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This special edition of the July Seafarers LOG contains the new Tanker and Freightship
Agreements which have been overwhelniingly ratified by the membership, both in the Union
Halls and aboard ship.
The new agreements, which became effective June 16, 1975 and which run until midnight,
June 15, 1978, are repeated here in their entirety.
NOTE: All changes contained in the new contract are indicated by shading.

Freightship Agreement

Tanker Agreement

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�TANKER AGREEMENT
ARTICLE i
EMPLOYMENT
SECTION 1. The Company recogiiizes the Union as
the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of all
Unlicensed Personnel employed on board American-flag
vessels owned or operated by the Company or its sub­
sidiaries.
SECTION 2. The Union agrees to furnish the Com­
pany with capabla, competent and physically fit persons
when and where they are i^equired, and of the ratings
needed to fill vacancies necessitating the employment
of Unlicensed Personnel in ample time to prevent any
delay in the scheduled departure of any vessel covered
by this agreement. To. assure maximum harmonious
relations and in ordar to obtain the best qualified em­
ployees with the least, risk of a delay in the scheduled
departure of any vessel covered by this agreement, the
Company agrees to secure all Unlicensed Personnel
through the Hiring Halls of the Union. If, for any rea­
son, the Union does not furnish the Company with ca­
pable, competent hnd physically fit persons when and
where they are Quired, and of the ratings needed to
fill such vacancies, in ample time to prevent any delay
in the scheduled departure of any vessel covered by
this agreement, the Company may then obtain members
of the Unlicensed Personnel from any available source,
in which case the Union shall be notified.
SECTION 3. The Company agrees, that as a condi­
tion of employment all Unlicensed Personnel shall be­
come members of the Union within thirty-one days
after the execution of this agreement, or within thirtyone days after hire, whichever is later, and shall remain
members of the IJnion while employed by the Com­
panies listed in Appendix A, attached hereto, and made
a part hereof, during the life of this agreement. The
Company is not obligated to take steps to enforce this
provision unless due notice is received in writing from
ithe Unionj to the effect that a member of the Unli­
censed Personnel is not in compliance herewith.
SECTION 4. (a) The Union agrees that the Company
has the right to reject (by written notation on the job
assignment slip) any applicant for employment who
the Company considers unsatisfactory or unsuitable for
the vacancy, or to discharge any member of the Un­
licensed. Personnel who, in the opinion of the Company,
is not Satisfactory. If the Union considers the rejection
of any applicant for employment or the discharge of
any mhmber of the Unlicensed Personnel as being with­
out reasonable cause such action by the Company shall
be dealt with under the grievance procedure and the
Union agrees that any such rejection or discharge shall
not cause any vessel to be delayed on her scheduled
departure.
(b) Unlicensed Personnel when applying for employ­
ment shall submit to the physical examination pre­
scribed by the Company, and shall submit from time
to, time thereafter to such physical examination as may
be required by the Company. In the event any decision
of the Company physician is challenged by the Union,
as to the physical fitness of a member of the Unlicensed
Personnel, such member shall be re-examined by a
Public Health Physician and his decision shall bo
binding.
SECTION 5. The Company agrees not to discriminate
against any member of the Unlicensed Personnel for
legitimate Union activities, and the Company further
agrrees that no person referred in accordance with this
Article, shall be discriminated against because of race,
creed, color, sex,
national or geographic origin.
SECTION 6'. Tile term Unlicensed Personnel as used
in this Agreement shall not include super-cargoes, ca­
dets, pursers and livestock tenders.
SECTION 7. Either party shall have the right, upon
written notification to the other, to re-negotiate any
part or all of Article 1. Upon receipt of such notification
the parties to this agreement shall meet within seven
(7) days for negotiations of this issue.
SECTION 8. (a) Subject to the provisions of this
Article and of the Shipping Rules promulgated in ac­
cord herewith, jobs shall be referred and held on the
following seniority basis:
(1) Class "A" seniority rating, the highest seniority
rating, shall be held by:
A- all unlicensed seamen who possessed such rating
on September 8, 1970, pursuant to the Shipping Rules
then in effect;
B. all unlicensed seamen who possess Class B seniority
rating pursuant hereto, and who have shipped regularly
as defined herein for eight (8) consecutive years, pro­
vided such seamen have maintained their Class B senior­
ity rating without break and provided further that they
have completed satisfactorily the advanced course of
training then offered by the Harry Lundeberg School
of Seamanship for the Department in which such sea­
men regularly_ship; and
C. all unlicensed seamen who have been upgrraded to
Class A seniority rating by the Seafarers Appeals Board
pursuant to the authority set forth herein.

(2) Class "B" Seniority rating, the second highest
seniority rating, shall be held by:
A. all unlicensed seamen who possessed such rating
on September 8, 1970, pursuant to the Shipping Rules
then in effect;
B. all unlicensed seamen who possess Class C seniority
rating pursuant hereto and who have shipped regularly
as defined herein for two (2) consecutive years; and
C. all unlicensed seamen who possess Class C senior­
ity rating pursuant hereto and who have graduated from
the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship entry rat­
ing training program and have been issued a ship as­
signment card in accordance with the Shipping Rules,
then in effect.
(3) Class "C" seniority rating, the lowest seniority
rating shall be possessed by all unlicensed seamen who
do not possess either Class A or Class B seniority rat­
ings.
(4) For the purposes of upgrading seniority, "ship­
ping regularly" shall mean employment as an unlicensed
seamen for no less than ninety (90) days during each
calendar year aboard one or more American-fiag vessels
covered by this collective bargaining agreement. The
time required to constitute "shipping regularly" shall
be reduced proportionately in accord with the amount
of bona fide in or out-patient hospital time spent dur­
ing a given calendar year by a covered seamen. No sea­
man shall' suffer any loss of seniority credit accrued
prior to his entry of military service in the armed forces
of the United States if he registers to ship in covered
employment within one. hundred twenty (120) days fol­
lowing his separation from military service.
(b) Subject to Section 3 of this Article 1, assign­
ments to jobs within the foregoing classes of seniority
rating shall be made without regard to union affliation.
- (c) There is created the Seafarers Appeals Board, a
permanent board of four (4) members, to hear and
determine all disputes arising under this Article 1, and
to promulgate and administer the Shipping Rules au­
thorized by this Section 8.
(d) The Seafarers Appeals Board, shall have the
power to reduce from time to time, but not the power
to increase, the requirements for seniority ratings set
forth herein; and if such power is exercised, the Board
shall arrange for effective publication of such decision.
The Seafarers Appeals Board shall also add newly con­
tracted companies to Appendix A, and shall promulgate
Shipping Rules, including reasonable disciplinary, ad­
ministrative and procedural rules and regulations, to
govern employment operations of hiring halls and the
seniority and referral to jobs of all unlicensed personnel
under and pursuant to this Agreement. Such Shipping
Rules'may provide for rotary shipping within classes,
shall provide for full seniority credit for employment
by, or election to any office or job in, or any employ­
ment taken at the behest of, the Union (which senior­
ity credit is hereby granted), and may include reason­
able, non-discriminatory preferences to be accorded to
unlicensed personnel, as well as provisions for total or
partial seniority credit, to be gi'anted in the Board's
reasonable discretion in cases other than those set
forth herein where a seaman's shipping employment has
been interrupted by circumstances beyond his control
and where denial of such seniority credit would work
an undue hardship. The provisions of this subsection
(d) shall be subject to the following subparagraphs:
(1) The said Shipping Rules may not be inconsistent
with this Agreement, nor may they change the intent
and purpose hereof.
(2) Rotary shipping within Classes A, B and 0 of
seniority rating shall be based on a period of unemploy­
ment of ninety (90) days.
(3) Class C personnel with a certificate of satisfac­
tory completion of the entry rating training program
of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship shall
be preferred for employment over Class C personnel.
(4) As part of the Food and" Ship Sanitation Pro­
gram, there is hereby established "The Steward's De­
partment Recertification Program," which shall be
exclusively operated by Employer Trustees for the pur­
pose of reclassifying and recertifying Steward depart­
ment personnel, pursuant to arrangements and details
to be worked out. Six (6) months after such program is
initiated in any port,
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and the Deck' Department Recertification Program for
Bosuns, heretofore established, may be modified or dis­
continued in whole or in part when circumstances so
warrant.
(7) Within each class of seniority in the Deck De­
partment, the Engine Department and the Steward De­
partment, preference for employment shall be given to
all entry ratings who are endorsed as Lifeboatmen in
the United States Merchant Marine by the United States
Coast Guard, unless the requirement of such endorse­
ment has been waived by the Seafarers Appeals Board.
(8) The job circulation regulations may provide for
requiring those possessing a seniority rating below
Class B to leave a vessel after no less than sixty (60)
days or one round trip, whichever is longer, provided
further that this regulation may not be applied so as
to cause a vessel to sail shorthanded. There shall be
no bumping within Class A. No transportation, sub­
sistence or wages shall be paid a man joining or leaving
a vessel through exercise of seniority privileges, not­
withstanding any provisions of Article II, Section 65
of this Agreement. Any disputes arising out of the
application of this subparagraph shall be decided under
the procedures of the Seafarers Appeals Board.
(e) The Seafarers Appeals Board shall include in
the Shipping Rules promulgated in accord herewith,
reasonable rules of procedure to govern matters coming
before it.
(f) The Seafarers Appeals Board shall have four
(4) members, two appointed by the Union and two
appointed by that committee representing the majority
of contracted employers for purposes of negotiations
with Union, commonly known as the Management Ne­
gotiating Committee. Each party shall also appoint two
alternates for the members so appointed, to serve in
the absence of such members.
(g) The quorum for any action by the Seafarers
Appeals Board shall be at least one member appointed
by each party. At any meeting of the Seafarers Appeals
Board the members appointed by each party shall col­
lectively cast an equal number of votes regardless of
the actual number of members present and voting.
Except as otherwise provided herein, decisions of the
Seafarers Appeals Board shall be unanimous. In the
event of a tie vote, the Board shall elect an impartial
person to resolve the deadlocked issue. In the event
the Board is not able to agree on such an impartial
person, the matter shall be submitted to final and bind­
ing arbitration in New York City pursuant to the Vol­
untary Labor Arbitration Rules then in effect of the
American Arbitration Association.
(h) Any person or party subject to or aggrieved by
the application of this Section 8 shall have the right to
submit any matter hereunder to the Seafarers Appeals
Board for determination. Such submission shall be in
writing, shall set forth the facts in sufficient detail to
identify the matter at issue, and shall be sent by certified
mail, return requested, to the Se^
desiring to be heard in person before the Board shall re­
quest the same in his written application. In such event
the applicant shall be notified at least two (2) weeks
prior to the Board's next regular meeting of the date and
location of such meeting, and the applicant may attend
such meeting at his own expense and be heard.
SECTION 9. The parties hereto agreS that the ap­
propriate unit, for representation purposes, is the Un­
licensed Personnel aboard the vessels owned or con­
trolled, as aforesaid, by all the companies listed on
Appendix A, and any amendments to said Appendix,
as set forth herein.

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SECTION 10. The Union, shall protect and indemnify
the companies party to this agreement in any cause
of action based on improper application by the Union
of the employment provisions of Article 1 of this
Agreement. The Company shall protect, and indemnify
the Union in any cause of action based on improper
application by the Company, of the employment pro­
visions of Article 1 of this Agreement.
SECTION 11. The provisions hereof are subject to
Federal and State Law and if any part hereof is in con­
flict therewith, such part shall be deemed inapplicable
and to the extent thereof, shall be deemed severed from
this Agreement, the remainder of which shall remain in
full force and effect.

(6) As a part of the Harry Lundeberg School of
Seamanship, there is hereby established "The Deck De­
partment Recertification Program for Bosuns," which
shall be exclusively operated byHLSS Trustees for the
purpose of classifying and recertifying Deck Depart­
ment personnel, pursuant to arrangements and details
to be worked out. Six (6) months after such program is
initiated in any port, such?

SECTION 12. Alien or non-resident seamen in the
Far East, may execute written authorizations to the
Seafarers' Vacation Plan, assigning to the Union, vaca­
tion benefit payments which may be due such seamen,
in discharge of their Union monetary obligations for
initiation fee and dues; and the parties further agree
that new seamen employed or seamen who have not
as yet paid their full initiation fee to the Union, may
execute written authorizations to the Seafarers' Vaca­
tion Plan, assigning to the Union, vacation benefit pay­
ments which may be due such seamen in discharge of
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sions of applicable law.
The Collective Bargaining Agreement between the
parties, as amended, is to remain in effect as herein­
after provided.

SECTION 7. COMMENCEMENT OF EMPLOY­
MENT. Pay for seamen ordered by the Company shall
start when the man is required to pass the Doctor, go
to the Company office or report aboard the ship ^th
his gear and ready for work, whichever occurs first, i

ARTICLE If
GENERAL RULES
SECTION 1. PASSES. The Company agrees to issue
passes to the Union representatives for the purpose of
contacting its members aboard vessels of the Company
covered by this Agreement.
Representatives of the Union shall be allowed on
board at any time but shall not interfere with men at
work unless said men are properly relieved. (The relief
gets no extra compensation.)

SECTION 8. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.
Any man leaving a vessel shall, upon request, be given
a slip showing reason for his termination of employ­
ment.
SECTION 9. STATEMENT OF EARNINGS. Un­
licensed crewmembers shall be given a. complete record
of all earnings and deductions for the voyage not later
than at the time of payoff.

SECTION 10. CUSTOMARY DUTIES, (a) Mem­
SECTION 2. DELEGATES, (a) One man in each bers of all departments shall perform the necessary
deparment shall be elected by the Unlicensed Seamen duties for the continuance of the operations of the
in that department to act as Departmental Delegate. vessel as set forth in this Agreement. Necessary work
Such Delegates shall, together with the Permanent shall include any operation necessary to the movement
Ship's Committee members keep track of all conditions of the vessel and the preparation of any gear or tank
and problems and grievances in their respective depart­ .used in the loading or discharging of cargo.
ments, and present to their superior officers, on behalf
(b) When it is necessary to shift a man to fill a
of the Unlicensed Seamen in their Departments, all. vacancy, the man so shifted shall perform the duties
facts, opinions and circumstances concerning any matter of the rating to which he is assigned.
which may require adjustment or improvement.
SECTION 11. VESSELS AGROUND. In the event
(b) PERMANENT SHIP'S COMMITTEE: The Per­ the vessel runs aground, this Agreement shall be lived
manent Ship's Committee shall consist of three mem­ up to by the Company regardless of whether the Com­
bers: the Boatswain, the Chief Steward and the Chief pany or the Insurance Company is paying the wages
(Electrician) or (Pumpman). The Boatswain shall be and overtime, until such time as articles are terminated.
Ship's Chairman. The Chief Steward will be ReporterSECTION 12. MEDICAL RELIEF, (a) Full med­
Secretary, and the Chief (Electrician) or (Pumpman)
shall be Educational Director. In the event there is no ical attention as required by law shall be given to all
(Electrician) on board, the Deck Engineer shall serve Unlicensed Personnel. Except where it is assumed by the
as Educational Director. If there is no Deck Engineer U.S. Consul or the U.S. Public Health Service, such
on board, the Engine Utility shall serve as Educational medical attention shall be furnished by the Company
Director; If neither of the above ratings are on board, at the expense of the Company.
, (b) The Company agrees, when stocking medicine
the Ship's Chairman and the Reporter-Secretary shall
designate a qualified member of the Engine Department chest, to include penicillin which shall be furnished free
to serve as Educational Director for the voyage. The of charge to seamen in need of same. The rules of the
duties of the Permanent Ship's Committee shall be to U.S. Public Health Service shall be observed with re­
assist the Departmental Delegates in their duties, to spect to dosage and administration.
(c) Medical relief will not be provided except that
convene and conduct the Weekly Unlicensed Crew Meet­
which is available aboard the vessel, if the cause of the
ings, and to perform the following individual duties:
The Ship's Chairman shall preside at all Shipboard illness is the fault of the member of the crew, such as
Meetings of the Unlicensed Crew and shall be the venereal disease, etc.
primary spokesman aboard ship for the Unlicensed
SECTION 13. MAINTENANCE AND CURE. When
Crew.
a
member of the Unlicensed Personnel is entitled to
If, in the opinion of the majority of the crew, the
maintenance
and cure under Maritime Law, he shall be
Boatswain does not meet the qualifications to act in
the capacity of Ship's Chairman, the crew may select paid maintenance at the rate of $8.00 per day for each
day or part thereof of entitlement. The payment due
. whomever they consider qualified.
The Reporter-Secretary shall handle all paper work hereunder shall be paid to the man weekly. This pay­
involved in documenting matters brought to the atten­ ment shall be made regardless of whether he has or
tion of the superior officers, and he shall also prepare has not retained an attorney, filed claim for damages,
and maintain Minutes of the Unlicensed Crew Meet­ or taken any other steps .to that end and irrespective
of any insurance arrangements in effect between the
ings.
The Educational Director shall be responsible for Company and any insurer.
maintaining and distributing all publications, films and ' SECTION 14. REPATRIATION, UPKEEP AND
mechanical equipment relating to education on such TRANSPORTATION, (a) Where a crewmember must
subjects as safety, training and upgrading, health and leave a vessel because of illness or injury in any loca­
sanitation.
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(c) WEEKLY MEETINGS. To make sure that all repatriated at company expense as set forth herein, at
problems concerning the Unlicensed crew are brought the earliest date possible and advances equal to allot­
to light and resolved as quickly as possible, there shall ments, if any, shall continue during such repatriation,
be a Meeting of the Unlicensed Crew every Sunday provided he has sufficient monies due him from the
while the vessel is at sea.
Company to cover such advances.
Vessels remaining in port on Sundays may hold these
It is the purpose of the above paragraph to provide
meetings as soon as possible after departure. At such for the automatic payment of advances—in a sum equal
meetings the Permanent Ship's Chairman shall report to the agreed allotment—and to do this automatically,
to the Unlicensed Crewmembers all matters referred to which advances are then to be charged against any
them and shall receive any new and additional prob­ claim for earned or unearned wages. The advances are
lems not previously raised. As compensation for the to be paid in exactly the same time and manner and
additional duties required by this Section, the mem­ to the same person or persons that the allotment would
bers of the Permanent Ship's Committee and the De­ have been paid had not illness or injury taken place.
partmental Delegates shall each receive one hour's The term "repatriation" refers to the entire period for
pay at their applicable penalty rate for each weekly which unearned wages are due, and "advances" are to
meeting held.
be made during the entire period, except in those cases
SECTION 3. PORT COMMITTEE. For the adjust­ where the law sanctions a refusal to pay unearned
ment of any grievances arising in connection with per­ wages (which can be established under law to be gross
formance of this Agreement which cannot be satisfac­ negligence, willful misconduct, etc.).
If repatriated on a vessel of the Company, he shall
torily adjusted on board the vessel there shall be estab­
lished a Port Committee at the port where articles are be signed on as a non-working workaway. If repatri­
terminated. The Port Committee shall consist of three ated on a vessel of another company, he shall be given
representatives from the Union and three representa­ not. less than second class passage. In the event he is
tives from the Company, and it shall be the duty of the given less than second class passage on a vessel of
Port Committee to meet within 24 hours, Saturdays, another company, he shall be given the cash difference
Sundays, and Holidays excluded. In the event the Port between the passage affo;rded and second class passage.
Committee cannot agree they shall select an impartial The seaman shall have the option of accepting re­
arbitrator whose decision shall be final and binding. In patriation by plane if such transportation is offered.
the event the Port Committee cannot agree on the Repatriation under this section shall be hack to the
selection of an impartial arbitrator, then a judge of- Port of Engagement.
(b) In the event a crew member must leave a vessel
the Federal District Court shall appoint an impartial
arbitrator whose decision shall be final and binding. because of illness or injury incurred in the service of
Expenses of the arbitrator shall be paid by the party such vessel while in a location within the Continental
United States, and such illness is known prior to his
whom the arbitrator rules against in the decision.
leaving, he shall be entitled to economy class air trans­
SECTION 4. STOPPAGE OF WORK. There shall portation to his original Port of Engagement in accord­
be no strikes, lockouts, or stoppages of work while the ance with Article II, Section 57.
provisions of this Agreement are in effect.
(c) While awaiting repatriation under section (a)
SECTION 5. SHIPS CHARTERED BY COMPANY. and (b) herein, the seaman shall be entitled to repatria­
This Agreement is binding with respect to American tion upkeep in the sum of $8.00 per day until afforded
Flag Ships chartered by the company (if charterer fur­ transportation as outlined in said subsections. Such up­
keep shall be paid up to and inclusive of the day he is
nishes crew).
afforded the means ~of transportation by which he ia to
SECTION 6. AUTHORITY OF MASTER AND be repatriated. The Company or its Agents may make
OBEDIENCE OF CREW. Nothing in this Agreement arrangements for meals and lodgings while the seaman
is intended to or shall be construed to limit in any way is awaiting transportation, but in no event shall these
the authority of the Master or other officers, or lessen arrangements be at a cost of less than $8.00 per day.
the obedience of any member of the crew to any lawful
In cases where regular meals are not included in the
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during the transportation period.
(d) Where a seaman leaves the vessel due to illness
or injury and such illness or injury has been (toown
prior to his leaving, he shall receive a full statement
of his account showing wages due him. Where time
does not permit the statement being given to the man
before he leaves the vessel or before the vessel's de­
parture, the Master shall promptly advise the Com­
pany Agent and the. home office of the status of the
man's account at the time ho left the vessel.
Thereafter, when the seaman presents himself to the
Agent at the Port where he left the vessel, the maxi­
mum allowable payments shall be made to him by that
Agent.
When the seaman presents his claim' for wages to the
Agent or office of the Company at the port of engage­
ment or to the home office of the company, he *Bhall
receive payment as promptly as possible.
Failure to pay the seaman wages within 72 hours
exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays after
presentation of his claim shall entitle the seaman to
$8.00 per day until the full wages due the man at the
time he left the vessel are paid.
(e) Original Port of Engagement as used herein
shall mean the port in the Cotilinental United States
where a crew member was first employed on board the
vessel.
SECTION 15. LOSS OF CLOTHING, (a) In the
event a ship of the Company is lost, the crew shall be
recompensed for the loss of clothing in the amount of
$500.00 and shall be repatriated to the port of engage­
ment with subsistence, room and wages as per Section
57 of this Article.
(b) In the event that personal effects of Unlicensed
Personnel are damaged due to a marine casualty, or an
accident to the vessel or its equipment, they shall, be
recompensed for the loss in the amount of such loss
but not to exceed $300.00.
SECTION 16. WORK PERFORMED BY OTHER
THAN MEMBERS OF THE UNLICENSED PERSON­
NEL. Any work performed by cadets, or workaways,
passengers, prisoner of war, staff officers or any member
of the crew other than the Unlicensed Personnel that
is routine work of the Unlicensed Personnel shall be
paid for at the regular overtime rate. Such payment
is to be divided among the Unlicensed Personnel ordi­
narily required to perform such work.

SECTION 17. CARRYING OF CADETS, ETC. IN
LIEU OF CREW. No cadets, workaways, or passengers
shall be carried in lieu of the crew.
SECTION 18. EMERGENCY DUTIES AND DRILLS,
(a) Any work necessary for the safety of the vessel,
passengers, crew or cargo or for the saving of other
vessels in jeopardy and the lives thereon, shall be
performed at any time and such work shall not he
considered overtime.
"Any wofk necessary for the safety of the vessel,
passengers, crew or cargo, or for the saving of other
vessels in' jeopardy and the lives thereon, shall be
performed at any time and such work shall not be
considered overtime" refers to instances when it is
ordinarily necessary to muster the entire crew in order
to assure, the safety of the persons or property men­
tioned. Incidents of this kind should Im recorded in
the official Log.
"Routine work for the safe navigation of the vessel,"
refers to such operations as steering, standing a look­
out, standing any regular watch on deck or in the
engine room.
Such'work as (1) dogging down tanks, (2) securing
and cradling booms, (3) securing wind sails, (4) se­
curing barrels on the boat deck, shall be overtime when
performed after 6 p.m. and before 8 a.m. Monday to
Friday, and on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, at
the applicable rate.
(b) Whenever practicable, lifeboat and other emer-^
gency drills shall be held on weekdays, Monday through
Friday, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Preparation for drills, such as stretching fire hose and
hoisting and swinging out boats, shall not be done prior
to signal for such drills and after drill is over, all
hands shall secure boat and gear. In no event shall over­
time be paid for work perfortned with such drills, except
as herein provided.
(c) Premium rate shall be paid for lifeboat and
other drills held on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays,
except in instances where departure time and date
do not permit required drills being held before the
first Saturday, Sunday or Holiday after departure.
(d) In port when such drills are held on Saturdays,
Sundays, or Holidays premium rate shall be paid, ex­
cept where such drills are held on days of departure.
SECTION 19. SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS. The
employer shall furnish safe working gear and equip­
ment when in any harbor or port. No man shall be
required to work under unsafe conditions. Ordinary
hazards of the sea shall not be considered unsafe con­
ditions in applying this section.
SECTION 20. HOLIDAYS. The Company agrees to
recognize the following as holidays:
1. New Year's Day
6. Labor Day
2. Washington's Birthday
7. Thanksgiving Day
3. Memorial Day
8. Christmas Day
4. Armistice Day
9. Independence Day
6. Lincoln's Birthday

�In the event V.E. or V.J. days are observed as Na­
tional Holidays, they shall be included in the list.
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at sea or in port
shall be considered holidays for the Unlicensed Per­
sonnel not on watch. Men on watch shall perform only
the routine duties necessary for the safe navigation of
the vessel on these days.
Premium rate shall be paid for all work performed by
the Unlicensed Personnel on any of the nipe (9) holi­
days described in this Agreement at sea or in port.
In the event any of the above named holidays fall
on Saturday or Sunday while in port or at sea, the
Monday following shall be observed as such holiday.
Any day that is a recognized holiday for the longehoremen in Continental U.S. ports shall also be a
recognized holiday for the crew while ifa that particular
port.
When a vessel is in Puerto Rico, the following three
(3) days, which are recognized as holidays for long­
shoremen in Puerto Rican ports, shall also be recog­
nized- as holidays for the crew while the vessel is in
Puerto Rico.
1. Good Friday
2. July 17th (Munoz Rivera)
3. July 25th (Constitution Day)
SECTION 21.

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SECTION 26. PAYMENT OP OVERTIME. All
money due for crew overtime shall be paid at the sign­
ing off. In the event payment of overtime is delayed
by the Company beyond 24 hours after signing off
articles, additional compensation shall he paid at the
rate of $10.00 a day for each calendar day or fraction
thereof aforesaid payment of overtime wages is de­
layed. This shall not include disputed overtime being
settled between the Union Representatives and the
Company.
No claim for the above penalty shall he considered
valid unless the failure to make such payment is made
known to the Union within 72 hours after the event.

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SECTION 27. DIVISION OP WAGES OP ABSENT
MEMBERS, (a) When members of the Unlicensed Per­
sonnel are required to do extra work because the vessel
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vessel's certicate, under circumstances where the law
permits such sailing, the wages of the absent members
6.14
6.45
6.77
shall he divided among the men who perform their work,
40
th above shall be.
but no overtime shall he included in such payments.
inafter d
i in this contract,
Where a man is missing due to a vessel sailing short(d) Depa.
and Groups shiftH b
handed or due to illness or injury, the member or
determining e applicable Group for a
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members of the crew who perform the missing man's
work shall receive overtime for all such work performed
Departments and Groups
in excess of eight (8) hours. Where they are not re­
Jobs aboard vessels covered by these rules are classified accord­
quired to work in excess of eight (8) hours to perform
ing to the following schedule of Departments and Groups.
the missing man's duties they shall divide the missing
DECK DEPARTMENT
man's wages.
GROUP 1-DAY WORKERS
When a vessel is in port and watches are being
Boatswain
Deck Maintenance
maintained
for the Deck Department and a crew mem­
Boatswain's Mate
Watchman-Day Work
ber is absent from his watch, the Company shall not
Storekeeper
Carpenter
he required to replace the missing man on this watch
GROUP ll-RATING WATCH STANDERS
or divide his wages, providing there is a full comple­
Quartermaster
Car Deckman
ment
being carried on the payroll.
Watchman-Standing Watches
Able Seaman
(h) At sea, when day men are switched to sea
ENGINE DEPARTMENT
watches and promoted for the purpose of replacing men
GROUP I
who are injured or sick, they shall receive the differen­
Chief Eleqtricfan
Chief Ref. Enrr.
tial in pay.
1st, 2nd, 3rd Ref. Eng'r.
Chief Storekeeper
(c) When men standing sea watches are promoted
2nd Electrician
Evap. Maintenance Man
Unllc. Jr. Eng'r.-Day Work
Pumpman, 1 and 2
for the purposes of replacing men who are injured or
Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.-Watch
Engine Maintenance
sick they shall receive the differential in pay only.
Plumber-Machinist
Ship's Welder/Maintenance
(d) In no event shall any member of the Unlicensed
Electrician/Ref. Maint.
QMED
Crane M/T Electrician
Engine Utility Reefer Maintenance Personnel work more than eight (8) hours in any one
day without the payment of overtime.
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Chief Pumpmpn
Second PumpmUi
Maintenance
Ship's Welder
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Utility

Oiler

SECTION 25. CHECKING OVERTIME, No work
specified in this Agreement as overtime work shall he
performed unless authorized by the head of the par­
ticular department. After authorized overtime has been
worked, the senior officer of the department on hoard
will present to each employee who has worked over­
time a slip stating hours of overtime and nature of
worked performed. An overtime hook will he kept to
conform with individual slips for settlement of over­
time. Officers and men shall keep a record of all dis­
puted overtime. No claim for overtime shall he valid
unless each claim is presented to the head of the de­
partment within 72 hours after completion of the work.
When work has been performed and an overtime claim
is disputed, the head of the department shall acknowl­
edge in writing that the work was performed.

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Deck engineer
Engine Utility
Oiler-Diesel
Oiler-Steam

Watertender
Fireman/Watertender
Fireman
Oiler Maintenance/Utility

STEWARD DEPARTMENT
GROUP I (S) RATED MEN
Chief Steward-Passenger
2nd Steward-Passenger
Steward
Steward/Cook
Chef

Cook and Baker
Chief Cook

GROl'.'^ I-RATED MEN
2nd Cook and Baker
Butcher

GROUP II
2nd Cook, 3rd Cook and Assistant Cook
ENTRY DEPARTMENT
GROUP III
Ordinaries on Watch
Wiper
Utility Messmen
Waiters

SVsJ beck Maiiitenahce
Messmen
General Steward's Utility

SECTION 28. MONEY DRAWS. Monies tendered
for draws in foreign ports shall he made in United
States currency failing which, traveler's checks shall he
issued at the Company's expense, except where cur­
rency laws established in foreign countries prohibit
such issuance.
When American money is aboard, crew advances
shall he put out the day before arrival in port. Upon
request the Unlicensed Personnel shall be granted ad­
vances at least once every five days, except on Satur­
days, Sundays and Holidays, while the vessel is in port.
Such advances shall be made available to the crew not
later than 4 p.m.
SECTION 29. EXPLOSIVES. On vessel carrying
explosives in excess of 50 long tons as permitted by
law, the Company agrees to pay each member of the
Unlicensed Personnel in addition to their regular
monthly wage, 10% per month of such wages from
the time the loading, of the explosive is started until
the explosive cargo is completely discharged.
When the Unlicensed Personnel is required to work
explosives at any time, they shall he paid for euch
work in addition to their regular monthly wages at
the rate of $10.00 per hour.
For the purposes of this Agreement, explosives shall
consist of the following items:
Nitro-Glycerine
Loaded Bombs
T.N.T.
Dynamite
Poison Gases
Loaded shells of one pound or
Black Powder
over hut not small arms
Blasting Caps
ammunition
Detonating Caps

SECTION 22. COMMENCEMENT OP OVERTIME,
(a) When the watch below is broken out to report for
work outside their regular schedule, overtime shall
commence at the time stated for the call-out, provided,
however, thai such crew members report for duty with­
in 30 minutes of the time the overtime work commences.
Otherwise, overtime shall commence at the actual time
such employee reports for duty and such overtime shall
continue until the employee is released.
(b) The above provision shall not apply in the event
the commencement of overtime is scheduled one (1)
hour following the conclusion of their regular wateh
or workday. In that event, the crew members, having
had a full hour for their meal shall report promptly
at the beginning of the period for which overtime has
SECTION 30. HANDLING CARGO HOSES, (a) It
been scheduled.
is agreed that the crew shall handle, connect, and dis­
SECTION 23. CONTINUOUS OVERTIME, when connect vessel's cargo and hunker hoses on hoard the
working overtime on the watch below, and the crew is ship without the payment of overtime except during
knocked off for 2 hours or less, the overtime shall be overtime hours; however, if the crew is required to go
paid straight through. Time allowed for meals shall not on dock to handle connecting or disconnecting of cargo
be considered as overtime in this clause. This section and/or hunker hoses,
does not apply to men who are receiving overtime for
standing their regular watch.
SECTION 24. COMPUTATION OP OVERTIME. 21 (e), Penalty Over
When overtime worked is less than 1 hour, overtime
for 1 full hour shall be paid. When overtime worked
exceeds 1 hour, the overtime work performed shall he

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�The operation shall consist of the handling of lines,
hoses, valves and other equipment necessary to the
operation. The Master shall determine the number of
personnel to be used during the operation. The man
at the wheel shall receive penalty overtime Monday
through Friday during the operation. The refueling op­
eration shall terminate when the line and hoses are
returned to the vessel being refueled.
SECTION 31. STANDBY WORK. When men are
hired by the Company for Standby Work in port by the
day, they shall be paid the premium rate for the re­
spective ratings. Eight (8) hours shall constitute a
day's worki All work performed in excess of eight (8)
hours in any 24 hour period, or any work performed
in excess of eight (8) continuoiis hours, shall be paid
at the premium rate and one-half for the respective
ratings. Men hired to perform Standby Work shall
perform any work which shall be assigned to them by
their superior officer, and they shall not be subject to
any work rules set forth in this Agreement.
When Standby Work in any particular department is
to be performed an effort shall be made to obtain men
with ratings in such department if they are available
and are competent to perform such work.
Any man hired for Standby. Work who reports when
ordered shall be paid a minimum of eight (8) hours of
pay for the first day and a minimum of four (4) hours
for each day's pay thereafter.
This change shall not be interpreted to conflict with
any understanding that the Union might have with a
company whose practice is to hire relief crews while the
vessel is in port.
SECTION 32. LONGSHORE WORK BY CREW. In
those ports where there are no longshoremen available,
members of tbe crew may be required to drive
winches for handling cargo or may be required to

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Montevideo to Buenos Aires to Rosario or points above
or vice-versa
Boston New York or vice-versa
New Orleans to Baton Rouge or vice-versa
Norfolk to Baltimore or vice-versa
All moves between ports on the St. Lawrence Seaway
and/or on the Great Lakes, West of Montreal, except those moves which are less than eighty (80)
miles.
(b) Moves from Baltimore through the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal to Delaware River ports or viceversa, shall be considered a move of the ship and such
work, after 6 p.m., and before 8 a.m., or on Saturdays,
Sundays or Holidays, shall be paid for at the applicable
rate.
(c) A move from Honolulu to Pearl Harbor or viceversa shall be considered a shift of the vessel.
(d) A move from Galveston to Houston or vice-versa
shall be considered a shift of the vessel.
No movement of a vessel shall be considered a shift
of ship until the vessel is in port time as provided for
in Article II, Section 33. Any crewmember who does
not report aboard ship in accordance with paragraph
(b) of this section shall not be entitled to receive the
penalty pay for the delayed sailing of 2 hours overtime
for such reporting.
SECTION 35. RESTRICTION TO SHIP. When a
vessel has been in a foreign port where the crew was
restricted to the ship and the Company claims that
this restriction was enforced by the government of the
port visited or either Federal, Military or Naval
Authorities, the Company shall produce a copy of the
restriction order of the government. Federal, Military
or Naval Authorities. In lieu thereof it may produce
a proper entry in the official log book and must give
sufficient notice in writing of the restriction to the
Ship's Chairman. The notice shall also be posted on the
crew's bulletin board. A letter from the Company's
agents will not be sufficient proof of the existence of
such an order. If the Company is unable to produce
evidence as provided herein to satisfy. the Union of the
validity of such restriction, the crew shall be compen­
sated for having been restricted to the ship by the pay­
ment of overtime for the period of the restriction at
the applicable penalty rate.
When a restriction occurs because of quarantine, im­
migration or customs procedures, a proper Log entry
shall suffice.
SECTION88.

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I (h) If the v«!ssel in fact sails wi^ two (2) hours
Ifrom tha p'ufitted sailing Utua, pursuant to which tbe
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(i) All unlicensed crew members shall report aboard
at least one (1) hour before the scheduled sailing time.
In the event any unlicensed crew member fails to com­
ply with this provision, the Company shall call the
Union and the Union shall furnish a replacement. If the
original crew member reports after the Company has
called a replacement, the man shipped by the Union as
such replacement shall receive two (2) days pay from the
crew member who was late in reporting for duty.
(j) When a Company orders a replacement for which
there is no vacancy' on the vessel, the Company shall
reimburse the seaman the equivalent of two (2) days
pay plus transportation charges.

SECTION 37. SECURING VESSEL FOR SEA. All
vessels of the Company must be safely secured before
leaving the harbor limits for any voyage.

SECTION 38. LAUNCH SERVICE. When a ship is
anchored or tied up to a buoy for eight (8) hours or over,
for the purpose outlined in Article II, Section 34, each
member of the Unlicensed Personnel while on his watch
below shall be allowed one round trip to shore at the
Company's expense every twenty four (24) hours.
When launch service is arranged for by the Company,
the schedule shall be such that each and every member
shall be given the opportunity for a round trip as called
for herein on his watch below.
In ports where regular boat service is not available,
members of the crew may make their own arrange­
ments for transportation and the Company agrees to
reimburse either the crewmember or the owner of the
boat up to $5.00 per round trip per mqn carried once
every twenty four (24) hours.
SECTION 39. REST PERIODS, (a) When members
of the Unlicensed Deck and Engine Departments are
required to turn to on overtime for a period longer
than two (2) hours between the hours of midnight and
at the gangway on arrival. 8 a.m., they shall be entitled to a rest period of one (1)

% (I^&gt; hows, Uie sail}&gt; hours prior to the
«ghfc If the scheduled
8 am:., i-

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Ind 8 a^m.

