http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/81c69b00b4b03f487de5c825755dd79b.PDF 71adb29ff9cc1fcd777fd550f2d388c6 PDF Text Text v'" ' Top phdto: Taking positive steps to help the mari^ time industry by curtailing Russian encroachment, the Ad Hoc Committee oniMaritime Industry Prob- ^ lems met in Chicago, HI. at the end of July and drafted two resolutions on detente and the Russian grain deal. Both resolutions were later adopted by : the AFL-CIO Executive Council. In photo at top are, Cfrom the left: Ray McKay, president of District 2 of^ '. the Marine Engineers Beneficial Associatibhi Jease Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engi­ neers Beneficial Association: Teddy Gleason, president of the Internattonal Longshoremen's Associatioh, and Paul Hall, president of the SlU. In the foreground is Lane Kirkland, secretary-trea- ^ ' surer ofthe AFL-CIG. Left photo: Among the union s heads attending the AFL-CIO's Executive Council meeting in Chicago, III. from July 30 to Aug. 1, when . , The Ad Hoc Committee resolutions were adopted, were, from the left: Paul Hall, president of the S|U; Peter Bommarito, president of the Rubber Workers, and C. L. Dellums, president of the Brotherhood of • Sleeping Car Porters. (For details on the resolu- : tions'concerning deterite and Russian grain sales, see page 3. For intprrnatton on other actions taken by the Ad Hoc Committee, see page 2.) " '-.-y: A ) - 'I •r - - Iw .' J't. j.'Ly �mtinav V ' Scales, Firefighting .1 Ad Hoc Committee Concurs on Vital issues • Numerous aspects of shipboard man­ ning, the methods for arriving at new manning scales, and the. need for up­ dating firefighting training at the Earle, NJ. facility were some of the main areas of study and discussion at last month's meeting of the AFL-CIO Ad Hoc Committee on Maritime Industry Problems. This important Committee was set up just over a year ago with the help of AFL-CIO President George Meany San Hall Moves In order to better serve Bay area Union members, the SIU's San Fran­ cisco HaU has been moved to 1311 Mission St. in San Francisco. The new telephone number is (415) 8647400. The Union's offices will remain at diK address and the old hall will be renovated m the next few months. This expansion of Union facilities in San Francisco wifl allow the SIU to continue providing essential serv­ ices for the increasing number of Seaforers who nse this hall. for the purpose of encouraging a coop­ erative effort amc.:^ ;..aritime unions in overcoming the many difiicult obstacles facing our industry today. The Ad Hoc Committee is made up of the Seafarers. International Union; the National Maritime Union; the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Inter­ national Union; the International Long­ shoremen's Association; the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Associa­ tion; the American Radio Association; the United Steel Workers of America, and the Radio Operators Union. At these last talks, held July 29 in Chicago, the Ad Hoc Committee, in the highest order of priority, reached unanimous positions in calling for a voice for maritime labor in the deter­ mination of shipboard manning scales. At the present time, maritime labor has virtually no voice in this area. Manning Scales The Committee relayed its position on maiming to both the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Maritime Admin­ istration. In a letter to Admiral Owen W. Siler, commandant of the Coast Guard, the Maritime Ad Hoc Committee urged "a permanent committee be established that includes representatives of mari- the PRESIDENT'S REPORT: A Need For Action Now The dangerously growing encroachment of expanding Soviet third-flag operations into the U.S. foreign trades has reached crisis levels as it continues to erode the foundations of not only the American merchant marine but the national-flag merchant fleets of our nation's trading partners. Led by the third-flag Far Eastern Shipping Co., reSCO, one of the largest of 16 such Soviet state owned shipping companies, non-national carriers have captured, through non-competitive rate-cutting practices, vast percen­ tages of the cargoes moving between the U.S. and foreign ports. In the U.S. West Coast-Far East trades alone, FESCO, operating 18 ves­ sels, along with other Communist block dominated third-flag fleets control the carriage of over 50 percent of all liner cargo moving between our West Coast and ports in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. And because they have attained so much success in the Far East, the Soviets are now plannnig significant third-flag operations between the U.S. Gulf and East Coast ports to Northern European and other foreign ports. After several decades of boycott, American ports were reopened to Soviet ships a few years back under the policy of detente, or mutual cooperation for the benefit of both nations and world peace. However the Russians have twisted the original intent of the agreement and have embarked on a program of political maneuvering, through the build up of their merchant fleet, that is gaining them great political and economic advantages over the U.S. and other free nations of the world. In the past few years alone, the Russian merchant fleet has skyrocketed from ninth to first place in world liner tonnage, and by.1980 projections indicate that the Soviets will have the liner capacity to completely monop­ olize the vast U.S.-Far East container and dry bulk trades. And under the unchecked policy of detente, the Russians will accomplish this, which in turn will enable them to dictate foreign and economic policies to the U.S. and the non-Communist world. Already the Russians' third-flag, non-profit rate cutting activities on the time labor to review present manning levels and to determine all manning levels of vessels as they are put in service."; Alsanoting that the Coast Guard has "an ever increasing minority of its marine inspection officers with mer­ chant marine backgrounds," the Ad Hoc Committee called for an end to the procedure of the Coast Guard in allowing manning levels to be set by local OCMI's (Officer in Charge Marine Inspection). The committee affirmed that this situation "has caused varied manning levels for the same types of ships, as well as making it almost im­ possible for maritime labor to have any input into the final manning decision." Letter to BiackweD •The Ad Hoc Committee also pointed out that although manning decisions presently are based on the number of individuals required for the safe navi­ gation of the vessel, "the aspect of safe navigation also encompasses those in­ dividuals required to perform preventa­ tive maintenance and, as such, manning levels should include such personnel." • The Committee also called for all ves­ sels to have sufficient personnel on board "to operate the vessel manually when required." In another letter concerning manning, to Robert J. Blackwell, assistant secre­ tary of Commerce for maritime affairs and head of the Maritime Administra­ tion, the Ad Hoc Committee stated that "since maritime labor has no input into MARAD crew size decisions at this time, it is requested that maritime labor have licensed and unlicensed representatives appointed to the crewing committee. Such members are neces­ sary to provide the up-to-date expertise that the committee presently lacks." In addition, the Committee urged "that maritime labor be consulted prior to any research projects being under­ taken and that maritime labor serve on the group that oversees such projects." Also affirming that ^'the growth of the U.S. fleet and the fate of U.S. sea­ men depend on the ability to cooperate in maritime policy making," the Mari­ time Ad Hoc Committee urged Blackwell to set up "an ongoing committee of labor representatives and MARAD representatives to discuss mutual prob­ lems and to keep labor up-to-date on all maritime affairs." Firefighing In addition to manning, the ComContinued on Page 13 West Coast has caused havoc among U.S. and foreign national-flag lines, which must turn a profit to stay in existence. And if the Russians are allowed to continue their present build up, the ultimate results would be complete destruction of fair competition among legitimate shipping companies, includ­ ing both U.S. and foreign national lines, and the loss of thousands of Amer­ ican maritime jobs on ships, in shipyards and in related industries. And this would come at a time when unemployed Americans already number 8Vi million. The SIU is not about to let this happen. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii has offered a solution to the problem with his Non-National Carrier Bill, introduced in the Senate several months ago. It is a good bill and a fair bill because it would require an operator to prove that his rates are commercially compensatory, or more simply, that he is making a profit from his service, thereby encouraging healthy competi­ tion among operators. The bill then would force the Russians and other Communist block na­ tions, which operate their totally subsidized merchant fleets for political rather than genuine business interests, to bring their rates up to fair com­ petitive levels, thus enabling legitimate operators to compete and turn a prudent profit. The SIU is completely supporting this bill and the bill has a good deal of support in Congress. Yet opposition to the bill from the Russians and pres­ sure from various government agencies is halting forward progress on the legislation. This bill is not something that can be put off to another day. We~^heed action now. And if serious action is not taken on the bill soon, the very re'al possibility of boycotting and picketing Russian ships in American ports will become reality. The serious problem of third-flag encroachment, however, is not the only issue facing the SIU and the entire maritime industry. We in the SIU aire still actively involved in working for a fair oil cargo preference bill that would require that at least 30 percent of all oil imported to American shores be carried on American-flag ships. And we are still in the ring in the continuous fight for preservation of the Jones Act. The need for political action to keep the U.S. merchant marine a viable, globally competitive industry is greater today than ever before. But because of the continued harassment of top NMU.officials for alleged illegal activities, and the continued probems of our brother West Coast maritime unions, the SIU in large part will have to carry the fight alone. For this reason, the continued participation of the SIU membership in politics through voluntary donations to SPAD is greater today than evef before. The odds appear to be stacked against us. But this is nothing new to Sea­ farers. We united and have remained united throughout the years and we have built a strong effective trade union for Seafarers. I am convinced that this same kind of traditional unity among our membership will enable us to reach our goals. Changs of address cards on Form 3579 should be sent to Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232. Published monthly except twice a mopdi in Juiy. Second Class postage paid at Brooklyn, N. Y. Vol. XXXVII, No. 9, August 1975. Seafarers Log Psge2 A • �jtops Detente Shipping Deals AFLrCIO Council Adopts Maritime Policy ^ Council meeting hdd here July 30-Aug. 1. (The entire resolution, along with another concerning "Russian Grain Purchases"," are reprinted in full on this page.) The Executive Council statement, entitled "U.S. Merchant Marine—^A Victim of Detente," pointed out that in CHICAGO, ILL.-—Adopting a reso­ lution submitt^ by tiie AI^CIO Ad ^ec Committee on Maritime Industry l^airs, the AFL-CIO Executive Counbil issued a strong statement charging ,^at the Soviet Union was using trading nights given them as part of the U.S. jpolicy of detente "to engage in the most cxx«v jruthless rate-cutting i/xovuv.v3 practices that ithreaten to bankrupt the U.S. Merchant jMarine and throw even more U.S. meri chant seamen out of work." _ The resolution was prepared by the iSIU and other maritime unions at a j meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee in I Chicago July 29. SIU President Paul ! Hall represented the International at : that, meeting and at the AFL-CIO the 1972 grain sale to the USSR, Amer- ican-flag ships carried only 11 percent of the cargo instead of the promised 33 percent, and went to charge that "the Russians are how. refusing to negotiate fair and reasonable rates for the car­ riage of American grain under the agreement." Under a trading agreement which opened up 42 U.S. ports to Soviet The iollowing resolutions, which were submitted by the AFL-CIO 9C Committee on Maritime Industry affairs, were adopted by the AFLiCtO Executive Chicago, III, July 30-Aug. I. . , J. smps, the Russians have driven freight rates down to make it impossible for U.S. ships-ras'. well as the privatelyowned ships "of other nationals—to compete on the high seas. ITius, the AFL-CIO Council said "the low-cost labor on the 100 percent government subsidized Soviet merchant fleet is being used to further the political aim of destroying the U.S. and its free world allies." Increased Capacity The AFL-CIO statement noted that all of the 16 Soviet state-owned ocean shipping companies have increased their cargo capacities significantly since 1970—the beginning of detente. The statement said: "Communist activity (in the Pacific) trade routes serve to underscore the success of their efforts. The Far Eastern /-ppcrn^ has hns iin­ Steamship Company (FESCO) creased its container capacity in the Pacific trades alone from none in 1970 to nearly 20,000 twenty-foot equiva­ lents annually on six different service routes in 1974." Similar Soviet gains were noted in the U.S. East Coast-European trade by Polish Ocean Lmetf and Baltatlantic Lines—^both state-owned ocean car­ riers. The AFLCIO Council statement called for a halt to large-scale grain purchase deals with Soviet bloc nations "until adequate safeguards for the free world, the American people and the U.S. Merchant Marine are firmly estab­ lished on the basis of complete recip­ rocity, in the spirit of tnie detente, not the Administration's calamitous one­ way detente with the Communist super­ powers." :hf the AFL-CIO Executive Comu^^ •I' on Russian Grain Purchases Chkagoj Illlaols . - L ' ' . The American people have not yet recovered from the disastrous grain deals I of 1972 in which the Soviet Union obtained American grain at bargain prices, I subsidized by American credits, and resulting in sharply increased prices in the V American market. The Russian traders and the hugd^rain conipanies were enabled to derive [ "undeserved advantages at the expense of the ' merican farmer, the American ' consumer and the American taxpayer. . The record of the Nixon-Ford Administrations in this area does not inspire confidence in its ability to protect the vital interests of this nation and its work­ ing people in commercial grain sales to the Soviet Union. .^ America is again faced with the prospect of massive grain sales to the Sovietj I jUnion with no assurance that America's national interests will be properi"® ' safeguarded. ,I s? The pending Soviet grain purchase again threatens the American economyi hd becomes a matter of concern that will affect all Americans and their welll International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO has refused to l arty and cooperate in the loading of grain destined for the USSR until j I safeguards are provided the American public which are as follows; This administration should determine from the Soviet Union tlie fi extent of their future purchases of U.S. grain. In a manner of faimt this information should be fully disclosed to the American farmer he knows what his grain is truly worth... to the American businessmah| so he can compete fairly for the foodstuffs required for domestic ' Continued on Page 5 INDEX Legislative.News Merchant marine hearings continue Page 10 Washington Activities Page 9 War risk insurance . Page 6 Union News President's Report Dues increase Great Lakes benefits Pension choices Page 2 Page 5 Page 6 .Page 11 Membership meeting in Baltimore Page 4 Headquarters Notes Page 7 SiUNA convention Page 10 - SPAD honor roll ... .Pages 22-23 SIU scholarships Back Page Family day at clinic ....centerfoid General News Protest Navy construction.. Page 6 Gulf pipeline . .......... Page It Warnings of further AugusL;|975 IB. U.5. Merchant Marine-— A Victim of Detente SUM! recession Page 5 Ad Hoc Committee meets..Page 2 ,Resolutions on detente, grain Page 3 Shipping Dispatchers Reports .....Page 12 Ships' Committees Page 8 Ships' Digests Page 20 Training and Upgrading Upgrading class schedule, requirements and application Pages 28-29 Seafarers gets GED diploma ^..... .Page 27 Seafarers participate in bosuns recertification and 'A' seniority upgrading Pages 30-31 GED requirements and application .. ........ .Page 29 Membership News New SIU pensioners ....Page 24 Final departures ....... . Page 26 f V •'11 .'I Chicago, minoES ^ - July31,1975&::- At its May meeting, the Executive Council called upon the Administration "to abandon its calamitous one-way detente with the Communists supcrpowm^ and to replace it with a standard of complete reciprocity in all our dealings with Communist states." Detente is supposed to mean mutual and reciprocal steps to ease tensions between the Free World and the Soviet Bloc. However, as the second major Russian grain deal with the United States is shaping up, the Ad Hoc Com• mittee of Maritime Unions affiliated with the AFLCIO has called uttenriop to. ; die disastrous results of detente's one-way street as practiced by the Russians in the maritime industry. Detente, as the Soviet Union is now using it, will result in American seamen having fewer and fewer ships to sail; American shipyards and shipyaid workerii having fewer and fewer ships to. build; and American longshoremen having nothing but foreign-flag vessels to ioad. " This policy of maritime detente began when 42 American portsvrere ppenedj f .w> Soviet vessels in the course of negotiations fOr the last big Soviet-UiS. grain; purchase deal in 1972. Part of the arrangement was that there would be threeway division of the resultant grain cargoes, with one-third going aboard RUST sian ships, one-third on U.S.-flag ships an(Lone-third being allocated for car­ riage by "third flag" vessels. Far from living up to the terms of this first step in detente, the foUowing h^ riened Continued on Page 13 li-v I'r ^ I f I Maritime Leaders Meet Butz On Grain Shipments to Soviets WASHINGTON, D.C.—SIU Presi­ dent Paul Hall, Longshoremen's Presi­ dent Teddy Gleason and MEBA Pres­ ident Jesse Calhoon met with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, Aug. 6, to discuss the implications of massive grain sales to the Soviet Union and its effects on American workers. The meeting "was arranged by Glea­ son after the Longshoremen's Union took action at its recent convention to boycott the grain shipments "unless the interests of the American people are adequately safeguarded." Gleason asked Hall and Calhoon to attend the meeting as spokesmen for the interests of American maritime workers. At the meeting. Hall presented a position paper outlining the "sellout of the American maritime industry and its workers in the interest of detente with the Soviet Union," and demanding "protection of American shipping in trading and shipping arrangements with the Soviet Union." Immediately following the meeting with the Agriculture Secretary, Hall, Gleason and Calhoon met with AFLCIO President George Meany to report that the talk had failed to result in any new conunitments from the Adminis' tration which would safeguard the in­ terests of American consumers and the American workers. President Meany has called a special meeting of the AFL-CIO Ad Hoc Com­ mittee on Maritime Industry Affairs Aug. 18 in Washington to plan further steps to insure that the grain sale and shipping arrangements with the USSR. are not a continuation of the Adminis­ tration's "calamitous one-way detente with the Communist superpowers." Pages ' J i' �Baltimore Port Agent Ben Wilson reads his report at tfie July membership meeting in that port. Seated to his left is the meeting chairman. SlU Vice President Bull Shepard and to the right is Recording Secretary Ed Smith. Atlantic Coast Area Vice President Bull Shepard, far right, discusses the new contract with Baltimore Seafarers after their July meeting. 95 Seafarers Attend Baltimore Meeting ignated constitutional ports and a membership meeting is held in diat port on the first Wednesday after the passed flie dues increase resolution first Sunday of each monfii. At any given time 80 percent of .which called for the election of a constitntional committee to study the the Sn?s membership is at sea and proposed amendment to the SHPs these membership meetings allow constitution. Seafarers on the beach to carry on Hie Seahirers attending the Balti­ the pressing business of the Union. more meeting also voted overwhelm­ They also give Seafarers the oppor­ ingly to accept flie SHPs new three- tunity to hear reports on Union activ­ ities, development in the maritime year contract industiy and legislative activities that Baltimore is one of the SHPs des- affect Seafarers. he 95 foil book Union members present at the Jfnly 9 membership T meeting in Baltimore unanimously it-. • Seafarer Clarence Anderson, getting registration card stamped, was one of the 95 SlU members who attended the Baltimore membership meeting last month. f Baltimore Patrolman Tony Kastina, left, processes a vacation benefit for Sea­ farer Larry Kipcer, a QMED, after the July meeting. AB Paul LaTorre makes a point during the Good and Welfare portion of the membership meeting. Chief Cook Lou D. Williams has his registration card stamped by Baltimore Patrolman Bob Pomerlane. ¥ /• "v:v. iJ 'Full book Union members raise their hands as the meeting chairman oalls for a quorum gount. As a constitutional port Baltimore must have at least 50 members! present to hold a membership meeting. " . _• Page 4 Seafarers Log ' , K'i • ^11;.J' �Dues Increase Resolution Membership Accepts Committee Report Seafarers this month at meeting jn SIU halls throughout the country have overwhelmingly accepted the six-man Constitutional Committee's report and recommendations concerning the reso­ lution on a 'dues increase for working members'. AfiGirmihg that "we in the maritime industry are faced with serious threats to oiir job opportunities and security," tjle Committee unanimously recomtnended that the resolution "be ap­ proved by the membership." The Committee, which was elected by the membership at a special meeting at Headquarters in New York on July 18, was made up of SIU members Ron­ ald Shaw and Jack Dixon, engine de- Russian Grain Purchases Continued frtymPq^S sumption . , . arid to the American public so they knowledgably can participate an4 voice their opinion in the political and economic market community. A policy must be formulated to protect American companies from un­ fair competitionwyith state-owned monopolistic economies the size the Soviet Union. The United States should establish ah offensive policy to deal with com modity cartels such as the OPEC nations and determine to what extent U.S. corporations are participating in and supporting them, agre# with the view expressed by the International Longshoremen's ^ociation and endorsed by the Ad Hoc Maritime Committee. As long as this Adriunistration pursues poKCies of encouraging inflation and reduced consumer income then artificial restraints such as those threatened by the ILA are the only alternatives left to deal with what has become unconscion­ able administration policies. America needs effective government regulations of exports of farm products and other goods when such exports will create domestic shortages and inflationu Further, we believe that unrestricted access to the American grain marke|> should hot be afforded to the USSR as long as it continues on its course of aggression, subjugation of peoples and states, and the suppression of human SI U Agent Receives Award SIU New Orleans Port Agent Buck Stephens (left) receives plaque from Rev. David A. Boileau, director of the Institute of Human Relations of Loyola Uni­ versity in New Orleans. Brother Stephens, who is also secretary of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO, was cited for his work within "the Labor-Management Center at the college. partment; William Cofone and Nich­ olas D'Amante, deck department, and Warren Cassidy and Lonnie Dukes of the steward department. As outlined in the dues resolution and in the report of the Constitutional Committee, the dues increase, pending final membership vote, would work in the following manner: • an additional sum of $50 would be paid for each 90 days worked in twelve consecutive months on SIUcontracted vessels. • and subsequent to the first 90 days worked in the given twelve month period, a proportionate sum of $50 would be paid equal to the percentage of days worked in relation to 90. • however, before the dues change would become effective, an additional $350 for annual shipping ($87.50 for 90 days) in vacation benefits for SIU members would have to be negotiated. This additional vacation pay would be over and above the vacation increases already negotiated for in our new threeyear contract. In making their recommendations, the Constitutional Committee affirmed that this measure would provide the Union with the needed revenue to con­ tinue effective operation without either "taxing the nonworking ill or disabled members, or touching any part of exist­ ing negotiated