de­ following: partment is usually in attendance. Safety representative's report During their inspection they on the previous Senior should look and report any exist­ Safety Committee Meetings. ing unsafe practices or conditions. Discuss a safety subject. They shall also observe and report Discuss unsafe practices and/ on the progress being made on or condtions observed. previously-approved recommenda­ Recommendations to be taken tions and whether the previouslyto the next Senior Safety approved recommendations seem to be accomplishing the desired results. If this minimum program is followed and all hands aboard work together for the desired re­ sult, progress can continually be made on eliminating hazards and accidents that are costly and un­ necessary for all Involved. (Comments and suggestions are invited by this department and can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG;) USPHS HOSPITAI. NEW ORLEANS, LA. Samuel BaUey WUUam Kennedy Joseph Basch Thomas Loarenta Alonzo Bettis George La Fleur Anne L. Blizzard Oscar Lee Solomon Brian. Jr. Gerhard Linden Daniel Buster Daniel Luizza Donaid Brooks Luis Malta Rdderick Brooks Roslndo Marc Daniel Byrne Norman McDaniel Paul Capo Lawyer McGraw Virgil Leo Cash Demetrious Miofai George Champlin John Mills Adie Coleman Victor Miorana Gerald Coll Hazel Morris Thomas Dailey TerrlU Nesbitt Gordon Davis Raymond Oiso WUUam Padgett WiUiam Davis Eugene Englehardt Richard Pardo Francesco Fraone Harry Peeler Eugene Gallaspy Jack Peralta Needham Galloway Calvin Rome Aubrey Sargent Henry Gerdes Ralph Shrotzky James Gllsson Wayne Sisk Lewis Griffin John Talbot John Guidsy WUUam Thumonga Harry Hammond Guy Thrasher Carle Harris Charles Hlckox Roland Wilcox, Jr. Carmond Williams Roland Karns Eugene Williams Leonard Kay Carl Gibbs USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS G. W. Alexander Vlcent Medina Edmund Ainsworth Julian Mendoza Jesse Puckett Isham Beard Alfredo Perex Leon Hebert Joseph ReviU George Howard U. Richardson John JeUette Arthur Sigler Hebert Jackson HamUton Sebum Joseph Johnson Berkey Schuler N. Katonl WiUiam Wirtanen Donald Ikerd William Walker Emelio Lerma USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. Frank Airey Jay Jackson Hebert Armfield Robert ~Meloy George Brady USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASS. Jose Leeton Charles Robinson Lindley McDonald Jerry Wood Ralph MendaU USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Donald Hampton Oliver Lee John H. Morris Perry Lee USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Herbert Goley Tames Marks Clyde Mariner USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Ranger Olsen Paul Arthofer Calvin Bettinger Alexander Potorskl Burt Hanback Milton Reeves Charles Hippard Delbert Smith Taimadge Johnson J. T. F. Sigmoa Theodore Katros Lloyd Thomas Marion Maynard Victor Valencia Arthur Nelson USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Domingo AguUa Lars Johansen Lupo Aloha WiiTiam Lang WUUam Barber Bienenido Ledo James Beck Dionisias Loukas Algot Bogren David MiUer John Breen Roy Newbury Jacob Bryan Francis LaughUn Charles Crockett Roy Rayfield Edward Czosnowskl Thomas Riley George Saucer Anthony Ferter James Shipley Eusbie Gherman F. Teigerio Arthur Graf Charles Graham Richard Toler Thomas Hendricks A. Voyevotskl CULLEN STATE HOSPITAL CULLEN, MARYLAND Marco Calgaro Henry Gawkowskl MOUNT WILSON STATE HOSPITAL MOUNT WILSON, MARYLAND George Lesnansky James Swoboda Jobe Mullen USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK WUUam Jordan Kaid Abdul John Alidringa John Kehrwieder Frederick Kenfoot Agnar Anderson Theodore Lord AneffeRo Aronis Othe Bobb Claude McNorton Joseph Nagy John Barone Wm. Bergquist James Purcell Vincente Remolar Francisco Bayron Pastor Retoriano Robert Burton Jose Romero Arthur Campbell Mohamed .Said Arcanjo Crasto Chas. Dougherty Abbas Samet Sherman Shumate Romuldo Garcia Walter Stucke Joseph GilliardAdolph Swenson Edward Hawkins P. Wedrogowskl Charles Haymond Stanley Yodris Tirado Igasio USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Warren Alderman Arthur Madsen Max Olson Benjamin Deibler Grant L. Saylor Isaac B. Duncan Harry Emmett WUUe A. Young Bozo G. Zclencio Abe Gordon Thomas Lehay Get Certificate Before Leaving Seafarers are advised to se­ cure a master's certificate at all times when they become ill or Injured aboard ship. The right to demand a master's cer­ tificate verifying illness or in­ jury aboard a vessel is guaran­ teed by law. In the hospital? Call Sm Hall immediately! SAILORS SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Kenning BJork Thomas Isaksen Alberto Gutlerres VA HOSPITAL WEST ROXBURY. MASS. Raymond Arsenault VA HOSPITAL KERRVILLE, TEXAS WUlard T. CahUl PINK CREST HAVEN COVINGTON. LA. Frank Martin US SOLDIERS HOME WASHINGTON, DC WUUam Thomson USPHS HOSPITAL CHICAGO, ILLINOIS WUUam Thompson USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE Stephen Emerson Physical Exams-All SIU Clinics June, 1962 Port Baltimore Houston Mobilo New Orleans ... New York Philadelphia •••• Seamen 60 Wives 14 4 12 10 18 4 TOTAL Children TOTAL 8 98 6 118 6 78 14 310 17 405 12 55 62 63 1064 SIU Welfare, Vacation Plans Cash Benefits Paid—June, 1962 Hospital Benefits (Welfare).... Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) ... Maternity Benefits (Welfare) ... Dependents Benefits (Welfare) .. Optical Benefits (Welfare) Outpatient Benefits (Welfare) .. CLAIMS" 7,158 37 341 42 655 480 10,140 AMOUNT PAID $ 30,187.20 73,550.00 51,090.00 8,400.00 66,145.49 4,318=47 49,683.00 Summary (Welfare) ...... 18,853 $283,374.16 1,383 $234,587.79 20,236 $517,961.95 Vacation Benefits TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD.... SIU Blood Bank Inventory July, 1962 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTAL Previous Balance 7 19 112 59?^ 15 42 4 14 22 421^ 4 (4)* 15 ...352 • i'igures in parenthesis ( Pints Credited 0 41 0 4 0 0 2 3 6 0 0 9 0 Pints Used 0 20 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 65'/i 27 TOTAL ON HAND 7 40Vi 112 sm 15 42 6 17 26 42H 4 4 15 390V4 I indicate shortage to be made up. �SEAFARERS ItM LOG Pate SeveBteaa V'J-', ' Sixth Pint SECXXRITir Joseph Volpian, Social Security Director Labor's New Bid For 35-Hour Week SlU Special Equipment Benefit Spurs Recovery Rehabilitation programs now underway for the dependents of two Seafarers point up the flexible and expanding struc­ ture of the SIU Welfare Plan with its provision for a special equipment benefit. The special equipment fea­ ture covers the maze of situa­ Organized labm-'s new campaign for a 35-hour week with no cut in earning is a revival of a recurrent bargaining and legislative issue that has featured the American economy since the Revolution, according to an analysis In the current AFL-CIO "American Federationist." At one time the demand was for a 10-hour day. That won, the cry was for the tions where regular medical treat­ 8-hour day, the 49-hour week. ment has gone as far as it can, and the use of items ranging from In nearly four decades ending maintain and stimulate employ­ high-powered hearing aids to mo­ in the mid-1930s, the generally ment." The desire for greater Job torized bed frames for the home prevailing workweek was slashed security is similarly behind labor's treatment of invalids is mo.?! from 60 hours to 40 hours, a rate current demand for a shorter needed. of roughly 5 hours a decade, says week. Such equipment, which is au­ the article prepared by the AFL"Occasional arguments of the thorized by the trustees of the CIO Department of Research. Now, past that reduction of hours would A "regular" at SlU medi­ Plan on the merits of each case, it continues, "nearly 30 years have reduce national output and pre­ cal center in Brooklyn,. is in addition to regular cash bene­ pa.ssed with no further general vent increases in living standards Seafarer Torsten Lundfits for hospitalization, smgery and reduction in the workweek." The were not borne out, for continuing kvist recently donated his medical care in the case of Sea­ analysis makes these points: advances in productivity have en­ farers' families or for seamen 6th pint of blood to the • Full-time workweeks shorter abled both greater output and im­ themselves. blood bank. He was last than 40 hours are more common proved standards of living," the Action by the trustees last than IS is generally realized, with analysis states. on the Modaket. an estimated 10 to 15 percent of wage and salaried non-agricultural workers affected. Most work either 85 or 37.5 hours. • The opposition of employers to shorter hours Is traditional and consistent. "Their attitudes have not been The number of SIU veterans retired on Union benefits reached 52 this year as eight a guide either to the economic or social desirability or to the prac­ more Seafarers were added to the roster of old timers receiving lifetime $150 monthly penticability of hours reduction," the sions. 4 article says. "The unqualified op­ The new SIU pensioners position typical in the last century are Alexander G. Anapol, 54; and early part of this one has Paul Catalano, 68; Justo Escalante, shifted in more recent years, how­ ever, to more sophisticated argu­ 65; Wlodzimierz Pietrucki, 66; ments that reduction may be Manuel Rodriguez, SB; Frederick sound—but only at some unspeci­ Tonucie, 66; Andrew Vidal, 66; and Fritz A. Widegren, 66. fied future period." With seatime on US ships dating • In the past shorter hours have been won through the two avenues back to the 1930s, Brother Anapol the AFL-CIO Executive Council Joined the SIU in New York in Widegren Rodrigueg Tonucie Vidal has just voted to utilize—collective 1955. Born in the Philippines, he bargaining and Government ac­ sailed in the steward department Port of New York. tion. The role of bargaining is until signing off the Steel Scien­ the steward department. A native Brother Vidal Joined the SIU of Poland, he last shipped aboard tist (Isthmian). He and his wife, generally recognized; the Govern­ at New Orleans in 1938 and sailed the Mankato, (Victory Carriers). Vernell, reside in Houston. ment has acted through legislation, Another steward department He and his wife, Helen, make their on deck. He logged more than 18 as with the Wage-Hour Act, by de­ years aboard Mississippi Shipping home in New York City. veloping cuts in hours in specific A member of the SIU since Company vessels, his last vessel areas, as for women and minors, 1955, Brother Rodriguez retired being the Del Mar. Born in Spain, and by encouraging shorter hours after 40 years of service in deep- he and his wife, Josephina, live as it did during World War I and sea vessels. A native of Spain, he in New Orleans. the depression. In a few cases, Brother Widegren Joined the last sailed aboard the Beatrice employers have acted unilaterally. (Bull) in the engine department. SIU in 1938 at Mobile, sailing in • Past cuts In the workweek He currently resides in New York. the steward department and last have come for the most part "in Brother Tonucie, a member of shipping aboard Penn Shipping spurts and in large amounts rather the SIU since 1953, last sailed in Company vessels. An Army veteran than gradually." About 15 of the the steward department aboard the of World War I, he tallied 43 years 20 hours cut from the standard Cities Service Miami. Born in of seatime overall aboard US-flag Catalano Anapol workweek this century came over Philadelphia, where he currently vessels. He residee in Silver Hill, short periods of time. resides, he Joined the SIU in the Ala., with his wife, Rosemary. • The timing and amount of re­ duction have not always been economy-wide, as "broad industry variations have persisted." WASHINGTON—The number of workers covered by union ne­ • The pattern of reduction also gotiated welfare and pension plans more than doubled between has varied—from hours (10 to 9 to 1950 and late 1960, the Labor Department Bureau 9i Labor Sta­ 8) In the early 1900s, through days tistics reported. Those covered by negotiated health and insur­ per week (Saturday, first from a ance plans Increased from about 600,000 workers in 1946, when full day to a half-day, then elimi­ the BLS study began, to seven million in 1960 and t® 14.8 million nated completely), now back to in 1960. Pension plan coverage during the same period climbed Pietrucki hours per day (especially to a new Esealante from a "negligible amount" in 1945 to 8 million in 1950 and 11 standard of 7 hours). million by the end of 1960. In addition, in the last 20 years pensioner is Paul Catalano, whose Health and insurance coverage increased by about 4.4 million there have been cuts In hours not last Uhip was the Seatrain New In the workday or workweek but York (Seatrain). He Joined the workers between 1948 and 1950, and pension coverage rose by in the form of paid vacations and SIU at New Orleans in 1948. An about 3.4 million workers. The bureau found that at the nd of 1960, holidays. Their present levels Army veteran of World War I. health and insurance plans covered about 76 percent of all average over the work year some­ Catalano and his wife, Edna, live workers under collective bargaining agreements, and pension plan what less than 2.6 hours a week. in New Orleans. coverage affected 6(j percent. Brother Esealante Joined the SIU There has been a change in the The bureau reported that labor-management negotiations dur­ reasoning behind shorter hours, in New York in 1938. An Army ing the 1960s not only increased the number covered but also the AFL-CIO article points out. veteran, his last ship was the Jef­ achieved many improvements in existing benefits, broadened the Moves to cut the 10-hour day were ferson City Victory (Victory Caiv range of benefits, and gradually eliminated employes contribu­ based on social factors with eco­ riers), serving in the engine depart­ tions. nomic factors usually a secondary ment. Born in Peru, he currently The non-contributory SIU Welfare Plan got underway in 1950 consideration. The claim for the resides in New York. and union pension coverage began in 1982. 6-day week, however, was based Brother Pietrucki Joined the SIU on economic reasons, "to help at New York in 1847, sailing in Another 8 Veteran Seafarers Retiring On Union Pensions Cites Labor Welfare Advances Harper Christian month in approving a special sur­ gical back brace for Mrs. Irene Harper, wife of Seafarer Carroll Harper, points up the value of this SIU Welfare Plan feature. Mrs. Harper underwent surgery for a back condition some time ago that resulted in a Welfare Plan payment of $804 for hospital, surgical, ambulance and medical fees. She also drew a separate payment of $175 earlier for other surgical and hospital expenses. Recovering now, she was advised to obtain a brace which would aid her recuperation and contacted the SIU for assistance. The brace was thereafter arranged for by the Plan and is a big help in her rehabilitation. A similar situation involves Donaid Christian, the son of Seafarer Walter Christian, who required use of a wheelchair following hos­ pital treatment for a hip and Joint condition. This too was recently approved and young Donald is now better able to get around while recovering from his disability. — for SIU MEMBERS! NBBOmS&KGeMK. ANPSrtCWWE/M?FfiaUATEOJHBRlfiH TDAScyvi/ESTER' AUATSfeCIAL s£4oirer PRICES your SEA CHEST SHORE WEAR I SEA GEAR SEA 6EAR S SHORE WEAR ^LVM^-HAU3 �'""im SBA^dRERi too Jhuw ragkt^ l-VIL'M' 1^^ All of the following 5IU families have received a $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name, representing a total of $5,800 in maternity benefits and a maturity value of $725 in bonds: Gina Puglisi, born June 12, 1962, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sandy to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph A. A. Lawrence, So. Norfolk, Va. Puglisi, Brooklyn, NY. t t t Hebert Hollings Jr., bom June $• t i Jose D. Guevarra, born April 13, 27, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arnold Hebert Hollinga, Mobile, Ala. $ $ Guevarra, New Orleans, La. Roseanne Harford, bom June t 27, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael Navarre, born March 7, Richard Harford, New York, NY. 