This rest period shall be given at any time that is con­
venient between the hours of 8 a,m. and 5 p.m. the
same day. This rest period shall be in addition to cash
overtime -allowed for such work. If a rest period is not
given, the men who have worked shall be entitled to
additional overtime at the applicable penalty rate in
IK due t&lt;» rhe loading or dierharging of
lieu thereof. This section shall not apply to men who
iog of stores or bunkers, the new time '
have been turned to on overtime at 6 a.m. or after.
'promptty be posted on the hewd and
(b) Where sea watches have been maintained this
two (2) hoars, the watch off duly shall be die- section
! carrying grain, when crew mem­
shall not apply to regular watch standers.
aad ehall receive two (8) hoarfe over^" ~ ~
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bers are required to unfasten butterworth plate nuts
(c)
In
port, if sea watches have been broken and
ar rate for each reporting.
and/or remove the butterworth plates for the purpose
have
not
been reset, this section shall apply to any
If the new sailing time is not posted
of loading or discharging grain cargo, ^
man required to turn to on such overtime work.
(2)
hour
period,
Urn
watch
off
duty
s*-hutfcorworth plates and/Wfi^'
n
(d) This section shall apply, in the case of day
I they shall be entitled to compensa­ •"'too at the regular rate from the time^
workers, both at sea or in port.
the time that the vessel sails. This
tion as provided for in this section. This section shall not
ii
^teh en duty a« Saturdays, Snndeyt and
SECTION 40. FRESH PROVISIONS, (a) An adebe so construed as to be applicable to any work-where
shall be provided for the
longshoremen are not available due to labor trouble.
fruit
and vegetables will
The above shall not apply for securing or shoreing
vess^'s control.
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be furnished at every port touched where available, and
up cargo.
be posted no later than 5 p-m. if supply is possible a sufficient amount to last until the
' scheduled to sail on a we^ead next port or to last until the food would ordinarily, with
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ftd 8 a.m. Monday, When a good care spoil. Shore bread shall be furnished at all
id bstween 5 p,n»&gt; Friday and U.S.* ports when available.
in port
eduled to sail ptior to 8 a.ni«
Frozen foods shall be considered the equivalent of and
moored nt/ormj
J2.
or dlWjhj
shall be posted not later than serve the same purpose as fresh foods.
If Friday is a holiday, the
(b) (1) Vessels making a foreign voyage shall store
prior to the holiday. Simi» canned whole fresh milk at the rate of one (1) pint per
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then the following Tuesday man per day for the duration of the voyage,
i he suhstitetad m heU of Monday. In the event the
(2) While a vessel is in Continental U.S. ports,
•mpany doet not do this, (he regular rate
overtima fresh milk from local dairies is to be served three times
in effect wdl be paid fr.
a day. Prior to a vessel departing from any domestic
-eqtured to retui n until
ports going to another domestic port and/or a foreign
• port forty (40) gallons of local fresh milk must be
placed on board.
as almve required, and tee soheff
(3) After departure from the last Continental
the weelresd as above provided, tt
U.S.
port
and the supply of fresh local milk has been
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consumed, canned whole fresh milk is to be served at
breakfast only while at sea.
(4) While in a foreign port, canned whole fresh
milk is to be served three (3) times a day as per agree­
ment.
(5) No purchase of milk shall be made in foreign
ports while canned whole fresh milk is available.
(c) If milk is provided for persons. other than crewmembers, then additional milk must be supplied ' for
SECTION 34. SHIFTING SHIP, (a) After the vessel
such use.
arrives in port as outlined in Article II, Section 33, any
SECTION 41. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE.
subsequent move solely in inland waters shall be re­
When board is not furnished unlicensed members of
garded as shifting ship and overtime paid at the appli­
the crew, they shall receive a meal allowance of $2.00
cable rate for men on duty while such moves are per­
for breakfast, $3.00 for dinner and $5.50 for supper.
formed., on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays and after
When men are required to sleep ashore, they shall be
5 p.m. and before 8 a.m. Monday through Friday with
allowed $10.50 per night.
the following exceptions:
When sea watches are .maintained, moves between
SECTION 42. MEAL HOURS RELIEVING FOR
New York area and Albany area, New York area and
MEALS. The meal hours for the Unlicensed Personnel
Bridgeport and vice-versa shall not be considered a
employed in the Deck and Engine Departments shall be
shift.
as fellows:
Port Alfred to Montreal or vice versa
Breakfast
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Port Alfred to Quebec or vice-versa
Dinner
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Montreal to Quebec or vice-versa
Supper
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
All moves from American Ports to British Columbia
(a) At sea or in port the 4 to 8 watch shall relieve
ports or vice-versa
itself for supper.
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(b) The 12 to 4 watch on sailing day is to" be knocked
off at 11 a.m. in order to eat at 11:30 a.m. and to be
ready to go on watch at 12 noon.
(c) These hours may be varied, but such variations
shall not exceed one (1) hour either way, provided that
one (1) unbroken hour shall be allowed at all times for
dinner and supper when vessel is in port. When watches
are broken, if one (1) unbroken hour is rfbt given, the
men involved shall receive one (1) hour's overtime in
lieu thereof. This penalty hour shall be in addition to
the actual overtime worked during the meal hours.
(d) When crew is called to work overtime before
breakfast and work continues after 7:30 a.m. a full hour
shall be allowed for breakfast, and if breakfast is not
served by 8 a.m., overtime shall continue straight
through until breakfast is served. During cargo opera­
tions the pumpman on duty shall not be entitled to a
penalty hour during meal hours unless he is required to
do work such as making repair, or shift tanks, or do
any work other than making routine inspections.
(e) If one (1) unbroken hour is not given, the men
involved shall receive one (1) hour's overtime in lieu
thereof.
(f) When the watch below or men off duty are work­
ing on overtime at sea or in port, they shall be allowed
one (1) unbroken meal hour. If one (1) unbroken meal
hour is not given, the men involved shall receive one (1)
hour's overtime in lieu thereof. This penalty hour shall
be in addition to the actual overtime worked during the
meal hour. The provisions in this section shall be appli­
cable at all times at' sea or in port to men on day work.
(g) All penalty .meal hours shall be paid at the ap­
plicable penalty rate.
SECTION 43. .MIDNIGHT LUNCH, (a) if the crew
works as late as 9 p.m. coifee and night lunch shall be
provided. If work continues after 9 p.m. fifteen (15)
minutes shall be allowed for the coffee and night lunch,
which time shall be included as overtime.
(b) If the crew starts work at or before 9 p.m. and
work continues overtime until midnight, the men shall
be provided with a hot lunch at midnight. If the work
continues after midnight one (1) unbroken hour shall be
allowed for such hot lunch. If this unbroken hour is not
allowed, the men involved shall receive one (1) hour's
overtime in lieu thereof, which shall be in addition to the
actual overtime worked during the hot lunch hour.
(c) If the crew is broken out after 9 p.m. and works
continuously for three (3) hours, a hot lunch shall be pro­
vided at the expiration of the three (3) hours if the work
is to be continued. Otherwise, a night lunch shall be
provided. An unbroken hour shall be allowed for the
hot lunch 'and if such unbroken hour is not allowed the
men shall receive one (1) hour's overtime in lieu thereof,
which shall be in addition to the actual overtime worked
during the hot lunch hour.
(d) If the crew works as late as 3 a.m., coffee and
night lunch shall be provided and if work continues
after 3 'a.m., fifteen (15) minutes shall be allowed for
coffee and night lunch, which time shall be included as
overture.
(e) ,tf the crew works as late as 6 a.m., coffee shall
be provided and if work continues after 6 a.m., fifteen
(15) minutes shall be allowed for coffee, which time shall
1M included as overtime.
(f) "When a vessel is scheduled to depart at midnight,
the midnight lunch hour may be shifted one (1) hour
either way.
(g) In the event the midnight lunch is not served
the men involved shall be paid the supper meal allowafice in addition to the overtime provided for in paragiraphs (b) and Xc) above.

same day the vessel is fumigated shall be entitled
to room allowance regardless of when the vessel
is" cleared.
9. Work such as chipping, welding, riveting, ham­
mering or other work of a similar nature is being
performed in or about the crew's quarters be­
tween 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
When such work as outlined in (9) above is being
performed in or around the quarters of the men who
stand donkey watches, such men will be provided with
other quarters, or room allowances will be allowed.
Note: Penalties claimed for lack of heat, air condition­
ing, hot water, etc., or because of noise as defined in
(9) above, must be recorded on an eight (8) hour basis
with the Ship's Master or other proper department head.
Dates, times of reporting, and temperatures should be
made part of such record.

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SECTION 55. TRANSPORTATION AND PAYING
OFF PROCEDURE. 1 (a) "Vessels on foreign voyages
shall be signed on for one (1) voyage for a term of time
not exceeding twelve (12) calendar months.

SECTION 46. CLEANLINESS OF QUARTERS. The
Unlicensed Personnel shall cooperate to the fullest in
order to keep their respective living quarters clean and
tidy at all times.
In the event the crew's quarters are not cleaned in
accordance with the SIU standards, and this is brought
to the attention of the patrolman prior to pay-off, then
it is the duty of the patrolman to see that these quar­
ters are cleaned by the crewmembers who live in the
said foc'sle and to see that they are cleaned before
paying off the ship.
SECTION 47. CREW EQUIPMENT. The following
items shall be supplied the Unlicensed Personnel em­
ployed on board vessels of the Company.
1. A suitable number of blankets.
2. Bedding consisting of two white sheets, one spread,
two white pillow slips, which shall be changed
weekly.
3. One face towel and one bath towel which shall be
changed twice weekly.
4. One cake of standard face soup such as Lux,
Lifebuoy or Palmolive soap with each towel change.
5. One box of matches each day.
6. Suitable mattresses and pillows shall be furnished
but hair, straw or excelsior shall not be suitable.
As mattresses now on board wear out, they shall
be replaced by innerspring mattresses.
7. All dishes provided for the use of the Unlicensed
Personnel shall be crockery.
8. One cake of laundry soap, one cake of lava soap,
one box of washing powder weekly.
9. Sanitubes shall be available for the Unlicensed
Personnel at all times.
Two twblve-inch fans shall be furaishe^^^^
fore­
castles occupied by two or more Unlicensed Per­
sonnel, and one sixteen-inch fan in all forecastles
occupied by one member of the Unlicensed Per­
sonnel.
Any member willfully damaging or destroying linen
shall be held accountable for same. "When full linen is
not issued, men shall receive $2.00 each week for wash­
ing their own linen. The Steward shall not issue clean
linen to any individual crewmember until such member
has turned in his soiled linen.
SECTION 48. "VENTILATION. All quarters assigned
to the Unlicensed Personnel and all messroOms provided
for their use shall be adequately screened and ventilated
and a sufficient number of fans to secure ventilation shall
be provided.
SECTION 49. MESSROOM. Each vessel shall be fur­
nished with a messroom for the accommodation of the
crew, such messroom OP messrooms to be in each case
so constructed as to afford sitting room for all and to
be so situated as to afford full protection from the
weather and from heat and odors arising, from the ves­
sel's engine room, fireroom, hold and toilet.

SECTION 44. COFFEE TIME, (a) All hands shall
be allowed fifteen (15) minutes.for coffee at 10 a.m. and
3 p.m. or at a convenient time near those hours.
(b) When the crew is entitled to the thirty (30) min­
utes readiness period under Article II, Section 22, coffee
shall be made by the watch or watchman and be ready
SECTION 50. WASHROOMS'. Adequate washrooms
at the time of calling, and allowed during the thirty (30) and lavoratories shall be made available for the Un­
minutes of readiness period.
licensed Personnel of each department, washrooms to
be equipped 'with a sufficient number of hot and cold
SECTION 45. CREW'S QUARTERS. All quarters as­ fresh water showers.
signed for the use of the Unlicensed Personnel are to be
kept free from Vbrmin insofar as possible. This is to
SECTION 51. LOCKERS. A sufficient number of
be accomplished through the use of extermination facil­ lockers shall be provided so that each employee shall
ities provided by the Company, or fumigating the quar­ have one locker of full len^h whenever" space permits,
ters every six (6) months with gas.
with sufficient space to stow a reasonable amount of
Room allowance, as provided in Section 41, shall be gear and personal effects.
allowed when:
SECTION 52. UNIFORMS. In the event a man is
1. Heat is not furnished in cold weather. "When the
outside temperature is sixty-five degrees (65') or required to wear a uniform, other than provided for in
lower for eight (8) consecutive hours, this provi­ Article "V, Section 29, he shall furnish his own uniform
and shall be paid an additional $12.50 per month for
sion shall apply.
same.
2. Hot water is not available to crew's washrooms
for a period of twelve (12) or more consecutive
hours.
3. On air conditioned vessels, when the room tem­
perature is seventy-eight degr^s (78°) or above,
and the air conditioning unit'&lt;does not work in
excess of eight (8) hours, this provision shall apply.
If fans are installed the penalty shalLnot be in- voked. If fans do not now exist, suitable arrange­
ments shall be made with the Union and Company
for their installation.
4. Crew's quarters have been painted, and paint is
not absolutely dry, and other suitable quarters are
not furnished aboard.
6. At all times when vessel is in dry dock overnightand sanitary facilities are not supplied.
6. Linen is not issued upon men's request prior to
6 p.m. on the day the seaman joins the vessel.
7. "Vessel is being fumigated and is not cleared before
9 p.m.
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nate at the final port of discharge in the Continental
United States, unless another port is mutually agreed
to between the Company and the Union. If the final
port of discharge is located in an area other than the
area in the Continental United States, in which is
located the port of engagement, economy class air trans­
portation shall be provided to only those men who
leave the vessel, plus wages and subsistence to port of
engagement in Continental United States. At the sea­
man's option, cash equivalent of the actual cost of
economy class air transportation shall be paid. ?

(c) If the vessel departs from the final port of dis­
charge within ten (10) days after inbound cargo is com­
pletely discharged to return to the port of engagement,
the above shall not apply.
Once a crewmember has made the initial foreign
voyage and earned transportation, the transportation
remains payable so long as he pays off in another area
other than the area wherein is located his original port
of engagement.
If the new foreign articles are signed, transportation
provisions shall not apply, till termination of the
Articles.
(d) For the purpose of this Section, the Continental
United States shall be divided into eight areas—^Pacific
Northwest; California; Atlantic Coast Area North of
Cape Hatteras; Atlantic Coast Area South of Cape
Hatteras; and the Gulf Coast Area, the State of Alaska,
the Western Great Lakes Area and the Eastern Great
Lakes Area. The dividing line between the Western
and Eastern Great Lakes shall be the Mackinac Straits
Bridge and the Sault Ste. Marie Locks.
Hawaii becoming a state does not constitute an
additional area for the purpose of transportation, how­
ever seamen shipped in Hawaii who are paid off in the
Continental United States and who are entitled to
transportation under other provisions of this contract
shall receive transportation to San Francisco.
(e) It is further agreed that in the event a ship
returns light or in ballast to the Continental United
States, articles shall terminate at first port of arrival
in accordance with voyage description set forth in the
articles, except that when the arrival at the first port
is for the purpose of securing additional bunkers, stores,
or making emergency repairs of not more than seven (7)
days duration, articles shall continue until the vessel can
proceed to another Continental United States port.
2. (a) "Vessels making a voyage to Bermuda, Mexico,
West Indies, including Cuba, Canada, Newfoundland,
and/or coastwise in any order, either direct or via
ports shall be signed on for one (1) or more continuous
voyages on the above-described route or any part
thereof and back to a final port of discharge on the
Atlantic or Gulf Coast of the Continental United States
for a term of time not exceeding six (6) calendar months.
(b) "When a vessel is on domestic articles or harbor
payroll prior to proceeding on a foreign voyage a mem­
ber of the Unlicensed Personnel shall not be entitled to
transportation to the port of engagement if he fails to
make the foreign voyage, unless the Company termi­
nates his employment through no fault of his own.
(c) If the port where the articles are finally termi­
nated is located in an area other than the area in the
Continental United States in which is located the port
of engagement economy class air transportation shall
be provided to those men only who leave the vessel,
plus wages and subsistence to port of engagement in
Continental United States. At the seaman's option,
cash equivalent of the actual cost of j^onomjr
air transportation shall be paid.
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�The crewmember shall be entitled to transportation
r^ardless of the nuinber of voyages he makes once
transportation has been due him as long as hb pays off
in an area other than an area wherein is located the
original port of engagement.
(d) For the purpose of this section, the continental
United Stales shall be divided into five areas: Pacific
Northwest; California; Atlantic Coast area, North of
Cape Hatteras; Atlantic Coast area. South of Cape
Hatteras; and fdie Gulf Coast area.
(e) It is also agreed that the transportation provi­
sions contained herein shall not apply until the articles
are finally terminated.
3. Any member of the Unlicensed Personnel will be
allowed to pay off the vessel in any port in Continental
United States or Puerto Rico upon twenty four (24)
hours notice to the Master, prior to the scheduled sailing
of the vessel. However, where a vessel is expected to
arrive and depart on a weekend, such notice shall be
given not later fJian 1 p.m. on Friday.
The Master shall be allowed to discharge any member
of the Unlicensed Personnel upon twenty four (24) hours
notice. If the seaman exercises his rights to be paid off,
as provided" for in this paragraph, transportation pro­
visions shall not be applicable. If the Master exercises his
right to discharge a seaman as provided for in this
paragraph, transportation provisions shall not be ap­
plicable. Should the Union object to the discharge, the
matter shall be handled in accordance with grievance
procedure.

5. Applicable operations regulations shall be effective
on G.A.A. vessels.

Unlicensed Personnel who should have normally b^n
on duty. Likewise, compliance shall be in effect when
there is less than a full complement aboard due to a
condition arising as the result of a marine casualty.
SECTION 60. MANNING SCALE. It is agreed and
understood that the present manning scale carried on
the Company's vessel, shall not be changed unless such
changes are mutuaiij a^re^
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SECTION 61. INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE, If
a vessel crosses the International Date Line from east
to west, and a Saturday, Sunday or Holiday is lost, all
day workers shall observe the following Monday or the
day following a Holiday. Watch slanders will be paid
overtime in accordance with the principle of Saturday
and Sunday overtime at sea. If the Sunday which is
lost , is also a Holiday, or if the following Monday is a
Holiday, then the following Monday and Tuesday shall
be observed.
However, in crossing the Intematipnal Date Line|
from west to east, if an extra Saturday, Sunday or
Holiday is picked up only one of such Saturdays,
Sundays or Holidays shall be observed and all crew
members will be required to work without overtime on
the so-called second Saturday, Sunday or Holiday pro­
vided that if Sunday is also a Holiday, the Sunday
which is picked up shall be observed as such Holiday.

impossible to grant eight (8) hours off, he only gets
what is available and no accumulation is carried
forward.
If members of the Steward Department are off
while the vessel is not feeding, no overtime is
payable to them.
In the Deck Department, those accepting time off
under this Section shall not be required to report
for shifting of ship during time off or during their
watch below.
Alternation of time off may be applied in the Deck
Department provided the vessel's stay in port is
long enough to comply with the intent of the
time off Section.
Where the seaman does not receive his day off
as required above, he shall receive one (1) day's
pay in lieu thereof. K he receives only four (4)
hours or less of his time off, he shall receive onehalf (%) day's pay in lieu thereof. This clause
shall not apply where the seaman has accepted
overtime in lieu of time off !

6. Qualified day workers may be required to re^ve
watch-standers for purposes of time off. They shall
be paid at their respective Overtime Rates after
5 p.m. and before 8 a.m., Monday through Fri­
day, and at their premium rates on Saturdays,
Sundays and Holidays.

SECTION 62. NEW EQUIPMENT NOT CARRIED
AT PRESENT, NEW CONSTRUCTION AND RE­
CONSTRUCTION. In the event the Company is to build
new ships, acquire new ships or convert old ships, it
is agreed that prior to the commencement of construc­
tion or conversion, the Union and the Company shall
meet to negotiate manning scales, quarters, recreational
facilities and all equipment and provisions to be furnjshed for, or used by, the Unlicensed Personnel.

SECTION 56. RETURN TO PORT OF ENGAGE­
MENT. (a) In the event a ship of the Company is sold,
interned, lost, laid up, run aground or is stranded and
the crew is required to leave the vessel by reason
thereof, the crew shall be given transportation back to
the port of engagement with subsistence, room and
wages, at the time of payoff, as per Article II, Section
59, of this Agreement. When room and subsistence is not
furnished aboard the vessel, room and meal allowance
SECTION 63. CALENDAR DAY. For the purpose
will be paid as prescribed in Article II, .Section 43, of this Agreement, the calendar day shall be from
until crew is furnished repatriation by train, vessel or midnight to midnight.
commercially operated airplanes, equivalent to the
SECTION 64. WAR ZONE. In case any.vessel of
equipment of regularly scheduled airline, or in the
event such airplane transportation is not equivalent to the Company traverses waters adjacent to or in the
a regularly scheduled airline, they shall • be paid the proximity of a declared or undeclared war or state of
hostilities, it is hereby agreed that a petition on the
difference in cash.
(b) The port of engagement of the seaman is the part of the Union for the opening of negotiations for
port in the Continental United States where he was added remuneration, bonuses, and/or insurances, shall
first employed by the company for the vessel involved. in no way be deemed cause for the termination of this
It is agreed that where a seaman quits and a replace­ Agreement.
ment is obtained in the Continental United States port,
SECTION 65. COPIES OF AGREEMENTS TO BE
the replacement's port of engagement shall be the same
as f^e seaman he replaced except that the replacement FURNISHED. Copies of this agreement shall be fur­
would be entitled to transportation to his port of en- nished to the Master, Chief Engineer and Chief Steward,
who in turn shall supply each departmenta]! delegate
'ement if the ship is laid up and he is laid off.
with a copy at the commencement of each voyage.

SECTION 69. AWNINGS AND COTS. All Tankers,
except those in regular North Atlantic runs, and
Alaska Coastwise runs, shall be provided with awnings
aft, with the exception of vessels equipped with facili­
ties on deck of the same nature. On fully air condi­
tioned vessels, there shall be no requirements for the
issuance of cots or the installation of awnings.
SECTION 70. TELEVISION SETS, (a) The Com­
pany shall provide a television set for the Unlicensed
Personnel on all vessels covered by this Agreement.
(b) Such television set shall be a nationally known
brand with no less than a twenty-one inch (21") black
and white screen.

SECTION 66. LOGGING. Where the Master exercises
his prerogative under maritime law by logging a man
for missing his regular work or watch, he shall not
log the man more than one (1) day for one (1) day. This
section shall not be deemed to prejudice the authority ,of
the Master or the requirement of obedience of the crew,
described elsewhere in this Contract, except as specifi­
cally herein provided.

SECTION 57. TRAVELING. Members of the Union
when transported by the Company during the course
of their employment, shall be provided with Economy
Class air travel. Where meals are not provided by the
carrier, subsistence shall be paid as per Article II, Sec­
tion 43; breakfast |2.00, $3.00 for dinner, and $5.50 for
supper. YHien traveling by ship is involved, men shall
be provided with Second Class transportation or the
cash equivalent thereof.
SECTION 58. VESSELS IN IDLE STATUS. When
a vessel is inactive in a United States port for any rea­
son for a period of seven (7) days or less, the Unlicensed
Personnel shall be kept on board at the regular monthly
rate of pay. However, when it is expected that said
vessel will be idle for a penod in excess of seven (7)
days, the Unlicensed Personnel may be reduced on arrivaL Should the vessel resume service within seven (7)
days, the vessel's Unlicensed Personnel who return to the
vessel, shall receive wages, room and meal allowances
for the period for which they were laid oft.

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SECTION 59.
FULL COMPLEMENT WHILE
CARGO IS HEING WORKED. A full complement of
Unlicensed Personnel shall be maintained aboard vessel
at all times cargo is being worked.
The Company shall be in compliance vith this section
when there is less than a full complement, Saturdays,
Sundays and on Holidays, due to voluntary termination,
to discharge for cause or absence of members of the

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SECTION 67. RETURN OF DECEASED SEAMEN.
If a seaman dies at any time during the voyage, the
Company shall so notify the next of kin as designated
on the shipping articles. In the event a seaman dies in
a port not in the Continental United States, or if he
dies at sea and his body is delivered to a port not in
the Continental United States, in which port facilities
for preservation of the body for shipment and burial
are available, and there are no legal restrictions con­
trary thereto, if the said next of kin request the return
of the body and agrees to assume responsibility for the
body at the port of engagement, the Company shall
defray the total cost of preserving and returning the
body to the original port of engagement.

SECTION 72. TANKERS IN THE GRAIN TRADE.
1. When a tanker is put into the grain trade the
crew shall be under the Freightship working rules from
the time they commence loading grain until such time
as they arrive at an oil cargo loading berth, they
shall then revert to the tanker working rules.

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agreed that the Deck Department can
take the ship's evacuators from the cargo hold or shel­
ter deck store rooms, wherever they may be stored,
and place them in position on deck where they are
required for loading or discharging.
SECTION 68. TIME OFF—TANKERS, (a) Upon
In cases where it is necessary to take the cyclone
completion of a foreign, nearby foreign, intercoastal, or (heads) off these machines in order to store them, it
coastwise voyage, all of the assigned Unlicensed Per­ has been agreed that the pumpmen will toke out the
sonnel who will remain on board and make the next bolts, nuts, etc., and that the Deck Department would
voyage shall have time off (not to exceed eight (8) lift off the heads and store the machines, and in the
working hours) in the payoff port or such other ports same manner when the machines are being taken out
as may be mutually agreed upon between the Master of storage and placed on deck, the Deck Depart­
and the crewmember. The voyage shall commence at the ment will lift the head onto the machine and the pump­
time of signing of articles (foreign, nearby foreign, men will in turn secure the holts, nuts, etc. The above
intercoastal or coastwise and continue until articles are described work may be done during regular working
terminated. In nearby foreign and coastwise trade, this hours by the watch on deck without the payment of
time off need not be granted more often than once in overtime.
each thirty (30) day period, i
3. (a) It has been agreed that when the ship's evac­
uators are in use that it will be the pumpman's duty
to maintain these machines, such as standing by when
they are running, changing oil, greasing, refueling
them and doing general maintenance and repair work
as can be done -aboard ship. On ships having electric
evacuators, it shall be the Pumpman's duty to plug in
the electric connections and change plugs during regu­
lar working hours without the payment of overtime.
(b) When shoreside evacuators are to be used, and
the crewmembers are required to service or handle
4. Cleaning tanks where grain

�men are required to sweep up grain and remove it
from the tanks or wash the tanks down with a hand
hose, this shall be considered the same as cleaning holds
and the hold cleaning rate shall be paid as per the
• Freightship Agreement. However, when the butterworthing machines are used and the tanks are cleaned
and mucked, men performing this work shall be paid at
the tank cleaning rate.
5. During regular working hours it shall be the duty
of the Deck Department to set dp and shift the ship's
evacuators including attaching the first section of suc­
tion pipe and to do any rigging necessary for operation
and repairs. However, hooking up additional sections of
suction pipe, shifting suction lines or going into the
tanks to hook up or unplug suction lines shall be con­
sidered longshore work and shall be paid for at the
longshore rate.

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wg«s, premium and overtime rates ualea*"
Agreed UpOh
the Union and tlm
as stated in this Agreement. When gr"
•hr other hulfc cergoejt are eesttied, the ?
.governed hy the work rules diefintd i»
.Agreement. Where work rules for a ^
'•"Ot defined in the Freightship Agre—'
hall perform suelt duties as ore
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SECTION 74. PYRAMIDING OVERTIME. There shall
be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime except
where specifically provided for.

ARTICLE III
DECK DEPARTMENT

SECTION 2. DIVISION OF OVERTIME. All overtime
shall be divided as equally as possible among thie mem­
bers of the deck crew. In any event, the Boatswain shall
be allowed to make as many hours overtime as the high
man's overtime hours in the Deck Department, except
where such overtime has been paid for routine sea
watches. The Boatswain shall have the right to stand
gangway watch in turn with the rest of the Deck
Department. If he fails to exercise such right he has no
claim for high man's overtime.

Boatswain is required to
work with and supervise the watch on deck, Saturdays,.
Sundays or Holidays, for which the watch on deck re­
ceives additional overtime; he shall receive the same
amount of overtime per hour as paid to a member of the
watch on deck or his premium rate, whichever is higher.
SECTION 3. DIVISION OP WATCHES, (a) The
Sailors while at sea shall be dmded into three watches
which shall be kept on duty successively for the per­
formance of ordinary work incidental to the sailing and
maintenance of the vessel.

of these three (3) ratings are missing and the watch
is not complete, the wages equivalent to the rating that
is missing from the watch shall be paid to the other
member or members making up the remainder of the
watch.
(c) When the watch below is called out to work,
they shall he paid overtime for such work at the rates
specif!^ in the Agreement except for such work as
defined in ArticleJI, Section 18.
SECTION 4. BOATSWAIN AJID A.B. MAINTE­
NANCE STANDING WATCH.-If the Boatswain is re­
quired to stand watch due to shortage of men, such
watches stood between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m.
Monday through Friday shall be paid for at the over­
time rate. However, all watches stood shall be in addi­
tion to his regular duties as Boatswain. In such cases
there shall be no division of wages.
A.B. Maintenance may be required to replace any
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Unlicensed Member of the Deck Department when said
member is sick or missing without payment of over­
time.

(b) DECK DEPARTMENT'S DUTIES IN PORT.
Quartermasters or any other Unlicensed Personnel in
the Deck Department shall stand tank watches and
shall handle valves in connection with the loading or
discharging of cargo or ballast. When vessels are not
loading pr discharging. Deck Department members shall
stand gangway watches. Quartermasters shall not be
required to chip, scale, sougee or polish brass. When
watches are broken. Deck Department erewmembers
shall be required to stand gangway watches.

SECTION 5. SETTING WATCHES. Sea watches
SECTION 9.
BOATSWAIN HANDLING WIND­
shall be set not later than noon on sailing day. When the
vessel sails before noon, watches shall be set .when all LASS. Boatswain shall stand by the -windlass when no
lines are on board and vessel is all clear of the dock. carpenter is carried and an able seaman may be required
to relieve the Boatswain at the windlass during the
SECTION 6. BREAKING WATCHES AND WORK Boatswain's working hours.
IN PORT, (a) When vessel docks between 12 mid­
SECTION 10. DAY WORKERS, (a) The following
night and 8 a.m. and sea watches are broken, any ratings shall be classified as day workers: Boatswain,
part of a watch between midnight and 8 a.m. shall Carpenter and Maintenance.
constitute a complete watch.
(b) The working hours at sea for all men classified
(b) In port when sea watches are broken the hours as day workers shall be from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1
of labor shall be 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Any work
Monday through Friday. Any work outside of these hours performed by day men outside of these hours shall be
or on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays shall be paid paid for at their applicable rate, except for such work
for at the applicable rate for the respective ratings.
as defined in Article II, Section 18.
(c) In port when sea watches are not broken, mem­
(c) Working hours in port for all men classified as
bers in the Deck Department shall stand their regular day workers shall be from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m.
watches, and perform their regular duties. Employees to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. All work outside
standing these watches shall assist the officer on watch these hours or on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays is
in attending mooring lines, tending gangways, gangway to be paid for at their applicable rate.
lights, handle valves and blanks, handle, connect, and
SECTION 11. WASHING DOWN. When members of
disconnect vessel's cargo and bunker hoses on board the
ship, replace butterworth plates and close tank tops the Deck Department are required to wash down after
when necessary for cargo operations. Men on watch may 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m. and on Saturdays, Sundays
assist Pumpman in pumprooms when accompanied by and Holidays, they shall be paid at the applicable rate.
the Pumpman to make changes for handling cargo and
SECTION 12. HANDLING MOORING LINES, (a)
ballast, but not do repair work.
The
wateh on deck shall receive Penalty Overtime for
On Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, or between the
breaking
out or stowing away mooring lines after 5 p.m.
~ hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. on weekdays, overtime at the
and before 8 a.m. Monday through Friday and on Satur­
applicable rate shall be paid for such watches.
(d) When Unlicensed Deck Personnel are required to days, Sundays and Holidays, at the rate specified in
lower or raise anchor after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m., Article III, Section 7 (c).
(b) A minimum of six (6) men shall be used for
Monday through Friday, they shall be paid at the ap­
plicable rate, except when the safety of the vessel is in­ breaking out or storing away mooring lines.
volved.
SECTION 13. DOCKING AND UNDOCKING. (a)
The following work is to be considered as part of The watch on deck shall receive Penalty Overtime for
raising and lowering the anchor: Breaking out the docking or undocking after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m.
cement in hawsepipe when preparing to lower anchor; Monday through Friday.
obtaining cement and cementing hawsepipe after anchor
(b) All hands, when available, shall be used to per­
has been raised.
form this work. In no event shall a man receive double
When the Bosun does this work, no overtime will be overtime for docking or undocking.
claimed by the Unlicensed Crewmembers.
(e) When the watch beiow is called out to work
they shall be paid overtime at the applicable rate for vessel is in port and men are called back for shifting
ship, hauling, rigging or securing gear, cleaning holds,
the woiic performed during their watch below.
etc., after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m., Monday through
SECTION 7. MEN STANDING SEA WATCHES. Friday, they shall receive a two (2) hour minium for
(a) Men standing sea watches shall be paid overtime each call-back.
In the event the work exceeds two (2) hours, the men
for all work in excess of eight (8) hours between mid­
night and midnight each day. No work except for the shall receive overtime for the hours actually worked.
On Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, the men shall
safe navigation of the vessel is to be done after 5
p.m. and before 8 a.m. and on Saturdays, Sundays receive a minimum of four (4) hours for such call-backs.
They may be turned to one or more' times without the
and Holidays without payment of overtime.
(b) Sanitary work shall be done on weekdays be­ payment of additional overtime, except where the time
tween 6 a.m. and 8 a.m., without the payment of over­ exceeds four (4) hours, in which case they will be paid
time. Sanitary work in this section shall mean cleaning for the hours actually worked.
During such call-back, the men may be required to
the wheelhouse, chartroom, cleaning windows and
secure
the vessel for sea, but may not be required to do
mopping out wheelhouse. Weather conditions may ne­
cessitate additional mopping of water from the wheel- maintenance or repair work.
(b) This section shall not apply when men are called
house and cleaning of the wheelhouse windows.
back
to sail the vessel.
(c) Except as otherwise specifically provided, if a.
(c) The duty of men called for the specific purpose
man standing regular watch at sea or in port on Satur­
day, Sunday and Holidays is required to work other of shifting ship shall be limited to work necessary for
than routine work for the safe navigation of the vessel. shifting, and shall not include maintenance or repair
work.
(d) All hands available shall be used for shiftin^br
hauling vessel.
(e) When a shift or haul commences at exactly 5
1. Cleaning quarters, as butlined in Article III, Sec­
p.m. and the meal hour has been changed from 4 p.m.
tion 19.
to 5 p.m. for the entire crew, the crewmembers who are
2. Those duties outlined in Section 6 (d) above.
3. Docking or undocking, as outlined in Article III, on the vessel and are working would not be entitled
to the callback. Those men who have completed their
Section 13.
day's
work prior to 8 p.m. and were called back, would
4. Routine work for the safe navigation of the vessel.
(d) If a man standing sea watches on Saturday, Sun­ •be entitled to the two (2) hour call-back.
day or Holidays is required to handle explosives, do
SECTION 15. GOING ASHORE TO TAKE LINES.
longshore work, do carpenter work, secure cargo, handle
mail or baggage, handle stores, use paint spray guns The practice of putting sailors ashore to handle lines
or sand blasting equipment, handle garbage, remove when docking or undocking is to be avoided as far as
soot from the stack, clean bilges or clean up oil spills, possible. If, however, no other means for handling lines
clean tanks, or such work as defined in Article III, Sec­ is available, and sailors are required to catch the lines,
tion 23, Additional Work, he shall he paid only the rate or let them go, the sailors actually handling the lines
shall receive five dollars ($5.00) each in each case. This
as specified in this Agreement for that type of work.
is to be in addition to overtime, if they are working
on overtime at that particular moment.
SECTION 8. QUARTERMASTERS, ABLE SEAMEN
After the ship is properly moored, and members of
STANDING WHEEL WATCH AT SEA. (a) While a the Deck Department are required to put out additional
man is assigned to the wheel at sea and when the ship lines or single up lines during regular working hours,
is using Automatic Steering Equipment, he shall per­ no additional money shall be paid.
form his regularly assigned duties on the bridge and
SECTION 16. SHIPS' STORES, (a) Sailors may he
shall not leave the bridge or paint off stagings, or do
any work on the outside of the bridge structures and required to handle stores, both on the dock within thirty
shall not do maintenance work and general cleaning on feet of ship side and on board ship during their regular
equipment other than that belonging to the bridges, hours without payment of overtime. Regular hours are
defined, to mean 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 p.m.
except in the case of emergency.
Where the wheelsman stands a- four-hour quarter­ to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Stewards' stores
master watch, he shall be entitled to thirty (30) minutes shall be distributed to meat box, chill box, and store­
coffee-time after standing two (2) hours of such watch. rooms by the Deck Department and be stowed by the
He shall be relieved by an unlicensed seaman on watch Steward Department employees.
Sailors may be required to use deck gear to bring
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Engine Department supplies aboard but once such sup­
plies are aboard, it shall be the duty of the wipers to
store same, during their regular working hours, with­
out the payment of overtime.
No overtime shall be claimed by the Deck Department
for the operation of deck machinery to bring ship's sup­
plies aboard during their regular hours as defined in
Article III, Section 16.
(b) Daily supplies of fresh provisions such as milk,
bread and vegetables, shall be brought on by sailors on
watch, when required to do so, without payment of
overtime.
The thirty (30) feet of ship side applies to daily sup­
plies.
(c) Ship's oMcers shall determine the number of
sailors to be used in handling ship's stores.
(d) The Company reserves the right at any time to
use shore gangs to handle stores. It has been agVeed
between the- parties that Section 16 of Article III
shall be interpreted to mean that sailors are to handle
the deck and steward stores as outlined but are not re­
quired to handle engine department stores without the
payment of overtime.
SECTION 17. USING PAINT SPRAY GUNS AND
SAND BLASTING EQUIPMENT. When members of
the crew are required to paint with spray guns,
*hen spray iguns, b^^^
small hand type, are bei^^^^ used for painting, two men
shall operate same and both men shall receive overtime
at the applicable rate.
The Deck Department Unlicensed Personnel may be
required to brush paint all ~ Unlicensed Personnel
quarters, washrooms and toilets, other than those be­
longing to the Engine Department, without the pay­
ment of overtime during their regular working hours.
They may also be required to paint all enclosed pas­
sageways on the vessel.
The licensed officers' quarters, washrooms and toilets,
also messrooms, galley. Steward Department store
rooms, hospital, slop chest and all enclosed passage­
ways on the Captain's Deck when brush painted, shall
be-overtime for Deck Department Unlicensed Personnel
whether on or off watch.
However, notwithstanding the above, if the foregoing
mentioned enclosed spaces are spray-painted, then over­
time is payable.
The expression "crew quarters" shall be interpreted
to include washrodms and toilets.
The Radio Operator shall paint and maintain the
Radio Shack.
Two men shall be used on sand-blasting operation and
shall be paid in the same manner as when spray guns
are used.
SECTION 18. GARBAGE. Garbage shall be stowed
away from crew's quarters. When members of the Deck
Department are required to handle garbage by hand
or shovel,
SECTION 19. CLEANING QUARTERS. One (1)
Ordinary Seaman on duty shall be assigned to clean
quarters and toilets of the Unlicensed Personnel of the
Deck Department. Two (2) hours shall be allowed for
this work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 Noon
daily, both at sea and in port. Sanitary work in crew's
quarters shall include wiping off fans. On vessels of
25,500 D.W.T. or over, the Ordinary Seaman shall be
allowed four (4) hours daily for performing this work.

SECTION 20. REMOVING SOOT FROM SMOKE
STACK. When members of the Deck Department' are
required to remove soot
inside of the smoke
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SECTION , 21. TANK CLEANING, (a) When crewmembers are required to enter any tank in which water
is regularly carried, for the purpose of cleaning or mak­
ing ri^airs therein,
)) I/^en crewmembers are required to enter ten^^^
that have contained animal, vegetable, petroleum oil or
creosotes, including bunkers, or molasses for the pur­
pose of cleaning or making repairs therein, they shall
be paid at the rates indicated below.

.his siiall .also apply to cofferdams which have beeen
fouled through lealuge of the above-mentioned cargoes,
(c) '^en tanks described in (b) above are bdng

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cleaned and cleaning has been completed.

'This bonus will compensate for the clothing allowance
and shall be paid only once during each ballast voyage.
It is understood that sea boots for tank cleaning will be
furnished by the Company. While engaged in tank clean­
ing, men shall receive no other overtime.
The men who are hauling the buckets during tMk
cleaning operations under this section|
(d) For any work performed in cofferdam or void
tank which has not contained water, oil, creosotes, etc.,
the men required to perform such work shall be paid at

SECTION 4. HOURS OF WORK—WATCH STANDERS. (a) Working hours for watch-standers at sea shall
be forty (40) hours per week, Monday through Friday.
They shall be paid premium rate for all watches stood on
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.
(b) In port any work performed between 5 p.m. and
8 a.m. weekdays and on Saturdays, Sundays and Holi­
days shall be paid for at the applicable rate.

The same shall apply to members required ^^to handle
or shift butterworthing machines during the butterworth
operations or wash tanks from the decks.
(e) A minimum of three (3) men shall be required for
the purpose of shifting butterworthing machines. When
butterworthing machines are in operation one man shall SECTION 5. WORKING SPACES. No member of the
be required to stand by the machines. The man who is Unlieensed Personnel of the Engine Department other
standing by the machines shall do no other work. How­ than the Pumpman, Electrician, Wiper, Q.M.E.D. or any
ever, the other men may be required to perform other other day men, shall be required to work outside of the
work between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. /engine spaces without payment of overtime. Engine
spaces consist of the fireroom, engine room, ice machine
room, tool shop and shaft alley, and steering engine'
room. For the purpose of routine watch duties, the en­
gine room spaces shall consist of fireroom, engine room,
ice machine room, steering engine room and shaft alley.
However, they may enter engine room storage for the
purpose of securing equipment with which to work and
handle stores as provided in Section 18.
The pumproom below the top grrating shall be con­
sidered as part of the Engine Department spaces. If the
SECTION 23. ADDITIONAL WORK, (a) In aU ports, sailors are assigned to work in these spaces, they shall
members of the Deck Department may be required to be paid overtime, unless specifically provided elsewhere
chip, sougee, scale, prime and paint the vessel over to the contrary.
sides. They may also paint the crew's messroom, crew's
SECTION 6. SETTING WATCHES. Sea watches for
lounge, crew's laundry and such passageways or part
of passageways where Unlicensed quarters, heads and men standing donkey watches shall be set at midnight
showers are located, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday prior to scheduled sailing time.
through Friday, without the payment of overtime.
SECTION 7. BREAKING WATCHES. Any part of a
(b) Overtime shall be paid when sailors are required, watch from midnight until 8 a.m. on day of arrival
either in port or at sea, to chip, sougee, scale, prime or shall constitute a complete watch. This shall not apply
paint galley, pantry, saloon, living quarters, forecastle, to men who are to stand donkey watch. When such
lavatories and washrooms, which are not used by the arrival occurs on Sunday, the Premium Rate shall be
Unlicensed Deck Department.
paid only for hours actually worked on such watch.
(c) Non-permanent transient or irregular foreign
shore labor shall not be employed to perform any of
SECTION 8. SUPPER RELIEF. At sea or in portjhe
the work in the Licensed or Unlicensed quarters, store four to eight watch shall relieve itself for supper.f
rooms, passageways, galleys and mess rooms, except in
thpse instances where the Company uses established
shore labor. Companies on regular trade routes who,
prior to June 7, 1954, used established shore labor in
SECTION 9. ELECTRICIANS. If the Company adds
foreign ports may continue such practice.
(d) At sea or in port, the Deck Department may be an electrician to the Unlicensed Personnel, the Standard
required to sand and varnish all outside rails, storm work rules for electricians shall apply.
and screen doors.
SECTION 10. PUMPMAN. The Pumpman's duties
(c) When no Carpenter is carried and members of shall consist of handling cargo, ballast and tank equip­
the Deck Department are required to do carpenter's ment, including all work necessary foF the operation
work, they^ shall be paid at the rates defined in Article and maintenance of cargo pipe lines, room heating sys­
II, Section 21 (c), Penalty Overtime.
tem and all deck machinery, including tank gear on
(f) When any work described above is performed bj deck, dogs on watertight doors and ports and life boat
the Unlicensed Personnel and overtime is payable.
davits.
He shall not be required to do ordinary engine or fire­
room work, except in line with his regular duties;
SECTION 24. CHAIN LOCKER. Able Seamen only steam lines, cargo lines, etc.
If the Pumpman is required to enter the tanks to
shall be sent into the chain locker to stow chain. In
the event the chain locker is located lower than one make repairs to pipe lines or valves after tanks are gad
deck below the windlass, a suitable signaling system free and have been cleaned, he shall be paid at the ,
must be installed. The system shall consist of a two- applicable rate. Otherwise, he shall be paid in accord­
way bell or buzzer or voice 'tube. This shall only apply ance with tank cleaning rates. While working in tanks,
when men are sent in the chain locker for the purpose no other overtime shall be paid.
He shall not be required to paint, clean paint, fireof stowing chain.
brush, chip, scale or do any polishing work without the
SECTION 25. PYRAMIDING OVERTIME. There shall payment of overtime.
be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime except where
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this AgfTeespecifically provided for.
ment, when the Pumpman is required to make repairs
in tanks, he shall be paid for such work in accordance
with this section.
ARTICLE IV
If the tanks are not butterworthed, ventilated and
mucked on dirty oil ships, clothing allowance shall be
ENGINE DEPARTMENT
paid to any member of the Unlicensed Personnel who
enters tanks for the purpose of making repaito.
The Pumpmen shall receive overtime when required
to make installations, renewals or replacement of pipe
twelve (12) inches in diameter or over and ten t(10)
feet long or over in cargo tanks or pipe eight (8) inches
or over in diameter and six (6) feet long or over in the'
pumproom.
It is agreed that in the handling of heavy equip­
ment in the pumproom, such as~ cargo line valves and
pumproom machinery, the Deck Department may be
required to perform the riggfing and it shall be the duty
of the wipers and/or pumpman to hook up and stow
away the individual pieces.