vacation benefits." In addition, the Committee noted that in accordance with the SIU consti­ tution, the proposed amendment would be accepted or rejected by the member­ ship in a secret mail ballot. The voting period will last 30 days from Aug. 25, 1975 through Sept. 23, 1975, and ballots can be obtained at all SIU Halls from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Monday through Saturday excluding holidays. The depository designated to receive all mail ballots will be the Star­ ling National Bank in New York. The Committee also designated that on Sept. 29, a special membership meeting will be held at Headquarters to elect a six-man Tallying Committee to count the votes. The complete text of the Constitu­ tional Committee's Report as well as the text of the dues resolution was pub­ lished in the July issue of the SEA­ FARERS LOG. These texts were also sent to each member's home and to all SlU-contracted ships. Only a Few Would Benefit From AIMS Texas School A proposed facility for marine firefighting training, to be run by the Amer­ ican Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS) at Texas A«feM University, re­ ceived the close scrutiny of the AFLCIO Ad Hoc Committee on Maritime Industry Problems at its most recent meeting on July 29 in Chicago. At the present time, the Maritime Ad Hoc Committee is opposed to this facil­ ity for several important reasons: there is no guarantee that AIMS, which is basically made up of oil companyowned foreign-flag fleets, would open the facility to all segments of the U.S. merchant marine; and even if it :were opened to all groups, the facility is geo­ graphically unavailable to the vast majority of U.S. merchant marine train­ ing facilities, which are all located with­ in 300 mUes of each other on the U.S. East Coast. In addition, such a facility, funded by a private organization, might encourage government cutbacks of funds, which are already low, for the operation of existing facilities, such as the jointly administered MARAD-MSC school at Earle, N.J. The Ad Hoc Committee, which is extremely concerned with the need to provide all seamen of all nations with top-notch firefighting training for safety on the world's sealanes, feels that in­ stead of developing new facilities that would be practically usable by only a small segment of the maritime com­ munity, that groups such as AIMS should cooperate with the U.S. mer­ chant marine to improve existing facili­ ties with the intent of making them second to none. In this way, there would be no duplication of efforts; the firefighting facilities would be easily acces­ sible to the vast majority of seamen, and the atmosphere of cooperation would be a big step in improving safety at sea. The Ad Hoc Committee members have repeatedly emphasized that "safety of the U S: fl^t and of American sea­ men depends on bur abiiity to provide adequate firefighting training to every person who will be sailing on a U.S. vessel." In the past, AIMS and similar Jship^ ping groups have been invited to particij;": pate in the U.S. merchant fleet's firefighting programs, but these groups have invariably refused. The Maritime Ad Hoc Committee expressed the posi­ tion that it is time that all segments of the world shipping community coop­ erate to foster safety at sea. So far, AIMS has concluded no defi­ nite plans on the proposed Texas facil­ ity, nor have they put up any funds for its establishment. AFL-CIO Executive Council Warns off Steeper Recession Unemployment Tops 6^0 in 131 of ISO Ma/or Centers A record 131 of the nation's 150 major job centers were affected by un­ employment of six.' percent or more in July. This increase was recorded by the Labor Department despite its report of a slight drop in the national unem­ ployment rate to 8.4 percent from 8.6 percent in June. The Labor Dept. projected that 7.8 million workers were without jobs in July, Even though this is a slight drop •fer... August, 1975 from June's figure of 7.9 million un­ employed, it represents three million more workers out of jobs than in July 1974. As small as these gains were, some government economists warned that the dip in the ofiScial imemployment rate does not accurately reflect the nation's employment situation, and that the August figures could show a significant rise in unemployment. President Ford's Administration has pointed to these gains as proof that the ''recession is o^r." The AFL-CIO Ex­ ecutive Council, disagreeing with the Administration's view, stated at its mid­ summer meeting that "the recession will not be over untU the unemployed are back at work" and warned that there is a "very real danger of a deeper, more serious recession" stemming from Ad­ ministration policies "designed to bene­ fit giant corporations and banks at the expense of the American people." Pointing to the Federal Reserve Board's tight money policy, another grain giveaway to the Soviet Union, spiraling fuel prices resulting from Ad­ ministration policies, insufiicient action to stimulate a genuine recovery and weak consumer purchasing power, the Executive Council said, "with the econ­ omy so weak and so vulnerable, these events could well set off another eco­ nomic downslide on top of the worst recession since the 1930s." Page5 . ji 1 'I •!. iF I '1 •.r»" f �M Ss 'J 3^,1 % U.S. to Cut War Risk Insurance On 75% of Non-U.S. Ships As a result of SlU efforts in oppositidn to U.S. war-risk insurance cover­ age for forei^-flag ships, the Maritime Administration is revising its war-risk insurance program in a way that will reduce the number of vessels covered approximately 75 percent. The reduction in vessels covered will be made in the so-called effective con­ trol fleet. Effective control vessels are U.S.-owned foreign-flag vessels regis­ tered in Liberia and Panama which are relied upon for military back-up in an emergency. The war-risk program, which pro­ vides protection during the early part of a war among major powers, when commercial shipping insurance termi­ nates, had covered U.S.-flag vessels and virtually all of the effective control fleet. The legislation authorizing this cover- J'l „< V -• r •' 3 age which was revised every five years since the early '50's expires in Septem^r. Renewallegislation was introduced in the current session of Congress. After hearing testimory that the Maritime Administration is revamping and reducing war-risk insurance cover­ age, the House Subcommittee on the , Merchant Marine approved extension of the war-risk program (Title XII of the 1936 Merchant Marine Act) but for a three-year period rather than the customary five-year period. In Subcommittee, Representative Paul McCloskey (R-Calif.) introduced an amendment to the bill to extend the program for a shorter period in order to review it sooner. The shorter term was adopted: Prompted by SIU The Subcommittee's request for Ad­ ministration testimony on foreign-flag coverage was prompted by opposition by the SIU and others to war-risk insur­ ance foir any but American-flag ships. During Subcopimittee deliberations on the bill, H.R. 1073, Congressman Leo Z^feretti (D-N.Y.) proposed an amendment fhat Would have eliminated all foreign-flag vessels from the war-risk program. Congressman Zeferetti con­ tended that strengthening the policy of effective control through offering warrisk insurance to foreign-flag vessels provided an incentive for oil companies and other U.S. multinational firms to buUd and operate foreign-flag fleets. In face of the Zeferetti amendment, the Commerce Department proposed a revised plan for the operation of the war-risk insurance program. The new plan, which MARAD says will eliminate approximately 75 percent of the effec­ tive control ships now covered, will examine applications on a ship-by-ship basis. Before extending a binder, the Mari­ time Administration will consider the ship's age and capacity; its type of service and cargo; the nationality of its crew, with preference given to U.S. and NATO-country crews; the ship's gen­ eral management; and other factors which would make the vessel valuable in an emergency. The Subcommittee accepted the Maritime Administration's new guide­ lines and held off the Zeferetti amend­ ment by virtue of a six-six tie- vote. The bill was reported out of the full Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com­ mittee and now awaits action by the House. It will then be considered by the Senate. Lakes Benefits Raised: Dues Increase To Be Voted After a series of successful renegoti­ ations with Great Lakes operators. Great Lakes Seafarers will be receiving tlie same increases in welfare, pension md vacation benefits that deep sea diembers won in their new contract. Welfare and pension benefit in­ creases will go into effect on Jan. 1, 1976; The new pension for Great Lakes members will be S350 per month for eligible members who apply for a nor­ mal, early normal or disability pension after Jan. 1. Wdbire Benefits Welfare increases include a $5,000 death benefit payable to a beneficiary, an increased surgical schedule and an increased maternity benefit. The increased vacation benefit, which will go into effect on Oct. 1, 1975, is presently projected to be $2,200 for key group 1 ratings, $1,800 for group 2 ratings and $1,400 for group 3 ratings. In the event that new, higher rates are negotiated for deep-sea members, as proposed in the dues increase resolu­ tion, this additional increase will also be paid to Great Lakes Seafarers^ Upon receipt of the additional in­ crease in vacation, a dues increase if accepted:by the membership, will also be applicable to the Great Lakes mem­ bers. This dues increase will be paid by working members at the rate of $50 for each 90 days worked only if the vaca­ tion benefit is raised above $2,200, $1,800 and $1,400 levels by $350 per year, or $87.50 for each 90 days worked after Oct. 1,1975." For a detailed report on the proposed dues increase amendment see the Con­ stitutional Committee's report .which was carried in the July LOG on page 13. This, report, as well as the text of the dues resolution has been sent to each member's home. The dues resolution was first pro­ posed and accepted at July meetings held in all Constitutional and non-Con­ stitutional ports including Detroit, Chi­ cago and Alpena. The Constitutional Committee was elected by the membership at a special meeting at Headquarters on July 18. This Committee's report has also been overwhelmingly accepted by Sea­ farers at meetings held in all SIU halls this month. The voting period, as suggested by the Constitutional Committee, will be from Aug. 25, 1975 to S^ipt. 23, 1975. Ballots may be: obtained at all SIU Halls from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday to Saturday, except holidays. SIU Registers Opposition To Nayy Fiscal Proposal Hall also assured the Committee The SIU has registered strong oppo­ sition against a request by the U.S. Chairman that "the private tug industry Navy Department for fiscal 1976 ap= can supply the Navy with the towing propriations to fund the constnlction of vessels and experienced crews it needs three commercial tugboats. to do any type of towing job." Stating the SIU's position in a letter Concluding that the continued ap^ to Senator John C. Stennis (D-Miss.), propriation of funds for the Navy's chairman of the Senate Arm^ Services commercial vessel building program is Committee, which is reviewing the re­ detrimental to the U.S. merchant ma­ quest, SIU President Paul Hall affirmed rine, its workers, and the country as a that "Navy shipbuilding funds should whole. President Hall strongly urged not be needlessly expanded for the con­ that the Senate Armed Services Com-^ struction of commercial vessels when mittee "refuse to appropriate any addi­ tional funds to build Navy support ves-: such vessels are readily available from the private tug industry at a competi­ sels when similar vessels already exist . tive cost." and are available for charter from theprivate sector." Noting that the SIU represents thou­ sands of coastal, harbor and inland waters tug workers in the affiliated In­ land Boatmen's Union, President Hall also affirmed that "the Navy should not compete with private industry in a field in which private industry is more than qualified to meet the Navy's needs. By continuing to build and operate com­ The port of Cleveland was picked mercial tugboats, the Navy is depriving to be the Maritime Administration's private industry of work it can and (MARAD) Great Lakes Regional Of­ should perform." fice early last month. In addition. Hall cited the prohibitive The new Great Lakes region will cost of the Navy's proposal, stating that cover maritime activities in Michigan, "by maintaining its own tug fleet, the Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Navy is misallocating scarce shipbuild­ Ohio and the Lakes coastal areas of ing funds that should be used for much Pennsylvania and New York. needed new warships. Already the Other regional offices are in the ports Navy's shipbuilding budget is one of the of New York, New Orleans and San largest items in the United States de­ Francisco. fense budget. Using Navy shipbuilding The selection of Cleveland as a funds to build commercial tugs is a regional headquarters was based on its costly and unnecessary additional ex­ central location, the volume of cargo penditure." movements through the port and the Also citing the need for fiscal respon­ concentration of vessel operators in the sibility, President Hall said that char­ area. tering tugs from private operators , Heading the regional office is George would "reduce the cost of the Navy's J. Ryan- who was MARAD's man in tugboat operations because private tugs London handling foreign maritime af­ can be hired only as needed and will fairs. He has extensive commercial and not remain idle when not being used by government experience in thwe matters, the Navy." MARAD said. Cleveland Named MARAD Great Lakes Region Hdqs. •;:| ' '"-J U' />W ."S"' i'i T'H. The U.S. Marines who fell in the rescue of the Seafarer crew aboard Jhe SS Mayaguez (Sea-Land) off Cambodia are honored at the N.Y.C. South Street Seaport Museum pier late last month. From (I. to r.) are: SIU represen­ tative George McCartney: Lt. Claude Corey, U.S.N., aide to Rear Adm. Louis Lukeman; SIU N.Y. Port Agent Leon Hall; Lt. E. N. Medor, U.S.M.C. Reserve; SIU official Ed Morris; SIU Patrolman Jack Caffey; Union official Leo Bonser and bugler Sgt. Joseph J. Nista, Jr., U.S.M.C. Reserve, who played taps at the ceremony. Later Brother Bonser cast a memorial wreath into the harbor off the Statue of Liberty from a launch to commemorate the fallen Lechernecks. Page 6 Seafarers Log m �misim The following letter was sent last month to SIU President Paul Hall fromj recently appointed V.S. Secretary of Commerce Rogers Morton who praises^ the Union for its efforts in fostering a healthy American merchant marhie^ Dear Mr. Hall: ^ In the short time 1 have served as Secretary of Commerce^ I have been deeply impressed and gratified by the progress that is being made in strength­ ening our merchant fleet under the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. Assistant Secretary Blackwell has advised me that U.S. flag-carriers last year transported 41 million tons of our foreign trade—a 73-percent increase over the tonnage carried in 1972. The record backlog of shipbuilding orders in American yards portends further cargo gains iii the years ahead. But as you well know it takes more than modern, efficient ships to attract the cargoes needed to insure their profitable operation. It requires aggressive marketing efforts to sell shippers on American flag services. Under the auspices of the National Maritime Council, the Seafarers International Union and other labor and management segments of the maritime industry have Joined forces -in an effective nationwide marketing firogram to increase shipper patronage of the American merchant marine. Vital to the success of .iiis endeavor isi the High degree of stability and cooperation that now characterizes labor-management relations in our shipping industry. The virtual absence of work stoppages due to labor-management disputes during the past six years has earned the industry a reputation for dependable service. Your leadership in negotiating your new collective bargaining agreement without resort to work stoppages has further strengthened the industry's I record of reliability in the eyes of shippers. You and your union are to be commended for your efforts in providing the climate needed to foster further gains for the American Merchant Marine. Sincerely, ROGERS MORTON Secretary of Commerce Headquarters Notes Vice President Frank Drozak In the next few months the SIU will have to lead the fight to protect the Jones Act, attempt to secure cargo preference laws for U.S. ships, oppose the conversion of a Florida gas pipeline that would end the Florida coastwise tanker trade, try to force controls on third-flag rates which are now encroach­ ing on U.S. shippers on the West Coast, push for approval of a natural gas pipeline proposal that would utilize LNG vessels over a competing proposal for an overland route through Canada, and protect the unlicensed jurisdiction from inroads by new licensed ratings and unsafe manning scales. The American seaman is in an unusual position. His working conditions, the cargoes that generate his wages, even his right to earn a living at sea are all governed by federal and, to some extent, international laws. This means that the SIU must get involved in these issues, not because we support one political party or philosophy, but because it is the only way we can protect the jobs of this membership. In the '30s and '40s sailors fought their battles on the waterfront, but today issues affecting the Seafarer also affect many segments of the world community and are decided by the U.S. Congress and other governmental bodies. We could ignore these legislators and isolate ourselves aboard our ships, but chances are we would not be sailing those ships for long—^^there are too many powerful groups that would like to carve up the U.S. merchant marine in return for fatter profits or lopsided international alliances. Although the Seafarer is so dependent on legislation, federal law prohibits using Union funds for political activities. So we must rely on voluntary con­ tributions to SPAD to carry on all of our legislative activities. SPAD will take on added importance in the coming year. In 1976 this nation will elect a new Congress and a new president. It will be a time to support our friends in both Houses of Congress and to attempt to defeat our enemies. This support, or opposition is vital if the SIU is to continue waging the legislative battles to protect our jobs, and only through SPAD can we offer that support. When you are asked to donate to SPAD think about these issues facing Seafarers and consider the political battles we must fight if we are to continue to enjoy high wages, decent conditions and good job security. , : " • -M * '^ ' 13 Consecutive Clean Ships Awards BOSUNS RECERTIFICATIGN PROGRAM Another class of Recertified Bosuns graduated this month, making them the 25th class of Seafarers to participate in this very important course. As the Bosuns Receitification Program enters its third year it is becoming clear that the Seafarers who have gone through it are doing an effective job of leading our crews aboard SlU-contracted ships. For more information about the Bosuns' Program see pages 30-31 of this issue of the LOG. *A' SENIORITY UPGRADING PROGRAM After completing the one-month 'A' Seniority Upgrading Course, six Sea­ farers have received their full Union 'A' books. As new full book members with duties and responsibilities, these brothers will begin to play a large role in the future of their Union and the job security of all our members. I strongly urge all eligible 'B' book members to apply for this program as soon as possible. For more information on the 'A' Seniority Upgrading Program see pages 30-31 of this issue of the LOG. FlREFIGilTING More and more Seafarers are participating in the two-day Firefighting Course held at Piney Point and at the Military Sealift Command's School in Earle, N.J. This course is important for all seamen, and the knowledge you receive may one day save your life or the life of a fellow crewmember. I urge all who have not done so to contact an SIU representative and take this course. SlU Vice-President Frank Drozak, far right, represents the SlU at award ceremonies recentiy at which the SlU-contracted company, Sea-Land Service Inc., received'its 13th consecutive Special Citation for sanitary conditions aboard its ships. The "Clean Ships" award is presented annually by the United States Public Health Service. Along with Vice-President Drozak are, from the left: Dave Tolan, Sea-Land executive vice-president: Bill Varn, Marine Operations; R. T. Soper, Sea-Land vice-president, and Edward Wilkens of the USPHS. The award was presented at Sea-Land's Marine Operations building in Port Elizabeth, N.J. SABINE TANKERS The National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. is reviewing the decision of a judge acting in their behalf who found Sabine Tankers guilty of unfair labor practices during the last organizing drive. Based on court testimony presented during NLRB hearings the judge ruled that Sabine Tankers had illegally interfered with the right of SIU organizers to conduct shipboard union meetings. In addition company representatives were found guilty of harassing its employees and dismissing two employees, who openly supported the SIU. The judge also set aside the February 1974 election and ordered that all SIU supporters dismissed by the company be awarded backpay for all lost wages. The final decision of the NLRB will be handed down shortly and is expected to concur with the judge's findings. SIU organizers will continue to build support for the SIU among these men. Politics Is Porkchops Donate to SPAD Page? August, 197; V, s �fcfcfSf? s 1^ The Committee Page , ^ 'it • San Juan Committee Sam Houston Committee Sr ,flh- . - ^ -- vS'-lv ,':^-v , ••.-1-. ^^•• • Headed by Recertified Bosun Otto Pederson, the ship's committee aboard, the Sam Houston, a LASH containership operated by Waterman, pause for a photo during payoff last month at Pier 7 in Brooklyn, N.Y. They are, from the left: Ray Lashmet, educational director, Thomas Liles, secretary-reporter; O. Pederson, ship's chairman; Derrell Reynold, steward delegate; Gary Bryant, engine delegate; and Gordon Davis, deck delegate. After payoff and some port time for the Sam Houston crew, the ship headed for the Mideast. Piftstiurgti Committee Recertified Bosun Bob Gorbea, standing right, heads the ship's committee aboard the SlU-manned San Juan, owned and operated by Puerto Rico Marine. Serving along with Gorbea on* the committee are Frank Vega, sec­ retary-reporter (standing left), and, seated left to right, David Manzanet, deck delegate, and Benny Santos, steward delegate. Photo was taken at the ship's payoff late last month at Port Elizabeth, N.J. Ibervitte Committee After paying off at Port Elizabeth, N.J. on July 25, the ship's committee aboard the containership Pittsburgh, operated by Sea-Land, get together for a photo. They are, from the left: Recertified Bosun J. Puglisi, chairman; Albert "Dasher" Packert, deck delegate; I. Buckley, secretary-reporter, and W. J. Jone^, steward delegate. Usnal run for the Pittsburgh is the U.S. East Coast- Mediterranean route. Noting a "smooth trip SlU style," the ships committee aboard the freightship. Ibervilie, operated by Waterman, are, seated from the left: Paul Garlanjd, secretary-reporter; Alonzo Bettis, steward delegate; Recertified Bosun Gefie Nicholson, ship's chairman, and Ed Armstrong, educational director. Stjarfclingis Able-Seaman Morty Kerngood, deck delegate. The Ibervilie, which pard off July 18, runs to the Far East carrying general cargo. Portland Committee Baltimore Committee P K-'' • Gathered in the crew's lounge aboard the containership Portland, operated by Sea-Land, the ship's committee, seated from the left are: J. Broaddus, educational director; Joe Alpedo, chairman, and C. Gray, secretaiy-reporter. Standing from the left are: W. Rogers, deck delegate; F. Caccam, steward delegate, and R. Meacher, engine delegate. Photo was taken recently by a Port/and crewmember while the ship was at sea on her usual run between Seattle and Alaska. After a good coastwise run, the containership Baltimore, operated by SeaLand, paid off at Port Elizabeth, N.J. on Aug. 8. Headed by Recertified Bosun James Dixon of Mobile, the vessel's committee, seated front, from the left are: Steve Piatak, secretary-reporter; George McAlpine, educational director, and Bosun Dixon, ship's chairman. In back, from the left are: M. Leuschner, deck delegate, and A. Romero, steward delegate. V r::' i'. J.4, , . ' ISeafvenUg �Third-Flag Rate CnttiBg We strongly support H.R, 7940, an idmitical bill to S. 868 recently . reported out of the Senate Conunerce Comndittee to provide minimum ocean rates for cargo carried oh third-flag ships. Both bills would require that third-flag carriers in the U.S. foreign trades keep their rates to the levels of the U.S.