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas ^ i. X R. Navarre, San Pedro, Calif. Sandra Resales, born March 18, t- t- t' 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Or­ Regina Risney, born April 6, lando Rosales, San Francisco, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Calif. S. Rigney, Arnold, Md. XXX 4> 4> Michael Hoilings, born June 29, Robert O'Neill, born May 16, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Claude 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank Hoilings, Mobile, Ala. T. O'Neill, Drexel Hill, Pa. XXX Raymond Sarayano, bom June 4• Christina Adkins, born May 13, 11, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Philip Julio Sarayano, Brooklyn, NY. Adkins, Portsmouth, Va. XXX tit Johnny Thomas Wolinski, born Andrea Mossl, born May 9, 1962, June 6, 1962, to Mrs. Frank Wo­ to Seafarer and Mrs. Ernest Mossl, linski, wife of the late Seafarer Kingston, NY. Frank Wolinski, In New Orleans, t t t La. Tracey L. Lewis, born June 24, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Kenny Lewis, Mobile, La. MOUNT RAINIER (Bull), Mar. Si- t t t Rondall Taylor, born May 25, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lee Taylor, Hammond, La. t t t Robert G. McCarthy, born June 7, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ger­ ald McCarthy, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. t t t Tina Southwick, bom June 8, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Curtis Southwick, Jamestown, NY. t t t Anthony Oreo, born May 30, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. An­ thony Oreo, Philadelphia, Pa. t t t Omar Hernandez, born June 8, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Isabel Hernandez, Galveston, Texas. t t t Glen Davocol, born June 4, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Freddie Da­ vocol, Seattle, Wash. t t t Cynthia Sullivan, born April 29, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fred­ erick Sullivan, New Orleans, La. t t t Lyssette Bonefont, born April 25, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Genaro Bonefont, San Juan, PR. t t t Stella Clark, born June 26, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Terrill G. Clark, Springhill, Ala. t t t Laura A. Sisk, born June 24, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wayne W. Sisk, Tampa, Fla. t t t Timothy and Anthony Barbour, born June 19, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Norwood A. Barbour, Washington, NC. t t t Kenneth Johnson, born April 24, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hubert H. Johnson, Mobile, Ala. t t t Cynthia Banister, born May 13, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Banister, New Orleans, La. t t t Karl Lawrence, born June 16, Chairman, R. Hampthira; Secratary, L. Pappar. Ship'i delegata reported that fans are bains repaired. No shore liberty or draws while in Japan for bunkers. No beefs reported by delegates. WARRIOR (Waterman), Mar. 20— Chairman, H. L. Graham; Secretary, M. B. Elliott. Ship's delegate reported everything okay. Deck engineer flown back to the States due to illness. Motion made that mUk passed by American Consul in foreign ports be purchased as the crew does not like the new canned mUk. Suggestion that new clock he put in recreation room aft. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment. JEAN LA FITTi (Waterman), Apr. 1—Chairman, Gunner Hansen; Secre­ tary, George Craggs. Ship's delegate reported no beefs. S40.00 in ship's fund. Gunner Hansen elected ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to steward department. Crew requested not to dump trash over the side. Need new toilet bowl for crew hospital and also new mirror. FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), Apr. 23—Chairman, E. Dakin; Secre­ tary. R. J. Koch. Ship's delegate re­ ported that several men missed ship since last payoff. Crew messman asked cooperation to keep messroom clean. Still trying to get an awning for fantail. Balance in ship's fund. $12.00. TV antenna to be purchased in Boston. See Port Steward regard­ ing better grade and variety of fruit. Increase night lunch. OCEAN DINNY (Maritime Over­ seas), Apr. 10 — Chairman, James Adams; Secretary, Joseph A. Long. Received letter from headquarters in reply to questions relative to vaca­ tions. Ship's delegate acted as chair­ man at this meeting called because of scuttlebutt that he wasn't doing his job right. He wanted to straighten this out. resign and let one of the complaining brothers take over. Re­ sult of meeting was that delegate will stay on by acclamation. $8.00 in ship's fund. Launch service very poor for engine room watchstanders. Vote of thanks to steward and his department for doing a good Job the whole trip. ALCOA CORSAIR (American Bulk), Apr. IS—Chairman, Harry B. Hast­ ings; Secretary, Fred Duchmann, Jr. Ship's delegate reported one man hospitalized. Reported on water and heat but could not get any satisfac­ tion from officials on board the ves­ sel. Make sura enough meriieal guplies are on board before ship sails from States. Motion made that any ship signing nine months' articles should have at least 90 days stores. Vote of thanks to steward department for Job well done. INES (Bull), Mar. 7 — Chairman, Edward J. Wright; Secretary, Roger L. Hall. Ship's delegate reported many repairs from last trip not done. One The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and a total of $19,500 in benefits was paid. (Any apparent delay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of a beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the dis­ position of estates.) Louis Colon, 55: Brother Colon Joseph Cvitkovlcli. 36: A hem­ orrhage was fatal to Brother Cvlt- died of comiiound fractures In an accident ashore kovich on De­ mi on July 6, 1962 cember 22, 1961, at Charity Hospi­ at the USPHS Hospital, Seattle, tal, New Orleans, Wash. He began La. He had been shipping In the sailing with the steward depart­ SIU in 1961 in the engine de­ ment with the SIU since 1943. partment. Nicho­ His wife, Antonla las Corak, of Se­ attle, has been Colon, of New appointed administrator of the es­ York, survives. Burial was In New tate. Burial was at Calvary Ceme­ York. Total benefits: $4,000. tery, Seattle. Total benefits: $4,000. XXX Harry Lowther, 37; A heart at­ XXX Millard Byron, 41: Brother By­ tack was fatal to Brother Lowther ron died of a liver condition while on May 15, 1962 in San Francisco, aboard the SS Calif. He Joined Cara Sea near the SIU In 1954 Rijeka, Yugosla­ and sailed In the via. He Joined deck department. the SIU in 1957 His wife, Mlyoko and sailed In the Lowther, of Yodeck department. kohoma, Japan, His mother, Mrs. survives, Burial Georgia Byron, of was at OUvet Nitro, W. Va., Memorial Park, San Francisco. To­ survives. Burial was at sea. Total benefits: $4,000. tal benefits: $4,000. man missed ship. Request Union to investigate why company is not proTiding enough American money for draws. Motion made that agreement be changed to have companies pay fay the day and not on a thirty-day month basis. J. Yates re-elected as ship's delegate. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), Apr. IS—Chairman, Hugh Hallman; Secre­ tary, B. J. McNally. Ship's delegate reported everything OK. Have ship fumigated at the first American port. Chairs in crew messroom to be re­ paired or renewed. ALMENA (Marino Carriers), Apr. 22 —Chairman, J. J. Howart, Jr.; Secre­ tary, B. J. Riviere. Three men got off In Honolulu. Beefs to be brought to patrolman upon arrival. Motion that ship will not sail from LA dis­ trict before a new washing machine ported no beefs. Fishing at Ascen­ sion Island. S22.89 in ship's fund. Se.OO paid out for deck chairs. Ship needs *o be fumigated. Crew asked to use butt cans at movies and put dirty linen Ip on laundry day. MASSMAR (Calmsr), Apr. 22—Chair­ man, Gil Borge; Secretary, J. Secure. No beefs reported. Discussion on keeping longshoremen out of messroom, recreation room and ice boxes, both in crew mess and saloon. FLORIDA STATE (Everglades), Apr. 23—Chairman, Frank Mateo, Secratary, Druward Molter. Ship's dele­ gate reported small beef in deck de­ partment to be turned over to patrol­ man. Discussion regarding letter to headquarters In reference to vacation plan. Discu.ssion on transportation to and from Tampa, which is not being paid. MAYFLOWER (Mayflower), Apr. !• —Chairman, W. E. Coutant; Secra­ tary, T. P. Greaney. Ship's delegate to check launch service. $27.84 in ship's fund. No beefs. A. G. McCloskey accepted ship's delegate's Job temporarily. Letter to be written by ship's delegate in regard to vacation plan. Painting of mssshall discussed. Ship's delegate will purchase new TV antenna In Bayway, NJ. MT. SHASTA (Bull), Apr. 28—Chair­ man, K. Foster; Secretary, P. Godwin. is furnished. Discussion on chief mats and captain refusing to cooper­ ate with crew and disregarding dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to steward department. CARA SEA (Bleakley), Apr. 15— Chairman, T, Driscoll; Secretary, B. Smith. Ship's delegate reported that up to present data all was running smoothly. Aca Arlinghaus elected new ship's delegate. Safety meeting should be held occasionally. HENRY (Progressive), Apr. 13— Chairman, W. Banks; Secretary, none. $10.91 in ship's fund. J. Hanners elected ship's delegate. Water tanks need to he cleaned. . SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Apr. 19—Chairman, Van Whitney; Secra­ tary, C. Collins. Some disputed OT in deck department. $62.88 in ship's fund. Van Whitney elected ship's delegate. Discussion on having TV repaired. Ship's delegate will try to get repairman aboard when ship goes in shipyard. Vote of thanks to steward department. ACHILLES (Newport Tankers), Aor. 39—Chairman, A. Hebert; Secretary, A. Lath. Delegate wired Houston hail concerning advance money procedure. No money available for draw in Baytown. Company offlcials should be emphatically warned to follow con­ tract procedures. TIMBER HITCH (Suwannee), Apr. 27—Chairman, A. JwlszmowikI; Secre­ tary, C. Tallman. Ship's delegate re- No beefs reported delegates. by department COASTAL CRUSADER (Suwannee), Apr. 8—Chairman, James Corcoran; Secretary, not given. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. $7.29 in fund. Crew asked not to come into messhall unless proerly dressed. BETHTEX (Ore), Apr. 30—Chairman, Garcia; Secretary, W. H. Strick­ land. $110.00 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Motion made to concur with the Cities Service Norfolk on fevlsing vacation plan. Vote of thanks to steward department for a Job well done. ARIuPA (Waterman), Apr. 15— Chairman, A. Bourgott; Secratary, C. Garner. Ship's delegate reported one man sent to hospital in Rotterdam. Holland. Everything going smoothly. Motion made to see about getting water tanks cleaned. STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), Apr. 15—Chairman, Roy Evans; Secretary, Dick Grant. Ship's delegate reported one m.^a left in hospital and one man missed siiip in Greece. $9.30 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks to steward department. VENORE (Ore Navigation), Apr. 15 —Chairman, Charles Lecho; Secretary, Jerry T. Floyd. $5.42 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Motion to run hot water pipe to coffee urns. Bars on stove need to be repaired or re­ placed. AS present condition is unsafe. Herman Meyer, 56: Brother Meyer died of natural causes on April 11, 1962 at the USPHS Hos­ pital, Staten Is­ land. NY. He started shipping with thd SIU in 1948 and sailed in the deck de­ partment. His sis­ ter, NeeltJe Van Der Wei-Meyer, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, survives. Burial was at Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island. Total benefits: $500. XXX Albert M. Morse. 60: Brother Morse died of a liver condition on June 27, 1962 at the USPHS Hos­ pital, Baltimore, Md. Hs Joined the SIU in 1944 and sailed In the steward depart­ ment. His sister, Mrs. Mary F. Hayes of Chelsea, Mass.. survives. Burial was at Holy Cross Ceme­ tery, Maiden. Mass. Total benefits: $500. XXX Perfecto Hierro, 64: Brothep Hlerro died of a heart condition on April 15. 1962 at the USPHS Hospital. San Francisco. Oalif. He started ship­ ping with the SIU In 1955 and sailed in the en­ gine department. His wife. Maria Hierro. of Manlla. the Philipplnes. survives, Burial was at Holy Cross Ceme­ tery. San Francisco. Total benefits: $500. XXXCarl F. Kumrow, 72: A stomach condition was fatal to Brother Kumi'ow on July 19. 1962 at Hah­ nemann Hospital, San Francisco. Calif. He began shipping in the steward depart­ ment with the SIU in 1947 and had been receiv­ ing special disa­ bility benefits since 1960. A friend, Val Cardinal, of San Francisco, survives. Burial was at Olivet Memorial Park, San Francisco. To­ tal benefits: $1,000. XXX James Antoniadis. 67: Brother Antoniadis died of a heart condi­ tion on June 2, 1962 in Oceanside. NY. He had been shipping with the SIU since 1939 In the engine depart­ ment and began receiving special disability benefits in 1960. Hi a daughter, Marie Ryder, of Brook­ lyn. NY., survives. Burial was at Bethpage Cemetery, Bethpage, NY. Total benefits: $1,000. �Awiut* 196S MWAVARERS Pioneer Holds Service For Missing Shipmate Alcoa Pioneer erewmembers are pictured with wreath pur­ chased while in Duluth and later dropped over the side near where Seafarer Robert H. Borkolow disappeared. Shown (l-r) are Capt. Sorensen: J. M. Davis, steward; Jim Poster, bosun, and Jock Porton, DM. Crewmembers on the Alcoa Pioneer held an unusual pre­ dawn memorial service for a lost shipmate on August 10 near the location in Lake Superior where he disappeared from the vessel three days be--t fore. ful In locating Barkolow and was Fate took a hand in bring­ given up after 24 hours. Lake ing the Pioneer back on the scene just 72 hours after Seafarer Robert H. Barkolow was dis­ covered missing. Barkolow, 87, was last seen about 2 AM on August 7 when the vessel, enroute to Duluth, was about seven miles from Manitou Island off Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Repairs to a damaged bow plate, received when the Pioneer bumped the Arthur M. McClure Port Terminal Dock on arrival in Duluth, unexpectedly de­ layed its departure. As a result, the ship reached the approximate place where Bark­ olow was lost three days earli­ er at the same 8 AM hour. In the darkness, with the vessel stop­ ped, the crew got out on deck for a solemn service and, at 2:35 AM, a memorial Barkolow wreath was dropped over the side. The out­ bound voyage then resumed and men off watch returned to their normal slumbers. Earlier, an air-sea search off Manitou Island proved unsuccess- Whatsit? Those in the know will rec­ ognize this as a serving mallet with something added—a reel attachment for extra taut rigging and serving of rope and wire. Seafarer Bill Turk, dayman, who brought in the mallet from a rigging loft, is at the other end of the hand £(t the right. vessels In the area and Coast Guard craft from the Portage Lifeboat Station at Hancock, Mich., and Manitou Island con­ ducted the search with the aid of aircraft from Michigan air­ ports. Navy Veterans Barkolow was 2nd electrician on the Pioneer and had shipped on SIU vessels since 1958. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and lived In Houston. Ship's delegate John Maginness, who reported the Incident to the LOG, said everything possible was done to locate Barkolow and "our deepest sympathy over this un­ happy Incident goes to his family and many friends. "Brother Barkolow was not only a fine electrician but a fine Union man and shipmate, and this comes as a complete shock to all of us. On Its outbound voyage from Duluth, the Pioneer carried 601 tons of dry skim milk for delivery to CARE representatives in India. Organizing Still Big Union Role To the Editor: Anyone familiar with the history of the US maritime in­ dustry will recall that until 1984 there had been no real seamen's union in the Gulf or on the Atlantic coast for some time. The absence of union rep­ resentation brought human misery to seamen. In those days, ABs and oilers received less annual wages than our re­ cently-negotiated increased va­ cation allowance. There was no overtime pay, the food was sor­ ry and living quarters were deplorable. Industry used its financial and political strength to reduce its taxes, which in turn left the merchant marine without Fed­ eral financial support. Industry was able to ship export cargoes in foreign vessels, so the only people hurt were US seamen and they were badly hurt. When the SIU embarked on its program to organize work­ ers in allied crafts, we were able to provide expert organiz­ ing knowhow where it was needed and, at the same time. Page Nineteen LOO Words of praise continue to come in for graduates of SIU training programs who are now at sea. Four recent trainees out of Houston and currently aboard the Bienville (SeaLand) earned warm comments from the master and other officers aboard for their "be­ havior, industry and general^ comportment" despite their farers Jerry Miller, steward on the Alcoa Pioneer (Alcoa), and Jim newness to ships and the sea. The skipper particularly praised "the union's training program for turning out such workers as the men who were recently in your training school and now are mem­ bers of my crew." The quartet which earned these plaudits in­ cluded Robert J. Schell, wiper; Paschal Makin Andrew Cook, OS; Robert Ballard, wiper, and John Crawford, mess- den the heart of every bill collec­ man. tor. To wit: 4 i i "No matter where his soul was On the same score, since good sent, training and good feeding go hand "He paid his debts before ho in hand, the cul­ went." inary gang on 4) t The boys on the Orion Planet the Alice Brown and the Marga(Colonial) out in the Far East are rett Brown, both getting their chuckles from a draw­ Bloomileld ships, ing by the 3rd engineer depicting drew their share some of the goings-on in Sasebo, of commendsJapan, involving the "Rio Bar," tions for assisting "Iris Bar" and the local taxi serv­ the vessels to ice. Ship's delegate Tony Novak their latest and C. Fafford, deck delegate, sent Brosig USPHS sanitation in the cartoon. It's about these awards. On the Alice, August A. fellas who were in port a while, Brosig. chief steward; Robert N. see, and how they all lived happily White, chief cook, and Edison ever after. 'Nuf said. Walker. NCB, received special 4> 4> A note from Sister Mary Augus­ mention. The Margarett's contin­ gent included steward Brown Hus- ta of Maryknoll Sisters Clinic in zar; Walter D. Makin, chief cook, Pusan, Korea, reveals that Sea­ and Henry J. Wentzel, NCB. i 4. 