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Some 3,000 pickets ringed City Hall for three hours. • NLRB KO'S NMU LAST CHANCE IN ROBIN RAID Story On Page 2 I '-M'"/*' I •' £/-•• •./>•"-f.. -& m * *1; . • ^ ' <•?» ,> " J ^'; " f%4 A Signing of the first contract between a major seamen's union and a runaway-flag fleet" is completed at Port-of-Spain by rlF9W WW #t lAfnCl* the SIUNA-affiliated Seamen's & Waterfront Workers Trade Union of Trinidad covering nine Alcoa ships oper­ ated by the Lib-Ore Corp. Participants (seated, 1-r) are Francis Mimgroo and Rupert Jones of SWWTU; Capt. H. L. Jacobsen, and port engi­ neers Jack Nichols and Ed Dembero, for Lib-Ore; standing, James Tobias, SWWTU; SIUNA rep. Mike Carlin; Capt. Milton Miles, Alcoa general manager in the Caribbean, and Frank Rumbaugh, manager, Tembladora Transfer Station, Trinidad. (Story on Page 3.) �SEAFAkEkS idG Canada SIU Opens Case At Upper Lakes Hearing Action By MTD Spurs US Rule On Cuba Trade MONTREAL—^The scene of the Canadian government iniqulry into the Upper Lakes Shipping dispute has shifted to this port, where headquarters of the SIU of Canada Is cated, as the tmion began in-4-^ — MONTREAL — Strong action by unions of the AFL-CIO troducing the first rebuttal established with the support ol Maritime Trades Department to focus attention on foreign evidence to charges and state­ the company and a group within ments made since the hearings be­ the Canadian Labor Congress. ships seeking US Government cargoes whiie engaged in ComThe separate Canadian inquiry gan in August. mimist and Cuban trade was'^ Due to the circumstances sur­ now underway, which is likely to vessels in Communist trade and reaffirmed here at the quar­ rounding the dispute and the con­ continue for several weeks, has al­ wouldn't touch them. Ships in­ spiracy promoted by Upper Lakes ready held hearings at Toronto, terly meeting of the MTD ex­ volved included the Netherlandsagainst the SIU, as well as the Ottawa and St. Catherines, On­ flag Java, West German-flag Marecutive board. international nature of the com­ tario. It is expected to move on to Delegates representing 33 hnrg, GUendorf and the Westfalen, pany's operations, both the US other ports when the SIU com­ Greek-flag Appolonia, Tngoslavinternational unions vigor­ flag Kupres, Norwegian-flag Liso, and the Canada have undertaken pletes presentation of its case here. ously backed the "get-tough" pol­ Lebanon's Panaglotis Xilas and formal inquiries on their own. The The hearings are being conducted icy on Cuba trade ships both in the special US panel held hearings in by Justice T. G. Norris of Van­ others. national interest and for the future July and issued a report recom­ couver. The original position of the MTD General manager Tommy Members of the executive board mending a "series of international job security of American seamen unions was upheld in official Gov­ Ivan of the Chicago Black conferences" to help resolve the of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades and maritime workers. ernment policy to quarantine Cuba Department also met for their reg­ issues. The MTD protest Was kicked and cut off military shipments, as Hawks hockey team, The dispute arose when Upper ular quarterly meeting here on off in advance of official Wash­ owned by James Norris, ington reaction to the flood of President Kennedy proclaimed a Lakes, after a ten-year contractual October 22-24, instead of in Ha­ smilingly displays $1,000,program to close US ports to Cuba arms and military cargoes moving relationship with the SIU, broke waii as originally scheduled, be­ 000 check signed by Nor­ to Cuba on Communist bloc and trade ships and to deny USits contract, locked out some 300 cause of the interest in the dispute financed cargoes to such vessels. ris to seal offer for Toronto Canadian crewmembers and re­ among MTD unions on both sides other vessels when the West Gulf Besides Communist bloc vessels, Maple Leafs' star. cruited new crews through a union of the border. Despite some con­ Ports Council of the MTD tied up fusion on this issue, the Hawaii the Yugoslav freighter MV Drzic some 430 free world ships have engaged in Cuban trade during re­ meeting had been cancelled as far in Houston on September 26. back as September 28, when it was Two weeks earlier, the Drzic had cent years, although there is no not known exactly when the Mont­ carried Russian grain to Cuba, ar­ evidence that any of them have real phase of the hearings would riving in Texas to load flour bound carried arms shipments. The Mari­ begin or what stage they would for the United Arab Republic un­ time Administration also reported reach when the MTD board con­ der the Department of Agricul­ that free world ships made 185 vened. ture's farm surplus disposal pro­ trips to Cuba from June to August of this year, and accounted for During the course of their ses­ gram. sions, MTD board members re­ MTD pickets effectively blocked twice the shipping supplied by the TORONTO—Interest In the struggle by the SIU of Canada affirmed the support of the SIU loading of the US Government- Soviet bloc. Ships of Britain, financed cargo and the Drzic even­ Greece, West Germany and Nor­ against the union-busting tactics of the Upper Lakes Ship­ in the Upper Lakes dispute which tually left without it. Lines were way accounted for about 61 per­ ping Company here spread onto the sports pages again this they had voted just one year ago on October 8 and which was rati­ respected by dock workers in the cent of the total. month with the disclosure thatt fied by convention action in De­ International Longshoremen's As­ a member of the Norris fam­ fearing reprisals by local fans at cember. sociation, the SIU Inland Boat­ ily, which controls Upper the box-office if their star left They also adopted a resolution man's Union whose members re­ Lakes, had offered a million dol­ wing, Frank Mahovlich, was traded labeling William Dodge, CLC exec­ fused to man tugs - to move the away. Norris had sought Mahov­ utive vice president, as a "scab* lars to buy a hockey player. . vessel and by the Masters, Mates lich for his own team, the Chicago and a "strikebreaker" for his as­ A check for $1 million signed & Pilots, who refused to supply a Seafarers overseas who want sistance, admitted under oath dur­ pilot and prevented the ship from to get in touch with headquar­ by James Norris was duly for­ Black Hawks. In the current Upper Lakes beef, shifting to another port. ters in a hurry can do so by warded to the Toronto Maple Leafs the best guide to the vast re­ ing the hearings, in working out arrangements with Upper Lakes The MTD stand brought on simi­ cabling the Union at its cable Hockey Club to seal the transac­ lar boycott action against Cuban address, SEAFARERS NEW tion, reported in the New York sources available to the Norris for the union-busting campaign trade ships in other ports, includ­ YORK. Use of this address as­ Times as "the highest amount ever family in the fight engineered by against the SIU of Canada. paid for an athlete in a straight Upper Lakes against the SIU of ing Galveston, New Orleans, Mo­ sures speedy transmission on all Canada is the simple fact of a bile, and also in several Atlantic messages and faster service for cash deal." The Maple Leafs ultimately re­ million-dollar cash proposition to Coast ports, such as New York, the men involved. jected the Norris offer, apparently buy an athlete. The highest re­ where ILA members boycotted all corded cash sale of an athlete pre­ viously was for $250,000. Robin Line Raid Crushed Representatives of the Norris family and for Upper Lakes have already taken some pains to try and separate the public image of James Norris, one of two brothers, from the rest of the Norris family, WASHINGTON—^Rebuffed on all counts, the National Maritime Union has reached which they contend currently owns Upper Lakes. the end of the line in its attempted raid on the SlU-contracted Robin Line fleet. NORFOLK — With ground al­ James Norris, as reported by Persisting in its efforts to upset a 21-year collective bargaining relationship between Dan Parker, sports editor of the ready broken on October 29 to the SIU and Robin Line, the New York Daily Mirror, has been start construction of a new SIU a ten percent owner of Upper hall here, the building is tenta­ five years "had adjusted to a bar­ NMU lost a final appeal to all affiliates of the Federation. Lakes in the past,' so that his con­ tively scheduled for completion by gaining pattern" and that It saw He noted the previous determi­ the National Labor Relations the end of April in 1963. Board here of an earlier ruling by nation by David L. Cole, impartial no reason to disturb the present nection with the rest of the family Terms of the building contract and Upper Lakes is not so remote relationship. It also called atten­ umpire under the Internal Dis­ the NLRB's regional director in New York. The regional board re­ putes Plan, tliat the attempted tion to the fact that the company after all. The story of Norris' box­ with -a local contractor call for jected an NMU petition for certifi­ NMU raid had violated the Feder­ —"the party normally expected to ing and other sports enterprises completion within 180 days of the cation as representative of Robin ation constitution and the subse­ be most inconvenienced by the were fully documented during grotmd - breaking. Six companies quent denial by a subcommittee of separate seven-ship unit"—^had various US Government investiga­ bid for the construction job and Line SIU crews in June. This month the NMU also be­ the AFL-CIO Executive Council failed to object to the dismissal tions and grand jury actions, in­ the firm of W. H. Belenga, as low came the second union in AFL- of the NMU appeal from this of the NMU petition by the re­ cluding a US Senate inquiry less bidder, received the contract. than two years ago. gional director. The new hall will be a one-story CIO history to come under the ruling. structure just off the Front Street NMU was then warned in Sep­ sanctions provisions of the Feder­ docks—at Woodis Avenue and 3rd ation constitution for vioiation of tember that it faced sanctions and Street—much closer to the busy the AFL-CIO Internal Disputes was being given additional time to "reconsider your position." pier area than the Colley Street plan established last January. The sanctions provisions of the location now in use. The hail will The latest events mark the sec­ serve Seafarers and members of The SIU industrial Worker The Pacific Coast Seafarer ond time within five years that the constitution provide that "the nonSIU affiliates in the vast Hampton —Page 14 —Page S NMU has attempted a raid on the complying affiliate shall not be en­ Roads area and will provide an­ Robin Line. In 1957, when the titled to file any complaint or ap­ A&G Deep Sea Shipping SIU Safety Department other important link in the net­ Robin fleet was sold to Moore- pear in a complaining capacity in —Page 14 Report —Page « work of new SIU buildings on the McConnack, tlia NMU was thor­ any proceeding" under the Inter­ Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The Canadian Seafarer The Fisherman and oughly beaten m a representation nal Disputes Plan. It also stipu­ —Page 1 Facilities planned for the hall election. The latest raid, which lates that the Federation "shall, Cannery Worker include an expanded hiring hall, was initiated in the course of SIU upon request, supply every appro­ —Page 15 The Great Lakes Seafarer ample space for union meetings, contract negotiations this spring priate assistance and aid to any —Page 8 SIU Medical Department offices, welfare services and rec­ with aU operators, also violated a organization resisting the action —Page 16 SIU Food, Ship Sanitation ords, plus accommodations for a previous joint agreement recog­ determined to be in violation of Dep't —Page 8 snackbar-cafeteria and recreation­ nizing the SIU's right to represent this article . . ." SIU Social Security Dep't al facilities for the membership in Bobin Line crews. In its order dismissing the —Page 17 The SIU inland Boatman port. The imposition of sanctions NMU's election petition, the labor —Page 10 Shipboard News The modernistic structure will against the NMU was announced board said that on the basis of the —Pages 19, 20, 21, 22 Editorial Cartoon —Page 11 go up right in the center of a Nor­ by AFL-CIO President George 1957 NLRB determination, Moorefolk Housing Authority project. Meany on October 5 in a letter to McCormack and both unions for Norris Million $ Buy Turned Down Union Has Cable Address NMU Loses In Final Appeal Index To Departments Begin New SIU Hall In Norfolk �4leto1ier, lf6t SEAFARERS LOG Par* Thre* SlU In Trinidad Wins AUoa Pact For 9 Runaways PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Commemorating the first anniversary of its affiliation with the SIU of North America, at the same time, the Seamen's and Waterfront Workers Trade Union of Trinidad scored two major "firsts" in mari­ time on its own. The 6,000-member SIUNA affiliate signed a three-year contract with Lib-Ore Steam­ Labor training team from Trinidad including SWWTU offi­ ship Company of Monrovia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SlU-contracted Alcoa Steam­ cials visited SlU in NY just a few days before final pact ship Company in the States, and won the first union hiring hall for seamen ever estab­ with Alcoa was completed. Next to SlU Vice-President lished in the Caribbean, Earl Shepard is SWWTU Sec'y General George Munroe Agreement with Lib-Ore marks the first full-scale union agreement between a legiti­ |2nd from left) and Asst. Sec'y G. Nathaniel Stewart (4th mate union and a Liberianfrom right) with group representing air transport, govern­ flag fleet, Lib-Ore operates ments will be boosted by five cents and almost unheard of—penalty ment and general workers. SlU rep. Ed Wilson Is in rear. nine specialized ships in the hourly immediately and by another overtimu. Hiring provisions call for the bauxite trade between Surinam, five cents beginning In 1964, Other provisions call for condi­ shipping of all unlicensed person­ Trinidad and the US Gulf, The signing of the contract with tions previously unheard of in a nel through the SWWTU hiring Lib-Ore on October 24 climaxed runaway-fiag ship operation. These hall. over five months of hard negoti­ Include two days extra compensa­ The SWWTU won recognition as ations by the SWWTU to bring de­ tion for day workers In the first exclusive bargaining agent for all cent wages and conditions to the year, and an additional day in the nine Alcoa runaway ships earlier 270 unlicensed seamen who man its third year, payment of mainte­ this year. After recognition was runaway fleet. It follows the suc­ nance and cure benefits, launch granted, officers of the SWWTU WASHINGTON—The US domestic shipping trades have cess of various SIUNA affiliates service, coffee and night lunch, visiting SIU headquarters in New been opened to foreign-flag ships for the first time since the in gaining agreements on selected clothing bonus, rest periods, extra York to study American union op­ and elimination of firemen erations boarded one of the vessels, passage of the Jones Act in 1920 under a new law passed by single runaway-flag targets as far meals and oilers' work on watch. the Discoverer, on arrival In New back as 1950, Congress with White Houset York and were able to survey the Additional benefits include pro­ 16% Increase operations under such suspension approval. vision for sanitary work in crew crew's needs and conditions for Sponsored by Sen. Maurine as he determines to be in the na­ Terms of the SWWTU agree­ quarters, extra soap and linen, the purpose of the negotiations ment, which provide for a general fresh milk, slopchests aboard t^'alp that began shortly afterward. Neuberger (Dem.-Ore.), the law tional interest." upgrading of all conditions aboard A further provision is that the overturns the basic protections em­ foreign vessels involved do not the nine vessels, provide for a 16 bodied in the Jones Act, which re­ quires all ships In the domestic have to conform to US shipping percent wage increase over the Veteran SIU Official trades to he American-huilt and laws in any way if they were not three-year life of the contract plus a tcn-cent Increase In overtime previously in US trade. This means American-manned. The amended legislation allows foreign ships to minimum American control of any rates over the same period. shipping serving domestic The workweek will be cut to 48 haul lumber to Puerto Rico from foreign ports for the carriage of lumber to hours in the first year, and to 44 ports anywhere in the US when­ Puerto Rico, hours in the second year. Over­ ever the Secretary of Commerce Sen, Neuberger had originally time will be paid for all work determines that there is no Ameri­ can vessel "reasonably available" sought a much broader amendment beyond these hours, calling for almost outright de­ Crewmembers on the bauxite to handle the lumber. struction of the Jones Act on the ships currently work a 56-hour One of the earliest SIU members and officials, Claude Lumber Industry plea of any Industry or region. week without payment of overtime. Sonny" Simmons, SIU vice-president in charge of contracts The wage changes amount to an The amendment was pushed by This version as well as the one the entire Pacific Northwest lum­ that finally passed was opposed by eight percent general raise in the and contract enforcement, died October 30 at Hackensack ber industry, which has been com­ virtually all segments of the steam­ first year of the contract, with four Hospital in New Jersey after-^| peting unsuccessfully with Cana­ ship industry, including both un­ percent more for each of the fol­ a long illness. He was 43 lowing two years. Overtime pay- years old. dian growers who handle most of ions and management. the lumber used In Puerto Rico, An experienced organizer and There have been no US ships on contract specialist, Simmons had the lumber run to Puerto Rico been a member of the SIU since from the Pacific Northwest for its founding in 1938 and first came «ome time, although such 3IUashore to serve as a Union officer contracted companies as Calmar in the Port of Tampa In 1941, He do haul lumber to the East Coast, had been acting as the SIU's chief During the debate on the meas­ negotiator since 1959 and was ure, there was considerable discus­ elected to his last post in 1960, sion and conflict regarding the All Seafarers began accumulating vacation credits at an He gained tlie nickname "Sonny" cause for the lost US lumber mar­ ket on the island and elsewhere. annual rate of $800 on October 1, as the seventh increase in when he first went^Jto sea from his Lumber prices and shipping rates SIU Vacation Plan benefits since 1952 went into effect. The native Tampa at the age of 15, shipping as a deckhand on a coastal latest boost doubles the pre­ alternately shared the blame. seatime for any number of ships freighter. He thereafter switched vious rate of $400 in annual Broad Powers Given Claude 'Sonny' Simmons vacation pay. There is no re-? or companies. Payments will be to ocean-going vessels where he Under the amendment, the Com­ qulrement that a Seafarer must get pro-rated at the old $400 rata for worked virtually all engine depart­ merce Secretary is given broad au­ off a ship in order to collect. all seatime prior to October 1, ment ratings as a wiper, fireman, II after his initial service as a Un­ thority, when invoking suspension 1962, with tha exception of con­ oiler, and as a deck engineer on ion officer and again for a period Meanwhile, a number of Seafar­ in 1948-49, He also served at va­ of the Jones Act so that a foreign ers began this month to collect tinuous service time on one ves­ winches and cargo machinery. vessel can enter the trade, "to vacation payments of $800 or more sel since October 1 of last year. Equipped with a Southern drawl, rious times as an elected officer in establish such terms, conditions covering continuous service aboard a ready wit and a detailed know­ Tampa and New York and, in and regulations with respect to the same vessel since October, ledge of labor contracts, Simmons 1951, was elected to a series of was always regarded as a hard posts that led to his election as an 1961, (See Feature on Page 9.) but fair bargainer in all types of assistant secretary-treasurer of the This was provided for in 1961 on Union in 1953. He was reelected negotiations. continous service time only, and In each election thereafter until, His contract experience ran the under the provisions of the new Oct., 1962 Vol. XXiV, No. 10 then expanded In the 1962 negoti­ gamut from deep-sea vessels to constitution, he was named to his ations last June so that the $800 figure now applies to all SIU men harbor tugboats. During the SIU last office in 1960. regardless of the number of ships Railway Marine Region strike in Services were held in Oradell, "worked. New York in January, 1961, he ap­ New Jersey near his home in PAUL HALL, President plied his wide experience in mari­ River Edge. Procedure Is Unchanged HEBBEHI BBANO, Editor; Iswat SPIVACK, time contract matters to railroad Payment of vacation benefits at Simmons is survived by his wife, Managing Editor; BERNAHD SEAMAN, Art management in the course of neg­ Dorothy, and three children, Gary Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYEB, the $800 rate is being handled in otiations for SIU tugmen employed 10, Carolyn 7, and Joyce, 3. Other ALEXANDEH LESLIE, Staff Writers, the same manner as it originally on railroad marine equipment. survivors include his father, Wil­ was when the rate was $140 per Pybllshtd monthly at tha haadquartan Besides working as a merchant liam C. Simmons of Fort Walton year. Applications can be made of tha Seafarers international Union, At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters at seaman in the thirties, Simmons Beach, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Thelma headquarters or in the outDistrict, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Seafarer A. R. Vasquez worked for a time with the US Leonard of Fort Walton Beach; Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYaclnth 9-6600, ports, and checks will be made up picks up a liusky $1,03! Second class postage paid at the Post Lighthouse Department, and forwarded on the same day. and two brothers, Charles L. Sim­ Office In Brooklyn. NY, under tha Act vacation check in NY Of Aug, 24, 1912. As in the past. Seafarers apply­ He was born July 19, 1919, at mons of New Orleans and Walter 120 aftor long trip on the ing for vacation must present dis­ Brewster, Florida, near Tampa. He H, Simmons of Fort Walton Beach, Orion Planet (Colonial). charges showing at least 90 days of sailed through most of World War both SIU members. Foreign Ships Leap Jones Act Barrier 'Sonny' Simmons Passes At 43 $800 Vacation Payment Begins For All Seafarers SEAFARERS LOG �SEAFARERS ragtFi LOG MEBA Asks AFI-C/O Sanctions Against NMU COPS pspapT Job Loss Ruled A Raid The Marine Engineers B«ieficial Association has asked the AFL-CIO to apply sana­ tions against the National Maritime Union's Brotherhood of Marine Officers for its fail­ ure to comply with an AFL-CIO impartial umpire's ruling that the BMO takeover of en­ gineers' jobs in the 14-ship Isbrandtsen fleet was a raid raiding the MEBA. NMU unU- tion was received on October 17. censed crews man the Isbrandtsen The AFL-CIO subconunlttee which on the MEBA's established ships. heard the appeal included AFL- collective bargaining relationship with the company. Earlier, a subcommittee of the AFL-CIO unanimously disallowed the NMU's appeal from a determi­ nation by David L. Cole, impartial umpire under the Federation's In­ ternal Disputes Plan, that the NMU officers' affiliate was guilty of Sanctions were previously in­ voked against the NMU this month for its attempted raid of SlU crewmembers' Jobs In the Robin Line. (See Story on Page 2.) In the Isbrandtsen situation, the NMU appeal from the Cole deter­ mination was heard on September 19 and formal notice of its rejec- (PUESTION: Of all the countries that you've travelled to, which one do you think has the most attractive women? Michad Deamantis, oigtne: You Charles Johnstm. steward: I like those South African girls the best; can't beat those Japanese gids. Be­ sides being very they really know attractive, they how to treat a make a man feel man right. They very important. look out for your They're never health, make you bossy like Am­ feel right at erican women home. These and they always women have a leave the initia­ wonderful per­ tive to the man. sonality. You'd Ask any Seafarer have to go far to who has been to Japan about beat one of those girls. Japanese women. He'll tell you t t 4 H. Torres, engine: European the same thing. ^ women, especially the women in Robert L. Mitchell, steward: I've Holland, Spain been to Europe, Africa, the Far and Belgium. East and Latin They're just like America, and I'm American girls; perfectly satis­ they know the fied with what I same tricks and have in Hackenall seem to be sack. You don't products of the have to go any same civilization. further. Oriental girls are very different. They have a very respectful atti­ tude toward a man and are very appreciative of your attentions. $ $ Paul Laborde, deck: As far as i 4 t Herman Piller, deck: Spain has Tm concerned, there are more beautiful women the girls for me. I like everything in Brazil and about them, the way they walk, Argentina than anywhere else. tal^ dress and The girls In Ja­ everything else. pan, Korea and In addition to being good dress­ the Far East are ers they can cook very nice, but very well. They're they can't beat friendly and easy the South Ameri­ to meet, and they can girls. New can really stir up York women are beautiful, but they are very unfriendly as a rule. a storm on the dance floor, too. Statement Of Ownership statement of the ownership, man­ 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn 82, NY. agement, and circulation required by 3. The known bondholders, mort­ the Act of Congress of August 24, gagees, and other security holders 1912, as amended by the Acts of owning or holding one percent or March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June more of total amount of bonds, 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208) showing the mortgages, or other securities are: ownership, management and circula­ (If there are none, so state.) None. tion of SEAFARERS LOG published 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in monthly at Brooklyn, New York, for cases where the stockholder or se­ September 28, 1962. curity holder appears upon the 1. Hie names and addresses of the books the company as trustees or publisher, editor, managing editor in anyofother fiduciary relation, the and business managers are: Publish­ name of the person or corporation er: Seafarers International Union of for whom such trustee is acting; North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes also the statements in the two para­ and Inland Waters District, 675 4th graphs show the affiant's full knowl­ Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY; Editor: Her­ edge and belief as to the bert Brand, 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn stances and conditions undercircum­ which 32, NY; Managing Editor, Irwin Spi- stockholders and security holders vack, 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn 32, who do not appear upon the books NY; Business Manager, none. of the company as trustees, hold 2. The owner is: (if owned by a stock and securities in a capacity corporation, its name and address other than that of a bona fide owner. must be stated and also immediately 5. The average number of copies thereunder the names and addresses each issue of this publication sold of stockholders owning or holding of distributed, through the mails or one percent or more of total amount or to paid subscribers dur­ of stock. If not owned by a corpo­ otherwise, the 12 months preceding the date ration, the names and addresses of ing above was: (This information the individual owners must be given. shown is required by the Act of June 11, If owned by a partnership or other 1960 to be included in all statements unincorporated firm, its name and of frequency of issue.) aodres^ as well as that of each in­ regardless dividual member, must be given.) 