http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/114087bec288eda32018f9c2ce0abe3d.PDF 2d374c9e5f6af87a53c016124b7864ee PDF Text Text SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORQAMOF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNLQN • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO 'Reminded Us Of War* SIU CREWMEN TELL OF TANKER CRASH; ALL HANDS SAFE -Story On Page 3 SIU Of Canada Rips Report On Lakes Dispute Story On Page 2 (UPI photo). /• lof CU* The SlU-manned cable ship Long wCIOlC jfliPo Lines is shown above waiting to take aboard her cargo of special armorless cable which will provide the first direct telephone link between the US and Great Britain. The ship left Baltimore on her mission this week. (Story on Page 6.) NMU Is 'No Show' At Hearings By AFL-CIO On Raiding Charge -Story On Page 3 In This Issue... Sr,:S !'vi |fk- '•A A' fA • u. i'-. , .^.- . 1J: 1". •. I:; tm II • • The impact of the collision between the SlU-manned containership COllfSIOflo San Juan (Sea-Land) and the Norwegian tanker Honnor is clearly visible here in the gaping hole torn in the San Juan's bow. The American vessel was bound for Puerto Rico when the accident occurred on July 21. (Story on Page 3.) See Supplement �SEArARERS Pwe 1^9 Norris Report Would Impose Dictatorship* Canadian SiU Slams Commissioner For Role in Upper Lakes Inquiry, Asks Gov't To Probe His Conduct MONTREAI^The Seafarers International Union of Canada this week urged the Minister of Justice to immediately investigate the proceedings of the Norris Commission. In a telegram to the Cabinet officer, the SIU said: "There is already evidence of mounting concern over the unprecedented, sweeping and undemocratic nature of Commissioner Norris' report and recommenda-^ tions," which "reflect the manher in which the hearings V R R" t ^ ^M.^ -J were conducted." f*|A£|COf| fC In its request of the Min--*• ister, the SIU cited four ma* to order the company to make its jor areas of discriminatory records available, so that more de­ conduct by the Commissioner tailed information could be ob­ tained about the activities of these MIAMI BEACH—Delegates of the International Long­ which it had protested re­ detectives, the Commissioner re­ peatedly in the course of the jected the SIU motion on the shoremen's Association convention elected Thomas W. Gleason to serve as president of the union for the next four hearings. The wire was sent in grounds that it was irrelevant. conjunction with a 10-page state­ The one-man Norris Commission years. The ILA sessions were-" ment issued by the SIU in answer was established by the former held here July 15 through 18. to the Commissioner's 318-page re­ Canadian Labour Minister last Gleason succeeds Captain port of his hearings in the Upper summer after leaders of the Cana­ William V. Bradley as the 60,000Lakes Shipping dispute. The full dian Labour Congress and Cana­ member longshoremen's union text of the statement is printed in dian Brotherhood of Raiway head. The convention named Brad­ the special supplement to this Transport aiid General Workers ley president emeritus. Issue of the SEAFARERS LOG. Gleason had formerly served as had disrupted Great Lakes ship­ The SIU statement pointed out ping by bringing about an illegal executive vice-president and gen­ that the Commissioner's report closing of the St. Lawrence Sea­ eral organizer of the ILA and is and recommendations "represent way. the longshore union's representa­ a philosophy alien to a free and tive on the Executive Board of the The avowed purpose of this il­ democratic people" which would legal Seaway closing was to force AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ "usurp the function of free associ­ a Government investigation of the ment. ations of workers." The new ILA president had pre­ SIU, which was—and still is— Look At Detectives involved in a contractual dispute viously been elected to head the The SIU statement also urged with the notoriously anti-union union's Atlantic Coast district con­ that the Canadian Parliament look Upper Lakes Shipping Company. vention a week earlier. Gleason, who is 63, began work­ into the use of private detectives Ostensibly, the Commissioner's ing on the waterfront at the age In labor disputes with a view to­ major function was to examine the THOMAS W. GLEASON ward passing legislation which SlU-Upper Lakes contractual dis­ of 19 as a longshoreman and a cargo checker. He heads ILA would either outlaw the use of de­ pute, as had been done by the and condemned the "increasing in­ tectives, or require the filing of Rosenman Commission which was Checkers Local No. 1. jection of Government in labor To Shift Headquarters reports about their activities. appointed by the U. S. Government matters which are not its concern," Testimony developed during the at the request of the Canadian The convention delegates voted as a problem that all maritime Norris Commission hearings had Government. Instead, the Commis­ to establish international head­ shown that the Upper Lakes com­ sioner quickly relegated this pri­ quarter offices in Washington, DC. unions share. pany paid $361,000 for private de­ mary contractual dispute to an in­ Among the speakers who ad­ In regard to Jurisdictional dis­ tectives to one company alone in significant position and concen­ dressed the ILA convention was putes on the waterfront. Hall its union-busting campaign against trated on an examination of the SIU President Paul Hall. He cited pointed out to the AFL-CIO In­ the SIU. However, when SIU at­ SIU's Internal affairs. the necessity for maritime labor ternal Disputes Plan machinery as torneys asked the Commissioner The Commissioner concluded 107 to wage a fight against attempts an effective instrument for resolv­ days of hearings on March 15 and to impose compulsory arbitration ing inter-union disputes. "Where on July 15 he made a public volu- as a means of settling labor-man­ the plan has been accepted, it's agement disputes in the industry. worked everytime," he said. (Continued on pqge 5) Hew ILA President Chicago Longshoremen Keep Upper Lakes Ship Idle For Four Months CHICAGO — The Upper Lakes freighter Howard L. Shaw this •week began her fourth month of Idleness in this port as Chicago longshoremen continued their re­ fusal to load her with grain. The Chicago ILA members, act­ ing as individuals, have been re­ fusing to load the vessel as a ges­ ture of sympathy with the SIU of Canada, which has been engaged in a dispute with the Upper Lakes company because the company locked some 300 Seafarers out of their jobs In this fleet, manned its ships with scab crews, and signed a phony contract with the previously non-existent Canadian Maritime Union. The Chicago workers have been keeping the vessel tied up despite efforts by the grain company, the NLRB and the US Justice Depart­ ment to take action against their local which would force them to load the ship. On July 1 a Chicago judge quashed an attempt by the labor board to subpoena members of the union. At present, all pending legal ac­ tion to get the Shaw loaded has has been put off in the US District Court uhtil August 12. , t 'ifs-j l> avX-.x J" ' Joly M. 1961 LOG Private Eyes, Strikebreakers, Scabbing Employment Outfits Are Still Bosses' Best Friends Labor espionage and strikebreaking through the medium of private detective and em­ ployment agencies continues to plague the labor movement and peaceful labor-manage­ ment relations, despite the spread of prohibiting legislation. Over the past year there has been a rash of activity a big Chicago mail order firm, and and (cabbing activities by employ­ by management in several the Illinois State Detective Agen­ ment agencies, Raymond Munts, as­ areas in which they have employed cy, which it had hired to operate sistant . director of the AFL-CIO private detective agencies to thwart against the Textile Workers Union Department of Social Security, union organizing and utilized the of America. Several months ago, pointed out recently that private services of strikebreakers furnished a West Coast aluminum firm- Job agencies have had relative by professional agencies. The em­ Harvey Aluminum, Inc.—and the freedom to furnish strikebreakers ployment of undercover operatives Wallace Detective and Security in labor disputes. Only one state, to engage in labor espionage and Agency of Portland, Ore., were or­ he reported, prohibits private agen­ surveillance of union activities by dered to halt their labor spy activi­ cies from referring strikebreakers, private detective agencies is a vio­ ties after the NLRB determined and only half the states even re­ that the Wallace Agency was en­ quire that the Job seeker be noti­ lation of Federal law. In fact, the labor law, as amend­ gaged in labor spying and other fied that a company has been ed in 1959, requires the filing of interference with union activities struck by its workers. Used Against SIU reports on money paid by employ­ in behalf of Harvey Aluminum. SIU unions are among those la­ ers for labor spying. Reports filed with the Labor De­ Recent Cases partment showed that Harvey bor organizations which have run Two recent key cases involving Aluminum paid $15,758 to the Wal­ up against both the use of private the hiring of private detectives by lace Agency for its detective serv­ detective agencies and tke employ­ ment agencies as a means of breakmanagement brought NLRB action ices in a little over a year against, the. Olsen Rug Company, ,, WUb jre|ar^ ^,^0^ ^st^ike|rfiaking , ^,..,j^(Continue4,on jP^ I?), j Kulukundi$ Tanker Sale Completed PHILADELPHIA—Another ship in the Bull Line - Kulukundis American-flag shipping operation, the tanker Titan, has been sold, this time to the US Maritime Ad­ ministration. Another ship, the Emilia, is scheduled to be sold July 30 in Brooklyn, NY. A hearing in Federal Court this week before a bankruptcy referee was adjoiurned to allow time for court-appointed trustees to con­ tinue their attempts to'secure the financing necessary for reorganiza­ tion of the American-flag operation of Manuel E. Kulukundis under a trusteeship arrangement. The next hearing has been tentatively set for September 9. Meanwhile, the SIU has been taking every step possible to see that all of its members are paid in full whatever is due them, as speedily as possible. With person­ nel within the company reduced to practically nothing, this is a dif­ ficult situation, but progress is be­ ing made steadily. At the end of this story is a list of SIU members with money due. Anyone whose name appears should contact head­ quarters as soon as possible. The Maritime Administration bid over $7.5 million to get full title to the Titan at a marshal's sale at Chester, Pa. Bidding began at $5 million and progressed by $10,000 leaps until the MA's final successful bid. The Titan was owned by the .Overseas Oil Transport Corpora­ tion, one of the American-flag com­ panies Kulukundis controlled. It was one of the first ships hit by seamen's liens, including those filed by her SIU crew. One of 3 New Tankers The Titan is one of three mod­ ern Kulukundis tankers built with mortgage funds guaranteed by the MA and seized by the Government. In March, after the ship had been tied up in Chittagong, East Pakis­ tan for almost two months, the MA appointed an American company as agent to unload the ship's cargo of grain and return the Titan to the US. The Titan was ordered sold by the court as part of the Kulukun­ dis reorganization to meet credi­ tors' claims. Creditors include SIU crewmembers with liens against individual vessels as well as mem­ bers of other shipboard unions. The MA hopes to be able to sell the Titan to a private operator. Its value is estimated at $9 million. Emilia Sale Delayed Sale of the 10,000-ton C-2 freighter Emilia was originally scheduled for this week, but was put off until the completion of un­ loading operations in Brooklyn so she can be sold as an empty vessel. An attempted sale in June was unsuccessful when there were no bids on the ship because of an es(Continued on page 5) SEAFARERS LOG July 26,1963 Vol. XXV, No. 15 PAUL HALL, President HtDBERT BRAND, Editor; IRWIN SPIVACK, Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYER, ALEXANDER LESLIE, HOWARD KESSLER, JOE GIBSON. Staff Writers, Publithad biwtBkly at tha haadquartara of tha Saafarart Intarnatlanal Union, At­ lantic, Oulf. Lalcoi and Inland Watara District, AFL-CIO, tfS Fourth Avanuo, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tal. HYaclnth t-6600. Sacond class postaga paid at tha Pott Oftlca In Brooklyn, NY, undar tha Act of Aug. 24, 1913. 120 • ms: 16 ••1 K !t f'. �,;i/- .-A-_?.7,:. ,rir- W r«, iMt Lakes Seafarers Win Full Welfare, Pension Benefits RIVER ROUGE—A new contract, which provides them with the benefits of the Seafarers deep sea welfare and pen­ sion plans, has been won for the SlU's 6,000 Great Lakes members. The contract es-4tablishes the first pension pital coverage and other sick coverage for these Lakes sea­ benefits previously provided. men as well as medical cen­ The contract contains a wage re­ view in 1964 and establishes a com­ ters and improvements in hos­ pany and Union contract clarifica­ pital benefits. tion committee which will meet The 4,500 Lakes seamen and monthly to resolve contract prob­ 1,500 SIU tug and dredge work­ lems arising within the fleets. The entire master contract was ers who are involved formerly re­ reviewed and clarifications made ceived benefits under a program in areas affecting seniority, safety, restricted to the Lakes workers. transportation fares, duties of Under the new contract, however, crewmembers and other shipboard benefit credits can now be earned for any combination of employ­ matters. Pact Unique on Lakes ment with Lakes, deep sea or tug and dredge companies. The SIU agreement Is the only Following ratification by the Un­ one on the Great Lakes which gives ion's membership, the new two- seamen seniority rights with their year agreement became effective own company and a hiring priority on July 15, the date when the for­ over any other seamen on the mer contract expired. The agree­ Lakes in working for the 21 SIUment covers 21 Great Lakes com­ contracted Lakes companies. panies who were represented in Companies represented by the the negotiations by the Great Lakes Great Lakes Association of Marine Association of Marine Operators. Operators in the contract negotia­ Winning of the pension com­ tions are; pletes a four-point program initi­ American Steamship Company; ated for the Great Lakes members Amersand Steamship Corp.; Brown­ in 1959. Since then, the Union ing Lines, Inc.; Erie Navigation has won an industry-wide senior- Company; Erie Sand Steamship ity program, a standard working Company; R e d 1 a n d Steamship contract and a health and welfare Company; Gaftland Steamship program. Company; T. J. McCarthy Steam­ $150 Pensions ship Company; Tomlinson Fleet In addition to the pension, which Corporation; Reiss Steamship Com­ will pay $150 per month by 1965, pany; Buckeye Steamship Com­ Union members will be eligible for pany; Huron Portland Cement free eyeglasses and eye care for Company; Penn-Dixie Cement themselves and their families; $56 Company; Wyandotte Transporta­ per week in sickness and accident tion Company; Roen Steamship protection, and the five $6,000 col­ Company; Bob-Lo Company; Mich­ lege scholarships which are avail­ igan Tankers; Wisconsin-Michigan able annually to members or their Steamship Company; Chicago, children. Duluth & Georgian Bay Line; These benefits are in addition to Arnold Transit Company, and Toth the $4,000 death benefit, full hos­ Transportation Company. NMU Boycotts AFL-CIO Hearing To Weigh Job Raid Compiaint NMU President Joseph Curran has once again- refused to be bound by AFL-CIO constitutional procedures for resolv­ ing jurisdictional disputes, confirming the need for a probe of his actions as an AFL-CIO ^ vice-president, as urged by the NMU is pending before the Fed­ eration as a result of NMU activi­ SIU. Last week, he boycotted a hear­ ties in replacing MEBA engineers ing in Washington that was to have aboard the SS Maximus, a former been conducted by Elmer Walker, Grace Line vessel. NMU Under Sanctions general secretary of the Interna­ tional Association of Machinists, The NMU is already under sanc­ who had been appointed as a medi­ tions imposed by the Federation ator by AFL-CIO President George for its raid on engineers' jobs in Meany. The meeting was sched­ the Isbrandtsen division of Ameri­ uled on the complaint of the Ma­ can Export Lines, and for its at­ rine Engineers Beneficial Associa­ tempted raid last year on the SIUtion that the NMU interfered last contracted jobs on Robin LineMay in collective bargaining be­ Mpore McCormack ships. tween the Engineers, States Ma­ The NMU president's refusal to rine Lines and the Federal govern­ ment in connection with the NS abide by the rulings of the AFLCIO internal disputes machinery, Savannah. coupled with his "continual repu­ Refuse To Show diation of AFL-CIO policies and No NMU representative showed constitutional procedures, his anti­ up at the Walker hearing. In ac­ union activities and vigorous sup­ cordance with the AFL-CIO In­ port of the Federation's enemies," ternal Disputes Plan procedures. led the SIU to call for an AFL-CIO President Meany then appointed revew of the NMU presdent's ac­ David Cole to hear the Savannah tions "for the purpose of bringing complaint on July 24 in the Ameri­ him into compliance with the AFLcan Arbitration Association offices CIO constitution or, that failing, to in New York. Again, the NMU cause his removal as an Executive snubbed the hearing, sending no­ Council member and vice-president thing but a brief. of the AFL-CIO and as a member Another complaint against the of its Ethical Practices Committee.*' SEAFAkekS LOG Pac« Tbre* i Sea-Land, Tanker Crash 'Like Vfar/ Say SIU Men PORT ELIZABETH, NJ—^Memories of wartime shipping experiences came back to Sea­ farer Jose G. Lopez, oiler, who was on watch in the engine room, when the SlU-manned containership San Juan (Sea-Land) collided early this week with the Norwegian tanker f^.Honnor, about 225 miles east of here. "The whole thing reminded me of a time we were torpedoed in 1942. I don't mind admitting I was afraid and worried," Lopez told a LOG reporter. There were no injuries to the SIU crew of the San Juan and the only injury aboard the Norwegian vessel was to a seaman who re­ ceived head cuts when he was hit by a ladder while abandoning ship. The collision took place about 1:40 PM on July 21st while the 15,700-ton San Juan was enroute from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico with a cargo of about 300 loaded containers. The San Juan rammed the Nor­ wegian tanker on her starboard side near the bridge, leaving a gap­ ing hole in the starboard tanks which covered the water around both vessels with oil. The impact of the collision bashed a gaping 50-foot hole in the San Juan's bow, both below and above the Crew of the Norwegian tanker Honnor comet ashore at the waterline. Sea Land terminal at Port Elizabeth, NJ, led by itewardosi Most of the Magnhild Johansen. The San Juan picked up the vestel's 42 American vessel's Lopez crewmembers. SIU crew were in the messhall at the time of the accident. Seafarers Harry R. Rod­ riguez, pantryman, and Bob Beliveau, deck maintenance, described the experience this way. "I was in the mess serving," Rodrlgues said, "when sud­ denly there was a tremendous impact. At first I thought the ship was breaking in half. I ran out on deck to see what happened and grabbed a life jacket on the way. The Nor­ wegian ship started lowering her boats right away. The water around both ships was already covered with oil and full of sharks. One boat had been crushed by the San Juan's bow." Bob Beliveau was also in the mess when the vessels collided. "We were eating lunch when it happened. The impact was so great that everything flew off the table. The general alarm sounded and everyone went to stations immedi­ ately. It took about a half-hour to get free, and with the water cov­ ered with oil the way it was, wo Seafarers Bob Belieou, deck (left) and Hony R. Rodrlguoz, worried quite a bit about fire. If pantryman, discuss events following the collision* The only the tanker had a cargo of gasoline injury was suffered by a Norwegian seaman while abandon­ it would probably have been the ing ship. end of all of us. Both crews did a great job of getting the boats away. When wo finally got free and backed away the Norwegian looked like it was cut almost in two." San Juan Stood By Once free, the San Juan stood-by to assist the Norwegians, picking up the tanker's 42 crewmembers, consisting of 39 men and 3 women. The Honnor was listing badly to starboard and still leaking oil several hours later when the captain and 18 crewmembers re­ turned to the ship. She looked like she would surely sink, crew­ members said. Seafarers Way(UPI photo). man Lizotte and Lliotto The Honnor Is shown In this aerial photograph shortly after Mike Filosa, both the collision with her starboard side almost awash. Part of AB's, had high praise for the crew* (Continued on page 5) the crew returned later and managed to right the vessel. �^MgB Fonr SEAFARERS JOrtLim LOG (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) Report Period: July 1 - July 15, 1963 Progress in SIU job activity was reported in all ports, confirming the bright outlook for this period forecast two weeks ago. Minor slowdowns were noticed in but four SIU shipping centers. The considerable increase in jobs showed a total of 1,433 jobs dispatched as against 1,206 last time. All three departments posted great jumps in the number of men shipped, with the engine department accounting for the bulk. The deck and steward depart­ ments placed second and third in the activity. Registration figures were up to 1,335, a gain of 32 over the last period. The statistics show a slight continuing fall-off in deck and steward department registration and a corresponding rise in engine registrations. However, the general upswing was responsible for a large decrease in the number of men on the beach. This total was 3,517 for the period, compared with 3,746 last time. Of the ports posting job gains. New York, showed an increase in activity, but New Orleans led the field in the most men dispatched. Houston and Baltimore also scored heavily in the heightened shipping flurry. The number of ships in port also showed a rise in keep­ ing with the overall upturn. Figures show 245 vessels made calls at the various ports, which was a considerable increase over the last period. The figure showed gains in payoffs, sign-ons and in-transit statistics, with New Or­ leans setting the pace with 56 visits. New York and Hous­ ton followed with 42 calls. A breakdown of the shipping into seniority groups shows that class A men took 52 percent of the available jobs, a small decline over last period's figure. Class B men gained to 34 percent of the total jobs shipped, and class C took the remainder. The rise in class B shipping shows that class A men are still passing up a number of jobs in all ports. Ship Aetivity fay Si^n In Offs Ont Trans. TOTAL lest 1 Naw Yorh.... 18 Plilladelplila.. 2 Batrimora .... 4 Norfolk 1 Jocksonvillo .. 2 Tampa 0 Mobilo 3 NowOrioaas.. 14 Hoostea I Wllmioftoa ..1 San Fraoclsco.. 0 Soaftla 3 TOTALS ... 43 I 8 2 7 2 2 0 2 10 11 1 0 3 2 19 10 15 4 7 0 i 30 23 4 10 2 44 134 4 42 IB 21 9 11 0 13 64 42 4 10 8 245 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A GROUP 1 8 ALL 2 6 1 1 4 45 11 26 82 3 4 3 10 6 20 6 ' 32 7 5 0 12 3 1 6 2 0 5 4 1 20 1 7 12 40 5 71 26 17 24 9 SO 6 2 0 8 7 11 4 22 6 8 3 17 Port Boston New York Philadelphia. BaUimora Norfolk Jacksonville.......... Tampa Mobile New Orleans. Roiuton Wilmington San Pranciseo Seattle 178 112 TOTALS Registered CLASS B 51 I 341 Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 2 1 Z 0 2 0 6 0 2 2 0 IS 17 33 21 78 39 18 1 0 3 3 0 0 6 2 8 5 20 25 12 0 22 7 41 0 12 1 2 5 6 1 1 6 S 3 9 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 7 8 2 11 1 14 3 20 25 76 48 23 44 9 3 17 11 31 15 25 12 52 7 3 0 1 2 4 1 4 0 3 7 1 4 2 2 5 0 4 4 8 5 5 5 15 GROUP 1 2 0 1 8 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 4 5 1 1 0 0 1 8 9 74 96 i 181 87 GROUP 2 3 ALL 1 0 1 0 1 16 8 28 4 5 0 1 4 0 6 10 16 0 1 2 3 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 14 24 41 17 18 6 41 2 1 1 4 1 1 0 2 0 4 3 I 7 171 69| 318 15 64 153 25 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS GROUP GROUP 3 ALL A 3 ALL 1 i 2 3 C ALL 2 B 0 1 6 8 10 1 1 19 3 82 0 8 2 7 19 78 28 19 125 97 128 27 252 0 27 72 3 4 8 17 16 5 4 18 3 11 42 0 8 1 41 58 31 67 0 0 16 33 3 2 17 1 2 4 12 19 13 3 4 10 0 23 1 2 8 0 0 6 2 0 8 11 12 10 11 1 24 1 0 9 1 0 0 1 2 11 2 15 0 1 1 0 14 40 0 3 0 17 38 9 87 0 3 19 7 76 • 41 2 7 124 48 103 13 164 4 31 61 8 52 4 61 10 121 0 41 6 101 SO 18 19 1 7 4 7 15 6 10 4 1 17 2 2 4 0 1 5 8 23 2 32 57 1 2 2 10 10 7 0 1 15 1 23 21 22 5 48 1 16 11 19 1 53 318 153 53 1 524 ke 499 84 1 949 11 127 272 All, 19 99 14 19 11 22 2 22 116 37 8 22 28 1 416 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CiASS A GROUP 1 2 0 1 43 11 13 0 7 14 3 9 2 2 3 0 7 1 35 9 7 33 2 1 2 6 4 , 7 47 175 Port Boston New York Pbiladelpbia.. Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville. Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington ......... San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Regirtered CLASS B Shioood CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP1 GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 8 ALL 1 8 ALL 12 8 ALL 2 0 1 1 4 4 1 3 7 1 2 1 3 0 3 2 56 2 16 7 36 25 IS 5 65 4 22 10 45 2 IS 1 4 7 0 1 6 5 3 5 8 1 1 3 24 0 8 14 22 1 17 3 33 3 13 29 1 0 12 0 0 7 10 7 4 2 2 1 4 1 4 0 4 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 4 0 3 1 2 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 12 0 11 6 17 3 6 2 6 15 0 2 4 5 49 2 21 14 37 10 58 24 6 40 3 33 22 3 43 1 28 23 52 3 27 3 25 17 47 33 5 1 4 1 4 0 5 1 0 3 1 1 2 1 5 5 13 0 1 5 0 1 4 2 0 3 2 5 1 2 13 3 4 5 12 2 5 2 4 9 2 1 1 27 1 249 12 98 81 j1 191 38 158 30 1 226 19 106 78.1 203 TOTAL SHIPPED GROUP CLASS 1 2 3 ALL A B 3 0 3 4 0 7 6 14 21 65 36 1 8 0 1 1 2 7 0 0 1 1 33 17 7 2 3 6 10 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 1 3 0 4 2 1 0 0 0 15 4 0 8 7 15 40 58 0 47 0 11 1 12 33 0 4 0 4 2 5 0 2 1 8 5 5 0 4 0 4 4 9 42 32 1 76 226 203 2 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP C ALL 1 2 8 ALL 12 3 ALL 14 2 7 0 9 2 3 2 3 7 21 122 36 122 18 176 14 39 50 103 17 6 32 0 2 4 22 2 9 11 51 7 5 40 0 1 28 25 0 84 6 23 6 16 3 25 0 5 8 IS 6 4 8 0 12 1 8 1 5 2 7 3 14 1 4 10 1 2 0 3 38 54 0 0 19 11 5 21 18 39 98 2 15 113 20 68 10 44 65 111 57 5 80 92 18 3 31 36 70 12 5 11 4 2 11 0 4 6 2 8 31 3 13 8 3 42 0 5 6 11 8 28 7 43 0 6 7 17 13 4 76 1 505 131 437 68 1 636 23 193 :215 1 431 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Bos ... NY .... FhU Bal. ... • Nor .... Jac Tam Mob .... NO .... Hou .... Wil SF Sea .. ffyTAtr Registered CLASS B Is 0 3 1 3 2 1 0 2 4 5 1 1 1 GROUP 3 ALL 2 1 6 3 1 2 8 22 43 10 7 0 5 1 2 .3 8 16 6 3 0 1 7 5 14 1 2 2 5 1 6 1 3 12 16 3 29 52 11 .7 14 37 3 1 0 1 6 17 9 1 4 1 5 11 24 73 34 98 1 229 Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 3 ALL 1-s 2 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 12 17 3 1 0 3 4 0 0 3 0 12 4 0 0 3 3 2 6 2 5 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 2 3 2 39 44 8 1 24 4 29 4 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 4 1 1 3 4 8 1 15 17 112 I 144' 25 . Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 3 ALL 2 1 2 3 ALL 3 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 11 9 23 46 2 18 3 13 3 7 1 11 0 5 0 5 9 3 11 27 0 8 8 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 1 2 2 6 1 8 9 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 10 0 1 0 1 11 4 28 51 3 54 2 49 11 4 12 81 0 19 2 17 2 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 5 7 6 1 6 18 50 32 99 I1 2061 12 15 102 129 Shipped CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP 3 ALL 1 3 2 1 2 3 ALL A 2 C ALL 1-s 1 B 5 15 0 3 4 5 2 5 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 33 35 97 191 9 5 49 96 26 18 32 0 31 32 46 1 7 22 2 9 2 2 10 20 4 4 11 0 4 4 0 5 63 3 3 11 12 12 20 40 9 0 5 5 27 8 5 0 0 4 2 12 2 7 4 3 5 11 2 0 3 5 3 2 3 45 3 15 17 2 17 23 18 1 9 8 1 0 0 1 21 0 5 5 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64 0 0 25 24 11 20 0 10 11 9 0 1 0 0 0 29 14 93 151 5 4 77 3 51 54 3 108 15 0 2 1 24 19 22 79 a 1 31 14 31 64 14 0 14 19 14 0 6 2 2 0 5 1 5 2 1 0 1 0 1 4 0 1 60 0 7 17 11 24 1 6 8 0 4 0 3 4 2 1 6 8 25 4 8 6 27 3 20 13 0 0 7 0 0 0 44 265 0 64 1 60 200 129 69 1 404 96 186 148 314 1 744 38 5 ALL 5 63 14 17 9 35 1 25 86 40 7 8 87 1 3-17 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A OfCK EN9INE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS Registered CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 123 ALL 112 178 51 _47 175 27 97 34 '98 256 "357- 176 I I I J 341 240 229 819, 9_ 74 12 68 15 17 36 159 Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 123 ALL 98 I 181 87 171 60 »8 15 _ 64 _74 1 153 81 I 191 38 158 30 226 19 im 78" I W3 112 I 144 75 32 99 206 12 15 102' 1 129 291 ) 516 290 361 189 i 750 46ll«5 254 I 485 Shipped CLASS C GROUP 1 2 3 9 25 19 '2 42 "32 _5 0 64 16'r67 115 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL ALL ABC ALL 1 53 318 153 53 524 366 469 84 I 949 11 127 272 I 410 76 226 203 "76 505 131 437 68 j 636 23 163 215 I 431 '69 206' 120 "69 404 282 ~ 148 3"14 | 744 "38 44 265 | 347 198j750 488 198 11433 779 1084 466 ]2329 72 364 752 ]1188 TOTAL SHIPPED �Julr 28, 1962 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fit* Morris Report Blasted... (Continued from page 2) The SIU charged that the Com­ minous document which not only castigated the SIU of Canada for missioner, in fact, took pains to various alleged acts of improprie- voice his views on almost all pend­ ^ty, but also recommended the im­ ing litigation, with the effect of position of a Government trustee­ prejudicing the SIU in those pro­ ship on all Canadian seamen and ceedings before the various courts. "Strangely enough, when the other maritime workers. SIU counsel attempted to raise Commissioner's Recommendations a point with regard to a mat­ The SIU noted that the Commis­ ter which was the subject of sioner's recommendations, among litigation, the Commissioner other things, call for: refused to hear it because, he a) Seizure of the assets of the said, ,he would not pass on unions by Government ap­ matters before the courts," the pointees. SIU noted. b) Control and operation of These same attitudes, which the union affairs by tbese appoint­ Commissioner displayed through­ ees. out the hearings, were mirrored c) Suspension of the constitu­ in his repprt, the SIU further tional form of union govern­ pointed out. ment. As an example of this, the SIU d) Rule by trustees having abcited the fact that the Commis­ solute and uncontrolled sioner refers in his report to mat­ powers. ters he learned about privately, but e) Destruction of the right of which were never placed publicly workers to determine the con­ before the Commission so that duct of their own affairs. they could be examined. f) Denial of the right of work­ The Commissioner, the SIU ers to strike in pursuit of their noted, also incorporated into his lawful economic and social ob­ report certain matters which oc­ jectives. The SIU charged that these rec­ curred after the hearings, which ommendations would impose ab­ he deemed detrimental to the solute and arbitrary dictatorship SIU. Conversely, the Commissioner over one segment of, the working failed to mention a number of mat­ community—Maritime workers and ters which occurred after the close of the hearings, including the their unions. charges made by the former presi­ The SIU charged that the Norris report "represents a philosophy dent of the Canadian Maritime alien to free and democratic peo­ Union that the CLC had turned the ple" and "reflects the Commis­ CMU into little more than a com­ sioner's conduct of the hearings, pany union which negotiated a his pre-conceived attitudes and sweetheart contract with the Up­ his violation of the principles of per Lakes company. The CMU was set up by the CLC fair play." and CBRT to serve Upper Lakes as In support of this contention, the SIU cited a number of examples a company union and permit Up­ of areas in which the Commissioner per Lakes to arbitrarily break a had demonstrated his bias and his 10-year contractual relationship pre-disposition toward the issues with the SIU, lock some 300 SIU involved, as well as a personal members out of their jobs in this venom against the SIU. The SIU fleet and replace them with scab crews recruited by Michael Sheenotes that: han, who was named CMU's first • When witnesses attacked president but has since been re­ the SIU, the Commissioner set placed. aside normal rules of evidence Sheehan was the star witness for on the grounds that the pro­ the anti-SIU front during the Com­ ceeding was an inquiry, not a mission hearings and his allega­ court of law. However, when tions against the SIU, although the SIU tried to submit or ob­ never substantiated, were "in the tain evidence, the Commis­ main . . . accepted as truthful," sioner then applied the rules the Commissioner states in his of evidence. report. • When officials of Upper The fact that Sheehan has ' Lakes, the CLC and the CBRT since reversed his field and Is testified, the SIU attorneys now hurling a variety of were prevented from inquiring charges at his former allies in Into matters about which these the CLC, CBRT and Upper witnesses claimed they had no Lakes company is conveniently personal knowledge. But when disregarded In the report, al­ SIU officials testified, and though the Commissioner does stated that they had no per­ tuck several newspaper ac­ sonal knowledge of various counts of these charges Into events, the Commissioner cas­ the middle of a bulky Sched­ tigated them and informed ule to the Report. them that it was their respon­ In addition, despite the interest sibility to have such knowl­ he manifested during the hearings edge. in tales of alleged SIU violence, • Time and again, when told mostly by Sheehan, the Com­ anti-SIU witnesses testified to missioner does not mention in his facts not within their personal report the attack on SIU official knowledge, their accounts were Rod Heinekey, on the West Coast, accepted. However, when SIU which took place after the hearings witnesses sought to testify ended. similarly, they were confined "The above matters," the SIU to matters strictly within their pointed out, "were widely reported personal knowledge. and the Commissioner's failure to "These," the SIU pointed take account of them in his report out, "are but examples of the can be explained only as an un­ many areas In which the SIU willingness to accept the fact that was subjected to disparate some of his main assumptions are treatment." wrong. The SIU also charged that the Commissioner had failed to ob­ serve rules of fairness in his com­ ments regarding litigation which If a crewmember quits while was pending while the hearings a ship is in port, delegates were in progress. The SIU spe­ are asked to contact the hall cifically noted that in a pending immediately for a replace­ action brought by the SIU against ment. Fast action on their part former Labour Minister Michael will keep all jobs aboard ship Starr, the Commissioner—who was filled at all times and elimi­ appointed by Starr—"gratuitously nate the chance of the ship decided this pending case in favor sailing shorthanded. pf the, former Minister.": i : Shorthanded? Sea-Land Crash... Question: What do people ask about when they find out you're a merchant seaman? Julio C. Bernard: Mainly they ' John Naughton: People are ask what foreign nations are like, people all over and they like to know what goes the food, the on in the foreign people, different countries we places of in­ visit. They fol­ terest and things low up this line like that. Then by asking about they ask about your job and my job and whether you be­ what it consists long to a union. of. Most of them I often tell them like to hear sea about the SIU, stories, too. Everybody likes to hear sea the welfare program and about the stories no matter where you are. many different benefits we have. it John Fahrenkopf: Most people who've asked me questions think that - all mer­ chant > seamen are part of the armed services. They're not too well informed about a seaman's life and work aboard ship. You usually have to explain every­ thing to them about what you do when you're working and after hours at sea. 4" 4" it Herbert L. Porter: They start off asking if I've been to Germany or Japan, and if I can bring them back a trinket on my next trip. What interests them is what working at sea is like and they ask me if I enjoy what I do. I tell them sure, it's a good life, interesting and rewarding. 4" t 3^ 3^ 4" 4" Robert W. Simmons: People like to hear all about other coun­ tries and then about 'your life as a seaman. In general, t he y want to know about the hours we put in aboard ship, just exactly what we do and how many years we've been at sea. They all seem pretty in­ terested in a seafarer's life. James Gillain: I'd say they're in­ terested in the places you've been to and what you do when you ar­ rive at a foreign port. Also, they want to know how foreigners treat American seamen. Then they generally want to know what jobs there are on a ship and how long you've been doing it. People get pretty excited about a life at sea. Freight Company Bids For Seatrain Lines WASHINGTON—A large Chicago-based freight companyhas made a $5,600,000 bid to purchase control of the SIUcontracted Seatrain Lines. loaded truck trailers are carried on The bid was made public in railroad flatcars. The company has the application of the Lasham coordinated piggyback service with Cartage Company for Inter­ "fishback" service in which mail state Commerce Commission per­ mission to purchase control of Sea­ train. Lasham Cartage is a freight forwarding company owned by the United States Freight Company, a holding company that owns many of the largest freight forwarders. The company has been a pioneer in piggyback service In which shipments travel to the Caribbean Islands via railroad to Miami and boat to the islands. Seatrain inaugurated Its new Caribbean run on May 13 when the Seatrain Savannah docked in San Juan. Two vessels, the New York and the Savannah, are being used In the new operation. Kufukundis Tanker... (Continued from page 2) timated $1 million in cargo still aboard. The ship has been tied up at Bull Line's Brooklyn pier for over six months with a 9,000-ton cargo aboard bound for Middle and Southeast Asian ports. A minimum price of $250,000 has been set for the vessel. Money Due (The following Seafarers have money due and should contact headquarters as soon as possible: SS EMILIA: Antonio Kostales; Soren Lassen. SS SUZANNE: Robert P. Chapline; Melton R. Henton; Frank De Keijzer; Authur Elliott; Edward Marsh; Ronald Paterno. SS MOUNT RAINIER: Grover H. Lane; Riley D. Carey; Wallace Cartwright; Jose Calvo; Keith Don­ nelly; 'Charles tWhite; Hifgh W. Riley; Albert Walker Edwin F. Stanley. SS KATHRYN; Vagn T. Nielsen; Edgar Luke; Thomas R. Richmond; Arthur Henderson. SS BRIDGEHAMPTON: William E. Douglas; Timothy P. Sullivan; Harold P. Vincent; George W. Barry, Jr.; Frank H. Neville; Syl­ vester Cznowski; Thomas Adamiak; Joseph Gentes. SS ELIZABETH: Jack A. Olsen; Frank E. Parsons; Lewis H. Fran­ cis; Edgar Luzier; Glenn D. Mil­ ler; Joseph Peragullo; Harry E. Schockney; Vernon L. Stiebig; Sal­ vador Blanco; George L. Goulinis; Bernard Palazzo. SS INES: Clyde P. Parker; Har­ vey 11. Hood; Michael B. Foster; Richard Spencer; James N. Quinn; James H. Hoover, Jr.; William J. Walker; Charles A. Whal, Jr.; Jay C. Steeli;-^Walker J. Jafrett. > (Continued from page 3) of both vessels, but especially for the Norwegian ladies, who accord­ ing to the Seafarers, handled their duties like true sailors. One of the ladies, the wireless operator, was among those who returned to the Norwegian vessel. "Just vital personnel went back," Filosa told the LOO reporter. The Honnor was list­ ing very badly, hut the captain soon got up steam again and managed to bring her to an even keel. She was hit near the bridge, and in a small swell both ends rocked in op­ posite directions. Everyone was afraid she would break in two any minute." One of the Norwegian steward­ esses, Erna Soerlie, told of a spe­ cial fear she had when the ships hit. "I was wor­ ried about my husband!" Erna, whose husband is the chief officer on the Honnor, speaks excellent English. "My husband was on Fifosa the bridge when it happened. Fortunately he was not injured. When we abandoned the ship my husband and I and the captain were in the same boat, all safe." SOS Response One big beef of the San Juan crew was over the long delay be­ fore help arrived in answer to their SOS. It was 12 hours until the Navy arrived, they said, with the aircraft carrier Wasp, the guided missile frigate Farragut and the destroyer Perry converg­ ing on the scene. The warships then stood by the damaged ves­ sels until the Coast Guard cutter Cherokee arrived. A Navy doctor from the destroy­ er came aboard the San Juan to attend the injured Norwegian sea­ man, using the San Juan's salon as an operating room to close the man's head wound. Even after surviving the colli­ sion the San Juan was not com­ pletely out of danger. While she was returning at about live knots, water pressure was continually tearing back the torn plates, widening the hole in her bow. "Another two days at sea or some rough weather and we might not have made it back," crewmembers agreed. Honnor Towed Back The 20,200-ton Honnor was towed to Port Elizabeth, still spill­ ing oil and not completely under control. The Coast Guard has be­ gun an investigation of the acci­ dent. In another recent collision, two British-flag ships crashed on the fog shrouded-St. Lawrence River near Quebec on Juiy 20 with a death toll reported at 33. The accident was between the 12,863-ton carrier Tritonica and the 6,000-ton freighter Roonagh Head. Eighteen bodies were recov­ ered and 17 survivors picked up from the Tritonica after the colli­ sion. In addition, 13 men, including the Tritonica's pilot, were reported missing of the 49 crewmembers. There were no casualties report­ ed aboard the Roonagh Head. �-.v-' jjPmge Six Bargaining Works, Say Labor, Go's SEAFAkERS LOG Ifit Sectforers Helping To Speed Direct US-Europe Dialing I • WASHINGTON—Collective bargaining works much better than the public has been led to believe, a dozen labor and management ex­ perts agreed last week. The 12 men—6 from manage­ ment and 6 from the AFL-CIO and its affiliates — constitute the Na­ tional Labor-Management Panel which was named by President Kennedy on May 26 to advise the FederM Mediation and Coneiliation Service on how to make col­ lective bargaining work better. The panel held its first meeting in this city on July 16 and after­ (UPI photo). wards William E. Simkin, Federal Standing on cafwallc, worker watches bubbling pool of water mediation director, said that he at Western Electric plant in Baltimore where ocean cables and the panel agreed that public are made. Swimming-pool-size tank is used to test cable. attention was often focused on collecive bargaining's failures. "Our objective is to reduce the number of these failures," ! Simkin said. "But the failures i khould not hide the consider(UPI photo). Despite the often - heard r ably greater frequency of bar­ At Baltimore plant. Western Electric Company employees claims that labor union mem­ gaining successes." WASHINGTON — An all-out store 23-mile length of armorless ocean cable in tank. Such bers are trying to wreck the drive to eliminate racial discrimi­ The panel's findings are of con­ economy by demanding too cable will provide direct telephone line to Great Britian. nation on all fronts has been siderable interest to the maritime much of the national pie, the launched by the AFL-CIO. industry in view of the attempts fact is that the number of mil­ currently being made in the Con­ The drive will be directed lionaires in this country is in­ gress to impose compulsory arbi­ against discrimination in unions, creasing. tration on labor-management re­ employment, housing, voting, pub­ According to the latest In­ lations in maritime. These attempts lic accommodations and schools. ternal Revenue Service statis­ are being vigorously opposed by AFL-CIO President Meany has tics, just released, 398 people the SIU and the AFL-CIO Mari­ named a five-man committee to pulled down more than $1 mil­ BALTIMORE—The SlU-crewed cable-laying Long Lines time Trades Department. direct the effort. One of the com­ lion during 1961. This was the left here on Tuesday on the first leg of a three-month mis­ greatest number of million­ mittee's first actions will be to Spoke At SIU Convention establish bi-racial community com­ Simkin was one of the Govern­ sion that will provide the first direct telephone cable link aires since the record 513 of mittees through AFL-CIO city ment speakers at the last SIUNA 1929. After the Wall Street the between United States councils. The effort will encom­ 2onvention in Washington in May flop of that year, the number will run between Tuckerton, NJ., pass 30 to 40 major cities in the and at that time told the dele­ and Great Britain. of millionaires declined to a and Cornwall, England. nation. gates: "I do not believe that arbi­ low of 20 in 1932, but has The 511-foot, $19 million The British cable-laying ship SIUNA Action tration imposed by law is any an­ vessel is enroute to a point 638 been climbing ever since. Alert has already put down the Last November 15, at the White swer to the problems of your indus­ The 1961 crop of million­ House, the SIUNA, along with" try. I believe that these problems miles from here where she is first 638 miles of the new transat­ aires, incidentally, accounted some 100 other AFL-CIO unions, can be settled around the bargain­ scheduled to start work on the com­ lantic cable. A buoy marker was for only about eight-tenths of took part in the joint signing of a ing table." pletion of a 3,500-mile cable that put down by the Alert designating one percent of all taxes paid the point where the Long Lines Union Fair Practices Program. to the Government that year. is to continue laying cable. At pres­ The program pledges the SIUNA Wage earners in the $6,000 to ent, the Long Lines is equipped and its affiliates to cooperate with $7,000-a-year bracket paid the with 1,300 miles of cable and will the President's Committee on Government about 10 times have to load up with more cable Equal Employment Opportunity in that much. at Southhampton, England, after attaining its goals of equal oppor­ "stringing" her present cargo. tunity in all aspects of employment without regard to race, creed, color Construction Delayed Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director or national origin. The Alert was called in to han­ At the last SIUNA convention dle work originally due to be per­ in May, the convention delegates formed by the Long Lines in the Whether you spend your time catching up on gardening and home reiterated the anti-discrimination 'lirs or sightseeing in a remote part of the country, a few precau- Caribbean. Delays in completion stand of the Union by unanimously of construction on the Long Lines fs will help assure that your vacation is both happy and healthy, the CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An all - out passing a resolution stating that caused the change in plans. ierican Heart Association reminds everyone. legal attack on this state's so-called they "reaffirm and vigorously sup­ Work on the ship was stalled sev­ {According to an article in "Today's Health," if you're of an age when "right-to-work" law is being waged port the principle laid down by eral months when the sl^ipyard I a nap in the shade seems more inviting that a fast triple-play, it's particby three locals of the International the AFLrCIO,. that equal rights where she was built went bankrupt. I ularly important to heed these heart-saving tips from the AHA; When the Long Lines completes Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and equal opportunities be within (1) Start slowly on vacation work or play if, like most Americans, assisted by two employer associa­ the grasp of every American, and I you spend most days sitting behind a desk and evenings in front of the estimated three months that it tions which are challenging the further that we support the Fed­ will take to connect the Atlantic 1 TV. Give yourself time to adjust to new activity. constitutionality of the statute in eration's program for appropriate The same applies to any Seafarer whose work habits will probably cable, the cable system will be a state district court. legislative action to achieve their I be far diferent than anything he would attempt while on vacation able to carry 128 simultaneous objective." The IBEW and the employers, telephone conversations, more than I ashore during the summer. which have collective bargaining (2) Stay aware of the weather. Don't try to work or play as much triple the capacity of the present agreements, have asked the court I when it's hot and humid. When temperatures soar, your heart auto­ cable between Scotland and New­ to stop Governor Clifford Hansen foundland. matically works harder to coo| and hold an even body temperature. The system will cost some $47 and state and county officials from (3) Use your head to save your heart. Plan the easiest way to do a enforcing the recently - enacted I job. Prepare to out-think your son on the tennis court rather than million and will permit direct-dial­ anti-union code. ing service to be established be­ I outrun him. WASHINGTON—In one of its The IBEW suit charges the tween the US and Europe. (4) Work or play at a steady, unhurried pace. rare changes In the structure of Wyoming law goes beyond the (5) Take plenty of short rests rather than fewer long ones. an essential trade route, the MarlOn Trial Runs scope of state "open shop" laws (6) Don't strain yourself and your heart by imderestimating the effects Since April, the Long Lines has permitted under Siection 14b of the time Administration has altered I of age or overestimating your own strength. Get help for big jobs been sailing up and down the East Trade Route 17—a move affect­ Taft-Hartley Act and is unconsti­ I if you're spending your vacation on do-it-yourself projects. Coast in cable-laying trials. For tutional in that It bars the use of ing American President Lines, Remember, it's better to lose a few points on a game score than spend the past 10 days the vessel was whose ships are manned by mem­ non-discriminatory union job re­ I several sick weeks in bed. berthed at the dock of the Western ferral agreements which have been bers of SIU Pacific District unions. (7) Dress for summer work or play. Wear clothing that is absorbent Electric Company's Baltimore plant For the first time, this route has upheld by the US Supreme Court. [and loose-fitting. been expanded to embrace ports where her three cable tanks were Other Union Charges (8) Pay attention to warning signals—shortness of breath, tired filled. in China, the Soviet Union, Japan, [muscles, dizziness, or fatigue. They are the body's way of telling you In addition, the union says, the Korea, Taiwan and Okinawa. The The new American cable ship is [to slow down. the largest of its kind and is being law would prohibit unions holding Maritime Administration author­ (9) Watch what you eat. When it's hot, eat lighter meals with fewer operated by Isthmian for American bargaining rights from represent­ ized the expansion after a hearing [spicy, heavy, or fat foods. Go easy on iced drinks, often they just Telephone and Telegraph Com­ ing non-members unless specifi­ held as a result of a request by I make you feel hotter. pany interests. Since the Western cally authorized in writing to do so. APL. <10) For most people, salt lost in summer perspiration is quickly Electric Company has a new plant "The two major violations of the The new ports bring APL into I restored by an extra sprinkle of the salt shaker at mealtime. Salt pills here at Point Breeze, Baltimore law, the IBEW continues, are in competition with United States I tiwiild be taken only at your doctor's suggestion. If you're on a salt- will be the ship's home port for direct contradiction to the Na­ Lines, which opposed the move on i restricted diet, call your doctor before adding or subtracting. any other cable-laying junkets that tional Labor Relations Act which the ground that the expansion (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can it may be called on to do in the requires Unions to represent all would "dilute" available trade in be suhnitted to this column'in care oi the SEAFARERS LOG.y 'this area. workers in the bargaining units. mext two.years. ^:-?/ « >5 • Pity The Poor Millionaires— Anti-Bias Drive Set By AFL-CIO SlU-Manned Cable Ship Starts Its First Mission I Stay-Cool Tips For Vacationers Union, Go's Fight 'Right-To-Work' Expand APL Services To Far Eastern Ports �SEAFARERS lolf ««, 196t End Benefits For Strikers, Bosses Ask Another move In the effort to curtail the effectiveness of strikes by labor unions in New York State is now being made by a group of New York City employers. The Publishers Association of New York City, which was involved in the newspaper blackout earlier this year, is now seeking to have the state unemployment insurance law changed to bar workers in­ volved in a strike from receiving unemployment benefits. Under present New York State law, persons who are unemployed as a result of an industrial dispute may be eligible for unemployment benefits of up to $50 a week after a seven-weeks waiting period. Organized labor in this state is expected to vigorously oppose the employers' move, which will be the subject of hearings this fall by a Joint committee of the Legisla­ ture. Blackout Began In December _ The 114-day news blackout be­ gan on December 8, 1962, when members of Typographical Union No. 6 struck four New York City dailies after five months of fruit­ less contract negotiations. The publishers then locked the printers out of five other newspapers al­ though the printers were ready to continue working and to continue negotiations with these publica­ tions. Members of the SIU, the city's Maritime Port Council and thou­ sands of other trade unionists gave vigorous support to the printers and on January 15 participated in a huge rally, in front of the New York Times, which was said to be the largest picketline demonstra­ tion in the city's history. Seafarer's Growing Family Seafarer and Mrs. Walter H. fShorty) Cook are shown here during a visit to the New Orleans SIU hall with their son Walter, Jr., (standing, rear) and their daughter and son-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Eclchart of Billings, Montana. Their grandchildren (l-r) are Rene, 8 months; Velvet, IS months; and Dickie, 7. American-Hawaiian Supported On Intercoastal Service Plan The hopes of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company for building three high-speed containerships for operation in the intercoastal trade has been picking up support, despite the attempts of railroad com­ panies to scuttle the impor­ conscious of the nation's transpor­ tation needs. tant service. Latest to support the company's American Hawaiian's bid to re­ enter the intercoastal trade is be­ ing strongly backed by the SIU Pacific District unions on the grounds that it would supply a much-needed boost for US domes­ tic shipping and make available additional job opportunities for American seamen. Backing for the plan has come from those areas IIS Sanitary Standards Spreading I Ibi: SIU Opposes New Plan To Bypass 50-50 Law The US Department of Agriculture never misses an oppor­ tunity to give the boot to the American shipping industry. Long noted for its efforts to bypass the provisions and intent of the Cargo Preference Act,-^ the department has issued new possible, the agency is seeking a ruling as to whether the prefer­ regulations which would per­ ence laws should apply In this CliCf Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director I' Pace Seven LOG If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, foreign-flag ships are paying high tribute to the excellence of American shipboard sanitation standards since World War II by adopting the same standards more and more. Four foreign-flag passenger liners calling at US ports already carry among their official papers the US Public Health Service Certificate of Sanitary Construction. They are the French Line's France, the Ital­ ian Line's Leonardo Da Vinci, the Swedish-American Line's Gripsholm -and the Norwegian-American Line's Bergensfjord. Other foreign-flag vessels presently under construction are also In­ corporating these US sanitation standards and hope eventually to win the coveted Sanitary Construction Certificates. General Standards for sanitary construction of American-fiag ships as set up by the USPHS include among other things ratproofing of ves­ sels, regulations for the construction of water supply systems, feeding spaces, waste disposal facilities and swimming pools. Plans for all of these facilities are checked before the ships are built and inspections of the ships are made while construction is going on. Each vessel built in conformance with USPHS standards is awarded the Certificate of Sanitary Construction. The Improvement In environ­ mental health aboard ships which adopted liiese standards when they were first Introduced was dramatic. An example of their effectiveness can be found In the area of ratproofing. Pre-World War II vessels were plagued by the danger of rats, which were disease carriers that endangered not only ship's crews but also the entire American population. Vessel quarantine procedures were initiated many years ago and any ship arriving in the US was given a rigid inspection. If rats were found aboard, as they often were, the vessel was quarantined and fumigated. . Ratproofing made the problem much less serious. US ships are now being built in a manner which prevents rats from finding hiding places or living quarters aboard, assuming they are able to get aboard ship. On older ships, fumigation and ratproofing methods are carried out as soon as possible when a ship reaches a US port. While most newly-constructed US vessels have the Certificate of San­ itary Constrnclloii, few foreign-flag vessels have received It.. High san­ itary standards are not cheap or easily achieved. More and more for­ eign operators are finding out, however, that the extra effort pays off in the end. (Comments and suggestions are Invited by this Department and can be submitted to this column in. care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) application for government mort­ gage insurance which Is necessary to cover construction of the vessels Is Senator Edward Kennedy (Dem.Mass.). He advised the Commerce Department that "there can really be no question that containerships represent a significant break­ through . . . nor can there be any serious question . . . that the po­ tential traffic is more than ade­ quate to support the proposed op­ eration." Meets Military Need The Massachusetts Senator pointed out that the AmericanHawaiian proposal offers an op­ portunity to begin "a rebuilding of our domestic merchant marine with ships that will pay their way and provide the essential tonnages for military logistics which any serious emergency would require. A Maritime Administration ex­ aminer decided after extensive hearings that the proposed domes­ tic steamship service was econom­ ically feasible and would not have an adverse effect on other water carriers. Noting the heavy shipbuilding activity of the Soviet Union, Sena­ tor Kennedy called the low level of vessel construction In this coun­ try a "national disgrace." Final decision on the AmericanHawaiian application will be made by Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. mit much of the government farm cargoes to move on foreign ships. Under terms of the preference act, American ships are to be guar­ anteed at least 50 percent of gov­ ernment financed cargoes. The US shipping Industry, including tramp vessels. Independent tankers and many liner vessels depend on these shipments. The Agriculture Department regulations seek to move the gov­ ernment cargoes through American and foreign traders who would receive a low Interest rate from the Commodity