4 Turnabout is fair play, and the gang on the Marore (Ore Naviga­ tion) is more than happy to turn the spotlight on company action which has everyone aboard mighty pleased. The crew is doing its seagoing televiewing courtesy of Ore and the parent Bethlehem Steel Corp., and extends "a ship­ load of thanks" via Harold B. Thomas, ship's delegate, for the gift and installation of a "most welcome" TV set. There are sev­ eral stations on the West Coast of South America and now they have movies several times a week to ease the monotony of the lone­ ly run to Chile, Thomas notes. Koenig, of the deck gang on th« Overseas Eva (Overseas' Carriers), have been playing Santa Claus in off-season for patients at the clin­ ic. The SIU pair, on behalf of shipmates, arrived laden with gifts of canned goods, candy, toys and clothing on two separate occasions to assist the needy. 41 4" 4« Around the world in St. Nazaire, France, SIU crewmembers on the Transglube (Hudson Water­ ways) got together a nice gift of $103 for shipmate R. R. Paschal, who had to go into the local hos­ pital and missed making the re­ turn trip on the ship's maiden voyage from the US. (See center­ fold, this issue.) Ship's delegate Joe Tucker said at last reports Paschal was on the road to recov­ ery, however. 4" 4 4 Add to the list of communica­ tions ship's delegate I. W. Griggers on the Twin Falls Victory (Suwan­ nee), for whom all hands joined in a vote of thanks for his efforts at settling all beefs promptly. Griggers was commended for his gen­ eral perserverance at his dele­ gate's duties. Shipboard Sketches By BEN GRAHAM 4" 4" (4 From Recife, Brazil, on the Pandora (Epiphany Tankers), Sea­ farer Bob Porter submits a brief but to the point "epitaph" to gladprovide for a stronger and more powerful Union that can stand up and fight for any segment of the organization that comes under attack. Let it not be for­ gotten that we of the deep-sea segment are not the least vul­ nerable to attack. Frank Reid itor' 'Let's get It going, Joe, you pull and I'll push!" We would like to continue receiving the LOG if possible. My husband, now in the Air Force, is presently stationed in Bermuda but we leave shortly for the States and from New York will go to Texas, his new base. I might say that I also enjoy reading your newspaper and we are looking forward to having it sent to our new loca­ tion. Mrs. Arthur L. Schmidt (Ed. note: The LOG will be continued at your new location. 4 4 4 All letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. SIU Log Keeps Family In Touch To the Editor: I am writing for my brother, John J. Merkel, who is an SIU member. He has been having the SEAFARERS LOG sent to my husband and I, as my hus­ band, an ex-Navy man, has en­ joyed reading the paper. It has also helped us keep in touch with my brother. Urges One-Year Limit On Ship To the Editor: Now that the vacation benefit has gone up to $800 per year, I think there should be a secret ballot vote by the membership on putting a one-year limit on time aboard ship. At the present time there is no limit and this is against the best Interests of everyone. One year is enough on a ship and the $800 a year, or $200 every three months, is enough to get along on for a while ashore. I know that there was a vote on this before and it was voted down but things are different today. This was done before the vacation pay we have today. Any man should be able to get along on $800, take a rest and give his brother members an opportunity to ship out. It will do everybody a lot of good and give some a chance to get out, try new ships and runs. There may be some beefing about this but these people should realize that there are others looking for a ship and maybe a different run too. Some members stay on a ship for three years or more and don't give anybody else a chance. They don't know what's going on at meetings, except what they see in the LOG or hear from somebody else. They talk all about Union policy and about things that can be done but they only do this on the ship. They won't get off to express themselves at a reg­ ular meeting ashore and mean­ while keep beefing about every­ thing. There is no excuse whatso­ ever for staying on a ship more than a year today and 1 think a lot of members will agree with me on this. Johnnie Hogge SS Fanwood �Anguti, 199$ SEAFARERS tOO Par* Twentr Visiting Day On Plantsr Some unexpected visjtors met Seafarer Pete Versalenke, DM (right), when the Alcoa Planter hit Seattle. The family was on hand to greet Pete before the ship headed out again. Pictured jl-rl daughters Shirley and Kathy, a nephew and Mrs. Versalenko. Photo by Seafarer W. Calefato. LOG-A-RHYTHM: Reminisce A While By "Saki Jack" Dolan Have ybu ever danced vrith colleens On that Emerald Jsle so green. Changed guard at Buckingham Palace In honor of the Queen. Have you ever walked with Pharoahs In some valley of the Nile, Where Caesar and Cleopatra made history's pages smile. Have you ever read those Parables By a humble Nazarene, Thrilled to Cicero's Orations As he eulogized the Roman Dream. Have you ever fought a hurricane From Maine to England's shore. Sailed at peace in the Blue Pacific Where the lordly albatross soar. Have you ever been in Hong Kong When monsoons hold full sway. Dined at the "Raffles" in Singapore On the road to Mandalay. Have you ever paced with "Honest Abe" Those lonely "Nights of Cain," While men and boys at Shiloh Pursued their deadly game. Have you ever entered Rio In the wake of an evening star, Goya, Velasquez, and Rembrandt Seem diminutive by far. Have you erer scaled yon 'Great Stone Face' With Hawthorne as your guide. Tip-toed through soft "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman by your side. Have you ever sailed a sunny day Along Africa's somber veil. Out of the deep dark turquoise spray Rides the great albino whale. Have you ever watched Fujiyama When evening's almost done. Romanced through "Madame Butterfly" In the land of Rising Sun. Have you ever trailed with "Crazy Horse" To a prairie-schooner raid. Bedded down with mighty Hannibal 'Fore a pachyderm parade. Have you ever crossed the Gobi With almighty Genghis Khan, No doubt, you paused at Waterloo To help stay Napoleon's hand. Have you ever stood a lonely watch Far up on the foc'sle head, 'Neath a beautiful, glowing "Southern Cross" Then little more need be said. The sailor needs no altar or church Nor the Holy Father's nod. To remind him every day of his life That there is an Almighty God. ireattd d*c*nt bf topside, la me. To see peo|^* fighting t* fact, everything that we are en­ have their health restored is oh* titled to. by the Constitution of of the great things of life. the US and its laws in addition I want to thank all the nurses To the Editor: I Just wanted mjr brother to the rights Jn our agreement in ward 8 west, as well as Doetors Morrison and Short. They union members to know that I represent conditions. It is'this area we should be were most cooperative and help­ have written- to the executive director of the United Seamen's most concerned with and con­ ful during my illness. Joseph Smith of the out­ Service asking if it's possible to tinue to improve. There is open a recreation club for sea­ much that we could do so that patient department is truly a men here in Kandia, India, in life aboard ship could be bet­ seaman's devoted friend. It's people like this who make conjunction with the Indian ter in the future. In almost every instance it life worth living. It is wonderful Government. As Seafarers who have been could be shown that the shlp- to know that this has been a wonderful experience in my here know, there isn't much in life. regards to relaxation in Kandia. I hope that medical treat­ The local village of Kandia has ment in hospitals like this can a souvenir store, two general continue for all concerned and stores and a photo shop only. that all my SIU brothers who The next town, Ghandidham, may require it are afforded the eight miles away, has a movie same type of tare I received. theatre which shows American All letters to the Editor for Paul Capo movies on Sunday mornings publication in the SEAFARERS ^ 4only. Five miles further, Addi- LOG must be signed by the por, has a hotel—and that is it writer. Names will be withheld for the whole area. Drinking upon request. liquor in this part of India is illegal besides. owners would save money while To the Editor: I figure a seaman's club can at the same time benefitting I clapped my hands when a be opened where they could the crew. One way is to put member during the last meet­ have movies every night at nom­ rubber or plastic tile in the ing on the Steel Apprentice inal charges. In addition, the foc'sle, messhall and passage­ criticized some of our bosuns. usual ping pong, shuffleboard, way decks. This would not only His criticism is Important to and billards table can be set up. improve the interior of the ship all of us, as I realized after Ships carrying grain to this but would also save money in thinking about it. It is true that we have some port usually stay a minimum of maintenance. The saving in three weeks. Since the Meraid paint and labor costs, over a men on the ships who take the (Metro) has been here, there period of years, would more job of bosun and then depend have been two British, two than offset the cost of Installa­ on someone else to carry them. This is a poor situation but, Norwegian, one Japanese and tion. Foam rubber pillows would after all, these men are con­ one German ship in for short be another improvement. A sidered "qualified" if they stays. Anyway for the time being, foam rubber pillow with a plas­ have the necessary seatime and, Seafarers who come here should tic cover would last for the life if they get the cooperation, they have a sufficient supply of read­ of the ship. Crewmembers will come through. The worst part of it is that ing material and playing cards. would not have to sleep on lumpy, sweat-stained pillows oldtimers who are good sailors, Seymour Heinfling and the shipowner would not responsible workers and lead­ ir i, ihave to buy new pillows every ers with a knowledge of human nature would rather sail as trip. Another practical suggestion watchstanders than take a would be to put plastic covers bosun's job. Of course, the job is often on the mattresses. This would To the Editor: I am appalled at the current extend the life of the mattress not an easy one, since they belief that improvements in and allow a new crewman to sometimes have to put up with living and working conditions enjoy a vermin-free bunk. Stale new, Inexperienced men be­ aboard American-flag ships is body odor is not only offensive sides an occasional performer a thing of the past. This pass­ but will attract insects of all who makes the task of running ive resignation to acceptance of kinds. Canvas covers on top of the department much harder the status quo will, if it is not the bunk spring is another than it has to be. I believe that in this field arrested, eventually lead to ac­ money-saving idea. This will iraining is of great importance prevent the sheets, spreads and ceptance of sub-standard con­ mattresses from tearing on the as the bosun is one of the most ditions. The present -conditions that protruding ends of the springs. essential ratings aboard ship There are many other ways and having good personnel we enjoy today were brought about by men who desired to in which conditions aboard ship gives our officials a better make seafaring a noble and re­ could be improved. If every weapon to fight the companies spected profession. Bold and crew would write down the im­ for better wages and working imaginative thinking was the provements that they think conditions. Julio Evans order of the day. If we are to would help and send them into the LOG, we could, within a ^ continue to improve upon the dream of Andrew Furuseth we few years, boast of conditions must use our imagination and unparalled in the history of the continue to seek ways to make maritime industry. Joseph Pssinashy To the Editor: life aboard ship even better SS Robin Hood The SIU vacation increase is than it is today. another achievement for union­ Many people are of the opin­ ism. Furthermore it represents ion that it is only through a the fact that it benefits the raise in wages that better con­ majority, and not the minority ditions are won. Nothing can of the membership. be further from the truth. Con­ To the Editor: I wish to express my deepest Speaking, I believe for ttie ditions and wages are two sep­ and heartfelt thanks for the entire SlU-contracted fleet, arate issues. Conditions represent the wonderful treatment afforded congratulations on a job well done to aff hands on the small, elu.sive and often un­ me while I was a bed patient at committee for noticed benefits that we have the US Public Health Service negotiating bringing this about. become accustomed to. Clean hospital in New Orleans. David Kendrick While there, I met a lot of peo­ sheets, coffee, night lunch, SS Fairlaud fresh fruit, the right to be ple who were an Inspiration to Ssaman'^s Club Nescisd, Hs Says Bosun Training Called Essential Seeks Imprcved Ship Conditions Welcomes New Vacation Boost LaudsVHS^ Care At New Orleans �toe Fac* Tweniir OM DEL NORTE TO THE RESCUE Two Cuban Refugees In Luck We had a little excitement last night on the Del Norte off the coast of Cuba while enroute to Brazil. It was Saturday, June 30, at 6 PM to be exact, just 40 miles off the coast, when the second mate spotted "something" bobbing up and he just couldn't spend any more down in the water off the time In the area and It would have Cuban couple picked up by Dei Norte ii shown after being fed, clothed on the cruise ship following three-day ordeal In small open boat. *The Saga of the Rosa Maria It was June the Thirtieth, six o'clock that nifiht. Whert the Del Norte, off the coast of Cuba, came within sight, Of those two Cuban refugees fleeing Castroland, Crying and shouting for help from any hand. The second mate first saw them, hundreds of yards away. That mate was on the ball, I'm here to say. She was a small boat, fourteen feet at best. An inboard hull, it really stood the test. They were bobbing and weaving, vxiving their hands. Talking and crying of their native land, Castro was no good, they said, take us aboard. Thanks for your comfort, thanks to the Lord. Captain O'Pry stopped the ship so they'd come alongside. But even after stopping, we still drrifted wide. Then we went astern, finally they came aboard. Saying, thank God, we made it. We had faith in the Lord. They told us their plight, both man and wife, Leaving all behind them, escaping with their life. Six months was in the planning, to steal out with the boat. Then took off at night, with a prayer and much hope. Once on our ship, they were treated like kings. Given food, clothes and hope, just about everything. For when people are in trouble, be they big or small. We must do what we can, help out one and all. BLACK POINT (Bull). Mar. 18— Chairman, W. F. Walker; Secretary, I. L. Reborn. G. H. Johnson elected ship's delegate. All departments urged to have repair Ust made so that some work can be done In Turke.v. Vote of appreciation to steward de­ partment for good job. Major beef aboard regarding captain's refusal to put draw out In American Money. hospitalized in Penang. Hot water beef and no launch service In 8emarang to be brought up to patrolman. Repair list turned In. Several ideas already handled. Refrigerator to be brought up to patrolman. Steward sug­ gests crew bring all excess soiled linen before payoff and also extra cups and glasses. Vote of thanks to' steward department. ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), Apr. Jl— Chairman, William Burke; Secretary, Clarence J. Mall. Captain stated that the ship would be going to Venezuela and also to St. Thomas. AU repairs turned in are being done. It was agreed that open carton of milk be put out for night lunch. Suggested that less noise be made in passage­ ways since there are men sleeping. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for a job weU done. Vote of thank.s to the ship's delegate for wonderful Job he has done. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), Feb. 4—Chairman, C. C. Lswson; Secre­ tary,' C. R. Wood. Movie projector will be repaired in San fYancisco. Anyone who notices any loose gear on deck should promptly secure same. No beefs reported. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Apr. Jl—Chairman, J. K. Wilson; Secretary, R. F. Tyree. Some disputed OT to be taken up with patrolman. Captain says he will paint all foc'sle decks next trip. He asked 24-hour notice so that the ship will not sail shorthanded. Steward de­ partment given a vote of thanks for Job weU done. Warned all men sign­ ing on to check articles before they sign. GLOBE PROGRESS (Ocean Cargo), Mar. 18—Chairman, Joseph Decinque; Secretary, Nick Martin. Everything running smoothly. Ship's delegate re­ quests that all disputed OT and beefs be given to him to straighten out. New repair list to pe made out. Bag­ gage belonging to men who missed ship last trip to be taken off. ACHILLES (Newport Tankers), Apr. 14—Chairman, C. Majette; Secretary, A. Leth. Ship's delegate reported difficulties with money draws cleared up. Letters regarding same sent to various branches of the Union. Motion made to start a ship's fund for pur­ poses of telephone calls and wires for Union business. Chief steward elected ship's treasurer. BETHFLOR (Ore), Feb. 13—Chair­ man, Charles Bedell; Secretary, Rob­ ert Hartley. Request that baker make hot bread. Recreation room needs to be painted. Captain requests three deckhands aboard ship In Baltimore to handle any stores that come aboard. No beefe reported. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Apr. 22—Chairman, John Relnoss; Secre­ tary, James W- Cslloway. one man CHATHAM (Sea-Land), Feb. 27— Chairman, J. i. HIgglns; Secretary, r D. Backrsk. No beefs reported. flS.OO in ship's fund. Lengthy discussion concerning class C seniority men. Good explanation of the current food plan and of the immediate feeding problems on board was given by the steward. All requests and questions regarding food should bo brought to the steward. LOSMAR (Calmar), Apr. 28—Chair­ man, Charles Mots; Secretary, Guy Walter. One man missed ship. Discus­ sion on the repair list and keeping the laundry clean SANTORE (Ore Nevigatlon), Mar. 31—Chairman, Howard Menz; Secre­ tary, Donald Woods. Charles Burns elected ship's delegate. Crew asked to return all books to the library. Each department to take turns clean­ ing laundry, library and recreation room. Return all cups to pantry. No beefs reported. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Apr. 11 —Chairman, J. J. Oaspard; Sacretary, F. Shala. $34.21 In ahlp'a fund. Wash­ ing machine needs new wringer. See chief engineer about fans in the messman's room. Check on rubber tips for chaizs In messroom. Vote of thanka to the steward department and es­ pecially to Thomas Fields, baker. starboard side several hundred yards away. Looking through his binoculars, he saw a small boat with a man and woman waving and shouting to attract attention. He reported to the captain, the ship was stop­ ped and we waited until they came alongside. Both people were yelling and shouting at the same time in Spanish. Castro was "no bueno" and a "ladrone," they said, and would the cap­ tain please take them aboard and Woiowitz help them get away from Cuba. The couple said they were hus­ band and wife and had planned the getaway for many months in their tiny craft, the "Rosa Maria." Before long, the skipper had a Jacobs ladder thrown down to them but, after several attempts, the woman just couldn't make it. She was too tired and exhausted after three days and nights in the small open boat. All she had on was an old-fashioned, one-piece bathing suit. As a result, the captain ordered the big accommodation ladder low­ ered, although the woman still had to be helped aboard by members of the crew. The man, in his turn, wore a t-shirt and pants, and thus they came aboard. The boat had to be abandoned, however, because the skipper said TRANSEASTERN (Transeastern Shipping), Apr. 15—Chairman, John Maher; Secretary, 8. U. Johnson. Brother Kavel hospitalized in Poland. Extends his thanks to all brothers and officers who gave their time to be with him In hospital. PORTMAR (Calmar), Apr. J2— Chairman, JIggs Jeffers; Secretary, C. Hatzimisios. Chief cook paid off in Canal Zone due to illness. Four men paid off on West Coast. All depart­ ments running smoothly. Ship's dele­ gate's to see the captain about load­ ing deck cargo. Vote of thanks to steward department for Job well done. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Robin Line), Apr. 15—Chairman, Eugene Flowers; Secretary, Jay Savage. Ship's delegate asked men to get acquainted with their fire and boat stations. Crew a.sked not to carry too many ciga­ rettes in South Africa as they will be fined. Delegates to get draw list ahead of time so draw can be given out according to agreement. WatchEtanders asked not to swap sea watches. Chief electrician hospitalized in Port Elizabeth. Motion made to send headquarters a resolution to change sailing board provision in agreement. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), Apr. 22—Chairman, Juan C. Vega; Secre­ tary, Melano E. Sospina. Ship's dele­ gate reported no beefs. $21.62 on hand in fund. $313.00 safety award money on hand In the captain's safe. Food Committee should see company about frozen fruit put aboard and a few other items. WARRIOR (Waterman), Apr. 22— Chairman, M. J. Danzey; Secretary, M. B. Elliott. No beefs. Captain wiU put out draw on OT to those with heavy allotraenls. Vote of thanks to bosun and daymen for tiling the crew messhali. All crewmembers asked to cooperate in keeping messhali clean. Di.scussion on unnecessary slamming of doors at sea and tools being taken and not returned. Vote of thanks to steward department. IBERVILLE (Waterman). Apr. 1— Chairman, Charlie Bush; Secretary, William Cameron. D. S. Gotseff elected ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to wipers and electrician for painting oilers' foc'sles and Installing workable fans. $5.98 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. LONCVIEW VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), April 15—Chairman, Walter Borreson; Secretary, J. McCaslln. Two men had to aign off due to illness. $5.15 In ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. to stay where It was. Our doctor gave the refugees a quick check-up for exhaustion and exposure, and then the two stew­ ardesses, Clara Benett and Fannie Maire, took over. Before long, our passengers gave them clothes, and the cook, who was still in the galley, made some food. Eating, crying and talking at the same time, they said that it was the first piece of meat they had eaten in six months. The are now being fed in the steward department mess by our Spanish-spieaking messman Aristides Soriano, who is giving them all his time "for free." Wine and beer was also sent to them by the whole crew for the first meal. The captain promptly wired the (Seafarer Harry Woiowitz submitted all of the material related to the rescue incident on the Del Norte, which he wrote while the vessel was still at sea.) company and was told to give them a stateroom and carry them to Brazil. Thereafter, a collection was taken up among the crew and passengers, and about $400 was raised to give them a new start. In a way, the two of them were very lucky. They were right in the sea lanes and they could just as easily have been picked up by some stinking Panamanian freight­ er or Liherian tanker. Instead, they wind up on the Del Norte. I just saw them coming out of the pantry where they went for coffee and they both look no dif­ ferent than the rest of the pas­ sengers aboard; Satisfied and happy to be free. Insurance $s Tempted, Scuttled A Shipowner (The following remembrance was submitted to the LOG by Capt. R. J. Peterson, who began his career sailing in canvas "a long, long time ago".) Solo: "Come here you young fellows that follow the sea, Chorus: "It is a long time ago. Solo: "Pray, pay your attention and listen to me, Chorus: "It is a long, long time ago." So went the deepwater chantey sung by sailors hoisting the top­ sails that went up with a pull at a time. The forehand chantey-man sang the solo in a swaying basso. The men joined the chorus with • weird gusto: "It is a long time ago." So let me tell you of what happened not so long ago when the seas were alive with sail. Ashore, there lived a shipowner who, keeping out of sight, kept an agent to run his wooden hark that carried insurance to a suspicious height. Whenever the hark went on a voyage the shipowner wished that she would never return. Commanded by an able skipper with an able crew, the vessel would not go missing. She always turned up with all hands, making the shipowner pay more money to keep up the suspiciously high insurance. Then, one day, the shipowner, disguising himself, shipped on his hark as ordinary seaman. Once aboard in port the shipowner, an OS now, sneaked down the chain locker with a big plug and a sharp auger. He lifted the hinged small hatch at the ship's side, squeezed himself down to the bilges, bent over, bored a hole in the ship's bottom and promptly plugged the hole. He sneaked out un­ noticed in the darkness. When the hark, in stream, and going to sea, was about to heave up the anchor, it happened that the OS-shipowner was sent down the chain locker to stow the chain. He, being no seaman, did not flake the incoming chain in long bights. He let the chain Peterson pile up high. A month later at sea with the hark running through the Trades and now and then taking a sharp roll, the OS-shipowner sneaked down into the chain locker, opened the small hatch, went into the bilges, pulled the plug, and let the water rush in to sink the ship. Suddenly the vessel gave a sharp roll. Above the OS-shipowner's head the small hatch fell over and closed, and the pile of anchor chain fell upon the closed hatch. Working in the darkness, the OS tried to find the plug he had thrown away. But he could not find it and was unable to plug the hole he had bored. The water kept rushing in with a fierce force as if to get at the OS-shipowner and in no time the water was up to his knees. With strength borne of dispair, he tried to raise the small hatch and escape from death by drowning, caught like a rat in his own trap. But he, who all his life had lead an easy time was not strong enough to lift the hatch an inch. In desperation he cried out: "Help!" Aft, on the poop, the skipper felt that the ship's rolls were getting sluggish and dead underfoot. He ordered that soundings be taken. A foot of water was found in the main well. Water in the ship's hold was rising. The ship was sinking. "All hands on deck!" the command was given. "Abandon ship! Stand by the lifeboats!" There, at the muster, all hands were present hut the OS-shipowner. Men ran forward, looking for him, called out his name loudly time and again. No answer. At last the lifeboats had to he manned and lowered. The men pushed off and, with the oars out, hung around, watching the ship go down hy the head. The sun was setting, big and red and with a stare as if taking a last look at the hark. The days in the lifeboats passed as though in a daze, and some time later the men made the Azores. Tired and stiff, after being cramped up, they could hardly get out of the lifeboats. With difficulty the old skipper got ashore and made his unhappy report that an OS was lest, strangely. �Page Twenty Two SEAFARERS LOa August, im fmergency On Kythrvo AH HandsTeam. Up To Aid A Seafarer The Navy, Coast Guard and Public Health Service teamed up with the officers and crew of the Kathryn to help stricken SIU chief electrician Fred D. Peterson while the Bull Line ship steamed north along the" (The following account and Florida coast last month. photograph below were sub­ Peterson, dangerously ill mitted by Seafarer Charles with diabetes, was taken ashore by Mathews, OS, on the Kathryn.) a Coast Guard boat near the Jack­ sonville sea buoy following an emergency delivery of Insulin at further ado, a Navy flier handed sea that same morning by Navy the insulin to Morris J. Danzey, DM; Paul Bates, AB, and Thomas aircraft. The electrician had joined the Walker, Jr., OS, as they stood ship at Mobile and said his supply atop the poop deck canopy. Although Peterson improved of insulin was lost on Saturday morning, July 9, a few hours after the PHS advised that he get the ship left New Orleans. He said hospital treatment so the Kathryn he had his last shot of the medicine continued toward the coast and Friday butjjelieved he could make in mid-afternoon hove to off the it to the next port, Norfolk. Thus Jacksonville sea buoy. Barely able to walk, Peterson he did not report the loss until he became very sick Monday morning. was helped out on deck, strapped Capt. Alan R. Bellhouse ordered into a stretcher and lowered into him into the hospital and called the Coast Guard boat alongside at the Coast Guard at Jacksonville 3:30 PM. The transfer was made Beach. The Kathryn changed by bosun Pedro Erazo, with course and headed for Jackson­ Valentin Acabeo, AB; Robert ville, the nearest port, at top Broadus, DM, and Danzey, Bates and Walker, supervised by chief speed. Manuel Court. By this time, Capt. Bellhouse mate Unhappily, ordeal reported, Peterson's condition in­ was needless, Peterson's Capt. Bellhouse dicated that he was approaching pointed If he had the diabetic coma that often pre­ reported outhisafterwards. problem at once, cedes death. Accordingly, the insulin have been obtained skipper notified the Coast Guard as early might as 4:30 AM Sunday, when that Peterson was getting worse the Kathryn passed West, or and asked them to send insulin. even Sunday eveningKey when it was Two hours later, at 11:45 AM, off Miami. He advised seamen to a Navy helicopter and escort plane report such trouble immediately, flew down the port side of the as help may be nearer than they ship. The chopper dived under its trail of smoke and, without think. This was the third misfortune to strike crewmen of the Kathryn within a short time. BJorn Ler­ Type Minutes wick, AB, left the ship in MobUe with a foot injury suffered dur­ When Possible In order to assure accurate ing the voyage. And in New digests of shipboard meetings Orleans, the crew was saddened in the LOG, it is desirable that by the death of Luis Colon, pop­ the reports of shipboard meet­ ular crew messman, who was ings be typed if at all possible. killed by a hit-run auto near the dock entrance. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Saatrain LInai), Apr. 8—Chairman, no nam# givanr Saeroary. R. Hutchlna. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. $88.04 in ship's fund. Motion that parts be bought for TV and paid for out of ship's fund. ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), Apr. t—Chairman, Oeo. B. McCi/rleyi Secretary, Robert Myers. $20.8S in ship's fund. Request that Ship bo fumigated. Need softer toUet tissue. No date—Thomas Navarre; Secre­ tary, i. S. Bernette. Latter ooncernIng draws in foreign ports written to headquarters and acknowledged. Repair list turned in. $>.88 Ip ship's fund. Headquarters to negotiate fop SUZANNB (Bull), Mar. 10—Chair­ man, B. F. Armstrong; Secretary, Michael Friedman. Most repairs dons. Ns beefs reported. Complaint reg­ istered against examining doctor In Qalveston for not sterilizing needle. Request Union Investigate this matter. MAOAKiT (Waterman), May S— Chalrma^ John Nash; Secretary, Al­ bert •, Ispeneds. M. B. Diaz elected new ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ported. $0.48 In Ship's fund. Crew artced to donate for the fund. Need new washing machine back aft. Cap­ tain claims that bosun Is not given enough work on deck. See chief engineer about more pressure on all toilets. Crew asked to fold cots after use, especially In port. Motion that all orewmembers donate $3.00 towards new TV. higher launch fare and contact com­ panies to let crew draw their OT. Motion to discontinue canned milk being put aboard. Educational speech on unionism given by ship's delegate. STEEL ABB (Isthmian), Apr. tS— Chairman, W. Falmer; Secretary, L. Movall. Everything going along OK. $19.03 In ship's fund. Crewmembers asked to build up ship's fund. Crew asked to take good care of ship's linen. Discussion regarding natives being kept out of the midships house when in port. PAIRLAND (Sea-Lend), Apr. »— Chairmen, Walter Newberg, Secretary, R. Oeddlngs. Repair list turned in. Bunk lights to be Installed at the rate of six per month. $7.50 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Dis­ cussion on contract proposals. BEAUREGARD (Ser-Land), Apr. i* Chairman, H. LIbby; Secretary, Jack Olsen. Ship's delegate reported on communication with other vessels of this company regarding time off In port. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Sea-Land), Apr. 13—Chairman, Hector Conradi Secretary, W. Blaketlee. Everything running smoothly. Letter read from Fairland. Discussion held. $104.50 In ship's fund. Vote of thanks to steward department. Steward request­ ed to leave out more cups. WESTCHESTBR (Southern States), Apr. 22—Chairman, R. W. Sompklns; Secretary, L. Bennett. Robert McEvoy elected new ship's delegate. Former ship's delegate left In hospital In Lattakla, Syria. Need new ice-box In crew messroom. Not receiving LOGS in Lattakla. Syria, or Iskenderun. Turkey. EDITH (Bull), Mar. IS—Chairman, William Murphy; Secretary, William Hartiove. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin Line), Apr. 8—Chairman, B. Fimorict, Secre­ tary, A. Lake. One man missed ship. All beefs taken care of. $28.25 In ship's fund. Minor OT beef in en­ gine aiiil steward departments. Ship should be stored for 100 days as trips are always longer than ex­ pected. COB VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Apr. 15—Chairman, E. Hogge; Secre­ tary, P. Allen. No beefs or disputed OT. Request more night lunch and fruit be put out. $17.98 in ship's fund. Donated $2 to ship's library fund. Motion to have baggage rooms in all SIU halls. TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport Commercial), Feb. 24—Chairman, I. Glass; Secretary, 6. B. Dowiing. Shortage of water leaving the States to be taken up with the captain. Ship running very smoothly since the last steward got off. Deck delegate doing a very good Job. $6.00 left in the ship's treasury. Engine dele­ gate reported clarifications needed for boilers on this type vessel. Vote of thanks to steward department for a Job well done. Request that books be put away and pantry left open while In port. TRANSYORK (Transwestern As­ sociates), Apr. $—Chairman, J. T. Hicks; Secretary, W. Parfish. One Deck gang on the Kathryn carefully lowers chief electrician Fred D. Peterson (circled, in stretcher) to deck of Coast Guard boat waiting alongside at Jacksonville sea buoy. Peterson was stricken with diabetes and had to be rushed ashore. Emergency insulin supply arrived a few hours earlier. Photo by Seafarer C. Mathews. Apr. $—Chairman, T. J. White; Secretary, B. Berg. No beefs reportel by ship's delegate. $3.35 in riUp's fund. Motion that fresh milk be used In foreign ports. Toilets should be fixed. Screen doors need repairs. man flown back to States from Hong Kong with broken arm. No beefs reported. Will check patrolman in regard to transportation in Chittagong and no Improvement In food since special meeting. Food In boxes not being broken out. Request draw every five days Instead of seven. Captain should treat ship's delegate with more respect. CHOCTAW (Waterman), Mar. 11— Chairman, T. J. White; Secretary, B. Berg. Ship's delegate resigned. $3.38 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. STEEL FLYBR (Isthmian), Apr. 3$ —Chairman, James Peterson; Secre­ tary, Peter Cakanic. Most repairs taken care of while the ship was In New York. No beefs reported. Ray Kosch resigned as ship's delegate. Frank Adkins, chief cook, elected. Steward explained new milk plan. Suggestion made to have more sand­ wiches put on menu to supplement main meats. COUNCIL CROVB (Cities Service), May 5—Chairman, Jests W. Malonay; Secretary, Juiian Dedlcatorla. Ship's delegate reported that foc'sle decks need re-flooring. Ship has poor venti­ lation system. Awning needed on after deck and several lockers should be replaced. Ship's delegate Jesse W. Maloney is resigning after payoff ana Brother Voluntare will take his place. All Is well. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), May 6— Chairman, Walter Newberg; Secre­ tary, R. Reynolds. $7.50 in ship's fund. No beefs. Ship's delegate to contact Union regarding new washing machine. CHilef cook elected ship's delegate. Delegate to see patrolman regai'ding showers and toilets back aft. ALCOA PURTAN (Alcoa), Apr. 28 —Chairman, J. Jones; Secretary, Alien O. Tighe. No beefs reported. Steward department representative should be present at payoff. There are a few Issues and items of Interest in the steward department which need checking. EMILLA (Bull), Apr. 29—Chairman, Lief Hope; Secretary, Tony Pallno. Submitted repair list but no work done as yet. Patrolman to be seen regarding chief mate working on deck. BIBNVILLB (Sea-Land), Apr. IS— Chairman, W. R. Thompson; Secre­ tary, D. G. ChaNn. Repair list turned In. Discussion on Houston sailing board. Patrolman assured crew that port captain would remedy this trouble. Discussion on better grade of bacon. Steward said better grade to be placed aboard upon storing this trip In Newark. It's coffeetim* for SIU vet­ erans on Ell* V. (clock­ wise, from left) Angelo Tambaceie, W. C. Sellers, Andy Ellingsen, G. M. Bowdre, Henry W. Miller. Cari E. "Red" Gibbs, Eari Minton, Earl K. Whariey, Ran­ dall E. Lawson, Louis L. Dufond and "Prenehy" Michelet at San Diego. Elie Gets A Glamor Treatment The lure of fancier ships hoida no attraction for the seagoing veterans who sail tramp steamers like the Elie V (Ells V Steam­ ship). Such ia the concensus aboard that one vessel anyway, which was the subject of a recent feature story in a San Diego news­ paper. Elie and her SIU crew got the glamor treatment after they stopped off on the West Coast on returning from Japan, the last foreign leg of a round-the-world trip. The voyage began in New Orleans, where the Elie V. took on a grain cargo for the Persian Gulf. She next went in ballast to Hong Kong then to Japan. After San Diego, she headed hack to New Orleans and the East Coast, from which she was due to haul out grain for South America. Her crew, including such color­ ful SIU oldtimers as "Frenchy" Michelet, erstwhile steward now shipping as oiler; Carl "Red" Gibbs in the deck gang and Andy Ellingsen, electrician, to round out the three departments, explain some of the interest,in the ship. For the newsman at least, "Frenchy" explained his preferance for trampships to wit: "All of them eventually get to Japan, the sailor's paradise." "Red" Gibbs, with 61 ships notched In his seagoing belt over the past 32 years, said he was bucking for "75" (ships, not years), "After that, I'm going to snug haven," saiil the veteran seaman. Andy Ellingsen, who's sailed all of the seas you can name since he took his Hrst ship out of his native Oslo in '29, carries in his collection of discharges papers showing that he fought with the Finns in the Russo-Flnnish war, escaped from the Germans after the invasion of Norway and later went back to fight as a Britishtrained Norse guerrilla. He tintyped most men on tramps as oldtimers. "They- don't care so much for the fancy vessels. They like to see different portssomething new across the horizon. "Tramps take them there." The boys on the Elie must have something there. �t• Avcwt, U6t SEAFARERS LOG Pare Twenty Three Notify Union On LOG Mail As Seafarers know, copies of each issue of the SEAFARERS LOO arc mailed erery mohth to all SIU ships as well as to lujmerous clubs, bars and other overseas spots where Seafarers congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG Involves calling all SIU steamship companies for the itineraries of their ships. On the basis of the information supplied by the ship oper­ ator, four copies of the LOO, the headquarters report and min­ utes forms are then airmailed to the company agent in the next port of call. Similarly, the seamen's clubs get various quantities of LOGs at every mailing. The LOO is sent to any club when a Seafarer so requesU it by notifying the LOG office that Seafarers con­ gregate there. As always the Union would like to hear promptly'from SIU ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so that the Union can maintain a day-to-day check on the accuracy of its mailing lists. FINANCIAL REPORTS. Th* eonstltutlOB Of th* SIO Atlantlo, Oulf, Lakes sad Iniaod Waters Ustrlct iwkes speolfle provision tor safeguarding the nenbershlp's noney and Union finances. The eonstitutloa requires • detailed CPA audit every three nonths by a rank and file auditing eoaalttee elected by the a—bereblp. 'All Union records are available at 8X0 headquarters in Brooklyn. Should any aeaber, for any reason, be refused his constitutional right to in­ spect these records, notify 810 President Paul Ball by certified nail, return receipt requested. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds Of the 810 Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland •Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreenents. All these agreeaents specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management represent­ atives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. If, at any time, you are denied Information about any SIU trust fund, notify SIU President Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified mall, return receipt •requested. mi mSS Choctaw Conrad, 61 W. 105 St., New York Sixto Escobar, ex-steward on the 25, NY. Choctaw, would like his former 4 4 4 shipmates to know he is feeling fine and is now aboard the North­ Martin Vesterby western Victory. • Anyone knowing the where­ abouts of the above is asked to contact Liidia Vesterbush, 2890 Rudolph R. Cefaratti Important. Get in touch with Pelham Ave., Baltimore 13, Md. your mother immediately. 4 4 4 $ SHIPPING Rlom'S. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected by the con­ tracts of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and by Union shipping rules, which are incorporated in the contract. Get to know your shipping rights. If you feel there has been any violation of your ship­ ping or seniority rights, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board. Also notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters, by certified mail, return re­ ceipt requested. $1 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 manner. If, at any tine, any • SIU 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. t 4 John Blizzard Jr. Get in touch with Hy Fleischer, Thomas J. Henry Contact Willard V. Bryan, c/o 5302 Third Ave., Brooklyn, NY, Preston Realty Company, 1721 St. or phone Gedney 9-9775. Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md., regard­ 4 4 4 ing your apartment. Income tax funds are being held ^ for the following men by Neil V. Leslie James Brllhard Pardo, 2420 First Ave., Seattle 1, Your aunt, Mrs. M. Cole, 4530 Wash.: W. Lloyd St., Milwaukee, Wis., Damlan Alabakoff, Carroll H. Andrews, Would like to hear from you as M. D. Ballard. Bruce Barkyoumb, Charles soon as possible. 4 t Louis Escarra Ex-SS Marore You are asked to contact your mother. is, ^ i. Albert G. Yumul Contact Mrs. Florence Yumul, Lower Mill Rd., Elmer, NJ, for important mail she is holding for you. J- t 4" Rector Conrad Get in touch with Mrs. Theresa Ladies' Day Belcher, George J. Berg. Matthew Bibisch. A. D. Bobbitt. David H. Boone, Robert Bradley, John J. Brady, Rudolf Broc. Robert A. Cage, WiUlam E. Calefalo, Ephriara F. Calhoun, Jose Canul, Philip B. Cogley. Lepnard J. Cox, Arthur L. Craig, Teruko K. Craig, Edward R. Crelan. J. W. & A. Crowley, Maxine Curtis, Dominick Dlmalo, Eugene N. Dore, Charles Doroba, Chester A. Doyle. Fred R. England. Wilbur Lee Everett. Mark J. Fitzpatrlck, R. M. & M. Godwin, Roland M. Hampshire, Erlck Hawkins. Robert J. Hellig, Leonard M. Higginx, John J. Howarth, Jr.. Kimiko Huddleston, Vance L. Idzal, Leonard B. & Happy Johnston, Herbert K. Kennedy, WIU I. KroU. Calvin K. Lake. Fay W. Langlcy. J. M. & Y. M. Lauritsen. Gene Legg. Robert N. McAndrew, Stacey J. McDermott. Eugene McGuinn, James McKee, Lloyd C. Marsh. James J. Mates. Kiyoko Mehen, Halle Mikkelborg. James L. Morgan. Jr., Edward N. Napaepae. Michael F. Noehl. William M. O'Connor, John E. Paulette, CarroU J. Quinnt. Carroll Quint, Jr., Albin O. Rankin. David T. Raynes. Rob­ ert P. Key, Lauriano A. Sagadraca, Marius Sandanger. Walter L. Shubert, John F. Slusarczyk, Robert P. Stubbert, IQvls O. Warren. Alfred L. Vnrnhnrnugh, Robert R. Yonce. 4 4 4 0 EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has 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. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to bo 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 . such receipt. If in the event anyone attempts to require any such payment bo made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and 1^ given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been re­ quired to make such payment, this should Immediately be called to the attention of SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. I r Seafarer Lam Ching visited SIU headquarters with his wife and family recently, and one of the mementoes of the visit is this photo in the LOG. The junior set (front) in this steward de­ partment family is made up of daughters Mary, 4, and Nina, 3. ss RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members 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 members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rsnk-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. IW ano. Ho Yung Kong, Fong Yao King. Steve Krkovich, Charles W. Lane, James Lear, Mllledge P. Lee. John Misakian, Elmer J. Moe, Alii Nasroen, Potenciano Paculba. Consoreios Padios. Cezar Pedregosa. Frank C. Ponce. Sammy Rogamos, Marvin E. Satchell, Carl E. Scott, Jr., Raymond A. Trichc, Grover C. Turner, Welden O. Wallace, Yung P. Woo, Walter C. Zajanc. 4 4 4 The following men should get in touch with Mrs. M. C. Hayman, 115 Milby St., Houston 3, Texas, for important mail she is holding for them: F S. Liro, Louis A. DelaCerda, W. Jones Jr., R F. Wurzler, B. J. Dzelak, J. R. Allen, George 4 4 4 Lesnansky, James Kerrigan, James Baggage being held at the Balti­ Cieator. 4 4 4 more SIU Hall for the following men should be called for as soon Charles A. MacDonald as possible: Contact Thomas T. McVann, W. Labenz, B. G. Ladd, Iverson. attorney, 136-21 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing 54, NY, concerning an 4 4 4 important business matter. Walter Sikorsfcl 4 4.4 Kenneth Dawson Cumming The above - named or anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to get in touch with his wife, Mrs. Elaine Cumming, at 198-16 15th Ave., St. Albans, Long Island, NY. You' are asked to get in touch with your brother, Chester Sikor- - CCTISTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such ss 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. George Joseph Walsh Get in touch with your daughter, Mrs. Kathleen Marie Norton, at 5219 North 9th St., Philadelphia ski, 130 Walkouriak St., Buffalo held by Jack W. Lynch, Room 201, SUP Building, 450 Harrison St., 25, NY. 41, Pa. San Francisco 5, Calif., for the fol­ 4 4 4 4 4 4 lowing: Norman H. Gaulke is now living Freddie Bailey. Morris Berlowitz, MarBenjamin Ocuaman ashore and asks any brothers who gurito Borja, Samuel 8. V. Carubba. Dao Get in touch with Charles Gris- owe him money to forward it to King Chae, John W. Curlew, Robert J. baum, Jr., at 2707 Tulane Ave., him at 10420 Humboldt Avenue Edwards. John Eubanks, Dominic GraziNew Orleans 19, La. South, Minneapolis 31, Minn. 4 4 4 L Income tax refunds are being 675 Four(K Brooklyn \ ^ { would like to recoive fhe SEAFARERS lOGpuf my name on your mailing list j (Brint tnhrmathn} x �SEAFARERS LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARIRl INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO a SEAFARERS m COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS Now Is the time for Seafarers and their children to start thinking about the Seafarers scholarship awards to be made in 1963. Rve awards providing $6,000 for four years of college study in any field are offered each year to Seafarers and the children of SlU men. Since 1953, when the SlU scholarship program was instituted, a total of 48 scholarships has been awarded to 21 Seafarers and 27 children of Seafarers. The SlU program is one of the most generous in the country, both in the size of the annual grants and in the provisions governing the use of the scholar­ ships. A scholarship winner is free to apply the award to any course of study in any accredited col­ lege or university in the United States or its pos­ sessions. OPPORTII FOR AHD CHIL The scholarship competition is open to Seafarers who have a minimum of three years* seatime, or to children of Seafarers whose fathers meet the seatime requirements. The plan provides that at least one of the scholarships is reserved for a Sea­ farer. Determination of the winners is based upon the applicants' high school records and other scholastic activities plus their performances on the standard College Entrance Examination Board tests. The awards are also open to candidates who are already enrolled in a college. Selection of the award win­ ners is based on the recommendations of a panel of leading university educators and administrators. Those Seafarers and children of Seafarers inter­ ested in competing for the awards should contact the nearest SlU port office for information. They should also make arrangements to take a College Entrance Examination Board test as soon as pos­ sible. The schedule for the nationwide CEEB tests is as follows: December i, 1962; January 12, 1963; March 2, 1963. All applicants are urged to take the earliest possible exam so that the results will be available when the award committee meets in May. • �^y^S/V"^-"-'^ s#;; ii« 'iliNiiiilii iiililiiil ii ._...