SECTION 3. HOURS OF WORK—DAY WORKERS.

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Working hours in port or at sea for all men classified
as day workers shall be from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1
p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Any work out­
side these hours or on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays
shall be paid for at the applicable rates, except as pro­
vided in Article H, Section 18.

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SECTION 11. MACHINIST/SECOND PUMPMAN
AND/OR ENGINE MAINTENANCE. His duties shall
be general maintenance and repair work as directed
by the Engineer in charge. He may relieve or assist the
Pumpman in all of the Pumpman's duties. He may be
required to paint cargo pumps only without overtime,
during regular vrorking hours. With this exception he
shall not be required to paint, clean paint, wirebrush,
chip, scale, or do any polishing work without the pay­
ment of overtime.
None of the Engine Department Unlicensed Person­
nel other than the pumpman or machinist/2nd pump-

�man may be required to turn steam on or off deck or
butterworthing equipment.
It shall also be the duties of the Machinist or
Machinist/Second Pumpman to grease the steering en­
gine when required during his regular working hours
without the payment of-overtime.
DUTIES ON CLEAN OIL SHIPS. On clean oil ships,
the Pumpman and/or Machinist/2nd Pumpmah may
enter the tanks to make minor repairs without ^he pay­
ment of the clothing allowance providing it,does not
take over one (1) hour to complete the job and further
providing that the tanks have been butterworthed and
ventilated. The above shall apply to the other members
of the Unlicensed Personnel who enter the tanks for the
same purpose.
No clothing allowance shall be paid to men who were
not authorized to enter the tanks.
When a Fireman-Watertender or Oiler is missing be­
cause a crew member is sick, injured or because a
Fireman-Watertender or Oiler missed the ship and none
of the Wipers is capable of bein^ promoted to fill the
vacancy, then the Engine Maintenance/Second Pump­
man may be placed on watch. Iii the event the Engine
Maintenance/Second Pumpman is assigned to a watch,
no overtime is payable Monday through Friday for
standing watch and performing customary watch duties.
In no event shall he be required to work more than
eight (8) hours without the payment of overtime. Any
overtime due EnginaKMaintenance/Second Pumpman
shall be paid at his 8*»plicible rate.
SECTION 12. ENGINE UTILITY, (a) They shall be
required to assist Engineers in all Engine Department
work.
(b) Utilitymen shall be required to have qualifica­
tions as oilers, wateiitenders and firemen.
(c) They may be required to replace any Unlicensed
Member of the Engine Department when said member
is sick, ii^red or missing.

the tanks are not butterworthed, veritilated, am
mucked on dirty oil ships, clothing allowance shall be
paid to any member of the Unlicensed Personnel who
enters tanks for the purpose of making repairs.
The Union agrees that the Company may replace, a
Wiper with an Engine Utility.
SECTION 13. OILERS ON WATCH—STEAM.
(a) They shall perform routine duties, oil main en­
gine (if reciprocating), watch temperatures, and oil
circulation (if turbine), oil auxiliaries, steering engine
and ice machine. They shall pump bilges and tend water
where gauges and checks are in the engine room and
no Watertenders are carried.
(b) If required to start or blow down evaporator,
they shall be paid one (1) hour at the applicable rate for
each operation. When such equipment is placed in opera­
tion, Oilers htay be required to check the equipment at
regular intervals, make necessary adjustments to insure
proper and' even flow of condensate and salt water, oil
and tend any pump or pumps operated in connection
with such equipment without payment of overtime.
(c) Oilers shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or pol­
ishing work without payment of overtinie.
SECTION 14. OILERS ON DAY WORK—STEAM.
They shall assist the Engineers in maintenance and re­
pair work in engine room, machine shop, shaft alley and
store room when located in or adjacent to the engine
room, provided, however, he shall not be required to do
any cleaning of boilers, cleaning paint, polishing work,
wirebrushing, chipping or scaling.

8 a.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays, Sun­
days and Holidays, at the premium rate.
(d) Fireman-Watertender on watch shall not be re­
quired to do any painting, cleaning paint, wirebrushing,
chipping, scaling or polishing work without the pay­
ment of overtime.
(e) When on donkey watch, Fireman-Watertenders
shall be required to keep steam, tend auxiliaries and
take care of entire plant without payment of overtime,
except as provided in (c) above.
(f) When vessel is in port and the entire plant is
shut down, the Fireman-Watertender' may be placed
on day work. His hours then will be the same as those
for day workers. His work shall consist of repair and
maintenance work in fireroom
and engineroom. He
shall not be required to do any cleaning of boilers,
polishing work, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling.
SECTION 18. WIPERS. (a) It shall be routine
duties for the Wipers to do general cleaning, including
oil spills on deck, painting, cleaning paint, wirebrushing,
chipping, scaling, sougeeing, polishing work in the En­
gine Department, including resistor houses, and fanrooms, cleaning and painting steering engine and steer­
ing engine bed, and to take all stores, including standing
by on water and fuel oil lines.
(b) Wipers shall not be required to paint, chip,
sougee or shine bright work in fireroom fidley, except
in port.
(c) One (1) Wiper shall be assigned to clean quar­
ters and toilets of the Unlicensed Personnel of the En­
gine. Department daily. Two (2) hours shall be allowed
for this work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12
Noon daily. He shall be allowed two (2) hours for this
work on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, and shall
have two (2) hours' overtime. Sanitary work in crew's
quarters shall include wiping off fans. On vessels of
26,600 D.W.T. or over, the Wiper shall be allowed four
(4) hours daily for peiforming this work.
(d) Wipers may be required to paint Unlicensed En­
gine Department crew quarters without payment of
overtime during Wiper's regular working hours.
(e) Wipers shall be paid overtime for cleaning in
firesides and steam drum of boilers. They may be re­
quired to clean tank tops or bilges by hand or be
required to paint bilges. However, cleaning bilge strain­
ers,. cleaning away sticks or rags shall be considered
part of a Wiper's duties and shall be done without
payment of overtime.
(f) It shall be the duty of the Wiper to assist the
Engineers in blowing tubes. The Wiper shall assist the
Engineers in putting XZIT, and similar preparations, and
boiler compounds in the boiler. When the Wiper is re­
quired to assist in blowing tubes Monday through Friday,
they shall then also be used Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays.
(g) Wipers may be required to assist in repair work,
but he shall not be assigned to a repair job by himself
without the payment of overtime. This is not to in­
clude dismantling equipment in connection with clean­
ing; such as, grease extractors, bilge strainers and
evaporators, etc.
(h) Wipers shall be required to pump up galley fuel
tank during straight time hours without the payment
of overtime.
(i) While vessels are transiting the Panama or
Suez Canal, one (1) Wiper shall be assigned to trim
ventilators to insure breeze for men below, regardless
of whether it is outside of their regular working hours
or not. When the Wiper performs this work outside of
his regular working hours, overtime will be allowed.
(j) Skimming hot wells and cleaning grease extrac­
tors shall be done by the Wiper as part of his regular
duties without the payment of overtime.
(k) It shall be the duty of the Wiper to pull ice
and deliver it to the icebox door without the payment
of overtime. Wipers shall also remove ice cubes from
ice cube machines when such machines are located in
engine room spaces.
(1) Wipers, under proper supervision, may, be re­
quired to paint the outside of electric motors and gen­
erators.
(m) It shall be the duty of the Wipers to handle
engine room stores on the ship or from barges, or on
the dock within thirty feet (30') from ship-side in his
regular working hours without the payment of over­
time. (Sailors shall be required to operate deck gear in
the handling of such stores as is necessary.)

SECTION 15. OILERS—DIESEL AT SEA. (a) They
shall make regular rounds on main engines and auxil­
iaries, pump bilges, clean oil strainers and centrifuges,
watch oil temperatures and pressures. If required, they
shall drain oil from piston oil tanks every hour and
shall pump up water for gravity. They shall be re­
quired to tend small donkey boiler for heating.purposes
without payment of overtime. However, when boiler is
being used for heating cargo .oil, an allowance of two
(2) hours per watch at the applicable rate shall be
allowed the Oilers.
(b) They shall do . no cleaning or station work, but
shall be required to leave s^e working conditions forSECTION 19. TANK CLEANING, (a) When crewtheir relief, provided such work shall not be done when
members are required to enter any tank in which water
wipers are on duty.
is regularly carried, for the purpose of cleaning or mak­
SECTION 16. OILERS—DIESELS—IN PORT, (a) ing repairs therein, they shall be paid at the rates de­
In port. Oilers shall maintain a regular donkey watch. fined in Article II, Section 21 (c). Penalty Overtime.
(b) When crewmembers are required to enter tanks
They shall oil auxiliaries, tend small donkey boiler, and
look after entire plant. When cargo is being worked that have contained animal, vegetable, petroleum oil
after 5 pjn. and before 8 a.m. Monday through Friday, or creosotes, including bunkers or molasses for the pur­
or on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, the oilers on pose of cleaning or making repairs .therein, they shall
watch shall receive the applicable rate and in no event be paid at the rates indicated below.
shall they be paid additional overtime because cargo is
being worked.
(b) Oilers shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or polish­
ing work without the payment of overtime.

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SECTION 17.
FIREMAN-WATERTENDER. (a)
They shall be required to watch and tend water, clean
burners, fuel oil strainers, wherever located, drip pans,
punch carbon, keep steam, watch fuel oil pressure and
temperatures and oil fuel pumps located in the fireroom
only.
(b) On all watches, they shall clean up excess oil
occasioned by changing burners and strainers and shall
leave the fireroom in a safe condition when relieved. .
(c) Eireman-Watertender on watch in port shall be
paid overtime for watches stood after 5 p.m. and before

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This shmi als^ apply to coffw
have been
fouled through leakage of the above-mentioned cargoes.
(c) When tanks described in (b) above are being
cleaned and cleaning has been completed, a bonus of

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This bonus will compensate for the clothing allowance
and shall be paid only once during each ballast voyage.
It is understood that sea boots for tank cleaning will be
furnished by the company. While engaged in tank clean­
ing, men shall receive no other overtime.
The men who are hauling the buckets during tank
cleaning operations under this section
(d) For any work performed in cbffeHam or vbic
tank which has not contained water, oil, creosotes, etc.,
the men required to perform such
The same shall apply to members required to handle
or shift butterworthing machines during the butterworth
operations or wash tanks from the decks.
(e) A minimum of three (3) men shall be required for
the purpose of shifting butterworthing machines. When
butterworthing machines are in operation one (1) man
shall be required to stand by the machines. The man who
is standing by the machines shall do no other work.
However, the other men may be required to perform
other work between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
SECTION 20. USING PAINT SPRAY GUNS AND
SAND BLASTING EQUIPMENT. When members of
the crew are required to paint with spray guns, they
shall be paid at the rates defined in Article II, Section
21 (c). Penalty Overtime.
\
When spray guns, other than small hand type, are
being used for painting, two (2) men shall operate same
and both men shall receive overtime, at the applicable
rate.
Two (2) men shall be used on sand-blasting operation
and shall be paid in the same manner as when spray
guns are used.
SECTION 2L DONKIY WATCH. &lt;a&gt; A donkeV

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SECTION 22. CARBON TETRACHLORIDE. When­
ever carbon tetrachloride is required to be used by an
Unlicensed Member of the Engine Department for
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SECTION 24. OILER/MAINTENANCE UTILITY.
(1) The Oiler shall be rerated to Oiler/Maintenance
Utility.
(2) He shall be required to have the qualifications
of Firemen, Oiler and Watertender.
(3) He shall be classed as a watch stander and shall
perform the rourine duties and maintenance of the
Oiler and Fireman-Watertender stated in Article IV,
Sections 13, 14 and 17, Standard Tanker Agreement.
(4) Maintenance overtime shall be divided as equally
as possible between men of this rating.

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�SECTION 25. SHIP'S WELDER/MAINTENANCE
MAN. (a) The Ship's Welder-Maintenance Man shall
be class^ as day worker in the Engfine Department.
(b) He shall be required to do burning, welding,
maintenance and repair work anywhere on the vessel
ah directed by the Chief Engineer.
(c) He shall be required to have qualifications as
Fireman, Oiler and Watertender.
(d) He shall not replace any member of the Un­
licensed Personnel except when such member is missing
or unable to perform his regular duties due to illness
or injury^
_ .
(e) He shall not be required to do general clean­
ing, painting, cleaning paint, polishing work, wirebrushing, chipping or scaling except in the course of burning,
welding, maintenance and repair work.
(f) He shall receive the contractual rate for speci­
fied work such as tank cleaning, cleaning bilges, using
paint spray guns, etc.

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for members of the Steward Department in port when
feeding shall be outlined above. They shall be paid at the
applicable rate for all work performed outside their regular hours, after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m. weekdays and on
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, at the premium rate.,
SECTION 5. AUTOMATED AND SEMI-AUTO­
MATED VESSELS, (a) HOURS AND DUTIES:
1. The Chief Steward or Steward-Cook shall super­
vise the Steward Department, eight (8) hours, between
6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
2. Chief Cook
7:30 a.m.-12:46 p.m.
3:30 p.m.- 6:16 p.m.
Additional duties of the Chief Cook shall be "to assist
Cook and Baker during rush period at breakfast and
keep utensils used by him clean. The Chief Cook shall
receive the same port time overtime hours as the Chief
Steward.
3. Cook and Baker
6:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
11.00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.

prepare and serve the meals. They shall also clean and
maintain, including spot sougeeing and polishing bright
work the quarters of the Licensed Personnel, the Radio
Officer, the Purser, Passengers, and the ship s office,
all dining rooms, messrooms, washrooms, galley and
pantry. They shall sort and cull fruit and vegetables.
Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, no over­
time applies to the above routine work.
(b) At sea, the Utility, if assigned to the daily clean­
ing of the radio shack, shall receive not more than three
(3) hours overtime per week at the overtime rate.
(c) It shall be routine duties for the Steward Utility
to count and bag linen, work in storerooms, linen lock­
ers, toilets and Steward Department passageways and
do general cleaning within his eight (8) hours as directed
by the Steward.
SECTION 9. HANDLING STORES. Members of
the Steward Department shall not be required to carry
any stores or linen to or from the dock, but when
stores or linen are delivered at the storeroom doors,
meat or chill box-doors, Steward Department men shall
place same in their respective places and they shall be
p^jd at the rates indicated in Article II, Section 21 (c),
Penalty Overtime with the following definition:

SECTION 26. QUALIFIED MEMBER OF THE EN­
GINE DEPARTMENT. (1) The qualified member of
Additional duties of Cook and Baker shall be to prethe Engine Department shall perform all work assigned
pare,
cook and serve all vegetables for dinner and supper
to him in the Engine Department by the Engineer in
meals. Scrub galley after the supper meal with the ascharge.
(2) The duties of the Qualified Members of the sistance of a General Utility. Prepare night lunches and
Engine Department (Q.M.E.D.'s) shall be all work nec­ cooked salads.
the hobrs of 8
a
4. Saloon Mess
6:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
essary for the continuance of the operation of the Engine
lliiiWiiiiliSiiilii;;
10:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Department.
TW«m ihe hours of 6 p.m. »r
4:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.
ON WATCH—Baturdaya,
(3) He shall perform maintenance and repairs
Prepare salads except cooked, and all cold drinks used
throughout th^ vessel under the direction of the Engi­
by him. Draw supplies as needed.
neer in charge.
5. Crew Mess
6:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
However, daily provisions such as fresh vegetables,
(4) If he is a day worker, he may be required to
10:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
fruit, milk, or bread shall be stored by Messman and/or
replace a missing watch-stander.
4:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.
(6) He may be required to take on fuel and water
Utilitymen when placed aboard without the pajrment of
Prepare
salads
except
cooked
salads.
and to take soundings as directed by the Engineer in
overtime, provided such work is done within their pre­
6. Utility
6:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
charge.
scribed working hours.
10:30
a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
(6) When no Ship's Welder-Maintenance is carried
SECTION 10. RECEIVING STORES. The Steward
4:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.
he may, if qualified, be required to bum and weld.
On vessels carrying Utilities, the Chief Steward shall shall be solely responsible for checking and receiving of
(7) He may be required to assist in any work neces­
voyage stores and linens, and he shall not delegate this
sary for the operation of reefer equipment and con­ assign their duties.
,(b) VESSELS CARRYING PASSENGERS:
responsibility to another member of the Steward Detainers, including the taking of temperatures.
1.
When
passengers
are
on
board,
the
passengers'
partment. He shall be required to go on the dock to
(8) He shall not be required to chip, paint, or sougee
except where such work is incidental to a specific re­ utilities working hours shall be the same as the Mess- check stores and linens without the payment of over­
time during his regular hours.
man.
pair job.
2. In all ports the Cook and Baker shall work on
SECTION 11. LATE MEALS. When members of
a schedule between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. as set forth by
the
Steward Department are required to serve late
the Steward.
When meal hours are Changed for Deck and Engine
d"® ^o the failure of officers or crew to eat withDepartments in accordance with Article II, Section 44, 1?
prescribed time, the members of the Steward
the Steward Department's working hours may be changed Department actually requir^ to stand by to prepare
accordingly provided, however, that they be given two
&lt;^he late meals shall be paid the applicable
(2) hours' notice prior to the time necessary to prepare
^
SECTION 12. SHIFTING MEALS. When meal
3. Two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per day, for
are extended for any reason and any of the Uneach passenger over six (6) pas^ngers shall be paid on licensed Personnel are unable to eat within the regular
these ye^els when from seven (7) to twelve (12) are prescribed time, all members of the Steward Departcarried. These monies shall be divided among the memrequired to stand by to prepare and serve the
hers of the Steward Department who perform the work ^eals shall be paid at the applicable rate from the time
Company's option an additional Passenger ^im nieal is extended. As much notice as possible shall
Utilityman may be carried.
be given the Steward Department when meal hours are
4. When the vessel commences a voyage without pas- ^ ^e shifted,
sengers, and without a Passenger Utilityman and is
SECTION 28. PYRAMIDING OVERTIME. There manned in accordance with this section and passengers
SECTION 13. EXTRA MEALS, (a) When meals
shall be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime except are taken aboard at a foreign port, two dollars and fifty are served
crew
where specifically provided for.
cents ($2.50) per day per passenger shall be paid and
divided among members of the Steward Department who paid. This is to be divided among the members of the
department actually engaged in preparing and serving
perform this work.
ARTICLE V
5. When two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per day the meals.
STEWARD DEPARTMENT
(b) When food is prepared for persons who do not
per passenger is being paid to members of the Steward
Department, there shall be no division of wages as out- require the service of messroom, two (2) fiours overtime
lined in Article V, Section 7, because of the al^nce of per meal shall be paid for the first group of six (6) per­
sons or fraction thereof, and one (1) hour overtime for
this member in the Steward Department.
When the company receives no compensation for a each four (4) additional persons or fraction thereof. This
minor child then the two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) money is to be equally divided among the galley force.
(c) No extra meals are to be served without the
per day shall not be applicable.
authority of the Master or Officer in charge of the
vessel.
(d) The provisions of paragraph (a) shall not re­
quire the payment of any additional amount to mem­
bers of the Steward Department for serving meals to
Company officials, or Government officials assigned to
the ship on ship's, business.
SECTION 6. FULL COMPLEMENT, (a) A full
complement of the Steward Department shall be mainSECTION 14. EXTRA PERSONS SLEEPING
. tained when the vessel is feeding. This shall not apply ABOARD. When persons other than regular crewwhen a skelton crew is aboard.
members, passengers, pilot or a Company representa­
(b) When a skelton crew is aboard and the ship is tive sleep aboard, the member of the Steward Depart­
feeing, a minimum of five men shall be maintained in ment who takes care of the room shall be paid one (1)
the Steward Department.
hour's overtime per day. This does not apply when a
SECTION 2. MINIMUM OVERTIME. At sea, when
any member of the Steward Department is called out
to work between the hours of 7:30 p.m., and 5:30 a.m.,
a minimum of two (2) hours overtime shall be paid.
SECTION 3. NUMBER OF HOURS. No member
of the Steward Department shall be required to work
more than eight (8) hours in any one (1) day without
payment of overtime. All work performed at sea on
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays shall be paid for at the
premium rate except as provided in Article II, Section 18.
SECTION 4. WORKING HOURS, (a) Stewardeight (8) hours between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 6:30
Chief Cook—eight (8) hours between the hours of 6:30
a.m. and 6:30"p.m.
Cook and Baker—either 6 a.m. to 12 noon and 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m. or 2 a.m. to 10 a.m., at the Company's option.
At any rate, he shall receive the same 5 to 8 overtime
as the Chief Cook in port.
Messman—6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.; 10:30 a.m.-to 1:00
p.m.; and 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Steward-Util.—7 a.m.' to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
(b) IN PORT WHEN FEEDING. Working hours

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BERS. (a) When a vessel is in a Continental United does not exceed the full, complement of passengers
States port and a member of the Steward Department allowed.
is missing, the men who do the missing man's work
shall be paid overtime for actual time worked over
SECTION 15. SERVING MEALS OUTSIDE OF
their-normal eight (8) hours.
MESSROOMS. When any member of the Steward De­
(b) If a vessel sails without the full complement in partment is required to serve anyone outside of their
the Steward Department as required by this Agreement, respective messrooms for any reason, he shall be paid
then the men who do the missing men's work will receive, at the applicable rate for time required. However,
in addition to a division of wages of the missing men, meals be served on the bridge to the Master and/or
the overtime that the missing men would normally have Pilot without the payment of overtime whenever it is
made on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.
"necessary for the Master and/or Pilot to be on the
(c) While on a voyage and a member of the Steward bridge for the safety of the ship. The Captain's office
Department becomes ill or is injured and remains or stateroom shall not be classified as the bridge of
aboard the vessel, the men who do his work shall receive the ship. This section shall hot be construed to apply
a division of pay but they shall not receive any over- to passengers or ship's personnel served during regutime for doing this work.
lar working hours on account of illness.
SECTION 8. ROUTINE WORK, (a) The regular
routine duties laid. out below shall be carried out within
the scheduled working hours as specified above, and
it shall be the duty of the Steward Department to or­
ganize its work so that it is accomplished within the
eight (8) hours per day as scheduled in this Agreement.
Routine duties of the Steward Department shall be to

SECTION 16. MIDNIGHT MEALS AND NIGHT
LUNCHES, (a) Members of the Steward Department
actually engaged in serving hot lunches at midnight
are to be allowed three (3) hours' overtime for prepar­
ing and serving same.
(b) When not more than the equivalent of one de­
partment is served at 9 p.m. or at 3 a.m. night lunch.

�one cook shell be turned out to perform thie work.
When from six (6) to ten (10) men are served, one (1)
cook and one (1) messman shall perform this work. When
more than ten (10) men are served, one (1) cook and
two (2) meesmen shall perform this work.
(c) When meals are not provided as specified in
Article II, Section 43, the number of the Steward De­
partment who would normally be broken out to prepare
such meals shall be paid the overtime specified in para­
graph (a) above, at the overtime rate.
SECTION 17. CLEANING MEAT AND CHILL
BOXES, (a) Members of the Steward Department shall
be assigned by the Steward to clean meaf and chill boxes
and shall be paid at the applicable rate for time the
work is performed. Boxes shall not be cleaned without the
express authorization of the Chief Steward.
(b) Keeping the meat and chill boxes neat and orderly
at all times, such as cleaning out paper wrappings,
crates, etc., within regular working hours is not to be
considered overtime.
SECTION 18. MAKING ICE CREAM. When a
member of the Steward Department is required to make
ice cream he shall be paid at the applicable rate for
the time required to make the ice cream.
SECTION 19. MAKING ICE. On ships where ice
machines are carried, members of the Steward Depart­
ment will not be required to make or pull ice, but they
will distribute the ice qnce it is pulled. On ships where
ice machines are not carried, and members of the
Steward Department are required to make ice, over­
time shall be paid fpr such work performed. This does
not apply to making ice cubes in small refrigerators or
ice cube machines in messrooms, pantries or galleys.
SECTION 20. OVERTIME FOR BUTCHERING.
When carcass beef, eighths or larger, is carried, the
man required to butcher this beef shall be paid a mini­
mum of six (6) hours overtime weekly for butchering.
This shall not apply when a butcher is carried.

ING. Members of the Steward Department shall not be
required to chip, scale or paint.
SECTION 24. DUMPING GARBAGE. No member
of the Steward Department shall be required to go on
the dock for the purpose of dumping garbage, without
the payment of overtime.

SECTION 26. OIL STOVES. Members of the
Steward Department shall not be required to pump oil
for the galley range.
SECTION 26. DAY WORK, (a) When the ship is
not feeding and members of the Steward Department
are on day work, the hours shall be from 8 a.m. to
12 noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
(b) When members of the Steward Department are
on day work they may be required to work in store
rooms, linen lockers, toilets, passageways, handle stores
and linen placed aboard ship, and do general cleaning
without the payment of overtime.
(c) When members of the Steward Department are
on day work, all hands shall be allowed fifteen (15) min­
utes for coffee at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., or at a convenient
time near these hours.
(d) When the Steward Department is on day work
and the ship is not feeding, the men shall receive one
full hour from 12 noon until 1 p.m. for lunch. This hour
may be varied but such variation shall not exceed one
(1) hour either way, provided that one (1) unbroken
hour shall be allowed at all times for dinner or supper
when men are on day work. If one (1) unbroken hour
is not given, the men involved shall receive one (1)
hour's penalty overtime in lieu thereof.
SECTION 27. GALLEY GEAR, hi-he Company shall
furnish all tools for the galley including knives for
the Cooks.

SECTION 21. SHORE BREAD, (a) The Company
shall furnish bread from ashore in all Continental U.S.
ports. When bread is not furnished in Continental U.S.
ports within twenty-four (24) hours, excluding Sundays
and Holidays, the cooks shall be required to make the
bread and will be paid three (3) hours' overtime for each
batch of bread bak^.
(b) When a new Baker is employed he may be re­
quired to bake during regular working hours without
the payment Of overtime.

SECTION 29. ENTERING ENGINEROOM AND
FIREROOM. Members of the Steward Department shall
not be required to enter the engine or fire room, except
as may be required'by Article II, Section 18.

SECTION 2. SOUGEEING.. When members of the
Steward Department are required to sougee, overtime
shall be paid for the actual number of hours worked.
Spotting shall not be construed as sougeeing.

SECTION 30. WORK NOT SPECIFIED. Any work
performed by the Steward Department that is not
specifically defined in this Agreement shall be paid for
at the applicable rate.

SECTION 23. CHIPPING, SCALING AND PAINT-

SECTION 31. PYRAMIDING OVERTIME. There shall

SECTION 28. APRONS AND UNIFORMS. White
caps, aprons, and coats worn by the Steward Depart­
ment shall be furnished and laundered by the Company
and white trousers worn by the galley force shall be
laundered by the Company.

be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime except
where specifically provided for.

ARTICLE VI
OTHER PROVISiONS
SECTION 1. (a) Vessels Sales and Transfers. Prior to
any vessel contracted to the Seafarers International
Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­
land Waters District, AFL-CIO, being disposed of in
any fashion, including but not limited to sale, scrap,
transfer, charter, etc., ninety (90) days notification in
writing must be sent to Union Headquarters, 275 20th
Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215.
(b) Within
&lt;4B)" h&amp;ats t/iihe
such nctfficatioii, excluding Saturday,,Sunday and HcH-;
days, the Union shall have the r^lxt to demand that|
negctistionS he commenced immediately on the impacts
scrap, ttansfer, charter, etc, m the Un-|
SECTION 2. It is agreed that any Agreements that
are presently in effect covering War Risk Insurance
and Area Bonuses he continued as is with no change.
In addition, any and all addendums, supplementary
Agreements and/or memorandums of understanding, the
contents of which have not been incorporated into this
Collective Bargaining Agreement shall be continued in
effect and if modified, as so modified shall be incor­
porated into and made a part of this Collective Bargain­
ing Agreement.
SECTION 3. It is agreed that for purposes of con­
struction of this Agreement, wherever the masculine
gender is used, it shall include the feminine gender.
same formulas and principles as uUlized in the maritime
;lod«$try concerning cost of living adjostra^ts. Any 6Uch
adjustments that may be made wiB occur in
and

ARTIClE VII
EFFECTIVE DATES
The effective date of this Agreement shall be at 12:01
a.m., June
and the effective dates as to all
other changes shall be the dates provided in the Memo­
randums of Understanding which have been incorpor­
ated into and made a part of this Collective Bargaining
Agreement.

ARTICLE Vm
TERMINATION
The termination date of this Collective Bargaining
Agreement shall

SlU STEWARD DEPARTMENT WORKING RULES
FOR THE
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District,
AFLfCIO
In order to insure continued harmony and efficiency
in the Steward Department, this outline of duties is sub­
mitted as a guide for the Steward and his Department.
It is not intended to confiict with or supercede our
agreement, nor is it intended in any way to limit the
Chief Steward's authority.
, Duties of Steward:
Eight (8) hours between the hours of 6:30 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. The Steward shall have the full authority of making
any changes and adjustment of this work, according to
the circumstances or conditions that may arise, and the
. Union demands that each member cooperate in carry­
ing out his assignment as a condition of our Contract.
It shall be left up to the Steward's good judgment, who
will bear in mind that the results are always the deter­
mining factor, in better service, maintenance and
greater economy. He shall coordinate the work of his
Department in the different classes so that none of his
men will be taxed unfairly or beyond their capacity. He
shall have free access to all parts of the vessel, where
the function of his Department is necessary. When
settling differences he should make every effort to settle
them satisfac^rily for all concerned. His employees
are entitled to private interviews when brought to task.
This will improve the harmonious relationship now ex­
isting aboard ships. The regular duties of the Steward
shall be to supervise all work of the Steward Depart­
ment, including the supervision of preparing and serv­
ing all meals; he is responsible for the, receiving and
issuance of all stores, inspection of work, preparing
requisitions, taking inventory of stock, authorizing,
checking and recording overtime, conforming with the
agreement in distribution of extra meals to each man
individually, issuance of linen and soaps to the crew
and officers on the days designated with the help of
the Steward Utility. He shall see to it that the SIU
feeding system and list of instructions, as set forth by
Headquarters and its representatives, shall be followed
and he will be held accountable for its application
aboard ship.
When ordering replacements for entry ratings, the
Steward shall specify a definite entry rating. The dis­
patcher should be instructed to call the job as specified
for tiie particular entry rating involved.

7 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Chief Steward shall set up a schedule for mem­
The Second Cook shall work under the direction of
bers of the Department to keep the Steward Department
the Chief Cook and the Cook and Baker. He shall cook all
quarters clean.
Upon two' (2) hours notice, members of the Steward vegetables and assist in preparing for the cooking and
Department shall be required to assist the Steward in serving of all meals, prepare all cooked salads, and shall
taking voyage stores. The Steward will designate the assist the Night Cook and Baker with breakfast to order.
He shall prepare all night lunches. He shall assist in the
number of men necessary for storing.
He shall prepare all menus and control all keys. He general cleaning and upkeep of the galley and equip­
shall see that all quarters under his jurisdiction are ment, sort and cull perishable fruits and vegetables,
cleaned properly, that meals are served on time, au­ with the Galleyman, as required.
Duties of the Third Cook:
thorize the. cleaning of all refrigerated storage boxes.
7 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
He may assist when there is a shortage of help in his
The Third Cook shall work under the direction of the
Department, he may also do any work he may deem
necessary for the efficient operation of his Department. Chief Cook and other Cooks. He shall prepare and cook
all vegetables, keep a sufficient amount of onions, car­
Duties of the Chief Cook:
Eight (8) hours between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and rots, etc., available for use, sort and cull perishable
vegetables and fruits, with the Galleyman, as required.
6:30 p.m.
The Chief Cook is in charge of the galley. He shall do Keep refrigerated space neat and orderly, and clear
the butcheripg, cook roasts, soups, gravies and sauces; out paper wrappings, crates, etc. Draw necessary linen
direct the preparation and serving of all food, including for galley in exchange for soiled linens, assist in the
night lunches, assist the Chief Steward in preparation of general cleaning of galley and equipment, return un­
the menus when required. He shall work under the used and leftover food to the refrigerator when neces­
supervision of the Chief Steward and shall receive stores sary. When no Galley Utility is carried, he shall per­
when necessary and assist in the proper storage of form the work of the Galley Utility, and his working
siame. As directed by the Steward, he shall assist in hours shall be 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., 10 a-m. to 1 p.m., 4
taking inventory of galley stores and galley equipment; p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Duties of the Galley Utility:
also report to the Steward any repairs and replacing
6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.—11 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to
of all equipment. He shall render all fats, he shall be
responsible for the greneral cleanliness of the galley 6:30 p.m.
The Galley Utility shall work under the direction of
and its equipment. He shall keep the meat box in an
all Cooks; he shall clean the galley and all utensils, peel
orderly condition.
potatoes, and vegetables, cull perishable vegetables and
Duties of the Cook and Baker:
Eight (8) hours in all ports and at sea, as the Steward fruits with the Third Cook or Second Cook, and keep re­
frigerated spaces neat and orderly, clearing out paper
may direct, between the hours of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
He shall work under the direction of the Chief Cook; wrappings, crates, so forth; empty and scrub garbage
he shall do the necessary cooking, baking, breads, pies, pails. After each meal, scrub galley deck. He shall assist
cakes, puddings, pastries, hot cakes and all flour work, Chief Cook in drawing daily meats from meat box, when
cook cereals, stewed fruits, assist with cooking and serv­ required. Each morning after breakfast draw stores as
ing meals, and when required, he shall at 6 a.m. directed, including linen. Clean between deck, passage­
start the preparation of all meats left out by the Chief ways, outside refrigerator boxes and stairway leading
Cook except when the cook and baker is on day work. to the main deck. Light fires when prescribed.
Duties of the Passenger Utility:
He shall be responsible for cooking and serving break­
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m.
fast. He shall slice, prepare and serve all breakfast
meats and assist in the preparation and serving of all to 6:30 p.m.
When passengers are aboard, the Passenger Utility
meals while on day work. He bhall assist in the general
cleaning and upkeep of the galley and equipment. On shall make and clean the passenger rooms each morn­
Liberty ships where there is no Galleyman, he shall ing. He shall be responsible mostly for the caring of
and services to passengers, as the Chief Steward may
do the Third Cook's duties between 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
direct, clean passenger lounges and smoking room. He
Duties of the Second Cook:

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�may be required to assist Steward in receiving and dis­
embarking passengers. When six (6) or less passengers
are carried he is to serve them breakfast. He is to serve
lunch and dinner at all times and v/hen over six (6) pas­
sengers are carried he will work in conjunction with the
Saloon and Pantry Messmen, as the Steward may direct.
Duties of the Saloon Messman:
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m.
tc 6:30 p.m. The Saloon Messman shall be responsible for the serv­
ing of the three (3) meals daily to the Captain and Offi­
cers; he shall also assist in serving all meals to pajssengers. However, the Saloon Messman and Saloon Utility
are solely responsible for preparing and serving break­
fast when more than six (6) passengers are carried. He
shall be responsible for the cleanliness of the saloon,
condiments, etc., polish silver and clean port boxes and
glasses, mop the saloon each morning after breakfast
and sweep after each meal, and clean fans in saloon.
Draw all linen to be used in the saloon and be responsi­
ble for the setting of all tables for service. Spot sougee
when necessary.
Duties of the Saloon Utility:
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m.
to 6:30 p.m.
The Saloon Pantryman shall be responsible for the
pantry and the refrigerator and fruits and all needed
stores for the officers and passenger serv^ e. He is re­
sponsible for the preparation of salads (except cooked
salads) under the direction of the Steward. Keep pantry
and utensils, bootlegs, steamtables, crockery and pans
used by him, cleaned after each meal. Dish out food at
service. Make coffee at each meal and morning (coffee
time) before retiring. Empty and scrub garbage pail
after each meal, work jointly with Saloon Messman
and Passenger's Utility in preparation and serving at
all times. He may be required to assist in serving break­
fast with Saloon Messman when more than six (6) pas­
sengers are carried. Spot sougee when necessary.
Duties of the Crew Messman:
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m.
to 6:30 p.m.
The Crew Messman is in charge of the crew messroom; responsible for silverware and glasses, condi­
ments, and serving three (3) meals a day. Provide milk,
box cereals, butter, bread, cold drinks, and needed
supplies; scrub the deck each morning before retiring.
Clean messroom refrigerator, tables and chairs and spot
sougee when needed. Assist the Pantryman with salads.
Place night lunches in proper places. Leave out a few
cups and spoons after each meal. He shall check that
there are necessary stores left out for hight, such as

coffee, sugar, milk, etc. Also clean fans in messrooiff.
Duties of the Crew Utility:
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4:30 p.m.
to 6:30 p.m.
The Crew Pantryman shall be responsible for the
cleanliness of the crew pantry crockery, coffee um,
percolators, all pots and pans used by him, and refrig­
erators; scrub deck each day and sweep after each
meal. Make coffee for each meal and coffee for the
crew for morning (coffee time) before retiring. He is
responsible for the preparation of salads (except cooked
salads) under the direction of the Steward. He shall
assist Messman in serving when required during rush
period. Draw needed supplies for the crew messroom
and assist Crew Messman in making cold drink. Spot
sougee when necessary.
Duties of the Steward Utility:
7:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Routine duties of the Steward Utility shall, other than
making and cleaning officers' quarters, include work in
storerooms, linen lockers, ship's office, officers' passage­
ways and stairways, clean Steward Department show­
ers, and toilet, count and bag linen, issuance of linen
and soaps when necessary; do the general cleaning as
the Steward may designate. Clean the recreation room
alternately with the Wiper and Ordinary Seaman. The
laundry is cleaned by each Department alternately.
Note:—Members of the Steward Department who are
required to obtain stores from refrigerated spaces shall
assist in keeping refrigerated spaces clean by remov­
ing paper, wrappings, crates, etc.
On certain types of vessels .the Messman and Utilitymen may be required to clean certain ladders and pas­
sageways as part of their routine duties.
SIU STEWARD DEPARTMENT GUIDE
In order to improve the preparation and serving of
food and eliminate waste on all SlU-contracted vessels,
the following guide shall be put into effect:
(1) Menus are to be prepared daily, on main entrees
at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance. Standardiza­
tion must be avoided.
(2) The Chief Steward is to issue all daily stores
when practicable and must control all keys. Storerooms
and ice boxes are to be kept locked at all times.
(3) Maximum sanitary and orderly conditions must
be observed in all Steward Department facilities such as
galley, messrooms, storerooms, etc. No smoking in the
galley at any time. No smoking by any Steward Per­
sonnel while serving or preparing food.

(4) White jackets must be worn by Messman at all
times while serving. T-shirts may be worn while pre­
paring for meals. Galley gang to wear white caps, cooks
jackets, white or T-shirts during hot weather. Caps to
be paper or cloth. Cooks jackets to be % lengrth sleeves.
However, white or T-shirts may be worn by Messman
during hot weather.
(6) Only qualified food handlers are to handle food
and all personnel outside of the Steward Department are
to be kept out of the galley at all times.
(6) All entrees such as meat, fowl, and fish, includ­
ing ham and bacon for breakfast, must be served from
the galley and when practical, vegetables should also
be served from the galley.
(7) All steaks and chops are to be grilled to indi­
vidual order. However, chops may be grilled thirty (30
minutes prior to serving, when necessary. Meats and
roasts must be carved to order.
(8) No plates should be overloaded and only nonwatery vegetables will be served on the same plate
with the meat or other entree. Other vegetables to be
served on side dishes.
(9) At least two (2) men of the galley gang must be
in the galley during meal times. The Steward is to super­
vise the serving of all meals. Either the Steward or the
Chief Cook must supervise the meals when in port. Stew­
ard to be aboard and responsible to check voyage stores
when they are received.
(10) Salads, bread, butter and milk are to be placed
on the table not more than five (5) minutes before the
serving and only on tables where needed.
(11). All coffee served for meals and coffee time is to
be made in electric percolators when practicable.
(12) No food, including vegetables, is to be thrown
away after meals without the consent of the Steward
or the Chief Cook. Use left-overs as soon as possible, not
to exceed forty-eight (48) hours.
(13) Such items as sardines, boiled eggs, sliced left­
over roasts, such as pork, beef, ham, etc., potato salad,
baked beans, besides the ordinary run of cold cuts and
cheese are to be served for night lunch. The night
lunches are to be cut and placed by the 2nd Cook or
3rd Cook before retiring.
(14) Hot bread or rolls to be baked daily when prac­
ticable. Cakes or pastry to be served at coffee time as
much as possible,
(15) Stewards must keep a record of all menus for
reference.
(16) Ground coffee for the black gang to be drawn
from the Steward within the Steward's working hours
and not from the pantry.
(17) Typewritten copy of the daily menu to be fur­
nished the galley force.