-flag ships. Opposilion came from the Administration, but Federal Maritime Com­ mission Chairman Helen Bentley urged prompt' passage when she testified before the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee on July 22. The Union was represented at the hearings by Maritime Trades Depart­ ment Administrator O. William Moody, who participated with a panel of maritime industry spokesmen in testifying for passage of the bill. WasMngton Activities Two-Watch System H.R. 6102 Hearings scheduled for July 18 on H.R. 6102, to permit a two-watch system on tugs, have been cancelled. Representatives of the SIU, IBU, and IBU of the Pacific met to discuss the bill and the problems which would result, prior to the hearing date, with Washington legislative representatives. Later, they talked with management representatives about safety hazards and other potential problems. Congressman Downing, sponsor of H.R. 6102, subsequently withdrew the bill. War Risk Insurance H.R. 1073 The full House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee reported out a bill July 24 to extend War Risk Insurance coverage for another three years for U.S.-flag ships and approximately 300 U.S.-owned, foreign-regis­ tered ships. The subcommittee, one day earlier, failed to pass an amendment offered by Rep. Zeferetti (D-N.Y.) which would have excluded runaway ships. The amendment was not offered in the full committee. H.R. 1073 must be taken up in the Senate, and SIU will urge that run­ aways be excluded. TTie present program expires on Sept. 7. Merchant Marine Authorization for Fiscal Year 1976 The bill to authorize funds for maritime programs for Fiscal Year 1976 is being held up because of jurisdictional dispute over a special tax clarifi­ cation. The Ways and Means Committee claims jurisdiction over the tax section, and until that can be settled, the bill is stymied. Grain Deal SIU President Paul Hall, speaking to the delegates at the International Longshoremen's Association convention in Miami recently said that our ships "are not getting a proper break" in moving grain to Russia. The ILA had passed a resolution to prohibit loading grain for the Soviet Union unless American consumers are protected. In 1972, the Soviets purchased 19 million tons of U.S. grain. U.S.-flag ships were guaranteed one-third of the grain cargo under the sales agreement, but we actually only carried 11 percent. The Department of Agriculture reports that ,9.8 million metric tons of grain have been sold to date (4.2 million tons of wheat, 4.5 million tons of com, and 1.1 million tons of barley) and that a summer drought in the Soviet Union will probably result in more buying after the August crop is harvested here. President Ford, in a film prepared for the ILA convention, again promised that one-third of all grain will move in U.S. ships. 200-Mae Limit A bill to provide the U.S. with jurisdiction over waters extending 200 miles from the shore is being marked up in the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. The bill empowers the Secretary of State to negotiate for fishing privileges in foreign zones and issue sanctions against nations which violate U.S. coastal waters. J<mcs Act Attacks on the Jones Act never stop. Sometimes they are thinly-veiled, but they are almost always deliberate attempts by oil companies to get special legislation which will permit their foreign-registered ships to load or discharge cargo between U.S. ports. SIU has been on guard over a period of many years to protect the U.S. shipping industry against efforts to break the Jones Act. It requires that we investigate these cases and follow up by supplying such information to appropriate government representatives. It was rewarding when Deputy Assistant Sec< of the Treasury Robert Vastine testified recently before the House Merchant Marine Subcommittee and stated that the Treasury Department supports the Jones Act and considers such cabotage laws as "accepted international practice." Sec. Vastine said that a national fleet gives a nation leverage against cargo reservation laws of developing nations and that a U.S. fleet will protect the U.S. against dis­ criminatory practices. I s. I- :'f I ! • -. H ll To Protect Your 'I. Job Security in the Fight for Favorable Legislation Seafarers arc urged to contribute to SPAD. It is the way to have your voice heard and to keep your union effective in the l^t for legislation to protect the security of every Seafarer and his family. •,Y •' V Yokohama SIU Secretary Visits Galley of the CS Long Lines IT-' m lis- ^ . V-.I .-.fi IrtvitOd aboard the CS Long L/nes by the crew to see the modern galley Is SIU Yokohama Secretary Keiko Nakategawa (far left standing). The vessel (right) docked for a payoff on May 18 pending future orders. Pages August, 1975 .-W- I % ,, �lis; BIdckwelf Tells Commiffee 1970 Act's Obj^ctiyes Not Fully Achieved Robert J. Bibckwell, assistant secre­ tary of Commerce for maritime affairs, told the House Merchwt Marine Sub­ committee earlier this month that while progress imder the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 has been "good, it would not be right to say that the objMtives set forth in the Act have beep fully achieved." In telling the subcommittee that much remains to be done, Blackwell added "if more new merchant ships of the types most useful in military and essential economic support are to be added to the fleet to increase our shipr ping independence, expanded trades must be promoted that will sustain such ships economically." Blackwell was the final witness to testify before the subcommittee con­ cluded the first phase of its scheduled "oversight hearings" into a broad range of U.S. maritime policies. The_ next phase of the hearings will be plannefd following the return of Congress in September. The Commerce Department official, who is the head of the Maritime Ad­ ministration, also defended the sub­ sidization of U.S. merchant fleets in response to critics who claim that such fleets' contributions to balance of pay­ ments and employment is overrated. He stated that a far broader view of the industry must be taken. Subsidies paid out do have a significant economic benefit to the country in terms of the "sums of its contributions to trade, to employment and to the balance of pay­ ments," he Said. They also act as a com­ petitive factor to assure fair rates to U.S. exporters and importers in the de­ velopment of "competitive economic relationships between the free world and the Communist nations," and also as a ready, transport resource in times of'emergencies. Bla^lcw^ stitted that **ciiipliasis most be [^ced on tihe totali^ of the eco­ nomic contribution. None of the sep­ arate economic elements, regardless of its importance, is advanced in itself as an exclusive justification for support of the maritime program,** he added. Prior to Blackwell's testimony, the Subcommittee, which is being chaired bgir Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.), held three other sessions in July. At . those hearings the subcommittee heard testimony from Shannon Wall, presi­ dent of the National Maritime Union, and Dr. John J. Bennett, acting secre­ tary of Defense for installations and logistics. The subcommittee also received an analysis of the government subsidy pro­ gram for maritime from a labor-man­ agement maritime committee composed of subsidized companies and the unions with which they have contracts. ^Full Reevaluation** NMU President Wall told the sub­ committee that Congress should cut all reliance on foreign-flag shipping and make a "full reevaluation" of what needs to be done to bolster the present U.S.-flag merchant fleet to fill the gap. Wall smd that such a move wias basic to establishing a "realistic maritime pol­ icy." Wall was also in agreement with MARAD chief Blackwell when he said that the 1970 Merchant Marine Act has "not solved all oxir problems." He noted that subsidies "exist for the nation's benefit" and not for shipping companies or seamen, and reflect a country's need to protect itself and its best interests whether they be defensive, political or economic. The NMU president went on to state that one "great weakness" of the 1970 Act was its failure to "express its goals in terms of cargo . . . that is where the emphasis should be placed in action to strengthen the U.S. merchant marine." He also said that bilateral and other cargo sharing plans should be "encour­ aged", and that "our ships should ob­ tain enough cargo" to achieve the goals of the 1970 Act to develop a merchant fleet to haul a substantial share of the country's waterborne commerce. Defense Department The testimony of Dr. Bennett, the Defense Department spokesman, indi­ cated that his agency may be getting closer to more support of a U.S.-owned, operated and manned merchant fleet. Previously, the Defense Department had already stated that the large fleet of U.S.-owned vessels under foreign flag aren't to he-substituted for U.S. tonnage in emergencies, and that the so-called, "effective control fleet failed us" dur­ ing the 1973 Mideast difficulty, and "could fail us again." Now, Defense has told the subcom­ mittee that it might consider using some of the big tankers in excess of 100,000 tons, and while it still does not support cargo preference, this does not mean the department "would be unalterably oppos^ to any cargo preference legis­ lation under any circumstailces." The labor-management maritime committee's analysis claimed that the $300-400 million a year in construction and operating subsidies the government puts into the shipping industry gener­ ates outlays by the companies of some $800 million. The group also stated that it agreed with testimony given by other witnesses on the subsidy program, and "that jus­ tification for the maritime subsidy pro­ gram does not rest solely on the direct dollar benefits to the U.S. economy, but on the total of many national needs, among which are economic seciuity as well as political and military security." WarningMight Have Averted Mayaguez Incident The entire Mayaguez incident, which cost the U.S. 15 dead, three missing and 50 wounded servicemen, as well as $9.3 million for the operations that freed the ship's SIU crew from captivity by the Cambodians, could possibly have been avoided, according to now public transcripts of the House Appropria­ tions Subcommittee on the Defense De­ partment. The transcripts note that on May 9, three days before the Mayaguez seizure, the Cambodians had fired on and de­ tained a Panamanian vessel for 36 hours. The incident was noted by CIA officials who in turn reported it to the Defense Department, the Navy, the White House and the State Department. However the general shipping commun­ ity, which would be operating vessels in intematibnal waters off Cambodia,was hot warned cxr notified of possible danger. A formal warning to mariners was not issued by the State Department until after the Mayaguez had already been seized. This warning, which re­ mains in effect, calls for ships to stay at least 35 nautical miles away from any Cambodian territory, including off­ shore islands claimed by the Cambo­ dian government. The warning also ad­ vises ships to keep 20 miles away from any Vietnamese territory. When the Mayaguez was seized, she was sailing 60 miles off the coast pf mainland Cambodia. However, she was only eight miles from a remote island, Pouli Wai Island, that is claimed by Cambodia. In explaining the lack of a warning after the Panamanian incident, William A. Chnstison, the national intelligence officer for South and Southeast Asia of the CIA, recalled "to a man .. . all in­ telligence analysts and anyone else in the government who was aware of the incident involving the Panamanian reg­ istry vessel did not regard what hap­ pened to that vessel as a big enough in­ cident to issue a major warning on." Summing up the feelings of many government officials, though. Rep. Jack Edwards (R-Ala.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommit­ tee on the Defense Department, said that "with all the moniey we spend on intelligence; in the future we ought to probabjy payh little more attention" to even the slight early Warping signs. Seafarers Attend Fire Class • 2 In ' The 17th Biennial Convention of the Seafarers International Unit d North America will convene on Sept;_2-at the Shoreham Americi Hotel in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of delegates from all 33 SIUNA-affiliated organkatjons the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, representing more than 80,00( members, will be present at the proceedings, which are scheduled to 1 the Convention well as inland, bpatmen, fishermen, cannery and industrial workers; and members covering a wide range of industries. The SIU-Atlantic, Gulf» Lakes and Inlahd Wate^ Distdct \ a jfull delegation at the Convehtion,.including ddegates froin its haland Boatmen's Union and the United Industrial Workers North America. Paul Hall, president of the International, and the SIU-AGLIWD, will preside over the Convention sessions, which wiU consider a number of important matters of special interest to the SIU and the entire labor movement, Proraineht speakers from the government, industry and labor will address the delegates. The Convention will also take up many resolutions dealing with Among the recent recertified bosuns and upgraders who attended the Military Sealift Command's Firefighting School at Earle, N.J. were (I. to r.): Upgrader Patrick Gallagher: Bosuns Joseph Gavin (kneeling); Robert Broadus; Charles Boyle; Billy Nuokols, John Davles; SIU representative Leo Bohser; Bosuns Melville MoKlnney, and Leonard Suohookl. In the background are (r. to I.) Upgraders Thomas Lamphefe and Jerry Waugaman in asbestos garb. 7 : Seafarers Log �-rm Pipeline Conversion Opposed at FPC Hearing At a Federal Power Commission ' tuaUy eliminate tug-barge and tanker hearing to consider the conversion of a operations in the Gulf coast trade. In, testimony submitted to the FPC, natural gas pipeline running along^^e U.S. Gulf coast to carry petroleum SIU Vice President Drozak pointed out products, both SlU Vice President that at a time when the national policy mil­ Frank Drozak and Transportation In­ is to create jobs for America's stitute President Herb Brand submitted lion unemployed workers, the proposed testimpny opposing the move on the pipeline "would lead to further job grounds that this conversion would vir- losses, as well as being totally contrary eniion now to the expressed national economic pol­ icy." Noting that the waterbome carriage of petroleum and other products is the safest and most inexpensive of all modes erf transportation. Vice President Dro­ zak stated "it is unquestioned that the American merchant marine and its tanker and tug-barge components have proven that they can do an exemplary job in this trade, and to interfere with this record, as proposed by Florida Gas, is not to the advantage or benefit of our nation or its people." "I^e SIU's pension plans offer Seafarers a wide range of retirement options' desired to provide the professional seaman with a secure income when,, because of ^e or disability, he ends his sailing career. ^ ^ ; A disabiUty pension protects the Seaftuer who is permahetitly andl unable to keep worl^g. This pensionjirovides $350 per month to membersi ' who are declared "permanently hot fit for duty," have received a Social Security| Disability Benefit; have 4,380 days of seatime and have 90 da^ of employmehtl in the previous calendar year and one day within the six months preceding the; date of application for the pension. , : Up to one-third of the total seatime requirement may be credited for days T a member received payment for disability or maintenance and cure benefits.! A Floating P^pdine In concluding his testimony Vice President Drozak noted "the record demonstrates that the petroleum trans­ portation involved here can best be per­ formed by the American merchant ma­ rine, without interruption, and at a competitive level. America's vessels are a floating pipeline, iminterrupted, more flexible and responsive than any pipe­ line and simultaneously create and maintain more employment opportuni­ NonnalPeiisioii ties for American workers." Transportation Institute President Hie normal SIU ptmsion plmi pays $350 per month to.any Seafarer who Herb Brahd, also mging the FPC to has reached the 8^e of 65 and has 5,475 days of seatime with 90 days of reject the Florida Gas proposal, testiemployment in the previous calendar year and one day of etnployment within fiN that the converted pipeline "flow­ six months immediately preceding the date of the pension application. ing at full capacity would totally elimi­ Up to one/third of the total seatime requirement may ako be credited for nate U.S.-flag tankers and barges from pays a member receives payment for disability or maintenance and cure the trade." Transportation Institute, ^nefits. which is based in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit research and educktiontd organization devoted to the advance­ ment of the nation's marine transporta­ Many Seafarers are also eligible for the SIU's early normal pension, a tion industry. esigned to cOver the Seafarer who has made the merchant marine his full-time "At a time," Brand continued, career for much Of his adult life. "when various Congressional subcom­ A Seafarer retiring under this plan can receive between $350 and $455 each inonth depending on the number Of years of seatime he has acquired. Any . mittees and committees, as well as the Administration, have expressed a deep Seafarer who reaches the age of 55 and has 7,300 days of seatime with 90 days concern over the growing plight of the in the previous calendar year and one day within the last six mOnths preceding (|thedate of application is eligible to receive $350 per month under this plan. ! merchant marine and a willingness to Under the early normal pension the Seafarer who has reached the age of|| reverse this dangerous trend, approval - 55 and has the required seatime but wants to continue sailing is also eligible' of the pipeline conversion would not |b earn additional pension increments which he can collect when he does retire^ : only be inconsistent with the steps being proposed to revitalize the merchant :'For every 365 days of actual seatime a Seafarer efigible for the early norniaLl| fleet but would in fact be a serious step pension accumulates afterhe reaches the age of 55 he will receive an extra $15 < backward in this effort." per inoiith when he retires. This increment is paid for eligible time accUinulated| isihce June 16, 1972 and thus the maximum monthly pension benefit availabie| Attacking the practicality of the pipe­ i;$455.; SIU Official Asked to Serve On LNG Panel SIU Vice President Frank Drozak has been asked by Governor Hugh Carey of New York to serve on a study group which will examine the storage and transportation of LNG in New Yorit State. Accepting the position, Vice Pres­ ident Drozak wrote in answer to Governor Carey's invitation, "Since the members of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union will most probably be manning LNG ships in the future, the kikbject of liquefied natural gas is of great concern to me." This panel will study various methods of LNG storage and trans­ portation in populated areas such as New York City and then make rec­ ommendations to New York State's governor. Although LNG is now used on a limited basis in this country, the ex­ pected boom in LNG usage and die accompanying growtii in the U.S.flag LNG fleet has been delayed in part by groups questioning the safety of present LNG storage and trans­ portation teclmology. Mi €f u' i ' J'! 1 -if Disability credit does not, eoupt towards the early normal pension or th^ Nan's increments. SOciiff Secuid^ Seafarers should keep in nUnd when planning their retirement that as I pensioner, either disability or noimal, they iyill . also be receiving monthly, Social Security payments Which Will augment their Union pensions. Members [ retiring under the early normal plan can receive full Sociat Security payments| * only when they reach the age of 65 of" they may receive a reduced pension For the average SIU pensioner who is permanently disabled or has reached| ^ the age of 65 these monthly Social Security payments average $280, though! they can reach up to $355 for men without dependents and up to $623 for^ men with dependents. Ill TMs means that a single Seafarer who retires with the hOrmy Or disa pension could receive a combined pension with Social Security of approxir $630 each mofath. The single member who has earned the maximum number! i of inoieineiits under the early normal plan would, upon reaching 65, receive| V -I . SIU pensioners and their dependents also have unlimited medical and he pital benefits until they are eligible for Medicare and thereafter they arej covered for all benefits provided by Medicare if they are. not eligible for care| VatUSPHSfacUities. This is a very important aspect of your pension because many other pension: ^lans cover only a limited amount of medical expenses, if any. Th( provides unlimited coverage for its pensioners because it realizes that as we ^ „row older we often require increasing amounts of medical attention in order; {to maintain our health—^medical attention that is often beyond the means of ; loners living on a fixed income. f \ line conversion, Brand stated that **in terms of actually sullying Ameri­ cans with , energy supplies, something which is intimately connected to our national security as well as our econ­ omy, the continned utilization of mer­ chant vessels is far superior to replacing them with a pi^line." Ending his testimony, Brand said that by rej^ting the Florida Gas pro­ posal "the FPC will be strengthening the security and economy of the United States and guaranteeing consumers in Florida and throughout the nation the water transportation capabilities neces­ sary to respond to any emergency when called upon by our government." yoa witb the income for the enjoyable, secnre retfaemettt yon I m have sirant sanling as a Seafarer, LOG Receives I LP A Award The Seafarers Log, official pub­ lication of the SIU, has won First Award in General Excellence in the 1975 Journalistic Awards Contest of the International Labor Press As­ sociation (ILPA). The editor-in-chief of the Sea­ farers Log is Marietta Homayonpour and managing editor is James Gannon. Assistant editors, in al­ phabetical order, are: Ray Bourdius; James Mele, and Anthony Napoli. William Luddy is chief photographer and assistant photographer is Frank Cianciotti. Production and design is directed by George Vana and Marie Kosciusko is the LOG's administra­ tive secretary. Charles Svenson is the Seafarers Log Washington cor­ respondent. The ILPA award for general ex- ^ •( Marietta Homayonpour cellence is the highest the Seafarers Log can win in its category, which is international union publication of newspaper format and less than 100,000 circulation. The awards cover 1974 publica­ tions aud will be presented at the ILPA's San Francisco convention, Sept. 29-Oct. 1. The general excellence award is based on "balance of content, cover­ ing of subject matter appropriate to the organization served, makeup and readability." Page 11 August, 1975 I.*' ;• 5x- < -I i-^ �DISPATCHIRS REPORTJULY 1-31, 1975 TOTAL REGISTERED Ail Groups Class A Class B Oass C Port Boston New York: Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk : Tampa Mobile :. New Orleans Jacksonville San Francisco Wilmington ; Seattle Puerto Rico Houston Piney Point Yokohama Totals Deep Sea Great LakesAlpena Buffalo Cleveland Detroit Duluth Frankfort Chicago Totals Great Lakes Totals Deep Sea & Great Lakes Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Tampa •. Mobile New Orleans Jacksonville i San Francisco Wilmington : •. Seattle Puerto Rico Houston Piney Point Yokohama Totals Deep Sea Great Lakes • Alpena Buffalo ...." Cleveland Detroit ..: Duluth...: :...... Frankfort Chicago Totals Great Lakes Totals Deep Sea & Great Lakes . • Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Tampa Mobile New Orleans Jacksonville San Francisco Wilmington ii..... Seattle Puerto Rico Houston Piney Point Yokohama Totals Deep Sea Great Lakes. Alpena Buffalo Cleveland. ; Detroit '.*• Duluth Frankfort ; Chicago ;.. Totals Great Lakes Totals Deep Sea & Great Lakes i '; -v. Port Boston New York Philadelphia ....r.. Baltimore Norfolk Tampa Mobile New Orleans ............... Jacksonville San Francisco Wilmington Seattle Puerto Rico Houston Piney Point .; Yokohama : Totals Deep Sea Great Lakes. Alpena ;..... Buffalo Cleveland Detroit Duluth Frankfort Chicago Totals Great Lakes Totals Deep Sea & Great Lakes Totals All Depts. Deep Sea ... Totals All Depts. Great Lakes Totals All Depts. Deep Sea & Great Lakes Page 12 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups ClassA ClassB ClassC REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups ClasaA ClassB ClassC latod BtMbara's UnitMi UaRed Industtial Woifcer DECK DEPARTMENT 9 87 18 33 15 7 24 56 40 41 15 43 4 81 0 3 476 1 12 1 2 5 0 3 4 6 1 4 5 0 4 0 0 48 15 6 6 9 12 12 7 67 543 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PRESIDENT Paul HaU 0 2 1 77 15 10 14 0 8 40 18 14 8 42 3 41 0 1 292 0 21 5 0 8 0 5 25 7 8 1 13 2 5 3 2 105 0. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 16 196 24 67 26 18 52 140 66 106 44 68 15 160 0 11 1,009 4 22 5 3 11 2 5 13 5 7 6 6 0 9 0 2 100 3 2 4 3 3 .0 ,1 16 64 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 33 5 6 16 11 15 6 92 384 17 2 9 11 4 6 1 50 155 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 5 4 11 7 11 2 8 48 1,057 0 2 6 1 5 0 1 15 115 2 74 10 27 16 7 16 49 32 43 10 53 11 68 0 1419 6 33 4 12 4 1 4 17 14 16 2 10 0 11 0 1 135 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 58 8 6 10 0 4 37 13 16 3 30 5 33 0 0 223 2 34 2 0 3 0 0 10 11 0 0 10 2 8 6 1 89 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 137 18 59 28 10 36 119 45 101 27 51 19 114 0 3 770 7 57 7 19 8 3 9 25 18 40 7 16 2 22 0 2 242 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 11 4 5 11 3 4 1 39 458 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 6 141 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 15 4 3 16 3 6 3 50 273 18 2 3 0 2 1 1 27 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 7 15 8 3 5 46 816 4 0 0 3 2 3 2 14 256 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 10 0 40 5 16 9 4 9 23 21 28 2 24 6 34 0 0 221 0 8 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 0 3 2 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a SECRETARY-TREASURER Joe DiGiorgio EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsey Williams Frank Drozak Paul Drozak ENGINE DEPARTMENT ' STEWARD DEPARTMENT 3 1 0 0 .0 . . 