Credit Corpora­ tion. The SIU is vigorously opposing this scheme to bypass American ships in the carriage of the farm cargoes. The SIU and other groups opposing the agency plan contend that US ships must carry at least half of the farm shipments which move abroad, whether they are given away directly by the govern­ ment or by private traders who re­ ceive credits from the US. Although the national adminis­ tration has ordered Agriculture to use American ships as often as Medicare Reprint Going Over With SIU Men, Families SIU members and their families are finding the reprint of the AFL-CIO's "1963 Handbook on Hospital Insurance for the Aged Through Social Security," which appeared as a special supplement In the Seafarers Log of June 28, a useful and Interesting bit of reading. Within days after the handbook was reprinted in the LOG, requests for copies began coming into the Union from members and their families throughout the country. The handbook was prepared and published in a revised edition in May by the AFL-CIO Department of Social Security. It is a compre­ hensive and simply presented ex­ planation of the problems involved in providing medical and hospital care for the aged, and of the need for obtaining this protection through means of the AndersonKing bill, which is supported by the AFL-CIO. It is complete with all the facts and figures to enable any one to have a full understand­ ing of the issues involved in this important fight. As was pointed out when the handbook reprinted, SIU mem­ Moving? Notify bers and was their families are pro­ tected against the problem of med­ SiU, Weifare Seafarers and SIU families ical care in their old age, because who apply for maternity, hos-. under the Seafarers Pension Plan pital or surgical benefits from they are covered by unlimited the Welfare Plan are urged to medical and hospital benefits for keep the Union or the Wel­ themselves after going on pension, fare Plan advised of any and for continued hospital and changes of address while their medical care for their dependents. applications are being proc­ Nevertheless, the problem is of essed. Although payments are concern to them because it affects often made by return niail, other members of their families changes of address (or illegible and their communities. Despite the large number of re­ return addresses) delay them when checks or "baby bonds" quests that have come in for the are returned. Those who are reprint of the handbook, the Union moving are advised to notify still has a substantial number SIU headquarters or the Wel­ available. Anyone wishing to re­ fare Plan, at 17 Battery Place, ceive a copy may get one by writ­ ing to the SIU, 675 Fourth Avenue, New York 4, NY. Brooklyn 32, NY. . case. If the private traders program were placed under the cargo pref­ erence law, as It should be. It would give another badly needed shot in the arm to the US shipping industry. Agriculture doesn't care about the American merchant ma­ rine, as its record shows. This Is why the SIU and the other groups pushing for a strong Industry are constantly on guard against the agency's efforts to favor foreign shipping over our own. MID Supporting Rail Unions In Work Rules Fight WASHINGTON — The railroad industry seems determined to in­ troduce new work rules on July 30 despite union objections and pleas from the President and Con­ gress that they will call off their Tuesday deadline. Introduction of the new work rules, which would eliminate many jobs of railroad workers, will al­ most certainly lead to a strike by the rail unions. The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department has taken a stand sol­ idly In support of the railroad unions. In a telegram sent to MTD Port Councils around the nation, the MTD stated that it endorses the stand of the railroad unions and will support them in every way possible to bring about a suc­ cessful conclusion through collec­ tive bargaining. "If Congress adopts compul­ sory arbitration legislation for this dispute," the telegram states, "the same restrictions may be imposed in any future maritime strike." President Kennedy has proposed that Congress pass legislation which would place the dispute be­ fore the Interstate Commerce Commission and bar both the rail­ roads and the unions from taking any action until the ICC had made a decision. Proposal Under Fire This proposal has fome under heavy fire. Roy E. Davidson, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has stated that he could not think of "a worse place than the ICC to refer the dispute to." "The agency Is managementoriented and has no grasp of labor-management relation­ ships and principles," he said. A spokesman for the railroads ; stated this week; "As it stands now v| cur promulgation of work rules changes will be made effective at 12:01 AM Tuesday, July 30. I do not see any circumstances under which we would pull the notices down other than enactment of leg­ islation, which would automatically pull them down." The New York Times stated edi­ torially on July 24 that "what Pres­ ident Kennedy has Invited in his eagerness to achieve the effects of compulsory arbitration without using the politically obnoxious term, is a precedent under which the ICC might become permanent­ ly the court of last resort for dis­ putes that defy settlement under the creaky processes of the Rail­ way Labor Act." . . . , �ace SicM iEAWARERS Jnly 3M. MM LOG C/i/cfcosoMf On the Rocks \And So's The Chickasaw (And If This Head Doesn't Make Sense, Read The Story) WILMINGTON—On February, 7, 1962, the freighter Chickasaw (Waterman) was driven ip on the rocks of Santa Rosa Island during a severe winter storm. Almost a year and a half later, the Chickasaw is still on the rocks, but now she has ;ome company. The Chicka[aw's salvage vessel, also lamed the Chickasaw, owned SBCTTxlmr jMcph Vidpiaii, Social Security Director Experts See Trend To Shorter Hours Two roTcnunent ezperti have told a House subcommittee that thero. has been a continuing long-term trend in the United States towards a reduction in the hours of work "without sacrificing" living standards. In addition, they said, there is evidence that the customary time-andone-half "penalty pay" for overtime work has "lost some of its impact" as an incentive to spread employment. Neither Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nor Clarence T. Lundquist, the Labor Department's wage-hour admin­ istrator, passed judgment on proposals to reduce the statutory 40-hour workweek to create more jobs. Rep. Elmer J. Holland (D-Pa.), chairman of a select House Labor subcommittee exploring whether "circumstances permit or require another step forward in the reduction of hours of work," said the first phase of the hearings was limited to gathering information from statis­ ticians and economists. Later this summer—after its hearings on the operation of the manpower training program—the subcommittee will hear from advocates and opponents of shorter hours. Clague told the subcommittee that "historically, the US has been able to attain ever-increasing levels of output while at the same time reducing the time that the average worker must spend on the job." This continued reduction in work-*time, Clague said, "has been ah tries. He said the reqent steel integral part of the country's ad­ agreement providing for extended vance in living standards." vacations "may prove to be a Both Clague and Lundquist significant breakthrough" in re­ noted a continued widespread duction of hours by methods practice of overtime work. Lund­ "tailored to fit" the needs of quist cited a survey showing that various industries. Holland had set the tone for the in major industries some 28 per­ cent of employes worked over­ hearings with a statement declar­ time, averaging eight hours a ing that "all avenues of employ­ ment possibilities must be ex­ week. Economist Leon Keyserling, the plored" in view of five consecutive nation's chief economic adviser years of high-level unemployment during the Truman Administra­ and "predictions that the second tion, told the subcommittee that decade of automation will be felt the "true level" of unemployment by white collar workers, possibly is currently 9.4 percent and will more rapidly than the first decade get worse unless there are "pro­ affected the blue collar workers." found changes" in the economy. (Comments and suggestions are He said employers generally could invited by this Deparment and absorb the cost of cutting the can be submitted to this column basic workweek from 40 to 35 in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) hours because in recent years worker productivity has increased faster than labor costs. His own preference, Keyserling said, would be to increase the Federal budget by some $20 million to bring about greater employment at a 40-hour week. Other economists expressed NEW YORK. Juna 3—Chairman, Eart reservations about an immediate Shepard; Sacratary, Ed Mooney; Raadinf reduction in the statutory work­ Clark, Bill Hall. Minutes of all previous week to 35 hours, but some sug­ port meetings accepted. Port Agent re­ ported on shipping, shortage of foma gested other steps which could be ratings, blood bank. Report carried. taken. / President's report on SIUNA convention. AFL-CIO meetings, organizing, death of Swarthmore College Prof. A1 Grossman, new ships accepted. Sec­ Frank C. Pierson told the sub­ retary-Treasurer reported on election of committee that alternatives worth quarterly financial committee. NorfoUl Bull Line, Canadian beef. Re considering include extension of building. port carried. Welfare services report the overtime pay provisions of the presented. Communication from Secre­ tary-Treasurer regarding Canadian beef Wage-Hour Act to industries not accepted. Meeting excuses referred to now covered and boosting the Port Agent. Auditor's reports acccpti^d. N. DuBois elected to quarterly financial overtime penalty to double time committee under new business. UiscuBafter 44 hours in certain indus­ sion on several items during good and I oy the Chickasaw Salvage Com­ pany. is grounded on the rocks I peside the Chickasaw. The Chickasaw Salvage Comloany, which is beginning to seem /ery aptly named, has sent a third j vessel to salvage the Chickasaw 150 it can salvage the Chickasaw. [Breaking a very vicious circle, the [latest salvage vessel on the scene [is called the Gene. Here's how~it all started. The [freighter Chickasaw, a 439-foot |c-2, ran aground when she was [trapped in a driving rainstorm [while enroute to Wilmington from [japaM. An SOS brought the Coast I Guard and the 669th Air and ConItrol Squadron to the rescue and lall the Chickasaw's SlU crewmemIbers and passengers were brought •safely ashore and its cargo of Jap[anese imports was salvaged. Hull Bongtat Still rock-bound off Santa Rosa tslaad, Calif., whre she went The hull was eventually bought aground early in 1962, the Waterman freighter ChichoMW Iby a San Pedro marine engineer is pictured at the start of salvage operations a few weeks land the Chickasaw Salvage Comlater. Salvage vessels (foreground) and helicopter teamed Ipany was formed to salvage the up in early salvage work on the ship's cargo. SlU crew was I Chickasaw. The company bought la converted landing craft to do unhurt when the Chickasaw went on the rocks. [the salvage work and named the [vessel the Chickasaw because it [was salvaging the Chickasaw for [the Chickasaw Salvage Company. Last week, while engaged in the [salvage of the freighter Chicka[saw, the salvage vessel Chickasaw [also went aground on the rocks, [dumping eight crewmen overboard. [They at least were safety salvaged BALTIMORE—The assistant vice-president of the Balti­ [without complications. With both Chickasaws on the more & Ohio Railroad was elected president of this port's [rocks, another salvage vessel, 14iis [time the Gene, went out to salvage Propeller Club in a closely-contested vote last month. One of [the salvage vessel Chickasaw so the primary purposes of the"*^ [she could salvage the freighter Propeller Club, with branches candidacy was pushed by a rump [ Chickasaw. group. Santa Rosa Island, to which the all over the US, is to foster Besides his present post with the [freighter Chickasaw is stuck fast development of the merchant B&O, the new president has marine. [with three quarters of her hull worked for the Pennsulvania Rail­ Elected by a 68-53 margin, Wil­ road and had also been with the [rammed into a submerged reef, is [the major cause of the difficulties liam L. Ollerhead will be head Maryland Port Authority pre­ [the salvage work is encountering. of the Club's Baltimore branch viously. Barren, desolate, and far from civ­ when the national convention is Nationally, the head of the ilization, the island is pounded by held here this fall. The local con­ •Propeller Club is Troy R. Brown­ heavy swells most of the time, com­ test was over whether a "shipping ing, head of the Browning Line plicating tremendously the remov­ man" or a "railroad man" should and other companies under con­ al of the freighter Chickasaw's head the club. The former presi­ tract to the SlU on the Great dent had been a ship surveyor. I machinery and equipment. Lakes. In accepting the designation as Equipment Hauled Away Before the salvage vessel Chick­ president, Ollerhead gave what asaw joined her predecessor on was described as "impassioned" the rocks, she was hauling up to talk about the role of the railroads 30 tons of the freighter's equip­ in building the Port of Baltimore. He said the railroads had done ment away every trip she made more than any other group in for sale at San Pedro. working toward this goal. The freighter Chickasaw's hull Rate-Cutting Cited is gradually breaking up of its Railroad groups here and own accord without any help from the salvage crew. A hole large throughout the country have been enough to drive a truck through engaged in a concerted drive to opened up in a single day recent­ put domestic and inland water ly, and it's only a matter of time carriers out of business via the until the ship breaks in two under practice of selective rate-cutting. the pounding surf. The salvage Ollerhead discounted this as crew expects this to simplify their "normal" competition. task since the vessel is in only He added that any person about six feet of water. If she eligible to be a member of the breaks up by herself they won't Club should be able to run for have to cut her apart. office, and that if membership By the time the salvage opera­ were limited to those whose sole tion is completed, the remains of interest was the American mer­ the freighter Chickasaw will be chant marine, then 95 percent of scattered over a large area. Part the members are not eligible. of the ship will remain mired on The Club's nominating commit­ the rocky reefs of Santa Rosa Is­ tee had sought the reelection of Trio in focus here at the SlU hall in Philadelphia includes land. Her hull will be scattered incumbent Alfred E. Mitchell, be­ ll-r) Seafarers Jean Auger of the deck department, dis­ in several southern California cause they wanted someone from patcher Charles Stansbury and Bill Weise, FWT. Auger and shipyards, and it's anybody's ^uess the shipping industry to represent Weise were snapped at the dispatch counter recently when where her machinery and equip­ the club at the time of the na­ ment will eventually wind up. tional convention. Ollerhead's they came in to check on shipping. Railroad Man Now Head Of Bait 'Propeller Club' Philadelphia Foto-Fare SIU MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS welfare. Total present: 337. 4" t 4" PHILADELPHIA, June 4—Chairman, Frank Drozak; Secretary, Steve Zubovichi Reading Clerk, Charles Stansbury. Meet­ ing minutes from all ports accepted. Port Agent's report on shipping, SIUNA convention, blood bank, need for rater men accepted. President's May report accepted. Communication from SecretaryTreasurer on Canadian beef accepted. Auditor's reports accepted. Michael Schalestock elected under new busincsi to quarterly financial committee. Dis­ cussion in good and welfare on cck* machine for hall, larger shipping hoard, new tables. Total present: ti2. 4* 4 4" BALTIMORE, June 5—Chairman, Rax E. Dickey; Secretary, Diego Martinez; Reading Clerk, Tony Kastina, Minutea accepted from all previous port meetings. Port Agent's report on shipping. SIUNA convention, welfare benefits, quarterly financial committee. Bull Line accepted. President's report for May accepted. Secretary-Treasurer's communication re­ garding Canadian beef accepted. Meeting excuses referred to dispatcher. Auditor'a reports accepted. George Litcheficid elected as member of quarterly financial committee during new business. Total present: 125. MTuencmvAL?, cmSIUHALl M/UEVIAmY/ �Paic Nta« LOG W M, IMS '5 Crewmembers (l-r) H. John$on, pantryman; A. Payne, 3rd cook; M. Zepedo, OS; S. Miller, OS; R. D. Boieman, metsman, and B. Carter, wiper, made good use of the Panoceanic Faith's recreation room during long voyage. Topping gear proved to be hot work, so Seafarers D. Ketcbum, OS; ship's delegate J. R. Batsen, DM, and R. Byrne, AB, took some time out to cool off a bit, have a smoke and enjoy a coffee break. SHIP'S DELEGATE: 5S PANOCEANIC FAITH LAUDED ON GOOD TRIP Among its virtues, the Faith is a good feeder, thanks to the galley ministerings of chief cook C. Fontenot, shown doing up some steaks to perfection. The Panoceanic Faith (Panoceanic Tankers) Isn't a new ship by any means but, ac­ cording to her SlU crew and ship's delegate James R. Batson, she's one of the best. The Faith carried a cargo of grain from Galveston to Casablanca, then hit Le Havre, Southampton and Bremerhaven before heading back to the States, for a stop at Baltimore before paying off in New Orleans. Coffeetime in the engineroom found J. JcKobs, 3rd engineer; V. R, Limon, FWT, and L. V. Springer, oiler, ready and willing to have a picture taken. They were soon back at work keeping the plant running. Wipers B. Carter (left) and H. Overton, Jr., were relaxing for a smoke in the ship's machine shop when this shot was taken somewhere between Galveston and Casablanca. Not only the ship but the crew was also kept shipshape during the voyage, thanks to the haircutting prowess of Tony Tinoco, salon messman and ship's barber, shown here giving a shipmate the once-over-lightly. �UD5; ••-"I_;-.- SEAFAREItS tOO Paire Ten 8IU Pensioners Get Checks Oil Pipeline Dead-Ends In Potomac F ni r V' IB By Sidney Margollm Crisis In Health, Care, Aged Plans BALTIMORE—The $350 mlllioii oil pipeline from Texas to New York has reached an impasse at the Potomac River. Someone forgot to get clearance from the State of Maryland so the pipeline could be laid across the bottom of the Potomac. The state owns the bottoms of all navigable waters within Mary­ land boundaries, Apparently those responsible for clearances and rights-of-way didn't go beyond the Department of Geo­ logy of the Maryland Bureau of Mines and the United States Corps of Army Engineers for the Potomac River. When the pipeline construction approached the Potomac, some questions were asked about going through land on the Maryland side of the river. It was then that it was learned that the proper clear­ ance for the Potomac had not been obtained. Could Replace 91 T-2s It's been estimated that once the pipeline is in full operation, it could replace the equivalent of 94 T-2 type tankers and eliminate thousands of jobs. Nine oil com­ panies including Cities Service have banded together to form the controversial Colonial Pipeline Company. The clearance issue now is going before the Board of Public Works —composed of the state's top of­ ficials—who say they want all the Information on all aspects of the Colonial Pipeline before they ap­ prove any right-of-way. Some of the officials were astounded to hear how many coastwise tankers would be replaced by the pipeline. So the project now rests until the Board of Public Works acts. A pair of recent SlU pensioners are shown picking up their first monthly checks at Wilmington (top) and New York. In the West Coast port, Harry J. Cronin (top, left) 60, re­ ceives his $150 start on retirement from G. McCartney. Joe DiGeorge made the presentation to oldtimer Hugh Dick, 76, after the membership meeting in headquarters. Japan Trims Deck Gang Jobs TOKYO—The Japanese love affair with automated ships shows no si^s of relenting. Japan's third automated vessel will be completed and ready to go into service by the end of this year. Undertaking tiie latest exemptions on earnings in intei> $14 to $16 per ton more than con­ ventional vessels. Upon its com­ project, which is designed to national trade. pletion at the end of the year, the permit a drastic reduction in Among the features of the new vessel will be assigned to the the size of deck personnel, is the Kawaski Dockyard Company, which has already laid the keel of the 475-foot, 9,050-gros3ton vessel. Its design will permit operation with a crew of only 29 men. The construction of the new vessel is further evidence of the importance the Japanese govern­ ment places on the maintenance of a strong national-flag-fieet. The government offers such incentives to shipbuilders and owners as op­ erating subsidies and partial tax ship will be a closed-circuit tele­ vision Installation, which will en­ able ship officers stationed on the bridge to supervise the raising and lowering of anchors and to over­ see the handling of lines when the ship is docking. The vessel will also carry extensive automatic data recording devices that will eliminate the need for making manual log entries and other entries and other tasks involved In running the ship. The cost of the ship will be ap­ proximately $2.9 million, about Japan-Australia run of the KKK Line. The new vessel will join two other automated vessels that have been constructed by the Japanese. Last year, Mitsui Shipbuilding launched the 8,205-gross-ton diesel motorship Kasugasan Maru, whose automated engineroom enables the ship to operate with a crew of only 35 men. A ship of her size would ordinarily be operated by a 55man crew. In addition, another automated vessel, the Taikosan Maru of Mitsui Steamship, started hauling crude petroleum to Japan earlier this year. The vessel features the latest in Japanese shipboard automation. Some countries, such as Nor­ way, are trying an approach other than automation in attempts to cut the size of crews on vessels. The Norwegian Shipping Federation is studying the possibilities for mak­ ing the functions of unlicensed deck and engine personnel imerchangeable. The theory is that a reduction in manning can be accomplished by using unlicensed seamen in a variety of deck and engine Jobs and maneuvering them so that they might handle a mooring line on deck and turn to later in the engineroom. on **ro|U);lne", work. (First of a two-part report on current health insurance problenw and the new <)ver-65 plans). A crisis in health Insurance has developed as the result of rising medical costs and the inability so far of unions and management to control these costs. Not only do retired people find it difficult to buy adequate health insurance at prices they can afford, but even the group insurance of active workers has been diluted by rising costs, labor insurance ex­ perts report. In fact, the present system of indemnity insurance pro­ vided by many labor contracts itself has contributed to the leaping costs. Indemnity insurance usually provides specific allowances, such as $15 a day towards hospital care, or $150 for an appendectomy or $3 for office visits. But as doctors and health services have raised their fees far beyond the allowances paid by the health plans, even insured families are being compelled to pay an increasingly large share of their medical bills out of pocket. Your "fringe dollar" has been buying less vid less medical care. Higher benefits have been negotiated in many health-insurance plans during the past four years in an attempt to catch up with actual costs. But even the new payment levels have not been able to overhaul the climbing costs of hospital and medical care. The whole pattern of set allowances is coming apart at the seams, says Jerome Pollack, director of the New York Labor-Management Council of Health & Welfare Plans. Medical costs have climbed faster than other living expenses. Even since the 1957-1959 period, medical costs have risen 16 percent com­ pared to an overall rise in the retail price index of 6 percent. In fact, there is reason to believe the index may not fully reflect the actual jump in medical costs. For example, Irving Block, associate director of the New York Labor-Management Council, points out that the index doesn't give sufficient weight to the dramatic rise in hospital "ancillary serviced" like lab fees, drugs and dressings. These have risen even more than room charges. Block advises. Ancillary charges now usually total as much as the room charges and for a short, critical stay can be even higher. On the West Coast especially, where indemnity plans have boomed and in turn have pushed up medical fees, an actual runaway inflation of costs have occurred. For example, hospitals charge $30 and sometimes more for semiprivate care In Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, compared to $19-$25 in such cities as St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washing­ ton, Pittsburgh, Chicago and most others, An-'office visit will set you back $6-$7 In the California cities but only $4-$5 in New York and a number of other big towns. You can have a baby for littie more than $100 in Cincinnati, but will pay over $200 in San Francisco, presumably for the same size. A tonsiilectomy will cost a Detroit or Philadelphia family only $70-75, but a Californian, $100. A Los Angeles resident must pay $10 on the average to have a tooth filled. The-same ache costs $5-$7 to correct in most other cities. Even an ordinary cough medicine like terpin hydrate costs $1.80 or more for a measly four ounces in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seat­ tle compared to $1 or a shade more in many other large cities. Nor are high medical costs confined to the West Coast. Despite the South's low wages, some of the charges in cities like Atlanta are higher than in many Northern and Midwest cities. Go to any of a number of other cities, Boston for example, and you will find noticeably high hospital and doctor fees not far below the West Coast fees. The new crisis in medical costs actually is a crisis of affluence. Pol­ lack believes. In the 1930's we had a crisis In medical care too. That was at a time when there was no health insurance. Today we are spending a solid $24 billion a year for medical care but have not learned how to manage it to get the most and best care. Now that the present indemnity insurance too is proving unsatisfac­ tory, labor groups and managements are having to seek a new tack. Management has become concerned too. When collective bargaining Is over, the employer has to worry about how much care the fringe dol­ lar he has agreed to, will really buy. The new tack taken by a group of 15 welfare plans in the New York area, and being explored by those in several cities, including the SIU Welfare Plan, is to band together to seek ways to control local medical costs. In cities like Rochester and Schenectady, NY, where there Is one big employer, the employer sometimes is able to bring pressure on the doctors and hospitals to restrain costs. But in towns where there are many relatively small welfare plans, the only way to exert influence on costs is through a council such as the new New York group. One of the main costs that needs expioring is hospital charges. Pol­ lack advises. The "crisis of affluence" has led both to over-utilization and to duplication of facilities, since at present there are few controls on where hospitals should be built. Present forms of health insurance themselves encourage over-utili­ zation by failing to provide for diagnostic services outside the hospital. Pollack points out. Sometimes a doctor hospitalizes a patient so he won't have to pay out of pocket for tests that are covered in a hospital but not in a doctor's office, not because the doctor is dishonest but be­ cause he's humane. Pollack lists four frequent loopholes in insurance. These are useful to watch for, whether you buy insurance in a group or individually: • Insurance Is almost always confined to hospitalized illness. Sensible Insurance would also cover diagnostic tests outside the hospital. • Items of severe need like rehabilitation are not insured. • Surgical payments are limited to Indemnity fees much below actual charges. • Drugs are not covered. The "crisis of affluence," by pushing up medical costs also has heightened the medical poverty of most under-insured groups, such as lower-income non-union families, and older folks. (NEXT: Can tho new "Over-6S" Insurance |dan help you or your elderly relatlvefi?), , • i ,, , , i /. u �Jo& M uW SEAFARERS COPS nspom LOG Pace Elevea No 'GAos#' —n AFL-CIO COIMMin iiii M I NAM POLITICAL UNIT OFF THE PAD. They've been talking about It for a year. Now, finally, the Business-Industry Political Action Com­ mittee, fathered by the National Association of Manufacturers, is off the launching pad. Money will be raised from individual "memberships" costing $10 to $99 a year. The cash will be earmarked for conservative candidates for Congress in marginal election areas. The NAM has twisted itself into a pretzel denying BIPAC is its of­ ficial political arm. It claims only that it "approved the idea" and will give it "support and encouragement." Such "support and encourage­ ment" will take the form of initial financial aid as a "loan." Chances are the loan will never be called. The US Chamber of Commerce was quick to deny any official connection with BIPAC. At the same time, the NAM declared BIPAC would have no official ties with its equivalent an the American Medical Association (American Medical Political Com­ mittee—AMPAC). However, NAM confessed to a "natural community of interests" with tlie AM A operation, a singular understatement. The fact'is that a very strong "community of interest" exists among the NAM, Chamber and AMA in their political viewpoints and goals. They belong together every bit as much as the Andrews Sisters or the Marx Brothers. And it is likely that what starts out to be a "community of interest" in theory will wind up soon as a community of interest in fact. Just about a year ago, COPE predicted the emergence of a powerful new political alliance between big business and big medicine. That alliance is now in its early stages. It won't be long before it's full grown and flexing a lot of muscle. t 4. t CHAMBER HONES BUDGET AX. The US Chamber of Commerce stands firm as a stump in a petrified forest against "waste in govern­ ment." What it considers waste is revealed in its latest request for budget cuts, contained in a letter to a Senate appropriations subcom­ mittee. The Chamber want $1.8 billion cut from President Kennedy's budget for the Labor Department, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and related agencies. In addition, it demands $1.2 billion be lopped from the omnibus education proposal. Further, it would dump the $200 million sought for the youth employ­ ment opportunities program and proposals for construction of waste and sewage treatment facilities; $138 million from the Public Health Service budget; nccriy $100 million for manpower retraining. 