SHIPPING RULES-JUNE 16,1975
Preamble
Every seaman seeking employment through the hiring halls of the
Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Guif, Lakes
and Inland Waters District (hereinafter called the "Union") shall be
shipped pursuant to the following Shipping Rules. Nothing con­
tained in these Shipping Rules is in any way intended to create
any indemnity obiigation on the part of either the Union ifl- the
Seafarers Welfare Plan.

1. Seniority
A. Subject to the conditions and restrictions on employment con­
tained in agreements between the Union and contracted Employers
and to the Rules set forth herein, seamen shall be shipped out on
jobs referred through the Union's hiring halls according to their
class of seniority rating.
B. The following shall be the classes of seniority rating:
1. Class "A" seniority rating, the highest seniority rating, shall
be possessed by:
(a) all unlicensed seamen who possessed such rating on Sept.
8, 1970, pursuant to the Shipping Rules then in effect;
(b) all unlicensed seamen who possess Class "B" seniority
rating pursuant to these Rules and who have shipped regularly as
defined herein for eight (8) consecutive years, provided such sea­
men have maintained their Cass "B" seniority rating without break
and provided further that they have completed satisfactorily the
advanced course of training then offered by the Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship for the Department in which such seamen
regularly ship; and
(c) ali unlicensed seamen who have been upgraded to Class "A"
seniority rating by the Seafarers Appeals Board pursuant to the
authority set forth herein.
2. Ciass "B" seniority rating, the second highest seniority rating,
shall be possessed by:
(a) all unlicensed seamen who possessed such rating on Sept.
8, 1970 pursuant to the Shipping Rules then in effect:
(b) all unlicensed seamen who possess Class "C" seniority
rating pursuant to these Rules and who have shipped regularly as
defined herein for two (2) consecutive years; and.
(c) all unlicensed seamen who possess Class "C" seniority
rating pursuant to' these Rules and who have graduated from the
Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship entry rating training pro­
gram and have been issued a ship assignment card In accord with
these Rules.
3. Class "C" seniority rating, the lowest seniority rating, shall be
possessed by all unlicensed seamen who do not possess either
class "A" or class "B" seniority ratings.
C. A seaman shail be deemed to have shipped regularly within
the meaning of these Rules if he has been employed as an un­
licensed seaman no less than ninety (90) days during each calen­
dar year aboard one or more American-flag merchant vessels cov­
ered by a collective bargaining agreement between the Union and
the owner or operator of such vessels.
D. Employment by or at the request of, or election to any office
or job in, the Union shall be the equivalent of covered employment
described in the preceding paragraph; and seniority credit under
these Rules shall accrue during the period that such employment,
office or job is retained.
E. Seniority credit shall be accrued on the basis of total covered
employment, without regard to whether such employment was served
in the Deck, Engine or Steward Departments.
F. The ninety (90) day period of employment required of a sea­
man during any year to constitute shipping regularly within the
meaning of these Rules shall be reduced pro; irtionately In accord
with the amount of time spent by such sr-r^'ian during that year
as a bonafide in- or out-patient-In the continuing care of a U.S.P.H.S,. or other accredited hospital. (For example, four months' in­

patient time during a given calendar year reduces the ninety (90)
day employment requirement for% that year by one-third to sixty
(60) days.
G. In the event a seaman possessing less than Class "A" sen­
iority rating fails to ship regularly within the meaning of these
Rules during a particular year, he shall lose all accumulated em­
ployment credit for that and all preceding years in his then cur­
rent seniority rating.
H. In the event a seaman's covered employment has been Inter­
rupted by circumstances beyond his control, resulting In his fail­
ure to ship regularly within the meaning of these Rules, the Sea­
farers Appeals Board may, upon application of the affected seaman,
grant such total or partial seniority credit for the time lost as the
Board may deem necessary in its sole discretion to avoid undue
hardship.
I. In the event a seaman's covered employment Is interrupted
by service in the Armed Forces of the United States, resulting In
his failure to ship regularly within the meaning of these Rules,
such seaman shall suffer no loss of seniority credit accrued prior
to his entry of military service if he registers to ship pursuant to
these Rules within one hundred twenty (120) days following his
separation from military service.

2. Shipping Procedure
A. Subject to the specific provisions of these Rules, unemployed
seamen shall be shipped only if registered as provided herein and
in the order of the priorities established in Rule 2 C (3) hereof.
B. The following rules shall govern the registration of unemploy­
ed seamen for shipping through Union hiring halls:
1.. Unemployed seamen shall register only at the port through
which they desire to ship. No seaman shall be registered at more
than one port at the same time, nor if they are employed aboard
any vessel.
' 2. All seamen possessing U.S. Coast Guard endorsements, veri­
fying certified deck or engine ratings, shall be registered in Group
I or Group II of their respective departments. In the Steward De­
partment, seamen shall be registered in Group l-S, I or II upon
presentation of their seniority identification card and providing proof
of qualification for such registration. All ucher seamen shall be
registered as "Entry Ratings," as defined in Rule 3, Departments
and Groups and may bid for any job in the "Entry Ratings" De­
partment. Upon attaining endorsements from the U.S. Coast Guard
of certified ratings, in the Group I or II category, in either the Deck
or Engine Department as defined in Rule 3, Departments and
Groups, or having sailed in the Steward Department for a minimum
of 6 months, application may be made to the Seafarers Appeals
Board for consideration for permanent registration in the Deck,
Engine or Steward Departments.
3. Shipping registration cards shall be non-transferable and shall
be issued at Union hiring hails only upon application in person by
seamen desiring the same. Shipping registration cards shall be
time- and date-stamped when Issued and shall show the registrant's
class of seniority rating. Department and Group.
4. Shipping registration cards shall be issued during the regular
business hours of the Union's hiring halls. Every seaman desiring
to register must possess and submit all documents required by
the United States Coast Guard and by applicable law for employ­
ment as a merchant seaman aboard U.S.-flag vessels. At the time
of registration each seaman is responsible for producing sufficient
evidence to establish his class df s'eniorlty rating. For this purpose
an appropriate seniority Identification card issued by the Union
shall be deemed sufficient, although other official evidence of em­
ployment, such as legible U.S. Coast Guard discharges, may also
be submitted.
5. in ports where the Seafarers Welfare Plan maintains a clinic,
tio seaman shall be registered for shipping unless he submits a
valid Seafarers Welfare Plan clinic card at the time of registration.

6. To remain valid, seniority registration cards must be stamped'
once each month in the port of issuance. The dates and times for
such stamping shall be determined by the Port Agent for each
port, and each registrant shali be notified of the dates and times
for stamping when he receives his shipping registration card. A
seaman who fails to have his shipping registration card so stamped
during any month shall forfeit the same and shall be required to
re-register. In the event circumstances beyond his control prevent
a seaman from having his shipping registration card so stamped,
the Port Agent may stamp such card as if the seaman had been
present on the required time and date, upon submission by the
seaman of adequate evidence of the circumstances p.^eventlng his
personal appearance.
7. Subject to the provisions of these Rules, shipping registration
cards shail be valid only for a period of ninety (90) days from the
date of issuance. If the ninetieth (90th) day falls on a Sunday, a
national or state holiday, or on a day on which the Union hiring
hall in the port of registration is closed for any reason, shipping
registration cards which would otherwise expire on such day shall
be deemed valid until the next succeeding business day on which
the said hiring hall is open. Shipping registration cards' periods of
validity shail also be extended by the number of days during which
shipping in the port of registration has been materially reduced by
strikes affecting the maritime industry generally or by other sim­
ilar circumstances.
C. The following Rules shall govern shipping of registered sea­
men through Union hiring halls:
1. Seamen shall be shipped only through the hiring hall at the
port where they have registered for shipping. No seaman shall be
shipped on a job outside of the Department or Group in which ho
• is registered except under emergency circumstances to prevent a
vessel from sailing short-handed, or as otherwise provided in these
Rules.
2. Jobs referred to the Union hiring hall shall be announced and
offered to registered seamen ot the times and according to the
procedures set forth in Rule 4 hereof. At the time each job is so
offered, registered seamen desiring such job shall submit their
shipping registration cards, U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner's
documents, and valid Seafarers Welfare Plan clinic cards to the
hiring hall, dispatcher. The job so offered shall be awarded to the
seaman in the appropriate Department and Group possessing the
highest priority, as determined pursuant to Rule 2 C (3) hereof.
3. Within each Department, seamen of higher senorlty. rating
shall have priority for jobs over seamen of lower seniority rating,
even if such higher seniority seamen are registered in a different
Group from that in which the offered job is classified. As between
seamen of equal seniority ratings within the same Department,
priority shall bo given to the seamen registered for the Group In
which the offered job is classified. In the event seamen of equal
priority under this paragraph bid for the .same job, the job shall
be awarded to the searnan possessing the earliest dated shipping
registration card.
4. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Rules, no Job
shall be awarded to a seaman who Is under the influence of alco­
hol or drugs at the time such job is offered; nor shall any seaman
be awarded any Job unless he is qualified therefor in accord with
law or unless he submits, if necessary, appropriate documents es­
tablishing such qualifications.
5. The seaman ^awarded a job under Rule 2 0 (2) hereof shall
Immediately surrender his shipping registration card and shall re­
ceive two job assignment cards containing his name and the de­
tails of the job. When reporting aboard his vessel, the seaman
shall present one job assign nenf card to !he head of his Depart­
ment and the other to the Union department delegate.
D. A seaman who quits or is fired from a job during the same
day on which he reports for such job shall retain his original ship­
ping registration card if he has received no compensation for such
day's employment and if he reports back to the dispatcher on the

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�next succeeding business day. A seaman who quits or is fired
after the day he reports for a job shali secure a new shipping reg­
istration card.
E. A seaman who receives job assignments pursuant to Ruie 2 C
(5) hereof and subsequentiy rejects or quits the same on two oc­
casions within the period of his shipping registration card's valid­
ity shall forfeit his shipping registraton card and shall secure a
new shipping registration card.
F. All seamen registered for shipping, other than those possess­
ing Class A seniority rating, who are unavailable to accept or fail
or refuse to accept three jobs for which they are qualified during
any one period of registration may forthwith be refused the right
to register for empioyment under these Ruies foi a period of
twelve (12) months. Upon application as provided in these Ruies
the Seafarers Appeals Board may shorten or revoke such refusal
of registration for good cause shown.
6. Seamen with Class C seniority rating shipped pursuant to
these Rules may retain such jobs for one round trip or sixty (60)
days, whichever is longer. At the termination of such round trip or
on the first opportunity following the sixtieth (60th) day on the
job, such seaman shali sign off their vessels; and the vacant job
shall be referred to the Union hiring hail.
H. Seamen with Cass B seniority rating shipped pursuant to
these Rules may retain such jobs for a period of one round trip or
one hundred eighty (180) days, whichever is longer. At the com­
pletion of such round trip or at the first opportunity following the
one hundred eightieth (180) days on the job, such seamen shall
sign off their vessels; and the vacant job shall be referred to the
Union hiring hall.
I. The provisions of Sections G and H of this Rule 2 shall not
apply, if they would cause a vessel to sail short-handed. For the
purposes of these sections the phrase, "round-trip," shall have
its usual and customary meaning to seamen, whether such "roundtrip" be coastwise, intercoastai or foreign. On - coastwise voyages,
If a vessel is scheduled to return to the area of original engage­
ment, a seaman of less than Class A seniority rating shall not be
required to leave such vessel until the vessel reaches the said
area. On intercoastai and foreign voyages, if a vessel pays off at
a port in the Continental United States other than in the area of
engagement, and if such vessel is scheduled to depart from said
port of payoff within ten (10) days after arrival to return to the
area of original engagement, a seaman of less than Class A sen­
iority rating shall not be required to leave the vessel until It ar­
rives in the area of original engagement.
J. No seaman shipped under these Rules shall accept a promo­
tion or transfer aboard ship unless there is no time or opportunity
to dispatch a seaman to fill such vacant job from a Union hiring
hall.

3. Departments and Groups
A. Jobs aboard vessels covered by these Rules are classified
according to the following schedule, of Departments and Groups.

Boatswain
Boatswain's Mate
Carpenter
Quartermaster
Able Seaman

DECK DEPARTMENT
GROUP 1-DAY WORKERS
Deck Maintenance
Watchman-Day Work
Storekeeper

GROUP ll-RATING WATCH STANDERS
Car Deckman
Watchman-Standing Watches

ENGINE DEPARTMENT
GROUP I
Chief Ref. Eng'r.
Chief Electrician
Chief Storekeeper
1st, 2nd, 3rd Ref. Eng'r.
Evap. Maintenance Man
2nd Electrician
Pumpman, 1 and 2
Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.-Day Work
Engine Maintenance
Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.-Watch
Ship's Welder/Maintenance
Plumtier-Machlnist
QMED
Electriclan/Ref. Maint
Crane M/T Electrician
Engine Utility Reefer Maintenance
GROUP II
Watertender
Fireman/Watertender
Fireman
Oiler Maintenance/Utility

Deck Engineer
Engine UUIity
Oiler-Diesel
OilenSteam

STEWARD DEPARTMENT
GROUP I (S) RATED MEN
Chief Steward-Passenger
2nd Steward-Passenger
Steward
Steward/&amp;&gt;ok

\

Chef
Cook and Baker
Chief Cook

GROUP l-RATED MEN
2nd Cook and Baker
Butcher

GROUP II
2nd Cook, 3rd Cook and Assistant Cook
ENTRY DEPARTMENT
GROUP III
Ordinaries on Watch
Wiper
Utility Messmen
Waiters

O.S. Deck I
Messman
General Steward's Utility

B. After having attained permanent registration in accordance
with the procedure set forth in Rule 2, B-2, a seaman may not
change the Department In which he ships without the loss of
accrued seniority unless he receives permission from the Seafarers
Appeals Board. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall grant such
permission only upon proof establishing in the sole judgment of
the Board that medical reasons warrant the change.

4^ Buslnegs Hours and Job Calls
A. Except as otherwise provided herein, alt Union hlripg halls
shall be open Monday through Friday from 8:00- A.M. until 5:00
P.M. and on Saturday from 8:00 A.M. until 12:00 Noon. The hiring
halls shall be closed on July 4. Christmas Day, New Year's Day,
Labor Day and such other hoiidays as are determined by the-Port
Agents. Notice of such additional closings shail be posted on the
hiring hall's bulletin board on the day preceding the hoiiday.
8. Ail jobs referred to Union hiring hails shall be posted on the
shipping board before being announced. Jobs shall be announced
hourly as close to the hour as rrtcy be practicable duH^^u business
hours of the Union's hiring halls, except that there shall be no job
calls at 8:00 A.M., at 12:00 Noon, and at 5:00 P.M. During non­
business hours, or In the event of exceptional circumstances, a job
may be posted and announced at any time after it is received.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Port Agent may establish for a
Union hiring hall such other regular schedule of daily job calls as
may be warranted by the level of shipping or other circumstances
affecting such hiring hall. Such other schedule as may be estab­
lished, however, shall be in writing and posted on the hiring ball
bulletin board.
C. Seamen holding Class C seniority rating shall not bid for a
job offered purauant to these Rules until the same has appeared on
eight job cails without being taken. If the eighth job call does not
produce a qualified seaman possessing either Class A or Class B
seniority rating, the said job shall be awarded to the seaman
possessing Class C seniority rating entitled to the same under
these Rules. This Rule shall not apply if it wouid cause a vessel to
sail short-handed or late.
D. In ports other than "major" ports as defined under these
Rules, if the first call of a vacant job does not pitxfuce a qualified
seaman possessing Class A seniority rating, the job shail ba re­
ferred to the nearest major port. The said job shail then be offered
at the said major port at the next four (4) job calls. During such

caiis only quaiified seamen possessing Ciass A seniority rating
jnay bid for such job. In the event the job still remains open, it
shaii be referred back'to the originai port and there offered to sea­
men possessing Ciass A or Ciass B seniority ratings, otherwise
entitied to the job under these Rules. This Ruie shali not apply if
it would cause a vessel to sail short-handed or late
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York, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and San Francisco.
E. "Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ruie 4, if the
first call of a vacant Group Hi or 3rd Cook job does not produce
a quaiified seaman possessing Ciass A.^or B seniority, the job shaii
be referred to the hiring hall at Piney Point, Maryland, where the
job shail then be offered at a job call, if after the first call of
such job, the job remains open, it shali be referred to the port
from which it was originally offered, to be offered or referred, as
the case may t&gt;e, in accordance with Paragraph D above.

5. Preferences and Priorities
A. Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary con­
tained in these Ruies, the following preferences shall apply:
1. A seaman shipped pursuant to these Ruies whose vessel lays
up less than fifteen (15) days after his originai empioyment date
shail receive back the shipping registration card on which he was
shipped, provided the said card has not expired in the interim
period.

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£ Seamen pbissessiiig llass C sehibrity' rating an a certificate
of satisfactory completion of the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­
manship entry rating training program shail have priority for jobs
over other Ciass C personnel.
4. (a) Within each ciass of seniority rating in the Deck Depart­
ment, priority for the job of Bosun shaii be given to those seamen
possessing a certificate of recertification as bosun from the Deck
Department Recertification Program, in the event such program is
being offered. In the event there are no such Recertified Bosuns
available, priority shall be given to those seamen who have either
actual seatime as able seamen of at least thirty-six (36) months,
or actual seatime in any capacity in the Deck Department of at
least seventy-two (72) months, of actual seatime as bosun of at
least twelve (12) months, in all cases aboard vessels covered by
these Ruies.
(b) Within each class of seniority rating in the Deck Depart­
ment, priority for the job of Quartermaster shaii be given to those
seamen possessing a certificate of satisfactory completion of the
advanced course fo training by the H.L.S.S. for the rating of
Quartermaster, in the event such training is being offered.
5. (a) Within each class of seniority rating in the Engine De­
partment priority for the job of Chief Electrician shall be given to
those seamen who have actual seatime qboard vessels covered by
these Rules of at least thirty-six (36) months in the Engine De­
partment including at least twelve (12) months as Second Electri­
cian.
(b) Within each class of seniority rating in the Engine De­
partment, priority for the job of Q.M.E.D. shall be given to those
seamen possessing a certificate of satisfactory completion of the
advanced course of training by the H.L.S.S. for the rating of
Q.M.E.D., In the event such training is being offered.
6. Within each class of seniority rating in the Steward Depart­
ment, priority for jobs of steward and third cook shall be given to
those seamen who possess a certificate of recertification in their
rating from the Steward .Department Recertification Program, in
the vent such program is being offered. If there are no such Re­
certified Stewards available, priority for jobs of steward shail be
given to those seamen who have actual seatime of at least thirtysix (36) months in the Steward Department in a rating above that
of Third Cook, or who have actual seatime of at least twelve (12)
months as Steward, in ail cases at&gt;oard vessels covered by these
Rules.
7. Within each class of seniority rating in every Department,
priority for entry rating jobs shaii be given to ail seamen who
possess Lifeboatman endorsement by the United States Coast
Guard. The Seafarers Appeals Board mpy waive the preceding sen­
tence when, in the sole judgment of the Board, undue hardship
will result or extenuating circumstances warrant such waiver.
8. In the event an applicant for the Steward Department Recerti­
fication Program or the Deck Department Recertification Program
for bosuns is employed in any unlicensed .job board a vessel
covered by these Rules at the time he is called to attend such
program, such applicant, after successful completion of the pro­
gram, shail have the right to rejoin his vessel in the same job
upon its first arrival in a port of payoff within the continental lim­
its of the United States.
9. A seaman who registers to ship pursuant to these Ruies
within two (2) business days following his discharge as an In­
patient from a U.S.P.H.S. or other accredited hospital and who
produces offical written evidence of such confinement, shall be
issued a shipping registration card dated either thirty (30) days
earlier than the actual date of registration if such confinement
lasted at least thirty (30) days, or, if it lasted less than thirty (30)
days, with the date such confinement commenced.

B. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall have four (4) members,
two appointed by the Union and two appointed by that committee
representing the majority of contracted Empioyers for purposes of
negotiations with the Union, commoniy known as the Management
Negotiating Committee. Each party shall also appoint two alter­
nates for the members so appointed, to serve in the absence of
such members.
C. The quorum f&lt;u^any action by the Seafarers Appeais Board
shali be at least one member appointed by each party. At any
meeting of the Seafarers Appeals Board the members appointed
by each party shail collectively cast an equal number of votes re­
gardless of the actual number of members ..present and voting. Ex­
cept as otherwise provided herein decisions of the Seafarers
Appeais Board shall be unanimous. In the event of a tie vote the
Board shail elect an impartial person to resolve the deadlocked
issue. In the event the Board, is unable to agree on such an im­
partial person, the matter shali be submitted to final and binding
arbitration in New York City pursuant to the Voluntary Labor Ar­
bitration Ruies then in effect of the American Arbitration Associa­
tion.
D. Any person or party subject to or aggrieved by the applica­
tion of these Ruies shaii have the right to submit any matter aris­
ing under these Rules to the Seafarers Appeals Board for determi­
nation. Such submission shail be in writing, shall set forth the
facts in sufficient detail to identify the matter at issue, and shall
be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Sea­
farers Appeais Board, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215.
An applicant desiring to be heard in person before the Board
shall request the same in his written application. In such event
the applicant shall be notified at least two weeks prioi&gt; tO'
the Board's next regular meeting of the date and location of such
meeting, and the applicant may attend such meeting at his own
expense and be heard.
E. Ail applications to the Seafarers Appeals Board shali be ruled
on initially by the Chairman, subject to confirmation or overruling
by the Board at its next meeting. Prior to the Board's action, how­
ever, the Chairman may initiate such administrative steps as 'he
deems necessary to implement his preliminary determination.
F. The Board shaii meet no less than quarterly and shail estat&gt;lish such reasonable procedures, consistent with these Rules, as it
deems necessary. Meetings of the Board may be either in person
or in writing. Meetings in writing shall be signed by all members
of the Board.

8. Discipline
A. Although under no indemnity obligation of any sort, the Union
will not be required to ship persons who, by their liehavior in the
course of employment aboard contracted vessels, during programs
of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship and at hiring halls
subject to these Shipping Ruies, demonstrate that their presence
aboard contracted vessels may prevent safe and efficient operation
of such vessels or create a danger or threat of liability, injury or
harm to such vessel and their crews. Persons not required to be
shipped shall include without limitation those guilty of any of the
following:
1. Drunkenness or alcoholism.
2. Use, possession or sale of narcotics.
3. Use or possession of dangerous weapons or substances.
4. Physical assault.
5. Malicious destruction of property.
6. Gross misconduct.
7. Neglect of duties and responsibilities.
8. Deliberate interference with efficient operation of vessels, of
the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship or of hiring
halls subject to these Rules.
9. Deliberate failure or refusal to join vessels.
10. Any act or practice which creates a menace or nuisance to
the health or safety of others.
B. No seaman shall suffer any temporary or permanent loss of
shipping rights under Rule 8 ^ hereof, except, pursuant to the fol­
lowing procedures:
1. The Union, a contracted Employer, or the Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship shall initiate a proceeding under this Rule
8 by filing a written complaint with the Chairman of the Seafarers
Appeais Board and mailing a copy thereof to the subject seaman.
The Chairman shall thereupon name a committee of two persons,
one representing the Union and one representing management, to
hear and determine the complaint.
2. The hearing committee shail prepare a written specification
of charges and notice of hearing, which shail be sent to the sub­
ject seaman by certified mail, addressed to his last known resi­
dence. Such notice shall provide at least two weeks' time for the
seaman to prepare his defense and shail give the seaman up to
one week before the hearing date to request a change of date or
location of such hearing. The hearing committee shail initially lo­
cate the hearing at the Union hiring hail closest to the subject
seaman's last known residence. Pending the hearing, the seaman
may register and ship in accord with these Rules and his current
seniority status. .

3. The hearing shall proceed as scheduled, whether or not the
accused seaman is present. The hearing committee shail give the.
charging and charged parties full opportunity to present their
evidence either in person or in writing. No formal rules of evidence
shall apply, but the committee shall accept all relevant evidence
and give the same such weight as the committee alone may deem
appropriate.
4. The hearing committee shall render and announce its deci­
sion on the day of hearing, as soon as possible after the comple­
tion thereof. A decision uphoiding the complaint shall be unani­
mous. The committee shall reduce its decision to writing, sign the
same, and send copies thereof to the Seafarers Appeals Board, to
the complaining party, and to the accused seaman by certified
mail, return receipt requested.
5. The seaman may appeal all or any aspect of the hearing
committee's decision to the Seafarers Appeais Board. Such appeal
shali be in writing and shali set forth the basis for the appeal irt.
6. Standby and Relief Jobs
sufficient detail to be understood. The seaman shall send his ap­
peal ' by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Seafarers
A. Priority for standby and relief jobs shall be determined
Appeals Board, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215, within ten
according to the provisions of Ruie 2 C (3), except that a seaman
(10) days following the decision, except that the Board may extend
who has had any standby or relief jobs during the period of his
the time for filing an appeal for good cause shown.
shipping registration Card's validity shall not have priority for such
6. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall hear all appeals arising
jobs over seamen of the same class of seniority rating who have
under this Rule 8 at its next regular meeting after receipt thereof,
had a lesser number of standby or relief jobs during the period
provided the appeal has been received in sufficint time for the
of their shipping registration cards' validity.
Board to give at least five (5) days' written notice to the seaman
B. After the termination of standby or relief empioyment, the
of the time and place of the meeting at which his appeal will be
seaman involved shail receive back his original shipping registra­
considered.
tion card, unless the same has expired in the interim period.
7. The Seafarers Appeals Board's decision on the appeal shall l&gt;e
C. A seaman on a standby or relief job pursuant to these Ruies
in
writing, and copies shall be sent to the complaining party and
shali not take a regular job aboard any vessel until his standby or
the seaman by certified mail, return receipt requested. Pending
reiief job terminates, he returns to the hiring hali, and he secures
hearing and determination of the appeal the decision of the hear­
such regular job pursuant to the provisions of Ruie 2 C hereo'.
ing committee shall be in full force and effect.
D. A seaman employed pursuant to these Ruies on- a regular
8. A final appeal shall be allowed by the involved seaman from
job who requires time off and secures permission therefor shall
notify the nearest Union hiring hall, and a relief man shall be dis- . decision of the Board to the impartial Umpire designated pursuant
to Rule 8 C hereof. Such appeal shail be in writing and shall set
patched. No relief man shall be furnished for iess than four (4)
forth the basis of the appeal in sufficient detail to ba understood.
hours' nor more than three (3) days' work. The seaman shall pay
Such appeal shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt request­
his reiief man for the number of hours worked at the overtime
ed, to the Seafarers Appeals Board, 275 20tif Street, Brooklyn.
rate appllcabie to the job Monday through Friday. On Saturday,
N.Y. 11215, within ten UO) days following receipt of the Sea­
Sunday and Hoiidays, he ^hall pay the premium rate. Reiief men
farers Appeals Board's decision. The Board shall forward all such
shall be requested only when required by the head of the Depart­
appeals to the Impartial Umpire, who shail set the time and place
ment involved aboard the subject vessel.
of hearing of the appeal in New York City within thirty (30) days
E. A seaman employed pursuant to these Rules who has been
following receipt of the appeal and shall notify all parties in writ­
called to attend the Steward or Deck Department Recertification
ing. The Impartial Umpire may reasonably extend any time limit
Programs may be temporarily replaced by a relief man for the
provided in this paragraph upon good cause show. The Impartial
duration of such program. In the event such seaman is not re­
Umpire shall render his decision in writing and shall cause copies
placed by a relief man but terminates his job instead, the pro­
to.be mailed to all parties by certified mail, retum receipt request­
visions of Rule 5 A (8) shall apply.
ed. The decision of the Impartial Umpire shall be final and binding
and may be reduced to judgment by any party.
7. Seafarers Appeals Board
C. The Impartial Umpire provided for in the preceding para­
graph shall be a permanent arbitrator appointed by and to serve
A. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall have sole and exclusive
at the pleasure of the Seafarers Appeals Board. In the event the
authority to administer these Rules and to hear and determine any
Board is unable to agree upon an Impartial Umpire, for each ap­
matter, controversy or appeal arising thereunder, or relating to the
peal arising under Rule 8 B (8) hereof the Seafarers Appeals
application thereof.

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Board shall request the chief executive officer of any Federal, State
or City government agency maintaining iists of impartial arbitra­
tors to designate an Arbitrator to hear and determine such appeal.
D. Nothing in this Rule 8 shall be construed to prevent the Un­
ion from appearing by its properly designated representatives at
any stage of the proceeding.

9. Amendments

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Rules at any time and in any manner consistent with the require­
ments of applicable law and of outstanding collective bargaining
agreements between the parties.

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10. Special or Emergency Provisions

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A. During any period of emergency, unlicensed seamen possess­
ing Class B or C Seniority who are in the Entiy Rating Department
and who have adequate seatime to make {^plication for endorse­
ment in Group II rating or ratings in the Deck or Engine Depart­
ment shall not be registered for shipping unless they make applica­
tion for and expeditiously comply with the requisite rules to secure
such Group II endorsement or endorsements. All such unlicensed
seamen in lieu of such registration and provided they comply with
the foregoing shall upon completion of such requirement be deemed
then registered as of the date of their appearance in the group In
which they thereafter have been found qualified. Ail such un­
licensed personnel presently registered shall also be subject to the
foregoing rule, with their date of t'egistration as presently in effect.

In the group. In which they thereafter have been found qualified.
Any such unlicensed seamen may apply in writing to the Sea­
farers Appeals Board in connection with any dispute as to his pe­
riod of seatime from exemption from this rule set forth at&gt;ove, on
the ground of hardship or physical disability and may if he requests
in writing appear before the Seafarers Appeals Board. The decision
of the Seafarers Appeals Board shall be In writing and sent to the
person involved and to the Union hiring hall.
The Seafarers Appeals Board shall determine the period of any
ernergency or when this amendment is no longer necessary. In
either event, upon such determination, the Seafarers Appeals Board
shall then take appropriate action in writing.
B. During any period of emergency as_ determined by the Sea-_
farers Appeals Board In accordance with Rule lOA, Rule 2J may be
suspended with respect to entry ratings only for the period of such
emergency or until the suspension of the Rule Is no longer neces­
sary as determined by the Seafarers Appeals Board.
C. 1. The Seafarers Appeals Board may, for good cause shown,
in Its discretion, and in accord with Its authority under Article 1
("Employment") Section S of the collective bargaining agreements
between the parties and In accord with the several factors set
forth below, upgrade to Class A seniority rating such unlicensed
personnel possessing Class B .seniority rating whom the Board
deems qualified for the same.
The factors to be utilized In determining whether an applicant
shall'be so upgraded are as follows:
(a) Endorsement from the United States Coast Guard as a Lifeboatman in the United States Merchant Marine.

(b) Possession of a certificate of satisfactory compietion of the
H.L.S.S. entry rating training program and has a ^ minimum of
twelve (12) months of seatime with any of the companies listed
In Appendix "A" of the collective bargaining agreements, or
Possession of a certificate o? satisfactory completion of the ad­
vanced course of training then being offered by the H.L.S.S. for
the department In which such seamen regularly ship and has a
minimum of thirty-six (36) months of seatime with any of the
companies listed In Appendix "A" of the collective bargaining
agreements.
(c) Possession of special skills and aptitudes.
(d) Employment record.
(e) Satisfactory completion of the course of training offered by
the School of Marine Engineering sponsored by the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, District No. 2, Marine Engineers Bene­
ficial Association and/or others in connection therewith.
Factor (b) may be waived by the Seafarers Appeals Board In
those cases where undue hardship will result.
2. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall upgrade applicants pursu­
ant to this Rule 10 C for a pe.'iod of time not to exceed six (6)
months, at which time It shall terminate such upgrading and shall
publicize such termination In the Union's hiring halls and In such
other places as will give notice thereof thirty (30) days prior there­
to. Thereafter, when it deems necessary, the Seafarers Appeals
Board may reinstltute such upgrading program for additional
periods of time not to exceed six (6) months' duration and shall
publicize the termination of same as required by the collective
bargaining agreement.

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ARTICLE I
EMPLOYMENT
SECTION 1. The Company recognnizes the Union as
the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of all
Unlicensed Personnel employed on board American-flag
vessels owned or operated by the Company or its sub­
sidiaries.
SECTION 2. The Union agrees to furnish the Com­
pany with capable, competent and physically fit persons
when and where they are required, and of the ratings
needed to fill vacancies necessitating the employment
of Unlicensed Personnel in ample time to prevent any
delay in the scheduled departure of any vessel covered
by .this Agreement. To assure maximum harmonious
relations and in order to obtain the best qualified em­
ployees with the least risk of a delay in the scheduled
departure of any vessel covered by this Agreement, the
Company agrees to secure all Unlicensed Personnel
through the hiring halls of the Union. If, for any rea­
son, the Union does not furnish the Company with ca­
pable, competent and physically fit persons when and
where they are required, and of the ratings needed to
fill such vacancies, in ample time to prevent any delay
in the scheduled departure of any vessel covered by
this Agreement, the Company may then obtain members
of the Unlicensed Personnel from any available source,
in which case the Union shall be notified.
SECTION 3. The Company agrees, that as a condi­
tion of employment all Unlicensed Personnel shall be­
come members of the Union within thirty-one (31) days
after the execution of this Agreement, or within thirtyone (31) days after hire, whichever is later, and shall
remain members of the Union while employed by the
Companies listed in Appendix A, attached hereto, and
made a part hereof, during the life of this Agreement.
The Company is not obligated to take steps to enforce
this provision unless due notice is received in writing
from the Union, to the effect that a member of the Unli­
censed Personnel is not in compliance herewith.

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SECTION 4. (a) The Union agrrees that the Company
has the right to reject (by written notation on the job
assignment slip) any applicant for employment who
the Company considers unsatisfactory or unsuitable for
the vacancy, or to discharge any member of the Un­
licensed Personnel who, in the opinion of the Company,
is not satisfactory. If the Union considers the rejection
of any applicant for employment or the discharge of
any member of the Unlicensed Personnel as being with­
out reasonable cause such action by the Company shall
be dealt with under the g^evance procedure and the
Union agirees that any such rejection or discharge shall
not cause any vessel to be delayed on her scheduled
departure.
(b) Unlicensed Personnel when applying for employ­
ment shall submit to the physical examination pre­
scribed by the Company, and shall submit from time
to time thereafter to such physical examination as may
be required by the Company. In the event any decision
of the Company physician is challenged by the Union,
as to the physical fitness of a member of the Unlicensed
Personnel, such member shall be re-examined by a
Public Health Physician and his decision shall be
binding.
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SECTION 5. The Company agrees not to discriminate
against any member of the Unlicensed Personnel for
legitimate Union activities, and the Ciompany further
agprras that no person referred in accordance with this
Article, shall be discriminated against because of race,
creed, color, sex,
national or geographic origin.
SECTION 6. The term Unlicensed Personnel as used
in this Agreement shall not include super-cargoes, ca­
dets, pursers and livestock tenders.
SECTION 7. Either party shall have the right, upon
written notification to the other, to re-negotiate any
part or all of Article 1. Upon receipt of such notification
the parties to this Agreemev:t. shall meet ^within seven
(7) days for n^otiations of this issue.

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SECTION 8. (a) Subject to the provisions of this
Article and of the Shipping Rules promulgated in ac­
cord herewith, jobs shall be referred and held on the
following seniority basis:
(1) Class "A" seniority rating, the highest seniority
rating, shall be held by:
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A. all unlicensed seamen who possessed such rating
on September 8, 1970, pursuant to the Shipping Rules
then in effect;
B. all unlicensed seamen who possess Class B seniority
rating pursuant hereto, and who have shipped regularly
as defined herein for eight (8) consecutive years, pro­
vided such seamen have maintained their Class B se­
niority rating without break and provided further that
they have completed satisfactorily the advanced course
of training then offered by the Harry Lundeberg School
of Seamanship for the Department in which such sea­
men regularly ship; and
. C. all unlicensed seamen who have been upgraded to
Class A seniority rating by the Seafarers Appeals
Board pursuant to the authority set forth herein.
(2) Class^ "B" seniority rating, the second highest
seniority rating, shall be held by: ,
A. all unlicensed seamen who possessed siich rating

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on September 8, 1970, pursuant to the Shipping Rules
then in effect;
B. all unlicensed Seamen who possess Class C seniority
rating pursuant hereto and who have shipped regularly
as defined herein for two (2) consecutive years; and
C. all unlicensed seamen who possess Class C seniori­
ty rating pursuant hereto and who have graduated from
the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship entry rat­
ing training program and have been issued a ship as­
signment card in accordance with the Shipping Rules,
then in effect.
(3) Class "C" seniority rating, the lowest seniority
rating shall be possessed by all unlicensed seamen who
do not possess either Class A or Class B seniority rat­
ings.
(4) For the purposes of upgrading seniority, "shipping
regularly" shall mean emplojunent as an unlicensed
seaman for no less than ninety (90) days during each
calendar year aboard one (1) or more American-flag ves­
sels covered by this collective bargaining agreement. The
time required to constitute "shipping regularly" shall
be reduced proportionately in accord with the amount
of bona fide in or out-patient hospital time spent dur­
ing a given calendar year by a covered seaman. No sea­
man shall suffer any loss of seniority credit accrued
prior to his entry of military service in the armed
forces of the United States if he registers to ship in
covered employment within one hundred twenty (120)
days following his separation from military service.
(b) Subject to Section 3 of this Article 1, assign­
ments to jobs within the foregoing classes of seniority
rating shall be made without regard to union affilia­
tion.
(c) There is created the Seafarers Appeals Board, a
permanent board of four (4) members, to hear and
determine all disputes arising under this Article 1, and
to promulgate and administer the Shipping Rules au­
thorized by this Section 8.
(d) The Seafarers Appeals Board, shall have the
power to reduce from time to time, but not the power
to increase, the requirements for seniority ratings set
forth herein; and if such power is exercised, the Board
skall arrange for effective publication of such decision.
The Seafarers Appeals Board shall also add newly con­
tracted companies to Appendix A, and shall promulgate
Shipping Rules, including reasonable disciplinary, adminmtrative and procedural rules and regulations, to
govern employment operations of hiring halls and the
seniority and referral to jobs of all Unlicensed Personnel
under and pursuant to this Agreement. Such Shipping
Rules may provide for rotary shipping within classes,
shall provide for full seniority credit for employment
by, or election to any ofiice or job in, or any employ­
ment taken at the behest of, the Union (which seniorify credit is hereby granted), and may include reason­
able, non-discriminatory pr^erences to be accorded to
Unlicensed Personnel, as well as provisions for total or
partial seniority credit, to be granted in the Board's
reasonable discretion in cases other than those set
forth herein where a seaman's shipping employment has
been interrupted by circumstances beyond his control
and where denial of such seniority credit would work
an undue hardship. The provisions of this subsection
(d) shall be subject to the following subparagraphs:
(1) The said Shipping Rules may not be incbnsistent
with this Agreement, nor may they change the intent
and purpose hereof.
(2) Rotary shipping within Classes A, B and C of
seniority rating shall be based on a period of unemploy­
ment of ninety (90) days.
(3) Class C personnel with a certificate of satisfac­
tory completion of the entry rating training program
of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship shall
be preferred for employment over Class C personnel.
(4) As part of the Food and Ship Sanitation (Pro­
gram, there is hereby established "The Steward's De­
partment Recertification Program," which shall be
exclusively operated by Employer Trustees for the
purpose or reclassifying and recertifying Steward Depart­
ment personnel, pursuant to arrangements and details
to be worked out. Six (6) niqnths after such program is
initiated in any port, ?

(6) The Steward Department Recertification Pro­
gram and the Deck Department Recertification Program
for Bosuns, heretofore established, may be modified or
discontinued in whole or in part when circumstances
so warrant.
(7) Within each class of seniority in the Deck De­
partment, the Engine Department and the Steward De­
partment, preference for employment shall be given to
all entry ratings who are endorsed as Lifeboatmen in
the United States Merchant Marine by the United States
Coast Guard, unless the requirement of such endorse­
ment has been waived by the Seafarers Appeals Board.
(8) The job circulation regulations may provide for
requiring those possessing a seniority rating below
Class B to leave a vessel after no less than sixty (60)
days or one (1) round trip, whichever is longer, provided
further that this regulation may not be applied so as
to cause a vessel to sail shorthanded. There shall be
no bumping within Class A. No transportation, sub­
sistence or wages shall be paid a man joining or leaving
a vessel through exercise of seniority privileges, not­
withstanding any provisions of Article II, Section 57
of this Agreement. Any disputes arising out of the appli­
cation of this subparagraph shall be decided under the
procedures of the Seafarers Appeals Board.
(e) The Seafarers Appeals Board shall include in
the Shipping Rules promulgated in accord herewith,
reasonable rules of procedure to govern matters coming
before it.
(f) The Seafarers Appeals Board shall have four
(4) members, two (2) appointed by the Union and two
(2) appointed by that committee representing the major­
ity of contracted employers for purposes of negotiations
with the Union, commonly known as the Management
Negotiating Committee. Each party shall also appoint
two (2) alternates for the members so appointed, to
serve in the absence of such members.
(g) The quorum for any action by the Seafarers
Appeals Board shall be at least one (1) member ap­
pointed by each party. At any meeting of the Seafarers
Appeals Board the members appointed by each party shall
collectively cast an equal number of votes regardless of
the actual number of members present and voting.
Except as otherwise provided heroin, decisions of the'
Seafarers Appeals Board shall be unanimous. In the
event of a tie vote, the Board shall elect an impartial
person to resolve the deadlocked issue. In the event
the Board is not able to agree on such an impartial
person, the matter shall be submitted to final and bind­
ing arbitration in New York City pursuant to the Vol­
untary Labor Arbitration Rules thep in effect of the
American Arbitration Association.
(h) Any person or party subject to or aggrieved by
the application of this Section 8 shall have the right to
submit any matter hereunder to the Seafarers Appeals
Board for determination. Such submission shall be in
'writing, shall set forth the facts in sufficient detail
to identify the matter at issue, and shall be sent by
certified mail, return requested, to th^
An applicant desmngto^e beard in person before the
Board shall request the same in his written application.
In such event the applicant shall be notified at least two'
(2) weeks prior to the Board's next regular meeting of
the date and location of such meeting, and the applicant
may attend such meeting at his own expense and be
heard.
SECTION 9. The parties hereto agree that the ap­
propriate unit, for representation purposes, is the Un­
licensed Personnel aboard the vessels owned or controlled,
as aforesaid, by all the companies listed on Appendix A,
and any amendments to said Appendix, as set forth
herein.
SECTION 10. The Union shall protect and indemnify
the companies parties' to thia Agreement in any cause
of action based on improper application by the Union
of the employment provisions of- Article 1 of this
Agreement. The Company shall protect and indemnify
the Union in any cause of action based on improper
application by the Company of the employment provi­
sions of Article 1 of this Agreement.
SECTION 11. The provisions hereof are subject to
Federal and State Law and if any part hereof is in con­
flict therewith, such part shall be deemed inapplicable
and to the extent thereof, shall be deemed sever^ from
this Agreement, the remainder of which shall remain in
full force and effect.