- '/ "' , • ' ; r ' ' l'^'- •- ' • I _ ,._'' _ 'V; On July 12, 1962, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg appointed a three-man Board of In­ quiry to hold hearings on the dispute between the SlU of Canada and the Upper Lakes Shipping Company, a dispute arising out of the company's action in locking out some 300 SlU of Canada members and, in turn, manning its ships through a company-sponsored union. The US Government intervention was prompted by a tie-up of the Welland Canal which arose out of the dispute and by the involvement of unions and companies in numerous Great Lakes ports in the United States and Canada. lf;l Similarly, the Canadian government initiated its own inquiry into the dispute which is still underway. At the hearings which took place on July 26, 27 and 30, the three-man US board, consisting of Samuel I. Rosenman, chairman, David L. Cole and James J. Heaiy, heard testimony from interested parties, including the SlUNA and the company. The following pages carry the full text of the Board of Inquiry's report. In addition, they con­ tain the text of the statement submitted by the SlUNA outlining all of the circumstances which led up to this dispute. IHI 4 siis Pis pis iiiil ISIS �SEAFARERS •applemeni—Pac» Two -Ancost, 19M LOG -•1^. "''-pi":., '.',r Report to the Secretary of Labor by the Board Appointed to Inquire into the Matter of the Picketing of Certain Canadian Vessels by the Seafarers international Union The undersigned, constituted by the Secre­ tary of Labor on July 12, 1962 as a public board to inquire into the dispute causing the picketing of certain Canadian vessels by the Seafarers International Union on the Great Lakes, respect­ fully submits to the Secretary of Labor the fol­ lowing report. f. Terms Of Reference And Procedure. In view of the necessity for submitting this report by August I, and the complex nature of the dispute, the Board determined to proceed by conducting expedited and informal discus­ sions with representatives of the employer and of the United States unions involved. Accord­ ingly, it has been feosible only to report the positions of the parties, noting, where possible, those facts which are not in dispute. On July 26, 27 and 30 the Board met with the following individuals: George Meany—President, AFL-CIO, Paul Hall—President, Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America (SlU), Michael Carlin—Head of International De­ partment of SlU, Joseph Moloney — Director, District 4, United Steelworkers of America, William Mahoney — National Director, United Steelworkers of Canada, Joseph Chrobak—President, Local 5000, United Steelworkers of America, Fredrick Neubouer—President, Local 7000, United Steelworkers of America, Jerry Anker—Attorney for the United Steelworkers, H. Howard Ostrin—Attorney for the Na­ tional Maritime Union, P. G. Kingsburgh—^Vice President and Gen­ eral Manager of Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. John A. Geller—Attorney for Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. Paul E. Flaherty—Attorney Lakes Shipping Ltd. for Upper Presentations were made orally and also in the form of documented written statements. //. Undisputed Facts And Positions Of Parties On Disputed Facts. A. Background. The Seafarers International Union of Canada (SlU of Canada) was the outgrowth of a de­ cision in the post-World War II period on the part of both employers and the Canadian labor movement, that it was necessary to provide sea­ men with on alternative to the allegedly Com­ munist-dominated Canadian Seamen's Union. For this purpose, the Seofarers International Union of North America (SlU), which already had a small affiliate in Canada, the British Canadian Seamen's Union, sent organizers into Canada to organize a new union free of Com­ munist influence, the SlU, Canadian District, later the SlU of Canada. After a bitter and violent struggle, the SlU of Canada succeeded in replacing the Canadian Seamen's Union. Hal Bonks, one of the organ­ izers sent into Canada by the SlU, became head of the SlU of Canada, a position he still holds. T HE SlU of Canada was, until April 28, I960, an affiliate of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). On that day, the union was suspended from the CLC on the charge of raiding. In Sep­ tember of 1961 there was organized, under the auspices of the Canadian Labour Congress, the Canadian Maritime Union (CMU), and the jur­ isdiction over Canadian unlicensed seamen was conferred on the CMU. B. Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. and the SlU of Canada. SlU, on its own behalf and on behalf of the SlU of Canada, takes the position that the current dispute is primarily a dispute between Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. and the SlU of Canada. Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., on the other hand, considers its dispute with SlU now converted into a struggle between two rival unions, the SlU of Canada and the CMU, which has now been legally resolved on its ships in favor of CMU. The United Steelworkers on both sides of the border agree generally with this view. In any event, the relationship between the SlU of Canada and Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. is a significant part of the current dispute. (1) 1961 Season. There was in effect during the 1961 Great Lakes shipping season, as there had been for the preceding ten years, a fleet contract between the Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. and the SlU of Canada. This contract recognized the SlU of Canada as the sole bargaining ogent of the unlicensed personnel aboard all the vessels of the company. During the 1961 season, subsidiary companies of Upper Lakes, whose ships were not included within the contract, brought into the Great Lakes three vessels, the Wheat King, the Northern Venture and the Hilda Marjanne. Initially, the company agreed that the Wheat King would be manned by SlU of Canada. A dispute arose, however, concerning the proper manning of the vessel; and the crew walked off the ship. The Company thereupon brought crim­ inal charges of desertion and enticing to desert. According to the SlU, a settlement was reached with the company and an enlarged crew then reboarded he vessel. However, the SlU con­ tends, the company failed to drop all the crim­ inal charges that it had made. For this reason, the crew walked out again. The company alleges, on the other hand, that it did live up to its part of the agreement, and that the second walkout was in violation of the SlU's part of the agreement. The Company then hired a new crew. The SlU alleges these were non-union men. Upper Lakes states they were hired through the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad, Transport and General Workers (CBRT&GW). Subsequently, this crew, by an election under the auspices of the Canadian Labour Board, chose the CBRT&GW as its bar­ gaining agent; and on September 28, 1961, a certificate to this effect was issued, over the protest of the SlU of Canoda, to the CBRT&GW by the Canadian Minister of Labour. In the case of the Northern Venture, initial manning by the company was by non-SIU crew­ men. However, the crew, according to the SlU, held a meeting on the docks and decided to join the SlU of Canada. The SlU alleges that because of this decision, the crew was then locked out of the vessel. The SlU further alleges that a non­ union crew was then hired by the company to sail the ship. The compony asserts that the initial manning was done through the CBRT&GW. The company further asserts that only a few men walked off the ship, and that since no ship's articles had as yet been signed, the ship law­ fully sailed without them. On September 28, 1961, the Minister of Labour in Canada issued a certificate to the CBRT&GW as the bargaining agent for the unlicensed seamen aboard the Northern Venture. The SlU alleges that in both= instances, the company was assisted in its efforts to lock out the SlU of Canada by Michael J. Sheehan, formerly a long-time member of the organizing staff of SlU of Canada, and now head of the CMU. The Company denies that Sheehan ever acted in such a capacity, and states that he acted during this period solely for the CLC and the CBRT&GW. T HE THIRD ship involved in disputes between the SlU of Canada and the company in 1961 was the Hilda Marjanne. The ship was chartered by another Upper Lakes subsidiary. By the time it arrived in the Lake;, the CMU had been formed by the CLC. the CBRT&GW, having helped in the CMU's creation, did not offer to man the Hilda Marjanne as it had the Northern Venture and the Wheat King. Instead the CMU so offered, did man the ship, and was certified by the Canadian Minister of Labour as the bar­ gaining agent for the ship. These three vessels were picketed throughout the 1961 season by the SlU of Canada in Canada and by the SlU in the United States. In picketing in the United States, the SlU had the �SEAFARERS 1M2 support of th« Moritimo Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. A number of Injunction coses on both sides of the border hove resulted from the picketing, several of them still pending. In addi­ tion, several matters are pending before the Notional Labor Relations Board arising from the picketing. Toward the end of the 1961 shipping season, the SlU of Canada, pursuant to the existing fleetwide contract, served notice on Upper Lakes that it wished to amend the contract for the 1962 season. Upper Lakes requested and received the proposals of the SlU of Canada. It quickly be­ came necessary to invoke the services of a Board of Conciliation to assist in the process of nego­ tiation. Accordingly, the SlU of Canada peti­ tioned under the law of Canada for the estab­ lishment of 0 Board of Conciliation for that purpose. The Board did not succeed in bringing the parties together in an agreement. The com­ pany alleges that the demands of SlU of Canada were excessive and did not offer a basis for negotiation; and the SlU of Canada asserts that the company's demands for changes in the con­ tract and the company's refusal to negotiate on the demands of the SlU of Canada made effec­ tive negotiation impossible. (2) 1962 Season. (a) SlU Contentions. In March, 1962, the Minister of Labour ac­ cepted the report of the Chairman and industryappointed member of the Conciliation Board to the effect that agreement was impossible. The SlU of Canada continued to press its bargaining demands. However, the company then recog­ nized the CMU as the bargaining agent for its unlicensed personnel and negotiated an agree­ ment with the CMU. The CBRT&GW continues as the bargaining agent for the crews of the Wheat King and Northern Venture^ T HE SlU of Canada then initiated picketing in Canada of all vessels of Upper Lakes. The SlU began to picket once again on the United States side of the Great Lakes. This picketing and the 1961 picketing of the three ships above men­ tioned are defended by the SlU on the ground that it is the practice to support seamen involved in strikes elsewhere; and that were it not for this practice, the nature of the industry would make successful union action almost impossible. Of course, the SlU of Canada is not simply another unaffiliated seamen's union; it is one of the semiautonomous unions that make up the confedera­ tion known as the SlU. This fleetwide picketing also led to court and administrative actions in both countries. Upper Lakes has obtained temporary injunctions against picketing in a number of courts in both Canada and the United States. The SlU contends that by agreeing to the re­ quest of George Meany, President of the AFLCIO, at the instigation of the Secretary of Lobor, to withdraw its pickets in July, 1962, its success­ ful strike action against the company was in­ terrupted. The result has been that a number of the company's vessels that had been tied up by the pickets are now sailing, and other vessels that the company had not been able to man are now being manned. (b) Company Contentions. The company's position is that it has at all points fully complied with the laws of Canada. Thus, after the Minister of Labour accepted the report of the Board of Conciliation that agree­ ment seemed hopeless under the circumstances, LOG the company was free to seek and did seek a contract with another union to man its vessels; that the contract with the CMU was, therefore, lawful; and that the company must now fulfill its obligations under that contract. Furthermore, since it is the Great Lakes practice to contract for a season only and to rehire at the beginning of the new season, the company urges that no member of the SlU of Canada was in its employ and therefore that SlU of Cdnado had no em­ ployer-employee relationship to administer. C. SlU and Other Unions. The United Steelworkers do not share the SlU's view of the present situation. Its view is that this is a jurisdictional struggle between two rival unions, the SlU of Canada and the CMU. Although it favors the CMU, it views this as a situation in which only the seamen themselves should make the choice. However, the Steelworkers Union objects strenuously to three as­ pects of the activity of the SlU in the United States. Firstj it objects to alleged violence and in­ timidation which it asserts have characterized the dispute. Second, it ob'ects to picketing that has taken place at steel p ants. It claims that such picket­ ing is not legitimote because of the absence of any dispute between SlU and the steel com­ panies. The Steelworkers Union feels that it must therefore instruct its members to ignore the picket lines. Third, it objects to the activities of SlU be­ cause they threaten to cut off the supply of ore from Canada which is needed to keep steel mills in operation and their workers employed. The interference with the supply of ore could occur for two reasons: (I) because the SlU has at­ tempted to close down whole ports in order to force port commissioners to prohibit CMUmanned vessels from entering the ports; and (2) because the refusal to unload CMU-manned vessels in the United States will eventually result in Steelworkers' members refusing in Canada to load and in the United States to unload the vessels manned by the SlU. Although the undersigned did not speak with any official representative of the CLC or the CMU, one of the Steelworkers appearing before the Board is a director of the Canadian Steel­ workers and a vice president of the CLC. It is clearly the view of the CLC that the dispute is solely between the SlU of Canada and the CMU, and that it intends to support the CMU as much as possible in this rivalry. T HE Steelworkers' and CLC's support for the CMU is not based only on the suspension of the SlU of Canada for raiding. It stems also from their contention that Hal Banks, head of the SlU of Canada, is not a democratic union leader, and that his leadership is not of a kind which they regard as befitting the Canadian labor movement. The extent of the CLC support of the CMU was made clear by the action which gave rise directly to government involvement in this dis­ pute. That action was the closing of the Welland Locks by the CBRT&GW to ships manned by the SlU. Because ships manned by the SlU moved into position on either side of the Locks and thus blocked all shipping in the Seaway, the Presi­ dent of the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Authority obtained an in unction against the CBRT&GW, and shipping through the Locks was resumed. The tie-up of the Seaway points up the serious possibilities which may arise out of this bitter dispute. Snppleiii«iit—Pace' l%reo r -IE National Maritime Union (NMU) appeored before us to present its argument against the action of the SlU of North America. Its contention is that the picketing of Canadian ships with Canadian crews aboard might make it appear that a United States union is trying to organize under the "flag of convenience" con­ cept. This, the NMU asserts, may prejudice its claimed right to organize true "flag of conveni­ ence" ships. SlU asserts that it has had differences with the CLC as to the nature of the political action in which the Canadian labor movement should engage; and that this has contributed to the friction between its representative, Hal Banks, and the leadership of the CLC. Finally, the SlU asserts that the CMU is a com­ pany-dominated and strike-breaking union that was organized by collusive agreement between the CLC and Upper Lakes; and that it will be used to eliminate the SlU of Canada. III. Conclusions And Recommendation, The great difficulty in this case lies in the strongly divergent and apparently irreconcil­ able convictions of three parties, and the deeprooted antagonism which has been aroused by certain key personalities, particularly Hal Banks, head of SlU of Canada, and Michael Sheehan, now President of CMU. SlU believes that this is essentially a labor dispute between its Canadian affiliate and the Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. interests; that the employer, sensing the friction within the CLC, is grasping the opportunity to eliminate SlU of Canada from its vessels, after an established bargaining relationship of some ten years; and that it is being aided and encouraged in this effort by segments of the CLC contrary to trade union practice and tradition. The employer, on the other hand, is now con­ vinced that it has a legal duty to recognize and deal with CMU as the duly certified and estab­ lished representative of its unlicensed seamen. The CLC and certain of its affiliated organiza­ tions are apparently determined to support its newly-created affiliate, CMU, in displacing SlU of Canada, which has been expelled from CLC. No direct reconciliation of these conflicts sug­ gests itself to this Board. It feels, nevertheless, that a serious discussion among all the parties in interest, jointly and separately, might lead to the narrowing of some areas of misunderstanding and perhaps to some approach that would be far more desirable than a resumption of the war of attrition which led to the appointment of this Board. We recommend, therefore, that as promptly as possible, a saries of international conferences among all the parties in interest be conducted jointly by Hon. Michael Starr, Minister of Labour, and Hon. Arthur J. Goldberg, Secretary of Labor, for the purpose of exploring all pos­ sible means of arriving at some workable under­ standing which will avoid the resort to self-help of the kind now temporarily suspended. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Samuel I. Rosenman, Chairman /s/ David L Cole /s/ James J. Heoly July 31, 1962 �i-- SEAFARERS r 8livpl«n«ni—We Tow Avcwt. IHf LOG Statement of Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO in the Matter of the Dispnte with Upper Lakes Shipping Company and its Subsidiaries had collective bargaining relations with the SIU of Canada since 1951 and up until it The Seafareis International Union of precipitated the current dispute. Canada is directly involved in a labor dis­ Upper Lakes is operated under AmeriApril 17 pute with the Upper Lakes Shipping Com­ can and Canadian ownership, with the ma' pany, Ltd. The SIU of Canada is affiliated jority ownership in the United States with the Seafarers International Union of through the Norris family interests.