4) SUPREME COURT PLANS. The US Supreme Court probably will clear away more of the underbrush that chokes equitable state legisla­ tive apportionment and smothers the effectiveness of the city dweller's vote. The Court has promised to hear arguments next year on cases in­ volving apportionment in Virgina, Alabama, Maryland and New York. It will also hear cases concerning division of congressional districts in New York and Georgia. Possibly emerging from the decision on state legislative apportion­ ment will be guidelines to what comprises fair representation under the constitution. In its decision 15 month ago, upholding the right of the courts to hear cases challenging legislative apportionment, the high court failed to establish a formula. If a fair formula is devised by the court, it may herald the end of horse-and-buggy state government dom­ inated by conservatives representing a minority of the population. The AFL-CIO Union Label & Service Trades Department has undertaken a campaign to help in­ crease demand for "Festal" brand canned vegetables prepared by the Owatonna (Minn.) Packing Co. and carrying the union label of Pack­ inghouse Workers Local 442. "Fes­ tal" products ate top quality and are now available in stores in North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kan­ sas, Montana, Illinois and Mis­ souri. The area of distribution is expected to expand. The threat of disaster rides with every ship that puts out to sea. It is a clear and ever-present danger to all seafaring men. We were grimly reminded of this fact dur­ ing the past week when news came across the wire that the Norwegian tanker Honnor and the SlU-manned containership San Juan had collided on Sunday some 200 miles off the Virginia coast. The San Juan was enroute from New York to Puerto Rico with 300 loaded contaihers, and the Honnor was in­ bound from Venezuela with a full cargo of oil. The later announcement that there was no loss of life aboard either ship brought great relief to all concerned. But it did not dimin­ ish the awareness that always on the seas to workers who quit and to the lurk danger and possible tragedy, against estates of those who have died in which those who follow the sea must con­ stantly be alert. the meantime. fs, i, i, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, which fought union recogni­ tion during a bitter 46-day strike in 1959, has signed a union shop contract for 1,750 employees with Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees Local 1199. Spe­ cified wage increases are provided for in the first three years of a five-year pact, and wage reopeners thereafter are subject to arbitra­ 4" 4« 4« tion. Previously, Local 1199 signed A five-year battle by members a first contract with St. John's of Building Service Employes' Lo­ Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn. cal 524 has won a backpay award 4' 4« 4" of $500,000 for 105 employes of the city public works department The US Court of Appeals in In Woburn, Mass. The city's fight Washington has been asked by the against paying the workers a 25- National Labor Relations Board to cent hourly pay increase, voted order the Kohler Company to re­ by the city council in 1958, col­ instate 44 workers whom the firm lapsed when judges of the Su­ has refused to rehire since the end preme Judicial Court of Massa­ of a six-year strike by the United chusetts ruled that four successive Auto Workers. The board filed a mayor's vetoes of council-approved civil contempt proceeding accusing pay raises were unlawful. Raises the Sheboygan, Wis., plumbing averaging above $30 a week were ware manufacturer of failing to put into effect the following week. comply with a 1962 court decree. The city may have to float a spe­ The order called for reinstatement cial bond issue to finance the of workers who had been on strike raises, and to p.ay pro rata shares between 1954 and 1960. The Railroad Dispute Out of the millions of words which have been written about the current work rules dispute between railway labor and manage­ ment, the most significant, we think, are those contained in the huge advertisements which railroad management has been run­ ning in the nation's major newspapers in recent days. In big, black, bold letters, railroad man­ agement asks: ISN'T ARBITRATION BETTER THAN A NATION-WIDE RAIL STRIKE? The railroads go on to assert, in their ad­ vertisements, that "The only remaining solution (to the work rules dispute) appears to be action by Congress requiring both parties to submit to arbitration" and that "Congress can serve the public interest best by promptly enacting legislation requiring a settlement of tbe issues in tliis dispute." This is of extreme sirfnificance to Seafar­ ers, not only because tlv^ hundreds of SIU members who work fo'- the railroads are di­ rectly concerned b" 'h'^ f^i^nute, but also because the railrcaJs' i :^-mmendation of Government-imposed arbitration of an in­ dustrial conflict—compulsory arbitration— poses a threat to the collective bargaining rights of all Seafarers and other workers in the transportation field. As Seafarers well know, the proponents of compulsory arbitration have chosen the maritime industry as the testing ground for their proposals, and legislation calling for the compulsory arbitration of labor-manage­ ment disputes in maritime has already been introduced -in Congress—^notably the bill introduced in the House by Representative Bonner, chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee. Spokesmen for the SIU and AFL-CIO Mar­ itime Trades Department have not only de­ nounced this bill, and opposed it in testimony before the Bonner committee, but have con­ sistently pointed out the dangers to all trade unionists inherent in this type of legislation. Now that such flagrant attempts are being made to extend the compulsory arbitration concept beyond the bounds of maritime, it is apparent that these SIU and MTD warnings were well founded. It is now becoming increasingly evident that management—in this case railway management specifically—has no intention or desire to shoulder its real responsibilities in order to make free collective bargaining work, but instead wishes to pass the whole matter over to Government, obviously in the belief that Government action will be to their best interests. It is obvious that these management in­ terests, having seen the comoulsory arbitra­ tion ball begin to roll in maritime, are now in­ tent upon making it snowball, and extending the comnul.sory arbitration princinle to the entire transportation field, if not to other vital segments of American industry. Management's action in this resnect rep­ resents a grave a<^sault on the ri<Jht to bar­ gain freelv, which American trade iinjoni<^ts gained only after manv years of strusfple, and aR trad" vnionist.s must be prepared to meet the threat. > % �SEAFARERS fage Twelve July 99. -IMS LOG SrC7 AXtRXVAXiS and The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare plan and a total of $11,000 in benefits was paid (any apparent delay in payment of claim is normally due to late filing, lack of a beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates): Backs Losmar On Suggestions To the Editor: I'd like to comment on the welfare suggestions carried in the letter from the SS Losmar in the LOG on June 28. I think a man with 12 to 15 years of seatime should be allowed to retire on a pension regardless of his age, so that new people can move into the industry. I certainly agree with I certainly wish all seamen who are active SIU members the best of luck, as I know I would really love to be sailing again and ship with all my friends in the SIU. 1 also hope you'll keep sending me the LOG. As you can imagine,- I don't get around much anymore and stick pretty close to this beau­ tiful coast town that 1 live in. Thanks again to everyone in the SIU for seeing to it that these retirement checks keep coming. Donald D. Dambrino Robert Lee Littleton, 53: a Liver Juan Mayor, 62: Brother Mayor died of heart failure at the ailment was Brother Littleton's cause of death US Naval Hospi­ on March 27, tal, Philadelphia, 1963 in Portland, Pa., on May 29, Ore. Sailing in 1963, A member the engine de­ of the SIU since 4 4 4 partment, he had 1955, he had joined the SIU sailed in the in 1939. His steward depart­ brother, Cleroy ment. A friend, V. Littleton, of C. Waters, of All letters to the Editor for To the Editor: Mobile, Ala., Philadelphia, was When the Seafarers Welfare publication in the SEAFARERS named administratrix of his estate. survives. Burial was in Mobile. LOG must be signed by the Plan came through with a check Burial was at the US National Total benefits: $500. writer. Names will be withheld cbvering 70 percent of the Cemetery, Beverly, NJ. Total surgical and hospital biljs that upon request. t 4. benefits: $500. would have placed us in debt Knhina Davis, 51: Brother Davis for a very long time, we were t i i t t 3» the Losmar crew on that. died of cancer in Houston, Texas, better able to appreciate the I also feel that a two-year Isham B. Beard; 53: Brother on May 10, 1963. Alva O, Moreland; 41: Brother value of this protection. grace period on welfare eligibil­ Moreland died of accidental causes Beard died of bronchitis on April He joined the 1 guess it takes something ity should be given to SIU men SIU in 1958 and in Groves, Texas, 18, 1963 at the whose books are in good stand­ like we went through to make sailed in the en­ on'May 25, 1963. Galveston, Texas, ing if they want to work ashore people understand how im­ gine department. USPHS Hospital. He sailed in the for a while. It's impossible to portant these benefits are. Surviving is his steward depart­ He had been a Frank Reid & Family keep a job ashore and get the cousin, Jean Eva ment and had member of the 4 4 4 necessary time in on a ship Fontana, of joined the SIU in SIU since 1950 under the present rule. Houston. Burial 1957. His sister, and had shipped For the members on the SS was at Forest Lela Mae Morein the steward Transbay, my many thanks for Park Cemetery land, of Groves, department. Sur­ their help aher 1 was injured To the Editor: in Houston. Total benefits: $500. Texas, survives. viving is his 1 would like to let you know aboard the ship while in Paki­ Burial was at wife, Louise M. how much my daughter and 1 stan. Without their help I would Oak Bluff Memorial Park Ceme­ Beard, of Medford, Mass. Burial have been left without a doctor appreciate what the Seafarers Benjamin Trottie; 74: Brother tery, Port Neches, Texas. Total was at Oak Grove Cemetery, Bed­ Welfare Plan has done for her. or hospitalization. benefits: $4,000. ford, Mass. Total benefits: $500. " Trottie died of a heart ailment on She has been very sick and if John K. Christopher April 12, 1963 in it had not been for the welfare New York City. All of the following SIU families have received a $200 4 4 4 benefits, she would have been He joined the maternity benefit, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the in the hospital so much longer. SIU in 1944 and baby's name, represening a total of $2,400 in maternity With my husband gone much shipped in the benefits and a maturity value of $300 in bonds: of the time, it would have been steward depart­ To the Editor: very hard for me to handle this ment until he Jack Lee Cooley, bom May 22, Kelly Marie Turk, born June 10, 1 received two months' pen­ burden. The welfare plan has went on pension 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ben­ 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Baker sion checks at the same time done so much for me. 1 want to in 1954. He is jamin Cooley, Citronelle, Ala. R. Turk, Uriah, Ala. and boy was 1 proud and glad thank you all. survived by his Thank God, our daughter is to see them. I belong to one i t. t. sister, Mrs. Mary home now and doing fine. of the finest unions anyone Myrna Tigmo, bom June 2, 1963, Steve Viscarra, born June 14, Henderson, of Fayettevllle, NC. Mrs. Vivian Palmer could ever hope to belong to. to Seafarer and Mrs. Manuel Tig- 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Burial was at Northside Cemetery, mo, Brooklyn, NY. Fayettevllle. Total benefits: $1,000. Viscarra, Baltimore, Md. t. 1(. t 4 t Vincent Flores, bom March 26, Wayne Sovich, born June 24, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pedro 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael T. Flores, Baltimore, Md. Sovich, Bayville, NJ. & i. t. ii. a, ii, Seafarers are urged at all times when in port to visit their brother members and shipmates in the Christina Lnjan, born May 21, Michael Anthony Prota, bom hospitals. The following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospitals around the country. June 16, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joe E. George Prota, Philadelphia, Pa. Lujan, San Francisco, Calif. John Givens • Pedro Reyes USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL EsteU Godfrey Roosevelt Robbing NORFOLK. VIRGINIA NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA ii $> It Elmer Hansen Jose Rodriguez Oliver Ange Henry Riley Samuel Bailey John Ohanasian Richard Haskins. Jr. D. Santiago Earl Congleton WUey Strlcklin Billy Orbach Richard Fontenot, born June 11, Brnce Kevin Altstatt, born May E. Constantino Joseph Scully Thomas Hickey Jessie Jones George WiUiams Paul Cook William Padgett 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wiltz 28, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Robert Joseph Shefuleskl William Jordan William Mason Julian Wilson Cumberland Clrlo Ramos James Shiber A. Kankeas Ralph McDaries Fontenot, Port Arthur, Texas. Ramose Elliott William Roberts W. Altstatt, Victoria, Texas. Manuel Silva Philip Koral Anton Evenson Calvin Rome USPHS HOSPITAL i. i[. i. lb James Spilioteg Jesus Landron James Gouldman Aubry Sagent STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK A. Longueria Thomas Tighe Corrle Shartzer James Hand Michael Tony Beale, born May Lisa Faye AUman, born June 11, Herbert Fernando Vargas Pedro Arellano Dominlck DiSel Bent Madsen Louie Storie Hart WUllam Vidal Joseph Bailey Warren JFederer O. E. Olsen 28, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Law- 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Howard Herring Finis Strickland Francis White Cristobal Belarosa Joseph fried George O'Rourko Adolph Swinson Albert Hammac ton J. Beale, Tampa, Fla. W. Allman, Jr., South HUl, Va. Frank Fromm Ching S. You Anthony Brania John Plekos Harvey Thomas Daniel Hutto William H. Pierce, 67; Brother Pierce died of natural causes at the Veterans Ad­ ministration Hos­ pital in Hamp­ ton, Va., on June 8, 1963. An SIU member since 1941, he had shipped i n the steward depart­ ment. Surviving is his wife, Daisy Pierce, of Norfolk, Va. Burial was at Poplar Run Cemetery, Driver, Va. Total benefits: $4,000. Praises Union Welfare Assist Welfare Plan Helps Daughter Pension Checks Really Welcome EVERY MONTHS If any SIU ship hat no library or needs a new supply of books, contact any SIU hall. YOUR SIU SHIP'S LIBRARY '»i!. Ruffln Thomas Herbert Jackson Robert Trlppe Thomas Jenkins William Wade Walter Johnson James Walker Steve Kolina Roland Wilcox Theodore Lee Kenneth MacKenzle James Williams Anthony Maxwell John Word Hurliss Minkler USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Harry Baum A. M. Marhala Colon Boutwell William MiUison George Champlin Fred Re'molt Luis Cruz Walter Sikor.skl D. R. Hampton Kenneth Wight F. A. Lagimas USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MARYI.AND John P. Doyle Charles Kerns Robert-Duff Gustave Loeffer James Farren Stanley Vernuz Michael Gaudlo Wm. Weatherspoon Wayne Hartman USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Tlnerman Lee James Barnes William Lawless Kermlt Bymaster Felipe Narvaez Leslie Dean John Rawza Joseph Dudley Ernest Russell Adelin Fruge L. Reinchuck William Fletcher Kimon Fafoutakls M. E. Schlfanl James Sullivan ' Tomas Gutierrez Walter Sprinkle .Tames Gates Charles Scbcehans Charley Harvey Andrew Lynch USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GEORGIA R. Christensen C. Gray Ignazio D'Amlco Joseph Miller EmUe Gerlch USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASS. Joseph Aslin Auston Athklnson Charles Robinson Auslln Ilennlng Ralph Caramante WeU Denny Edward Garrity David Gemeiver Prove Eligibility For Hospital $ Seafarers being admitted to a Public Health hospital are urged to carry with them their Union book plus proof of eli­ gibility for SIU benefits; namely, a record that they have at least 90 days seatime during the previous year and at least one day during the previous six months. Failure to have the proper credentials will cause a delay in payments to the Sea­ farer. If the Seafarer is admitted "to a hospital which is not a FHS institution, he should contact the Union immediately. The Union will arrange with the USPHS for a transfer to a Pub­ lic Health hospital in his vicin­ ity. The PHS will not pick up the hospital tah for private hospital care, unless it is noti­ fied in advance. J. A. Raftopolus Bernard Zeller M. A. Reyes USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Gerald Algernon Leneard Higgant Erwin Jennings Robert Banister Benjamin Deibler Thomas Lehay Clsiirle Doyal George McKnew Adrian Durocher Arthur Madsen Abe Gordon Max Olson James Grantham Charles Slater Joseph Gross Willie Young Burl Haire USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE James Mcgee Bernard Walsh BiUy Russell SAILORS" SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Alberto Gutierrez William Kenny Thomas Isaksen MOUNT WILSON STATE HOSPITAL MOUNT WILSON. MARYLAND Charles Ackerman VA HOSPITAL WEST ROXBURY, MASS. Raymond Arscnault JACKSON HOSPITAL MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA Darwin Carroll USPHS HOSPITAL LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY William Gulley VA HOSPITAL JACKSON. MISS. Harry Luzader PINE CREST HAVEN NURSING HOME COVINGTON. LOUISIANA Frank Martin VA HOSPITAL NORTHAMPTON. MASS. Maurice Roberts US SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, DC , WUllam Thomson • : • . �Jal7 t9, Un 'Sea Life' SEAFARERS Pare Ttairtcca LOG ly Jim Mottf. The SIU crew of the Seatrain New Jersey (Seatrain) writes that the "US Merchant Ma­ rine checker champion" will be at Mobile during the Labor Day holiday to take on all com­ ers. The "champ" holds out an invite to all Seafarers who may in port then to drop in and attend the "Gulf Coast championship" contest, slated a lot more cheerful for all hands, mains the same and all things must change in time. Aboard the Sea­ to be held at 510 Broad, South, he added. in Mobile. Apparently the crew is touting shipn>ate Fred Kretxler, a deck de­ partment veteran who's been play­ ing checkers In matches all over the world for better than 20 years. Kretzler bills himself as the "US merchant marine checker cham­ pion" and as an ex-Navy champ 'I dunno. He always stands like that. Claims he's a direct descendant of the Vikings .. ." Democracy's Salesmen Are Often Seafarers By Seafarer William E. Calefato, Book C-936 (An old hand at story-telling, Seafarer William E. Calefato offers a look into the activities of some of his shipmates during their travels in India. He ships in the engine department out of the West Coast.) Seafarers who roam around the world are affected by the plight of children in countries where poverty is rampant and, in their own way, they act as ambassadors of domocracy. This is very true in India, since very few visitors other than seamen see the real thing. A cross-section of hi^manity at its best and worst gathers at the'waterfront. During a visit to Vizagapatam some time ago, some of the crew "adopted" a few of the children, and dressed and fed them. Everything went well for all the benefactors except for one named George. George was trapped while he was mailing a letter at the post ofRce, an outdoor type where customers stand in the street and conduct busi­ ness through windows. This exposed him to public view and soon a crowd of children, women with babies, old men and cripples, gathered around. Everywhere George saw an outstretched hand. It was not that there were too many hands for him. It was just that to please one he must please all, so the only thing to do was to be stubborn and refuse all. But not George. He disposed of all his available coins, but the crowd still followed the rickshaw for several blocks. George wished he had chosen a faster driver, who was one of the townsfolk and had to cooperate by letting the people keep up with his vehicle—and George. When the traffic got too heavy, the crowd dispersed and George started on a shopping tour. That was when a little girl hitched a ride In his rickshaw. Usually, as is expected by the kids, the ride ends at a store where they are out­ fitted in whatever clothes they like. More than a half dozen Seafarers besides George "adopted" small children on that trip. Pete, the crew messman, even brought his little girl to the dock, which took on a festive mood when the youngster performed an Impromptu dance for her hosts. Small alms In the way of candy, chewing gum, bread, other sweets and coins were passed on to the waiting children and mothers. The neighborhood dogs also made regular visits to the ship to get their meals. Their fights over scraps were stopped when Pete and a shipmate carried the food to them and distributed It, instead of tossing morsels over the rail. This made quite an impression. The Americans were kind to their kids, and were even teaching democracy to the dogs. Still, George was the man the townsfolk really figured as a soft touch. He was the American "Rajah," and they called for him to come ashore again and again. Each time, he was relieved of whatever coins and small cash he had. On one occasion, he was buying a dress for his "adopted" daughter, when the crowd spotted a handful of rupees he was holding and started to wail and chant. This was a fortune to all of them, and he was spending It on one youngster. George took a ten-rupee note and passed it to his driver, who said he'd get change and divide it up among the kids. But the crowd wouldn't have it, and it looked for a while like a riot was cpming up. The crowd didn't trust the rickshaw driver. In a queenly manner, "Jeanie," 7, picked up the note from the driver, returned it to George, and said: "Give to this boy. He give to all." Hidden in the crowd was a child about five years old. The crowd's -eyes were on George; this was the big decision. Then there was the same assuring smile from "Jeanie" that had vamped him the first time, and that saved the day. George gave the boy the money, the crowd cheered and went away. George had had it. Not another coin to anyone—ever. Not even to the old legless man who was beside the road, whose voice George heard calling him front a block away after he had passed by. It was too much. George stopped his rickshaw and walked back to the old man with a rupee note. He was rewarded with a sound from the man's throat that was both a thanks and a prayer—sounds that are hard to forget. The crowd had gathered was also pleased. They were surprised to see that a "Rajah" had walked back to help a crippled man, one of their own who couldn't make his way like all the other alms-seekers. , Kretder Cosonova to boot. He Includes a suitcase among his gear boosting his "title" wherever he goes. t A hearty vote of thanks from the steward department of the SS Producer (Marine Carriers) was given to the deck department and the chief mate for arranging and carrying out the paintings of the galley and messroom. The "won­ derful cooperation" of deck de­ partment and mate, said Seafarer Ray Casanova, made short work of this chore. Both compartments are SI 't> it When the John B. Waterman (Waterman) began a recent trip. Its SIU steward department started out feeding the crew as If the vessel was a "hotel," according to ship's delegate Van Parker. Most of the gang thought the pace of the cooking activity would slow down after a while, but all hands were pleasantly surprised when the grade and preparation of the chow kept running at top level. As the trip continued, Parker notes, "the better the food got." All SIU men on the John E. joined in a round of cheers for the fine work of their fellow Seafarers in the galley. S S ii Some serious thinking about future contract provisions has been started by Seafarers aboard the Robin Hood (Robin). G. Stan­ ley, making the motion, called for the SIU negotiating committee to think about an overtime provision specifying that anyone in the deck or engine department called to work overtime after 5 PM or be­ fore 8 AM be paid a minimum of two hours OT. The suggestion re­ ceived . the unanimous backing of the SIU crew. "The old order changeth, yield­ ing place to the new," is an ex­ pression typifying that nothing re- PINN TRADER (P«nn), Jun* 1— Chairman, D. I. Hdwardo Secretary, J. W. Butler. It waa agreed that crew would not dgn on next trip uniesi refrigerator haa been repaired or replaced. Stephen Emerson was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Suggcstion made that each member donate $1.00 to reimburse ship's delegate for personal funds spent on behalf of crew. Any surplus to go to ship's fund. Suggestion made that the Union notify aU shipping companies about change in rate for cleaning Ikiaan Ch.^?man Chairman, ol?ro. OeorBe nibmitted in letter. Ship'i delegate thanked the crew for ita cooperation In keeping longahoremen and aaleimen out of recreation room, and In helping to, keep the crew roesi clean. Vote of thanks to the steward department for first-rate Job. $6.19 In ship's fund. —— SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain Lines), June IS—Chairman, Peter A. seranoi Secretary, Edward Pollse. ,1343 j„ .^Ip's fund. Motion that committee check Into the feasibility of SIU pension plan for those who M.W SO efficient seatlme. Discussion on Mike, /i«.t.r7 """ha" fixedalr-condltloner In Edgecrew Mike; ^ upon arrival In iiiow 'compl'etf dSa'^d'^^o^^'Sl?