(5) As a part of the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­
manship, there is hereby established "The Deck Depart­
ment Recertification Program for Bosuns," which shall
be exclusively operated by HLSS Trustees for the pur­
pose of classifjing and recertifying Deck Department
personnel, pursuant to arrangements and details to be
worked out. Six (6) months after such program is initi­
ated in any port, such'

SECTION 12. Alien or non-resident seamen in the
Far East, may execute' written authorizations to the
Seafarers' Vacation Plan, assigning to the Union, vaca­
tion benefit payments which may be due such seamen,
in discharge of their Union monetary obligations for
initiation fee and dues; and' the parties further agree
that new seamen employed or seamen who have not
as yet paid their full initiation fee to the Union, may
execute written authorizations to the Seafarers' Vaca­
tion Flan, assigning to the Union, vacation benefit pay­
ments which may be due such seamen in discharge of
their Union initiation fee obligation.
of the forego­
ing authorizations shall be in accordance with the provi­
sions of applicable law.
The Collective Bargaining ^Agreement between ,the
parties, as amended, is to remain in effect as herein­
after provided.

�ARTICLE II
GENERAL RULES
SECTION 1. PASSES. The Company agrees to issue
passes to the Union representatives for the purposes of
contacting its members aboard vessels of t^e Company
covered by this Agreement.
Representatives of the Union shall be allowed on
board at any time but not to interfere with men at work
unless said men are properly relieved. (The relief gets
no extra compensation.)
SECTION 2. DELEGATES, (a) One (1) jnan m each
department shall be elected by the unlicensed seamen
in that department to act as Departmental Delegate.
Such Delegates shall, together with the Permanent
Ships' Committee members, keep track of all condi­
tions and problems and grievances in their respective
departments, and present to, their superior officers, on
behalf of the unlicensed seamen in their Departments,
all facts, opinions and circumstances concerning any
matter which may require adjustment or improvement.
(b) PERMANENT SHIP'S COMMITTEE: The Per­
manent Ship's Committee shall consist of three (3) mem­
bers: the Boatswain, the Chief Steward and the Chief
(Electrician) or (Pumpman). The Boatswain shall be
Ship's'Chairman. The Chief Steward shall be ReporterSecretary, and the Chief (Electrician) or (Pumpman)
shall be Educational- Director. In the event there is no
(Electrician) on board, the Deck Engineer shall serve
as Educational Director. If there is no Deck Engineer
on board, the Engine Utility shall serve as Educational
Director. If neither of the aboye ratings are on board,
the Ship's Chaiman and the Reporter-Secretary shall
designate a qualified member of the Engine Depart­
ment to serve as Educational Director for the voyage.
The duties of the Permanent Ship's Committee shall
be to assist the Departmental Delegates in their duties,
to tonVene and conduct the Weekly Unlicensed Oew
Meetings, and to perform the following individual duties:
The Ship's Chairman shall preside at all Shipboard
Meetings of the Unlicensed Crew and shall be the
primary spokesman aboard ship for the Unlicensed
Crew. If, in the opinion of the majority of the crew, the
Boatswain does not meet the qualifications to act in the
capacity of Ship's Chairman, the crew may select whom­
ever they consider qualified. The Reporter-Secretary
shall handle all paper work involved in documenting
matters brought to the attention of the superior officers,
and he shall also prepare and maintain Minutes of the
Unlicensed Crew Meetings.
The Educational Director shall be responsible for
maintaining and distributing all publications, films and
mechanical equipment relating to education on such
subjects as safety, training and upgrading, health and
sanitation.
(c) WEEKLY MEETINGS. To make sure that all
problems concerning the Unlicensed Crew are brought
to ligb^ und resolved as quickly as possible, there shall
be a Meeting of the Unlicensed Crew every Sunday
while the vessel is at sea. Vessels remaining in port on
Sundays may hold these meetings as soon as possible
after departure. At such meetings the Permanent Ship's
Chairman shall report to the Unlicensed Crewmembers
all matters referred to them and shall receive any new
and additional problems not previously raised. As com­
pensation for the additional duties required by this
Section, the members of the Permanent Ship's Com­
mittee and the Departmental Delegates shall each re­
ceive one (1) hour's pay at their applicable penalty rate
for each weekly meeting held.

SECTION 8. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.
Any man leaving a vessel shall, upon request be given
a slip showing reason for his termination of employ­
ment
SECTION 9. STATEMENT OF EARNINGS. Unlicensed crewmembers shall be ^ven a complete record
of all earnings and deductions for the voyage not later
thap at the time of payoff.
SECTION 10. CUSTOMARY DUTIES, (a) Members
of all departments shall perform the necessary duties
for the continuance of the operations of the vessel as
set forth in this Agreement. Necessary work shall in­
clude the preparation and securing of cargo gear and
the preparation of cargo holds for the loading or dis­
charging of cargo.
(b) When it is necessary to shift a man to fill a
vacancy, the man so shifted shall perform the duties of
the rating to which he is assignee.
SECTION 11.. VESSELS AGROUND. In the event
the vessel runs aground, this Agreement shall be lived up
to by the Company regardless of whether the Company
or the Insurance Company is paying the wages and
overtime until such time as articles are terminated.
SECTION 12. MEDICAL RELIEF, (a) Full medical
attention as required by law shall be given to all Un­
licensed Personnel. Except where it is assumed by the
U.S. Consul or the U.S. Public Health Service, such
medical attention shall be furnished by the Company
at the expense of the Company.
(b) The . Company agrees, when stocking medicine
chest, to include penicillin which shall be furnished free
of charge to seamen in need of same. The rules of the
U.S. Public Health Service shall be observed with re­
spect to dosage and administration.
(c) Medical relief will not be provided except that
which is available aboard the vessel, if the cause of the
illness is the fault of the member of the crew, such as
venereal diseases, etc.
SECTION 13. MAINTENANCE AND CURE. When
a member of the Unlicensed Personnel is entitled to
maintenance and cure under Maritime Law, he shall be
paid maintenance at the rate of $8.00 per day for each
day or part thereof of entitlement. The payment due
hereunder shall be paid to the man weekly. This pay­
ment shall be made regardless of whether he has or
has not retained an attorney, filed a claim for damages,
or taken any other steps to that end and irrespective
of any insurance arrangements in effect between the
Company and any insurer.

SECTION 14. REPATRIATION, UPKEEP AND
TRANSPORTATION, (a) Where a crewmember must
leave a vessel because of illness or injury in any loca­
tion outside the Continental United States, he shall be
repatriated at Company expense as set forth herein,
at the earliest date possible and advances equalled to
allotments, if any, shall continue during such repatria­
tion, provided he has sufficient monies due him from the
Company to cover such advances.
It is the purpose of the above paragraph to provide
for the automatic payment of advances—in a sum equal
to the agreed allotment—and to ^io this automatically,
which advances are then to be charged against any
claim for earned or unearned wages. The advances are
to be paid in exactly the same time and manner and
to the same person or persons that the allotment would
have been paid had not illness or injury taken place.
The term "repatriation" refers to the entire period
for which unearned wages are due, and "advances" are
made during the entire period, except in those cases
SECTION 3. PORT COMMITTEE. For the adjust­ where the law sanctions a refusal to pay unearned
ment of any grievances arising in connection with per­ wages (which can be established under law to~b6 gross
formance of this Agreement which cannot be satis­ negligence, willful misconduct, etc.).
factorily adjusted on board the vessel there shall be
If repatriated on a vessel of the Company, he shall
established a Port Committee at the port, where articles be signed on as a nonworking workaway. If repatriated
are terminated. The Port Committee shall consist of on a vessel of another company, he shall be given not
: three (3) representatives from the Union and three (3) less than second class passage. In the event he is given
representatives from the Company, and it shall be the less than second class passage on a vessel of another
duty of the Port Committee to meet within twenty-four company, he shall be given the cash difference between
(24) hours, Saturdays, SundaysTand Holidays excluded. In the passage afforded and second class passage. The sea­
the event the Port Committee cannot agree they shall man shall have the option of accepting repatriation by
select an impartial arbitrator whose decision shall be final plane if such transportation is offered. Repatriation
and binding. In the event the Port Committee cannot agree under this section shall be back to the port of engage­
on the selection of an impartial, arbitrator then a judge ment.
(b) -In the event a crew member must leave a vessel
of the Federal District Court shall appoint an impartial
arbitrator whose decision shall be final and binding. because of illness or injury incurred in the service of
Expenses of the arbitrator shall be paid by the party such vessel while in a location within the Continental
United States, and such illness or injury is known prior
whom the arbitrator rules against in the decision.
to his leaving, he shall be entitled to economy class
SECTION 4. STOPPAGE'OF WORK. There shall be air transportation to his original port of engagement
no strikes, lockouts, or stopples of work while the in accordance with Article II, Section 59.
provisions of this Agreement are in effect;
(c) While awaiting repatriation under section (a)
and
(b&gt; herein, the seamen shall be entitled to repatri­
SECTION 5. SHIP CHARTERED BY COMPANY.
This Agreement is binding with respect to American ation upkeep in the sum of $8.00 per day until afforded
Flag Ships chartered by the Compdny (if charterer transportation as outlined in said subsections. Such up­
keep shall be paid up to and inclusive of the day he is
furnishes crew).
afforded the means of - transportation by which he is
to
be repatriated. The Company or its Agents may
SECTION 6. AUTHORITY OF MASTER AND OBE­
DIENCE OF CREW. Nothing in this Agreement is in­ make arrangements for meals and lodgings while the
tended to or shall be construed to limit in any way the seaman is awaiting repatriation transportation, but in
authority of the Master or other officers, or lessen the no event shall these arrangements be at a cost of less
obedience of any members of the crew to any lawful than $8.00 per day.
In cases where regular meals are not included in the
order.
transportation herein provided for, the repatriated sea­
SECTION 7. COMMENCEMENT OF EMPLOY­ man shall be paid the sum of $10.50 per day for food
MENT. Pay for seamen ordered by the Company shall during the transportation period.
(d) Where a seaman leaves the vessel due to illness
start when the man is required to pass the Doctor, go
to the Company office or report aboard the ship with or injury and such illness or injury has been known
prior to his leaving, he shall receive" a full statement
his gear and ready for work, whichever occurs first s
of hjs account showing wages due him. Where time
does not permit the statement being given to the man

before he leaves the vessel or before the vessel's de­
parture, the Master shall promptly advise the Com­
pany's Agent and the home office of the status of the
man's account at the time he left the vessel.
Thereafter, when the seaman presents himself to the
Agent at the port where he left the vessel, the maxi­
mum allowable payments shall be made to him by that
Agent.
When the seaman presents his claim of wages to
the Agent or office of-the Company at the port of en­
gagement or to the home office of the Company, he
shall receive payment as promptly as possible.
Failure to pay the seaman wages within 72 hours ex­
clusive of Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays after pres­
entation of his claim shall entitle the seaman to $8.00
per day until the full wages due the man at the time
he left the vessel are paid.
(e) Original Port of Engagement as used herein
shall mean the port in the Continental United States
where a crew member was first employed on board the
vessel.
SECTION 15. LOSS OF CLOTHING, (a) In the
event a ship of the Company is lost, the crew shall be
recompensed for the loss of clothing in the amount
of $500.00 and shall be repatriated to the port of en­
gagement with subsistence, room and wages as per
Section 59 of this Article.
(b) In the event that personal effects of Unlicensed
Personnel are damaged due to marine casualty, or an
accident to the vessel or its equipment, they shall be
recompensed for the loss in the amount of such loss
but not to exceed $300.00.
SECTION 16. WORK PERFORMED BY OTHER
THAN MEMBERS OF THE UNLICENSED PERSON­
NEL.
Any work performed by cadets, workaways, pas­
sengers, prisoners of war, staff officers, or any member
of the crew other than the Unlicensed Personnel that
is routine work of the Unlicensed Personnel shall be
paid for at the regular overtime rate. Such payment is
to be divided among the Unlicensed Personnel ordinarily
required to perform such work.

SECTION 17. CARRYING OF CADETS, ETC. IN
LIEU OF CREW. No cadets, workaways, or passengers
shall be carried in lieu of the crew.
SECTION 18. EMERGENCY DUTIES AND DRILLS,
(a) Any work necessary for the safety of the vessel,
passengers, crew or cargo or for the saving of other
vessels in jeopardy and the lives thereon, shall be per­
formed at any time and such work shall not be con­
sidered overtime.
In an emergency such as the above paragraph deals
with, it is not necessary to call out all hands unless
the Master of the vessel feels that it is necessary.
(b) Whenever practicable, lifeboat and other emer­
gency drills shall be held on weekdays, Monday through
Friday, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Preparation for drills, such as stretching fire hose and
hoisting and swinging out boats, shall not be done prior
to signal for such drills, and after .drill is over, all
hands shall secure boat and gear. In no event shall
overtime be paid for work performed with such drills,
except as herein provided.
(c) Premium Rates shall be paid for lifeboat and
other drills held on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays,
except in instances where departure time and date do
not permit required drills being held before the first
Saturday, Sunday or Holiday after departure.
(d) In port when such drills are held on Saturdays,
Sundays or Holidays, premium rate shall be paid, ex­
cept where such drills are held on days of departure.
SECTION 19. SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS. The
employer shall furnish safe working gear and equip­
ment when in any harbor, roadstead, or port. No man
shall be required to work under unsafe conditions.
Ordinary hazards of the sea shall not be considered un­
safe conditions in applying this section.

SECTION 20. HOLIDAYS. The Company agrees to
recognize the following as holidays:
1. New Year's Day
6. Labor Day
2. Washington's Birthday
7. Thanksgiving Day
3. Memorial Day
8. Christmas Day
4. Armistice Day
9. Independence Day
5. Lincoln's Birthday
In the event V.E, or V.J. days are observed as Na­
tional Holidays, they shall be included in the list.
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at sea or in port
shall be considered holidays for the Unlicensed Per­
sonnel not on watch. Men on watch shall perform only
the routine duties necessary for the safe navigation of
the vessel on these days.
Premium rates shall be paid for all work performed
by the Unlicensed Personnel on any of the nine (9)
holidays described in this Agreement at sea or in port.
In the event any of the above named holidays fall on
Saturday or Sunday while in port or at sea, the Mon­
day following shall be observed as such holiday. Any
day that is a recognized holiday for the longshoremen
in Continental U.S. ports shall also be a recognized
holiday for the crew while in that particular port.

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�actual time such employee reports for duty and such
overtime shall continue until the employee is released.
(b) The above provision shall not apply in the event
the commencement of overtime is scheduled one (1)
hour following the conclusion of their regular watch
or workday. In that event, the crew members, having
. had a full hour for their meal, shall report promptly at
the beginning of the period for which overtime has
been scheduled.
SECTION 23. CONTINUOUS OVERTIME. When
working overtime on the watch below and crew is
knocked off for two (2) hours or less, the overtime shall
be paid straight through. Time allowed for meals shall
not be considered as overtime in -this clause.

When a vessel is in Puerto Rico, the following three
(3) days, which are recognized as holidays for long­
shoremen in Puerto Rico ports, shall also be recognized
as holidays for the crew while the vessel is in Puerto
Rico.
1. Good Friday
2. July 17th (Munoz Rivera)
3. July 25th (Constitution Day)

SECTION 24. COMPUTATION OF OVERTIME.
When overtime worked is less than one (1) hour, overtime
for one (1) full hour shall be paid. When overtime exceeds
one (1) hour, the overtime work performed shall be pa:d
for in one-half (%) hour periods, and any fractional part
of such period shall count as one-half (%) hour,
SECTION 25. CHECKING OVERTIME. No work
specified in this Agreement as overtime work shall be
performed unless authorized by the head of the particu­
lar department. After authorized overtime has been
worked, the senior officer of the department on board
will present to each employee who has worked over­
time a slip stating hours of overtime tCnd nature of
work performed. An overtime book will be kept to con­
form with individual slips for settlement of overtime.
Officers and men shall keep a record of all disputed
overtime. No claim for overtime shall be valid unless
such claim is presented to the head of the department
within seventy-two (72) hours after completion of the
work. When work has been performed and an overtime
claim is disputed, the head of the department shall
acknowledge in writing that the work was performed,
SECTION 26.
PAYMENT OF OVERTIME. All
money due for crew overtime shall be paid at the sign­
ing off. In the event payment of overtime is delayed by
the Company beyond the twenty-four (24) hours after
signing off articles, additional compensation shall be paid
at the rate of ten dollars ($10.00) a day for each calendar
day or fraction thereof aforesaid payment of overtime
wages is delayed. This shall not include disputed overtime
being settled between the Union Representatives and the
Company.
No claim for the above penalty shall be considered
valid unless the failure to make such payment is made
known to the Union within seventy-two (72) hours after
the event,

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Departments and Groups
Jobs aboard vessels covered by these rules are classified accord­
ing to the following schedule of Departments and Groups.

Boatswain
Boatswain's Mate
Carpenter
Quartermaster
Able Seaman

DECK DEPARTMENT
GROUP i-DAY WORKERS
Deck Maintenance
Watchman-Day Work
Storekeeper

GROUP II-RATIRG WATCH STANDERS
Car Deckman
Watchman-Standing Watch

ENGINE DEPARTMENT
GROUP I
Chief Ref. Eng'r.
Chief Electrician
Chief Storekeeper
1st, 2nd, 3rd Ref. Eng'r.
Evap. Maintenance Man
2nd Electrician
Pumpman, 1 and 2
Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.-Day Work
Engine Maintenance
Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.-Watch
Ship's Welder/Malnt.
Plumber-Machinist
QMED
Electrician/Ref. Maint.
Eng. Utility Reefer Malnt.
Crane M/T Electrician
Deck Engineer
Engine Utility
Oiler-Diesel
Oiler-Steam

GROUP II
Watertender
Fireman/Watertender
Fireman
Oiler Maintenance/Utility

STEWARD DEPARTMENT
GROUP I (S) RATED MEN
Chief Steward-Passenger
2nd Steward-Passenger
Steward
Steward/Cook
Chef
Cook and Baker
Chief Cook

GROUP l-RATED MEN
2nd Cook and Baker
Butcher

GROUP II
2nd Cook, 3rd Cook and Assistant Cook
i

ENTRY DEPARTMENT
GROUP III

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Ordinaries on Watch
Wiper
Utility Messmen
Waiters

O.S. Deck Maintenance
Messmen
•General Steward's Utility

SECTION 22. COMMENCEMENT OF OVERTIME,
(a) When the watch below is broken, out to report for
work outside their regular schedule, overtime shall
commence at the time stated for the call-out, provided,
however, that such crew members report for duty with­
in thirty (30) minutes of the time the overtime work com­
mences. Otherwise, overtime shall commence at the

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SECTION, 27, DIVISION OF WAGES OF ABSENT
MEMBERS, (a) When members of the Unlicensed Per­
sonnel are required to do extra work because the vessel
sailed without the full complement as required by ves­
sel's certificate, under circumstances where the law
permits such sailing, the wages of the absent members
shall be divided among the men who perform their
work, but no overtime shall be included in such pay­
ments,
(b) At sea, when day men are switched to sea
watches and promoted for the purpose of replacing
men who are injured or sick, they shall receive the
differential in pay.
(c) When men standing sea watches are promoted
for the purpose of replacing men who are injured or
sick they shall receive the differential in pay only.
(d) In no event shall any member of the Unlicensed
Personnel work more than eight (8) hours in any one
day without the payment of overtime.
SECTION 28. MONEY DRAWS. Monies tendered
for draws in foreign ports shall be made in United
States currency failing which, traveler's checks shall
be issued at the. Company's expense, except where cur­
rency laws established in foreign countries prohibit
such issuance.
When American money is aboard, crew advances shall
be put out the day before arrival in port. Upon request
the Unlicensed Personnel shall be granted advances at
least once every .five days, except on Saturdays, Sun­
days and Holidays, while the vessel is in port. Such
advances shall be made available to the crew not later
than 4 p.m.
SECTION 29. EXPLOSIVES. On vessels carrying
explosives in excess of fifty (50) long tons as permitted
by law, the Company agrees, to pay each member of the
Unlicensed Personnel, in addition to their regular monthly
wage, ten percent (10%) per month of such wages from •
the time the loading of the explosive cargo is started until
the explosive cargo is completely discharged.
When the Unlicensed Personnel is required to work
explosives at any time, they shall be paid for such '
work in addition to their regular monthly wages at the .
rate of ten dollars ($10.00) per hohr.
For the purpose of this Agreement, explosives shall
consist of the following items:
Nitro-Glycerine
T.N.T.
Poison Gases
Black Powder
Blasting Caps
Detonating Caps

Loaded Bombs
Dynamite
Loaded shells of one pound or
over but not small arms
ammunition.

SECTION 30. PENALTY CARGOES, (a) When
members of the Unlicensed Personnel are required to
clean holds in which lead concentrates, coal, coke, or
penalty cargoes are carriedjl
iHowever, when holds'h^e
Unlicensed Personnel after carrying penalty cargo, no

�overtime for cleaning: will be paid for subsequent clean­
ing of holds unless another penalty cargo is carried.
(b) For the purpose of this Agreement the following
are classed as penalty cargoes:
IN BULK
Bones
Green Hides
Manure

Caustic Soda
Soda Ash
Creosoted Lumber
IN BAGS OH BULK
Super Phosphate
Bone Meal
Cyanide
Chloride of Lime
Cement
Lampblack
Greaves Cakes
Carbonblack
Saltcake
Sulphur
Gasoline in any mannei*'
Copra (3,000 tons)
(c) When sulphur in the amount of twenty-five per­
cent (25%) or more of the deadweight carrying capacity
is carried on a vessel, each member of the Unlicensed
Personnel shall be paid extra compensation of ten dol­
lars ($10.00) per voyage.
SECTION 31. STANDBY WORK. When men are
hired by the Company for standby work in port by the
day, they shall be paid the Premium Rate for the respec­
tive ratings. Eight (8) hours shall constitute a day's
work. All work performed in excess of eight (8) hours
in any twenty four (24) hour period, or any work per­
formed in excess of eight (8) continuous hours, shall be
paid at the premium rate and one-half (%) for the respec­
tive ratings. Men hired to perform standby work shall
perform any work which shall be assig:ned to them by their
superior officer, and they shall not be subject to any work
rules set forth in this Agreement.
When standby work in any particular department
is to be performed, an effort shall be made to obtain
men with ratings in such department if they are avail­
able and are competent to perform such work.
Any man hired for standby work who reports when
ordered shall be paid a minimum of eight (8) hours of
pay for the first day and a minimum of four (4) hours
for each day's work thereafter.
This change shall not be interpreted to conflict with
any understanding that the Union might have with a
Company whose practice is to hire relief crews while
the vessel is in port.
SECTION 32. LONGSHORE WORK BY CRfeW. In
those ports where there are no longshoremen available,
members of the crew may be required to drive winches
for handling cargo or may bs required to handle cargo.

duty while such moves are performed on Saturdays,
Sundays and Holidays and after 5 p.m. and before 8
a.m., weekdays with the following exceptions;
Port Alfred to Montreal or vice versa
Port Alfred to Quebec or vice versa
Montreal to Quebec or vice versa
All moves from American ports to British Columbia
ports or vice versa
Montevideo to Buenos Aires to Rosario or points
above or vice versa
Boston to New York or vice versa
Norfolk to Baltimore or vice versa
New Orleans to Baton Rouge or vice versa
All moves between ports on the St. Lawrence Seaway
and/or on the Great Lakes, West of Montreal, except
those moves which are less than eighty (80) miles.
(b) Moves from Baltimore through the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal to Delaware River ports or vice
versa, shall be considered a move of the ship and such
work after 6 p.m. and before 8 a.m. or on Saturdays,
Sundays, or Holidays, shall be paid for at the applicable
rate.
(c) A move from Honolulu to Pearl Harbor or vice
versa shall be considered a shift of the vessel.
(d) A move from Galveston to Houston or vice versa
shall be considered a shHt of the ve^el.
SECTION 36. RESTRICTION TO SHIP. When a ves­
sel has been in a foreign port where the crew was re­
stricted to the ship and the Company claims that this
restriction was enforced by the government of the port
visited or either Federal, Military or Naval Authorities,
the Company shall produce a copy of the restriction
order of the government, Federal, Military or Naval
Authorities. In lieu thereof, it may produce a proper
entry in the official log book and must give sufficient
notice in writing of the restriction to the Ship's Chair­
man. The notice shall also be posted on the crew's
bulletin board. A letter from the Company's agents will
not be sufficient proof of the existence of such an order.
If the Company is unable to produce evidence as pro­
vided herein to satisfy the Union of the validity of such
restriction, the crew shall be compensated for having
been restricted to the ship by the payment of overtime
for the period of the restriction at the applicable penalty
rate.
When a restriction occurs because of quarantine, im­
migration or customs procedures, a proper Log entry
shall suffice.
SECTION 37. SECURITY WATCHES. If Unlicensed
Crewmembers are required to stand security watches in
port by order of Federal, Military or Naval authorities
in the United States-controlled ports, or by foreign
government authorities in other ports, they shall be
paid overtime for all such watches stood between the
hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m., Monday through Friday.

On tankers which are carrying grain, when crew
members are required to unfasten butterworth plate nuts
and/or remove the butterworth plates for the purpose
of loading or disc^
grain cargo, i
i they shaii be enti^d to compensa­
tion as provided for in this section. This section shall
not be so construed as to be applicable to any work
where longshoremen are not available due to labor
trouble.
The above shall not apply for securing or shoring up
cargo or spotting booms for longshoremen.
SECTION 33. WORKING BALLAST. When members
of the crew are required to discharge ballast other than
water ballast out of the holds, or handle or discharge
ballast on deck, including washing sand ballast off the
decks with hoses, &lt;

SECTION 35. SHIFTING SHIP, (a) After the ves­
sel's arrival in port as outlined in Article II, Section
34, any subsequent move in inland waters, bays, rivers
and sounds shall be regarded as shifting ship and over­
time at the applicable rate shajl be paid for men on

(i) All unlicensed crew members snail report aboard
at least one (1) hour before the scheduled sailing time.
In the event any unlicensed crew member fails to comply
with this provision, the Company shall call the Union
and the Union shall furnish a replacement. If the original
crew member reports after the Company has called a
replacement, the man shipped by the Union as such
replacement shall receive two (2) days pay from the
crew member who was late in reporting for duty.
(j) When a Company orders a replacement for which
there is no vacancy on the vessel, the Company shall
reimburse the seaman the equivalent of . two (2) days
pay plus transportation charges.
SECTION 39. SECURING VESSEL FOR SEA. All
vessels of the Company must be safely secured before
leaving the harbor limits for any voyage.
Vessels sailing in the daytime must be safely secured
before leaving the harbor limits. In the event the vessel
is not safely secured before reaching the harbor limits,
the vessel shall proceed to a safe anchorage and be
secured before proceeding to sea. Vessels sailing after
dark shall be safely secured before leaving the dock or
may proceed to a safe anchorage to secure vessel be­
fore proceeding to sea. When lights can be maintained
on the after deck, gear and hatches may be secured on
this deck enroute to anchorage.
If the foregoing is not complied with, extra compensa­
tion at the flat rate of ten dollars ($10.00) shall be paid
to each member of the Deck Department involved in
the securing. Such extra compensation shall be in addi­
tion to any overtime received when on overtime hours.
In surf ports and outports, the customary practice of
squaring away booms will be considered in compliance
with this Section.
SECTION 40. LAUNCH SERVICE. When a ship is
anchored or tied up to a buoy for eight (8) hours or over,
for the purpose outlined in. Article II, Section 34, each
member of the Unlicensed Personnel while on his watch
below shall be allowed one (1) round trip to shore at the
Company's expense every twenty four (24) hours.
The Master shall use his own judgment and if in his
opinion, the conditions are not safe, he shall not provide
launch service. However, he shall as usual make his
entries in the log as to the weather conditions and ad­
vise ship's chairman accordingly. He shall get other data
if possible, such as weather reports to further back his
decision.
When launch service is arranged for by the Company,
the schedule shall be such that each and every member
shall be given opportunity for a round trip as called
for herein on his watch below.
In ports where regular boat service is not available,
members of the crew may make their own arrange­
ments for transportation and the Company agrees to
reimburse either the crewmember or the owner of the
boat up to five dollars ($5.00) per round trip per man
carried once every twenty four (24) hours.
SECTION 41. REST PERIODS, (a) When the ship
is under port working rules and sea watches have not
been set and members of the Unlicensed Deck and En­
gine Personnel off duty are required to work overtime
between midnight and 8 a.m., they shall be entitled to
one (1) hour of rest for each hour actually worked. Such
rest period shall be given at any time during the same
working day. The rest period shall be in addition to
cash overtime allowed for such work. If such rest pe­
riod is not given, the men shall be entitled to overtime at
the applicable penalty rate in lieu thereof. This shall not
apply when sea watches are set the same day and be­
fore the rest period is completed.
This section shall not apply to men turning to on
overtime at 6 a.m. or after.
(b) On days of arrival, if members of the Unlicensed
Deck or Engine Personnel off duty are required to per­
form work between midnight and 8 a.m., they shall
be entitled to one (1) hour of rest for each hour worked. If
such period of rest is not completed at 5 p.m. of the
same day, penalty overtime shall be allowed for the in­
completed portion of such rest period.
(c) This section shall apply in the case of day work­
ers, both at sea or in port.
(d) Where a seaman is entitled to a rest period
under the provisions of Section 41, such rest period
shall be granted during the time that he would norm­
ally be required to work in order to complete his work­
ing day.
SECTION 42. FRESH PROVISIONS, (a) An ade­
quate supply of fruit juices shall be provided for the
Unlicensed Personnel. Fresh fruit and vegetables will ^
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SECTION 53. LOCKERS. A sufficient number of
if supply is possible, a sufficient amount to last until
SECTION 45. MIDNIGHT LUNCH, (a) If the crew
the next port or to last until the food would ordinarily, works as late as 9 p.m., coffee and night lunch shall be lockers shall be provided so that each employee shall
with good care, spoil. Shore bread shall be furnished provided. If work continues after 9 p.m. fifteen (15) have one (1) locker of full length whenever space permits,
at all U.S. ports when available.
minutes shall be allowed for the coffee and night lunch, with sufficient space to stow a reasonable amount of
Frozen foods shall be considered the equivalent of and
gear and personal effects.
which time shall be included as overtime.
serve the same purpose as fresh foods.
(b) If creW starts work at or before 9 p.m. and works
SECTION 54. UNIFORMS. In the event a man is
(b) (1) Vessels making a foreign voyage shall store continuous overtime until midnight, the men shall be
required
to wear a uniform, other than provided for
canned whole fresh milk at the rate of one (1) pint per provided with a hot lunch at midnight. If the work
in
Article
V, Section 29, he- shall furnish his own uni­
man per day for the duration of the voyage.
continues after midnight one (1) unbroken hour shall be
(2) While a vessel is in Continental U.S. ports, allowed for such hot lunch. If this unbroken hour is form and shall be paid an additional twelve dollars and
fresh milk from local dairies is to be served three (3) times not allowed the men involved shall receive one (1) hour fifty cents ($12.50) per month for same.
a day. Prior to a vessel departing from any domestic penalty overtime in lieu thereof, which shall be in addition
ports, going to another domestic port and/or a foreign to the actual overtime worked during the hot lunch hour.
port, forty (40) gallons of local fresh milk must be
(c) If crew is broken out after 9 p.m. and works
placed on board.
continuously for three (3) hours, a hot lunch shall be pro­
(3) After - departure from the last Continental vided at the expiration of the three (3) hours if the work
U.S. port and the supply of fresh local milk has been is to be continued. Otherwise, a night lunch shall be
consumed, canned whole fresh milk is to' be served at provided. An unbroken hour shall be allowed for the
breakfast only while at sea.
hot lunch and if such unbroken hour is not allowed the
(4) While in a foreign port, canned whole fresh men shall receive one (1) hour penalty overtime in lieu
milk is to be served three times a day as per agree­ thereof, which shall be in addition to the actual overtime
ment.
worked during the hot lunch hour.
(5) No purchase of milk shall be made in foreign
(d) If crew works as late as 3 a.m., coffee and night
ports while canned whole fresh milk is available.
lunch shall be provided and if work continues after 3
(c) If milk is provided for persons other than crew- a.m., fifteen (15) minutes shall be allowed for coffee and
members, then additional milk must be supplied for night lunch, which time shall be included as overtime.
such use.
(e) If crew works as late as 6 a.m., coffee shall be
provided and if work continues after 6 a.m., fifteen (15)
SECTION 43. ROOM AND MEAL ALLOWANCE. minutes shall be allowed for coffee, which time shall
When board is not furnished unlicensed members of the be included as overtime.
crew, they shall receive a meal allowance of two dollars
(f) When a vessel is scheduled to depart at midnight,
($2.00) for breakfast, three dollars ($3.00) for dinner and the midnight lunch hour may be shifted one (1) hour
five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50) for supper. When men either way.
are required to sleep ashore, they shall be allowed ten
(g) In the event the midnight lunch is not served
dollars and fifty cents ($10.50) per night.
the men involved shall be paid the supper meal allow­
Room allowance, as provided in this Section, shall ance in addition to the overtime provided for in para­
be allowed when:
graphs (b) and (c) above.
1. Heat is not furnished in cold weather. When the
SECTION 46. COFFEE TIME, (a) All hands shaU
outside temperature is 65 degrees (65°) or lower for
be allowed fifteen (15) minutes for coffee at 10 a.m. and 3
eight (8) consecutive hours, this provision shall apply.
2. Hot water is not available ^ crew's washroom for p.m., or at a convenient time near those hours.
SECTION 57. TRANSPORTATION AND PAYING
a period of twelve (12) or more consecutive hours.
(b) When the crew is entitled to the thirty (30) minutes OFF PROCEDURE, l. (a) Vessels in the bauxite trade
3. On air conditioned vessels, when the room temper­ readiness period under Article II, Section 22, coffee or on foreign voyages shall be signed on for one (1) voyage
ature is seventy eight degrees (78°) or above, and the shall be made by the watch or watchman and be ready for a term not exceeding nine (9) calendar months. Vessels
at the time of calling, and allowed during the thirty (30) in the Far East trade shall be signed en as herein
air conditioning unit does not work in excess of eight (8)
hours, this provision shall apply. If fans are installed the minutes of readiness period. ^
stated except that the term of time may be twelve (12)
penalty shall not be invoked. If fans do not now exist
calendar months.
SECTION 47. CREW'S QUARTERS. All quarters
suitable arrangement shall be* made with the Union and
assigned for the use of the Unlicensed Personnel are
Company for their installation.
4. Crew's quarters have been painted, and paint is to be kept free from vermin insofar as possible. This
not absolutely dry, and other suitable quarters are not is to be accomplished through the use of extermina­
tion facilities provided by the Company, or fumigating
furnished aboard.
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5. At all times when vessel is on dry dock overnight the quarters every six (6) months with gas.
and sanitary facilities are not supplied.
SECTION 48. CLEANLINESS OF QUARTERS. The
6. Linen is not issued upon men's request prior to Unlicensed Personnel shall cooperate to the fullest in
6 p.m. on the day the seaman joins the vessel.
order to keep their respective living quarters clean and
7. Vessel is being fumigated and is not cleared before tidy at all times.
9 p.m.
SECTION 49. CREW EQUIPMENT. The following
8. Men standing niidnight to 8 a.m. watch on the
same day the vessel is fumigated shall be entitled to items shall be supplied the Unlicensed Personnel em­
room allowance regardless of when the vessel is cleared. ployed on board vessels of the Company.
9. Work such as chipping, welding, riveting, ham­
1. A suitable number of blankets.
mering or other work of a similar nature is being per­
2. Bedding consisting of two white sheets, one
formed in or about the crew's quarters between 8 p.m.
Tb) it is also agreed tftat the Articles
spread, two white pillow slips, which shall be nate at the final 'port of discharge in the Continental
and 6 a.m.
changed weekly.
If such work outlined in (9) above is being performed
United States, unless another port is mutually agreed to
3.
One face towel and one bath towel which shall between the Company and the Union. If the final port of
in or around the quarters of the men who stand donkey
be changed twice weekly.
watches, such men virill be provided with other quarters
discharge is located in an area other than the area in the
4. One cake of standard face soap such as Lux, Continental United States, in which is located the port of
or room allowance will be allowed.
Lifebuoy or Palmolive soap with each' towel engagement, economy class air transportation shall be
change.
NOTE: Penalties claimed for lack of heat, air condi­
provided to only those men who leave the vessel, plus
6. One box of matches each day.
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tioning, hot water, etc., or because of noise as defined
wages and subsistence to port of engagement In Continen­
6. Suitable mattresses and pillows shall be furnished tal United States. At the seaman's option, cash equivalent
in (9) above, must be recorded on an eight (8) hour basis
but:hair, straw or excelsior shall not be suitable. of the actual cost of economy class air transportation shall
with the Ship's Master or other proper department head.
As mattresses now on board wear out, they shall be paid.
Dates, time of reporting, and temperatures involved
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be replaced by innerspring mattresses.
should be made part of such record.
7. All dishes provided for the use of Unlicensed
SECTION 44. MEAL HOURS. RELIEVING FOR
Personnel shall be crockery.
MEALS. The meal hours for the Unlicensed Personnel
8. One cake of laundry soap, one cake of lava soap,
employed in the Deck and Engine Department shall be
one box of washing powder weekly.
as follows:
9. Sanitubes shall be available for the Unlicensed
Personnel at all times.
Breakfast
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Dinner
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Supper
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Once a crewmember has made the initial foreign
11. Two twelve-inch fans shiall be furnished in fore­ voyage
and earned transportation, the transportation
(a) At sea or in port, the 4 to 8 watch shall relieve
castles occupied by two or more Unlicensed Per­ remains payable so long as he pays off in another area
itself for supper.
sonnel, and one sixteen-inch fan in all forecastles other than the area wherein is located his ori^nal port
occupied by one member of the Unlicensed Per­ of
(b) The 12 to 4 watch on sailing day is to be knocked
engagement.
sonnel. This shall not apply' to air-conditioned
off at 11 a.m. in order to eat at 11:30 a.m. and to be
If the new foreign articles are signed, transportation
vessels.
ready to go on watch at 12 noon.
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provisions shall not apply till termination of the Articles.
(c) These hours may be varied, but spch variations
Any member wilfully damaging or destroying linen
(d) For the purpose of this Section, the Continental
shall not exceed one (1) hour either way, provided that
shall be held accountable for same. When full linen United States shall be divided into eight (8) areas—Pacific
one (1) unbroken hour shall be allowed at all times for
is not issued, men shall receive two dollars ($2.00) each Northwest; California; Atlantic Coast Area North of
dinner and supper when vessel is in port. When watches
week for washing their own linen. The Steward shall not Cape Hatteras; Atlantic Coast Area South of Cape
are broken, if one (1) unbroken hour is not given, the men
issue, clean linen to any individual crew member until "such Hatteras; the Gulf Coast Area, the State of Alaska, the
involved shall receive one (1) hour's overtime in lieu
member has turned in his soiled linen.
Western Great'Lakes Area; the Eastern Great Lakes
thereof. This penalty hour shall be in addition to the
Area. The dividing line between the Western and Eastern
SECTION 50. VENTILATION. All quarters assigned Great Lakes shall be the Mackinac Straits Bridge and
actual overtime worked during the meal hours.
to the Unlicensed Personnel and all messrooms pro­ the Sault Ste. Marie Locks.
(d) When crew is called to work overtime before
vided for their use shall be adequately screened and
breakfast and work continues after 7:30 a.m., a full
Hawaii becoming a state does not constitute an ad­
ventilated and a suffiicent number of fans to secure ditional
hour shall be allowed for breakfast, and if breakfast
area for the purpose of transportation, how­
ventilation shall be provided. ..
is not served by 8 a.m., overtime shall continue straight
ever seamen shipped in Hawaii who are paid off in the
through until breakfast is served.
SECTION 51. MESS ROOM. Each vessel shall be Continental United States and who are entitled to
(e) If one (1) unbroken hour is not given, the men in­
furnished with a messroom for the accommodation of the transportation under other provisions of this contract
volved shall receive one (1) hour's overtime in lieii thereof.
crew, such messroom or messrooms to be; in each case shall receive transportation to San Francisco.
(f) When the watch below or men off duty are work­
(e) It is further agreed that in the event a ship
so constructed as to afford sitting room for all and to
ing on overtime at sea or in port, they shall be allowed
be BO situated as to afford full protection from the returns light or in ballast to the Continental United
one (1) unbroken meal hour. If one (1) unbroken meal
weather and from heat and odors arising from fhe States, articles shall terminate at first port of arrival
hour is not given, the men involved shall receive one (1)
in accordance with voyage description set forth in the
vessel's engine room, fireroom, hold and toilet.
hour's overtime in lieu thereof, which shall be in addition
articles, except that when the arrival at the first port
to the actual overtime worked during the meal hour. The
SECTION 52. WASHROOMS. Adequate washrooms is for the purpose of securing additional bunkers, stores,
provisions in this section shall be applicable at all times
and lavatories shall be made available for the Unli­ or making ememgency repairs of not more than seven (7)
at sea or in port to ijien on day work.
censed Personnel of each department, washrooms to days duration, articles shall continue until the vessel can
be equipped with a sufficient n^^mber of hot and cold proceed to another Continental United States port.
fresh water showers.
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�Weet Indies, including Cuba, Canada, Newfoundland, when transported by the Company during the course the body to the original port of engagement.
and/or coastwise in any order, either direct or via of their employment, shall be provided with economy
SECTION 70. 'HME OFF-FREIGHT VESSELS, (a)
ports shall be signed on for one (1) or more continuous class air travel. Where meals age not provided by the
voyages on the above-described route or any part carrier, subsistence shall be paid as per Article H, Upon completion of a foreign, nearby foreign, interthereof and back to a final port of discharge on the Section 43: breakfast two dollars ($2.00), three dollars coastal, or coastwise voyage, all of the assigned Unli­
Atlantic or Gulf Coast of the Continental United States
($3.00) for dinner, and five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50) censed Personnel who will remain on board and make
for a term of time not exceeding six (6) calendar months. for supper. When traveling by ship is involved, men the next voyage shall have time off (not to exceed eight
(b) When a vessel is on domestic articles or harbor shall be provided with second class transportation or the (8) working hours) in the payoff port or such other
ports as may be mutually agreed upon between the
payroll prior to proceeding on a foreign voyage a mem­
cash equivalent thereof.
Master
and the Crewmember. The voyage shall commence
ber of the Unlicensed Personnel shall not be entitled to
SECTION 60. VESSEL IN IDLE STATUS. When a at the time of signing of articles (foreign, nearby for­
transportation to the port of engagement if he fails to
make the foreign voyage, unless the • Company termi­ vessel is inactive in a United States port for any reason eign, intercoastal or coastwise) and continue until
for a period of seven (7) days or less, the Unlicensed articles are terminated. In nearby foreign and coastwise
nates his employment through no fault of his own.
(c) If the port where the articles are finally termi­ Personnel shall be kept on board at the regular monthly trade, this time off need not be granted more often than
nated is located in an area other than the area in the rate of pay. However, when it is expected that said vessel once in each thirty (30) day period.
Continental United States in which is located the port will be idle for a period in excess of seven (7) days, the
of engagement economy class air transportation shall Unlicensed Personnel niay be reduced on arrival. Should
be provided to those men only who leave the vessel, the vessel resume service within seven (7) days, the vesplus wages and subsistence to port of engagement in ' sel's Unlicensed Personnel who return to the vessel, shall
Continental United States. At the seaman's option, cash receive wages, room and meal .allowances for the period
equivalent of the actual cost .of ecoqomy class air trans­ for which they were laid off.
portation shall b
SECTION 61. FULL COMPLEMENT WHILE CAR­
GO IS BEING WORKED. A full complement of Un­
licensed Personnel shall be maintained aboard vessel
at all times cargo is being worked.
The Company shall be in compliance with this section
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when there is less than a full complement, Saturdays,
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Sundays and on Holidays, due to voluntary termination,
a man selects a port for time off where it is
to discharge for cause or absence of members of the
impossible to grant eight (8) hours off, he only gets
The crewmember shall be entitled to transportation Unlicensed
Personnel who should have normally been
what is available and no accumulation is carried
regardless of the Dumber of voyages he makes once on duty. Likewise, compliance shall be in effect when
forward.
transportation has been due him as long as he pays off
there is less than a full complement aboard^due to a
2. If members of the Steward Department are off
in an area other, than an area wherein is located the condition arising as the result of a marine casualty.
while the vessel is not feeding, no overtime is
original port of engagement.
payable
to them.
(d) For the purpose of this section, the Continental
SECTION 62. MANNING SCALE. It is agreed and
3. In the Deck Department, those accepting time off
United States $hall be divided into five areas:' Pacific understood that the present manning scale carried on
under this Section shall not be required to report
Northwest, California, Atlantic Coast area, North of Cape
the Company's vessel shall not be changed unless such
for shifting of ship during time off or during their
Hatteras, Atlantic Coast area. South of Cape Hatteras changes are mutually agreed to by both the Union and
watch below.
and the Gulf Coast area.
the Company. \
4. Alternation of time off may be applied in the Deck
(e) It is also agreed that the transportation provi­
Department provided the vessel's stay in port is
sions contained herein shall not apply until the articles
long enough to comply with the intent of the time
are finally terminated.
off Section.
8. Any member of the Unlicensed Personnel will be
5. Where the seaman does not receive his day off
allowed to pay off the vessel in any port in Continental
as required above, he shall receive one (1) day's
United States or Puerto Rico upon twenty four (24) hours
pay in lieu thereof. If he receives only four (4)
notice to the Master, prior to the scheduled sailing of the •
hours or less of his time off, he shall receive onevessel. However, where a vessel is expected to arrive and
half (%) day's pay in lieu thereof. This clause shall
SECTION 63. INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE. If
depart on a weekend, such notice shall be given not later
not apply where the seaman has accepted overtime
a vessel crosses the International Date Line from east
than 1 p.m. on Friday.
in lieu of time off nor when time off was offered by
to west, and a Saturday, Sunday or Holiday is lost, all
The Master shall be allowed to discharge any member of
the Company and refused.
the Unlicensed Personnel upon twenty four (24) hours day workers shall observe the following Monday or
6. Qualified day workers may be required to relieve
the day following a Holiday. Watch standers will be
notice. If l;he seaman exercises his rights to be paid off, as
watch-standers for purposes of time off. They shall
provided for in this paragraph, transportation provisions paid overtime in accordance with the principle of Sat­
be paid at their respective overtime rates after
shall not be applicable. If the Master exercises his urday and Sunday overtime at sea. If the Sunday
5 p.m. and before 8 a.m., Monday through Friday,
right to discharge a seaman as provided for in this which is lost is also a Holiday, or if the following Mon­
and at their premium rates on Saturdays, Sundays
paragraph, transportation provisions shall not be ap­ day is a Holiday, then the following Monday and Tues­
and Holidays.
plicable. Should the Union object to the discharge, the day shall be observed.
However in crossing the International Date Line from
matter shall be handled in accordance with grievance
west to east, if an extra Saturday, Sunday or Holiday
procedure.
is picked up, only one of such Saturdays, Sundays or
Holidays shall be observed and all crew members will
be required to work without overtime on the so-called
second Saturday, Sunday or Holiday, provided that if
Sunday is also a Holiday, the Sunday which is picked
5. Applicable operations shall be effective on G.A.A. up shall be observed as such Holiday.
vessels.
SECTION 64. NEW EQUIPMENT NOT CARRIED
SECTION B8. RETURN TO PORT OF ENGAGE­ AT PRESENT, NEW CONSTRUCTION AND RECON­
MENT. (a) In the event a ship of the Company is sold, VERSION. In the event the Company is to build new
interned, lost, laid up, run aground or is stranded and ships,
new ships or convert old ships,, it is
ihe crew is required to leave the vessel by reason agreed acquire
that prior to the commencement of construction
thereof, the crew shall be given transportation back to or conversion, the Union and the Company shall meet
the port of engagement with subsistence, room and to negotiate manning scales, quarters, recreational fa­
wages, at the time of payoff, as per Article II, Section cilities and all equipment and provisions to be furnished
59, of this Agreement. When room and subsistence is for, or used by the Unlicensed Personnel.
not furnished aboard the, vessel, room and meal allow­
SECTION 71. AWNINGS AND COTS. All freightance will be paid as prescribed in Article II, Section 43,
SECTION 65. CALENDAR DAY. For the purpose, of ships, except those on regular North Atlantic runs, and
until crew is furnished repatriation by train, vessel this Agreement, the calendar day shall be from mid­ Alaska Coastwise runs, shall be provided with awnings
or commercially operated airplanes, equivalent to the night to midnight.
aft, wjth the exception of vessels equipped with facili­
equipment of a regularly scheduled airline, or in the
ties on deck of the same nature. On fully air-condi­
SECTION
66.
WAR
ZONE.
In
case
any
vessel
of
event such airplane transportation is not equivalent to
tioned
vessels, there shall be no requirements for the
a regularly scheduled airline, they shall be paid the the Company traverses waters adjacent to or in the issuance of cots or the installation of avmings.
proximity
of
a
declared
or
undeclared
war
or
a
state
difference in cash.
(b) The port of engagement of the seaman is the of hostilities, it is hereby agreed that a petition on
SECTION 72. TELEVISION SETS, (a) The Company
port in the Continental United States where he was the part of the Union for the opening of negotiations shall provide a television set for the Unlicensed Per­
first employed by the Company for the vessel involved. for added remuneration, bonuses, and/or insurances, sonnel on all vessels covered by this Agreement. .
It is agreed that where a seaman quits and a replace­ shall in*no way be deemed cause for the termination of
(b) Such television set shall be a nationally known
ment is obtained in the Continental United States port, this Agreement.
brand with no less than twenty-one inch (21") black
the replacement's port of engagement shall be the same
SECTION 67. COPIES OF AGREEMENTS TO BE .and white screen.
as the seaman he replaced except that the replacement FURNISHED. Copies of this Agreement shall be fur­
would be entitled to transportation to his port of en- nished to the Master, Chief Engineer and Chief Stew­
ement if the ship is laid up an*d he is laid off.
ard, who in turn shall supply each Departmental Deledate with a copy at the commencement of each voyage.
SECTION 68. LOGGING. Where the Master exer­
cises his prerogative under maritime law by logging a
man for missing his regular work or watch, he shall
not log the man more than one (1) day for one (1) day.
This section shall not be deemed to prejudice tho authority
of the Master, or the requirements of obedience of the
crew, described elsewhere in this contract, except as
SECTION 74. PYRAMIDING OVERTIME. There
specifically herein provided.
shall be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime ex­
SECTION 69. RETURN OF DECEASED SEAMAN. cept where specifically provided for.
If a seaman dies at any time during the voyage, the
ARTICLE III
Company shall so notify the next of kin as designated
on the shipping articles. In the event a seaman dies
DECK DEPARTMENT
in a port not in the Continental United States, or if
he dies at sea and his body is delivered to a port not
in the Continental United States, in which port, faciliites for preservation of the body for shipment and
burial are available, and there are no legal restrictions
contrary thereto, if the said next of kin requests the
return of the body and agrees to assume responsibility
for the body at the port of engagement, the Company
SECTION 59. TRAVELING. Members of the Union, ..shall defray the total cost of preserving and returning