0. 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 9 1 230 25 0 0 0 0 0 44 4 12 7 0 4 35 13 9 4 28 5 16 0 2 183 0 25 1 2 8 0 2 6 9 10 1 12 2 5 12 1 96 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 '0 0 2 5 77 17 26 16 5 35 66 28 66 10 34 12 82 0 1 480 1 11 0 3 3 0 1 2 5 9 4 2 2 3 0 0 46 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 D 1 0 0 0 1 1 8 2 4 7 • 2 6 3 32 215 8 0 0 1 1 1 0 11 107 0 0 1 0 0 3 4 1 1 10 490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 W 4 9 174 43 57 27 8 38 81 45 103 27 4228 97 0 3 782 11 40 0 5 3 1 0 4 0 6 2 2 1 14 0 0 89 a a . - 0 0 0 0 0 2 ENTRY DEPARTMENT 1 35 5 18 6 5 6 29 23 17 7 21 8 22 0 2 205 3 67 19 28 20 3 18 39 26 35 9 30 15 49 19 4 384 8 3 9 22 2 12 2 58 263 1,321 173 1,494 19 3 6 11 10 9 1 59 443 591 82 673 6 1 19 0 11 1 01 0i 1 i 01 1i 11 11 01 61 0i 01 37 1 51 11 2 -4 9 1 1p 11 41 23 1 60 1 41 26 67 1 49 1 13 i 36 1 9 1 8 1 16 p 72 i 26 i 46 1 10 1 27 1 21 i 50 1 0 i 1 1^ i i i i i i 4 6 7 27. 0 6 1 6 1 65 i 453 2,647 169 2,816 14 7 9 14 10 9 4 67 849 1,170 96 1,266 8 8 8 31 9 1 6 71 160 101 78 179 HEADQUARTERS 675 4 Ave., BUyn. 11232 (212) HY 9-6600 ALPENA, Mich 800 N. 2 Ave. 49707 (517) EL 4-361% BALTIMORE, Md. 1216 E. Baltliiion St. 21202 (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass...... .215 Essex St 02111 (617) 482-4716 BUFFALO, N.Y.... .290 Franklin SL14202 (716) XL 3-9259 CHICAGO,m. .9383 S. Ewing Ave. 60617 (312) SA 1-0733 CLEVELAND, OUo 1290 Old River Rd. 44113 (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. 48218 (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Mfam. 2014 W. 3 St 55806 (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich..;. ... .P.O. Box D 413 Main St 49635 (616) EL 7-2441' HOUSTON, Tex. 5804 Canal St 770ll' - (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. I 3315 Liberty Si 32206 (904) 353-0987 JERSEY CITY, NJ. 99 Montgomery St 07302 (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE, Ala. IS. Lawrence St 36602 (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La. 630 Jackson Ave. 70130 (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va. .115 3 St 23510 (804) 622-1892 PADUCAH, Ky...225 S. 7 St 42001 (502) 443-2493 PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. .2604 S. 4 St 19148 (215) DE 6-3818 PINEY POINT, Md. St Mary's Comity 20674 (301) 994-0100 PORT ARTHUR, Tex.... .534 9 Ave. 77640 (713) 983-1679 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 1311 Mission St 94103 (415) 864-7400 SANTURCE, P. R. 1313 FHnandex, Jmicos, Stop 20 00908 (809) 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash. 25051 Ave. 98121 (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo.. .4581 Gravois Ave. 63116 (314) 752-6500 TAMPA, Fla..2610 W.Kennedy Blvd.33609 (813) 870-1601 TOLEDO, Ohio 935 Summit St 43604 • (419) 248-3691 WILMINGTON, CaUf. 510 N. Broad St 90744 (213) 549-4000 YOKOHAMA, Japan.. .^... .P.O. Box 429 Yokohama Port P.D. 5-6 NIhon Ohdorl Naka-Ku 231-91 201-7935 m stidile Blifle shying on dm 0eai Lakes pidked iq> over last niontii. Doiqpite the eoudnoing inieidptoy*meot. rate in Hie U.S., Seidaieirs stili en|oy^ rdatirvely good tlUpping. 1% fact diat a laige luunber of 'BV senior­ ity men are getting jote at SIU Halli is a good indkatol' tfaat islil^^ W bodk men wOl remain sttdile in the inopflis toconie. Seafarers Log �10 Complete FOWT Course fii Miter to JiitKne that aD SIUcontiaeted iUdps are at all times manned by SiV crews, the sh^pfs idtednnen ai» reqnes^ to no^ Headqiiaitem when a crewniMaiioff a l^rt If H^qmurtors is giren amjple tone to find a replacement, toen that job win be secure for oar Meimbers. ¥ r topto scM^ of A^rh^ ope^ policfing the leplacemmf of crewmembers, in that way we can iname toat ^^anlkensed jobs en our cMitradted sli^ are taken by SIU I; which FLAG POWT—Instructor Jack Parcel! (back row. far left) gets together with his latest class of FOWT graduates. In front, from left are: Aziz Amat; Albert Trotman; Jose Hipolito; Thomas.Manning; Vincent Tatesiire, and Thomas Gary. In back, from left are: Parcell; Craig Conklin: Erik Persson; Robert Tbrgerson, and Charles Peterson. Ad Hoc Committee Continued from Page 2 mittee reached iinanimous positions on how the Earle, N.J. firefighting course must be updated to keep pace with changing technology. In correspondence to Captain M. V. Foreman, training director of the Mili­ tary Sealift Command, and A. W. Friedberg, director of the Office of Maritime Manpower, Department of Commerce, the Ad Hoc Committeie affirmed that the Earle, N.J. course should include use of a soda acid ex­ tinguisher, a C02 extinguisher and a halogenated hydrocarbon extinguisher, as well as experience in extinguishing an LNG fire and an electrical fire. The Committee also affirmed that the firefighting facility :must include more obstacles to better simulate shipboard conditions, and that all participants receive complete briefing on the use of all common breathing devices. The Committee concluded that ship­ board safety "depends on our , ability to provide adequate firefighting training to every person who will be sailing on a U.S. vessel." Ex^SIU Ship Quits Suez Canal The former SlU-contracted freighter, the SS Observer (Marine Carriers) is seen being towed out of the Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt on May 25. The empty ship which paid off her Seafarer crew in October 1967, was stranded In the canal on Lake Timsah when the Arab-Israeli War erupted in June of that year, the Suez Canal was reopened to traffic on June 5. r Seventy-one cents of every dollar spent in shipping on American-flag v^ls remains in this country, making a very substantial contribution to the national balance of payments and to the nation's economy. Use U.S.-flag ships. It's good for the American maritime industry, the Ameri­ can shipper, and America. nt Marine A Victim ot Detente . Continued from Page 3 ^—U.S. flag vessels did not get the chance to carry their ori^thifd share, fact, only 11 percent, or about one-third of the one-third promised, went ^ aboard U.S. ships, manned by American seamen., \ iWith respect tb the shipping provisions of the trade agreement negoti^d 1972 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the Russians are now refusing^ | to negotiate fair and reasonable rates for thecarriage of American gr^in under , the agreement. Insteadj they are relying on the U.S. government to ignore the, inequities imposed on the American merchant tnanne in the interest of con{ tinned detente. . J . Soviet vesse\ls are using their rights to trade in and=out of the 42 U.S. ports to '; engage in the jnost ruUdesS rate-cutting practices that threaten to bankrupt the U.S. merchant marine and throw even more U.S. merchant seamen out of work, ? : , Communist activity in three separate trade routes serve to underscore the success of their efforts. The Far Eastern Steamship Company (FESCO) , jfist one of 16 Soviet state-owned ocean shipping companies, has increased its con­ tainer capacity in the Pacific trades alone from none in 1970 to nearly 20,000., twenty-foot equivalents annually on six different service routes in 1974. \: In the U.S. East Coast-European trade, Polish Ocean Lines has increased capacity from none in 1970 to over 10,000 twenty-foot equivalents annually in 1974. ; Also In the U.S. East Coast-European trade, Baltatlantic Line, another^ Soviet state-owned ocean carrier, has increased in just one year—1973-1974-^ •its number of sailings by 200 percent and its trailer capacity by 300 percent IQ J 12,000 twenty-foot equivalents annually, . . % -; Thi.s increased share of the markets has been accomplished by driving rates down, thus making it economically impossible for the privately-owned U.S. I merchant marine to compete. I allies. Without the maritime carrying capacity represented by the U:S. mer1 chant marine the free flow of raw and finished materials so vitahfor the nation's ; :onomic health is impossible, s : The AFL-CIO believes that any large-scale.grain purchase deals with Soviet I Woe nations should be stopped until adequate safeguards for the Free WOrld; t the American people and the U.S. Merchant Marine are firmly established on Deposit in the SIU Blood Bank— It's Your Life Page 13 August, 1975 ' ' Si. • ""i-.'• .1 �Ig^ . ?• • ASHORE Washington, D C. According to MARAD, the U.S. merchant marine has 713 vessels consisting of 529 deep sea ships and 184 in the Great Lakes fleet. The ocean tonnage is 13miliion dwt and the Great Lakes tonnage is 2.6-milIion dwt. Also MARAD says 87 merchant ships totaling over 8.6-million dwt costing more than $4.5-billion are being built or are on order at American shipyards. Included are 69 tankers, 10 ore carriers, five Roll-On, Roll-Off vessels and three tug barges. In addition, two ships are being converted to partial containerships. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Government has exclusive control over any underwater resources which extend beyond the three-mile limit off Atlantic coastal states. Leasing to oil Companies for offshore drilling will be controlled by the UiS. Governntent and resulting revenues will go to the U.S. The U.S. Department of the Interior asked oil companies to submit applications for oil and gas exploration tracts off the mid-Atlantic states early last month. San Francisco The 300-bed USPHS Hospital here celebrated its 100th birthday recently. More than a 100 well-wishers were at the centennial ceremonies. . Replaced in 1931, the niarine hospital was first constructed in 1850 under a Federal law of 1798 for the care of the ill and disabled U.S. merchant mariner. Chief Cook Guillermo Reyes of the famed containership SS Mayaguez, (SeaLand) seized by the Cambodians on May 12 and later released, is back in the Union hall here ready to ship out again after quitting Kaiser Hospital in Redwood City, Calif., where he was a patient on July' 19. Brother Reyes had sustained injuries in a cS: crash. His son,Wilfredo was ^so a crewmember of the Mayaguez. Cebu Is., The Philippines Sea-Land Service has inaugurated the first full containership service to Cebu Is., The Philippines. Cargo shipped to Cebu Is., second largest city and port in The Philippines, will ride on roll-on, roll-off feeder ships from Manila on a bi­ weekly basis. Chicago In a letter of appreciation, the president of the Retail Clerks International Union based in New York, commended 10 Great Lakes Seafarers for picketing the Chicago warehouse of the Florsheim Shoe Corp. on strike from June 9 to Jime 19 until a union contract was negotiated. The letter from Sidney Heller said; "As you may be aware your organization is assisting us in the Florsheim strike. The actual strike is in New York City and we have extended it to the company's Chicago plant. "Your people in Chicago have been just great and in addition, in thanking you for your cooperation, I particularly want to commend the following for their assistance and dedication on the Chicago line: Steward George L. Pellman, ABs Danny Storce, Bill Warenton and Bruce Modaho, Oiler Ray Paler and OSs Bill Gavala, Robert Anderson, Willy Tolbert, Dan Newbury and Rudy Pellinat." Mobile Waterman Steamship Corp. has contracted with a New Orleans shipyard to build 125 barges worth $8.8-million for its LASH ships. Detroit MARAD has awarded a $168,000 research contract to a firm for a 12-month study to identify and evaluate U.S. flag shipping service opportunities between the Great Lakes and other world trade sectors. ia Ihis coiuiliy, making a very substantial contribution to the national of paymenhi and to the nation's ectwonfy. Use U.S.-fiagships. It's good for the American nuuitinie the ^meri,<can shipper, and America. ~ ' Above photo shows model of what completed riverboat- Mississippi Queen will look like. Photo inset shows Rep. Leonor K. Sullivan (DTMO.) christening the new boat which was built under Title XI of the Merchant. Marine Act of 1970—legislation which SlU merfibers" SPAD contributions helped to enact. The Mississippi Queen could mark the beginning of a new era pf steamboating on America's inland waterways. Christen Padd lew heeler Mississippi Queen The Mississippi Queen, the first steel stem paddlewheeler, steam-powered riverboat to be built for overnight pas­ senger excursions in 50 years, was christened recently at the Jeffboat, Inc. Shipyard on the Ohio River at Jeffer­ sonville, Ind. The new boat, under contract to the SIU, was christened with the traditional bottle of champagne by Rep. Leonor K. Sullivan (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Mrs. Sullivan said that the new riverboat would provide "a new way for the current generation to see mid-America and stop at the small river towns. This is something purely American." The steel constructed riverboat, built under Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, is owned and will be oper­ ated by the Delta Queen Steamship Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. This company presently operates the 49-year old wooden riverboat Delta Queen, which annually steams 35,000 miles between 14 states calling on scores of small river towns as well as the major ports of New Orleans, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Mem­ phis and Pittsburgh. The company has pledged that the new riverboat will not replace the Delta Queen but is hope­ fully only the first in a new line of sophisticated paddlewheelers capable of carrying twice the number of pas­ sengers presently handled by the Delta Queen. Although not completely finished, total construction costs for the Missis­ sippi Queen will hit a projected $18 million. She will be equipped with a swimming pool, gynmasium, sauna, movie theater, calliope, bars and 218 staterooms, described as "grand as those in the Cunard Line's Queen Eliz­ abeth II." She will be able to accommo­ date 400 overnight passengers. The Mississippi Queen's midden voy­ age is set for Mar. 2, 1976, which may mark the beginning of a whole new era in steamboating on America's inland waterways. Widower With Children May Get S.5. Survivors Benefits by A. A. Bernstein SIU Welfare Director A widower with one or more children in his care may be eligible for Social Security survivors benefits under a re­ cent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. Widowers can get information about applying for the benefits by calling or writing any Social Security office. Under the court decision, a widower taking care of his wife's children can get monthly survivors benefits on her record if she worked long enough in jobs covered by Social Security. Pre­ viously, a widow with children in her care could get surivivors benefits, but a widower could not unless he proved he was dependent on his wife and was either 60 or over, or 50 to 60 and dis­ abled. A widower's survivors benefits can be affected by his earnings, and only about 15,000 widowers are expected to get payments imder the court decision. Children continue to get social se­ curity survivors benefits on either their mother's or father's record. Generally a widower who doesn't re­ marry can get survivors benefits until the children in his care are 18. If there are sons or daughters 18 or over who were severely disabled before 22, he can get benefits as long as they're dis­ abled and cannot work. The amount of a widower's monthly survivors benefit is based on his wife's average earnings over a period of years, and it may also be affected by his earn­ ings. He cam earn $2^520 or less for this year and still get his full Social Security benefit. Over $2,520, his bene­ fit will be reduced by J1 for each $2 earned—^but no matter how much he earns for the year, he can get his full Social Security benefit^for any month he neither earns $210 nor does substan­ tial work in his own business. The children in a widowers' care can get Social Security checks until they're 18, or 22 if they're full-time students and remain immarried. The amount of their monthly social security payments may be affected by their- earnings but not by their father's earnings. The_Social Security Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Seafarers Log �II >11^11111 iii|.l»i)t,» I mm 'w W '^•mi AT SEAi f-i. •, vf?!- — SS Del Sol The ashes of Recertified Bosun William C. Riley are committed to the deep by (left) Recertified BosUn David H. Berger of the containership S-L McLean on Mar. 1'=; as (right) Chief Mate Harold A. Btumme stands reverently by. ^Pffl Seofinte Requirement Inquiries haVe been made re^ ^centiy by a number of Seafarers conseeming hospital care in « non^ USPHS facility. Before spelling oiit the procedure for receiving care in la non-USPHS facility, it is important [; that all Seafarers should know the Isea service requirement in order to ceive care in any health facility. (1) A seaman must have com^ Ipeted at least 60 days of sea service f aboard a vessel. This service may consist of short periods provided that no break in service exceeds 60 days, i* unless a; seaman is takeh~sick or is I injured while actually employed on |board a vessel. He is then eligible for lireatment for the iUness or injury llrithout regard to tlm^^^^l^^ of sea service I, (2) The 60 days of service may Tso include time spent in certain l^time progr^^, incUidihg a seai-trainee in a maritime training fogram.:.",, (3) Application for medical care St be made within 90 days followig the last day of sea service unless: (a) a seaman can show that he been unable to ship out because I economic conditions affecting the pping industry and he has not (b) a seaman can show that hef ? has nOt changed his occupation and has been under medical care since • his last sea service. If a Seafarer is too ill or badly in­ jured to travel tq^a Public Health facility he or .someone acting in his^ behalf mH5r request authorization . for the emeigency care from the«f Director/Medical Officer in Charge of the nearest USPHS Hospital, Out­ patient Clinic or Contracted Physi­ cian. This request may be made by telephone or telegram. When the Medical Officer in Charge is satisfied that the seaman is eligible and his condition is a true emergency, he will grant authority for the requested care and the USPHS"will assume responsibility for all bills. However, unless this re­ quest for authorization is made within 48 houm of seeking treatment, the USPHS' may refuse to pay for any of the medical services rendered. Seafarers should also note that the SIU Welfare Plan does not cover medical expenses incurred by mem­ bers eligible for USPHS care. If the USPHS refuses to pay for emergency care given at non-USPHS facilities because a Seafarer failed to notify the facility, then the Photos Came Late The Seafarers whose photographs appear below are the fathers of two of the SIU's $10,000 College Scholarship winners. Their photographs arrived too late for publication in the May issue of the Seafarers LOG. , , Seafarer Lonnie Cole, father of Scholarship winner Cynthia Marie Cole, has been a member of the SIU since 1947. The 49-year old Seafarer Sails as .both able-seaman bosun. He and his family make home in Asheboro, N.C. Lawrence Bernard,_father of Schol­ arship winner Bar­ bara Bernard, has been a member of the SlU-affiliated Inland Boatmen's Union since 1962. Prior to that he had also sailed with the SIU. At the present time, Brother Bernard is employed with Great Lakes Towing and is specially skilled as a salvage diver. He and his family make their home in Trenton, Mich. August, 1975 Important Information Members should be sure that they., have designated a beneficiary when filling out a new, revised beneficiary card. Without this important information, any claim lor a death benefit will be delayed and possibly denied. If you wish to change your designated ben­ eficiary, simply fill out another bene­ ficiary card indicating the person's name and your relationship to him/ her. In the event of your death, the person listed as your designated ben­ eficiary on the last beneficiary card or claim form you filed will be eli­ gible for any due benefits. It is also important that members advise the Union of a current phone number where, in case of an emer­ gency, you or your famUy can be reached, or where a message can be left. In a letter sent to the SEAFARERS LOG recently. Seafarer George P. Hamilton wrote: "Today aboard the SS Del Sol in the North Atlantic Ocean, Lat. 8-07N, Long. 22-17W, the ashes of Seafarer Ernest R. Bright, 65, were scattered over the sea! "Brother Bright had been a member of the SIU for 30 years sailing in the engine department. "The urn containing the remains of Brother Bright was brought to the captain by his widow. Before the ship departed New Orleans, Mrs. Bright stated that the wish of the deceased was to have his ashes scattered over the sea where he spent the majority of his life. "During the service the um sat on a new American flag draped over a fresh sheet of plywood prepared by the carpenter. "The sky was clear and beautiful. The winds were variable and the sun shone brightly over the proceedings. "The master, James L. Cdnner, Jr. directing the service, read a special letter commemorating the service of Brother Bright in the U.S. merchant marine, led the crew in prayer and committed his body to the deep! "Since Brother Bright had been a member of the unlicensed personnel, the captain felt that it would only be fitting for the ship's chairman. Recertified Bosun Malcolm B. Woods to scatter the remains. "Gathering on the stern before the service various brothers were discussing having sailed with Brother Bright before. They all stated that he was a good Union man and shipmate. "As his remains were washed under by the wake of the vessel bound for Africa, I could only think that it would be a proper burial for all seamen!" i: • i f ' 1 . J 1 •' c'' t |:'f & •, v; SS Ogden Challenger On the Fourth of July, the tanker SS Ogden Challenger (Ogden Marine) left the Med with 30,000-tons of crude destined for a U.S. Atlantic Coast port. SS Robert E. Lee The LASH SS Robert E. Lee (Waterman) on July 10-20 hauled 5,500-tons of bagged rice from the Gulf to the Bangladesh ports of Chittagong and Chaina. SS Golden Dolphin Recently the turbo tanker SS Golden Dolphin (Westchester Marine) carried 90,000-tons of crude from the Persian Gulf to a California port. SS Inger Recently Headquarters received a communication from the ship's committee of the SS Inger (Reynolds Metals Co.) concerning an article they had read in Time magazine regarding President Ford's pocket veto of the Energy Transportation Security Act of 1974. The men were upset that a picture accompanying the story showed a foreign-flag supertanker unloading off shore onto another foreign-flag ship. The ship's committee on the Inger is obviously aware and concerned about the present state of affairs in the maritime industry. The men also know the effect legislation can have on the U.S. merchant marine and why it is important to constantly keep abreast of current events and involved in political action. The Inger's communication also requested any other pertinent information and ideas from Headquarters which could remedy this situation. Their message-has been duly noted, and all SIU members are strongly urged to stay apprised of all events which can affect the SIU or the American merchant marine. • SN: :v;K>'sv.-,VV:-.>SV.V- Change of Address • Or New Subscriber Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (PrJnl/n/ormallon) NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP .... SIU-IBU members please give: Bk# Soc. Sec. # TO AVOID DUPLICATION; If you are an old subscriber and have a change of address, please give your former address below or send mailing label from last issue received. ADDRESS CITY STATE. ZIP. Page 15 ill �?r:8S^SglS?5'?*^ » •W^MPlTX^J L SJ-i.-,s-•••.•?' • •;- ( Mrs. Ingei Burke, wife of the late Seafarer Billy Burke, fills out clinic form as Phyllis Gallo, In charge of medical " • assists. Family records, day at the SlU, cl jnlc at4Heaquarters is every Thursday. Seafarer's wife. Mrs. Dushanska DlCupe takes jacket off her cute five-month old son so doctor can conduct examination. All Seafarers and their dependents are eligible for free, yearly checkups at SlU clinics through­ out the country. Family day at the Clinic means an eye examination for Mrs. Rhonda Wallace, wife of Seaforer Harold Wallace. Conducting exam Is Dr. Richard Brigham. J . li •••' Csjp fM- > ' f'-t'p m m Js' ki 1# . l'-- - '.'31 '. ft:,'i i • pT . - h dis' > III \f: r< pi I' i1 1 i i! • S' 4. ^ ''. m • • •'..T....: ;-i .iV':'. • Ml . -Ml • • •- W .,v, •" ' ' I " ' i" V;" P m'vi ti J'*. - E rfiii. u -y: 'V-" I ^ > - ^ 33 - . .... .. ^ WERY, lliiusday afternoon at i die Modioli Ci|nic at Union Headqnaitc^ is set aside for family day—a day on vdbdch the dependoits of SIU members am come to the clinic and receive many free medical services. Bbdi wives and dqpend^f children up to 19 years of age are eligible fo receiye many basic examinadons, and some minimal treat- On fiunily day a pedialricum and gyneodogist are avaOable to examine childrmi and wmnoi. For exaiqple, dnring a diild's first year of life he most have certain immunizations; diese are available at the clinic on famify^ day. Also, yearly' jdiyidcals are re­ quired by hi^ sdKKds, ue also available. Wommi may be examined by the menl-.' mcDEe * r' gyn^logist, and those ava4S years of i^e may alto takean etectmcardiogram (iKiG). Other servhto-F^bvided are: chert x-ray (not for jchildren, unless necessary); eye exambmti<ms; a check-np for the heart and longs. and bfood and urine tests in tihe la­ boratory. Hie free medical servicesprovided at the clinic are mainty diagnostic in nature, however there is some minimal treatmmit available for colds and iudrinhior aflmcnts. U any for-3 ther treatment or surjgeiy is needed, die clinic will rrter die dqioidait to anotimr physician if he or she hasat a personal doctor already. free Dependents of Seafarers should take full advantage id these many services. They are, of Coarse, also , >, ' - r • available for ail Seaforers, and the medical clinic at Headquarters, and die clinics in die out ports, are jint ^ part ot'tfae bcitefits of being an-SIU " 4- 4^ mehiber. : All SlU members and their dependents are urged to utBize these medical services. J."vi' - I ^ .4m--b" ;:3 ' M 4 fv. l--» I''' -l I'i ? 