40,000. (Signed) Herbert Brand, Editor. tieafarers International Union of to and subscribed before North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes meSworn this 1st day of October, 1962. and Inland Waters District, 675 4th Bertram Greene. Notary Public. Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY; Paul Hall, President, 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn 32, (My commission expires December JkY; A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer, 20. 1962.) CIO President George Meany, Sec­ retary - Treasurer William F. Schnitzlo* and Joseph A. Beime, president of the Communications Workers Of America. Separate action by the MEBA to enforce Its contract in the Is­ brandtsen fleet was underway in New York Supreme Court, follow­ ing a decision by contract arbitra­ tor Donald F. Shangimessy that the company must apply its con­ tract with the MEBA to the ships already transferred to the Is­ brandtsen Steamship Company Di­ vision of American Export Lines. The arbitrator held in his award that Isbrandtsen has an absolute obligation to apply the MEBA con­ tract for its duration. The pact was negotiated in October, 1961, and remains in force until June, 1964. About 124 engineers' jobs are involved, in the dispute. Is­ brandtsen has had a contract rela­ tionship with the Engineers since 1949. Isbrandtsen had refused to rec­ ognize the MEBA's contract on the ships it was transferring to American Export as part of a sub­ sidy and merger arrangement ap­ proved by • the Federal Govern­ ment Under the complicated fi­ nancial transaction, Isbrandtsen has actual control of the operating company set up with American Export to run the ships. The arbitrator's awara called for reinstatement plus damages to the engineers who lost their jobs, pointing out that Isbrandtsen had been violating its MEBA agree­ ment since June 15 despite knowl­ edge of its potential obligation to MEBA. As a result, he indicated. Isbrandtsen's difficulties were of its own making. PKNN TBADER (P«nn Shipplnfl). July 12—Chairman/ Leuli Cayton; Secretary/ J. *• Autfln. No beefe re­ ported. Ixntla CaytoB elected abip'a delegate. Discussion about keeping pantry clean. Steward spoke of the cooperation that was obtained by the deck and engine departments last trip, which was ezceUent. STIIL NAVIOATOR (isthmian), Juiy IS—Chairman, Frank Baiaslat Secretary, Delmar MIssimar. Cold water aboard diip continues to be dirty. lUa beef being pursued. Crew Intend* to have meettog at payoff with food plan representattre present for airing of beefs about food. S74.99 in ship's fund. Motion to donate t25 from ship's fund to American Merehsst Library .association, in rcsponsa to appeal for same. NatloBal COPE Director James McDevitt has welcomed the encourag­ ing response of union members to COPE's nationwide registration drive for the Novembo: elections but warned against "relaxing on the oars when only half the job has been done." He urged union members who had already registered to finish the job by making sure they turn out to vote. Apathy and the failure to vote in so-ealled off-year elec­ tions is the "the workingman's most dangerous enemy," he warned. ^ » 4) t ^ The cost of nmlntalBlng ear Congressmen, Just like everything else^ keeps going up. This year. Congress has appropriated for its operations some $147.6 million. Divide 535 (100 Senators, 435 Representatives) into this figure and you come up with $275,000 to keep one Congress­ man in Washington for a year, more than double what it was ten years ago. Overall Congressional costs since 1953 have zoomed six times as fast as the rest of the Federal budget At these prices, voters should Insist on their money's worth by electing people to Congress who will act on the country's needs. Does one vote really count? In 1944, less than a one-vote bulge in every Ohio precinct sent Rob­ ert Taft to the Senate and later produced the Taft-Hartley Act. The same margin of victory made a Senator of Oregon's Richard Neuberger In 1954. He went on to assist in promoting progressive legislation and supporting AFL-CIO and pro-labor programs. In 1960, President Ken­ nedy was elected by the hairline advantage of less than one vote per precinct. One vote really does count. Twenty-nine states have laws protecting workers against penalty or loss of wages if they take time off the Job to vote. The states are: Ala­ bama, Alaska, Arizona. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico. New Yoric, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Though the laws vary, most provide that a worker who is an eligible voter can take time off to vote if he submits prior notice to his employer. Most of these laws also impose penalties on employers for failure to comply. These states and others also have absentee bal­ loting procedures for Seafarers and others unable to be at polling places on Election Day. Dr. Angelo D'Eloia of Buffalo, NY, is a radiologist. As such, he depends on other doctors to refer patients to him. He had a good prac­ tice until he tangled with the president of his county medical society over the issue of medical care for the aged. By a strange coincidence, right after that, other doctors stopped sending patients to h(m for x-ray service and he was blacklisted from some hospitals. He had to close down his office, let some of his insurance policies lapse and now faces bankruptcy. All this comes at a time when D'Eloia is running for Congress against an ultra-conservative candidate. He says he'll still vote for medicare if elected. grade of food received in Philadel­ phia for present voyage, and low grade of vegetablei and fruits was obtained in foreign ports this trip. Vote of thanks given to the steward department. MOBILE (Ssa-Lsnd Service), July 27 —Chairmen, Carmeio Reyasi Secre­ tary, Jstsa Fsnoii. Discussion on draws. Seventy percent of wasei Ic overtime will be given. Crew would like air-conditioning In foc'sles. Co­ operation asked to keep screen doors closed. Crew would UL > to have messroom and pantry painted. Ship's fund and library should be set up. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), June 3S—Chairman, O. C. Lawsent feeretary, C. R. Wood. S9.60 In ship's fund. No beefs reported. SuggesUon lie J. Oyillot. S2S3 left in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Motion made to post the cost of the movies pur­ chased. Michael J. Dunn elected ship's delegate and Gilbert J. PlcrsaU as ship's treasurer. New vaca­ tion plan and agreement read to membership. Men were instructed on how to use washing machine. Mem­ bership voted to have oae department clean up washing machine room for entire voyage. SANTORI (Ore), July 7—Chairman, James Ahern; Secretary, A. McCullum. No l>ee£s reported by department del­ egates. E. Kress elected ship's dele­ gate. Cots and chairs ordered but not received. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), July 21— Chairman, E. N. Powell; tecretary, H. F. todgeway. No beefe reported. SEATRAIN (2EOROIA (Ssatrain), July 22—Chairman, H. G. Bents; Sec­ retary, H. Svartiea. One deck re­ placement failed to show. SIO in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Broth­ er H. G. Bents elected ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to steward for cakes and soda. Steward cald he wiU order new cots and mattresses. everything running smoothly. Crewmembers asked to wear shirt when on or around gangway. C. B. Ivey elected ship's delegate and wiU see patrolman regarding roaches on ship. Diseuisfon on paying off every other trip and on keeping screen doors closed In port. Bluest new screen*. COLUMBIA (Cape Waterways), July 22—Chairmsn, J. Tanner; Secretary ORION COMET (Colonial), July 22— Chairmen, John Murphy; Secretary, Harold J. Romero. H. J. Romero elected ship's delegate. Painting of crew quarters started this trip and to be flnished up next trip. No beefs reported by department delegates. A. W. Morales. No beefs reported. Vote of thanks to entir* steward de­ partment. DEL RIO (DeKa), July 11—Chair­ man, James Lea; Secretary, Dennis A. Zwicfcer. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. WUlUm F. Long was elected new ship's delegate. NATALIB (Maritime Overseas), July It—Chairmsn, Frank Rssts; fecreUry, Robsrt W. Farrandlx. Sliip's del­ egate thanked crew for cooperation. Will check with patrolman regarding lodging. One member hospitalized in Saigon. t6 in ship's fund. Crew gave vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for cooking, baking and service. KATHRYN (Bull), June 30—Chelrman, Murray Savoy; Secretary, C. Mathews. Ship's delegate reported all is running smoothly. Captain thanked crew and delegates for good, work and cooperation. Motion to have pa­ trolman see .what he can do to have ship fumigated and check hospital supplies and fresh water tanks. Pro­ posal made to refuse stores until • member of Food Plan or a crewmember checks food, on dock. Poor made to avoid making any unneceaaary noise In port and starboard pas­ sageways and In main deck In con­ sideration for watcbstandsrs who are sleeping. MAYFLOWER (Mayflower), July IS —Chairman, William Fell; Secretary, Thomas R. Barrow. An article con­ cerning the rescue of Cubaiu off the coast of Florida along with picture wUl be sent to the LOG. $11.00 In ship's fund. Brother Adams elected ship's delegate. Vote of thanks given to the steward department. Men were asked to contribute to the ship's fund after payoff and were thanked for t6S donation to the Cubans. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), July 1* —Chairman, Bernard Toner; Seeretary, William Lennox. FUty dollars In ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Motion to have exhaust fans Installed at the after end of main deck passageway. Chief engineer's attitude towardi crewmemher was discussed. DEL SUD (Dslta), July IS—Chair­ man, Michael J. Dunn; Secretary, Les- S'" STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), July i—Chairmsn, Dlckerson; Secrstary, F. 8. Omegs, Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. Disnu.s.sion on additional ice machine, better care of washing machine. Sub­ mitted three possible changes in en­ gine department working rules. ALCOA POLARIS (Alcoa), June 10 —Chairman, L. C. Hannon; Sscretary. K. Hatgimlsloi. No beefs reported. A. Vante elected ship's delegate. Need new hot water urns for officer and crew pantry plus new grill for gal­ ley. Grill now In galley la not work­ ing. Juiy 13—Chairman, Leo C. Hennon; Secretary, A. Artgones. Ship's dele­ gate reported that one man asked tr pay off. Motion made that cylinder locks be placed on all foc'sle doors; too many keys open the door. Port steward to be contacted for better quality of fresh fruits. Crew messhall and crew quarters to be painted. •s' L m �OMbber, U6t SEAFARERS LOG SIU MEETINGS Cooks And Firemen Set New Elections SAN FRANCISCO — Members of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union and the Marine Firemen's Union were due to begin balloting on new officers early in November after rank-and-file credentials and elections committees com­ November 5 through the end of 1963. pleted their check of a flood January, A check of credentials by the of nominations for union posts. The MCS balloting involves 15 open positions and the MFOW election will fill 16 full-time jobs plus trustee and SIUNA conven­ tion delegate posts. All elective offices at headquarters and in the outports will be on the ballot for both SIU Pacific District affiliates. The cooks' voting runs November 1 through December 31 and the firemen's ballot extends from Matson Lures Convention Biz SAN FRANCISCO—Conventionconscious Matson Navigation Com­ pany is trying to lure round-trip shipments of convention exhibits and merchandise to Hawaii con­ ventions with an overall 25 per­ cent rate reduction. Westbound shipments of prod­ ucts, merchandise and exhibits will be charged the regular freight tariff. Return trip rates will be slashed by one-half. Matson has since early this year also been promoting use of its pas­ senger vessels as convention ships where large "captive" audiences can be shown new products, de­ velop marketing ideas or take courses in sales techniques while enjoying an ocean voyage. five-member MCS committee found 62 nominees qualified to run for office under terms of the union constitution. Over 400 nominations were made, many of them "blanket nominations" of one man for all available offices. The MCS ballot, which has pro­ vision for absentee voting by mail for crewmembers on ships that will not touch mainland ports during the election period, will fill the following offices: Secretary treasurer, assistant secretary-treasurer, three patrol­ men and a dispatcher in San Fran­ cisco, one agent and patrolman each in Wilmington, Portland, Seattle and New York, and Honolulu agent. In the MFOW, 38 members have sent in acceptances as required under the firemen's constitution and will be on the ballot vying for the offices to be filled. A fiveman membership committee checked the credentials of all nominees. The firemen's election will fill the following jobs, and also pro­ vides for mail balloting by those unable to vote in port: President, vice president, treas­ urer, two San Francisco business agents, San Francisco business agent-clerk, San Francisco dis­ patcher, port agents in Seattle, Portland, San Pedro, New York and Honolulu, and business agents for Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and New York. Begin Non-PMA Pact Talks SAN FRANCISCO—Full details on far-reaching new off­ shore and intercoastal shipping agreements have now been concluded by the three member unions of the SIU Pacific District with negotiators for the Pacific Maritime Association. The contract settlement runs until June 15, 1965 and was preceded by an 11-week strike of PMA vessels last Spring. The new pact, whose Improved pension and retirement benefits, trip-off rules on fast-turnaround ships and various other changes went Into effect October 1, also called for increased vacations, a flat two percent boost in basic wages, generally upgraded welfare provisions and establishment of a system of medical clinics. Unions in the Pacific District, comprised of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, Marine Cooks & Stewards and the Marine Firemen's Union, are also continuing bargaining sessions with other operators not mem­ bers of the PMA on general contract improvements. Contract discussions are pending with companies including Alaska Steamship, Duncan Bay, Kaiser, United Vintners, Permanente Steam­ ship, Olson, Chamberlain, Pope and Talbot, Kimbrell-Lawrence Trans­ port and Aleutian Marine Transport. SIU membership meetings are held regularly once a month on days Indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM In the listed SIU ports below. AH Sea­ farers are expected to attend. Those who wish to ne excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to Include registration number). The next SIU meetings wUl bet New York Philadelphia Baltimore Detroit Houston New Orleans Mobile Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Pare Fi7« Calif. Standard Balks New Pact 5 7 7 9 12 14 16 Dock Talks Start Again Under T-H Picketing by members of the International Longshoremen's As­ sociation in Atlantic and Gulf ports under the union's "no con­ tract-no work" policy has been postponed until December 23 by a Taft-Hartley Act injunction which invoked an 80-day "cooling off" period. The Federal Government went into court for an injunction a few hours after the walkout began on October 1 and a restraining order barring picketing was issued on October 4. Longshoremen were unable to return to work the next day, due to the lateness of the court order, and went back on October 6. The ILA's previous agreement expired September 30. Principal stumbling block in the negotiations which began last June was an attempt by the New York Shipping Association to seek sweeping cuts in the present 20man size of work gangs on the docks. The stevedores want to trim gang sizes from four to eight men. During the course of the ILA walkout, the union had the full support of all major maritime un­ ions, including the SIU, in press­ ing its demands for a new pact. The companies even fell short in their money offer despite the bid for wholesale cuts in gang sizes. A special three-man board of in­ quiry assigned by the President to seek a settlement in the dispute has since stepped out of the pic­ ture in favor of regular Govern­ ment mediators and conciliators. Charter presentation ceremonies at lUPW executive board meeting in Bakersfieid, Calif., on September 22 show lUPW President Lester P. Taylor (center) and SIU SecretaryTreasurer Al Kerr, who represented SIUNA President Paul Hall. Looking on (left) is SIU rep. E. B. McAuley. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Negotiations liave been stale­ mated between the SIUNA-affiliated International Union of Petroleum Workers and the Standard Oil Company of Cali­ fornia. Pact talks came to a-*halt due to the company's manner the company demands the refusal to make a counter­ right to compete for its markets." offer on wages and its move to contract out work that could be handled by its own workers. Federal mediators have stepped out of the negotiations because of the company-created impasse in the talks so far. The lUPW is the newest affiliate of the SIUNA, with 3,200 mem­ bers primarily in the California oilfields, as well as Utah and Alaska. It was a long-established independent organization in the Southern California oil industry. Members voted by a margin of four to one for SIUNA affiliation. In the current contract wrangle with Standard Oil of California, the union cites the fact that it has been in negotiations since March on wages and other contract items as part of a two-year contract. The union has stood firm on the issue of farmed out work, since the company has not shown any possible economies from engaging in this practice, L. P. Taylor, president of the lUPW, declared that the company pays approxi­ mately 35 percent more to use con­ tractors than it pays its own workers, including benefit costs. "If someone can show me the good sense of this practice, I will be happy to become converted," he added. "We only want to com­ pete for our jobs in the same Taylor called on all customers of Standard Oil of California to refrain from buying the company's products as a demonstration of union solidarity and to show the company that it has an obligation to give its workers a share of "the tremendous profits which these people have helped Standard Oil to accrue." Local 30 of the lUPW has mean­ while negotiated a new contract for the Northern Oil operation in Alaska's Kenai-Soldotna area. The agreement covers 40 union mem­ bers and provides for a 30-centan-hour wage increase, four paid holidays a year with time and a half for any holiday work and one week's vacation after a year's service. Workers at Northern Oil are welders, gangers, and hold other general positions with the company. Get That SS Number Right Seafarers filing vacation money claims should make sure that they use their correct So­ cial Security number. Use of the wrong numbei means a cler­ ical headache for the Vacation Plan office and slows up the handling of payments. Pacific District SItipping SUP 9/5 to 10/1 MFOW 9/1 to 9/31 MC&S 9/7 to 10/4 TOTAL 481 153 288 922 ... 89 79 37 205 . .. ... 137 75 31 243 Wilmington .. ... 298 (no hall) 76 374 New York .. ... 72 23 20 115 New Orleans ... 10 • 0 10 Honolulu 31 42 19 62 San Pedro ... ... (no hall) 97 (no hall) 97 TOTAL , 1,118 •Mo roport avoilablo 469 471 PORT San Francisco .. Seattle Portland ... ... 2,058 NY Maritime Port Council provided morale-builder for ILA pickets during four-day dock strike as MTO coffee wagons kept all lines supplied with hot coffee and pastry. Scenes hero are at Erie Basin where the refreshments were obviously a welcome item. �SEAFARERS Oetobor, U«| LOG SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING ROARR (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In fhe 5117 Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) September 1 Through September 30, 1962 SIU shipping rose again during September to a total of 2,628 jobs dispatched, with the shipping figures almost matching the total registration of 2,647. All departments handled part of the increase. However, last month's pace was light compared to September a year ago, wKen the dispatch total was over 2900. The registration last month also showed a decline, which thus produced a considerable drop in the number of men still on the beach by the end of the month. Based on these figures, a fairly rapid turnover in jobs for SIU men generally is still evident. Among the ports, Boston, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans and Wilmington were the only ones listing gains in shipping, as the major ports of New York, Baltimore, Houston and San Francisco reported varied reductions in total shipping. Houston has been relatively "slow" in shipping for the past two months, but still helped New Orleans and New York handle almost twothirds of all jobs dispatched throughout the District. The rise in shipping was reflected in the ship activity reports (see right), which listed several more sign-ons and in-transits than in August. The drop-off in the num­ ber of ships in port closely matched the job figures for some of the ports, however. A review of the month's shipping by seniority group shows that class A shipping actually fell off in Septem­ ber to 61% of the total, while class C shipping dropped to about 8%. Jobs for class B seniority men showed the only rise, to over 31% of all shipping. Ship Aetivify Pay Sl«a la Offi Ons Irani. TOTAL ieiten 3 0 7 10 New Yerh ....40 13 42 OS Philadelphia ..II 11 2S 47 Raltlmora 11 7 31 47 Norfolh 7 7 4 It Jockionvllle ..4 3 13 20 Tampa 3 1 11 II Mobile 11 7 12 30 New Orleau ..21 21 41 13 Honiten 14 10 27 13 Wilmington ... 2 2 13 17 San Pranclieo.. 3 2 12 17 SeatHe 4 5 • 17 TOTALS ...130 07 240 DECK DEPARTMENT Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Registered CLASS B Registered CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP 2 3 AI.L 3 ALL 12 3 ALL 1 1 2 7 1 4 2 9 0 1 0 1 6 2 1 94 28 154 50 32 17 29 25 84 27 136 4 19 8 4 7 16 28 0 5 11 16 3 9 50 26 10 33 14 55 1 10 22 16 33 6 2 21 12 12 7 0 9 12 2 20 3 6 12 7 0 19 5 23 2 12 5 8 12 3 6 3 1 3 2 7 0 2 1 2 3 2 55 32 3 6 23 29 20 58 0 36 4 18 74 40 100 20 160 26 46 70 18 119 2 31 98 48 24 47 26 16 28 27 80 14 121 3 13 6 2 13 5 6 6 21 1 12 1 8 27 15 4 13 8 21 2 5 2 6 8 11 13 3 22 15 6 48 2 7 6 26 13 9 173 400 93 1 666| 20 114 191 1 325 176 366*102 1 644 Port Boston New York PhUadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Shipped CLASS C GROUP 12 3 ALL 0 0 0 0 4 21 22 47 0 10 1 9 1 3 9 13 2 1 10 13 0 6 2 4 5 0 1 4 0 10 13 23 79 4 35 40 39 5 17 17 10 3 6 1 16 5 3 8 18 1 7 10 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 3 ALL A 1 2 C ALL 1 B 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 0 0 7 0 7 0 9 21 7 37 0 5 7 12 0 21:154 7 14 47 21 222 85 156 35 276 7 26 56 89 3 4' 19 0 1 10 33 14 4 19 1 34 0 4 12 16 0 50 0 0 0 13 10 73 41 79 8 128 0 16 39 55 0 0 1 21 1 13 35 9 1 14 27 4 1 4 8 IS 0 2 2 12 0 6 2 20 9 27 14 4 1 8 7 16 1 6 0 0 1 5 12 2 1 8 2 12 0 1 1 2 8 55 0 2 6 23 86 28 8 38 75 9 0 1 12 13 3 0 5 8 160 79 8 247 to 75 16 151 3 19 47 69 8 98 5 3 0 39 8 145 46 66 14 6 3 26 47 76 3 13 3 0 0 10 3 26 12 16 1 29 1 5 19 4 1 27 0 0 1 16 1 44: 10 22 36 4 2 7 9 18 7 22 1 6 0 7 18 23 50 0 471 19 8 13 8 21 1 64|644 279 28 34 1 2 -74*1 997 344* 499 105 1 948 "18* 137 255 1 "419 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B Registered CLASS A GROUP 1 2 Boston 7 2 New York 23 85 Philadelphia 1 19 Baltimore 35 11 Norfolk 3 11 Jacksonville 5 4 Tampa .......... 5 1 Mobile 30 9 New Orleans 86 25 Houston 57 24 Wilmington 4 8 San Francisco 13 8 Seattle 3 14 TOTALS 118 375 Pert Shinned CLASS A Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B TOTAL SHIPPED Registered Or1 The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 2 C ALL 1 3 ALL 1 3 ALL A B 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 2 3 ALL 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 3 ALL 1 7^ 2 20 23 2 3 0 0 1 1 3 3 1 8 0 1 5 IS 0 9 1 2 2 1 4 1 3 1 1 1 72 2 3 8 13 123 72 13 208 38 127 17 182 11 54 57 122 11 119 11 76 I 21 29 31 37 28 89 13 123 12 30 3 23 0 14 1 27 1 6 11 8 4 14 1 3 4 21 4 18 2 22 3 9 9 21| 1 12 21 2 8 60 15 66 12 17 31 93 1 27 26 2 0 17 3 54 53 0 11 4 1 7 32 3 21 11 30 7 40 2 32 4 16 11 1 7 1 14 11 2 22 1 7 16 6 3 3 3 7 8 16 1 2 12! 1 7 4 10 3 14 2 6 0 18 2 10 3 9 6 3 1 13 1 8 5 10 1 0 4 2 1 2 14 6 1 10 9 17i! 2 7 0 7 1 6 0 7 0 1 6 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 4 2 1 2 0 3 1 1 1 1 2 0 3 4 0 78 12 37 6 7 7 32 1 7 39 32 55 0 14 47 1 24 7 3 3 7 8 19 8 39 1 9 9 25 6 87 1 87 11 226 22 90 11 123 35 38 4? 41 11 128 1 74 96 30 7 3 9 120 1 50 45 86 12 328 4 63 97 75 48 1 7 91 48 7 146 30 4 6 30 39 22 25 10 91 4 60 18 2 4 30 26 62 11 91 1 6 5 12 11 1 18 3 7 12 5 29 4 14 16 0 6 3 12 2 3 0 1 8 3 6 2 8 1 12 3 10 0 3 18 10 31 15 28 5 48 2 7 7 16 3 3 6 4 2 1 24 2 81 3 2 4 10 18 0 5 30 6 17 16 0 16 1 30 39 2 11 4 1 13 3 3 20 2 10 5 0 1 10 15 3 3 9 13 1 1 27 28 I 65 515 330*" 66 1 911 156 527 64 j1 747: 31 208 212 1 451 57 I 550 27 194 150 1*371 i 95~ 352" 68 1r5i5 29 168 *133*" 330 10 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Bos .. • NTT .... Phil .... Bal Nor Jac Tam Mob..... NO .... Hou Wil SF Sea . TOTALS 1-9 1 0 4 1 4 2 1 8 15 6 1 4 4 51 Registered CLASS a Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 3 ALL 2 1 3 ALL 1-s 2 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 3 1 3 8 1 0 3 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 2 39 15 47 101 4 25 0 1 20 44 14 50 108 1 39 10 28 9 1 15 29 0 3 10 13 2 5 2 8 17 4 0 0 4 6 7 18 32 1 21; 4 7 1 19 2 14 0 20 21 271 1 5 0 0 9 2 1 7 0 6 0 4 10 0 10 4 0 10 6 1 3 12 0 3 7 10 0 3 1 4 8 0 5 0 5 15 0 3 2 9 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 6 0 1 0 1 10 7 28 53 0 0 20 20 7 11 3 11 32 2 22 1 19 29 15 57 116 4 58 11 1 53 37 15 61 124 4 48 3 41 67 5 22 16 23 6 30 41 3 18 13 28 39 62 2 0 37 13 1 2 4 6 0 4 5 2 8 4 7 21 0 0 5 3 12 25 0 6 1 7 8 0 4 2 7 7 13 0 7 0 6 19 4 6 3 3 15 22 3 6 0 2 11 2 12 7 3 150 73 225 1 499 22 21 193 I 236 33 152 58 199 1 442 12 17 186 1 215 sl TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS GROUP ALL A B I 2 0 3 0 0 2 0 22 108 39 0 21 1 5 17 0 5 4 0 21 0 2 2 27 0, 10 0 8 8 10 0 5 0 2 2 8 0 1 0 1 6 0 1 22 1^ 32 0 0 1 10 124 48 1 8 1 14 62 39 0 12 2 5 3 21 0 3 0 7 0 13 0 0 0 12 6 6 11 0 0 1 69 1 74 442 215 4 s C ALL 1-9 5 3 0 22 169 24 5 26 5 50 9 2 281 5 8 3 2 15 8. 1 1 55 4 1 10 182. 16 14 1151 18 3 29 4 20! 