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furnish his own tools, he shall be paid $20.00 in addition to his
base wage.

SECTION 2. DIVISION OF OVERTIME. AU over­
time shall be divided as eqtially as possible among the
mmnbers of the Deck Crew. In any event, the Boatswain
shall be allowed to make as many hours overtime as
the high man's overtime hours in the Qeck Department,
except where such overtime has been' paid for routine
sea watches. The Boatswain shall have the right to stand
gangway watch in turn with the rest of the Deck
Department. If he fails to exercise such right he has no
claim for high man's overtime.

J If the Boatswain is required to
work with .and supervise the watch on deck, Saturdays,
Sundays or Holidays, for which the watch on deck
receives additional overtime; he shall receive the same
amount of overtime per hour as paid to a member of the
watch on deck or his premium rate,.whichever is higher.
SECTION S. DIVISION OF WATCHES, (a) The
sailors whUe at sea shall be divided into three (3) watches
which shall be kept' on duty successively for the per­
formance of ordinai^y work incidental to the sailing and
maintenance of the'vessel.
nen any
of these three (3) ratings are missing, and the watch is
not complete, the wages equivalent to the rating that is
m^ing from the watch shall be paid to the other member
or members making up the remainder of the watch.
(c) When the watch below is called out to work,
they shall be paid overtime for such work at the rates
specified in tile Agreement except for such work as
defined in Article II, Section 18.

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SECTION 4. BOATSWAIN OR CARPENTER
STANDING WATCH, (a) If the Boatswain or Car­
penter is required to stand watch due to a shortage
of men, such Watches stood between the hours of 5 p.m.
and 8 ajn., Monday through Fridays, and from mid­
night to midnight on Saturdays; Sundays or Holidays,
shall be paid for at their applicable rate. However, all
such watches shall be in addition to their regular duties
as Boatswain or Carpenter. In such cases, there shall he
no division.of wages.
(b) An A.B. Maintenance may be required to replace
any Unlicensed Member of the Deck Department when
said member is sick or missing, without the payment
of overtinle, Monday through Friday.

SECTION 5. SETTING WATCHES. Sea watches
shall be set not later than noon on sailing day. 'When
the vessel sails before noon, watches shall be set when
all lines are on board and vessel is all clear of the^dock.
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IN PORT, (a) In all ports, watches shall be broken
except in those ports where stay of vessel will not ex­
ceed twenty four (24) hours, then watches shall run con• secutively.
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Any part of a sea watch from midnight until 8 a.m.
on day of arrival, shall constitute a complete watch.
This shall not apply to men required for gangway
watch. When arrival occurs on a Saturday, Sunday or
Holiday, overtime shall only he paid for hours actually
worked on such watch.
&lt;b) In port where sea watches are broken the hours
of labor shall be from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Except as otherwise
provided herein, any work outside of these hours or on
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays' shall he paid at the
applicable rate for the respective ratings.
(c) When watches are not broken in port, overtime
shall be paid for all watches stood after 5 P.M. and
before 8 A.M. If watches are broken in a port after
having been maintained for a period of time overtime
shall be paid for all watches' stood between time of
arrival and breaking of watches. This shall not apply
when the crew is being paid overtime for standing
watches.

SECTION 7. MEN STANDING SEA WATCHES, (a)
Men standing sea watches sl^ll be paid overtime at
the applicable rate for Saturday, Sunday and Holi­
day watches and far all work in excras of eight (8)

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hours between midnight and midnight each day.^ No
work except for the safe navigation of the vessel is^to
be done after 6 p.m. and before 8 a.m., Monday through
Friday, and on Saturday, Sundays and Holidays without
the pasnnent of overtime.
(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided, if a
man standing regular watch at sea or in port on Satur­
days, Sundays and Holidays is required to do work other
than routine work for the safe navigation of the vessel,

With the following exceptions:
1. Routine work for the safe navigation of the vessel.
2. Cleaning quarters.
3. Docking and undocking.

take soundings in the absence of the Carpenter and
Boatswain. iQter 6 p.m. and before 8 a.m. weekdays
and on Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays, they shall be
paid at their applicable rate.
(e) 'When no Carpenter is carried, the Boatswain
shall stand by the windlass and shall take soundings.
An Able Seaman may be required to relieve the Boat­
swain at the windlass during regular working hours.
(f) 'When no Carpenter is carried, driving wedges
and chipping, painting or cleaning the windlass, repair­
ing and maintenance of all blocks, shall not be consid­
ered Carpenter work.
(g) When a Carpenter becomes ill or injured, a Deck
Maintenance man may be assigned to perform carpen­
ter work for which he shall be paid his overtime rate,
if the Carpenter remains incapacitated for a period in
excess of three (3) days, the Deck Maintenance man
may then be promoted and shall receive the differen­
tial in pay only.
SECTION 13. HANDLING MOORING LINES. All
hands, when available, shall be used for breaking out
or stowing away mooring lines. The men who perform
this work shall be paid at their applicable rate between
the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.^. weekdays, or on Satur­
days, Sundays or Holidays.

(c) If a man standing sea watches on Saturday,
Sunday or Holiday is required to handle explosives,
clean holds, do longshore work, work ballast, do car­
penter work, secure cargo, lay dunnage, handle mail or
baggage, handle stores, use paint spray guns or sand
blasting equipment, tend livestock, handle garbage,
remove soot from the stack, clean bilges or clean up oil
spills, clean tanks or such work as defined in Article
in. Section- 34, Additional Work, he shall be paid only
the rate as specified in ibis Agreement for that type of
SECTION 14. DOCKING AND UNDOCKING. The
work.
watch on deck shall receive penalty overtime for docking
SECTION 8. RELIEVING HELMSMAN. No mate or undocking after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m., Monday
shall relieve Helmsman except in an emergency. through Friday. All hands, when available, shall be used
Sougeeing, chipping, painting, etc., shall not be consid­ to perform this work.
ered an emergency.
SECTION 15. TOPPING OR LOWERING BOOMS,
(a) When all hatches are to be rigged or unrigged, all
hands available are to be used in topping or lowering
booms. If the booms of only onfr (1) hatch are to be topp^
or lowered, not less than two (2) full watches are to be
used.
SECTION 9. SEA WATCHES IN PORT. When sea
(b) The watch on deck may stretch guys, handle
watches are in effect all members of each respective
watch shall be on duty and shall be paid the premium topping lifts and generally make ready cargo gear for
topping booms.
rate Saturday, Sundays and Holidays.
(c) When booms are lowered and properly secured,
SECTION 10. GANGWAY WATCHES, (a) In all the watch on deck may clear and secure guys.
(d) The watch on deck shall perform this work with­
ports when watches are broken a gangway watch shaH
be maintained at all times. A sailor shall be assigned out the payment of overtime during straight time hours.
(e) 'V^en members of the Deck Department are re­
to maintain this watch and eight (8) hours shall constitute
a watch. Overtime shall be paid for these watches on quired to spot hooms for longshoremen in^ranec^n
weekdays between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. On with the loading or discharging of cai
day of arrival sea watches for men who are to stand
ganerway watches shall be broken at midnight when
stay of vessel is to exceed twenty-four (24) hours. On day
SECTION 16. UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS.
of departure, sea watches for men standing gangway
Working
in holds into which cargo is being loaded or
watch shall be set at midnight prior to scheduled sailing
discharged
shall be considered unsafe working condi­
time. The Premium Rate shall be paid for watches stood
from midnight to midnight on Saturdays, Sundays and tions. However, this will not prohibit the cleaning of
Holidays. Sailors standing gangway watches shall be re­ between-deck spaces while cargo is being worked in the
quired to care for cargo lights, raise or lower gangway, lower cargo holds. (Men working or watching cargo
ensign, tend gangway lights and ropes, handle lines, shall not be included in this clause.)
call tiie Deck watches and Steward Department and
turn off and on deck light and anchor light switches.
vessel is in port anl^^atehes are broken and men are
called back for shifting ship, hauling, rigging cargo
gear, securing gear, cleaning holds, etc., after 6 p.m.
and bpfore 8 a.m., Monday through Friday, they shall
receive a two (2) hour minimum for such call-back.
(d) Gangway watch(^ shall not be maintained
In the event the work exceeds-two (2) hours, the men
ship is underway during the shifting of the vessel.
shall receive overtime for the hours actually worked.
(c) The following companies will be considered in
On Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, the men shall
compliance when they maintain their own shoreside receive a minimum of four (4) hours for such callbacks.
gangway watchmen in only the ports as listed below:
They may be turned to one (1) or more times without
Calmar Steamship—Sparrows Point, Philadelphia, the payment of additional overtime, except where the
San Francisco.
time exceeds four (4) hours, in which case they will be
paid
for the time actually worked.
Delta Steamship Lines—^New Orleans.
During such call-back, the men may be required Jo
Waterman Steamship—^New York, New Orleans, Bal­ secure the vessel for sea but may not be required to do
maintenance or repair work.
timore, Mobile.
(b) This section shall not apply when men are called
Seatrain Lines—Hudson Waterways, New lii^ork and back to sail the vessel.
San Francisco.
(c) The duty of men called for the specific purpose of
shifting
shall be limited to work necessary for
SECTION 11. DAY WORKERS, (a) The following shifting, ship
and
shall
not include maintenance or repair
rating shall- be classified as day workers: Boatswain,
work.
Carpenter, Storekeeper, Deck Maintenance.
(d) All hands available shall be used for shifting or
(b) The working hours at sea and in port' for all hauling
vessels.
men classified as day workers shall be from 8 a.m. to
(e)
When
a shift or haul commences at exactly 5 p.m.
12 Noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
and
the
meal
hour has been changed to 4 p.m. from
Any work performed by day men outside of these hours
5 p.m. for the entire crew, the crewmembers who are
shall be paid at their applicable rate, except for such on
the vessl and are working would not be entitled to
work as^defined in Article II, Section 18.
the
call-back. Those men who have completed their day's
(c) When, in accordance with Article H, Section 44,
work
prior to 5 p.m. and were called back would be
(c), the meal hours are changed, the hours of work entitled
to the two (2) hour call-back.
shall be changed accordingly.
SECTION 18. GOING ASHORE TO TAKE LINES.
SECTION 12. CARPENTER'S DUTIES, (a) Routine The
practice of putting sailors ashore to handle lines
duties of the Carpenter shall include the following:
when docking or undocking is to be avoided as far as
possible. If, however, no other means for handling lines
1. Painting, chipping and cleaning the windlass.
2. Sounding hilges, fresh water, and ballast tanks is available, and sailors are required to catch the lines,
or let them go the sailors actually handling lines shall
daily.
receive five dollars ($6.00) each in each case. This is to be
3. Shoring-up cargo.
in addition to overtime, if they are working on overtime
4. Standing by the windlass when necessary.
5. Maintenance work such as repairinjg locks, installing at that particular moment.
After the ship is properly moored, and members of
porthole gaskets, fixing and fastening steel lockers,
"the Deck Department are rquired to,put out additional .
and all blocks. _
6. Such other work as is customary for Carpentdf lines or single up lines during regular working hours no
additional money shall be paid.
to perform.
(b) No overtime shall be paid to members of the ' SECTION 19. SECURING CARGO, (a) If cargo is
Deck Department who are required to assist the Car­ not properly secured before going to sea and the Crew
Members are required to secure such cargo,!
penter during Ibeir regular hours.
(c) 'When mendiers of the Deck Department are
required by the rfScM-in-diMite • to perform regular
(b) Routine tightening up of Cargo lashing and recwpenter
lashing of cargo which has come adrift shall not conr
(d) ^utine soundings shall be taken on Satordays, stitute overtime.
Sundays and Holidays at sea. Except in an emergency,
SECTION 20. HANDLING HATCHES, (a) When
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cargo, or to cover up hatches when cargo is in the
vessel, they shall receive overtime as per-Article II,
Section 32, of this Agreement.
(b) No overtime shall be paid to day men or the
watch on deck between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday for covering up when no cargo
is in the ship or taking off hatches for any purpose
other than actual cargo operations.
(c) No member of the Unlicensed Personnel shall be
required to perform this work where it conflicts with
the longshoremen and the longshoremen have contracts
covering such work.
SECTION 21. LAYING DUNNAGE FOR CARGO.
When the crew is required to actually lay dunnage in
ireparation for cargo,|

IThis does not mean handling of dunnage in order to

SECTION 31. CLEANING BILGES &amp; OIL SPILLS,
(a) When any member of the Unlicensed Personnel in
the Deck Department is required to enter any bilge
which has bron flowed with fuel oil, for the ;purpose of

the Deck Department without the payment of overtime.
(f) When any work described above is performed by
the Unlicensed Personnel and overtime is payable,

(b) When men are required to cleanup oil spills on

SECTION 35. CHAIN LOCKER. Not less than two (2)
Able Seamen shall be sent into the chain, locker to stow
chain.

deck or oil spills on houses, masts or over the side, as
a result of refueling or overflow from tanks,!
(c) There shall be only one (1) payment for cloning
up after each spill.
SECTION 32. TANK CLEANING, (a) When crewmembers are required to enter any tank in which water
is regularly carried, for the purpose of cleaning or mak­
ing repairs therein,

SECTION 36. PYRAMIDING OVERTIME. There shall
be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime except
where specifically provided for.
ARTICLE IV
ENGINE DEPARTMENT

clean holds, but only refers to actual flooring off with
dunnage for cargo. When crew is required to install
grain fittings or otherwise prepare holds for grain cargo,
they shall be paid at the rate specified above.

(b) When crewmembers are required to enter tordm
that have contained animal, vegetable, petroleum oil
or creosotes, including bunkers or molasses or after
the use of butterworth system, for the purpose of cleaning
SECTION 22. CLEANING CARGO HOLDS, (a) or making repairs therein, they shall be paid at the rates
Members of tbe Unlicensed Deck Department may be indicated below.
required to clean and sweep cargo holds.

(c) The rate for cleaning cargo holds, which have
carried penalty cargo, shall be that shown in Article II,
S^tion 30.
SECTION 23. HANDLING MAIL OR BAGGAGE.
When sailors are required to handle mail or baggage,
they shall be paid the rates specified in Article II, Sec­
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SECTION 24. VESSEL'S STORES, (a) Sailors may
be required to handle deck stores, radio batteries and
"This shall also apply to cofferdams which have been
radio equipment, either on the dock or aboard ship dur­
ing their regular hours without payment of overtime.- fouled through leakage of the above mentioned cargoes.
(c) When tanks described in (b) above are being
Regular hours shall be from' 8 a.m. to 12 Noon and
cleaned and cleaning has been completed, a bonus of
from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
(b) When sailors are required to handle galley coal.
Steward or Engine room stores, either on the dock or
aboard shi;
This bonus will compensate for the clothing allowance
(c) Daily supplies of provisions to be used for port and shall be paid only once during each ballast voyage.
consumption shall be brought aboard by the sailors It is understood that sea boots for tank cleaning will be
during regular hours when required to do so, without furnished by the Company. While engaged in tank
cleaning, men shall receive no other overtime.
payment of overtime.
The men who are hauling the buckets during tank
(d) The oflicer in charge shall determine the number
cleaning operations under this Sectionof sailors required for handling ship's stores.
(e) The Company reserves the right at any time to use
shoregangs to handle ship's stores.
(dj For any work performed in cofferdam or void
SECTION 25. USING PAINT SPRAY GUNS AND tank which has not contained water, oil, .creosotes, etc.,
SAND BLASTING EQUIPMENT. When members of the men required to perform such work
the crew are required to paint with spray guns.
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The same shall apply to members required to handle
When spray guns, other than small hand type, are or shift butterworthing machines during the butterworth hours in port and at sea for all men classified as day
being used for painting, two (2) men shall operate same operations or wash tanks from the decks.
workers shall be from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to
and both men shall receive overtime, at the applicable
(e) A minimum of tlTree (3) men shall be required for 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Any work outside tiiese
rate.
the purpose of shifting butterworthing machines. When hours or on Saturdays, Sundays or Holdays is to be paid
Two (2) men shall be iised on sand-blasting operation butterworthing machines are in^ operation one (1) man for at the applicable rate, except as provided in Article
and shall be paid in the same manner as when spray guns shall be required to stand by the machines. The man who II, S^iion 18. When in accordance with Article II, Sec­
are used.
is standing by the machines shall do no other work. How­ tion 44(c), the meal hours are changed, the hours of
ever, the other men may be required to perform other work shall be changed accordingly.
SECTION 26. SANITARY WORK. Sanitary work work between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
(b) Working hours in port or at sea for all men
shall be done on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
classified as watchstanders shall be forty (40) hours per
without the payment of overtime. Sanitary work in this
week, Monday through Friday. Any work performed on
section shall mean cleaning the wheelhouse, chartroom,
Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays shall be paid for at
cleaning windows and mopping out wheelhouse.
their premium rate.
Weather conditions may necessitate additional mop­
ping of water from the wheelhouse and cleaning of the
wheelhouse windows.
SECTION 27. CLEANING QUARTERS. One (1)
Ordinary Seaman on duty shall be assigned to clean
quarters and toilets of the Unlicensed Personnel of the
Deck Department, Two (2) hours shall be allowed for
this work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 Noon
daily, both at sea and in port, as designated by the
oflScer-in-charge. On vessels of 25,500 D.W.T. or over the
Ordinary Seaman shall be allowed four (4) -hours daily
for performing this work. On C-4's Ordinary Seamen
shall be allowed three (3) hours for this work.

SECTION 28. TENDING LIVESTOCK. When live­
stock is carried the sailors may be required to tend
and feed the livestock and clean up stalls or cages. For
such work ^
SECTION 29. GARBAGE. Garbage shall be stowed
away from crew's quarters. When members of the Deck
Department are required to handle garbage by hand or
shovel,!
SECTION 30. REMOVING SOOT FROM SMOKE
STACK. When members of the Deck Department are
Trequired to remove accumulated soot foom inside^of t^
smoke stack,
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SECTION 34. ADDITIONAL WORK, (a) In all
ports, members of the Deck Department may be
required to chip, sougee, scale, prime and paint the vessel
over the sides.
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They may also paint the crew's messroom, crew's
lounge, crew's laundry and such passageways or part of
passageways where unlicensed quarters, heads and
showers are located, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, without the payment of overtime.
(b) Overtime shall be paid when sailors are required,
either in port or at sea, to chip, sougee, scale, prime or
paint galley, pantry, saloon, living quarters, forecastle,
lavatories and washrooms, which arcLnot used by the
Unlicensed Deck Department.
(c) Non-permanent transient or irregular foreign
shore labor shall not be employed to perform any of
the work in the licensed or unlicensed quarters, store
rooms, passageways, galleys and mess rooms, except
in those instances where the Company uses established
shore labor. Companies on regular trade routes who,
prior to June 1, 1954, used established shore labor in
foreign ports may continue such practice.
(d) At sea or in port, the Deck Department may be
required to sand and varnish all outside rails, storm and
screen doors.
(e) When no Carpenter is carried, the greasing and
testing of reach rods in cargo holds, except the freeing
up or mechanized repairs thereto, shall be performed by

SECTION 4. WORK ON SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS
AND HOLIDAYS AT SEA. (a) Except as otherwise
specifically provided, if a man standing regular watch
at sea or in port on Saturday, Sunday and Holidays, is
required to do work other than routine work for the
safe navigation of the^v^^^^^
(b) If a man staniLg watch on Saturdays, Sundays
or Holidays is required to actually do longshore work,
tank cleaning, or handle explosives during his watch
he shall be paid at the applicable rate only as specified
in this Agreement for that type of work in lieu of the
premium rate.
SECTION 5. WORK OUT OF ENGINE SPACES.
No Unlicensed Member of the Engine Department other
than the Deck Engineer, Engine Utility,. Storekeeper,
Unlicensed Junior Engineer, Electrician, Wiper, Plumb­
er, Machinist, Ship's Welder-Maintenance and Q.M.E.D.
shall be required to work outside the engine spaces
without the payment of overtime. Engine spaces shall
consist of fireroom, engine room, ice machine room and
shaft alley. For the purpose of routine watch duties,
the engine spaces shall consist of fireroom, engine roOm,
ice machine room, steering engine room, and shaft alley.

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�SECTION 6. SETTING WATCHES. Sea watches for
men standing donkey watches shall be set at midnight
prior to scheduled sailing time.
SECTION 7. BREAKING WATCHES. When a vessel
is in port as defined in Article II, Section 34, and is
scheduled to remain in port twenty-four (24) hours or
longer, sea watches shall be broken. Whep scheduled
stay of vessel is less than twenty-four (24) hours, sea
watches shall be maintained.
When the vessel arrives in port and is to depart prior
to midnight of the following day, sea watches for those
men who are to maintain donkey watches shall not be
broken.
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When the vessel arrives in port ahd is scheduled to
depart after midnight on the following day, sea watches
for those men who are to stand donkey watches shall
be broken at midnight on day of arrival.
On day of arrival, any part of a sea watch from
midnight until 8 a.m. shall constitute a complete
watch. This shall not apply to men who are to stand
donkey watch. When such arrival occurs on a Saturday,
Sunday or Holiday, the premiiim rate shall only be paid
for hours actually worked on such watch. When
watches are not broken in port, penalty overtime shall be
paid for all watches stood after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m.
If watches are broken in a port after having been
maintained for a i)eriod of time, penalty overtime shall be
paid for all watches stood between time of arrival and
breaking watches. This shall not apply when the crew
is being paid overtime for standing watches. This ex­
cludes men standing donkey watches.
SECTION 8. SUPPER RELIEF, (a) At sea or in
port, the 4 to 8 watch shall relieve itself for supper.
When any member'or members ofthe Engine Department
off duty are required to relieve the 4 to 8 watch during
maneuvering, overtime shall be paid.S

(b) In port, the man detailed to oil winches shall
relieve the fireroom watch for supper when cargo is
being worked, except when two (2) or more men are
standing fireroom and/or engine room donkey watches
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SECTION 9. ELECTRICIANS. (1) The hours of
the Electrician while on day work shall be from 8 a.m.
to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday. When the Electrician is requested to make a
routine daily inspection on Saturdays, Sundays and
Holiday, he, shall be paid at his premium rate.
(2) liie Chief Electrician shall be responsible to and
take orders from the Chief Engineer, or in the absence
of the Chief Engineer, he shall take orders from
the Senior Engineer or the Engineer on watch; all
other Electricians to be directly responsible to the
Chief Electrician. In the absence of the Chief Electri­
cian, the/other Electricians take orders from the Engi­
neer. In. the case of Watch Electricians, Electricians
are responsible'to the Senior Watch Engineer on board.
(3) Electricians shall do all electrical work. They
shall also oil or grease the mechanical parts* of the
elevators, cargo winches, or electrical conveyors, with­
out the payment of overtime. (This shall not apply to
Si-porters or simitar equipment.) When necessary to
reach electrical equipment, the Electricians may also be
required to perform maintenance work at the steam or
diesel end of machinery.
Overtime shall be paid for all electrical or mechani­
cal work performed on any of the following equipment:
gryro compass, gsrro repeaters, gyro batteries, and gyro
M.G. sets, radio communication receivers, transmitter,
radio conununication batteries, motor generator sets, radio
direction finder equipment, fathometer equipment, radar
equipment and Loran system equipment.
(4) Electrician's refusal to do electrical work, when
.such work renders Electricians liable to electrocution,
. or where hazardous conditions exist, shall not be
deemed refusal of duty.
(5) When- cargo is being worked with vessel's elec­
tric cargo-handling machinery after 5 p.m. and before
8 a.m. weekdays or on Saturdays, Sundays and Holi­
days, the Electrician shall do all work necessary to keep
electric cargo handling machinery in operation.
Overtime shall be paid straight through for such
periods including time of standing by, preparation of
gear to work cargo and securing of such gear there­
after. However, overtime shall cease if cargo work
ceases for periods in excess of two (2) hours. If no cargo is
being worked during the noon hour on Saturdays, Sun­
days and Holidays and he is. given his full meal hour,
no overtime shall be paid for that hour.
(6) Electricians shall not be required to do- any
painting or cleaning of electrical machinery spaces and
the outside of electrical equipment, such as motors,
generators, panel boxes, fans, vent filters, electrical
fixtures and glassware. This does not mean that the
Electricians will not be required to cle^n up any oil or
grease spilled in connection with their regrular duties.
(7) Electricians shall be required to maintain the
inside of motors, generators, panel boxes, fans and the
face of switch panels. They shall also maintain cargo
and cluster li,;hts and do all sweeping and cleaning in
resistor houses and fan rooms.
(8) When Electricians are required to install any
heavy equipment, whether new or additional, they shall
be paid for such .work at the applicable rate. This shall
not apply, however, tO' removals or replacement or re­
pairs to worn out equipment, nor to installations of new
or light equipment such as wiring and small electrical
fixtures and equipment.
(9) On vessels carrying Electricians, a properly
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for supplies and tools and for overhauling electrical
equipment.
Electricians shall keep this workshop clean, but shall
not be required to paint or sougee.
' (10) In port, when an Electrician on day work, is
recalled to the ship on weekdays, after 6 p.m. and be­
fore 6 a.m. and on Saturday, Sunday and Holidays, he
shall receive a minimum of three (3) hours overtime at his
applicable rate. If turned to after 6 a.m., he shall re­
ceive a minimum of two (2) hours overtime at his overtime
rate. This clause shall not apply when he .is recalled
to stand by for the purpose of assisting in getting the
vessel underway.
(11) At sea, when Electricians on day work are
called out to do any repair work after midnight and
before 8 a.m., a minimum of two (2) hours overtime shall
be paid.
(12) When the Electrician is requested in writing
by the Company to furnish his own'tools he shall re­
ceive twenty dollars ($20.00) per month in addition to his
basic wage.
(13) The Chief Electrician shall keep Meiger read­
ings of electrical equipment up to date during his regu­
lar working hours.
(14) Electricians shall not be required to rewind
coils or armatures except in cases of emergency.
(15) The Electrician, when available, should be
assigned to operate electrical controls on life-boat
winches when they are being used.
(16) Except in emergencies, all electrical work nor­
mally assigned to Electricians as their regular duties
should be performed by the Electricians, when they are
aboard.
(17) He will not be required to reline brakes on
electric winches, anchor windlasses or capstan.
(18) The Chief Electrician shall keep an inventory
of all supplies and equipment on hand and he shall
make requisitions for all needed electrical supplies and
tools, subject to approval of the Chief Engineer. Tak­
ing voyage inventories, however, shall be confined to
straight time hours.
(19) Where less than three (3) electricians are carried,
they shall be classified as day workers.
(20) When three (3) electricians are carried, they shall
be put on regular sea watch at sea of four (4) hours on
and eight (8) hours off. In port, these Electricians shall be
classified as day workers.
(21) Electricians shall make any needed repairs to
maintain electric refrigerators, electric washing machines
and electric clothes dryers.
(22) No overtime is payable under this section
when the MG sets supply electricity for the' entire
vessel. Regardless of the location of the MG sets the
use shall determine whether or not overtime is payable.
If the MG sets are used to supply electricity for, the
vessel, no overtime is payable. If the MG sets are not
used for the entire vessel but used for reasons specified
in Article IV, Section -9 (3), overtime s^all apply as
specified in this Agreement
(23) On all vessels carrying containers (of any size)
it shall be the routine duty of the Electrician l^tween
the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday through Friday:
(a) to plug and unplug the reefer boxes.
(b) to perform all electrical repairs necessary on
reefer boxes.
(24) Crane Maintenance Electrician
It shall be the duty of the Crane Maintenance Electri­
cian to perform the work as defined above for Elec­
tricians. In addition, he shall perform the work as
defined for Deck Engineer under Article IV, Section 15,
and perform all work necessary for the maintenance and
operation of the shipboard cranes.
(25) Electrician/Reefer Maintenance
It shall be the duty of the Electrician/Reefer Main­
tenance to perform the work as defined above for Elec­
tricians. In addition, he shall perform all work as
defined in Article IV, Section 11, Refrigerating Engi­
neers.
(26) The Crane Maintenance Electrician and the
Electrician/Reefer Maintenance shall be required to
have the necessary qualifications to sail as Electrician.
They shall also be certified by the United States Coast
Guard as Oiler and Fireman Watertender. They may,
when necessary be placed on watch to replace a miss­
ing watch stander, without the payment of overtime
except as specifically provided in this Agreement.
SECTION 10. UNLICENSED JUNIOR ENGI­
NEERS. (a) On vessels carrying only three (3) Un­
licensed Junior Engineers, they shall be classed as
watch standers and while at sea, shall be put on reg­
ular sea watches of four ^ (4) hours on and eight (8) hours
off. In port, the Unlicensed Junior Engineers may be put
on day work.
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(b) DUTIES AT SEA. They shall assist in the
operation of the plant and shall be required to do main­
tenance and repair work as directed by the Watch
Engineer between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Mon­
day through Friday, without the payment of overtime.
Such maintenance and repair work shall be confined to
engdne room, fireroom, machine shop, storeroom in or
adjacent to engine room, shaft alley, and ice machine
room. Tliey shall not be required to do general clean­
ing, painting, cleaning paint, polishing work, wirebrushing, chipping, or scaling without the payment of overtame.
(c) DUTIES IN PORT. They shall be required to
do maintenanc.") and repair work between,the hours of
8 a.m. and 12 noon, 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday. Such maintenance and repair work shall be
confined to engine room, fireroom, machine shop, store­
room in or adjacent to engine room, shaft alley, ice
machine room and steering engine room.