1^^ li ,. •• - •- -i^-i'?.', •. •?i' ••u ••.-'•• •• :f.'\ '-V-' •:•••..•.. ' fi- . •.- ,•• Seafarer Harold Wallace fills out clinic forms for himself, his 10-' year old son Andrew and six-year old daughter Natasha. Clinic lAan ninaUAr at rSnKf Receptionist >.• is Jean Dreher. at right, At the Clinic's family day. Pediatrician Dr. Andreas Koutras examines pretty Ying Arhat. as mom, Mrs. Paulette Amat looks on. Oa. .laMa . Paulette Is .k._ the .A——< wife of Seafarer Ahmetbin Amat. Worried looking three-year old Roderick Rodriguez Is examined bv Dr. Andreas Koutras at the SIU clinic on family day. Boy's ' / * III mom holds his hand for reassurance. Mrs. Vera Ledesma holds sterile cotton to her arm after blood sample was taken during her annual checkup at the SIU clinic at Headquarters. '1 Lab Technician Fred Howard takes blood sample from young \/Alaa.4a FMaa Oka ia tka taanaaa Hai iAKtar Af Caafarar CalSv nSa'y Yolanda Diaz. She Is the teenage daughter of Seafarer Felix Diaz. F!ieel7 Pigel6 • • ' • * V.ft-,,. -I - li*:"*' fi!« ft « t r R ' ' .. r -r-. J ^ �i STEER A CLEAR Gets 30 Years for COURSEI Heroin Smuggling If yoo are conykted of possession of any Hlegal dmg—heroin, barbhnrates, speed, LSD, or even marijnana—the U.S. Coast Guard will revoke your seaman papers, wMiout appeal, FOREVER. That means ^t you Jose for the rest of your life the r^ht to make a Hying by the sea. Howeyer, it doesn't quite end there even if you receive a suspended sentence. You may lose your right to vote, your right to hold public office or to own a gun. You also may lose the opportunity of ever becoming a doctor, dentist, certified public accountant, engineef, lawyer, architect, realtor, pharmacist, school teacher, or stockbroker. You may jeopardize your right to hold a job where you must be licensed or bonded andyou may never be able to work for the city, the county, or the Federal government. Ifs a pretty tough rap, but thaf s exactly how it is and you can't do any­ thing about it. Hie convicted drug user leaves a black marie on his reputation for die rest of his life. However, drugs can not only destroy your right to a good livelihood, it can destroy your lifek Drug abuse presents a serious threat to both your physical and mental health, and the personal safety of those around you. This is especially true aboard ship where clear mfaids and quick reflexes are essential at all times for die safe operation of the vessel. Don't let drugs destrt^ your natural r^ht to a good, happy, productive life. . Stay drug free and steer a clear couriw. A Chinese seaman from Hong Kong was sentenced last month to a maximum term of 30 years im­ prisonment for conviction of heroin smuggling and possession of heroin with the intent to distribute it. The seaman was arrested last De­ cember in Port Elizabeth, N.J. after disembarking from a freighter. When he was apprehended by Customs Patrol Officers he had in excess of one and one-half pounds of brown rock heroin concealed beneath his clothing. The heroin was estimated to have a street value of $50,000. At his trial the seaman admitted to concealing the package on board ship and under his clothing, but he denied knowing that the packages contained the heroin. He was found guilty by a jury after a two-day trial. In imposing the maximum pen­ alty, the presiding judge stated that his interest was in the deterrent effect which he hoped the sentence would have upon would-he heroin smug­ glers. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. Copies of the SIU constitution are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed audir by Certified Public Accountants every three months, which are to be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treasurer. A quarterly finance committee of rank and file members, elected by the membership, makes examination each quarter of the finances of the Union and reports fully their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, specific recom­ mendations and separate findings. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union and .management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disburse­ ments of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund finapcial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights: Copies of these contracts aire posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal xights in employment and as memters of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, sex and national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATION— SPAD. SPAD is a separate segregated fund. Its proceeds are used to further its objects and purposes including but not limited to furthering the political, social and economic interests of Seafarer seamen, the preservation and furthering of the American Merchant Marine with improved employment opportunities for seamen and the advancement of trade union concepts. In connection with such objects, SPAD supports and contributes to political candidates for elective office. All contributions are voluntary. No contribution may be solicited or received because of force, job discrimination, financial reprisal, or threat of such conduct, or as a condition of member­ ship in the Union or of employment. If a contribution is made by reason of the above improper conduct, notify the Seafarers Union or SPAD by certified mail within 30 days of the contribution for investigation and appropriate action and refund, if involuntary. Support SPAD to protect and further your economic, political and social interests, American trade union concepts and Seafarer seamen. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied bis constitutional right of access to Union records or informatioa, be shoiiid immediately notify SIU P/esident Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, retuni receipt requested. Frank Drozak, Ctaalnnan, Seafarers Appeak Board 275 - loth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. 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. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The Log has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed 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. Tlie responsibility for Log policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. 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 required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. Port Date Deep Sea IBU UIW New York Sept. 8 , ..... 2:30 p.m. .. ... 5TOO p.m ... Philadelphia .... Sept. 9.... ... 5:00 p.m. ..,... Baltimore Sept. 10 .... .. 2:30 p.m. .. ... 5:00 p.m. ...... Norfolk Sept. 11 .. 9:30a.m. .. ... 5:00 p.m. ..,... Jacksonville Sept. 11 .. 2:00 p.m. .. • • • ••• Detroit Sept. 12 .... .. 2:30 p.m. .. • • • • •• Sept. 15 , ... 5:00 p.m. ... Houston Sept. 15 .... .. 2:30 p.m. .. . .. 5:00 p.m. ... .. New Orleans .... Sept. 16 .... . . 2:30 p.m. . . V.. 5:00 p.m. ... Mobile Sept. 17 .... .. 2:30 p.m. ..... 5:00p.m...., , , San Francisco ... Sept. 18*.... .. 2:30 p.m. .. Wilmington Sept. 22 .. 2:30 p.m. . . • • • - " Seattle Sept. 26 .... .. 2:30 p.m. .. Piney Point ..... Sept. 13 .... .. 10:30 a.m. .. . . . 10:30 a.m. ... Columbus ...... Sept. 20 — , . ,. Chicago Sept. 16 .... ... 5:00 p.m. ... Port Arthur .... Sept. 16 .... .. . 5:00 p.m Buffalo ..,... .> Sept. 17 .... .. . 5:00 p.m. . .. St. Louis Sept. 18 .... . . ^ ... 5:00 p.m. ... • • Cleveland Sept. 18 .... ... 5:00 p.m.... Jersey City .. Sept. 15 ... 5:00 p.m. . . .•. — 1 » • • • 4 • Donate to SPAD Page 18 , Nv f' • • • 4 4 7:00 p.m. • • « Politics Is Porkchops,, 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 pirn. 7:00 p.m. —^ —- •• 1:00 p.m. 4 •• • — Seafarers Log �m fTBT KSfci, 1^7 • ^ / //d /nr r >1^^ iMm7mfTi&». '^tztyxA-e^e/^A — /=«»« P V" / An Unresponsive Administration It has now been over six months since the Ford Administration announced the formation of an inter-agency task force to explore the means of assisting the de­ pressed U.S. tanker industry. And, al­ though representatives from all segments of the maritime industry proposed spe­ cific solutions in a meeting with President Ford and his advisors last March, to date the Administration has proposed no pol­ icy responsive to the industry's needs or requests. Despite the Ford Administration's pro­ fessed interest in the state of the U.S. maritime industry, the actions (and non­ actions) taken by the President himself and others in his Administration, clearly show us that so far his concern for the American seaman, shipyard worker and longshoreman has been just lip service. Last December, with the U.S. tanker industry already slumping, due to vari­ ous national and international develop­ ments, President Ford pocket-vetoed the Oil Cargo Preference Bill. The veto of this bill, which would have guaranteed that a certain percentage of oil imports be carried on U.S.-flag ships, was just about the final nail in the tanker indus­ try's coffin. When representatives from the mari­ time industry met with the President and his advisors in March, SIU President Hall, speaking for the maritime unions, shipowners and shipbuilders at the meet­ ing, submitted two proposals which could have, if implemented, brought im­ mediate relief to the industry. • A Presidential Order requiring oil importers to use U.S.-built and U.wS.manned tankers for oil products coming into the United States to the extent that U.S.-flag tankers are available at fair and reasonable rates, and August, 1975 • A Presidential Order granting an exemption from import fees to importers using American-built and Americanmanned ships. A month later, after informal meetings were held, a second paper was presented to two members of the Administration, the Director of the Budget and the Secre­ tary of Labor. Although various alterna­ tive formulas were discussed internally by the Administration, to date, after an­ other four months has passed, nothing has been done on any of the proposals. Recently, to add insult to injury, the Administration, in an attempt to further its political aims, has entered into an­ other possible grain deal with the Soviet Union, similar to the one of 1972. Three years ago, when the terms of the first grain deal were worked out, it was agreed that the U.S., Russians, and "third-flag" vessels would all equally share the grain cargo between the two countries. U.S.-flag vessels wound up with about 11 percent of the total cargo, or about one-third of the one-third it was entitled to carry. On top of this, the Soviet-controlled merchant fleet, 100 percent governmentsubsidized, has become the most ruthless, rate-cutting fleet on the high seas. If their rate-cutting practices are allowed to con­ tinue unchecked, they may succeed in bringing about the complete economic destruction of the U.S. merchant marine. It is this schizophrenic attitude on the part of the Ford Administration—talk­ ing one way and acting another—that quite frankly is confusing us. If the Ad­ ministration is indeed interested in the welfare of the maritime industry, as it claims it is,, in the year's time since it came to power it ha^'t shown it. It is now time for some concrete action; we've al­ ready had too many promises. . ^ Scholarship award is a great honor . •to be bestowed upon my family and myself. We wish to thank the SIU for this scholarship. With this grant I can continue my formal education and reach my educational goals. The SIU Scholarship Program is a wonderful program which can open 3 the doors of opportunity for its members and their families. I U:'thank the ofganis^rs and administrators of the Scholarship .. Program for giving me such an opportunity.' As for my choice of college, I have applied and been ac­ cepted to the Pols^technic In^tute of New "York. | Again, I wish to say thank you for such a privilege and an honoris Skicerely, Edward GSahert Brooklyn, ? .n \ -s. . M I was recently involved in an unjust beef aboard the Sadv .aan that almost cost me my job. However, when the ship came into port, the SIU patrolman who came aboard thrashed the matter'out and once again came through as the SIU always does;!am very proud of the way our Union officials stand up for the membership. And I am proud to be a member of the SIU for the last 30 years.. Frafenudly, f i' • V ;I Frank S^estka 1 San inan I wish to thank the entire staff at the Seafarers Medical Cen- ' ..er at Heaquarters for their concern and dedicated action taken in my behalf during my recent illness. Also, special ^ thanks to SIU Dr. J. SanFilippo for his daily visits while I was • laid up in the intensive care unit of the Luteran Medical Cfen€^ j ; ter in Brooklyn, N.Y. I am now recuperating at the USPHS hospital on Staten Island. Fraternfdly, < Charles li^ Martinnssen Martinnssen : . i- - Volume XXXVII, No. 9 Auflutt 1975 Official Publication of the Seafarers international Union of North America, Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and fnliamj Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board Paul Hall. Presidoni vj.;; I• c Cat Tanner. fc'xecuf/Ve Vice-Ptssident Earl Shepard, Vice-Ptasident JodOiGiQtgiQ.S&ctelaiy-Tmasuret' UiiidseyWitlianis,V/ce-PresWaiif -Frank Drozak. Vi6e-Presid»nt. . Paul Drozak, Vice Piesldont Published monthly except twice a month In July by Seafarers intematlbnal Oftiori, Atlantic, Gutf, i^iHes .and Inla^ District, AFC«CiO 675 Fourth Avenue. erogWyn. N.Y. ri232. Tel. 499-6600. Second class postage paid at Brooxlyn, N.Y. 389 • Page 19 �h-: X :f >i •iS?'- • • • • Shlp^ Meetings r Digest of SlU ARECIBO (Puerto Rico Marine), June 8—Chairman, Recertified Bosun Eugene Dakin; Secretary J. G. Guilles; Educational Director David Manafe; Deck Delegate Howard Knox. $14 in ships fund. No disputed OT. A wire was sent to President Ford expressing the crew's gratitude on his action in regard to the Mayaguez incident. All items brought up at the safety meeting were taken care of. Chairman explained how to find your way by feel when in a smoke filled area. Everything running smoothly. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Mari­ time Overseas), June 29—Chairman, Recertified Bosun Ame Hovde; Secre­ tary Jasper G. Andersen; Educational Director R. Honeycutt; Engine Dele­ gate Robert Sawyer; Deck Delegate Charles Naiette; Steward Delegate Rob­ ert Rowe. No disputed OT. A vote of thanks to the membership for good con­ duct aboard the vessel for ihe entire voyage. A vote of thanks to the steward department for good meals and excell­ ent service. BOSTON (Sea-Land Service), June 29—Chairman, Recertified Bosun L. E. Joseph; Secretary J. Keno; Educa­ tional Director R. Chamberlin. A radiogram was received on June 17 from Headquarters informing the crew of some of the major gains in our new contract. A special meeting was called that evening and the contract was ac­ cepted unanimously by the entire crew. An extended vote of thanks to thenego-, tiating committee. All radiograms re­ ceived from Headquarters were posted. OGDEN YUKON (Ogden Marine), June 15—Chairman, Recertified Bosun H. Weaver; Secretary O. Frezza; Deck Delegate Arthur Trotter. $43 in ships fund. No disputed OT. All communica­ tions received were posted. A vote of thanks to all crewmembers for a fine trip from the steward department. A vote of thanks from crew to steward department for a job well done. Next port Piney Point. PITTSBURGH (Sea-Land Service), June 15—Chairman, Recertified Bosun D. Pressly; Secretary I. Buckley; Edu­ cational Director M. Sullivan. $60 in ships fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Held a dis­ cussion on the new contract pending, the use and purpose of SPAD and on all communications received. A vote of thanks to the steward department. Everything running smoothly. IBERVILLE (Waterman Steam­ ship), June 29—Chairman, Recertified Bosun E. W. Nicholson; Secretary P. Garland; Educational Director Edgar Armstrong. Held a discussion on the new wage contract and all members agreed it was a job well done. Some dis­ puted OT in. deck and engine depart- . ment. A vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. A vote of thanks to the bosun and day man for a good job on painting the messhalls. Next port Charleston, S.C. SEA-LAND MC LEAN (Sea-Land), June 20—Chairman, Recertified Bosun J. Richburg; Secretary R. Sadowski; Educational Director K. Katsalis; Deck Delegate Lonnie Cole. Reported on the telegr^ received from Headquarters on the new contract gains and called for a discussion of same. $30 in ships fund. No disputed OT. Next port Hong Kong. Page 20 DELTA SUD (Delta Steamship), June 15—Chairman, Recertified Bosim Homer O. Workman; Secretary R. M. Boyd. No disputed OT. Chairman spoke on the new contract and all agreed it is the best contract we ever had and want to thank everyone who had anything to do with it. Chairman explained to the crewmembers the rea­ sons for voluntarily giving to SPAD and the Captain was well pleased with the crew and their safety record. A vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Next port Salvador. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land Service), Jime 29—Chairman, Recerti­ fied Bosun V. T. Nielsen; Secretary George W. Gibbons; Educational Di­ rector David Able; Steward Delegate Joseph Powers. $89 in ships fund. No disputed OT. The new contract was ex­ plained and accepted by all. A vote of thanks to the conference delegates and the Union officers for getting us a fine contract. A vote of thanks to the deck department for keeping the messroom and pantry clean. Next port Genoa, Italy. OVERSEAS NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), June 29—Chairman, Recer­ tified Bosun A. Anderson; Secretary W. Deskins; Steward Delegate R. Davies. Chairman sent a telegram to Head­ quarters thanking them for their efforts in our behalf on the new contract and our acceptance of same. A talk was given by the chairman and many ques­ tions were made and answered in the discussion about our Union and its op­ eration. Everything running smoothly. OAKLAND (Sea-Land Service), June 1—Chairman, Recertified Bosim J. A. Shortell; Secretary C. N. Johnson; Educational Director L. Kartunnen; Engine Delegate Charles H. Jackson; Steward Delegate Charles J. Mehl. Chairman reported that a radiogram was sent to President Ford for the quick action that he took in regard to the Mayaguez. $2.35 in ships fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. Everything running smoothly. MAYAGUEZ (Puerto Rico Marine), June 23—Chairman, Recertified Bosun Jacob Levin; Secretary R. Campbell. Chairman spoke on the new contract and all members agreed it is the best. Everyone hoped that negotiations would continue with regard to the new pension plan to include those already on pension. Some disputed OT in stew­ ard department. Observed one minute of silence in memory of our departed brothers. FAQUADILLA TONTPELIER VICTORY (VANTAGE DEFENDER >T, LOUIS TAMARA GUILDEN JAYAMA 5TONEWALL JAC • SRRIMAeD R:MORAGE GE ^ EXPLORER SEA-LAND ECONOMY (SeaLand Service), June 15—Chairman, Recertified Bosun A. E. Bourgot; Sec­ retary L. Nicholas; Educational Direc­ tor J. M. Glenn; Deck Delegate J. P. Pettus; Engine Delegate I. Galeas; Steward Delegate P. L. Hunt. No dis­ puted OT. The new contract was read at a special meeting and it was received with much praise for the officials and delegates who participated in the fore­ closure of this outstanding document. Chairman suggested that crewmembers donate to SPAD. It was recommended that a telegram be sent to headquarters and port delegates for an outstanding job on the contract. Crewmembers wish to go on record to state the new con­ tract is the best thus far in the history of this Union. Next port Jacksonville. TAMPA (Sea-Land Service), June 22—Chairman, Recertified Bosun G. Castro; Secretary S. F. Schuyler; Edu­ cational Director P. Kanavos. $20 in ships fund. No disputed OT. Chairman G. Castro made a motion for all mem­ bers of the SS Tampa to raise their arm if they have accepted the ratifica­ tion of the new contract. This motion was seconded by S. F. Schuyler, secre­ tary, and all 28 brothers responded by saying yes. A vote of thanks to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. Next port San Juan. SEA-LAND COMMERCE (SeaLand Service), June 22—Chairman L.G.G. Reck; Secretary Gus Skendelas; Educational Director Smead Williams; Engine Delegate John Wright. $126 in movie fund. Some disputed OT in en­ gine department. Copies of the new contract were xeroxed by the chairman and given to each department. The crew was very pleased with the new contract and gave a vote of thanks to the negoti­ ation committee for a job well done. Chairman suggested that crewmembers give to SPAD to help pass bills that will help shipping. A safety meeting was held and is always open for anyone who wants to attend. A vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Next port Seattle. DELTA PARAGUAY (Delta Steam­ ship), June 15—Chairman, Recertified Bosun George A. Burch; Secretary W. J. Miles; Educational Director Frank W. Chavers; Steward Delegate Milton J. Phelps. Chairman ^advised all when filing for benefits please make sure to sign all forms to avoid delay in pay­ ments. $3.50 in ships fund. No disputed QT. Telegram was received from Head­ quarters and was read to membership at this meeting. Observed one minute of silence in memory of our departed brothers. Next port Abidjan. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land Serv­ ice), Jime 1—Chairman, Recertified Bosun Sven Jansson; Secretary O. Smith; Educational Director Guymon. Secretary reported on the conference that was held at Piney Point regarding upcoming negotiations and the need to voluntarily donate to SPAD. $22 in ships fund. No disputed OT. Everything running smoothly. SEA-LAND FINANCE (Sea-Land Service), June 15—Chairman, Recerti­ fied Bosun J. Pulliam; Secretary Herb Kndwles; Deck Delegate J. Long; En­ gine Delegate Steve Mooney; Steward Delegate J. Smith. A telegram was re­ ceived from Headquarters in reference to the contract, it is posted on the bulle­ tin board for everyone to read. Looks like it will be a good contract; will find out more about it when we get into Port. Everything nmning smoothly. DELTA ARGENTINA (Delta Steamship), June 12—Chairman, Re­ certified Bosun Arthur McGinnis; Sec­ retary J. Sumpter; Educational Director H. Sanders. It was suggested that crew­ members donate to SPAD at payoff. A telegram was received from Headquar­ ters stating a special meeting is to be held in all ports on Saturday, June 14, 1975 to ratify new agreement. All mem­ bers were urged to attend. Some dis­ puted OT in deck and steward depart­ ments. Everything running smoothly. EAGLE TRAVELER (Sea Trans­ port), June 15—Chairman, Recertified Bosun Roy S. Theiss; Secretary J. G. Lakwyk; Vocational Director Leonard Nixon; Ste^ward Delegate Robert Cot­ ton. First order of business was a min­ ute of silence in memory of our departed shipmates who passed away, one in Egypt on board and one in the hospital. Some disputed OT in deck and steward departments. TRANSCOLUMBIA (Hudson Waterways), June 15—Chairman, Re-? certified Bosun Jack Kingsley; Secre­ tary T. Ulisse; Educational Director John Meo; Deck Delegate Pedro Alma; Engine Delegate Stanley Phillips; Stew­ ard Delegate Gilbert Murray. To start up a ships fund requested one dollar from each man. Some disputed OT in engine department. The special Sea­ farers LOG on the new contract recom­ mendations was read and the special meeting wire from Headquarters on contract negotiations was also read. Everything running smoothly. Next port Piraieus, Greece. OVERSEAS ALEUTIAN (Mari­ time Overseas), June 23—Chairman, Recertified Bosun J. Koen. All crew­ members agreed to accept the new con­ tract, none were opposed. Everything running smoothly. mmutes were GEORGE WALTON AMERICAN EXPLORER BEAUREGARD ROBERT TOOMBS OGDEN CHALLENGER PORTMAR CHARLESTON LOS ANGELES SANJTIAN SEA-LAND MARKET SCHUYLKILL GOLDEN DOLPHIN COLUMBIA -SIRA^ANR: BRADFORD ISLAND DELTA MEXICO JOHNPENN OVERSEAS ALICE MOUNT WASHINGTON PORTLAND ;SHENANDOAH/^-^ ::^POTOMACTRANSCOLQRADO WILLIAMSBURGH " iSTOYCE BETHFLOli^' DELTA NORTE LONG^B^^ OYERSjE^^JUNE^if OVERSEAS ULLA FORT HOSKINS DELTA URGUAY CAROLINA '•mmk. JACKSONVILLE 1SEA4.ANDEXCHAN<^ JOHN TYLER •INEWARK WALTER RICE Seafarers Log �\< ^ ' ' ' *• • ' ^ V -: L A Few Kind Words f / >K^^;6fSSi ii Have you never hand whittled |u . a pencil to a long fine point Ah! What a skill to have learned '• Have yoa never stirred the ice In your tipple with a pencil • for the want of a swizzle stick. pave you sicver bmwscd Ihrotjgh the dictionary with your twth clamped arouhd a pencil,' - X Sheqiime tome spiritually put hq hand on my arm and waited until1 relaxed, llookedather ^'^<ieep^y >ip, and finally d^ded . « to reveal her effect. .'