6 0 29 6 6 74 1 7311104 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 0 6 7 3 37 5 46 3 12 16 1 2 2 20 24 2 1 5 8 8 2 1 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 19 19 64 2 1 61 7 27 37 3 0 5 1 4 0 15 15 0 6 24 4 34 24 283 208 120 315 1 747, 23 236 1 GROUP 3 ALL 2 1 8 18 3 4 41 30 73 168 28 7 3 13 88 27 17 35 15 1 3 6 11 2 1 5 15 1 1 12 68 18 13 33 32 20 80 148 87 37 13 19 13 5 1 3 51 15 10 20 37 11 5 15 ii % I •A i SUMMARY DECK ENGINE 5TE¥fARD GRAND TOTALS Registered CLASS A GROUP I 2 3 ALL 173 400 93 r 666 118 375 57 i 550 201 73 225 I 499 492 848 375 11715 Registered CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3^LL 20 114 191 27 194 150 22 21 193 I 69 329 534 I Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL Shipped CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3 325 176 366 102 | 644 23 '104 152 371 95 352 68 | 515 29 168 133 236 185 58 199 I 442 12 17 186 932 456 776 369 il601| 64 .289 471 ALL I 279 I 330 I 215 j 824, Registered On The Beach TOTAL Shipped CLASS B CLASS A SHIPPED CLASS C GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP " 3 ALL ^ 3 ALL I 12 3 ALL ABC ALL I 2 28 34 I 64 644 279 64 | 987 344 499 105 | 948 18 137 255 I 410 10 27 28 I 65 515 330 65 1 910 156 527 64 | 747 31 208 212 I 451 4 1 69 I 74 442 215 74 | 731 312 120 315 | 747 23 24 236 j 283 16 56 131 203 1601 824 213 12628 812 1146 484 12442 72 369 703 11144 "t •a �Oetebar, Ittt SEAFARERS TUB CANASIAM' LOG Par* Sered SIU Taxi Union Blocks Teamsters Halts Drain On Trust Funds Canada Sets Foreign Ship Ban In Domestic Trade C1910AGO—Still seeking to hold on to welfare and pension funds belonging to mem-" bers of the SIUNA Transportation Services and Allied Workers here, Teamster Union of­ ficials have been blocked in court from making any further wholesale expenditures of membership trust funds withworkers' case against further Team­ expenditures. They face a possible out court permission. ster holdback of the funds. contempt of court citation for these The Teamsters have been Members of the group here, af­ moves. trying for over a year to cut off filiated as the Drivers Union Or­ Action by Superior Court Judge earned welfare and pension bene­ ganizing Committee Local 777, Abraham Marovitz last month, fits of SIU taxi workers, who af­ originaUy quit the Teamsters iast barred the Teamster group from OTTAWA—Years of protest by the SIU of Canada agains filiated with the TSAW in January. year in an effort to form their own running up any further "adminis­ use of cut-rate, foreign-flag and runaway shipping in Can The taxi men, in a one-day strike union. During the course of litiga­ trative expenses" with the excep­ ada's domestic trade may finally bear fruit. Action is ex­ last March, won contracts covering tion that has followed, the Jimmy tion of necessary salaries. the Checker and Yellow cab fleets, Hoffa-Joey Glimco forces control­ pected at the new session of > Evidence produced in court by including agreement that the own­ ling Teamster Local 777 have tried the SlU-affiliated taxi men showed Parliament this fall to bar all Canadian shipping interests hope ers would assist in pressing the to cripple the fund by outlandish that the Teamsters had spent six the limit will eventually take foreign shipping from Can­ that in all coastal waters on both east times as much on administration for ada's Great Lakes and inland and west coasts of Canada. An the first quarter of 1962 as they Youngster In 'Batter's Box' waters trade. boost was recently handed had paid out in claims. This in­ Agreement to the revocation of other Canadian shippers when Canada cluded a $1,200 monthly salary for the 1931 Commonwealth Shipping gave or pledged $169 million for a clerk named Laverne Murray, Act was required from all 11 new ship construction. who is reported to be a close friend signers before the Canadian Upon passlige of the expected of Glimco's. government could invoke protec­ legislation foreign - flag Meanwhile, in Detroit, negotia­ tive legislation for its own domestic ships from barring Canada's domestic tions are being pressed by TSAW trade. Great Britain, with the waters, Canadian will be Local 10 on behalf of Checker Cab largest number of ships in the Ca­ in a better positionseamen to continue to garage workers who recently voted nadian trade, had long stalled the overwhelmingly for the TSAW In necessary unanimous agreement. secure improved wages and work­ a National Labor Relations Board The Canadian counterpart to ing conditions under the SIU of election. Details of a scheduled the American Jones Act provisions Canada banner. The proposed ban election for some 1,600 Checker would now take the form of an would also work to the consider­ drivers are still being worked out amendment to the Canadian Ship­ able advantage of Canadian ship ping Act. An estimated 100 ships yards and shipbuilders since addi­ of Commonwealth registry, about tional tonnage would be a neces 80 percent of the tonnage engaged sity once a ban on foreign ships in Canada's domestic ship opera­ went into effect. tions, would be affected. Latest expectations are that the legislation will place the eastern limit of domestic waters as far east as Anticosti Island. Transport Minister Leon Balcer had originally placed the eastern limit at Les Escoumains, Quebec. Anticosti Island is 270 miles further east. MONTREAL — Crews of four WASHINGTON —The SlU-conSIU of Canada-contracted ships Traditional at World Series time, since tlie Yankees always tracted Bloomfield Steamship lying idle here and in Kingston seem to be in on the act, drawing for free series tickets at Compkny has filed application with Quick Thinking have been called back as a result SIU the Maritime Administration for headquarters highlights Louis Garcia, 10, son of Sea­ of the recent closing of the Port a 20-year extension of its present Saves Toty 4 farer Mario Garcia, AS, with an assist from SIU rep. Ed of Churchill. operating subsidy agreement cov­ Mooney. Six tickets ware drawn for each of the NY MONTREAL—A little fourMen have been called to crew ering trade between the US Gulf, year old Ville St. Michel girl games, as Yankees won the series. the Hamiltonian, the Montrealais the United Kingdom and Northern owes her life to the quick ac­ and the C. A. Bennett. The Elgin Europe. tion of Seafarer Kevin Gishas also issued a call for her crew Bloomfield currently operates fone, a crewmember aboard to report in Kingston. four SlU-manned ships on the the Algosoo. (Alagoma Cen­ Opening of the Port of Churchill run, designated as Trade Route 21. tral and Hudson Bay RR). is always a signal for many Great The company indicated that it When Linda Harvey wan­ Lakes grain carriers to lay up for is considering resumption of dered out of sight one evening two months while salt water ships separate subsidized operations on recently, she wound up falling bring in cargo from the West. Its Trade Route 13, between the US off a pier into the St. Lawr­ closing is therefore welcomed by Preliminary meetings have been held by the Marine the Mediterranean and the ence River. Gisfone pulled the Lakes shippers and sailors alike. Engineers Beneficial Association and the Masters, Mates and Gulf, Black Sea. Additional ships might tot ashore and she was given The annual, local shipping re­ Pilots to establish a closer relationship that will strengthen eventually result from this action. artificial respiration before surgence has yet to gather much However, since the Government the position of both unions in being taken to a hospital momentum, but indications are has been moving slowly on all Executive Council. (See Story on where she recovered from her that full speed should be attained organizing and contract en­ subsidy applications, and Bloom­ Page 4.) ordeal. forcement. by mid-fall. Similar action by the mates and field has not yet filed, added Subcommittees representing na­ tional officers of both unions held engineers to work out a joint pro­ tonnage seems far in the future. Banks Honored By Canada Unions Originally granted a subsidy on several sessions this month to pre­ gram gained impetus after the sent a united front among the li­ merger of separate unions for li­ the UK-Northern Europe run In censed officers' groups. The cur­ censed engineers in 1958 laid the 1953, the company now makes a rent move for closer MEBA-MMP basis for mutual action among the maximum of 27 sailings on the ties were prompted by recent raids recognized AFL-CIO licensed offi­ route. It said it had no plans to cut or increase that number. conducted by the National Mari­ cer groups. time Union and the unaffiliated Teamsters on both unions. Advance Meeting Schedule Raiding Activities The NMU has used its affiliate, For West Coast SIU Ports the Brotherhood of Marine Offi­ SIU headquarters has issued an advance schedule through March, cers, to move in on contracts held by both officers' unions with Is1963, for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West brandtsen and the Teamster-spon­ Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wilmington, sored "Marine Officers Associa­ San Francisco and Seattle or who are due to return from the Far tion," with NMU support, has East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in ac­ pulled a separate raid on the cord with a resolution adopted by the Executive Board last Decem­ Mississippi Valley Barge Line, an inland waters operation. ber. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on NMU has already been found Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. guilty of raiding the engineers in The schedule is as follows: the Isbrandtsen fleet under a rul­ ing by an impartial umpire for the Wilmington San Francisco Seattle AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan, November 19 November 21 November 23 which was later confirmed by a December 17 December 19 December 21 subcommittee of the AFL-CIO January 21 January 23 January 25 Honored by Canadian AFL-CIO unions, SIU of Canada February 18 February 20 * February 21 President Hal C. Banks (right) receives union-made gavel March 18 March 20 March 22 and plaque (not shown) from Marcel Raymond, Vice-Presi­ •Scheduled early due to Washington's Birthday holiday. dent of the Carpenters Union in Canada, on behalf of 12 (Regular monthly meeting schedule for ail SIU constitutional different unions and four building, construction and metal ports appears on Page 5.) Bloomfieiil Asks More Subsidy $ Four More Ships Take Crews Bark MEBA, MM? Hold Anti'llaiding Talks APTiW taowl. / *M: trades councils in Montreal and province of Quebec. �Fase Elfbt I M' 1 . I! ?f-} 11: :•• I . m SEAFARERS LOG OeMtvr, ItM RRs Map New Combine The railroads have decided to get organized. In an effort to seize the initiative in labor negotiations, the 105 major US railroads have set up a single "united" carrier organization. It will supercede the "Regional Con­ ference Committees" from-^ the East, Southeast and West and closer coordination of efforts speed up the slow bargaining proc­ which previously handled previously handled on a regional ess. The new railroad grouping is basis," an announcement of the railroad labor contract talks. intended to counter the activities Called the National Railway La­ group stated. Industry leaders have said that of the Railway Labor Executives bor Conference, its function in they expect the unions to find for­ Association, with which the SlU general will be to "do everything possible we can to get efficient malized permanent industry-wide is affiliated as one of 24 member and economical arrangements in­ bargaining to their own advantage unions, for SIU tugmen on rail­ in many instances because it would road marine equipment. volving labor costs." Working with a permanent staff of attorneys, economists, statis­ ticians, specialists and other per­ sonnel, some of their moves to get "efficient and economical" ar­ rangements will probably include: • Efforts to change Federal laws in fayor of business in gen­ Cliff Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director eral and the railroads in par­ ticular. Ship's Galley Is Potential Danger Area • Initiating a campaign to make Never take chances in the galley. There's too much potential for the public believe that railroad accidents as things are, and food can be spoiled besides. The galley workers are "featherbedders." • A move to get Congress to is no place for horseplay, especially with sharp tools. This is a sure­ amend the Railroad Unemploy­ fire path to injury. There are many other things to watch out for at ment Insurance Act to forbid pay­ all times. When placing meat on blocks or benches, be sure to remove any ment of unemployment benefits to tools that may be there. A "hid-4 rail strikers. • New moves against the pay den" tool can be a dangerous • Don't use defective tools or Busy scene at site of salvage job on British freighter and work rules of non-operating thing. If you put a piece of meat machinery. Report all damaged on top of a sharp knife, you might Montrose (background) in the Detroit River pictures SIU employes. tools and machinery. Great Lakes men who man service launch and other • The handling of the final forget the knife is there and cut • See that immediate first aid is battle in the railroads' long effort yourself when you pick up the given to all scratches and- cuts. workboats. to impose drastic new work rules meat. • Use dry cloths to handle hot Knives present many special utensils. Wet or damp cloths trans­ DETROIT—risky attempt to refloat the sunken British on their operating employes. mit heat easily and may cause freighter Montrose, now partially blocking the southbound • Formulating the companies' safety problems in the galley. Don't carry knives unnecessarily. burns. stand on provisions for employees "hannel of the Detroit River, has already produced injuries If they must be carried, hold the • Use salt to extinguish small for part of the salvage party,1" Involved in railroad mergers. The lines involved own about knife by the handle with its point grease fires on top of the range. which includes SIU tugboat The complex salvage attempt • Don't hold your face near the 95 per cent of the track mileage toward you. Hold the knife close includes work by divers to cut crewmen In the Great Lakes and walk carefully. fire box when lighting an oilin the nation. The NRLC chair­ away damaged plates; bolting Construction Division of MerrittDon't grab for a falling knife. burning range. man will be James E. Wolfe, who metal sheets as a patch for tha Chapman and Scott Corp. You might miss the handle and in the last year has been the rail­ • Don't keep deep-fat frying The injuries involved three hole, and building wooden forma roads' chief labor negotiator. catch the blade. Step to one side pans more than two-thirds to the length of the hole in tha NRLC headquarters will be in Chi­ and let it fall. three-fourths full. Unless allow­ members of the Pile Drivers ship's side. Pressurized hoses will Don't put knives in soapy water cago. The national group is "de­ ance is made, the roll or pitch of Union who were working on the then force in a protective inner signed to facilitate future planning as they cannot be seen and you the ship may splash fat onto the preliminary structures necessary coat of cement from three to ten may grasp the blade. range and cause a serious fire plus to bring the Montrose right side feet deep, and then the actual Don't throw knives together in bad burns. up. A cutting torch, according to a box or drawer. You risk getting some news accounts, led to a fire move to raise will be made, using • Don't mix cold liquids with cut when reaching for one. Keep hot fat. The fat will splatter and and explosion near the derelict. massive chains run out from float­ knives in a knife rack when they cause severe burns. The British ship lies on her port ing derricks. are not in use. • Keep decks free of debris at side in about 35 feet of water. Keep handles of all meat tools all times. Remove all fat, meat A 65-man Merritt-Chapman crew free of grease to assure a good safe trimmings and grease immediately. is manning salvage boats which grip; otherwise, your hand may slip • When lifting heavy boxes, are setting up for the maneuvers forward onto the blade. Hold han­ bend your knees to distribute the necessary to raise the partiallyIn another major reorganization dles firmly. submerged Montrose. weight. change designed to tighten up the Use the steel with care. Be sure If the one-time, top Detroit • Don't climb ladders with food ranks of industry, the National As­ the guard is in place. Keep the or utensils unless you can hold tourist attraction is raised too sociation of Manufacturers has blade named its first full-time president. hand. of the knife away from the onto guard rail with one hand. It quickly, the water still left In her DETROIT — Close cooperation hold can shift and throw her over is safer to make another trip. He is Werner P. Gullander, for­ between two Great Lakes SIU When using the sharpening on her other side, in which case In large scale preparation of merly of General Dynamics Corp. stone, be sure your guiding hand crews recently speeded rescue of the long and costly preparations food, there are many opportunities Gullander is resigning as execu­ for injury and infection unless at­ will have to be repeated. The one SlU-contracted ship by an­ tive vice-president of General rides on the back of the blade. Be extremely careful when nsing tention is given to safety and sani­ captain of the salvage crew has other. Dynamics to head the NAM, Responding to a distress call by a boning knife. Always keep your tation rules. Training yourself to expressed confidence, however, which is the powerful spokesman the W. E. Fitzgerald out of the that one try is all he'll need. hand behind the knife. Use a hand observe clean and safe working for the business world. Port of Toledo, the Frank E. TapThe 7,318-ton freighter from meat-hook when boning meat to habits will pay dividends in bet­ The NAM created the permanent lin altered course and rushed to Liverpool, collided during the provide a firm hold. ter results all around. position of president Just recently. the assistance of the disabled ves­ night of July 31 with a cement Be careful when using the cleav­ (Comments and suggestions are Formerly the organization elected sel. barge, receiving a 37-foot-long er. The chopping action is diffi­ invited by this Department and can a new president every year from After trying unsuccessfully to gash in her side. She had been the officers of member companies. cult to control. Keep hands away be submitted to this column in care steaming tow the Fitzgerald alongside in away from a berth on from the striking area. of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Gullander, who is 54, was with high seas, the Taplin crew rigged theDetroit side of the river at . Don't force a saw blade. Forcing General Dynamics- for 22 years. a stem towing line and was able the time, carrying mixed cargo. Before that he was with Weyer­ it through a bone may cause it to to bring the Fitzgerald into Under terms of Merritt-Chap"jump" and tear your fingers. Let Pick Up 'Shot' haeuser Company for eight years. Toledo. Both ships are owned by man's contract with the British The present NAM president, the saw do the work. the SIU contracted Gartland shipping firm, the salvage com­ Card At Payoff Handling meat also offers cer­ Donald J. Hardenbrook, will be­ Steamship Company, Wilmington, pany will get nothing if it fails tain hazards In the galley. Care Seafarers who have taken the come chairman of the board, and Del. to raise the ship. Charles R. Sligh Jr., who was pre­ should be taken with meat hooks series of inoculations required in the chill box and refrigerator. for certain foreign voyages are viously executive vice-president, has been elected vice chairman of Be careful of wire on meat pack­ reminded to be sure to pick up the association and will continue ages. And when feeding meat into their inoculation cards from the a grinder, use a stomper. Don't captain or the purser when they to be its public spokesman. risk the danger of cutting or bruis­ pay off at the end of a voyage. August 14 Through September 14, 1962 ing fingers. The card should be picked up ENGINE DECK STEWARD TOTAL Port Other Precautions by the Seafarer and held so that Among other safety do's and it can be presented when sign­ 17 .... 28 15 60 ALPENA don't's in the galley are the fol­ ing on-|or another voyage where lowing: the "shots" are required. The BUFFALO .... .... 46 29 11 86 • Don't leave glassware or glass inoculation card is your only 18 13 60 containers near food preparation proof of having taken the re­ CHICAGO .... .... 29 areas. quired shots. 32 12 CLEVELAND . .... 46 90 • Don't open cans with anything Those men who forget to pick 109 65 except a can opener. Remove the up their inoculation card when 332 DETROIT .... .... 158 cover completely, for the jagged they pay off may find that they 15 9 45 DULUTH .... . ... 21 edge may cause a serious cut. are required to take all the Keep blade and gears of can open­ "shots" again when they want 18 18 54 FRANKFORT .... 18 er clean so the tin will not be to sign on for another trip. 236, 145, ground into food. , TOTAL .. .... 346 .-.727 Risky Salvage Job Begins On Lakes Goes 'Full Time' SIU Ships Team Up On Rescue Great Lakes Shipping :-^l I P -fS- �OeMcr, INS SEAFARERS LOG Pace KInm Clifton E. Malners, ofler on the Monarch off the Seas (Waterman) in Mobile, received vacation check for $809. Off the Beriifler (Ore Navigation), Seafarer Robert Ahrorodo, OS (right), has vacation application checked by SlU Port Agent Rex Dickey in Baltimore. Alvarado was first man in Baltimore to file for benefits based on a year's continuous service and drew check for $804. He lives in Galveston. FIRST $800 VACATION FAY starting this month, all Seafarers began accumulat­ ing vacation credits at an annual rate of $800 for all seatime, regardless of the number of ships worked. At the same time, many Seafarers also began receiv­ ing vacation pajmients based on the $800 rate covering continuous service aboard the same vessel for one year, with no requirement at all that they must get off a ship. Seafarers shown here at headquarters and in some of the outports were among the first to collect checks of $800 or more in continuous service vacation benefits that became payable on October 1, 1962. Frank FeM. OS off Calmar's Ftomar (left), gets check for $848, first in Wilmington, from SlU Port Agent George McCartney. George S. Cbancef OS, counts up $800 vacation money at SlU headquarters In NY. He was on the FaMaRd (Sea-Land). Cormelo Andrew, oiler off the Aialea City (Sea-Land), gets $819 (left). John Moytum, OS, Alcoa Polaris, drew $820. Bosslflo Aropokos, AB, Steel Navigator (Isthmian), shows his vacation cheek for $802. Hoyd Pence, AB (right), displays his check for $805 covering year's continuous service on the Folrfond (Sea-Land). Jack Katz, of SlU Vacation Plan staff at headquarters, looks it over. Lonis A. VUa, cook, and Horrb FoHonon, electrician, collected $801 each In bene­ fits after year on AfcM Roomer. R. D. D'Angelo, In Florida State (Everglades) black ^«ng, drew $838 check at Miami. Off the Globe Explorer (Maritime Overseas), Clinton H. Word, AB (right), watches shipmate Bill Bailey, oiler, sign application. Ward got check for $807. Bailey, on short trip, got $134. �• >r!' -^7 Nee T«i Hi-Stake Monopoly Came Relaxes Boss Mr Between Calls At Philadelphia How do the kingpins of big business spend their hours away from the office? One way was a conference of more than 500 of the nation's top corporation presidents " vice-presidents, and attorneys companies before they could be who spent a day in New stopped under regular FTC pro­ York recently trying to devise cedures. A spokesman for the NAM said methods of avoiding anti-trust suits and discussing what to do un­ that it was extremely unwise to vest such authority in an admin­ til the lawyer comes. The one-day get-together spon­ istrative agency. The President, in sored by the National Industrial a letter urging the new authority, Conference Board reflects the con­ said that delay and litigation ham­ cern that business moguls are pered activities of the commission showing these days over some of and that by the time the FTC got Seafarer Norwood Bryant. their brothers in the electrical in­ around to acting on some cases, dustry getting caught in a bit of many small business men were al­ AB, catches up on his price fixing and having to switch ready destroyed and any action to reading of SiU handbook from the classic pinstripe to the be taken then became meaningless. between hourly |ob calls. less classic Government issue striped suit. Good Etiquette Some of the more Interesting tidbits to arise out of the meeting was a suggestion that if the Gov­ ernment comes around asking for a study of a merger or acquisition, it is perfectly proper etiquette to tell the Justice Department, even If you have done the study, that "you just can't supply it." The Idea Is that the document might bear some evidence in future anti-trust situations, and even corporation lawyers have difficulty handling more than one case at a time. Corporate officials were also ad­ vised to check prices now and then for signs that salesmen are "con­ sulting or acting in an anti-social manner," according to one busi­ ness publication's report on the proceedings. Need Special Techniques The meeting finally broke up Cardgame fills the tirtie for this quartet of Seafarers with everyone in agreement that relaxing while In port. Pictured (l-r) Gaston Solliard, they should acquaint themselves stewardI Estebon Oquendo, MM; Ralph Maranca, AB with all the evasive techniques back to camera), and Edwai^ Bayne, 3rd cook. available in order to avoid the anti­ trust net. The ire of big business took other forms in other places. The National Association of Manufac­ turers took outrage against an ad­ ministration proposal to give the Federal Trade Commission the au­ A Chicago rug company and a comotive Firemen and Englnemen, thority to halt any business activi­ ty immediately if it had reason to labor-spying detective agency it and Molladay is in the Order of believe that these practices would employed to help stall negotiations Railway Conductors . . . The United violate Federal law, and might with the Textile Workers Union Furniture Workers have won their cause irreparable harm to other have been called on the carpet by fifth victory in an intensive or­ US agencies for failure to file re­ ganizing campaign in the State of quired reports on their joint ac­ Maine that began last January. The tivities. The company had been latest gain was a 100-48 vote vic­ using the agency over a long period tory at Paris Manufacturing. to obtain information on union 3^ 4 activities. Both the company and the detective agency must file re­ A new type of fringe benefit was ports on their financial arrange­ put into effect at the Allis-Chamments and other related informa­ lers plant in Norwood, Ohio, un­ tion. der a contract negotiated by the International Union of Electrical WASHINGTON — The National 4 4" 4" Workers. Each worker is to get an Labor Relations Board has applied The "Weaker" sex Just isn't so, annual year-end payment amount­ its new six percent interest rule to as th>e male members of State, ing to 2.5 percent of his annual an employer who refused to bar­ County and Municipal Employees wages, in lieu of a pay raise. The gain with a union and unilaterally cut the pay and changed the work­ Local 745 in Colfax, Calif., found benefit will average about $145 a out recently. Female members of year according to present esti­ ing hours of four workers. In a 4-1 vote, the board ordered the local fielded a softball team, mates . . . When management fires the Continental Bus System to halt the "Unionettes," which swamped a worker for union activities, it its refusal to bargain with Street, the male contingent 11-7. The gals rarely admits it, but the manager Electric Railway & Motor Coach had been challenged to the game of Rose's Variety Store No. 6 in Employees Local 1468 for bus ter­ by the aptly-named male squad, Louisville, Ky., even put it in writ­ minal employees in Grand Junc­ caUed the "Old Men of the Hill" ing. The evidence, in the form of tion, Colorado, and to revoke pay ... An air-age strikebreaker a letter to a woman employee, has and hour cuts put into effect in avoided a picketline set up by been filed by the Retail Clerks September, 1961. It also called on striking workers at a Westinghouse with the NLRB. The Rose chain, the company to reimburse four plant in Columbus, Ohio, by drop­ with headquarters in Henderson, workers for loss of pay since 1961, ping in on the plant by parachute. NC, has 151 stores in the South. Paul Minlnger, a member of a local plus interest at six percent. 