(d) ,If required to replace another member of the
Unlicensed Personnel, they shall be governed by the
working rules covering that particular rating.
(e) On vessels carrsring day Unlicensed Junior Engi­
neers in addition to watch Unlicensed Junior Engineers,
their duties shall be as follows:
At sea and in port they shall be required to do main­
tenance and repair work as outlined in subsection (c)
above under the direction of the Engineer in charge.
They may assist in taking on Engine Department stores
including water and fuel.
(f) On those vessels where three (3) Unlicensed Junior
Engineers are carried, they shall be classed as watchstanders. On those vessels where less than three (3) Un­
licensed Junior Engineers are carried, they shall be
classed as day workers.
(g) On those vessels where more than three (3) Un­
licensed Junior Engineers are carried, three (3) Un­
licensed Junior Engineers shall be classed as watch
-standers and the additional Unlicensed Junior Engineers
shall be classed as day workers.
SECTION 11. REFRIGERATING ENGINEERS.
(a) While refrigerating plant is being operated at sea.
Refrigerating Engineers shall be assigned to watches of
four (4) hours on and eight (8) hours off.
(b) When refrigerating plant is operating continu­
ously in port, the Refrigerating Engineer may be re­
quired to stand donkey watch of eight (8) hours on and
sixteen (16) hours off.
(c) When refrigerating plant is not being operated
and no refrigerated cargo is on board, they shall be
assigned to day work in the engine room in accordance
with working rules for Oilers on day work.
(d) Refrigerating Engineers on day work may be
required to supervise the stowing of reefer cargo in
which event they shall be paid overtime while the
reefer cargo is being worked between the hours of 5
p.m. and 8 a.m. weekdays. On Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays, they shall be paid at their Premium Rate.
(e) At sea, while on watch, no overhauling work,
breaking calcium, shifting or moving CO-2 bottles shall
be done between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. week­
days or on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, without
the payment of overtime. In case of emergency, such as
excessive gas leakage or loss of brine, the Refrigerating
Engineer on watch shall correct this condition as part
of his regular duties without the payment of overtime.
(f) While on watch duty. Refrigerating Engineer
shall be required to leave safe working conditions, keep­
ing the spaces around the ice machines and their
auxiliaries clean of oil, water and refuse accumulated
during his watch, but he shall not be required to do
any painting, cleaning paint, chipping, scaling or shin­
ing bright work. They shall maintain and operate all
refrigeration and air-conditioning machinery, and take
temperatures at refrigeration machinery, fan rooms,
boxes, and reefer containers.
(g) On day work. Refrigerating Engineers shall work
under the direction of the Chief Engineer or Licensed
Engineer in charge of refrigerating plant. Their duties
shall consist of overhauling and repair work necessary
in connection with the upkeep and maintenance of re­
frigerating machinery, its auxiliaries, and equipment.
They shall not be required to paint, sougee, chip, scale,
shine bright work, or do cleaning work unless over­
time is allowed for such work.
(h) At no time shall they pull or shift ice.
SECTION 12. PLUMBER-MACHINIST, (a) The
Plumber-Machinist shall be classified as a day worker.
(b) Plumber-Machinists shall be required to do re­
pair work on fresh and salt water lines and small
steam lines connected with domestic department of the
vessel, bathroom fixtures, radiators, galley fuel oil lines,
steam cookers and coffee urns, ahd shall do general
machine shop work. They may be required to take on
water during regular working hours without the pay­
ment of overtime.
SECTION 13. EVAPORATOR MAINTENANCE
MEN. (a) They shall stand two (2) watches of four (4)
hours each per day, while evaporators are in use at
sea. When evaporators are used in port, watches shall
be changed to eight (8) hours on and sixteen (16) hours
off.
(b) When evaporators are in use, they shall tend
evaporators and other auxiliaries in the evaporator
spaces.
(c) When evaporators are not in use, they shall be
classed as day workers.
(d) While on day work, they may be required to
perform general maintenance and repair work in the
Engine Department, and they may be required to assist
in taking on water, fuel oil and Engine Department
stores, but they shall not be required to clean boilers,
tanks or tank tops, or do any cleaning, sougeeing,
scaling or painting without the payment of overtime.
They may be required, however, to do, minor sougeeing
or spotting up in the evaporator room. They may also
be required to replace Oilers, Watertenders, Firemenwatertenders or Firemen who are sick, injured, or
missing.
~ SECTION 14. STOREKEEPER, (a) They shall be
classified as day workers.
(b) They shall supervise the work-of the Wipers
under instructions from the First Assistant Engineer
and they shall have charge of storeroom and stores, and
maintain inventories.
(c) They shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or polish­
ing work without the pajrment of overtime, except in
the Engine Department storerooms.
SECTION 15. DECK ENGINEER, (a) It shaH be

�the^ duty of the Deck Engineer to oil and maintain
winches and do maintenance and repair work to deck
machinery and deck piping, and when no Electrician is
carried he may be required to care for lights, fuses
and overhaul electric fans. This will not include mast
lights, navigation lights and cargo lights permanently
installed. Lifeboat motors are not to be considered as
deck machinery. The Deck Engineer shall not be re­
quired to work- on any electric motors such as refrigera­
tor motor?, etc., without the payment of overtime.
(b) The Deck Engineer shall not be required to do
any cleaning or repair work in the engine room, lireroom or shaft alley, without the payment of overtime.
(c) The Dcck Engineer shall not be required to do
any additional work while oiling deck machinery, except
for running or breakdown repairs.
(d) The Deck Engineer shall oil and maintain
winches until midnight on days of arrival and departure.
An Oiler or Engine Utility shall be assigned to those
duties on all other days after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m.,
however, the Oiler or Engine Utility assigned to oil
winches from 5 p.m. until midnight shall be knocked
off from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. for supper.
(e) The Deck Engineer shall run steam on and off
deck machinery and warm up same when deck ma­
chinery is needed to handle ship's lines, except when
cargo is being worked and an Oiler or an Engine Utility
has been assigned to oil winches.
(f) The Deck Engineer or another competent mem­
ber of the Unlicensed Personnel shall stand by when
deck machinery is being turned over to prevent freezing.
(g) The Deck Engineer shall not be required to do
any general painting, cleaning paint, wirebrushing,
chipping, scaling or polishing work without the pay­
ment of overtime.
(h) The Deck Engineer may be required to clean
out toilets, scuppers or drains when they are stopped
up, but he shall not do any maintenance, repair or
plumbing work on domestic lines, toilets, sinks, radia­
tors, etc., without the payment of overtime.
(i) If the Deck Engineer is required to stand
watches due to the shortage of men, such watches
stood between the hours of 6 p.m, and 8 a.m. weekdays
shall be paid for at the overtime rate. However, all
watches stood shall be in addition to his regular duties
as Deck Engrineer. In this case, there shall be no di­
vision of wages.
SECTION 16. UTILITYMAN (a) The Utilityraen
shall be classed as day workers.
(b) They shall be required to assist Engineers or
Deck Engineers, etc., in all Engine Department work,
including the repair of reefer containers.
(c) They shall be required to have qualifications as
Oilers; Watertenders and Firemen.
(d) They shall not replace any member of the Un­
licensed Personnel, except when such member is missing
or unable to perform his regular duties due to illness
or injury.
(e) All work that is overtime for Wipers during
their regular working hours, with the exception of
repair work, shall be overtime for the Utilityman when
performing the same type of work.
(f) They shall do no cleaning, painting, chipping,
scrapping, wirebrushing, shining of brass, etc.
' SECTION 17. OILERS-DIESEL, (a) While on sea
watch they shall make regular rounds on main engines
and auxiliaries, pump bilges, clean strainers and cen­
trifuges, watch oil temperatures and pressures. If
required, they shall drain oil for piston oil tanks every
hour and shall pump up water for gravity. They shall
be required to tend small donkey boiler for heating
purposes, without payment of overtime. However, when
boiler is being used for heating cargo oil, an overtime
allowance of two (2) hours per watch shall be allowed the
Oilers.
(b) They shall do no cleaning or station work but
shall be required to leave safe working conditions for
their relief, provided such work shall not be done when
Wipers are on duty.
~ (c) In port. Oilers shall maintain a regular donkey
watch. They shall oil auxiliaries, tend small donkey
boilers, and look after entire plant. Oilers on donkey
watch may be required to do maintenance work in the
engine room between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays.
On Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, and after 5 p.m.
and before 8 a.m. weekdays, the Oilers on watch shall
receive their applicable rate and no additional overtime
shall be paid if cargo is being worked.
(d) Oilers shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint,..wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or polish­
ing work without the payment of overtime.
SECTION 18. OILERS ON SEA WATCHESSTEAM. (a) They shall perform routine duties, oil
main engine (if reciprocating), watch temperatures and
oil circulation (if turbine), oil auxiliaries, steering en­
gine and ice machine. They shall pump bilges and they
shall also tend water where gauges and checks are in
the engine room and no Watertenders are carried.
(b) They shall do no cleaning or station work but
shall be required to leave safe working conditions for
their reliefs, keeping the ppaces around main engine
and auxiliaries clean of any excess oil. Their routine
duties shall include cleaning oil strainers arid purifier.
(c) On vessels with small cargo refrigeration plants.
Oilers shall oil plant. When the Oiler is required to take
reefer cargo box temperature, he shall be paid one (1)
hour's overtime for each watch. On vessels carrying
watch freezers. Oilers shall not handle refrigeration
plant.
(d) If required to start or blow down evaporator,
he shall be paid one (1) hour overtime for each operation.

However, when such equipment is placed in operation.
Oilers may be required to check the equipment at'
regular intervals, make necessary adjustments to in­
sure proper and even flow of condensate and salt
water and oil and tend any pumps operated in connec­
tion with such equipment without the payment of over­
time.
(e) On turbine-propelled vessels which are certified
as passenger vessels and are carrying passengers, the
Oiler on the midnight to 4 a.m. watch may be required
to assist in blowing tubes, where automatic soot blowers
are in vlse(f) Oilers shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or
polishing work without the payment of overtime.
(g) In port when sea watches are maintained, the
Oiler on watch shall be paid penalty overtime after 5 p.m.,
and before 8 a.m., weekdays and on Saturdays, Sundays
and Holidays, at the premium rate.
SECTION 19. OILERS ON DAY WORK—STEAM.
They shall assist the Engineers in maintenance and re­
pair work in engine room, machine shop, shaft alley,
ice-machine room, and storeroom when located in, or
adjacent to engine room. They shall not be required
to do any cleaning of boilers, painting, cleaning paint,
polishing work, wirebrushing, chipping or scaling with­
out the payment of overtime.
SECTION 20. WATERTENDERS ON SEA WATCH­
ES. (a) They shall perform their routine duties, tend
water and boiler auxiliaries, oil temperatures, stack
draft and supervise firing. They shall handle any valves
in connection with the operation of the boilers as di­
rected by the Engineers.
(b) They shall not be required to crack any main
or auxiliary steam stop valves. However, when stops
have been cracked, they may open them wide.
(c) They shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or
polishing work without the payment of overtime.
SECTION 21. WATERTENDERS IN PORT.
(a) They shall maintain a regular donkey watch
and shall maintain steam and tend auxiliaries, including
ice machines.
(b) They shall be paid overtime at the applicable
rate after 5 p.m., and before 8 a.m., weekdays and on
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.
(c) Watertenders shall not be required to do any
painting, cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling,
or polishing work without the payment of overtime.
SECTION 22. VESSELS HAVING BOTH WATERTENDERS AND FIREMEN. In port, as defined in
Article II, Section 34, and sea watches are broken,
Watertenders shall stand all donkey watches and Fire­
men shall be put on day work.
SECTION 23.
FIREMEN/WATERTENDER.
(a)
They shall be required to tend water, clean burners,
strainers and drip pans, punch carbon, keep steam, tend
fuel oil pressure and temperatures and oil fuel circula­
tion pumps which are located in the fireroom only ex­
cept as in Article IV, Section 34.
(b) They shall clean up excess oil occasioned by
changing burners and strainers and shall leave the
fireroom in a safe condition when relieved.
(c) They shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or polish­
ing work without the payment of overtime.
(d) Except as otherwise provided herein, when on
donkey watch they shall be required to keep steam.
(e) If the ship arrives in port between 5 p.m. and
midnight, the Fireman/Watertender shall continue on
sea watches until midnight and shall maintain steam.
Penalty overtime shall be paid for this work.
SECTION 24. WATER-TUBE FIREMAN ON SEA
WATCHES, (a) They shalT do routine duties of the
watch such as keeping burners clean, cleaning strainers
and drip pans and punch carbon. They shall not be re­
quired to leave the confines of the fireroom at any time
to do any work outside of the fireroom, except as pro­
vided for in Article IV, Section 34.
(b) They shall be required to keep their respective
stations cleaned and painted between the lowest grating
and the floor plates. On vessels with irregular gratings,
10 feet from the floor plates shall be considered the
Fireman's station limit.
(c) Fanning tubes and the use of XZIT and similar
preparations shall be classified as general cleaning work
and shall be confined to regular cleaning hours.
(d) They shall not be required to blow tubes by
hand. However, the Fireman on watch may be required
to assist in opening and closing breeching doors, and
in turning steam on and off. Where automatic soot
blowers are used Fireman will handle valves connecting
with same.
SECTION 25. WATER-TUBE FIREMAN ON DAY
WORK, (a) In port, they shall be required to do
general cleaning, polishing and painting work, in the
fireroom, sponging and blowing tubes, and shall assist
the Engineers in making repairs to boiler mountings
etc.
(b) They may also be required to wash down steam
drums of water tube boilers.
(c) When required to do any cleaning of boilers and
fireboxes other than the above, they shall be paid over­
time.
SECTION 26. FIRE-TUBE FIREMEN ON SEA
WATCHES, (a) They shall perform routine duties,
clean burners, strainers and drip pans, punch carbon,
keep steam, watch fuel oil pressure and temperature,
(b) They shall clean up excess oil occasioned by

changing burners and strainers without payment of
overtime and shall leave the fireroom in a safe con­
dition when relieved.
.(c) They shall not be required to do any any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or polish­
ing work without the payment of overtime.
(d) If the ship arrives in port between 5 p.m. and mid­
night, they shall continue on sea watches until midnight
and shall maintain steam and tend auxiliaries including
ice machine. Penalty overtime shall be paid for this work.
SECTION 27. FIRE-TUBE FIREMEN IN PORT,
(a) They shall keep burners, strainers and drip pans
clean at all times. They shall also clean up excess oil
occassioned by changing burners and strainers without
payment of overtime and shall leave the fireroom in a
safe condition when relieved. They shall do no boiler
work. They shall keep steam for the auxiliaries and
safety of the ship and take care of the entire plant.
They shall receive overtime after 5 p.m., and before 8 a.m.,
Monday through Friday.
(b) They shall not be required to do any painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling or polish­
ing wofk viathout the payment of overtime.
SECTION 28. WIPERS, (a) They shall be classed
as day workers.
(b) It shall be routine duties for the Wipers to do
general cleaning, including oil spills -on deck, painting,
cleaning paint, wirebrushing, chipping, scaling, sougeeing, polishing work in the Engine Department, in­
cluding resistor houses and fanrooms, cleaning and
painting steering engine and steering engine bed, and
take on stores. However, when taking on fuel oil or
water, and the hoses are connected and disconnected
by shoreside personnel,, the Wiper shall not be required
to assist. When the ship's personnel handles the con­
nections, the Wiper shall be used to assist in connecting
and disconnecting and putting hoses away but should
not be required to stand by.
^Pumping of galley fuel tank shall be performed on
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays during the two (2)
hours' sanitary work.
(c) They shall not be required to paint, chip, 'sougee
or polish bright work in fireroom fidley,
except in
port.
(d) One (1) Wiper shall be assigned to clean
quarters and toilets of the Unlicensed Personnel of the
Engine Department daily. Two (2) hours shall be al­
lowed for this work between the hours of 8 a.m. and
12 noon daily, both at sea and in port, as designated by
the Engineer in charge. On vessels of 25,500 D.W.T. or
over, the Wiper shall be allowed four (4) hours daily
for performing this work. On C-4's the Wiper shall be
allowed three (3) hours daily for the work.
• (e) They may be required to paint unlicensed En­
gine Department quarters without payment of over­
time during their regular working hours.
(f) They shall be paid overtime for cleaning in
firesides and steam drums of boilers. They may be re­
quired to wash out steam drums with hose -without
payment of overtime.
(g) They shall be paid overtime when required to
clean tank tops or bilges by hand or whep required to
paint in bilges. However, cleaning bilge strainers,
cleaning away sticks or rags shall be considered part of
their duties and shall be done without the payment of
overtime.
(h) They shall assist the Engineers in blowing tubes,
and they shall also assist the Engineer in putting XZIT,
and similar preparations and boiler compounds in the
boiler.
(i) They may be required to assist in repair work,
but they shall not be assigned to a repair job by them­
selves without the payment of overtime. This is not
to include dismantling equipment in connection with
cleaning; such as, grease extractors, bilge strainers and
evaporators, etc.
(j) They shall be required to pump up galley fuel
tank during straight time hours without the payment
of overtime.
(k) While vessels are transiting the Panama or
Suez Canal, one (1) Wiper shall be assigned to trim
ventilators to insure breeze for men below, regardless
of whether it is outside of their regular working hours
or not. When he performs this work outside of his regu­
lar working hours, overtime will be allowed.
(1) Skimming hot wells and cleaning grease extrac­
tors shall be done by the Wipers as part of their regu­
lar duties without the payment of overtime.
(m) They shall pull ice on freight ships and deliver
it to the ice box without the payment of overtime, and
they shall also remove ice cubes from ice cube machines
where such machines are located in engine room spaces.
(n) At sea, when a watchstander becomes ill or in­
jured, a Wiper may be assigned to stand his watches
for which he shall be paid overtime. If the original man
remains incapacitated for a period in excess of three
(3) days the Wiper may then be promoted and shall
receive the differential in pay only.

SECTION 29. DONKEY WATCH, (a) A donkey
watch is a watch performed in port by a portion of the
Engine Department personnel who are required to
maintain steam and to tend auxiliaries including steam
winches when the main engines are secured.
(b) The donkey watch shall be paid at the premium
rate for Saturday, Sundays and Holidays, and on week­
days shall be paid penalty overtime after 5 p.m., and
before 8 a.m.
If donkey watf^hes are to be maintained during the
vessel's stay in port such watches must be set at-the
time sea watches are broken.
(c) The intention of this Section is that, in port,
donkey watches, including a Fireman/Watertender and

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the Oiler shall be required to oil all auxiliaries, includ­
ing steam winches.
(d) Under circumstances where a Fireman/Watertender is alone on donkey watch by reason of the Oiler
having been assigned to day work, or to other duties,
and the Fireman/Watertender is required to tend engine
auxiliaries, he shall be compensated for such work at
the applicable overtime rate per hour. In no case,
however, shall double overtime be paid.
(e) Where either a Fireman/Watertender or an Oiler
fails to stand his watch, and the work of the missing
man is performed by another Unlicensed Member of the
Fngine Department, then there is no additional com­
pensation payable.
(f) Oilers on donkey watch may be required in
addition to oiling auxiliaries to do maintenance work
in the engine room between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. without
payment, of overtime weekdays.

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SECTION 30. TANK CLEANING
(a) When crewmembers are required to enter any
tank in which water is regularly carried, for the pur­
pose of cleaning or making repairs therein, H"

This shall also apply to cofferdams which have been
fouled through leakage of the above-mentioned cargoes.
(c) ]^hen tanks described in (b) above are being
cleaned and cleaning has been completed, a bonus
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This bonus will compensate for the clothing allowance
and shall be paid only once during each ballast voyage.
It is understood that sea boots, for tank cleaning will be
furpished by the Company. While engaged in tank clean­
ing, men shall receive no other overtime.
The men who are hauling the buckets during tank
cleaning operations under this section W
(d) For any work performed in cofferdam or void tank
which has not contained water, oil, creosotes, etc., the
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The same shall apply to members required to handle
or shift butterworthing machines during the butterworth
operations or wash tanks from the decks.
(e) A minimum of three (3) men shall be required for
the purpose of shifling butterworthing machines. When
butterworthing machines are in operation one (1) man
shall be required to stand by the machines. The man who
is standing by the machines shall do no other work. How­
ever, the other man may be required to perform other
work between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
SECTION 31. USING PAINT SPRAY GUNS AND
SAND-BLASTING EQUIPMENT. When members of
the crew are required to paint with spray guns

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SECTION 36. STANDING SEA WATCHES. DAY
WORKERS. Except as otherwise speciflcally provided,
the following ratings may be used to stand watches
duG to a shortage of unlicensed watch standers without
the payment of overtime: Deck Engineer, Engine Util­
ity, Q.M.E.D., Ship's Welder Maintenance and Wiper,
or any other qualifled day worker.
SECTION 37. CLEANING BILGES. When any mem­
ber of the Unlicensed Personnel of the Engine Depart­
ment is required to enter any bilge which has been
flooded with fuel oil, for the purpose of cleaning,!

SECTION 39. SHIP'S WELDER/MAINTENANCE,
(a) The Ship's Welder/Maintenance Man shall be
classed as a day worker in the Engine Department.
(b) He shall be required to do burning, welding,
maintenance and repair work anywhere on the vessel
as directed by the Chief Engineer.
(c) He shall be required to have qualiflcations as
Fireman, Oiler and Watertender.
(d) He may be used to replace sick, injured or
missing watch-standers without the payment of over­
time, except as where speciflcally provided for in this
Agreement.
(e) He shall not be required to do general cleaning,
painting, cleaning paint, polishing work, wirebrushing,
chipping or scaling except in the course of burning,
welding, maintenance and repair work.
(f) He shall receive the contractual overtime rate
for specifled work such as tank cleaning, cleaning bilges,
using paint spray guns, etc.
SECTION 40. OliiER/MAINTENANCE UTILITY.
1. The Oiler shall be re-rated to Oiler/Maintenance
Utility.
2. He shall be required to have the qualiflcations of
Fireman, Oiler and Watertender.
3. He shall be classed as a watch stander and shall
perform the routine duties and maintenance of the
Oiler and Fireman-Watertender stated in Article I"V,
Sections 18, 19 and 23, Standard Freightship Agree­
ment.
4. Maintenance overtime shall be divided as equally
as possible between men of this rating.
SECTION 41. QUALIFIED MEMBER OF THE EN­
GINE DEPARTMENT (Q.M.E.D.).
1. The duties of the Qualifled Members of the En­
gine Department (Q.M.E.D.s) shall be all work neces­
sary for the continuance of the operation of the Engine
Department.
2. He shall perform maintenance and repairs through­
out the vessel under the direction of the Engineer in
charge.
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3. If he is a day worker, he may be required to re­
place a missing Watchstander.
4. He may be required to take on fuel and water and
to take soundings as directed by the Engineer in charge.
5. When no Ship's Welder-Maintenance is carried he
may, if qualifled be required to burn and weld.
6. He may be required to assist in any work neces­
sary for the operation of reefer equipment and con­
tainers, including the taking of temperatures.
7. He shall not be required to chip, paint, or sougee
except where such work is incidental to a speciflc repair
job.

When spray guns, other than small haiid type, are
being used for painting, two (2) men shall operate same
and both men shall receive overtime, at the applicable
rate.
Two (2) men shall be used on sand-blasting operation
and shall be pn.td in the same manner as when spray guns
are used.
SECTION 3'^. CARBON TETRA-CHLORIDE. When­
ever carbon tetra-chloride is required to be used by any
Unlicensed Member of the Engine Department for clean­
ing purposes, \
SECTION 33. WORK WHEN PLANT IS SHUT
DOWN. When vessel is in port and the entire plant is
shut down, the Watertenders, Fireman/Watertenders,
or Firetube Firemen may be placed on day work. Their
SECTION 43. PYRAMIDING OF OVERTIME. There
work shall then consist of repair and maintenance work shall be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime ex­

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SECTION 35. NEW EQUIPMENT NOT CARRIED
AT PRESENT. In the event the Company should in­
stall new or different equipment than that presently in
use and covered by this Agreement, the Company and.
Union shall meet immediately to negotiate working
rules to cover such vessel or equipment.

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SECTION 34. FIREROOM-ENGINE ROOM BOUND­
ARIES. On vessels having no bulkheads separating
engine room' and flreroom, an imaginary line is to be
drawn at after or forward end of boilers, depending on
location of boilers, for the purpose of deflning engine
room or flreroom boundaries. This imaginary line shall
not exclude from the duties of the Fireman, FiremanWatertender, Watertender, and Oilers any work as out­
lined in their respective working rules.

(b) When crewmembers are required to enter tanks
that have contained animal, vegetable, petroleum oil
or creosotes, including bunkers or molasses for purpose
of cleaning or making repairs therein, they shall be
paid at the rates indicated below.

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on all boiler mounts and boiler auxiliaries which are
located in the fireroom, above and below the floor plates.

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•When passengers are carried, the Third Cook will be
re-rated as Second and will be paid wages in ftccordance
with this Agreement.
SECTION 2. MINIMUM OVERTIME. At sea, when
any member of the Steward Department is called out
to work between the hours of 7:30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m.,
a minimum of two (2) hours overtime shall be paid.
SECTION 3. HOURS OF WORK, (a) No member of
the Steward Department shall be required to work in
excess of eight (8) hours in any one (1) day without the
payment of overtime.
(b) Any work required to be performed outside his
regular hours, or on Saturday, Sundays and Holidays,
shall be paid for at the applicable overtime rate.
(c) In port all work performed by the Steward De­
partment between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m., Mon­
day through Friday, shall be paid for at the applicable
rate. The spread of hours shall be as provided in this
Agreement.
(d) When a vessel proceeds from one (1) city to an­
other City and (always assuming that the vessel is under
Register or enrollment and a Custom clearance or
permit to proceed is required), then those Cities are to
be considered two (2) separate and distinct ports. If a
Custom clearance or permit to proceed is not required
the two (2) Cities are to be considered the same port for
the purpose of applying the overtime provisions of above.
SECTION 4. WORKING HOURS.
Steward—eight (8) hours between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Chief Cook—eight (8) hours"Between 6:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m.
Cook and Baker—eight-(8) hours between 6 a.m.
and 6 p.m.
Second Cook—7 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Third Cook—7 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Messman—6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.-—
10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Steward Utilityman—7 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Galley Utility—6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.—
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
SECTION 5. AUTOMATED AND SEMI-AUTO­
MATED VESSELS, (a) Hours and Duties.
1. The Chief Steward or Steward-Cook shall super­
vise the Steward Department, eight (8) hours, between
6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
2. Chief Cook
7:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
3:30 p.m.- 6:15 p.m.
Additional duties of the Chief Cook shall be to assist
Cook and Baker during rush period at breakfast and
keep utensils used by him clean. The Chief Cook shall
receive the same port time overtime hours as the Chief
Steward.
3. Cook and Baker
6:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.
Additional duties of Cook and Baker shall be to pre­
pare, cook and serve all vegetables for dinner and
supper meals. Scrub galley after the supper meal with
the assistance of a General Utility. Prepare night
lunches and cooked salads.
4. Saloon Mess
6:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.
Prepare salads except cooked, and all cold drinks used
by him. Draw supplies as needed.
5. Crew Mess
6:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
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Prepare salads except cooked salads.
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6. UtiUty
6:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
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10:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
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On vessels carrying Utilities, the Chief Steward shall
assign their duties.
(b) VESSELS CARRYING PASSENGERS
1. When passengers are on board, the Passengers'
Utilities working hours shall be the same as the Messman.
2. In all ports the Cook and Baker shall work on
a schedule between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. as set forth by
the Steward.
When meal hours are changed for Deck and Engine
•Departments in accordance with Article II, Section 44,
the Steward Department's working hours may be
changed accordingly provided, however, that they be
given two (2) hours' notice prior to the time necessary to
prepare meals.

�3. Two dollars and fifty cents (|2.50) per day, for each
passenger over six (6) passengers shaH'be paid on these
vessels when from seven (7) to twelve (12) are carried.
These monies shall be divided among the members of the
Steward Department who perform .the work or, at the
Company's option, an additional Passenger Utilityman
may be carried.
4. When the vessel commences a voyage without
passengers, and without a Passenger Utilityman and is
manned in accordance with this section and passengers
are taken aboard at a foreign port, two dollars and fifty
cents ($2.60) per day per passenger shall.be paid and
divided among members of the Steward Department who
perform this work.
6. When two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per day per
passenger is being paid to members of the Steward De­
partment, there shall be no division of wages as outlined
in Article V, S^tion 7, because of the absence of this
member in the Steward Department.
When the company receives no compensation for a
minor child then the two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50)
per day shall not be applicable.
If the two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per passenger
per day is being paid in lieu of increasing the Steward
Department personnel and a passenger boards or leaves
a vessel before the serving of any of the three (3) meals,
at the beginning or termination of such passenger's voy­
age, the'rate of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) pre­
scribed herein shall be reduced in the amount of eighty
four cents ($.84) for each meal missed.

SECTION 6. PULL COMPLEMENT, (a) The full
complement of the Stewart Department shall be main­
tained when the vessel is feeding. This shall not apply
when a skeleton crew is aboard.
(b) When a skeleton crew is aboard and the ship is
feeding, a minimum of five (5) men shall be maintained in
the Steward Department.
SECTION 7. WORKING DUE TO ABSENT MEM­
BERS. (a) When a vessel is in a Continental United
States port and a member of the Steward Department
is missing, the men who do the missing man's work
shall be paid overtime for actual time worked over
their normal eight (8) hours.
(b) If a vessel sails without the full complement in
the Steward Department as required by this agree­
ment, then the men who do the missing men's work
will receive, in addition to a division of wages of the
missing men, the overtime that the missing men would
normally have made on a Saturday, Sunday or Holiday.
(c) While on a voyage and a member of the Steward
Department becomes ill or is injured, and remains
aboard the vessel, the men who do his work will re­
ceive a division of wages but they shall not receive any
overtime for doing this work.
SECTION 8. ROUTINE WORK, (a) The regular
routine duties laid out below shall be carried out within
the scheduled working hours as specified above and it
shall be the duty of the Steward Department to or­
ganize so that it is accomplished within eight (8) hours
per day as scheduled in this Agreement. Routine duties
of the Steward Department shall be t6 prepare and
serve the meals. They shall also clean and maintain, in­
cluding spot sougeeing and polishing bright work, the
quarters of the Licensed Personnel, the Radio Officers,
the Pursers, Passengers and the ship's office, all dining
rooms, messrooms, washrooms, galley and pantry. They
shall sort and cull fruit and vegetables. Unless other­
wise specified in this Agreement no overtime applies
to the above routine work.
(b) At sea, the Utility, if assigned to the daily clean­
ing of the radio shack, shall receive not more than three
(3) hours overtime per week at the overtime rate.
(c) It shall be routine duties for the Steward Util­
ity to count and bag linen, work in storerooms, linen
lockers, toilets and Steward Department enclosed
passageways and do general cleaning within his eight (8)
hours as directed by the Steward.
(d) Where the Saloon Messmen are required to wax
and polish decks, it shall be among their routine
duties to maintain same daily. When he is required to
remove old wax preparatory to rewaxing, and rewax
same, he shall be paid overtime for such work per­
formed.
SECTION 9. RECEIVING STORES. The Steward
shall be solely responsible for checking and receiving
of voyage stores and linens, and he shall not delegate
this responsibility to any other member of the Steward
Department. He shall be required to go on the dock
to check stores and linens without the payment of
overtime during his regular working hours.
SECTION 10. HANDLING STORES. Members of
the Steward Department shall not be required to
carry any stores or linen to or from the dock, but when
stores or linen are delivered at the storeroom doors,
meat or chill box-doors, Stewart Department men shaU
place same in their respective places and

consumption when placed aboard shall be stored by
Messmen and/or Utilitymen without the payment of
overtime provided such work is done within their pre­
scribed eight (8) hours.

SECTION 21. SHORE BREAD- (a) The Company
shall furnish bread from ashore in all Continental U.S.
ports. When bread is not furnished in Continental U.S.
ports within twenty four (24) hours, after arrival, ex­
cluding
Sundays, and Holidays, the Cook and Baker shall
SECTION 11. LATE MEALS. When members of the be required
to make the bread and will be paid three (3)
Steward Department are required to serve late meals hours overtime
for each batch of bread baked.
due to the failure of officers to eat within the pre­
(b)
When
a
Baker is employed he may be re­
scribed time, the members of the Steward Department quired to bake new
during
actually required to stand by to prepare and serve the the payment of overtime.regular working hours without
late meals shall be paid at the applicable rate.
SECTION 22. SOUGEEING. When members of the
SECTION 12. SHIFTING MEALS. When meal hours
are extended for any reason and any of the Unlicensed Steward Department are required to sougee, overtime
Personnel are unable to eat within the required pre­ shall be paid for the actual number of hours worked,
as provided in Article V, Section 26. Wiping off
scribed time, all members of the Steward Department except
fingerprints, grease spots, etc., shall not be considered
required to stand by to prepare and.serve the meals sougeeing.
shall be paid at the applicable rate for the time the
meal is extended. As much notice as possible shall be
SECTION 23. CHIPPING, SCALING AND PAINT­
given the Steward Department when meal hours are to ING. Members of the Steward Department shall not
be shifted, and in no event shall this notice be lesi^ than be required to chip, scale or paint.
two (2) hours in advance. In the event the two (2) hour
SECTION 24. DUMPING GARBAGE. No member
notice is not given the meal hour shall not be shifted.
of the Steward Department shall be required to go on
SECTION 13. MEALS IN PORT, (a) When meals the dock for the purpose of dumping garbage, without
are served in port to other than regular members of the pajrment of overtime.
the crew, passengers, pilot, port engineers, super­
cargoes and port captains^, when assig^ned to the vessel,
I shall be paid and
divided among the members of the Steward Department
actually engaged in preparing and serving meals.
(b) When food is prepared for persons who do not
SECTION 25. OIL STOVES. Members of the Stew­
require the service of messroom, two (2) hours overtime
per meal shall be paid for the first group of six (6) persons ard Department shall not be required to pump oil for
and fractions thereof, and one (1) hour overtime for each the galley range.
four (4) additional persons or fractions thereof. This
SECTION 26. DAY WORK, (a) When the ship is not
money is to be divided equally among the galley force.
feeding and members of the Steward Department are
(c) No extra meals are to be served without the on day work, the hours shall be 8 a.m. to 12 noon and
authority of the Master or officer in charge of the 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
vessel.
(b) When members of the Steward Dejpartment are
SECTION 14. EXTRA PERSONS SLEEPING on day work, they may be required to work in store­
ABOARD. When persons other than regular crew- rooms, linen lockers, toilets, passengers' and officers'
members, passengers, pilot or a company representa­ quarters, messrooms, galley. Steward Department pas­
tive sleep aboard, the member of the Steward Depart­ sageways, handle stores and linen placed aboard ship,
ment who takes care of the room shall be paid one (1) and do general cleaning without the payment of overtime.
(c) When members of the Steward Department are
hour's overtime per jday. This does not apply when a
ship carries the required complement to accommodate on day work, they shall be allowed fifteen (15) minutes
passengers and the number of extra persons aboard do for coffee at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. or at a convenient time
not exceed the full complement of passengers allowed. near these hours.
(d) When members of the Steward Department are
This does not apply to relief officers.
on day work, they shall receive one (1) full hour from 12
SECTION 15. SERVING MEALS OUTSIDE OF noon until 1 p.m. for lunch. This hour may be varied
MESSROOMS. When any member of the Steward De­ but such variation shall not exceed one (1) hour either
partment is required to serve anyone outside of their way, provided that one (1) unbroken hour shall be allowed
respective messrooms for any reason, he shall be paid at all times for dinner or supper when men are on day
at the applicable rate for time required. However, meals work. If one (1) unbroken hour is not given, the men in­
may be served on the bridge to the Master and/or volved shall receive one (1) hour's Penalty Overtime in
Pilot without the payment of overtime, whenever it is lieu thereof.
necessary for them to be on the bridge for the safety
(e) Extra members of the Steward Department who
of the ship. The Captain's office or stateroom shall not are carried to take care of passengers may be as­
be classified as the bridge of the ship. This section signed to day work when passengers leave the vessel
shall not be construed to apply to passengers or ship's and such members shall work as directed by the Chief
personnel served during regular working hours on ac­ Steward. In addition to the work outlined in subsec­
tion (b) of this section, such members may be re-count of illness.'
quired to sougee in passengers' quarters, including
SECTION 16. MIDNIGHT MEALS AND NIGHT toilets, washrooms, and alleyways, during their regular
LUNCHES, (a) Members of the Steward Department hours of work without the payment of overtime. Pas­
actually engaged in serving hot lunches at midnight are senger Utilitymen who are on day work when no
to be allowed three (3) hours' overtime for preparing and passengers are aboard, shall be allowed to work week­
serving same.
end and Holiday overtime, except when the vessel is
(b) When not more than the equivalent of one (1) de­ sailing between Continental United States ports.
partment is served at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m. night lunch, one (1)
cook shall be turned out to perform this work. When
SECTION 27. GALLEY GEAR. The Company shall
a midnight hot lunch is served to not more than five (5) furnish all tools for the galley including knives for the
men, one (1) cook shall perform this work. When from six cooks.
(6) to ten (10) men are served, one .(1) cook and one (1)
SECTION 28. APRONS AND UNIFORMS. Whitemessman shall perform this work. When more than ten
(10) men are served, one (1) cook and two messmen shall caps, aprons, and coats worn by the Steward Depart­
ment shall be furnished and laundered by the Com­
perform this work.
(c) When meals are not provided as specified in pany and white trousers worn by the galley force shall
Article II, Section 45, the number of the Steward be laundered by the Company.
Department who would normally be broken out to
SECTION 29.
ENTERING ENGINEROOM AND
prepare such meals shall be paid the overtime specified FIREROOM. Members of the Steward Department shall
in paragraph (a) above, at the Overtime Rate.
not be required to enter the engine or fire room, except
SECTION 17. CLEANING MEAT AND CHILL as may be required by Article II, Section 18.
BOXES, (a) Members of the Steward Department shall
SECTION 30. WORK NOT SPECIFIED. Any work
be assigned by the Steward to clean meat and chill performed by the Steward Department that is not
boxes and shall be paid at the applicable rate for actual specifically defined in this Agreement shall be paid for
time worked. Boxes shall not be cleaned without the ex­ at the regular overtime rate.
press authorization of the Chief Steward.
SECTION 31. PYRAMIDING OVERTIME. There
(b) Keeping the meat and chill boxes neat and
orderly at all times such as cleaning out paper wrap­ shall be no duplication or pyramiding of overtime ex­
ping, crates, etc., within regular working hours is cept where specifically provided for.
not to be considered overtime.
SECTION 18. MAKING ICE CREAM. When a memher of the Steward Department is required to make
ice cream he shall be,.paid at the applicable rate for
the time required to make the ice cream.
SECTION 19. MAKING ICE. On ships where ice
machines are carried, members of the Steward De­
partment will not be required to make ice or pull
ice, but they will distribute the ice once it is pulled.
On ships where ice machines are not carried, and
members of the Steward Department are required to
make ice, overtime shall be paid for such work per­
formed. "This does not apply to making ice cubes in
small refrigerators or ice machines, which are located
in messrooms, pantries or galleys.
SECTION 20. OVERTIME FOR BUTCHERING.
When carcass beef, in eighths or larger is carried, the
man required to-butcher this beef shall be ^aid a mini­
mum of six (6) hours overtime weekly for butchering. This
shall not apply when a Butcher is carried.

ARTICLE VI
OTHER PROVISIONS
SECTION 1. (a) Vessels Sales and Transfers. Prior to
any vessel contracted to the Seafarers International Un­
ion of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­
land Waters District, AFL-CIO, being disposed of in
any fashion, including but not limited to sale, scrap,
transfer, charter, etc., ninety (90) days notification in
writing must be sent to Union Headquarters 275 20th St.,
Brooklyn, New York 11215.