-p/i'ly-. Loving we came to a plateau of emotion aettled whfa reasons like mmiatuie ibiami Traveling on was not hard affer'sundown. Do you doodle, compose graffiti," , ', /. work the cfosswords, then slip r- " your typewriter behind your ear ' whde you slurp a can of beer. ^ '<A. Do you pack your Underwood to the bar to jot down ' a beautiful number. ' Have you never scratched with pencil Ms thatmost unreachable spot , ' I can see you standing there between your shoulder blades. ^ ; With the sun catching highlights of your hair It^s the greatest but one. , . ' ' ^' Or running down the beach ' And lying close wdthin ray reach MnK>l»« ^ TOe you are far from me You are close m memory :Youme,near.;tp md ,. For you are in my mind to see. , y- ' t ^4. » - It ' The old man sits in his easy chair His gaze is fixed on empty air To you who look, there's nothing there Not so for him while life's still there. |fe s©^ hw With little work and lots of pli^ ; Again when he is as a man He thinks that life it has began. The years they come, and quickly go His hair is white as winter snow ^ey think he's full of fancy's now ,;!»^cn.hc 3itS'So;stiff.as,he^/si^ For he sees again the passing years With all their lankier and their tears The ships that hqhaES^^ To distant lands and home again. The sh^mates that once he Imew The jolly lads of a goodly crew He's not forgotten how in the night ?Tlkt tdtpedit^ The men that perished neath the wave Who are resting now in a sailor's grave, fust an old man's fancy you affirm y^ learn 3 ^ ^u For ffiaf his dreams And lives again the things he's seen While you are but an empty clod l^olEflbWsl^ a ]' • y''I-' Harold Lodditirt ^ r ^ . - N y,'' i . V- " S.I.Uk * ^ t made a boat of paper. ^ , And sailed it down the stream That was, when I was just a kid. And had a foolish dream. I pretended I was captam The chief mate, and all the crew And as I watched, my paper boat I sailed into ports all new, I sailed for twenty years or more And saw those ports so fine. : T^ suddenly I grew very old. For I had forgotten about time. Vi This nwst wonde^ Is something money cannot buy. My advice to every lad And I give it with a sigb- vn ff you want to sow your wild oats., ni ^ I thought of far away places. And wished that I could go To visit all those pretty spots. I saw in the picture show. IV Soon I grew up* to be a man And sailing I did try. I joined the S.I.U. in Baltimore This story is no lie. vin Then unite with a tmion With brothers good, and true, You sign on a clean ship: When you join the S.LU. V " It's not conflict, it's something else seething suspicion Everyone so up tight in anticipation An atmosphere of danger within the imagination San Juan so beautiful, yet so fragile Like cherry blossom shaken by the first breeze That cascade from Springtime trees. We're all escape artists I guess Vomit in the street we recognize the mess Cross over circle round out of reach The beach has the same feel as the city I've left behind It's not an English beach on a December day With only seagulls screaming in their quarrelous way But everything else relaxed and orderly v!- ' The wind though warm blows incessantly Throughout the whole area everything is watchful Perhaps it's because Tm unnerved, ill at ease : %ider crabs on the rocks watching with their bulbous eyes, Suddenly dashing sidelong into the pools or crevices Shrimps and tiny fish in rock pools torpedoing into the sand ts / �• ^- -i i- 198 Have Donated $100 or More to SPAD i^; The following Seafarers, 198 in all, have demonstrated an active interest in participating in political and legislative activities which both our fob security and our social and economic welfare, by votuniarily donating $100 or more to the Seafarers Political Activities DotuUior^SPAu) fund since the beginning of 1975. (The law prohibits the use of any union money, such as dues, initiation fees, etc., fon politick activities. The m<m effective way the trade unionist can take part in politics is through voluntary political contributions.) Three who have realized how important ^ SlU's voice be heard in the Halls of Congress have contributed $200, one has contributed $300, and one $500. Far the rest of the year, the LOG will be running the SPAD honor rolls because the Union feels that in the upcoming years our 'poliiical role must be maintained if the livelihoods of Seafarers are to be protected. Adams, W< Haot^AlA. V:'® Air,R.R ilMpdez^ Algina,J. ^ _ Manor Roll t Ha]^r,l}>.E Anderson, D» •• •. • itn Andeison,E. HooeycBtt,R. Loper, C. Miner, C.E. Neiia, L. 7J5k!CC®,J,77:7 Conklm^K. Iiigelforig<sen, E.S. Atensfidd,L.R. Miller, J. li^son, J. Saeco,M. Mitchell, R. Paladino, F. Mitci^W^L^ Papiiclii$,S.J. Sf^biron,S. Martian, T. A. Molina, F. ;paladis^ E,.'7::7 Srizer,R. Jones,L. Maf&^ J. Mollard,C. Parkhi,G.C. Sdteer,S. lofdan,R. Maithiez, O. A. Parrish, J. H. 7 Sliappo,Mi, Moo^,O.W. I^uriHrais,L.6U Sli^ard,E. McEarlaiid,»B.l$i Mooney,E.X. Payne, O. ^ini,H.C!i McKay,D. Morris, E» Pmm,h McMullin, C. Morris, W. ' :3^iiiIt^:R|^ Meaford,H. Morrison, J. X. ;^INBre^Ji, Mortenson, O. J. Petti, C. Jackson, CoD* Content, W.E. Jeiilttes,W. 'aiilliBMft DeGuzniaii,P. I' : • wski,T. Batchelor, A, 1^. ••r. - • Corietfa,P., Cnrti^T. ATeiy,R.H.^ E, R. . .1/. JiRs^iKS,J. ;^v ." Didomenico, J. iCanoa,M. DiGiorgio,J. K<dly,C. Dd%en,D. Klng,S. ^ Spei^r,G.'' ® V r--'. Spiegri,H.77 . - Milium Drozadk, F. M A. J. I pellinger,W, li ,S. •7-7'x Drozak,P» Knsnniato,K. Ducote,C. LaHaye,F. Dwyer,J. l>wyer,J. Lee,J.F. Edwards,R. Eibe>soB»N. EUis,P.0* iiiiiilppi Fay, J* ',7 A-' Bonser, L. 7 •" < • Ferreura,J. Mei»«r,C. ii Spuron,J. Stephens, Q. Porter, J. SSOQHomrHoii Pomeriane, R. • Leeper,B. V' Rettenfoacher, W. ,, Rkhardson, N. Lewis, J. ; 7 /•p" Buhaks, H. Riddle, D. 7 - • mmmm:Lindsey,H.S. pi|||^|pp7S7 LoleiiS, P< >r Gatewood, L. Lonias,A. . m- Riley, E. ;«Mi!PY,JC/» • Robertson, h. HaU, P. Robertson, T. Pnlver, E. B. Boyle, C. - ^ -K, r X'' 31 siBrannan,G. ' Brooks, S. To Garcia,^ .Weeks, J. 77:7^ • Gard,C.L. Date. White, W. aysiiii Contributor's Name • City Address S.S. No.. Gb^well, To SPAD is a separatesys|ttre|aited fung, ^fts ^proceeds arp used to fiirtbpr. Its objects and purposes including, but not limlted^wYurtliering tn#''pormcal, Itociai'ibir economic i^l^j^ts of Seafarer seamen, the preservation and furthering ot|the American Merchant Marine with iirfrftved employment opportunities for seamen and the advancement of trade union concepts. In connibtion with such objects, SPAD supports and contributes to politiljal litfeji candidates for elective office. Alf contributions are voluntary. No contribution may be solicited or deceived because of'force, job diplrimination, financial reprisal, or threat.of such conduct, or as a condition of membership in the Unlbn (SiUNA AGLIWD) or of employ­ ment. if a contribution is made by ^reason of the above improper^'ibonduct, notify the Seafarers Union nr ahnua address, a/fetroce certified mail ma!l uiithin or ^PAn SPAD at at tha the above within thSrtu thirty HaucAAntrihiitinn days ofyfhc contribution tnr for InuaettAAtiM investigation and appropriate action and refund, .iMnvbiUhtaiY. Support SPAD to protect and further your economic, political and social interests, Am||pn trade Gould, Te . Zip Code (A copy of our report filed with the appropriate su|liiiisory officer is (or will be) available for purchase from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Gover^ent Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.) > CampbeUjA. Gucrtin, L. ' 1 m. yif',' $^20^ Signature of Solicitor ibell, 0. rain, R. . State Gill, F. 0. _ Butts, We W^h,J. $7noo^ 675 SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATION FOURTH AVENUE BROOKLYN, N. Y. 11232 V- 'Ay'y- Brown, G. rTyler, E. ttp7:7:7 y-:!. Yaughan, Florous, C. D. ' *^ i^xclai^ 0. > / jiiiSB®®* mi'.- ' Ridii^Mu ' - ' ' Ajidesstei, J* £, ' Cohptoit,W. Connolly, M.W. . tovjno,L. 'f; MuwaUad, M. A« ; Itondo,C. P; 1975 l^ilson, C. wMr . *»«7. r$9flo3* Port- 33m /- • •'<" -r Have You Made Your SPAD Donafion This Year? •••- .Vr-v-'-'W- J, Seafarers Log Page 22 •a, .-yiyyil-y "J S "xri,IM- rt!-;: • ' -• a �|S;PA,I>) JE'iiiaii--' ''•'yyl; i'. J'-ft :v:;:^x3:^iit%ii f J,SPAD supports and contributes to political candidates for I ' ,X.,.;fs.. „., ' - • • • 016011*6 ofce. • " • • "• • • •" m: i ' -'-X" f ., / i f -V-'-7 ( %: -. "'• ,• • pbies abd p^^ Sesiar^ nii^ attain lav^ whicb social, politieal and trade union objectives—and nrotect the jobs and jobsecurityofAnu^canseamen. . . ' f I I !*' '•' I, JONES ACP-^Juarahtees that a^ cargo shipped from-one American port to another goes on U.S.-flag ships. This Act is constantly being attacked by powerful lobbies in ^ashing^^ such as the oil companies. We must be able to fight these atta<jks. =2. VmCm ISLANDS LOOPHOLE—We must try to close the Bophole in the Jones Act which exempts the Virgin Islands from its provisions. The cargo that is daily shipped from a reinery in ttie Virgm Idands tO;Tr.S. east coast ports, if carried on r.S. ships^ would be sufficient to put a major portion of t^ ^.Svtanker fleet back^ t^ Pre^ly this oil is moved entirely by foreign-flag vessels. ^ U THIRD FLAG BILL—This piece of legislation would cotti lol die predatory rate cutting of non-national shipping lines ifedi are^ c^ unfairly with our American shipping iCrators. If these U.S. shipping lines leave certain foreign tradi lecanse of the rate cutting, it means less jobs for American hien» 6. NAVY ENCROACHMENT—The Navy has been expan< its operations at the expense of the privately owned, unionmanned U.S. merchant marine. We must be able to stop these cncroachmeht8 ^idi^^ a of three tugs t "commercial standards'\ These tugs should be chartered from private operators. The Navy must go to Congress for its fundsj SPAD donations are essential to be!b> u^ ;fight^ a^ Navy in the halls of Congress 7, CARGO PREFERENCE—K we cdbld get a cargo preferlaw into effect it would guarantee that of IJ.S. cargo would be carried on Americah-flag ships. Last year we were successful in getting^ a^^^^^ lll'i 1 L THREE-WATCH SYSTEM—Attacks have been made on le three-watch system for voyages under 1,800 miles. Certain >np8 are trying to switch to a two-watch system thereby enigeiing the job secnrity and the safety of seamen. We must >e able to combat these attacks. 5. TRADE REFORM ACT OF 1974r-The SIU helped enact provisions in this law covering service industries of which the maritime industry is a part. This means among other things that the harmful effects that discriminatory trade practices by .foreign nations have on U.S. service industies, including mari­ time, will be considered for the first time at the international rade talks in Geneva this fail. 7 ' J - • All contributions to SPAD are voluntary. The Jaw prohibits the use of any Union money, such as dues, initiation fees, etc., forpolitical activities. .; I > v politics—^and help enact favorable maritime laws such as those above—^is through voluntary political contributions to SPAD. Page 23 August, 1975 - ly'- . ..''.'H-7v--' . •• v-.'-i.-':. itV .V �MtM New SIU Pensioners <( ., m Consordo Padios 67, joined the SIU in the port of New York in 1953 sailing in the steward department. Brother Padios received a Personal Safety Award in 1960 for riding an accident-free ship that year, the SS Kyska. He was bom in the Philippine Islands and is a resident of San Francisco. Agnstin T. Rosado, 65, joined the SIU in 1944 in the port of Baltimore sailing as a bosun. Brother Rosado had sailed for 33 years and walked the picket line in the Greater N.Y. Harbor strike in 1961. He was bom in Cuba and is a resident of Brook­ lyn, N.Y. Franklin E. Hughes, 59, joined the SIU in 1944 in the port of New York and sailed as a bosun. Brother Hughes had sailed for 28 years and attended a Piney Point Conference. Bom in Georgia, he is now a resident of Houston. Charles E. Turner, 62, joined the SIU in 1938 in the port of Mobile sailing as a chief steward. Brother Turner had sailed for 33 years and received a Personal Safety Award in 1960 for sailing aboard the accident• free ship, the SS Clairborne. He was bom in Pensacola, Fla. and is a resi­ dent of Mobile. Miguel L. Medina, 64, joined the SIU in 1943 in the port of Baltimore sailing as a fireman-watertender. Brother Medina had sailed for 42 years. He was bom in Puerto Rico and is a resident of Houston. Ah S. Wong, 65, joined the SIU in the port of San Francisco in 1955 sailing as a 2nd cook. Brother Wong had sailed for 28 years and is a natu­ ralized U.S. citizen. Born in Chin Kung Province, China, he is a resi­ dent of San Francisco. Ernest C. Bine, 50, joined the SIU in the port of Frankfort, Mich, sail­ ing as an AB. Brother Blue had sailed for 22 years and is a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Born in Arcadia, Mich., he is a resident there. Stanley F. Sokol, 65, joined the SIU in 1944 in the port of San Fran­ cisco and sailed as a recertified bo­ sun. Brother Sokol had sailed for 49 years. Bom in Poland, he is a natu­ ralized American citizen and is a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended September 30,1974 HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHff tothe 9. SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE f..: 10. ofthe STATE OF NEW YORK NOTES: (1) All data in the Annual Report is to be copied from the Annual Statement. Where a copy of U.S. Department of Labor Form D-2 has been filed in lieu of pages 7 to 14 of the New York Annual Statement, Part IV—Section A of Form D-2 may be substituted for Page 3 herein. (2) The Annual Report is required to be filed, in duplicate, not later than five months after end of fiscal year. Address replies to New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. (3) The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual State­ ment, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. ( J. t ;1 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) •\:- ADDITIONS TO FUf^D BALANCE •A Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $6,865,765.94 (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) $ 6,865,765.94 (d) Total Contributions .. j 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest 263,822.82 (b) Dividends .... (c) Rents (d) Other (Speci^^) . / 263,822.82 (e) Tbtal Income from Investments , ' 4. Profit on disposal of investments ^X 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of in- X ^ vestments ............................ Page 24 A. ' -.V ' 1,727.97 1,727.97 $ 7,131,316.73 8. Insurance and Aimuity Premiums to Insurance (Address of Fond) ii> John C. Ramsey, 65, joined the SIU in 1944 in the port of New York sailing as a deck engineer. Brother Ramsey had sailed for 31 years and is a veteran of the U.S. Army's 6th Corps of Engineers. Born in Bed­ ford, Va., he is a resident of Frank­ lin, Pa. Laurence Reinchuck, 53, joined the SIU in 1948 in the port of New York sailing as a bosun. Brother Reinchuck had sailed for 30 years and was a U.S. Navy radio operator in World War II. He is a native of Colchester, Conn, and is a resident of Houston. DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE 275 20tfa Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215 !fi Charles J. Mitchell, 65, joined the SIU in 1939 in the port of MobUe sailing as a chief steward. Brother Mitchell had sailed for 41 years. He was bom in Mobile where he is still a resident. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) Interest on delinquencies; miscellaneous (c) Total Other Additions 7. Total Additions (Name of Welfare Fund) •i ' Kfaig Sea Koo, 65, joined the SIU in the port of San Francisco in 1955 sailing in the steward department. Brother Koo had sailed for 27 years and received a Personal Safety Award in 1960 for sailing aboard the accident-free ship, the SS Maiden Creek. Bom in Chekiang, China, which he left in 1943, he is now a resident of San Francisco. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Carriers and to Service Organizations (Includ­ ing Prepaid Medical Plans) Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Separately Maintained Fund Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Bene­ fits to Participants (Attach latest operating statement of the Organization showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independ­ ent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Benefits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) .. (c) Taxes (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedules) (e) Rent (f) Insurance Premiums (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) Tabulating, employee benefits, office expense (i) Total Administrative Expenses Loss on disposal of investments Decrease by adjustment in asset values of in­ vestments Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) Interest on mortgages (b) Provision for doubtful contributions receiv­ able; misc ..J (c) Total Other Deductions Total Deductions $: 378,439.26 3,573,865.27 49,261.15 9,000.42 3,597.84 24,221.31 7,434.55 400.03 1,262.90 25,144.60 120,322.80 626,135.97 9,242.13 85,310.52 94,552.65 $ 4,793,315.95 RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Beginning of Year) 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) ....... 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at End of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities) .......... I • « • ••• « • $ 9,834,097.76 7,131,316.73 4,793,315.95 2,338,000.78 $12,172,098.54 Seafarers Log �mmmm . ..i ' -• . 4 I' k, / A- •V !f Seafarers Welfare, Pension, and Vacation Plans Cash Benefits Paid June 26-iviiy 23,1975 Nnmber SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN ELIGIBLES Death In Hospital Daily @ $1.00 In Hospital Daily @ $3.00 Hospital & Hospital Extras Surgical Sickness & Accident @ $8.00 Special Equipment Optical Supplemental Medicare Premiums DEPENDENTS OF ELIGIBLES Hospital & Hospital Extras Doctors' Visits in Hospital Surgical Maternity Blood Transfusions Optical PENSIONERS & DEPENDENTS Death Hospital & Hospital Extras Doctors* Visits & Other Medical Expenses ., Surgical ............................. Optical Blood Transfusions Special Equipment Dental Supplemental Medicare Premiums MONTH TO DATE YEAR TO DATE 11 121 199 14 1 5,868 1 165 1 82 3,894 1,234 96 15 46,507 15 1,273 200 387 50 95 23 — 118 $ YEAR TO DATE 40,500.00 121.00 597.00 1,388.02 26.00 46,944.00 108.46 4,360.97 158.10 $ 242,445.30 3,894.00 3,702.00 9,084.63 971.92 372,056.00 1,867.87 34,183.49 10,056.30 2,565 409 734 109 12 908 96,297.31 1,780.43 12,638.00 6,200.00 — 2,943.03 554,272,12 15,998.16 97,450.48 30,380.25 883.00 23,128.77 , 11 169 89 7 60 — — — 1,968 . 94 1,152 779 90 491 116 5 11,794 35,000.00 20,507.14 3,035.53 917.00 1,136.05 — — — 13,455.90 284,000.00 170.065.47 29,082.27 13,800.25 11,354.96 72.00 3,589.15 1,706.00 82,656.30 1 74 9,359 2,348 13,298 25,005 72,549 14,042 80,409 167,000 Note; Pages 7 to 14 inclusive should not be completed by funds that have filed Form D-2 with the U.S. Department of Labor. Such funds are required to file a copy of the completed D-2 form with this statement. STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES ASSETS! MONTH TO DATE Richard L. Von Reiff Tarciana Suganob Von Reiff requests that you contact her as soon as pos­ sible at Lot 1 Block #8, Filtration St., Bo. Sta. Rita, Olongapo City, Phil­ ippines 2201. George H. Bryant 1- End of R^rting Year Item $ 247,084.88 1. Cash 2. Receivables: (a) Contributions: 1,309,383.76 f 1^ Employer ..................................... (2) Other (Specify) — (b) Dividends or Experience Rating Refunds 21,227.99 (c) Other (Specify) Due from other Plans; misc 3. Investments: (Other than Real Estate) (a) Bank Deposits at Interest and Deposits or Shares in Savings 3,963,806.63 and Loan Associations (b) Stocks: (1) Preferred (2) Common (c) Bonds and Debentures: (1) Government Obligations (a) Federal (b) State and Municipal (2) Foreign Government Obligations (3) Non-Government Obligations "... (d) Common Trusts: (1) (IdenUfy) (2) (Identify) (e) Subsidiary Organizations (Identify and Indicate Percentage of Ownership by this plan in the subsidiary) 6,324,371.31 (1) See schedule % (27 % 4. Real Estate Loans and Mortgages 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Otherthan Real Estate) (a) Secured 402,761.24 • (b) Unsecured 6. Real Estate: (a) Operated (b) Other Real Estate — 7. Other Assets: 57,577.90 (a) Accrued Income .... 4,604.57 (b) Prepaid Expenses 36.294.71 (c) Other (Specify) Fixed assets—net; security deposits $12,367,112.99 8. Total Assets .V.'-tri.- 4 .1 ' '1 •• It'!: I • ? •' Lucia Y. Bryant requests that you contact her as soon as possible at 778 B.M. Dimataga St., Lapu Lapu City, Philippines 6427. James Kenneth Haines Your wife requests that you contact her as soon as possible at #11, E.T., Olongapo City, Philippines. •i •:! I 231.40 27,910.90 288,345.34 2,024,611.59 573,911.15 3,467,295.30 345,289.90 • 3,400,820.65 $1,207,546.39 $8,892,727.54 Harold Schmidt requests that you contact him as soon as possible at 171 Governors Hill Rd., Oxford, Conn. 06483. S . -i I I •J Robert C. Crosley Teddy Hall requests that you contact him as soon as possible as 3308 Garden Oaks Apts., #125, Algiers, La. 70146. j.!.! Norman J. Kreye 41 > Please contact your mother as soon as possible. Herbert R. Newell 1 . Mary Newell requests that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at 529 W. 4th St. #3, Long Beach, Calif. Frank GQbert Ortiz Cecilia Ortiz requests that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at 1495 Rizal Ave., Olongapo City, Philippines 2201. LIABlLrnES 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. . -"J I Insurance and Annuity Premium Payable Unpaid Claims (Not Covered by Insurance) Accounts Payable Accrued Expenses .~ Other Liabilities (Specify) Mortgages payable Reserve for future benefits (Fund balance) Total Liabilities and Reserves • Ill,323.44 ,... 83,691.01 12,172,098.54 $12,367,112.99 iThe assets listed in this statement must be valued on the basis regularly used in valuing investments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Department, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not so required to be filed with the U.S. Treasury Department. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE REPORT ON EXAMINATION: This fund is subject to periodic examination by the New York State Insurance Department. All employee-members of the fund, all con­ tributing employers and the participating unions may inspect the Reports on Examina­ tion at the New York State Insurance Department, upon presentation of proper credentials. If you wish to see the Report, please contact the New York State Insurance Department, Welfare Fund Bureau, 55 John Street, New York 10038—Telephone: 488-4161 (Area Code 212). OTHER INFORMATION: Also available for inspection—to the public generally— are the annual statements and registration documents filed by the Fund. These may be inspected during working hours at the above address, or at the olhce of the Fund. STATE OF. SS. COUNTY OF . . and. Trustees of the Fund and , affirm, under the penalties of perjury that.the contents of this Annual Report are true and hereby subscribe thereto. • . V. •. Employer trustee: I' August, 1975 .A'l t-' Alfred M. Pelton SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM TOTALS Total Seafarers Welfare Plan Total Seafarers Pension Plan Total Seafarers Vacation Plan Total Seafarers Welfare, Pension & Vacation Amount Personals .. -i- �1 jRnal 30epartures( SIU pensioner Willie F. Coppage, 61, died of a heart attack in Hamlet (N.C.) Hospital on Apr, 22. Brother Coppage joined the Union in the port of New York in 1960 sailing as a cook and baker. He had sailed for 36 years, walked the picket line in the N.Y. Harbor strike of 1961, was a veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War II and also upgraded at the HLSS in Piney Point, Md. Born in South Carolina, he was a resident of Hamlet when he passed away. Inter­ ment was in Dobbins Memorial Park, Hamlet. Surviving are his widow; his mother, Fannie of Hamlet, and a daugh­ ter, Mrs. Kay Thompson of Sterling, Conn. SIU pensioner Wilbur L. Daniels, • , 70, succumbed to a heart attack in De Paul Hospital, Nor­ folk on May 19. Brother Daniels joined the Union in the port of Norfolk in 1968 sailing as a chief engineer for the Norfolk, Baltimore and Carolina Line from 1953 to 1971. He was born in Wanchen, N.C. and was a resident of Norfolk at the time of his death. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk. Surviving is his widow, Mildred. f - SIU pensioner Abrain Guldsmit, 90, passed away on Jime 10 in Lake City, Fla. Brother Goldsmit joined the Union in 1938 in the port of New York sailing as a chief steward. He had sailed on U.S. flagships since 1921. Seafarer Goldsmit was on the picket line in the 1961 N.Y. Harbor strike, sailed on the SS Samuel Johnston (Eastern) in July 1942 and was a World War I veteran of the U.S. Army's Signal Corps Aviation Section. Bom in , Lithuania, he was a resident of Jack­ sonville. Burial was in Jacksonville. Vernon C. Bruer, 39, died in St. Louis on June 21. Brother Bruer joined the SlU-afiiliated IBU in the port of St. Louis in 1973 sailing for Orgulf Trans­ portation Co., National Marine Service, Inland Tugs and for the Gulf Canal Co. Surviving are two daughters, Janet of Clyde, Ohio and Barbara. H SIU pensioner John F. Butler, 72, succumbed to heart failure in St. Joseph's Hospital, Detroit on June 25. Brother Butler joined the Union in the port of Detroit sailing in the steward department. A native of Murfresboro, Tenn., he was a resident of Detroit. In­ terment was in Lincoln Cemetery, Ma­ comb, Mich. Surviving is his widow, Mabel. SIU pensioner Henry E. Smith, 72, died of heart failure in Baltimore City Hospital on May 31. Brother Smith joined the SlU-afliliated IB.U in the port of Baltimore in 1956 sailing as a deck­ hand. He was born in Baltimore and was a resident there. Burial was in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore. Surviving is his widow, Ann. > i [ : -ii J .