- Tepdr.. censed men. Matter wiU be turned over to boarding patrolman. $29 In BEAUREOARD (Sea-Land), June IS ship's fund. HoUon to contact head- —Chairman, Recca Matarangolo; Sec­ retary, Don Hicks. Disputed OT In deck department to be settled at payoff. Motion that company provide transportation from and to docks to :1 Newark airport. train Savannah (Seatrain), this Idea was again proven both effect­ ive and true when a new ship's delegate was elected. A hearty round of applause and cheers showed outgoing delegate J. Bartlett how much his fellow Seafarers appreciated the job he did during his span at the post. New delegate Yew Barnes elected with the best wishes of all SIU men aboard Is Chester YowSI SI S The crew of the Alice Brown (Bloomfield) comments on the regular USPHS inspections thusly. Though It appreciates the value of regular check-ups and Is fully aware of the necessity for having them, It asks that inspections be held at periodic Intervals Instead of being called at every port and, sometimes, on Saturdays and Sun­ days. The inspections do cause a bit of trouble and inconvenience for all hands, they say, and keep the steward department from do­ ing its normal chores. S S S Here's a helpful hint on how to avoid the rush to use the washing machine, from aboard the Steel Worker (Isthmian). Meeting chair­ man Byron Barnes says that the bulletin board in the laundry room will be used henceforth as a call board to notify all hands who want to wash their garments when their turn at the machine is coming up. Any Seafarer desiring to wash clothes can put his name on the list and then watch the board to check on his turn. That's fair play all around and makes for clean clothes and contented washdays. OVERSEAS ROSE (Overseas Cartiers), June S—Chairman, V. Hall; Secretary, John Ratllff. Few hours disputed OT In deck department. Mo­ tion made to have patrolman see about Ice cube machine, Motion made to obtain clarification on steward de­ partment manning scale. Chief mate threatened one man In deck depart­ quarters for written agreement be­ ment. This will be referred to patrol­ tween company and Union. Motion man. Ship needs to be fumigated. to see agent about getting pantryman DEL MAR (Delta), May 5—Chair­ aboard. Vote of thanks to steward and whole department for good food man, Lloyd S. Johnson; Secretary, Ed­ ward E. Zubatsky. Motion made to and service. notify headquarters regarding a new program. Twenty - five OATEWAY CITY (Sea-Land), May retirement 24 — Chairman, William Velazquez; years as a member In the Union or Secretary, Robert Principe. Ship's 15 years of seatlme should be enough. June 11 — Chairman, ^mes L. delegate reported everything running smoothly with no beefs. Motion to Tucker; Secretary, Edward E. Zubat­ have negotiating committee reopen sky. No beefs reported. Captain Is negotiations for wage Increases and giad he has a good crew on ship. to have committee negotiate for same Three brothers had to leave ship due type agreement In this lieet as for to Illness and Injuries. Men asked to be quiet when other men are sle^fping. Seatrain Lines. BIENVILLE (Sea-Land), June 9 — Chairman, C. W. Hall; Secretary, Car­ los Diaz. No beefs reported. Every­ thing going fine. New chief steward doing a fine job. Vote of thanks to entire steward department for good service and well-prepared food. $12 In ship's fund. BULK LEADER (American Bulk Carriers), May 24 — Chairman, T. Frazier; Secretary, W. Young. $16 In ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Company Is not living up to contract by failing to put enough money aboard for draws in foreign ports. Patrolman should be sure that there Is enough ALCOA POLARIS (Alcoa), June 11 money aboard before leaving. —Chairman, John H. Emmerick; Sec­ PENN CARRIER (Pann), June 2— retary, R. Kyla. Ship's deicgate re­ ported no beefs. Motion made to Chairman, Stephen BergcrIa; Secre­ have all SIU ships traveling in tropi­ tary, Guy Walter. Some disputed OT cal waters air-conditioned. Vote of in deck and engine departments to thanks to steward department. Dis­ be taken up with patrolman. Stephen cussion on safety and on safety meet­ Bergerla was elected to rerve as ship's delegate. Motion to have pa­ ings between company and crew. trolman check hospital for proper MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Car­ drugs. Fans have not been Installed riers), May If—Chairman, Gene Flow­ in crew quarters as per agreement. ers; Secretary, R. Harnandez. Discus­ Held discussion on matters pertaining sion about a new retirement plan. to good and welfare. Vote of thanks General Ideas and suggestions will be given to steward department. ^ //OW lA/ 0C77V Mmwm I �5a:«r^arjt9 too Pare Fourteen Bangkok Gets Bang From Vendor Gift 1 i ^ I ^ i Fun Ashore A Traveling Man By Anthony Parker There's just no end to the ways seamen can lend a helping hand to others during their travels around the world. Sea­ farers on Isthmian's Steel Vendor found that out when, In a much-appreciated gesture,^ they turned over some extra Vendor that had already been read by the literature-hungry crew, and reading material to two agen- were just lying about gathering cles in Bangkok. Thailand, for the benefit of shut-ins and merchant seamen from other lands. Although gifts of money, food and clothing are always welcome, books also serve as a useful means of expressing friendship, the Ven­ dor learned. The ship received two letters of praise and thanks calling attention to the crew's thoughtfulness while the vessel was in Bang­ kok last month. It seems there were a few hefty bundles of books on board the Good Feeders dust. Instead of heaving these sev­ eral hundred volumes overboard, all hands held a quick meeting and decided that there must be a lot of other people without the same easy access to good reading materi­ al that Seafarers had. A quick canvass of Bangkok was taken and the SIU men decided to bring the books to two places, the Bangkok Nursing Home and the Mariners Club. Choosing the Nursing Home was fairly easy. The ill and shut-ins at the Home hadn't much choice of something to do with their time and were, quite naturally, warmly appreciative of the Seafarers' gift. The donation to the Mariners Club was another easy choice. What better way, the SIU men thought, of bringing the meaning of "Brotherhood of the Sea" home to the seamen of all nations fre­ quenting the Bangkok club. A. J. Hobson, manager of the Mariners Club, took pen in hand and wrote ship's delegate J. Goude a message of thanks "for the very kind gesture" and the lift the dona­ tion gave to "seamen of various nations which call into this port." The Club committee, consisting of British, Danish, Japanese, Neth­ erlands, Norwegian and Thai con­ sular and shipping representatives, indicates that the Vendor's gift was a good-will gesture for an -in­ ternational audience. f'we been around the world, you see. From Zanzibar to the Zuyder Zee; Up the coast, and down again. Around the Horn, where the storms are horn. From rivers to oceans and sea to sea Where each port 'o call welcomes me; The iriends I meet are old and new The kind who always have a smile for you. Working ashore in the eleetrical field since 1961, re^ tired Seafarer Franklyn J. Mum keeps in shape by getting a real work-out with his two sons during a fun-filied day at Disney­ land Park. OLOBB CARRIER (Marltlm* Over­ seas), . May 30—Chairman, Pataluki Secretary, Walter Crassman. No beefs reported by department delegates. Discussion on water cooler. Scuppers need cleaning. Mattresses needed for crew. Vote of thanks to r'eward de­ partment. OLOB8 PROGRESS (Maritime Over­ seas), May 34—Chairman, Charlee Pafford; Secretary, Joseph Grobber. No beefs reported. Motion made to see patrolman about getting exterminator aboard for roaches, and to check about getting cots. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Over­ seas), June 9—Chairman, Vernon Hall; Secretary, John H. C. Ratllff. Ship's delegate reported • few hours die- KEVA IDEAL (Keva Corporation), June 9—Chairman, Frank Hughes; Secretary, R. V. Gelling. Ship's dele­ gate is resigning and Frank Hughes was elected to serve. Discussion on getting clarification on new contract and working rules. Crew would like to know if anything is being done about the noise of the air compres­ sors used In unloading cargo. The matter of deck gang entering cargo tunnels and hoppers for various rea­ sons was discussed. Crewmembers feel that when they are required to do this unloading operation In those areas should cease altogether for safety reason. The matter of leaking hot water heater inj galley was brought to the attention of the chief engineer. BanLV!goRiYl TERRIBLE STORMCOMmef Lc>ORHOWDAI9IOir& oum/EReJS But when the voyage nears the end And I say adieu to all my friends. When at last my ship is homeward bound. Then the port that I long to see (And after all these years) The best one to me— There's none better that I have found Because, you see, it's my old home town! quarters concerning confinement to ship in Beirut. This wlU be taken up with patrolman at payoff. Motion made that an effort be made to se­ cure a new washing machine before leaving New York, and to sea that clear water for crew's use is obtained. Present machine tears clothing and water Is rusty. New hot water tank needed before start of next trip. Vote of thanks to 3rd cook for pre­ paring red beans, which were ex­ ceptionally good. ballot for members at sea on aU mat­ ters pertinent to the membership. Suggestion for Union to be notified that in nine-month trip there were no personal beefs between Union brothers. See patrolman about extra day's pay for crewmembers who came aboard in Europe and Casablanca by crossing international date line. Dis­ cussion on keeping longshoremen out of passageways and inesshaUs. Roy C. Pappan elected to serve as ship's delegate. PORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), May 30—Chairman, T. Jones; Secre­ tary, B. J. Wright. No beefs reported by department delegates. Frank Schandl wes elected ' to serve as ship's delegate. See patrolman about porthole screens, painting messrodm. better grade of fruit, awning over fantail and quarters, and air-condi­ tioning of messroom. TRANSINDIA (Hudson Waterways), April 5—Chairman, J. Talbot; Secre­ tary, Roy Roberts. Crew requested to keep longshoremen out of crew quarters. Motion made that nego­ tiating committee consider issuance of American money only for dfaws in all ports. Travelers checks to be prohibited. Motion that every effort be made to improve galley sanitation problem caused by open drains and lack of steam lines. Motion that nego­ tiating committee be requested to seek OT rate and one-half for men off watch and OT lor watchstanders for tank cleaning. Galley force com­ mended for doing an outstanding job. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), May 26—Chairman, Burt Hanback, Secretary, Roberto Hannibal. Three men missed ship In Texas City. $23.19 in ship's fund. Ship's delegate re­ signed. New ship's delegate to be elected at beginning of new voyage. Motion to have delegate see Food Committee about six-duy-old milk re­ ceived in Edgewater. puted OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. Trip ended with few beefs. Motion made to have ice cube or icemaking machine of some sort put aboard this ship as there is no way of making ice on the Indian run. Mo­ tion to have clarification on manning scale for steward department Article V. Chief mate's threats to one man in deck department will be referred to patrolman. Ship needs to bo fumigated for roaches and bugs. Settled down In his room on the Monticello Victory (Victory Carriers), SIU steward Leo Strange (top photo) is the man who puts together the menus that keep the stomachs on that ship purring instead of growling. Above, aboard the Steel Designer (Isthmian), chief cook Vlfiliiom Seltzer and Wiilie Walker, galley utility, get part of the noon-time meal ready for their charges. LOO-A-RHYTHMi Margarett Brown (Bloemfleld), June 2—Chairman. H. H. Johnson; Secre­ tary, J. W. Barnett. One man injured and had to get off in Southampton. No beefs reported by department delegates. Discussion on taking col­ lection for washing machine fund and to see about replacing washing ma­ chine. OT requested If recreation room is to be used for checkers in port. Crew should be paid for clean­ ing of same. STEEL ROVER (Isthmian), June 9— Chairman, John Yates; Secretary, W. M. Hand. Letter written to head- PENN CHALLENGER (Penn), May 9—Chairman, j; E. Tanner; Secretary, T. B. Markham. New ship's delegate elected to serve.. T. E. Markham. Vote of thanks to last ship's delegate. Dan Sheehan. Room situation discussed and letter will be sent to head­ quarters. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), May 31—Chairman, V. Capilano; Secretary, L. A. Ramirez. Motion made that when a man comes from the hall for a certain job. he should not be trans­ ferred to another job. This refers to steward department. No patrolman aboard the ship in San Francisco. Request more frozen or fresh vege­ tables. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), May 25—Chairman, James O. Bruso; Secre­ tary, Melano S. Sosplns. The matter of some men performing and not doing their duties will be taken up with patrolman. $10.96 In ship's fund. AU crewmembers requested to coop­ erate in keeping ship clean. Ship needs to be fumigated. TRANSGLOBB (Hudson Waterways), June 5—Chairman, W. Renny; Secre­ tary, S. U. Johnson. Ship's delegate reported that everything Is running smoothly, and that ha will resign at the end of voyage. Henry Dombrowski was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Motion that headquarters negotiating committee sea about get­ ting a new and improved pension benefit. Vote of thanks extended to Glenn Tenley. ship's delegate, who is leaving vessel. OVERSEAS REBECCA (Maritime overseas). May 19—Chairman, Ralph P. Fyrce; Secretary, J. M. Griffin. $18.00 in ship's fund. Motion made that the Union institute an absentee May 19—Chairman, John Mehalou; Secretary, John R. Talbot. Contact patrolman regarding slopchest closing to early. Motion OT be paid for men on watch and OT and a half for off watch work cleaning wing tanks on this type of ship. Blowers for ven­ tilation should be instaUed. Ship needs to be fumigated for roaches. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), June 3—Chairman, C. Lee; Secretary, L. Schenk. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. C. Lee Was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion on a few items that need to be re­ paired. Crew requested to be quiet in pasageways. Vote of thanks to steward department for "job weU done. DEL ORG (Data), May 25—Chair­ man, M. L, Durham; Secretary, W. H. Newsom. $12.00 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by departmerft dele­ gates. Discussion on the amount of milk needed for voyage. Vote of thanks for the Improvement In steward department. HERCULES VICTORY (Marine Man­ agers), May 26—Chairman, J. Clurman; Secretary, M. Brown. Ship's delegate resigned and Charles E. Rawbings was elected to serve as ship's delegate. A1 hands have (wo hours delayed sailing from Savannah. Vote of thanks to steward department for good food, service, etc. Crew asked to cooperate In keeping messroom clean at night.' ANJI (Seafarers Inc.), June 9 — Chairman, O. Yeagar; Secretary, A. Yarborough. Ship's delegate told crew that those who have money com­ ing wUl get a draw. Everything is running smoothly. Discussion on who is to paint the engineers' quarters. Agreement was reached. Vote of thanks to steward department. �ioif u, litt Sehedule Of SlU Meetings SIU membership meetings are held regularly oner a month on days Indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the iisted SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to Include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: New York August 5 Detroit August 9 Philadelphia August 6 Houston August 12 Baltimore August 7 New Orleans August 13 Mobile August 14 West Coast SIU Meetings Sltr headquarters has issued an advance schedule through Novem­ ber, 1963, for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wil­ mington, San Francisco and Seattle, or who are due to return from the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in accord with an Executive Board resolution adopted in December,; 1961. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. The schedule is as follows: Seattle Saif Francisco Wilmington July 26 August 21 August 19 August 23 September 18 September 16 September 20 October 23 October 21 October 25 November 20 November 18 November 22 Private Eyes... SIU HALL r DIRECTOBT •mm SIU Atlantic, Gulf Lakes & Inland Waters District PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXErUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard l.lndaey Williama A1 Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER AI Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BlU Hall Ed Mooney Ered Stewart BAUTIMURE 1216 B. Baltimore St Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BDSTUN 276 State St Joho Fay. Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROIT 10229 W. Jefferson Ave. Vlnewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS . 676 4tb Ave.. Bklyn HVaclnth 9-6600 HOUSTON . 9804 Canal St. Paul Drozak, Agent .. WAInut 8-3207 JACKSONVILL.K 2608 Pearl St.. SE., Jax William Morrla. Agem ELgln S-09B7 MIAMI 744 W Flagler St Ben Oonzales. Agent FRanklln 7-3564 MOBILE . . 1 South Lawrence St Louis Neira Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS . 630 Jaekson Ave Buck Stephens. Agent .. Tel 629-7546 NEW YORK ... 675 4th Ave., Brookl. ! HYaclnth B-660P NORFOLK 416 Colley Ave Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent 625-6505 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St Frank Drozak. Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 480 Harrison St. Frank Boyne, Agent DOuglas 2-4401 E B. McAuley. West Coast Rep. SANTURCE. PR 1313 Fernander Juncos. Stop 20 Keith Terpe. Hq. Rep. Phone 724-2848 BEAITLE 2505 1st Ave •Ted Babkowski, Agent MAIn 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff Gillette, Agent 229-2786 WILMINGTON Calif 505 N. Marine Ave George McCartney. Agent TErminal 4-2528 (Continued from page 2) Ing their strikes. In the SIU of Canada's dispute with the Upper Lakes Shipping Company, the com­ pany admitted paying $361,000 to one detective agency alone to help carry on its fight against the SIU of Canada. In the course of the SIU's recent victorious 98-day strike against the Roto-Broil Company of Long Is­ land City, the union uncovered the company's use of several em­ ployment agencies for the purpose of providing scabs to fill the jobs of striking employees without ad­ vising the job applicants that a strike was in progress. SIU picket­ ing of the agencies involved, fol­ lowed by the filing of complaints, resulted in the suspension of the guilty agencies' licenses for violat­ ing the city law against such prac­ tices. Put Postal Zone On LOG Address The Post Office Department has requested that Seafarers and their families include postal lone numbers in sending changes of address into the LOG. The use of the zone num­ ber will greatly speed the flow of the mail and will facilitate delivery. Failure to Include the zone number can hold up delivery of the paper. The LOG is now in -the process of zoning its entire mailing list. — w 4" 4" 4" 4* 4> 4 Capt. Fred Fredrickson Whitey Horton would like to get In touch with the above-named as goon as possible at 2019-24th Ave­ nue, West Bradehton, Fla., tele­ phone 745-0603. He is also anxious to have any former shipmates con­ tact him at the above address. Harold Peterson Your sister, Mrs. Francis Hart, of 217 Amherst St., Providence 9, BI, has some important mail for you and asks that you write her as soon as you can. 4 ; T.—"... Herbert G. McDonald The above-named or anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to contact his wife, Mrs. Priscilla McDonald, 921 W. National Ave­ nue, Milwaukee 4, Wis., as soon as possible. " • SEAFARERS 4 , Income Tax Refunds Checks for the following men j|we being he^. by Neii,5y. >gRa¥do,, 2420 First Avenue, Seattle 1, Wash., and can be obtained by sending proper identification and a forwarding address: 11 il li ii ii ^ i; FHMNCtAL REPORTS. Tha constitvtioa Of 8IV Atlontle, Oulf, Lakaa and InJsnd ffatara District nakas apaclflo provision for ssfagtutrdlng the membarshlp's Bonay and Union finances. The constltutlOB requires a detailed CPA audit every three Bonths by a rank aad fllo auditing coaalttee elected by the aeaberahlp. .'All Union records are available at SIU headquarters In Brooklyn. Should any BSBber, for any reason, bo refused his constitutional right to In­ spect these records, notify SIU President Paul Ball by certified Ball, return receipt requested. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, lakes and Inland Waters District are adalnletered In accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and Bsnagement represent­ atives end their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are Bade-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 tine, you are denied Infozaatlon about any SIU trust fund, notify SIU President Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. il SHTPPTNT, RIoaiB. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclus­ ively by the contracts between the Union and the shlpownera. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available In all-ltaion halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your ship­ ping or seniority right# as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mall, return receipt requested. Ohe proper address for this Is: Max Harrison, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite I63O, New York k, NY Also notify SIU President Paul Hall at Uhlon headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all tines, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals ^ard. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT 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. Iq addition, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. Mi WM EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAF-iHERS 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. Tho responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of tho Union. The Exec­ utive Board may delegate, from among its ranlts, one individual to carry out this responsibility. 1$ ••vx':-:-;' ii iik. S--/ 1 i I|llll|l I o ii ii PAYKEHT 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 be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member Is required to make a payment and is 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. '' Jill-... i>.. ii CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBI.IOATION3. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halla. All membera should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize theaaelves 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. 'fi ill O 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 Ilka all other SIU membera at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these 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. — siilii IWigs: I" 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 Union has negotiated witii 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, be should notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. Alahakoff, Damian; Andrews. Carroll H.; Berg. George J.j Bobbltt, A. D.j Branlund, Frank W.; Brown, Louis A.: Cage, Robert A,; Canul, Jose; Chase. Richard C.: Clark, Verne A.; Coyle, John P.; Cox, Leonard J.; Crehan, Edward R.; Crist, Earl M. Jr.; Crum, Marvin; Crum, Rex L. R.: Curtis, Maxine; Daniels. Willlaia T.; Datzko, William; Davey, William: Dii ino, Pasquale; Dunn, William P.; Dor iba, Charles: Everett, Wilbur Lee. Fox. James; Gertz, George I.: Gossage, William D.: Graham, George W.; Harding, Victor; Hawkins. Erick; Heilig, Robert J.; Higgin.s, Leonard M.: Howarth, John v.: Iglebekk, John W. G.; Johnson, Thomas S.: Johnston, Leonard B. & Happy; Johnson, Rudolph; Kaliloa, Joseph B.; Kllbourne, Ralph; Koontz, B. J. & V. M.; Kroll. Win I.: Lauritsen. J. M. & y. M.; Langley, Fay W.: McAndrew, Rob­ ert N.; McDermott. Stacey J.; McDoilough, Thompson, Alexander; Vlnluan. Carvaclo; John P.; McKee, James E.; Marsh. Lloyd Webb, Lawrence; Wanner. Joseph J.; C.; Martinussen, Charles; Mates, James Wetzel, Edwin F. J. M.; Mehcr, Klyoko; Miller, Michael C.; 4 4 4 MIkkelborg, Halle; Napaepae, Edward N.: Paul S. Morgan Noble, Manuel C.; Oromanor. Albert A Margaret. You are asked to get In touch Penner, Joseph J.; Fyle. Eddie; Raynes, David T.: Ringuctto, Albert N.; Reck. with your sister, Mrs. Corene Warren Roskamp, John H.; Sandanger. Marius: Samson, Edwardo; Scharf, Alois; Overstreet, regarding her illness. Sherar, WilUam D.; Shoemaker, Richard Write 2724 Mill St., Crichton StaD.; Slusgrczyk, John F.t^KnyUer, Joseph £|};lov David 0^ Pace Fifteea LOG Ferdinand Bayer Get in touch with H. Sherwood, 418 S. Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 4 4 4 VI to contact Sophia F. Baker, RN, at 1315 S. 26th Place, Lavvton, Okla., regarding care of his children. The telephone is £L 5-0065. 4 4 4 Russell W. Briggs William Robert Dixon You are asked to get in touch The above-named or anyone with Wilson W. Briggs, 6154 knipwinl^s whereab^^ts Is urged ISuwanneeiflfiad^JiWlt^liwiHdi Fla. �It r. Vol. XXV No. IS li - SEAFARERS^LOG July 24 1963 OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THi SBAPARIRl INTiftNATiON AL UNION •ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT > APUCIO • Courts Broaden 'Seaworthy' Rule WASHINGTON—The conditions involved in determining whether a ship is "unseaworthy," as the basis for accident claims, were extended in several recent decisions here by IT'• He« the court pointed out th,t by a separate Federal court the standard to be judged by Is decision in the state of Oregon. not an accident-free ship, nor an In two cases decided by the high obligation to provide a ship or court here, faulty cargo gear both gear which might withstand all on the ship and on the dock were conceivable hazards, but a vessel ruled to be factors in making a reasonably suitable for the par­ claim based on the "unseaworthi­ ticular service Intended. It com­ ness" doctrine.- The ruling in mented that "there is no world­ Oregon by the Federal District wide or American practice or cus­ Court held that a ship may not be tom with reference to the use of considered unsafe when it fails radar or loran as aides to navi­ to carry radar or loran as naviga­ gation. tional aids. The court held that the absence The Supreme Court rulings in of this equipment on a tramp ves­ separate cases involved longshore­ sel did not give rise to a finding men both times. The court held of unseaworthiness, although it in one instance that a fall on the noted that in the "not too distant dock caused by loose beans which future the absence of such naviga­ had spilled from a defective bag tional aids on such ships might during the discharging of cargo well make them unseaworthy. could be the basis for a claim of unseaworthiness. "When the shipowner accepts Mail Crew Lists cargo in a faulty container or To Union Office allows the container to become In order to keep Union rec­ faulty, he assumes the responsi­ bility for Injury that this may ords up to date and to fully cause to seamen or their sub­ protect Seafarers' rights to stitutes on or about the ship . . . welfare and other benefits, it is These bean bags were unfit and important that all ships' dele­ thus unseaworthy," the high court gates mail a complete SIU crew list in to headquarters after the declared. The other high court case in­ sign-on. The crew lists are volved a faulty pallet on aboard particularly valuable in an ship which led to a longshore­ emergency when it's necessary man's injury and a similar legal to establish seatime eligibility for benefits on the part of a finding. In the Oregon case, the issue Seafarer, or a member of his arose when a ship was damaged on family, particularly if he should a reef in the Philippines, causing be away at sea at the time. Crew list forms are being a break in the hull and damage to cargo. The vessel was equipped mailed to all ships with this with neither radar nor loran, issue of the LOG and' can be althbugh it did carry a radio di­ obtained from Union patrolmen in any port. rection finder. Joe Alfflna, Safety Director Safety in Boating; Hand injuries With leisure-time boating accidents increasing almost as fast as the popularity of the sport, many private and governmental agencies are joining in efforts to reduce the number of these unnecessary, often— crippling and sometimes—fatal accidents. Many boating organizations are co-operating to acquaint boat owners and water sport enthusiasts with safety procedures. Professional seamen, who probably have a better knowledge than most landlubbers of safe boat handling procedures, can benefit from the many free services being offered by these organizations in the in­ terests of water safety. The US Coast Guard for instance, is setting up free inspection sta­ tions at many boating centers. This voluntary inspection is made only at the owner's request and carries with it no obligations. If the boat is found safe, a decal is issued and pasted on the windshield. If the boat does not pass inspection, no report is issued to any authority. You will be the only person informed, and will be advised of the safety rec­ ommendations to be followed. Seafarers whose families may be doing some boating this summer while dad is at sea may also be interested in free boating courses being given by the US Power Squadron of the Coast Gu*d Auxiliary. Sea­ farers know better than anyone else the value of practical seamanship for safety on the water. A survey has shown that hand Injuries accounted for 30 percent of all injuries suffered by seamen in one steamship company, according to a recent National Safety Council "Newsletter." In an effort to reduce hand injuries to seamen, a number of areas aboard ship were pinpointed as "dangerous" as far as your hands are concerned. Winch rail controls, steam winch bull guards, companionway doors, galley doors, tool boards, stokers and oil barrel storage racks were among the locations where injuries commonly occur. An interesting statistic was the fact that most seamen injured their fingers below the knuckle. Some things to watch out for in the preven­ tion of these hand injuries are: • Using crescent instead of box wrenches. • Using a hacksaw instead of a pipe cutter. • Handling oil, paint and grease drums and propane tanks. • Cutting gaskets with jack-knives. • Driving hatch batten wedges. • Opening and closing valves. • Greasing or repairing stokers before shut-off. • Banging knuckles while pulling fires. • Feeding cable eyes through chocks. • Getting hands caught in moving parts on pumps. (Obmments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Philippine Dock Strike Wins Talks MANILA — A successful strik* action by Philippine longshoremen here, coupled with a show of soli­ darity by world transport unions, brought about a temporary true* last week in the two-month strike that had tied up this port. The strikers agreed to lift their pickets for IS days while repre­ sentatives of the Philippine Trans­ port and General Worker's Orga­ nization try to negotiate a working agreement with the Philippine Customs Bureau. The Bureau is responsible for some port opera­ tions here. End Harassment The pact talks put an end to attempts by the Customs Bureau to block recognition of the union as bargaining agent for the" port's dock workers. Some 3,000 long­ shoremen have been on strike since May 7 in an effort to get the government agency to honor backto-work agreements reached after previous strikes. The SIU previously pledged its full support of the striking work­ ers in their dispute in response to a message from the International Transport workers Federation. The ITF had urged all unions to back the fight of the Philippine workers for union recognition and a decent contract. Try To Break Union In its effort to break the union, the Customs Bureau had been hir­ ing strikebreakers to aid some of its own personnel who have been loading and unloading vessels here. Many Philippine and foreign shipping lines had been bypassing Manila because of heavy cargo congestion brought about by the strike and have been discharging cargo elsewhere. However, with the agreement on pact talks, the port became active again on July 15 for the first time in two months. 12 More Seafarers Retire On SIU Pension NEW YORK—A dozen more SIU deep-sea veterans, with a combined total of nearly 400 years of service on the high seas, have retired on Union pension benefits of $150 per month and are now resting up before deciding how the years ahead will be spent. The addition of this group"*" brings the overall figure for of service until he went into re­ the number of Seafarers ap­ tirement. He first shipped with the proved for pensions in this year SIU steward department in 1945 out of New York, and last sailed to 52. A breakdown of the latest on the Elizabeth (Bull). He lives pensioners into the various ship­ with his wife, Luisa, in New York. board departments they served Fry is a New Yorker who joined shows that half shipped in the the SIU in his home port in 1938. steward department, five in the His half-century of seatime in the black gang and one on deck. steward department wound up The list includes the following: aboard the Beauregard (Sea-Land). Cordero Alderman Warren D. Alderman, 52; Diego He makes his home with his sister, Cordero, 61; Bridgio Figueroa, 61; Mrs. Maybelle Reedy, in Auburn, De.Forrest Fry, 67; James W. Har- NY. last ship was the Hastings (Water­ relson, 47; Harold A. Laumann, The Josefina (Liberty Naviga­ man) in the black gang. He lives 40; Walter C. Patterson 62; Cyril tion) was Harrelson's last vessel, with his brother, Joseph, in New H. Sawyer 70; William J. Scarlett, which he sailed in the engine- Orleans. 