^ The North America, AFL-CIO, and has been the holding company for the Norris family in­ sole collective bargaining representative for terests is the Osceola Corp., of which James Norris is chairman. Others prominent in Upper Lakes employees since 1951. the Norris operations are Bruce Norris and In April, 1961, the company commenced J. D. Leitch, who represents the Norris in­ a series of events designed to destroy the terests in Canada. existing collective bargaining relationship. It locked out SIU crewmembers aboard ^HE NORRIS interests consist of a vast vessels of Upper Lakes and its subsidiaries J- network of enterprises in the United and installed a new company-sponsored or­ States and Canada. These interests include ganization as the collective bargaining rep­ steel mills, grain elevators, bakeries, boxing enterprises, racing stables, hotels, theaters, resentative for all its emplo3''ees. stadiums, hockey teams, banks, real estate, The SIU then began picketing the vessels drydocks and feed mills, as well as shipping. in American and Canadian ports as part of a traditional trade union action. The SIU of C. The Canadian Maritime Union. 1961, April 18 Canada has published and disseminated the The Canadian Maritime Union was es­ and following story of the dispute in a booklet entitled tablished in September, 1961. It had no "The Strange Conspiracy to Destroy the membership, no contracts and no union Standards and Security of Canadian Work­ structure. The man appointed to head this organization was Michael Sheehan, a for­ ers." (See Exhibit No. 1)* mer representative of the SIU. (See Ex­ hibit No. 3)* TN CONDUCTING this picketing action against Upper Lakes and subsidiaries, III. Chronology Of Events In The Dispute, jggj JQ the SIU has had the support of trade unions in both the United States and Canada. As a Following is the chronology of events result of a request by Secretary of Labor which culminated in the current dispute; Goldberg on July 7, 1962, the SIU agreed to withdraw its picketlines pending an in­ 1951, April 6 SIU signed first agree­ quiry into the dispute. ment with Upper Lakes. f. Description Of The Dispute. II. The Parties In The Dispute. A. The Seafarers internationai Union Of Canada. The Seafarers International Union of Canada is affiliated with the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North America, AFLCIO. The SIU of Canada represents 15,000 members and has contracts covering 86 com­ panies on all coasts of Canada. The SIU of Canada has established un­ ion facilities for its membership in all ports throughout Canada. Its success on behalf of Canadian seamen is a matter of record. This record is best shown by the improve­ ment in conditions and earnings negotiated by the Union with Upper Lakes Shipping since the beginning of the collective bar­ gaining relationship in 1951. (See Exhibit No. 2)* B. Upper Lakes Shipping Company. The Upper Lakes Shipping Company op­ erates approximately 20 vessels under its own name or through subsidiaries. It has iS-j'.-i • A voluminous file of Exhibits was submitted to the Board of Inquiry and is available. 1952, March 10 New agreement negotiat­ 1961, June 1 ed between the SIU and the company. 1953, Septem­ New agreement negotiat­ ed between the SIU and ber 29 the company. 1956, June 12 New agreement negotiat­ ed between the SIU and 1961, June 6 the company. 1958, Septem­ New agreement negotiat­ ed between the SIU and ber 16 the company. 1960, October 4 New agreement negotiat­ ed between the SIU and the company. 1961, April 4 The company advised the SIU that it had a new ves­ sel, the SS Wheat King, and sought an agreement to cover this vessel. The Wheat King was repre­ sented as a deep-sea Brit­ ish vessel, and an agree- f - ment to this effect was reached. (See Exhibit No. 4)* On the basis of company representations, a 30-man SIU crew was placed aboard the vessel. The ship's master and chief engineer supported con­ tentions of the crew and the SIU that the vessel was undermanned. Be­ fore coming to Canada, she had carried a 48-man crew in accord with the requirements of the Brit­ ish Board of Trade. It later developed that the vessel was under Bermudan registry for operation by an Upper Lakes sub­ sidiary, Island Shipping. SIU efforts to improve le manning scale were rebuffed thereafter. The vessel was subject, in the following days, to con­ stant crew turn-over be­ cause of low manning and other unsatisfactory con­ ditions. SIU appeal to Captain Carr, Master of the Wheat King, regarding manning of the Wheat King, was unsuccessful in the port of Thorold. At the port of Levis, Que­ bec, approximately half the crew walked off the vessel to protest the man­ ning situation. One utility boy was added, but man­ ning remained a matter of dispute. SIU representatives con­ tinued to seek J. D. Leitch, head of the company. In his absence, Thomas J. Houtman, Personnel Manager for Upper Lakes, refused to increase the manning and said he had strict orders from Leitch not to do so. At 9:00 PM that night, the unlicensed crew and most of the engineering offi­ cers walked off the ship just before sailing time, held a union meeting and voted to stay ashore until some relief was forthcom­ ing. �SEAFARERS AoCMt. u« 1961, Junt 8-9 Ten of the men in the SIU 1961, July 11 crew were arrested by Quebec Provincial Police on company charges that they were deserters from a foreign vessel. 1961, June 13 I i- . ' 1961, June 14 1961, June 15-26 1961, June 28 1961, July 4 1961, July 6-8 1961, July 8 1961, July 10 As a result of communi­ cations between Leitch and Hal Banks, President of the SIU of Canada, a settlement was reached. It provided for the addition of 3 more crewmembers and an agreement to ar­ bitrate the size of the crew for the vessel. (See Ex­ hibit No. 5) * The parties also verbally agreed to the withdrawal of all legal proceedings by both sides. In accord with the June 13th agreement, a 33-man SIU crew went aboard and commenced to operate the vessel. Company refused to drop legal proceedings in ac­ cord with the previous un­ derstanding. Crewmem­ bers elected to leave and remain off the vessel un­ til the company abided by the terms of the June 13th understanding. Company placed a crew of Greek immigrants and ship deserters aboard the Wheat King and the ves­ sel sailed. Sheehan, later to become head of CMU, helped recruit the non-un­ ion crew. The SS Northern Ven­ ture, a vessel similar to the Wheat King, and to be operated by TransLake Shipping, another Bermudan subsidiary of Upper Lakes , was brought into drydock at Port Weller, Ontario. The company did not advise the SIU of this fact. Sheehan and Houtman sought non-union men to sail the Northern Ven­ ture. Sheehan screened applicants at a Canadian Government Employment Office. Men with SIU background were reject­ ed. Non-union crewmen were then placed aboard the Northern Venture. (See Exhibit No. 6)* An SIU representative met ashore with crewmembers off the North­ ern Venture and found an expression of interest in union representation. A crew meeting was held on thf dock and 80 of the men then assigned to the vessel authorized the SIU to bargain on their behalf. * A voluminous flie of Exhibits was submitted to the Board of Inquiry and Is available. 1961, July 17 LOG Sheehan and another per­ son boarded the vessel at 4:00 AM. For several hours they harassed crewmembers and threatened dismissal to all with SIU sympathies. David Sherk, a crewmember, questioned the master of the vessel, Capt. Clattenburg, about Sheehan's authority to fire the crew. He was ad­ vised by Clattenburg that Sheehan was the respon­ sible party and, if crewmembers did not accept Sheehan's authority, they would have to get off. The crew advised the SIU of the situation and an SIU representative was dis­ patched to the ship. He was barred fi-om speaking to crewmembers, who then advised their offi­ cers that they wished to consult on the dock with the SIU representative and would be back aboard within 10 minutes. They left the vessel in whatever clothes they had on at the time. Sheehan, standing at the gangway, told them not to come back. As soon as they were outside the gate, it was locked and crewmembers were barred from returning to the vessel. Shortly after, a picketline was formed to protest the lockout. It should be noted here that Port Weller Drydocks, where these events took place, are part of the Norris-owned interests. The company sought and obtained an injunction which was read to the picketline together with the Riot Act. The picketline dispersed immediate­ ly, but nine men were ar­ rested and thrown into jail. This was the first time in 87 years that the Riot Act had been read in that part of Ontario, al­ though the picketline was orderly at all times. The same night, a non-union skeleton crew was placed aboard the vessel. She later sailed for Duluth, Minnesota, where the ves­ sel was picketed. 1961, August 2 Charges against SIU pickets at Port Weller were dismissed. Sapplement—Pace Fire It also announced that the vessels were no longer un­ der Bermudan registry and were operating under the Canadian flag. (See Exhibit No. 3) * 1961, Octo­ ber 2 In accord with the terms of contracts dated Octo­ ber 4, 1960, between Upper Lakes, Leitch Transport and Norris Grain-Steamship Division and the SIU (See Exhibit No. 7) *, the SIU notified the employer that it wished to begin negotia­ tions for contract renew­ al. The SIU asked that a time and place be set for a meeting. (See Exhibit No. 8)* 1961, Octo­ ber 19 The company advised the SIU that it was too early to meet but asked the SIU to advise the nature of its contract proposals in writing. (See Exhibit No. 9)* 1961, Octo­ ber 24 The SIU informed the company, in compliance with its request, that an SIU negotiating commit­ tee was formulating pro­ posals for submission. (See Exhibit No. 10)* 1961, Novem­ ber Another edition (Vol. I, No. 2) of the CMU "Can­ adian Beacon" was dis­ tributed. It announced "the formal establishment of the Canadian Maritime Union, a union to cover all unlicensed personnel in the Canadian Shipping industry . . .". It named Sheehan as president. (See Exhibit No. 3)* 1961, Novem­ ber 28 The SIU submitted propo­ sals to the company and suggested a tentative meeting date of December 18. 1961, within the time limit period prescribed by Section 15 of the Indus­ trial Relations and Dis­ putes Investigation Act. (See Exhibit No. 11)* 1961, Decem­ ber 14 The SIU received a letter dated December 13, 1961, from the Association of Lake Carriers, acting in behalf of the Company, refusing to meet on De­ cember 18. and calling for an indefinite postpone­ ment until earlv 1962. (See Exhibit No." 12) * 1961, Septem­ The "Canadian Beacon," 1961, Decem­ SIU formally requested a publication issued by ber a meeting date of Decem­ ber 18 the newly-formed Canadi­ ber 20, 1961. The employ­ an Maritime Union, ap­ er refused to meet on this peared on the waterfront. date and suggested no It announced the signing other date. (See Exhibit of agreements covering No. 13)* the SS Wheat King and (Continued on Page 6) the SS Northern Venture. �SEAFARERS Sovplement—Pac« Six (Centinned from Page 5) 1961, Decernher 20 1962, Janu­ ary 23 1962, Febru­ ary 5-13 1962, Febru­ ary 15 1962, Febru­ ary 22-23 1962, March 5 SIU requested that the Canadian Labour Minis­ ter appoint a Conciliation Officer to bring the par­ ties into negotiations. (See Exhibit No. 14) * Remi Duquette, Canadian Labour Department Con­ ciliation Officer, met with the parties to the dispute. No effort was made by the company to bargain collectively and in good faith. A Conciliation Board was appointed by the Canadi­ an Labour Minister, com­ posed of Jean Lariviere, as the SIU nominee, and Norman McLeod Rogers, as the company nominee. Since they could not agree on a chairman, appoint­ ment by the Minister of Labour was required. These procedures were pursuant to Sections 15, 16, 17, 27 and 28 of the Industrial Relations and Disputes Investigation Act of Canada. (See Ex­ hibit No. 15)* G. D. Laviolette, an in­ dustrial adviser to man­ agement, was appointed by the Labour Minister as chairman of the Concilia­ tion Board. (See Exhibit No. 16)* The SIU protested this appointment by telegram. The protest was rejected. (See Exhibit No. 17) * The SIU presented its brief at the first meeting of the Conciliation Board. A serious interruption occurred during this pres­ entation when the com­ pany introduced its brief dated February 23, which, it said, would make the SIU presentation un­ necessary. (See Exhibit No. 18) *. In its brief, the company showed a dispo­ sition to give status to the CMU and implied a hope for the growth of the com­ pany-sponsored union. On rage 2 of its brief, the company stated: . . The demands served on the Companies here represented (Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., Leitch Transport and Norris Grain-Steamship Division)" are part of the Seafarers International Union's campaign to pre­ vent the organizing of the other union among Great Lakes shipping companies generally..." The company also categorically rejected the SIU's demands and, in • A voluminous flio of SxiiUtiU wss subiniiled to tha Board of Inquiry and Is avallablo. , 1902, March 6 Aagmi, IHS LOG fact, sought to weaken tha existing agreement by eliminating the vacation plan, hiring and promo­ tion clauses, and by revis­ ing the welfare i?lan. (See Exhibit No. 18, Page 12)* Further, the company in­ formed the Conciliation Board that, unless the foregoing conditions were met, the contract dispute was impossible to resolve. The Company stated: ".. .The differences which separate the Union and the companies are too fun­ damental for the dispute to be settled by this Hon­ ourable Board or by the normal negotiation proc­ ess." (See Exhibit No. 18, Page 12) * The next meeting date for the Conciliation Board was mutually set for March 19, 1962, since the SIU spokesman and the Union Board Member would be unable to par­ ticipate before then. 1962, March 13 1962, March 14 1962, March 16 1962, March 19 The SIU received a tele­ gram from Chairman La­ 1962, March violette ordering a meet­ 26 ing of the Board on March 8, 1962. The SIU contact­ ed Mr. Lariviere, and found out that he had not been informed of the March 8 meeting. A tele­ gram of protest was then sent to the Chairman. (See Exhibit No. 19)* Chairman Laviolette, in a letter to the SIU, stated that the March 8, 1962 date must stand. (See Ex­ hibit No. 20)* 1962, March 8 A Superior Court Stop Or­ der prohibited further meetings of the Concilia­ tion Board until applica­ tion for a Prohibition Writ was heard on March 12, 1962. (See Exhibit No. 21)* 1932, M^rch 9 Upper Lakes was denied a motion to quash the Pro­ hibition Writ and the Stop Order. On the same day, in defiance of the Court order. Chairman Lavio­ lette sent a letter stating that he expected the Stop Order to be rescinded on March 12. He called for a Board meeting on March 13, 1962. (See Ex­ hibit No. 22). On the same day, the SIU nominee on the Board wrote t h e Chairman that he was leaving town as he had stated at the March 5 meeting. (See Exhibit No. 23)* 1962, March 12 Hearing was held in Su­ perior Court on the Writ of Prohitition. Judge Jean took evidence under ad1962, March 7 1962, March 30 1962, April 5 1962, April 6 1962, June 4 visement and said h« would not issue a renewed Stop Order. He stated he felt sure the parties would not meet while the Writ was being deliberated. Nevertheless the meeting was held on this day. SIU attorneys now served the Chairman with a motion for contempt of court. (See Exhibit No. 24.)* The chairman continued the meeting attended by the company member and himself. The chairman and em­ ployer member met again. A Stop Order and Writ of Prohibition was issued by the Court. The company attempted again to quash the Stop Order and the Court heard argument. The company sought to quash the Court Order and the Judge took the evidence under advise­ ment. Chairman Laviolette and the company Board mem­ ber notified the Labour Minister that they felt "no useful purpose" could be served by the board proceedings. Lariviere was neither called nor consulted on the report, despite Section 32 of the Industrial Relations Act. The Labour Minister ac­ cepted and announced their recommendation as the Report of the Board. (See Exhibit No. 25.)* Judge Jean dismissed company motions to quash and for inscription in law, permitting the Writ of Prohibition and the mo­ tion for Rule on Contempt to proceed to trial. (See Exhibit No. 26).* Upper Lakes signed agreement with Canadian Maritime Union. (See Ex­ hibit No. 27).* Upper Lakes commenced to ock out its employees and sail its ships with non-union crews to the Port of Toledo. SIU be­ gan picketing vessels of the company. SIU petitioned Superior Court at Montreal to nul­ lify the Conciliation Board report and to void the agreement between Upper Lakes and the CMU and to award dam­ ages to the locked out em­ ployees. Appearances have been filed and the matter is before the Courts. (See Exhibit No. 28).