-!\•» SIU pensioner Artemlo N. Fernan­ dez, 72, died of a heart attack in Hos­ pital Poblacion Ng Mynila, Manila on Apr. 21. Brother Fer­ nandez joined the Union in 1948 in the port of New York sailing as cook. He had sailed for 20 years and was a 1959 lifeboat course graduate of the Andrew Furuseth Training School in Brooklyn, N.Y. A native of Sual, the Philippines, he was a resident there when he passed away. Seafarer Fernandez was a natu­ ralized American citizen. Burial was in St. Peter the Martyr R.C. Cemetery, Sual. Surviving is a nephew, Enrique F. Diaz of Manila. SIU pensioner Howard E. Fowler, 64, passed away in March. Brother Fowler joined the Union in 1939 in the port of Baltimore sailing as a chief elec­ trician. He had sailed for 35 years and served as an engine delegate. Born in South Carolina, he was a resident of Aiken, S.C. when he died. Charles W. Brustle, Jr., 51, died on June' 15. Brother Brustle joined the SlU-affiliated IBU in the port of Philadel­ phia in 1968 saUing as a tankerman for the Interstate Oil Transportation Co. from 1966 to 1975, Berg Towing Co., the Gellehin Co., Graham Transportation Co., Marine Towing Co., Mariner Towing Co. and the Petro Chemical Co. in 1959. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. Bom in Pennsylvania, he w^s a resi­ dent of Wallin^ord, Pa. when he passed away. Surviving are his widow, Catherine, and two sons, Charles III and Wayne. William J. Conners, Jr., 58, suc­ cumbed to a heart attack in Candler General Hospital, i Savannah, on Apr. 5. .. Brother Conners joined the SIU in W mmM 1939 in the port of Savannah sailing as a fireman-watertender. He had sailed for 38 years and walked the picket line in the Greater N.Y. Harbor strike in 1961. A native of Savannah, he was a resident there when he died. Interment was in Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. N. L. Williamson of Pensacola, Fla. and a brother, Henry of Savannah. James V. Roberson, 66, passed away on Apr. 14. Brothe;Roberson joined the SIU in the port of New York in 1959 sailing as a firemanwatertender. He was born in Greenville, Ala. and was a resident of Bay Minette, Ala. at the time of his death. Surviving is his widow. Pearl. SIU • pensioner Thomas Landa, 76, died on June 9. Brother Landa joined the Union in 1938 in the port of New Orleans sailing as a chief cook. He had sailed for 45 years. Seafarer Landa was bom in Spain and was a resident of New Orleans. Surviving are his widow, Josephine; two sons, Thomas and Rich­ ard, and two daughters, Janet Maria and Mary Rose. SIU pensioner Tony S. Sbsa, 72, passed away on June 9 in Tampa General Hospital of acute re­ spiratory arrest. Brother Sosa joined the Union in 1945 in the port of Tampa sailing as a chief steward. He had sailed for 26 years. Bom in Tampa, he was a resident there. Interment was in Lake Carroll Cemetery, Hillsborough Coun­ ty, Fla. Surviving is his widow. Bertha. SIU pensioner Isaak Bouzin, 65, passed away on May 22 in San Francisco. Brother Bouzin joined the Union in the port of New York in 1961 sailing as a bosun. He had sailed for 2T years, was on the picket line in the Greater N.Y. Harbor strike in 1961, attended a Crews Conference at Piney Point in 1970 and was a wounded U.S. Army veteran in World War II. A na­ tive of Russia, he was a resident of San Francisco. Surviving are his widow, Lee; a son, Samuel of Chicago; two daughters, Phyliss and Harriet; a sister, Mrs. Pearl Bauman of Morton Grove, 111. and two nephews, Ge ild Bauman of Chicago and Raymond of Cook, 111. SIU pensioner Earbie N. Bracewell, 56, succumbed to a heart attack on the way to the University of Southern Alabama Medical Center in Mobile on May 9. Brother Bracewell joined the Union in the port of Mobile in 1957 sailing as an AB. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. Born in Alabama, he was a resident of Mobile when he died. Burial was in Serenity Memorial Gardens, Mobile. Surviving are his widow, Eloise; his mother, Mrs. J. Bracewell of Andalusia, Ala.; a sister, Mrs. Pearl N. Hall of Mobile; three sons, Roy, Leon and Floyd and five daughters, Carolyn, Malissa, Martha, Ruby and Charlotte. SIU pensioner Francis H. Sturgis, 74, passed away on June 22. Brother Sturgis joined the Union in 1946 in the port of Baltimore sailing as a second cook. He had sailed for 21 years and was a U.S. Navy Seabees veteran of World War II. He was born in Snow Hill, Md. and was a resi­ dent there when he died. Surviving is his widow, Eunice. SIU pensioner Emanuel S. VIodek, 60, died on May 27. Brother VIodek joined the Union in 1938 in the port of Boston sailing as a bosun. He had sailed for 41 years, helped to organize the port of Baltimore in 1938 and during 1942 sailed on the SS St. Olaf to the Red Sea with a load bombers and on the Murmansk Run to Molotov, U.S.S.R. A native of Terra Alta, W. Va., he was a resident there. Surviving are two brothers, Andrew of Terra Alta and Steven of Flourant, Mo. SIU pensioner Donald D. Wblttaker, 82, died of natural causes in Harlem Hospital Center, New York City, on June 18. Brother Whittaker joined the Union in the port of Baltimore in 1951 sailing as a steward utility. He had sailed for 23 years and was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Born in Barbados, the British West Indies, he was a resident of New York City. In­ terment was in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn, N.J. Surviving is his widow, Mary. SIU pensioner James E. Belch r, 54, died on Apr. 19. Brother Belcher joined the Union in the port of New Orleans in 1958 sailing ' as an AB. He had sailed for 28 years and was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. Born in Kentucky, he was a resident of Owingsville, Ky. when he passed away. Surviving are his mother, Jennie and a brother, Ora, both of Owingsville. John R. Hard Jr., 57, died on July 18. Brother Kurd joined the SlU-affiliated IBU in the port of Philadelphia in 1961 sailing as a deckhand for Taylor & Ander­ son Towing and Lighterage Co. from 1955 to 1975. He was a U.S. Army Infantry veteran of World War II. Born in Linwood, Pa. he was a resident of Camden, N.J. Sur­ viving, is his widow, Rose. Carl F. Johnson, 36, died from an ac­ cidental gunshot head wound in De Paul Hospital, Nor­ folk on June 12. Brother Johnson joined the SIU in the port of Norfolk in 1971 sailing as an OS for McAllister Bros. He was an upgrader at Piney Point in 1972 and also attended an Educational Conference there. Seafarer Johnson was born in North Carolina and was a resident of Norfolk. Inter­ ment was in Rosewood Memorial Park Cemetery, Virginia Beach, Va. Surviv­ ing are his widow, Delma; his father, Floyd of Norfolk; a son, Carl; a daugh­ ter, Pamela, and a step-daughter, Wendy. Page 26 Seafarers.Log 'V — *•0 •Bt-.-r ''* - V �• — •:'. £-•' _ '• ~ ^ /• • . •ft Brother Bill Morris has been a Seafai'er for IS yeatrs, and he completed the Siy Bosun Recertification Program in June, 1975. Adding to his record of achieve­ ments, Brother Morris, who is a native of Jacksonville, Fla., recently returned to the Limdeberg School and earned his high school diploma through the GED Program there. Seafarer Morris left high school in the tenth grade. When asked to com­ pare his former school experiences with the high school equivalency program at HLSS, he replied, 'H'he Lundeberg School is most definitely different. The teachers here are real great. They give yoU as much individual time as you need." Bosrm Morris scored very well on his GED tests, and he credits at least part of his sucdess to his travels as a Seafarer. "I've pretty much covered the world in traveling, and that's a form of educaUon in itself." Brother Morris said that he would recommend the GED Program at HLSS to any Seafarer who did not have a high school diploma. "I'd tell hini to give it a try and come on through. It's a beautiful program." When Seafarer Morris was asked what he planned to do now that he had earned his diploma, he replied, "I'm going to do the same thing I was doing Seafarer Morris Gets High School Diploma I .®A' I ,r • .-• 1 5 f-i'i i i •ri-|. • i' f 'll .If •ft f • i Complete Lifeboat Course Ji ••fl' ^nrw'thfte°siu'"P'l'.Morris, who earned his high school'dipioma at the Lundeberg Sohool, gets some help from English. teacher Marilyn Grotzky. Assistant Cook Graduates ;I r' V' ?- f- •^ .hi I in •| .-*.'• • S , • ilf ( : f; fil I i.f'i I, -v,i i * Seafarer day Haga (center) displays his assistant cook certificate while Don Nolah, Steward Department instructor (left) and Charlie Andrews, head of Stewlard Department instruction at the Lundeberg School, look on. After finishing their lifeboat course at the Piney Point facility, Seafarers get together for a photo with their instructor, Abe Easter (far right). From left are: Angel Hernandez; Santiago Arroyo; Vincent Roman; Charles Ashcqm; Jose Calo, and Easter. II - -! i -t V J- ^ ' .... - Displaying their lifeboat certificates at the Harry Lundeberg School in Piney Point, Md., are, from the left: Seafarers Diego Santiago; Abdul Hassan; Manuel Holgbin, and John Fedesovich. August, 1975 Page 27 -s' �mm LUNDEBERG SCHCX)L EDUCATION • TRAINING • UPGRADING Course Descriptions and Starting Dates Deck Department ABLE SEAMAN The course of instruction leading to endorsement as Able Seanmn consists of classroom rand practical training to . in­ clude: Basic Seamanship; Rules "of the Road; Wheel Commands; Use of the Magnetic and Gyro Compass; Cargo Handling; Knots and Splices; Blocks and Booms; Firefighting and Emergency Pro­ cedures; Basic First Aid. Course Requirements: Able Seaman (12 Months—^Any Waters)—^You must be 19 years of age; have IZ months seatime as Ordinary !^aman, or be .a grad­ uate of HLS at Piney Point- and have eight months seatime as Ordinary Sea­ man; be able to pass the prescribed phys­ ical, including eyesight without. glasses of no more than 20/100—^20/100 cor­ rected to 20/40—20/20 and have nor­ mal color vision. Able Seaman (Unlimited — Any Wa­ ters)— You must be 19 years of age; have .36 months seatime as Ordinary Seaman or Able Seaman (12 Months); be able to pass the prescribed physical, including eyesight requirements listed above. Starting Dates: September 4, October 16, November 28. QUARTERMASTER Procedures; Emergency Launching Op­ erations. Included in the course is practi­ cal experience in launching, letting gOj rowing and maneuvering a lifeboat in seas, recovery of man overboard, fire­ fighting and emergency procedures. Course Requirements: Must have 90 days seatime in any^department. Starting Dates: September 4, 18; October 2, 16, 30; No­ vember 13, 28; December 11. Engine Department tomated Ships; Firefighting and Emer­ gency Procedures. Course Requirements: Must have rat­ ing (or passed examinations-for) FOWT, Electrician, Pumpman, Refrigeration En­ gineer, Deck Engineer, Junior Engineer, Machinist, Boilermaker, and Deck En­ gine Mechanic. Must show evidence of at least six months seatime in any one or a combination of the following ratings: FOWT, Electrician, Refrigeration, Pump­ man, Deck Engineer, Machinist, Boiler­ maker, or Deck Engine Mechanic. Starting Dates: September 18; October 16; November 13; December 11. The course of instruction leading to certification as QMED—r-Any Rating. (Qualified Member, of the Engine De­ partment) consists of classroom work and practical training to include: Parts of a Boiler and Their Function; Com­ bustible Control Systems; Steam and Water Systems; Fuel Oil Sjretems; Lubri­ cating Oil ^sterns; Hydraulic Oil Sys­ tems; Boiler Construction and Repair, Hand Tools and Their Use; Use of Met­ als; Machine Tool Operation; Com­ pressed Air Systems; Fundamentals of Electricity; Principles of Refrigeration; Safe Handling of Combustible Materials;, Piping and Valves, Pumps, Evaporators; Auxiliary Diesel Engines; Starting and Securing Main and Auxiliary Diesel En­ gines; Starting and Securing Main and Auxiliary Units; Engineering Casualty Control; All Codes of Operation of Au­ LIFEBOAT—Along with their instructor, Paul Allman (back row, far left), Sea­ farers pose for photo after successfully completing their lifeboat course at the Lundeberg School. In front, from left are: Jose Hipolito; Oscar Farzande; Coyt Propst, and Gonzalo Diaz. In back, from left are:-Allman; Phillip Huss; Jack Munsie; Richard Smallwood, and Jimmy Dryden. iliary Equipment; Starting and Securing Main Engines. Course Requirements: (If you have a Wiper endorsement only)—^Must be able to pass the prescribed physical, including eyesight without glasses of no more than 20/100—20/100 corrected to 20/50— 20/30 anil, have normal color vision. Must have six months seatime as Wiper, or be a graduate of HLS at Piney Point and have three months seatime as Wiper. (If you have an engine rating such as Electrician)—^No requirements. Starting Dates: September 22, November 3, January 12. Starting Dates: October 16, November 28, January 26. LIFEBOATMAN QMED—Seafarers who completed their QMED training at the Lundeberg School in Piney Point, Md. pose for a photo with their instructor, Bill Eglinton (far right). They are, from the left: Pat Edgell; Jim O'Donnell; Gordon Radam; John Trent; Charles Eagleson; Ruben Velez; R. Zeller; Jim Sharpless; Michael McKnoght; Ben Freeman; Harris Patterson, and Eglinton. SIU Scholarship Program One college and two post secondary trade/vocational school scholarships are awarded to Seafarers each year. These scholarships have been specially de­ signed to meet the educational needs of Seafarers. Application requirements are geared for the man who has been out of school several years, so you will x)nly be com­ peting with other seamen With similar educational backgrounds. The awards are granted in April, but you should begin your application process now. These are the scholarships offered: 1. Four-year.college degree scholar- Page28 The course -of instruction leading to. endorsement as FOWT (Fireman, Watertender and/or Oiler) consists of class­ room work and practical training to in­ clude: Parts of a Boiler and Their Func­ tion; Steanr and Water Cycle; Fuel Oil and Lube Systems; Fire Fighting and Emergency Procedures. Also included is practical training aboard one of the ships at the school to include: Lighting a Dead Plant; Putting Boilers on the Line; Changing Burners; Operation of Aux- QMED-Any Rating The course of instruction leading to certification as Quartermaster consists of Basic Navigation instruction to include Radar; Loran; Fathometer; RDF; and also iHcludes a review of Basic Seaman­ ship, use of the Magnetic and Gyro Compass; Rules of the Road; Knots and Splices; Firefighting and Emergency Pro­ cedures. Course Requirements: Must hold en­ dorsement as Able Seaman (Unlimited — Any Waters). The course of instruction leading to certification as Lifeboatman consists of classroom study and practical training to include: Nomenclature of Lifeboat; Lifeboat -Equipment; Lifeboat Com­ mands; Types of Davits and Operating FOWT ship. This award is in the amount of $10,000. 2. Two-year community or junior col­ lege or post secondary trade/voca­ tional schpols scholarships. Thesie awards are in the atnount of $5000. The trade/vocational awards offer var­ ious options if you wish to continue shipping. In such a program you may develop a trade or skill which would im­ prove your performance aboard ship as well as help you obtain a better paying job when you are ashore. Eligibility requirements are as follows: I. Must be under 35 years of age. ..This may be waived for Seafarers who have completed one or more years in an accredited college or university. 2. Have not less than two years df actual employment on vessels of companies signatorv to Seafarers Welfare Plan. 3. Have one day of employment on a vessel in the sixth-month period - immediately proceeding date of application. DIESELS The four-vveek course covers: types, designs, construction and characteristics of various diesel engines; nomenclature and principal design features of all parts of diesel engines; formulas and hydraulic 4. Have 90 days of employment on a vessel in the previous calendar year. Pick up a scholarship application now. They are available in the ports or you may write to the following address and request a copy of the Seafarers Applica­ tion: ' Seafarers Welfare Plan College Scholarships 275 20th Street Brooklyn, New York 11215 Scholarships For Dependents Four scholarships are awarded to de­ pendents of Seafarers. These fqur-year scholarships are for $10,000 each at any accredited college or university. If you have three years sea time, encourage your children to apply. They should request the Dependents Application from the above address.* Seafarers Log �The course of instruction leading to cer­ tification as Refrigerated Container Mqchamc consists of both classroom and on-the-job training that includes the fol­ lowing: instruction covering all unifTon refrigeration, electrical and engine tune-up on gasoline and diesel units, operation, maintenance and trouble shooting on all refrigeration units, instruction of funda­ mentals of operation and servicing and diagnostic procedures used with electrical circuitry. Course Requirements: Applicants must hold Coast Guard endoisements as Elec­ trician and Refrigerating Engineer or QMED-Any Rating. Length of Course: The normal length of the course is four (4) weeks. Starting Date: November 17. WELDING The course of instruction in basic welding consists of classroom and onthe-job training including practical train­ ing in electric arc welding and cutting; and oxy-acetylene brazing, welding and cutting. On completion of the course, an HLS Certificate of Graduation will be awarded. Course Requirements: Must hold en­ dorsement as QMED—Any Rating. Starting Dates: September 4; November 28; December 11. HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP UPGRADING APPLICATION Name. (First) (Last) Address Date of Birth. (Middle) . Telephone #. Book Nupnber District Seniority Date Book Was Issued (Area Code) Port Presently Registered In_ .Port Issued. Endorsement(s) Now Held _ Social Security #_ Piney Point Graduate: • Yes Entry Program: From, No • (if so, fill in below) . to. (Dates Attended) . Endorsement(s) Received Upgrading Program: From. to. (Dates Attended) EndQrsement(s) Received, Do you hold a letter of completion for Lifeboat: • Yes • No; Fire Fighting: Dates Available for Training • Yes • No — I Am Interested In: DECK • AB Unlimited • Quartermaster • Lifeboatman • • • • • • • ENGINE FWT Oiler Dk.Mech. Reefer Boilermaker LNG/LPG Diesel • • • O • • • STEWARD Dk. Eng. • Cook & Baker Jr. Eng. • Chief Cook Pumpman • Steward Machinist Welder Advanced Pumpman Procedures Advanced Electrical Procedures • Refrigeration Container Mechanic RECORD OF SEAUME — (Show only amount needed to upgrade in rating checked above or attach letter of service, whichever is applicable.) SHIP SIGNATURE RATING HELD DATE OF SHIPMENT DATE OF DISCHARGE DATE RETURN^ COMPLETED APPLICATION TOr LUNDEBERG UPGRADING CENTER, PINEY POINT, MD. 20674 I August, 1975 ••A- The test will be sent to the Lundeberg School for grading and evaluation. Or write directly to the Harry Lundeterg School. A test booklet and an answer sheet will be mailed to your home or to your ship. Complete the tests and mail both the test booklet and the answer sheet to the Lundeberg School. (See application.on this page.) During your stay at the school, you will receive room and board, study ma­ terials and laundry. Seafarers will pro­ vide their own transportation to and from the ^hool. Following are the requirements for eligibility for the Lundeberg High School Program: 1. One year's seatime. 2. Initiation fees paid in foil. 3. All ontstanding monetary obliga­ tions, such as dnes and loans paid in fuD. i.. i .'A"- 1. I- - 'i'f / meet the requirements listed above and I am interested in furthering my edu­ I cation. I would like more information on the Lundeberg High School Program. 1 '"-^1 I j Name Steward Department The course of instruction includes classroom and on-the-job training. The Chief Steward will select food and stores for a long voyage to include nutritionally balanced daily menus. He will partici­ pate in all phases of steward department operations at the school, including com­ missary, bake shop and galley. Course Requirements: Three years seatime in ratings, abbve Third Cook and hold "A" Seniority in the SIU; or six months seatime as Third Cook or Assis­ tant Cook; six months as Cook and Baker; six months seatime as Chief C(X)k and holder of a Certificate of Satisfac­ tory Completion from the HLS Assis­ tant C(K}k, Second Cook and Baker, and Chief Cook Training Programs; or 12 months seatime as Third Cook or As­ sistant Cook, 12 months seatime as Cook and Baker, and six months seatime as Chief Cook, and holder of a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of the HLS Chief Cook Training Program. Starting Dates: September 4, 18; October 2, 16, 30; No­ vember 13, 28; December II, 26; January 8. ASSISTANT COOK The course of instruction for the rat­ ing Assistant Cook includes classroom and on-the-job training in preparing and cooking fresh, canned and frozen vege­ tables; how to serve vegetables hot, cold or as salad; menu selection of vegetables to attain the best methods for prepara­ tion, portiqn control, dietary values and serving procedures. Course Requirements: Twelve months seatime in any Steward Department En­ try Rating. Entry Ratings who have been accepted into the Harry Lundeberg School and show a desire to advance in the Steward Department must have a minimum of three months seatime. Starting Dates: September 4, 18; October 2, 16, 30; No­ vember 13, 28; December 11, 26; January 8. COOK AND BAKER The course of instruction includes classroom and on-the-job training in bak­ )' Book No. I Address I (Street) (City or Town) I I Last grade completed Last year attended I I Complete this form and mail to: Margaret Nalen I Director of Academic Education I Harry Lundeberg School I Piney Point, Maryland 20674 I CHIEF STEWARD (Zip Code) (State) Thirty-two Seafarers and one Inland , Boatman have already successfully com­ pleted studies at the SIU-IBU Academic Study Center in Piney Point, Md., and have achieved high school diplomas. The Lundeberg High School Program in Piney Point offers all Seafarers—re­ gardless "of age — the opportunity to achieve a full high school diploma. The study period ranges from four to eight weeks. Classes are small, permitting the teachers to concentrate on the individual student's progress. Any Seafarer who is interested in taking advantage of this opportunity to continue his education can apply in two ways: Go to an SIU office in any port and you will be given a GED Pre-Test. This test will cover five general areas: English Grammar and Literature; So­ cial Studies, Science and Mathematics. Mo./Day/Year (Street) (City) High School Program Is Available to All Seafarers OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF REFRIGERATED CONTAINERS principles; introduction to fuel, air, lubri­ cation and exhaust systems; use of vari­ ous gauges, meters and instruments used on diesel engines; care, operations main­ tenance and recording of diesel engine performance; sign^tls used between bridge and engine room; fundamentals of elec­ tricity and refrigeration; basic fire fight­ ing, first aid and safety. Course Requirements: No require­ ments for those who are not interested in receiving the Coast Guard license. Starting Date: October 20. < i- •• , i • I' : f (Zip) I ing bread, pies, cakes and cookies; prep­ aration of desserts such as custards, pud­ dings, c:anned fruit and gelatin desserts. The Cook and Baker will be able to de­ scribe preparation of all breakfast foods, and be familiar with menu selection of breakfast foods, and bread and desserts for appropriate meals. Course Requirements: Twelve months seatime as Third Cook; or 24 months seatime in Steward Department; six months of which must be as Third Cook or Assistant Cook; or six months as Third Cock or Assistant Cook and a holder of a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion from the HLS Assistant Cook Training Course. Starting Dates: September 4, 18; October 2, 16, 30; No­ vember 13, 28; December 11, 26; January 8. ^ ii- :'A i -t ; 'a' -V Y. - I" 1 I' - I v-r 1 l- •», : 'If CHIEF COOK The course of instruction includes classroom and on-the-job training in preparation of soups, sauces and gravies. The student will be able to describe prep­ aration of thickened or clear SOU|K, and explain preparation and use of social sauces and gravies. The Chief Cook will be able to state the primary purpose of cooking meat and define cooking terms used in meat cookery, and describe prin­ ciples and methods of preparing and cooking beef. pork, veal, lamb, poultry and seafood. Course Requirements: Twelve months seatime as Cook and Baker; or three years seatime in the Steward Depart­ ment. six months of which must he as Third Cook or Assistant Cook, and six months as Cook and Baker; or six months seatime as Third Cook or Assist­ ant Cook and six months seatime as Cook and Baker, and holder of a Cer­ tificate of Satisfactory Completion of the HLS Assistant Cook, and Cook and Bak­ er Training Program; or 12 months sea­ time as Third Cook or Assistant Cook and six months seatime as Cook and Baker, and holder of a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of the HLS Cook and Baker Training Program. Starting Dates: September 4, 18; October 2, 16. 