55; Frank Schembri, 67, and Jack room. A native of South Carolina, Patterson was born in Alabama E. Williams, 55. he joined up in Boston in 1939. and hitched up with the SIU at Alderman was born in Florida He calls Georgetown, SC, his year- Boston in 1945. A familiar face and shipped on deck after join­ round residence. around the New York hall, he ing the SIU at Miami in 1939. He Louisiana-born Laumann is the closed his career of nearly 30 now lives with his wife in Gretna, youngest pensioner in the lot. New years in the steward department La., and completed over 25 years Orleans was wiiere he signed on after a voyage on the Steel Re­ of sailing when he paid off the Del with the SIU back in 1944 and his corder (Isthmian). He lives today Sud (Delta) on his last trip. Now living with his wife, Juana, in Brooklyrf, NY, Cordero hails from Puerto Rico and ended his 40-odd years at sea after a trip on the Seatrain New Jersey (Seatrain). He joined the SIU at New Orleans in 1939, shipping in the black gang. Another native or Puerto Rico, Patterson Harrdson Laumann Figueroa amassed over 40 years with his wife, Adeline, in Maplewood, NJ. A Floridian, Sawyer didn't have too far to go to join the SIU. He started sailing as an SIU member in 1939 from Miami. Winding up over 30 years of seatime in the steward department, he ended his active seafaring aboard the John B. Waterman (Waterman) and now lives with his wife, Mary, in Mobile, Scarlett joined the SIU at Tampa in 1943, completing over 26 years of steward department service when he made a recent trip on the National Defender (Na­ tional Transport). A native of Louisiana, he and his wife, Vir­ ginia, make New Orleans their permanent headquarters. Born in Italy, Schembri served in the Navy during and after World War 1. He hitched up with the SIU at San Francisco in 1948. A 40-year veteran of the steward department, ha last sailed on the Erna Elizabeth (Albatross). His home is in Los Angeles. Sowytr Searletf A native of Georgia, WilUami now lives in New York where he joined the SIU in 1947. He last sailed aboard the Chatham (SeaLand) in the black gang. He and Schembri Williams his wife, Gladys, can now look confidently ahead to many years of ease and security made possible in large measure through the SIU and the $150 a month pension benefits. Be Sure To Get Dues Receipts Headquarters again wishes to remind all Seafarers that pay­ ments of funds, for whatever Union purpose, be made only to authorized SIU representa­ tives and that an official Union receipt be gotten at that time. If no receipt is offered be sure to protect yourself by immedi­ ately bringing the matter to the attention - of the President's office. �- . •: • . .* , a;,^; - -J. V*I.XXV ii*.ii SEAFARi»»A-LOG CS OFFICIAL OROAH OF THE SeAFARCRS IKTERNATIONAL UNION .• ATLANTIC, OOLF, UKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT * AFL-Cia F^.• -• .• t--.i-A VI THE NORRIS REPORT Just as this special supplement to the Seafarers Log was being prepared, the Norris Commmission, which was established by the Canadian Government last summer to examine the SlU-Upper Lakes dispute, issued a 318page report. While the SlU of Canada has not yet had time to moke a detailed study of this voluminous docu­ ment, it has prepared a preliminary statement dealing with certain fundamental issues which require imme­ diate comment. This statement is printed in its entirety in this supplement. �Vara Tw« SEAFARERS lOO^PECIAt SVPPLEMENT July t9, lfP6S A Statement On The Nonis Commission Report By The Seafarers International Union Of Canada II INTRODUCTION On July 15, 1963, the Norris Commission Issued its report. The Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of Canada is examining this lengthy document and, upon the conclusion of this study, will make its detailed analysis public. We feel, however, that the report raises certain fundamental issues which require immediate comment. We are impelled to point out that this report, and particularly its recommenda­ tions, represents a philosophy alien to free and democratic people. It reflects the Com­ missioner's conduct at the hearings, his pre-conceived attitudes and his violation of the principles of fair play. The recommendations would usurp the functions of free associations of workers. Among other things they call for the: a) seizure of the assets of the unions by gov­ ernment appointees; b) control and opera­ tion of union affairs by these appointees; c) suspension of constitutional form of union government; d) rule by trustees hav­ ing absolute and uncontrolled powers; e) destruction of the right of workers to de­ termine the conduct of their own affairs; f) denial of the rights of workers to strike in pursuit of their lawful economic and social objectives. The SIU protested throughout the hear­ ings that the Commissioner was acting in an arbitrary manner, and in violation of the principles of justice. Consequently, it was anticipated that the Commissioner's report would mirror such conduct. The recommendations, with their alien philoso­ phies, their provision for arbitrary and totalitarian rule, bear out, unfortunately, our anticipation. They constitute a serious threat to the liberty and economic wellbeing of Canadian citizens. The proposal that maritime unions be governed by trustees is nothing short of the imposition of an arbitrary and absolute dictatorship over a segment of the working community. The maritime workers are not to be consulted. They have no voice in the direction of their affairs. The trustees are not responsible to them. The Commissioner has proposed that the freedom to choose, to elect and to decide — the very basis of democratic control — be set aside. The trustees are given carte blanche. It is un­ acceptable that Government by decree divest an association of free people, whether It be union, a commercial body, a cultural association or a political group, of its con­ stitution and its elected officials. What kind of freedom is there without allowing the membership to have control over the affairs of the union? Without the union being permitted to strike in pursuit of its legal objectives? Without the people in this industry being allowed the freedom of association? Surely the maritime workers have the right to decide whether they will associate to form a union, have a right to decide what union they will associate with, what is to be the constitution which is to govern them, and who are to be the elected officials to represent them. The recom­ mendations are an insult to the working man, because they are based on the assump­ tion that he is not fit to make decisions or that he is too stupid to do so. The trustees are to do his thinking, make his decisions, and substitute their judgment for his. In our democratic system. Parliament or other legislative bodies in our country should not rule that within this society a certain specified group, in this case the maritime worker, will be denied the attri­ butes of free men. Surely it would be re­ pugnant to pass a general law declaring that the Government could impose trustee­ ships on all association of persons. If gen­ eral legislation of this nature is unthink­ able, within a democratic system, it does not become less abhorrent if applied to a particular designated class of persons. If this is done to one group, which group of persons will be next to lose their liberty because they have incurred the wrath of a Commissioner? Liberty in a free society is indivisible, and if it is sacrificed for the sake of expediency, • without due process of Provide for the Investigation, Conciliation law, and so denied to any group of persons, and Settlement of Industrial Disputes." Several times, during the course of the it is denied to society as a whole. hearings, we urged the Commissioner to BACKGROUND OF THE HEARINGS The hearings arose out of a contractual meet with the parties in order to resolve dispute between the SIU of Canada and the dispute. Instead of trying to bring the disputants together to settle their differ­ Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. Upper Lakes Ltd., an American con­ ences, the Commissioner conducted the trolled company, had consistently resisted hearings in a manner which could not help SIU efforts to improve the wages, condi­ but drive them further apart. The Com­ missioner's antagonistic and aggressive atti­ tions and security of Canadian seamen. The company's antagonism toward the tude toward SIU, its witnesses and its pro­ Union reached its climax in the spring of posals—coupled with his refusal from the 1962 when it arbitrarily broke its 10-year outset to attempt a resolution of the dis­ contractual relationship with the SIU and pute—only strengthened the company's designed a contract with the newly-created ermination to resist a settlement. He rele­ Canadian Maritime Union, which repre­ gated to a grossly inferior role the dispute between the SIU and the company which sented no seamen and had no contracts. This unprecedented action deprived some was his major duty to investigate. Rather 300 SIU members of their jobs with the than find ways of solving this legitimate company. The legality of the company's dispute, which was recognized as such by action is still the subject of litigation pend­ the Rosenman Commission, appointed by the U.S. Government at the request of the ing in our courts. Canadian Government, he complimented ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NORRIS Upper Lakes and the CLC for creating it COMMISSION and chastised other shipping companies The CLC, wth its completely controlled who have had good and stable relations CMU. and the CERT have long made with the SIU in the development of our known their desire to replace the SIU In the maritime industry, and they joined with maritime industry. The Upper Lakes company has employed Upper Lakes against long-standing tradi­ every conceivable public relations device to tions and the basic principles of organized labor in a full-scale effort to destroy the color and distort the issues. Obviously, SIU. The Norris inquiry was precipitated substantial sums of money have been spent by these unions illegally tying up the Sea­ to accomplish this purpose. Through skill­ way and the Commission was established ful propaganda, the public has been led to by the then Minister of Labour, Michael believe that our dispute concerns Canadian Starr, after consultation with those who shipping in general. That is not the case. We have a dispute only with Upper Lakes, were out to destroy the SIU. which operates 13 ships in the Great Lakes Starr at that time was—and still is—the defendant in a court action brought by the trade. No other shipping company is in­ SIU. In this action, we set forth that he volved, and no other vessels are affected. We envisioned the Commissioner as a acted illegally with regard to our contract peacemaker. Instead he has sown the seeds dispute with Upper Lakes Shipping and of industrial strife and invited discord in that his act paved the way for an illegal collective agreement between the company the field of labor relations. and the Canadian Maritime Union, and the THE COMMISSIONER'S CONDUCT ultimate loss of employment with Upper The Commissioner, who at one time rep­ Lakes by over 300 Canadian seamen, some resented the SIU, refused to disqualify with employment tenure in excess of 10 himself on that ground when a motion to years. The damage to these seamen and that effect was made to him by SIU counsel. their families has been most substantial, if Under such circumstances no motion should not irreparable. have even been required, but rather, in ac­ THE COMMISSIONER'S REFUSAL TO cordance with longstanding practice estab­ lished for the protection of parties appearing CONCILIATE THE DISPUTE The SIU and, we believe, the public, before a court or a commission, the Com­ thought that the Commissioner was ap­ missioner should have declined the appoint­ pointed primarily for the purpose of set­ ment when it was made by the then Min­ tling a dispute. The statute under which ister of Labour. Having relegated the dispute to an inhe was appointed is headed: "An Act to BDSTNESS WEEK One of the most influential and authoritative magazines in the management field Is Business Week. Here are excerpts from Business Week's article On the Norris report. ' •nnir^fii' I ""itJ' ' ll'" «•>'»</ /j 1 ir ''C / So / I significant position, the Commissioner con­ centrated most of his time on an investiga­ tion of the internal operations of the SIU. He demonstrated a bias and pre-disposition as to the issues, a clear personal venom against the SIU, and flagrant disregard for the principle of justice. Opportunity to present evidence was re­ fused, the right to cross-examine was re­ stricted and SIU counsel was constantly abused. Concepts of equal justice were bypassed, including the right of all parties to receive equal treatment. For example, when witnesses attacked the SIU, the nor­ mal rules of evidence were set aside on the grounds that the hearing was an inquiry, not a court of law. However, when the SIU sought to submit or elicit evidence such normal rules of evidence were then made applicable. The Commissioner was incon­ sistent in his rulings, to the detriment of the SIU. For example, when top officials of Upper Lakes, CLC and CERT testified, and inquiry was made as to relevant facts, upon their assertion of absence of personal knowledge, the Commissioner precluded SIU counsel from inquiring. On the other hand, when top officials of the SIU were si«ilarly questioned, and gave identical replies, the Commissioner castigated and admonished them and held them respons­ ible for such knowledge. Time and again, when witnesses adverse to the SIU testified to facts not within their personal knovyledge, their accounts were accepted as pro­ viding background, history or interest. However, when SIU witnesses sought to testify similarly, they were confined to matters strictly within their personal knowl­ edge. These are but examples of the many areas in which the SIU was subjected to disparate treatment. Another illustration -of the Commis­ sioner's failure to observe the rules of fair play are his comments with regard to pend­ ing litigation. In the pending action involv­ ing former Minister Starr, the Commissioner reports that there is no dispute as alleged in that case and gratuitously decides this pending case in favor of the former Min­ ister. In fact, the Commissioner takes pains to voice his views • on almost all pending litigation. The obvious effect is to prejudice the SIU in those proceedings before the various courts. Strangely enough, when during the inquiry, SIU counsel attempted to raise a point with regard to a matter which was the subject of litigation, the Commissioner I'efused to hear it because he said he would not pass on matters before the courts. This demonstrates the applica­ tion of double standards. The Commissioner displayed a prosecu­ tor's zeal to make a case against the SIU. Such purpose went so far as to subject to attack all those who did not have as their objective the desire to destroy the SIU. In fact, this zeal is so ardent that in his report he refers to matters which he re­ ceived in private communications but which were never placed publicly before the com­ mission, so that they could be aired and subject to examination. A further example of the unusual con­ duct engaged in by the Commissioner is his incorporation into his report of matters which occurred subsequent to the hearing, and whch he construed as detrimental to the interests of the SIU. Significantly, however, the Commissioner fails to incor­ porate in his report the following events which occurred after the close of the hearing: a) He fails to mention in his report the charges made by the former CMU president that the CLC turned the CMU into little more than a com­ pany union which negotiated a sweetheart contract with Upper Lakes. Convenienty, be tucks away newspaper accounts of these charges in a voluminous Schedule to the Report. b)He completely ignores the shotgun (Continued on page 12) �tm ti, im Paf• Thre* SEAFARERS LOG>^PECtAL SUPPLEMENT THE SlU-UPPER LAKES DISPUTE Lakes' union-busting campaign and the Canadian Since the early part of 1961, the Seafarers In­ Government inquiry which arose out of it, and ternational Union of Canada, which represents with the role played by other labor organizations, merchant seamen in virtually all Canadian-flag as well as Government agencies in both the shipping companies, has been the target of one of United States and Canada, in this deliberate at­ the most vicious and unscrupulous union-busting tempt to destroy the effectiveness of the Seafarers campaigns carried on against a trade union International Union of Canada as a militant fight­ organization since the bleak and bloody anti- ing force which has won for Canadian seamen the best wages, working conditions and welfare labor era of the pre-19308. This union-busting campaign is being spear­ benefits in their history. headed by the Upper Lakes Shipping Company, II. THE NORRIS INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE a Canadian shipping arm of the notoriously anti­ Behind the strife which has existed between union American industrial dynasty dominated by the SIU of Canada and the Upper Lakes Shipping the financial interests of the Norris family. Company stands the Norris financial empire—a The Norris-Upper Lakes campaign has as its multi-million dollar network of American and objective., the destruction of the SIU of Canada Canadian business enterprises which include steel as a militant force for the betterment of Canadian mills, grain elevators, bakeries, feed mills, dryseamen's wages, working conditions and welfare docks, racing stables, hotels, theatres, stadiums, benefits. hockey teams, boxing clubs, real estate firms and It should be emphasized, however, that this shipping companies. union-busting attempt, despite the enormous The controlling factor in this industrial empire wealth and power of the Norris empire, could is the Norris family, whose funds derive from the never have reached its present proportions with­ estate of the late James Norris. out the aid and assistance of the Canadian Labour James Norris was the father of Jim Norris, Congress and a number of labor unions, Canadian whose many business interests included the In­ and American, which have seized the opportunity ternational Boxing Club. This club was shown, in to settle long-standing jurisdictional scores with U.S. Government investigations and grand jury the SIU, on both sides of the Lakes, by abetting proceedings to have worked with Frankie Carbo the employer in his campaign of destruction, in and other underworld figures in establishing mon­ violation of the basic principle of trade unionism. opoly control over the boxing industry, so that This report will deal with the organization of any boxer who wanted to enter the ring had to the Norris financial empire and the Upper Lakes pay tribute to Norris' underworld connections. Another son of James Norris is Bruce Norris. Shipping Company, with the history of Upper Bruce Norris is a director of the Upper Lakes Shipping Company, which is spearheading the at­ tack on Canadian seamen's wages and conditons, and which is primarily owned by the Norris Grain Company of Winnipeg. Norris Grain of Winnipeg is wholly owned by the Norris Grain Company of Chicago, in which the controlling interest is ul­ timately vested in a Nevada corporation owned by trusts established b.y James Norris' widow for the benefit of her children. In substance, twothirds of the Upper Lakes company is owned by Americans, members of the Norris family. The interlocking relationships of these American and Canadian companies, including Upper Lakes Ship­ By STEPHEN BRANCH ping and its various subsidiaries, is shown in MONTREAL (Staff) — East­ Chart No. 1. ern Canada; shipyards stand a The Norris empire has long been notorious for good chance of building at least its anti-unioh activities and its attempts to exploit some of the Great Lakes ore its employees in both the United States and carriers which U, S. steel com­ Canada. In Canada, for instance, it has success­ panies think ihay be needed j^ over the next few years. fully resisted union wages and conditions in one Companies like Pickands of its largest subsidiaries. Dominion Foundry, as Mather & Co.,. Cleveland, are well as in other areas. In the States, among other ; already taking a look at their things, the Norris interests have joined forces needs for big new bulk carriers with the anti-union Great Lakes shipping com­ ° to move Canadian iron ore from ports on the north shore of the pany, Pickands-Mather, in a plan involving a $250 St. Lawrence to steel plants in million exploitation of Canada iron ore resources the Cleveland area. through the utilization of low-wage, companyThe reason is there could be dominated crews aboard ore carriers under the a shortage of the big and effir Canadian flag. cient 25,000-ton carriers .when new mines like Wabush Lake The elimination of the SIU of Canada as a pro­ come into full production. tector of Canadian seamen's wages and conditions Shipbuilding costs in the U. S. would, of course, be an important factor in the have been rising and so far ho" Norris plans to exploit these sbamen, and it is ' U. S. government subsidies have interesting to note that on the same day that the been paid toward construction of vessels destined prim, Canadian newspaper, the Financial Post, reported service in thi on the Pickands-Mather scheme, it also an­ nounced formation of the Canadian Maritime Union by the Canadian Labour Congress. (Exhibit A). The date was October 21, 1961— just the time that Upper Lakes was preparing to break its SIU contract. The Canadian Maritime Union is the seamen's union which Upper Lakes utilized as a company union to represent the scab crews which Upper Lakes recruited to man its vessels after it had arbitrarily broken its 10-year contractual rela­ tionship with the SIU of Canada and locked some r I?'""*"" Km''""' to S!" 300 Canadian Seafarers out of their jobs. I. INTRODUCTION EXHIBIT A Financial Post, Oct. 21, 1961 posit Canadf^ .dUemma in respect to Inverted capital is a very real one. ownership Canadian in^ TterptiseTir and" extractive ent vii-Tiiia uu'Aiuuavcua jaaa xyeiaaewa# Siy granting concessions to uanadian capital and levying heavy taxes on "take-overs" by foreign caintal. EXHIBIT B N. y. Herald Tribune, June 15,1963 The president of Upper Lakes is Jack Leitch and its personnel manager is Thomas J. Houtman. Houtman was formerly secretary-treasurer of the communist-dominated Canadian Seamen's Union whose hold on Canadian merchant seamen was broken by the SIU of Canada in 1949. Whereas virtually all other Canadian shipping companies signed with the SIU in 1949, however, Upper Lakes continued to put up stiff resistance to the SIU's organizing program for nearly two years, and did not agree to an SIU contract until 1951, thus becoming the last major Canadian-fiag operator on the Lakes to do so. After this, Upper Lakes not only continued its stiff resistance to the SIU, at every contract nego­ tiation, but in fact attempted to break its contrac­ tual relationship with the SIU and supplant the SIU with another union. Testimony given during the inquiry into the Upper Lakes-SIU dispute, which the Canadian Government recently conducted, indicates that in the summer of 1952, a few months after James Todd had been fired by the SIU from his job as Fort William port agent, Houtman offered to co­ operate with Todd in a plan to get rid of the SIU and supplant it with another union.® This plan failed to materialize because the SIU at that time was a member in good standing of the Canadian labor movement and Todd was un­ able to command support for a rival union. In 1961, however, after he had been absent from the waterfront for nine years, Todd suddenly reap­ peared as secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Maritime Union, the puppet union established by the CLC to represent the scab crews aboard the Upper Lakes vessels. In this connection it should be noted that the CMU was set up to supplant the SIU after dis­ cussions between Houtman and Michael Sheehan, an SIU patrolman who was expelled from the Union in February, 1961, for misconduct in the performance of his duties. In both cases Houtman, acting for Upper Lakes, seized the opportunity presented by a disgruntled and ousted ex-officer of the SIU to try to foment a plan in which the SIU would be replaced by another union. This plan, as noted, failed in 1952 because Todd could not command support from the rest of the Canadian labor movement. But it materialized in 1961 when the CLC, along with other labor groups in Canada and the States, joined with the employer in his attempt to destroy the SIU, for reasons which will be discussed later in this report. The parallel between the Todd and Sheehan cases is indicated in Chart No. 2, which also shows the activities of Sheehan, Upper Lakes, the CLC and the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Trans­ port and General Workers. These activtes in effect constituted a conspiracy between the employer and thse labor groups to elimnate the SIU. III. THE SlU-UPPER LAKES RELATIONSHIP IV. THE SIU'S ROLE IN THE CANADIAN ECONOMY The Norris-dominated Upper Lakes Shipping Company, whose assets represent an investment of some $60 million,! is one of the major Canadian shipping companies, operating some 13 vessels on the Great Lakes. The Norris empire's particular interest in des­ troying the wages and working standards of Canadian seamen represented by the SIU has already been cited in this report. Before proceeding further with an account of �fi«e FaBf• July *6, 1901 SEAFARERS LOG—SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT OWNERSHIP OF UPPER LAKES SHIPPING .M ; • 'df : .i:! AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES I'i ? OWNED BY CERTAIN TJtUBTS CRKATID BT MABGUBBITI L. NORBIS, WIDOW OF JAMES MORRIS, FOR THE BENEFIT OP HER CBILDRBN, BRUCE A. NORBIS, ELEANOR MORRIS KMRIBLRR AMD MABGURBITE MORRIS RIRRR. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, BRUCR A. NORRIS, ET AL, TRUSTEES. NELVANA CORP (NEVAD/0 OirrSTANDING I 3,000 COMMW SHARKS" 13,000 CLASS "A" VOTING FFD. SHARES 11,300 CLASS "B" Nim-VOTING SHARES OWNS 6,240 COMMON SHARES (11.4%) OF NORRIS GRAIN CO. 11,980 CLASS "A" VOTING SHARES (100%) OF OSCEOLA CORP. OWNED BT MARGUERITE L. MORRIS, WIDOW OF JAMBS NORRIS. OWNED BT CERTAIN TRUSTS CREATED BT THE LATE JAKES NORRIS FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS CHILDREN, BRUCE A. NORRIS, ELEANOR NORRIS KNEIBLER AMD HARGUERITE NORRIS RIKER. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, BRUCE A. NORRIS, ET AL, TRUSTEES. OSCEOLA CORR OUTSTANDING I 3,600 COMMON SHARES \- 11,980 CLASS "A" VOTING SHARES OWNS 30,288 COMMON SHARES (55.7%) OF NORRIS GRAIN CO. 5,640 SHARES-OWNED BT MARGUERITE N. RIKER 5,640 SHARES-OWNED BT TONIKA CORP. (WHOLLT-OWNED BY ELEANOR N. KNEIBLER AND TRUSTS CREATED BY HER FOR HER CHILDREN.) 6,564 SHARES-OWNED BT PECONIC CORP. (WHOLLYOWNED BT BRUCE A. NORRIS.) ir,8?4 SHARES-(32.8%) OF NORRIS GRAIN CO. NORRIS GRAIN CQ (CHICAGO) OUTSTANDING -j 54,372 COMMON SHARES OWNS 4,000 COMMON SHARES (100%) OF NORRIS GRAIN CO. LTD. NORRIS GRAIN CQLTDCWINNIPEG) OUTSTANDING 4;000 COMMOITSHARES I OWNS 117,864 COMMON SHARES (64.9%) OF UPPER LAKES SHIPPING LTD. UPPER LAKES SHIPPING LTD. LEITCH TRANSPORT LTa OWNS OUTSTANDING 181,506 COMMON SHARES 63,642 COMMON SHARES (38%) OP UPPER IAKB8 SHIPPING LTD. OWNS 100% OF ISUND SHIPPING 100% OF TRANS-LAKE SHIPPING -4" 30% OF NORTHERN SHIPPING •<, r [ ,j. ISLAND 8HIPPIN8 TRANS-LAKE IHOLLT-OWNED BT UPPER UEES SHIP­ PING LID. IHOLLT-OWNED BY UPPER LAKES SHIP­ PING LTD. 60LDA8 CO. NORTHERN SHIim.6IIHN1K LTD. CONTROLLING INTEREST OWNED BT UPPER LAKES 30% OWNED BT UPPER UEES OWNS 80% OF NORTHBRN SHIPPING 30% OWNED BT GOUDAS Iv-'-t CHART 1 �inly il, ifts th« SlU-Upper Lakes controversy, it may be well to consider briefly the unique role played by the SIU in the Canadian economy as a whole, since in this area may be. found significant clues to some of the motivaticms which prompted the Canadism Labour Congress and other Canadian labor groups to join with the employer in an onslaught against the SIU. The SIU, in Its present form, came into Canada in the late 1940s when Canadian merchant seamen and the Canadian waterfronts were controlled by the communist - dominated Canadian Seamen's Union. The CSU was then engaged in an effort to impede the flow of Marshall Plan shipments which were designed to bolster democracy by helping the nations of Western Europe repair their warravaged economies. Having successfully broken the hold of the com­ munists, and gained the right to represent the seamen of virtually all Canadian shipping com­ panies, the SIU then immediately embarked upon a militant program to elevate the wages and work­ ing conditions of these seamen, which had been badly depressed under the CSU. The wage gains which the SIU has won, from 1949 to 1963, are shown in the table on this page. As a result of this SIU representation, Canadian seamen have not only progressed at a faster rate than the members of other Canadian labor unions, but have attained wages and working conditions which are only slightly below those of their American counterparts. In the process of raising the wages and working standards of its members, however, the SIU has antagonized powerful segments of Canadian labor, Canadian shipping management and the Canadian business community as a whole. With respect to the Canadian business com­ munity, it may be noted that up to 75% of much Canadian industry is owned by foreign interests, mostly American, who have contributed a great deal to anti-American feeling in Canada, (Exhibit B). In many instances these foreign owners have shamelessly exploited Canadian labor and have—in the words of the Canadian Minister of Finance—"rarely conferred any benefit on the Canadian economy." (Exhibit C.) Certainly, any effort by the SIU to set a prece­ dent for other Canadian workers by raising the wages and conditions of its members to near- MTI-U.S.TAXPLAN SCORED IN CANADA Financial Leaders Condemn Curbs on Capital Flow By HOMER BIOABT Special to Tba Nee Tork Times OTTAWA, June IS—The Libr eral Government came under strong criticism from the Cana­ dian financial commuhity today over its radical proposals to dis­ courage United States invest­ ment in Canada, Eric Kieraiis, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange and the Canadian Stock Exchange, made public a letter to Foreign Minister Walter Gordon that assailed. Mr, Gordon's antitax proposals. EXHIBIT C N. Y. Times, June 19,1963 Pag» nvr SEAFAREKS WG—SPECtAL SVFPtEmfiT American levels would be met with hostility by Canadian industry. With respect to the maritime industry specifi­ cally, it should be noted that the tendency, on the part of some Canadian shipowners, has been to try to peg Canadian wages and conditions to Brit­ ish levels, rather than to the much higher Ameri­ can levels. Significantly, a leading spokesman for this group has been the Upper Lakes president, Jack Leitch. On March 9,1959, for instance, Leitch wrote a letter to the SIU. of Canada in which he proposed that all Lakes operators register their fleets in Great Britain, and in which he also urged the SIU to guarantee for 20 years that all Canadian deep sea ships in competition with British vessels pay Canadian seamen the British wage scales. Finally, with respect to other segments of Ca­ nadian labor, it may be noted that these groups have often been the targets of criticism by their own memberships for their failure to keep step with the SIU's pace-setting progress. The gains which the SIU has scored in behalf of Canadian seamen have therefore long been a thorn in the side of Canadian labor and management and have provided an incentive for Canadian la­ bor and management to join forces against an organization they consider to be their common enemy. V. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SIU AND OTHER CANADIAN LABOR GROUPS Besides the SIU's general role in the Canadian economy, and the antagonism which this engen­ dered among other Canadian labor groups, Ihere are a number of points, regarding the SIU's rela­ tions with other labor organizations on both sides of the Lakes, which should be considered in order to understand the background against which the SlU-Upper Lakes dispute developed. The SIU of Canada had long been a member in good standing of the organized Canadian labor movement. But over the years the SIU's attempts to provide adequate wages and conditions for workers in all areas of the Canadian maritime in­ dustry had brought it into jurisdictional conflict with the Nation^^l Association of Marine Engineers and particularly with the communist-tinged ma­ rine section of one of the CLC's most powerful affiliates, the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers. As a result of these jurisdictional differences, the SIU had been subjected to charges of "raid­ ing" and its affiliation with the CLC had been severed in May, 1960. It should be emphasized, however, that at this time the break between the SIU and the CLC was purely over jurisdictional issues arising out of conflicting claims by the SIU, Marine Engineers and CBR'T over the right to represent certain clas­ sifications of Canadian maritime employees. At no time during this period did the CLC voice any criticism of the SIU's internal op­ erations, give any indication that it considered the SIU as anything hut a bona fide trade un­ ion working for the best interests of its mem­ bership, or show in any manner that it con­ sidered another seamen's union necessary to replace the SIU. Significantly, none of these attitudes, which the CLC later manifested so frequently, appeared until nearly a year later, when the Upper Lakes Shipping Company opened its campaign of destruction against the SIU. VI. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SlUNA AND OTHER AMERICAN LABOR GROUPS It should also be noted that while the SIU of Canada was involved in jurisdictional disputes with other affilates of the Canadian Labour Con­ gress, the Seafarers International Union of North America, was involved in jurisdictional disputes with two major unions on the American side of the border—the National Maritime Union and the United Steeiworkers of Ajmerica. The SIU's differences with the Steeiworkers have primarily concerned representation rights to crewmemb^ aboard Great Lakes ore carriers. The Great Lakes steel industry is one which has tradi­ tionally resisted representation of its ore boat crews by legitimate trade unions, and which has fathered and fostered a system of so-called "inde­ pendent" unions which are in reality companydominated organizations. It is interesting to note that whatever representation the Steeiworkers have been able'to gain among these crews has come about largely through the incorporation of these company-dominated "unions" as marine off- SIU War To Clost Firm Nearly $2 Million DM) •Hitl TktftaMlalMMMvit Mi iVTOV MM IV «• IM MC I sLsr, isry,: MM M M-C' mm priparri fcr ihai ^ 'n takes Sfrffe TOWWTO !:r'—4 jn H W vrf Mmm Mn nuMiil tmt tm m mmpar 9mm Imtm rmmrntrnrnm tm. u rte ttmm imum* ttrndrnmimtimmmm. to mtnmi cMtUBtra md ^ affM m MM f« I MOTH* Ip M pv mm. $mm. nippv, IM «M*r tmm lav j TIM raapaip ftcnrm mmm rnmm m tm mm m tMM MpM m ttrnmmmtm EXHIBIT D Toronto Telegram, Aug. 29, 1962 shoots of the Steeiworkers Union. The largest and most notorious of these company unions was the Lakes Seamen's Union, which has now been char­ tered by the Steeiworkers as Local 5000. The relations between the SIU in the States and the National Maritime Union have long been stormy and have involved a variety of issues, a recitation of which would serve no useful purpose here. Suffice it to say that both the NMU and the Steeiworkers have a history of antagonism toward the SIU and that both of these unions did, in fact, seize the opportunity to join in the effort to smash the SIU in Canada, even though their activities meant supporting the position of the employer, in violation of the basic principle of trade unionism. VII. MICHAEL SHEEHAN The one other subject which must be considered, in order fully to understand the backdrop against which Upper Lakes' campaign against the SIU developed, is the role played by Michael Sheehan. Sheehan was an SIU of Canada patrolman with a long history as a malcontent. In November of 1960 Sheehan's refusal to work in harmony with other SIU officials culminated in a heated dispute, at the end of which Sheehan walked out of his job with the Union. Shortly after that he turned up in Ottawa, where he began to regale officials of the CLC—as well as leaders of the CBRT, Steelworkers and other Canadian labor groups—with allegations of SIU violence and dictatorial tactics with regard to its membership. He also discussed with these labor groups the creation of a new sea­ men's union to rival the SIU.3 Immediately after these early discussions, the Canadian newspapers began to publish stories in which the CLC echoed Sheehan's allegations of violence and began to lay the groundwork for the creation of a rival union. Because of these activities, and his associations with dual and hostile organizations, Sheehan was placed on charges of violating the SIU constitu­ tion, and was tried by a duly-elected trial com­ mittee. On February 20, 1981, he was found guilty of all charges and was expelled from the Union. As pointed out in Section V, it is interesting to note that up until the time the differences between Sheehan and the SIU came to a head—at the end SIU Wage Gains for Canadian Seamen 1949-1963 Wheelsman Watchman Deckhand Cook Oiler Fireman 1 1949 1 $175 1 155 1 145 1 225 1 175 1 170 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 19G3 $397.49 354.51 329.00 483.82 397.49 380.01 f �• :rr# July M, ItW SEAFARERS LOG-SPECIAL SVPPLEMENT Pate Sis vb'!.. ItHl .J'r t«)v-W THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST 1NE SlU CLC CBRT TODD SHEEHAN UPPER LAKES • ;L;»•V.j<'• •';!•> •'•I'll' TODD FIRED FROM SIU. JAN.,1961 SHEEHAN MEETS CLC, CBRT OFFICERS IN OTTAWA, TALKS ABOUT NEW SEAMEN'S UNION. s 1952 FEB,. SHEEHAN MEETS CLC OFFICIALS IN OTTAWA. FIRST ALLEGATIONS OP VIOLENCE BY SIU. V W HOUTMAN OFFERS TO COOPERATE WITH TODD TO TAKE COMPANY'S SHIPS AWAY FROM SIU. PLAN WAS NOT CARRIED our BECAUSE TODD COULDN'T GET BONA FIDE TRADE UNION AFFILIATION. w MARCH. 1961 SHEERAN MEETS CLC, CBRT OFFICERS IN OTTAWA TO PROMOTE CMU. ALSO MEETS WITB "SHIPPING INDUSTRY PEOPLE". 1953-1961 TODD ABSENT FROM WATERFRONT SCENE. WORK AT SHORESIDE JOBS. f JUNE. 1961 SHEEHAN MEETS HOUFMAN IN OTTAWA DISCUSSES MANNING TWO ISLAND SHIPPING VESSELS \ \ / -Hi / 1961 COMPANY BRINGS OUT NORTHERN VENTURE BUr DOES NOT NOTIFY SIU. SHEEHAN RE­ CRUITS CREW. MEN SIGN CARD FOR CBRT, ALSO CMU. CONTRACT SIGNED WITH CBRT. JULY. 1961 HOUFMAN TELLS SHEEHAN TO CREW NORTHERN VENTURE. \ \ V I AND MAHONEY miT UXTCH IN TORONTO, DISCUSS MANNING OF WHEAT IING AMD NORTHERN WBMTURE. SEPT.. 1961 SHEEHAN PUT ON CLC PAYROLL. AUG.-SEPT.. 1961 SHEEHAN MEETS WITH TODD IN TORONTO. ASKS HIM TO "DO SOME ORGANIZING." SEPT. - OCT.. 1961 SEPTEMBER "BEACON" ANNOUNCES CMU FORMATION. NORTHERN VENTURE CONTRACT. CMU FORMALLY SET UP OCT. 9, 1961 WITH SHEEHAN AS PRESIDENT AND TODD AS SECRETARY-TREASURER. NOVEMBER "DEACON" ANNOUNCES WHEAT KING CONTRACT. "BEACON" OF JAN., 1962 ANNOUNCES CMU NOW HAS CLC LABEL. •• ^ ^ . ^ . •J • 4. ' :• ^ I , , i' - CHART 2 V . •• �Jnlr t«. 1969 of 1960—the differences between the SIU and CLC had been concerned with the jurisdictional con> flicts between the SIU and CBRT, and the CLC had given no indication that it considered the SIU as a corrupt organization or that it deemed another seamen's union to be necessary. The expression of these feelings came on the heels of Sheehan's talks with CLC officers. It should also be noted that the discussions be­ tween Sheehan and leaders of the CLC, CBRT and other groups took place just as the Upper Lakes Shipping Company was taking the first steps in its union-busting campaign against the SIU by pre­ paring the bring out two new ships—the Wheat King and Northern Venture—and operating them through subsidiary companies in order to evade its SIU contract. During the Canadian Government hearings into the dispute, which later took place, Sheehan con­ ceded from the witness box that while he was talking to CLC and CBRT leaders in Ottawa, he was also talking to shipping industry people, and that he talked to Houtman, the personnel manager of Upper Lakes, about manning the two new ships the company was bringing out.* Finally, it should be remembered that the deal­ ings between Houtman and the disgruntled Shee­ han, in 1961, faithfully parallel the dealings be­ tween Houtman and the disgruntled Toddj in 1952. As noted in Section III, Houtman's hopes of getting rid of the SIU failed in 1952 because the SIU was a member in good standing in the Canadian labor movement and Todd was unable to gain the sup­ port he needed to create a rival union. By 1961, the differences which had arisen between the SIU and the CLC and CBRT enabled Sheehan to be­ come the primary link between the labor and management groups and to supply Houtman with the thing that Todd could not supply—a new sea­ men's union which would be, in reality, a com­ pany-dominated union but which was given an appearance of legitimacy by the organized Canad­ ian labor movement.. This puppet union was the Canadian Maritime Union which was established in the fall of 1961 after a series of events—involving Sheehan, Upper Lakes, CLC and CBRT—which combined to form a pattern of conspiracy against the SIU. This pat­ tern of conspiracy is shown in Chart No. 2. VIII. UPPER LAKES' UNION-BUSTING CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SIU As has been noted in the previous sections of this report, the Upper Lakes Shipping Company had been anxious to end SIU representation of its crews from the moment the company signed its first SIU contract in 1951. in 1952 the company had attempted to achieve this objective through Todd, but had failed. By the beginning of 1961, however, the picture was differ­ ent. As a result of factors already cited, a schism had developed between the SIU and a powerful clique of the CLC, and Upper Lakes saw in this situation an opportunity to carry through the union-busting plan which had lain dormant for nine years, but which had never been forgotten. The company thereupon launched a campaign against the SIU which can be divided into two major phases, as follows: 1) During the spring and summer of 1961 the company took the first steps toward breaking its relationship with the SIU by bringing out two new vessels—the Wheat King and Northern Ven­ ture—and operating both of these under foreign fiags, through subsidiary companies, in order to evade its contractual responsibilities toward the SIU. The manner in which Upper Lakes vested own­ ership of these ves.sels in foreign subsidiaries, but retained control through agency agreements, is shown in Chart 3. The company ultimately manned both of these vessels with scab crews who were enrolled in the CBRT as a prelude to putting them into the CMU. In fact, during the subsequent Canadian Govern­ ment hearings on the dispute, Maurice Wright, who was the counsel for the CLC, CMU and CBRT, conceded that the intention, through this entire first phase of Upper Lakes'- anti-SIU campaign, was to turn these scab seamen, who were drummed into the CBRT, over to the CMU when it was set up.5 It should be remembered, as pointed out in the previous section of this paper, that during this same period Michael. Sheehan was working with leaders of the CLC and CBRT to set up the CMU, and was also talking with Houtman, Upper Lakes^ personnel manager," about manning the two new Upper Lakes ships. Page Seven SEAFARERS WG—SPmAl SVPPLEMmT In fact, testimony given by. Sheehan, durii^ tha Canadian Government inquiiy, shows that Hout­ man and Sheehan made arrangements for man­ ning at least one of these ships before the CMU was set up or had any members, and that Sheehan did, in fact, recruit scab crewmen for the Northern Venture—an activity for which he was compen­ sated by the company.6 2) By the fall of 1961, the CMU had been form­ ally established. Sheehan had been named its first president, and Todd, who had been away from the waterfront since 1952, suddenly reappeared as the scab union's secretary-treiisurer. Thus, by the time the SIU was ready to reopen the Upper Lakes contract — in October, 1961 — Upper Lakes had a ready vehicle at hand to which to transfer its contractual relationship and thus was in a position to launch the second phase of its union-busting program—which was to break its SIU contract completely, lock SIU members out of their jobs aboard all Upper Lakes vessels, and replace these SIU members through Sheehan and the puppet CMU. In fact, Sheehan testified, dur­ ing the Government hearings, that during the winter of 1961, while the SIU and Upper Lakes were still in negotiations, he started to round up crews for the Upper Lakes ships, even though these ships were not under contract to the CMU."* In any event, from the moment that the SIU notiflca the oompany that It wished to reopen the tipper Lakes contract, the company refused even to nieet with the Union. As a result, the SIU, in accordance with Canadian practice, requested that the Canadian Labour Minister appoint a concilia­ tion officer to bring the parties into negotiations. In February, 1962, the Labour Minister appointed a conciliation board composed of an SIU nominee, a company nominee, and a chairman, G. D. Laviolette, whose appointment was protested by the SIU on the grounds that he was a professional advisor to management. The protest was rejected. At the first meeting of the board, on March 5, the company not only flatly rejected the SIU's reuests for contract improvements, but proposed own-grading the welfare plan and eliminating the vacation plan and the hiring and promotion clauses. Unless these conditions were met, the company said, its dispute with the SIU. would be impossible to resolve. Significantly, the company, at this initial meet­ ing, presented a brief which gave status to the newly-formed CMU and expressed the hope that this puppet union would grow. It should be noted that at. this same time, while the SlU-Upper Lakes contract dispute S % THE MONTlllAL STAH. PKlDAr, MAY 3, 19S3 SheehanCharges CWMaMng CMU Company Union By WIUCE TAYLOR He Admitted: "I had a hunch from the start the CLC would ° The. ftrife-raarked power use me to do the dirty work in ktniggle between the Cauultu organixing the CMU, and thep Labor Coogreas: end the Seaput.the boots to me when it taren' International.Union tm was . done. The CLC doesn't control of the nation'a duea-paywant a real sailors' union. It Ing seamen ,waa thrown , i^do open here yesterday. wants • company union that will do what it's told. And the ' Michael. J. Sheehan,: . selfCLC knew I wouldn't go along described pawn in the bitter with it, so I was dump^. conflict jin his role as founder of the CLC-sponsored Canadian "The CLC doesn't ~want free elections and. it doesn't wantMaritime Union — an organizw ii.r|ng halls for the mcm(ion established to topple the iJiet the fights of SIU's waterways labor empire charged the CLC. with turn­ ing the CMU into little more than a company union. "U He alleged that the CLC has set back the rights of .Canadian AfAjseamen by 30 years, and at cujed CLC executive vice-presi­ dent William Dodge,' wdio is overseer of the CMU, of refus­ ing to consider CMU members' Complaints, with the remarks; MICHAEL J.i To hell:-with the members. They're not going to h«ve any­ sailor since he] thing to do .with running this lieutenant to S: unitjn." 'Sheehan made his statements C. Banks until i,lXy artS®/"""-® S! at a press conference after at­ the union on cj torney William I. Miller took duct three ye action in Superior Court on his Immediatelyj "V behalf-to oust Jack Staples, of form the CM Port Colborne, Ont., and James of the CLC Todd, of .Toronto, as prudent and secretary-treasurer of the member ce CMU. Issue of summonses, which earlie which are retumsble by the SIU and a respondents within six days, mination io'i was authorized by Mr. Justice ness. He c men in Rene .Duranleau. Sheehan alleged in his pelr replaced tion for a writ of quo warranto 'O'' or that the elections of Staples and Per Laki and. in ' "" '• todd were irregular and illegal. He is suing for their removal named bejel from office and his re-establish­ its fou In ment as president; . the"2 Unction '"•M'lW .. Did he think his action would Sheeh i provoke further onion lurbu- monii into t! .lence on the waterfront? -.I'l hope not. But in this kind executive viccM of thing you can .never tell 11 delegates to a' when you're liable to see your convention in Ottawa. UnTT. head rolling down the ' dock April 9, he said, he had been Ahead of you. I've got my guns receiving $500 • month by '/'"[ae f°.betteZ.{ba lined up fore'^and aft, and I'm cheque drawn on a special CLC W or th^otter „;jOo cin /#, ready for action." account; aince then len he has re-j wif SheL^aahs The husky, 48 year-old native ceived no money, and no Mtl \M!fheF^ V/J 'of Livetpppl ;who baa been a fiealion advising him why. ^ Ac-Dfi, 'Pt Oth J,••aiii EXHIBIT E . •'HI Off/ Coftfl �SKAFARERS IM-SFlUZAL SVPFLEMKNt rice Eight ... -4, •ri was going ihrough ihs conciliation procts^ : there tDoe a meeting in Toronto ql iohleh ii was announced that the CMU expected to ob­ tain the Upper Lakes contract. At this meet­ ing, the Steelworkers gave the CMU $10,000.« During this same month, CLC officials Jodoin and Dodge also met in Ottawa with Leitch and Houtman, to discuss the manning of Up­ per Lakes' vessels.® Dodge was later oskM, during the Government inquiry, if there had been any decision by CLC to crew Upper Lakes vessels before the conciliation proceed­ ings ended. Dodge replied: "We were con­ vinced that there wasn't going to be a settle­ ment of the issues before the conciliation board."!® Dodge further testified that he was not familar with the SIU's contract demands at this time, but was going by what the Upper Lakes people had told htm.!! Since there was no communication between the SIU and Dodge during this period, it seems obvious that Dodge was assured by Upper Lakes that there would be no contract settlement. On March 26, 1962, Conciliation Chairman Laviolette, whose appointment the SIU had pro­ tested, together with the company's nominee on the board, informed the Labour Minister that "no useful purpose" could be served by the Board'® procMdingf. Tlio SIU nominee pn the ward wa® not con®ulte(L NevertheleM, the Latnw Minister accepted thl® recommendation, by Ae chairman and company nominee, a® the rep<»-t of the Board, and Upper Xiakes immediately went into negotiations with Sheehan and a represmtative of me CLC regarding a contract for the Upper Lakes fleet. The SIU sued in the Canadian courts to en­ join the Concilation Board from passing on this issue because of the failure of the chair­ man of the Board to comply with the law in convening a meeting of the Board—a failure which prevented the Union nominee from be­ ing present at the meeting. The court issued a restrainng order preventing the Conciliation Board from taking any further action. In spite of this court order, the Minster of Labor con­ sidered private correspondence from the chair­ man and company representative on the Board as a report, and thus gave Upper Lakes a pre­ text for locking out over 300 seamen in its em­ ploy. This disregard by a Government official of an order of the court was in part the subject of a Quebec Law Review article by a promi­ nent Canadian attorney, Philip Cutler, who said: "The practical effect was that the court was ignored and left high and dry ..." Hie contract with CMU was negotiated^. M Cleveland; early in April and was clearly illegaL' since the Labour Minister, Michael Starr, had certified as the Conciliation Board report a docu-' ment which stated on its face that it was not the Conciliation Board report, and since there had been no disposition of the contractual issues a® provided for by the Canadian Industrial Relation® Act. Action to declare this contract illegal is pres­ ently pending in the court. As soon as this illegal contract with CMU was signed, Upper Lakes began to lock out of their jobs its approximately 300 SIU crewmembers, many of whom had been employees of the com­ pany throughout its 10-year contractual relation­ ship with the SIU, and to replace these people with scab crews recruited by Sheehan. Sheehan later conceded, under cross examina­ tion at the Government inquiry, that the CMUUpper Lakes contract was negotiated before the new Upper Lakes crewmen were hired, and that no Upper Lakes employees helped to negotiate the contract "because we did not have the people in the union at that time."!® This, then, is a classic example of a typical "sweetheart" agreement. IX. THi SEAWAY BOYCOH By the spring of 1962, the Upper Lakes Company OWNERSHIP AMD OPERATION OF WHEAT KING AMD NORTHEKH VENTURE Oms 60% Of |i' ' I w Chartered To ISLAND SHIPPING WHEAT KING CHART 3 �SEAFARERS LOG^pmAi svppiment Jobr M, un wmi wutxH mQ>;«. %, §,• monzn latu matm tmu, Ttti IKt. EXHIBIT F had completed the second phase of its union-bust­ ing campaign against the SIU. It had broken off its contractual relations with the SIU in the midst of Canadian Conciliation Board procee<hngs. It had then signed an illegal contract with the CMU, which had no members, had locked SIU members out of their jobs and had begun to man its ves­ sels with scab crews recruited by Sheehan, In the face of this onslaught, the SIU, utilizing the traditional protective device of trade unions, moved to protect the job rights of its members Tsy extending its picketing action to the entire Upper Lakes fleet. In this move it was supported by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and its affiliated unions in the United States. This strong trade union support which the SIU of Canada received soon made it apparent that Upper Lakes could not destroy its contractual re­ lationship with the SIU through a direct frontal assault upon the Union. On the contrary, as sub­ sequently shown in the Government hearings. Up­ per Lakes was suffering severe financial losses in the attempt. (Exhibit D). A more drastic ac­ tion was therefore decided upon and company representatives theh met with representatives of the CLC and CBRT to bring about practical imple­ mentation of a plan for a boycott of SIU vessels in the St. Lawrence Seaway as a means of massing the forces of the Government and public opinion against the SIU. During the next two months a series of meetings was held involving representatives of the com­ pany, CLC, CBRT, the Canadian Government, the Steelworkers Unipn, National Maritime Union, and other labor groups, both Canadian and Ameri­ can. Out of these meetings came a boycott of SIU shipping—on July 5, 1962—which led to a closing of the St. Lawrence Seaway for some 30 hours, and which in turn touched off a Canadian Gov­ ernment inquiry into the causes of the dispute which precipitated this action. These pre-boycott meetings which, in effect, brought to a culmination the conspiracy launched against the SIU at the beginning of 1961, are shown in Chart No. 4. X. THE NORRIS INQUIRY The boycott of SIU shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway was carried out directly by Seaway Authority employees represented by the CBRT. Behind these CBRT members, however, were the marshalled forces of the CLC and other labor groups, working in a conspiratorial effort with the employer to bring the weight of the Gov­ ernment and public opinion to bear upon the SIU as a means of easing the economic pressure which the SIU was exerting upon the company through its picketing of Upper Lakes ships. This intention was confirmed by CLC executive vice-president Dodge,i3 and to this extent the boy­ cott succeeded when the Canadian Labour Min­ ister, Starr, named Mr. Justice T. G. Norris, of Vancouver, to sit as a one-man commission at hearings into the reasons behind the disruption of Great Lakes shipping. The Norris inquiry began on August 7, 1962, and ended on March 15, 1963, after 107 days of testimony by witnesses for the SIU and spokes­ men for other Canadian labor and management groups. Out of all the welter of direct examination, cross examination and conflicting testimony, which characterized the 107-day life of the Norrit Inquiry, a number of salient facts stand outt L According to the terms of reference under which the Norris commission was set hp, the Nor­ ris inquiry was supposed to explore, without bias, the roles of all parties, labor and n^anagement, who were involved in the disruption of Great Lakes shipping. It soon became apparent, how­ ever, that the employer, the CLC, the CBRT and their satellite labor groups collectively viewed themselves as the prosecutors in the inquiry and the SIU as the defendant. Pace Nine CMU $10,000. This was at the same wni^h It was announced uiat CA^ aiFP^oted to get the Upper Lakes con­ tract, even though the SlU-Upper Lakes dispute over the contract was still in the conciliation pro­ cedure. Further testimony showed that the NMU, an­ other jurisdictional opponent of the SIU, contrib­ uted $1,500." Also of interest is the role played in the dispute by various representatives of the American and Canadian governments. For instance, the "Resume of Facts" submitted by the United Steelworkers 2. The conspiratorial nature of the union-bust­ of America to the U.S. Board of Inquiry chaired ing campaign against the SIU was extended even by Judge Samuel Rosenman shows that a meeting into the hearing room, where the company's at­ was held in Montreal in January, 1962; that this torney, John Geller, worked in close association meeting was attended by Sheehan, representa­ with Maurice Wright, counsel for the CMU, CLC tives of the Steelworkers and NMU, and other and CBRT, as well as a number of other Canadian persons, and that the basic decision of the meet­ labor groups, including the National Association ing was to support the CMU. of Marine Engineers and the Canadian Merchant The "Resume of Facts" states that after the Service Guild, an organization of Canadian mer­ Montreal meeting, the Steelworkers' representa­ chant marine officers. tive, Fred Neubauer, met for further discussions 3. The star witness for the company and its in Ottawa with a number of persons, including labor allies was Sheehan, from whom came bit­ . Louis A. Wiesner, labor attache at the American ter, though unsubstantiated, allegations about embassy; Bernard Wilson, chairman of the SIU violence and the lack of internal union de­ Canada Labour Relations Board; George Haymocracy. In this connection it is most interesting thorne. Deputy Minister of Labour, and Michael to note that Sheehan has since been ousted from Starr, the Canadian Labour Minister. Starr's role the presidency of the CMU, which he obtained in in appointing Laviolette as chairman of the Con­ the first place under the cloudiest of circum­ ciliation Board, and in accepting statements made stances, since CMU had no members, and that he by Laviolette and the company's nominee as the is now charging in a court suit that he was de­ Board's report on the Upper Lakes dispute, posed illegally "by a rigged convention of CLC despite the restraining order issued by the Can­ stooges." adian court, has already been cited. Since falling from grace, Sheehan has also lev­ elled charges against his former associates Which 6. Finally, the Norris inquiry can not be are as vicious as any he hurled at the SIU from evaluated without reference to the manner in the witness box. Among other things, he has which the proceedings were conducted by Justice charged the CLC with setting back the rights of Norris—the one-man commission named by the Canadian seamen 30 years by opposing free elec­ Canadian Labour Minister, Starr. tions and union hiring halls and by supporting a Justice Norris' role in the proceedings can per­ company union (CMU) in a "sweetheart" deal haps best be illustrated by reference to a repre­ with Upper Lakes. In particular, Sheehan has de­ sentative sampling of incidents which took place nounced the CLC officer—executive vice-presi­ during the hearings: dent William Dodge, formerly of the CBRT—who was instrumental in setting up the CMU. Dodge, •On October 31,1962, an attorney for the SIUNA Sheehan has charged, has helped Upper Lakes set felt obliged to end his participation in the case up a "do not ship" list to bar certain seamen from getting jobs, and has shown his disdain for the with the charge that the daily comments and CMU membership by saying: "To hell with the judicial interpretations which characterized the members. They're not going to have anything to proceedings had led him to conclude that the SIU do with running this union." (Exhibit E). was being pre-judged. 