* �SEAFARERS XagasX, 1962 IV* Pvfposo And Right Of SlUNA In ' Picketing Vessels At South Lakes Ports. A. The Nature Of The Dispute. The SIU of Canada is involved in a legiti­ mate, bona fide dispute with an employer that results from the company's lockout of SIU crewmembers on its vessels. The employer has attempted to character­ ize this dispute as a jurisdictional matter between unions and as a purely Canadian affair. He has done so to prevent trade union support for the workers victimized by the company's tactics. As the record shows, the SIU's dispute is directly with the company and is not jurisdictional in any sense. Further, the very nature of the em­ ployer's operations dispute his contentions, since the shipping industry is not a confined activity. Insofar as a dispute of this nature is concerned, it cannot be circumscribed with respect to picketing action merely to suit the convenience of one of the parties involved, in this instance, the convenience of the employer. This is particularly so in light of the fact that American interests control Upper Lakes. These interests, which determine policy for the company, operate from the American side of the Lakes. In fact, T. J. Houtman, personnel manager for the com­ pany, testified in Circuit Court, Milwaukee County, that the Upper Lakes agreement with the CMU was negotiated and signed in the offices of a law firm in Cleveland, Ohio. (Case No. 305-079, Circuit Court, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.) In addition. Upper Lakes maintains, agents in various American ports, among them Chicago and Milwaukee. Its so-called "international operations," as in the case with many shipping operations on the Great Lakes, involve moving cargo both in and out of American ports, as well as Canadian ports. TIPPER LAKES operates its vessels in U shuttle activity between Great Lakes ports, American and Canadian. The water­ ways involved have no barriers. Great Lakes waters are common to both countries and their vessels travel freely between Canadian and American ports wherever cargo has to be moved. The nature of the shipping, industry is such, in labor-management disputes, that it is quite often necessary to conduct picket­ ing action in every port where the em­ ployer's vessels are located. Otherwise, the union involved would be unable to protect its interests. The instances of intmmational picketing by unions are voluminous, ex­ amples of which will be cited subsequently. B. SlUNA Obligation As A Trade Union To Support Affiliates. The SIU of Canada is an affiliate of the SlUNA, AFL-CIO. Any economic recrimi­ nations against one SlUNA affiliate, due to the nature of the industry, inevitably has an impact upon the security of the other sections of the organization. In fact, it has an impact upon the security of all trade union workers. For these reasons, the SlUNA, of neccessity, had to render every possible legal as­ sistance to its affiliate. Moreover, this dis­ pute involved a particularly unscrupulous employer with vast resources, who had en­ gaged in a lockout and was bent on destroy• A voluminous file of Exhibits was submitted to the Board of Inquiry and is available. LOG Ing the union by depriving its members of their livelihood. In picketing on the South Lakes and as­ sisting ite affiliate, the SlUNA and other trade union organizations were using every legal means at their command to protest the employer's tactics wherever he actively engaged in operations. For the SlUNA to ignore this dispute and its implications for the trade union move­ ment would be to aid and abet the employer in his union-busting campaign. C. Other SlUNA Actions Of A Similar Nature. The need for such trade union action frequently arises. In the shipping industry, there have been many instances in which the SIU engaged in activity of a similar nature. The following are a few examples: (1) On July 4, 1957, the SIU of Canada went on strike against Canadian National Steamship as the result of a contract dis­ pute, (See Exhibit No. 29).* Rather than settle with the SIU, the company tried to transfer its vessels to Trinidad and sought to man the vessels with West Indian sea­ men. As a result of SIU action. West In­ dian seamen refused to man the vessels, as did British officers who had been flown over for this purpose. The fleet was than sold to the government of Cuba for opera­ tion by a subsidiary of an American (Ireat Lakes company. W HEN ATTEMPTS were made to man the vessels for movement from Canada to Cuba, the great majority of Cuban sea­ men who had been flown to Canada refused to act as strikebreakers. One vessel which sailed to Baltimore was picketed by the SIU and the Cuban crew left the vessel. All the vessels thus remained strike-bound in Can­ ada and the United States. (2) On December 1-4,1958, the SIU and other American unions participated in a worldwide boycott in protest against run­ away-flag shipping. (See Exhibit No. 30).* The SIU and the other unions successfully picketed 160 vessels of Panamanian, Li)erian, Costa Rican and Honduran registry in 20 US ports.. The SIU of Canada tied up 14 runaway vessels in seven Canadian ports. Similar actions were undertaken by dockers and seamen's unions throughout the free world. (3) On April 13, 1960, the SIU picketed the Egyptian-flag ship SS Cleopatra in New York protesting a blacklist of Ameri­ can ships and the mistreatment of American seamen in Arab ports. In a supporting ac­ tion, a second Egyptian ship, the Star of Aswan, was picketed by the SIU of Canada in Montreal beginning April 27. (See Ex­ hibit No. 31).* The picket lines were with­ drawn on May 6 after the US State Depart­ ment assured AFL-CIO President George Meany that it would take action to see that abuse of American seamen was ended. (4) On April 24, 1961, in support of the Danish Seamen's Union, the SILF and other American unions established and main­ tained picketlines resulting in the tie-up of Danish vessels at the port of New York. (See Exhibit No. 32).* Picketing continued until May 15, when the Danish seamen reached an agreement with their operators. (5) On January 26, 1962, the Latin American representative of the Internation­ al Transportworkers Federation and the Argentine Seamen's Union requested the support and assistance of the SIU and other •q^pIemeBt—Pace Seven American maritime unioni. (See Exhibit No. 88).• The SS Rio Tunuyan was thus picketed on its arrival in New York because of a dispute between the Argentine Union and the operator of the vessel. As a result, the vessel was tied up, and the dispute was ultimately resolved. D. Other Trade Union Support of This Dispute. The action of the SlUNA in supporting its affiliate in Canada is consistent with the trade union practices and policies of the labor movement throughout the free world. This stems from the essential character of the labor movement, which depends on solidarity to protect the economic interests of all working men and women. Trade unions must resist employer attacks in any area, because they ultimately undermine the security of all trade unionists. M ANY UNIONS in Canada and in the United States have recognized the dan­ gers to Canadian workers and to American workers inherent in the Norris-sponsored union-busting conspiracy against the SIU. These unions have been staunch supporters of the SIU in this dispute and have actively assisted its efforts to resist the tactics of the employer. Workers on the docks, on trucks, in storage installations, office facilities, ship­ yards and other areas of waterfront opera­ tion have actively supported the SIU position in this dispute. Unions of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department are vigorously supporting the SIU of Canada in this dispute. The MTD is composed of 32 AFL-CK) unions, almost all of which have affiliates in Canada. On October 8, 1961, the MTD executive board recorded its strong support of the SIU of Canada position against Upper Lakes. (See Exhibit No. 34).* This position was also unanimously adopted in Clonvention on De­ cember 4-6, 1961. E. AFL-CIO Position On Established Collective Bargaining Relationships. Specifically, on a dispute of this very nature, the position of the trade union move­ ment is vejiy clear. The AFL-CIO has established the prin­ ciple that the collective bargaining rights of the incumbent organization shall be inviolate. Further, it scorns collusion be­ tween an employer and any organization in usurping estabiished collective bargaining representation rights. Section 2, Article XXI, of the AFL-CIO Constitution reads as follows: "Each affiliate shall respect the estab­ lished collective bargaining relation­ ship of every other affiliate. No affiliate shall organize or attempt to represent employees as to whom an es­ tablished collective bargaining rela­ tionship exists with any other affiliate. For purpose of this Article, the term 'established collective bargaining rela­ tionship' means any situation in which an affiliate, or any local or other sub­ ordinate body thereof, has either (a) been recognized by the employer (in­ cluding any governmental agency) as the collective bargaining representa­ tive for the employees involved for a period of one year or more, or (b) been certified by the National Labor Rela­ tions Board or other federal or state (CoiUinued on Page 8) r: �Btil (ContkuMdi from Pogo T) agency as collective bargaining rep­ resentative for the employees." Section 3, Article XXI, of the AFL-CIO Constitution reads as follows: "No affiliate shall by agreement or collusion with any employer or by the exercise of economic pressure seek to obtain work for its members as to which an established work relationship exists with any other affiliate . . F. Necessity For Clarifying The Issues And Character Of The Dispute. The record is clear that the present situa­ tion arises out of a preconceived plan by the employer to precipitate a dispute, foment strife, engage in a lockout and ultimately supplant an established, bona fide union with a company-spawned instrumentality. The employer and those who support his company-sponsored organization have ap­ parently succeeded, through elaborate pub­ lic relations machinery, in obscuring and distorting the issue in this dispute. They have created the impression even in some responsible quarters that what is involved here are two comparable trade union or­ ganizations, No attention has been devoted to the stark facts of the lockout, to the plight of 300 workers and their families deprived of a livelihood as a consequence of this cal­ culated conspiracy. »MAfAnM«$ too Tht degret of luecesi that tho Norrii public relation! machinery has had in dis­ torting the issues in this dispute is best reflectea iii the fact that even the usually fU!Curate "New .York Times" lost sight of the issue. On July 7, 1962, in commenting on the St. Lawrence Seaway boycott, the ^'Times" editorially stated: "... The SIU, long dominant in Canada's shipping, lost a vote on one company fleet to a new union..." The editorial continued: ". . . The SIU . .. has not accepted the ad­ verse vote. It is protesting, picketing and fighting. . ." The "Times" corrected its error when the fact that no vote was ever held was called to its attention. As was pointed out to the "Times," the SIU was picketing, protesting and fighting in the interests of 300 locked out Canadian workers, both men and wom­ en, many of whom had been employed by the Norris shipping interests for as much as 15 years. ^HAT SOME other organization saw fit J- to involve the Seaway in this dispute, as a means of beclouding the facts, cannot change the facts nor the basic issue in this dispute. The objective in labor-management rela­ tions is to achieve stability in any industry. In some instances, this stability is a little Ths Upper Lakes shipping dispute, which was the subject of hearings by a Board of Inquiry in the US, and of current hear­ ings in Canada, is a classic example of employer strikebreaking. There have been many such instances in the history of the trade union movement, among them, for example, the current fight which the printing trades have been having with the Port­ land, Oregon, newspapers; the famous Kohler strike of the Auto Workers in Wisconsin and many others. The pattern in these disputes has been the replacement of union members by strikebreakers because the union went on strike for better conditions. If anything, the Upper Lakes dis­ pute is more flagrant, because this employer signed a backdoor contract with a company union in the midst of its negotiations with the SIU for a new agreement. He then proceeded to lock out 300 Canadian seamen who refused to scab on their own union. Clearly, the trade union movement must resist any employer who unloads a union he dislikes, gets rid of the employees in­ volved and replaces them through a company-created organi­ zation of his own choosing. Such practices, if permitted unop­ posed on the Lakes, could only lead to complete chaos in shipping and related industries which depend on water trans­ portation. Just as obvious is the fact that a company which engages in union busting of this nature must be prepared for picketing and union counteraction. Upper Lakes, as part of the huge Norris industrial empire, deliberately entered into this dispute know­ ing full well that it would be engaged in a long and costly struggle that would inevitably interfere with the smooth opera­ tions of terminals and docks where its vessels put in. For this reason, the position taken on the Upper Lakes issue by the Steelworkers Union is unfortunate, particularly in light of the trade union history of the steel industry. There are many oldtimers in the steel union, including many of the officials, who more remote than in others. However, lock­ outs and union-busting, whidb are remi­ niscent of the tragic days of the 208 and 30s, cannot be regarded as a contribution to industrial peace and stability. In fact, where irresponsible management employs provocative tactics which can only perpetuate strife, such management should be censured. It cannot be encouraged. NVOLVED HERE is not only the dispute ILakes, of the SIU of Canada against Upper but a potential formula that can be used to destroy any union and the stability of any industry. If unchecked, it could be­ come a pattern for replacing bona fide trade unions by company-sponsored puppets and consequently lead to the destruction of trade union standards and security achieved through years of struggle. Not to be dismissed is the fact that the architects of this conspiracy to destroy a union are part of a vast and ruthless finan­ cial empire, elements of which have already achieved considerable notoriety as a result of their exploitation of human beings in other areas. No American trade union or agency can afford to take any action that would em­ bolden, or put the stamp of approval on the tactics of such an employer. New York, New York July 26,1962 can remember what happened back after World War I when the company cops and strikebreakers moved in. They can also recall the bruising and sometimes bloody battles of the 1930s with such companies as Republic and Wheeling Steel. The actions of Upper Lakes In this dispute are direct derivations from the actions of the giant steel companies in those early years. As the Board of Inquiry report shows, the major objection raised by the Steelworkers Union is that the SlU's picketlines threaten "to cut off the supply of ore from Canada which is needed to keep steel mills in operation . . ." The Steelworkers also object to the leadership of the SIU of Canada as "not of a kind which they regard as befitting the Canadian labor move­ ment" ... a strange reason to give for lining up with the com­ pany against the union. If, according to the Steelworkers statement, strikes which interfere with steel production are not to be permitted, then, under this theory, unions could not strike if they were involved in mining the industry's raw materials; in transporting such materials and finished products by land or water; or in the factories and on construction sites where the products of the steel industry are used. Further, under this argument, the Steel­ workers themselves would be enjoined from striking the steel industry. Employers can use this argument of "no interruption of production" as a precedent against all unions and all strikes. Those who suffer from this strike are the workers who were locked out by Upper Lakes. The key issue in this dispute is the job rights of these 300 workers and the contract rights of their union, the SIU of Canada, which held an agreement with this company for ten years. It was Upper Lakes—not the union— which precipitated this dispute. Obviously such issues are more important than any possible interruption of production, more important than any personality likes and dislikes, or any other secondary issues which are raised In the course of a long and bitter picketline battle over a basic trade union principle. I .h Seafarers International Union Of North America Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes And Inland Waters District ' S ^ * AFL-CIO S � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource August 1962 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU DEMANDS US PROBE AIR FORCE TRANSFER OF MISSILE SHIP CONTRACT 3,200-MEMBER GROUP AFFILIATES WITH SIUNA MTD UNIONS SET DRIVE TO END BRIDGES’ RAIDS FIRST OF FOUR NEW INTERCOASTAL SHIPS INDEPENDENT OIL UNION AFFILIATES WITH SIUNA ENGINEERS UPHELD ON EXPORT JOBS CANADIAN SECURITY SHIP MANNED BY ALIEN CREW GE GIVES KIDS A CIVICS LESSON CANADA SIU ORGANIZES 4 MORE LAKES OUTFITS EUROPEANS HOLLER ABOUT US, MAKE OUT OK ON SHIP AIDS UIW REGIONAL CONSTITUTIONS APPROVED BY 9-1 MARGIN TRANSPORT CENSUS LONG OVERDUE, STILL NEEDS $S NEW SECURITY PROGRAM HIT BY AFL-CIO SIU SPECIAL EQUIPMENT BENEFIT SPURS RECOVERY ALL HANDS TEAM UP TO AID A SEAFARER THE SEAFARERS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS THE UPPER LAKES DISPUTE 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 08/1962 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. 8 1962 Periodicals Seafarers Log