30; No­ vember 13, 28; December 11, 26; January 8. 'ii' I ' Note: Courses and starting dates subject to change at any time. Any change will be noted in the LOG. Page 29 i.1 • : �M "f - i -' t' "i" f• Malcolm Cross Seafarer Mal­ colm Cross, 60, has been shipping with the SIU since 1944, and started sailing as bosun in 1954. A TuUive of Minne­ sota, he now makes his home in Carson, Calif, with his wife Zelah. Brother Cross ships from the port of Wilrnington. S' ' •I i if' I' v; r;• i> • 'r t Williaiit Craii^ord Seafarer William Crawford, 46, has been a membt; of the SIU since 1941, and has been ship­ ping out as bosun since 1963. A na­ tive of Jacksonville, he ships from that port and continues to make his home there with his wife Doris. Walter Gostavson Seafarer Walter Gustavson, 50, has been a member of the SIU since 1943, and has been ship­ ping out TW bosun since 1968. A na­ tive of New York, he ships, from that port and continues to make his home there with his wife Ida. • \. ;I I/. Tom Kelsey Seafarer Tom Kelsey,50,has been shipping with the SIU since 1950, and started shipping, as bosun eight years ago. A native of Estonia, Brother Kelsey now makes — — his home in Sparks, Nev. He ships from the port of San Francisco. George Tell J-: Seafarer George Tell first sailed with the SIU in 1964. Brother Tell sails in the engine room and obtained his FOWT endorse­ ment at the Harry Lundeberg School before attending the 'A' Seniority Program. He is a native of Stockholm, Sweden and now lives in Seattle. Brother Tell also ships out of the port of Seattle. ]}• 12 More Bosuns Graduate Anodier group of Seaiar«rs gradu­ ated from the Sill's Bosuns Recertification Program this montih and hare rejoined their with a greater knowledge of their Union and its histoiy, and the state of the entire mari­ time industry. In the more than two years time since it was instituted, tte Bosuns Recertification Program has made great strides in educating die many Seaforers who have participated in it. These men, the leaders of the unlicensed crews on SlU-contracted ships, have spent two months learning ahout the SIU, its past, where it stands today, and where it will, go in the future, and the present state and future of the U.S. maritime industry. The first four weeks of the program are spent at the Harry Lundebeig School of Seamanship. Here die men partake in classes on Union educadon and Union history, and also study die SIU contract, constituHon, and benefit plans. They leam about the maritime industry and the new ships being con­ structed; they take firefighting and first hid courses, and also get a taste of politics with visits to Washington. The second month of the program is qient at Union Headquarters in New York. It is here that the bosuns see die operation of dieir Union in action. They visit all the departments, includ­ ing r^ords, claims, data center, die control room and the LOG. The men also asiist in paying off vessels coming into New York; in registering men for shipping," and' paying visits to the USPHS hospHd in the area. James Sheets Seafarer Jim Sheets, 46, has been shipping with the SIU since 1946,and started sailing as bosun in 1951. A native of Virginia, Brother Sheets now ships from the port of Baltimore where he makes his homf with his wife Carol, William Joyner Seafarer Bill Joy­ ner, 47, has been sailing with the SIU since 1954, and be­ gan shipping out as bosun in 1963. A native of Ft. Valley, Ga., he now ships from the port of Houston where he makes his home. William Fell Seaf arer Bill Fell, 49, has been a member of the SIU since 1946, and he has over three years time shipping as bo­ sun. A native of I New York, he now Yf ' makes his home in II Montgomery, N.Y. and ships from the port of New York. Gregory Troche - Seafarer Gregory Troche, 51, has been with the SIU since 1940, and has been shipping as bosun since 1945. A native of Puerto Rico, he ships from the port of Mobile where he makes his home with his wife Martha. • The main goal and objective of this program has been better communi­ cation. Through programs such as this one and the *A' Seniority Upgrading Program, that goal is being accom­ plished. Six rooie Seafarers have earned tiieir lifidl. Union membership this month Itj^ugh the 'A* Seniority Upgrading |p|ogiam, bringing the total number of ISeafarers who have cbmjrteited diis proliram )(o 173. They are Jay Barnett^ I Charlie Wr^f, Gregory Strauss, Alton iiimig, George Tell and Gregpiy Blasjquez. jBy att^i^^ memIbem improve their opportunities for Ishipping, sharpen their seafaring skills at the same time gain a better , imdersfanding of the SIU, its purposi!^ its E^als, its prdblems and its benefits. This/means that the men who grad­ uate from the 'A' Seritority program be­ come valuable additions to our Uniob; inembeiship--ra membership which has always taA^h j^e m its profession^ skills, lis strung job secuilty smd iii active Union pa^cipatiom-^ they are well prepared to take on the responsibilities and obligations of a: *A' book member of the SIU. -.v r." Alton Long Seafarer Alton Long first sailed with the SIU in 1966. Before at­ tending the 'A' Seniority Program, Brother Long ob­ tained his FOWT endorsement at the Lundeberg School. A native of Plattsburg, N.Y., Brother Long now lives in Champlain, N.Y. He ships out of the port of Baltimore. Burton Owen Seafarer Burton Owen, 64, has been I a member of the \ SIU since 1946,and \ began shipping out as bosun the same \ year. A native of Spanish Honduras, < / Brother Owen now ships from the port of Houston where he makes his home with his wife Joyce. Ferlton Mears Seafarer Ferlton I Mears, 44, has been a member of the I SIU since 1950,and I started shipping out I as bosun 10 years I ago. A native of Virginia, he now 1 makes his home in \ Brodnax, Va. with nis wife Toni. Brother Mears ships from the port of New York. John Worley Seafarer John Worley, 44, has been a member ^of the SIU since 1949, and started shipping out as bosun eight years ago. A native of McDavid, Fla., % he now makes his home in Daly City, Calif, with his wife Hana. Brother Wor­ ley ships from the port of San Fran­ cisco. , Charlie Wright SIX Receive • Jay Bamett Seafarer Jay Bur­ nett, 19, has been sailing with the SIU since his graduation from the Lundeberg School 3V2 years ago. •Brother Bur­ nett got his FOWT endorsement at Pin^ ey Point before at­ tending the 'A' Seniority Program. A native of Mobile, Brother Burnett con­ tinues to live in that city and ships out of that port. After completing both phases of this program the Recertified Bosun is much better qualified in all the aspects of his job. He is more familiar with the tech­ nological advances of the new vessels uhich have been buflt, he can hold more informative shipboard meetings and is better able to answer questions and setde beefs. All of this has made for much smoother voyages. Edmimd Abolay Seafarer Ed Abulay, 54, has been shipping with the SIU since 1939, and has been sailing as bosun for 29 years. A native of Portu­ gal, Brother Abulay^ how makes his home in Woodbury, N.J. with his wife Mary. He ships from the port of Phila­ delphia. Seafarer Charlie Wright, 21, has been sailing with the SIU since his graduation from the Harry Lundeberg School in 1972. Sailing in the engine room, Brother Wright returned to Piney Point for his FOWT endorse­ ment before attending the 'A' Seniority Upgrading Prffgram. A native and resi­ dent of New York City, Brother Wright ships out of that port. Gregory Blasquez Gregory Strauss Seafarer Gregory Strauss, 22, has been sailing with the SIU since 1968. Brother Strauss studied for his QMED endorse­ ment at Piney Point before attending the seniority upgrading program. A _ native and resident of Tampa, Brother Strauss usually ships from the port of Houston. Seafarer Gregory Blasquez, 24, has been sailing with the SIU for five years. A graduate of the Lundeberg School, Brother Blasquez also obtained his QMED endorse­ ment there, before attending the seniority upgrading pro­ gram. Seafarer Blasquez is a native and resident of Concord, Calif. He ships out of the port of San Francisco. Seafarers Log �IWIIlt.ll. ••k4 272 Seafarers Complete Bosun Program Following are the names and home ports of the 272 Seafarers who have successfully completed the SIU Bosuns Recertification Program. These men have gone aboard our contracted ships to lead the SIU unlicensed crews, and they have held informative meetings, settled beefs, miswered questions and con­ tributed toward smoother voyages. The two-year-old Bosuns Recertification Program is one of the most important and successful upgrading programs the SIU has ever undertaken. It is through the participation of SIU bosuns in this program, and the education of the unlicensed crew, that the job security of the entire membership will be assured. Abulay, Edmund Philadelpliia Aguiar, Jose, New Yoifc Allen, Enos, San Francisco Allen, J. W., Seattle Altstatt, John, Houston Aroat, Kasmoin, New York Anderson, Alfred, Norfolk Anderson, Edgar, New York Annis, Seorge, New Orleans Antonlou,Angelo, New York Aponte, Felix, New York Armada, Alfonso, Baltimore Atkinson, David, Seattle Backrak, Daniel, Wilmington Baker, Elmer, Houston Baker, William, Houston Bankston, Claude, New Orleans Barnhlll, Elmer, Houston Baudoin, James, Houston Beavers, Norman, New Orleans Bechllvanis, Nicholas, New York Beck, Arthur, San Francisco Beeching, Marion, Houston Berger, David, Norfolk . Bergeria, Steve, Philadelphia Beye, Jan, New York Bojko, Stanley, San Franciscn Boney, Andrew, Norfolk Bourgot, Albert, Mobile Bowman, Jack, Seattle Boyle, Charles, New Orleans Braunstein, Herbert, Wilmington Brendle, Mack, Houston Broadus, Robert, Mobile Brooks, Tom, New York Browning, Ballard, Baltimore Bryan, Ernest, Houston Bryant, Vernon, Tampa Burch, George, New Orleans Burke, George, New York Burton, Ronald, New York Busalacki, Joseph, Jacksonville Bushong, William, Seattle Butterton, Walter, Norfolk Butts, Bobby, Mobile Butts, Hurmon, Houston Cain, Hubert, Mobile Caldeira, Anthony, Houston Calogeros, Demetrlos, Seattle Carbone, Victor, San Juan Carey, John, New York Casanueva, Michael, New Orleans Castro, Guiliormo, San Juan Chestnut, Donald, Mobile Chlasson, Richard, New Orleans Christenberry, Richard, San Francisco Chrlstensen, Christian, San Francisco Christiansen, Egon, San Francisco CIsleckl, John, San Francisco Clegg, William, New York Cofone, William, Wilmington Colson, James, Seattle Cooper, Fred, Mobile Craddock, Edwin, New Orleans Crawford, William, Jacksonville Cross, Malcolm, Wilmington Curry, Leon, Jacksonville Dakin, Eugene, Boston D'AmIco, Charles, Houston Dammeyer, Dan, New York Darville, Richard, Houston Davies, John, New York Delgado, Julio, New York Dickinson, David, Mobile Dixon, James, Mobile Donovan, Joseph, Boston Drake, Woodrow, Seattle Drewes, Peter, New York Duet, Maurice, Houston Dunn, Beverly, Mobile Eckert, Arne, Seattle Eddins, John, Baltimore Edelmon, Bill, Houston Faircloth, Charles, Mobile Farhi, Israel, Houston Fell, William, New York Ferrera, Raymond, New Orleans Finklea, George, Jacksonville Flowers, Eugene, New York Foster, James, Mobile Foti, Sebastian, Wilmington Frey, Charles, Jacksonville Funk, William, New York Gahagan, Kenneth, Houston Garner, James, New Orleans Garza, Peter, Houston Gavin, Joseph, Houston Giangiordano, Donato, Philadelphia Giannlotis, John, New York Glllain, Robert, Jacksonville Gilllkin, Leo, San Francisco Gomez, Jose, New York Gonzalez, Jose, New York Gorbea, Robert, New York Gorman, James, New York Gosse, Fred, San Francisco Green, John, Baltimore Greenwood, Perry, Seattle Grima, Vincent, New York Guadamud, Luis, New Orleans Gustavson, Walter, New York Hager,Bertil, New York Hale, William, New Orleans Hanhack, Burt, New York Hanstvedt,AHred, New York Harvey, Lee J., New Orleans Hawkins, Tom, Seattle Hazel, John, New Orleans Hellman, Karl, Seattle Hicks, Donald, New York Hllhum, Thomas, Mobile Hill, Charles, Houston HIrsh, Burton, Baltimore Hodges, Raymond, Mobile Hodges, Raymond W., Baltimore Hogge, Elbert Baltimore Homka, Stephen, New York Hovde, Arne, Philadelphia Ipsen, Oria, New York James, Calvata, New York Jaedora,StaRiey, New York JaRsaM,S«eR, New York JeheieiLFM^Mille Jehesea. RavrnqlM, Houston Joseph, Loyal, Philadelphia Joyner, William, Honston Justus, Joe, JacksonviHe Karatzas, Tom, Baltimore Karlsson, Bo, New York Kelsey, Tom, San Francisco Kerageorgiou, Antolne, New Orleans, Kerngood, Morton, Baltimore Kingsley, Jack, San Francisco Kleimola, William, New York Knoles, Raymond, San Francisco Koen, John, Mobile Konis, Perry, New York Koza, Leo, Baltimore Krawczynski, Stanley, Jacksonville Lambert, Reidus, New Orleans Landron, Manuel, San Juan Lasso, Robert, San Juan Latapie, Jean, New Orleans Lavolne, Raymond, Baltimore Lawton, Woodrow, Baltimore LeClair, Walter W., New York Lee, Hans, Seattle Levin, Jacob, Baltimore Libby, George, New Orleans Lineberry, Carl, Mobile Mackert, Robert, Baltimore Maldonado, Basllo, Baltimore Manning, Denis, Seattle Martineau, Tom, Seattle Mattioli, Gaetano, New York McCaskey, Earl, New Orleans McCollem, John, Boston McGinnis, Arthur, New Orleans McKinney, Melville, Philadelphia Mears, Ferlton, New York Meehan, William, Norfolk Mcffert, Roy, Jacksonville Merrill, Charles, Mobile Michael, Joseph, Baltimore Miller, Clyde, Seattle Mitchell, Wiinam, Jacksonville Mize, Cyril, San Francisco Mladonich, Ernest, New Orleans Moen, Irwin, Baltimore Monardo, Sylvester, New Orleans Morales, Esteban, New York Morris, Edward Jr., Mobile Morris, William, Baltimore Morris, William, Jacksonviile Moss, John, New Orleans Moyd, Ervin, Mobile Mollis, James, Mobile Murry, Ralph, San Francisco Myrex, Luther, Mobile Nash, Waiter, New York Nicholson, Eugene, Baltimore Nielsen, Vagn, New York Northcutt, James, San Francisco Nuckols, Biliy, New York O'Brien, William, New York O'Connor, William, Seattle Olesen, Carl, San Francisco Olson, Fred, San Francisco Olson, Maurice, Boston Oromaner, Albert, San Francisco Owen, Burton, Houston Paiino, Anthony, New York Palmer, Nick, San Francisco Paradise, Leo, New York Parker, James, Houston Parker, William, New Orleans Pedersen, Otto, New Orleans Pehler, Frederick, Mobile Pence, Floyd, Houston Perry, Wallace, Jr., San Francisco Pierce, John, Philadelphia Pollanen, Viekko, New Orleans Poulsen, Verner, Seattle Pressly, Donald, New York Pryor, Clarence, Mobile Puchalski, Kasimir, San Francisco Puglisi, Joseph, New York % ML 9 — " ' •ii'.-•t ,r- i• Pulliam, James, San Francisco Radich, Anthony, New Orleans Rains, Horace, Houston Rallo, Salvador, New Orleans Reeves, William, Mobile Rtchburg, Joseph, Mobile Rihn, Ewing; New Orleans Riley, William, San Francisco Ringuette, ilibert, San Francisco Rivera, Alfonso, San Juan Rodrigues, Lancelot San Juan Rodriguez, Frank, New York Rodriguez, Ovidio, New York Ruley, Edward, Baltimore Sanchez, Manuel, New York Sanford, Tommie, Houston Schwaiz, Robert, Mobile Self, Thomas, Baltimore Selix, Fioyd, San Francisco Sernyk, Peter, New York Sheets, James, Baltimore Sheldrake, Peter, Houston Shorten, James, San Francisco Smith, Lester, Norfolk Sokol, Stanley, San Francisco Sorel, Johannes, Jadcsonville Spuron, John, San Francisco Stockmarr, Sven, New York Suchocki, Leonard, San Francisco Swearingen, Barney, Jacksonviile Swiderski, John, New York Teti, Frank, New York Theiss, Roy, Mobile Thompson, J. R., Houston Ticer, Dan, San Francisco Tillman, William, San Francisco Tirelli, Enrico, New York Todd, Raymond, New Orleans Tolentino, Ted, San Francisco Troche, Gregory, Mobile Turner, Paul, New Orleans Ucci, Peter, San Francisco Velazquez, William, New York Waliace, Edward, New York Wallace, Ward, Jacksonville Wallace, William, Mobiie Wardiaw, Richard, Houston Weaver, Harold, Houston Whitmer, Alan, New York Wingfield, P. G., Jacksonville Woods, Malcolm, San Francisco Workman, Homer, New Orleans Woriey, John, San Francisco Zaragoza, Roberto, New York Zeloy, Joseph, Hew Orleans tt'i : 173 Seafarers who have completed the 'A' Seniority Upgrading Program have had the opportunity td learn about their Uniort and its activities, htalMi them good, inforrned:UniortmerriberSi these mm delegate's fob aboard ship and put this rtew knowledge to work. Following are the names and departments of the 173 Seafarers wfU> have tmnpkted theSeniority Up^ Adams, Francis, Deck Allen, tawreilce, Engine ^ Allison^ Murpiv, Eiij^ne Ahmad, Bin, Deck Ames* Allan, Deck lAndrepont, P. J., EnglMP Arnold, Mott, Deck Barnett, Jay, Engine Bartoi, Thomas, Deck ater, Alas, Es^se; I Bean, P. L., Deck I Beauverd, ArUiur, Engine I Bellinger, Wiiiiam, Steward Berutis, William, Deck BlacklMi, Richard, Engine Biasquez, Bregoty, Engine iohin, James, Deck Bolen, Timotty, Oedt Boles, John, Eng^ bill, Russell, Deck hH Maria, Steward Burke, Timothy, Deck Burnette, Barney, Steward ;Cammuso, Frank, Deck vCarharti David, Deck tCarruthers, Francis, Engine iOastie, Stephen, Deck iCIark, Garrett Deck Colangeto, Joseph, Beck iConkiin, Kevin, Engine iCnrreH. Paul, Engine Cosentino, Dominie, Deck . Rnbert^ OecKI August. 1975 Davis, William, Deck Day, John, Engine Derke, Michael, Engine Deskins, Wiiiiam, Steward Bising, Maximo, Engine Oobloug, James, biglne Edgeit, Pat Engine ^land, Ralph, Deck . Escudera, Tomes, Engine Ewing, Larry, Steward Farmer, Wiiiiam, Deck File, Marion, Deck Erak, Stan, Deck Frost, Stephen, Deck Galka, Thomas, Engine Gallagher, Pafrick, Deck Balltano, Marco, Dade Stephen, Di(^ Garcia. Robert Oeek lvey,D.E.,&|^ne Johnson, M., Deck Jones, Leggstte, Deck jordmi, Darsoh, Deck KahavoSfi^naigrDs, Engine KWey. Ehomas, Engine Keith, Robert, Deck^ Keiley, John, Deck Keity, John, Deck jferoiy. Paul. Engni Kiitsey^ Charles, Engine KittMson. i, Q.. Daok I Knight Donald, ^{^ne iDmetes, Jobnnw, Derdi Kunc, Lawrence, Beck Kundrat Joseph, Steward offlM, Engine inner, irettale.&ii^ eck Ung. Gary. Beck vlKsti^ mdnn, Arthur. Deck letii^rRMtEl^ Lentsch, Hubert Deck imwer, Dayidi Graham, Patrick, Deck ^ Lcng, Alton, Engine Grimes, MR, Deck . . • Lundeman, Louis, Deck Hagar, Ken,Deck Makarewlcz, Richard, Engine Hale, Earnest Deck V MaMory, Arthur. Deck Hart. Ray. Deck Mannir®, Henry, Steward Hawker. Patrick, Deck, Marcus, M. A., Dock Haynes, Blake, Engine McAndrew. Martin, Engine Hetck, Carroil, Deck ; , . -McCabe, John. Engine rard ' , Heller, DouiJas,Stpward McMulHn, Clarence, Steward Humason,Joh,Deck H r. steward . McParlaiid. James. Eneine Hunmierick, James, Jr., Steward . I ^ ..y-- : ^ -j, Minix,R.G., Jr., Engine Miranda, John, Engine Men%iiaker, Ernest, Engine Moore, C.M., Deck Moore, Geoige, Deck Meora, Wiiiiam, Deck Mortier, William# Deck Mouton. Terry, Engine Hoble, Mickey, Deck "iiiiiia Nuotio, Ken, Deck Painter, Philip, Engine Paioumbis, Nikolaos, Engine P|pm{eoiiiou,D Engine Parker, Jason, Deck Patrick, L., Engjae Pefettl,Plerangelo,Deck Pel Pr»slBos.Gectgo,Deck Pn RobaTk, J^es, Deck Ro^uez, _ Chsries, Emi^iii . Rodriguez, Rehert. Engine Rogers, George, Engine? Ruiz, Steve, Engine Sabh, Caldwell, Jr., Engine Salley, Robert Jr., Engine Sanders, Darry, Engine . Sanger. Alfred, Deck rhaw, Ronald,^ne H.. V- Srifast, Geo^ie, Deck ^ SimenetttJeseph, Steward SIsk, Keith, Deck Smith, D. B., Steward Smith, Rehert, Deck Siqrder, John, Enginee Spell, Gary, Engine Spell, Joseph, Deck Spencer, Craig, Engine Spencer, H. 0., Engine Stanfield, Pete, Deck Stauter# David, Engine Stevens, Duane, Deck SDauss, Gregory. Engine \ Sveboda, Kvetoslav, E^i Sraibert, StepheA,.Steward| ? Tanner. Leroy, Engine Tcii, Gieorge, Etigine ^mas, Robert Engine thomas, Timethy. Derm Traiaer, Robert Deck Tratt Llcwetiyn, Engine Utteriiaek, Lmty. Dedr Vain, Thomas, Deck Valton, Sidney, Engine Vanyi, Thomas, Steward Vttkmir, Geoi^e, Deck Walker, Marvin, Engine Wambach, Albert, DecK Waugaman, Jerry, Engine Wayman, Lee, Deck Wilheiffl, Mark, Engine i Wilson, Richard, Steward® WClfO. John, Deck WeoiDieuse, Ashton, IbKlnei W^ Charlie, Engl# Page 31 •••j '"I r r •.fJ• .J \ �Ofriclal 9nt»13eatS«n mt tkm SMAWAmMM INTSllNi^TIC^ff Al, imi€»Kr • Atlaistle, QnU, L«kM end talaad Waters Dlatriet* AFL-CIO ;4.w.; Five $10,000, Two $5,000 Scholarships to Be Given Apply Now for ' J;.-- : If ! Vil AnnualSIU Scholarship Program 11 '•) ( • t, -9 Ueratura J' f ;: I ; •i h ,r .•;'-';l' •" V H- OB I X. [ •m The SIU Scholarship Administrator is now accepting applications from Seafarers and their dependents for next year's SlU-sponsored annual college scholarships, which include five $10,000 four-year grants and two $5,000 two-year grants. Of the five $10,000 awards, at least one is reserved for an active Seafarer and four are reserved for dependents of Seafarers. The two $5,000 scholarships, a program in­ stituted just last year, are reserved exclusively for SIU members. The four-year awards can he used to pursue a chosen field of educa­ tion at any accredited college or university in the United States or its territories. And the two-ye^ awards can be used to study at any ac­ credited junior college, community college or post-secondary trade or vocational training school. • For a member to qualify for the awards, he must be under 35 years of age, a high school graduate or have achieved a high school equivalency diploma, and have at least three years seatime on SIUcontracted vessels for the $10,000 scholarship (two years seatime for the $5,000 scholarship), with 90 days employment in the previous calendar year and one day in the six months immediately preceding the date pf application. The SIU encourages its eligible members to take advantage of these fine educational opportunities. For this year's awards, presented last May, no Seafarer applied for the $5,000 scholarships. Consequently, no two-year grants were given. Eligibility requirements for dependents make the program open to>; • Dependents of members who have three years seatime with 90 days employment in the previous calendar year and one day in the six months immediately preceding date of application. * Dependents of deceased members who had met the seatime re­ quirements prior to death. ^ . All dependents must he unnaarried and less than 19 years of age at • the time diey apply. All scholarships are awarded on the basis of high school grades and 'scores achieved on either the CoUege Entrance Examination Boards (SAT only), or the American College Tests (ACT). Upcoming test dates for the College Boards are Oct. 11; 1975; Nov. 1,1975; Dec. 6,1975 and Jan 24,1976. For all information "on these tests, contact the College Boards at either Box 592, Princeton, N.J. 08540, or Box 1025, Berkeley, Calif. 94701. Available test dates for the ACT's are Oct. 18, 1975; Dec. 13, 1975 and Feb. 14, 1976. All information on these exams can be ob­ tained by writing the ACT at Box 414, Iowa City, Iowa. Applications and information concerning the SIU Scholarship pro­ gram can be obtained at any SIU Union Hall or by writing the SIU Scholarship Administrator, 275 20th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. Seafarers and their dependents are reminded to make all arrange­ ments to take the needed exams as early as possible to insure that applications for the scholarships are received before application deadline. Deadline is Apr. 1, 1976. • . ... • 7-- 1'',''' • r:"" I s., : vn. ( BT THE SEA-SID^) : ^ the sett-fowl goms to . -I rest, And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest; •• Air slumbers—^wave with waxe no longer ...ft3-. strives, -.3 ^ Only a heaving of the deep survives, :A tdl-tale motioE I soon will it be laid, , And by the tide alone the water swayed. ^Stealthy withdrawings, intermin^Bs mild |0f light with — shade fix 1beauty reconcil^-^ ^ "t ^ucb is the prospect far assight can raBge| The soothing recompenoe, the welcome V chjtngc. "f Where now the shi^ timt drove:before ther • ; • blast,: •• Threatened by angpy; breahers as they passed';• " •,, Attd by a train of-flying clouds bemocked ; Or, in the hollow surge, at anchor rcndced Ason abed of death? Sotnelodgein peace. Saved by His care who bade the tempest •cease, •M^troill^;dr5m0, n. Atronautiet. ASMtincai-dronKservincas junntennediate landing place. . diick. • See DOCK...--"• - sea aagltt a s« sAGue,1, h Zoeof, A The osprer; • dies. • • • •• 7. ..-7• i <.rn*).,»n Travelln* wer tlw sea M u a pnrsirit or n; MP., Ihe manner's caltinc. Of, Sta to, or en- •: •(f'i liii V-S s:yife: � 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 1970-1979 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXXII-XLI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource August 1975 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AD HOC COMMITTEE CONCURS ON VITAL ISSUES AFL-CIO COUNCIL ADOPTS MARITIME POLICY 95 SEAFARERS ATTEND BALTIMORE MEETING MEMBERSHIP ACCEPTS COMMITTEE REPORT ONLY A FEW WOULD BENEFIT FROM AIMS TEXAS SCHOOL UNEMPLOYMENT TOPS 6% IN 131 OF 150 MAJOR CENTERS U.S. TO CUT WAR RISK INSURANCE ON 75% OF NON-U.S. SHIPS SIU REGISTERS OPPOSITION TO NAVY FISCAL PROPOSAL CLEVELAND NAMED MARAD GREAT LAKES REGION HDQS. 1970 ACT’S OBJECTIVES NOT FULLY ACHIEVED WARNING MIGHT HAVE AVERTED MAYAGUEZ INCIDENT PIPELINE CONVERSION OPPOSED AT FPC HEARING LOG RECEIVES ILPA AWARD EX-SIU SHIP QUITS SUEZ CANAL CHRISTEN PADDLEWHEELER MISSISSIPPI QUEEN WIDOWER WITH CHILDREN MAY GET S.S. SURVIVORS BENEFITS USPHS SEATIME REQUIREMENT PHOTOS CAME LATE FAMILY DAY AT HEADQUARTERS CLINIC - SEAFARERS’ DEPENDENTS GET FREE SERVICES AN UNRESPONSIVE ADMINISTRATION 12 MORE BOSUNS GRADUATE APPLY NOW FOR ANNUAL SIU SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 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 8/1/1975 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXXVII, No. 8 1975 Periodicals Seafarers Log