SECTION 2. It is agreed that any agreements that are
presently in effect covering War Risk Insurance and
Area Bonuses be continued as is with no cliange. In

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�other changes shall be the dates provided in the
Memorandums of Understanding which have been in­
corporated into and made a part of this Collective Bar­
gaining Agreement.

addition, any and all Addenda, Supplementary Ag^reements and/or Memorandums of Understanding, the con­
tents of which have not been incorporated into this
Collective Bargaining Agreement shall be continued in
effect and if modified, as so modified shall be in­
corporated into and made a part of this Collective Bar­
gaining Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

ARTICLE VIII

SECTION 3. It is agreed that for purposes of construction of this Agreement, wherever the masculine
gender is used, it shall include the feminine gender.^

EFFECTIVE DATES
The effective date of this Agreement shall be at 12:01
a.m.,
'11^ and the effective dates as to all

TERMINATION
The termination date of this Collective Bargaining
Agrreement shall'

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FOR THE
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland'Waters District,
AFL-CIO
In order to insure continued harmony and efficiency
in the Steward Department, this outline of duties is sub­
mitted as a guide for the Steward and his Department.
It is not intended to conflict with or supercede our
agrreement, nor is it intended in any way to limit the
Chief Steward's authority.
Duties of Steward:
Eight (8) hours bet-^een the hours of 6:30 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. The Steward shall have the full authority of making
any changes and adjustment of this work, according to
the circumstances or conditions that may arise, and the
Union demands th^t each member cooperate in carry­
ing out his assignment as a condition of our Contract.
It shall be left up to the Steward's good judgment, who
will bear in mind that the results are always the deter­
mining factor, in better service, maintenance and
greater economy. He shall coordinate the work of his
Department in the different classes so that none of his
men will be taxed unfairly or beyond their capacity. He
shall have free access to all parts of the vessel, where
the function of his Department is necessary. When
setUing differences he should make every effort to settle
them satisfactorily for all concerned. His employees
are entitled to private interviews when brought to task.
This will improve the harmonious relationship now ex­
isting aboard ships. The regular duties of the Steward
shall be to supervise all work of the Steward Depart­
ment, including the supervision of preparing and serv­
ing all meals; he is responsible for the receiving and
issuance of, all stores, inspection of work, preparing
requisitions, taking inventory of stock, authorizing,
checking and recording overtime, conforming with the
agreement in distribution of extra meals to each man
individually, issuance of linen and soaps to the crew
and officers on the days designated with the help of
the Steward Utility. He shall see to it that the SIU
feeding siystem and list of instructions, as set forth by
Headquarters and its representatives, shall be followed
and he' will be held accountable for its application
aboard ship.
When ordering replacements for entry ratings, the
Steward shall specify a definite entry rating. The dis­
patcher should be instructed to call the job as specified
for the particular entry rating involved.
The Chief Steward shall set up a schedule for mem­
bers of the Department to keep the Steward Department
quarters clean.
Upon two (2) hours notice, members of the Steward
Department shall be required to assist the Steward in
taking voyage stores. The Steward will designate the
number of men necessary for storing.
He shall prepare all menus and control all keys. He
shall see that all quarters under his jurisdiction are
cleaned properly, that meals are served on time, au-thorize the cleaning of all refrigerated storage boxes.
He may assist When there is a shortage of help in his
Department, he may also do any work he may deem
necessary for the efficient operation of his Department.
Duties of the Chief Cook:
Eight (8) hours between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m.
The Chief Cook is in charge of the galley. He shall do
the butchering, cook roasts, soups, gravies and sauces;
' direct the preparation and serving of all food, including
night lunches, assist the Chief Steward in preparation of
I the menus when required. He shall work under the
supervision of the Chief Steward and shall receive stores
when necessary and assist in the proper storage of
Bjaane. As directed by the Steward, he shall assist in
t^ing inventory of galley stores and galley equipment;
also report to the Steward any repairs and replacing
of all equipment. He shall render all fats, he shall be
responsible for the general' cleanliness of the galley
and its equipment. He shall keep the meat box in an
orderly condition.
Duties of the Cook and Baker:
Eight (8) hours in all ports and at sea, as the Steward
may direct, between the hours of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
! He shall work under the direction of the Chief Cook;
he shall do the necessary cooking, baking, breads, pies,
cakes, puddings, pastries, hot cakes and all flour work,
cook cereals, stewed fruits, assist with cooking and serv­
ing meals, and when required, he shall at 6 a.m.
start the preparation of all meats left out by the Chief
' Cook except when the cook and baker is on day work.
He shall b(- responsible for cooking and serving break­
fast. He shall slice, prepare and serve all bres.kfast
meats and assist in the preparation and serving of all
meals while on day work. He shall assist in the general
cleaning and upkeep of the galley and equipment. On
Liberty ships where there is no Gallejmian, he shall

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box cereals, butter, bread, cold drinks, and needed
do the Third Cook's duties between 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
supplies; scrub the deck each morning before retiring.
Duties of the Second Cook:
Clean messroom refrigerator, tables and chairs and spot
7 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Second Cook shall work under the direction of sougee when needed. Assist the Pantryman with salads.
the Chief Cook and the Cook and Baker. He shall cook all Place night lunches in proper places. Leave out a few
vegetables and assist in preparing for the cooking and cups and spoons after each meal. He shall check that
serving of all meals, prepare all cooked salads, and shall there are necessary stores left out for night, such as
assist the Night Cook and Baker with breakfast to order. coffee, sugar, milk, etc. Also clean fans in messroom.
Duties of the Crew Utility:
He shall prepare all night lunches. He shall assist in the
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.-^:30 p.m.
general cleaning and dpkeep of the galley and equip­
ment, sort and cull perishable fruits and vegetables, to 6:30 p.m.
The Crew Pantryman shall be responsible for the
with the Galleyman, as required.
cleanliness of the crew pantry crockery, coffee um,
Duties of the Third Cook:
percolators, all pots and pans used by him, and refrig­
7 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
erators;
scrub deck each day and sweep after each
The Third Cook shall work under the direction of the
Chief Cook and other Cooks. He shall prepare and cook meal. Make coffee for each meal and coffee for the
all v^etables, keep a sufiicient amount of onions, car­ crew for morning (coffee time) before retiring. He is
rots, etc., available for use, sort and cull perishable responsible for the preparation of salads (except cooked
v^etables and fruits, with the Galleyman, as required. salads) under the direction of the Steward. He shall
Keep refrigerated space neat and orderly, and clear assist Messman in serving when required during rush
out paper wrappings, crates, etc. Draw necessary linen period. Draw needed supplies for the crew messroom
for galley in exchange for soiled linens, assist in the and assist Crew Messman in making cold drink. Spot
general cleaning of galley and equipment, return un­ sougee when necessary.
used and leftover food to the refrigerator when neces­
Duties of the Steward Utility:
sary. When no Galley Utility is carried, he shall per­
7:00 a.m. to1 p.m.—4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
form the work of the Galley Utility, and his working
Routine duties of the Steward Utility shall, other than
hours shall be 6:30 a.m; to 9 a.m., 10 a.m. to l p.m., 4 making and cleaning officers' quarters, include work in
p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
storerooms, linen lockers, ship's office, officers' passage­
Duties of the Galley Utility:
ways and stairways, clean Steward Department show­
6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.—11 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. to ers, and toilet, count and bag linen, issuance of linen
6:30 p.m.
and soaps when necessary; do the general cleaning as
The Galley Utility shall work under the direction of the Steward may designate. Clean the recreation room
all Cooks; he shall clean the galley and all utensils, peel alternately with the Wiper and Ordinary Seaman. The
potatoes, and vegetables, cull perishable vegetables and laundry is cleaned by each Department alternately.
fruits with the Third Cook or Second Cook, and keep re­
frigerated spaces neat and orderly, clearing out paper
Note:—Members of the Steward Department who are
wrappings, crates, so forth; empty and scrub garbage required to obtain stores from refrigerated spaces shall
pails. After each meal, scrub galley deck. He shall assist assist in keeping refrigerated spaces clean by remov­
Chief Cook in drawing daily meats from meat box, when ing paper, wrappings, crates, etc.
required. Each morning after breakfast draw stores as
On certain types of veraels the Messman and Utilitydirected, including linen. Clean between deck, passage­ men may be required to clean certain ladders and pas­
ways, outside refrigerator boxes and stairway leading sageways as part of their routine duties.
to the main deck. Light fires when prescribed.
Duties of the.Passenger Utility:
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m.
SIU STEWARD DEPARTMENT GUIDE
to 6:30 p.m.
When passengers are aboard,'the Fassengm: Utility
In order to improve the preparation and serving of
shall make and clean the passenger rooms each morn­
ing. He shall be responsible mostly for the caring of food and eliminate waste on all SlU-contracted vessels,
and services to passengers, as the Chief Steward may the following guide shall be put into effect:
(1) Menus are to be prepared daily, on main entrees
direct, clean passenger lounges and smoking room. He
may be required to assist Steward in receiving and dis­ at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance. Standardiza­
embarking passengers. When six (6) or less passengers tion must be avoided.
(2) The Chief Steward is to issue all daily stores
are carried he is to serve them breakfast. He is to serve
lunch and dinner at all times and when over six (6) pas­ when practicable ana must control all keys. Storerooms
sengers are carried he will work in conjunction with the and ice boxes are to be kept locked at all times.
(3) Maximum sanitary and orderly conditions must
Saloon and Pantry Messmen, as the Steward may direct.
be observed in all Steward Department facilities such as
Duties of the Saloon Messman: .
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m. galley, messrooms, storerooms, etc. No smoking in the
galley at any time. No smoking by any Steward Per­
to 6:30 p.m.
The Saloon Messman shall be responsible for the serv­ sonnel while serving or preparing food.
(4) White jackets must be worn by Messman at all
ing of the three (3) meals daily to the Captain and. Offi­
cers; he shall also assist in serving all meals to pas­ times while serving. T-shirts.may be worn while pre­
sengers. However, the Saloon Messman and Saloon Utility paring for meals. Galley gang to wear white caps, cooks
are solely responsible for preparing and serving break­ jackets, white or T-shirts during hot weather. Caps to
fast when more lhan six (6) passengers are carried^ He be paper or Cloth. Cooks jackets to be % length sleeves.
shall be responsible for the cleanliness of the saloon, However, white or T-shirts may be worn by Messman
condiments, etc., polish silver and clean port boxes and during hot weather.
(5) Only qualified food handlers are to handle food
glasses, mop the saloon each morning after breakfast
and sweep after each meal, and clean fans in saloon. and all personnel outside of the Steward Department are
Draw all linen to be used in the saloon and be responsi­ to be kept out of the galley at all times.
(6) All entrees such as meat, fowl, find fish, includ­
ble for* the setting of all tables for service. Spot sougee
ing ham and bacon for breakfast, must be served from
when necessary.
the galley and when practical, vegetables should also
Duties of the Saloon Utility:
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 .p.m. be served from the galley.
(7) All steaks and chops are to be grilled to indi­
to 6:30 p.m.
'The Saloon Pantrjrman shall be responsible for the vidual order. However, chops may be grilled thirty (30
pantry and the refrigerator and fruits and all needed minutes prior to serving, when necessary. Meats and
stores for the officers and passenger service. He is re­ roasts must, be carved to order.
(8) No plates should be overloaded and only nonsponsible for the preparation of salads (except cooked
salads) under the direction of the Steward. Keep pantry watery vegetables will be seiwed on the same plate
and utensils, bootlegs, steamtables, crockery and pans with the meat or other entree. Other vegetables to be
used by him, cleaned after each meal. Dish out food at served on side dishes.
(9) At least two (2) men of the galley gang must'be
service. Make coffee at each meal and morning (coffee
time) before retiring. Empty and scrub garbage pail in the galley during meal times. The Steward is to super­
after each meal, work jointly with Saloon Messman vise the serving of all meals. Either the Steward or the
and Passenger's Utility in preparation and serving at Chief Cook must supervise the meals when in port. Stew­
all times. He may be required to assist in serving break­ ard to be aboard and responsible to check voyage stores
fast with Saloon Messman when more than six (6) pas­ when they are received.
(10)' Salads, bread, butter and milk are to be placed
sengers are carried. Spot sougee when necessary.
on the table not more than five (5)~minutes before the '
Duties of the Crew Messman:
6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—4 p.m.' serving and only on tables where needed.
(11) All coffee served for meals and coffee time is to
to 6:30 p.m.
The Crew Messman is in charge of the crew mess- be made in electric percolators when practicable.
(12) No food, including vegetables, is to be thrown
room; responsible for silverware and glasses, condi­
ments, and serving three (3) meals a day. Provide milk. away after meals without the consent of the Steward

�or the Chief Cook. Use left-overs as soon as possible, not
to exceed forty-eight (48) hours. '
(13) Such items as sardines, boiled eggs, sliced left«
over roasts, such as pork, beef, ham, etc., potato salad,
baked beans, besides the ordinary run of cold cuts and
cheese are to be served for night lunch. The night

lunches are to be cut and placed by the 2nd Cook or
3rd Cook before retiring.
(14) Hot bread or rolls to be baked daily when prac­
ticable. Cakes or pastry to De served at coffee time as
much as possible.
(15) Stewards must keep a record of all menus for

reference.
(16) Ground coffee for the black gang to be drawn
from the Steward within the Steward's working hours
and not from the pantry.
(17) Tsnpewritten copy of the daily menu to be fur­
nished the galley force.

SHIPPING RULES-JUNE 16,1975
Preamble

evidence to establish his class of seniority rating. For this purpose
an appropriate seniority Identification card issued by the Union
Every seaman seekine employment through the hiring halls of the
shall be deemed sufficient, although other official evidence of em­
Seafarers International Union of North America-Atiantic, Gulf, Lakes
ployment, such as legible U.S. Coast Guard discharges, may also
and inland Waters District (hereinafter called the "Union") shall be
be submitted.
shipped pursuant to the following Shipping Rules, Nothing con­
5. In ports where the Seafarers Welfare Plan maintains a clinic,
tained in these Shipping Rules is in any way intended to create
no sea.man shall be registered for shipping unless he submits a
any indemnity obligation on the part of either the Union or the
valid Seafarers Welfare Plan clinic card at the time of registration.
Seafarers Welfare Plan.
6. To remain valid, seniority registration cards must be stamped
once each month In the port of issuance. The dates and times for
such stamping shall be determined by the Port Agent for each
1. Seniority
port, and each registrant shali be notified of the dates and times
for stamping when he receives his shipping registration card. A
A. Subject to the conditions and restrictions on employment con­
seaman who faiis to have his shipping registration card so stamped
tained In agreements between the Union and contracted Empioyers
during any month shali forfeit the same and shali be required to
and to the Rules set forth herein, seamen shall be shipped out on
re-register. In the event circumstances beyond his control prevent
jobs referred through the Union's hiring halis according to their
a seaman from having his shipping registration card so stamped,
class of seniority rating.
the Port Agent may stamp such card as if the seaman had been
B. The following shall be the classes of seniority rating:
present on the required time and date, upon submission by the
1. Class "A" seniority rating, the highest seniority rating, shall
seaman of adequate evidence of the circumstances preventing his
be possessed by:
personal appearance.
(a) all unlicensed seamen who possessed such rating on Sept.
7. Subject to the provisions of these Ruies, shipping registration
8, 1970, pursuant to the Shipping Rules then in effect;
cards shall be valid only for a period of ninety (90) days from the
(b) all unlicensed seamen who possess Class "B" seniority
date of issuance, if the ninetieth (90th) day fails on a Sunday, a
rating pursuant to these Rules and who have shipped regularly as
national or state holiday, or on a day on which the Union hiring
' defined herein for eight (8) consecutive years, provided such sea­
haii in the port of registration is closed for any reason, shipping
men have maintained their Cass "B" seniority rating without break
registration cards which would otherwise expire on such day shall
and provided further that they have completed satisfactorily the
be deemed valid until the next succeeding business day on which
advanced course of training then offered by the Harry Lundeberg
the said hiring hail is open. Shipping registration cards' periods of
School of Seamanship for the Department in which such seamen
validity shali also be extended by the number of days during which
regularly ship; and
shipping in the port of registration has been materially reduced by
(c&gt; all unlicensed seamen who have been upgraded to Class "A"
strikes affecting the maritime Industry generally or by other sim­
seniority rating by the Seafarers Appeals Board pursuant to the
ilar circumstances.
authority set forth herein.
C. The following Rules shall govern shipping of registered sea­
2. Class "B" seniority rating, the second highest seniority rating,
men through Union hiring halls:
shall l&gt;e possessed by:
1. Seamen shall be shipped only through the hiring hall at the
(a) all unlicensed seamen who possessed such rating on Sept.
port where they have registered for shipping. No seaman shall be
8, 1970 pursuant to the Shipping Rules then In effect:
shipped on a job outside of the Department or Group in which he
(b) all unlicensed seamen who possess Class "C" seniority
is registered except under emergency circumstances to prevent a
rating pursuant to these Rules and who have shipped regularly as
vessel from sailing short-handed, or as otherwise provided in these
defined herein for two (2) consecutive years; and
Ruies.
(c) all unlicensed seamen who possess Class "C" seniority
2. Jobs referred to the Union hiring hall shall be announced and
rating pursuant to these Rules and who have graduated from the
offered to registered seamen at the times and according to the
Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship entry rating training pro­
procedures set forth in Rule 4 hereof. At the time each job is so
gram and have been issued a ship assignment card in accord with
offered, registered seamen desiring such job shall submit their
these Rules.
shipping registration cards, U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner's
3. Class "C" seniority rating, the lowest seniority rating, shall be
documents, and valid Seafarers Welfare Plan clinic cards to the
possessed -by all unlicensed seamen who do not possess either
hiring hall, dispatcher. The job so offered shall be awarded to the
class "A" or class "B" seniority ratings.
seaman in the appropriate Department and Group possessing the
C. A seaman shall be deemed to have shipped regularly within
highest priority, as determined pursuant to Rule 2 C (3) hereof.
the meaning of these .Rules if he has been employed as an un­
3. Within each Department, seamen of higher senority rating
licensed seaman no less than ninety (90) days during each calen­
shall have priority for jobs over seamen of lower seniority rating,
dar year aboard one or more American-flag merchant vessels cov­
even if such higher seniority seamen are registered in a different
ered by a collective bargaining agreement between the Union and
Group from that in which the offered job is classified. As between
the owner or operator of such vessels.
seamen of equal seniority ratings within the same Department,
D. Employment by or at the request of, or election to any office
priority shali be given to the seamen registered for the Group in
or Job in, the Union shall be the equivalent of covered employment
which the offered job is classified. In the event seamen of equal
described in the preceding paragraph; and seniority credit under
priority under this paragraph bid for the same Job, the job shall
these Rules shall accrue during the period that such employment,
be awarded to the seaman possessing the earliest dated shipping
office or Job Is retained.
registration card.
E. Seniority credit shall be accrued on the basis of total covered
4. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Rules, no job
employment, without regard to whether such employment was served
shali be awarded to a seaman who is under the influence of alco­
In the Deck, Engine or Steward Departments.
hol or drugs at the time such job is offered; nor shali any seaman
F. The ninety (90) day period of employment required of a sea­
be awarded any job unless he is qualified therefor in accord with
man during any year to constitute shipping reguiariy within the
law or unless he submits, if necessary, appropriate documents es­
meaning of these Rules shall be reduced proportionately in accord
tablishing such qualifications.
with the amount of time spent by such seaman during that year
5. The seaman awarded a job under Rule 2 C (2) hereof shall
as a bonafide In- or out-patient in the continuin'r care of a U-S.Immediately surrender his shipping registration card and shali re­
P.H.S. or other accredited hospital. (For example, four months' In­
ceive two job assignment cards containing his name and the de­
patient time during a given calendar^ year reduces the ninety (90)
tails of the job. When reporting aboard his vessel, the seaman
day employment requirement for that year by one-third to sixty
shall present one job assignment card to the head of his Depart­
(60) days.
ment and the other to the Union department delegate.
Q. In the event a seaman possessing less than Class "A" sen­
D.'A seaman who quits or is fired from a job during the same
iority rating fails to ship reguiariy within the meaning of these
day on which he reports for such job shali retain his original ship-,
Rules during a particular year, he shall lose ail accumulated em­
ping registration card if he has received no compensation for such
ployment credit for that and all preceding years in his then cur­
day's employment and if he reports back to the dispatcher on the
rent seniority rating.
next succeeding business day. A seaman who quits or is fired
H. In the event a seaman's covered employment has been inter­
after the day he reports for a job shall secure a new shipping reg­
rupted by circumstances beyond his control, resulting in his fail­
istration card.
ure to ship regularly within the meaning of these Rules, the Sea­
E. A seaman who receives job assignments pursuant to Rule 2 C
farers Appeals Board may, upon application of the affected seaman,
(5) hereof and subsequently rejects or quits the same on two oc­
.grant such total or partial seniority credit for the time lost as the
casions within the period of his shipping registration pard's valid­
Board may deem necessary in its sole discretion to avoid undue
ity shall forfeit his shipping registraton card and shall secure a
hardship.
new shipping registration card.
I. In the event a seaman's covered employment is interrupted
F. All seamen registered for shipping, other than those possess­
by service in the Armed Forces of the United States, resulting in
ing Class A seniority rating, who are unavailable to accept or fail
his failure to ship reguiariy within the meaning of these Rules,
or refuse to accept three jobs for which they are qualified during
such seaman shall suffer no loss of seniority credit accrued prior
any one period of registration may forthwith be refused the right
to his entry of military service if he registers to ship pursuant- to
to register for employment under these Rules for a period of
these Rules within one hundred twenty (120) days following his
twelve (12) months. Upon application as provided in these Rules
separation from military service.
the Seafarers Appeals Board may shorten or revoke such refusal
of registration for good cause shown.
Q. Seamen with Class C seniority rating shipped pursuant to
2. Shipping Procedure
these Ruies may retain such jobs for one round trip or sixty (60)
days, whichever is longer. At the termination of such round trip or
A. Subject .to the specific provisions of these Rules, unemployed
on the first opportunity following the sixtieth (60th) day on the
seamen shall be shipped only if registered as provided herein and
job, such seaman shall sign off their vessels; and the vacant job
in the order of the priorities established in Rule 2 C (3) hereof.
shall be referred to the Union hiring hall.
B. The following rules shall govern the registration of unemploy­
H. Seamen with Cass B seniority rating shipped pursuant to
ed seamen for shipping through Union hiring halls:
these Rules may retain such jobs for a period of one round trip or
1. Unemployed seamen shall register only at the port through
one hundred eighty (180) days, whichever^is longer. At the com­
which they desire to ship. No seaman shall be registered at more
pletion of such round trip or at the first opportunity following the
than one port at the same time, nor If they ara employed aboard
one hundred eightieth (180) days on the job, such seamen shali
any vessel.
sign off their vessels; and the vacant job shall be referred to the
2. All seamen possessing U.S. Coast Guard endorsements, veri­
Union hiring hail.
fying certified deck or engine ratings, shall be registered in Group
i. The provisions of Sections G and H of this Rule 2 shall not
I or Group
of their respective departments, in the Steward De­
apply if they would cause a vessel to %ail short-handed. For the
partment, seamen shall be registSred in Group l-S, I or ii upon
purposes of these sections the phrase, "round-trip," shali have
presentation of their seniority identification card and providing proof
its usual and customary meaning to seamen, whether such "roundof qualification for such registration. All other seamen shall be trip" be coastwise, intercoastal or foreign. On coastwise voyages,
registered as "Entry Ratings," as defined in Rule 3, Departments
if a vessel Is scheduled to return to the arba of original engage­
and Groups and may bid for any job in the "Entry Ratings" De­
ment, a seaman of less than Class A seniority rating shall not be
partment. Upon attaining endorsements from the U.S. Coast Guard
required to leave such vessel until the vessel reaches the said
of certified ratings, in the Group I or il category, in either the Deck
area. On intercoastal and foreign voyages, if a vessel pays off at
or Engine Department as defined in Rule 3, Departments and
a port in the Continental United States other than in the area of
Groups, or having sailed In the Steward Department for a minimum
engagement, and if such vessel is scheduled to depart from said
of 6 months, application may be made to the Seafarers Appeals
port of payoff within ten (10) days after arrival to return to the
Board for consideration for permanent registration in the^ Deck,
area of original engagement, a seaman of less than Class A sen­
Engine or Steward Departments.
iority rating shall not be required to leave the vessel until It ar­
3. Shipping registration cards shali be non-transferable and shall
rives in the area of original engagement.
be issued at Union hiring halls, only upon application in person by
J. No seaman shipped under these Rules shall accept a promo­
seamen desiring the same. Shipping registration cards shall be
tion or transfer aboard ship unless there is no time or opportunity
time- and datd-stamped when issued and shall show the registrant's
to dispatch a seaman to fill such vacant job from a Union hiring
class of seniority rating. Department and Group.
hall.
4. Shipping registration cards shall be issued during the regular
business hours of the Union's hiring hails. Every seaman desiring
to register must possess and submit all documents required by 3. Departments and Groups
the United States Coast Guard and by applicable law for employ­
A. Jobs aboard vessels covered by these Rules are classified
ment as a merchant seaman aboard U.S.-flag vessels. At ths time
of legirratlon each seaman Is responsible for producing sufficient according to the following schedule of Departments and Groups.

Boatswain
Boatswain's Mate
Carpenter

DECK DEPARTMENT
GROUP i-DAY WORKERS
Deck Maintenance
Watchman-Day Work
Storekeeper

GROUP ll-RATING WATCH STANDERS
Car Deckman
Watchman-Standing Watches

Quartermaster
Able Seaman

ENGINE DEPARTMENT
GROUP I
Chief Ref. Eng'r.
Chief Electrician
Chief Storekeeper
1st, 2nd, 3rd Ref. Eng'r.
Evap. Maintenance Man
2nd Electrician
Pumpman, 1 and 2
Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.-Day Work
Engine Maintenance
Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.-Watch
Ship's Welder/Mairrtenance
Plumber-Machinist
QMED
Electrician/Ref. Maint.
Engine Utility Reefer Maintenance
Crane M/T Electrician
Deck Engineer
Engine Utility
Oiler-Diesel
Oiler-Steam

GROUP Ii
Watertender
Fireman/Watertender
Rreman
Oiler Maintenance/Utility

STEWARD DEPARTMENT
GROUP i (S) RATED MEN
Chief Steward-Passenger
2nd Steward-Passenger
Steward
Steward/Cook
Chef
Cook and Baker
Chief Cook

GROUP l-RATED MEN
2nd Cook and Baker
Butcher

GROUP II
2nd Cook, 3rd Cook and Assistant Cook
ENTRY DEPARTMENT
GROUP III
Ordinaries on Watch
Wiper
Utility Messmen
Waiters

b.S. Deck Maintenance
Messman
General Steward's Utility

B. After having attained permanent registration in accordance
with the procedure set forth in Rule 2, B-2, a seaman may not
change the Department in which he ships without the loss of
accrued seniority unless he receives permission from the Seafarers
Appeals Board. The Seafarers Appeals Board shali grant such
permission only upon proof establishing in the sole judgment of
the Board that medical reasons warrant the change.

4. Business Hours and Job Calls
A. Except as otherwise provided herein, all Union hiring hails
shall be open Monday through Friday from 8:00 A.M. until 5:00
P.M. and on Saturday from 8:00 A.M. until 12:00 Noon. The hiring
halls shall be closed on July 4, Christmas Day, New Year's Day,
Labor Day and such other Holidays as ere determined by the Port
Agents. Notice of such additional closings shall be posted on the
hiring hall's bulletin board on the day preceding the holiday.
B. All jobs referred to Union hiring halls shall be posted on the
shipping board before being announced. Jobs shall be announced
hourly as close to the hour as may be practicable during business
hours of the Union's hiring halls, except that there shali be no job
calls at 8:00 A.M., at 12:00 Noon, and at 5:00 P.M. During non­
business hours, or in the event of exceptional circumstances, a job
may be posted and announced at any time after it is received.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Port Agent may establish for a
Union hiring hall such other regular schedule of daily job calls as
may be warranted by the level of shipping or other circumstances
affecting such hiring hall. Such other schedule as may be estab­
lished, however, shali be in writing and posted on the hiring haii
bulletin board.
C. Seamen holding Class 0 seniority rating shali not bid for a
job offered pursuant to these Rules until the same has appeared on
eight job calls without bein% taken, if the eighth job call does not
produce a qualified seaman possessing either Class A or Class B
seniority rating, the said job shall be awarded to the seaman
possessing Class C seniority rating entitled to the same under
these Rules. This Rule shall not apply if it would cause a vessel to
sail short-handed or late.
D. In ports other than "major" ports as defined under these
Rules, if the first call of a vacant job does not produce a qualified
seaman possessing Class A seniority rating, the job shall be re­
ferred to the nearest major port. The said job shall then be offVred
at the said major port at the next four (4) job calls. During such
calls only qualified seamen possessing Class A seniority rating
may bid for such job. In the event the job still remains open, it
shall be referred back to the original port and there offered to sea­
men possessing Class A or Class B seniority ratings, otherwise
entitled to the job under these Ruies. This Rule shell riot app'y if..
It would cause a vessel to sail short-handed or late.

IjThe following ports shall
bei considered "majori ports for the purposes of these Rules: New
York, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and San Francisco.
E. "Notwithstanding any other provision of this Rule 4. if the
first call of a vacant Group ill or 3rd Cook job does not produce
a qualified seaman possessing Class A or B seniority, the Job shall
be referred to the hiring hail at Pmey Point, Maryland, where the
job shall then be offered at a job call. If after the first call of
such job, the job remains open, it shall be referred to the port
from which it was originally offered, to be offered or referred, as
the case mtay be, in accordance with Paragraph D above.

5. Preferences and Priorities
A. Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary con­
tained in these Rules, the following preferences shall apply:
1. A seaman shipped pursuant to these Rules whose vessel lays
up less than fifteen (15) days after his original employment date
shali receive back the shipping registration card on which he was
shipped, provided the said card has not expired in the interim

period.

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Seamen possessing Class C seniority rating and a certificate
of satisfactory completion of the Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­
manship entry rating training program shall have priority for Jobs
over other Class C personnel.
4. (a) Within each class of seniority rating in the Deck Depart­
ment, priority for the Job of Bosun shall be given to those seamen
possessing a certificate of recertifkation as bosun from the Deck
Department Recertification Program, in the event such program Is
being offered. In the event there are no such Recertified Bosuns
available, priority shall be given to those seamen who have either
actual seatime as able seamen of at least thirty-six (36) months,
or actual seatime in any capacity in the Deck Department of at
least seventy-two (72) months, of actual seatime as bosun of at
least twelve (12) months, in all cases aboard vessels covered by
these Rules.
(b) Within each class of seniority rating in the Deck Depart­
ment, priority for the job of Quartermaster shall be given to those
seamen possessing a certificate of satisfactory completion of the
advanced course fo training by the H.L.S.S. for the rating of
Quartermaster, in the event such training is being offered.
5. (a) Within each class of seniority rating in the Engine De­
partment priority for the Job of Chief Electrician shall be given to
those seamen who have actual seatime aboard vessels covered by
these Rules of at least thirty-six (36) months in the Engine De­
partment including at least twelve (12) months as Second Electri­
cian.
(b) Within each class of seniority rating in the Engine De­
partment, priority for the Job of Q.M.E.D. shall be given to those
seamen possessing a certificate of satisfactory completion of the
advanced course of training by the H.L.S.S. for the rating of
Q.M.E.D., in the event such training is being offered.
6. Within each class of seniority rating in the Steward Depart­
ment, priority for jobs of steward and third cook shall be given to
those seamen who possess a certificate of recertification in their
rating from the Steward Department Recertification Program, in
the vent such program is being offered. If there are no such Re­
certified Stewards available, priority for jobs of steward shall be
given to those seamen who have actual seatime of at least thirtysix (36) months in the. Steward Department in a rating above that
of Third Cook, or who have actual seatime of at least twelve (12)
months as Steward, in alj^cases aboard vessels covered by these
Rules.
7. Within each class of seniority rating in every Department,
priority for entry rating Jobs shall be- given to all seamen who.
possess Lifeboatman endorsement by the United States Coast
Guard. The Seafarers Appeals Board may waive the preceding sen­
tence when, in the sole Judgment of the Board, undue hardship
will result or extenuating circumstances warrant such waiver.
8. In the event an applicant for the Steward Department Recerti­
fication Program or the Deck Department Recertification Program
for bosuns is empioyed in any unlicensed Job board a vessel
covered by these Rules at the time he is called to attend such
program, such applicant, after successful completion of the pro­
gram, shall have the right to rejoin his vessel in the same Job
upon its first arrival in a port of payoff within the continental lim­
its of the United States.
9. A seaman who registers to ship pursuant to these Rules
within two (2) business days following his discharge as an in­
patient from a U.S.P.H.S. or other accredited hospital and who
produces offical written evidence of such confinement, shall be
issued a shipping registration card dated either thirty (30) days
earlier than the actual date of registration if such confinement
lasted at least thirty (30) days, or, if it lasted less than thirty (30)
days, with the date such confinement commenced.

6. Standby and Relief Jobs

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A. Priority for standby and relief jobs shall be determined
according to the provisions of Rule 2 C (3), except that a seaman
who has had any standby or relief Jobs during the period of his
shipping registration card's validity shall not have (Priority for such
jobs over seamen of the same class of seniority rating who have
had a lesser number of standby or relief jobs during the period
of their shipping registration cards' vaiidity.
B. After the termination of standby or relief employment, the
seaman involved shall receive back his crigiRs! shippi.ig registra­
tion card, unless the same has expired in the interim period.
C. A seaman on a standby or relief Job pursuant to these Rules
shall not take a regular Job aboard any vessel until his standby or
relief Job terminates, he returns to the hiring hall, and he secures
such regular job pursuant to the provisions of Rule 2 C hereof.D. A seaman employed pursuant to these Rules on a regular
Job who requires time off and secures permission therefor shall
notify the nearest Union hiring hall, and a relief man shall be dis­
patched. No relief man shall be furnished for less than four (4)
hours' nor more than three (3) days' work. The seaman shall pay
his relief man for the number of hours worked,at the overtime
rate applicable to the Job Monday through Friday, On Saturday,
Sunday and Holidays, he shall pay the premium rate. Relief men
shall be requested only when required by the head of the Depart­
ment involv^ aboard the subject vessel.
E. A seaman employed pursuant to these Rules who has been
called to attend the Steward or Deck Department Recertification
Programs may be temporarily replaced by a relief man for the
duration of such program. In the event such seaman Is not re­
placed by a relief man but terminates his Job instead, the provisions of Rule 5 A (8) shall apply,

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7. Seaferefs Appeals Board
A. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall have sole and exclusive
authority to administer these Rules and to hear and determine any
matter, controversy or appeal arising thereunder, or relating to the
application thereof.
B. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall have four (4) members,
two appointed by the Union and two appointed by that committee
representing the majority of contracted Employers for purposes of
negotiations with the Union, commonly known as the Management
Negotiating Committee. Each party shall also appoint two alter­
nates for the members so appointed, to serve in the absence of
such members.

7. The Seafarers Appeals Board's decision on the appeal shall be
In writing, and copies shall be sent to the complaining party and
the seaman by certified mail, return receipt requested. Pending
hearing and determination of the appeal the decision of the hear­
ing committee shall be in full force and effect.
8. A final appeal shall be allowed by the Involved seaman from
decision of the Board to the Impartial Umpire designated pursuant
to Rule 8 C hereof. Such appeal shall be in writing and shall set
forth the basis of the appeal in sufficient detail to be understood.
Such appeal shall be sent by certified mail, retum receipt request­
ed, to the Seafarers Appeals Board, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn,N.Y. 11215, within ten OO) days following receipt of the Sea­
farers Appeals Board's decision. The Board shall forward all such
appeals to the Impartial Umpire, who shall set the time and place
of hearing of the appeal in New York City within thirty (30) days
following receipt of the appeal and shall notify all parties in writ­
ing. The Impartial Umpire may reasonably extend any time limit
provided in this paragraph upon good cause show. The Impartial
Umpire shall render his decision in writing and shall cause copies
to be mailed to all parties by certified mail, return receipt request­
ed. The decision of the Impartial Umpire shall be final and binding
and may be reduced to Judgment by any party.
C. The Impartial Umpire provided for In the preceding para­
graph shall be a permanent arbitrator appoiirted by and to serve
at the pleasure of the Seafarers Appeals Board. In the event the
Board is' unable to agree upon an Impartial Umpire, for each ap­
peal arising under Rule 8 B (8) hereof the Seafarers Appeals
Board shall request the chief executive officer of any Federal, State
or City government agency maintaining lists of impartial arbitra­
tors to designate an Arbitrator to hear and determine such appeal.
D. Nothing in this Rule 8 shall be construed to prevent the Un­
ion from appearing by its properly designated representatives at
any stage of the proceeding.

0. The quorum for any action by the Seafarers Appeals Board
shall be at least one member appointed by each party. At any
meeting of the Seafarers Appeals Board , the members appointed
by each party shall collectively cast an equal number of votes re­
gardless of the actual number of members present and .voting. Ex­
cept as otherwise provided herein decisions of the Seafarers
Appeals Board shall be unanimous. In the event of a tie vote the
Board shall elect an Impartial person to resolve the deadlocked
issue. In the event the Board is unable to agree on such an Im­
partial person, the matter shall be submitted to final and binding
arbitration in New York City pursuant to the Voluntary Labor Ar­
bitration Rules then in effect of the American Arbitration Associa­
tion.
IX Any person or party subject to or aggrieved by the applica­
tion of these Rules shall have the right to submit any matter aris­
ing under these Rules to the Seafarers Appeals Board for determi­
nation. Such submission shall be in writing, shall set forth the
facts In sufficient detail to identify the matter at issue, and shall
be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Sea­
farers Appeals Board, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215.
An applicant desiring to be heard in person before the Board
shall request the same In his written application. In such event
the applicant shall be notified at least two weeks prior' to
the Board's next regular meeting of the date and location of such
meeting, and the applicant may attend such meeting at his own
expense and be hea^.
E. All applications to the Seafarers Appeals Board shall be ruled
on Initially by the Chairman, subject to confirmation or overruling
by the Board at its next meeting. Prior to the Board's action, how­
ever, the Chairman may initiate such administrative steps as he
deems necessary to implement his preliminary determination.
F. The Board shall meet no less'than quarterly and shall estab­
lish such reasonable procedures, consistent with these Rules, as it
deems necessary. Meetings of the Board may bo either in person
or in writing. Meetings in writing shall be signed by all members
of the Board.
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9. Amendments

8. Discipline

A. The Seafarers Appeals Board may amend these Shipping
Rules at any time and in any manner consistent with the require­
ments of applicable law and of outstanding collective bargaining
agreements between the parties.

A. Although under no Indemnity obligation of any sort, the Union
wili not be required to ship persons who, by their behavior in the
course of employment aboard contracted vessels, during programs 10. Special or Emergency Provisions
of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship and at hiring halls
A. During any period of emergency, unlicensed seamen possesssubject to these Shipping Rules, demonstrate that their presence
abo.ard contracted vessels may prevent safe and efficient operation ' ing Class B or C Seniority who are in the Entry Rating Department
of such vessels or create a danger or threat of liability, injury or and who have adequate seatime to make application for endorse­
harm,to such vessel and their crews. Persons not required to be ment in Group II rating or ratings in the Deck or Engine Depart­
shipped shall include without limitation those guilty of any of the ment shall not be registered for shipping unless they make applica­
tion for and expeditiously comply with the requisite rules to secure
following;
such Group II endorsement or endorsements. All such unlicensed
1. Drunkenness or alcoholism.
seamen in lieu of such registration and provided they comply with
2. Use, possession or sale of narcotics.
the foregoing shall upon completion of such requirement be deemed
3. Use or possession of dangerous weapons or substances.
then regi'^ered as of the date of their appearance in the group in
4.- Physical assault.
which they thereafter have been found qualified. All such un­
5. Malicious destruction of property.
licensed personnel presently registered shall also be subject to the
6. Gross misconduct.
foregoing rule, with their date of registration as presently in effect,
7. Neglect of duties and responsibilities.
8. Deliberate interference with efficient operation of vessels, of in the group in which they thereafter have been found qualified.
Any such unlicensed seamen may apply In writing to the Sea­
the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship or of hiring
farers Appeals Board in connection with any dispute as to his pe­
hails subject to these Rules.
riod of seatime from exemption from this rule set forth above, on
9. Deliberate failure or refusal to Join vessels.
10. Any act or practice which creates a menace or nuisance to the ground of hardship or physical disability and may if he requests
In writing appear before the Seafarers Appeals Board. The decision
the health or safety of others.
B. No seaman shall suffer any temporary or permanent-loss of of the Seafarers Appeals Board shall be in writing and sent to the
shipping rights under Rule 8 A hereof, except, pursuant to the fol­ person involved and to the Union hiring hall.
The Seafarers Appeals Board shall determine the period of any
lowing procedures:
1. The Union, a contracted Employer, or the Harry Lundeberg emergency or when this amendment is no longer necessary. In
School of Seamanship shall initiate a proceeding under this Rule either event, upon such determination, the Seafarers Appeals Board
8 by filing a written complaint with the Chairman of the Seafarers shall then take appropriate action in writing.
B. During any period of emergency as determined by the Sea­
Appeals Board and mailing a copy thereof to the subject seaman.
The Chairman shall thereupon name a committee of two persons, farers Appeals Board in accordance with Rule lOA, Rule 2J may be
one representing the Union and one representing management, to suspended with respect to entry ratings only for the period of such
emergency or until the suspension of the Rule is no longer neces­
hear and determine the complaint.
2. The hearing committee shall prepare a written specification sary as determined by the Seafarers Appeals Board.
C. 1. The Seafarers Appeals Board may, for good cause shown,
of charges and notice of hearing, which shall be sent to the sub­
in its discretion, and in accord with its authority under Article 1
ject seaman by certified mail, addressed to his last known resi. dence. Such notice shall provide at least two weeks' time for the ("Employment") Section 8 of the collective bargaining agreements
seaman to prepare his defense and shall give the seaman up to between the parties and in accord with the several factors set
one week before the hearing date to request a change of date or forth below, upgrade to Class A seniority rating such unlicensed
location of such hearing. -The hearing committee shall initially lo­ personnel possessing Class 8 seniority rating whom the Board
cate the .hearing at the Union hiring hall closest to the subject deems qualified for the same.
The factors to be utilized In determining whether an applicant
seaman's last known residence. Pending the hearing, the seaman
may register and ship in accord with these -Rules and his current shall be so upgraded are as follows:
(a) Endorsement from the United States Coast Guard as a Lifeseniority status.
boatman in the United States Merchant Marine.
3. The hearing shall proceed as scheduled, whether or not the
(b) Possession of a certificate of satisfactory completion of the
accused seaman is present. The hearing committee shali give the H.L.S.S. entry rating training program and has a minimum of
charging and charged parties full opportunity to present their twelve (12) morrths of seatime with any of the companies listed
evidence either in person or in writing. No formal rules of evidence ih-Appendix "A" of the collective bargaining agreements, or
shall apply, but the committee shall accept all relevant evidence
Possession of a certificate of satisfactory completion of the ad­
and give the same such weight as the committee alone may deem vanced course of training then being offered by the H.L.S.S. for
appropriate.
the department in which such seamen regularly ship and has a
4. Tfie hearing committee shall render and announce its deci­ minimum of thirty-six (36) months of seatime with any of the
sion on the day of hearing, as soon as possible after the comple­ companies listed in Appendix "A" of the collective bargaining
tion thereof. A decision upholding the complaint shall be unani­ agreements.
mous. The committee shall reduce its decision to writing sign the
(c) Possession of special skills and aptitudes.
same, and send copies thereof to the Seafarers Appeals Board, to
.(d) Employment record.
the cnmplslning party, and to the accused seamen by certified
(«) Satisfactory complstlcn of the couise of training offered by
mail, return receifrt requested.
the School of Marine Engineering sponsored by the Harry Lunde­
5. The seaman may appeal all or any aspect of the hearing berg School of Seamanship, District No. 2, Marine Engineers Bene­
committee's decision to the Seafarers Appeals Board. Such appeal ficial Association and/or others in Connection therewith.
shall be in writing and shall set forth the basis for the appeal In
Factor (b) may be waived by the Seafarers Appeals Board In
sufficient detail to be understood. The seaman shall send his ap­ those cases where undue hardship wili result.
peal by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Seafarers
2. The Seafarers Appeals Board shali upgrade applicants pursu­
Appeals Board, 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215, within tetT ant to this Rule. 10 C for a period of time not to exceed six (6) _
(10) days following the decision, except that the Board may extend months,-at which time it shall terminate such upgrading and shall
the time for filing an appeal for good cause shown.
publicize such termination In the Union's hiring halls and in such
6. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall hear all appeals arising other places as will give notice thereof thirty (30) days prior there­
under this Rule 8 at its next regular meeting after receipt thereof, to. Thereafter, when it deems necessary, the Seafarers Appeals
provided the appeal has been received in sufficint time for the Board may reinstituta such upgrading program for addKibnai
Board to give at least five (5) days' written notice to the seaman periods of time not to exceed six (6) months' duration and shall
of the time and place of the meeting at which his appeal will be publicize the termination of same as required by the collective,
considered.
bargaining agreement

SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION of NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO
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