4i 41 4> The ruling was the third this parachute sports club, tried the stunt and succeeded in getting into year in which the board has re­ The state of Michigan was the versed previous policy in the back the factory behind the line. He first state to be authorized to train forgot one detail, however. He or retrain imemployed workers pay area. In May it began ordering full can't pull the same trick to get out. under the new Manpower Devel­ reimbursement of employees in opment and Training Act. The law cases where a trial examiner had provides that if a worker qualifies Labor can't lose in the upcoming for retraining in a skill for which found no unfair practices but later was reversed by the board. The mayoralty race at Hollow Rock, there is a job demand, he will be second ruling, also in a discharge Tenn., between Maurice E. Flowers eligible for a year's on-the-job case, added six percent interest to and W. B. Molladay. Flowers is a training or equivalent subsistence member of Brotherhood of Lo­ ,pgyme^ , the penalty on ground of equity. Labor Board Applies New Back $ Rule Oetober, MM SEAFARERS LOG imsAJSOJ BOATMAN Pacific IBU Wins First Pact On Aiaska Ferries SEATTLE—The SlU-affiliated Inland Boatmen's Union of the Pacific has completed negotiations on a "first of its kind" contract with the Alaska Department of Public Works in Juneau, Alaska. New legisla-"^ tion makes it possible for the after a year of employment and two State of Alaska to deal direct­ weeks after two years. A pension plan, calling for ly with labor organizations—^the same as any other commercial monthly employer contributions of a maximum of $25 per employee employer—for the first time. provides for a monthly pension of Just recently adopted, the new $100 20 years of employment. law removes the men working on This after also includes earlier options the state marine highway and on retirement. ferry system from coverage under The contract also calls for negoti­ the State Personnel Act. ations on a new contract by next Other Negotiations September 30. to permit the state At the same time that the IBU to budget for any negotiated pact was concluded, negotiations changes. The agreed upon changes were also completed by the Ma­ would then take effect July 1, rine Engineers Beneficial Asso­ 1964, when the contract expires. ciation, representing licensed en­ gineers, and the Masters, Mates and Pilots, covering licensed deck officers. _ Under the new IBU of the Pacific contract, negotiated by John D. Fox, president, and Merle D. Adlum, of the Puget Sound Division, able bodied sea­ men will get monthly wages of $577. The wages are based on a working schedule of 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with one week on and one off. These pay MOREHEAD CITY, NC — Pre­ rates include a 25 percent Alaska liminary negotiations have begun differential here on a first-time contract be­ Hospital Benefits tween the SIU Inland Boatmen's Health and welfare clauses in Union and the Carteret Towing the contract Include medical, Company of Wilmington. surgical and hospital benefits for The talks got underway after all employees and their depen­ more than a year's delay in which dents plus $2,000 insurance with the company sought to undermine a double indemnity clause cov­ the union and torpedo any chance ering accidental death. The state of reaching an agreement. The wiU pay $12 a month for each bargaining began with the submis­ employee's health and welfare sion of contract proposals only coverage. after a Federal Circuit Court rul­ State ferry system boatmen will ing that the company must sit also receive one week's vacation down and negotiate. In its order handed down at Richmond, Va., the 4th circuit ap­ peals court ruled that the company must bargain with the union as called for in an original National Labor Relations Board order last February. Won Unanimous Vote The IBU won representation PHILADELPHIA—New contract rights in the Carteret fleet by the terms covering SIU boatmen aboard unanimous vote of the company's two Merritt, Chapman and Scott boatmen in an NLRB election last derricks have been unanimously year. Unfair labor practice charges approved by the crews and agreed were filed against Carteret in to by the company. September, 1961, and were ulti­ Under terms of a new oneyear contract that became effec­ mately upheld by the NLRB in an tive October 1, members aboard order issued in February. The lat­ the NLRB the derricks Conqueror and Capi­ est court actionofenforced the election re­ certification tol wiU recive an across-thesults and its later finding that the board wage increase of another company must bargain. five cents per hour. They are Despite last year's election, Car­ also assured full welfare plan teret had repeatedly refused to benefits including medical care, acknowledge or meet with the IBU. hospitalization and surgical pay­ The case was then turned over to ments for the men and their fam­ the clerk of the appeals court by ilies as is standard in all SIU In­ the NLRB's general counsel, but land Boatmen's Union contracts. action was then postponed for the Other coverage provided under summer by adjournment of the the just-negotiated pact guarantees Carteret handles the dock­ all eligible company boatmen $150 Court. monthly union pensions upon re­ ing and undocking of ships in the tirement. A dues checkoff also Wilmington area. will be put into effect. The boatmen first came under an SlU-lBU agreement seven years ago, when deckhand wages were w«i-nsTO only $1.17 an hour. With the sign­ THBlOa ing of the new contract, deckhand wages will reach $2.42 an hour for ,sti^idgbt-,tli)cie worji, , j, 1 I :l » l'"; r. NLRB Rule Gets Talks Underway Phila. Men Okay Pact On Derricks �CMober» UlS SEAFARERS LOG Par* BevMi 'Beat It! You're Queering My Art!' SHIP CONSTRUCTION—^Repeal of a provision for a six percent West Coast differential and extension of the 55 percent ceiling on Government ship construction subsidies were major elements in special subsidy legislation adopted by Congress to amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. Three key sections do the following: Strike from the 1936 set the six percent differential which favored Pacific Coast shipyards on bids covering certain merchant vessel construction . . . Extend until July 1, 1965 the 55 percent construction subsidy ceiling on new vessel construction and reconstruction and reconditioning of cargo vessels, and grant until that date up to 60 percent construction subsidy on recon­ struction and reconditioning of passenger vessels . . . Provide that repeal of the six percent Pacific Coast shipyard bid differential shall not be effective with respect to contracts such as the bid of National Steel & Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, California, for construction of two freight vessels for American Mail Line. ^ £ SOVIET TRADE—Oil is the major weapon of the Soviet trade offen­ sive in the Free World, according to a report of the National Petroleum Council on the Impact of Oil Exports from the Soviet bloc. "The Communists," states the report, "fully recognize the potential they have for attacking the operations of private oil companies, whose oil concessions the USSR considers to be highly important to the Free World's economic and military strength." A working committee, in a preface to the report, emphasizes that as a result of an absolute state monopoly over its foreign trade, the Soviet bloc is in a unique position to use trade for political purposes. "Politics and trade," asserts the preface, "cannot be considered apart when dealing with the Commu­ nists. The ultimate goal of the Soviet bloc is to extend its political control, destroy freedom and communize the world, and it uses its monopoly of foreign trade to further these objectives. This, in short, is the problem the Free World faces when trading with the Soviet bloc." 4" 4- 4- MOBILE TRADE FAIR—The President has signed a compromise bill aimed at upping US sales abroad of agricultural and industrial products through Mobile Trade Fair displays traveling throughout the world to foreign ports and commercial centers. Among its provisions, the legislation requires the Secretary of Commerce to "encourage and promote" the development and use of mobile trade fairs where the operator or operators of the fairs exclusively use United States-flag vessels and aircraft in the transportation of their exhibits. The Secretary is authorized to provide technical assistance and support as well as financial assistance for the purpose of defraying certain ex­ penses incurred abroad when he determines that such operations pro­ vide an economical and effective means of p'romoting export sales. An appropriation not to exceed $500,000 per fiscal year for each of the three fiscal years during the p'^riod beginning July 1, 1962, and ending June 30, 1965 is authorized. 4> 4' 4> LABOR DEPARTMENT—The US labor force in 1970 may total 85V4 million, according to new projections prepared by the Labor Depart­ ment's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most of the projected increase of 121^ million over the 1960 labor force is foreseen as resulting from the greatly expanding population of working age. Between 1970 and 1975 the labor force will continue to increase substantially and may reach 93 million. Labor force changes during the 1960's will be high­ lighted by the addition of 6 million young workers under 25 years of age—almost half the total increase of 12^ million. About 3V^ million will be adult women and 3 million adult men. For men 65 years and over, the continuation of trends toward earlier rptirement is expected to more than offset their expanding numbers in the population. Be­ tween 1970 and 1975 the pattern of changes will be somewhat different. The number of young workers will rise much less sharply than in the 1960's—about 2 million—but there will be almost 3 million more men workers in ages 25 to 34. 4i 4> 4> FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION—An increase in a sugar rate was approved by the Federal Maritime Commission four months after the steamship line applying for it had gone out of the business. Bull Line had sought the 75 cents per ton rate, or an increase of 16 cents last spring, in order to stay in the trade. The company said frankly it had to have the higher rate in order to be able to afford to carry bagged sugar from Puerto Rico to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Sugar is the major cargo imported from Puerto Rico. In June, Bull said it was closing down its Puerto Rican operation be­ cause the revenue was not sufficient to pay the costs of operations and the company was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars every month. The commission's belated approval of the Bull application means that any company still in the trade now can charge the 75-cent rate in the future. 4i 4' TRAMP FLEET—The American-flag trampship fleet staged the largest increase in September in the last ten years, according to American Maritime Association. Additions Include six modern bulk carriers amounting to 135,000 tons, all of which were built and fi­ nanced by private capital. Also documented during the month were two containerships owned by Sea-Land Service, Inc., and two jumboized ships owned by Seatrain Lines, Inc. If the newly-documented bulk carriers had been built new under the US ship subsidy program. It is estimated this would have cost the Government approximately $20 million. 4" 4" Mi 4' COFFEE IMPORTS—Rep. Herbert C. Bonner (Dem-NC), chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, believes that the mountains of coffee that US armed forces use should be Imported by US-flag ships. He has gotten the Defense Department to use a persuasion approach on coffee importers, from whom the Federal Government annually buys millions of pounds of coffee. Persuasion is preferred since, according to a US spokesman, the Government is "reluctant to interefere in the business management of 'a commercial cpncem with mandatory, di^ctiires." 'The next Step it vfp' t6 the-Importers. ' Comments in the Communist press about gredients in the Soviet friendship formula what might be called the American labor also do not shine so brightly when the phony movement's own "Point Four" aid program label is stripped off and the true contents for our neighbors to the South give eloquent are exposed. testimony these days to the success which Communist China, as well as Soviet Russia, American labor ambassadors and unionists whose agricultural reforms are still in the are having in spikiqg Red efforts to seduce doldrums after years of planning and pro­ Latin America's free trade unions and work­ gramming, still cannot feed and clothe their ers. millions. If they could, they would make It is hard to believe that any labor organ­ it impossible for any of the Iron Curtain izations in South or Central America, or satellites to turn to the US or Canada for beyond, for that matter, is today unaware of necessary bread and feed grains and would the bitter medicine that has b^n foisted on do the supplying themselves. China still an unsuspecting Cuban populace. Obviously, imports huge quantities of Canadian grain the high hopes they held for the pohtical on her own, in fact. and social reform they were promised via a Such programs as have been started by the "working class revolution" was greater than AFL-CIO, the American Institute for Free their political savvy—especially concerning Labor Development, for example, and train­ ing schools which recently graduated their Communist duplicity. first classes of American-trained Latin trade Maritime workers in the US and elsewhere unionists, stand as the major buffer to ward learned this lesson bitterly during the years off the Red pitchmen. These programs have gone by, when the commissars of the CP's waterfront section were so busily engaged in well-earned the tribute of Latin American political affairs instead of legitimate trade labor leaders—^who recognize the help this has meant in fighting Communist infiltration imion business on behalf of the workers they on the one hand and right-wing dictatorship claimed to represent. on the other. Since the lessons of the past are so easily The fact that the Communists have been forgotten, it is not difficult to assume, in the hurt is apparent from their rantings about atmosphere of extreme working class pov­ American labor "imperialists" who do not erty that exists throughout much of Latin imderstand the local issues as well as the America, that the Communists have been commissars. They understand things only too able to make some hay among rebellious well, and are best equipped to fight the prob­ though misinformed groups of workers. lem side by side with other workers. Fortunately, at the same time, AFL-CIO and Successful inroads by Communist agents large segments of the American labor move­ preaching "reform" and practicing Soviet ment recognized this considerable threat and imperialism has been too clearly demonstrat­ have embarked on programs that are undo­ ed in Cuba. The opportunity being pursued ing the damage. It's clear that the best hope of showing with determination and dedication by the American labor movement in South Ameri­ workers in South America and everywhere ca is to build a strong and free trade union­ what free labor can accomplish on its own ism that can effectively withstand both the it is to point to conditions in the US and in bullying and the blandishments of Soviet the Soviet homeland, where strikes are agents, who pose as labor leaders and social frowned upon in the interests of the "work­ reformers, but are still peddling the same ers' state" and such infractions of discipline old snake oil to anyone who looks ready to arfe quickly and cruelly erhshed. I'he in­ buy, • :• ••: i . �Oelobcr, 1M| SEAFARERS tOG Paee Twelve *• ! SHJ Scholar Eyes Medic Role ••0; (The following article is the third in a series on the five 1962 SlU scholarship winners. Further stories mil appear in subsequent issues of the LOG.) "One of the happiest days of my life!" That's how Sharron Kay Berry, who last month entered East Carolina College in Greenville, NC, describes the day she first learned that she had won a $6,000 SIU college scholarship award. Sharron, the daughter of went to Seafarer Gerald Dwyer, and become a laboratory techni­ two to the sons of SIU men and cian. SIU tugboatman Reuben two She recalls that the telegram an­ to the daughters of SIU tug- Berry, a deckhand with-the McAl­ lister Towing Company in Norfolk, received one of the five 1962 SIU scholarships awarded last May. Each scholarship is worth $6,000 and are among the largest awards of their kind. They enable winning candidates to attend the college of their choice in any course of study. Of those awarded in 1962, one men. Sharron is a pretty 17-year-old, who lives in Columbia, NC, with her father and two brothers, Reu­ ben Lindsey, 12, and Kenneth Michael, 9. With the aid of her SIU scholarship, she hopes some­ day to receive a Bachelor of Sci­ ence degree in Medical Technology Prior to college days, Sharron is shown at Columbia High School with her "favorite teacher," Mrs. Madge Van Home, looking over story In SEAFARERS LOG last May announcing 1962 scholarship award to Sharron. By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS More Tips On Car insurance Costs As this department previously reported, competition between stand­ ard-rate auto insurers and rate-deviating mutuals and direct writers, has erupted into a rate war. The standard-rate companies themselves are cutting prices through classification plans and "safe-driver" awards. For many drivers, how much you now pay depends not only on the amount of dividend or discount a company gives, but how it classifies you. If you have a young male driver in the family, or recent accidents or traffic convictions, or other classification problems, nowadays you •especially need to consult well-qualified brokers as well as agents employed by the more usual rate-deviators. A leading insurance authority suggests that in discussing with brokers and agents the rates applying to your situation, these factors should be considered: —Is yours a "compact" car eligible for an extra ten percent discount? (Most insurors define a "compact" as under 200 inches overall length and no more than 125 hp, although some companies vary here too). —Is it used for commuting, and how far? —Is it operated occasionally by a young male? What is his age? Married? Steadily employed? Had driver training in school? Has he taken one of the psychological tests? Is he in the upper portion of his class? —How many convictions or citations have you had? If only one, can you be placed in a company which waives one? How many accidents and how serious? —If there are two cars in your family, do you qualify for the sec­ ond-car discount, or what classifications will give you the lowest cost? You also may want to check on your present insurance, by asking your company how it has you classified and whether it has a meritrating plan or subsidiary which can benefit you on the basis of your record, and also by comparing the rate you pay with quotation from other companies and brokers. Ask also how the company stands on the state of Illinois' listing of each insurer's ratio of lawsuits to premiums. This is published each year in "National Underwriters Magazine," and any broker should have a copy. A company with a ratio over five percent might be one of those slow in settling claims. Incidentally, despite occasional rumors, the leading mutuals and other moderate-cost companies often have moderate ratios, the listing shows. Some merit-rating companies have especially low rates for drivers with excellent records, and may be a choice for families with rela­ tively low road exposure, who drive carefully and keep their cars in good condition. As just one example, while Nationwide Mutual offers some savings from standard rates in .various classifications, its sub­ nouncing the scholarship came dur­ ing a high school chemistry class at Columbia High School and that it completely "broke up" the class. The school is a small one, and her SIU scholarship was the largest ever received by a local student. An Active Student Sharron was an active student In high school, who earned a 93% average during her last three years and was graduated among the top five in her class. She also managed to take "part in many extra-curricu­ lar activities, including the Na­ tional Beta Club, the school news­ paper and annual, the Future Homemakers of America, the 4-H Club and the Debate Club. All the while, however, she realized that high school was only a first step toward her eventual goal. Now finishing her first weeks at college, she's found them some of the busiest of her life, including as they did a week of orientation, the first week of classes and most fearsome of all, the first "big test." After weathering the first tough days with flying colors, Sharron is now looking forward to a happy and busy future at college. She hopes to learn a lot and meet many interesting people. Dad Reuben Berry, who made It all possible by joining the union in the first place, can only add: "It's wonderful. The scholarship has made us all very happy." k On campus at East Carolina College, Greenville, NC, Sharro''. shows off the greenery to visiting dad, SIU tugman Reuben Berry, and brother, Kenneth Michael, 9. The family lives In Columbia, NC. Dr. Weisberger Assists Recovery Of Grid Star CLEVELAND—Ernie Davis of the Cleveland Browns foot­ ball team and former "All-America" halfback with Syracuse in 1961, may be playing pro-ball this season in spite of the fact that he has leukemia. Davis was pronounced fit to secretary-treasurer of the Sallon play ball by Dr. Austin S. Union of the Pacific, and has been Weisberger, professor of medicine at Western Reserve University and an outstanding authority on blood disorders. Dr. Weisberger is the brother of Morris Weisberger, executive vice-president of the SIUNA and sidiary, Nationwide General, can be as much as 35 percent below the parent company in some cases. But you also face the possibility that a series of violations or accidents can raise your rate, so that even though this merit-rating company won't cancel you, you could find yourself paying as much as 200 percent more than with the parent company. Drivers with good safety and traffic records and no special classifi­ cation problems are in position to shop the more-seiective mutual com­ panies and other deviators, and the merit-rating companies. Among large mutuals and direct writers who often give dividends or discounts, at least to the preferred risks, are such traditionally lowcost auto insurers as Factory Mutual, Lumbermen's Mutual, Mutual Service, Government Employees Insurance Company, State Farm Mu­ tual, Federated Mutual, National Farmers, Nation-wide Mutual, Safeco, Allstate, Employers Mutual, American Mutual, Farmers Insurance Exchange, Hardware Mutual, Pennsylvania Threshermen's, and Utica Mutual. ' In addition, there are several specialized or more-regional companies often offering reasonable rates. Among them: Farmers Mutuals of Madison, Wisconsin; Shelby Mutual and State Auto Mutual, with main offices in Columbus, Ohio; Keystone Auto Club Insurance Company (Philadelphia); State Auto Insurance Association of Indianapolis; Motor Club of American Group in New Jersey; Auto Club of Southern California; California Casualty Indemnity Exchange. Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance Company of Des Moines, Iowa, offers substantial savings to non-drinkers. But some of these companies are selective and in no case can any be considered the best buy for your classification or area until you have compared with other companies and with local brokers. Just as one example, in recent years Travellers, an old-line stock company, has provided substantial savings to some drivers through its classifi­ cation and safe-driver plans. Too, the slightly-modified policies offered by many stock companies, plus safe-driver discounts, have brought their rates much closer to those of the mutuals and other rate cutters. Nor is the order of this list significant, nor applicable to all situa­ tions and areas. Factory Mutual long has been one of the lowest-cost companies, if not the lowest, but it also is highly selective. Lumbermen's Mutual not only is among the lower-cost group but often offers addi­ tional savings through classification. At least two rate-cutting subsidi­ aries of stock companies do not use the safe-driver plan, and so may be helpful to drivers with severe road exposures. These are Safeco and Autoplan. If you do buy from a lowcost or merit-rating company, remember that it is more important than ever to avoid accidents, traffic violations and trifling claims. A ticket for speeding or passing a stop sign or red light could cost you more than just the $5 or $10 fine. The large finance companies have their own insurance companies, and many people who finance cars through a dealer also insure through him. You do not have to buy your car insurance from the dealer or finance company. If you do, you forfeit your chance to shop for the lowest rate for your situation and classification. A reliable dealer will not pressure you to buy insurance. (Seafarers or other readers who missed the first part of this series on car insurance can obtain a copy by writing the LOG,) . in the news on several occasions lately. "He (Davis) has responded ex­ tremely well to therapy and medication. As long as he re­ mains in the perfect state of re­ mission, I see no reason why h« cannot play professional football," Dr. Weisberger said, in an Inter­ view with sports writers. Feels Normal A state of remission means that the disease is temporarily arrest­ ed, and one of the characteristics of leukemia is that the person who has it may feel normal physically. No cure is yet known. The disease was first diagnosed after Davis was hospitalized fol­ lowing a work-out with the Col­ lege All-Stars for a game in Chicago wit|i the Green Bay Packers. The diagnosis of leukemia was confirmed by more than a dozen doctors from five different institutions. Getting In Shape Davis, according to the last news reports, will undergo a thorough conditioning program be­ fore joining the club, getting his legs in shape for playing and building up his wind and muscle tone. He has been attending the team's practice sessions as a spectator and has been studying their plays in his spare time. Right now he is only one pound over hia normal playing weight of 212 pounds. Davis .set many college football records while playing halfback with Syracuse. He signed a threeyear contract with the Browns for $65,000, besides receiving a $15,000 bonus. He has been under special care by Dr. Weisberger for some time since the Browna have a sizablci investment in him. Davis was the country's top col­ legiate football player last year. Type Minutes When Possible In order to assure accurate digests of shipboard meetings in the LOG, it is desirable that the reports of shipboard meet­ ings be typed if at all possible. �OctAtx, 1M2 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Thfrteoi t 4D. D. Molter, steward (left), poses for his picture in a clean messhall aboard a clean ship. With him is Jose Blanco, MM. Molter supplied the photos. 