4. Among the most significant revelations com­ ing out of the Norris inquiry were those relating to the company's use of private detective agen­ cies, armed guards and labor spies in its unionbusting attempt against the SIU. The testimony developed at the inquiry showed, for instance, that when the company recruited Greek immigrants to man the Wheat King, these men were put aboard a bus in front of a Montreal detective agency and were followed to the ship by two carloads of detectives.i* The testimony further indicated that the company had used private detectives to interrogate crewmembers, employed armed guards on its vessels, and used labor spies to nhotograph men picketing its ships in the States.is The minutes of the CMU Executive Board meet­ ing of September 7, 1962, further show that CMU made an agreement with the Citadel Detective Bureau, to render services, and paid this agency a retainer of $250. (Exhibit F). It is interesting to note that this is the same agency to which Upper Lakes later admitted paying $361,000.16 As a result of these disclosures, the SIU request­ ed in the hearings that the company be ordered to make available its records showing the extent to which private detectives were employed. This request was denied by Justice Norris as irrele-vant. However, Leitch, the head of the company, later conceded that company records showed an expenditure of at least $361,000 for private detec­ tives for one company alone. (Exhibit G.) fPf MY* • Just before this SIUNA attorney left the case, another SIU attorney, Joseph Nuss, tried to object to the fact that opposing counsel were weighting their questions by adding comments of their own, but was told by the judge not to "obstruct" the hearings. • On November 8, 1962, Nuss was obliged to protest that the CLC attorney, Wright, had been permitted to read long documents into the record, but that he had been denied similar permission, after objections by Wright. Nuss pointed out specifically that the day before, he had been re­ fused permission to read letters from unions sup­ porting the SIU, while the opposing counsel had been allowed to read newspaper stories which touched off a bitter attack by the judge upon the SIU. • On the same occasion, Nuss was also obliged to point out that opposing counsel were permit­ ted to jmake unsupported allegations and inflam­ matory statements against the SIU late in the day, so that these charges were published by the evening newspapers with no opportunity for rebuttal by the SIU. • On - a number of occasions the judge impugned the intelligence and integrity of the SIU's attorneys with words such as "stupid"i8 and "ineptitude and wilfulness."l6 5. Among the other significant revelations com­ • On February 1, 1963, SIU counsel Gordon ing out of the Norris inquiry, in addition to those Henderson asked Judge Norris to disqualify him­ concerned with the major Upper Lakes-CLC- self on the technical ground that he had previous­ CBRT conspiracy, were those concerned with the ly represented one of the parties. (Norris had roles played by other labor organizations, as well as by Government officials in both the United served as counsel for the SIU in 1953 and 1954.) Both Wright and Geller, the CLC and company States and Canada. lawyers, objected to the motion and the judge The jurisdictional dispute between the Steellater rejected it in a ruling which "was rendered workers and SIU has already been pointed out, in less than 30 seconds," according to the Montreal and it is interesting to note, as previously report­ Star of February 13, 1962. ed here, that William Mahoney of the Steelwork- - M �Jolc SC. iNft SKAFAtlBRS LOC^PEOAL SVFPUOIENT Pace Tm CONSPIRACY TO PROMOTE SEAWffiT BOVCOTT CBRT CMU uprauBi ^ CLC ^— MOV.. 1961 DODGM, JODOlMi UITCa MBET TO DISCUSS WHEAT KING AND MORTHBRN VENTinS* 1 r\ SEPT.. 1961 BTBILVOftRBRS, OBKT. MMU MBET IN TORONTO TO DISCUSS WAYS OP HELPING CMU. MABCH. 1962 DODGE AMD JODOIM MBIT IN OTTAWA WXTB LBITCR AND HOVTMAN TO DISCUSS HANNING UPPER LABIS VBSSBLS. jUlGH. 196S 8TIILV0BESWI MBIT ti TORONTO. AFTER START OF 19S3 SHIPPING SEASON, UPPER UXES KBBPS CLC INFORMED ABOUT WHEAT RING AND NORTHERN VElTrURB CM DAY-TO-DAY BASIS. ^"'1 ms: v~r7 MAY. 1962 CLC AND CBRT REPRE­ SENTATIVES MEET TO DISCUSS SEAWAY BOYCOTT, "X CMU, SnEUORORS. CLC, MMU MEET IN CUnUMD TO DISCUM MoniBirrs or CMU SHIPS IM U. 8. ri>.- 7- -r' - i i, MAY. 1962 CLC AND UPPER LAKES MEET WITH GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES TO DISCUSS "HARASSMENT" OF VESSELS IN U. S. PORTS. \ m / JUNE. 1962 CLC, CMU, CBRT, STEELVORRERS AMD MMU MEET IN TCMUHITO TO DISCUSS CLOSING SEAWAY. .. I- -Om CHART 4 • By March 11, 1963, the SIU was obliged to conclude, through its counsel, that "this commis­ sion is not in a fit position to give a report to the Minister of Labour," and Attorney Nuss submit­ ted a six-point motion asking the judge to dis­ qualify himself because of bias. The six points were as follows: a) Judge Noiris had pre-judged a number of matters before the completion of evidence and argument. b) The judge had applied the rules of evidence inconsistently, c) The judge had restricted the SIU and its counsel in adducing evidence. d) The judge had made remarks which had impeded the SIU's cross-examination of witnesses. e) The judge had acted against the interests of the SIU in pre-disposing of certain allegations. f) The judge had subjected the SIU lawyers to abuse. Both Wright and Geller, the CLC and company lawyers, again teamed up to denounce the SIU motion and the judge rejected it. The following day, March 12, Nuss was therefore obliged to tell the judge that "the SIU feels no useful purpose can be served by presenting an argument to the commission," and the SIU ended its participation in the hearings. Xi. THE COMMUNIST THREAT IN CANADA No discussion of the SlU-Upper Lakes contro­ versy would be complete without reference to the communist threat which persists on the Canadian waterfront and which could spill over into the States via Great Lakes shipping. It should be noted, first of all, that in the 1930s many Canadian seamen were represented by the Canadian Seamen's Union, which was affiliated with the SIU of North America. The CSU, how­ ever, fell under the control of known communists and shortly after the outbreak of World War II, in 1939, a number of CSU officals were interned by the Canadian Government, for national securi­ ty reasons, and were released only after Germany attacked the Soviet Union. This communist domination of the CSU was of extreme concern to the SIUNA. The SIUNA there­ fore expelled the CSU and during the latter 19,40s began an organizational campaign among Cana­ dian seamen to drive the communists out of Cana­ dian maritime, particularly on the Lakes. The Cominform, the apparatus established by the Soviets to spread communism throughout the world, had instructed all organizations under its control to disrupt the waterfronts of the Western nations, wherever possible, particularly to sabo­ tage Atlantic Pact shipments and Marshall Plan aid to the democratic countries. The CSU, as noted in Section IV, was then actively engaged in car­ rying out these instructions. The SIU's organizing campaign, to break the communist grip, was successful and by 1949-50 the union which is presently the SIU of Canada had obtained the allegiance of Canadian seamen and signed contracts with all major Lakes operaators except Upper Lakes, whose personnel man­ ager, Houtman, as previously noted, was former­ ly secretary-treasurer of the CSU. It is also public knowledge that representatives of CBRT affiliates in the maritime field are sup­ porters of the communists in Canada and partici­ pate in party affairs. In fact, a number of CBRT officers and representatives, including vestiges of the old communist-controlled CSU, have clearly identified themselves with the raising of funds for the communist party in Canada and have so ad­ vertised in the "Pacific Tribune Press," which is • �Page Eleven SEAFARERS LOO—SPECIAL SVPPLEMEKT M, 196S Cost Shipowner $36100 ,i.„. .n lb. 0«.l BASKS The «.liip<mnfr. "J" Jul r'ri. • , . ..^h tt M5''»nrt lU .nd g.ng.l.rt«n in' of hi» libor fisw with lb* SIL' ih# Ml . I EXHIBIT G Toronto Star, Feb. 14, 1963 the Canadian counterpart of "The Worker" in the States. CBRT officials have also openly partici­ pated in such activities as the communist May Day parades in Canada, Photographic evidence in the possession of the SIU, for instance, shows that two banner-waving participants in the May Day parade in Vancouver in 1960 were William Mozdir, who was vice president of CBRT Local 400, and William Brannigan, who was the financial sec­ retary of the same local. (Exhibit H). The testimony developed at the Norris inquiry showed clearly the intertwined relationship which existed, and still exists, between the CBRT and CMU. It showed, for instance, as previously dis­ cussed, that the alien Greek immigrants recruited for the Wheat King, as well as the scab crews ob­ tained by Sheehan for the Northern Venture were first drummed into the CBRT as a prelude to being turned over to the CMU, that the CBRT was in­ strumental in creating the CMU, and that it was the CBRT which spearheaded the Seaway boycott in a move to aid the CMU. The virtually inseparable relationship of the CMU and the communist-tinged CBRT makes it apparent that communists and communist sympa­ thizers are still in positions from which they can exert influence on Great Lakes shipping which poses a threat not only to the national security of Canada but to the national security of the United States—a threat which must be completely stamped out. XII. CONCLUSION As can be seen in the foregoing sections of this paper, the dispute between the Upper Lakes Ship­ ping Company and the Seafarers International Union of Canada is purely a trade union beef which has only two essential elements: 1) A powerful Canadian shipping company, which is part of an enormously wealthy and complex American industrial dynasty, has il­ legally broken a 10-year contractual relation­ ship with the SIU of Canada, has locked some 300 SIU crewmembers out of their jobs, has replaced them with scab crews and has signed a contract with a puppet union which has publicly been branded by its former president as a "company" union. 2) Actively aiding and abetting this com­ pany's union-busting attempt, in gross viola­ tion of the basic principle of trade unionism, have been the Canadian Labour Congress, the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Trans­ port and General Workers, and such long-time ' jurisdictional rivals of the SIU as the Steelworkers Union and the National Maritime Union. In a flagrant and shameless attempt to obscure the basic union-busting nature of this beef, and to whitewash their own anti-union activities, the enemies of the SIU have introduced into the com­ bat arena issues which are entirely irrelevant and extraneous. As a glaring example of this, one should recall that witnesses for the CLC, CBRT, CMU and Upper Lakes Company spent virtually all their time in the witness box, during the Norris hear­ ings, hurling against the SIU allegations of vio­ lence, dictatorship, corruption and other sins. The most vociferous of these witnesses was, of course,' Michael Sheehan, who, as noted, has since re­ versed his field and is now hurling the same alle­ gations at his former benefactors. Without going at all into the merits of these allegations, or even trying to defend the SIU of Canada against charges which were never sub­ stantiated anyway, one may simply ask two questions: 1) How do these charges of impropriety in the SIU's internal operations alter the fact that a powerful Canadian shipping company has illegally broken its SIU contract, has locked some 300 crewmembers out of their jobs, has manned its ships with scab crews and signed a contract with a puppet company union? 2) How do these charges alter the fact that the Candian Labour Congress, the CBRT and other Canadian and American labor organiza­ tions have aided and abetted the union-husting attempt of an employer, in violation of the basic tenet of trade unionism? The fact is that the basic trade union character of this beef can not be altered by these charges and allegations of impropriety in the SIU's inter­ nal operations. The -fact that Upper Lakes was ready and waiting for the CMU, at the very moment that Sheehan and his friends in the CLC and CBRT were painting the SIU as a sinful and corrupt organization is too pat a situation to be accepted as a coincidence. In addition, the fact that the company lawyer, acting in concert with the CLC lawyer, spent so much time and effort during the Norris hearings in an attempt to show SIU cor­ ruption, makes the motivations here suspect, and lends credence to the assertion that all of the charges and allegations hurled at the SIU by wit­ nesses for the company and its labor allies were merely a carefully planned smokescreen designed to obscure the basic union-busting nature of this beef. Certainly, all the facts here makes it plain that as soon as the extraneous issues and external trappings are stripped away, the basic unionbusting nature of this beef emerges in all its naked ugliness. Nothing that the company or its partners in labor have said or done throughout this lengthy EXHIBIT H Positive proof that Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers Is com­ munist-tinged is given In these photos of com­ munist May Day parade in Vancouver in 1960. In photo above, banner-waving marcher, identified by arrow, is William Mozdir, who was vice-president of CBRT Local 400 at that time. At right, arrow Identifies William Brannigan, former financial secretary of CBRT Local 400. beef can alter this simple fact, provide a rationale for Upper Lakes' actions, or justify the role which segments of Canadian and American labor have played in abetting an employer's union-busting campaign. Moreover, the extent of American ownership in Upper Lakes, of approximately two-thirds, as first fully revealed in the recently-concluded inquiry, is a clasic example of Americans (the Norris fam­ ily) refusing to invest in and buy American. Al­ though the Norris family enjoys the benefits of the American way of life, they have nevertheless failed and refused to discharge their responsibil­ ities to American citizens by maintaining and operating vessels under the American flag, and thus providing job opportunities for American seamen. On the contrary, they invested in a for­ eign country in a trade (Great Lakes shipping) in which American seamen have historically en­ gaged. Such conduct by the Norrises constitutes a basic cause and justification for protest and eco­ nomic activities by American seamen and their families. REFERENCES 1. Transcript, Norris CiHninission hearings. page 14570, lines 26-29. 2. Transcript, page 3008, lines 24-29. 3. Transcrpit, page 2629, lines 2930; page 2630, lines 1-8 and 11-17. 4. Transcrpit, page 2671, lines 17-21; page 2681, lines 11-12; page 2682, lines 5-13. 5. Transcript, page 2689, lines 3-25. ^ 6. Transcript, page 2684, lines 19-27; page 2688 lines 15-16; page 2688, line 28 to page 2689. line 2; page 2699, lines 7-9; page 2703, lines 14-28. 7. Transcript, page 2705, lines 3-26. 8. Transcript, page 2112, lines 15-29. 9. Transcript, page 5401, lines 18-30. 10. Transcript, page 5058, lines 22-30; page 5059, lines 1-2. 11. Transcript, page 5401, lines 4-7; page 5059, lines 21-22. 12. Transcript, page 2871, lines 18-23; page 2870, line 27 to page 2871, line 4. 13. Transcript, page 5104, lines 5-29. 14. Transcript, page 433, lines 11-13. 15. Transcript, page 1350, line 27 to page 1356, line 15; page 650, line 5 to page 660, line 5. 16. Transcript, page 14570, lines 8-10; page 14571, lines 16-26; page 14573, lines 18-21. 17. Transcript, page 5240, lines 7-9 and 17-21. 18. Transcript, page 5910, lines 13-14. 19. Transcript, page 12696, lines 23-26. . 1| >!i �Wm* Twelv* SEAFARERS LOG—SFECIAL SVPPLEMENT (ContiDued from page at(Mk Ml M HU •ffteM M «h« Wflfrt Ooaat •) He ianorea tha Onlarto Suprema Court decision of June, INS wMeh quashed the proceedings of a Labour Relations Board because one af tha Board members was associated with a labor organisation whose avowed purpose was to destroy the applicant union appearing before the Board. Contrast this with the action of the Commissioner in labeling as false the SlU contention that it did not receive fair treatment from the Canada Labour Relations Board, which when considering an SlU mat­ ter, allowed an officer of the CLC— Donald McDonald—to sit in judg­ ment on the SIU, even though he represented an organization whose avowed object was to destroy the SIU. The above matters were widely reported and the Commissioner's failure to take account of them in his report can be ex plained only as an unwillingness to accept the fact that some of his main assumptions a'e wrong. USE OF PRIVATE DETECTIVES The hearings revealed that $361,000 was spent by Upper Lakes with one company alone, for private detectives, which consti­ tuted • ^mte army. Notwithstanding this shocking rovclation, tho Commissioner mfused tho SlU's request for Upper Lake's records which would reveal bow these funds were disbursed and more important, fmr what purp^. The history of the labor movement demonstrates that such private police forces constitute a threat to the safe­ ty and security of workers and the estab­ lished law, which is intended to foster col­ lective bargaining. The entire matter of the use of private detectives in labor disputes should be the subject of legislative consideration for Par­ liament, with a view to requiring the filing and disclosure of information and reports by companies using such agencies in labor matters, if not the outlawing of their use entirely in such situations. IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THE CLC LEADERSHIP It is a tragic commentary that the leader­ ship of CLC and CERT saw fit to abandon sound trade union principles when they permitted their organizations to be used by the Upper Lakes shipping interests in the plan to destroy the union protection and job security of the company's employees, by signing a sweetheart contract with Upper Lakes for a non-existent union. The sweeping anti-union recommenda­ tions called for in the report point up the clear danger to the future of the trade union movement inherent in the kind of collaboration with the enemies of labor, of which the . CLC and CERT leaders are guilty. In so far as the SIU is concerned, its conscience is clear because it has acted throughout the dispute according to estab­ lished trade union principles, in the best interests of the welfare and security of the peopie it represents. CONCLUSION It is our contention that the Commis­ sioner failed to carry out his mandate; that instead, he used it as a springboard for hit personal animosity and that of others. He demonstrated throughout the proceedings and his report his total disregard for our long-developed and much admired system of justice. It must be remembered that this Com­ mission was not a court—that the report is not a judgment. Had the SIU been charged in a court and that court conducted the proceedings in the manner in which the Commissioner did, the people of this coun­ try would have made known clearly their fear and disrespect for such procedures and their desire that our time-honored prin­ ciples of justice--be enforced. This is the danger in such an Inquiry. The Commis­ sioner fs entrusted with wide powers, with wide discretion, which if used arbitrarily and uneaually between the parties, makes Jrtr M, INS a mockery of the rights citiieiu sad openo them to puMic abuse, to scudslous charges and accusations and to libel and slander. In view of all the circumstances la this matter, we have sent today the following telegram to the Minister of Justira: "Hon. Lionel Cbevrler, Minister of Justice Department of Justice Ottawa There is already evidence of mounting concern over the unprecedented, sweeping and undemocratic nature of Commissioner Norrls' repor. and rec­ ommendations, issued on July IS, 1963. The report and recommendations re­ flect the manner in which the hearings were conducted. The SIU repeatedly protested the conduct of the Commis­ sioner in that he: 1) Discriminatorily restricted the right to produce evi­ dence; 2) Discriminatorily applied the rules of evidence; 3) Discriminatorily restricted the right of counsel to ex­ amine and cross-examine; 41 Subjected SIU counsel to continued flagrant and violent abuse. In view of the foregoing, we respectfuliy request the Department of Justice immediately investigate or cause to be investigated impartially the proceedings of the Commission. Seafarers International Union of Canada" Summary Of SlU-Upper Lakes Beef T HE dispute between the Upper Lakes Shipping Company and the Sea­ farers International Union of Canada arises out of a vitious union-busting attempt by a wealthy, powerful, American-based industrial dynasty to destroy the SIU of Canada as a militant fighting force in behalf of Can­ adian seamen's wages, conditions and benefits. Actively aiding and abetting this employer's anti-union campaign, in violation of the basic principle of trade unionism, have been the Canadian Labour Congress, t/ie Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers, and certain avowed jurisdictional enemies of the SIU on both sides of the border—notably the Steelworkers Union and the National Maritime .Union. Following are the most important elements in this SlU-Upper Lakes beef: • THE NORRIS INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE. The Norris industrial empire is on immensely wealthy and powerful industrial dynasty with vast busi­ ness interests in both the United States and Canada. In virtually all of its activities, in both the States and Canada, this industrial empire has been notoriously anti-union. The Canadian shipping arm of this empire is the Upper Lakes Shipping Company, which has been spearheading the unionbusting gttack on the SIU of Canada. • THE SlU-UPPER LAKES RELATIONSHIP. Upper Lakes, whose per­ sonnel manager was formerly secretary-treasurer of the old communistdominated Canadian Seamen's Union, was the last major Canadian-flag Great Lakes operator to come under an SIU contract, in 195J. Since then, the company has made repeated attempts to destroy the SIU. In 1952, the company attempted to do this through James Todd, who had been fired am his job as SIU port agent in Fort William. This plan failed because the SIU was a member in good standing in the Canadian labor movement and neither Todd nor the company was able to command the support nec­ essary to carry out their scheme. By 1961, however, certain jurisdictional differences had arisen between the SIU and other Canadian unions and the company seized this opportunity to renew the union-busting attempt which had lain dormant for nine years, but which had never been for­ gotten. • THE SlU'S ROLE IN THE CANADIAN ECONOMY. Since becoming established in Canada in 1949, the SIU has raised the wages, conditions and benefits of Canadian seamen to near-American levels. This has an­ tagonized Canadian industry generally, which is largely American-owned, and which is anxious to exploit Canadian labor as much as possible. It has specifically antagonized Canadian ship operators who would like to see the wages and conditions of Canadian seamen pegged to British levels, which are much lower than American levels, and it has also an­ tagonized other Canadian labor unions which have been criticized by their memberships for failing to keep step with the SlU's pace-setting progress. This is one reason why labor and management elements in Canada have seen fit to join forces in a concerted attack upon the SIU of Canada. • RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SIU OF CANADA AND OTHER CANA­ DIAN LABOR GROUPS. Besides being antagonistic toward the SIU because of its pace-setting gains in wages and conditions, other Canadian unions have been antagonistic toward th SIU because of its attempts to extend these gains to workers in all areas of the National Association of Marine Engineers and the communist-tinged marine section of the Cana­ dian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers, one of the most powerful affiliates of the Canadian Labour Congress. Because of its jurisdictional differences with these unions, and the fact that the CLC sided with them, the SIU severed its connection with the CLC in 1960. • RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SlUf^A AND OTHER AMERICAN LABOR GROUPS. On the States side of the Lakes, the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America has been involvd in jurisdictional dis­ putes with both the Steelworkers Union and the National Maritime Union. Both of these unions therefore seized the opportunity to join in the effort to smash the SIU in Canada, even though this meant supporting the posi­ tion of the employer in violation of the basic principle of trade unionism. • MICHAEL SHEEHAN. Michael Sheehan is a disgruntled former SIU patrolman who was expelled from the Union in February, 1961, for work­ ing with dual and hostile organizations and otherwise violating the pro­ visions of the SIU constitution. After breaking with the SIU, Sheehan held meetings with officials of the CLC, CBRT and other labor groups, as well as with officers of the Upper Lakes Company. Out of these talks came the formation of the Canadian Maritime Union of which Sheehan was elected first president, although this "union" had no members at that time. Sheehan has since been replaced as the president of CMU and now con­ cedes that this is a company union which has signed a sweetheart agree­ ment with Upper Lakes. • UPPER LAKES' UNION-BUSTING CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SIU. Upper Lakes began its union-busting campaign against the SIU in the spring of 1961 when it brought out two new ships and operated them under foreign-flag subsidiaries in order to evade its contractual respon­ sibilities toward the SIU. The first ship, the Whec!t King, was ultimately manned by the company with Greek immigrants. The second ship, the Northern Venture, was manned with scabs recruited by Sheehan. Both of these crews were drummed into the CBRT as a prelude to turning them over to the CMU, when it was set up. Later that year—in October, 1961— the company flatly refused to renegotiate the SIU contract which covered the vessels of the Upper Lakes fleet. The contractual dispute then went into conciliation, but before the issues could be resolved, in accordance with the terms of the Canadian Industrial Relations Act, the company signed a contract with the CMU, which still had no members, locked its 300 SIU crewmembers out of their jobs and replaced them with scabs whom Sheehan had recruited during the winter lay-up. The SIU now has a court action pending to hold this CMU contract illegal. • THE SEAWAY BOYCOTT. Because of the lockout, the SIU began to picket Upper Lakes vessels. So effective was this picketing that the com­ pany and its labor allies decided on retaliatory action. A series of meet­ ings then was held in which, attending at various times, were representa­ tives of the company, the Government and the CLC, CBRT and other labor groups. Out of these meetings came a boycott of SIU shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway on July 5, 1962. As a result of this boycott, the Seaway was shut down for some 30 hours, and this touched off a Can­ adian Government inquiry into the reasons for the disruption of shipping. • THE NORRIS INQUIRY. The Canadian Government inquiry was conducted by a one-man commission composed of Justice T. G. Norris, who had been an SIU counsel in Vancouver, but who had been relieved of his duties in behalf of the Union. Because of his previous association with the Union, Justice Norris was asked by the SIU to disqualify himself from conducting the hearings, but he refused. The hearings lasted from August 7, 1962 through March 15, 1963, and throughout this period the judge con­ tinued to conduct the proceedings in a manner which finally made it nec­ essary for the SIU to file a six-point motion asking the judge to disqualify himself because of bias. Judge Norris refused to disqualify himself and the SIU was then obliged to leave the proceedings with the comment that "this commission is not in a fit position to give a report to the Minister of Labour." � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource July 26, 1963 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU CREWMEN TELL OF TANKER CRASH; ALL HANDS SAFE SIU OF CANADA RIPS REPORT ON LAKES DISPUTE NMU IS ‘NO SHOW’ AT HEARINGS BY AFL-CIO ON RAIDING CHARGE CANADIAN SIU SLAMS COMMISIONER FOR ROLE IN UPPER LAKES INQUIRY, ASKS GOV’T TO PROBE HIS CONDUCT LAKES SEAFARERS WIN FULL WELFARE, PENSION BENEFITS FREIGHT COMPANY BIDS FOR SEATRAIN LINES SIU OPPOSES NEW PLAN TO BYPASS 50-50 LAW CHICKASAW ON THE ROCKS AND SO’S THE CHICKASAW RAILROAD MAN NOW HEAD OF BALT. ‘PROPELLER CLUB’ JAPAN TRIMS DECK GANG JOBS COURTS BROADEN ‘SEAWORTHY’ RULE A STATEMENT ON THE NORRIS COMMISSION REPORT BY THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CANADA THE SIU-UPPER LAKES DISPUTE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 07/26/1963 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. XXV, No. 15 1963 Periodicals Seafarers Log