100'/. CLEAN SHIP J. F. Otero, OS, who is due to retire soon, gets used to relaxing in the sun. With his SlU pension he'll be able to do it too. The Florida State (Everglades Steam­ ship) is a 19-year-old Liberty converted to haul bulk cement, and runs between Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Port Everglades, Florida. But despite her age and dusty cargo, a recent US Public Health Service inspection won the ship and her SIU crew a perfect 100 percent rating in vessel sani­ tation. The USPHS award, reports Seafarer D. D. Molter, chief steward, was also the first of its kind given by the Public Health in­ spector who covered the ship, who said he was certainly proud to do so, as all hands had earned it. Doing a thorough job on his own, he even had the fans turned off in order to check the blades and found them clean and dust-free. Galley, refrigerated boxes and messhalls were all inspected and found perfect on the basis of the 167-item checklist which USPHS utilizes in checking sanitary stand­ ards aboard ship. The Florida State thus joins a growing list of SIU vessels whose crews have shown that pride in their work and in their profession which is the best advertisement for an American-flag merchant fleet. Ship's delegate Ernesto Borrego (left) talks out on deck with Ernesto Purez, AB. In­ spection found vessel in good shape. in gaiieyi sorno OT rne men wnu imiiuic mo wunnai 7 aboard the Florida State are (l-r) Clyde Woods, NCBj Remberto Duo^ 3rd 4M?ok, and Jack McCranie, chief cook. • 5 ^ Deck gang members (l-r) Tony Domenges, OS; Ernesto Purez, AB, and Manuel Ferriero, OS, with Mason Scott, AB (seated), work in Florida sun, and headgear is vital. Straining a little to watch the birdie are crewmembers Manuel Lopez, Alfred Philips, Tony Domenges, Gscrge Knowels, J. F. Otero and James Botona in the crew messhall. Con­ verted into cement bulk carrier, the Florida State has been on steady run to Puerto Rico. �Face Foorlee* SEAFARMJtS LOO li />! IV/n Top Contracts * P te At Two NY Plants 1^ : l';Ki,'. NEW YORK—New contracts have been put into effect at two area plants by the SIU United Industrial Workers, fol­ lowing an eight-hour strike at one shop and a unanimous strike vote at another. The new agreements at and five days of paid sick leave year. the Milo Machine Company in each Thanks an overwhelming Valley Stream and at Wisor-Smith strike vote to at Wisor-Smith, UIW Company of Brooklyn call for size­ members there gained an immedi­ able wage increases and other Im­ provements covering some 60 work­ ate 10-cent hourly pay boost retro­ active to August 25, plus an addi­ ers at both plants. In the . negotiations at Milo, the tional ten cents hourly guaranteed agreement was reached after UIW for next year. A substantial hike in members voted overwhelmingly to the guaranteed minimum wage at strike if the company continued to the plant is stipulated. This pact balk at the union's proposals and also provides for additional paid then were out on the picketline less holiday and sick leave protection plus a general improvement in than one day. plant working conditions. The pact calls for a general 25 Milo does precision metal work cent-an-hour wage increase during the life of the two-year agree­ for weapons production and Wisorment, with 15 cents payable im­ Smith is engaged in the manufac­ mediately and ten cents more in ture of electronics equipment, pri­ marily for Federal contracts. the second year. Increased vacation provisions to allow for two w&eks off after two years of employment and three weeks after five were also part of the settlement ratified by shop members. Vacation pay wilt also be pro-rated if an employee is laid off or dismissed at any time. The settlement calls for an ad­ ditional paid holiday, employer NEW YORK—^Adding another contributions to the welfare plan company under the union banner, the SIU United Industrial Workers has negotiated a first-time contract with the Astro Lamp Company of Brooklyn. The two-year agreement will give union members at the plant a substantial wage hike, sick leave, seniority rights, a guaranteed mini­ mum wage, complete welfare plan coverage and many other new benefits. An immediate wage increase of WASHINGTON—The National 15 cents for the first year of the Labor Relations Board has upheld contract, with an additional 10 cents a long-standing New York regional to follow at the beginning of the board decision citing "independent second year, is a highlight of the Local 355" and the Salmirs Oil pact. After 90 days' employment, Company for interfering with the the workers will also be entitled efforts of Salmirs employees to join to 40 hours' sick leave. Workers at the plant will be en­ the SIU United Industrial Workers. A "cease and desist" order has titled to a week's paid vacation been handed down against Salmirs after six months of employment, and Local 3-5-5 calling on both to and to two weeks after a year. Astro Lamp is engaged in the stop engaging in unfair labor prac­ tices and trying to restrain the oil production of general lamp fixtures. company's workers in their right UIW rep. Charles Heard to join the UIW or any other legiti­ looks on as Henry Weinmate union. Salmirs was also di­ rected to sever aU ties with Local stein of Astro Lamp signs 355 first UIW contract. New The decision by the labor board pact boosts wages and clearly vindicated the UIW position conditions for all workers and follows on the heels of a simi­ at the Brooklyn lamp plant. lar verdict against another Staten Island Oil company, Fiore Brothers, Local 355 and both concerns were also found guilty of negotiat­ ing "sweetheart contracts," a tra­ ditional practice of the "independ­ ent" and one which led to its ex­ pulsion from the AFL-CIO some time ago. The UIW is now in the process of seeking full representation rights at both companies whose workers were originally organized by the UIW last year. Prior to the latest NLRB deci­ sions, two important contracts had been signed by the UIW in the oil distributing field. First-time agree­ ments have already been reached at the Richmond Burner Company and at Staten Island Petroleum Company (SIPCO). The contracts followed overwhelming rejection by the workers in both plants of UIW Signs First Part At Astro NLRB Raps 'Back-Door' Union Again jnqpresoatatiqn by L9)cai^S*t v «? Navigatfon Problems? Get A Cat Bad weather navigation is some­ thing shared by sea and air voy­ agers alike, so the following anony­ mous memorandum circulated among members of the AFL-CIO Air Line Pilots Association should ring a bell. Written by an unidentified mem­ ber of the ALFA, the latest in navi­ gation "manuals" outlines the fol­ lowing procedure as the "Cat .And Duck Method of Bad Weather Na­ vigation": "First, the pilot puts a live cat on the cockpit floor. Because a cat always remains upright, the cap­ tain merely has to see which way the cat leans to determine if the wings are level. Second, comes the duck which is used for ap­ proaches and landing in soupy weather. Any sensible duck will refuse to fly under instrument con­ ditions. Thus it is only necessary to hurl your duck out of the plane and follow her to the ground. Must Be Clean "Make sure your cat Is clean. Dirty cats will spend all their time washing. Trying to follow a wash­ ing cat usually results in a tight snap-roll followed by an inverted spin and structiu-al wing failure. This is very unsanitary. Old cats are best. Young cats have nine lives but an old cat with only one life left has just as much to lose as you do and therefore will be more dependable. "Avoid cowardly ducks. If the duck discovers you are using the cat to stay level, she will refuse to leave without the cat. Be sure the duck has good eyesight. A nearsighted duck does not realize she has been thrown out and will descend to the ground in a sitting position. This maneuver is diffi­ cult to follow in an airplane. Use land-loving ducks. It is very dis­ couraging to break out of the over­ cast and find yourself on final ap­ proach toward duck blinds, because duck hunters will shoot at anything that flies." Quitting Ship? Notify Union A reminder from SIU 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. 08totar« iMi Baltimore 'Floating Pipeline*^ Idea Rejected By Army Engineers BALTIMORE—A last-minute ruling by the Army Corps of En« gineers has barred Installation of a potentially-dangerous "float­ ing dredge pipeline" at a crucial point of the main ship channel here. The planned pipeline would have crossed Brewerton Angles an important traffic turn in the ship channel between Fort Carroll and the Sparrows Point Channel. Although the dredging firm, which disclosed its plans only hours before they were to be carried out, insisted that the floating pipeline could be dismantled to permit ships to pass, it conceded the time required would average 10 minutes, and might take as long as 15 minutes. The resulting pile-up at the sharp turn in the channel and the dangerous situation which might ensue were obvious causes of complaint and led to the rejection of the plan by the Corps. It said "advance notice of any such proposal would be required to assure that navigation to and from the port of Baltimore would not be unreasonably affected." A dredging firm spokesman had complained that it would cost his company $8,500 a day if a dredge were idle while a submerged pipe was being laid down. The suggestion that "picket boats" be used to warn approaching vessels to slow down and to alert the floating pipeline's crew to prepare to dismantle so that a vessel could pass was also turned down as being too costly. Joe Algina, Safety Director More On Sea-Air Rescue Rules Aside from a vessel's own crew and other nearby ships that may be able to help out, aircraft have for years now proven to be an effective means for assisting ocean-going vessels in distress. Over the years this has saved many lives that otherwise would have been lost in ship dis­ asters or mishaps affecting individual crewmen. However, the reverse is often true—the greatest hope of survival for passengers on a plane that is forced to ditch at sea is the prompt assistance that can come from ships in the area. This value was dramatized in the recent ditching of an airliner loaded with military personnel and their families in the North Atlantic. A loss of many lives was averted by the prompt and efficient rescue procedures used by ships in the vicinity. Such situations are not isolated events. Therefore, knowledge of rescue techniques for an aircraft in distress over a body of water may avoid a major tragedy. Usually when a plane is in trouble it will attempt to communicate with ocean shipping by radio or flashing light, or by radio relay through another vessel or shore station. However, when the aircraft is unable to make direct contact with a ship, it will try a variety of attentiongetting maneuvers to indicate its plight, including circling a ship, cross­ ing the vessel's path at low altitude and, at the same time, by opening and closing the throttle or changing the pitch of its propellers. The ship acknowledges these distress signals by changing course and following the aircraft. If for any reason the ship is unable to fol­ low, it should indicate this by hoisting the international code flag NOVEMBER or by any other signaling means at its disposal. Assuming that the sUp is able to follow, it should observe these pro­ cedures in order to assist the plane in distress: (1) Attempt to contact the aircraft by radiotelephone at 2182 kilo­ cycles. Maintain a radiotelegraphy watch on 500 KCs as the rescue coordinator center controlling the case will try to contact the ship on this frequency via shore radio. Be prepared to send homing signals for the aircraft on 410 KCs. (2) Post extra lookouts and provide black smoke if possible to aid the aircraft in sighting the ship. Prepare to stop the ship or proceed toward the plane according to the circumstances. (3) Have two lifeboats and lifeboat crews ready with two ring buoys, with bouyant heaving lines and fire extinguishers in each boat. (4) Prepare the ship's hospital to receive injured persons and have medicine chest, stretchers, blankets, hot drinks and food ready. (5) Rig Jacobs' ladders in addition to rigging cargo net or rope mail sling on lee side amidships by cargo boom, to be used to pull up ex­ hausted survivors. Injured persons should be left in the lifeboat to be hoisted aboard with it. (6) If the ship is in contact with the aircraft, it should be prepared to give information on weather and sea conditions, including wind di­ rection and force, and the height direction, and length of primary and secondary swell systems. If conditions permit and the pilot selects a ditch heading in sufficient time, lay a foam path along the ditching course. (7) Where a ship is in communication with the pilot by the time he is sighted, it should set a course parallel to the ditch heading the pilot has chosen. If not in communication by the time the plane is sighted and you do not know the ditch heading, set a course parallel to the main swell system and into the wind component, if any. (8) Those on board ship should use a life-raft or buoyant apparatus in the water as a landing platform at the Jacobs' ladder. Try to recover those survivors in the water or clinging to wreckage before pulling out those in life-rafts. (9) Keep the rescue coordination center advised by radio, before and after the ditching. These rules apply to all vessels which are called upon to assist air­ craft in an emergency and, of course, situations will vary. But every Seafarer should be as familiar with these procedures as with those on helicopter rescue of sick or injured seamen that were discussed in this column previously (LOG, July, 1961). Many lives may depend on such knowledge in time of need. (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department pnd can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.)'; ' 11 �O0fobcr, im SEAFARERS LOG ci»nd CANNERY WORKER Must Be A Scallop Dinner Scene at recent Scallop Festival spearheaded by SlU-affiliated New Bedford Fishermen's Union pictures Mayor Ed­ ward F. Harrington of New Bedford (center) assisting com­ mitteemen Austin Skinner (left) and John Burt in awarding door prize. Three-day event served scallops to over 26,000 diners. US Tightens Insurance Rule On Fishing Boats Skin Game Has New Clothes Pare Fifteen Air Force Clamps Down, Opens Drive On Smoking WASHINGTON—The Air Force Surgeon General's office has taken the first direct action by any US Government WASHINGTON—Modem civili­ zation with all Its complications agency to curtail cigarette smoking. It has ordered Air Force seems to be taking hold among the new nations of Africa In a hurry, hospitals and clinics to stop overwhelming evidence of many and some Seafarers majr already distributing free cigarettes to medical research teams working have fallen victims to the latest patients and has ordered that independently on a world-wide gimmick. cigarettes no longer be Included in basis." "• ~ -S'According to the International packaged lunches prepared for Labor Press Association, the pub­ service personnel on long flights. lisher of the "Kansas City Labor The directive, issued by Major Beacon" received an appealing let­ General R. L. Bohannon, deputy ter from a Delly Thompson in AF Surgeon General, stressed that Lagos, Nigeria, offering to swap the "ever-increasing evidence" of African items such as carvings and a link between cigarette smoking, tiger skins for clothing, etc. Thomp­ cancer and certain other diseases son sought to have the offer pub­ could no longer be Ignored. lished In the paper. The US Public Health Service (Ed. note: The follomng ac­ Maybe It was the tiger skins that has for years argued that there is count is another in a series which aroused suspicions but, in any case, evidence of a link between will appear in the LOG on Sea' a check with the US cultural affairs cigarette smoking and certain farers who serve as ship or de­ officer in Lagos revealed that simi­ diseases. In March, the British lar schemes had been tried "and Royal College of Physicians re­ partment delegates. Future issues many Americans have been duped." ported that "cigarette smoking is a will carry interviews jrom other SIU vessels.) Seafarers would thus be well-ad­ cause of lung cancer." While serving as steward depart­ vised to check in advance on any In May, President Kennedy such offers or requests from over­ stated he would take a personal ment delegate aboard the Katherine (Bull), Hector de Jesus found seas. Interest In smoking and cancer that departmental beefs on hours studies. He later endorsed the ap­ and time off were negligible while pointment of a 12-man board of shipboard comments on meal quan­ inquiry. tities were the main issue. The toughly-worded Air Force "The crew kept telling us that directive says. In part; the variety of food for meals and "The ever-Increasing evidence the stores were not up to Union linking cigarette smoking with standards. Consequently, when lung cancer, pulmonary diseases, we reached San Juan the SIU cardiovascular diseases, etc., can patrolman was able to square no longer be Ignored." things away with the company," he "To do 80 Is to repudiate the explained. "We knew we stood on solid ground with our contract and that SAN FRANCISCO—Minor dam­ was all that was age was reported from a collision needed. The dis­ between the SlU-manned super­ cussion during tanker Titan (Bull) and the Co­ the voyage made lombian freighter Rio Magdalena matters very near here September 29. Despite clear," he added. the damage, there were no reports De Jesus, 38, A "Buck Rogerg"-type crashof casualties. believes that Both ships proceeded to port rescue vehicle which skims over every Seafarer under their own power with Coast swamps and shallow water at 70 should accept the Guard escort vessels alongside. miles per hour will be adopted ex­ De Jesus responslThe pre-dawn crash occurred about perimentally by New York's Idle20 miles south of the Golden Gate wild Airport, beginning in about a bllities of delegate even though he admits that at first "It was sort In a fog described as "so thick year. you couldn't see your shoelaces." Called a ground effect machine, of rough lining things up." "One thing Is for sure," he The Titan reported the mishap the flve-seater will ride on a footadds, "when you are a delegate at 4:50 AM and said the bows of thick cushion of air created by a the two ships were locked together. slx-and-a-half-foot horizontal fan you get to hear your shipmates' Some members of the Colombian driven by a a50-horsepower engine. feelings about all kinds of matters ship's crew had manned lifeboats, Purpose of the craft is speedier and you know that they Just aren't but the order to abandon ship was rescue of passefigers from downed blowing off steam—they expect never given. Damage reports Indi­ aircraft In the 4,900-acre airport action." Currentlji' sailing aboard the cated two holes punched In the area, much of it surrounded by Mobile (Sea-Land), de Jesus, a bow of the SIU vessel below the swampland. widower, admits a preference for waterllne, matched by a 20-by-20The Port Authority now depends tlie Puerto Rico Island run so foot gash In the starboard side on boats and helicopters of the that he can be home more often to of the Rio Magdalena. Coast Guard and local police and care for his three children, aged The Titan was hauling a cargo fire departments to respond to 12, 13 and 14, at home In Brook­ of gasoline from Baytown, Texas, crashes In the area. lyn. for delivery to Los Angeles and The craft will measure 27 feet De Jesus began sailing aboard Richmond and was completing her long, 14 feet wide and 11 high, and SlU-contracted vessels In 1947 first trip Into the bay from Mobile. will weigh 5,600 pounds. Forward after a few years on other ships. Her forpeak tank was flooded and motion will be powered by a fan "The SIU contract terms make she was stopped dead In the water linked to a separate engine. your Job as delegate fairly smooth, for about three hours. The machine Is to be built by because you know you're secure Rio Magdalena was heading Bell Aerosystems Company of Buf­ with its provisions. And not only south for Los Angeles at the time. falo. Craft of this type are under does It assist a delegate, but every She was also reported taking water development here and abroad for SIU member who Is covered un­ for a while In her #3 hold. She a variety of civilian and military der the contract. This helps to went Into a Richmond shipyard for purposes. keep beefs at a minimum." repairs. •- Colombian, Titan Hit Outside SF WASHINGTON—A new US ruling on marine insurance will give added protection to American fishermen and fish­ ing vessel owners. New requirements by the surer who writes a policy on a USDepartment of the Interior alded vessel must open Its books require foreign Insurers who for "reasonable" Inspection. The new rules apply to personal issue policies on vessels In and Indemnity policies, as well as which the Government has an In­ terest to establish trust funds In hull coverage. US fishing vessel operators who US dollars to guarantee paying provide their own iisurance off In case of loss or damage. through pools will be able to con­ Low-Interest US Government tinue that practice upon showing loan policies have encouraged the Interior Department their abil­ gome US-flag vessel construction ity to pay claims. and since the loans require insur­ ance to be carried, vessel owners have sought out low-cost foreign indemnity and protection groups. However, there have been some irregularities and attempts to de­ fault on payment, with the result that the Federal Government is clamping down. Now, these foreign insurers must establish trust funds NEWPORT NEWS—The ques­ to guarantee their being able to tion of oysters vs. industry Is now live up to their obligations. before the James River Study Further, the Department's or­ Commission, which Is considering der requires that any foreign in­ plans to have the 85-mlle James River from Hampton Roads to Richmond deepened to accom­ modate larger ships. Richmond Interests favor the project because they feel that it would act as an Incentive for In­ SAN PEDRO—Plans for a re­ dustrial settlement and as a poten­ peat of the Port of Los Angeles tial force for drawing more waterFishermen's Fiesta, which recently borne commerce to Virginia. But the project Is meeting with attracted many SIUNA fishermen from this area, will be discussed opposition from the area's fish­ in December when the fiesta's eries Industry, which fears that any channel deepening will disrupt board of directors meets. the delicate balance of nature that The gala 1962 event, which re­ portedly attracted 250,000 specta­ has made the lower James River tors during Its three-day span oyster beds one of the finest oysterover the Labor Day weekend, re­ spawning areas In the world. The Peninsula Port and In­ vived a local tradition after a flvedustrial Authority of Newport year recess. Among this year's attractions News and Hampton Roads also were beautifully-decorated fishing feels that the project would ad­ boats, folk dancers In native cos­ versely affect the region's seafood Industry. The study commission Is tume and a boat parade. conducting hearings on the project In Richmond and Hopewell, an­ other James River port, before reporting to the Virginia General Assembly. —San Franoiaco Call—BuUeUn Photo A channel deepening program SlU-manned Titan Is pictured after col llslon with Colombian freighter on way would enable more of today's deepInto San Francisco* She had two holes punched In her bow, but no Injuries were reported draft bulk carriers to run right into the, roads^, :, u .... ; ' ii i ^046rew»,slhe supertenker mode it into'pe*t>tinder*her own power several hour* after mishap. Oyster Men Nix Channel Pedro Sets Return Fete Sea 'fi Air Crash Boat Hears Trial �ragt SlxfMm 8om« Of Thtt Leiter Men Ostobcr, IHt SEAfARERS LOO SEAfAKERS IN DRY DOCK The following U the latest available list of Seafarers in hospitals around the country: VSPtU BOEPTTAL SAVANNAH. GEOBOIA J. Epperton BM Pajm* Auslln Hannlnfl H. B. SUva Robert McNay Guy Wtaltehurat John MitcheU 1 (! s- VSPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON. MASS. Charlea Berkeley Ralph Hendall S. Kosteean Charles Robinson '•:i V USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Edward Boyd Starling Lee Isbam Beard Roscoe Milton Charles Burns Hiram Payne John Bennett Thomas Riley Jacob Baukelaar John Rewia Matthew Dunlavy Alvie Rushing Arthur Slgler Lee Frazler Benjamin Freeman HarahaU Smith Hebert Jaokion Joel Thomaa I? II' ' 1 . Itf-.. ' If; ,¥?£.• With four young tons in tow, Seafarer Alexander Leiter wai able to corral three of them for a photo at SlU head­ quarters during recent family visit. Pictured (l-r) are Leiter with John, 5; Carl, 4, and Eric, 2%. Mrs. Leiter was off-camera with Kurt, 1. Leiter fast shipped on the Seatroln Georgia and lives at Pine Beach, NJ. SXJJ MSDXCAIa hi Joseph B. Lofue, MD. Medical Director llii!r iii li'' Ifej Are You Neglecting Your Health? USPHS HOSPITAL ' NORFOLK. VIRGINIA Horace Conway Talmadge Johnion Joseph Fltzpatrlck Ferlton Mears Carl Francum John Perkln Charles Gulnn. Jr. Kenneth WeUa Rosco Hampton USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS^ LOUISIANA Warren Alderman Millard Lindsey Samuel Bailey Dawaon Lynam Horace Beavera Kenneth MacKenxle Alton BeU John Manuel John Brady William Mason Roderick Brooke Norman McDaniel James McGuffey Vernon Brown VlrgU Leo Coaah Clarenae McMuUea Gerald CoU Sr. Robert McNatt Enrlgue Connor Demetrlos Miofaa HltcheU Mobley Thomas Dalley Thurston Dingier Rosindo Mora Charles Dowllng Lito MoraUes WiUiam Doyle J. D. C. Moser Sye EllU James Noonan Harry Rmmett Harry Peek. Jr. Frederick Epeom Harry Peeler Julio Gale Clarence Reese Eugene Gallaspy N. Reznlchenke James Gllsson Calvin Roma Nathan Goldflnger Matthew Rosate John Guldry Aubry Sargent Charlea Hickok WiUam Soarlett Chester HolU Leonard Shaw Sidney Irby Ralph Shrotzky Leonard Kay Charles Slater WUliam Kennedy Jay Steele Elwood Klttrell Gerald L. Thaxton Tinerman Lee William Turner Joseph Vanacor Leonard Lelonak Percy Llbby Charlea Welborn Koa Llm Robert Wllkerson Gerald Lima Eugene WiUlama Gerhard Linden Jacob Zimmer One of the most vital benefits of the Seafarers Welfare Plan Is the provision of up-to-date clinics for a thorough physical examination. If you or your family are not participating in this program, you are neglecting one of the most important things in life—^"your health." These periodic physical examinations have become recognized as an essential factor in preventive medicine and are an Invaluable aid in early detection of incipient disease. When many conditions have de­ veloped to the symptomatic stage, the optimum time for cure has USPHS HOSPITAL oftentimes slipped by. FORT WORTH, TEXAS The Armed Forces have, for years, recognized the value of such Gerald Algernon Thomas Lehay Benjamlng Delbler Arthur Madsen examinations as an essential part ofAbe Gordon Max Olson the program for maintaining per­ public must be made more aware Joseph wmie Voung Gross San/ord Kemp Bozo Zelenclo sonnel in adequate physical condi­ of the signs of cancer. tion. Many corporations today of­ SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR Older age normally brings on STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK fer periodic examination to their overweight and hypertension. As a Hennlng Bjork Thomaa Isakaen personnel, either as a voluntary benefit, or, as a requirement, espe- person grows older, there Is a grad­ Alberto Gutlerrei William Kenny USPHS HOSPITAL cialiy for their key employees. ual lessening of physical activity MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE Many union groups are more and and metabolic processes. There is Joseph Berger more providing for physical check­ an inclination to eat more, gain VA HOSPITAL ups as a part of fringe benefits for weight, become overweight, and as­ WEST ROXBURY, MASS. sociated conditions such as hyper­ their members. tension, cardiac disease, arterios­ Raymond Araenault There are however, many In­ clerosis and gall bladder disease, VA HOSPITAL dividuals, for reasons of their own, to name a few, develop. KERRVILLE. TEXAS who do not concern themselves WUlard Cahm These examinations are Just as with regular physical examinations. PINE CREST HAVEN important for Seafarers' children. COVINGTON. LOUISIANA * * * Many congenital defects, if discov­ Frank Martin There has been a marked in­ ered in early life, may be corrected. crease in life expectancy in the last If neglected until later In life, per­ US SOLDIERS HOME WASHINGTON, DC 50 years, so that many who would manent damage may occur. Many WUliam Thompson have died at a younger age, are diseases or conditions, if detected USPHS HOSPITAL now getting into an older age early, offer more hope of proper BALTIMORE, MARYLAND bracket. This has been accom­ correction as the child grows older. Harry Acosta James McDonald plished mainly through control of Russell Aldrlch George McKnew A few of the more common con­ James Beck Robert Machert the infectious diseases. Gordon Bowder Frank Nappl ditions are flat feet, club foot, Older age brings its diseases too. knock knees, bow legs and various Donald Brooks Daniel PlcclreUl Charles Crockett CUbert Pitcher Numbered among these are the postural defects. Strabismus (cross Edward Denchy Ray Rayfield cardiac conditions, arteriosclerosis, eyes) must be corrected early If the Eugene Graves James Shipley Samuel Soloman Richard Hake hypertension, diabetes and many vision is to be saved. Juvenile Charles Joseph Taylor HaU geriatric conditions, and especi­ diabetes and rheumatic heart dis­ Everrett Hodges Ernest Trader Kolth Hubbard Thomas Walston ally cancer. ease should be controlled as early Walter Hudson Clyde Ward Joseph Wllaszak Many of these conditions will be as the condition develops. Others William Lang readily recognized by a careful Just as important can be detected WILSON STATE HOSPITAL physical examination. Others, es­ by early, thorough physical exam­ MOUNT MOUNT WILSON. MARYLAND pecially cancer, where early detec­ ination. George Lesnansky Jfunes SWoboda Jobe Mullen tion is the difference between So, for important health protec­ death and cure, requires the com­ tion, everyone in the family should SPRINGFIELD STATE HOSPITAL SYKESVILLE, MAHYI.AND bined effort of the public, the me­ obtain periodic physical examina­ dical and dental profession and tions. For, through these examina­ Horace LedweU UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL their associated services. It has tions, it is possible to detect con­ BALTIMORE, MARYLAND been estimated that modern meth­ ditions at a sufficiently early stage ods of treatment for cancer saved for proper treatment, prevention or Charles Adams MARYLAND GENERAL HOSPITAL 150,000 persons last year; that cure. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND more may be saved with earlier Charles Berlck Complete physical examinations recognition of the signs of cancer. cannot be made rapidly. They VA HOSPITAL OB the other hand, it Is estimated should be done when the patient BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Qiat new cases are diagnosed at the and the doctor are not in a hurry. Donald Eyestona rate d 450,000 a year, and, that at Remember, the life you save will JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER aH time*, some 700,000 persona are be your own. JERSEY CITY. NEW JERSEY ^ «nd» treatment for cancer. It is wmia Walker (Comments and suggestions are Mtfmated that if the trend is unUSPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. titedud, 40 million persons now invited by this department and wfU develop cancer and 20 can be submitted to this column Chalmers Anderson Albert Cantor Arthor Richard Cavanaugh i of thm wiU (lit of it. Th^ in care of the SEAFARERS LOCfJ Paul Harry Bauai Franklin MalObiti i Charles Hlppard Melvin Grant Francis Keelen Frank Lambert James McCauley Blilton Reeves George Richardson PhUUp Rogers Lloyd Thomas USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Cornel AmeUnckx George Crabtreo John Andringa WlUlam Datzko Conway Beard Richard Donaldson Ed Bonefont F. Escandell Arthur Campbell Charles Fertal James Case, Jr. George Goullmis Ventura Colas Wilfred Grant WiUiam Hataway MUual Houland George John John Kekis John Kennedy Bernard Landos William Logan Joe Luburich John Malvivlnl Cornelius Meher Uldarlco Merjudlo Grecorio Ocaslo Stanley Ostrom George Pllaras Kaslmlr Puchalskl Jan Rani James Rlst Emeterlo Rivera James Robinson Howard Rode P. Rodrlgiiez Arthur Rummel Anthony Scarturo John Schaller James Shiber B. Skorobogaty Edward Taylor John Ulls Robert Walker Wltold Wleromlen James Williams WUUam WlUiams Physical fxoms— All SlU Climes August, 1962 Port BolHmoro Houston Mobllo Now Orloani Now York Soomon 316 407 Philadolphta •••••• ***** 42 WIvos Chlldron TOTAL 12 30 131 16 19 176 12 89 24 9 31 356 36 34 477 4 9 55 m TOTAL 89 147 1284 SlU Blood Bank Inventory September, 1962 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baitimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTAL Previous Balance 7 86^ 65 60 15 42 0 17 27^ 42^ 4 0 15 846Vk Pints Pints Credited Used 0 a 82 23 0 18 5^ 1 0 / 0 4 4 0 0 0 17 8 0 29 VA 1 0 8 8 0 0 58 97 TOTAL ON HAND 5 45V6 47 OVA 15 42 8 0 85^ 18 8 9 15 807VI SlU Welfare, Vacation Plans Cash Benefits Paid — August, 1962 Hospital Benefits (Welfare).... Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare)... JVlaternity Benefits (Welfare)... Dependents Benefits (Welfare) .. Optical Benefits (Welfare) Outpatient Benefits (Welfare) .. Summary (Welfare) Vacation Benefits TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD.... CLAIMS 5,601 12 314 28 533 343 6,257 AMOUNT PAID $ 10,509.36 36,761.50 47,128.00 5,682.39 62,844.54 3,813.91 62,035.00 13,089 $228,774.70 1,420 $242,952,28 14,509 $471,726.98 In the hospital? (rill SID Hill immediately! . 't {• �SEAFARERS LOG IMelMr, IMS lPac« SeTenfeea « Final Sill Death Payment Recalls Valchem Crash The final $4,000 SIU death benefit resulting from the March 26, 1959, collision of the SlU-manned tanker Valchem and the liner Santa Rosa was recently paid in the death of Joseph A. Mora, wiper, one of three Seafarers killed as a result of the crash off Atlantic City, NJ. The SIU welfare payment had been delayed pending the appointment of his widow, Jennie Mora, as administratrix of the estate, Mora's body was never recovered after the col­ lision in which the Santa Rosa slammed into the port side of the Valchem at about 21 knots, cut­ ting her nearly in two. Two other Seafarers, Charles S. Butler and Ismael J, Romero, both in the engine dpeartment, died in the crash which occurred 22 miieS off Atlantic City. Twenty-one crewmen were injured and the Valchem was damaged so badly she was not repaired. Mora Payment of the Mora benefit closes the book on the death claims arising from the Valchem crash. Mora was 48 and had joined the SIU in 1944. In addition to three SIU men on the tanker, an engineer lost his life in the crash, which was caused principally by ". . . failure of both vessels to slow to a moderate speed when conditions of re­ duced visibility and fog were encountered," according to Coast Guard findings after an investigation. Joseph Volpian, Social Security Director Needs Of The Jobless Go Unchecked Two labor-backed bills—equal pay for women and extended unem­ ployment compensation—died with the adjournment of Congress de­ spite last-minute efforts to beat the clock through legislative short­ cuts. When it became evident that the House-passed equal pay bill was not going to be considered by the Senate Labor Committee, sup­ porters got the Senate to adopt a modified version of the equal pay bill as an amendment to an imrelated House bill. But the plan ran into a snag in the House. While it is usually routine for differing versions of House and Senate bills to be sent to conference, a single objection in the House is enough to route the legislation through the Rules Committee, which can either pigeonhole the measure or recommend that it be sent to conference. One member of the House objected to the con­ ference. The bill went to the Rules Committee, which had Just held Its last meeting of the session. And there the measure died. A similar effort was made to revive the temporary imemployment compensation program through an4 amendment to a House bill deal­ • More than three out of every ing with consolidation of pension five are men, only slightly less than trust funds. Although the TUC the proportion of men in the total program had expired last spring, US work force. there was still enough money • Almost two out of three are which had been raised through an between 25 and 54 years old. Increase in payroll taxes to per­ • Nearly two-thirds are the pri­ mit the program to be revived mary or sole wage earners of theh until the 88th Congress convenes households. in January, An nmendment to • About one out of four are that effect was adopted by the wives, many of whom, when work­ Senate, but was left pending on ing, had been contributing muchthe Senate calendar at adjourn­ needed support to their house­ ment. holds. The failure of Congress to sup­ • Only one out of 10 are un­ port repeated requests for a tem­ married sons, daughters or other porary extension of unemployment relatives of the family heads. compensation is denying 3,500 • Only about one in seven is breadwinners a day their jobless over 65 and only a tiny fraction of benefit. Many of these workers these had any other pension ex­ are being thrown on welfare and cept Social Security. relief, as this is the end-result of • They live in nearly every tuch neglect. state of the union, but are con­ Last April 1 was the cutoff date centrated in the depressed areas, for the extra 13-week temporary communities with chronic high extended benefits. Since that time imemployment, an estimated 600,000 jobless have • Over half of them formerly lost their checks. Best estimates are that this group will be swelled worked in manufacturing. What becomes of these families by another 100,000 every month when they run out of jobless pay? at least until next Spring. Organized iabor, as weil as the The evidence shows that most of Administration, has been seeking them have to go on public wel­ another 13-week extension of TUC. fare, obtain charity from private Empioyer organizations are strong­ agencies, move in with relatives, ly opposing it in fear that they or drasticaliy tighten their belts miglit have to pay an extra one- if, luckiiy, other membei*s of the tenth of one per cent on the family are still working. This is unemployment tax to cover the hardly the kind of situation which can be allowed to continue when cost. Nelson Cruikshank, AFL-CIO Congress comes back in January. social security director, recently (Comments and suggestions are made these points in testimony invited by this department and before the House Ways and Means can he submitted to this column i Committee: in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) SIU Outpatient Benefit Tips $600,000 In First Year Just a year old, the SIU sickness and accident benefits program has paid out almost $600,000 to Seafarers who were never able to receive any type of benefits before. The S&A program, covering outpatients not receiving maintenance and ciure pay­ ments or any other assistance, was inaugurated in October, a maximum of 39 weeks have been 1961, to handle claims for off- paid out since then at an average the-job illness and injuries, and of $50,000 per month. The actual total of payments was the first of its kind instituted among unlicensed personnel. Bene­ through the end of September was fits at the rate of $56 per week for reported as $589,708. Since its inception, the S&A program has been designed to Greetings apply to Seafarers on outpatient status, a group not previously covered by any other SIU welfare benefit. The $56 weekly maximum BALTIMORE — The centralized amounts to $8 per day, the same vaccination program for Seafarers as the full rate paid to SIU hospi­ at SIU clinics was extended to tal in-patients by the Welfare Plan or by the shipowners as this port last month. It was previ­ ously in effect at the clinics in New maintenance and cure. Under the terms of the S&A Orleans and New York. Seafarer James E. Marriner was benefit, however, payments cannot be made at the $56 rate for more the first to utilize the new immu­ than 39 weeks in any consecutive nization service here, and was one combination of in-and outpatient of 27 crewmembers off the Alcoa time. Thus, a Seafarer in the Pointer to take the necessary vac­ hospital for ten weeks and receiv­ cination series at the same time. ing $56 during that period, quali­ Marriner is a messman, 27 years old, from Ports­ fies for up to 29 weeks of addi­ mouth, Va. He tional benefits if he remains out has shipped with of the hospital on outpatient status the SIU for the for that amount of time. past three years. Seafarers applying for the out­ A regular visitor to the SIU The idea of a patient benefit are reminded that centralized v a chall In Chicago, oldtimer they should bring a USPHS cine program to Vie Gustafson chats with medical abstract certifying the cover all neces­ Port Agent Scotty Aubusnature of their disability when­ sary immuniza­ ever they apply. This document is son. Gustafson, who'll be tions for Seafar­ Morriner essential for the processing of any 75 in January, retired in ers was intro­ claims. The normal seatime rule 1959 after sailing in the this summer to do away on eligibility for benefits also duced with the problems involved in get­ black gang since 1941. He applies. Applications at head­ ting a shot series renewed or com­ spends his summers in Chi­ quarters and in the outports are pleted. Seafarer can take any cago and winters down handled in the same manner as or ail ofAthe inoculations involved vacation benefits. South in the sunshine. at his leisure before shipping out or as part of a regular physical examination. The clinics keep a permanent record of all "shots" given in the event other records are lost or misplaced. The following inoculation peri­ ods are recommended: Smallpox — Once every three years. Another four Seafarers were added to the roster of SIU Tetanus toxoid—Second dose to veterans who are the recipients of $150 monthly pensions, follow the first within 3-6 weeks. making a total of 63 oldtimers who have become eligible for After a year, a third. Booster each four years. payments this year. Typhoid, Para - typhoid — Three before retiring was the Orion The new crop of£ pe pensioners doses spaced 7-28 days apart. Includes: Furman H. Haynes, Comet (Colonial Shipping), which Booster every three years. 66; Thomas L. Bowers 62; John he paid off in July of this year. Polio—Series of four injections, D. Lewis, 65, and Fred Frederik- He now makes his home in Knox- the second seven weeks after the ville, Tenn. son, 65. first and the third seven months Shipping with the SIU since following the second. Final injec­ 1942, Brother Bowers sailed in tion a year after the third. the steward department aboard Yellow fever—Once every six deep-sea vessels for a period of years. 20 years. A native of Cardiff, Tenn., Cholera—Two doses 7-10 days he paid off his last ship, the Beth- apart. Renew each six months. fior (Ore Navigation), In July of Typhus—two doses, seven to 10 this year. He now lives with his days apart. Booster at any time wife. Myrtle, in Houston, Texas. during the next six years if ex­ Brother Lewis was a member posed. of the steward department, and be­ Plague—Two doses seven to 10 Bowers Haynes fore his retirement had sailed for days apart. Booster after six A native Tennessean, Brother 48 years on deep-sea vessels. Born months. Haynes joined the SIU in New in Massachussets, he joined the SIU Orleans in 1948 and shipped in the at New York in 1939, and last sailed engine department. His last ship aboard the Orion Hunter (Colonial) in December, 1961. He now makes his residence in New York City. A member of the union for 15 years, BroUier Frederikson joined the Union at New Orleans in 1947. He sailed in the deck department and paid off his last ship, the Seatrain Louisiana, this past July. A native of Denmark, he now makes his residence in Hoboken, NJ. He has a married daughter who lives Frederikson Lewis in Santiago, Chile. Bait. Clinic Begins New 'Shot' Plan Four More SIU Veterans Retire On Union Pension �- :*'• ft? i I ! !K •) -v -V" rm»«gkttgm SEAFARERS LOG •v? I." »i' I J; -J l^'i m s''f' ' •• lii:l ii W' 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 $7,000 in maternity benefits and a maturity value of $875 in bonds: Stanley John Barras, Jr., born bora September 15, 1962, to Sea­ Delaware P. Eldemire, Tampa, September 2, 1962, to Seafarer and farer and Mrs. Antoine Caragior­ Fla. Mrs. Stanley J. Barras, Slidell, La. gio, New Orleans, La. 4 4 4 Troekey Marie Lanier, born 4 4 4 t, 3^ t, Kathleen Bischoff, born October July 29, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Marshall Cooper, bom Au­ gust 28, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 8, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Clyde H. Lanier, New Orleans, La. Marshall Cooper, Robertsdale, Ala. Guentber F. Bischoff, Levittown, 4 4 4 Kim Elaine Day, bora Septem­ NJ. S. t. ber 12, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. John H. Edlund, bora September 4 4 4 William Futterman, born July Alfready Day, Mobile, Ala. 3, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. John 11, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. H. Edlund, Mobile, Ala. 4 4 4 Judith Tremper, born August 2, Irving Futterman, San Pablo, it i> it 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ben­ Margaret Spiers, born August 7, Calif. jamin L. Tremper, Baltimore, Md. 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Token 4 4 4 Todwiga E. Kullkowskl, born H. Spiers, Columbia, Miss. 4 4 4 Henry Chan Hong, born Septem­ September 24, 1962, to Seafarer 4 Kenneth Rea Sanderson III, bora and Mrs. Bronislaw Kulikowski, ber 16, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Tom Hong, San Francisco, Calif. August 28, 1962, to Seafarer and Brooklyn, .NY. Mrs. Kenneth Rea Sanderson, 4 4 4 4 4 4 William H. Goodwin, born Au­ Loretta K. McGowan, bora Au­ Houston, Texas. gust 17, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. gust 12, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 4" 4" 4" Charlette Williams, bora August Robert N. Godwin, San Pablo, Blanton L. McGowan, Humble, Texas. 9, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jesse Calif. P. Williams, New Orleans, La. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Susanne Jensen, born Septem­ Leo Gallagher, born August 13, 4. i i Jennifer Maytum, born Septem­ ber 19, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Gallagher, Philadelphia, Penna. ber 4, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Erik Jensen, Brooklyn, NY. John F. Maytum, Providence, RI. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Edwin David Sllvestrl, born Paul Dana Raymond, born Sep­ 3^ S. t. Paula R. GuUett, born Septem­ September 23, 1962, to Seafarer tember 16, 1962, to Seafarer and ber 1, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. and Mrs. Angel R. Silvestri, Mrs. Allen P. Raymond, Baltimore, Brooklyn, NY. Md. Clifton Gullett, Mobile, Ala. S» 4" 4- 4 4 4 Lori Ann Benenate, born Au­ Michelle O'Krogly, bora August 31, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Al­ gust 20, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Nathan Benenate, New Orleans, fred H. G'Krogly, Plains, Pa. La. t- 3> tMatilde Jimenez, born Septem4 4 4 Sharon Louise Robinson, born be 30, 1662, to Seafarer and Mrs. September 10, 1962, to Seafarer William Jimenez, Brooklyn, NY. and Mrs. Harry C. Robinson, Mo­ 4 4-4. Yvonne Dickinson, born August bile, Ala. 19, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 4 4 4 Joseph and Angela Todora, born James H. Dickinson, Mobile, Ala. August 12, 1962, to Seafarer and 4 4* 4' Linda Sue Brunelli, born Octo­ Mrs. Charles Todora, Dallas, ber 9, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Texas. Virgil Brunelli, Texas City Texas. 4 4 4 David Eldemire, born September 4 4 4 Marie Antoinette Caragiorgio, 27, 1962, tor Seafarer and Mrs. STEEL EXECUTIVE CIsthmian), June 17—Chairman, R. J. Grant; Sec­ retary, C. R. Wood. Ship'a delegate reported one brother hospitalized in Bremerhaven. Chief engineer has agreed to order new washing machine as old one is beyond repair. $12.60 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in all de­ partments regarding seaway clarifi­ cation. Crew firmly supports SIU stand in Robin Line. Vote of thanks to steward department for an excel­ lent performance in bandUng its duties. Suggestion made to have elec­ tricians occupy cadet's foc'sle as pres­ ent location doesn't afford much room. PENN EXPORTER (Penn), June 24 —Chairman, C. James; Secretary, F. Reed. Two men hospitalized and re­ turned to States. $8.42 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Members aboard voted to protest certain policies of the steward. HERCULES VICTORY (Hercules), June 3—Chairman, Franklin C. Snow; Secretary, F. B. Neely. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Crew asked to take better care of the washing machine. Vote of thanks to the baker and the entire steward de­ partment. July 15—Chairman, Joe Salde; Sec­ retary, F. B, Neely. $10 in ship's fund. A few beefs in deck depart­ ment will be turned over to the pa­ trolman. Crew asked to keep wash room clean. Article written by the •bosun approved by the crew and will be sent to headquarters. ERNA ELIZABETH (Albatross), July 15—Chairman, John Little, Jr.; Sec­ retary, Samuel Doyle. James R. Prestwood was elected ship's dele­ gate. $15.55 in ship's fund. Disputed overtime will be taken up with board­ ing partolman. Vote of thanks given to the steward department. ROBIN HOOD (Robin Line), June 24 —Chairman, W. Wallace; Secretary. R, Sadowskl. Ship's delegate checked with captain regarding awning back aft, which will be taken care of as J.f^ • '' soon as possible. $33.78 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Andrew Plckur elected ship's delegate and will also act as treasurer. Crew asked to keep laundry room clean. Each depart­ ment asked to use their own wash­ rooms and showers when possible. Motion to see patrolman about hav­ ing crew messroom deck tiled. Gar­ bage from all departments should be carried back aft. LONCVIEW VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 15—Chairman, J. R. Batson; Secretary, J. M. Nelson. D. R. Reynolds elected new ship's delegate. $29.80 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported. Motion made for new ship's ..... The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and a total of $18,000 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 disposition of estates,) Riehard L. . Pifer, 38: Brother Mike Golns, 53: Brother Goins Pifer died an accidental death on died of Injuries in an accident on June 20, 1982 January 28, 1962 in Punxsutawney, at San Jiian, Pa. He started Puerto Rico, He shim)ing with the started shipping SIU in 1944 and with the SIU in sailed in the 1953 and sailed deck department. in the engine deHis, wife. Shirley partment, A Pifer, of Punxsu­ friend, E, Wester, tawney, survives. of San Francisco. Burial was in Caiif., survives. Pennsylvania. Total benefits: $500. Burial was at US National Ceme­ tery, Hato Tejas, Bayamon, Puerto 4 4 4 Maximo Bernes, 63: A heart con­ Rico, Total benefits: $500, dition was fatal to Brother Bernes 4 4 4 on August 12, 1962 in VizagapatJohn L. Griffin, 57: A heart con­ tam, India. He dition was fatal to Brother Griffin started shipping on August 9, with the SIU in 1962 at the 1942 in the stew­ USPHS Hospital, ard department Lexington, Ky ,He A friend. Wilder started shipping Vlllarin of Savan­ with the SIU in nah, Ga., survives. 1959 and sailed Burial was in In­ in the engine 4 4 4 Joseph Rymarz, born September dia. Total benefits: $4,000. department. His sister, Nellie 17, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 4 4 4 Eugene McClain, 34: Brother Mc- Carr, of Suffolk, Joseph Rymarz, Pleasantville, NJ. Clain was lost at sea on May 23, Va,, survives. Burial was at Cedar 4 4 4 1962, while sail­ Hill Cemetery In Suffolk. Total Pamela Tucker, born September ing on the SS benefits: $500. 12, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Globe Explorer Joseph Tucker, Chickasaw, Ala. 4 4 4 from Morocco to George Larson, 40: Brother Laiv the West Indies. Keith Michael Wolff, bom Sep­ He started ship­ s(m died of a blood clot on October tember 4, 1962, to Seafarer and 15, 1961 at Kingi ping with the SIU Mrs. Justin T. Wolff, New Or­ leans, La. County Hospital, in 1947 and sailed Brooklyn, NY, Ho in the deck de4 4 4 Daniel and David Rivera, born started shipping partment. His August 30, 1962 to Seafarer and wife, Mary Mc­ with the SIU in Mrs. Robert Rivera, Jersey City, Clain, of Philadelphia, Pa., sur­ 1951 and sailed NJ. in the engint vives. Total benefits: $4,000. department. His brother. Glen F. beefs reported. Water in laundry reported. $9.78 in ship's fund. One Larson, of Midshould have more pressure. Need for man in engine department left in vale, Utah, sui^ chairs in messroom haU wiU be hospital. Request for food represen­ handled with patrolman. Vote of tatives to visit ship. It was suggested vives. Burial was at Sandy Ceme­ thanks to steward and cooks for that English be spoken In messhall tery, Sandy, Utah, Total benefits: good food. at meal time. May 9—Chairman, none; Secretary, $4,000. John W. Parker, George Phillips elected ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ported by department' delegates, ALCOA PARTNER (Alcoa), July 1— Chairman, Frank Cannella; Secretary, George E. Annls. Trip has been smooth so far, the ship's delegate re­ ported. Disputes in the steward de­ partment will be taken up at payoff. Bosun J. Michael had to leave ship in Casablanca to have finger treated and returned to vessel in Tunis. $110 spent for movies, $10 for spare parts and $5 for cab fare. Balance of $99 in captain's safe. No ship's fund on vessel. Ship needs fumigation as roaches are taking over. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), July 4— Chairman, H, H. Patterson; Secre­ tary, James Pursell. Some delayed sailing disputed. Crew requests list of cigarettes and prices to be posted. Suggestion made to see about better mall service. Crew asked to bo quieter in pasageways because of those sleeping. Vote of thanks to steward department. FRANCES (Bull), July $—Chairman, Don Nelson; Secretary, William Nesta. Ship's delegate reported that most of the repairs were completed, and all the fans will be taken care of. Men on watch at night are expected to keep crew messroom clean. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a Job well done. VILLAGE (Consolidated Mariners), July 4—Chelrman, J. O. Lekwyk; Sec­ retary, W. R. Brightwell, No beefs reported. Stove aboard ship needs to be repaired. Fish box Is neglected by chief engineer; boxes way over their temperature. Refrigerator boxes not working properly in crew messroom and saloon. There is no wringer for crew's washing machine. LOSMAR (Calmer), July $—Chair­ man, Edward Lesson; Secretary, Guy Walter. $13.05 in ship's fund. Oscar Rosenfelt elected ship's delegate. Crew asked to flush toilets after use. Suggestion made that there should be an SIU clinic on the West Coast, ALICE BROWN (Bloomfleld), June 24—Chairman, g. McCaskey; Secre­ tary, J. Arnold, $49.47 in ship's fund. Several beefs were brought before the eaptain with little satisfaction. Vote of thanks to all members of the steward department for excellent preparation of food and service. Problem of fresh milk spoilage due to rationing at sea is to be taken , up with food committee at payoff. ../.A.... delegate to contact captain and chief engineer regarding the blowers, wash­ ing machine and the matter of addi­ tional fans. ALCOA PEGASUS (Alcoa), July 8— Chairman, C. W. Gait; Secretary, none. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. E. Wright elected ship's delegate. Steward to get screens for porthole in messroom. ALCOA PIONEER (Alcoa), July 8= Chairman, J, Foster; Secretary, J, M, Davis. No major beefs reported. Elected, new ship'a delegate. Keys needed for some foc'sles. Crew does not like Andrews coffee and would like to have brand changed. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Vietory Carriers), July 8—Chairman, N, L, Porter; Secretary, John H, Ratllff. Everything njsning smoothly. No STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), July 4 —Chairman, Fred Shala; Secretary, Charles J. Welborn. Ship's delegate reported no beefs and handed in his resignation. Henry R. Gordon elected new ship's delegate. $13.49 in slUp's fund. Crew asked to clean the wash­ ing machine when finished. PENN EXPORTER (Penn), March 11 —Chairman, Robert McCutchaon; Sec­ retary, none, Tex Strickland elected ship's delegate, $4.09 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. See chief engi­ neer about necessary repairs. April 22—Chairman, Tex Strickland; Secretary, O. Atchlnson. No beefs CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), July 14—Chairman, William Norrit; Secretary, Frank Flanagan. No beefs reported, $3.48 in ship's fund. Men* needs to be improved; not enough variety of meats in night lunch. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), June 19—Chairman, O. Mlhalopoulos; Secretary, none. No beefs reported by dugirtment delegates. Discussion regarcUnii food which is not up to par. 4 4 •'/ 1,3 4 Robert Wiseman, 40: A heart at­ tack was fatal to Brother Wiseman on May 3, 1962 at Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los An­ geles, Calif, He started shipping with the SIU in 1944 and sailed in the deck de­ partment, Burial was at Holy Cross Cemetery in California. Total bene­ fits: $500, No next of kin was designated, 4 4 4 Carl Morton, 70: Brother Mor­ ton died of pneumonia on August 17, 1962, at the USPHS Hospital, New Orleans, La. He started sail­ ing with the Un­ ion in 1949 and shipped in the steward depart­ ment. His wife, Amelia Morton, of Kennor, La,, survives. Burial was at Garden of Memories, Jefferson Parish, La. Total benefit^: $4,000. '.-I !i| �OeMbw, INI SEAFARERS iMlkxijL; . i', LOG Pag* MfaMte«B Working away steadily at keeping the Alcoa Pioneer (Alcoa) shipshape and safe, the crew reports 28 separate repairs made and completed on the last trip. Refusing to rest on their laurels, however, they report that there are still a few minor jobs to be done. 4^ 4" 4, —————— Safety first in the sleet and with a scheme for keeping peddlers off the ship when it hits Port Said. snow is the key to a sugges­ Discussion on the issue brought tion by Seafarer George C. out the information that on other Jones, who offers this idea for vessels, a letter from the skipper keeping the pilothouse windows to the local authorities had been clear in winter. All SIU ships successful in keeping unwanted should carry a quantity of five-cent visitors off the ship and the Bea­ sacks of smoking tobacco to wipe trice is game enough to try it. The down the windows in foul winter crew has asked the Beatrice's Capt. weather. Brother Jones writes. The Dudley to write such a letter and tobacco juice acts to keep the glass Niehtw D'Angelo it now remains to be seen whether free of ice and snow and the ship would be a safer one for all hands. where or when the ship may lay the effort will produce results. A An ounce, or at least a nickel's up, so the set is still up for grabs. letter signed by ship's delegate Vito D'Angelo and others indicated worth of prevention is sometimes S. t. the crew has had it as far as visit­ worth a pound of cure, he points The crew on the Beatrice, an­ ing salesmen at Port Said are con­ out. other Bull Line ship, have come up cerned. » A "medal of merit" was pre­ sented to the steward by the crew of the Sampan Hlteh (Suwanee) In The ancient oriental concept of "Yin" and "Yang"—the opposites, recognition of a job well done. The good and bad, light and dark, full and empty, etc.—has taken hold "medal" was concocted of a tin in modem-day Japan in the form of pro and con arguments, for can lid painted blue with red cir­ and against an ancient profession. cles and a red "S" soldered on a Some recent news clippings sent in to the LOG by an unnamed safety pin. A strip cut from an old "shuttle crew" from Yokahama Indicates that the controversy all pair of dungarees serves as a blue started with the formation some time back of a special "Counterribbon . . . Among many other ex­ measures Council' 'to deal with a very worldly problem. The news pressions of thanks for the steward announcement said, in part, that "the Tokyo Metropolitan Police departments on SIU ships was one Board is studying a plan to more stron^y enforce regulations forwarded by the ship's delegate of against . . . prostitutes, who are expected to become very active the Hurricane (Waterman). The en­ during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics." tire steward department was given Since then it's been all Yin and Yang on the subject. a vote of thanks ^d the ship was The effort to restrict the activities of some of the night-blooming described as the "best fed" and ladies has naturally been approved by many. They call the large "cleanest on the East Coast." number of "night angels" who have been invading Tokyo's resi­ On the subject of food, the Orion dential districts in recent years a nuisance and annoyance to lawClipper (Colonial) reports a big im­ abiding families who live nearby. provement in the quality of meat In a recent "letter to the editor" in the "Japan Times," for in­ on board, with special thanks to stance, a university professor complained bitterly about being Seafarers M. Morris, oiler; William awakened at night by the nocturnal cavortings of the girl next door. Nichter, OS, and William Darley, But every Yin has a Yang, and another letter printed on the AB, for their efforts in pressing same page takes a dim view not of the girls, but of the "Counterfor the improvement. measures Council" itself. "To restrict the activities of professional prostitutes is clearly a violation of fundamental human rights as $ ^ $ A children's home "somewhere" guaranteed to the Japanese people by the Constitution," the writer may soon be the recipient of the stated. television set off the Mae (Bull). "Government power is misused when the public is compelled to The crew met and decided to do­ pay taxes to support members of the police force who have nothing nate the tv to a children's home if better to do with their time than to harass young girls," the letterthe ship lays up. No one knows writer concluded. The signature used was "Freedom For All." Yin & Yang On An Old Profession Seafarer Ernest DIos (top) points to the "Heiau" where human sacrifices were made in the old days. Dias comes from Hawaii and is a good man to have around when visiting the Islands, as some Alcoo Planter crewmembers noted. Kawaihae Terminal (below) is the pioneer installa­ tion of a grain elevator and four silos, where the Planter delivered the first 1,200 tons of corn. Hawaii Diverts Planter With Sun, Sand & Girls When the Alcoa Planter docked at Kawaihae, the local people and the press turned out to visit her. The Planter was the first vessel to deliver corn to that Hawaiian port, and the mood of the townspeople may have been akin to the days dressed in little more than bikinis when there were feasts and said that was where they were parades on the arrival of sailing •hips. To the crew of the Planter, however. It was old stuif. Men, women and children were on the dock most of the day to •ee the ship and the 1,200 tons of corn pouring from pipes leading The following article and photographs were submitted to the LOG by Seafarer Wil­ liam Calefato from Honolulu, where the Alcoa Planter made the history-making grain de­ livery he describes. from the hatch to a circular tem­ porary bin that looked like a small bull-fighting arena. While the local people gaped at the ship and the discharging op­ erations, members of the crew went ashore to look things over a little themselves. About half a mile astern of the ship, on a hill, was a 400-year-old relic called a "Heiau," a kind of outdoor temple where human bodies were offered as sac­ rifices to the god "Kahailimoku." Not far from this grim tourist "attraction" was a small public beach. Now you might think that a ship's crew, as seamen, would have enough to do with the sea in the course of their regular work. But this wasn't the case. I guess the guys just thought they'd like to be on the shore side of the water for a change and snarl back. Sev­ eral did stick around to bask in the sun. Waikiki Beach thus had Its own special lure, providing more in­ terest than mere surfboards, masses of humanity and expensive hotels, however. On a bus trip, one of the Sea­ farers asked a passenger where the beach was. One of three girls going, so they could Just as well follow. The pretty girls turned out to be employees of a bath house, so a' couple of Seafarers riding along were induced to rent bathing trunks at $1.90 each. They weren't heard from after that. The presence of a ship at the tiny port of Kawaihae was unusual enough, but there was a fire and boat drill called that could have been recorded for posterity. The drill seemed to Impress the local people as a new method of aban­ doning ship, though the mate was quite upset about it. The way things worked out, 11 was fortu­ nate no one reminded him about the "Heiau" where the human sac­ rifices were made. Real Hula Dance Among other items of note was a real Hula dance witnessed by some of the crew later on. It in­ cluded, to borrow the words of the second electrician, "the most beau­ tiful, beautiful girls you ever saw." And in the port of Nawiliwili the Planter came within feet of Holly­ wood director John Ford's 110-foot sloop. It is being rigged to look like a brig for a new film being made there called "Donovan's Reef." In all, the visit of the Alcoa Planter and subsequent events all added a little more to the lives of everyone Involved and, for a while anyway, stirred up the quiet inter-island waters that seemed undisturbed for centuries. Says Dues Dollar Goes Long Way To the Editor: Never have I heard of an In­ vestment as good as union dues In a union that is managed honestly. For instance, our SIU dues each year amount to nothing compared to the return one gets. I for one will always vote for an increase in imion dues, and I hope there are more Is® All letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. members who will also, if the need arises. The SIU is by far one of the best. For that reason I have not put in for retirement, even though I am now going on 75 years of age. I Slill like to pay dues. I first shipped in 1907 for $25 a month and had to eat slop, besides working four hours on and four hours off day and night, with no vacation pay. I wish that all of the SIU members will get together and go for an increase in union dues so that we can build up our funds and continue to provide the best in conditions and bene­ my other friends at the same fits, bar none. time. Our welfare program is sure I'm working in Minneapolis a ringer—all types of benefits now and never knew there was when you're unfit for duty plus so much to keeping house and $150 a month when you can't living ashore, but I've got to sail anymore. stay and cheer for the Minnesota There are many more Twins. Incidentally, if "Melvin" wonderful things the SIU is • sees this, I hope he'll also drop doing. For instance, a member me a line. The address is 10420 of a Seafarer's family can get a Humboldt Avenue South, Min­ college .education free, and that neapolis 31 takes money. When a member Norman H. Ganlhe dies, his beneficiary gets $4,000. A member that is bringing up a family gets $225 in cash and bonds for each child bom. I know of one member who To the Editor: is an SIU member for only I would like to express my seven years. So far he has slncerest thanks and apprecia­ already collected more than the tion to the SIU Welfare Plan dues he paid in his seven years for the kind assistance given of membership. On top of this me on the death of my husband. are such things as those wonder­ I must thank you for the vari­ ful holiday dinners . that are ous payments such as the wel­ free not only for the members fare benefits and medical pay­ but for their families too. ments which were so kindl.v I can't help but say a million taken care of. votes of thanks should go to Lastly, I also received the our officials from the president death benefit check for $4,000 on down, who are looking after which really proves it is indeed the welfare of us all, including a privilege being a member of our families. the SIU and I again thank ..William J. McKay all involved most sincerely. I 4" t must mention that I consider myself most lucky for having been the wife of a Seafarer. Through the years I was so To the Editor: accustomed to reading the LOG I decided to go ashore and that I would be most obliged if live so I would appreciate it if you would continue mailing the any of the guys who owe me newspaper to me in memory of money would send it to my my husband, as I think it would home here in Minneapolis. I'd be of great comfort to me. also like to hear from any of Mrs. Louise Riviere Widow's Thanks Laud Benefits He's Ashore Now Watching 'Twins' �SEAFARERS LOG F»ge Twinir Oetoba*, Plastic Covers Seen Dangerous r-i;;! To the Editor: Here I am on the Seatraln Louisiana with some very co­ operative Brothers. Our chief steward, Brother Hutchin, sure makes up a fine menu. We are also very fortunate in having some exceptionally good cooks on board. I must admit to the fact that this ship is a feeder, and that I am very happy to represent and sail with such a 'i, n lu I if • I J,i; III ;• §</.} K*.' ' Kenmar Gang M For Lensman • yA I ?• I ^.' p- I ^ i-j II u ik'-' T If i'iti i TRANSYORK (Trantwcstarn Atsocl•tts). May 37—Chairman, William O'Connor; Sacratary, J. O. Brigham. Delegates called on captain to find out who was performing on duty. Captain not going to call Coast Guard and promised to put out American money in Naha and Japan. Crew re­ quests that nativea be kept away from living quarters. CATHY (Sea Transport), June 17— Chairman, C. Quintt; Secretary, R. Conway. Two members returned to the States for hospitalization. R. Eden elected new ship's delegate. Vote of thanks given to Gene Dora for job well done as delegate. Held discussions on the following matters: Replacements for men returned to the States for hospitalization or who miss ship; SIU food plan; crew drawst rain. B13.7S in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. BIATRICI (Bull), June 10—Chair­ man, Frank Cake; Secretary, Cecil Thomas. Motion commending crewmember Thomas Walker. Jr. and pro­ posing his membership In SIU. Have patrolman check with chief mate re­ garding the poor medical supplies. Ship needs to be fumigated for roaches. Fan in wheelhouse requested. PAIRFORT (Waterman), Aug. S— Chairman, Roy D. Jones; Secretary, John J. Doyle. Restriction to ship beef turned In to patrolman. $4.00 in ship's fund. Ship needs fumigation. Motion made to have patrolman check why sufficient American money Is not carried and why company did not get more In Okinawa. MERMAID (Metro Petroleum) — Chairman, Richard Jones; Secretary, Seymour Helntllng. Discussion regard­ ing poor food. Letter sent to the United Seaman's Service In New York recommending that a recrea­ tion club for seamen be opened In Kandla, India, In conjunction with the Indian government. medical treatment; slopchest: repair lists: steward's menus. EAGLE VOYAGER (United Mari­ time), June 12—Chairman, David Sykes Secretary, Alexander D. Brodle. Crew requested to keep messhall clean at all times. $12.50 In ship's fund. No beefs reported. TWIN PALLS VICTORY (Suwannee), July 8—Chairman, J. R. Epperson; Secretary, H. T. Larson. Ship's dele­ gate reported that new company awarded missile range contract. Dis­ cussion on signing off articles prior to authorized payoff. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. $106 in ship's fund. I. W. Griggers elected new ship's delegate. l;l ALCOA PILGRIM (Alcoa), May 30— Chairman, Alfred Andrews; Secretary, Raymond L. Perry. Captain will try to get American money or travelers checks for next draw. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Melvin Knickman was elected new ship's delegate as former delegate resigned. Discussion about captain refusing to buy fresh vegetables in Japan. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), June 14—Chairman, E. Gretsky; Secre­ tary, Julian Dedicatoria. Ship's dele­ gate reported no draws in Port Ever­ glades. Request for awning for the after deck. No beefs reported by department delegates. Sent resolution in to headquarters for negotiating committee to study and act upon. ORION COMET (Colonial), June 14 —Chairman, V. Douglas; Secretary, Justin Burdo. Ship's delegate resigned. Dispute regarding articles to be taken up with boarding patrolman. ORION STAR (Colonial), June 3— Chairman, J. L. Crimes; Secretary, M. E. Greenwald. Ship's delegate re­ ported two men hospitalized in Bah- JEAN LA PITTB (Waterman), June 11—Chairman, G. W. Champlln; Sec­ retary, Edward Robinson. Ship's dele­ gate reported that disputed engine department OT beef was settled in Philadelptiia. $30.(H> in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Crew askSd to hang heavy laundry in fidley to dry. not in after recreation room. Soiled linen should be brought midships when bunks are stripped. GLOBE CARRIER (Maritime Over­ seas), June 10—Chairman, Ed Kresse; Secretary, H. (Tiny) Kennedy. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Ship's delegate to see patrol­ man regarding new chairs put in crew's messhalls. No LOGs received in three months. There's no doubt what ship these SIU crewmen are on, as Seafarers E. King, AB (left), and C. Terry, bosun, renew lines on life - ring aboard the Kenmar (Cal­ mar). Above, deep down in the engine room, blackgang members pause from work for a photo. Pictured (l-r) are William Jordan and Robert S. Davis, wipers; George Robertson, engi­ neer, and Vincent Cibriano, fireman, all shown aboard the Calmar vessel while she was at the Port of Phila­ delphia. Toga Virilis By Roy Fleischer — just abashed man said:— in! as—" I watched him As he merged with sea And married it. Oh! Pity me! J saw him play With bridal waves That showered him With happy spray. I clutched the sand. I didn't dare. I was too old To dive in bare. YORKMAR (Calmer), June $— Chairman, C. L. PIshel; Secretary, Sidney Ganner. Ship's delegate re­ ported that everything is running smoothly. One man taken off vessel in Mexico fo'r treatment. Discussion and motion passed that voting ma­ chine be used for all Union balloting. Discussion regarding company doctor used prior to signing on in Baltimore. A more private examination should be given. Vote of thanks for the stew­ ard department and the cooks on job done under Calmar conditions. ELIZABETH (Bull), Juna 17—Chair­ man, L. Stone; Secretary, John Cal­ houn. Ship's delegate reported that everything has been going OK. Request for quicker service from galley. Crew urged to cooperate with messman in giving orders for food. Everyone asked to keep feet off chairs. TRANSEASTERN (T r a n t e astern Shipping), June 11—Chairman, M. Kramer; Secretary, S. Johnson. Ship's delegate reported two men sick and unable to work during voy­ age home. All brothers with sixty days aboard vessel will have to be rotated off under shipping rules. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Company very slow in forward­ ing mail. ^ ^ •: WRT&CALL mmonK l2/6k.fiMKe -.1 s M h i, fine group of hard-working Seafarers. It sure makes things easier for me as the ship's dele­ gate. Regarding the letter to the editor by' Brother Joseph Pasinosky which was printed recently in the LOG (August, 1962) I feel that his "practical suggestions" are not as practical as they seem. For instance, I feel that plastic mattress covers aboard ship, as he proposed, would be more of a fire hazard than any­ thing else. Fire is always a danger while there are careless people around and burning mattresses are a great danger on board ship. Van Whitney Ship's Delegate 4" LOG-A'RHYTHM: I wasn't jealons When the young "Come on! Dive No clothes. Bare All letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. 4" 4" Offers Thanks To Shipmates sea something done about it In the rules of the Welfare Plan. This outfit wasn't built for the 90-day members who spend most of their time on the beach. It was built by and for the benefit of the regular sailor who goes to sea steady for a living. Johnnie Hoggle SS Fanwood 4" 4 4 Seattle Hotel Is Unfair, He Says To the Editor: I would like to acquaint the membership with what I con­ sider the unfair treatment of SIU members by a hotel, the William Tell on Second Avenue in Seattle. Shipping has been slow here lately, and finances are not in the best shape. Naturally we try to economize and share with each other. At the William Tell they don't seem to share our philosophy, however. One good SIU man paid a week's rent in advance, stayed a day, found lodgings elsewhere and had a room on his hands. His ship­ mate, he discovered, had just completed his second week's stay and the rent was due. Naturally the first man offered the paid up room to the second and a transfer of gear was made. Upon entering the hotel the next day, both men were in­ formed by the owners of the hotel they would have to leave. The owners not only refused to let either of them use the room but also refused to rebate any monies paid. I am not a complainer, nor am I a bitter person. No harsh words were spoken and both men were gentlemen. But I honestly feel an injustice was committed. The William Tell has been the recipient of sea­ men's trade for 15 years that I know of, but, now, with the lucrative tourist trade available, they turn their backs on the very people who have supported them for years, the seamen in the Port of Seattle. M. C. Klelber To the Editor: 1 would like to take the op­ portunity to thank all my ship­ mates on the Cities Service tanker Bents Fort on behalf of my family and myself for the sympathy and kindness shown by the crew upon the death of my father. Special thanks are also due for the flowers that were given "'4' 4- 4" him by a real swell bunch. We all really ap>preciated their Evelyn's Bosun thoughtfulness and kindness. Buried In India - Kenneth Klrwln To the Editor: I would like to fill in a little on the recent death of our Wants* WeKare bosun. Brother Billy H. Brown. Rules Changed Brother Brown died of a To the Editor: heart attack while fishing over I think there ought to be the side of the ship while we some change in the rules on were at anchor in the harbor of making men eligible for SIU Madras on the evening of welfare benefits. Every man August 27, 1962. Members of should have at least six months' the crew applied all the help time in at sea before he can they could, giving artificial qualify. respiration until we could As I see it, there are some signal for a doctor ashore. But men that get 90 days in on a by the time the doctor got on ship, then stay on the beach, board Brown was dead. work ashore with other unions The master. Captain Powell, and even get welfare benefits wired his next of kin and they there also. I don't think this is sent word to bury him in fair tp the guys who go to sea Madras. So on Friday morning, all the time, because it cuts August 31, Brown was laid to down the money available to rest in St. George's Cathedral cover benefits for full-time sea­ Cemetery after a small service men and their families. by Dr. D. M. Samuel. Meanwhile, the fellows who The crew of the Evelyn was are part-timers at sea benefit well represented at the burial both ways. They get benefits and we also had some men from the SIU and from some from the Steel Director and the other union where they work Lisa B, two SIU ships which the rest of the 'year. This don't happened to be in port. The seem too fair to me. crew of the Evelyn really ap­ These benefits didn't come preciated Having them present along the easy way; they were and wishes to thank Kirt R. hard to get and should be put Walls, the ship's delegate from, to good use for those who need the Lisa B, for his cooperation them. at the burial. This is my thinking on the Truman A. Patrlquin subject, anyway, and I'd like to Ship's Delegate I a �Oetober. INf SEAFARERS Par* Twenty On* LOG Things Happen Fast In Casablanca Town 'Brotherhood Of Sea' Comes To The Rescue Of A Seafarer In Need Arriving at Morocco, some of the fellows were anxious to get ashore and see Casablanca. One fellow warned me that in Casablanca people act as if they know you and try to shake your hand. You had better watch out for this, he asked my friend If this same fel­ said, because when they quit low was making change for him shaking your hand you may find also. The Spanish sailor had given your watch gone from your wrist. him $500 to change into pesetas. This sailor was still looking for his money when my friend left for This article by Seafarer Wil­ the belly dance. liam Cameron, ship's delegate Well, my 'shipmate and the on the Mankato Victory (Vic­ tory Carriers), describes some chandler left for the dance, but complicated goings-on aboard before reaching the hotel the ship and ashore in Casablanca, chandler had to stop for something Morocco, and told my friend to go right in­ side and give the card to the fel­ He told me he made it to a bar for a cold beer and was approached low and he would be shown where by a fellow who introduced him­ the dance would take place. Well, he walked inside, gave the self as a ship c' mdler, card and all. Now we have all heard of the card to the fellow at the desk, but famous belly dancers and this op­ the fellow wanted to know what erator told my friend he could see he wanted—the card was in Eng­ the best for a fee of two dollars. lish and not Arabic. Then my So my friend gave the two dollars friend realized he had been taken, but only for two dollars. without hesitation. While he was still there, a Span­ Meanwhile, back at the ship, a ish sailor came over and showed 17-ton wrecker truck was put on him a roll of bills big enough to the deck temporarily to make room choke a horse, and then went to for other cargo to come out of the talk to another fellow not far hatch. Well, the ship stayed there away. When he came back, he four days, and the Air Force and HALCYON PIONEER (Halcyon), June 27—Chairman, William Ooff; Secratary, Eugana Hall. One man In deck department paid oft under mu­ tual consent in Port Said. Motion for clarification on launch schedule and readiness period. Water tanks need to be cleaned. BEAURECARO (Saa-Land), July 1— Chairman, C. W. Cothron; Secretary, Mike Reges. One fireman missed ship in Port Newark. No beefs reported by department delegates. EDITH (Bull), July 1—Chairman, J. Parks; Secretary, George Bryan. Ship's delegate reported a smooth voyage. He resigned, called for election of regular delegate, was nominated and elected as permanent delegate. Mo­ tion that a severance pay clause be negotiated and included 4n future contracts. Vote of thanks to steward department for iob well done. Stew­ ard thanked members for their vote and praised the gaUey crew, along with other members, for doing a su­ perior job. to the policy o* securing fresh milk wherever sanitary conditions permit. Crew reminded to be back one hour before sailing. ANTINOUS (Waterman), June 3— Chairman, Oscar M. Raynor; Secre­ tary, O. O. Collins. Oscar M. Raynor elected ship's delegate. One fireman missed ship. No beefs reported by department delegates. Pantryman asked not to add oU or vinegar to salads. Crew asked to bring coftee cups back to pantry. . July 7—Chairman, O. O. Collins; Secretary, Glen Vinson. Motion made to accept donations for two wires sent to headquarters. Total cost $4.80. Two men hospitalized in Istanbul. Turkey. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. HILTON (Bull), June 10—Chairman, W. H. Hardeman; Secretary, Michael MERMAID (Metre Petroleum), June 10—Chairman, Frank Miller; Secre­ tary, Seymour Helnfllng. Bill Mitchell was elected ship's delegate. More variety in night lunch requested. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. IBERVILLE (Waterman), June 14— Chairman, Robert Mccuiiough; secre­ tary, DImltrl Getseft. Terry White elected new ship's delegate.' Room of Chief cook and baker inadequate. Bet­ ter quarters should be furnished to them and the rest of the steward department on this type ship. One man missed ship in Yokohama and rejoined in Pusan. STEEL WCEXER (Isfhmlcn), July 1 —Chairman, L. Anderson; Secretary, Bill Stark. Crew asked to donate to movies for coming trip. $15 now in movie fund. $13 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to BR Bill Reyes for showing of movies during trip. PETROCHEM (Val Chem), June 17— Chairman, John Altstsll; Secretary, J. McPhaul. Hopkins elected ship's delegate. Request screens for all rooms. No beefs reported. STEEL RECORDER (Isthmian), June SS—Chairman, F. J. Smith; Secretary, C. A. Bortz. No beefs reported. Money collected from crew for rotating TV antenna was returned as it was not available in Japan. Motion to return toth. e. Strickland elected ship's delagate. No beefs reported. Discussion about wiper on sanitary to take care of laundry one week and the OS to take care of laundry the following week. Steward utility to take care of PC messroom used as recreation room. FLOMAR (Calmer), July 4—Chair­ man, L. Sarcn; Secretary, T. A. Jack­ son. Ship's delegate reported that disputed OT from last trip has not been paid. $8.15 in ship's fund. Let­ ter sent to Union concerning working OT cleaning holds in crew's home port. James J. Linden elected new ship's delegate. Ship's fund will he spent if ship lays up. Vote of thanks to L. Brach, former ship's delegate, for job well done. DEL MONTE (Delta), June $—Chalfman, E. Bates; Secretary, Ramon Irlzarry. Engine and deck depart-' ments have a few hours disputed OT. Most repairs taken care of in New Orleans. Ship's delegate thanked membership for cooperation in getting ship paid off clean. Felipe Narvaez elected new ship's delegate. Crew asked to turn washing machine off The "Brotherhood of the Sea" has many different mean­ ings. To Seafarer Clarence L. Cousins, it means the kind and thoughtful actions of his fellow seamen which prevented him from getting into a bag-" by the labor movement, es­ ful of trouble while ashore. sented pecially our 'Brotherhood of the Cousins wrote to the LOG Sea'." Veiled women walk be­ neath a sign advertising Pepsi-Cola in this shot of a street scene in Casa­ blanca, Morocco. Brother William Cameron tells of some unusual happenings in this busy city. local authorities are still trying to find a 17-ton wrecker which van­ ished from the docks without oil, gas, or battery. Don't underestimate these peo­ ple here in the Mediterranean, brothers, because they can move it. We found it out real fast. when not in use. Suggestion that oilers on watch should have witness when working cargo so they do not get cheated out of OT. Crew asked to return coftee mugs to pantry. MOUNT McKINLEY (American Tramp), June I—Chairman, Albert Ring Guette; Secretary, Mike Miller. Bob Holland elected new ship's dele­ gate. Steward requests that French knife be returned to pantry. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. STEEL KING (Isthmian), June 10— Chairman, H. Sleber; Secretary, C. McOanlel. Buckley elected ship's dele­ gate. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Request for timer on washing machine. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), June 16—Chairman, J. O'Rourke; Secretary, H. Braunsteln. Motion that union ne­ gotiate for American money in all ports and that company pay for over­ weight baggage on airplanes. Paul Franco elected new ship's delegate. Crew asked to make less noise in passageways and messrooms and to take care of books and magazines. Vote of thanks to all in steward de­ partment. New lockers needed for some rooms. COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), June—Chairman, F. L. Jarvls; Secretary, L. C. Clerk. No beefs reported by depaitment dele­ gates. Motion made to write letter to headquarters regarding repair of galley ovens. Crew to take better care of laundry. Need timer for washing machine. Crew requests ' ship's delegate to stay on in job. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), June 2$ —Chairman, J. J. Kane; Secretary, iViSlvin Thsmss. No beefs reported by ship's delegate. Ship needs new washing machine. DEL NORTE (Delta), May 1)—Chair­ man, R. R. "Tex" Thomas; Secretary, Bill Kalter. Ship's delegate reported gift from school in Newburgh, N. Y. No beefs reported by department delegates. $315.58 in ship's treasury. Movie director reported total of $45.40 in movie fund. Suggestion that ship's fund remain limited to a mem­ ber's immediate family. MAE (Bull), June 23 — Chairman, William Hlghtower; Secretary, C. Hill. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. All hands agreed to give TV to a children's home if the ship lays up. Discussion on the $150 that was supposed to come to to thank his shipmates on the Sword Knot and to let other Sea­ farers know of their action. He said that he became ill and passed out while ashore when the missile ship was at Port Canaveral, Fla., recently. "It is gratifying, to say the least, to wake up in one's own bunk after having passed out. It seems that my shipmates, mindful of my con­ dition, shipped me back in a taxi lest I get struck by a car or get into other difficulties." Vote or Thanks Cousins noted; "To me, this is brotherhood in its most exemplary form and I owe the crew a vote of thanks. Mine is only one case in which actions speak louder than words in showing what is the true meaning of brotherhood as repre- the ship as a Safety Award. All hands agreed to send plaque back U that is all they can aftord. H. I^inier elected new ship's delegate. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), June 17—Chairman, John Poluchcvlck; Sec­ retary, Leslie SIgler. Ship's delegate reported he will see patrolman about the drinking and washing water and have this situation cleared once and for all before signing on. No beefs reported by department delegates. Crew requested to leave foc'sle keys before leaving ship. JEFFERSON CITV VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), May 20—Chairman, John Boldlszor; Secretary, J. B. Mitchell. No beefa reported by de­ partment delegates. James Mitchell elected new ship's delegate. Request that more consideration be given to washing machine. Crew agrees that the membership should be entitled to 8800 a year vacation pay. SANDS POINT (Bull), July 7—Chairman, Ted Jones; Secretary, L. M. Morsette. Elected new ship's delegate. See patrolman on having tanks cleaned before sailing. Oalley crew was thanked for doing a good job despite all breakdowns, no water, no electricity most of the time. Very few first aid items aboard. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), April 14—Chairman, Clifford R. Demmeyer; Secretary, Isldro D. Avacllla. Ship's delegate- reported everything running smoothly. One man taken to hospital day before sailing. $9.25 in ship's fund. Crew asked not to slam doors and to show consideration to all memhers who are sleeping. July 7—Chairman, Charles Boyle; Secratary, Isldro D. Avecllla. No beefa reported by department delegates. Crew asked to dump all garbage aft and not midship, to.ia in ship's fund. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), June 17—Chairman, John Foluchovick; Sec­ retary, Leslie SIgler. Ship's delegate to see patrolman about ship's water. Tanks should be cleaned when ship is in yard at Galveston. Crew asked to leave keys in room at payoff. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), June 7—Chairman, Jim Thompson; Secretary, Frank Flanagan. Ship's delegate will see patrolman regarding delayed sailing in Lake Charles. See mate about leaving gal­ ley portholes open during hot weather while ship is in port. Side port also should be left open below crew's quarters and. if necessary, men will secure same without the payment of OT. $4.68 in ship's fund. Believing that actions speak louder than words, Cousins added that he expressed his thanks the next week in the best way he knew. When a shipmate needed help. Cousins rented a car and trans­ ported htm With his gear to Jack­ sonville, Fla., in time to catch a bus to Baltimore that would get him home for the weekend. To Europe In 36 Hours— 'Dream Trip* New York to London in 36 hours by plane! That was the prediction in a February, 1935, "Readers Di­ gest" article passed along to the LOG by Dan Sullivan, a member of the Sailors Union of the Pacific visiting the East Coast after a trip on the Alaskan. The article, condensed from the December 1, 1934 issue of the long-defunct "Collier's Magazine," described a 600-mile air trip by the author from Jamaica to Barranquilla, South America, in a Pan American Airways "Caribbean Clipper." Although the 600-mile hop de­ scribed was a long air trip at the time, the author predicted that planes would soon be flying to Eu­ rope and getting there in about 36 hours. He even went oiit on a limb and forecast that someday the fiight to Europe wouldn't take even a third as long. How prophetic he was, considering tbat the plane he flew on had a top spaed of 192 miles an hour. Dates Back To 1935 That was 1835, a little over 25 years ago, and already the subject matter seems archaic, Sullivan commented. Jets cross the Atlantic (and Pacific) on schedules like crosstown buses at almost 700 miles an hour. Military planes make it around the world non-stop at twice that speed. And a man in a space capsule circles the globe in about 80 minutes. In the most recent US space flight, for instance, US astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. travelled 160,000 miles in nine hours and 14 minutes. That made it six times around the world. For the future, scientists prom­ ise longer and faster flights which will eventually reach the moon and planets. A trip to Mars may someday be considered as easy as a trip to Europe is today. �Pace Twenty Two SEAFARERS jffi Oefober, lfl6S LOG ml COI VICTORY (Victory Carrlort), Juno 30—Chalrmon, llbort Heggot Socrotarv/ Frank Allan. Shlp'a delesate reported no beefs. Smooth sailIns. $17.08 in ship's fund. Ship's dele­ gate to see If there is any bonus U ship sees on shuttle run. Chief engi­ neer to have washing machine re­ paired before leaving port. ['•' I; m' OMNIUM FREIOHTER (Mol), July 1 —Chairman, Ervin Andarson; Secratary, Thomas Meller. One man missed ship In Houston. No beefs reported by delegates. Crew requested to flush toUet after use and to make less noise in crew passageway. COI VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Juna 2—Chairman, Elbart Hogga; Sacratary, Frank Allan. No major m fi: CANTIONY (Cities Service), June It—Chairman, John Kulot; Sacratary, Jas. E. Rota. No beefs r,eported by department delegates. Held discus­ sion on Robin Line picketing. MONARCH OF THE SEAS (Water­ man), May 37—Chairman, Victor Brunall; Secretary, Josa L. Ramos. Crew asked to cooperate with crew messman in keeping messroom clean. Everything running smoothly. No beefs reported. STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), May 27—Chairman, Mike Steaks; Secretary, F. V. Davis. Ship's delegate reported that beef on draws was straightened out by patrolman in Frisco. $9.30 In ship's treasury. No beefs reported. Vote of thanks to steward department for Job well done. Wood carving of a US Shipping Board tug built during the first World War is the work of sea veteran Carl Martenson. These tugs started as coal-burners, were later converted to diesel, and some are still in use today. On the right is Martenson's painting of the old W. R. Grace. She went down off Lewis, Del., during a hurricane in 1885, he* says, although, miraculously, all hands were saved. •immm beefs reported. $17.98 in ship's fund. Ship's delegate to see captain about orewmember turning to one hour late. SHORT HILLS (Sea-Land), Juna *— Chairman, Lea da Parller; Secretary, Vincent Oanco. Ship's delegate re­ ported no beefs and smoother deal­ ings due to new regime topside. Mo­ tion that patrolman Initial book when dues and assessments are paid. At end of year, men could go to any haU and have receipts for year verified and noted in his book to avoid duplicate payments due to errors. Crew asked not to slam messroom door and to bring cups back to pantry. Reproduction Of Ships Is Oldtimefs Hobby hi''-'- money atlU in captaln'a safe. New man picked up in Okinawa. $4.00 In ship's fund. No beefs reported. Beadquarters to look Into the fact that the engine department hasn't got watch rooms on this type of ship. Sea If hospital can't be moved midship and to make room for a watch foc'ala. Seagoing oldtimer Carl Martenson, who started sailing with the old AFL seamen's union on the Atlantic Coast in 1905, has sailed all the seven seas in his day. Now retired, he reproduces the ships of the-f past as a hobby. ground for one of his intricate ship carvings. Martenson started learning Martenson, who remembers the about ships as a boy in his father's Joiner shop and was soon shipping treatment seamen got in the old out on tall sailing vessels. His sail­ days before the advent of strong ing experience includes "dozens of maritime unions, calls the laws trips 'round Cape Horn and the governing seamen "a godsend" which are the result of good lead­ Cape of Good Hope," he says. ership by the unions and their Oil paintings and carvings are members. Martenson's main mediums. He His latest project is a carving will often combine the two by do­ of the yacht Weatherly defeating ing an oil painting as the back­ the Gretel, Australia's challenger STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), June 9—Chairman, J. Blanchard; Secretary, M. S. Sosplna. Ship's delegate re­ ported everything running along smoothly. $315.00 safety award money In captain's safe. $36.62 on hand with ship's treasurer. No beefs reported. J. Blanchard elected new ship's dele­ gate. Suggestion made to keep crew pantry arid messhall clean at all times. All screen doors should be closed while ship is in port to avoid flies. for the America's Cup, generally considered the "World Series" competition in yacht racing. Weath­ erly took over the Gretel in four races out of five at Newport, Rhode Island, last month. Log-A-Rhythms Ode To Dispatch By Guillermo Castro Fifteen days in Khorramshar, The mooring lines took root; Fourteen days at Belawan, With a week at the hook to hoot; Five days here and ten days there— Now don't you think it's funny; We lay two days in New York, And they scream "we're losing money".. Hurry. "Let's have no delay. This ship from port must hasten"; I'm told there's been a change of name From Erie to Ulcer Basin; Ten hooks a'swingin', you can see The draft marks disappear; We'll have you out by six tonight— Of that you need not fear. Now I don't question progress. From those days long gone and past. When the ships had single gear, . And they didn't work so fast; Five gangs from eight to five. Then the whole day's work was through, And the weekends were your own, Auld acquaintance to renew. But I can't help but wonder. Though I s'pose that I should not. Of the poor illiterate coolie. And the things he hasn't got. No radio, no auto and no house. That's worthy of the mention. No perforated ulcers, shattered nerves Or compound hypertension. , V . - .... ., .Steel voyager CITIES SERVICE MIAMI (Cities Service), June 9—Chairman, .V. L. Swamm; Secretary, G. Falrcloth. Small beef regarding working OT squared away, $2.52 in ship's fund. Suggestion made to make a collec­ tion for same. No beefs reported by department delegates. Motion to nego­ tiate wage scale on horsepower ton­ nage basis for possible wage increase on supertankers. Crew requests better grade of toilet tissue. COTTONWOOD CREEK (Bulk Trans­ port), March 31—Chairman, Walter P. Wallace; Secretary, V. E. Monte. Fine trip so far. Everyone is very cooper­ ative and a sense of good fellowship exists. $20.00 in ship's fund. Jessie Collins was elected ship's delegate. Cots issued to nearly everyone, and it was suggested that care should be taken as trip will probably be a long one. EMILIA (Bull), Jung 3—Chairman, Livf Hope; Secretary, Patrick Vain. Ship's delegate to check with patrol­ man about draws. Two men in deck department left ship. Allotment checks arriving late. Vote of thanks to steward department. From USN To SlU By Philip Stohrer A year ago in Boston town, I paid off of a swift greyhound; For eight long years I sailed tin cans On both our coasts and old Japan. OCEAN EVELYN (Marltlms Ovsrsaas), Jung 9—Chairman, Alex Janet; Secretary, Peter A. Stems. AU dis­ puted OT will be taken up with patrolman. Suggestion to elect a safety man for each department at next ship's meeting. COLUMBIA (Cape Waterways), April 22—Chairman, John S. Hauser; Secre­ tary, A. W. Morales. Ship's delegate reported one man sent to hospital, lald off and flown back to States. lo beefs reported by department delegates. In Labrador and Newfoundland, From jungle shores to desert sand; The Gulf, the Med, North Europe too. And all the time in Navy blue. FAIRPORT (Waterman), June 4— Chairman, Steve J. Thayer; Secretary, John J. Doyle. Orewmember missed ship in San Francisco, gear and 'Sea-Life' How glad I was, at last so free! I vowed I'd quit my life at sea. No more gray ghosts or Navy blue, I'd live ashore and loork there too.- JOSEFINA (Liberty Navigation), May e—Chairman, A. A. Thompson; Secre­ tary, W. W. Christian. J. O. Bruso. Jr. elected ship's delegate. No beefs reported. Crew asked to keep messhall clean at night and not to throw razor blades In toilet. MAIDEN CREEK (Waterman), June S—Chalrmavii, J. W. Fleming; Secre­ tary, J. P. Ballday. Ship's delegate reported that one brother missed ship In New Orleans; otherwise everything running smoothly. $20 in treasury. Need clarification about men on day work who knock off at 5 PM to be turned to at 6 PM on OT and whether they are entitled to 15 minutes coffeetime before turning to. Suggestion made that everyone give a hand to keep pantry clean at night. Vote of thanks to steward department for a Job well done. PENN EXPORTER (Pann Shipping), May 9—Chairman, C. M. Reese; Seeretary, John W. Parker. Louie Holliday elected new ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. $8.40 In ship's fund. WESTCHESTER (Peninsular), Jung 3—Chairman, S. Wells; Secretary, R. Cheney. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. En• glne and steward departments re­ ceived a vote of thanks for Job well done. Crew asked to replace cups, etc., taken from galley and to keep washing machine sanitary by cleaning after each load. All screen doors are to be kept locked In Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt. EMELIA (Bull), June 3—Chairman, Leif Hope; Secretary, Patrick Vain. No beefs reported by department del­ egates. Ship's delegate to see patrol­ man about draws in each port and allotment checks arriving late. Vote of thanks to steward department. ALCOA POINTER (Alcoa), June 14— Chairman, C. E. Lee, Jr.; Secretary, Cleveland Wolfe. All repairs were taken care of. $20.72 in ship's fund. Ship's delegate resigned but was re­ elected due to the good Job done on the previous trip. All members asked to come to messhall looking pre­ sentable. $250 was awarded the crew tor a splendid safety record. ORION CLIPPER (Colonial), June 3 —Chairman, Boleslav J. Dzelak; Sec­ retary, Frank Nakllcki. Six men missed ship in Subic Bay and rejoined outside of Manila. $22.86 in ship's fund, Motion that something should be done about fellows shipping out of Far East ports. Vote of thanks to steward department. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), June 4— Chairman, H. H. Patterson; Secretary, James K. Pursell. Everything running smoothly. Captain requests that the library and laundry be kept clean. Suggestion to have vacation plan at $800 per year without having to get off ship. Vote of thanks to steward department. PENNMAR (Calmer), June 13— Chairman, Frank C. Ortiz; Secretary, A. W. Perkins. No beefs reported. Request for wash bowi in spare toilet for steward department use. By William Pietrowskl V-), But I could not rest upon my bed. My feet longed for a deck to tread. My lungs cried out for clean salt air. The life ashore I could not bear. My thoughts turned toward the merchant fleet. The Navy had me all but heat— With "yes sir", "no, sir", "if you please". And I couldn't stand that "by your leave". I got my papers right away And registered that very same day. My SIU brothers took me in And treated me like I -was kin. I'm happy now on union ships. As I go out upon my trips. With men who know and love the sea; At last I've found a place for me. t-0 t "Well, Clarence, in a situation like this I think we should wake the old man up ..." ' J' > �il&lMr. Utt SEAFARERS LOO. Pace Twenty Tbrc 8IU Family Gathering lRARCIAl. REPORTS, The eonstitution of tlio 8I1I Atlantic, Oulf, lakes and In* and Waters Diatrict makes speolfio provlalon for safeguarding the nemberehip's fmoney and Union finances. Ths constitution requires s detailed CPA audit every three monthe by s rank and file auditing committee elected bership, 'All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Should any member, for any reason, bo ralused his constitutional spect these records, notify SIU President Paul Kail by certified receipt requested. by the mem­ Brooklyn. right to in­ mail, return TRUST rUMDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, lakea and Inland Waters Diatrict are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall conaiat equally of union and management repreeent•tives and their altematee. All expenditures and disburaements 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 8IU President Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. Dad Roland Roxbury brought the family around to see what the SiU hall is like and this picture is their memento of the visit. With Roxbury, who ships on deck are (l-r), daugh­ ters Susan, 5, and Catherine, 2; son James, 3'/^, and Mrs. Roxbury. The family lives in Queens, NY. Carl A. DaM Get-in touch ,with T. C. Douglas, Welaka, Fla., about a real estate matter and papers you must sign. 4» 4" 3^ Peter T. Murphy The above-named or anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to contact his mother, Mrs. Rita Jones, 338 City Island Ave., Bronx 64, NY. t 3> 3> J" 4 4" 4 4 4" Edward Femandes You are asked to contact A. Poli, 66 Robbie Ave., San Francisco, Calif., about some mail being held for you. David A. McCready Contact Olive Deutsch, 407 West Bernard St., Hartford. Mich. Wayman C. Lizotte Your wife asks you' to contact SIU HALL C ? SIU Atlantic, Guff Lakes & Inland Waters District PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsey Williams A1 Tanner SECRETARY-TREASURER A] Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BUI Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BADTiMORE . . 1216 E. Baltimore St Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St John Fay. Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROIT 10223 W. Jefferson Ave. VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS .. 675 4tli Ave., Bkiyn HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 8804 Canal St. Paul Drozak. Agent WAinut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax WUIiam Morris. Agent ELgin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St Ben Gonzales. Agent FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Neira, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens, Agent ... Tel 529-7546 NEW YORK ..... 673 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 416 CoUe.v Ave Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent 625-6505 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St Frank Drozak, Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO ... 450 Harrison St Frank Boyne. Agent DOuglas 2-4401 E. B. McAuIey. West Coast Rep. SANTURCE. PR 1313 Fernandez Juncos, Stop 20 Keith Terpe. Hq. Rep. Phone 723-0003 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave Ted Babkowski. Agent MAln 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff GiUette. Agent 229-2788 WILMINGTON. CaUf 505 N Marine Ave George McCartney. Agent TErmlnal 4-2528 her as soon as possible at 834 Leo Street, Sampaloc, Manila, The Philippines. 4 4 4 Gilis LeRoy Glendenning You are asked to contact your mother at 4212 Groveland Ave., Baltimore 15, Md. 4 4 4 Crewmembers, USAF E-42-1836 A claim for wages and overtime from 8/28/61-9/19/62 is pending before the US Air Force. 4 4 4 Harold Edward Arlinghaus You are asked to get in touch with Miss Larain Arlinghaus, 264 Dana Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. 4 4 4 A. Anderson Your gear from the Penn Ex­ porter is being held at the Port Arthur Hall. Send a forwarding address to Port Arthur regarding same. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Charles Martin Get in touch with Pensa Movers about your furniture. John Wegert Contact your brother George at 211 Edwards Drive, Pittsburgh 9, Pa. 4 4 4 Ex-SS Council Grove The crewmember who got off the SS Council Grove on September 11 and left his watch on board can claim it by sending a letter with the full description to George McCurley, Ship's Delegate, SS Coun­ cil Grove, c/o Collin and Gissel, Agents, Woosely Bldg., PO Box 1145, Lake Charles, La. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Carroll H. Andrews Contact Jack Brock on the over­ seas Kebecca, or leave his gear with Neil Pardo. i-SS; SHIPPING RIGHTS. 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, idiich sre 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. . I. I Wl U . I. . HJ.•WCONTRACTS. 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 time, 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.. 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 be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt'is given for same. Under no cir­ cumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given 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 ^ 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. 55111 'CCWSTITOTIONAL 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 as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU 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 rank-and-file committees. Bscause 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. mm KSil Wmi slip f' 5:555:>55;> 'iPS® Pillii EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU •constitution and in the contracts which the Uhion has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer, may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. George H. (Frcnchie) Ruf . Stanley U. Johnson Get in touch with Dick Stone on the Overseas Rebecca. dan, O, Martin, H, Limbaugh, C, Coates, Garza, B, Pierson, R. Shep4 4 4 George R. Tallberg pard, Davis Klenke, and J, PrudImportant. Contact your wife homme, regarding legal matter, at 8610 4 4 4 Sharondale, Houston 33, Texas. Checks and mail are being held for J, R, Alien, Frank Stanley Liro 4 4 4 Gordon Chambers and Louis A, Dela Cerda, by Mrs. Anyone knowing the whereabouts M. C, Hayman, 115 Melby Street, of the above-named is asked to con­ Houston 3, Texas, tact his mother, Mrs. Ann Cham­ 4 4 4 bers, 1145 Woodycrest Ave., Bronx Charles Slanina 52, NY, Juan M. Hernandez You are asked to get in touch 4 4 4 Baggage Held with Green's Jewelers, 301 N. Cha­ Baggage js being held for the parral Street, Corpus Christi, following men at the Delta Steam­ Texas, ship Lines, Poydras Street Wharf, 4 4 4 Baggage Cage Section 47 (up­ Gomaire Bloemen stairs) in New Orleans: Get in touch with Mrs. E, E, Stark, E. Armstrong, Lindsey, Schmidt, 201 W, 103 St., Apt. 3E, T, Sheridan, R. MePherson, E, Jor- New York 25, NY. ^ •iBiiiii ke to tocMve i: woiiia like tockve fKe SSAi hl^ncz^ zwiz on your moifeng list .J- �Vol. XXIV No. 10 y '«*f. i'l SEAFAltERS*LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT o AFL-CIO ^.k ml \n \t ; . "hi iS • ti i Ip;. Il^i I It', 1); • 1 "y • NOTHER page in the history of the SlU has now been completed, formally marking the 24th anniversary of the Seafarers Inter• ^ national Union—first established on November I, 1938. The beginnings of the present-day SlU of North America had come about just two weeks earlier, when the American Federation of Labor conven­ tion at Houston issued on international union charter to Harry Lundeberg, secretary-treasurer of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. Lundeberg, as president of the SlUNA, thus set out to build a strong, militant, democratic seamen's union. He issued two separate charters on November I to form the old Atlantic and Gulf Districts of the SlU and, by 1941, ^ when merger was achieved on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, this paved the way for the present district structure of the SlU. It also led to the para lei development of the SlUNA, which today numbers some 80,000 members on all coasts of the US, Canada and in the Caribbean, with representa­ tion among seamen, fishermen, boatmen, allied marine workers and in other maritime crafts. The history of the SlU and its affiliates is the history of the seamen's movement for the same period, and is reflected in the pages of the SEAFARERS LOG and in many other places. It is a story of growth, change and development down tnrough the years to improve the stature of seamen and all maritime workers and to maintain their ]ob opportunities and livelihood. Organizing the unorganized has always been the byword. HE early years of the SlU were marked by tough fights to gain bargaining rights and new contracts, to establish ^he union hiring hall and to defeat attempts by the Communists and other outside groups to dominate the waterfront. After the war years, organizing began anew, amid efforts to build a strong union and provide necessary benefits and protection for a growing membership. New programs of welfare and vacation bene­ fits began, as SlU men took on families and gained addi0 . tional responsibilities ashore. The post-war period also saw; the SlU battling to halt the decline of the industry by cham­ pioning "50-50" shipping legislation and similar measures to combat the problem of tax-dodging runaway fleets and threats to seamen's jobs in other areas. These matters of concern remain the same today, even though ships and sea­ men may change, since the arena remains the same . . . On this occasion, when SlU men and their families can take time out to look back at the past, the record of history is worth reviewing as a key to the future, and to the years and gains to come. This is the only reason for looking backward to 1938, since the years ahead continue to hold the brightest promise for all hands. T •J ^ :- i I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource October 1962 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NINE ALCOA RUNAWAYS SIGN PACT MTD PICKETING AIDS US MOVE ON CUBA SHIPS NLRB KO’S NMU LAST CHANCE IN ROBIN RAID CANADA SIU OPENS CASE AT UPPER LAKES HEARING SIU IN TRINIDAD WINS ALCOA PACT FOR 9 RUNAWAYS FOREIGN SHIPS LEAP JONES ACT BARRIER ‘SONNY’ SIMMONS PASSES AT 43 CANADA SETS FOREIGN SHIP BAN IN DOMESTIC TRADE HALTS DRAIN ON TRUST FUNDS PACIFIC IBU WINS FIRST PACT ON ALASKA FERRIES DR. WEISENBERGER ASSISTS RECOVERY OF GRID STAR AIR FORCE CLAMPS DOWN, OPENS DRIVE ON SMOKING SIU OUTPATIENT BENEFIT TIPS $600,000 IN FORST YEAR SEAFARERS LOG 1938 – 1962 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 10/1962 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. 10 1962 Periodicals Seafarers Log